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After an hour and a half of trying to soften an increasingly furious—and personal— debate over Palestinian membership in the United Nations on Tuesday, moderator John Donvan gave up and wearily asked his panelists for closing statements. Aaron David Miller started off. "I realize in the last 90 minutes that perhaps one of the most astute things I've done, the best decisions I've made, was to leave the Arab-Israeli negotiating table," he quipped.
The audience laughed. Onstage, the rest of the panelists looked pained.
Miller, a former adviser to various secretaries of state on the Middle East State Department and Dore Gold, who formerly represented Israel at the United Nations, argued against the motion, "The U.N. Should Admit Palestine as a Full Member State," at Tuesday's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate at NYU's Skirball Center. Defending the motion were Daniel Levy, an Israeli citizen who had drafted key language for the 2003 Geneva Accord, and Mustafa Barghouthi, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, a third-party movement in Ramallah devoted to nonviolent activism.
The audience was polled on the motion both before and after the debate. Initially 37 percent supported U.N. admission for an autonomous Palestine, 30 percent were opposed to admission, and 33 percent were undecided.* When the audience was polled again after the debate, Barghouthi and Levy had coaxed another 18 percent to their cause, earning a total of 55 percent of the votes. Gold and Miller snagged a few new supporters, but not enough (37 percent of the audience left Skirball convinced that the U.N. should not extend membership to Palestine). Perhaps due to the issue's polarizing power—and to the passionate behavior it elicited from the debaters—only 8 percent of the audience hadn't picked a side when the stage went dark.
Judging by the opening statements, the debate looked to be a contest between Gandhis and Cassandras, with one side trumpeting the Palestinian right to self-determination, pursued under peaceful auspices, and the other invoking the ruin that would come of a unilateral settlement. Levy and Barghouthi maintained that Palestinians were oppressed by Israeli occupation, that the urgency of the situation demanded immediate action, and that nonviolent resistance—in this case, an appeal to the court of international opinion—was the most ethical solution to a stalled peace process. They also claimed to have Israel's best interests at heart. "If we don't have a Palestine, we are saying kaddish, the rites of last prayer, for Israeli democracy," Levy warned. Barghouthi echoed: "Martin Luther King Jr. liberated the United States, not only the African-Americans, from segregation. … We want to liberate ourselves and the Israelis as well."
Miller and Gold were careful to acknowledge the dignity of the Palestinian cause. But they challenged the notion that pursuing statehood for Palestine through the United Nations would produce a safe, satisfactory peace for any of the parties. A thunderous presence throughout the debate, Gold spoke darkly of Israelis who had died in past terrorist attacks. He framed PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas' petition to the United Nations as an attempt to lock down 1967 borders without making necessary concessions to Israel. Such a step, he advised, would only aggravate violence on the ground.
"Both sides, certainly in our case, have a deep inner conviction in the justice of our cause," he said. "The point is, you've got to cut a deal. You can't walk away."
In his opening remarks, Miller reiterated Gold's admonitory note, at the same time searching for a measure of impartiality. "I speak here not as an Israeli and not as a Palestinian," he said. "I speak, with all its imperfections and contradictions, as an American absorbed in this process for 25 years." Championing the motto "no more illusions," Miller urged the audience not to sacrifice common sense to enchanting buzzwords—"sovereignty," "hope"— though he sympathized with the general yearning for progress.
"U.N. admission in the absence of an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians will not take the Palestinians any closer to the full sovereign state that they deserve," he said.
To the audience's delight, Daniel Levy injected some levity into the conversation, noting at one point that anyone who believed the Palestinians should wait around for the Americans to deliver a solution should "go see Waiting for Godot." He also drew applause with his contention that the realpolitik argument—dismissing the question of Palestinian admission to the United Nations on the grounds that the United States would veto it—is a cop-out. "If that's the case then I strongly suggest you guys cancel the debate you have planned … about banning college football," he told Donvan, "because it won't be."
Tensions ran particularly high when Gold confronted Barghouthi about a meeting he'd attended in Cairo with the head of Hamas. Asked how he could espouse nonviolence while reaching out to a terrorist group, Barghouthi responded with a dig at Israel's own bloody record. When Donvan intervened, the Palestinian statesman replied that Hamas had begun to revise its jihadist ideals, which prompted Miller to jump in that such a comment "strained the bounds of credulity."
"Why are you afraid of change?" yelled Barghouti.
Levy started to make a point about the intransigence of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who rejected the idea of Palestinian statehood in a conference last week. This prompted Gold to interrupt with a splutter of (justified) outrage: "Daniel Levy! Daniel Levy! Daniel Levy! That's called moral equivalence, Daniel Levy."
"Oh, don't throw moral equivalence at me," snapped the former negotiator.
Emotions cooled somewhat during the question-and-answer period. Elaborating on the practical benefits of Palestinian membership in the U.N., Mustafa Barghouti revealed that he considered a settlement freeze to be the most desirable outcome of Abbas' petition. Miller countered that admission might actually accelerate settlement activity. At that point, Barghouthi explained that he envisioned the PLO's efforts at the U.N. as part of a larger movement of nonviolent resistance, one that anticipated setbacks and declined to store its aspirations in a single basket.
Whether ominous or inspiring, this suggestion reappeared a few minutes later in Daniel Levy's notion of an amorphous "hope" that would fortify Palestinian spirits for the long haul.
Miller wrote me after the debate that it may have been to his opponents' benefit that they had such romantic paradigms on their side. "The appearance of giving up is far worse than giving in," he said, "even if you're giving in to an idea that in the real world will make Palestinian statehood harder to achieve."
On the other hand, John Donvan conceded that there is a limit to living in the past—to hostaging yourself, for instance, to outdated agreements and other generations' crimes.
None of the debaters seemed to think that U.N. membership for a Palestinian state would solve the vast majority of the problems facing Israelis and Palestinians today. (Even Levy admitted that it could make things worse.) Yet the debate audience concluded that the glimmer of a possibility of a solution just might be worth stirring the pot.
Correction, Jan. 11, 2011: This article originally referred to the initial vote in favor of the motion as being 34 percent, rather than 37 percent.


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3 ways to invest a tax refund for smart gains
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- Buy low-cost funds in and IRA
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The job market remains rocky in parts of the U.S., and many consumers are reluctant to spend lavishly after some lean years. For many Americans, this year's tax refund will go to paying down bills or be deposited into savings, where it will stay until a rainy day.
But a decent tax refund can be more than a quick fix to household finances. If you plan to retire with some degree of comfort, it's crucial to put your savings to work if you can, and build a decent nest egg.
Keep in mind that if you get a modest 5% rate of return each year, $2,500 today turns into almost $8,500 in 25 years, more than tripling your savings.
If you find a way to invest an additional $2,500 every year, you'll be sitting on more than $133,000 in 25 years.
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That's the power of compound interest over time: You make a little bit of money on your investment, then reinvest those returns, which can grow your savings substantially over the long haul.
If you can't find a way to scrape together the cash, a tax refund is a great chance to get the ball rolling. A check of $1,000 or more from the IRS can provide a great springboard to retirement savings.
Here are a few long-term investing ideas to try to generate a decent return on that 2012 tax refund.
Divert it to your 401(k)
Technically, you can't deposit money into a 401(k) that doesn't come through your employer. But there is a work-around if you talk to your benefits co-ordinator. Use your tax refund for living expenses, as you would a paycheck, and have the same sum shunted directly into your 401(k) plan.
Here's an example: You take home roughly $1,200 a month after taxes and health insurance. Your tax refund is for $2,400. For two months, you will live off your tax refund while your regular paycheck is diverted to your 401(k). After two months, everything goes back to normal.
MONEY QUICK TIPS:Use your 401(k) to maximize retirement savings
If you have the discipline to make this work, it's a great savings tool. It's a little more paperwork, but benefits managers might be happy to work this out with you.
Buy low-cost funds in an IRA
If you don't have a 401(k), starting a similar program on your own via an IRA is easy, and it comes with a tax deduction worth up to $5,000.
An IRA, or individual retirement account, gives you access to a broader range of investments. That may sound intimidating, but don't fret; the simplest options are often the best for long-term investors.
Those options include low-cost index funds that mirror a broad-based benchmark such as the S&P 500 Index. You'll have built-in diversification for stability without managing a complicated portfolio.
One place to start might be an S&P 500 ETF, which spreads your money across the components of the S&P 500, some of the biggest corporations in America, such as Walmart, Google and Ford. Such funds are a good value, too costing as little as $1 a year for every $2,000 you've invested.
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If you're intimidated, why mess around with researching lots of other investments when you can hold a piece of 500 different stocks for a dollar a year? It takes out the guesswork and protects you, because if one stock crashes, you still have 499 others that can offset any losses.
With the IRA tax break and easy access to diversification, low-cost funds are a great option, even for investors with only a small amount of money to invest.
Invest in yourself
One option many people overlook is the notion of investing in themselves. This tax refund may be your opportunity to do that.
If you have a knack for writing, a few hundred bucks can build you a website. If you're handy, buy some tools and take out a few classified ads. If you're a shutterbug, buy some top-notch gear and build a portfolio that might get you into the wedding photography business.
The downside is that your plans may never pan out. But there's risk in everything, from the stock market to entrepreneurship. Wouldn't you rather lose your money on your dream business than on Wall Street?
The upside is that the ceiling is limitless. Your initial investment may pay for itself quickly, and the satisfaction of being your own boss and living out your dreams may be beyond any dollar amount.
Saving for your retirement is wise. But making a living doing what you love may mean you never have to truly retire at all.
Jeff Reeves is the editor of InvestorPlace.com and the author of The Frugal Investor's Guide to Finding Great Stocks.

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Academic Lighthouse on the Bosporus
There are plenty of respected universities in Turkey that teach in English or French. Germany now also wants to get its foot into the door of the Turkish education market, with a Turkish-German university (DTU) in Istanbul. The German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan signed the foundation document for the new university on the Bosporus in Berlin on Friday, and the first students from both countries should be admitted before 2010.
"This is a glorious day for Turkish-German relations," commented Edzard Reuter (80), visibly moved. The former Daimler-Benz CEO grew up in Ankara, where his father Ernst Reuter had found refuge from Nazi persecution from 1935 to 1946.
Ernst Reuter later became mayor of Berlin, and his name inspired the "Ernst Reuter Initiative" set up by the foreign ministers of the two states in 2006. This initiative aims to find new ways for fostering understanding between cultures, in the wake of the Danish Mohammed caricatures incident. The DTU is the initiative's ambitious showcase project.
Ambitious plans
The idea for a Turkish-German university, however, is much older, with a long history of setbacks behind it. The Kohl government had planned a similar project as long ago as the early 1990s, which ultimately failed for financial reasons. It was not the only one. The current plans are also yet to be approved by the Turkish parliament.
"The Turkish education bureaucracy is renowned for its stubbornness when it comes to clearing up issues of national autonomy," says the politics professor Claus Leggewie, one of the DTU's many fathers.
But none of the other plans ever got as far as the current project. The building work is scheduled to start in 2009, although Babacan did not state a precise date in Berlin. The first students should be enrolled as soon as autumn of next year. Turkish construction work is generally fast-moving.
Open for "excellent students from Turkey"
The Turkish side will provide the premises and cover running costs, while the Germans are to send lecturers, develop curricula and pay grants. Berlin is currently anticipating annual costs of 3.5 million euro. Four faculties are planned to start with: Engineering, Economics & Social Sciences, Law and Cultural Studies. Teaching will be mainly in German.
Students gaining a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD should receive a certificate for both countries, as far as possible. The DTU hopes to admit 5000 students in total, and will be open for "excellent students from Turkey" and also Germany.
There are several secondary schools in Turkey that teach entirely or partly in German. In Germany, pupils can also learn Turkish as a foreign language at several schools. The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan unleashed a storm of indignation during a visit to Germany in February, when he warned Turkish people living in the country against "assimilation" and also suggested more Turkish secondary schools.
Steinmeier, Babacan and the German education minister Annette Schavan described the project on Friday with words like "lighthouse", "signal" and "new phase". In fact, German professors helped found a university in Turkey once before. In 1933, the founder of the Turkish state, Kemal Atatürk, encouraged Germans living in exile from the Nazis to create the first Western-oriented university on the Bosporus. It became a long-term project – the Istanbul Üniversitesi celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.
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© Süddeutsche Zeitung / Qantara.de 2008
Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
Ernst Reuter Initiative
Overcoming Divisions
The "Ernst Reuter Initiative" launched by Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gül is intended to promote intercultural dialogue between Turkey and Germany. Ariana Mirza reports on the motives and objectives of the initiative
"Import-Export" by Eren Önsöz
Five Centuries of German-Turkish Cross-Cultural Friendship
In her documentary film "Import-Export" Eren Önsöz looks at the 500-year-old relations between Turkey and Germany. She takes the audience on a voyage of discovery which is as entertaining as it is educative. Ariana Mirza reports
German Jews in Exile in Turkey
"Haymatloz" in Istanbul and Ankara
When the Nazis took power in 1933, hundreds of thousands of German Jews fled the country. Some of them ended up in Turkey, which was a neutral state and safe haven up until the end of World War II. Ursula Trüper recounts their story and that of the Ruben family
More background information on the Ernst Reuter Initiative on the website of Germany's Federal Foreign Office


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What Are You Like? - Signed Limited Edition Print by Sara Fanelli *POSTED WHEN HOI REOPENS*
Based on a Victorian parlour game 'What Are You Like?' asked illustrators & those who have found drawing to be a central part of their lives, to describe themselves by doing a series of drawings of their favourite things.
The resulting forty-five artworks forms a collection of cryptic self portraits which offer both an insight into their artists and act as a celebration of an accessible art form which is so much a part of our everyday lives. We have chosen a selection of artworks to be sold as limited edition prints from the show.
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Supporting Talking HeadsI remember my first U2 concert as if it was yesterday! They we're the support act of The Talking Heads (together with the TomTom Club)and they gave a hell of as show! (I'm fortunated to get a cd of off that concert)
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Leiden, The NetherlandsMy first U2-show in my hometown Leiden. A sell-out crowd of 800 people; tickets cost €5,50. Great show. What an atmosphere. Never missed them since then when they were in the Netherlands.


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Janet Contreras is not a politician; she's a working mother, grandmother, and a former small business owner. She's like many of the patriots I meet all across this country – frustrated, disappointed, and doing something about it. Many of you will remember Janet from the letter she wrote expressing concern for the direction the country was moving in. Glenn Beck read the letter on his show and later interviewed her. Janet will be a smart, straight-forward, honest, and independent voice for Arizona's 4th Congressional District. Please visit Janet's website at http://www.vote4janet.com/ and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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Alan Nunnelee & Bill Marcy for Congress in Mississippi Congress could use more leaders like Alan Nunnelee. Alan is a steady, conservative leader that Mississippi can depend on. His opponent stands with Nancy Pelosi and other national Democrats; Mississippi's 1st Congressional District deserves a leader who will stand with them. Please visit Alan's website at http://www.nunneleeforcongress.com/ and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.I had the privilege of meeting Bill Marcy at the Restoring Honor rally in August. Bill is tough – a former cop who walked a beat in Chicago – and he's the got the values and judgment Congress needs. I'm proud to join so many others in supporting his campaign to represent Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District. Please visit Bill's website at http://www.billmarcyforcongress.net/ and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Morgan Philpot for Congress in Utah Ten years ago, Morgan Philpot brought his message of "Faith, Family, Future" to the Utah state legislature. Since then, Morgan has been a reliable, conservative leader for Utah. Now he's running to represent Utah's 2nd Congressional District. We can count on Morgan to make the right choices to bring our country back. Please visit Morgan's website at http://www.philpotforcongress.com/ and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.Let's keep the momentum going as November 2nd approaches.
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For years this group photograph has puzzled me. A family reunion, surely. Some of the faces, particularly children, looked so familiar it was like recognizing family faces today. But who were they? No notations on the back. Was it a group of McFadyens in Cape Breton? Dougalls in Manitoba? Frasers in Quebec would be dark horses. I go around in circles.
Whichever family it might be, I wasted a lot of time straining to identify my father as a toddler, thinking it could be the 1890s. Is he the little guy who made a blurry move when the dog nuzzled him? I am hardly astute enough to identify what kind of trees or terrain they chose for the commemoration.
As for dating, likewise I'm no costume expert but a little research helps (or not). The ladies' hats, the extravagant brims (on most of them), and their dress in general might suggest the Edwardian era prior to the First World War. If so, I then reasoned, chances were my Dad was in there as a bigger lad. The only one he could remotely be is the young fellow at the back left. Good gawd, is that a cigar in his mouth? His height and appearance would make the photo on the eve of the War.
One suspects that those seated have some precedence in the arrangement. Eventually I concentrated on the patriarchal figure in the middle. (My grip on the Paint Program needs work.) He has an unidentifiable child on his lap. His cheekbones remind me of numerous Dougalls. And yet, if he is Peter Dougall (1824-1914), evidence shows he became thinner and more gaunt in old age.
Is he the same man as these? --
... both identified as Peter Dougall.
I have no photos of John McFadyen (ca.1837-1915) for comparison, except a grainy newspaper image published with his obituary.
Then there's the wife. Both men would have had living wives. The hatless woman seated to his right does not seem to be Catharine Fraser, Peter Dougall's family-described "diminutive" wife. So how about the tiny woman in black with the bemused expression seated to the left of hatless? My first impression was that she seems much older than anyone, wearing widow's weeds. Is that a cross on her bosom? Did Presbyterians wear crosses? Is she Catharine's mother Nancy Fraser? But Nancy died in Renfrew in 1895! Is it Peter's mother? No, she died in Montreal in 1878! Or ... how old is this picture anyway?!
If the patriarch is John McFadyen, his wife Isabella Campbell is another who left no photographic traces. I am throwing McFadyen scenarios in to demonstrate an (almost) open mind but am about to abandon it. Even as I write, I am switching back and forth between family photos. The woman seated two places to the patriarch's left with the collar bow closely resembles Peter Dougall's daughter Annie Elizabeth Hemenway. Annie married in 1884.
I'm also thinking the two women flanking widow's weeds have a certain resemblance. Peter had four daughters. Are they and his wife the seated figures closest to him? My original dating theory may be way out of whack.
Well, if they are Dougalls, I can't find my grandfather William (1854-1934) based on his old age portrait. More vexation. Unless he's the handsome guy with the cheroot. Would you say the woman in front of him is wearing glasses? William's wife Jessie is the only ancestor I've seen who wore glasses in her portraits. They were married in 1894. Maybe my Dad's merely the proverbial twinkle in someone's eye.
Peter Dougall also had five sons. Certainly there are many spouses included here to confuse the issues of who's male family and who's an in-law. Not to forget the fun-loving spinsters and bachelors---I'm sure they are the ones who dared to smile and laugh on a sedate occasion. Peter and Catharine retired from their lifelong home in Renfrew, Ontario, to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1905. Either place could be the setting for the photograph. And probably much earlier than my previous guessing.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
FEMA not really helping all that much
From Eyewitness News:
There are serious questions about how recovery workers were supposed to cut through all the red tape to help survivors of Sandy.
A mom in the Rockaways whose home was flooded is still, more than four weeks after the storm, tied up in red tape.
"Where do I bring my baby, she has to go back to school and there's nowhere to sit, nowhere to sleep, nowhere to lay down," Feleza Katz said.
Ms. Katz neighbors have all already received checks from FEMA that they're using for temporary housing.
But because of a single paperwork mix-up, she hasn't gotten a nickel.
"Miss, we don't need you to prove that you own the house, we need you to prove that you live in the house and that's when I ran from there crying, I can't, I can't anymore," Katz said.
But wait, isn't this the kind of red tape the president said he wouldn't tolerate?
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I'm not at all surprised!
When the government promises to help, it's often too little and too late!
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
amazing who gets what. you would be surprised who gets the most FEMA and government benefits in an emergency.where are our elected officials?
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
The $31,000 cap on payouts isn't going to help many people.
I'm sure if a tornado hits your house in Kansas, 31k will get you far into a rebuild, but not here. I'm sure that residents of the Northeast pay more into FEMA funding via taxes than anywhere else.
Once again, we are asked to do more than our share, only to see less of a return.
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
According to Mr Public Safety its all LIPA or Con Ed's fault.
Next Question.
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
This story doesn't make sense. What could possibly be the mix up? What property documents are in error? Why would FEMA be singling out Ms. Katz and saying she doesn't live there? It should be pretty easy to prove that she lives there. Or is there some error or technicality that ABC7 has neglected to mention? Is it possible that FEMA is justified in rejecting the aid? Either the reporters have dropped the ball or there is something actually fishy about the property.
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
leave obama alone. he visited N.J. and NYC. the M.S.M. deemed them saved. call him and the problem will be solved in 15 minutes.
now let him relax on the golf course in Hawaii.......HE WON.....
- Thursday, November 29, 2012


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Ian Bogost has a timely piece up on the issue of political-themed games, and their use — or lack thereof. Bogost draws a clear demarcation between politicking (which he feels most of these games do) versus politics — games have the potential to really speak towards politics, but wind up being more or less meaningless tools for politicking:
Politics, if we take the word seriously, refers to the actual executive and legislative effort that our elected officials partake in to alter and update the rules of our society. In an ideal representative democracy, the one leads to the other, but in contemporary society the two are orthogonal. Ironically, this is exactly where video games would find their most natural connection to political speech. When we make video games, we construct simulated worlds in which different rules apply. To play games involves taking on roles in those worlds, making decisions within the constraints they impose, and then forming judgments about living in them. Video games can synthesize the raw materials of civic life and help us pose the fundamental political question, What should be the rules by which we live?
It's a nice roundup of the spectrum of election- and politics-related games, and Bogost has some interesting thoughts on where the 'serious games' industry could perhaps head next. Persuasive Games: The Birth and Death of the Election Game [Gamasutra]


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What kind of woman would raise a man who would wear a costume like this? What kind of woman could raise such a spawn?
The type that will bust you in the mouth, of course.
According to The Washington Post, during Sunday's Redskins win over the Eagles in Philadelphia, some totally-out-of-character-for-Philly fan poured beer on Rhonnel Hearn, otherwise known as Clinton Portis' mother. She didn't handle it well, turning around and punching the woman in the face.
"She busted some lady in the nose, but that'll just teach you about messing with her," Portis said. "If you decide your team is losing and you want to cause trouble, then you're going to get what you're looking for. And yesterday, whoever that fan was, they got what they were looking for."
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'European Football Weekends is a perennial source of pleasure' The Guardian
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Lokomotive Leipzig
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- David said...
I've been to a few Lok - Sachsen games before, all at the Zentralstadion. The atmosphere is pretty special, even when the stadium is not even half full.
Would be interested if you found anyone to talk about FC Sachsen, and I could provide you with some background info on the city and the derby if you needed it.
I'm pretty excited about this year's though! It's been a long wait!
- 11 January 2011 at 11:46
- Danny Last said...
@David - We're on the look out for a spokesman from FC Sachsen to address the balance.
Are you going to the match this time around? Maybe we could meet for a pre-match ale?
- 11 January 2011 at 11:52
- David said...
Yeah I am for sure, doing the same as you (Hertha-Union followed by Leipzig derby the next day) in fact as I'm a 1.FC Union fan living in Leipzig.
Would be great to meet up for a pre-match beer for sure. Where are you staying? Send me an email at email@example.com .
- 11 January 2011 at 11:59
Mmmm, I visited Leipzig in the summer of 2009 and visited both the Bruno-Plache and the Zentralstadions. Really nice city and football culture. I am pretty sure you will enjoy your weekend a lot!
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Miracle Thomas, a Salem College School of Music student from Greensboro, North Carolina, has been selected by Victoria Livengood to perform "Steal me sweet thief!" from Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief at the Saturday master class during this years' North Carolina National Association of Teachers of Singing (NCNATS) competition. Victoria Livengood is an internationally known mezzo-soprano. She made her first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1985 and has since appeared in over 100 performances, including the title role of Carmen.
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"Where there's a clash of opposites, there's tension," says Lucas Ossendrijver, designer of menswear at the storied French house Lanvin. "That's when things become interesting."
This push-and-pull -- between the masculine and feminine, the casual and ceremonious, the exaggerated and understated -- has become the crux of Ossendrijver's imprint at the label. When he first arrived at Lanvin in 2006, there was little for him to look back on to use as a starting-off point. "In terms of image, it was blank," he says, referring to the lack of an in-house menswear archive. "But it was positive, actually, because it gave me freedom to think and rethink what would be relevant."
His directive was simply to "propose a contemporary wardrobe." However, the designer couldn't foresee how successful his stamp on the brand -- the way he would impart a rakish but sporty ease into traditionally stuffy formalwear -- would prove to be. The fruits of his labor are best exemplified by Lanvin's new three-story men's stand-alone flagship -- which opened this fall in a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side -- the first in the U.S.
Ossendrijver eyes the street for inspiration, studying stylish Frenchmen and how they assemble their outfits, and builds upon that foundation with collections that meld athleticism with classicism: Double-breasted blazers are paired with silk-chiffon track pants; lightweight suits decked with grosgrain pipings feature raw-cut, frayed edges; and his sporty sneakers have proven to be a coveted commodity, seen on everyone from David Beckham to Usher. And while the clothing and accessories are steeped in luxe details, their swagger is grounded in a subtlety that sidesteps the trademark showboating preferred by other labels. Perhaps Kanye West put it best when in his song "Illest Motherfucker Alive" he name-dropped a "Lanvin thousand-dollar tee with no logos."
Now residing with his longtime boyfriend in Paris, Ossendrijver works alongside a small crew of craftspeople. Lanvin is one of a handful of luxury labels not owned by a large conglomerate, something that Ossendrijver takes pride in: "I love being in the studio, working with my team on new ideas and solving problems." Still, he acknowledges that it's not painless. "Designing is chaos," he says, smirking. "People think it's very linear, but I've learned to be open to change until the last minute, where the whole six-month process, which is very intimate and personal, suddenly becomes very visible. Ten minutes after a show, everyone can see it on the Internet, every stitch."
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I am I relaunching a 'collectible certificate' which needs a complete redesign...
The piece is a A5 certificate which outlines the history of Australia's version of Yankee Stadium; the MCG and comes with an attached piece of the historic stadium.
As you can see from the original design here - http://www.mcgmemories.com.au/certi…000024.jpg - the original certificate is very plain and boring.
What I need is for you to redesign this A5 (5.8 × 8.3) certificate so it is more appealing, so the owner wants to proudly hang it in their home or office.
The wording for the certificate is:
Since Governor La Trobe granted its present site in 1853 the Melbourne Cricket Ground has grown into Australia's most recognisable stadium and sporting soul. The 'G' has been the home of Australian Rules football since its inaugural match between Melbourne Football Club and South Yarra on July 12, 1859. The home of the Melbourne Cricket Club saw its first test match between Australia and England in 1877.
The ground has hosted some of the greatest sporting spectacles, with the largest crowd for a 'footy game' being 121,696 during the 1970 grand final between Carlton and Collingwood. The record for a test match was set in 1961 when Australia faced the West Indies. However, the all-time attendance record of 130,000 plus was set in 1959 for an event held by religious leader Billy Graham.
This limited, unique and authenticated piece of the Ponsford Stand keeps alive the memory of the history and excitement of the 'G'. W.H. (Bill) Ponsford was one of Australia's and Victoria's greatest cricketers and you are holding a piece of the stand that bore his name.
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- The style I am thinking is a stronger headline font, with maybe awashed out image as the background or something similar.. but please becreative with your designs and consider this project as a blank canvasto get creative with.
- Also, if you feel an A4 size would work better, please feel free to design that style, but please notethat the piece of timber for the stadium is only 7.5cm x 4cm and needsto look good (and not out of place) somewhere prominently on thecertificate - maybe a border or something around the area the timberwill be stuck could work well.
- Font selection and type setting is a big part of this design, so please consider this strongly.
- If the url http://www.MCGmemories.com.au can be places somewhere small on the certificate it would be appreciated
- Regarding colors, please use strong primary colors, and/or colors that match the MCG itself - http://www.mcc.org.au/default.aspx or http://www.mcg.org.au/default.aspx
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One of the defining moments of my state Senate career came in 2005. I angered Democratic leadership when I joined Republicans in refusing to support Gov. John Baldacci's proposed two-year budget because it sold off future lottery revenue to fund the current budget's bottom line. It basically was mortgaging our future by using a credit card to balance the budget. As any business person knows, using a credit card to pay for overhead starts a spiral that is difficult to reverse. But equally important, the proposal endangered many of the programs I cared about because the one-time money would dry up in the next biennium, and these vital programs would likely be cut.
Opposition to the plan among Democrats built quickly as former Sen. John Nutting of Leeds also refused support (eliminating the possibility of the plan getting through the Senate), and both the Labor and Veterans and Legal Affairs committees voted in bipartisan opposition. Despite leadership taking us to the woodshed and trying to isolate me and others in the press, rank and file Democratic opposition was slowly gathering steam.
As for the Republicans, they went absolutely berserk trying to stop the plan. Not a single Republican came out in support. They wrote editorials slamming the proposal. They held rallies in the state house calling it irresponsible and dangerous. And finally, under the leadership of then-Sen. Peter Mills, Republicans went nuclear and began gathering signatures to repeal the borrowing portion of the budget. Had their people's veto gone forward and passed, it would have sent the entire state budget out of balance and out of compliance with the Constitution. That's how far they were willing to go to stop this plan.
Luckily it never came to that because we saw the writing on the wall, pulled the borrowing plan from the budget and replaced it with responsible cuts and revenue increases.
If selling off future revenue to pay for current bills sounds familiar, it should.
It's identical to Gov. Paul LePage's recent proposal to pay off future liquor proceeds to balance our budget. The only difference is that Baldacci wanted to use the borrowed money to meet our 55 percent obligation to our schools, whereas LePage wants to use the borrowed money to meet our $200 million obligation to the hospitals.
I am very happy to see that current Democratic leadership appears to have learned from the past and has looked at the governor's proposal with a very skeptical eye.
Republicans, on the other hand, appear to have lost their fiscal minds. Not only is it a Republican who has proposed the idea, it is a Republican who is sponsoring the legislation!
How can Republicans unanimously oppose mortgaging our future to pay current bills one year and then completely reverse course the next? Is it simply because our guy (Baldacci) proposed it the first time, and their guy (LePage) proposed it the second? Is it because they like what LePage wants to spend it on (hospitals), but they didn't like what Baldacci wanted to spend it on (education)? In both cases, it sure looks like it.
With apologies to the bard: Hypocrisy, by any other name, still smells.
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What is the best way to tell him that an extra package has to be installed in order for this functionality to work? What program can I use so as to install this package directly from my program with a dialog indicating how the installation process is going?
I want to do this via the default way, and, preferably a way that is Linux Desktop Environment independent.
In short, I want a way to install a package from my program neither by opening Ubuntu Software Center (via an apt:// URL) nor by doing it at the background.
Ideally, it would be a dialog like the one that is used by the Update Manager (or, for the ones that remember, from the Synaptic Package Manager).
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Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
OK folks, time to shake it up a bit!
I have a gallon of pecan honey newly acquired and it's dark and sensuous stuff. I also have these honeys available:
macadamia nut
orange blossom
light wildflower
dark wildfower
The rules are simple. The pecan honey is the star of this recipe, other ingredients can be used in a supporting role, including other honeys, but remember that this is a PECAN honey recipe that needs to show off the character of the PECAN honey. Excessive spices, flavorings, other honeys and such will not be on track with featuring the pecan honey as the star of the recipe, but there is a fine line between support and prominence.
So with that I want a six gallon starting recipe that will be racked down to five gallons total. You need to consider what other honeys I have (see above) and what kinds of yeasts I can use that will help to enhance the natural characters of the honey. Ingredients should be something that I can get easily here in SoCal and at a reasonable cost. If you have special ingredients that you feel are necessary you can purchase and ship them to me for the mead if I pick your recipe.
Research your ingredients, especially the yeast. Research each of the honeys to see what kind of flavors and aromas they have.
I WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS FOR THE CONTEST AND WHAT IF ANYTHING THEY WOULD ADD/DETRACT FROM THE RECIPE. Remember more is not necessarily better, and sometimes simple is the best, but, that's up to all of you mead makers out there.
That is something you need to do for yourself. Use the search tool here on the forums and in the main website to find answers. Use google and other resources. Use the honeylocator (http://www.honeylocator.com) Use the yeast manufacturer's websites as well. All the tools you need are there to craft a really kick ass recipe. If you want to team up with other GM'ers that's great too!
OK, nuff said! So what's the payoff?
I'll be making and documenting this mead in a brewblog with photos and frequent updates. No that's not the payoff, but what we'll do with the best recipe is this. I'll buy the winner a one year membership to the site, and produce this mead and babysit it in my own Meadworx. We will enter this mead jointly in the 2008 Mead Festival as joint meadmakers and see where it goes, if anywhere. The winner will be a major part of the many decision making waypoints in the life cycle of the mead, which means that we will be in close contact from beginning to bottling.
I'll be the final decisionmaker on the recipe and will reserve the right to make some adjustments with the approval of the GM'er who submits the winning recipe. I'll have Vicky and possibly another person help me decide the winning recipe, but this will be largely my call and will be as objective as I can be given the ingredients and how I make mead. I'll announce the winner via the forums under this thread. Entries will be accepted through the 31st of July, 2006. Recipes posted after that will not be eligible.
I'll establish a sticky thread for recipe submission. That thread is for recipes only and should not be used for debates, discussions, cheering etc. I'll clean out any posts that are not recipes. Use this thread for questions, ideas, debates and such.
With that I'll leave you to it.
OskaarIs it tasty . . . precious?
Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Hmmm -- Pecan honey, nice stuff but how to work that into an Oskaar style mead? The best search engine in the Internet world won't show whether pecan honey impacts middle palate, finish, etc.
So far, I'd suggest the light wildflower and mesquite honeys to supplement the honey must, while still going heavy on the pecan honey. Enough adjunct honeys to lighten and support the palate, while keeping the emphasis on the pecan. Dark and sensuous? That says it all. Any other honey should be light colored, meant to round out the flavor profile while enhancing the pecan honey profile.
Others may have better ideas.
Yeast strain and question of oaking are still up in the air.<><><><><><><><><><>
Dan McFeeley
"Meon an phobail a thogail trid an chultur"
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Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
This isn't necessarily an Oskaar style mead as much as it is one that brings my style closer to the mead maker who comes up with the winning recipe. Their vision of the recipe along with my thoughts and ideas will guide this project.
Come on Dan, you of all people can figure me out!
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07-01-2006, 01:01 AM #4Senior Member
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Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Can you describe the mesquite? I've seen them come in a wide range of shades and body characters. We have some very dark and rich mesquite here in AZ, but I've seen some rather light ones too.
Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Light and clear with good flavor, mineralic and aromatic. Smooth and clean with a good honey "burn" on the back of the throat.
Hope that helps,
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Dmntd and Wrathwilde draw first mead
Just an update on the contest recipe submission. Dmntd and Wrathwilde have both submitted very cool recipes for consideration. Nice ideas guys! Best of Luck!
OskaarIs it tasty . . . precious?
Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Wow, there are some great recipes being sumitted, and I'm getting some back channel chatter on questions relating to honey. So feel free to ask about the honey. I'll taste them in the next couple of days and post up some information on what the flavor is like to assist you with any recipes you're working on.
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Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Everyone please remember that the Recipe submission thread is for recipes only, we can bat them around in this thread which is a catchall for questions, rumminations and other stuff concerning the recipes and contest.
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07-05-2006, 08:28 AM #10Senior Member
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Re: Contest Recipe Submission ThreadOriginally Posted by Wrathwilde
Great minds must think alike!! Actually I looked on the Lavin website for a "nutty" yeast then found the description on morewine.com and found they suggested both yeasts. So I figured, why not. I must admit that seeing that you also selected the same yeast made me think I might be on the right track. After all you do have more experience under your belt in this area than I do, by FAR!!!
By the way do these yeasts actually perform like they say?
Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Wow, some very interesting contest submissions just came in. Someone's been reading some of my other posts and getting an idea of what kinds of combinations I like.
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Pecan Honey Taste Description
OK folks, I have sat down and tasted this stuff and let me just say WOW OH WOW, this is some amazing honey. It does not flow it breaks off into thick, streams and is very very thick.
The aroma is incredible, it is a mix of restrained molasses, carmelized sugar, chocolate, espresso, nutty, woody and mineralic with a wonderful full thick character that fills the mouth even from a very small amount. This is not for the faint of heart or weak spirited.
I wanted to post this because I think I may have done the posters a disservice by not getting this up sooner. In a six gallon batch size there will be no problem blending this with other honeys and losing the character aroma and nuance. Let me also just say that this is a big, bold, dark, opaque and brawny honey that stays in your mouth for a long time. I actually spoke to someone yesterday and told them that I could actually use the Western Buckwheat I have to thin this out a bit so that should give you an idea of the body and character of this stuff.
If you want to, please feel free to modify your recipes in any way you see fit, and if you don't want to that's fine as well. I think it will work very well with any of the honeys I have around here so I'm looking forward to seeing more of those recipes.
Keep em coming,
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Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Hey Oskaar,
Do you ever make braggot man?
Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
Hey Tony,
Generally only around the holidays because I like to spice them and serve them hot. I'm open to anything though if it looks like it will work with the pecan honey.
Everyone, please feel free to enter more than one recipe if you wish to do so!
OskaarIs it tasty . . . precious?
Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
It's a pity you only have a gallon of the Pecan - if you could make all the recipies,
you'd have your own "nutty" section in a mead contest (and pity the judges trying to judge between them!!)
(Note: I modified my recipe)
Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
You all can also add Meadow Foam honey to the list of honeys available to be used in the contest recipe.
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Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
I'll put something up this weekend for you all.
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Submissions for contest cutoff this Monday, 07/31/2006
OK folks we're coming down to the wire and this Monday (07/31/2006) is the cutoff date so let's get 'er done!
Quick taste tests:
Dark wildflower - Dark, rich and full with some very subtle astringency and mineralic notes. Thick, heavy honey flavor with subdued caramel, molasses and nutty flavors. Much like buckwheat but not quite as pronounced. This is mostly sumac according to the beekeeper.
Light wilflower - has crystalized but still tastes very nice. It is light like clover but with some background earthiness and acidity. Faint citrus notes with a faint hint of molasses like flavor on the end.
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Re: Help Oskaar - Gotmead Recipe Contest
OK, this is the last day, I'll cut off entries tonight so if you've been holding a recipe until now, post it up or we wont' get a chance to review it for consideration.
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Contest Winner Announcement
Well, after much agonizing, swearing, drinking, kibitzing and general badinage with Vicky the winning recipe has been chosen!
We went through each of the recipes one by one, line item by line item together over the phone (Can you hear me now? ) and shortlisted the recipes to three and from there we chose the best one, which was actually a combination of two recipes.
Before I announce who won, I need to express just how creative you all are out there in gotmead land! There were some things in these recipes that I really REALLY liked and they have given me a lot to explore and consider as I move forward with my meadmaking.
OK, the two winners are DELTA OGRE, and WRATHWILDE. I'm in contact with both winners and I'll be working with them to refine and combine their recipes into a hybrid that we all think will make an excellent mead. Congratulations for putting together two very elegant recipes that will showcase the main ingredient, Pecan Honey.
One membership to gotmead.com for Delta Ogre, and one Membership to the IMA Hobbyist Club for WrathWilde coming down the pipe!
Again, lot's of creative entries (Ancient Pecan, Sweet Potato Pie Pecan, and some other great stuff like Braggot and sparkling dry pecan mead)
If any of you who entered would like my feedback on your recipes please feel free to PM or Email me and I'll be happy to boil my notes down to something legible for you on what my thoughts were, and how the recipe itself may have worked with some modifications.
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The picturesque villages of Bundeena and Maianbar, located on the Cronulla Coast in Southern Sydney, offer visitors a quick and easy escape from the fast pace of the city to a setting of secluded bays, beaches, and bushland. Among the 2700 residents fortunate to call this area home are artisans, small business tourism operators, shopkeepers, and others who enjoy living close to nature. The villages border the south shore of Port Hacking and are otherwise surrounded by the beautiful and historic Royal National Park.
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Insitec necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Professional, fresh and creative design for a small IT service business in Australia.
insitec is an it solutions provider, offering hardware, software, network and web solutions. Our clients range from small to large businesses as well as Government clients.
insitec don't currently have a graphic designer, and so our new web design is up to 99designs! We are leaving it up to the designers to come up with something different and creative that will gain potential clients attention.
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Government departments and small businesses are our largest audiences, so we require something that stands out but is professional enough not to 'turn off' Government clients.
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Remember the race where I had my 'redemption' in the marathon? The race that I love so much and hope that everyone runs once in their life because it's a fast, flat, fun course and it's where I may have falling back in love with racing and running? Where I was doing jazz hands like some kind of freak at mile 25 because I was so happy? Where I read the race report and to this day it makes me cry?
I am super excited to share with you guys that I will be leaving my job at the advertising agency that I have worked at for the past year and a half and will be taking a job with ICR, which stands for International City Racing. They put on many races, including the Long Beach Marathon! I am so excited about this opportunity and working with the great team at ICR. I can't believe that my blog turned into something and now I will be doing marketing, event planning and social media for them. It basically is my dream job and I'm still pinching myself about the opportunity I have in front of me. Running, social media, writing, all things I LOVE! All I can think about is how excited and happy I am for this opportunity.
Don't worry, I'll still be the little blogging machine that I've become and will still be running tons which I have to share tomorrow some great races that I will be running soon as well. There are some great shorter ones coming up that I'm excited about.
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If you are looking for a running related Valentine's Day gift idea check out my recent post on the Examiner too. Those gifts would make this little runner girl pretty happy.
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