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Cochinito PibilTuesday, December 27th, 2011
Twas the season and Christmas was fast approaching. I volunteered to cook for our large family Christmas gathering and an underground oven was calling my name.
What I envisioned was a casual menu of freshly made tortillas holding chunks of slowly cooked fork tender pork topped with killer homemade salsas.
From this vision came the following menu:
Cochinito Pibil
I started two days before Christmas by making an Achiote Rub with the aid of a molcajete. To the rub I added orange and lime juice to make a marinade that was injected all around a 55-pound pig. The pig was then packed in ice and allowed to marinate overnight.
On Christmas Eve logs upon logs were packed into a 5 foot deep by 5-foot wide underground brick oven and ignited to create an inferno.
While the fire was roaring we laid down a large piece of chicken wire on top of a table. We then layered on top of the wire banana leaves to serve as a bed for our marinated pig.
Kosher salt and black pepper was then rubbed inside and out of the pig. Once completed the pig was then rolled up within the leaves and chicken wire like large tamale later to be nicknamed the "Tamalazo."
Once the walls of the oven glowed red hot and nothing but burning embers were left the oven was ready to cook.
A wire was fed through each side of the Tamalazo and it was carefully carried to the oven.
The oven was incredibly hot and with a great deal of patience each end of the wire was fed through 4 wired loops that was secured to the top rim of the oven.
The tamalazo now hung suspended in the oven.
We quickly covered the oven with two iron doors and then with two large sheets of plywood. With the loss of oxygen in the oven white smoke started to billow through the cracks signaling that fire had been snuffed out and the cooking had begun.
The pig cooked overnight for 20 hours.
On Christmas Day we raised the pig from the oven and cut open the chicken wire and banana leaves to find the pig fully cooked, hot and fork tender. We carefully removed pieces of pork and placed them into roasting pans to be quickly transported to our Christmas Day table.
As family members began to make homemade tortillas an assembly line of ingredients quickly formed on the main table with the Cochinito Pibil first in line followed by all the fixings to make some great tacos.

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Okay, so it's not mine, nor do I have a photo of it, but I wanted to expand on a part of the Hambleton House story that involves an actual treasure chest! As I mentioned in my blog post about the Bartlett Pear Inn in Easton (formerly the Hambleton House), a small chest was discovered under one of the staircases* in the home after the passing of Nannie Hambleton, the last of the Hambletons to occupy the building. Nannie Hambleton passed away in 1962, 117 years after her father purchased the property.
*The innkeeper took me on a tour of the Bartlett Pear Inn when I started working on this project and there are several staircases in the building under which the chest may have been kept. There's even a staircase to nowhere that was partially walled off during one of the building's many renovations. You can still see part of it by looking in one of the closets off the main staircase.
The chest that was discovered once belonged to her great-uncle, War of 1812 Purser Samuel Hambleton (not to be confused with Col. Samuel Hambleton (Nannie's father) or Samuel Hambleton III (her brother)).
The elder Samuel Hambleton made a name for himself at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812 by crafting a banner that read "Don't Give Up the Ship." The chest found under the staircase at 28 South Harrison Street in Easton contained his personal papers and his medal for bravery.
Purser Hambleton later built Perry Cabin in St. Michael's, Md., which is also now an inn. Perry Cabin is named after Commodore Oliver H. Perry, with whom Hambleton served during the Battle of Lake Erie.


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Susie Cagle, a reporter for environmental news website grist.org, spent three days putting hundreds of miles on her car to report on California's Salton Sea, a once-popular recreational destination that has transformed into an environmentally devastated wasteland of massive fish and bird die-offs.
Cagle is a journalist, but instead of writing a 5,000-word piece, she leaned on her cartoonist skills to tell the story using a blossoming medium known as comics journalism. Her story was one of a handful of initial offerings available in the first issue of Symbolia, a new iPad magazine taking a unique approach to journalism — telling stories exclusively through the use of sequential art.
"There's an immersive element to comics that makes it easy for a reader to identify with the subject at hand," said Erin Polgreen, founding editor and publisher of Symbolia. "When you simplify an image and render it to its essentials, you make it a lot easier for people to draw parallels to their own lives and experiences."
Comics journalism is nothing new. Comics book artists such as Joe Sacco, Ted Rall, Joe Kubert, and others have been telling nonfiction stories using sequential art for years.
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Polgreen, whose previous experience was helping companies develop new content strategies, got her "I could do this" moment as she read an issue of Wonder Woman on her first iPad. So with a $20,000 grant from the International Women's Media Fund, and $14,000 from Chicago-based Robert McCormick Foundation and J-Lab, she debuted Symbolia at last year's SXSW Interactive.
Symbolia is currently available on the iPad and in PDF, and Polgreen plans to publish six issues per year for $2.99 per issue, or $11.99 for an annual subscription. Polgreen estimates that Symbolia will need 3,000 paid subscribers to sustain the magazine and pay contributors and fact checkers. A little over a month after launching, the magazine is closing in on 500 subscribers.
"We're almost a third of the way to our six-month goal," Polgreen said. "I'd love to be at 1,500 subscribers in six months, but we're doing great."
Symbolia's conversion rate of securing subscribers has been impressive. The first issue is free, and based on that issue users can decide to subscribe for the year. According to Polgreen, digital news sites consider a 5 percent conversion rate to be a good mark of success. Symbolia's conversion rate is at 12.7 percent on the iPad, and she hopes to continue this success when she rolls out versions for Android and Kindle.
In addition to subscription revenue, Polgreen expects to offer advertising and sponsorship options as Symbolia's readership grows. Drawing on her background as a consultant, she's also looking at Symbolia as a means of proving unique content services that other media organizations can utilize, especially those that may be interested in doing comics journalism on their own site.
The economics of comics journalism can be difficult for publishers — producing high-quality illustrated stories can not only be expensive, it adds a new wrinkle in the editorial flow, where fast deadlines and quick turnaround times are already standard issue.
Grist executive editor Scott Rosenberg sidestepped the cost issue and made waves by simply putting Susie Cagle on staff as someone who possesses the skills of both a reporter and a cartoonist, something other organizations have been reluctant to do.
"Susie's combination of classic journalism chops with the unorthodox approach of drawing stuff suits us beautifully," said Rosenberg, who thinks Cagle's unique journalism tool chest lets the story dictate the method and treatment. Grist's integrated design and software development team have also worked to solve any problems that may arise from mixing text-and-image work into the confines of the content management system.
"Because of the nature of newsroom workflow, and the way most journalists are locked into being 'just a writer' or 'just an artist,' too often editors have to decide ahead of time how to handle a story — which toolset to apply," Rosenberg said. "Susie can be much more flexible and responsive to the story itself. That's a great advantage."
Cagle said the biggest hits among readers have been explainer infographics, in which she uses her cartoon style to break down complex issues into a visually appealing narrative that's not intimidating to digest. In the case of a story she wrote about the medical marijuana industry, telling the story in sequential art allowed her access to what a "traditional" reporter may not have been afforded.
"I was able to interview a grower who did not want to reveal his identity. Not only was I able to depict him as a real person speaking to me, but the medium actually made him more comfortable," Cagle said. "There's a humanity to illustration that other types of documentation don't necessarily have in the same way."
Another website taking advantage of the graphic possibilities a cartoonist has to offer is Newsworks.org, the online home of Philadelphia NPR affiliate WHYY (Full disclosure: I am a WHYY contributor). In April 2012, Chris Satullo, executive director of news and civic dialogue at WHYY, stole Pulitzer prize-wining cartoonist Tony Auth (syndicated by Universal Uclick) from his longtime home at The Philadelphia Inquirer and gave him the job as WHYY's first digital artist in residence.
The position, according to Satullo, is intended to allow the popular cartoonist to experiment with new forms of visual storytelling, such as the animated drawings that Auth makes on his iPad that materialize before the readers' eyes, along with audio commentary that helps flesh out the story.
"The Web is a visual medium, and in a social media universe, people are constantly forwarding things they want to share," Satullo said. "Cartoons and visual ideas seem to be more intrinsically sharable than simple written pieces."
The Web offers a lot of freedom to experiment with this form of journalism, and it doesn't require a great leap of technology to handle images and audio. Satullo said he sees a lot of promise in the unique abilities that Auth can bring to a story, and the most exciting aspect is in not knowing where it will end up.
"The coolest idea for how to deploy his talent and craft probably hasn't dawned on us yet," Satullo said.
Rob Tornoe is a cartoonist and columnist for Editor & Publisher and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Oven Baked Haddock
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 25 min.
Makes6 servings
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup chopped celery
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
- 2 cups soft bread crumbs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- Pinch dried tarragon
- Pinch crushed dried rosemary, optional
- 2 pounds haddock fillets
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 4 plum tomatoes, sliced
- In a large skillet, saute onion and celery in butter for 3 minutes or until tender. Add mushrooms; saute 1 minute longer or until tender. Remove from the heat; stir in the bread crumbs, salt, pepper, tarragon and rosemary if desired.
- Place the fillets in a greased 11x7-in. baking dish. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Spoon the bread crumb mixture onto fillets; top with tomatoes. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
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Nov 18, 2014
Delicious! Did not use the tarragon or the rosemary, just salt and pepper. I will make this again!
Jan 7, 2014
I haven't tried this dish yet but I make a pretty similar dish with fish and Its awesome!! I like the idea of adding vegetables to the breadcrumb mixture, I normally just add melted butter to bread crumbs top the fish and then add either fresh or canned diced tomates, if using canned drain extremely well otherwise fish will be soggy, I also add swiss- American cheese to the fish before the tomatoes makes a really nice creamy dish, I will be trying this dish very soon thank you!!!
Nov 8, 2012
Excellent flavors! Instead of mixing the bread crumbs in, I used them for the top. A hit with the whole family!
Aug 9, 2010
I did not realize I had not rated this recipe, I have made it twice. It is absolutely delicious. The only changes I made were: use one whole onion, used a little more butter, used a 10 oz. package mushrooms, only used a dash of sea salt and ground pepper. I did not use tarragon or rosemary.I added some Italian Panko breadcrumbs to the top of the fish. I added Swiss cheese at the end of cooking time to melt.


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New Internationalist 348 August 2002
All photos: Richard Swift unless otherwise stated.
'Don't blow up,' says my friend Jeff Halper's daughter as he and I headed off downtown to his son's West Jerusalem bar. His daughter lost a friend to a suicide bomb. At night West Jerusalem is a ghost town.
'Richard! Richard! You mustn't stop! There are snipers!' This from a Palestinian friend in Beit Jala as I paused, in March this year, to take a picture of one of the many posters of dead people - martyrs to the struggle, people killed by Israeli attacks - that adorn the walls of all Palestinian towns. Later, when we emerged from an interview with a terrified and angry Palestinian writer, we ran into (and away from) an armoured personnel carrier of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).
It was my small taste of the terror that is haunting the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians. It got worse - a lot worse. By April, hundreds of Israelis and four times as many Palestinians had fallen, in a mad cycle of violence. Feries, a Palestinian I know in East Jerusalem, just shakes his head at the wailing of each siren that heralds a new suicide bombing and mutters: 'Will it ever stop? It's not going to stop.'
So who is at fault? Are Palestinians terror-mad fanatics bent on killing Jews because they are Jews? Are Israelis racist colonialists determined to drive the 'Arabs' into the desert and grab their land? There are certainly some (too many) of each: Islamic fundamentalists who have never reconciled themselves to Israel's existence; religious and not-so-religious Israelis who believe they have the right to all biblical land.
The key element that underlies the conflict, that gives energy and credibility to its extremist edges, is what is called 'the occupation'. This is pretty straightforward. Some 230,000 Israeli settlers (400,000 counting those in Greater Jerusalem) sit on land occupied by the Israeli military during the Six Day War, back in 1967. This small population controls a disproportionate share of the best land and vital water resources. In Gaza (taken from Egypt), for example, some 7,000 settlers control 20 per cent of the land, leaving a million-odd Palestinians crowded into the rest.
The capture of the West Bank of the Jordan River was effected on the orders of Moshe Dayan, the general in charge of military operations and an outspoken advocate of a 'settlement' policy. In 1967, when the Jordanian army retreated across the Jordan River, Dayan ordered his troops to fill the vacuum. In a meeting of staff officers the night after the unexpected capture, Yitzhak Rabin asked Dayan the obvious question: 'How do we control a million Arabs?'1 No-one has yet come up with an answer - and there are now 2.5 million 'Arabs'.
Who was responsible for that war remains a matter of debate among historians. But a significant portion of Israelis (the religious and orthodox Right, the influential upper echelons of the military) simply regard the captured land as part of Israel. They are not bothered by the fact that the settlements are a violation of international law. In 1977 Ariel Sharon (then Likud's Minister of Agriculture) laid out 'A Vision of Israel at Century's End', calling for the settlement of two million Jews in the occupied territories.2 Yet those Israelis who believe this land belongs to them have not figured what to do with the people who live there. They are certainly unwilling to grant the Palestinians citizenship, which they fear would endanger the 'Jewish' nature of Israel. The Palestinians do not want this either; they want the Israelis gone and their own state. To the Palestinians this land is Palestine. To the Israelis it is Judea and Samaria.
To protect the settlements the Israelis have built up a formidable military structure of road blocks, army bases, border controls, secret police surveillance, aerial patrols, 300 miles of US-financed, Israeli-only, by-pass roads. It splits Palestinian territory into some 22 separate 'Bantustans'. You can't move in any direction from any major Palestinian population centre without having to pass through at least one Israeli checkpoint. For Palestinians this is demeaning, time-consuming and often dangerous. In times not dominated by tanks and helicopter gunships the checkpoint is the very essence of occupation. The cost to the Palestinian economy is staggering. In Bethlehem you sometimes can't get fresh vegetables for love or money, while not many miles away in Jericho they rot for a lack of a market.
A particularly busy Israeli checkpoint separates Jerusalem from Ramallah . Right outside the poverty-stricken Kalandia refugee camp, it bristles with machine-gun nests and tanks. Every day it is clogged with Palestinian vehicles and pedestrians lining up to show their papers in the hope of getting through - to work, to see family, to go to school. As they reach the head of the line, pedestrians go one-by-one to the beckoning soldiers to discover their fate. Every once in a while a shot goes off or a tear-gas canister is thrown to keep the crowd in order. Tempers are short and law is at a minimum. Fights sometimes break out. You can feel the tension in the air. There have been 12 deaths and 700 injuries in the Kalandia camp in confrontations with the Israeli military since the current intifada started.
Israelis often despair of being in the world's spotlight and point to other injustices that don't get nearly the same amount of ink. The question hangs in the air: 'Is it because we are Jews?' The answer is: 'Partially.' There is a huge appetite in Jewish communities around the world for media coverage of what is happening in the Holy Land. Other communities associated with the great monothesitic religions (Muslims, Christians) also thirst for this news. But I think there is another reason. Israel and Palestine are in a sense where North meets South, where the economic cleavages of the world economy are writ small. It is only about an hour's drive from the crowded Dehaiseh refugee camp near Bethlehem to the split-level homes of Hertzilia, north of Tel Aviv. But, as the British playwright David Hare once described it, it is like travelling 'from Bangladesh to Southern California'.
The average per-capita income in Israel is about $17,000 - that of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza is $1,700 and dropping. Wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness, collide in very close proximity. The psychotic level of inequality that haunts the fractured global economy is here a matter of everyday friction. A Palestinian village with not enough water to feed its livestock lies directly below an Israeli settlement with a brimming swimming pool. So, in a sense, Israel must bear the cross of how 'we' treat 'them'. And, despite the short distances, these are also two very separate solitudes. It is illegal for Palestinians to go to Israel and for Israelis to travel to the territories. The exceptions are Palestinians who live in Greater Jerusalem, which the Israeli Government considers part of Israel proper, and the Israeli settlers who are permitted to travel to their fortress-like colonies in the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli journalists are not allowed to travel to the territories to cover what is going on there. Practically all the news that Israelis get of what is happening in the territories is filtered through the public-relations department of the IDF. Each suicide bombing or other attack in Israel is minutely dissected by the country's three TV networks, with the human face of the tragedy there for all to see. But a military attack in the West Bank is a question of 'how many terrorists killed, how many bomb factories destroyed, how many weapons confiscated'. There are no human faces. So most journalists, whether Israeli or Palestinian, are denied the chance to present the other side. Hania, a Palestinian and veteran of the first intifada who lives in Ramallah, shakes her head with sorrow: 'The only contact we have with the Israelis now is the soldiers and the settlers; and the only contact they have with us is the suicide bombers.'
It's hard to judge how far this separation is by circumstance or by design. Safety is obviously an issue. But the Israeli authorities make the rules, and it is easier to manipulate public opinion when people see themselves only as outraged victims. Many in Israel would give up the settlements for peace. Those who wish to hold on to the land have to blur the distinction between the territories and Israel. They are aided in this by Palestinian attacks that also make no such distinction. Holding on to the captured land is the hidden agenda of Israeli politics. There is a six-lane settler highway running out of Jerusalem into the West Bank. This is far more road capacity than is currently needed. Planners are obviously counting on more, not fewer, settlers in the future. Anyone who proposes withdrawal for Gaza and the West Bank is painted as 'soft on Arab terrorism'.
Those who support the greater-Israel agenda are well-placed, fierce and determined. These are the settlers, most of the ultra-orthodox Jews, and the idealogically inspired political Right that rallies around the Likud Party. It is they (led by former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu) who whipped up a vicious campaign of vilification against Yitzhak Rabin for reaching an agreement with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Oslo in 1993. Rabin was variously painted as a Nazi stormtrooper or a compromiser along the lines of Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who sold out Czechoslovakia to the Nazis before World War Two. The campaign culminated with Rabin's assassination by a deranged, ultra-Zionist law student who claimed he was shooting 'a terrorist'. Fear of the messianic Right now haunts Israeli politics.
However, the most important supporters of the greater-Israel agenda are not fanatical settlers but the 'political' generals. It is perhaps simplest to speak of a creeping military coup. Under real and imagined siege, Israelis have come to rely on the views of the military, which have long dominated Israeli politics. But the shift has become more marked, with many of the main political actors - Sharon, Barak, Effim - coming from the military. Most of its upper echelons were not happy with the Oslo peace process, despite the fact that it was initiated by one of their own, Yitzhak Rabin. Even while talking peace, the military high command and the political generals hatched a series of contingency plans to destroy the Palestinian Authority. This is a matter of public record.3 The plans were in place well before the wave of suicide bombers that has marked the second intifada.
The ideals of a democratic and peaceful homeland that inspired at least some of Israel's first pioneers were caught from the earliest days in a vice of contradiction. Creating Israel in a hostile environment meant relying on military force to survive. Sharon is the last old warrior of the Jewish liberation movement, trying to pass the torch to a new generation of ultra-nationalists. Once a society has come to rely on thugs for its protection it is usually not long before the thugs start to take over.
You can see the change in the decline of the once-proud Kibbutz, known for its openness and egalitarianism, now replaced by the fortified settlement based on exclusion and surveillance. Israeli political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty. Public figures (and there are many) who speak out against the occupation are vilified. The 77-year-old Israeli patriotic singer Yaffa Yarkoni had performances and tributes cancelled when she said the unsayable, comparing the tactics of the IDF in the territories to methods used against the Jews in the Holocaust.4 Some Israelis believe that the country has sacrificed its cherished claim to democracy by keeping millions of Palestinians in political limbo without political or civil rights for 35 years.
The tragic dance between Israelis and Palestinians can be seen in the photos and posters that crowd the walls of Nablus and Bethlehem, and in the memorials that dot the Israeli countryside. The preoccupation on both sides is with keeping faith. With the martyrs of the struggle. With the innocent victims of the Nazi killing machine. With those who resisted. With the brave soldiers who fell to gain a homeland. One person's terrorist, another person's freedom fighter. For the Israelis it's the holocaust, for the Palestinians the catastrophe. For Israel it is 'never again', for Palestinians 'samud' (steadfastness).
It's impossible to be glib about any of this. Anti-Semitism can never be seen as simply an excuse. Given the 20th century, as a Jew you would be mad not to look over your shoulder and wonder on occasion - what do they intend for me? This is passed down from Holocaust survivors to the generations that follow, and then to those that follow them.
David Grossman, a brilliant Israeli writer and a staunch opponent of the occupation, captures the obsession in his devastating novel See Under: Love. 'Wait a minute: did she turn off the gas? And suddenly I'm talking about the Holocaust again. I don't even know how I got back to it. I can get there from anywhere. I'm a regular Holocaust homing pigeon. And for the thousandth time in a voice that doesn't carry much conviction, I ask "how can life go on after we have seen what a human being is capable of?"'5.
But it does. And the Holocaust is alive in the very bones of Israel. How could it be otherwise? And the experience can be, and is, manipulated to justify things that, while in no way the same as the Nazis policy of mass industrial killing, do have some pretty uncomfortable echoes. People catagorized. Their movement controlled. Their houses destroyed. Herded into communities where they can be kept under close surveillance. Their rights restricted. Humiliation based on race. And woe betide them if they resist. Then it's helicopter gunships and F-16s. Prisoners rounded up and numbers stencilled on to their arms. Torture and imprisonment. The means of economic survival - shops, olive orchards, agricultural land - laid waste. Communities invaded and smashed beyond recognition.
On the other side, the Palestinians grow ever-more desperate. The hopes Oslo brought are now dashed. It is hard to believe that the young militants of the first intifada gave olive branches to Israeli soldiers after the Madrid peace conference, back in 1991. Attitudes have hardened and grown bitter. The fundamentalists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have grown stronger and the Palestinian Left has declined. Suicide bombers have widespread (though far from total) approval. And the violence inevitably rebounds on Palestinian society. The brutal execution of people accused of collaboration is just one example. Roni Ben Efrat, an Israeli peace activist I meet in Jaffa, calls the suicide bombings 'a gesture of hopelessness by political Islam'. She believes it says to people: 'Your life is nothing... It is all in the next world, there is nothing for you in this world.' Efrat, who was jailed by the Israeli Government for supporting the first intifada, believes that 'when you lose the value of life, it will boomerang against your society'.
Her concerns are echoed by at least some Palestinians. Well-known Palestinian spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi recently agonized: 'Why and when did we allow a few from our midst to interpret Israeli military attacks on innocent Palestinian lives as licence to do the same to their civilians? Where are those voices and forces that should have stood up for the sanctity of innocent lives (ours and theirs), instead of allowing the horror of our own suffering to silence us?'6.
Such voices are, however, marginalized in the current climate. A popular discourse of hatred prevails. Even so, Palestinians make strange models for the primitive and fanatical racial 'other', as they are frequently painted in Israel. Palestinian civil society is quite sophisticated. There are some 900 non-governmental organizations and a plethora of media often critical of the undoubted failings of the Palestinian Authority. There is fierce debate over the best tactics to use, and a keen interest in every aspect of political life. There was hardly a Palestinian home I visited where the TV was not constantly monitored for the most recent news. Palestinian society has been much exposed to cosmopolitan influences and is by tradition not particularly religious. Though a majority is Muslim, there is a significant and influential Christian minority.
The media coverage, both regional and international, tends to flatten perceptions. The sophistication and savvy of the Palestinians get lost, as does the degree of dissent and debate in Israel. A huge Israeli peace demonstration of between 60,000 and 100,000 people this spring went virtually unnoticed by the North American media. This distortion tilts Jewish diaspora politics towards uncritical support for the Sharon agenda. In the US it works its way into George Bush's agenda for an all-encompassing 'War on Terror', as well as Christian Zionist sentiment in favour of Israel. All of which adds up to effectively unqualified support for the Israeli Government. The Bush regime even seems to feel that it has the right to choose a compliant Palestinian leadership - whatever the wishes of Palestinians.
With US support solid, the Israeli Right sees little need for any kind of compromise at all. For at least some key supporters of the Sharon agenda civilian casualties are the unfortunate price to be paid for smashing the Palestinians. So the choices facing the region are stark. Continue with the present deadly stalemate. Ethnically cleanse the West Bank, which would cost tens of thousands of lives - mostly Palestinian. Or roll back the occupation and work to undermine the extremists on both sides.
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Dragon's Lair App Lets You Relive Dirk's Glory
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Dragon's Lair 30th Anniversary by Dragon's Lair is available in the iTunes App Store for US$4.99.
One of the amazing things about our new connected world of software development and easy access to consumers is how old-school games can find new life with entirely new audiences through iOS and OS X. Case in point? The Dragon's Lair 30th Anniversary app for iOS.
Dragon's Lair is a really old arcade game. Seriously old, as in it was a laserdisc video game. I barely remember laserdiscs, and until recently, I had no idea the game spans three decades. I just vaguely remembered it from my youth -- more warm and fuzzy feelings than memory, really.
I'm not even sure how old I was when I first stumbled onto the big-footed animated hero, Dirk -- but I do remember awesome brightly animated scenes and a gangly hero who must swing his sword and leap from spot to spot, all with perfect timing.
Your reward? A smoothly animated action scene. Somehow, despite being hopelessly 2D, the game managed to feel lively. And does it hold up after so many years?
Snakes, Bats and Dragons
In the game, you play as Dirk the Daring, and your goal is to rescue Fair Princess Daphne who has been kidnapped by Singe the Evil Dragon. Dirk must make his way through the castle and caverns below the castle by tapping in the correct direction at the right time, in addition to swinging a sword.
On one side of the screen, you have four directional arrows to tap. On the other, a round sword button. Each control will light up to give you a cue as to when you need to tap it.
There are numerous foes, fire and perilous drops. To survive, you don't actually control Dirk -- seems odd now, I know, but hey, that's how it was. Instead, you tell Dirk which direction to go at the right time and tell him to swing his sword by tapping the aforementioned buttons. Get the timing right, and the game unfolds as if it were a running action cartoon.
Nostalgia Bonanza
In 2013, I'm not sure how enjoyable the game play is vs. the joy of watching an old masterpiece come back to life. Would a 12-year-old kid care? Hard to say. For older gamers, though, Dragon's Lair will be a fun diversion.
The artwork is done by the ex-Disney animator Don Bluth, of course, and the 30th Anniversary game itself includes a full watch feature that lets you see the animation unfold in all its glory.
If you're so inclined, Dragon's Lair 30th Anniversary has Apple Game Center support, which will let you see high scores from around the world.
As for game play, you can choose a Home mode or the original Arcade mode that pushes you forward. Each mode contains a few different scenes in addition to the core action. Either way, I keep the Lives setting on Infinite.
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3-28-09 McKechnie Field, Bradenton FL
My dad and I left our hotel at 9:50 this morning to see the Philadelphia Phillies take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton FL. The plan was to get there early and attempt to snag some home run balls in batting practice. Even though McKechnie Field doesn't have an outfield seating area, there's a narrow walkway behind the left field fence. I was planning on standing on this sidewalk and chasing down any home runs that came may way.
If you notice in the picture below, the wind was blowing straight out to left between 30-50mph. Little particles kept flying in my eyes and I was kicking myself for not bringing my sunglasses.
I soon abandoned my plan to roam the walkway pictured above. It was too narrow, and I had absolutely no chance of seeing home run balls coming. I moved a bit more toward left center where there was a parking lot for an adjacent school. Competition was slim, as you can see in the picture below. My dad went back to the left field foul pole to watch some batting practice. I heard him yell, "ERIK!" Then I heard some crackling branches above my head. Ball #1 dropped out of the trees and I quickly pounced on it. Another minute later my dad yelled my name again, and another ball crashed through the trees and I fielded it was it bounced off a root. It was Ball #2.
Although I got the first two balls to come out this way, I wasn't happy that I didn't see either of them coming. I couldn't pick the ball up by standing where I was. Before, I was standing too close to the fence. I had no contrast to pick the ball up except the light blue high. I moved farther back.
My dad came back from the foul pole and decided to patrol the area near the school beneath the trees.
This was my spot for much of BP. If you're wondering why I'm wearing a Phillies hat, its because the only Pirate hat I brought was the one Ian Snell threw me on 9-21-08, and I didn't want to get that one sweaty.
Soon, another Home Run Ball came out. I had crept in a bit, and that proved to be a mistake. The ball hit about 10 feet in front of me and took a huge hop over my head. My dad was in position to make the snag, but the second bounce went over his head too and hit off of the white shed in the picture below. I ran the ball down, it was ball #3.
Besides the guy in the Phillies jersey a couple pictures up, there were a few entrepreneurial ballhawks in attendance today. They were rough looking locals who caught balls and sold them on the street for $4 or $5. Whenever these guys got a ball, they would take out a brush and doctor the balls up. I was told later by some guy that they bleached the balls to make them look brand new. They also dominated balls that landed within the fence which you can see in the first picture. They had 6 foot sticks that they would inch the balls closer to the fence, and then squeeze the ball under the fence. I could've had maybe 2 more balls today if I had a way to get these balls. There were 3 of these guys and a little kid. They didn't hang around for long though. I continued to wait patiently for my next opportunity.
I got Ball #4 a bit later. It was a home run ball that hit off a palm tree and had lost most of its momentum. It started rolling towards me in the parking lot with one of the hustler ballhawk bleachers in pursuit. I charged the ball like an infielder charges a slow roller and got to it just in time.
Another ball came out soon after that my Dad chased down for his first career batting practice home run ball. He is hoping to get another one tomorrow for one of his nephews.
Batting practice then ended. I had got 4 balls, but I wasn't done yet. Next to where I had been standing was a school. The school was directly behind the left field wall. The roof of the school was completely flat, meaning balls that were hit on the school stayed on the school. Before leaving, I had looked around for any "Easter Eggs." There was one behind the batter's eye in Center Field, but it was a good 15 feet beyond the fence. Impossible to get. I walked over to right center field. There were a good 7 balls laying on the Pirates infield practice field. No one was around at all, but the gates were locked. I waited for a bit and then got an 8 foot long 2×4 off of a scrap heap.
Earlier in batting practice, a ball had landed on the aforementioned school. I thought I may have a chance of reaching it.
Look closely, can you see the ball?
I tried to reach it with the 2×4 board, but couldn't because the roof was too high and I couldn't get enough leverage. I needed to be able to stand on something and I would be able to get it.
My dad had the idea of moving over a wooden picnic table for me to stand on.
I couldn't see the ball, so with my dad telling me "left, right" etc, I was able to get ball #5.
I was pleased with 5 balls
for my first time snagging in Bradenton. It was a completely different experience than what I am used to. Not being able to see the ball until it was landing made it fun to chase the balls down. It also gave those with some agility an advantage. There was also a lot of luck involved. There was some 80 year old guy walking in from the parking lot who got a home run ball that clanked off a branch, took a soft bounce on the concrete and right into his hand.
The Bradenton ballhawk experience is much like the Chicago Cubs' Waveland Avenue experience. You really can't see the ball until the last second, and then you have to scramble to chase it down. It was fun.
On to the game:
The Pirates gave most of their regulars the day off. The only regular today was Adam LaRoche. Many regulars were given off due to the night game yesterday. I was a little disappointed. At least the Phillies brought all of their stars. Ian Snell was on the mound for the Pirates. The Pirates ended up winning the game 10-4, fueled by Andrew McCutchen's 5 for 5 day. There were some towering home runs in the game, including a Ryan Howard shot that cleared the batter's eye.
I'll close this entry with some action shots from today's game:
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"Having the option to choose a major and continue into nursing provides you with two degrees in five years, an incredible feat that many people are unable to accomplish," says Taylor Robinson '10, who now works as an RN at Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, SC.
A biology major, Robinson holds two bachelor of science degrees. After graduation, she was accepted into Drexel University's Accelerated Career Entry Program where she earned a secondary degree in nursing in just 11 months. She owes her ability to "think outside the box" to her time at Washington College.
"I was constantly challenged and supported by my professors and I was able to develop a work ethic conducive to the real world," she says. The class selection allowed me to tailor my senior year toward healthcare and I believe I was successful in my nursing program solely due to my education and experiences at Washington College."
Nursing students usually take the 3:2 route, where the first three years are spent at Washington College and two years are spent at one of three partnered nursing programs at University of Delaware, University of Maryland, or Johns Hopkins University. Robinson chose a non-traditional route and finished four years of study at Washington College.
"Finishing all four years was the best decision I ever made. I knew WC had more to teach me. The staff I work with at Beaufort is similar to the community at WC—they come from all over the United States—and college taught me how to work with people who have different backgrounds and ideas, just as my fellow colleagues do."
Robinson is now confident in her critical thinking skills and her ability to ask compelling questions in all aspects of her job. "Washington College prepared me above and beyond for life."


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The long partnership of Sandy Weill and Jamie Dimon was the stuff of legends. Starting when Dimon went to work for Weill straight out of business school in 1982, the two men built a financial empire included Smith Barney, travellers and finally Citicorp. Then, suddenly, in 1998 it was over.
What happened?
It may have had something to do with a 1995 New York Times article titled "Becoming His Own Man." In his new book, Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase, Duff McDonald tells how that story caused a rift between the two men strong enough that Weill's wife felt she needed to tell Dimon's mother (the families had been friends since Dimon's father Ted worked for Weill) that it was "not good for Jamie to be getting this kind of publicity."
Weill, who had approved the idea of the article and whose PR team had overseen the process, felt slighted by two things about the article. The first was the accompanying picture, in which Dimon was in the foreground and Weill in the background. To some, it simply looked like Weill was a proud mentor looking over the shoulder of his accomplished protégé. But Weill interpreted it differently—as if it showed Dimon pushing Weill into the background. McDonald says the picture outraged Weill.
But even more than the picture was a quote from Joseph Califano, a Travellers director who had been the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter Administration. Califano had said that Dimon was actually running things. "He runs Smith Barney," said Califano, adding that Dimon was more and more the driving force at travellers as a whole.
Fortune has an excerpt from McDonald's book that tells what happened next:
Several people told Dimon that the story was going to cause him problems. They were right. Weill barged into a meeting the next day. "Who the fuck told Joe Califano to say that? And who chose that photo?"
Still, Dimon failed to initially recognise the shift in his boss' perspective. "I was still a little bit of a kid," recalls Dimon. "Weill's PR people orchestrated it. He knew about it. He knew better, and I didn't. But I don't think it was really about the picture. He looked more like a proud father in it than anything else. It was about Califano's quote. All of a sudden there was the question: 'Is Jamie really running this place?' I think that was what got to him."
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I am re-releasing a series of children's audo content. Originally available in the late 70s and early 80s, these are still desirable. I colllected all these, then sought out the copyright holders, negotiated the rights and have sold thousands of dollars worth of them on my website. It's a labor of love, in many ways.
Parents, Grandparents of children ages 4-10. The ideal group would be interested in appealing graphics, bright colors, education, and creativity.
For this contest, I'm only interested in one design. If I award you the project, then we'll work on all 18. You can choose the title you wish to work with from the list below.
I have had one CD label designed and am happy with it. I need to design 18 others, all similar to the first. The major difference between the 18 is their subject title.
The logo will be supplied and would be the same on all labels. The current label I have is for "Outer Space" and features a cartoon-like image of the Little Thinker (logo), a banner stating "Little Thinker", the title of the CD "Outer Space" and a simple background and some non-royalty art (1-2 images) typifying the CD's theme.
On the 18 designs I'm looking for, the logo and banner would stay the same. The title would vary as would the background and theme images.
I intend to both print these myself, and use the designs on commercially produced CDs. I'm attaching the design that I currently use for "Outer Space" as a point of reference.
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Hillary Clinton (Democrat) Birth: Oct. 26, 1947; Chicago Home city: Chappaqua, N.Y. Family: Husband Bill Clinton (1975-present); daughter Chelsea (1980) Religion: Methodist Education: Wellesley College, B.A., 1969; Yale University Law School, J.D., 1973 Campaign Web site: www.hillaryclinton.com Read all about her: "Living History" (2003) Career: 1964: Worked in the presidential campaign of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. 1968: Switched to the Democratic Party and campaigned for Eugene McCarthy. 1974: Began working for the House Judiciary Committee, which oversaw the inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Nixon. Nixon later resigned and Clinton moved to Arkansas to teach at the University of Arkansas School of Law. 1976-1992: Attorney at Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas; named partner in 1979. 1978: Bill Clinton elected governor. Hillary Clinton continued to work at Rose Law Firm, the first first lady of Arkansas to continue to work while her husband is governor. 1982: After losing the 1980 gubernatorial election, Bill Clinton returned to office to remain for eight years. During that time, Hillary Clinton was appointed chairwoman of the Rural Health Advisory Committee and head of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee. 1993: Became first lady after Bill Clinton elected president. 1993: President Clinton named his wife to lead the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She testified before the House Ways and Means Committee in support of President Clinton's health care package, but the health care reform bill was later defeated by Congress. 1996: Hillary Clinton testified before a federal grand jury about the billing records from Rose Law Firm and Whitewater. In 2002, Independent Counsel Robert Ray released his final report on the eight-year investigation of the Clintons, saying they had not obstructed justice or committed perjury, but that they had given inaccurate testimony. 2000: Elected to the U.S. Senate from New York with 56 percent of the vote. 2006: Re-elected to second term. Sources: CNN.com, VoteSmart.org


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Apple has filed a patent for an iWatch-like device with a flexible touchscreen display, Mikey Campbell of AppleInsider reports.
The patent, which Apple filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in August 2011, is for a "Bi-stable spring with flexible display" that conforms to your wrist or other parts of the body.
The device, according to the patent, would have a continuous display and be able to connect with other portable devices, like the iPhone and even more basic handsets, via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
With the device, users would be able to do things like adjust the order of a playlist, see recent phone calls, and respond to text messages, according to the patent.
Speculation regarding the iWatch has heated up recently, and Apple reportedly has 100 people working on a smartwatch.
The final product could end up looking very different than what's shown in the patent filing, but the patent demonstrates that Apple is indeed working on a smartwatch.
Watch below for everything we know about Apple's so-called iWatch:
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In the 40 years since The Rascals disbanded, the band's name has sort of grown a paunch. These days, it's more associated with a brand of motorized wheelchair than a pioneering group of musicians.
Well the original Rascals are back - and on Broadway, no less - to prove that grandpa can still rock out.
During a two-hour concert at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, the four - Felix Cavaliere on keyboard and vocals, singer Eddie Brigati, drummer Dino Danelli and guitarist Gene Cornish - seem to have taken musical Viagra.
Brigati gleefully smashed two tambourines against his thigh and Cornish playfully threw guitar picks into the crowd. These pioneers of blue-eyed soul were having fun and that became infectious.
The show is part of a 15-concert stand and combines live performance, video reenactments, archival concert, op-art backdrops and psychedelic lighting. Steven Van Zandt, the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, shares directing duties with visual designer Marc Brickman.
The band, only reuniting recently under Van Zandt's careful prodding, prove to have a deep and rich catalog including the hits "It's a Beautiful Morning," "How Can I Be Sure," "People Got to Be Free" and "I've Been Lonely Too Long." They breeze through 30 songs that span rockabilly, funk, blues, soul and psychedelic. Three backup singers, a bassist and extra keyboardist round out the sound.
They kicked it off with "Once Upon a Dream" and smartly made the crowd wait a full hour before giving them what they ached for - "Good Lovin,'" which brought everyone to their feet. The band could have ended it there - leaving plenty of time for fans to snap up $65 hoodies and $30 T-shirts - but kept going.
The music is periodically interrupted by filmed footage of the bandmates talking about how they met in the 60s, worked together, withstood the British invasion and then broke up by the early 1970s. ("It all went dark," they say as the toll of mismanagement, drugs and infighting took their toll. "We missed the 70s. And the 80s. And the 90s."
There are a few cute scenes with actors playing the younger versions of the middle-aged men onstage. But there's precious little concert footage of the four back when they were prowling the New York-New Jersey club scene. Nor are there any ad-lib remarks, just recorded ones.
The projections aren't universally awesome - sometimes there's nothing on the massive 50-foot-by-25-foot LED back screen. Sometimes it's hazy `60s babes bouncing about, or cartoons, or what looks like an octopus eating its young. And lots and lots of blooming flowers. Their outfits are mostly suit pants and flower-pattered shirts under vests. Brigati bravely topped his outfit with a matching scarf.
But it's the music that rightly stands out and The Rascals prove they were more than just a few hits. Songs like "Too Many Fish in the Sea," "If You Knew" and "Hold On" show their range. The voices of Brigati and Cavaliere are still strong even if they no longer have the roundness of youth. That matters little - it's just nice to see everyone groovin.'
Brigati has perhaps the best line in the show. Just before the band had a big break, he was involved in a serious car accident. Still badly injured, his bandmates dragged him to work and he miraculously recovered. "Any good band is kind of a miracle, right?" he muses.


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Sanford Health Business Development Specialist – Chicago, IL in Chicago, Illinois
Business Development Specialist – Chicago, IL
Thank you for your interest in this position. It is a job opportunity with one of Profile by Sanford's franchise partners. Please submit your cover letter and resume with this link: APPLY HERE at https://estratex.com/Jobs/Profile
Join America's newest and most advanced weight loss, activity and lifestyle coaching enterprise. Now featuring Profile Precise, DNA testing / nutrigenetics that unlocks the genetics of our member's metabolism, a game-changer for the industry. This Business Development position in particular may offer opportunities for expansion of territory, upward mobility or horizontal movement to new locations, and personal and financial growth.
Position Description
This individual will have an overall responsibility to:
Deliver sales results against assigned quota and the development of a sufficient, qualified pipeline of referral sources and members to meet high-growth revenue requirements.
Plan and implement strategies to identify opportunities, penetrate new business and expand market share within assigned territory.
Build and maintain qualified prospects through telephone prospecting, cold-calling, e-mail and direct marketing.
Create strategic proposals and deliver compelling presentations to prospective customers.
Manage territory as a business to maximize sales through analyzing the market dynamics to ensure territory sales goals are met.
Develop and implement own territory business plan in line with corporate strategy and works within agreed budgets.
Work closely with store managers and coaches to coordinate sales efforts for each store (i.e. presentations, lunch and learns, promotions and new store launches).
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We're posting this just to be obnoxious, and we will not pretend otherwise: During Nebraska's 34-20 victory over Missouri, Tigers quarterback Chase Daniel discovers a way to replenish proteins burned through on the field of battle.
Honestly, if we didn't find video of athletes picking their nose and eating what they found ... jeez, what kind of blog would we be? We just report the news, people.


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Red Sox still up 5-0 in Game 1
Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) - Adam Wainwright settled down after a rough start in Game 1 of the World Series, but the St. Louis Cardinals haven't cashed in on the few scoring chances they've had against Boston's Jon Lester.
Lester has scattered five hits and a walk while fanning six as the Red Sox lead the opener of the Fall Classic, 5-0, through six innings.
Boston took advantage of several early miscues and jumped on top via Mike Napoli's three-run double in the first inning.
Lester shut down the NL champs over the first three frames and worked out of jams in the fourth and fifth. With the bases loaded and one out in the fourth, he got 2011 World Series MVP David Freese to bounce into a 1-2-3 double play.
Jonny Gomes made a diving catch to rob Matt Adams of a hit to start the fifth, proving vital after the Cardinals put runners on second and third with two outs. Jon Jay grounded out to short to end the threat.
Jay was an in-game replacement for the injured Carlos Beltran, who suffered a right rib contusion in the second inning after robbing David Ortiz of a grand slam.
Wainwright, making his first World Series start, retired 10 of the final 11 hitters he faced following Ortiz's sacrifice fly. The All-Star right-hander allowed five runs -- three earned -- on six hits and a walk.
John Axford relieved Wainwright in the sixth and struck out the side.
This is the fourth time these storied franchises have met in the Fall Classic. St. Louis won the first two in 1946 and 1967, and the Red Sox famously returned the favor in 2004 to end their 86-year title drought.
Only Ortiz and St. Louis' Yadier Molina remain from the matchup from nine years ago, and Ortiz was prominently involved in a controversial play in the first inning Wednesday when he bounced into what appeared to be a tailor-made double play with one out and runners on first and second.
Pete Kozma dropped Matt Carpenter's flip to the second-base bag, however, and Dana DeMuth's ensuing call caused a firestorm. The second base umpire ruled Kozma lost control on the exchange and Dustin Pedroia out at second as a result.
Red Sox manager John Farrell sprung from the dugout to argue, and after an extended meeting with all six umpires, the call was reversed. Mike Matheny, who like Farrell is managing in his first World Series, went out for a heated exchange with the men in blue, but his appeal fell on deaf ears.
With the bases now loaded, Napoli delivered a line drive into the left-field gap. A generous bounce off the Green Monster allowed Ortiz to score all the way from first after Jacoby Ellsbury and Pedroia easily crossed the plate.
Boston loaded the bases again in the second. Wainwright and Molina stared at one another as Stephen Drew's pop up dropped between them to start the inning. David Ross followed with a single, and two batters later Kozma couldn't handle Shane Victorino's tough ground ball in the hole.
Pedroia singled past a diving David Freese at third to bring in a run, and Ortiz brought the Fenway Park crowd to its feet when he belted a pitch deep to right field.
Beltran, though, casually made a grand slam-saving catch at the wall just as he ran into it, and Ross tagged up and scored for a 5-0 lead for the AL champs.
In obvious pain after making the catch, Beltran went to the locker room the next half-inning, and Jay took his place in the lineup. The Cardinals announced later Beltran was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.
The Game 1 winner has won nine of the last 10 World Series.


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Invitation to Participate in 2013 Black Squirrel Festival
Kent Student Center Programming invites university departments to participate in the 32nd Annual Black Squirrel Festival taking place on Friday, Sept. 6, from 2-8 p.m. at the Kent Campus on the Student Green and Risman Plaza. The Black Squirrel Festival is one of Kent State's most beloved and popular traditions that attracts more than 3,000 students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Kent community. As usual, live, free entertainment, festival food, local vendors and Black Squirrel spirit will all be a part of this year's event. The movie Monsters University will be shown at 9 p.m. on the Student Green.
In order to participate and reserve your table, university departments are required to fill out a contract form and mail it or drop it off at Room 226 at the Kent Student Center by Aug. 30. Please note that if your organization is sponsoring a vendor, you must also have the vendor fill out a separate application, which can be obtained from the Kent Student Center Programming office. Fees may apply for the vendor.
Mail completed contract forms to:
Attn: Halie Morgan and Lindsay Wheeler
Kent Student Center Programming c/o CSI
P.O. Box 5190
226 Kent Student Center
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242
If you have any questions about the Black Squirrel Festival, please contact Kent Student Center Programming at 330-672-8188 or email email@example.com.


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Planning Council/October 05 2011
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|Planning Council Conference Call
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|Wednesday, October 05, 2011, at 1200 Eastern
|For the call-in numbers, see the "Project Review" number on Foundation Portal page.
Members and Attendees
Note: "Inactive" refers to Strategic Members we have not heard from in a year or so, and have been unable to convince to participate. Those members can become active again at any time. Contact David Williams if questions.
Note: feel free to correct any errors/omissions in above attendance record.
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Juno Plan and Requirements
I've updated our Planning Document with SR dates ... I consider the document "done for Juno" ... except for links (and content) for requirements and tracking. (Please proof read, especially dates for SRs).
Previous year's document on "eclipse web", moved to "eclipse wiki"] I have edited, for clarity and organization. Only "requirement" I've changed, so far, it the one about 3.8 support (previously, was about 4.1 support).
Checklist? (tracking?)
Next Meeting
- November 2, 2011 (our regular "first Wednesday" meeting, at Noon Eastern).


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Welcome to the Text Festival.
The Text Festival in Bury is an internationally recognised event investigating contemporary language art (poetry, text art, sound and media text, live art). Opening on 2 May 2014, the next Festival will be its fourth manifestation and run into July 2014.
Against the background of global stylistic multiplicity, the use of language spans many artforms and may even be a unifying field of enquiry, a new definition and a new field of international linguistic art practice and dialogue. The Bury Festival is the leading focus of language in 21st Century art. Text Festival's purpose is to be the space where artists and writers from all over the world can meet, share and show the increasingly important possibilities of language in art. Its art-led approach allows it to avoid the limitations and pressure of expectation which constricts many other festivals and actively contribute to future development. The Festival specialises in experiments, in new experiences, in performances and exhibitions that mix artforms in ground-breaking combinations that challenge traditional language art boundaries and offer artists a forum for dialogue and exchange of ideas.
Art Monthly commented of the Festival:
"According to Foucault, the singularities that serve to rupture and renew normative discourse always emerge from the interstices – in other words, where nobody is looking. Almost certainly nobody was looking in the direction of Bury for the emergence of this significant project…"


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Gas drilling
Lebanon targets gas tenders in 3 months
Lebanon will issue international tenders for drilling in its potentially gas-rich Mediterranean waters and aims to have contracts signed with the winning firms within a year, its Minister of Energy said on Thursday. Interest in drilling ofMore…
Turkey, Egypt mull joint gas exploration
Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Wednesday Turkey may carry out gas exploration in the Mediterranean with Egypt and that it was considering importing gas from the north African country. 'Turkey and Egypt may work together iMore…
Rosneft to invest $630 million in Crescent JV
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You'd either click everywhere on a painting until something worked, or you'd be greeted with messages like these, done by artist Joe Alterio.
Jeez, rip those messages out of bright and cheery games and they're pretty blunt. And depressing. "You can't go any further" just makes me want to curl up in bed and not talk to any of you for the rest of the day.
Adventure game-inspired prints by Joe Alterio [Super Punch]


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I've created myself a nice looking dashboard as a combination of different web parts within a web part page, the only problem now is that when I try to put this in a monthly stakeholder pack, I have to print screen and crop the quicklaunch / top link bar etc to paste it in to powerpoint.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could export it easier / better - maybe something like a button that exports the page as an image?
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — December 21, 2012 — Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI) today announced that a Chinese court has ruled in the company's favor in infringement proceedings filed against it by Fairchild Semiconductor and its System General subsidiary. After more than two years of litigation, the Suzhou Intermediate Court has found that Power Integrations does not infringe any of the patents asserted by Fairchild in the case.
The decision follows three previous findings of infringement against Fairchild and its System General (SG) subsidiary in cases brought by Power Integrations. In 2006, Fairchild was found in a U.S. federal district court to infringe four Power Integrations patents, and a permanent injunction was issued against more than 100 infringing Fairchild products. The infringement was later found to be willful, resulting in enhancement of the damage award, which currently stands at $12 million; the results of that case are currently under appeal. Also in 2006, the International Trade Commission found that SG infringed two Power Integrations patents. Earlier this year, Fairchild was again found to violate two of the same patents found to be infringed in the 2006 district-court decision; Power Integrations is seeking additional damages as well as an injunction against the 75 Fairchild products implicated in that decision.
Commented Balu Balakrishnan, president and CEO of Power Integrations: "We are gratified that the Chinese authorities have rejected Fairchild's baseless claims of infringement and recognized, like others before them, which of these two companies is the true innovator."
About Power Integrations
Power Integrations, Inc., is a Silicon Valley-based supplier of high-performance electronic components used in high-voltage power-conversion systems. The company's integrated circuits and diodes enable compact, energy-efficient AC-DC power supplies for a vast range of electronic products including mobile devices, TVs, PCs, appliances, smart utility meters and LED lights. CONCEPT IGBT drivers enhance the efficiency, reliability and cost of high-power applications such as industrial motor drives, solar and wind energy systems, electric vehicles and high-voltage DC transmission. Since its introduction in 1998, Power Integrations' EcoSmart® energy-efficiency technology has prevented billions of dollars' worth of energy waste and millions of tons of carbon emissions. Reflecting the environmental benefits of the company's products, Power Integrations' stock is included in the NASDAQ® Clean Edge® Green Energy Index, The Cleantech Index®, and the Ardour Global IndexSM. For more information, including design-support tools and resources, please visit www.powerint.com; visit Power Integrations' Green Room for a comprehensive guide to energy-efficiency standards around the world.


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Is Buying a House with Cash Bad?
The Washington Post reported today that the increase in January home sales was driven mainly by an increase in all‐cash sales. Whereas I would have thought increasing sales, especially driven by cash buyers, was a sign of market strength; the Post and the National Association of Realtors portrayed this as a bad thing. NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun went so far as to call this portion of the market "unhealthy."
Of course, what NAR and the rest of the real estate lobby were complaining about was that home sales and prices were not being driven by easy credit. For the housing industry, it would seem that the "correct" house price is the price that is propped up by loose credit.
Yun goes on to say that "investors are taking the advantage of conditions to purchase undervalued homes." I used to work with Yun, he's a smart guy, but I don't think anyone is smart enough to say that the homes being sold are "undervalued." Consider that most non‐industry forecasters are projecting further price declines.
More cash sales actually means less future foreclosures, because the cash buyers start out with 100% equity from day one. They are very unlikely to walk away, regardless of the future path of prices. Cash buyers also pay prices that are closer to reflecting the fundamentals of supply and demand, which are ultimately driven by income and demographics.
What the high percentage of cash borrowers, at 37 percent, says to me, is that there is a significant demand for housing that isn't dependent upon massive taxpayer subsidies to the mortgage industry.


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Friday, January 6, 2012
Just Because - Male Card
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Sea Watch Resort - Myrtle Beach March 2011
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Pg 1 Alligator Adventure - Title Page
The cute little Alligator is a diecut that my friend Lestina made and sent me. The Alligator Adventure words are cut out using Cricut George Cart. Paper is Brazzill Rainforest and Safari and the letters are cut out using DCW Safari Chic paper Stack.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Mytle Beach - Ocean/Beach pt1
here. The pattern paper used is from DCWV Summer Paper pack (believe the pack is from 2009 - 2010) The solid paper is Brazzill Mango. The word BEACH and seashells are a Jolee Sticker and the palm trees are from my stash and I don't recall the manufacturer.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Spring 2011 - My gorgeous Sister Kayla
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Pg 1 Alligator Adventure - Birds
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Myrtle Beach 2011 - 1st Digital Scrapbook 8x8
This is my first digital scrapbook. I used the pre-made layouts at SmileBox
The nice thing is you can send the images to Walgreens, CVS or Walmart to be printed in either 6x6 or 8x8.
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Daily entertainment news with what to watch tonight on TV, a weekend tip and a trending video of Justin Bieber.
What to watch: 'America's Next Top Model: British Invasion' on The CW at 9 p.m. EDT/ 8 p.m. CDT
Tonight is the season finale of "America's Next Top Model: British Invasion." Find out who made it to the top and who did not. Visit www.cwtv.com/shows/americas-next-top-model to watch past episodes.
Weekend tip: World Environment Day
Sunday is World Environment Day, a day to help out Mother Nature and take care of your town. Volunteer opportunities should be available for this day as well, so check the newspaper for listings. To learn more about the day or how to help, go to the official website, http://www.unep.org/wed/.
Video: Bieber punches paparazzo?
Justin Bieber gets accused of punching a paparazzo and then jetting to Europe! "E! News" investigates what caused the singer to snap.
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Integer and long integer literals are described by the following lexical definitions:
longinteger: integer ("l"|"L") integer: decimalinteger | octinteger | hexinteger decimalinteger: nonzerodigit digit* | "0" octinteger: "0" octdigit+ hexinteger: "0" ("x"|"X") hexdigit+ nonzerodigit: "1"..."9" octdigit: "0"..."7" hexdigit: digit|"a"..."f"|"A"..."F"
Although both lower case `l' and upper case `L' are allowed as suffix for long integers, it is strongly recommended to always use `L', since the letter `l' looks too much like the digit `1'.
Plain integer decimal literals must be at most 2147483647 (i.e., the largest positive integer, using 32-bit arithmetic). Plain octal and hexadecimal literals may be as large as 4294967295, but values larger than 2147483647 are converted to a negative value by subtracting 4294967296. There is no limit for long integer literals apart from what can be stored in available memory.
Some examples of plain and long integer literals:
7 2147483647 0177 0x80000000 3L 79228162514264337593543950336L 0377L 0x100000000L