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The Détente Deception
Soviet and Western bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace
Douglas Rivero
The Détente Deception examines the competition between the U.S.-led Western bloc and the Soviet bloc in the less developed world during the final years of Détente. Rivero assesses whether or not the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third World and whether this contributed to the U.S. decision to abandon Détente in 1979. This view is articulated by many acclaimed scholars such as Stephen Walt (1992), John Gaddis (1997), and Vladislav Zubok (2007). They make the case that during the final years of Détente and throughout the 1980s, U.S. policy in places such as Nicaragua and Angola was a calculated response to Soviet aggression in the less-developed world.
This book challenges this position as the quantitative evidence points to U.S. aggression. Not only did the Western bloc push to maintain dominance over the Third World, archival evidence also suggests the US made significant efforts in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan during the final years of Détente to dismantle the Soviet bloc. « less more »
Pages: 144 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-6043-3 • Hardback • December 2012 • $73.00 • (£49.95)
978-0-7618-6044-0 • eBook • December 2012 • $69.00 • (£47.95)
Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / Arms Control, History / Europe / Former Soviet Republics, History / Military / United States, History / Modern / 20th Century, Political Science / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Douglas Rivero is chair and assistant professor of political science and international relations at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. His areas of specialty are American foreign policy, the Cold War, and international political economy. Dr. Rivero obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida.
I.Introduction and Methodology
II.The Soviet Aggression Thesis and its Critics
III.Soviet and Western Bloc Foreign Aid to the Less Developed World
IV.The Soviet Response in the Third World
V.The U.S. Response to the Soviet Threat in the Third World
VI.Consequences of Détente: Collapse of USSR
VII.Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Rivero offers a powerful analysis of US foreign policy during the final stages of Détente. His analysis of U.S. and Soviet archives is outstanding.
— David Gibbs Ph.D, professor of history, University of Arizona and author of First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
An eye-opening and penetrating examination of the Cold War.
— Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago; author of The Origins of the Korean War
Lucid and incisive. The Détente Deception is an important inquiry into U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. Rivero's book is distinctive in its theoretical and empirical sweep.
— Ronald Cox, associate professor of political science, Florida International University, author of Power and Profits: US Policy in Central America.
This book challenges this position as the quantitative evidence points to U.S. aggression. Not only did the Western bloc push to maintain dominance over the Third World, archival evidence also suggests the US made significant efforts in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan during the final years of Détente to dismantle the Soviet bloc.


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Q: Retrieve CPU usage percentage I want to retrieve percentage processor usage but no other commands that show tons of numbers. There's a solution using 'grep' or 'awk' or something like that.
~$ vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa
 0  0 1447984 190232 146508 4983236  0    0     0    10    0    0  2  1 97  0

I used the vmstat command, and I only want the 'sy' number in the cpu colon.
top command output :
    [m20176 libvirt-  20   0 4368m 4,0g 3028 S  12,0 25,3  24695:44 kvm               (B[m[39;49m

(B[m25320 libvirt-  20   0 3520m 3,0g 3056 S   2,7 19,2  21786:15 kvm               (B[m[39;49m

(B[m    1 root      20   0 10656  624  596 S   0,0  0,0   5:46.26 init              (B[m[39;49m
(B[m    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   0:00.12 kthreadd          (B[m[39;49m
(B[m    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0 476:10.20 ksoftirqd/0       (B[m[39;49m
(B[m    6 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   0:08.16 migration/0       (B[m[39;49m
(B[m    7 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   2:03.06 watchdog/0        (B[m[39;49m
(B[m    8 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   0:04.30 migration/1       (B[m[39;49m
(B[m   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   0:38.83 ksoftirqd/1       (B[m[39;49m
(B[m   12 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   1:43.93 watchdog/1        (B[m[39;49m
(B[m   13 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   0:03.41 migration/2       (B[m[39;49m
(B[m   15 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   2:42.22 ksoftirqd/2       (B[m[39;49m
(B[m   16 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   1:49.23 watchdog/2        (B[m[39;49m
(B[m   17 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0   0:04.42 migration/3       (B[m[39;49m
(B[m   19 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0,0  0,0 408:06.08 ksoftirqd/3       (B[m[39;49m

Here, process uses per process are displayed (only a part). I found this command :
`top -b -d1 -n1|grep -i "Cpu(s)"|head -c21|cut -d ' ' -f3|cut -d '%' -f1`

here. But this is CPU usage from startup, not real-time usage.

A: A simple awk could help you here(considering that you want to print only the numbers of sy column).
vmstat 1 10 | awk 'FNR>1{print $(NF-3)}'

NOTE: I have used vmstat 1 10 to perform 10 times vmstat command on server and then I am printing the $(NF-3) value which is 4th value from last.

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The Baker Act is used in cases where the person has a mental illness and meets all remaining criteria for voluntary or involuntary admission. F.S. 394.
What is the fee for filing a Baker or Marchman petition?
There is no fee for filing a petition.
Who can sign a petition involving a juvenile?
Can an adult apply for voluntary admission?
Yes, an adult may apply for voluntary admission if found to show evidence of mental illness, to be competent to provide express and informed consent, and to be suitable for treatment. An individual can only apply for voluntary treatment at the treatment facility.
Because of the impairment, he or she has lost the power of self control with respect to substance use.
The person's judgment is impaired because of substance abuse and he/she is incapable of appreciating the need for, and is unable to make a rational decision in regards to, substance abuse services.
When there is reason to believe that a person has inflicted, attempted or threatened to inflict, or unless admitted, is likely to inflict, physical harm on himself/herself or another.
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Black scientists: a history of exclusion, part 2 – includes related article – Cover Story
Cheryl D. Fieldscmaadmin (EDU)
The first African American to receive a doctoral degree in the
United States was a scientist. Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918)
was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale
University's undergraduate school in 1874, and completed his Ph.D. in
physics there in 1876.
Several years after graduation, Bouchet was elected into Phi Beta
Kappa, becoming one of the honor society's first Black members. He
spent most of his career sharing his knowledge with other African
Americans as a secondary school science educator.
In the fifty-six years following Boucher's graduation, only twelve other African Americans would earn Ph.D.s in the sciences.
Like most racial disparities in the U.S., the dearth of
credentialed African American scientists is rooted in the nation's
history of racial discrimination. It is difficult to fully comprehend
why the current scarcity exists without briefly reviewing the history
of African Americans in the sciences.
Early African American scientists have included people like
Benjamin Banneker, whose almanac was heralded by Thomas Jefferson;
George Washington Carver, the renowned biochemist; Garrett A. Morgan,
inventor of the stoplight and gas mask; and Granville T. Woods, the
electrical engineer who invented the third rail upon which many subway
systems run. These scientists, had no doctoral training
The existence of credentialed African American scientists in any
significant number is largely a twentieth-century phenomenon. In the
first half of the century, however, even those who did achieve doctoral
degrees often found it difficult to obtain jobs within White-dominated
scientific institutions because of racial discrimination.
Overcoming Early Resistance
More than a half century after Bouchet's achievement, Dr. Hildrus A.
"Gus" Poindexter became the first African American to receive both an
M.D. — which he earned at Harvard University in 1929 — and a Ph.D. —
which he earned in bacteriology at Columbia University in 1932 . A
native of Memphis, Tennessee, Poindexter, had earned his bachelor's
degree at historically Black Lincoln University in 1924 before moving
on to pre-medical studies at Dartmouth College and then to Harvard.
Even after completing his Ph.D., Poindexter earned a master's degree in
public health from Columbia in 1937.
The first doctoral degrees presented by Howard University, the
nations' only historically Black research institution, were awarded in
the field of chemistry to Dr. Harold Delaney and Dr. Bibhuti Mazumder
in 1958. Today, Howard ranks number one among the ten leading
institutions of baccalaureate origin for Black science and engineering
doctorate recipients. In fact, six of these ten institutions are
historically Black institutions (see chart page 16).
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The first African American to become a member of the National
Academy of Science, Dr. David H. Blackwell, was not elected into the
society until 1965. Blackwell earned his doctoral degree in mathematics
at the University of Illinois in 1941. Even with these achievements, by
1972 a cumulative total of only 850 African Americans had earned
science doctorates.
Examples of the types of resistance Black scientists have
encountered are embodied in the experiences of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian
(1899-1975), an organic chemist who completed his undergraduate study
at DePauw University in 1920. Even though Julian had graduated at the
top of his class, he was denied admission to Harvard graduate school
the first time he applied.
Julian worked for two years at Fisk University, a historically
Black institution, before applying to Harvard again. He was accepted
the second time and completed his master's degree in one year, after
which he worked for a short time as a researcher at Harvard. Julian
then taught at historically Black West Virginia State College and
Howard University before winning a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship
to pursue his doctoral studies.
Julian chose the Chemische Institut in Vienna, Austria, as the
place to complete his doctoral studies — in part to escape racism in
the United States. He was awarded his doctoral degree in 1931. His
doctoral research eventually led him to discover a method for the
synthesis of physostigmine, a chemical used to treat glaucoma. He also
discovered processes for the synthesis of progesterone and
testosterone, as well as synthetic cortisone.
Following his physostigmine discovery, Julian became the first
African American hired as the director of research by a major U.S.
chemical company. But the Glidden Company of Chicago hired him only
after he was denied opportunities to head the chemistry departments of
another chemical company and two universities — including his alma
mater, De Pauw — the basis of his race.
While living in Oak Park, Illinois, Julian's life was threatened on
several occasions. At one point, racists even tried to burn down his
home, an indignity that was not uncommon for African Americans at that
The Female Equation
The history of Black women scientists begins even more recently.
One of the first Black women to become a Ph.D. scientist was Dr.
Flemmie P. Kittrell. Born in Henderson, North Carolina, she was the
seventh of her parents' nine children. Kittrell completed her
undergraduate studies at the historically Black Hampton Institute in
1928, and her doctoral studies in nutrition at Cornell University in
Kittrell's career included teaching posts at historically Black
Bennett College, Hampton Institute, and Howard University. She was also
involved in international activities aimed at improving the nutrition
of people living in developing nations in Africa and other parts of the
The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973.
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, a theoretical physicist, was mentored by the
first African American to earn a full-professorship in physics at MIT,
Dr. James Young. Jackson is currently a trustee at MIT and chairs the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The first African American female astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemison, went
on her initial mission in space aboard the Endeavor shuttle in 1992.
She earned her bachelor's in science at Stanford University and her
M.D. from Cornell Medical School, where she specialized in physiology.
Even now, in the latter days of the twentieth century, years pass
in which not a single African American earns a doctorate in some
scientific fields.
Facts like these illustrate how recent the acceptance of and
participation by credentialed African Americans is within the national
and global scientific community.
Recent Creeping Progress
"We went through a period in the late seventies that was the peak
of production, [percentage-wise], for under-represented minorities in
science and engineering," says Dr. Luther Williams, assistant director
of education and human resources at the National Science Foundation
(NSF).
"But what happened in the eighties," Williams continues, "was a
progressive decline that happened when science and engineering really
became critical, almost mandatory, parts of the society. So, at the
exact time when we should have had robust production [of African
American scientists], we were actually losing."
NSF data show that the decline in production of African American
scientists began to subside toward the latter half of the eighties. In
1987, the country produced a total of 133 Black Ph.D.s (includes
non-U.S. citizens) in science and engineering disciplines (excluding
social, life, and health sciences). Growth has been creeping upward
ever since.
By 1995, the country awarded 255 Black doctorates in science and
engineering fields. Of those, 203 were African Americans (see chart
page 14). The other 52 were permanent U.S. residents of African
descent. But these represented only about 2.5 percent of the 10,076
science doctoral degrees awarded that year to U.S. citizens and
permanent residents. U.S. citizens represented 10,015 of these science
doctoral recipients (see chart below).
And according to a preliminary summary report of the most recent
Survey of Earned Doctorates, 283 Black science and engineering doctoral
candidates received their Ph.D.s in 1996 — representing 2.2 percent of
the 12,683 science doctoral degrees awarded that year to U.S. citizens
and permanent residents (see chart page 13).
Even with this progress, according to a 1996 NSF report on the
status of underrepresented populations within the sciences, there are
only about 1,000 Black computer scientists with Ph.D.s.; 1,000 Black
mathematical scientists with Ph.D.s; fewer than 500 Black physicists
with doctorates; 1,000 Black Ph.D. physical scientists; and 1,000 Black
engineers with doctoral credentials in today's scientific labor force.
Among African American scientists and engineers working in higher
education, this same NSF report estimates there are only about 1,600
working at the nation's research universities — where the bulk of
ground-breaking research takes place and where the majority of
public–and private–sector scientific research funding is funneled.
And that 1,600 includes social scientists.
These 1,600 science and engineering faculty represent roughly 14
percent of all African American scientists, including those without
Ph.D.s, working in postsecondary education, according to the NSF. In
contrast, roughly 27 percent of White, 36 percent of Asian, and 18
percent or Latino science and engineering faculty work at research
It should be noted that roughly 30 percent of all full-time Black
faculty work at historically Black institutions and only one — Howard
University — is classified as a research institution. This, coupled
with private industry's aggressive employment of Black scientists and
engineers, may account for some of the disparity
Diversity Increasing, But Without Blacks
Blacks, together with Latinos and Native Americans, continue to be
grossly under-represented in science fields — collectively
representing only about around 3 percent of the national pool of all
people in the field, regardless of degree attainment. In contrast,
White women and Asian Americans have made significant advances over the
past couple of decades.
The increased presence of foreign-born scholars and researchers in these fields is even more dramatic.
"Nearly all of the Ph.D. growth in recent years has been due to
immigrants coming to the U.S. to study on temporary student visas,"
says Michael Teitelbaum, a program officer of the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation.
The Sloan Foundation is one of the leading private-sector funders
of programs aimed at increasing the ranks of underrepresented
scientists. Teitelbaum's comment occurred during his address last
September to scholars attending the 1997 Graduate Research Education
and Training Conference IV, in Leesburg, Virginia. He went on to
explain that between 1974 and 1994, the number of foreign students
pursing degrees in the sciences nearly tripled.
According to NSF reports, in 1977, people of color represented 13
percent of the overall number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents
earning doctoral degrees in science and engineering. Asian students
constituted 3 percent of these. Women earned approximately 25 percent
of the science and engineering doctoral degrees. That same year,
approximately 13 percent of all science and engineering doctoral
degrees earned went to foreign students.
By 1993, people of color were garnering 16 percent of all science
and engineering doctoral degrees earned by U.S. students. But most of
this growth occurred among Asian Americans, who earned 7 percent —
more than double what they had earned in 1977. Additionally, Asian
Americans account for nearly all of the increase experienced by
students of color.
Women's doctoral degree attainment had reached approximately 40
percent of all science and engineering degrees in 1993. And the number
of science and engineering doctoral degrees awarded to foreign students
that year jumped to 26 percent.
"The last thing we need to do is get into a battle over
immigration," says Dr. George Campbell, president of the National
Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. But with 49 percent
of Ph.D.s and 62 percent of the post-doctoral appointments in
engineering going to foreign-born scholars, he finds it difficult not
to be concerned about the pace at which they have surpassed African
Americans in the sciences.
Campbell is further concerned by the declining enrollment of
African Americans in engineering. This is occurring at a time when
African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans constitute roughly 29
percent of the college-age population, but less than three percent of
the engineering doctoral recipients.
"It can be concluded from this data that careers in science must
look appealing to students coming to study here from abroad,"
Teitelbaum says. "But one of the questions scientists nationwide are
asking themselves is, `How do careers in science look to rational,
sensible U.S. undergraduates [of all races]?"'
Indeed, data and anecdotal evidence indicate that many students,
African American and otherwise, who are academically prepared to pursue
careers in science often opt for careers in other fields where their
mathematical skills and scientific knowledge are an asset.
As history has demonstrated — and as Dr. Luther Williams points
out — the scientific enterprise has learned to function without the
participation of African Americans. But at what cost?
In the foreword to a 1996 NSF report, Director Neal Lane recommends
an alternate course for the future: "Different perspectives, talents,
and experiences produce better ideas and ultimately better goods and
services to meet the needs of increasingly diverse markets in the
United States and abroad. We need to involve all of the nation's human
resources in science and engineering to stimulate creativity,
innovation, and change; contribute to the advancement of science and
engineering; and foster a scientifically literate population."
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Leading Colleges of Baccalaureate Origin for Black Science and Engineering Doctoral Recipients, 1988-93
Baccalaureate Number of
Institution Degrees
Howard University 63
Spelman College 33
Hampton University 30
Tuskegee University 28
North Carolina A&T University 26
University of Maryland 25
University of Maryland-Baltimore 23
Fisk University 23
Harvard University 23
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 23
University of Michigan 23
Source: Doctorate Survey Project, National Research Council
RELATED ARTICLE: About the Series
This two-part Black issues in Higher Education series aims to shed
light on how some of the leading science and engineering institutions
are addressing the scarcity of African Americans in these disciplines
— most specifically in the physical sciences (i.e. physics, chemistry,
astronomy, etc.), mathematics, engineering, and technology These are
fields where the paucity of African Americans is most acute.
The objective of the series is to explore current trends in
science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) education and to
uncover the types of academic environments in which African American
science students thrive. To achieve this end, the series investigates
trends in recruitment, admissions, retention, graduation rates,
graduate school performance, research funding, and faculty development
at eight postsecondary institutions. Part one, which appeared in the
March 19 edition, examined undergraduate experiences. In this edition,
featuring the second part of the series, the focus is on graduate
Among the Research I institutions featured in the series are:
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Georgia Institute of
Technology (Georgia Tech), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Stanford University, and the University of California-Berkeley. The
three remaining institutions featured include: Florida Agricultural
& Mechanical University (FAMU), and North Carolina Agricultural
& Technical State University (A&T), and the University of
Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC).
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Q: Roles/permission security of home rolled version versus gem in RoR web app I'm about to launch my first website and I'm concerned about security. The top two role/permission gems I keep seeing come up are cancancan and pundit for RoR web apps. Is there a significant advantage of those packages versus my own home rolled version?
To give the run-down of my version: I have a user, role, and user_role model, where user_role is the join-table to contain the many-to-many relationship. I assign/change roles via the roles_controller with
def change
  @role = Role.find(params[:id])
  @user = User.find params[:user_id]

  # if user is assigned to be a student, delete all other roles
  if @role.name == 'student'
    @user.roles.each do |role|
      @user.roles.delete Role.find(role.id)
    end
  end

  # if user is assigned to be a teacher, delete student (if present)
  if @role.name == 'teacher' && @user.has_role?('student')
    @user.roles.delete Role.where(name: 'student')
  end

  @user.roles << @role if request.patch?
  @user.roles.delete @role if request.delete?

  redirect_to @user
end

And the controller has before_action :admin_user so that only admins can perform these actions. In addition, I have various before_actions for each role within different controllers based on roles, logged in users, and correct users. Are there some possible security issues I need to be aware of with this implementation?

A: The main advantage is that they are not your home rolled one-off. CanCanCan and Pundit have been used in scores of apps and have been battle tested and have a huge community both working on them and eying them for flaws - can you honestly say you will be doing the same for your solution down the line?
Also CanCanCan and Pundit are authorization libraries - they can be used to build role based authorization - but roles are not a built in part of either.
If you want a gem which is role library take a look at Rolify which makes it pretty simple to create roles which are linked to users and resources. It can be used with CanCanCan, Pundit or any other authorization lib.


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Any Jersey Girls out there?
I am so happy to see an "all ladies" forum. I am new to the forum and just purchased my 07 600rr. My boyfriend got me back into riding. I rode about 12 years ago for a few years. Got married sold the bikes and had kids. Well no more husband so I figured I wouldexplore an old passion again and pickup a bike thanks to my SO. He rides and shortly after being on the back I realized the passenger thing wasn't going to cut it . So I picked up a Ninja 250 just to reacclimate and fell in love quickly. I just sold it and bought my 2nd cbr.
So although I enjoy riding with my boyfriend I really would like to ride with some ladies. I love to ride by myself however the comaraderie of a group is quite titulating. Any ladies out there in Central Jersey interested in getting together when the weather turns? I am in Bridgewater NJ and would love to hear from you.
RE: Any Jersey Girls out there?
Not from Jersey but Welcome and welcome back to riding.
Welcome 600rr. I am from Jersey but now I am in Ohio. Boy do I miss Jersey.
Hey 600rrchick! I'm from midtown Manhattan which is close enough. I just bought a 06 1000rr with 0 miles, still in the shipping crate ... factory leftover!!!! I'm sooo excited. Recently sold my 06 R6 so I'm new to the Honda family, bike wise. Wish I new how to post pics.
HI! im from morris county, nj. congrats on the new bike! i have on an 01 f4i that is new to me!
mimi- post a pic at like photobucket.com, upload them there, then use the link they give u and click on the "Add image" yellow button here and there ya go.
I am a newbie here on the forum as well as riding. I am still in process of completing the MSF to obtain the license...should be done by Sunday. YIPPEEE! I've been practicing on my CBR600 F2...when it wanna start......waiting on the regulator. But I always had a passionfor riding, justnever got around buying one until this year.Is there anyone out that thatare part of any clubs or meet up from time to time?
Im brand new to this forum and been riding for a year. I own a 01 F4i and i love it. Im from middlesex county and maybe 25-30 min from bridgewater. not far at all. message me if anyone is interested in riding. take care and ride safe.
I am in Bridgewater and any time you want to ride let me know. Can't seem to find any females in the area so I am psyched. You can also email me at [email protected] when ever you want to ride.
I reside in Easton. Haven't got the nerve to take that ride on the bike to Raritan where I work off 202. My husband does it everyday (weather permitting) to Jersey City. Has anyone put together a meeting daten place in Jersey?
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Caves: Cayetana, that's a cool name! Where does it come from?
Cayetana: We named our band after a good friend of ours, Cayetano, because he's an awesome dude and a fantastic artist.
Caves: If Cayetana were breakfast, what would be on my plate?
Cayetana: Tofu scramble, potatoes and bacon.
Caves: Who in the band is most likely to break a bone?
Caves: Land a plane in the event of the pilot passing out?
Cayetana: Augusta and Allegra would end up in jail together.
Caves: What are your karaoke songs?
Caves: When did you realise you wanted to be rock stars? And what career paths would you have chosen if music didn't exist?
Cayetana: We've always wanted to do this, since we were babies.
Augusta would have been an assassin, Allegra would've traveled the world with the Renaissance Faire, and Kelly would be a professional vagabond.
Caves: Is there a band (past or present) you want to play with more than anyone else?
Cayetana: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Joy Division, No Doubt.
Caves: If y'all were captured by some bad wizard jerk who was threatening to transform you into an animal of your choosing, what would it be and why?
Cayetana: Augusta would be a seahorse so she could float around and never get pregnant, Allegra would be a bird of paradise, and Kelly would be a snapping turtle-- although she's always wanted to be a really fluffy animal so she could sleep on her own skin.
Caves: Can you sum up Cayetana with a haiku or a short rhyme?
Cayetana: 4 hours of talk/ 1 hour of rock/ around the clock...?
Caves: Are you coming to the UK soon?
Scene Point Blank: What was your favorite experience at Fest 12, from a band perspective?
Cayetana: Our favorite experience as a band was playing for the first time and being surrounded by so many friends and musicians we love, and getting to take part in this community in a different way.
Scene Point Blank: What was your favorite experience at Fest 13, from a fan's perspective?
Cayetana: Watching our friends from Philly do so well in a different city.
Scene Point Blank: Did you catch Caves' set last year? What was your strongest memory?
Cayetana: Yes! It was awesome. We enjoyed watching Lou shred Augusta's guitar.
Scene Point Blank: Is there such a thing as too much PBR at Fest?
Cayetana: Maybe. Ask Augusta about her epic hangover.
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After breakfast transfer to Leh airport in time to connect your flight to Delhi.


Jessica Mindell, founder of Jessica's Natural Foods, used to hand-deliver her gluten-free granola. Now it's sold in Whole Foods and other grocery chains.
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Beyond medical reasons, gluten-free diets have become a lifestyle choice, popularized by professional athletes like Green Pay Packers running back James Starks and celebrities like Kim Kardashian. "Forget about the South Beach Diet. Now it is the gluten-free diet that is fashionable," says Dr. Alessio Fasano, founder and director of the Center for Celiac Research. A gluten-free diet offers no health benefit to average people, Dr. Fasano says, but it might give athletes at the highest levels of sport an improvement in performance.
While high-profile dieters have raised awareness of the gluten-free lifestyle, Darin Alpert, the chief operating officer of mobile app Find Me Gluten Free, has based his business on the outsize social influence of celiacs and others with medically restricted diets.
"Gluten-free consumers typically dictate where their [group is] going to eat. They have veto power," Alpert says. "So when someone is searching on our app, it really is a pretty powerful market to get to, especially for advertisers. You're not just getting the gluten-free customers, you're getting their friends and families."
Find Me Gluten Free is essentially a search tool for gluten-free restaurants, bakeries and other businesses in your area, complete with ratings, reviews, contact information and directions. It works nationwide and, with over 125,000 downloads, is first among gluten-free apps in both the iTunes store and Google Play, the Android app market.
In April, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban invested in Find Me Gluten Free, making it possible for Alpert and his partner, Jason Elmore, who suffers from celiac disease, to make growing the app their full-time job. The app is already profitable, Alpert says, thanks to featured advertising from gluten-free businesses and Groupon-style deals on both the national and the local level. Every day, users suggest new shops and restaurants they would like to see added to the app's search results.
As the market continues to grow, large brands are entering the fray. In 2011, General Mills launched GlutenFreely, an information and e-commerce site competing directly with the Gluten-Free Mall. Says Adams, who owns the website Celiac.com, "I've seen it go from the extreme of almost no competition, where I could buy almost any domain name I wanted, to what it is now, which is extreme competition, where the players now getting into it are huge."
Dr. Fasano is even fielding calls from venture capitalists wanting to know whether they should invest in the gluten-free market. He predicts long-term stability. The number of people who fall away when gluten-free is no longer fashionable, he says, "will be counterbalanced by the number of people with celiac disease who are going to be diagnosed."


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This is going to sound strange, I know.
Every winter, as the air gets dryer, I turn into a shock factory.
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One day I was standing in the frigid cold, putting gas in my car, when I realized that my propensity to shock things could be my downfall. Imagine one tiny little spark erupting right next to the gas pump.
I know it's ridiculous and irrational.
That's why I bring it up.
We say all sorts of ridiculous and irrational things when it comes to working on music in our home studios, too.
Take the following two statements, for example. Both are equally ridiculous.
While I tend to prefer to use a real drummer, that doesn't mean you can't create some pretty incredible drum parts using MIDI drum software.
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Verbena was an American rock band from Birmingham, Alabama, founded in the early 1990s by Scott Bondy, Anne Marie Griffin, Les Nuby, and Daniel Johnston. They released three albums, two of which were issued on Capitol Records.

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The band was founded in the early 1990s by high school friends Scott Bondy (vocals, guitar) Les Nuby (guitar), Daniel (changed to "Duquette" post-Verbena) Johnston (bass) and Carson Lamm (Drums) with the name Volume.

Anne Marie Griffin (additional vocals, guitar) replaced Nuby and the band Volume was renamed Shallow. Eventually, drummer Carson Lamm quit Shallow to play with the band Fuzzy Sons, and the original Remy Zero drummer Louis Schefano joined Shallow. Shallow released the songs "Lot" and "Always and Forever" on the compilation album Balkanize Now.  Soon after, Nuby rejoined the group as drummer (replacing Schefano) and the band recorded a handful of singles and an EP for Merge Records under the name Verbena.

Following their first full-length, Souls For Sale (1997), produced by Dave Fridmann and released on Setanta Records in the UK and Merge Records in the US, the band attracted attention from Dave Grohl, who agreed to produce its major-label debut, Into The Pink (1999), for Capitol Records. Before recording, Johnston left the band and Griffin took over bass duties after a short live stint with Grohl playing bass. The album's single, "Baby Got Shot," received moderate modern rock radio airplay, and its music video landed in rotation on MTV2 mid-year. While touring in support of Into The Pink, former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh was recruited to provide bass duties with Griffin back on rhythm guitar. Shortly afterwards, Griffin left the band and was replaced with bassist Nick Daviston. Verbena continued as a trio and released La Musica Negra (2003), produced by Rob Schnapf, and again garnered airplay for the single "Way Out West" with a music video that featured  Kiefer Sutherland and Natasha Lyonne.  They toured in support of La Musica Negra, sometimes under the name The Alabama Boys Choir.  Verbena disbanded in 2003.

Current projects
In the fall of 2005 Bondy and Nuby each started respective solo projects.  Nuby had a brief stint in Amy Ray's backing band, The Volunteers, as second guitarist throughout her Prom tour, and is currently the guitarist for Vulture Whale.  In September 2007, Bondy released his solo debut, American Hearts, under the name A.A. Bondy on Superphonic Records (later re-released by Fat Possum Records the following year).  Bondy released his second solo effort, When The Devil's Loose, in 2009. Duquette Johnson toured as Cutgrass for years and played bass on tour with a reunited Blake Babies. Duquette Johnson and the Rebel Kings released several albums on the Superphonic Label, including Etowah.  Les Nuby is currently Producer/Engineer/Musician at Ol Elegante Studio in Birmingham, Alabama. Bondy returned in 2011 with Believers via Fat Possum Records. He did not release another record for nearly a decade until 2019 when Fat Possum Records put out his latest entitled, Enderness.

Discography

Albums
 Souls for Sale (1997)
 Into the Pink (1999)
 La Musica Negra (2003)

EPs

 Pilot Park (1996)
 Is the Alabama Boys Choir (2003)

Singles

 "Everyday Shoes" (1995)
 "I Say So" (1995)
 "Hey, Come On" (1997)
 "Shaped Like a Gun" (1997)
 "Pretty Please" (1999)
 "Baby Got Shot" (1999)
 "Way Out West" (2003)
 "Top of the Mountain" (2003) - split single with Grandaddy

References

External links
A.A. Bondy's solo album
Interview with A.A. Bondy, November 2009
Interview with A.A. Bondy, February 2008

Musical groups established in 1994
Musical groups disestablished in 2003
Rock music groups from Alabama
Capitol Records artists
Merge Records artists
Setanta Records artists
Musical groups from Birmingham, Alabama

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This past weekend my son and I explored the downtown streets of Wichita Falls. As he played, I played and experimented with the camera. I was exploring new ways to utilize the slider to produce cinematic, interesting shots. The result of our day became the follow up to the short feel we created in August of 2016.
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I just started making my own liveries after seeing how easy it actually is but i run into one problem: As you may now you can run pCars while editing the car and then quickly look at it in the showroom. The problem however is that the light in this showroom is so strong that i cant see a lot of details on the car. Is there a way to reduce those reflections on the car other than setting down the values for light in the room? If this isnt possible is there a way to quickly look at the car without any reflections?


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Just called LarryB and got a set of contacts on the way!
why would you/someone only change 1 contact? at least on my 99s, both contacts were the little square ones on the right side. my replacements were the bigger ones on the left. my write up(http://forum.mopar1973man.com/showthread.php/1911-Starter-contact-write-up) shows what i am talking about. my brushes look okay, so i got away with contacts and plunger only. an impact wrench made short work of the contact nuts. i could NOT break them with hand tools.
the phillips came out with a screw driver for me. the nuts(on the outside) that hold the stud(and contact) to the housing are what i had to use the 17mm impact on.
yea! no more *click*click* for you!just FYI for anyone who gets stranded/no money/got to drive until package arrives... you can take a drill and make the hole on the contact that is wore out longer. allowing you to move the contact up and actually make contact.don't forget to recycle.
Real simple to change out ain't they?? I put two sets in and it takes a lot longer to install the starter than it does to change the contacts.
About how many miles do you have.I will have to do this some day.
Mine failed at 177K miles. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact of starting and stopping alot on the mountain doing firewood. So you might move the truck 6-7 times during loading process. I never leave the engine run while sitting on a steep slope. I typical shut it down lock the parking brake and grab 1st gear. As for my grimey brushes I got that cured too... It was #5 injectors leaking on the manifold very little (weeping more like it) but it was enough to make it to the starter and make a mess.
i do a lot of start/stop operations. mine wore out at around 170k-180k. mopar1973man....when you fixed the weeping line...did it make a difference on your miss at idle?
Contacts on my 2000 started popping the fuse at 80k or so, replaced the starter, and have done so again (since the ex had no idea what I meant when I said, replace contacts only) and now have 108k on it. Wonder why the huge difference in mileage between when my failures happened and the 170k you all got. Electrons are mysterious.
i do a lot of start/stop operations. mine wore out at around 170k-180k.
mopar1973man....when you fixed the weeping line...did it make a difference on your miss at idle?
might try roll starting to save the starter. my mom and dad's driveway is enough to roll mine to life.
sweet..i bet there is a savings in full replacement vs.contact swap out.
For a Napa Starter its $243 with a $99 core charge... So if LarryB's contacts was $29.95 I say its a huge savings of 837%!!!


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У списку наведені чеські заводи та марки пива, що виробляються на території Чехії. За підсумками 2011 року, у Чехії налічувалось 44 компанії та 130 пивоварень, які разом виробили 18 181 тис. гектолітрів пива; за цим показником країна зайняла 6-те місце у Євросоюзі.

До списку не увійшли малі пивоварні, кількість яких надто велика, а обсяг виробництва — незначний.

Великі виробники

K Brewery Group
 Browar Janáček — Угерський Брод
 Browar Ježek — Їглава
 Browar Platan — Протівін
 Browar Klášter — Клаштер-Градіште-над-Їзероу
 Browar Lobkowicz — Високі Хлумєц
 Browar Černá Hora — Чєрна Гора
 Browar Rychtář — Глінско в Чєхах

LIF Holding
 Browar Rohozec — Мали Рогожец
 Browar Svijany — Свіяни

Plzeňský Prazdroj (SABMiller)
 Browar Prazdroj — Пльзень
 Browar Radegast — Ношовіце
 Browar Velké Popovice — Велке Поповіце

PMS Přerov
 Browar Holba — Ганушовіце
 Browar Litovel — Літовел
 Browar Zubr — Пршеров

Starobrno (Heineken)
 Browar Hostan — Зноймо
 Browar Krušovice — Крушовіце
 Browar Starobrno — Брно

Drinks Union (Heineken)
 Browar Krásné Březno — Усті-над-Лабем
 Browar Kutná Hora — Кутна Гора
 Browar Louny — Лоуні
 Browar Velké Březno — Вєлкє Бжезно

Staropramen (InBev)
 Browar Ostravar — Острава
 Browar Staropramen — Прага

«Незалежні» броварні
Пивоварні, що не входять до складу великих пивних корпорацій, часто називають «незалежними», хоча багато з них теж належать великим компаніям.

 Browar Chodovar — Ходова Плана
 Browar Kout na Šumavě — Кут на Сумаві
 Browar Žatec — Жатець
 Browar Rakovník — Раковнік
 Browar Herold — Бжезніце
 Browar Nymburk — Нимбурк
 Browar Ferdinand — Бенешов
 Browar Hubertus — Качов
 Browar Berounský Medvěd — Берунь
 Browar Svatý Ján — Полєпи у Коліна
 Browar Podkováň — Поковань
 Browar Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze — Прага
 Browar Strakonice — Страконице
 Browar Bohemia Regent — Требонь
 Browar Budějovický Miejski — Чеське Будейовіце
 Browar Budvar — Чеське Будейовіце
 Browar Konrad — Вратіславіце над Нисою
 Browar Krakonoš — Трутнов
 Browar Náchod — Начод
 Browar Nová Paka — Нова Пака
 Browar Broumov — Брумов-Оліветін
 Browar Polička — Полічка
 Browar Pernštejn — Пардубице
 Browar Poutník — Пелгрімов
 Browar Bernard — Гумполец
 Browar Havlíčkův Brod — Гавлічков Брод
 Browar Dalešice — Далешице
 Browar Klášterní — Желів
 Browar Vyškov — Вишков
 Browar Kvasar — Сентіце
 Browar Pod Kněží horou ve Bzenci — Бзенец
 Browar Slezan — Лескове — Касарня
 Browar Vaněk & Vaněk — Копрівніце
 Browar Bon — Зашова

Див. також

 Броварство
 Чеське пиво

Примітки

Джерела

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 pivovary.info
 інтерактивна мапа пивоварень Чехії

Пиво та броварні Чехії


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Letter to the Editor: Safety and Justice Requires Balance
By San Francisco Richmond ReView on May 6, 2022 • ( 5 Comments )
I strongly support recalling Chesa Boudin as a necessary step to make our neighborhood and our city safer.
No one in the Richmond District can look in the mirror and honestly tell themselves that crime is down in their neighborhood. Just walk down any business corridor and ask shopkeepers which shops have been burglarized or vandalized recently. The answer you'll get is "most of them." Or, pick a block on any random avenue and ask residents which garages, homes and cars have been burglarized and neighbors will immediately point to an array of homes.
Small business burglaries and smashed windows have become a daily phenomenon and the open shoplifting buffets that our grocery and drug stores have become are evident to anyone who spends more than 10 minutes inside one. Some neighbors even report they've stopped shopping in our business corridors, because of the crime, filthy conditions and unpredictable dangers presented by the influx of drug users splayed across sidewalks and doorways. Some neighbors have just decided to move out of SF. Armed home invasions, sideshows with gunfire, and dangerous car chase now frequent the local police blotter. Moreover, dozens of tourists are being robbed daily of their belongings, many at gunpoint. To a person, they all say the same thing: "I'm not coming back to San Francisco."
Some neighbors casually dismiss the wave of property, quality-of-life-crime, vandalism, smash and grabs and shoplifting as victimless, harmless crimes. "Insurance will cover it," is a common refrain. But insurance doesn't cover or heal the sense of violation, terror and decreased safety that victims experience. Nor does it reduce the anxiety of grocery and drugstore workers, who tell me they are scared that the daily shoplifting losses will lead to layoffs or reduced hours. For immigrant restaurant owners, a smashed shop window is a $1,000+ deductible expense they can't afford. As a beloved, busy local small business owner on Clement St. admitted to me recently, "being burglarized numerous times has me on the brink. I have a family to feed. I may have to shut down." And insurance surely doesn't bring traumatized tourists back to our city.
Being a victim of crime has become the new normal in our neighborhood. Anyone who's lived here long enough knows that things are deteriorating, and it doesn't have to be this way.
Yes, the pandemic has shifted many things in our city, including crime, but the biggest change that we can pinpoint and correlate to the dramatic crime increase is DA Chesa Boudin. A scapegoat for everything bad happening? No. But his policies and priorities have made our city and neighborhood demonstrably much less safe in a relatively short amount of time.
Open-air drug dealing continues unabated at devastating levels due to Boudin's refusal to prosecute drug dealers. Violent and repeat criminals are now routed to diversion justice programs that were never designed to handle the volume or severity of their crimes. Boudin dissolved gang and car break-in units of the DA's office. He claims that he files charges in most cases, but a closer look reveals that charges are usually dropped or lessened substantially. Moreover, Boudin has fostered an adversarial, toxic relationship with SFPD (the officers he's supposed to partner with to reduce crime). This chaotic mix has produced predictable results. Crime has spiked because Chesa simply doesn't believe in three important elements of criminal justice: deterrents, accountability, and consequences.
We all believe in criminal justice reform, rehabilitation, reducing mass incarceration, and addressing the root causes of crime. All are priorities worthy of our time, energy and investment. But Chesa's one-sided experiment to solve these problems from the DA's desk by eliminating strong, effective, competent prosecution from the equation has left our criminal justice system totally unbalanced with essentially what amounts to two Public Defender's offices. It's a welcome mat for those bent on doing harm in our community.
Let's restore balance and start on a path to a safer neighborhood and city. I encourage my neighbors to Vote Yes on H and recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin on June 7th.
Mark Dietrich
Categories: letter to the editor
Tagged as: letter to the editor, Richmond District, Richmond Review, Safety and Justice Requires Balance, Sunset Beacon, Sunset District
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S Hom says:
Thank you Mark for supporting the residents of the Richmond! Bravo!!
Human Imperative says:
Well said. Thank you Mark.
Dawn Isaacs says:
Mr. Dietrich, I heard the interview with DA Boudin on KQED a few days ago. He paints a totally different picture: He is charging more crimes than ever, doing serious prosecutions, diverting to restorative programs. Per Mr.Boudin, the problem is that SFPD is not doing their job, and that the leaders of the Recall are doing so for ambitious reasons, that the judges are letting the accused go…. The DA sounded great, but as a life time resident of San Francisco, I've never seen it so bad. Something has to change NOW. When our friends visit with their camper, we need to completely empty out all their visible items and hope the van doesn't get trashed. Some of my friends won't take BART to most SF stops. Shelves are largely locked up at Walgreen's. Reports on NextDoor tell of crimes occuring several times a day. Teachers and children are not safe in certain schools. The unions are almost all for Boudin, but the residents feel unprotected and unheard. I'm a life time Democrat and voted for Bernie twice – but something has to change. It's nice to care about the poor criminal, but we also need to care about the poor hard working residents who are their victims.
lg #NoOnH says:
It's a shame how short sided the Recall supporters are. Chesa Boudin was elected because of his vision for a better San Francisco and for approaches which aren't mass incarceration for the poorest among us. Yes, it's scary when you are the victim, but Mr. Dietrich is fully aware that his picture is a gross exaggeration. He knows that Walgreens was closing long before a viral video showed one man committing a crime. A crime similar to one which occurred in a Walgreens NOT in San Francisco, where the monied interests opposing our progressive DA aren't heard to complain. He knows that if the unhoused aren't provided with housing, bathrooms, food, etcetera, they've got no place to defecate other than our streets. Unpleasant? Yes.Chesa's fault? NO!
Anyone who reads data knows that prosecutors – progressive, reform or regressive – are not to blame for most crime. That includes Chesa Boudin. Crime rates have everything to do with social situations – poverty, mental health, lack of resources for drug users. Chesa Boudin does not lie about the statistics. When the police make arrests (around 1% of home burglaries, equally low for car break-ins), Chesa's office prosecutes. And, like every prosecutor in the history of California, the vast majority of those prosecutions result in out of court resolutions. If every case went to trial, our criminal legal system would be unable to handle the trials.
Moreover, the criticism of diversion is misguided. When a case is diverted, stringent programs are set up for the defendant. Charges are not dropped. If the defendant fails in the programs (e.g., drug treatment, maintain employment, get therapy, stay away from the victim), the case is prosecuted. When a defendant isn't diverted, s/he may be convicted, may go to jail and gets no services, no help. Again, data matters. The recidivism rate for diversion is substantially lower than that of conviction and jail.
Chesa Boudin was elected on a program of reform. Just 2 months after he was sworn in, COVID lockdown happened. The courts were closed. Despite the closures, despite being forced to run his office over Zoom, Chesa Boudin implemented many programs which helped our community. He arranged for safe housing for DV victims, enabling them to lockdown separate from their abusers. He made set up the most extensive and diverse victim services program ever known in San Francisco, including a property crime victims unit. He established a program to reimburse small businesses who suffered broken windows. He sued ghost gun manufacturers. He is seeking to protect small business victims of ADA abusive lawsuits. He treats rich and poor alike in not seeking bail, but asking the court to look at other relevant factors in determining pre-trial release. Chesa Boudin recognizes that we must address the huge income inequality issues which give rise to much of the criminal behavior you complain about.
Again, the data from the SFPD dashboard establishes that crime in San Francisco is down. This recall was never about crime in San Francisco. When violent crime was high in the 90s, who blamed the DA? When car break-ins were soaring pre-Chesa and pre-COVID, who blamed the DA? The Tenderloin has been San Francisco's Skid Row for time immemorial. Until Chesa Boudin was elected DA, who blamed the DA? San Francisco needs Chesa Boudin and others like him to get to our root problems. Until that happens, crime will never go down in San Francisco.
Vote NO!!! On Prop H. For the Bernie supporter, it's what Bernie would want you to do. Because, like Chesa Boudin, Bernie wants to fix income inequality and make San Francisco the safest place it can be.
walterrosales837 says:
Mr. Dietrich,
Thank you very much for being another voice of reason in our city, it's so sad that so many in this city are blind to see what Mr. Boudin truly is, a defense attorney cosplaying a district attorney. Do these blind followers not realize this is the very man that has made his entire life's work defending criminals? And this is what he continues to do to this day by putting in jeopardy the safety of all the residents and visitors to our beloved city! Why are people so blind to this, it just makes me sick! Clearly we all know recalling Mr. Boudin will not stop crime in San Francisco, that's a ridiculous thought, what H is doing is sending a strong message to the criminal network of the Bay Area that San Francisco will not tolerate open and fearless lawlessness crime in our city, enough is ENOUGH! Lets pray and hope H will pass by a landslide come June 7th