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We need to maintain the pressure now. Giving into blackmail and pressure isn't going to help our cause one bit. Anyone professing otherwise is wrong. Keep the supply lines closed. Boycott as many conferences as possible. Boycott cooperation in the WoT. Block aerial and other routes through Pakistan. Take down any drones violating Pakistani airspace. Let it be known that Pakistan means business. Let's play a wait game and see who blinks first. I don't care how long it takes for the Yanks to blink. We mustn't blink first. Blinking first would amount to complete failure and rejection. Let the Yankee senators bark all day long. It's a clear sign of mounting frustration, inability and helplessness to achieve any form of success. The Yanks are on the losing side now. The Yanks know how to put things right. Let them put things right.
the best revenge we can extract from the Yanks for our dead sons is to draw out the war in Afghanistan and make them spend another trillion dollars tanking their economy, the dollar and sending back a few more thousand body bags filled with body parts, mixed and matched. They deserve nothing less for the sh.it they have been pulling for the last ten years. Dont let them leave!
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Bros, please watch EVERY minute of these videos and read every story on that last link as well. The serbs were the worst p.i.g.s to ever walk this planet, but what also you need to realize is that this was fully ignored (and even encouraged at some part) by other western powers
remember the Dutch 'peacekeepers' who stood by and watched Bosnian men and male children being taken away for execution. They stood by and watched an act of mass murder. May Allah destroy the Dutch and all those who have persecuted and massacred Muslims.
The only reason why the US got involved along with the European powers is that there were repeated warnings that if something isnt done there are literally tens of thousands of Mujahideen waiting to pour into Bosnia and could trigger a wider conflict. They didnt get involved for any love of Muslims.
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Author Notes: A few years back I was making a lot of French garlic sausage because I had never had it and it just seemed like an interesting thing to do. Well, as would be expected I wound up with a lot of it in my quest for finding a great recipe. One night my wife said she wanted corn dogs. We love our corn dogs but had no hot dogs. Out came the garlic sausage and we dubbed them French Poodles. The garlic sausage has long disappeared and what we switched to is ring bologna and, to tell you the truth, we like it so much better. What is great about these is the meat to crust ratio is much better than the traditional corn dog. I like to serve them with Sauce American, mustard and waffle fries, seems wrong to call them garfrettes in this instance. Seems I use the Ad Hoc seasoned flour for about everything these days. An approximation would be 1 cup of flour, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon cayanne, salt and fresh ground black pepper. - thirschfeld —thirschfeld
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Makes: 12 poodles
ounces ring bologna, there are lots of options for good quality ring bologna
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cup cornmeal, medium grind will give you some grit and find grind will give you cake, use what you like
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… on Feb. 2, 2005? That's the day the Cubs traded Sammy Sosa and his 574 career homers to the Orioles in exchange for Mike Fontenot, Jerry Hairston Jr. and Dave Crouthers. Chicago also signed free agent Jeromy Burnitz to a one-year, $4.5 million contract, part of the never-ending search for left-handed power. "Obviously, it's a historic day," Cubs GM Jim Hendry said at the time of the deal. "Everybody feels like it was the right thing to do." Sosa hit 14 homers and drove in 45 runs in 102 games in his only season with the Orioles. He played with the Rangers in 2007 before retiring.
What about the others? Hairston batted .261 in 114 games with the Cubs in 2005, Fontenot spent that year in the Minors, getting called up for seven games in April-May. Crouthers never made it to the big leagues but retired in Spring Training in '05. In a September 2005 interview with "Inside the Ivy," he said he left the game because of anxiety issues. Crouthers credited the Cubs staff, particularly pitching coach Larry Rothschild and Hendry, for being supportive. "My decision really had nothing to do with the Cubs or being traded," he said. "It just got to the point where I didn't feel like I could compete." He re-enrolled at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.
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St. Thomas Synagogue--Beracha Veshalom Vegemiluth Hasadim
Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.
St. Thomas Synagogue--Beracha Veshalom Vegemiluth Hasadim
Photograph courtesy of Virgin Islands Historic Preservation Office
The Synagogue of St. Thomas, called Beracha Veshalom Vegemiluth Hasidim (Blessing and Peace and Acts of Piety), built in 1833 in Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas Island, is the second oldest and longest in continuous use synagogue in the United States. The congregation, originally Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews, came to the Caribbean Basin to finance trade between the Europe and the New World. Commonly referred to as the St. Thomas Synagogue, it is located on the southeastern slope of Denmark Hill in one of the older residential areas of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin islands, to the north of the town's main business district. St. Thomas Synagogue--Beracha Veshalom Vegemiluth Hasidim was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1997 and is also a National Historic Landmark.
The Synagogue was built in 1833 on the same site as first Synagogue erected in 1792. This is the fourth Synagogue to occupy this site. The first and third synagogues along with the surrounding residential area of Denmark Hill were razed by fires that devastated the area in 1804 and 1831. The second synagogue (1812-23) was torn down and expanded.
Many of the founding members of the congregation came from St. Eustatius, another Caribbean island, where they had been established in business. St. Eustatius was a Dutch colony that supplied war material to the Continental Army. For this role, the colony was sacked by the British and trade destroyed. This lead to a movement of many of the colony Jews to St. Thomas, where they helped found the Congregation along with Jews already settled on the island. The first Reform Confirmation ceremony in the New World was held at this Synagogue, October 14, 1843.
The Sephardic Jewish Synagogue and Congregation of St. Thomas may trace its roots through some two thousand years of the Hebrew Diaspora, starting with the destruction of the Jewish nation and the Great Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in the first century A.D. Some of these displaced Hebrew peoples ended up in the Iberian peninsula, where over some 1500 years under Roman, Visagothic, Muslim, and Christian rulers they worshiped in their synagogues, attended to their businesses, and raised their families according to religious tenets that over time evolved and came to identify them as Sephardic (Spanish and Portuguese) Jewish peoples.
The Christian kingdoms sought to retake the Iberian Peninsula from the Islamic kingdoms that had established themselves there in the early Middle Ages. Centuries of fighting ensued. On March 31, 1492, three months after the conquest of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Spain, which ended the Reconquista, the king and queen of a united Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, issued a decree for the expulsion of all unconverted Jews from their realm.
Under the Spanish expulsion decree, the prohibition on Judaism was rigorously enforced in Castile, Aragon, the Baleric Islands, Sicily, and Sardinia, but appears to have been less so in Spanish overseas territories such as Oran, in North Africa, Naples, Milan, the Spanish Netherlands, and the New World which provided refuge for the displaced converses. In a remarkable sense of historical irony, the very persecution and forced emigration inflicted on the Sephardic Spanish and Portuguese Jews and converses, became in the long run their source of strength that would help to keep their faith alive and cause their religion to prosper and spread throughout the world. Although there had been a Sephardic elite that served as counselors and financial administrators to the Christian and Moslem rulers of the Iberian Peninsula, the majority of the Jewish people made their living as small traders, farmers, shopkeepers, and moneylenders.
Photograph courtesy of Virgin Islands Historic Preservation Office
Throughout the sixteenth century Sephardic Jews in the Spanish Netherlands financed trade in northern European goods, such as iron, wood, grain, and cloth, for southern European and colonial goods, such as wool, rock salt, sugar, spices, tobacco, coffee, and cocoa beans. This trade was founded on trading connections with converses, often family members, still residing in Spain and Portugal and the overseas possessions in the New World, Africa, and the Far East.
Many of the Sephardic Jews settled in Antwerp, but by the 1570s many left for Amsterdam to avoid the religious warfare between the Catholic Spanish crown and the Dutch Lutheran rebels, in the southern portion of the Spanish Netherlands. However, an additional incentive for Jewish emigration was the issuance of the Union of Utrecht (1579), the founding constitutional document of the Dutch republic, which guaranteed that no one would be investigated or prosecuted on the basis of their religion. The Sephardic Jews were allowed by the Dutch government to build their first synagogue in 1597, and in 1657 all resident Jews were recognized as Dutch nationals, although they did not receive full citizenship rights until 1796.
As the Sephardic Jews managed most of the trade in New World products that passed through Holland via the Iberian ports, it was natural that when the Dutch developed their own overseas empire that Jews would play an important role. Encouraged by the Dutch West India Company, some of Amsterdam's Sephardic Jews migrated to northern Brazil, then under Dutch control, and took a lead in the sugar industry.
St. Thomas Synagogue--Beracha Veshalom Vegemiluth Hasadim
Photograph courtesy of Virgin Islands Historic Preservation Office
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Unfortunately for the Dutch, a Portuguese military expedition retook the Pernambuco region in northern Brazil in 1645. This forced a relocation of Jews with expertise in sugar cultivation and capital, this time to English Barbados. The English, who had settled
Barbados in the 1630s had previously developed good relations with the Dutch. With Sephardic Jewish financing from Holland, Portugal had been supplying nearly all of Europe with sugar. However, within a generation England was able to drive Portugal out of the northern European trade in sugar, from its own plantations on Barbados, thanks to Jewish émigrés from Brazil.
By the 1650s there were Dutch Sephardic communities throughout the Caribbean--on Curacao, in Surinam, and Jamaica, in addition to Barbados. Financing for the Danish Virgin island plantations had come from Dutch Sephardic Jewish capital. A Jewish presence on St. Thomas may be trace back to the last two decades of the 17th century, when the Danish first undertook the colonization of the island. The fourth Governor of the Danish Virgin Islands, Gabriel Milan (1684-86) was from a Jewish family with trading connections in Portugal, the Netherlands, and Hamburg. To curry the favor of the Danish crown, Milan accepted the Lutheran faith in 1682 in order to improve his prospects of being employed by the Danish state. However, even before his appointment, a few Jewish families and individuals from other areas of the West Indies had moved to the Caribbean Danish colony on St. Thomas. The Danish West India Company that settled St. Thomas in 1672 received its charter from King Christian V in March 1671.
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Danish colonial records contain references to Jewish merchants involved in trade between Europe, Guinea, and St. Thomas. The records note the Jewish residents of St. Thomas as coming from Brazil, and being Portuguese, which identifies them as Sephardic Jews. The records do not mention the existence of a Jewish congregation and freedom of worship under the Danes was not legalized until the mid-18th century. It would appear the Jews on St. Thomas, at this time, worshiped in their homes. The records that would have pertained to an early Jewish Congregation was most likely lost in the early 19th-century fires that twice destroyed the Synagogue. The lack of records also leaves in doubt the date of the establishment of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Savan.
The real growth of the Jewish population of the Danish West Indies occurred during the late 18th century as a result of the British attack on the Dutch West Indies island of St. Eustatius. This small volcanic island north of St. Kitts was claimed by Holland in the 1630s. In 1740 it became a free port, and for four decades was an important harbor with the transit trade in the Caribbean, a distinction that St. Thomas harbor would achieve in the following century. The island had attracted a large population of industrious traders from Holland and elsewhere, among them manyJews, mostly of Sephardic origin. Here, they traded European goods for horses from the British North American colonies, which were used to power sugar grinding mills in the Caribbean.
Photograph courtesy of Virgin Islands Historic Preservation Office
During the American War of Independence, St. Eustatius was a major source of military supplies for the North American colonies. The flow of contraband to the Americans had been a long-standing source of friction between Holland and England. In late December 1780, Great Britain declared war on Holland and ordered Admiral Sir George Rodney to attack St. Eustatius.
On February 3, 1781 the British arrived in Orangestad Harbor with an overwhelming force of 14 ships of the line, three frigates and some minor ships, as well as 3,000 soldiers. After a brief show of resistance, the Dutch surrendered. The British invasion came as a complete surprise to the Dutch authorities and citizens of St. Eustatius since word of the English declaration of war had not as yet reached the Caribbean. The aim of the English invasion was to wreck the economy of the island and to eliminate St. Eustatius as a transit trading port and supplier of war materiel to the Continental Army. The warehouses were sealed and all shops closed. All property, both public and private, was confiscated.
All together Rodney seized 150 ships, including 60 belonging to Americans, and captured more than 2,000 American merchants and sailors which he sent with their agents to England as prisoners of war. Rodney then turned his attention to the merchants of St. Eustatius. English and Danish merchants were extradited to their homelands. Toward the French the attitude was somewhat more lenient, perhaps because of the presence of a powerful French fleet in the Caribbean. They were shipped to Guadeloupe and Martinique. Worse was the fate of the Jews. All male Jews, one hundred of them, were robbed of all their personal possessions, some were beaten, while 30 more were deported to St. Kitts. The remainder were allowed to witness the public sale of their properties.
After 1781 many of the Jews left the island, seeking refuge in the neutral Danish Virgin islands. The increase in numbers of Sephardic Jews in both St. Croix and St. Thomas resulted in the formation of a congregation in Christiansted and in 1796 the first Synagogue on St. Thomas with the appellation of "Blessing and Peace," was built.
St. Thomas Synagogue--Beracha Veshalom Vegemiluth Hasadim
Photograph courtesy of Virgin Islands Historic Preservation Office
The synagogue started with a small congregation of nine families that seven years later (1803) had increased to 22 families. The first synagogue was destroyed in the fire of November 1804 that burned large sections of western and central Charlotte Amalie. On March 24, 1814, Denmark became one of the first European nations to enact a royal ordinance for extending full citizenship rights to Jews. By 1812, there was a second synagogue, on the same site, but by 1823 this building was too small to adequately serve the growing congregation. In 1823, it was taken down and replaced by a larger wooden synagogue, on the same site, named "Blessing and Peace and Loving Deeds" to accommodate a congregation of 64 families. On New Year's Eve 1831, a fire started in the Commandant Gade section of Queens Quarter, the central part of Charlotte Amalie. Before it burned itself out New Year's Day 1832, it had destroyed about 800 buildings, among them the wooden synagogue built in 1823.
The effort to rebuild the St. Thomas Synagogue was met with generous responses in funds and materials, not only from the members of the congregation, but also the non-Jews of St. Thomas, as well from as Jewish congregations from abroad. The present St. Thomas Synagogue designed by an unknown French architect, was built in 1833, and has served the Jewish congregation ever since. The working drawings of the St. Thomas Synagogue are still extant.
By 1833, as the congregation of St. Thomas was celebrating the completion of their new synagogue; most European countries had enfranchised their Jewish populations with full citizenship and civil rights. These changes engendered a schism within Jewish communities between those who desired to maintain their Orthodox traditions and those who wished to reform Jewish ceremonies to accommodate their new citizenship status. The religious debates ultimately saw many synagogues split into Orthodox and Reform groups, which set up separate synagogues. The Jewish congregation on St. Thomas was not isolated from these debates. Indeed, they found themselves in the forefront of the Reform movement with the appointment, in the early 1840s, of Rabbi Carillon to their synagogue. Rabbi Carillon, who appears to have been an advocate of the Reform movement, instituted Confirmation ceremonies for 14-year-old boys and girls of the congregation, which were intended to compliment the traditional coming of age ceremonies, or Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvahf for 13-year-old boys and girls, respectively. The first Confirmation ceremony at the St. Thomas Synagogue, held on October 14, 1843, was the first of its kind ever held in the New World.
The population of the Jewish congregation declined in the later part of the 19th century, and only began growing again after World War II. During the flourishing period of the first half of the 19th century, two people of National and one of International fame belonged to the Synagogue's congregation. David Levi Yulee, born on St. Thomas June 12, 1810, went to Florida as a young man where he became the chosen territorial delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida in 1841, and later in 1845 when Florida was admitted to the Union, was elected as a United States Senator to Congress. Jacob Mendes da Costa was also born on St. Thomas on January 7, 1833, and became a noted American physician and writer. His numerous books on medicine and diagnosis were translated into several languages. Finally, the famed Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro was born on St. Thomas July 10, 1830 where he spent his early years. As a teenager he already showed an interest and aptitude for painting and later when he moved to Paris, he dedicated himself to art and he changed his name from Jacob Pizzarro to Camille Pissarro. It was in France his genius was first acknowledged, and he became known as the "Father of Impressionism."
The St. Thomas Synagogue is a rectangular one- story rubble masonry building, 41 feet and three bays wide, by 46 feet and four bays deep. It almost covers the full width of the property (east-west measurement) with the west wall only 10 inches from the retaining wall of the neighboring property, and the east wall standing within a few inches of the retaining wall towards the lower elevation of the property to the east. Behind the Synagogue, on the north side of the property was a former open courtyard, which in recent years has been enclosed with a two story wooden structure. The second floor provides space for a library and office for the rabbi, and the ground floor is an area for exhibits and overflow area for the congregation.
The walls of the Synagogue are constructed of rubble masonry using a mortar of lime, sand, and molasses. The framing of door and window openings is red brick and on the exterior it is faced with calcified sandstone laid in an ashlar pattern. The framing of doors and window openings on the interior are of red and yellow brick. All door and window openings are Gothic arches. The hipped roof is constructed of wood and covered by corrugated metal roofing over wood sheathing. The roof gutters are carried behind a parapet wall on the front and sides of the building.
Photograph courtesy of Virgin Islands Historic Preservation Office
The interior of the Synagogue has an west-east orientation in accordance with ritual practices, with the Ark, holding five Torahs, centered against the east wall and the Bimah(or pulpit) against the west wall facing the Ark. To emphasize the east-west orientation of the interior space, the builders and designers of the Synagogue created a square area in the center of the interior defined by four Ionic columns resting on tall pedestals. About halfway up the Ionic columns are two-armed antique brass chandeliers, modernized for electric lights.
The floor of the Synagogue is paved with ceramic tile. In accordance with local Sephardic Jewish tradition, the central floor area and the raised platforms of the congregation are covered with about an inch of sand. Since their construction in the 19th century, the St. Thomas Synagogue and Office have been well maintained by the congregation. In the early 1970s, the gutters and roof were repaired, and most of the chandeliers which once used candles for illumination were electrified. Deteriorated wooden shutters and doors were repaired or replaced in kind. All of the interior wood features, such as the Ark, Bimah, and pews of mahogany are original to the 1833 construction of the Synagogue.
Excerpted and edited from St. Thomas Synagogue-Beracha Veshalom Hasadim (Blessing and Peace and Acts of Piety) Vegemiluth, U.S. Virgin Islands SHPO, 8-15.1997
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Alex Mack's visit to the Jacksonville Jaguars has resulted in a new contract. Time will tell if it results in Mack leaving Cleveland.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday that Mack agreed to the terms on the Jaguars' five-year offer sheet, according to a source close to the center. On Thursday, Rapoport added that the offer sheet will be executed on Friday, per a source with knowledge of the situation.
The Browns designated Mack as their transition player, which allowed him to visit other teams and sign a new contract. ESPN first reported that Mack will sign an offer sheet this week.
Cleveland will have five days to match the Jaguars' offer once it is executed. If the Browns choose not to match the contract, the Browns won't receive any compensation in return.
The sides have talked about several contract options, and it's not clear how much Mack is due to collect under the new deal. However, Rapoport notes that the contract would make him the highest paid center in football, whether he winds up with the Jaguars or Browns.
We'll have to see the terms of Mack's contract, but it's safe to say the Jaguars will do everything possible in order to discourage Cleveland from matching the deal. Still, there's a strong chance the Browns will match any offer. Browns owner Jimmy Haslam indicated as much this week.
The Browns gave Mack the transition tag instead of the franchise tag, seemingly in a sign of good faith. That allowed Mack to see his value on the market, and now he's found it. Mack wins whether the Browns eventually match the contract or not.
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OHIO alumnus Frank Stevens.
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University alumnus Frank Stevens has pledged more than $500,000 to the nutrition, nursing and public health programs in the University's College of Health Sciences and Professions (CHSP).
Stevens, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio University Foundation, lives in the Los Angeles area. He is an expert on health policy at the Berkeley Research Group, a global consulting firm based in Emeryville, Calif. He has worked with clients in nearly every state, including hospitals, physician organizations, pharmaceutical firms and medical device companies.
Stevens has been a strong supporter of CHSP in recent years, heading its Dean's Advisory Council and Promise Lives Campaign, as well as serving as a guest lecturer. In a talk on campus in May, he discussed the likely impacts on U.S. health policy of the Supreme Court's then-pending decision on the Affordable Care Act.
"As a 1974 graduate of Ohio University (University College), I believe that the College of Health Sciences and Professions will be one of the key programs that will prepare undergraduates and graduate students and inspire them to meet the challenges ahead for our health care system," Stevens said.
Stevens' gift consists of four parts, to be divided among several academic programs. The endowments will fund the Franklin B. Stevens Gluten Free Scholarship for Nutrition, for students in the Nutrition program in CHSP's School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness; the Frank B. and Bernadine P. Stevens Nursing Scholarship (named for the donor's parents) for students in the School of Nursing; the Franklin B. Stevens Scholarship for Nurse Practitioners, to help students in the Master of Nursing program who are pursuing the specialty of family nurse practitioner; and the Franklin B. Stevens Scholarship for students in the Health Services Administration, Long-Term Care Administration or Master of Health Administration programs, all in CHSP's Department of Social and Public Health.
"During my time as dean, I've come to know Frank as a strong supporter of the College of Health Sciences and Professions," said Dean Randy Leite. "Year after year, he gives considerable time and effort to the college through his leadership of committees and his many presentations and meetings with students. This gift merely extends the many ways Frank has made a difference in the lives of our students."
Stevens' gift is part of Ohio University's The Promise Lives Campaign, an effort to raise $450 million in support of students, faculty, facilities, outreach and the student experience by June 30, 2015. As of July 31, the University had raised more than $406 million toward this goal.
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MIDDLEBURY — A surging company offering English instruction to corporate professionals throughout the world has picked Middlebury as the spot in which it will expand its operations and bring as many as 100 or more good paying jobs to the area by 2013.
The company, called e-Corporate English, provides intensive language training and coaching in-person, online and over the phone. It was launched in 2007 by Deborah Schwarz, an entrepreneur, foreign language expert, and past attendee of the Middlebury College Language School's summer programs (in Russian and Chinese).
MONTPELIER — Addison County gained a leadership position in the Vermont House but lost one in the state Senate.
SHOREHAM — A cold warehouse is hardly the image that comes to mind as the heart of a local foods movement.
But that is what the owners of Vermont Refrigerated Storage and members of the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) envision for the 35,000-square-foot cold storage facility in Shoreham.
Editor's note: This article is part of a three-part series on Addison County residents who have sought help from the Quit Tobacco Program at Porter Hospital in order to kick their cigarette habits.
MIDDLEBURY — Fifty-five-year-old Suzanne Gagnon has been smoking for 30 years. She picked up her first cigarette when she was just 20 years old, and soon she was smoking two or more packs a day.
For the past five years, ever since she was diagnosed and treated for laryngitis, Gagnon has battled with her addiction.
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MIDDLEBURY — Voters in the Addison Central Supervisory Union's seven towns will be asked on Town Meeting Day to support a 2011-2012 spending plan of $15,643,007, which represents a 2.03-percent decrease in spending compared to this year.
The decrease allows UD-3 — which includes the combined budgets of Middlebury Union Middle School and High School — to meet the state's "Challenges for Change" directive.
SHOREHAM — A majority of Shoreham voters on Tuesday decided to take a pass on two different options for building new town offices, instead electing to do "none of the above."
That decision volleys the town-office-expansion issue onto the desk of the selectboard, which will spend the coming months deciding whether to fashion a project more modest than the $556,000 and $1,070,000 plans, both of which failed to garner enough support on Tuesday.
LINCOLN — After the Vermont education commissioner in September rejected the Lincoln Community School board's $3.7 million bond proposal to pay for infrastructure improvements, the Building Committee returned to the drawing board. On Monday evening the board approved a scaled-back, $2 million version of the original proposal.
The bond will go to a vote on Jan. 18, and a public information meeting on Jan. 11, for discussion between the board and Lincoln residents, whose taxes will increase for the next 20 years if the bond is approved.
MIDDLEBURY — Abigail Nessen Bengsen, 27, recalled with glee her long involvement with "Night Fires," a winter solstice celebration in which since 1982 local performers had pierced the year's darkest night with a creative cornucopia of music, dance, poems and stories from throughout the world.
"My family was involved before I was born," Bengsen said. "I grew up in it."
But Night Fires went dark in 2007 when its creator, Lincoln's Marianne Lust, needed a break from the arduous tasks of staging what was then a traveling performance.
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A perfectly pleasing dining experience in the Stoneleigh Hotel.
A slightly aging jewel among Dallas hospitality, the Stoneleigh Hotel was ready for its close-up when it received a $50 million makeover four years ago. With the art deco decor amped up, the hotel—as well as its restaurant, Bolla—made an immediate splash, part of that owed to then executive chef David Bull and his nouvelle Italian cuisine. But two years in, the culinary wunderkind left Dallas to return to Austin. In stepped Cesar Gallegos—formerly of Austin's Driskill Hotel—and out went the gnocchi. Now that chef Gallegos has had time to settle in, Bolla has morphed into what it should have been all along: a pleasing hotel restaurant with moments of culinary greatness. Sure, every hotel wants its restaurant to be the talk of the town with five-star dining. But Bolla is comfy. It's familiar. Gallegos' New American classics won't make any year-end "best" lists. But they will make diners happy. Start with the traditional Bibb wedge salad. Gallegos adds a fried egg to the shaved onion and Gorgonzola. Piercing the yolk and mixing all the components together makes for a revelatory moment. Perfectly seared sea scallops were accompanied by smoked cheddar grits and red-eye gravy. It sounded aggressive, but somehow it all worked. Other highlights included sous vide tenderloin with orzo and lobster mac and cheese, and a dish of artichoke ravioli in tomato confit and manchego cream. Sure, the seared salmon seemed pedestrian, and the desserts—a yawn-inducing menu of bread pudding, crème brûlée, and the like—will please the masses if not inspire the palate. But such small quibbles feel like picking on a Dallas grande dame for her old-school tastes.
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In the years between the Great Fire and the First World War, Chicago became a great industrial power and had its period of greatest sustained growth. It was the "shock city" of its day. People came from around the world to see the emerging metropolis of the future. The price of land was nearly astronomical. In 1880 a quarter acre was valued at $130,000, in 1890 at $900,000.
Descendants of Pennsylvania loyalists in the American Revolution, Ben and his parents, William Henry and Caroline Clarke Thomas, immigrated to Chicago in 1876 from Barrie, Ontario where Ben was born. The family included his brothers, William F., David Randolph, John Howard, Wallace Henry and his sisters, Mary Ann, Caroline and Isabella. La Grange was their first home in Cook County but William was already engaged in real estate in Chicago as the city rebuilt after the fire of 1871. William made a fortune in this pursuit. His son, John Howard, followed this career as well, but as in so many other instances, the great holdings had to be sold during the depression to pay the taxes.
After 1880, the Thomas family moved to Chicago to 59 University Place, on the first site of the University of Chicago. Ben's siblings, Ruth Ann Thomas Gaines, and his brother, George Garfield Thomas, were born here.
He graduated from South Division High School in 1890 and Kent College of Law in 1896, in what was to be its fourth graduating class. He was a member of the Chicago Athletic Association and the Hamilton Club. The Tribune described him as a well-known lawyer. The attached newspaper articles will tell his story with the game of football and with the practice of the law--would it have been the same in any other place or time? Or was it just the man?
South Division High School opened in 1875 at 26th and Wabash on Chicago's South Side. It was active in sports, and was a charter member of the Cook County League in 1890 with football and indoor baseball. Ben tried to play in the fall 1890 season with the school, however, it was discovered that he was no longer enrolled there because he had graduated. This was the first mention of him and of his football talents in the Chicago Tribune. Ben was a star football player at the time the sport was beginning to gain popularity.
According to the chronology of the sport's history, Lake View beat South Division in 1885 in what is considered the first-known football game between two Illinois high schools—this would have been Ben's first year in high school. The Cook County High School League, which started during 1889-90 which would have been Ben's last year. In 1905, it was decided to close South Division and reopen it as Wendell Phillips High School, which it remains today—Ben's children attended this school in the 1910s.
At this time there were very few regulations about who played for which team. In the Tribune he is mentioned as having played for Northwestern and Univ. of Michigan but there is no mention of his having graduated from either school or even being enrolled in either school. It seems that a player could belong to more than one team at a time.
The Tribune also tells stories of his playing for athletic clubs--Chicago Athletic Association, Illinois Cyclists, and Bankers Athletic Association. He loved the games so much he would do almost anything to be able to play. His position was left guard and his nickname was "Big Ben"; described as being muscular and weighing 210 pounds.
He married Alice Ethyl Lupton, daughter of John and Annie Pillar Lupton in Racine, WI, Nov. 17 11897. They lived at 2839 Groveland Ave. when Benjamin Wallace Thomas was born in 1900. . In the 1870s Groveland Park, 33rd Place and S. Cottage Grove were part of a large post Civil War, post Fire development on the 60 acre Stephen Douglas lakefront estate. Near it is the Stephen Douglas Monument State Park.
Their other children were Winnibelle and Jack. Alice and Jack died in 1909 from lack of medical treatment for religious reasons. He raised young Ben and Winnibelle with the help of his maiden sisters. Alice, Jack and Benjamin M. are buried in Oakwoods Cemetery along with Ben's parents and older brothers--all of whom died from complications of diabetes.. At the time of his death he was living at 645 Woodland Park, Chicago.
Ben was an attorney who practiced with his brothers, William F. and David R and also worked as an assistant attorney general for the state of Illinois. He may have been a municipal court Judge. He was considered one of the city's outstanding attorneys. However, he was disbarred for a year because he kept $17.42 that he had collected for a client. He claimed this was because he was ill. He was reinstated because basically he had a good reputation. He was also sued for keeping what was a client's $1000 bond as his fees. He won the suit.
Tribune articles paint a picture of a very colorful attorney. He apparently did not limit his athletic undertakings to football, because in 1919 he played in a benefit baseball game on the same team as Clarence Darrow. When the city's noted attorney play the municipal judges.


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"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city . . .
"And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord . . .
"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men . . . And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him . . . Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star had appeared . . .
"When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
"When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh."
And so it began, a season of joy and light and gifts for people of many lands. And so it continues, even for those of other faiths, on an island in the Pacific. To you and yours:
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On January 25, Egyptians marked the one-year anniversary of their revolution with another massive demonstration in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of what has become known variously as the Arab Spring, the Arab Awakening, or the Arab Uprising. Whatever term one chooses for the events that began with the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor in December 2010 and soon swept through Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria—the last year has marked a decisive shift in the modern history of the Arab world. Though the situations in different countries have and will continue to take different paths, the people of the region have voiced their unmistakable rejection of the political and economic arrangements that have dominated their countries for decades.
But what of the United States' role in the current era of transition? As I wrote in The American Prospect one year ago, the Egyptian uprisings offered President Barack Obama an opportunity to make good on the unfulfilled promise of his historic June 2009 speech at Cairo. While the Obama administration had initially downplayed democracy promotion—an understandable but unfortunate overcorrection in the wake of the Bush administration's troubled "freedom agenda"—the uprising offered a chance to move away from a Middle East policy in which political freedom was subordinated to the perceived imperatives of counter-radicalism and toward a more measured opening of political systems to greater participation and accountability.
The administration's response has not been as robust as one would have hoped. This is understandable, given the myriad challenges the Obama administration has faced. But it also raises the question: Is the U.S. going to squander the opportunity to help shape the ongoing transitions in the Arab world? Are we going to miss this boat? Can the U.S. play a similar role to what it played in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union? Supporting the political transitions in post-Soviet countries and facilitating the economic reintegration of Europe stands as one of the great historic accomplishments of U.S. foreign policy, but one that required considerable economic commitment and diplomatic energy. Similarly facilitating the democratic transition in the Arab world would be an accomplishment every bit as important and consequential. Unfortunately, this seems unlikely to happen, for two main reasons.
The first is the economic crisis. In a time of austerity and shrinking budgets, there is a real question of whether the United States can, even if it chose to, marshal the economic resources needed to effectively assist these transitions. There's also a question of whether doing so would be politically feasible in an era where every budget disagreement seems to blow up into a crisis.
The irony is that there's actually little evidence that Americans dislike the idea of foreign aid as a rule; indeed, recent polling found that Americans actually believe we should spend more. While a 2010 poll found that six out of ten Americans believe that the U.S. spends "too much" on foreign aid, respondents tended to vastly overestimate the amount of foreign aid as a portion of the federal budget, with the median estimate being 25 percent. Respondents put the appropriate amount of aid at about 10 percent of the budget—ten times as much as the current 1 percent.
"The economic environment undoubtedly has a huge impact on our reaction" to the Arab Spring, says Steve McInerney, executive director of the Project on Middle East Democracy. "Many in Egypt and other countries in the region feel that the U.S. and the international community are not stepping up and providing them with support that is commensurate with the moment." These countries are facing their own economic crises, McInerney says, but many question whether the U.S. is in a position to help and point out that several years ago, the response would have been on a larger scale. "Compare this to the reaction to '89-'90, when the U.S. provided billions in support to European transitions to democracy." McInerney gives the Obama administration marks for effort, but fears it may not be enough. "They did create a $160 million fund for the region, but that's really small potatoes." They've also tried to mobilize funds from the Gulf states, but the deliverables have been much less than hoped for. "The administration has tried to do what it can with very limited resources, but it's not sufficient to meet the challenges of the moment," he says.
But even in a better economic environment, what is the likelihood that a portion of this much-fought-over fraction of the federal budget would be committed to the Arab transition? Unlike with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, where the perception was that our enemy lost and its former subjects all of a sudden wanted to wear blue jeans and Yankees caps—and thus committing resources a fairly easy sell—the perception now among many Americans, including many politicians, is that our allies have fallen, and our radical Islamist enemies are on the rise. The past ten years of often-hysterical debate over the threat of Islamic extremism has not predisposed Americans toward supporting aid to what many see as those same extremists now entering the political process. Looking forward, McInerney says, "there's lots of uncertainty in how Congress might respond" to the administration's efforts to engage with Islamist parties after years of refusing to interact with Islamists. "And of course there's a presidential election," he says.
There's also a question of how much help Egyptians actually want from the U.S. "The demonization ran both ways," acknowledges Michael Wahid Hanna, a Middle East analyst at the Century Foundation. "But the Muslim Brotherhood has been pretty flexible in relation to the U.S. I don't think they're going to make hostility to the U.S. a calling card. They realize how much they need the rest of the world, particularly on the economic front."
McInerney agrees. "There's definitely some skittishness" about working with the U.S., he says, something that existed to a far lesser degree in post-Soviet Eastern Europe. "We have a legacy that hurts us in Egypt, on all sides. … Many Egyptian activists who helped foster this revolution, they saw the U.S. first as the primary backer of the Mubarak government and also as the architect of negative policies in the region, whether the war in Iraq, or its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." He adds that "the actors that are most interested in serious dialogue with the U.S. right now are the Islamists."
Given the legacy of U.S. foreign policy in the region, developing a coherent approach for engaging productively with newly powerful regional actors is difficult enough. Considering both the tenor of the debate over the budget and the problem of Islamic radicalism, the challenge appears almost insurmountable. But it must be overcome. A Middle East populated by legitimate, responsible, and accountable governments is clearly in the interest of the United States. It would be an enormous tragedy if the U.S. watched the opportunity to help support that outcome sail by.


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Ziconotide injection is used to relieve severe chronic pain in patients who have already been treated with other medicines (e.g., morphine) and did not work well.
This medicine is to be given only by or under the direct supervision of a doctor.
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of ziconotide injection in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of ziconotide injection in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have confusion and age-related kidney, liver, or heart problems, which may require caution and an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving ziconotide injection.
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This medicine will add to the effects of alcohol and other CNS depressants (medicines that can make you drowsy or less alert). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or medicine for allergies or colds; sedatives, tranquilizers, or sleeping medicine; other prescription pain medicine or narcotics; medicine for seizures or barbiturates; muscle relaxants; or anesthetics, including some dental anesthetics. Check with your doctor before you take any of the medicines listed above while you are using this medicine.
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It's no exaggeration to say that Alexis Tsipras, the head of the left-wing SYRIZA party in Greece, is the most feared man right now in all of Europe.
If he becomes the Prime Minister after this Sunday's Greek election, he promises to tear up the current bailout agreement (known as the Memorandum of Understanding) and hire boatloads more public sector wages at generous salaries.
While some wonder how he can do this, his gambit is that the rest of Europe will have to blink, knowing that a Greek exit from the Eurozone would be too catastrophic.
He insists he wants to remain in Europe, this putting the entire onus on fellow Eurozone leaders to push Greece out, creating an economic catastrophe beyond what there is now, risk a bank run, and create a template by which other weak countries (think: Portugal) could then exit, possibly unraveling the whole thing.
Polls have Tsipras neck and neck with his main rival, Antonio Samaras fo the conservative New Democracy party.
Tonight Tsipras spoke in front of a gigantic crowd (at least 10,000 people in this reporter's estimation) at Omonia Square. In attendance were lots of young people (though many old) eager to hear a message of change from the status quo.
It was an electric night, and it's easy to see why the 37-year-old Tsipras has taken SYRIZA—a former umbrella coalition of various communist groups—into contention to be Greece's largest parties.


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