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20th January 2007, 04:42 PM
My 6 1/2 year old guy, Rudy, is stricken with it, and probably has been for a couple of years, now that I look back and have recognized the signs of it from what I've recently read, researching the disease on google. He is in miserable shape, and has little to no energy. His tummy is bloated and has been solid like a drum, until yesterday when the vet drained 2 cups of fluid from him, and wants to take more on Monday. He walks slowly, and his eyes look like he's in pain, or at least very very sad. :( :( The dilema that I and my husband have, is HOW LONG should we do this??? We don't KNOW if he's hurting...he wags his tail and loves to beg food from us, but is barely eating his own kibbles. He coughs a lot, and can't go for walks at all. Just so not sure if we're being cruel by continuing this way. The last thing I want is for him to die alone, when we're at work. We have loved him SO MUCH, as has the entire neighborhood, the grandkids, nieces, nephews....we just cry at the prospect of losing him. At the same time, I'm already contacting breeders in our area to get a new one this summer. I can't imagine life without our little Rudy-toot...but I don't want to get another puppy quite yet. We want to devote all our love and attention to this sick little fella for now. Anyhow, I digress. What I'd really like to know, is what to expect in the coming days, if we should put him to sleep before it gets worse, or if he's still able to wag that ol' tail...should we just keep on????

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Get ready! Tomorrow is the BIG DAY when the download for my band, Dimentia 13's 1989 album DISTURB THE AIR becomes available. There's a link to your left for the Amazon download.
For those who want to hear a free sample of a bit of what the record sounds like click on the link below:
I put together a 5 minute MP3 containing samples of all of the songs on the album proper (but not the bonus tracks, which you also get with the full download).
Those of you who have only heard the hardcore punk noise of my other band, Zero Defex, may be surprised at the more psychedlic psounds of Dimentia 13. The idea of Dimentia 13 was to be a recreation of sixties rock but with a contemporary attitude. Psychedelia filtered through punk. My biggest influences were Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Byrds, Zappa's Mothers of Invention and a horde of obscure sixties acts nobody ever heard of such as Chocolate Watchband, Electric Prunes, Strawberry Alarm Clock, 13th Floor Elevators, The Monks, Blue, Cheer and zillions of others that I had been collecting since I was old enough to buy records.
The sampler I put up today also shows off a few of the lyrics that had people guessing what sort of mushrooms I was ingesting when, instead, I was actually ingesting a ton of books about Buddhism. By the time Disturb The Air was recorded I'd had a daily zazen practice for about 4 or 5 years. So I was still a little new to it. But Zen was already a huge part of my life.
I suppose you could say I wasn't quite as committed to it because I wasn't even entertaining the thought of ever teaching Zen. It was just something I did that I mostly kept to myself about. But in another sense I was absolutely as committed as now because I was doing it each and every day and because I was devoting a lot of energy and effort to studying the philosophy.
I feel in a lot of ways that some aspects of Zen can be better expressed through art other than prose. Prose sometimes feels to me like it boxes Zen in a bit too much. Others in the past must have felt the same way. Dogen devoted as much, if not more of his energy into creating poetry as to creating prose. Unfortunately Japanese poetry doesn't translate well into English and so it's probably better to study his prose in translation than to study his poetry in translation.
Which is not to say that I set out to try and describe Zen practice and philosophy musically on the Dimentia 13 albums. I did not. But the practice and philosophy certainly informed my writing and playing in a very profound way.
Here's a bit more press about Dimentia 13, though most of it refers to the earlier albums and not specifically to Disturb The Air.
Also of note: I have updated the tour page! Yep! I'll be on the road again in 2010. Click on the link to your left (or on the words "tour page" in the previous sentence) to see where I'll be. There are only four dates confirmed so far. I'll be in Houston and Austin, Texas and at Southern Dharma Retreat Center in North Carolina in March, then I'll be at the Great Sky Sesshin in August. I am working on lots more dates. And, as usual, if you want me to stop by your area WRITE ME!!!!


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NEW YORK (WBMA) - In a press conference Monday afternoon, Attorney Gloria Allred called for a congressional hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she said her client would testify under oath about an alleged sexual assault.
The announcement comes following last week's Washington Post report in which Leigh Corfman claims that she had a sexual encounter with Roy Moore when she was 14-years-old. Moore was a 32-year old assistant district attorney in Etowah County at the time of the alleged incident.
Moore called the allegations in the Post's report "completely false and a desperate political attack."
Beverly Young Nelson told reporters she was working at the Old Hickory House in the late 70s, where Moore was a regular.
While Nelson said he complemented her, she did not "encourage his flirtatious behavior."
She also showed a yearbook he had signed of hers. She was 16 years old when the alleged incident occurred.
On what she described as a cold evening, Nelson said her boyfriend was late picking her up from a shift at the restaurant.
She said Moore offered her a ride, but instead took her behind the restaurant where he groped her.
"I was terrified," she recounted, "He was also trying to pull my shirt off. I thought that he was going to rape me."
"I had tears running down my face."
Nelson said Moore eventually "gave up" before making her get out of the car.
She claims he also stated "you're just a child, and I'm the DA... and if you tell anyone about this, no one will ever believe you."
Nelson stated she was left on the ground as Moore "burned rubber" leaving the restaurant. She quit her job at the restaurant the next day.
Moore has yet to respond to Nelson's allegations.
According to Allred, if the Senate fails to hold a public hearing, she plans to have Nelson answer questions "in a different public forum."


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•April 19 vs. Hillsboro, 4:30 p.m.
•April 22 at Litchfield, 4:30 p.m.
•April 24 vs. Pana, 4:30 p.m.
•April 18 at Breese Cent., 4:15 p.m.
•April 19 at Hillsboro, 4:30 p.m.
•April 22 vs. Litchfield, 4:30 p.m.
•April 24 at Pana, 4:30 p.m.
Boys track
•April 19 at Robinson, 4:30 p.m.
•April 23 at T-Town, 4:15 p.m.
Girls track
•April 19 at Greenville, 3:30 p.m.
Many athletes who spent their high school years in Fayette County have moved on to play for college or professional teams. Below are the athletes who recently made headlines.
Nomination period open for VCHS Athletic Hall of Fame inductions
The nomination period is open for this year's Vandalia Community High School Athletic Hall of Fame inductions.
Forms are available in the high school office, and should be sent to Kevin Jackson, VCHS Athletic Director, 1109 N. 8th St., Vandalia, Ill. 62471.
In order to be nominated, the following conditions must be met.
South Central softball vs. Ramsey had been canceled for Wednesday.
South Central baseball at Noble has been canceled for Wednesday.
Patoka baseball vs. Woodlawn has been canceled for Wednesday.
St. Elmo softball at Dieterich has been canceled for Wednesday, and rescheduled for next Wednesday.
The home baseball game for Vandalia against Shelbyville has been canceled for Thursday.
The Vandalia softball game at Shelbyville for Thursday has been canceled.
The St. Elmo/Ramsey baseball game for Thursday has been canceled.
Vandalia graduate Jessica Earnest was named a first-team All-American in women's bowling on Wednesday night.
This year marks the first time the Vanderbilt senior has been named to the first team by the National Ten Pin Coaches Association. In the past three years, she has been named a second-team All-American.
Earnest was honored at the Champions Banquet, an annual event held prior to the NCAA bowling championships.
PATOKA – After being shut out in the first two games of the season, Warriors coach Joey Eddy had a simple message for his team last Thursday.
"Let's make a statement," he said prior to Patoka's 6-3 win against Webber.
And the Warriors sure took that message to heart.
After leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the first inning, Patoka's offense went to work with two outs in the second, scoring five runs on three hits, three walks and an error.
PATOKA – It all started with a walk.
And while that's not the most exciting play in baseball, it set the foundation for all sorts of excitement for the Warriors in a 6-3 win against Webber last Thursday.
With two outs in the bottom of the second inning, Cain battled back from an 0-2 count to draw a walk and start a five-run rally that propelled Patoka to its first victory of the season.
Spencer Patton • Pitcher • Wilmington Blue Rocks
•April 6 – Patton, a South Central graduate, pitched two innings of relief during a 5-0 loss at Myrtle Beach. The Kansas City Royals prospect allowed two hits, including a home run, and one walk, while striking out two.
Both high school fields at Vandalia Community High School have now been given naming rights.
Liberty Shops has purchased the naming rights to the high school softball field, according to Vandalia Field of Dreams President Tom Lucken.
Liberty Shops will own the naming rights to the field for the next five years at $3,000 per year.
Lucken said the committee plans to use the first installment to purchase a new scoreboard for the softball field.
Vandalia Mutual owns the naming rights on the baseball field.
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March 18. 100 block E. Hartwell Lane. Between 6:30 and 8:15 p.m., someone forced open a rear kitchen window and stole a Mac laptop, a gift card, one gray bicycle, various pieces of jewelry and money.
March 18. 200 block E. Willow Grove Avenue. Complainant states that he and his girlfriend got into an argument. During the argument, she threw a plate at him, hitting the left side of his neck and causing a small gash.
March 18. 200 block W. Gravers Lane. Police noticed a front door had been forced open. They walked through the property. Various pieces of jewelry were taken.
March 19. 200 block E. Gravers Lane. Complainant states that on Feb. 29 she was scheduled to receive a U.S. Passport for which she paid to expedite early delivery. It was not delivered on Feb. 29. She also didn't receive a number of other deliveries, including a three-book set from Amazon, shoes, a Piperlime gift card and Ann Taylor clothes.
March 20. 9700 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states that an intruder was observed on the fourth floor living area without permission. The intruder said he was looking for security and then left the building, walking towards Northwestern Avenue. A check was done a little later and it was found that money, one gold chain with a gold cross and a gold chain with a gold charm were missing. Reported at 9:30 a.m.
March 20. Unit block Summit Street. Complainant states that an unknown person broke driver's side window and stole a pair of sunglasses. Reported at 9:30 p.m.
March 21. Unit block E. Chestnut Hill Avenue. Complainant states that the following items were stolen: one Hamilton gold watch, one 1950 Lord Elgin gold watch, money, one silver ring with seal of Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. Reported at 6:30 p.m.
March 22. 8200 block Stenton Avenue. Complainant states that between 11 and 11:05 a.m., someone entered vehicle through the window of a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer. Complainant states that window was left open a little for complainant's small dog. Doors were locked. Taken were a Pioneer DVD player and one DVD. Reported at 11:15 a.m.
March 23. 8100 block Devon Street. Complainant arrived home at approximately 11:12 a.m.. to find front door ajar and four intruders who fled the house through a rear, second-floor window. Two of the men fled westbound on Hartwell Lane and two fled southbound from 8100 Devon St. in a silver Ford Taurus. The men had taken a DVD player and laptop computer but left them in the backyard.
March 23. Unit block W. Bells Mill Road. Complainant states she parked her 2006 Jeep Liberty and when she returned, found her rear window smashed and her GPS stolen.
March 24. Unit block W. Bells Mill Road. Complainant states she parked her silver KIA at 10:30 a.m. and one hour later discovered that someone had stolen her bag containing driver's license, medical cards and personal information.
Summary — Eleven crimes for week: one aggravated assault, four burglaries, two thefts and four thefts from vehicles.
Town Watch.
If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service of support, call Northwest Victims Service, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.


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Monaghan forward Conor McManus has launched a customised range of sportswear.
The aptly-titled M15Sports collection of leisurewear and teamwear has been designed by the two-times All-Star attacker and released in conjunction with Declan Loughman Sports.
Half-zip long-sleeve tops and pullover hoodies are available in a selection of colours, all with a subtle M15 logo printed on front and back.
Fashionable Farney County stalwart McManus is currently fighting his way back to full fitness, but still slotted 1-3 against Kerry in Inniskeen in Round Three of the league and made a telling impact when coming off the bench during the battling Round Four Division One victory over Tyrone at Castleblayney, firing three points despite being on the pitch for just 22 minutes.
Best of luck to @ConorMcManus_15 with his new sportswear @LoughmanSports . @monaghangaa @BlayneyFaughs @officialgaa pic.twitter.com/0FKuc9zY5z- Michelle Keenan (@irelakergirl) March 2, 2018


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I see this subforum is mostly for lego games... but really was the one lego castle game worth... any money? I don't think so.
Anyway the point of this thread is to ask if any of you castle builders have heard of or play the game thief? It's a stealth game where you basically sneak into castles and churches and manors and steal loot, but it also has an impressive overarching story with many unique characters.
I figure some of the forum goers may be interested because it takes place in a "medieval" setting, but with steampunk elements; so there will be huge sprawling castle levels with guards in armor and swords to avoid, but there's also electric lights, elevators, machinery and pipes all over the place. I notice the majority of creations here are based on historical facts, like real castle architecture and the like... but I'd be really interested to see some of the better builders would make after a few hours playing thief and drinking in its impressive atmosphere
The game is actually what led me here in a way. I've always like the castle sets, though I never really owned any (I was more of a star wars kind of guy) and just recently I wanted to make some thief-inspired settings for my minifigs to play in, but I realized I'm pretty crap at it. I went to brickshelf to browse the large and impressive MOCs and it led me here, and now I'm starting to get caught up in the castle craze... and also really sad that I've missed some of the better sets of the line :/


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You don't exactly need to have an ear to the ground to pick up on the sentiment in Gator Nation after the Miami loss. It ranges from disappointment to annoyance, to depression to rage. In the short term, all are understood to some degree. Over the long term, some are not so easily understood. They cover the gamut from frustration over giving the game away to an inferior opponent, to dissatisfaction over the entertainment value of the offensive scheme, to general ennui over the mystification of where this program is on the scale of progress and when it will be fully restored to elite status. But of all the discussions currently making the rounds, the one that is most puzzling is the question of whether Will Muschamp is an elite head coach. So I will try to provide some context for assessing this question in 2013.
The Gators have been very fortunate in that they have been fortunate enough to have two of the elite head coaches of a generation call Gainesville home over 18 of the last 23 years. Naturally, Gator fans would like (and some even expect or demand) to have a third nationally elite coach in the last four. The mistake some are making in this assessment is comparing Will Muschamp of 2013 to the Steve Spurrier of 1996 or 2001, and to the Urban Meyer of 2006 or 2008. If we are to compare these men and their careers, we must strike for an apples-to-apples approach…or at least two kinds of fruit rather than apples and lobster.
The Beginnings
It is still painfully fresh in our minds how Muschamp struggled in his first year at Florida. But so did Urban Meyer. Although Muschamp lost more games than Meyer, it was Urban and not Will who broke down and wept in front of the media after a mid-season loss. Of course Spurrier flourished in his first year at Florida, going 9-2 and winning the SEC (I do not acknowledge the travesty of the SEC denying a clean program the title, nor the cowardice of the UF administration for not standing with their new coach when Spurrier begged them to file a simple appeal that had a decent chance of success).
But you can't compare Muschamp's first year to Spurrier's. Firstly, of course, is the fact that Spurrier was left with a loaded cupboard on both sides of the ball and Muschamp was left with a half-empty cupboard that had been pulled by the screws out of the wall. But primarily, you cannot compare Champ to Spurrier for the same reason you cannot compare any coach to Spurrier. Because Spurrier was special. Even among elite coaches, he was special. He won the only ACC title at Duke in the last 51 years. That doesn't happen. He won the SEC title on the field in his first year at Florida. That REALLY doesn't happen. Do you know the number of other coaches who won the SEC title in their first year with a school? Two. The first one was College Football Hall of Fame coach Bernie Moore at LSU in 1935. That was 78 years ago. The next was Mississippi's legendary Johnny Vaught a mere 66 years in the past in 1947. Then there was Spurrier in 1990. That's it. The SEC has been playing football as a league since 1933 and Spurrier is only one of three coaches to ever win or finish first in the conference in his first year at a school – and the only one to have done it in the last half-century and change.
Spurrier was a once-in-a-lifetime coach. Don't ever expect to see another Steve Spurrier at Florida, in the SEC or anywhere else in the NCAA ever again. So we can excuse Will for not approximating Steve's success in Year 1.
Mapping the Progress
It is much more helpful to try to gauge where Muschamp is in the current season – Year 3 – as he has had at least a small window in which to overcome the wreck of a program he took over.
Spurrier won the SEC in Year 1, won 10 games and won the SEC (officially this time) in Year 2, then struggled in Year 3, losing 4 games. Though nine wins was still a monumental accomplishment for the Florida program back then, it is significant to note that it was the only time in Spurrier's first seven years that he did not win the SEC title. It was the worst season of his Florida coaching career (he also went 9-4 in 1999 but finished 7-1 in the SEC, while in 1992 his SEC record was 6-2; both seasons ended with losses to Alabama in the SEC championship game).
Urban Meyer struggled in Year 1, won 13 games and a national title in Year 2, then struggled in Year 3, losing 4 games just as Spurrier did in his Year 3. It was the worst season for Urban Meyer at Florida other than his final season – but he was not really coaching the team that year; more of a wondering figurehead watching a gaggle of assistants trip and fall over each other.
Will Muschamp struggled in Year 1, won 11 games in Year 2 and was one terrible officiating oversight in the Notre Dame-Pitt game from playing Alabama for the national title, and is now 1-1 in Year 3. Through two years, Muschamp has closely mirrored elite predecessors Spurrier and Meyer, only without the Year 2 hardware they brought home. This is Muschamp's Year 3; it's his Spurrier-1992; his Meyer-2007.
I suppose I should not be too surprised that Muschamp is being attacked by a faction of Gator fans as not up to the task. After all, Spurrier got the same blowback in 1992 and Meyer got it even worse in 2007. For Spurrier, the mantra was that he had lost all the great defensive talent he inherited and was finished. For Meyer, the mantra was the same: he had lost most of the Zook recruits he inherited and now he was through. For Muschamp, since he inherited so little by comparison (at least on the offensive side), the mantra is different: all he can do is coach defense and now that the lack of offense has caught up to him, he's a goner.
However, if we look under the mantras, we'll see a much more nuanced dynamic at work. Specifically, if we compare his Year 3 situation to that of Spurrier and Meyer, the historical perspective tends to point to good things in the future.
The Year 3 Dip
To understand why Spurrier and Meyer had such uncharacteristic dips in Year 3, one needs only to look at the team that was left to them. Spurrier inherited a program coming off its second probation in rapid succession. Though he inherited some great talent, the roster was top-heavy and thin because of scholarship limits imposed in the previous years. The recruiting bubble popped in 1992. That's when the class gap on the depth chart had to be bridged with far too many young players in one year. While he still had Shane Matthews and a stable of strong wide receivers, he had only Errict Rhett to carry the ball and he suffered the only significant injury of his career, one that lingered and limited him throughout the season. Where the Gators really suffered, however, was on defense and on the line of scrimmage. While Ellis Johnson and Kevin Carter were anchoring the defensive line as talented true sophomores, they were complemented with true freshmen Johnnie Church at end and Dave Barnard at tackle. Behind them, starting at linebacker, were redshirt freshman Ben Hanks and true freshman Dexter Daniels and thanks to the complete washouts of heralded defensive backs Pete Archie and Carlton Pouncy, it may as well have been Larry Kennedy all by himself back there. But things were far more dire on the offensive line, where the Gators famously had to start a true freshman at both tackle spots. In the SEC. And they paid the price.
In Meyer's third year, it was the same tune, different positions. While not suffering the aftermath of probation like the Spurrier teams, the three prior years of top-heavy and uneven Zook recruiting classes had left huge probation-like holes on one side of the ball. While the offense was a high-powered machine on Tim Tebow's Heisman-winning campaign, the defense was in full rebuilding mode. Alongside junior Derrick Harvey and two of the weaker Gator defensive linemen since the early '80s, there was true sophomore Jermaine Cunningham seeing his first real college action. At linebacker, there was three first-time starters all in their second year in the program (Dustin Doe, Brandon Spikes and A.J. Jones), and then came the real gut-punch: two true freshmen and a true sophomore all starting for the first time in the same secondary. Cornerbacks Joe Haden (Fr) and Wondy Pierre-Louis (So) started 12 and 13 games respectively, while true freshman Major Wright started half the year at safety, splitting time with Kyle Jackson across from Tony Joiner. It was a real tribute to the talent and athleticism (and coaching) that this defense only lost four games in 2007.
Then we have Will Muschamp's Year 3 roster situation. He was not hit with a probation-created scholarship squeeze like Spurrier was, or the probation-like squeeze resulting from three years of unbalanced recruiting like Meyer was. No, he got far worse. He got the perfect storm of following a few years of uneven recruiting, complete loss of discipline and control of the program by the previous coach and a resulting exodus of players during the coaching transition that left his roster far more depleted than Spurrier's or Meyer's ever dreamed of. While both of them had serious depth issues forcing them to rush many young players into service, at least they had a full hand from a stacked deck from which to play. They didn't have a huge chunk of the program walk out the door. Here's a look at what Muschamp has had to overcome (here, "lost" players are those who either quit football, were kicked off the team or transferred for various reasons, most of them discipline- or attitude-related):
Recruiting class of 2008 (ranked #3 in the nation): lost 9 of 22 players (41%)
Class of 2009 (#11): lost 4 of 17 (24%)
Class of 2010 (#1): lost 12 of 29 (41%)
Class of 2011 (#5): lost 8 of 19 (42%)
Class of 2012 (#2): lost 4 of 23 (17%)
Over the course of one player's eligibility, Muschamp lost 37 players. And of the two classes that should make up the majority of this year's two-deep (2010-2011), 42% of the team has departed. And while 25% to 30% attrition over the course of an entire class's eligibility is not uncommon these days, most attrition is historically in the later years from players who are nearing their eligibility without having made an impact on the team. However, most of the attrition for Muschamp has been early in eligibility and from many players who were being counted on to be major contributors.
Consider what the 2013 Gator offense was supposed to look like:
Mike Blakely, RB (Jr)
Trevon Van, RB (Sr)
Jessamen Dunker, OL (So)
Gerald Christian, TE (Sr)
A.C. Leonard, TE (Jr)
Chris Dunkley, WR (Sr)
Ja'Juan Story, WR (Jr)
Javares McRoy WR (Jr)
Robert Clark, WR (Sr)
Adrian Coxson, WR (Sr)
All the issues with the offense may be working out a tad bit smoother if these players had stuck around and developed in the system and were leading the team, most of them as upperclassmen this year.
So although many Gator fans are predicting a 3 or 4 loss season this year, historically speaking that would keep him apace with Florida's previous elite coaches Spurrier and Meyer.
Contemporary Confusion
A final inequity forced upon the assessment of Muschamp's abilities is the comparison of Champ with his current peers in the SEC: Spurrier, Saban and Miles. But again, the mistake is made that he is being compared to them as they are today as old, seasoned veterans of the SEC wars. That's simply not realistic.
Again, let's not forget that Champ is just beginning his third year as a college head coach. Spurrier won the SEC title in his first year as the head coach of Florida, but that was his seventh year of experience as a head coach with his third team in college and the pros combined. Urban Meyer was in his sixth year as a head coach with his third team when he won his first SEC title. Nick Saban was in his eighth year as a head coach with his third team when he won his first SEC crown at LSU. And of course Les Miles didn't win an SEC title until his seventh year as head coach with his second team. Will Muschamp is with his first team, in his third year. Also, when they won their first SEC titles, Meyer was 42, Spurrier was 45, Saban was 50 and Miles was 54. Muschamp is 42 – 3 years younger than Spurrier was, 8 years younger than Saban and 12 years younger than Miles.
So when fans try to project (or sometimes to pigeonhole) Muschamp's current status as an elite coach, it is important to keep in mind that when we compare him to the benchmarks at Florida and around today's SEC, that there is no fair comparison without some weighing added in. Judging Champ's place amongst this group of elite coaches is a game of trajectory, not current state. And as fans, it is critical to take inventory of the consequences of churning the Gator coaching carousel while waiting around for the next lightning-out-of-the-gate Steve Spurrier. Because he is never going to reappear. That was a magical confluence of talent and timing that will never happen again. Even Spurrier was not the success right out of the box that he is remembered as, because he was honing his skills for years before Florida ever came calling.
So the wait for the next elite coach at Florida has to be a realistic one. We cannot simply judge Muschamp on only two years and two games into his head coaching career (and really, just one year and two games if you look at Year 1 for what it was: janitorial work). It has to play out a little longer. He has to at least be given the chance to get past the Year 3 dip, as Spurrier and Meyer were. And who knows? Muschamp's Year 3 dip may not be nearly as bad as the previous two. There is no way to know but to see how it unfolds. Let's try to make this assessment at the end of the year, or better yet – the end of 2014, Year 4, when Spurrier bounced back to win the first of 4-straight SEC titles capped with a national championship; Year 4, when Meyer bounced back to notch two-straight 13-win seasons for the only time in UF history, and win another SEC and national crown. Surely Muschamp's great coaching job in Year 2 bought him the right to see his vision through to full fruition before Gator Nation passes judgment on his entire career just as it is getting started.


text: RussiaFeed News Business Chinese firm Huawei to launch mobile payment system in Russia One of the leaders in mobile payment system technology, which is widespread in China, is branching out Published 1 year ago on February 1, 2018 By RussiaFeed 40 Views Share Tweet (bne intellinews) – Chinese Huawei has announced that it will launch its Huawei Pay in Russia, the first country outside China to see the system's launch, reports FPRI Bear Market Brief. The launch is the latest in Chinese companies opening up their pay systems in Russia, which is emerging as one of their most important markets outside of their own country. Chinese mega-retailer Alibaba also launched its Alipay service in Russia in 2017 to tap into the growing number of Chinese tourists going to Moscow to shop. Huwaei Pay is a joint effort with China's Union Pay system, and will be a stepping stone into the Eastern European market. The system's launch date has not been announced, though one source says it's autumn of this year. Huawei's smartphones currently have a 12.6% share of Russia's market, behind Samsung (25.4%) and Apple (16.3%). Meanwhile, smartphone use by Russians continues to grow. According to Per Mobile Research Group, in 2017 Russians had some 18mn smartphones with near field communication (NFC) necessary for mobile payments. That figure was only 10mn in 2016. Mobile phone sales accelerated in 2017, jumping by an estimated 5-8% depending on the model, to a record high of 29mn devices, earning retailers RUB375bn-RUB384bn ($6.6bn-$6.8bn) in the process, reports Prime. The major producers are expecting the trend to continue in 2018, although competition is becoming fierce. "The smartphone market is developing at a breakneck speed. Technologies make several steps forward within a year. Tough competition between manufacturers reflects on customers, who increase demand for new devices. As of the end of 2017, M.Video sold 18% more smartphones than a year earlier, which is almost four times higher than the market average," Sergei Sukhorukov, head of the electronics retailer's mobile appliances department, said in a research note cited by Prime. "The main growth drivers were, first, appearance of bezel-free displays, and, second, widening of assortment with interesting new devices from Chinese brands. We can certainly say that we'll see many interesting solutions in 2018, while competition will tighten even more." Estimates of the growth in the market vary amongst the different players. M.Video calculated that smartphone sales grew 15% in 2017 to RUB375bn and 5% to 28mn devices. Retailer Euroset saw an 18% increase to RUB 383.7bn and a 7% rise to 28.6mn units, which is a record high since 2014, PR Director Alexandra Pertseva told Prime. One of the factors driving sales is Russians have swapped from paying cash for phones to using credit cards. Consumer credit has been rising fast and the average household debt has gone from one or two months worth of average wages to five months in 2017. Ease access to credit has also driven up the average prices customers are willing to pay for a phone, with the average price gaining 9–10% in 2017 to RUB13,400–RUB13,415, the retailers said. Sales of smartphones with a price tag of more than 40,000 rubles grew by more than 25% in units, and devices for 10,000–20,000 rubles rose 30% in units, M.Video said, Prime reports. "Beyond oil and gas deals, China has a huge presence in Russia's e-commerce sector. This investment represents a push beyond that, a logical step given Russia's growing tech market. Competition will be fierce though, with Russian banks getting in on the action as well," Bear Markets Brief said in its report. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Published 2 days ago on March 20, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch The Hill committed what may well have been a random act of journalism when it reported that Ukrainian Prosecutor General, Yuriy Lutsenko, told Hill.tv's reporter John Solomon that the American ambassador to that country, Marie Yovanovitch, gave him a "do not prosecute" list at their first meeting. Normally, all things Russia are covered by the American press as "bad", and all things Ukraine are covered by the same as "good." Yet this report reveals quite a bit about the nature of the deeply embedded US interests that are involved in Ukraine, and which also attempt to control and manipulate policy in the former Soviet republic. The Hill's piece continues (with our added emphases): "Unfortunately, from the first meeting with the U.S. ambassador in Kiev, [Yovanovitch] gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute," Lutsenko, who took his post in 2016, told Hill.TV last week. "My response of that is it is inadmissible. Nobody in this country, neither our president nor our parliament nor our ambassador, will stop me from prosecuting whether there is a crime," he continued. Indeed, the Prosecutor General appears to be a man of some principles. When this report was brought to the attention of the US State Department, the response was predictable: The State Department called Lutsenko's claim of receiving a do not prosecute list, "an outright fabrication." "We have seen reports of the allegations," a department spokesperson told Hill.TV. "The United States is not currently providing any assistance to the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), but did previously attempt to support fundamental justice sector reform, including in the PGO, in the aftermath of the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. When the political will for genuine reform by successive Prosecutors General proved lacking, we exercised our fiduciary responsibility to the American taxpayer and redirected assistance to more productive projects." This is an amazing statement in itself. "Our fiduciary responsibility to the American taxpayer"? Are Americans even aware that their country is spending their tax dollars in an effort to manipulate a foreign government in what can probably well be called a low-grade proxy war with the Russian Federation? Again, this appears to be a slip, as most American media do a fair job of maintaining the narrative that Ukraine is completely independent and that its actions regarding the United States and Russia are taken in complete freedom. Hill.TV has reached out to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine for comment. Lutsenko also said that he has not received funds amounting to nearly $4 million that the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine was supposed to allocate to his office, saying that "the situation was actually rather strange" and pointing to the fact that the funds were designated, but "never received." "At that time we had a case for the embezzlement of the U.S. government technical assistance worth 4 million U.S. dollars, and in that regard, we had this dialogue," he said. "At that time, [Yovanovitch] thought that our interviews of Ukrainian citizens, of Ukrainian civil servants, who were frequent visitors of the U.S. Embassy put a shadow on that anti-corruption policy." "Actually, we got the letter from the U.S. Embassy, from the ambassador, that the money that we are speaking about [was] under full control of the U.S. Embassy, and that the U.S. Embassy did not require our legal assessment of these facts," he said. "The situation was actually rather strange because the funds we are talking about were designated for the prosecutor general's office also and we told [them] we have never seen those, and the U.S. Embassy replied there was no problem." "The portion of the funds, namely 4.4 million U.S. dollars were designated and were foreseen for the recipient Prosecutor General's office. But we have never received it," he said. Yovanovitch previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Armenia under former presidents Obama and George W. Bush, as well as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan under Bush. She also served as ambassador to Ukraine under Obama. Former Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), who was at the time House Rules Committee chairman, voiced concerns about Yovanovitch in a letter to the State Department last year in which he said he had proof the ambassador had spoken of her "disdain" for the Trump administration. This last sentence may be a way to try to narrow the scope of American interference in Ukraine down to the shenanigans of just a single person with a personal agenda. However, many who have followed the story of Ukraine and its surge in anti-Russian rhetoric, neo-Naziism, ultra-nationalism, and the most recent events surrounding the creation of a pseudo-Orthodox "church" full of Ukrainian nationalists and atheists as a vehicle to import "Western values" into a still extremely traditional and Christian land, know that there are fingerprints of the United States "deep state" embeds all over this situation. It is somewhat surprising that so much that reveals the problem showed up in just one report. It will be interesting to see if this gets any follow-up in the US press. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest President Putin signs law blocking fake news, but the West makes more Western media slams President Putin and his fake news law, accusing him of censorship, but an actual look at the law reveals some wisdom. Published 2 days ago on March 20, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch The TASS Russian News Agency reported on March 18th that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on a new law intended to block distorted or untrue information being reported as news. Promptly after he did so, Western news organizations began their attempt to "spin" this event as some sort of proof of "state censorship" in the oppressive sense of the old Soviet Union. In other words, a law designed to prevent fake news was used to create more fake news. One of the lead publications is a news site that is itself ostensibly a "fake news" site. The Moscow Times tries to portray itself as a Russian publication that is conducted from within Russian borders. However, this site and paper is really a Western publication, run by a Dutch foundation located in the Netherlands. As such, the paper and the website associated have a distinctly pro-West slant in their reporting. Even Wikipedia noted this with this comment from their entry about the publication: In the aftermath of the Ukrainian crisis, The Moscow Times was criticized by a number of journalists including Izvestia columnist Israel Shamir, who in December 2014 called it a "militant anti-Putin paper, a digest of the Western press with extreme bias in covering events in Russia".[3] In October 2014 The Moscow Times made the decision to suspend online comments after an increase in offensive comments. The paper said it disabled comments for two reasons—it was an inconvenience for its readers as well as being a legal liability, because under Russian law websites are liable for all content, including user-generated content like comments.[14] This bias is still notably present in what is left of the publication, which is now an online-only news source. This is some of what The Moscow Times had to say about the new fake news legislation: The bills amending existing information laws overwhelmingly passed both chambers of Russian parliament in less than two months. Observers and some lawmakers have criticized the legislation for its vague language and potential to stifle free speech. The legislation will establish punishments for spreading information that "exhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia." Insulting state symbols and the authorities, including Putin, will carry a fine of up to 300,000 rubles and 15 days in jail for repeat offenses. As is the case with other Russian laws, the fines are calculated based on whether the offender is a citizen, an official or a legal entity. More than 100 journalists and public figures, including human rights activist Zoya Svetova and popular writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, signed a petition opposing the laws, which they labeled "direct censorship." This piece does give a bit of explanation from Dmitry Peskov, showing that European countries also have strict laws governing fake news distribution. However, the Times made the point of pointing out the idea of "insulting governmental bodies of Russia… including Putin" to bolster their claim that this law amounts to real censorship of the press. It developed its point of view based on a very short article from Reuters which says even less about the legislation and how it works. However, TASS goes into rather exhaustive detail about this law, and it also gives rather precise wording on the reason for the law's passage, as well as how it is to be enforced. We include most of this text here, with emphases added: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on blocking untrue and distorting information (fake news). The document was posted on the government's legal information web portal. The document supplements the list of information, the access to which may be restricted on the demand by Russia's Prosecutor General or his deputies. In particular, it imposes a ban on "untrue publicly significant information disseminated in the media and in the Internet under the guise of true reports, which creates a threat to the life and (or) the health of citizens, property, a threat of the mass violation of public order and (or) public security, or the threat of impeding or halting the functioning of vital infrastructural facilities, transport or social infrastructure, credit institutions, energy, industrial or communications facilities." Pursuant to the document, in case of finding such materials in Internet resources registered in accordance with the Russian law on the mass media as an online media resource, Russia's Prosecutor General or his deputies will request the media watchdog Roskomnadzor to restrict access to the corresponding websites. Based on this request, Roskomnadzor will immediately notify the editorial board of the online media resource, which is in violation of the legislation, about the need to remove untrue information and the media resource will be required to delete such materials immediately. If the editorial board fails to take the necessary measures, Roskomnadzor will send communications operators "a demand to take measures to restrict access to the online resource." In case of deleting such untrue information, the website owner will notify Roskomnadzor thereof, following which the media watchdog will "hold a check into the authenticity of this notice" and immediately inform the communications operator about the resumption of the access to the information resource. The conditions for the law are very specific, as are the penalties for breaking it. TASS continued: Liability for breaching the law Simultaneously, the Federation Council approved the associated law with amendments to Russia's Code of Administrative Offences, which stipulates liability in the form of penalties of up to 1.5 million rubles (around $23,000) for the spread of untrue and distorting information. The Code's new article, "The Abuse of the Freedom of Mass Information," stipulates liability for disseminating "deliberately untrue publicly significant information" in the media or in the Internet. The penalty will range from 30,000 rubles ($450) to 100,000 rubles ($1,520) for citizens, from 60,000 rubles ($915) to 200,000 rubles ($3,040) for officials and from 200,000 rubles to 500,000 rubles ($7,620) for corporate entities with the possible confiscation of the subject of the administrative offence. In addition, the law introduces some new elements of offence, one of which stipulates sanctions for creating obstacles to the functioning of life support facilities, transport or social infrastructure, communications, energy and industrial facilities and credit institutions by way of disseminating fake news. In such instances, fines will range from 100,000 rubles to 300,000 rubles ($4,570) for citizens, from 300,000 rubles to 600,000 rubles ($9,150) for officials and from 500,000 rubles to 1 million rubles ($15,240) for corporate entities. Another element of offence imposes tighter liability for the cases when the publication of false publicly significant information has resulted in the deaths of people, has caused damage to the health or property, prompted the mass violation of public order and security or has caused disruption to the functioning of transport or social infrastructure facilities, communications, energy and industrial facilities and banks. In such instances, the fines will range from 300,000 rubles to 400,000 rubles ($6,090) for citizens, from 600,000 rubles to 900,000 rubles ($13,720) for officials, and from 1 million rubles to 1.5 million rubles for corporate entities. While this legislation can be spun (and is) in the West as anti-free speech, one may also consider the damage that has taken place in the American government through a relentless attack of fake news from most US news outlets against President Trump. One of the most notable effects of this barrage has been to further degrade and destroy the US' relationship with the Russian Federation, because even the Helsinki Summit was attacked so badly that the two leaders have not been able to get a second summit together. While it is certainly a valued right of the American press to be unfettered by Congress, and while it is also certainly vital to criticize improper practices by government officials, the American news agencies have gone far past that, to deliberately dishonest attacks, based in innuendo and everything possible that was formerly only the province of gossip tabloid publications. The effort has been to defame the President, not to give proper or due criticism to his policies, nor credit. It can be properly stated that the American press has abused its freedom of late. This level of abuse drew a very unusual comment from the US president, who wondered on Twitter about the possibility of creating a state-run media center in the US to counter fake news: ….and false way. Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2018 Politically correct for US audiences? No. But an astute point? Definitely. Freedom in anything also presumes that those with that freedom respect it, and further, that they respect and apply the principle that slandering people and institutions for one's own personal, business or political gain is wrong. Implied in the US Constitution's protection of the press is the notion that the press itself, as the rest of the country, is accountable to a much Higher Authority than the State. But when that Authority is rejected, as so much present evidence suggests, then freedom becomes the freedom to misbehave and to agitate. It appears largely within this context that the Russian law exists, based on the text given. Further, by hitting dishonest media outlets in their pocketbook, rather than prison sentences, the law appears to be very smart in its message: "Do not lie. If you do, you will suffer where it counts most." Considering that news media's purpose is to make money, this may actually be a very smart piece of legislation. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest US continues to try to corner Russia with silence on Nukes Moscow continues to be patient in what appears to be an ever more lopsided, intentional stonewalling situation provoked by the Americans. Published 3 days ago on March 19, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch TASS reported on March 17th that despite Russian readiness to discuss the present problem of strategic weapons deployments and disarmament with its counterparts in the United States, the Americans have not offered Russia any proposals to conduct such talks. The Kremlin has not yet received any particular proposals on the talks over issues of strategic stability and disarmament from Washington, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Sunday when commenting on the statement made by US National Security Adviser John Bolton who did not rule out that such talks could be held with Russia and China. "No intelligible proposals has been received [from the US] so far," Peskov said. Earlier Bolton said in an interview with radio host John Catsimatidis aired on Sunday that he considers it reasonable to include China in the negotiation on those issues with Russia as well. "China is building up its nuclear capacity now. It's one of the reasons why we're looking at strengthening our national missile defense system here in the United States. And it's one reason why, if we're going to have another arms control negotiation, for example, with the Russians, it may make sense to include China in that discussion as well," he said. Mr. Bolton's sense about this particular aspect of any arms discussions is correct, as China was not formerly a player in geopolitical affairs the way it is now. The now all-but-scrapped Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF, was a treaty concluded by the US and the USSR leaders Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, back in 1987. However, for in succeeding decades, most notably since the fall of the Soviet Union, the US has been gradually building up weaponry in what appears to be an attempt to create a ring around the Russian Federation, a situation which is understandably increasingly untenable to the Russian government. Both sides have accused one another of violating this treaty, and the mutual violations and recriminations on top of a host of other (largely fabricated) allegations against the Russian government's activities led US President Donald Trump to announce his nation's withdrawal from the treaty, formally suspending it on 1 February. Russian President Vladimir Putin followed suit by suspending it the very next day. The INF eliminated all of both nations' land based ballistic and cruise missiles that had a range between 500 and 1000 kilometers (310-620 miles) and also those that had ranges between 1000 and 5500 km (620-3420 miles) and their launchers. This meant that basically all the missiles on both sides were withdrawn from Europe's eastern regions – in fact, much, if not most, of Europe was missile-free as the result of this treaty. That is no longer the case today, and both nations' accusations have provoked re-development of much more advanced systems than ever before, especially true considering the Russian progress into hypersonic and nuclear powered weapons that offer unlimited range. This situation generates great concern in Europe, such that the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on both Moscow and Washington to salvage the INF and extend the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, or the New START as it is known. "I call on the parties to the INF Treaty to use the time remaining to engage in sincere dialogue on the various issues that have been raised. It is very important that this treaty is preserved," Guterres said at a session of the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Monday. He stressed that the demise of that accord would make the world more insecure and unstable, which "will be keenly felt in Europe." "We simply cannot afford to return to the unrestrained nuclear competition of the darkest days of the Cold War," he said. Guterres also urged the US and Russia to extend the START Treaty, which expires in 2021, and explore the possibility of further reducing their nuclear arsenals. "I also call on the United States and the Russian Federation to extend the so-called New START Treaty before it expires in 2021," he said. The UN chief recalled that the treaty "is the only international legal instrument limiting the size of the world's two largest nuclear arsenals" and that its inspection provisions "represent important confidence-building measures that benefit the entire world." "I urge Russia and the United States to use the time provided by an extension to the treaty to consider further reductions in their strategic nuclear arsenals," he said. Guterres recalled that the bilateral arms control process between Russia and the US "has been one of the hallmarks of international security for fifty years." "Thanks to their efforts, global stockpiles of nuclear weapons are now less than one-sixth of what they were in 1985," the UN secretary-general pointed out. The Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the New START Treaty) entered into force on February 5, 2011. The document stipulates that seven years after its entry into effect each party should have no more than a total of 700 deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) and strategic bombers, as well as no more than 1,550 warheads on deployed ICBMs, deployed SLBMs and strategic bombers, and a total of 800 deployed and non-deployed ICBM launchers, SLBM launchers and strategic bombers. The new START Treaty obliges the parties to exchange information on the number of warheads and carriers twice a year. The new START Treaty will remain in force during 10 years until 2021, unless superseded by a subsequent agreement. It may be extended for a period of no more than five years (that is, until 2026) upon the parties' mutual consent. Moscow has repeatedly called on Washington not to delay the issue of extending the Treaty. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... Waiting for PayPal...Validating payment information...Waiting for PayPal... 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Outlook Express 5.0
Click File
Highlight Export and Select Address book
Select Text File (Comma Separated Values)
Click Export
Click Browse
Select where you want to save the file. Rename file (save as: Comma Separated Values [.csv]
Click Save
Click Next
Select the fields you want to export
Click Finish
Outlook Express 6.0
In the Address Book, on the File menu, click on Export->Other Address Book.
Select Text File (Comma Separated Values), and then click on Export button.
Click on Browse button and browse to where you would like to have the file saved to such as Desktop and in the file name box, name it such as contacts1 or contacts2 etc. Click on Next button
In the CSV Export window, select the fields you wish to export by clicking on or deselecting fields you may not use or want exported (note: not all fields import, and will need to be verified after completion) Click on Finish. This should complete the export, just need to import now into Webmail.
Outlook 2002
Run Outlook 2002. Click on File in the menu bar and select Import and Export….
In the Import and Export Wizard window, choose Export to a file and click on Next.
On the next screen, select Comma Separated Values (Windows) and click on Next.
Select Contacts as the folder to export from and click on Next.
Click on the Browse button (to select where to save file)
Click Next.
Click Finish.
Outlook 2000
Click File
Select Import and Export
Select Export to a File
Click Next
Click No if you get the AutoArchive option
Select Comma Separated Values (Windows)
Click Next
Select Contacts (to export from)
Click Next
Click Browse button (to select where to save file)
Click OK
Click Next
Click Finish
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More than any historic home tour, the School of Artisan Food provides a true taste of Downton Abbey through classes in traditional English cookery: cider making, wild game butchery, and fruit preserves.
It's one example of the greater world of epicurean experiences that has opened up for travelers eager to pack their aprons and join immersion classes with local guides or expert cooks—whatever your time commitment, budget, and skill level.
We've done the dirty work to identify the best cooking programs around the globe, from a half-day course on chicken gumbo in New Orleans to a farm in the scenic backwaters of Kerala, India, where classes center on family recipes for chutney and curries. They share the ability to help travelers understand a local culture and to revisit a favorite destination with a fresh perspective. After all, it's exhilarating to start the day at a local market then sit down to a meal of pasta with truffles, tom yum goong, or coquilles St. Jacques of your very own making.
Students are typically teamed up with multilingual instructors versed in the cuisine of the region. You can expect to pick up new kitchen skills and recipes, and lessons are often augmented by exclusive encounters with purveyors and artisanal growers, wine pourings at vineyards, and dinners set in private homes or at top chef tables tucked in a corner of their kitchen domain, so that you can observe pros in the heat of the action.
Some programs are suited to a weeklong vacation: kneading dough with a master pizzaiolo in Naples or cooking spice-infused tagines at a villa in the Palmeraie outside Marrakesh. Other daylong sessions cater to those who simply want to whet their appetites. Hotels and resorts are increasingly offering classes as well. Before booking, ask about class size, type of equipment (knives, stovetops) provided, and what meals and accommodation are included.
Here are the latest programs for seasoned cooks as well as beginners ripe for discovery.


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Which Chef Won Hell's Kitchen?
Sep 10, 2012 9:40 PM EDT
[WARNING: The following story reveals the winner of Hell's Kitchen. Read at your own risk.] After weeks of burned risottos, undercooked meat and Chef Gordon Ramsay's rage, Hell's Kitchen crowned the winner of its 10th season Monday. In the final dinn… Read more


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Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
Atlassian Sourcetree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Mac.
Moved to Github
**Development has moved to github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries **
Please use that repository for issue tracking (and forking). The same Transifex repository is being used for translations.
A Django application which provides country choices for use with forms, and a country field for models.
To use the flags, use the django.contrib.staticfiles app added in Django 1.3 (or django-staticfiles application for previous Django versions).
A country field for Django models that provides all ISO 3166-1 countries as choices.
CountryField is based on Django's CharField, providing choices corresponding to the official ISO 3166-1 list of countries (with a default max_length of 2).
Consider the following model using a CountryField:
from django.db import models from django_countries import CountryField class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=100) country = CountryField()
Any Person instance will have a country attribute that you can use to get details of the person's country:
>>> person = Person(name='Chris', country='NZ') >>> person.country Country(code='NZ') >>> person.country.name u'New Zealand' >>> person.country.flag u'/static/flags/nz.gif'
This object (person.country in the example) is a Country instance, which is described below.
The Country object
An object used to represent a country, instanciated with a two character country code.
It can be compared to other objects as if it was a string containing the country code, and it's __unicode__ method returns the country code.
- name
- Contains the full country name.
- flag
- Contains a URL to the flag. 'flags/[lowercasecountrycode].gif' is appended to the STATIC_URL setting, or if that isn't set, the MEDIA_URL setting.
Country Choices
The django_countries.countries module contains some constants which can be used to generate choices lists for a Django Select form field.
- A tuple of two part tuples, each consisting of a country code and the corresponding nicely titled (and translatable) country name.
- A tuple, similar to COUNTRIES, but also includes duplicates for countries that contain a comma (i.e. the non-comma'd version).
- A dictionary where each key is a country code and each value is the corresponding official capitalised ISO 3166-1 English country name.


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Mar-Lyn needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 247 designs submitted by 61 freelance designers.
Soil to Sun
Soil to Sun is a franchise business model aimed at helping budding entrepreneurs launch and succeed in the energy conservation space. Franchisees will enter personal residences and commercial locations completing in-depth inspections of the premises using state of the art equipment and comprehensive training to identify opportunities to decrease the carbon footprint, costs and waste.
Homeowners who are concerned with the costs of energy to run their home and who are concerned with their impact on the environment. In addition, businesses looking to lower their carbon foot print and, in the end, save money.
Soil to Sun may also later venture into such fields as equipment distribution, additional add on green training courses and other "things" green.
The logo should be professional and stand out. Lean towards professional not campy or nonsensical. There are no set colors, fonts or other limiting factors at this point. Soil to Sun is simply looking for the best logo to launch this new venture.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Can't Bet Solely on China for Luxury Spending
One of Hong Kong's major commercial real estate developers isn't relying only on sales from Mainland Chinese shoppers for future profits. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to Raymond Chow, executive director at Hong Kong Land, about the developer's strategy in an highly competitive market.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Tony Perkins blames 'reckless rhetoric' for shooting
'Hate group' label lets unstable people 'feel free to do harm'
WASHINGTON – Family Research Council President Tony Perkins today said the "reckless rhetoric" of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center created the atmosphere that fostered the attack yesterday by a gunman on the Christian organization's office in Washington.
In a press conference in front of the council's Washington headquarters, Perkins thanked political opponents who expressed their condolences after the attack by a man who had been volunteering at an LGBT center.
But the FRC chief challenged them "to go a step further."
He also asked organizations that condemned the violence to "call for an end to the reckless rhetoric that I believe" led to the shooting.
Perkins identified the Southern Poverty Law Center as responsible for the atmosphere, stating that it gave suspected gunman Floyd Lee Corkins "a license to shoot."
When challenged by reporters, Perkins expanded on his remarks and claimed that the SPLC's designation of the Family Research Council as a "certified hate group … marginalizes individuals and organizations letting people feel free to go and do bodily harm to innocent people who are simply working and representing folks from all across this country."
The SPLC labeled the Family Research Council a "hate group" in 2010, attributing to the organization the characteristics of groups such as Aryan Nations 88, the National Socialist Movement and the American Aryan Reich.
A number of conservative media and political figures, including Speaker of the House John Boehner and WND editor Joseph Farah, condemned the designation and expressed solidarity with the Family Research Council.
In response, Mark Potok, editor of the SPLC's Intelligence Report, said Perkins' comments were "outrageous" and repeated the charge that the Family Research Council is a "hate group," because it "has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people."
Potok also claimed that the SPLC condemns political violence from whatever source.
Perkins also addressed the repeatedly reported connection between Chick-fil-A and the Family Research Council. Perkins pointed out that the suspect was carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches as well as 50 rounds as ammunition, "which is not something you bring to a family picnic."
Perkins noted that Chick-fil-A gave the organization $1,000 several years ago but had no other involvement. Homosexual activists have been attacking Chick-fil-A over the last few weeks because its owner, Dan Cathy, openly stated his support for traditional marriage.
Perkins also described the building's operations manager, who also doubled with security duties in the front of the building, a "hero." Leo Johnson was wounded in the attack and remains hospitalized.
In an earlier appearance on Fox News, Perkins described the scenario. Johnson was in the front of the building when a man entered with a gun and fired. There have been reports from authorities that the gunman aid he didn't like FRC's politics.
"Leo, despite being wounded, unarms the man and holds him," Perkins said. "It was truly a heroic effort. The intentions of this man were clearly evil and [he] intended to do massive damage."
He told the Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly he believed the attacker was "given a license to do that" by groups such as the SPLC, "because we defend the family and traditional Christianity."
He confirmed, however, the attack he described as "terror" would not stop the group from continuing its ministry.
"It's not going to work," he said. "We're not going anywhere."
Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier and FBI officials praised Johnson for preventing more bloodshed.
An FBI affidavit from Special Agent Garrett Nabors said a surveillance tape showed the suspect talking with Johnson, then pulling a gun and shooting him.
After being wounded, Johnson moved toward Corkins, wrestled the firearm away from Corkins and subdued him, the report said.
The Family Research Council was founded in 1983 by a group of evangelical leaders that included Dr. James Dobson. Today, under Perkins, the group works to support conservative Christian social issues, including traditional marriage and pro-life causes.
Yesterday, even while the shooting suspect still was being questioned, one WND columnist said there's enough evidence to begin demanding that pro-homosexual organizations such as the SPLC stand down from their campaign of labeling organizations as "hate groups" simply because they adhere to the biblical perspective of marriage.
Columnist Matt Barber, who is affiliated with the Liberty Counsel Action advocacy organization, told WND he had predicted such violence would be inflicted on Christian organizations if left-leaning groups such as the SPLC continue to spread labels such as "hate group."
"I want to formally call on the SPLC to retract its reckless hate-group smear of Christian organizations like the Family Research Council," he said. "This was intended to dehumanize Christian organizations and smear as hate the biblical view of sexual morality.
"I pointed this out months ago in a column I wrote for WND, titled 'Liberal Violence Rising,' where I basically predicted this sort of thing."
He said the danger is when "less-than-stable, left-wing extremists" share the view of the SPLC and say "a hate group is just like the KKK. I'm a hero if I go and take out a bunch of folks."
WND Founder and Editor Joseph Farah also weighed in on the attack.
He cited the SPLC, as well as Planned Parenthood, for labeling FRC a hate group.
"Both of these organizations literally did their best to put a target on the back of FRC and other pro-family groups by labeling it as a 'hate group' (SPLC) and 'terrorist or extremist organization' (Planned Parenthood)," he wrote.
"Do they bear any responsibility for the climate of fear-mongering they helped create? Were they in any way responsible for encouraging this act of violence against a group that stands up for the institution of marriage and against the wanton taking of unborn life? Has either one of these groups expressed any remorse over the hysteria they purposely generated toward Family Research Council?"
He continued: "I can tell you this. Other groups and individuals on those lists – including me and my news organization – are taking this matter very seriously and beefing up security precautions in anticipation of more violence provoked by slanderous and vicious assaults of this kind.
"Yes, I made the same lists. So did WND as an organization. Now we are watching our backs, knowing that Planned Parenthood and SPLC have placed targets on them for every maniac who reads their reports and takes them seriously."
Barber's earlier column, from November 2011, said, "The SPLC's dangerous and irresponsible disinformation campaign can embolden and give license to like-minded, though less stable, left-wing extremists, creating a climate of true hate. Such a climate is ripe for violence."


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Starting Over
Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 5:55PM
After using an old version of the Wordpress blog engine, I have decided to scrap the whole site and start over. I don't have the right skill set to successfully use Wordpress and keep it up to date, so I am moving to Squarespace.com. I have such an old version of Wordpress that I can't export my posts and import them into Squarespace. So over the summer I am going to post all of my old entries one at a time to the new site. For those that have been using my site over the years, I want to thank you and bear with me in this big transition. Hopefully as a result, I will be more motivated to post in the future. Thanks!
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