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Distribution of HABs throughout the World
Several decades ago relatively few countries appeared to be affected by HABs, but now most coastal countries are threatened, in many cases over large geographic areas and by more than one harmful or toxic species. Many countries are faced with a bewildering array of toxic or harmful species and impacts, as well as disturbing trends of increasing bloom incidence, larger areas affected, more fisheries resources impacted, and higher economic losses. The causes behind this expansion are debated, with possible explanations ranging from natural mechanisms of species dispersal to a host of human-related phenomena such as pollution, climatic shifts, increased numbers of observers, and transport of algal species via ship ballast water.
Whatever the mechanisms, coastal regions throughout the world are now subject to an unprecedented variety and frequency of HAB events. The global expansion of HAB phenomena is in part a reflection of our ability to better define the boundaries of the problem - the nature and extent of toxic or harmful species and their impacts. However, the fact that part of the expansion is attributable to increased scientific awareness and detection capabilities should not temper our concern. The involvement of human activities in the HAB expansion suggests that policy decisions leading to bloom mitigation are needed at several levels, but sound scientific evidence is needed to justify these actions. Studies of human influences are ongoing in many areas, but are in their early stages of investigation.
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Latino media habits: "young, mobile, growing" per Nielsen
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"Young, mobile and growing."
That's how Nielsen describes the U.S. Latino population in a new report that finds distinctive media habits in this segment. Social media is helping to keep the culture alive, Nielsen says. They cite "technology as a facilitator for cultural exchange, retro acculturation, and new culture generation." In other words, Latinos are using smartphones, laptops, etc. as a way to keep culture/language/identity intact.
There are 52 million Latinos in the U.S. The group will show the biggest population growth of any race or ethnicity over the next five years. In Colorado, Latinos represent 21 percent of the population; in Denver, 32 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Nielsen reports:
Hispanic video viewers are 68 percent more likely than non-Hispanic White viewers to watch video on the Internet, and 20 percent more likely to watch video on a mobile phone.
Hispanics outpace all ethnic groups in mobile downloads of music and pictures.
Hispanics are less likely to have Internet access at home compared to the U.S. average (62 % and 76%, respectively), but have increased home broadband use by 14 percent over the past year, which is higher than the 6 percent growth of broadband use in the general market.

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Almost Three Minutes Of Romanian Comics from Miki Maus on Vimeo.
Next week's New York Comic-Con is playing host to a contingent of Romanian artists making their first-ever appearance at the convention.
Situated in Booth #2018, "NO SCHOOL: New Romanian Comics" is an exhibition put on by the Romanian Cultural Institute and will feature appearances by artists Sandu Florea, Matei Branea, Alexandru Ciubotariu and Milos Jovanovic. Each will have their own books for sale, as well as an interesting magazine called Hardcomics, collecting the best of Romanian funnies from 1891 to the present day. Check out this video put together above, and if you're on the con floor of NYCC stop by and tell them Robot 6 sent you.
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Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Department of International Development, Community, and Environment
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
Phone: (508) 421-3826
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Ph.D. in Anthropology, Boston University, 1999
M.A. in Arab Studies, Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1988
B.A. in Political Science and Music (magna cum laude), University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Research Interests
Refugees and forced migrants, especially refugees in urban areas in the Middle East and Africa; population displacement and mobility; gender, diaspora, and citizenship; anthropology of ethnicity and race; transnational Islam; Arab League states' immigration and naturalisation policies; music and migration; Muslim Arab Sudanese diaspora.
Anita Fábos is an anthropologist who has conducted research and outreach among refugees and other forced migrants in urban settings in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Her scholarship and practice pursues a number of interconnected themes in the area of forced migration and refugee studies: how people make and transform ethnic and racial boundaries and boundary markers, people's experiences of displacement and challenges to gender norms, historical shifts in citizenship and nationality laws, methods and ethics of research with hidden, vulnerable and mobile populations, transcultural social networks, and refugee narratives and representations. Starting with a lengthy period of action research, NGO activism and outreach in Cairo, Fábos' research and writing has followed the movements of Muslim Arab Sudanese—her main research participants--from their place of first exile in Egypt, to asylum in Europe and North America, and towards the formation of a diaspora straddling Islamic 'space' (countries in which Islam is the religion of the state) and the 'asylum space' of countries of resettlement in Europe and North America.
As the Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University in Cairo, and later Programme Coordinator for the graduate program in Refugee Studies at the University of East London, Fábos has been involved in developing integrated teaching, research, and outreach programs that have incorporated refugee and forced migrant perspectives into collaborative work with scholars, practitioners, refugee organizations, policy makers, and international organizations. At Clark University, students in her classes have carried out community-based projects that have investigated refugee participation in community development initiatives, refugee access to higher education, and refugee livelihoods in Worcester.
Fábos is currently conducting ethnographic research on the transnational strategies of women and men in the Muslim Arab Sudanese diaspora to promote 'family values' and negotiate a Sudanese diasporic identity, particularly in the context of global Islam. Other projects include an edited collection on the relevance of a 'spiritual geography' of Islam on forced migration within the Muslim world in a time of intensifying discourse of 'security'; a special issue of Home Cultures that interrogates 'home-making' in protracted refugee situations; and an exploration of wedding singers and the performance of Sudanese music in the Muslim Arab Sudanese diaspora.
Selected Publications
2012 Fábos, Anita H. Resisting 'Blackness', Embracing Rightness: How Muslim Arab Sudanese Women Negotiate Cultural Space in the Diaspora. Ethnic and Racial Studies 35 (2): 218 – 237. February 2012.
2010 Fábos, Anita H. "Brothers" or Others? Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt (Paperback, revised and expanded edition). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books. 200 pages. ISBN: 184545989X.
2008 Fábos, Anita H. Evaluation of UK Home Office Sudan 'Country of Origin' Report. United Kingdom Home Office and Advisory Panel on Country Information (APCI), UK, Jan – April 2008.
2008 'Resisting "Blackness": Muslim Arab Sudanese in the Diaspora'. ISIM Review, Number 20, Winter 2008.
2007 Between Citizenship and Belonging: Transnational Ethnic Strategies of Arab Muslim Sudanese in the Diaspora. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning/Women, Gender & Research, Special Issue on Gender and Transnationalism in the Middle East. Nr. 3, 2007.
2007 Refugees in Urban Settings of the Global South (Co-edited with Gaim Kibreab) Special Issue of Refuge: Canada's Periodical on Refugees. 24(1).
2007 Editorial Introduction (with Gaim Kibreab) in Fábos, A. and Kibreab, G. (Eds) Refugees in Urban Settings of the Global South. Special Issue of Refuge: Canada's Periodical on Refugees. 24(1): 1-19.
2005 Fábos, Anita H. (with Nadje Al-Ali and Oroub El-Abed). Regional Paper III: Middle East and North Africa. In Developing DFID's Policy Approach to Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Internally Displaced People, Volume II: Commissioned Papers. A Research Consultancy by the Refugee Studies Centre for the Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department, Department For International Development (DFID), United Kingdom. February 2005.
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Displacement and Development in the Contemporary World.
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Displacement and Development in the Contemporary World.
Transnationalism and Social Networks
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Displacement and Development in the Contemporary World.
Transnationalism and Social Networks
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A number plate owner has had their number plate withdrawn by the DVLA after a member of the public complained to police that it spelt 'jihad'.
The Ford Fiesta was driven around with the personalised plate for six months before it was reported to officials.
Licence bosses have now banned the plate which was written JH11 HAD and sent the owner a replacement.
The car was reported after it was spotted driving around Newport, Gwent.
One woman who reported it to police after she saw it being driven in her home city said: "How can this be allowed with everything that is going on in the world at the moment?
"I have told the police about it and they said they would make a note of it.
"Surely this plate cannot be legal?"
A DVLA spokesman said the personalised plate had been bought in October last year and had "slipped through the net" of offensive registrations.
The spokesman said: "We try to identify all combinations that may cause offence, and on the rare occasion where potentially offensive numbers slip through the net, steps are taken to withdraw the number.
"As soon as we became aware of this last week we withdrew it and would have then sent a replacement plate."
Plates resembling the word 'jihad', which literally means striving or struggling in Arabic, and is associated with the concept of 'holy war', are unavailable, for example plates starting with JE and ending HAD.
Others which are banned include HO57 AGE, a close match to "hostage", and the chain of characters O54 MA because of its resemblance to the name Osama.
It should be noted that there are no restrictions on using a vanity or cherished registration on a car that is newer than the original date of the registration plate, but it is prohibited to transfer a registration that is newer than the vehicle it is used on. This is to prevent the transfer of newer registrations to older vehicles as a measure to protect consumers.
The original NSW licence plate No. 4 sold under the hammer on Monday night for $2.45 million, setting an Australian record.
Chinese-Australian wine collector and sex toy magnate Peter Tseng bought the rare collector's item before a crowd of 300 people at the 2017 Shannons Sydney Winter Classic Auction, who applauded when the hammer fell on his purchase.
Mr Tseng, who arrived in his red Ferrari bearing the No. 2 licence plate, is a renowned number plate collector, owning the Hong Kong-registered No. 1 number plate and a personalised licence plate "ONE" registered to his 1969 Mercedes in Sydney.
Mr Tseng is understood to have bought the 1910-registered plate from entrepreneur Steve Shelley, co-founder of workforce management software company Deputy and owner of the Burraneer mansion "Nautilus", which won Australian House of the Year last year.
The No. 4 plates were last seen on Shelley's dual cab ute before it was registered at the Shannons auction with a guide of $1.2 million to $1.4 million.
After an opening bid of $1 million, bids quickly rose in $100,000 lots between two buyers until Mr Tseng raised his hand at the $1.35 million level. Mr Tseng did not put his hand down throughout the auction, leaving it raised for the next 22 bids until the mystery underbidder – known only as "Ray" – dropped out.
The original NSW licence plate No. 4 sold under the hammer on Monday night for $2.45 million, setting an Australian record.
Chinese-Australian wine collector and sex toy magnate Peter Tseng bought the rare collector's item before a crowd of 300 people at the 2017 Shannons Sydney Winter Classic Auction, who applauded when the hammer fell on his purchase.
Mr Tseng, who arrived in his red Ferrari bearing the No. 2 licence plate, is a renowned number plate collector, owning the Hong Kong-registered No. 1 number plate and a personalised licence plate "ONE" registered to his 1969 Mercedes in Sydney.
The crowd at the number plate auction applauded when Peter Tseng made his record purchase.
The crowd at the number plate auction applauded when Peter Tseng made his record purchase.
Mr Tseng is understood to have bought the 1910-registered plate from entrepreneur Steve Shelley, co-founder of workforce management software company Deputy and owner of the Burraneer mansion "Nautilus", which won Australian House of the Year last year.
The No. 4 plates were last seen on Shelley's dual cab ute before it was registered at the Shannons auction with a guide of $1.2 million to $1.4 million.
After an opening bid of $1 million, bids quickly rose in $100,000 lots between two buyers until Mr Tseng raised his hand at the $1.35 million level. Mr Tseng did not put his hand down throughout the auction, leaving it raised for the next 22 bids until the mystery underbidder – known only as "Ray" – dropped out.
Peter Tseng arrived at the auction in his red Ferrari, which bears the No. 2 licence plate.
Peter Tseng arrived at the auction in his red Ferrari, which bears the No. 2 licence plate.
The sale result – at more than $1 million above the highest guide expectations – was the most expensive item sold on the night, which included car memorabilia like the 1920s Michelin Compressor and a 1924 Rolls Royce Barker cabriolet that sold for $123,000. The second most expensive item sold on the night was a 1960 Mercedes Benz Roadster 190SL for $195,000.
The $2.45 million sale result is double Sydney's median house price and matched the recent sales of a renovated three-bedroom, two-bathroom Victorian semi on Woollahra's Roslyndale Avenue, and a Californian bungalow also with three bedrooms on almost 600 square metres on Macpherson Street in Cremorne.
Like most single-digit number plates, the No. 4 number plate is known for its ownership providence, most notably when it was registered to the Rolls Royce of Aussie John Symond, founder and executive chairman of Aussie Home Loans.
Sources have come forward to reveal Aussie John sold the plate in late 2015 to art collector and leading Brett Whiteley art dealer Steve Nasteski in late 2015 for about $850,000.
Mr Nasteski is another well known number plate collector, having bought as many as eight rare two-digit number plates from the late stockbroker Rene Rivkin in 2004 through Nasser Elkordi, an associate of John Ibrahim and former flatmate of radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands.
Despite Nasteski's penchant for number plates, he sold the No. 4 plate last year to Mr Shelley for between $800,000 and $900,000.
At that level, Mr Shelley would have made a windfall of more than $1.6 million on the number plate in the 18 months he owned it.
Mr Tseng featured in the 2013 Australian documentary film, Red Obsession, narrated by Russell Crowe, which tracked the dramatic rise and fall in the price of French wines between 2011 and 2012.
Monday night's auction is expected to set a new benchmark in the cost of single-digit plates. Mr Tseng's purchase of the No. 2 plate set a record at $750,000 that was topped in 2008 when the No. 6 number plate sold for $800,000.
The No. 1 plate is owned by the family of the late founding chairman of Australian National Airways, Sir Frederick Stewart, who had owned it since the 1930s.
In Victoria, single-digit number plates are also investment-grade assets. The No. 1 VIC plate is owned by former Foster's Group chief Peter Bartels.
In 1963, numbers were running out once again, and an attempt was made to create a national scheme to alleviate the problem. The three letter, up to three number system was kept, but a letter suffix was added, which changed every year. In this scheme, numbers were drawn from the range AAA 1A to YYY 999A for the first year, then AAA 1B to YYY 999B for the second year, and so on. Some areas did not adopt the year letter for the first two years, sticking to their own schemes, but in 1965 adding the year letter was made compulsory. As well as yielding many more available numbers, it was a handy way for vehicle buyers to know the age of the vehicle immediately. At first the year letter changed on 1 January every year, but car retailers started to notice that buyers would tend to wait until the New Year for the new letter to be issued, so that they could get a newer" car. This led to major peaks and troughs in sales over the year, and to help flatten this out somewhat the industry lobbied
In fact, when the DVLA issues a car's registration plate, they actually follow a very distinct system.
While it may look like a random combination, a number plate can actually tell you how old the car is and where it was registered.
A new format for registrations was introduced in September 2001, meaning all cars registered after that date would have their number plate made up of three parts.
How to tell where the car is from
The first section of a number plate is the local memory tag – the first two letters of the plate.
This identifies where the vehicle was registered, and is itself broken down into two parts.
The first letter stands for the local area, for example E denotes Essex, while L stands for London.
The plate's second letter then identifies at which DVLA office in that area the registration took place – multiple letters can signify the same DVLA office.
How anyone can tell how old your car is just by looking at it
The two numbers in the middle of your plate identify how old the car is.
The DVLA issues two lots of number plate combinations each year on March and September 1st.
All plates issued between the 1 March and the end of August will use the same two numbers as the year they are registered.
For example, a car registered in May 2017 would have "17".
Vehicles registered between September 1 and the end of February the following year, use a similar pattern of higher numbers.
When the format changed in 2001, this group of vehicles were identified differently by starting the labelling from "51" rather than "01".
Therefore this second lot of numbers will always be 50 plus the year the car was registered – so after 2010, the number starts with a 6.
For example, a vehicle registered in December 2009 will show "59" on its plate but December 2011 will be "61".
Is any of the plate random?
The final three letters of the number plate tend to be a random combination that make the registration unique.
But it's not uncommon for cars with neighbouring letter sequences to be from the same manufacturer, due to batch allocation of new registrations to dealers by the DVLA.
The letters "Q" and "I" are excluded from the random sequence, along with any phrases that are deemed offensive.
Using the current scheme, there will be a sufficient combinations to last until the end of February 2051.
What about registrations before September 2001?
From 1983 onward, licence plates used a leading single letter to represent the year of first registration.
The letter "A" was used in 1983, progressing through the alphabet, finishing with "Y" at the end of August 2001.
The rest of the characters on the plate were random.
Prior to 1983, the same system was used, but with the year letter at the end of the plate rather than the beginning.
A PETITION against a police chief's decision to sell the first number plate issued to the county has gathered over 850 signatures.
Retired police constable Alan Matthews started the online petition after he found out that the 'AB 1' licence plate was up for auction.
Police enthusiasts have lambasted the decision to sell the plate, which has traditionally been used on the staff cars of Worcestershire's Chief Constables.
West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) John Campion claims the sale will enable him to invest in frontline policing.
Mr Matthews, aged 69, who worked for West Mercia Police from 1985 to 1994, said: "It's a piece of police heritage that shouldn't be sold off.
"It was the original number that the chief had. I just think that there's other ways the PCC could save money.
"I'm getting quire ratty about it. When you have been in the police you see how much waste there is.
"It's a sad thing that people in the UK have so much history but don't think much of it."
Jon Cherry, the director of regplates.com, thinks the plate will sell for between £225,000 and £275,000.
He said: "We have sold similar plates recently at this level and the market for high quality original issue number 1 plates is very strong.
"The buyers of these are intent on having only the best and only this plate will suffice!"
Mr Campion said his priority is use the assets at his disposal to make West Mercia a safe place.
"The prospect of a chief constable or any public servant using a private number plate belongs in a time gone by, both for security reasons and public expectation," he said.
"Therefore a considered decision has been made to market 'AB 1' and any sale proceeds will be reinvested towards frontline policing in West Mercia."
He acknowledged the history behind the plate but said it had not been used for around six years.
A spokesman for Mr Campion said he was not selling anything else apart from the number plate.
Vehicle registration was introduced in 1903 and it is believed 'AB 1' was first issued to Worcestershire's Chief Constable Herbert Sutherland Walker in 1908.
In 1989 a lot of these stored old models were registered in advance of legislation that required all new vehicles registered on or after 1 January 1990 to have catalytic converters fitted. This included vehicles held in storage and out of production for several years, in some cases five years or more. By the late 1990s, the range of available numbers was once again starting to run out, exacerbated by a move to biannual changes in registration letters (March and September) in 1999 to smooth out the bulge in registrations every August, so a new scheme needed to be adopted. It was decided to research a system that would be easier for crash or vehicle related crime witnesses to remember and clearer to read, yet still fit within a normal standard plate size.
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Reasons to stay together (versión íntegra en inglés)
La escritora y cineasta serbia Jasmina Tesanovic, reconocida pacifista y feminista e impulsora de "Mujeres de Negro" en los Balcanes reflexiona sobre el secesionismo y la situación en Cataluña // Tesanovic fue galardonada en 2004 con Hiroshima Prize for Peace and Culture. En España, ha publicado "Diarios de Jasmina" (Plaza & Janés).
In 2011, Roberto Benigni, the Oscar winning Italian comedian, took the stage of the San Remo musical festival while riding a live horse.
Benigni then gave a majestic speech about the Unity of Italy, during the year of Italy's 150th anniversary. At that time, Silvio Berlusconi was in power and many of his party members and other right wingers were loud supporters of secessionism.
The ideal of the Italian Northern League was, and is, to free northern Italy from the poverty and corruption of the nation's South. This notion made more sense before the Northern League was itself was found corrupt, and when Northern Italy still had some money.
Benigni's voice trembled with emotion while he sang the anthem «Fratelli d'Italia,» admonishing the audience of millions that a martyred young poet wrote that song, and gave his own life for the unity of Italy. How could the poet's countrymen undo that deed and confound the nation's martyrs on a whim?
That phrase made tears come to my own eyes. I remembered my dying mother who told me with passion: You cannot give away Kosovo just because you are a dissident against Milosevic. Kosovo is the heart of Serbia, you didn't fight for it, like we did, and your grandparents too!
I thought she was raving. I was jealous of her attention going to some province, Kosovo, instead of to me, her only daughter. In the final minutes of life, people are supposed to tell their last will about the
issues they care most about.
But as I write this now, 13 years after my mother died during yet another war about a Balkan province, that Kosovo issue is not yet resolved. Kosovo has de facto split, and unilaterally proclaimed its independence from Serbia, but de jure Serbia does not want to admit the loss of the territory. As a consequence, Serbia has been put on the blacklist for joining the EU.
This maneuvering may seem less important, since the EU itself is in big trouble over its finances, and the rich and poor members of Europe are wrapped in a north-south struggle very similar to that of the Northern League and Southern Italy.
Yet it is a major issue for Serbia, a small country with a dreadful record of human rights and democratic processes. Given its ramshackle politics, Italy probably wouldn't be allowed into the
European Union now, but Serbia has most of Italy's political vices,without even the cozy blanket of European standards to cling to.
Thirteen years after Milosevic was toppled over the war in Kosovo, his party and his allies were re-elected by Serbian voters. They're still the champions of the same nationalist ideas which have already cost the region thousands of lives. Every time these Greater Serbians seek to expand their dominance, the Serbian nation gets pruned away, and the nation suffers floods of refugees in from areas where Serbs once lived in peace, and out toward distant nations where Serbs canfind work as aliens, or a living of any kind.
I don't know much about Catalonia. I do know that Catalonians are having recent big rallies in favor of the independence of their region. I haven't lived there, I didn't speak to people on the ground or hear their voices and frustrations.
However, I do know a lot about secession and the breakup of destabilized nations. I had an unpleasant experience some years ago in Barcelona where I was attending a cultural event. A local intellectual told me, with disgust, of how other parts of Spain are less cultured than Catalonia.
She was convinced that Catalonia would thrive when freed of the unsought companionship of these backward areas.
That's not how a culture actually works. Culture doesn't emerge from sitting in fancy restaurants, talking to rich and famous. That may be enjoyable, but a national culture arises from the fields and the streets and is lived anonymously. A nation's culture is not the product of relative wealth, it emerges from interactions, in trouble, in emotions, in differences.
Furthermore, it's boring and narrow-minded to cling to the exclusivity of some single language, religion, ethnicity and cuisine. That's the blood-and-soil culture of small rural villages, and it's certainly not the attractive and persuasive culture of a major city like Barcelona.
When my former country fell apart in the early nineties, it all started with the secession of Slovenia, the richest area of the former Yugoslavia. Today Slovenia is one of the smallest nations in the world, and by the jostling, swaggering standards of the EU, Slovenia is far from rich.
Croatia followed Slovenia's path to secession, then Bosnia, Kosovo? Everyone found good reasons not to stay together in a larger state: political, economic, religious, ethnic; once the house is on fire it's
easy to justify reasons to flee. But while everyone was busy finding sacrosanct reasons to praise their new micro-nationalities, the usual realpolitik reasons of loot and power still applied, and the
usual authoritarian cruelty that afflicted Yugoslavia was still maintained, it was just better-armed.
Nobody's politics was improved by being spattered with the blood of their neighbors. Furthermore, many good cultural and political aspirations were briskly crushed by war. Quite a large part of the
population came from mixed marriages. When it came to religion they were atheists, when it came to nationality they were cosmopolitan.
They had to watch in horror as vital aspects of their own personalities were sawn off by new, cramped, nationalist ideologies — they had to change alphabets, speak differently, rewrite history, tear down monuments, deny members of their own families, abandon and sell homes that were now in alien territories.
And, when it came to implementing human rights and democratic issues, these new states were barren ground. They were amateurs in power, making every effort to compel the allegiance of battered locals to a new iconography of flags, symbols, uniforms, currency. That national
liberation wasn't a personal liberation. New power elites emerged in new statehouses, but for the individual, repression abounded. Because only where differences clash can a free space of true democracy exist.
When this homogenization is committed, in whatever name, the abolition of differences becomes the same state of affairs. In that suffocating, mirror-like society, one need not get out of bed; everything is already said, done, seen and predictable.
Many citizens in former Yugoslavia thought in my way: I called us the political idiots, since we trusted in the good faith of the everyday people. We imagined that were the majority at the time, but the nationalist minorities were louder, not to mention far more violent and more daring. Yugoslavia could have joined the EU rather than balkanizing into small duchies. After the rampant suffering of the region, we had neither the wealth nor the command over our own destiny.
These micro-states are independent in theory, today, but in practice they're powerless client states of the EU, Russia, or NATO. They're run by small cliques of extravagantly corrupt people, who tend
to ship the loot offshore in a classic Third World fashion.
Populist ideas and armed guys often win because they are aggressive. They are loud and passionate, and they promise simple securities, denouncing any better life as utopian. The last thing they deliver is a thriving culture; about they best they can offer is a home-cooked family dish, grown from the back yard.
I don't know how many ex Yugoslav political idiots still mourn for the fallen federation. I personally am not Yugo nostalgic: I don't enjoy living with anybody who does not want to live along with me.
However, my heart still bleeds when I go to parts of a region that once I considered my homeland, where they have banished my accent, where they forbid me to speak. I still have family there, of course; nobody is ethnically pure in a country which lived together for centuries. Peoples do share a historical and cultural background, especially compared to those of more distant peoples, who know little about them, and care less.
Culture does not mean becoming rich and famous, culture is a much more dangerous word. It's beyond cosy languages and home dishes: it is a state of mind, it's like riding a wild horse which may live in your stable but will take you on uncharted roads.
As a person who wrote and collected war stories, I noticed that they are senseless and amoral. Goodness, badness, heroism, triumph, they rarely surface in these narratives. They do make a bigger picture very simple: real people, still with all their needs and contradictions, stripped down to conditions of survival.
Where is the good in the atomization of the world? In building walls, constructing differences, implementing ideologies, confronting religions, imposing control through language? We have plenty of experience of that.
It seems that the Nobel prize committee heard me this year. The EU federation won the Nobel Prize for Peace. A rather small reward for the large task of keeping the wars out of Europe for 60 years. Of course, that award sidelines and elides the ex-Yugoslav wars, which were not out of Europe, just out of Europe's Union.
The cracks of Balkanization in Europe are the new crevasses stretching across southern Europe today, the new faultlines of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal. Rather than praise the disintegration of states, that Balkanization of nations, I give my voice to the Europeanization of the Balkans. I hope that Europe –the part that clutches the Nobel Prize — does not cease to exist before Serbia and Kosovo both manage to join it.
Yes, it would make a difference. At last, my mother and I would be reconciled.


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According to Aaron Klein's new book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists," the wackadoodle haters are as celebrity obsessed as any blueblooded TMZ readers! In an interviews with hater Muhammad Abdel-Al (you can't call him "Al"), drab Abdel said, "If these two prostitutes keep doing what they will do, we of course will punish them... We can stone them and even we can kill them." Were the VMAs broadcast on Al Jazeera?
There are some celebs they actually like; Richard Gere, Jane Fonda and Sean Penn. They even liked Rosie O'Donnell until they found out she was


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Join Kirk, Spock, and shirtless Sulu on the bridge of the Enterprise, but don't forget to pack your phaser. With multiple lights and sounds (power settings) and detachable Type I unit, this is the phaser you've been dreaming of.
Captain's Log: We visited planet M-113 and one of Bones' old flames. Too bad she had a husband, she was a real looker. Also too bad she was really a "salt vampire." I mean, I've been with green chicks before, but this lady looked like she'd melt the paint off a shuttlecraft. We had to blast her with our phasers before she sucked our salt. LOL
That captain's log is from "The Man Trap," the first episode of Star Trek to be aired on television (though the 5th filmed - not including the original pilot episode, of course). This is the Type II phaser you have been dying to have since the first day you saw Captain Kirk kick Klingon keister. With full lights and sound, the only thing this phaser can't do is really fire. There are 4 power settings (with progressively aggressive sounds and lights), a light control knob (and on/off switch), a flip up "sight," and an overload setting. Oh, and for all those covert missions, the Type I phaser quickly detaches - still with full lights and sound! Grab one and meet the away team in transporter room 2. Just make sure you aren't wearing a red shirt.
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Summit League Men: South Dakota State Rallies for Win at Denver
Defense has been the issue all season for South Dakota State, but when the Jackrabbits needed it the most, they got in the final seconds in Denver, grabbing an improbable 74-73 win over the Pioneers.
SDSU's leading scorer Jordan Dykstra was limited to just one shot in the first half, but he had 18 second half points, including a pair of late 3-pointers in a four second span.
A Cody Larson steal with 12.8 seconds left set up Dykstra's second 3 - giving the Jacks their first lead in 31 minutes.
Dykstra also was key at the free throw line, nailing a pair in the final seconds, running his current string to 26 straight.
SDSU survived a scare moments later, when Denver's Bryant Rucker hit what appeared to be a game tying 3-pointer at the buzzer, but the officials ruled his foot was on the line and the Jacks escaped with the win.
Denver shot 60 percent in the first half and led 33-28 at the break, pushing the lead to ten in the second half.
Larson joined Dykstra in double figures with 17 points, Chad White had 13, Jake Bittle 10.
The win is just the second in ten tries when trailing at the half for SDSU.
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Hi All,
We have a duplex house inside a layout on a site with dimensions of 31*40. When the sale deed was executed, the schedule in the deed had details only of the plot, its dimensions ect... The registration happened 9 years ago. Now when we closed the loan and obtained the original documents, we have noticed it, and realized there is no details of the constructed house including the SBA ect..
The sale agreement from the builder has the details of the house that was constructed.
Now we have been advised to go for a rectification sale deed to add a schedule which mentions the sq ft and details of the building.
Please can some one who has an idea advise on below
1. Is this needed, if we have no plans to sell the property, and just use it for residing ?
2. I am sure builder or his representation will be needed, is there anyway rectification can be done without much involvement from builder as its difficult to get them to participate
3. Will we need any help of a lawyer/legal counsel.
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Does the sale deed have any mention of the house on the site? If not, the gov't might expect you to pay additional stamp duty.
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then it is assumed that plot only @ registration day, later house added. Hence my not require rectification. still your question is unclear.
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Short-Handed Lady Tigers Hang On, Beat No. 7 Cats
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BATON ROUGE - The most tumultuous week of the season for the LSU women's basketball team that featured snow travel delays, a postponed game, a season-ending illness, injuries and a death in the family was capped with one of the most inspiring efforts in Lady Tiger history and arguably the biggest win of the Nikki Caldwell era.
Junior guard Jeanne Kenney, who was questionable to play with a left foot injury and just days removed from the passing of her grandfather, poured in a career-high 22 points and nailed 5-of-5 threes as LSU shocked No. 7 Kentucky, 77-72, in front of 6,773 fans on Sunday afternoon in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
"He came to every game since I was young," said Kenney of her late grandfather. "I remember every time I would look up and we would catch eyes, he would just give me a little salute. He just always kept telling me to hold my follow through and to stop taking so many charges because I'll get hurt. But I only listened to one tonight, so he's probably still mad at me."
Kenney, a native of Baton Rouge, sprained her knee last week then had foot pain that forced her to miss Saturday's practice. Her toughness was on full display again as she made her first five shots, took two charges and broke a 64 all tie with a three that gave the Lady Tigers the lead for good with 3:49 to play.
"Jeanne Kenney responded like her grandfather would have wanted her to," said LSU head coach Nikki Caldwell. "She embodies everything that you want in a student-athlete. Today, she was one of the most courageous players that I have ever had the opportunity to coach in her display of just being out there on the court. The fact that she came back and was able to play today was a testimony to where she is as a player, but more importantly where and who she is as a person."
LSU was playing its second game in less than 72 hours as a massive snow storm postponed the Lady Tigers' contest at Missouri that was originally scheduled for Thursday night. LSU held on for a 78-74 overtime win on Friday and had a light practice on Saturday. Due to the snow storm, Kenney was unable to make it back to Louisiana for her grandfather's funeral.
With the win, the Lady Tigers took a big step in improving its NCAA Tournament resume, moving to 17-10 overall and 8-6 in Southeastern Conference play. When the official NCAA RPI is released on Monday, LSU could move into the lower 40s or even upper 30s. This all with just eight players on the roster and seven in the final four minutes against the nation's No. 7 team.
"I'm learning a lot about this team," said Caldwell. "The first thing I'm learning is they are believing in each other and in this program and what this program was built on. Defensively, our effort and our ability to out-rebound our opponent the last six games has been an indicator of a team that is on a mission. This was a great win over a great team."
The Lady Tigers have displayed their perseverance all season. Sophomore Sheila Boykin was diagnosed with Guillian-Barre syndrome early in the week and will miss the remainder of the season. Meanwhile, junior forward Shanece McKinney injured her knee late in the game on Sunday.
For the third time in two years, Kentucky (23-4, 11-3 SEC) was upset by LSU. The Wildcats, who beat the Lady Tigers earlier this season in Lexington, lost in Baton Rouge last season and then again in an SEC Tournament semifinal game last March.
Theresa Plaisance charted her fifth double-double of the season with 20 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, representing the highest rebound total of her career in an SEC game. Plaisance reached double-figures for the 26th consecutive game, the longest streak by an LSU player since Sylvia Fowles did it in 26 straight during her junior year of 2006-07.
Senior guard Bianca Lutley scored 15 points for the second consecutive game, while freshman Danielle Ballard had 10 points and three steals. Ballard has recorded 82 steals on the season, just four shy of the LSU freshman record and 11 short of the school single-season milestone.
McKinney tied a career high with five blocked shots in 30 minutes before leaving to injury.
LSU shot a blistering 64 percent in the first half with five threes to take a 43-32 lead on the Wildcats at halftime. The Lady Tigers put together a 7-0 run and Kenney put LSU ahead for double-digits for the first time with a three with 1:05 on the clock.
LSU maintained its lead through most of the second half. Plaisance's jumper made it 61-53 with 8:51 to go, but UK struck for a 13-3 spurt that tied the game. A'dia Mathies' lay-up put the score at 64 all with 4:03 to play.
Without hesitation, Kenney confidently answered firing in another three that brought the crowd to its feet. Mathies turned it over and on LSU's ensuing possession, Kenney stroked another jumper. Plaisance made two free throws with 0:51 to go that pushed the LSU lead to 73-66.
The Lady Tigers converted four free throws in the final four seconds and held on for the victory. LSU finished at 52.9 percent from the floor - the second-highest allowed by UK all season -- and out-rebounded its sixth straight opponent, 34-32. The Lady Tigers also connected for a season-best 7-of-10 from three-point range, the most allowed by the Wildcats all year.
Mathies finished with 20 points to lead Kentucky.
LSU hosts Alabama in its final regular season home game of the season at 7 p.m. CT Thursday. "Senior Night" festivities that will recognize Adrienne Webb and Bianca Lutley will be held prior to the game.
Opening Statement...
"It's good to be back after our long trip to Missouri. I'm learning a lot about this team. The first thing I'm learning is that they are believing in each other and in this program and what this program was built on. Defensively, our effort and our ability to rebound our opponent the last six games has been an indicator of a team that is on a mission. This was a great win over a great team."
On the Recent Passing of the Grandfather of Junior Guard Jeanne Kenney ...
"Jeanne Kenney responded like her grandfather would have wanted her to. She is somebody who has always been unselfish. She embodies everything that you want in a student athlete. Today she was one of the most courageous players that I have had the opportunity to coach in her display of just being out there on the court. She is someone who you just have a lot of respect for in being able to put that aside and perform like she did today. Her teammates rallied around her. She is someone who gives us confidence. The fact that she came back and was able to play today was a testimony to where she is as a player, but more importantly where and who she is as a person."
On Junior Forward Shanece McKinney...
"We rely on Shanece McKinney to be our defensive stopper. We allow her to go toe-to-toe with some of the best offensive players in the game. We look for McKinney for that role and she has answered that role. Today, blocking those shots and contesting those shots definitely altered Kentucky's post-game. She had some key rebounds as well. That's what McKinney does."
On Senior Guards Adrienne Webb and Bianca Lutley...
"Although today was not her best defensive day, I thought Adrienne Webb did some great things for us defensively. Webb is one of those players who is a dream to coach. Everyday when she comes to practice she is ready to go. You never have to question her effort or how hard she is going to play. When you put her through drills or sprint work, it's not a matter of just getting through it; she tries to dominate it. She is very competitive. Through her hard work and work ethic, she has been a great leader for us. Bianca Lutley is one of those players that you know is very talented and can do a lot of different things. She has been able to do that for us. We are going to miss Webb and Lutley. They bring a lot of joy to our team, but we still have a lot of ball games to play and those two are going to continue to do great things for us."
On Theresa's view on Jeanne's performance tonight...
"Let me make this very clear: I have been playing basketball with Jeanne since I was 10-years old, and I am not surprised by her performance tonight. With that being said, Jeanne is one of the most unselfish players on this so in any given game, she'll pass up her shot to get another person open. Jeanne's not always looking for herself but tonight she really stepped up big for us. She took those shots because she and I know that she can knock them down. But I am not surprised by Jeanne's performance at all because this is Jeanne. She knocks out shots in really big situations like this."
On the game plan before playing Kentucky...
"It's all about patience. Right now, we're running low on numbers, so we have to not conserve energy but also not play fast paced where other teams are more comfortable doing. We just have to take them out of their comfort zone by playing our game and being patient with what we do. They can hurry their shots up, but we're going to slow the ball down. We need to be patient with our shots and not take the first open look. I think that really helped us out tonight because patience is the key right now."
On not hesitating on any of her 3-point shots...
"I was surprised at myself when I shot the first three when I got in the game and it was just uphill form there. You just don't think about it when you know how to shoot. If you have room, you're going to shoot it if you're a shooter. Even though I haven't been scoring lately in the season, I still can and my teammates were great in in giving me open looks and passing the ball to me and trusting me to score."
On passed grandfather's role in Kenney's life and in basketball...
"He came to every game since I was young. I remember every time I would look up and we would catch eyes, he would just give me a little salute. He's going to be missed, but he always wore a little number five pin. My family has a little thing with the number five and he always wore it. He just always kept telling me to hold my follow through and to stop taking so many charges because I'll get hurt. But I only listened to one tonight so he's probably still mad at me."
On Kenney's game being a "dedication game"...
"I felt that my mindset was that the Missouri game was going to be the dedication game, but I went in there and did too much. I honestly didn't try to think about that because once you put emotions into it, the more it affects the game. My teammates were just there the whole time. They gave me the screen, the passes and the emotion needed to win."
Opening statement ...
"That was a terrific game. It's a hard one to lose, but LSU just played a great game of basketball and executed at the crucial moments. They had a really good day on offense, and we just couldn't slow them down. I didn't think we played poorly, but in a game like today you have to be razor sharp, and we weren't. We were just pretty good. LSU really took it to us, and we just have to give them a lot of credit. They just played a great game, and they beat us today."
On LSU's Jeanne Kenney ...
"I think that would have to be one of her better days. She had a great, great game. She sensed what her team needed, and she made plays. That's another mental mistake that we made, that in this game you couldn't make, and it turned out that they won. We've played a lot of games where we've made mental mistakes, and we haven't been burned very many times, but today was the kind of game that you have to play very, very sharp. We didn't."
On the physicality of the game ...
"I think it was a pretty physical game. I guess we were more physical than they were. If you look at the foul shots, we were clearly the more physical team, and we paid for it. Anytime they make more than you attempt, that's a really, really difficult stat to overcome. They did a good job getting to the free throw line, and we did not. I think that was a big factor in the game. I think the league's physical. It's crunch time for a lot of people. The players are playing hard and want to win, so it's tough out there. I just thought LSU played so hard and really executed and made great, great plays to win. They certainly deserved to win today, they were outstanding."


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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) --�Jonathan Horton had the best scores of his career on the parallel bars and the high bar to win the all-around title and lead Oklahoma to its second straight NCAA men's gymnastics championship Friday night.
The Sooners got career-bests from Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons (9.525), Russell Czeschin (9.575) and Reed Pitts (9.250) for a school-record 37.85 points on the vault to clinch the title in the final rotation.
Oklahoma, which completed an undefeated season, has won four of the last five national championships - the best run since Nebraska won five in a row fromf"I've been nervous for two weeks,'' Oklahoma coach Mark Williams said. "I'm so glad the team responded to this challenge. We were better than any vaulting team I've ever seen.''
The Sooners finished with a season-high 221.4 points. Illinois was second with 220.975 and was followed by Stanford (218.375), Penn State (215.125), California (215.0) and Iowa (211.8)
Horton, who won the American Cup last month, scored a 9.525 on the parallel bars and a 9.8 on the high bar in his first two events. He stumbled in the fourth rotation with a 7.95 on the pommel horse but then finished strong with a 9.7 on the rings and a 9.5 on the vault.
"When you make a mistake, it fuels your fury and I couldn't have felt more powerful heading into the still rings,'' Horton said.
Horton fell twice on the pommel horse in Thursday's qualifying round and fell once on the apparatus in the finals.
"He was unbelievable,'' Williams said. ``At one point I thought pommel horse would be too much to overcome. He responded and it was amazing.''
Horton finished with 56.0 points to edge Illinois' Justin Spring for the all-around title. Spring, who won the Nissen-Emery Award on Wednesday as the nation's top senior gymnast, scored 55.6.
Oklahoma was the runner-up to Penn State in 2004, the only time in the past five years it didn't win the title. Individual event championships will be held Saturday.
Seven�Sooners qualified�for 14 spots in Saturday night's NCAA Event Finals that determines All-America honors.��In 2005, six Sooners combined for 13 All-America honors including Horton who�won All-America honors on five events.


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INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis-headquartered retailer Finish Line, Inc., a nationwide athletic apparel retailer, violated federal law by firing an employee because of a physical disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, Finish Line failed to select Emma Armon, who has a physical impairment related to a right shoulder injury, when she sought to transfer to an available customer service representative position as a reasonable accommodation to her disability. Instead, the EEOC charged, Finish Line discharged her in favor of equally or less qualified individuals.
Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No.1:10-c v-1686-JMS-MJD) in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. In its suit, the EEOC seeks back pay as well as compensatory and punitive damages for Armon, and injunctive relief.
"Treating an employee badly based on a physical impairment violates the very core of the ADA," said EEOC Indianapolis District Office Regional Attorney Laurie Young. "The EEOC will continue to fight for the rights of disability discrimination victims."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 30, 2007) - The ETSU men's basketball team held on despite a 14-0 offensive explosion by Appalachian State in the final three minutes to take an important non-conference victory over its former Southern Conference rival 72-69 Sunday afternoon at Memorial Center. It was the first meeting between the old foes since the 2004-05 campaign, ETSU's last in the SoCon.
The crowd of 5,017 got a dramatic end to a game that had been dominated throughout by the Buccaneers. Leading 66-50 with left in the game, the Bucs' defense looked on as the Mountaineers found their shooting touch and connected on four 3-pointers and a pair of free throws to make it 66-64 with just under a minute remaining.
From there, the Bucs went a perfect 6-of-6 from the foul line to ice the game. Senior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey,
"That's a huge win for a lot of reasons," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow, whose team improved to 6-7. "I'm concerned that we can't seem to play a solid 40 minutes. We played great for 36 minutes, but it got really ugly at the end. It's still a great win especially to beat a team like Appalachian State which was coming off a win over
The Bucs built an early lead in the first half thanks mainly to a stingy 2-3 zone and some poor shooting by the Mountaineers. In the end, the Bucs hit on 58 percent of their shots in the first half and Appalachian State managed just a 23 percent clip to trail 38-20 at the intermission.
From there, ETSU actually built leads of 20 points twice in the first 10 minutes of the second half, and ultimately held its largest lead of the game at 53-32 with remaining in the contest. The Bucs kept the lead at 16 points or more until the final four minutes, when 3-pointers by Appalachian State's Ryann Abraham, Donald Sims, and a pair from Doug McLaughlin-Williams powered the 14-0 burst to make it 66-64 with 56 seconds left.
The two teams traded a pair of free throws from there, but it was Smith who hit four straight from the line to make it 72-66 before a last-second 3-pointer by ASU's Abraham finished the game's scoring.
"Mike switched back to lucky No. 1 and played great," said Bartow, whose team now holds a 16-game home win streak against non-conference opponents which dates back to 2005. "Andrew was huge. We tell him all the time he can be an all-league player and that he's capable of those types of numbers all the time. His issue is just consistency."
Along with Smith and Reed, the Bucs got 12 points and seven assists from junior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis), who was pressed into point guard duty with the dismissal of sophomore guard Dequan Twilley (Shelbyville), who Bartow said "was not meeting the standards of our team."
For Appalachian State, Sims scored a team-high 13 points, while MLaughlin-Williams pitched in 12. The Bucs shot 48 percent for the game and 79 percent from the foul line, while the Mountaineers hit on only 39 percent from the floor and 47 percent from the line. The Bucs now lead the all-time series against Appalachian State, 74-46.
ETSU wraps up its preconference schedule at 6-7, a slate that ranks in the Top 30 nationally in strength of schedule. The Bucs will begin Atlantic Sun Conference play Saturday at home against USC Upstate, with tip set for The game will be a part of a doubleheader, as the Lady Bucs will also face Upstate at


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LOS ANGELES – A security guard who worked the night Bryan Stow was attacked and suffered brain damage in a Dodger Stadium parking lot after a game in March 2011 testified today that his supervisor told the crew to go home after receiving a report of the beating.
Testifying in Stow's negligence suit against former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Los Angeles Dodgers LLC, Jerome Heavens said he also was advised during an earlier briefing that there would only be about half of the the needed 300-member security force present for the opening-day contest on March 31, 2011.
Heavens said he was upset that he and the other guards were told to leave after learning of the Stow incident "when that man was bleeding out of both sides of his ears."
Heavens said the atmosphere in the stadium during the game was tense and that frequent fights broke out between fans of the Dodgers and the Giants, the team Stow and his friends had traveled south to see.
"It was crazy from what I saw," Heavens said. "There were fights going left and right."
Heavens said he responded to several scuffles in the section to which he was assigned.
"This was the first job I worked where there really wasn't any order as to how things should be done," Heavens said.
Cross-examined by defense attorney Dana Fox, Heavens said he did not know the name of the female supervisor who allegedly told him that security would be understaffed that day.
Stow's attorneys maintain that Stow's assailants should have been kicked out of Dodger Stadium hours earlier for unruly behavior and that more uniformed security within the stadium could have acted as a deterrent to their misconduct.
Rialto residents Louie Sanchez, 31, and Marvin Norwood, 33, pleaded guilty in January to assaulting Stow and were sentenced to eight- and four-year terms, respectively.
Defense attorneys say Sanchez, Norwood and Stow are to blame for the attack. They assert Stow was drunk, gestured toward his assailants and made sarcastic remarks. The lawyers also say the combined security force of sworn peace officers and private guards was the largest ever for a Dodger opening-day game.
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New York Historical Society: Opening Reception & Preview of Audobon's Aviary
Thursday, March 16, 2006, 6-8PM Opening Reception and Preview of Audobon's Aviary at the New York Historical Society,170 Central Park West at 77th Street: Historical Society President Louise Mirrer joined the Board of Trustees at the opening reception and preview of "Audobon's Aviary" in honoring the Directors of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Dan Lufkin, Edmund Duffy, Jack Nash and Norman L. Peck while celebrating the the introduction of the 2006 collection of John James Audobon watercolors, along with a display of four newly discovered 16th century avian watercolors by the French illustrator Pierre Eskrich. The exhibit featured the interactive use of �four dimensional sound,� a technology created by Cornell University�s ornithology program, which filled the exhibit space with sounds of birdcalls to the delight of the audience full of Manhattan Socialites and friends of the NY-HS. The NY-HS, whose collection is well recognized as the largest and most significant of famed artist and naturalist John James Audobon, and Oppenheimer Editions, LLC, had previously announced on November 12, 2005 an exclusive licensing agreement to recreate fifty of the Historical Society�s stunning collection of original Audubon watercolors. The limited edition recreations of Audobon's Fifty Best Watercolors were on display dowstairs while upstairs at the NYHS were the originals. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New York Historical Society expressed her satisfaction with the new endeavor. �Our agreement with Oppenheimer Editions is valuable to the Historical Society on several levels. The high resolution scans created for these editions will be the first to be included in a new digital archive of Audubon�s watercolors, a resource for both conservators and art historians. Additionally, one complete set of the Oppenheimer Edition will be given to the Historical Society upon its completion. Due to light sensitivity, each original Audubon painting can be exhibited for only six weeks every ten years. This edition will allow more of Audubon�s audience to witness these great images in person.� MEDIA & PRESS: Marisa Wayne |RUBENSTEIN Strategic Communications and Public Relations|tel: 212-843-9216 |e-mail: email@example.com PHOTO CREDIT: All images copyright protected ©Manhattan Society.com 2006 by Christopher LondonRead More


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Otorhinolaryngologists and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons who have focused their energies on functional and cosmetic septorhinoplasty do offer a unique perspective and experience of the surgical management of nasal obstruction, and this perspective is highlighted in this edition. Many of the chapters focus on complex problems related to the septum: treating the caudal septum, a discussion of complications of septal surgery including their avoidance and their management, and when to consider the open rhinoplasty approach to septal surgery. Surgical pearls for septoplasty are also considered. Functional rhinoplasty also naturally receives significant attention in this edition, with consideration of the surgical treatment of the saddle nose, treatment of nasal obstruction in the traumatized nose, treatment of the dorsal deviation, and surgical and non-surgical treatment of the nasal valve. Piriform aperture stenosis, a less common form of nasal obstruction, is also considered. A number of facial plastic surgical case studies round out this edition.


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|Summer Bridge is an intensive four-week residential program of comprehensive skill-building and orientation for approximately 150 students who are new to California State University, Bakersfield. The program is for students accepted to CSUB for the fall of 1998 who demonstrate the need to improve their skills in English and mathematics. Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students must follow EOP guidelines in attending the Summer Bridge Program, and all special admit students are required to attend.
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After seeking to extend its business with a wider leisure proposition, the dotcom pioneer has rolled out a brand strategy aiming to reaffirm its position as the leader in last-minute travel.
The TV, print, CRM, social and PR campaign carries the strapline "Love living Lastminute.com", and aims to tap into what the brand believes to be a trend towards late bookings.
The company claims around 55% of all purchases with a mobile device are for bookings within two days, and that it is seeing a 100% month-on-month increase in same-day bookings.
With this in mind, chief marketing officer Sarah Bartlett (right), who joined from Ask.com in June last year, told Marketing that it was important for Lastminute.com to return to its roots.
She said: "We are really focused on owning the last-minute space, as it feels more relevant than ever.
"We are already seen as the number one for later bookings, but this is a big step change for the business in terms of relentlessly focusing on last-minute.
"It's important that we're known for something, and it's something we do well. We have a brilliant relationship with our suppliers, so we have the differentiation in the marketplace."
A series of five humorous TV ads, by adam&eve/DDB, dramatises the moment of a spontaneous decision to book a trip. The ads show a mixture of work colleagues, friends and couples agreeing to travel to destinations such as New York, Paris, Istanbul and Barcelona. Media planning and buying is by Manning Gottlieb OMD.
Bartlett said the brand was looking to reassert a "fun and irreverent" tone of voice, as it targets "30-somethings" with an "accessible but aspirational" positioning.
The brand's homepage will focus on "last-minute inventory", while call centre staff will be briefed to prioritise certain products.
Bartlett said: "This is not just a campaign – we felt it was a strategy we all needed to get behind. The whole company has bought into it."


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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
How To: Style a Dining Room
white candlesticks for $1 a piece!
William Yeoward store in South Kensington. She's fancy like that. I, on the other hand, own hot pink napkins that I believe were $3 a piece at Home Goods, and they work quite nicely.
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- AnonymousAugust 10, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Gorgeous room! I especially love the birdcage :)ReplyDelete
I love this room! That white shelf is great!ReplyDelete
sign me up! i'll bring the hors d'oeuvres!ReplyDelete
p.s. i just pinned basically all of these photos for future home reference. love every detail!
Great advice Alaina! Especially the bit about quality alcohol because there is nothing worse than a plastic vodka bottle hangover... except maybe an Andre hangover.ReplyDelete
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Love your dining area. Your table setting is very gorgeous as well. Adore your (mom's) fancy napkins, stemware and votive holders. Everything feels so casual yet elegant.ReplyDelete
P/S: By the way, I am hosting a giveaway. Come by and join for a chance to win a $75 gift card from Arcadian Lighting!
I am so happy to have found your blog via the Glitter Guide! This is just the first post I read and I'm already in love!ReplyDelete
I'm adding square plates and hot pink cloth napkins to my wedding registry immediately. :)
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2011 at 5:23 PM
Love everything. Nice you and your mom have the same great taste!ReplyDelete
You did a great job! I love how much attention to detail there is...and the votives, although a small addition, make all the difference to the table.ReplyDelete
These pics are great, love your dining room! Abbey xReplyDelete
so inspiring!!!! Youre what im talking about in my blog right now! =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2011 at 11:14 PM
I agree about not spending very much on a tablecloth. I have a couple that were once white that I have have now dyed with tea to cover up stains. Now, I have a dropcloth that I had hemmed to the right size, bleached and don't worry if it gets a stain.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2011 at 12:00 AM
Your house is lovely! Someday when my hubby and I get our own place [and stop renting], I hope it will be as lovely and welcoming as yours. Cheers!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2011 at 9:10 AM
love it!! It's so adorable! :)ReplyDelete


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Hancock County got its territory from Greene and Washington counties in 1793. Its name honors John Hancock whose signature heads the list of signers of the Declaration of Independence. Hancock had presided over the Continental Congress.
Sparta, the county seat, owes its name to the ancient Greek city, probably because its early residents realized they would need Spartan characteristics to survive so near hostile Indian territory and so far from supportive neighbors. This county remained a troubled frontier for 40 years before the state acquired and residents settled more westerly lands.