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This thesis examines the experience of personal breakdown in the American Civil Rights Movement. It proposes that breakdown was triggered in individuals by the practice of nonviolence and contends that breakdown precipitated the Movement's shift away from nonviolence toward the more self-protective tactic of black power.
Andersen, Danielle, "Nonviolent Bodies and the Experience of Breakdown in the American Movement for Civil Rights" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 35.


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Hitler and Trump
Jonathan Blake
Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, Nazy Germany
By Jon Blake
As I was packing three weeks ago for what has become my annual trip back to Oxford for the International Media Law Moot Court Championships in the second week of April, I scanned the overflowing bookshelves beside my bed to look for a book I could read in the nooks and crannies of a hectic and gratifying week-long schedule of events. What caught my attention was the thinnest most unassuming of the books, a paperback so old and tattered that it had lost its binding. When I pulled it out, the barely functional front cover read, "The Last Days of Hitler" by Trevor Roper, an historian whose work I had long admired and who, shortly after the end of World War II, Britain had tasked with investigating Hitler's death, in part to counter rampant rumors that Hitler had escaped and was living in all manner of places plotting his return to power. I remembered those rumors as a boy. They were prompted by the fact that Hitler's remains had not been found at the time Roper wrote his book. A popular explanation was that the Russian military, which was first on the scene at Hitler's bunker in Berlin, had found them and secreted them away in Moscow. Stalin had been a major promoter of the idea that Hitler had escaped. When Stalin died eight years after Hitler's death, the Russians revealed that since the end of the war they had had the remains of both Eva Braun and Hitler, including Hitler's jaw. Based on prewar dental records, it was then definitively proven to be Hitler's. In the 10th edition of his book, Roper described the unfolding of these facts.
The book, as a physical object, was on its last legs, would not survive until my next opportunity to read it, and was the right length to read throughout the week and most likely on the eight-hour return flight. I was also certain that it would be relevant to the issue of hate speech, a major theme of the moot court arguments and related discussions and currently a hot, life-or-death issue both in our country and worldwide.
And so I started reading the fragile, browning pages that fell out of the binding as I turned them and fluttered to the floor of the trans-Atlantic flight returning me home a week later. What leapt at me from the first few pages were the uncanny parallels between the environment in the complex of bunkers in Berlin where Hitler spent the last several weeks before he and Eva Braun, whose existence he had tried to hide from his country for over a decade, committed suicide, and the environment in our nation's White House. Hitler was a supreme narcissist, often had temper tantrums when he foamed at the mouth, and humiliated his cabinet ministers, aides, and military commanders and fired them for any suspected disloyalty. All but one of his circle of closet advisers were toadies, trying desperately to outdo each other in their sycophancy.
For purposes of comparison, recall the cringe-worthy televised Trump cabinet meeting at which each of the members spoke of what they most admired about the president. Roper refers to Hitler's closest advisors not as a government but as the court of a 16th century potentate in a small, backward and corrupt Southeast Asian nation. Another similarity came to me as I listened to the taxi's radio that drove me home from Dulles Airport after my return flight. It was reporting on Trump's purge of the Homeland Security Department, purges being a staple of Hitler's governance style.
As I progressed more deeply into the text, I also began to notice individual-by-individual parallels between Hitler's inner circle and Trump's. Uninformed by any other source of information inside the cabin of the United Airlines plane, I paired Goebbels with Steven Miller and Bannon; Borman with Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and perhaps Nick Mulvaney; Himmler with Wilbur Ross or Steve Mnuchin; Goering with Giuliani or perhaps Scott Pruitt; Schellenberg, Hitler's foreign intelligence officer, with John Bolton; and, of course, Hitler with Trump.
My imagination took me one step further. Could a play be written about Hitler's last months that highlighted, but not explicitly, the parallels between the overall environment of the two men's flailing governments and the mentalities of their leading figures? It occurred to me that several of the figures among Hitler's closest advisors in the play could be made up to look like their counterparts in the Trump cabinet, without the counterparts being identified by name. It would be easy, I thought, to make up the actor playing Hitler to look like Trump because of his hair, the Himmler character to look like Wilbur Ross with his tired frog-like appearance, and the Schellenberg character to look like John Bolton, because of his distinctive mustache.
As I read on toward the end of the book, I came to the period beginning a few weeks before his death, when Hitler repeatedly ranted that the German people were not worthy of his heroic leadership and, in a campaign of brutal retribution, actively sought to impose maximum suffering on the German people. Thus, he gave orders from his bunker to withhold military support for his soldiers and German citizens on the Eastern front in order to let the murderous Russian army penetrate Berlin, rather than the Western allies that generally respected the rules of war contained in the Geneva Convention. To further explain Hitler's motivation, Roper quotes from Mein Kampf, which Hitler had written fifteen years earlier, a slogan that defined his mentality as "world dominance or total ruin." He had come to the "total ruin" stage.
I found it frighteningly easy to imagine Trump, in a moment of impassioned pique at some failure in his crazy agenda, lashing out at his countrymen and supporters in similarly punitive ways. In fact, journalists as a group and even individually have been cast in that role since the start of his Administration, and Trump has repeatedly and publicly incited violence against them. That said, Trump clearly lacks the steely resolve that made Hitler such a powerful leader. Even Trump's intense hatred of Muslims and other minorities, though similar to Hitler's pathological campaign to exterminate Jews, gypsies, and Slavs, is lazier and for show. There is not much there, there. In the end, Trump is always the con man and Hitler, the true believer, though both, at their core, were rooted exclusively in themselves—one a buffoon; the other a man monster.
Hitler's last days were full of dramatic events, e.g., Hitler's order to kill Goering, Himmler's betrayal, Hitler's last-minute decision about who should succeed him after he committed suicide, his last desperate and repeated deployment orders to a German Army division that had been destroyed weeks before he issued those orders, and Hitler's marriage to Eva Braun less than 24 hours before their joint suicides. Perhaps oddest of all, as Hitler and Eva Braun's bodies were being burned in the garden above the bunker to prevent Russian soldiers from desecrating their corpses, the remaining members of Hitler's entourage in the bunker—from Goebbels, his wife and five children, Bormann, the Iago of the group, and ordinary typists and policemen, broke into festivities, smoked (an indulgence that Hitler had banned) and even danced in the bunker—a reaction that even surprised the participants, both at the time and later when they were interviewed.
Fascinating characters also abound. For a week or so before Hitler's suicide, a bizarre young woman who cultivated her reputation as a heroic spy and pilot, stayed in Hitler's bunker. Of all the witnesses of the last days' events in the bunker, she had the most unreliable memory, or perhaps was the most delusional or histrionic. There was also one man in the inner circle, though not in the bunker, Albert Speer who was clear-eyed from almost the beginning of Hitler's ascendency about the events, Hitler, and the people surrounding him. But Speer could not shake off the thrall that Hitler cast over him. He was executed for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials.
Lastly, of Hitler himself, here are the ruminations of his Finance Minister toward the end, who had been a German Rhodes Scholar before the war: "It was terrible to hear, that no counsel, no reasoned arguments, no reference to the fearful sufferings of our poor people, can break through those walls which the Fuehrer has erected around his convictions, and behind which he allows nobody to see. Can it be that there is really nothing there—only the gigantic obstinacy of a deluded spirit, sacrificing all to its self-worshipping Ego?"
In a note to the 10th edition of the book, Roper tries to answer the question why the Germans acceded, with so little resistance, to Hitler's increasingly volatile, unstable, and destructive leadership. He observes: "Dictatorships kill political intelligence in the governed, as well as in the governors." I wondered as I read that sentence whether it isn't after all the best explanation for why Trump's base is so loyal to him despite all of his crazed actions, policies, and exhortations.
Commentary by Terry Bacon
I published this article by Jon Blake in part because he is a well-educated student of history and a keen observer of politics and politicians and in part because other observers of our current political situation have also noted the parallels between Hitler and Trump. Are the similarities between these two men worrisome enough that we should fear an American rendition of the madness and ultimate destruction of Nazi Germany? The idea that history repeats itself is an old one. It's first recorded use in English was reportedly in 1561, but its most famous expression is from Spanish philosopher George Santayana, who wrote in 1906, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." So it behooves us to recognize the ways in which Trump is like Hitler–as well as the ways in which he is not. The preservation of our democracy may depend on it.
I've just finished watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, "The Dark Charisma Adolf Hitler," which I would highly recommend. As I watched it, I kept Jon Blake's article in mind and noted a number of similarities between Adolf Hitler and our current president:
Hitler ignored or perverted the rule of law and assumed absolute power. After becoming Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, Hitler asked President von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag (the German equivalent of our Congress). In the general election that followed, the Nazis received less than fifty percent of the vote, so in March of that year Hitler connived to have Hindenburg sign the Enabling Act, which allowed Hitler and his cabinet to pass laws without the new Reichstag's involvement or approval. In circumventing the legislative branch of the German government, Hitler seized sole executive and legislative power, effectively making him a dictator. Trump cannot dissolve Congress, but he has found ways to circumvent our legislative branch of government when Congress won't do his bidding. After Congress wouldn't fund his wall, Trump took money from other parts of government, mainly the Department of Defense, to fund the wall's construction. More recently, he and his administration have been ordering people like Don McGahn, William Barr, and others to ignore Congressional subpeonas. Trump has extended "Executive Privilege" far beyond its traditional boundaries, and he's used his power to pardon as a carrot or stick to reward people who are loyal to him or punish those who aren't or might not be loyal. Trump has not yet had the audacity to go as far as Hitler did in consolidating executive power, but that clearly is his impulse and desire. He wants to make unilateral decisions and is frustrated when he can't. If he could govern without a legislature (aka Reichstag), he would. Bear in mind that before he became president, he ran a business empire where he was the sole decision maker, virtually a god. He doesn't know any other way to govern.
Hitler used violence against his enemies, killing many of them and sending others to prison or concentration camps. Trump wishes violence upon his opponents. He's done it openly in rallies when he speaks about smashing a reporter or a protester in the face (and offers to pay the legal bills of any of his followers who will do that). He praised the Montana GOP representative who body slammed a reporter, and he frequently talks tough in extreme ways, as when he said that if Iran went to war against the U.S. Iran would cease to exist. Trump is a bully through and through and believes in violence as a means to an end. We are fortunate that he cannot create a private police force like Hitler's Storm Troopers and the Gestapo–because if he could he would–and thousands of his gun-toting supporters would join.
Hitler took his racism and hatred to a genocidal extreme, ordering the deaths of millions of Jews, gypsies, and other people he considered undesirable. Trump is also a racist and a misogynist. His "Make America Great Again" is a euphemism for keeping America white, and his staunchly anti-immigrant position is a thinly veiled attempt to keep brown people out of the country. He refuses to condemn white supremacist violence (ala Charlottesville) because it would rankle his base and, at his core, he approves of it. His anti-Democrat, anti-liberal rhetoric is intended to inflame his supporters, and it works. The instances of thwarted right-wing terrorist attacks against news media and Democratic politicians prove that point.
Hitler reserved all the important decisions to himself, and while the Germans were winning in the early years of WWII they were content to allow him to make unilateral decisions because he considered him flawless. As Nazi victories came so easily from 1939-1941, many Germans, including high-ranking military officers, thought he was a military genius. Trump prefers to make all the major decisions by himself, too. He once said, "I don't listen to other people, deliberately." In a Fox News interview about all the empty positions at the State Department, Trump said, "I'm the only one who matters." Like Trump, Hitler was a narcissist and egotist who believed his own delusions about his infallibility and genius. When the tide inevitably turned against him, he blamed everyone but himself.
Hitler was at his best in large rallies. He glorified in the adulation of the crowd and gave rousing speeches about the wrongs done to Germany by its enemies, about Germany's rightful role in the world, and about his grand vision for the future of Germany under his leadership. Sound familiar? Trump is truly in his element at his political rallies, staged and orchestrated as they are by his staff, where thousands of MAGA hat-wearing loyalists hold signs with his name on them and clap, cheer, and chortle at his every pronouncement, no matter how false or nonsensical it might be. Trump is a natural born marketer, and his favorite product is himself. The glories heaped upon him by adoring crowds feed his ego like no other source of nourishment. Likewise, Hitler stood proud and complete as throngs of Germans shouted "Sieg, heil!" and raised their right arms in the Nazi salute at pauses in his rousing speeches.
Lastly, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, claimed that Hitler was sent by God to help the German people, and a bastion of the German Christian church not only supported Hitler but carried a version of the Nazi flag with a cross in the center instead of a Swastika. Similarly, Franklin Graham and televangelist Paula White have opined that Trump was sent by God for the American people, a claim echoed by millionaire Michael Lindell at the recent CPAC. More disturbing, a Fox News poll found that 25 percent of Americans believe Trump was sent by God. When you believe that an obviously flawed leader was sent to you by the Almighty, then that person, by definition, can do no wrong.
America is not likely to follow the disastrous path Nazi Germany took, despite these similarities between Hitler and Trump. Hitler was a powerful orator, and Trump is barely articulate. Hitler was a powerful enough speaker to enlist the majority of German citizens in his quest for national and racial superiority, and he came to power when the German people were suffering from runaway inflation, depression, starvation, high unemployment, and national humiliation following Germany's defeat in WWI. Trump is claiming to make America great again, but most people believe the country was already great. We aren't suffering the deprivations the Germans were in the 1920's and 30's. When Trump claims that he's responsible for everything good in our lives now, including a robust economy, most of us know better, and when he tells us the press and the Democrats enemies of the people, we know he's just trying to inflame his base. In the end, I take solace in Jon Blake's conclusion that Hitler was a true believer and a man monster, whereas Donald Trump is a con man and a buffoon.
I don't normally quote Karl Marx, but in this case the quote is too apt. He said, "Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy; the second time as farce." Hitler was the tragedy; Trump is the farce.
I'm going to close my commentary, first by thanking Jon Blake for allowing me to publish his article, and second by quoting Teddy Roosevelt:
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
Here is a salute to all true patriots.
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4 thoughts on "Hitler and Trump"
Rob Wigley
I believe that once you bring Hilter into any conversation about politics, and he's been brought up over the past few decades by Repubs and Demos both, that you've already lost the argument. It's old and tired. There's enough about Trump to write about without any comparisons to Hitler. Same with all politicians.
Bruce McBane
These similarities have been evident to many for several years, and to some who know Trump's history, for much longer. However, I am surprised at Blake's statement that Albert Speer was executed. In fact, he was sentenced to Spandau prison for twenty years where he was guarded by US, British, French and Russian platoons and released in 1966. However, this blemish in his observations should not detract from his thesis.
Ken Christian
Trump or Voldertrump as my friend calls him is badly deranged and totally incompetent to be the president. Another friend uses the following that he made up for me and his other friends. To wit: MAGA= Morons Are Governing America. The comparison of Trump to Hitler is a great one although it's a scary one as well. All things being equal, I hope that the country and freedom loving people here and world wide can survive his rants and ridiculous ideas. That he's a known narcissist, misogynist and racist bothers me but seems to elude his base of support.
I read the article about the comparison of Trump and Hitler. It's scary how much they appear to be alike. To wit: narcissists, power crazy, willing to do in friends as well as perceived enemies. As an aside, my brother has a nickname for Trump. He calls him Voldertrump.


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Q: How do I install a Python package locally without uploading it to PyPi I know this question has been asked before and their are references on this topic, but none of the instructions seem to work.  I have a package titled PyFinances with the following directory structure and I am working on a Macintosh computer with the BigSur OS V11.1
PyFinances
|_PyFinances
|  |_ __init__.py
|  |_ finances.py
|_ data
|_ test
|_ scripts
|_ docs
|_ README.rst
|_ LICENSE
|_ setup.py
|_ Makefile
|_ requirements.txt
|_ .venv

The Makefile has the contents
init:
        pip3 install -r requirements.txt
test:
        pytest -s test

And the setup.py has the following contents
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Learn more: https://github.com/kennethreitz/setup.py

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

with open('README.rst') as f:
    readme = f.read()

with open('LICENSE') as f:
    license = f.read()

setup(
    name='PyFinances',
    version='0.1.0',
    description='develops a statistical estimate for the value of checking and savings account',
    long_description=readme,
    author='Jonathan A. Webb',
    author_email='webbja123@gmail.com',
    license=license,
    packages=find_packages(),
    classifiers=[
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
        "Programming Languate :: Python :: 3.9",
        "Operating System :: MacOS",
    ],
    zip_safe=False,
)

I am trying to install my own code as a package on my system locally without uploading it to PyPi.  I am working in a virtual environment and start by installing wheel with the following command when in the uppermost PyFinances directory.
pip3 install wheel

Then I install my package with the following command.
pip3 install .

The installer presents me with the message Successfully installed PyFinances-0.10, which makes me think everything worked fine.  However, if I cd to a totally different directory and open the Python command line interface and type import PyFinances, or try to use a file that uses the same command, I get a ModuleNotFoundError.  Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my process for turning my own Python code into a local install?

A: After much investigating I found that I was using the wrong virtual environment, which prevented me from accessing my package.  After changing to the correct .venv file it fixed the problem.

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A great alpine trail from the top of the Kanin with a descent of 1800 meter.
It's a cool nature Singletrail with very difficult descents because the trails are not arranged The conditions of the trail can change in periodes.
The trail starts with a steep and rocky hiking trial where not every part is rideable. (If you don't want to ride this part you could use the skipist beside that trail till the italien boarder).
The first part over there starts with the gravel trail and continues into a stony grass trail. When you reach a high of 1000m the trail continues in the woods.
When you reach Station D with the gondola you have to hike up about 100m on the skipist in north direction. On top you have to descent to Prevala where the trail starts in east direction.
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Q: No add wizard option for Report Viewer in Visual Studio 2017 Any reason why there is no option to create a new report in Visual Studio 2017?
in previous VS version, I used to have the option to "Design a new report". Now it's gone.

A: As a workaround, right click on the folder you want to add a report to and click the "Add New Report" option. This takes you to the Wizard.


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Cusco | A Month in Peru
Our hotel in Cusco is perched on such a narrow, steep street that our taxi driver is refusing to drive down to it.
"We can't drive down that road, I'll leave you at the top," he tells us, although when we reach the road's peak and spot another taxi that's dared to make the perilous descent, he sheepishly shifts into a lower gear and pursues.
We climb out onto cobbled streets and haul our bags from the boot and along a narrow walkway to the entrance of the hotel. All around us, white walls rise up and narrow the slice of bright blue Cusqueño sky above us. As we step into the hotel's picturesque courtyard, the world unfolds a little - tables and chairs invite guests to spend a while amongst the pretty gardens, beneath a canopy of that blue. We notice some murals of flowers in bold primary colours snaking up walls and across doorways. Then we step inside.
If we didn't know where the hotel's name came from before, then we certainly do now. The reception of El Retablo, our glorious boutique bolthole for the next few nights, almost looks like it has been constructed from these traditional Peruvian works of art. Retablos can only be described as boxes of artistic ingenuity; their wooden doors open to reveal highly intricate scenes which have been carved from wood and lovingly brought to life with all the colours of the rainbow.
Our hotel has been booked for us by Mountain Lodges of Peru (MLP) who will be in charge of our honeymoon for the next nine days as we set off on an epic trek over the Salkantay Pass towards Machu Picchu. Before that though, we've got a few days to while away in Cusco, whilst we finish acclimatising in preparation for our demanding hike.
Needless to say, our first impressions of MLP are rather positive and they only improve when we are shown to our room. The same floral motifs that adorned the courtyard have found their way into our sleeping space, where clean white walls and sheets contrast with shouts of Peruvian colour. The bed is giant and luxuriously comfortable. When we push the shutters open, the whole of Cusco tumbles out before us, with the mountains frosting the horizon. There's that sky.
The mood in Cusco is one of celebration for the duration of our entire stay. Not only are Peru excelling in the World Cup (although sadly we know how that one ended), but the month of June is given over to festivities in Cusco, with the famous Inti Raymi Festival of the Sun falling on the 24th. On the first night, we trundle down to the central Plaza de Armas to find a parade of people dancing energetically in brightly coloured costumes. Their joy and exuberance are a million miles away from the sad shuffling of the people on Taquile Island.
The next morning, we hike back up the road to Sacsayhuamán (and boy oh boy, there's nothing quite like altitude to make you feel unfit), where Inca ruins sit within reasonable walking distance from the city centre. We head straight for the viewpoint and observe the entirety of the city stretched out before us, an even tinier miniature than the one we can see from our hotel room. Sounds lift from the roofs of Cusco, made soft by the distance. Cheers, applause, horns. Peru is playing in the World Cup today.
Walking around the rest of the Inca ruins, we climb up walls, pass through gaps in the stone and observe the landscape drop and rise around us. We follow a path that cuts a corridor through the rock and seems to wind down under the ground into acute darkness (I rush back out into the light whilst Michele continues to explore the subterranean world). We contemplate the impossibility of the stones of the ruins, the way they have been cut to fit each other so perfectly. In the distance, a large white Jesus statue blesses the city below.
On our way back down to the centre, we take the steep stairways that cut through the houses that cling so precariously to the hillside. It seems that this is where the majority of the dogs live; every twist and turn of the path finds another pack of them, lazing in the sunshine or following their noses along a scent trail. It is hard to know whether they are strays or whether they belong to the houses; a couple of terriers certainly get very territorial as we try passing a particular row of houses and we only just manage to avoid having our ankles nibbled.
Our days spent in the city are days spent in the midst of constant festival. There are parades in the street, impressive sculptures toted around on floats, and bands of people dancing together and playing music in what appears to our naive eyes to be spontaneous eruptions of union and song. Brass bands march around the streets, flags are waved; we are treated to a particularly fortuitous view of one such street party from the balcony of the ChocoMuseo where we sip hot chocolate in the cool sunshine.
There is something about Cusco that feels adventurous and exciting. Perhaps it is the upcoming hike, looming like the mountains on the horizon. Perhaps it is the joy that flows through the streets with the parties and parades. Michele thinks it's because Cusco is easier for us to understand compared to the intimidating sprawl of Lima - it has a clear central point with a myriad of roads festooned with shops and restaurants that snake outwards from the city's heart. It's closer to a European city, he says. But that's not entirely true. Although the influence of European colonialists cannot be denied, Cusco also has an identity that is a million miles from home.
This can be particularly felt in the San Pedro market. We visit on a quiet day when most of the stalls are closed but the experience is still slightly overwhelming. Whilst there are countless stalls selling tourist trinkets, there are also plenty that cater to the Cusqueños too. This can be felt particularly strongly in the food section of the market. There are hundreds of things to be tasted here. Stalls dedicated to cheeses and meat and fish and fruit and vegetables. The smells can be overpowering; as I wait for Michele near a particularly pungent sausage stand, a British teenager clamps her hand over her nose, makes a retching noise and says to her Mum "nope, that's it, get me out, get me out, get me out!" and they beat a hasty exit over the wooden planks and doors that make a gangway across the gaping chasms in the market's floor. I can only hope that they didn't notice the women selling plump, bald guinea pigs on sticks from large barrels outside.
One evening, we manage to slip into Qoricancha just before it closes, where the most important temple of the Inca Empire can still be seen holding up the Catholic Convent of Santo Domingo which was built right on top of it. As we walk around, the two structures can be seen bleeding into the walls of each other; parts of the original temple were preserved and used by the Catholics meaning that within the ornate walls of the convent, the exquisitely carved blocks of the Incas can still be found. The older Inca structures seem to have survived the centuries better than their younger counterparts.
The temple is full of local teens, bunching in the passageways and chattering animatedly. At first it seems as though Qoricancha is the place to spend an evening if you're growing up in Cusco, but soon we notice there is a rhythm and a pattern to their gatherings; they are clustered in particular places between these walls of various ages. Music begins, drums are beaten and the young people of Cusco begin to flood down from the temple and into the gardens, dancing in a line with a joyful energy. They weave and jump and wave their arms in the air, taking up their positions down in the park below. Soon, a line of people emerges seemingly from nowhere and begins to patrol the edges of the walls, high up on the temple, their arms outstretched in a salute to the sun. Before long, the entire temple and its gardens are a living mass of people on stone. We see this enchanting spectacle twice; once from within the temple and once from the road at the end of the park. It is their rehearsal for the Festival of the Sun on June 24th.
It seems a shame to have come all of this way, to have been so close to touching the real Festival of the Sun itself, only to have missed it by mere days. On the 24th of June, we were both not far from Cusco and a million miles away - up in the lofty, mythical heights of Machu Picchu. And indeed, after we have slipped away from watching the last beats of the drum roll through the people rehearsing at the temple, after we have hurried shivering in the cool evening air to our hotel's bar and the happy hour we have promised ourselves, we see a group of hikers returning from the trip we are due to set out on the very next morning.
As we watch the hikers from behind the rims of our Pisco sour glasses, dragging their muddy legs and sore muscles with them, fireworks begin to explode over Cusco. We sit out in the hotel's courtyard and get to talking with a few of them, hear their tales of the adventures that await us as we set off on the Salkantay Trek with MLP. The roof of the hotel frames the fire in the sky, bending around our courtyard and capturing the magic in a perfect square.
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Discussion in 'iPhone' started by atad6, Jul 3, 2007.
Has anyone else used a Nokia internet tablet? I just picked one up new for 130 dollars, the nokia 770. For the price it's really great. Of course it has a few quirks and isn't as graceful as the iphone but it does have a solid feature set as a portable internet device.
It runs linux so there is a huge dev scene, with hundreds of different apps. It runs opera and there's a scaled down version of firefox that works with the device. Both render pages the way they should be as it has a 800x480 screen. It also supports flash.
Of course there are some downsides. Being an open platform it's quirky at times and has pretty low battery life, only three hours. It does have removable storage and battery so that's not an issue. I picked an extra battery up for less than ten dollars.
So yeah, I was just wondering if anyone else has used this poor man's device and what there thoughts are on it compared to the iphone. I wasn't sure what forum to post this in so if this is the wrong one please move it.
I have the N800, which is the newer model. It's a nicely designed piece of hardware and software. I bought it to use as a portable/pocketable web browser, but honestly it has been sitting on my desk as a paperweight pretty much since I bought it.
The wifi option works well as does the Opera browser (Flash YES!). But my main objective was to use it to surf using my cellphone (LG VX8300) as a bluetooth modem, and I have yet to figure out how to do it. The cellphone works great as a bluetooth modem for my MacBookPro, but it just won't work with the Nokia device. So it's not my cell....it's the Nokia's problem.
If I could get the cellphone link to work, then I would have skipped the iPhone 1.0.
The Nokia devices had some appeal to me because of the open source development effort over at Maemo and internettablettalk.com. But I think overall it requires too much futzing around and terminal stuff to get it all to work. Great for the geeks, but for everyday Joe like me it's a little bit much.


watering plants Archives - Garden Design Inc.
When and How Much Should I be Watering my Plants?
That can be a tough landscape question. Hard to know sometimes, and there is not always a right answer. Varied factors need to be considered. Does the plant require moist or dry conditions? Has it rained or been dry and windy? How long has the plant been established? Confusing, under-watering can look like over-watering. Leaves wilt, wrinkle and turn brown. But, when plants are under-watered, the leaves are dry and crispy. When over-watered, the leaves are soft and loose. Over-watering will eventually lead to root rot and plant death.
The best test for watering needs is to regularly check the soil for moisture. The easiest test is to insert your index finger into the soil near the roots. Put your finger 2″ into the soil. If soil seems damp and moist, should be fine. Check it again the next days. If soil is dry then water. For trees or larger plant material, check for moisture with a sample using a soil probe. Insert the probe as far as you can into the soil, twist and remove the 'plug'. Check the soil moisture profile and water accordingly.
Always water deeply at ground level to avoid getting water on the leaves and flowers. Water deeply and less often. Get that moisture deep into the soil so the roots go searching for it. That builds better plant roots more able to withstand drought. Always best is best to water in the early morning. This lets the water dry off any leaves, lets it soak in and doesn't leave moist soil overnight when bacteria may grow.
Annual flowers are shallow rooted plants. You will need to water more often, every two or three days in hot summer. It is especially important to water early in the morning to let the plant dry before sun hits the flowers.
These plants also have shallow roots and need more readily available water. Container plants need more frequent watering since the soil is lightweight and there is not a whole lot. Watering is best every day to every other day. If hot and windy , you should check them twice a day because they can dry out quickly. On hanging baskets, you can lift them from the bottom to 'weigh'. That will give you a good idea of how well watered the plants are by how heavy the pot is.
Water annuals around the base, even flooding the bed. Try to avoid overhead watering. Overhead spray watering could damage flowers and foliage. Use a moisture retaining fertilizer to help keep soil moist. Annuals generally prefer to be on the more watered side as they are a more fleshy and herbaceous plant.
Perennial gardens need about 1″-2″ of water a week. That depends on the types of perennials. Native and drought tolerant perennials can go with much less water. IN fact, many perennials prefer dry conditions. Make sure and design your perennial garden with the plants watering needs in mind. A lavender plant that likes it dry would not be happy by a ligularia that likes it wet.
You will absolutely need to regularly deep water your new shrubs and trees for the first year after planting. This means at least once a week setting the hose on a trickle and letting the ground get deep soaked. Set the hose near the base of the plant and leave it on a slow trickle for about 1 to 3 hours. A drip hose or drip irrigation system can take the place where the new planting is more extensive than can be managed with a hose. Water deeply and less frequently. Watch out for the Autumn mentality when people think plants don't need water because it is cooler. Autumn can be the driest time of year and w2e see more plants die of neglect in the Autumn than any other time.
Watering your new landscape plantings is an art. It requires getting your hands into the soil to check soil moisture. It requires getting to know your plants and the signs of thirst – wilting and dry leaves. For Allentown Landscaping and Lehigh Valley Landscaping, each summer brings a new weather pattern. What worked for watering your landscape plants last year, may not work next year. Get to know your plants up close and personal.


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Talking to Rouhani: Is Trump Shooting from the Hip or Following a Script?
Message to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Tel Aviv: Not to worry, US President Donald J. Trump has no intention of meeting his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, unconditionally.
On the contrary, Mr. Trump's surprise announcement that he is willing to talk to Mr. Rouhani is likely part of a plan formulated almost a year before he returned to government service by his national security advisor John R. Bolton.
The announcement took many by surprise and threatened to reinforce the impression, even among America's closest friends in the Middle East, that Mr. Trump was a supportive but unpredictable and unreliable ally.
His offer to talk to Mr. Rouhani appeared to put in doubt his withdrawal in May from the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran's nuclear programme and re-imposition of harsh economic sanctions aimed at destabilizing, if not toppling Iran's government.
Mr. Bolton's plan suggests otherwise.
He published his plan, drafted at the request of Mr. Trump's then strategic advisor, Steve Bannon, in August of last year after he had lost hope of presenting it to the president in person.
The president's offer puts Iran in a bind. Refusal to talk serves Mr. Trump's purpose. An agreement to engage would have increased domestic hardline pressure on the Iranian president and involved him in discussions that given US policy had little chance of success.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Rouhani advisor Hamid Aboutalebi said as much in separate statements in the wake of Mr. Trump's offer.
"If the Iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people, reduce their malign behavior, can agree that it's worthwhile to enter in a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation, then the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with him," Mr. Pompeo clarified.
Mr. Aboutalebi suggested that Mr. Rouhani would be willing to meet Mr. Trump if he demonstrated "respect for the great nation of Iran," returned to the nuclear deal, and reduced his hostility towards the Islamic republic.
Mr. Aboutalebi was probably referring not only to Mr. Trump's long-standing anti-Iranian bluster as well as his withdrawal from the agreement and re-imposition of sanctions, but also to Mr. Bolton's plan that appears to embody the guidelines of the president's policy.
"With Israel and selected others, we will discuss military options. With others in the Gulf region, we can also discuss means to address their concerns from Iran's menacing behaviour," the plan suggests.
Few believe that either the United States or Iran wants a direct military confrontation.
Mr. Bolton as well as other associates of Mr. Trump have however been unequivocal in their calls for regime change in Tehran and their support for demands for the violent overthrow of the Iranian government by an Iranian exile group that is well-connected with Western governments and political elites but has little apparent support in Iran.
So has Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former head of the kingdom's intelligence service and past ambassador to Britain and the United States, who is believed to often echo views that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman prefers not to voice himself.
Mr. Bolton's plan contains building blocks for attempts to destabilize Iran not only by squeezing it economically but also by spurring insurgencies among the country's ethnic minorities.
The plan envisions official US support "for the democratic Iranian opposition," "Kurdish national aspirations in Iran, Iraq and Syria," and assistance for Baloch in the Pakistani province of Balochistan and Iran's neighbouring Sistan and Balochistan province as well as Iranian Arabs in the oil-rich Iranian province of Khuzestan. It also suggests expedited delivery of bunker-buster bombs to US allies.
Mustafa Hijri, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), met last month during a visit to Washington at the invitation of the Trump administration with Steven Fagin, the then head of the State Department's Office of Iranian Affairs, who has since been appointed counsel general in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
A Saudi think tank, believed to be backed by Prince Mohammed, called last year in a study for Saudi support for a low-level Baloch insurgency in Iran.


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Q: How to create an isolated DOM Element? One that doesn't inherit css from parents etc I am providing a widget to my users. They include my JS api in a script tag. Once they have a <div class="PutWidgetHere" /> in their body tag, I aim to render an image and a text box inside the div.
My JS api finds the div with class=PutWidgetHere. It appends an image element and then an input type=text element. The input must be placed right at the center of the image so I use absolute positioning relative to the div, z-index and a couple other css properties.
All in all, I am able to accomplish this fine on a blank page. However, if I integrate my widget on a populated page, say the homepage of StackOverflow, things get ugly. It still works but looks ugly. Mostly because my input text inherits CSS properties from the page such as padding, margin, hover etc.
How can I prevent the page from messing with my widget?
Upon research, I found out that you can't disable inheriting of CSS properties for an element. For padding and margin, I could overwrite them using !important but I cannot do this for all possible CSS properties my input could inherit?
I thought of placing an iframe inside the div. But then this makes it impossible for my image and input elements to talk with the host page. Plus, an iframe (borderless) that hosts an image and a button might mess with the parent page?
Any suggestions on how to isolate my input text from parent CSS is welcome :)

A: Get all styles that makes everything ugly and insert them into style property of element, with has highest priority then id and class styles.
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You can also add some unique ID to your element and create custom stylesheet. You can either add <style> with html, or load <style> with javascript, or add  to  tag later after page load.
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Here is example of styles override http://jsfiddle.net/zhhxC/


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https://www.law.com/2020/11/17/former-alito-clerk-dana-remus-is-named-biden-white-house-counsel/
The White House. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi
Former Alito Clerk Dana Remus Is Named Biden White House Counsel
Remus earlier clerked for Judge Anthony Scirica on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The Yale Law School graduate was formerly an associate at the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a Wall Street powerhouse.
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Dana Remus, who served as general counsel on Joe Biden's presidential campaign, was named Tuesday the top White House lawyer, the transition team said in a statement.
Under the Obama administration, Remus was the deputy White House counsel for ethics. She was previously a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she specialized in judicial ethics and the regulation of the legal profession.
'He Refused': Attorneys React as Jan. 6 Committee Refers Criminal Charges for Trump
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Crowell & Moring Pro Bono Team Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Ruling That Promised New Trial in 1989 Murder Case
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Lawyers Oppose Proposed Rule Change Requiring Notice of Visual Aid Use in Trials
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Best Of :: Sports & Recreation
Best of Dallas® /// Sports & Recreation /// 2014
Bike MS, previously known as the MS150, is a major annual fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and a two-day cycling event in various cities. For DFW's iteration, the Sam's Club Round-Up Ride in May, route options vary from 48 to 163 miles. Because of these varying levels of experience, and because many participants in Bike MS actually have MS, the ride is not only one of the area's most inspiring cycling events, but it's easily the most well-supported. Well-supported in terms of sponsors, sure, but in this case, well-supported in terms of rider relief. Approximately every 10 or 15 miles waits a themed rest stop stocked with cheering folks, snacks, random forms of electrolytes, hydration stations, medical tents, free bike repair and clean shitters. There are even volunteers to stand with riders' bikes while they take advantage of such offerings. Knowing that support is ahead can be what keeps a rider going for another eight miles even when the chip seal road is making his or her hands go numb. And if riders need to stop, well, SAG van drivers are charming and kind. Plus, they too have water and snacks.
Going to a yoga class should, above all things, be stress-free, which is why Karmany Yoga, with its welcoming vibe and no-strings-attached policies, is our pick for Dallas' best yoga studio. Karmany is a donation-based studio and there are no packages, plans or contracts to navigate. Simply show up, sign in and pay what you can for the class you take. While their easy-come-easy-go policies might get you into your yoga pants and through the door, it's their experienced, encouraging instructors who will have you coming back to the mat for more. At Karmany, you'll find classes in a variety of styles — from Iyengar to Power Flow — all led by knowledgeable instructors, eager to assist you in your yogic journey with a peaceful, positive practice.
5014 McKinney Ave., Dallas, 75205
karmanyyoga.com
March 1 of this year marked the only day of 2014 that one could safely do yoga on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, a place that is more or less just a giant freeway decorated by an expensive arch. The event was put on by the Trinity Commons Foundation as part of a series of events celebrating all of the city's expensive new Trinity River-related projects, with co-sponsorship from the city of Dallas. One of the criticisms of the bridge is that it's difficult to enjoy since it's cars only — there aren't any sidewalks. The free yoga event was a rare exception. The event offered both a regular yoga and family yoga class, asking for a $5 donation from each adult. Afterward, there were lots of awesome, scenic photographs posted online featuring athletic people doing their poses with the arch and skyline in the background. The event doesn't happen very often — March's event was only the second Yoga on the Bridge, but it's a strong message to the city's planners designing future projects along the river: We have feet, and we like to use them.
After more than three decades at Channel 8, Dale Hansen is the sportscaster who gets away with wearing Hawaiian shirts and shorts when covering Cowboys training camp, bashing his own station and issuing smart-ass wisecracks. But he also has a more thoughtful side, too. His famous Michael Sam commentary, which went wildly viral and got him a Valentine's Day guest spot on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, proved to football fans and gay-rights advocates nationwide what his Dallas viewers already knew from his children's charity work, his Scholar-Athlete of the Week awards and his 2011 "Thank God for Kids" segment in which he recounted being sexually abused and urged viewers not to keep such ugly crimes in the darkness so that victims wouldn't be ashamed to come forward. Whether it's picking apart Jerry Jones' boneheaded moves as GM or addressing sticky societal issues that creep into sports, Hansen shapes the conversation in Dallas.
Years ago, Don Carter's and Jupiter Lanes were the epitome of cool old-school bowling alleys. They looked vintage even then, reeked of cigarette smoke and cheap concession food, and the glove-wearing teams of bowlers proved these lanes were the real deal even if they were pretty affordable. Alas, they are gone, but if we can't have them anymore, at least we can have a place that looks that old and cheap. Bowlounge isn't cheap, and with ancient scoring machines that seem to miscount pins a few times every round, it's not for serious bowlers. But the lanes, pin-setters and scoring, salvaged from an East Texas alley facing demolition, give off such a comforting nostalgic vibe that a little bit of scorekeeping chaos is easily overlooked. And we'll take Twisted Root burgers over stale, neon-cheese-topped nachos any day.
167 Turtle Creek Blvd., Dallas, 75207
bowlounge.com
Find the big hill off Mountain Creek Parkway and Eagle Ford Drive. Climb through the pearly white gates. Ignore the sprawling evangelical complex/prayer center up top. Park in the clearing beneath the electrical transformer. From there, follow the signs to 22 miles of some of the best off-road biking trails in Dallas. How the Dallas Off-Road Bicycle Association managed to pack that much trail on that hilltop is a mystery. But with plenty of technical twists and a good number of exhilarating descents, you'll be glad they did.
From a policy standpoint, the Dallas City Council's decision to repeal an ordinance requiring adult cyclists to wear helmets was the most important step toward bike friendliness, since it sliced through the problem of how users of a future bike share system would protect their heads. Symbolically, it was the council's decision to lift a ban on "stunt riding," which made things like wheelies and riding without one's hands on the handlebars a ticketable offense. Because nothing says mindless over-regulation like a wheelie ban. We are hoping, but not betting, that this marks a new era in rational city government.
Once upon a time, a young Lee Trevino launched his professional golf career at Tenison Park by hustling any player foolish enough to challenge him. A half century later, any budding PGA legends are probably refining their game elsewhere, though Tenison Park, particularly the Highlands course, is a solid choice for Dallas' budget-minded amateurs. Renovated a decade ago, the city-owned course offers tree-lined fairways and hilly terrain that offer a fun, scenic challenge.
3501 Samuel Blvd., Dallas, 75223
tenisonpark.com
There was a time in the not too distant past when one could walk up to the Moody Coliseum box office at game time, buy a ticket and pick a seat from the thousands of empty ones that ring the arena. No longer. Larry Brown has lifted the Mustangs into respectability, knocking off four top 25 teams — including two victories over eventual national champion UConn — en route to an NIT finals appearance, and turning the team into a hot ticket. They were screwed out of what should have been their first NCAA tournament appearance in decades, but if the pattern holds, they'll be invited to the big dance next year.
Few political movements have been more successful yet under-the-radar than Critical Mass, an unofficial bike ride held in cities nationwide on the last Friday of every month. The point is to remind motorists that bicycles are vehicles entitled to use city streets, so please stop running them over. Dallas' Critical Mass is also just a fun way to meet people, attracting a friendly crowd that's happy to spend a few hours exploring together without knowing the destination point. The turnout tends to be stronger in the warmer months, with July's event getting a crowd that appeared to be at least 400-strong. All cyclists (or occasionally, someone dressed in in-line skates or just jogging clothes) are invited to join the fun at Main Street Garden for a 7:30 p.m. meet-up and 8 p.m. departure. The ride is slow enough to welcome riders of all skill levels and ends at a different bar each time.
Every player claims he'll do whatever it takes to help his team win a championship. But would they put their money where their mouths are? Dirk Nowitzki did, accepting a three-year, $25 million deal — a whopping cut from making nearly that much in a single season last year — in order to give the Mavericks the financial flexibility to bring in Chandler Parsons. In doing so, he didn't even entertain max-level offers from the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets, leaving $72 million on the table. Let that sink in for a moment and then have a good laugh imagining how quickly LeBron James would have walked out the door if Cleveland offered him $72 million less than any other team. For bringing the Larry O'Brien championship trophy to Dallas in 2011, Nowitzki would have gone down in sports history as one of the greatest and most beloved players to ever set foot in the town. But his insistence on staying in Dallas until he retires and taking a humbling pay cut to do so makes him a saint.
Kiest Park had a fine tree-lined, shaded running and biking path, a favorite spot for South Oak Cliff residents to exercise and people watch. In fact, it was becoming so popular that it would be uncomfortably crowded on good-weather days. The asphalt was cracked, buckled and even missing in a couple patches. In short, it was in need of a serious makeover. And that's what it's getting, as the city tears up the old blacktop and lays down fresh concrete, widening the paths and adding some new ones while they're at it. The temporary fencing blocking off areas still in progress is ugly and inconvenient, but it looks like it will be worth the wait.
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Our latest user seminar for our customers in Scotland will be taking place on Tuesday 25th April 2017 in Glasgow from 9:30 – 15:30.
The format of the day will be similar to last year and will include an update on some of the new features we have added to our waste management solutions in the last few months and an overview of other product releases and developments that are now available to you. There will also be the opportunity for you to feed back suggested improvements and enhancements that you would like to see in our solutions going forward, so please come with some ideas.
Everyone should now have received their invitations with further information available on our client portal. If you would like to book places, please contact Ailie in the London office.


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Late Flurry Falls Short As CSU Loses 70-68 To Boise State
A highly improbable comeback that nearly had a miracle finish would have been a great story. It would have overcome nearly 30 minutes of OK effort and decent play and maybe put the Rams over the top. But it didn't as the Rams have only themselves to blame for finishing on the wrong side of the final score.
They had won the turnover battle by 3, they had won the rebounding battle by 14 including an amazing offensive rebounding edge of 14-2. The result was that they created 18 more shots from the field than their opponents. Those are numbers that usually result in big wins. But not this time.
And the reason is simple.
One of my favorite coaches used to spout a line that holds true.
"The aggressor always wins."
And it was the lack of aggression that was CSU's downfall.
Defensively they were not running through screens hard enough and they were not as close and physical with their on ball defense. Boise was cold for the first 8 minutes opening 3-12 but shot about 75% from the field over the final 30 minutes as a result. It was OK effort by the Rams, just not winning effort.
Offensively they found themselves a bit flummoxed when Boise shifted to a 2-3 zone which brought the pace to the Bronco's liking. CSU remained perimeter focused and when they got the ball into the paint they settled for midrange shots rather than attacking the rim. Coming into the game Boise regularly put MWC opponents on the free throw line. The Rams shot 0 free throws in the first half!
The Rams trailed by 5 at the half but the second half opened with promise as JD Paige made his way to the rim and was fouled! He converted the two free throws.
They were to be the last free throws until the final four minutes. Boise continued to exploit the Rams inside and out and when they pushed their lead to 11, the Broncos seemed well on their way to scoring a nice road win.
CSU had struggled from the perimeter after making a few three's early but somehow heated up enough to make it a game down the stretch, led by Anthony Masinton-Bonner and Hyron Edwards. The Rams were within three with the ball inside 20 seconds but a smart foul on Nico Carvacho inside of 10 seconds forced a missed front end of a 1-and-1, the Rams fouled, and Boise converted a free throw to lead by 4.
Game over?
Not quite as JD Paige was fouled shooting a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds. The Rams only chance was for Paige to make the first two, then somehow tip ia miss and put the game into OT.
Paige drained the first and then the second. He missed the third perfectly and Carvacho came flying across the lane, grabbed the ball, and just missed at the buzzer.
It would have been a finish for the ages to put the game into OT but it wasn't to be. Boise had done just enough to walk away with a win.
The Rams had played OK. They had shared the ball to the tune of 22 assists on 27 made baskets. They had missed a bunch of open looks from the perimeter but still had chances to get back into the game.
Hopefully they learned a lesson. Games aren't won by accident or by talent. They are won by the team that plays harder over 40 minutes.
Hopefully they learned that the aggressor always wins.
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THE Shrimps will kick off the new season with a trip to Hartlepool on Saturday August 8th.
Jim Bentley's side will then have the early prospect of facing local rivals Accrington Stanley in their first home game of the campaign seven days later after the fixture list threw up an early derby clash.
There is an early trip to League 2 newcomers Yeovil on September 5 while two other newcomers, Crawley and Orient, visit the Globe in the same week in October.
The Boxing Day fixture sees the Shrimps play host to Mansfield while once again the season ends at home with York City travelling to the Globe.
The fixtures are subject to change.


However, about a month ago (I know, I'm super-late on this) I had an "Oh my gosh, I'm a blogger" moment. The ever-so-lovely Rose from How Do You Say Taco in Spanish nominated me for the One Lovely Blog Award. Go check out her blog HERE–she spent lots of time as an expat in Mexico–and the expat community is a close one online. Thank you so much for the nomination, Rose!
1. I only watch one football game a year–Lafayette vs. Lehigh. This year, the Pards won the 150th meeting, which was held at Yankee Stadium. Despite being on a last-minute trip to the US, I wasn't able to get tickets and get it all sorted out to physically be there. Instead, I had my parents TiVo it, and they got the joy of watching me watch the game, despite knowing absolutely nothing about it. And you know what? It's not as fun without the tailgating. But still, GO LAFAYETTE!
2. I only majored in Spanish in college because there was only a two class difference between the minor and the major. I figured, why not? I honestly had no plans to ever use my Spanish again–and here I am!
3. I find going back to the States after a few months to be a jarring experience–so much consumerism, so fast-paced, just so American. I've found the best way to reintegrate myself into US culture is to eat at a Mexican restaurant–I don't need to remember what language I'm speaking after being in transit for 30 hours.
4. I desperately miss stupid little things from the States: I miss flushing toilet paper (the sewer system can't handle it here, so there's a trash can in every stall). I miss the little ledge underneath shopping carts (you know, the one you always rest your foot on while you're waiting to check out?). It's really the silly little things.
5. I found out that I love spinning classes. I tried to do Jillian Michael's Body Revolution, got about halfway through, and then somehow lost momentum. At that point, I joined what I call the "disco gym" (for its disco ball) and now do spin class three times a week. It's super-old school (I think the bikes are from the mid-70s), but is a great workout. The only downside? There's no air conditioning in the gym–so it's definitely a hot workout when it's 100 degrees outside!
6. Our visiting coworkers have learned the way to T and my hearts is easy: tabasco sauce, buffalo sauce, peanut butter, and Reese's peanut butter cups. One of our bosses recently surprised us with an amazing care package–lots of American foods like peanut butter cups, candy canes, stuffing, cheesecake mix, and pumpkin pie filling. I may or may not have nearly cried looking at some of it.
7. I am slowly cutting out soda from my diet. It's a long, hard road–but I'm trying it. So far, I've gone since November 15 with absolutely no soda whatsoever! (The longest I have gone in… years.) We'll see if it sticks this time. Who knows, maybe I'll take up mate to get my caffeine fix!
1. Ruins and Relics –I love museums, and this blog does the greatest hits, plus always gives me another off-the-beaten-path one to put on my list.
2. Diary of a Rig Wife –Because I know what it's like to be the trailing spouse, and I love how real the blog is. It's the ups and downs of expat life.
4. When North Met South –Another Argentina expat, based in BA.
5. Teaching Wanderlust — An awesome blog about teaching in Venezuela. Definitely one of the countries I'm intrigued by (though a little intimidating to visit)!
I know it's not 15–but I'm choosing quality over quantity!
It's been a busy week at work, plus we've been trying to do some online shopping for the holidays! However, on Sunday we managed to figure out an Argentinian version of Thanksgiving. We invited over one of our coworkers, and we ended up making a feast of roast chicken (no turkeys in Argentina!), stuffing (smuggled for the States), mashed potatoes, and green beans. We were supposed to have brownies for dessert, but I'm still getting used to baking in Argentina. Not only did I not have a brownie pan, but it's just a dial on the oven without any numbers–so everything was a guess. The end result? A bit of a burned brownie. Oh well, guess we're just going to have to put it on top of some of our famous banana ice cream.


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Proposed Amendments Submitted to the Ministry of Lands and Human Settlements Development
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A comprehensive legal analysis highlighting gaps and recommendations in the four selected land related legislations in Tanzania.
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Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (HAKIARDHI)
The Land Rights Research & Resources Institute was founded in 1994 and registered as a non-governmental not-for profit company limited by guarantee under the Companies Ordinance, Chapter 212 of the laws of Tanzania.
The Institute was established out of the need to generate and sustain a public debate and participation, particularly where it matters in villages on issues of land tenure.
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Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT)
The Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT) was established to ensure Tanzania's environment and natural resources are sustainably managed.
Their mission is to enhance the capacity and participation of the people in sub-Saharan Africa to sustainably manage their natural resources and environment through legal, policy and other strategic interventions.
LEAT's major activities are conducting legal and social-policy research, advocacy work, public interest litigation and giving legal advice.
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Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC)
The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) is a private, autonomous, voluntary non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit sharing organization envisioning a just and equitable society. It has a mission of empowering the people of Tanzania, so as to promote, reinforce and safeguard human rights and good governance in the country. The broad objective is to create legal and human rights awareness among the public and in particular the underprivileged section of society through legal and civic education, advocacy linked with legal aid provision, research and human rights monitoring.
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Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania (MVIWATA)
Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Tanzania (MVIWATA) is a national farmers organisation which brings together small holder farmers from all regions of Tanzania in order to have a common voice to defend economic, social, cultural and political interests of smallholder farmers. Founded in 1993, MVIWATA aspires to empower smallholder economically and socially farmers through capacity building and undertake lobbying and advocacy especially by strengthening their groups and networks, facilitating communication and learning so that they are capable of defending their interests.
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Pastoralists Indigenous Non Governmental Organizations Forum (PINGO's Forum)
The Pastoralists Indigenous Non Governmental Organizations Forum (PINGO's FORUM) is an advocacy coalition of indigenous peoples organizations who are currently 53, working in Tanzania for the rights of the marginalized indigenous pastoralists and Hunter-gatherers communities. It was established in 1994 by six pastoralists and hunter gatherers organizations in their struggle for land right and development agenda
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Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT)
Some of East Africa's most traditional pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities are currently at great risk of loosing their land and resources due to progressive land encroachment and lack of representation in modern Tanzania.
UCRT works to empower marginalised people in the rangelands of northern Tanzania to secure rights to their natural resources and land.
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Women Legal Aid Centre (WLAC)
A non-profit NGO that works to empower women to attain their rights and to improve vulnerable population's access to justice across Tanzania.
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