TNA World Champion Kurt Angle joined Brian Fritz and Vito DeNucci on the March 18th edition of Between The Ropes to discuss the inaugural live Impact broadcast next week, an upcoming fight against Randy Couture this year, and much more.
DeNucci mentioned the common complaints among fans, wrestlers, and journalists regarding the all-to-frequent gimmick bouts and constant match interference which seem to dominate TNA PPVs and television shows. Angle agrees that these things must be toned down and insisted the company is addressing those issues. "It's been talked about. The ref bumps, also unclean finishes, run-ins, that kind of stuff has all been talked about. We're going to tighten that up, not have so many interruptions, have those clean finishes even if a heel goes over on a babyface. We're working on all that stuff, that stuff is definitely going to be cleaned up." Kurt went on to say that TNA is looking to move toward a more serious, MMA-type of atmosphere beginning at Lockdown. "(Samoa Joe) isn't going to be on TV for the next three weeks because he's training for our match. We're going to have an MMA-style match at the Pay-Per-View and this is the beginning of what TNA is going to start doing." The Olympian noted his "open training camp" which will air on this Thursday's Impact, stating that he legitimately knocked out one of his training partners during the segment.
Angle referred to the Big Show-Floyd Mayweather WrestleMania showdown as a "clown match" due to the size differential between both men and feels that many TNA supporters will be on hand for WWE's premier event of the year. "When they have their Pay-Per-View down in Orlando, a lot of fans are going to be chanting, 'TNA!' That's our territory." The gold medalist believes that his Lockdown match with Samoa Joe will outperform the Mayweather-Show clash and said TNA's goal is to compete with WWE by placing emphasis on in-ring ability.
It's no secret that Angle has entertained the idea of stepping into a mixed martial arts arena at some point in the near future. Kurt addressed his desire to become involved in the MMA world and said he has spoken with each fighting organization. "I've been very adamant and serious about doing it. But when it comes down to it, they will not give me the numbers I want. And I'm not asking for astronomical figures, but I have asked for a seven-figure deal, because if I'm going to do it, I know it's going to be a big draw." The TNA Titleholder claimed that he turned down stock offers in some MMA companies, saying that he prefers money to stocks and PPV buy-rate percentages.
Kurt dropped a bombshell by stating that he has signed with an MMA promotion to fight Randy Couture later in the year. "Finally, I find an organization - and I can't tell you who it is right now - but I signed, we're both signed on to do it, me and Randy Couture. It's probably going to happen in late-summer, early-fall. I'm starting my training this week coming up." Angle assured everyone that he will be ready for the Couture fight when it occurs and said TNA has approved this endeavor.
To hear this interview in its entirety - including further discussion with Kurt Angle regarding TNA creative, his thoughts on the current state of WWE, Ric Flair being inducted into the Hall of Fame, and why Kurt turned down a lucrative offer from Dana White to fight in the UFC - visit the show online at http://www.BetweenTheRopes.com, where you can also become a site member and access hundreds of previous BTR broadcasts and interviews. Join Brian Fritz, Vito DeNucci, and Dickerman for Between The Ropes every Tuesday night from 6:00-8:00 PM ET on ESPN Florida AM 1080 and AM 1060 and worldwide on BetweenTheRopes.com.


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I think it has to been two years since I started this cardigan. Much has been made in the meantime, but this one is still in the UFO heap. It is not a very advanced pattern, only one color in moss stitch. Still, I always make mistakes that need to be taken up and done again, which is so frustrating. But unlike other projects I haven't finished, I always feel some extra guilt every time I see this one. Not just because of unused yarn and lack of enthusiasm from my part. But because another member of a Facebook knitting-group took time out off her own free time, and met me at a café to help me with it. It was incredibly kind of her. She didn't know me, only than I could need her knitting skills and knowledge. I get renewed faith in humanity again when I meet such nice people, so it's a bit extra sad that I never seem to get this cardigan finished.
I think her goodness is a good picture of the kindness in the online crafting community.
So this is a shout out to you all. You are amazingly awesome!
A sample ball is ready and I have begun my first ball with a pattern. I have never knitted with more than one colour on five needles before, and have to realise that this may take a while. I bought some shorter knitting needles and that helped, but it's not going fast anyway. On the other hand, it's a nice Christmas atmosphere here.
There is a #sewphotohop challenge going on at Instagram now , and yesterday's theme was plans. There is so much I want to sew – and the "to do" list are just getting longer and longer. It really could be an idea to get a better overview.
The first thing I'm going to sew is this Chloe coat from Sew Over It. I have started preparations and hope to start sewing tomorrow. It would have been nice if it was done over a fortnight. The cold winter are coming quickly, and it would be great to be able to used it a few times before raincoats and cotton jackets have to be replaced with wool and bubble jackets.
The next project will be a "selfless" project. I want to sew something for my niece. For a while back I won some patches I would like to sew onto a dress. But I have postponed it because I lack experience, and the dress pattern I have bought seems so complicated. I have for a while now wanted to sew a shirt for my man, but again I postponed because it's no fun to give away a garment with lots of mistakes.
Something I've missed in the wardrobe for a long time is a cardigan, and the other day I came across this pattern from Muse. It ended up in the top four priority list. There is also a #cosycardichallenge on Instagram that would be fun to participate in.
This was four from a long list of projects I want to sew, so we'll see if I can stick to the plan or if I will stray away with a new and exciting project.
It's a cold, windy and just a little bit rainy day outside – you know just the perfect day for staying inside, sewing with a good conscience. In Norway we don't have that many sunny days, so when we do you kinda feel you have to take advantage of it.
But today I'm cutting out my fabric, and feeling the promise of an new garment. It's a new start and I'm loving it.
I just hope I have chosen the right fabric. It's a quite soft heavyweight cotton, but it has some hold to it. It also fringe a little bit too easily, so I think I'll stay stitch the whole coat.
The calendar shows September and autumn is officially here. That means trees in beautiful colors, dark evenings with candles and last but not least evenings indoors. But it also means that we will have to wear a jacket again, and this year I want to sew it myself. It has not been easy to choose a pattern, because I wanted it to be easy to sew without it looking cheap and simple. I ended up choosing Sew Over It's Chloe Coat. The coat is classical and can be used with most of my outfits, but the tipping point for a not so experienced seamstress like me, was the sew along.
Fabric for coat and lining is purchased and on its way to the washing machine.
When I started to knit I ended up with a big yarn stash, which I'm not sure I will ever be able to use up in my lifetime. It fills up a big bookshelf, an almost as big drawer and some boxes as well. We don't have the biggest apartment so we need every bit of spare space we have. And now I have taken up half of our basement storeroom with yarn, and our living room are starting to look like a sewing room. I think I must have the most patient boyfriend ever. For that reason I'm trying to use up some of my fabric stash, before his patience runs out.
And since I have been eyeballing the new Zadie dress from Tillys for a while, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to use up some of my fabric. I let the fabric onto the table and had a look.
I decided to go for the flower print, and just buy some black for the panels, which I easily could buy online to avoid all the temptations in a fabric store. But when I lay the pattern over the fabric I didn't have enough fabric, I needed more of the same sort.
Only to get home, and realize that the fabric I just bought didn't have enough stretch in it.
So I was back to the beginning, and couldn't go back to the fabric store yet again. I had to go for something I already owned. I cut out the front & back bodies, pocket facing, front & back skirt in some black and gray fabric. And the arm, side back & front panel, and neckband in some plain gray. Perhaps I should have cut the colors the other way around, but the gray fabric is much lighter than the striped one, and I wasn't sure it would have held the skirt in place.
I made a FBA even though the fabric is stretchable. I have quite a full bosom, so when I was going to stitch the pieces together they had been adjusted to much and wouldn't fit together any more.
The finished result is okay, but it could have been better if the fabric was in the same weight, and the FBA had worked better. Even so I will be dancing in my Zadie dress until the next time we meet.
Rachel at Sew RED-Y has declared February to be the month to show off all those sewing failures. I have some hidden away in the closet, but wouldn't you guess there's a failed make right there on my sewing table.
This make was ment to be # 3 in the Deep Stash Challenge hosted by the Facebook Group "Sew Alongs & Sewing Contests". It should have been a beautiful Marigold from Tilly and the Buttons. Marigold is a summer pattern and therefore meant to be sewn in light and draped fabric. Well, I thought I would give it a try in some cord anyway, so I wouldn't have to wait until summer to use it. But as most of you probably have guessed by now – that didn't work out as I had thought. To be honest, there's so much extra fabric around the waist and crotch, that it seems like I'm wearing a diaper.
Well, I had some second thoughts about using cord before I decided to have a go. I browsed the internet for pictures of cord trousers to have a look at how the legs were. I found that I liked the ones with wide legs the best, so I added 1,5 cm to the legs. Hoping that the fabric would hang better and compensate for the lack of drape. I also tried to pack the fabric around my waist to see if the fabric would make rigid edges, but the cord was (and is) super soft so it looked ok. In my head the cord Marigold looked amazing, and I started to sew with great optimism.
It's sad that the fabric didn't work, because I really like the softness in it, and I think it would have been perfect for some trousers or in a shirt.
So there you have it, my Marigold is laying on my sewing table (or our dining table), and I don't know what to do with it. But at least I'm one experience richer.
Some time ago I was the happy winner of a giveaway. Sheila at LaCarteradesigns was celebrating her 4 year Blogiversary and kindly had a giveaway-party!
It took me some time, but here's my newest make: the Megan dress. It is also a Tilly and the Buttons pattern. (I guess I have a pattern company crush:-) This one is from the book "Love at first Stitch".
I decided it needed lining, since it is freezing cold outside and because I was afraid the dress would be see through in the summer time, when the sun is shining at its brightest. So far so good, for little could I know I needed to hand stitch the lining to the dress all the way down the zipper, or that I would hate it so absolutely. Let's hope that that will change in the future, fingers crossed. That being said, the fabric I used for lining wasn't so hard to sew with as I feared.
The dress will also serve as my make number two in the SSW; Deep Stash.
All in all I'm pleased with the dress, but I had to take the side seams in 1,5 cm so next time I will make it in a smaller size and rather make an FBA.
It's kinda strange how easily a stash is created. I have only been sewing for about six months, and already I have filled up one dresser. I can only imagine what it can grow into if I don't take action and do something about it. So when I stumbled over the Facebook group "Sew Along & Sewing Contests", and they were having a deep stash contest, I thought "why not?"- even though my pattern and fabric stash isn't that old yet.
First, I tried to get an overview, and my guess is that there will be a lot of summer clothes since most of the patterns that have been queued are from my very start. Perhaps I will be ready for "self-made May", if the summer here in Norway comes early.
The first stash-make I did, was a Coco dress from "Tilly and the Buttons". I find this sweater super cozy, and I have been wearing it a lot since I made it.
Actually, I have made it once before, but I have been meaning to make another one with some adjustments to it, to make it more my style. But as it is more fun to make something new it has been pushed down the queue. And it would probably still be in it, if it hadn't been for the "Deep Stash Contest".


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By Stephen Seigel
C'MON GET HAPPY: Man, talk about irony. The new album from Glasgow's Mogwai is called Happy Songs for Happy People, which is doubly ironic 'cause not only are these songs not very happy, these songs aren't really songs. But, as anyone who's familiar with them knows (except those who write them off as pretentious, Scottish twits, anyway), in the case of Mogwai, that's not a bad thing.
What the band has perfected instead of songs (Mogwai mostly trade in instrumentals) are albums that flow seamlessly along their own path in dynamic fashion: drony, narcotic, repetitive, quiet passages ebb and flow, slowly building into dramatic and powerful crescendos--sometimes, anyway. Sometimes they just drift off into the next passage, and then, before you even have a chance to check what track number you're on, the album is over.
Presto! You've just spent 44 minutes staring at the wall, lost in heavy-duty, booty-numbing thought, with Mogwai's spacey sonic bliss as your soundtrack. Now get outside and go for a bike ride or something, willya?
If you're partial to the slow build of bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor! or the Dirty Three, don't miss this. Word has it that the shows on the band's current tour--whose only Arizona stop is Tucson--have been the best of Mogwai's career.
Openers Isis do the very same thing (sorta), except they never get quite as dreamy as Mogwai, and their crescendos pummel you with relentlessly chugging guitars, and throat-shredding screams. Sorta like if Mogwai yelled more and recorded for Amphetamine Reptile (Isis resides on Ipecac; Mogwai on Matador).
Mogwai and Isis perform at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St. Admission is $12. For more information, dial up 884-0874.
SEXY BOYS: Toss the Constantines' latest, Shine a Light (2003, Sub Pop), into the CD changer, listen to the first song, and you're tempted to write 'em off as yet another jumper on the angular, post-punk bandwagon. Keep listening, though, and things get mighty different.
Read any review of the band, and you'll eventually get to the line that calls them "Joe Strummer fronting Fugazi," or, alternately, "Bruce Springsteen fronting Fugazi." In spots, it's hard to argue with either. But such simple deductions leave much out: inventive arrangements that employ lots of organ, plus strings and horns for punctuation, and are far more varied in tone than Fugazi's; lyrics that work as great poetry on the written page (think about it--rarer than you think); a refreshing lack of pretentiousness; singer/guitarist Bry Webb's fucking amazing voice, which, in addition to the aforementioned comparisons, leaves lipstick traces of Britt Daniel, while managing a soulful earthiness all its own; not to mention the sheer sensuality of the big picture.
Better yet, let's do mention it.
You know how everyone always talks about how sexy Girls Against Boys are? How they make you want to get drunk in a smoky dive bar, then go home and fuck 'til you're dry? Well, frankly, I never got it. The Constantines are the band that I always wanted GvsB to be.
The Constantines open for ex-Propagandhi frontman John K Samson's new band, the Weakerthans, on Saturday, Sept. 20, at Skrappy's, 201 E Broadway. The all-ages show kicks off at 7 p.m. with sets from ROY and Camp Courageous. Questions? Call 358-4287.
APPETITE FOR TROUBLE: Oft compared to the Gun Club on their latest album, Get Well Soon (2003, Gold Standard Laboratories), Los Angeles' the Starvations come off like shady urban vampires with a mighty hefty thirst for moonshine, which is to say, they sound a lot like a twangier version of the Bad Seeds, with a bit of a Celtic touch tossed in, as they warble their tales of substance abuse and its attendant relationship problems.
The Starvations perform two shows on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The early, all-ages show starts at 7 p.m. at Skrappy's, 201 E. Broadway, with the band opening for the Mean Reds, along with the Knockout Pills, the Okmoniks and Annexia. Later that night, the 21-and-over crowd can enjoy a delicious alcoholic beverage (or nine) while watching the Okmoniks and the Mean Reds open for the Starvations at about 9:30 at Vaudeville Cabaret, 110 E. Congress St. You can reach Skrappy's at 358-4287 and Vaudeville at 622-3535.
COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL: Through their many appearances here in the last few years, Chicago's Oh My God have won over hoards of musically adventurous Tucsonans. Equipped with a powerful and flabbergastingly precise drummer, in Bish; a former blues organist who once worked with the likes of Junior Wells, Van Morrison, and Buddy Guy, but who now often distorts his rig to the point of sounding more like a fuzzed-out Stratocaster, and goes by the name of Iguana; and singer and sometimes-bassist Bill O'Neill, whose dramatic flair and passionate vocals seem at first somewhat incongruent, but make perfect, tweaked sense a couple minutes in, the band is quirky as all get-out (whatever the hell that means). So, yeah, it's arty, but it's damn infectious, too. If you're one of the few locals who hasn't been converted by Oh My God yet, chances are you haven't seen 'em perform.
Oh My God appear at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St., on Friday, Sept. 19. Chango Malo open at 9:30 p.m., and cover is five bucks. For further details, call 798-1298.
GOING ON INSTINCT: The masses that turned out for Denali's two previous Tucson appearances bought up the band's debut self-titled album (2002, Jade Tree) in droves, and were almost universally disappointed. They played the disc for their friends, who offered up a halfhearted, "Yeah, that's pretty good," to which the disc's owner countered with, "Man, you should have seen 'em live." Such is the case all too often with bands who record their first album before truly gelling as a unit.
Good news comes, then, in the form of Denali's second album, The Instinct, scheduled to be released Oct. 28, also on Jade Tree. (Don't let the band's label fool you; there may be a flood of emotion in Denali's sound, but they're most certainly not emo.) The disc far better captures the tension-and-release of the band's stellar live performances than the debut, and singer/pianist/guitarist Maura Davis' classically trained soprano is jaw-droppingly gorgeous and placed front-and-center in the mix, exactly where it belongs, while the band's lush backing veers from ambient minimalism to wall-of-sound density as needed.
And if they're already selling them at the show, be sure to pick up a copy of The Instinct. You won't be disappointed this time around.
Denali perform an all-ages show on Sunday, Sept. 21, at Solar Culture Gallery, 31 E. Toole Ave. Mala Vita and Electric Turn To Me open at 9 p.m. Admission is $7. For bonus info call 884-0874.
SKY HIGH: Brooding and expansive, ominous and atmospheric, Chicago five-piece Low Skies sound something like a post-post-punk version of the Doors one minute, and a whole lot like the horribly underrated Idaho the next. The band's debut album, The Bed (2003, Flameshovel), is cocksure enough to meander down dangerous, deserted back alleys at 4 in the morning, but human enough to be scared to death by what it finds. The perfect accompaniment to a solitary, late-night desert road trip.
Low Skies perform on Thursday, Sept. 18, at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St. Cathy Rivers opens at 9:30 p.m. Cover is $3. That number again is 798-1298.
LOVE YOUR COUNTRY: Whoda thunk, after Brooks & Dunn's "Boot Scootin' Boogie" first appeared back in 1991, that the mustachioed duo would go any way but follow Billy Ray Cyrus' mullet into one-hit wonder purgatory? Damn if they haven't become one of the biggest acts in mainstream country music. Fresh off an appearance at last weekend's Farm Aid XXVI, B&D are set to headline this week's KIIM-FM Country Music Festival (couldn't they have come up with a name with a little more, um, pizzazz?). Also on the bill are Jamie O'Neal, Dierks Bentley, Mindy McCready and Troy Olsen. The fest starts kickin' up dust at around 3 p.m. (gates at 2 p.m.) on Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Pima County Fairgrounds (take Exit 275 at Houghton Road off Interstate 10). Advance tix are available for $25 at all Chuy's locations, online at www.calproductions.com, or by phone at 1-800-514-ETIX. For more info, call 887-1000.
THAT VOODOO HE DO SO WELL: Scott Aaron Wexton, better known to lovers of spooky organ kitsch as the Voodoo Organist, brings his one-man band act back to town this week in support of his latest cobwebbed platter, The Return of the Voodoo Organist (2003, Witch Doctor). Heavily inspired by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the VO was described last year in these pages by Gene Armstrong as "the sound of a Sunday-morning church service in hell's own roller rink."
The Voodoo Organist performs at 9:30 on Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the lounge at Plush, 340 E. Sixth St. Call 798-1298 for details.
CORRECTION: In the Aug. 28 edition of Soundbites, we misspelled Derek Leveque's name. Additionally, Last Call Brawlers bassist Eric Eulberg and Cathy Woolridge, of Skrappy's, should have been given equal credit along with Joey Siedel for organizing the benefits for the families of Leveque and Fred Janis. We sincerely apologize for the error and omissions.
Stephen Seigel
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Q: Separate drawing from updating in XNA So, I'm making an XNA game for a class at my school. I'd like to set the update rate to 30 times per second, which I've done using this.TargetElapsedTime = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1.0 / 30.0); in my game class. However, this also limits the framerate to 30fps. I've set up my drawing so that it interpolates the location and rotation of everything being drawn, so that it can draw multiple times every update and smooth the values between the updates. How do I tell the game to unlock the framerate, but still keep the update rate at 30 updates per second?

A: It sounds like you are performing update logic inside the Draw loop (the location and rotation interpolation), but the Draw loop doesn't care; all it knows is that Game.Update was not called and so it doesn't have to bother drawing/redrawing anything.
Instead of setting the TargetElapsedTime like you are: in the Update loop, manually keep track of how much time has passed since the last update to determine whether or not you want to run update code.
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*Remember to add the GameTimer object to Game.Components so that it participates in the Game's Update loop otherwise Tick will never fire.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State men's hockey sophomore forward Mason Jobst was named Big Ten First Star of the Week and senior goalie Christian Frey was named third star, earning league star of the week honors for the third week in a row. In addition, Jobst has been named the NCAA Second Star of the Week. Jobst and Frey led the Buckeyes to a 1-0-1-1 weekend at then-No. 1 ranked Penn State last weekend, with a 3-3 overtime tie and shootout win and 6-3 victory to pick up five B1G points.
Jobst had a Big Ten best three goals last week and tied the conference lead with four points. Friday, he tied the game twice in the third period. His first goal came at 6:53 to tie the game at two and he then scored at 13:59, 1:18 after the Nittany Lions had taken a 3-2 lead. Saturday, he scored a power play goal late in the first period for a 2-1 Buckeye lead and he had the primary assist on Matthew Weis' eventual gamewinner just 38 seconds into the third period, breaking a 3-3 tie. Jobst was part of the Buckeye penalty killing unit that was 5-for-5 in the series and on the power play squad that was 2-for-6.
Jobst is on an eight-game point streak, with 16 points, on seven goals and nine assists, in the stretch. He leads the Buckeyes and is third in the Big Ten with 28 points (10g, 18a). In B1G games only he is tied for second with five goals and ranks third with nine points, while he is second with 1.83 points per game.
Frey had 97 saves and a .942 save percentage in the Buckeyes' five-point weekend at Penn State. Friday, he had 56 saves (four shy of his career high), including 23 saves in the first period, 17 in the third and five in overtime. He allowed just one goal in a seven-round shootout, making a stop in the round seven, allowing the Buckeyes to win on Sam McCormick's attempt to close out the round. Saturday he had 41 saves, including stopping all 14 shots he faced in the third as the Buckeyes broke a 3-3 tie en route to the 6-3 win. Seven of his saves came on the penalty kill, including six on a major in the second period.
This is the ninth time in his career Frey has been recognized as a Big Ten Star of the Week and his third time this season. Frey has 35-plus saves in five of his six games in January, with a 1.96 goals-against average and .953 save percentage. In league games he is first with a 2.32 goals-against average and .946 save percentage. On the year he has a .923 save percentage and 2.66 goals-against average.
Jobst, Frey and the No. 8-ranked Buckeyes (12-4-6, 3-2-1-1 B1G) host Wisconsin (11-8-1, 4-2-0-0 B1G) at 7 p.m. Thursday before the series moves to Madison Square Garden in New York City for a 7 p.m. tilt Saturday.


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When it comes to child support, the traditional law in Illinois is that a parent payor's obligation to make child support payments expires when the minor reaches the age of 18 or has graduated from high school, whichever is last to occur as long as all child support is current. Child support arrearages must still be satisfied after the child is emancipated and carries 9% simple interest. 750 ILCS 5/505. This language is not absolute, however. One exception is that a parent can be ordered to contribute to a non-minor child's college education expenses. 750 ILCS 5/513. Moreover, the Illinois legislature has authorized courts to order child support payments be made for the support of non-minor children with disabilities. 750 ILCS 5/513.5. Specifically, the statute states that a court "may award sums of money out of the property and income of either or both parties or the estate of a deceased parent, as equity may require, for the support of a child of the parties who has attained majority when the child is mentally or physically disabled and not otherwise emancipated." 5/513.5(a). The payments can be ordered to be made from one parent directly to the other, to be put in a trust created by the parents for the benefit of the non-minor child with a disability, or to a special needs trust for the sole benefit of the non-minor child with a disability.
What qualifies a non-minor as disabled?
For the purposes of 5/513.5(c), a disabled individual is one who "has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity, has a record of such an impairment, or is regarded as having such an impairment."
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the present and future financial resources of both parties to meet their needs, including, but not limited to, savings for retirement;
the standard of living the child would have enjoyed had the marriage not been dissolved. The court may consider factors that are just and equitable;
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any financial or other resource provided to or for the child including, but not limited to, any Supplemental Security Income, any home-based support provided pursuant to the Home-Based Support Services Law for Mentally Disabled Adults, and any other State, federal, or local benefit available to the non-minor disabled child.
5/513.5(b)
Since 5/513.5 became law on January 1, 2016, the premier case interpreting its application is In re Guardianship of Sanders, 2017 IL App (4th) 160502. In Sanders, an Illinois trial court ordered the father of a disabled non-minor daughter to contribute $350 per month in support for her care, nearly double the $147 per month in child support payments the father had been paying to support the child as a minor. Notable about the case is that because it was part of a guardianship proceeding, the trial court found 5/513.5 inapplicable and instead ordered the contribution pursuant to its "inherent powers" under the Probate Act, finding it was in the disabled non-minor's best interests to do so.
The appellate court agreed with the trial court that it had jurisdiction to order the father to make contributions towards the care and support of his disabled non-minor child, but found its authority to do so vested in 5/513.5, despite the case stemming from a guardianship proceeding. It therefore remanded the case back to the trial court to determine the amount of support to be contributed using the four factors provided by the statute. Soon thereafter, in an unpublished opinion, the Appellate Court, Second District followed the lead of Sanders and upheld an order for continued support of a disabled non-minor that was more than would have been granted in a child support case involving a minor. In re Marriage of Wolf, 2017 IL App (2d) 161109-U.
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Paris climate talks begin
by Eliana Schreiber
Following climate talks in Minneapolis last month, the University of Minnesota sent a 10-person delegation to Paris to join thousands of others in discussing global climate change.
In the Paris suburb of Le Bourget, France, leaders and participants from more than 190 countries are coming together for two weeks at the conference, called COP21, to address the problem.
Included in the University's delegation are Jessica Hellman, the director of the Institute on the Environment, and Ellen Anderson, the Energy Transition Lab's director.
The goal of the talks is to reach a concise agreement that will guide 200 nations in reducing fossil fuel use and other factors contributing to global warming.
Climate experts say to meet the goal, carbon emissions have to be decreased by 40 to 70 percent by 2050.
An increase in global temperatures of more than 3.6 degrees would have disastrous effects on the world, such as more extreme weather events, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Governments across the world have already created their own plan to reduce emissions. Late last month, 170 countries published their plans, representing 93 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.


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The German word Burg means castle. Burg or Bürg may refer to:

Places

Placename element
 -burg, a combining form in Dutch, German and English placenames
 Burg, a variant of burh, the fortified towns of Saxon England

Settlements
 Burg, Aargau, Switzerland
 Burg, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Germany
 Burg, Bitburg-Prüm, Germany
 Burg, Brandenburg, Germany
 Burg, Dithmarschen, Germany
 Burg auf Fehmarn, Germany
 Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany
 Burg im Leimental, Switzerland
 Den Burg, Netherlands
 The Burg, Illinois, United States
 Burg, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
 Burg, Kilninian and Kilmore, a place on the Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
 Melber, Kentucky, United States, also known as Burg

Other uses
 Burg (surname) or Bürg
 Bürg (crater)
 Burg (ship, 2003), a car ferry operating on Switzerland's Lake Zurich
Burgs (fast-food chain)

See also

 Burgh (disambiguation)
 Borg (disambiguation)
 Bourg (disambiguation)
 Borough and -bury, common English variants of burg
 Burgh, the common Scottish variant of burg
 Burger (disambiguation)
 Bürger
 Burgher (disambiguation)
 Berg (disambiguation), a placename meaning "mountain" or "rock", frequently confused with burg
 Burgk, a settlement in Germany

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Der Pineimuta River ist ein linker Nebenfluss des Otoskwin River im Kenora District der kanadischen Provinz Ontario.

Der Pineimuta River entspringt nördlich des Williams Lake. Er fließt anfangs in nordnordöstlicher Richtung. Er erreicht den Pipestone River Provincial Park, entlang dessen Ostgrenze er verläuft. Er durchfließt im Anschluss die langgestreckten Seen Neawagank Lake und Obabigan Lake, sowie den See Wigwascence Lake. Nun fließt er ein Stück nach Süden, dann nach Osten zum Eyes Lake und die letzten Kilometer bis zu seiner Mündung in den Otoskwin River wieder nach Süden und Osten. Der Pineimuta River hat eine Länge von etwa 250 km. Sein Einzugsgebiet erstreckt sich über mehr als 5000 km². Der mittlere Abfluss beim Eyes Lake beträgt 52 m³/s.

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Robert Llewelyn explains everything there is to know about Electric Cars
Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the mechanoid Kryten in the TV sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and formerly presented the TV engineering gameshow Scrapheap Challenge. He also presents a YouTube series, Fully Charged. Llewellyn was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called the Joeys. Within six months he had stopped working as a shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordish and Graham Allum. The group toured Britain and France in the early 1980s with an initial idea of exploring sexual politics between men. Llewellyn wrote much of the material, and also began writing novels. The group split in 1985, having toured for years and done thousands of shows.
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
ELECTRIC MAYBELLENE
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupé de Ville
A Cadillac a-rollin on the open stretch
Nothin' will outrun my Tesla S
The Cadillac doin' 'bout 95
She bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
Oh Maybellene well you won't get far
Nothing outruns an electric car
The Cadillac pulled up at 104
The Tesla hot and wouldn't do no more
It done got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for the passin' lane
The rain water blowin' all under my hood
I knew that wasn't doin' my battery good
Maybellene well you won't get far
Breaker breaker
You got your ears on caddy?
Seen a county mounty
in a plain white wrapper
The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
Cadillac sittin' like toad on a lake
A 110, a half mile ahead
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill
Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
Maybellene, why can't you see?
You're draining my batteries
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Why do you do? The things you do?
Maybellene, please see
How you're draining my batteries
ELECTRIC CARS (ft. Helen Austin)
Electric cars, electric cars
Why's it taking so long?
If you want your air clean, forget dirty gasoline
Switch to an electric car
Funkier by far
Never have I seen a sexier machine
I want to get in an electric car
I want to give joy to all whom I meet
Don't want to leave behind smelly streets
Come on now it's common sense
With so much air pollution, can you think of a solution?
Dumbo, get in an electric car
The time has come time to change
I want to give joy to all I meet
I want to soar
I want to surge
A revolution
We're on the verge
I want fresh air
That's pure a clean
Like the future
Of my dreams
Where were you all of my life?
Only when you've met one will you know you're gonna get one
There's no way back from electric cars


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Lessons I would... I guess I would set up a t...
"I would... I guess I would set up a trust fund for my kids... and stick the rest in savings."
A friend asks you what you would do if you won a million dollars in a lottery. The first thing you think about is supporting your children, so you say this.
I guess (clause)
You can use "I guess..." at the start of your answer to a question for a few reasons:
to show that you're not sure of your answer
to show that you just thought of the answer after you were asked the question
to show that you're thinking carefully about your answer, and not just repeating an answer that you've given before
So it's a good idea to start your answer with "I guess" when someone asks you a personal question about why you made a certain decision. There are also other reasons for using "I guess".
set up a trust fund
A "trust fund" is a kind of financial account that you can create. It keeps money safe for someone and pays money out to them according to certain rules. A lot of wealthy parents create trust funds for their children, so that the children will have money but won't be able to spend it all immediately.
To describe someone creating a trust fund, use the phrasal verb "set up":
My folks set up a trust fund for me back in the 1980's.
You can also use "set up" for:
starting a company
organizing a meeting
You can call your children "my kids". It's more common to call them your "kids" in spoken English rather than your "children", which is more formal.
stick (money) in (an account or investment)
If you put money into an account without thinking very much about it, you can say that you "stuck" your money into that account.
You can also "stick" money into investments like stocks or bonds.
While saying that you've "stuck" your money into an account suggests that you did it without much planning, this phrase is not too negative. Sometimes it's OK just to "stick" your money in a bank account or a fund.
I would (do something) (in an imaginary situation)
You can talk about imaginary situations with "I would..."
A: If you could have a conversation with any person from history, who would you want to talk to?
B: I would love to talk to Albert Einstein.
"Imaginary situations" are things that are not possible, or not likely to happen.
"I would ___" can be shortened to "I'd ___."
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Planetary Change and The Civilization of the Future
Human Ethics and Earthquakes
The Secret Connection Between Human
Psychology and the Geological Cycles of the Earth
Damodar K. Mavalankar
A scene showing results from the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
An Editorial Note:
The following article is reproduced from "The Theosophist" magazine, India, September 1885 edition, p. 285. Signed "K.D.M.", the text was most likely written by Damodar K. Mavalankar (D.K.M., or K.D.M.), who was a close assistant to Helena Blavatsky. Original title: "Earthquakes".
In an article published in 1933, the North American theosophist C. J. Ryan corroborates the idea of Damodar's authorship.[1] It must be said that in September 1885 Damodar had already gone to live in one of the Ashrams of the Masters of the Wisdom.[2] His note on earthquakes was published a few months after he left India abandoning the visible aspects of the theosophical movement. Helena Blavatsky had left India for good a few months before him: she went to Europe in March 1885.
The importance of this short article is great in the 21st century. Every aspect of human life is magnetic, and so is the process of geological and planetary life in general. The direct relation between microcosm and macrocosm is inevitable. The Kundalini of each individual is connected to the planetary Kundalini. Therefore, the article by Damodar does not examine earthquakes only. It also explains the correspondence between the average level of ethics in human beings and the periodical change in the magnetic poles, and in the central axis of our planet.
(Carlos Cardoso Aveline)
The theories now put forth by the scientists as regards the cause of earthquakes are not satisfactory.
The Hindus have a superstition that the great snake Basuki carries the earth on its head, and when the earth becomes heavy with sins, this snake moves its head and this is the cause of earthquakes.
If we try to go to the bottom of this superstition we may get a glimpse of what was believed by the ancients as the cause of earthquakes.
According to the Tantrik yoga philosophy the earth is sustained by a force named Kundalini shakti, this force is the life of the earth. This force is symbolically represented by a snake entwined in 3½ coils round the linga-sharira of the earth. In the microcosm, this force is a state of strain producing a current that moves along a spiral path. [3]
According to Professor Maxwell, electricity is a state of strain in the luminiferous ether, and all the phenomena of the magnetic force are observed when electricity flows along a spiral coil.
From these it may strike one's mind that what is called magnetism in modern science is one form of the Kundalini shakti of the Hindu yogis.
It is a fact proved by the scientists that this earth is a large magnet. And I think that the internal disturbance in the earth's magnetism is symbolically represented in the superstition above alluded to as regards the cause of earthquakes.
Modern scientific men can see no connection between the cause of earthquakes and events on the mental plane of the earth. But when they understand that there is no such thing as accident in this universe, that every event which appears to us as accident, is the effect of a force on the mental plane, then they will be able to understand why the superstitious Hindus look upon earthquakes as the effect of accumulated sins committed by men. [4]
The superstition of the Hindus properly understood means this: That the accumulated effect of the bad Karmas of men on the earth, impressed in the astral fire, is to produce a change in the position of the centre of the force which is earth's life. This centre of force, known by the Hindus as Padma or Chakra, is the head of Basuki. When the earth, to sustain its own life, requires to change the position of the centre of its active life, a disturbance in the internal magnetism of the earth is produced, amongst other phenomena earthquakes occur, just as nervous tremors occur in a man's body. [5]
Only one who is an adept in the knowledge of all departments of natural forces can say how far this view of the Hindus is correct. Let the reader seek the help of such a one to clear his doubts, and when I have said this I have nothing more to say.
(K.D.M.)
[1] "Scientific Notes and News", by C. J. Ryan, in "The Theosophical Path", October 1933, p. 220. (CCA)
[2] See letter 29 in "Letters From the Masters of the Wisdom – First Series" (TPH) and the commentaries to it. (CCA)
[3] Linga-sharira – the third principle of human consciousness, the astral structure which supports and gives a form to the principle of vitality. See in our websites the second half of the article "The Seven Principles of Consciousness". The idea of "three and a half coils" is symbolic. "Three and a half" is the half of seven. Sky and the Earth, or the divine and the terrestrial, combined, have seven levels of consciousness. "Three and a half" indicates the intermediate point and the link between heaven and earth. The relation between the higher and the lower, or spirit and matter, must be well-balanced. It is ultimately regulated in every inch by the stern eternal Law, and each mistake gets corrected in due time. (CCA)
[4] Human greed causes environmental devastation and periodical climate changes. (CCA)
[5] A change in the axis of the planet. (CCA)
The annotated article above was published in the May 2016 edition of "The Aquarian Theosophist", pp. 9-10, and the editorial notes were expanded in January 2019.
See the articles "The Mystic Poles", "The Causes of Glaciation", "A Global Karmic Fever", "Al Gore, Theosophy and the Cycle", "Climate Change in Ancient Times" and "An Old Celtic Legend of Atlantis".
In September 2016, after a careful analysis of the state of the esoteric movement worldwide, a group of students decided to form the Independent Lodge of Theosophists. Two of the priorities adopted by the ILT are learning from the past and building a better future.


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Bob Dylan Shocked and Humbled by Nobel Prize for Literature
How Does a Musician Earn the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Probably no one was more surprised than Bob Dylan when it was announced that the prestigious Nobel Committee had awarded him the Nobel Prize for Literature. Previous winners have included such prolific authors as Toni Morrison, William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. But never a songwriter.
Bob Dylan, 75, is probably the most influential rock musician of all time, and certainly the most famous Jewish one at that. Best remembered for his iconic "Blowin' in the Wind" which became the national anthem of the American civil rights movement in the late 60s, he is the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize.
Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, in 1941 in a small Jewish community in Duluth, Minnesota. His grandparents on both sides fled the persecutions and pogroms of Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. Zimmerman, aka Dylan, began playing gigs in 1959 in coffee shops and busker fairs. But he hit his prime during the 1960s when his profound lyrics matched perfectly a restless, counter-culture that was rebelling against the establishment.
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Q: problem with show images from api model in flutter Hello everyone i have a problem to fetch data from the api
first thing first i will show u the guide of the api for showing images :
Card Images
Images are pulled from our image server images.ygoprodeck.com. You must download and store these images yourself!
Please only pull an image once and then store it locally. If we find you are pulling a very high volume of images per second then your IP will be blacklisted and blocked.
Our card images are in .jpg format and are web optimized.
All of our cloud URLs will either be https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/ (full size images), https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards_small/ (small size images) or https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards_cropped/ (cropped image art). You pass the ID of the card to retrieve the image.
Example Limit Reverse Card Image: https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards/27551.jpg
The image URLs are found within the JSON response as image_url, image_url_small, and image_url_cropped, all within the card_images array.
Alternative artwork (if available) will also be listed within the card_images array.
Since v3: Card images are now properly returned without slashes being incorrectly escaped as it was with v2.
i have the api link i got the json data and convert it to dart
i have the method i can fetch the data from it and it works of course but i have a problem with displaying the images from the api i will share my code and wait u guys to help me solve this problem
this is the page that i want to show the images and rest of the detail everything from the api is working except the images and i can't download all the images because and cuz it will be more then 13000 file so will cash them in the device storage anyways here is the the code :
class Home extends GetView<HomecontrollerImp> {
  final CardsModel? cardsModel;
  const Home({super.key, this.cardsModel});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    Get.put(HomecontrollerImp());
    return Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(),
        body: GetBuilder<HomecontrollerImp>(
          builder: (controller) {
            if (controller.statusRequest == StatusRequest.loading) {
              return Center(child: const Text("loading"));
            } else if (controller.statusRequest ==
                StatusRequest.offlinefailure) {
              return const Text("offlinefailure");
            } else {
              return GridView.builder(
                gridDelegate: SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount(
                    crossAxisCount: 2, childAspectRatio: 0.8),
                itemBuilder: (context, index) {
                  return Column(
                    children: [
                      CardsImages(cardImages: CardImages.fromJson(controller.data[index])),
                      Container(
                          height: 200,
                          width: 100,
                          child: Text(
                            "${controller.data[index]['name']}",
                            style: TextStyle(fontSize: 10),
                          ))
                    ],
                  );
                },
              );
            }
          },
        ));
  }
}

and this is the the class for showing the images
class CardsImages extends StatelessWidget {

  final CardImages cardImages ;
  const CardsImages({super.key, required this.cardImages});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    HomecontrollerImp controller = Get.put(HomecontrollerImp());

    return Image.network("${AppLink.smallimages}}/${cardImages.imageUrlSmall}") ;
  }
}

the result of the code after hot restarting
════════ Exception caught by image resource service ════════════════════════════
HTTP request failed, statusCode: 404, https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards_small%7D/null
i guess the problem in my code or i understood the guide in the wrong way
any one can help ??
abstract class Homecontroller extends GetxController {
  getdata();
  getImages() ;

  StatusRequest statusRequest = StatusRequest.initial;
  }

class HomecontrollerImp extends Homecontroller {
  List data = [];
  List getImage = [] ;

  HomeData homeData = HomeData(Get.find());
  ImageData imageData =  ImageData(Get.find()) ;

  var isLoading = false;

   @override
  void onInit() {
    getImages() ;
    getdata();
    update();

    super.onInit();
  }

  @override
  getdata() async {
    statusRequest = StatusRequest.loading;
    var response = await homeData.getData();
    statusRequest = handlingData(response);
    if (StatusRequest.success == statusRequest) {
      data.addAll(response['data']);
    }else{
        statusRequest = StatusRequest.failure ;

    }
    update();
  }

  @override
  getImages() async {
    statusRequest = StatusRequest.loading;
    var response = await imageData.getData();
    statusRequest = handlingData(response);
    if (StatusRequest.success == statusRequest) {
      getImage.addAll(response['data']);
    }else{
        statusRequest = StatusRequest.failure ;

    }
    update();

  }

  }

the app link page :
class AppLink {

 static const String server = "https://db.ygoprodeck.com/api/v7/cardinfo.php" ;
 static const String smallimages = "https://images.ygoprodeck.com/images/cards_small" ;

}

A: We can use the cached_network_image: ^3.2.3 package and load from cached network and another way is return Image.network("${AppLink.smallimages}}/${cardImages.imageUrlSmall}") ;
null check and after that show.

A: Please update :
                 Column(
                        children: [
                          controller.data[index]["image path"]),
                          Container(
                              height: 200,
                              width: 100,
                              child: Text(
                                "${controller.data[index]['name']}",
                                style: TextStyle(fontSize: 10),
                              ))
                        ],

Also,
class CardsImages extends StatelessWidget {

  final String cardImages ;
  const CardsImages({super.key, required this.cardImages});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    HomecontrollerImp controller = Get.put(HomecontrollerImp());

    return Image.network("${AppLink.smallimages}}/${cardImages}") ;
  }
}


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….does not a summer make" said Aristotle – that's as maybe but this morning I have seen the first swallow of 2015 and it definitely feels like summer is on the way. It is a mesmerising sight to watch the swallows swoop low across the fields gathering up insects for food.
Every year these amazing little birds make the journey from southern Africa, across the Sahara to breed in the northern hemisphere. They return to the exact same nesting sites year after year.
It is said that the swallow's forked tail comes after an angry God threw a firebrand at a swallow that was stealing fire for the people. As it flew away the firebrand burned away the middle feathers of the swallow's tail. The real reason is much more mundane in that having a fork in the tail increases the efficiency of flight.
For a few weeks now, the curlews have been seen and audible over the fields locally. I always think that they look rather out of place with their long, slightly curved bills, much suited to feeding in soft sands and muds of the coast. They really do grace us with their presence.
They can feed successfully on insects in the shorter grazed grass of managed farmland, especially if the ground is slightly boggy.
Quite often you can hear them without seeing them. They make a very distinctive plaintive sound from which the bird gets its name.
They choose to breed in inland areas. They build their nests on the ground, primarily on moorland. For that reason, if you are out in the summer walking your dog on the moors, please do keep it on a lead.
Another migratory bird that visits for just a few months before returning to northern Africa is the Ring Ouzel. It looks very like a blackbird but has a tell tale white band across its chest.
The name "Ouzel" comes from old English and means "common blackbird". The Ouzel is very shy of humans, unlike the blackbird, which probably explains its now relative rarity.
The Ring Ouzel feeds on worms and insects and on berries in the autumn.
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Drawing lessons from the Summit of the Americas
Harold Trinkunas Wednesday, April 8, 2015
On April 10th and 11th, the heads of state and government from nearly every state in the Americas will meet in Panama City for the Seventh Summit of the Americas. The leaders present in Panama preside over a region that has advanced far and fast on key political and economic indicators since the first of these meetings was held in Miami in 1994. At the Miami Summit, the legacy of the Cold War was very much present, and the specter of war, military dictatorship, armed revolution, financial crises, and political instability still hung in the air.
In 2015, the region is by and large more democratic, economically prosperous, free from war, and the last insurgency in the region—Colombia's—is winding down as peace is discussed between the government and its opponents at talks hosted by Havana. The beginning of a rapprochement between the United States and Cuba in December 2014 broke down one of the last remaining obstacles to an event that is truly inclusive of every country in the Western Hemisphere.
In comparison to the rest of the world—where in the past year we have witnessed terrorist attacks in Paris, war in Ukraine, insurgency in Yemen, and saber-rattling around the South China Sea—the Western Hemisphere appears to be relatively better off. While there are a small number of countries that face challenging circumstances, especially among the fragile states of the Caribbean basin, these problems mostly threaten local rather than regional order. Given this picture, what lessons can we learn from the Western Hemisphere, and from U.S. policy towards the region, as we contemplate how best to improve global order?
Drawing the right lessons from history
The Americas have a long history of developing regional norms that promote the peaceful resolution of conflicts. Since the founding of the Panamerican Union in 1890, which transformed into the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1948, the countries of the hemisphere have embedded these norms of peace into their multilateral institutions. While frequently criticized, it is important to remember that the OAS has presided over the elimination of inter-state conflict in the Americas.
Today, Latin American states resolve territorial disputes at the International Court of Justice rather than on the battlefield. The last war in the region, between Peru and Ecuador in 1995, occurred two decades ago. Given how rare militarized disputes are at home, Latin American soldiers frequently serve as peacekeepers in United Nations missions around the world. Latin Americans have become good at peacemaking and peacekeeping, something that other regions of the world would do well to emulate.
When it comes to domestic politics, most leaders in the region now understand the political and economic principles that contribute to stability. Governments have become much better about economic governance, which means that as South America's economy cools off this year, fiscal problems will be manageable and localized rather than region-wide and existential, a sharp contrast with the 1980s and 1990s.
Leaders in the region have learned that promoting polarization for short-term political advantage is all too likely to produce instability, coups, and revolution. To minimize the risk that domestic political violence might reoccur in the future, states in the region have self-consciously examined the legacy of their authoritarian pasts, using innovative processes such as truth and reconciliation commissions—initially in Argentina in 1983—but also drawing on traditional courts to prosecute perpetrators of past abuses.
In the 21st century, successful coups d'état have become rare, and when they do occur, as was the case in Honduras in 2009, the region collaborates to ensure a return to democracy. Here again is an area where Latin America has led the way through policies that reduce the likelihood of domestic conflicts that threaten internal stability or global order.
The importance of revisiting unworkable U.S. policies
At this Summit in Panama, President Barack Obama will be able to credibly claim that he has listened to his Latin American counterparts and has begun to change policies that had become obstacles to improving regional order. At the 2009 and 2012 Summits (they occur every three years), U.S. policies on drugs, immigration, and Cuba had made President Obama the target of growing criticism from other leaders. In fact, many governments had made it clear that they would not attend the 2015 Summit if Cuba was not invited.
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Since 2012, the Obama administration has taken steps to address these concerns. It has taken executive action to reform immigration policy, signaled greater openness to drug policy liberalization by states such as Uruguay, and initiated a historic normalization of relations with Cuba. In each of these areas, the United States has shifted from policies that were largely unilateral towards its neighbors to policies that emphasize collaboration and partnership. This reflects U.S. learning that unilateralism produces blowback, strengthens its political adversaries in the region, and undermines its interests in the long run. This is a lesson worth considering as we think about our policies towards troubled regions of the world.
The risk of forgetting lessons learned
Yet not all countries and all politicians have remembered these lessons, and some of them have learned the wrong ones. In Argentina, macroeconomic stability is at risk due to a feud between the government and its international creditors. The result is a country cut off from international capital markets at a time when its economy is suffering the effect of declining commodity prices. Venezuela faces a deep crisis that has at its heart the highly polarizing politics practiced by the governing party and an unreasoning attachment to an unworkable economic model. Key countries such as Brazil have lost interest in hemisphere-wide institutions, as indicated by their refusal to appoint an ambassador to the OAS or pay their membership dues. And the region as a whole has become so attached to multilateralism and politics by consensus that is has forgotten how to work together when individual member states deviate from regional norms of democracy and human rights, as is occurring today in Venezuela.
So while the recent history of the Americas offers insights into policies that contribute to a peaceful and stable regional order, it also illustrates that these achievements are not irreversible. Let us hope that future generations do not have the relearn these lessons anew. At this and future Summits, there must be a commitment to preserving the gains made in peace, democracy, human rights, and economic prosperity, but also a new emphasis on developing workable mechanisms to address deviations from the norms and practices that have contributed to making the Americas a relative safe and orderly region of the world.
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Sliema is a small, lively city located just across Marsamxett Harbour from Valletta, Malta's capital. The handy ferry to Valletta and the excellent Malta Public Transport system (buses) make Sliema an excellent base for exploring the entire main island of Malta.
There are scores of cafés, restaurants, shops and seaside hotels at sea level near the harbor. The Tigné seafront boardwalk provides picture-postcard views of the Valletta skyline across the harbor.
If you're looking for a seaside hotel, the Preluna Hotel & Spa (124 Tower Rd., Sliema; www.preluna.com) seemed a good choice. Offering varied services and facilities, it has an excellent location, and it's the pickup/drop-off point for most local tours.
However, I preferred the quiet, elegant neighborhood at the top of the hill in the city center, and the view from my terrace was terrific. By the way, The Victoria Hotel has a sister hotel, The Palace Hotel Malta (High St., Sliema; thepalace malta.com), and they're around the corner from each other.
During my stay in Sliema, I had delicious Maltese dinners for about $20 each, with wine, at the casual Salisbury Arms Pub (81 Triq Il-Kbira; www.salisburyarmspub.com), Ta' Kris Restaurant (80 Fawwara Ln.; www.takrisrestaurant.com) and Il-Merill Restaurant (St. Vincent Alley; www.facebook.com/IlMerill).
The excellent guidebook that I used, Bradt Travel Guides' "Malta and Gozo" by Juliet Rix, recommended starting a visit with a 90-minute harbor cruise. It was excellent advice.
The cruise takes you in and out of many creeks to get close-up views of fortifications, forts, battlements and docks of Valletta and the Three Sisters (cities: Birgu [Vittoriosa], Senglea and Cospicua), and the interesting commentary gives perspective to the history of this strategic Mediterranean location.
Several companies, including Captain Morgan Cruises (www.captainmorgan.com.mt), Luzzu Cruises (www.luzzucruises.com) and Supreme Cruises (www.suprememalta.com/en/content-page/supreme-cruises/111), offer similar trips, all leaving from nearby locations along the Tigné Seafront.
Buy your ticket in advance online for $17-$20 and choose any of the numerous departures throughout the day. On my first full day in Malta, I took a morning excursion with Supreme Cruises.
During the afternoon of my first day, I used local buses to visit Mosta and Mdina near the center of Malta island.
Mosta's attraction is the famous Mosta Dome (Parish Church of the Assumption), an example of neoclassical architecture that was built in the mid-1800s. According to Wikipedia, "… it is said to have the third largest unsupported dome in the world."
Mdina is a walled city high on a hilltop. After walking through the city's early-18th-century Baroque Main Gate, I enjoyed strolling Mdina's narrow, ancient, cobbled streets. The city was a center for Maltese nobles and religious authorities.
St. Paul's Cathedral in Mdina shares the Archdiocese with St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta and has a magnificent interior with beautiful frescoes and floor tiles. I spent over two hours exploring the cathedral, its museum and the adjoining Palazzo de Piro.
Nearby, outside Mdina's walls, lies the city of Rabat. I wanted to visit two highly recommended attractions: Domvs Romana (the remains of a Roman-era house) and St. Paul's Catacombs, but by the time I finished exploring Mdina, it was after closing time for both. Learn from my misjudgment by planning for a full day in this area.
On my second full day, I participated in a group excursion, "Malta Classic Small Group Tour." I booked the tour for €72 (near $82) at Malta TravelNet (www.maltatravelnet.com/malta-guided-tours). This comprehensive full-day tour offered me the best opportunity to see many of Malta's most significant sights efficiently, in a single day.
It took me back through Mdina and to the ancient, megalithic temples at Haġar Qim (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), the Blue Grotto and the fishing village of Marsaxlokk, with a stop for lunch.
We also did a walking tour of Valletta that included the Upper Barrakka Gardens, the interior of St. John's Co-Cathedral — with its famous ceiling as well as Caravaggio's masterpiece, "Beheading of Saint John the Baptist" — and the Grandmaster's Palace.
I set aside my third and final full day for a group tour of Gozo. The Republic of Malta includes three main, inhabited islands: Malta, Gozo and Comino. Comino is very small and most tourists don't visit it, but Gozo is a popular visitor stop because it has several important and interesting sights.
My tour ("Gozo Day Trip from Malta Including Ggantija Temples," booked through Viator.com for about $70) started with a short, 20-minute ferry trip from Ċirkewwa in the northwest of Malta island across the Gozo Channel to Mġarr on Gozo. After docking, we traveled by bus to visit Ġgantija, another UNESCO-cited megalithic temple group that predates Haġar Qim. Next, we went for an included lunch at beautiful Xlendi Bay.
At Dwejra, on the west coast, we learned just how enterprising the Maltese can be — turning a tragedy into a tourist attraction. The Azure Window, a world-renowned rock formation, was destroyed by a storm in March 2017. Now tourists pack the rocky beach to stare at the open view of the sea where the Azure Window once stood.
But the visit to Dwejra was worthwhile for much more. We got views of Fungus Rock, Dwejra Tower, the beautiful coastline and the Inland Sea.
Our final stop in Gozo was its capital, Victoria (locally called Rabat). Our guide took us up to Citadella for a walking tour of the medieval castle, its narrow lanes and its fortifications.
Then we had free time to explore It-Tokk (Victoria's market square), St. George's Basilica in St. George's Square and the warren of medieval streets behind the square. The bus took us back to the ferry at Mġarr for our return to Malta island.
The next morning, my busy, fascinating sojourn to the Republic of Malta was over, but I had happy memories and wonderful photos.


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