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As promised, the recipes for last Sunday's "Georgia" meal. Please bear with me for when I don't use "proper" cooking terms. I'm the "Bad Cook" for a reason.
COUNTRY FRIED CHICKEN: (adapted from Favorite Family Recipes)
- 4 chicken breasts (halved & pounded flat)
- 2 c. buttermilk
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 c. milk
- 2 c. flour
- 1 Tbsp. paprika
- 2 tsp cayenne pepper (less if you're not a fan of spicy…in that case, we can't be friends)
- 1/2 Tbsp. garlic powder (or more if you're Italian and can't taste garlic unless it's fresh)
- salt and pepper to taste
- vegetable/ olive oil for frying
For the gravy:
- 1/4 c. reserved pan drippings
- 4 Tbsp. reserved flour mixture
- 2 c. chicken broth
- 1/2 c. milk
- salt and pepper to taste
Place chicken pieces in a plastic freezer bag and pour buttermilk over. Place in refrigerator for 2 hours (or overnight). (Just speaking from experience, do yourself a favor and double bag this…cleaning up buttermilk off the shelves of the fridge while you're trying to cook is no fun.)
Whisk together eggs and milk.
In a separate bowl combine flour, paprika, cayenne, garlic powder, and salt and pepper. Stir until well combined and then remove about 4 Tbsp. of the dry mixture. Set aside for gravy.
Remove chicken from bag, shake off excess buttermilk, and dredge each piece in flour mixture. Then dip in egg/milk mixture. Dredge in flour mixture once again. (Your hands will be coated with flour. It's VERY annoying and you can't take pictures with your phone during this process.)
Add oil to a large skillet until it is about 1/4-inch full. Heat oil on medium-high heat until it reaches 250-degrees.
Add each piece of chicken to the oil without overcrowding, for about 3-4 minutes on each side or until crispy and golden on the outside. Stand back and don't burn yourself with the popping oil.
For the gravy:
Drain off all but about 1/4 c. of the oil from the pan. Whisk in reserved flour mixture until golden. Slowly whisk in the chicken broth and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer. Once the gravy starts to thicken, add milk to desired consistency, whisking constantly. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve over chicken. (Or next to chicken if your children do not want the gravy touching the chicken as mine did not.)
CANDIED YAMS (aka little cubes of heavenly sweetness):
- 6 cups of cubed sweet potatoes (or yams…practically the same thing)
- 1/4 c. butter
- 1/3 c. brown sugar, packed
- 1 Tbsp. molasses
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. ginger
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp. cloves (crushed)
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Cube sweet potatoes and boil until they are bright orange. (Don't ask how much water to put in the pot—just eye ball it like I do.)
- On stove, melt butter in skillet.
- Add brown sugar and spices. Stir until melted.
- Add molasses and stir.
- Drain sweet potatoes and pour into casserole dish.
- Pour sugar and spice mixture over potatoes and toss to coat.
- Bake until sweet potatoes are tender (about 25 minutes).
FLUFFY BUTTER BISCUITS: Ingredients:
- 2 cups All purpose flour
- 1 tbsp Baking powder
- 1/4 tsp Baking soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 6 tbsp unsalted Butter (frozen)
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- Preheat oven to 450.
- Combine dry ingredients.
- Grate frozen butter into dry ingredients. (YEs, I said grate it…apparently this is one of the many secrets to the light and fluffy biscuits. Don't tell anyone or Cracker Barrel may go belly up.)
- Cut with pastry cutter (or two forks if you're like me and have no idea what a pastry cutter is) to make it crumbly.
- Make a well in the mixture and pour the cold buttermilk in the middle.
- Mix together until a dough forms. (And sticks all over your hands.)
- Lightly flour your cutting board or other flat surface. (And the counter, and the floor , and your shoes so you end up tracking it all over the house…)
- Shape the dough into a ball. Try not to warm the dough up too much in the process.
- Stack the dough. Cut the rough ball of dough in half, then stack one piece of dough on top of the other. Gently press the pieces back together into a ball, then cut the dough in half again, stack again, press again. Repeat that process three times to create air pockets in the dough which make up the flaky layers.
- At this point I shaped the dough into a rectangle and used a glass to make the round biscuits. Try not to pull up quickly and create suction because that will seal the edges and the layers won't be flaky. (I TOLD you this was a complex thing…you're probably wanting to pop open a can of those refrigerated biscuits right about now, aren't you???)
- Put biscuits on tray in fridge to make them cold again for another 15 minutes. Then pop them in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until they start to get golden brown on top.
- Bon appetite!


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What to do when SQL servers can't keep up with data demands
In the near future, IoT will be everywhere – not just in your fitness monitor or your thermostat, but in every stoplight, in factories, in your mirror, etc. And the more ways that we adopt IoT – the more data we collect from our environments, clients, or products – the faster SQL servers need to perform.
Many businesses are feeling the pressure on their SQL servers already and we're nowhere near peak data collection. Can your system keep up with data demands? Any number of problems could be making your server sluggish.
Hardware Vs. Software
As with most technology issues, software and hardware are equally important for proper SQL performance, but hardware is of particular concern right now because of the rapid increase in total data. If your data storage is out of date, choose a new system that's highly scalable. Target one that is reliable for long-term use. If, for example, you select one with the ability to support 384 cores and 24 TB of RAM, it may as well be limitless. At the very least, you won't find yourself in need of an upgrade in the near future.
On the software side, there are several factors you'll want to consider since SQL performance isn't just about speed but also data processing style. However, one way to gauge whether or not your software is up to the current data load is by performing regular response time analysis. Using response time analysis software, you can determine if your database is returning query responses within the normal time frame and identify bottlenecks and other problems within the system.
Driven By Data Styles
Another factor that contributes to SQL server performance is the relationship between the data type and volume and the protocols used to process it. For example, the best protocol for an in-house computer system, in which all the data is directly accessible, will inevitably perform more quickly than a remote server downloading information from IoT devices.
Why does this matter? As we embrace broader IoT rollout, more people will be using wearable devices for medical purposes – and a slight change in data can indicate serious health problems. These devices need high bandwidth and the fastest server response times in order to push necessary alerts along quickly. On the other hand, analysis driven programs can afford to have slower SQL within limits. Choose a platform and protocol that match your speed needs.
Cloud Considerations
If anything is likely to change SQL server performance in the next few years, it will be the introduction of 5G connectivity and cloud-based systems. First, the launch of 5G will enhance remote system connection, breaking down front line communication delays necessary for server-side operations.
Cloud storage, on the other hand, will be a boon to scalability. As with cloud-based SaaS, cloud storage is regularly updated, eliminating network upgrade delays and preventing slowdowns caused by insufficient storage within the system. Additionally, many companies prefer to operate via the cloud for security and stability reasons. Even with replication throughout, onsite physical operating systems tend to be much more prone to damage or failure than cloud storage.
With more companies moving to cloud-based storage systems, choosing the proper protocols will be more important than ever, so companies should emphasize working with cloud companies that are knowledgeable about your data niche. This can push query response times ahead of the competition, despite similar storage systems.
Down the road, business success will be largely contingent on SQL query speeds, determining factors like customer service quality and network reliability. This means bolstering not just storage volume but upkeep practices, such as regularly measuring response time and upgrading the network. Keeping huge volumes of data in play without processing delays is a challenge and the quickest companies will win the bulk of clients.

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It's All About Jesus!
Spirit of Prophecy Bulletin
SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns–01/02/12:
The worldly concerns that have kept you in fear and bondage will now give way to the reality and substance of your faith to trust Me in all things. For, I will direct your steps and be your rear guard. I am with you to give wisdom and guidance in all things.
Rise up from the burden of despair that has rendered you hopeless and helpless. Be done with the darkness of disappointment. I say, arise to new heights of faith and hope. You are not alone; I am with you to bring you through to victory.
Set a watch for situations that have the potential for rejection, offense, and division. Yours is to be humble and to pursue the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Then, trust Me to mend what has been fractured and to bring restoration and wholeness. It is time for all flesh that causes division to be cut off.
I am releasing you from boredom and stagnation to be revitalized. Shake yourself awake, and no longer be under the spell of spiritual slumber. Then, you will sense a surge of new excitement and anticipation for what I will do in you and with you in the days ahead.
Position yourself for discovery. Stay steady. Keep your focus. Don't be afraid to allow My Spirit to take you to greater heights and to reveal what has been hidden. Your new found sense of adventure will be delightful.
You are on the threshold of a new era in which you can begin again, says the Lord.
Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
One may have read the Spirit of Prophecy Bulletin for today. One may have been encouraged. Thank You Jesus!
One may have entered one's prayer closet at 3:30 AM. One may have praised the Lord with song, confessed one's sins, thanked the Lord and prayed for a passage of scripture for today's blog. One may have been led to Jeremiah 7 – Jeremiah's warning at the temple. Thank You Jesus!
One may have logged onto the website to pray for outstanding prayer requests. Thank You Jesus for answering each prayer request according to Your perfect will. Amen.
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Arla Foods, the UK dairy company, unveils a new service from OmPrompt that automates the manual processing of delivery discrepancy documentation. Arla makes 4,000 deliveries to stores and distribution centres a day. This activity can generate over 2,500 electronic goods receipt notes (GRNs) per customer, per week.
Ian Singleton, General Manager - Logistics Support at Arla comments, "Typically on a Monday, one member of the Customer Logistics Team would spend the day going through just one major retailer's delivery discrepancies. They would then do the same for our third party customers, and then process the claims received from our other retail customers."
When Arla announced it was to merge with Milk Link, another major dairy co-operative, it engaged OmPrompt to find a solution.
OmPrompt's Claims Validation service uses logic to dispose of large amounts of unnecessary information. It also enables the retailer's GRN data to be compared to that stored in the supplier's ERP system, providing validation of delivery discrepancies automatically.
Many retailers give suppliers a limited time period in which to respond to claims. During investigation, it is not uncommon for the retailer to send further updates to the GRN. The OmPrompt service works non-stop amending the original claims, which ensures that the claims reported to Arla will be the final ones requiring investigation.
Following the project, Arla's Logistics Support Team has more time to focus on investigating and defending claims and can concentrate on activity that adds value to Arla. For example, the team has found that looking for patterns and trends in the claims data can unveil specific problems, which can now be identified and addressed.


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Matthew Bunker Ridgway (March 3, 1895 – July 26, 1993) was a United States Army general. He held several major commands and was most famous for resurrecting the United Nations (UN) war effort during the Korean War. Several historians have credited Ridgway for turning the war around in favor of the UN side. His long and prestigious military career was recognized by the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 12, 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, who stated that "Heroes come when they're needed; great men step forward when courage seems in short supply."[1]
Ridgway was born March 3, 1895 in Fort Monroe, Virginia, to Colonel Thomas Ridgway, an artillery officer, and Ruth Ridgway. He lived in various military bases all throughout his childhood. He later remarked that his "earliest memories are of guns and Marching men, of rising to the sound of the reveille gun and lying down to sleep at night while the sweet, sad notes of 'Taps' brought the day officially to an end."
He graduated in 1912 from English High School in Boston[2] and applied to West Point because he thought that would please his father (who was a West Point graduate).[3]
Ridgway failed the entrance exam the first time due to his inexperience with mathematics, but after intensive self-study he succeeded the second time.[3] At West Point he served as a manager of the football team. In 1917, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. The same year he married Julia Caroline Blount. They had two daughters, Constance and Shirley, and divorced in 1930.[4]
A year after he graduated, Ridgway was assigned to West Point as an instructor in Spanish. He was disappointed that he was not assigned to combat duty in World War I, feeling that "the soldier who had had no share in this last great victory of good over evil would be ruined."[5]
During 1924 and 1925 Ridgway attended the company officers' course at the 15th Infantry in Tientsin, China.[6] This was followed by a posting to Nicaragua, where he helped supervise free elections in 1927.[2]
In 1930, he became an advisor to the War Plans Division shortly after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939. He served in the War Plans Division until January 1942, and was promoted to brigadier general that month.
In August 1942, upon Omar N. Bradley's assignment to the 28th Infantry Division, Ridgway was promoted to major general and was given command of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. The 82nd, having already established a combat record in World War I, had earlier been chosen to become one of the army's five new airborne divisions. The conversion of an entire infantry division to airborne status was an unprecedented step for the U.S. Army, and required much training, testing, and experimentation
Unlike his men, Ridgway did not first go through airborne jump school before joining the division. Ridgway successfully converted the 82nd into a combat-ready airborne division; he remained in command and eventually earned his paratrooper wings.
Ridgway helped plan the airborne invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and commanded the 82nd in combat there. During the planning for the invasion of the Italian mainland, the 82nd was tasked with taking Rome by coup de main in Operation Giant II. Ridgway strongly objected to this unrealistic plan, which would have dropped the 82nd on the outskirts of Rome in the midst of two German heavy divisions. The operation was cancelled only hours before launch. In 1944, Ridgway helped plan the airborne operations of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Europe. In the Normandy operations, he jumped with his troops, who fought for 33 days in advancing to Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte near Cherbourg (St Sauveur was liberated on June 14, 1944).
In September 1944, Ridgway was given the command of the XVIII Airborne Corps, which was then deployed in Operation Market Garden. The XVIII Airborne Corps also helped stop and later push back German troops during the Battle of the Bulge. In March 1945, he led his troops into Germany during Operation Varsity, and was wounded in the shoulder by German grenade fragments on March 24, 1945. In June 1945 he was promoted to lieutenant general. At war's end, Ridgway was on a plane headed for a new assignment in the Pacific theater, under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, with whom he had served while a captain at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Ridgway was a commander at Luzon for some time in 1945 before being given command of the U.S. forces in the Mediterranean Theater, with the title Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean. From 1946 to 1948, he served as the U.S. Army representative on the military staff committee of the United Nations. He was placed in charge of the Caribbean Command in 1948, controlling U.S. forces in the Caribbean, and in 1949 was assigned to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff for Administration under then Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins.
In December 1947 Ridgway married Mary Princess "Penny" Anthony Long, his third wife.[4] They remained married until his death 46 years later. In April 1949, their only child, Matthew Bunker Ridgway, Jr., was born. Ridgway's son was killed in an accident in 1971. His wife died in 1997.
Ridgway's most important command assignment occurred in 1950 after the death of Lieutenant General Walton Walker on December 23. Ridgway was assigned as Walker's replacement in command of the 8th U.S. Army, which had been deployed in South Korea in response to the invasion by North Korea in June of that year. At the time of his reassignment, Ridgway was serving on the Army staff in the Pentagon as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Administration.
When Ridgway took command of the 8th Army, the Army was still in a tactical retreat, after its strong foray into North Korea had been met with an unexpected and overwhelming Communist Chinese advance. Ridgway was successful in turning around the morale of the 8th Army.
Ridgway was unfazed by the Olympian demeanor of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, then overall commander of UN forces in Korea. MacArthur gave Ridgway a latitude in operations he had not given his predecessor. After Ridgway landed in Tokyo on Christmas Day 1950 to discuss the operational situation with MacArthur, the latter assured his new commander that the actions of Eighth Army were his to conduct as he saw fit. Ridgway was encouraged to retire to successive defensive positions, as was currently under way, and hold Seoul as long as he could, but not if doing so meant that Eighth Army would be isolated in an enclave around the capital city. Ridgway asked specifically that if he found the combat situation "to my liking" whether MacArthur would have any objection to "my attacking". MacArthur answered, "Eighth Army is yours, Matt. Do what you think best."[7]
Upon taking control of the battered Eighth Army, one of Ridgway's first acts was to restore soldiers' confidence in themselves. To accomplish this, he reorganized the command structure. During one of his first briefings in Korea at I Corps, Ridgway sat through an extensive discussion of various defensive plans and contingencies. At the end, he asked the staff about the status of their attack plans; the corps G–3 (operations officer) responded that he had no such plans. Within days, I Corps had a new G-3. He also replaced officers who did not send out patrols to fix enemy locations, and removed "enemy positions" from commanders' planning maps if local units had not been in recent contact to verify that the enemy was still there. Ridgway established a plan to rotate out those division commanders who had been in action for six months and replace them with fresh leaders. He sent out guidance to commanders at all levels that they were to spend more time at the front lines and less in their command posts in the rear. These steps had an immediate impact on morale.
With the entry of China, the complexion of the Korean War had changed. Political leaders, in an attempt to prevent expansion of the war, did not allow UN forces to bomb the supply bases in China, nor the bridges across the Yalu River on the border between China and North Korea. The American Army moved from an aggressive stance to fighting protective, delaying actions. Ridgway's second big tactical change was to make copious use of artillery.
China's casualties began to rise, and became very high as they pressed waves of attacks into the coordinated artillery fire. Under Ridgway's leadership, the Chinese offensive was slowed and finally brought to a halt at the battles of Chipyong-ni and Wonju. He then led his troops in a counter-offensive in the spring of 1951.
When General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of command by President Harry Truman in April, Ridgway was promoted to full general, assuming command of all United Nations forces in Korea. As commanding general in Korea, Ridgway gained the nickname "Old Iron Tits" for his habit of wearing hand grenades attached to his load-bearing equipment at chest level. Photographs however show he only wore one grenade on one side of his chest; the so-called "grenade" on the other side was in fact a first-aid packet.
General Ridgway urged the high commissioners to pardon all German officers convicted of war crimes on the Eastern Front of World War II. He himself, he noted, had recently given orders in Korea "of the kind for which the German generals are sitting in prison." His "honor as a soldier" forced him to insist upon the release of these officers before he could "issue a single command to a German soldier of the European army."[8]
In 1951 Ridgway was elected an honorary member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati.
Ridgway also assumed from MacArthur the role of military governor of Japan, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. During his tenure, Ridgway oversaw the restoration of Japan's independence and sovereignty on April 28, 1952.[9]
In May 1952, Ridgway replaced General
... he retired after finding himself in almost constant disagreement with Eisenhower...
...Ridgway overcame inadequacy. Although he completed all the military education available, it was only after intense crucible of three combat operations that he eventually applied operational art successfully. Ridgway achieved tactical success but did not adequately apply operational art from HUSKY, NEPTUNE and MARKET. Ridgeway learned from his failures and progressively improved his application of operational art during the BULGE and VARSITY. Not until his fifth experience, did he master operational art. ... the most important subcomponent of visualization depends on eleven elements of operational art. These elements are the template this monograph uses[31]
The United States Army School of Advanced Military Studies published a monograph in 2011. An excerpt from the abstract (p. 2):
Ridgway considered leadership to have three primary ingredients: character, courage, and competence. He described character—including self-discipline, loyalty, selflessness, modesty, and willingness to accept responsibility and admit mistakes—as the "bedrock on which the whole edifice of leadership rests." His concept of courage included both physical and moral courage. Competence included physical fitness, anticipating when crises will occur and being present to resolve them, and being close to subordinates—communicating clearly and ensuring that they are treated and led well and fairly.[30]
On the day of the Germans' furthest advance in the Battle of the Bulge, Ridgway commented to his subordinate officers in the XVIII Airborne Corps: "The situation is normal and completely satisfactory. The enemy has thrown in all his mobile reserves, and this is his last major offensive effort in this war. This Corps will halt that effort; then attack and smash him."[29]
During his career, Ridgway was recognized as an outstanding leader, earning the respect of subordinates, peers, and superiors. General Omar Bradley described Ridgway's work turning the tide of the Korean War as "the greatest feat of personal leadership in the history of the Army."[27] A soldier in Normandy remarked about an intense battle while trying to cross a key bridge, "The most memorable sight that day was Ridgway, Gavin, and Maloney standing right there where it was the hottest [heaviest incoming fire]. The point is that every soldier who hit that causeway saw every general officer and the regimental and battalion commanders right there. It was a truly inspirational effort." As GHQ Secretary, in 1952 that was indirect rule in Japan , carrying peace treaty , and recognized the remilitarization of Japan , it was realized the reconstruction of the current Maritime Self-Defense Force (Japan Navy). The underlying Japan-US alliance of the Cold War era is a person who consolidate. Even the 21st century now, his achievements have been positively evaluated in Japan."[28]
Ridgway died at his suburban Pittsburgh home at age 98 in July 1993 of cardiac arrest, holding permanent rank of General in the United States Army. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 7, Grave 8196-1[24] ().[25] In a graveside eulogy, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell said: "No soldier ever performed his duty better than this man. No soldier ever upheld his honor better than this man. No soldier ever loved his country more than this man did. Every American soldier owes a debt to this great man."[26]
On May 5, 1985 Ridgway was a participant in the Ronald Reagan visit to Kolmeshöhe Cemetery near Bitburg, when former Luftwaffe ace (fighter pilot) Johannes Steinhoff (1913 - 1994) in an unscheduled act firmly shook his hand in an act of reconciliation between the former foes.[22] [23]
Ridgway advocated maintaining a chemical, biological, and radiological weapons capability, arguing that they could accomplish national goals better than the weapons currently in use.[20] In 1976, Ridgway was a founding board member of the Committee on the Present Danger, which urged greater military preparedness to counter a perceived increasing Soviet threat.[21]
Ridgway continued to advocate for a strong military to be used judiciously. He gave many speeches, wrote, and participated in various panels, discussions, and groups. In early 1968, he was invited to a White House luncheon to discuss Indochina. After the luncheon, Ridgway met privately for two hours with President Lyndon Johnson and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. When asked his opinion, Ridgway advised against deeper involvement in Vietnam and against using force to resolve the Pueblo Incident.[18] In an article in Foreign Affairs, Ridgway stated that political goals should be based on vital national interests and that military goals should be consistent with and support the political goals, but that neither situation was true in the Vietnam War.[19]
In 1960, he retired from his position at the Mellon Institute but continued to serve on multiple corporate boards of directors, Pittsburgh civic groups and Pentagon strategic study committees.[17]
Ridgway remained very active in retirement both in leadership capacities and as a speaker and author. He relocated to the Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in 1955 after accepting the Chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the Mellon Institute as well as a position on the board of directors of Gulf Oil Corporation among others. The year after his retirement, he published his autobiography, Soldier: The Memoirs of Matthew B. Ridgway. In 1967, he wrote The Korean War.
President Eisenhower approved a waiver to the military's policy of mandatory retirement at age 60 so Ridgway could complete his two-year term as Chief of Staff.[14] However, disagreements with the administration mainly regarding the administration's downgrading of the Army in favor of the Navy and the Air Force, prevented him from being appointed to a second term.[15] Ridgway retired from the Army on June 30, 1955 and was succeeded by his one-time 82nd Airborne Division chief of staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor. Even after he retired, Ridgway was a constant critic of President Eisenhower.[16]
On August 17, 1953, Ridgway replaced General J. Lawton Collins as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. After Eisenhower was elected President, he asked Ridgway for his assessment of U.S. military involvement in Vietnam in conjunction with the French. Ridgway prepared a comprehensive outline of the massive commitment that would be necessary for success, which dissuaded the President from intervening. A source of tension was Ridgway's belief that air power and nuclear bombs did not reduce the need for powerful, mobile ground forces to seize land and control populations.[12] Ridgway was concerned that Eisenhower's proposal to significantly reduce the size of the Army would leave it unable to counter the growing Soviet military threat,[13] as noted by the 1954 Alfhem affair in Guatemala. These concerns would lead to recurring disagreements during his term as Chief of Staff.
[11] that "Ridgway had brought NATO to 'its realistic phase' and a 'generally encouraging picture of how the heterogeneous defense force is being gradually shaped.'"Harry Truman In a 1952 review, General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported to President [10]
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Richard Nixon, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Soviet Union, Brazil
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California Amateur to Hunt for Exoplanets
February 3, 2003 | A 52-year-old investment banker and venture capitalist from Newport Beach, California, will soon spend a night at Keck Observatory's control room in Hawaii as professional astronomers hunt for extrasolar planets. Walter W. Cruttenden won the seat by submitting the winning bid of $16,000 in a fundraising auction conducted by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) on eBay in January. On a date to be determined, Cruttenden and his guest will be flown to Hawaii's Big Island for the five-day adventure, which includes a tour of the twin 10-meter Keck telescopes atop Mauna Kea's 13,800-foot summit and a dinner hosted by University of California astronomer Geoff Marcy. The highlight will be joining Marcy and his colleagues as they measure radial velocities of stars in their search for planets beyond our solar system.
Proceeds from the auction will help support ASP's nationwide education and outreach programs. More information about the society and its activities can be found at www.astrosociety.org.
New Batch of Space Rocks
February 3, 2003 | Last week scientists announced the discovery and identification of six new lunar meteorites and three more rocks from Mars — the largest of the Martians weighing nearly a half kilogram. With the finds, the number of identified Martian meteories now stands at 28. Information about the chemical composition of the nine new rocks was published in the January 28th issue of the Meteoritical Bulletin.
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Whoa! Slow down. Wait a minute! Who forgot to tell me about Burmese food? I did, after all, date a girl from Myanmar once, and I have eaten at at least one Burmese restaurant in New York, but nothing I have experienced up to now could prepare me for my first real Burmese meal at Burma Superstar, Oakland. As an Asian food freak, who has tried practically every cuisine of the continent and subcontinent, I can now say that Burmese ranks up there as some of the best. It's not quite like Chinese and it's certainly not like Indian, but somewhere in the middle–as reflected in the geography of the country of Myanmar itself–there lies the perfect fusion, which is Burmese food.
I first heard about Burma Superstar through my friends Bill & Gigi. Bill having dined at their San Francisco location only had great things to report. Gigi's sister Tiyo, managed the place, so when I was looking for places in the Bay Area to have my book party, it was a no brainer. You already heard about how well that event went, but I have a secret confession to make: one reason I wanted to have my book party at Burma Superstar was so that I could try their food. In fact, I had to purposefully abstain from eating the Sri Lankan food that I had prepared for the party in order to have room for a full dinner at the restaurant–a small sacrifice which was well rewarded!
Joining me for dinner were 9 friends from the Bay Area (I didn't know I even had that many friends in the Bay Area), who were all veterans of Burma Superstar. While we perused the menu deciding what to have, Tiyo just started sending dishes out to us from the kitchen. First came the salads–the legendary tea leaf and rainbow salads–both of which were featured on Food Network. I had more than one recommendation to try the tea leaf salad, especially since it was dressed with a unique paste of fermented tea leaves. How do I describe the flavor of this special ingredient other than to say it was…singular…and most delicious! The salad comes with all of it's individual ingredients–including fried garlic, peanuts, sunflower seeds, tomatoes, romain lettuce, and dried shrimp–unmixed and the waitperson tosses them together at the table, which also adds a nice touch. The rainbow salad came with a similar presentation, helpful in identifying all 22 ingredients it is composed of, before being quickly devoured.
The dishes kept coming in such quick succession that all of us were kept very busy, spooning delicious tidbits onto our plates and making room at the table for everything. "Ooohs" and "Aaahs" replaced regular speech as we voiced our collective foodgasm over the great dishes we were tasting. So greedy was I that I forgot to take notes about individual plates, but much of my recollection of that evening is imprinted on my tongue. The curry pork with potatoes was incredibly moist and tender; the fiery tofu with vegetables, spicy/sweet; the sesame beef had a tanginess from the added tamarind; and the tender strips of chili lamb had a serious kick. The mango shrimp, a dish I had seen prepared in the kitchen also had the spicy/sweet combination, which I have come to associate with Burmese food. No where was there any coconut milk or curry leaves like Sri Lankan food, or kaffir lime leaves and galangal, like Thai. Simply Burmese cuisine in all its glory!
After such a feeding frenzy, I don't think anyone at the table was in any shape for dessert, but we had to go for it anyway. It's the first time I've ever seen 10 stuffed people share one dessert, the sticky black rice with coconut ice cream, which was, of course, another victory. Eating at Burma made us all feel like superstars.


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*'''[[Fatal Countenance]]:''' True form is lethal.
*'''[[Fatal Countenance]]:''' True form is lethal.
*'''[[Fatal Touch]]:''' Kill by beings touching the user.
*'''[[Fatal Touch]]:''' Kill by beings touching the user.
*'''[[Cardiology Manipulation|Heart Attack]]:''' Kill by causing
*'''[[Cardiology Manipulation|Heart Attack]]:''' Kill by causing attack.
*'''[[Heart Rip]]:''' Kill by removing the heart.
*'''[[Heart Rip]]:''' Kill by removing the heart.
*'''[[Killing Eyes]]:''' Kill by look.
*'''[[Killing Eyes]]:''' Kill by look.
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Power to cause death, either instantly or after certain time. Variation of Inducement. Opposite power of Life Inducement and Life-Force Generation.
Also Called
- Death Evocation
- Fatal Touch
- Killing Effect/Touch
- Instant Killing
- Necrogenesis
User can kill anyone and possibly even anything using varying means, either instantly, slowly over time, after certain conditions are met, or after a certain period of time has gone. May be used by touch, at a distance, simply willing it to happen, or performing certain ritual.
- Death Breath: Breath deathly energies.
- Death Beam: Fire a deathly energy that kills on contact.
- Death Blast: Shoot an energy blast that causes instant death on contact.
- Death Bomb: Create an explosion of killing forces.
- Death Bullet: Shoot a killing bullet at an opponent.
- Death Constructs: Create constructs from killing energy.
- Death Field Projection: Create a field that kills anything within the user's area.
- Death Infusion: Infuse a weapon with killing forces.
- Death Inscription: To write (or rip) a victim's name on a object or within a book inducing death.
- Death Shadow: Possess a lethal shadow.
- Death Song: Cause death by emitting sound.
- Death Virus: Set a mortal virus on an opponent.
- Death Wave: Create a wave of killing energy.
- Deoxygenation: Kill by removing oxygen.
- Double Hit Kill: Kill with two hits.
- Drowning: Kill by filling lungs with water.
- Fatal Countenance: True form is lethal.
- Fatal Touch: Kill by beings touching the user.
- Heart Attack: Kill by causing heart attack.
- Heart Rip: Kill by removing the heart.
- Killing Eyes: Kill by look.
- Kiss of Death: Kill an opponent with a kiss.
- Knowledge Projection: Kill an opponent by overloading their mind with knowledge.
- Laugh to Death: Kill an opponent by having them laugh to death.
- One Hit Kill: Kill with one hit.
- Oneiric Slaying: Kill via dreams/nightmares.
- Severing: Kill by severing the life-line.
- Suicide Inducement: Make the victim kill themselves.
- Age Manipulation
- Aspect Of Death
- Biological Manipulation
- Blood Manipulation
- Bone Removal
- Curse Inducement
- Death Aspect Manifestation
- Death Sense
- Death-Force Beam Emission
- Decomposition Manipulation
- Disease Manipulation
- Disintegration
- Extinction Inducement
- Grim Reaper Physiology
- Inducement
- Life-Force Absorption
- Necrosis Inducement
- Omnicide
- Organic Manipulation
- Poison Generation
- Probability Manipulation
- Summoning something to do the deed.
- Unavertable Death
- Vice Inducement
- Wound Transferal
- Immortality voids this power.
- May have limitations on distance.
- Those with Resurrection could undo the damage.
- Users may be limited on how many times they may kill (this also includes the targets they can kill at a time).
- May require physical contact.
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- Death (Mythology/Folklore)
- Yuyuko Saigyouji (Touhou Project)
- Death of the Endless (DC/Vertigo)
- Deities of Death (Mythologies)
- Dullahan (Celtic Mythology)
- Thanatos (Greek Mythology)
- The Fates (Greek Mythology)
- The Fates (Hercules)
- People with 'Death Note' books (Death Note)
- Ai Enma (Hell Girl)
- Aureolus Izzard (Toaru Majutsu no Index)
- Wizards and Witches via the Killing Curse (Harry Potter)
- Basilisks (Harry Potter)
- Makuta Teridax (Bionicle)
- Mata Nui (Bionicle)
- Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon)
- Mask of Life (Bionicle)
- Zeref (Fairy Tail)
- Damien Thorn (The Omen Series)
- Jeremy Greer (Heroes)
- Grim (The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
- Hela (Marvel)
- The Lich (Adventure Time)
- Most Reapers (Dead Like Me)
- Nyx (Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3)
- Izanami via Thousand Curses (Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4)
- Fiend Alice via Die For Me! (Shin Megami Tensei series)
- Mudo or Hama users (Shin Megami Tensei series)
- Death (Family Guy)
- Death (Supernatural)
- Reapers (Supernatural)
- Tyler Randall (Smallville)
- Chrissy Parker (Smallville)
- Monsieur-Folie (Super/Roulette)
- Hachiouji Saechika (Code: Breaker)
- Okada Gou (Alive: The Final Evolution)
- Suì-Fēng (Bleach)
- Soul Collectors (Charmed)
- Angel of Death (Charmed)
- Abyss (Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes)
- Kaine (Marvel Comics) via Mark of Kaine
- Shinigami (Death Note)
- Light Yagami (Death Note) via Death Note
- Prince Wayfinder (Marvel Comics)
- Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Jasmine (Angel)
- Selene (Underworld)
- Kayako Saeki (The Grudge)
- Samara Morgan (The Ring)
- Ghosts (Calling)
- Ghosts (Fatal Frame series)
- The Guardian (The Ultima series)
- Blackheart (Marvel Comics)
- Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers)
- Jackie Estacado (Witchblade)
- The Darkness (Witchblade)
- Black Hand (DC Comics)
- Sylar (Heroes)
- Pyramid Head (Silent Hill)
- Akuma (Street Fighter)
- Zarathos (Marvel Comics)
- Aquaman (DC Comics)
- Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
- Minato Namikaze (Naruto)
- Kitana (Mortal Kombat)
- Rogue (Marvel Comics)
- Imhotep (The Mummy)
- Enerjak (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Cybermen (Doctor Who)
- Sailor Saturn (Sailor Moon manga/anime)
- John Morlar (The Medusa Touch)
- Oyama Tadanori (Usagi Yojimbo)
- Witches using Ramus Mortium (Witches of East End)
- Hellmaster Phibrizzo (Slayers)
- Ruvik (The Evil Within)
Known Objects
- Last Word (Planescape)
- Death Note (Death Note)
- Ramus Mortium (Witches of East End)
- Argentium (Witches of East End)
- Straw dolls (Hell Girl)
- The Cursed Idol (Happy Tree Friends)
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The World & his Wife is considered by its author to be the first play in which he found his own, unique voice. Exuberant, verbally incendiary, satirical in both content and form, visionary in scope - The World & his Wife sets an embryonic and wildly anarchic pattern for what would be JMC's own singular form of theatrical expression.
Inspirations informing this style include the grotesque Total Theatre of Stephen Berkoff, the caustic and scatological language of British dramatist Howard Barker, the anarchic camp of Joe Orton, the ritual nihilism of Jean Genet. The World & his Wife combines these "arty" influences with a form derived from domestic comedy and sitcom; characterisation close to Carry On films and cartoons; content wolfed down from Tabloid headlines and vomited back up with a caricatured exuberance worthy of Hogarth or Rowlandson. The World & his Wife lacks the verbally poetic and spiritual dimensions which were to become central to JMC's plays from Fat Souls onwards, but its nightmare vision of a humanity trapped in endless cycles of violence gives it the quality of a Blakeian vision, even if its composition pre-dates JMC's reading of Blake.
The story of Mike and Christine Mann came out of JMC's discontent, as a gay man and as a nascent anarchist, with normative relationship forms, which in his experience often led to stagnation, mutual recrimination, compromise and mutual loathing. The World & his Wife exaggerates the problem to wild extremes, a deliberate strategy which takes its lead from Howard Barker's maxim "Long live exaggeration / It brings you somewhere near the actual horror" - Barker, Don't Exaggerate (1989).
The World & his Wife's subplot involving the Scissors Freak killings took its inspiration from JMC's then-current reading of accounts of lust killings in popular true crime literature as well as his exploration of the life and work of the notorious 18th century literary genius The Marquis de Sade. In The World…, Inspector Ness's encyclopaedic and gratuitously explicit accounts of the Scissors Freak's murders are a provocation to the audience's stamina and patience, testing how much horror they are willing to take at the same time as daring them to loud out loud at the sheer brazen appalling gall of what they are hearing and witnessing. In his 2006 essay Just Whose Journey is This?, JMC says of these scenes that they "literally dare the audience to stay and watch or walk out in outrage and disgust. The stakes involved in the contents of the play are high enough that the audience are forced to make a moral decision as to whether they wish to continue watching the play or not. It also dares them to laugh out loud at the sheer mean-spiritedness and low-down nastiness of these moments."
In a footnote to that essay, JMC draws a comparison between his technique in The World & his Wife and that of one of his favourite novelists: "I was later impressed that a writer I admire, Brett Easton Ellis, has taken a similar approach to portraying life in that decade in his seminal American Psycho." Here, JMC explicitly states that The World & his Wife is a response to the Thatcherite 1980s. The virulent feminism of Melissa owes something to Andrea Dworkin's radical 1979 study Pornography: Men Possessing Women.
The World & his Wife remains JMC's favourite of his early plays. Its dramatic strategies are both daring and challenging, stretching received forms and often mocking them in the process. The characters launch into long verbal arias which make no sense as realistic drama but work as parodies of plays in which characters make long speeches. Its refusal to take even the most "important" of subjects as an excuse for moral lecturing and the performance of authorial virtue make it the antithesis of a Royal Court drama like Masterpeices by Sarah Daniels, which JMC found both unintentionally hilarious and patronising to its audience.
In some ways, The World & his Wife is an anti-play. That it is also hilariously funny and wildly entertaining only emphasises its difference in kind from the po-faced and self-regarding issue drama favoured by the British theatre's liberal elite. The World & his Wife is, then, more Ubu than Ibsen; more Bunuel than Caryl Churchill.
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New York Times Paywall Helps it Turn a Profit
The New York Times Co. turned a third-quarter profit and now has 324,000 paid digital subscribers — about 40,000 more than the prior quarter, the company reported Thursday.
The modest profit of $15.7 million compares to a loss of $4.3 million for the year-ago quarter. Circulation revenue grew by 3.4% to $237 million. However, ad sales fell 8.8% to $262 million as national and classified advertising remained slack and online advertising for the Times-owned About.com was singled out for being "particularly weak."
The Times Co. highlighted growth in its paid digital products as "a new revenue stream that has helped offset a decline in advertising revenue." The newspaper launched a paywall on its website in March. It goes into effect after you access more than 20 articles in a month. After that, you can choose from $15 for four weeks of access to NYTimes.com and a mobile app, $20 for four weeks of access to the website and iPad app or $35 for all of the above.
Given the tiered pricing structure, it's impossible to extrapolate how much The Times is making from its digital subscriptions and the company hasn't disclosed a figure. The range is from $4.86 million to $11.34 million. The 324,000 figure doesn't include 100,000 people who get free access to the homepage thanks to a Ford Motor sponsorship. The Times also reported that 800,000 print subscribers have opted to link their accounts to NYTimes.com for free access.
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On Sunday I took a trip with my Brother in Law and oldest Nephew to the little local military museum across the other side of town to me.
I'd heard it was a little "quirky" so I went with fairly low expectations but happily it was far better than I was expecting and had indeed been lead to believe.
Housed in an old Drill hall it covers the period from Waterloo to the present in a series of glass cabinets. There is quite a bit of local interest too; from talking with the owner/ proprietor it seems that they get left quite a few things from when relatives clear houses that belonged that older generation, that is sadly passing with increasing rapidity.
We went round the museum clockwise starting with the oldest display case.
Apologies for the low level of photo quality – using a phone camera through glass isn't the easiest of tasks.
Moving in to WW" which makes up the majority of the collection:
The item that I was most keen to see was a map that I knew that they possessed; it is of Huddersfield, printed and annotated by the Germans to be used in the administration of the town in a post successful Operation Sealion environment. Chilling stuff really….
A quirky little place that appeals to my sense of aesthetics, not as flash as the Royal Armouries or IWM North but better for it. Well worth a hour or two of your time if you are in the area.
Extra info here: http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/community/localorgs/orgdetails.asp?OrgID=2717


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Comment | Bobak Ferdowsi! But What's in a Name?
by SANAZ RAJI
10 Oct 2012 19:13Comments
A questionable quest for "authenticity" in the Iranian diaspora.
Kate Miltner has written a superb piece for the Guardian that explores why "NASA Mohawk Guy" memes took off on social media. I would like to build on her examination by unpacking a theme regarding Ferdowsi that I found circulated by friends in the Iranian diaspora on Facebook. These two comments are indicative:
"Babak Ferdowsi [sic] is the flight captain who landed the most high-tech robot on Mars this week. Can a name and look be more Persian than his? Go Babak [sic]; we are so proud of you."
":))) and he could not have a more iranian name!"
What I found troubling was how Ferdowsi was praised by some in the Iranian diaspora for having a traditional Persian, rather than Muslim, first and last name. It got me thinking: Would his accomplishment have been seen as lesser if he had a Muslim name such as Mohammed Ali Fathi, Hamid Najafi, Seyyed Mir Hosseini, or Reza Sharifi? Why are Iranians abroad obsessed with the notion of an Iran devoid of its Islamic heritage? Perhaps this obsession is related to how we have constructed our historical vision in the years since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
For a long time now, some members of the Iranian diaspora have edited Iranian history and culture by disproportionately exalting pre-Islamic Persian dynastic history, art, and literature to counter what they view as the "bastardized" Islamic heritage forced upon Iranians by the Arab invasions in the seventh century (Naficy 1993, Spellman 2004, Sullivan 2001). At the same time, some have looked down on and shamefully sought to hide the Islamic element within the diaspora. As indicated by Kelly (1993) and Mostofi (2003), the majority of Iranians who emigrated after 1979 left their homeland with pro-Western ideals, including the virtue of secularization and modernization, along with anti-Islamic ones.
The anti-Islamic ideals prevalent in the Iranian diaspora, what I call an internalized Islamophobia, have their roots in the large-scale Westernization project that started in 19th-century Iran and continued until the end of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The Pahlavi shahs' brute Westernization, which reached an apex with the outlawing of hejab and forced unveiling of women in 1935, produced a class of Iranians who looked with disdain at those who were religious and eschewed the modernization push. Today, internalized Islamophobia is used by Iranians abroad as a means of controlling the diaspora's public image by enforcing a demarcation between those who are deemed to be civilized, progressive, and therefore "authentic" Iranians versus those deemed religiously devout and thus cultural embarrassments.
It is understandable that many in the diaspora have a complicated relationship with Islam. After all, we've seen the Islamic Republic employ a very narrow interpretation of the faith to further many questionable social and political ideologies that affect our compatriots both in Iran and abroad. Nevertheless, the Iranian diaspora's fraught relationship with the Islamic Republic and its version of Islam should not deter us from recognizing the contribution that Islam has made to Iranian culture and, likewise, the contribution that Iranians have made to Islam. There are many Iranians abroad who privately practice Islam that are neither agents of the Islamic Republic nor fundamentalists. Rather they are sincere believers, many of whom do not agree with how Islam has been hijacked by the Islamic Republic. We should embrace the diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds within our Iranian culture without continuing to rehash controversies over what is more "truly" Persian, hence, more authentic.
Ultimately, it should not matter what sort of name an Iranian in the diaspora has. An important question we need to address as a diasporic community is, Are we truly inclusive to all Iranians, or to just a select few whom we deem to embody a very restricted notion of Iranianness?
See ">video: "Arab, Go Home."
Works cited:
Kelley, Ron (1993). "Ethnic and Religious Communities From Iran In Los Angeles," in Irangeles: Iranians in Los Angeles, ed. Ron Kelley, Jonathan Friedlander, and Anita Colby. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Mostofi, Nilou (2003). "Who We Are: The Perplexity of Iranian-American Identity," The Sociological Quarterly. 44:4, 681-703.
Naficy, Hamid. (1993). The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Spellman, Kathryn. (2004). Religion and Nation: Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain. New York: Berghahn Books.
Sullivan, Zohreh T. (2001). Exiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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County Championship: Kent stand-in skipper Joe Denly hoping to impress with bat against Pakistan
PUBLISHED: 17:45 26 April 2018
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Kent's acting captain Joe Denly is hoping to make a big impact with the bat when the county host Pakistan this weekend for a four-day, first-class fixture at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence.
It will be the 10th time Kent have welcomed Pakistan to Canterbury and Denly, who spent much of February and March starring for the Karachi Kings in this year's Pakistan Super League T20 tournament, is keen to end his lean run of early-season domestic form.
"I see the game against Pakistan as a great opportunity, not only for myself, but for the entire Kent side," said the former England one-day batsman. "It's a chance to test yourself against an international-class line up and give yourself a thorough exam as to where you are in your career as a player. If you can perform well in a game like this, then there's no doubt you'll take a lot of confidence from it moving forward."
Denly, who scored three 50s whilst playing alongside tourists Mohammad Amir and Babar Azam for the Karachi T20 franchise, added: "They are quality players and I'm looking forward to catching up with them this week. I loved my time out at the PSL and enjoyed finding some decent form.
"I have to admit that I haven't spent too much time out in the middle for Kent so far this season. So it'll be nice if I can reverse that trend over the four days. I'll be looking to get a big score under my belt for sure and spend as much time out there as I can.
"I know from personal experience that there are some really talented guys in this Pakistan squad and our bowling unit are in for a challenging week. Likewise, when it comes to batting, we will be tested with every delivery but I hope it's a challenge we're all up for."
Like Denly, Mickey Arthur, Pakistan's head coach, is also backing his side to provide the host county with a stern examination from Saturday.
"We are a very confident outfit," said Arthur. "We are a young team and we're here trying to resurrect our Test side.
"We feel we've got our white-ball [cricket] where we need it now, so we are really excited about this upcoming series with England.
"I'm really excited to see how these young guys come out and perform. There's some incredible talent in our dressing room, so let's hope it all goes well for us.
"This is a slightly different Pakistan squad but I do believe our players can adjust to the different conditions over here. We know you have to bowl slightly different lengths, we know you have to play the ball a lot later in England and cover off stump rather than leg stump.
"We have been through all that with them, it is just how quick we can adapt as a side. We have got a lot of time here – we have got the game here at Canterbury then one at Northampton, the Test against Ireland and then a two-day game at Leicester before we play England at Lord's. We have got a lot of preparation and I am sure we have guys who are good enough to adapt."
The South African added: "Preparation is really important and the calendar doesn't usually allow for much, so for us to be able to come here and get this much preparation is amazing. I think it'll help the team adjust.
"Winning away from home is really tough and not many teams win away, but to give yourself the best chance you have to have good preparation.
"The mood in the camp is excellent and the guys are very excited. They are a young group, so for them to come to England is amazing for them.
"There is a lot of vibrancy in this team, they are fit and raring to go. This bunch have first crack at rebuilding the Test side and that task starts here. This is a really important match for us, Kent are a team on the up and we are going to play at Test match intensity."
Kent and Pakistan last met in 2010 – when Denly, as a 24-year-old opener, hit 60-odd in each innings to secure the last of Kent's five draws against the tourists. The county's sole victory over Pakistan came in 1987, when Alan Igglesen's haul of five for 60 and a fiery return of three for 52 for West Indies paceman Eldine Baptiste, helped clinch an innings and 152-run win.
The hosts are likely to rotate their bowling options and Kiwi strike bowler Matt Henry and all-rounder Darren Stevens may well be rested. Ivan Thomas, Alex Blake and Calum Haggett are likely to be included in a 13-man squad to be named on the eve of the game.
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A new "powerhouse" is emerging in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India. Public and private companies have proposed 168 massive dams, to produce 57,000 megawatts of hydropower, in this strategically important region, which borders Myanmar in the east, Bhutan in the west and China in the north.
All of these dams are proposed for the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River and its tributaries in Arunachal Pradesh and in Assam, the next state downstream. The Brahmaputra – known as the Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet, where it originates, and the Jamuna in Bangladesh – is one of the world's largest rivers. Together with the Barak River, it ties together much of north-eastern India, a region known for its flora, fauna and cultural diversity.
The issue of big dams in north-east India is getting more complex every day. Resentment against the projects has already led to a series of agitations by civil society and Adivasi groups, mostly in Assam. The epicentre of the controversy now is the Lower Subansiri Dam, a 2,000 megawatt hydroelectric project being built by the state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC). The project is located in Gerukamukh on the lower reaches of the Subansiri, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, on the border of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and is the largest dam in India now under construction.
But, since December 16 last year, work on the project has been almost at a standstill, thanks to opposition, led in Assam by a farmers' organisation called Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) that campaigns for the rights of landless Adivasi. The protesters say the dam will affect the flow of water on the Brahmaputra, which will impact irrigation downstream, and increase the danger of sudden floods in an area that is already highly flood-prone. The protesters have clashed with the police many times. On one occasion, the police opened fire,injuring many protesters.
Dissent is also growing over the proposed 1,750-megawatt Demwe Lower Hydroelectric Project, positioned barely 800 metres from Parsuram Kund, a sacred Hindu site on the Lohit River in Arunachal Pradesh. Reports say the 13,000-crore rupee (US$2.6 billion) project will likely involve the felling of more than 43,000 trees and threaten endangered wildlife species including the Bengal Florican and the Ganges River Dolphin. The project will destroy forests that Mishmi tribes rely on for their traditional livelihood practices, such as jhum cultivation and involve the eviction of people from the Riverine islands of Lohit River and also from the settlements along the Dibru Saikhowa National Park.
Ethnic minority communities like the Lepchas of Sikkim and Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh have expressed apprehension about the multiple mega-dam projects on their native soil. But at the same time, some of the 20-odd major tribes in Arunachal Pradesh have supported the dams. Environmentalists say that the support is coming from tribes with a stake in the state's ruling Congress party, while those who would be displaced by the dams are from smaller tribes, with fewer votes.
Raju Mimi, a young activist from the Idu Mishmi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, explained how his community of around 12,000 has been protesting against construction of the 3,000-megawatt Dibang hydroelectric project in the Lower Dibang Valley: "The whole dam-building process has been going on without taking the people into confidence or their participation. Most of the local people are dependent on agriculture and are not ready for such big dam projects. They will be further marginalised culturally, economically and politically." Mimi also said that powerful tribes have been promised money or other benefits from the projects and see them as a route to power and riches.
The NGO Forum for Siang Dialogue has been leading the movement against the 2,700-megawatt Lower Siang Dam in Arunachal Pradesh and a 10,000-megawatt dam on the Upper Siang. (The Yarlung Zangbo is called the Siang as it enters Arunachal Pradesh from China; it becomes the Brahmaputra further downstream.) The forum's spokesperson Vijay Taram said: "In the belts inhabited by the Adi tribe [which has a population of over 150,000], 43 massive dams are coming up. We are on the verge of being annihilated by all these developmental activities. Our language, forest, rivers, culture, tradition and identity will perish.
"This land belonged to our forefathers and today we are being asked to vacate our land. The compensation offered is also meagre – just 1.5 lakh rupees [US$3,000] per hectare." He added that their village elders have repeatedly pleaded for the Siang to be able to "flow of its free will". The forum supports construction of small dams.
Developers point out that each hydro project was approved by the state and federal governments only after a detailed Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Under the law, open consultations with affected people – called public hearings – are supposed to be integral to an EIA. Activists and local residents argue that these public hearings were not held in a transparent or inclusive manner.
There is little sign so far that either the state authorities or India's central government is going to agree with the opponents of the dams. But the opposition to dam-building continues to grow.
Apart from the committed supporters and opponents of the dams, public opinion in north-eastern India is veering in favour of a consensus based on scientific opinion. But both physical and social scientists are working in largely uncharted waters. There is an immediate need to study the hydrology, ecology and society of the entire Brahmaputra basin in far more detail than has been done to date.
Teresa Rehman is a journalist based in Assam, north-east India. An earlier version of this story was first published on chinadilaogue.net.
Photo: Demonstration against Dams in Subansiri Valley. Credit: International Rivers
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I went to see the Mel Gibson film, "The Passion of the Christ" last night.
Like most, I am still struggling to process all I saw in the film. To some extent, having seen it several days after its release, and after hearing and reading so many other's thoughts about it, I guess I was less shocked by the horrendous amount of violence than I might have initially been. I was, however, taken aback by the unimaginable pain and suffering one man was willing to take.
I too sat in silence for several minutes after the end of the film, and listened to the sobs and sniffles of others around me. Very little was spoken between me and my wife on our way home as I attempted to reconcile in my mind the visions I'd had over the years about what happened to my Lord and what I'd just seen portrayed on the screen.
I have never read the Gospel accounts of the crucifixion and thought, "The Jews did this to Him." Nor can I understand how anyone could watch this film and think the same. I am too struck by what Jesus suffered and what role I played in that suffering to think about anyone else.
But, after taking some time to think about it all, I have a confession to make: I'm not sure I was moved in the same way I've heard virtually everyone else say they were moved.
You know what I saw in that movie last night?
I watched, sensed and felt the overwhelming Power of our Almighty God!
From the opening sequence, after watching Jesus sweat blood in anguish, and spiritually wrestle with ever-present evil, I watched Him stomp the head of the snake with Power.
I watched as He healed the ear of a man who was there to arrest him. Among the fighting with swords and knives, Jesus displayed his Power.
I watched this man take more physical abuse than any one man would ever be able to stand, and I watched the surprise on the Roman soldier's faces when Jesus stood up. Power.
I watched a Man who'd been flogged to within an inch of His life fearlessly tell the most politically powerful man in that area that he had no Power over Him. Even when offered a chance at freedom, He held firm with Power.
I saw a Man – a Man of unending peace – who rocked the spiritual and political leadership of the day to its very core because of His Power. This is a Man who never raised a violent hand to anyone, yet the whole city reached near riot conditions. Since that time, wars have been fought, whole cultures have been annihilated, kingdoms have fallen, and our world still battles over faith in Him, all because of the Power He held and still holds.
One Man.
I saw a Man, who by any rational thought should have already been dead, carry a cross that other healthy men struggled to move. By himself, for some distance. Power.
I watched as this Man was literally nailed to a cross, and then prayed forgiveness for those who swung the hammer. With Power.
I shed a tear when He unselfishly pardoned a man next to Him. Beaten and flogged, bleeding to death, He didn't cry for Himself. With Power, He assured a criminal that he would be in paradise.
I watched a Man who didn't die at the will of men, but only when He gave up His spirit to God the Father. Even now, we say things like, "We killed Him. I am responsible for His death." And in a spiritual sense, that is ever so true. But physically, even though it was ultimately His destiny to die for our sins, we still could not kill Him on our terms. He died according to the will and the plan of the Almighty God. No amount of beating and torture could change it. He died on His terms. That's Power.
I watched a Man's death shake the Earth, and tear the temple in two, and send all those who had been laughing and mocking and hitting only moments earlier running in fear. No other man has enough Power even in life to shake the Earth. Let alone by His death.
I saw blood and water flow from his side with Power. The Roman soldier who pierced his side had probably played in a part in hundreds of other's deaths. Yet he was awed by the Power.
I'd heard all the reports from others about the stunned silence of moviegoers during this film, so I must admit I was surprised at myself, and too intimidated to do what I wanted to do; which was to stand up and scream, "Glory and Honor!" As I watched Him die, I couldn't help but think that no other man's life or death has ever had, or ever will have, the impact on this world as His. I was in awe! When the stone rolled away a few minutes later, and I saw Jesus standing there anew, I wanted to shout out again!
After 2000 years, this man's death is still shaking the world. Name me one other person who died nearly two millennia ago who could generate so much controversy. Forget that! Name me anybody period who has the kind of influence over the events of the world Jesus does. How a relatively low budget film about one Man's death would rock the world as this has. Nobody has that kind of Power.
You know, we can make a film with false accusations about Jesus, and while it will be lauded as artistic, it is also easily dismissed with little fanfare. There have been other films or documentaries about Jesus that have generated to some degree debate, but for the most part, those are lowly, pathetic, forgotten films that had no real impact on those of faith and those without.
So why is this film any different? One could argue that it was produced by a Hollywood heavyweight like Mel Gibson and point to that as the source of its giant publicity. Or one could point to the anti-Semitic message it supposedly offers.
But that's not it.
It's the Power of the Truth. The Truth of Scripture. The Truth of Jesus Himself. You can confront people all day with falsehoods, and they can turn their back with ease. But when you confront someone with the Truth of Christ, they have to face it. They have to make a decision. And if they attempt not to, the spiritual struggle that happens within their soul will never allow for rest. The Power of the Truth of Jesus, and the Power of the Cross is one that cannot, under any circumstances, be dismissed. People spend their whole lives running from it, only to be confronted by it with their own mortality. Everyone knows they have to face it one day, whether they want to or not, and this movie has thrown that Truth and that Power into people's faces far sooner than many of them ever wanted.
That's why this movie has shaken the world. Because it is about Jesus, and Jesus has been shaking the world since the dawn of time.
I left in pain -- pain for what Jesus had to endure. And make no mistake, I am now doing, and will continue for some time to do, some deep soul-searching on the realization of the atrocities this Man was willing to suffer for me. But I also left thrilled and awed. Because this one Man, with Power, was able to take the very worst we could throw at Him and turn it into a Victory for us all! Under no circumstances did I leave happy. But I did indeed leave with a renewed sense of how truly great my Lord and Savior is.
I recommend this film, and each who sees it will have to come to their own conclusions about how it makes them feel.
I hurt, and I am renewed.
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I am so glad I read this article. You have highlighted areas in this entry that many people might have missed, and myself. Truth and Power come to the forefront. I was incensed by the suffering and abuse that our Saviour had to endure and wondered if these were not over done, but the Power of Jesus comes through loud and clear now that you have pointed it out. Truth I've always seen as the essence of His being. Thanks so much for sharing.
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