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Morton's stellar effort goes for naught as Bucs fall
Right-hander throws seven scoreless frames in duel with Wainwright
ST. LOUIS -- Stepping up to swing with the big boys, the Pirates on Monday night were terrific off the tee. The greens, however, gave them trouble.
Or, as manager Clint Hurdle detailed the baseball version of the analogy, "We did everything we wanted to on offense except touch home."
So Hurdle felt his club was ready for a mulligan after a tough 2-0 loss to the Cardinals, won on Matt Adams' walk-off two-run homer off Justin Wilson with one out in the ninth.
The blow decided a terrific, but ultimately inconclusive, duel between veteran right-handers Charlie Morton and Adam Wainwright, who had to keep repelling Pirates charges.
"We got men on base … and he did not let us cross the plate," said Hurdle, who watched his team go 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and strand 12 total. "It's like a golf course -- every hole plays a little bit different. We came up short, we'll get ready to get after it [on Tuesday]."
Wilson entered in the ninth for the tough challenge of facing the top of the Cardinals' order in the scoreless tie, but he did not help himself by walking leadoff man Matt Carpenter on four pitches. Matt Holliday flied out to right before Adams connected for his first career walk-off homer -- his first walk-off hit of any sort as a pro.
"This is unbelievable. I don't even know what to say," Adams said in the immediate aftermath of igniting a sold-out Busch Stadium. "As soon as I made contact with it, I knew it was gone. I had to just make sure I didn't hook it too much foul. It felt good off the bat."
Wilson shook off the high heater, as did Hurdle. It was the first home run allowed by the hard-throwing southpaw since last July 24.
The defeat stopped the Bucs' three-game win streak and returned them to third place in the National League Central, again a half-game behind the Cards.
The Bucs thus couldn't capitalize on a career game from Morton, who pitched one-hit ball in a gripping seven-inning standoff with Wainwright.
"We're here in St. Louis, playing the Cardinals, one of the best teams in the National League," Morton said. "And [Wainwright] is one of the best, if not the best, so I've got to go out there and keep the team in the game."
Facing a team with a winning record for the first time since June 15 and starting only their second series in a month with such opposition, the Pirates played up to the competition.
The pregame tenor was unmistakable: How great Wainwright has been versus everyone, and how vulnerable Morton has been against the Cardinals, particularly here. Both impressions were borne out by the numbers, but not by the duel.
Although the two righties matched seven zeros, Morton convincingly won the match. He allowed one hit, walked two, hit a batter and struck out five. Wainwright's seven innings were an adventure -- seven hits and three walks, but also two double plays and nine stranded.
"Morton pitched a fantastic game," Hurdle said. "It was fun to watch him pitch. He had nasty stuff. It was all about the sinker."
Morton gave up a two-out double in the first to Adams, and that was it. He never assembled a particularly long string of outs, a couple of walks and the hit batter interrupting, but faced only two over the minimum of 19 after Adams' two-bagger.
Morton had one prior one-hit start in his career, on July 3, 2009, in Miami, but that was only through six innings and featured as many walks as strikeouts (four each).
Heightening the suspense was the awareness that only a sustained rally would break the stalemate, at least while Morton and Wainwright shared the mound, as neither suffers the quick strike. Between them they have allowed 10 homers in 244 innings this season, and they rank among the three toughest starting pitchers to homer off since the start of the 2011 season.
Alas, that track record proved to be no refuge for Wilson, one of the tougher left-handed relievers to take yard.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Published: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 8:43 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 8:43 a.m.
Residents and recreationalists along the Suwannee and Withlacoochee rivers are urged to avoid contact with the river water because of possible contamination from city of Valdosta's sewage treatment plant, according to a Florida Department of Health press release.
The agency on Thursday issued an advisory to residents in the counties surrounding the Withlacoochee and Suwannee rivers — Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Madison and Suwannee counties.
The Valdosta utility department has located a sanitary sewer overflow that has spilled into the northern Withlacoochee. The Withlacoochee flows south and empties into the Suwannee River.
This is the second time in two months that state health officials have had to warn residents of North Central Florida to avoid contact with the water flowing in the Suwannee — and both instances involve sewage contamination involving a spill in Valdosta.
In early March, the Withlacoochee Water Pollution Control Plant in Valdosta overflowed into the Withlacoochee, state officials said at the time.
As for the current situation, state officials say that, until further information is known regarding possible contamination of the rivers, people are urged to avoid contact with water from either river.
Water contaminated by wastewater overflow presents several health hazards to humans and may contain untreated human sewage with microbes that could cause gastro-intestinal and other diseases.
Anyone who comes in contact with the river water should wash thoroughly, especially before eating or drinking. Children and elderly, as well as people with depressed immune systems, are particularly vulnerable to disease so every precaution should be taken to avoid the river water.
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God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. —John 4:24
I believe that every Christian has one fundamental calling and one primary duty—we are called, by the way we live and in all we do, to worship God. This is a full-time activity, not only here on earth, but in heaven, too.
But what exactly is worship? True worship is in the Spirit or by the Spirit of God.
Two Greek words in the New Testament are translated by our word "worship." One is proskuneo, which is used sixty times and means "to adore" or "to give reverence to." This refers to the condition of the heart. It is the word used by Jesus in John 4:24.
The other word is latreuontes, which appears as a noun or a verb twenty-six times and may be translated as "service." This is the word used to refer to public worship and comes in Philippians 3:3 (KJV): " ... who worship [serve] God in the spirit." Both words are used in the context of Spirit-led and Spirit-controlled worship.
Here, then, is my own definition of worship: it is the response to, and/or preparation for, the preached Word. In worship, the Spirit prepares our minds and hearts to receive God's Word, and, as we see at Pentecost, it is the Spirit who brings about a change of heart and enables us to continue in the apostles' doctrine.
But if the first thing is the Spirit, what is the role of the truth? Truth—Christian doctrine as revealed in the Word of God—is the proof and guarantee that one is in the Spirit; it also serves as a yardstick for testing actions that are allegedly in the Spirit but that in fact are not. The truth keeps worship from detours. The Bible was not given to replace the Holy Spirit. The Bible is there to correct abuse and to help us make sure that our worship and our Christian walk are genuinely in the Spirit.
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MODEST Dave Throup is the envy of blokes everywhere, with his own adoring fan club and women queuing up to have their picture taken with him.
As the face of the Environment Agency the reformed "New Romantic" has been interviewed by the likes of Eamonn Holmes and George Alagiah, but you can almost hear unassuming Dave's toes curl at the mention of his Twitter fan club, which now has more than 1,800 followers . There has even been a petition for mild-mannered "Super Dave" to be awarded an MBE for his boundless flood- related heroics.
Yet mixed with Dave's embarrassment there is pride in his team and gratitude that their efforts have been recognised at a time when the Environment Agency has been berated nationally over its response to flooding.
The fan club, set up during last month's floods by Ross- on-Wye councillor Andrew Atkinson, is in homage to the hard work of the Environment Agency's area environment manager for Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
Thanks to his prolific use of Twitter to deliver informative minute-by-minute updates and advice and his media interviews, often delivered from the epicentre of flood-hit areas, Dave is about as close as the EA is ever going to get to a celebrity, albeit a reluctant one.
The 48-year-old, of Powick, said: "There have been a lot of ladies who want to have a photograph taken with me. It's a bit strange. I don't feel like a pin-up.
"It is nice that people recognise that what you do is valuable. All I'm doing is my job. It seems bizarre."
But then freakish weather like flooding often throws up weird scenarios, like the army delivering a free bus service in Upton or EA staff wrestling with 35lb carp on Upton Ham two years ago or, more recently, when fish were flapping along the final furlong at Pitchcroft in Worcester.
So how did Dave end up at the Environment Agency?
Well, it all began with nature walks as a boy in the Worcestershire countryside with his grandfather, Wilfred Lockey, a police officer.
Dave said: "He fired my interest in the natural world. I liked everything about it and that is where I developed my interest in the countryside."
Dave's rapport with nature even enabled him to tame a jackdaw, called (what else?) Jack, and he was pictured with the cheeky bird for the Worcester News back in 1976, getting the day off school for the snap. Dave said: "He was a fantastic pet. He used to drop by and tap on my window. He liked anything shiny and threw my mother's pots across the kitchen. She wasn't very happy. He went completely wild after four or five years."
His interest in the environment led to a degree in environmental studies at the University of Wales, in Carmarthen, before he took a Masters in, of all things, pesticide chemistry at the University of Reading. Despite his love of the natural world he hates rats and snakes, which may explain why his first job was working for Rentokil in Aylesbury, before he became a chartered town planner in South Wales. He then moved back to Worcestershire to join Severn Trent Water, where he ran a lot of environmental projects, including getting visitor centres up and running.
But he is in his element working for the Environment Agency, dealing ordinarily with fisheries, pollution re - sponse, regulation and environmental monitoring, but when flooding becomes a problem Dave becomes an incident commander, linking in with the police, fire and ambulance and other partners to spearhead the response, not to mention giving media interviews to national and local journalists for TV, radio and print.
He said: "It's a fantastic job. You couldn't get a better job, really."
In crisis situations like the flooding in February Dave becomes the main point of contact in this area for the EA.
He said: "Flooding is a devastating experience. We want to do everything we can to help or warn people.
"It does get quite personal and we do deal with a lot of anger. People lash out, without a doubt. Part of the job is taking that.
"It is more about empathy, understanding what people have been through. The most rewarding thing is being able to make a difference to people. ."
It can be incredibly hard work. Dave has not had Christmas, Boxing Day or New Year with his family for the last two years, but accepts it is just "part of the job" in the same way it is for the emergency services.
Dave also loves sport (but not football), particularly cricket, and likes nothing better than a beer at Worcestershire County Cricket Club or coaching youngsters at Barnards Green Cricket Club.
Dave, who was born in Newland and attended Powick Primary School and Dyson Perrins High School, in Malvern, is also a family man.
His wife, Cathryn, is head teacher at Clifton-upon-Teme Primary School, and they have two children, Helen, 15, and Owen, 11.
So what does the future hold? Dave says homes in this area are better protected than they have ever been, with valuable lessons learned following the summer floods of 2007, but he does accept that these incidents are increasing. Flood defences, both larger defences like the bund in Hylton Road, Worcester, and smaller 'individual property protection', have also meant more homes are spared the perils of flooding. He said around 150 homes flooded in Worcestershire during the February floods compared to 4,700 and five deaths in 2007.


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Alex Hales with 82 and Graeme White, who claimed figures of five for 22, both played a leading hand as Nottinghamshire Outlaws brushed aside the challenge of Lancashire Lightning to defeat them by 60 runs at Trent Bridge.
The victory guarantees Notts a home quarter final tie after the win enabled them to top the North Group of the Friends Life t20.
Hales' blistering innings set the side up for a highly-competitive total of 194 for six – with Notts clearing the boundary ropes on eleven occasions.
Six of those maximums were hit by Hales, who was visibly distraught when he was run out by a direct throw from deep midwicket to end his stay.
Without a t20 hundred on his CV – and with a full five overs left to bat – the opener knew that a better opportunity to reach three figures couldn't be asked for.
David Hussey had announced an unchanged Notts line-up at the toss and also admitted he'd have bowled first but that option went to his opposite number, Glen Chapple.
Given how the innings unfolded, the home side clearly made the most of having first knock on a used wicket.
A 35-minute stoppage for rain disrupted the Lancashire reply after 11.2 overs but at that stage they were already struggling at 87 for six with Graeme White claiming four of the wickets to fall by that stage.
It took Notts just a little more than five overs to finish off the visitors' innings after the restart, eventually bowling them out for only 134, with 19 deliveries remaining unused.
Chapple was the eighth man out, chopping on to his own stumps, to give White not only his personal best but also the best figures by any Nottinghamshire bowler in t20 cricket.
Harry Gurney then blasted his way through Arron Lilley's defences before Samit Patel ended the contest by having Ashwell Prince caught in the deep by a sliding Steven Mullaney.
Michael Lumb had been quickly out of the blocks at the start of the afternoon, striking two maximums in a 15-ball knock of 30, helping Hales put on 59 for the Outlaws' first wicket in the process and a huge total seemed likely as 112 for one had been reached by the halfway stage.
Although the innings lost some of its momentum after Hales' departure the final total appeared challenging, especially when Stephen Moore chipped the first ball of the reply straight back to Patel.
Tom Smith made 22 and Steven Croft added 23 but both were amongst White's victims as Lancashire's middle order struggled badly against the spinner.
Both counties must now wait for Wednesday's quarter final draw, with Notts having finished top of the group and second-placed Lancashire left contemplating an away trip in the last eight.


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Source: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisations (UNPO), March 25, 2008
Status: The Ogoni are a distinct ethnic nationality within the Federal Republic of Nigeria who have lived in the Niger Delta for more than 500 years.
Population: 850,000
Area: approx. 1,000 km²
Capital City: Bori
Language: : Ogoni languages – Khana, Gokana, and Eleme as a distinct group within the Beneu-Congo branch of African languages
Religion: Christianity, traditional beliefs
UNPO REPRESENTATION: Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
Ogoni is represented at the UNPO by Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). They were admitted to the UNPO as a member on 19 January 1993
In 1957 Shell Oil Company struck oil in Ogoniland, which set in motion a process that dramatically affected not only Ogoni society, but Nigeria as a whole.
Today, oil accounts for over 90% of Nigeria's export earnings and some 80% of government revenue, controlling the entire Nigerian economy. The land of the Niger Delta is the source of over 90% of Nigeria's oil.
For the Ogoni, who live in this region, the environmental and social costs of oil exploitation were painfully high.
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) was founded in 1990, as a mass-based democratic social movement to represent the Ogoni community with the launching of the Ogoni Bill of Rights (OBR). Same year, the Ogoni Bill of Rights was presented to the people and Government of Nigeria. It outlines the demands of the Ogoni people for environmental, social and economic justice. It lists their concerns: oil-related suffering of their people, governmental neglect, lack of social services, and political marginalization.
The OBR opposes the revenue allocation formula under which the federal, state and local governments have almost complete power over the distribution of oil revenues. The Ogoni people feel they were not adequately compensated for the take-over of their land by the oil companies and the environmental damages they suffered.
The UNPO condemns any source of exploitation of natural resources that threatens the local environment and affronts their culture and livelihood. UNPO has been campaigning against the destruction caused by Shell in the area, including the development of canals, roads and pipelines that have infiltrated the streams and creeks of the Niger Delta.
The exploitation of the region's hydrocarbon took place with little consultation of the Ogoni community. UNPO supports ILO Convention 169, which would give indigenous communities land rights and prevents political decisions without the consent of those living in these lands. Thus, UNPO has worked with MOSOP to bring awareness for the need for land rights to the Ogoni and other indigenous communities.
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) was formed in 1990 as a mass-based umbrella social movement of the Indigenous Ogoni people.
MOSOP's mandate is to strive by non- violent methods/means for the protection and promotion of the environmental, socio-economic, developmental, cultural and political rights of the Ogoni people in particular and Niger delta peoples in general. MOSOP pioneered the campaign for environmental justice, corporate social responsibility and indigenous rights in Nigeria.
Archaeological and linguistic evidence suggest the Ogoni have inhabited the Niger Delta for more than 500 years. They established an organized social system under which men and women of courage and ability enjoyed special status.
Although Ogoniland lay on the slave route from the hinterland to the coastal slave market, there is little evidence of Ogoni people being taken as a slave.
When other forms of trade were introduced into the region in the second half of the 19th century, weapons were purchased and wars became the order of the day. After the Berlin Treaty of 1885, Nigeria came under British colonial rule, but it was not until 1901 that British forces arrived in Ogoniland. The Ogoni people known for their fierce independence launched a strong resistance against this intrusion into their territory by the British forces, which lasted for more than a decade before they were finally subjugated in 1914 by the British forces. The British saw Nigeria in terms of three major ethnic groups: the Hausa-Fulani, the Yoruba and the Igbo, thereby ignoring more then 250 smaller peoples, including the Ogoni. The Ogoni were regarded with contempt by all other groups in the Delta region and were often positioned at the bottom of the social ladder.
Shell Oil company, began oil exploitation in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1956 and there is a long history of their collaboration with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to its presence in the region. It became evident that for the Ogoni, who live in this region the environmental and social costs of oil exploitation would be painfully high.
Beginning December 1992, the people of Ogoni issued a thirty-day demand notice to Shell which raised the alarm bell of an ensuing struggle between the company and the Ogoni people. This demand notice was followed almost immediately by series of non-violent activities including the Ogoni protest of January 4th 1993 in what was regarded as the Ogoni Day in commemoration of the declaration of 1993 as the International Year of the world's Indigenous People.
This singular non-violent mammoth protest in which an estimated three hundred thousand Ogoni people participated was indeed a novel event with striking impacts. It indeed showed that the Ogoni people have come of age and imbued the struggle with a greater level of seriousness and intensity on both sides. This event and other subsequent non-violent passive resistance activities such as the holding of successful vigil nights across Ogoni nation and the launch of a survival fund sent panic signals to the Nigerian authorities and the oil company, Shell.
In the light of the forgoing developments, by the first quarter of 1993, Shell withdrew from Ogoniland, citing the hostile attitude of the Ogoni community to the company's activities. Around April of the same year, Shell through its contractor went back under the protection of the Nigerian military to construct an oil pipeline. This was met with peaceful protests by Ogoni women whose farmlands were to be traversed by the pipelines leading to the destruction of their crops without any compensation. Rather than deal with the issues that had been raised by the women, the military that was hired by Shell opened gunfire on the protesting women.
Protests marches were organized all over Ogoniland in repudiation of the above incident and the military responded with highhandedness. This was to become the standard response of the government in the ensuing months. Several conflicts reportedly sponsored by the government occurred between July 1993 and April 1994 between Ogoni people and her neighbors all in the attempt to wear the Ogoni people down and box them into submission. Available evidence, including the sophisticated weaponry that was used by the adversaries of the Ogoni, indicate that governmental authorities were probably behind these supposedly "ethnic conflicts".
Following the third of such conflict, in April 1994, a huge military operation was launched by the government, supposedly to restore order, but which in fact was aimed at destroying Ogoni lives and properties in the Afam area of Ogoni.
On May 21, 1994, four Ogoni leaders were murdered in Gokana Kingdom, reportedly by angry youths. Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ledum Mitee and a number of other MOSOP leaders were arrested and accused of involvement in the murders. The day after the murders, the Internal Security Task Force, a military unit set up especially to "restore order" in Ogoniland, under command of Lt. Col Okuntimo, stormed into Ogoniland raiding, burning and looting villages. While thousands of Ogoni villagers took refuge in the bush, hundreds were detained and tortured. Many Ogoni died in the weeks that followed. It is an enduring record of the non violent nature of the Ogoni struggle that in all these attacks and in spite thereof, there is no single incident of any reprisal attack on any of the repressing troops.
In February 1995, after eight months of being detained without official charges, Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other Ogoni leaders were brought before a special tribunal, established by the military government. While in detention, the accused were often denied access to lawyers, medical care and family members. Independent international observers expressed their deep doubts about the fairness of the trial in protest of the Tribunal's failure to meet even Nigeria's own standards of fairness. On October 31, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni were sentenced to death by the Special Tribunal. In blatant defiance of numerous appeals by the international community, the well-known Nigerian writer and poet, Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight Ogoni colleagues were executed on Friday, November 10, 1995.
In March 1996, non-partisan elections were held in Nigeria to fill all local government seats with elected civilian Chairs and Councilors. It was widely reported that all persons associated with MOSOP were prevented from participation, and those who presented themselves were either beaten or detained and later disqualified.
By June, 1998, the maximum dictator, General Sani Abacha under whose watch thousands of Ogoni people perished eventually died in mysterious circumstances. This ushered in a new attempt at democratic engagement and electoral processes. The electoral process ushered in Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, himself a former prisoner on death row under the late maximum dictator as the new head of state. The Ogoni people had hoped that with his election, a new era marked by respect for human rights and commitment to the ideals of democracy and good governance would be entrenched in the polity. This was not to be as the earlier signs of a democratic posturing by the administration soon evaporated giving way to a civilian dictatorship which in its twilight was already planning to tamper with the constitution to elongate his tenure in office.
In the first months of 2001, MOSOP participated at the Oputa Human Rights Investigation Panel hearings in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. MOSOP called on the Nigerian military to accept responsibility for grave human rights violations by its officer corps against the Ogoni, committed between 1994 and 1998. Senior officers appearing for the Oputa Panel played down and even denied any involvement in the arbitrary shootings, rapes, assaults and detentions. These testimonies, thus, seem to be nothing less than a disgrace to the whole purpose of the Panel; to bring justice to the victims of these human rights violations.
1. Saro-Wiwa versus Shell Oil Company Court Case
Prosecutors claimed that Nigerian soldiers used deadly force at the request of Shell, and with Shell's assistance and finance to undertake brutal raids against the Ogoni people throughout the early 1990s to repress a growing movement against the oil company. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Earth-Rights International (ERI) and other human rights attorneys first sued Shell for human rights violations against the Ogoni in 1996. Since then, Shell has made many attempts to have these cases thrown out of court, which the plaintiffs have defeated. However, the cases were brought under the Alien Tort Statute, a 1789 statute giving non-U.S. citizens the right to file suits in U.S. courts for international human rights violations, and the Torture Victim Protection Act, which allows individuals to seek damages in the U.S. for torture or extrajudicial killing, regardless of where the violations take place. On June 8 2009, the Wiwa plaintiffs and Shell made an out of court settlement. The settlement and other payments together total $15.5 million, part of which will provide funding for the trust and a compassionate payment to the plaintiffs and the estates they represent in recognition of the tragic turn of events in Ogoniland.
2. Lack of government investment and Corporate responsibility
Corruption in Nigeria has been described as the worst in Africa. According to Nigeria's anti corruption agency, in 2003, an estimated 70% of oil revenues (more or less 14 billion dollars) were wasted or stolen.
Poverty has worsened in the Ogoni region during recent years. Besides the oil installations and refineries, there are no manufacturing industries in Ogoni to reduce unemployment. This situation increasingly results in psycho-social degradation.
There is no concrete development plan by the government to address the huge infrastructural development gap in Ogoniland. Health facilities are not functioning optimally and school buildings are collapsing. Classrooms and laboratories remain poorly equipped. Attracting foreign aid to Ogoniland has been difficult and a couple of community self-help initiatives by the people were branded 'MOSOP-inspired' and stopped.
Under the context of corporate social responsibility, the companies have not established a comprehensive and fair compensation system. Shell is also alleged to fan embers of conflicts in the communities through employing divide-and-rule strategy. Shell makes monetary inducements to some chiefs against community members and also pay some violent youths in the name of surveillance contractors ostensibly to protect their facilities in the area .These are ways of conscripting these groups to serve their interests.
With a new green façade for oil companies in the West, Shell plays the other side of the coin in Ogoniland. In 2000, Shell embarked on an assessment of its community development projects.However, out of the 480 assessed projects, only 23% were deemed successful. It was reported that the contracts were awarded to people who have close links to the company but has no reach within the community in need and most of the projects were not priorities of the communities.
3. Environmental Issues
The environmental costs of the oil exploration in Ogoni have been and are still very high. The agricultural and fishing communities experienced huge oil spills and pollution of drinking water, fishing grounds and farmlands. As there was no environmental impact study policy established before 1988 with the creation of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA), the oil companies continued production without environmental liability.
In October 2006, the UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme, announced that in response to Ogoni demands, the Nigeria government has invited them to undertake a comprehensive environmental assessment of oil-impacted sites in the Ogoni region of Nigeria's Niger Delta. They will be assessing 300 sites to identify the impacts of oil on environmental systems such as land, water, agriculture, fisheries and air, as well as looking over the direct and indirect effect on human health. However, owing to the fact that the process of the UNEP intervention has been lacking in community consultation, the assessment process has not been embarked upon.
1. Do the Ogoni seek autonomy and control of the resources of their region?
The Bill of Rights presented to the Government and people of Nigeria called for political control of Ogoni affairs by Ogoni people. It states that the Ogoni people seek, "political autonomy to participate in the affairs of the Republic as a distinct and separate unit (by whatever name called), provided that this autonomy guarantees political control of Ogoni affairs by Ogoni people". The bill calls for the right to control and use a fair proportion of Ogoni economic resources for Ogoni development; and the right to protect the Ogoni environment and ecology from further degradation.
2. Why were the "Wiwa Plaintiffs" able to prosecute Shell in the United States?
The United States established a legal framework in which to protect itself and its citizens abroad. As part of the First Judiciary Act of 1789, the architects of the U.S.legal system provided that aliens would be protected under international and common U.S. law under the Alien Tort Statute. This case in particular—Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum—is one of these few which has passed hearing after hearing from 2001 on to reach a U.S. Supreme Court appellate panel on 26 May 2009. With America obtaining nearly 10 percent per annum of its crude oil from Nigeria, bringing an ATS claim against the Nigeria operation of this multinational corporation is no small matter.
3. What impact does the trial and the rulings have on human rights law in the U.S. and abroad?
This case against Shell is a push towards the end of human rights abuses by corporate actors in the past decade or so. Such cases are putting serious corporate responsibility debates on the table through rulings that grant aiding and abetting violations significant weight. This is important in analyzing how corporations can be held accountable in actions committed as institutions regulated under state inducted standards, as well as being indirect participants in violation of international norms. Cases against multinational corporations will continue to have a broad affect on the way these companies do business in other countries. Organizations the world over are being brought to terms with their lax attention to human rights abuses in the areas they operate.
4. Did Shell release a statement after the settlement?
Shell released a statement on June 8th, 2009 stating that there was a settlement of $15.5 million for the family of the activists executed by the Nigerian government, "making a humanitarian gesture to set up a trust fund for benefit of the Ogoni people."
Furthermore, the statement denies any Shell involvement in the executions. It states that," Shell has always maintained the allegations were false. While we were prepared to go to court to clear our name, we believe the right way forward is to focus on the future for Ogoni people, which is important for peace and stability in the region." However, this case brought negative publicity to the company and peace of mind to the relatives of the victims.
Despite the introduction of Christianity, many aspects of the indigenous Ogoni culture and religion are still evident. The land on which they live and the rivers that surround them are traditionally very important to the Ogoni people. They not only provide enough food, they are also believed to be a god and are worshiped as such. This explains why the Ogoni people have so many difficulties with the degradation of the environment as a result of oil pollution.
Tradition' in Ogoni means in the local tongue ('doonu kuneke'), the honoring of the land The fruit of the land, especially yams, are honored in festivals. The annual festival of the Ogoni people is held during the period of the yam harvest. The planting season is not just a period of agricultural activity, but it is a spiritual, religious and social occasion. One of their cultural/spiritual "holidays" is held during the planting season as it is an occasion for them to honour the land, a sacred source of life for them. Another religious element of this link between the Ogoni people and nature is the belief that the soul of every human being has the ability to leave its human form and enter that of an animal, taking on the shape of that animal. These characteristics show that nature is very important for the Ogoni people.
Ogoniland consists of six kingdoms: Babbe, Eleme, Gokana, Ken-Khana, Nyo-Khana, and Tai. Within Ogoniland four main languages are spoken, which, although related, are mutually unintelligible. Linguistic experts classify the Ogoni languages of Khana, Tai, Gokana, and Eleme as a distinct group within the Benue-Congo branch of African languages or, more particularly, as a branch in the New Benue-Congo family.
In Ogoni land, large areas of fresh and salt water resources as fishing grounds have been rendered useless by oil spills. Food is becoming increasingly expensive and potential farmers are too poor to pay for seeds and labour. According to the National Geographic, in 1960 agricultural products such as palm oil constituted the majority of Nigeria's export goods. Now, Nigeria imports more than it produces in agricultural products.
Before the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta Region and in Ogoniland in particular in 1957, the main source of subsistence was agriculture and fishing. Despite their low market prices, the marketing of Yam and cassava was a significant resource for the Ogoni. However, the importance of agricultural input in the economy has been severely reduced since oil was discovered in the region. In effect, the discovery of black gold, creating a source of potential consequent economic benefit for the country, led to loss of farmlands due to the land appropriation by oil companies. With the biggest share of the economy in oil investments, agriculture lost its prominence in the economic sector. Furthermore, the oil spills due to the intense oil production created soil fertility problem, further leading to a loss of lands.
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CHRISTMAS BELLES Comes to Broadway Onstage, 11/30
CHRISTMAS BELLES, a delightful Holiday Comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, is the next offering of the season at Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, November 30. Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm through December 22, the production will also be offered during two special 2pm Sunday Matinees on Sunday, December 9 and Sunday, December 16.
Broadway Onstage Live Theatre is located at 21517 Kelly Rd. at Toepfer (8 ½ Mile Rd.) in Eastpointe. The theatre is the home of the patented TeeVeeStage™ Presentation system, which employs cameras above the audience and monitors above the stage to provide audience members with different viewing perspectives of the live stage performance. Broadway Onstage Live Theatre is also the home of Dennis Wickline Productions, Inc., which began producing Non-Equity professional live theatre on the Eastside of Detroit in February of 1980.
CHRISTMAS BELLES takes place in the town of Fayro, Texas, and the Futrelle Sisters-Frankie, Twink and Honey Raye-are not exactly in a festive mood. Frankie is weeks overdue with her second set of twins. Twink, recently jilted, is in jail for inadvertently burning down half the town. And hot-flash-suffering Honey Raye is desperately trying to keep the Tabernacle of the Lamb's Christmas Program from spiraling into chaos. But things are not looking too promising: Miss Geneva, the ousted director of the previous twenty-seven productions, is ruthless in her attempts to take over the show. The celebrity guest Santa Claus-played by Frankie's husband, Dub-is passing a kidney stone. One of the shepherds refuses to watch over his flock by night without pulling his little red wagon behind him. And the entire cast is dropping like flies due to food poisoning from the Band Boosters' Pancake Supper. And when Frankie lets slip a family secret, all hope for a successful Christmas program seems lost, even with an Elvis impersonator at the manger. But in true Futrelle fashion, their hilarious holiday journey through a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve is guaranteed to bring joy to your world!
A great cast of area professionals and Broadway Onstage favorites will make this a very festive Holiday Production. Portraying the Futrelle sisters are Elizabeth Rager, Sarah Lynn Oravetz and Kelly Kucharski as Honey Raye, Frankie, and Twink respectively. Ms. Rager and Ms. Kucharksi were just seen in THE GREAT AMERICAN SEX FARCE! at Broadway Onstage and Ms. Oravetz appeared in THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13 and THE BROADWAY ONSTAGE MURDERS there two seasons ago. Rick Mason will be seen as Dub and Don Couture will appear as John Curtis. Mr. Mason was just seen as Michael in GOD OF CARNAGE at the Eastpointe theatre and Mr. Couture took on the role of Max in DIAL "M" FOR MURDER. Chris Peterson will portray Justin, the local minister and Rachel Dalton will appear as Patsy, the local busybody. Mr. Peterson has appeared with Birmingham Village Players and Ms. Dalton has taken on roles at Oakland University and other venues. Kate Dickinson takes on the role of Gina Jo, Dub and Frankie's older daughter, and Jane Burkey will be seen as Geneva, the former director of the Christmas Program. Ms. Dickinson was just seen in Grosse Pointe Theatre's recent production of HAIRSPRAY and Ms. Burkey has directed a number of shows at Broadway Onstage. The cast is completed by Stella Woitulewicz as Rhonda Lynn and Dan Woitulewicz as Raynerd, the wagon-pulling shepherd. Mr. and Mrs. Woitulewicz have appeared with Eastpointe Players and Matrix Theatre. The production is under the able direction of veteran director Beverly Dickinson. Ms. Dickinson has directed a number of productions for Grosse Pointe Theatre, Stagecrafters, and Birmingham Village Players.
Tickets for Opening Night Friday, November 30 are $15. Tickets for all other performances are $18. Group Rates and Performances are available. Again, Broadway Onstage is located at 21517 Kelly Rd. at Toepfer (8 1/2 Mile Rd.) in Eastpointe, Michigan. Ticket Reservations are recommended by calling (586) 771-6333.
Pictured: Elizabeth Rager as Honey Ray, Kelly Kucharski as Twink, Sarah Lynn Oravetz as Frankie in CHRISTMAS BELLES at Broadway Onstage Live Theatre, running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm from November 30 through December 22 with two special 2pm Sunday Matinees on Sunday, December 9 and Sunday, December 16. Broadway Onstage Live Theatre is located at 21517 Kelly Rd. at Toepfer (81/2 Mile Rd.) in Eastpointe. Ticket Reservations are strongly recommended by calling the Ticket and Information Hotline at (586) 771-6333.


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Fujifilm FinePix E550: Fuji's Newest Packs a Punchby Stephen Caston on 10/15/2004 12:05 AM EST
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dugweb - Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - linkThis was my first digital cam. I really like it. Ive hesitated buying a digital camera because i hate the lag times in between shots, and before shots, and startup... This camera hardly has lag (except flash to flash pics)
im very happy with it. Reply
inbeechwood - Saturday, March 26, 2005 - linkI owned the Fuji FinePix 550 and I agree that it offered a lot of bang for the buck. The picture quality was excellent and the movie mode was very impressive also.
However, I think everyone considering buying this camera should know that it does not offer a focus assist lamp and as a result, it has a very hard time (read impossible) of focusing in low light conditions. Also, the LCD screen is nearly impossible to see in dimly lit rooms. Forget about using this camera in a church or at a wedding reception. I returned the camera for this reason. Reply
Souka - Saturday, October 16, 2004 - linkOk... I've read the first sentence...I'm already annoyed/ticked to post....but hey, It's just me.
"Fujifilm stands out amongst other digital camera companies because of its research in sensor technology."
Like their earlier cameras that say 4mp, but are really 3mp? (I remeber it having to do with some sort of pixel shifting....can't remember exactly, but that always made me distrust fuji digi-cams).
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A NATIONAL recruitment campaign has been launched for new staff at a Bridgwater clinic for young people with mental health needs.
Somerset Partnership's Wessex House inpatient service for young adults is set to re-open this autumn after a new care model was agreed.
The unit was closed temporarily last year when Somerset Partnership, the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NHS England (South) were concerned about difficulty in recruiting suitably experienced staff, increasing numbers of young people with complex needs and concern over the quality of care that could be delivered there at that time.


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Tom Riddle is Voldemort's English name. Anton Hert is Voldemort's Greek name. The difference is probably for the anagram "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT" in every language. --Lady Junky (talk) 19:05, November 6, 2012 (UTC) Άντον Μαρβώλ Χέρτ(ANTON MARVOLO HERT) -> Άρχων Βόλντεμορτ (Lord Voldemort)


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Evolution Hoax
And [on account of] their saying: "We killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Messenger of God." They did not kill him and they did not crucify him, but it was made to seem so to them. Those who argue about him are in doubt about it. They have no real knowledge of it, just conjecture. But they certainly did not kill him. (Qur'an, 4:157)
In the year A.D. 185 a . . . sect of the descendant of the priests of Thebes who embraced Christianity claimed that "God forbids that Christ should be crucified. He was safely lifted up to heaven." Also in the year A.D. 370 a hermetic Gnostic sect that denied the crucifixion of Jesus taught that He "was not crucified but it seemed so to the spectators who crucified Him." Again, in the year A.D. 520 Severus, bishop of Syria, fled to Alexandria where he encountered a group of philosophers teaching that Jesus Christ was not crucified but that it only appeared so to the people who nailed Him on the cross. . . . About A.D. 610 Bishop John, son of the governor of Cyprus, began to proclaim that Christ was not crucified but that it only seemed so to the spectators who crucified Him. (Faris al-Qayrawani, Was Christ Really Crucified?, Villach: Light of Life, 1994, p. 23)
"… They did not kill him and they did not crucify him, but it was made to seem so to them..." (Qur'an, 4:157)


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We're teaming up with other food and garden bloggers to host Summer Fest 2010, a season-long garden party. Each week we'll feature favorite garden-to-table recipes and tips to help you enjoy the bounty, whether you're harvesting your own goodies or buying them fresh from the market. To join in, check out awaytogarden.com.
Let's face it, apples go a long way in making up for the fact that there are no more strawberries, no more zucchini or corn and no more tank tops and flip flops. During this week of Fall Fest 2010, we're talking about apples, the generous fruits that see us through the transition of summer-to-fall. An apple, dusted with cinnamon and simply baked, tucked under a buttery crust or a thick layer of spiced crumb topping, or cooked down into a sweet applesauce is quite possibly the most comforting food of all. Forget meat loaf and mac and cheese, nothing conveys warmth and coziness like a an apple pie, like Tyler Florence's Ultimate Caramel Apple Pie, above. Here's a roundup of some of the most tempting apple desserts out there — some of yours, some of ours — that are sure to escort you into the colder months, and will make you forget about your flip flips for another year.
Brown Sugar-Apple Cheesecake from eat me, delicious.
Emeril Lagasse's Caramel and Three Chocolate Apples
Vanilla Apple Crisp With Caramel Sauce from Closet Cooking.
Laura Calder's Baked Apples With Caramel Sauce
Apple Strudel from My Baking Heart.
Dave Lieberman's Apple Cake.
Craving even MORE APPLE RECIPES? Try our irresistible Apple Harvest Recipe Gallery here.
Do you have an annual go-to apple dessert recipe? Or are you trying something new this fall?
And how 'bout these apples from our family and friends:
- Todd and Diane at White on Rice Couple: Apple picking, and Broiled Leeks with Apple Vinaigrette
- Marilyn at Simmer Till Done: Louisa May Alcott's Apple Slump
- Alana at Eating from the Ground Up: Apple pie and its place in her family religion
- Caron at San Diego Foodstuff: Remaking The Silver Palate Cookbook's Medieval Apple Tart
- Alison at Food2: 22 Awesome Ways to Use Your Apples
- Michelle at Cooking Channel: Apple Dessert Recipes
- Dana at Healthy Eats: 31 Days of Apple Recipes
- Liz at Food Network: Pick the Perfect Apple
- Caroline at The Wright Recipes: Apple Stack Cake and Dark Caramel Apples
- Food Network UK: Five English apples you should know and love
- Gilded Fork: Apples—Sweet Seduction
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Top 10 Trends: Paris Fall 2008
The best moments of the Fall 2008 collections were about way more than the good, the bad, and the ugly. There was also the dramatic, the hilarious, the flirtatious, and the rebellious. Here, four marathon weeks of international fashion culminate in ELLE.com's second bi-annual style superlative awards.
For the second season in a row, Alexander Wang's good friend (and East Village neighbor—they live in the same apartment building!) Erin Wasson styled his collection. She also created a line of jewelry, Low Luv by Erin Wasson, exclusively for his show, and was with him backstage with a seam ripper creating those unforgettably cool deconstructed tights.
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Southern Africa - Zambia & Victoria Falls (PDF Chapter)
This is the Zambia & Victoria Fallschapter from Lonely Planet's Southern Africa guidebook.
Get out into the bush where animals, both predators and prey, wander through unfenced camps, where night-time means swapping stories around the fire and where the human footprint is nowhere to be seen. The rewards of travelling in Zambia are those of exploring remote, mesmerising wildernesses.
- follow the tracks of wild animals in South Luangwa National Park
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- paddle a canoe down the Zambezi River past pods of hippos
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- get your adrenaline going in any one of the adventures available at Victoria Falls
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Coverage includes: Lusaka, Eastern Zambia, Great East Road, Chipata, South Luangwa National Park, North Luangwa National Park, Southern Zambia, Chirundu, Lower Zambezi Valley, Siavonga, Sinazongwe, Choma, Lochinvar National Park, Western Zambia, Kafue National Park, Mongu, Liuwa Plain National Park, Senanga, Sioma & Ngonye Falls, Sesheke, Northern Zambia, Serenje, Kasanka National Park & around, Bangweulu Wetlands, Samfya, Mutinondo Wilderness, Shiwa Ng'andu, Kasama, Mbala, Kalambo Falls, Mpulungu, Nsumbu (Sumbu) National Park, The Copperbelt, Kapiri Mposhi, Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola, Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, Understand Zambia, Zambia Today, History, People, Environment, Survival Guide, Directory A-Z, Getting There & Away, Getting Around
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Nov 14 (Reuters) - Shares of Cisco Systems Inc rose 7 percent on Wednesday after the network equipment maker's results surprised investors who were expecting a weak European economy and cuts in enterprise and government spending to hurt the company.
Cisco on Tuesday reported first-quarter results that beat estimates but said its business in Europe would get worse before it gets better.
The company's stock rose to $18.25 in heavy trading, making it the second-most traded on the Nasdaq.
Cisco's results boosted shares of other network gear makers. JDS Uniphase Corp rose 4 percent, F5 Networks Inc 4 percent and Juniper Networks Inc 3 percent.
Cisco's quarterly results stand out as one of the best among technology companies, especially when tech results on an average "have been nothing short of awful," Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White said in a note.
"The combination of last night's performance and Cisco's attractive valuation should garner the attention of more value- investors," he said.
Cisco trades at roughly 9 times forward earnings, while its peers in the communications equipment sector trade at a multiple of about 16 on average, according to Thomson Reuters data. (Reporting by Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore)


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Natinsky, Hawk, Lee, DeWitt deserve your vote.
For too many elections, Dallas Voice readers voted based on the question "Are they 'with me' or 'against me' as it pertains to gay rights. The main criteria have always been the questions of same-sex marriage and non-discrimination in employment. And therefore, readers aligned with the Democrat Party.
Now that the courts are nearly unanimous in deciding the marriage question, and since major cities and corporations have addressed non-discrimination policies protecting gay people, perhaps it is time to move beyond this traditional paradigm.
I believe it's time to ask: "How qualified, competent and honest is the candidate?"
The answer to this question does not fall neatly within political party lines.
There are a number of candidates on the Republican side that clearly excel, and I will ask you to avoid your tendency to pull the "D" lever at the polls and to vote for them.
They are Ron Natinsky for Dallas County judge, Susan Hawk for Dallas County district attorney, Mike Lee for judge and Lisa DeWitt for judge.
Ron Natinsky won the endorsement of the Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance when he ran for mayor, and he has a proven record of public and private accomplishments.
I have had far too many Democrats contact me to ask about Ron because they are unimpressed with Clay Jenkins' Ebola preparedness, the quality of his communication skills during broadcast interviews and his desire to bring thousands of illegal immigrant children to Dallas.
But aside from Ebola, Clay just isn't working well for Dallas County. The New Parkland Hospital is already a budget mess, and the hiring of a $1 million-a-year salaried director is questionable. If you are concerned with income inequality, that should "rankle your feathers."
More importantly, Dallas area growth hasn't come to Dallas County because Clay Jenkins doesn't know how to attract businesses to our county, and how to avoid the northern county migration.
Susan Hawk has an impeccable reputation and the experience of a prosecuting attorney. She can restore morale and proficiency in the office of the district attorney.
Craig Watkins, on the other hand, has lost all integrity. Are you really okay with the idea that he uses forfeiture funds for personal purposes?
Forget whether he is "pro-gay" or not,, he has a reputation for being a bully. He fired one well-regarded attorney in his office just for attending a GOP political function. This is the kind of bullying gays should abhor.
Mike Lee is running against Sally Montgomery. It's one thing to have different views on politics. But it's quite another to make rulings from the bench that have no basis in law.
The Dallas Observer rated Sally "The Worst Judge in Texas," and wrote that the 5th Court of Appeals is very busy undoing her decisions. The Dallas Morning News editorial board, once referred to her as "arrogant and capricious."
And, let's not forget Lisa DeWitt, who is on the leadership team of the local Log Cabin Republicans chapter.
Are there Democrats worthy of Republican consideration?
Yes. I'm likely voting Democrat in these races:
• Mike Collier for comptroller. As a former employee of a Big 8 accounting firm from my early professional years, I appreciate the competence of a CPA in that position. The Republican candidate has no such background. It takes more skills than espousing one's religious faith to run a comptroller's office effectively.
• Leticia Van de Putte for lieutenant governor. I'm not convinced that Republican Dan Patrick is a good choice for lieutenant governor. GOP friends in the Senate have had less than kind words for him during his primary campaign. Dan is not well liked or trusted among his Austin peers, and I worry that he would become the Republican Harry Reid of our state Senate, creating the gridlock most of us hate in Washington.
• Sam Houston for attorney general. Republican Ken Paxton has some legal troubles ahead as was pointed out by his GOP Primary opponent, Dan Branch, that are very serious. Enough said.
So, I ask all the readers this election season: Don't just vote for a Party. Vote for competence. Vote for integrity. I am,
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"I went to Dooky Chase
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The waitress looked at me and said
Ray, you sure look beat,
Now it's early in the morning
And I ain't got nothing but the blues"
—Ray Charles, "Early in the Morning Blues"
For anyone traveling to New Orleans on a food pilgrimage, Dooky Chase's Restaurant is a must-stop. Thanks for the tip, Ray!
Leah Chase, co-owner and star chef at Dooky Chase, was just about the coolest person I have ever met. I don't just mean that in the sense of nice or friendly; cool is a much more suitable word. Even better, she had moves in the kitchen and makes a mean shrimp gumbo.
I could rave more about Leah, but accolades don't matter to her. She is truly just in the business of making people feel good. Her greatest joy is that people leave Dooky Chase happy and full. Though Leah Chase will never wear chef whites, she can out-cook just about anyone who steps into the kitchen. It was an honor and a privilege to spend time with her and to get a little glimpse at the gumbo secrets of the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."
Top 5 Secrets to Perfect Gumbo (or, What I Learned From Leah Chase):
- Never stop stirring your roux. Perfect gumbo starts with a roux that's nice and smooth. If you let up on a steady speed, you run the risk of ending up with a clumpy mess.
- Never start with grease, oil or butter in the pot. Start by browning some nice, spicy sausage and you will have plenty of grease to properly sauté your vegetables in later.
- Make sure your roux gets dark enough in color. Maintain medium-low heat until your roux is a rich red-brown, almost like milk chocolate in color.
- Dice up your celery nice and small. It's a key ingredient that shines best in a more subtle form. Leah says, "We don't like big chunks of celery here."
- Shrimp only need a few minutes to cook on their own. They should be added to the gumbo pot immediately after you have turned off the heat so they don't get overcooked and tough.
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Dumbarton Oaks Launches New Online Inventory
Dumbarton Oaks' Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives has launched a new online inventory called AtoM@DO, which brings together the holdings from the ICFA as well as a selection from teh Dumbarton Oaks Archives for users to search for related materials across the institution.
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Which is Healthier: Pumpkin or Pecan Pie?by Toby Amidor in Uncategorized, November 22, 2012
These super-popular Thanksgiving desserts are going head to head. With both having single pie crusts and packed with good-for-you ingredients, the competition is fierce. Which gets your vote?
Pumpkin Pie
According to the USDA's Dietary Guidelines for Americans, we should all be eating 2 cups of orange veggies each week. Pumpkin pie can help meet these recommendations plus that brilliant orange color provides the antioxidants vitamin A and lutein.
Fatty ingredients like traditional pastry crust, butter, cream cheese, half-and-half, or shortening can sabotage the nutritional value. Mountains of sugar from canned pumpkin pie filling and spoonfuls of sugary toppings can also send calories through the roof. Topped with whipped cream or a la mode, a slice can weigh in at close to 500 calories.
Healthy Pumpkin Pie Tips:
- Use gingersnap cookies for a lighter crust made without partially hydrogenated oils or make your own canola oil pie crust.
- No need for mounds of sugar—let the sweetness of the pumpkin take over.
- Steer clear of sugary or heavily-sweetened pumpkin pie filling. The canned pumpkin puree should have one ingredient; add your own spices from there.
- Serve with one heaping spoon of freshly made whipped cream and fresh fruit like apples, oranges and pears.
- Try Food Network Kitchens slimmed version.
Pecan Pie
One ounce (about 19 halves) of pecans has 195 calories, 20 grams of fat, and 3 grams of fiber. It provides two-thirds of your daily recommended amount of manganese, an essential mineral that help with blood clotting and helps form bones, connective tissue, and sex hormones. It's also a good source of thiamin and copper. Studies have found that pecans can help reduce your bad (LDL) cholesterol and total cholesterol.
Pecan pie is traditionally made with a good amount corn syrup and/or brown sugar, which only contributes sugar and calories. Once again, your crust can be a big source of fat, especially artery-clogging saturated fat. Although pecans have many healthy attributes, more doesn't mean it's healthier. Mounds of pecans can contribute to high calories and fat in a pecan pie.
Traditionally prepared pecan pie has about 550 calories. With ½ cup vanilla ice cream, the calories go up to 700. That's 35% of your recommended daily calories just for dessert.
Healthy Pecan Pie Tips:
- Make your own healthier pie crust.
- Use half the amount of sugary ingredients like corn syrup, maple syrup, or sugar.
- If you need to go a la mode, use a light vanilla frozen yogurt or low fat ice cream.
YOU VOTE: Who's the winner? Pumpkin pie or pecan pie?


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SilverStone ML04 & ML05 Slim HTPC Cases Reviewby E. Fylladitakis on 4/18/2014 2:30 PM EST
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Meaker10 - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkWow F-I90HD, that brings back memories, one of the first generation of performance based uATX options. Reply
homer_pickett - Thursday, October 09, 2014 - linkI agree, it does bring back memories. But I don't get how it's going to stand a chance on todays market. /Homer from http://www.consumertop.com/best-desktop-guide/ Reply
britjh22 - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkI think the MLO5 set up with the ASRock AM1H-ITX, Kabini Athlon 5350, a SSD and just use the DC in with a laptop power brick would be an awesome media front end for a basic FreeNas setup. That Keep the budge fairly low since you don't have to worry about SFX PSU's. Reply
johnny_boy - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkThere are much better options if you don't need the graphics power of the 5350, which you wouldn't for freenas. Reply
teldar - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkHave it. No case. Just a bare power switch, while thing mounted on lexan on back of tv. Motherboard gets hot with the dc in. But a good little computer. Using 120gb crucial m500. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, April 18, 2014 - link(all switching PSUs are extremely efficient if the magnitude of the load is below 20% of their rated capacity).
this is backwards; very low (or high) loads result in inefficient performance, although with the newest efficiency standard specifying performance levels at 10/90% the efficient operation range is being forced wider (there's not much room left to improve in the middle any more). Reply
E.Fyll - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkThat actually was a typographic mistake on my part (efficient instead of inefficient). It has been corrected. Thank you. Reply
Samus - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkIve been using an ml05 for awhile with a Pico PSU (90w) and a Brazos E350. Ive been looking into upgrading the board (and CPU) for awhile but keep putting it off hoping for more sub-20-watt desktop CPU options, although the new AMD A1 at 25watt is on the hot list right now. It seems to be the natural successor to Brazos, which to this day is still surprisingly competent. Reply
jlockheart - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkI like the smaller size of the Milo ML04, constraints can sometimes make you more creative. For the full PCI slot above the motherboard I wound up using 4-port USB and ran the cables back to headers on my mobo. Also made good use of the VGA knockout with a spare half height AMD 5450. Reply
Brainonska511 - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkA few years ago, I built my htpc system with an ML03b case. Looks to be the same design as the ML04, minus that weird faceplate on the ML04. It's been pretty solid. As far as airflow, I threw 2 quiet 80 mm fans on the side mounts, to help pull some air through the case. As for the noise the system produces: between the Scythe Big Shuriken heatsink (120mm slim fan), 2 80mm fans, and a PSU fan, I can't really hear it in a silent room if I'm more than 3 feet away. If you're watching something on TV, then any noise is drowned out completely. Reply
Daniel Egger - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkI'm not sure I understand the testing method. I just built a HTPC using a Lian Li PC-C50B case. With a Intel Core i5 4440S, a H87 Board, a 300W Be Quiet PSU (the lowest I could get), a GTX 750 Ti OC, a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and 8GB of Crucial XMP 1.3 RAM and the two connected case fans the worst case wall consumption using benchmarks I could get in "performance mode" are around 120W. Your 230W for a far weaker system are sort of ridiculous.
BTW: Some further wall values would be 54W for Windows 8.1 Update Login screen, 36W for idle Desktop, 44W for watching Amazon Prime HD content in Firefox. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkWith a 65W CPU and a >60W GPU (could only find stock TDP) you're probably at least 20 wall watts short of maxing your system out. That doesn't mean that the least unrealistic part of the test was after the fake CPU shut down in the mITX case.
Playing around with a few PSU wattage calculators gave 3-6W/dimm. The HDD numbers appear to be for 1/2 3.5" drives; in order to run in spec over 1 or 2 USB ports 2.5" drives would need to consume less than 2.5 or 5W. The only VRM efficiency data I was able to find was for VRMs from a decade ago which were 70-85% efficient under significant loads. And with only half height card slots, the GPU should either be in the 30-40W or not present at all.
Going for a plausible high load config I'd suggest a 75W CPU, 15W VRM (splitting the difference), 12W ram (using the high value for 2 full size dimms), 45W for a GPU and 15W for a 3.5" HDD; total 162W.
At the lower power end, 40W CPU, 8 W VRM, 6W ram (using lower value for sodimm -probably too high), no GPU, and 3W for a 2.5" HDD/SSD; 57W total.
With these cases being sold without any installed fans; meaning they're expecting to be fully cooled by whatever the CPU fan pushes around and what the PSU fan exhausts, something in the 50-90W range is probably about right for a fair test.
Were I a case vendor, with the current test being designed to fail cases designed for medium to low power loads where component fans are intended to do most of the venting, I'd refuse to offer anything except either cases intended for totally fanless operation (eg designs with no room for a GPU and heat pipes running from the included CPU cooler to the chassis) or cases designed for high power over clocking gamers with multiple fans installed at the factory.
Using a tower cooler in a case optimized for a down blowing OEM heatsink, or a blower style GPU in a case designed for an open cooler could result in a few degrees of test result shifting either way. It would still provide more useful information than the current tests which severely penalize all cases except those with huge numbers of factory installed fans. As it stands, the only useful information in the reviews (not available from vendor/retailer pages) now is the subjective data: eg build quality, ease of installation and cable routing, etc. Reply
E.Fyll - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkCorrect; you do not understand the testing method.
When performing thermal testing, you induce a constant, passive and significantly greater load than the worst case scenario. Reducing the load would yield similar results anyway, their magnitude would be lower and it would take too many hours to reach a thermal equilibrium. The testing is being performed only in order to provide a basis for proper thermal performance comparisons between similar cases. We can only tell you which case performs better than another, not the exact operating temperatures of every possible configuration that could be installed in it. Trying to correlate the figures of a thermal testing station with the numbers of actual PC's is fundamentally wrong. You cannot correlate with something that you do not know anything about, including (but not limited to) its actual thermal losses, and which not only is active (addition of airflow, sensors and their positions, BIOS programming, etc.) but variable as well.
You cannot use a typical PC to perform any kind of thermal testing. It is an uncontrollable, unknown and active load, with myriads of variables, plus each single system is unique. No matter what results one could get with a single system, no other user would get the exact same results, even if the system were to be identical, let alone a different configuration. Therefore, no matter what kind of numbers I would get by "testing" cases using a typical system, you would only be guessing how your system could correlate to those. Furthermore, I would not be able to compare cases to one another, as that is an active load and introduces myriads of variables that affect the results (you could easily end up with much different comparative results if the configuration of the PC changes). Such a procedure is meaningless.
The figures which you are denoting are the power drain, not the thermal load. These are two different things. The thermal load typically is significantly lower than the power drain. You are mentioning the AC power drain too, most likely read by a very cheap energy meter (unlikely to be the RMS value), not the actual energy consumption of the PC. The actual power drain of your PC probably is 20-50% lower than you think. Be careful with those numbers of yours. Reply
Daniel Egger - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - link> When performing thermal testing, you induce a constant, passive and significantly greater load than the worst case scenario. Reducing the load would yield similar results anyway, their magnitude would be lower and it would take too many hours to reach a thermal equilibrium.
If that is the case you could just use any made up number (what about 1000W?) and check how long it takes until thermal overload. However those figures are completely irrelevant. When buying a case I'd be interested in knowing whether the design is good enough to cool down a reasonably dimensioned system not whether it is better than another system in unrealistic loads, just as DanNeely said.
I'm also not sure why you'd assume that those values can be scaled linearly because we're talking thermodynamics here and those are defined by in some cases very complicated differential equations where even approximate solving (eg. via FEM) can take some time.
> The figures which you are denoting are the power drain, not the thermal load.
I fail to see how they would differ much. With Semiconductors they're usually identical since energy doesn't simply vanish but only transforms into other forms, in this case almost exclusively heat (except for the LEDs and Lasers) and of course power which is consumed outside of the case e.g. to USB devices; but why complicate matters....
> You are mentioning the AC power drain too, most likely read by a very cheap energy meter (unlikely to be the RMS value)
That's a nice assumption but I do have equipment here with proper power factor calculation. And BTW: Even cheap energy meters are nowadays *very* accurate for switching loads >5W with an error of around 0-1%. For most uses it's not required to have a calibrated ZES ZIMMER LMG95 around... Reply
E.Fyll - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkNo, you cannot use any "made up number", because you will reach a thermal breakdown (much like it happened during the testing of the Milo ML05).
I never assumed that the values would scale *linearly*, that's an assumption on your part. Furthermore, using FEM to solve such a complicated system would require days from a large CPU cluster, it is impossible to perform even mundane calculations using a typical computer.
If all energy would convert into heat, then they would not be semiconductors but simple resistors. Semiconductors do work and they require energy for it, which does not get converted to heat. I will not go into the details, you need to expand your knowledge of electronics a lot more before you can understand how the mechanism works if you now believe that all energy will just be converted to thermal.
If you think that cheap energy meters are accurate, then you have no understanding of electric energy at all. Such devices are impossibly inaccurate when used to resolve complex waveforms, especially when these include harmonics. A switching PSU will induce both a phase angle shift and will generate harmonics, thus trying to measure its power drain using such a device is like trying to calculate the distance between the earth and the moon by using a ruler. Their "1% error" suggests that they are at their optimal measuring range and metering a perfectly Ohmic load.
My apologies for the short, vague reply, but I simply do not have the time to give you a much more thorough answer. Reply
Daniel Egger - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - link> No, you cannot use any "made up number", because you will reach a thermal breakdown (much like it happened during the testing of the Milo ML05).
That's sort of my point (and DanNeelys) point. It does not make any sense to test a higher output than a sane system will ever reach.
> I never assumed that the values would scale *linearly*, that's an assumption on your part. Furthermore, using FEM to solve such a complicated system would require days from a large CPU cluster, it is impossible to perform even mundane calculations using a typical computer.
That's very much wrong. For such a simple system of differential equations it would be more like a couple of seconds on current hardware. However you'd need a proper model of each case and proper starting conditions which might take a long time to make up.
> If all energy would convert into heat, then they would not be semiconductors but simple resistors. Semiconductors do work and they require energy for it, which does not get converted to heat. I will not go into the details, you need to expand your knowledge of electronics a lot more before you can understand how the mechanism works if you now believe that all energy will just be converted to thermal.
No, I think you'll need to learn the basics of electronics. Does your CPU move or light up by any chance? How about running hot? And yes, of course there's plenty of resistance in there. You do know how a "transfer resistor" aka transistor works, right?
> If you think that cheap energy meters are accurate, then you have no understanding of electric energy at all.
The German magazine c't conducted a test of 15 power meters somewhen in 2013:
3 out of 15 sucked rocks while the rest where surprisingly accurate. I do have Fluke True RMS meter and a certified (means good for billing in public networks) smart meter here providing very accurate readings but honestly when my own tests and the c't both say my energy meter is somewhat accurate (+/-1% is good enough) even in tricky cases I don't bother pulling out and connect the complicated gear (not a big fan of having testing probes and other loose electrical connections in the living room where the kids play)... Reply
flashbacck - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkI'm glad you guys still do the occasional HTPC article. I feel like HTPCs have been dumped for the appleTV's and Roku's of the world. The software scene is so dismal now :( Reply
korben44 - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkWell, as for the software scene and htpcs... I would recommend only one solution.... Xbmc Reply
meacupla - Friday, April 18, 2014 - linkThe one thing that keeps me away from these HTPC from silverstone is the slot loading slim BD drive.
It costs as much as a BD deck and the BD deck I don't have to buy 3rd party software (that needs to be updated every so often) to use. Reply
Larry Endomorph - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkAgain with the line charts that are useless to color blind people!?
Come on! Reply
johnny_boy - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkThe ML04 looks alright (not great, not terrible) but the ITX ML05 is terribly ugly. Diamond buttons? Big plastic strip across the front? There's a serious lack of nice, affordable, ITX cases especially in this HTPC form factor. Reply
Dave12311231 - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkI would like to use the Milo ML05 with a 19V DC connector equipped motherboard and a Broadwell or future AMD system. This would negate the cables from an internal PSU whilst still having a very small case, hopefully cheaper than a NUC system overall. Reply
jabber - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkThese are NOT great looking cases.
C'mon people try harder! Reply
Alan G - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkWell they do look better than the traditional cable box that comes courtesy of your provider!
I've built several HTPCs for family and friends over the past six months and these cases should be OK. You don't need any graphics cards with new CPUs (I use Intel but I'm sure the same is true with AMD on board graphics). In addition HTPC systems are not energy demanding and I've got one in a Lian Li PCQ-27 case which is passively cooled. Temperatures under operating conditions with only the Intel stock cooler run just over 30C which is fine. The review is correct about the lack of choices in PSUs for these applications. I've been using Seasonic G-360s which work just fine and are silent.
Thanks for this posting and continue to find some small HTPC case to review. Reply
irusun - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkAgree.
And especially the "mirror" front on the ML05 sounds awful... why would I want that sitting under/next to my TV bouncing all sorts of reflections? Reply
jtd871 - Monday, April 21, 2014 - linkSilverstone now offers the recent ML06, which is the same chasis as the 05, but dumps the acrylic front panel for anodized aluminum like the 04. Reply
irusun - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkI'm aware others have had similar comments, and I'm sincerely not trying to hurt E. Fylladitakis feelings or question his technical competence, and I'm rooting for him to succeed, but he really needs help with the writing. It's pretty obvious that english is not his first language, and it results in wordy paragraphs, weird phrasings (at times it sounds like it was written by a bot), and it's just plain difficult to follow at times. I expect better writing at Anandtech. Reply
irusun - Saturday, April 19, 2014 - linkI'm surprised there's so little mention of "noise" in HTPC case reviews where noise is one of the primary issues of concern. I understand what was stated in the article about not being able to quantify results above background room noise, but how about some subjective comments just based on experience. Were the supplied PSUs "quiet"? Do the cases offer any advantages or disadvantages for building a quiet system? It's understood that there are an infinite combination of coolers and fans and PSUs, but I would expect some further thoughts on the noise front, even if they're just informed opinions. Reply
Daniel Egger - Monday, April 21, 2014 - linkWhen building an HTPC noise is completely in your hand. Even if the case contains fans you almost certainly don't want to use them without any sort of fan controller if at all. Getting a mainboard with enough 3 or even 4 pin connectors for controlling the fans is highly recommended. In my setup I connected the 2 case fans only to provide some general airflow through the case so the rest of the components will also receive some cooling (and the CPU fan blowing out at the top can run at the slowest level for a longer time) but they're setup to run at the lowest possible speed so they're inaudible unless you hold your ear right next to them. Before changing the fan controller setup they were blowing at full pace making some unacceptable amount of noise. Reply
Voldenuit - Sunday, April 20, 2014 - linkOK, I can understand why the ML04 doesn't have one, but wth didn't Silverstone design the ML05 with a GPU riser card to accommodate at least a medium to high end GPU? Even if a user opted not to turn their HTPC into a gaming device, this would open up the possibilities for more expansion cards that are not half height. Reply
Voldenuit - Sunday, April 20, 2014 - linkMy bad, confused the two model numbers - the ML04 is the bigger one and does indeed have provision for a riser card (although if I understand correctly no riser card is bundled), and any card installed on said riser can only be single slot in width.
Also, for some inane reason, the riser is oriented the wrong way and blocks off the CPU cooler, which is almost as bad as not having a riser at all, IMO. Reply
Daniel Egger - Sunday, April 20, 2014 - linkNowadays the main problem doesn't seem to be getting good low profile cards but cards which only need one slot as even the new Maxwell cards tend to require 2 full profile slots. So even if you have a case that supports a riser card you'll only have a single slot available...
I very much gave up on the very small cases and instead opted for a somewhat big Lian Li PC-C50B. There're only a very small number of cases in desktop format that support a dual slot full profile card *and* a 5 1/4" drive... Reply
rogueninja - Sunday, April 20, 2014 - linkHot damn those are some ugly chassis. Never put meshes out of nowhere. It's either you make the entire panel a mesh, or nothing. Reply
billobob - Monday, April 21, 2014 - linkWith the advent of the steam box and overall slow but steady advance of controller living room PC gaming, you can't really view HTPCs as exclusively media players anymore. In fact, given the nature of people building their own PCs in the first place, I'd argue its pretty damn common. With the rise of cheap streaming boxes and other appliances the number of people building media-only HTPCs is probably on the downswing.
It would be nice to see some real thermal and noise testing as you'd do for a conventional case. A passive low watt test for media only use, and active test with appropriate components (ie midgrade mini-ITX or mid-premium ATX GPUs depending on the case). Sound is even more important because as someone who games with a computer in my living room, ironically the best noise data out there is for huge gaming cases. Reply
MichaelD - Monday, April 21, 2014 - linkI recently built a low-power HTPC in the ML04. This case was exactly what I was looking for. Very plain front panel, same size as most HT-type equipment, locking front door and the lockable power button was icing on the cake. This case is definitely a PITA to build in, but I knew that from reading the online reviews. I run the OS off an SSD. Media is either streamed from the net or from my NAS. Stock Intel HSF and two silent 80mm case fans and you cannot hear it from more than 3 feet away. IMO, this is the perfect HTPC case for people that actually want a case as opposed to a tiny NUC-type device that you mount with Velcro to the back of the TV. Reply
plonk420 - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - linknice @ having a dimmable LED. i have the ML03 and i had to tape some thick paper over my HDD LED as it would flicker off the wall in front of the HTPC (which was right below as well as on my DLP projector's screen)
another ghetto rigging i did was i replaced the 40 or 60mm fan on my E-350's heatsink with a twist-tied 120mm Arctic Cooling F12 Pro (PWM) to blow down onto the heatsink. it's ridiculously quiet. Reply
wheat_thins - Monday, April 28, 2014 - linkI have been out of the HTPC loop for awhile. What's the opinion on front end these days? Is XBMC still being updated? Are people doing windows media center? I just want a box that I can easily control with just a remote or mini keyboard + trackpad that can stream movies, pictures, mp3's from my local NAS. Native Netflix, Pandora, Youtube, Weather apps would be a bonus so I would not need a keyboard. Reply
sirizak - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkXbmc is still going strong, I've recently built 2 HTPC's in the ML05, running Xbmcbuntu Linux. Not sure about Netflix but I believe there is an addon for Pandora, definitely has YouTube and weather support. PVR support has come a very long way as well now. Using an flirc adapter and a harmony remote. Very easy to use and versatile. Reply
sirizak - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkRecently built a Htpc in the ML05 to replace a tivo which has shut down in Australia.
MSI H87I, Pentium G3220, harmony remote via flirc adapter, Sony playtv tuner, running Xbmcbuntu. Working very well, and much more versatile than the tivo.
The ML05 is not terribly pretty but it's small size means it doesn't attract attention which was the real goal. Reply


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