My First taste of Harisa wasn't in a spice-scented market in North Africa. No, it was at a farm in upstate New York, in the dead of winter. I used a recipe in a book whose title I have long forgotten. Looking like a simple dark pepper paste, it was nothing less than transporting–an accompaniment with the power to eclipse the main course. It changed my culinary life. Really.
I barely noticed winter's chill that season as I began rubbing harisa's mahogany magic onto my roast chicken, spooning it over my fish and brightening my roasted vegetables. Spicy, sure, but dark and mysterious in flavor as well as color. Just pre-paring it filled the kitchen with an intoxicating fragrance that compelled me to make it over and over. (Friends demanded jars of the stuff.) I have been in love ever since.
Harisa comes from the Arabic word for "to break into pieces."
My favorite recipe remains close to the harisa I fell in love with. It has dark color and a flavor you won't find in most of the bright red pastes now sold in tubes and jars in stores.
Remove the tops and seeds from the chilies. Put them in a hot skillet and toast for a few moments on each side: They will begin giving off a spicy perfume. Be careful not to burn them. Cool a bit and tear into pieces. Now put the caraway, coriander and cumin in the hot pan, and toast them for a few minutes until they give off a wisp of smoke; remove immediately.
Pound the garlic and chilies together. Place them in a blender or spice mil, add the spices and grind as finely as possible. Add the salt and hot pepper sauce. Grind enough to mix thoroughly. Put into a small mason jar and pour on enough olive oil to cover. Stir in the oil. Add a bit more to cover again. Seal and refrigerate; serve at room temperature.
Today harisa is so woven into the cuisines of North Africa that you might assume it has always been there, but if there has ever been a great reason for immigration, free trade and porous borders, this is it. There would be no harisa if one of the New World's most famous vegetables hadn't turned up the heat on virtually all of the Old World's cuisines.
Before chilies came to the Old World, there were varieties of black pepper, Szechuan pepper, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, mustard and horseradish to warm palates from China to London. Ancient China and the Mideast had salty condiments like soy, which was originally a paste, and the equally salty murri in the Fertile Crescent. Black pepper, though both widespread and prized, was rarely a stand-alone condiment—unlike mustard, which has been on the menu in China for at least 2,500 years and appears in medieval recipes from the Middle East, Africa and Andalusia as well as Europe since Roman times.
Soon after capsaicin-bearing New World peppers landed in North Africa, cooks began using local sweet spices like caraway and coriander to transform dried peppers into early variations of the harisa that now, some six centuries later, is enjoying a new global popularity. Walk through New York's West Village or a few boulevards in Paris, and you find it spooned over falafels or heating up a tagine. From Spain to San Francisco, it's even showing up in non-traditional recipes like a grapefruit vinaigrette or a salad with wheatberries, carrots, dates and yogurt. I have been known to add it to mayonnaise to take a chicken sandwich to an unprecedented level; blend it with brown butter on Brussels sprouts; even dot it on pizzas. And why not? Its complex heat seems to bless everything it touches, and yet it is easy enough for anyone to make.
Wright suspects harisa—or at least the idea for it—may have come from the New World with the peppers them-selves. "One could argue that the Peruvian aji panca en pasta is such a precursor," he says, explaining that, like harisa, it is made with rehydrated chilies. "When you think about the way new food ingredients are sold in a market, one of the first questions any prospective customer will ask is, 'What do you do with it?' These dried fruits from a magical New World would be an easier sell if there were techniques, recipes or even a sample," he adds.
My own favorite recipe (above) remains close to the harisa I fell in love with. Instead of reconstituting the dried chilies, I toast them to concentrate their flavor. Then I pulverize them, together with spices and garlic, and I stir in the oil at the end. It keeps at least a year in the fridge—if you can let it last that long. My very favorite way to have it is slathered with honey on a buttery flatbread such as a crepe-like Moroccan m'semme, sprinkled with black olives and sometimes a bit of goat cheese. This addictive combination of hot, sweet and salty is a popular street food in North Africa—edible evidence of why chilies spread through the world like wildfire with every bite.
([email protected]) is a New York film production designer who also writes about food, style and history and regularly attends the Oxford Food Symposium. Readers of her blog "Lost Past Remembered" often come for the recipes and stay for the stories.


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Q: How can I remove marker with bonded circle from the map? I did bind the circle  with marker to make view like:

But when I try to remove marker from the map, the circle still exists. Hmm,
How can I remove marker with circle?
Relevant code:
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Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,

A: If you want to remove the Circle when you remove the marker, you need to remove it also.
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You will need to keep a reference to the circle to do that (not tested):
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If you are considering retiring to Cape Town, you can look forward to a retirement that only South Africa's mother city can offer.
In a world obsessed with change, the value of an unhurried life is precious. Cape Town is renowned for its laid back attitude, and for your retirement years there is certainly no shortage of things to do.
Cape Town is rated as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and retirement in Cape Town means you have the time to enjoy a host of wonderful of activities, sights and sounds.
For our immigration clients, retirement abroad throws up a whole host of issues, choices and decisions. We realise that when it comes to retirement it is more important than ever to make sure your choices are correct.
Intergate prides itself on its holistic service for those retired people wishing to make Cape Town their home for their twilight years. Our dedicated client mangers will guide you through all of the issues ranging from permits, tax treatment through to housing and relocation issues.
The retirement information and links below are designed to give you a starting point for your research. Our immigration experts will be happy to discuss and guide you through the retirement to Cape Town options and are easily contacted by using the links below.
Where to start with your retirement plans?
The starting point with a retirement in Cape Town is to ensure your eligibility. Whether you are seeking a permanent move or wish to stay in Cape Town only for part of the year, Intergate Immigration will guide you through the permit options, ensuring you qualify for the required permit.
Does South Africa welcome retired immigrants?
Unlike many countries South Africa values the arrival of retiring immigrants. The retired population has many positive effects on the economy such as job creation, inflow of capital and disposable income to spend.
There are no age restrictions and both temporary and permanent residency can be applied for.
Do you have to bring a certain amount of capital to South Africa when immigrating?
There is no specified amount that a retired person must bring to South Africa when immigrating. The immigration criteria for retired permits is based on available income and capital. This income and capital can be from anywhere in the world and there is no obligation for these funds to be brought into South Africa.
It is often a misconception that retirement years mean a reduction in expenditure. When retiring we tend to have more time which is filled with activities that cost money such as golf, bowls, travel and eating out.
Cape Town offers excellent value for money and makes those pounds and euros go a little further, helping you to enjoy your retirement years.
Without doubt the headline figure for inflation in UK and European countries shows that retired people are suffering the most in this economic climate.
Those in retirement are seeing the cost of living surge at 13.7 per cent a year, outstripping the increase in state pensions, according to the think tank Capital Economics in research undertaken for the Daily Telegraph.
In other words being a pensioner is increasingly expensive in the UK and this means retired people missing out on those activities that make retirement years enjoyable.
Up market homes in retirement villages from as little as £60,000.
To review a more complete cost of living analysis, you can visit Numbeo.
South Africa has favourable tax laws for retirement pension schemes that are based abroad. In broad terms overseas pensions are not liable to tax in South Africa. Even better news is that certain pensions are no longer taxable in your home country. An example of this is a private pension for a UK citizen living in South Africa. In this case no tax would be paid on the pension in the UK or South Africa. The net result? More income.
As we enter retirement years the invincibility of youth turns to the more pragmatic matter of decent healthcare should we fall ill.
South Africa operates a superb private hospital network equipped with the latest technology and top rated staff. It is imperative that private medical insurance is taken out but you can rest assured the service and its delivery is excellent.
Cape Town offers the retired person an array of property options to suit even the most discerning of tastes. Whether you seek an apartment or that dream home by the sea, Cape Town has it on offer and to suit most budgets. Housing costs are certainly lower than most of Europe and the size and standard of accommodation tends to be much higher.
For those retirees seeking the comfort and reassurance of retirement villages there are some excellent choices available that start from as little as R60,000. Commonly referred to in Europe as old age homes they tend to conjure up images of hospital type looking buildings with a warren of corridors and bedsit type accommodation that is also very expensive.
The exact opposite is true of most Retirement Villages in Cape Town. The description below is more applicable.
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Golf, bowls, Croquet, walks, wine farms, beaches, theatre, excellent dining, amazing sites. You really can have it all in Cape Town.
Cape Town is classified as one of the most beautiful cities in the world and ranks amongst the top three tourist destinations. As a retired person you will hopefully have the time to fully enjoy all these sites and sounds.
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Ottawa (27 May 2007) - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear a labour movement complaint that the federal government is abusing the multi-million-dollar Employment Insurance (EI) program.
The country's top court has agreed to hear arguments from trade unions about how the federal government collects and uses employment insurance surpluses.
The consent by the court to look at the matter was announced on May 24. As is customary, the court gave no reasons for its decision and it is not known how long it will take before the matter is addressed.
The Confederation of National Trade Unions (CNTU) in Quebec is arguing that federal governments dating back years have abused EI by diverting surplus revenues from the program for purposes other than those intended by Parliament when the program was established.
Since 1996, it is estimated that Ottawa has collected $54 billion in employment insurance premiums while placing major restrictions on which workers are entitled to collect benefits.
To date, two lower courts in Quebec, the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal, have turned down arguments by the unions.
The case is being closely watched across the country. The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) has appealed to both Liberal and Conservative governments to stop the practice of raiding EI surpluses to pay for unrelated programs and expenses.
NDP EI critic Yvon Godin, (Acadie-Bathurst) applauded the top court's decision to hear the matter at last.
"It is workers, not the federal government who contribute to this program, yet it's the government that is using the fund. They are pick-pocketing working families. That is theft," argues Godin.
"It is unacceptable that the EI program should have a surplus of $51 billion when only 33% of women and 44% of men who pay Employment Insurance premiums are able to collect benefits when they lose their jobs. That is why we have to stand up and defend these workers. They work hard for their money and it is theirs," Godin adds.


Dealing with creditors takes patience and determination, especially if you are attempting to find a debt resolution agreement. Although there are many third part debt relief companies offering to negotiate debts on your behalf, the truth is you can be just as effective on your own following a few simple techniques.
The biggest mistake you can make in a credit negotiation is not knowing what you want from the deal. Are you looking for an overall lower payment? Do you want to pay less than what is owed? Do you need a temporary break from payments? Knowing which of these is your highest priority can give you a leg up in negotiations. If you want a lower payment, ask for a reduced interest rate. If you want to pay less than what is owed, request a settlement in exchange for a lump sum payment or automatic monthly payment. If you need a monthly break, request a forbearance to provide you relief for up to 6 months.
Many creditors will act as if they are not willing to negotiate. This is very common, especially in the beginning of negotiations. It is up to you to present your case for financial hardship and persuade them in your favor. Never use abusive or threatening language and keep your tone neutral. However, you can point out things to your advantage such as your prior timely payment history, your good credit score or even mention that you may be considering bankruptcy if you can't find help with your debts. The key is to engage in calm and appreciative negotiations, always maintaining your insistence that you need help to financially stay out of default.


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Quadriplegic surfer, barney miller, raises awareness and funds for spinal cord injury
Thread: Quadriplegic surfer, barney miller, raises awareness and funds for spinal cord injury
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Barney Miller was an up-and-coming Aussie surfer with a lot of potential. Miller's path to the professionals, however, came to a standstill when he was paralyzed in a high-speed car accident in 1999. The accident broke his spinal cord at the C5-6 disc with damage to the C3. He was told he'd be on a ventilator for the rest of his life, never move his right arm and never walk again. Miller wasn't willing to settle with the prognosis, and instead set out to do something about his condition and prove the doctors wrong. In 2009, Miller found a rehabilitation program called Project Walk, based in Carlsbad, CA. The kinesiology program based on repetitive exercise was what he needed to start seeing a marked progress in his recovery. Dedicated to training, he now spends half of the year in Australia and half in Carlsbad. In July of 2007 Miller met the love of his life, Kate Southwell, an Australian singer/songwriter known to her fans as Kada. With romantic tradition as a motivator, Miller told her that he wouldn't propose until he could get down on one knee. The training and perseverance paid off, and the couple celebrated a beautiful, traditional on bended-knee proposal in September 2012. The next milestone goal Miller has set to accomplish is to have a standing first dance with his beautiful bride at their wedding on April 18, 2015. Miller is currently filming a documentary with Trinity Films about his life called "No Means Go," titled for his personal motto.
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Claudia Lawrence has been missing since March 2009.
A 46-year-old man has been bailed following his arrest yesterday, as part of the investigation into the murder of Claudia Lawrence.
Miss Lawrence, 35, of Heworth, York, disappeared in March 2009 and after extensive searches of the area police have since treated her disappearance as murder.
Police began searching the Acomb pub, on Kingsway in Acomb, York, thought to be one of the places Miss Lawrence – who was a chef the University of York – socialised before she vanished in 2009, at 8am yesterday morning.
A 59-year-old man was arrested on May 13, on suspicion of murdering Miss Lawrence, and he remains on bail pending further inquiries.
Police have appealed for anyone with information regarding the investigation to contact North Yorkshire Police on 101, or alternatively, information can be passed on anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online at www.crimestoppers-uk.org.
A £10,000 Crimestoppers reward is still available for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for Miss Lawrence's disappearance.


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President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2009 Budget
by Richard C. Cook / March 2nd, 2009
[The Last Picture Show was a 1971 film depicting the decay of small town America. It took place in the fictitious town of Anarene, Texas.]
We hear a distant tune reminiscent of America's high and lonely places and the sound of a dry wind blowing. It's March 2010 in the tiny West Texas town of Anarene. Nothing much happens here any more. The last business shut down a couple of years ago. It was a cement plant that went broke after the housing bubble burst and the banks stopped lending. The kids out of high school drive their jalopies from one end of Main Street to the other past boarded-up storefronts.
Some of the grown-ups carpool to low-wage jobs in a city 50 miles down the road. The elderly have had their Social Security eaten up by the high price of food but still get by on Spam and Kool-Aid. There used to be a movie theater, but it too closed a few months ago. Not a single person went to the Last Picture Show.
But there is change in the air! President Barack Obama, who was elected president a couple of years ago, is in the middle of his fiscal year 2010 budget. The 2009 budget had a deficit of $1.75 trillion, a number no fool could even have imagined before the crash of 2008. The projection for 2010 is $1.17 trillion, due to the government's hopes for an economic recovery. But the jury is out on whether a recovery will ever happen.
Some say the banks are starting to lend again, though no one at the Anarene State Bank knows anything about it. Some say the city down the road is getting a plant to make blades for those new wind turbines. The Anarene high school got funding for an adult training course on writing resumes. The Nightly News says, "America is coming back."
I wish!
So what is really going on here?
Well, President Obama's 2009 budget has attracted a lot of attention. $1.75 trillion? That's not federal spending. That's new federal debt!
A good measure of fiscal policy is federal government tax revenues. Revenues for 2009 are projected at $2.19 trillion, off 13 percent from a year ago, due to the recession. With the huge bank bailouts and Obama's $787 billion economic recovery program, 2009 expenditures are estimated at $3.94 trillion, an increase of 33 percent over 2008.
Then there's the interest taxpayers must pay on the national debt, which will likely reach $600 billion in 2009. Of course almost 100 percent of all new federal debt is financed by foreigners, mainly China.
But don't worry, the recovery program will succeed, and the economy will start growing again. THE GOVERNMENT PROMISES! Obama's budget forecasts such a strong upsurge in economic activity by the end of 2009 that the net for the year will be GDP growth of 1 percent. (Yes, that's what it says.)
Is it a contradiction that the government is conducting "stress tests" on the nation's banks in which it is predicting that the recession will last at least until 2011 to see if those banks are strong enough to weather the storm? Yes, it is a contradiction. Even the Federal Reserve does not see recovery coming as quickly as Obama's budget. Neither do any economists. The budget is not an honest document.
It gets worse. The budget says growth will then continue as far as the eye can see—the projections go out to 2019, when we'll have a GDP of $22.86 trillion, 61 percent higher than 2008. Happy days will be here again!
So go back to sleep, America. It's official. The recession we are in right now will end soon and is the last one ever.
This means that the financial industry will soon be fixed, plenty of good jobs will be available, climate change and drought will be overcome, the government budget will be right-sized, and America and the world will be content and at peace. All because of the decisions being made by the Obama administration and approved by Congress during these few critical weeks we're in the middle of right now.
But there are a whole swarm of flies in the ointment. I'll mention just two.
One is that according to University of Massachusetts economist Thomas Ferguson, who spoke at last weekend's Eastern Economic Conference national conference in New York, the Bush/Obama bank bailouts alone will cause a permanent addition of interest payments on the national debt of $100 billion a year forever. That means every American will pay, during the course of his or her lifetime, over $20,000 to rescue the banks from their bad loans. To put that number in perspective, it equates to 2-1/2 years of tuition at a state university that instead will be paid to the government of China or a similar foreign investor.
Yes, America, that is what your elected government just decided you will do.
Another is that the U.S. has had virtually no real economic growth since the early 1970s, because since then we've lived in a bubble economy. Look it up. Most of our industrial output has been flat or has declined. Whole industries, such as steel, are shadows of their former greatness. The automobile industry is on life support. We've imported huge amounts of foreign capital by selling them our real estate and businesses. As stated on the Economy in Crisis website:
The United States now no longer controls many of its domestic industries. Over the last 10 years alone foreigners have spent $1.2 trillion to acquire more than 8,000 key US companies. Already as of 2002, foreigners owned fully 20 percent of American manufacturing. In many high-tech and defense-related industries, the proportion is far higher. Such US industries as mining, cement, publishing, engine and power transmission equipment, rubber and plastics, and sound recording and motion pictures are now largely foreign owned. Even in industries like pharmaceuticals, chemicals, industrial machinery, transportation equipment, electronics, metal industries, and coal and petroleum industries, foreign ownership has recently become very high.
Until the last year, the biggest growth industry within the U.S. had been the financial sector, producing profits of over $500 billion as late as 2006. In other words, the U.S. has replaced working for a living with the manipulation of money and the extraction of interest, either by lending it or by brokering the lending and investment by foreigners. In order to enrich themselves, the financiers, with a lot of help from the government, created the merger/buyout bubble of the 1980s, the dot.com bubble of the 1990s, and the housing/equity/hedge fund/derivative bubble of the 2000s.
All this time, the federal, state, and local governments have tried to keep up by taxing every financial transaction they can get their hands on, including by raising property taxes on the inflated value of family homes. But now, with the last of the bubbles deflating, the tax base is vanishing. So governments, along with the private sector economy, which has been living on capital gains in the absence of job income for all but the very rich, have gone into the tank as well.
President Barack Obama's economic recovery program, along with the budget just released, is an attempt to substitute a federal government bubble for the failed private sector ones. Like the private sector bubbles, this one is also based on debt. This is because debt is the only way anyone in the U.S. can any longer think of when it comes to creating a national money supply. It includes the president's proposed $5 billion federal infrastructure bank for lending to state and local governments. This bank will probably offer better interest rates than the bond markets, but it's still debt.
There was a time in U.S. history when other ways were known to create money; for instance, during the Civil War, when Congress authorized the Lincoln administration to spend Greenbacks directly into existence. The banks hated the Greenbacks, of course, so they got Congress to pass the National Banking Acts of 1863-64, which were the prelude to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Today, Greenback-type funding for the federal government is one of the chief provisions of the American Monetary Act drafted by the American Monetary Institute.
Another way to introduce debt-free money into the economy is through a dividend, such as the Alaska Permanent Fund, which in 2008 paid every resident $3,269 tax-free out of the state's resource revenues. There is no good reason why such a dividend could not be paid by every state or by the federal government.
Greenbacks and programs like the Alaska Permanent Fund are part of what I call Dividend Economics. It's why I've proposed the "Cook Plan," which would be a system of vouchers for the necessities of life in the amount of $1,000 a month for any adult citizen who applied. A smaller amount would be provided as an allowance for children.
The vouchers would be taxed like any other income and would supplement other entitlements such as unemployment compensation, Social Security, etc. But taxes would be low for those who would use the vouchers as a main source of income. Under the plan, the vouchers would then be accepted as deposits at a new network of community savings banks that would lend at one percent interest to consumers, students, small businesses, local manufacturing establishments, and family farms.
This would introduce over $2.5 trillion of debt-free money into the economy over the next year, because under the "Cook Plan," the dividend would be paid directly by the U.S. Treasury without borrowing or taxation. It would not be inflationary, because it would replace money from public bank lending and would result in new goods and services being created within the U.S. producing economy. In fact, we would see a renaissance of local and regional economic activity that would eventually transform the national economy as well.
You may ask, should we just be "giving away money?" My answer is that if the banks can create trillions of dollars in credit out of thin air for lending, why can't the government create it for the people? The same goes with the trillions the government is borrowing to pay to the banks to reinflate the bubble economy. Give it to the people instead. Look at Obama's economic recovery program that equates to $225,000 for each new job it hopes to create and probably won't. Give that to the people too. Let them use the money as a dividend to live on during this emergency and create new jobs as well.
Right now there is nothing further from the minds of President Obama and his advisers than such ideas. That's why his new bubble budget is America's Last Picture Show.
Richard C. Cook is the author of We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform, scheduled to appear by September 2007. A retired federal analyst, his career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, and NASA, followed by twenty-one years with the U.S. Treasury Department. He is also author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan AdministrationCaused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age. Read other articles by Richard, or visit Richard's website.
This article was posted on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 9:00am and is filed under Democrats, Economy/Economics.
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Don Hawkins said on March 2nd, 2009 at 9:23am #
I think there are a few among us who are aliens sent to Earth to take over and so far they are winning. One big problem if they do win nothing left after they deplete the planet and they just move on to another World or maybe Iceland the far North. There numbers are few but powerful they are. They can be defeated but it will take a new way of thinking. There are a few of us who have seen the truth. We are trying to show you the World as it is and if you want to see the World the real World keep reading and witting. May the force be with you calm at peace.
Many are trying to continue killing the truth's in the twenty first century and this time the lies that are immortal brings us to the truth's. We need to use the truth and the knowledge and soon. Read DV Barrack
Max Shields said on March 2nd, 2009 at 7:42pm #
We are in OVERSHOOT. It is the result of continuing to behave as if there was no limit to growth.
The DotCom Bubble was a little taste of it in economic terms. But this is not just an economic meltdown. This is an utter collapse at every level. I'm talking about food shortages, and energy depletion, climate change which has tipped.
We will know we've collapsed several years after it happens. Just like early fall was when the free fall was recognized with the sub-prime housing and then financial meltdown – it had actually begun years earlier.
This is NOT recoverable. It is down the chute. We don't have a clue what it will look like at the other end.
This overshoot began in the 1970s. We knew then and now what's needed but the very polity/culture/economic systems in USA are incapable of responding to the warning, the feedback was there, the alarms have been going off, but all is fastforward…
Aside from Obama's obvious immaturity on matters of state and economics, perhaps HE should have been vetted before running to see if he understands the fundamental principles of accounting. HE would have failed, then. But it's irrelevant because we've already passed the point of return.
It's playing out like this: The patient has been told he has lung cancer and so decides to chain smoke to the very end.
anthony innes said on March 2nd, 2009 at 10:48pm #
As the USA prints its currency into irelevancy and the citizens there do not grasp that decisions are no longer made with concern for outcome advantageous to the USA the Bank of International Settlements and its cartel plunders the planet.
Hedge funds and derivatives collapse (unavoidable) will finish the USA dollar.China will get Taiwan as the SCO negotiates the NWO .
The Foriegn USA bases will be a new source of illicit arms as troops pawn their equipment as the Russians had too when their roubles became worthless.
Max is correct in his anlysis.France ,Britain,USA and most of the G7 are in denial that the BIS insanity can be maintained.
China is facing ecological collapse on a daily basis and has real concerns for social order.The MSM in the west are just about to have to reverse their position as they had to on climate change.Confusion about this could be overcome by a move to ecologically sustainable accounting in all transactions.Net energy is about to be as much of human discussion as sport.
What is clear that rule of Law is coming back into vogue.
The Bank of International Settlements is where the money trail leads and this planet has had enough of its infantile corruption.The USA unlike when its hegemony fell after WW2 bankrupted the UK is in the full glare of world opinion.Transparency will be mandatory if any financial order is to be trusted.If a financially based distribution system is to succeed (and it must if millions and millions of decent innocent people are not to perish) Interpol must have international support to haul perps to the Hague for trial.War is a crime we can no longer,glorify,afford tolerate or condone.Its swords into ploughshare time and a civilian based economy now has to come into the basis of social contract.We cannot continue with politics as usual.It is a completely failed evolutionary strategy.We can continue down the path of insects and oblivion or remember our duty to human progress.
The BIS agenda must be exposed for the authoritarian sociopathological insanity it has become and soveriegn Nations move on free of the Tyranny of Corporate Colonialism and its inherent violence.No Nation,Individual or legal entity is above the Law .This planet has natural boundaries and systems that we MUST RESPECT and our laws as creatures have to move beyond the historically determined shambles our various mythologies have created.All equal before the lAW of this planet .War is a crime.
Deadbeat said on March 3rd, 2009 at 3:36pm #
I'm talking about food shortages, and energy depletion, climate change which has tipped.
The problem of "growth" is not that there are food "shortages". This Malthusian rhetoric is one of the reason why "environmentalist" lose credibility and retard solidarity especially with people of color. This leads to the false notions of "overpopulation", "carrying capacity" and "energy depletion". Energy depletion is dubious especially "peak oil" that was used a "Leftist" tool to mislead activist that the war in Iraq was a "war for oil" and not a zionist enterprise.
The big problem with "growth" is that it is achieved via vast labor exploitation and a race to the bottom. In order to have "growth" there must be an adjoining level of POVERTY. In other words there is no "growth" but a huge TRANSFER of WEALTH that doesn't count the externality of despoiling and exploting the environment — both people, animal and nature — or as Marx labelled the "exploitation of everything".
bozh said on March 3rd, 2009 at 3:46pm #
deadbeat,
i have been saying for six yrs that US did not invade iraq to obtain oil.
as to who wld make profit from the invasion, that's a diff't story; of which i know very little.
'zionists' had avowed to obtain jordan and parts of leb/syr. i do not know that they want also parts of iraq. thnx
Max Shields said on March 3rd, 2009 at 5:38pm #
If you don't understand something ask. You are obviously not familar with dynamic systems theory. That's ok. No one knows everything. But rather than tossing out your politically charged views, you should try to understand what is being said.
The 'growth' I'm addressing has NOTHING to do with labor or Karl Marx.
Population is an issue with all species. Your "Malthusian rhetoric" is a misunderstanding, or lack of careful reading of what I posted. I talked of Overshoot. After 10s of thousands of years the human population reached just under 2 billion. Within a short 100 years it is tipping the scales at nearly 7 billion!! That is one of thousands of examples of overshoot. But some overshooting are relatively innocuous, like turning on the shower water and stepping in only to realize it is scolding – that is an example of an easily rectified overshoot. Human population, and energy depletion is an extreme and civilization threatening example.
Now maybe from your cozy abode that doesn't mean a whole lot. But in real terms it does. A study of our global food system, for examplem will tell you just how precarious that system is. It is well documented, but you refuse to care about these things because your world view is all about racial/class struggle. There's a world, a planet that doesn't care one iota about this struggle. The politics which keeps this all a struggle, does not allow for problem solutions.
WTO agreements have created monocultural arrangements that have devastated indigenous farming. The latter fed communities. The replacement does not. Food is cheap and dumped into markets like Mexico forcing farms to come North away from their villages to become "illegal aliens".
If you are Earl Butz you may think our food system is working just fine. Earl gave us this wonderful monoculture/military industrial complex global food system.
By the way, Mathus was pretty much on track. What happened in Britain to stop the crash he predicted was fathom, disease and migration that altered the local population.
Suthiano said on March 3rd, 2009 at 6:06pm #
Max,
So population growth and activities like monoculture farming (the WTO created monocultural arrangements) had/have nothing to do with labour and/or the industrialization that resulted from the capitalist system?
Shabnam said on March 3rd, 2009 at 6:08pm #
Bozh:
I have written for almost the past two years that Iraq war was for Israel to change the map of the region to benefit Israel. This change comes with destabilization and partition of the regional states including Iraq. If you have read two of my comments you would have not asked "I do not know that they want also parts of Iraq." Of course they do. One of the reasons for Iraq war is to partition Iraq to create non-Arab puppet state like Kurdistan. The Kurds are PAWNS to transfer north of Iraq with its oil resources to Israel as part of the 'Greater Israel' fantasy taken from bible, manmade hoax, like they have done in Palestine, of course using the empire as a PROXY. You should read the zionist plan for the Middle East which is under title "A strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties" by Oded Yinon. Hurry up please.
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html#contents
Wayne Madsen has written:
{Israel reportedly has plans to relocate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish Iran, to the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Nineveh under the guise of religious pilgrimages to ancient Jewish religious shrines. According to Kurdish sources, the Israelis are secretly working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to carry out the integration of Kurdish and other Jews into areas of Iraq under control of the KRG.
Kurdish, Iraqi Sunni Muslims, and Turkmen have noted that Kurdish Israelis began to buy land in Iraqi Kurdistan, after the U.S. invasion in 2003 that is considered historical Jewish "property."
The Israelis are particularly interested in the shrine of the Jewish prophet Nahum in al Qush, the prophet Jonah in Mosul, and the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Kirkuk. Israelis are also trying to claim Jewish "properties" outside of the Kurdish region, including the shrine of Ezekiel in the village of al-Kifl in Babel Province near Najaf and the tomb of Ezra in al-Uzayr in Misan Province, near Basra, both in southern Iraq's Shi'a-dominated territory. Israeli expansionists consider these shrines and tombs as much a part of "Greater Israel" as Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they call "Judea and Samaria."}
You must read the basic on the question of "greater Israel" to understand why people strongly believe that Israelis' policy and genocide is not limited to Palestine. Israel has her own goals and interests different from American's interest based on world domination
If you had read two of my comments you ….
Suthiano,
I suspect your question is a bit rhetorical (though I could be wrong).
Monocultural farming, it could be argued has contributed to the total global population growth. That is in fact my point. It is also my point that industrialization is what most large scale (dominate) farming is today. So yes industrialized agriculture is central to both monocultural farming and global food system and contriubtes to population growth.
My post was about systemic changes, not about "labor" and "exploitation. Do you see what I'm getting at? Deadbeat doesn't, but I hope you do. I am offering a systems view rather than a world view or ideological one.
You can apply what I'm saying to all living things, not just humans. I don't think nats or catapillars or dinosaurs or eagles are thinking about survival as a Marxist dialectic.
By the way, was Marx against industrialization?
Thank's for the response Max… Intonation is an important part of language….
Marx was certainly a fan of industrialization, it was his golden ticket to freedom for the masses…. who I assume would spend their extra free time producing children and fueling an overshoot.
It is important to recognize limits of ideological thinking.
These are all interesting ideas to me, thanks for posting.
Get some schooling before posting ridiculous rhetoric.
Marx's ecology in historical perspective
Deadbeat said on March 3rd, 2009 at 10:07pm #
Max writes …
Yes Max and since you put the environment for rich first world folks like yourself about all others you would like to embrace the Ebanezer Scooge school of the "surplus population" dying off in order to reduce humanity's footprint.
CAPITALISM with its imbalance of power and access to resources is why there was and still is POVERTY and disease and misfortune and all of the ills of society. Your rhetoric Max is to shift the blame to the poore especally the third world poor whose desparate condition and especally the powerless of women in these region to have more children. The statics shows that there is population declines among the first world nation while at the same time their take of the world's wealth and resources consumed has increased. This is clearly an imbalance of power and it will take an immense struggle especially from below to alter this course.
Everyone out there has "solution" but if it does not address POWER then all of the so-called "good ideas" will never emerge.
Max Shields said on March 4th, 2009 at 5:27am #
Perhaps the issue with your reading what I say is that you are a linear thinker or something of the sort.
When I asked if Marx was "against" industrialization it was a "tongue in cheek" to Suthiano. My point then and now is that industrialization is not simply a capitalist "virtue" but one Marx hand no issue with. He had issue with ownership.
Your second post is irrelevant red herring regarding anything I said or intended.


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Where Have All the Good Tweets Gone?
Occasionally, I look back at my tweets. I don't think this is exceptional or niche behavior—sometimes I want to get a link to a previous tweet, or I want to look at a picture I posted. This is normal, right? I'm not crazy, right? Right? Well, let's get to the crazy. A week and a half ago, my new tweets stopped showing up.
I mostly use Twitter via Tweetbot 3 for iPhone, and view my list of tweets in the personal account tab. Here is what I see, and have seen for the past week and a half. On the left shows my profile with no tweets since Feb. 25, and on the right shows my timeline and some tweets I'd posted in the past hour.
So what's going on? It's worth noting that the Tweetbot profile tab's count of my tweets does update after each one, and that these tweets do seem to go out to the world in home timelines.
If I query the Twitter 1.1 API for my user timeline (which I assume is the same API call that apps use to populate this list), I can definitely see my new tweets, even with the since_id pramater set to the last ID shown by Tweetbot (trying to reproduce the request that a client would be making).
I have, oddly enough, found one interface that shows my latest tweets—the Me view of Twitter 6.2.1 for iPhone, but even this interface is not consistent. On the left is the overview for the Me screen and shows all tweets, and on the right is the "full" list of tweets by me (found by tapping the 2,829 TWEETS button or the View more tweets button that is below the content shown in the screenshot) and only shows tweets up to February 23.
Around January 1st, I changed my Twitter handle from @rubergly to @jeffinitelyjeff. Everything seems to have broken nearly 2 months later and was fine until then, so I don't see how this could be the cause.
On or around January 23rd, I was blocked by Louie Mantia. As I'm not a troll and try to have civilized and intelligent discourse with people I respect (like Louie) on Twitter, I consider this to be exceptional1, but I think it's unlikely that all users that have ever been blocked are treated differently, and also don't see how this could affect things a month later.
@jeffinitelyjeff Do not pass Goe. Do not collect $200.
I think it's clear that Joe has cursed me to never pass Goe.
If you have any feedback or insight into what's going on, or have experienced this issue yourself, I'd love to hear about it on Twitter. Or you can just click that link to see how the latest tweet is from February 21 or 23 depending what browser you're using.


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Success in Sweden for British rally ace Yates
Friday, 22 February 2019 / Published in Latest News
Chesterfield rally driver Rhys Yates ensured his impressive debut season in the FIA World Rally Championship continues, with a top ten WRC2 position at last weekend's Rally Sweden (14th – 17th February).
Yates and returning co-driver James Morgan set a string of blistering stage times throughout the weekend despite Yates making his snow rally debut. He guided his Brettex Skoda Fabia R5 to tenth place in the WRC2 category which means he heads to round three in sixth place, just five points shy of a top three position.
It has been a dream start to the 26-year-old's career in the World Rally Championship, taking fourth place on his maiden outing at the legendary Rallye Monte Carlo in January. Despite the unpredictable conditions on the stages in the south of France, Yates returned a mature drive to set his stall out early for his 2019 campaign.
However, the tightly packed ice and snow-laden stages of Rally Sweden would offer a new challenge and aside from a short test in Scandinavia ahead of his British Rally Championship campaign in 2017, Yates would be contesting a full "snow" event for the very first time.
After a brief test on the Monday morning, the Englishman would be thrown straight into the deep end on Thursday night with a super special stage for the fans in Karlstad. Stopping the clocks fifth fastest, Yates was shocked with his time.
"I'm pleasantly surprised with how the first stage has gone and our shakedown time was good as well," he said. "But it's nowhere near what the stages will be like for the rest of the weekend".
The challenge came throughout the following three days with over 315km and 19 special stages of high-speed driving ahead. Whilst the temperatures were low, there was some unseasonably warm weather in store, which turned the traditionally thick ice-packed stages into gravel, meaning the stud-equipped Pirelli tyres would struggle to find grip on the surface.
Eager to ensure more points for his WRC2 campaign, Yates elected to manage the risks and only push when the surface allowed. His approach worked over the opening day, ending the leg in 12th.
Yates in action at Rally Sweden
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Learning how to adapt to the conditions with each passing stage, Yates continued to hold onto his position through the second day until the 14th test – Vergasen2. With the snow banks eroded away by the front-running crews, Yates was caught out by a deceptive corner and slid wide, nudging a tree and putting the Skoda off the road. Thanks to the eager crowds, the car was extracted but with four minutes lost, Yates would need to make sure the remaining two stages offered a clean run.
The final day offered the first "real" test on ice and snow and Yates immediately felt more at home in the conditions, setting some impressive times over the closing three stages of the event to finish tenth. He was delighted at the result and his Swedish debut.
"I have to say I have loved every minute of this rally," he said at the finish.
"I'm really happy with the result and more importantly my pace this weekend. You know there are guys in front of us who grew up driving on snow and ice and when the conditions were right and the confidence came, we started to get within a second a kilometre from the WRC2Pro guys. Snow events don't really suit my driving style, but I managed to adapt during the weekend and tenth is a great result".
His result now means he lies sixth overall in the WRC2 category heading into Tour de Corse at the end of March.
"If you said to me at the start of the season that I`d be sixth after round two I would have bitten your hand off" he explains.
"Monte (Carlo Rally) and Sweden are some of the toughest events on the calendar and its not just about driving, it's about learning the conditions and what to expect on every stage, a huge challenge. Now we can focus more on the driving element in Corsica as it shifts back to asphalt so I`ll feel a little more at home".
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Apple Cup on Friday after T-Day in Pullman
By SPNW Staff January 4, 2012 Updated: October 4, 2012 8 Comments3 Mins Read
The 2007 Apple Cup was played at Husky Stadium after Thanksgiving, but on a Saturday, not a Friday. / Wiki Commons
In case you were looking for downsides to the happiness attendant to the Pac-12's humongous $3 billion TV deal, here it is: The Apple Cup will be played Nov. 23, the Friday after Thanksgiving, when Washington State students are on holiday, as well as nearly everyone else.
The development is believed to be unprecedented. Until 2007, the Apple Cup had always been played before Thanskgiving.
It wasn't a total surprise because Washington State athletic director Bill Moos let the cougar out of the bag at a November luncheon. There were reported to be behind-the-scenes talks to avoid the date, for all the obvious travel and logistical headaches for the Huskies, as well as fans who are more than a walk away from Martin Stadium. Those seem to have gone nowhere.
UW's biggie is the trip to Baton Rouge to face Louisiana State, which is currently unbeaten, ranked No. 1 and will play Alabama in the BCS championship game Monday.
"I am excited about the 2012 schedule and the opportunities it provides for competition and exposure on the national level," UW athletic director Scott Woodward, who worked at LSU before coming to Washington, told the school's website. "The magnitude of the game at LSU on national TV speaks for itself."
In exchange for the money, the Pac-12, as well as all BCS conferences, surrendered to ESPN and Fox the right to do what's best for its schools regarding scheduling. If the nets wanted the Huskies and Cougars to play in the Safeway parking lot in Leavenworth at midnight on a Wednesday, the teams would report, snow shovels at the ready.
Besides the Apple Cup, the Huskies have another Friday game, Nov. 2 at Cal, as well as a Thursday home game at the Clink against Stanford.
The entire Pac-12 Conference schedule is here. The Huskies' portion is below (all games Saturday, except where noted; game times will be announced later by ESPN or Fox):
Sept. 1 — San Diego State
Sept. 8 — at LSU
Sept. 15 — Portland State
Sept. 22 — Bye
Thursday, Sept. 27 — Stanford
Oct. 6 — at Oregon
Oct. 13 — USC
Oct. 20 — at Arizona
Oct. 27 — Oregon State
Friday, Nov. 2 — at Cal
Nov. 10 — Utah
Nov. 17 — at Colorado
Friday, Nov. 23 — at Washington State
Here is the Washington State schedule:
Sept. 1 – at BYU
Sept. 8 – Eastern Washington
Sept. 15 – at UNLV
Sept. 22 – Colorado
Sept. 29 – Oregon (at Seattle)
Oct. 6 – at Oregon State
Oct. 13 – California
Oct. 20 – Bye
Oct. 27 – at Stanford
Nov. 3 – at Utah
Nov. 10 – UCLA
Nov. 17 – at Arizona State
Nov. 23 – Washington
The Pac-12 title game is Nov. 30 at the home of the team with the best record.
The still-to-be-launched Pac-12 Network will televise all games not chosen by the nets.
The Cougars annual game in Seattle at the Clink is against Oregon Sept. 29, which follows by two days the Washington-Stanford game.
Washington again will not play Arizona State and UCLA in 2012, according to the conference rotation schedule. Those teams will be back on in 2013-14 when USC and Colorado will move off. The Cougars do not play Arizona and USC.
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Anonymous on January 25, 2012 4:22 am
Thiel is an idiot trying to be the naysayer to get some press. Jack Z has not been perfect, but he's practically rebuilding the team from the ground up. The farm system is now very highly rated among people who follow those things. Bavasi was the worst GM is sports and he gutted the talent on this team. We now have 3-4 promising hitters and 3-4 very promising pitchers. Thiel lists Cliff Lee as an example? Seriously? We never had a chance to keep him, so we traded him for value. And Brandom Morrow? Good riddance.
Tian Biao on January 25, 2012 6:48 am
carbidedrill, let me ask you something: when you go to Safeco, are YOU excited about watching Charlie Furbush start a game? How about Beavan? Is that fun? Are you excited about watching Smoak, Casper Wells, Saunders, and a bunch of other prospects take the field so we can see if they're any good? Well, I'm not. Especially when they play 18 times against Yu Darvish and the Rangers, and 18 times against Pujols and C.J. Wilson and the Angels. Damn, i'm tired of prospects, and i'm tired of losing.
So yes, and in reply to StevenK too, there is hope that Jack Z is better at his job than Bavasi (he could not possibly be worse), and I sure hope he is. But it still means another year of 90-some losses.
Anonymous on January 28, 2012 7:19 pm
Zduriencik is so much better than Bavasi it's not even funny.
Remember these names, because in about 24 months you are going to be sitting in a very crowded Safeco Field cheering like hell for these guys: Hultzen, Paxton, Walker, Hernandez, Montero, Smoak, Ackley, Franklin, Francisco Martinez, Liddi, Catricala, Pryor, Robinson, Chiang.
2001 on January 25, 2012 3:40 pm
I think Thiel is right and several of you miss his point. His point is that even when we have some players that are good, we trade them because we're not willing to spend $$$ to improve in any other way. It doesn't matter how good our farm system is under this model and it's not about winning. Good to great pitching is a precious commodity and we keep trading it away. Once we have a few kids step up and the rest wash out, those few will become trade bait to show that management is "doing something". Several of our kids could be decent this year or next, but I don't think many of you are appreciating what an offensive hole we are in. You can now add to that several question marks for pitching. The Angels and Rangers want to win. The Mariners just want to exist, although it appears increasingly likely that this wheel spinning and avoidance of bigger, longer contracts is to help sell the team.
Great hitting catchers are even more scarce than top young pitching (remember Jason Veritek?).
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Afternoon Tea Total: Hot or Not?
I was enjoying a cup of white tea yesterday when it occurred to me that I haven't written explicitly about water temperature. The more tea-savvy among you may know all about this, but I suspect there's a good chance that some of you don't realise just how important it is to use water at the correct temperature when making a cuppa.
Until a few months ago I always thought that the way to make tea - any tea - was to simply boil the kettle, pour the water on my tea leaves/teabag and drink. I had no idea that different types of tea should be made with water at different temperatures. What's amazing about this is that it can really effect the taste of the tea. For instance, have you ever had a really bitter cup of green tea? Perhaps you've even decided that green tea isn't for you because of the horrid bitterness you get down the side of your tongue when drinking it. Well there's a good chance that what you've actually been drinking is tea that has been scalded. Try making that same tea with water at about 80 degrees C and you may very well find that it tastes completely different.
In fact, when buying quality tea it's not uncommon to get a guide telling you what temperature water the tea should be made with. Of course, you may not want to go as far as me and buy a thermometer (I appreciate that not everyone is as enamored with tea gadgets as me - I don't understand it but I appreciate it...) but you should nonetheless take care. Even without any gadgets you can vastly improve your cuppa by sticking to these rough guidelines.
Black teas, infusions and puerh should be made with water just as it's reaching boiling point - it's better not to let it over boil as you will lose a lot of the oxygen from the water.
Oolong, or blue, teas should be made at around 80-90 degrees C - the best way is to stop the kettle before it reaches a full-on boil but you can leave it for 30 seconds after it boils.
Green tea should be made with water at around 70-80 degrees C - this is just as steam begins to rise steadily from the kettle, or if you forget to switch it off leave your fully boiled water for at least 60 seconds.
White teas should be made with water at 60-70 degrees C - this is as the first slow moving wisps of steam start to rise from the kettle, if your water has already boiled you would have to leave it for at least a couple of minutes to let it cool or you could add some cold water.
And don't forget, it's no good pouring boiling water over the tea and then topping up with cold as by then you will have already scalded the leaves.
Again, I realise this may sound a bit of a faff (sorry to our readers from the US) but it'll only take one comparison of scalded tea vs tea made with water at the proper temperature for you to realise just how important it is to get this right. And, perhaps more importantly, if you're a gadget fiend like me I've just given you the perfect excuse to do a little bit of shopping.


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Superheroes : The Mirror of the american Society
Clara Meurquin
Superheroes : The Mirror of the american Society par Clara Meurquin
1. I. Captain America
1.1. The comic books have been published for the 1st time in 1939.
1.2. The comics are the mirror of the American society, like other artistic forms.
1.3. End of war: publication for girls with Patsy Walker or Millie the Model.
1.4. 1950's: harder years for the comic books.
1.5. Name: Steve Rogers.
1.6. Created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, in December 1940.
1.6.1. Birth : in comic book "Captain America Comics #1" in December 1940 (Timely Comics) then reappearance in 1963 with Marvel ( new name of Timely Comics) )
1.7. How does he represents the USA ?
1.7.1. American Patriotism
1.7.1.1. Superhero who embodies the american patriotism -> american mascot during the II WW.
1.7.2. Costume
1.7.3. Defender of the free world
1.7.3.1. Defender of the free world against the tyrannies (nazis).
1.7.4. "Captain America… Commie Smasher"
1.7.5. Civil war
1.7.6. Kirby and Simon are Jews and they feel concerned by the situation of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
1.7.7. Films : 1979 (Reb Brown), 1990 (Matt Salinger), 2011-2016 (Chris Evans).
1.8. Powers: -total perfection of the human kind
1.8.1. He represents the total perfection of the human kind physically speaking.
1.9. Abilities: -martial arts
1.9.1. Captain America had mastered the martial arts of American-style boxing and judo, and had combined these disciplines with his own unique hand-to-hand style of combat. He had also shown skill and knowledge of a number of other martial arts. He engaged in a daily regimen of rigorous exercise (including aerobics, weight lifting, gymnastics, and simulated combat) to keep himself in peak condition. Captain America was one of the finest human combatants Earth had ever known.
1.10. Costume + shield
1.10.1. Captain America represented the pinnacle of human physical perfection. Captain America had a very high intelligence as well as agility, strength, speed, endurance, and reaction time superior to any Olympic athlete who ever competed. The Super-Soldier formula that he had metabolized had enhanced all of his bodily functions to the peak of human efficiency. Most notably, his body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing poisons in his muscles, granting him phenomenal endurance.
1.10.1.1. Group Affiliations : Secret Avengers; formerly the Avengers, Invaders, Captain's Unnamed Superhero Team, Redeemers; formerly partner of Winter Soldier, Bucky, Jones, Rick, Rick Jones, Falcon (Sam Wilson), Falcon, Demolition Man and Nomad (Jack Monroe)
1.10.1.2. First Appearance : (Captain America) Captain America Comics #1 (1941); (Nomad) Captain America #180 (1974); (Captain) Captain America #337 (1988)
1.10.1.3. Origin : Captain America Comics #1 (1941); Tales of Suspense #63 (1965); Captain America #109 (1969); Captain America #255 (1981); Adventures of Captain America #1-2 (1991)
1.11. Traumatic past:
1.11.1. His father is alcoholic.
1.11.1.1. Story : poor family, alcoholic father, student in arts, writer and drawer of comics.
1.11.1.2. IIWW : he wants to engaged in the army for fighting the nazis. He is reformed because he is too slim
1.11.2. During the WW2 "Project: Rebirth" -> serum "Super-Soldier".
1.11.2.1. But he's very determinate and a general sees him and proposes him to participate at a secret experience « Project rebirth ».
1.11.2.2. During the experience successfull, a nazis spie comes in the room and kills the professor Reinstein, who was the only to know the formula of the serum.
1.11.2.3. Steve Rogers is so in the army
1.11.2.4. He is frozen in the arctical waters
1.11.2.5. And awaken in the 60s
1.11.3. 2006 "Superhuman Registration Act".
1.11.3.1. 2006 : he must declare himself as a superhero in front of the authorities (superhuman Registration Act), he doesn't want.
1.11.4. Civil War
1.11.4.1. he rebels himself during the civil war -> metaphor to the attacks against the individuals liberties in the USA, the war in Irak ans the prison of Guantanamo.
2. II. The invisible Woman
2.1. First female superhero in Marvel.
2.2. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
2.3. She is a part of the 4 Fantastic and appeared in it in November 1961.
2.4. Created in reaction to the increase of women power and feminism movement in United States
2.5. Her powers are :
2.5.1. Invisibility
2.5.2. Protection
2.6. Traumatic Past
2.6.1. Lost of his mother, Mary Storm.
2.6.2. Depression and alcoholism of his father, Franklin Storm.
2.6.3. He has accidentally killed somebody and is in jail.
2.6.4. She has been raised with her brother ,Johnny, by their aunt.
3. III. Batman
3.1. Created by Bob Kane (creator of Superman) in response to the success of Superman.
3.2. Inspired by a lot of films and researches of Leonard de Vinci on bats.
3.2.1. Inspired of the helicopter, researches on the bat of Leonard de Vinci, films of Zorro, Dracula and The Bat Whispers, but a piece of theatre too which has inspired the film The Bat, in which the principal character is a criminal.
3.3. Character who must have the detective's qualities of Sherlock Holmes and a great physical endurance.
3.3.1. The color of the costume has changed from red to grey but the appearance of the hero too; he has a hood instead of a simple mask, a cape instead of wings, gloves and other details.
3.4. Name found by Bill Finger (scriptwriter) and which suggest the colonialism era (Anthony Wayne).
3.4.1. It's the scriptwriter Bill Finger who has found the name of Bruce Wayne. Bruce comes from Robert I. of Scotland and he has searched a last name which suggests the colonialism and he has think about Anthony Wayne.
3.5. Traumatic Past :
3.5.1. Falls into a well when he was young and was "attacked" by bats. Since that episode he was scared by bats.
3.5.1.1. When he was young (his parents were still alive), he fell into a well with no water and has scared the bats, which were here. So they flew around him and went out of the well. As a little boy, he felt attacked and since that he has loathed bats.
3.5.2. Murder of his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne in front of Bruce Wayne when he was a child.
3.5.2.1. His parents have been killed one night when he was young. They were at the exit of a theater/opera, a homeless man has tried to steal them but he took fright and shots the two parents in front of the little Bruce. After that he decided to fight against the crimes in Gotham when he grows up.
3.5.3. Death of his uncle and adoptive father.
3.5.4. Decides to fight against crimes in his city as a revenge.
3.5.4.1. Then he became the Batman and asks to James Gordon, the chef of the police, to join him in the fight against the crimes. Gordon accepts. He has one rule; never killed. He never kills the criminals because he hates weapon because of the murder of his parents.
3.5.5. Had a physical practice which results in surmounting his fear of bats.
3.5.5.1. Even if he has no power, he has a lot of knowledge in Martial arts; he is very tough, has a lot of techniques of fight and has a lot of gadgets. And he has a lot of moral values. He is very intelligent too. He never give in, he is very determinate.
3.6.1. Ra's al Ghul inspired by Osama Ben Laden. Batman viewed as the savior of United States.
3.6.2. In the 1940s Batman is a dark creature who fights against the Nazis and the vampire.
3.6.3. After the war, his enemies are no more the incarnation of the Evil.
3.6.4. In the 1980s Batman is in presence of real ills, like the Islamism terrorism.
3.6.5. Very good policeman. He fights against the massive crimes in his town -> shows the new crime wave in United States. Batman is here to reassure.
3.6.6. Bruce Wayne represents the American way of life, the American Dream.
5. Sources
5.1. Captain America
5.1.1. Author : Marion Save
5.1.2. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America
5.1.3. http://marvel.com/characters/8/captain_america
5.2. The invisible Woman
5.2.1. Author : Sandra Chahmaoui
5.2.2. http://www.marvel-world.com/encyclopedie-18-fiche-femme-invisible-la-biographie.html
5.2.3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Woman
5.3. Batman
5.3.1. Author : Clara Meurquin
5.3.2. personal aknoledges
5.3.3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman
5.4. Date : 10th May


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Palmdale seeks input from residents for Avenue S Urban Forestry Project
by The AV Times Staff • June 10, 2019
[Contributed]
PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale is inviting residents to attend a community outreach meeting this Tuesday to gather input on the city's grant application for the Avenue S Environmental Enhancement and Urban Forestry project.
The meeting will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at the Palmdale Oasis Park Recreation Center, located at 3850-A East Avenue S,
The Avenue S Corridor is a major arterial that connects the Antelope Valley Freeway and Highway 138 and is heavily traveled by both the local community and regional users.
Palmdale's application to the California Natural Resources Agency would include the planting of more than 700 plants and shrubs, in addition to over 100 trees of a variety of climate-appropriate species, which will represent a significant expansion of the urban forest in the project area along Avenue S, from approximately 600 feet west of Pond Avenue to approximately 600 feet east of Dawson Drive.
This project will enhance the Landscape Maintenance District areas and create a more welcoming pedestrian route, leading to improved health and quality of life outcomes for residents living in the area.
The public is encouraged to attend this meeting and provide input.
For more information, contact Landscape Superintendent Steve Montenegro at 661-267-5338.
[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]
Filed Under: Home, Palmdale
7 comments for "Palmdale seeks input from residents for Avenue S Urban Forestry Project"
Matthew Telles says
Fix the road first, Ave S & 47th intersection it's like driving on a dirt road.
Larnette says
Put the money into infrastructure; fixing the potholes in the streets. There are so many potholes, especially on Palmdale Blvd in front of Albertsons and the elementary school just a block down the way.
The potholes in the neighborhoods are also abhorrent and are crying for help.
Even on the 14 freeway, the inside shoulder was full of trash from about S to K…
Where are the Cal Trans workers anymore?
M R says
I'd like to see the city landscaping improved by where I live. The hillside along 40th east between East Avenue S4 and Sorrel is spotted with clumps of dead rosemary and weeds with lots of dirt that runs off when it's watered or it rains. People walk here too.
So let me get this right you come in and cut all of our existing trees and bushes down. Now you want to spend lots more money to put them back and take another 15 years to fill in properly. Democratic thinking at its best!!!!
Alexis says
Michael…Exactly!
Does EVERYTHING have to be partisan?
Landscape Expert says
Do not plant pine or eucalyptus trees.


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