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Everybody knows that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned everything on its head. To say nothing of the numbers that have died with the disease, the economy has slipped into recession, businesses are closing down and substantial redundancies are being announced by the day.
So when it seems to defy all logic, many people are asking just why does the UK property market seem to be booming right now?
There are several reports that suggest a housing market boom is underway. For example ....
Property portal Rightmove say that the highest number of sales were agreed last month since they started compiling figures on this a full ten years ago. Total sales agreed exceeded £37 billion. They add that last month also saw the highest number of properties coming to market in a month in over 12 years.
The last Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Residential Market Survey
says that 75% of their surveyor participants reported an increase in enquiries from buyers in July – the second consecutive month enquiries rose sharply. They say that new sales instructions also rose sharply alongside a rise in agreed sales – just short of two thirds of their survey participants reported a rise in both.
The last Halifax House Price Index says that house prices hit a new all time high in July as the property market gradually reopened.
So let’s take a closer look at what could be causing the property market to surge right now:
Pent up demand. Spring is always a busy time for house buying and selling anyway. Many buyers look to find a new house and move before they go on their summer holidays and before the kids start school again. That couldn’t happen this year due to lockdown, so the spring house buying boom in 2020 has been pushed into the summer.
This report from The Independent even suggests that Britons are filling the ‘holiday void’ this year by moving house instead!
The Stamp Duty holiday. The removal of Stamp Duty Land Tax on transactions up to £500,000 will be proving tempting to some buyers. Those who were considering a move anyway could be responding to the opportunity to save up to £15,000 in Stamp Duty until next March, and maybe even buy a property they didn’t think they would be able to afford.
Interest rates are low. Not just that, but they’ll probably never be so low ever again. Even with the economy and jobs market both being uncertain this could be persuading more people to move now – and pay down a bigger mortgage while it’s still cheap to do so.
It’s important to remember that not everybody has or will be affected financially by Covid-19. Those with a secure income, jobs or a business that has actually benefitted from Covid – or perhaps retirees downsizing from a house they own outright – could see this as a good time to buy.
Escape to the country. Covid has prompted some people to realise that living in urban areas, where Covid cases have been highest, has many disadvantages. Plus, more homeworking has led more people to realise that they don’t need to live in cities and easily commutable areas anymore. Daily commuting on public transport doesn’t seem quite so logical as it once did. Living in the countryside looks more practical and more appealing than ever.
Housing priorities have changed. Lockdown caused people to reassess their priorities in a place to live. Many people have realised they would like (or even must have) more space, and in particular more outside space. Local amenities, which you can walk or cycle to, are also more appealing too.
Renewed interest from property investors. Buy to let has become more difficult in recent years, due to higher costs and more government regulation. But ultra low savings interest rates and uncertainty about stock market performance may well have prompted investors to reconsider investing in property.
For example, a well-heeled investor with £150,000 cash to invest would only make £750 a year by putting their money into a savings account at 0.5% interest. A decent buy to let property earning just a 6% yield would make them £9,000 a year.
The impact of overseas property buyers. While the UK has been severely impacted by Covid, the pandemic has shown that it is generally very resilient. It is still regarded as a safe haven for your money by investors and residents in many other countries. Wealthy people from locations such as the Middle East, Far East and Russia still seem to be very interested in buying in the UK.
The really big question of course is whether the current property boom will last?
Most experts seem to agree that it won’t. The RICS UK Residential Market Survey says its respondents envisage sales slowing at the twelve-month horizon due to a difficult economic climate.
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Information contained in this publication is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or opinion, nor is it a substitute for the professional judgment of an attorney.
On August 6, 2010, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed legislation overhauling the Commonwealth's Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system. The long-sought CORI reform is aimed, in part, at increasing employment opportunities for reformed offenders. The legislation includes a so-called "ban the box" provision, which bars employers from requiring applicants to check a box if they have a criminal history. This provision becomes effective on November 4, 2010. The provisions that govern the access to and use of CORI records are not effective until May 4, 2012.
Ban the Box Legislation
In 1998, Hawaii became the first state to "ban the box," prohibiting public and private employers from inquiring about an applicant's criminal history until after a conditional offer of employment has been made. A movement to enact similar legislation across the country is starting to gain momentum. In 2009, Minnesota enacted "ban the box" legislation proscribing public employers from asking a job applicant about criminal records or conducting a criminal record check until after an applicant has been selected for an interview. New Mexico and Connecticut followed in 2010, passing comparable legislation applicable to public employers. Similar legislation is currently pending in Nebraska, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. Cities and counties nationwide, including Boston, Providence, and New Haven, have also adopted similar local ordinances or regulations applicable to municipalities and public contractors.
Effective November 4, 2010, Massachusetts will become the second state in the nation to ban both public and private employers from requesting criminal record information on initial job applications. The legislation contains a narrow exception that permits employers to inquire about an individual's criminal history on a job application if: (1) the applicant is applying for a position for which any federal or state law or regulation creates a mandatory or presumptive disqualification based on a conviction of certain criminal offenses; or (2) the employer is subject to an obligation under any federal or state regulation not to employ persons in one or more positions who have been convicted of certain criminal offenses.
Unlike Hawaii's law, the legislation does not require employers to wait until a conditional offer of employment has been made before questioning an applicant about his or her criminal record or before requesting CORI records. The restriction only bars employers from requesting criminal history information on the "initial written application form." Accordingly, employers may ask an applicant about his or her criminal history during the interview process. Employers should bear in mind, however, that the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act bars an employer from asking an employee about arrests that do not result in convictions and convictions for certain misdemeanors. The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) will enforce this portion of the new law, and available remedies to an aggrieved applicant could include equitable relief, compensatory and punitive damages, interest, and attorney's fees.
Access to and Use of Criminal Records
Employers may request CORI records from the Commonwealth after an applicant signs an acknowledgement form authorizing the request and after the employer verifies the applicant's identity by reviewing a form of government-issued identification. CORI records include information concerning every person who comes into contact with the Commonwealth's criminal justice system, even if the case is dismissed or the person subsequently receives a not guilty disposition. Under the legislation, however, the scope of CORI records available to most employers will be narrowed to include only: (1) felony convictions for 10 years following disposition; (2) misdemeanor convictions for 5 years following disposition; and (3) pending criminal charges. Employers whose employees interact with children or other vulnerable populations, such as the elderly and the disabled, will have access to complete CORI records.
Employers are permitted to question an applicant about his or her criminal record during the interview process and may take adverse actions based on that record. However, prior to questioning an applicant or taking an adverse action based on criminal record information, an employer must provide the individual with a copy of any criminal records in its possession, whether those records were obtained through a CORI request or from an independent source. An employer who fails to provide this information is subject to civil and criminal penalties.
The legislation imposes retention limits and recordkeeping requirements on employers that obtain CORI records from the newly created state agency responsible for the CORI system. Employers may not maintain CORI records for more than seven years after an employee's last date of employment or after the date of the final decision not to hire an applicant. Employers must retain an applicant's signed acknowledgement form for a period of one year from the date of any CORI request. Employers must also document specific details about the dissemination of any CORI records in a dissemination log and must maintain the log for a period of one year following the disclosure of any CORI record. The dissemination log is subject to audit by the Commonwealth. Any person who unlawfully disseminates CORI records is subject to criminal and civil penalties.
The legislation also requires any employer that annually conducts five or more criminal background investigations to establish and maintain a written criminal records policy. In addition, these employers must: (1) notify any applicant who is the subject of an investigation of the potential for an adverse decision based on the criminal records; (2) provide a copy of the criminal records and the policy to the applicant; and (3) provide information concerning the process for correcting a criminal record. These requirements apply even if an employer obtains the criminal background data from an independent source rather than through a CORI request.
Implications for Employers in Massachusetts
Employers should revise applications to eliminate any questions regarding criminal history well in advance of November 4, 2010. Although the remaining provisions are not effective until May 4, 2012, employers should not wait until the last minute to implement policies and procedures that comply with the new procedural and recordkeeping requirements. Early action will help to ensure that your workplace is in compliance before the effective date of the legislation.
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Indigenous people connect with culture through heirloom seeds
Across Virginia, seed keepers cultivate native plants.
Desirée Shelley Flores dotes after her seedlings. They’ve been in the soil since January, and their leaves are spotted with mist as Flores sprays them with her water bottle.
“Gardening is really a year-round practice,” Shelley Flores said.
She’s growing varieties of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and tobacco indoors, because it’s too cold to plant them in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains before the spring.
She could wait to plant her seeds outdoors, but Shelley Flores said, “You could share food faster if you start them indoors.”
She is a native of Baltimore, but in 2017, one year after she and her husband had their first child, they decided to move to Catawba, northwest of Roanoke in the mountains of Southwest Virginia.
“A large portion of that was to be closer to my tribal community, which is the Monacan Indian nation, Shelley Flores said. "And to be within what we call yésah, or sometimes also called Tutelo-Saponi ancestral homelands.” Yésah is a Tutelo-Saponi word meaning “the people.”
Shelley Flores said she wanted to teach her children about their history and ancestral ways.
She has been gardening since she was a kid and even helped start an Indigenous garden at the University of Maryland while a student there.
It was at that point she realized she wanted to deepen her knowledge about native seeds and Native American history, Shelley Flores said.
“After graduating, I began to get more involved with Indigenous, traditional lifeways and foodways,” Shelley Flores said. “That was sort of how it all started.”
Shelley Flores is part of a group called The Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, which is a network of Indigenous people committed to cultivating ancestral seeds. Members of the alliance plant and grow them — then share them to ensure the Indigenous seeds survive.
Alliance members are mainly based in the mid-Atlantic region but spread up into the Northeast and Canada.
“A lot of these seeds were being housed with seed companies but not within Indigenous communities,” Shelley Flores said. “People will still talk about Tutelo corn, because that’s what [the companies have] called it ... Tutelo Strawberry corn. They say, ‘The people [who] used to grow this corn are extinct,’ and they’re seed keeping it for them in their memory. Sort of romanticizing the memory of Indigenous people, and that does a lot of harm to our communities.”
Victoria Ferguson, a Monacan elder, grew up on the West Virginia side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She now lives in Roanoke, where she built and ran the Monacan Village at Natural Bridge with her husband for 20 years until it closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Today, Ferguson works as the program manager at the Solitude-Fracture house, which is the oldest building on Virginia Tech’s campus. It pre-dates the school and was built by enslaved people.
Ferguson is an historian and an expert on Indigenous lifeways, including seed keeping, which she learned from her mother.
“For years we’ve kept seeds,” Ferguson said as she showed off her collection, which she keeps in a tidy, portable box. “Years ago, my mother started putting them in envelopes and just writing the names on the seeds. And that’s why you’ll see some of the envelopes here, because it’s something that she used to always do.”
Ferguson has been keeping seeds for decades. In her collection today, she prizes her batch of Tutelo Strawberry corn, which she’s been growing for six years.
“I really, really like the color of them and how they look when they’re growing,” Ferguson said.
The Tutelo corn is rare and tastes sweet, but Ferguson said the seeds are so precious that she’s never even tasted the corn herself.
“I save almost any seed I could possibly save at this point in time,” Ferguson said. “But my father used to always say it’s better to have and not need than to need and not have.”
Ferguson recalled walks in the woods with her father and siblings in Beckley, West Virginia.
“As he’s walking through, he would identify different plants. He would tell them the use of it,” she said.
Following generations of racism, segregation and land loss endured by native people, Ferguson laments the loss of connection to tribal places. But she still cherishes what her parents taught her about living in harmony with nature and keeping traditions alive.
“My father made sure we built these little ridges to put our seeds in,” Ferguson said. “He had the stick that he used to put a hole in the ground where the corn seeds would grow.”
She said she still plants her corn and beans together like she learned at an early age. She taught her own children, and now she teaches students at Virginia Tech the same methods she learned as a young girl. In 2014, she started an Indigenous garden on campus.
“[I] showed them how I was taught to step off the garden and put the corn in, so we planted all of our corn that day,” Ferguson said. “And that was the first year we had the garden.”
Researchers at William & Mary are using technology to enhance ancient knowledge and build food sovereignty — a community’s ability to determine the quantity and quality of food it grows and consumes.
Troy Wiipongwii is an affiliate faculty member of the Global Research Institute at the university in Williamsburg. He and a small team of research scientists are hoping their computational tool can be used to help support Virginia’s Indigenous communities.
The program relies on both ancient and modern agricultural knowledge to predict the best place for crops to grow, how much that location will yield and the cost of production.
“We’re going out into the communities to talk about what types of foods they’re currently eating and what do they think are traditional foods, and what would they like to be seeing grown on tribal lands if they were to engage in a food sovereignty project,” Wiipongwii said. “It’s getting a conversation going. That's incredibly important for this resurgence of indigenous food.”
Wiipongwii, who is of Chickahominy descent, acknowledges the hesitation in using new technology to practice ancient traditions.
“I see the technology as an enhancement of what's happened in the past, with the ability to do real time kind of evaluation to ensure that we can continue to move forward either in the way that our ancestors have done it, or in a way that is set for the modern age,” Wiipongwii said.
Just down the road from William & Mary, the focus turns from sustenance to the sacred.
Historian Chris Custalow, who is Cherokee, shares his knowledge about American Indian life in the 18th century at Colonial Williamsburg.
“Tobacco is used in our community in a way, it’s more ceremonial and seen more as medicinal,” Custalow said as he held the miniature tobacco seeds in his hand. “You can fit about 50,000 tobacco seeds within one teaspoon.”
The seeds come from tobacco seed pods. Custalow said a typical tobacco plant puts off hundreds of thousands of seeds.
Custalow was faced with a challenge all seed keepers deal with. In order to cultivate the seeds, you have to plant them, but there’s always the risk that what you plant won’t survive. He started with just 100 tobacco seeds, and his efforts to cultivate the plant have been a success.
“I was able to provide tobacco to not only my own community directly, but the larger native community in Virginia,” Custalow said.
Custalow is growing the Indigenous tobacco, called Nicotiana Rustica, at Colonial Williamsburg to teach visitors about its historical and cultural significance.
“It’s typically taboo to purchase something like that,” Custalow said. “You’d want to grow it yourself, harvest it yourself or be gifted it. And so, it’s just become a responsibility of mine to provide that to the community.”
He said he sees the renewed efforts to cultivate seeds as a kind of activism.
“Tribes here in the local area have stood the test of time and have been here on reservations for the longest period of time as well,” Custalow said. “Being able to provide the seeds and cultivate the seeds, is that form of resistance to all the things that we’ve lost throughout time to colonization.”
Shelley Flores and Ferguson support all efforts — both technological and natural — to reconnect communities and revive ancestral practices.
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Chicken Maryland, with creamed corn and fried bananas, was pretty popular when I was growing up. This rendition is more modern, with panko-crusted chicken, corn pudding with roasted peppers and a simple tomato salad.
This retro chicken recipe was a treat growing up. Probably because we never ate it at home, so we were excited to order it at a restaurant.
It's a fried breaded chicken breast served with creamed corn, fried bananas, and a piece of roasted red pepper. Sometimes, a thin slice of ham came on top of the chicken and below the 'decorative' red pepper.
This modernized Chicken Maryland recipe consists of corn and roasted red pepper pudding, baked chicken breast fingers coated in panko crumbs, and bananas sautéed in a little butter. And a tomato.
The corn pudding
The corn pudding was the best part and qualifies as a meal on its own.
I used medium custard cups that would fit well on the plate.
Coming out of the oven, it looks puffed like a half-risen soufflé. You have to take it out while it still barely jiggles so the center is soft but cooked and creamy. And you can add anything to it, even ham, cooked chicken, and other veggies.
But the best way to make this is as a big pudding and serve it by spoonfuls, family-style. It turns out creamier than when making individual servings. So choose your favorite way.
Blackened red pepper
The blackening of red peppers is a fun thing to do.
You get to put it directly over the flame and play around with it until it's all charred and soft. It infuses a smoky flavor that is fantastic!
You can also buy roasted red peppers, a much simpler option if you're short on time.
The chicken fingers are easy to make, and there's nothing like panko to achieve maximum crunchiness.
I dip them in egg and water, then in panko, and do it twice. Then, the tiniest drops of olive oil and into the oven they go.
It must be done at the last possible minute because they soften up turn brown quickly.
The banana was sliced and sautéed in some butter because there's no healthy way to do that.
The addition of a sliced tomato was the inevitable thing to happen after plating all those monochromatic ingredients. I couldn't possibly eat that without something fresh to balance it a bit.
The tomato was a perfect addition and almost necessary.
But once I had my fork with some chicken, a piece of banana, tomato, and some corn pudding on top, it was very good. It was a flavor I had forgotten about.
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For the corn pudding:
- 1 ¼ cups corn kernels (fresh or frozen, defrosted)
- 1 cup ricotta
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons butter (melted)
- ½ cup cream
- 1 ½ tablespoons flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Black pepper to taste
- ½ tablespoon sugar
- 3 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese + 1 tablespoon for sprinkling
- ½ cup chopped roasted red peppers (homemade below, or use store-bought red peppers)
For the chicken:
- 2 chicken breasts
- 2 cups panko breadcrumbs (or more)
- 3 eggs
- 4 or 5 Tbs water
- Salt and pepper
- Olive oil for baking
For the bananas:
- 2 bananas
- 4 teaspoons butter
- Make the corn pudding first. While it's baking, prepare the chicken and cook it in the same oven.
- Fry the bananas at the last moment.
- Place several chicken breast tenders, half a banana, one serving of corn pudding and ½ sliced tomato on each plate. Sprinkle with chives before serving.
If making your own red peppers:
It makes more than you need. Refrigerate the rest.
- Put the washed and dried pepper directly on the flame. With kitchen thongs, turn it constantly, charring it as much as you can.
- Let cool and peel it, scraping with a small knife or a spoon. Some skin won't come off and that's fine.
- Cut it in half and take out seeds and veins. Wash the pepper pieces and dry them carefully with paper towels.
- Chop ¼ of it for the pudding. Cut the rest in large chunks, put in a plastic container, cover with olive oil and cover tightly. Refrigerate for another use.
For the corn pudding:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Put corn, ricotta, eggs, cream, flour, salt, pepper and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Process until well mixed, about 30 seconds.
- Take the blade out and add peppers and 3 Tbs parmesan. Mix with a spoon or spatula and check seasoning. You can also transfer the mixture to a bowl before adding the peppers, but you'll have an extra bowl to wash.
- Transfer corn mixture to four 1-cup ramekins or 4-cup souffle dish. Sprinkle with remaining Tbs parmesan cheese and bake for 30 minutes, or until puffed and golden.
For the chicken:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Oil a baking tray.
- Clean chicken breast and cut into strips. Put panko in a shallow plate and season with salt and pepper. In a shallow bowl, lightly beat eggs. Add water and mix well.
- Take chicken strips, dip them in the egg and coat them completely in the panko.
- Repeat with the egg dipping and panko coating. Be sure the panko is well adhered. Some of it might remain in the egg after the second dipping.
- Arrange in prepared tray, drizzle with drops of more olive oil and bake for 10 minutes. Turn over and bake for 5 or 10 more minutes, until golden.
For the bananas:
- Peel bananas and cut into ¾ inch slices.
- Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat and add bananas. Cook 1 minute on each side.
- Do this a the last minute, preferably after the chicken is done.
- The chicken can be breaded in advance and kept covered in the fridge for a day.
- The corn pudding can be kept refrigerated for 4 days or frozen for 3 weeks, always well covered.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Main dishes
- Method: Cooking + baking
- Cuisine: International
Keywords: chicken maryland
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Zoom on the Dewalt DXGNR5700
In a nutshell, the Dewalt DXGNR5700 is a portable generator mostly geared towards:
- RV travellers wishing to enhance their freedom and nomad lifestyle
- People occasionally participating in outdoor fairs, festivals or events
- Food van owners who know that just a short power outage could lose them hundreds of dollars
- Homeowners in need of an emergency backup power for their essentials
- Professionals who want to be able to deliver results, even during a power failure
The following sections will present you in detail its power characteristics, the different outlets it offers, its overall portability, the extra features it benefits from, and any relevant emission compliance details.
Power & Run Time
The Dewalt DXGNR5700's engine, 389 cc Dewalt OHV 4-stroke, fueled by gasoline, can deliver 120/240V. It provides a running wattage of 5,700W and reaches a peak wattage of 7,125W.
The generator features a conventional pull-start mechanism.
The fuel capacity of 6.7 gallons allows the DXGNR5700 to operate for around 10.5 hours at 50% load with a full tank (fuel consumption around 0.64 GPH).
The control panel provides the upcoming 5 AC outlets:
Because the DXGNR5700 is equipped with a twist-lock L14-30R receptacle, it is transfer switch ready: it can power your home during a power outage, as it can be easily connected to your breaker box to power your household.
The design of the Dewalt DXGNR5700 is a typical, open frame, with the dimensions of L27.2 x W27 x H25.7 in, offering support and stability and enabling the possibility of raising it above ground level. The device has been designed for tough environments and demanding outdoor use.
Although this generator is technically considered 'portable' (in the sense that it can be moved), its 172 lbs make it incredibly difficult to manually lift and transport. However, this lack of maneuverability is compensated by its wheel kit and its folding handle, with which you can conveniently shift it, once it's on the ground.
To help you monitor the DXGNR5700's status and activity, its control panel is equipped with a digital data center, giving you information on the lifetime run hours.
A built-in fuel gauge allows for a quick, easy and convenient check of the fuel level of the generator.
As for its security measures, the device features an automatic low oil shut-off and an overload protection (circuit breaker), letting you use it with a peace of mind.
Along with the aforementioned features, from an accessory standpoint, the Dewalt DXGNR5700's box includes the typical documentation and an owner's manual (opens in a new tab), which will help you start your generator promptly.
The Dewalt DXGNR5700 is EPA-approved and CARB-compliant. Thus, selling and purchasing this generator is allowed in each of the 50 states, including California.
Moreover, it features a spark arrestor and thus, may be used in forested areas.
The Dewalt DXGNR5700 versus other generators
The following charts are provided to give you an idea of how some of the key specs of the Dewalt DXGNR5700 compare to generators of similar power (between 5500 and 6500 W).
- At a weight of 172 pounds, the Dewalt DXGNR5700 places in the expected weight range of the generators in the 5500-6500 rated wattage range. In terms of weight, one of the champions in their power range is the Pulsar PGDA70BiSCO, standing at just 118 lbs.
- Given that the DXGNR5700 reaches an autonomy of around 10.5 hours with a full tank and at 50% load, it is placed within the average autonomy range of similarly powerful generators. If concerned with autonomy, one of the products of a comparable power output, which offers the highest run time, is the Predator 6500, boasting with around 14.5 hours.
- Autonomy holds its importance, however, it is largely dependent on the generator’s fuel capacity and so, it is nonsensible to discuss it without mentioning fuel efficiency as well. Standing at an estimated 0.64 GPH (gallon per hour) at a 50% load, this generator is somewhat average in this area compared to other devices, within the aforementioned wattage range. If you wish to further improve in the area of fuel efficiency, the A-iPower SUA7000L, which boasts with a gas consumption of only 0.36 GPH, may be the right generator for you.
As you can see from this interactive chart, when compared to other 5500-6500W generators, the Dewalt DXGNR5700 is on the cheap side of the price range.
It can therefore be a really good buy if you're looking to acquire a budget generator.
The bottom line
- GFCI Outlets
- Decent weight (172 lbs)
- Decent run time
- Decent fuel efficiency
- No electric start
Features and Specifications
|Engine||389 cc Dewalt OHV 4-stroke|
|Voltage||AC: 120/240V 60 Hz|
|Running watts||5,700 W|
|Starting watts||7,125 W|
|Running amps (@120/240V)||47.5/23.8 amps|
|Peak amps (@120/240V)||59.4/29.7 amps|
|Run time @50% load||10.5 h|
|Run time @25% load||Unknown|
|Automatic Voltage Regulation||Yes|
|AC outlets|| |
|Data center||Lifetime run hours|
|Fuel tank||6.7 gal|
|Approx. dimensions (L x W x H)||27.2 x 27 x 25.7 in|
|Noise (lower limit)||Unknown|
|Security||Low oil and overload protection|
|Neutral||Bonded to frame|
|Accessories included||Wheel kit|
|Other model numbers||PMC165700.01|
Unlike many websites, we did our best to research each of the specs above. That being said, we are not immune to making the occasional mistake or omission. Should you notice any missing or incorrect values, don't hesitate to suggest improvements so we can address the issue.
DeWalt is a well renowned, US-based, tool and power equipment company, founded in 1922 by Raymon DeWalt. DeWalt is nowadays a subsidiary of the Stanley Black & Decker corporation, owns 7 manufacturing facilities in the US and offers a large selection of products, from screwdrivers to portable generators. DeWalt’s portable generator line consists of conventional, open designs of various outputs, some of which are powered by Honda engines. However, unlike many of their tools, they are apparently not all made in the US and are manufactured under license by Generac.
The Dewalt DXGNR5700 is covered under a warranty for up to 3 years. This warranty may be limited and may not cover all parts of the generator.
For more information about the warranty of Dewalt generators, please consult Dewalt's warranty policies (opens in a new tab). Alternatively, you can also contact their Customer Support: 1-800-4-DEWALT (800-433-9258).
Questions & Answers
What can it power?
|Item||Running Watts||Starting Watts|
|At home||Sump pump (1/2 hp)||1050||2150|
|Furnace fan (1/2 hp)||875||2350|
|Refrigerator (energy star)||192||1192|
|Set of 5 LED light bulbs||55||55|
|Total||4542 W||6017 W|
|For camping||Radiant heater||1300||1300|
|RV AC (11,000 BTU)||1010||1600|
|Total||4540 W||5130 W|
|For work||Table saw||1800||4500|
|Total||4400 W||7100 W|
What is the noise rating of the DXGNR5700?
Due to the lack of standardization in noise emission measurement, Dewalt does not provide their units' noise levels.
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At least four people died after surgery at Greenville Health Systems hospitals in South Carolina, and allegations came to light over the summer. Now, a family has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital chain.
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Weinacker was a restaurateur in Oconee County, who also underwent heart surgery – a cardiac catheterization – in February 2014. In March, he had mitral valve and cardiac bypass surgery, then received a pacemaker and was discharged from Greenville Memorial. However, because the Greenville Health Systems member failed to properly clean its instruments, Weinacker developed Mycobacterium abscessus infection. His health deteriorated over a period of weeks, he developed pneumonia, and died on June 22nd after numerous surgeries and procedures that failed to stop the severe infection.
The court filings said that “not until the plaintiff’s family saw a news report did they learn that Mycobacterium abscessus … should never been found in the operative setting.”
Fowler also underwent a cardiac catheterization in March 2014, with bypass surgery in April. In May, he noticed the incision sites were red and painful, which is a classic indication of infection. In June, he was diagnosed with the Mycobacterium abscessus infection and prescribed strong antibiotics. According to court documents, although he survived, “Mr. Fowler has been forced to endure numerous other medical procedures, hospital admissions, and constant vigorous antibiotic treatment therapies, all of which do not even begin to reveal the extensive toll that this has taken on his life and the life of his wife and family.”
“We now believe that surgery processes involving the use of tap water may have inadvertently brought the organism into the perioperative environment,” said Robert Mobley Jr., M.D., GHS’ medical director of quality. “Although we use sterile water in or near the surgical sterile field, even something as seemingly safe as pre-surgery hand washing may have contributed. At this time, we have not been able to find any single cause or process as the trigger for the outbreak, but we’ve taken extraordinary measures to protect our patients – and believe we’ve succeeded. With patient safety as our first priority, we are taking protective measures to prevent further exposure to tap water in the operative environment.”
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This unit combines the functions of latch type and WTB-005 (momentary type) foot switches. Both of the unit’s foot switches may be set to function as either a latch or momentary type (Open, Close) switch.
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Creation, Incarnation, and the Immutability of God
The late professor John Murray captured the essence of the incarnation when he said, "The Son of God became in time what He eternally was not. He did not cease to be what He eternally was, but He began to be what He was not."1 On a prima facie reading of this statement, one might be tempted to draw the faulty conclusion that a change occurred in God when the second Person of the Godhead took to Himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the virgin Mary. Yet, the Scriptures are clear that God does not and cannot change (Malachi 3:6). If God added to Himself a human nature (something that did not exist prior to the incarnation) how was there not a change in God? Herman Bavinck gave the only suitable answer when he wrote: "Neither creation, nor revelation, nor incarnation (affects, etc.) brought about any change in God. No new plan ever arose in God. In God there was always one single immutable will"2 The immutability of God is in no way whatsoever affected by the incarnation on account of the fact that the incarnation was based on God's eternal will and decree.
God's word teaches, in no uncertain terms, that "the eternal Son of God, of one substance and equal with the Father, in the fulness of time became man, and so was and continues to be God and man, in two entire distinct natures, and one person, forever" (Westminster Larger Catechism Q&A 36). 40 days after the resurrection, the disciples watched as Jesus bodily ascended into heaven (Luke 24:50-52; Acts 1:9-11). The Scriptures teach that a man sits on the throne of God in glory, both now and forever (Ezekiel 1:26; Dan. 7:13-14; Rev. 4:3). An indissoluble union of the Divine nature and human nature occurred in the fulness of time when Christ was conceived. The body of Jesus is forever united to the Divine nature. The God-Man, Jesus Christ, is even now seated on the throne of God in heaven. Derek Thomas employs a colloquial metaphor to capture the essence of this truth when he says, "The body of Jesus has a zip code." And yet, the incarnation in no way whatsoever brought about a change in God by adding anything to God's divine nature.
Of course, as we set out to consider the relationship between the incarnation and the immutability of God, we must necessarily also investigate the relationship between creation as a whole--as well as the response of God to the actions of His creatures--and the immutability of God.
Perhaps the greatest of all questions to trouble the minds of men is that which regards the creation of the world and the immutability of God. How can God have complete fulness in and of Himself, and yet bring into existence something that did not exist without adding something to Himself? How does the creation of the Universe not demand the conclusion that a change has occurred in God? John Gerstner once suggested that Jonathan Edwards fell dangerously close to pantheistic notions while grappling with this question. However, in the Dissertation on the End for Which God Created the World, Edwards made the following statement:
"No notion of God's last end in the creation of the world is agreeable to reason, which would truly imply any indigence, insufficiency, and mutability in God; or any dependence of the Creator on the creature, for any part of his perfection or happiness. Because it is evident, by both scripture and reason, that God is infinitely, eternally, unchangeably, and independently glorious and happy: that he cannot be profited by, or receive any thing from the creature; or be the subject of any sufferings, or diminution of his glory and felicity from any other being. The notion of God creating the world, in order to receive any thing properly from the creature, is not only contrary to the nature of God, but inconsistent with the notion of creation; which implies a being receiving its existence, and all that belongs to it out of nothing. And this implies the most perfect, absolute, and universal derivation and dependence. Now, if the creature receives its all, from God, entirely and perfectly, how is it possible that it should have any thing to add to God, to make him in any respect more than he was before, and so the Creator become dependent on the creature?"3
The immutable will and eternal decree of God is what makes this derivation possible without in any way adding to the nature of God or effecting any change in God. It is all the more important that we are clear about this when come to the question about the personal interaction of the immutable God with His ever-changing creatures. After all, the Scriptures seem to intimate that change has occurred in God with regard to His actions toward men. Scripture says that God "rented from the harm that He said He would do to His people" (Ex. 32:14). How does this not imply change? How do we reconcile this seeming change with what we have already concluded? When he tackled this question in particular, Bavinck concluded:
"Scripture itself leads us in describing God in the most manifold relations to all his creatures. While immutable in himself, he nevertheless, as it were, lives the life of his creatures and participates in all their changing states. Scripture necessarily speaks of God in anthropomorphic language. Yet, however anthropomorphic its language, it at the same time prohibits us from positing any change in God himself. There is change around, about, and outside of [God], and there is change in people's relations to him, but there is no change in God himself...We should not picture God as putting himself in any relation to any creature of his as though it could even in any way exist without him. Rather, he himself puts all things in those relations to himself, which he eternally and immutably wills--precisely in the way in which and at the time at which these relations occur. There is absolutely no "before" or "after" in God; these words apply only to things that did not exist before, but do exist afterward. It is God's immutable being itself that calls into being and onto the stage before him the mutable beings who possess an order and law that is uniquely their own...Without losing himself, God can give himself, and, while absolutely maintaining his immutability, he can enter into an infinite number of relations to his creatures."4
God entered into an infinite number of relations to his creature in accord with the immutability of His eternal will and decree. When considered in this way, we can safely conclude that there is no change in the God who stands outside of time when He carries out His decree in accord with His divine attributes and the actions of His creatures in time. The immutability of God's eternal will and decree safegaurds against any notion of change in the immutable God in light of the creation, the action of His creatures and the incarnation.
Believers will spend eternity meditating the inexhaustible depths of the infinite and immutable God who created all things out of nothing without adding anything to Himself. We will forever be "lost in wonder, love and praise," as we contemplate the mystery of the incarnate Christ, who now sits on the throne of God as the head of the new creation--a redeemed people which the immutable God "purchased," as it were, "with His own blood" (Acts 20:28).
1. John Murray O Death, Where is Thy Sting? The Collected Sermons of John Murray (Philadelphia: Westminster Seminary Press, 2017).
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During the Suharto era, Inside Indonesia provided the only consistent and popularly available alternative views of Indonesia. While it was easy for Indonesian officials to dismiss these views as coming from ‘outside’ Indonesia because of the clear Australian base, the critique underlying Inside Indonesia’s line has been as much Indonesian as foreign. This is because this critique was grounded in the vision of Indonesian history laid out in the corpus of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s work, and played out in Pramoedya’s life. These were both sources of inspiration to the editors and contributors, many of whom edited, translated or commented directly either on Pramoedya’s works or on the works of writers with whom Pramoedya identifies, such as Mas Marco Kartodikromo. After Suharto, the standing of Pramoedya’s work in Indonesia is indicative of Inside Indonesia’s changing role, but also of problems of a magazine whose object of criticism has markedly changed.
Pramoedya against the New Order
The New Order’s attempt to create a monolithic official history came in the face of an existing Sukarnoist historiography, and sought to suppress or submerge the diversity of potential historical accounts of the nation: Marxist, Socialist, Islamic, secessionist, marginalised or otherwise. The New Order vision was essentially Javanese and military, it located the origins of nationalism in conservative Javanese groups such as Budi Utomo, and presented history as a succession of military events, events which included so-called acts of treachery by the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI). Such a simplistic, not to say simple-minded, view of history was always going to be difficult to sustain. But one of the more durable and dubious achievements of the New Order’s investments in monuments, a prescribed school history curriculum and the sponsoring of films such as ‘The Treachery of the Thirtieth of September Movement/PKI’ has been the continued acceptance of this account of national history by a large number of Indonesians.
While Pramoedya’s work does not represent the full range of alternative history, its consistent suppression prior to 1998 made it a rallying point for dissent. The fact that the Buru Tetralogy (This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps and House of Glass) could not be banned until they actually went on sale in the 1980s — a quirk of the censorship laws inherited from the Dutch — meant that they were always in circulation, albeit a circulation that quickly became illegal. Alternative voices in support of the books even came from inside the New Order. Adam Malik, part of the Triumvirate that created the regime, and a socialist with impeccable anti-PKI credentials, argued in Parliament against the banning of This Earth of Mankind. The importance of Pramoedya’s work as a rallying-point was seen in the gaoling of student activist, Isti Nugroho and his colleagues for distributing works by Pramoedya, and in the general way that student groups looked to Pramoedya, publishing intervieus with him in student magazines in order to test the limits of the New Order’s 1990s sham ‘Openness’. Works such as Arus Balik challenged the official view of Java’s response to European colonialism, while the This Earth of Mankind tetralogy displayed the complex and leftist origins of nationalism, while also demonstrating parallel between the power of capital and coercion in the Dutch period and under the New Order. This theme was given a different spin in the essay commissioned as part of the engrossing Dutch film Jalan Raya Pos, Great Post Road), in which Pramoedya’s account of Governor General Daendels’ introduction of colonial modernity forms the basis of a class analysis of Java. Earlier works, banned by the regime, provide alternative visions of the course of the National Revolution: the short stories in Tjerita dari Blora undermine the idea that the military played any kind of heroic role in the struggle, while an earlier story Dendam (translated and analysed by Benedict Anderson), portrays the disturbing forces of social violence at work in a way that presages the New Order’s bloody inauguration and continued use of force.
In these and his other works Pramoedya is an historians’ novelist, his works are part of a struggle over history, but equally his life has been as much a reflection of that contest. Born during the colonial period, he endured Japanese rule and fought in the national Revolution. Pramoedya played a major role in the cultural politics of the 1960s until gaoled by the in-coming Suharto regime for his leftism. He had already been gaoled twice, once by the Dutch during the Revolution, once by Sukarno for his outspoken writings on equality, but in this case the imprisonment turned into long exile on the harsh prison island Buru, a period described in A Mute’s Soliliquy (Nanyi Sunyi Seorang Bisu). His life in prison was a mirror of the oppression under which Indonesians lived, and the appearance of This Earth of Mankind in the 1980s opened a window to that oppression. Even after his return to Jakarta from Buru, Pramoedya was under effective house arrest.
Pramoedya after Suharto
What happens when a banned author is no longer banned? Part of the attraction for Indonesians of reading alternative works such as Pramoedya’s, according to cultural critic Dwi Marianto, was their banned status. In a paper given during the 1990s, Marianto compared the eager reading of such banned works by students overseas to the viewing of pornography — the frisson of the forbidden. When it is no longer forbidden, no longer a dangerous object, any of Pramoedya’s works have to rely on their own inherent power.
Almost as soon as the greedy General resigned, Indonesia was flooded with alternative publications, books produced particularly in Yogyakarta, giving everything from a translation to Derrida’s Spectres of Marx to replication of Mas Marco’s Student Hijo, to the analyses of Benedict Anderson and a host of other suppressed works.
Pramoedya, now allowed to travel overseas, has most of his works in print, and has been commissioned to write for, amongst other sources, Time Magazine. The forbidden might be in danger of becoming ‘mainstream’. Except for one thing. The Indonesian media has, to a large extent, avoided detailed commentary on and interviews with Pramoedya. His main foray into public debate was over Gus Dur’s apology to the victims of the slaughter of the PKI, in the context of an attempt to set up South Africa-style ‘Truth and Reconciliation’.
Pramoedya’s works are still not part of school curricula — even a supposed former dissident has joined the conservative voices against their inclusion into attempts to revise the national history curricula. Media debates on the re-writing of history have been largely concerned with ideas of ‘correcting’ Suharto-centred accounts of specific incidents, such as the ‘General Attack’ on Yogyakarta during the Revolution, or the official version of what happened during the Coup of 30 September 1965. As yet only one or two voices from the margins have advocated a fundamental rethinking of national historiography. All the New Order’s monuments, including those at Lubang Buaya, remain in place. This lack of movement on the subject points to the continued dominance of New Order thinking in Indonesian public culture. It will be a long time before Inside Indonesia can shut up shop, its job of presenting alternatives such as Pramoedya’s vision having been done.
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On their latest tour to Dubai, Anoushay Abbasi and Anzela Abbasi offer a gallery of bold and sizzling pictures. It is not the first time the Khala Bhanji duo has made headlines for their boldly styled photos. No doubt both are looking a lot leaner and tougher than last time. The ladies posted pictures on their Instgram to show off their new bodies and in one, Annoushay shows off his twinkly pearly whites as he pouts for the camera.
Anoushay Abbasi is primarily a drama actress in Pakistan. She is the sister of famous actress Javeria Abbasi. Anzela Abbasi, on the other hand, is the niece of Anoushay Abbasi and the daughter of Javeria Abbasi.
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Year released: 2018
Genre: Black Metal
Review online: November 2, 2022
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Recent polling shows a slight shift in momentum for U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) in the race for the Republican nomination in Alabama's U.S. Senate race.
Brooks has rebounded from his lows, which apparently stemmed from former President Donald Trump rescinding his endorsement earlier this year, and polls have Brooks in contention for a spot in Alabama's U.S. Senate GOP runoff.
During an appearance on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show" on Friday, Brooks said he believed there had to be something to those poll numbers, given the Britt campaign is now once again attacking him.
"Katie Britt wouldn't be spending that kind of money with these dishonest attack ads if we weren't making progress," Brooks said. "As everybody knows, she just got through eviscerating Mike Durant with a lot of dishonest and prejudicial attack ads. And so, now she and her team are turning their fire at me."
Brooks also took umbrage with Britt's attacks on his other opponent, Mike Durant.
"There was some truth to [the attack ads], but the Katie Britt team has a way of being very dishonest and deceitful in the way in which they waged these attacks and prejudicial," Brooks said. "For example, attacking Mike Durant for being born in New Hampshire -- holy cow, you've got to be born someplace. And last time I checked, people have no choice where they're born. What's that got to do with how Mike Durant is going to vote in the United States Senate if he should be elected to that body?
"That's wrong for Katie Britt to do that kind of stuff. Mike Durant owns a place in Colorado? What difference does that make? He's been successful as a businessman. That's also playing to prejudices by Alabamians, at least to the extent Katie Britt can do so. I hope Alabamians won't do so."
However, Brooks went on to say Durant did need to answer for his "disarm the public" remarks from a speech to the U.S. Army War College in 2011, given that it was related to public policy.
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FDA Says Pet Food Recalled After Causing the Death of 28 Dogs
Midwestern Pet Foods Inc. has recalled four different lots of dry cat and dog pet food after an investigation revealed that some of their products contained potentially fatal levels of aflatoxin.
Certain Sportmix pet food products are being linked to the death of at least 28 dogs and at least 8 more becoming ill according to FOX news.
The Missouri Department of Agriculture tested many samples of the food and found high levels of toxicity.
Pets that have been poisoned by the toxin may seem sluggish and have a loss of appetite. They may also experience vomiting, jaundice (yellowish tint to the eyes or gums due to liver damage) and/or diarrhea, the FDA said. In some cases, pets may also suffer from liver damage without even showing symptoms.
Pets are far more susceptible to this poison due to the fact that they typically have the same diet, eating the same food over and over causing the toxin to accumulate in the pets system.
For your pets safety:
-Discard the food.
-Wash and sanitize your pets bowl.
-Wash and sanitize the area the food was stored.
-Contact your veterinarian at the first sign of possible symptoms.
We hope you, and your 4 legged family members have a safe and happy new year.
Do you have our free radio station app yet? If not, it's the perfect way to request a song, talk to the DJs, enter exclusive contests and to stay up to date with everything that's happening in and around San Angelo and the world. When you download it, make sure you turn on the push notifications so that we can send you exclusive content and local breaking news that you need to know about first. Just enter your mobile number below and we'll send a download link right to your mobile device. After that, you can download for free and immediately begin accessing all kinds of exclusive content tailored just for you. Give it a try and stay connected with us. | <urn:uuid:5ec0a287-8698-4ab8-a7a8-0e948ec0f839> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://987kissfmsanangelo.com/fda-says-pet-food-recalled-after-causing-the-death-of-28-dogs/ | 2023-12-08T00:27:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100705.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207221604-20231208011604-00758.warc.gz | en | 0.956044 | 418 | [
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Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War
This book brings together leading British and Spanish historians in an examination of key aspects and themes of the Spanish Civil War. Contributors discuss the politics of memory; recent revisionist historiography; biographies of international volunteers; the experience of nursing in Catalonia; the baptism of fire of Jarama; Britain’s blocking of aid to the Republic; Soviet intervention in the conflict; and the crimes of Franco, both during and after the war.
Review from Amazon
‘Useful compilation of the last 9 years of annual lectures of the IBMT – bringing us up to date with current thinking in the Spanish Civil War as republican memory is revisited. Useful for A Level GSCE, but more so for under/post graduate work.’
Review by Peter Carroll in The Volunteer
‘Looking Back at the Spanish Civil Waris a collection of the first 10 Len Crome annual lectures sponsored by the IBMT. These include Paul Preston’s tribute to the man for whom the series is dedicated, “‘No Soldier’: The Courage and Comradeship of Dr Len Crome,” describing one of the many medical personnel who gave generously to the Spanish cause and later served in World War II. As expected, the British side receives considerable treatment—essays by Richard Baxell and Angela Jackson, and Enrique Moradiellos’s “Albion’s Perfidy” about the pro-Franco response of the British government. But running through most of these essays is a strong international thread: Helen Graham’s “The Return of Republican Memory”; Ángel Vias’s “September 1936: Stalin’s Decision to Support the Spanish Republic”; Julián Casanova’s “History and Memory …
This historical work is good—have no doubt about it—and reflects the growing interest around the world in matters related to the Spanish Civil War and its legacy. Partly the result of new archival discoveries, partly because of the passing of the generation that lived and fought the war, the new scholarship has effectively shifted the historical narrative closer to its original, pre-Cold War position.
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Copyright © 2021. Delhi Public Elementary School
We offer our students a creative, stimulating and nurturing environment to ensure their academic and personal development. They are encouraged to explore, investigate and relish the intrinsic joy of learning. The teachers shape the curriculum to develop the student’s capacity to observe, experiment, think and question.
At Pre –Primary, we formulate the curriculum according to the basic principles of “Children Development” and “Children’s Learning”. Promoting their varied aspect of the development of the young children i.e. Physical and Motor, Language, Cognitive, Socio-emotional and Aesthetic appreciation through the latest teaching methodology (Early Childhood Education).
- We are teaching the children based on a comprehensions of activities both Montessori method as well as Play way method.
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- Nurturing the potential and talent of each child.
We provide a conceptual learning environment in order to build a strong foundation for the students. Our curriculum helps our students to not only acquire knowledge in the core subjects but also creative, communicative, critical and collaborative skills with a focus on sound values and positive attitudes.
- A thematic approach is designed to stimulate the children through various interactive sessions and activities.
- An extensive use of technology labs aids (Smart Classes) and language to supplement classroom teaching.
- Project works, Group Discussion in class, calls for mass.
- Field trips and excursions make learning fun.
- Use of Newspaper Articles, Quiz, Brain Teasers and other learning tools enhance general awareness.
The focus of this programme is on strengthening the knowledge, skills and competencies of students through comprehensive and innovative learning activities. The students learn to question, investigate and think independently. Our curriculum provides and promotes an environment based on developmental readiness, needs and interests.
In this programme, we ensure that our students develop resilience, confidence and maturity before they step into the outside world. The concepts in different disciplines are dealt with diligence and rigour. We assist our students in identifying their areas of strength to help them pursue a programme that is best aligned with their long-term goals.
Gurukul Integration Program
We have started with the very unique initiative of Gurukul Integration program in our school campus in which we are focusing on the preparation of 18 National Level Examination that the students can appear after grade XII which includes the major renowned institutions of India Like JNU, DU, SAT etc. along with the students will get training for the challenges that they have to face after graduation. The entire content of the program is developed by our dedicated and qualified team…Click to know more! | <urn:uuid:586107a3-230a-49ee-92e4-61df07843df8> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://upnishadindore.org/academic-system/ | 2023-12-07T23:53:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100705.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207221604-20231208011604-00758.warc.gz | en | 0.943328 | 590 | [
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March is always a busy month for our student associations, and here at OUSA we have a lot of excitement approaching as well! This weekend, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance will be welcoming students from across the province to work on passing our next round of policy papers. Hosted by the McMaster Student Union, delegates from across the province will engage in conversations about the future of tuition, as well as some of the specific challenges mature students and LGBTQ+ students may face.
The OUSA policy paper on tuition will focus on pragmatically engaging with the province’s new tuition framework. This paper provides a strong overview of the history of tuition in the province and what has led us to where we are today. Following that, the paper will examine how to improve system regulation, ensure fair cost-sharing, address student debt, covering the costs of education and developing fair payment processes. This paper will conclude by examining what the future of tuition in the province should look like. Overall, this is a paper that takes an in-depth look at the current problems surrounding tuition in Ontario while at the same time providing a vision for the future. We are looking forward to hearing what our delegates will have to contribute to this paper.
At McMaster, we will also be having conversations about mature students and some of the specific barriers they face. Universities are bent towards a fairly consistent 9-5 schedule that is not conducive to a good experience for a student trying to go to school while working a full time job. This is just one example of a challenge that are unique to mature students that should be addressed.
Finally, delegates will engage in a discussion about OUSA’s first ever paper on LGBTQ+ students. Surveys conducted by OUSA have demonstrated significant differences in the perceptions of health care provided on campus for students who identify with the LGBTQ+ community. This points to a significant challenge in that services at universities might not be working as well for some students as it might be for others. We are really looking forward to what our delegates will have to contribute to this paper and are glad this will be the next topic we add to our policy library.
This should prove to be a great weekend filled with discussions about important issues for students in Ontario. I look forward to sending everyone an update after General Assembly!
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Could you give me a little more detail on how you do this check? I might add it as a note or caution box below "compass - check, calibrate as required"
Hi there, this is what I also wanted to mention. Before starting the mission, I always hover for 15-20 sec in the air, at low alt. like 2 meters above the ground, I do full 360deg. turn left and right for compas proper function check, and also look for drifting with no joystick input and overall Mavic behavior for slight joysticks touch.
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FREE Tutorial - The McKinley Baby Quilt by Kristie
With a fresh, Spring-colored style and adorable floral attachments, Kristie of Obsessive Crafting Disorder delivers a beautiful design with this free project! Be sure to check out Kristie's other free projects, she has a wonderful site, so please explore! More from Kristie:
"I have had several e-mails of late asking for details about how I made the Mckinley quilt originally blogged here. I thought I would share my pattern for those who would like to give it a try. It is a very simple pattern, suitable for beginners, but has a big impact. I did not take pictures as I went along, so this is an entirely verbal tutorial. But it it pretty simple so I am sure you highly intelligent beings can figure it out with no trouble!
Finished Size: 30" x 41" (76cm x 104cm)
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The Everett School Committee voted 7-3 Monday night to place Superintendent Priya Tahiliani on immediate paid administrative leave pending an outside investigation into complaints made by 10 unnamed individuals against her leadership.
But many students and teachers showed their support for Tahiliani at the meeting and some committee members suggested the vote was politically motivated due to tense relations between Tahiliani and school committee leadership over the past year.
The city, led by Mayor Carlo DeMaria, who also sits on the school committee, said it received 10 employee complaints against Tahiliani in September. The redacted complaints included allegations of a retaliatory and hostile work environment, the school committee's lawyer said.
Three school committee members voted against the move, including Sam Lambert. During Monday’s meeting, Lambert asked why the committee was being notified of the complaints a month after the city received the letters. Other members questioned the lack of information about the individuals or their specific allegations.
“This certainly feels like an orchestrated October surprise,” Lambert said, noting that the vote was taking place one week before Everett holds city elections. Seven of the school committee members are on the ballot.
Committee member Jeanne Cristiano raised similar concerns, calling the meeting a “dog and pony show.”
Everett, a suburb north of Boston, serves roughly 7,500 students. The district is comprised of 85% students of color and almost two-thirds identify as Hispanic.
Tahiliani, the daughter of Indian immigrants and Everett’s first superintendent of color, has served in the role since 2020. She received the President's Award in 2022 from the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents for her outstanding service to public education.
This spring, the school committee voted 6-4 not to renew Tahiliani’s contract, which ends in March 2024, despite widespread support for her leadership among parents, students and community members.
A few weeks later, Tahiliani and her deputy, Kim Tsai, filed a federal lawsuit alleging a culture of racism and retaliation at the hands of Mayor DeMaria and his city allies for allegedly halting attempts to diversify district leadership.
In a prepared statement she read at Monday’s meeting, Tahiliani said she is still in the dark about the nature of the complaints and that any investigation into the claims will show she’s been “doing her job and holding EPS staff accountable.”
“This entire process is as unjust as it is unfounded,” she said, to cheers in the room. The Everett school committee said it would meet again later this week to choose an acting superintendent.
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The words website builder probably make you think of some horrendous tool supplied free from your hosting company, but these days there are lots of hosted CMS solutions that create professional looking websites with extensive features and good underlying code. These solutions allow you to quickly set up a website packed full of features without any coding knowledge, with everything from hosting to tech support covered within the monthly fee. In this post we’ll take a look at some of the most popular hosted CMS website builders to help you decide which one is right for you.
The heavyweight solutions
The two big names that spring to mind when considering hosted website builders are Squarespace and Virb. These solutions don’t have free versions, but you know you’re going to get a comprehensive website that looks and works exceptionally. Squarespace and Virb both offer an extensive range of cool templates and themes, and both have a friendly support team ready to solve your problems.
The free solutions
If you don’t like the idea of paying out $10 per month for a hosted CMS solution these free alternatives might be up your street. Wix and LightCMS have plenty of designs to choose from and include all the great features you need from a hosted CMS solution, but both have a free version that can be upgraded to their premium services at any time. Their free versions are limited though, LightCMS only offers 3 pages, while Wix sites display ads.
The eCommerce solutions
Selling stuff? You’ll probably need an ecommerce solution that allows users to add products to their cart and give you their money. Setting up an eCommerce site soon gets complicated when you consider things like security, but hosted ecommerce solutions make it easy to set up an online store. Shopify and Magento’s Go variant are the two main competitors. Both are trusted companies that will host your store, process your payments and offer helpful reporting tools to keep track of your business growth.
The blogging solutions
If you’re looking to share your passion with the world, a blogging platform is definitely for you. Blogs by nature are social tools that allow you to interact with fellow members of a community. Two of the largest blogging website communities out there are WordPress.com and Tumblr. Both services allow you to set up your own site with tools to easily share photos, links and videos. Best of all they’re completely free.
The unknown solutions
Big names like Squarespace, Shopify and WordPress often spring to mind when thinking of ways to build a website, but there are plenty of smaller solutions that are relatively unknown. Website builders such as Weebly and Edicy offer the same features as those big name brands, but often include more advanced features that would otherwise only be part of a more expensive plan. Weebly has just about every feature you could ever desire in a free package, whereas Edicy is the cheapest of all the premium services featured in this post.
The lightweight solutions
Building a website for your client? We all know the risks of giving them full control of everything! This is where lightweight CMS solutions such as CushyCMS and Surreal CMS come in. Both services allow you to build the site exactly how you want it, then designate editable areas with some simple code to allow clients to then manage and update their own site via the CMS. Being a hosted application also means you don’t have to continuously apply updates or manage your client’s hosting bill. | <urn:uuid:9ff596e9-f0eb-43a1-ba20-027d7284f67c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://line25.com/articles/which-hosted-cms-website-builder-is-right-for-you | 2014-12-18T02:21:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802765584.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075245-00055-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951614 | 714 | [
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Tradewinds is running a powerboat show, and I will shoot a few pics from that later, but what did I see, when I logged in?? I saw an almost mythical ship, and here it is:
|The mythical ship at Tradewinds|
|Details, details, details...|
Here's another view. I also sat in the heli, but I didn't know the commands to fly it. Kudos to Jacques for his amazing work for the ocean and its inhabitants, and what a beautiful build by Sweecahcahche Ah. Hope I got the name right. The rainy holiday? Someone asked me to share a few pics. Not sure it fits this sailing blog though. Will think about it. | <urn:uuid:f5fd9a91-3c24-4f5c-900f-9c8d961412d4> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://noodleqt.blogspot.dk/2011/08/virtual-callypso.html | 2014-12-18T02:20:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802765584.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075245-00055-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983132 | 154 | [
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Forget about remembering with Kwiry's SMS-based social search tool
Track stuff to lookup later with Kwiry.
It happens all the time. You're out somewhere and hear a good song on the radio, or want to jot down a book, movie or TV show you want to look up later. While many phones have built in voice note applications, the information you just (painstakingly) jotted down stays on the phone, and you might just forget about it. A company called Kwiry (like "query") is attempting to help you out with a new service that turns a brief text message into a full blown Web search that you can come back to when you're near a computer. Think of it like Twitter, but with a dash of Remember The Milk and Google.
The service cross checks each item that's been sent its way over a variety of search engines, including ones like Yelp, Yahoo Shopping, Google Maps, and iTunes to help you sniff out restaurants, products, addresses, and music albums. It's how the service intends to make its money, not only by using things like affiliate links, but also inserting sponsored advertising alongside the regular search results.
Just like Twitter, messages sent to Kwiry show up on a personal feed with a simple URL you can share with friends. To toggle a sent message as private, you can give each message a letter prefix by typing "p" in front of it. These will show up alongside the rest of your Kwiry messages, although they'll be denoted with a little private emblem that makes them easy to sort through. You can also set it up so just your friends will see your posts either as a default, or by using a yet another letter prefix in front of your message.
Like any good communication platform Kwiry's got a lot going for it with regards to integration with other social services. There are little modules for Netvibes, iGoogle, Pageflakes, and others, along with a Facebook app that links up with your Kwiry account to show off your latest queried items--although oddly missing is a way to send one from the app (which admittedly is kind of useless if you're on a computer in the first place). Twitter fans are also in luck, as you can simply add Kwiry's Twitter bot as a friend, and send it direct messages that accept the same privacy settings.
The one thing this service is missing is some visual style. I'm not saying it's ugly, but compared to entrances from other micropublishing services like Jaiku, Twitter, and Pownce, Kwiry falls a little on the plain side. The positive to that is that it's super fast, easy, and intuitive, which on the whole is far more important than looks alone. I've added it to my contact list for the time being, although it's worth noting that if your phone's got a data plan, you can probably continue to be
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Frances Lukens looks at the tangle of boards and tree limbs piercing her living room ceiling in Lynchburg, Va. on Saturday, June 30, 2012 after a huge oak tree fell directly on the house during a storm the previous night. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Parker Michels-Boyce)
Gallery: Storm damage in WV and across Mid-Atlantic
Jul. 01, 2012 @ 08:18 AM
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I'm about a week out from AF right now and, like Nicolle (wannabemommy), I've been having a ton of pain on my lower right side (and no evidence of appendicitis symptoms) for the past 3 days. I had it some a few days before O...it went away and then came back with a vengeance 3 days ago. I know there's really nothing they can do about cysts, but the pain is really getting to me and I at least need to see how big this thing is and will probably have to keep watching it. I get cysts fairly often, but they don't usually hurt this long....unless they're bad. I hope to God it's a cyclic one that goes away with an AF or 2, and not one that'll keep growing. I've had those too, and wound up having surgery. Turns out I had 4 of them and one of them had burst...not fun! We're going on a trip in 3 weeks too. I don't want to be in pain. :(
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A research team working in Peru, with members from France, Peru and the U.S. has found a way to track the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) going back as far as ten thousand years. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team reports that their study of clam fossils has revealed clear patterns of the ENSO and report that it has not been increasing in intensity over the course of the Holocene as some have suggested.
People have been living on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Peru for a long time, and as they've done so, they've eaten clams, tossing the shells onto waste areas that grew to become huge mounds over thousands of years. In this new effort, the researchers dug down into several such mounds and extracted clam fossils they found, along with dirt and charcoal—remnants of ancient fires used to cook the clam meat. By taking measurements of oxygen isotopes in the clam shells, the researchers were able to calculate ocean surface temperatures at two to four week intervals throughout the lives of the individual clams, while radiocarbon dating of the dirt and charcoal revealed when the clams made their way into the mound. Examining multiple clams at different depths in the mounds allowed for creating a historical record of sea surface temperatures, and that allowed for charting the cycle of the ENSO going back ten thousand years.
The charts created by the research team suggest that the ENSO cycle does not have a predictable cycle and also that it has not been increasing in strength over the course of the Holocene as others have suggested. They did find some patterns, however. During a period approximately 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, for example, the ENSO was relatively weak, and during another period, from 6,700 to 7,500 years ago, ocean temperatures along the coast of Peru appeared to have been skewed by the location of warm water from an El Niño when trade winds push warm water into the Eastern Pacific. | <urn:uuid:b4eaf51a-03ae-4a87-a7e2-1d982315bcc6> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.scoop.it/t/amazing-science/p/4026028688/2014/08/09/clam-fossils-offer-10-000-year-history-of-el-nino-southern-oscillation | 2014-12-18T04:08:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802765584.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075245-00055-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977394 | 408 | [
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Welcome! You've stumbled across the realm of two young whippersnappers with an inclination toward the silly. There's more to us than that, but for the time being our greatest wish is to entertain you with what entertains us.
We met in middle school and have upheld a cinematic pact to collaborate together ever in filmmaking since. From super short to feature-length, we've continued to do what we love for over 10 years. Even though we won't be posting our films here (for the time being at least), we love the deviantART community and want to share wacky photos and film stills from the stuff we do. Also be sure to check out our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/HapstanceFilms to see what we're usually up to!
Thank you so very, very much for stopping by, and please do visit again soon.
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In what is perhaps the greatest utilization of social media ever, Jeremy Levenbach (a.k.a. @Levenbutt) has been Instagramming his early morning, bare-bottomed misadventures all over the city since mid-2012.
“The first one was taken on my old roof in the East Village,” Mr. Levenbach said. “I texted it to a bunch of friends. They liked it. I did a few more and then started posting them to Instagram.”
Since then, Mr. Levenbach, who takes his friends along to capture the butt shots, has amassed over 2,000 followers on Instagram.
He usually takes the photos in the early morning to avoid police detection (and unsuspecting children), although he has had a few near misses.
“The shot on the A Train, a pretty upset looking conductor caught me putting my clothes back on. I think he thought he caught my photographer and me having sex,” he recounted of the run-in (the A train has seen worse).
Other than that, Mr. Levenbach is pretty mindful when it comes to striking a naked pose. “When people are nearby I tell them what I’m about to do,” he said to the Observer. “Nobody ever seems to care really. When somebody walks by as the photos are being taken they usually laugh, shout stuff and take photos. It’s pretty hard to shock people.”
His Instagram mantra is “I look silly naked,” and he isn’t the slightest bit perturbed over being barefoot (or catcalled, apparently) all over Manhattan. And if it ever gets to a Levenbutt vs. Naked Cowboy showdown, these shots prove that Levenbutt wins. Every time. | <urn:uuid:28282b83-69f6-4a27-998b-7b55269f5d58> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://observer.com/2014/07/levenbutt-goes-ass-backwards-all-over-nyc/ | 2014-12-21T05:46:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770718.139/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00039-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978674 | 377 | [
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Phone No: 785-309-5700
The office of the City Manager is the office of the chief executive of city government. City Manager Jason Gage is appointed by the City Commission for an indefinite term and serves as the City’s Chief Executive and Administrative Officer. As provided by state statute and city ordinance, the City Manager's Office supervises and directs the administration of all city departments to ensure that the laws, ordinances and resolutions of the City are enforced. The City Manager’s Office is responsible for recommending measures for adoption by the City Commission, which are deemed necessary for the welfare of the citizens and the efficient administration of municipal government. Furthermore, the City Manager’s office prepares a proposed budget for the City Commission and is responsible for the appointment and removal of all city employees. The office of the City Manager is located in Room 202, City/County Building, 300 W. Ash Street. | <urn:uuid:d61f45ff-bfb1-4960-8e47-0d73b1270df4> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://salina.ks.us/content/126/180/default.aspx | 2014-12-21T05:20:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770718.139/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00039-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944879 | 187 | [
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Famed interior designer Carleton Varney will be the first of four speakers, including architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen and actress and philanthropist Ali MacGraw, in the second annual Voices of Our Times series at the Huntsville Museum of Art. Varney will kick off the series with a Valentine's Day champagne reception, luncheon and book signing, and if Christopher J. Madkour has his way, broadcaster and author Tom Brokaw, will close it out in August.
"This year, the series going to be very interesting and very diverse," Madkour said of the program he began in 2012, several months after he became executive director of the museum. The series of talks was modeled after one he developed at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, where he was director for 22 years.
Last year, the speakers included Matthew Bogdanos, a U.S. Marine colonel who lead the task force to recover antiquities stolen from the National Museum of Iraq, Gloria Vanderbilt and Wendy Goodman, author of "The World of Gloria Vanderbilt," and Betty Monkman, former curator at the White House.
The dates of the talks by Jacobsen and MacGraw are still to be determined. Jacobsen, a renowned architect from Georgetown, a historic area of Washington D.C., will be coming to Huntsville in March. Now 83, Jacobsen opened his practice in 1958 and has designed famous residential homes and museums as well as buildings for colleges and government.
MacGraw will be here in April, Madkour said. She'll talk about her life in Hollywood, where she catapulted to fame after appearing in the 1971 hit movie, "Love Story." She'll also talk about her life post-Hollywood. She now lives in Sante Fe, N.M., where she is involved in philanthropic and social causes.
"The Huntsville crowd is going to love her," Madkour said. "She's charming, cute and amazing to be with and very articulate and passionate about her social and environmental causes."
Madkour is working to get Brokaw to Huntsville to open an "emotionally riveting" exhibit of World War II photography from the Associated Press in August. The Southern Vermont Arts Center held the exhibit several years ago, with legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite cutting the ribbon for the show, Madkour said.
Madkour began the Voices of Our Times series as a way to "round out and expand the programming of the museum," he said. "I feel like it raises the profile of the museum, and it's one of the many benefits we can offer to our members," who receive a discounted price on tickets to the series.
The series is also a way "to share Huntsville with our guest speakers," Madkour said. All of last year's speakers left as fans of the city and its residents. Monkman has emailed Madkour to comment on her experience here and encourages her friends to visit. Vanderbilt held a fundraiser for the museum in New York City in September, designating the museum as the recipient of the proceeds from a gallery opening of her work and a dinner in her honor.
"It's wonderful to have these roving ambassadors for Huntsville," Madkour said.
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GMO sun flower seeds, how can I tell?
I planted some sunflowers a while ago and recently I collected the seeds from the flowers and replanted them. The original seeds were from a packet which I threw away. I've planted the new seeds and it's been a week and the haven't sprouted, I'm not sure if I was really unlucky or if the seeds have been genetically modified in order for them not to grow new plants. I still have some seeds left over so I was wondering if there was anyway to tell if they have been modified somehow.
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wulfhere (217) - Billings, Montana, USA - NOV 21, 2003
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Again I say--if you want a mulled beer--buy a Gluekriek. Even Goudenband has more spicy character than the Old Fezziwig.
If you HAVE to try this--don't get it in a variety pack that's been sitting around Costco for 6 months--buy it as fresh as you can.
The spicy nutmeg flavor is better in the fresh version--I've had the Costco version and it's stale and flat compared to fresh.
Bright, light fruit tones, with a thin white head and spicy aroma.
Hints of hop and cirander as well as cinnamon and nutmeg.
Not a bad ale, but I prefer the Belgians--you get the gravity, the fruit and the spice with them. Fezziwig lacks character by comparison.
archstanton (105) - mukilteo, Washington, USA - NOV 19, 2003
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: NOV 20, 2003 what a great freak beer i love it its fruity very sweet and very thick the orange taste is wonderfull and it has a nice hint of nutmeg..very good freak beer
sethdude (702) - St. Louis, Missouri, USA - NOV 19, 2003
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Smells like very sweet malts, very mild hops. Poured a deep garnet color, plenty of carbonation, tiny head, decent lace. Flavor is fruit, followed by toffee, the nuttiness. Palate is pretty good for this flavor. Tastes something like an Octoberfest, or even a Bock. Not too impressive, but not offensive, either.
flutetokill (523) - Fresno, California, USA - NOV 19, 2003
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep reddish brown color with a tan head. Nice roasty caramel and dark fruit aroma. Sweet malt, roasted chocolate, caramel, alcohol and dark fruit flavors. Nice lightly tingly feel.
loweredsixth (946) - Clovis, California, USA - NOV 19, 2003
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Glowing dark ruby color with a thick tan head. The aroma was slightly burnt...some caramel, cherries, and alcohol. The flavor was better...caramel, chocolate, dark fruit, sugar. Crisp carbonation.
notalush (4992) - Denver, Colorado, USA - NOV 16, 2003
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark amber, slight ruby, initially large head that shrinks quickly, leaving a tiny lacing - aroma of cinnamon and caramel - flavor has some of the same, as well as a very cookie/toasty kind of flavor - some chocolate - toasty finish with lingering malts - a pleasant surprise.
hopscotch (9517) - Vero Beach, Florida, USA - NOV 15, 2003
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Very handsome, crystal clear, copper ale. Looks like a shiny, new penny. Creamy, off-white head. Great retention with creamy lacework.
Malty and caramely nose with a hint of vanilla.
Very rich, malty flavor. I know it's spiced, but I don't taste it. The malt must override the spice. Decently balanced. This chunk of buttery caramel should be wrapped in wax paper and handed out to children on Halloween, not poured into a glass. Medium-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and lively carbonation. The finish is very dry and astringent. An inexpensive fix for we maltheads! Trick or Treat?
Hangover (1064) - Atlanta, Alabama, USA - NOV 14, 2003
3.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Holiday sampler. No head to speak of. Very dark brown color. I could smell the caramel. An interesting "winter" beer. Spices/caramel and even some citrus... all go together pretty well. Personally I like this darker winter beer. More appealing than the sam adams winter lager which I found rather decent. Will buy again.
ZepolK (102) - South Side Montebello, California, USA - NOV 13, 2003
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Fruity spice sent and ruby red color with a medium tan head. Spice and hop flavor that is suprisingly good. I think this is one of Sam Adam's best beers.
beastdog75 (363) - Brick, New Jersey, USA - NOV 12, 2003
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Delectable dining gems hidden in the Sierra foothills,
By Ethan Fletcher
Updated 10:29 pm, Friday, February 28, 2014
Many in the Bay Area are likely familiar with El Dorado County as merely a blur of pretty scenery viewed on the way to and from Lake Tahoe. But next time you're whizzing down Highway 50, make a point to slow down and explore.
From classic American breakfast served with small-town charm in historic downtown Placerville to escargot at a hidden French bistro in little Diamond Springs, there's a lot of great dining to be uncovered within these rolling foothills.
And yes, South Lake Tahoe is within the county's borders, but that's a dining scene unto itself that we'll dig into another time.
Located just off Highway 50, Placerville is the county's spiritual and commercial beating heart. And for the last seven years, HeyDay Cafe has served as its unassuming culinary centerpiece.
Owners Jeff and Judy Thoma and Ben Carter's original restaurant (they recently opened the larger, sleeker Independent down the road) retains an intimately rustic feel and serves American fare that's a notch (or two) above the norm.
I was skeptical, but the butternut squash salad ($11) delivered. The sweet squares of buttery squash added a hearty element to the honey-lemon dressed mixed greens blended with crunchy roasted almonds, bacon and creamy goat cheese. You can also add chicken ($4), prawns or salmon (both $5) to any of the salads, which include classics such as Caesar ($8.50) and Greek ($11).
One of the centerpieces of HeyDay's menu is the pizza, and they make an excellent version. My margherita ($12 small, $17 large) came with the standard mix of marinara, fresh mozzarella and basil, but was elevated by the addition of a light basil pesto and whole sliced tomatoes.
The streamlined entree section has a few meat dishes, such as marinated Greek chicken ($20) and spice-rubbed New York steak ($25), along with fish and vegetarian options. A tender pork tenderloin ($23) was perfectly cooked with a sweet coffee glaze balanced by creamy, savory wedges of grilled polenta. Make sure to check out the expansive, affordable, wine list.
325 Main St., Placerville; (530) 626-9700. www.heydaycafe.com. Lunch and dinner daily. Beer and wine. Reservations and credit cards accepted.
If HeyDay shows off Placerville's newer, more sophisticated side, Sweetie Pie's is an example the city's folksy roots.
Housed in an 1865-era Victorian that owners Patty and Ron Clark restored in 1991, this family-friendly breakfast and lunch spot packs in locals and tourists alike for unpretentious diner fare served with an easy smile.
Don't come here expecting gourmet - you can find organic eggs from cage-free chickens at Cozmic Cafe across the street. But the egg scrambles ($8.50-$10) are solid, all the baked goods are made in house, and the coffee is good and strong. For the latest local news and gossip, just hang by the serve-yourself coffee station, the city's unofficial water cooler.
If available, grab a table in the sunny side room. Between the vintage wallpaper, views over historic Main Street, and the kids squealing in delight at their Mickey Mouse-shaped pancakes, you might just think you've been transported back to the 1950s - if not the 1860s.
577 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-0128. www.sweetiepies.biz. Breakfast and lunch daily. Reservations and credit cards accepted.
I'm a sucker for a restaurant with good music. So I was pretty well enamored when I walked into Cafe Mahjaic's charming dining room and heard Bob Dylan drifting down from the speakers.
Owner and executive chef John Metropulos' cuisine has a similar artistic bent, mixing creatively eclectic flavors with locally sourced ingredients into his loosely Mediterranean-themed menu.
That's most evident in the entrees. Mahjaic's signature dish is the chocolate chipotle prawns ($23), the centerpiece of which is the subtle Scharffen Berger chocolate and chipotle chile-fortified sauce. Even after I polished off the juicy sauteed prawns, I used the addictive sauce as gravy for the accompanying jasmine rice.
The pasta changes daily, and on my visit Metropulos crafted a flavor-packed pesto with sauteed mushrooms and squash atop a delicate house-made pappardelle ($18).
Even better were the more simply prepared appetizers, especially the artichoke starter ($11). The tender, meaty artichokes were imbued with char flavor from the grill, and dressed plainly with olive oil and lemon. Fresh pita and zesty, garlicky hummus could have been served on its own for a similar price.
Half the appeal here is the intimate setting, a beautifully renovated former mining supply store with exposed brick and wood beams on the ground floor of the Lotus Inn. The tiny town of Lotus is about 15 minutes north of Placerville, and if you can, dine early while there's still light so as to take in the lovely rolling terrain on the drive north along Highway 49.
1006 Lotus Road, Lotus; (530) 622-9587. www.cafemahjaic.com. Dinner Wednesday-Sunday. Beer and wine. Reservations and credit cards accepted.
Perhaps my favorite restaurant in the area is this jewel of a French bistro hidden within a mini mall.
Husband-and-wife team Christian and Jennifer Masse, who ran the much-loved Zachary Jacques for 20 years in Placerville, opened Allez as a takeout spot in 2005. It proved so popular, that last year the Masses moved into a larger space with dine-in capacity.
The result is a charmingly cozy cafe (complete with tiny six-seat wine bar), in which French native Christian prepares his country's fare at its very best - simple, hearty, affordable and completely delicious.
Befitting the space, the menu is fairly compact. I started with an excellent escargot ($10), the pleasantly earthy, funky snails drenched in a lip-smacking garlic-packed herb butter sauce. Spicy prawns ($12), crab cakes ($9) and a French cheese plate ($12) also make the appetizer list. Baguette sandwiches are all $8, including a satisfying version made with generous slices of housed-made pate, cornichons and Dijon mustard.
Don't skip the entrees. Coq au vin ($13) is a delight, with tender pieces of dark meat, mushrooms, carrots and pearl onions draped in a pristine red wine stock that had clearly been labored over.
The crepes change daily, and the women at the adjacent table were raving about theirs. It's that kind of place; diners seemed to be enjoying, and audibly praising, their food.
Smith Flat House
This hidden find is in the basement of the historic Smith Flat building in Apple Hill, about five minutes east of Placerville. The restaurant wisely embraces its cellar locale, showing off the former mine shafts and showcasing the exposed rock wall, while warming things up with cozy wooden booths and tables.
The ground floor of the building now houses a holistic health center, and fittingly the restaurant keeps things light on a menu, and wine list, that stresses local sources.
A signature dish is the Smith Flat linguine ($16), al dente pasta in a concentrated marinara sauce that's loaded with seasonal vegetables. Flatbread pizzas ($7.50) are a favorite and can come similarly topped with produce.
Entrees, such as a boneless pork chop ($19) and roasted chicken breast ($17), tend to emphasize simple preparation that allows the main protein to shine.
My tender steelhead ($21) was worthy of the star turn, grilled just to doneness and dappled with a flavorful blood orange hollandaise that didn't overwhelm the delicate fish.
2021 Smith Flat Road, Suite F, Placerville; (530) 621-1003. www.smithflathouse.com. Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday. Beer and wine. Reservations and credit cards accepted.
With its glittering faux Italian decor, this grand 9,500-square-foot "upscale-casual" restaurant in affluent El Dorado Hills seems closer to Las Vegas than the sleepy foothills.
Fortunately it's mostly the design - complete with a showcase kitchen, enormous curving bar and four fireplaces - that's upscale. The vibe is casual and fun, and the middle-of-the-road new American fare remains approachable and fairly affordable.
You can leave pleasantly full by just sticking with the non-entree section of the menu. Amply portioned salads include one with wasabi-seared ahi tuna atop peanut-dressed soba noodles ($14.95), and another showcasing bistro steak with a creamy Gorgonzola dressing ($14.95). Appetizers are also hearty; the citrus-spiced ahi tuna ($11.95) didn't skimp on the fresh flash-seared tuna.
The "specialties under $15" section is likewise packed with robust crowd-pleasers such as prime rib French dip ($14.95), chicken enchiladas ($14.95) and Kobe beef-bacon sliders ($12.95).
It's easy to fill up quickly, but the main courses are worth the restraint. In particular, the tender, marbled prime skirt steak ($23.95) nicely spiked with sharp blue cheese butter.
3909 Park Drive, El Dorado Hills; (916) 941-9694. www.siennarestaurants.com. Lunch and dinner daily, brunch Sunday. Full bar. Reservations and credit cards accepted.
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Lera Joyce Baldridge Riggs Ansley, 88, of Wichita Falls passed away Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Funeral Services will be held at 2:30 PM Friday, November 4, 2011 at First United Methodist Church of Wichita Falls with Dr. Paul Goodrich officiating. Entombment will follow in Crestview Memorial Park Mausoleum. No formal visitation is scheduled.
Mrs. Ansley was born December 18, 1922 in Hillsboro, TX to the late William Vaughn and Vivian Christi (Dollar) Baldridge. She married James Frank (Jim) Riggs in 1940 in Wichita Falls and he preceded her in death on November 4, 1960. She later married Lem Thurmond Ansley in 1963 and he also preceded her in death on March 7, 1984. Mrs. Ansley resided in Wichita Falls since 1945 and was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church and was a member of the Dorcas Class. She was also a member of the Women's Forum, Maskat Shrine Temple Daughters of the Nile, serving as Captain of the Patrol and the PTA of Crockett School. She was an avid fan of the Dallas Cowboys and George Strait. She was co-owner and operator of Ansley Appliance and the Lamplighter.
Survivors include her children, Linda DeArmond and husband, James of Possum Kingdom Lake, Carol Stewart and husband, Bill of Arlington, TX, Shelli Skinner of Comanche, OK and Will Ansley of Frisco, TX; sister, Sue Spradling and husband, Richard of Ft. Worth, TX; sisters-in-law, Doris Evans of Spring, TX and Frances Riggs of Troup, TX; grandchildren, Dennis DeArmond, Darice Wilkins, Deedee Grider, Susan Patterson, Robert Stewart, Sheryl Stewart, Kristi Liles, Amanda Fox, Melissa Skinner, William Matthew Ansley and Emily Mae Ansley; great grandchildren, Justin, Cody, Taylor, Lauren, Jaxon, Lea, Luke, Lance, Christopher, Brayden, Kesley, Makayla, Keegan, David, Jordan, Michael, Henry and Katelyn; nieces, Christi, Sylvia, Sandy and Theresa; nephew, Howard; special friend, Diana DeArmond. Mrs. Ansley was also preceded in death by a sister-in-law, Boose Thompson and a nephew, Larry Evans.
The family would like to thank Doctors Scott Hoyer, Ricky Ho and Cameron Godfrey, her friends and staff at Senior Care and the staff of Hospice for their support and care these many years. The family suggests memorials to Hospice of Wichita Falls, 4909 Johnson Rd., 76310 or the First United Methodist Church of Wichita Falls, 909 10th Street, 76301. | <urn:uuid:68cd0e76-302d-4cdc-90f8-0ee4010f52c0> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary-print.aspx?n=Joyce-Ansley&lc=4197&pid=154441681&mid=4872305 | 2014-12-22T15:17:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802775392.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075255-00119-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947259 | 582 | [
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Earlier this month President Obama made headlines when he announced the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year. As a result of this drawdown, the Department of Defense has announced its plan to increase military presence in the Persian Gulf region, The New York Times reports.
This new presence likely includes new combat forces in Kuwait. In theory, U.S. troops positioned in Kuwait would be able to respond to an aggression by Iran or a collapse of security within Iraq.
While the majority of the public welcomed Obama’s announcement that would end the ten year war in Iraq, a promise he campaigned on in 2008, a lot of military and national security experts are leery of the plan, saying this could cause instability in the region. Critics unsuccessfully tried to pressure the president and Iraqi forces to leave as many as 20,000 troops in the country for security reasons.
In addition to Kuwait, the U.S. may send more naval warships to the region.
“The only people who think that our robust presence in the Gulf is going to help with Iraq are people who have never been in the military,” Michael Rubin, fellow at American Enterprise Institute (AEI) told The Christian Post.
“The fact of the matter is, you have to ask permission to cross borders. So if our troops are needed, they will get there hours too late.”
According to the Times, the Department of State will seek to bolster ties with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman as a new "security architecture" for the region.
Maj. Gen. Karl R. Horst, Central Command's chief of staff, told the Times the plan was being described as "Back to the future" and "said the command was focusing on smaller but highly capable deployments and training partnerships with regional militaries."
"We are kind of thinking of going back to the way it was before we had a big 'boots on the ground' presence," he told the Times. "I think it is healthy. I think it is efficient. I think it is practical."
After Obama made his withdrawal announcement, he made it clear that Iraqi leaders refused to give U.S. troops immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts, and that without it America’s stay in the country was short-lived.
“That’s nonsense,” Rubin said in response to Obama’s explanation.
“Obama doesn’t understand how Iraqis negotiate. They will go down to the last deadline and that’s when the real negotiating begins. We are months away from the wire. There’s a saying that ‘Americans play checkers while the Iranians play chess’ and in this case, it’s true.”
“Our withdrawal makes Iran cocky. It’s dangerous. Iraq needed American troops there to balance out the Iranians.”
Rubin said he believes Obama’s withdrawal decision was a completely political one.
“National security was not even thought about,” he asserted.
According to the Times, 12 senators demanded hearings on the White House’s ending of negotiations with Iraq on the counterterrorism efforts within the country.
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Vascular Solutions' SuperCross FT is a flexible-tip version of its line of SuperCross microcatheters. It is designed to address the majority of complex interventional procedures in which a flexible tipped microcatheter is needed.
Vascular Solutions' family of SuperCross microcatheters consists of single lumen, over-the-wire microcatheters designed for guidewire support and exchange, as well as the infusion of contrast media or therapeutic agents in the coronary and peripheral vasculature. The full-length braided stainless steel construction and low profile of the SuperCross microcatheters allow access to small and tortuous vessels and enhance the ability to cross plaque lesions.Like the other models of SuperCross, the SuperCross FT is compatible with 0.014-inch guidewires. Also like the original straight-tip model, SuperCross FT is available in 130 cm and 150 cm working lengths, has a fully embedded gold distal marker band, a clear proximal catheter hub, two depth mark indicators to aid in determining position within the guide catheter, and a hydrophilic coating on the distal 40 cm to enhance deliverability to the target vasculature.All versions of the SuperCross microcatheters are intended to be used in conjunction with steerable guidewires to access discrete regions of the coronary and/or peripheral vasculature. They may be used to facilitate placement and exchange of guidewires and other interventional devices and to subselectively infuse/deliver diagnostic and therapeutic agents.
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- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) cut green beans, drained
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) cut wax beans, drained
- 1 can (11 ounces) whole kernel corn, drained
- 2 celery ribs, thinly sliced
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped sweet red pepper
- 1/2 cup sliced ripe olives
- 1/2 cup sliced green onions, optional
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup white vinegar
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- In a large bowl, combine the first nine ingredients. In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the sugar, vinegar, oil, mustard and salt; cover and shake well until sugar is dissolved. Pour over bean mixture and gently toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Serve with a slotted spoon. Yield: 14 servings.
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On The Rush Limbaugh Show, host Rush Limbaugh claimed that today’s 5-4 ruling on the Ricci case in the US Supreme Court was really a 9-0 decision. Limbaugh claimed that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent criticized Sotomayor, when, she is not even mentioned in the dissent. He also said that the Court found that Sotomayor is a racist. Once again, Rush is inventing facts.
Here is the audio of Rush Limbaugh courtesy of Media Matters:
Rush said, “The Court found that she was indeed a racist. Let me tell you something, this is a 5-4 decision. The driveby’s in the state run media saying it is a 5-4 decision along ideological lines. If you read Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you’ll find out it is a nine zip decision, because even those in the minority found that the Second Circuit botched this totally by not even having a trial. They just found for New Haven in summary judgment. It is a disastrous case.” He also claimed that the scope of the Supreme Court’s ruling was limited because Sotomayor engaged in racist behavior.
Here is what Ginsburg wrote about both of the lower court decisions,” In a decision summarily affirmed by the Court of Appeals, the District Court granted summary judgment for respondents. 554 F. Supp. 2d 142 (Conn. 2006), aff’d, 530 F. 3d 87 (CA2 2008) (per curiam). Under Second Circuit precedent, the District Court explained, “the intent toremedy the disparate impact” of a promotional exam “is not equivalent to an intent to discriminate against nonminority applicants.” 554 F. Supp. 2d, at 157 (quoting Hayden v. County of Nassau, 180 F. 3d 42, 51 (CA2 1999)).”
I read through Ginsburg’s entire dissent, and I can’t find what Limbaugh is talking about, probably because it isn’t there. This isn’t a 9-0 decision, as Limbaugh claimed. It was a much divided 5-4 decision. Rush is trying to use this case to derail the confirmation of Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, but in her dissent Ginsburg states that she believes that the lower courts acted properly by relying on 25 years of legal precedent.
It is interesting that right wingers like Limbaugh applauded today’s decision which was based on conservative judicial activism. What the majority ruling accomplished today was a reversal of 25 years of employment discrimination decisions. Essentially this ruling does not allow employers to voluntarily comply with Title VII if they believe that a test was discriminatory. Under today’s ruling it must be demonstrated that a procedure was intentionally discriminatory.
The majority also stacked the deck, by taking the unusual step of not remanding the case back to the lower court. As Ginsburg wrote, “The Court stacks the deck further by denying respondents any chance to satisfy the newly announced strongbasis-in-evidence standard. When this Court formulates a new legal rule, the ordinary course is to remand and allow the lower courts to apply the rule in the first instance. See, e.g., Johnson v. California, 543 U. S. 499, 515 (2005); Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U. S. 273, 291 (1982). I see no good reason why the Court fails to follow that course in this case. Indeed, the sole basis for the Court’s peremptory ruling is the demonstrably false pretension that respondents showed “nothing more” than “a significant statistical disparity.”
This decision won’t harm Sotomayor’s confirmation. Republicans will try to use this case as a weapon against her, but it won’t work. The Supreme Court did not proclaim Sonia Sotomayor a racist today, but the majority did continue to chip away at the rights of employees and potential employees as they relate to workplace discrimination. | <urn:uuid:ea766dab-7229-49e9-b240-cb9fe1a6e382> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://archives.politicususa.com/2009/06/29/Limbaugh-Ricci.html | 2014-12-26T07:58:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447548655.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185908-00023-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94593 | 852 | [
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- Lowered the waist by 2 inches
- Increased dart length and width slightly (1/4 inch on all sides)
- Lengthened the pants legs by an inch
- Increased waistband by 4 inches to accommodate the increased width requirement of the lowered waist
- Lower the waist 1 inch more (for a total of 3 inches). No need to increase the waistband because the 4 inch increase from the previous alteration is adequate.
- Lower darts another .25 inch
- Take .25 inch out of the front crotch starting 2 inches from the base (i.e. the lowest point of the curve)
Again, in the latest version, my outer side seam allowances were more than 1.5 inches because of the stretch in the denim. I really should cut the pattern rather than the fabric next time. I have wasted so much! (Natch, the minute I switch fabrics, all bets are off...)
Some thoughts so far:
- What were the Vogue people thinking when they determined the rise of the original pattern?! I know I'm short-waisted, but seriously - I will have removed 3 inches of fabric from the waist when all is said and done. And they aren't "low rise"!
- I'm amazed by the volume of alterations I've made overall - and that practically all of them are on the front legs. I placed the new front leg pattern over the (uncut) original and it's an entirely different size and shape. I mean, there are NO similarities at this point. The crotch is a different curve and length, the overall length is different, the waist is lower, the legs are narrower (by an inch). And there I thought (admittedly, only for 5 minutes) that they were perfect right out of the package. Hmmm...
- I'm intrigued to be creating a sloper - because, it appears, that's what I'm doing. I wonder how it might translate onto other patterns in the future.
I believe that every woman (person) has a certain body part, the shape of which is perplexing. For some it's a round, high ass. For others, the thighs are wide. There are those who just can't figure out how to flatter the arms. My "issue" (and I have chosen not to judge it, I am merely observing) is the boobs. Well, it's the boobs being large while the back and shoulders are narrow and the front torso is about average (relative to my pattern size). I've adapted to the FBA (full bust adjustment). That's a scary alteration, btw. About as complex as it gets. Then all the variables add to the complexities and, before you know it, you're hyperventilating.
This doesn't mean that my lower half is standard issue. I mean, this fitting process is proving that at every stage. But somehow the alterations seem knowable - more linear, in general. When I buy RTW pants, it is not an unpleasant process. Many times, I try on items that are ugly and ill-fitting, but I simply blame the garment and move on. I really don't take it personally. Not like when a blouse with buttons doesn't fit, or when a jacket won't close.
Why is this? I am, apparently, no more physically unusual in my upper body than in my lower body. (And BTW, neither are you.) Do I simply like pants more? Is it a matter of a top-half mental block? Are pants easier (in my books, definitely, but some people swear that they aren't)? Is my spatial reasoning that much improved these days? Is it beginner's romance?
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It should be noted that many of actors and actresses that helped make classic films during the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's were in high demand during the early years of television. The anthology series was a popular genre in the 1950's and 1960's. These type of shows offered excellent opportunities for actors and actresses to be the star of an episode rather than a supporting player. Thriller was one of the best in my opinion. Thriller was hosted by Boris Karloff and ran on NBC from 1960 to 1962. The stories featured were suspense, mystery, and/or supernatural in nature. The fifth episode of the series was entitled Rose's Last Summer starring Mary Astor.
Last year, David and I purchased the complete Thriller series on DVD. I really enjoyed many episodes. One that stood out for me was Rose's Last Summer starring Mary Astor. I've loved Mary Astor as long as I can remember. She was a pivotal player in so many great films starting in the 1920's. I have always admired her ability to successfully transition from the silent era to the sound era as well as from leading lady to character actress. Maybe that's why I love this episode. Mary gets to play a former film star named Rose French.
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Now, thanks to both the Discovery and Science Channels -- which are owned by the same media conglomerate -- thousands of Americans will be able to enjoy the competition on television. As the private race to the moon heats up, both channels will offer coverage of the testing phases of various teams, and eventually of the liftoff and subsequent live lunar landing too.
There are currently 18 teams competing for the $30 million prize, including several U.S. teams: Astrobotic, Moon Express, Omega Envoy and the Penn State Lunar Lion.
To win, the teams must do more than just land a craft on the moon -- no small feat. Their space craft, once on the lunar surface, must travel at least 1,650 feet and transmit video, images and data of its lunar conquests back to Earth. All this must be accomplished by December 31, 2015.
Several smaller $1 million prizes will be awarded for intermediate milestones throughout the competition.
"More than half the world's population has never had the opportunity to experience a live broadcast from the moon," Robert K. Weiss, Lunar X's vice president, said in a statement. "Partnering with Discovery Channel and Science Channel will allow us to engage the public around this milestone event, creating an ‘Apollo Moment’ for the next generation.”
Eileen O’Neill, the vice president of the group that owns Discovery Channel, Science Channel and Velocity, is also excited about the opportunity. “The $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE offers all the ingredients of fantastic television; stakes, competition, big characters and mind-blowing visuals," she said. | <urn:uuid:be28e19a-8149-4e3a-ae63-ea8e310d77ef> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2014/04/07/Science-Discovery-Channels-to-broadcast-private-race-to-the-moon/5101396893499/?spt=fsb&or=ros&n=7 | 2014-12-20T00:20:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769121.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00079-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942987 | 337 | [
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So, I've been looking at a ton of head units, some $500 plus to give me bluetooth, GPS, Video, and an IPhone hookup.
So, saving up and budgeting it out, then I saw this beauty in WalMart:
Sounds good and also solves my "Where to put my phone while I'm driving" issues.
Thought I'd share for everyone else. I personally have never seen a head unit like this. It's cheap because it doesn't have to do anything - your IPod/IPhone does it all for you! | <urn:uuid:17037a83-b79d-4a8c-b260-754698da7706> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.ramforumz.com/showthread.php?t=55630&goto=nextoldest | 2014-12-21T10:08:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770829.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00159-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970797 | 119 | [
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October 24th, 2011 by claremont
November 5th will be a big day of celebration here at the Claremont because Jack and Catherine are getting married here!
We will make sure that everything runs smoothly and that their wedding is a great success.
Have a lovely day Jack and Catherine and we wish you all the very best for your future together!
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By Becky Johnson & Lee Kaplan
Didn't Israel drive out 600,000 Palestinians at gunpoint in 1948 and take their land?
Most Arabs who left Israel did so under the orders of the Arab leader, the Grand Mufti, to withdraw and let the Arab armies "drive the Jews into the sea," which they attempted in 1948. However Israel won that war. Not all of the Arabs left, and Israel is now 18% Arab. These Arabs have full citizenship rights, can own property, vote, and have 14 representatives in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.
I've heard that some Israelis say there is no such thing as Palestinians. How can they say that?
Up until the 1967 war, the Arabs living in Israel did not even call themselves Palestinians -- twenty years after the founding of the modern state of Israel. The name Palestine came from the Romans who destroyed the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD. To humiliate the Jews, the Romans renamed the land Palestine after their mortal enemies, the Philistines. The modern land of Palestine was given that name by the British when they took control over from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. In British Palestine, both Jews and Arabs were Palestinians.
Why doesn't Israel just give back the West Bank to the Palestinians? Then there will be peace.
In 1948, Israel's Arab neighbors tried to destroy the State of Israel. They rejected a Palestinian State, which the UN offered them at the same time as when Israel was founded. Prior to 1967, the West Bank was part of Jordan. Currently Jordan has a peace treaty with Israel. The West Bank, which Jews call Judea and Samaria, is part of the ancient kingdom of Israel, and has been home to Arabs and Jews for thousands of years. Arafat himself said he will take back Israel in its entirety, if he has to do it all at once or piece by piece.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is looking for any excuse to invade and shoot Palestinians. Why did the Israeli people even elect him?
The directives given the IDF are strictly against the taking of innocent civilian life. Sharon withdrew ELEVEN times from the West Bank to effect a cease-fire. Each time Israel was attacked by suicide bombers. The Palestinian Authority failed to arrest them And instead paid their families awards. They even named streets after them as "martyrs". How can anyone take an enemy seriously that encourages the terror attacks? In 2000, President Clinton and Prime Minister Barak tried to offer the Palestinians a state, which included 95% of the West Bank. Arafat rejected the offer and launched the latest intifada or uprising. The sniper killings and suicide bombings are the method used to attack Israeli citizens. The Israeli people, who were angered when Arafat rejected Barak's offer, elected the hard-liner Sharon by a la! ndslide. Sharon has prevented more terror attacks than he has instigated. To blame him for the terror attacks is like blaming a woman for being raped.
Why are there so many more dead Palestinians than dead Israelis? Doesn't this prove that Israel is the aggressor here?
Several reasons combine to explain the differential death toll. First, the numbers are skewed. The Palestinians count the suicide bombers as "civilian casualties". They also count terrorists killed in shootouts with the police or IDF. Fact is, if civilians were only counted, Israeli casualties would be higher. Snipers who open fire on civilians are immediately hunted down and arrested, but many fight until they are shot. A big factor appears to be Palestinian gunmen who hide themselves in populated areas, which causes a high civilian death toll when the IDF tries to shoot back at them. The IDF has a policy of a measured response to a terrorist attack. These reprisals rarely involve death or injury. Also, given the P.A.'s problems with math, such as claiming 1,500 killed in Jenin when it was 52, their calculations are highly suspect. Israel has 10,000 people who are invalids, in comas or scarred in other ways for life.
Wait a minute! Israel has a heavily armed state-of-the-art military and the Palestinians only have rocks and a few old guns. Shouldn't our sympathies be with the Palestinians who only want their freedom from oppression and the opportunity for self-rule?
The Palestinians are using more than rocks, although stonings can be very violent too, causing death and serious injury. They have Qasem rockets. They have grenades. They have M-16's and Kalashnikovs [Ed.: Russian made assault rifles]. Arafat demanded weapons claiming he needed an armed police force to keep order. Those guns, provided by none other than Israel, have been linked with numerous terrorist attacks. Many weapons have been smuggled in from Egypt as well. The Palestinian police ARE the terrorists such as Fatah and Al Aksa. Currently the Palestinians, have self-rule under the Oslo accords yet persist in attacking Israel.
Don't the Israelis build roads and freeways that bypass Palestinian villages and they aren't allowed to use them?
They do bypass them. They were built because when Israelis drive by them they are shot at or have rocks thrown at them. Boulders dropped from heights above the roads have killed some. If the Israelis built freeways on Arab land, they'd complain the Israelis were taking Arab land or that they were damaging the environment.
Every time a Palestinian wants to go somewhere they have to go thru an Israeli checkpoint. Isn't this humiliating for the Palestinian people?
Humiliating? US citizens have to wait two hours at checkpoints at the airport. It's called security against terrorism. Suicide bombers kill Arabs too.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) regularly prevents ambulances from picking up sick and wounded people. Isn't this a crime against humanity?
They don't prevent medical care. However, time and time again the Arabs have transported bombs and terrorists in ambulances so now they must be thoroughly checked. Israel gives free medical care to many Palestinians. In Jenin last April, the IDF supplied blood to the hospital for wounded Palestinians. But the blood was rejected because the Palestinians would not use Jewish blood. So the IDF using military transports brought in blood from Jordan.
The Israelis have stopped the Palestinians from normal commerce, from employment, and now they are suffering from food shortages. How can they justify this?
Commerce and employment were higher when Israel controlled the area. In nine years with billions of dollars in aid the PA has failed even to feed its people. PA warlords under Arafat control UN food allotments and even sell it on the black market. It has been the terrorist attacks that have made business as usual impossible and have hurt the Palestinian economy.
When the Israelis say that the Arabs only wish to drive them into the sea, aren't they just being paranoid and using this excuse to justify their aggressions against the Palestinians?
5.5 million Jews. 250 million Arabs. Missiles with germ and radiological warheads on Israel's northern frontier controlled by Hizbollah. 21 terrorist attacks a day against common Israelis. The Arabs said "into the sea" in 1948 and even after Oslo. This is paranoid???
Didn't the International Conference in Durban, South Africa condemn Israel as a racist state?
The conference was made up of Arab dictatorships pushing their own agenda. The US and most of Europe boycotted the vote.
The Palestinians and the Jews have been fighting for thousands of years. Aren't they equally responsible for the violence?
They have not been fighting for thousands of years. The Arabs persecuted Jews. The difference is the Arabs won't tolerate a Jewish presence in the Muslim Middle East -- period. The Jews offer to negotiate peace but the Arabs are really just negotiating the end of Israel.
The suicide bombings are terrible, but aren't they done by a small handful of extremists? Isn't it wrong to condemn all the Palestinian people for the acts of a few?
Evidence shows that as many as twelve extremist groups conduct terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens. Hamas, Hezbollah, The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and Fatah are a few of them. In many cases, the same individuals who are security for the Palestinian Authority conduct the terrorist attacks. Opinion polls among the Palestinian population reveal 90% approve of the suicide bombings. Thousands dance in the streets when a lethal suicide bombing is executed. The few who would work for peace run the risk of being arrested or lynched for being a collaborator with Israel. Historically, the Arabs persecuted Jews. The idea of wearing a yellow star as the mark of Jew was begun by the Arabs and copied by the Nazis. Just a note..the Arabs even have suicide bomber trading cards now like we have baseball! cards.
Why does Israel practice collective punishment against the Palestinian people?
Israel does not practice collective punishment. The security checkpoints are there solely to prevent more suicide bombings and attacks. During a reprisal, such as the bombing of a house from which sniper shots have been fired, a warning is given and THAT HOUSE is destroyed. Likewise, wanted criminals are found and executed since it is impossible to hold them accountable in a court of law under Arafat's regime. Often it is easy to determine the culprit. The Palestinians carry them on their shoulders in the street, put up posters praising them, and name streets after them. Contrast this with the almost daily attacks on Israeli civilians making all citizens fearful of going shopping for groceries, riding a bus, or stopping in for a piece of pizza.
I know that the Israelis don't want to deal with Prime Minister Yassir Arafat, but didn't the majority of the Palestinian people elect him?
Arafat ran the same type of Arab election as Saddam Hussein or Bashir Assad. He ran against one candidate, an 85 year-old woman who told everyone to vote for Arafat. When he first took control of the territories he murdered all the Arabs who administered the territories under Israel as "collaborators" in a sports stadium. Even Hitler and Stalin could claim to be democratically elected leaders the same as Arafat. But were they? The PA suspended all elections until President Bush said a "reformed" leadership was needed. Arafat's "reform" does not include his stepping down. He has postponed elections twice and now says not for a year until he can once again control the outcome.
Aren't the Jewish settlers on the West Bank just an excuse for Sharon to invade the Palestinian areas? And given how much opposition the Palestinians have to building homes on the West Bank, isn't Sharon just encouraging more suicide bombings?
Many Jews, especially the Orthodox Jews, believe the land of Judea and Samaria to be divinely given to the Jewish people. However, the Jewish settlements are on 1.7% of the West Bank. While home-building by Jews is often given as a reason for conducting more suicide bombing attacks (sadly documented in video tapes made by the teenage bombers shortly before they conducted an attack), does this sound even slightly reasonable? To commit suicide and mass murder to protest the building of homes by people of another religion? The settlements have residents who own homes and businesses as well. Why can't they stay as part of a state of Palestine and be Palestinian citizens as part of a peace settlement? The reason is the Ar! abs who accuse democratic Israel of racism repeatedly say NO JEWS may live anywhere in Palestine.
The conflict between the Muslims and the Jews is religous at its core. Isn't it really an insoluble issue marked by religious intolerance on both sides?
While there are sects of Islam which use passages in the Koran to justify the killing of infidels, there are also passages in the Koran which forbid suicide. Other passages teach that lands given by the Lord to other peoples are given for a reason known only to God. Likewise, religious Jews, who remain fixed on prophesies of the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, the return of the Jewish people to the State of Israel, and the coming of the messiah are not likely to give in to Arab pressure to leave their holy sites. For the Arabs it is a tribal affair of honor and vengeance. Racism is at its core. Racism is a sickness and sicknesses can be cured. Israel seriously wants peace with the Arabs, but not at the expense of her existence being whittled away bit by bit through terrorism until she is destroyed. The healing will come when the world focuses its energies on helping the Arab world to come out of generations of tribal warfare, the subjugation of women, illiteracy and feudal kingdoms. These are the conditions, which spawn hatred of the Jews, which is only slightly more vehement than their hatred of the Christians. | <urn:uuid:389755dc-f405-4af9-a725-352e61c52c3e> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://therefinersfire.org/no_palestine.htm | 2014-12-22T19:26:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802776528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075256-00063-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96997 | 2,597 | [
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go ahead . This will just get moved anyway
Wow....we can have a snaps contest right on BLSD. Well played.
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« on: November 25, 2006, 07:23:23 PM »
and what about us in the south?
Southern Regional Convention 2006 - 2007
What I just recieved in an email: LOL Thoughts?
Our good friends over at Harlem Life are working on an amazing reality show in Harlem. For those that are eligible this is a great opportunity to get in on a project early. Casting call is this Saturday Sep 23rd. Best of Luck! - threeKINGS
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« on: June 24, 2006, 04:43:37 PM »
So I'm not really sure when I should leave for school. Orientation starts August 9th I think. How long do I really need to be in the area before school starts?
BTW I have a roommate situation set up already down there.
So when are ya'll leaving? Why?
Okay so, I hardly evr read BV but this was interesting. What do ya'll think?
Tell The Tale of My People
Slavery Museum Slated to Open Next Year
By Angela Bronner, AOL Black Voices
Tools of the Slave Trade
U.S. National Slavery Museum
Slave tags, shackles and a hand made chair made by a slave are all part of the permanent collection of the U.S. National Slavery Museum. The centerpiece, however, is a full-scale replica of a slave ship. The museum is slated to open in Fredericksburg, VA in 2007.
Get Tix for the June 3 Slavery Museum Gala!How Do You Feel About a Slavery Museum?Official Site for the U.S. National Slavery MuseumBack to Black Voices News
Slavery, the most systematically brutal crime the U.S. government has ever inflicted upon human beings, may finally be having its day. No, we're not talking about reparations (though Randall Robinson intricately detailed in his book 'The Debt' just how much this country was built on the free labor of Africans). And though we are thankful for productions like 'Roots' and 'Amistad,' we do not mean its day in Hollywood.
No, this "peculiar institution" -- most peculiar because it was so heinous -- is now being acknowledged in a historically accurate tribute to the men and women who toiled for years under extremely brutal conditions.
On a 1992 trip to a slave port on Goree Island, Senegal, then-governor of Virginia, L. Douglas Wilder, had an epiphany -- to finish the story that was started on that side of the Atlantic. It was on that trip and in that place where millions of Africans were shackled and warehoused before they made the bloody sojourn across the Atlantic, that Wilder came up with the idea to erect a national slavery museum.
"It's been 400 years, hasn't it?" quips the 75-year-old mayor of Richmond, who says that 15 years isn't that long to see his idea become a reality. Wilder, who noted that Bill Clinton was vilified for asking for a national apology for slavery, says that the country has a problem in confronting the issue.
On the Pulse
"It's painful, first," says Wilder. "It's antithetical to everything youngsters are taught in school about the precepts of this nation. It's painful, it's horrible. It's embarrassing. It's dehumanizing. But it's fact."
At present, ground has been broken, a Web site put up and the difficult task of raising funds put into motion. The museum is expected to open at the end of 2007. Wilder says that the financing will come mostly from the private and corporate sector, possibly from the federal government and municipalities, and from private donations.
On Saturday, June 3, 2006, a gala event will be held in Washington DC's Warner Theatre with philanthropist and social critic Bill Cosby and actor Ben Vereen taking part. Wilder, who said he asked Cosby, expects many more high-profile African Americans to take part, once momentum begins to build.
Vereen, who starred in the ground breaking 1970s series, 'Roots,' and has a part in the upcoming Outkast musical, 'Idlewild,' is excited about his contribution to the project.
"When we did 'Roots', there was very little on the contributions of African-Americans," says Vereen. "When I was in grade school, there was only about a paragraph. Thanks to Alex Haley's fortitude, there is more information. I wanted to be a part of the continuing education."
In addition to getting the money up and the subject itself, the museum's site was a point of contention. There was first a call to have the museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC (like others such as the Vietnam Memorial and Holocaust Museum). Wilder, obviously being partial to Virginia, had talks with the cities of Jamestown (where the first slaves were brought in 1619) and then Richmond (the capital of the state) before finally coming to Fredericksburg, a city about 45 minutes away from the nation's capital.
U.S. Slavery Museum
Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP
Doug Wilder is the driving force behind the U.S. National Slavery Museum. BV Queries Him on the State of Black Politics.
Black Voices' '5 Questions' With Doug Wilder
The primary reason for coming to Fredericksburg is that 38 acres of land were donated by developer, Larry Silver -- land estimated by Wilder to be worth about $20 million. Silver plans to build around the museum, however, a shopping center, restaurants and other tourist locations. This is seen as distasteful to some.
"Every museum is surrounded by something," points out Wilder. "And because we have 38 plus acres of land, it's not a matter of being crowded next to something. We'll have a slave ship inside. My final answer is to those who would criticize, nothing would satisfy them."
With a full-scale replica of a slave ship at its center (lit so that it can be seen for miles from Interstate-95), the museum will have a strong educational component as well (including lesson plans for schools), always seeking to bring humanity to slavery.
"We want to focus on slaves that people don't know about," says Dr. Vonita Foster, Executive Director of the Museum. "You hear about Harriet Tubman, you hear about Frederick Douglass, you hear about Booker T. Washington. There are so many unsung heroes that young people don't know about. We're trying to find stories that will show the perseverance and strength of slaves and the contributions that they made to America. But we also want to make sure we tell the economic impact, the political impact, the social impact."
"The nation was involved in slavery. The Civil War, was over slavery," Wilder notes. "It's about the contributions of Africans -- persons of African descent -- to the growth of the world, to the growth of America. To the building of the nation. So, if you ask why it's necessary, in the absence of the museum, where else will these youngsters get it? I tell them, you should be proud of who you are because your people have come a long way." | <urn:uuid:8d6a6ea2-dedf-49d9-92d8-8741bccc6be7> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;sa=topics;u=15687 | 2014-12-22T19:31:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802776528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075256-00063-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967614 | 1,742 | [
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I really am a sucker for mailshots (hmm. Perhaps I shouldn’t put that in the blog). Anyhoo, I got a mailshot from Cool Components advertising the above (or actually the slightly cheaper version 2 which you don’t seem to be able to get any more). So I bought one. It is a tiny digital storage oscilloscope which costs around 80 quids or so. I reckon this is extremely good value. It has an SD card that you can use to store waveforms and the whole thing is powered by a Cortex A3 and open source, so you can even put your own firmware in there if you fancy it. It is powered from a rechargeable battery and will go up to 1 MHz which for me is fine.
If you are not sure what an oscilloscope is, it lets you “see” electrical signals. It draws a plot of the voltage in the signal as it changes over time. The original ones used a cathode ray tube that drew a single dot on the screen. The dot was moved across the screen at a regular rate by a timebase generator and the value of the voltage in the signal was used to control the height of the dot. If the signal was regular then you could take a a peek at the waveform and see what it was doing. Newer ones are of course digital. The input voltage is converted into numbers which are then used to draw a graph on the screen.
Sometimes, when a circuit just doesn’t work you need to take a look at what is happening. A voltmeter will tell you if there is anything on the wire, but not how it is changing over time. If you have any hardware aspirations I think a little device like this is a pretty good investment, and it only costs around the same as a couple of video games. | <urn:uuid:3c77ba49-8366-4bea-ac8c-842ab1e56cfa> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.robmiles.com/journal/2013/3/22/get-a-scope.html | 2014-12-22T19:22:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802776528.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075256-00063-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969639 | 377 | [
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Sima Samar, who trained as as a medical doctor, is the head of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission. She is a lifelong women’s rights campaigner for better education and better health treatment for women in her native country.
In 2002, she became Afghanistan’s most powerful female politician when she became Deputy President. However, her tenure was short-lived and she was pushed out by conservatives. She is against the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, arguing that their work there is not yet done, and she is concerned about the lack of women involved in the reconciliation talks with the Taliban. Sian Griffiths tracked her down in Kabul to find out more.
You originally trained as a doctor in Kabul during the 1970s. When did you become interested in human rights and, more specifically, women’s rights?
I started my university career in 1975 – before the Russians [arrived]. Even at that time, I was fighting for equality and social justice. This was my interest in human rights – to fight against discrimination.
The situation for women has improved, but not to the satisfaction of most of us
When you addressed a Canadian Federation of University Women conference in July 2010, you stated: ‘If we don’t have a healthy mother, we don’t have a healthy society.’ Could you explain what you meant by this?
If we have women educated, they will help their children more then the father. If she is educated, then she might take care of her health. Then she will have the knowledge to reduce the number of the children she wants – or have a longer space between the different pregnancies. She will not have 10 children with poor health. It is clear, if she has two children, rather then having 10 children, she and her children will be healthier.
The average life expectancy for a woman [and for Afghans generally] is 44. What health problems do Afghan women face – and why?
Afghan women face every health problem caused by poverty and lack of good food. First of all, malnutrition, due to the lack of quality food; infectious disease, due to the lack of clean water; and tuberculosis, again due to a weak, low immune system.
The majority of women who live in the rural area do not know about their equal rights in the constitution. [This] means that the equal rights for them is not a reality
You have also stated that many Afghan women suffer from osteomalacia – a condition leading to a softening of the bones due to inadequate diet. You suggest this is a particular problem for women wearing burqas – could you explain this further?
Malnutrition, lack of exposing the body to the sun, multiple pregnancies and breastfeeding cause osteomalacia.
In 2002, you became Deputy President alongside President Hamid Karzai and then subsequently Minister of Women’s Affairs – making you Afghanistan’s top female politician. What did you hope to achieve in the role and did you succeed?
I became Vice-President and as Minister of Women’s Affairs was able to establish the ministry for the first time. There was no Ministry for Women’s Affairs in Afghanistan before. It involved finding a building, everything for an office, establishing strategy for the ministry. Then I had to step down in June 2002 due to the pressure from fundamentalists and warlords in the government and state institutions.
Has the plight of women improved in the nearly 10 years since you were Minister of Women’s Affairs?
The situation for women has improved, but not to the satisfaction of most of us after nine years – with the presence of the whole world. [There are] more women in school, more women in public services, more women in politics, and more women have access to very basic healthcare. [There are] more women in business. These are improvements. But the majority of women who live in rural areas, live under the same condition as they were before this regime.
Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution defines Afghanistan as an Islamic Republic, where men and women enjoy equal status before the law. To what extent is this being achieved?
Gender equality is not worse for women – but it’s not the reality on the ground for the majority of women in Afghanistan. The majority of women who live in the rural area do not know about their equal rights in the constitution. [This] means that the equal rights for them is not a reality.
I believe that without the full participation of women, no peace or development will happen in Afghanistan
Are you disappointed by the lack of women in government?
Of course, we want more women in positions of power and decision-making in order to make a law to support women’s rights in Afghanistan. I believe that without the full participation of women, no peace or development will happen in Afghanistan.
Safety for women working in public life remains an issue… In April, Amnesty International highlighted the case of Nida Khyani, a local politician who was the victim of a drive-by shooting. The organization said she was another casualty of what they termed ‘the systematic violent targeting of women’ in public life in Afghanistan. Amnesty also accused both the Afghan government and international troops of failing to protect women working in public life. Do you agree?
This is the truth. Women face problems in public life, mainly in areas where security is really bad and the war is going on.
Last month, a human rights organization warned that Afghan government attempts to include the Taliban in the running of the country could harm women’s rights. Human Rights Watch said that women suffer from intimidation, violence and even death threats in areas where the Taliban have influence. Have you heard about these reports and does a reconciliation with the Taliban worry you?
For the moment practically no women are involved in policy-making for this reintegration and reconciliation. I am worried about any negotiation which undermines human rights, in particular, women’s rights. Also, I am worried that there will be no accountability and justice in this kind of peace deal. Peace, without respect for human rights and human dignity, is meaningless and is not going to be sustainable.
Afghanistan has been described by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the UN as a narco-state. Nearly three quarters of the world’s opium is produced in Afghanistan – making it responsible for much of the world’s heroin trade. The profits generated only help to fuel the conflict in Afghanistan. What damage does opium do to Afghan life and is the government making any inroads in reducing its effect – what needs to be done?
Peace, without respect for human rights and human dignity, is meaningless and is not going to be sustainable
Narcotics are a problem in Afghanistan and have been for almost 20 years. The fight against the problem first of all needs political will by the government – and the international community as a partner to the Afghan government. [There needs to be] strong action against producers and drug lords in Afghanistan.
The US, Britain and Canada have signalled that they intend to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2011. Will Afghanistan be ready for them to leave?
The problem with the countries who want to leave Afghanistan is, first: why are they in Afghanistan? If they achieve the goal, they can leave the country. If not, an unfinished job in Afghanistan will cause more damage to all of the countries – and the world.
What if the price for peace is offering amnesty to some alleged war criminals – is that a price worth paying?
The Afghan people and every human being wants peace and needs peace – but not at any price, because that peace will not be sustainable if we can’t build support among the public or if we do not respect human rights, justice and accountability, and full participation of women in the peace-building process. The people have to be accountable for their actions. | <urn:uuid:f53668ca-18f9-4bc3-af02-495421b997da> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2010/08/11/sima-samar-interview/ | 2014-12-18T15:26:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00119-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972937 | 1,626 | [
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The image, from one year traffic trend, shows Digg nearing Slashdot traffic levels after less than a year after launch. Slashdot is red, Digg is blue.
Digg allows anyone to submit news stories, and other users vote on how important the news is. More popular stuff moves to the top of the site, eventually gaining front page promotion.
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Portlanders love their urban growth boundary
For all the angst Portland's urban growth boundary can cause developers or economic development boosters seeking developable land, the tightly managed band enjoys broad support in the region.
Seventy percent of residents in the region say new development should happen in cities, preserving farmland for agricultural uses, according to DHM's 2013 Oregon Values & Beliefs Survey. Just 23 percent of respondents believe development should happen outside the UGB and a meager 19 percent said laws should be changed to allow more development.
The survey was sponsored by Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon Public Broadcasting, the Oregon Community Foundation and Oregon State University. The results were summed up in this Metro News article following a presentation to the Metro Council.
As for the top issues government should address, residents in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties, the three counties governed by Metro, said economic development and unemployment were Nos. 1 and 2 on a list of 20 services. At the bottom of the list? Subsidies and tax breaks to be used as economic development incentives.
"They want jobs at the top," said Metro Councilor Carlotta Collette, according to the Metro News report," and they want to pay for them at the bottom."
Other highlights from Metro-area respondents:
- 61 percent favor stronger regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- More than 75 percent say water protection should be a priority.
- More than 33 percent said building public infrastructure should be a priority.
- 49 percent want to see investment in new roads.
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Clapham School, a classical Christian school with a Charlotte
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I have been waiting for this for a long time and I am happy to say it is almost #EWBC time!! Two more sleeps and I will take myself off to Brescia to meet fellow wine bloggers for a weekend of learning & networking in a fun and friendly environment!
It is the fourth time #EWBC takes place and it will be my second conference. Last year I wasn’t really too sure what to expect and I hardly knew anyone. However by the end of the conference, I had made friends from all over the world, exchanged a ton of creative ideas and became pretty familiar (and a great fan) of Austrian wine. After the conference, I felt a little lost, but was also full of energy as I could see so much potential, talent and guts. It inspired me to actively look for more of these exchanges and over the past year I have met with quite a few #EWBC alumni and was lucky enough that some of my new friends introduced me to their wine regions. I also got involved with the #vinocamp and have build a positive wine/web/story telling network. And this has allowed me to continue to learn and grow and to become a more confident and happy person.
So what I am expecting from this year’s event?
To be honest – not too much as I have learned a long time ago that high expectations often lead to great disappointments… Instead I prefer to go to Italy as a blank canvas, so I can absorb all of the knowledge, beauty and joy with the innocence of a 3 year old…
And off course I am looking forward to catch up with friends.. And share special wines at the BYO dinner event.. And the great sparkling wine tasting on Friday morning… And to the keynotes and seminars where we will learn more about story telling… And to visit my first wineries in Italy… But most importantly to expand this wonderful network where we can brainstorm ideas for a yet brighter future:-) | <urn:uuid:8d266545-0d81-4fec-999d-d6734019970a> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.missinwine.com/blog/2011/10/count-down-to-ewbc-in-brescia/ | 2014-12-18T15:22:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00119-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972541 | 401 | [
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Editor's note: This is part of a continuing series highlighting local school board races in advance of Tuesday's election.
COOPERSVILLE -- Voters in the Coopersville school district will head to the polls Tuesday to select school board members.
The district has two four-year terms open, and three candidates seeking them.
To help voters make informed choices, The Chronicle sent questionnaires to registered candidates. The questionnaires gave candidates the opportunity to provide personal information, list their top three priorities and to address in 40 words or less ideas they have to save money or increase revenues in the district.
Denise DeWys-GilbertPersonal: DeWys-Gilbert, 53, of 6500 Moorland is a homemaker and has a bachelor's degree in early childhood education from Western Michigan University. She has lived in the district 25 years and her three children graduated from Coopersville schools. She has volunteered twice as chairwoman of the senior class all-night committee; as a coach for Girls on the Run; as baked good superintendent for the Muskegon County Youth Fair; and as an elementary reading mentor.
Finances: No response provided.
Priorities: Continue to provide quality education and maintain the district's financial health.
Kurt D. Meinders
Personal: Meinders, 49, of 16141 88th, is an assistant director of desktop support at Grand Rapids Community College and has a bachelor's degree from Ferris State University. He has lived in the district 14 years and has three children attending Coopersville schools. He has volunteered with the PTA carnival; Motor Mania; as a coach for soccer, football and basketball; as a field trip organizer; with children's reading programs; and as a Sunday school teacher.Finances: Fight potential legislation that would penalize schools for carrying a reserve fund larger than 15 percent; work with school administrators on state and federal grants (schoolgrants.org); and petition state and federal government for more funding.
Priorities: Help make sure the level of education is not impacted because of budget concerns; assure that the district's technology stays current; and advocate for continued parental support -- African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child."
Kurt OsterhartPersonal: Osterhart, 28, of 774 Fieldstone is a construction worker with Muskegon Quality Builders and has a master's degree in social work from Grand Valley State University. He has lived in the district one year and has one preschool-aged child. He has volunteered in after-school programs, grant writing and helping rebuild libraries after Hurricane Katrina.
Finances: In hard economic times, it's important to accumulate funds without jeopardizing the quality of Coopersville Schools. Receiving grant money to assist programs, along with keeping Coopersville Schools an option for school of choice students are examples that will help in these financial times.
Priorities: Continuing implementation of technology and effectively using resources to help students with current technology; making tough decisions regarding budget cuts that are best for students; and concentrating on programs that help students enter the work force or post-secondary education.
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And rather than make excuses, I will just reassert that--ultimately--I've been enjoying just eating whatever. Repeats. Stuff scrounged together in five minutes. Half-assed recipes. None of which bears posting on this blog.
However, I *DID* get Vegan Brunch in the mail just the other day, and I've already made one of the recipes and plan on tackling some more this weekend, so *fingers crossed* you should hopefully be seeing some more postings.
Until then, I come to you today with my new fav food product. I don't think I've rambled on about it before, but if I have, just consider this newest ramble even MORE indication that you should go out and buy it.
Trader Joe's Peanut Butter with Roasted Flaxseeds:
Holy shit so good. Seriously. I'm gonna have to start stocking up on it in bulk like I do my TJ's chocolate chips, that way I'm not driving 30 minutes every week just to get my hands on it.
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While many academics have accepted the inevitability of the differences, others believe that salaries in professional schools are out of control. Critics worry that not only money, but attention and a sense of importance, is being diverted from core academic disciplines to the professional programs.
...But fighting the markets is just what Mr. Johnson thinks universities should be doing, not encouraging such disproportionate pay scales.
In my view, many more people believe that they are unfairly underpaid than that they are unfairly overpaid. I think we tend to be very selective about the comparisons that we make. In a corporation, when you compare your pay to that of people higher on the ladder, you tend to pick out the laziest, least competent executives and say, "I am worth as much as they are."
In reading the article, what surprised me was not how low the salaries were for professors in humanities, but how high they were, given that the opportunity cost for someone with a degree in literature has to be pretty low. Maybe that explains the excess supply of Ph.D's in those fields: for someone whose skills are not quantitative, it may make sense to try for a high-paying job, even though you have only a 50 percent probability of getting it. As an economist, I am tempted to blame the Ph.D glut on excessive salaries.
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In early 2009, Akorn barely clung to life. A series of bad strategic decisions left the small specialty drug company vulnerable to collapse.
That's when new management, led by Rajat Rai, stepped in and saved the Lake Forest, Ill.-based firm. Thanks to a renewed focus on research and development, the introduction of new products and some prudent acquisitions, Akorn (AKRX) has emerged healthier than ever.
"Akorn's CEO and CFO both understood the various steps they'd have to go through when they embarked on this turnaround," said Kevin Kedra, an analyst at Gabelli & Co. in Rye, N.Y. "Those steps included growing through a series of mostly small acquisitions, investing in R&D and ensuring they had expanded manufacturing capability."
Rebounding from what Kedra calls "the brink of death" in 2009, Akorn is amassing an impressive drug portfolio. It focuses on ophthalmic medications and injectable drugs used in hospitals.
Two High-Barrier Markets
Akorn's concentration on the ophthalmic market and hospital injectables gives it a strategic advantage. And it keeps pressing its advantage: On Nov. 15, the company announced it acquired from Merck (MRK) the U.S. rights to three branded ophthalmic products.
"They like being in the ophthalmic market and the hospital injectable market," Kedra said. "These are two markets with high barriers to entry that limit competitors."
As some drug firms struggle with manufacturing snafus, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is tightening its regulatory oversight. Akorn is well positioned to pass muster.
"The FDA has been raising the bar for quality control," Kedra said. "While the FDA has manufacturing concerns and is cracking down, Akorn is bringing online a state-of-the-art facility in India. Akorn is well aware of the FDA's standards and is not trying to take any shortcuts."
Piper Jaffray's David Amsellem toured Akorn's updated ophthalmic manufacturing facility in Somerset, N.J., and came away impressed. The firm recently expanded and modernized the Somerset site to support greater capacity.
"Everything I saw suggests it's a well-run operation," said Amsellem, senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray in New York City.
Superstorm Sandy hit Somerset hard in late October 2012, knocking out Akorn's factory for two weeks. Amsellem lauds the company for its resilience.
"The product went offline for two weeks, and it was disruptive," he said. "Now its production has returned to pre-Sandy levels. This was a situation where there was an all-hands-on-deck mentality to get things back to normal. There was some pain but they weathered the storm, figuratively and literally, pretty well."
Like Kedra, Amsellem praises Akorn's leaders for orchestrating a successful turnaround. He also likes their communication style.
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Samsung Beam Overview
The Samsung Beam codenamed the Samsung Halo during development is a high-end phone made even more interesting by it's unique feature - a PROJECTOR built in! Not only does it roll with the latest version of Android (2.1) but also features great specs definetly suitable for all your media needs including 15 GB of internal memory!
Specs include a 3.7" inch Super AMOLED screen bringing you high quality viewing of all your photos and Videos supporting HD video up to 720p , a video player that supports DivX, an Stereo FM radio with RDS support and what do you need to go with your great media specs & PROJECTOR? A good pair of high quality speakers - luckily the Samsung Beam comes with a great pair of speakers with DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine) technology. Check out the Pictures below to compare the AMOLED screen on Google's Nexus One and the Beam's super AMOLED display.
Ofcourse the Beam also comes with what you'd expect including GPS, Bluetooth and Wifi b/g/n. It also features Samsung's own Touchwiz user interface which is of course customizable and helps you to easily keep track of all your tweeting on Twitter and Facebook,
The Samsung Beam was announced back in February of 2010 and no other information has been given on price either but packed with these specs , it's going to cost a pretty penny. Want to get your hands on it? The Beam is expected to launch sometime this summer so keep an eye out! | <urn:uuid:50026828-1c64-4ff6-986e-7cb9b73b103c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://phandroid.com/samsung-beam/ | 2014-12-20T04:29:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769374.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00023-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938287 | 316 | [
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Written by Jerry Rogers
This ongoing blog will explore the diverse plant life you will encounter along the D&L, according to the time of the year when they are blooming. Many of these plants are tucked away, but a keen eye will help you spot them from the trail. Please be courteous and observe the flowers with your eyes. Picking the flowers is not recommended, so please have your camera ready instead. For more information or resources on native plants, please visit http://iconservepa.org/plantsmart/index.htm
Native plants occurred within Pennsylvania before settlement by Europeans. Native plants encompass a variety of grasses, ferns, flowers, shrubs, and trees. These plants are meant to grow in Pennsylvania and require less maintenance in the right conditions. Not only do native plants create beautiful landscapes, they provide native wildlife with the best habitat and food they need to survive.
Spring-Beauty (Claytonia virginica) is primarily found along the lower sections of the D&L Trail. Spring-beauty loves moist woods/meadows and can be frequently found in alluvial soils. It is a perennial plant that flowers with five pale pink or white petals. The individual flower blooms for three days, and flowering occurs when the weather begins to change from March to May. The seeds are released from the fruit when it breaks open and are spread by ants taking the seeds back to their nest.
Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum) is a common flower along the D&L that is one of the earliest spring wildflowers to bloom. The plant can easily be recognized by the distinctive spotted leaves that give the plant its common name. The spotted pattern on the leaves resembles the coloring of brook trout. The flower grows from a leafless stem and is usually yellow but some can be tinged with red. The trout lily usually dies off by May, but the underground bulb remains dormant until the next season.
Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) is a spring flower with a short life cycle of six to eight weeks. The blue, bell-shaped flower of this plant comes from pink bulbs and is a great nectar plant for insects. The flower can be pollinated by bumblebees, but the odd shape of the flower requires them to hover instead of land. Butterflies are a much more common pollinator since they perch on the edges of the flower and can still enjoy the nectar. This perennial flower loves both dry and moist areas that are shady. In early summer, each fertilized flower produces four seeds and then goes dormant until the next spring.
Native plants are currently being lost to invasive plant species. An invasive plant is one that grows aggressively, spreads, and displaces other plants. Intrusive plants are introduced from other regions, leaving behind pests, diseases, predators, and other natural controls that typically keep them in check. Once established in their new environment, invasive species expand over large areas and restrict native plant growth.
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is an invasive species that was first introduced by settlers for food and medicinal purposes. Garlic mustard invades areas disturbed by humans and its spread is aided by white-tail deer that prefer to eat wildflowers and leave garlic mustard untouched. This species displaces wildflowers such as spring beauty, wild ginger, bloodroot, Dutchman’s breeches, and trilliums. Garlic mustard has clusters of small, white flowers and a single plant can produce hundreds of seeds, which can survive for five or more years in the soil. Hand removal of entire plants is effective for scattered infestations, and cutting flowering plants low to the ground in Spring will prevent seed production.
Lesser Celandine (Rannunculus ficaria), also known as fig buttercup, was introduced to the United States as an ornamental plant. Lesser celandine is currently found in twenty northeastern states, Oregon and Washington. It occurs most commonly on moist, forested floodplains, and its greatest impact is on native spring-flowering plants. Lesser celandine emerges in advance of most native spring species, giving it a competitive advantage. Once established it spreads quickly to blanket the forest floor so native plants cannot flourish. This plant has a dark green, kidney shaped leaves and yellow flowers that typically appear in March. Care should be taken to correctly identify lesser celandine before undertaking any control efforts, because there are several native look-alike plants. | <urn:uuid:258ec422-a01d-467a-8ee8-e517a47a2b78> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.delawareandlehigh.org/blog/2012/03/ | 2014-12-20T04:20:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769374.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00023-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947104 | 935 | [
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IU Athletics Announces Award Winners
June 16, 2011
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The Indiana Department of Athletics has announced that senior volleyball player Ashley Benson has been named the 2011 Indiana Female Athlete of the Year and that junior soccer player Will Bruin and junior track and field athlete Derek Drouin have been named the 2011 co-Indiana Male Athletes of the Year.
"The dedication, character, and on-field excellence that these award winning student-athletes possess, represent the best values and traditions of Indiana University Athletics," said IU Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass. "We are proud of their accomplishments, and are privileged to share in their many successes."
Will Bruin, the 2011 co-Indiana Male Athlete of the Year had an outstanding junior campaign, helping lead the Hoosiers to the Big Ten regular season title and a trip to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament. Bruin's 2010 season saw him score 18 goals and five assists for 41 points. His 18 goals are the most by a Hoosier this century and he was honored with the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year award.
A unanimous first-team All-Big Ten selection, Bruin was also named to the Top Drawer Soccer team of the season and was a three-time Big Ten Player of the Week honoree in 2010. For his career Bruin started all 66 matches, with 33 goals and nine assists for 75 points. Eleven of his career strikes were game winners. His 33 career goals ranks tied for 15th in school history, while his 257 shots is ninth on the all-time IU lists. Bruin's 18 goals this season is 14th in Hoosier history, with his 41 points ranking just outside the top 15. Bruin took 103 shots this season, tied for fourth among IU's single-season records.
He capped the year finishing as the runner-up for the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy, the top individual award in collegiate soccer. Bruin was selected to be part of Major League Soccer's Generation adidas program and entered the professional ranks as the No. 11 overall selection of the Houston Dynamo in the MLS SuperDraft in January.
"We are very proud of Will being named co-male athlete of the year," said head coach Todd Yeagley. "Being honored by your school as the top athlete is a wonderful honor considering all the great athletes here at Indiana University. Will left an indelible mark on IU Soccer and our athletic department and we congratulate him on all his success."
Drouin, who shares the award for the second-straight year, won his third NCAA title in the high jump, and his second-straight indoors on March 12, clearing a Canadian-record tying 7-7.75. His jump broke the all-time Big Ten record as well and earned him National Field Athlete of the Year honors. He is the first Big Ten athlete ever to garner the National Field Athlete of the Year award. His win at NCAAs led the Hoosiers to sixth place at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
Drouin won his fourth Big Ten high jump crown as well, tying his own Big Ten meet record in the process, en route to Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year and Great Lakes Region Athlete of the Year honors. Drouin's meet-best at NCAAs moved him into a tie for third indoors all-time in the collegiate ranks. He cleared 7-5 or better at four meets on the season, a feat unmatched nationally. Drouin was also named to the watch list for "The Bowerman," the top prize in collegiate track and field. He is the first male Big Ten athlete ever to make the watch list for the "Heisman Trophy of track and field." A foot injury in the first meet of the outdoor season brought Drouin's outdoor season to an abrupt halt.
"Derek had one of the best indoor track and field season's in the history of our program," said Indiana University Director of Track and Field Ron Helmer. "A national title, a Big Ten all-time record, and the Canadian national record all in the same meet brought a lot of national and international attention to our program and our school. He was the National Athlete of the Year indoors and then suffered an injury in our first meet outdoors. It is an honor to work with a great competitor and person like Derek, and we are looking forward to aiding in his return to top form."
Benson was among the country's best in both hitting percentage and blocks per set with a top-10 ranking in both statistical categories. Benson concluded the season with a .408 hitting efficiency and a 1.40 blocks per set average, slotting her ninth and 10th, respectively, in all of Division-I volleyball. She was named first team All-America, one season after becoming the first All-American in school history by earning third-team honors. Benson was also chosen to train with the USA National Team coaching staff for three months in Anaheim, Calif., as one of the 12 best seniors in the country.
The six-foot-three middle pulverized the IU all-time record books this season, setting new marks for career blocks, career hitting efficiency, single-season blocks and single-season hitting efficiency. Not only did Benson break a pair of career records, but also she separated herself substantially from second-best. Her .339 attacking clip is 49 points higher than second place (.290) and she has distanced herself by 108 blocks with a four-year total of 629 total blocks. Both single-season records surpassed previous records set by Benson earlier in her career.
Her dominant play also earned her unanimous All-Big Ten laurels for the second straight season. Benson cracked the conference's top-10 in multiple statistical categories, finishing first with 1.40 blocks per set, second with a .408 hitting percentage, fourth with 4.49 points per set, and eighth with 3.55 kills per set.
"I am honored to have coached an athlete of Ashley's caliber over the past 4 years but even more honored to have such a great person in our program," said head volleyball coach Sherry Dunbar. "As Ashley emerged over her career into one of the best players in the nation, she still maintained a humble demeanor and ever present humor that makes her such a unique person. She has helped us build this program over the past 4 years from last place in the Big Ten to a Sweet Sixteen appearance her senior year. She has represented her hometown of Bloomington in the best way by inspiring so many young kids to dream big and believe in themselves. I love that she has used her athleticism as a platform to give back to others in such a positive way. I know everyone in Bloomington and at Indiana University look forward to following Ashley as she finishes her degree this fall and starts her professional volleyball career."
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TRENTON — Excessive levels of a potentially toxic water contaminant have been detected at the site of a Trenton Water Works customer in Hamilton, the city said.
In a letter sent to customers last week, Trenton's public works department said that in the second half of 2012, levels of trihalomethanes or TTHM exceeded allowed levels and the state Department of Environmental Protection notified the city of a drinking water violation.
The incident did not constitute an emergency, but the city was required to notify water customers of steps being taken to correct the problem, the notice said.
“This is not an emergency. If it had been an emergency, you would have been notified within 24 hours,” the letter said. “There is nothing you need to do. You do not need to boil your water or take other corrective actions.”
People with severely compromised immune systems, who have an infant, are pregnant or are elderly may be at increased risk and should contact their health care provider for more information, the letter said.
TTHM consists of four volatile organic chemicals that form when disinfectants used to treat the water react with natural organic matter, according to the DEP.
Quarterly water tests at Capital Refrigeration in Hamilton showed increased levels of TTHM between May 2012 and February 2013, the letter said. The result for the first quarter of 2013 was below the mandated maximum but the running average was still above the threshold.
The levels of the chemicals averaged 95 parts per billion, exceeding the 80 parts per billion standard, the notice said. In early 2013 they were at an acceptable 69 parts per billion.
Trenton Water Works hired a consulting engineer to review steps to reduce the levels of TTHM, and is evaluating its options, the notice said. The city anticipates resolving the problem within two years, it said.
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Re: The Wire is the best TV-series ever
5th season is not that great compared to the first four (specially 1 and 3) but it's not bad. I didn't think the police part wasn't enjoyable or McNulty's character declined. I agree with what he did, Gregs did let me down though.
The actress playing Snoop wasn't the only one playing a character she pretty much is in real life. Most of the gang members and street people were. And all the politicians were insipired in real life people (most of the plots too).
The best character and the heart of the show is Omar definitely.
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Enjoying life is so dependent on perspective. The other day I was talking to my husband while driving. I asked him if he thought of himself as an optimist, a realist, or a pessimist. I already knew what I thought he was but I was curious to see what he thought he was. My sweet husband said decidedly that he is an optimist. I burst out laughing. Then I saw that he was serious.
You see my husband, bless his heart, is not by nature an optimist. He is more of a realist with a bit of pessimism thrown in there. So I was stunned to hear him so confidently proclaim himself an optimist. When he heard me laughing he explained that he could be whatever he wanted to be and that he was choosing to be an optimist ... right now ... from now on. He has the goal to be an optimist. I think it is a noble goal.
He conceded that previous to that moment in time he had been a realist and a pessimist. I then asked him what he thought I was. He said I was an optimist and realist. I agreed with him. As such I wished him success on his new vow to be an optimist but realistically I think it is going to be more of a process than a decision.
I think my realistic optimism has been a great asset to me in finding joy and hope again after losing Camille. Perhaps a more pessimistic view would have me expecting loss all around me and seeing my loss in every day and every joyful moment. But those are not the lenses I choose to view my life.
This weekend we had a joy filled 3 days. Jonathan's youngest brother Stephen got married to his lovely new bride Diana in the temple Saturday. We had a big rehearsal dinner on Friday night and the reception on Saturday night. It was such a wonderful event with so much family all around to enjoy. This morning all the Waites (minus Stephen and Diana who are honeymooning) gathered to bless Aaron and Carolyn's twin baby girls Aspen and Emory Waite. They are two months old now.
I was getting paper and pens together to take notes during the blessing and Jonathan was at the piano to play an opening hymn. Noble was ... exploring. It was so nice to have so many family members around to watch him. I watched as he went from one cousin, aunt, or uncle to another. I could see the love that each of them had for him. My husband was playing "Families Can Be Together Forever" on the piano and we were all singing along.
"I have a family here on earth. They are so good to me. I want to share my life with them through all eternity. Families can be together forever, through Heavenly Father's plan. I always want to be with my own family. And the Lord has shown me how I can. The Lord has shown me how I can. While I am in my early years. I'll prepare most carefully. So I can marry in God's temple for eternity. Families can be together forever ..."
I had to stop singing. In that moment I felt how incredibly lucky I am ... or blessed rather ... to be sealed to all these wonderful people. I love ALL my in-laws. How many people can honestly say that? Well I can. I love them and I know they all love me and they love my children and they all are with me in my tender feelings of love for Camille.
The week before Camille died we spent a weekend up at Aspen Grove with all the Waite family. Camille spent lots of time with all her cousins. I am so glad that all of them got a chance to know her a bit in this life. She LOVED people. She was most happy when she was in public interacting with people. Noble is just the opposite. He only likes people he knows really well. But Camille would go to anyone and was happy to meet new people.
I feel blessed beyond measure by my own temple marriage. And I am so incredibly lucky that my siblings have married such incredible people and that all of Jon's eight siblings and all their spouses are also such wonderful people.
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I’ve always thought the big problem with media bias isn’t when they go hard on Republicans – I prefer vigorous investigation of the political class, no matter what party they belong to, and Washington itself is a perpetual system distinct from the party in power at any given moment. The problem is when they go easy on Democrats.
There is no conceivable happy ending to the government/media fusion you described. Those forces should be forever in opposition. Even well-meaning high-level leaders can be betrayed by the failures of a titanic government system they don’t command in detail. Reporters should invest every level of that system like truth-seeking termites; the entertainment culture should constantly challenge the assumptions of the political class. Both artists and journalists love to portray themselves as giving voice to the voiceless. It’s beyond disturbing when they team up with the State to declare that nobody worth listening to remains voiceless. | <urn:uuid:5243891b-762b-4972-8604-3972bd2e246e> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.breitbart.com/blog/2013/02/25/wanted-an-adversarial-press/ | 2014-12-21T18:58:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772134.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00047-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927552 | 190 | [
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Oct 28, 2013, 11:46 PM EST
In an incident that took place Monday night in Indianapolis, a man tried to hold up IndyCar Series driver J.R. Hildebrand with a fake gun.
A story from Indianapolis’ WXIN-TV relays information from the official incident report, which had Hildebrand tell Indianapolis Metropolitan police that he was watching a video on his phone and walking his dog when a man approached him from behind with the gun.
The man told Hildebrand, “Drop it! Give it to me!” However, after turning around to look at him, Hildebrand then ignored his commands after deducing that the pistol he had was a fake. He then told the potential thief to get lost and the man promptly ran away.
According to WXIN, the police searched the vicinity for the man upon arriving at the scene but couldn’t find him. As for Hildebrand, he came away unscathed from the encounter, which he sarcastically dubbed “a delightful experience” on his Twitter page. He later added:
This isn’t the first time this year that Hildebrand has had to deal with a robbery issue. Back in July, he lost a substantial amount of racing gear and electronics when his car was broken into in downtown Seattle. He was in town at the time to attend a Formula Drift event in nearby Monroe, Washington.
Hildebrand competed in seven IndyCar races this season for Panther Racing and Barracuda Racing. Panther terminated its contract with him following the Indianapolis 500.
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I have removed the platinum from catalytic converters. What is the value by weight? – From Rob in Pleasant Hill, Oregon
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What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn allows users to maintain a professional contact network, find and post job and business opportunities, and post résumé and photos. Discussion boards, groups and company statistics also are available.
LinkedIn best practices
- Your department will be responsible for its own LinkedIn activity.
- Research what other LinkedIn groups may already be established for the social media audience you are reaching out to. While you are not responsible for social media content offered by other groups, be mindful of how your message, naming conventions, etc. may overlap with content administered outside the university.
- LinkedIn should be a vital part of your traditional marketing plan – not replace it. These communications tools need to interact. If they exist in a vacuum, your department doesn’t derive the full benefit of being in the social media space.
- Don't saturate your LinkedIn account with promotional or sales material. Be honest about who you are and why you are posting. You're using social media to have a conversation with your audience. A persistent sales pitch promotes a one-way dialog, and will cause your audience to tune out.
- Use a general St. Thomas e-mail address so access to the site will continue regardless of employee status. (i.e., [email protected] for School of Education). More than one person should have access to the mailbox.
- Your department should limit the number of authors/administrators for LinkedIn and other social media tools.
- Authors/administrators should be prepared to contribute consistent, high-quality content.
- Be sure you have rights to the content you publish. Copying a photo off the Internet and publishing it to your department LinkedIn page is not the same as having rights to that photo.
- Don't abandon good writing skills just because you're online.
- Reward your audience for participating. You value being part of a conversation with your audience. Find a way to show them that you appreciate their engagement.
- Set goals for your LinkedIn and other social media efforts. If possible, the goals should be measurable.
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What does it mean for me if the bank has declared my house abandoned after failing to sell it at the sheriff's sale?
I have not lived there in over 2years. Mx-wife and I were financially forced to stop payments until the bank finally decided to send me a notice of auction. They have not contacted either of us since then, so I drove up to the house to find that they have winterized the house and have notes on the windows saying that the house is abandoned ndoned. Do I still have legal ties to the house or not?
If you are still on legal title to your home, then you own it. Whether or not the lender that has a mortgage on the property declares it abandoned means nothing if you still have legal title to it.
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Chiquimula is a city in Guatemala. It serves both as the capital of the department of Chiquimula and as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is some 174 km from Guatemala City and is in Guatemala often called "La perla del oriente" (the oriental pearl).
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Commodity prices go up, feeding enthusiasm among the oil and gas crowd.
Commodity prices go down, tampering enthusiasm – and crimping activity.
It’s a never-ending cycle, impacting companies and locales far and wide.
Noted hydrocarbon producer Colorado, for instance, is not exempt from the consequences of current bottom-dwelling gas prices and the yo-yo gyrations of crude oil price.
“Gas activity in Colorado is depressed currently,” said AAPG member Jay Scheevel, chief geologist for Matrix Oil Corp., Santa Barbara, Calif.
Scheevel also is general chair of the 2012 AAPG Rocky Mountain Section meeting, which will be held Sept. 9-12 in Grand Junction. And as such, he’s been intensely focused for the past year not only on the latest scientific and geologic insights for the region, but also the activity.
“The Piceance is a major gas basin, but the big players in the Piceance are just sort of staying alive because of the expense of drilling,” he said. “A lot of them are just sort of strategically keeping leases alive, so there’s not a lot of activity.
“Some operators are taking acreage they already have that they acquired with respect to gas and trying to play that where they can for oil,” he said.
“There are operators drilling horizontal or near-horizontal wells in the Mancos, which is Niobrara equivalent,” he added. “They’re kind of playing the edge of the basin because it’s more oil prone as it’s less mature.”
Other Pockets of Note
Besides the Piceance, there’s a relatively active gas play in the northern San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado. It’s a Mancos gas play with a lot of fracture-driven exploration.
“The northern San Juan was developed as a gas prospect prior to the price drop, and there’s been a lot of activity permitted,” Scheevel said, “but I’m not sure how much follow-up.”
He emphasized that most Colorado activity now consists of oil plays dominated by the Cretaceous Niobrara and associated with the Mancos, Frontier and the J sand, which is one of the older targets in the Denver Julesburg (DJ) Basin.
“A lot of this is driven by people falling back from a gas position to try and get some oil production,” Scheevel remarked. “Smaller volume wells can be profitable.
“There are a lot of resource plays in the Cretaceous shales and surrounding tighter rocks that are in the oil window – people are drilling those because they’re shallower and there are plenty of them.”
Scheevel said the Sand Wash Basin in northwestern Colorado has been a hot area for Niobrara equivalent rocks. The basin is the southern extension of Wyoming’s Green River Basin, and he noted that most of the Niobrara drilling now is probably in the southern part of the basin.
The award for the highest current level of activity goes to Weld County in the Denver, or DJ, Basin.
“The majority of the wells being drilled in the Niobrara are drilled there,” Scheevel said. Most of them are horizontal, but there are verticals also – they’re doing a lot of staged fractures, like in the Bakken.”
Despite the diminished yet still respectable level of ongoing activity, the mood is reserved, according to Scheevel.
“People would be optimistic, but we’re seeing these fluctuations in oil price,” he said. “Several forecasters have come up with mid-sixty dollars for the middle of next year, which gives some people cold feet.
“So much is riding on the 2012 election, and I don’t think a lot of people want to commit a lot of effort right now if they can avoid it – they’re keeping their powder dry,” he quipped.
Whether the glass is half full or half empty, the RMS attendees – upbeat or somber – can latch onto a full glass, for real.
The meeting’s theme, “Vintage Geology – Perfectly Aged,” is apropos in more than one way.
On one hand, the name is a descriptive term for the meeting’s technical program, which will include everything from the most recent work on resource plays across the West to the sedimentary and structural architecture of the latest plays in the Rockies, plus the impact and future of energy minerals.
Big-name experts have been added to the list of special speakers, including:
- Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, an AAPG member, who will talk on “Hydraulic Fracturing and Colorado’s Energy Future.”
- Thomas J. Kerr, acting director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, who will speak on the current oil and gas activity in Colorado.
- Past AAPG president Scott Tinker, who will be presenting a special screening of his commercial documentary film “Switch: Leading a Balanced National Energy Conservation.”
And there’s one more reason why “Vintage Geology” is so perfect.
Western Colorado is the state’s wine country, according to Scheevel, and in addition to wine events planned for the confab, the annual Colorado Mountain Winefest kicks off a mere12 miles down the road in Palisade, immediately after the meeting wraps.
Scheevel noted that AAPG member Wayne Belding, who is one of a reported 186 Master Sommeliers worldwide, will be on the scene, so perhaps you’ll have the opportunity to schmooze and hone your knowledge about the grape. | <urn:uuid:ed76c712-5357-41cf-85e9-f94dcf6fa3df> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.aapg.org/publications/news/explorer/emphasis/articleid/1983/strategies-shift-with-commodity-prices | 2014-12-19T01:39:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768167.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00007-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948938 | 1,257 | [
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Thyra Samter Winslow wrote more than 200 stories published between 1915 and 1955 in the heyday of American popular magazines. Her early life in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) provided background for her view of small towns as prejudiced, hypocritical, and suffocating places. She was a principal contributor to Smart Set, with stories in every issue from December 1914 to 1923. Some of her work was collected in books such as My Own, My Native Land (1935), People Round the Corner (1927), Picture Frames (1923, reprinted as Window Panes in 1945), and The Sex without Sentiment (1954).
Published accounts of Winslow’s life are often contradictory. The authoritative work is a doctoral dissertation by Richard C. Winegard, who established Winslow’s biography from published records, Winslow’s own statements, and many interviews with informants in Fort Smith and elsewhere. He wrote, “She was restless, witty, independent, shrewd, kind, utterly mendacious, and sometimes completely dishonorable, and yet she is remembered most for her charm.”
Thyra Samter was born in Fort Smith on March 15, probably in 1885 or 1886, to Sara Harris Samter and Louis Samter. Her father operated a dry-goods store in Fort Smith. The family belonged to the Jewish community. She attended the public schools there, and she wrote a column in 1907 in the society pages of the Fort Smith Southwest American. She briefly attended the University of Missouri in Columbia but returned to Fort Smith.
In 1909, she went to Chicago, Illinois, where she worked in vaudeville theater and as a journalist. She married John Seymour Winslow, a writer, in 1912. They had no children.
In 1914, one of her stories, “In the Case of Lou Terry,” was published in Smart Set, a New York magazine edited by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Around 1918, the Winslows moved to New York, where she contributed regularly to Smart Set through 1923. After Mencken and Nathan left Smart Set, Winslow continued to write for other magazines, including Century, American Mercury, Cosmopolitan, and Redbook. She wrote for The New Yorker, then a new magazine of the Jazz Age, including many pieces about Arkansas in “Talk of the Town.” A collection, Picture Frames, was published in 1923.
The Winslows divorced in 1927, and Thyra married Nelson Waldorf Hyde, an engineer, in December 1927. The couple separated soon afterward, though they remained married for ten years.
In 1935, Doubleday published My Own, My Native Land, with stories that had originally appeared in The New Yorker, drawing from her life in Fort Smith. Following the success of this work, she went to Hollywood to write the screenplay for She Married Her Boss, starring Claudette Colbert and Ronald Colman. She remained there adapting stories for other films until 1937, when she returned to New York and continued writing for popular women’s magazines. She also wrote diet books, including Think Yourself Thin (1951). Her literary output diminished in the last years of her life, and she wrote “true confessions” for pulp magazines and drama reviews for Gotham Guide, a weekly handout for tourists.
In 1960, she visited Fort Smith for the last time. Later that year, she was paralyzed by a fall and remained hospitalized until her death on December 2, 1961. Her funeral was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York—she had converted to Catholicism during her last illness—and she is buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Westchester County, New York.
Winslow’s fiction evinces several traits of American local color and realism. Many stories expose the hypocrisy, prejudice, and carefully maintained social structures of both small town and urban life. She was particularly adept at portraying women of every social class, often in an unfavorable light. Money, especially the pursuit of it as a means to happiness or status, is an important theme throughout her work.
Her spare journalistic style somewhat resembles Ernest Hemingway’s, with short factual statements in simple declarative sentences. The influence of Theodore Dreiser is evident in her portrayal of the “common man” or woman of the American lower-middle class. She flourished in the age of popular magazines with their constant demand for fiction. As those magazines declined, the market for Winslow’s work died away.
For additional information:Thyra Samter Winslow Papers, 1900–1970. Special Collections. University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Winegard, Richard Clarence. “Thyra Samter Winslow: A Critical Assessment.” PhD diss., University of Arkansas, 1971.
Ethel C. SimpsonUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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SACRAMENTO - The California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced today that it is withdrawing its Public Health Goal (PHG) for chromium in drinking water. The PHG, adopted in February 1999, was 2.5 parts per billion (ppb).
OEHHA is withdrawing the PHG because it was calculated using a study that OEHHA no longer plans to use for assessing health risks from chromium. University of California (UC) peer reviews conducted prior to the adoption of the PHG had deemed the study's data as appropriate for deriving the PHG. However, a scientific panel convened by UC earlier this year at OEHHA's request issued a report in September that concluded the study's data was flawed and should not be used as the basis for health risk assessments. The panel was formed to advise OEHHA on the development of a PHG specifically for chromium 6, the most toxic form of chromium.
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Itai Erdal has designed lights for over 150 shows in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Berlin, London and New York. His long list of dance and theater collaborators include the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neworld Theatre, Theatre Replacement and Radix. Erdal has been nominated for numerous awards, winning prestigious ones such as best design in the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2008 and Jessie Richardson awards in 2009 and 2011.
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CAVE CREEK - Acupuncture, it's not just for people.
Last November at Dove Valley Animal Hospital, Jennifer Newquist, DVM joined Dr. Mike Kiedrowski, bringing with her her training and experience in acupuncture. "It's a remarkable tool in pain management," Newquist explained, "especially in cases of neck and back pain, even hip dysplasia."
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To be honest, I hate being a writer, if I'm-a writer of course.:P
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* smash king doesnt hav a sig either
How am i talking about someone elses sig????You really confuse me sonicman.I ban you for confusing me.
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#1 30000 troops have killed themselves since the Afghan/Iraq war started..11-06-2010, 10:20 AM
Teh Stupid is strong here.
mdmc (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-05-10 07:30 AM
Original message 30000 troops have killed themselves since the Afghan/Iraq war started..
We have lost more troops to suicide then we have to enemy actions.
Of course there is no link. Dipshit "heard" it from another dipshit.May the FORCE be with you!
11-06-2010, 11:14 AM
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A 30 second investment of Google would have prevented this kind of stupid. You can't teach intelligence.Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. (Are you listening Barry)?:mad:
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NPR only counted deaths where the soldier openly committed suicide.
For instance, if a sober person serves in Iraq, comes back with an alcohol problem, and dies in a DUI car crash, that is not considered suicide. But to a PTSD trained therapist, this death could have been avoided with successful interventions. To a PTSD therapist, this kind of death is directly related to PTSD and the service that was performed in defense of our country. It is not technically a suicide, it is a death cause by PTSD.
How asinine!Olde-style, states' rights conservative. Ask if this concept confuses you.
11-06-2010, 12:25 PM
While they are at it, maybe DU can tell us the suicide stats on WWII vets and see how they stack up?CU's Paranormal Expert.
Keep your powder dry, your sword sharp and your wits intact.
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30,000 DUers killed themselves since the election ended. :p
11-06-2010, 04:51 PM
So the whole equivalent of the surge troops have offed themselves??? Where do they come from??"What this country needs are more unemployed politicians."
"Liberals are the type of people who go on safari and wonder why they can't get out and pet the lions..."- warpig
11-06-2010, 09:13 PM
She really takes a shelacking in that thread. Good.In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.
In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.
11-07-2010, 12:20 PM
Gotta love stats, and the folks who put them together.
My Dad passed away in '86, and his death cert said "smoking". He was a WW1 vet. He smoked and drank all his life, as did Grandpa, who was a Civil War vet. Uhhhhhhh, Dad was 91! Grandpa was 90! As a vet who smokes and drinks, I am continuing the family tradition.
But when I die, I want "birth" on my cert as the cause of death, not PTSD from Laos!
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Everest Indian & Nepalese Cuisine - Kelowna, BC
I hope everyone had a good weekend. It seems many of you were enjoying time away by the looks of all the RVs, campers and caravans that were on the highways. Before heading out of Kelowna, we decide to have dinner, so we wouldn’t be famished by the time we got home.
This is Everest Indian and Nepalese Cuisine in Westbank.
The Momo look a bit like dumplings, no? The filling for these mildly spiced pockets is a firm lean beef meat ball with “Nepalese spices.” The mint chutney was sharp in flavour, it’s bright and fresh tasting.
Butter Chicken ($12.50)
The poultry pieces are of the tandoori'd chicken variety. Excellent. This small tandoori detail makes a significant difference in taste and texture. I’m not sure why some other restaurants short-cut this critical step. The chicken pieces are super tender and moist. Murgh Makhani should be creamy, and damn, this is buttery smooth without ignoring the balance of ginger, cardamom, garlic and tomato. I don’t know if it’s because my recent butter chicken experiences have been ho-hum, but this is some of the most satisfying Murgh Makhani I’ve had in some time.
Service at Everest is lovely. Our server (and owner?) is the most welcoming and soft spoken gentleman. He is very attentive to us and all the other diners enjoying their meals this evening. It’s excellent. The space looks like it has been spruced up a bit. The laminate flooring looks unworn, and the furniture and paint on the wall are bright and clean.
I’m having a great time trying out places to eat in West Kelowna. Since work meetings happen a few times a year out here in Westbank, it’s always handy to know of a few good places to eat in the vicinity. I have a feeling that Everest Indian and Nepalese Cuisine will be suggested for the next work luncheon. | <urn:uuid:2f03e325-3058-4a86-afcf-aa382c48173f> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.lvoe.ca/index.php?q=node/208 | 2014-12-21T22:10:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772743.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00167-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958201 | 463 | [
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Here is a layout that I created for the Bella Blvd. blog.
It was a challenge layout, to use stripes, 3 wallet size
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