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Pokud pracujete s 4K videem, nebo často provádíte datově náročné úlohy, je pro vás datové úložiště LaCie 5Big Thunderbolt 2 tou pravou volbou. Toto zařízení splňuje všechny předpoklady pro náročné datové procesy. Je rychlé, bezpečné, spolehlivé a velmi tiché. Samozřejmostí je vysoká kapacita 10 TB a RAID 5/6 pro naprosté bezpečí vašich dat.
With the kind of speed provided by the LaCie 5big Thunderbolt 2, you can edit 4K video and run data-intensive applications. The 10TB capacity and RAID 5/6 ensure fast, secure, reliable and extremely quiet operation.
The breakthrough ThunderBolt 2 technology with a bandwidth of up to 20 GB/s ensures maximum performance and incredible speeds of up to 1 330 MB/s, enabling smooth editing and viewing RAW 4K video.
The LaCie 5big offers RAID modes 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD. Its hardware RAID controller delivers sustained performance, better flexibility and the ability to connect the product to another computer while keeping the RAID configuration. The LaCie RAID Manager allows you to easily customize the RAID mode to suit your needs.
Thunderbolt 2 supports daisy chaining of up to six devices to a computer via a single cable. It allows you to daisy chain up to 36 LaCie 5bigs via the six Thunderbolt 2 ports, enabling more than 1PB (1080TB) and more than 3000 MB/s.
The LaCie 5big features a redesigned cooling system, ensuring long-term reliability by preventing overheating. The durable aluminium body and a silent fan effectively dissipate heat from the internal components, increasing the LaCie 5big's service life.
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Everett is proud to announce Danish Ali and Ali Gul Pir will join Everett for Friday Night Live (FNL) at Everett's Stage, 9 Duncan Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island on November 9, 2012. The show starts at 7pm and runs for an hour.
Get beside yourself with FNL's interactive scenes and on-the-spot musicals, featuring improvised song, dance, and skits. Performances are intended for audiences of all ages, personality types, and food groups. Friday Night Live unites a diverse cast of veteran Everett artists, young up-and-coming performers, and guitarist Bertrand Laurence in the production of fun, funny, creative, and meaningful performances. This special FNL will feature Pakistani comedians Danish Ali and Ali Gul Pir. Friday Night Live has been voted Best Family-Friendly Comedy Night by Rhode Island Monthly magazine.
Danish Ali (that's Dah-neesh), a doe-eyed MD turned punster, and improv comedy frontrunner and viral sensation Ali Gul Pir will tell you: in Pakistan there's no lack of material for a comic. The comedic trailblazers insist on pushing boundaries in a place where stand-up was virtually unknown as a performance genre. Along with a handful of other young comedic lights, they have carved out curious, wildly successful careers as professional comedians, performers, writers, and television personalities.
And they'll have a whole new set of experiences to riff on when Center StageSM (www.centerstageUS.org) brings these bilingual, multicultural tricksters to America. Encounters with Ali and Pir move merrily from sketch comedy to improvised riffs to musical numbers, as they relentlessly send up mores, taboos, and political tensions inside and surrounding Pakistan. Exchanges, workshops and meet-ups, with the occasional open-mic segment, will highlight largely off-stage (non-performance) residencies.
Very Live's November 2012 tour is part of Center StageSM (www.centerstageUS.org). An initiative of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Center Stage brings compelling contemporary artists from Haiti, Indonesia, and Pakistan to the United States to engage the American people in cultural diplomacy as a way to create opportunities for greater understanding. Administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts, with funding from the Asian Cultural Council, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art,this public-private partnership is the largest public diplomacy effort to bring foreign artists to American stages in recent history.
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U fight for Poland and u fight against Canada hehehehehe opportunistic yenkees 🙂
Give it a few more days, everything is finally starting to turn around.
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Breastaurant Playlist: Songs About Boobies
Yum! No substitutions please!
Breastaurants are not new. Marrying the appeal of breasts with suds and grilled meats dates back to the dawn of man. Organized versions of this traditional method of consumption can probably be traced back to the early '80s and the introduction of the Hooters franchise. And while that franchise has largely shunned the remarkably awesome tackiness of its past, two relatively younger franchises will be opening in our backyard soon to pick up the slack.
Described as a Scottish version of Hooters, the Tilted Kilt promises traditional Scottish fare like mozzarella sticks and nachos, anachronisms that will surely be ignored by the reflected lighting on supple female flesh. The spicy chipotle chicken at the other newcomer, the Twin Peaks restaurant is closer to truth in advertisement... don't expect Audrey Horne twisting anything in her mouth here, but expect a lot of wood chopped with those lumber-gal outfits.
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But County Grind is not here to judge the foodstuffs; County Grind is here to cater to music lovers, and since these breastaurants will be bringing back that nostalgic Hooters feeling to the neighborhood, we dedicate a short playlist to them.
On a related note, let's not forget what the great Lee Ving said on Fear's Live... For the Record album: "Some are big and some are small, but we've never seen a pair we did not like."
8. Lene Alexandra - "My Boobs Are OK"
Are your boobs OK because (a) you don't have breast cancer, (b) somebody else paid for them or (c) they defy, well, everything?
7. Sir Mix-a-Lot - "Put 'em on the Glass"
Sir Mix-a-Lot will always be known for his healthy love of female posteriors. That can not be denied. With this track, he swam into the then-uncharted territory of boobie love. The result is a mix between a 1980s hip-hop party and the audience at a Wendy Williams show taping.
6. Hombres G - "Una Mujer de Bandera"
Here are Spain's preeminent new wavers,Hombres G
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These guys like ladies who work out.
5. Pharoahe Monch - "Simon Says"
From Godzilla stuffing this release to the military command to rub your titties, you know oldPharoahe
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It can be done and your results should not be disappointing if you are starting at a good position. Your surgeon should be able to help you predict the results you will have from downsizing.
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More than likely if the implant volume reduction is not too great, then they should be fine. An exam would be helpful.
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I do not think you would be Looking Bad after Reducing Implant Size after Breast Implants and Breast Lift, although only an exam could provide any more information. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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When he appeared on 'Boxing Revue,' Wednesday night last, to update viewers of his progress for the imminent Friday night fights slated for Friday August 26 next at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH), Cecil Smith promised his fans that he would be prepared for anything his opponent, Revlon Lake has to offer, on his way to capturing the honours.
Not many people took him seriously especially when it was noted that the tall lightweight did not make that much of a favourable impression in recent fights.
Those visiting the Andrew 'Sixhead' Lewis Boxing Gym (ALBG) last Thursday afternoon would have had second thoughts after witnessing him in action against several sparring partners.
All told, Smith boxed eight rounds among two opponents, Ray Sandiford and Ron Smith, and if he takes that kind of form into the ring on fight night, Revlon Lake would need more that his recently acquired reputation, where he knocked out Mark Austin, to take this bout.
Smith was especially aggressive as he unleashed a two fisted assault on Sandiford who sought refuge in clinches, and when that proved ineffective, simply scurried around the ring attempting to evade Smith's flailing fists.
Upon completion of the hectic session, renowned boxing coach, Lennox Daniels took Smith through his paces with three rounds on the striking pads before turning his attention to step work.
Here, Smith was required to sprint up the flight of stairs; an exercise Daniels explained is geared to strengthen his charge's legs in preparation for the anticipated grueling contest.
Smith is brimming with confidence. On last Wednesday's edition of 'Boxing Revue' he had confessed that his recent performances were below par.
He said that he has done a self assessment and came up with certain reasons for his poor form. He refused to elaborate but said that after conducting rigid introspection, he instituted the necessary changes to enhance his performance in the impending bout.
Lake resides in Barbados but returned to Guyana to prepare for the bout.
Apparently, he had either completed training sessions for the day or did so at a late hour for, when Kaieteur Sport visited the gyms on Thursday afternoon, he was not in camp.
Nevertheless, Guyanese have already witnessed the skill and power exhibited by Lake and already tongues are wagging as the betting boys select their winner.
Lake is a late fighter as seen in his bout against Austin when he took all of the first seven rounds to get into full flow. He will have to make some adjustments and one suspect that Smith will want to capitalize on this anomaly and accumulate some early points.
He will have to be wary of Lake's crunching power being aware that any mistake on his part could spell curtains for him as Austin had discovered.
Pauline London is also working out at the ALBG. She spent 12 rounds on the heavy bag and a further hour bouncing on a huge truck tire with a 15 pounds dumbbell in each hand. "This exercise is geared to strengthen the legs and arms," her coach disclosed.
London also spent a considerable period of the afternoon on the striking pads while her coach, George Oprecht nods approvingly. "Veronica is a tough customer and so I am putting in the extra effort to beat her," said London. "But I will win this time," she confidently proclaimed.
Kwesi 'Lightening Struck Assassin' Jones was also lathered in sweat in preparation for his 12 rounds contest where he puts his local light/heavyweight title on the line against another Barbadian based Guyanese, Cleveland Fraser.
The latter fighter would be seeking redemption after the humiliating loss to local and Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) heavyweight champion, Kurt Bess in Linden recently.
Reports out of the Carrington Boxing gym in Barbados, where he is honing his skill, suggest that Fraser is applying himself diligently to the task with ambitions of carting off Jones' belt.
Jones has other ideas and his manager, Colin Retemiah is confident that his charge would come out victorious. "Kwesi's sessions commence as early as 05:00hrs where he engages in approximately 6 miles of hectic road work.
He returns here (the gym) in the afternoon for technical work on the punching bag, speedball and pads work among other activities," explained Mr. Retemiah.
The manager is so confident that his charge will prevail that he has already started making plans for the future. "After this bout I intend to go after the light/heavyweight CABOFE title," explained Mr. Retemiah.
He further intimated that former CABOFE light/heavyweight king, Shawn Corbin, has vacated the title and Jones would be the next in line for a shot.
In the other bout, Ray Sandiford takes on Barbadian based Guyanese, Gardiel Roberts in a 4 rounds lightweight affair.
Sandiford was also in action yesterday afternoon and sparred several stiff rounds with Ron Smith and Cecil Smith before engaging in bag work, calisthenics and skipping. This is a big step but boxers willing to take an occasional gamble have converted their 'luck' to prestigious world accolades.
Sandiford would, therefore, be anxious to grasp this opportunity with both hands. A victory for him would signal an important turning point in his career.
Four amateur bouts will compliment the professional segment of the card.
Nankumar Singh, the exciting lightweight pugilist from the Republican Boxing Gym will oppose Marlon Darrel in what should be a crowd pleaser as all fights that involved the Republican pugilist have been. Guyana Defense Force (GDF) representative Eon Bancroft tackles Kelsie George in a middleweight affair while Imran Khan will duke it out with Pocket Rocket Boxing gym representative, Richard Williamson in a bantamweight affair.
The night's proceedings will get underway with an 89lbs encounter between Akeem Daniels and Romel Rowley. As usual, the boxers would receive large food hampers complements of furniture giants, Courts.
Both groups are all ready for action and fans would do well to visit the CASH in anticipation of a slugfest.
The ProAm boxing cards are an initiative of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control in collaboration with the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA), National Communications Network (NCN) and the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports.
Admission remains at $1000 for adults and half that amount for children. NCN would carry a live broadcast from 20:00hrs when the first bell sounds.
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School of Nursing, University ofTexas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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School of Nursing, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
J Spec Pediatr Nurs 13:154-67. 2008..Examine factors common in the environments of children who obtain services from a WIC program to determine if differences in ecological/environmental factors can be found in the children who differ in weight, length, and weight for length...
- Perceptions of children's body sizes among mothers living on the Texas-Mexico border (La Frontera)Elizabeth Reifsnider
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Public Health Nurs 23:488-95. 2006..Photographs of children from the Berkeley Longitudinal Growth Study (on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] Web site) were used to stimulate discussion with mothers about child sizes...
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Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Market Research Report 2017
1 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Market Overview
1.1 Product Overview and Scope of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)
1.2 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Segment by Type (Product Category)
1.2.1 Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Production and CAGR (%) Comparison by Type (Product Category) (2012-2022)
1.2.2 Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Production Market Share by Type (Product Category) in 2016
1.2.3 Associated Gas
1.2.4 Non-Associated Gas
1.2.5 Unconventional Methods
1.3 Global Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Segment by Application
1.3.1 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Consumption (Sales) Comparison by Application (2012-2022)
1.3.2 Light Duty Vehicles
1.3.3 Medium/Heavy Duty Buses
1.3.4 Medium/Heavy Duty Trucks
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Who might buy B&N?
If multi-channel retailer Barnes & Noble indeed puts itself up for sale, who might emerge as the new owner of America's biggest bookstore chain?
The two names being tossed around most often already own stock in the company.
Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble's founder who is the company's largest stockholder with 30%, said he may head up an investor group to acquire the company.
Billionaire investor Ron Burkle, who owns 19% of the company's stocks, has made no secret that he would like a bigger portion. He sued Barnes & Noble over its shareholder rights plan, aimed at preventing anyone from buying more than 20% of the shares without board approval. The pressure he has applied is one possible factor behind the chain's announcement that it might sell.
Perhaps another potential buyer will enter the picture. But what is more likely is that Barnes & Noble won't change hands at all. Goldman Sachs analyst Matthew Fassler told The Wall Street Journal on August 4 that the company had a 30% probability of being sold, "recognizing potential challenges in financing a transaction and the potential lack of other bidders."


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Pact (disambiguation)
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|Look up pact in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A pact is a formal agreement.
Pact, The Pact or PACT may also refer to:
Literature and media[edit]
- The Pact (novel), 1998 novel by Jodi Picoult
- The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream, a 2002 non-fiction book by The Three Doctors
- The Pact (2002 film), a 2002 Lifetime TV movie
- The Pact (2003 film), a 2003 film
- The Pact (2006 film), a 2006 American documentary film
- The Pact (2012 film), a 2012 American horror film
- The Pact (2018 film), an upcoming American film
- The Pact (comics), a production of Image Comics
- "Pact", a web-serial novel by John McCrae
- Parents and Abducted Children Together, UK charity dealing with international child abduction
- Party for Accountability, Competency and Transparency, a Canadian federally registered political party
- Pratigya Apprenticeship for Community Transformation, an Indian residential program for tribal youth
- Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television, the UK independent media trade association
- Professional Artist Client Toolkit, an organization of professional freelance illustrators
- Pact, Isère, a commune in France
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- PACT (compiler), a series of compilers for the IBM 701 and 704 computers
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- Powdered activated carbon treatment, a wastewater treatment technology
- Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy, an IAEA project on radiation medicine
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Nord department
The Nord department is a narrow stretch of land along the Belgian border, linking the North Sea to the west to the first mounts of the Ardennes to the east. It is the most densely populated area in France after the Paris region with 2.5 million inhabitants. Nord is a wealthy agricultural area thanks to a sensible use of the land. It is also France's leading industrial region thanks to its coal resources and its long tradition in steelworks, metal plants and textile factories. The economic crisis has led to the end of coalmining in the area but its inhabitants – the now famous Chtis – have always been the department's main strength. Nord's architectural past is exceptionally rich, with extremely well preserved old mills, proud belfries illustrating the freedom of its towns (Lille, Valenciennes, Douai) as well as wealthy town halls of Flemish inspiration.
Pas-de-Calais Department
The department was created in 1790, mixing parts of the old Artois and Boulonnais provinces. Pas de Calais (literally Step of Calais) symbolises the passage between Calais and Dover, France and Britain. The discovery of coal in Oignies in 1841 dramatically changed the departments' economy, based on the mining industry for most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
While coalmining and textile are disappearing, Pas-de-Calais makes the most of its situation at the crossroads of Britain and France and the presence on its soil of Eurotunnel. Tourism is a resource, on the coastline especially. The port of Calais is one of the biggest passenger ports in the world while Boulogne is the first fishing port in France.
Km 4 : Bouvignies
First ruled by the Landas family, Bouvignies passed in 1384 to the Hollehain, who built the local castle. But the longest serving lords in the town were the Nedonchel, established in 1586. In 1723, the Baron of Nedonchel became Marquis and in 1782, he rebuilt the castle, which was destroyed a few years later by the Revolution. Only remain today parts of the surrounding wall with its loopholes and the main entrance, flanked by two pillars. Another gate, "Porte de Douai", goes over the moats. The foundations of the castle were rediscovered in 1985 and are now visible in the playground. An old dovecote now houses a museum of pigeon racing. Graves of the Nedonchel family can be found in the lovely 17th century church, especially a stone dedicated to George de Nedoncehl, who died in 1601.
In 1679, Bouvignies saw one of the last executions of witches in France, four women who were sentenced to the pyre.
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Kelly opts out to become free agent
As we told you to expect several weeks ago, cornerback Brian Kelly has officially opted out of the final year of his contract and has declared himself an unrestricted free agent.
Kelly paid the Bucs $453,000 by Thursday's deadline to void the final year of his deal.
The Bucs will miss Kelly. At 6-foot-1, 190 pounds, he was one of the most physical corners in the NFL. While he has had some injury problems the past two seasons, the Bucs won about 40 percent of their games when he wasn't in the lineup since 2001, according to his agent.
Suddenly, the Bucs biggest need might be the cornerback position. Ronde Barber turns 33 in April. Phillip Buchanon has progressed nicely, but the Bucs need another corner to allow Barber to slide inside to the slot position on passing downs.
Kelly has 22 career interceptions and his best year came in 2002 when the Bucs won the Super Bowl. Barber has received a lot more attention and accolades, but Kelly also viewed himself as Robin to Barber's Batman.
Now the dynamic duo is no more. Granted, Kelly has been limited by injuries the past two seasons. He still managed to make a good contribution last season, including a game-ending interception against the Redskins.
More importantly, he was a quiet leader in the locker room. But you can trust defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin to re-stock that position.


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ALPINE Skiing
VONN crashes, secures 1 Cup Title
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — American Olympic gold and bronze medalist Lindsey Vonn crashed in a giant slalom Thursday but got good news after the race.
The International Skiing Federation confirmed Vonn as the super-combined World Cup champion. She already had secured the downhill and super-giant slalom titles. She sealed the super-combined title when the third race of the season was canceled because of bad weather last week in Switzerland. That left Vonn with 160 points from two races and Anja Paerson of Sweden second with 150. The federation said two races were enough for Vonn to win the title. Vonn earned gold in the downhill and bronze in the super-G at the Vancouver Games.
More Skiing: Two-time Olympian Scott Macartney, 32, announced his retirement after a 12-year career with the U.S. team.
MLS players vote to strike by opener
Major League Soccer players voted to strike if a new labor contract isn't agreed to before the season opener March 25.
The league's first collective bargaining agreement, a five-year deal, was set to run out Jan. 31 but was extended twice while negotiations continued. It expired Feb. 25 after the players union refused another extension.
Negotiators for management and players met Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
Earlier Thursday, Toronto defender Nick Garcia was quoted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. as saying: "We're anticipating not having the season starting. … As of now, for us, we're very far apart, even with the mediator there in D.C."
Players want greater free-agent rights and a higher percentage of guaranteed deals.
More soccer: The use of goal-line technology was rejected because of high costs and potential interruptions in the flow of games, Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, the sport's governing body, said. "The application of modern technologies can be very costly, and therefore not applicable on a global level," Blatter wrote on the FIFA Web site. "Many matches, even at the highest level, are not even televised."
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Arena football: The Tampa Bay Storm signed former Rams defensive back Michael Hawthorne and former USF offensive lineman Shelly Houston. Houston started at guard for the Bulls in 2003.
Tennis: Tampa resident Mardy Fish, the BNP Paribas Open runnerup in 2008, beat Michael Berrer 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the first round in Indian Wells, Calif. Fish, 28, sidelined most of the second half of last season due to a fractured rib and left knee surgery, faces No. 2 Novak Djokovic, who won that 2008 final in three sets and is 3-0 against him.
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Lessons For Calmer, Happier Holidays
Researchers find that stress and conflict rise sharply during the holiday season. I'm sure this doesn't apply to you, but here are some thoughts for that cousin of yours who always seems to be strung out and fighting with her partner over the menorah, kente cloth or Christmas tree.
Lesson No. 1: Reverse the Great American Speed-Up
Mothers today hold themselves to unforgiving standards. Sociologist Sharon Hays calls ours the age of intensive mothering and points out that, in the past, children were not seen as hothouse flowers, whose every talent had to be carefully nurtured through endless enrichment activities.
The pursuit of perfection can easily get out of hand, sending the message that the key family value is frantic anxiety to achieve perfection. I recall reading a story, some years ago, about a mother who stayed up until 2 a.m. making and decorating Christmas cookies. What's the message here? This is not about you outshining Martha Stewart.
First holiday goal: Slow down and focus on creating a warm emotional tone. Turn the holidays into a reflective ramble rather than a frantic sprint. Remember, the goal is to create an experience everyone will enjoy. It should be an experience the kids will remember with affection rather than dread.
Lesson No. 2: Negotiate
Traditionally, women have been in charge of creating celebrations, and mostly they still are. In her article titled "The Female World of Cards and Holidays," anthropologist Micaela di Leonardo writes, "Kin work is like housework and child care: Men in the aggregate do not do it."
So you need to make some choices.
Do it your way, and your partner probably won't participate much (remember, he's under no internal pressure to out-Martha Ms. Stewart). An alternative is to sit down and agree on holiday preparations. Once you've decided, you can divide responsibilities so everyone contributes. Isn't that better role modeling than running yourself ragged?
Also, involving your partner in both planning and execution can help him take more responsibility for maintaining social ties. That way, your kids won't see this as women's work.
Lesson No. 3: The Real Meaning of Christmas
The frenzy of gift-giving is a recent practice. According to Steven Nissenbaum in The Battle for Christmas, Americans' current focus on giving presents to family members was created by elite 19th-century New Yorkers who turned away from the traditional view of Christmas as a time for the rich to give to the poor.
Going as a family to make sandwiches for a homeless shelter, or giving a family abroad a goat or a heifer, are two ways to use the holidays to start family conversations about social responsibility in our age of spiraling social inequality.
Three simple lessons toward a simpler holiday celebration: With luck, they'll help your cousin reverse the frantic pressure to achieve, nudge the family toward greater gender equality, and teach the kids about social responsibility. Let me know if she goes for it.
Joan C. Williams is a professor of law at the University of California, Hastings, and author of Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter.


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Vanuatu daily news digest | 3 February 2013Posted: February 3, 2013 Filed under: The Daily Digest | Tags: election, George Bogiri, immigration, Melanesian Spearhead Group, Morris Kaloran, MSG, Pacific Migration Consultants, Pascal Anh Quan Saken, Phocea, politics, Richard Kaltongga, Robert Rokvic, Sato Kilman, Vanuatu, Vanuatu Free West Papua Association, Vincent Lunabek, West Papua, Willie Jimmy Comments Off on Vanuatu daily news digest | 3 February 2013
The Supreme Court will give its ruling early next week on Willie Jimmy's petition contesting PM Sato Kilman's eligibility to stand in last year's election. Political maneuvering is going ahead full swing ahead of the court ruling. RNZI reports that some Government MPs have already been lured to the Opposition in advance of the ruling.
Daily Post carries a story that quotes a former registered migration agent from Australia now residing here who says the fees for Australian migration agents' services quoted by George Bogiri are misleading. Former agent Robert Rokvic also points out that the any move to outsource Government services could lead to the "opening up of the flood gates" for other ministries to use private agents to collect other government fees and taxes. In Australia, migration agents must be registered with the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority, which provides regulation of their activities. Says their website: "Registered Migration Agents are bound by a Code of Conduct and are required to have an in-depth knowledge of Australian migration law and procedure and meet high professional and ethical standards."
Bogiri has had a lot of media attention but has completely side-stepped the issue of his personal conflict of interest in Pacific Migration Consultants. Both the Constitution and the Leadership Code Act are crystal clear on this; leaders are obliged not to use their office for personal gain, and they must disclose any business interests in any matters where they may have a conflict of interest.
Radio New Zealand International reports: "Pascal Anh Quan Saken has not returned to Vanuatu since leaving last July before he could be questioned in relation to the 75 metre yacht. It was raided and seized by police, immigration and customs officers on suspicion of passport fraud and drugs trading. All criminal matters relating to the Phocea have been dropped but the Ports Authority [sic] says the vessel is unable to leave the country after it was confirmed that it does not have Maltese registration. Mr Saken says his boat is being confiscated so that officials can charge high berthing fees. He also accuses Vanuatu police of piracy when raiding the Phocea, including wearing shoes on the yacht's Persian rug interior."
The suspended Director of Ports and Harbours, Morris Kaloran, points out once again that the issues over which he is once again suspended were already dealt with in December. However, Government has decided to suspend him all over again for the same issues. All allegations against Kaloran were cleared by the Public Service Commission. Kaloran challenges the Public Service Commission to make the reasons for his suspension public on the national broadcasting service, Radio Vanuatu. The suspension of Kaloran followed his refusal to allow the allegedly fraudulently registered Phocea out of the country as the Prime Minister required. Richard Kaltongga, political adviser to PM Kilman, complains in the Daily Post about "junior government officials" interfering with decisions made by Ministers.
Chief Justice Vincent Lunabek reminded Vanuatu's law practitioners of the need for continual revision of their professional practice in order to serve society's need for justice. Justice Lunabek was addressing the legal profession at the official start of the court year on Friday. He stressed the need for the legal profession to learn from mistakes and to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of Vanuatu's legal system. Radio Vanuatu News broadcast parts of his address. The Chief Justice's annual speech has in the past given details the management shortcomings of the administration which have an effect on the delivery of justice.
The Vanuatu Free West Papua Association says West Papua has officially applied for membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group under the West Papua National Coalition Body.


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Sitcom Given Up for Dead Hits the Web. It's Alive!
By BILL CARTER
Published: July 3, 2006
For television writers and producers it has always been about getting your show on the air.
These days? Not so much.
At the moment the most talked-about situation comedy in the United States isn't on television at all. It's on your computer, though, and you can find it on www.youtube.com, where thousands of videos of all levels of quality are posted every day.
A comedy called -- with intended irony, but not in the way that it has worked out -- ''Nobody's Watching'' has been available on YouTube for about two weeks. As of yesterday it had been downloaded more than 300,000 times by a growing legion of fans.
Most remarkable of all, the talk that the show has generated has already caught the ears of executives at several networks, some of whom are wondering if maybe this is a virus they might enjoy getting infected with.
''Nobody's Watching'' seems to be another example of a story that the Internet world loves: the power of the amateur over the professionals. It is also the story of ''viral video,'' which is what YouTube is all about. People post a snippet of self-made video, and word spreads about how funny, shocking, stupid or embarrassing it is.
But the big story behind ''Nobody's Watching'' is that a sitcom left for dead 18 months ago may actually spring back to life -- on actual television -- because its creators were too passionate about it to let it die, and because it really might be funnier than most everything else that is passing for comedy on television these days.
The man at the center of the story is Bill Lawrence, creator of ''Spin City'' and ''Scrubs.'' Mr. Lawrence knows how insane the television business can be. For example, for a few years after ''Scrubs'' made its debut on NBC in 2001, all Mr. Lawrence heard from network executives was that the show would never be a hit because it was a single-camera filmed comedy. Only multi-camera taped comedies worked, he was told.
In the last two years Mr. Lawrence said, he has gotten into arguments with network program chiefs who have told him, ''The multi-camera comedy genre is dead.''
Both stances struck Mr. Lawrence as ridiculous. ''The challenge,'' he said in a telephone interview, ''was to reinvent the genre.''
That was the goal of ''Nobody's Watching,'' which Mr. Lawrence conceived with two writing partners, Garrett Donovan and Neil Goldman, who had both worked on the Fox animated comedy ''Family Guy.''
Their thought was that most traditional sitcoms had begun failing not because of form but because of quality: they were all bad. And so they created a couple of characters, Derek and Will, from Ohio, who believed the same thing, and they decided to let them try to make a show of their own.
The gimmick is that the two characters come to California to make their own sitcom, but at the same time they are doing it in the form of a fake reality show conceived by some fictional network executives. The studio behind the (real) project was NBC Universal Television, so NBC had first crack at the show. But Mr. Lawrence said that it was clear from the start that NBC's programming boss, Kevin Reilly, though he liked the freshness of the idea, did not think it was appropriate for NBC.
So it wound up on the development slate of the WB network. That seemed a hospitable place because WB was youth oriented, and ''Nobody's Watching'' was a show definitely aimed at young viewers. Mr. Lawrence said all the younger executives at that network loved the show.
The show was cast with an eye toward keeping it fresh and innovative. The two leads, Taran Killam and Paul Campbell, had extensive improvisational backgrounds. Mr. Lawrence said he insisted they become inseparable for weeks leading up to shooting the pilot, and the actors indeed became fast friends.
The other important characters included a network boss named Jeff Tucker. (Mr. Lawrence credited Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of the NBC Universal Television Group, with being such a sport that he told them he didn't mind if they used his actual name.)
The pilot, which appears intact on YouTube, pulls no punches in disparaging sitcoms the creators clearly believe have damaged the genre. By name, ''According to Jim,'' ''Coach'' and ''Yes, Dear,'' among others, are mocked by the characters.
Mr. Lawrence acknowledged that that had caused a bit of a rift between him and Greg Garcia, creator of ''Yes, Dear,'' though he said he loved and respected Mr. Garcia's newer comedy, ''My Name Is Earl,'' which is shown on NBC.
All went well with ''Nobody's Watching'' until the testing phase. Then, Mr. Lawrence said, he and his partners journeyed to a ''sweaty test-screening room'' in the San Fernando Valley where issues were raised by the screeners about whether the premise was confusing. That seemed to Mr. Lawrence to be the unspoken concern of WB executives, although once it was spoken, the test audiences seemed to glom onto it.
Still, those young executives at WB encouraged him the show was a sure thing. Mr. Lawrence left for New York in May 2005, ready to hear ''Nobody's Watching'' announced on the WB schedule. ''I was not in the business to fly to New York to feel like an idiot,'' he said. But that's what happened. WB passed on the show.


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With 900 million users worldwide, it seemed logical for Facebook to open a line for advertisements. The fact is marketers can easily be attracted with the number users the social network presents until an e-commerce store builder said majority of clicks from ads which can be found on Facebook are inorganic.
To show its disappointment, the firm will delete its official Facebook page in a couple of weeks but it went on to narrating why it had to come to this.
"A couple months ago, when we were preparing to launch the new Limited Run, we started to experiment with Facebook ads. Unfortunately, while testing their ad system, we noticed some very strange things. Facebook was charging us for clicks, yet we could only verify about 20% of them actually showing up on our site," according to the post on Facebook.
JavaScript is the best way an advertiser can verify every click done by the user. But when it's turned off, a click maybe difficult to determine. However, online advertising are often paid per click irrespective whether a click will lead to sales or not. In the case of Limited Run (supposing its claims are true), it is paying clicks which only about 15% to 20% have the possibility of conversion; the rest of the clicks are all junk but it still has to pay for them.
"We're currently investigating their claims. For their issue with the Page name change, there seems to be some sort of miscommunication. We do not charge Pages to have their names changed. Our team is reaching out about this now," a Facebook spokesperson said to assure other advertisers.
It's not the first time that an ad agency complained about the company's advertising practices. In fact, Search Engine Journal revealed last week about a system that would send multiple likes to a page in a short period of time.
Limited Run, however, did not provide screenshots or any relevant photos to their claims.


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August 24, 2012|
Noah K. tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! In this episode: Training videos of Motorola's not so secret device, the Motorola Razr HD, has found their way onto YouTube. The videos show how to navigate and use the device, as well as providing a sneak preview of the ICS based Moto interface. On another note, some leaked info reveal the potential partners and plans in regards to the upcoming devices in the Google Nexus line up.
Be sure to check out Rumor Roundup every Friday at 5 PM PST on the Revision 3 TechnoBuffalo channel.


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BoxWave VersachargerPro
AC/DC USB converter/charger
The Versacharger is a combo 110V AC and 12V DC USB converter to charge phones, PDAs, and various other electronics. You just purchase additional USB connectors and "tips" as you go for specific gadgets. Even some GPS units can be charged with appropriate voltage transducers.
I've used this charger over a year, mostly when I travel — greatly reduces the amount of cables, chargers, wall warts, and misc. I have to tote around. I keep all my devices (GPS, Palm T/X, cell phone) and charger in a small cloth, drawstring bag, along with a Ziploc bag for all the various tips (I use a gold marking pen to write which tip goes with which device).
It's worth noting, I prefer using the cords manufactured by Syncharger (maker of the previously-reviewed kwikSynCh). As opposed to the designated tips from Boxwave, the Syncharger cords have USB at both ends and you only have to change the "Mtips" for your device, which is both less bulky and less expensive (the Mtips are $7 each; the shorter kwikSynCh is $15 and the retractable Syncharger is $27; compared to the BoxWaves which can run $26). If you only need to charge one device, Boxwave's bundle price is great, and their miniSync (pic above) gives more flexibility and packs smaller. However, if you need to charge multiple devices, I think the Syncharger cords are much more convenient.04/14/09


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Amazing pictures from a breathtakingly beautiful traditional Hutsul-style wedding - by Lviv-based LJ user dali-bude and his wife Marichka (the newlyweds' names are Ostap and Olya).
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Holodomor-as-genocide news: from the Party of the Regions, only Taras Chornovil and Yanukovych's former press secretary Hanna Herman voted in favor of the bill; none of the Communists voted.
Here's part of an AP story:
Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday adopted a bill recognizing the Soviet-era forced famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people, a move seen as a victory for pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko.
The bill passed in a vote of 233-1, a small majority in the 450-seat legislature.
The recognition opens the door to potential legal consequences including compensation for famine victims and recognition of the famine by the United Nations as genocide against Ukrainian people. Ten countries, including the United States, have recognized the famine as genocide, but U.N. recognition would imply an international acceptance.
Moscow strongly opposed calling the famine a genocide, contending that the famine did not specifically target Ukrainians and warning Ukraine not to "politicize" the issue.
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's party proposed using the word tragedy instead of genocide, in what was seen as an effort to avoid spoiling ties with Russia. Only two lawmakers from the party's 186-member faction supported the bill; the Communist Party, which is also in the governing coalition, also did not support it.
Due to the resistance in parliament, the bill proposed by Yushchenko underwent several changes, including referring to genocide against the Ukrainian people instead of the Ukrainian nation. Lawmakers also dropped an initiative that would have made it a legal violation to deny the famine occurred.
And a relevant picture I took today, somewhere on Vorovskogo St.:
Written in red: "And under Communists - they'll finish up the construction!"
Added in white: "[The construction of] GULAG."
A note on Kyiv's mayor: a week or so ago, he said on TV that one of the city's chief medical officials has to be "chased out of Kyiv with a broom" - "gnat' yeyo nuzhno metloy iz Kiyeva."
Normally, you'd also mention that the broom's been "dipped in shit" - "gnat' srannoy metloy" - it's a set expression, and even though he didn't say it, he most likely meant it.
And even though many medical officials - and even some doctors - do deserve just that, it kind of hurt my ears to hear the mayor say this.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Kyiv's been really foggy - and really pensive when you're away from the cars - for over a week now.
A few more pictures from the Holodomor memorial Saturday, by LJ user eagle_x - here and here. In the comments to the first entry, a girl from Krasnodar, Russia, gets furious and recommends Ukrainians to mourn privately, without what she thinks is public hysteria and hatred of Russians...
Sunday, November 26, 2006
The Famine - the genocide of the Ukrainian people - has been recognized by the parliaments of Australia, Argentina, Georgia, Estonia, Italy, Canada, Lithuania, Poland, USA, Hungary. [What about] Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada???
65 photos from the Famine commemoration yesterday - here.
It started at Sofiyivska and moved to Mykhailivska Square, a very emotional affair. I got there after the departure of all the VIPs, but there were still so many people - lighting candles, listening to survivors' testimonials broadcast on big screens, just standing there quietly.
Too many media folks, though, especially photographers, but I shouldn't be the one to complain about that. A demented-looking anti-Semite by the Bohdan Khmelnytsky monument. Down on Khreshchatyk, or up in Lipki, not a trace of mourning: Kyiv is a big city now. On Channel 1+1, very inappropriately, the final part of Dancing With The Stars contest show.
To learn more about the Famine, here's the 1988 report to Congress (via Cyber Cossack).
Saturday, November 25, 2006
35 photos from Maidan's 2 years are here. Blurry pictures of a blurry event.
112 photos from Nov. 23 rally in front of the city council are here.
Most young people holding the flags of Nasha Ukraina, Yulia's Bloc and Pora looked like they were just skipping classes this way. Most elderly people seemed to be genuinely protesting the new tariffs. One of the main slogans was "Mayor - out!"
Thursday, November 23, 2006
A rally by the city council, a few thousand people, against the new tariffs, against mayor Chernovetsky. More photos and more about it later.
"New tariffs = new famine!"
Roman Bezsmertny and some crazy guy begging them all to keep up the fight: "I will cry, my wife will cry, the people will cry if you give it up halfway through..."
A note: I do realize that these videos are nothing special. Moreover, they aren't in English, and I'm not just too lazy/busy to translate - I can't hear much of the stuff there is to translate. So I apologise if I'm wasting your time and bandwidth, but I really have to play with it.
I still prefer photography to video. I sort of hate the invisibility factor of the video, the fear of what comes next: what if someone on someone else's video does something gross and no one has warned me in advance?
A glimpse of Anatoliy Hrytsenko, Ukraine's defense minister.
The sound really sucks, on this one and the rest of my videos. Here, all I can hear is someone calling Moroz "Judas"...
P.S. The tall guy is Hrytsenko's bodyguard - and a beacon of sorts: someone sent a photojournalist his way, and I followed.
I'm trying out a new medium: video. At some point, I have to teach myself how to edit stuff.
Here's Baba Paraska, at Maidan, tonight. I haven't watched the video with the sound myself yet - because Marta is asleep on me.
Enjoy! (Or not.)
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
A lot more people showed up after 6 pm.
Still, the whole thing was somewhat unfocused.
When someone with the microphone tried to start a "Yush-chen-ko!" chant, about one third of the crowd joined in, but as many seemed to be yelling "Han'ba!" ("Shame!"), and a few chanted "Yulia!"...
When they tried to get the crowd to chant "Razom nas bahato, nas ne podolaty!" ("Together we're many, we won't be defeated!"), an old, eccentric-looking nationalist yelled this, quite bitterly: "Razom nas malo, nas ne podolaty!" ("Together we are few, we won't be defeated!").
Very little work for journalists at Maidan today...
(Two years since the beginning of Maidan.)
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Our answer to the Russian Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) - "No people are illegal" (in Ukrainian):
Friday, November 17, 2006
Hmmm... CNN can be like Moscow's TVTs, too (MediaMatters, via the beatroot):
On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could "have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table." After Ellison agreed, Beck said: "I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' " Beck added: "I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."
Here's part of Ellison's bio:
Keith Ellison, 42, is a father, husband, lawyer, state legislator and community advocate.
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, he moved to Minnesota in 1987 to attend University of Minnesota Law School, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor degree in 1990. Ellison and spouse Kim, a high school mathematics teacher, have lived on the Minneapolis Northside for the past 17 years. They have four children ages 17, 15, 10, and 9.
I've managed to finish that Marta's-name-in-my-foreign-passport business - I've handed in all the paperwork and it should be ready in a week. I hope.
I found my tax identification number, wrote it into the form and went to the same sberkassa as last time - because it's close to the passports office. The line there seemed to be made up of exactly the same people as on Tuesday - especially the old women, I swear I've seen all of them before.
Turns out I don't remember how lines work here anymore: you take your place at the very end and by the time you're supposed to reach the cashier's window, at least five more people pop up in front of you, in addition to a dozen or so who were there from the start. These extra people are not cutting in, no. They were either seated on the chairs by the window or had gone out to buy bread next door and returned just in time for their turn. I wasn't prepared for that. I didn't let one such returnee in in front of me - he would've been the sixth one or so and that would've been too much for me. (Then, they didn't process the poor guy's payment for the same reason I had to leave empty-handed on Tuesday: the stupid tax number.)
One more thing: at that particular sberkassa, the line seems to grow in all directions - some people walk in and stop right there, by the entrance, after asking who the last one is, while others move to the line's tail. Very confusing.
Anyway, I paid my 20-something hryvnias ($4), rushed to the passports place, was the third one in line there (great luck), finally entered the room and sat across the table from a fat woman in gray cop uniform. She looked at my handwritten letter and said it had to be printed.
I really wanted to be done with it quickly, so I decided not to try to find out if she could prove to me that that was the law and not her personal whim. "Do I have to pay the typist," I asked. "Oh, I've no idea," she no doubt lied in reply.
So I went to the typist at the other end of the hallway, having first secured a promise from the cop woman that I wouldn't have to wait in line again to get back in. The typist charged me 18 hryvnias ($3.60) for practically nothing - for typing a few lines on an elderly Soviet typewriter:
I filled out a payment form and pretended that the typist was indeed doing me a favor when she agreed to take the money to the sberkassa herself - of course, she'd put it into her pocket. I should've fought, I know, should've resisted basically bribing someone and also allowing them to rob me, but I really felt I couldn't afford it, with Marta waiting for me and all. A perfect example of why corruption is flourishing in Ukraine.
I rushed back to the cop woman with the printed letter - but she was not there, and then they kicked us all out because it was lunchtime, and I spent the next hour wandering around the neighborhood, feeling misanthropic and unpatriotic.
At 3 pm, I went back and handed the cop woman all the papers without any problems. She could've sent me home again, though, because the propiska stamp in my internal passport is outdated: we are not Starokyivsky district anymore, it no longer exists; we are Pechersky district, and the stamp should be restamped. A trifle that could've caused me some more pain in the ass.
I didn't feel like teasing them with my camera in there, so here're two pictures that I took with my cell phone. The first one is the typist, the second one is the general view of the place:
Caught this on TVTs (TV channel of Moscow mayor Luzhkov) today, on Vremechko daily show:
An elderly woman (70-something), her daughter and the daughter's 15-year-old son, all three looking perfectly Slavic to me, speaking absolutely correct Russian. They've been living at Rizhskiy Vokzal (one of Moscow's train stations, Riga direction) for a while, and before that in the street in the freezing cold, and before that in Latvia, and before that in Nizhniy Tagil in Russia. They had sold their Nizhniy Tagil apartment and the money they received for it is already up. They live off the old woman's pension that she somehow managed to get herself in Moscow, quite a feat for a homeless person, and they also sweep the floor at the train station. The boy hasn't been to school in two years.
They would really love to get an apartment in Moscow, and are passionately appealing to mayor Luzhkov (maybe because he is one of those Russian politicians who pretend to be patron saints of all the "Russian-speaking people" of the former Soviet Union).
The family's explanation of why they're entitled to an apartment in Moscow is really silly: the boy's (wayward) father is a Muscovite. They haven't located him yet, though.
(This way, I could probably demand a Moscow apartment, too: one of my great-grandfathers lived in Moscow before the revolution, and one of my grandmothers lived there well into the 1990s, in a very nice place, I've been told, and, if you follow the logic of that crazy family, the fact that we were not on speaking terms with her since 1986 doesn't really matter - I want an apartment, how much longer do they expect us to live in rented places? But I digress.)
Naturally, the hosts and the audience weren't too sympathetic; someone even used a rather common argument that "Moscow isn't made of rubber" - isn't stretchable.
But the real reason why I'm writing about it here is a remark made in passing by one of the show's male hosts - it went something like this:
- If I'm not mistaken, you are Muslim, right?
- Yes.
- So why don't you move somewhere to Tatarstan? I heard it's not a bad place to live.
I mean, can you believe it?!
Would they find an apartment for them if they were Orthodox Christian?
And would the guy recommend them to move all the way to Birobijan if they were Jewish?
Et cetera. So much stuff in that one remark, someone could squeeze a dissertation out of it.
This in a country whose Muslim population is over 20 million people.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
I felt rather misplaced twice today.
First, when listening to NPR - one thought that ran through my mind was, "Where is Ukraine?" It's very strange to realize that while I'm interested in hearing about "their" issues, "my" issues are 100 percent irrelevant to them. Not bad, just weird. Even weirder, though, would be to imagine lots of Ukraine-related content on NPR. Ha.
Second, I felt misplaced while watching a very strange broadcast from the city mayor's office on the city council's channel (it made me spend about half an hour glued to the TV tonight). A hundred or so people were being publicly presented with apartments here in Kyiv: their names were being called out and they were being summoned to the front of the large auditorium, handed flowers, chocolates, and the keys, and their new addresses were being announced to the whole city (a bit too careless, I'm afraid), and some were asked to stay and tell everyone about the miserable, subhuman conditions they've been living in up until now, and then short videos of these ratholes were being shown.
Shocking, most of it. Shocking, because it's 2006, not 1976, and because it's still pretty much a norm to live like this, several generations in a tiny apartment, in the same room, often, and some of these people have been waiting for more living space since the late 1970s. Kvartirnyi vopros is as relevant today as it was then.
Mayor Chernovetsky is, of course, exploiting these people, giving himself positive publicity, etc., but... it's not what you're thinking about when you're watching it. Only once, when some poor guy thanked God for this new apartment, the city council woman with a microphone elaborated on his thought: like, yes, thank God for directing the authorities toward this great decision (the mayor and his religious beliefs is a separate topic, of course).
In other news, I tried to have Marta's name written into my foreign passport today, so that we could travel to Moscow without any problems at the border. What's needed is a photocopy of her birth certificate, a letter, and less than 20 hryvnias ($4) paid at sberkassa. Sounds easy, but it's not.
A bitch at the passport office informed me that "the boss" wasn't likely to accept a hand-written letter, that it had to be printed - and that this would cost me some money. She was probably offering me her services as a typist this way - intimidating me into begging her to type the letter for me - but instead I asked her where it said it couldn't be hand-written. Nowhere.
But I didn't get to see "the boss" today because I had to make the payments, so I went to the sberkassa - the one we used when we were setting our wedding date last year. Sberkassa is like a bank, only there're always lines there, because this is where everyone pays their utility and phone bills. I came there around 1:30 pm, half an hour before their lunch break, when, according to them, their computers get turned off automatically. I spent 15 minutes filling out two payment forms - a torture. I stood in a pretty long line for ten minutes. I made it to the cashier's window just in time - only to be told that there should be my tax identity code in one of the boxes on one form, yet another multi-digit number, which I don't remember, of course - and without it, there's no way I can pay them my goddamn 8.50 hryvnias ($1.70). The other payment, 10.47 hryvnias ($2.10) can be made without the code, somehow.
I'll have to go there again on Thursday. Bastards.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Rumsfeld's resignation, a view from Iraq - Marines' Reaction to the News: 'Who's Rumsfeld?', by C.J. Chivers.
This New York Times piece is about an Iraqi father of 14 explaining the meaning of the recent political developments to a group of U.S. marines who are temporarily using the roof of his house in an operation:
If history is any guide, many of the young men who endure the severest hardships and assume the greatest risks in the war in Iraq will become interested in politics and politicians later, when they are older and look back on their combat tours.
But not yet. Marine infantry units have traditionally been nonpolitical, to the point of stubbornly embracing a peculiar detachment from policy currents at home. It is a pillar of the corps' martial culture: those with the most at stake are among the least involved in the decisions that send them where they go.
Mr. Rumsfeld may have become one of the war's most polarizing figures at home. But among these young marines slogging through the war in Anbar Province, he appeared to mean almost nothing. If he was another casualty, they had seen worse.
"If American Army came here for three months, four months, O.K." Mr. Menti said. "But now is four years."
If there were no American military presence in Iraq, he said, there would be no insurgents. One serves as a magnet for the other.
Mr. Menti spoke to the sergeant as if he were an American diplomat, as if he had some influence over the broad sweeps of American foreign policy. The sergeant remained quiet and polite.
"I don't think he realizes that we're trying to make this country safer for him," he said to Lance Corporal Maguire.
"I think he realizes that we're trying to make it safe, but that the more we stay here the more people come in and make it worse," Lance Corporal Maguire replied.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Quite spontaneously, I asked a family friend yesterday:
"Roma, do you park on sidewalks, too?"
He is a big man with a big car, and I didn't expect to like his answer, but was in for a surprise:
"No! Never," he almost screamed, almost indignantly.
I kissed him on the cheek for that.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
A quote from Mustafa Jemilev, from this May 2003 interview (RUS):
We are proud that in the half a century of our struggle to return to our motherland, we haven't shed any of our own or anyone else's blood.
Bits of Mustafa Jemilev's bio, from here (RUS):
- born on Nov. 13, 1943, will turn 63 in three days
- deported with his family from Crimea to Uzbekistan on May 18, 1944
- May 1966 - accused of refusing to serve in the army and sentenced to 1.5 years
- Sept. 1969 - sentenced to 3 years, for defamation of the Soviet state
- June 1974 - sentenced to 1 year, for draft-dodging again
- three days before he was to be released, they accused him of anti-Soviet propaganda; he protested by holding a 303-day hunger strike (they had to feed him forcibly)
- April 1976 - sentenced to 2.5 years
- a month before that sentence was up, they tried to cook up another case against him, but he scared them off by hunger-striking for 15 days; released in Dec. 1977
- Feb. 1979 - sentenced to 1.5 years in prison, but the sentence was later changed to 4 years of exile in Yakutia
- when this term ended, he moved to Crimea with his wife and child, but was kicked out of there and back to Uzbekistan three days later
- Nov. 1983 - arrested for the 6th time, sentenced to 3 years
Also on Nov. 7, I watched a really nice TV show with Mustafa Jemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatars. The timing was perfect - a very graceful fuck-you to the kommunyaki on their favorite day.
Jemilev is like a live history book - and he doesn't seem to need any bullshit political charisma because of that.
The show - Pozaochi on K-1 - was about his personal and political life; they interviewed his sister, wife and son, as well as one of his opponents and one of his colleagues. Jemilev was in the studio and was asked to react to what all those people were saying, to elaborate on it.
I loved his son's story: when he was a student in Turkey, he was looking for a restaurant job. At one place, the owner asked him where he was from. Crimea, he said. Oh, you have a great man there, a hero, Mustafa Jemilev, the Turkish guy exclaimed. And Jemilev's son made a mistake of revealing his true identity to him - and didn't get the job as a result, because the restaurant's owner just couldn't allow himself to have a great man's son waiting tables at his place.
K-1 seems like a really nice channel, by the way. In addition to Mustafa Jemilev, a documentary about Georgia a few days ago, so interesting, with minimum politics (just enough of it, actually) and maximum Georgian culture, history, customs, etc.
I've just posted a set of 26 pictures from the Nov. 7 Communist rally here in Kyiv, across the street from where I live. I ran out for 20 minutes at the very end of the rally, when I saw them out of my window, laying flowers to Lenin's monument on Shevchenko Boulevard. Comparatively few of them, but many journalists and even more riot police (resembling some evil folks from Star Wars).
Mama told me I shouldn't advertise kommunyaki by posting their photos - and I replied that they weren't likely to get anything but negative publicity this way, with all those portraits of Stalin and shit like that. Funny, but a similar exchange took place at LJ user plushev's blog - only it was about the Russian March in Moscow (my translation is here). Sort of relevant for all those useless discussions of the Russian journalism that followed Politkovskaya's murder: journalists here are often expected to lead the masses, still, and to keep them from doing this, one should shut them up, period.
Friday, November 10, 2006
The season of angry phone calls to ZhEK (communal maintenance office or whatever it is) began this past Monday: there was no hot water all Sunday. Tepid, every now and then, but not warm enough to wash Marta.
So I called them to complain, not the first one from our building, but to the neighbors they kept saying the problem was with the taps in their apartments, nothing to blame ZhEK for. To me, the woman replied that their plumbers have already raised the water's temperature, so it should get better soon. It did.
At one point, she said she understood me because she was a tenant, too, and I had to explain that she was speaking to me not as a tenant, but as someone representing a company that received money from tenants and was supposed to make their lives comfortable using this money. I also told her that since we were about to start paying them three times the current monthly amount, they and the way they work would be receiving a lot more attention.
In last week's Korrespondent, there's a piece by Andrei Smirnov, Aleksandr Paskhover and Irina Solomko (RUS) on the new utilities tariffs. Below are a few notes:
- From Dec. 1, prices in Kyiv go up over three times; the raise is the first one in seven years.
- Mayor Chernovetsky's idea is to have "the rich pay for the poor."
- Those who paid 150 hryvnias a month ($30), will now have to pay about 500 hryvnias ($100). Those who managed to install water counters are saving about 100 hryvnias ($20) a month.
- Due to the price hike, Kyiv residents will pay 2 billion hryvnias ($400 million) more in 2007 - but will get back only 100,000 hryvnias ($20,000) worth in budget-funded social services. The rest is going to end up in the pockets of energy company owners.
- How they calculate utility tariffs (according to professor Mikhail Krasnyansky): "Imagine that you have come to a grocery story and they don't weigh sausage for you, but instead calculate its cost using integral tables."
- According to official reports, Ukraine uses about 17.5 billion cubic meters of gas for residential purposes a year. Poland (whose population is smaller than Ukraine's, about 40 million people, ) uses 4 billion cubic meters a year. Ukraine's figure is most likely not true, but since gas counters are rare, it's impossible to tell ho much gas we really consume. Some people are making huge money on this, of course.
- On the average, a Ukrainian family of four pays for 1,5 tons of water a day - which is something like 45 tons a month - which is impossible.
- Here's how much a family of three living in a two-room apartment (60 square meters) would be paying monthly when the new tariffs are introduced:
Donetsk - 464.28 hryvnias/$92.85
Odesa - 426.36 hryvnias/$85.27
Kharkiv - 424.71 hryvnias/$84.94
Kyiv - 423.33 hryvnias/$84.66
Dnipropetrovsk - 416.91 hryvnias/$83.38
Lviv - 254.34 hryvnias/$50.86
Simferopol - 155.49 hryvnias/$31.09
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Another friend's husband died of cancer yesterday. Their baby is due sometime in January.
Where should I begin.
Every night these past few days, I tried to post something, but kept getting interrupted. Marta's sleeping habits have changed yet again - she likes to wake up in the middle of the night and stay up for a few hours, playing and crawling around, and she screams every time I try to lull her back into sleep. It's all really exhausting, but I'm not complaining, I'm just stating the facts.
What's also exhausting is having to walk half an hour one way and half an hour back to reach the park during our daily walks - an hour every day spent slaloming between cars with a stroller, uphill much of the time. Okay, here I am complaining.
My mama helps me tremendously, and I've no idea how we're gonna survive without her when we move to Moscow.
Here's a photo of Marta on one of her after-midnight sprees...
Sunday, November 05, 2006
While LJ was down yesterday, here is what was taking place in Moscow: photos from the Russian March 2006 and the antifascist rally, by LJ user 50x50.
It's the most popular blog entry right now, according to Yandex Blog Search (an awesome resource, by the way).
Politicians featured include Kuryanovich, Rogozin and Belov. Also, it does look like an event where the media and the police outnumbered the protesters. I mean, celebrators, if there is such a word and if it fits the context.
This elderly woman with a portrait of Politkovskaya adores going to rallies: LJ user nl has a collection of her pics from various events, including pro-Lebanon and pro-Israel ones, and a story (RUS), here.
More photos here, at Sergelin.ru.
Still more photos and a report (RUS) here, by LJ user smitrich.
Photos from Vladivostok, by LJ user atrey.
Two videos on YouTube: a short one of a few guys throwing their hands up in a Nazi way, and a long one, of Belov screaming his speech, looking and sounding like a complete idiot, the way Hitler did.
The most comic thing about Russian nationalist politics now is how someone who changed his not-too-Russian last name Potkin for the totally acceptable Belov is attacking someone who used to be Aslambek Dudayev but is now quite conveniently Vladislav Surkov.
(I remember writing/translating about some of it last year, here.)
Saturday, November 04, 2006
A dear friend of mine has cancer - and this is all I can think of now, really. I didn't want to write about it here, but it's just too unbearable. Please pray/think positive thoughts his way.
LJ is back on, but I don't want to read about it now - half-literate crap, full of curses and hatred aimed in all directions: Putin is a Jew, Lenin is a Jew, Stalin is Georgian, Potkin-Belov (leader of DPNI) is a Jew, Surkov is a Chechen, et cetera. Funny how victims are always depicted as heartbreakingly miserable, while in reality all they seem to do is spit hatred.
I read that there was a fight here in Kyiv, too, between guys from the "Imperial March" and some Ukrainians who opposed it, right outside our building, but I didn't hear or see anything. During our walk, I saw riot police near Bohdan Khmelnytsky monument, but they were just standing there, trying not to pose for tourists' pictures too much.
How strange: I wanted to check what people are writing about the Russian March and the arrests, but I can't access anything on LiveJournal... Is it because everyone's trying to do the same thing and the traffic has become unbearable, or have they found a way to jam LJ?
Too tired, too busy to write.
Marta's all over the place all the time and it's too cold now to take her for those long walks...
Marta's fever was caused by roseola, by the way - thank you, guys, for letting me know about Calpol: they recommended it to my mama at the drugstore, too, and she bought it, and I gave it to Marta once and it worked. Marta's rash was barely noticeable - but enough to remind me of something I'd read on the web a day ago: this is how I figured it was roseola, not (just) the teeth. I didn't call a doctor...
Russian March in Moscow tomorrow, very curious how it would go, really hope no one's gonna get hurt.
Also tomorrow, one year since I left for Kyiv: feels like yesterday, but also very distant.
Here's a picture of Kyiv that's not really Kyiv to me. The new building isn't bad, but I think it totally doesn't belong there, on Lesya Ukrainka Boulevard. I think all those skyscrapers don't belong in Kyiv's center at all - why can't they build something like London's Canary Wharf away from the center?
And a year ago, Nov. 7, 2005:
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
I showed mama these two photos of a huge traffic jam in Moscow (RUS, by LJ user dolboeb), and she exclaimed, "Oh God, why would anyone need a car there!"
So I had to show her these three pictures of a rush hour down in the Moscow metro (by Two-Zero).
And then I read this text to her, by the organizers of the banned Russian March: they are now planning to gather a few thousand people at Komsomolskaya station (circle line), around 11 am, Saturday, November 4. Another reason to have a car in Moscow.