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Recap: Top Chef DC Finale, Part 1
This week on Top Chef, the final four headed to Singapore to compete in part one of the finale. They cooked street food and experienced the local scene before catering an event hosted by Food & Wine. The competition was incredibly intense, and the judges found themselves splitting hairs during the elimination. Who moved on? Who went home? And how much does Angelo love black cockles? It's all ahead in this week's recap!
[Warning: Spoilers ahead!]
The episode opened with the finalists exploring the marketplace with Tom Colicchio and Seetoh, the king of Singapore street food. Seetoh introduced them to a noodle master, and said the guy had been "frying that same dish of noodles for the last 40 years." Wow. 40 years ago. That's about when this season of Top Chef started. AMIRIGHT?
Once again, Angelo took every opportunity to talk about how "passionate" he was about Asia, and how he was "destined" to win because the finale was in Singapore. Somewhere in the middle of all that "passion," Angelo casually turned to Ed and whispered, "Do you like black cockles?" Without missing a beat, Ed replied: "Not as much as you do!" It was a priceless moment, folks.
The Quickfire
Just when the show was starting to feel like a low-rent version of No Reservations, Padma arrived on the scene and outlined the rules for the quickfire. This week, the finalists had to use a wok to create their own versions of the Singapore street food they had just spent the day pigging out on. Everyone really struggled because they were tired and jet lagged, and judging by how much they were sweating, it was also about 900 degrees outside. And just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, they found out that all of the ingredients were labeled in Cantonese. Ah yes, Top Chef. It's all fun and games until someone accidentally feeds Padma a bowl full of deer testicles.
While tasting the dishes, Padma casually asked Kevin if he had ever used a wok. When he said no, Padma's entire demeanor changed. You could almost feel the daggers flying out of her eyes, and at one point, I was half expecting her neck to snap off her head like in The Exorcist. "What's wrong with you," she snidely asked. "You're in Singapore for a chance to win $125k. Didn't anyone tell you that!?" Um, I think you just did, Padma. Hop into a crock pot and simmer down now. You're scaring the children.
Much to Angelo's chagrin, Ed was named the winner of the challenge. Seetoh loved his stir fry noodles, and felt he infused the Singaporean flavors into the noodles perfectly. With that, Ed earned immunity for the next challenge and secured a spot in next week's finale.
Elimination Challenge
For this week's elimination challenge, the finalists were tasked with creating a menu for an event hosted by Dana Cowin of Food & Wine. The menu was supposed to celebrate Singapore's multicultural cuisine, and the final four had to work together as a team to create one cohesive meal.
Kelly had the hardest time with this challenge, or at least it was edited to look that way. She actually asked a shop owner which spices she should use for her fish head soup, and later, resorted to opening a can of tomato sauce with a giant knife because she couldn't get the can opener to work. Then she cut her finger, and the Bravo editors thought it was necessary to show us close-up shots of the blood splatter she left all over the floor. Dexter Morgan might have been amused, but for all of us non-serial killer folk, it was just plain gross.
Once they finished their prep work, the gang took a break and decided to go prawn fishing. Kevin caught one, but no one else had any luck. One can only assume Angelo's glittery, studded shirt scared them all away.
The next day at the beach club, they had 90 minutes to prepare their menus for 80 of Dana Cowin's most uptight friends. Ed took the lead and explained the dishes to the servers, while Kevin just stood around and complained that his cockles wouldn't open up. It's totally cool, Kevin. It happens to lots of guys. I think Pfizer even makes a pill for it.
While putting the final touches on his spicy shrimp broth, Angelo flashed what can only be described as his incredibly disturbing "O-Face." Somewhere in Russia, his saucy Soviet "fiancée" got a little bit exited. Everyone in America just threw up in their mouths a little bit.
During service, there was a lot of confusion with the servers. They wrote a lot of their tickets in Chinese, and despite Angelo's "passion" for the culture, he was unable to translate them. He just resorted to patronizing the servers and talking to them like they were morons, which was both frustrating and infuriating to watch.
The tasting, done by Dana Cowin, Padma, Tom, Seetoh, and Gail, was equally as frustrating to watch. It was literally 25 rushed minutes of Dana Cowin making funny faces, while the judges spewed repetitive comments about menu items we had previously heard little or no mention of. So much fun!
Judges' Table
Tom Colicchio kicked off the judging by telling the finalists that "everything was really good" and it was the "best food all season." Kevin's 60 degree farm eggs were cooked perfectly and Kelly's yogurt soup was nicely balanced. Ed's banana fritters were the favorite dish of the evening, and Colicchio referred to them as the "perfect stoner food." They must have been good, because upon tasting them, they caused Padma to make a face I had previously only seen on Cinemax After Dark:
Even though he had immunity, Ed still brought his A-game and delivered two spectacular dishes. He was named the winner of the challenge, and will be one of the three competing in next week's finale episode.
After a tough deliberation, the judges decided to send Kelly home. They loved her chilled cucumber melon soup, but said her fish was very grainy. She also didn't incorporate enough heat into her seared prawns.
Angelo cried like a baby—not because he was sad to see Kelly go, but because he was so relieved he wasn't the one eliminated. Does he have what it takes to win? And what do you think, Serious Eaters? Was it Kelly's time to go?
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'I don't give a damn whether they come voluntarily or under subpoena': Ted Cruz fights for tech CEO hearing BEFORE election
The Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote on subpoenas to compel Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on alleged censorship and bias across their platforms. But that all changed when Republican committee members "expressed reservation about the maneuver," Politico reports.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who chairs Judiciary's Subcommittee on the Constitution, was definitely not one of the committee members with cold feet. On the radio program Tuesday, he told Glenn Beck that he's fighting "vociferously" to ensure Dorsey and others testify before the November 3rd election.
"Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are both going to testify. They're are going to testify in person. They're going to testify before Election Day. That's what I think should happen," Cruz said. "That's what I'm fighting vociferously to happen. Right now, the companies are negotiating with the chairman's office to discuss terms to come voluntarily. I don't give a damn whether they come voluntarily or under subpoena. They need to testify in person and answer questions for the American people about why they are trying to steal this election, to suppress the free speech, and to censor the press."
The subpoenas would require Big Tech leaders to testify on the alleged "suppression and/or censorship" of two consecutive blockbuster stories from the New York Post. The first story was about emails that allegedly came from Hunter Biden's computer which are currently being investigated by the FBI, and the second was based on additional emails that allegedly showed communist China directly offering millions of dollars to then-Vice President Joe Biden.
"Big Tech stepped in, and they've done something they've never done before," Cruz explained. "We know that Big Tech has been censoring individual conservatives, trying to suppress conservative speech. But the step they took here is, they blocked if any individual user tried to share either of the New York Post stories, [they] were blocked ... Sharing a news story, from a major media outlet is part of democracy, part of free speech. And not only that, they blocked the New York Post itself. Right now, today, the New York Post is not being allowed to post its own damn stories on corruption. This is ridiculous. It's a threshold that's never been crossed before, of Silicon Valley oligarchs declaring the authority to determine what the press is allowed to report, and who is allowed to see it."
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TIMELINE OF CORRUPTION: Biden's nefarious ties with communist China exposed
If we learned nothing from the media over the past 4 years it's that colluding with a foreign entity to either win an election or for personal gain is absolutely grotesque. Well, that depends on whether you have a (D) or (R) before your name anyway. President Trump was impeached on rumor and innuendo yet Joe Biden has all but skated on his corruption up to this point.
Below is a timeline that shows the level of corruption and the lengths the Biden's went to in order to build that family's wealth and influence internationally.
In 2009, Joe Biden was the brand-new Vice President and John Kerry was a U.S. Senator. Just five months after Joe was sworn in, his son Hunter, and Kerry's stepson, Christopher Heinz, formed an international private equity firm called Rosemont Capital. It had several different branches, including one called Rosemont Seneca Partners.
Just nine months after Rosemont Seneca opened its doors, Hunter Biden went to China for meetings with executives from China's biggest banks, and its sovereign wealth and social security funds. That's unheard-of access for a brand-new firm. Was it just coincidence that at the same time Hunter was meeting these Chinese bigwigs, his dad was meeting with China's then-president Hu Jintao in Washington DC at a nuclear security summit?
In May 2011, Joe Biden met with Chinese officials for the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue conference in Washington. Just two weeks later, Hunter Biden went to Taiwan for meetings with the same Chinese financial giants he'd met in China in 2010, plus some new ones.
By December 2013, Joe Biden was enjoying his second term as VP, and John Kerry was now Secretary of State. That's when Joe traveled to Beijing on an extended official trip and Hunter traveled with him on Air Force Two.
During their stay, Vice President Biden met with President Xi and Hunter was mostly out of sight. We don't know exactly what he was up to, but the deal finalized between Rosemont Seneca and the Bank of China just ten days after the Bidens' trip pretty much gives it away. The most powerful financial institution in China formed a joint venture with tiny Rosemont Seneca to create a giant new investment firm called Bohai Harvest RST – the "RS" stands for Rosemont Seneca.
The firm is often called "BHR" for short.
Hunter Biden was a member of the Board. Remember, the Bank of China is government-owned, which means its business is completely intertwined with the goals of the Chinese Communist Party. BHR also got the freedom to operate in the newly created Shanghai Free-Trade Zone where, over the next six years, it would use $2.5 billion of Chinese government money to invest in China, as well as in other countries, including the U.S.
During their Beijing trip, Hunter also introduced Jonathan Li to his dad. Li is Hunter's business partner – he's CEO and Director of BHR.
Hunter arranged for Joe to meet Li in the lobby of the hotel where they stayed during their Beijing trip.
In 2014, one of BHR's first major investments was in the China General Nuclear Power Corporation.
CGN is a Chinese government-owned nuclear power company that sold off a stake of the company to outside investors. Problem is, CGN was under FBI investigation for paying informants in the U.S. to steal nuclear secrets.
In 2016, the FBI arrested the ringleader of this nuclear espionage, a man named Allen Ho.
When they arrested Ho, he was using a random code generator to access funds being provided to him from – where else? – the Bank of China.
Yet while this FBI probe was going on, the son of the Vice President owned a stake in the company being investigated. And even after arrests were made, Rosemont Seneca did not alter its relationship with BHR, nor did it divest from CGN, even though it was stealing U.S. nuclear secrets.
In 2015, BHR partnered with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to buy an American company called Henniges for $600 million.
AVIC is a gigantic military contractor in China – think Lockheed Martin – that makes fighter jets, bombers and drones. BHR bought 49% of Henniges and AVIC bought 51%.
Henniges is a precision parts manufacturer specializing in anti-vibration technology. The stuff they make is known as "dual use" by the U.S. State Department, which means the technology can also have a military application.
Because of that, the deal had to be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) since it could have national security implications. The thing is, the American side of BHR – meaning Hunter Biden and his pals – had to know there were serious national security implications with AVIC.
The year before they formed a partnership with AVIC, the Wall Street Journal reported how AVIC stole technology related to the U.S. Air Force's F-35 stealth fighter and used it in its own stealth fighter for the Chinese.
How the Committee on Foreign Investment approved that deal remains a mystery. CFIUS does not publicly disclose any information regarding its decisions. Their findings are not publicly announced.
Interesting that China accounted for the largest share – with 74 transactions – approved by CFIUS during Obama's second term (2013-2015).
Under the umbrella of Rosemont Capital was a real estate company called Rosemont Realty. In 2015, a Chinese company called Gemini Investments bought a 75% stake in Rosemont Realty. The company was renamed Gemini Rosemont
Gemini brought $3 billion to the partnership with Rosemont, with the aim of buying "Class A institutional-quality commercial office properties in U.S. markets."
Red flag (literally) – Gemini Investments is a subsidiary of the China Ocean Shipping Company, a.k.a., "COSCO."
COSCO is a Chinese government-owned company. Its headquarters in Beijing is actually next to the headquarters of the Bank of China. COSCO is well-known for its close military ties. It's essentially a branch of the Chinese Navy.
In 2017, BHR invested in Face++. That's the facial recognition phone app built by a Chinese company that is incorporated in a separate app built by the Chinese government. Police in the Xinjiang [Sin-jong] region of China use that app to keep tabs on citizens, and track and detain Uiguhr [Wee-ger] Muslims.
The app allows police easy access to data about Chinese Muslims including things like religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity they use.
In March 2018, a spokesman (Chris Bastardi) for Christopher Heinz (John Kerry's stepson) emailed The Hill to say that Heinz had "no operating role" in Rosemont Seneca, and that he was not involved in any of Rosemont's deals in China (which contradicts Schweizer's report in his book Secret Empires).
Chris Heinz was involved in Rosemont Capital. Rosemont Seneca was established under the same GP as Rosemont Capital, but Chris Heinz had no operating role in it. Chris and his family have no financial interest or investment in Bohai Harvest RST, he has never traveled to China, and he has never met with the firm's Chinese management team or investors.
In October 2019, Hunter Biden's lawyer, George Mesires, said Hunter did not conduct any business on that 2013 trip to Beijing with his Dad.
Mesires said the timing of BHR's business license getting approved was purely coincidental because the paperwork had been submitted months before the Bidens' China trip.
According to Hunter's lawyer, the approval " was not related in any way, shape or form to Hunter's visit."
Hunter Biden finally stepped down from the BHR board last October (2019), but he DID NOT give up his 10% stake in the company.
When Bevan Cooney — the former "junior" business partner to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer — went to jail in 2019, investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer thought he'd never gain access to the damning emails Cooney had promised. That all changed three weeks ago when Schweizer was given complete access to Cooney's gmail account.
Schweizer joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Tuesday to describe just some of the business deals revealed within these emails — like Hunter working with an alleged Russian criminal and with Chinese communists to secure their assets, or to secure one-on-one time with his dad, then-Vice President Joe Biden. And all of this new information is completely separate from the emails allegedly discovered on Hunter Biden's laptop recently reported by the New York Post.
"So, I want to make this clear. This [Cooney's emails] has nothing to do with what's on the laptop … It didn't come from [Rudy] Giuliani. It didn't come from anybody else, right?" Glenn asked Schweizer.
"That's absolutely correct," Schweizer confirmed.
He briefly explained how Cooney, a former Los Angeles nightclub owner, is currently serving a prison sentence for his involvement in a fraudulent business bond scheme with Biden and Archer. From prison, Cooney gave Schweizer written permission to access his Gmail account.
"This is really important," he noted. "We're not looking at printouts. Not looking at PDFs. We're actually in his Gmail accounts themselves, sifting through these emails. And there's a shocking amount of information about deals involving China, involving Russia, involving all sorts of things they were trying to pull off."
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The king of "No Spin" and bestselling author of "Killing Crazy Horse," Bill O'Reilly joined Glenn Beck on this week's podcast to talk about the latest developments in Joe Biden's Ukraine and China corruption scandal. Now that some of the details are finally coming out in the open, does the average Democrat care? Maybe, but the Left doesn't seem to.
O'Reilly argued there's more hatred for President Donald Trump now than in 2016, and that some people hate President Trump so much that they'd rather vote for the "senile, corrupt" Joe Biden.
"Hunter got tens of millions of dollars from Ukraine, from Russia, from China because his father was vice president. I have no doubt in my mind," O'Reilly said. "But the hatred for Donald Trump overrides that in the minds of millions of viewers. They're saying, 'You know, we'd rather have the senile corrupt guy than Trump.'"
Asked by Glenn if any other Republican running for president would be met with the same level of vitriol, O'Reilly answered, "The Left is the Left. They don't like America. The want to redo the Constitution. They want to take some of our freedoms, like the Second Amendment and the First Amendment, and change them. And they want to destroy capitalism and replace it with a big centralized government in Washington that controls the economy … but I'm talking about the folks. I have liberal friends and I say to them, 'Do you not understand that when you vote for Biden, you're voting against your own self interest?'"
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Small Plant News: Volume 4, Number 8
|Small Plant News Archive Page. This is an archive page. No new content is being added. While these newsletters remain available for reference purposes, the documents do not reflect changes to Agency policy that may have been instituted since the newsletters were published. Also note that resources and websites mentioned in older issues may have moved or may no longer be available. Points of contact for various initiatives may have changed.
In This Issue:
- Reminder To Keep Species Separated
- Part II: Rural Development Stands Ready To Assist Small Meat and Poultry Plants With Grant Programs
- Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Reminder To Keep Species Separated
By Jane Johnson, DVM
As a small or very small plant owner/operator, you may slaughter and/or process different species of animals at your facility. If you do, it's important to remember that each species should be separated in space or time if your products are labeled or packaged in such a way that only one species is represented or is listed in the ingredients.
For example, a product labeled as "all beef hot dogs" cannot contain trace amounts of pork, and a product labeled as "ground pork" cannot contain trace amounts of beef.
So what are the requirements when an establishment that slaughters or processes more than one species switches from one species to the other, and the labeling is intended to address only one of the species?
While the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) regulations do not explicitly require a complete cleanup before the switch, failure to conduct a cleanup sufficiently to remove all visible debris would likely result in regulatory concerns for the Agency. Three of the biggest concerns are that:
- The finished product could be considered adulterated because of the creation of an insanitary condition during processing due to the presence of visible debris from another species. This would be a deficiency related to Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 416 (9 CFR Part 416), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure.
- The finished product could be considered adulterated because the incorporation of a food safety hazard that is present in one species might not be adequately addressed in the hazard analysis. The regulations affected in this case would be those associated with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, 9 CFR Part 417.
- The finished product could be considered both adulterated and misbranded because of species substitution. In this case, labeling regulations would be impacted.
- For meat, 9 CFR 317.8, False or misleading labeling or practices generally; specific prohibitions and requirements for labels and containers.
- For poultry, 9 CFR 381.129, False or misleading labeling or containers.
- For meat, 9 CFR 317.8, False or misleading labeling or practices generally; specific prohibitions and requirements for labels and containers.
FSIS inspectors perform species identification tests when there is a concern that a product may contain a species not declared on the label. When the inspector collects samples for species testing, he or she will notify you that the sample is to be collected.
The inspector will then collect at least 2 pounds of product and put it in a plastic bag supplied by one of the Agency's laboratories. If the product is in a natural casing, the inspector is to collect a sample of the emulsion. The inspector will then attach the product's label, showing the ingredient statement, and ship the sample to the lab.
The laboratory will test the product and report species results that correlate with the ingredient statement as "Acceptable." Likewise, if the laboratory finds that a species not declared on the ingredient statement is present in the sample, or one of the species on the ingredient statement is not present in the sample, the result will be reported as "Not Acceptable," and the inspector will take the appropriate action based on the regulations. This may include issuing a non-compliance record (NR), retaining product, rejecting equipment or facilities, stopping lines, or refusing to allow the processing of specifically identified product (9 CFR 500.1(a)). Additionally, FSIS may rescind or refuse approval of false or misleading marks, labels, or sizes or forms of any container for use with any meat or poultry product per 9 CFR 500.8.
For more information or answers to questions regarding species identification and labeling, contact the Small Plant Help Desk at 1-877-374-7435 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Part II: Rural Development Stands Ready To Assist Small Meat and Poultry Plants With Grant Programs
By Andy Jermolowicz and Janet McGinn
In the previous issue of Small Plant News, the first part of this two-part series covered the various loan programs that USDA's Rural Development offers to small and very small meat and poultry plants. In this article, we'll take a look at the different types of grants for which you might be eligible to apply.
Rural Development administers several grant programs that can provide revolving loan funds and the development of physical infrastructure and facilities, support training, and technical assistance for business development and provide access to planning and working capital funds for viable value-added agricultural businesses. A brief overview of these programs follows.
- Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) program - Provides grants for rural projects that finance and facilitate the development of small and emerging rural businesses to help fund business incubators and help fund employment-related adult education programs. To assist with business development, RBEGs may fund a broad array of activities.
- Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant (REDLG) program - Provides funding to rural projects through local utility organizations. Under the REDLoan program, USDA provides zero-interest loans to local utilities which they, in turn, pass through to local businesses (ultimate recipients) for projects that will create and retain employment in rural areas. The ultimate recipients repay the lending utility directly. The utility is responsible for repayment to the Agency. Under the REDGrant program, USDA provides grant funds to local utility organizations that use the funding to establish revolving loan funds. Loans are made from the revolving loan fund to projects that will create or retain rural jobs. When the revolving loan fund is terminated, the grant is repaid to the agency.
- Intermediary Relending Program (IRP) - Provides grants designed to alleviate poverty and increase economic activity and employment in rural communities. Under the IRP, loans are provided to local organizations (intermediaries) for the establishment of revolving loan funds. These revolving loan funds are used to assist with financing business and economic development activities to create or retain jobs in disadvantaged and remote communities. Intermediaries are encouraged to work in concert with State and regional strategies and in partnership with other public and private organizations that can provide complementary resources.
- Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program - Provides direct loans, technical assistance grants, and technical assistance-only grants to microenterprise development organizations to support the development and ongoing success of rural microentrepreneurs and microenterprises in rural areas.
- Value-Added Producer Grant program - Provides grant funds to independent producers, farmer and rancher cooperatives, agricultural producer groups, and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures. The funds are used for planning activities and for working capital for marketing value-added agricultural products.
- Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) - Provides guaranteed loan and grant funds that can be used to promote energy independence and enhance economic development in rural economies.
- The REAP Guaranteed Loan Program encourages the commercial financing of renewable energy systems (bioenergy, geothermal, hydrogen, solar, wind, and hydropower) and energy efficiency improvement projects. Under the program, borrowers will work with local lenders, who, in turn, can apply to USDA Rural Development for a loan guarantee of up to 85 percent of the loan amount.
- The REAP/Renewable Energy Systems/Energy Efficiency Improvement grants program provides grants to purchase and install renewable energy systems (bioenergy, geothermal, hydrogen, solar, wind, and hydropower) and energy efficiency improvement projects. It also provides grants to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to conduct a renewable energy feasibility study.
- The REAP/Energy Audit/Renewable Energy Development Assistance grant program provides grants for energy audits and renewable energy development assistance.
- The REAP Guaranteed Loan Program encourages the commercial financing of renewable energy systems (bioenergy, geothermal, hydrogen, solar, wind, and hydropower) and energy efficiency improvement projects. Under the program, borrowers will work with local lenders, who, in turn, can apply to USDA Rural Development for a loan guarantee of up to 85 percent of the loan amount.
Depending on the nature of your project or your needs, all of the programs discussed here could be used by small-scale meat and poultry processors to develop and expand your operations. For further information on all programs available through Rural Development, please contact your State Rural Development office or visit the USDA Rural Development Web site at www.rurdev.usda.gov. You can also call USDA Rural Development at (202) 690-4730.
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Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q. Should the frequency for the direct observation verification of monitoring activities be listed in the HACCP plan?
A. Yes. Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 417.2 (c) (7) requires the HACCP plan to list the verification procedures and the frequency with which those procedures are performed. Direct observation of the monitoring activities is one of the verification procedures listed in 9 CFR 417.4(a)(2).
Q. Are inspectors required to collect and record animal identification when a sample is collected for residue testing?
A. Yes. According to 9 CFR 310.2 (a), all animal identification is to be retained with the animal until the post-mortem examination is completed. When a residue sample is collected in an official slaughter establishment, FSIS inspection program personnel are to collect and document all identification from animals selected for residue sampling. Types of animal identification include, but are not limited to, livestock-market or sale-barn back tags, producer ear tags, feedlot identification tags, Canadian tags, vaccination tags, calf-hood (bang) tags, tattoos, and brands. In addition, FSIS inspection program personnel are to request information on the producer/owner name and address of the animal selected for sampling from the establishment.
The identification information is to be maintained identifiable with the carcass until the screen test is performed. All identification information is to be recorded in blocks 26 and 27 of FSIS Form 10,210-3 for all directed residue samples, and blocks 23 and 24 of FSIS Form 10,000-2 for all inspector-generated residue samples submitted to FSIS laboratories on positive residue screen tests (KIS™ or FAST test).
Q. How do FSIS inspectors verify that casings processed outside the United States were derived from animals that received ante-mortem and post-mortem veterinary inspection at the time of slaughter?
A. FSIS inspection program personnel verify that casings were derived from animals that received ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection under USDA supervision when the certificate signed by a government official of the exporting country either contains a statement as outlined in FSIS Directive 9000.2, Section IX, D. 1., or is accompanied by a copy of and references in the remarks, the corresponding FSIS Form 9060.7 (08/13/2008), "Animal Casings Export Certificate for Countries Requiring Ante-Mortem, Post-Mortem, and Fit for Human Food Statements" that was issued for export to that country. FSIS inspection program personnel may then proceed as directed by FSIS Directive 9000.2, Revision 1, Inspection and Certification of Livestock Intestines or Casings, to certify the casings for export.
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Moving articles (e.g., Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand)
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In the case of this article, I was able to piece the history back together with deletion and moving, but those options aren't fully available to non-sysops. The easiest method (which is also available to everyone) is just to use the move button. Thanks! —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 20:28, December 28, 2005 (CST)
Population estimate
Greetings! Thank you for your contributions. I was wondering whether you had a link or a source for the population estimate for the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand. The original link cites 7,525; you changed the number to an estimated 37,525, but the link remains, now contradicting rather than supporting. I'm guessing that source is from 2001, but I may be wrong. The only other source I could find online is from 1996: 3,969. —magda (talk) 07:46, December 29, 2005 (CST)
Would you mind engaging in the discussion on Talk:Gibran (Rimlawi) of Australia and New Zealand before continuing to change the spelling everywhere? —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 13:28, January 3, 2006 (CST)
Regarding the parishes - there are a couple of parishes on OrthodoxWiki that haven't made it onto the Antiochian.org.au website: St Nicholas, Mayfield (NSW), Invercargill Mission (NZ), Hamilton Mission (NZ); and also, one that hasn't made it to OrthodoxWiki - St Cuthbert, Rowville (Vic). I didn't add the last one because I thought that you probably knew what was going on and had reasons, but just in case I thought you should know. cheers, -- — by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 16:07, February 7, 2006 (CST)
+Gibran (revisited)
With recent edits, should he be listed as Bishop or Archbishop? I know that you're "closer to the action" (if you'll excuse the term), but there really should be one marker. Also, his nomination for elevation (in northern autumn?) and whether he was actually elevated is ambiguous. Thanks, — by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 03:58, February 27, 2006 (CST)
Yes, it is ambiguous, isn't it... chrisg 22:22 2006 February 27 (EAST)
Church of Antioch
Hi there. I hope you'll address some of the issues I've brought up on Talk:Church of Antioch regarding some of your recent edits. Thanks! —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 20:18, March 13, 2006 (CST)
Your use of Byzantine
Many folks use the descriptor Byzantine for different purposes. Within Orthodoxy it is generally used to identify the specifically Greek, as opposed to Slavic, tradition. Outside of Orthodoxy it is often used to differentiate between Chalcedonian Orthodoxy and non-Chalcedonian "Oriental" Orthodoxy.
In several of your recent contributions I've noticed you using the word in this latter way. However, this isn't necessary (or even desired) on OrthodoxWiki. We start from a Mainstream Chalcedonian Bias, which means that when we use the word Orthodox we generally mean Eastern or Byzantine Orthodox. We don't have to include the words "Eastern" or "Byzantine." Non-Chalcedonians, etc., are not presumed to be included.
I hope this is clear. Let me know if you have any questions. —Dcn. David talk contribs 06:54, March 15, 2006 (CST)
Congrats on your upcoming ordination[1]. Ever-Worthy! --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 07:48, April 3, 2006 (CDT)
Thanks. I need to hear Axios, but I cetainly do not personally feel worthy. I had a rather long discussion with Archimandrite Fr Victor Penel last century about whether candidates for priesthood are worthy or not. He disagreed with my view, but we remained friendly nonetheless. But thanks for the comment!
- Reminds me of Fr Paul Nadim Tarazi's comments on Communion - if you think you're worthy, you should probably step out of the line. But, just in case, I should clarify - in the Greek, 'Panta Axios' is used from a distance (ie not in person), if I understand correctly, both as 'may you be worthy' and 'always be worthy', ie present and future tenses. Even if it's not correct, that's what I meant :) --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 23:18, April 10, 2006 (CDT)
- Since the event has happened, a re-stated Axios!. May God grant many years of service according to His will. — Pιsτévο, at 06:29, May 29, 2006 (CDT)
- Once again, many thanks. I like the use of Axios in the exhortatory voice. And will always think of it in that positive exemplary way, thanks to your eloquent clarification. I also really like Fr Paul Tarazi's comment about stepping out of line. Fr Themi will be in Australia in June, July, August 2006, visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane. Might you get an opportunity to see the "Apostle to the Poor"? :)~ chrisg 2006-05-29-2305 EAST
- Since the event has happened, a re-stated Axios!. May God grant many years of service according to His will. — Pιsτévο, at 06:29, May 29, 2006 (CDT)
Sydney 5 to 24 July 2006, then straight to Brisbane, but I do not know for how long in Brisbane. chrisg 2006-05-30-1013
Please see the talk page for SCCOCA. Because there seem to be wildly differing views of SCCOCA, I have placed the views of both the GOA (i.e. Nstavropoulos' edit) and the AOA (i.e. your previous edits) in the article, and labelled as such. Thanks, --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 05:04, April 9, 2006 (CDT)
Until I get a citation, I have taken the safer course of deleting the Antiochian comment for the moment. An official comment could be forthcoming in the near future. Thanks chrisg 2006 April 10 1753 EAST
- Quite an official comment! As I said on MetBoulos' page, please see the SCCOCA talk page, and the main article. --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 23:15, April 10, 2006 (CDT).
I think someone might be a bit sick of the heavy-handed one-sidedness we have seen for so many years.
Of course, the "representatives" of "SCCOCA", except for the Ecumenical representative, were unaware that Antioch had been "excluded". Not a cooperative decision.
Also there was no Representative of the Moscow Patriarchate at the Vespers. The cleric who used to be the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate in Australia had that status terminated by Met Kyril of Smolensk and Kaliningrad about 4 years ago. All the Moscow clergy in Australia now report direct to Met Kyril.
In addition it was ROCOR who used to be a member of SCCOCA, not Moscow. It is a bit disingenous to mention Moscow as having been represented when it was never a member of SCCOCA anyway.....
It must be hard to be unbiased, having only heared the one version in the past.
Who is N Stavropoulos? Is he the college registrar?
- )~ chrisg 2006 April 11 : 1517 EAST
- No no - college registrar is Anastasios Kalogerakis, BTh. I'm not completely sure who it is - Stavropoulos is a fairly common name, particularly amongst active members of the GOA in Sydney - but I do know of a priest by that initial.
- Also, I would expect that 'representative of Moscow Patriarchate' was more 'a priest of' (rather than the leader); that being said, I'm not in Marrickville or anything.
- *sigh* Australia's always been about half a generation behind America, but we must be well overdue for our huge convert influx, imho. --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 03:05, April 11, 2006 (CDT)
The current situation for Exarchs for the Church of Antioch for Australia and New Zealand is a little jumbled - any chance you'd be able to spare time for your preparation to shed some light on these very overlapping dates?
- Fr Nicholas Shehadie, 1913-1934
- Fr George Haydar (Melbourne), 1948-1962
- Fr Malatius Hussney (Sydney), 1953-1956
- Fr Nicolas Mansour, 1962-1969
Thanks, — by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 03:43, May 23, 2006 (CDT)
- clarification: were there two exarchs in Australia at the one time? — by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 04:38, May 23, 2006 (CDT)
- I've attempted to clear this up as much as possible: I've tried to make it flow from Fr Nicholas Shehadie to Fr Nicolas Mansour (after that is easy, of course). Backwards it doesn't work, but I'm hoping that forwards both works and is correct. Your input, when possible, is much appreciated. — Pιsτévο, at 08:07, May 27, 2006 (CDT)
Chrisg, this information might be better placed in the Diakonissa article as a section, with some mention in the Feminism in the Orthodox Church article. Additionally, we try not to have plural article titles. —magda (talk) 11:37, May 31, 2006 (CDT)
- Deaconess is an order in the Church. Diakonissa, like Khourieh, are wives of those in orders. A link to deaconesses might be appropriate in the Diakonissa article, and depending on its treatment perhaps in the Feminism article. chrisg 2006-06-01-1219 EAST
Thank you for restoring this article - much appreciated! — edited by Pιsτévο at 02:08, June 18, 2006 (CDT)
Please see my comments on the discussion page for this article. —Dcn. David talk contribs 13:52, June 20, 2006 (CDT)
Dcn Chris, I'd love to see some citations on the recent history section of the ROCOR ANZ article. I've left your edit up because I know that, sadly, it's probably correct, but print citations would be beneficial. — edited by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 07:33, September 15, 2006 (CDT)
You're going to have to try harder there sparky. lol
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New layout for my private book worm :-)
The other day I came to her room and saw her holding the book upside down, as if she was 2-3 years and don't know (and don't care) how to hold a book... I went to see how it looks from her side and I realized that the cover was adhered up side down... It made me laugh :-)
Zehavit challenged me to use this sketch (#101 @ Sketchabilities) to create a layout.
I used my counterfeit kit, previous layouts done from same papers:
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2. Sail
3. Like
4. Mom, have you heard?
5. Ayun stream
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White House Vaporizes Death Star Petition
An estimated $850 quadrillion effort to add a "Death Star" similar to the one seen in "Star Wars" to the United States' military arsenal would be too costly and doomed to failure. This according to the Obama administration which on Saturday officially rejected a citizen petition calling for the White House to "secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016."
In an official response to the petition, which has so far gathered more than 34,000 signatures, the White House said that while the creation of a Death Star would likely spur job growth and bolster national defense, it's generally a bad idea.
"The Administration does not support blowing up planets," Paul Shawcross, chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, wrote — tongue firmly in cheek. "Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?"
Indeed. Probably would have been better off starting out small and asking for a Millennium Falcon …
Here's Shawcross's reply in full:
This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For
By Paul Shawcross
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky — that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts — American, Russian, and Canadian — living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs — one wielding a laser — roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo — and soon, crew — to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.
Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.
We don't have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke's arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.
We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country's future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.


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Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack HDMI
- 1 Supported Resolutions
- 2 Modesetting driver
- 3 1080p30
- 4 Default Resolutions
- 5 Forcing A Resolution
- 6 HDMI Issues
- 7 Bad HDMI Cables
- 8 Supported Displays and TVs
- 9 Connecting to a TV or Display
- 10 EDID Information
- 11 It worked and then it stopped working
- 12 The Image is cropped on the bottom and top
- 13 HDMI to VGA Converters
Supported Resolutions
The following is partial list of supported resolutions that have been confirmed to work with the BeagleBone Black. Note that for a resolution to work, it has to be supported by both the BeagleBone Black and your display. Your display might not support all of the same resolutions that the BeagleBone Black does.
1920x1080@24 (Audio)
1280x720@60 (Audio)
Only CEA resolutions support audio as defined by the HDMI Specification.
If you have succesfully tested other resolutions, please add them to the list.
Modesetting driver
The latest (as of 2017-04-09) Debian image defaults to using the xorg-video-fbdev driver for xorg. This does not allow changing the resolutions using xrandr. If you would like to change resolutions, change the xorg configuration /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use the xorg-video-modesetting driver. A lot of the instructions below, assume you are using the modesetting driver.
When using the modesetting driver, these commands will set the beaglebone black to output at 1920x1080 at 30 Hz:
> cvt 1920 1080 30 > xrandr --newmode 1080p30 79.75 1920 1976 2168 2416 1080 1083 1088 1102 -hsync +vsync > xrandr --addmode HDMI-0 1080p30 > xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1080p30
Note that the numbers for --newmode were taken from the output of the cvt command;
Default Resolutions
By default, the board will always look for HDMI resolutions to enable audio and only list those as options. As a result you will see a lower number of resolutions listed than your monitor may support.
If you are not concerned about audio support, you can disable the cape manager for HDMI and get more resolutions listed. Add the following command to the optargs in the uENV.txt file on the boot partition of the eMMC or uSD.
You can set the default resolution on the initial power up for the splash screen by adding the following to the uENV.txt file where you can use any resolution you choose:
HOWEVER, this will only set the resolution on the first stage of the boot process for the splash screen, when the BEAGELBONE LOGO is displayed at the beginning. After reading the EDID, the board will use the EDID as the resolution.
This will tell you if the monitor, cable, and the board are all functioning from a HW perspective.
Forcing A Resolution
It is possible to force a resolution to be used by the board. The availble resolutions will however, be limited to those that have been determined to work by the DRM manager on the board. As a result, not all resolutions that can be supported by the display are available. But, it will allow you to try other resolutions.
You will need the following items:
1) FTDI Serial Cable
2) Putty, Teraterm, or similar terminal emulation software.
1) Connect the serial cable to your PC.
2) Launch the terminal emulation SW and select the correct serial port.
3) Connect the serial cable to the serial debug connector on the board.
4) Connect the HDMI cable to the board and your display.
5) Apply power to the board.
6) You should see messages appear on the terminal.
7) When the login prompt appears type root and hit enter.
8) Type export XAUTHORITY=`ls /var/run/gdm/auth-for-root-*/database` and hit enter.
9) Type export DISPLAY=:0.0 and hit enter.
10) Type xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 720x480 --rate 60. You can substitute different resolutions and refresh rates if you like. Hit enter.
The resolution should change on the display. If you get the message "xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1080" where the 1920x1080 in this example is the mode you selected, that means that the DRM driver did not select it as an available resolution.
HDMI Issues
We have seen a lot of issues in the past with HDMI on the BeagleBone black. These issue can be very hard to debug and track down because we do not have the displays with us, we cannot see what everyone is doing, and we cannot debug the timing issues and settings to figure out what is going on. Using the latest image has resolved a lot of these issues.
Bad HDMI Cables
We have had numerous cases of bad cables. The cheap cables are cheap because they are cheap cables. If you can, spend a little extra money and buy a good cable. We are in the process of evaluating various manufacturers of cables and will be publishing what we find.
One notable issue is that the shielding on some of these cables do not provide a ground. In order for HDMI to work, the grounds of the board and the Display must be the same.
Here are a few things that can help:
1) Use a grounded 5V supply connected to the same ground as the display.
NOTE: A floating 5V power supply will not work! It must be grounded with the negative side referenced to ground!!
2) Connect the USB cable to the board and a PC sharing the same ground as the display.
3) Make sure the cable grounds are connected by using a ohmmeter to make sure the covers of the connectors are connected together.
Supported Displays and TVs
For a list of the currently identified displays and TVs that work go to Displays
Connecting to a TV or Display
The board uses EDID information to identify the settings for the display. It is possible that this information may not be totally accurate on some displays, causing the board to give bad settings.
Or in other cases it was not able to get the information from the TV/Display.
If the board does not see a display connected, it will default to 720x480 resolution and outputs that signal on the HDMI port.
All TVs and Displays should support this resolution. Check you manual for your TV/display and make sure that resolution is supported on the HDMI port you plan to use.
To take advantage of this known setting, it is recommended that the following steps be used to make sure the HDMI output is working and the board and that you have the correct connections on your TV/Display.
1) Do not connect the Ethernet cable to the board.
2) Do not connect the HDMI cable to the board.
3) Apply power to your board.
4) Wait for the board to power up. This should take about 2 minutes.
5) Then connect the cable to your board.
6) Connect the cable to the TV/Display.
7) Reset the board. Wait for it to come up.
8) If the TV/Display does not show a picture, make sure the TV/Display has not powered down due to a lack of a signal. If it has, then you may need to push the power button for the TV/Display.
9) Still no picture, hit the reset button on the BeagleBone Black and let it boot up again. It should see the EDID and find the best resolution for your TV/Display.
You may get a box in the upper left of the display complaining about a program still running. You can hit reset again and it should go away on the next boot or use your keyboard to close the window.
EDID Information
It is possible to look at the EDID information for the board read from the monitor. This can be useful in debugging HDMI issues. There are two different ways to access the EDID information.
EDID Information via Serial Port
This troubleshooting method can be used in the 5/20 or newer software update. You can update to the most recent software below, under step #1.
Note: You must have installed a terminal emulator program such as PuTTy or Tera Term to connect to your BBB. Click on the links for instructions on how to install either program.
1. Make sure your BBB is updated to the most recent software. If you are unsure, click Updating The Software.
2. Make sure your drivers are up to date. Drivers can be downloaded from this website.
3. Next we will determine which COM port the BBB will be connecting to. In order to do this, we will go to the Device Manager:
- If your BBB is connected to your computer, disconnect it.
- Click the Start Menu and search for "Device Manager." Click yes on the window that pops up and it will open.
- Look for "Ports (COM & LPT)" and press the arrow to expand.
- Write down the ports that are available.
- Use the provided USB cable to plug the BeagleBone Black into your computer. The USB will provide the 5V to your board.
- The Device Manager should refresh. Check "Ports (COM & LPT)" again and your BBB should appear. It will be the COM that wasn't there before. Write down the COM# on a piece of paper.
- If it doesn't appear, press the reset button on your BBB. Pictures of the button locations can be found BeagleBone Black Connector and Switch Locations.
4. Important Verify that your terminal emulator settings are set up properly with your board. Open up your desired terminal shell program and Terminal Shells if you are unsure and start with step #3.
5. Once everything is verified, we will check the EDID Information.
6. Connect your BBB to your HDMI enabled monitor/TV and wait for the TV to turn on.
7. Hit enter in the terminal emulator window to bring up the login prompt.
8. In the terminal emulator, type "root" and hit ENTER
9. Type "cd /sys/class/drm/card0/card0-HDMI-A-1/" and hit ENTER. (Notice the space after cd)
10. Type "parse-edid edid"and hit ENTER.
11. You should get a printout similar to the one below:
parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0 parse-edid: EDID checksum passed. # EDID version 1 revision 3 Section "Monitor" # Block type: 2:0 3:ff # Block type: 2:0 3:fc Identifier "DELL U2410" VendorName "DEL" ModelName "DELL U2410" # Block type: 2:0 3:ff # Block type: 2:0 3:fc # Block type: 2:0 3:fd HorizSync 30-81 VertRefresh 56-76 # Max dot clock (video bandwidth) 170 MHz # DPMS capabilities: Active off:yes Suspend:yes Standby:yes Mode "1920x1200" # vfreq 59.950Hz, hfreq 74.038kHz DotClock 154.000000 HTimings 1920 1968 2000 2080 VTimings 1200 1203 1209 1235 Flags "-HSync" "+VSync" EndMode # Block type: 2:0 3:ff # Block type: 2:0 3:fc # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
The resulting display will provide valuable information that you can cut and paste into an email when trying to debug the issue.
EDID Information From Desktop
This method is done from a working desktop. This means that the HDMI is working but you may be wanting to see what the EDID information is for the connected display. This shows the supported resolutions for the attached displays.
Not all resolutions can be supported by the BeagleBone Black.
1) Open the terminal program from the desk top:>br>
On the top menu bar, using the mouse,select "Applications"
Move the mouse to "System Tools"
Then move the mouse cursor to "Terminal" and click the left mouse button
2) In the terminal window at the cursor type "xhost +" and hit ENTER.
3) Type "export DISPLAY=:0" and hit ENTER
4) Type "xrandr --verbose" and hit ENTER
You will get something similar to what you see below. It will be different for each display.
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It worked and then it stopped working
The BeagleBone Black is a small Linux based PC. And it acts like a PC in many respects. As a PC it it is not used for a period of time, it will go to sleep. At that point, the HDMI signal is turned off.
As in the case of the PC, it requires an input from the user. This is typically done my moving the mouse or hitting the keyboard.
This means that you need to have a keyboard and a mouse to use it in this mode.
The keyboard and mouse MUST be connected on power up to work.
The Image is cropped on the bottom and top
Some displays use what is called overscan. This can be seen in TVs and not so much on Monitors. It causes the image to be missing on the edges, such that you cannot see them displayed.
Some higher end displays allow you to disable the overscan. Check your manual for this feature.
Most TVs have a mode that allows you to adjust the image as well. These are options like Normal, Wide, Zoom, or Fit. Normal seems to be the best option as it does not chop of the edges. The other ones will crop of the edges. You may also try the Fit option. Consult your manual for these options.
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Edition wars can get heated but with Shadowrun as much as I may complain about this change or that, I love all the editions. 1e was gonzo, over the top, amazing, awesome, and a ton of fun. The rules were goofy but unique. 2050 had rockers and riggers though mages and street samurai would steal the lime light and the decker would get avoided, not because of the rules themselves but that the system map made it a solo game (for the record 4e hacking is almost the same as 1e decking, minus the focus
This is a loaded question. My son is not even one yet and I'm already thinking that he has to play D&D at leased a couple times to try it out but with so many version which one is the best. The Rules Cyclopedia/Dark Dungeon edition is very basic, its where Dwarf is a class. Despite some of the oddities this game is a thing of beauty from its simplicity. This is the 'rules lite' indie version of D&D if there is such a thing. AD&D 1e is well thought out, interesting choices (with unearthed
V20, thats Vampire the Masquerade 20th Anniversary edition, is on the horizon and that makes me think about how much fun I've had with that game even though I came in really late. Revised edition would come out only a year or less after my first real game. I love vampires, always have, the myths and the realities (rabies) but my mom didn't like them, heck she didn't like D&D (though Traveller and Shadowrun were ok) and as such it was hard enough to get my precious Monsterous Manual and have
Although it was my first RPG it is not what got me into the hobby. That would not come until I saw the Street Samurai Catalog at the Walden Books and the rest is history. However I like the concept of D&D, "party of fantasy heros battle a monster". For myself it was all about the monsters and I wouldn't have more than a passing relationship with D&D until the Monsterous Manual. I still love that book, all the fluff about the ecology of the monsters was pure awesome. AD&D 2e


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On June 20 2009, a beautiful young woman was standing alongside the road in Tehran, watching her fellow Iranians taking to the streets demanding freedom and protesting the most recent fraudulent presidential election. Neda Agha-Soltan looked on, perhaps in disbelief that, once again, the fanatic leaders of the Islamic Regime had stolen the hope of her generation for democracy, human dignity, and equality.
Then, a shocking event took place that riveted the world's attention on the cruelty of the Iranian leaders against their people. A member of the Basij forces shot Neda. As she fell to the ground and her beautiful eyes took a last look at the sky, Neda (which means "divine message" in Farsi) became the unforgettable face of the Iranian people. Her death became the iconic symbol of a nation, which, in its quest for justice and freedom, has suffered tens of thousands of casualties.
Today, while the world is celebrating International Women's Day, honoring the women who have made the world a better place, it is essential that we remember the innocent women of Iran and what they've lost at the hands of a vicious regime.
Cruelest of punishments
Ever since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, women have been subjected to the cruelest of punishments.
Despite Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini's promise that he would allow women freedom of choice in clothing, activities, and lifestyle, one of the first orders of the Islamic government was to force all women to wear the Islamic hijab, covering their hair and their body. No makeup was allowed, and they could not be seen with anyone other than their husbands or relatives. Anyone caught disobeying the law was subjected to lashing and imprisonment.
The ruling clerics called themselves God's representatives on earth, and anyone opposing them was deemed a mohareb, an enemy of God. The Quran authorizes torture and death for enemies of God.
The Islamic regime has taken this authority to its most heinous extreme.
Thousands of innocent young girls have been brought to prison for the most specious of reasons. They're thrown into small cells, designed for just a few, along with sometimes 30 of their fellow victims. As a CIA spy in Iran, I was a witness to this.
Every few days, guards call out names over a loudspeaker. These women know what it means to have their names called, and they hold hands, praying that this will not be the day they are dragged out of their cell and executed. Those whose names are not called for execution are lined up and lashed. Many of them faint from the lashing, never knowing what the guards do with their unconscious bodies.
If they are called, they are raped before execution so they are no longer virgins and therefore, according to hardline Islamic beliefs, can no longer go to heaven. None of these girls would ever know the joys of romantic love. None of them would ever hold her own baby in her arms. Their final days have been filled with a level of abuse few can imagine.
Women who abide completely by the rules of the clerics are not immune to their cruelty. Many women – sometimes as young as 15 – have been stoned to death on bogus charges of adultery. The Islamic leaders of Iran proudly state that this horrific and inhumane punishment is part of their constitution and consistent with the implementation of the holy sharia laws of Islam.
The West must decide
In spite of these atrocities, Iran recently joined the UN Commission on the Status of Women! Meanwhile, the West has done little to support women's rights in Iran – or support those bravely calling for freedom.
In 2009, the Green Movement rattled the regime with calls for democracy, but the West gave no real help – and the movement faded amid a brutal crackdown. Today, inspired by uprisings across the Middle East, Iranians – including many women who've planned to protest today – are again trying to stand up to their Islamic rulers.
How the West responds will be one of the most important decisions of our time. Will we aid the return of democracy and freedom in Iran, or will we succumb to Tehran's murderous government in the name of hedging our bets? The people of Iran are desperate for a show of support from the West. By standing with them, we can uphold our duty to take a stand for the security of the free world.
People-powered democratic revolts – do they last?
Today, hundreds of courageous female political and human rights activists and thousands of brave Iranian girls who joined their fellow men to reject brutality and demand freedom sit in jail helpless – but with a hope that change is possible. Let's not allow the death of Neda and other victims be in vain. Let's join together on International Women's Day to demand justice, equality, and freedom for all Iranians.
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons. He is the author of "A Time to Betray," a book about his double life as a CIA agent in Iran's Revolutionary Guards.


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Leigh Anne Vrabel (preferred appellation) currently works as a senior staff librarian in the Reference Services department at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. This means she wears a lot of hats. Luckily, she loves hats. Please refer to her LinkedIn profile for her most recent resume.
Leigh Anne's twopointopian pride and joy is Eleventh Stack, the group blog for adult programs and services at CLP Main, and she urges you to check out the readerly goodness that her team fosters on a weekdaily basis. On those rare occasions when things settle down a little, Leigh Anne chimes in with other notes and observations at Library Alchemy.
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When she's not wearing a librarian hat, Leigh Anne is probably reading sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or non-fiction about religion and spirituality. She also enjoys cooking, cross-stitch, decoupage, and other artsy-craftsy endeavors (especially if there's a glue gun involved). All of her favorite TV shows have been cancelled, so she hesitates to take on new ones until they've been released on DVD (representative examples include Sports Night, Firefly, Buffy, and The X-Files). She is also a devoted mistress to two very demanding cats, who are somewhat miffed because they were not permitted to contribute a section to this wiki.
On a more serious note, I'm thrilled to have been accepted into the class of 2009 Emerging Leaders, and would like to thank an extremely long list of library workers who have encouraged me both personally and professionally:
Carlisle Webber, Chris Gmiter, Heidi Patterson-Orlando, Rachel Minkin, Abe Wheeler, April J. Kent, Catherine Adams, Karen Rossi, Kaarin VanAusdal, Noufissa Lamrani-Powell, Denise Towarnicki, Marian Hampton, Lisa Santucci, the late-great Amy Knapp, the late-great Cathy Duhig, Elizabeth Mahoney, Ellen Detlefsen, Mary Jo Dorsey, Maggie Kimmel, Don Wentworth, Scott Pyle, Debbie Rogers, Gwen Hawk, Barry Atkins, the TRRU crew, Richard Kaplan, and everybody else in the CLP family and the SIS 2004 cohort. If I've got leadership emerging, it's largely because I am inspired daily by your support and example.


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Today's offering is a guest post from Tomato client and real estate blogging guru, Ben Roberts of Exit Pro Realty.
Thanks for the effort, Ben!
Readers of The Real Estate Tomato come in one of three flavors…
I can say this of course, because I'm a guest contributor. Regardless of who you are or what you want to glean from this blog, you come for information.
How can I bump up my internet presence?
What should I do to differentiate myself from others in my market?
How can I convert more website visitors into prospects and sales?
How do I blog for business?
I like Teresa Boardman's AR post on Hyper Local Photos as Bait.
Great idea there so I'm not going to touch on it here. Local content gets people that buy locally to your site… duh. Make neighborhood pages with information on home values, history, amenities, events, and homes for sale. Don't kill visitors with information though.
The Real Estate Tomato's support and tutorials can help you learn to embed neighborhood Google maps with schools and places of interest that give a visitor lots of information without the overload.
Whoa, fancy words. Aggregation is "the collecting of units or parts into a mass or whole."
Doing Market data posts is good, great even. I'm starting to see a lot of people do it. Unfortunately, many people are going about it the wrong way and wasting a lot of their time.
Posts are great, focusing on individual cities, neighborhoods, price ranges, or property types are great. Now how do you organize all that hard work? You probably just stick them in a category labeled 'Market Data", "Home Prices" or something similar.
How about showcasing all that hard work!?
Create a page that gives visitors an introduction to your area of expertise, the markets you serve, and then aggregate the data into meaningful groups. Now, when someone wants to know 'how the market is do'in,' you can tell them to head to www.YourDomain.com/market or some such jazz and impress the pants off of them.
It makes the time and effort you put in much more visible and distinctive to the public.
Speaking of being different… Why wouldn't you want to be able to speak specifically to a specific target audience on a specific subject in a specific way, specifically?
Very few people use them so maybe there's a reason I just haven't been let in on yet, but I think it's just a matter of being ignorant.
Any time you can speak to a targeted audience you better speak to them… specifically. That means creating landing pages for different people that visit your site. You should start with Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and any other social network you use that people visit you from with any regularity. Then add landing pages for any neighborhoods or cities you farm.
When you send out correspondence you can put your website address as www.YourDomain.com/neighborhood so that you can speak directly to those people with specific language and specific calls to action. It will increase your relevancy and your conversions from visitors to clients.
Huh? I thought that's where people went when they type in the wrong address.
It is, and you can use that fact to your advantage in a couple of ways.
Check 'em out.
The Easy Way –
Modify your 404 template/page to reinforce your personal brand and help visitors find their way to the information they were interested in. Here are some cool ones as organized by Smashing Magazine.
There's a cool plugin for that called AskApache Google 404. I don't know if it's RET approved but they can hook you up with it or something similar. It takes the address the person typed in and does a custom search based on that information, giving them a list of likely relevant pages that they meant to go to in the first place.
Now that's useful.
The Cool Way –
I have to give credit where credit is due. Ryan Hartman at ReTechulous actually came up with this a while back and I've been implementing it for about a year. Thanks to Chris at RET for helping me with the programming.
Start by embedding a video of your awesome home marketing strategy (you have one of those right?) on your 404 page. Make sure you have it auto-plays so it starts right when prospects hit the page. Make it snappy, cool, whatever. Just make it you.
Now… Send out postcards to a high turnover neighborhood in an area you work and set up a label system so that you can customize each card to say… Now they're curious. What the heck could this crazy Realtor have on the Internet about MY property?
You get it? You create one page that looks like an infinite number of custom pages to individual homeowners. You could use this for lots of other marketing ideas. It increases the conversion of postcard campaigns ten-fold. FYI, It would probably be a good idea if you put a contact form right below that video.
Want you're blog to be the local go-to for local info?
Use twitter hashtags in your area and figure out a way to get them on your blog.
I just embedded (using an Iframe) a Twub on a page and called the page that hashtag name. If you use Twitter and don't get hashtags you need to do a little studying because they're super useful. I'm sure the Real Estate Tomato also has other ways of getting hashtag content on your blog as you can get it through an rss feed.
Again, this would be great as an additional source of neighborhood content for a neighborhood page.
Just a thought.
This is just a few ways I've used my personal Tomato Blog to differentiate myself from the pack in my market and I can tell you that it has worked.
Keep churning out good content.
Keep it interesting, relevant, and timely.
Every month I have more traffic on my website than the two largest real estate companies in the region… combined.
I'm only saying that because these two companies are large traditional offices with old school traditional websites. The largest used to have a Pagerank of 6 and has just recently hit a 4. Think their methods are outdated? In a market where every dollar and minute counts, shouldn't you be spending your time on marketing channels and practices that get you more business? I
'm confident in saying the RET knows their &#%* and teaches willing clients how to do it right.
Designs come and go, good training endures and rewards the student.
That's what the Top Tomato taught me.
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