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Opel Olympia — невеликий сімейний автомобіль німецького автовиробника Opel. Випускався з 1935 по 1940 рік, з 1947 по 1953, а потім з 1967 по 1970 рік.
Олімпія була першим серійним автомобілем у Німеччині, що має сталевий уніфікований корпус (монокок). Ця революційна технологія знизила вагу автомобіля на 180 кг (400 фунтів) в порівнянні з його попередником. Виробництво цільної конструкції вимагало нові методи виробництва і велика кількість матеріалів. Точкове зварювання, передові види сталі, а також новий дизайн були в числі багатьох досягнень Олімпії.

Автомобіль був вперше представлений в лютому в 1935 року на Берлінській автомобільній виставці, виробництво було запущено пізніше цього-ж року. Олімпія була названа напередодні Олімпійських ігор 1936 року в Берліні. До Другої світової війни вона виконувалася в двох версіях. З 1935 по 1937 рік в Олімпії був 1,3-літровий двигун. Для версії рестайлінгової версії 1938 року випускалася до 1940, двигун був замінений на 1,5 літровий агрегат з верхнім розташуванням клапанів.
З 1935 по 1940 було побудовано 168 000 одиниць.

Назва Олімпія була відроджена в 1967 році для розкішної версії Opel Kadett B.

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Автомобілі 1930-х
Автомобілі 1940-х
Автомобілі 1950-х
Автомобілі 1960-х
Автомобілі Opel
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G.O.MS.No. 100, Dated: 27-06-2018. Payment of retirement benefits on the day of retirement without the intervention of the employee – Instructions – Issued.
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date of issue of the Order.
salary of the responsible and credit to the claimants Account.
submitted by him to his next superior officer by the end of every September.
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A Public Limited Company has more credibility and transparency in business than a private limited company. Public limited company has high financial exposure to source capital from the Public as Equity or debenture or deposit. A public limited company can register with a minimum of three Directors, and Public limited company always preferred if you have a broad vision from startup to IPO.
1. Do I need to be present during this registration process?
Public Limited Company registration is a 100% online process. No need to be present physically to our office or ministry of corporate affairs. We will send our person to your home or office for document signature.
2. What is Articles of Association (AOA) and Memorandum of Association (MOA)?
AOA refers to articles of association which defines the internal constitution of the company, and MOA defines mission, vision, business objectives of the company in the log run.
3. Do I need to hire a full-time CA/ CS?
No. you need not hire a full-time CA or CS. We will offer your annual compliance package thru you will get the right advice from our team.
4. How much time is required for registering a Public Limited Company in India?
Usually, we register a company in 15 business days.
5. What are the rules for picking a name for a Public Limited Company?
As Per companies act 2013, company name should be unique, and business objectives should be added to the name. Also, do care that business name and legal should be different.
6. What documents are required for registration of a Public Limited Company?
All proposed directors should provide identity proof (like Aadhar/ Passport / DL/ any other government issued ID, Utility bills as address proof, a copy of PAN Card (for Indian Nationals) and Passport (for foreign nationals). No-objection Certificate must be submitted by the owner of the registered office premises.
7. What is a DSC & DIN?
The DSC is a digital signature certificate which is issued by the certifying authority to sign the electronic documents. DIN is a director identification number. Every proposed director in a company must have a valid DIN.
8. What is the validity of the registration of a Public Limited Company?
A registration certificate issued by the registrar of company shall be valid throughout the life of the company.


Multi-award-winning superstar Jewel and Chance McCoy of Old Crow Medicine Show will be performing at 3rd & Lindsley for one night only. Don't miss this incredible opportunity to enjoy an unforgettable evening with these talented artists in an intimate, 380-seat venue. Limited VIP Packages available.
VIP Platinum Package - Lower Level - $150 per person - Includes pre-show backstage meet-and-greet with the artists, plus 2 free drinks per person, and a seat at a premium reserved table on the level closest to the stage. Sold in pairs. Seated in tables of 4.
VIP Gold Package - Main Level - $100 per person - Includes 1 free drink per person and a seat at a reserved table on the main level. Sold in pairs. Seated in tables of 6.
General Admission tickets available for $55 with no reserved seating.
A very limited number of premium sponsorship packages are available - please contact Tricia Drake, Development Coordinator, at tdrake@lindenwaldorf.org or 615-354-0270 ext. 26 to learn more and reserve your tickets. This is a perfect opportunity to promote your business while you entertain associates or colleagues.
Just bought my VIP Meet & Greet tickets for this show.
These VIP M&G tickets are only available as pairs, two.
EDAs, if you can make it to this Show, 30 Jan. 2016, at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville, I have an extra ticket. Let me know.
Nice! I hope you'll have a great show together with another EDA!
EDAs, if you can make it to this Show, 30 Jan. 2016, at 3rd and Lindsey in Nashville, I have an extra ticket. Let me know.
So so so tempted right now... I want to go!!
I can imagine Jess, It is a really really nice opportunity Joe is ging over here.
I have a friend in Nashville who's been wanting me to come visit - she texted me yesterday & asked if I was coming to this show. I told her I'd look into it...and after doing that, there's no way in hell I'm paying that much for a show at 3rd & Lindsley! It's been a long time since I've been there, but as I recall, it was a pretty dive-y looking place. I hope it's changed since I was there years ago, or anybody who pays that much had better be going just to donate to the cause, & not to get a quality show experience.
Would be so nice to live in Nashville - or maybe not. SO much live music I'd be sleeping downtown on the street, afraid I'd miss something!
I'm not in Nashville, but 100 miles down I-65 is close enough. I can see an early show and still drive home afterward. Later shows like in November with Lady Antebellum, Jewel, Martina McBride, Trace Adkins, & Maddie and Tae, didn't finish till after 11:00pm so I stayed over.
The shows and venues are so tempting.
I wanted to let EDAs know I am not trying to sell the extra ticket, I was offering free to any EDA who could make the show. I ordered the tickets as pickup at door, so both have my name.
I need to change the name on the extra ticket so the user can pick it up and get the M&G identification to go backstage before the show. This is for the early show, doors open at 4:30 pm and M&G starts around 5:00 pm.
Just don't want the VIP ticket with M&G to go to waste.
If you can make it, please Private Message me with details and coordination.
That's so, awesome. Someone HAS to go. And Mr. Joe, is a great EDA to go with.
I heard she sang HEROES BY DAVID BOWIE!!! Please tell me theres video somewhere!!!!
Did you take any pictures for us??
I haven't seen hardly anything from this show.
I guess I should've gone & taken some good pics, 'cause that dress looks kinda hot.


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Pervomaysky () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Posyolok Krasnoye Ekho, Gus-Khrustalny District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010.

Geography
The village is located 22 km south-east from Krasnoye Ekho, 26 km north-east from Gus-Khrustalny.

References

Rural localities in Gus-Khrustalny District


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Terri's "Expert" Doctor Got Diagnosis Badly Wrong in 1980
Court-appointed experts-- is there anything they don't know?:
A neurologist hired by Michael Schiavo to confirm that his wife Terri was in a persistent vegetative state said he was "105 percent sure" of that diagnosis, but Dr. Ronald Cranford expressed similar certainty about a patient he examined in 1980 who later regained both consciousness and the ability to communicate.
Three days before Terri Schiavo's death, Cranford appeared on the MSNBC talk program, "Scarborough Country," to discuss her condition. Cranford was interviewed by reporter Lisa Daniels.
DANIELS: Are you 100 percent correct in your opinion that Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state? Do you agree with that?
CRANFORD: I am 105 percent sure she is in a vegetative state. And the autopsy will show severe irreversible brain damage to the higher centers, yes.
DANIELS: Why are you so sure, doctor?
CRANFORD: Because I examined her ...
Cranford - who is assistant chief in neurology at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn., professor of neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a faculty associate at the university's Center for Bioethics - went on to call another neurologist who disagreed with his diagnosis "a charlatan" and accused Daniels of being "stupid."
Now that's professionalism. I've seen similar statements in court.
"Your honor, I object to that statement being allowed into evidence."
[Judge:] "On what grounds?"
"Because it's retarded."
[Judge:] "Counsel, your response?"
"I don't think it's retarded at all."
"Well, you wouldn't, would you? You're a retard yourself. Your honor, can I introduce exhibits to demonstrate that opposite counsel is, in fact, a retard?"
[Judge:] "What kind of exhibits?"
"Some doodles my esteemed colleague-slash-retard drew up just yesterday."
[Judge:] "What is the probative value of these exhibits?"
"Well, they show Godzilla eating a building with airplanes attacking him. And not only is that retarded in itself, but it doesn't even look like Godzilla. It looks more like Meatloaf from the video I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That), except with some crude spines drawn down his back. And the capacity to spew radioactive-fire breath."
"It's a work in progress, you moron. Besides, it's abstract. I was making a statement."
"What possible statement did you hope to make?"
"Oh, how about this for a statement: You suck."
[Judge:] "I've heard enough. Chambers immediately. Let's resolve this whole 'retard' issue before getting into tangencies about who may or may not suck."
Host and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough interrupted to defend Daniels, touching off a clash with Cranford, which included the doctor admonishing Scarborough with: "You've got to get your facts straight."
Cranford also certain, but wrong about 1980 diagnosis
Cranford expressed similar certainty about another patient he declared to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) in 1980, former Minneapolis Police Sgt. David Mack.
''Sergeant Mack will never regain cognitive, sapient functioning,'' Cranford said six months after Mack was shot while serving a search warrant on Dec. 13, 1979. ''He will never be aware of his condition nor resume any degree of meaningful voluntary conscious interaction with his family or friends.''
Based on Cranford's unequivocal diagnosis of Mack, the officer's relatives removed him from a respirator in August 1980 "because his family felt he should be allowed to die rather than exist in such a state," according to published reports.
But Mack did not die.
On Oct. 22, 1981, 18 months after Cranford declared Mack's case hopeless, doctors at the advanced care facility where Mack was being treated noticed that he was awake. The Associated Press described Mack's recovery.
"A policeman considered 'vegetative' after being shot in the head in 1979 has come out of his coma and, although doctors caution he may never recover fully, he is spelling out some of his desires: 'TALK. WALK. SKI. DOG,'" the news report stated, explaining that someone would point to letters displayed in alphabetical order on a board while Mack nodded "yes" or "no" until the correct letter was reached.
Asked how he felt about his recovery, Mack smiled and spelled out "SPEECHLESS!"
"Doctors say Mack has recovered about 95 percent of his intellectual capabilities," the news account continued, "and can understand everything said to him."
Emphasis added. Except for that sub-hed, morons.
The really cool thing about Dr. Cranford's line of work is that if you play your cards right, and get yourself a sympathetic judge and an ex-husband hellbent on pulling a feeding tube, most of your misdiagnoses will never come to light.
Pretty sweet, eh? Beats OB/GYN to hell and back and that score.
Thanks to Alicia.
Nanotech Update: Within ten years, all pads will be equipped with nanotech-pencil leads that will draw perfect doodles for you, with vanishing points and perspective lines and all that other crap I could never understand no matter how many times I read How To Draw the Marvel Comics Way.
Give me a break, guys. I just want to know how to draw She-Hulk with cleavage that is pronounced and yet at the same time tastefully subtle.
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It's time to talk about the key ingredient in all your photos; the lighting. Take your dish out of the kitchen, put it next to a window with natural light and you will see a huge improvement in your photos within seconds. This is the first rule to illuminate your food correctly, I recommend that you start with natural light or a special artificial light. Next you need to learn to read the light and how it affects our food. All of this is explained in this blog post: Food Photography 7 Lighting Tips. Good lighting helps food look real and appealing in photos.
1.Use natural light whenever you can.
2.Don't be tempted to use the flash on your camera.
4.Start by illuminating your food from the side, it is easier.
6.Use a diffuser to soften the light.
7.The light that illuminates your food doesn't only come from a light. The background and the reflectors may also bounce light.
If you have completed any workshop in photography or photography course you will be familiar with the next quote: 'light is the key to photography'. Whether it is a landscape photo or a photo of your food, light is what really matters. If you don't trust me try the first rule and take a photo of your dish under your kitchen's lights and then another with natural light, you will really notice the difference. I used to struggle with getting the correct lighting in the beginning. I spent more time playing around with the yellowish lights of my kitchen than shooting and the result was never as good as I expected. After 5 months I read some articles about using natural light and I decided to try it out. The result was much better, the photo was really sharp, the food also looked more appealing and the colours were more accurate. So keep away from your kitchen once your dish is cooked because most kitchen lamps are just crap !
1.Use natural light whenever you can!
From now on the windows of your house are your best friend, and if your windows are south facing you are very lucky because they receive more daylight. However natural light changes throughout the day. I recommend that you shoot early in the morning when the light is soft or during the last few hours of light when the light is soft but can still light up our food without creating too much "brightness" in the scene. To soften the light use a diffuser like a white curtain or cover your window with a piece of parchment paper. Play around with different materials to diffuse the light and to get different effects in your photos. Remember to turn off all other lights in the room when using natural light.
It has a similar effect to kitchen lights because it splashes light directly onto your food which makes it look flat and the light is too bright. There are some tools that can help bounce light on to food and I have also my own ones, but I don't recommend that you buy them. It's a waste of money because the food will never look as good as it does under natural light or with a good artificial light.
It is probably due to the light you are using. Whenever you are shooting under natural or artificial light the tones can be easily corrected in post-production. There are many programs and ways to achieve this, but if you want a very accurate adjustment of the colour I highly recommend that you shoot in RAW format because then you can use this file to adjust the colour with a lot of precision. I'll post an article talking about colour temperature and how to correct these colour alterations in the photos. This bluish photo is the original photo I took, the one on the right is after correcting the colour temperature in Camera Raw.
4.Probably the easiest way to create a good lighting in your scene is to illuminate your food from the side. Once you have mastered this technique you can go to the next level and light it from the back (photo on the left), what can be trickier.
5.If the light is too intense use a light diffuser to soften it.
When you use natural or artificial lighting stick a piece of parchment paper with some tape on the windows or cover your lamp with a cloth. I sometimes use a semi-transparent shirt to cover my lamp.
6.If you are using an artificial light make sure it projects enough light in to the scene. It is easier to control an artificial lamp than a flash which only light up the food when you press the bottom.
7.The light that your food receives is a mix between the direct light (natural or artificial lamp) and all the light that is bounced by the elements around the dish. As an example try the same photo with a white background and a dark one. Clear colours bounce more light onto the food than a dark background. To have a bit more of control use reflectors. A polystyrene panel is a good reflector to extra light over the food to help lighten the colours without too many white tones. This is my favourite tool, it makes such a huge difference.
You don't need to buy expensive Lights or anything like that, it is all about paying attention to the lighting in your scene and learn to control it. If you find these post useful I'll be very happy if you share it with your friends.


I have loads of pictures from the parade as I gave my passenger Alex my camera and told her to take lots of photo's.
She almost disappeared out the window at Quarry when I flicked the NOS on while she was leaning out.
All pictures from the day are here, 212 of them !
The noise it was making on the parade. Hope it come out on my camera, which was mounted in my front grill.
I will sort out the video of the parade over the next few days.
Fab day, weather ended up fine for the afternoon, plenty people to see and nice to see such enthusiasam for the car from standard to tweaked.


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Last time the Dodgers made the World Series, I lived in Quincy. It's been a long haul since 1988, me migrating from town to town, them hopping from owner to owner.
Sometimes they were good. More old-time Cubs good, though. Just not nearly so lovable. The family enterprise went corporate, Fox no less. Then a parade of high fliers owned the team like an ornament until the current group of investors, including Magic Johnson, brought some of the love back. Magic, with the Dodgers! Now this has the whiff of storybook!
More than the other sports, baseball is about failure, a heart-breaker if you let it. Even stars succeed only three of every 10 times at bat. You can stretch the Series to a full seven games, dramatic comeback by dramatic comeback as the Dodgers did this year, only to crumble at the end — quietly, almost politely, in order. Close the book softly, with a sigh. Maybe next year.
I set a record the season I began as the acknowledged star of my Little League team, playing shortstop, batting third. I went 0 for 40 or 50 or something like that. Oh for a whole season. Oh, no.
I had endured other childhood injustices: parents divorcing before it was in vogue; boozy family dynamics I took as normal; racial snubbing I thought was just me, a haole.
In my new home, this foreign land Southern California, I became the "dumb" kid always thrown in the smart class, getting grades like my batting average. Wide-eyed, stick-skinny and unbelievably shy.
But on the court or the field I was fury, white hot, never backing down. Ever the runt showing poor command of the playground rules. I took no hints. I got in fights all the time, losing every one.
I was too light for Pop Warner football and short for basketball. Baseball, though, depended less on size or heft.
So this nightmare when stardom was mine felt particularly cruel. Learning later my eyes had changed and I needed glasses delivered no consolation. My humiliation already was complete.
My grandfather, a semipro pitcher in his time, loved the game. At 16 he jumped a train out of Anniston, Alabama, and wound up in New York City, where he met Grandma. He drove for Union Oil, eventually scraping up enough to buy a gas station in downtown Los Angeles before World War II.
He made his first fortune reducing the station to a couple of pumps and charging for parking on the rest of the lot. He secured retirement by selling the land to developers, who put up a skyscraper.
All the while he and Grandma followed the Dodgers like the answer to life. When I came along, the only grandkid who played ball, they swept me off to Dodger Stadium or we watched over TV tray dinners.
The worst thing was letting him down, as if my place in the family lineup had a thing to do with my batting average or it could put an end to the grownups telling me I could be anything I set my mind to be.
Well, I wanted to play shortstop for the Dodgers. How 'bout that?
A crying baby almost kept me from the all-time Dodgers moment. Our 6-month-old was bawling down the hall and this was on me to get him back to his nap while my wife worked on dinner. No, no, no. Shh, shh, shh. There you go.
He drifted off and I tiptoed away. I got to the kitchen as Kirk Gibson was fouling off pitches from A's reliever Dennis Eckersley. On and on, it seemed. "Oh, my," declared Vin Scully, voice of the Dodgers from the '50s until just last year, glue between generations.
"Oh my God, he's gonna hit a home run," I told my wife. And then he did. She enjoyed the spectacle, only smirking a little. Her folks were White Sox people.
The bawling baby grew up to have his own Little League experience. I have my father's memories of the line drive he pinged — aluminum bats now — into left to win a big game, the bunts, the triple play he started, the one he was caught in, the season he got a base hit or walk every time up for four consecutive games.
My greatest joy came when a coach on another team told me he was the most coveted 12th player in the league. Everyone loved how hard he played, how he took everything in stride, never sulked, boosted everyone.
No one, least of all him, cared that he didn't get a hit all season.
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This is probably the most familiar of all Advent hymns and is based on the "Great O's" or "O Antiphons" from eighth-century (or earlier) Greek writings. This arrangement begins with an expressive introcution and then the melody is played against a full accompaniment until the full "Rejoice! Rejoice." It then moves towards a soft, gentle ending. Moderately easy.


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Slimming World mum drops 15 dress sizes after cruel 'who ate all the pies?' taunts
A mum who faced cruel chants over her weight has dropped more than 15 dress sizes and shed more than 12 stone. Mum of four, Tricia Appleby weighed 23 stone at her heaviest.
Now, the receptionist at Bupa Ashby Court in Ashby-de-la-Zouch is taking up a role as a consultant at Slimming World in nearby Blackfordby to help others stay motivated to reach their weight goals. The 54-year-old said she had been obese since she was a teenager reports StaffordshireLive.
She said that she used to have people chant at her on the street. Tricia said: "I started gaining weight in my late teens. Every time I had a child I got worse and piled on more weight. I went on several diets but I still gained weight. Basically, all my life I have been obese.
"I was embarrassed and quiet. I liked joining in with things but I always stayed in the background. I would be out in the town and I would get a chant of 'who ate all the pies?'. I used to make jokes about my weight and say that it didn't hurt. I would binge on chocolate as my main go-to comfort food."
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"My daily routine was I would get up, take my daughters to school and then sit down. I had a very sedentary lifestyle. It was awful, I would only cheer up when I had a treat. I was happy while I was eating but I would always feel guilty and upset after.
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The biggest change is a difference in diet for Tricia. She used to guzzle down family bags of Doritos and packets of chocolate.
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Driver of stolen tractor trailer killed in Mississauga crash
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A tractor trailer on its side against an Esso sign at Eglinton and Mavis after a deadly crash on Jan. 13, 2020. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun)
A wild drive in a stolen tractor trailer early Monday in Mississauga could have had catastrophic consequences, Peel Regional Police say.
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Instead, the driver of the vehicle is dead and two other drivers who found themselves in harm's way went sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Jonathan Q. TritterORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1651-2428
Karen Lutfey
John McKinlay
This article explores the implications of how US family physicians make decisions about ordering diagnostic tests for their patients. Data is based on a study of 256 physicians interviewed after viewing a video vignette of a presenting patient. The qualitative analysis of 778 statements relating to trustworthiness of evidence for their decision making, the use of any kind of technology and diagnostic testing suggests a range of internal and external constraints on physician decision making. Test-ordering for family physicians in the United States is significantly influenced by both hidden cognitive processes related to the physician's calculation of patient resources and a health insurance system that requires certain types of evidence in order to permit further tests or particular interventions. The consequence of the need for physicians to meet multiple forms of proof that may not always relate to relevant treatment delays a diagnosis and treatment plan agreed not only by the physician and patient but also the insurance company. This results in a patient journey that is made up of stuttering steps to a confirmed diagnosis and treatment undermining patient-centred practice, compromising patient care, constraining physician autonomy and creating additional expense. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Professor Jonathan Tritter
tritterj@aston.ac.uk
Social science and medicine
10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.012
Published - Apr 2014
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analyzing so-called "terror experts"
by Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee
Email: info (nospam) muslimaffairs.com.au	 07 Apr 2002
There have been a litany of so-called "terrorism experts" travelling
the world, peddling oft outrageous, sensationalist claims about Muslim
communities in the West, encouraging fear and distrust, and
campaigning to have civil liberties curtailed in the name of "fighting terror".
This article deals with Dr Rohan Gunaratna who is arguably one of the
more prolific of them
A LITTLE GOING A LONG WAY
One of the interesting effects of September 11 has been the way in
which the sudden media and public interest in terrorism has
transformed the careers of otherwise obscure "experts". Many have
sought to cash in on September 11, but few have been able to go so far
with so little as Dr Rohan Gunaratna.
Gunaratna, a research assistant at St. Andrews' University in
Scotland, is, according to the profile on his webpage, an
"acknowledged expert on terrorism in South Asia". As a Sri Lankan,
his area of expertise is in the Tamil Tigers, a militant Tamil
separatist group. Of the publications listed at the Centre for the
Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), Gunaratna has
authored four - all of which relate specifically to Sri Lanka's Tamil insurrection.
Despite that, since September 11, he has been one of the most prolific
commentators on global terrorism, being courted by the media and by
governments. He recently visited Australia, where he made a number of
widely reported, but unchallenged, claims that there were several
"child-killing terrorist groups" operating in Australia, hiding behind
community and humanitarian fronts, whilst manipulating the Australian
government through powerful lobbying of politicians.
The first media appearance of Gunaratna appears to have been in the
August 3, 1997 edition of Scotland on Sunday. Here, the amusing
claim is made that the Tamil Tigers had developed a high-tech body
suit to wear during their suicide bombings that would ensure the head
is not destroyed but rather is transformed into a "lethal projectile -
sometimes traveling as far as two hundred yards". Gunaratna declared
this body suit "more advanced than the body suits used by any other
groups", and warned of "technology transfer" to the Middle East. No
evidence was given to support his claims, and the media ran it on the
basis of him being an "expert".
On October 7, 2000, Gunaratna appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald,
warning that ships belonging to the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) had been
"sighted" in Australian ports, and that Australian Tamils have somehow
been shipping "mini-helicopters" and "micro-light aircraft" for use in
attacks on government troops.
Gunaratna's claims naturally attracted widespread criticism. His book,
"International & Regional Security Implications of the Sri Lankan
Tamil Insurgency" (privately published), was described by the
Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations as, "a book replete with
factual errors and devoid of indexes, footnotes, or any evidence to
substantiate the claims made".
An SBS Dateline program screened on October 4, 2000, featured
Gunaratna making a series of unproven and untested claims such as that
"every working Sri Lankan Tamil is taxed 300 British sterling pounds
per year" to support the Tamil separatist movement. The program, to
which Gunaratna contributed heavily, was challenged by the Tamil
community in Australia, resulting in the investigating reporter behind
the program eventually resigning.
CASHING IN ON TERROR
After September 11, Gunaratna cashed in on the widespread interest in
terrorism and seems to have successfully recast himself as not just an
expert on Tamil terrorism but as an expert in terrorism as a whole.
The first newspaper to quote Gunaratna after September 11th, was the
Financial Times of London on September 13th. Gunaratna was quoted
because of his expertise in the Tamil Tigers who also employed suicide
bombings as a weapon.
On September 18, 2001, in the San Francisco Chronicle, Gunaratna
presented himself not just as an expert on Sri Lankan terrorism but an
expert on "Islamic terrorism". Warning of an "endurance period" that
a suicide bomber spends in secular society without succumbing to
temptation, Gunaratna said that he becomes a "programmed machine".
"He lives in your country. He wears the clothes that you wear. He has
a good time. And though he comes from a poor country and experiences
what America is, when he is given the order -- get on the plane and do
this -- he still does it�To ensure that he doesn't change his mind,
others follow him around� They preach to him selected verses in the
Koran. They remind him, 'You'll be a martyr. You'll be remembered for
generations.'"
Noone pointed out to Gunaratna that the alleged hijackers were Saudis
- not from poor countries. Of course, such oversights might be
excused, as Gunaratna is still in the early stages of his
transformation from an obscure expert on Tamil affairs to a world
expert on "Islamic terrorism".
INCITING FEAR IN AUSTRALIA
On September 27, 2001, the Sydney Morning Herald reports Gunaratna's
declaration that he had "evidence" of numerous terrorist groups active
in Australia, including Hamas, and that Australia must establish an
"anti-terrorist unit" to root them out. The article reports that, as
has become characteristic, Gunaratna declines to mention his source or
any evidence to support these accusations. Interestingly, Gunaratna
warned that liberal laws are to blame - a theme that remains
consistent in his Quixotic adventure. Despite Gunaratna's claims of
compelling evidence, neither the Australian government, nor its law
enforcement apparatus, have admitted any such presence or taken steps
to eradicate it.
On the same day, the Financial Times reported that Gunaratna has
labeled Germany the base for al-Qaeda in Europe. Again, he blamed the
"tight limits on how intelligence and police officials can gather
evidence against suspects, a strong civil liberties tradition and easy
access to education and welfare provision".
The Australian reported, also on September 27, 2001, that Gunaratna
had identified no less than seven terrorist groups operating in
Australia, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the "Chechen Mujahideen".
In The Age, September 27th, again, Gunaratna rallied against the usual
enemy of civil liberties, claiming, "Your laws, the legal system is
very weak in responding to this type of terrorist support network".
On October 5, 2001, The Mercury (Hobart) reports Gunaratna as again
making the unsupported claim that seven terrorist groups operate here.
Continuing to tilt at windmills, this modern day Don Quixote calls on
the Federal Government to pass laws to "restrict the operations of
these groups and prevent them spreading 'propaganda'". What kind of
operations is not mentioned, nor what kind of "propaganda".
He said that here were several hundred members in total in Australia,
who recruited and indoctrinated new members in the aims of the
terrorist groups. "These are terrorists who have killed many women
and children and these groups are functioning here." It is difficult
to find anyone in the Australian media who has come close to Gunaratna
in making such an outrageous statement without being debunked and
condemned as alarmist. Nonetheless, his fear-mongering was widely
reported and accepted.
ALLEGATIONS OF POLITICAL MANIPULATION
The Herald-Sun on October 5, 2001 quotes Gunaratna as making an even
more ridiculous and outlandish claim. After blasting our "weak laws",
he explained the reason why: "The reason your politicians are not
passing this legislation is because some of these groups are lobbying
your MPs and telling them we will give you so many hundred votes from
this migrant community and you must help us and raise our concerns in
Parliament." He hoped the current climate of outrage against
terrorists would compel politicians to act, because Australia was
vulnerable and presented "a target-rich environment".
So now he is claiming that terrorist groups that have killed women and
children are approaching Australian politicians and paying them off
with promises of "hundreds" of votes? A claim that anti-terrorism
laws are being held back because the terrorists are manipulating the
politicians is scandalous and Gunaratna should have been throroughly
interrogated by the media over such a claim.
Associated Press reported on November 20, 2001, that Gunaratna claimed
that Islamic terrorists would soon attack cruise ships because they
are "considered prestigious because there is a perception that they
are filled with wealthy Americans." To suggest that al-Qaeda's
apparent hatred of the West is driven by a hate of "wealthy Americans"
is nonsensical, given that Gunaratna has himself been traveling the
world instilling fear of the amazingly affluent Bin Laden network.
INCONSISTENCIES IN GUNARATNA'S STORIES
On December 10th, 2001, in an Opinion piece published in the
Australian, Gunaratna ran the now familiar script about our weak laws
and the need to curtail civil liberties. He made the same unsupported
and baseless claim of terrorist groups operating in this country, but
this time he appears to have either forgotten the number he quoted to
the same paper on September 27th or has discovered a new group since
then. He claimed that there were now eight terrorist groups operating
here, as opposed to seven! It is hard to take seriously someone who
despite his apparent academic credentials, has failed to provide
references or evidence for any of his broad claims. It is even harder
to take someone seriously who seems to have forgotten what he told the
Australian press just three weeks earlier.
Gunaratna then made the inciteful and, as as become his modus
operandi, unsupported accusation that these terrorist groups are
"operating through front, cover and sympathetic organisations may take
the face of human rights and humanitarian groups as well as community
organizations". Naturally, he doesn't name them, or point to any
evidence - as this would expose his claims to scrutiny and, maybe
even, ridicule.
On January 9, 2002, Gunaratna began peddling his standard wares in
Singapore. The Straits Times reports that he accused Parti Islami
seMalaysia (PAS), a Malaysian political party, had links to al-Qaeda.
PAS described Gunaratna's accusation as libel, and pointed out that
all political achievements of PAS had been throught he ballot box.
On January 30, 2002, Jana Wendt interviewed Gunaratna on SBS's
dateline. When asked what information he had been able to glean from
the videotapes of Bin Laden about al-Qaeda's future direction, he
answered: "In fact, one of his last messages, Osama said that the
frontline, or the battleline, is now at 100m and it should be extended
to 300m. It very clearly meant that his message to the wider support
base is "You should take the war out of Afghanistan." Wendt then
asked, "You say "very clearly meant". How can you be so sure that that
was the coded message that he was transmitting to his followers?"
Gunaratna then claimed that he could be absolutely certain that this
was a coded message because "well, Osama usually speaks in parables,
in that kind of language - indirect language - and this is his way of
sending a wider message to his supporters."
Osama speaking in parables? Did Gunaratna get confused between his
terrorism studies and bible studies: "All this Jesus said to the
crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to them without a parable." (Matthew 13:34)
It is doubtful that Gunaratna even understands Arabic, let alone to
the point that he could understand the allegories often used in a
language that is amongst the world's most flowery. One gets an
insight into the extent of Gunaratna's "mastery" of Arabic in his
article entitled, "Blowback" and published in Jane's Intelligence
Review (August 1, 2001). He claims that al-Qaida membership is drawn
from two distinct Egyptian terrorist groups (Islamic Group of Egypt
and Islamic Jihad). He then calls them "Gamaya al Islamiya" and "Al
Gamaya al Islamiya", however, in Arabic, both names have the exact
same meaning of "Islamic Group". It is analgeous to saying, "Islamic
Group" and "the Islamic Group". The correct name would, as any
self-respecting "terror expert" would have known, be al-Jihad
al-Islami.
His interview with Wendt continues: "As you know, other than the core
organisation of al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda also has extensive linkage to a
number of Islamist political movements and Islamist terrorist
organisations, so al-Qaeda depends not only on its operatives for
action against Western, primarily US, targets but also action by these
associate organisations."
A series of unsupported, incredulous, and oft ridiculous statements,
and one might have expected the media to have woken up to Gunaratna
and his racket. Not so.
The November 2001 edition of The Review, the magazine of the
Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council, described Gunaratna as the
"sort of figure in short supply in Australia". Thankfully.
In an interview with The Review, Gunaratna warned that here in
Australia, "the terrorist support networks that are often operating as
charities as front cover and sympathetic organisations. These
organisations take the face of human rights and human caring
organisations and they have got grants of several respectable
grant-making foundations in Australia, in the West, and this must
stop. And the only way this can stop is, if the public are vigilant
and if the public maintain pressure."
His concluding message to the Australian political establishment was
happily conveyed by the Review. He said: "I also have a special
message for the politicians especially of Australia, some of these
terrorist organisations exercise constituent or electoral pressure and
you must not succumb to this pressure. A terrorist group can come and
tell you, look we will give you 10,000 or 20,000 votes in the next
election. You should include this in your manifesto or you should air
this in your parliament. It will be highly counterproductive for
political leaders to succumb to this kind of pressure because this
will damage the security, not only of your country, but international
security in general."
The idea that someone would address the Israeli lobby, raising the
alarm on the ability of powerful lobby groups to influence political
opinion is laughable.
What is, of course, not laughable is that on October 5, 2001,
Gunaratna told the Herald-Sun the same story but instead claimed that
only hundreds of votes were being promised. He said: "The reason your
politicians are not passing this legislation is because some of these
groups are lobbying your MPs and telling them we will give you so many
hundred votes from this migrant community and you must help us and
raise our concerns in Parliament."
By November, Gunaratna's scenario was politicians being offered tens
of thousands of votes. The sensationalist vote-manipulation story had
now undergone the same treatment as his earlier, "terrorist groups in
Australia" story.
A further inconsistency is in Gunaratna's claims as to even how many
terrorist groups are "capable for conducting suicide missions". In an
article entitled, "Suicide Terrorism: A Global Threat", originally
published in Janes Intelligence Review and reprinted in Turkish Daily
News on September 14, 2001, Gunaratna claims that there were 10 groups
capable of using suicide terrorism. In Janes Intelligence Review
(September 24, 2001), just ten days later, the number jumps to 12 with
Gunaratna writings: "at present, 12 Middle Eastern and Asian terrorist
groups are capable of conducting suicide operations."
It is impossible to know whether Gunaratna is an exaggerator, a liar,
absent minded, careless, or simply ignorant of the facts. The answer
is, however, irrelevant. Regardless of the reason, these
inconsistencies, lack of proof and outrageous, unsupported claims
should make Gunaratna a completely incredulous source for information
on terrorism and the situation here in Australia. That Gunaratna has,
till now, been able to peddle his tabloid-style sensationalism to an
accepting and largely unquestioning audience is a sad indictment on
some sections of the media and also a reflection of the blanket of
hysteria that has covered much of society since September 11.
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The award-winning country music star sings wine's praises and gives readers entertaining tips.
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MM: One of my favorite wine experiences was visiting the Ornellaia estate in Italy. My husband and I were invited to spend the afternoon and evening. We were treated to an amazing lunch, and I can still taste the panzanella salad and the melon with prosciutto. Everything was so fresh and simple. We then toured the vineyard and had a private tasting with Winemaker Axel Heinz, where we also tasted their delicious second wine, Le Serre Nuove. I learned so much about winemaking at that tasting! We were then treated to a lovely dinner, but the real fun began when my husband, John, brought out his computer and started taking music requests. All ice was broken, and we listened to music and drank wine until 3 am. It was a beautiful experience combining fantastic wine, delicious food, great music and new friends. Perfect.


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The 14-foot great white shark, named Katharine, has steadily made her way down the east coast of Florida beginning in April.
Katherine has been off the South Florida coast since May 13th. Yesterday, the great white shark was off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.


Some of my short lengths of jewelry chain were getting tangled up in the box so I decided to wrap them around something. Great use for the wine corks, I thought. I drilled one hole through the middle of the cork and then another hole from the top center to the side of the cork.
I dropped an inch of chain through the center hole and then secured it by wrapping chain around the cork. Then I put the remaining end of chain up through the side hole and out the top of the cork.
But then when you lift the cork, the chain falls right off the bottom of the cork! Ha ha!
Back to the drawing board on this design.
Craft Fail - Jewelry Chain keeper. The chain falls right off the bottom!


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Food in America's Tech Town
A booming technology sector. The world's best engineering school. Boston—and its sister city across the Charles River, Cambridge—boasts some of the brightest science and tech talent in the country.
For a city this tech-heavy, some of that experimentation is bound to spill over into its food scene. Indeed, Beantown has incubated some fine dining trials that have turned into creative and beloved local fixtures. Experimentation is a key ingredient here, either through culture or food—or both.
Little Dipper669 Centre Street, Boston facebook.com/Little DipperJP
The first thing you notice when you walk into Little Dipper, which opened last July in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, is the décor—it's out of this world. Founder David Doyle has gone to infinity and beyond, indulging his love of rockets, astronomy and science fiction in the cozy and casual neighborhood diner. Over 50 model rockets, built by Doyle, hang in four squadrons from the black ceiling and futuristic travel posters from the Jet Propulsion Lab dot the walls. Most of the rockets have flown, under the supervision of Doyle's six-year-old son, Dylan.
Chef Robyn McGrath goes all-out with classic diner dishes such as pancakes, eggs any way (and all day), veggie and meat burgers, chicken and fish sandwiches, salads, meatloaf and pasta. The team plans on occasional in-house pop-ups featuring regional cuisines, such as Cajun or southwestern.
Also in the pipeline are events with Astronomy on Tap, the goal of which is to give NASA-funded scientists opportunities to share their research with the public. Doyle says the restaurant will host film screenings of space-related documentaries, as well as feature films that celebrate space exploration. To help inspire young people in the neighborhood to learn about flight and science, Little Dipper raffles off a complete model rocket launch set each month. Looking to indulge your rocket obsession? Doyle has you covered: The restaurant will host regular rocket launches for anyone interested.
Clover Food Lab12 locations in the Boston/Charleston area cloverfoodlab.com
Ayr Muir was convinced he was going to work with wind power and clean energy after he graduated from MIT. But then he learned that food production, especially the growing of livestock, has a major environmental impact, so Muir decided to focus on developing plant-based food. The material scientist, used to laboratory experiments, launched a food truck in Boston as a testing lab to develop the fast-casual restaurant's menu.
Since then, the idea of testing and experimentation has stuck, says Lucia Jazayeri, creative director. Clover runs weekly food development meetings, which the public is free to attend, to generate ideas for new menu items. Winning concepts then get tested at a live location— Clover has 12 restaurants in the Metro area—and winners from this round make it to the actual menu. (Clover's popular Japanese sweet potato sandwich is the product of such experimentation.)
Clover buys its produce from local farms, and menus reflect New England's seasonality. However, Jazayeri says, Clover also is keen on getting its customers out of their comfort zone to try something new. My favorites: the chickpea fritter sandwich (fast becoming a Boston icon) and the Venezuelan plantain.
The best part about Clover is its emphasis on community. For example, its restaurants offer pickups of farm shares as part of community supported agriculture (CSA), in which consumers purchase a share of a farmer's crop before it is grown each season.
Catalyst 300 Technology Square, Cambridge catalystrestaurant.com
The address says it all: 300 Technology Square. It's part of Kendall Square in Cambridge, the heart of the Boston area's tech mecca, with the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology right around the corner. The creation of chef and owner William Kovel, it is dedicated to pairing fresh, local ingredients with serious French technique.
The location makes it a hub for some of the brightest minds working on science and technology startups. They often congregate at Catalyst for business lunches, after-work gatherings and meetings in the restaurant's private dining spaces, which feature state-of-the art amenities such as flat screens and high-speed Internet access.
A two-way fireplace and reclaimed barnwood fixtures accentuate the décor of this popular lunch and dinner spot. Seasonal dishes abound: Spring favorites include goat cheese ravioli and spring vegetable salad with salmon. My personal favorite is the charred shishito peppers with burrata.
Arguably, the most dramatic experiments at Catalyst come from the inspired cocktails. Ask for The Undecided, which allows a full display of creativity; notes of lavender and lemon infused my drink the last time I was there. Another of my favorites: Chilicillin, or "Just what the doctor prescribed," with Redbreast Lustau, ginger beer, confit lemon chili, honey and Laphroaig rinse.
America's Test Kitchen 21 Drydock Avenue americastestkitchen.com
America's Test Kitchen is not strictly a restaurant, but you can't mention food science and Beantown without a nod to every home cook's favorite institution. Situated right in the booming Seaport district of Boston, ATK is a mini-media conglomerate, with not only the PBS cooking show of the same name but also three magazines, roughly 10 new books a year, websites and an online cooking school.
ATK rigorously tests all its recipes but also conducts run-throughs of cooking equipment that are beloved by many home cooks. "We believe that science is an essential component of our mission, which is making home cooks confident and more successful in the kitchen," says Lisa McManus, executive tasting and testing editor. A high rating from ATK is an automatic indicator of quality. After all, very few can pass the rigorous (often 20-page long) testing protocols.
McManus's recent endorsement: carbon steel skillets. "I tested several and loved the way they transfer heat like cast iron and become naturally nonstick, while being as light as traditional skillets," she says.
Executive editor Lisa McManus performs abuse testing on a 12-inch stainless steel skillet to see how well it withstands dents.
What's more, ATK has a food truck (often parked at the Seaport location) that sells a lunch special or dessert from the classic ATK recipe library. Even better, foodies get to rate the recipe using the iPads on hand.


The Roof is an urban farm with a wide variety of the freshest-possible produce. John has loved to garden since he was young and now brings that passion and experience to his own personal rooftop garden. He grows all kinds of organic and heirloom fruits and vegetables to incorporate into his cooking whenever seasonably appropriate.


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The controversial talk-show host stuck up for Fergie's national anthem performance by throwing Beyonce, Janet Jackson, and others under the bus.
Wendy Williams joined the debate regarding Fergie's interesting twist on the national anthem during the All-Star game on Feb. 18. While the controversial talk-show host shared some of the same negative sentiments as other viewers who tuned into Fergie's performance, Williams took it step further by throwing Beyonce's name into the discussion. Naturally, Williams' negative commentary on Bey's vocal abilities caused quite the stir amongst the BeyHive.
"There are only a few people who can sing raw dog and Fergie is not one, she needs autotune," Williams stated in reference to the singer's recent performance. But according to Williams, Fergie isn't the only artist who shouldn't perform without vocal enhancement. "Jen Lopez, needs auto-tune, Beyonce need auto-tune," she declared. "Adele Aretha Celine, Dionne Warwick, and Mariah [Carey], they need nothing. They sing raw dog."
Williams continued to defend Fergie, stating that she shouldn't have issued an apology for her performance. In the formal statement released on Feb. 19, Fergie explained why she took a risk and apologized for the fact that it did not go over well with the public. "I don't feel like Fergie needed to apologize to anybody. You did it, you done it, and that's that," Williams stated. "She did her jazzy version of the anthem at the NBA and everyone was upset and she released a statement saying she wanted to do something different and apparently different wasn't good."
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time Wendy Williams has come after Beyonce. The celeb has previously criticized the singer's education and singing abilities. You would think by now that she would've learned not to mess with the BeyHive's leader, but some lessons come harder than others.
Check out the video clip and Twitter reactions below.
Something is wrong with Wendy Williams y'all. We need to stop acting like she's okay.
She thinks Beyoncé needs auto tune. That's crack-ish.


This weekend's New York Times Book Review leads off with a review of Dave Eggers' new book Zeitoun, by Timothy Egan. Zeitoun is a non-fiction account of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-American who, having sent his family to safety, stays behind as Hurricane Katrina ravages New Orleans. Inexplicably, reviewer Egan starts his piece with an image of Charles Dickens wandering the wreckage of New Orleans, outraged by what he sees. Egan then likens Eggers' book to a Dickens novel: "Eggers, the boy wonder of good intentions has given us 21st century Dickensian storytelling -- which is to say a character driven potboiler with a point." I just don't buy the comparison of the Victorian English novelist with this current offering from a postmodernist like Dave Eggers. I have not read the book yet, but I also suspect it is not a potboiler -- a shoddy work written quickly for money. Describing the tension that existed in New Orleans before the storm hits, Egan states "It's Hitchcock before the birds attack." Egan should have dropped the trite film reference and stayed with his initial description of the mood of the city. And in another discordant note, after describing Zeitoun dropping the fish from his aquarium into the waters rising in his house and quoting Eggers as "It was the best chance they had," he follows with this observation: "Kids: that's the kind of reporting detail that makes a book like this come alive." Hello -- we got that from the quotation, you don't need to beat us over the head!
These lapses aside, Egan provides a succinct and gripping account of the book. And the story itself is riveting. At first Zeitoun paddles around his neighborhood in a canoe, helping people. Then things turn incredibly ugly: He is arrested as a terrorist and held incommunicado for weeks, just because he is of Syrian origin. Reviewer Egan makes the point that "In the end […], Zeitoun is a more powerful indictment of America's dystopia in the Bush era than any number of well-written polemics." And in the end, after reading this review, I am compelled to read the book. The reviewer should have been compelled to take a few more edit passes over his article, remove some of the bad writing, and make the piece shine.
Next up is a review of M.J.Hyland's novel This is How by Erica Wagner. Hyland's novel is about how things can go terribly wrong in a person's life. In this case, we have a young Englishman who ends up spending the rest of his life in prison as a result of one brief moment of violence and passion. Wagner describes the repercussions thus: "This is how a life changes in an instant. This is how a decision that can barely be given that name shapes the rest of a life". Raskolnikov is brought up as a comparison to the protagonist Patrick Oxtoby, and based on Wagner's description of the novel, I got a definite sense of a modern-day Crime and Punishment. But in the reviewer's description of the randomness of the events in the protagonist's life, and in the machinations of the legal system and the absurdity of life in prison, I got the sense that this novel is more Kafkaesque in that the hero moves through a life whose rules he doesn't understand, and against which he is powerless to defend himself. I may read the first few chapters of this book at Barnes and Noble and see if it worth going all the way with it.
This type of scene opens many a novel and movie. What makes it interesting, reviewer Robinson says, is that Griffin's problems stem from his parents. Both parents are failed professors in that they did not achieve posts at a Northeastern college or University, but instead are exiled to Indiana, where they can barely conceal their contempt for their students, colleagues, or each other. Their only respite is a yearly summer vacation on Cape Cod, where they can reconnect with their Northeastern roots.
Although Griffin thinks he has insulated his family from the bitterness of his parents, some of it has affected him. Robinson writes: "he, like his parents, is unable to commit to the life he has. He also doesn't realize that he's got it good." This applies to a lot of people that we know, and these people also show up in a lot of novels, particularly by writers from the Northeast. However, reviewer Robinson has done an excellent job summing up and analyzing That Old Cape Magic, and I think I'm going to give it a try.
Samuel J. Freedman turns in an overly long review of The Snakehead, an Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe. Freedman starts out discussing Theodore Roosevelt and his parting of the ways with muckraking writers Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell, even though they helped in his "Trust Busting" campaign, because their writing was too radical. Freedman then goes on to describe other writers of the muckraking school such as Jacob Riis, who he says "seeks out misery and vice" and unintentionally portrays society's victims "monochromatically, like a bigot might." He prefers the tempered criticism of a Hutchins Hapgood, who understood the complexities of the poor, beyond their victimization. Although he does not call Patrick Radden Keefe a muckraker, he wishes that Keefe had more Hapgood in him, and less Riis. When he finally gets around to reviewing the book at hand, which is an account of illegal Chinese immigrants shipped into New York on a derelict vessel named the "Golden Venture", and their trials and tribulations after the boat runs aground off the coast of Queens, he states that Keefe was able to write a good crime tale, but failed to deliver on the promise of the subtitle to draw the connection between the Chinatown underground and the American Dream.
The reviewer didn't leave me with a clear sense of what the book was really about, and in my opinion when humans are exploited by other humans, a muckraking approach is the way to wake people up to the problem and mobilize society to help the downtrodden. The review failed to move me either way on the Keefe book, which is a shame, since it seems like a worthwhile read.
Gates enumerates an entire litany of these "come to realizes", such as "rituals in families are no different that religious rituals", that "histories may be a series of atrocities worn smooth by the passage of time", and how about this one: "book clubs … are cover for the myriad longings and disappointments in female life." Do you want to read this book? I don't.
At this point I flipped through the pages until a review caught my eye: Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot, reviewed by Dana Jennings. First of all, I am familiar with Greg Kot's work, as he is the rock critic for the Chicago Tribune, and author of several rock-related books. Second of all, the evolution in how music is disseminated has always fascinated me.
The review by Dana Jennings is excellent. The book goes back to the early days of taping music off the radio, and reviewer Jennings does a nice job of showing the arrogance and technophobia of the record moguls. As the record companies fought their customers -- their customers! -- and called them thieves, the music lovers found ever better ways to get music over the internet, from Napster to the iPod.
And we see the record industry for what it is: "Still, the most fascinating part of the book is its retelling of how the big music companies committed capitalist suicide. The executives couldn't get their analog heads around the digital future. If industry leaders had always followed their mistrust of technology, we'd still be listening to music on 78-r.p.m. shellac, or maybe even wax cylinders."
This is a well-written, interesting review, and has completely motivated me to buy this book.
There are more reviews in today's NYTBR, but these were the ones that attracted me.
I have a new-found respect for Levi for doing this every weekend.
This article is part of the series Reviewing the New York Times Book Review. The next post in the series is Reviewing the Review: August 23 2009. The previous post in the series is Guest-Reviewing the Review: August 9 2009.
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I want to read the Greg Kot book. This is a prime time for a book like Ripped to drop: Kot can step back and observe the big picture as the dust settles (somewhat) from the most recent clash between the music industry and music fans.
Speaking of music, I saw a great show about Les Paul on TV yesterday, recounting how he pioneered multi-tracking and so on.


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Raiders Re-Sign Veteran Offensive Lineman: Report
By Austin Boyd
Getty Jordan Devey with DeAndre Washington.
Fresh off the news that the Las Vegas Raiders restructured Rodney Hudson's contract, the team has made a move now that they have some more salary-cap space. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, the team is re-signing offensive guard Jordan Devey.
#Raiders are bringing back G Jordan Devey, source says. Started four games last season before being lost with a torn pectoral.
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) April 2, 2020
Devey has mostly been a depth player over his career, but he was thrust into a starting spot for the Raiders early in the 2019 season. With Richie Incognito suspended and Gabe Jackson hurt, Devey started four games and played well. He has played for five different teams in seven seasons, but it looks like he's found a home in Las Vegas. Devey can also play center, so it was a smart move to bring him back.
Raiders Keeping OL Intact
With the move to re-sign Devey, the Raiders offensive line should look almost identical in 2020 to what it looked like in 2019. Former Cleveland Browns guard Eric Kush has been the only addition to the group. Denzelle Good and Richie Incognito were supposed to be free agents, but both signed extensions before they could sign elsewhere.
It's clear that the Raiders like what they have in their offensive line and want to keep it that way. It makes sense considering they were among the better units in the NFL. They only allowed 1.8 sacks per game, which was good for sixth-best in the league. The team's offensive line was riddled with injuries all season. If the whole group can stay relatively healthy for a whole year, the Raiders could have one of the three best offensive lines around. That said, there's still a possibility that some movement happens.
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Gabe Jackson Still on Trade Block?
The most exciting part of the Raiders' offensive line is that there isn't a weak link. Left tackle Kolton Miller is the biggest question mark, but his improvement from year one to year two was astounding. If he takes another leap in 2020, nobody will ever question the team taking him in the first round again.
While the team appears happy with their offensive line as a whole, there seems to be some reservations about right guard Gabe Jackson. He's been hit with nasty injuries in each of the last two seasons and he's got a massive contract. It was reported by Ian Rapoport before free agency that the team would be willing to listen to offers for him and while nothing has happen yet, it's possible the Raiders pull the trigger on a deal.
That said, Gruden recently talked about how he's excited to get him back healthy. When he's not hampered by injuries, he's among the best guards in the NFL. His contract isn't ideal, but the Raiders could cut him loose at any time and not face a penalty for it. Denzelle Good and Devey proved to be very capable of holding down the fort if Jackson isn't around, but it remains to be seen if they'll be as successful starting a whole season. As of now, it appears Jackson will stick around to start the season.
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The secret plan behind the "3.0 (quilt)" Debian source package format
October 21, 2010 by Raphaël Hertzog
While I have spent countless hours working on the new source format known as "3.0 (quilt)", I've just realized that I have never blogged about its features and the reasons that lead me to work on it. Let's fix this.
The good old "1.0" format
Up to 2008, dpkg-source was only able to cope with a single source format (now named "1.0"). That format was used since the inception of the project. While it worked fine for most cases, it suffered from a number of limitations—mainly because it stored the Debian packaging files as a patch to apply on top of the upstream source tarball.
This patch can have two functions: creating the required files in the debian sub-directory and applying changes to the upstream sources. Over time, if the maintainer made several modifications to the upstream source code, they would end up entangled (and undocumented) in this single patch. In order to solve this problem, patch systems were created (dpatch, quilt, simple-patchsys, dbs, …) and many maintainers started using them. Each implementation is slightly different but the basic principle is always the same: store the upstream changes as multiple patches in the debian/patches/ directory and apply them at build-time (and remove them during cleanup).
Design goals for the new formats
When I started working on the new source package format, I set out to get rid of all the known limitations and to integrate a patch system in dpkg-source. I wanted to clear up the situation so that learning packaging only requires to learn one patch system and would not require modifying debian/rules to use it. I picked quilt because it was popular, came with a large set of features, and was not suffering from NIH syndrome. This lead to the "3.0 (quilt)" source format.
I also created "3.0 (native)" as a distinct format. "1.0" was able to generate two types of source packages (native and non-native) but I did not want to continue with this mistake of mixing both in a single format. The KISS principle dictated that the user should pick the format of his choice, put it in debian/source/format and be done with it. Now the build can rightfully fail when the requirements are not met instead of doing something unexpected as a fallback.
Features of "3.0 (quilt)"
This is the format that replaces the non-native variant of the 1.0 source format. The features below are specific to the new format and differentiate it from its ancestor:
Supports compression formats other than gzip: bzip2, lzma, xz.
Can use multiple upstream tarballs.
Can include binary files in the debian packaging.
Automatically replaces the "debian" directory present in the upstream tarball (no repacking required).
Creates a new quilt-managed patch in debian/patches/ when it finds changes to the upstream files.
Features of "3.0 (native)"
This format is very similar to the native variant of the 1.0 source format except for two things:
it supports compression formats other than gzip: bzip2, lzma, xz.
it excludes by default a bunch of files that should usually not be part of the tarball (VCS specific files, vim backup files, etc.)
Looking back at the history is interesting. This project already spans multiple years and is not really over until a majority of packages have switched to the new formats.
January 2008: the discussion how to cope with patches sanely rages on debian-devel@lists.debian.org. My initial decisions are the result of this discussion.
March 2008: I have implemented the new formats and I request feedback. dpkg 1.14.17 (uploaded to experimental) is the first release supporting them.
April 2008: I ask ftpmasters to support the new source packages in #457345.
June 2008: Lenny freeze. dpkg is not supposed to change anymore. Several changes concerning the new source formats are still accepted in the following months given that this code is not yet used in production and must only be present so that lenny can cope with new source packages once squeeze starts using them.
February 2009: Lenny release.
March 2009: Work on squeeze has started, ftpmasters have done nothing to support new source formats, I submit a patch in #457345 to speed things up. I start a wiki page to track the project's progress and to answer common questions of maintainers.
November 2009: After an ftpmaster sprint, it's now possible to upload new source packages in unstable. This draws massive attention to the new format and some people start complaining about some design decisions. The implementation of "3.0 (quilt)" changes a lot during this month. dpkg in lenny is even updated to keep up with those changes.
March 2010: Up to now, I was planning to let dpkg-source build new source packages by default at some point in the future. After several rounds of discussions, I agree that it's not the best course of action and decides instead to make debian/source/format mandatory. The maintainer must be explicit about the source format that s/he wants to use.
October 2010: The new source formats are relatively popular, a third of the source packages have already switched: see the graph. The squeeze freeze in August clearly stopped the trend, hopefully it will continue once squeeze is released.
June 2013: Project is finished?
As you can see this project is not over yet, although the most difficult part is already behind me. For my part, the biggest lesson is that you won't ever get enough review until your work is used within unstable. So if you have a Debian project that impacts a lot of people, make sure to organize an official review process from the start. And specifying your project through a Debian Enhancement Proposal is probably the best way to achieve this.
If you appreciate the work that I put into this project, feel free to join Flattr and to flattr dpkg from time to time. Or check out my page "Support my work".
Filed Under: Debian News, News, Stories of life, Ubuntu News Tagged With: 3.0 (native), 3.0 (quilt), dpkg, dpkg-source, Me, Packaging
Marius Gedminas says
What happened to 2.0?
2.0 has been implemented at the same time than "3.0 (quilt)", it was specified a long time ago under the name "wig&pen". Before then, the initial support of that format by dpkg-source was partial: it was only able to unpack those package.
In the end, this format will never be used in Debian, it's similar to 3.0 (quilt) but the design is IMO inferior.
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo says
Great work! I already converted the packages that I control (except one where co-maintainers are still not sure) as soon as almost 1 year ago — I didn't know that it was not very mature by then!
I appreciate the effort you put in putting together this post.
Would a new source format be a good approach to solving the data package issue (where the packaging work is virtually entirely install(1)/dh_install, and the data is very large, so duplicating it between orig.tar.gz and _all.deb on the archives is a pain)
Jon, I don't see how a new format could help here.
A way to avoid the duplication would be for the .deb to be empty, a sort of data-installer. The postinst would fetch the .orig.tar.gz and install the required data. It would be a rather ugly hack.
Or it could be the opposite, the source package could fetch the data at build time but official debian packages are not allowed to fetch stuff over the network. Maybe this requirement could be relaxed for the upcoming data.debian.org meant for this type of packages.
Both options aren't really solutions. Perhaps this is just unsolvable in Debian.
Would've been nice if the next source format was just a git archive with a debian branch
Sven Joachim says
That's already available as format 3.0 (git), currently marked as experimental. However, I don't think such a format will ever be accepted by the FTP masters, because checking the whole git history for undistributable or non-DFSG-free files is much more work than with the current formats.
Richard Corbin says
I'm currently in the process of building a packaging system for a cloud framework that I have underdevelopment. I've essentially ignored compression protocols other than LZx and I was just wondering… what other compressions do you support, and … why?
dpkg-source supports xz, lzma, bzip2 and gzip. Why? Because those are the most popular and the most requested. We can add support for more formats if needed.
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