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With rebels in the heart of Chad's capital, N'Djamena, surrounding the presidential palace, the complex Darfur conflict is set to take a dramatic and unexpected turn.
If President Idriss Déby's government falls by military coup, humanitarian aid operations feeding nearly 400,000 Sudanese refugees and displaced Chadians will be thrown into disarray, and half a dozen Darfur rebel movements taking refuge in Chad may be forced to move their bases back into the troubled Sudanese region.
Coming just days before the expected arrival of a European Union (EU) humanitarian protection force in eastern Chad, called EUFOR, the coup attempt is almost certain to delay that deployment until it is clear which government is in charge – the rebels or Déby – and whether EUFOR's presence will still be welcome.
"If the coup succeeds, it will have a tremendous impact on Darfur, because the rally of Darfur rebel movements apparently received logistical support from Déby," says Paul Simon Handy, head of African security analysis at the Institute of Security Studies in South Africa. With Déby out of the picture, Sudan's government will be able to turn its attention to negotiating with the Darfur rebels on its own terms, he adds. "The misfortunes of Déby are the fortunes of Khartoum."
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A coup in Chad would mark the culmination of years in which both Sudan and Chad have used each other's largely uncontrolled border areas, common tribal populations, and dissident rebel groups against each other. Déby's links to Darfur rebel groups have allowed these groups to use Chad as a base for launching attacks into Darfur, while Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has responded in kind, giving Chadian rebels haven to launch attacks on Déby's regime.
Political analysts say that the fall of President Déby would have serious consequences, since Déby's regime provided substantial pressure on Khartoum to abandon its military policies in Darfur and to negotiate with rebel groups.
"The implications of a change in government would be dire," says John Prendergast, a longtime Sudan watcher and co-chair of the Enough Project, a Darfur pressure group in the US. "The Khartoum regime would assume a dominant position in the region. The new government in Chad would join the Khartoum regime in a witch hunt for Darfurian rebels in Chad, thus removing any semblance of stalemate and inspiring Khartoum to ignore peace talks and pursue a military solution."
Alex de Waal, a Sudan expert at Harvard University, says the big losers, if the coup succeeds, will be two of Darfur's most powerful rebel groups, the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudanese Liberation Army (Unity Faction).
"It looks like Khartoum has probably won its battle, and JEM and SLA-Unity will be cut off from their supplies," says Mr. de Waal, responding by e-mail to questions from the Monitor. "They will be forced to either submit or fight on, but with reduced strength."
Caught in the middle are nearly 400,000 refugees from both Chad and Darfur, and the humanitarian aid groups struggling to provide the basic amenities of food, shelter, water, and protection.
"Obviously it is very worrying, but as far as food is concerned, for February and March, we have food in stock," says Stephanie Savariaud, spokeswoman for the UN's World Food Programme office in Dakar, Senegal, which covers Chad. But a number of aid workers say their greatest fear now is the possibility of looting, both of vehicles and humanitarian supplies.
The rebel offensive on N'Djamena comes just weeks after a heavy aerial bombing campaign by Chad's Air Force on rebel positions near the Darfur town of El Geneina on Dec. 30. Chad at the time claimed that its ground and air forces had not crossed the Sudanese border, but humanitarian workers on the ground reported heavy bombing around El Geneina. Khartoum called the attacks "unprecedented."
Chadian rebels attempted a coup against Déby in the summer of 2006, complaining of government corruption and inability to provide services to the citizens of eastern Chad, Déby's own region. French troops intervened in that conflict, halting the rebel column outside of N'Djamena with warning shots by Mirage jet fighters. This time, the French response has been more muted, reporters in N'Djamena say, with only a few French snipers taking position in the city center, notably at the Meridien Hotel, just blocks from the presidential palace.
Even before rebels reached N'Djamena late Friday night, the signs of government collapse were already apparent in eastern Chad. Last week, two men in government uniforms jumped a wall at a UN office and attempted to steal two vehicles. Over the weekend, the UN began to evacuate all international staff from eastern Chad, and as the capital itself came under attack, from N'Djamena as well.
Aid workers in Sudan say that a change of government in Chad may have both positive and negative consequences.
"It potentially could be good if the Chadian rebels move back into Chad, because their presence has had an impact on the security situation in western Darfur," says one Western aid worker based in Khartoum, speaking on condition of anonymity. "But there is a downside. If there is a pro-Khartoum government in N'Djamena, then the bases of the Darfur rebels in eastern Chad will be more difficult to sustain, and their return to Darfur could destabilize the area."
No more EU force?
A regime change in Chad would likely complicate, if not cancel, the deployment of a French-led EU force in Chad, designed to protect the "humanitarian corridor" for food aid trucked in to the 12 refugee camps housing some 235,000 Darfur refugees, and the separate camps for 137,000 Chadian displaced people who've fled rebel fighting and ethnic clashes. The EUFOR was supposed to begin deployment this week.
Khartoum may see the new regime in Chad as a way to bolster its case against the deployment of an expanded peacekeeping force of 26,000 African Union and UN troops within Darfur itself.
"This will complicate the deployment of the AU-UN hybrid force in Darfur (UNAMID), because Khartoum will see a new partner regime in N'Djamena," says Mr. Handy at ISS. "Khartoum is always arguing there is no war in Darfur, [saying] there are some clashes from time to time, but they have the capacity to deal with it. With a friendly government in N'Djamena, Khartoum will have a stronger argument."


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from the eliminating-stupid-patents deptHello, Techdirt! I'm Julie Samuels, staff attorney at EFF, where I also hold the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents. (Yes, that's my real title. And, yes, it's that awesome.) I'm super excited to be here, talking about my favorite posts of the week (not an easy task—those folks at Techdirt definitely keep themselves busy!). So let's get started.
First, for better or worse, an issue close to my heart: the patent troll. This week brought news of Rackspace's suit against notorious patent troll Erich Spangenberg and Parallel Iron. There's so much I can't stand about patent trolls, but so much I love about this post: it really explains the background of this particularly troll-ish character and also highlights Rackspace's actions, which deserve both praise and attention — Rackspace has been a real leader in the fight against patent trolls as of late.
While we're talking patents (which is pretty much all I ever do anyway), we also heard more this week from a particularly gross troll, the one who uses various shell companies to claim that anyone who uses "scan to email" technology over a network infringes its patent, and demands about $1,000 per employee. This is part of a much larger, dangerous trend of end-user suits, where patent owners threaten users who really have little or no reason to even think they were infringing a patent (some other examples include going after podcasters and app developers). These end-user suits really are the worst — whether they're used as little more than an extortion tool to shake down small companies for a few thousand bucks, or pressure points to get at the larger, richer technology providers (think Apple, Google, Cisco) — they're an unacceptable abuse of the system and a tax on innovation.
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Another important topic that came up a bunch this week was transparency (or, sadly, lack thereof). Take, for instance, international trade agreements, negotiated in secret and resulting in hamstrung democratic processes all over the world. Glyn Moody had a great post talking about these problems and reminding us that we need watch out for not just the big, multilateral agreements like TPP and TAFTA, but the dangerous bilateral ones that often fly under the radar.
And then there's Hollywood and the traditional content industries, which never cease to amaze. First, they unsuccessfully tried to shut down Aereo, and now they're threatening to pull channels off the air! Because those content companies know exactly what their customers want. Of course they do. Then the news that despite all the complaining otherwise, it actually turns out that the number of people employed in the music and movie business just hit an all-time high. And even Rep. Goodlatte, longtime considered a reliable friend of the content industries, criticized the cozy relationship between the DOJ and Hollywood (someone else who might have something to say about that is Kim Dotcom, who remains at the center of an unraveling spying scandal in New Zealand as he continues to face criminal prosecution here in the United States).
As usual, never a dull moment! Just thankful that we've got Techdirt on the story and reminding us that, as a community, we've still got a lot of work to do to make the world safe for innovation and the people who make cool stuff.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 no.2 Cape Town feb. 2011
Relationships of heredity and dry eye with pterygia in black African patients
Peter AnguriaI; Sam NtuliIII; Trevor CarmichaelII
IMB ChB, MMed Ophth Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
IIMB BCh, FCS (SA), PhD (Med), MSc (Med) Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
IIIBSc Stat, BSc (Hon) Stat, MSc Biostat University of Limpopo, Polokwane campus
To the Editor: Pterygium is a wing-shaped fibrovascular growth of the conjunctiva across the limbus onto the cornea.1 Although a hereditary influence on pterygium formation is recognised1 and a report of possible genetic influence in white South Africans has been published,2 little is known about these factors in black African populations.
Pterygia are widely believed to be due to excessive exposure to sunlight,3,4 and a long duration of ultraviolet radiation has been reported to be responsible for its development.5 The use of tobacco,6 a poor tear film,7 lower levels of education and skills,6 ethnicity,8 exposure to dust,8 malnutrition4 and chronic ocular surface inflammation8 have been reported or proposed as associations with pterygium occurrence. The relative importance of these factors has not been described in rural black Africans. This report is confined to investigating possible genetic factors and dry eye, which were the main associations found.
Ethical clearance was obtained from the institutional research ethics committees. We prospectively interviewed 71 patients and 71 age- and sex-matched controls in the Mankweng Eye Unit in Polokwane. Patients with ocular surface malignancy and pseudo-pterygium were excluded.
Consent was obtained and participants were shown three photographs of eyes with pterygia (Fig. 1) and asked questions similar to those used in a previous study.2 The patients were shown the photographs and asked if they had ever seen a person with such a growth on the eye. If they replied in the affirmative, they were asked if that person was a relative and if so what their relationship with the person was. Tear-film stability was assessed using a previously reported procedure;7 after application of 5% fluorescein, the cornea was assessed for areas of dark spots or streaks in between the blinks.
The mean age of the participants was 45 years (standard deviation 10.65), with a range of 22 - 65 years. There were nearly three times as many females as males in the series.
There was a positive family history of pterygium in 36% of cases and 10% of controls. A positive history was almost 5 times as common in cases as in controls. This was statistically significant (p<0.05, chi-square test).
The tear film was unstable in 7% of cases and 17% of controls. An unstable tear-film was 4 times more common in controls than in cases, and this was significant (p<0.05, chi-square test).
A positive family history implies hereditary predisposition.2 It was the only positive factor associated with the formation of pterygia in this study. In Australia 38% of patients admitted for pterygium surgery compared with 8 - 12% of controls admitted for other conditions had a family history of the growth.9 In South Africa 30 -35% of urban predominantly white individuals who had attended an ophthalmic practice because of pterygium had a positive family history.2
An unstable tear film (dry eye) was not associated with pterygium in this study, and this lack of association has previously been reported in Bantu patients.10 Pterygia may cause irritation with concomitant tearing that female patients have found problematic.11 The epiphora caused by ocular irritation may explain the finding of more dry eye in controls than cases. The association of dry eye with pterygium has been reported from Turkey7 and Nigeria,12 so the issue is unresolved.
The inherited predisposition that appears to underlie the formation of pterygium in black African patients requires further study.
1. Duke-Elder S. System of Ophthalmology. Vol 8, part 1. London: Kimpton, 1965: 573-582. [ Links ]
2. Carmichael TR. Genetic factors in pterygium in South Africans. S Afr Med J 2001;91:322. [ Links ]
3. Cameron ME. Pterygium throughout the world. Springfield: Thomas, 1965. [ Links ]
4. Moran DJ, Hollows FC. Pterygium and ultraviolet radiation: a positive correlation. Br J Ophthalmol 1984;68:343-346. [ Links ]
5. Mackenzie FD, Hirst LW, Battistutta D, Green A: Risk analysis in the development of pterygia. Ophthalmology 1992;99:1056-1061. [ Links ]
6. Wong TY, Foster PJ, Johnson GJ, Seah SKL, Tan DTH. The prevalence and risk factors for pterygium in an adult Chinese population in Singapore: the Tanjong Pagar survey. Am J Ophthalmol 2001; 31:176-183. [ Links ]
7. Kadayifcilar SC, Orhan M, Irkec M. Tear functions in patients with pterygium. Acta Ophthalmol. Scand 1998;76:176-179. [ Links ]
8. Hill JC, Maske R. Pathogenesis of pterygium. Eye 1989;3:218-226. [ Links ]
9. Booth F. Heredity in one hundred patients admitted for excision of pterygia. Aust NZ J Ophthalmol 1985;13:59-61. [ Links ]
10. Goldberg L, David R. Pterygium and its relationship to the dry eye in the Bantu. Br J Ophthalmol 1976;60:720-721. [ Links ]
11. Wilson G, Horner D, Begley C, Page J. Ocular discomfort from pterygium in men and women. Eye Contact Lens 2008;34:201-206. [ Links ]
12. Balogun MM, Ashaye AO, Ajayi BGK, Osuntokun OO. Tear break-up time in eyes with pterygia and pingueculae in Ibadan. W Afr J med 2005; 24: 162-166. [Pubmed] [ Links ]
Accepted 18 October 2010.
Corresponding author: P Anguria (firstname.lastname@example.com)


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A woman from a village in southern Russia fought off a wolf with her bare hands and killed it with an axe.
Aishat Maksudova, from Novo Biryuzyak village in the Dagestan region, was in a group of villagers herding cows and sheep.
The 56-year-old heard the cry of a calf being attacked and rushed to scare off the wolf but it turned on her.
"I was not even frightened. I stood like this, holding an axe like this. And the wolf, with an open mouth suddenly jumped on me. Jumped like that. The wolf clawed at my leg and I wanted to hit him with the axe," Ms Maksudova said.
In a reversal of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale where a granddaughter saves her grandmother from being eaten by a wolf, this Russian grandmother took fate in her own hands.
"When I raised my arm up like this, the wolf was just holding my hand. Trying to claw my hand. I wanted to open his mouth and put my fist all the way there, all the way to his throat. But I could not open him.
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Seven Chapters from a Sad Sack Loser's Life - Chapter Four
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David Cristiansen's final trip with the Thames Division of the Royal Naval Reserve came towards the end of the summer of 1977.
And while his best oppo Lofty O'Shea wasn't onboard, he had other mates to raise Cain with, such as Damon Cates, a tall redhead of about 26 who looked a little like Edward Fox in "A Day of the Jackal".
Like David, he loved music and fashion and the Soul Boy and Punk scenes, and they hit it off from their very first meeting back at HMS Ministry.
He later confided in David about his early life which had been marked by one family tragedy after the other; and his reserve masked a deep and complex sensibility. But he was not a man to flaunt it; nor an ability to handle himself in any situation. Such as the time an intoxicated sailor took a sudden, violent dislike to David in a south coast bar, and was clearly keen to do some serious damage to his pretty cherub's face. At which point Damon placed himself between David and his aggressor, before telling him to back off in no uncertain terms.
Doubtless, though, there were those who wondered how such a natural-born gentleman ended up on the lower deck, such as the guys from another division altogether, based far away from the fleshpots of London where a simpler, harder way of life prevailed, who sailed with them that summer to the port of Ostend in Belgium.
And when some of them were squaring up with some locals who had somehow offended them, Damon and David made it clear they had no intention of joining in.
Which prompted one of their number, a little waiflike sailor of about 16 or 17, to turn to them and ask, "What's wrong with youse guys?" with a look of utter bewilderment on his beardless face. But Damon simply didn't see the point of fighting for the sake of it. While a secret inner fortitude would eventually see him being commissioned as an officer in the Royal Navy, which had been his destiny all along; but not David's.
His time with the Thames Division, RNR, came to an end in late 1977 with a surprisingly positive character report. And if military life had never been for him, it became an important part of his identity nonetheless.
Even later in the summer, he joined the former Merchant Navy School in Greenhithe, Kent, as a trainee Radio Officer.
He formed several close friendships there; but closest of all was with Jayant, from Gravesend, a tough Thameside town in North West Kent with a large Indian community. And for a time, he and David were inseparable.
And it was through Jay that David started going to discos at Gravesend's Woodville Hall; and pretty well every week for a while, a gang from the college would take the train to Gravesend, to be treated like visiting royalty by the - mainly white and Asian - kids, whose outfits stood out in such striking contrast to the industrial bleakness of their surroundings.
For English suburban life in those days didn't include mobile phones or DVD players, personal computers or the world wide web, and so was a fertile breeding ground for way out youth cults such as the Punks and Soul Boys.
There were girl in chandelier earrings, wearing evening dresses and stiletto heels, which were in stark contrast to the hair colours they favoured, such as jet black or bleach blonde, with flashes of red, purple or green. Some wore bow ties, while others hanged their school colours around their necks.
The boys favoured short hair, thin ties, mohair sweaters, baggy, well-pressed peg-top trousers of red or blue, and winkle picker shoes. And when they took to the floor to pirouette and pose, they could forget the ordinary cares of their working class lives and become superstars for a brief few hours.
David enjoyed his time at Merchant Navy School and made several good friends in addition to Jay, but ultimately had to realise it wasn't for him.
And soon after returning to London, he auditioned for a place on the three year drama course at the Silverhill School of Music and Drama in the City of London, which was really where he'd wanted to go in the first place.
And Silverhill took him on, which was a bit of a surprise to him to say the least, seeing as he'd already failed two earlier auditions for the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Yet, it failed to prevent him sinking further into the nihilistic Punk lifestyle. And having been blown away by the hairstyle of one of a small gang of Punks he knew by sight from nights out in Dartford, he decided to imitate it a few weeks later:
It was spiked in classic Punk style, with a kind of a halo of bright blond taking in the front of the head, both sides, and a strip at the nape of the neck. And if you chose to chose to flaunt such a style in those days, you lived in constant fear of attack or abuse. For Punk's culture of insolence and outrage was extreme even by the standards of previous British youth cults; such as the Teds, the Rockers, the Mods, the Greasers, the Skins, the Suedeheads and the Smoothies.
And at the risk of being fanciful, it could be said that to some extent, Britain was a nation still under the sway of the moral values of the pre-war years, so that a cultural war was being fought for the soul of the nation. While the Punks were the avant-garde of a new Britain in a way that would be impossible today. And this may go some way towards explaining the incredible hostility Punks attracted from many ordinary members of the British public.
But David was determined to be part of the revolution. And to this end, he saw local Punk band Sham 69 in a hall above the Surveyor, a pub in the heart of the Molesey Industrial Estate some 12 miles from the centre of London.
This was shortly before they shot to fame after singer Jimmy Pursey was arrested on the roof of the Vortex Punk club in central London on the 23rd of September 1977.
Sham's very name had been derived from the legend Walton and Hersham '69, scrawled on a wall in Molesey's sister town of Hersham, referring to the year she topped the premier division of the long defunct Athenian amateur football league.
David already knew Pursey by sight, having seen him a year or so earlier miming to Chris Spedding's "Motorbiking" at the famous Walton Hop, supposedly Britain's first ever discotheque, which held mime competitions for Hop regulars at the height of its popularity.
Pursey was such a regular, and the same could be said to a degree of David and his brother Dany. And one evening, David and Dany and a friend considered taking part in the competition themselves; having selected "I Can't Give You Anything" by the Stylistics to mime to; but at the last minute, they changed their minds, as they hadn't even taken the trouble to rehearse.
While unlike the ditherer David, Pursey made it clear to all who witnessed his performances at the Hop he'd been born to be a star.
And sure enough, for a brief period, he was one of Britain's leading Punk heroes. While his followers, the Sham Army, consisting of skinheads on both the left and the right of the political spectrum, became almost as famous as him. But after a riot at the Middlesex Polytechnic in North London, the first frenetic phase of Sham's performing career came to a close. Although they continued having hits until in 1980, when they disbanded until the inevitable reformation.
But 1977 was Punk's year zero in the UK, and a far darker one than those immediately preceding it for that very reason.
Around about this time, David was often to be found at the Surveyor on a Sunday night with Dany, and mutual friends.
On one occasion, the usual Disco or Pop gave way to a violent Punk Rock anthem which saw the tiny dance space being invaded by deranged pogo-dancers as if they'd been summoned by some malignant deity. On another, a Ted revivalist who favoured flashy fifties-style clothing, tried to start some trouble with him in the toilet, at which point Vinnie, another Ted who'd befriended him about a year previously when he looked like an extra from a '50s High School flick stepped in with the magical words: "He's a mate!"
Vinnie's intervention may have saved him from a hiding that night, because Teds had a loathing of Punks informed by their essential conservatism. To them, Punks probably seemed to have no respect for anything.
The Teds, or Edwardians as they were initially styled, were widely perceived as folk devils when they'd first emerged in the UK in about 1952, with a look purloined from a small minority of upper class Guards officers who'd adapted the Edwardian fashion in the late 1940s in defiance of post-war austerity.
However, in comparison to the later Punks, they were a model of respectability, and that was especially true of the '70s, when a brief revival resulted in battles between Teds and Punks taking place on West London's Kings Road all throughout '77.
They persisted into the '80s, only to all but vanish from the face of the globe with the passing of that last great decade of youthful eccentricity.
It may have been that very night that Vinnie the Ted almost imploringly asked him whether he into "this Punk lark", and David assured him he wasn't. He may even have added he still loved the fifties, which was true to a degree, but that wasn't the point. For the fact is he lied to him to look good in his eyes, which was a pretty low thing to do to a friend.
But given the times, young men like David were forced to learn certain survival tactics, such as the ability to flee at the first whiff of trouble.
Yet, by the time of the internet revolution, Punk had become just another exhibit of the Rock and Roll museum, itself just another branch of the vast entertainment industry. And the culture wars of the late '70s had long since been quieted, while rebellion had become more or less fully co-opted by the mainstream.
To give Punk its due, that this situation had come about in the first place was at least partly as a result of its utter ferocity. Which is to say of its first serious assault, which targeted a Britain still desperately clinging to the final vestiges of its Judeo-Christian moral fabric. And while it was rejected by the vast majority of British people - indeed the West as a whole - its influence went on to be little short of cataclysmic.
Yet, declared dead by about '79, it returned to the underground, where it set about fertilising one rebel movement after the other throughout the '80s. And so, Post-Punk, No Wave, Anarcho-Punk, Industrial and Goth all benefited from its ethos, until finally in the early '90s, the Alternative Rock revolution brought it fully back into the mainstream.
Spearheaded by acts as diverse as Alice in Chains, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, the Smashing Pumpkins and above all, Nirvana, this movement could be said to have been Rock's final desperate outburst of sedition. And after its passing, Rock finally took its place alongside Classical, Jazz, Folk and World as just another music genre, where once it had been little short of a religion of youth.
While the sheer intensity of Nirvana's later music continues to startle, it's been wholly shorn of its iconoclastic power; and it's available for anyone of any age to access via the simple click of a computer mouse. And the same could be said of the Sex Pistols, whose one-time bassist, the tragic Sid Vicious, has emerged as Punk's leading icon.
Is this development in some respects a fulfilment of Nietzsche's philosophy of the transvaluation of all values?
There are those cultural commentators who would insist that this is indeed the case, and that far from being a positive move towards universal tolerance, it's a tragedy beyond compare, although rather than Nietzsche, it's the Book of Isaiah they might feel moved to quote from:
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil."
But there was a time that such a revaluation met with enormous resistance, and the British public's outraged reaction to Punk in '77 was a perfect example of this. As for the Teds, goodness knows they were no angels. But to them there was something uniquely rotten at the heart of Punk, while the Rock and Roll they loved possessed all the purity of a classic art form.
It was at the tail end of this Punk Rock Year Zero that David took Jay to a party in London's swanky West End. It was the last in a long series of celebrations he'd gone to throughout '77 mainly as a result of friends from Welbourne reaching the landmark age of 21. It was also one of the last times he ever saw Jay.
Before arriving, Jay and he met up as arranged with future oil magnate Chris, and as soon as the introductions were over, Jay saw fit to offer a solo display of his lethal street fighting skills:
"I'm suitably impressed," said Chris...and he was, although he was no wimp himself; but Jay was something else, and few would have benefited from crossing him, but they got on like a house on fire that insane night which at one point saw David pouring a full glass of beer over his head. What the beautiful dancer he'd spent most of the evening with thought of a nice guy like David doing a thing like that she didn't say.
In those days, David knew so many people who'd have done anything for him given half the chance, and yet his one true passion appeared to be the creation of endless drunken scenes, and a party wasn't a party for him unless he'd caused one, after which he simply moved on.
And indeed in the spring of '78, he was on the move again...this time to the city of Fuengirola on Spain's Costa del Sol; and with the intention of helping set up a sailing school with Adam, a young Englishman whom his father had recently befriended in London. But for some reason, the project came to nothing.
However, David stayed on, living first in an apartment Adam had kindly set him up in, then in a little hotel in town; and finally, rent-free with an American friend, Scarlett, one of a handful of US ex-pats resident in Fuengirola in the late 1970s alongside young people from Australia, Britain, Ireland, Germany, South America and other parts of the world.
It was a hedonistic scene, and David wasted little time in becoming part of it. He spent his nights at the Tam Tam night club, where he set about establishing himself as Fuengirola's very own Tony Manero, in Punk Rock attire.
It was his first year as a full-time Punk, in point of fact, and among the clothes he favoured were a black cap-sleeved wet-look tee-shirt, drainpipe jeans of black or green, worn with black studded belt, festooned with silver chain filched from a Spanish restroom, and kept in place by multiple safety pins, fluorescent pink teddy boy socks, and white shoes with black laces like the ones he'd seen on the cover of an album by London Punk band 999. At one stage, he even wore a safety pin - disinfected by being dipped into a drink - in his left earlobe, but removed this once his lug had started to pulsate.
After a few weeks, he became lead singer for the Tam Tam house band, and would typically wear so much make-up onstage that one occasion, the microphone became smeared in lipstick; but the patrons liked him, and he'd pose and pout and throw his spare frame about for their benefit.
He was always short of money, but could order anything he wanted from the Tam Tam bar, and when he was flat broke, his close friend Laura bought him toasted cheese sandwiches to keep him going.
Laura and he were rarely on the beach, but would sometimes hang out at the famous Campo de Tenis; although David spent a lot of time rehearsing with the band. And in the evening, he was often to be found at Laura's parents' house, putting on the slap, and perhaps even painting his nails a gaudy shade of red, before heading along to the Tam Tam to do his gig.
One night her dad, a charismatic former tennis pro, was disturbed by their antics, and upon spying the pair of them, with David possibly wearing more make-up than his own daughter, incredulously asked:
"What is this ****, Laura?"
However, there were those nights they preferred to get away from it all, and for David, it was a special joy to be alone with Laura, while brimful with anticipation, in the demi-light of the Disco, with the evening still in its infancy. And on one incredible occasion as they were making their way through Fuengirola by dark, possibly to or from yet another club, the legend that was racing champion James Hunt called out Laura's name before emerging from the shadows. They exchanged a few words; and then it seemed he vanished just as suddenly as he'd arrived.
Once David Cristiansen had started at college, he made it pretty clear than the nice clean-cut young man who'd auditioned the previous year had been a curve ball; as he was making no further
attempts to conceal his Punk image.
This was compounded by a bizarre hyperactivity that occasionally verged on the downright outrageous, not to say, disruptive. It was as if he was determined to convince the world that he was an artist with a capital "A", and therefore entitled to incessantly attract attention to himself with aberrant behaviour and clothing.
And among the items he favoured were slim jim ties, drainpipe jeans, florescent Fifties-style socks, and white leather brothel creepers, but the piece de resistance was a pair of tight plastic snakeskin trousers which he actually only wore the once.
As if all this weren't enough to cause eyebrows to raise among the authorities, he insisted on wearing make-up even in classes, although to be fair it was subtly applied, except for gigs and parties, when he really piled on the slap...foundation, eye shadow, blusher, lip rouge, the works. Talk about lipstick, powder and paint.
On one occasion, in the course of a class supervised by Den Denaghy, a brilliant bearded professional mime artist who'd been a regular on children's TV for a time, the compact he usually carried about with him for sporadic touch-ups fell out of an inner pocket of his jacket during an exercise, before hitting the floor with an embarrassing clatter. All eyes went to the compact, and there was a mortifying silence, which the manic Den mercifully broke by retrieving the offending article from the floor, and furiously daubing peoples' startled faces with glittery blusher.
Still, his days of wearing slap were numbered. It was as early as '79, in fact, that he developed some kind of allergic reaction to a certain brown eye shadow, which caused his eyes to become so swollen and sore as to verge on the porcine...yet, he'd only worn it a little time before, and suffered no ill-effects.
This was during that first gig, held in the basement of the nearby Lauderdale Tower a few days after his 23rd birthday as part of one of the Folk Nights held occasionally at Silverhill in those days. And he was singing for a band he'd named Narcissus, one of several he was involved in at Silverhill.
And through one of them, The Rockets, he was talent-scouted as lead singer for a guitarist of genius called Don Taylor, who was hoping to form a band himself, and clearly thought David would cut it as a front man. But for some reason, it never came to be.
Don went on to play and write for one of the world's leading Rock superstars, but at one point he briefly joined a Silverhill-based Jazz-Funk outfit with another then friend of David's. That band would go on to become one of the most successful Pop acts of the eighties, chalking up one hit after the other in a Britain in which Jazzy Dance music was favoured by flash boys in white socks and tasselled loafers. David was even invited to an early rehearsal, at a time when they might have done with a front man like himself...but of course, he didn't go.
Through Narcissus, he found only disgrace and humiliation, and not just the once. Narcissus played a grand total of two gigs, both of them fiascos.
The first time they played together was just prior to the forming of the Rockets, and although it had been a disaster due to his drunken upstaging of the other band members, piano player Perry was sufficiently impressed by him to ask him to front the Rockets.
And it was through the Rockets that he was offered the job of front man for Don's mooted musical project. However, rather than wait for the call from him, David went on ahead and re-formed Narcissus with original members Simon on guitar and John on percussion.
David piled on the make-up, and Simon and John followed suit, but being relatively untainted by personal vanity, the results were unsettling. Sweet-natured Simon painted his Botticellian features like an ancient pagan warrior, while gentle giant John saw fit to smother his with military-style camouflage. Not surprisingly, their set was accompanied by a riot of heckling which, although far from malicious, ultimately provoked David to irritation, and he ended up tossing his plectrum into the audience with a sarcastic:
"Here's to all my loving fans!"
This petulant outburst may have caused no end of harm to his reputation, because the chutzpah of the natural leader who demands and gets attention and respect through the sheer force of his personality was never among his gifts. Rather he was blessed with the seductive charm of the social climber for whom alpha status comes through the subtle exercise of exquisite manners. In this respect, he was a little like Julien Sorel, anti-hero of Stendhal's "The Scarlet and the Black" who despite humble origins, succeeds in ascending to the very top of the social ladder, only to allow a single act of madness to destroy all his good work.
David's final band was the '50s revivalist act Z Cars, which even won a small fan base for itself, its members being Carl Cool, the front man and chief songwriter who had a tattoo painted onto his shoulder, Robert Fitzroy-Square, the geek with the Buddy Holly horn rims, Dave Dean, the hard man of the band, and Little Ricky Ticky, the baby at only 18.
Things went wrong when one of the key members quit, to be replaced with a close friend, the deeply gifted Rhys Gruffydd, who was a far better musician than any of them. And thence to deviate from their usual three-chord doo-wop or Rock with more complex songs, starting with a tightly arranged version of Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right Mama", complete with harmony backing vocals. But they weren't up to the task, and disillusion swiftly set in; although by this time, David had left Silverhill anyway, and things just weren't the same.
There had been emotional scenes at his farewell party held in the depths of the Barbican Estate's Lauderdale Tower, and some cried openly at the thought of his leaving.
During the course of the night, a very dear friend of his, Tamsin, told him to contact Harry Creasey, a London-based impresario and agent well-known for offering young actors their very first positions within the entertainment industry.
David was to take her advice, and sauntering cigarette in hand into Harry's Denmark Street office a few weeks later, he was confronted by a dark slender man of about forty whose outrageously flamboyant manner was compounded by seismic levels of personal charm, but not before he'd made one of his final ever trips to Spain.
Yet, even though the guys from the band had so wanted him to reclaim his place as front man in Fuengirola, he'd chosen to go to La Ribera with his parents instead, and he felt a deep and overwhelming sense of exhaustion as he stretched out under the Costa Calida sun. It was as if he was already unconsciously aware that his acting career was destined to be a non-event.
Yet, shortly afterwards, he took up his very first official acting job as Christian the Chorus Boy - doubling as Joey the Teddy Bear, complete with furry ursine costume - in a pantomime tour of "Sleeping Beauty", all thanks to the infinite generosity of Harry Creasy, who wanted David to look as good as possible
"because he's pretty, all right?" he explained, and no one was going to dispute that.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Today Only: Get the New Prodigy Album Digitally for $1.99
Amazon MP3 is running a special for today only where you can buy the new Prodigy album "Invaders Must Die" for only $1.99 (and a day before the official release date). I'm downloading as we speak, but the clips I've heard made it sound like a return to form for them...
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Bummer, as I already bought it off iTunes a few days ago...
- March 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM
stop d/l now!!!
not worth the money! i got it last week. the only decent song is Omen. not as bad as their last album though...
seeing them live in 3 wks- check that live act off the list. meant to be one of the most intense live shows there is...
- March 2, 2009 at 6:34 PM
- Darkmaer said...
1.99 not worth the DL? shit why the hell not. I'm sure there is something worth it no matter what...a certain technique they did on the album that you can be inspired from etc etc.
Thanks Tom for the heads up. downloading now.
- March 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- Tom said...
Yeah, I've got to disagree, I think it's a pretty decent album. Actually 'Omen' is probably one of my least favorite tracks to be honest...
- March 2, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Another one disagreeing. Great album!
- March 3, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Omen was not the best track I agree, but its not really that warehouse sound I grew into electronic music with. Its a bit 'throw-back' yes, but I feel like it was laid out like a jam session and not evolved much from there.
I like it and its fine thats it called Prodigy. Its bounds better than the last couple attempts, but I can't say I rank it up with MFTHJG, or FOTL by any means.
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I do have just a little criticism(sp?), the netting on the twi'lek is a little wild. Maybe you could tighten it up? Just my opinion.
BTW exactly what did you use for that anyway. I think you may have given me an idea.
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In addition to the following Q&As, please see the following resources for guidance related to ATB tests:
- Preamble to the final regulations (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-10-29/pdf/2010-26531.pdf) – published 10/29/2010
- GEN-11-08 (http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/GEN1108.pdf) - published 3/25/2011
- GEN-12-01 (http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN1201.html) – published 1/18/2012
- GEN-12-09 (http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/GEN1209.html) – published 6/28/2012
ATB-Q1: Under the new regulations effective July 1, 2011, students who are non-native speakers in English, and who are enrolled in a program taught in their native language, must pass an independently administered examination that has been approved under §668.148(a)(1). Until there is a Spanish language test approved by the Department for ATB determinations, how should institutions implement these new provisions?
ATB-A1: Because of the time necessary for test publishers to submit new ATB tests for approval by the Department under the new regulations, the Department does not expect there to be an approved Spanish-language test by July 1, 2011. As Spanish-language tests are submitted for approval, the Department will take action to review them and render approval decisions within a reasonable amount of time after the July 1, 2011 effective date. Until a Spanish-language test is approved, the Department will not enforce the new regulatory provision in §668.148(a)(1), and institutions may continue to use tests that would satisfy the standard in the current provisions (those in effect prior to July 1, 2011) under §668.149 to assess the ability-to-benefit of Spanish-speaking students.
The current regulations under §668.149 provide that, if there is no test reasonably available for students whose native language is not English, and who are not fluent in English, any test in the student's native language may be considered to be an approved examination as long as the test has not been previously rejected by the Department, the test measures basic verbal and quantitative skills at the secondary school level, and the passing scores and method of determining the passing scores are fully documented. [Guidance issued 3/25/2011]
The full text of current §668.149 reads as follows:
§ 668.149 Special provisions for the approval of assessment procedures for special populations for whom no tests are reasonably available. If no test is reasonably available for persons with disabilities or students whose native language is not English and who are not fluent in English, so that no test can be approved under §§ 668.146 or 668.148 for these students, the following procedures apply:
(a) Persons with disabilities. (1) The Secretary considers a modified test or testing procedure, or instrument that has been scientifically developed specifically for the purpose of evaluating the ability to benefit from postsecondary training or education of disabled students to be an approved test for purposes of this subpart provided that the testing procedure or instrument measures both basic verbal and quantitative skills at the secondary school level. (2) The Secretary considers the passing scores for these testing procedures or instruments to be those recommended by the test developer, provided that the test administrator—
(i) Uses those procedures or instruments;
(ii) Maintains appropriate documentation, including a description of the procedures or instruments, their content domains, technical properties, and scoring procedures; and
(iii) Observes recommended passing scores.
(b) Students whose native language is not English. The Secretary considers a test in a student's native language for a student whose native language is not English to be an approved test under this subpart if—
(1) The Secretary has not approved any test in that native language;
(2) The test was not previously rejected for approval by the Secretary;
(3) The test measures both basic verbal and quantitative skills at the secondary school level; and
(4) The passing scores and the methods for determining the passing scores are fully documented.
(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 1840–0627)
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Liverpool routs Swansea 5-0 in Premier League
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- Liverpool cruised to a 5-0 victory in the Premier League on Sunday against an understrength Swansea side preparing for the League Cup final, halting a five-game winless run in all competitions.
Philippe Coutinho marked his first start by scoring the second goal at Anfield after the break following captain Steven Gerrard's first-half penalty kick.
In a lopsided second half, Jose Enrique and Luis Suarez followed Coutinho with goals before Daniel Sturridge completed the rout by scoring Liverpool's second spot kick.
It was Liverpool's first win over a top-10 side all season, lifting the team above Swansea into seventh place and giving manager Brendan Rodgers a resounding victory against his former team.
With his thoughts on next Sunday's final against Bradford, Swansea manager Michael Laudrup did his predecessor a huge favor by naming a weakened side. Only four players who beat Queens Park Rangers 4-1 last weekend started, with top-scorer Michu among those on the bench.
Victory at Wembley would qualify Swansea for the Europa League.
Liverpool's hopes of success in Europe's second-tier knockout competition were put in jeopardy on Thursday by a 2-0 loss at Zenit St. Petersburg in the first leg of the last-32.
The failure to put away their chances proved costly for the Reds in Russia, and it initially looked like being a similar story in the only Premier League match of the weekend.
Defender Glen Johnson planted a free header well wide, Gerrard drilled a free kick into the wall and Suarez fired the rebound over before he whipped a 25-yard free kick just over the bar.
The chances continued to be created and not converted as Sturridge missed the target with a close-range header, and Coutinho, who joined from Inter Milan last month, stabbed the loose ball wide with the goal at his mercy.
Referee Howard Webb was also unconvinced by Kemy Agustien's challenge on Suarez close to the touchline, but fortunately for Liverpool assistant Mike Mularkey saw it differently and immediately flagged for a penalty.
Gerrard, having failed from the spot in a 2-0 loss against West Bromwich Albion on Monday, went for the opposite corner and succeeded in beating Michel Vorm for Liverpool's first goal in the 34th minute.
Sturridge had one more chance before the break but having been put through by Suarez his left-footed toe poke was blocked by the head of Kyle Bartley.
Swansea had shown little threat in the opening 45 minutes and any ideas the visitors may have had about staging a comeback were snuffed out within 10 minutes of the restart.
In truth, the 16 seconds it took the 20-year-old Coutinho to skip through the visitors' defense and beat Vorm was all that was required.
However, a well-worked goal enabled Enrique to poke home Sturridge's pass in the 50th minute, before Suarez went past both Swansea's center backs to fire home the fourth goal six minutes later.
Sturridge scored courtesy of the generosity of Gerrard, who relinquished penalty duties in the 71st when substitute Wayne Routledge handled the ball.
There was a blow, though, for Liverpool, which finished with 10 men after the third and final substitute, Fabio Borini, went off with a painful-looking shoulder injury. The Italian forward was later ruled out for the rest of the season.


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SKF completes divestment of Erin Engineering
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Gothenburg, 5 May, 2015: SKF has completed the divestment of Erin Engineering and Research, Inc. to Jensen Hughes, a US-based engineering consultancy for the built environment. The total consideration of the deal is approximately SEK 230 million on a cash-free and debt-free basis.
Erin Engineering is a safety and reliability consultancy, specialising in the nuclear energy sector, that was acquired by SKF in February, 2002. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, with some 130 employees across the US, it has operated as a stand-alone business within the SKF Group. Sales in 2014 amounted to approximately SEK 250 million.
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Blumenthal: Charges possible against VA brass
WASHINGTON -- Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki on Thursday parried Republicans' election-year demands for his resignation amid a blossoming health care scandal that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., suggested may end with criminal charges against some VA bureaucrats.
The politically charged exchanges took place as the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee delved into reports from VA facilities in as many as 10 states chronicling veterans' long waiting periods for care, elaborate off-the-books schemes to conceal waiting lists, and multiple deaths allegedly resulting from lack of care.
A top-to-bottom investigation by the VA's watchdog Inspector General is due within three weeks. And the White House has raised the stakes by appointing deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors to help ferret out problems and map changes at the $56 billion-a-year agency that provides health care each year to nearly 10 million veterans at 152 medical centers and more than 800 community health clinics.
The Senate hearing featured theatrical moments, partisan jabs and deft deflections in yet another congressional investigation into alleged mismanagement within an administration that has already faced inquiries into the rollout of Obamacare by the Department of Health and Human Services and State Department protection for diplomatic staff in Benghazi.
"Would you explain to me, after knowing all this information, why you should not resign? Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., pointedly asked Shinseki, a retired four-star Army general.
"I came here to make things better for veterans," said Shinseki, a 38-year Army veteran and former Army chief of staff shunned by the Bush administration after publicly urging reinforcements for the U.S. invasion force into Iraq in 2003.
"This is not a job," Shinseki said. "I'm here to accomplish a mission -- and I intend to continue this mission until I've set aside either that goal or I'm told by the commander-in-chief that my time has been served."
Shinseki readily conceded "any allegation, any adverse incident like this makes me mad as hell."
Many of the senators on the 14-member panel devoted opening remarks and questioning to condemning reports of VA neglect, pressing to unmask culprits and voicing frustration that alleged VA mismanagement had come once again before a panel that prides itself on pitching the veterans' cause in the nation's capital.
But Blumenthal, who served as U.S. attorney and then state attorney general of Connecticut, cut through the political rhetoric by Democrats and Republicans alike to raise the possibility of criminal charges against VA employees in as many as 10 states. Blumenthal suggested "possible" involvement by Justice Department prosecutors and the FBI as a first step.
"We have more than allegations at this point -- we have evidence, solid evidence, of wrongdoing within the VA system," Blumenthal said. "It's a pattern and a practice, apparently, of manipulating lists and gaming the system; in effect, cooking the books, creating false records, which is not just an impropriety or misconduct. It is potentially a criminal act."
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the second-ranking Republican in Senate leadership, put questions to Shinseki indirectly by letter and during an interview on Fox News. Cornyn is not a member of the Senate panel that cross-examined the somber, ramrod-straight Cabinet officer.
"If 40 veterans died while waiting for care on a secret list (in Phoenix) and if reports in Texas are true, individuals must be fired and the secretary will have no choice but to resign," Cornyn said. "The VA will not continue to operate in no-man's land and there will be consequences if these reports are found to be true."
Cornyn pressed Shinseki to follow up on disputed allegations by a former VA scheduling clerk in Austin, San Antonio and Waco who claims he was "directed by supervisors to hide true wait times by inputting false records into the VA's scheduling system."
Cornyn also asked Shinseki to look into reports by an Austin-based surgeon who recently disclosed that the VA failed to act on his recommendation for timely chemotherapy for a VA patient.
The physician "informed the VA that the veteran needed immediate chemotherapy _ that they had a real chance to treat his cancer if they started chemotherapy right away," Cornyn said. "Almost two months later, (the doctor) followed up on his case only to learn the VA never provided chemotherapy, with no good excuse as to why. The veteran died several days later."
The political sparring on Capitol Hill escalated as the Obama administration and Congress alike await the outcome of the VA inspector general's report.
"We need to get the facts and not rush to judgment," cautioned Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-declared independent from Vermont who chairs the Senate panel with jurisdiction over the VA. "What happened in Phoenix? Well, the truth is we don't know. But we are going to find out."


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A 50lb dog should be fed 1,289kcal or 4 2/3 cups
Calorie Content
The dry product contains 3867 kilocalories/kilogram or 275 kilocalories per cup ME (metabolizable energy) on an as fed basis (calculated).
Rice, ground corn, chicken fat, chicken meal, cellulose powder, natural flavors, corn gluten meal, dried egg powder, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, choline chloride, taurine, vitamins [DL-alpha-tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), biotin, D-calcium pantothenate, niacin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid], trace minerals [zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], preserved with natural mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract, and citric acid.
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Crude Protein (min) 11.4%
Crude Fat (min) 10.7%
Crude Fiber (max) 6.2%
Moisture (max) 10.5%
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ROYAL CANIN Veterinary Diet RENAL LP 11 and ROYAL CANIN Veterinary Diet canine RENAL LP are intended for intermittent or supplemental feeding only, as part of a veterinary supervised renal management program
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Fourth ingredient is a named meat product
Inadequate meat content, some low quality grains and filler
This product is a veterinary diet. Our comments relate solely to our opinion of the ingredients used in this product and cannot replace medical advice relating to disease.
The main ingredient in this food is a grain. Even if of good quality, grains are not a natural foodstuff for a canine, and dog foods should be based on meat. The sole meat product in the food does not occur until fourth on the ingredient list (below even the fat content). This is a named meat product in meal form, but with low placement in the ingredients listing, we have extreme doubts that this product has adequate meat content.
Chicken fat is the third ingredient. We note that research at Purdue university has identified fat in the top four ingredients of dry food as a factor increasing the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
The primary ingredients in the food are rice and corn. Rice is generally a good quality grain, but corn is a low quality grain in dog food products, that is difficult to digest and commonly associated with food allergy problems. In gluten form, this ingredient is a low quality filler. It is the dried residue from wheat after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that bit of the grain leftover after most of the nutritious bits have been removed.Cellulose is purified, mechanically disintegrated cellulose prepared by processing alpha cellulose obtained as a pulp from fibrous plant materials: otherwise known as sawdust.
Overall, the product is primarily a collection of mixed-quality grains and fillers. There is very little meat content for the canine. We note that it is not adequate for maintenance, and not intended for long term use.
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International Women's Day: FAO, WFP and IFAD honour Haitian women
8 March 2010, Rome – In keeping with the UN theme for this year's International Women's Day, "Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all," the event at WFP headquarters was held in memory of three prominent women's rights activists who lost their lives during the earthquake - Anne Marie Coriolan, Myriam Merlet and Magalie Marcelin.
FAO Assistant Director-General Annika Söder, IFAD Chief Finance and Administration Officer Jessie Mabutas, and WFP Deputy Executive Director Gina Casar said the three agencies would use their combined resources and expertise to support the government of Haiti and other partners in the country's rehabilitation, and to help women overcome the challenges they would face in the months and years to come.
Emergency, gender and rural development experts from the three agencies who have been directly involved in quake-recovery efforts in Haiti lauded the resilience of Haitian women, but said they would need well-focused support to boost their long-term resistance to crises.
Dick Trenchard, FAO Assessments Coordinator for Haiti said that in order to provide effective support to affected households, it would be important not only to look at the number of households in need of assistance but also, to take into account how women might be affected differently from men.
"When we deliver support, we need to make sure we have a full understanding of what is going on at the intra-household or sub-household level," Trenchard commented before the event.
"Specifically, we need to take a close look at how the capacity of the family to cope has an impact on the different members of the household and how their individual situations will affect the household as a whole," Trenchard said.
Women in developing countries, especially female-headed households, often are hard hit by natural disasters like the recent temblors in Haiti and Chile, and other crises, in part due to social and economic inequalities between men and women which leave them with fewer resources to cope with emergencies.
Women tend to lag well behind men in their access to the basic means necessary to produce or purchase food and earn sufficient income. This, in turn, undermines the long-term resilience of entire households and communities.
An estimated 500 000 people have migrated to rural areas and other smaller urban centres, since the earthquake. Many of them are staying with relatives and friends who are spending their limited savings and consuming food stocks to feed the new arrivals.
Trenchard said that it was believed that many men would soon be ready to head back to urban areas to take part in construction work. This was expected to leave many women behind, leaving them with more household responsibilities, yet fewer resources.
"So, instead of one man, one woman and three kids to a household, for example, we might see one man, three women and five or more kids," he added, along with "a lot more female-headed households in rural areas."
Preparing for the planting season
In February, the three United Nations Rome-based agencies established a Task Force for Food Security in Haiti. The Task Force is supporting the government of Haiti in the implementation of a concerted, coherent and targeted, immediate and longer-term food security strategy that integrates agricultural production, and social safety nets.
The agencies are working with the international humanitarian organization CARE on a wide range of emergency rehabilitation activities, including providing shelter, emergency supplies, water and sanitation facilities and health support for mothers and pregnant women.
FAO is also laying the groundwork for agricultural and rural development activities. As the planting season gets underway, FAO is supporting small scale farmers with essential agricultural inputs such as quality seeds and tools. The Organization is also focusing on alternative income opportunities, such as a cash-for-work programme to clean out irrigation canals in Léogâne, a farming town to the west of Port-au Prince that was 80 percent destroyed by the earthquake.
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Tribute to those lost in 9/11 attacksThis concert will be forever embedded in my heart and soul. The raw emotion of the audience AND U2 during this concert was something I had never felt before. When Bono opened up his leather jacket to reveal an American flag on the inside of it, the tears started flowing. Then when he took it off and placed it inside out over the microphone stand and the names of all those lost in the attack came rolling across the audience, there wasn't a dry eye there. I looked over to my brother-in-law who was standing next to me and saw tears streaming down his face, too. U2 was sincere and didn't use that horrific day to line their pockets with money. Their emotion was as raw and true as us Americans. God Bless us all...
25 May, 2010
The Power of HopeThe timing of this concert was what I remember most. I had been living in NYC just prior to 9/11 and spent time volunteering with the Red Cross at Ground Zero around the same time as this concert. To watch the powerful way that the music, the band, and the audience connected at a venue so close to NYC less than 2 months after the attacks was really awe inspiring. This one night's performance and the band's tribute to those who died in the attacks is something that will forever be a part of my memories of that time. I think that through this post-9/11 tour, U2 provided a glimpse of God and the promise of hope which, in turn, helped a lot of people stand back up and prepare to "Walk On".


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I had heard a lot about this local gem of a restaurant Ocha, in it's old form in Kew. Now in a shiny new premises on Barker's Rd Hawthorn, I organised a gang together to do the monthy Mon night degustation. This normally occurs on the last Monday of each month and consists of a 10 course menu at $120 per head. Unfortunately for us, we scheduled in a month where a famous noodle chef decided to visit from Japan and the degustation night got moved to a date we were unable to attend. So rather than reschedule a whole month away, we decided to make the most of the very reasonable $7 per head BYO policy on the Friday night instead.
The menu was very long, so many choices, don't want to stuff up! So, as per my preferred way of ordering, we let the staff take control. We thought this would deliver the best degustation experience without actually having to spend $120 per head… pretty smart right? Here is a selection of what we ate… Yep, we were very hungry…
"Would you like dessert?"
Silly question really… The dessert menu is definitely worth a look, once again there are lots of choices! We went with this super crispy banana fritter and a perfect "ooey, gooey, chocolate pudding".
One side of the table also had free entertainment as we watched the SUPER AWKWARD action of a new couple (arguably a first date) unfold. A seriously over the top date, with both participants dressed to the nines, with perfect ringlets and dripping in jewellery. He even reached across and kissed her hand over their meals. Cute right? Or gross! Ha!
One thing we hadn't accounted for on this Friday night was just how thirsty we would actually be. We brought along 3 bottles of wine but the boys decided it was premium japanese beer night and proceeded to drink 10 steins between them… I am not bringing this up to shame them, us girls ordered at least another bottle (and I think a couple of glasses) of delicious german reisling, but rather to explain the size of the bill; it equated to $125 per person which shocked us until we delved a little deeper into our hydration habits. We were certainly satisfied though by the amount and the quality of food.
I was unsatisfied the next morning however, when I woke up with a humungous hangover, only to be informed by smartypants Ben, that German reisling has a higher sulphur level than most white wines, and should really be drunk in moderation (like all wines obviously)… I informed Ben right back, that this information would have been super handy to have accompanied his wine reccomendations (all German reislings) at the time, the night before…


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Sky Zone Trampoline Park offers games, fun
New facility in Columbia provides fun, good workout
If you're looking for a place to take the kids and have some fun while burning lots of calories, there's a new trampoline park open in Howard County that could do the trick.
The Sky Zone Trampoline Park off Oakland Mills Road in Columbia is a 31,000-square-foot facility that opened six weeks ago. From little jumps to ninja-like moves through the air, Sky Zone has all ages bouncing all over the place.
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Sky Zone has franchises throughout the country, but the new Columbia location is the first in Maryland, and already, business is hopping.
"We have over 100 actual trampoline beds," said Sky Zone general manager Danny Serpico. "Once we reach our capacity, we only allow one person per square."
What many kids can't play in school is fair game at the park, where soft balls are used to play on three dodgeball courts. There's also a main open court, a foam zone and a basketball slam.
"It's so much fun, and I love bouncing," said bouncer Morgan Ruddo. "You get to do a lot of flips, and you get to jump into a big foam pit."
It's also a workout. Operations director Greg Hansen said $16 an hour will burn about 1,000 calories, which is enough to tire out the kids and wear out the parents, too.
"It's something that maybe you don't recognize when you're doing it, but when you're done, you find out you've put in a good day's hard work on these trampolines," Hansen said.
It's such good exercise that the gym also has fitness classes.
"It's really intense. We do a lot of cardio. We do laps around the court -- lots of hopping. It's a good workout," said fitness instructor Adam Mall.
"I love it. It is an amazing workout and a lot of fun, something great to do with your kids," said parent Kelly Ruddo. "We were waiting for one for a long time."
As for safety precautions, it's do at your own ability.
"We ask that when you jump, you stay within your own ability. We encourage you to try new things -- flips and twists -- and one of the great places to try it is the foam zone because it's a soft, safe area," Serpico said.
There are court monitors stationed at each trampoline zone for extra safety. Visitors have to sign a waiver, but otherwise it's pretty much bounce at your own risk.


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A Potter County justice of the peace who was arrested on a DUI charge Saturday morning is still able to keep his post, County Attorney Scott Brumley said.
"Generally speaking, the county doesn't have a particular protocol to deal with any elected official being charged with any kind of crime offense," he said. "It will proceed like any criminal case from presentation by police."
About 1:26 a.m. Saturday, an officer stopped Potter County Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Thomas L. Jones, 51, driving a black 2004 BMW in the 900 block of South Polk Street after the officer saw the vehicle swerving in a traffic lane on Southeast 10th Avenue and nearly hitting a curb at 10th Avenue and Polk Street, as well as failing to signal before turning, Sgt. Brent Barbee said.
The officer spoke with Jones, noted signs of drunkenness and administered field sobriety tests before arresting and booking Jones into the Potter County Jail on a DUI charge, Barbee said. Jones was released the same day, jail officials said.
Even a DUI conviction would not necessarily disqualify Jones from his job, State Commission on Judicial Conduct Executive Director Seana Willing said.
"The fact that the judge might be convicted of a crime doesn't in and of itself necessitate disciplinary action," she said. "If it were a conviction of a felony offense or a misdemeanor involving official misconduct or moral turpitude there are statutes in place to require the judge to be removed upon conviction."
For example, if Jones tried to use his position to convince the officer not to arrest him, the commission would typically seek disciplinary action, Willing said.
"It just depends on a lot of different factors," she said.
There have been instances where commissioners have learned of a judge's problem with drug or alcohol abuse and have helped the judge seek a treatment program for addiction, Willing said.
"There are things that we can do to assist and we try to do that, if the judge is amenable to it," Willing said.
Attempts to reach Jones at his office by phone Tuesday were unsuccessful.
The case is still in its early stages and many details are unclear at this time, Brumley said.
"I would expect because this is a high-profile case that (police) are taking extra precautions to make sure that a thorough investigation (is conducted)," Brumley said.


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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, September 15, 1911: Had visitors at school today, but fortunately they didn't stay very long. I'm so nervous on such occasions for fear I'll make a break in reciting at class. More so if the visitor is an important one.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Since the high school had had a substitute teacher since the beginning of the school year, I'm guessing that school board members or the county superintendent of schools visited the school to see how things were going.
When I read this entry I wasn't quite sure what reciting meant in this context—though it had a negative connotation and made me think about students' memorizing poems.
I was surprised to discover that recitation referred not only to orally presenting memorized text, but also to orally responding to questions by the teacher. And that it was commonly used with small groups of students in multi-grade classes. Some students would be working with the teacher while others were working independently.
The one-teacher country school regularly faces the challenge of a wide range of grade levels and academic growth. One response to the multi-age conditions of this naturally small institution is a teacher's regular use of "recitation" lessons with individual and small groups of students. This pedagogical device is a common legacy of the one-teacher country school. . .
. . . This instruction involved little more than the teacher lecturing and students reciting memorized passages or orally answering a series of questions as directed by the teacher's textbook guide. Student learning was determined through the accuracy of the recitation and appropriateness of responses to teacher questions. Students were then introduced to the next topic and their assignment in the textbook. They were expected to work quietly and individually on their preparations for recitations.
It requires a good deal of self-discipline on the part of the student. "Doing school" for the students means continually keeping up with one's work, knowing that you will face the teacher regularly, and understanding that neither is a choice. It is traditional in the sense that is presents itself as common sense, or just the way things are done.
While very few would advocate this as an acceptable model of instruction in public schools today, the form of the country school recitation, with its predictable student-teacher interaction and emphasis on independent work, nonetheless appears today as a sensible practice for curriculum and student management.
"Notes on a Country School Tradition; Recitation as an Individual Strategy," by Stephen Swidler (Journal of Research in Rural Education, Spring 2000)
This description brings back memories of my mother. She taught in a one-room school-house for a year or two when she was in her early twenties. She used to say that she thought that multi-grade classrooms were the best place for learning. Students who excelled could listen to the lessons directed at an upper grade class and accelerate their learning.–and the student who was behind could discretely listen to the material being taught to a lower grade. It gave the child the opportunity to relearn the material that he or she hadn't grasped the previous year without embarrassment.


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As a professor at the University of Arkansas, Syrian-born Najib Ghadbian is no stranger to educating Americans about the Middle East.
Now, he's taking his knowledge beyond the classroom, stepping into a new role as the Syrian opposition coalition's representative in the United States.
In teaching political science, Ghadbian has sometimes asked students to label countries on a blank map of the region. « And out of 25 countries, if I get two or three, that would be great, » Ghadbian said.
As a sort of unofficial ambassador for a group President Barack Obama called the « legitimate representative » of Syria's people, Ghadbian faces the challenge not of motivating apathetic students, but of winning over wary politicians to aid the coalition's efforts to topple the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Ghadbian (pronounced gad-BAHN') is setting up offices in New York and Washington as he and other members of the opposition coalition work to build relations with the Obama administration. They're lobbying for political support and humanitarian aid, all while laying the groundwork for a post-Assad Syria.
« It's like being the embassy here without having that title, » he said.
The group's mission is already proving complicated. Last week, the U.S. announced it would for the first time provide nonlethal aid directly to the rebels fighting to oust Assad. But the decision was met with criticism by some in Syria, including the head of the rebels, Gen. Salim Idris, who said food and medical supplies won't bring the fighters any closer to defeating Assad's forces.
The Syrian conflict started two years ago as a popular uprising against Assad's authoritarian rule, then turned into a full-blown civil war after rebels took up arms to fight a government crackdown on dissent. The United Nations estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed.
« Change is coming, but it's really (a question of) how to lower its cost both in terms of human lives and political destruction to the country, » Ghadbian said.
Born outside Damascus in 1962, Ghadbian left Syria for the United Arab Emirates as a teenager as some of his friends were being arrested amid political turmoil.
« Knowing that these young people — and these were high school kids or first year in university — spent a precious part of their years in prison … made me very cognizant of the question of human rights, » Ghadbian said. It made him « believe that a government that does not respect its people's human rights is not legitimate and it does not deserve to rule. »
Those ideas stuck with Ghadbian as he studied political science at United Arab Emirates University. He went on to earn a master's degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey and a doctorate from the City University of New York.
In 1986, he married Syrian-born writer Mohja Kahf. Nearly a decade later, Kahf got a job teaching literature at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, a college town tucked in the Ozark Mountains about 200 miles northwest of Little Rock.
For the first few years, Ghadbian worked for a government think tank in the United Arab Emirates, with his wife coming to visit for summers and breaks, before he landed a job at the University of Arkansas.
Colleagues say Ghadbian's time in Arkansas — where he is currently on leave from the university — prepared him for his role with the Syrian opposition coalition.
« I know a lot of people who've only spent time in the Washington corridor or on the East Coast, Chicago, places like that, and when we talk about middle America — red, white and blue states — they don't really have their feet on the ground in that respect, » said Joel Gordon, who directs University of Arkansas' Middle East studies center. « Najib is someone who strikes me as being well-rooted at this point, well-spoken, thoughtful, kind of a natural-born diplomat. »
Over the years, Ghadbian's knowledge of the Arab world has proved an asset to the university. His classes filled up as he developed a reputation as a charismatic teacher who knows Middle East politics inside and out.
« He was one of the main reasons why I decided to apply for my graduate degree at the University of Arkansas, just knowing that I could work with him, » said Laila Taraghi, a former student who now lives in Olympia, Wash.
Ghadbian has long been a voice in the media, calling for democracy and weighing in on the political scene in the Middle East, so he doesn't see a conflict between his roles as activist and academic. Neither do most university officials, though Gordon said he thinks Ghadbian needs to be more careful in his current position.
« He's a university professor, but he's not acting in a university capacity, » Gordon said.
Ghadbian seems reluctant to predict what will happen in Syria now, but he emphasizes the importance of establishing an interim government.
« The whole idea of forming the interim government is to be able to control the FSA, the Free Syrian Army, under one command and structure, » Ghadbian said. « By so doing, we believe we could isolate and marginalize the extremist forces, which many of the Friends of Syria are concerned about and we are concerned about. »


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As told before, I have the ICS as provided by Samsung (to it is not the stock ICS, it is the Samsung-version of ICS) on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now that it is nearly two months of using it, I want to share a little bit of my experience.
Basically it just works. If you know ICS already, you more or less know how it is on the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
The calendar app is different, it is the Samsung app, not the native ICS one. I have a problem to sync it with the exchange-connector as it is in Horde 4, but I did not take the time to investigate the issue. My Nexus S connects just fine, so it must be some modification by Samsung which is causing the issue.
Sometimes the tablet hangs, and I have to shutdown by pressing the power button for some seconds. This only happens when connected via WLAN. When I start the tablet again, it will hang again if I am not fast enough to enter the PIN of the SIM, unlock the screen and to deactivate the WLAN. But even then it will hang after the deactivation of the WLAN. After rebooting the second time (with WLAN already deactivated), everything works again.
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