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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Dear John By Nicholas Sparks

I fell in love with this book from the start it was just wonderful. I really enjoy reading Nicholas Sparks's books he really knows how to make you fall in love with the characters. in this book. Well some of the characters I really wanted to slap Savannah lol she made me soo mad sometimes. I am such a sucker for this kind of books soo it really got into me. I wish there would've been a happy ending but at te same time I really didn't want that to happen so in a way even though John was in pain I think he was better off alone with ought that girl she really got into my nerves lol what I really hated about her was that she said she really loves him.

It makes me sooo mad though that outside of the hospital he tells her he loves her and instead of her just keeping quiet she tells him she loves him too. Tim also told John before he talked with Savannah that she still loved him. In the end John sells his father's coins so that Tim could get his treatments and live because he wanted Savannah to be happy. I really didn't like the ending because John was alone and in love with someone that could never be with him. : ( the only two good things about him meeting Savannah was that he finally did spend time with his dad before he died, he ended up bonding with him more and that he finally knew what love meant. I would totally read the book again even though I'll be sad in the process all over again lol. I really didn't like the movie, as much as I did the book. But they changed a lot of the things. I was pretty disappointed because it wasn't what I expected. The books in my point of view are better than the movies most of the time.

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Financial Peace

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at  7:00pm (at Linglestown Life)

Facilitators: Mike & BethAnn Hinton

First Class of

FPU Graduates!

Congratulations to our first class of FPU graduates!  These people completed the 9-week series and took control of their finances!  They paid down debt, saved money, and learned how to live by godly principles.  Thanks to Ed & Linda Beck for facilitating the class!

FPU helped us to remember that it’s not money that’s good or evil but how we use it that makes all the difference. And now that we’re telling every last one of our dollars where to go, we have found a joy and contentment in our finances that we never dreamed possible. It’s not that we love money now; we simply understand the power it truly has and how managing it biblically can change your entire life.

...the biggest impact for us came in our monthly budget. We had already been “living on a budget” for years but without true discipline. When we sat down with pencil, paper, and a calculator (anyone remember those?), we realized exactly where we were overspending and how to shift some expenses so that the first half of our monthly budget finally balanced with the second half. I couldn’t believe how easy it was! Now as a result, we know exactly how we’re spending every dollar and we’ve “found” over $300 a month extra to put towards our debt! -2013 FPU Class Graduates

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How to set MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) value on OpenSuSe Linux

In computer networking, the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a layer of a communications protocol is the size (in bytes) of the largest protocol data unit that the layer can pass onwards.

MTU parameters usually appear in association with a communications interface (NIC, serial port, etc.). Standards (Ethernet, for example) can fix the size of an MTU; or systems (such as point-to-point serial links) may decide MTU at connect time. A higher MTU brings greater efficiency because:
  • each packet carries more user-data
  • protocol overheads, such as headers or underlying per-packet delays, remain fixed,
  • higher efficiency means a slight improvement in bulk protocol throughput

For sending bulk data, the Internet generally works better when using larger packets. Each packet implies a routing decision, when sending a 1 megabyte file, this can either mean around 700 packets when using packets that are as large as possible, or 4000 if using the smallest default.

However, not all parts of the Internet support full 1460 bytes of payload per packet. It is therefore necessary to try and find the largest packet that will 'fit', in order to optimize a connection.

This process is called 'Path MTU Discovery', where MTU stands for 'Maximum Transfer Unit.'

Setting MTU value in OpenSuSe Linux:
Go to Yast → Network Device → Network Settings
In Network Setting dialog dialog box, select "Overview" tab and click on "Edit" button, this will open up your Network card setting dialog box, click on "General" tab to set the MTU for this card as shown in the figure below

To view the updated MTU, type command: ip link list you should see the output similar to ...
1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
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2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
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Quantum Interference between Transverse Spatial Waveguide Modes
Mohanty, Aseema, Mian Zhang, Avik Dutt, Sven Ramelow, Paulo Nussenzveig, and Michal Lipson. “Quantum Interference between Transverse Spatial Waveguide Modes.” Nature Communications 8 (2017): 14010. Publisher's Version Abstract
Integrated quantum optics has the potential to markedly reduce the footprint and resource requirements of quantum information processing systems, but its practical implementation demands broader utilization of the available degrees of freedom within the optical field. To date, integrated photonic quantum systems have primarily relied on path encoding. However, in the classical regime, the transverse spatial modes of a multi-mode waveguide have been easily manipulated using the waveguide geometry to densely encode information. Here, we demonstrate quantum interference between the transverse spatial modes within a single multi-mode waveguide using quantum circuit-building blocks. This work shows that spatial modes can be controlled to an unprecedented level and have the potential to enable practical and robust quantum information processing.
Okawachi, Yoshitomo, Mengjie Yu, Kevin Luke, Daniel O. Carvalho, Sven Ramelow, Alessandro Farsi, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta. “Dual-pumped degenerate Kerr oscillator in a silicon nitride microresonator.” Opt. Lett. 40 (2015): 5267–5270. Publisher's Version Abstract
We demonstrate a degenerate parametric oscillator in a silicon nitride microresonator. We use two frequency-detuned pump waves to perform parametric four-wave mixing and operate in the normal group-velocity dispersion regime to produce signal and idler fields that are frequency degenerate. Our theoretical modeling shows that this regime enables generation of bimodal phase states, analogous to the chi(2)-based degenerate OPO. Our system offers potential for realization of CMOS-chip-based coherent optical computing and an all-optical quantum random number generator.
Tunable frequency combs based on dual microring resonators
Miller, Steven A., Yoshitomo Okawachi, Sven Ramelow, Kevin Luke, Avik Dutt, Alessandro Farsi, Alexander L. Gaeta, and Michal Lipson. “Tunable frequency combs based on dual microring resonators.” Optics Express 23 (2015): 21527-21540. Publisher's Version Abstract
In order to achieve efficient parametric frequency comb generation in microresonators, external control of coupling between the cavity and the bus waveguide is necessary. However, for passive monolithically integrated structures, the coupling gap is fixed and cannot be externally controlled, making tuning the coupling inherently challenging. We design a dual-cavity coupled microresonator structure in which tuning one ring resonance frequency induces a change in the overall cavity coupling condition. We demonstrate wide extinction tunability with high efficiency by engineering the ring coupling conditions. Additionally, we note a distinct dispersion tunability resulting from coupling two cavities of slightly different path lengths, and present a new method of modal dispersion engineering. Our fabricated devices consist of two coupled high quality factor silicon nitride microresonators, where the extinction ratio of the resonances can be controlled using integrated microheaters. Using this extinction tunability, we optimize comb generation efficiency as well as provide tunability for avoiding higher-order mode-crossings, known for degrading comb generation. The device is able to provide a 110-fold improvement in the comb generation efficiency. Finally, we demonstrate open eye diagrams using low-noise phase-locked comb lines as a wavelength-division multiplexing channel. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
Ramelow, Sven, Alessandro Farsi, Stephane Clemmen, Jacob S. Levy, Adrea R. Johnson, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Michael R. E. Lamont, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta. “Strong polarization mode coupling in microresonators.” Optics Letters 39 (2014): 5134-5137. Publisher's Version Abstract
We observe strong modal coupling between the TE00 and TM00 modes in Si3N4 ring resonators revealed by avoided crossings of the corresponding resonances. Such couplings result in significant shifts of the resonance frequencies over a wide range around the crossing points. This leads to an effective dispersion that is one order of magnitude larger than the intrinsic dispersion and creates broad windows of anomalous dispersion. We also observe the changes to frequency comb spectra generated in Si3N4 microresonators due to polarization mode and higher-order mode crossings and suggest approaches to avoid these effects. Alternatively, such polarization mode crossings can be used as a tool for dispersion engineering in microresonators. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America


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This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, rogue pilot with a drinking problem, Ted Striker (Robert Hays), must cooperate with his ex-girlfriend turned stewardess, Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) to bring the plane to a safe landing. This classic film also features Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Barbara Billingsley, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielson, and Robert Stack.

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How does masculine and feminine energy operate in the work place?

Kim Johnson is the author of the book Nail it in 90 and she has been a Tony Robbins coach for many years.

We both first learnt about masculine and feminine energy with Tony Robbins about 12 years ago. Kim and I are both fascinated by the subject. In this episode Kim and I discuss a few things relating to masculine and feminine energy and how it impacts us in life.

Strong women are rewarded heavily for being strong and as such are rewarded for being in their masculine energy at work. They achieve promotions and they achieve massive financial success at work. How do they feel when they get home? How does being in their masculine energy effect them in their relationships?

Kim and I in this podcast, discuss things like –
What happens if you are in feminine energy and you work from home?
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What happens when you go home and you’re in masculine energy?

Balancing your masculine and feminine energy changes everything.

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Top 10 Things that can cause World War 3

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The much spoken world war three is finally set to show its face to the mob thereby rendering thousands of life ruthlessly handed over to evil outcomes. There can be no subtle reasons for the forthcoming apocalypse but the predictions will surely make every third or fourth person on the earth step in to last truth of their lives. The world has already experienced two world wars and the demo is nowhere unseen with the cost of countless lives of innocent humans and the brave soldiers confronting the enemies to enter their frontier which might have brought development to some places but disaster to others too.  The unprecedented destruction possess no a bit of a chance to be forgotten. To some who await for the world ending calamity the same would seem a box of emoluments and for the ones who are to avoid it , the worst nightmare.

10. Quit the dollar

Countries like Russia and China are all set to sow the seeds of ultimate distraction to peace as they have announced that they are up to quitting dollar.  In spite of backing out  the currency refutes to back out . Well, there is no chance too as the dollar being the superpower’s currency can’t afford it at any stake. This is leading us to our prediction arena which suggests that making the dollar to setback is a world war three sign as it would undoubtedly affect the global markets. Eruption of protests again dollar can make the currency ratio balance wither away.

9. Provocation by North Korea

This another ripening of a lacunae can have adverse effects on the north south fronts of Korea .North Korea has threatened South Korea , Guam, and America to nuke missiles via air mail and the reason for such pestiferous preparations as given by the North Korea includes the desire to protect its sculptures and artifacts of Kim Sung-II and Kim Jong-II and not for any sake of citizens or motherland . Well, it would be less possible as the country possessions are not so developed to plunge this thought to reality . South Korea has responded to some attacks of the communist one by menacing them to harm the so worth protecting images and sculptures of the nation. It is absurd to embark a whole of a war just to embalm some communist artifacts. This can be seen as a measure adopted by the communist to make the world see its presence and make  the existing powers not to underestimate it despite that the veracity of facts hangs.

8. China -Japan dispute

Now the clinch to not to predict world war three provocations is made to wake up by the most populated nation of the world. The  dispute between the largest land army and the earthquake prone nation dates back to world war second which was never sorted out by the nations. Japan may have developed healthy terms with America but China’s place in the list is nowhere to be found and that too over some inhabited rock loaded islands in the great Pacific Ocean. It is matter to acknowledge that if China finds way to control the islands then to get the same Japan would confront and surely America will come to the rescue of Japan which is neither feasible nor the intention of China to provoke America in  any manner.  The idea of China to smack down Japan will make Japan to respond militarily and in virtue of that the much untouched volcano might erupt.

7.America’s urge to dominate

The superpower has undisputed intentions to rule the world , I think the nation is fond of music and so took the lyrics of the song “rule the world ” too seriously . Well, whatsoever be  the reason such intentions will not take a moment to excite China and make him too , explore the opportunity to show his talent, as if “world’s got talent” is upcoming where the judges are difficult to predict but the contestants form a super line yowling ” I’m the superpower”. The urge and hunger for dominance Of China too made  America to see what early warnings are and the continuation of this will surely announce the powerful land army to be the ultimate foe to west.

6. Military dominance

The United States Of America has always wished to be the dictator of the world by being a global power to rule the ones it has always enslaved. The country possess every traditional to highly developed weapons of destruction to mind controlled soldiers  to fight the toughest of the wars . And since then the nation has resolved the small conflicts easily giving a new chapter to the book of criminology. Hence the other countries are left with no other option to someday face and bear the much wanted wish of the superpower.

5 . India -China dispute

China happens to claim the one sister of the seven in the north eastern region of India. Well, the relations have never been so at peace between the two nations since the cold war of 1962. There also have been several border disputes and the series never halted . Although nothing is not that severe now but the signs always turn out to be positive when related to world war three.

4.  America and UNO

No one now is not such a sociopath to not understand the extra benefits that the nation enjoys whether it be the world’s largest organization or the previously enslaved nations. When the country possess the super veto power to be lodged against any decision , being the super five list, it is not hard to guess the canny intentions which it wants so avidly to fulfill. And the 54 percentage of America’s income which is surrendered to military is one another proof of the disastrous thud to be soon heard echoing world war three. The want is voracious and the country is striving to be the only superpower of the world at any cost.

3. India-Pakistan Conflict

Such major conflicts  between developing nations is unfolding the curtain towards the world showing a horrendous trailer of the forthcoming storm. One such is the Kashmir conflict between Indian government, Kashmir insurgent groups and the government of Pakistan. India holds 43 percentage of Kashmir while Pakistan does 37 percentage. Democratic administration in Kashmir was till 1970 and then the reforms were reversed , the one by Indian government. This led to the provocation of the Kashmir insurgents who by their continuous attacks made this issue the most concerning one.

2 .Israel-Iran proxy conflict

The conflict is sent to its destination via proxy forces and other operations and is clutched between the religious and political struggle of Iranian  leadership against Israel. Whereas on the other hand Israel is competent enough to abnegate the nuclear weapons from country and making the allies a setback. The support for Hezbollah party of Lebanon, by the Islamic Republican of Iran, made the gap even more broader  . The agreement with International community has made the Israeli Prime Minister to warn Iran of its nuclear plans. As the scenario suggests  America being a pain to Iran would put forward a helping hand towards Israel and henceforth the real hero like Russia and China will jump into the scene to make the agenda more imperative and then the world will mark the corresponding date as the name of world war three.

1.  Syria Conflict

America’s plan to stroke a military attack on Syria can lead to disastrous circumstances if Syria thought to fight back the demon. Well, if America is involved then Russia and China are not the cup of tea of nonviolence .Thus, a chain of events one leading to another may grow so massive to escalate the halted evil. Although neither the Americans nor the Syrians are in favor of the war also the USA haven’t received any such permission from UN to declare an open war against Syria. With the most advanced anti ship missiles aiding Syria it could take America with full force  and with the support of China it would be unfeasible for America  to so easily let go the appreciable terms with the country. If the situations lead to war then the civilians are the one that will be the badly affected one.

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[Air-L] Update on C&T 2011 Organizations and Social Network Sites workshop: JCMC special issue confirmed

Charles Steinfield steinfie at msu.edu
Sun Feb 20 07:45:26 PST 2011

Dear colleagues,
Are you studying some aspect of social network site use in
organizational contexts?  If so, please consider participating in the
"Organizations and Social Network Sites" workshop to be held at the
Communities and Technologies 2011 conference in Brisbane, Australia.
We have now confirmed that after the workshop, several papers will be
selected and invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal
of Computer Mediated Communication. All papers will undergo a double-
blind review at the journal. However, we will work with the authors of
selected papers to revise their papers to increase the likelihood of
acceptance at JCMC and there will be a special issue devoted to this

Here are the key dates:
April 1, 2011:   submit an extended abstract (1500 words) to Charles
Steinfield (steinfie at msu.edu) and Marleen Huysman
(mhuysman at feweb.vu.nl).
April 15, 2011:  acceptance notifications for the workshop will be
sent out
June 1, 2011:  final papers due
June 30, 2011:  workshop will be held in Brisbane, Australia

Please share this information with colleagues working on this topic.

Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University (steinfie at msu.edu)
Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (mhuysman at feweb.vu.nl)

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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
        Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Ready for What?

The phrase school readiness is one that conjures up a variety of feelings in the early childhood field. For me personally, my feelings toward the subject depend on the context and who is using it. The push to insure more children come to school ready to learn has focused a spotlight on the field of early childhood education. But, depending on how it is being used, it can often be misconstrued as a sort of magic bullet for all that ails education in America today- as long as preschool teachers, communities and parents get the children ‘ready to learn’ then they will be successful in school and do well on the standardized tests that measure academic achievement today.

Using research from the Perry Preschool Project, The Abecedarian Project and others, economists, politicians, non-profit heads, school administrators and others cite all the benefits the children in these studies reaped by attending a high-quality preschool.  What they tend to omit is that these studies focused on at-risk children in high-poverty environments.  The same results have not been shown consistently when applied to other segments of the population. This isn’t to say these children don’t benefit from preschool- just not always to the same extent as the children in these studies.

Several years ago I served on a committee that focused on improving education in my region. At the time, armed with all this research, I felt that the early childhood field was finally getting some recognition for the important work we do every day.  People were suggesting that all children should be able to attend a high-quality preschool and who was I to argue with that? Over the years, I still feel that preschool is beneficial to most children. However, I have modified that view somewhat. Not all families want or need to send their child to preschool. There are parents out there who expose their children to rich, engaging learning activities. There are children who do not function well in a large group with few adults to support them.  Yes, I realize they will be exposed to a large group of children in kindergarten but why throw them into the fire before we have to? These children might function better in a smaller class and that extra year might be just what they need to make their kindergarten experience flow more smoothly.

As the idea of school readiness took hold, the idea of how to measure it came to the forefront.  How can we know children are or aren’t ready if we don’t have some way to measure it. The problem, though, is that is that these politicians, school leaders, etc, want a nice, solid number that tells where a child falls in the readiness arena. No tests out there have been designed to measure this. For that matter, the idea of what school readiness actually looks like is not set in stone. If you talk to ten different people about it, you are likely to get ten different answers.  Some states are going all out and looking at a variety if instruments to use together that will give a picture of the whole child. Other states are assessing only an area or two, mainly focusing on math and literacy, much like No Child Left Behind. But, the reality is we don't yet know whether these measures truly reflect improved academic performance later on. We won't know much besides anecdotal evidence until we start seeing test scores from the children who have already been tested for school readiness.

I am the first person to admit that assessing children in some way, shape or form is best practice. We need to know where our children are, what they can do and what we can do to keep them moving forward. But, I fear that if we maintain such a narrow focus we will be doing no one any favors.  Some of the most frequent complaints from teachers in the primary grades center around children’s behaviors. Unfortunately, these things aren't the easiest to measure. And too many early childhood professionals aren’t trained to conduct these assessments reliably.  I fear that the focus on testing for school readiness may result in focusing on activities that relate to the tests (or teaching to the tests), a complaint heard frequently in regards to K-12 education.

Ask most early childhood professionals and they will tell you how children learn through play.  Through play, children learn higher level skills and those skills related to executive function.  Things like critical thinking, problem solving, social interactions, conversational abilities, and creative thinking. All valuable skills that, I believe, most people would say are important for success in the wider world outside of school.   Again, these are things that aren’t measured by traditional standardized testing.  The children in my class spend most of their day in activities they select and use (within reason) in ways they decide. If they are engaged in an idea, I typically add materials to help them extend their play and remain engaged.  We spend huge portions of our days working on social problem solving and I can see it paying off in the way they interact with others. But, I wonder what will happen when they get to kindergarten, and beyond. And they are gaining valuable skills through this play. They are taking initiative, testing their ideas, learning to control their behaviors and to play with others.

With so much focus on test scores, will they be able to continue practicing these skills or will they have to sit at their desks, listening to a teacher and simply regurgitate what they have just been told? I know there are some great teachers out there that will differentiate instruction and do everything they can to be sure every child in their class succeeds. But they seem to be the exception and not the norm. So, if you consider children who can think for themselves, make decisions, take initiative, regulate their emotions and impulses and listen to others ready for school, then these children will likely make the grade. When it comes to success in school and in life in general, do we really want children who can memorize facts and figures for a test or do we want children who can think and reason for themselves? I hope that early childhood professional continue to make their voices heard. We know what the research tells us about the importance of play in relation to children's development.  If not, we risk falling into the same situation as many K-12 education systems, where test scores become so important that everything else, including play, gets pushed to the sidelines.

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It’s a dizzying drive up the mountains of northern Laos, but almost eight hours later, I arrive to Laos’ sweetheart town of Luang Prabang to see a familiar face. Sitting on the patio of his family’s Villa Patthana, Ounprason Inthachith was decked out in a Green Bay Packers hat for a warm greeting. We visit one of his project sites, chat about his service-learning tourism organization, Volun-Tour Laos, and how living as a Lao American in Laos has been to his Midwest soul. You were born in Luang Prabang, then went to Madison, and now back to Luang Prabang. How has it been?  I was born in Luang Prabang and went to Madison Wisconsin with my mom, two sisters and brother. Mom wanted the American dream for her family, but at that time, she just wanted safety and security. I lived in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington for a number of years before Madison, Wisconsin. 2006 was a mid-life inquiry about finding myself and where my roots are. Lost and misguided, and uncertain in my path, by my second …

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Cheeky Evertonian Monkey's.

It is funny though. Not able to get the result on the pitch those cheeky monkeys have made the name of the gift shop right next to Liverpools…Everton 2. Strange I may hear you think but considering it is in Grosvenor-pool it means that the address reads Everton 2 Liverpool 1. What a result. It is funny though; only in Liverpool would that happen.

Only in Liverpool would millions of pounds of public money have been wasted on allowing Tesco to effectively take control of a football club by bankrolling the move to Kirkby on the Merseyside periphery in fact in the borough of Knowsley. They would have had to change the name of the club to Tesco-ton and have a sock as an emblem breaking all those years of tradition, it wasnt right. How much has been spent of our cash on this.

It was said that the whole scheme to turn Kirkby civic centre into a giant Tesco, (who own the centre now) was deemed detrimental to the local economy. The fallout ahead of this decision may have been instrumental in the company abandoning its outlet for the ultra sensitive Hope Street.  The government report was entitled Everton and Tesco. The Chief exec of Tesco Sir Terry Leahy is a lifelong Everton supporter.
Are they, Tesco, taking over the country.

What is more worrying for most Evertonians is how they will live up to expectations this Sunday in the local Derby when they play the most successful club in English footballing history, Liverpool. Even more worrying being fourth from bottom in the table is why a new stadium needs to be built for a team on the cusp of relegation anyhow. They are now calling for investment. What about buying a few players not a town centre.
And now they want our ground again.

Reich marshal Nigel Lee the chief planner of disaster in Liverpool said he wanted Goodison listed and Warren Bradley another toffee nose will be upset. Not about the public money wasted but his own face.

Pages and pages of it all over the local papers Mark Thomas a Evertonian while Alistair MaCrazy supports himself, has seen to that, it is a shame they could not have made the same fuss when the world heritage site was being destroyed. Sarah Wilde of Trinity "Smoking" Mirrors was a member of Liverpool Visions board who helped to destroy the Pier Head with carbuncle after carbuncle. Why?

  2. I wonder how much money Everton/Tesco have spent on this?

    I wonder what will happen with all the buildings that Tesco bought in the middle of Kirkby . Will they just let them run down?


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Gadaffi ‘ready to admit guilt’ for Lockerbie

[This is the headline over an article by David Leppard that appeared in The Sunday Times on this date in 2003. It reads as follows:]

Ambassador William Burns, head of the US state department’s Middle East section, is expected to meet Libyan and British officials for talks in London this Tuesday. A formal announcement is expected soon afterwards.
Sources close to the talks disclosed yesterday that officials may be close to finalising a deal in which Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi finally admits responsibility for Lockerbie.
In exchange for a formal statement of admission, the United Nations Security Council is expected to permanently lift crippling sanctions against Tripoli.
Discussions have been going on for years about compensating relatives of the 270 people who died when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Scotland in December 1988.
Libya has previously denied reports that it was prepared to pay £7m to each Lockerbie victim, provided sanctions were lifted. It is currently on the US state department’s list of countries that sponsor international terrorism.
This week’s London meeting will involve Burns, a US assistant secretary of state, and a senior Libyan official, probably Mohammed Abdul Quasim al-Zwai, Gadaffi’s ambassador in London. A senior Foreign Office official will also attend.
The security council has demanded that Libya pay “appropriate compensation” and accept general responsibility for the bombing. As well as renouncing terrorism, it must also undertake to comply with any future inquiry.
If those demands are fully met, UN sanctions — imposed in 1992 but suspended at the moment — will be scrapped.
America imposed its own separate sanctions after the Libyans bombed a disco used by American soldiers in Germany in 1986. Libya is desperate to get rid of the sanctions so it can sell oil.
Dan Cohen, who lost his daughter at Lockerbie, said he believed the wording of a statement admitting Libya’s responsibility had already been agreed.
At an international court in the Hague two years ago, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a senior Libyan intelligence official, was convicted of the bombing. He is now serving a life sentence at Barlinnie high security prison in Glasgow. [RB: The only evidence that Megrahi was an intelligence official came from the defector Abdul Majid Giaka whose evidence on every other issue was dismissed by the court as wholly lacking in credibility. The court gave no reasons for their acceptance of Giaka’s testimony on this single topic.]
Gadaffi has always denied responsibility for the attack. But evidence uncovered during the Scottish police investigation revealed that it had been sanctioned by the head of his own intelligence service. [RB: No such evidence was presented at the trial, nor has any such evidence come into the public domain since.]
The Libyans are said to have wanted revenge for the bombing of their country by American planes, in which Gadaffi’s six-year-old adopted daughter had been killed.

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  1. "The Leppard that changed its spots" as Paul Foot put it.

    David Leppard was being fed all sorts of stuff from right inside the police investigation, and he featured it in his Sunday Times articles. He even printed Jurgen Fuhl's original wildly wrong interpretation of the Erac printout. He was right in there with the whole Iran - Syria - PFLP-GC narrative when that was the favoured theory, then did a smart U-turn when the investigators said, no it's Libya.

    His book is a strange mixture of really useful information and total confusion. For example he knew about the Bedford suitcase but simply dismissed it on the thinnest and most implasible grounds, presumably fed to him by his police informant. He also got some things really wrong, like describing the Frankfurt luggage being taken into the interline shed and x-rayed by Kamboj, and crediting Hayes (not Thurman) with the identification of PT/35b to an MST-13 timer.

    He was obviously a mouthpiece for whatever the investigators wanted to be published, and when he went off on his own he tended to make stuff up. Some people have said he was MI5, but some people will say that about anyone.


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I've just seen Jonny

was the scream of an overexcited middle aged woman standing next to me at Piccadilly Circus, down into her mobile. Well, so had I and thousands of other people at Piccadilly Circus at the Sweet Chariot Victory parade. I took some pictures when I left the tube station this morning and there were about twenty people.

9.30am and only a few people around Eros at Piccadilly Circus

When I strolled down at lunchtime there were thousands, including people hanging out of office windows and on the roofs of buildings.

By lunchtime it's packed and people are on the roofs of buildings

Well done lads - last time England won the world cup in anything I was way too young to have appreciated it.

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Remembering Elmer Kelton (1926-2009)

I first met Elmer Kelton in the spring of 1967 when my granddad took me to San Angelo to help me find a summer job before I started as a freshman journalism student at Angelo State University that fall.

Granddad took me by the offices of the Sheep and Goat Raiser Magazine to see if the editor might need a staff writer. The editor was Elmer, who had been there since 1963 after leaving the San Angelo Standard-Times. As he had when he worked as agriculture editor of the Standard-Times, Elmer spent much of his time on the road in his part of the state. But on this day, he actually happened to be in the office when we dropped by.

Elmer knew my granddad and greeted me graciously when Granddad introduced us. Though understanding a young man’s need to earn some money before and during college, Elmer didn’t have any jobs to offer. Even if he had, he surely realized I was a city boy who didn’t know a rambouillet from a ram, not to mention which end of a cow gets up first.

While he could not help my career at that point, he did later on, as I’ll explain in a bit.

I ended up landing a job as a reporter with the San Angelo Standard-Times, which probably served me better than a job with the Sheep and Goat Raiser’s Association would have.

Other than buying some of his Western paperbacks at the Angelo State University bookstore, I had no other dealings with Elmer until the 1970s. By that time I was a journeyman reporter working in Austin. In addition to covering the news, I periodically reviewed Texana for then book editor Bill Warren and reviewed several of Elmer's novels.

By the early 1980s, I had written a couple of non-fiction books and qualified for membership in the Western Writers of America. At conventions in Santa Fe and Amarillo, I got to listen to Elmer talk about his craft and to visit with him and his wife Anna.

At that Amarillo convention, I taped recorded him at length about his association with Houston Harte, long-time publisher of the San Angelo newspaper and head of the Harte-Hanks newspaper chain.

In 1993, I was elected to membership in the Texas Institute of Letters, which gave me more opportunity to interact with Elmer. Not that talking with him was all that hard to do. As anyone who ever had any contact with him knows, on the affability and humbleness scales, he went off the chart.

He was always happy to sign one of his books for someone, always answered his mail (and later, email) and almost always answered his own phone with a brisk and businesslike, “Kelton.”

As for book signing, as the cliché goes, the rarest of his 60-plus books are the unsigned ones. “I’d drive across town to autograph a book for somebody,” he told me once. Actually, he’d go farther than that.

No telling how many younger writers he helped with favorable blurbs or introductions to their works. In 1997, Elmer wrote the foreword for my book “Texas Ranger Tales” and later wrote a very kind blurb about the first of my two-volume history of the Texas Rangers.

He and I were both among the featured authors at the Texas Book Festival in 1998 and participated in a panel discussion together. Our session was held in one of the hearing rooms in the underground extension of the Capitol.

As we talked, my then four-year-old daughter Hallie squirmed in the audience next to her mom. When our time was up, my wife Linda came up to join me in visiting with Elmer and Anna.

At some point, after just about everyone but us had left the room, Linda realized that Hallie was no where to be seen. Had she decided to leave the committee room and wander off into the 667,000-square foot underground area. Had someone decided she was cute and kidnapped her?

Having raised two boys and a daughter and by then grandparents as well, Elmer and Anna joined us in our search. Just as we were about to call the police, we found little Hallie hiding under a chair in the back of the room.

We all had a relieved laugh about it, and from there on out, just about every time Elmer and I talked with each other, he’d bring that incident up with a smile and ask how Hallie was doing.

The last time I saw Elmer was at the Way Out West Book Festival in Alpine in August 2008. Early on the morning after the last event, he and Anna were up early (in the fashion of most West Texans) for the drive back to San Angelo.

I had some stuff I had intended to donate to the West Texas Collection at Angelo State on my way to Alpine, but had run out of time. Talking in the parking lot of the motel where all the writers had stayed, I asked him if he would mind dropping the material by the library for me—no rush—and he was happy to oblige.

And that, to me, sums up the man. In addition to being a fine writer and gentleman (two traits not always connected), he was always happy to oblige.

Linda Cox said...

Great memories on Elmer as the man he was. And enjoyed the story about the elusive--and rascally--Hallie!
Love, Linda

old guy rambling said...

I am a Wyoming guy but anyone that writes or reads about the west loved Mr. Kelton.

Vaya con dios !

David Werst said...

Great to read your 'Elmer' stories. A lot of us out here in 'Real Texas' crossed paths with Elmer for years. He was a good 'un and will be missed. If you get back out here, stop in Sherwood sometime and visit. I've sold the newspaper and spend most of my time blogging.
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Pinterest Inspired Blog Hop

Welcome to our Pinterest Inspired Blog Hop. If you are coming from Miranda's blog, then you are in the right spot. If you just happened to stumble across this post, please start at the beginning of the hop with Robin's won't want to miss any of the amazing Pinterest Inspired Projects!

 In addition to seeing some awesome projects, there is a chance to win some blog candy! To be eligible to win the blog candy, you must leave a comment on each stop in the hop as well as hitting that little "follow" button! Winner will be chosen on Sunday, February 8th so you have all week to hop through ! For this hop I am giving away to one lucky winner is this amazing Gold Planner Kit by Heidi Swapp. What better way to start off a new year with a brand new memory planner. You are going to love this memory planner!

So, grab yourself a Latte', sit back and hop along with us as we share our projects with you.

Here is my inspiration off of Pinterest.

And here is my project.

The "Happy New Year," champagne glasses and 2015 I designed myself for the banner. The other designs in the middle of each rosette came from the Silhouette store.  I used my Cameo to make this.

Your next stop will be with... Anita's blog.

If you get lost along the way here is the entire line-up of today's hop for you to get back on track and not miss a single project.

Robin ~
Janet -
Alicia ~
Miranda -
Jearise ~
Anita Thibodeau ~
Lori Johnson Apgar ~
Candice Fields ~
Theresa Harris ~
Michele Smith ~
Sandy Bell Hentzel ~
Jessica Douglass Wilson ~
Connie Wallenbrock ~
Theresa Rawlins Knopf ~

 Thank you for hopping along with us today, I hope that we have inspired you to get your craft on.

  1. Oh I can't see your project. :( I was hoping to take a peek.

  2. I can't see your project either.

  3. I'll pop back latr, maybe you just don't have it posted yet?

  4. I wonder if blogger is being naughty for you again....will check back later hon!!

  5. Very cute !!!

  6. Sweet decoration! Love the cuts and colors! New follower.

  7. Very Nice!!! I love the creativity you used on the wreath.

  8. Love those rosettes.
    I follow you with Google friend connect.
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  9. Very cute! Love rosettes! I follow you on bloglovin!

  10. great project, Happy New Year to you!! TFS

  11. Very festive take on your inspiration piece!!!!
    New follower: J. Woolbright
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com

  12. How fun! I love all of the colorful rosettes! The silhouette files are must haves! Thanks for sharing

  13. Great project! I love the colors, and the rosettes turned out beautifully!

  14. so I came back to visit and I am so glad I did! great job! I love it! I have not tried a rosette yet, yours are so beautiful! thanks for sharing

  15. I love making rosettes...Now I know what to make with them. Thank you for sharing and showing me a creative way to put them all together :)

    Simply Silhouette
    aka: Cricut Chick

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