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Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Foxy Locks Extensions
I am so proud to be apart of this fabulous brand! All the items sold on Foxy Locks are made to my specifications and to the highest standard. You won't be able to find hair extensions like Foxy Locks anywhere else. Foxy Locks are one of the best quality and thickest on the market. I am so excited for things to come and new items to be released. Foxy Locks have been around since 2009 & are one of the first big brand clip in hair extensions - buy from the best! :)
I wear the Deluxe 165g set in colour 'Sandy Blonde Highlights'.
If you ever want to know anything about Foxy Locks just email through the website.
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yor hair luks stunnin in this pic hunReplyDelete
how im i guna recreate that lol !?!?!
youre so gorgeous! xReplyDelete
Can i ask ow did u get this gorjuss border round ur blog lol? i'm kindaa new to this xReplyDelete
Can i only buy these extensions if i live in the uk?ReplyDelete
No, you can buy them wherever in the world you are :DReplyDelete
i'm totally set on buying some foxy locks extensions but both my potential shades seem to be always out of stock :(ReplyDelete
how often does the website restock? x
hi im so excited about these extensions!!my hair is like a pretty dark brown and usually a no2 in the extensions i have at the min but not 2 sure wat colour 2 order from u do u think i should go 4 off black or dark brown? when are they back in stock, ordering soon as oh and wat thickness, cos i have quite thick hair as it is xxx Evelyn ireland. love the vids on you tube! great tips xReplyDelete
- Anonymous15 March 2010 at 19:44
i would like to buy number 6,12,13 on ur blog sale.
Name megan
Hey imogen :) im subscribed to your youtube channel, and I am actually a beauty guru on youtube myself. I must admit ive adored these extensions ever since i first saw your channel. I've read reviews on the foxylocks extensions and im very interested in purchasing. Although, every time i go to purchase them they seem to be out of stock :(.ReplyDelete
I was wondering if you have ever thought of doing promotions with other gurus on youtube in order to get the word out more about your company? If you're interested at all message me on my youtube account (cosmeticscharlotte72 ) and if not, no worries - i hope theyre in stock soon! :) x
same with naomi .. i am dying to buy these extensions before summer but my "darkest brown" color is always out of stock. I will be checking the website daily .. please restock soon!! <33ReplyDelete
hey, as the colour that matches my hair colour is currently out of stock, is it possible to dye these extensions? or can you tell me when they'll next come in stock? thankyou :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 March 2010 at 16:55
Im so in love with these extensions but everytime i check they are out of stockReplyDelete
im upset about these
i really want to buy dem =(
hi imogen just wondering when the website will be on stock again for the brown colours its always out of stockReplyDelete
Imogen please please please tell me when you will have the Deluxe 20" Clip In Chocolate Brown #4 extentions in stock!!! I have been trying to get them for months, but my my timing is always wrong!!!ReplyDelete
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oh my god my shade was in stock for about an hour then it was out of stock again.They are selling like crazy,Imogen I really want it:(ReplyDelete
plz can you tell me how can order an instant beehive?i try from foxy lock but i have problem with the nochex..can you help me?i m from greeceReplyDelete
ok so i realy wanna get your extentions,
they look awsome,
so im just wondering if i get them how long will it take them to arive to me..?
i live in US....
The only thing I can say is that you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life, please please give me your email, your name, something ... jajaj kiss from Colombia.ReplyDelete
The only thing I can say is that you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life, please please give me your email, your name, something ... jajaj kiss from Colombia.ReplyDelete
Hi, Imogen!ReplyDelete
First of all I have to say that you are very beautiful and must be very talented to do all this!
Second, I've watched sooo many reviews of Foxy Locks Extensions and my fingers are itching because I want to order straight away BUT I have to ask you one thing and hope that you might see my comment...
My hair is about two different shades of blonde and I'm not used to order extensions over internet because I feel that I don't really know if it's going to be the right color. Do you have any shops or tip of what I can do to see what color really would match mine?
Ps I live in the UK.
Love Lijah
you can answer on my blog http://unicornerymusic.devote.se
Hi, my name is Julia, I live in Brazil. First of all I want to apologize for my english.. :)ReplyDelete
Ok, I realy love love love your colour hair!! Could you tell me more about it. I have a darker blond hair and I want to become a bombshell as you! congratulations for your blog!
I love your tips!!
I love these extensions, they look great on you. Omg my hair has gotten so long that it looks like your hair with the extensionsReplyDelete
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i am from craotia,and i would like to order a hair,but i dont know how,please help meeeeeeeee!ReplyDelete
Hi Imogen,a question from a big fan:ReplyDelete
I ordered a set of hair extensions from you two days ago, I was wondering if they have been sent already...the reason i wonder is that i would love to order the fringe/bangs (and eyelashes) as well..and i wonder if it is possible to order them but that they could be sent in the same package so i don't have to pay the shipping cost twice ( i live in Sweden). Is it possible? ...thank you...
Check out my blog pleaseReplyDelete
Im followinng you everywhere and subbed on yotube ;)ReplyDelete
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Backcomb you hair or Use bumpits to make your hair BIG xXx
Well, I can honestly say I have turned into an extension addict! :) I just ordered my first set of Foxylocks and I am so excited!! I have so far made my own with the purchases from Sally's beauty supply. I have a shoe box full of different sets. My daughters love them as well and now love watching your youtube videos. "You're prettier than Barbie" is what they say! Lol.ReplyDelete
All your ideas and tips are wonderful. I hope to see more videos soon! <3
I can honestly say I am an extension addict! Lol. I have recently ordered my first set of Foxylocks after many weeks of research and comparison. I usually make my own from Sally Beauty Supply. I am excited to get my first set of Foxylocks!ReplyDelete
I love all your videos (and my girls too!) My daughters love watching you and say "You are prettier than Barbie, and you know how to do hair!!"
Keep up with the great vid's and the blogging!!
i do like your videos on all things hair, could you also do some make up related videos, that would be great, thanks.ReplyDelete
it may sound daft - but do you offer any easier payment plans...pay monthly or anything like that?ReplyDelete
I've tried a lot of different hair extensions before, and I mean A LOT :p But FoxyLocks are the best I've ever tried, and I now refuse to try any others:) amazing quality, and they last forever! Love love love:)ReplyDelete
Thank you imogen! xxxx
I'm from Holland and I really want to buy Clip In extensions, but I don't have a credit-card. Can anyone buy Clip In's for me, that I pay you back with paypall or something like that?
xxx Daphne
how can i orderr foxy locks extensions??ReplyDelete
Hey Imogen... You look so gawjuss on the picture where your hair is all to one side. How did you get your hair like that? And is that with the 160g set? xx Danielle xxReplyDelete
- Anonymous10 November 2011 at 14:19
I love my new extensions! Thanks Imogen xReplyDelete
First off I have to say I LOVE YOUR BLOGS AND YOUTUBE! you are gorgoues!! I have been trying to order these FoxyLocks for A LONG time! The site is always out of my color #4. Right now the site seems to be down, but is there somewhere else I can order this color?ReplyDelete
love love love your blogs..and your extensions are the only extensions that i will wear as my hair is super thick and they are just perfect for blending! check out my blog at http://michele-adams.blogspot.com/ thankyou xReplyDelete


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One of the main drivers is the 6.5GW of wind power generation that is nearing the end of its ten-year eligibility for the production tax credit (PTC), freeing up economic returns on the projects.
There has been a spate of pension funds and infrastructure investors buying up stakes in operating wind projects in recent months. The Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, for example, in January spent C$512 million ($500 million) of the C$176 billion in public and private pension and insurance money it manages to take a minority stake in a portfolio of 13 wind projects owned by Chicago-based Invenergy Wind.
In October, PensionDanmark made its first direct wind investment outside its home market for a 50% share of three US E.on projects totalling 433MW. A month later, Borealis Infrastructure, an investment division of Canadian pension firm OMERS, invested US$230 million for a 49% equity stake in a 599MW portfolio of four US wind farms owned by EDP Renovaveis.
"What's driving it? Steady returns," says Lloyd MacNeil, a partner at law firm Akin Gump. "That's really the key. Any long-term investor is looking for predictability and, if you're a pension fund, that's absolutely what you're looking for."
Predictable income
Wind projects with long-term power purchase agreements provide that stability. "You can see predictability of income stretching out ten years, 15 years or longer," MacNeil explains. The returns are very similar to what you can expect from equities with significantly less risk than navigating the ups and downs of the stock market, says Torben Moger Pedersen, CEO of PensionDanmark. They are also more attractive than government bonds, long a mainstay for pension investors, with ten-year US Treasury notes currently yielding around 2% and 30-year bonds in the 3% range.
Another factor driving interest in wind investments is the potential for future growth. "The projects will enable us to broaden our presence in a forward-looking sector," says Macky Tall senior vice-president of infrastructure for the Caisse, which has also invested close to C$100 million in Quebec developer Innergex Renewable Energy, provided C$25 million in debt financing to the 272MW Seigneurie de Beaupre wind farm in Quebec, and is reportedly considering buying a C$792-million stake in Dong Energy's London Array offshore wind farm in the UK.
Growing market
In the US at least, timing is a factor in the ownership shift. In the next year or so, says MacNeil, roughly 6.5GW of wind farms built a decade ago are going to come off the production tax credit (PTC), a $0.022/kWh incentive paid on the first ten years of a project's life. Many were financed using a complicated partnership flip structure that allocates nearly all the economic returns from the project to a tax-motivated equity player until that investor reaches its targeted return. At that point, majority ownership flips back to the developer.
It is also the point where pension and infrastructure funds, which are unable to use the PTC themselves and have no interest in foregoing cash payments until the tax equity is satisfied, are looking to step in.
"I think there is a very good market for these assets. I think it is probably headed upward," says MacNeil. "You're going to have a rolling, increasing number of megawatts that are coming off PTCs, and that will drive pension fund-type acquisitions for years."
There is also a large block of operating wind facilities in the US without the complexity of tax equity to discourage pension fund acquisitions. Projects built between 2009 and the end of last year had the option to take a cash grant equivalent to 30% of eligible project costs instead of the PTC.
"I don't think its is an accident that all this pension fund money and the cash grant programme happened over the last three or four years," says Ted Brandt, chief executive of Marathon Capital. "I think there was a lot of correlation."
Developers selling these assets are driven by a variety of factors. Rebalancing portfolios to focus on core markets is one, while raising cash to fund further project development is another. "Many of the merger-and-aqcuisition transactions we've seen over the past 12-18 months have largely been driven by the need to raise capital," says John Fouts, a managing director at financial-services firm Morgan Stanley.
Some of the private-equity players that put money into wind-development companies see it as a good time to monetise their investments. "You definitely see sales of projects in order to capitalise on the return requirements and recycle capital as these funds are required to do," says MacNeil.
He points to Terra-Gen Power, owned by investment firms ArcLight Capital Partners and Global Infrastructure Partners, which last year sold a 150MW piece of the Alta Wind project in California to Canada's Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, a publicly traded limited partnership with 5.3GW portfolio of operating renewable-energy projects in Canada, the US and Brazil.
"That was a case of one fund selling and one fund buying. The reason for that was the ArcLight people saw a return opportunity, or basically a liquidation event, and Brookfield saw an acquisition opportunity."
Another category of seller includes companies with European-based parents looking to shore up their balance sheets. "They've got their own issues at home they need to deal with, so they are selling assets here in North America," says Fouts. "My personal view is that we are going to see an acceleration of that."
Canadian influx
The money coming into the market from pension and infrastructure funds to date, he adds, has been largely Canadian. It is a definite trend, agrees MacNeil. "These investors are big players with lots of money and now that you've got parity between the two countries in their currencies, it's much, much more attractive to come down here."
In fact, given their size and the way they prefer to make their investments, one of the major challenges the market faces is scale. "The issue is they don't want to buy 50MW here or 100MW there," says Fouts. "They want to write cheques that are $500 million-plus and, frankly, morph into a much bigger capital position. There are not a tonne of portfolios out there like that."
Another challenge is that this new class of long-term owner has little tolerance for operations-and-maintenance costs that are beyond budget, says Jim Adams, president of renewable-energy consultancy Natural Power in North America. "Historically, I don't think it's a secret that the budget for plant operations in the US has been bare-bones." The new ownership structure is helping change that, he adds, pushing the industry to lock-in long-term costs through things such as full-service agreements with turbine vendors. "These investors really want to make sure there is minimal risk for plant operations and then budget for that."


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Cueto twirls second straight complete game vs. Bucs
PITTSBURGH -- As much as they tried, Pirates fans' efforts to get into Johnny Cueto's head proved futile. The taunts of "Cue-to, Cue-to," were meant to rattle the Reds' ace into repeating his faltering start in October's Wild Card Game that included Cueto accidentally dropping a ball while on the mound.
"Yes, I heard it. All I can do is just laugh," Cueto said via translator Tomas Vera. "That's their job, the fans doing that. It's part of the past."View Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- As much as they tried, Pirates fans' efforts to get into Johnny Cueto's head proved futile. The taunts of "Cue-to, Cue-to," were meant to rattle the Reds' ace into repeating his faltering start in October's Wild Card Game that included Cueto accidentally dropping a ball while on the mound.
"Yes, I heard it. All I can do is just laugh," Cueto said via translator Tomas Vera. "That's their job, the fans doing that. It's part of the past."View Full Game Coverage
Of course, there were far fewer fans in attendance this time in Cueto's return to PNC Park. And Pittsburgh's hitters were the ones flummoxed once again as Cueto buried them for the second time in a week with a complete-game gem and a 4-1 victory. The Reds, who have won five of their last seven games, evened the series with two games remaining.
Cueto walked three and struck out four, allowing three hits and only surrendered Andrew McCutchen's solo homer in the ninth, which snapped his career-high scoreless innings streak at 21 innings.
After he had a three-hit complete game shutout for a 4-0 win over the Pirates on Thursday at Great American Ball Park, Cueto became the first Reds pitcher with consecutive complete games since Mat Latos in 2012.
"It feels good when you throw good against the same team the way I did," Cueto said. "All of my pitches were down. Everything was down and everything was under control except for a few pitches I could not control."
Cueto notched 16 outs via the groundball.
"What we saw in Cincinnati was through the roof, as far as his command and stuff, combined," Pirates second baseman Neil Walker said. "Tonight, his stuff wasn't as good, but his command was still there, to both sides of the plate."
The Reds lineup provided Cueto with enough assistance with two seventh-inning runs against former teammate Edinson Volquez, who was more than up for the challenge of a pitcher's duel.
Volquez, who was Cueto's best friend on the Reds from 2008-11, gave up only the two runs and five hits over seven innings with one walk, a hit batter and three strikeouts.
"We're really good friends, but he has to do his job and I have to do mine," Cueto said. "Thank God I won that battle against him."
Volquez retired a stretch of 13 out of 15 before the Reds put something together in the top of the seventh. Jay Bruce and Todd Frazier started it with back-to-back singles. With one out, Brayan Pena laced an RBI hit into right field and attempted to leg out a double. After a slide that appeared to elude Jordy Mercer's tag, Pena was called safe at second base by umpire Mark Ripperger. Following a manager's challenge by Clint Hurdle, Pena was ruled out on the replay and credited with a single.
"The ball was close to the line. He had to make a good throw because I had momentum," said Pena, who also caught Cueto's previous start. "I was trying to get something going. They called me out. No disrespect to anybody, but I didn't feel his glove at all."
Zack Cozart's RBI double lined to left field off Volquez took some of the sting away from the replay for Cincinnati.
"We were in a little cat-and-mouse game there with the pitcher up, we had [Sean] Marshall in the bullpen and [Roger] Bernadina so we weren't sure if they would pitch to Zack," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "That's a real tough spot to be in. You know they can pitch you tough hitting in the eighth spot with the pitcher on deck or a pinch-hitter. Volquez did. He made some really good pitches to him. Zack hit one of those good pitches down the line for the double and it ended up being a huge impact play for us."
In the top of the eighth inning, the Reds notched three hits against reliever Tony Watson, including Bruce's RBI single to right field that scored Billy Hamilton for a three-run lead. Cueto's own RBI single with one out in the top of the ninth scored Pena to give him more breathing room.
After Travis Snider's one-out single to center field in the second inning, Cueto retired the next 13 in a row and 17 of 18. Mercer reached on a Frazier error to begin the Pittsburgh eighth but was erased when Jose Tabata grounded into a routine 4-6-3 double play.
"It was consistent with what he was doing all night, and that was getting ground balls," Price said. "It was absolutely huge because they were getting ready to turn that lineup over again and we got the double play. It really set things up nicely for the ninth."
Following McCutchen's homer with one out in the Pirates ninth, Cueto walked Russell Martin after having him in a 1-2 count. Price visited the mound as closer Jonathan Broxton warmed up. But Cueto finished the game by getting Ike Davis to fly out to left field.
During the game, Cueto became the first pitcher to log his first 1,000 career innings while pitching for the Reds since Tom Browning from 1984-89. Had he stayed scoreless, he would have been the first Cincinnati pitcher to throw consecutive complete game shutouts since Tom Seaver in 1977.
"Johnny has done some really great things for himself as a young pitcher in this league and he's still a young pitcher," Price said.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.


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Day 18 of the Advent has by far been the worst beer. I am always iffy on IPAs and after reading the intent of this beer on the Lagunitas Brewing website, I should have known instantly that I wasn't going to enjoy this beer.
Maybe IPA fan will love this but I hated it, and I don't hate beer. Even Diana appoligized for this one.
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Opeth, Mastodon + Ghost Officially Announce 2012 North American Tour
It was recently reported that Opeth, Mastodon and Ghost intended to join forces for one of the most anticipated North American tours of 2012. After a few weeks of suspense and a ton of buzz throughout the metal populace, the official tour dates have been announced.
The 'Heritage Hunter' tour will feature Opeth and Mastodon co-headlining throughout the cycle, with Ghost serving as distinguished openers for the dates. Iconic Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt said of the trek, "We're touring North America together with Mastodon soon. Nice! One of the very few metal bands of today that I genuinely like. Good people too! Ghost are coming with us as well, and they are one of the hottest new bands to come out of Sweden in recent years, and I dig them too. I sound like an old fart, don't I? Well, I am."
Åkerfeldt continued, "Yet, am I right in thinking that this tour, this line up, is pretty decent? Would you all agree? Not complete s---, is it? Hope to see y'all out there! What are we playing? Not sure yet, but considering the company, maybe we'll have to pull out the big guns from time to time. In order to keep up, I mean."
In their own collective statement, Mastodon added, "We're excited to co-headline this tour with Opeth for whom we have great respect and admiration. Having Ghost along, as well, will make this tour a special event."
The 'Heritage Hunter' tour is set to begin on April 4 in Portland, Maine, with Opeth and Mastodon taking turns closing the shows throughout the dates. See the itinerary below for tour dates and to find out which band will perform last at each gig.
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text: Docker and the MEAN stack 09 September 2015 david Code I have been reading the book: Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js and wanted a way to mess about with some examples on the various machines I use (since I'm frequently switching between Mac, Windows and Linux boxes). So I decided to try and Dockerify the process a bit. I wanted to build a Docker container that I could use on whatever platform I happened to be sitting in front of. I also wanted to be able to run Node and Mongo in a single container. I realise that outside the development environment you'd likely want to split them, but for some simple development I didn't want to have to start up multiple containers. Of course, when the container runs, I would want to check that it is working, so I also set about including a very simple MEAN stack application as a kind of "Hello, World!" example. But by using Docker Volumes it is easy to replace this default app with something on your local hard disk or perhaps with a Docker Data Volume Container which only needs to contain your app. So the simple default app just needs to prove that Node and Mongo are running. So my first question was how to go about running both Node.js and MongoDB in a single container, and the solution I have gone with is documented here. It adds a docker-friendly init system to the Ubuntu image. This means that when the container is shut down the init process will try to shut down other processes gracefully, rather than leaving them to be forcefully killed by the kernel. The init process will also reap any zombie processes which may accumulate. Having a suitable base image, I could then build my own container having specific versions of Node.js and MongoDB. Using specified versions means that I will have a stable set of binaries which will give repeatable behaviour during my development and testing. I don't want to waste time with version conflicts. Anyway, the result can be found here: https://github.com/davidsblog/node-mongo/blob/master/Dockerfile. I am still tinkering with it, but if you look at the Dockerfile you'll probably get the idea. Both the location of the Node app and the data directory for MongoDB are set up as volumes, so you can override them at runtime. The container then just becomes an engine based on a set of stable binaries, and you can just provide it with your own code and data. You can test it like this: docker run --rm -p 8080:8888 davidsblog/node-mongo ...and then point your browser to port 8080 of your container. You should see a simple app which allows you to post comments, where the comments are saved to MongoDB. But to switch out the default app to some of your own code you can do this (assuming you are in the directory where your server.js is located): docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/vol/node/start -p 8080:8888 davidsblog/node-mongo ...and you should now be running your own program (as long as it is called server.js and assuming it works on the same port). In the container, the Node.js code is run via Nodemon, which means that when you make changes, Nodemon will restart the app for you - no manual restarting. In the meantime, I can now mess about developing applications using the MEAN stack without installing everything on my local machine. Cool!


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A new craft beer store, Good Bottle Company, is opening soon on Remount Road, at the intersection with South Boulevard.
That's diagonally across the street from barbecue steadfast Mac's Speed Shop, and next door to Canine Cafe, in the same building. The store is planned to open in late summer, with bottles, cans, growlers and taps dedicated to craft beer.
Here's an article from Charlotte Beer with some more details, and an interview with Chris Hunt, of Asheville, one of the owners. The store will have about a dozen rotating taps, with two or three always given to beers from Charlotte breweries. Check out a short excerpt from the Q & A:
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Newspace Center for Photography: Lecture and Seminar
Wanted to make an announcement about an upcoming lecture and seminar I'll be doing in Portland at the Newspace Center for Photography. As many of you know, I do a fair number of talks, lectures, workshops and seminars. For me, these are the most important thing I do in my duties at Blurb. What I find these days is that about 90-95% of the people I speak with are familiar with the Blurb name. I would estimate that 80% of the people I speak with have used, tested or experimented with Blurb. But what I find most interesting is that very, very few people have REALLY explored what the platform can do, which is what makes these events so much fun for me. The number one response I get is "I would never thought of that." These events are far less about Blurb and far more about creativity, dealing with learned behavior, breaking new ground and applying critical thought to your work, your future and your publications. The future is NOW and the future for photographers, artists, designers, illustrators and creative types in general will be grand in ways we haven't even begun to understand.
And there's more.
I'm not alone on this little mission. I'm fortunate enough to be traveling and presenting with Darius Himes, a friend, mentor and industry expert who is well versed in everything from publishing to the complexities of the high-end gallery world, not to mention he is just a cool guy. I can say with complete honesty that every single time I meet with Darius I learn something I didn't know about photography, publishing or the art world. Our lecture and seminar is primarily focused on the book world, and to add to his resume, Darius is coauthor of the book "Publish Your Photography Book" with Mary Virginia Swanson.
This book is a nuts and bolts breakdown of the entire publishing process, front to back, start to finish, and covers both traditional publishing as well as the new world of print-on-demand and self-publishing.
If you have an interest in the photography world, book world, etc the this lecture/seminar combination should be right up your alley. We live in a rapidly changing world where traditional roadblocks have crumbled and fallen. The tools at our fingertips are better than ever, and the power we have as individual artists has never been greater, The truly global audience is now within reach. This event will be an interactive, collaborative event where participants are encouraged to get involved and add to the dialogue. If you find yourself in Portland please come by, or if you know anyone who would be interested in the program then please share the link. For those of you already signed up, we'll see you soon.


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|An heirloom recipe, Million Dollar Relish is a sweet pickle relish made from cucumbers, onion and sweet red and green bell peppers.
Million Dollar RelishA couple of years back, Mary Fonville, a reader from our Facebook page, shared her personal recipe for Million Dollar Relish, an heirloom recipe for a sweet pickle relish that she's been personally making for more than 40 years.
I'm not sure of the history of this recipe, where the name comes from, or really, what sets Million Dollar Relish apart from any other regular sweet pickle relish, except that many of the Million Dollar recipes are extremely heavy on turmeric. Some cover the vegetable mixture with iced water to soak, some hot water, some, no water at all. Some recipes add carrots and some are also very heavy in sweet peppers. I guess like anything else, there are as many recipes for this relish as there are cooks.
A lot of folks run the vegetables through a food processor or meat grinder for relish, but I like more of a cubed style pickle relish and wanted more texture in mine, so I hand chop instead of grinding them.
I'm a big fan of hot dogs, always have been, always will be, and sweet pickle relish is a pretty standard condiment for me. Besides the classic hot dog, use this relish in potato salad, ham, tuna and chicken salads, on burgers or sandwiches, wherever you happen to like pickles. It's delicious!
As always, with all canning recipes that you find here on my site, I have to add my caveat. Before proceeding with any recipe for canning or preserving on Deep South Dish, I advise you to always consult a professional canning resource for complete details on how to safely can foods, from start to finish, to make them pantry stable.
Here's how to make it.
First things first, you need to peel and seed the cucumbers before chopping them. I just use regular, garden variety cucumbers. You need 2 quarts diced.
Use a spoon to scoop out all of the seeds.
In a large glass or plastic bowl, mix together the chopped cucumbers, onion and peppers. Toss to mix well, add 2 tablespoons of salt - I just used kosher salt - then stir, cover and refrigerate; let stand at least 6 hours or overnight, stirring occasionally, if possible. Drain well, stirring occasionally to release as much liquid as possible, but do not rinse.
In a large pot, mix together the vinegar (white or cider), sugar, garlic, mustard seed, celery seed, and turmeric. Bring to a boil, stirring regularly until sugar is dissolved. Add in the drained vegetables and red pepper flakes, if using, return to a boil, reduce to medium and simmer for 30 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer relish into sterilized jars and top off with syrup. Seal, refrigerate, or process for canning.
Recipe: Million Dollar Sweet Pickle Relish©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 30 min | Yield: About 6 half pints
For the Relish:
For the Syrup:
- 8 large cucumbers, peeled, seeded and diced (about 2 quarts diced)
- 2 cups of chopped onion
- 3 green bell peppers, chopped
- 3 red bell peppers, chopped
- 1 large can of pimento, drained and chopped, optional
- 2 tablespoons of kosher salt
- 1 quart of white or cider vinegar
- 4 cups of granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons of finely minced garlic
- 2 tablespoons of mustard seed
- 2 tablespoons of celery seed
- 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flakes, or to taste, optional
In a large glass or plastic bowl, mix together the cucumbers, onion and peppers; toss to mix well. Add salt, stir, cover and refrigerate; let stand 6 hours or overnight, stirring occasionally. Drain well, but do not rinse.
In a large pot, mix together the vinegar, sugar, garlic, mustard seed, celery seed, and turmeric. Bring to a boil, stirring regularly until sugar is dissolved. Add in the drained vegetables and red pepper flakes, if using, return to a boil, reduce to medium and simmer for 30 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer relish into sterilized jars and top off with syrup. Seal, refrigerate, or process for canning.
To Process for Canning: Sterilize jar and lids. Prepare a hot water bath. Pack hot pickles and liquid into hot jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Add Pickle Crisp to each jar if desired. Remove air bubbles. Add lids and rings and process for 15 minutes in a boiling-water canner.
Cook's Notes: I am not a professional canning expert. Please consult a professional canning resource for details on water bath canning before attempting to home can.
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CARROLLTON, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball team (23-15) won at the University of West Georgia (19-17) 10-7 Wednesday night in non-conference action.
GC jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead after two frames and never looked back.
The Bobcats ripped three doubles among their 14 hits, designated hitter Cody Maas (Alpharetta, Ga.) tagging one as part of his 2-for-5 effort, driving in two. Second baseman Jeremy Donaldson (Winder, Ga.) was 3-for-5 with three RBI.
Third baseman Travis Echols (Suwanee, Ga.) was 2-for-5 with three runs and one driven in, while shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) had a 2-for-5 day as well, plating one and scoring twice. Rightfielder Bryce Williams (Manhattan, Kan.) was 2-for-4 on the day.
Lefty starter Matt Kaplan (Alpharetta, Ga.) went a solid four innings, allowing one run with just three hits. Righty Derek McGowan (Raytown, Mo.) got the win, tossing the seventh and eighth innings scoreless with one hit, improving to 4-4.
Wolf starter Alex Wilson (2-2) took the loss as he couldn't escape the five-run second inning. West Georgia third baseman Andy Marinelli hit 3-for-4 and drove in four.
The Bobcats are back in action Saturday, April 14 at 1 p.m. traveling to Augusta State University for doubleheader action.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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On October 30th, 2007, I launched my blog, GregsRamblings.com. At the time, I needed something quick and simple so I went with WordPress.com, a very popular wordpress hosting site. You can have a blog up and running in under 5 minutes. Although WordPress.com has served me well, I've had a few frustrations along the way such as restricting me from using any JavaScript, Flash, iFrames, etc. I've also felt limited by the relatively small collection of available themes.
Today, I re-launched GregsRamblings.com on it's own virtual server, an Amazon EC2 instance. The experience of moving from WordPress.com to my own self-hosted site had a few challenges, so I thought I would describe the steps involved for anyone else looking to make a similar move.
Why Amazon EC2?
There are a lot of great hosting companies that can be used to host a WordPress blog, but for me, having a virtual server made the most sense. I wanted 100% control over the server. Amazon recently announced a new micro-instance for about 2 cents per hour (about $15/month). I recently blogged about my initiation into the world of EC2 and the new micro-instance here.
Scalability – being prepared for an explosion of traffic
Although my blog does ok on traffic, I don't really worry too much about overloading my server… but, it's nice knowing that if some major news organization mentioned one of my blog posts, I could scale up my infrastructure with a few clicks of the mouse. Let's imagine that I'm about to get millions of hits. Amazon EC2 provides several options for scaling:
- I could move from my micro-instance to one of the many larger instances and associate my assigned "elastic ip" to the new instance. This would give me more CPU and faster I/O.
- I could also fire up some clones of my existing instance and use Amazon's Elastic Load Balancing feature to distribute traffic across the instances. I like this model because it's linearly scalable and easy to tear down after the excitement dies down.
- It's also worth noting that Amazon has a Auto Scaling service that can automatically scale your capacity up and down depending on conditions that you define. This is way overkill for my blog, but it's a cool feature.
Setting up my Amazon EC2 instance
I have a micro-instance created from an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) from Alestic.com, the home for Ubuntu AMIs. I prefer the Ubuntu flavor of Linux mostly because I'm familiar with it. I installed MySQL, PHP, Apache, ntp and other packages using Ubuntu's apt-get. Here's the install command – sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5-cli libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql unzip zip ntp
I also enabled the following Apache mods — rewrite (required for permalinks to work), headers and expires (required for the WordPress caching plugin).
Setting up WordPress
I then installed WordPress using the installer at http://wordpress.org. The install process was amazingly simple. It prompts you for a few settings (database location, user, passwd, blog name, etc.) and then you're good to go.
The hardest part of this whole experience was choosing a theme! There are literally thousands of amazing themes to choose from. Here are a few sites that I found to have some good choices:
There are many other sites offering great themes so you could spend several days browsing. I was looking for a theme with a clean and simple look free of bells and whistles. I finally settled on the Mortar theme from WooThemes. WooThemes and several of the other sites offer a free sandbox to test drive the theme. I spent a couple of hours taking advantage of this to confirm that the theme offered all of the features I required.
One of the first things I noticed when I went to the administrative pages of my new WordPress installation was that many of the menu options I was accustom to were missing! This is because WordPress.com had many installed plugins. This led me on a plugin chase! Below are the plugins I installed:
- Akismet – protects your blog from spam comments. Don't skip this one!
- Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog. I could have easily added the code myself, but the plugin guarantees that it's in all of the necessary places which saves me from some work.
- Google XML Sitemaps – auto-generates a sitemap.xml (and sitemap.xml.gz) for your entire blog and updates it every time a post is published.
- Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
- SyntaxHighlighter Evolved – provides syntax highlighting of source code. Lots of great features.
- WordPress.com stats – Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key (free). This will give you the same stats screen that you have on WordPress.com.
- WordPress Database Backups – On-demand backup of your WordPress database. You could easily do a mysqldump, but this makes backups a mouse-click away while in the admin console. You can also schedule hourly, weekly, etc. backups.
- WordPress Importer – You'll need this if you plan to import data from another blog.
- wp-Table – This plugin is a simple table manager with buttons for adding new rows, columns, etc. A good time-saver
- WP Super Cache – If your blog gets any decent activity, you'll want this. It generates HTML files that are served directly by Apache without processing PHP scripts. I've read multiple accounts of people's blogs getting unresponsive after being mentioned on Techmeme, Techcrunch, etc. This plugin will dramatically increase the amount of traffic your blog can handle.
Moving from WordPress.com to my new server
Moving the data (posts, pages, users, tags, etc.)
This part was simple. I used the WordPress export feature to generate an XML file that contains all of my stuff. I then logged into my new server and imported the file (requires the WordPress Importer plugin mentioned above). NOTE: If your new blog is going to have a different URL than your old blog, you should do a search and replace on the XML file before importing it. Otherwise, you'll have to do some database surgery (see below).
Hostname and DNS challenges
I had a custom domain on WordPress.com (GregsRamblings.com). Obviously I wanted to have my new blog up and running before I turned off the old blog, so I needed to have it running in two different places simultaneously. WordPress uses full URLs for everything in the database so all of my images, posts, etc., were stored as "http://gregsramblings.com/….". For me to test anything, I would need to make the server think that it was gregsramblings.com and I also needed to make my laptop computer think that gregsramblings.com points to my new server. In order to do this, I added a new entry to the /etc/hosts file on both the server and my laptop (if you are on Windows, you'll need to add an entry to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). Now I was able to finish customizing and testing.
My domain, gregsramblings.com, was originally registered with WordPress.com. In retrospect, I should have registered it with my own chosen domain provider such as 1and1.com, register.com, godaddy.com, etc. so I would have full control over the ip address mapping. Wordpress's nameserver management system does allow you to add new hosts but it does not allow you to change the main "A" record that points the domain to a specific IP address. WordPress does allow you to change nameservers so you can at least let another nameserver handle your mappings. I chose to move the domain to 1and1.com which surprisingly only took 48 hours from start to finish.
Here is a summary of the steps I took to move the domain:
- Logged into WordPress.com and went to the domain management screen and unlocked the domain. Unlocking the domain allows it to be transfered away. Make a note of the authorization code (needed in next step)
- Logged into 1and1 and initiated the transfer of the domain and entered the authorization code received in the prior step
- Once the domain showed up on the 1and1 console, I immediately mapped gregsramblings.com to my new IP address.
- Logged back into WordPress.com and changed the nameservers to 1and1.com's nameservers (in my case it was ns51.1and1.com and ns52.1and1.com)
- At this point, both the old domain provider and new domain provider were using the 1and1 nameservers. (note – it takes a few hours before things start taking effect)
- I later received an email instructing me to login to workpress.com and approve the transfer. At this point, no other changes to the domain are allowed on wordpress.com because the transfer has been initiated.
Wrapping up
The rest of the work was tweaking css, php and configuring plugins. As I was going through most of my posts, I found a few problems that were easily resolved:
- There were several posts with embedded videos. WordPress.com does not allow any <embed> tags so you have to use their video plugin syntax. I spent a few minutes trying to find the same video plugins, but quickly realized that it was easier to just replace the tag with an actual embed tag. I prefer to use the direct embed tags anyways.
- When I first started my blog, it was referenced as gregorywilson.wordpress.com, so several of my older posts pointed to URLs with the wrong hostname. I used the following SQL to correct this (gotta love the REPLACE function in MySQL!):
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,"http://gregorywilson.wordpress.com","http://gregsramblings.com");
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid,"http://http://gregorywilson.wordpress.com","http://gregsramblings.com");
- For some reason, some of the source code used in my blog posts got encoded so "<mx:Button/>" turned into "<mx:Button/>". I never figured out why some posts had this issue but others did not but I was able to fix it with the following SQL (I did this on a post by post basis to be safe):
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,"<","<") where ID = 185;
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,">",">") where ID = 185;
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,""",'\"') where ID = 185;
- I realized a few hours after going live that my server was not setup to handle outbound email, so I was not getting notifications on comments, etc. For basic SMTP email, I prefer postfix. I installed with: sudo apt-get install postfix — It's very important that your server block external access to the SMTP port (port 25). Amazon EC2 blocks everything by default, so it will only be allowed if you specifically allow it.
- I've considered adding one of several plugins/themes that provide a light-weight version of the blog to mobile devices, but from my own experiments, the current theme works really well as-is.
One final note – WordPress is also great for non-blog websites and there are of course themes available for about any type of site. I recently upgraded my local airport's website from this basic HTML site to this Wordpress site. The new site is using the "destination" theme from Templatic. This is a great example of how to use a good designer!


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You can connect an external audio source that is operated on the source itself rather than on the PCM to the AUX interface of the PCM.
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Calling up the main menu for the external source
In order that a connected external audio source can be selected by the button, the interface in the SET menu must be activated.
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WASHINGTON - In a vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around the world, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation's financial system, leaving both parties and the Bush administration struggling to pick up the pieces. The Dow Jones industrials plunged nearly 800 points, the most ever for a single day.
"We need to put something back together that works," a grim-faced Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said after he and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke joined in an emergency strategy session at the White House. On Capitol Hill, Democratic leaders said the House would reconvene Thursday in hopes of a quick vote on a reworked version.
All sides agreed the bill could not be abandoned.
On Monday, not enough lawmakers were willing to take the political risk - just five weeks before the elections - of backing a deeply unpopular measure that many voters see as an undeserved bailout for Wall Street.
The bill went down, 228-205, even though Paulson and congressional leaders proclaimed a day earlier that they had worked out an acceptable compromise in marathon weekend talks.
Lawmakers were caught in the middle. On one side were the dire predictions from Bush, his economic team, and their own party leaders of an all-out financial meltdown if they failed to approve the rescue. On the other side: a flood of protest calls and e-mails from voters threatening to punish them at the ballot box.
The House Web site was overwhelmed as millions of people sought information about the measure.
The legislation the administration promoted would have allowed the government to buy bad mortgages and other sour assets held by troubled banks and other financial institutions. Getting those debts off their books should bolster those companies' balance sheets, making them more inclined to lend and easing one of the biggest choke points in a national credit crisis. If the plan worked, the thinking went, it would help lift a major weight off the national economy, which is already sputtering.
Stocks started plummeting on Wall Street even before Monday's vote was over, as traders watched the rescue measure going down on television. Meanwhile, lawmakers were watching them back.
As a digital screen in the House chamber recorded a cascade of "no" votes against the bailout, Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley of New York shouted news of the falling Dow Jones industrials. "Six hundred points!" he yelled, jabbing his thumb downward.
The final stock carnage was 777 points, far surpassing the 684-point drop on the first trading day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
In the House, "no" votes came from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. More than two-thirds of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats opposed the bill. Several Democrats in close election fights waited until the last moment, then went against the bill as it became clear the vast majority of Republicans were opposing it. Most vulnerable Republicans refused to back the bill.
In all, 65 Republicans joined 140 Democrats in voting "yes," while 133 Republicans and 95 Democrats voted "no."
The overriding question was what to do next.
"The legislation may have failed; the crisis is still with us," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a news conference after the defeat. "What happened today cannot stand."
Republican leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he and other Republicans were pained to vote for such measure, but he agreed that in light of the potential consequences for the economy and all Americans, "I think that we need to renew our efforts to find a solution that Congress can support."
Those positive comments aside, a brutal round of partisan finger-pointing followed the vote.
Republicans blamed Pelosi's scathing speech near the close of the debate - which assailed Bush's economic policies and a "right-wing ideology of anything goes, no supervision, no discipline, no regulation" of financial markets - for the defeat.
"We could have gotten there today had it not been for the partisan speech that the speaker gave on the floor of the House," Boehner said.
Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the whip, estimated that Pelosi's speech changed the minds of a dozen Republicans who might otherwise have supported the plan.
That amounted to an appalling accusation by Republicans against Republicans, said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the Financial Services Committee: "Because somebody hurt their feelings, they decide to punish the country."
More than a repudiation of Democrats, Frank said, Republicans' refusal to vote for the bailout was a rejection of their own president.
The two men campaigning to replace Bush watched the situation closely - from afar - and demanded action.
In Iowa, Republican John McCain declared, "Now is not the time to fix the blame; it's time to fix the problem."
In Colorado, Democrat Barack Obama said, "Democrats, Republicans, step up to the plate, get it done."
"We're all worried about losing our jobs," Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., declared in an impassioned speech in support of the bill before the vote. "Most of us say, 'I want this thing to pass, but I want you to vote for it - not me.' "
With their dire warnings of impending economic doom and their sweeping request for unprecedented sums of money and authority to bail out cash-starved financial firms, Bush and his economic chiefs had focused the attention of world markets on Congress, Ryan added.
"We're in this moment, and if we fail to do the right thing, Heaven help us," he said.


text: Nepal After the Coup KATHMANDU, NepalIn the three months since King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev executed an audacious royal coup, his forces have dismantled much of the country's once-thriving independent news media. Dozens of journalists have been arrested and detained, their patriotism questioned and their safety threatened. Blank pages in magazines and newspapers reflected sweeping bans on news reporting, and the censors' insidious hand continues to suppress coverage every day in less obvious ways. The king's forces and the civilian administration have moved now to coercive financial tactics, cutting off government advertising revenue and using the state's regulatory muscle to pressure the country's largest news outlet. By one estimate, as many as 2,000 journalists have lost their jobs nationwide. The government has utterly shut down news reporting on FM radio, a primary source of information in Nepal, especially in rural and remote areas of the countryside. FM was a flourishing news venue until just weeks ago, offering news in many languages, helping build a national identity, and fostering debate on vital issues. Now, an estimated 1,200 FM radio journalists are idle, and music has replaced the news bulletins and community discussion programs that made FM popular. Many nations have spoken out against the king's breathtaking grab at power, forcing the regime to accept the deployment of United Nations monitors to document human rights and press abuses. Nepal's 14-year-old democracy has indeed been deeply troubled--beset by a bloody and protracted conflict with Maoist rebels--but it did foster the creation of a robust independent news media (see "A young, vibrant media"). A number of these independent journalists in Nepal are now risking their lives and security, challenging the government and pushing restrictive boundaries. Yet, as each day ticks by, the government moves ever closer to a state-controlled press. "The censorship, the self-censorship, and the intimidation, and the demoralization are massive," said Kanak Dixit, publisher of the Nepali-language Himal Khabarpatrika. The Committee to Protect Journalists met with dozens of journalists, activists, and publishers in April to assemble this alarming portrait of Nepalese press conditions. Palace representatives did not respond to CPJ's request to meet with King Gyanendra to discuss the crisis. Tanka Dakhal, Nepal's Minister for Information and Communications, did not respond to a series of requests from CPJ seeking a meeting. Brig. Gen. Dipak Gurung, a spokesman for the Royal Nepal Army, spoke with CPJ by telephone. Gurung said he would address complaints involving army harassment of the press that were referred to him by CPJ. Just before 10:30 a.m. on February 1, 2005, King Gyanendra went on radio and television to announce the dismissal of the government and the imposition of a state of emergency. Fundamental rights--including freedom of speech and freedom of the press--were suspended indefinitely. The measures were necessary, the king said, to allow the security forces a freer hand against Maoist rebels who now control up to three quarters of the rural districts of Nepal and wield great influence over much of the rest of the country. In his speech, the king offered reassurance that free expression is among "the inherent features of multiparty democracy" and that the press "serves as the medium for raising the level of democratic consciousness." But the actions of the king's forces were at odds with his lofty rhetoric. Before the king's address even began, the Royal Nepal Army was deployed to enforce the newly imposed restrictions on the media. Armed soldiers went to newspapers and radio stations with instructions to prevent publication or broadcast of anything that violated "the letter or spirit" of the royal proclamation. Narayan Wagle, editor of the country's largest circulation Nepali-language newspaper, Kantipur, arrived at work to find the building surrounded and the newsroom occupied by soldiers. "There were 40 or 50 of them," Wagle said, "all in uniform, all armed and spread out as if in battle order. We had men with M-16 rifles in our newsroom, officers going through the news pages and telling us what to write. They were polite enough, but every time you turned around there was a soldier with a gun." The scene was repeated in newsrooms across Kathmandu, but special attention was paid to the capital's FM radio stations, all of which had been ordered in advance to broadcast the speech. As the king's proclamation was being relayed, soldiers arrived to enforce those royal orders. "I looked out of my window, and three army jeeps were parked in front of our building," said Gopal Guragain, founder of the FM news and current affairs network, Communications Corner, which supplies programs to 14 stations across the country and operates one of its own. "Soldiers went to our station, Nepal FM. They came into the newsrooms and demanded that we close down, stop broadcasting. We told them we were putting out the king's speech and nothing else, and after it was over, we'd run clips as our only news item. They agreed, but stayed there with their guns. It was extremely frightening." Similar situations were reported at Radio Sagarmatha, City FM, Star FM, Radio Metro, Kantipur FM, and other stations in Kathmandu. Outside of the capital, the king's forces used different approaches. In some areas, newspapers were ordered to stop publication and given no indication when they might be allowed to resume. The military closed some radio stations for a few days, while forcing others to play only music or clips of the king's speech. Announcers were told not to open their microphones--not to identify songs, not even to give the time of day. State-run Radio Nepal dropped BBC's Nepali-language news service entirely, and briefly stopped broadcasting BBC World Service's English-language reports. When it resumed the BBC World Service broadcasts, it replaced the first 15 minutes of each hour with patriotic music. Items about Nepal in the news headlines or opening sequences of the program were effectively preempted. In the aftermath of the king's proclamation, cable television companies discontinued international news channels from India, Britain, and the United States, although it's not clear whether the owners pulled the plug as a precaution or did so on government orders. For much of the day on February 1, there was no BBC World, no CNN, and no Star or Zee TV news from India. The remaining television stations offered soap operas and pop videos, leaving the nation without access to independent news immediately after the king's dramatic announcement. In the coming days, most television stations were restored to cable networks, but a few Indian channels--blamed in the past for sensationalist reporting on events in Nepal--were still not available by mid-April. The February 1 restrictions went beyond the media. The king's speech had barely finished when all telephone lines in Nepal were blocked and the national cell phone network was switched off. People who had just heard the monarch proclaim his takeover reached for a phone to check on loved ones or to discuss what had happened--only to find that all lines were dead. All six of the country's Internet service providers were shut down by the army, blocking local access to the Internet and preventing the updating of Nepal-based news Web sites. "It was chilling," said the Nepalese author Manjushree Thapa, now living in exile in Delhi. "We didn't believe what we'd heard. We hoped it wasn't true, and when we tried to make calls to find out the truth, we heard dial tones or just silence. There was nothing on TV or radio, nothing on the Web. That's when panic set in." The developments of the next few days did little to alleviate that fear. Soldiers stayed in newsrooms and radio stations for up to a week. A government directive from the Ministry of Communications and Information (see "Nothing against the 'letter and spirit' ") was issued on February 3 to put the actions of the king and the security forces on some sort of legal footing. Provisions allowing for censorship and restrictions on reporting under an existing law--the Print and Publications Act (PPA), passed by an elected government in 1991 (see "Invoking powers to suppress")--were invoked. In addition to press restrictions allowed under the PPA, the February 3 directive enacted a six-month ban on "any interview, article, news, notice, view or personal opinion that goes against the letter and spirit of the royal proclamation." Journalists were forbidden to "encourage terrorism" or report anything that "undermined the morale of the security forces," the February 3 directive said. Some regional government officials went further, spelling out in detail what was banned and what was not. The District Administration Office in the midwestern city of Nepalgunj issued its own 12-point order (see "One region's list of dos and don'ts") that said, among other things: "Losses on the Maoist side during security operations may be published, but incidental loss of civilian lives cannot be published beyond what is mentioned in the statement issued by the government spokesman." In newsrooms, where armed soldiers were still stationed or at least making frequent calls to demand changes in stories, censors interpreted the orders broadly. At Himal Khabarpatrika, the most widely read Nepali-language news magazine, several army officers pored over the first post-coup edition and made many changes. When the magazine went on sale, there were white spaces with no text in almost every story about the takeover. The magazine's editor, Rajendra Dahal, said the censors' targets included comments made by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Richard Boucher of the U.S. State Department, and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. "They didn't really know how to deal with such things," said Dahal, referring to the army major and two junior officers who were sitting in his office reviewing dummy pages for the upcoming issue. "They panicked and pulled everything so we had to leave blank spaces, even in profiles of the new cabinet ministers that were studiously neutral." By then, small acts of defiance were taking place. Yubaraj Ghimire, a high-profile editor at the weekly magazine, Samay, refused to censor international reaction. "Do you want me to blank out Kofi Annan?" he demanded of his army censors. Ghimire went even further in the second week after the coup. "I told the army that I wanted specific instructions in writing on what to carry and what not to print--none of this 'letter and spirit' business. I wanted to see Kofi Annan or some other international figure's name in a government directive as a banned commentator on Nepal. I didn't get [written orders], so I just printed my paper and wrote everything--cautious criticism, but criticism nonetheless." Other Nepali-language editors tried different methods of defying the restrictions imposed by the government. Soon after the Information Ministry orders were issued, five newspapers appeared with blank editorial pages; one of them, Sanghu, noted that journalism in Nepal was "in the intensive care unit and needed to be revived." That act didn't sit well with the authorities in Kathmandu and all five editors were summoned to the office of the senior civil servant in the city, the chief district officer. There, they were told not to publish blank pages or spaces and threatened with arrest or worse if they failed to heed the order. At this point, threats were being sent to all newspaper editors in Kathmandu. Kantipur's Wagle and Prateek Pradhan, editor of the sister publication, The Kathmandu Post, were summoned to a meeting with Yogeshwor Karki, the Royal Palace press secretary. Wagle said he was unable to attend the meeting, and Pradhan went alone. Later, when the phone rang on Wagle's desk, the voice of the press secretary came on the line, informing him "this is a historic moment." As Wagle took notes, Karki made his point clear: "He said if I didn't cooperate in this historic moment, then the security forces could make me disappear for a few hours." Comments like that, Wagle said, explain why self-censorship became so widespread among journalists long after the soldiers had left newsrooms. If anything, it was worse at the FM radio stations of the capital. Radio Sagarmatha had soldiers posted inside and around the station for eight days. So did several other FM outlets that specialized in news and information. Nothing but music was broadcast for the first week so the soldiers had little to do. At 5 a.m. on February 2, Monica Upadhyay, a 23-year-old reporter and news anchor at Kantipur FM, arrived at work and was accosted by four armed soldiers who appeared from the shadows. "It was so scary," she said. "I left after my morning shift on February 1 with no soldiers in the station. Like everyone else, we'd been broadcasting only clips of the king's speech in our regular news slots. The next morning, to see them and their guns come out of the darkness like assassins was too much." Overt censorship eased after the first week, and soldiers were withdrawn from many media outlets in the capital and elsewhere. But harassment by telephone and other means continued; editors said they received calls almost daily about coverage. "After that week," said the Kathmandu Post's Pradhan, "they didn't need to have the soldiers telling us what to do. We were censoring ourselves in fear for our jobs, and in some cases, our lives." Economic pressures are weighing on journalists now. Upadhyay and 13 colleagues--most of Kantipur FM's news staff--were laid off in early March. Station managers had kept them on for several weeks, hoping for a relaxation of the rules that never came. Up to 2,000 reporters, editors, and other news people have lost their jobs since February 1, the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, or FNJ, reported in April. An even larger number are working without pay or for a fraction of their former wages due to falling advertising revenues. It could get worse. In late March, the Nepali-language newspaper Jana Aastha published a directive from the Information Ministry that stated government advertising would be placed only in state-owned publications. Government advertising accounts for 25 percent of the media's revenue nationwide, according to local journalists, so the move could drive some publications out of business and leave more journalists jobless. "The biggest risk is that an entire sector--independent media--will be destroyed," FNJ President Taranath Dahal said. "The people who now run our country have long been against private newspapers, information they can't control. So they're setting out to destroy us by saying we're helping terrorism or corruption or whatever. It's simply not true." Private advertising has also dwindled since February 1, according to editors and publishers. Most periodicals carry far fewer pages and some, like The Kathmandu Post, have had to drop entire sections devoted to sports, culture or special events. "We're down to our lowest level of advertising in years," said Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times, an English-language weekly that has regularly turned a profit while adding pages, color, and content. "The big Indian multinationals don't like the economic climate since February 1," Dixit said. "It's affecting all of us." Several advertisers have told publishers that they've been instructed not to buy space or time in certain outlets. Kathmandu's business sector is small and closely linked by ties of class and family background. It's easy to send such messages through social encounters and thinly disguised gossip. "Take Kantipur for example," said a media analyst who asked that his name not be used. "That paper has long been a thorn in the side of the army, the civil service, even the monarchy. There are active steps being taken to deny them access to advertising--successful steps. It's working." Officials of parent company Kantipur Publications will not say explicitly that the regime is systematically working to cut its revenue. But they do cite one government action that threatens a major company undertaking. As the country's largest media company, Kantipur set up a television station in 2003, hiring several hundred technicians, producers, and journalists. The first license from the government allowed only broadcasts in the vicinity of Kathmandu. Last year, the company obtained permission to link its signal to a satellite, making it widely available in Nepal and around the world. Equipment was purchased and installed this year at a cost of about US $50 million. Then, in late February, a letter arrived from the Ministry of Communications and Information. "It was signed by a junior ministry official," said Kailash Sirohya, managing director of the Kantipur group, "and in three or four sentences it said that our license to uplink had been revoked. No explanation, no reason given, nothing. And no one at the ministry responds to our requests for more information." For Sirohya and his partner, Binod Raj Gyawali, the message couldn't be clearer. They believe the government is telling them to rein in their reporters if they don't want to lose their huge investment in satellite technology. "If it comes to it, we'll close the TV station," Sirohya said. "That'll cut our losses without compromising our independence, but it would be a tragedy for journalism and broadcasting in this country." Kathmandu dominates Nepal--economically, politically and culturally. Attempts have been made to move power to other parts of the country, but these have been rendered meaningless by the growing might of the Maoist rebel insurgency outside the capital. For several years now, the security forces and the civil government have been confined to large towns and district capitals, leaving the countryside and smaller communities to Maoist control. Frequent clashes between the two sides have left more than 11,000 dead since the uprising began in 1996. Despite British, U.S., and Indian support of the security forces, observers say the government has either lost ground to the rebels or, at best, kept the conflict at a stalemate. But journalism has flourished in towns beyond Kathmandu. Independent reporters work alongside employees of the government news agency and radio services in most areas of the country. Thousands of small newspapers are published at the regional, district, and village levels. Reporters for these publications show courage just by being in their posts--often caught between the security forces and the Maoists. With both sides accused of human rights abuses, the combatants have reason to object to balanced reporting about the conflict. In the past, the rebels have kidnapped and summarily executed journalists, accusing them of being spies. The security forces are suspicious of reporters' contacts with the Maoists and try to coerce information about rebel whereabouts. This, in turn, puts reporters in danger from the Maoists. Since February 1, reporting from rural and remote areas of the country has become even more dangerous. Dozens of journalists have been picked up by the security forces and interrogated. Some were held for only a few hours, but 10 remained in custody in mid-April, according to the FNJ. Many journalists working on the front lines of the Maoist conflict have been harassed, detained, or hurt. While investigating vigilante attacks on villagers in the southern district of Kapilvastu, JB Pun Magar, a reporter for the Nepalese newsmagazine, Himal Khabarpatrika, was held captive by masked men for several days in early March. At first, he thought his captors were Maoists, but he soon determined that they were vigilantes pretending to be rebels. He was released unharmed after being told to "report good things" about the anti-Maoist campaign in the area. More insidious than overt arrest or abduction are the subtle yet constant threats and harassment faced by regional and local stringers for distant media houses in Kathmandu. CPJ met five of these reporters, all young men working in remote, underdeveloped districts far from their native towns. Fearing reprisal, they asked that their names not be used. The regional stringers told chillingly similar tales of life in their districts after February 1. All said they had come under direct and indirect pressure before the king's takeover not to report on the Maoists, but they had ignored the warnings at great personal risk. Now they face arrest, criminal charges, or worse if they simply follow their training and report on both sides of the conflict. One reporter said he had been taken aside by an army sergeant and told: "We are back to the old days now. We can do anything we want to you, so you had better behave yourself." Another had written a number of stories about corruption in the local government and security forces and was now subject to various reprisals, including the threat of arrest and denial of a fax line. All five stringers said their phone lines had been cut or interfered with, an action that not only silences independent journalists based in regional towns but also impoverishes them. Nepalese newspapers pay stringers only for published copy. Before February 1, the five stringers earned on average a little more than $100 per month, which was cut nearly in half after the imposition of reporting restrictions. "We can't go on like this," one reporter said. "I'll have to get a job as a teacher or something." FM radio stations in rural areas were particularly hard hit by emergency restrictions on news broadcasting. Many of Nepal's 46 independent radio outlets were outside of Kathmandu, broadcasting a mix of news and current affairs in 13 of the country's local languages as well as in the national tongue, Nepali. Radio broadcasting was a growing source of employment for educated young people and the use of regional languages arguably helped diminish the appeal of the Maoists to Nepal's many ethnic minorities, who have long felt they were outside the national, Nepali-speaking mainstream. Stations like Radio Bheri Awas in the western town of Nepalgunj also mixed reports on national politics and events with local programs that encouraged community development. Dili BC, station manager and program coordinator at Bheri Awas, pointed sadly toward an empty studio and said, "only music these days; no need for announcers or reporters anymore." The station hasn't formally laid off employees, but no one is getting paid. He speculated that the army stopped his programs in regional languages because the soldiers couldn't understand what was being said, and so opted instead to silence the broadcasts completely. "Only the Maoists are free of government censorship here," he said, referring to the rebels' use of clandestine, illegal radio transmitters to broadcast propaganda across much of western and southeastern Nepal. In some of the worst conflict areas, the government restrictions have had the effect of handing over to the Maoists airwaves that once teemed with objective, relevant information programs. Staff reporters for Kathmandu media who are based in other parts of the country have also fared poorly under the new restrictions. Rameshwor Bohara, a Himal Media correspondent based in the town of Nepalgunj, said the frequent threats he receives from both the security forces and the Maoists have confined him to reporting on noncontroversial stories such as pollution, women's rights, and blood donation drives. Bohara used to be among the region's more active reporters, traveling in Maoist areas and covering all sides of the sensitive, complex situation. Photographers such as Shailendra Kharel of the Kantipur group have to resort to Indian and international organizations to get their pictures of everyday life in Maoist areas published. Kharel's employers are officially prohibited from printing any material about the rebels that does not come from the army--which effectively bars his photographs of Maoists using forced labor and child labor. "The army didn't send them, so they're illegal," he said, "even though they show how the Maoists are using village labor to build their road." The Maoists often accuse Nepalese reporters of being spies--and, like the security forces, the rebels have been vicious toward these journalists. The Maoists routinely threaten rural reporters and, on occasion, abduct, torture and kill them. Dekendra Raj Thapa, a reporter for state-run Radio Nepal, was kidnapped and killed last year for alleged crimes against "the people's regime." In a similar 2003 incident, Maoists in the district of Sindhupalchowk, just east of Kathmandu, abducted Gyanendra Khadka, a reporter for the state-owned news agency Rastriya Samachar Samiti. They later killed him after tying his hands to a pole and slitting his throat so deeply that he was virtually beheaded. Rebels have not accounted for several other journalists who are missing and feared dead. The Maoists have no clear policy on coverage of their activities, although their supreme leader, who styles himself "Comrade Prachanda," has occasionally said the press is welcome in rebel-held areas. In practice, this does not translate into safe access. On the ground, few local commanders seem aware of Prachanda's comments about the media. Both foreign and Nepalese reporters frequently encounter hostile rebels or get caught in crossfire between security forces and the Maoists. Shailendra Kharel of Kantipur was covering a rebel rally in Rolpa in March, for example, when an army helicopter opened fire. He found shelter, but his jeep was hit by gunfire. Nepal's leaders have often sought to keep secret even the most pressing public issues--such as the circumstances of the 2001 palace massacre that claimed the lives of King Gyanendra's predecessor and other royal family members. But in the 14 years since the palace first allowed democracy, FM radio stations and private newspapers had demonstrated journalistic courage by chipping away at that secrecy. They competed to offer the most relevant information about politics, conflict, and public policy issues such as poverty and health care. The influence of private media was clearly seen as a serious threat by the state, and the February 1 proclamation and subsequent restrictions were the most devastating blow to private media since democracy began. At a Kathmandu press conference on April 12, CPJ called on the government of Nepal to end the harassment and imprisonment of journalists and to repeal restrictions imposed on private media, including the ban on FM radio news broadcasts. CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper noted that since the beginning of democracy in 1990, private media had "developed into Nepal's main forum for responsible, constructive public debate." "But now the authorities seem determined to close down that forum and force a return to the days when news and information came only from tightly restricted state media," Cooper said. "That would be a huge loss for the Nepali public and a great setback for democracy." Similar messages have been delivered repeatedly by the international community since February 1, along with calls for the king and his cabinet to reverse the restrictive new media regime. In an April interview, British Ambassador to Nepal Keith Bloomfield noted that a free press is essential to peaceful resolution of the conflict in Nepal. Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh told his country's parliament in late Feburary that Nepalese democracy demands freedom of the press. Official calls for a restoration of constitutional free speech and free press guarantees have come from the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations, among others. The government's failure to reverse the restrictions led to intense negotiations at the UN Human Rights Commission's annual deliberations in Geneva this April. Threatened with international censure for its human rights record, the government agreed on April 11 to allow the commission to send UN human rights monitors to Nepal. By signing the agreement, the government avoided a humiliating vote on censure. But it also now faces intense scrutiny from special UN monitors, who will be deployed around the country to chronicle human rights abuses, including violations of press freedom. They are due to arrive in May. The UN monitors will find that Nepal's private media are already fighting back. After first running white space to protest the government's heavy-handed censorship, some newspapers and magazines have begun to test the limits. By April, criticism of the government--as well as the Maoist insurgency--began to creep back into news columns, as had news of protests against the state of emergency crackdown. Journalists began to stand up for colleagues at rival media outlets; when police summoned Kantipur's Wagle for questioning in March, Kathmandu journalists joined him to protest government's attempts to intimidate the media. In a brave column on the April 9 editorial page of the Kathmandu Post, News Editor Ameet Dhakal sounded a warning to the country's leaders. "Professional Nepali media and my generation of journalists are a product of multiparty democracy," Dhakal wrote. "Professionally, we grew up idealizing pluralism, multiculturalism and an open society." Thus, Dhakal said, private media are seen as a threat by undemocratic rulers. "The unitary state, ruled by a bunch of never-elected people, has a short life in the presence of independent private media that constantly questions their legitimacy and exposes their unaccountability. That's why they are hell-bent on strangulating the free press." Daniel Lak was BBC correspondent in Nepal from August 2000 to January 2004. During that time, he traveled extensively in the country, including in Maoist-held areas, and covered the infamous royal massacre in June 2001. In south Asia, he has also reported from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and the Maldives. Lak is now based in Miami as BBC Caribbean correspondent. This report was based on a weeklong fact-finding mission led by Lak and CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper.