text:
Starr, Favre, Rodgers: What a great picture it would make
South end zone expansion is a grand slam
Dustin from Jacksonville, FL
Like you, I wish players could be free to say what they think and feel instead of the same old cliche answers, but it seems like anytime these guys say or do anything that goes against the grain they are vilified and it spreads like wildfire. So how can players and teams protect their brand while still being able to voice their honest opinions?
As long as they speak on football, I don't think they can hurt theirs or their team's brand. Football is a confrontational game and I think it allows players to speak their mind. It's when players step outside the boundaries of football and speak on politics or lifestyle matters that they invite the extremists that lurk in our society, waiting for somebody to provide a platform on which they can assail that opinion and use it to deliver their own. James Harrison, for example, has openly expressed his opinions on the direction the game is headed, but he didn't damage his brand, so to speak, until he spoke on matters outside the game.
Sean from Dubuque, IA
Are practice-squad players free to sign with any team at certain parts of the year, or are they under multi-year contracts like roster players?
Players on the practice squad are free agents free to sign with any team at any time, but signing a practice-squad player requires that team to put the player on the team's 53-man roster.
Thomas from Cape Coral, FL
Vic, am I crazy or is there a simple solution to being speared by a helmet. Why not put a soft material or air cushion outside of the helmet? Then it could no longer be used as a weapon. Maybe this solution is just too logical?
I get this question often. I'm not a helmet-safety engineer. All I can tell you is that what you're describing has already been tried. See the Ohio State helmet of the 1960s. It is possibly the worst helmet ever made because the soft material down the middle of the exterior of the helmet absorbed the energy from the contact, which often resulted in the worst ice cream headache of your life.
Paul from De Pere, WI
Vic, how big can rosters get without watering down the product?
As long as all of those players are in the same league, you're not watering down the product. You water down the product if you put Aaron Rodgers in one league and Clay Matthews in another. That's the situation that existed during the AFL years in the 1960s. The AFL was signing big-time players. It was spreading the talent out over two leagues, which diluted the NFL product.
Jeron from Madison, WI
Vic, after reading the question about rules that have changed, this immediately came to mind. Isn't there a rule that an offensive player can't push the ball carrier? I see it in every game at every level and I don't think I have ever seen it called.
The rules language that governs "assisting the runner" is some of the most vague and confusing wording in the rulebook. "No offensive player may lift a runner to his feet or pull him in any direction at any time or push or throw his body against a teammate to aid him in an attempt to obstruct an opponent or to recover a loose ball." Then the rulebook provides this example and the proper ruling: "Second and goal on B2. Runner A1 gets to the line of scrimmage and is stopped by A2, who is behind him, pushes him from behind and shoves him over the goal line. Ruling: Touchdown." The only thing I can figure is the guy who wrote this rule is a USC fan.
Andrew from Stevens Point, WI
McCarthy keeps mentioning that B. J. Coleman needs to get the game to slow down for him. To what is he specifically referring?
It's a kind way of saying a young quarterback has to get to his reads and through his progression more quickly. When the game slows down for a young quarterback, he begins to see all of his receivers in the route tree, not just the primary receiver.
Kevin from Chicago, IL
Vic, why did football Europa fail?
I don't think NFL Europe failed. It exposed American football to Europe and it also identified potential hotbeds for expansion. Nobody expected Frankfurt to be the football town it turned out to be. I don't think there was anything more for the NFL to gain from NFL Europe. The next move will be the big one. NFL Europe will have blazed the trail.
Jeremiah from Appleton, WI
Vic, you like Kansas City to improve. Is this because they now have "The Man"?
It's because I like their leadership. John Dorsey and Andy Reid will make a good team. Plus, I think the Chiefs' talent level is a lot better than people think. Watch these guys. Reid is a very good dink-and-dunk coach, and Alex Smith has a natural talent for that style of play. He was miscast in San Francisco.
Eric from Aberdeen, SD
Vic, I love that we are flying under the radar so far this offseason. With that being said, what do you think are realistic expectations for the 2013 season?
Contend for a championship; that's as far as I'll go. I think if you go farther than that, you blunt your enjoyment for the season. Go ahead, surprise me. I love surprises.
Pat from Altoona, WI
Vic, love the column during the dead zone. With all the news about players and PEDs, is there a standard procedure that tests all players, say during the initial physical, and a set time that everyone is continually tested, or is it a random thing?
Drug tests are scheduled. If a player fails one or has entered the program for some other reason, he is then subject to random testing.
Bill from Stevens Point, WI
I think the only reason the Packers want to retire his number before he goes into the Hall of Fame is because they want him to go in with a Packers jersey instead of a Vikings jersey. Don't you agree?
Players don't wear jerseys when they're inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. They wear yellow coats. There are no jerseys in the Hall of Heads, either. When Brett Favre's bust joins the other busts in the Hall of Heads, it will be noted that he played for four teams: Atlanta Falcons (1991), Green Bay Packers (1992–2007), New York Jets (2008), Minnesota Vikings (2009–2010). If you want a Favre jersey, you'll have to go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame gift shop. They'll probably have them in all four varieties that day. It is what it is, Bill. He played for four teams. His identity, however, is with one. Everyone knows that.
Tim from Otsego, MN
Growing up, I heard that before each game Jim Thorpe would take two balls to midfield. He would drop-kick one through the uprights, turn and repeat in the other direction, and he never missed.
It is one of the great travesties of pro football that it did such an awful job of recording its history. We know everything about Babe Ruth, but we know very little about Thorpe.
Calvin from Seattle, WA
Vic, what do you think are reasonable expectations to set for a first-round draft pick? I think we all hope Nick Perry is a dominant pass rusher opposite Clay Matthews, but what should we expect?
In a first-round pick's rookie season, I want to see strong evidence that he was worth the pick. I saw that in Perry last year. In year two, I want to see strong evidence that a first-round pick is settling into a position and is on his way to becoming a long-term fixture at that position. I anticipate seeing that in Perry this season.
Sean from Long Beach, NY
Vic, what happens to a player's contract in a trade? Does the new team assume the contract and pay it or do they renegotiate?
The contract goes with the player when he's traded. His amortization remains with the team that traded him. The latter is one of the reasons you don't see a lot of trading. If you've paid a guy a $10 million signing bonus on a five-year contract and the player has four years remaining on that contract, $8 million in amortization must pass through your books rather quickly, should you trade that player.
Harry from Milwaukee, WI
How much does the history and culture of the Packers (or any team for that matter) affect the performance of its players?
It has to have an impact in some way. Maybe the reverence it demands helps discipline a player's lifestyle. Maybe the G on the helmet engenders an extra element of confidence at crunch time. Maybe the storied history of the Green Bay Packers makes it easier for Coach McCarthy to sell his program to the players. Maybe the Packers' allure does all of that. So what happened in the '70s and '80s? Hey, we all like a good feel-good story, but the bottom line is winning isn't about magic wands, it's about having better players than your opponents. That's why the Packers are winning now.
Daryl from Junction City, KS
Will the new seating section affect the allure of Lambeau Field?
Yeah, it'll make everything better. I took a tour of the south end zone last week. Wow! I mean, really wow! I'm thinking it might be the best end zone in the NFL. The best part is that the expansion is seamless. From the outside, you can't detect where old Lambeau ends and new Lambeau begins. The south end zone expansion is a grand slam. It's made a great stadium even better.
Carl from Lexington, OH
I know you love colorful professional athletes. I would assume the late great pitcher Dizzy Dean is near the top of your list. The man who once said, "It ain't bragging if you can do it." The man who gave three different reporters three different dates for his birth and later said, "I was helpin' (them) out. Them ain't lies; them's scoops." After his career was cut short by injury and he became a broadcaster, his English language skills were assailed by school teachers around the country. Unfazed, Dean said, "Let the teachers teach English, and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating." Where would you rank Dean on your most colorful list?
I don't have a list but I wish we had more guys like him. Hey, it's just sports. Don't worry about saying the wrong thing. Just have fun. Don't take yourself too seriously and don't be afraid to say you were wrong. If a player can achieve that kind of humanness, the fans will love him even more for the mistakes he makes.
James from Greensboro, NC
Just curious as to what you think about the fact that everyone seems to be talking about the greatness of Favre and Rodgers. No doubt they are great, but I've yet to see them do what Bart Starr has done. In my opinion he's the best. Great players win championships and I believe before we can give anyone the best category, they have to outplay Starr and win more championships.
Don't turn everything into a competition. Learn to love it all. One of my hopes is that at some point during my time covering the Packers, I'll see the three quarterbacks you've mentioned standing together on the 50-yard line at Lambeau Field. What a great picture that would make.
Have a question for VIC?


text:
Cover Story: The student trap
As American InterContinental University fights to keep its accreditation, students on the Buckhead campus wonder if they've received the education they paid for
By Alyssa Abkowitz	Wednesday July 11, 2007 12:04 am EDT
Eighteen months ago, Ronnecia Jones sat in the glossy administration building of American InterContinental University's Buckhead campus. On a big screen in front of a couch in the waiting area, she watched a video of the senior-class fashion show, complete with lean models clad in chic outfits strutting down the runway.</
AIU seemed to be everything she wanted in a college. "I needed to go to a fashion school," Jones says, "and it looked fairly impressive."</
Jones, 22 at the time, had always been interested in fashion. She'd already launched her own Southern Girl clothing line. What she didn't know was how to market her products. AIU offered an associate's degree program in fashion marketing that she thought could help her reach that goal.</
A recruiter called her into his office and pulled out sheets to show her the cost to attend AIU – about $5,000 per quarter. Then he escorted her up the tree-lined sidewalk to the school's main building on Peachtree Road near Lenox Square. They rode the elevator to the third and fifth floors to view a few classrooms and to watch fashion students work on their projects. Jones was sold.</
Only two weeks after she toured the campus and called a lender to take out student loans, Jones went to the university's orientation and began classes. It didn't take her long, however, to second-guess her decision.</
She says some of her teachers taught by reading aloud from the textbook. They couldn't answer such basic questions as how to find models for a fashion show or how to plan a public-relations event. And for a final project, she says, every instructor required the same assignment: a report, PowerPoint presentation and poster-board display.</
Although Jones received her degree last month, she wonders whether she needs to go back to a different school to learn the basics of fashion marketing.</
"I taught myself everything I learned," she says. "I don't feel satisfied."</
WHEN ATLANTA ENTREPRENEUR Steve Bostic bought the American College of Applied Arts in 1996, the institution primarily offered courses in fashion and interior design at four locations: Atlanta, Los Angeles, London and, of all places, Dubai. Former students say it was an intimate, creative environment that fostered learning.</
"There were one or two admissions people in a small office and only 15 students in the classroom," says Carey Hicks, a former fashion student at the college. "It was inviting."</
Bostic quickly added new educational tracks, increased class sizes and raised tuition. And he adopted a grander name: American InterContinental University. Bostic didn't respond to Creative Loafing's inquiries but, according to press reports, his company soon ran into financial problems.</
In 2000, he sold his schools for $81 million to Career Education Corp., a much larger, Illinois-based company. CEC, which was founded in 1994 and went public three years later, was becoming a powerhouse in the rapidly growing field of for-profit colleges. The company quickly accumulated smaller schools. It became the world's second-largest publicly traded chain of colleges.Shares skyrocketed from around $20 in early 2002 to more than $70 in June 2004. Last year, the company grossed $1.7 billion.</
Today, CEC operates 75 campuses, including seven under the AIU brand, four Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts branches in North America and 15 known as Sanford-Brown. The company has almost doubled its number of students since 2002, from 50,400 to about 90,000.</
But the stunning expansion has come hand-in-hand with stunning threats to the company's future. Between 2004 and 2007, CEC was investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission. CEC says it's been cleared in those probes. But, according to a statement the company was required to file with the SEC, it still faces a Justice Department civil review in which the company "may have submitted false claims and statements."</
The company's AIU campuses face an even more pressing threat. In December 2005, the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed all AIU campuses on probation for "failure to correct deficiencies of significant non-compliance." A year later, the commission extended the probation for another 12 months.</
In a scathing report from January 2007, the commission determined, among other things, that AIU still:</
• Had fundamental issues with "integrity in all operations."</
• Failed to offer degree programs that "embody a coherent course of study and are compatible with the institution's purpose."</
• Didn't have an adequate number of full-time faculty nor qualified administrative and academic officers.</
• Lacked "institutional effectiveness."</
The accrediting agency is scheduled to complete another review in October. By the end of the year, it either will take the school off probation or revoke AIU's accreditation.</
In an e-mail response to CL's questions, AIU CEO George Miller noted that the January report cleared the university of eight of the 15 shortcomings Southern Association of Colleges and Schools cited in its original report. He said the school is working on the remaining seven issues.</
"Significant changes have been instituted," he wrote, "and we are confident that the changes made will improve the educational experience for all of AIU's students."</
LOSING ITS ACCREDITATION would be a catastrophic blow for the university. Commission President Belle Wheelan says SACS immediately notifies the U.S. Department of Education if that happens. At that point, Wheelan says, "the [college's] students are no longer eligible for federal financial aid."</
That would threaten the very backbone of CEC. To understand why, you have to understand something about the business structure of for-profit colleges. The Chronicle of Higher Education – a venerable publication of the education establishment – compares for-profit outfits to health clubs. They're often housed in leased office buildings and woo students through heavy advertising pitches that promise career success. Traditional public and nonprofit institutions spend about 2 percent of their revenues on recruiting; for-profits spend a whopping 23 percent.</
The schools differ just as much when it comes to where they get their money. Traditional colleges receive large chunks of government funding, research grants, and corporate and alumni donations. But for-profits, like chain gyms, succeed by generating numbers. So virtually every penny – from their operating budgets to how much profit they turn – comes from what students pay to go to school.</
"With tuition as their lifeline they certainly need to make sure they have all seats full in order to cover their expenses," says Bryan Cook of the American Council on Education.</
In addition, notes CEC spokeswoman Lynne Baker, "for-profit post-secondary schools serve a higher percentage of lower-income and minority students who have had less access to traditional institutions of higher education and less access to personal or parental funding for their education." So a lot of students at for-profit schools end up funding their education with federal loans.</
According to CEC's filings with the SEC, federal student loans and grants account for almost 60 percent of the corporation's revenue. Contrast that with public and nonprofit four-year institutions, which get only 10 percent to 15 percent of their revenue from federal loan sources, according to Melanie Corrigan at the American Council on Education.</
AIU wouldn't be the only loser if its accreditation were pulled. The students, many of whom are on the hook for thousands of dollars in loans, face their own risks. Those who want to complete their degrees could have a difficult time transferring their credits from AIU to another school. And independent of the accreditation issue, many students at AIU Buckhead are worried about the quality of education they're receiving.</
"I'm so mad at this school," says DeRon Miller, a fashion design and marketing major who is president of the Student Government Association. "I feel like I'm not prepared to go to work for a fashion house. I would know the terminology, but I don't think I'd be prepared."</
The student association president's advice to prospective students: "They should turn the other way and run."</
IT HASN'T HELPED Career Education Corp. that AIU and some of the company's other schools have attracted unfavorable media attention over the past few years. In a 2005 report, an undercover producer sent by CBS' "60 Minutes" told a recruiter at the Sanford-Brown Institute campus in New York City that she was interested in becoming a medical assistant. Even though she confided that she had a fear of blood and a history of drug use, the recruiter signed her up.</
A year later, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the AIU campus in Los Angeles misled prospective students about the college's programs and classes, regularly admitted students who hadn't graduated from high school, and improperly counted in its enrollment numbers students who never showed up for class. (CEC's Baker wrote in an e-mail to CL that the issues in Los Angeles "have been addressed and most have long been resolved.")</
And just last month SF Weekly, an alternative newspaper in San Francisco, reported that recruiters at the CEC-owned California Culinary Academy oversold its programs by using high-pressure sales tactics and the paper quoted students complaining about the quality of their education.</
Most of the 18 current and former students, instructors and staff members interviewed by CL had similar complaints about AIU Buckhead. (Two current faculty members, as well as a student provided by the company, praised the school.) The former faculty and staff members would speak only on the condition of anonymity. One said he had to sign a nondisclosure statement as a term of receiving a severance package. Four others said they still worked in the for-profit college industry and feared losing their current jobs if they spoke on the record.</
"There are good students and good faculty there," says a former instructor who recently left the school. "They have everything in place, but the greed is what ruins it."</
Former employees said recruiters had quotas for signing up new students, and that the school's 90 percent acceptance rate meant almost anyone could enroll. Students and former students said they were unhappy with the gap between the education they were pitched by recruiters and the education they actually received.</
Sypher Tyler, a former student at AIU, says she became interested in the school in 2004 because her mother was a student in the interior design program. Even though she scored a 25 on her ACT (the average score is a 21) and earned good grades in high school, a recruiter told her the competition for admittance into the university's media-production program would be tough.</
Tyler says she soon realized the academic standards weren't as rigorous as she'd been led to believe. "They said they were very selective as far as the students they would let into the school," Tyler says. "But that was inaccurate. There were kids there who didn't even know what a syllable was."</
The former staff members said that when it came to reeling in prospective students, the name of the game at AIU was pushing volume. One former faculty adviser says the pressure to produce numbers was intense. After all, volume equals profit, and profit makes investors happy. "My job was to 'close' you, to get you to say 'yes,'" says a former recruiter. "It was a sale."</
The recruiter says she was expected to enroll 10 to 18 students each quarter and to convince prospective students to hand over the $50 application fee the day they visited campus. "It was a constant hustle to sell people," she says. "We painted the picture that there was a committee of people who had to review your application and interview you. But it wasn't like that."</
AIU CEO Miller responded to CL's questions by noting that former employees raised the concerns anonymously. "Thus we are unable to assist you in checking the credibility of your sources," Miller wrote. "... It is impossible to provide specific responses to vague and ambitious allegations."</
Miller did tell CL that AIU doesn't require high school transcripts for students to start classes. "Any student who does not provide documentation of high school graduation or its equivalency by the last day of the first term of study is subject to dismissal," he said, "... and any and all loan funds dispersed to the university on that student's behalf are promptly returned to the lender. AIU strictly enforces this policy."</
Former faculty and staff members didn't just complain about recruitment techniques but also the caliber of the recruits. "They don't want to call it 'open enrollment' but that's basically what it is," the former adviser says. "Anyone can come to school there."</
A recruiter, who says she was fired in 2006 for not making her enrollment quotas, says she was once asked by a colleague to close the deal on a young man who wanted to go into sports management. "We didn't even have sports management," she says. "But [the recruiter] was willing to enroll him at a campus that couldn't give him what he was looking for."</
THE U.S. SECURITIES and Exchange Commission requires publicly held companies to disclose information about lawsuits and other matters that might affect their financial future, and in recent years, CEC has had its share of disclosures.</
This May, the company reported that it faces six lawsuits filed by former students across the country. Although none of the suits cited appear to involve AIU Buckhead, the allegations have a familiar ring: that the company intentionally and negligently misrepresented the school's programs, engaged in misleading advertising, and skewed the institution's enrollment and application processes.</
In the same SEC filing, the company updated an earlier report that stockholders had filed six class-action lawsuits against the company. The lawsuits, which were consolidated into one large complaint in the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois, allege that the company "made certain material misrepresentations and failed to disclose certain material facts about the condition of our business and prospects ... causing [plaintiffs] to purchase shares of our common stock at artificially inflated prices." In March, a judge dismissed the case, but the investors filed an appeal a month later.</
"Any organization with 75 schools is likely to have issues that come up, some with merit and some without," says the CEC's Lynne Baker. "The resolution of regulatory and legal issues over the past 12 months is evidence that we are continually – and successfully – striving to better our compliance and admissions processes, as well as our academic programs."</
Company officials acknowledge, however, that all the controversy has taken its toll.</
"Declines in student starts, student population and revenue ... have been influenced by ... the continued probation status of our AIU schools, general competitive pressures for student leads and enrollments [and] the continued negative impact of legal and regulatory matters," the corporation told the SEC.</
After the SEC notified the company that it was conducting a formal investigation in June 2004, CEC's share price plummeted from around $70 to less than $30. (It closed last Friday at $33.78.) Between 2005 and 2006, the company's profit margin dropped from 21 percent to 9 percent. According to one SEC filing, new enrollments for the first quarter of 2007 in CEC's "university segment" – the branch of which AIU is a part – were down 15 percent from the first quarter of 2006. And the company attributed a 26 percent drop in revenue among its universities – from $243 million in the first quarter of 2006 to $180 million this year – to fewer students.</
In the wake of declining revenue and accreditation issues, CEC's founder John Larson unexpectedly stepped down as CEO last September. Six months later, the company hired Gary McCullough as the new president and CEO. Baker wrote in an e-mail that McCullough – who's served in management at the company that makes Wrigley's chewing gum and the corporation that produces the adult drink Ensure – has a "successful history of growing brands and business lines profitably" and is "very familiar with operating businesses in regulated areas." She said McCullough, who wasn't available for comment, "is focused on ensuring that CEC has the best organizational structure and processes in place for its operations."</
Among his immediate challenges will be to oversee AIU's battle to keep its accreditation. Losing it would be a severe blow to any institution. Marietta's Life University, the largest chiropractic college in the country, almost had to close its doors when it lost its accreditation in 2002. Life sued the accrediting agency and was placed back on probation. The university then fixed its problems and eventually regained its accreditation – but is now a much smaller school.</
George Miller, the CEO of AIU, is optimistic that the school will be in compliance with accreditation standards when it's reviewed again in October. "We have no reason to expect anything other than a favorable conclusion to the probation issue, although nothing is insured [sic]," he wrote in his e-mail response to CL's questions.</
Miller added that his colleges are braced for the worst. "While the institution's main goal and focus is to be removed from probation, the institution is looking at contingency plans." He didn't specify what those plans entail.</
MANY EMPLOYEES and students are pulling for the school. On AIU's Buckhead campus, Bhavya Mathur, a biology instructor, says the school is working hard to prepare for the accreditation review in October. "They're keeping us all in the loop," she says. "I feel very strongly that we'll definitely come out from this probation."</
And Chuck Lawson, who teaches art history, says remaining on probation for an extra year didn't hurt the school. Instead, he says it helped AIU change problems with the admissions process and with the marketing of the university.</
"It's like, we don't want you to make any fake changes and as soon as SACS looks away, then you change everything back," he says. "They're taking a whole different approach to things now."</
CEC's Baker provided a June 2006 graduate who attributes his current position as an assistant manager at Armani Exchange to his AIU education. In a conference call arranged by CEC, Kenneth Merriman said, "The greatest thing about the school is the faculty. They were completely dedicated and gave heart, mind and soul." An assistant dean even helped him land a job two weeks after he graduated.</
Although his fashion marketing major underwent a curriculum change in the middle of his studies, Merriman said he understood that "with any institution there's always going to be some complications."</
The opinions of other students contacted independently by CL ranged from indifferent to irate. Scott Kollarik is a 2001 graduate who works as a business programmer for a consulting firm in metro Atlanta. He says the majority of his learning didn't occur at AIU, but at his full-time job for a small startup firm where he worked while he was in school. Now he slowly chips away at his student loans, which total $350 each month.</
"The payment period ends sometime when I'm 60. By that point I will have paid about $89,000," Kollarik says. "I'm going to end up paying way more money than the whole experience was worth."</
DeRon Miller, the student body president, says he enrolled in AIU with the hope of designing for fashion powerhouses such as BCBG and Alexander McQueen. He thought the location of the school and its programs would put him a step ahead in the industry. Now he can't wait to graduate.</
"I don't even want to walk across the stage," he says. "I just want to get my diploma and go."</
And Sypher Tyler, the former AIU student, says she took out about $40,000 in loans to pay for her education. But she became fed up after two years there.</
Tyler says the classes didn't challenge her, and that the dean of the media-production program wouldn't take time to meet with her about internships despite her repeated requests. After her mother transferred to the Art Institute of Atlanta, Tyler followed her there in February 2006. She thought her AIU troubles were behind her, until she learned that the Art Institute wouldn't accept 32 – about a year's worth – of her AIU credits: "They said, 'As far as we know, AIU didn't prepare you for our classes.'"</
Now she won't graduate until 2009 – five years after she started her college career.</
"I didn't learn what I really needed to learn there," Tyler says. "A lot of people who graduate from there feel like they have a fake diploma. I'm just glad I got out."
College Guide - Add it up	Article
Wednesday August 15, 2007 04:04 am EDT 08/15/2007 4:04 am
The cost of college | more...
College Guide - Work it	Article
Five interesting local companies to work for | more...
College Guide - The afterlife	Article
Finding yourself after graduation | more...
Urban Living - Lost and found	Article
Wednesday August 1, 2007 12:04 am EDT 08/01/2007 12:04 am
Style sheet | more...
Council to review AHA's 'Quality of Life' initiative	Article
Wednesday July 4, 2007 12:04 am EDT 07/04/2007 12:04 am
Advocates for elderly worry plans will displace residents | more...
Search for more by Alyssa Abkowitz
[Admin link: Cover Story: The student trap]
Spider for Cover Story: The student trap

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


When I was growing up, the only biscuits that most Gujarati families in Kenya made were the rolled biscuits. Its only when numerous recipe books started coming out into the market that I tried my hands at other types of biscuits or cookies. I remember, my mum would make these biscuits on a Saturday so that I could help her to bake them. Perhaps thats where my passion for baking began. Later when my brother Sailubhai got married, Chandra bhabhi had to make the dough for the biscuits while my kaki and I would bake them. I remember bhabhi would comfortably sit on the floor, put the butter and sugar in a large basin and cream it till it was absolutely white and fluffy. There were no fancy machines back then. Her hand was the machine. A huge family meant a lot of biscuits. I had not made these rolled biscuits for a very long time as I prefer where you just roll the dough between the palm and bake. These biscuits though very yummy, are time consuming. I decided to bake some and take them to India for my in laws. Glad I did that otherwise the recipe would have been forgotten. This recipe is Chandra bhabhi's, the only change I have made is the amount of sugar as hers is definitely for diabetics.
Sieve the flour with the baking powder, custard powder and soda bicarbonate. Mix in the cardamom powder.
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar till it light, creamy and fluffly.
Add the milk and mix it well.
Fold in the flour mixture and make a dough. Don't work on it too much otherwise it will become gluteny and difficult to roll.
I usually roll out the dough directly onto the tray. You may need to use a bit of flour to roll out the dough.
The thickness of the biscuit depends entirely on your preference. I like the thin ones.
Cut out the rolled dough with a cookie cutter. Remove the excess dough. Prick the biscuits lightly with a fork.
Bake the biscuits for 15 to 20 minutes till they are light golden brown.
Remove them from the tray and let them cool on a wire rack.
Instead of cardamom you can use 2 tsps nutmeg powder or 12 tbsps of ginger powder.
I used half he recipe to make the biscuits.
Remember to re use the excess dough.


text:
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc. v. LaPorte Holdings
Case No. D2004-0971
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Incof Valhalla, New York, United States of America, represented by Grunfeld Desiderio Lebowitz Silverman & Klestadt, LLP, United States of America.
The Respondent is LaPorte Holdings, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <fuijifilm.com> is registered with NameKing.com.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the�"Center") on November 17, 2004. On November 18, 2004, the Center transmitted by email to NameKing.com a request for registrar verification in connection with the domain name at issue. On November 30, 2004, NameKing.com transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details for the administrative, billing, and technical contact. In response to a notification by the Center that the Complaint was administratively deficient, the Complainant filed an amendment to the Complaint on November 30, 2004. The Center verified that the Complaint together with the amendment to the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the�"Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on December�1,�2004. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was December 21, 2004. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on December�28,�2004.
The Center appointed Debrett G. Lyons as the sole panelist in this matter on January�6,�2005. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph�7.
4. Factual Background
The Complainant appears to be the authorised US business representative of the Japanese company, Fuji Photo Co., Ltd, well known for its photographic and imaging products. The Complainant is the registered owner of the domain name <fujifilm.com> and asserts itself to be the exclusive licensee of the Japanese company's two US Federal trade mark registrations, nos 06144791 for the word mark FUJI dating from October 25, 1955, and 73433971 for a FUJI logo mark dating from July 8, 1983.
The disputed domain name was previously registered in the name of Horoshiy, Inc, purportedly a Netherlands Antilles company, and at some point between September�28,�2004 and November 10, 2004, was subsequently recorded as having been transferred into the name of the Respondent.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant alleges that the domain name is confusingly similar to a trademark owned by the Japanese parent corporation, and that the Complainant is the exclusive licensee of that or those trademarks in the United States. The Complainant also alleges that the disputed domain name is almost identical to its domain name and is therefore also confusing.
The Complainant asserts that the Respondent is not in the photographic products business and so believes that the Respondent has adopted the disputed domain name for the sole purpose of unlawfully diverting to itself the Complainant's trade.
The Complainant contends that since there is no evidence of use of the disputed domain name, nor any demonstrable preparations to begin use of the name, in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services, nor evidence that the Respondent is commonly known by the disputed domain name, and so accordingly the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interest in the name.
Finally, the Complainant alleges that the domain name should be considered to have been registered and used in bad faith because the Respondent has intended to attract for its own gain Internet users to its own website or on-line location by creating a likelihood of confusion "with the Complainant's mark and website as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of the Respondent's website or location, or of a product or service on the Respondent's website or location".
B. Respondent
The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant's contentions.
6. Discussion and Findings
Although the Respondent did not reply, it is proper for the Panel to nevertheless examine the Complainant's contentions having regard to both the Policy and the Rules. Having considered the Complainant's case and the evidence available, the Panel finds the following:
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Policy requires that the Complainant shows that the disputed domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark in which the Complainant has rights.
In the first place, both the registered marks and the Complainant's use of its domain name significantly precede the date of registration of the disputed domain name.
The Panel has no difficulty in deciding that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to at least US trade mark registration number 06144791 (the word mark) and is both virtually identical , and confusingly similar to, the Complainant's domain name. For the reasons which follow, there is no need to take a view on US trademark registration number 73433971 for the logo style mark.
The elements FUJI and FUIJI are confusingly similar. Numerous panels in the past have found similarity to be present in the case of a deliberate misspelling of a mark (so-called "typo-squatting"), by adding, deleting, substituting or reversing the order of letters in a mark. See, inter alia, Yurtici Kargo Servisi A.S. v. Yurticicargo Yurticikargo, WIPO Case No. D2003-0707; CareerBuilder, LLC v. Azra Khan, WIPO Case No. D2003-0493; The Sportsman's Guide, Inc. v. Vipercom, WIPO�Case No. D2003-0145; Neuberger Berman Inc. v. Alfred Jacobsen, WIPO Case No. D2000-0323; Hobsons, Inc. v. Peter Carrington a/k/a/ Party Night Inc., WIPO�Case No. D2003-0317; America Online Inc. v. John Zuccarini, WIPO Case No. D2000-1495; Microsoft Corporation v. Charlie Brown, WIPO Case No. D2001-0362; Playboy Enterprises v. Movie Name Company, WIPO Case No. D2001-1201; Playboy Enterprises International Inc. v. SAND WebNames - - For Sale, WIPO Case No. D2001-0094; Yahoo! Inc. and GeoCities v. Data Art Corp., DataArt Enterprises, Inc., StonybrookInvestments, Global Net 2000, Inc., Powerclick, Inc., and Yahoo Search, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0587; Ziegenfelder Co. v. VMH Enterprises, Inc.
Moreover it is an established principle of trademark law, and one that been endorsed in numerous earlier UDRP decisions, that the addition of a purely descriptive integer to a distinctive mark does nothing to dispel confusion. See, e.g. Nokia Corporation v. Firdaus Adinegoro/Beli Hosting, WIPO Case No. D2004-0814; Nokia Corporation v. Marlon Sorken, WIPO Case No. D2002-0276; Nokia Corporation v. Liquid SMS Limited, WIPO Case No. D2002-0292.
As such, the addition of the descriptor, "film", to the registered mark still results in a similar name. Accordingly, in the view of the Panel, the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to both the word mark and the Complainant's domain name.
Nonetheless, the Complainant must be shown to have rights in the trademark and in this case there are issues that do require at least some consideration. In the first place, looking simply at the registered rights, they are not in the name of the Complainant. Instead they are in the name of the Japanese company. It is said that this is the "parent" company and, variously, that the Complainant is the authorised US representative of the rights owner and the exclusive licensee of the trade mark. Little of this is proved. No exclusive license, of the intellectual property rights or otherwise, is provided and the corporate relationship is shown only by a reference to the Japanese company's website. There is no special effort made to show that the trademark rights, which span back to 1955, are renewed, valid and subsisting.
Turning to the domain name and to what might be collectively called the Complainant's unregistered or common law rights, there is evidence of a kind that the Complainant has itself generated a protectable goodwill in the FUJIFILM name, independently of the registered rights held by the Japanese company.
It has to be said that the Complainant's evidence might have been better marshalled and certainly in the case of a lessor known mark this complaint might well have failed. Nonetheless, there is at least in this case sufficient evidence readily available to the Panel for it to decide that the Complainant has established this element of the complaint and so satisfied Paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
The Complainant alleges that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. The Respondent, by failing to file a Response, did nothing to dispute this contention nor to provide information as to its interests in using the domain name.
According to Paragraph 4(c) of the Policy, a Respondent may establish its rights or legitimate interests in the domain name, amongst other ways, by showing the following:
(i) before any notice to the Respondent of the dispute, use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or
(ii) the Respondent had been commonly known by the domain name, even if it has acquired no trademark or service mark rights; or
(iii) the Respondent is making a legitimate non commercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue.
Aside from the fact that no reply was filed, there seems very little the Respondent might have relied upon. Trivial research shows that the word FUIJI has no common meaning in the Japanese language. There is no evidence of any kind that the disputed domain name was put to use by the Respondent, or that it had made preparations to do so. Accordingly the Panel finds that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name and that Paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy is also satisfied.
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
Paragraph 4(b) of the Policy sets out four circumstances which, without limitation, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a domain name in bad faith, namely:
(i) circumstances indicating that Respondent has registered or acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the Complainant who is the owner of the trade mark or service mark or to a competitor of that Complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of the Respondent's documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name; or
(ii) Respondent has registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that Respondent has engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) Respondent has registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain name, Respondent has intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to Respondent's website or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of Respondent's website or location or of a product.
The Complainant does not rely on Paragraphs 4(b)(i), 4(b)(ii) or 4(b)(iii) but upon Paragraph 4(b)(iv). This requires the Complainant to establish that the Respondent registered and is using the disputed domain name to confuse and divert Internet traffic to their website for commercial gain.
Apart from the famous nature of the Complainant's mark, the domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's mark FUJI. The domain name is also virtually identical with the domain name under which the Complainant does business and sends and receives its emails. See Pharmacia & Upjohn AB v. Dario H. Romero, WIPO Case No. D2000-1273; Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. [No Name], WIPO Case No. D2000-0515; Telstra Corporation, Limited v. Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO Case No. D2000-0003; Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. v. John Zuccarini and the Cupcake Patrol a/k/a Country Walk a/k/a Cupcake Party, WIPO Case No. D2000-0330; eBay Inc. v. Sunho Hong, WIPO Case No. D2000-1633 and Ellerman Investments Limited and The Ritz Hotel Casino Limited v. Antonios Manessis (trading as .com and manessis.com), WIPO�Case No. D2001-1461. It is difficult to conceive that Respondent chose to register the domain name <fuijifilm.com> by accident. The Panel finds that the domain name was registered in bad faith and with the intention of causing confusion with the word mark and the Complainant's domain name and in an attempt to divert Internet traffic otherwise rightfully bound for the Complainant.
Nonetheless, the Complainant must prove the additional requirement that the domain name "is being used in bad faith" by the Respondent. As was observed in the now well quoted case with similar facts of Telstra Corporation Ltd v. Nuclear Marshmallows WIPO Case No. D2000-0003, "the domain name does not resolve to a website or other on-line presence. There is no evidence that a website or other on-line presence is in the process of being established which will use the domain name. There is no evidence of advertising, promotion or display to the public of the domain name. Finally, there is no evidence that the Respondent has offered to sell, rent or otherwise transfer the domain name to the Complainant, a competitor of the Complainant, or any other person. In short, there is no positive action being undertaken by the Respondent in relation to the domain name."
In that case the Panel went on to reason:
"The question that then arises is what circumstances of inaction (passive holding) other than those identified in paragraphs 4(b)(i), (ii) and (iii) can constitute a domain name being used in bad faith? This question cannot be answered in the abstract; the question can only be answered in respect of the particular facts of a specific case. That is to say, in considering whether the passive holding of a domain name, following a bad faith registration of it, satisfies the requirements of paragraph 4(a)(iii), the Administrative Panel must give close attention to all the circumstances of the Respondent's behaviour. A remedy can be obtained under the Policy only if those circumstances show that the Respondent's passive holding amounts to acting in bad faith.
The Administrative Panel has considered whether, in the circumstances of this particular Complaint, the passive holding of the domain name by the Respondent amounts to the Respondent acting in bad faith. It concludes that it does. The particular circumstances of this case which lead to this conclusion are:
(i) the Complainant's trademark has a strong reputation and is widely known, as evidenced by its substantial use in Australia and in other countries,
(ii) the Respondent has provided no evidence whatsoever of any actual or contemplated good faith use by it of the domain name,
(iii) the Respondent has taken active steps to conceal its true identity, by operating under a name that is not a registered business name,
(iv) the Respondent has actively provided, and failed to correct, false contact details, in breach of its registration agreement, and
(v) taking into account all of the above, it is not possible to conceive of any plausible actual or contemplated active use of the domain name by the Respondent that would not be illegitimate, such as by being a passing off, an infringement of consumer protection legislation, or an infringement of the Complainant's rights under trademark law.
In light of these particular circumstances, the Administrative Panel concludes that the Respondent's passive holding of the domain name in this particular case satisfies the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(iii) that the domain name "is being used in bad faith" by Respondent."
Many of those factors are pertinent to the present case. The FUJI mark is known internationally, no redeeming explanation can be attributed to the Respondent's choice of an all but identical name, the Respondent could not, in the future, use the name without the likelihood of a breach of the Complainant's intellectual property rights, and the Respondent has failed to reply to the Complaint.
Moreover, there is evidence that the Respondent is systematically involved in this behaviour, further circumstantial evidence of bad faith. See, eg., Soci�t� des H�tels M�ridien v. LaPorte Holdings, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2004-0849; Krome Studios Pty, Ltd. v. LaPorte Holdings, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2004-0707. These cases could indicate a pattern of bad faith conduct.
Additionally, there is evidence that the Respondent's predecessor in title was involved in many cases of registering domain names that contain the trademarks of others. See e.g. MedCo Health Solutions Inc. v. Horoshiy, Inc, WIPO Case No. D2004-0625; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Horoshiy, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2004-0620; Comerica Inc. v. Horoshiy, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2004-0615; Lillian Vernon Corporation v. Horoshiy, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2004-0611.
The Panel therefore finds for the Complainant on this third element of the test and determines that Paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy has been satisfied.
For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with Paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name <fuijifilm.com> be transferred to the Complainant.
Debrett G. Lyons
Sole Panelist
Dated: January 19, 2005


text:
require 'test/unit'
require 'test/helper'

class TC_FileStat_Owned_InstanceMethod < Test::Unit::TestCase
   include Test::Helper

   def setup
      @stat = File::Stat.new(__FILE__)
   end

   def test_owned_basic
      assert_respond_to(@stat, :owned?)
   end

   # Windows always returns true
   def test_owned
      assert_equal(true, @stat.owned?)
      assert_equal(false, File::Stat.new('/').owned?) unless WINDOWS
   end

   def test_owned_expected_errors
      assert_raises(ArgumentError){ @stat.owned?(1) }
   end

   def teardown
      @stat = nil
   end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


"The bigger the field, the bigger the certainty" in horse racing means that the more horses in the field, the greater it is that the favorite is likely to win. "Backers were apparently acting in full belief of the adage, "the bigger the field the bigger the certainty'" was cited in print in 1898. "Mythbusters: Five Racing Adages Under The Microscope" published on geegeez (UK) determined that the adage was true.
"The bigger the field, the bigger the certainty" has been infrequently applied outside of horseracing—to the favorite in a marathon race or the favorite in a political field, for example.
Backers were apparently acting in full belief of the adage, "the bigger the field the bigger the certainty," for there was nearly always a warm favourite, and Dule Tree, who won, was an even money chance in the Cuerdon Plate in a field of eighteen.
A baker's dozen did battle for the Tadworth Plate, but on the principle that the greater the field the greater the certainty backers took short odds about Simon Glover, who was ridden by the younger Reiff.
There is a well known racing adage: 'The bigger the field the bigger the certainty," and this was proved again at Auteuil.
"The bigger the field the bigger the certainty" is an adage that may be applied in the sixth, a six-furlong claimer, in which Mordine, with Laverne Fator likely back in the boot, should romp home.
'The bigger the field, the bigger the certainty,' Jack Rubin offered irrelevantly.
There was an old racing saying: "the bigger the field the bigger the certainty"; I wondered whether this was going to be the race.
Last but not least is the ultimate contrarians' maxim, "The bigger the field, the bigger the certainty". Put another way, short priced horses in big field races are a good bet. It seems quirky, but does it hold water? As ever, the truth lies not in the sound bite, but in the murky guts of a racing database.
Framing a question for a database around this one is, again, less straightforward than some which have been covered already. But it is far from impossible.
The biggest 'certainty' in any race - in general terms - must be the horse at the top of the market, i.e. the favourite. So we'll use that as a starting point for the 'certainty' element.


text:
A pedestrian walks past a Tiffany & Co. advertisement in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, on June 9, 2013.
Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg/Getty
Tiffany's features first same-sex couple in engagement ad
By Bridget Todd
As marriage equality continues to make big strides across the U.S., iconic jewelry retailer Tiffany & Co. featured a same-sex couple in an engagement-themed advertising campaign for the first time.
The two men featured in the Tiffany's ad are not actually models – they're a New York City couple on verge of tying the knot. The ad celebrates all the perfect and not so perfect aspects of love, reading, "Will you promise to never stop completing my sentences or singing off-key, which I'm afraid you do often? And will you let today be the first sentence of one long story that never, ever ends?"
In a statement to Elle.com, Linda Buckley, Tiffany & Co. VP of North American PR, said "Nowadays, the road to marriage is no longer linear, and true love can happen more than once with love stories coming in a variety of forms. The Tiffany engagement ring is the first sentence of the story that a couple will write together as they create a life that is deeply intimate and exceptional, which is the message we hope to convey through this campaign."
Same sex couples can legally wed in half of the United States. Last week, a three-judge panel of the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments that may open the door to striking down same-sex marriage bans in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
Not only is this a win for equality, but it's just makes good economic sense. "The vast majority of Americans have embraced gay people's freedom to marry – a fact not lost on American businesses, who know that inclusion is a win/win," Evan Wolfson, the president of Freedom to Marry, told msnbc. "Tiffany's prominently featuring a gay couple in its ad campaign also reminds us that we need to stay engaged until the Supreme Court affirms the freedom to marry nationwide, without leaving anyone out."
Equality and Gay Rights
How GOP obstructionism empowered Obama
Paul Ryan taunts Christie after Cowboys loss


text:
Q: sqlserver 2008 or 2005 express cannot install on Windows 7 home? When installing 2008 it says it requires .NET 3.5 and 2005 fails : what can I do ?

A: Download .Net 3.5 from Microsoft

A: .NET 3.5 is a prerequisite for installing SQLServer 2008 express.  Download and install .NET Framework 3.5, then try the SQLServer 2008 install.

A: Better is newest version of .NET.
It's .NET 4 - link

A: Try to get your install file from Microsoft's Site, it should download the dependencies by default.
You shouldn't have to download .Net 3.5 separately because it already comes by default with Windows 7.  If that doesn't work, you may need to look for an install of SQL Express 2008 with SP 1 so that it will install on Windows 7.

A: Installing SQL Server 2008 Express on Windows Home 7 is a bit of a pain, but it is definitely possible.  The system that I'm currently working on is just such a combination (it's also 64-bit).  The link given by Psycho Bob should work for you.  However, if it doesn't I found http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress/archive/2009/06/15/installing-sql-server-2008-guidance.aspx to provide a link to the appropriate package.
Good luck.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Ozomatli – Tickets – Washington's – Fort Collins, CO – February 14th, 2020
Ozomatli
SuenaTron
Washington's
Ozomatli with SuenaTron
The 24+-year history of Ozomatli notably contains many firsts for culture and music at large. The three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Los Angeles six-piece consistently breaks boundaries with an uplifting and uniquely multi-cultural American world style. Among many historic firsts, Ozo stands out as "the first American band to visit Burma," "the first contemporary western band to play public concerts in Mongolia", and the "first band to give a musical talk at any TED conference."
Ozomatli have declared that 2020 will be a prolific year of new music. In true Ozo fashion, the band will enthusiastically hit the road to perform their new material as well as their existing trove of songs we know and love.
Hailing from a legendary musical family, it's no surprise brothers Mexia, and Giovanni Hernández would have an affinity for music. Following in the footsteps of their father Hernán Hernández of Los Tigres del Norte, the Hernández brothers combined their musical talents to produce music with a message. Their first single "Todos Somos Arizona" garnered them national attention, as the song brought light to the racial injustices faced by immigrants in Arizona with the passing of the SB1070 law in 2010.
Soon after their viral hit, the Hernández brothers began performing in venues across their hometown of San Jose, CA, and this is where they met close friends, Matt Gonzales, and Eduardo Montelongo. With the help of Gonzales and Montelongo, the Hernandez brothers sought to create a new sound that demystified Latino music and united cultures. This is where Suenatron was born. Inspired by the Bay Area sounds of groups such as Santana, Tower of Power, War, Los Tigres del Norte, and Los Humildes, they began mixing the musical sounds they heard growing up with rap and electronic music. They dubbed this sound "Popteño" (a combination of Pop and Norteño).
Their sound is a direct result of their Mexican-American upbringing, in which households are accustomed to listening to an array of traditional Mexican music while simultaneously playing mainstream American music. Since the creation of their Popteño sound, Suenatron's sounds have only evolved by mixing more upbeat songs and rhythms. They dubbed this new sound, "Musica de Fusion" or Fusion Music, in listening to their unique sounds you should expect to hear a mix of pop, cumbia, norteño, rap, and some surprises.
As the sons of immigrant parents, Suenatron's mission is to create a genre of music that speaks to an often ignored audience, second-generation Americanos. By breaking away from the traditional by bringing in new flavors and sounds Suenatron expects to target a market demographic of Latinos and other viewers that understand the nuances of being brought up in dual cultures.
In their six years together, Suenatron has already made a name for themselves, their first single "Sincellamente" charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and their second single "Caramelo" dominated radio airwaves. They have toured all over the United States and Mexico, sharing the stage with a- list artist of many different genres.
Being able to play for different audiences, is a clear indicator that their sound transcends generations. Suenatron is a musical group creating a legacy all their own. In this years to come, this innovative group will be known for paving the way for new Latino sounds to emerge.
Standing Room Only, General Admission Venue
132 Laporte Ave
Fort Collins, CO, 80524
Wed 1.22 - Dessa
Sun 1.26 - The Wailers
Fri 2.7 - Joseph
Sat 2.8 - Ani Difranco
Mon 2.10 - Dr. Dog
Fort Collins, CO 80524 map
314 East Mountain Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524 mapç


text:
Hunger Strikes at Guantánamo Bay Continue in Protest of Indefinite Detentions
By ELIYA AHMAD, age 12
Counting the days that Guantánamo detainees have been on hunger strike. PHOTO: Steve Rhodes
In the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, detainees are going on hunger strikes to protest their treatment in the facility and the fact that they are being detained without trial. The United States government has responded by force-feeding the strikers to keep them alive. Built in 2002 to hold people the U.S. government suspects of terrorism, Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp currently holds 166 detainees; 86 have been cleared for release by the government, yet are still being held with no set release date.
Since 2005, the detainees have organized numerous hunger strikes to protest detention center conditions and the failure of the U.S. government to free cleared prisoners. A hunger strike is when someone stops consuming food and is a form of peaceful resistance because it does not use violence. Unlike previous hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay that were smaller in scale, at the peak of the current hunger strike, 108 of 166 detainees were participating, protesting long detentions without trial. As of August 2013, a total of 60 prisoners were still on hunger strike. Detainees have used hunger strikes to bring attention to conditions within the facility and, for some, over a decade of detention without legal proceedings.
Some argue that force-feeding—sticking feeding tubes up strikers' noses and into their stomachs, giving them a nutritional supplement—is illegal. In an interview with IndyKids, attorney Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, stated that many lawyers believe force-feeding to be illegal. "Forgoing food is a personal choice that is protected by international law as well as the U.S. Constitution." Ratner continued on, explaining that the way the force-feeding is being carried out is inhumane and prohibited by treaties signed by the United States.
"I don't want these individuals to die," President Obama told reporters regarding the strike. However, Ratner argues that "the detainees are being force-fed not because the government cares about their lives, but because a death might force the government to close Guantánamo. A death would certainly give the United States even a worse reputation than it already has on the Guantánamo issue."
Hunger Strikes Throughout History
Imprisoned suffragettes in both the United States and Britain were often force-fed during their hunger strikes. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons
1909: Marion Wallace Dunlop, an imprisoned suffragette in Great Britain, carried out a hunger strike when she was not recognized as a political prisoner during the struggle to win the right to vote for women. Many of the women who later followed her example were force-fed during their resistance.
1943: Mahatma Gandhi went on a hunger strike in India during his imprisonment by the British colonial government for his anticolonial activism. His numerous hunger strikes and other forms of nonviolent resistance served to inspire countless future civil rights activists.
Mural in honor of Cesar Chavez. PHOTO: Salina Canizales
1972: Mexican American farmer, labor organizer and Latino civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez carried out a hunger strike to protest the passage of a law banning farm workers from boycotting and striking for their rights during the harvest season.
1981: In Northern Ireland, a group of prisoners arrested during the Troubles went on hunger strike to demand recognition as political prisoners over the conflict between Irish Republicans and Ulster Unionists. 10 of the hunger strikers died, of whom the first was Irish Republican Army volunteer and strike leader, Bobby Sands.
2013: Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California have been on hunger strike since July 8, 2013 to protest prison conditions and to call for an end to indefinite solitary confinement.


text:
Torrey Pines - BFI Flare 2017 Review
L D
Why The Modern Superhero Film Failed
Why 12 Angry Men is More Relevant Than Ever
Best Films Never Made #6: Nick Cave's Gladiator II
A Beginner's Guide To... Steven Spielberg
FeaturesAnalysis
Courtesy of: Paramount Home Entertainment
The ORWAV Mission: Impossible Stunt Spectacular!
Rory Steabler
Analysis, Features, Top 10
The Mission: Impossible movies have developed a reputation, over the course of the last few sequels, for spectacular exploits and derring-do on the part of star Tom Cruise. As superspy Ethan Hunt, Cruise has leapt, climbed, swum, motorbiked and run really, really fast in order to deliver the best big-budget action franchise on the market. With the sixth entry, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, putting Cruise in physical danger once again, we thought it was time to look back at the best, biggest and boldest stunts from each of the previous movies.
Mission: Impossible (1995) – Ethan fights a helicopter in the Channel Tunnel
The first Mission: Impossible is a slower, less preposterous film than its siblings, built around a twisty mole-hunt plot rather than the cartoonish spy antics we now know and love. That said, it's still a Brian De Palma joint, and features a suitably outsized climax: in a fight on the Eurostar, Ethan attaches the villain's getaway chopper to the train, just as it enters the Channel Tunnel. If the resulting green-screen showdown looks a little ropey by 2018 standards, the spectacle is undiminished – possibly because Cruise really was fighting against a massive wind machine to simulate conditions atop a speeding train.
Honourable mentions:
Breaking into Langley: Ethan dangling from the ceiling, inches above a pressure-sensitive floor in a maximum-security CIA vault, has become an enduring image of Mission: Impossible and its sequels. For good reason, too – the scene is a masterclass in how to create and maintain tension. De Palma has his audience sweating as much as Ethan when he's a hair's breadth from being (as Ving Rhames' Luther helpfully puts it) "TOAST!"
Exploding fish-tank: Early on, Ethan escapes an uncomfortable dinner by detonating the restaurant's fancy aquarium walls. It's the first big action moment of the series, and resulted in Cruise's first Mission: Impossible-related injury (to his ankle, for those keeping score).
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) – Ethan climbs a big cliff for some reason
Even by the opening minutes of the first sequel, Mission: Impossible was pinning its appeal on Cruise pulling off ludicrous feats without a stunt double. Here Ethan is reintroduced doing some free-climbing in the Utah desert for unspecified reasons (it turns out he's taking an extreme-sports holiday, in true 2000 fashion). The big push-in shot of Cruise in peril that opens the scene is gorgeous – it's a shame the rest of the scene is kind of a choppy mess. Injury counters: Cruise tore his shoulder hurling himself about the rock face in this sequence.
Motorbike duel: The climactic showdown is overlong and pretty daft, but it prefigures later two-wheeled fun in Rogue Nation, as well as that bit in Fast & Furious 6 where Dom catches Letty in mid-air. Reshoots for this sequence resulted in Dougray Scott being unable to play Wolverine. Does launching Hugh Jackman's career count as a stunt?
Sweet flips: John Woo puts his stamp on the franchise by having Ethan take out a goon with a backflip-kick through a cloud of pigeons. Clearly this movie could have been amazing, if not for the silly editing, wraparound sunglasses and Limp Bizkit of it all.
Mission: Impossible 3 (2006) – Ethan runs fast
Not the most complex stunt in the series, but there's a reason Cruise is famous for running in movies. He's just good at going very fast (or at least looking like he is), and it's used to great effect here. By this point in M:I-3 we've spent a good long time hating Philip Seymour Hoffman's truly horrible villain. To get us psyched for their final confrontation, Abrams and co. only have to let us sit back and watch Ethan barrel towards him at full pace in an impressive long take.
Attack on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge: Abrams isn't the most distinctive director, but he's good at filming chaos. The way he covers the drone strike and shootout on a traffic-packed bridge is comparable to the iconic opening scene of his Lost pilot, as we know where everything is and what's going on amid the carnage. Cruise's niftiest stunt here is being thrown into a car by an explosion. He picked up a couple of broken ribs for his trouble.
Ethan climbs a wall: Perhaps not the most impressive feat in the franchise, except for the transcendent moment when Cruise (now atop said wall) turns straight to the camera and says, deadly serious, "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall." End scene. Is there such a thing as a stunt line?
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2012) – Ethan climbs the Burj Khalifa (and runs back down)
The turning point of the franchise, really. Yes, M:I-3 was a lot of fun, and the original was fondly remembered, but Mission: Impossible as we know it today exists because Brad Bird gave us this scene. It marries two of the series' core strengths – nutcase spectacle and palm-sweat-inducing tension – under the banner of "Tom Cruise actually did this!" Add one stupid gag ("Your line's not long enough." "No shit!") and that's the whole appeal of Mission: Impossible in about five minutes. Incredible.
Honourable mention:
Sandstorm chase: It's hard to think of the Burj Khalifa stunt without its almost immediate follow-up. The escalation from an on-foot chase, through the sandstorm, into a madcap car chase, is paced perfectly (as is Cruise's signature run). This double-whammy of great set-pieces puts Ghost Protocol in a league of its own, and clearly inspired its successor.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015): Ethan drowns and then has a motorbike chase
It was always going to be a challenge to one-up the Burj Khalifa. Depending on who you ask, Rogue Nation may or may not nail it. The Morocco sequence follows a similar pattern of escalate-escalate-escalate: one death-defying feat by Cruise, followed by a chase scene of increasing intensity. Director Christopher McQuarrie cuts what minimal fat there was in the Ghost Protocol version of this, diving straight from Ethan's near-death to… well, some more near-death for Ethan. Cruise learned to hold his breath for six minutes for the underwater sequence, but the really impressive stuff here is on the bikes. Cruise has done great vehicular work with McQuarrie before, but here credit must go to his double(s). When a stunt makes you think "Even Tom Cruise wouldn't have tried that!" you know there's a great stunt team involved.
Ethan enters, then exits, a plane in mid-air: The climbing-a-big-cliff of the latter-day Mission: Impossible Cruise's well-publicised plane stunt is wholly irrelevant to the plot, but lets the audience know exactly what they're in for from the get-go. McQuarrie marks his territory early by invoking and besting the classic plane stunt from The Living Daylights and Uncharted 3.
"Ethan Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny." Yes, there is such a thing as a stunt line, and this writer is starting to believe they are the secret of Mission: Impossible's success. The ability of this franchise to drop something patently ridiculous, wholly sincerely, in the middle of an action blockbuster, is its weirdly endearing heart.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018): Henry Cavill reloads his guns
Courtesy of: Paramount Pictures
Look. You can define 'stunt' however you like. This half-second moment from the Fallout trailer contains the exact same quantity of thrilling spectacle as any tunnel-helicopter or Burj Khalifa you could mention, if not more.
Ethan gets into a pickle with a helicopter: Sure, the movie isn't out yet, but we all agree this bit's going to be thrilling, isn't it?
We all collectively forget Tom Cruise is a Scientologist for another blissful two hours: Thank you, cinema.
The ORWAV Mission: Impossible Stunt Spectacular! was last modified: July 24th, 2018 by Rory Steabler
brad birdBrian De PalmaChristopher McQuarrieJJ AbramsJohn Woomission impossibleMission Impossible FalloutStuntsTom Cruise
And some sausages.
The World Is Yours: Power and Decay in Scarface and Carlito's Way
ORWAV's Top 100 Films of the 2010s: #40-21
Calum Baker
ORWAV's Top 20 Films of 2018: #8 – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Joni Blyth
Overlord – Review
Jack Blackwell
Team Talk – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Stephanie Watts
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Review
Bertie Archer


text:
Stormfront > International > Stormfront Europe > European News
Swedish newspapers target racist comments
Donate Radio Chat Register Blogs FAQ Members Social Groups Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Listen live to Stormfront Radio with Don Black & Friends
Followed by Dr. David Duke.
Weekdays 10:00-11:00am ET | Archives
Callers welcome: 844-769-2944
Location: "Arbeit macht frei"
Several major Swedish newspapers have introduced restrictions to the comment functions in their discussion forums in an attempt to gain better control and limit racism, sexism and personal attacks.
Expressen has decided to close the possibility to comment on articles in real-time discussion forums on its website. Posts will instead be pre-moderated and not removed afterwards as is the current practice.
The newspaper wants to keep a better check on what is being written and hopes to avoid racist comments and personal attacks, the editor-in-chief Thomas Mattson wrote on his blog.
Mattsson and associate editor-in-chief Per-Anders Broberg will be legally responsible for the posts.
Thomas Mattsson explained that he hopes that the new policy will lead to greater transparency and that more people become involved under their full identities.
"The Internet is ripe for the audience, but the audience is not ripe for the internet."
"It is not an easy decision for a liberal newspaper to state that, for a period of time, it is to limit people's ability to express themselves, but we must take a responsibility for those that feature in our articles will not be subjected to derogatory comments and that the network does not become a forum covert racism."
Mattsson argued that there the offenders are a small, but vocal group of anonymous users.
"There is a small group who use the forum which is to publish personal attacks and racist or illegal argument that are contrary to the good tone that all the media are seeking."
Expressen's new policy states that for a while there will be fewer articles that readers will have the opportunity to comment on, and that posts will be reviewed before being published.
According to Thompson, the debate over moderating comments has been ongoing for a long time and he expects more media firms to follow suit.
"I think that everyone who sees the potential of the internet considers it a failure that one can not entrust the web users to comment freely because there are a few who abuse the system," he said.
"Several xenophobic commentators have accused me of censorship and said that the media want to stifle debate on integration policy, but it's about complying with the laws. It is possible to discuss the integration policy, but without personal attacks and racist comments."
Dagens Nyheter has also announced a decision to temporarily turn off the ability to comment on articles online. The newspaper will introduce a new log in system in October which will require registration and email addresses and until then all of the discussion forums will be closed.
"It will not be as anonymous as before but it is a threshold in order to raise the level of comments. We have seen that there have been posts that have grossly violated the policy we have. It can, for example, concern racist remarks," said DN's editor Gunilla Herlitz.
She expects the number of commentators to be smaller with the new system.
"There will obviously be consequences. At the same time we note that many of the newspaper's articles are spread in other ways, by sharing on Facebook and other sites so the comment function is perhaps less important," Herlitz said.
Sweden's largest newspaper by circulation, Aftonbladet, has also announced restrictions on the freedom to post anonymous comments online.
The newspaper plans to present its new policy on Tuesday, with a statement informing readers that anyone who wants to comment on articles can still do so, but with a log in via their Facebook profile.
Swedish newspapers target racist comments - The Local
Find More Posts by Looking for a fight
Re: Swedish newspapers target racist comments
mmm, I see too much Political Correctness in sweden
Find More Posts by ingro
Anti-racist do-gooder flags racist comments on craigslist and reports these comments to police AngryGoy Newslinks & Articles 9 03-02-2013 07:25 PM
Swedish newspapers target racist comments revision Newslinks & Articles 1 08-30-2011 01:28 PM
Swedish newspapers target racist comments revision Stormfront Baltic / Scandinavia 0 08-30-2011 10:31 AM
Swedish police in hot water after racist comments gewehr guy Newslinks & Articles 16 03-05-2009 05:25 PM
The difference between swedish and norwegian newspapers Lumbard Stormfront Baltic / Scandinavia 5 03-21-2007 11:45 AM
-- Default for laptops/desktops ---- Responsive styleset (mobile friendly) -- Red Responsive (in development)
Contact Us - Martinlutherking.org - Privacy Statement - Top
Content Copyrighted ©1995 - 2021 by Stormfront
PO Box 6637, West Palm Beach FL 33405


Jessica C.'s review of Sinatra Music - Our Party Went Beautifully!!
Last night Gilbert did my in-law's 50th anniversary party and it was a COMPLETE success! My in-law's absolutely adored him and the guests were completed impressed and loved him! Plus, he played the music we wanted as well as his awesome singing, so it made the night so enjoyable. As a side note, he is a very sweet man and very nice to do business with, too.
Highly, highly recommended! Have him do your party. You won't be sorry. Worth every penny!


text:
Fleur De Lys 'Circles - The Ultimate Fleur De Lys' (CD)
Atlantic Records, Andrew Loog Oldham, Shel Talmy, Cream, Isaac Hayes and er Tony Blackburn, all these and so many more turn up in the story of Southampton band the Fleur De Lys and so many more. You may not have heard of them, and if you have it may be just because of their glorious cover of the Who's Circle's – an ultimate freak beat anthem which this compilation is named after – but the singles they released in the second half of the 1960s are one of the greatest collections of singles by any band, ranging from R&B through freakbeat and psych and back into club soul.
Emerging from the English South Coast's competitive club scene they signed to Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham's pioneering indie label Immediate where they recorded two singles before being taken under the wing of Frank Fenter who worked out of the UK Polydor office running the UK arm of Atlantic. The group went through numerous line-up changes as they recorded a series of singles which are now some of the most collectible of the era.
Acid Jazz and Countdown Records have been the custodians of the Fleur De Lys catalogue for the last decade and this compilation is the culmination of that work containing all the singles that they released for Immediate, Polydor and Atlantic (where they pipped Led Zepplin to become the first UK signed band to that legendary label). Issued digitally, on CD and in a limited edition gatefold coloured double vinyl, it has been produced with the full co-operation of the group's Keith Guster, allowing us to use previously unseen photos and illustrations. Compiled by Eddie Piller and Dean Rudland and the band's official biographer Paul 'Smiler' Anderson, who has contributed an extended note that tells the band's story in compelling detail.
Available on the 26th March 2021.
Mud In Your Eye
Gong With The Luminous Nose
Hammer Head
One City Girl
Brick By Brick (Stone By Stone)
I Can See A Light
Nothing To Say
Stop Crossing The Bridge
The Bitter With The Sweet
You've Got To Earn It
Two Can Make It Together
I've Been Trying
(You're Just A) Liar
Moondreams
Love Them All (Demo)
Gotta Get Enough Time (Demo)
I Walk The Sands
Yeah I Do Love You (Demo)
**Unfortunately we are experiencing big delays at the moment to Sweden. We advise to buy locally if possible but if not please bear with us**


Mark your presence in the crowd of thousands by wearing this beautiful floral printed straight kurta and pant. The kurta is unique with side kalis, notch neck, and three-fourth sleeves. The pant is straight and smart, and the overall combination of off white and grey is elegant and casual enough to be carried for parties. This complete set is made of very comfortable fabric, flax and cotton.


These unique volume practice problems and worksheets were created for 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students to offer 30 weeks of daily practice. These worksheets were created to supplement any math series your class may be using.
This program provides 30 weeks (4 days per week) of practice and is easily integrated into your classroom. This program includes all reference sheets, formulas, templates, and answer keys needed for your students to complete the center problems or worksheets.
These worksheets can be used in either 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classrooms. The footer of each page has star levels corresponding to specific problems on that page indicating the complexity of each question and specifying which grade level should complete those questions. One star indicating the easiest problems on the page, two stars are mid-level problems, and three stars are the most complex.
The star levels make differentiated learning within the same classroom extremely easy to implement.
To view the table of contents and sample math worksheets please click on the link below.
This item is part of a 16 topic Common Core math series. To view the complete program click on the links below.


text:
package org.traccar.events;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import org.traccar.BaseEventHandler;
import org.traccar.Context;
import org.traccar.database.GeofenceManager;
import org.traccar.model.Device;
import org.traccar.model.Event;
import org.traccar.model.Position;

public class GeofenceEventHandler extends BaseEventHandler {

    private GeofenceManager geofenceManager;

    public GeofenceEventHandler() {
        geofenceManager = Context.getGeofenceManager();
    }

    @Override
    protected Collection<Event> analyzePosition(Position position) {
        Device device = Context.getIdentityManager().getDeviceById(position.getDeviceId());
        if (device == null) {
            return null;
        }
        if (!Context.getIdentityManager().isLatestPosition(position) || !position.getValid()) {
            return null;
        }

        List<Long> currentGeofences = geofenceManager.getCurrentDeviceGeofences(position);
        List<Long> oldGeofences = new ArrayList<>();
        if (device.getGeofenceIds() != null) {
            oldGeofences.addAll(device.getGeofenceIds());
        }
        List<Long> newGeofences = new ArrayList<>(currentGeofences);
        newGeofences.removeAll(oldGeofences);
        oldGeofences.removeAll(currentGeofences);

        device.setGeofenceIds(currentGeofences);

        Collection<Event> events = new ArrayList<>();
        for (long geofenceId : newGeofences) {
            long calendarId = geofenceManager.getGeofence(geofenceId).getCalendarId();
            if (calendarId == 0 || Context.getCalendarManager().getCalendar(calendarId) == null
                    || Context.getCalendarManager().getCalendar(calendarId).checkMoment(position.getFixTime())) {
                Event event = new Event(Event.TYPE_GEOFENCE_ENTER, position.getDeviceId(), position.getId());
                event.setGeofenceId(geofenceId);
                events.add(event);
            }
        }
        for (long geofenceId : oldGeofences) {
            long calendarId = geofenceManager.getGeofence(geofenceId).getCalendarId();
            if (calendarId == 0 || Context.getCalendarManager().getCalendar(calendarId) == null
                    || Context.getCalendarManager().getCalendar(calendarId).checkMoment(position.getFixTime())) {
                Event event = new Event(Event.TYPE_GEOFENCE_EXIT, position.getDeviceId(), position.getId());
                event.setGeofenceId(geofenceId);
                events.add(event);
            }
        }
        return events;
    }
}


text:
Heathrow boss says England pre-arrival testing must only be temporary - REUTERS
LONDON (Reuters) - The boss of Britain's biggest airport Heathrow said that new rules requiring people arriving in England to present a negative COVID-19 test result must only be temporary and the government must plan for how to end it.
"It can only be a temporary measure," Heathrow Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye told BBC Radio on Friday.
"We need to have a roadmap for how we get out of this because aviation is vital to us as a small island trading nation."
He also said that vaccination programmes in Britain and other countries gave him hope for a travel recovery later this year.
"We'll see flights starting to come back and passenger numbers building up through the summer and then into the autumn," he said.
Reporting by Sarah Young; Editing by Kate Holton


text:
TN DGP should quit: DMK MLA
IANS Wednesday, 05 September 2018 01:30:13 PM 1 minute, 21 seconds
Chennai : DMK legislator J. Anbazhagan on Wednesday demanded that Tamil Nadu's Director General of Police (DGP) T.K. Rajendran must quit, after the CBI raided his residence in connection with a gutkha scam.
It was on Anbazhagan's petition that the Madras High Court ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the scam.
Anbazhagan said Rajendran was on extension. Top officials who are given an extension should have an unblemished service record. With Rajendran's residence being raided by the CBI, he should step down.
"The probe seems to be proceeding on the right track under the CBI. Whether a case will be filed against the scamsters or not will have to be seen.
"If no case is filed, then we may have to approach the Madras High Court again," Anbazhagan told IANS.
The case is related to an Income Tax Department raid in the offices, residences and godowns of a gutkha manufacturer in Tamil Nadu in 2016.
A diary was then seized which listed alleged bribes paid to various officials amounting to about Rs 39.31 crore.
The Tamil Nadu government has banned the manufacture and storage of gutkha -- a tobacco product -- since 2013. However, the product was reportedly available in the market with the alleged connivance of police officers and others.
Several political parties had demanded a CBI probe into the issue but the AIADMK government did not agree.
In June, the Enforcement Directorate registered a money laundering case against unnamed government officials in Tamil Nadu based on a first information report (FIR) registered by the CBI in May.
Despite opposition from opposition parties, Rajendran was given a two-year extension in 2018.
Rajendran
Gutkha
Published : Wednesday, September 05, 2018 13:30 [IST]
For more news and latest updates like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter
Bharat Bandh: Security beefed up in MP
Hrithik unveils 'Super 30' poster on Teacher's Day


text:
Albums, Songs & Sheet Music
Online Church Resources
About our Word In Song Conferences
About our Word In Song Masterclasses
About our concerts: A Night In With Emu
Word in Song Conference Gateshead, UK (postponed)
Word In Song Conference Houston, TX (postponed)
Word In Song Masterclass London, UK (postponed)
Word In Song Online Course
Moore College Advanced Diploma
Wycliffe Hall Certificate In Theological Studies
EmuPlus
The Bethlehem Road CD (AUSTRALIA ONLY)
This double CD brings together many of the songs that appeared on the four Bethlehem albums released between 1990 and 1998 — Our God Reigns (1990), Behold Your King (1992), Christ For Us (1995) and Come to the Waters (1998). It also contains one song ('Only Jesus') that was recorded in 2000 as a bonus track for the new edition of Christ For Us.
Our God Reigns was first released early in 1990 on cassette (remember those?). The album clearly met a need in many churches and many lives. In fact, over the years it has been deeply humbling to hear testimonies of how God has been pleased to use these songs and these recordings to bring blessing to his children and even to call some into his kingdom.
The purpose of this compilation is not only to preserve a record of these songs, but to enable God's people – particularly those whose cassettes have long since perished – to access them, enjoy them and continue to make use of them - providing the churches of Jesus Christ with songs that proclaim God's word and vehicles for singing his praises.
Sign Up →
© 2021, Emu Music


text:
Available translation Any English Korean
Available translation
ADD SEARCH FILTER CANCEL SEARCH FILTER
Digital Archive International History Declassified
Sort by Date (Ascending) Date (Descending) Newest Added Title
Annual Report by Polish Military Attache in Moscow
General Wyderkowski reports on topics such as: problems within the Soviet Union specifically with economic and industry production; military industry development observations, including nuclear preparations; suggestion for more interaction between army and society; efforts for positive relationship between Polish Embassy and Moscow and little contact with capitalist countries; 22nd Congress of the Soviet Union; new military training techniques; and foreign policy, especially increased interest in diplomatic ties to Africa.
Consultation between the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry and the Soviet Foreign Ministry [in Moscow]
A report on a routine meeting between Czechoslovak and Soviet Foreign Ministry officials. The topic of discussions was Soviet foreign policy toward Africa and Asia and the Soviets tried to convince the Czechoslovak that relations with these regions were developing well despite several right wing military coups which had taken place in the previous two years. Africa came to the fore, during the discussions, as an area in which the Soviets were investing a lot of time and money.
Memorandum of Conversation between Mao Zedong and Gerald R. Ford
President Ford and Secretary Kissinger met with Chairman Mao and spoke about Chinese-U.S. relations, Japanese-U.S. relations, Chinese foreign relations with Japan and Western countries, NATO, the Sinai Agreement, and Soviet attempts to expand influence in Africa.
Report on Soviet Delegation to Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Angola
Led by USSR Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, L. F. Ilyichev, the delegation met with southern African leaders to discuss the situation in Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Letter from South African Defence Minister Magnus Malan to Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon
South African Defence Minister Magnus Malan writes to Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon to thank him for his hospitality to the South African delegation during their visit to Israel. Malan thanks Sharon for "your clear and grave concern over the soviet expansionism in Southern African." He also discusses the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding.
Letter from Lawrence S. Eagleburger to R. F. Botha
Letter from the US State Department to R. F. "Pik" Botha, thanking him for his interests in the US evaluation of Soviet intentions in the area. Notes the need for cooperation between the two countries in the future to ensure the best possible handling of Soviet issues.
Letter from Lawrence S. Eagleburger to R. F. Botha, Enclosing 'Soviets in Southern Africa'
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Lawrence Eagleburger forwards to "Pik" Botha a US assessment of Soviet strategy and actions in Southern Africa. The assessment notes that by decreasing the security concerns of Angola and Mozambique, they would decrease their dependence on the Soviet Union, and that, because of this, overt military intervention should be avoided.
Concept Paper on Military Cooperation with Foreign (Non-Socialist) Countries for the Period 1990-1995
This concept paper addresses the need to base decisions about the nature of military cooperation on the Soviet Union's long term goal of ending the arms race and moving toward disarmament. It also details how this decision-making should look in specific developing countries in which the Soviet Union has an interest.
Record of Conversation between M.S. Gorbachev and Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher (at the Airport and on the way to the Embassy), London
M.S. Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher discuss global geopolitical issues, particularly growing terrorist organizations across Africa.
Record of Negotiations between M.S. Gorbachev and Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher, London
Negotiations between Gorbachev and Thatcher on U.S. and British concerns, as well as Britain's cautious optimism, about the Soviet Union's perestroika and glasnost policies.
CPSU Central Committee, 'On a Conception of Military Cooperation with Foreign (Non-Socialist) Countries'
An introductory note to the CPSU Central Committee Resolution on military cooperation with non-Socialist countries.
History and Public Policy Program
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027
Collection Policy | Questions? Email the project at coldwar@wilsoncenter.org
About / Donate