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The first video in the "Putting Racism on the Table" series is now live! The video features Professor john a. powell, Professor of Law and Professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, speaking on structural racism. After you've had a chance to view the video, we encourage you to share your thoughts on the series in general or on the specific topic via Twitter, using the hashtag #PuttingRacismOnTheTable, and on WRAG's Facebook page. (Daily, 3/9)
– The American Academy of Pediatrics is encouraging a new policy that would have pediatricians begin screening children for poverty by asking their parents if they are able to meet their family's financial needs. The move comes as part of an effort to improve mental health and public health outcomes in children, by addressing the impact of toxic stress caused by poverty. (USN, 3/9)
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Aug. 31, 2011 – AS Muslims across the country join the rest of the world to mark this year's Eid-El-Fitri, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday urged all Nigerians irrespective of their religion to support President Goodluck Jonathan in his determination to bring about development in the country.
In a statement by the party's National Publicity Secretary, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, the PDP also called on Nigerians to imbibe the spirit of love, peace, tolerance and sacrifice.
The statement read, "the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, AlhAJI Abubakar Kawu Baraje on behalf of the National Working Committee, NWC, and the entire members and supporters of our great party sends our warmest greetings to all our Muslim brothers and sisters on the occasion of Eid-el-Fitri.
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Dina Esfandiary is a fellow at The Century Foundation. Her research focuses on Persian Gulf security, Iran's foreign relations, and relations between states and non-proliferation in the Middle East. She is also an international security program research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Prior to this, she was an adjunct fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) Middle East Program and a fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) in the War Studies Department at King's College London. She worked in the non-proliferation and disarmament programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London from October 2009.
She has published widely, including in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the Washington Post, International Affairs, the National Interest, Arms Control Today, and The Washington Quarterly. Dina is the co-author of Triple-Axis: Iran's Relations with Russia and China (I.B Taurus, 2018), and Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is completing her PhD in the War Studies Department at King's College London and she holds master's degrees from King's College London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.


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Bassmaster Magazine, volume one, issue one—his face was on it. The sheepish grin peeking out of from under an orange-brimmed hat belonged to Jimmy Holt. Presumably, he'd hoisted the three-fish stringer of bass resting in his hands just moments earlier, fishing through the rain on some stormy spring day in 1968.
When anglers received their very first copy of Bassmaster Magazine that year, Otis Redding would have been topping their radio charts, and Jimmy Holt would have been the face of their sport.
Before Bobby Murray or Don Butler, Bill Dance or Roland Martin, Rick Clunn or Hank Parker, and Denny Brauer or Kevin VanDam, the bass fishing world saw Jimmy Holt, the fishing editor at the Nashville Tennesseean.
Holt passed away Wednesday evening due to complications from cancer. He was 86 years old.
Though Holt's B.A.S.S. career lasted only through its first ever tournament, he leaves behind a Hall of Fame career as an outdoor writer, having shared a 2002 induction to the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame with Roland Martin, Bill Dance, Earl Bentz, and Charlie Brewer.
More than a one hit wonder, Holt chose to share his love of fishing by bringing the world on the water to those who were off of it. In 1952, he began a career at the Tennesseean that saw him rise from the ranks of its photographers to become the outdoor editor in 1972. By that time, he'd been hosting a Nashville-area outdoors show on WDCN -TV for three years. The Tennessean Outdoorsman Show was so popular that it once hosted President Jimmy Carter as a guest, and its run on public television lasted from 1969 to 2001.
Holt remained the face of it for three decades.
"When I got here 37 years ago, he was one of the guys that was already doing a lot of TV," says Tennessee's Wild Side Radio co-host Joey Monteleone. "Jimmy's show was for the everyday angler. It was like sitting on a front porch listening to a storyteller, and that had a global appeal for lot of people. He had a way about him that made everyone feel comfortable. It was a southern charm as much as anything."
Holt's charm won the hearts of viewers across the Southeast, and eventually the votes of fellow citizens in Nashville, who elected him as a Metro councilman in 1994. In the mid-90's, Holt—already a survivor of a battle with lung cancer a decade prior—co-sponsored a bill to restrict smoking in all city buildings.
"Jimmy never met a stranger," remembers long-time friend a fishing legend Bill Dance. "I don't care who you are, when you walked away from Jimmy, you had a smile on your face."
"Jimmy was a tremendous fisherman," Dance recalls. "I remember he participated in that very first tournament we had on Beaver Lake, and I believe he weighed in the smallest stringer of bass that's ever been weighed at a B.A.S.S. tournament, but he really was an excellent, excellent fisherman. He was the who's who of fishing at Dale Hollow, Old Hickory, Center Hill and all of the lakes around Nashville."
Dance recalls seeing Holt on the cover of the very first Bassmaster and realizing that bass fishermen's dreams were starting to come true. "I thought it was a fantastic thing," he adds. "It was Ray [Scott's] dream to promote the tournaments and to promote our sport, and Jimmy was behind it 100-percent. Jimmy helped Ray a lot back in those early days. We were only as good as the writers that helped support us."
As for Holt's continued legacy in the outdoors? The man with his own orange-brimmed hat says Holt's impact will continue to be felt in fishing.
"When you come to Nashville and ask for Jimmy Holt, you are going to miss him," he says. "I know I'm going to miss him, but as long as you call his name, he'll always be remembered."
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Water Science & Policy
The study of Water Science & Policy is a new focus area for this department, reflecting the breadth of research and teaching in these subjects. This also reflects a burgeoning recognition of how water operates in people's daily lives, whether they are in Eugene or Mexico City, and in international context, such as the hydropolitics of the Jordan River in the Middle East. New and innovative research examining river dynamics, including how land management systems can effect stream flow, which can severely influence erosion and flooding, is reflected in our courses and fieldwork of faculty. Water is a universal human need, and the politics and ecologies of management will be at the forefront of the international agenda in the 21st Century.
Faculty research includes:
- Human responses to historic floods and the ability of rivers to regenerate fish habitat in the Pacific Northwest (McDowell and Marcus)
- The political ecology of water governance and urban slums in Mexico (Meehan)
- Developing river channel restoration objectives through detailed studies of channel morphology (McDowell)
- Quantifying the riverscape through new remote sensing technology (Fonstad, Marcus)
What kinds of jobs might a focus in Water Science & Policy prepare you for?
These courses focus on developing skills in understanding the ecological, geomorphic, political and economic processes that influence how rivers are used, managed, and disputed. A spatial perspective on water will allow you to understand how these processes play out in different places and under different river ecologies and management regimes. You will develop an understanding of multiple concepts from how land use can affect sediment transport and salmon survival to the impacts of dams on rivers, especially in the light of a movement to remove dams from rivers throughout the US West. You will also develop an understanding of how governance systems influence how people use (and abuse) water both in the US and abroad, and engage in a critical look at how water, a resource all people rely upon, is manipulated by economic systems, development, and international relations.
More specifically, people with a focus in water science and policy might look for jobs that look at river systems or development in both national and international contexts, including:
- Design plans to restore river systems;
- Manage state (or city) water programs;
- Mediate between stakeholder groups utilizing water resources;
- Develop plans for water disasters, such as flooding or oil spills;
- Water quality monitoring
- Work for a development agency on encouraging local water systems;
- Research culturally an socially appropriate sanitation practices;
- Conduct feasibility studies for proposed water development projects;
- And more!
Some jobs titles include:
Water Programs Manager
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Water Resource Specialist
Project Manager for international projects
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Check out the Jobs for Geographers page for a few examples of current jobs and resources to search for many more!
If you have more questions about what you can do with a focus in Water Science & Policy, contact Dr Leslie McLees, the Undergraduate Coordinator & Advisor at email@example.com
Note: Occasionally GEOG 410 is also offered as a course that would count towards the Environmental Systems Concentration. Check the Course Offerings (the "pink sheet") or email the Undergraduate Advisor at email@example.com to clarify.
GEOG 360. Watershed Science and Policy. 4 Credits.
Physical and biological processes of watersheds; problems of land use, water quality, riparian zones, aquatic ecology; scientific basis of watershed management and policy. Special fee. McDowell.
Prereq: GEOG 141, or GEOL 102 or 202, or BI 130 or 213.
GEOG 425. Hydrology and Water Resources. 4 Credits.
Emphasis on surface water including precipitation, evapotranspiration, surface runoff, and stream flow. Understanding and analysis of processes. Management for water supply and quality. Special fee. Fonstad.
Prereq: GEOG 321 or 322; MATH 111.
GEOG 427. Fluvial Geomorphology. 4 Credits.
Hydraulics and hydrology of stream channels; channel morphology and processes; drainage network development; fluvial deposits and landforms; field and analytical methods. Required field trips. Special fee. McDowell.
Prereq: MATH 112; one from GEOG 322, GEOG 425, GEOL 334.
GEOG 432. Climatological Aspects of Global Change. 4 Credits.
Role of the climate system in global change, the Earth's climatic history, and potential future climatic changes. Bartlein.
Prereq: GEOG 321, 322, or 323.
GEOG 467. International Water Policy. 4 Credits.
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My bumbling attempt to write a simple, fawning article about how Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas is the greatest musical statement of the modern era has failed, struck down by a posse of indifferent trombonists, Scrooge-esque piano bar kingpins, and profanely squabbling sidemen.
Merry #!*@$%^#&*!! Christmas.
I love A Charlie Brown Christmas. It's so beautiful it makes me want to die. Vince Guaraldi's piano jazz majesty is best known for giving us "Linus and Lucy," that gleefully rumbling tune you know simply as "that Charlie Brown song." But the whole of this 1965 holiday classic -- doled out by Berkeley's own Fantasy Records -- will destroy you, or at least it destroyed me.
Credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio (more on who was, and wasn't, in that trio in a second), A Charlie Brown Christmas captures both the childlike thrill of Christmas morning and the endless melancholy all 364 other days in the year generate in comparison. The almighty "Christmas Time Is Here" is simultaneously gorgeous and almost unbearably sad, like noting the unending beauty of your true love as a gang of bloodthirsty Mongols burns down your house and drags her away.
The concept: Get East Bay jazzer types to wax philosophical on the might and majesty of A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The result: Good grief!
It starts out just fine. "I played a gig last night, and I opened with the Charlie Brown song, because I knew that it will take any hostile crowd and put them on your side immediately," raves Kelly Park, owner and piano player of Kelly's of Alameda, the six-month-old jazz bar success story. "People just love that thing. They just love it."
He has a vague idea as to why.
"Rhythmic feel," he says. "It's his compositions. They're so joyful and so buoyant and so innocent, which made it perfect for all the Peanuts stuff. Bounce and joy. In my estimation, that would be the thing that sets him apart, the joyfulness and the playfulness and the childlike innocence, if you wanna get poetic about it."
Rod Dibble does not.
Don't bother discoursing with East Bay pianist types without consulting Rod, immortal karaoke master down at the Alley near Lake Merritt in Oakland. There's Rod holding court on an idle Tuesday at his piano/tank/bar apparatus, as gleeful patrons pound out "Danny Boy" and "Ain't Misbehavin'" and assorted Cabaret tunes.
During his 11:15 break, I find myself sitting shotgun in Rod's beat-up Ford Tempo, parked outside, engine running for warmth.
Warmth Rod evidently lacks when it comes to the holidays. "I don't like any Christmas music," he says. "I'm kind of a Scrooge. My repertoire in Christmas music is very limited. And so I do the same things over and over and over and over, and I get very tired of it. You know, 'Rudolph' and 'White Christmas' and 'Here Comes Santy Claus. '"
Oh, and no Charlie Brown. Too old. "I don't do any of that. I love it, but I don't do it. It's not my repertoire -- '30s and '40s. I don't go much past early '50s."
Why? "It's when rock 'n' roll came in. The beat changed, and electric guitar became the main instrument. And I've heard it from the start until now, and I still prefer the standards."
Screw you, Charlie Brown.
"I'm probably one of the few people in the world who has absolutely no reaction to Charlie Brown Christmas," concurs Mal Sharpe, trombonist for the sarcastically named Big Money in Jazz, frequent Bay Area invader of haunts like Yoshi's and Albany's Ivy Room.
You're killin' me, Mal.
"You know, I used to hate Christmas music," he adds. "I used to hate it. But there's something about it now. I think there's something about the '50s that seems so nice now, so when I hear Bing or Frank, the Boston Pops playing 'Sleigh Ride' and all that stuff, as corny and as awful as it is, it sort of harkens to a world before everyone had a pistol."
Now, here's where the squabbling begins.
Kelly Park had casually mentioned bassist Al Obidinski, who had turned up at Kelly's just recently, waxing nostalgic about his role in A Charlie Brown Christmas. "He was saying how he thought that 'Christmas Time Is Here' would never make it, because the kids were so out of tune, and it was just terrible."
Reached at home in Daly City, Al recalls just that. "Oh, the first time I heard it I thought, 'Boy, this is sounding weird, the kids were singin' and it's all out of tune,'" he says. "But as it turned out, it turned out really great in a way. That's the way they wanted it. Kind of a fun thing."
Al quietly reminisces about Guaraldi, recalling their gig at the Trident, the semifamous Sausalito club, and recording with him at Fantasy. He's still not sure what to make of the composer: "Uh, I don't know. I don't know. For my money, he was kind of a loner ... I never spent a lot of time payin' attention to what Vince was about. He was one of those quiet -- genius in a way -- the two or three things he did right were really good."
Funny though, there's no Al Obidinski anywhere in A Charlie Brown Christmas' liner notes. "No, it's not on there," he admits, laughing, "I played the string bass. Benny Barth played drums. Neither one of us are on there. I don't know why our names were never on the thing. Occasionally I used to get a check, but anyway."
Fantasy publicity director Terri Hinte, who moonlights as Express proofreader, sure doesn't know the guy, although she admits the label's paperwork was somewhat incomplete back then. "He could've worked, conceivably," she says. "I've never heard of him, I don't know anything about him or what he could or couldn't have done. I have never heard that name in my life."
What she can attest to is Charlie Brown's phenomenal success -- two million copies sold thus far, with a recent big-shot remastering package out now on SACD (Super Audio CD, a new high-tech audiophile format). "It's just kind of magical," Terri says. "Maybe it's the connection with the TV special. I've read stories in which Wynton Marsalis talks about seeing the Peanuts shows with Vince Guaraldi's music when he was a kid, and that's the first time he's ever heard jazz, instrumental jazz, on television. I don't know. A lot of people just connect with it, and that's the mystery of a hit."
And with that she points me to Colin Bailey, a drummer who does appear in Charlie Brown's liner notes. Called at home in the Martinez/Pleasant Hill/Lafayette region, Colin reacts to this Al Obidinski business with a bit less Christmas cheer:
"On what?" he asks, incredulously. "He never played for Vince Guaraldi. He's full of shit. On what record? Bullshit! Well, he's a liar. I know Al Obidinski. He never played for Vince. Jesus Christ. These people come out of the woodwork."
"Al Obidinski said he was on that record? What a lying bastard! Jesus. He wasn't on it. I'll tell you that right now. There's no way he was on it."
And with that, Colin launches into his own reminiscences. "It is innocent stuff. Charlie Brown, he's like a kid. I mean, I'm from England originally. I didn't even know who the hell Charlie Brown was. I didn't have a clue. Vince came in and said, 'Hey, we're gonna do this Charlie Brown Peanuts stuff.' Who? What?"
Next stop: David Guaraldi, Vince's son and determined keeper of his father's legacy. David has set up VinceGuaraldi.com and says he's sitting on a ton of unreleased live and studio material that he's hoping to release -- his opening salvo, a CD entitled The Charlie Brown Suite and Other Favorites, came out in August.
On the subject of Al Obidinski, David is less profane than Colin, but just as certain.
"Nobody like that ever played on it," he says. "Nobody with that name ever played on it. I guarantee you ... that guy, whoever you mentioned, he's never worked with my dad. I know all the people who worked with him. I was hangin' with him pretty much in those days.
"I love the shit out of the music," David adds. "I always have, though. At sixteen years old, hangin' out with him, I loved his music then. There's just somethin' about it. It's definitely from the heart. He's just one of those total musicians that gives it his all, and I guess people pick up on that."
Bringing all this chaos back to Al, he doesn't sound angry or penitent. He just sounds confused. I describe the recording process Colin described: a quick four-hour session cut in 1965 somewhere in Los Angeles, and maybe Glendale too. (Hey, it was the '60s, there's gonna be a little haze.)
"Oh, I wasn't on any of that thing," Al says. "I don't know which one's which, but this is the one where there's a whole bunch of kids singing. He must've recorded some of that stuff more than once."
As for David Guaraldi, Al says: "I never met his son at all. I don't think I ever saw him in my life."
You can practically hear Al shrug over the phone. He mentally retraces the chronology and decides his personal Charlie Brown recording session took place around 1963 in Berkeley, so it must've been something else. In any event, he's not too concerned about it. And that's good, because Fantasy wasn't a recording studio back then.
"I'll have to listen to it sometime, 'cause I played a little lick on it," Al concludes. "I think I'd recognize myself. The last time I heard it was a couple years ago in Macy's, when I was shopping or something. I wasn't ever paying much attention to it all. Maybe I should have."
He laughs.
Al may have had the right idea. Don't pay attention to it. You're better off just listening to the damn thing.
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Strikes from Jaydn Burnett and Liam Old were enough to see Riverside into the Last 16 of the Scottish Cup. The Dundee scored twice in the second half to see off Portobello CFA.
Both these sides have been in fine form domestically this season and it was Riverside that looked to seize the initiative early on in the match as Jamie Richardson went close to opening the scoring twice early on.
The first opportunity saw the forward denied by Rory Comerford before he glanced a header wide from a matter of yards out shortly after.
Portobello could only clear Arran Taylor's free kick as far as Jaydn Burnett, who tested Comerford with a controlled volley from the edge of the box.
Riverside looked to have finally beaten the inform Comerford when Richardson slipped the ball through to Odin Chalmers, but he saw his first-time strike come crashing off the woodwork.
Portobello had offered little in an attacking sense in the opening 35 minutes and nearly fell behind with the final touch of the half when Aidan McDougall headed wide from a corner.


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The first is the one that I call "Uncontrolled Delight" in reference to the glee some parents are expressing now that they have enrolled their children in kindergarten. I most attribute to this one to stay-at-homes, and to some degree, those who have been paying through the nose for preschool. As she often does, Glennon Melton expressed this emotion best in her recent blog post:
Momastery: It Gets Better
The second is what I will call "Navel Gazing" to refer to the winsome, nostalgic, intellectual processing of this next phase of life and what it means that has ubiquitously been engaged in by most of the parent population and that was beautifully captured in this recent article:
Washington Post: Saying Goodbye to My Child the Youngster
The third is what I will call "Sheer Panic" to refer to the state of working moms as we confront new schedules, the painful realization that the public school day is so very short relative to the blissfulness of all-day child care, and the even more painful realization that scrambling to find additional care and activities to fill all that non-school time is almost as expensive as paying through the nose for preschool. I know no better way to express it other than this:
My daughter doesn't start her likely-to-be-fairly-useless-three-hour-per-day-public-school kindergarten class until next Wednesday, so to some degree I am still in denial. However, the irony that I will now have to hire a nanny to look after her, which I have managed to avoid doing for the last five years, is not lost on me.
Good luck to all of you!
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Last week, we talked about Little Strokes in Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth. By diligently working towards our goals little by little, we can accomplish great things. Does all this talk about diligence, hard work, and industry make you feel like Franklin doesn't expect us to ever take time for leisure? Here is today's quote:
Methinks I hear some of you say, must a man afford himself no leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never; so that, as Poor Richard says, a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.
The Way to Wealth – Benjamin Franklin
Much of Franklin's writing is devoted to the power of industry and frugality, but what about fun? Without hard work, you'll never have much time at all for leisure and pastimes. If you don't work hard enough to save some money while covering your basic expenses, how do you ever expect to be able to take time off for relaxing (and be able to afford it)?
Instead of viewing leisure and laziness as the ultimate goal in life, focus on using your time well and profitably. Labor brings more comfort than idleness. When we're bored or idle, we often get ourselves in trouble. And we can't sit around on the couch all day forever—eventually, we'll need to work for something lest we starve or go homeless. Though the life of idleness and no work sounds appealing, it often leads to a lack of meaning and complete boredom. This is why many people find out retirement isn't as great as they had once thought while they were slaving away at a job they hated.
Find useful things to do with your time that you enjoy and work hard at them. Once you begin to enjoy your work and the results of your labor, you may start to view leisure in a different light. Success is likely to follow your hard work, and you'll get the leisure time you've been dreaming of.


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Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon are in some ways the best and most central of those I've seen. Sailor Moon of course established the "Magical Girl fighting" manga/anime genre; Cardcaptor is very different in many ways (it's Clamp, for one thing; one of their few non-tragic series), but in both cases, the series brilliantly mix home life, school life, and the magical world, making all of them important, and in both series, love is central. Cardcaptor is pretty long; around 72 episodes for the first two seasons [which are really one story]; Sailor Moon is super-long, with something like 300 episodes over 5 seasons, but they use the length not just for variable length stock footage transformation/attack sequences (actually, Sailor Moon does this a lot; Cardcaptor goes against type and comes up with an excuse for the heroine's costume to change every episode, so while the poses are stock, the outfit is different every time), but for building up character development and relationship notes that can be gloriously cashed in later. Of course, every series has its own arc and mini-arcs within those, but there are definately notes that are saved up until the end before being cashed in.
Nanoha is a very odd but good mix; a series that's designed for an adult audience despite fairly young protagonist. It's still basically about love, but they spend a lot more attention than the average making the fight scenes and magic make in-world sense rather than just moral/emotional sense. It has 3 series; each one has its own unities, but each is very different from the next; in the first, you've got a semi-typical "young girl gets powers, alies" opening; but in the second the relationships are all mixed up and it's more of a mystery plot. In the third series, the main characters are grown up and training their own proteges, so the action is bigger and the training and secondary characters get to take more central stage, while the established characters show off their more mature strengths and get to act against powerful foes while they are at their peak, rather than the more typical "growth character faces off against dark lord; wins via luck, aid, and moral certitude".
Madoka and Revolutionary Girl Utena are great examples of the postmodern side of the genre. Madoka is very short, very dark, and brilliant; there's not that much more I can say about it without spoilers, but it's great on many levels. Revolutionary Girl Utena is...the emotional side of the genre broken down to its base level; from its central genderfuck (key premise: A young girl is saved by a prince; she grows up to teenager-hood and decides she will accomplish her goal in emulation: She will become a prince too!), to the core formula of someone's central emotional crisis resulting in them challenging Utena to a duel, which, naturally, is far more about arguments and metaphor than actual swordplay.
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Zulpikar Maimaitiali Is A Kid For Me, Says Vijender Singh
Vijender Singh is confident of stopping Zulpikar Maimaitiali in his ninth professional fight.
Vijender will face Zulpikar Maimaitiali on August 5
I will try to wrap up the bout in 45 seconds: Vijender Singh
Vijender Singh has an undefeated 8-0 record to his name
India's boxing icon Vijender Singh has an impressive pro record, with seven knockouts out of eight bouts. He is eyeing another knock-out when the Haryana star takes on Zulpikar Maimaitiali of China in his ninth professional fight in Mumbai on Saturday. While Vijender is the current WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight champion, Zulpikar is the WBO Oriental Super Middleweight champion and whoever wins Saturday's fight will claim the twin titles in a winner-take-all show. "Zulpikar Maimaitiali is a southpaw and young. He is a kid for me. He is inexperienced and will make a lot of mistakes. He doesn't have any amateur experience," Vijender told NDTV.com in an exclusive interview.
"I have come from the ground level of boxing and know every trick of the sport. The amateur experience has helped me a lot in my last eight bouts. Let him come in the ring, he will have a good time," Vijender said.
Having fought in Indian colours for many years, Vijender has had a memorable professional career as well.
In his previous eight bouts, Vijender defeated Sonny Whiting, Dean Gillen, Samet Hyuseinov, Alexander Horvath, Matiouze Royer, Andrzej Soldra, Kerry Hope and Francis Cheka.
But according to the Beijing Olympic medallist, his ninth professional bout against China's Zulpikar is going to be the easiest of all.
"Chinese products don't last long. They make a lot of noise in the start and diminish soon. This kid also not going to stay for long in the ring," a confident Vijender said.
"I know he is young. I don't think age matters because it's all about experience," Vijender said.
Vijender has been training under the supervision of trainer Lee Beard.
"I take every bout seriously. I have gone through rigorous training sessions. My trainer Lee Beard has worked a lot on me. Bass yeh kahunga, jana hai aur fatte chakk dene hain (I just want to go and give my best)," Vijender said.
The 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Akhil Kumar and Olympian Jitender Kumar will make their professional debuts on the same day.
Akhil had faced an ouster in the quarter-finals of Beijing Olympics, where Vijender gave India its first ever medal in boxing by winning bronze.
"Both Akhil and Jitender are experienced. I just want to tell them to work hard, go and perform," Vijender signed off.


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Thursday night's world premiere of Sony's "The Interview" offered plenty of laughs after weeks of news from the massive cyber-hack that's bedeviled the studio.
"I can't say I've been getting a lot of sleep lately," said Sony's Dwight Caines.
There were three police cars parked outside the Ace Hotel Theatre, very few camera crews, and a very small red carpet inside where Seth Rogen, James Franco and Randall Park posed for photographers and declined media interviews. Attendees tended to avoid discussing the disclosures arising from the online attacks — which many believe may have been orchestrated by North Korea because of the movie. Indeed, Rogen assiduously avoided any mention of the hacking during the run-up to the screening.
"If you're going to ask me questions, I'm going to run away!" he said, before he did.
The audience cheered as Rogen and co-director Evan Goldberg took the stage to intro the comedy with a heartfelt shout-out to studio president Amy Pascal.
"Before we start we just want to thank Amy Pascal for having the balls to make this movie!" Rogen said to a near standing ovation. Before the screening started, Pascal was greeted continuously with hugs from well-wishers including Caines, producers Matt Tolmach, Tom Rothman and Donald De Line.
Charles Chun, who plays General Jong in the film, said afterwards that he had no doubt about the origin of the hack.
"I think we know who did this," he said. "And if they can do this to a big corporation like Sony, what does that mean for everyone else?"
However, Chun seemed to think that, if anything, the hack has raised awareness of the film. "And I think the film is going to do really well at the box office because it's so funny."


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15 Portuguese expressions, part 1.
Portuguese language is full of funny words and sayings. Everytime you try to translate some of our expressions, people just look at you and think that you are crazy or you are just blurting stupid things out of your mouth.
I decided to introduce to you 15 Portuguese expressions that will blow your mind, at least until I explain what they mean.
Here's part one of "15 Portuguese expressions that will blow your mind."
"Ir com os porcos"
Translation: "Going with the pigs"
Meaning: A Portuguese person doesn't die. We go with the pigs.
Example: Manuel went with the pigs.
"A pulga atrás da orelha"
Translation: "A flea behind the ear"
Meaning: A Portuguese person didn't suspect anything. We have a flea behind the ear.
Example: Did Maria and José break up? I have a flea behind the ear.
"Barata tonta"
Translation: "Silly cockroach"
Meaning: A Portuguese person is not clumsy. We are silly cockroaches.
Example: You are a silly cockroach looking at this map
"Acordar com os pés de fora"
Translation: "Waking up with feet outside"
Meaning: A Portuguese person is not in a bad mood or irritated. We wake up with feet outside.
Example: Leave me alone! I woke up with feet outside.
"Estar com os azeites"
Translation: "Being with the olive oils"
Meaning: A Portuguese person is not upset. We are with the olive oils.
Example: Don't piss him off today. He is with the olive oils.
"Muitos anos a virar frangos"
Translation: "Many years turning chickens"
Meaning: A Portuguese person is not experienced. We have many years turning chickens.
Example: He has worked here for 50 years. It's many years turning chickens.
"Engolir sapos"
Translation: "Swallowing frogs"
Meaning: A Portuguese person doesn't shut up and listen to bad things. We swallow frogs.
Example: "The customer is always right" and I am always swallowing frogs.
"Tirar o cavalinho da chuva"
Translation: "Taking the little horse out of the rain"
Meaning: A Portuguese person doesn't give up. We take the little horse out of the rain.
Example: You'd better take the little horse out of the rain, I am not cooking pasta today.
Text: Inês
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AUSTIN, Texas — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 9, 2013 — The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) will be presenting five Distinguished Service awards at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) to be held in Austin, TX from June 2-6. The awards will be presented at the Si2 25th Anniversary Luncheon Celebration on June 3, 12-1:30 PM in Room 9ABC in the Austin Convention Center. This luncheon is free of charge. More information on this and other Si2 events can be found at this link: http://www.si2.org/?page=1544.
The awards will be presented to John Darringer, Rahul Goyal, Jim Hogan, Mark Templeton, and Scott Peterson. Besides providing many years of exemplary service in support of Si2's mission, each recipient has played a unique role in Si2's history that significantly influenced the organization's present-day success. Their leadership has guided many of the standards created at Si2 which have had significant impact on the semiconductor and EDA industries. All of the recipients will be in attendance at the luncheon event and can share their individual experiences and insights with the attendees.
Cadence Design Systems and Spectral Design & Test are sponsors for this event as well as the Annual Open Si2 Reception later that afternoon. In addition, Si2 is a Platinum Record Sponsor of the "Kickin' It Up in Austin" DAC 50th Anniversary Party at Austin City Limits later that same evening, where a special treat will be available in the Si2 area in the Austin City Limits facility.
About Si2
Si2 is the largest organization of industry-leading semiconductor, systems, EDA and manufacturing companies focused on the development and adoption of standards to improve the way integrated circuits are designed and manufactured. Now in its 25th year, Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable timely collaboration through dedicated staff and a strong implementation focus driven by its member companies. Si2 represents over 80 companies involved in all parts of the silicon supply chain throughout the world. See www.si2.org.
Silicon Integration Initiative
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Spredfast, recently a finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, has raised $1.6 million in funding from Austin Ventures. This marks the first financing secured by the startup, which markets a social media management platform for businesses.
Spredfast enables companies to manage social media campaigns and customer acquisition initiatives through one dashboard, across multiple platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Flickr. It also supports WordPress, Blogger, MoveableType, Lotus Live Connections, Drupal and most XML-RPC enabled blogging platforms.
Spredfast's platform integrates with Omniture and Google Analytics, thus complementing traditional web analytics with 'social media analytics'. Additionally, users can automate their social media processes and allow multiple users to collaborate at once with its content management and workflow features.
Pricing ranges from free (limited in features) to $100 per initiative per month.
The startup, which counts five employees, competes with CoTweet, which was recently acquired by ExactTarget for over $8.1 million.
Some of the customers it has already signed up since its public launch in January: IBM, HP, AOL, Doner and Oracle.


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About the Deaf Children's Literacy ProjectThanks for visiting the Deaf Children's Literacy Project page, we are glad you are here to learn about our nationwide movement in supporting and increasing literacy and educational development for deaf and hard of hearing children.
The Deaf Children's Literacy Project (DCLP) is an non-profit charity founded by the National Cued Speech Association (NCSA) in the late 1990s. The DCLP was conceived through past NCSA efforts in securing Congressional support through grants in its campaign in making literacy much more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing infants and children alike.
Unfortunately, the support from Congress is few and far in between, hardly much if at all. This is where we need your support for new 'cueing' families with your contribution or financial donation to the DCLP. This will help support newfound families of deaf infants / toddlers as well as individuals in providing workshops, camps and in furthering their educational opportunities through financial support and scholarships!
All donations are taxable deductable because they go into supporting a non-profit charity!
NCSA and its Deaf Children's Literacy Project provide:
- Information and support services via 1-800-459-3529 or contact us through our form - www.cuedspeech.org/contact »
- A network of affiliate centers and chapters.
- Publications, including the newsletter On Cue, The Cued Speech Journal, and books.
- Cued Speech Discovery catalog bookstore at [email protected]/shop/.
- Sponsorship of family camps, workshops, conferences and scholarships.
- Free first-year memberships for families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Professional standards for the use of Cued Speech.
- Training and certification of Cued Speech Instructors.
- Listings of certified instructors, Cued Speech transliterators and job opportunities.
- Support for equal access to communication.
- Promotion of early identification of hearing loss and parent education.
- Encouragement of and participation in research relating to the use of Cued Speech.
Cued Speech is what parents need to able to effectively, fully communicate in English (complete sentences) with their deaf infants and or children in efforts to build deeper, stronger relationships throughout their lifetimes. It is through Cued Speech that children are able to receive full access to basic phonemics (phonemes, vowels and consonants) needed for complete literacy development.
DirectionsTo make a donation in the Give Direct page, look for 'Donation Information' (see below) and then 'Program Area' and in the drop down menu, click on the Deaf Childrens Literacy Project as the one to make a donation towards. Check the screenshot below (see red arrow), it shows how you can make a donation. The final steps are to fill out the required information. All cards are accepted, Mastercard, Discover, Visa and American Express.
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Welcome to Halfway; where the waffles are golden, the moon is silver, and magic is just around every corner.
A century old curse is broken, releasing Exit Wainwright, an innocent man trapped alone in time.
Lost and in danger, he enlists Carlie, Gran, and their magic to find the warlock who sentenced him to a hundred years of darkness. The hunter becomes the hunted when Carlie's spells awaken a cold-blooded killer intent on adding another pelt to their gruesome collection: hers.
But the killer has never been to Halfway before, where there are three unbreakable rules:
1. Don't complain about the diner's waffles.
2. Don't break the laws of magic.
3. Never threaten a witch on her home turf.
Can Carlie solve an ancient crime, defeat a ruthless killer and save the love of her life from a vampire's curse without burning the waffles?
Come hunt with Carlie, and answer the call of the wild.
Left-handed. Father of an apparent nudist. Husband to a half-Norwegian. Herder of cats and dogs. Lover of pie. I write books. I've had an unhealthy fascination with dragons since the age of– well, for a while. Native Floridian. Current Tennessean. Location subject to change based on insurrection, upheaval, or availability of coffee. Nine books and counting, with no end in sight. You've been warned.
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|Author: Pieter Paul Rubens
|Painting, Oil on canvas, 191x161.3 cm
|Origin: Flanders, Between 1638 and 1640
Bacchanalia was a favourite theme in Rubens's work, although Bacchus himself was rarely the subject of his paintings. He saw the subject as reflecting the essence of life as a circle of life and death. Dionysius or Bacchus - son of Zeus and the Theban Queen Semele - god of the vine and winemaking and patron of the forces of growth in nature, was one of the most important and most respected gods in the Graeco-Roman pantheon. Unlike traditional representations of Bacchus as a slim youth with a handsome face, Rubens showed him as a corpulent, flaccid reveller. Seated on a wine-barrel as if on a throne, one leg resting on a tiger, Bacchus looks both repulsive and majestic. Bacchus was conceived by the artist as the apotheosis of earth's fruitfulness and the beauty of man and his natural instincts. In terms of painting technique, Bacchus is one of the pearls of the Hermitage collection. Using a refined scale of colour gradations, Rubens achieved an effect of depth and a close link between the figures and the landscape, as well as a clear tangibility of form and a vibrant warmth in the human bodies.
|Personage: Bacchus
|Style: Baroque
|Source of entry: Crozat Collection, Paris, 1772
|Theme: Classical Religion and Mythology
|Exibition: Flemish Art: 17th century
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Published On: May 22, 2018 08:08 AM NPT By: Republica | @RepublicaNepal
May 22: The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.
The theme for 2018 is 'Celebrating 25 Years of Action for Biodiversity'.
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Since entering into force, the Convention has been implemented through the vision and leadership displayed by countries, non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, the scientific community and individuals alike.
While there is a growing recognition that biological diversity is a global asset of tremendous value to present and future generations, the number of species is being significantly reduced by certain human activities.
The Convention on Biological Diversity is the international legal instrument for "the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources" that has been ratified by 196 nations.
Given the importance of public education and awareness for the implementation of the Convention, the General Assembly proclaimed 22 May, the date of the adoption of its text, as the International Day for Biological Diversity by its resolution 55/201 of 20 December 2000.
The results are considerable: the development of scientific guidance for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity for biomes around the world, the entry into force of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization and the creation and implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans. After adopting the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, Parties have made significant headway in the achievement of a number of its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.


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Custom craftsmanship and design combined with state-of-the-art machinery can create just about anything that a home or business can imagine. Whether it's custom metal stairs, wrought iron designs, decorative metal art displays, business signs, or something else, metal fabricators are trained to create some of the most stunning metal artwork designs out there.
What type of decorative metal materials are there and what can be created from them?
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Fabricators are trained to take concepts and transform them into innovative designs that push the limits of what's already been done. If you want something exclusive to your environment, metal fabrication can be the perfect solution. Our team works with Computer Numerical Control Machines that will help put the ideas that you've imagined into practical, real-world designs. The possibilities truly never end.
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Jane and I will have $30,000 to invest in energy retrofits for our house. How did we come upon $30,000? Lottery? Inheritance? Theft?
None of the above. We're refinancing our home thanks to low interest rates and unlocked $30,000 from our property's equity. Being a homeowner is fun!
This is how it all played out for us….
We approached our mortgage broker Bonnie Smith of Invis about getting a 'green' mortgage, basically a low interest loan to retrofit the house. TD Bank is the only institution that offers this product and we would rather fold the loan into our current mortgage with First National.
Bonnie advised that we tap into our home's equity. We approached Ron Hyde, our real estate agent, to determine the selling price of our house today. Despite the subprime meltdown in the US, the market in Toronto is still reasonably healthy. Ron told us that he would list our home $60,000 higher than the purchase price two year ago, based on current selling prices in our neighbourhood and the work we've put into the house.
Interest rates are currently very low. Bonnie looked into the possibility of refinancing our mortgage and came up with the low rate of 4.39 percent over five years. Even with the penalty and lawyer's fee, which amounts to $3,600 altogether, our savings will make refinancing worth our while.
By refinancing at that low rate and receiving $30,000 to improve the home, our biweekly mortgage payments will not significantly increase. In return we will transform our leaky 90 year old house into one that's energy efficient.
If you are a homeowner living in an older house you may want to take advantage of the current low interest rates while they last and improve your home's energy efficiency. Benefits include increased comfort and home value, and reduced utility costs and carbon footprint. You will also employ people during a time when they need it the most.
I've just booked our energy audit with Green$aver, our local energy auditor, to assess our house on March 13. Once we've made the suggested improvements to the house and have our home reassessed, we will receive federal and provincial rebates, as well as enjoy reduced utility bills. The rebates and savings will go towards paying down the mortgage once the loan matures in five years. That's the plan.
In the months ahead I will keep you apprised of our journey to make our home a lean mean energy efficient machine.
Interested in booking your own energy auditor? Canadians can find a list of auditors across the country by visiting Green Communities. Americans can visit the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency (DSIRE) for State incentives and the US Dept. of Energy's Professional Home Energy Audit page for more information.
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Two thugs, (The names of the thugs are drawn from a random pool, apparently), are threatening a small human boy in an alley (loc 82.28,23.37,161.31) next to the player residence Inn in The New Foreign Quarter. If you do not leave when warned they will become aggro (scaled to your level) and attack!
After he is safe, the boy, Matteus Gaines, will speak with you about conditions in the city, and send you to speak to the city ambassador.
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Dental disease in the dog and cat is a very common occurrence in individuals over the age of 4-5years. Plaque which is a product of bacteria that inhabit the mouth forms along the gum lines causing irritation and recession of these tissues. This process becomes more destructive as the soft plaque mineralizes to form hard calculus causing periodontal (gum) disease. The damage can be reversed, or better yet prevented by having timely, routine cleaning and polishing of the teeth. This is done under a light plane of anesthesia on an outpatient basis, (morning admission, late afternoon/early evening dismissal) Regular cleanings will keep your pet free of periodontal disease which causes mouth odor, gum recession, oral pain and systemic disease.
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Days of violence convulsed the capital, Manama, as thousands in the predominantly Shi'ite island kingdom vented their frustration at its Sunni royal family over what protesters say is a discriminatory and repressive state. The government has promised reforms; a diverse coalition of opposition groups has promised to continue with demonstrations.
Palestinian Cabinet Steps Down
Reverberations from Cairo's Tahrir Square reached Ramallah when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced a wholesale Cabinet reshuffle and called for new elections by September. His administration has been in an uncomfortable spot since last month, when internal documents revealed by al-Jazeera English appeared to show a gap between the positions Abbas was taking publicly and offers made behind closed doors to the Israelis. But Hamas, which rules Gaza while Abbas' Fatah movement controls the West Bank, immediately rejected the idea of holding new elections before the rival movements have been reconciled.


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for the Barnsley Area in November 2013. At that time it contained 74
individual memorials, by September 2014 there were over 400 on our list.
This page is a work in progress and will be updated on a regular basis.
memorials have their own individual page which contains a photo and a
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Summaries for War Memorials in Cemeteries can also be found via the 'War Memorial Gravestones' tab above.
Lists of War Memorials in the Barnsley Area
Barnsley, Barugh, Billingley, Blacker Hill, Bolton on Dearne, Brierley, Broomhill
Carlton, Cawthorne, Cudworth
Darfield, Darton, Dearne UDC, Dodworth
Gawber, Goldthorpe, Great Houghton, Green Moor, Grimethorpe
Hood Green, Hoyland, Hoyland Common, Hoyland Nether, Hoylandswaine, Hoyle Mill
Ingbirchworth, Jump, Lundwood
Mapplewell, Middlecliffe, Monk Bretton
Old Town, Penistone, Pogmoor
Silkstone, Stainborough, Staincross, Stairfoot
Tankersley, Thurgoland, Thurlstone, Thurnscoe
Wombwell, Worsbrough Common, Worsbrough Dale, Worsbrough Village, Wortley
War Memorials just outside the Barnsley MBC boundaries
Clayton West & High Hoyland, Cortonwood, Crigglestone, Felkirk, South Hiendley, Wath upon Dearne, Wentworth, West Bretton
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BC Bike Race: The Winning Rig
A look at Chris Sheppard's Rocky Mountain RSL.
Defending BC Bike Race solo men's champion Chris Sheppard came into the 2011 event with a simple strategy: go for broke on day one, then try to hold on the rest of the way.
That's just how things worked out. The Rocky Mountain rider took nearly two and half minutes out of his nearest competitor during his win of the stage 1 Cumberland circuit on Vancouver Island, then did damage control the rest of the way to Whistler, eventually winning the seven-day cross-country race in British Columbia by more than 10 minutes over second place finisher Jason Sager (Jamis).
Carrying Sheppard to his second-straight open solo BCBR title was a stock, full-carbon Rocky Mountain Element RSL Team. Here's a closer look at the fastest bike in B.C.


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The staff would love for that to happen, but I don't know if he has a wrestling tournament this weekend or not.Is Nash Hutmacher coming to your junior day this weekend?
Junior Day - February 2
OT Turner Corcoran, Kansas (He has been on several unofficial visits to Lincoln.)
DT Kevon Billingsley, Missouri
OLB Antonio Doyle, Missouri
CB Dontae Manning, Missouri
WDE Travion Ford, Missouri
RB Deondre Jackson, Georgia
SDE Cooper Davis, Florida
2021 Recruits
DT Gabriel Rubio, Missouri (Unofficial visit for 2018 Illinois game)
Thanks for catching my copying and pasting mistake.Travion Ford is a 2021.
Betts and Watts are both supposed to be there.
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The previous owner/investors flipped the property and left sod and fertilizer in garage, which was kept shut for months. We cleared out the debris and have been airing it out but it still smells. It's a stucco 300 square foot detached garage for an 80 year old house in Southern California. It is currently unfinished--I'm not sure always has been or was gutted. The wood is old, behind the studs there appears to be some thin layer of peeling/rotting wood-colored paper covering a cement or gyp board. The air is just so bad in there right now; I'm reluctant even to store items in there. I'd eventually like to make a workshop and spend more time inside.
The sod would have left an earthy smell, but stiff broom and detergent washing the floor should remove that pretty good.
The fertilizer leaves a heavy, cloying chemical smell that you can feel an oily taste onyour tongue if it is strong. Again, laundry detergent washing of the floor should remove that pretty good - if not, wash again with a degreasing floor cleaner like Castrol Purple Degreaser.
OK - if I get this right, you have bare studs, a brown paper on the outside of the studs, then gypboard or cement board ? If the board is the outside sheathing, presumably Bishopric stucco board - sort of like greenboard today, and the predecessor to Hardie Plank siding, but installed in full sheets with grouted joints, and in your case covered with wire mesh (probably has nail tips from mesh nailing sticking through the inside, so watch out for nail jabs, tetanus risk, etc). Or, since house is stucco, could have been exterior rated plaster board.
The paper is probably builders wrap - a waxy asphaltic-lined brown wrapping paper used untill the 80's much like today's Tyvek housewrap, to cut down on airflow in buildings without insulation or a vapor barrier in warm climates, and stop minor water infiltration from stucco cracks. It smells very musty, though not real bad, when old - sort of like an old cardboard box smell with a bit of asphalt smell in the background. Pretty much disintegrates after about 25 years. I would take a utility knife and score it all around the stud edges, then peel it off the cement board - some will stick where the asphalt adhered but should come off pretty fair. Be prepared to kill silverfish - they like the stuff, and commonly you will hit pockets of them removing the paper - they nest in damp spots between the paper and the sheathing or siding.
After all that cleaning, on a dry preferably breezy morning spray the inside face of the siding and the studs with a 50% solution of chlorine bleach like clorox and water, enough to make it turn color darker but not soaked. Use excellent ventilation while doing this - house door closed, garage windows open, fan if no back window to cause a car door to back window draft. Let dry with doors open (at least leave rollup door open 6 inches or so, at a minimum) so maybe a weekend when you are home for at least a day, then don't plan on doing anything more in there for a couple days more with wondows open still, but garage door can be closed for security if needed.
That should take care of the problem - if a musty smell continues, start looking for leaking pipes or garage roof leaks.
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Ricky Hatton's road to redemption
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Those calling Ricky Hatton "an idiot" for choosing to return to the ring - and there are plenty of them - should have been in Manchester on Friday to witness a comeback speech of such emotional force, even Hatton admitted his bottom lip was quivering.
"I've just had a little baby girl," Hatton, his eyes still moist and his passion barely subsided, told BBC Sport after his turn on the dais. "And I look at her every morning and think: 'I want you to be so proud of me'. This is the way to make it happen."
The story conjures memories of Frank Spencer standing over a cot and tenderly chirping away to the daughter he venerates. And the comparison is an apt one: for Hatton had become as hapless in his own way as the star of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. "My life had turned to mush," said Hatton. "I didn't like what I was."
What Hatton had become was a man in danger of being remembered more for his formidable powers of relaxation than his formidable powers in the ring. And when he wasn't nursing a Guinness or snorting cocaine, he inhabited an even darker place.
"I suffered massively from depression and I've been suicidal," said Hatton, a former two-weight world champion who turns 34 next month. "I had arguably the biggest fan-base of any British boxer, so talk about a fall from grace.
"I want to go back to where I was and if I can do that after all my problems, what a story that would be. I want my kids to turn round in a few years and say: 'You know what? My dad had his problems but, boy, he bounced back with a vengeance'."
More charitable than those calling Hatton "an idiot" are those who are genuinely worried about the damage that might be done. While the concern is to be applauded, if you follow professional boxing you enter into a pact: this is a dangerous sport and every fight you watch has the potential for tragedy. So once you have entered into that pact it is a little woolly to claim to be overly concerned about a fighter's wellbeing.
As long as boxing is legal then boxers have the right to earn a living and it is easy to understand where Hatton is coming from when he says ours is not to reason why. "It's lovely to hear but it's dead easy to say 'don't do it'," he said. "They can't climb in my head and know how I feel. Although I don't expect people to understand."
Hatton and those closest to him are caught in a conundrum: with and without boxing he is at risk of harm, both physical and mental. But Hatton is a better person with boxing than without. Without boxing he is lost, with boxing he has purpose.
Those with a keen sense of boxing history will tell you that Hatton's return is nowhere near the top of the list of the sport's most preposterous comebacks. True, the last time anyone saw Hatton in a ring he was flat on his back, eyes blinking like busted light bulbs, having been knocked out by the great Manny Pacquiao in 2009.
There was also the defeat at the hands of Floyd Mayweather in 2007, both of which fights suggested Hatton did not have what it took to mix it at the very highest level. But Hatton and his trainer, Manchester fixture Bob Shannon, will hopefully be sensible with their matchmaking and look to chart a path of far less resistance.
"It's a big job for me," said Shannon, formerly trainer of Ricky's younger brother Matthew, a former world-title contender. "I've got to have broad shoulders for this job, it's a lot of pressure. We've got a 10-week training camp but if for any reason he struggles I'll be the first to tell him and he won't fight if there's any doubt in my mind.
"But he's been in the gym for a week and I can honestly say it's like he's never been away. He's so determined, you can see it in his eyes when he's in front of me. I'm 100% behind him and I guarantee he will be world champion again."
Paulie Malignaggi, who Hatton beat handily in 2008, is a world champion again at welterweight and has the added bonus of being a featherweight puncher. The American is keen on a rematch and is probably hearing 'kerchings' in his sleep.
Hatton's fellow Briton Amir Khan, also on the road to redemption after his defeat at the hands of Danny Garcia, has clambered aboard the Hatton bandwagon and that could be a stadium affair. Given Khan's leaky defences, it's a fight Hatton might win.
But best not to get ahead of ourselves. For all the talk of new beginnings, of feeling better than ever, of being in the zone again, Barry McGuigan knows what he's talking about when he says boxers are very good at fooling themselves. Over and over again.
Until we find out if he has been fooling himself or not, let's not be mean to Hatton. Disapprove of his comeback, by all means, but try to remember where he has been, how lost he was and that this is his chance to find meaning in his life again.
"There are certain things I need to know and ghosts I need to put to rest," said Hatton. "And that's what I'm going to do on 24 November. This comeback is more than a boxing story. It's about making everyone proud of me again."