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KDE.org: New Design, New Implementation
The KDE Web Team is proud to present a new and exciting design for the official KDE site! This is the first overhaul of the flagship homepage since Kurt's vastly successful update more than two years ago. The KDE Web Team has maintained a focus on standards-compliance as well as improved the overall usability and accessibility of the site. Also featured prominently is an overhaul of the content as well as the implementation of a whole new design matching the shiny new Keramik/Crystal look from KDE 3.1.
Over the next few weeks and months, even more of the KDE.org family of sites will be migrated over to the new target. Meanwhile, feedback and bug reports are welcome at [email protected]. Maintainers of KDE mirrors: Please take note of the updated requirements for hosting mirrors due to internal changes.
The new maintainers of KDE.org are Christoph Cullmann, Rainer Endres, and Jason Bainbridge. The design of the new website is based on work by Sebastian Faubel.
Chris Howells, Dirk Mueller, Olaf Jan Schmidt, Datschge and Neil Stevens have contributed at various levels performing either invaluable grunt work or contributing designs and ideas.
There are also many people who have also contributed feedback and fixes -- please let us know if we have forgotten anyone who should be listed here.
Huge kudos go out to any and all who have been involved!
A note from Christoph Cullmann:
The whole process of redesigning and restructuring of kde.org began at the end of 2002. After many heated discussions, a multitude of drafts and a lot of fun, we finally reached a state that we felt deserved deployment.
What has been done?
We hope to port over the remaining KDE pages in time. If you wish to help in this process or otherwise contribute new artwork, patches or bug reports, please contact us at [email protected].
As one of the new maintainers of KDE.org I would like to thank the people involved in redesigning process for their invaluable contributions. I sincerely hope that users will enjoy the new website, and find it a worthy replacement to the old one.
Re: NEW Design Feedback
Also Konqueror should also appear somewhere on the website. For example near "Conquer your desktop".
Checkout this pic: http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?file=4582-1.jpg for mroe dieas.
WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T CHANGE THE FONTS! THEY WERE PERFECT, and I'M sure if you hada poll wiht more people they would think the same.
By Alex at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: NEW Design Feedback
Last suggestion is to make LAtest Looks section under applications.
By Alex at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: NEW Design Feedback
here my comments:
- kde logo link to mainpage: will be done, but first I must get home ;)
By Christoph Cullmann at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
I really really much prefer this over the old site
The old one was ugly, ugly, ugly and of course, ugly. Did I mention ugly? No... it wasn't that bad (I liked it a lot when it first came out), the big problem was that it was horribly inconsistent between subsites (e.g. koffice.org). Hope this would fix the problem. One thing I don't get is that why are the fonts so freaking big? Most websites use 12px ot 10px, but not the sizes you guys are using.... If there is anyone visually impaired, I'm sure he would be using a browser that allows text to look bigger.
By rajan r at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
It rulez
The new design simply rulez.
By AC at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
please please ...
No more blue .. no more blue :(
By anonymous ... at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: please please ...
I agree, I don't like blue, it's cops/right-wing/M$ colour ! Blue everywhere is making people sick in their mind, yes it does, really, why do you think corrupted politicians use blue background ?
By Hervé Parissi at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
use of apache forrest
Has anyone look at using forrest for KDE ?
forrest is now being used to generate the pages for most of the apache projects.
By ac at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Keramik, Crystal, kde.org...
Where would KDE be without the help of these wonderful teenagers who are making it what it is today: a big shiny ball of blue? I thank God KDE doesn't let trained designers interfere with the appearance of the project. Who wants subtle when you can get loud? Who wants elegant when you can get flashy?
Carry on my fine lads. I know you won't rest until you've given everything in KDE that signature baby blue glow. And I love you for it.
By Heathen at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Change it if you don't like it.
And feel free to contribute your own CSS color/design scheme to the existing seven available ones.
By Datschge at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: Change it if you don't like it.
I wish they worked for me (tried konqueror CVS Head, mozilla 1.3b) I expected it to work *at_least* with konqueror!
Ahhhhh... I know.... It just works with IE!
By Myself at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: Change it if you don't like it.
The www.kde.org server currently doesn't allow using cookies and GET posts so no browser can fix it at the moment. http://kate.kde.org/media/settings.php and http://czechia.kde.org/media/ however are on other servers with the correct setup and work fine, check them out to see how it is intended to look and work.
By Datschge at Thu, 2003/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: Hooray!
Green start button, red close button, pop-art window colors,....
Where would Windows be without the help of these wonderful designers
Carry on snobbish designers. I know you won't rest until you've given
By Martin at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: Hooray!
Microsoft has a monopoly with Windows. They don't have to do well.
By Heathen at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
strange - can not change color under settings
I can see the cookie coming in, but after I accept it, the selector displays again the kde-windows coloring...
By Andorsch at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Re: strange - can not change color under settings
Same problem here. As I posted in a previous thread, this thing doesn't seem to work for me. Tested on konqueror from cvs head and mozilla 1.3b. Mmmmm... maybe we should use IE ;-)
BTW, I'm getting zope errors quite often in these threads... may be quite busy?
By Myself at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Looks like KDE.org can use php-nuke for its current layout.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2003/03/03 - 6:00am
Classic mistake, bg but not fg/txt color set
My default settings are light text on a black background. The site's default settings are white background, no text color set.
That means I get my white text color default, on the site's white background color default, and I can't see it unless I select all, or change style sheet options.
If the background is specified, the forground/text should be as well, to avoid just this sort of problem. Unfortunately, this is an all-to-common mistake, both according to the tutorials at http://richinstyle.com , which specifically caution AGAINST this mistake, and from my own experience.
(Disclaimer: I am not a web designer. I just suffer when folks that are make this sort of mistake on something that WOULD be common sense, if they stopped to think about it.)
Duncan (No e-mail address because last time I posted that here, I had to dump that address for the spam it generated and create a new one. Luckily it was one I could do that too. There should be a warning!)
By Duncan at Tue, 2003/03/04 - 6:00am
switch.php doesn't work
it does seem http://www.kde.org/media/settings.php is there for nothing now... unimplemented?
By luci at Tue, 2003/03/04 - 6:00am
Re: switch.php doesn't work
it must be a bug, 'cause e.g. at http://czechia.kde.org the stylesheet switching at settings.php does work well with the switch.php script...
By luci at Wed, 2003/03/05 - 6:00am
I see that the new site has received some criticism, and I hope it doesn't removes focus from all the great work. Personally I have nothing but praise for the site, I think it looks gorgeous and is one of the most well-designed sites I have seen. Clear and simple yet beautiful. I can't really think of anything that I dislike about it.
By EUtopian at Tue, 2003/03/04 - 6:00am
A suggestion
Please make the text light up or change size when the mouse is voer the links on the navigation panek
By Alex at Wed, 2003/03/05 - 6:00am
Re: A suggestion
Good idea, but please avoid changing the size or making it bold. I (and many others) hate text jumping around on mouseover, it makes a site less usable.
My preference would be for a slightly lighter shade of grey to be used as the background for the link.
By Jim Dabell at Wed, 2003/03/05 - 6:00am
multilingual site ?
can we expect, some day or other, a multilingual site and forum like mandrakeclub ?
By capit. igloo at Wed, 2003/03/05 - 6:00am
Does not work with squid proxies...
The CSS styling does not work with mozilla through
When I look at my logs I see rather strange lines
http://www.kde.org/media/styles/standard.css - NONE/- image/gif
the style sheets are being severed as images...
By AM at Wed, 2003/03/05 - 6:00am
Re: Does not work with squid proxies...
Sounds like your proxy is broken in some way. I've just checked that address, and it's certainly being served as text/css:
By Jim Dabell at Wed, 2003/03/05 - 6:00am
Ok, let's put things clear. Am I the only one that feels that this CSS stylesheets thing doesn't work? I tested:
* with/without proxies
and ***Neither works***
This means that it doesn't seem to be my network config, nor my browser's problem. IT MUST BE A BUG on the site.
A Couple of questions. Is there a script that says:
if (in UK) then make_it_not_work
??? That's the only answer I find :-(
By Myself at Thu, 2003/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: IT DOESN'T WORK! MUST BE A BUG!
The www.kde.org server currently doesn't allow using cookies and GET posts so no browser can fix it at the moment. http://kate.kde.org/media/settings.php and http://czechia.kde.org/media/ however are on other servers with the correct setup and work fine, check them out to see how it is intended to look and work.
By Datschge at Thu, 2003/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: IT DOESN'T WORK! MUST BE A BUG!
Thank you very much, ... at last I saw the colors changed! :-)
By Myself at Thu, 2003/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: IT DOESN'T WORK! MUST BE A BUG!
They are worse...
Entirely blanck pages with a squid proxy.
the page title is stranegly "Gif image 1x1 pixels"
Without a proxy it works
By AM at Thu, 2003/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: IT DOESN'T WORK! MUST BE A BUG!
Then it sounds like you have an over-zealous ad-blocker. Those are the only things I can think of that routinely replace things with 1x1 images.
By Jim Dabell at Thu, 2003/03/06 - 6:00am
Re: IT DOESN'T WORK! MUST BE A BUG!
Following on from above comments squid proxy
Several different squid proxies used, anonymizing
Mozilla 1.3b no css
With no proxy all three work correctly.
By AM at Thu, 2003/03/06 - 6:00am
New KDE webpage Survey?
I think KDE should have a survey, if KDE folks like the new KDE webpage?
Items should be:
* Hate it
Or something like this.
I don't really like it. It looks like novice webpage. It should be compact. http://www.apple.com/macosx/ has good text spacing and layout except for those big tab above and very big icons and big J Box image. Mimimised scrolling, a probably small tab layout will do.
But I think should be replace by now with the negative comments. Please redo the webpage and then have a SURVEY.
By NS at Fri, 2003/03/07 - 6:00am
Re: New KDE webpage Survey?
Jeeez! Please give a better example. The page you suggest (apple one) has (IMHO) one of the worst ever designs for webpages. Reasons:
* No "about" page: what the heck is MacOSX? Weird name. Not a single word mentioning what it is. This is the most irresponsible thing a web designer can ever do.
In contrast, kde.org:
* Has more intelligently chosen the fonts
Ok, maybe it doesn't fit to the tastes of some people, but... come on, don't even try to compare to that crap webpage.
PS: I probably forgot some other complaints, but the list was already too long ;-)
By Myself at Sat, 2003/03/08 - 6:00am
Shame on you. New look does not work on Konq 2.2.1
You must be kidding guys. The new web site looks problematic in Konqueror 2.2.1.
Do not blame or accuse me. I've been using KDE ever since and my setup is really OK. You should have checked.
Check out the file I've attached.
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Today's footy news: Away team gets five red cards in the first 45 minutes
Alfonso Ugarte is the main team from the city of Puno in Peru and plays in the country's second division. Today, playing against Alianza Universidad de Huánuco, five of the Alfonso Ugarte players were sent off in the first half of the match at which point, down by three goals to zero, the referee called a halt to proceedings due to the FIFA rule that automatically forfeits a game if a team has less than seven players on the pitch.
As well as the five players sent off, Alfonso Ugarte's manager was also shown the red card. And of the five players given marching orders, two of the Alfonso Ugarte players were shown red for fighting each other. After the shortened game, the Alfonsdo Ugarte team captain apologized to his home city fans by saying, "The guilty party of the poor spectacle today is the referee".
Everybody hates silver
The Friday OT: U2, Ultraviolet (light my way)
So I was in the kitchen on Wednesday making lasagna (in fact, lasagnas in the plural*) and decided to rustle through the old music CD drawer to have some jolly tunes while giving the tomatoes the passata treatment. After flicking past a few, mine humble eye fell on Achtung Baby. "That'll do" I thought and stuck it on. The news is that the album has aged really well, so many strong tracks on there even in 2014 terms and this...
...is, for me, the one that stands out. What a great piece of music. Lasagnas* turned out well, too.
*I'm told the correct plural is lasagne. So there you go.
*I'm told the correct plural is lasagne. So there you go.
Rio Alto (RIO.to) (RIOM): Another strong quarter
Here are a few items to chew over:
- Net profit of $11.909m
- EPS 7c/share (that implies a forward PE of sub-7X; seriously, how cheap do you need a gold miner to be?)
- Treasury $54.577m
- As for cash costs, take your pick (the company discloses in all the ways you prefer): Adjusted operating costs per ounce $651, All-in sustaining cost per ounce $773, All-in cost per ounce $914
So go get your copy from SEDAR, it's on there now. Meanwhile, we'll take a good look at the details in IKN261 on Sunday.
On the road
Your humble scribe won't be out of internet range in the next couple of days, but as travel and meeting people is part of the deal, posting will be light.
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Chart of the day is...
gold versus silver in 2014 to date (using ETFs as proxies*):
STFU about silver, willyaz?
*Although you silverbugs and goldbugs may hate the idea, they also happen to be very accurate and reliable proxies. So that's another thing to STFU about.
The numbers show why Great Panther Silver (GPR.to) (GPL) is a waste of time as an investment
Some of the problem is that the piece of crap mining companies like Great Panther Silver (GPL) (GPR.to) will never, ever point you towards their weaknesses as companies and will offer up the figures that best suit themselves. Another part of the problem is that people are lazy and don't bother looking any further than the news releases. Another again is that when they do, it might not be so obvious what's going on. Also a significant chunk of the problem is that the shyster management teams such as GPR's will hire paid pumper assholes such as "Mexico Mike" Kachoweveryouspellit to soft soap their sheep into believing all is well, when it most obviously is not well.
GPR is out with its 1q14 numbers this evening and has reported yet another net loss, but throws sand in the eyes of the herds by blaming minor level downtime while trying to highlight costs that are under control. Here's the reported COGS from GPR and at first light it looks that way, more or less capped by the $10m line.
But the question always arises as to why, if GPR insists that its cash cost figures per ounce of silver are much lower than the selling prices for its ounces of silver and that it's trimming things like G&A hard, is the company reporting losses. The basic answer is that the reported COGS above is a crock of shit and completely ignores the amortization and depreciation (A+D) charges that the company has to register. And GPR is keen on doing just that because it knows its mines are old and inefficient craphole assets that get more and more expensive to mine every freakin' year (all these Mexican "oh they were great historic mines for decades and they closed down due to low costs and then we were so smart and opened it up again when silver started shooting up in price" stories , and there are dozens of them, will all suffer from this same Achilles' Heel, precisely because they are piece of shit mining assets) so it does its best to hide Amorts+Deprec away from your innocent eyes. But when you put the two onto one chart...
...you see that A+D has been rising fast and eating into the revenues, all while GPR insists its cash costs aren't going up. And people, like it or not it's vital you include A+D into your true costs because if you don't you're basically saying, "oh yeah, we have this non-renewable fixed asset and we're mining it and we've taken out X amount of metal from the rocks....but the asset isn't going down in value, honest". In short, excluding A+D from cash costs is sheer bullshittery and GPR knows it, but they're not going to tell you that little inconvenient truth (and neither are the bullshit paid pumpers like Mexico Mike).
I digress (and repeat). So back to the issue at hand and when you now stack COGS-plus-A&D against revenues...
...you see how the mine is way, way less sexy and profitable and cool than it used to be. In fact subtract one from another to get gross profits...
...and that's your chart. And therefore, if you can't even make a freakin' gross profit before G&A and stuff are charged, you have no chance of returning a net profit...
...as this final chart shows. Yes, that does indeed illustrate how GPR has returned an aggregate net loss of $14.616m over the last six quarters, which is also the main reason why its total assets figure has dropped by nearly nineteen and a half million over the same period (but let's not go to the balance sheet today, because there's things there that aren't just bad, they're gawdawful).
Anyway, bottom line, read the quarterlies and not the NRs to get a real handle on what's going on at these piece of shit small mining companies that continually swallow your money and convert it into director's salaries.
IKN is worried about Mark Eaton of Belo Sun (BSX.to)
After reading the Globe & Mail feature on Belo Sun (BSX.to) a few weeks ago, (March 8th to be exact) the one that had BSX's main man Mark Eaton as focus of attention as he went through his pastiche Englishman abroad routine for the entertainment of locals (it's all done on purpose you know), your humble scribe has been a little concerned for the dude and the question of whether Eaton has totally screwed his own pooch has floated round the office, on and off, for weeks.
Today while watching the latest severe downleg in the BSX share price take place the whole issue came to a head, so it was off to SEDI to find out more. And it turns out that unlike so many other people connected (directly or otherwise) to the Forbes & Manhattan shyster Bharti, Eaton's been remarkably constant and loyal in his dealings with BSX shares. For example, at the end of 2011 he owned 2.663m shares of the company and he's constantly added to his position since then, without selling a single share along the way. That's an admirable attitude from a company chief and one that needs cheering, as today he owns 7,227,500 shares, which means he's added 4,564,500 shares to his holdings during 2012, 2013 and 2014 to date.
This chart gives you a breakdown of those purchases and how much they cost him at the time, compared to how much they're worth today:
In the course of his admirable loyalty and belief in the cause of BSX since 2012 (and remember, he was holder of more shares before then at higher prices) Eaton has spent $1.959m on BSX equities. Unfortunately, these days those shares are only worth $912,900, so our fine upstanding fellow is more than a million in the hole here. Still, I'm sure that everything will work out just fine because Stan Bharti isn't likely to leave his long-time associate holding a fucking big bag forever and screw anyone just for the sake of money, right Stan? Right?
This chart gives you a breakdown of those purchases and how much they cost him at the time, compared to how much they're worth today:
Dominic Frisby does comedy, standing up and sitting down
Iwnattos has the discoveries, right here. Well worth your time.
Well-being in Argentina
It'd be interesting to hear the Northern media give us an opinion or two about the findings illustrated by this chart, one that uses several different and established methods for measuring well-being in a population.
C'mon press lackey corrupt motherfuckers, tell us about the real Argentina for a change, not the agenda you're paid to promote. Data from here.
The Gold Resource Corp (GORO) Sinking Alpha Comedy Show
A decent handful of readers* have already sent this link into IKN Nerve Centre™ which means it's our duty, nay obligation, nay pleasure to disseminate it further and spread the love around. If this isn't the worst piece of analysis published on a gold mining company this year it's definitely going to be a contender for the crown, but the real reason you need to read it is for the sheer comedy value.
The person who wrote "Why Warren Buffett Should Buy Gold Resource Corp. (If Only He Knew About It...)" is a finance idiot who knows just enough to be very dangerous to the naive newbies who read the piece (and yeah, let your brain slowly mull over that article title). But Sinking Alpha are worse idiots for letting it get published on their joke of a website. That's the real lesson here.
*I thank you all, you're wonderfully wonderful people, may the financial deities shine their love down upon you today and always.
*I thank you all, you're wonderfully wonderful people, may the financial deities shine their love down upon you today and always.
Chart of the day is...
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner chooses Twitter $TWTR to sing Facebook's $FB praises
Today CFK opened Facebook's new offices in Argentina and of course she wanted the world to know about how important it is as a connective medium and how wonderful it is to use.
So she did just that. Via Twitter
This Thing Isn't Like That Thing, Hudbay (HBM) Constancia edition
This thing is from the time Hudbay (HBM) bought Constancia by purchasing Norsemont, three years ago:
"Building the Constancia mine will cost about $1-billion, which HudBay said it can do with existing cash and credit lines."That thing is from the latest MD&A
"At our 100% owned Constancia copper project in Peru, the project was over 71% complete on a proportion spent basis at the end of March 2014. Of the total project capital budget of US$1.7 billion, we have incurred approximately US$1.2 billion in costs to March 31, 2014 and entered into an additional US$200 million in commitments."Notice anything?
PS: Another thing:
- Total market cap of HBM = $1.6Bn.
- Capital cost of Constancia $1.7Bn
- Discuss
JJ Rendon and narco cash
An impressive scandal has hit Colombia, just a couple of weeks before the Presidential election round one (we'll get a second round, worry not). Last night President Juanma Santos accepted the resignation of his cheif campaign advisor, JJ Rendón, due to widely reported press accusations he took a "personal donation" (I think that's the phrase they use) of U$12m from narcotraffickers.
And yes, this is the very same JJ Rendón that has been at the throat of the Venezuela government for years, with too many examples to offer in a short post but just as one, that wonderful "Hugo Chávez is alive and well" attempt at government destabilization in Spetember last year.
He seems nice.
Gold Resource Corp (GORO), ten day chart
Here's the bigfun NR which caused the sell off. And yes, read it twice and let the way it was framed as excellent news sink in slowly. Now apply that mindset to at least 50% of the junior mining companies out there.
And yeah I'm short GORO. Been shorting the thing all the way down since that fool Doody was waxing lyrical about it in the U$20s. Bite me.
Piketty in four paragraphs
The Economist does a service to all of us (definitely includes this humble scribe) who have no inclination to read Piketty's book but want the simple, nail-the-essence summary of what's going on. Your link is here, well worth five minutes of your time to get a handle on what all the fuss is about.
And r>g makes perfect sense because round these parts it stares at you in the face 24/7. Great marketing too, up there with emc2, snowball earth or selfish gene.
UPDATED: Your Colombia mineral exploration deaths of the day
So it turns out the small aircraft lost over the Coromoro area of Santander region, Colombia on Saturday was working for a geological surveying company, was carrying two Canadian geols running airborne surveys on the copper property in that location
And that the plane was shot down by ELN terrorists.
UPDATE: The two people in the plane have now been confirmed dead. (photo of the Colombian army at the crash site on that link). IDs of the two dead have not yet been revealed .
Goldcorp (GG) at Los Filos, Guerrero: What they told you today and what they didn't tell you
Goldcorp (GG) today announced that the Mexican Stand Off (literally) between themselves and landowners at the Los Filos gold mine in Guerrero State Mexico is now over and the company is now back to work. But what they didn't tell you about was the deal struck because after swearing blind they couldn't afford a penny more than the previous 2.5 oz of gold per hectare they were paying for land use and rejecting out of hand the deal of 4.5 oz offered by the landowners, the two sides have settled at 4 oz.
So there you go, GG loses a month's worth of production and gets another light shone upon its dubious reputation in Latin America for the sake of half an ounce of gold. Fuckwits.
Columbus Gold (CGT.v): This should be interesting
Today's NR available by clicking on this so-called hyperlink, the nice bit right here (with a touch of IKN bold type/underlining):
As part of SRK's engagement and the ongoing development of the project, SRK reviewed the inferred gold resource estimate prepared by Coffey Mining Pty Ltd ("Coffey"), which was set out in their NI 43-101-compliant technical report dated effective November 23, 2012 and filed on SEDAR on March 14, 2013. In the process, SRK identified issues with respect to certain estimation methodologies employed by Coffey which SRK believes materially overstate grade and contained ounces.
Mine Development Associates ("MDA") was subsequently engaged by Columbus Gold in an effort to resolve the differences in the methodologies used by Coffey and those considered appropriate by SRK, both internationally respected and recognized independent mining consultancies. MDA's conclusion supports SRK's recommended methodology.
In the interest of providing timely public disclosure, Columbus Gold has not yet had the opportunity to obtain comment from Coffey on their choice of methodologies used in their resource estimate.
"What?" they gasped as one, "a man with the last name Giustra involved in a bullshit junior story? Surely not!".
So those visitors who look upon IKN as a source of potential class action leads (and my stars, we know you're out there guys), look no further.
Chart of the day is...
The IKN Weekly, out now
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Juan Carlos Varela wins in Panama
According to exit polls and reports thereof (here's the link to an English language note), Juan Carlos Varela has won the Panama Presidential election with around 39% of the popular vote, seven ahead of his nearest rival. So now you know
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Editor's Note: The following is an edited transcript of my interview with Abu Fares, a Syrian protester in Homs (identity withheld), Muna Jondy, a human rights attorney and president of United for a Free Syria based in the U.S. and Khaled Saleh, a Syrian National Council (SNC) Foreign Relations Official also based in the U.S. In the video above, the guests focus on the question of whether the international community should impose a humanitarian corridor on Syria.
Civil war in Syria? And life in Homs
Amar C. Bakshi (CNN world producer; host): Muna, from your vantage point, what is taking place in Syria right now? Is it a civil war?
Muna Jondy (human rights attorney): It's not a civil war. With a civil war you're talking about two relatively equal forces fighting. That's absolutely not the case. It's government aggression against protesters.
Many of the Free Syrian Army members defected - generally at the lower midlevel but nothing in terms of high-level defections. But the military force that the Free Syrian Army has is not enough to even defend itself. So I definitely wouldn't describe it as a civil war. But I do think that the longer the international community takes to take serious action to protect civilians, the more likely this is going to spiral out into a full-armed uprising.
Amar C. Bakshi: What is life like in Homs? Could you give a sense of what the day-to-day is like where you are?
Abu Fares (protester in Homs): We live a catastrophe here. Everyday we are exposed to the random killing of the al-Assad forces. Everyday we have dozens of murdered and wounded civilians.
We can't take our wounded to the hospitals because hospitals are occupied now with the regime's security forces. We can't take them to the private hospitals because the checkpoints and the snipers target anyone moving in the street. The al-Assad security forces even started bombing the field hospitals.
It's really too bad a situation here inside. There is a big shortage in food, fuel and medicines.
International action? Humanitarian corridor?
Amar C. Bakshi: Abu, what do you think the international community should be doing right now for Syria?
Abu Fares: We need urgent action. We need safe humanitarian corridors. We need the international community to send the Red Cross and Human Rights organizations.
Of course, we need to support all the international community, because this situation is too bad here inside. We face this brutal regime alone, and now we don't have more time for more initiatives and conferences. We need urgent and soon actions.
Amar C. Bakshi: Khaled Saleh, what do you think the international community should be doing right now?
Khaled Saleh (Syrian National Council official): One of the other things that we – the Syrian National Council - are in discussions with the U.S. and the European Union is establishing a humanitarian corridor in Syria. The situation in Homs is beyond horrific. People are getting killed. It's very close to what happened in Benghazi, if you recall, when Gadhafi decided basically to wipe out the city.
I believe the al-Assad regime has come to a decision that in the month of February they're going to stop the revolution one way or another. They're willing to do whatever it takes.
We're looking for the international community to provide us with this humanitarian corridor so we can at least get medical supplies and food to the people of Homs and get the injured outside of the city. Really, otherwise you're telling the people of Homs that "You're on your own."
Amar C. Bakshi: Can you explain what a humanitarian corridor means, and how it would be implemented? Does it require force?
Khaled Saleh: A humanitarian corridor is going to require force, but it's defensive. It's not going to require offensive force to attack. Basically, we're going to declare a corridor from a certain area to Homs, Syria for people to leave Syria with safe passage.
We believe that's an acceptable solution for a world that's not truly ready. The world doesn't have the stomach at this point to go ahead and have the offensive strikes against the al-Assad regime.
One last thing that's really important for us also to recognize is we want the international community to recognize the rights of Syrians to defend themselves.
We have the 14th largest army in the world, with 340,000, using all of its weapons, including the latest T-90 tanks coming from Russia against unarmed civilians. We want to the world to recognize the rights of the Syrian people to defend themselves.
Amar C. Bakshi: Another viewer asks, how realistic is it to create and maintain a humanitarian corridor in the presence of the current regime's brutality? Do you think that the al-Assad regime would not attack a humanitarian corridor?
Khaled Saleh: I think if you actually established that humanitarian corridor, that Syrian army will not dare to attack it, because they understand if they attack it, they will give a reason for the international community to attack them.
And in the big scheme of things, the Syrian army, the 14th largest army in the world, is only capable of attacking its own people. It's not going to get into a war with another army. We understand that very well.
So I think if you establish that humanitarian corridor, the Syrian army, they'll fuss about it and they'll talk about it and they'll complain, but I don't think they'll dare to attack it. They don't want to have something similar to what happened in Libya or Iraq happening to them.
Arm the opposition?
Amar C. Bakshi: Do you think that the West or the international community ought to more aggressively arm the Syrian opposition – the Free Syrian Army and others?
Khaled Saleh: At this point, the West is not ready, and this is really the conversation that we've been having with them for a while. It's not ready to get involved militarily in Syria. And, to some extent, I understand why this is a difficult decision to make. The only other option that remains is the humanitarian corridor.
I know that there's also a voice that's asking to arm the Free Syrian Army. At least this way you would allow those civilians and military defectors to protect themselves. We can't just be sitting on the sidelines, having a theoretical discussion while hundreds of people are getting killed every day.
Amar C. Bakshi: One of our viewers asks if arming the opposition risks igniting a regional sectarian war or a sectarian war within Syria. Does that concern you at this stage?
Abu Fares: We are aware enough of this risk. The regime is trying to push us to be involved in a civil war. But it will not succeed. The objective of this revolution is to get freedom and dignity for Syrian people - for all Syrians. And the revolution, you don't fight only the Sunnis. You fight also for the Jews and Christian activists in this revolution.
And if you notice, last week, there was a demonstration in a Druze city in the south of Syria. And the Druze issued a statement announcing that they are supporting the revolution.
There are also many Alawite activists who joined the revolution and participated in the demonstrations also. As I told you, we are aware of this risk, and we try our best to avoid being involved in a such a dirty game with the regime.
Minority rights
Amar C. Bakshi: Another viewer asks about post-Assad Syria. What guarantees do you have that Christians and Alawites will be able to participate in a new government and that their rights will be respected?
Muna Jondy: I'd like to comment on that. United for a Free Syria has a position paper on minority rights. And you know, there's a couple of things I would talk about. First of all, it would be the historical realities in the region. And the historical reality is that Syria has actually been very proud of its pluralistic society.
And there isn't a history of the majority oppressing the minority. The majority Sunni Syrians, you know, cracking down on the Alawites, Christians, Druze or Kurds. However, I would say that, OK, that's historical.
But let's look at the reality now. I mean, look at the Syrian National Council. The Syrian National Council found every possible minority to include under the umbrella of the SNC. And the SNC has representatives of all minorities in the body.
And listen to Abu Fares here. He's in Homs. He's being attacked by what is in large an Alawite regime. But on the ground, from the beginning of the revolution, the streets have emphasized that the Syrian people are one - no sectarianism. Alawites, Kurds, Druze, Sunnis, Muslims, Christians, we are all one.
And even now, despite the fact that the crackdown has increased, you're listening to somebody who's on the receiving end and is still saying that [sectarianism] is not a reality for us. So I think that there are sectarian politics that the regime tries to flame. But I don't think that it's that much of a reality.
Now, on the other hand, it just briefly about the arming and the concern about a sectarian war in the region, I think that it's unfortunate that we're having this conversation, Amar, because we're having this conversation only because the international community is refusing to act. And inaction is not an option. People sitting back and just getting massacred is not an option.
So since the whole world sits back and doesn't want to do anything, they say, "Well, we'll give them weapons." I just feel like if we take that road, then we need to recognize as an international community that that was a decision that we made. We had other options and we chose not to use them.
What can we do to help?
Amar C. Bakshi: Dennis Rygrand asks in situations like this, smaller nations like Sweden, Denmark or Norway, feel quite powerless. In what way can we help you? What kind of actions would help? And I suppose this would be an interesting time to talk, not just about at the national level, but at the individual level. What would you call on people around the world to do for Syria and Syrians?
Khaled Saleh: I think at this point political pressure helps tremendously. The Syrian government still enjoys political relations, formal relations with many of the countries around the world.
What we're asking for is shut down these Syrian embassies, because I think that will delegitimize the current regime. It will send a very strong message to people who have been sitting on the sideline until now, that the world is telling you that you cannot continue supporting - even by being silent - this regime.
So I think that will be a tremendous amount of help. The other way is right now we've established a whole bunch of relief, humanitarian relief organizations, ShaamRelief.org is a non-profit organization that is trying to get some money and some humanitarian assistance to the people on the ground.
We estimate currently in the SNC that Syrians need about $20 million just to sustain themselves every month. We're able to get about a million dollars into Syria. So no matter how much money we're getting in, you can imagine, we're getting about 5 percent of what the people need.
Muna Jondy: I'd like to add on the political pressure side: we live in democracies and we are constituents. As constituents, we have a voice. And so, like here in the U.S., for example, we have Senator Casey who introduced a resolution in the Senate. I feel in Michigan that what I need to do and mobilize my friends to do is to contact our senators and say, "Sign onto that resolution. "
Voices mean something. We shouldn't underestimate the power of the people to tell their elected officials, you need to take more of an action.
Smaller countries can take action diplomatically. So, for example, when we're talking about intervention, why are we talking about military intervention first? Why are we talking about arming the FSA? Why aren't we talking about stopping Russian weaponry from getting into Syria? It's not like they're parachuting tanks from the sky. Russian weaponry is coming through other countries' jurisdictions. There's diplomatic effort that we can pressure any country that has good relationships and say, "Why don't you tell them, 'Not on my land?'"
Amar C. Bakshi: Let me just give the final word to Abu Fares in Homs.
Abu Fares: This regime ruled Syria for almost 49 years by one party, and Ba'ath party. The al-Assads ruled Syria for 42 years. These years were full of blood and corruption. These regimes supported terrorism in this region.
It sent terrorist groups to Iraq and Lebanon. By letting us be killed every day alone in Syria, you are helping the regime and creating a proper environment for extremism in this region. Please help us, because we want to live in a peace and in a free democratic state like the other nations in the civilized world.
Humanitarian corridor sounds good. But the US and the west will use this corridor as a highway of heroes to be. It will be insanity if Assad allows this. Look at the situation, the west had been doing its dirty work for months, now you give them a highway to continue with more intensity. The problem is Syria is syria's internal problem, Democracy calls 51 percent majority. Can anyone of you out there tell me with some sense of accuracy if the insurgents surpass 8 percent of the populace. And what about the other much higher percentage of quiet law abiding citizens that Assad is trying to protect. Today is sunday, the lord's day. Just for today, try to think rationally.
I find it ironic that Obama could drop bombs in Libya without congressional, but has adopted a do-nothing (non-military) stance against the Assad dictastorship of Syria which is truely an enemy of the world. Perhaps, he's afraid of the Russians and Chinese or maybe its a fact that they don't respect this inept president at all! ...come to think of it, nobody here in the states respects him either!


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Week in Review - 2013-09
- I came across BackBox Linux - although it's not my area of expertise, I always find different distributions of Linux interesting. On the website it is described as follows:
"BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable version of the most used and best known ethical hacking tools."
- I love listening to podcasts, and PocketCasts is an Android podcatcher that looks great! It supports variable speed playback, which if you haven't realised, you can easily play some podcasts at up to 1.5x without missing anything. Not sure if it does pitch correction to compensate, but I'll have to try it out.
- I have to admit to being a big Google+ fan. Whenever I scroll down my stream, I just find HEAPS of very cool interesting stuff. This is mostly because I found some circles (of scientists, photographers etc) that were shared by other people and now I'm following a bunch of interesting people. Too many to keep up with, but whenever I go look at Google+, I've got to time-box it.
- I've also got to admit to loving the FireFox profile manager. This easily lets me fire up a browser that is isolated from other profile settings - useful if someone (family members, friends) wants to quickly do something on your computer. I normally use chrome for all my day to day activities, but to test things out as someone who is not logged in as me, or to let my wife check her email or Facebook account, I'll bring up FireFox which has profiles set up for these things. This can also be very useful at work, instead of clearing your cache or using incognito (another good alternative if you don't want history/settings to be persisted).
- I tried writing a Chrome app a few months ago, but ultimately it didn't quite have the access to the local system that I needed to make my application effective. This paradigm is VERY interesting to me though, and if the restrictions were loosened up somewhat, then this could be an extremely effective platform (it already is, but I just need an app that suits).


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Oh dear. It seems I have pissed someone off with my blog. I TOTALLY did not see this coming. Don't worry… I took screen shots of the comments so you can all enjoy my moment:
Wow… I had a RANT? Awesome. Wait… I had a rant on my guide to making t-shirts for Zazzle? That is terrible place for a rant. What kind of blog am I running here?
First of all… pretty funny? I am incredibly insulted. Secondly, how can a person get upset over gun and baby hating comments on a blog post about making t-shirts? Why on earth would anyone even bring up guns and babies while talking about making stuff on Zazzle? Oh, wait… this is MY blog. Frank is probably right, I do tend to drift from the topic at hand.
Dear Frank: Please allow me remedy the anti-gun and anti-life rant on the Zazzle T-shirt Guide by explaining my stance more clearly. It is NOT that I am pro-abortion. It is that I am against making women have babies. You see Frank, I have had a baby. I had a baby nine years ago. That was NINE years ago and he is STILL following me around asking for stuff like food, and clothing, and hermit crabs. You wouldn't believe it Frank, it is like a NIGHTMARE. For a while, he was even making me watching this show with him about these trains that talked. TALKING TRAINS, Frank! I would never push that on anyone. It just seems cruel.
About the guns, I have to admit that they do make me uncomfortable. However, that is not because of MSNBC or ESPN, it is because of the messy cleanup. Have you seen Pulp Fiction? Those guys accidentally shot some dude in their car and there was brain mess EVERYWHERE. It took forever for them to clean it up. You probably don't know me very well, Frank, but I am VERY accident-prone. If I am carrying a gun around, I will definitely end up shooting someone in my car.
As far as believing everything I see on MSNBC, can you please tell me what channel that is on? I mainly use my television for watching documentaries about cats. Also, I'm not that good at running the menu guide or telling what channel stuff is on. Also, I hate that Matt Lauer guy. Is he going to be on the MSNBC channel? Because, if so… I'm OUT. I don't even know why I hate him. He is probably a totally nice guy. Not that I would sit down and have lunch with him or anything. I really don't have time for all that. It must be the hair.
So, to recap, it is not that I meant to piss you off, Frank. I am really very open-minded about these things. Any rants I may accidentally post to my Zazzle Guidelines stem directly from the fact that I do not want to have lunch with Matt Lauer. Honestly, I don't even know how this stuff comes up. Sorry you stopped reading my blog because of my undue dislike of Matt Lauer's haircut. You are probably justified. However, I must confess that most people stopped reading this blog a long time ago because it hasn't been updated in ages. Ironically… you, Frank, are like my BIGGEST fan!
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As you might have read here I'm in love with fresh peas. I've loved peas since I was a small child, when other friends were hiding them in their napkins or under the mashed potato, I was eating them all with great delight!
I'm calling this a smash, because It's not really whipped or mashed completely, as I left lots of whole peas throughout to maintain the freshness of the peas from the farmers market.
This may resemble guacamole, as my friend Kate suggested, but its really an incredibly tasty pea smash. (Yes, I sent her this picture and asked her if it resembled anything unappealing or non edible) I'm not sure what else to call it, and I know it appears green and a tad mushy, but again, I love peas, and by using the fresh peas, it's not a total pile of mush.
1 c of chicken stock
2 c fresh peas
1 clove of garlic, minced fine
2 tbsp lime thyme (any kind of thyme would work here)
1 tbsp butter
1tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp Parmesan cheese, grated fine
Heat butter and oil over med-high heat and saute garlic and thyme for about 2 minutes. Add the stock, bring to a boil, and add the peas. Cook peas in stock for about 5 minutes. With a slotted spoon, remove half of the pea mixture and put aside. In a small food processor, add remaining peas and stock and process for about 30 seconds, on intervals. Remove mixture and add to reserved whole peas and mix well. Fold Parmesan cheese into pea smash, and serve!
I had a really beautiful tuna steak, that I grilled with just salt and pepper and a drizzle of lemon juice. I topped my pea smash with the tuna steak and it was a really good dinner!
(***Cooks note: This would also make a great spread on grilled pieces of Italian bread, topped with a thin slice of prosciutto!***)


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Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA) is not happy that the Southern Poverty Law Center declared the AFA to be an anti-gay hate group and he is especially distressed that his comments was listed as a big reason for this designation.
So recently, he took it upon himself to try and refute a key portion of SPLC's reasoning - a list it compiled of the 10 top myths spread about the lgbt community by organizations like the AFA. Fischer claimed that SPLC's Top Ten Myths list was false and the things his organization (and other religious right groups designated as anti-gay hate groups) say about the lgbt community are in fact true.
Fischer should have kept his mouth shut because Robert Steinbeck of the SPLC took his phony refutations head on. Steinbeck does not answer all of Fischer's refutations because the ones he does answer are enough to cast doubt on the rest of Fischer's claims.
Fischer - TRUTH # 1
Homosexuals molest children at far higher rates than heterosexuals.
Absolutely true. Homosexuals comprise perhaps two percent of the population, yet according to the Journal of Sex Research, homosexual pedophiles are responsible for 33% of all child sex offenses. Homosexuals molest children at at least 10 times the rate of heterosexuals.
Steinbeck - Fischer displays the sly predilection of anti-gay activists to cite legitimate research as supporting their claims when the researchers themselves explicitly reject them. Fischer is referring to a 1989 Journal of Sex Research article by the late researcher Kurt Freund, who concluded that homosexuals were not any more disposed to pedophilia than heterosexuals — a finding exactly opposite to what Fischer suggests.
Fischer constructs the 33% figure from Freund's research by assuming that every case of men molesting boys is committed by a "homosexual" man — a conclusion rejected by virtually all legitimate sex researchers. As Freund said, since most pedophiles have no sexual interest in adults of either gender, terms like "homosexual" and "heterosexual" don't apply at all. It is the child's prepubescent nature, not his or her gender, that attracts this type of "fixated" pedophile, most of whom will prey on children of either gender. Freund and other researchers have found that those pedophiles who are capable of forming sexual relationships with other adults — so-called "regressive" pedophiles who only resort to pedophilia when under stress — overwhelmingly identify themselves as heterosexual.
Fischer - TRUTH # 2
Same-sex parents harm children.
Research indicates that children raised by homosexuals experiment with sexually aberrant behaviors at a higher rate than children raised by heterosexuals and at earlier ages, and do worse, according to a 1996 study by an Austrian sociologist, in nine of 13 academic and social categories compared to children raised by heterosexual married couples.
A 2001 article in American Sociological Review reported that children raised by lesbians are more likely to engage in homosexual behavior and are "more sexually adventurous."
Steinbeck - Fischer identifies neither report by name — and for good reason.
In the first instance, he is referring to an obscure 1996 study by Sotirios Sarantakos, an Australian, not Austrian, researcher. Anti-gay groups frequently cite this article — yet the article, the journal that published it, and Sarantakos himself, are all but impossible to locate online.
The other study Fischer cites was conducted in 2001 by professors Timothy J. Biblarz of the University of Southern California and Judith Stacey of New York University (pdf).
. . . In an E-mail to Hatewatch this week, Stacey blasted Fischer's misuse of her research. "They are misrepresenting our 2001 article … by cherry-picking out of context one finding we mentioned that came from one very small British study," she wrote. "Even so, their claim that children raised by lesbians are more sexually adventurous is also inaccurate. In the small study we mentioned … it was only the daughters who were sexually active a bit earlier than daughters of straight moms. Boys raised by lesbians were less sexually active than sons of straight moms! Our interpretation was that IF this tentative finding were to be replicated, it suggested that lesbians were transmitting a more egalitarian, single standard of sexual behavior to daughters and sons compared with the conventional double standard of sex being more permissible for boys. Moreover, it turns out that the … finding has NOT been replicated. In fact, a new study finds kids raised by lesbians from birth to be less sexually active!"
Fischer - TRUTH # 4
Homosexuals don't live nearly as long as heterosexuals.
According to an extensive study of the homosexual community in Vancouver, B.C., active participation in the homosexual lifestyle will rob an individual of a significant portion of his life span. Say the researchers, "[L]ife expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men." In fact, they observe that participation in the homosexual lifestyle knocks life expectancy for a Canadian male back to what it was in 1871.
Steinbeck - Again, Fischer ignores that the authors of that 1997 study updated it in 2001, pointing out that advances in treatment of HIV-AIDS even at that point had significantly improved the expected longevity of those infected, which would inevitably narrow any gap between gay and straight life spans caused by the disease. Moreover, the authors explicitly rejected the attempts of anti-gay organizations to construe the 1997 observations to justify denigration of gays.
"These homophobic groups appear more interested in restricting the human rights of gay and bisexuals rather than promoting their health and well being," the authors wrote in their 2001 update.
. . ."I am aghast that the misrepresentation of these data continues," Steffanie Strathdee, associate dean of global health sciences at the University of California, San Diego, and one of the authors of the two reports, told Hatewatch in an E-mail this week.
As I said before, Steinbeck did not answer all of Fischer's refutations because he didn't need to. Steinbeck was able to point out Fischer's bad errors in the refutations that he did address. And his answers does cast doubt on Fischer's entire piece. How can Fischer's seven other refutations be believed when he made such egregious errors on the three which were addressed?
But because I like to butt in, allow me to address a refutation that Potok didn't.
Fischer - TRUTH # 8
Homosexuals are more prone to be mentally ill and to abuse drugs and alcohol.
Even the pro-homosexual Gay and Lesbian Medical Association admits that homosexuals "use substances at a higher rate than the general population," have "higher rates of alcohol dependence and abuse," and are subject to higher rates of "depression and anxiety." Homosexual activists attempt to blame homophobia for this, but the same trends are evident even in Scandinavian countries where homosexuality has received virtually unanimous societal approval for decades.
Me - Fischer omitted the fact that the GLMA clearly say that these behaviors are not indicative of the lgbt orientation but reactions to homophobia of society:
GMLA: Depression and anxiety appear to affect gay men at a higher rate than in the general population. The likelihood of depression or anxiety may be greater, and the problem may be more severe for those men who remain in the closet or who do not have adequate social supports. Adolescents and young adults may be at particularly high risk of suicide because of these concerns.
GMLA: Research indicates that lesbians may use illicit drugs more often than heterosexual women. This may be due to added stressors in lesbian lives from discrimination. Lesbians need support from each other and from health care providers to find healthy releases, quality recreation, stress reduction, and coping techniques.
Fischer's claim about Scandinavian countries is a distortion of a study by Dr. Theo Sandfort which looked at the mental health of gay men in the Netherlands. And Fischer is not the first religious right figure to distort this study.
This is what Sandfort told me in a Jan. 2009 email. At that particular time, PFOX (an "ex-gay" group) was distorting his study:
There is a difference between the U.S. and the Netherlands in terms of acceptance of homosexuality. That does not mean that there is no homophobia (and homophobic damage) in the Netherlands. It is not clear how difference in climate affects the prevalence of mental disorders. We don't know the final answers, but in the U.S. as well as the Netherlands, homophobia is related to mental health problems.
He also commented on how the religious right distorts his work:
"They use data to promote their moral convictions without truly understanding what the issues are. They are not interested in understanding how people's lives are affected by their social environment."
It is clear that the SPLC designation has struck a nerve amongst these so-called Christian, pro-family groups. Unfortunately, it's not enough for them to at the very least address the charges.
But does anyone really expect them to? After all, that would be showing actual values and morality, two things which Fischer and the rest of his ilk lack in abundance.


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Few cars are as close in proportion to actual dinosaurs as the Lincoln Navigator, a relic of a bygone era of dirt-cheap gasoline and the insatiable appetite for infinite cupholders. We found this one on London's "Murder Mile."
One would have to be a better approximator of wheel diamaters than I to precisely state the size of its multi-dubs, but let's just call them boop boop a doobs for the time being.
The Navigator is parked on Clapton Road in the London borough of Hackney, which became famous in the early 00's as the most crime-ridden street in the United Kingdom. Taking the baton of Murder Mile from Ledra Street in Cyprus, the locale is described in an Observer article from April 2001:
Many of the Clapton Road shootings have stood out because of the levels of ruthlessness and brutality involved. Gunmen have pursued their victims in broad daylight, finishing them off at point blank range in front of streets packed with witnesses.
'The bodies were still in the car up until midday,' said one shopkeeper who asked not to be named.
There hulks the big Linc, menacing in the harsh light of a flash fired off at night. And nope, it did not have a handicapped permit on display.
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Natalie Portman
"Such incredible energy"
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As her directorial debut, Natalie Portman has made a film that takes place in Jerusalem – a city that holds her spellbound to this day. She talks about her strong Jewish roots
For A Tale of Love and Darkness, you switched from acting to directing. Is that your main profession now?
Oh no, as much as I respect directors, now I know just how much hard work and focus go into what they do. Being calm and kind all the time is another extraordinary feat because directing is so stressful and intense. It's nice to get back to acting for a little afterwards.
Your personal directing debut took you to Jerusalem, which is where you were born. What does the city signify to you?
Jerusalem is a place thick with emotion and passion that has created many dreams. It's such an incredible energy to work in. Israel is a country I think about a lot and dream about a lot.
Is it anything like your dreams in reality?
No, it's so different. It's always interesting to go and see what the atmosphere is, it is very hard to understand when you're away. Standing in front of the Western Wall for the first time was very powerful. Imagining that your relatives were in the same place thousands of years ago, and feeling spiritually connected to a higher power was very, very moving. Being Jewish has always been a part of me, no matter where I have lived. In fact, it was hammered into me at a young age that being Jewish was my identity.
That sounds very negative, as if you were under duress …
That's not what I meant. It's been complicated, but unlike my friends who have had to search for their identity, I never questioned mine. I am part of this culture and it is a big part of me.
Dissatisfaction seems to be part and parcel of Israeli culture. You once wrote that Hebrew has many words for "bother" but none for "to please."
Every language has something specific to it. In Israel it feels like everyone is always nagging at each other. But there is something special, too: There is no word in Hebrew for "to be" in the present tense. You don't say "I am happy," you say "I happy." You can say "I will be happy" or "I was happy," but it's interesting that whether or not you exist is not questioned at all. You feel this in Israel. People just are. They have an ability to be in the present.
Your film of the Amos Oz book takes place during the founding of the state of Israel. Did you have to study Jewish culture intensively?
When you are brought up like I was learning about Jewish history and the history of your own family, you develop a sensitivity to oppression and struggle. They always say that Jews in America earn like Republicans but vote like Democrats. We are very socially conscious as a group. And education is very highly valued. It was always: "School, school, school's first. Your grades are the most important, do well in school."
In filmmaking, perfection is imperfection
Did you ever think by studying so much that you were missing out?
You feel like you are missing out on some things but you also gain a lot of other things. I look at it pragmatically. I really lucked out and had a normal adolescence, went to parties, did stupid things. But it was all private. I even went through four years of college without a single paparazzi picture of me, even though I was making Star Wars prequels at the time. Things were different then. The media still respected your privacy and a lot of the gossip industry didn't exist just a few years ago.
You have a degree in psychology. Could you ever imagine working in that field?
It would be pretty weird – I would be an actor playing a psychologist. And anyway, my degree doesn't qualify me to work as a psychologist. But it's something that will always inform what I do as a person and as an actor. I still read a lot about it and I have been trained to look at people's behavior in a certain way. There are definitely complexes that I attribute to certain characters.
What psychological complex might a doctor diagnose you with – too much ambition, perhaps?
Ambition, yes, but not too much. I was much more competitive in my early twenties, although I'm still very, very competitive with myself. I think you tend to see other people as threatening when your own identity isn't very strong, but I just really, really like to do well.
So would you call yourself a perfectionist?
I think all artists strive toward some kind of ephemeral beauty that you cannot trap. When you're making a film, you're depicting life, and life is a mess. So in filmmaking, perfection is imperfection. The beauty lies in the messiness.
Is there anything you don't like about filmmaking?
When you're making independent films, it can be very hard working with a very small budget. The good thing is that everyone is there because of their passion for the project. But I've worked on projects where production assistants couldn't even buy a coffee for them-selves because they were making so little money. That's tough.


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VANCOUVER, B.C., November 19, 2012 - Norco Bicycles is thrilled to sign on as the official bicycle sponsor of the Norco World Enduro Team. The signing of this team strengthens Norco's commitment to the growing Enduro race market and illustrates an increased investment in the 27.5"/650B Range and Sight models.
The Norco World Enduro Team is based out of Switzerland and team leaders Lukas Anrig and Ludo May are joined by Lorraine Truong and Michael Schärer to complete the stacked roster. Bringing to the table top results nationally and internationally, these four riders will travel the world circuit proving the capability and potential of the new line of Norco 27.5" wheeled Killer B bikes. This team is a partnership that runs much deeper than a traditional rider-sponsor relationship. Working directly with these riders will serve as a valuable feedback and product development channel for the continuous development of the Range and Sight bikes. This relationship model is based on the Dirt Norco Team and what has been done with them and the Aurum DH Race bike.
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Norco's long history of sponsoring and supporting competitive cyclists reaches back to 1980, when the bicycle brand developed its first competition-level cycling team. Since then, Norco has invested consistently in its sponsorship program, supporting the development of talented athletes competing in a wide range of disciplines: Road, Cyclocross, Cross-Country, Downhill, Enduro, BMX and Slopestyle. Norco's sponsored riders not only serve as brand ambassadors, they also provide invaluable product feedback that enables Norco's bike design team to refine designs and create some of the best bicycles on the market.
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Steam for Linux thoughts
I am a long-time Linux user and avid gamer who has always been excited about the prospect of gaming on Linux. I setup various games in wine, applied patched, maintained a game on WineHQ, tried out the Linux version of games like Unreal 2004 and humble indie bundle games, etc. When the first rumors about Valve possibly porting Steam to Linux started to spread a couple of years ago I couldn't wait. Fast forward and now Steam for Linux is a reality. Obviously, I have been playing with Steam on Linux and various games from my collection that are available for Linux. I noticed a couple of nice differences when gaming on Linux and figured it was worth writing up my overall thoughts.
No more repetitive installation
Unlike Windows where you are greeted with the installing DirectX dialog over and over Steam on Linux simply starts the game. It isn't that big of a deal for typical Linux applications since package managers remove the need for silly installation wizards, but it is one of the small things that just feels smoother.
Full-screen window focus
One of the more annoying aspects of using full-screen applications on Windows with multiple monitors is that although I can see the applications on the other screens while playing the game I am forced to completely minimize the game in order to use any other applications. Most of the time I usually have other persistent applications such as Skype open while playing games and it is somewhat annoying to switch back and forth. World of Warcraft seemed to get around this with a full-screen windowed mode that removed the window decoration and made it the size of the screen (thus looking the same as full-screen) without entering full-screen mode. This meant you could switch much more quickly and without loosing the game window. Being able to keep an eye on the game while doing something outside is handy and this is the norm in my experience with full-screen applications on Linux.
Valve listening to community
Valve created a GitHub repo for the purpose of tracking issues on with Steam on Linux and has done an excellent job reading through, managing, responding, and actually fixing the issues presented. Valve even worked on an agreeable license that allowed for distributions to package Steam. I filed a few issues myself and was impressed with the prompt responses from Valve employees and see things get fixed.
A big pain point in the Linux world has been video drivers. When I originally started using Linux the proprietary drivers were pretty much the only way to go. During my initial days of Linux I used an Nvidia card and the proprietary drivers provided by Nvidia were not bad, but were definitely nothing like the Windows drivers. Various activities would result in unpleasant behavior and slowness. I later purchased an ATI card and with the open source drivers really coming into their own I started using them. Although the OSS drivers (both radeon [ati] and nouveau [nvidia]) worked great for 2D they had little to no support for 3D). I would argue that both the OSS drivers perform much better then their proprietary counterparts for general desktop use.
With the advent of Steam for Linux I figured it was worth trying out the latest ATI drivers with my Radeon HD 7970 and put them through their paces. I was quite hopefully with the posts from Valve stating they got better performance then Windows with the Nvidia drivers and seemed to be working to get the drivers improved. The latest driver release from ATI has a specific note about a fix for Big Picture mode in Steam.
[370839]: Resolves a sporadic Steam Big Picture mode crashing issue encountered with AMD Radeon™ HD 7000, 6000 Series
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the drivers worked quite well and a number of my prior complaints were no longer an issue. The drivers are still not perfect, but they perform quite well. WebGL demos run beautifully and the games I have tried from Steam work extremely well. I was even able to max the settings for Trine 2 for a beautiful result.
Closing thoughts
It will be interesting to see how Valve's move plays out for the future of the Linux desktop and gaming. I can only image what being able to profile things through the Linux kernel source will allow game developers in terms of tuned and determining issues. There will obviously be holdouts and what not, but without gaming holding people back from a purely superficial view Linux costs nothing and can browse the web just fine…what more do 99% of Windows users need? Of course who doesn't love wobbly Steam? I am definitely looking forward to see improved driver quality and with the continued rise of HTML5 there being less and less platform specific development.
For those interested I am running on openSUSE 12.2 (tumbleweed). For easy installation just visit software.opensuse.org and search for steam.


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Here's your Group B hub and open thread, where you'll find our previews and predictions.
The Teams
The Schedule
All times Eastern
June 13, 3 p.m.: Spain vs. Netherlands at Arena Fonte Nova
June 13, 6 p.m.: Chile vs. Australia at Arena Pantanal
June 18, noon: Australia vs. Netherlands at Estadio Beira-Rio
June 18, 3 p.m.: Spain vs. Chile at Estadio do Maracanã
June 23, noon: Australia vs. Spain at Arena da Baixada
June 23, noon: Netherlands vs. Chile at Arena de Sao Paulo
Our Predictions
1. Spain
2. Chile
3. The Netherlands
4. Australia
That's it for Group B. Group C tomorrow. Discuss in the comments, and be sure to check the rest of our previews below.
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Tyler Bog is a place of kind Lake belonging to the County of ( Carroll ).
The closest populated place is that of Silver Lake that is2.18 miles far from Tyler Bog.
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The weather forecasting are available for the town of Silver Lake , that is 2.18 miles far from Tyler Bog .
The Zip Code of Tyler Bog is 03875.
Besides Tyler Bog in the County of ( Carroll ) there are the following places of kind Lake . These are reported in what follows in alphabetical order:
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Francona chalks up bizarre play to bad luck
CINCINNATI -- One day after the bizarre play that took place in the seventh inning of Tuesday's loss to the Reds in Cleveland, Indians manager Terry Francona was not calling for Major League Baseball to amend any rules
Francona was content with chalking it up as historically bad luck.
"When you try to remedy that one fluke play that you see once in a lifetime," Francona said on Wednesday, "it may open up other things that you don't necessarily want to do. ... I think you just have to swallow it and say, 'We got unlucky.'"
With no outs in the seventh of the Tribe's 9-2 loss to Cincinnati, Cleveland had runners on first and second base and was trailing, 6-1. Yan Gomes sent a pitch from Reds starter Johnny Cueto to the wall in right-field for an RBI double, but an unusual scene quickly unfolded.
At the precise moment that Reds right fielder Jay Bruce retrieved the baseball, Cincinnati reliever Jumbo Diaz threw a wild pitch while warming up in the bullpen behind the right-field wall. Diaz's errant throw landed in the vicinity of cutoff man Kris Negron, who caught the relay throw from Bruce.
David Murphy advanced from first to third base and intended to stop, but took a few steps toward the plate after seeing a baseball (the one thrown by Diaz) in the outfield grass. Murphy was then thrown out by shortstop Zack Cozart while trying to dive back into third, creating a key out that helped the Reds end Cleveland's rally.
Francona discussed the situation with third-base umpire Gerry Davis, but there was nothing to be done.
"The play hadn't stopped. That was the thing," Francona said. "The [shortstop] looked like he was starting to call time, but then he realized they had Murph off the bag. If he flips his hands up and calls time, that play is done. But, [the umpires] can't stop it unless the lights go off or there's an injury. So, maybe if Murph grabbed his calf or something. I don't know."
One theory is that the play could have been treated like a ground-rule double, but Francona said the play was so fluky that he did not think it was worth trying to convince MLB to examine the rules in place.
"I don't think you'll see that again," Francona said. "We just got caught in a little bit of an unlucky situation. Nobody screwed us. That's just, take your medicine."


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ABOUT ... Hawaii Masters Swimming Association
... is the local governing body (LMSC - Local Masters Swim Committee) for United States Masters Swimming (USMS - see below). Our LMSC name is Hawaii Masters Swimming Assoc, HMSA.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: Hawaii Masters Swimming Association (HMSA) exists to promote fitness and health in all adults by offering and supporting Masters Swimming as the Local Masters Swimming Committee (LMSC) for United States Masters Swimming (USMS) in the State of Hawaii.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: HMSA is a non-profit private organization for Hawaii (HI) under the jurisdiction of and supporting United States Masters Swimming, Inc. (USMS). Our goals and objectives shall be to promote and develop swimming (pool and open water), aquatic safety, physical fitness, and good health for the benefit of Masters swimmers of all abilities in accordance with the goals, objectives, rules, and standards prescribed by USMS.
There are many benefits to joining USMS.
- One of the most important is the offering of secondary insurance to all registered swimmers and swim clubs.
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- A subscription to SWIMMER Magazine, the official swim magazine for masters swimmers.
- You can swim with any other registered club in the country when travelling (normal "drop-in" fees apply).
- You could set state, national and world masters records.
- The USMS website provides members a login to track YOUR swimming and other workouts (Go the distance).
- It provides an organization whose sole purpose is promoting, supporting and creating masters swim programs in the country. USMS has over 50,000 registered masters swimmers nationwide. The organization is made up of all volunteers except for the Executive Secretary (the only full-time position); a small stipend is paid each year to: Marketing Liason; Webmaster; and Swim Magazine USMS Editor.
Hawaii Masters - USMS Organizational Structure
Within USMS there are 8 Zones which were formed to meet the specific needs and represent the various areas of the country. The zones names are: Breadbasket, Colonies, Dixie, Great Lakes, Northwest, Oceana, South Central and Southwest. These zones are physical divisions for different regions of the country. Each zone has a representative. Ours is Richard Smith, from Sacramento, Calif.. Hawaii is in the Oceana Zone.
Each Zone is furthered divided into Local Masters Swim Committees (LMSC). LMSC's are smaller divisions of the zones. LMSC represent and serve even better the local needs of the masters swimming committee. Our zone (Oceana) is shared with 1 other LMSC, Pacific Masters Swimming (which covers the area of N. Calif, and parts of Nevada). All other zones are made up of 3 or more LMSC. The reason there are only two LMSC's in our zone, is because Pacific Masters Swimming (PMS) is the largest LMSC in the country with over 8000 registered masters swimmers. Our LMSC was created by Bruce Clark in 1974 (according to our longest serving chair Janet Renner). We owe Bruce a lot, because with out his vision, we probably would not have had an LMSC at all!! (And *I* thank Janet Renner for all she did before serving until 2009 as the general chair - receiving a service award from USMS in the same year.)
LMSC's are registered with USMS and each LMSC has their own by-laws, and board. LMSC's report to their Zone chair at least annually. USMS provides a LMSC handbook, which is revised each year, This handbook gives guidelines and rules for how to operate an LMSC.
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In 2009, to be in compliance with new USMS Minimum Standards covering organizational structure and non-profit (501(c)(3) as a "subordinate organization" to USMS) requirements from USMS approved at the 2009 convention. the HMSA board updated the Bylaws approved at the Annual meeting held on Oahu in May 2010.


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Describes how she and her brother were hidden [Interview: 1990]
Doriane's Jewish family fled to Amsterdam in 1940, a year that also saw the German occupation of the Netherlands. Her father perished after deportation to Auschwitz. After their mother was seized, Doriane and her brother hid with gentiles. The three were reunited at Bergen-Belsen, where they were deported via Westerbork. They were liberated during the camp's 1945 evacuation. Doriane's mother died of cancer soon after Doriane helped her recover from typhus. Doriane and her brother immigrated to the United States.
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I finally had a chance to try lemon and olive oil marinated fennel, highly recommended by a friend who also happens to be one of my favourite bloggers. I love fennel as it is, but the simple marinade of lemon and olive oil truly take it to a whole new level. I whipped up a quick lunch by adding baby spinach leaves (but you could use rocket, if you have it), thinly sliced pear and macadamia nuts to fennel I had marinated for a couple of hours in the fridge.
Marinated Fennel and Pear Salad
(serves 2)
1 fennel bulb, thinly sliced
1 lemon, juiced
2-3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 pear, thinly sliced
baby spinach or rocket leaves
macadamia nuts, roughly chopped
1. Add fennel, lemon juice and olive oil in a bowl. Toss to combine and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
2. To serve, simply toss the marinated fennel with the rest of the ingredients.