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Jagielka a doubt for Toffees
Toffees manager Roberto Martinez believes Swansea counterpart Garry Monk should not be judged on his brief record as a fledgling boss. The 35-year-old former club captain was put in interim charge when Michael Laudrup was sacked in early February despite having no previous experience. In his first month in charge he had to balance the demands of the FA Cup, Europa League and Barclays Premier League. Despite exit from both cup competitions, their league form has not improved and Monk has won just once – his first game against south Wales rivals Cardiff – as the side have picked up five points from as many matches to leave them perilously close to the relegation zone. Martinez admits he has a soft spot for his former club and, ahead of their third meeting this season, has backed Monk to keep them in the top flight. "I have been very impressed with Garry Monk and it would be a big mistake to try to assess his time just by the results," said the Spaniard. "Some of the performances have been impressive, especially the two games against Napoli in the Europa League where he brought a mature performance from the players. "Even the game against Liverpool (losing 4-3 at Anfield) and games at home to Crystal Palace (1-1) and West Brom (a 2-1 defeat) have been very small margins and that is why they are where they are in the league. "I don't think there is a big difference or something huge lacking. "I have been very impressed with the way he has handled the demands of a short period of time with so many games. "Everyone has had a good reaction and I know it will be a really tough game for us on Saturday." Everton are currently sixth, occupying the final Europa League spot, but Martinez knows they will have to win the majority of their remaining 10 matches to keep their European dream alive. Manchester United are three points behind, having played a match more, but fifth-placed Tottenham could well be caught as they are only two ahead having played two games more. "Thirty points is a huge amount. We are playing for 15 points at home, which is something we welcome as our football at Goodison has been full of confidence and good play," added Martinez. "Our points average at home has been exceptional and we need to carry on with that but in the same manner you need to be able to go away from home and get competitive performances." Striker Michu is set to continue on the comeback trail for Swansea. Michu returned off the bench after three months out with an ankle injury when Swansea lost at home to West Brom last weekend. Jonjo Shelvey, who has had hamstring trouble, looks poised to feature at Goodison Park, along with Nathan Dyer, who also missed the Albion clash as he rested a heel injury. Monk is "totally confident" his Swansea team will collect enough points to finish clear of the relegation zone. The loss against the Baggies means Swansea go into the clash at Goodison Park just four points above Sunderland, who lie 18th. They have not claimed a league win since beating Cardiff, and the West Brom result certainly provided a piercing wake-up call if one was required. "The first thing I said to the players (last Saturday) was 'you are now going to learn exactly what it's like to fight'," head coach Monk said. "You could see West Brom's attitude in the second half. They upped the spirit and intensity, and at that point we couldn't match it. "The positive was that we saw a team fighting for their lives. Some players will not have experienced it before, but it is at times like this you see who is a boy and who is a man. "The reaction in training this week has been good. All the players have been pushing each other. "But the ultimate point is you've got to turn those performances into results. If I am not happy I will tell them, but they weren't happy themselves." The centre-back has missed three matches with a hamstring injury and if he is not considered fit enough John Stones will continue to deputise. Midfielder Steven Pienaar, who missed last week's win over Cardiff with a knee cartilage problem, is expected to be out for a further two to three weeks. Press Association Everton captain Phil Jagielka is rated at 50-50 to make his return for the visit of Swansea.

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Eh, I've never liked Mitt as a superhawk. He's more appealing in statesman/technocrat mode, softer spoken and focused on policy solutions, the way he was after the GM takeover. I know he's obliged to do a certain amount of this to make the base happy, but how happy is this particular attack likely to make them? New data from WaPo:
Even among the GOP, the split in favor of talks is +57. Ah well. Here he is today addressing AIPAC:
"The Iranian leadership is the greatest immediate threat to the world since the fall of the Soviet Union, and before that, Nazi Germany," Romney said in a speech Monday to the pro-Israel group AIPAC at their national summit in San Diego, according to excerpts provided to CNN.
"The Iranian regime is unalloyed evil, run by people who are at once ruthless and fanatical," Romney said. "Stop thinking that a charm offensive will talk the Iranians out of their pursuit of nuclear weapons. It will not. And agreements, unenforceable and unverifiable, will have no greater impact here than they did in North Korea. Once an outstretched hand is met with a clenched fist, it becomes a symbol of weakness and impotence."
Romney – who has used a series of high-profile speeches to bolster his foreign policy profile in advance of a possible 2012 presidential bid – called on the United States to enact "comprehensive, withering sanctions" coupled with support for "the forces of freedom within Iran." He demanded that a "credible" military threat must remain on the table if Iranian leadership insists on threatening Israel with annihilation.
He's right about the futility of talks, but (a) if he has any ideas for a credible military threat, the world is all ears (see also WaPo's poll data on that) and (b) calling Iran the biggest threat since the Soviet Union is bound to invite some questions about why we went after Baghdad instead of Tehran then. In any event, if he's eager for The One to shut down talks, he might only have to wait another 24 hours: Now that Iran's hinted that it's not prepared to ship its uranium stockpile to Russia for enrichment after all — which was the big supposed "breakthrough" from those talks a few weeks ago — the whole house of cards could come tumbling down as early as tomorrow.
The threats, broadcast on Iranian television and in statements from the country's atomic energy organization, may have simply been negotiating tactics ahead of negotiations that started in Vienna, the city that saw so many Cold War nuclear talks between the United States and the Soviet Union…
"By the end of these next two days," one senior administration official in Washington said, "we'll know if the Iranians are serious and whether we have time" to pursue further diplomacy with Iran without fearing that it could race ahead to produce a weapon.
Exit question via Hitchens: If a confrontation with Iran is inevitable, what do we gain by waiting?


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The 1890s
VICTORIAN SLUM HOUSE takes viewers to the British slums of the 1800s, where a group of modern day families, couples and individuals recreate life in London's East End as their forbearers once lived between 1860-1900. Faced with the virtually impossible task of earning enough money to pay the rent and put food on the table, the participants experience first-hand the tough living and working conditions endured by the millions that made up the urban poor in Victorian Britain. It's an eye-opening experience for the participants as they each confront the harsh realities of the past and together lay the groundwork for welfare reform in the 20th Century.
The 1890s
Enter the 1890s, when mass manufacturing and social reform offer a bit of hope for some of the residents, while others are plagued by a water shortage that dashes hopes for a promising laundry business.


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In the world of video games, difficulty can be a virtue in itself. A game like Angry Birds is just difficult enough to be diverting—and, as a result, only fit for "casual" gamers. Real gamers are like real art lovers. They demand extraordinary difficulty.
Right now, the most difficult game you can play is called English Country Tune. It's a confounding three-dimensional puzzle game, available on the iPad, iPhone, Mac, and PC, which has set a new bar for difficulty. EDGE, the game developers' gaming magazine, has called it "uncompromising"; playing it, they write, "involves a substantial, perhaps overwhelming, dose of maniacal bafflement." The more mainstream PC Gamer likens it to "an entrance exam for MIT." That doesn't sound very fun, but the point of the game isn't fun, exactly; it's more like fascination. David Anton, a player who's reviewed the game on the iTunes App Store, says it better than I ever could: "The sense of delight from solving what initially looks impossible," he writes, "is immeasurable."
Many games make a fetish out of difficulty. So-called "bullet hell" games, like Mushihimesama Bug Panic, fill the screen with enough deadly projectiles that responding to them intentionally becomes almost impossible. Other games, like Tetris, are built on a sense of mounting difficulty; they conjure it by limiting you to a certain quantity of space, which you must constantly clear of debris. Statistics-driven games, such as the widely acclaimed Infinity Blade, ask players to "grind," repeating the same battles over and over at ever-increasing levels of difficulty, like weightlifters working out at a gym. And some games are so hard that they turn difficulty into a nearly aesthetic experience: The Impossible Game, by the developer FlukeDude, is so impossible that playing it becomes absurdly, even heroically pointless. It's an iPhone-sized embodiment of Beckett's famous exhortation: "Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
In most of these games, you can overcome the difficulty through a combination of practice and persistence. Not so in English Country Tune, which offers up an unusually abstract and mathematical kind of difficulty. The game unfolds on a three-dimensional shape, which is floating in space and built up out of stacked cubes. (Many levels look like floating ziggurats or parking garages.) You control a small blue paddle which flips from one cube-surface to another; you can flip the paddle to motor along the surface of the shape by swiping with one finger, or rotate the shape using two.
Using this basic setup, the game presents you with an ever-evolving variety of puzzles. There are no time limits, and no instructions—you have as long as you want to figure things out intuitively. The genius of the game is that few of the puzzles have analogues in the real, physical world. You're not dodging bullets, jumping between platforms, or stacking blocks in a bin. Instead, you must figure out how to maneuver small spheres, called "larvae," into little boxes, by taking advantage of the fact that the force of gravity is not absolute but relative to the direction in which your paddle is moving. (By paddling a sphere from different directions, you can change the gravity that applies to it.)
On other levels, when your paddle leaves a surface, a little shrub springs up; you must completely cover all sides of the three-dimensional shape in these shrubs. (Corners are a challenge, as is the elusive final shrub.) Sometimes these puzzles are layered over one another in combination. A ridiculously difficult later level is based on the shrub premise, but requires you to design a three-dimensional shape of your own which, when covered, will fully "insulate" a still larger shape. This goal wasn't explained; when I figured out what the game was asking me to do, I felt actual disbelief—the kind you feel when, after you've tested out of regular math, your teacher hands you your first real, advanced math test. "You can't be serious," you think. But English Country Tune is very, very serious; it wants you to think like a mathematician, to feel your way forward with instincts about spatial relationships which you didn't know you had.
On console gaming systems like the PlayStation 3, developers are outdoing themselves to create ever more lavish, "Avatar"-like experiences. English Country Tune's developer, an Englishman named Stephen Lavelle, has taken the opposite approach. English Country Tune makes no concessions to conventional ideas of video-game beauty. The colors clash; the font is deliberately ugly; the soundtrack is ambient and unsettling; as the shrubs spring up, they make discordant little bleeps. It's as if Lavelle took the look of Tetris and brought it to its logical conclusion, which, it turns out, is the video-game equivalent of architectural Brutalism. I gave the game to a friend, Mike Mitchell, who's an architect. "You really get in the zone when the patterns come into focus," he told me, but "I'm not sure how long I'd want to spend in this environment. It's very austere."
Lavelle, who is a genuine auteur of the puzzle game, clearly enjoys the purity created by English Country Tune's austerity: if you're going to play it, it will be for the ideas, not for the pretty colors or fun music. (In interviews, he's expressed admiration for SpaceChem, another brilliant game which is, if it's possible, even more austere: it's about synthesizing chemical compounds, and its interface is essentially a flowchart.) But, as its name suggests, English Country Tune is a little self-consciously confrontational, too.
Lavelle develops games under the label Increpare, and, over the past several years, he's posted a hundred and seventy-one games to the Increpare Web site. (The most recent game was posted on February 26th.) All of them are challenging and ingenious, and many are mordantly funny. In one, Snowdrift, you play a little boy sent out to collect firewood by your parents; it starts to get dark, and you have to find your way back, blinded by snow, to the family cabin before you freeze to death. After you die, you can "click to begin" again. Another game, Queue, is entirely text-based. You play a young, impoverished artist waiting in line to apply for welfare. When you arrive, the number 156 is displayed at the top of the screen; you must wait several minutes until your number, 188, comes up. Throughout, you are harassed by talkative neighbors and intrusive security guards who want to know if that's your bag under the seat. When an employee at the welfare center asks, "Are you unemployed as well?," you press X to say yes.
These games are more narrative than English Country Tune. But English Country Tune shares with Lavelle's other games a sense of timing and progression, and, in its own way, a sense of humor. There's genuine artfulness and sensitivity in the way its new puzzles are always just beyond your reach; Lavelle shows how spatial ideas can surprise, just like narrative ones. And there's even a humor in the game's austerity. Who knew, it seems to ask, that your mind could be at home in such strange places?


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Could you grow food for your family for $25?
While some victory gardeners are thinking green (growing your own food saves fossil fuels from transportation and commercial agriculture, protects genetic diversity, gives food for the bees, and saves resources formerly used for unproductive landscaping), in this economy, many gardeners are thinking only about cash, and saving it.
The gardeners-in-chief behind Kitchen Gardeners International found that, for a $280 investment, their garden yielded upwards of $2,000 in delicious, local organic produce ($2196.50 to $2548.93, not counting pumpkins they used for jack-o-lanterns, grapes that were made into jam, or snacks sneaked directly from the garden). That sounds like a lot of bang for your buck, yes? Yes!
But Joe Lamp'l, also known as Joe Gardener, went further. After making a bold statement on Twitter, he jumped in feet-first and backed it up with an entire challenge/campaign promise: he would grow a victory garden-style plot of vegetables, enough to feed his family of four for the summer, and he wouldn't spend more than $25 to get it going. On seeds, compost, fertilizer, the whole bit. He said he'd "charge" his home-grown compost to his $25 tab so as not to use anything a first-timer couldn't also use. (Here's the Facebook group if you're way into the concept.)
While this goal is admirable, I wonder if it's easily replicated. Joe has a lot of resources available to him that aren't available to the common man (for one, his large internet audience eager to give him some seeds; I don't know how using his platform to obtain things is any different than using something from his stash. But whatever!). But perhaps, through an impossible challenge, serendipity is found; Liz at Hyperlocavore has started a seed sharing group for the common, everyday, non-famous guy to get a few tomato and lettuce seeds from those whose seed stash overflows.
As for me, I'm definitely into the concept of growing food for my own family and saving big dollars. But I've already blown through $25 and then some this year; I think I'm up to $50 in seeds and plants, and I have $40 in seed potatoes and assorted other goodies circled in my favorite seed catalog. And my six-year-old is begging me for kiwi vines, which I'm averse to refusing (twice the vitamin C of oranges, dontcha know!). I'd be into the $250 victory garden challenge; still a huge savings over the $250 per month I spend in farmer's market produce during the summer in lean garden years.
Is a $25 challenge a worthwhile, inspirational goal? A punishingly simplified take on growing food? A reality given most Americans' terrifically insufficient consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits? What do you think? If you grow your food, how much each year do you spend?


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Spring Sephora Wishlist
- I'm getting the tell-tale pre-cold sore throat. Ugh.
- Tyler & I are planning a new vlog to shoot!
- Cupcake has been bouncing between being super sweet & acting out since we've come home from our little trip.
- I was dressed by Dave the clown today on the morning show... see my FOTD.


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LONDON, March 24 (UPI) -- An unusually cold and persistent winter in Britain may have caused more than 4,000 extra deaths, the Office of National Statistics said.
Michelle Mitchell, the director general of Age UK, a charity for the elderly, said approximately 26,000 people die needlessly each winter.
"Colder, harsher winters tend to lead to an increase in life-threatening conditions such as heart attacks and strokes which in turn leads to a high rate of excess winter deaths," she said. "For every one degree drop in average temperature, there are around 8,000 extra deaths."
The Office of National Statistics showed there were 43,700 deaths registered in England and Wales in February, an increase of 2,891 compared to the average for the same month over the past five years. In the first week of March, there were an extra 1,265 deaths.
Roads, schools and airports were closed across Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England Friday and Saturday. Thousands of customers in Belfast and Scotland were without power as the storm dumped about a foot of snow throughout the region, The Sunday Telegraph reported.


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They welcomed joy back to their lives.
A lion's roar echoes through the night. Inside his tent, Hugo listens. One by one, the rest of the pride responds. Is Hugo afraid? No. He is ecstatic.
This is adventure. This is elation. This is Namibia
Hugo's journey began with a diagnosis of leukemia. He fought through it, rallied by the promise of a Make-A-Wish® experience … a wildlife-watching safari in Africa.
Make-A-Wish volunteers created an experience that could change Hugo's life. They arranged expeditions with expert guides. They spared no detail, left nothing to chance.
But it's up to Hugo to make the most of his 10-day voyage. And he does, from the moment he receives his boarding pass for 20 hours of intercontinental travel. He discovers the rush of sand boarding down the towering dunes of the Namib Desert. He bonds with a cheetah at a wildlife preserve. His camera captures the sights of the Skeleton Coast and its wild elephants, giraffes and rhinos.
When Hugo returns to his home in New York, he is a different person. He's a traveler – inquisitive and optimistic.
His trip was a celebration. Hugo and his family said good-bye to his worries about leukemia. They welcomed joy back to their lives.
That's the true power of a Make-A-Wish experience.
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Your miles can help grant a wish for a local child.
WOW! What a great wish! It is so good that Hugo and his family could have a break from the rigors of his healthcare and illness. It's not easy for any child or family to go through such a thing, and I say this from experience. The best thing any family can do is stay very optimistic and stick together, because it's a long hard road to recovery and you all have to travel it together. Good Luck Hugo & Family! I am glad you all had a good time!
May 10, 2007 - 12:04 PM
Go Hugo! The world is yours! I'm cheering for you! WOW!!! An African safari, doing what you love best. I'm inspired!
May 27, 2007 - 10:40 AM
You are my inspiration! My 12 year old daughter has AML. I am glad you got your wish. Kelly has a cat too, but not as big as the one you are petting in the picture.
July 20, 2007 - 6:32 PM
June 25, 2012 - 11:25 AM
What an epic adventure!!! Our son just got back from his a couple of months ago and it too was an epic adventure. Blessings to you and your family!
August 09, 2013 - 1:49 PM
Brande N.
That is amazing! Our little boy has just been granted acceptance for a wish, deciding what he wants to do…He LOVES giraffes. There is a Giraffe Manor in Africa where they are everywhere… thinking he'll want to ask a trip there! ;)
December 23, 2013 - 11:13 AM
Wow that's amazing. I have A.L.L. leukemia and that's something i'd love to do.
July 20, 2014 - 6:43 PM
This is so amazing, I'm so happy Hugo got to do this. Thank you for this amazing opportunity. I appreciate all this program does. Amazing!
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What a wonderful WISH!
April 15, 2015 - 8:59 AM
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What was I doing, taking photos of plots of grass, leaves and weeds?
Well, while these photos may not look much to some people, they mean a lot to me and my family. They are the plots where some of my ancestors ended up, after long and sometimes short lives on this earth. The lack of a headstone, although disappointing for the genealogist in 2013, doesn't diminish the value of their lives. For this reason, I still want to remember them and mark the spot where they were laid to rest, although it doesn't look that interesting.
Yesterday, we visited about ten or so graves, most of them without headstones.
So, for the record, here are a couple of the gravestones and gravesites we found on our visit to Rookwood cemetery yesterday.
James Walter KINGSBURY (1867-1945)My great-grandfather, James Walter KINGSBURY's grave has no gravestone but here is where is gravesite is located in the Roman Catholic Section Graves in Mortuary 2 Section, Area 17, grave no. 142.
James Walter KINGSBURY
John Joseph WALTERS (1871-1935) and Margaret WALTERS, nee FLEMING (1866-1939)My great-grandparents, John Joseph and Margaret WALTERS, are buried in the same grave: in the Roman Catholic Section Graves in Mortuary 2 Section, Area 14, grave no. 1551. They do not have a gravestone on their grave but here is their gravesite:
John and Margaret WALTERS
Thanks to my Mum for coming along with me today for yet another full day of cemetery searching at Rookwood cemetery. The people above are her grandparents.


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Dry ingredients:
1 3/4 C. Flour
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1 t baking soda
Wet ingredients:
2 medium bananas (smashed)
2 eggs
1/2 C. vegetable oil
1 t vanilla
1/3 C. plus 1T buttermilk
1 cup walnuts
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix dry ingredients together, in one bowl and wet ingredients together in different bowl. Mix together both mixtures. Fold in walnuts.
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Continuing our on-going Agenda coverage, seen here are two new signature styles from Gravis rider Dylan Rieder. The Dylan Slip-On (above) takes his original "dress skate shoe" and tones it down to a more standard skate style with a vulc sole and canvas upper - though the lace-up silhouette that set it apart in the first place still rings through.
The Rieder (after the jump) is Dylan's interpretation of a casual loafer. This all new style is featured in suede and outfitted with the same sole unit as the original Dylan pro shoe. Peep the razor blade accent. Watch for both these styles come Fall 2010.
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David and Victoria Beckham are expecting their fourth child together. Beckham says they're really happy it's not a boy again because they already have three of those.
"We're still in shock. Obviously, having three boys, you kind of expect another one, so finding out a little girl is in there is surprising, but, obviously, we are over the moon," he added. "Our three boys are happy and excited, and Victoria is doing well."
In February, Victoria said she had no preference for the sex of her child, but we can only assume if this one hadn't been a girl, they would've thrown a few more quarters into the machine to see if they could get the sparkly pink one in the display case. [People]
- How DARE young actors Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake flirt with each other when he just broke up with Jessica Biel? You'd think young Hollywood actors would realize that standard protocol for celebrity break-ups obviously includes wearing all black, never leaving your house, and looking like you're fine, no, really, you're fine for no less than three days. [Daily Mail]
- Baz Luhrmann doesn't want to talk about The Great Gatsby remake, okay? He just wants to talk about this little out of the way pizza place in Bushwick where they grow their own organics and his kids just love it and also have you had grape tomatoes? They're really very good. Look, sigh, yes, I'm doing a remake of The Great Gatsby. Can we move on to how much I love those pens with little erasers on them for when you're writing something and you make a mistake and you're like "uh oh" but then you can erase it? [NY Mag]
- Stars are lining up to perform in a concert honoring George H. W. Bush for some reason. [Daily Express]
- Lady Gaga is selling prayer bracelets for Japan. [Contact Music]
- Gwen Stefani worries her kids might grow up to be assholes. [Contact Music]
- Chuckles apparently thinks he's Conan O'brien now. [Daily Mail]
- Cee Lo wasn't sure if you were aware of how much sex he's having. Hint: it's more than you're having. [Digital Spy]
- 14-year-old Kickass star Chloe Moretz says she'll probably get plastic surgery since her Dad is a plastic surgeon. Ohhh, okay. If that's why. [Contact Music]
- School Of Rock star Jack Black sends a bunch of down on their luck kid musicians to Disneyland, is not a film (yet). [TMZ]
- Aretha Franklin can't stop talking about the surgery she didn't have. [Showbiz Spy]
- Survivor winner Richard Hatch is going to jail, is a little bit like the Hurley of Survivor. [MSNBC]
- The National Enquirer pretty sure Beyonce thinks Lagy Gaga is "tacky". No, really. They're almost positive. [Celebitchy]
- Jersey Shore's The Situation makes "hilarious" racist joke that Snoop Dogg just didn't "get" for some reason. [Bossip]
- Corey Haim's Mom says she pretends her son is still alive. [Contact Music]


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To help people overcome almost a century of hatred and mistrust, the Government of the Republic of Namibia adopted the policy of National Reconciliation shortly after independence. National reconciliation was considered the only realistic policy for cultivating a national ethos in a society that was for over a century racially and ethnically stratified.
The policy of Affirmative Action that was also adopted shortly after independence has largely removed the inherited inequity in access to opportunities in a once divided society.
Since the country gained independence in 1990, great strides have been made in promoting unity, nation-building and socio-economic development. Apartheid laws have been repealed and provision has been made for the protection and upholding of fundamental human rights in the Namibian society. Access to health services and education has improved and Namibians play an increasing role in the country's fisheries and mining sectors through the economic empowerment of the Namibian people by granting them fishing quotas and mining concessions.
The challenge that remains for the nation is to join hands and march forward in unity. Although there will be difficulties along the way, Namibians will persevere and with hard work and as a united nation we shall conquer every challenge and overcome every obstacle.


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Lady Wolverines Advance In Regional Tournament Action
WEST?BEND – The Lady Wolverines of West Bend-Mallard continued their post season campaign Tuesday night with a 3-1 victory over North Iowa in Class 1A Tournament play. Game scores were 24-26, 25-13, 25-11 and 25-17.
Wolverines struggled at times and North Iowa was a scrappy team making WBM earn most of their points.
For the Lady Wolverines, Kayla Banwart dig out 16 shots and completed 21 of 21 serves with three aces on the night, while teammate Courtney Bargman added 11 of 12 hits with one kill, along with digging out seven shots and handing out 34 assists to her teammates. Bargman also added three solo blocks and four assisted blocks and made 10 of 11 serves with one ace.
Emily Bormann would come away with 10 of 13 hits and three kills and blocked three shots at the net.
Heather Fehr would 29 of 35 hits with nine kills and made one assist, while assisting on two blocks. Fehr also added 10 of 10 serves with one ace on the night.
McKenzie Grimm would complete 25 of 39 hits with six kills, dug out eight shots and handed out a pair of assists while assisting on two blocks and stopping five shots at the net. Grimm would also connect on 19 of 21 serves with two aces.
Sam Hartman made eight of 12 hits with five kills and added two assists. Hartman assisted on a pair of blocks as well in the match.
Ashley Schmidt would make 22 o28 hits with 11 kills and dug out five shots with one assist. Schmidt also completed 18 of 19 serves with an ace to her credit and rounding out the Lady Wolverines efforts was Jennalyn Thul with seven digs and 11 of 13 serves.
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We expect 4chan to be a good place to meet bronies and possible sexual deviants, but not a place to get reasonable car-buying recommendations. It turns out their advice is actually not terrible.
We found this list on Reddit where everyone proceeded to weep about their drift Nissan and point out that the Jalopnik list would be nothing but Miatas.
Probably true.
We did update the list but went sensible instead, filling in the Elantra over the Civic, because we don't recommend the 2012 Civic to anyone. Maybe the 2013 Civic will be better. Also, they don't build the Cobalt anymore.
The same place that brought us b/tards gave out sensible car advice. Given how every other car forum gives the exact same advice, always, we're genuinely surprised.
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- Staff
- 2006 26 Dec
When Annabelle Robertson began writing for Crosswalk in January of 2004, the award-winning journalist, seminary graduate and attorney had no idea that just three years later, she would also be a published author.
During the course of her twelve year marriage, Annabelle had often assisted her husband, a hospital-turned-Air Force chaplain, with weddings and premarital counseling. So she had seen firsthand the frustration that tends to plague newlywed couples. Finally, after years of dispensing advice – and watching far too many marriages fall apart – she decided to compile it into a book.
The result is "The Southern Girl's Guide to Surviving the Newlywed Years: How to Stay Sane Once You've Caught Your Man" (Penguin/NAL), a hilarious marriage manual that has just been honored with the 2006 USA Best Book Award for humor. Annabelle, who is about to launch her southeastern book tour, is being hailed as the "Erma Bombeck of the South." But this Christian author is about far more than just laughs. She's on a mission to help married couples beat the odds.
We recently spoke with her about newlyweds, marriage and what it means to spread truth in an increasingly secular culture.
Why is your book called "The Southern Girl's Guide"?
I come from a long line of Southern Girls, who tend to be sassy and smart. We tell it like it is, with a heaping dose of humor. But my book is for anyone who's ever been married or who intends to marry – no matter where you're from. The Southern part is just who I am.
Why marriage?
Marriage defines us both individually and culturally. Statistics indicate that 85 to 90 percent of all Americans will eventually marry, and 75 percent will do so before their 35th birthday. In fact, a mere 8 percent of American women consider remaining single ideal – a proportion that hasn't changed during the past twenty years.
Yet, as many as 65 percent of new marriages don't survive. The number of divorced adults quadrupled from 4.3 million in 1970 to 17.4 million in 1994, and "divorced persons" is the fastest growing marital status category in the country. Many of those marriages end during the first 3 to 5 years. In fact, the median length of marriage before divorce for first marriages among women aged 25 to 29 is just 3.4 years. Clearly, staying married is one of the most difficult tasks we face.
Why is that?
Basically, we're sinful, wounded people. We sin, but we've also been sinned against. So when the "honeymoon high" wears off, usually about four months after the wedding, marriage tends to become a boxing ring for all of our unresolved emotional issues.
Secondly, I'm concerned that the church is not adequately preparing couples for marriage. Everyone talks about how wonderful and romantic it is. But no one comes right out and says that sometimes, being married is a bit like staying at a Motel 6, three blocks from the beach, when you've been expecting a waterfront suite at the Ritz-Carlton your whole life. It's way better than being at work, but you won't be getting any monogrammed bathrobes.
What is the biggest hurdle for newlyweds?
Unrealistic expectations. When I was engaged, I remember feeling incredulous after a married friend told me that she and her husband fought over toothpaste, toilet paper and where the food went in the refrigerator. Those things were a cliché! My beloved and I would never argue over something as stupid as the correct way to extract toothpaste. On the rare occasion when we did disagree, it would be over important things – problems of great significance.
Well, I'm here to report that after more than 12 years of marriage, Mark and I have never once argued over the toothpaste, the toilet paper or the refrigerator. When we argue, we argue over problems of truly great significance – like the dishwasher (correct way to load it), the kitchen sink (staying dirty) and the laundry (not getting folded).
Despite the humorous tone of the book, you give a lot of practical advice.
Absolutely. There are ways to keep your sanity in a marriage, but it's not by griping, complaining, nagging or yelling. Trust me. I've tried them all, and they just make a man more entrenched in his bad habits. Women have to dial into the male psyche and get creative.
Can you give us an example?
Well, I've tried to cover every area of married life with conflict potential. For example, I start with the home because, unless your decorating tastes lean toward Superheroes or the NFL greats, there's about as much chance as a blizzard in Biloxi that you and your new husband are going to agree on furnishings. After all, what does someone who enjoys color, style and harmony have in common with someone who keeps dumbbells in the dining room?
What's the solution?
The challenge is to help a man understand that, when it comes to decorating, his home is not his castle. I don't know who said that, but they were wrong. A man might own the castle, pay the mortgage on the castle and even be required to clean the castle, but he is not allowed to decorate the castle. Except for the "male" rooms, of course, where he can exercise full sovereignty. Meaning, the garage, the attic, the basement and the backyard – basically, any area that does not have central heat or air conditioning.
What about his stuff?
I suggest a color-coded disposal system. Red stickers for those things you'll throw out before the move; orange for what you intend to lose (or break) during the move; and, green for the items you intend to keep temporarily.
Any other tips?
Sure. Everything from husbands and hygiene to food; mothers-in-law; spending time together; conflict resolution and my personal favorite, the "no-fail method of motivating a man to do housework."
Whoa! How do you do that?
With rewards. The kind of rewards men enjoy.
But isn't that sexist?
No, darlin'. After all, you're married, aren't you? That's what married couples do – especially when the wife doesn't have to worry about vacuuming. And listen, men love this stuff. I strongly suspect that far more men are buying my books than women. Again, it's about understanding male motivation – which is very, very different from ours.
Have you always been funny?
Humor is so Southern. And everyone in my family is hilarious. My mother should have been on stage. And her brother, my uncle Charlie, is one of the funniest guys I know. So are my siblings. I come by it naturally, I guess.
How did you get your book published?
I first spent about 10 years teaching myself to write. I read dozens of writing books, wrote short stories and attended writer's conferences and writer's groups. I then wrote (and rewrote, and rewrote – because that's what it takes) a full-length novel, which a few agents asked to see. None offered to represent me, however. Finally, after I came up with the idea for "The Southern Girl's Guide," everything clicked into place. I got an agent and three major publishing houses bid against each other for the rights, at auction. It took ten years, though. Not exactly an overnight success.
Why did you opt for a non-Christian publisher?
When I first went to seminary, I believed that everything Christians said and did should preach the gospel – intentionally, overtly and without shame. That was my interpretation of Paul's statement, Philippians 1:21 so that's what I did. As a result, God put seekers in my path. In taxis, on the ski slopes, in the grocery store – you name it – I shared the gospel. And, as I look back on those people who committed their lives to Christ with me, I am filled with a deep, inexplicable joy that can only come from seeing someone ushered into the kingdom.
As I grew older, however, I realized that there was another audience. Non-Christians who had never understood a syllable of the "Christianese" we so often lapse into. Atheists. Agnostics. New Agers. Nominal Christians who, like me, had grown up attending church without ever connecting to the message. These weren't seekers who would walk into a Christian bookstore, looking for answers. They would, however, go into a Barnes & Noble. I wanted to be there when they did.
So is your book Christian?
Absolutely. I'm a deeply committed Christian, so everything I write is Christian – and I uphold Scripture throughout. But I don't preach. There's a wonderful place for preaching – the pulpit – and many people, like my husband, excel at it. Books are another art form entirely, however, and to violate that medium leads, in my opinion, to bad art. If we're faithful to the gifts God gives us – and to Jesus' commands – a message of freedom will flow and God's kingdom will be extended. For some reason, however, the Christian community tends to put the message over the art form. We justify it by saying it's biblical, but even Jesus didn't do that.
What do you mean?
In Matthew 13, Jesus shares the Parable of the Sower. When he's finished, his disciples say (from The Message), "Why do you tell stories?" Jesus replies, "You've been given insight into God's kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn't been given to them. Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely. But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears. That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight."
People will find truth in my book, if they are seeking it. They'll realize that they are not alone, and that we all struggle to love one another, despite our crazy male and female idiosyncrasies. They'll find a reason to work through their marriage problems and stay married. The very last line of my book reads, "So stay sweet, y'all – and stay married. We Southern Girls are counting on you." That's my mission. And even if I help just one couple, I'll know that I've accomplished God's work.
For more information about "The Southern Girl's Guide to Surviving the Newlywed Years: How to Stay Sane Once You've Caught Your Man" and to watch a video of Annabelle Robertson, please visit www.SouthernGirlsGuide.com.
To read Annabelle's blog in Crosswalk Weblogs, please click here.


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Paris Hilton fascinated by Indian fashion
International socialite Paris Hilton, who is set to spin the disc as a DJ on the last day of India Resort Fashion Week (IRFW), says she has always been a huge fan of Indian fashion and will walk the ramp for finale designer Shane and Falguni Peacock late Saturday.
"I was always fascinated by Indian fashion and whenever I visit, I make sure to buy something for myself. Last time it was sari that I tried and this time I am walking for Shane and Falguni's show at the fashion event," Hilton said, while addressing the media here. She wore a wide-slit printed dress by the designer duo.
This is Hilton's second visit to India. She visited the country last year to launch her range of handbags and accessories.
The 31-year-old is set to sashay down the Indian ramp for the first time in Shane and Falguni Peacock's creations during the ongoing India Resort Fashion Week Saturday.
"I love their (Shane and Falguni Peacock) designs and this is the reason why I am walking for them. Since my childhood, I was accompanied by my mom to several fashion weeks and that is when I started getting used to fashion. I love everything that is beautiful and this is the reason why I love India for its vivacious and bright colours and designs," she told IANS.
Apart from catwalk, Hilton is looking forward to her performance Saturday and says she has a bag full of surprises for her Indian fans. She has been brought to India by E-sense Entertainment.
"I am playing electronic, pop and some fun music that I have remixed myself. I am excited to perform in the country that has huge music lovers. Obviously there are some surprises in store but for that you have to wait and watch," she said.
Hilton also took some time out for shopping.
"I went to spice market and bought some spices. I love Indian food. I also bought trinkets from the local market here for my family and they are just beautiful," she said. - IANS


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Committee Members, 2004-2006
Questions, comments, and correspondence for NACMCF Members should be sent through the Executive Secretariat Office. Please note that this is a list of past committee members; contact information may no longer be accurate.
Dr. David Acheson
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration/CFSAN
College Park, MD
Dr. Gary Ades
Bentonville, AR
Dr. Larry Beuchat
Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement
University of Georgia
Griffin, GA
Dr. Kathryn Boor
Food Science Department
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Dr. Scott Brooks
Food Safety Net Services
San Antonio, TX
Dr. Peggy Cook
Safe Foods Corporation
Rogers, AR
Dr. Daniel Engeljohn
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Washington, DC
Dr. Timothy Freier
Cargill, Inc.
Wayzata, MN
Mr. Spencer Garrett
U.S. Department of Commerce
National Marine Fisheries Service
Pascagoula, MS
Dr. Patricia Griffin
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Dr. Linda Harris
Department of Food Science and Technology
University of California
Davis, CA
Dr. Walt Hill
Institute for Environmental Health
Seattle, WA
Dr. Michael Jahncke
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University/VSAREC
Hampton, VA
Dr. Lee-Ann Jaykus
Food Science Department
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
LTC Robin King
U.S. Army Veterinary Corps
Northeast District Veterinary Command
Ft. Monmouth, NJ
Ms. Barbara Kowalcyk
Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP)
Mount Horeb, WI
Dr. John Kvenberg
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration/CFSAN (Retired)
Woodbridge, VA
Dr. Joseph Madden
Neogen Corporation
Lansing, MI
Dr. Alejandro Mazzotta
McDonald's Corporation
Oak Brook, IL
Dr. Ann Marie McNamara
Silliker Inc.
Homewood, IL
Dr. Jianghong Meng
Department of Nutrition and Food Science
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Dr. Dale Morse
New York State Department of Health
Albany, NY
Dr. Eli Perencevich
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Ms. Angela Ruple
U.S. Department of Commerce
National Seafood Inspection Laboratory
Pascagoula, MS
Dr. Donald Schaffner
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
Ms. Virginia (Jenny) Scott
Food Products Association
Washington, DC
Dr. John Sofos
Department of Animal Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
Dr. Sterling Thompson
Hershey Foods Corporation
Hershey, PA
Dr. Irene Wesley
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
National Animal Disease Center
Ames, IA
Dr. Donald Zink
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration/CFSAN
College Park, MD


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Yang's Tale: Family Matters
In the beginning, you're in the castle, and shouldn't hesitate to explore. There are items in chests and pots alike, along with stores to browse about. When you've bought a few Potions and have had your fill, head to the Throne Room, which is in the north center of the castle.
Talk with everyone, then step on the suspicious looking floor tile in the northeast nook. This opens a secret passage that leads to loot. Take it, then depart to the west-northwest to reach Mount Hobs.
Speaking of delicate creatures, the monks' Kick attack will hit everything at once. When it comes to dispatching weak foes like goblins, what could be better?
Climb northward—gathering goods along the way—till you reach the Save Point. Use it, then proceed. After finding Ursula, familiarize yourself with her wound-mending Chakra ability, as it will keep your companions well. When the bombs are done for, return to the East Vista, record your progress again, and carry on.
Following the spiraling area, there's another Save Point to be enjoyed in an area to the west. Keep making your way southward until you find a fellow selling goods. By now, you should've racked up a respectable amount of gil. Buy Hi-Potions and Phoenix Downs, and a few status effect remedies. From there, continue descending until you've exited Mount Hobs.
To the left, there's the very crater you set out to find.
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Emily is struggling to deal not only with the loss of Maya, but the knowledge that someone drugged her "that night" and how that has now affected Paige. Going to make amends with Paige and try to explain the drugged flask ends up leading Emily to more insight of what she did "that night." Also trying to help Emily out, Spencer turns to Caleb to help crack into a website that might hold answers for them all.
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Police: NY man confesses to killing 3 women
Detectives hoping to finally arrest a suspect in a 19-year-old killing in New York City didn't find him when they went to his apartment this week. But they made another shocking discovery: the body of a woman who had been stabbed nine times in the chest.
Once he was located, Lucius Crawford further surprised investigators by confessing to killing the 42-year-old woman found in his Mount Vernon, N.Y., home, along with two other victims in 1993, police said Wednesday. The carnage fit a horrific pattern of violence against women that began in South Carolina in the 1970s.
The 60-year-old ex-con told police that he "has anger issues and he did in fact murder this young lady and that he has done this in the past," Mount Vernon police Commissioner Carl Bell said at a news conference. "He focuses his attacks on young women. He befriends them and at some point he ends up either attacking them or killing them."
The mayor's office identified the woman as Tanya Simmons. Police offered no information about her background or the circumstances and timing of her death.
Crawford was arraigned on the murder charge and sent to the Westchester County jail pending another court session Monday. The name of his attorney wasn't immediately available.
Because of his history, the New York Police Department notified detectives investigating the still-unsolved killings of several women and others found in the past two years on Long Island. The Suffolk County Police said in a statement Wednesday that "there does not appear to be any reason to suspect Crawford" in those slayings.
According to police, Crawford went on a four-day stabbing spree in Charleston, S.C., in 1973. In each instance, he would approach women and try to talk to them before cutting their arms or legs.
He served a prison term for the stabbings but was at it again in 1977. Over a five-day span, he stabbed five women, ages 14 to 28, on the streets of Charleston. There was another prison term followed by an assault on his ex-girlfriend in 1991 and an arrest for stabbing a woman he worked with in Westchester, north of New York City, after she rebuffed his advances, police said.
Crawford was on parole after serving 13 years for the Westchester stabbing when the NYPD began reinvestigating the unsolved killing in October 1993 of a Bronx woman by someone who stabbed her several times and crushed her skull. Detectives ran biological evidence against a DNA database and got a match on Crawford, police said.
The NYPD investigators also learned that Crawford was being eyed in another cold case: the September 1993 stabbing death of a woman in Yonkers.
Detectives from New York and Yonkers went to Crawford's apartment on Tuesday with his parole officer. When there was no answer, the parole officer let them into the apartment. Along with the body, they found an electronic ankle bracelet used for monitoring parolees, which had been cut off and cast aside, police said.
Crawford was captured about three hours later on a nearby street corner.
Hays reported from New York City. Associated Press Writer Frank Eltman in Mineola, N.Y., contributed to this report.


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Hicks gives Twins storybook ending
Bases loaded. Two outs. Full count. It's all tied up in the deciding game of a championship series, and the batter -- sitting dead-red on a fastball -- gets one and sends it into the stands for a walk-off grand slam.
It's the kind of cliché ending most movies wouldn't even get away with, and yet there was D.J. Hicks on Monday night, making it a reality.
A night after leading off the bottom of the 11th with a single and later scoring the winning run to keep Rookie-level Elizabethton alive in the Appalachian League Finals, the first baseman hit a walk-off grand slam in the 12th to beat Burlington, 10-6, and capture the Twins' fifth crown in the past 10 years.
"That felt great, that's probably one of the best feelings so far in my quick professional career," said Hicks. "It was a full count, he threw a fastball -- probably middle-away. Earlier in the game, I'd been rolling over on everything. This time I stayed back and took it [opposite way]. ... I had no doubt it was going out.
"[The reaction] was crazy, I think I barely even got to first base. We'd been building up the whole game to celebrate like that."
It didn't appear the Twins would get the chance to have that kind of ending at first. The Royals pushed across four runs in the fourth and sent in John Walter to close out the series in the bottom of the ninth with a 6-1 lead.
Jhonatan Arias and Romy Jimenez walked to lead off the inning. Two outs later, Max Kepler loaded the bases. Hicks was hit by a pitch to bring Arias in and a wild pitch scored Jimenez. Now down, 6-3, Adam Walker delivered a three-run homer to bring Elizabethton back from the brink of elimination.
"I just knew I had a chance. I put a barrel on it and hit the ball hard and it went out," said Walker. "It was a great feeling to see all my teammates and the excitement on their faces. We believed we had a chance to tie it up and the energy and excitement from that gave us momentum. I gave my team a chance to win, and I'm just glad at the end of the day we came out on top."
The three-game Championship Series between the two teams proved worthy of the title. The Royals took the first game, 3-2, in 12 innings and the Twins responded Sunday with the 4-3 win in 11 frames to tie the series before Monday's dramatic finale.
"The intensity of the whole series was great. We had three extra-inning games. We did well throughout the year, and we all believed that we could get it done. And when it came down to it, we pulled it out," Walker said.
"Every game felt like it went until two in the morning, with the rain to overcome and then pulling it out late at home," added Hicks. "It's pretty special."
Hicks finished with five RBIs. Kepler went 2-for-4 with two runs, an RBI and three walks.
Jose Berrios started for the Twins, allowing four unearned runs on three hits and four walks while fanning seven over four innings. Reliever Brett Lee (1-1), who recorded the final two outs of the 12th, wound up with the win.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) -- Bleak forecasts for the global economy dominated Wednesday's opening of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, but business and government leaders were divided over the possibility of a global recession.
Delgates stroll throught the congress center of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The prospect of a major downturn was already on the agenda for the 2008 meeting that gathers some of the world's most powerful people, but the U.S. Federal Reserve's suprise 0.75 point rate cut move to calm turbulent markets placed it under fresh scrutiny.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said he expected financial concerns to dominate the talks.
"I think the context in which Davos takes place, especially with so many leading people from the business and finance world, it is bound to be dominated by the situation in the world economy," he told a press conference.
But Blair, who is co-chairing this year's meeting, said he hoped anxieties over the health of the world's economy would not detract from other key topics, including his own agenda of driving Middle East peace talks.
"One of the good things about Davos is people are able to look beyond the immediate," he said.
Financial concerns and Washington's role in shaping the world's financial future are already on the agenda at the five-day meeting, where one of the key questions this year will be: "If America sneezes, does the world still catch a cold?"
Soaring oil prices, the falling dollar, rising food prices, trade imbalances and a tide of protectionism have added to the broad economic woes linked to the slowing the U.S. economy, and potentially the rest of the world.
Delivering a keynote speech U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured the audience that the United States "will remain an engine of economic growth".
Chevron, CEO David J. O'Reilly, another co-chair, said he believed the current crisis would not have any lasting affect.
"I think there is a degree of pessimism that belies what's happening really," he told reporters.
Others were more pessimistic, predicting a longer-term slump that could reach beyond U.S. borders.
Predicting a sharp downturn, World Bank head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told CNN: "I'm worried I think the slowdown is very sharp, we hope that the stimulus that has been given by the cut in interest rates by the Fed will help ward of hard times. Watch Okonjo-Iwela talk about her concerns. »
"I've certainly been in the 'hoping for a slowdown' category, but over the last week or so I think the psychology has shifted so I'm going into the recession category," Mark Gottfredson of financial strategists Bain and Company told CNN. Watch Gottfedson talk to CNN's Richard Quest. »
"I think at the moment it's too early to say if were going to have a recession in either the UK or continental Europe," Chris Giles, economics editor of the Financial Times told CNN.
"There's quite a lot of momentum in the economies yet, but there is a big risk and the risk is that what we've seen in financial markets and banks is there in trouble if they stop lending and that then brings the economy into more trouble and people start defaulting on their loans and you get a vicious circle.
"We won't know for six months if that will transpire but if it does it will be pretty ugly."
Sam Di Piazza, Global CEO for PricewaterhouseCoopers, added: "We still believe it's a slowdown, it's a close call... but the U.S. has a good chance of staying out of recession." See CNN's Recession-o-meter
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OTTAWA - A body has been found in the Parliament Hill office of NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.
Authorities say identification has been difficult because of the deteriorated condition of the corpse, which resembled broccoli.
OK, the "body" is just an artist's rendering of a fallen knight, uncovered during restoration work on the magnificent murals that adorn the upper walls of the official Opposition leader's office.
But it's nevertheless a finding of historic significance that adds to the mystique of an office already known for other peculiarities — most of which can be traced to its original occupant, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest-serving and most eccentric prime minister.
The dead knight has lain hidden for more than 70 years, his body obscured by salts leaching from the plaster into the paint. It was further disfigured by a sloppy effort in the late 1930s to restore the murals to their original glory.
"It looked like a mound of (green), a blob, or, as I call it, a broccoli head," said Wendy Baker, a conservator with Canadian Heritage's Canadian Conservation Institute who uncovered the body several weeks ago.
"I didn't know what it was. It was just bizarre."
The mural in question depicts a medieval, armoured knight wielding a sword. It had been so badly touched up that it was impossible to see that he was standing over the body of another knight — until Baker uncovered it.
"The figure lying prone was painted largely in green paint and was really impossible to interpret as anything," she said.
"When the over-paint came off, it became very evident immediately that it wasn't a stick of broccoli, it was actually a helmet (of a fallen knight). ... He's lying on his shield but even the shield was heavily over-painted.
"I had a colleague with me and I asked him over. I said, 'Ian, does that look like a body to you?' and he said, 'Yes, that's definitely a body.' So there we are. We have recovered a body in the leader of the Opposition's room."
Mulcair has been dining out on the story ever since, telling a lawyer friend recently that he'd been banished from his ornate, fourth-floor office, which sits directly above the prime minister's office in Parliament's Centre Block.
"It's all covered in polyethylene because they found a body," he told his suitably shocked friend.
Mulcair's desk and the office's intricately carved oak woodwork are in fact covered by protective plastic sheets while Baker and her colleagues are conducting the painstaking restoration work. However, the work, which began in 2008, is only carried out when the House of Commons is in recess so as not to unduly disturb the NDP leader.
Mulcair has enthusiastically steeped himself in the heritage of the room and "thought it was amazing" when the body was uncovered. If it crossed his mind initially that the corpse might be that of a recent Liberal occupant of the office, dispatched by a knife in the back, he's not saying.
"I'll just take that as a cue that we do have to show a lot of courage in these jobs," was all Mulcair would say on that subject.
David Monaghan, curator of the House of Commons, says the murals in the Opposition leader's office are the only genuine frescoes in Parliament, painted directly onto the wet plaster by Italian artist Attilio Pusterla when Centre Block was rebuilt after a fire destroyed the original building in 1916. Other murals in the building were painted on canvas and then affixed to the walls.
King moved into the office as Liberal leader in 1920, and was so taken with his new digs that he refused to move out even after becoming prime minister. He became keenly interested in the murals and was consulted by architect John A. Pearson on the themes to be portrayed.
According to King's diary, each mural, most involving Camelot-like scenes of knighthood, is meant to depict an attribute needed by a leader of the official Opposition: struggle, integrity, justice, fidelity, conciliation, watchfulness, fearlessness, vision and wisdom.
Fearlessness is the characteristic portrayed in the mural with the newly discovered body.
The sword-wielding knight "is defending either a fallen comrade or he has just dispatched someone and is facing another foe," speculated Baker.
Monaghan said the first interpretation is generally regarded as most likely.
The "vision" mural, Baker's latest restoration project, features what could be the homeliest angel ever painted. The angel vaguely resembles Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, in drag.
"I was really hoping she was over-painted so that she would improve her appearance (after restoration). But, no, unfortunately that's what it is," said Baker.
Historical references suggest the model for the angel was King's dead mother, with whom the leader famously communed through seances.
"King actually recommended that the face of his mother be used for the angel," said Monaghan, adding that the artist "apparently" acquiesced.
Commons historians have long wondered whether the visage of King's mother may also have been used as a model for the queen featured in the "justice" mural, but Monaghan said no historical evidence for that has been found. The queen is considerably more attractive than the angel.
Until now, the office's most famous feature was its secret door, which Monaghan said was installed at King's request to provide him an escape route from "unwanted visitors." A carved oak panel on one side of the office's enormous marble fireplace is actually a door that leads into a tiny chamber and another door to the outer corridor, conveniently located next to a staircase.
Since moving into the office last spring, Mulcair has found everyone is "fascinated" by the secret door.
"It's a great conversation piece," he said.
But that was before the body was found.
The office has fallen victim to political correctness over the years. Carved wooden plaques originally installed under each of the murals to identify the various leadership traits being depicted were removed in the 1960s, at John Diefenbaker's request, because they were inscribed only in English, according to Monaghan.
Two traits — moderation and toleration, which are painted directly onto the walls without any accompanying murals — were left since the words are the same in both French and English. Or in the case of toleration, arguably not a real word in either language. ("Artistic licence," says Monaghan.)
Fortunately, Diefenbaker did not see fit to ask that the British coat of arms, carved in wood over the main door of the office at time when Canada had no coat of arms of its own, also be removed. Mulcair noted that the motto under the coat of arms is also unilingual — entirely in French.
New plaques — bilingual ones, this time — are to eventually be installed under the murals. The objective, said Monaghan, is to return the ornate office as much as possible to its original state.
Public Works, which is overseeing the project, regards the work on the frescoes as a template for the massive renovation planned for the entire Centre Block, Monaghan said — ensuring not only that the crumbling building will continue to stand for years to come but will do so in all its historic glory, dead bodies and all.