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Israel sees Syria as part of its Iran problem—why doesn't Obama?
4:01 PM, May 8, 2013 • By LEE SMITH
Even as Assad has threatened vengeance, Israel has explained that it was not going after him and has no interest in interfering in Syria's civil war but is simply determined to stop Hezbollah from receiving "game-changing" weapons. The advantages in striking from outside Syrian airspace are operational and diplomatic. Avoiding Syria's Russian-made air defense systems minimizes the threats to Israeli pilots and planes. It also eliminates the likelihood of embarrassing, in no particular order: Russia, whose prestige is on the line every time once of its systems is foiled, Turkey, which lost a jetlast year to Syrian air defenses, and the White House, which has repeatedly expressed its concerns about Syria's "world-class" air defense. Israel hardly wishes to publicize the fact that if it can circumvent those systems, as it has in the past, there's no good reason a much more powerful United States can't also.
The White House has quietly supported Israel's strikes last weekend, perhaps partly in gratitude for changing the conversation to something else besides Obama's wobbly red line on chemical weapons. Of course it was the Israeli intelligence assessment two weeks ago claiming that Assad had used chemical weapons that put the administration on the spot. Senators John McCain and Carl Levin asked the White House for clarification and were told that the U.S. intelligence community also found, with varying degrees of confidence, that Assad had indeed made use of his unconventional arsenal.
As Elliott Abrams wrote here earlier this week, Obama's red line was a bluff from the beginning. Administration officials, wrote Abrams, "were dealing with words, with lines, with messages—never it seems with tougher decisions about actions." In fact, the White House hadn't even formulated a message, Obama just winged it. "What the president said in August was unscripted," one Obama aide told the New York Times.
Even if Obama had blundered, the White House soon understood that the political damage would be limited. It was always going to be difficult to prove that chemical weapons had been used and that it was the regime that used them. Without U.N. investigators being able to work in Syria, and with so little international press reporting on the ground, the administration would be able to manage whatever evidence turned up however it saw fit. Obama could draw a red line without worrying about having to enforce it.
The fact is that chemical weapons were always a tangential issue, which the White House used to deflect attention from far more important matters. To be sure, Assad's use of chemical weapons would mean a humanitarian catastrophe, but Assad marked that milestone many tens of thousands of corpses ago, using conventional arms. The United States is not a neighbor of Syria and has little cause to fear that, among all of the likeliest targets, Assad would try to gas an American city. However, the states on Syria's borders, Israel above all, are right to be worried that a desperate neighbor like Assad might in time turn his unconventional arsenal against them. And it's the role of the regional hegemon, America, to ensure that its allies, Israel, Turkey and Jordan, are capable of managing a tactical threat like chemical weapons, while Washington turns its eyes to larger strategic matters, like how best to deal Iran a blow.
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V.24 No.7 |
The Daily Word in racial bias, gay marriage and Friday the 13th
By Mark Lopez [ Fri Feb 13 2015 9:09 AM ]
Sissy, a miniature schnauzer from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, walked 20 blocks to be with her owner, who is recovering from cancer surgery at a nearby hospital. That's love, man.
More counties in Alabama are allowing gay marriage licenses after a federal ruling struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban.
On the other end of the spectrum, Oklahoma representatives voted to advance a bill that would provide immunity to clergy members who refuse to perform same-sex weddings.
Noted New York Times columnist David Carr passed away yesterday. He was 58.
FBI Director James Comey gave a talk on Thursday at Georgetown University, addressing "hard truths" police face concerning racial bias.
Oh no! They're bulldozing the Bosque, people! Head there with the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter on Sunday at 3pm to survey the damage.
A group of high school kids are trying to help the homeless by making job kits.
It's Friday the 13th, y'all! And KOAT has compiled a list of strange events that have occurred on this day throughout history.
V.23 No.50 |
The Daily Word in Ferguson police, UNM experiments and Empty Socks
By Mark Lopez [ Fri Dec 12 2014 10:28 AM ]
After a standoff on a California bridge, Daniel Perez was arrested and is being held after vanishing last week with his wife and four sons. His sons are safe; however, his wife's body was found in the trunk of the family's car near their home.
After a report brought attention to harsh interrogation techniques administered by the CIA, the agency's chief defends the behavior, saying it's "unknowable" if they could have gotten the same answers with conventional questioning.
Due to unanswered questions, the FBI is looking into a North Carolina teen's hanging death (after it was ruled a suicide) to see if there was foul play.
The state appeals court in Arizona dismissed Debra Jean Milke's murder charge after she was on death row for 22 years for the killing of her 4-year-old son.
A temporary restraining order placed on Ferguson police has made it mandatory that they warn protesters before using tear gas.
A couple students at UNM are getting some attention for their "social experiment" videos.
Photos and video have been released of the fire that happened at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
Albuquerque media outlets banded together to raise funds for a single father whose house was robbed (and whose Christmas gifts for his two sons were stolen). The Christmas spirit's alive folks!
Some people really didn't like Paz Winshtein's take on the Virgen de Guadalupe.
Empty Socks, a long-lost film by Walt Disney from 1927, was discovered in a library in Norway.
V.23 No.32 | 8/7/2014
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V.23 No.31 |
The Daily Word in border bills, CIA spies and a penis cloud
By Mark Lopez [ Fri Aug 1 2014 8:52 AM ]
A three-day truce between Israel and Palestine was interrupted after Israel reported one of their soldiers went missing in the southern Gaza Strip.
The House Republican leadership will present a new border bill today that "further tightens a 2008 trafficking law."
The FBI are assisting authorities in Oregon in trying to find a mother who went missing seven days ago.
Former president Bill Clinton says he had the chance to kill Osama bin Laden hours before the 9/11 attacks.
After an internal investigation, it was confirmed that the CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Bernalillo County deputies took down an alleged drug and prostitution ring on Second and Alameda streets.
A nationwide warrant has been issued for a Las Cruces teen accused of voyeurism.
Teenager Tony Day is expected to plead guilty for the 2012 murders of his adoptive mother and her daughter in Tucumcari.
V.23 No.13 |
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Unnanounced Protest Brings APD Out In Force
By Geoffrey Plant [ Sun Mar 30 2014 11:53 PM ]
The sirens have finally died in downtown Albuquerque. Choppers are still making noise in the sky above the city from Nob Hill west to the Downtown neighborhood where today hundreds of protesters marched in protest against the most recent APD shooting. Unfortunately, James Boyd (a homeless man who was camped out in the foothills of the Sandias) is not the most recent kill by APD, simply the most high profile.
Riot gear, screaming fast police cruisers and a generally intimidating tone were the order of the day for residents of Albuquerque, a city which has become internationally famous for the brutality of its police department. Consensus is that the Duke City has one of the most dangerous, out of control police departments in the nation. The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into James Boyd's death.
V.23 No.6 |
The Daily Word in Albuquerque laser strikes, the fake Bigfoot and the real (crying) Shia LeBeouf
By Ty Bannerman [ Wed Feb 12 2014 8:31 AM ]
Bigfoot has arrived in Albuquerque! Although this isn't the famous Bigfoot of the Northeastern redwoods. This is the less well-known fake rubber Bigfoot of the Texas Hill Country.
Finally, all the journalism about the greatest rags-
Bueno Foods has announced a recall of its frozen green chile. Thousands of journalists struggle to not type the words "no bueno" into their headlines. Some fail.
After three years of clockwork freak-outs about it, the House quietly raised the debt ceiling "without condition" last night. Somehow, the world still hasn't ended.
Hey Albuquerque! Stop pointing laser beams at airplanes! It's all fun and games until you blind a pilot and they crash into the Simms Building.
Shia LaBeouf's new hobby is sitting in a dark room with a bag over his head, crying with strangers.
V.23 No.4 |
The Daily Word in the Keystone XL pipeline, the Mac's birthday and catching a Goodfella
By Mark Lopez [ Fri Jan 24 2014 10:10 AM ]
Wow, the Mac is 30?
According to FBI, Vinny Asaro has been caught in connection with the Lufthansa heist.
The debate heats up over whether to end the life of a pregnant woman in Texas who has been declared brain dead.
Could the Keystone XL pipeline bring on a new frontier in our nation's environmental politics?
Synthia Varela-Casaus pleads not guilty after being accused of kicking her 9-year-old son to death.
A former employee of Redflex, a company that manufactures red light cameras, says they paid hefty bribes to score deals in several cities in the US, including cities in New Mexico.
This flu season sees more hospitalization rates than usual.
A man in Florida has been arrested after trying to perform an exorcism on his "demon" son and then violently resisting arrest.
V.23 No.2 |
The Daily Word in assisted suicide, an APD shooting settlement and Third Reich space aliens are running the United States
By Geoffrey Plant [ Tue Jan 14 2014 8:01 AM ]
The third season of "Longmire" will commence shooting this spring in and around Santa Fe.
"Human Waste Disposal" APD cop Economidy cost the city about $300,000 by justifiably shooting a man three times in the back.
A New Mexico District Judge's decision paves the way for changes to the state's assisted suicide law.
Farmington has Blue Meth. It's real, but of low quality apparently.
An Iranian news agency is reporting that a new Snowden leak proves that since 1945 the US has been run by the same space aliens that comprised the Third Reich.
Here are some laughably misogynistic ads of yore.
Meet the "Swiss Cheese Pervert."
There was an argument over texting in a theater that ended in a fatal shooting.
Vice Magazine headlines are inherently fake-sounding.
Not "doing all right" in South Korea.
Ford is going to start making aluminum trucks.
-Look! A woolly pig.
Another Juggalo lawsuit against the FBI. And DOJ.
It appears that the DEA has been backhandedly assisting the importation of muchas drogas into the US.
Kanye West punched a guy in Kim Kardashian's chiropractor's office.
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The Daily Word in poodles, perfect pitch and penis captivus
By Carl Petersen [ Mon Jan 6 2014 10:56 AM ]
Happy Blue Monday.
National security is now the FBI's primary mission.
You can't smoke pot in the Denver airport.
Pregnant moms who drink wine may produce calmer kids.
France thinks comic Dieudonne is less funny than Jerry Lewis.
Utah's judiciary puts a hold on gay marriage.
Bighorn sheep make a comeback.
Penis captivus is real.
Once there was a terrible online dating profile.
One more sandwich and I will stab you.
Perfect pitch in a pill?
Somebody killed bigfoot again.
The jerky factory caught fire.
There might be more cops downtown.
The Devil Mask Robbers strike again.
New Mexico ranks poorly in economic freedom.
What's going on today?
Happy birthday Rowan Atkinson.
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Who do we hate more: the wrongdoers or the whistleblowers? The criminals or the cops?
V.22 No.50 |
The Daily Word in Coca-Cola's split, a two-headed pig and Senate battles
By Mark Lopez [ Fri Dec 13 2013 10:52 AM ]
Retired FBI agent Robert Levinson has vanished in Iran, and according to AP, he was doing some work for the CIA.
The Democrats and Republicans are duking it out in the Senate … well, not physically.
Coca-Cola's split in two? What should we do?
Authorities say up to four people were stabbed outside the Sports Authority Field after the Denver Broncos lost to the San Diego Chargers.
A SWAT "situation" has ended peacefully after shots were reported at a home in Rio Rancho.
An Albuquerque school bus driver has been accused of punching a student in the face as he was headed home from Eisenhower Middle School.
The City has paid $900,000 to the family of an unarmed man who was shot and killed by APD in 2011.
Rio Grande High School transformed its gym into Italy for one of its students who has been battling leukemia for the past year.
You ever see a two-headed pig? I wouldn't recommend it.
V.22 No.42 |
The Daily Word in dirty needles, dirty air and decapitations on Facebook
By Geoffrey Plant [ Tue Oct 22 2013 9:20 AM ]
A Downtown Grower's Market vendor was poked by a used needle in Robinson Park last weekend.
A vote on the proposal that would see the city seizing the vehicles of people suspected of soliciting prostitutes while in their cars has been delayed.
Live near Central Ave? Free WiFi for you then.
Cancer diagnosis spurs Walmart employee to skim from his cash register in order to pay for treatment.
Another sea monster washed up on a beach.
Smog in and around Beijing is bad. Really bad.
With some caveats, Facebook is once again allowing beheading videos to be posted.
Malcolm Gladwell (writer for The New Yorker, author of The Tipping Point) may make local independent bookstore Bookworks a stop on his tour promoting his new work David and Goliath but only if you vote (only takes five seconds) for Albuquerque/
Happy Birthday, so-called High Priest of LSD/CIA&FBI collaborator Timothy Leary.
V.21 No.46 |
The Daily Word in BP, poorest president and Pong
By Marisa Demarco [ Thu Nov 15 2012 10:27 AM ]
BP's looking at a $4.5 billion fine and criminal charges against staff members.
The gap between rich and poor in New Mexico is the widest in the nation.
Pit bull terriers killed a Chihuahua and sent her owner to the hospital.
Debbie O'Malley might remain on the Council and take a seat on the County Commission.
Remember when 48 women training for the military said they'd been sexually assaulted or harassed by their instructors? The Air Force has a weird solution: Trainees must have a wingman all the time.
Nonstop flights from Albuquerque to New York.
FBI investigates death threats against the guy holding the coyote-killing contest in Los Lunas.
The poorest president in the world. "If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them."
Violence escalates in Gaza and Israel. Rockets kill 15 Palestinians and three Israelis.
Louisiana governor is the first Republican to denounce Mitt Romney's notion that he lost the election because President Obama gave gifts to minorities and youth.
5-Hour Energy shot-like drink blamed for 13 deaths.
Colorado Visitors Bureau plans NOT to capitalize on legal recreational marijuana.
Science looks at rappers' brains to find the basis of improvisation.
Pong is 40-years-old and no one has topped it, says this guy.
How to become as observant as Sherlock Holmes. (Also, "Sherlock," the BBC miniseries available on Netflix instawatch, is dope.)
V.21 No.45 |
The Daily Word: why George Takei is mad at facebook; how Republicans can be surprised at the Obama victory; what happens when weed is legalized in Seattle
By Geoffrey Plant [ Sat Nov 10 2012 12:14 PM ]
A New Mexico company is selling Breaking Bad bath salts.
The family of Albuquerque attorney Mary Han is suing APD, claiming police screwed-up the investigation into her purported suicide.
Is fracking in Rio Arriba County's future?
Albuquerque city councilors may overturn the minimum wage increase that was approved by voters last week.
David Petraeus abruptly resigned from his position as director of the CIA after his extramarital affair was exposed by the FBI.
George Clooney won the election for Obama.
Seattle Police Department explains the marijuana laws that will go into effect December Sixth.
You will probably not be allowed to hunt giant octopus in Seattle's Puget Sound anymore.
The 2011 World Press Photos contest winners.
Denmark is getting rid of the "fat-tax" that was applied to certain foods last year.
Babushkas who live in the Chernobyl "dead zone."
This song celebrating Thanksgiving may cause you to step in front of a bus.
George Takei joins the ranks of Facebook users angry about the money-grubbing EdgeRank filter.
Obama was declared the winner of the presidential contest in Florida.
Does fact checking matter if politicians continue to lie after their fabrications have been exposed?
Republicans were surprised Romney lost because they believe Rush Limbaugh and Fox news.
On this day in 1969 Sesame Street premiered.
V.21 No.39 |
The Daily Word in Insane Clown Posse, Iggy and The Stooges, The Thing With Two Heads, and The Army.
Why Tylenol bottles are so hard to open
By Geoffrey Plant [ Sat Sep 29 2012 9:41 AM ]
Someone is passing counterfeit hundies in Deming.
Gary Johnson continues to fight for inclusion in the presidential debates.
The Vatican calls the recently discovered Jesus-wife papyrus a fake.
Sam the Record Man died last week.
Baltimore's answer to Punxsutawney Phil.
Thirty years ago the first Compact Discs were released.
"They didn't have volunteers stepping up and saying yeah, I'll breathe zinc cadmium sulfide with radioactive particles."
The latest on Insane Clown Posse's suit against the FBI.
Long Island will soon be home to the world's largest Ferris Wheel. Look at this old Turkish "Ferris Wheel."
Iggy and The Stooges have an amusing, but not obnoxious, concert rider.
Of course conjoined twins can drive. Two-headed people have been driving since the seventies.
This man may have killed his girlfriend because she woke him up in the middle of the night.
Most awesome movie death-scene in the entire history of cinema.
When Romney loses, it's going to be this guy's fault.
It's the thirtieth anniversary of the Tylenol murders.
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Tim B Lee and Reihan have been going back and forth over immigration. From Tim's latest dispatch:
I reject the proposition that unless I've developed a comprehensive immigration reform agenda, I'm not allowed to make value judgments about individual parts of the immigration system. It's obvious that Jose Vargas should be allowed to stay in this country. The exact details of how we accomplish that—whether we pass the DREAM Act, raise the quota for skilled Filipino immigrants, grant blanket amnesty, etc—is a question that reasonable people can disagree about. But our current immigration system is indefensible, as is the large number of people who seem to believe the top priority is to crack down even harder on its victims.
Reihan shies away from "the politics of moral outrage":
Tim seems to believe that there is an obvious bright line between immigrants who make positive contributions to our economy and those who do not. I've known unauthorized migrants who've made immensely positive contributions to our country in the form of household production, civic engagement, community uplift, and much else, yet who made limited contributions in the form of market production or tax revenues. Are these migrants obviously "worse" than net taxpayers in some moral sense? I find this troubling as a moral argument.
And that is why I'm not particularly interested in making moral arguments in this domain. To underscore, any form of immigration restriction is morally problematic. Some are more so than others.
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International Montessori Congresses provide an opportunity for Montessorians to come together from around the world to share and further their work in aid of the child. The Congresses are open to all and are designed to promote the ideas of Dr. Maria Montessori to the wider public. They have been held since 1929 and it was during the first International Montessori Congress that the Association Montessori Internationale was founded.
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A Meal Observed
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moreAwarded three stars by Michelin, Taillevent is one of the finest restaurants in the world. Todhunter spent several months working in its kitchen in preparation for the divine experience of eating a five-hour meal in the nineteenth-century dining room. From the amuse-bouche (a warm cheese puff to "amuse the mouth") to the crowning glory of the fantasie, he perfectly captures the sensual pleasure of the meticulously served dinner. Along the way he expertly discusses everything from the state of French haute cuisine and the complexity of running a renowned restaurant to the chemistry of chocolate and the history of salt. A Meal Observed is a rare treat, a paean to the French and French cuisine that is as enchanting and richly satisfying as the meal it describes.
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I park at the corner of the rue Balzac and the Avenue de Friedland, and the instant I cut the engine I become aware that I am nervous. Performance anxiety, butterflies, a mild version of the racking nerves I used to suffer, as a freshman and sophomore in high school, before a wrestling match. The fear that I would be humiliated, outmanned, before the eyes of my coach, my teammates, and a girl whose name I had shoveled in the snow, on the frozen Hudson River, in letters visible to passing aircraft. In the car, I glance quickly over at my wife, who smiles gamely but a little uncomfortably, and we sit for a long moment in silence, not moving, in a kind of feigned, mutual optimism, as if bracing for embarrassing news. I try not to think it through, because I know that analysis will only make it worse, and that I am here, we are here, to enjoy ourselves. I glance at the car clock, then my watch, and their un- expected synchronicity provides a flush of paramili- tary satisfaction. I slip my cell phone out of the inside breast pocket of my jacket and check the time in the upper right-hand corner of its miniature screen. All three! A good omen, and proof, despite the state of my front bumper, creased into an awkward V against a black Mercedes' tow bar in Brugge, that my equip- ment and I are essentially on the ball. According to these three chronometers, it is 8:15 in the evening on Tuesday, July 13, 1999, the eve of Bastille Day. We are early.
I glance again at my wife. Erin is thirty-two and beautiful—stunning, really—and for this I'm grateful. Her beauty is the one sure thing we have on this world we are about to enter, the thing no waiter or sommelier or maître d'hôtel at Taillevent—a Michelin three-star restaurant considered by many critics to be the finest in France and thus the world—can wrest from us with a patronizing glance. In hours of need, one can remind oneself that beauty, more even than youth, its reckless twin, has ever been a fortune before which wealth, sophistication, and intellect will bow.
We are also prepared to spend between twenty-five hundred and three thousand francs—four to five hundred dollars out of our own pockets—on a meal for two. This is something we have never done. Not only because we are often nearly penniless, given the vicissitudes of my work, but because we are not, truly, gourmands. By and large, that is not where our money goes. For reasons fiscal, temperamental, and psychological, we eat out rarely, and when we do we often bring it home. Furthermore, though we have bought the odd issue of Gourmet or Saveur, we have not yet subscribed to such magazines. We are not, in short, "foodies." I object to the very word "foodie," not only for its inherent ugliness as a sound, but for its cliquishness. "I'm a huge foodie," a woman told me recently at a dinner party, with that mixture of false shame and childlike enthusiasm that accompanies nearly any public revelation of sensual preference, and it struck me as surprisingly intimate, even indecent, as if this near-stranger had slipped off her Roman sandals, stretched her calves across my lap, and asked if I would like to eat her feet. I later admitted that if this particular foodie had been more attractive her confession might not have troubled me. In that case, it might well have conjured the agreeable image of her nude and reclining in a bathtub of mashed banana.
Our status as nonfoodies notwithstanding, my wife and I both like to cook, and even more than that we like to sit and eat at a comfortable table for long hours. And that is one reason we are here, at this moment, at the corner of Balzac and Friedland. For there are few moments more existentially harmonious than those that make up the latter half of a good meal in a hospitable restaurant, in the company of one or two people—rarely more—with whom one feels almost entirely safe, and by whom one feels at least partially understood. I had such a meal at an underrated one-star restaurant named Julien, in Strasbourg, on the quai des Bateliers, with my wife and her mother some six years ago. By some turn of fate for which I shall always be grateful, I have been blessed with a mother-in-law who is excellent company. I would never have imagined, as a bachelor, that I might take some of the best trips in my life with my wife and her mother, but there it is. The fact that she is a good deal younger than we are in spirit certainly helps, and there is always the vague sense that we are traveling with a mysteriously greying niece. In any case, the near-perfection of such a meal has less to do with the food, with the procession of well-wrought dishes, than with that gathering condition of bien-être induced by wine and victuals and companionship in a warm, preferably unfamiliar setting, all the while under the care of sure-handed and anonymous strangers.
This state generally peaks late in the evening, and usually at the pause when the dinner plates have been cleared away. There is first of all the caloric high, the rush of blood sugar, the false sensation that all is well in the world because one has eaten well. The conversation usually peaks at this time, and everyone at the table is giddy. At that moment, a server often brushes the tablecloth. The conversation at a pause, you may lean back away from the table to admire this orderly gesture. You may be struck by the suspicion that Western civilization, beleaguered by greed, cynicism, and bad taste, might simply be preserved through the observance of this solitary act. When the server withdraws, you luxuriate in the sight of the freshly cleaned white tablecloth, minutely spotted here and there, perhaps, but smooth and free of crumbs, and as you lean back in, resting your forearms on the table, you sweep the white expanse with an open palm. The candlelight soaks into the cloth, and glimmers on the surviving silverware, and the white noise of the other conversations in the restaurant is decorous but lively. You feel as if you are swimming unseen in the well of these voices, through these foreign and contented lives. Besotted with this confluence of nurture and sedation, free of fear and responsibility, you stare blankly at the cloth, or up into the flame of the candle, or close your eyes and sink into the taste and heat of the wine, into the womblike center of these concentric human circles, one within another within another—and for a moment you will know that you are here, truly here, at this table in this restaurant in this benign and generous world.
If one has been careful with the wine, but not too careful, the afterglow of this rapture de la table can last well into the drive home, and even, if you hurry, into bed.
The anonymity of the waiter is in itself impor- tant, and serves a number of functions. In America, of course, to global ridicule, we have made the widespread mistake of training our servers to introduce themselves to their customers by name. This has not yet trickled down into the kind of rural American diner frequented by deer hunters, where the waitress might reflexively call you "hon" but will have far too much common sense than to burden you with her identity. It is largely for this reason that I like such diners, where, when you've dulled your senses to the fence of neon-orange vests along the counter, and the fraternal "I'm gonna kill me an animal" intention that hangs in the air like the scent of sawdust and sour beer, you can still get a fine breakfast of eggs, hash browns, toast, and coffee for under five bucks.
I should confess that, though I am willing to catch or spear fish, I haven't eaten red meat in some years, and feel viscerally opposed to terrestrial sport-hunting for reasons I can't quite articulate. My paternal grandfather was a fanatical hunter and fly fisherman, and my father likes to fish from time to time, so I have no doubt that I would enjoy everything about big-game hunting except gunning the animals down. In fact, I could well imagine spending hours or days in pursuit of a large animal with an empty rifle, if only to draw a perfect bead on it—De Niro at the end of The Deer Hunter—and let the animal pass. My mother, for her part, spontaneously became an ovolactovegetarian at age six. I believe it happened at breakfast, when she declared she would not eat the bacon on her plate, or any other meat for that matter, as long as she lived. Nearly seventy years later, she has yet to wriggle out of this vow. This was in 1932, when Americans who chose not to eat meat were considered not merely odd but dangerously out of their minds. If I inherited a portion of my grandfather's love of sport, and a portion of my mother's sensibility regarding animals, spear fishing may represent some kind of lame behavioral compromise. When I was a young boy in New England, the day I came ashore with my first speared rockfish and cleaned them on a stump at a friend's house, the smell of the fresh blood on my hands triggered an unexpected and primordial response. I rubbed the blood up and down my forearms, painting them, and nearly swooned from its sight and its sweet sticky smell. It was powerfully arousing in some uncultured way, and I might easily have smeared the rest of my eight-year-old body with the blood had I not felt some shame in my excitement. Later, I experienced a measure of revulsion when it came time to eat the thick white meat of the fried fish that I had speared, although I forced myself to eat it, and that feeling rarely recurred. Now I spear-fish much more rarely, and when I do I feel a bit sorrier for the fish. It has also been quite some time since I was excited by the smell and sight of blood, and even longer since I felt a pang of revulsion at eating the flesh of an animal so recently living.
My father, who taught me to fish, taught me to kill them quickly, to reduce unnecessary suffering, and I had assumed this was a universal practice. One summer dusk, however, my father and I came across a man casting for bluefish; a huge blue lay on the sand, gulping and flapping. "Aren't you going to kill it?" I asked the man. "No need," he answered over his shoulder, "it'll die on its own." I watched the fish struggle and wondered if there was some way I could kill it, as was proper, without causing offense. I saw no way around the problem, and finally my father and I said good night to the fisherman and moved along.
In any case, the anonymity of the waiter helps first to define what is an ancient, respectable, and specific relationship. The waiter, when he is your waiter, is not Jonathan. He is not a married father of two with a bad knee and a gambling habit. He is in possession of greater or lesser amounts of grace, charm, skill, knowledge, warmth, and decorum, but he is your waiter, and should remain nameless. Of course, the American waiter who takes his or her job seriously is a rare thing. My impeccably mannered sister-in-law recently asked a Californian waiter in an Italian restaurant, confidentially, if it was indeed true that chefs dreaded orders for zabaglione, the labor-intensive concoction of egg yolks, sugar, and Marsala wine. A skilled waiter might have produced any number of informative, amusing, and tip-leavening responses to such an inquiry, but this fellow replied flatly, "Now, that's a stupid question." I wasn't there, but I'm sure they knew his name.
More objectionable still than "Hi, my name is Jonathan . . ." is the phrase to follow. After the opening introduction, the waiter will soon return to the table with an artificial grin and the query "Are you guys ready to order?" My mother, who is over seventy, a mother of four, and a Ph.D., is categorically not "you guys," but waiters invariably seem to think that she would like to be. Not that she complains—she's a good sport, and is usually too worried that the kitchen will slip a rack of ribs into her vegetarian pasta to trouble with forms of address—but it irks me, her youngest and long-disrespectful son. The fact that my wife and I are also "you guys" is a minor matter in comparison. The gender attribution is less of an issue here than its forced casualness. The word "guy," after all, is slang. Its nearest equivalent in French, and surely its semantic progenitor, is gar. "Hi, guys," becomes Salut les gars. One need only imagine a self-respecting French waiter addressing an elderly couple as les gars to know how far from that standard we Americans have devolved. Call me retro, but call my mother ma'am.
If I thought it through, at the corner of Balzac and Friedland, I would conclude that I am nervous because I am foreign, because I am not accustomed to eating this way, and because I suspect that there are things one absolutely does not say or do in the dining room of this restaurant that we, or I, will say or do. I dread the near-certainty that common courtesy and good manners will not suffice. Something will slip, some gaffe, made all the worse because it will be committed in ignorance, and with the best of intentions. We will break a cardinal law of French etiquette, something more heinous, perhaps, than licking our fingers and wiping our chins with the tablecloth, and we will do it with gravity and politesse. We both know that it is acceptable and expected in France to "mop"—to clean the remaining sauce from one's plate with a slice of baguette, an act of barbar- ism at self-respecting tables of the United States. For reasons that remain unclear—my Scotch-Canadian grandmother, perhaps—I was raised to eat in the continental fashion, wherein it is permissible to spear a mor- sel with the fork in the left hand, tines down, and raise the bite directly to the mouth—another faux pas, generally speaking, en Amérique. And we know that one uses the silverware from the outside in as the meal progresses. But otherwise we're on our own. The problem with etiquette is that it is a language, like Urdu; it is not intuitive, but learned.
On the one hand, I think, if I forget myself and smell the cork, as any American rube is apt to do, so be it. Such a thing is never done by people who actually know wines, because the odor of the cork reveals precisely nothing. Or, rather, it reveals one's ignorance, and one's desire to be admired as worldly. The fact that one is surrounded by men who smell their corks at overpriced business lunches in mediocre restaurants does not lend credence to the act. In any case, there should be no reason, really, that one should be expected to do anything more than behave according to the laws of natural courtesy, especially if one is having a meal for the price of a used car.
Whereas Erin's anxiety may be natural, mine is more puzzling on the face of it, for I have been apprenticing at Taillevent off and on over the last three months. With the permission of owner Jean-Claude Vrinat and his two chefs, I have become a kind of reporter-apprentice and ambulatory traffic cone in the kitchens. When I am not harrying the chefs with questions, snacking on petits-fours in the pastry kitchen, or wolfing down small offerings in the cuisine, I am doing some small task half as well, and twice as slowly, as the greenest young cook in the house. I remove shards of shell from trays of crabmeat, press rings of dough into baking tins smaller than shot glasses, pass a torch over Crèmes brûlées à la Bergamote, cut rose petals from sheets of white chocolate.
Having worked, years before, as a prep cook, waiter, and bartender in a number of American restaurants, I had long harbored an interest in seeing a French kitchen at work. This interest was more personal than pro- fessional: my restaurant days were probably over, but I wanted to know more about what professional cooks thought and felt about food. I was somewhat less interested in technique than in attitude, approach. I wondered, for example, how a professional chef might prepare a meal for a beloved, and how his or her professional experience might aid or hinder it. Does increased technical knowledge expand one's awareness and appreciation of fundamental human experience, or does it create a gap, an alienating objectivity? It is an age-old question, and the answer goes both ways. As a writer by trade, with much to learn, I find it difficult to suppress the trained impulse to craft language, however casual the written form. Because of this, I have found that experience as a writer both helps and interferes with my ability to be simple and direct.
As a boy of eighteen in Washington, D.C., I often drove down to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial late at night. I would read the notes to dead soldiers, short or long letters from wives and sisters and mothers and grown sons, as often as not written at something like the sixth-grade level. The simplest and quietest, the most everyday, were always the truest and most heartbreaking. I knew even then, steeped in the arrogance of youth, that no amount of craft could improve them.
So I was and remain unsure about the value of so-called expertise when it comes to things that matter more than art or engineering. As for food, I was only just beginning to understand the significance of meals in a family and among friends. Our first child, a daughter, had been born not three years before this period in France, and in the first days home from the hospital my wife, who had been through an arduous labor, was pale and weak from loss of blood and spent much of her time in bed. The first morning home I had no appetite at all, too wired and apprehensive and ecstatic as I was, but my wife was ravenous. I hurried downstairs in the early morning and made a six-egg omelet splitting with avocado and melted jack cheese and tomatoes, with sheaves of toast and half a grapefruit besides. I poured her a wineglass full of whole milk—something she never ordinarily drinks. When I carried it up to her, I sat on the edge of a chair near the bed and watched her eat while the baby slept curled up against her hip. Without abandoning her manners, she ate like an animal that has been near death and is recovering. I could not look away; it was as if I could see the lost blood returning to her veins, spun from the cells of the meal, the forces of regeneration aglow in the room. In that period of half an hour, from the moment I cracked the first egg into the bowl until she had eaten the very last of it, to the crumb, and sagged back, sated, into the pillows, I understood food and what it means to cook in a way I never have before or since.
Food is love, I used to joke—embittered by my mother's ludicrously small servings at the dinner table—and I'm hungry. Why my mother served so little pasta, for example, rather than the indecorous mounds we might consume, remains a mystery. The mere presence of food in the fridge always seemed to distress her, and when one of us returned from a run to the market with two bags of groceries, she would invariably remark, "Goodness, we'll have enough food for a month!"
In defiance of her inclinations, my mother is still able to produce a superb lasagna, the best pasta puttanesca I've ever had, and an excellent roast chicken, among other things. Repressed may it be, an aptitude for cooking, it is clear, lurks within her. It has been telling to note how this played out in my two elder sisters. One, dismayed by my mother's approach to homemaking, embraced the hearth and stove with a vengeance. The other has maintained the belief, staunchly held and widely publicized, that she cannot cook an egg, despite countless other creative talents.
When I was a boy, my father rarely cooked. But when he and I drove north to the Catskills to visit his mother, he would cook dinner for the three of us. The meal was invariably a steak and a baked potato and green beans or carrots steamed and sautéed in butter. It was always tasty and serviceable, and in every way a mysterious reflection of the man. My father was eternally on edge in that grand house—his mother was difficult, to put it mildly. But I always had the sense, as we ate his meals to the sound of silverware in the dim light at that long table, that I was learning something about my father that could not otherwise be learned or put to words. More recently, now retired, my father has developed a real enthusiasm for cooking. He writes down recipes at dinner parties. He does most of the cooking for the two of them, and when my parents last visited he prepared an enormous and delicious eggplant casserole with Gruyère and tomatoes and parsley and sautéed onions, and it was a joy to see how much fun he had putting it all together.
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Japanese designer Keita Suzuki has created a rather unusual-yet thought-provoking-chair design. The Tear Drop Chair is a free-form design that is filled with 64 litres of water. Why that exact amount of water? It's supposed to signify the average volume of tears a human being will shed during their lifetime. Sixty-four litres, people! That's a lot of tears and a lot of eye redness.


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Live in Texas: Johnny Cash Live at the Louisiana Hayride
This week's episode of Live In Texas is the one and only, Johnny Cash at the Louisiana Hayride. Join us on Thursday, March 19th at 7pm on KBEC to hear the entire record!
Shortly after the release of his first single ("Cry! Cry! Cry!" b/w "Hey, Porter") in 1955, Cash made his first appearance on the Louisiana Hayride radio show, then one of the most popular shows in the south. Accompanied by the Tennessee Two (lead guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant) and his own rudimentary, percussive rhythm guitar, Cash quickly became a star, debuting his first huge hit on the Hayride, "I Walk the Line." He returned in 1959, and again in 1962 and 1963, and this collection features live highlights from his various stints on the show. Cash was often at his best in front of an audience, where his natural sincerity and goofy blue-collar humor combined with the lean, stripped-down, versatile sound of the Tennessee Two to deliver sets of easy intimacy. Live Recordings From the Louisiana Hayride plays like a concert, with chugging versions of "Big River," "Five Feet High and Rising," and "Folsom Prison Blues," a poetry recitation (of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Ballad of the Harp Weaver"), and a humorous introduction to "I Got Stripes." (Review by Steve Leggett)
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2. Luther Played The Boogie
3. So Doggone Lonesome
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5. Give My Love To Rose
6. Goodbye Little Darlin'
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Jobs remain the city's No. 1 priority, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday as he announced the latest in a series of workforce training grants.
The mayor awarded a $180,000 grant to four small businesses, which themselves will contribute a total of $104,000 toward training employees.
The grants, awarded by the Department of Small Business Services, are designed to create jobs and help small businesses expand in the five boroughs.
So far in 2011, nearly $700,000 has been awarded to a total of 16 businesses, providing training for 300 New Yorkers and 45 new hires.
Speaking at a wholesale food manufacturing company that received grant money in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Bloomberg outlined his commitment to small businesses — describing them as "the heartbeat of the economy and the solution to our jobless problems in this country."
Bloomberg made the announcement just days after President Barack Obama unveiled his jobs plan.
"Since October of 09, the nation has gained back only one out of every four jobs that were lost during the national recession," he said. New York City has gained back all of the lost jobs and added even more."


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Hassan Yussuff, CLC Secretary-Treasurer, opened the 26th Constitutional Convention this morning. He asked representatives from the Musqueam Nation to bring greetings and to welcome delegates to Coast Salish Territory. Elder Rose Point reminded those present to "pass our knowledge to future generations with open minds and open hearts." She told delegates that "the good you do today, some people may forget, but do good anyway.".
Jim Sinclair, President of the BC Federation of Labour, also welcomed delegates to Vancouver and emphasized labour's need to hold governments and corporations to account when dealing with workers' health and safety. He noted two recent deaths of construction workers, including one at the convention centre.
Mayor Gregor Robertson told the convention that Vancouver "is one of the most liveable cities because of our unionized workforce." He said local unions stepped up to the plate during the recent Olympic Games and he thanked the CLC for its contributions to electing a progressive government in his city.
Delegates to the convention were treated to a tribute to former CLC President Shirley Carr who died on June 24, 2010.
Georgetti says use new media to get message out
CLC President Ken Georgetti is calling on the labour movement to use every form of media available to tell its positive story. He was speaking to the 2600 delegates and visitors at the CLC's 26th Constitutional Convention occurring in Vancouver. "We have to make the winning argument that a strong labour movement whose members have good wages and benefits lifts everyone up, including non-union workers and all businesses. Because without unions, the standard of living will drop for everyone," Georgetti said.
He said that there are powerful forces that oppose the union agenda of good jobs for all and more equality in society. "Too often unions are portrayed negatively, inaccurately and unfairly. Put simply, we've been framed. Framed by our opponents, by big business, in the media they own and by right-wing governments." Georgetti added, "We must examine our public image as unions and be willing to reconsider our strategies to address it ... and through an improved public image and the use of accessible social media like Twitter,
, texting and the internet, we are going to step completely out of their distorted frame, starting at this convention."
Georgetti said, however, that the improved use of media by unions has already begun. He pointed to labour's advocacy to win improvements to the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans. "We have shown with our CPP/QPP campaign that when we go on the offensive with labour's issues, it is our opponents who are forced to react and who cannot control the debate." See our website for a complete text of the speech.
"Not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong"
With those words, Ken Georgetti welcomed Academy Award winning director Charles Ferguson to the stage at the CLC convention. Those same words were used by Ferguson himself the night he accepted the best documentary Oscar for his film Inside Job, a hard-hitting expose of the financial and regulatory negligence that resulted in the biggest economic collapse in 80 years.
Ferguson warned delegates that without change the American people should expect another, equally devastating financial collapse within 15 years. "The sheer concentration of wealth and political power among a very few people, and the ongoing social and educational distress among so many does not bode well for America," he warned. The more people who get left behind, the more America as a country falls behind the rest of the world, he said, and he added that Canadians need to be worried about such events as well.
A special screening of Inside Job, sponsored by the Labour College of Canada, took place later Monday evening, and Ferguson was on hand to meet and greet CLC delegates.
Good jobs for all
The economic system is not performing for working people in Canada. That message was loud and clear as the Economic and Social Policy Committee introduced their report to the CLC convention. The report shows that the economy has failed to deliver good jobs, better standards of living, decent workplaces, and equal, inclusive societies. The session passed resolutions that set out key building blocks of a new economic model – one which puts forward labour's vision for a much more democratic economy and a fairer society.
Foreign ownership was raised as a vital issue with respect to protecting the interests of Canadian workers and their communities. There was a call for a stringent review of foreign takeovers, including those in the broadcasting industry. One delegate said that if broadcasting was controlled by huge US corporations, the Canadian version of a popular television show would be called CSI – Moose Jaw.
The issue of migrant workers drew passionate debate. Delegates heard that the plight of some temporary foreign workers resembles modern day slavery. The afternoon's debate also dealt with issues such as green jobs and a national energy strategy.
United Way announces buy Canadian policy
The President of the United Way of Canada told a cheering crowd of delegates to the CLC convention that, starting June 1, all products purchased for sale as part of United Way fund raising will be Canadian-made, union-made and green. The change in policy coincides with a new, activist approach to fighting poverty – an approach Hatton challenged national unions and union locals to support and join.
Speaking as part of a series that focuses on how unions make a difference, Hatton praised the continued generosity of union members, noting that even in the face of an economic downturn, the support never wavered.
Journalist challenges labour to stand up to the Conservative agenda
Hundreds of delegates and labour activists came together for an evening of solidarity, spectacular entertainment and challenging words on Sunday at the Human Rights Forum.
Following greetings from CLC Secretary-Treasurer Hassan Yussuff, delegates were treated to a mesmerizing, high-energy performance of traditional aboriginal hoop dancing by three-time world champion Alex Wells.
Keynote speaker Haroon Siddiqui later challenged the audience to recognize that while the Conservative Party has earned the right to govern by virtue of its own winning "divide and conquer" strategy, it is the labour movement's responsibility to hold the government accountable.
"While Canadians have conferred a majority mandate on Mr. Harper, they have not crowned him King of Canada; he said himself on election night that he intends to be Prime Minister for all Canadians. Your job is to make sure that he is," said Saddiqui.
The award-winning journalist challenged activists in the room to match Conservative strategies with new strategies of their own, including modern tactics that engage people where they live and work.
The CLC's Yussuff acknowledged the hard work and dedication of several trade union activists who are retiring from their roles as Equity Vice Presidents: Sonia Reynolds (SEIU) and Philip Paul (CAW) from Workers of Colour; Darren Patrick (COPE) from Aboriginal Workers; Victor Elkins (CUPE) from Solidarity & Pride; and Lynn Taylor (CUPE/HEU) from Workers with Disabilities.
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Account Coordinator (sales, marketing & PR)
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Myriad Marketing
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Account Coordinator (sales, marketing & PR)
Marketing, Public Relations
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401K/403B, Dental, Health
Job Duration
Full Time
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Job Requirements
Responsibilities will include:
Writing and distribution of press releases
Coordination of press trips; including itinerary development, journalist recruitment, hosting in destination.
Media pitching
Providing input and recommendations on social media programs
Coordinating special events and promotions on behalf of clients
Conduct sales calls and training programs with tour companies, travel agents and MICE organizations;
Review, asses and implement cooperative marketing programs with travel industry partners
Prepare project briefs and market intelligence reports
Manage project budgets
Manage timelines and execution of projects;
Work with a team to develop new ides and concepts for the client
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2 - 3 years of sales, marketing and PR experience with the tourism / travel industry is HIGHLY PREFERRED
Full command of Tourism Marketing, Sales and PR.
Proven experience in building and maintaining client relationships
Excellent knowledge of all travel distribution channels including online.
Ability and willingness to travel at least five days each month including international travel
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Dust Off: May 2014 - May, Memory and Veterans
PORT ST. LUCIE - I have been called a Jack of all Trades, I write, sing, teach, and dance – well I don't dance very well. I guess I missed the rhythm line when that talent was handed out. I am even pretty accomplished at recovering from injuries sustained during my 26 years of active service in the Army Special Operations, and 30 years of dodging gun fire. I grew up in Brooklyn, NY, so that accounts for the other four years.
So, yes I can be called a Jack of all Trades but many people say I am the Master of One - Caring. Caring for me has manifested itself in volunteering. I try to volunteer my time when I am able in several areas.
Veteran issues are always a hot button for me, since I spent close to half my life in service to this Great Nation.
However, I do have a favorite volunteer area which has become an almost symbiotic relationship. That favorite relationship is with the Alzheimer Community Care Centers on the Treasure Coast. Alzheimer's Community Care is a Florida-based 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization. Alzheimer's Community Care provides specialized care to Alzheimer's disease and related disorders patients, and also supports the needs of caregivers. The organization proudly serves Palm Beach, Martin, and St. Lucie counties.
Consequently, I was thoroughly pleased to read the front page piece by Mark Burneko of the St Lucie Tribune on the Wednesday, April 23, 2014 entitled "Nursing Homes for Veterans Planned". The piece explains how officials want a state run nursing care facility in Tradition, which would serve the special needs of disabled veterans throughout the Treasure Coast.
My response is bravo! Whatever it takes…let's make it happen.
It's estimated that 5.2 million Americans of all ages have Alzheimer's disease. This includes an estimated 5 million people age 65 and older, and approximately 200,000 individuals under age 65 have younger-onset Alzheimer's. This roughly translates to one in nine people age 65 and older or about 11 percent has Alzheimer's disease. In people age 85 and older, it's about one third who have the disease.
Since the aging Veteran population from the "Great Generation" World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans fall squarely within this window, we need to do as much as we can for these "special needs disabled veterans". There is research ongoing to address possible correlations between combat exposure, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury and the development of Alzheimer's disease.
Meanwhile, my call action is volunteering most recently with the North Stuart Alzheimer's Community Care Center where I play guitar and sing those "Golden Oldies" from days gone by. Many in the center are veterans or parents, spouses or relatives of veterans. Their reaction is magical and marvelous.
On a personal note, I had an aunt who helped raised me begin and recently ended her long road to goodbye. I am deeply touched every time I see my dear friends sing along, clap along, tap a foot or laugh aloud about what they were doing when "that song" was popular.
Music touches the soul. It stirs memories and emotions and brings us closer for a while. Strangely, they have a tremendous healing and cathartic affect on me. We spend precious time together singing, swapping tales, and just caring for one another. Yes, I feel cared for by them just as I care for them. It's wonderful.
Strangely, I always come away feeling that I have gotten more that I have given. What a wonderful payoff, return on investment, and a great life lesson. For more information, contact Alzheimer Community Care at (561) 683-2700 or visit them on the web at http://www.alzcare.org/
Dr. Dana Matthews, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Ranger (Retired) is a Veterans' Health Care Consultant and Advocate.
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|JK Racing Asia Series Driver Lineup and Mentor Announced
The JK Racing Asia Series is off to a flying start after the introduction of the 2011 Driver lineup ahead of the Season Opener this weekend in support of the 2011 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix. The JK Racing Asia Series (formerly known as Formula BMW Pacific) will kick off with two rounds of racing this 9th and 10th April 2011.
Drivers and teams participating in the series were introduced to the media along with the surprise guest of the day, Formula 1 Team Lotus Test Driver and JK Tyre & Industries Ambassador, Karun Chandhok. Chandhok will be the mentor for the participants for the season as part of the added initiative from JK Tyre & Industries and Motorsport Asia.


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Daughter Lexi Beaumont garnered local noteriety when she saved her family from wildfire--a fame rivaled only by that of her celebrity newscaster brother, Eric. But the attention sheds light on darker places she'd rather keep hidden. As Lexi tries to settle quietly back into life After the Fire, romantic troubles plague her. Then Eric's always erratic behavior begins to spriral out of control. His drinking has reached a new height--and only a headstrong policewoman seems to make any headway with him. It'll take a miracle of grace to bring these two hurting souls to a place of recovery and healing.
1. Lexi and Erik are stuck in ruts in terms of their coping mechanisms. To a certain extent we all cope with life situations, we all need to protect ourselves from pain, we all need comfort. Can you identify ways in which you, too, might make use of coping mechanisms?
2. Why don't Lexi and Erik want to seek help early in the story? How did that affect them?
3. Lexi and Erik eventually see ways in which their dad, Max, unintentionally hurt them when they were children. It took many years for them to realize this and take steps toward healing.
4. How did your parents unintentionally hurt you? What steps did you take—or what steps do you need to take—in order for healing to occur?
5. If you are a parent, how have you unintentionally hurt your children? Have you, like Claire and Max, asked for their forgiveness? What was the response?
6. What are things that have been sown in your heart? What has been reaped? Identify the flowers and weeds.
7. What do you think about forgiveness and forgetting? Is it hard for you? Easy? Why?
8. Do you believe God wants to heal our deep wounds? How has he healed yours?
9. In the first book in this series, A Time to Mend, Claire and Max had to overcome some deep personal issues in order to heal their marriage and relationship. What progress do you see in Claire since then? In Max?
10. Like the Beaumont family members, the Hacienda Hideaway is still under construction. What would your ideal retreat center be like?


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Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How...Sarah LacyAverage wait: 31d, 7h
An unforgettable portrait of the emerging world's entrepreneurial dynamos Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky is the story about that top 1% of people who do more to change their worlds through greed and ambition than politicians, NGOs and nonprofits e… more
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Founders at Work: Stories of...Jessica Livingston
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were ju… more
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Rawhide Down: The Near Assas...Del Quentin Wilber
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011A Richmond Times Dispatch Top Book for 2011A minute-by-minute account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, to coincide with the thirtieth anniversaryOn March 30, 1981, President … more
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SUN TZU:ART OF WAR PSun Tzu
Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's cl… more
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The Future Arrived Yesterday...Michael Malone
A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work… . The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what await… more
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The Madoff Chronicles: Insid...Brian Ross
Behind the walls of the house that lies builtAfter the news broke of Bernie Madoff's arrest on December 11, 2008, the facts were hard to grasp. Madoff claimed to have stolen fifty billion dollars; the sum seemed impossibly large. But of cou… more
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The Accidental Billionaires:...Ben Mezrich
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The fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better.A veteran New York Times economics reporter, Ed Andrews was intimately aware of the dangers posed by easy mortgages from fast-buck lenders. Yet… more
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The Chaos ScenarioBob Garfield
What happens when the old world order collapses and the Brave New World is unprepared to replace it − as an ad medium, as a news source, as a political soapbox, a channel for new episodes of 'Lost?' Welcome to The Chaos Scenario.
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The Last LectureRandy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."—Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And wh… more
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The Business of Happiness: 6...Ted Leonsis
Albert Schweitzer said, Happiness is the key to success." In The Business of Happiness, Ted Leonsisbusiness, sports, and media mogulproves Schweitzer's point, explaining that success may or may not make you happy, but happiness will almo… more
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Dr. Bob Arnot's Guide to Tur...Robert Arnot
In his bestselling Guide to Turning Back the Clock, Dr. Bob Arnot showed men everywhere how to look younger, feel younger, be younger Now, in his new book, he reveals the secrets of permanent weight loss for both men and women — and gives … more
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Founders at Work: Stories of...Jessica Livingston
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were ju… more
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Image Courtesy of Bea's of Bloomsbury
As the cronut craze continues, new hybrid desserts are popping up in bakeries and pastry shops around the world.
The latest and greatest creation comes from Bea's of Bloomsbury tea shops in London.
"When I had been approached to do a fusion dessert, I wanted to do something that would incorporate the best of both worlds," Vo told TODAY.com. "So with the brownie tart, the best part is the sugar crust on the top, and the fudgy soft centre that really makes for a strong chocolate hit."
What does she call her newest creation? The townie–part tart and part brownie.
This dessert is a nod to the American brownie, but, with a buttery, flaky crust, is also reminiscent of a European pastry. The baker describes the townie as "a good balance of flaky and gooey."
Vo's other hybrid pastry creation, the Duffin (a mix between a donut and a muffin), is already a wildly popular menu item at Bea's of Bloomsbury.
Why the rush to create more hybrid desserts? Bea's of Bloomsbury's marketing and PR manager, Helena Marie Fletcher, told TODAY.com that the public likes to know their bakers are constantly innovating. "It's one of the things our customers really like, that they can see our chefs at work in the kitchen here in the shop and that something new is being created."
For more insanely good hybrid foods, go to 10 Food Mashups as Good as the Cronut.
Click on the slideshow below for step-by-step instructions for making the cronut at home.
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How to Make Cronuts
How to Make Cronuts
The cronut is just that — flaky, buttery dough that's deep-fried to golden brown perfection, and then filled with cream and glazed.
Learn how to make the cronut at home in this slideshow.
Like the original cronut, we based our recipe on croissant dough, which consists of layers of alternating dough and butter. This creates the flaky, airy texture of a croissant — or cronut — in this case.
The Butter
For the soft butter, wrap it in plastic wrap and gently soften it by warming it with your fingers. When added to the dough, it helps with the elasticity and texture.
Don't Overmix
The most important thing to remember is to not overmix the dough. Just mix until the dry ingredients and wet ingredients are combined. This will prevent gluten development and make the dough easier to work with when rolling out. The dough doesn't have to be perfectly smooth. Every time you touch the dough, you are working it. So make every moment count and work quickly to gather the dough into a ball and chill.
Rolling the Butter
We let our dough rest in a greased bowl, covered with a damp cloth, and in a warm spot for about 45 minutes until it had risen to about double in size. While the dough is rising, roll out the butter between two pieces of parchment paper. We found that it's much easier to work with room temperature butter.
Buttering Our Dough
Now the fun part begins — and get out your tape measure! To get those flaky layers of dough, we had to incorporate a lot of butter. Wrap the butter up with the dough like a little present.
Rolling It Out
Make sure to seal the edges so that the butter doesn't escape from the sides of the dough.
To lock in the butter, roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface. The dough should be longer than it is wide. Fold the right side toward the middle and then the left side over on top of the right side, like you are folding a letter. This creates the dough layers. Repeat this process two more times and remember to chill thoroughly in between. Roll the dough out again, making sure that your corners are squared off, and cut dough into thirds. We chose to stack these pieces of dough to give the cronut height and lots of flaky and buttery layers. Roll the dough out one last time. Make it large enough to cut out one dozen cronuts.
Shaping the Cronut
Use two different-sized ring molds to make a donut shape out of the dough. We tried frying the cronut holes, but unfortunately they fell apart instantly once they hit the oil. Cut out all of the cronut shapes. If the dough is getting too sticky, put it back in the refrigerator and chill for a few minutes.
At this point, the dough needs to proof. Place on a parchment-lined baking dish, cover in plastic, and let rise in a warm spot. You'll know when the dough has proofed long enough when you press it gently with your finger and it doesn't spring back immediately.
Just Like the Real Thing
Like the original cronut, we fried ours in grapeseed oil at 350 degrees to get a golden brown outside and the inside perfectly cooked through. Don't crowd the fryer and leave enough room so that each cronut can be flipped over.
So Worth It
After a little bit of work with the dough, the end result is worth it. Golden brown with lots of buttery layers of soft dough.
Sugaring Our Cronut
We don't just stop there, though. To finish the cronut exactly like Ansel does, we rolled ours in a mixture of cinnamon and sugar. This is best done when the cronuts are still warm, but the excess oil has been absorbed with a paper towel.
Filling Our Cronut
And just like Ansel does as well, we filled ours with a vanilla cream. Inject the cream into the cronut in a few different spots to ensure that the cream is dispersed throughout.
Oh, and, Glazing Our Cronut
He also glazes it, so we did, too.
The Daily Meal's Cronut Recipe
What could be better than taking your first satisfying bite of a homemade cronut? Like the original cronut, our version had buttery layers of dough filled with vanilla cream and glazed. Skipping the hectic bakery lines and enjoying a cronut at home is a sweet way to start the day.
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Exchange Mailbox Archiving Report coming in 10.0.2- Give us your thoughts!
I'm very very happy to tell you of a great new feature we are delivering in Enterprise Vault 10.0.2.
In this release we are delivering Exchange Archiving Reports which are generated whenever Exchange Mailbox archiving takes place. The reports are available during and at the end of the run. 3 reports are generated, brief, full and .csv. Each report will detail every mailbox on the Exchange server, and what archiving(if any) took place. Below is screenshot of a brief report and attached is examples of brief, full and .csv. The full report has many more columns, the .csv is a close representation of full but means you could put the data into excel if you wish and process it accordingly.
In addition to these reports, a new event log entry is generated at the end of the run giving you a summary of what took place. The summary is also available from the properties of the archiving task and you can access these reports via that or on disk as well. If you take a look at the attach files you'll see that the fields all have "hover over" text explaining what they mean, in addition to this the report will link to a tech note giving further details.
We are making final tweaks and would love to hear your feedback as soon as possible. Do you like it? does it have the content you want? do you understand the content, what questions might you have that we need to explain in a tech note? Please reply to this post with your thoughts.
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I like the full! especially since it has the number of passes. That will be handy for us. Now convince customer to upgrade :-)
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this is FANTASTIC! been waiting for...EVER for this and you've exceeded my expectations. very nice work.
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This was one of many requests I worked alongside Engineering with and I'm really happy to see the comments so far. Believe me you wouldn't realise how much time we discussed over the content! I think this will help all EV customers and help demystify EV, and finally people get to know when archiving is finished. Sometimes it's the little things in life :)
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I think I'll got in the last four years nearby 50 request from different customer about reporting the scheduled archiving task.
Sounds Great! Thanks!
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Hi Mike and Bruce,
What competitors?
Would this report also be available in SQL reporting?
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About 50 Oak Ridge security jobs to be cut
OAK RIDGE — Up to 51 Oak Ridge security jobs will be eliminated over the next couple of months, the government's contractor confirmed.
Courtney Henry, a spokeswoman for WSI-Oak Ridge (formerly known as Wackenhut), said the job reductions are an outgrowth of reviews conducted last year by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge office. Those reviews analyzed the security requirements and evaluated the funding at the federal facilities in Oak Ridge, including the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant — a high-security installation where hundreds of guards are employed.
"Since then, WSI has actively engaged in the review of the size of its Oak Ridge workforce to obtain efficiencies and cost savings and to support the recommendations provided by these reviews," Henry said.
WSI holds two government contracts in Oak Ridge. One is with the NNSA to provide protective force services at Y-12, and the other is with DOE's Oak Ridge office to provide security personnel at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, East Tennessee Technology Park, the Federal Building, and other DOE sites.
Henry said the job reductions would take place at Y-12 and ETTP, a former uranium-enrichment site that is being converted to private industrial uses.
She said a Voluntary Separation Program would be offered to WSI employees who are willing to leave the payroll voluntarily, and applications for the incentive-based program will be accepted up until Friday.
At Y-12, up to 34 "security police officer" positions and three staff positions will be eliminated, Henry said. At ETTP, the plan calls for the reduction of as many as 14 SPO positions and one staff job, she said.
Those who apply for voluntary separation benefits will be notified by Sept. 18 if their applications have been accepted, Henry said. Those accepted for the VSP will be taken off the payroll as of Sept. 28.
"This will not have an impact on the level of security at the Oak Ridge facilities due to dramatic improvements in physical security that have been completed in recent years at Y-12 and to changes in mission at (DOE's Oak Ridge facilities)," Henry said.
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I am a big fan of used cars generally. I just can't bring myself to buy a new one given the immediate depreciation which occurs once I wave goodbye to the salesman. It's just too painful for me. I prefer to buy my cars used.
Buy a Camry, not a Malibu : The US Government Shakedown of Possibly the World's Greatest Car Company, Toyota
Toyota just paid $1.1 billion to settle lawsuits alleging random acceleration problems in its cars. The allegations were, and are essentially false. But, Toyota paid out because it knew it had to, to move on. A giant speeding ticket to the government. (And Toyota wasn't even speeding.)


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IVYBRIDGE and OPMs insist they will show each other the greatest respect in a David and Goliath Devon Intermediate Cup clash tonight.
It will be the third time the two club's have tried to stage the quarter-final, the other two attempts being washed out by the weather.
The floodlit match at Ivybridge's Cross-in-Hand ground, which starts at 7.30pm, pits Western Counties West's Ivybridge against Cornwall-Devon League representatives OPMs.
Goliaths Ivybridge, a division above their Plymouth opponents and on their own patch, are clear favourites.
But Ivybridge senior coach Neil Thomson said: "They (OPMs) are underdogs on paper, but we will be treating them with a lot of respect.
"They have nothing to lose and it would be something to humble us. They will be 100 per cent up for it.
"The condition of the field will be heavy and it will be a great leveller, plus it's a local derby. We're not taking anything for granted."
Ivybridge will not name their team until this evening, but it is likely that winger George de Mondonca will play some part in the proceedings after returning from a serious shoulder injury.
Second-row Dom Loomes, who has also been sidelined with injury, is set to be make first-team return.
OPMs' assistant head coach, Steve Luffman, said: "We're taking it seriously, because you've got to show respect.
"If you put out a weakened team, it could go a bit ugly for you, so we're going out to try and win it.
"A win would be a massive upset, so you never know what might happen."
OPMs (from): Lloyd Inward, Jake Aquilina, Rich Brown, Matt Glastonbury, Kevin Souster, Tom Clenaghan, Ed Steven, Rhys Phillips, Harry Stephenson, Jake Luffman, Chris Harmer, Gavin Rae, Justin Morton, Martin Skelly, Tom Finnie, Henry Matthews, Richard Morton, Sam Morton.


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CYTED-HAROSA, Barcelona (Spain), July 18-19, 2011
The 2011 CYTED-HAROSA Workshop & Meeting on Applied Optimization & Distributed Computing aims to be an open and international forum for disseminating recent advances in the fields of Hybrid Algorithms for solving Realistic rOuting, Scheduling and reliability/Availability problems" (HAROSA).
The main goal of this workshop & meeting event is to get together members of the IN3-HAROSA KC, CTP-VERTEVALLEE, MCYT-HAROSA and CYTED-HAROSA@IB communities, as well as related partners, in order to present some of our current research activities and also to design and organize new ones for the future.
The 2011 CYTED-HAROSA Int. Workshop is an open event and the registration is free by invitation of any of the General Chairs. It will be held in the new IN3-MEDIATIC building at Barcelona, on July 18 and 19, 2011.
There will be two CYTED-HAROSA Special Issues associated with this event:
- Special issue on "Applied Optimization & Computing", Int. J. of Operations Research and Information Systems. IJORIS-HAROSA Call for papers
- Special issue on "Optimization and Simulation in Real-life Scenarios", Int. J. of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies. IJDATS-HAROSA Call for papers
We look forward to meet you at Barcelona!
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Jason Pennycooke
Theatre: Paul in Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jacob in La Cage Aux Folles - nominated for Olivier and What's On Stage Awards (Menier Chocolate Factory and Playhouse); Cats (UK tour); Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria); Five Guys Named Moe (Noel Coward); Rent (Prince of Wales and first UK tour); Soul Train (Victoria Palace); The Big Life (Apollo and Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Hey Mr Producer (Lyceum); Stomp (Vaudeville); The Rat Pack (Savoy, Adelphi and US tour); Robin and the Seven Hoods (Leicester Square Theatre); Simply Heavenly (Young Vic); Golden Boy (Greenwich Theatre); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (The Old Globe); Sammy (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Time Flows (Trinity Buoy Wharf); White Folks (Tricycle) and Forever Young (Nottingham Playhouse).
Film and Television: Paul in Kiss Me, Kate (BBC); Grandad in All About the McKenzies (London Live); Sammy in Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine); Shopping (Paul W S Anderson) and Stay Lucky (YTV).
Radio: The Big Life (BBC World Service) and Anthony Newley Birthday Celebrations (BBC World Service).
Jason is a choreographer in his own right; for more information visit www.jasonpennycooke.com
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