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CALIFORNIA - Tesla Motors Inc. will take a serious look at Ontario when it comes time to mass-manufacture a sub-$30,000 (US) version of its all-electric car, chief executive Elon Musk told the Star in an exclusive interview.
Musk, a company co-founder, said a big part of that decision will depend on the value of the Canadian dollar at the time.
"It's a cool area to do work, and I know the Canadian auto plants are some of the most efficient in North America, so it would be wise for us to take a close look," said the 38-year-old entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Tesla, headquartered in the Silicon Valley, isn't expected to bring its third-generation vehicle to the market for five years, but there's no reason to expect Musk's six-year-old company won't get there. So far it has delivered more than 700 of its $110,000 Tesla Roadsters, a milestone that led to an announcement in July that the electric-car pioneer had achieved profitability.
The company also has plenty of money in the bank.
It has raised nearly $300 million (US) in venture capital, and this summer won access to $465 million in low-interest loans from the U.S. Department of Energy. Part of those funds will go toward development and mass manufacturing of Tesla's second-generation Model S Sedan, expected to hit the streets in 2011 at a retail price of $57,000.
The Model S could go a long way to silence critics of electric cars, and show more established rivals that electric transportation is more than just hype. It promises a driving range of 500 km per charge and the ability to be recharged in 45 minutes. "By the time we get to third generation it's going to be even better," said Musk.
It's a believable statement, given his track record. Musk was just 28 in 1999 when he sold his first company, Zip2, a maker of online publishing software, for $307 million. Soon after he founded what would become Internet payment provider PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion in stock.
He then founded Space Exploration Technologies to design and manufacture low-cost launch vehicles for private space travel. Under a deal with NASA, his company's Falcon 9 rockets will begin shipping cargo to the International Space Station after the Space Shuttle retires in 2010.
It was in 2004 when Tesla hit Musk's radar screen. The company's name is a homage to Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla, whose inventions around the turn of the 20th century sparked the development of the modern electricity system. Just as Nikola Tesla helped us move to light bulbs from candles and oil lamps, Tesla the company wants to accelerate the global move from gas-powered transportation to emission-free electric mobility.
Canada, said Musk, has an important role to play in that transition.
"Canadians have a strong environmental sensitivity, greater than in the United States. Also in Canada, most of the electricity is renewable from hydro and nuclear, much more so than the U.S., which still uses a lot of coal. I think in some ways it's really a better market," he said.
He said the Roadster, now for sale in Canada through Tesla's Toronto sales office, was designed to perform well in cold environments. The battery pack can handle extreme temperatures, and the car drives well on snow and ice.
Musk was born and raised in South Africa, but he knows Canada better than most would guess. His mother was born in Regina and many of his relatives are spread across the Canadian West.
When he emigrated here in June 1989, just 17 years old, he landed in Ontario intending to register for university here. But he missed the application deadline and decided to spend a few months visiting family in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
"I went around Canada by plane, train, bus, car... a few times," he recalled. "I worked at my cousin's wheat farm in Swift Current, cleaning out grain bins, working in the vegetable patch, shooting gophers, that kind of stuff."
He cleaned out boilers at a lumber mill in British Columbia, later took on the task of cutting logs with a chainsaw. "A tough job," he said.
He eventually got back to Toronto and worked a summer in the computer department at TD Bank while narrowing his list of schools to two: the University of Waterloo and Queen's. "I visited Waterloo and there just weren't a lot of girls. I figured there were lots of chicks at Queen's, so I'm going there."
While at Queen's he met Jennifer Wilson, the Peterborough girl he later married. The two left Canada in 1992 after Musk got a scholarship to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. The dot-com boom then drew them to California in the mid-1990s. Musk and his wife, a budding author who changed her name to Justine Musk, settled there and had five children, all boys. (The two divorced last year).
"The thing that drew me to the U.S. was Silicon Valley," said Musk. "Otherwise, I would probably still be in Canada."
Musk could very well end up as the Henry Ford of modern electric cars, but Tesla still has a long road ahead. GM, Ford, Toyota and other automakers have followed Tesla's lead, announcing plans to have plug-in hybrid, range-extended or all-electric cars on the road within the next two to five years. But scepticism remains in the market whether the interest in battery-powered vehicles is a valid trend and if major technical and economic obstacles can be overcome.
Can the hydro grid support the move to electric cars? Will consumers buy cars that take four hours, rather than five minutes, to charge? Vehicles that can only drive a couple of hundred kilometres before charging? Can electric cars be affordably manufactured?
Musk said the concerns are overblown. Electric cars won't take over the roads overnight, he argued, and grid problems won't occur until half the cars are electric, which will take three or four decades – plenty of time to upgrade the electricity system.
"I don't think it's anything to lose sleep over," he said.
Battery technology, he added, is advancing at an unprecedented rate. "We're going to see things we'd never dreamed of."
Musk cited a new battery chemistry called lithium-air. "It's got 10 times the energy density of the battery packs we're using today, and when that technology comes to market – it still has a lot of challenges to overcome – it will have a 2,000-kilometre range."
Musk confines his laughter when asked if his stake in Tesla is about growing his personal wealth, which runs to hundreds of million of dollars. "I'd be pretty dumb if I thought the car business was the easiest place to make money," he said.
"This is fundamentally about the environment, and economic sustainability. If we don't find a good transition here, then oil is going to get more and more expensive and is eventually going to run out."
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It was about this time of year. I was living in one of my dream cities, and had the privilege of being the pastor of what I considered to be my dream church. "This," I said to myself often, "is why God called me into the ministry." It wasn't a perfect place (have you ever seen a perfect church?). But I was genuinely happy there, and felt blessed to be a part of what God was doing in people's lives.
But behind the scenes, other forces were driving me to distraction. We lived in constant financial pressure – complicated by the fact that my wife had been suffering severe joint pain for a couple of months and had been forced to quit her job. We had no idea what was causing it (we know today it was lupus). So round after round of fruitless medical tests, coupled with the loss of her income, made the financial stress nearly mind-numbing.
And that's what was on my mind that afternoon, when I reached that spot on the stairs. Driven to distraction, trying to figure out the bills, I looked up and saw my wife standing in the kitchen near the top of the stairs.
And she was smiling. Happy. So glad she wasn't working, and was feeling better.
And then came the choice.
It wasn't her fault she had gotten sick.
It wasn't her fault she was feeling better from less stress and more rest.
It wasn't her fault that I didn't earn enough money to pay for the debts and obligations we had accumulated. Nor was it my employer's fault. It was mine. But the me that always had another solution, or could always buy a little more time, had just run out of ideas.
I guess I should clarify. I didn't quit writing checks. I didn't quit drawing a salary. I didn't quit going through the motions of trying to manage money.
But I did give up my sense of expectancy.
I did give up my willingness to plan ahead.
I did give up my vision for the future in that one area of my life. We were in survival mode. And anyway, few things hurt more than the death of a dream.
But in places not even I could see, a cancer of sorts was growing. Creeping slowly, crawling imperceptibly at first, the discouragement I chose to exhibit over finances began to spread to other areas.
Here's what I didn't know about discouragement then, that I do now: Discouragement never sits still.
Any more, when somebody tells me they're discouraged, I no longer care what the presenting issues are. They just told me they have cancer, and that is what needs the most help.
There is a lot more to that saga; discouragement is just the tip of the iceberg. But it was the starting point for a world of unnecessary hurt. And all because I didn't address it for what it was.
1. I treated it like a temporary mood rather than an emotional poison.
I kept thinking I would get better, and for short bursts, I would. But trudging through life with discouragement is like sleeping with a cobra. You may survive for a night or two, but sooner or later, you're going to get bit.
2. I didn't share my feelings with my wife.
In trying to protect her feelings, I hid mine. There is no other way to describe this but stupid, stupid, stupid.
3. I didn't get wise counsel from godly sources.
I was too proud to ask for help. Too proud to admit I had a problem. Too proud to admit that I could solve the problem(s) I did have. You name the stripe, I had it – spiritual pride, intellectual pride, masculine pride, and more.
True to the nature of discouragement (definition – "to give up your willingness to take bold action") I froze. For the longest time, I did nothing, or only what I had to.
6. Failure to call on the Lord.
This was the saddest of all. For whatever reason, this time I stopped asking and expecting. I assumed the role of provider, and that's still God's job.
I would remind him that it's through inquiring of the Lord, trusting in the Lord, yielding to the Lord, standing firm in the Lord, and recognizing that all discouragement is of the devil that his courage is renewed.
I would point him to people who loved him and cared about his success and peace – starting with his own wife and family.
I would gently point him to the next right thing to do – not a long list of every right thing to do.
I would stubbornly remind him that his worth was not measured by his circumstances, but by the one event that counts – the act of God's Son loving him to the point of dying for his guilt.
I would point him to a hope that exceeds his ability to figure, to conjure, to scheme, or to fix what's broken.
I would let him know how deeply loved he was.
I would do that for you, too, if I knew you were discouraged.
In fact, I think I just did.
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Boy how I needed to hear that today. Thanks so much for sharing your deepest insights that have been learned by the school of hard times, which we all have, but no one has the words to put it like you do. Thanks for being you Andy. You are cherished and loved.


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The Lily-pad strategy
How the Pentagon is quietly transforming its overseas base empire and creating a dangerous new way of war
by David Vine, 24 July 2012
The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane was a void — something missing. A missing left arm, to be exact, severed at the shoulder, temporarily patched and held together. Thick, pale flesh, flecked with bright red at the edges. It looked like meat sliced open. The face and what remained of the rest of the man were obscured by blankets, an American flag quilt, and a jumble of tubes and tape, wires, drip bags, and medical monitors.
That man and two other critically wounded soldiers — one with two stumps where legs had been, the other missing a leg below the thigh — were intubated, unconscious, and lying on stretchers hooked to the walls of the plane that had just landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. A tattoo on the soldier's remaining arm read, "DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR."
I asked a member of the Air Force medical team about the casualties they see like these. Many, as with this flight, were coming from Afghanistan, he told me. "A lot from the Horn of Africa," he added. "You don't really hear about that in the media."
"Where in Africa?" I asked. He said he didn't know exactly, but generally from the Horn, often with critical injuries. "A lot out of Djibouti," he added, referring to Camp Lemonnier, the main U.S. military base in Africa, but from "elsewhere" in the region, too.
Since the "Black Hawk Down" deaths in Somalia almost 20 years ago, we've heard little, if anything, about American military casualties in Africa (other than a strange report last week about three special operations commandos killed, along with three women identified by U.S. military sources as "Moroccan prostitutes," in a mysterious car accident in Mali). The growing number of patients arriving at Ramstein from Africa pulls back a curtain on a significant transformation in twenty-first-century U.S. military strategy.
These casualties are likely to be the vanguard of growing numbers of wounded troops coming from places far removed from Afghanistan or Iraq. They reflect the increased use of relatively small bases like Camp Lemonnier, which military planners see as a model for future U.S. bases "scattered," as one academic explains, "across regions in which the United States has previously not maintained a military presence."
Disappearing are the days when Ramstein was the signature U.S. base, an American-town-sized behemoth filled with thousands or tens of thousands of Americans, PXs, Pizza Huts, and other amenities of home. But don't for a second think that the Pentagon is packing up, downsizing its global mission, and heading home. In fact, based on developments in recent years, the opposite may be true. While the collection of Cold War-era giant bases around the world is shrinking, the global infrastructure of bases overseas has exploded in size and scope.
Unknown to most Americans, Washington's garrisoning of the planet is on the rise, thanks to a new generation of bases the military calls "lily pads" (as in a frog jumping across a pond toward its prey). These are small, secretive, inaccessible facilities with limited numbers of troops, spartan amenities, and prepositioned weaponry and supplies.
Around the world, from Djibouti to the jungles of Honduras, the deserts of Mauritania to Australia's tiny Cocos Islands, the Pentagon has been pursuing as many lily pads as it can, in as many countries as it can, as fast as it can. Although statistics are hard to assemble, given the often-secretive nature of such bases, the Pentagon has probably built upwards of 50 lily pads and other small bases since around 2000, while exploring the construction of dozens more.
As Mark Gillem, author of America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire, explains, "avoidance" of local populations, publicity, and potential opposition is the new aim. "To project its power," he says, the United States wants "secluded and self-contained outposts strategically located" around the world. According to some of the strategy's strongest proponents at the American Enterprise Institute, the goal should be "to create a worldwide network of frontier forts," with the U.S. military "the 'global cavalry' of the twenty-first century."
Such lily-pad bases have become a critical part of an evolving Washington military strategy aimed at maintaining U.S. global dominance by doing far more with less in an increasingly competitive, ever more multi-polar world. Central as it's becoming to the long-term U.S. stance, this global-basing reset policy has, remarkably enough, received almost no public attention, nor significant Congressional oversight. Meanwhile, as the arrival of the first casualties from Africa shows, the U.S. military is getting involved in new areas of the world and new conflicts, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Transforming the base empire
You might think that the U.S. military is in the process of shrinking, rather than expanding, its little noticed but enormous collection of bases abroad. After all, it was forced to close the full panoply of 505 bases, mega to micro, that it built in Iraq, and it's now beginning the process of drawing down forces in Afghanistan. In Europe, the Pentagon is continuing to close its massive bases in Germany and will soon remove two combat brigades from that country. Global troop numbers are set to shrink by around 100,000.
Yet Washington still easily maintains the largest collection of foreign bases in world history: more than 1,000 military installations outside the 50 states and Washington, DC. They include everything from decades-old bases in Germany and Japan to brand-new drone bases in Ethiopia and the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean and even resorts for military vacationers in Italy and South Korea.
In Afghanistan, the U.S.-led international force still occupies more than 450 bases. In total, the U.S. military has some form of troop presence in approximately 150 foreign countries, not to mention 11 aircraft carrier task forces — essentially floating bases — and a significant, and growing, military presence in space. The United States currently spends an estimated $250 billion annually maintaining bases and troops overseas.
Some bases, like Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, date to the late nineteenth century. Most were built or occupied during or just after World War II on every continent, including Antarctica. Although the U.S. military vacated around 60% of its foreign bases following the Soviet Union's collapse, the Cold War base infrastructure remained relatively intact, with 60,000 American troops remaining in Germany alone, despite the absence of a superpower adversary.
However, in the early months of 2001, even before the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a major global realignment of bases and troops that's continuing today with Obama's "Asia pivot." Bush's original plan was to close more than one-third of the nation's overseas bases and shift troops east and south, closer to predicted conflict zones in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The Pentagon began to focus on creating smaller and more flexible "forward operating bases" and even smaller "cooperative security locations" or "lily pads." Major troop concentrations were to be restricted to a reduced number of "main operating bases" (MOBs) — like Ramstein, Guam in the Pacific, and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean — which were to be expanded.
Despite the rhetoric of consolidation and closure that went with this plan, in the post-9/11 era the Pentagon has actually been expanding its base infrastructure dramatically, including dozens of major bases in every Persian Gulf country save Iran, and in several Central Asian countries critical to the war in Afghanistan.
Hitting the base reset button
Obama's recently announced "Asia pivot" signals that East Asia will be at the center of the explosion of lily-pad bases and related developments. Already in Australia, U.S. marines are settling into a shared base in Darwin. Elsewhere, the Pentagon is pursuing plans for a drone and surveillance base in Australia's Cocos Islands and deployments to Brisbane and Perth. In Thailand, the Pentagon has negotiated rights for new Navy port visits and a "disaster-relief hub" at U-Tapao.
In the Philippines, whose government evicted the U.S. from the massive Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base in the early 1990s, as many as 600 special forces troops have quietly been operating in the country's south since January 2002. Last month, the two governments reached an agreement on the future U.S. use of Clark and Subic, as well as other repair and supply hubs from the Vietnam War era. In a sign of changing times, U.S. officials even signed a 2011 defense agreement with former enemy Vietnam and have begun negotiations over the Navy's increased use of Vietnamese ports.
Elsewhere in Asia, the Pentagon has rebuilt a runway on tiny Tinian island near Guam, and it's considering future bases in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei, while pushing stronger military ties with India. Every year in the region, the military conducts around 170 military exercises and 250 port visits. On South Korea's Jeju island, the Korean military is building a base that will be part of the U.S. missile defense system and to which U.S. forces will have regular access.
"We just can't be in one place to do what we've got to do," Pacific Command commander Admiral Samuel Locklear III has said. For military planners, "what we've got to do" is clearly defined as isolating and (in the terminology of the Cold War) "containing" the new power in the region, China. This evidently means "peppering" new bases throughout the region, adding to the more than 200 U.S. bases that have encircled China for decades in Japan, South Korea, Guam, and Hawaii.
And Asia is just the beginning. In Africa, the Pentagon has quietly created "about a dozen air bases" for drones and surveillance since 2007. In addition to Camp Lemonnier, we know that the military has created or will soon create installations in Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, South Sudan, and Uganda. The Pentagon has also investigated building bases in Algeria, Gabon, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria, among other places.
Next year, a brigade-sized force of 3,000 troops, and "likely more," will arrive for exercises and training missions across the continent. In the nearby Persian Gulf, the Navy is developing an "afloat forward-staging base," or "mothership," to serve as a sea-borne "lily pad" for helicopters and patrol craft, and has been involved in a massive build-up of forces in the region.
In Latin America, following the military's eviction from Panama in 1999 and Ecuador in 2009, the Pentagon has created or upgraded new bases in Aruba and Curaçao, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru. Elsewhere, the Pentagon has funded the creation of military and police bases capable of hosting U.S. forces in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, and even Ecuador. In 2008, the Navy reactivated its Fourth Fleet, inactive since 1950, to patrol the region. The military may want a base in Brazil and unsuccessfully tried to create bases, ostensibly for humanitarian and emergency relief, in Paraguay and Argentina.
Finally, in Europe, after arriving in the Balkans during 1990's interventions, U.S. bases have moved eastward into some of the former Eastern Bloc states of the Soviet empire. The Pentagon is now developing installations capable of supporting rotating, brigade-sized deployments in Romania and Bulgaria, and a missile defense base and aviation facilities in Poland. Previously, the Bush administration maintained two CIA black sites (secret prisons) in Lithuania and another in Poland. Citizens of the Czech Republic rejected a planned radar base for the Pentagon's still unproven missile defense system, and now Romania will host ground-based missiles.
A new american way of war
A lily pad on one of the Gulf of Guinea islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, off the oil-rich west coast of Africa, helps explain what's going on. A U.S. official has described the base as "another Diego Garcia," referring to the Indian Ocean base that's helped ensure decades of U.S. domination over Middle Eastern energy supplies. Without the freedom to create new large bases in Africa, the Pentagon is using São Tomé and a growing collection of other lily pads on the continent in an attempt to control another crucial oil-rich region.
Far beyond West Africa, the nineteenth century "Great Game" competition for Central Asia has returned with a passion — and this time gone global. It's spreading to resource-rich lands in Africa, Asia, and South America, as the United States, China, Russia, and members of the European Union find themselves locked in an increasingly intense competition for economic and geopolitical supremacy.
While Beijing, in particular, has pursued this competition in a largely economic fashion, dotting the globe with strategic investments, Washington has focused relentlessly on military might as its global trump card, dotting the planet with new bases and other forms of military power. "Forget full-scale invasions and large-footprint occupations on the Eurasian mainland," Nick Turse has written of this new twenty-first century military strategy. "Instead, think: special operations forces... proxy armies... the militarization of spying and intelligence... drone aircraft... cyber-attacks, and joint Pentagon operations with increasingly militarized 'civilian' government agencies."
Add to this unparalleled long-range air and naval power; arms sales besting any nation on Earth; humanitarian and disaster relief missions that clearly serve military intelligence, patrol, and "hearts and minds" functions; the rotational deployment of regular U.S. forces globally; port visits and an expanding array of joint military exercises and training missions that give the U.S. military de facto "presence" worldwide and help turn foreign militaries into proxy forces.
And lots and lots of lily-pad bases.
Military planners see a future of endless small-scale interventions in which a large, geographically dispersed collection of bases will always be primed for instant operational access. With bases in as many places as possible, military planners want to be able to turn to another conveniently close country if the United States is ever prevented from using a base, as it was by Turkey prior to the invasion of Iraq. In other words, Pentagon officials dream of nearly limitless flexibility, the ability to react with remarkable rapidity to developments anywhere on Earth, and thus, something approaching total military control over the planet.
Beyond their military utility, the lily pads and other forms of power projection are also political and economic tools used to build and maintain alliances and provide privileged U.S. access to overseas markets, resources, and investment opportunities. Washington is planning to use lily-pad bases and other military projects to bind countries in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America as closely as possible to the U.S. military — and so to continued U.S. political-economic hegemony. In short, American officials are hoping military might will entrench their influence and keep as many countries as possible within an American orbit at a time when some are asserting their independence ever more forcefully or gravitating toward China and other rising powers.
Those dangerous lily pads
While relying on smaller bases may sound smarter and more cost effective than maintaining huge bases that have often caused anger in places like Okinawa and South Korea, lily pads threaten U.S. and global security in several ways:
First, the "lily pad" language can be misleading, since by design or otherwise, such installations are capable of quickly growing into bloated behemoths.
Second, despite the rhetoric about spreading democracy that still lingers in Washington, building more lily pads actually guarantees collaboration with an increasing number of despotic, corrupt, and murderous regimes.
Third, there is a well-documented pattern of damage that military facilities of various sizes inflict on local communities. Although lily pads seem to promise insulation from local opposition, over time even small bases have often led to anger and protest movements.
Finally, a proliferation of lily pads means the creeping militarization of large swaths of the globe. Like real lily pads — which are actually aquatic weeds — bases have a way of growing and reproducing uncontrollably. Indeed, bases tend to beget bases, creating "base races" with other nations, heightening military tensions, and discouraging diplomatic solutions to conflicts. After all, how would the United States respond if China, Russia, or Iran were to build even a single lily-pad base of its own in Mexico or the Caribbean?
For China and Russia in particular, ever more U.S. bases near their borders threaten to set off new cold wars. Most troublingly, the creation of new bases to protect against an alleged future Chinese military threat may prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy: such bases in Asia are likely to create the threat they are supposedly designed to protect against, making a catastrophic war with China more, not less, likely.
Encouragingly, however, overseas bases have recently begun to generate critical scrutiny across the political spectrum from Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul to Democratic Senator Jon Tester and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. With everyone looking for ways to trim the deficit, closing overseas bases offers easy savings. Indeed, increasingly influential types are recognizing that the country simply can't afford more than 1,000 bases abroad.
Great Britain, like empires before it, had to close most of its remaining foreign bases in the midst of an economic crisis in the 1960s and 1970s. The United States is undoubtedly headed in that direction sooner or later. The only question is whether the country will give up its bases and downsize its global mission by choice, or if it will follow Britain's path as a fading power forced to give up its bases from a position of weakness.
Of course, the consequences of not choosing another path extend beyond economics. If the proliferation of lily pads, special operations forces, and drone wars continues, the United States is likely to be drawn into new conflicts and new wars, generating unknown forms of blowback, and untold death and destruction. In that case, we'd better prepare for a lot more incoming flights — from the Horn of Africa to Honduras — carrying not just amputees but caskets.
David Vine
Assistant professor of anthropology at American University, in Washington, DC. He is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Mother Jones, among other places. For more of his writing, visit www.davidvine.net
TomDispatch, 15 july 2012.
David Vine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University, in Washington, DC. He is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Mother Jones, among other places. He is currently completing a book about the more than 1,000 U.S. military bases located outside the United States. To listen to Timothy MacBain's latest Tomcast audio interview in which Vine discusses his experiences with the Pentagon's empire of bases, click here or download it to your iPod here.
Here is a terrific article you should definitely read: "The Lily-pad strategy", by David Vine (July 2012) // https://mondediplo.com/6520


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Born in Plymouth, England in 1818, Crawford Atchison Denman Pasco established his long career on the seas with the Royal Navy at the age of 12. By 1837 Pasco had been involved in the Portuguese Civil War, the Battle of the Scheldt, the siege of Oporto and had been witness to the repercussions of revolutions and earthquakes in Peru and Chile. By 1839 Crawford was serving on the Beagle, which had been engaged to survey parts of Australia's northern and western coasts, which had been integral in the discovery of the Adelaide River, the future port of Darwin and the Victoria River. From 1842 he had been involved in survey work in Bass Strait, sailed via America to the Far East, South Africa, Van Diemen's Land, Canton, Singapore, Penang, Borneo and the Philippines, where he carried repatriation money from the Opium War and is said to have 'subdued a rebellious rajah'.
In 1852 Crawford Pasco set sail for Australia as a passenger on the P. & O. Co. steamship Chusan. It was Pasco who navigated the way through Port Phillip Heads. Once in Victoria he retired from the navy and was appointed as a police magistrate and helped to organise the expanding Williamstown water police force. Dealing primarily with deserting crews, he was instrumental in convicting sailors imprisoned in hulks instead of a Melbourne gaol.
Retiring for the second time at the age of 60 Crawford Pasco became a founding member of the Victorian Branch of the Geographical Society in 1884 as well as the chairman for the first Antarctic Exploration Committee, which was heavily involved in encouraging support in Australia, Scandinavia and Great Britain from politicians, scientists, whalers, explorers and philanthropists.
In 1878 Crawford Pasco became the owner of 'Mt Edgecombe', one of the first buildings of substance and scale in the west end of Queenscliff. The Pasco's summer residence still stands today.
Donated to PROV in 1983 were seven sketches varying in content and size by Crawford Pasco. These sketches were all produced in 1873 by the retired naval officer and include 'Queenscliff from Life Boat pier', 'View of Port Albert August 1873' and 'Original Homestead of Stevens, Willis and Swanston at Queenscliff'.


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HomeHealth NewsWoman starts Facebook group to help protect other women amid rise in drink spiking
Woman starts Facebook group to help protect other women amid rise in drink spiking
Wed, November 2, 2022 by ABC News
(NEW YORK) — A Facebook group started to help protect women from the dangers of drinks "spiked" with illegal drugs has gone viral with nearly 8,000 followers.
The group was started by Melanie Hubbard after police in Boston issued a safety warning following more allegations from women about their drinks being spiked with dangerous drugs.
Hubbard co-founded the Facebook page "Booze in Boston" as a way for people to shed light on incidents of spiked drinks in the Boston area.
"People don't feel safe anymore. People don't want to go to the bar because they hear what happened to their friends," Hubbard told ABC News' Good Morning America. "I hope that it spreads that awareness."
Boston police said Friday they have received reports of more than 70 incidents involving spiked drinks this year alone, according to Boston ABC affiliate WCVB-TV.
Of those incidents, four were confirmed by subsequent drug tests, WCVB reported, citing comments made Friday by Boston Police Department Lt. Detective Richard Driscoll.
The Boston Police Department also issued a warning about reports of spiked drinks in September, as college students returned for the start of school.
"The Boston Police Department has become aware of numerous social media posts from various individuals who state that they were victims of drink spiking at local area bars," stated a letter signed by Boston Police Commissioner Michael A. Cox.
In the letter, Cox encouraged people to report incidents of drink spiking to the police department.
One of the many colleges in the area, Boston University, shared a new warning last week about "scentless, colorless and tasteless drugs being placed in alcoholic drinks."
"Drugs used in this way can cause disorientation, unconsciousness or other symptoms," the university's police department said in a warning that was shared on Twitter.
Sarah Solomon told GMA she became incapacitated after having a third round of drinks at a concert in Boston.
"I couldn't stand up," Solomon said. "I basically had to sit on the sidewalk, and then I just started getting sick, like uncontrollably."
Solomon said she was hospitalized the next day, adding, "Even in the hospital I was throwing up. I mean it was like the worst hangover."
Solomon, who is now recovered, said she filed a police report after her experience. She said she wants people to know that this can happen to anyone.
"I just turned 40. I'm not a college kid. I'm not a party animal," she said. "Make sure you keep your wits about you."
Another woman, who asked that her name not be used, told WCVB that she was terrified after an alleged drugging incident in Cambridge, outside of Boston.
"All of a sudden, I felt so drunk and then I collapsed," the woman said, adding that her memory of the incident is "hazy." "I did end up in the emergency room. I couldn't stop shaking. I couldn't stop throwing up."
ABC News contributor Brad Garrett said drink spiking has always been prevalent, but can be underreported.
He said the latest rise in reported incidents in the Boston area may mean that people are more empowered to speak out.
"It is a crime that's big-time underreported," Garrett said. "And so, as a result, we don't really know the numbers."
Garrett said people should always keep an eye on their drinks and surround themselves with trusted friends.
The Boston Police Department is also urging people not to consume a drink that is not served to them directly by the bartender or server, and to keep their drink covered with their hand when they are not drinking it.
The department said people can also use products for sale that enable a drink to be tested for drugs.
Signs that a person may have consumed a spiked drink include loss of motor skills, vomiting, numbness, loss of control over the body and gaps in memory, according to Boston University and the Boston Police Department.
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This Harry Potter Actress Will Host Justin Bieber's Concert In India
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince actress Elarica Johnson will host Justin Bieber's tour in India on May 10
Written by: Dhanshri Sharma | April 18, 2017 19:14 IST (New Delhi)
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Elarica Johnson will arrive in India on May 4
She will also meet few Bollywood directors
Justin Bieber will perform in D Y Patil Stadium on May 10
Yes, actresses like Sonakshi Sinha and Jacqueline Fernandez, will take part in American singer Justin Bieber's tour in India. And now, a Harry Potter actress has been roped in to host the Mumbai concert. Elarica Johnson, who played the role of a waitress in 2009's film Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, will arrive in India on May 4 and gear up for the concert, which is to be held on May 10. Elarica, 27, will stay in Mumbai and explore the city till May 15, reports news agency IANS. Also, IANS reported that the actress will meet a few Bollywood directors and celebrities during her visit in India. Justin will be performing in Mumbai's D Y Patil Stadium as part of his Purpose World Tour.
Elarica said in a statement that she has watched Bollywood movies in her childhood and visiting Mumbai will be a 'dream-come-true' experience for her. The model-turned-actress was quoted by IANS as saying: "India has been a place I have always wanted to visit. I watched Bollywood movies as a child and now being an actress going to Mumbai the heart of the Bollywood film Industry; it is a dream come true! But most of all having this experience and seeing one of my favourite artists, Justin Bieber perform live, I am sure I will mark this as a trip of a lifetime."
Apart from Harry Potter, Elarica Johnson is also known for her roles in 13 Steps Down and My Brother The Devil. She will next be starring in How To Talk To Girls At Parties along with Nicole Kidman and in crime drama The Strike.
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Leeds remain bottom of Super League following Thursday's shambolic 45-26 defeat at KCOM Craven Park.
Konrad Hurrell scored four tries but the big-spending visitors - who have now lost eight of their 10 games so far - were consistently unable to protect their own line given some feeble tackling.
"It is just shocking," said Donaldson.
"We started the game shocking and we just seemed to lose momentum straight away.
Asked how do you put your finger on why that is, the 27-year-old replied: "It's attitude. "Everything is just attitude. Your attitude to defence. Your attitude to attack.
Leeds thought they had turned their season around after a Golden Point extra-time win against Castleford Tigers the previous week ended a five-game losing sequence.
But after Thursday's embarrassing show, Donaldson conceded: "It's just ruined it all really.
"We'd been working hard to start building every week and then to come up with that, you know, it is shocking.
The former Bradford Bulls player was one of Leeds' better performers having come on for his first appearance back at Rovers, the club he served for four years before a surprise release last autumn.
"Yeah, I felt I made a difference when I came on in the middle (loose forward)," he said.
"And then obviously someone got injured and I went to back-row. I don't think I was as effective there.
Leeds host League 1 Workington Town in the Challenge Cup on Thursday which will be extra special for Donaldson.
He is a Cumbrian who hails from Whitehaven - the big derby foes of Leon Pryce's side.
"Yeah, it's the old rivals but I'm just looking forward to getting out there and trying to build again, doing the little things right," said Donaldson.
"I am excited to go against Workington. It is a big game for us to get some confidence.
"But 100 per cent they'll be fancying it and they'll come with some attitude.


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Vulcan's German unit signs to sell lithium to South Korea's LG Chem
By Melanie Burton and Ilona Wissenbach
MELBOURNE, Australia, July 19 (Reuters) - Australia-listed lithium miner Vulcan Energy Resources (VUL.AX) said on Monday it had signed a long-term deal to sell lithium hydroxide from its German project to the battery unit of South Korea's LG Chem (051910.KS).
Vulcan, which will extract lithium from geothermal brine via its 1.7 billion euro ($1.4 billion) project, said the five-year deal could be renewed for five more years. The contract is expected to be finalised by the end of November.
Vulcan's process for extracting lithium, a key ingredient for electric vehicle batteries, will produce renewable power and emit no carbon dioxide, unlike Australia's hard rock lithium mining. The water will also be recycled, unlike the evaporation technique used in arid areas of South America.
The company, which plans to operate in Germany's Upper Rhine Rift, said LG Chem's LG Energy Solution (LGES) would buy 5,000 tonnes of battery grade lithium hydroxide in 2024, the first year of production, rising to 10,000 tonnes a year. LGES will use the lithium to make battery cathodes.
Vulcan's German subsidiary was preparing for a potential listing in Frankfurt this year, the unit's head Horst Kreuter said. "We are sensing a lot of interest from investors in Europe," he told Reuters.
The LGES deal is the first for Vulcan's German project, accounting for a quarter of its output from its five planned plants, which are expected to be operating from 2026.
Vulcan previously said it was open to selling 80% of its lithium via long-term deals with the rest sold on the spot market, but Managing Director Francis Wedin said Vulcan's German operations could consider selling more via long-term contracts.
"We could go to 100% potentially of future supply we will just have to take it as it comes," he told Reuters, adding that the firm was "overwhelmed with demand" from equipment makers.
Vulcan said it was in talks with several major customers in the European battery and electric vehicle markets, without offering details.
Vulcan signed a memorandum of understanding this month with French-Italian automaker Stellantis (STLA.MI) to supply lithium, sources said. Daimler (DAIGn.DE) previously said it was in talks about potential purchases from Vulcan. read more
Vulcan plans to expand in Germany's Rhine Valley, which could include acquisitions, Wedin said.
Kreuter said the price for Vulcan's lithium produced in Germany would be lower than the cost of lithium carbonate from Chile or Argentina.
"This is due to the additional revenue from the sale of renewable energy won from the thermal plants," he said.
Reporting by Melanie Burton in Melbourne and Sameer Manekar in Bengaluru; Editing by Jason Neely and Edmund Blair


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There's a reason why so many people expatriate, retire to, or seek jobs in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a celebration of life, of the "pura vida," and many people happily find their forever homes in the nation's cool mountains, bordering white-sand beaches, ensconced in sunny valleys, or alongside roaring rivers. Low-cost national healthcare, strong public education, and friendly people are also a strong draw to life in Costa Rica. However, before you pack up and move here, there are a few things you should know about the country's laws as well as some things that will make the transition easier starting with getting residency.
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If you plan to own a business in Costa Rica, you can become an inversionista, or large investor. This requires you to invest about $200,000 in any business; however, this amount could be lessened if you invest in a sector the government considers a priority, like tourism or forestry. These individuals must live in Costa Rica for six months per year.
After two years as a pensioner, small investor or large investor in Costa Rica, you'll be able to apply to be permanente, or permanent resident.
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For more information on obtaining Costa Rican residency and citizenship, visit the official Costa Rican immigration website.
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These documents should be translated into Spanish by an official translator, and many of them need to be apostilled.
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Costa Rica is an exciting tourist destination with great beaches, rain forests, rivers and adventure. It's also a developing nation that still has its share of poverty and still appreciates the art of "giving back".


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Between Militarism and Extremism: The Excluded Middle
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During this event Zaytuna College's co-founders, Hatem Bazian, Zaid Shakir, and Hamza Yusuf will speak about the recent wave of unrest in Libya, Egypt and other parts of the Muslim world that was set off due to the posting of the video maligning the Prophet Mohammad (SAW). James A. Donahue (President, Graduate Theological Union) and Munir Jiwa (Assistant Professor, Graduate Theological Union) will also speak at this event. Sandy Tolan, Associate Professor - Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC will be moderating this event. Tonight, September 17 Time: 7:30 p.m. (Pacific...
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The Center for Islamic Studies welcomes all new and returning students, instructors, and visiting scholars for the academic year 2017-2018. We are honored and grateful to have Professor Mark Massoud, Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz as a Mellon Visiting Scholar, and Dr. Jessica Chen, PhD in Islamic Studies from Stanford University, working on Muslim-Buddhist dialogue while at the CIS/GTU. We are delighted that Carol Bier, Historian of Islamic Art, will continue her work with the CIS/GTU as Research Scholar, and also delighted that Dr. Kei Takahashi from...
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Madrasa-Midrasha Program Offers Summer 2019 Interreligious Research Grants
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund has provided funding to the GTU in support of the Madrasa-Midrasha Program, a collaborative interreligious effort cosponsored by the Center for Islamic Studies and the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies. We are pleased to announce research grants for GTU students and scholars working on interreligious projects related to Judaism and/or Islam. Grants will range from $250 to $500 for individual projects and $500 to $1000 for joint projects, which are strongly encouraged. The following criteria will be applied to determine winning proposals: Student(s)...
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From the Fall 2016 issue of Currents, view PDF By Elizabeth S. Peña Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. —Gerhard Richter The arts—literature, dance, music, and the visual arts—enhance religious experience and evoke transcendence. Artistic expression often provides common ground for scholars and practitioners representing a wide variety of faith traditions. In the classroom the arts offer entry into complex concepts and philosophies. These are just a few of the reasons why the...
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"Reverberating Echoes" Continues
From the Spring 2017 issue of CurrentsView PDF of article * View PDF of Entire Issue The Center for the Arts & Religion presentsReverberating Echoes: Contemporary Art Inspired by Traditional Islamic Art Doug Adams Gallery, 2465 Ridge Rd., Berkeley Open through May 26 | Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 10am-3pm by Elizabeth Peña Reverberating Echoes: Contemporary Art Inspired by Traditional Islamic Art, curated by Carol Bier (Visiting Scholar, Center for Islamic Studies), presents work by seven artists of diverse backgrounds, who share a common source of inspiration in Islamic visual culture....
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Learning as Collaborative Conversation: Celebrating the Scholarship and Teaching of Judith Berling
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Chapter 1: January Chapter 2: February Chapter 3: March Chapter 4: April Chapter 5: May Chapter 6: June Chapter 7: July Chapter 8: August Chapter 9: September Chapter 10: October Chapter 11: November Chapter 12: December
All Themes Tradition vs. Revolution Femininity and Women's Roles Love Emotion and Repression Food and Cooking Violence and Abuse
All Characters Tita de la Garza Mama Elena (Elena de la Garza) Rosaura Gertrudis Pedro Musquiz Esperanza Nacha Chencha Dr. John Brown Morning Light/ "The Old Indian Woman"/ "The Kikapu" Juan de la Garza Juan Alejandrez Jose Treviño Jesús Mama Elena's mother Jovita
All Symbols The Supernatural/ Magic/ Strange Events Heat and Fire Coldness/ Chills Tita's Bedspread Crying/ Tears
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Chapter 1: January
Chapter 2: February
Chapter 3: March
Chapter 4: April
Chapter 5: May
Chapter 6: June
Chapter 7: July
Chapter 8: August
Chapter 9: September
Chapter 10: October
Chapter 11: November
Chapter 12: December
Tradition vs. Revolution
Femininity and Women's Roles
Emotion and Repression
Tita de la Garza
Mama Elena (Elena de la Garza)
Pedro Musquiz
Chencha
Dr. John Brown
Morning Light/ "The Old Indian Woman"/ "The Kikapu"
Juan de la Garza
Juan Alejandrez
Jose Treviño
Mama Elena's mother
The Supernatural/ Magic/ Strange Events
Heat and Fire
Coldness/ Chills
Tita's Bedspread
Crying/ Tears
Violence and Abuse Theme Analysis
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Like Water for Chocolate, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
As the novel is set during the Mexican Revolution, violence is inextricably linked to the time period and to the theme of liberation. In order to liberate themselves of the violent rule of the oligarchy, the rebels respond with organized political violence. Both the old oligarchy and the leaders of the rebellion are predominantly men, creating a sense that violence is a necessary part of maleness and male-dominated culture (or machismo). The novel, however, primarily focuses on the lives of women during that time. Rather than pitting male violence against female submissiveness, Esquivel instead creates a story which asks the question: in order to survive amidst both the old order and against the violence of the Revolution, must women either choose submissiveness or violence in kind? The novel further explores the insidious nature of abusive relationships, and shows the process by which abuse threatens to destroy the victim's sense of self.
On a political level, the violence of the Revolution at first happens only in the background—but it gradually begins to interfere more with the characters' lives. When federal troops lay siege to Piedras Negras, they kidnap Pedro and force Mama Elena and Chencha into hiding in the town center. Rosaura goes into labor, and Tita faces the dangerous task of delivering baby Roberto on her own. Even as the fighting escalates, the characters are forced to acclimate to a certain level of violence so that they can continue to go on with their own lives.
Both before and during the Revolution, male violence against women is a constant threat. After Rosaura and Pedro move away, rebels come through and decimate the local ranches in search of supplies, though Mama Elena runs them off. Later, the chaos of the war makes the ranch vulnerable, and bandits come and raid it, raping Chencha and leaving Mama Elena paralyzed. There are also other stories of rape in the novel: Dr. John Brown tells Tita about his grandmother, Morning Light, who was kidnapped and forced to marry John's white grandfather. Sergeant Treviño, a soldier in Gertrudis' troop, avenges the brutal rape of his mother and sister by killing their assailant.
But women aren't merely depicted as victims of male violence in the novel. Female characters interact with violence in very different ways, often defying gender norms by becoming the aggressor. Mama Elena embraces violence through her physical abuse of Tita and her mastery of slaughtering animals for food. The brutality Mama Elena uses to control her household, however brutal, may be seen as her answer to the male violence that already pervades her culture. Mama Elena doesn't question the patriarchy or its inherent violence, but instead patterns patriarchal oppression by using violence against those with less power than her.
While there are numerous examples of male violence in the novel, the principle violent relationship is between Mama Elena and Tita. Mama Elena's role as abuser is evident because she not only forces Tita to submit, but also punishes Tita for expressing any emotion which would show the extent of her suffering. When Tita tries to ask Mama Elena's permission to marry Pedro, Mama Elena not only refuses, but tells Tita that she is forbidden from expressing her disagreement. When Tita's tears fall into Rosaura's wedding cake, making everyone at the wedding cry and vomit, Mama Elena thinks Tita poisoned the cake. She beats Tita so badly that Tita is unable to get out of bed for weeks. Just as in many abusive romantic relationships, Tita is expected to take care of and love the person who beats her.
While Gertrudis is just as comfortable with violence as Mama Elena, her relationship with it is very different. Gertrudis chooses to freely join the Revolution as a fighter and works her way through the ranks to become a general. For Gertrudis, the answer to male violence isn't to imitate it. Instead, she uses violence to challenge existing social structures. Rather than using violence on those weaker than her, like Mama Elena, Gertrudis fights those more powerful than her.
Esquivel makes a point to highlight the pervasiveness of violence in women's lives, both in their societies and in their personal relationships. In the case of Gertrudis, the novel treats political violence as a sometimes necessary means to a worthy end. However, the novel rejects all other forms of violence, particularly those forms that have a lasting emotional impact on the victims.
Violence and Abuse ThemeTracker
The ThemeTracker below shows where, and to what degree, the theme of Violence and Abuse appears in each Chapter of Like Water for Chocolate. Click or tap on any chapter to read its Summary & Analysis.
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Violence and Abuse Quotes in Like Water for Chocolate
Below you will find the important quotes in Like Water for Chocolate related to the theme of Violence and Abuse.
Chapter 1: January Quotes
You don't have an opinion, and that's all I want to hear about it. For generations, not a single person in my family has ever questioned this tradition, and no daughter of mine is going to be the one to start.
Related Characters: Mama Elena (Elena de la Garza) (speaker), Tita de la Garza
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Chapter 2: February Quotes
She felt like screaming. Yes, she was having problems, when they had chosen something to be neutered, they'd made a mistake, they should have chosen her. At least then there would be some justification for not allowing her to marry and giving Rosaura her place beside the man she loved.
Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), Tita de la Garza, Mama Elena (Elena de la Garza), Pedro Musquiz
Chapter 3: March Quotes
It occurred to her that she could use her mother's strength right now. Mama Elena was merciless, killing with single blow. But then again not always. For Tita she had made an exception; she had been killing her a little at a time since she was a child, and she still hadn't quite finished her off. Pedro and Rosaura's marriage had left Tita broken in both heart and in mind, like the quail.
Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), Tita de la Garza, Mama Elena (Elena de la Garza)
Chapter 5: May Quotes
I have a very good aim and a very bad temper, Captain. The next shot is for you, and I assure you that I can shoot you before they can kill me, so it would be best for us to respect each other. If we die, no one will miss me very much, but won't the nation mourn your loss?
Related Characters: Mama Elena (Elena de la Garza) (speaker), Juan Alejandrez
Chapter 6: June Quotes
Instead of eating, she would stare at her hands for hours on end. She would regard them like a baby, marveling that they belonged to her. She could move them however she pleased, yet she didn't know what to do with them, other than knitting. She had never taken time to stop and think about these things.
Chapter 7: July Quotes
You know how men are. They all say they won't eat off a plate that isn't clean.
Related Characters: Chencha (speaker), Tita de la Garza
Now she finally understood the meaning of the expression "fresh as a head of lettuce" – that's the odd, detached way a lettuce should feel at being separated abruptly from another lettuce with which it had grown up. It would be illogical to expect it to feel pain at this separation from another lettuce with which it had never spoken, nor established any type of communication, and which it only knew from its outer leaves, unaware that there were many others hidden inside it.
Chapter 8: August Quotes
Pedro! What are you doing here?
Without answering, Pedro went to her, extinguished the lamp, pulled her to a brass bed that had once belonged to her sister, Gertrudis, and throwing himself upon her, caused her to lose her virginity and learn of true love.
Related Characters: Tita de la Garza (speaker), The Narrator (speaker), Gertrudis, Pedro Musquiz
Chapter 10: October Quotes
I know who I am! A person who has a perfect right to live her life as she pleases. Once and for all, leave me alone; I won't put up with you! I hate you, I've always hated you!
Tita had said the magic words that would make Mama Elena disappear forever.
Related Characters: Tita de la Garza (speaker), The Narrator (speaker), Mama Elena (Elena de la Garza)
Ballinger-Dix, Elizabeth. "Like Water for Chocolate Themes: Violence and Abuse." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 21 Dec 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2020.
Ballinger-Dix, Elizabeth. "Like Water for Chocolate Themes: Violence and Abuse." LitCharts LLC, December 21, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2020. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/like-water-for-chocolate/themes/violence-and-abuse.


From Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=L15-0308.
We agree with Ahalt and colleagues (1) that the incarcerated population deserves more study. The authors note that 20 million Americans are now or have been incarcerated. We believe that this figure warrants closer scrutiny.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that approximately 101 million criminal records are on file in the United States (2). The National Employment Law Project issued a report in 2011, "65 Million 'Need Not Apply': The Case for Reforming Criminal Background Checks for Employment," that reduced the estimate of persons these records represent by one third to correct for persons who had multiple records across states (3), resulting in a conservative estimate that 65 to 70 million Americans have "rap sheets" (2). The Bureau of Justice Statistics also reports that 12 million Americans have fingerprints on state file (2); adjusting this number, we estimate that approximately 9 million unique sets of fingerprints are on file in the United States.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2015;163(3):240.


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	'name' => 'Torque',
	'slogan' => 'Redis administration for humans!',
	'maintained_by' => 'Torque is a Redis administration tool developed & maintained by Soubhik Chatterjeeand distributed under MIT license',
	'connect_redis' => 'Connect to Redis',
	'enter_hostname' => 'IP Address / Hostname (example: 127.0.0.1)',
	'enter_port' => 'Port (example: 6379)',
	'connect' => 'Connect',
	'disconnect' => 'Disconnect',
	'home' => 'Home',
	'add_key' => 'Add New Key',
	'server_information' => 'Redis Server Information',
	'save' => 'Save',
	'update' => 'Update',
	'close' => 'Close',
	'back' => 'Back',
	'dashboard' => 'Go Home',
	'view' => 'View',
	'edit' => 'Edit',
	'update' => 'Update',
	'characters' => 'characters',
	'add' => 'Add',
	'delete' => 'Delete',
	'edit_key' => 'Edit Key',
	'delete_key' => 'Delete Key',
	'confirmation' => 'Confirmation',
	'add_value' => 'Add Value',
	'index' => 'Index',
	'values' => 'Values',
	'value' => 'Value',
	'configuration' => 'Redis Configuration',
	'add_new_key' => 'Add a new Redis Key',
	'type' => 'Type',
	'ttl' => 'TTL',
	'size' => 'Size',
	'key' => 'Key',
	'hash_key' => 'Hash Key',
	'score' => 'Score',
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	'no_expiry' => 'Does not expire',
	'seconds' => 'seconds',
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	'delete_key_description' => 'Sure to Delete the key and all it\'s values?',
	'delete_key_success' => 'Key has been deleted successfully',
	'delete_key_error' => 'There is an issue deleting the key. Error: :error',
	'invalid_type' => 'The type specified is invalid',
	'empty_key' => 'Key cannot be empty',
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	'empty_score' => 'Score cannot be empty',
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Yakima city crews are busy with utility Wednesday resulting in the closure of the eastbound lanes on East Yakima Avenue between South 2nd Street and South 3rd Street. Work on the project will happen from 5:00 am to 3:30 pm.
Because of heavy traffic volume, drivers can expect delays in the project area. Drivers should use alternate routes if possible until the work is completed.
Access to homes and businesses in the project area will be maintained as best as possible and emergency vehicles will be allowed through the project area if necessary.
Drinking water customers in this area will experience a temporary water outage throughout the day while repairs are being made to water main.


The Czech president Milos Zeman eulogized his country's trademark beverage, while insulting US beer as "filthy water" during a presidential business summit in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan.
Asked about which beer is the best in the world, by the longtime Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev, Zeman did not hesitate.
"We have built several breweries here already. We might make good planes, cars or other products, but most importantly, never forget - Czech beer is the best in the world," said the 70-year-old.
The patriotic leader has been entrusted with concluding $450 million worth of business deals between the Central Asian republic and Prague during a two-day business forum that finishes on Tuesday.
Zeman's unsolicited sentiments may offend US brewers, but this is far from the most controversial statement the politician, elected last year, has made in the past few weeks.
After claiming that police force used to put down pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 did not constitute a massacre, Zeman was pelted with eggs by a crowd holding red cards in Prague, during last week's 25-year anniversary of the beginning of the fall of Communism in the country.
"I am not afraid of you!" Zeman retorted to the crowd, which cried that the president must not be allowed to come near a monument commemorating Communist oppression.
All the while, he has continued to insist that Russia has not initiated the conflict in eastern Ukraine, insisting that the West must lift sanctions on Moscow, and recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
The inflammatory statements have seen the President's popularity slump from 58 to 37 percent in the space of a month, according to Prague's Median polling firm. Last week's poll numbers also showed that 71 percent of Czechs now believe that Zeman's behavior and public statements are harming the image of the country abroad.


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import os
import glob
import fnmatch
import subprocess as sp
from contextlib import contextmanager

import pytest

example_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))), "examples")

def discover_examples():
    return glob.glob(os.path.join(example_dir, "example_*.py"))

def example_path_to_name(example_path):
    fname = os.path.split(example_path)[-1]
    base, _ = os.path.splitext(fname)
    prefix = "example_"
    if base.startswith(prefix):
        return base[len(prefix):]
    else:
        raise ValueError("{} does not start with expected prefix '{}'".format(example_path, prefix))

def get_file_set(root_dir, fname_match):
    out = set()
    for root, _, fnames in os.walk(root_dir):
        for fname in fnmatch.filter(fnames, fname_match):
            out.add(os.path.join(root, fname))
    return out

@contextmanager
def track_files(root_dir, delete=True):
    pattern = "example_*.svg"
    before = get_file_set(root_dir, pattern)
    yield
    if delete:
        after = get_file_set(root_dir, pattern)
        for fpath in after - before:
            os.remove(fpath)

@pytest.fixture
def context(request):
    initial_dir = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(example_dir)
    with track_files(example_dir, delete=not request.config.getoption("--keep_files")):
        yield
    os.chdir(initial_dir)

@pytest.mark.parametrize("example_path", sorted(discover_examples()), ids=example_path_to_name)
def test_example(example_path, context):
    sp.check_call(["python", example_path])


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Q: dialog is not a function error I have this JavaScript code which I use for question dialog:
// Question Dialog
function deletedialog(button, a){
    $("<div />", {
        text: a
    }).dialog({
        width: 600,
        buttons: {
            "Ok": function() {
                $(button).closest("form").find("[id$=deleterow]").click();
                $(this).dialog("close");
                button.value = "Processing...";
                button.disabled = true;
            },
            "Cancel": function(event) {
                $(this).dialog("close");
                event.preventDefault();
                button.value = "Delete";
                button.disabled = false;
            }
        }
    });
}

But for some reason that I cannot find I get this error in Firebug:
TypeError: $(...).dialog is not a function

and this row is highlighted
"Cancel": function(event) {
This problem occurs when I added this in the JSF head in order to prevent JQuery and Primefaces conflict:
<script type="text/javascript">
    $.noConflict();
</script>

How I can solve this problem?

A: The problem
The problem is that the $ symbol has been removed by using $.noConflict() function. Use jQuery instead.
Two solutions
This basically means you should write function calls like jQuery(this).dialog("close"); instead of $(this).dialog("close");.
To implement the change for the bigger piece of code, you can do it like that:
(function($){
    // ... old code using "$" instead of "jQuery"
})(jQuery);

Solution no. 1 - multiple replacements - example
The solution with replacing $(...) calls with jQuery(...) could look like this:
// Question Dialog
function deletedialog(button, a){
    jQuery("<div />", {
        text: a
    }).dialog({
        width: 600,
        buttons: {
            "Ok": function() {
                jQuery(button).closest("form").find("[id$=deleterow]").click();
                jQuery(this).dialog("close");
                button.value = "Processing...";
                button.disabled = true;
            },
            "Cancel": function(event) {
                jQuery(this).dialog("close");
                event.preventDefault();
                button.value = "Delete";
                button.disabled = false;
            }
        }
    });
}

Solution no. 2 - enclosing code in anonymous function - example
This is based on the fact you can create anonymous function and pass jQuery to it, but assign it to the argument called $ - which will result in $ symbol available within the function as if it would happen before $.noConflict() call:
(function($){
    // Question Dialog
    function deletedialog(button, a){
        $("<div />", {
            text: a
        }).dialog({
            width: 600,
            buttons: {
                "Ok": function() {
                    $(button).closest("form").find("[id$=deleterow]").click();
                    $(this).dialog("close");
                    button.value = "Processing...";
                    button.disabled = true;
                },
                "Cancel": function(event) {
                    $(this).dialog("close");
                    event.preventDefault();
                    button.value = "Delete";
                    button.disabled = false;
                }
            }
        });
    }
})(jQuery);

A: Before $.noConflict();, $ is equal to jQuery.
After $.noConflict();, $ is equal to undefined.
This removes the $ shortcut to jQuery, and that is why it is not a function anymore. You typically only use $.noConflict(); when you add another javascript library that uses $. Your options are:

*

*Don't use $.noConflict();.

*Use $.noConflict(); and replace every $ with jQuery.

*Use $.noConflict(); and wrap your code with (function($){ ... })(jQuery)
If you need to use $.noConflict();, I suggest using the third one. It remaps $ to jQuery by passing jQuery as a parameter. Using the code you posted, it may look something like...
(function($){

    // Question Dialog
    function deletedialog(button, a){
        $("<div />", {
            text: a
        }).dialog({
            width: 600,
            buttons: {
                "Ok": function() {
                    $(button).closest("form").find("[id$=deleterow]").click();
                    $(this).dialog("close");
                    button.value = "Processing...";
                    button.disabled = true;
                },
                "Cancel": function(event) {
                    $(this).dialog("close");
                    event.preventDefault();
                    button.value = "Delete";
                    button.disabled = false;
                }
            }
        });
    }

})(jQuery)

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Max K. Foltz
Max Kemper Foltz, 73, of Stephens City, Virginia, passed away Thursday, December 5, 2019.
Mr. Foltz was born February 28, 1946 at home near Old Chapel in Clarke County, Virginia, son of the late Ray Vaughn Foltz and Pearl Dofflemyer Foltz.
He was a carpenter for most of his life and owned and operated Foltz Carpentry. He took pride in his ability and skills as a carpenter. He also helped rescue twenty-two (22) cats over twenty-five (25) years and loved his 4-legged children too.
He married Dottie Hummer Foltz on September 12, 1992 in Berryville, Virginia.
Surviving with his wife are his daughter, Teresa Edmiston of Gore, VA; son, Jamie Foltz of Winchester, VA; three sisters, Hazel Fincham of Foley, AL, Barbara Brannon and Doris Asbury of Berryville, VA; a brother, Denis Foltz of Berryville, VA; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, his sisters, Charlotte Estes, Greta Fries, Frances Madigan, and Mildred Crim, and brother, Vance Foltz, preceded him in death.
A memorial service will be held 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at Enders & Shirley Funeral Home Chapel, Berryville, VA with Mr. R. K. Shirley III officiating. Burial will be private.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
To view the obituary and send condolences online, please visit www.endersandshirley.com.
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