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issue 184 - June 1988
Here are some groups you can contact who fight to save trees
African Non-governmental Network
P0 Box 53844. Nairobi, Kenya.
A large network of organisations which fight deforestation.
Asian Pacific Environmental Network,
43 Salween Road, 10060 Penang, Malaysia.
This is the base of a large number of campaigning organisations.
Friends of the Earth Raintorest Campaign.
Sahabat Alam Malaysia.
43 Salween Road, 10060 Penang, Malaysia
Campaigns in over 30 different countries to end the destruction and waste of trees.
World Wildlife Fund International,
World Conservation Centre.
Avenue Cu Mont Blanc,
CH 1196, Gland, Switzerland.
Campaigns about habitats and the preservation of wildlife diversity.
Native Trees Coalition,
Joint Campaign on Native Forests,
PO Box 756, Nelson.
Rainforest Information Centre.
PO Box 368, Lismore, NSW. 2480
Campaigns successfully against rainforest destruction.
362 PH Street. Sydney 2000.
Campaigns about forest destruction in Tasmania.
The Western Canadian Wilderness Committee.
1103-1520 West 6th Avenue,
Vancouver, British Colurnbia.
A group that sat the centre of the struggle to preserve wilderness areas in one of Canada's most beautiful regions.
Forests for Tomorrow.
355 Lesmill Road, Don Mills,
Ontario. M38 2W8.
A coalition of environmental groups that intervene to ensure the continuing health of forests on crown lands in Ontario.
Dale Willows. Box 77.
Ariss. Ontario. NOB 1 BO.
A network of people concerned with the death of trees from atmospheric toxins and pollution.
Friends of the Earth,
26-28 Underwood Street.
London NI 7JQ.
Runs a highly successful and broadly based tropical rainforest campaign. Also campaigns about acid rain and other ecological issues.
World Wildlife Fund,
Panda House, Weyside Park,
Godalming, Surry SU7 1XR.
Campaigns about issues related to the destruction of plant and animal species
Rainforest Action Network.
300 Broadway, Suite 28.
San Francisco, CA 94133.
Grassroots rainforest action groups.
Worth reading On ... TREES
The Primary Source by Norman Myers, WW Norton & Company 1985. An absolute must. Packed with information and easy to read. In the Rainforest by Catherine Caulfield, Fan Books 1986. Colourful account of the issues behind rainforest destruction. The Death of Trees by Nigel Dudley, Pluto Press, 1985. Useful reference book which takes in temper- ate as well as tropical trees. The Lean Years by Richard J Barnet ABACUS, 1981 A political analysis of the way we are using the world's natural resources.
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Turkey Hunting Still Prohibited in Cape Cod National Seashore
Contact: Bob Grant, South District Ranger, 508 255 2112
Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George E. Price, Jr. reminds hunters that turkey hunting is currently prohibited on all lands, regardless of ownership, within the boundaries of Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS). Outside the boundary, on lands where turkey hunting is permitted on Cape Cod, the season runs from April 28 through May 10.
In September, 2003, the U.S. District Court ordered a review of the national seashore’s hunting program. As a result of this review, a final decision was released in October, 2007. The decision will serve as a guide for future management of hunting within CCNS. One aspect of the decision is to permit a spring turkey season within the national seashore. However, in order to permit this, a special regulation must be created. The regulation is currently working its way through the legal review and approval process. Until the regulation is in place, turkey hunting within the seashore boundary is prohibited.
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MyDD’s Googlenuke Campaign
posted at 11:38 pm on October 22, 2006 by Bryan
The utilization of Google Adwords and simultaneous, widespread embedded hyperlinks in order to drive as many voters as possible toward the most damning, non-partisan article written on the Republican candidate in seventy key US Senate and House races. The campaign will run from Tuesday, October 24th until Tuesday, November 7th.
How do you define “non-partisan” in this context? There are an awful lot of blogs, for instance, that don’t have paid connections to candidates and therefore don’t meet the usual definition of partisan but are in fact as partisan as can be. The Nation, for instance. Even The New Republic.
Does the NYT fit the definition of “non-partisan?” Newsweek? Just wondering.
Anyway. The astrologer’s club’s campaign is fascinatingly evil:
The campaign will proceed as follows:
* Step One: With help form readers at Dailykos and MyDD, I will compile a list of seventy article, one for each targeted race. Every article will focus on a different Republican candidate, and will be written by as generally trusted a news source as possible. It will also present as unflattering a view on the Republican candidate as possible. All of these articles will be placed into a database that I will maintain with the help of willing volunteers.
* Step Two: Once the database is complete, BlogPac will purchase Google Adwords that will place each negative article on the most common searches for each Republican candidate. Simultaneously, I will produce an article on MyDD that embeds that negative article into a hyperlink that names the Republican candidate. I will then send a copy of that post out to as many bloggers as possible, who can also place the post on their blogs. One posting of this article will be enough.
* Step Three: All further discussion of the Republican candidates in question on all participating blogs should include an embedded hyperlink that will increase the Google search rank of the article on the given candidate.
The result of this should be that the most damning, non-partisan article written on every key Republican candidate for house and Senate will appear both high on every Google search for that candidate, and automatically as an advertisement on every search for that candidate. BlogPac will cover the costs. The netroots will supply the research.
If the nutroots are supplying the research, well, you just know it’ll be reliable. I mean, these are people who can’t even Google “Clinton Iraq 1998” to figure out for themselves that the whole “Bush LIED, people DIED” mantra is itself a lie. These are people who can’t rub two search terms together and get link after link between Saddam Hussein and terrorism. These are the people who are going to build a nuclear Google bomb and drop it on the GOP? For some reason, I feel less threatened by this than I guess I should. Their cyber nuke will probably pack all the punch of that North Korean dud.
Nevertheless, it’s good to expose tactics like these. It takes a devious mind to come up with a convoluted way to rig Google search terms, tie that to Google ads and hope to move democracy your way via online hypnosis. What would such a mind do from inside Congress, or the White House?
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Upcoming WWE Live Event Tour Lineups, SmackDown Dark Match
– Justin Gabriel defeated Hunico in the dark match prior to last night’s WWE SmackDown tapings at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT.
– Here are the updated lineups for WWE’s upcoming holiday live events:
NYC, Hartford, Newark Tour: John Cena, Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes/Goldust, The Usos, Real Americans, Big E. Langston, Curtis Axel, Kofi Kingston, The Miz and Ryback.
Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Hershey Tour: CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, The Shield, The Wyatt Family, Big Show, Mark Henry, Dolph Ziggler, Alberto Del Rio, R-Truth.
WWE will be running a rare Monday night WWE Live Event on December 30th from the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto, ON. The show will be going up against a live edition of WWE RAW. The house show will feature:
John Cena Alberto Del Rio, Dolph Ziggler, Wade Barrett, Damien Sandow, Fandango, The Usos and Kaitlyn.
In the months leading up to WrestleMania XXX, WWE will be running two tours. One will feature John Cena, Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes & Goldust and Big E Langston. The other tour will feature CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, The Shield and Big Show.
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How to Unleash the Powers of Your Harley Davidson- Screaming Eagle- Glastonbury CT
Unleash the power of you're Harley-Davidson with Gengras Motors. Visit us online www.GengrasHarleyDavidson.com Like us on facebook: www.facebook.com/GengrasHarleyDavidson
How To Adjust Your Power Commander
How To Adjust Your Power Commander on a Honda 680 Rincon wich is cool... four wheeler
TENSION HEADACHES: A Harley Owner MUST SEE!
This video details the procedure for inspecting the timing chain tensioners. These tensioners are a maintenance item, but are often overlooked (even by dealership technicians) because there is no specified inspection schedule. Failure to maintain the tensioners can cause catastrophic engine failure.
What's the difference between the Power Commander V and Power Commander III
Ever wonder? The PCV delivers the same performance in a smaller shell, with more tune ability. Get your Power Commander at Dennis Kirk - http://bit.ly/1lQ2Cgz
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"With any trilogy," says John Mayer, "the third in the series blows it open."
On CONTINUUM the singer/songwriter/guitar slinger meets that challenge head-on. Mayer's third studio album marks his first turn as producer. It is his most soulful, cohesive collection yet and he says it's no accident that this project is where all of his efforts, his potential, and his disparate influences fully come together. He has collaborated with icons and contemporaries alike - Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Herbie Hancock, as well as Kanye West, the Dixie Chicks, and Alicia Keys. In doing so, Mayer says his own interests have grown and his perspectives expanded.
Mayer also credits his collaboration with Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino (collectively known as the John Mayer Trio) with helping to recalibrate his musical priorities. “If it wasn't for the Trio, CONTINUUM would have been less accessible. It let me settle up with my needs as a musician, and get to a point somewhere between the Trio record and ROOM FOR SQUARES - and that's a really good place to be."
Ultimately, CONTINUUM represents maturity, both musically and thematically, for John Mayer – a concept that he wasn't comfortable with until now. "A lot of these songs are about coming to terms with getting older," he says. This edition of CONTINUUM has been updated to include the single, Say", featured in the feature film "The Bucket List."
Waiting On The World To Change
I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)
The Heart Of Life
Stop This Train
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
Bold As Love
Dreaming With A Broken Heart
I'm Gonna Find Another You
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Last week, the fantastic adaptation of Me and Earl an the Dying Girl hit theaters in a limited run, and this week the lively Dope also arrives on the big screen. Both are spectacular coming of age tales from two very different sides of the spectrum, but they both have wonderful young characters, engaging relationships, and are special in their own ways.
And with these two magnificent coming of age movies hitting the big screen recently, we thought it was a good time to look back at some of the great films to come out of this subgenre. But since everyone has gushed over films like Stand by Me, The Breakfast Club and Say Anything for years, I decided to put a more modern focus on coming of age films by counting down my picks for the Top 25 Best Coming of Age Movies of the Past 25 Years. That means you won’t find anything on here from before 1990. Do your favorite movies make the cut?
Check out my list of the Top 25 Best Coming of Age Films of the Past 25 Years after the jump! Read More »
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Posted on Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 by Angie Han
Before we close the book on another year in film, Brandcameo has one more set of awards to hand out. But these aren’t for achievements in acting or directing or sound mixing. These are for all the product placements that cropped up in the movies last year, from Reese Witherspoon‘s REI boots in Wild to, well, the entirety of The Lego Movie.
The winner for most brands in a single film shouldn’t be hard to guess (I’ll give you a hint: it’s in the headline) but smaller films like Nightcrawler and The Theory of Everything apparently still found ways to squeeze in a few notable brand mentions. Find out who won the sometimes dubious honors in the 2015 Brandcameo Product Placement Awards after the jump. Read More »
Top-ten lists can be predictable. They often feature the same 15 or so movies, recycled and reshuffled to a point where it’s pretty obvious those were the best movies of the year — or at least the ones that made it to the top of the consensus pile. But out of the hundreds of films released every year, why cut it off at ten?
This list is not the ten best movies of 2014. These are the films that almost made the cut. Numbers 11-25. I decided to feature them because, unlike my top ten, these movies are at least a bit more varied. Foreign films, independent films, documentaries, animation, the movies on this list come from all over and contain at least a few surprises in an otherwise tired format.
Make no mistake. The films I previously wrote about, in my opinion, are the ten best of 2014. But these movies are pretty damn great too. Below read my not quite top 10 movies of 2014.
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As it has done in the past, the New York Times offered a great collection of conversations with directors this year, as the Anatomy of a Scene series gave the directors of many films a chance to dissect their approaches to major scenes in films such as Birdman, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Interstellar, Foxcatcher, Wild, and others. (My only complaint is that directors such as Ava DuVernay and Jennifer Kent are MIA.) Below, you can watch the Anatomy of a Scene series from late 2014. Read More »
Dallas Buyer’s Club was a big film at the end of 2013. This year, Wild, the new film from its director Jean-Marc Vallee, is said to be a powerful movie as well, thanks in part to a great performance from Reese Witherspoon. Now Vallee is setting up to make a new film, and this one will potentially combine major factors from his last two movies: it’ll be a story based in truth, anchored by a significant female performance. Vallee is in talks to be the Janis Joplin biopic director; he’ll direct Amy Adams as Joplin in a film about the late singer’s life. Read More »
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Posted on Thursday, July 10th, 2014 by Angie Han
Reese Witherspoon‘s only release in the first half of 2014 was Devil’s Knot, which actually premiered on the festival circuit last year. But the second half of the year brings not one, not two, but three juicy roles for her in three very different movies.
One of those is Wild, the new film from Dallas Buyers Club helmer Jean-Marc Vallée. Witherspoon plays Cheryl Strayed, who wrote the memoir on which the movie is based. After the death of her mother and the breakup of her marriage sends Cheryl spiraling toward rock-bottom, she sets out to heal herself by hiking the 1,000-mile Pacific Crest Trail. The first Wild trailer has just landed, and you can see it after the jump.
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Posted on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 by Angie Han
As Dallas Buyers Club prepares for its world premiere at TIFF, director Jean-Marc Vallée has booked his next gig. He’s just signed on for Wild, the Nick Hornby-scripted, Reese Witherspoon-starring adaptation of Cheryl Strayed‘s bestselling memoir. Hit the jump for plot details and more.
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Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon has just been attached to Wild, based on a booked by Cheryl Strayed and adapted by Nick Hornby. Fox Searchlight will distribute the film, which will start production later this year once a director is attached. Wild is the story of one woman who, seemingly out of options, decides to hike more than 1,000 miles on the Pacific Coast all by herself. Read the full press release below. Read More »
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View Full Version : F&B New Super RedHawk 480
August 6, 2005, 11:33 PM
Any suggestions for an experienced gunsmith to smooth up a new Super RedHawk 480? Even cut the barrel down too?
August 7, 2005, 09:17 AM
I wouldn't "smooth-up" anything. I have cut the bbls back for hunters who want something to carry when fishing in remote areas, but I even question that! A full size revolver really is about as easy to carry as a short one. Not only that, but if the bbl' is shortened severely your oower is effected.
I'd leave that Super alone.
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Opening The Promethean Theatre Company's first season is a double feature of Christopher Durang: the short, absurdist pieces Titanic and The Actor’s Nightmare.
While the name Titanic may bring to mind the James Cameron movie, this uproarious piece by Christopher Durang is anything but romantic. Taking place aboard the ill-fated ship, Titanic follows a family of passengers, a misused first mate, the good ship’s captain, and his “daughter” as they navigate a sea of confusing melodrama on a ship that just won’t sink-- no matter how many holes they drill in the floor.
The Actor's Nightmare is a short comedic play involving an accountant named George Spelvin. Spelvin is mistaken for an actor's understudy and forced to perform in a play in which he doesn't know any of the lines.
Titanic and The Actors Nightmare run from November 30th to December 16th at Tulane’s Lupin Theatre. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm.
General Admission: $20.00
Promethean Theatre Co.
Promethean Theatre Company is a new production company dedicated to the creation of thought-provoking and well-produced theatre for New Orleans.
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St. Francis High School graduate Jeff Jendryk was selected to the final 12-man roster of the 2014 USA Men's Junior National volleyball team that competed at the NORCECA Under-21 Championships in El Salvador from July 28 to August 3.
The U.S. squad ended up bringing home a bronze medal. Jendryk tallied 28 kills and 10 blocks in the tourney, including four kills and three blocks in the third place match against Puerto Rico.
Jendryk was one of 21 players invited to the training camp in Lake Placid that began on July 13. He will compete for defending national champion Loyola University next spring.
Rooney helps Team USA win gold medal
With a 31-29, 21-25, 25-20, 25-23 victory against Brazil on July 20, the U.S. Men's National volleyball team clinched the FIVB World League gold medal for the second time in the team's history.
Sean Rooney, a 6-foot-10 outside hitter and Wheaton Warrenville South graduate, was one of 12 players on the roster and he contributed to the win by totaling 21 kills and three blocks during the tourney.
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NEW PRODUCT NEWS
Newly Designed Cutter Blades Offer Improved Performance at a Competitive Price
Tregaskiss Posted 08/02/2013
WINDSOR, Ontario — Tregaskiss has announced improvements to its cutter blades for use with its TOUGH GUN™ TT3 Reamer and TOUGH GARD™ Spatter Cleaner. The newly designed cutter blades feature a twin flute design that improves cutting and cleaning performance during the robotic MIG gun nozzle cleaning process, helping ensure users gain better performance and a longer life from their consumables — all for a competitive new price.
The new cutter blades are engineered from a durable material that makes them more resistant to breaking, chipping or cracking. The material also provides a sharper cutting edge that improves cleaning and cutting accuracy.
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As a reference for ordering information, users can visit the Tregaskiss cutter blade web page at Tregaskiss.com/cutterblades.
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Ukelele isn't the easiest word in the world to spell, even if the Guiness Book of Records does consider it to be the easiest instrument in the world to play. Officially, and in the rest of this website, it is spelt with 2 U's, and 2 E's. Not an obvious thing! So, if you've been out trolling for 'ukelele lessons' or information about ukeleles, you would miss most of the information in the world. That's why this page is here - so you can find a ukelele school, or a ukelele teacher, or facts about ukeleles, or ukelele chords, or ukelele lessons. On this page only, we will spell it as 'ukelele'. Your first lesson is this - spell it right, you'll find 10 times more information about it.
If you spell it right, and plug it into a search engine, you get about a million responses. The most popular misspelling, 'ukelele', returns about a hundred thousand. That's a remarkably common misspelling, and I'm not even sure if I consider it a misspelling or an 'alternative' spelling. The other spellings, like 'ukalele', 'ukolele', and 'ukilele' do exist, but I wonder if they only exist for the reason that they exist here - so that people who have an erroneous idea of how to spell the word can somehow find information about the instrument.
If you found this page searching for information about ukeleles, then, well, Welcome to UkeSchool.com! We have some fine interactive ukelele lessons, a ukelele tuner at the top of every page, lots of great songs arranged for the ukelele, a whole section devoted to playing your ukelele for your baby, and then handing the ukelele to the baby so that she can play with it.
I don't care how you spell it. You'll just find more, better stuff if you...
spell it with a "U"!
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Kent Clarke is a senior member of the Wills and Estate Practice Group and acts as the firm’s IT and technology partner. He has appeared at all levels of court and served as successful co–counsel in defending one of the most complex criminal prosecutions in Nova Scotia. He enjoys the challenges of a litigation practice but has focused most of his practice on the the Estate area. His main enjoyment is helping others.
Kent’s commitment to his community can be seen through his active involvement in politics and with several fraternal and charitable organizations. He is a founding member and currently chairman of the board of the SRCF Learning Centre for Children which provides free tutoring to children who have been diagnosed with dyslexia. There are approximately 50 children participating in the after school program. Kent administers several bursaries for graduating high school students in Nova Scotia and acts as solicitor for Philae Shriners of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
He is a past member-at-large of the Canadian Bar Association, Nova Scotia Council and served as the CBA representative on the Nova Scotia Barristers Society’s Provincial Court Liaison Committee.
When not involved in legal matters or his community, Kent finds time to work towards a black belt in Taekwon-do. You might also find him on the football field where he has helped coach the Halifax Argos PeeWee and Bantam Football Teams. Kent was recently instrumental in sponsoring the nomination of NFL Coach of the Year for Canada.
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This simple necklace made from braided strips of silk sari, came about after numerous customers asked for a more substantial necklace piece to go with our Recycled Bombshell Pendants. It will work great with any pendant to add a rustic/boho feel to your outfit. You could also hook a pin or brooch to the silk fabric to create a completely unique look. Handmade in India, available in Black or Teal. Total length is 34" with a drop of 17". Diameter is 1/3" so it won't work with pendants with smaller openings. The clasp is a circle and hook made from hand forged copper. Lengths can vary slightly due to being completely handmade by our artisan partners at Kiran Social Enterprise in Kolkata, India.
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Get all 17 Ian o'Brien releases available on Bandcamp and save 40%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Object Orient EP, Remixes & Rarities II, A History Of Things To Come (remastered) 2014, The Sentinel (2014 edit), Music comes from Within, Poems 1-16 (Un-mixed), Poems 1-16 (mixed), Understanding Is Everything, and 9 more. , and , .
Ian o'Brien Tokyo, Japan
Ian o'Brien plays piano, guitar, bass, drums, uniquely blending his sound with electronic/computer based music to make
His 1st album 'Desert Scores' was released in 1996. 2 more albums 'Giagntic Days' and 'A History Of Things To Come' followed on UK Peacefrog recs.
His latest albums are available now exclusively here on Bandcamp.
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You don’t have to head all the way to Munich to feel like you’re part of Oktoberfest. We’ve got lots of reasons to raise a beer stein and celebrate right here in New Jersey. Ten-thousand reasons, to be exact.
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I recently saw this woman's blog who decided that she be intentional about taking photos of her with her children. She didn't want them to look back at photos when they were grown and not see her with them. With that in mind I am going to try and take photos of Stomper and I together, even if they aren't amazing. I am going to try at least once a month to join her in "Embrace the Camera".
Tuesday night you were up from 9pm-1130pm fussing and crying. Papa tried snuggling with you in bed, but you didn't lay still. At 10 o'clock I took you downstairs to read for twenty minutes because you were so worked up. You snuggled with me in bed for about an hour before I laid you down in your own bed. All night you fussed off and on, and I worried that your tummy hurt from constipation.
On Wednesday morning you woke up late. We ate breakfast together and you put your breakfast in your curls. I looked at you with cheerios in you hair and I said, “That's it, I'm cutting it.” I buzzed all your curls off for the second time. I wondered as the curls fell to the floor if you'd always have curls, or if you would grow out of them.
I dressed you and let you outside where Grand-Ma-Ma and the daycare kids were playing. I took my shower, started the crock pot, and then went out to play with you.
As I opened the door Grand-Ma-Ma called out to me, “He has spots on his feet and hands.”
"Oh, no." I scooped you up and brought you inside to look you over. You had spots on your hands, feet, legs, and on your chin. "Looks like Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease."
Grand-Ma-Ma and I looked it up on the computer and confirmed our suspicions. You had HFMD, but you'd be fine in a few days. I gave you a Popsicle to cool down your hands and mouth and put you in front of your favorite TV show "Fresh Beat Band".
We spent the morning snuggling, watching TV, drinking Ovaltine, and reading books. After lunch you took a four hour nap and when you woke up you were feeling much better. You were more like yourself, even wrestling with me, and being your goofy self.
I am not happy that you were sick, but I am thankful that I was able to be with you all day long.
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I am planning to buy the AM10 BOSE speakers, and the seller was suggesting that Yamaha v3900 will suit my requirements which is
1. Connect to my media Gate 800HD to watch my stored videos, music etc and
2. be able to stream audio-video wirelessly in another room to a Samusing TV....?? am not sure how-perhaps using some sort of LED IR remote??
3. be able to play all fomrats that are playable by MEDIA GATE 800HD
4. Be able to connect to the network to play any internet videos/music-either wirelessly or thro ethernet?? Am not sure if wireless will work well
5. Has a USB connection facility
Does anyone know of any other reciever which has these features and is better in terms of cost -this one is apparently AUD3000
Any guidance by someone who knows the features and has used it -knows if I am on the right path selecting this reciever or should I check out something comparable?
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Handing in the thesis
Submission and seminars- dates and time
For dates and times concerning when to hand in your thesis, see Writing a thesis. For a late hand in- if you have not completed your theses within the given time frame, please go to Info for a late hand in.
The schedule for the thesis seminars will be sent out via email later on the day of submitting the paper or the next day at the latest.
The scheduling is a complicated process where many factors need to be taken into account. It is therefore difficult to accommodate requests from individual students about specific time and date. In order to make sure that you will be able to attend your seminar, please make sure that you are available during the whole period when the seminars take place.
In case you have a very strong reason for not being able to attend a certain day during the seminar week (e.g. doctor’s appointment, funeral), please leave a note about this to the thesis coordinators when you submit the paper copies of your thesis.
Routines for thesis submission
Three paper copies are to be handed in. In addition, the thesis must be sent in to Urkund and submitted electronically in LUP Student Papers before 11.00 the same day.
Before you submit your thesis you are required to send the final version of it for review in Urkund at thesis.svetlu [at] analys.urkund.se.
LUP Student Papers
Before you hand in the paper copies of your thesis, you should submit it electronically as a PDF document in Lund University Publications Student Papers (LUP), see more detail below. If you experience any problems with the electronic registration, please contact your librarian or the thesis administrators.
Finally, you hand in 3 paper copies of your thesis to the thesis administrators (see date and time on the lesson plan in Live@Lund). Paper copies must be handed in; otherwise the thesis cannot be examined.
Information about LUP Student Papers
If you do not have a Student Account you will not be able to submit your thesis. If you have lost your password, you can order a new one from servicedesk [at] lu.se. It may take up to a week to receive a new password.
Creating a PDF document
PDF stands for Portable Document Format and is a format created by Adobe to facilitate viewing of documents created in a number of different programs. Almost all computers have Acrobat Reader installed; a program, which makes it possible to view PDF files. If you do not have Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can download it for free though the Adobe Acrobat website. You cannot create PDF files using Acrobat Reader. Here are instructions for creating PDF documents:
1) If you have the commercial version of Acrobat (Adobe Acrobat) installed on your computer, you can create a PDF by using the print dialog box and selecting PDF file instead of a printer. The exact appearance of the dialog box may vary depending on if you are using Windows, Mac OS or Linux.
2) There are also a number of shareware programs (eg. freepdfconvert.com), which can create PDF files. Most shareware programs cost money and demo versions may only allow you to create a few PDF files before you are required to register and pay for the software.
3) If you have a Macintosh computer with any version of the OS 10 (X) creating PDFs is never a problem. There is a button for creating (save as) PDFs in the print dialog box, click on it and you are done.
N.B It is important that you write your thesis in a single document. The first page, abstract, references etc. should not be saved as separate documents. In order to simplify this process we have made a thesis template.
Submitting to LUP Student Papers
First time users: If it is your first time select. Log on with your Student Account and follow the instructions.
Log on: Use your Student Account and log on to LUP Student Papers.
Once logged on you can select to add a new paper, eg.. 20171 is syntax for spring semester 2017.
A new window will now open containing the tabs, Work, Publication Info, Context, Files & Access, Additional Info and Message. Compulsory fields is found under the tabs Work, Publication Info, Context and Files & Access. If you have any problems or have questions on how to fill out the information contact the thesis administrators or click on the questionmark.
The first tab, "Work", is your description of your thesis with compulsory fields such as author, title, abstract and keywords. Make sure to verify your user identity by clicking on "Select author" and locating yourself in the list of registered students. If you are two or more authors collaborating on the same thesis, make sure to add and verify each author individually.
Under the tab Publication Info, write the year of publication.
The next tab, "Context" has one compulsory field, supervisor. Fill out the name of your supervisor and click on "Confirm supervisor". Select your supervisor in the list (the name will be linked in blue).
The last compulsory tab is "Files & Access". It is here that you upload your thesis. Use the file browser to locate your thesis file on your computer. The file has to be in pdf-format. After locating your file, make sure to set the desired access level to your thesis document. The level of
publication is decided by you as the author.
When you have filled out all the compulsory fields under the different tabs press. This changes the status of the post you created from "Private" to "In Progress". You have now sent your thesis to the thesis administrators and it can be downloaded for the seminars by other studens.
If you experience any problems with the technical side of submitting your thesis, contact your librarian or the thesis administrators. (See first page)
Downloading other students’ theses
Log in to LUP Student Papers. Select course in the upper right corner and the semester, eg STVM23, 20171 (spring semester 2017). Download the paper you are going to discuss by clicking on the thesis title.
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Dating Ukrainian Singles – How to Be the Perfect Gentleman
Dating a guy who is being disrespectful towards their country, traditions or culture is what Ukrainian singles have no tolerance for. You may be only joking, but European women take their nationality very seriously. Therefore, it’s necessary to act like a true gentleman at all times. Here is a little list of things that could help you avoid offending your gorgeous Ukrainian date.
1. Never Make Fun of Her English Skills
If you want to be successful in international dating, you must not make fun of your partner when she makes a mistake or says something wrong. Even if you’re only teasing, it could sound rude to your date and you could end up hurting her feelings. If you’ve never had to learn another language yourself, you’re in no position to criticise someone who is genuinely trying. It’s not easy to learn a foreign language and being teased by a native speaker will not help the process. Instead, be patient when she speaks and try to understand what she’s trying to say. Explain her mistakes to her tactfully and encourage her to speak more.
2. Don’t Believe Everything You Hear
If you’re familiar with the international dating scene, you might have heard the ridiculous and unfair stereotypes about dating Ukrainian singles. If you truly want to impress your partner, you should never ever take these myths seriously. Confidently making statements like all Ukraine women want to find a foreign husband because they want to get a visa for the United States or all of them are communists will only make you sound foolish. You shouldn’t make any generalisations based on someone’s nationality. Always treat all women like they have different needs and wishes.
If you want to show off your intelligence, take time to learn some facts about your sweetheart’s country of origin. Have a look at the map and familiarise yourself with the most important events that changed the history of her country. Being able to speak some Ukrainian can be beneficial as well. She will be impressed that you’re making an effort to get to know her better. Moreover, a little extra knowledge has never hurt anybody.
3. Be Respectful – All the Time
A real man will never enjoy making fun of someone’s culture or traditions. Even though some Ukrainian singles may even agree with you or find your jokes amusing, they might not be so happy about hearing critique about their beloved country from a foreigner. Show respect all the time and refrain from saying anything about sensitive matters, at least not until you are sure that she won’t take offence. Even then, be very careful with how you bring up this topic. The last thing you want to do is make your partner feel like her country is not good enough for you or your nationality is somehow superior to hers.
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I take lots of classes... No really, I mean lots of classes. At least once a month I take a cardmaking class at my LSS (local stamping store). This month, in addition to my usual class, I signed up to take one to make a reusable Advent calendar. Advent calendars are something my mom gets for me every year as far back as I can remember. There is something so fun about opening up the little door each day to see a picture, read a verse or get some candy. The calendar I made today is of the candy variety (although I could add some random verses when I set it up for us this year). I have always wanted an Advent calendar that is more permanent than the flimsy card stock ones that are sold in stores. So, it was a real treat to get to make one for my little family.
This is the first year our instructor Jenn, aka Creative Chick, has brought her yearly Advent calendar class to my LSS. How she made it is really cool. The base is a metal bulletin board and each day is a little metal tin that is decorated and then stuck on the board with magnets. Here is a close up so you can see what I mean.
Isn't it sooooo neat! I'm so excited that I just kind of wanted to put it up now instead of waiting until Dec. 1. Now all I have to do is figure exactly what kind of candy and cat treat I am putting in each one!
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The Festival of Shatmoy (March 22-26) is almost upon us! If you haven't already made plans, why not join the Shatner Butt Girls in San Francisco?
As you can see, the captain has approved the guest list!
We'll post details as we work them out but as of now, there will be a party on Saturday night, March 27. Join us for Shatner film/TV rarities, items from our collection of unusual Shatbilia, a podcast that you can be part of, a phone-in session for those who can't make it to the party, at least one Shatmoy carol, and CAKE!
RSVP via email at email@example.com or visit the Event page on Facebook. Be there! That's an order.
It won't be the same without you!
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These Photos of Beyoncé and Jay Z on Their 8th Wedding Anniversary Will Melt Your Heart
In the never-before-seen snaps, Beyoncé — then not pregnant with twins — sips on white wine with the rapper atop of a cliff overlooking the famous landscape. The parents are also seen taking a helicopter ride through the canyons.
However, daughter Blue Ivy seems to the star of the slideshow. Hamming it up for the camera, she shows off her sassy side in a straw hat and funky “XO” sunglasses. (Get it? Like the Beyoncé song!)
In another photo, the soon-to-be mom-of-three also shows off a golden ring with the words “Happy 8th Anniversary” inscribed on the inner band.
This year, Bey celebrated her marriage milestone by posting a video montage made up of family moments on her Instagram. Set to her new song, “Die with You,” the clip featured sweets scenes such the husband-and-wife duo walking down the aisle together, the birth of their first child, and Blue kissing Beyoncé’s growing baby bump.
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NEVER TRUST A SKINNY CUPCAKE BAKER
Book 1 of the Death by Cupcake series
GENRE: Cozy mystery
A cozy mystery with a heap of laughs, a generous portion of romance, and just a smidgen of suspense.
Callie’s life is rather awesome. She owns a successful bakery and teaches German literature at the local university. There’s just one tiny problem. She has no self-confidence when it comes to her body. And then there’s the little matter of her being accused of murdering her pole dancing instructor. There’s no way Callie’s going to risk losing her teaching position and thus she embarks, with her best baker bud Anna, on a journey to discover the real killer. Between stripper auditions and a detective who insists Callie is the woman of his dreams, it’s a roller coaster adventure. Cupcakes not included.
I set my menu down. “You’ve never had sushi? Why’d you bring us here then?”
He shakes his head. “When are you going to get it into your head that I’d do anything for you?”
“The Tokyo earthquake of 1923 brought sushi into restaurants. Before that, sushi was just a street food, but the quake destroyed much of the city and that caused real estate prices to drop so that sushi chefs could afford real restaurants.” I clamp my hand over my mouth when I realize that I am once again spouting weird trivia because Ben’s words unnerve me.
Ben grins and shakes his head. Then, he surprises the daylights out of me by leaning over and giving me a hard kiss. “You are the sexiest nerd on the entire planet.” He picks up his menu again as if he didn’t just rock my world. “So, what should I order?”
I let his ‘sexiest nerd’ comment drop because there is no appropriate response to crazy. “Is there anything you don’t like?” He shakes his head. “Afraid of raw food?” Another shake. “Okay, let’s order a platter with a mixture of everything.”
He sets his menu down and nods. “Sounds good. Do you think it will fill me up?”
“Well…” I scratch my head and look at Ben’s massive shape. “Maybe we should order some tempura.” The words are barely out of my mouth before I’m taking them back again. “No wait, that’s a bad idea. I shouldn’t be eating that.”
“Why not? Are you allergic?”
“No, not allergic. Tempura is fried. I should stay away from anything fried.” I fidget in my seat, uncomfortable with my confession.
“Why?” He looks genuinely confused.
I roll my eyes at him. “Because I can’t afford to gain any weight. It’s bad enough I run a bakery.”
Ben captures my hands with one of his enormous hands and grabs my chin with the other one. “I said no more putting yourself down.” I start to protest, but he pinches my chin to quiet me. “You’re gorgeous. I love your curves. You look like a woman should. Man, you’re so sexy, it was all I could do to not drag you into your apartment and have my way with you when I arrived and saw you in that sexy as all get out dress.”
Finally, he’s quiet and I think I can get a word in edgewise. Ben’s not that easily deterred, however. He leans forward and stops any response I would have made with his lips. He nibbles on my bottom lip like I’m some kind of delicacy. When he thinks he’s made his point, he leans back and releases my chin although my hands are still encased in one of his over-sized mitts.
I hear a sigh behind me and look over to see Mikki. “Oh man, that was hot. Do not let him go, Professor Muller.” She flips open her order pad. “Now, what do you want to eat?”
I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on from my mom’s Harlequin romances to Nancy Drew to Little Women. When I wasn’t flipping pages in a library book, I was penning horrendous poems, writing songs no one should ever sing, or drafting stories which have thankfully been destroyed. College and a stint in the U.S. Army came along, robbing me of free time to write and read, although I did manage every once in a while to sneak a book into my rucksack between rolled up socks, MRIs, t-shirts, and cold weather gear. A few years into my legal career, I was exhausted, fed up, and just plain done. I quit my job and sat down to write a manuscript, which I promptly hid in the attic after returning to the law. Another job change, this time from lawyer to B&B owner, and I was again fed up and ready to scream I quit, which is incredibly difficult when you own the business. Thus, I shut the B&B during the week and in the off-season and started writing. Several books later I find myself in Istanbul writing full-time.
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EasyTerra Car Rental Melbourne is an independent car rental comparison site. Our system compares prices from well-known car rental companies so as a customer you can always reserve your rental car through us at a competitive rate.
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Melbourne is the capital of the Australian state Victoria. It is a very attractive city: spaciously designed, mostly low buildings (except the central business district), large parks and lakes. The houses the world's second largest botanical gardens, after Kew Gardens in London. In the city centre there are modern skyscrapers, but there is also a part of 19th century Melbourne. Melbourne claims to be the cultural capital of Australia, although the people of Sydney disagree. There is an enormous rivalry between the inhabitants of these two cities (which is why the country's capital - Canberra - is located in between).
The city has 3.7 million inhabitants. Like many cities in Australia, most of them are of British or Irish descent, but there are also large groups of immigrants from every corner of the world. Australians have a reputation as sports lovers, and that applies especially to the people of Melbourne. It was in this city that Australian Rules Football was born (a kind of rugby, but with different rules), and the city houses an array of sports facilities.
The city is located in the south-east of Australia, some 800 kilometres to the south-west of Sydney. Its origin is on the river Yarra, which flows into Port Phillip Bay. Melbourne is the most southerly city in the world with a population of over a million..
Melbourne is an important commercial and industrial centre. About a third of the large multinational Australian companies have there head offices in this city (including telecom giant Telstra, mining company BHP Billiton and the National Australian Bank). The largest trade union also has its headquarters in Melbourne. The city has a large seaport (Western Port Bay) with related industries, like shipbuilding and oil refineries. Also, cars (Toyota and Ford) and electronic equipment are manufactured there.
The city is also a leading centre of education. The University of Melbourne is considered the best of Australia, and attracts many foreign students. Monash University also belongs to the Top 8 of Australia's universities.
There are two airports near Melbourne. The most important one is Melbourne Airport in Tullamarine, 22 kilometres to the north-west of the city. The airport provides both domestic and international connections. There is a shuttle bus (Skybus) between the airport and Southern Cross bus station to the west of the city centre.
Avalon Airport only processes domestic flights, especially by budget airline JetStar (Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin and Perth). The airport is located 55 kilometres to the south-west of the city. There is a shuttle connection to Melbourne.
Melbourne has a good and extensive public transport network, consisting of trams, buses and trains. Trams are found primarily in and around the centre, trains service the suburbs, and where there are no trams or trains, buses take over. You can buy one ticket for all these forms of public transport (the so-called 'Metcard'). The city is divided into zones: the centre is Zone 1, the ring around the centre Zone 2, and the suburbs Zone 3. You can buy a ticket with a certain duration (2 hours), a day ticket or a week ticket.
There are two free services: the City Circle Tram brings you to the main attractions in the centre, the Mebourne City Tourist Shuttle is a bus line that also goes to attractions further away.
From the combined bus and train terminal Southern Cross, many destinations inside and outside the state of Victoria can be reached. Keep in mind that the travel times to, for instance, Sydney or Adelaide are considerable. Melbourne has a night ferry to the island of Tasmania (10 hours).
Traffic and Parking
In Australia, people drive on the left side of the road, which means the steering wheel of your rental car will be on the right. Keep in mind that Australia is a huge country, and that the distance between the various cities are enormous. The fastest way to get to Sydney is via the Hume Highway (about 10 hours). A more beautiful, though longer route is along the coast, the Princess Highway. Although Adelaide is closer, it is still at least a seven hours' drive.
Melbourne has an excellent and logical street pattern, but it is a very expanded city. So buy a city map to orientate, the people of Melbourne themselves often use the excellent 'Greater Melbourne' map by Melway. In addition, Melbourne has the so-called 'hook turn': on streets with trams you can only turn right by moving to the left-most lane ("Right Turn From Left Only"). This way, the tram in the middle of the street is not blocked.
The city has many car parks, which means that it is not hard to find a space. There are 140 parking areas and car parks, with a total of 70,000 spaces. According to the city council, you are never more than 200 metres away from the nearest parking facility. Parking in the street is usually only allowed for a limited time (indicated on the parking meter). In streets with the so-called 'Clearway' sign, parking is not allowed between 7.30 am and 6.30 pm. Near the Melbourne Museum, the Melbourne Park and the Telstra Dome there are P+R areas.
The city attracts many backpackers, so a large number of accommodations cater to this group, but Melbourne has a good supply in all categories. In light of the economic importance of the city, there are many business hotels in the Central Business District. We recommend booking your hotel room in advance. Especially around the Grand Slam tournament (January) and the Melbourne Grand Prix (early March), virtually all hotels are fully booked.
For more information about Melbourne, we recommend Google, and the following sources:
If you are looking for a rental car in Australia, but in a city other than Melbourne, please click through to the Car rental Australia page, where you can choose in which city in Australia you want to rent a car.
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Responsible for all operational aspects of lab / production facility in Jeddah, where activities such as surfacing, hard and mutli-coatings, tinting and edging take place. Relocation (Within KSA and internationally) is available for the right candidate. Saudi citizens are given preference. Arabic and/or French speakers (in addition to English) will be considered for the role
- Manufacturing activities. Management of a lab 1,200 L/day, ~40 persons.
- Lens, frames, instruments, spares and consumable purchasing. More than USD 8 million of annual lens purchases
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Mixed Use Apartments and Retail Space in Downtown Indianapolis Coming Soon
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Flaherty & Collins, one of the Midwest's largest developers of multifamily projects is completing another downtown 325 unit apartment complex with a supermarket and a parking garage. Located one block from the Downtown Canal, the $85 million project has been called a win for the city by Mayor Greg Ballard. The jobsite was once a parking lot north of the OneAmerica Tower. OneAmerica sold the ground to Flaherty & Collins. To make up for the hundreds of parking spots OneAmerica will lose to the project, the city will build the insurer a 930-space parking garage paid with $11 million in property tax money from Downtown's tax increment financing district. The apartments will be decidedly upscale, with monthly rents ranging from $1,075 for studios to $2,200 for two-bedroom units. Amenities will include a heated saltwater pool, fitness center and three courtyards.
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‘Time to bring us into the nation’ through constitutional recognition
Source: News Corp Australia
- By: Noel Pearson
- From: The Australian
- Date: 13 September 2014
HAD Galarrwuy Yunupingu and his dilak elders been present at the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, there might have been a scene like this:
I wait for the new prime minister … An event is taking place at Yirrkala and I have called the leaders of the 13 clans together. No children or young people will participate, only leaders, men and women who have proved themselves: dilak. By my side are Djinyini Gondarra and the leaders of the Elcho clans, Richard Ganduwuy and Dunga Dunga Gondarra, Butharripi Gurruwiwi. Wilson Gan-ambarr, Gali Gurruwiwi, Gekurr Guyula and Timmy Burrawanga are there. Laklak and Dhuwarrwarr Marika are there, too, along with the great old man from Gan Gan, Garrawan Gumana. My cousin Banambi Wunungmurra brings the prime minister down to us. We have a petition for him.
Learning of the cataclysmic history experienced by Aboriginal tribes in the coastal south and east of the country and the inexorable expansion into the west and the north in the first 110 years of European colonisation, and fearing the time when the Yolngu of Arnhem Land would face the same devastation, Yunupingu might have presented Edmund Barton — along with Samuel Griffith and the other founding fathers of the new nation — with a petition, as he did Kevin Rudd in 2008:
We, the united clans of East Arnhem land, through our most senior dilak, do humbly petition you, the … Prime Minister of Australia, in your capacity as the first amongst equals in the Australian Parliament, and as the chief adviser to Her Majesty … to secure within the Australian Constitution the recognition and protection of our full and complete right to:
• Our property, being the lands and waters of East Arnhem Land;
• Economic independence, through the proper use of the riches of our land and waters in all their abundance and wealth;
• Control of our lives and responsibility for our children’s future.
EVERY nation is a unique creation. All democracies are not the same. Every society that has ever created a constitution has had to deal with a unique history and circumstances. There is no template democracy. There’s no template nation.
In 1901, when the Australian nation was created, it reflected the ideas and biases of the time. One bias had as its cornerstone the exclusion of the native peoples of this country. It took a long 66 years before that exclusion from citizenship was remedied in 1967.
Back when the referendum was crafted and overwhelmingly endorsed by the Australian people — 90 per cent of the country voted in favour of it — there was not one indigenous lawyer in the country, let alone an indigenous constitutional lawyer involved in the drafting of the amendment. Now, leading indigenous legal intellectuals such as Megan Davis are driving these developments.
Even the greatest democracies are a search for a better unity. National democracy is not just a lapidary achievement. No nation has created the perfect unity. Facing racial conflict, President Barack Obama invoked the idea that the US is on a journey to a “more perfect union”. Ours is a journey to perfect our commonwealth and the unity it is intended to represent.
During my involvement on the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, set up by Julia Gillard, I became convinced that the basis of our inclusion in Australian citizenship in 1967 was fatefully wrong.
We were included as citizens of our own country on the basis of race, and that too reflected the bias of the time.
In the decades leading up to the 1950s and 60s, and for a long time after, it was commonplace to talk about people of different races. So it is understandable that in 1967 the basis of our citizenship was determined in section 51 (xxvi) — the race clause.
In retrospect, I saw — largely through the arguments of my colleagues on the panel — that our inclusion in the citizenship of the country on the basis of our alleged race was a momentous misstep.
It was wrong, in fact. Today we understand that there are no races. And as long as human societies have assumed and perpetuated the idea that there are distinct races across the world, much misery has resulted.
Today we understand there are no distinctions to be made among peoples on the basis of race. We are a human race. While we do not share a uniform culture, language, religion and ethnicity, we do share one characteristic: we are members of a single race.
As long as we have a Constitution that characterises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on the basis of race, it will have deleterious implications for their citizenship. It must be removed. With the knowledge of hindsight, we must perfect the basis of our inclusion in the nation.
I believe the psychological and practical implications of these reforms will be profound. This is not just a matter of symbolism. I think this will be a matter of psychology.
The day we come to regard ourselves as people with a distinct heritage, with distinct cultures and languages, but not of a distinct race will be a day of psychological liberation. And it will also be liberating for those in the wider community who treat us as members of a distinct race, with all of the freight that accompanies this.
I believe constitutional reforms that remove the concept of race will have concrete, practical implications for indigenous wellbeing across this country.
We have made many gains since 1967, but we have been significantly hobbled as well. And the chief thing that has hobbled us is the concept of race.
This does not mean that when we get rid of race in our thinking, racism will not exist. There will still be discrimination. But such discrimination is based on an illegitimate idea: that people are different according to some racial criterion. So there will be need for protection against the illegitimate concept through the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
I see no contradiction in banishing notions of race from our Constitution while at the same time ensuring protection of peoples against the illegitimate use of this distinction.
ON July 15 this year I had the honour of joining Rupert Murdoch and Tony Abbott in Sydney at the 50th anniversary of the founding of The Australian . In my remarks I said that:
When the history of indigenous reform is written, the place of The Australian under the editorship of Chris Mitchell will be plain … Mitchell opened the pages of The Australian to all shades of debate and indigenous leaders and commentators: no other mainstream platform comes close. Like the paper’s founder, the paper’s editor these past 12 years seems impelled by an unremitting sense of native duty to the nation by taking his indigenous brethren with utmost seriousness. Rosemary Neill’s courageous coverage of tragic violence against Aboriginal women. Tony Koch’s pursuit of Mulrunji’s death at the Palm Island watch-house. Paul Toohey’s searing stories of the petrol-sniffing Hades in the centre. These all echo the proprietor’s campaign in The Advertiser in the Max Stuart case in 1959 abolishing the death penalty.
The Australian treated these subjects not because it believed the country’s indigenous peoples innocent or guilty, right or wrong, noble or ignoble — but because the paper believed in our humanity, and that we and our affairs should not be left on the woodheap of the democracy. No paper welcomed indigenous writers and political leaders more than this one. The late Charlie Perkins, Marcia Langton, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Patrick Dodson, Lowitja O’Donoghue, Warren Mundine and more have been regular protagonists in the national conversation in the national paper.
For those like me whose reform policies have been steadfastly supported by the paper’s editorials, we have not been spared contrary views and criticism in news reporting and commentary. The dialectic of the national conversation plays out in the pages of The Australian.
This was a privilege for me: to witness Murdoch, one of those rare Australians whom the thoughtful senator from Queensland Brett Mason — in a forthcoming book on such figures — correctly identifies as having in some way changed the world, pause to reflect on a 50-year milestone on his journey.
I think that not to marvel at Murdoch’s colossal media exploits and take some borrowed pride from the fact that, like Don Bradman in cricket or Howard Florey in medical science, he is Australian is as absurd as denying the global impact of Robert Hughes on art or Germaine Greer on feminism.
There may or may not be some validity in the suggestion that the levelling instinct of Australians is a salient contribution of indigenous peoples to the national character, but at the heart of that instinct lies a cringe that makes us a smaller nation, with a smaller sense of our own possibilities, when we don’t recognise it as a double-edged sword.
I suspect our aggressive egalitarianism is the engine that drives individuals to take on the forces of the establishment — witness the “Dirty Digger” taking over the London Sun — but it can also see the rest frantically determined to chop down the very outliers who have challenged and beaten the powers-that-be. This is our psychological, rather than cultural, cringe. One side of our egalitarianism challenges the status quo and the other preserves it through levelling.
It was for me a signal event. I tell this story to give a context to my final remarks to that audience, in which I set out how constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians would allow the nation to reveal our true nature and the great hidden architecture of our commonwealth:
Our nation is in three parts. There is our ancient heritage, written in the continent and the original culture painted on its land and seascapes. There is its British inheritance, the structures of government and society transported from the United Kingdom fixing its foundations in the ancient soil. There is its multicultural achievement: a triumph of immigration that brought together the gifts of peoples and cultures from all over the globe — forming one indissoluble commonwealth.
We stand on the cusp of bringing these three parts of our national story together — our ancient heritage, our British inheritance and our multicultural triumph — with constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. This reconciliation will make a more complete commonwealth.
The colonial history that I have revisited in my Quarterly Essay, A Rightful Place is the reason why the relationship between our indigenous heritage and the country’s British heritage has eluded us. As troubled as this history is, and as troubling as it will be for the foreseeable future, these two things are the heritage of Australia. There is no denying it. It is the reality and it is the truth, no matter how much white Australians might want to ignore it or black Australians might want to reject it. Whatever the mutual denial of the past, the future must be one of mutual recognition.
THERE are two reasons Australian conservatives should support constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. First, conservatism sees intrinsic value in tradition and inheritance — like our British heritage, indigenous tradition and inheritance is important and should be recognised and maintained. Second, conservatives value national unity. They disavow separatism, collectivism and division among citizens, preferring instead individualism bound by a common sense of national unity and patriotism. That is why they should support the removal of references to “race” that serve to divide citizens.
In trying to understand conservative objections to the expert panel’s proposals, it is important to understand the Australian mix of liberalism and conservatism, and the influence of constitutional conservatism — the influential group of Australian constitutional experts whom Greg Craven dubbed the “con-cons”. This group, convening as the Samuel Griffith Society, values liberalism and democracy. They insist on parliamentary sovereignty and are ready to accuse judges of usurping parliamentary democracy. They value the Australian Constitution as inherited wisdom.
It is because, as Waleed Aly observed in Quarterly Essay 37, “tradition has its own force and wisdom” that the conservative disposition prefers organic evolution to revolution in society. Conservatives approach constitutional reform with extreme caution. According to Aly, conservatism is “resistant to ideological zeal”: it “eschews utopian designs and adopts far more modest and pragmatic approaches to policy”.
This explains conservative resistance to including principles such as “equality” or “non-discrimination” in the Constitution. While valuing free and equal participation in a liberal democracy, conservative pragmatists do not think such ideals can be protected simply by writing them into the Constitution. Such alterations risk giving the judiciary too much power.
In their strong aversion to activist judges, constitutional conservatives tend to forget the history that has driven this conversation about constitutional recognition.
Conservatives are concerned with limiting judicial activism, and therefore do not want symbolic words or sweeping “rights” clauses in the Constitution. Indigenous advocates need to take these views on board.
But what conservatives in turn need to understand, in an effort to find consensus, is that for indigenous people the movement for constitutional recognition has always been about achieving constitutional protection and recognition of indigenous rights and interests within Australia.
It is about reconciling the fact that there were peoples here before the British arrived, and making provision for those peoples and their interests to be recognised within the nation.
Symbolism and poetry is only one part of it. Substantive change in the national approach to indigenous affairs is the other.
Conservatives need to understand our position, too. Our people lived through the discrimination of the past.
We have a legitimate anxiety that the past not be repeated, and that measures be put in place to ensure thingsare done in a better way. If conservatives assert that a racial non-discrimination clause is not the answer, then what is a better solution?
In a recent paper, The Australian Declaration of Recognition, Julian Leeser and Damien Freeman assert that the Constitution is a rule book, a practical charter of government that sets out power relationships, such as between the commonwealth and the states. It is not a vehicle for aspirations and symbolism: these can be articulated in a declaration, not in the constitution proper.
But if the Constitution is a practical rule book governing national power relationships, then we should also accept that there is one very important national power relationship that it clearly does not address.
Arguably, therefore, the rule book should be amended to make provision for indigenous people to be heard in indigenous affairs.
After all, if unelected judges should not decide what is in the interests of indigenous people, then who should decide?
Indigenous people comprise only 3 per cent of the population and hardly get a fair say in parliament, even on matters directly concerning them.
Parliaments have never been good at listening to indigenous people. This is why the discrimination of the past has occurred. This is the elephant and the mouse problem that has characterised indigenous affairs.
We can find a way of ensuring that indigenous people get a fair say in laws and policies made about uswithout compromising the supremacy of parliament. Perhaps we could consider creating a mechanism to ensure that indigenous people can take more responsibility for our own lives within the democratic institutions already established, and without handing power to judges.
As mentioned, conservatives should agree with the removal of racial discrimination from the Constitution. They believe in national unity and dislike internal divisions, separatism and collectivism. They must now also turn their minds to how the Constitution might be altered so that the discrimination of the past cannot happen again.
We don’t want separatism: we want inclusion on a fair basis. We want to be inside the decision-making tent. We want our voices to be heard in political decisions made about us. A mechanism like this — guaranteeing the indigenous voice in indigenous affairs — could be a more democratic solution to the racial discrimination problem.
Constitutional recognition could therefore include removal of the race clauses and the insertion of a replacement power to enable the commonwealth parliament to pass necessary laws with respect to indigenous peoples, and incorporation of a requirement that indigenous peoples get a fair say in laws and policies made about us. A new body could be established to effect this purpose, and to ensure that indigenous peoples have a voice in their own affairs.
This is an edited extract of Quarterly Essay 55, A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth by Noel Pearson, available nationally on Monday.
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Our pets are like kids to us. We raise them, train them, take care of them, love them, talk to them. I treat them as though they were my kids. As of right now we have 4 pets.
2 dogs: 3 year old Chiweenie Tinkerbell and 3 month old Chihuahua Roxy.
2 cats: Indoor kitty Daisy and outdoor kitty Wickett.
We just love our animals.
However, animals do weird things. For one, my Chiweenie Tinkerbell is completely housebroken; that is if it isn't raining. If it is raining when we let her out to potty she will hide on the porch or deck until we let her in. Then she will wait until we aren't paying attention and sneak off to our laundry room and do her business on the floor. It infuriates me to no end. I understand not wanting to go out in the rain but come on.....you're a dog :)
Now since Tinkerbell is 3 years old and I have raised her and know this about her, I make sure to put puppy pads in my laundry room floor for her when it is raining so there isn't any nasty on the floor. I guess all is well with that but I still get annoyed with her sometimes.
My kids can definitely say the dog at their homework. As you can see, there is currently paper all over my living room floor. Luckily, this paper is a graded report so there will be no doing over.
This sweet little face is the culprit of the chewed school work. Our new little Chihuahua Roxy. She is so rotten. I just don't know how her little body holds her big ole personality. She chases and wrestles the cats. She loves to sneak attack Tinkerbell and our big outdoor cat Wickett (he comes in to eat because if I feed him outside about 10 neighborhood strays come to eat his food and cat fights ensue). She likes to growl and bark. Her personality is way too big for her little tiny body.
Roxy has also been testing my patience. She was puppy pad trained by the person we got her from. However, she she will just squat anywhere. Then when we pick her up to put her on the puppy pad she does the pitiful little cower move and then hides and finishes her business. Some days I feel I am constantly on my hands and knees cleaning up little tinkle puddles out of the carpet ( I want hardwood floors lol)
She is getting better though. I have puppy pads over her 3 favorite (yes 3!! ugh) areas in the living room and since she refuses the crate at night I have 2 puppy pads in my bedroom where she sleeps. She has hit them more than she has missed them the past few days so I hope to get her to where she will be "going" outside soon.
Beyond all of the frustrations of raising pets, there are so many joys to them too.
My puppies have been my constant companions while I have been sick these past two days.
Here you can see Roxy enjoying my heated blanket with me. And can you see that lump she is looking toward? (it is kind of hard to tell with the brown blanket)
That lump is Tinkerbell, on my lap UNDER the blanket. It is really cool knowing my puppies whom I love so much enjoy a nice heated blanket as much as I do.
Picture(s) of the day.
I have several pictures to share with you all as my picture of the day. Each one of these pieces of art were drawn by my oldest daughter. She is only 12 years old. She has been drawing since she could pick up a pencil.
Characters from the Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp
Portrait of her boyfriend John.
An eye and a hand.
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Lot 272 Endeavour Drive, Cooloola Cove, Queensland 4580
- Land Size: 2,010 m2
GREAT HOUSE BLOCKGreat level 2010 sqm block at great price. Also selling adjoining lots - all up 8040sqm.
Cooloola Cove, Tin Can Bay and surrounds:
Tin Can Bay & Cooloola Cove are considered a fishing and boating paradise located on the Cooloola Coast just off the southern tip of World Heritage listed Fraser Island. The warm, shallow waters provide safe beaches for families and calm waters for recreational boating and fishing. This is one of the few places in Australia where wild dolphins can be hand fed in their natural environment.
This area is mostly flat and caters for walking/running/cycling enthusiasts with numerous concrete pathways for safety. This beautiful place to live offers excellent facilities including two lawn bowls venues, an eighteen hole golf course at the Country Club, a swimming pool, a superb marina and two public boat ramps. The services available in this area and its surrounds include Doctor, Chemist, Ambulance, School, Library, IGA, Woolworths just to name a few.
Come and see why this area is so popular. You'll be so impressed with all that Cooloola Cove & Tin Can Bay has to offer that you may never want to leave.
- Land Size: 2010 m2 (approx)
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It's no secret that Los Pedran Jalop is not a massive Porsche obsessive. Most of his favorite sons of Ferdinand are racing vehicles, with only the 550 Coupe and 928 to really stoke his passions. But there's something about the new GT3 RS. It's the most immediately soulful road car Porsche has produced since the 928 left the line. A different beast to be sure, but an assured loin-stirrer it is, even to oddball dorks who've always loved 914s and think 912s are rad. It is an undeniable car, and we constantly castigate people who buy mere GT3s for not going full-awesome and waiting for the RS. We do not say this lightly, but the new GT3 RS is simply one of the coolest cars Porsche has ever built. And at a time when German cars are getting consistently more complex, to their own detriment, the latest Rennsport 911 has arrived to restore the mantle of merely essential awesome. As Ferry himself said, "This is why functional designs are so beautiful; so calming." We'd add that they look fabulous in wild-ass-yet-somehow-understated color schemes too. And with that, we hand things over to Mr. Needell to simply race the coked-up snail along Castle Coombe's asphalt straight razor.
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5 Peanut Butter Smoothies You Have to Try
August 30, 2016
They’re refreshing. They're tasy. And to top it off, they’re made with peanut butter, too. When smoothies and peanut butter come together, you know your day just got better.
Whether you’re looking to shake up breakfast or are in need of new snack ideas for the kids, these peanut butter smoothie recipes each offer something different. Give them a try!
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This is the perfect smoothie recipe for busy mornings when you need to get out the door quickly. Our Peanut Banana Smoothie requires only three ingredients and a couple of ice cubes. You’re going to love how easy it is to make!
Peanut Berry Blast Smoothie
Want to treat yourself to a cool and creamy snack? Then this peanut butter smoothie recipe is for you. Made with vanilla ice cream and creamy Jif® Peanut Butter, you really can’t go wrong. Plus, you’ll taste a blast of berry deliciousness with the addition of Smucker’s® Seedless Red Raspberry Jam with frozen mixed berries, too.
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Escape to the islands with this tropical-inspired smoothie made with Jif Peanut Powder. With the addition of pineapple, banana, orange juice, and coconut, you’ll feel like you’re on a vacation with every sip.
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Don’t let the blue color fool you. This smoothie actually contains peanut butter flavor, too. Made with fresh blueberries or raspberries, granola, honey, and Jif Peanut Powder, it’s sure to bring a berry good start to your day.
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KBzine: the original kitchen and bathroom industry e-news - since 2002
18th August 2017
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Distinctly Abode: the new Mikro Sink - beautifully simple...
Prior to KBB Birmingham, Abode launched a new addition to its stainless steel range of kitchen sinks - the MIKRO. The unparalleled simplicity of the clean lines and patterned drainer of this modern sink creates a unique contemporary design. When complemented with other stainless steel appliances in the kitchen, Mikro is an unobtrusive, yet stylish addition to the overall kitchen aesthetic.
Mikro is available in 18/10 stainless steel in 1.0 and 1.5 bowl models, both with drainers, in reversible sink formats with standard basket strainer wastes. All plumbing pipework is included and the sinks are supplied in boxed packaging.
The new Mikro has CE approval and comes with the Abode exclusive 10 year guarantee.
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|For Three Years, Every Bite Organic|
The New York Times - 12/1/2008.Fruits, vegetables and animals can be 100 percent organic. What about people? In a fascinating experiment — on himself — Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician and author in Danville, Calif., decided to find out. For the last three years, Dr. Greene has eaten nothing but organic foods, whether he’s cooking at home, dining out or snacking on the road.
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All you who find funravel tough, should check out my new game Sigma 26. It just needs a working knowledge of the english alphabet and algebra. And it's easier than crossword & sudoku. Before you jump in, don't forget to read up the rules.
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It seems as if you can not have a holiday without traveling and this year was no exception. Tradition dictates that every other year we fly to the east coast to celebrate Christmas with my family. Anyone who has flown recently can relate when I say that the “friendly skies” are definitely a thing of the past!
Our flight from Portland to Salt Lake City was delayed by a half hour while the plane was deiced. Since planes do not fly well when their wings are covered with ice and snow, that time was well spent! Upon arriving in Salt Lake City, we discovered that our connecting flight was in another concourse so the cross country hike was on. By the time we arrived at the departure gate, the flight was on final call so we jump aboard just minutes before the door was slammed shut.
Once the plane was deiced, we taxied for position in the departure line only to be diverted to a temporary parking area because of a problem with the aircraft's in-flight computer. We sat quietly for forty-five minutes while the pilots and the maintenance guys worked their magic! Since your options are severely limited once the plane is airborne, I am always very thankful when they find and fix mechanical problems before you reach the end of the runway!
Upon arrival in Boston, we were greeted at the baggage carousel with the tangle of unclaimed luggage from the prior day’s cancelled flights. Needles to say, I was very surprised and thankful when our bags rounded the corner on the baggage carousel. In fact, it might be the one of the best Christmas gifts a weary traveler can receive!
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Riders 37 – Ti-Cats 0
I’m well aware that it’s not morning but given my track record did you really expect a morning post after a Sunday evening game? I sometimes struggle when it’s a Friday evening game.
In a league that awards a point for missing a FG and punting too far, the Ti-Cats somehow managed to put up a goose egg on Sunday night. I know lots of people will downplay this pummeling by saying that it was against a weak opponent but so what? That’s what’s supposed to happen when really good teams play bad teams. We are a really good team. Hamilton is a bad team with a bad defense, no run game and missing pretty much anything resembling a top flight receiver. We were supposed to beat them and we did… quite handily… the system works.
Before I get to the game… by far the highlight of the game was Andre Proulx. In his finest moment he screwed up the penalty call (mixing up offense and defense), paused to shake his head and collect his thoughts… and then top it off by pointing the wrong way while trying to correct himself. Worth the price of admission right there. Bonus points for calling a benalty on number turty tree (even though the actual penalty was on 24).
By now you may be sick of borderline crush on George Cortez but you’ll just have to deal with it. I love him and I love our offense! It is firing on all cylinders. Durant seems so comfortable and in tune with it and it is designed to remorselessly pick on any weakness the opposing team is show us. It was clear that Hamilton was dead set on stuffing Sheets so what do we do? Start heaving it up to Rob Bagg (who is back as an impact player) and Dressler, and keep doing it until the defense backs off enough to let Sheets do his thing. We also made really good use of that McHenry leak out. For once our offense is dictating the play to the defense rather than the other way around. I really noticed this game just how in tune Durant and the receivers are with the timing and execution of this offense. One play in particular I saw Durant throw a short pass to what looked like an empty space only to have Bagg swoop in at the perfect time and make the reception. If they keep playing like this we will be formidable to even the best defense… and as Sunday proved, deadly to the one who are defenses in name only.
Of course no talk of the offense would be complete without mentioning the Dan Clark TD. For the record, last Monday I wrote the following in my sentimonies… “At this rate I’m convinced that our Banjo Bowl offense will revolve primarily around Dan Clark somehow. . The only appropriate thing to say in a situation like a Clark TD is what John Madden said in the Replacements “I love to see a fat guy score, Because first you get a fat guy spike, then you get the fat guy dance”. Memo to Clark: if you plan on scoring again, work on the spike and dance.
Defensively I think it would have been a slightly different story if Hamilton had had Fantuz in… but not much. Defense came to play. Its hard to imagine them doing much better than they did on Sunday but I’m trying to imagine what would have happened if Harris, Maze and Thomas (i.e. the majority of our starting secondary) had played. Ti-Cats may have found a way to get negative points. When the defense held them without a point with the wind I just knew the Ti-Cats would not be scoring about as much as a math major in college. We brought big time pressure (5 sacks) and limited the big plays. I'm pretty sure we would have help them in check even if we allowed them to field 2 extra offensive players.
Another solid effort in all 3 phases in what is becoming a pleasant trend. Not used to being in the position of being the team to beat but I could certainly get used to this… and the way we are playing, likely will.
Other random thoughts:
- Willy not starting really hurt “I Heart Willy” T-Shirt sales… only ones I sold were to a guy who asked if it also came in pink with glittered print… and I don’t think he even watched football. It did give me a great idea for a new slogan for the shirts “I Heart Willy shirts: Show your pride, Rider or otherwise.”
- When was the last time that 130 yard performance by an RB seemed like no big deal?
- Not sure if you noticed but when Sanders subbed in for Sheets at the very end of the game, after only 1 play (a first down), Sheets tried to sub himself back in by walking onto the field only to have the coaches quickly direct him back to the sidelines.
- I see Geroy Simon has taken over the “Mandatory Standing Ovation No Matter How Insignificant The Play Was” role… should have at least saved the cheers for his second reception that was actually worth cheering.
- I really hope McHenry and Fulton are OK after the game. Obviously McHenry was shook up and I noticed near the end of the game Fulton was very, very slowly getting up after plays and clearly in some pain. Both guys are big parts of our O. (Honestly who ever expected that to be written about McHenry?)
- I was hoping that one Bartel punt would float backwards through the endzone… I wonder what the rule is on that?
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Since the season of pumpkin is upon us I decided to make some yummy, scrumptious pumpkin bread! I love all things pumpkin including, but not limited to, pumpkin bread, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin spice cappuccino, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin oatmeal. Yummy!!
1 c sugar
½ c brown sugar
½ c butter or margarine, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1½ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1½ cup canned pumpkin
First you preheat the over to 350 degrees then mix all dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside. Mix butter and sugar together until creamy then add eggs one at a time while still stirring (or crack one and then stir…add the other…stir). After the eggs add the vanilla, then you slowly combine the dry ingredients with the liquid ingredients. Add pumpkin into mixture (the blog says to “by hand, mix in pumpkin”) but I folded it in gently until all combined.
Pumpkin batter, ready to bake
Pour into a greased, floured pan and bake for 45 minutes, let set in the pan once cooked for 15 minutes then remove and cool on a wire rack.
Done and ready to eat!
Tips from me:
#1: Oven temperatures vary widely so the cooking time may be longer. I checked mine at 45 minutes and it was still really liquidy so I cooked it longer, it took 1 hour and 10 minutes before the knife came out clean.
#2: Like I said above the blog stated to “by hand, mix in pumpkin”. But in my experience a batter like this that is sticky and really liquid it is hard to knead by hand.
#3: When it says dry ingredients it means the spices too lol! When I first made this (I have made 2 loaves so far) I mixed everything in but the spices since it didn’t occur to me they were dry ingredients! So I added them in at the end but before adding the pumpkin! It tasted every bit as delicious as my second loaf (made properly this time lol!).
I found this to be a very easy and simple bread to make! It was very moist, flavor full, and it sliced real easily! It was so good in fact my boyfriend ate half the loaf the next morning for breakfast! Since my mom, as well as I, wanted some I had to bake a second loaf and let him have the remainder of the first one! So be prepared because this pumpkin bread is so good it’ll disappear quickly!
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What is a Satellite Church?
Woodstock Church // Panama City Beach is a satellite campus of Woodstock First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Georgia. Since 1986, Pastor Johnny Hunt has led our church to touch lives in our community and around the world. You can learn more about our main campus at fbcw.org
What to Expect…
Since we are a satellite campus of Woodstock First Baptist Church, the teaching time of our worship service is a video feed (projected onto a large screen) of Pastor Johnny Hunt preaching from our main campus in Woodstock. Our music & worship time is live and is led by great musicians here at the PCB campus.
Pastor Johnny Hunt is the Senior Pastor of Woodstock First Baptist Church.
Pastor Johnny oversees the teaching at all of our church campuses.
Rev. Rick Young is the Campus Pastor at PCB.
To learn more about Rick & his family, click here
Wendy Young is passionate about leading others to worship. A graduate of Liberty University, Wendy has been involved in Music Ministry for over 20 years as a soloist, recording artist, team member, and worship leader. As a Pastor’s wife and mother of 3 teenagers, she believes that worship is a lifestyle that affects every area of her life.
Steven was born right here in Florida but grew up in Midland, Texas. He went on to graduate from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri with a degree in Youth Ministry. After working for two years under Pastor Rick in the Middle School ministry at FBCW, Steven moved to Panama City Beach to help launch the latest Woodstock Church campus.
Colby was born in Atlanta Georgia, but was raised right here in PCB. He is currently studying Youth Ministry at the Baptist Collage of Florida. After finishing a year internship at FBPC, Colby came to Woodstock Church // PCB to help Grow and Lead our youth.
Do you have a question?
Feel free to email Pastor Rick by using the form below…
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MD and owner of Waterstone's bookshops
Since the chill wind of recession swept through the world of publishing, an increasing number of launch parties that might formerly have been held in swanky, expensive venues have been taking place in rather more modest surroundings – often, in fact, in a branch of Daunt Books. Elegant, old-fashioned and crammed with lovely books and clever booksellers, these are bookshops as old-school book lovers would like to have them. The hope is that their creator, James Daunt, will bring some of their ethos to the fore as he remodels Waterstone's under the eye of Mamut, its billionaire proprietor.
He has already taken some fairly radical steps: dropping the chain's long-running three-for-two promotions, calling for an end to the process whereby publishers pay for their prominence on the shop floor and promising the return of flair in bookselling. But if you're thinking that all this heralds a return to the clubbish atmosphere of old-fashioned bookshops, think again: Daunt has also announced that the company is busy developing an e-reader that he hopes will rival Amazon's Kindle. Publishers have been virtually unanimous in their support for Daunt and, given his get-up-and-go, customers won't have to wait too long to give their verdict.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Now that school has started my life is suddenly a million times busier. I'm still working in the reading room, but only 10 hours a week. I'm a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for an online DE class and I help out a few professors a few times a week. I'm taking two SLIS classes, Public Libraries and History of Libraries, as well as a French class to help me prepare just in case I decide to go after my Ph.D. I'm also auditing a history class just for fun. Wow, I sound busy, don't I? While being this busy is definitely a change, the biggest change is that I've also started an internship. I work 10 hours a week at Rogers Science and Engineering Library. It's mainly a reference internship, but I'm hoping to learn a lot about working in a branch library on a major university campus. At UA, Rogers houses all the science and engineering texts, as well as books on nursing, mathematics, and computer science. Its a good size space and has lots of nifty features.
With life changes, come changes to the blog. I've been posting pretty frequently, and I hope to try and blog at least twice a week. However, due to my ridiculous schedule, I might blog less (or I might even blog more! We'll see...). My internship requires me to keep a log of my daily activities at my internship site, so I've decided to do that here. I will have a weekly feature, probably posted on Fridays, about what I've done during the past week. If you would like to only read posts about my internship, click the "internship" tag at the bottom of this post and that will bring up everything I've written about working at Rogers.
Other changes...I've noticed that all the good blogs (or at least the blogs I read) have pictures, so I'm thinking of adding pictures (like I did today!) to try and spice things up. Let me know if you like the pictures and/or there is anything you would like to see more/less of.
If you've started back to school, I hope things are going well for you. If you're not in school, I hope life is treating you well!
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The lovely Lee Goater sent me this picture of the sign from outside Saltaire Train Station.
Donations unbelievably stand at ?2710.10 for Macmillan Cancer Care.
Thank you so much for everyone who has donated or spread the word. You are ace.
On my marks. I start at 9am.
This Christmas Day I will run a half marathon. That’s 13.1 miles.
I understand it’s an unusual time to do a half marathon. There isn’t an organised race so I’m going to be doing it on my own. I’ll start at Saltaire Train Station and follow the canal until I hit Leeds centre. That’s 13.1 miles. I am assuming it will be a difficult thing to do. I don’t know, I’ve never run a half marathon before. But I will on Christmas Day I promise. I’ll electronically track it and publish the tracked run on the internet. I’m doing this in the hope that you will sponsor me. I am running for Macmillan Cancer Care. (http://macmillan.org.uk)
Earlier this year my friend and the mother of my wife, Megan Hind died. She was an immensely brilliant, courageous, defiant, beautiful woman. She is much missed. And she was much cared for by the Macmillan nurses. As I have been in my time too.
In these difficult times it is hard to ask friends to donate to charity. I hope that the combination of the physical challenge being carried out on Christmas Day will demonstrate how determined I am and might just be memorable and interesting enough to justify asking you to dig deep when things are so tight.
Those that sponsor me can nominate a song to add to my running playlist. It can be anything you want, just write the song in the comments below, I shall buy it off iTunes or similar and add it to my list. Some of you will find this a fun element to add a supportive song and then again at least 2 of you will list a John Cage track. That’s the game. I promise I will buy all the tracks and shuffle the list.
The Macmillans are special people. Please help if you can. I have a Just Giving Page that will handle all the money side: http://www.justgiving.com/Alan-Lane
If you can help please do. If you can spread the word with a Retweet or a shout out then that would be fab too.
Happy Christmas to you all.
Many exciting things are happening at this year’s Christmas Fayre. We’ll be announcing them throughout the week, here is one of the things the lovely RashDash are up to.
Other details at www.slunglow.org
The RashDash SwapShop
Do you own clothes/jewellery/bags/shoes you once loved but no longer wear? Are you in need of a wardrobe revamp?
RashDash are hosting a swap shop where you can exchange unwanted items for something new-
A dress for a dress, a bag for a necklace, gloves for a scarf. The possibilities are endless…
Bring your items to the RashDash stall and choose your exchange. One woman’s Junk is another man’s treasure…
Any leftover items will be given to charity. Bonus.
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An amazing individual born in the wee evening hours of around 8 o'clock on the glad day of December 27th, 1995. Although not many important events are considered worthy on this day, as it follows the all important Boxing Day, the birth of this child has been considered a monumental occasion, as the start of a successful career of classical music composition, and the player of not only percussion and guitar, but of the tuba, piano, bass, flute, cello, violin, and a recent development; trumpet. She is directly related to General Buford of the Civil War.
While it is under much speculation as to the qualification of this individual to continue on in her marching band career (in light of the plethora of injuries, notably the unforgettable tuba to the head concussion), the obvious love of music is president in every waking aspect of her being. Although better time management is definitely needed as she never shows up to Cornerstone or has those kick butt parties anymore.
Kaylyn Elizabeth Buford, otherwise known as Bubu, Kaykay, Buford, Idiot, and Kaywyn Awizabet Buuford, is widely known for her support of the glorious Republican Party, the 2nd Amendment, Southpark, and Baking. Her taste in music has been shown to include rap, metal, screamo, hardcore metal, classical, and country. Not in the least a nonsensical list at all. Her bestest and closest friend is the notorious Elora Kuhny, more famously known as Kuhnybear, or Cheeseburger. Her favorite movies include The Lord of the Rings trilogy (as made evident by the naming of her dog Stryder, James Bond, Boondock Saints, Indiana Jones, Braveheart, Gladiator, The Princess Bride, Star Trek, all the Batmans, but the two most notable of all; Danial Alexander Dolphin and Santa Sleigh.
The wonderfulness of Miss Buford is obvious to all that have had the privileged of making her acquaintance. If you don't know her, get your butt over to the TJ marching band practice field because that's the only place you're ever going to find her!
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Royal Classic has become a staple for executives and professionals. The functionality and durability of the cloths make them ideal for everyday formal wear. Traditional English medium weights in typically elegant, understated designs.
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Maybe you have seen this little wine-cup looking symbol on your friend’s Facebook page and wondered what it means. It means Christians are being targeted for death in Mosul, Iraq. I am so thankful that someone thought to create symbol sent through Social Media to call attention to the plight of Christians suffering genocide in Iraq.
The symbol apparently started circulating in Lebanon and has caught on around the world. The symbol is actually an Arabic „n,” which is what ISIS soldiers in Mosul have used to abbreviate Nazara, a term for Christians in the Middle East. Basically, those whose homes are thus marked are subject to death, unless they (a) convert to Islam or (b) pay an oppressive tax to stay alive (all explained here). Here is how one report details the horror:
On Monday, which was normally pay day for municipal workers in Mosul, state workers…
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As part of our global expansion, Twikit recently set up an office in New York. In November this year, we became proud residents of New Lab, a renovated warehouse in the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Our expansion into the U.S. marks a milestone moment in the growth of Twikit, as we introduce our 3D customization solutions to new audiences. This expansion came at just the right time, now Twikit is planning on adding some new features to our offerings (more on that soon!).
This move can enable new partnerships with US based production partners, design agencies and leaders in the field of additive technology.
Twikit’s U.S. expansion will be led by Yannick Schuermans, a business development professional with international experience in innovation and management consulting. Yannick will manage the NY office, working closely with existing partners and clients as well as pursuing new opportunities in the U.S. market.
New Lab is an interdisciplinary space designed to support entrepreneurs working in emerging technologies. Situated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, an historical site that is now an innovative hub for a variety of companies, Twikit finds itself in the perfect location for our new international adventure. The space was built to provide a supportive environment for entrepreneurs and professionals making advances in robotics, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence and connected devices.
On top of fostering interesting collaborations we strongly believe that New Lab’s community of innovation driven entrepreneurs will inspire us to continue improving and launching new, groundbreaking solutions.
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In theory, anyone can download, install, and use WMS client software. Some clients are:
Refractions PHP WMS Client, and
To make a client work, you would install the software on your computer.
Then, you would enter the URL of the WMS service into the client.
For example, in ArcGIS (not yet fully working because it doesn't handle time!), use
"Arc Catalog : Add Service : Arc Catalog Servers Folder : GIS Servers : Add WMS Server".
In ERDDAP, this dataset has its own WMS service, which is located at
(Some WMS client programs don't want the ? at the end of that URL.)
of datasets available via WMS at this ERDDAP installation.
In practice, we haven't found any WMS clients that properly handle dimensions
other than longitude and latitude (e.g., time), a feature which is specified by the WMS
specification and which is utilized by most datasets in ERDDAP's WMS servers.
You may find that using
Make A Graph
and selecting the .kml file type (an OGC standard)
to load images into Google Earth provides
a good (non-WMS) map client.
of datasets with Make A Graph at this ERDDAP installation.
Web page authors can embed a WMS client in a web page. For the map above, ERDDAP is using
OpenLayers, which is a very versatile WMS client.
OpenLayers doesn't automatically deal with dimensions other than longitude and latitude
A person with a browser or a computer program can generate special WMS URLs. For example,
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Ed Isaacson of NBA Draft Blog recently spoke with Torrey Craig on finishing his career at USC Upstate and preparing for his first season in professional basketball.
Below is an outtake from their discussion along with a link to the full interview...
(Torrey) Craig has been an integral part of the Spartans’ program for the past 4 seasons. His freshman season, he finished the year averaging over 14 points, grabbing over 7 rebounds, and 1 steal per game. He showed improvement each year after that, and he finished his career by putting up his best all-around season. Craig finished his senior year with almost 17 points and over 7 rebounds per game, while also adding over 2 assists per game. Against a Tennessee team which went to the Sweet 16, Craig scored 20 points on 7 of 15 shooting, while also grabbing 7 rebounds. In 3 games this season against Mercer, who beat Duke in the NCAA Tournament, Craig averaged over 22 points per game, including 11 of 23 from three-point range.
The four seasons at USC-Upstate did a lot to make Craig a better player.
“I matured a lot and became more of a team player,” said Craig. “When I first got to college, I wasn’t much of a team player, but learning how to handle adversity forced me to change.” Craig’s game also matured over the four years in college. “My ability to hit the mid-range jumper really came along, and I dramatically improved guarding the ball.”
Read the full interview on NBA Draft Blog here
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Determinants of hedging and its effects on investment and debt
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Advances in Imaging & Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics & Electron Physics and Advances in Optical & Electron Microscopy. The series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these domains.
About the Editor: Peter W. Hawkes, CEMES/Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France.
Impact Factor 2014: 0.338 (Copyright ISI Journal Citation Report)
To view individual chapters for Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, please visit Science Direct.
Praise for the Series: "With the accelerating pace of research and development in so many areas of microscopy, keeping abreast of the widespread literature is becoming increasingly time-consuming. The Editors are to be congratulated on bringing together in a convenient and comprehensible form a variety of topics of current interest." - LABORATORY PRACTICE
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Kristin Gallegos is a make-up artist and personal friend of mine. Her style has always inspired me. She is one of those people you can't help but love.
I had the pleasure of meeting Kristin a few years back. If my memory serves me well, we were at an infamous party held at "Luke and Leroy". Both of us were new to NYC and shared a 11211 zip-code (Williamsburg, BK). Kristin had relocated to NYC from LA, ready to take the city by storm. Kristin truly is one of the hardest working people I have ever met. I'm glad to have had the pleasure of watching Kristin blossom from a some-what shy girl who only wore vintage, into the dynamic fashion power house she is today. Here's a look at what Kristin is working on now & looking forward to in 2010.
Photo by: Hanneli Mustaparta
WW: How long have you been doing make-up now?
KG: 5 & 1/2 years in NYC
WW: What agency are you with currently?
KG: Bryan Bantry
WW: Where did you get your training?
KG: A workshop at Studio Makeup Academy at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, Ca. But mostly from assisting Dick Page and Lisa Butler, amongst others.
WW: How old are you? haha, I know you shouldn't ask a lady that!
KG: How dare you!!! A lady never tells!!!! Just kidding, I am 28!
WW: What is your favorite color?
KG: I am known for wearing all black. Although that really isn't a color, its my favorite. If I had to pick an actual color it would be "Greige", a mixture of grey and beige.
WW: What project/s are you currently booked or working on?
KG: I just shot the Victorinox Swiss Army Campaign with Collier Schorr, V Magazine with Peter Lindbergh, Glamour with Arthur Elgort, and just got back from India where I was shooting Vogue India with Jean Francois Campos!
WW: How was India? did you get to any out door markets or sight-see?
KG: India was an amazing experience! It was unlike anything I have ever seen in my life. Being in a third world country really makes you appreciate what you have. It puts everything into perspective. I unfortunately worked most of the time and if I wasn't working I was traveling within the country to the next location. So I didn't get to do much exploring. But I had a lot of fun and had two amazing shoots there.
WW: Who are you looking forward to working with during Fashion Week?
KG: Naeem Khan is always a pleasure to work with each season. And my good friend Katie Gallagher. She got a lot of buzz last season for her first show. I think this season will be amazing for her.
WW: Who are you looking forward to seeing during Fashion Week?
KG: I always look forward to seeing Carine Roitfeld and Anna Dello Russo! They really know how to bring it! And hopefully there will be a Lady Gaga sighting...
WW: Are you working overseas this fashion week or just traveling?
KG: I am not traveling to Europe for fashion week this season but definitely Paris for next season!
WW: Crazy that we are in a new decade? 2010! What are you excited about this year? Any resolutions?
KG: I am very excited for the new decade! I think my career is going to go to the next level this year! I am excited for more traveling and working with more amazing people. As for resolutions...I'm already on track with them but I'm not telling!!!
WW: You've always had such a great sense of style. What are you adding or changing to your style come Spring 2010?
KG: Oh thank you!! I plan on adding some Spring '10 Givenchy, Rick Owens, Peter Pilotto, Ann Demeulemeester, Hannah Marshall (a friend), Katie Gallagher, and perhaps some Commes! And more white, nude, and grey! I am also open to an amazing print. As you can see I have a little bit of a shopping obsession!
WW: Honey! obsession is an understatement! I can't help but feel slightly responsible for feeding you to the fashion wolves, so to speak. Please tell me you're feet will be adorning the McQueen 10'' amazingness!!?
KG: Well you can't take full credit! But you helped me take it to another level. I don't know if the McQueenadillos are even being sold. But I have photos of me wearing them on a shoot! They are major!!! It's like walking in pointe shoes. Lucky for me I have 8 years of crazy ballet training behind me!
WW: How would you describe your personal style with both make-up and clothes?
KG: My personal style is very dark. As I said I mostly wear black. I love interesting shapes and silhouettes. I usually wear tight black jeans with some short of amazing shape up top or really short skirts and dresses! And I love a bold shoulder! In make-up I rarely change my look. It's always a strong black smudgy eye with lots of mascara. A natural face and lip. On rare occasion I go completely natural or I will add a red lip. That's always shocking!! My look has been called "luxury goth", which I find funny! And I get that I resemble Cher from the 60's a lot!
Photo by: http://facehunter.blogspot.com/
WW: What key make-up looks are you liking for SP '10? & What should be left in '09?
KG: I loved the bold lips on the runway that we saw at Givenchy, Prada, and Rodarte to name a few. Also the absence or focus on the eyebrow. I also loved the severe eyes at Rick Owen! Stunning!
KG: What should be left in '09 is the super 80's inspired make-up a la Marc Jacobs!
WW:If you had a palette of colors that was signature to you, what colors would make up this pallette?
KG: I definitely use a lot of neutral tones. There would be black, white, terracotta, variety of greys, various taupes, nudes and browns. But I love pops of color as well so I would also throw in some red, pink, purple, blue, green, orange, and yellow! I love it all!
(Here is a little palette I put together inspired by KG.)
WW: What are your thoughts about a bold lip?
KG: I LOVE a bold lip. Not everyone can pull it off though. It takes a lot of self assurance. And some people just don't have the lips for it! I think if you are going to go for a bold lip it has to be the right shade for you as well. And my advice is not to pair it with a dark eye. Choose to focus on your eyes or your lips. Most people cannot pull off a full face!
WW: Is less more?
KG: I think for the everyday woman, less is more. Especially on the skin. Most women think they need a full face of foundation when they should really only conceal where needed. Subtle enhancements on the face are always best. But there are exceptions to this as well. People that have "a look" and can pull off more, by all means do it. It just has to be well done and appropriate. But, in fashion, sometimes more is more! I love to experiment and really take it there in my work.
WW: Who/what is inspiring you at the moment?
KG: What always inspires me is the person in my make-up chair. I work very organically. I have ideas of course but once the person is in my chair and I start working the face in front of me inspires what the outcome will be. And obviously the clothes are very inspiring to me. Editorial is a very collaborative effort. So the styling and hair will also inspire me. It really all depends. In general I am inspired by my travels and the different cultures I have had the pleasure to see. And I am inspired by art, movies, pop culture, and music.
KG: As far as my personal style goes I am inspired by various time periods like the 60's, 80's and 90's. My style icons are: Edie Sedgwick, Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg, Robert Smith, and Nico.
WW: What bands are you listening to lately?
KG: The usual suspects: Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Beatles and The Zombies. I like to stick to the classics!
WW: And who are you wearing most?
KG: I am wearing a lot of Rick Owens, Ann Demuelemeester, Margiela and some Givenchy.
WW:Quote of the moment?
KG: "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." -Coco Chanel
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At the Rabbi’s Table – June 2017
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Jay Bennett was in Wilco. He was one of the men who created "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" - one of the great records of this decade. Jay Bennett had a contentious relationship with Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy and this relationship was the focal point of the excellent documentary "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart." After Jay Bennett left Wilco, he never had the same success but this doesn't change the fact that Jay Bennett was supremely talented - a truly excellent musician and his death is incredibly sad. During his time in Wilco Jay and Jeff were like Mick and Kieth. They were partners. Those records could not have been made without both of them. Jay Bennett was 45 years old when he went to sleep and didn't wake up. We'll miss Jay Bennett.
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In light of our ongoing strategy to focus our efforts and resources on Wink, our founder, Ben Kaufman, will no longer serve as the CEO of Quirky. Ben has always been, and continues to be, deeply committed to the spirit and values of Quirky’s community of creative people around the world, as well as its inventors and its partners. Ben continues to believe in Quirky’s core mission to make invention accessible and believes that mission will live on. Effective immediately, current Chief Financial Officer Ed Kremer will be the CEO.
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Medical device researchers are encouraged to comply with the medical device vulnerability disclosure recommendations of the FDA and the ISO/IEC standard for vulnerability disclosure
Kennedy Space Center, Fla., and New York, September 20, 2016 – NH-ISAC, National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and MDISS, Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium, two leading organizations addressing the global public health challenge of medical device cybersecurity and cyber safety, encourage all medical device researchers to comply with the medical device vulnerability disclosure recommendations of the FDA and the ISO/IEC standard for vulnerability disclosure.
Safe, effective, and secure medical devices are critical to advancing our nation’s public health. To optimize patient safety while considering a security vulnerability, it is critical that medical device researchers collaborate with manufacturers, the FDA, and ICS-CERT. This collaboration expedites a detailed assessment of a medical device based on sound engineering best practices and enables appropriate risk mitigation.
Dr. Dale Nordenberg, Executive Director of MDISS, notes that “when identifying security vulnerabilities that may pose a risk to patients, it is critical that medical device researchers provide detailed engineering methods to support a timely collaborative peer review process by manufacturers, ICS-CERT, and the FDA of any potential medical device vulnerability.”
Identification of potential medical device cybersecurity vulnerabilities, especially those that may impact patient safety, should be disclosed consistent with the FDA guidance, Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices (January 2016), and, specifically, per the FDA recognized ISO/IEC 29147:2014 standard noted in this FDA guidance.
As the standard states: “Inappropriate disclosure of a vulnerability could not only delay the deployment of the vulnerability resolution but also give attackers hints to exploit it. That is why vulnerability disclosure should be carried out appropriately.” ….and that ….”Vulnerability disclosure is a process through which vendors and vulnerability finders may work cooperatively in finding solutions that reduce the risks associated with a vulnerability.”
The ISO/IEC standard states that “the goals of vulnerability disclosure include the following:
a) ensuring that identified vulnerabilities are addressed;
b) minimizing the risk from vulnerabilities;
c) providing users with sufficient information to evaluate risks from vulnerabilities to their systems;
d) setting expectations to promote positive communication and coordination among involved parties.”
Denise Anderson, President, NH-ISAC emphasizes “While medical device researchers should follow the applicable manufacturer published vulnerability disclosure process; we encourage any medical device researcher to reach out to NH-ISAC for assistance in connecting to manufacturers, as needed, to promote prompt response and patient safety.”
NH-ISAC and MDISS continue to convene medical device manufacturers, health systems, and other key stakeholders to develop cyber information sharing activities including those that support the FDA postmarket guidance. These activities are open to all stakeholders including medical device researchers.
NH-ISAC and MDISS will be convening two workshops in Minnesota this month: (1) this year’s fourth medical device cybersecurity workshop at the end of September; hosted by Mayo Clinic and (2) a one-day medical device vulnerability information sharing workshop to support the FDA post market draft guidance; hosted by St. Jude Medical.
ABOUT NH-ISAC – The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC), the official healthcare information sharing and analysis center, offers non-profit and for-profit healthcare stakeholders, such as: independent hospitals, IDN “providers”, health insurance “payers”, pharmaceutical/biotech manufacturers, laboratory, diagnostic, medical device manufacturers, medical school and medical R&D organizations, a community and forum for sharing cyber and physical threat indicators, best practices and mitigation strategies. NH-ISAC is a non-profit corporation funded and owned by its members. Membership is open to any healthcare stakeholder seeking protection of valuable PHI (personal health information) and compliance with Federal HIPAA regulations and standards, driving the assurance of patient health and life safety and fostering continuity of operations. Joining the NH-ISAC is one of the best ways health and public health services firms can do their part to protect the industry and its vital role in critical infrastructure. To learn more about the NH-ISAC or to become a member, please visit www.nhisac.org.
ABOUT MDISS – The Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium (MDISS) founded in 2011, is a non-profit public health initiative and patient safety organization focused on medical device cybersecurity, along with practical technology, operations and policy solutions for improved safety of connected medical devices. MDISS was the first organization dedicated to these important medical device cyber health challenges and, in 2015, began to expand internationally. MDISS members bring deep expertise to inform an understanding of technical vulnerabilities; however, MDISS programs also support the development of epidemiologic methods, regulatory science and a public-private partnership model for public health interventions. To learn more about the NH-ISAC or to become a member, please visit www.mdiss.org.
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Code of Conduct
Why do we have an official Code of Conduct for The IDEs Of March (TIOM)? First, it is necessary (unfortunately). Harassment at events is common. Second, it sets expectations for behavior at the event. Simply having a code of conduct can prevent harassment all by itself. Third, it encourages people to attend who have had bad experiences at other events. Finally, it gives event staff instructions on how to handle harassment quickly, with the minimum amount of disruption or bad press for the event.
TIOM is dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, age, race, national identity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks. Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event at the discretion of the event organizers/management. Harassment includes, but is not limited, to offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, age, race, religion, the use or display of sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
Exhibiting partners and speakers are also subject to the code of conduct. In particular, exhibitors and speakers should not use sexualized images, activities, or other material, or otherwise create a sexualized environment. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of the Event Staff immediately. Our Event Staff can usually be identified by special badges/attire. Please note, while we take all concerns raised seriously, we will use our discretion to determine when and how to follow up on reported incidents and may decline to take any further action and/or may direct the participant to other resources for resolution. Event staff will be happy to help participants contact venue/event security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.
We expect participants to follow these rules at all event venues and related social events.
TIOM reserves the right to refuse admittance to, or remove any person from any TIOM event at any time at its sole discretion. This includes but is not limited to attendees behaving in a disorderly manner or failing to comply with the following guidelines.
Be excellent to each other.
Treat everyone with respect. Participate while acknowledging that everyone deserves to be here — and each of us has the right to enjoy our experience without fear of harassment, discrimination, or condescension, whether blatant or via micro-aggressions.
Speak up if you see or hear something.
Harassment is not tolerated, and you are empowered to politely engage when you or others are harassed. Also, assume positive intent. The person making you feel uncomfortable may not be aware of what they are doing, and politely bringing their behavior to their attention is encouraged.
We have a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for harassment of any kind, including but not limited to:
- Harassing photography or recording
- Deliberate intimidation
- Sustained disruption of talks or other events
- Offensive verbal comments
- Sexual images in public spaces
- Inappropriate physical contact
- Unwelcome sexual or physical attention
In relation to, but not limited to:
- National origin
- Gender identity
- Gender presentation
- Sexual orientation
- Body size
- Differing abilities
- Choice of Mobile Phone
- Choice of Operating System
We empower and encourage you to report any behavior that makes you or others feel uncomfortable by finding an TIOM staff member or contacting Matteo Doni (email@example.com)
Any person behaving in a disorderly manner, engaging in harassing or inappropriate behavior, or otherwise failing to comply with this policy may be removed from any TIOM-hosted event or refused admittance (including to future TIOM events) at any time in TIOM’s sole discretion. Individuals who are expelled from an event for a violation of this policy will not be provided with a refund.
The IDEs Of March (TIOM) is dedicated to providing harassment-free event experiences for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, age, body size, physical appearance, neurodiversity, race, national identity, religion, or other protected category. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. In 2017 TIOM instituted an anti-harassment policy that all attendees of TIOM events must abide by.
License and attribution
This policy is licensed under the Creative Commons Zero license.
This policy is based on several other policies, including the IDEAA Code of Conduct, Google I/O anti-harassment policy, Ohio LinuxFest anti-harassment policy, written by Esther Filderman and Beth Lynn Eicher, and the Con Anti-Harassment Project. Mary Gardiner, Valerie Aurora, Sarah Smith, and Donna Benjamin generalised the policies and added supporting material. Many members of LinuxChix, Geek Feminism and other groups contributed to this work.
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Central American youths surprise the world in robot olympics
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Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua participated in the robot olympics promoted by First Global, an initiative to motivate youth to use and enjoy science and technology.
Youth from 157 countries participated in the First Global Challenge, the world’s first robotic olympic, in Washington DC, USA.
The teams are made up of high school youth and the theme of inspiration is to find solutions for everyone to have access to drinking water.
In the Olympics each team is given a kit with blue balls and other oranges, blues simulate pure water and oranges contaminated water.
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A $50,000 House - But At What Cost?
Can you still get a house for $50,000? The answer may surprise you. While, the average U.S. home price is $181,000 and for more than $130,000 less than that, you can become a homeowner. However, for that rock bottom price tag you may have to sacrifice a few things on your homebuying wish list such as size, location, age and amenities. Let's look at your options listed through Trulia.com:
A Work In Progress
3 bed/2 ½ bath single-family home in Grove Park
Location: Atlanta, GA
To make this your new home you're going to have to either finish it yourself or hire a contractor to finish the work since it's only partially complete. It requires drywall work, electrical exterior painting, countertops, appliances, driveway and more. You may be able to realize a great profit if you can price the work right and you like the location; however it's going to take some major additional cash to make it livable. (Follow this step-by-step guide to make your homeownership dreams a reality. Read Top Tips For First-Time Home Buyers.)
Not The Best Area
3 bed/2 bath 1,512 sq ft. single-family home
Location: Beaverton, OR
This property is a manufactured home in very good, move-in condition and boasts a new roof along with well-rated local schools. Its location (bordered by a major highway and freeway) may be a turnoff for some potential buyers. In addition there are disproportionately more neighborhood homes for sale that are either in foreclosure or are already bank-owned than in nearby areas which may mean that it's a less attractive area for buyers or that prices haven't dropped as much as necessary.
It can also indicate that you may be moving into an area that has a glut of vacant homes because former owners have had to move out.
History In the Making
2 bed/1 bath 897 sq. ft. condo in Hyde Park
Location: Boston, MA
The upside is that, as a short sale, the property is well under the local median sales price of more than $262,000, and it's located near public transportation for an easy commute into the city; the downside is that it will require a cash infusion to make some much-needed improvements, especially considering that the property is nearly 100 years old. (Don't let a slow real estate market drag you down - steer clear of these pitfalls. Check out 5 Mistakes Real Estate Investors Should Avoid.)
3 bed/2 bath 1,372 sq. ft. townhome
Location: Centreville, VA
This house could be the deal of your dreams if you're looking for affordable living within reasonable driving distance to the nation's capital. While the property doesn't offer a fenced yard or lawn to speak of, it is located in a thriving downtown suburb with a lower than average crime rate and high number of college-educated homeowners and young families.
The cost of living in this area is relatively high so this property may help you afford to reach your goal of homeownership in this area. Similarly-sized REO townhomes are listing for at least five to seven times as much!
Love It Or Lease It
2 bed/1.5 bath 1,040 sq. ft. townhome off Military Highway
Location: Dallas, TX
This property is on a pretty tree-lined street in the Riverview Estates/Bruton Terrace neighborhood in Dallas, just outside the city. The downside is that it's currently leased to a tenant for 12 months; if you can buy and hold until the lease is up and then either move in or rent it again it might be a deal worth considering. Find out what factors you should weigh when searching for income-producing real estate. Check out Top 10 Features Of A Profitable Rental Property.)
Price-wise the property is a steal at 34% lower than comparable homes in the area and 54% lower than the average price for homes in the same zip code. Also, the local crime rate is well above national averages - three times higher overall (for all types of reported crime) and six times higher than the national average for robbery. Safety might rule this sale out. (
Needs Some TLC
2 bed/1 bath 1,006 sq. ft. duplex in Old North Milwaukee
Location: Milwaukee, WI
This short sale two-family property is located in a nice neighborhood with wide, tree-lined streets but also comes with a long list of needed repairs. If you're intending to move in or use it as an investment property you'll need to drop money on kitchen and bath remodeling, extensive roof and gutter repair, and drywalling work due to old roof leaks.
However if you've got the cash (or elbow grease and skill) you'll get a gem in the rough - the home was built in 1928, has original hardwood throughout and sits on two acres. The home price is 24% lower than the local average list price and 63% lower than the average home price for properties in the same zip code. Depending on the renovation expense it might not seem like enough of a bargain to seal the deal!
Priced To Move
3 bed/1 bath 1,528 sq. ft. single-family home in Autumnwood
Location: Mobile, AL
This brick, ranch-style home is an REO property that is selling for nearly $40,000 less than the last time it was sold - 22 months ago it sold for $85,400. The home was built in 1959 and features wood floors, a fenced backyard, newly-painted rooms and newly-tiled kitchen, and attractively landscaped front lawn. (Don't let buying a home bust your budget. Make sure the house you choose is worth the price you pay. Read 10 Tips For Getting A Fair Price On A Home.)
The home is priced to sell - comparable properties in the neighborhood are selling for $30,000 more. And while the area is predominantly made up of families the local crime rate is twice the national average overall and nearly four times higher for certain types of crime including robbery and property crime. Get to know the neighborhood well before you rush to make an offer.
4 bed/1 bath 2,340 sq. ft. in Granite School District
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
This property has just entered the foreclosure process, meaning that the person holding the mortgage has defaulted on the loan.
The property has been on the market for nearly four months (before the homeowner defaulted on the loan) so that may indicate it's either in poor condition or not a great buy for the location even if it is priced at 72% lower than the average list price for homes in the same zip code. (Sometimes it's better to cut your losses, but foreclosures and short selling can have devastating impacts on your credit score. Read Short Sales And Foreclosures: When It's Time To Move On.)
The Bottom Line
If your homebuying budget is tight you may be able to find a "gem in the rough" while the housing market is still depressed. But you'll need to lower your expectations, do a little legwork (and perhaps a little heavy lifting) to make it the home of your dreams. (To learn more about the homebuying process, be sure to read our Buying A Home tutorial.)
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LHawkins1 wrote:This post is based off of ChuckNoris's compilation where he rates each of his builds on scales of 1-10 for different categories like Fun, Gear, Killspeed, Safety, etc.
The guide section doesn't currently allow polls to be created, but I wonder if something can be changed/added to allow players to "review" each guide after playing or reading it, so that players in the future who want to see a quick overview of the guide can view a user-based rating from player experience.
It would almost appear like a current poll where you have the little button to click to cast your vote, but it would be coded differently so that you can cast one vote per line, something like this:
Killspeed: o1 o2 o3 o4 o5 o6 o7 o8 o9 o10 | Current score: x.y / 10
Safety: o1 o2 o3 o4 o5 o6 o7 o8 o9 o10 | Current score: x.y / 10
Gameplay: o1 o2 o3 o4 o5 o6 o7 o8 o9 o10 | Current score: x.y / 10
Gear: o1 o2 o3 o4 o5 o6 o7 o8 o9 o10 | Current score: x.y / 10
Fun: o1 o2 o3 o4 o5 o6 o7 o8 o9 o10 | Current score: x.y / 10
And then after reading/playing the guide, the player could go back and vote how they felt the guide worked, allowing a cumulative review.
Does this make sense and/or is it possible?
That's kind of a neat idea, almost like an Amazon book review ranking system where you leave it to the players to decide how well a character/build handles.
That said, do you really want the viability of your build/guide (at least, as seen by new players) left in the hands of people who may not understand--or even want to understand--how/why things work? Imagine a certain recent Shoutbox-spamming totem/summoner necro player and the rating he might give your guide if he couldn't use it to do J-Day on p8--not because it couldn't be done, but because that certain player was wilfully ignorant of how the game played and/or refused to adapt.
But maybe situations like that would be the exception, idk. Nevertheless, it's an interesting idea and I'd kinda like to see how it would play out.
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Plans released in November show commitment to transitioning from coal to clean energy to address air pollution and climate emissions
This is part one of a two-part blog covering China’s new 13th Five Year Sub-plans on Climate, Environment and Power, written with Noah Lerner, Princeton-in-Asia Fellow in NRDC's Beijing office
With uncertainty hanging over the U.S.’s future climate contributions under the Trump Administration, three new Thirteenth Five Year sub-plans released recently by the Chinese government on controlling greenhouse gas emissions, environmental protection and development of the power sector provide assurance that China will continue to deepen its environmental and climate actions regardless of any change in U.S. policies. These sub-plans add concrete measures and targets to the climate goals outlined in China’s overall 13th Five Year Plan for Economic and Social Development released last spring. (See our previous analysis on that plan). The Greenhouse Gas Control and Environmental Protection plans reinforce what is happening on-the-ground in China as the country is likely to achieve its third year in a row of reducing coal consumption, contributing to a reduction of its carbon dioxide emissions by about 0.7% last year.
China’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Control Work Plan and Power Sector Development 13th Five Year Plans (FYPs) came out just as countries convened in November for the COP22 climate negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco, while its Ecological and Environmental Protection 13th FYP (hereafter referred to as the Environmental Protection 13th FYP) was released later in the month. Covering a comprehensive set of policies, these documents lay out benchmark goals for 2020 that will put China on track to over-achieve its 2030 Paris goals, strengthen enforcement of environmental laws and standards, and continue its transition to low carbon energy. While challenges remain, including addressing the remaining pipeline of planned coal power plants that risk becoming stranded assets under China’s low carbon transition, the policies set a clear direction for continued action that will help reduce China’s and global greenhouse gas emissions, and improve environmental quality and public health in China. In this blog post, we discuss the significance of the GHG control and Environmental 13th Five Year Plans. The climate implications of the Power Sector plan will be covered in a second blog post.
China’s Roadmap for Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions During the Next Five Years: Strengthening control of CO2 emissions and coal consumption
The State Council released its 13th Five Year work plan to control GHG emissions (Chinese) in early November just before the Marrakech COP, reaffirming China’s commitment to do its part in combatting global climate change. The plan begins by reiterating a key climate goal: China will peak its CO2 emissions by 2030 and make its best efforts to peak earlier. To do this, the work plan sets out a range of targets and policies related to controlling and reducing CO2 emissions, including reiterating goals to reduce China’s carbon intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of GDP) by 18% by 2020 compared to 2015, reduce energy intensity by 15%, increase non-fossil energy to 15% of the energy mix (from 12 percent at the end of 2015), and increase forest stock volume and coverage to 16.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) and 23.04 percent, from 15.14 bcm and 21.66 percent as of 2015.
The GHG Control work plan also reiterates a total energy consumption cap target of 5.0 billion tons of coal equivalent and a coal consumption cap target of 4.2 billion tons for 2020. This 4.2 billion coal consumption cap target was included in the 2014-20 Energy Development Strategy Action Plan, but this is the first time that a 13th Five Year Plan has included the target. Both the GHG Control work plan and the Environmental Protection 13th Five Year Plan include strengthened policies on controlling coal consumption, given the importance of this task to controlling China’s GHG emissions and its PM 2.5 and other air pollution. The GHG Control work plan notes that severe air pollution regions and cities should continue to reduce their coal consumption after 2017, the final year of the 2013 Air Pollution Action Plan that established the original coal consumption reduction mandates for the Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei), Yangtze River Delta (Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu) and Pearl River Delta regions.
Recognizing that reducing coal consumption is key to improving air quality, the Environmental Protection 13th FYP (Chinese) adds a goal to reduce coal’s share of total energy consumption to 58 percent by 2020, compared to 64 percent in 2015. It also establishes specific coal consumption reduction targets for key air pollution regions: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and the Pearl River Delta are to reduce their coal consumption by about 10 percent by 2020, compared to 2015; while Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui are to reduce their coal consumption by about 5 percent. Given the significant coal consumption in these regions, this will result in a reduction in coal consumption of about 140 million tons by 2020 if the regions all fulfill their targets. This would be equivalent to eliminating the annual coal consumption of South Korea, thus demonstrating the Chinese authorities’ continued focus on transitioning China’s energy structure from coal to cleaner energy.
Also under focus is reducing coal consumption in China’s cities, requiring all prefecture-level cities that do not meet China’s air quality standards to achieve an 18% reduction in their average annual PM 2.5 levels by 2020. The Environmental Protection 13th FYP specifically calls on China’s 10 cities with the worst air quality, to continue to implement their plans to reduce coal consumption. The use of “dispersed coal,” i.e., the coal for residential heating and cooking and small-scale industrial boilers, mainly in rural areas, also comes under aim, given its disproportionate contribution to air pollution. In Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, for example, studies have found that cleaning up dispersed coal emissions could reduce PM 2.5 levels by up to 32%. The GHG Control work plan and Environmental Protection plan set targets to reduce dispersed coal use by replacing it with natural gas and electric heating, expanding district heating and green buildings, and upgrading and phasing out smaller inefficient boilers. Urban areas with district heating and natural gas networks are to ban the use of dispersed coal.
Given that China’s coal consumption was 3.96 billion tons in 2013 and has continued to fall in 2014, 2015 and this year, we believe the 4.2 billion ton and 58% coal consumption cap targets can be achieved and even improved upon. The China coal consumption cap project’s research for the 13th Five Year Plan coal cap policy recommends a 2020 coal cap target of 3.5 billion tons and 55 percent of total energy consumption, achievable by reducing excess industrial capacity, expanding energy efficiency and non-fossil energy, and implementing fiscal, tax and market measures to account for coal’s environmental and climate impacts. Strengthening implementation of national, sectoral and local coal cap targets to reduce coal consumption to 3.5 billion tons (compared to the study’s reference scenario of 3.9 billion tons) would reduce PM 2.5 emissions by 1 million tons and prevent 71,000 premature air-pollution-related deaths per year, while helping China contribute greatly to addressing global climate change by avoiding 850 million tons of CO2 emissions.
The GHG Control work plan includes several other key measures to address coal consumption and develop low carbon models, as well as address other non-CO2 GHG emissions:
- Large power generation companies must achieve a fleet-wide average of 550 grams of CO2 emissions per kWh by 2020, which requires that they continue to expand their low-carbon generation resources such as wind and solar while limiting the operation of their coal power plants. This strengthens the 2015 target of 650 grams of CO2 emissions per kWh. According to the 13th Five Year Plan for Electricity Development, Chinese coal power plants in 2015 consumed an average 318 grams of coal equivalent per kWh, emitting 890 grams of CO2 per kWh, while a wind or solar farm emits zero. Based on 2016 electricity generation data, the Chinese electricity system as a whole in 2016 emitted about 620 grams of CO2 per kWh. While the 550 grams of CO2 per kWh is a significant target, there is a need for greater transparency, including a regular scorecard on how power generators are doing in meeting this target.
- The work plan directs economically developed regions to peak earlier than the national 2030 target, including supporting efforts by the 23 Chinese member cities of the Alliance of Peaking Pioneer Cities (APPC) to set targets and develop plans to peak early. It also sets specific carbon intensity reduction targets of 12-20.5% for each province, and calls for establishing 50 pilot “near-zero emission zones,” expanding the current low-carbon cities program from 42 to 100 cities, and establishing 80 low-carbon industrial zones. It also calls on certain heavy industry sectors to peak their CO2 emissions by around 2020.
- Finally, the plan notes that China will establish a national carbon market next year, which will cover all enterprises that emit over 10,000 tons of coal equivalent in eight major industries. By pricing carbon, China is seeking to expand the role of market forces in developing, manufacturing and operating low carbon energy sources, technologies and practices. The work plan calls for strengthening monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) at the national, local and enterprise levels, and developing a complete carbon cap-and-trade system by 2020 with active trading, strict management, and transparency.
- Importantly, China’s GHG Control work plan is looking beyond CO2 to strengthen policies to control other GHG emissions, including methane and HFCs. This includes reducing methane emissions in the agricultural sector and in municipal waste and sewage treatment. In line with the recent Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the State Council’s GHG Control work plan also calls for developing an action plan to control the emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), man-made “super greenhouse gases” used as refrigerants and other applications. The plan also sets new targets for controlling emissions of one type of HFC, HFC-23, a greenhouse gas with 14,800 times the warming effect of CO2, requiring that all HFC-23 emissions basically be destroyed according to the standard, and reducing HCFC-22 production and consumption (HFC-23 is a by-product of HCFC-22) so that production in 2020 is 35% less than that in 2010.
With the GHG Control and Environmental Protection 13th Five Year Plans, China is showing its commitment to deepening policies to reduce coal consumption, develop low carbon technologies and policies, and pursue a path towards cleaner development. Key to this energy transition will be greening the electricity sector. In our next blog, we review the 13th Five Year Plan for power sector development and the challenges and policies needed to develop a low-carbon power sector.
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Who Cares? Jack Tretton Cares.
Think we game journalists don't have any impact on the men who sit at the forefront of the industry? Think we're just typin' away for our own benefit, to try and drive traffic as high as possible? Think we're just trying to faithfully serve our readers? ...okay, the answer to the last one is a definite "yes," but don't think for a second that the head honchos from Sony don't care about what is written about them and their company.
SCEA president Jack Tretton handled Sony's hour-and-a-half conference at E3, and we must say, he did very well. We've seen him speak before at plenty of other events, of course, and along with the now departed Phil Harrison, we always thought Tretton was both informative and engaging. But as journalists, we have a responsibility to report the bad along with the good, and that includes our own opinions when editorials are involved. So what happens when we interpret some of Sony's news as bad? Well, Tretton says he "bleeds" when something like that happens. At the end of a bonus one-hour roundtable after the E3 conference, the last question asked was, "Do you ever get nervous when you say something and you see all the keyboards light up at the same time?" Tretton replied:
"I get nervous every time that I open my mouth. I'd love to tell you that I don't read everything that gets written, and you know, I do, let them all eat cake. I bleed with every word that's written. You can't make everybody happy, not everyone is going to agree with you. I care about some unknown guy that responds to one of your blogs and trashes something I said. It's tough to make everyone in your family love you let alone everyone in the world. It's the price of admission, but yeah, it freaks me out."
We often forget how easy it is to sit back and judge from the comfort of our own chairs at home, safe from scrutiny or backlash (for the most part). We always have to appreciate the job requirements for something like "SCEA president," because we sure as heck don't want to be up on that stage! But we still soldier forth in our jobs as he does in his; if Sony doesn't do so well, and the news is bad - 'cough' the PS3 launch 'cough' - we're gonna tell our readers about it. But when things start to go right, guys like Tretton will reap the rewards of our words. It's just the nature of the business.
7/18/2008 Ben Dutka
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On the weekend we went into Delhi to do our work and see some markets. Because we don’t have wifi at the home we struggle a lot with completing university assignments. We took this weekend as a chance to get some of our work done.
The weekend was really fun, we had a karaoke night at a hostel when we finished our work and then returned to the home the next day. India gate is not as exciting as we had hoped though, we didn’t realise that the cars drive through it!
One of the older girls asked us to do 5.30am yoga with her on the balcony on Monday so we woke early & waited for her. She was still asleep and didn’t join us but it was nice to see the area so quiet when usually there are children laughing and cars honking all day. We should have woken a little bit earlier to see the sunrise!
This week the girls finished writing the narration for the play and we completed many run throughs of the show.We finished the scenes this week and managed to give the girls an experience of what a professional rehearsal week would be like, using directors notes and fun vocal and physical warm-ups. This is the last week the girls will get the chance to rehearse before the show.
We found out that the girls were not to perform their full 20 minute performance so we condensed it to 2 critical scenes. This took some negotiating on the girls’ part but they agreed to perform the alien and jungle scenes. This also allowed for really exciting costumes for the show.
We spent a session dedicated to giving the girls the materials to create their costumes for the show. They all had really exciting ideas. We provided feathers, masks, glitter, glue etc. and the home staff provided us with clothes that the girls were allowed to tear apart and sew together to create costumes. They were helping each other out, sticking feathers in each other’s hair, providing each other with needle and thread & really coming together to create the costumes.
Last week we were very organised about how the structure of the play would be created, they worked in 2 groups to create 3 scenes each to develop a play with 7 scenes and it worked very well. This week we managed to bring the scenes together very well so that they could see each other’s achievements. The main focus was teaching the girls how a play would come together. We taught them about blocking scenes, transitions and volume.
Next week is summer camp… there will be children from 14 homes here & we are delivering drama for 40 boys and girls aged 14-18 for 3 hours per day for 3 days.
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The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services User Account Management
In this section, we take many of the abstract concepts we learned in the first part of the book and begin to apply them to real-world problems. One of the most common programming activities that most developers will perform against Active Directory and ADAM is user account management.
Active Directory user management is fairly straightforward once we know all of the basic rules. However, there are many interesting rules and behaviors concerning how attribute values in Active Directory are used to determine how user objects behave in Windows. In order to get the results we want, it is important to learn these rules and behaviors. We try to demonstrate most of them in this chapter.
To a lesser extent, we also investigate user account management in ADAM. ADAM is very similar to Active Directory in most respects, but it has a few significant differences worth pointing out.
When we speak of user objects for the remainder of this chapter, we are really talking about the user class in both Active Directory and ADAM. This is the class that acts as a security principal for Active Directory (and often, for ADAM). It is typically the class that we care the most about. The first thing we are likely to want to do with user accounts in Active Directory is find them. Given all that we know about searching from Chapters 4 and 5, this should be easy. Essentially, we just need to know where we want to search and what filter to use to find users.
Let’s start with the LDAP filter. Our goal is to build an LDAP filter that will find exactly what we want and that will be as efficient as possible. A few attributes in Active Directory distinguish user objects from other object types that we can use to build a filter:
The objectCategory attribute has the advantage of being single-valued and indexed by default on all versions of Active Directory. This attribute is meant to be used to group common types of objects together so that we can search across all of them. Many of the schema classes related to users share the same value of person as their object category. While this is useful for searches in which we want to find information across many different types of user-related objects, it is not as useful for finding the user objects we typically care about (which are usually security principals). For example, in Active Directory, since both user and contact classes share the same objectCategory value of person, it alone will not tell them apart.
The objectClass attribute seems like a no-brainer, as (objectClass=user) will always find user objects exclusively. The problem here is that in many forests, the objectClass attribute is not indexed and it is always multivalued. As we know from the section titled Optimizing Search Performance, in Chapter 5, we generally want to try to avoid searches on nonindexed attributes, so using objectClass alone in a filter might not be the most efficient solution. This is why we see a lot of samples that search for user objects using an indexed filter like this:
This will get the job done, but we can do even better than this.
One key difference between contact objects and user objects in Active Directory is that user objects have a sAMAccountName attribute that is indexed by default. Thus, we could build a filter like this:
This will separate the contacts from the users effectively. However, another approach is available that can find user objects directly, and it may be the most efficient technique for Active Directory:
Using the sAMAccountType attribute with a value of 805306368 accesses a single-valued, indexed attribute that uniquely defines user objects. The only downside here is that this attribute is not well documented, so it may not be recommended by Microsoft. However, in our investigations, it is effective.
One piece of good news is that all of these attributes are included in the global catalog, so we can use all of these filters there as well.
This should provide a foundation to build on for various user object searches. We may also wish to combine these filters with other attributes to find different subsets of user objects matching specific criteria. We will see some examples of that in the rest of this section.
Finding Users in ADAM
Things change a little bit for ADAM, because we don’t have things like sAMAccountName or sAMAccountType on an ADAM user. These attributes are actually from the auxiliary class called securityPrincipal. This class happens to be slightly different depending on whether it comes from Active Directory or ADAM. In this case, the securityPrincipal class does not contain sAMAccountName or related attributes in ADAM.
This means that we need to adjust our filters slightly to find our users in ADAM. It turns out that we can use some other indexed attributes, such as userPrincipalName, to find our users. However, since this attribute is not required, we have to be careful and ensure that all of our user objects have set a value for userPrincipalName.
As mentioned in Chapter 8, ADAM also includes the idea of a userProxy object that we often will want to return as well. To do so, we should look for common attributes found on both classes that would filter them for our needs. In this case, we know that both the user and userProxy classes contain userPrincipalName, so it is a good candidate for this purpose. We could use a simple filter such as (userPrincipalName=*) if we knew that all of our objects would have a value set for this attribute. However, since not all user or userProxy objects might have a value set for userPrincipalName, we would have to use objectCategory to be safe. For example:
The implications here are that if any other class in the directory also shared the same objectCategory of person or userProxy, they would also be returned. In default ADAM instances, this does not occur, but we should always check with our particular ADAM instance. Now, if we want to separate the two classes and treat them differently, we can use objectClass, as the classes are different for each type:
The first filter will return only user objects using objectCategory as an index, and the second will return only userProxy objects in the same manner. It is important to remember that we can customize ADAM heavily with application-specific classes. We should never rely on the fact that any particular class will be there or even be indexed. As such, these are only guidelines, and we really need to check the particular ADAM instance’s schema ourselves to determine what is there.
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The second and final debate took place tonight between all three candidates in the MA Senate race, Scott Brown R, Martha Coakley D, and Joseph L. Kennedy (no relation). Brown and Coakley jousted intensely throughout the debate:
Brown promised to be the 41st vote against the health care reform bill pending in Washington, saying the proposed legislation was “broken” and “we need to start over.”
But Coakley said, “I’d be proud to be the 60th vote to make sure we get health care reform that we so badly need. ... The status quo is simply unsustainable.”
They should have ended the debate, right there…that’s all people need to know.
The debate comes as the race is beginning to draw national attention, with some polls showing Brown drawing unexpectedly close to Coakley in a race for a seat long held by a Democratic icon, the late Edward M. Kennedy, in a Democratic-leaning state.
The fireworks in the debate came between Coakley and Brown, while independent candidate Joseph L. Kennedy, who is not related to the legendary Massachusetts political family, remained on the sidelines.
Some of the sharpest exchanges occurred between the two candidates when they were allowed to ask each other questions, with Brown at one point telling the veteran prosecutor as she pressed a question, “I am not in your courtroom. I’m not a defendant.”
Brown called some of Coakley’s statements “outrageous,” while Coakley told Brown, “You cant distort my record and not be accurate about your own.”
Coakley criticized Brown for supporting Bush-era tax cuts for higher-income people, saying, “He wants to go back to those Bush-Cheney policies that provide for the very wealthiest.”
Brown retorted, “You can run against Bush-Cheney, but I’m Scott Brown. I live in Wrentham. I drive a truck. And, yes, it’s 200,000 miles on it now. You’re not running against them. You’re running against me.”
He reiterated his previous claim that Coakley’s support for health care reform, among other positions, meant she would saddle taxpayers with tax increases of $2.1 trilllion.
But Coakley shot back, “It doesn’t matter how many times you say ‘$2.1 trillion,’ it doesn’t make it accurate, or even close to being accurate.”
“What I support are, in fact, relief for the middle class, a health care plan that will be self-supporting,” she said.
The two candidates also disagreed on how to fight terrorists and President Obama’s recent decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. Brown said he supported the decision.
“I agree with the president,” the Republican said. “I support his effort to finish the job in Afghanistan.”
But Coakley said she felt the United States should “plan an exit strategy” because terrorists are no longer in the country and the US should focus on getting “appropriate” intelligence information and using the “force necessary” to go after terrorists.
Brown said he felt it was “naive” not to address the “very real concern” of terrorists in Afghanistan.
But Coakley said, “I think it’s naive to think that we have the troops to send everywhere and they are the best way to go after people who are terrorists who disappear into the night who do trainings and who get on planes, frankly, with bombs in their shoes and other pieces of clothing.”
I’m waiting for tonight’s debate to appear on YouTube. In the mean time, you can watch Friday night’s debate, here.
The Money Bomb fundraising campaign is still ongoing until midnight. They reached their goal of $500,000 early on, have surpassed $750,000, and are now going for a cool mil. You can help them reach that goal, here.
local coverage of the campaigns prepping for tonight’s debate:
William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection spent some time at the Wrentham (Brown’s hometown) local campaign “office”, and has an encouraging report based on first hand observations.
…Annnnnd Ace has the double flaming skull up – Brown made his $1 million!
“Brown was obviously laying in wait for Gergen to serve that up so he could crush it like so many dynastic dreams”.
See what Smitty is referring to at The Other McCain.
Neo Neocon has more on the debate YouTube moment everyone will be talking about, tomorrow.
And I love this comment at Ann Althouse’s:
Gergan [sic], who could hardly conceal his bias, called it “Teddy Kennedy’s seat.”
Brown to Gergan [sic]: Thanks for the opening I could drive my truck through, you Kennedy School of Government at Harvard meathead.
Scott Brown’s campaign is claiming that he won the debate against Martha Coakley.
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Battle of Craney Island
In June, 1813, the British were cocky. They had only encountered ineffective local militia. They had blockaded Chesapeake Bay and chased the frigate U.S.F. Constellation into Norfolk, VA. At Craney Island, protecting both Hampton Roads and shipyards at Portsmouth and Norfolk, VA, was a small military contingent. In every land battle so far, the Americans had run rather than fight overwhelming odds. The British did not expect much opposition.
Instead, they planned to capture the island, continue on to the larger Virginia cities, and capture the stranded frigate. According to a lieutenant from the Constellation who visited the blockading fleet under a flag of truce, the British officers said they would strike at the ship soon, vowing that “they must & will have it!”
“The British became the victims of their own overweening arrogance,” says Maryland historian Christopher T. George, author of “Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay” and editor of the Journal of the War of 1812.
“They thought they were facing ill-trained rustics. So they rowed in as if they were just waiting to be shot at. They were sitting ducks.”
General Robert Taylor
As General Taylor wrote in his letter of July 4, 1813, to the Secretary of War: “The whole force on the island at the time of the attack, consisted of 50 riflemen, 446 infantry of the line, 91 state artillery, and 150 seamen and marines furnished by Capt. Tarbell. Of these, 43 were on, the sick list.”
He added, “I cannot withhold my grateful acknowledgments to Com. Cassin, Capt. Tarbell, and the officers and crew of the Constellation and gunboats, who have in every instance aided our operations with a cordiality, zeal and ability, not to be surpassed.”
The ship’s crew helped, but as British Napier lamented in his journal, “A sharp cannonade from the works on the island cost us 71 men, without returning a shot.”
The British did not capture the Constellation, and they left the area without attacking Norfolk.
The reported number of British casualties varied by source. There were approximately 80 killed, wounded and missing. One barge was captured and at least two more were severely damaged. The defenders did not suffer any casualties in the first major War of 1812 victory on Chesapeake Bay.
“The British had all the advantages. They had the numbers. They had the firepower — and they should have won,” said former Virginia War Museum director John V. Quarstein.
“You can’t go visit Craney Island today. It’s not immortalized by a song like the ‘Star-Spangled Banner,'” he adds.
“But the battle there was the first big American victory in a long string of defeats on the Chesapeake Bay — and it deserves to be better remembered.”
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Financial enthusiasts list now available
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This list is composed of people who have registered on online financial Web sites and have subscribed to financial newsletters. These prospects earn an average of $75,000 annually. This list is 70% male.
This 5,400,000 universe list is available starting at $80/M.
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This page in brief
How do people get to be christians? Do many convert by their own choice, or do most just get born into christian families or christian countries? And what does this say about whether people have good reasons to be christians?
I couldn’t find good answers to these questions, so I decided to do some research and analyse the data myself. The answers were interesting, and maybe a little surprising – about a third to a half of present day christians are converts.
Sceptics and converts
Critics of christianity sometimes argue that most christians believe without good reason. This argument is partly based on the “fact” that most people in the world follow the religion of the country they were born into. Therefore, the argument goes, if they were born elsewhere they would believe differently, thus demonstrating that most people’s faith is based on geography rather than good reasons, and few people convert because they are convinced of the truth of christianity.
Testing the argument
The argument raises a challenging point, although it seems to fall short as an argument:
- Believing in the religion one was brought up in doesn’t make that religion wrong – or right.
- If a religion grows, as christianity has grown, it must, as a matter of sheer mathematics, start out by making converts. But as it becomes larger, the number of people born into the faith must inevitably increase.
- Christianity is in decline in most of the traditionally christian countries of the west (mainly Europe and North America), but is growing fast in generally non-christian countries in Asia and Africa. This suggests christianity finds it easier to make converts than to retain those born into a christian heritage.
But what are the numbers?
If you can’t find it, do it yourself
I couldn’t find the information I needed online (only one source came close, but as noted below, the information was problematic). So I decided to gather the best information I could find and develop a population model in a spreadsheet. I am not a demographer, but I am familiar with spreadsheet models. A more detailed description of what I did is below.
How many christian converts?
The spreadsheet modelled christian and non-christian populations in the west (Europe and North America) and the rest of the world, and was calibrated to conform to known data. It produced the following results.
Using data on the number of those who self-identified as christians, the model suggested about 30% of christians living today were converts and about 70% were born into nominally christian families or culture.
I also wanted to see if the result changed if only those who were “active” christians were considered (approximately identified as those who attended church regularly). On this basis, about half of christians living today were converts and half were born into christian families.
This model and the history of christianity
Christianity began in the Middle East, and grew by making converts. Within a few centuries there were more christians in Europe than anywhere else. By 1900, christianity had become entrenched in christian culture in Europe, but it was beginning to lose numbers. So the graph shows that there were then relatively few converts in Europe and North America, and most christians were born into the faith.
But the twentieth century also saw the beginning of a massive growth in christianity in Africa and Asia (and a change in the style of christianity in South America). So the number of conversions began to rise again. This growth continues to this day, but inevitably will eventually lead to more people being born into christian families, and the number of converts will probably begun to drop as a proportion.
Clearly many christians (about 30-50%, depending on how “christians” are defined) living today are converts from a “non-christian” background. They clearly had some reason to change faiths.
More about the model (for those interested)
It is very hard to find reliable and consistent information about population and religious belief. Here are my sources:
- World population by Pew Forum, Wikipedia, DSS Research, Vaughn’s, Geohive, Worldometers, University of Botswana, ADMC and Facts & Details.
- Christian numbers by Questia, Pew Forum, Douglas Jacobsen and Why Church
- Birth, death, conversion and deconversion rates, by World Bank, The Guardian, Pew Forum, Tom Smith and Wikipedia.
- Church attendance by Church Leaders, Hadaway, Marler & Chaves, Adherents.comClaude Fischer, PBS, Wikipedia, Nationmaster andFranck & Iannaccone.
1. The model uses 10-year periods from 1900 to 2013. Calculations were done for the west (Europe and North America) and the rest of the world, and then summed to give the global figures.
2. In each period, the data for the previous period was used to calculate the numbers of births and deaths (for the whole community and just for christians), plus conversions to christianity and ‘deconversions’ from christianity. These allowed the values for total population, christian converts, christians by birth and non-christians tro be calculated for the end of the decade.
3. The birth and death rates were adjusted as necessary to allow the known populations to be reproduced by the model. This then determined the births and deaths within the christian community.
4. Then the estimated conversion and deconversion rates were adjusted to accurately reproduce the estimated christian populations.
5. The percentage of the christian community in the ‘converts’ category could then be calculated from the final populations in 2013.
6. All this was done for the referenced values for the overall christian populations – this measures what may be termed christian culture, for it is based on nominal beliefs. To determine the results for what may be termed ‘committed’ christian belief, the figures for the ‘christian populations were amended to reflect church attendance. (These figures were generally lower, e.g. in North America, ‘christians’ comprise about 80% of the population, but church attendance is about 40%.) A second spreadsheet then performed the same calculation to give the second figure.
- The only data that could not be obtained and tested by the model was the initial percentages of christian converts in 1900. But the model was run for a range of likely values, and the model was not too sensitive to the starting assumptions – ranges were 29-36% of nominal christians but 46-53% of church attenders.
- The results make sense. While christianity in the west is fairly static, it is growing fast in the rest of the world, where about two thirds of the world’s christians now live. I would therefore expect there would be a relatively large number of converts from the rest of the world.
- The only other estimate I have seen (by the World Christian Database) gives a lower percentage of converts (about 10%) but (i) the result doesn’t actually measure converts, but the residual of conversions – deconversions, (ii) some of the WCD figures were inconsistent, even within themselves, and (iii) there was no way to obtain the populations shown by the data sources using the WCD figures.
- I am therefore happy that the model makes a good attempt to reproduce established data.
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A cautionary word to liberals thinking about the fiscal cliff negotiations—it's important to keep in mind that higher tax revenue is a means not an end.
The reason a sensible person might want more revenue rather than less in a budget deal is that more revenue might allow you to minimize cuts in spending on worthwhile causes. But at the end of the day the budget of a sovereign state that borrows money in its own currency is all about spending levels. The proper goals of a budget negotiator are to maximize cuts to bad programs and minimize cuts to good ones. When higher taxes helps achieve the latter goal, that's great. When it doesn't, then who cares?
The trap you don't want to fall for is the one in which getting "the rich" to "pay their fair share" becomes a political plot to make you swallow a deal you'd otherwise reject. At some iterations of the Obama-Boehner deficit talks it's looked as if Obama's going to ask liberals to give up the store on Social Security and then sugarcoat it with higher taxes on the rich. What's great about the proposal Tim Geithner apparently formally made to the House GOP is that it rejects this formula and does a good job of avoiding cuts to valuable programs and in fact increases spending in some key areas.
If you can get that good stuff out of a deal—and it's a big if—then it'd be foolish not to give some ground on the tax side. If you can get a better spending mix with higher taxes, then higher taxes are great. But if you can get a better spending mix with lower taxes, then lower taxes are even better.
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Client: Can you help us out with some Laptops please?
Me: Sure... we got this [Specs Here], this [Specs Here] and also this
Client: But these arn't Laptops, these are Notebooks!
Me: er... I'm sorry?
Client: These are Notebooks! I'm not searching for Notebooks. Do you have any Laptops?
Me: Erm.... I'm really sorry sir but we only stock Notebooks
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This morning, one of my facebook followers Natalie asked if I had a recipe for Clean Eating Baked Beans. Whilst I have been working my way through some Great British Classics, Baked Beans was one recipe that I hadn’t yet got around to cleaning up…. That is until today! So, thank you Natalie for the inspiration and the push in the right direction! This ones for you!
These Clean Eating Baked Beans are so quick and easy to make. With just a few clean eating cupboard staples, you can get this meal together as quick as it takes to reheat a tin of Heinz! – And in my opinion, these taste way better!!
You can adapt this recipe to suit you. If you like less beans and more sauce, use a 300g tin of beans. If you prefer more beans and less sauce, use a 400g tin. Either way, it is going to be delicious! You can halve the Maple Syrup and Stock Powder for a less intense flavour, but if you are used to strong sugary beans, you might want to keep them in.
Let me know what you think!
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Clean Eating Baked Beans
- Yield: 2-4 Servings
These Clean Eating Baked Beans are so quick and easy to make. With just a few clean eating cupboard staples, you can get this meal together as quick as it takes to reheat a tin of Heinz! - And in my opinion, these taste way better!!
- 400 grams (1 tin) Haricot or Cannelini Beans (or 300g tin for more saucy beans)
- 250 ml Passata no sugar added
- 1 Tablespoons Pure Maple Syrup (try half for less sweet beans)
- 1/2 Tablespoon Tomato Puree
- 1-2 Teaspoons Bouillion Stock Powder reduced salt, organic if possible
- 1 teaspoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 pinch Ground Black Pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon Onion Powder (onion granuals)
- 1/8 teaspoon Garlic Powder (optional)
- Drain and rinse the beans with water in a colander.
- Place all of the ingredients into a saucepan and stir occasionally whilst bringing to the boil.
- Once bubbling reduce the heat and simmer over a medium/low heat for 3 - 4 minutes or until the beans are completely heated through.
- Serve or cool and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure these would freeze well too.
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"From the moment I met her, Beth 'wowed' me with her knowledge, insight, and level-headedness. Her balanced approach to nutrition and wellness is 100% in-line with my own, which is why I am thrilled to have her as a resource for my clients who need personalized nutrition counseling."
"Beth is great! I want to address high cholesterol and weight management with diet and lifestyle changes instead of medication, and Beth's balanced approach backed up by solid knowledge is making a huge difference to my well-being. She is friendly and empathetic, and always willing to address my specific concerns. Very highly recommended!"
“Thanks to Beth’s expertise and guidance, I’ve learned in depth about my specific nutritional needs and listen to my body. As a result, I’ve been able to manage my weight, make smarter choices, and my allergies have become practically non-existant. I can’t say enough good things about Beth! Satisfied customer right here.”
"Beth genuinely cares for the people she encounters. As a counselor, she is an active listener and has the ability to assess one's level of readiness for change and meet them where they are and modify her plan of care accordingly.
Balance! Beth is a proponent of ensuring that one has a sense of balance. She acknowledges that each person is on their own journey and has their own core belief system. Whether she is encouraging daily steps to stay in balance physically, or maintaining a balanced mindset, she lends individualized tips, advice and counsel with an end goal of helping that person strive for a balanced lifestyle.
“Beth Danowsky is ahead of her peers... Much of the dietary community still believes in the Standard American Diet, yet I have been hearing the importance of ‘good fats’, Omega 3s and Functional Medicine since I worked with Beth back in 2010.
Ask yourself, ‘what do I want?’ Is it a compassionate, knowledgeable yet straightforward practitioner to assist you on your path to health? Beth Danowsky is who you are looking for.”
"I've worked with Beth on many levels over the years, and she has approached every one of those interactions with the same thoughtful, empathetic and enthusiastic attitude. I would never, ever turn down an opportunity to work with Beth!"
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Police say Andrew Thompson had stolen a Grand Prix before his high-speed joyride ended when he crossed center-line and hit a truck
Millsboro, Del.- The Delaware State Police report that the Crash Reconstruction Unit has positively identified the man that was killed in the two vehicle crash that occurred on Dec. 16, 2014 on SR 24 in Millsboro as Andrew S. Thompson, 20, of Lewes, DE.
The initial investigation has determined that the crash occurred on Tuesday, December 16, 2014, at approximately 12:57 a.m., as Thompson was operating a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix and was traveling in a westbound direction on SR 24 (John J. Williams Highway), just west of CR 298 (Legion Road), at an apparent high rate of speed. Thompson then lost control of the vehicle causing it to cross the center line of the roadway and enter into the eastbound lane. The front of the Grand Prix then struck the front of a 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 that was being operated by Mark A. Bradford, 29, of Millsboro, DE, and which was traveling in an eastbound direction on SR 24.
Thompson was not only piloting a stolen car at a high rate of speed, but unlucky for him he failed to fasten his seat belt – a fatal mistake.
During the investigation it was determined that the Pontiac had recently been stolen from Sunny’s Auto Sales located at 25924 John J. Williams Highway, in Millsboro.
Mark Bradford, who was properly restrained at the time of the crash, was trapped in his vehicle which became engulfed in flames. He was freed, however, with the assistance of several witnesses. Bradford was removed from the scene by EMS and transported to Beebe Healthcare where he is being treated for his non-life threatening injuries.
The investigation into this crash by the Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit is on-going and no charges are expected.
John J. Williams Highway between Oak Road and Legion Road was closed for approximately four hours as the crash was investigated and cleared.
Elderly woman killed when she struck utility pole
The initial investigation has determined that the crash occurred at approximately 9:45 a.m., Tuesday, December 16, 2014, as Mary A. Frisbie, 86, of Newark, DE, was operating a 2000 Dodge Stratus and was traveling westbound on Ogletown-Stanton Road east of the intersection of SR4 and Old Churchman’s Road, Newark. For an unknown reason, Frisbie’s vehicle exited the north side of the roadway where it then struck a utility pole and came to a rest.
Mary Frisbie, who was properly restrained at the time of the crash, was removed from the scene by EMS and transported to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center where she was pronounced dead a short time later.
A 95-year-old front seat passenger in Frisbie’s vehicle, Arthur Frisbie (husband) was also removed from the scene by EMS and transported to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center where he was admitted with non-life threatening injuries. Arthur Frisbie was also properly restrained at the time of the crash.
The investigation into this crash by the Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit is continuing.
HI HO, HI HO, IT’S OFF TO ROB WE GO!
New Castle, Del.- The Delaware State Police report that they are currently investigating two armed robberies which occurred within minutes of each other last night in New Castle.
The first robbery occurred at approximately 9:05 p.m., Tuesday, December 16, 2014, as a male suspect entered the BP Gas Station located at 601 N. DuPont Highway, New Castle. The suspect then displayed a handgun and confronted a 24 year old male employee. He then demanded money from the cash register. The clerk complied with the suspect’s demands and turned over an undisclosed amount of money to the suspect. The suspect then fled in an unknown direction. The clerk was not injured.
The suspect was described as a Hispanic male, 27-35 years of age. He was 5’10” tall and weighed approximately 180 lbs. He was also seen wearing blue jeans, a black raincoat, and had a grey scarf covering his face. He was also armed with an unknown make and model handgun.
The second robbery occurred at approximately 9:22 p.m. as a male suspect entered the BP Gas Station located at 1 Jay Drive, New Castle. The suspect produced an unknown make and model handgun and then confronted a 65 year old male employee. He then demanded money from the cash register. The employee complied with the suspect’s demands and turned over an undisclosed amount of money to him. The suspect then fled from the store in an unknown direction. The clerk was not injured.
The suspect is described as a black male with a light complexion. He was last seen wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, black sweatpants, white sneakers, and had a scarf covering his face. He was also armed with a handgun.
There is no further physical or clothing description available. No video surveillance footage is available at this time.
If anyone has any information in reference to this incident they are asked to contact the robbery unit at Troop 2, Glasgow, at 302-834-2630 or by utilizing the Delaware State Police Mobile Crime Tip Application available to download at: delaware.gov/apps/. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, via the internet at www.tipsubmit.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword “DSP.”
G-Men & Delaware Sleuths finger Marece M. Scott for two bank jobs
Glasgow, Del.- Delaware State Police Troop 2 robbery unit detectives are seeking the public’s help in locating a suspect who is currently wanted in connection with two armed bank robberies that occurred in Bear in 2012 and 2013.
As the result of a long term joint investigation conducted by the Delaware State Police and the FBI in Wilmington, Marece M. Scott, 29, has been positively identified as the suspect who committed the armed robberies of the Artisan’s Bank located at 1124 Pulaski Highway, Bear, on October 25, 2012, and again on January 18, 2013. In both instances the armed suspect who had a mask covering his face, vaulted over the teller counter and demanded cash from the bank employees. He then jumped back over the counter and fled the bank. There were no injuries in either incident.
Marece Scott is described as a black male, 6’02” tall and 195 lbs. He is last known to reside in the 700 block of W. 3rd Street, Chester, PA and the 6600 block of Haddington Lane, Philadelphia, PA. He is currently wanted for six counts of Robbery 1st degree and two counts of Wearing a Disguise during the Commission of a Felony.
Marece Scott should be considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached.
If anyone has any information in reference to the location of Marece M. Scott, they are asked to contact Detective Daniel Grassi at 302-365-8441 or Special Agent Scott Duffey at 302-218-6252 or by utilizing the Delaware State Police Mobile Crime Tip Application available to download at: http://www.delaware.gov/apps/. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, via the internet at www.tipsubmit.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword “DSP.”
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Just because I went backwards in every way yesterday doesn’t mean anything about today!
So far, it isn’t windy, so far, the cat is sleeping next to me. Admittedly eight new action items came in between 6 am and 7:30, but that doesn’t mean I won’t get eight things done before 9. I have to think like an ant; it’s really what I do. I just put my head down and work while the sun shines. I still hold tight to the fantasy that there will come a day in the near future when for whatever brief moment, I am “caught up.”
Today is Jean’s last day in Tucson before she heads off to Florida for Segway-riding, alligator rafting, and sword swallowing, and we’ve got a movie and a trip to Electric Larryland planned, but aside from that, I’ll be in the dining room, answering email, tracking packages, answering email, sending things out, answering email. I have developed a new, keen appreciation for people who communicate succinctly and have a new plan to become one of those people.
Last night, all of the blossoms blew off of the huge palo verde tree (before they even opened, sadly) and this morning the pool was filled with assorted leaves, sticks, dust and sludge, but I’ve got most of it out now. The wind was an unfortunate allegory; it illustrated the somewhat helpless sense that I have regarding this moment in my work-life.
I should have bought this at the thrift shop.
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as some of you may know my dad was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer last spring. he went through an arduous stint of chemotherapy and went in remission. we had hope for a few years reprieve, but sadly, it only lasted a few months: the cancer returned over the fall, invading the liver alongside the colon.
we talked, we knew. this morning my sister called, said dad had asked each of us to call to say goodbye. when I did, I could barely understand him… he's slipping away. the last thing I heard was "don't call me anymore".
it has been a long day. I've been sitting at the computer reading mail, listening to music, and for the first time all day, I began to cry when this song came on:
Sarah V's interpretation is giving me chills – I've been playing it over and over – especially the end.
goodnight dad. and may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
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Next year at fall break I'll be thinking, What did we do last year?
Then I'll remember that fall break was basically three days of doing nothing, coming to the realization on Tuesday morning that I had a ton of stuff to do, and then a blur of work.
I had some vague idea of working ahead so that my future weekends wouldn't be so swamped, but that didn't happen. I did get my lesson plan templates set up for the rest of the academic year, though, which was tedious but will make my life easier going forward. And I also researched easier ways to do things I'm already doing, like making PowerPoint presentations from my Cornell notes (yes, PPT can import documents from Word, but only if they're in outline format - no problem!)
The offspring had very few desires: go to Zia, sleep as much as possible. My own list was similarly short: go to the Desert Botanical Garden, sleep, and catch up on work. Unfortunately achieving the last did, in the end, take a chunk out of the second, but we did make it to the garden.
It was already early afternoon when we arrived, and the boys were starving. We had a spectacular lunch at Gertrude's, out on the patio. I was completely charmed by the families of quail that wandered through periodically, and the one cottontail who snacked on a nearby aloe. All of them were un-photographable because of the interplay of light and shadow -- no fill-in flash I possess would've been enough to catch them. Never mind the fact that they never stood still.
So by the time we started walking the trails (my favorite trail was closed!), it was close to 3:30 and the afternoon sun was gorgeous. The cacti were glowing, and neither my little point-and-shoot (whose battery died about 30 minutes in) nor my iPhone camera could do it justice.
That was a high point, but not the only one. I made a number of nice dinners and we ate outside as often as we could, just enjoying the food, the wine, the weather, and the company, and it was lovely.
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Going down OpenWrap’s rabbit hole, the first thing you do is retrieve a fresh copy of o.exe, the Command shell. At a whopping 32k (for the debug build), you could get the initial file in 234 text messages. Lets open the file straight from the web site, and we’re greeted by installation options.
The OpenWrap shell is not installed on this machine. Do you want to: (i) install the shell and make it available on the path? (c) use the current executable location and make it available on the path? (n) do nothing?
I think the options are quite self-explanatory, but let’s recap:
- (i) will copy o.exe to ~/AppData/Local/OpenWrap/ and add this path to your PATH environment variable for the current user
- (c) will simply add an o.exe.link file in ~/AppData/Local/OpenWrap/ and add this path to your PATH
- (n) will do nothing this time around and run o.exe as normal.
Let’s choose the first option
OpenWrap packages not found. Attempting download. Downloading http://wraps.openwrap.org/bootstrap [....................] Downloading http://wraps.openwrap.org/wraps/openwrap-18.104.22.16879169.wrap [.............] Expanding pacakge... # OpenWrap v22.214.171.124 ['C:\Users\sebastien.lambla\AppData\Local\OpenWrap\wraps\_cache\openwrap-126.96.36.19979169'] Command was not understood. Type 'help' to get a list of supported commands.
I do hope that this is also quite self-explanatory, but just in case… When the shell tries to execute the first time, it will not find the OpenWrap packages anywhere. At that stage, it will go to the openwrap web-site and download the bootstrap packages to the correct location, which is just a list of URIs to download in a text file.
Once all this is done (and notice the wonderful typo in the output, you can check on github that this is all live code), the shell can now delegate to the openwrap code itself to parse the command. And as there was no command (remember, we started the application from a web browser), the system tells us that the command was not understood.
I tried to make it more complicated but I just didn’t have the time.
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BlakRoc Chevy Camaro
The other day we reported already about BlakRoc, the collaboration between The Black Keys and some of the biggest names in hip hop, including Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Raekwon, Pharoahe Monch, Jim Jones, NOE, Nicole Wray and Billy Danze. Here we give you a look at the new BlakRoc Chevy Camaro.
“Carl Black Chevrolet will be the world wide exclusive outlet to offer the official BlakRoc Chevy Camaro.
The 2010 Chevy Camaro speaks for itself with its sculptured body and passionate engineering that left nothing to be desired. Carl Black has simply added the sizzle to match the passion and creativity of the BlakRoc project.
From the ground up, the BlakRoc Camaro has been equipped with sleek, stylish accents that tie in with the BlakRoc brand. Starting with the BR logo inlayed front and center.
Blacking it out turns up the heat. The windows are tinted, the taillights are smoked, and even the Chevy bow tie goes dark to complete the look. The Black on Black classic combination subtly comes to life with flat black racing stripes front to back with the BlakRoc logo inlayed in metallic on the hood and rear spoiler.
Interior includes the BlakRoc logo embedded in custom design kick plates and black on black BR logo custom embroidered on center console.”
CLOT x Subcrew “Juice Shanghai” Opening T-Shirt
Some of you might have already heard about the new Juice Shanghai store. For the opening CLOT will be presenting three collaborative items and here we take a look at the first one. They worked with Hong Kong’s Subcrew on the “dailunwokism” t-shirt. It comes in several colorways and is exclusively available at Juice Shanghai.
Bape Holiday 2009 Bapex Clear
The Bapex Clear watch returns for Holiday 2009, this time in three colorways – gold, silver and black. The watch features colored faces and a clear wristband and case.
Tony Hawk RIDE
Grab your board and start that grind in the living room. No, you don’t need a ramp to do this and it won’t be a destructive experience– not with the new Tony Hawk: RIDE game from Activision which also brought the world Guitar Hero. RIDE is not your average skateboarding game as it comes with a motion sensor deck controller which enables the player to experience the true joys of skateboarding. Tilt, turn and lift for tricky maneuvers as you would on an actual deck without the helmets or knee pads. The bundle is now available for purchase online via retailers such as Walmart, Amazon and GameStop.
Levi’s Fenom - Metallic DISCO Flannel Western Shirt
The newest product to be released from the Levi’s Japan Fenom line that is a collaboration between Levi’s Japan and Hiroshi Fujiwara’s fragment design are these new Metallic DISCO Flannel Western Shirts that are available in two colors, Red or Navy. The Western Shirt features a traditional silhouette but with various added details and branding including studs across the chest, a hidden chest pocket, and of course Fenom branding.
Louis Vuitton - 2010 Monogram Voile Stole
For 2010, Louis Vuitton created a new Monogram voile stole that detracts slightly from the label’s classic subdued look and went for the brighter and cheerier styles as seen in the Stephen Sprouse collaboration and Kanye West designed sneakers. Featuring a mix of classic monogram and stars, the colorful stole that entwines around in a mix of colors ranging from an opulent maroon to powder blue, white and a cooler black, the embroidered stole will instantly spruce up any outfit or sweater.
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The Alabama Stitch book inspired me to start embroidering on these little muslin bags. Natalie describes "loving your thread" before you start stitching. Basically, while you're running your fingers over your thread to straighten it you say to yourself "I'm making this special for someone I love." I thought that was completely adorable. These were stitched without any knots or a plan. I just let the needle guide me. I start stitching on the outside of the bag and leave the frayed ends as part of the look I want to achieve.
I've been unable to post regularly because personal matters have taken up a lot of my attention. Ever since my Gram died, we've been under constant attack by our neighbors regarding the remodeling of our home. It's been a very trying time and we certainly would appreciate your prayers.
As you can tell, I'm thinking a lot about homes and trees. A person's home is so very personal. It is a place where your heart is, it's your sanctuary and somewhere you should feel safe. Unfortunately, a lot of that has been ripped away from us. I feel very sad about it because Buck and I were so excited to have a new home and now we're just trying to finish it so we can sell it and move away.
We've found some places in Montana with a lot of acreage, so maybe that's where we'll end up. I've always wanted to move back and maybe God is telling me that now is the time. Life is too short to live in a place where people watch your every move and literally hate you. It gives me an upset stomach which causes me to lose weight. I guess that's a bonus.
I pray every day to remain calm in the middle of the storm. I've had a lot of storms in my life and I'm getting to the age where I'd really like to have less of them. If it means moving away, well then I guess that's what we'll have to do. I'm sad, but it's just a house.
My heart is broken but it needs to heal somewhere else.
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The alarm sings at 6am. I pull thick curtains back in the dark bedroom, shield sleepy eyes from swathes of sunlight cascading through cottage windows. Lift the hinge on the wooden door and walk into the vast length of quiet house toward the kitchen, where the tea kettle awaits the push of the lever.
Standing in front of a bank of windows as coils heat the water, I survey the garden graced with golden highlights and watch birds flit between branches, inserting myself into the rhythms of life God creates with each turn of the earth on its axis.
Alone in a beautiful place, desperation and desire surface when I am prone toward utility, to push and force production. I am waiting for God in the stillness, to do what I know I cannot do myself.
I desire God but when I am busy, I’m uncertain about what it is that he desires from me.
“When we cut ourselves off from awareness of our desire, we cut ourselves off from the very invitation of God into the intimacy we seek.” Ruth Haley Barton, Silence and Solitude
Returning to the warm cocoon of sheets with a steeping cup of tea, I open scriptures, read a chapter in a new book, highlight, meander in the land of Google on a search for definition; journal six pages of lined paper while intermittently staring out the window, attempting to make sense of new horizons of thought.
But creative inspiration plummets the minute I look at the clock, gasping in revelation. Lingering to listen for nearly three hours results in a mental halt and sitting in front of the computer blanketed by shame.
Still in pajamas, the cursor blinks on an empty page. Not one word has been written on the project I’m tucked away in the Cotswolds to write. I want to stay in the intimate presence of God but time ticks, pushing me to produce.
I am measuring success in word counts while God measures success in the unseen attentive heart that longs to wait on him first.
We discount time as wasted when it cannot be measured by what we produce. Equate time as utilitarian and quickly assess your worth as not enough and less than.
When the house is finally quiet, linger in prayer instead of cleaning up dirty dishes and the shaming voice of utility says you’re a failure at housekeeping.
Be quick to ponder the Truth and slow to respond to your inbox and shame attempts to convince you are irresponsible.
Read a book that inspires transformation and hear the accuser name you slack and lazy.
How many times have I felt the sting of failure that comes in declaring, “I’ve accomplished very little,” only to realize that reflection and contemplation are required work, not a waste, for the opus of creative imagination.
Our most important work is accomplished by enjoying the Creator, not checking off a list.
Dare to wait on God and pull back the curtain on what you fear the most – being known, found out and counted of little value — and find true belonging in the time marked as unproductive.
Success comes in discerning a still, small voice repeating, “I see you. I know you. I love you!” And then believing it.
We cannot fully rest until we are prepared to receive first.
Time for considering the ways of God is not time wasted but a seed of desire planted that will eventually bloom and bear fruit.
Download our free printable June calendar with daily prompts from Chapter 6 in Rhythms of Rest: Stop or Be Forced to Stop. Because when we forget God is in control of what he creates, a forced Sabbath is a reorientation so we’ll remember.
And just in time for summer, download a copy of Rhythms of Rest on your Kindle for $1.25 in the US and £.96 in the UK. What a steal of a deal!
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December 22, 2016
(++++) IT’S ALL ABOUT THE ART
Dog Man #2: Dog Man Unleashed. By Dav Pilkey. Graphix/Scholastic. $9.99.
Nobody Is Perfick. By Bernard Waber. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $9.99.
The whole point of these books is to be fun to look at – and it’s a pretty good point. Yes, Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man Unleashed has a plot – a convoluted, over-complicated one, in fact – and yes, Bernard Waber’s Nobody Is Perfick has some points to make, rather gently. But neither the story nor the homilies will be the main reason kids will enjoy these books: it is the art that will attract young readers and keep them interested. Pilkey is best known for the Captain Underpants books, “created” by made-up kids named George Beard and Harold Hutchins – this explains the drawing style and a lot of the plot elements. Dog Man Unleashed, a sequel to Dog Man, is cut from the same cloth, then woven and raveled or unraveled to provide much the same level of coverage of all things silly. Dog Man is a dog-headed cop – the stitches holding his head to his body are seen clearly – created when a bad-guy cat blew up a top cop and his top-dog canine helper, killing the man’s head (but not his body) and the dog’s body (but not his head). A touch of magical mystery surgery later and, ta da! Dog Man. In Dog Man Unleashed, our hero has to try to cope with his doggy instincts, which include licking all the bones in a pet shop and preferring smelly dead fish to live ones – and inevitably, one of his instincts, playing with a ball, eventually saves the day. He also has to deal with reporter Sarah Hatoff, rescue dog Zuzu, an evil fish, the continued depredations of Petey the Cat (the evil mastermind who inadvertently led to the creation of Dog Man in the first place), a new and completely flat Petey based shamelessly on Jeff Brown’s Flat Stanley, a reanimated carnivorous dinosaur – well, the list goes on (and on), but rest assured that Dog Man is equal to all challenges, even those coming from Dr. Boog E. Feeva, the local witch doctor, whose prescriptions include “living spray” and “obey spray.” The puns and ridiculous plotting spray pretty much everywhere, and that makes Dog Man Unleashed fun for parents as well as kids (assuming kids will give up this graphic novel long enough for parents to read it). Pilkey channels his inner George and Harold so well that it is hard to be absolutely, 100% sure that Pilkey is real and George and Harold are his creations. It just might be the other way around. We ought to put Dog Man on the case: something about all this smells fishy.
Like Pilkey, Waber (1924-2013) is best known for something other than the newest release under his name: he was the author of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and the series that followed. But back in 1971, in the days well before graphic novels, Waber created a kind of proto-graphic-novel – actually a series of stories – called Nobody Is Perfick, in which every page has a mixture of cartoon drawings and words, and the stories are told through the combination. Waber’s style here is vaguely reminiscent of Jules Feiffer’s: his characterizations come through clearly in these black-and-white drawings, in which the kids tend to be shown in less detail than their surroundings. The expressiveness of the characters’ faces is one wonderful element here. Another is the way Waber captures some of the not-wholly-intentional cruelties of children to each other. “Say Something Nice,” for instance, involves a boy named Arthur talking to a girl named Harriet and saying only things that he knows she feels are not nice, starting with “lizards,” “spiders,” and “creepy things,” and eventually escalating to “monsters” that “are crawling out of caves” and have the kids surrounded. Harriet gets more and more frightened, or seems to – but when her mother calls her to come inside, Harriet tells Arthur how much fun he is and says she wants to get together again the next day, leaving Arthur at the end with nothing to say but, “Grrr.” In “That Was Some Daydream,” a girl doing math homework is determined to focus and not have a daydream, and goes through a series of contortions (some literal) to avoid the daydream that, inevitably, she has anyway. “No Rain Again Today” is a complaint against sunny weather by a boy with new rain gear. In “Sitting Up Straight,” a boy says – and shows – how his best intentions to sit alertly in class gradually turn into a slump. These and the other stories here explore the everyday trials and tribulations of childhood in a way that makes the mundane special. And Waber’s wry humor is everywhere, most clearly in “Peter Perfect: The Story of a Perfect Boy,” which goes on and on telling about and showing all the ways in which Peter is 100% perfect, only to reveal at the end that no such boy is or ever could be real. That will be a relief to readers who rediscover Nobody Is Perfick – or, more likely, discover the book and all its charms for the first time in this new edition.
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In the Wall Street Journal, Historian John Q. Wilson writes the speech he thinks George Bush should deliver on Iraq:
We are winning, and winning decisively, in Iraq and the Middle East. We defeated Saddam Hussein’s army in just a few weeks. None of the disasters that many feared would follow our invasion occurred. Our troops did not have to fight door to door to take Baghdad. The Iraqi oil fields were not set on fire. There was no civil war between the Sunnis and the Shiites. There was no grave humanitarian crisis.
Saddam Hussein was captured and is awaiting trial. His two murderous sons are dead. Most of the leading members of Saddam’s regime have been captured or killed. After our easy military victory, we found ourselves inadequately prepared to defeat the terrorist insurgents, but now we are prevailing.
Iraq has held free elections in which millions of people voted. A new, democratic constitution has been adopted that contains an extensive bill of rights. Discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, or politics is banned. Soon the Iraqis will be electing their first parliament.
An independent judiciary exists, almost all public schools are open, every hospital is functioning, and oil sales have increased sharply. In most parts of the country, people move about freely and safely….
The progress of democracy and reconstruction has occurred faster in Iraq than it did in Germany 60 years ago, even though we have far fewer troops in the Middle East than we had in Germany after Hitler was defeated.
We grieve deeply over every lost American and coalition soldier, but we also recognize what those deaths have accomplished. A nation the size of California, with 25 million inhabitants, has been freed from tyranny, equipped with a new democratic constitution, and provided with a growing new infrastructure that will help every Iraqi and not just the privileged members of a brutal regime….
We made no mistake ending Saddam’s rule. We have brought not only freedom to Iraq, but progress to most of the Middle East. America should be proud of what it has accomplished. America will not cut and run until the Iraqis can manage their own security, and that will happen soon.
I got into lots of blog hot water once when I said that much of Bush’s problem is a PR problem. Yes, that was too glib. But I am still amazed that for all the spinning he does, he’s still bad at it. He should hire Wilson as his speechwriter.
1. I have put my expected gain ahead of the well-being of the people of the United States. In seeking to maximize my wealth and the wealth of my family and close friends, I have ordered our military to invade Iraq. My objective was to grab half the Iraqi oil – worth $50 billion per year, and rising.
2. In implementing my attempt to grab Iraq’s oil, I have caused the deaths of more than 2000 Americans and uncounted tens of thousands of Iraqis. I have also caused the maiming of thousands of Americans and Iraqis. I have also wasted hundreds of billions of dollars of US Treasury funds in fighting the war in Iraq.
This is why wikitorial was doomed to fail. This is how far apart we are on our interpretations of what is happening in Iraq.
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Politics
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Last week, I was having a bad week dealing with my car (which is finally fixed). Thursday afternoon we got some pretty good showers and Chris left work early. He went shopping for me something to cheer me up. I thought he was just at the house the entire time. I get to the house and we are getting ready to fix dinner. I made some smart ass comment to him and he just looks at the pups and tells them that he doesn't think he should give me my present anymore. I was confused, but eventually he pulls up his shirt to expose a little black case attached to his belt. He had bought me a new gun!!! I know, I know, girls are supposed to get jewely and flowers. Not me. My man gets me a pistol. So, everyone, here is the newest addition to our gun collection. A Taurus .380 TCP
Last night, I was again reminded how great of a catch he is. Chris has always been great with children and it always brings a smile to my face to see him with kids. To us, our pups are like our children. They are spoiled and typically do what they want and get what they want. They go everywhere with us and are hardly every left at home. We were at the house last night after having dinner with my parents. We were down to one rawhide bone for the boys. Worried about a fight, Chris said we should probably just put it up and I did. Then he disappeared off into another room and reappeared with a hand saw. He actually cut the bone in half so there was no fight and no one had to do without. He is going to be such a wonderful dad!!!
There are so many times I wonder how it is that I got so lucky!
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Hi readers! I thought I’d take a moment before launching into the post to introduce my sister, Sarah Callahan who will be writing occasional fitness themed articles for my blog! Sarah also went to Mizzou’s J-School and has a journalism background, so she’s a writer at heart. When she isn’t exploring fitness classes throughout the city of Chicago she works in marketing for 120 Sports, a cool new all-sports video network built for the digital generation!
These days, everything can be done via an on-demand, concierge-like service. Whether it’s dry cleaning, grocery shopping or an alcohol delivery app, it’s possible to receive all the necessities in life without ever leaving the comfort of your home.
When I was approached to try out RightFit Personal Training, the first thing that drew me in were those very same attributes; ease of service and simplicity we’re all accustomed to and enjoy. RightFit is a personal training service that pairs you with a trainer based upon an extensive online survey process. It is similar to any of the well-known and comprehensive online dating services, but instead of pairing you with a potential mate, they set you up with your perfect personal training match! The more specific you are in your survey, the higher quality matches you receive. The goal is to find you a trainer you are comfortable working with long-term toward your fitness goals.
The survey started with a series of basic questions such as ranking your current fitness level, the neighborhood you’d like to train in, a price point you are comfortable with paying per session and if you prefer a male or female trainer. Next, it got a bit more specific to explore your personal fitness goals- what fitness components are you interested in (i.e. muscular strength, flexibility, body composition, etc.) and your short term and long term goals.
As the website suggested, I was very honest with my survey and explained my goals: wanting to improve my body composition, decreasing fat and increasing muscle, as well as working on an overall leaner body structure, specifically leaner legs. I explained that though I am currently very active and consider myself to be quite fit, working-out 5-6 times a week and attending a variety of fitness classes, I still have not been able to attain my ideal body.
Less than an hour after completing the survey, I was contacted by Matt, the owner of RightFit, with a profile on Kim, a trainer he thought would be a great fit based on my needs. Kim’s experience in interval training, kettlebells and strength training definitely seemed like a great match. Since I have a gym in my apartment building, he suggested that she come over to my place for the session. Not having to leave my apartment building and getting a great work-out in? I couldn’t have asked for anything better! If you do want to get out of your home or don’t have an in-home gym for use, there are several gyms to train at in each Chicago neighborhood that they help to coordinate for you.
Kim showed up at my building at 7:00am on the dot Friday morning filled with energy. I was really impressed by how prepared Kim was, bringing extra equipment with her to my apartment including her own mat and resistance bands. She explained that typically the first session is simply an assessment to get to know my body and goals, but since I wanted to get a full review of the service for Beyond ExpecTastetions, she also planned to add in a quick circuit work-out at the end of the session for me to learn and try out.
The initial functional movement assessment was immensely beneficial, as I’ve never really explored the strengths and weaknesses of different parts of my body so thoroughly. Kim started off by doing a quick evaluation of my body position- examining the way I hold my head and shoulders all the way down to the alignment of my legs and feet. I really liked that she explained each component of my body and helped with realigning my movements and to ensure I was maintaining proper form.
Next, we moved on to a movement analysis to assess my ability to maintain proper joint alignment. We did a series of leg balances & leg straightening techniques using a resistance band to assess the alignment of my legs to the rest of my body. It was pretty evident that my hips & legs are a bit uneven since I had a really hard time lifting my left leg up perpendicularly to my body and holding it there in a balance (you can see me struggling in the picture!) Throughout the rest of the session Kim made sure to go back to our key movement techniques to help realign my hips and legs. It was great that it wasn’t something she evaluated at the beginning and then forgot about; we went back to it several times throughout the session. She never made me feel uncomfortable that my body was a bit out of line, reassuring me that she saw this all the time and citing several reasons it may happen and how we can fix it. I was really impressed by her knowledge on the human body.
Following the movement assessment, Kim helped to evaluate my form for several key movements: push-up and planks, as well as dead lifts, squats and dead bug sit-ups (kind of like a combination of bicycle sit-ups and reverse crunches). I was pretty familiar with most of these exercises from my prior fitness experience, but Kim was particularly helpful in correcting my dead lift and squat form. Something that I thought was really cool was that Kim had me remove my shoes for these exercises. When the arches of my gym shoes weren’t constricting my feet, it made it MUCH easier for me to perform each movement (just be careful not to drop the weights on your feet!) Kim made minor adjustments in my posture for both the dead lifts and the squats that made the exercises SO much more effective like keeping my shoulders and butt way farther back then I was used to.
Finally, we went through the 15 minute circuit Kim had promised me: 5 dead lifts, 5 squats with weight, 10 dead bug sit ups, 45 second weighted walk, as many reps as possible in 15 minutes. I was very conscious to make the adjustments that Kim had suggested in each of the different exercises and felt great running through the circuit. Even though I only performed the circuit for a total of 15 minutes, I definitely felt a burn throughout my body based on the movements Kim chose.
Some of the best advice that Kim gave me during the session was that it is important to take your time while going through circuits and not to rush. Since I am frequently attending circuit training and HIIT (high intensity interval training) classes at studios throughout Chicago, I am used to quick intervals and rushing from one exercise to the next. I thought it was incredibly interesting that Kim explained that I would see more changes in my body by using higher (heavier) weights and take my time, rather than trying to get in a higher number of reps.
The RightFit Personal Training sign up was an incredibly easy process and Kim’s session was one of the most beneficial hours of fitness and training I have experienced in a while. There is no reason not to give an intro session a try (if you’re energetic and love to learn, I definitely recommend Kim!). All you have to do is fill out the survey here to get started: http://www.rightfitpersonaltraining.com/for-trainees/find-your-right-fit/
**Sarah received a complimentary assessment and session courtesy of RightFit Personal Training for review but all her opinions are her own
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2011 Artist of the Month Club
The Artist of the Month Club (AMC) is a limited edition-by-subscription project launched by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS in 2009. Each year, twelve curators are assembled and are each assigned one month. For their month, they choose an artist who creates a work of art exclusive to AMC.
The list of curators is available at the beginning of each year, but subscribers do not know the identity of the artists beforehand. Each month, one artwork arrives by mail, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. Artworks may take any size or form. Each year’s edition is limited to 50 subscribers.CURATORS:
Patrick Ansellem, Bengala, Annette Carlozzi, Lauren Cornell, Carlton DeWoody, Tom Eccles. Todd Levin, Amy Mackie, Risa Needleman, Richard Philips, Stacy Switzer, Simon Watson.
Peregrine Honig, Cody Critcheloe, DIS Magazine, Leigh Ledare, Ana Prvacki, Alisa Baremboym, Paul P., Brian Leo, Hannah Greely, Matthew Gamber, Cauleen Smith, Mike Bouchet.
Edition of 50
FOR MORE INFO: artistofthemonthclub.com
** Additional shipping charges apply for INTERNATIONAL subscribers. Please contact us with your location for shipping rates **
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Misfit Monday? Nope. This week it’s Tragic Tuesday.
It may be a while before I start posting particularly upbeat blogs again. Although, I will share the one bit of good news I have: Aiden is alive. Aside from one broken key (found where to buy replacements) and an A key that is a bit temperamental, all is well with him. So this isn’t in memory of my 4-year-old laptop.
It’s in memory of my baby. Sunny, my 12-year-old golden retriever, who was basically a rescue dog when she was 6 months old. I’ll tell you her story, if you care to listen.
It starts with Sam. Sam was probably the most energetic, play-driven dog ever. He was hyper. Really hyper. And we didn’t know what to do for him. My parents got the idea that maybe we should get a puppy for him, a playmate. So we started looking, and my mom found an add in the newspaper for a 6-month-old golden retriever puppy that needed a new home. So we took Sam with us to make sure they’d get along, first of all.
The moment they met, they were instant friends. Love at first sight, no exaggeration. The family had been trying to take care of her, but with what had been going on, she had basically been suffering from neglect. So we took her home that night, and day after day at our house we watched her become happier and live up to her name: Sunny.
Sam and Sunny were the perfect match. For three years they were absolutely inseparable. And then Sam died very suddenly of what was basically canine sars. The best vets in the state did an autopsy because they wanted to know what killed him and even then it was inconclusive.
Sunny was heartbroken. I thought it was going to be like Where The Red Fern Grows, where Little Ann dies of loneliness and heartbreak after Old Dan is killed by the Mountain Lion. Sunny’s face started turning grey, and she wasn’t even 4 years old.
We knew at that point that Sunny needed a friend. So we contacted a breeder we had met when I took Sunny to the state fair in dog obedience for 4H. They also had a female golden named Sunny. My Sunny knew all the obedience stuff, she just didn’t want to do it because she wanted to be with people and make new friends instead. Turns out they had a litter of puppies recently, and we claimed a little boy. When we brought him home, Sunny was like wtf is this little thing? Why does it keep following me? It took her about a week to figure out that it was a puppy, and that she could play with it. He wasn’t Sam, but he would suffice.
The two remained together, and although Sunny wasn’t as attached to Skittles as she was to Sam, or as much as Skittles was to her, she returned to her regular, overly happy Sunny state of being. Sunny had various health problems over the years, including a torn ACL which she had surgery on, to another torn ACL which eventually healed up on it’s own (she couldn’t have surgery on this one because of another health problem).
And then late last fall she was diagnosed with kidney disease, which would claim her life over the course of a few months. We kept her medicated and well cared for much longer than could be hoped for, nearly 8 months. She had off days, and last thursday we thought it was just another off day, but as the hours went by, we began to wonder if it was more than that. Friday she was possibly worse, and we rushed her off to the vet. I has to carry her to the car and into the vet because she was too weak to move more than her head and her tail. The vet ran some quick x-rays, and what he suspected based on what we had told him was backed up, although the x-rays weren’t absolutely conclusive. Sunny had a specific kind of tumor that had grown off her spleen and it had ruptured, causing major internal bleeding. Even on young healthy dog, one of these tumors was absolutely fatal. My dad called my mom at work, and the vet explained what was going on, and she said she’d leave work and come in. By the state Sunny was in, I was worried my mom wouldn’t get there in time. But she did, and we spent the next hour saying our goodbyes. A minute before the vets took her into the back to put her to sleep, she gave my mom and I the most hearty tail wag she possibly could, and I’m fairly sure she used the last of her strength to do it, to tell us she loved us one last time.
I’ve never been part of the choice on whether or not to put an animal down before. I’ve never gotten to say goodbye either. With Sunny, I watched her weaken within the three hours we were at the vet, to the point where I knew she had hours left at best. My mom gave me the option to take her back home, but I didn’t even know if she’d live long enough for us to get her home. It was her time. So we said our goodbyes, and told each other I love you.
She’s with Sam again, her soulmate. Running around, playing, like they used to do when I’d take them to a park near here and let them off leash. Her tail is going in circles, because that’s what it does when she gallops along. There are plenty of stuffed animals for her to tote around (we called them her dead ducks), and they all smell like me because the more one smelled like me, the more she loved it. There are plenty of friendly strangers for her to just go up and greet. And there will be mischief to be had, especially with teasing Sam. What may be decades for me will be the blink of an eye for her, when I see her again.
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Steven Schoenberg’s kaleidoscopic piano speaks with a uniquely American voice. His flowing compositions, laced with stride, folk, modern jazz, and impressionistic styles,
burst open into full-scale musical dioramas.
~ Tom Regan, Prairie Public Radio
Schoenberg’s Three Days in May (Quabbin Records) is worth the effort. It’s an eloquent, lush, and flowing series of improvisations that are spliced together to form sequential states of mind. He claims that the performances are completely spontaneous, and if that’s so, they are within strict melodic and rhythmic frameworks.
Schoenberg performs spontaneously improvised works
and yet each one has the polish, sophistication, and
technical mastery of a complex piece of music.
~ David Sokol, Music Editor, Advocate Newspapers
More than a small musical miracle occurred in Amherst
College’s Buckley Recital Hall last night
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