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When we landed in São Paulo, Brazil, little did we know that we were in for a five-month journey through South America
Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part travelogue series on South America
A dismissive wave of the hand, a musical "Na da" follows every "Obrigada". It has a ring of "Don't be silly, saying your thanks and all — is that how you treat your friends?"
That was our first impression of Brazil, as we landed in São Paulo airport for a 5-month trip (we didn't know so at the time) through South America. Right from the staff at the airport, who guided us perfectly well without a word of English to the airport express bus, a girl who let us use her mobile phone at the metro station — like what's the big deal about giving your phone to two haggard (it was a 21-hour flight!) strangers, to Steven, who had agreed to host us in his home through the Couchsurfing network and was coming to pick us up at the metro station near his house.
A home to stay at and a family to stay with made it easy for us to absorb all the newness around. Also, the easy familiarity of São Paulo helped — a megapolis, the financial capital, home to 10 million and its fair share of the homeless — all the signs of "home" to anyone from Mumbai.
What wasn't familiar was the street art. A narrow winding street called Beco do Batman (Batman's alley — yeah, that's its name!) in Vila Madalena has walls after walls filled with some trippy work from artists all over Brazil. "They are not just artists, they are all moralists — all their work has a message", we were informed. Once an artist makes his work, that becomes his space, no one else can touch it!
While Beco do Batman itself is one big open air art gallery, all along it, are actual galleries exhibiting these artists' works. What an ecosystem for art to thrive — use the city space to create your art — and earn your livelihood doing it!
They call São Paulo the cultural capital of Brazil. Which shouldn't come as a surprise at all, considering one of the many museums (each day we'd hear of a new museum) is run by a bank! Brazil's oldest bank started Itaú Cultural, to preserve the bank's art collection and tell the story of Brazilian history.
They even have a museum for the Portuguese language. It isn't one of those starved for patrons rundown shack. A plush multi-storeyed facility, in Luz — the grand old railway (and now also the metro) station in São Paulo — with interactive digital displays, touch screen kiosks, and auditorium. We saw people turn teary eyed when works of the Brazilian writers and poets were being read out. Such a wonderful, in-touch-with-the-present solution for preserving the national language.
Liberdade is the Japanese neighbourhood (the highest population of Japanese, outside of Japan is in São Paulo!). We went for its popular weekend flea market. A sight we remember from that market is this: in one of the stalls in this Brazilian-Japanese neighbourhood, an African origin lady was selling idols of Lord Ganesh to the French tourists!
If São Paulo was cosmopolitan, Rio de Janeiro was international. Where else would you see people from across the world congregate on a platform to take selfies with the Christ? Christ the Redeemer, standing high above the Corcovado mountains with his arms spread out, seems to be telling Rio: 'Go on, live life to the fullest, I have your back'.
Or the Selaron steps, a colourful collage of what might be the biggest collection of tiles. These steps are covered with tiles from every country in the world. We wondered what we would find from India — and weren't surprised to see the Gods!
Our first visit to this city of sun and sand was a washout, however. It rained the entire week. All we got during that first visit was a glimpse of the Atlantic from the world famous beaches which make Rio de Janeiro world famous — Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon. The exclusivity of the beach facing properties also increases in this order.
While one end of this beach life was for the rich and famous, the other was where the local Carioca hung out. Men and women — from 7 to 70 — with fit, healthy bodies running on the beach in tiny shorts and tinier bikinis. Or using one of the many open-air gyms by the beaches. Or surfing and kiting. Even a yoga session. After which, you could energise yourself with a freshly made tapioca or a creamy chocolatey brigaderio. Even better — a bowl of sweet nutrition laden heaven — the açaí! And when done, rollerblade back home!
We didn't realise how much we had fallen in love with Rio, until we came back 4.5 months later, on our way out of South America. The moment we breathed in the air of Rio, it felt like we had come back home. We navigated the BRT system and the metro like we had always lived here. We were among the same friendly Cariocas, always eager to strike up a conversation; who, when asked for directions, made every possible effort to make sure you've got it right. Who dance wild on the streets of Lapa on a Saturday night — those girls with their stilettos and fast-paced samba with the potential to drive anyone crazy!
This time the weather didn't disappoint. Many hours were spent in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, getting our last bit of tan from South America.
We had come a long way when we came back into Rio — by our only flight in the 5 months we spent on this continent. By a four hour flight, over an aerial distance of 4000 km, from Manaus. It is the capital of the state of Amazonas. If you look at Google Maps, it'll show Amazonas covered in the darkest green. It is exactly what the name indicates — it is the Amazon rainforest.
Before getting to the Amazon, when we would look at the map of Brazil, Manaus would appear to be this city in the midst of the forest, far away from anywhere we knew how to reach. It felt like the remotest place we could get to.
Except that, we had got to Manaus, by a cargo boat, through the Amazon river. We had come from beyond the remote. After a few days in the cargo boats in the Peruvian Amazon, we had crossed the Amazonian border into Brazil. This was the remotest, laziest border crossing we had been to. A few more days in the cargo boats, and we had reached Manaus. So essentially, when we got to Manaus, we were coming back to civilisation — and to land — after a long long time.
The wonder of Manaus is based on numbers. It is a major port of South America. The goods imported into the port of Manaus go across the entire continent. And yet, this port is at a distance of 3000 km from the sea! In the heart of the Amazon. It is the farthest port from the sea, in the entire world.
The city itself, had no signs of the "Amazon rainforest" giveaway. Broad roads, flyovers, sprawling malls, commercial complexes, big hotels, and a sea river link — it has it all. To understand what this means — everything comes from over 3000 km away. By boat. Even now, Manaus doesn't have road connectivity much beyond the state of Amazonas.
It was the birthday of Manaus the day we got there. We knew we were back in Brazil, by the way the celebrations were on. People had gathered in the main square. Friends, families — children, grannies et al. A live band was performing. People were singing, dancing, talking, laughing, and drinking beer. Once we got a bottle of Skol and a glass of caipirinha in our hands, we were comfortable.
Manaus reeks of old money. In the early 1900s, the Amazon rubber industry was in boom and Manaus became home to many rubber barons. They built grand houses here. The public buildings in Manaus also reflect this grandeur.
The biggest symbol of this glory is Teatro Amazonas, the opera theatre. A guide giving us a tour of the theatre told us with great pride that it wasn't any less than the opera theatres of Europe. From the red cushioned seating, marble pillars, wooden stairs, and delicate carved mirrors — it was almost a paradox, seeing it all right in the middle of the forest (A fact well concealed by Manaus!).
A city that doesn't speak of old money is Curitiba, a city in the south of Brazil. It is a city which probably no one plans to visit. We ended up in Curitiba by a mishap. We had reached the São Paulo bus station after a blissful five days on an island. We wanted to head to the Iguaçu waterfalls, which straddle the Brazil-Argentina border. Visit the Iguaçu waterfalls, exit Brazil, and enter Argentina — that was our plan. It was 10 pm when we stood in the queue for tickets to Foz do Iguaçu, only to be told that the bus was full.
We had to go somewhere, why not head in the direction of Iguaçu waterfalls, to wherever the buses were available? Curitiba turned out to be this "wherever".
This was our chance to see a regular, non-touristy city in Brazil. At an altitude of 1000 meters, it is one of the highest places in Brazil, and the coldest it gets here. At 5 am, the city welcomed us with chilly pangs. A warm cafeteria, cups of coffee, and tickets to Foz do Iguaçu later, we deposited our bags in the cloak room and set out exploring the city.
Big red buses — that's the first thing we saw when we stepped out. Curitiba has one of the best public transport systems in the world. Spanning around 70 feet, with three compartments, they are the longest buses in the world. That, and urban planning — Curitiba is a textbook example for architecture students globally.
Public spaces are dominated by parks. On that crisp winter afternoon, we saw many locals come out for a run. Older people were using the open air gyms. These parks were all well maintained and clearly a huge part of the daily life of the Curitiba people. Gyms and yoga houses — they were everywhere we went that day. In Curitiba, people did take their fitness seriously!
Like the southern parts of Brazil, Curitiba is mainly "white". Parts of the city are old Italian and German neighbourhoods.
We had read that people here were less friendly than in northern Brazil. Hesitantly, we asked a group of people in the park about a bus we could take to get around. They discussed this among themselves. Then a lady who knew the bus, walked us to the bus stop, waited for the bus to come, gave instructions to the driver, told us what to tell him in Portuguese (just in case we needed to communicate), and waved us good bye only after we were safely in the bus!
If this is less friendly, well, we'll take less friendly!
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Opinion analysis: California's timeliness rule is an adequate state ground to deny federal habeas review
Wednesday, the Court handed down its decision in Walker v. Martin (No. 09-996), holding that California's timeliness rule, which requires habeas petitioners to seek relief without "substantial delay," is an independent and adequate state ground for denying federal habeas review.
In most states, habeas petitioners must file their claims in state court within a particular time period. Generally, when a state court rejects an untimely federal claim, the habeas petitioner cannot then raise those claims in federal court, because state timeliness rules are usually an independent and adequate state ground for denying the claim. To qualify as an "adequate" ground, the state rule must be "firmly established and regularly followed."
Unlike other states, California does not define its timeliness rule in precise, numerical terms. Instead, habeas petitioners must file their petitions without "substantial delay." In Walker, the question presented was whether California's timeliness rule is an "adequate" ground.
In a unanimous opinion by Justice Ginsburg, the Court held that California's rule is indeed an adequate state ground. Rejecting respondent's argument that California's rule is too indeterminate to be "firmly established," the Court explained that "[i]ndeterminate language is typical of discretionary rules. Application of those rules in particular circumstances, however, can supply the requisite clarity." Implicit in the Court's reasoning is that a habeas petitioner need not have prior notice of the precise day on which his claims will become untimely. The Court also found that California's timeliness rule is "regularly followed," because it is employed hundreds of times each year. Alleged inconsistencies in the application of the rule, the Court observed, do not establish that California's courts are applying the rule arbitrarily, because state courts are free to deny a claim on the merits, notwithstanding the possible applicability of a timeliness rule.
Recommended Citation: Jud Campbell, Opinion analysis: California's timeliness rule is an adequate state ground to deny federal habeas review, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 24, 2011, 9:41 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/02/opinion-analysis-california%e2%80%99s-timeliness-rule-is-an-adequate-state-ground-to-deny-federal-habeas-review/


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Library Trustees: meet on the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m.
Friends of the Library: meet on second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
HOURS: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday and Monday, closed. Changes in hours: The library will be open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in July, and closed on Saturdays in August.
Drop-in Lego Club: meets every Saturday afternoon.
Weaving Workshop: for children ages 5 and over, on Saturday, July 30, at 10:15a.m. Origami and Japanese paper dyeing will also be offered. For more information, call (978) 779-2839.
Cheesy Movie Festival: Tuesdays at 7 p.m.: Aug. 9, �Easy to Love�; Aug. 23 �King Kong vs. Godzilla.�
Summer Reading Program: �One World, Many Stories,� is underway. Participants can win weekly incentives and also enter raffles for prizes. Weekly craft activities, fun performers and art workshops. Open to children ages 3 to 12.
Wowbrary: a new service � subscribers receive a weekly email message from the library with reminders about upcoming events, staff picks and reviews, and news about the library�s latest acquisitions. There�s a link to the library catalog to request new items. To subscribe, follow the Wowbrary link on www.boltonpubliclibrary.org, or go directly to www.wowbrary.org. The subscription is free, without obligation.
New Music Collection: Available genres include rock, pop, bluegrass, folk, country, international, blues and jazz, with classical, religious, seasonal and soundtracks to follow soon. Music CDs can be checked out just like books and other materials; loan period is three weeks. Suggestions from library users are always welcome, either in person (via one of the suggestion boxes around the building) or by email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Story Time: will be held for preschoolers every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
Letterboxing: a game of treasure-hunting that began in England in 1854 and is practiced throughout America, with a concentration of letterboxes in New England. (Geocaching is a modern, similar activity.) Read more about letterboxing traditions and etiquette on the web at www.atlasquest.com, then gather some basic supplies and start exploring. Many letterboxes are outside, but some are indoors. Your first clue: a recently-renovated local public library is the site of 13 letterboxes.
Pass Offerings: House, Ecotarium, Higgins Armory, Battleship Cove, Mystic Aquarium and Museum of Russian Icons. For a complete listing and terms, see the library�s website at www.boltonpubliclibrary.org or stop by the library. Passes are sometimes available on short notice but it�s always best to book ahead, especially in summer when demand is high.
Library website: features a full calendar of events including the pumpkin carving contest and the first meeting of the Lego Club. Visit: www.boltonpubliclibrary.org.
HOURS: Open � Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Friday.
Drop-in Knitting/Crocheting: is held every Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Baker Room. Not limited to Sterling residents, all skill levels welcome.
Story Hour: for 2- and 3-year-olds will be on Mondays at 1 p.m. Story hour for children under age 2 will be at 10:15 a.m. on Thursdays. Story hour for 4- and 5-year-olds will be at 10:15 a.m. on Tuesdays.
Children�s Programs: Story hour every Thursday (with some exceptions) at 10:30 a.m. There will be stories, a fun craft, and Miss Marilyn on keyboard to lead the group in song. Recommended for ages 3 to 5, but siblings always welcome. No sign-up is necessary. Non-Lancaster patrons may attend. Parking is in rear of library off Harvard Street. For more information, contact Susan Mello-Conroy at (978) 368-8928 ext. 5, or email@example.com.
Fun Teen Group: The Thayer Young Adult Book Group is looking for new members to enjoy fun, discussion and really great food. It meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6:20 p.m. The next meetings are on Aug. 10 and Sept. 14. Open to teens ages 13 through 18 from Lancaster and other communities. The club includes occasional movie nights and other events. For more information, contact Susan Conroy at (978) 368-8928 ext.5, or email@example.com.
Huge Big Truck Night: Wednesday, Aug. 3, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A family event featuring huge fire trucks, police cars, diggers, dump trucks, army and National Guard, a petting zoo and live music, and the Beantown Jumpers Double Dutch Team from Boston will give lessons on turning the rope and more. All kids and visitors from other towns may attend this free event. The rain date is Aug. 10.
Tea and a movie: on the third Thursday of every month starting in September. The first movie is �Julie and Julia� and starts at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 in the Dexter room on a large-screen. Anyone may attend.
Trustees� Exhibit: Samurai armour including a long sword, volumes of Japanese art, and a book made of palm leaves hand inscribed in an unidentified script, in the Current Topics Display Case on the first floor of the library during regular library hours.
Visit www.wowbrary.org: to see the latest additions to the library collection.
New �Live and Learn� Collection: is located in the Rotunda. It includes wide assortment of college-level courses on DVD and CD from some of the country�s best professors.
Library slates on sale now: A few years ago, the slates of the library�s old roof were found in the basement. Town scenes have been hand-painted on each slate. Slates are on sale now for $50 and current members of the friends receive a 20 percent discount off this price. Stop by the library to see them on display. Purchase the slates at the circulation desk.
Friends of the Thayer Memorial Library: are collecting books and DVDs for the October annual Book Sale. Items can be dropped off during library hours at the bottom of the stairwell. Not accepted are textbooks, magazines, encyclopedias, Reader�s Digest condensed books and books in poor physical condition. Email email@example.com with questions.
New Museum Passes Added � New: Boston Museum of Science, The Butterfly Place, Davis� Farmland (all season) and Mega Maze (August only), The Discovery Museums, Ecotarium, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fruitlands, Garden in the Woods, Higgins Armory Museum, Louisa May Alcott�s Orchard House, Mass Audubon (Wachusett Meadow or Broad Meadow Brook) Pass, Mass State Park Parking Pass, Museum of Russian Icons, Mystic Aquarium, New England Aquarium, Pawtucket Red Sox, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Zoo New England Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo. For information on booking the passes, contact the library at (978) 368-8928.
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It has been too long since I jumped off the wheel and out of the maze to write. Everyday I promise myself I'll take time to write. Before I know it, 100 emails have been read and answered and the sun has crossed the sky. Night falls and with it the temperature in my west facing office climbs to points I and the computers can barely function.
REBARCAMP Phoenix (memories of REBLOGWORLD Las Vegas)
I last wrote about tweetgrid and building quality one way back-links using local media. Those were written in preparation for Bloodhound Unchained in Phx. The week before the conference I was at REBAR Camp Phoenix and spent some of the day with Kristal Kraft whom I met last year at REBLOGWORLD in Las Vegas when Teresa Boardman introduced us. Kristal, is a shutterbug of renown in her own right. We hit it off immediately as we traipsed around Las Vegas late at night shooting the sites. Kristal had foot surgery the week or so before and was hobbling pretty good, I don't know how she managed to take a tripod and camera on a bus, but she did and down to Freemont street we went. Teresa Boardman (another fantastic shutterbug) Kristal and I made up the three musketeers with cameras. Kristal with a tripod, T with a monopod and me with a D300 set to ISO 2000 and High Noise Reduction turned on to make it possible to leave the extra gear behind. But I digress.
Kristal was coming to Unchained the following week to present on Marketing with WordPress. She was to be a co-presenter but her co-hort Linda Davis couldn't make the trip (too bad, I've always wanted to meet her IRL, another shutterbug) do you see a pattern here? I volunteered to help with the session since I spend a little time marketing with WordPress myself and it would give me a good opportunity to chat more and maybe photo-walk in Phx. (That didn't happen, no time for photos) It also meant I was finally after 4 years going to get to meet Eric Blackwell with whom I've been friends most of those 4 years.
Unchained the Following Week
Greg Swan and Brian Brady gracefully extended an invitation to the party crasher. I didn't know what to expect, but what I saw there was a whole lot of people willing to spend from 7 am to 9 pm each day in working sessions then work some more from 9 pm to 1 am or later on their blogs, websites, and learning even more about marketing and improving their skills. These people all came to work and work they did. It was like the hotel California where you could check in but you couldn't check out. I did manage to escape on Friday afternoon before the rap up session. I met a lot of great people.
If you go to an Unchained conference expect to work. There is some time to socialize, very little unless it is around work, but an outright party, forget it.
I know there are polarized opposite ends of the RE Blogging world, I suppose it is human nature. I'm too busy most of the time to notice part of the dial-up geek in me. I can say, I've learned from every event I've gone to at either end of the spectrum. It seems I'm a person who is by nature anti-social who likes people. Go figure. Time to move on.
While there and talking with some at the conference I learned that a lot of agents are suddenly being faced with their hosting companies shutting down as a result of the economy. Some are suddenly faced with the need to migrate all their content from one site to a new location. I'll write more about this yet this week on Why I'm still a huge fan of self hosting your site/sites.
I'm working on launching a new project I think I mentioned once a few weeks ago, be patient it is coming soon.
REBARCAMP Denver
Kristal implored, twisted, begged, and in general said I had to come to Denver for REBARCAMP there on May 22. Her motives are purely personal and selfish. She wants me to do a session on HDR post processing of images. I'll write more on this soon as well.
Coaching and Consulting
One of my goals this year was to spend more time developing my own passions. If you have been a long time reader here at the Lab you know I don't care much about real estate. I'm not interested in the topic nationally or locally. I don't write contracts and the entire process is something I find amazing and have the greatest respect for those who work in this field and write contracts, take clients out, do inspections, BINSRs, and on and on and on. I find it both frightening and boring at the same time (the legal part of it).
I have been fortunate to spend the past 4 years writing/blogging, marketing, designing single property sites, blogging about Tucson and photographing the Desert Southwest as a part of our marketing our service and our community. Now I'm branching out and taking on clients of my own, but not for real estate, unless it is virtual real estate, I'm modify blogs themes, help agents move from hosting companies to setting up self-hosting and coaching some who are getting started in blogging.
I like helping bloggers take control of their content. It is also gratifying to save them money, in some cases a lot of money by moving away from hosting that is costing up to $250 a month or more to self-hosting for less than $150 a year. Modifying and personalizing themes and getting paid for doing it is a blog geeks dream come true.
The Real Estate Blog Lab in the Future and Beyond
At Unchained some participants had never heard of the Lab. Some even wanted to know what it cost to subscribe to the content. Most were wondering how I make any money at it? LOL, I don't, never intended to. This isn't going to change. Everyone is welcome now, and will be in the future.
With all these things I'm now involved in the question arises: Do I have time for the Lab> YES, as a matter of fact the more development and design work I do the more content I have for the Lab. Not only am I coming up with things to share from my own blogging but with each new person I do work for, I encounter new problems to solve and new solutions to share.
There, I passed the 1000 word make for a blog post once again. Anybody still reading? BTW, do you like the Gallery in a row down the post instead of all together? That's a piece of CSS I came up with this week for my Tucson blog. I'll share how to do this for your NextGen Galleries in a post soon. Maybe this week, let's see, how many posts have I promised to write in this one, anyone counting?


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Cloud Day Talk: Johnson & Johnson
As part of Cloud Day, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) CTO Daniel Zelem spoke about the company's healthcare cloud infrastructure. Three years ago, J&J reached an inflection point and decided to radically change the way its IT function delivered services and capabilities. The company had a traditional data center infrastructure, and recognized that small incremental changes would not be enough to fuel ...the company's future growth. The company needed a more agile and flexible IT infrastructure that would deliver better service levels for J&J operating companies, so they adopted a software-defined hybrid cloud infrastructure that is highly virtualized, scalable, and has compliance and security built in. With the goal of everything software-defined, automated and self-sustaining, enabling users to secure new IT services in under an hour, eliminating the need for teams to plan months ahead before undertaking new projects. This new model more effectively leverages cloud technology, data and agile practices to enable innovation, agility and ultimately improved healthcare outcomes.


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Browsing SUNY College at Oswego by Subject "metadata"
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Desktop Relational Search or One Way AI could save us from our Files (2008-10-24)Herein a new system for the automatic organization of user files based on metadata is presented. The system is based on a new derivative of Kohonen's Self-Organizing Map algorithm which is also discussed in detail. The ...


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Last week, Demi Moore's cryptic tweets sparked rumors of marriage trouble with Ashton Kutcher. Now, Kutcher's equally cryptic tweets are trying to downplay the whole situaiton.
First, Kutcher tweeted a link to the Public Enemy song "Don't Believe the Hype," before adding: "When you ASSUME to know that which you know nothing of you make an ASS out of U and ME."
The initial rumors were fueld by a single tweet by Moore that appeared to offer clues about the state of her 6-year marriage to Kutcher -- especially as the couple is keeping mum in the face of the swirling tabloid stories.
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"When we are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger," Moore wrote Friday, quoting the Greek philosopher Epictetus.
According to People magazine, Moore, 48, posted the message one day before the pair spent their sixth wedding anniversary thousands of miles apart.
Kutcher, 33, has been living in Los Angeles while shooting "Two and a Half Men" and was spotted partying in San Diego with former "That '70s Show" co-star Danny Masterson over the weekend.
Moore has been holed up in New York City to promote a short film she directed for the Lifetime TV anthology "Five," according to People.
Neither prolific tweeter mentioned their anniversary at the time. On Wednesday, both stars kept a low profile online and did not address unsubstantiated reports of marital woes.
There was no word from their reps either.
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As Cobb readers know, I'm hanging out with FBI folks these days. One of the agents I spoke with spent years trailing Azzam the American. Like most thoughtful Marine Corps troops and long war veterans he has had plenty of time to consider how Islamic jihadis actually are. He knows his Koran better than most of his foes in Afghanistan. Bottom line is that he understands as do most thoughtful people that Islam is not the enemy and jihadis are more fanatic and dangerous than religious. I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of 'moderate Islam' nor defend too great a tie between current monotheisms and common law. But some scholars (Scheherazade S. Rehman∗ Hossein Askari, 2010) did some interesting research into an idealized interpretation of the Koran vis a vis 'economic justice'.
Given the post-9/11 climate of global uncertainty, suspicion, hostility, and fear, interest in the relationship between religion and economics, politics, and social behavior has been rekindled. In particular, there has been considerable attention afforded to the impact of religion on economic, social, and political development and vice versa. However, before the impact of religion on economic performance or the impact of economic performance on religion can be examined, one should first ascertain the religiosity of a country. In this case, "how Islamic are Islamic countries?" or "what is their degree of 'Islamicity?"' In this paper, we assess, on a very preliminary basis, the adherence of Islamic countries to Islamic economic teachings and develop an Economic IslamicityIndex (EI2) to assess the extent that self-declared Islamic countries adhere to Islamic doctrines and teachings. We do this by measuring 208 countries' adherence to Islamic Economic principles using as proxies 113 measurable variables.
The results of the Economic Islamicity EI2 Index can be seen in Table II, ranking 208 countries according to the 12 Islamic economic principals mentioned earlier, which are represented through 113 different proxies. These very preliminary results would indicate that the so-called and self-declared Islamic countries have not by-and-large adhered to Islamic principles. The average ranking of Islamic countries is 133 for the group of 56 Islamic countries. Islamic countries as a whole did not fare very well in an index that measures the degree of economic Islamicity. The highest ranked Islamic country is Malaysia (ranked 33rd), followed in order by Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Brunei, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Turkey (see Table II).
You'll have to look up the entire paper to see the interesting results. But here's a clue. Ireland is #1, and the US isn't far behind. America is more Islamic than you think (in the top 8%), and that's not a bad thing.


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A slide show, to the tune of Albita, of some of the images I have taken for a Little Havana project.
This area has seen a great improvement, even gets A big influx of tourists, to the tune of a few daily buses, rain or shine.
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A slide show, to the tune of Albita, of some of the images I have taken for a Little Havana project.
This area has seen a great improvement, even gets A big influx of tourists, to the tune of a few daily buses, rain or shine.
It all started as an outlet for Cuban refugees to play dominoes and forget about their Caribbean paradise that was no more.
Years have come and gone. Miami is now the beacon for Latin-American refugees seeking the ever elusive American dream.
It is not only us Cubans, it is all new world blood, humiliated, stepped-on, diminished . We are nothing but cheap labor.
The "carrot" of good behavior is paraded in front of our eyes. If we are humble and obey, maybe we will be allowed to reside in Wonderland of Wonderlands.
Big fallacy. We did not grow up to worship the gold coin. We grew up to value family and justice. And we burn our wings to come to a land that promises that, the joke is on us!
But, we are here. Strong, invincible, with roots that go beyond the cortex.
Proud, hard working, forgiving of the culture that we do not understand, not totally believing the false promises, but there is always hope.
What would people be without hope? Annihilated before even takinge the first step forward.
Do we have a chance? Only time will tell.
In the mean time, we are vibrant, alive, full of joy and pride of our heritage.
Hopefully that prejudice will die one day. That our warmer colored skin does not make us target of hatred and intolerance.
One day, maybe, people will be appreciated for what they are, their intrinsic right of birth to be unique ant part of a big collective at the same time. No fake oppressor.
Face value: the way we are born.
I present to you Little Havana, the Latin-American tourist trap in Miami.
All images were captured with Sony a7rii and Sony 24-70/2.8 G Raw capture, converted to B&W in Lightroom.
We love the buildings in Brickell Avenue, even more so than the ones downtown. It is also easier to navigate, since we do, or have done, the work from the car.
This time we did not take the mirrorless system, since it was raining. Not nice to walk around in the rain on a hot day, at least for me.
I know you can get great stuff in the rain, but I prefer to do it from a sheltered location, rather than participate in the wet humidity.
SO all of this images were taken from the car, from behind the windshield or out of the closed window. It was an interesting game, because of the blue polarized or whatever top part of the glass, trying to avoid it. The camera used was the Sony RX-100 mk IV, at f/4, Auto ISO, Aperture Priority and most with a 1+ Ev.
They were all distorted and colorized to taste, exaggerating, to get a modern look to them. All work was done in Lightroom.
I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did.
We have not been to the blog since December 1st of last year. Shame on us!
It is not that we are not taking photographs, nor stopped in our testing of new equipment. Sometimes our priorities get a little shook up and we need to stop and re-evaluate.
Some of you know that I went through a life chafing event, health related. Although I am officially rid of the Big C, some of the sequels are still around, in the form of lack of interest and energy, which I try to fight, sometimes with no results.
Yes, we have been active in photography. Yes, we have tried new things, but since I am the main communicator in the couple, the bucket stopped there.
We had big illusions to a trip to Guatemala with Raul Touzon, to document the Holy Week processions and events. An unexpected surgery got on the way and we were left behind and hospitals enriched their bottom line. to be perfectly honest, missing the trip hurt me more than having the surgery.
But I have come to terms with the cards that were dealt, and slowly put the pieces back together.
Since December, we have acquired and enjoyed the Leica monochrome, that has only one channel and shoots only black and white.
Very enjoyable camera, not for all uses, but worth having if you like B&W.
I will ask Alfred to write a small review, he's more tech oriented than me. In the mean time, just to break the ice, I will include some pics taken after the last December post.
Will try and keep up the Blog, it used to be fun. I will reclaim that fun!!!
Great to be with you guys again!


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Update on Life
August 8, 2018
Right now it's 1:43am, and I should be asleep. I stayed up messing with my website, shopping for film that I don't need to buy, and I'll eventually shower. Probably go to sleep around 2:40 or 3am. I'm tired, and the summer is basically over now.
The other night, I developed six rolls of black and white film, and the whole ordeal took about five hours. A large delay stemmed from difficulty rolling the film onto reels. The Arista film is more brittle and fragile, so rolling can be really annoying compared to something sleek and easy like Pancro 400 or Ilford HP5. I'm almost out of my personal film and will be shooting Arista for casual stuff, then FP4 and others for more important photos. I think I'll start shooting slides for color, because I can buy them short dated for cheaper, and processing is pretty cheap. It's nice to get prints and everything with C-41 at PhotoVision, but I can't give out any more free photos, especially not with a digital camera. I'll shoot Provia 100F and Velvia 50 for color stuff, and if there's not enough light to shoot those films, then I'll shoot my digital camera. Cinestill 800T is too expensive, and Fuji Superia 1600 is even more costly.
There was a concert on the IM field tonight, and it was a group from Tennesse. I'm assuming they found our town because they also have a McMinnville. Took some photos - one color, on Porta 160, and the others were BW with Arista 400. Was trying to empty out my Konica Autoreflex T4 to loan to my friend's brother, and the Porta had been sitting inside for months unfinished. So now I've got three rolls to send off: Kodak Gold 200, which is very, very expired; Agfa 400, which I bought in December and shot recently in my Canon AE-1, and then the Portra 160, which I just finished this evening. I'll send them to PhotoVision probably, except for the Agfa, because it has nudes, and I'm only using Blue Moon or home-processing for nudes.
I'm looking for work and also have found a place to live. It's a six bedroom place, and I'll be living with friends. Rent is cheap. I still wish I could live out of a car, but that's not really practical, and finishing school is more important. I really, really need to get this film photography Kickstarter going, because I have too many sheets of paper and need to get all of my cameras distributed among friends. One friend graduated this year, and I don't know when she'll be back in the area. Need to develop some film with her, and nobody else has been too interested in shooting. I expected a lot of people to reach out over the summer, but it's been really dead. Everyone just goes to work and watches TV or does drugs. I waste a lot of time too, on my phone, staying up late, and sleeping in. And I haven't shot nearly as much as I've wanted - maybe 1/4 of what I hoped.
I need to get a medium format camera and use up my 120 film. One friend has an older camera - hoping to use hers and loan out some film in return. I got a nice Pentax set a few weeks ago, but I dropped it one night, and I don't know what broke. Need to figure it out. The camera is partially done with a roll of Arista 400 EI 1250, and that roll has some shots from a dinner party and who knows what else. From the other rolls I developed, I can see that the camera had issues. There are random black splotches on negatives, and some frames overlap. One roll was double exposed on every damn frame. I don't know how the hell it happened, but I'm very angry about it, because it fucked up some nudes and other photos. Only a couple of the photos seemed slightly interesting. The rest look like shit.
You never know what you're going to get when you buy stuff on Craiglist. For example, I bought some expired Polaroid film and didn't think to test it out, so I lost about $75 buying trash. Thankfully, the Pentax lenses from this other guy are so gorgeous and lovely that the quality of the bodies doesn't matter. I'll try to repair the Pentax, but the lenses are worth far more than $120. I got a 135mm 2.5 and 50mm 1.7, and they are excellent.
I need to get a good job at a winery or restaurant, and I want photography stuff to help out on the side. I'd like to visit the Portland International Raceway and a few other cool spots around the state to go shoot. I've got an underwater film camera, which is a 28mm fixed focus thing. Probably a plastic lens, but I bet it'd be nice to bring to the river. I shot with my Canon AE-1 at the Willamette river near Newberg on Sunday evening, and it was a little stressful taking it out in the water. Can't wait to see how the color ones turned out; the black and white shots look very cool. I shot some FP4 at 200 instead of 125, and I'll try to make some prints after moving out of my summer housing. Need to focus on the transition process and packing for now.
Speaking of that, I should shower and sleep soonish, so I can pack and be somewhat productive today. I'll be spending some time in Portland Thursday and try to send my film to Blue Moon, too. Can't afford to buy anything from their shop right now, so it's probably better not to go.
At some point, I need to clean and inventory everything, so I can loan all my cameras out to friends and get more people shooting. Polaroids are fun, but I wish more people would shoot film at parties. Lot easier and better quality. The larger format Polaroids are cool, but the Instax line is so expensive and small.
My website is a mess, and I need to clean up the files. Should revise the CSS rules and attempt to setup a static site generator with Hakyll or something. But also, I'm tempted to build a fancy landing page with some template from HTML5 UP, and then I can keep a static, lightweight blog that slightly relates to the homepage theme. I'm considering buying an unlimited storage plan with SpiderOak, and their promo expires tomorrow at some point. Only $180/year for unlimited storage. Pretty awesome, but after 10 years, I will be out a good chunk of cash. For now, I can't afford a nice NAS, so I suppose it's cheaper.
I'm growing out my facial hair and don't really shave much, except for minor hygeinic purposes. It's nice to keep my armit hair short, so it doesn't get lots of deodorant stuck. I use baking soda mostly or just go without, unless I need to be around people or am working, and then I'll use real deodorant. I still need to get glasses, go to the dentist, maybe visit a chiropractor, and start workign out more seriously. I was swimming for a bit, but I haven't gone for a couple weeks. Need to do more pull-ups, push-ups, and swimming. I hate running, and it's too hot right now. Roller-blading is getting easier, but it's also too hot, unless I wear booty shorts. Even then, it's uncomfortable.
I haven't smoked much weed in the last couple weeks. I'm done with all the heavy THC stuff. It's so pointless. I tried some CBD dabs and an oil tincture a couple weeks ago, and it was great. Very relaxed. Time went by very quickly without me noticing. On THC trips, 3 minutes can feel like an hour, but with CBD, an hour will pass, and you barely notice. I can still feel music and appreciate the sounds, but there's none of the paranoia, suspicion, or lack of awareness. CBD edibles and tinctures are probably the only forms of weed I'll consider using from now on. Some of my highs with THC stuff have been good, but plenty of them have been unpleasant and incapacitating. I still haven't tried mushrooms or anything besides weed, but maybe in the next year, that will change. I'd like to go do shrooms with friends in the forest on a camping trip, but a lot of my friends are taking medications that shouldn't be used concurrently with psychedelics. RIP.
I have some school paperwork to deal with, including financial aid stuff and a policy interpretation letter from an alcohol violation. I drank wine at the IPNC festival, and I was found guilty of breaking policy. This also caused me to lose my summer job, but on the bright side, I was able to cash my check early and pay off some debt.
I have a meeting today at 8am about the wine incident, and hopefully that will be the last one. Later today, I'm planning to get my room cleaned and sorted, and I'll apply for some jobs this week. I have to be out of the apartment by the end of the 12th, which is Sunday evening. Today is Wednesday. It should be fine, but moving everything is a little annoying. Lot's of boxes and bags.
Should sleep now. It's 2:23, and I'm going to upload this and then shower. Good night for now.


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Former city of Carlos treasurer Bambi Alexander was sentenced in Douglas County district court today for embezzlement crimes dating back to 2011.
Alexander, 38, of Carlos was convicted of one-count of felony theft. She was sentenced to 10 years supervised probation, 60 days jail time and ordered to pay $43,801.95 which includes $43,666.95 in restitution and $135 in court costs. Alexander was given credit for jail time already served.
Alexander pleaded guilty June 27 in Douglas County Court to one count of felony theft for receiving more than $34,000 in unauthorized city checks. Her crime carried a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a $20,000 fine.


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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: River (08/31/06)
TITLE: Point of change | Previous Challenge Entry
By Folakemi Emem-Akpan
The scenery has hardly changed. The river still looks half asleep, curling away from view in the fetal position, telling nothing of the lives it's changed. The same pregnant stillness still pervades the air.
Is it four years already?
"I got a raise." Biodun barreled into the house, lifting me off my feet and laughing his delicious masculine laughter.
"A raise?" I repeated stupidly. He was overdue for promotion, and we'd told ourselves 'maybe next year'. It was a nice way of losing hope without seeming to do so.
"Yes, a raise," he laughed again, "we're going to celebrate."
River Aimet was one hour's drive away from Lagos' never-ending chaos. We sang silly nursery rhymes with the twins the entire way. Our destination was deserted that sunny afternoon. We played chase with the kids awhile until my legs gave way. Then we sat near the bank, our feet immersed in the water, reliving those days when we were newly in love.
"Daddee, chase me…" Taiwo demanded.
Biodun shook his head no.
"I'll chase you." Her twin offered. Before we knew it, they'd disappeared round the bend.
Ten minutes …and the sound of the children playing. Twenty minutes…then a heart-rending shriek. Taiwo was holding his foot up, Kehinde was rolling around precariously close to the river; both were crying. A frightened rattlesnake was sneaking away into the underbrush.
The car was parked a tortuous half mile away. On the long drive back to civilization, Taiwo was silenced forever. Kehinde dragged out his final breath as the doctors scurried to tend him.
I sank into an abyss. Biodun sank even lower.
The next year was a torment. My arms were achingly empty. The rooms were barren, bare of life. I plodded through the days, working from dawn to dusk, numbing the pain with activity.
Biodun went through four jobs in seven months. He eventually quit and turned to bourbon. He was even farther away from me than the kids were. We shared less than a dozen sentences per week.
I was hurting; he was hurting, and it hurt too much to discuss the pain. We went through the motions of life, dying a little every day, sinking further into hell's chasm.
On the first anniversary of the twins' death, I came home to a phone message. They'd found Biodun at River Aimet. There was a single hole in his temple, and there was a gun.
They found only his fingerprints. He didn't even leave a note.
There were no tears this time. Drained of all emotions, I just wanted to crawl into bed and sleep off the nightmare. I slept but the nightmare was even the more real. The twins were crying, Biodun was bleeding from the head, and they were all clamoring for my attention.
I woke up, drenched in sticky sweat.
The following day, I drove to the river. I sat down where we'd sat the previous year and pretended I was talking with Biodun, pretended the twins were demanding we chase them.
The carving knife sliced my right wrist nicely. My life source bubbled to the surface with a red vengeance. The sight made me laugh, then cry. I started to cut the left wrist.
"Stop that."
I whirled around in guilt, in frustration, in terror.
The man was as startled as I was but did a good job of concealing it. "You shouldn't do that."
I tried to speak but couldn't. My hand was beginning to ache now, my vision blurring.
He came closer to me. "Yesterday I found a man here. He shot himself."
Nausea erupted in my belly. "He was my husband."
His eyes opened wide in consternation, understanding, pity.
"Suicide has never been the best way to end life. Come, let me get you to the hospital."
Feeling faint, I allowed him lead me back to the car, back to Lagos, back to life.
It's been a long process.
It's four years today that Taiwo and Kehinde died, three that Biodun did.
River Aimet remains the same.
Been three years since God found me. Frederick, the pastor who'd found me came visiting everyday. He spoke of another river – a happy one - one running through heaven. A place believers could congregate to talk. Did I want to be there? Of course.
I've come to say my final goodbye, here at the place they were taken.
Someday, I'll see the twins again. So sad I can't say the same about Biodun.
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New Faculty Members Join the Tepper School Community
The new faculty members were welcomed by Dean Robert Dammon; Michael Trick, senior associate dean for faculty and research; Laurie Weingart, senior associate dean of education; and numerous members of the Tepper School faculty and staff at an immersive orientation program in August.
New faculty members for the 2015-2016 academic year include:
Kate Barraclough, head of the MBA Program and Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, joined the Tepper School in the spring of 2015 as the new head of its top-ranked MBA program. She holds bachelor's degrees in economics and commerce, as well as a Ph.D. in finance, all from Australian National University. Coming to the Tepper School from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, Barraclough brings a diverse set of teaching and research interests, including treasury stock, stock options and financial markets.
Clara Burke, assistant teaching professor of business management communication, earned a Bachelor's of English Literature degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She holds both a master's degree and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also taught prior to joining the Tepper School. During her time working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Burke directed the Online Writing Center, and served as a communication judge in the Burrill Business Plan Competition, a Writing Center Instructor Mentor and a Writing Fellow Mentor.
Dokyun Lee, assistant professor of business analytics, earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University and his master's degree in statistics from Yale University. He also holds a Ph.D. in operation and information management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Lee's teaching and research interests include e-commerce, application of machine learning, and natural language processing in business, social media marketing and recommender systems
Hui Li, assistant professor of marketing, earned a bachelor's degree in economics and finance at Peking University, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Li's interests include dynamic pricing, consumer digital product consumption, platform strategic development, dynamic structural models and empirical industrial organization. She has conducted extensive research related to celebrity endorsements as a marketing tactic, the impact of e-books on print sales, and daily deals platforms.
Antonio Miralles, visiting assistant professor of economics, earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Barcelona and a master's degree in economics from the University College of London. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University. Prior to joining the Tepper School, Miralles taught at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Boston University. His teaching and research interests include economic theories, privatization and pseudomarkets.
Nicholas Muller, visiting associate professor of economics, comes to the Tepper School from Middlebury College in Vermont, where he worked in the Department of Economics and the Environmental Studies Program. Muller earned his bachelor's degree in public policy, planning and management from the University of Oregon; a master of public affairs, environmental policy and financial administration from Indiana University; and a Ph.D. in environmental and natural resource economics from Yale University. He has conducted extensive research related to pollution, energy production and environmental accounting.
Ajit Sharma, visiting assistant professor of business technologies, holds a bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, as well as a master's degree in industrial management from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering in Mumbai, India. He later earned an MBA and a Ph.D. from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Sharma's research interests include data science and advanced analytics, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and the business and societal implications of the shift from programmable to cognitive computing era.
William Waller, post-doctoral fellow in finance, earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Texas Tech University before going on to complete a Ph.D. in finance at the University of North Carolina. His research interests include financial risks and rewards, macroeconomy, financial services and stocks.
Shirley Wang, post-doctoral fellow in organizational behavior and theory, joins the Tepper School after earning a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Cornell University, and has conducted research related to diversity, group dynamics and performance. She also holds a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. Wang previously worked as a research analyst for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Hakki Yazici, visiting assistant professor of economics, brings to the Tepper School his expertise in macroeconomics, applied theory and public economics. Yazici earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, and holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Tepper School, Yazici taught at Sabanci University and Stockholm University.
In addition, Anisha Ghosh, assistant professor of finance, returned to the Tepper School this fall, and Thomas Ruchti, assistant professor of accounting, has transitioned from a visiting role into a full-time role.


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So, after a sedentary 4 day walk on the Milford Track, I was itching to do some proper running.
We were staying in Te Anau for 2 nights on New Zealand's south island. Unlike Milford Track, that you need take a boat to get to, the start of the Kepler Track is a mere 4 kilometres away from Te Anau DOC offices. It is one of New Zealand's great walks, a total of 60 kilometres up and over Mount Luxmore (at 1472 metres height).
I stuffed a bag full of food and some clothes, then headed out at 6 am to the trail head. The authorities suggest travelling the track in 3 to 4 days, stopping off in the huts conveniently placed on the way. But I knew that 60 kilometres is very do-able to run in a day, so I decided to forego the hut passes and overnight stays.
The track first winds through some peaceful beech forest skirting along the banks of Lake Te Anau. The birds were chirping, the weather was still and warm, and the trail was lovely and bouncy. I just knew that this was going to be a good day out. 6 kilometres in and I reached Brod Bay. From there, the trail left the lakeshore and headed up a long and steady switch-backed climb. Then at 900 metres, the forest abruptly stopped and I emerged onto the wide open heather plains of the mountainside.
The wind was blowing strongly and rain threatened to ruin my run. But still the weather remained clear, allowing perfect views over the Te Anau Basin, the Takitimu Mountains, and the Snowdon and Earl Mountain ranges. And there before me lay Mount Luxmore, a greyish peak that the path wound itself slowly towards.
I stopped off at the Luxmore hut to grab some water, then continued on up the hill. I have to admit that the views were far more spectacular than those I had seen on Milford only days before, despite Milford being more renowned for its beauty. I was also loving the fact that I didn't have a fat 20kg pack on my back full of food and clothes for half a week. Travelling light with only my one-day needs and running gear was definitely the way to go.
After Luxmore the trail continued north, skirting around hills and teetering over saddles. The wind was picking up, and I passed a number of hikers huddling in the emergency shelters and over their lunchtime sandwiches. The ridge headed towards Irish Burn, then dropped back down in the Hanging Valley via a series of dizzying zig-zags. At the bottom, I found the second hut and the end of Day 2's hike.
I ran on. Now off the mountain, the trail ran for the final 30 kilometres on flat forested ground. I picked up speed, enjoying the feel of running on perfectly prepared trails that were well marked and maintained. After a few hours I arrived at the banks of Lake Manapouri and Day 3's lovingly built hut on a luxurious beachfront. My legs were starting to tire but I continued on, wanting to now get hotel by the time I had promised to be home by.
As I ran, someone shouted, "Good luck on Saturday!" I had no idea what they meant. On Saturday I was flying home to Cambodia, so why did I need good luck with the flight? So I stopped and asked. "I thought you were training for the race on Saturday?" she said. "No, no", I said. "I'm just doing this for fun".
It was only back at the hotel that I realised the annual Kepler Challenge was taking part on Saturday with 400 runners taking part. So it turns out that running the whole 60 kilometre track in a single day is more normal than it seems.


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History repeating 'cause we are history.
When you find Milan against you, "there's no tripe for cats" ahaha
another final match, another Cup won, another stunning result, Marco Van Basten was amazing. Steaua Bucarest team before the match said that before going back home they would have passed in Milan showing the Cup to Milan people. Yes.
That one on the right is the European Supercup, won 5 times, record
Barcelona-Milan 0-4 (Massaro 2, Savicevic, Rijkaard) with Fabio Capello
their coach Cruyff was very arrogant and the day before he photographed himself with the Cup...yes yes... We were without defence and they were the Dream Team. Of course 0-4... incredible 3rd goal...
Milan-Ajax 3-2 (Inzaghi final goal:
the people were so happy cos the match was ending and we were out
(commentary by crazy Piccinini & Pellegatti, "Pippo mio")
7 times Europe Champions, Italian record
Bayern-Milan 0-2 (Seedorf, Inzaghi)
great goals
16 December is Milan birthday and I watched the movie "Goal 2" (in Goal 1 there was music by Oasis with the incredible song Who put the weight of the world on my shoulders?), there were Beckham and Ronaldinho in Real Madrid and Barcelona, but actually in Milan we have both of them eheheheHere's the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmQY90mHVdU
Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, in Milan in via Gesù 5, hosts a show of the Rossoneri's history.
Starting from December 17 and until February 16, 2010, Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, in via Gesù 5 in Milan, hosts "Milan: 110 e lode!" (Milan: 110 with honours!), a unique exhibition of the trophies and memorabilia of the Rossoneri's club. The heart of "Milan: 110 e lode!" are the awards which have made the Rossoneri the club with the most trophies in the world: 7 Champions Cup, 3 Intercontinental Cups, 1 Fifa Club World Cup, 5 European Cups and 2 Cup Winners Cup.
The visitors can also admire important and unique objects of the Rossoneri's history: the Golden Balls won by Kakà, Van Basten, Weah, Shevchenko and Gullit, together with the shirts, shoes, memorabilia of players who wore the Milan shirt, apart from other notes of coaches and famous tactical setups of Arrigo Sacchi's "total football".
These are just a part of the marvels that the Milan fans will be able to admire in a path full of emotions
The show also hosts halls dedicated to the Milan Foundation and Milan Junior, to Milan Channel, who celebrates its first 10 years through a selection of historical imges – and to Dolce&Gabbana: the pictures taken of the team in summer of 2009 and autographs of the Milan champions, which will be put up for auction to collect funds which will be destined to the activities of Onlus in Via Turati.
However, the space was not created to be just an exhibition location, "Milan: 110 e lode!" will be Milan's 'home' to all effect: a inhabited location, attended by all those who are part of the Club, like players, coach, directors and the Rossoneri's glories, present during the various initiatives dedicated to the visitors.
Inside the Palace, there are also a Bookshop, for the purchase of shirts and merchandise, and a cornder, dedicated to the Rossoneri's Heart and the subscription of the season ticket holders for the second round of the league.
In January, there will also be guided visits for some students of the primary schools, for the members of the Milan Clubs Italian Association and for the small participants to the "Milan and the Oratory" project.
Milan 110 e lode! Is open all days from 10am until 7pm, with free entrance for all visitors.


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Escaped TCF inmate is recaptured — he wanted to attend mom's funeral
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The inmate who escaped from the Territorial Correctional Facility is now back in custody. Samoa News understands the inmate escaped from confinement Monday but was recaptured yesterday.
According to a Samoa News source, the inmate had made a request to the Warden, to be released so he can attend his mother's funeral. The request was denied, and the inmate ended up leaving the prison anyway — without permission — to attend his mother's funeral, which is reported to have taken place Monday, the same day the inmate escaped.
According to the source, there is a lot of confusion at the TCF right now, as some inmates are allowed to attend their parents' funeral services while others are not.
Several inmates are wanting to know why some requests for release to attend funeral services for family members are approved and others are denied.
In the meantime, police are still investigating the alleged attempted smuggling of a package containing a huge quantity of crystalline substance into the TCF two weeks ago. (See story for details in Aug. 9 issue of Samoa News or on samoanews.com)
Samoa News understands that police have already questioned the male inmate who was supposed to receive the package, and he has told investigators that he has no knowledge of the package.
A DPS senior police officer confirmed to Samoa News yesterday that the matter was referred to the Vice & Narcotics Unit this week, and detectives are looking into the allegation.
"We have the report from the TCF regarding this matter, including the name of those who are allegedly involved. DPS has to go through the process by reviewing every single piece of evidence, including talking to those who are involved to determine the motive of the alleged action," said a senior cop who wants to remain anonymous.
A test was conducted on the illegal substance that was found inside the package and it came back positive for methamphetamine.
A reliable source (RS) told Samoa News that a woman who has two pending criminal cases in High Court involving unlawful possession of illegal drugs is behind the alleged incident.