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So I live in the past just a little — can you blame me? Keep those nostalgic pics coming in to me at bringittobob [at] gmail [dot] com
Category: Awesome, Nostalgia
#20 can't tell but i think Lacey Chabert grew up to be Jennifer Love-Hewitt. http://thechive.com/2012/10/05/wake-up-to-a-healt…
#21 is the guy on the right jack blacks brother they look so much alike haha
The days when kids entertainment didn't mean just a video screen
#18 My girl!
What movie is that from??
Nice but for some reason #10 really took me back
That's not fair! Rizzuto's not a word! He's a baseball player! You're cheating!
#35 Why yes, yes I am the Keymaster.
"If you are not for the people, you cannot buy the people. – Lincoln"
Really surprised Hollywood hasn't attempted to re-do this movie yet.
#19 I only had about a million of them But where are the pogs?!
i had the troll tree house… amazing
#31 always left my thumb as a placeholder incase I died.
just as Joseph explained I am amazed that some people able to make $7980 in four weeks on the internet. have you read this web link (Click on menu Home more information) http://goo.gl/jOvu0
#33 Isn't even old! It has those new dolls on it!
#30 epic pic
He looks sad
This is perfect today is my birthday and a walk down memory lane was just what i needed. Thanks Chive
#13 She looks way too happy to have just ripped a man's credentials off. I'm not sure that's Gak!
Someone's been to the Barcade in Jersey City lately
<img src="http://www.dwalls.com/40942-2/Lacey-Chabert-22.JPG"> Lacy Chabert, and she grew up all kinds of hot! #20
how many girls do you think wish they saved #33
#26 I actually used to know someone who thought that was the right way to do a Z. Squiggle squiggle squiggle. Haha
Oh the memories
Best Video Game EVER!
#18 Thomas J can't see without his glasses! (still makes me cry)
It makes me laugh.
#22 So many plagarizing took place
*so much plagiarism took place…. maybe you should have written those reports
#20 Would have back then, still would.
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|Other names||Ogmandab Zaragamba|
|Birth||circa S.R. 740 |
Gorhendad Oldbuck of the Marish crossed the Brandywine in S.R. 740 and founded Buckland and Brandy Hall. In honor of their new land, he changed his family name to Brandybuck. He ruled the land as his own realm, and his family became even wealthier than they already were. Their removal from the Shire meant Thainship passed to the Took Family.
Gorhendad is the translation of Westron Ogmandab (in an earlier manuscript version spelled Ogforgad) which, according to Stoor tradition, used to mean "great-grandfather". Gorhendad is the modern Welsh word for "great-grandfather".
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Brandybuck of Buckland"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Conspiracy Unmasked"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Appendix on Languages", note 8
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Appendix on Languages"
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 115
- ↑ Mark T. Hooker, A Tolkienian Mathomium, p. 10
Bucca of the Marish
|12th Thain of the Shire
Third Age ?? - 2340
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'Malcolm in the Middle' star Jane Kaczmarek guests on ABC's THE MIDDLE tonight. In the episode titled "The Safe", Frankie is made an example of in front of the entire class when she doesn't make a good impression on her first day of dental assisting school with no-nonsense teacher Mrs. Armwood (Kaczmarek). Meanwhile, because Axl's broken foot may end any chance of his receiving a college sports scholarship, Frankie and Mike insist that he up his grades and get himself a tutor; and Sue and Brick think they've stumbled upon an expensive item inside an old safe and try to get big bucks for it from a local pawn store employee (Rick Harrison, "Pawn Stars"). The episode airs WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 (8:00-8:30 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Get a sneak peek below!
"The Middle" stars Patricia Heaton as Frankie, Neil Flynn as Mike, Charlie McDermott as Axl, Eden Sher as Sue and Atticus Shaffer as Brick.
Guest starring are Jane Kaczmarek as Mrs. Armwood, Rick Harrison as Rick, Galadriel Stineman as Cassidy and Cynthia Sophiea as Ms. Bratton.
"The Safe" was written by Robin Shorr and directed by Lee Shallat Chemel.
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I sorta kinda wish that there was someone out there who would write me a story. A story about a Thanksgiving dinner. I guess I haven't had a story written for me in a long while, but I never stopped writing. If anything, that is one of the few things I didn't give up on. (And in my defense, Orange is complete). The last Christmas dinner I actually enjoyed was seven years ago. After that, it's just been awkward family get-togethers where no matter what I do, the whole feeling just isn't right. Like I walked into the wrong house and ate at the wrong table with the wrong family. For once, just once, I want to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with people I actually love and care about.
I'm talking to JJ and Shiyan now. What started as a conversation about Christmas has been led in a totally different direction. Not happy directions, either. JJ's really mad at alot of things... Things that we as the brady bunch are all linked to and clearly, my suggestion for ONE dinner with them was taken as a kickstart to alot of things he's been wanting to say (and did I mention that they are not happy things?)...
I don't mean to be sour or ungrateful or whiny (though why I'm defending myself on my own blog is beyond me) but this holiday can seriously go either way. On the one hand, the relatives I like are about five thousand miles away, no x'mas tree for the fifth year running, I'm going to a graduation dinner where people at my very table may just be hating my guts out as I eat (while they're probably secretly hoping that I actually am eating my guts), he won't be around that night after it (<--grad night dream no. 1), Thea and Janna can't make be there either (on what is supposed to be one of the most important days of my life <-- grad night dream no. 2), the kids will be older, I'll be penniless, my fingers will probably be hemorrhaging by then, wind up with absolutely NO Christmas dinner whatsoever and... lol...
But on the other hand, maybe it'll be great. Maybe, just maybe, Christmas can finally be good again. Amelia and I will be hanging out alot cos she is VITAL to one of my Christmas presents, there'll be Christmas shopping, the As will finally be over (and thus maybe just maybe I get to spend more time with him again -_-), I can write out my x'mas cards, try and meet up with old friends and get more money from dad...
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Report: Penn State To Take Down Joe Paterno Statue This Weekend*
Two members of Penn State's board have denied a vote to remove JoePa's statue has taken place. And a school spokesperson told Dan Patrick Show producer Paulie Pabst s/he was "not aware of any decision being made about the statue."
This doesn't necessarily mean previous reports of the statue's imminent removal are false, however.
Removing the statue is not up to the board. School administrators will make that decision.
Penn State plans to take down the statue of Joe Paterno this weekend, according to a source who's spoken to Kimberly Jones of NFL Network.
ESPN's Bonnie Bernstein has confirmed that report, saying the Penn State board of trustees came to that decision on a conference call Thursday night.
Many began asking for the removal of JoePa's statue as soon as the Freeh report detailing the former coach's deep involvement in a university-wide cover up of Jerry Sandusky came out.
The statue stands just outside of Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania.
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This Philips CD10 portable cdplayer includes its original box (without plastics), carrying case, arm band and 3 power supplies.
It works without any problems. It looks great too, see pictures.
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Search engine optimization is a popular and effective Internet marketing strategy. In fact, Marketing Sherpa found it is used by more marketers than any other marketing tactic. While many ecommerce merchants understand the value of SEO, they may not realize they need to optimize every single product page.
Since SEO can help your ecommerce businesses thrive, optimizing all your product pages for search engines is an important step for gaining more traffic and sales. Below are 10 tips to help ensure your product pages are properly optimized.
1. Design Your Pages for Conversions
Your layout should be three columns with the most important content on the left and center and as close to the top as possible. Make it easy for users to add products to their cart with one click. Keep the checkout button near the images or videos and away from user-generated content, which can’t always be controlled.
2. Use Keywords in Your Title Tags
One of the most important page elements is the title tag. When you enter a keyword query in Google, you’ll see most results have a keyword in the title tag. Place the keyword as close to the beginning as you can in the title. Use the AdWords Keyword Tool to help research keywords for the products you want to rank best for.
3. Use a Meta Tag Description
Note that your Google keyword queries will display descriptions after the title. For the best SEO results, use your product keywords in your description tag. It’s important to have a unique description tag for every product page, so do not duplicate your tags.
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While your product photos display your images to users, the alt tag on the image tells search engines what the image is. Using accurate alt tags provide an opportunity to insert a keyword you are optimizing your product page for while also helping the disabled identify the image.
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A key element for SEO is the actual URL (www.yoursite.com/insert-keyword-here) for each unique page. Insert your most important keywords in your product page URLs.
6. Use Complete Product Descriptions
Many ecommerce websites do not use an adequate description for their products. You must describe the product completely, explain how it works and add all the information consumers want to know. When you create good content for the consumer, this also benefits your SEO efforts. But don’t write only for search engines; write for helping consumers, using keywords only where necessary.
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Content and link building have historically been important for SEO. Therefore, your product pages should have links pointing to them. These are called “deep links.” They not only help your specific product page, but your overall site ranking. Make your product page worthy of attracting links by using good content, images, good photos, videos, illustrations and descriptions. If it’s attractive and unique, other websites and bloggers may link to it.
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Panasonic scored the jackpot this week with Tesla Motors' announcement that the electronics giant will be the automaker's sole supplier of electric vehicle battery packs. As part of the partnership, Tesla and Panasonic will also work together on developing cheap and efficient lithium-ion batteries--a venture that has the potential to benefit the entire EV industry.
Previously, Tesla relied on batteries from a number of different companies. By using a single supplier, it will be easier for the startup to test different battery pack architectures to figure out which ones make the most sense for different vehicles. In return, Panasonic gets the benefit of having its name attached to a sexy auto company.
The deal also shows the electronics maker's commitment to getting in the energy storage game. Panasonic recently took a majority stake in Sanyo, the world's biggest lithium-ion battery manufacturer. And in addition to its investment in Sanyo, Panasonic started selling home fuel cells in Japan last year. The company has another partnership with Toyota Motor called Panasonic EV Energy, and Panasonic also sells its own lithium-ion batteries. By 2011, the company hopes to have a lithium-ion fuel cell that can power an entire house. In other words, we can expect to see a lot more of Panasonic in the clean tech market. Presumably, other electronics manufacturers will also get in on the growing energy storage business in the coming years. Watch this space. | <urn:uuid:3d8a152c-b1c2-46c0-9e30-8ab16534034b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fastcompany.com/1509266/tesla-teams-panasonic-ev-batteries | 2013-06-20T11:23:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711441609/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133721-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944997 | 281 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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I know we have at least one young reader who was conceived via IVF. Am curious to know personal experiences.
And I agree with this article’s last statement. IVF should be regulated in the US, not only for the health of those born but to put a stop to those “leftover” embryos.
From London’s Daily Mail, July 23:
A study of hundreds of seven-year-olds has revealed that they are admitted to hospital much more frequently than other youngsters of the same age.
While many of their illnesses were common to all children, those born through fertility treatment suffered more fits and more conditions connected to the brain and immune system….
The British study also showed that IVF twins tend to require more hospital treatment than youngsters from single births….
Previous studies have shown that young men conceived this way are more likely to be infertile….
/IVF babies are also more likely to suffer from birth defects, including heart problems, and are thought to be at higher risk of autism and cerebral palsy….
[F]its and other conditions affecting the brain were more common in those born after IVF treatment.
These youngsters were also more prone to infections and to asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, both of which have links to the immune system….
It is possible the health problems were somehow caused by the IVF process itself.
It is also possible that chlamydia infection, stress and other factors which may have affected the mother’s fertility went on to impact on the baby’s development in the womb.
It may however be that parents who have undergone fertility treatment are simply more inclined to seek medical help.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is considering restricting the number of embryos implanted – to just one in most cases – in a bid to cut the number of multiple births. Dr Allan Pacey, of the British Fertility Society, said many of the health problems associated with IVF were linked to the high number of twins and other multiple births….
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The Home Buyer Loan Program provides low-cost loans to first-time homebuyers on the island of Kaua‘i who meet the Kaua‘i Median Household Income (KMHI) as published by HUD.
· You are a Citizen of the United States or Resident Alien
· You are 18 years or older
· You are a first-time homebuyer (you, your spouse or your partner cannot own majority interest in a principal residence or real estate for a period of 3 years prior to the closing of a homebuyer loan)
· You must occupy the property purchasing as your primary residence
· Must complete Homebuyer Education Counseling Classes
· Preference is given to residents of the island of Kaua‘i
Candidates for the Home-Buyer Loans must complete home ownership classes offered by a HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agency. Upon completion of the class, applicants are required to submit a copy of their Certificate of Completion and register with the Kaua‘i County Housing Agency to be added to the Affordable Housing Waitlist.
See types of Home-Buyer Loans for a description of the Loan Programs available from the County.
Other important requirements under the Home-Buyer Loan Program:
· the house must be vacant or owner occupied when a sales contract is accepted
· homes in a 100-year flood area are ineligible
· Fee simple properties will be subject to the County’s Restriction on Sale, Transfer, Debt and Use
· Kaua‘i County Leasehold sales will be subject to the 90-year Ground Lease terms
· the borrower must reside in the property as their primary residence for the term of the loan, or restriction
· additional mortgage loans will only be allowed for home improvements or to pay catastrophic medical expenses.
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It lasted only seven innings and it took four pitchers, but it still goes into Western Kentucky’s record book as a no-hitter.
Craig Stem, Tyler Gilliland, Harry Stubel and Aaron Mayfield, a LaRue County High School graduate, combined to throw seven hitless innings March 31 as the Hilltoppers clobbered Kentucky Wesleyan 15-0 in a game shortened by a 10-run mercy rule at Nick Denes Field in Bowling Green.
There was a bit of an anticlimactic nature to the no-hitter. WKU combined for seven walks, and the thought of a no-hitter didn’t even strike Mayfield when he took the mound for the seventh inning.
“At first when I went out there, I really wasn’t aware it was a no-hitter,” Mayfield said. “It didn’t really affect me. I just threw.”
After falling behind Lincoln Talley to open the seventh inning, Mayfield induced a groundout, then struck out Scott Redding and Alex LaGreca to record the no-hitter. While it didn’t end with a wild celebration, it was an achievement for three freshmen and one sophomore pitcher.
“They had some fun with it,” WKU coach Chris Finwood said. “Some of them probably didn’t actually know, the way kids are today. You don’t talk about it, certainly. I made the joke that are we going to make an error first or give up a hit first with all the young guys playing (in the lineup)?”
Neither, as it turns out.
WKU took advantage of the meeting against the NCAA Division II foe to get playing time for its younger Hilltoppers. Stem, making only his second appearance as a freshman, started and threw two innings while giving up four walks and recording four strikeouts.
Gilliland threw three hitless innings while walking two and striking out one.
Sophomore Harry Stubel struck out the side in the sixth before giving way to Mayfield.
“We were able to play everybody and rest some guys and it was a good day because we got what we wanted to get out of it - see some of those young guys pitch,” Finwood said.
Because the younger pitchers don’t get much mound time yet, control can be an issue.
“Baseball is such a rhythm game and pitching is certainly no exception,” Finwood said. “When you’re not getting to pitch, it’s hard to get in a rhythm. Obviously (there were) the walks, but I thought for the most part the guys did a good job.”
Finwood said the younger pitchers can contribute later in the year.
“Craig Stem, he’s just got tremendous stuff and we’ve just got to run him out there enough so he develops command,” Finwood said. “He’s a guy we’re hoping second part of the season can give us some meaningful innings. There’s no question he’s got good enough stuff to win at this level.”
With the exception of trying to keep a no-hitter, WKU pitchers didn’t throw under much pressure Tuesday. The Hilltoppers built a 5-0 lead after the first inning as Wade Gaynor and Kes Carter each hit two-run doubles and Casey Dykes had a sacrifice fly.
The Hilltoppers then chased Kentucky Wesleyan starting pitcher Michael Ruby in the second when Matt Rice hit an RBI double and extended his hitting streak to 21 games.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily News in Bowling Green.
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August 28, 2008 · Updated 9:07 AM
MARYSVILLE Local kids are invited to submit their favorite breakfast recipes to win prizes from local businesses and recreation spots such as Skate Inn, Golf Land, the Marysville YMCA and the Imagine Children Museum.
The contest is sponsored by Lets Dish!, a make-it-and-take-it restaurant, 11605 State Ave., in Marysville. The contest runs through March 22. Details and an entry-form are available at www.letsdish.com.
Lets Dish! co-owner Victoria Mattson said judges are looking for recipes containing nutritious ingredients and which hopefully can be prepared in advance to reduce morning cooking efforts. Mattson said the contest was inspired by National School Breakfast Week, March 3-7.
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Experts have warned the crash could cost 02 millions, with furious, fed-up customers seeking legal advice
G4S yesterday admitted losing the tracking signal for 250 criminals’ tags after the O2 network crashed.
It said the offenders, some with convictions for violence and sex offences, were still being monitored thanks to “contingency plans”.
Elsewhere, the Prison Service admitted scores of inmates were late for court after the O2 meltdown left prison vans unable to move.
A spokesman said the network crash caused “minor and brief” disruption with prison escort contractors GEO Amey and Serco.
But he added that public safety was at no time under threat.
Experts have warned the crash could cost 02 millions, with furious, fed-up customers seeking legal advice.
Dean Durham, of consumer website youandyourrights.com, said sums of up to £100 for six hours’ lost service could be on the cards.
He added: “Claims could run to millions, depending how many have been hit.
“We suggest customers keep track of costs incurred as a result of the outage, such as using a pay phone or paying for access to a wi-fi hotspot, as these could potentially be helpful in a future claim.”
Before O2 fixed the system yesterday, BBC newsreader Huw Edwards tweeted: “19 hours and counting £O2.”
And Coronation Street star Kym Marsh posted: “This is ridiculous... Important business calls being missed.”
O2 said last night that compensation had been “talked about” for the 7.6 million people affected by the blackout on Wednesday.
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Northern Trust research shows how portfolios focused on quality dividend-paying stocks can enhance investment outcomes.
Equity market turbulence often plays havoc with institutional investors'portfolio objectives, whether it’s leaving a liability stream uncovered or jeopardizing the funding for a spending plan. As a result, investors seek strategies that enable them to minimize portfolio fluctuations without sacrificing return-generating capabilities.
A recent paper from Northern Trust provides details on proprietary research that demonstrates that a Quality Dividend Focus (QDF) strategy outperformed portfolios focused solely on high quality or high-dividend yield, as well as an intersection portfolio, during different market cycles.
Four separate studies tested various aspects of a quality strategy weighted by the dividend yield of stocks.
1. Quality – A quality factor was created using fundamental financial statement data of dividend paying stocks, to rank companies based on their ability to sustain and grow their earnings and cash flow. Companies with favorable scores based on the quality factor provided positive relative returns with strong information ratios; however, since the quality factor does not contain a valuation component, there were periods of underperformance based on the premium or discount the market assigns to quality companies.
2. Dividend Yield – In isolation, high-dividend-yielding stocks showed positive relative returns with low information ratios.
3. The Intersection of High Quality and High Dividend Yield – An intersection portfolio of high-quality and high-dividend-yielding stocks outperformed the top quality and top dividend-yield portfolios on a stand-alone basis, but contained biases that led to underperformance during various market cycles.
4. High-Quality and High-Dividend-Yielding Stocks in QDF Portfolio Construction – Finally, a well-constructed portfolio utilizing the Quality Dividend Focus strategy eliminated those biases and provided persistent excess returns throughout different market cycles, such as increasing and decreasing interest rate environments, value and growth markets, rising and falling markets, and markets where small capitalization companies outperform large capitalization companies.
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Layia Araya, 3rd Grade
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You are my favorite color and you make me think of Valentines Day.
I like you because you are my mom’s favorite color besides for purple.
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Billy Cobham: The Traveller; Music Gallery India Pvt. Ltd; Rs. 125. (cassette); Rs. 375 (CD). CONTINUING WITH its series of Billy Cobham cassettes produced in India under licence from Eagle Rock Records, Music Gallery has now released ...
The `Aluminium Plant' can be grown in shallow pots at home, or as a beautiful border. You can also allow them to hang from baskets in your balcony in semi-shade for a different look.
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The protagonist of artist Dwijen Gupta's canvases is woman. A review of his works on show at the Apparao Galleries till November 25.
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A painting that was 300 feet long! That was the result of the creative effort of school childrenwho participated in a "Paintathon", which was organised to celebrate Children's Day in the city.
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From a field of nearly 200 women, nine were selected as finalists in the Toronto Raptors’ ‘Pick the Pack’ contest. Former Mustang Jamie Hoffeldt is one of them.
Hoffeldt, a 23 year-old kinesiology and sports management grad with a dance minor, spent two years with the Mustangs cheerleading squad, as well as two with the Dance Pack.
A dancer since the age of two, Hoffeldt couldn’t imagine stopping once high school was over. She had long since adapted to the rigorous schedule her hobby required, and embraced the busy lifestyle.
“I would dance every Monday to Friday from 4:30 in the afternoon until 10 at night,” she said. “Then on the weekends I would teach dance to the young ones [in] the town of Markham.”
While dancing was her passion, it wasn’t always easy for Hoffeldt to continue with it. Growing up, she commuted first from Aurora, and then from North York, to Markham in order to dance. She finally moved there when she was in grade nine, and it allowed her to focus even more effort on dance.
Hoffeldt said that one of the sadder moments in her life occurred after she finished her final recital in grade 12. This caused her to search the web, trying to find a dance team at Western University, which she would be attending that fall. Since the Dance Pack was relatively new at that point, she couldn’t find it online. So, she took the next best option.
Hoffeldt called the cheerleading coach here at Western, and thanks to her dancing background was encouraged to try out.
Hoffeldt went, and she said that it was more intense than she expected.
“It was the craziest tryout I’ve ever been to [. . .] I actually could not walk for a week following it. But [the coach] must have seen something, because I made it.”
After cheerleading for two years, Hoffeldt took her third year off, and said she missed being on a team. This led to her joining the Dance Pack in her fourth year, where her prior experience landed her the role of captain. Hoffeldt said this renewed her love for dance, and in her fifth year she got the opportunity to not only continue dancing, but to practice her managing skills under the guidance of head coach Elizabeth Morgan.
It was during this time that Hoffeldt’s opportunity arose. She became involved with the London Lightning dance team, which was a partnership between the basketball squad and Morgan’s studio, Expressions Dance Arts. Morgan oversaw the creation and maintenance of the team. It was here that Hoffeldt learned about a contest to become a member of the Toronto Raptors’ dance pack.
Hoffeldt said she didn’t really consider it at first.
“It was actually a last minute decision to try out. I was away in Florida and got home the day before, and I was like you know what, I’m just going to go and try out.”
And she was glad she did, as she was rewarded with a spot in the finals. Contestants now have until August 30 at noon to get as many people as possible to vote for them. The dancer with the most votes wins the final spot with the Raptors.
Hoffeldt said she has a lot of supporters—none more than right here at Western. She said she’s received an outpouring of support from the cheerleading squad, Dance Pack, all the Mustang athletes, and even the employees at The Wave, where she worked during her undergrad.
And of course, Hoffeldt is thankful for the school itself, which gave her the opportunity to continue her passion.
“Make sure you get involved in what you’re passionate about, because it allows you to find a place that you can call your home at Western,” she said. “Being such a big school, it’s really, really important.”
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“Tired of paying taxes/ sending e-mail and faxes …” — “Far Away” by Kindred and the Family Soul I went home to see my mother this Christmas. Not sure that’s what the band meant when they sang about going far away. That, however, was far enough to get away from e-mail. Mom is an analog woman in a digital world — no cell phones, no computer and no Internet. Which meant no e-mail. My wife loves the peaceful solitude that comes from being less tethered to the grid. E-mail? She can take it or leave it. Now, I’m writing this column on Wednesday. We’re leaving on Thursday and coming back sometime over the weekend — probably late Saturday or early Sunday. In theory, it could be four whole days before I’m able to check my inbox. What do you think the odds are that I last four days? Put it this way: If you’re a gambler, take the under because I guarantee you in advance that I found some way to check my e-mail. A polite request to use the family computer for a minute was likely made to any host that I wassailed. How did we get here? Constantly checking Blackberries, laptops, cloud computers or sneaking into the studies of close friends to check e-mails during social engagements? Maybe John Freeman’s latest book, “The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox,” can give me some insight. I don’t know, but that’s a book I’ll try to grab sometime this winter. The synopsis that I have read makes it sound like Freeman is one of those anti e-mail people. And let’s face it, some of the places where people choose to send, receive and read e-mails leave much to be desired — driving down the Toll Road would be one example. There has also been a lot of debate about the effect that e-mail writing is having on art of letter writing. A recent study showed that constantly checking e-mail reduces efficiency. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising. A lot of people find it hard to ignore that new e-mail icon that shows up in the bottom right hand corner of the computer screen whenever they get something new in the inbox. The mere thought that something important might have arrived in my inbox while I’m eating turkey is going to drive me to distraction.
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[This letter from Lon Newman appeared at Factcheck.org.]
Thanks for the fact check on the South Carolina Gingrich-versus-Romney ad ["Gingrich’s ‘Baloney’-filled Attacks on Romney," Jan. 11]. Confusing the public about emergency contraception pills (ECP) is deliberate, pervasive, and routinely served by opponents of contraception.
Although fact-checking the fact-checking seems tedious sometimes, it is important to explain that available research on Plan B One-Step (“the morning after pill”) shows that it prevents pregnancy by preventing ovulation and/or fertilization.
Ron Hamel, a Catholic ethicist publishing the conclusions of five years of scientific review in the January-February 2010 issue of Health Progress, said: ” … virtually all of the evidence in the scientific literature indicates Plan B has little or no post-fertilization effect, that is, it has little or no effect on the endometrium that would make it inhospitable to implantation. Its mechanism of action is to disrupt ovulation.”
One objection frequently repeated by Plan B opponents is that there is language in the pill package that the drug may prevent implantation. However, Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, a priest, theologian, and scientist also studied the active drug’s effects and determined that it has no post-fertilization effect. On the argument of labeling, he stated that: “ … labels mean nothing without the scientific data to back up their claims.”
These conclusions are reinforced in the 2010 World Health Organization’s fact-sheet on levonogestrel (LNG) which states: “… LNG ECP use does not prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine lining.”
The important answer to the question on emergency contraception is that there cannot be an abortion before there is a pregnancy; therefore, preventing unwanted pregnancies prevents abortions. But even if you believe pregnancy is the same as fertilization, you no longer have to put up with the warmed-over baloney that Plan B is an “abortion pill.”
Thanks, again, for your excellent work.
Executive director, Family Planning Health Services
[This piece was written by Dr. Ron Hamel. It appeared in the January-February 2010 Journal of Catholic Health Association publication HEALTH PROGRESS. We think it is an important piece and should foster some great discussion.]
Volume 91, Number 1
Thinking Ethically About Emergency Contraception
Critical judgments require adequate and accurate information.
BY RON HAMEL, Ph.D.
The controversy over the use of emergency contraception in Catholic hospitals for victims of sexual assault continues to be played out in various forums — in the literature, state legislatures, pharmacies, professional groups, state Catholic conferences, dioceses and Catholic hospitals themselves.
At its heart is whether medications used for emergency contraception have an abortifacient effect, that is, whether they prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg by altering the lining of the endometrium. On the belief that they do have such an effect, some either object to or prohibit their use in Catholic hospitals or agree to their use only in conjunction with testing for ovulation to ascertain whether the woman is at or around the time of ovulation (and, therefore, could become pregnant).1 Obviously, for women who have been subjected to a sexual assault and who seek assistance at a Catholic hospital, much hinges on accurately understanding how these hormonal medications work.
Unfortunately, such understanding is not always in play. In many instances, critics base their moral judgments on prevailing beliefs or assumptions about mechanisms of action that may be based on drug manufacturer labeling, or on outdated scientific literature, or on mere supposition. Researchers have been virtually certain that the drugs prevent or disrupt ovulation, but they have generally been uncertain about other possible effects on sperm, cervical mucus, the process of fertilization and on the endometrium. Yet manufacturers and others typically list these specific effects as possible mechanisms of action.
But are such beliefs and assumptions about emergency contraceptives accurate and adequate? This is a critical question, for women who have been sexually assaulted and for the Catholic hospitals that care for them.
One of the well-known truisms in ethics is that good moral judgments depend in part on good facts. Absent adequate and accurate information, there is an increased possibility of a faulty analysis and, therefore, of an erroneous judgment. In addition, the moral judgment itself might be seen to lack credibility either because its basis is unclear or because it seems to fly in the face of reputable data.
Take one example. In late February 2007, in a LifeSiteNews interview, Bishop Elio Sgreccia, the then-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, reaffirmed the academy’s 2000 statement that the “morning-after pill” is abortifacient and that physicians and Catholic hospitals are prohibited from administering it, even in cases of sexual assault.2 Unfortunately, the 2000 statement employed the generic term “morning-after pill,” which can refer to a variety of medications with different mechanisms of action, and the statement made no reference to scientific literature substantiating its claim that the pill is abortifacient. In addition, the comment in the 2007 interview seemed not to take account of recent scientific literature on how these medications work, particularly in the case of levonorgestrel, also known as Plan B, the current standard treatment for women who have been sexually assaulted. Yet after the interview, despite the lack of evidence, some described both the bishop’s comment and the Pontifical Academy’s statement as “authoritative.”
GOOD FACTS ARE NECESSARY FOR GOOD ETHICS
What, in fact, do we find if we look at the scientific literature on how Plan B, a progestin-only form of emergency contraception, works?
Over the past five years, CHA staff have collected, reviewed and summarized the great majority of articles on emergency contraceptive medications’ mechanisms of action — both for combination drugs (such as Preven) and Plan B.3 In addition, CHA obtained two independent analyses of the literature — one by an ob-gyn and the other by a pharmacist. The reviews concluded that virtually all of the evidence in the scientific literature indicates Plan B has little or no post-fertilization effect, that is, it has little or no effect on the endometrium that would make it inhospitable to implantation. Its mechanism of action is to disrupt ovulation.
In a thorough review of the scientific literature, Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP, Ph.D., a priest, theologian and scientist, wrote in the Winter 2007 issue of The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly:
Studies published in the past few months provide mounting evidence that levonorgestrel has little or no effect on post-fertilization events. In other words, given the limitations of scientific certitude, they suggest that Plan B, when administered once, is not an abortifacient. These human studies correlate well with earlier findings in rodents and monkeys that convincingly showed that the postcoital administration of levonorgestrel in amounts several times higher than typical doses given to women does not interfere with the post-fertilization processes required for mammalian embryo implantation. The evidence also addresses what until now has been a nagging, unanswerable question for pharmacologists: Why would levonorgestrel, a progesterone agonist that mimics the effect of progesterone, prevent implantation, when progesterone produced from the corpus luteum immediately after ovulation actually promotes implantation by converting the endometrium to deciduas? Answer: It does not.4
Several months later in the Autumn 2008 issue of the quarterly, responding to his critics, Fr. Austriaco offered an even more detailed argument in support of his conclusion.5 If Plan B is abortifacient, the author observes, it can have this effect in three primary ways. The first is by increasing the rate of ectopic pregnancies. However, he notes that the “combined data from five clinical trials with nearly six thousand women showed that the rate of ectopic pregnancies in women who have used Plan B is 1.02 percent as compared to the overall national ectopic pregnancy rate between 1.24 percent and 1.97 percent. In light of this finding, it is unlikely that Plan B increases the ectopic pregnancy rate … .”6
The second way in which Plan B could be abortifacient is by preventing implantation of an embryo. Fr. Austriaco noted that there are three ways in which this could occur. One is by altering the lining of the endometrium, making it inhospitable to implantation. “[M]orphological and biochemical analyses of endometrial biopsies of women who had taken Plan B eight or nine days prior to the biopsy have revealed that the drug does not dramatically alter the structures of this tissue. This suggests that the drug does not compromise endometrial development.”7
Another way in which the drug could make the endometrium inhospitable is by disrupting the function of the corpus luteum which releases hormones that are necessary for the proper development of the endometrium, including making it receptive to an embryo. After reviewing the scientific literature, Fr. Austriaco concluded that “[T]ogether, these data suggest that the risk of a post-fertilization effect from this mode of action for any particular individual woman, if it is real, would be vanishingly small.”8
The final manner in which Plan B could prevent implantation is by directly interfering with the implantation process itself. Fr. Austriaco replied: “[O]ne study that directly tested the ability of human embryos to implant on endometrial tissue exposed to LNG — though grossly immoral — does not support this mode of action for Plan B.”9 Two other recent studies confirm this conclusion.10
A third way in which Plan B could be abortifacient is by destroying an already implanted embryo. With regard to this possibility, Fr. Austriaco wrote: “[A] report from the FDA shows that Plan B does not increase the rate of pregnancy loss or the frequency of fetal abnormalities once a pregnancy has been established.”11
Fr. Austriaco concluded his article: “[I] stand by my earlier conclusion: In light of the available scientific evidence and given the inherent limitations of the studies, it is unlikely that Plan B is an abortifacient.”12
What about the manufacturer’s label which claims that one of the drug’s mechanisms of action is to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg? Many appeal to the manufacturer’s label in their arguments against the use of Plan B. In Fr. Austriaco’s judgment, “labels mean nothing without the scientific data to back up their claims.”13
MORAL CERTITUDE, NOT ABSOLUTE CERTITUDE
While the preponderance of scientific evidence strongly suggests that Plan B does not have an abortifacient effect, the evidence stops short of providing absolute certitude. But is absolute certitude needed?
In the Catholic moral tradition, what is required of an agent when he or she makes a moral judgment is that he or she have moral certitude about the correctness of the action. In the words of Thomas Slater, SJ, author of a manual of moral theology: “In order to act lawfully and rightly, I must have at least moral certainty of the imperfect kind that the proposed action is honest and right. This degree of certainty will be sufficient, for ordinarily no greater can be had, as we have just seen. It is also required for right action; for if I am not at least to this extent morally certain that my action is right, I am conscious that it may be wrong.”14
What is meant by moral certitude? Moral certitude means that the agent has excluded all reasonable possibility of error. It stands between mere probability, where alternative opinions are equally plausible, and absolute certainty, where any theoretical possibility of error is not only excluded, but is impossible. Again, in the words of Fr. Slater:
Certainty in general is a firm assent of the mind to something known, without the fear of mistake. In mathematics and in other branches of exact science we can often attain absolute certainty, which rests on the evident truth of the principles which are employed to arrive at it. … In the science of morality we have frequently to be content with a lower degree of certainty than this; there is often some obscurity about the principles to be applied, and human acts are not the matter of necessary and unvarying law. We have to be content with what is called moral certainty. … I may be conscious that mistake is possible but not probable, as when a man has been condemned on evidence which has satisfied a jury of intelligent men. In such cases if there can be no prudent doubt about the justice of the verdict I have moral certainty of an imperfect but real kind. … Ordinarily greater certainty cannot be obtained in human affairs. … If I have this imperfect moral certainty that my action is right, I am justified in acting … .”15
How does moral certitude play out with regard to emergency contraception, and Plan B in particular? The first consideration deals with Plan B’s mechanism of action. Is there sufficient moral certitude that Plan B is not abortifacient? In other words, do the results of scientific research on how Plan B works rise to the level of moral certitude? Given the mounting evidence from the scientific literature that Plan B does not prevent implantation, there does seem to be moral certitude, of the imperfect kind, about the mechanism of action. It is, of course, theoretically possible that all of the studies that have been done could be mistaken, but this is not likely. Hence, if these scientific studies are correct, then Plan B is consistent with Directive 36 which states that a woman who has been sexually assaulted may be “treated with medications that would prevent ovulation, sperm capacitation, or fertilization.”16 Thus its use would not be prohibited by what follows in Directive 36: “It is not permissible, however, to initiate or to recommend treatments that have as their purpose or direct effect the removal, destruction, or interference with the implantation of a fertilized ovum.”17 Targeting implantation is not the purpose or direct effect of Plan B. Rather, its purpose and direct effect is to interfere with ovulation.
Second, is there moral certitude that a fertilized ovum will not be destroyed? Some argue that in order for moral certitude to be present, the woman who has been sexually assaulted must undergo an ovulation test to ensure that she is not at or around the time of ovulation such that she could become pregnant from the rape. For example, one advocate of ovulation testing says: “[C]atholic hospitals must have moral certitude that the possibility of an abortion is excluded. The ovulation test provides this certainty. … Therefore, moral certitude can be achieved only through the administration of the [luteinizing hormone] test. To administer emergency contraception when there is insufficient information as to its effect on the specific patient in question is not only morally illicit but medically unsound.”18
Given what has been said about Plan B’s mechanism of action, such testing is not required to achieve moral certitude. Furthermore, moral certitude in these situations is strengthened by the fact that the incidence of a pregnancy after rape is between <1 percent and 5 percent. Typically the estimate is put at about 3 percent.19 Given the scientific evidence regarding Plan B’s mechanism of action and the high probability that there is no fertilized egg present subsequent to the sexual assault, the requisite moral certitude exists that a fertilized ovum would not be destroyed by the administration of Plan B.
Finally, it is generally maintained in textbooks of moral theology that when human life is involved, one should always take the safer course. This is sometimes illustrated by the example of the hunter in the woods who sees movement behind bushes. Is the hunter free to shoot, believing that the movement results from a deer? The response in the manuals is no, because the movement could be caused by another hunter. Unless the hunter can resolve his doubt, the hunter must take the safer course and not shoot. This example might suggest that Catholic hospitals must not use emergency contraceptive medications at all in the belief that they might have an abortifacient effect — or, at least, that hospital personnel do as much as they can to reduce the possibility there might be an egg present that could be or might have been fertilized. They would do this by testing for ovulation.
In the situation under consideration, if there were a likelihood that a fertilized egg were present and if there were a likelihood that Plan B has an abortifacient effect, then the example and the obligation to take the safer course would be applicable. However, neither of these conditions is the case, because there is virtually no evidence that Plan B is abortifacient and, in cases of sexual assault, there is a very high probability that there is no fertilized egg present.20 Hence, there does not seem to be an obligation to take the safer course. If one were obliged to take the safer course in these situations, in order to be consistent, one would also have to take the safer course in many of life’s other activities (e.g., driving one’s car, flying in a plane) as well as in the practice of medicine generally (e.g., agreeing to a surgery with a 25 percent risk of dying, undergoing chemotherapy that could have a lethal effect).
The administration of emergency contraception to women who have been sexually assaulted is a matter of utmost seriousness since it touches on human life. It is also a matter of utmost seriousness because it touches on the well-being of women who have been subjected to one of the most heinous of crimes. Any decision about whether or not to permit the dispensing of emergency contraceptive medications in Catholic hospitals and about the protocols for their administration has profound consequences.
Those who make such decisions, whether bishops, hospital executives, emergency room physicians, nurses or others, have a grave moral obligation to take seriously one of the first rules in making good ethical judgments, namely, to obtain adequate and accurate information about the matter at hand. To do any less is not only to shortchange the moral process, but also to risk significant harm to others. And once the best possible information is obtained, those making the decisions need to keep in mind that the use of emergency contraception for women who have been sexually assaulted is a matter about which moral certitude is sufficient. Given what is currently known about Plan B from scientific research, Catholic hospitals can respond with sensitivity, compassion and assistance to women who have been raped and are in need of care, while being confident that they are also remaining true to Catholicism’s fundamental commitment to respect for human life.
- If ovulation testing determines that the woman is at or around the time of ovulation, generally emergency contraception would not be administered out of concern that a possible abortifacient effect of the medication could result in the loss of an embryo.
- Pontifical Academy for Life, “Statement on the So-Called ‘Morning-After Pill,’” (October 31, 2000), http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdlife/documents/
- For information about the mechanism of action of emergency contraceptive medications generally: www.chausa.org/ECmedicationsReview; for information about Plan B’s mechanism of action: www.chausa.org/LevonorgestrelReview.
- Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, “Is Plan B Abortifacient? A Critical Look at the Scientific Evidence,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 7, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 707.
- Nicanor Pier Georgio Austriaco, “Colloquy: More on Plan B — Fr. Austriaco Replies,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 8, no. 3 (Winter 2008): 421-25.
- Austriaco, 422.
- Austriaco, 423.
- Chun-Xia Meng et al., “Effect of Levonorgestrel and Mifepristone on Endometrial Receptivity Markers in a Three-Dimensional Human Endometrial Cell Culture Model,” Fertility and Sterility 91, no. 1 (2009): 256-64; Natalia Novikova et al., “Effectiveness of Levonorgestrel Emergency Contraception Given Before or After Ovulation: A Pilot Study,” Contraception 75, no. 2 (2007): 112-18. The immoral, but important study to which Austriaco refers is P.G.L. Lalitkumar et al., “Mifepristone, But Not Levonorgestrel, Inhibits Human Blastocyst Attachment to an In Vitro Endometrial Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Model,” Human Reproduction 22, no. 11 (2007): 3031-37.
- Austriaco, 424.
- Austriaco, “Is Plan B Abortifacient?”, 707.
- Thomas Slater, SJ, A Manual of Moral Theology, (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1925), 1:31.
- Slater, 1:31-32.
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, (Washington, D.C.: USCCB, 2001), Directive 36.
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- Marie Hilliard, “Dignitas Personae and Emergency Contraception,” Ethics and Medics 34, no. 2 (February 2009): 4.
- Melisa M. Holmes, et al., “Rape-Related Pregnancy: Estimates and Descriptive Characteristics from a National Sample of Women,” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 175 (August 1996): 320.
- Gerald McShane, et al., “Pregnancy Prevention after Sexual Assault,” in Peter Cataldo and Albert Moraczewski, eds., Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Ethics Committees, (Boston: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2001), 11, 16-17.
RON HAMEL is senior director, ethics, Catholic Health Association, St. Louis. Write to him at email@example.com.
[From our friends at Catholics for Choice.]
President Obama listened to all of the women and men who called, e-mailed and wrote to the White House to express their support for family planning decisions staying in the hands of women. In so doing, he remained true to the original vision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and refused to bend the knee to intense lobbying from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic healthcare industry and other special interests who wanted him to expand a refusal clause that would have denied millions of women access to affordable family planning.
The president of Catholics for Choice, Jon O’Brien, said, “The bishops pulled out all the stops in their campaign against women’s access to contraception. The Obama administration stood with those who support religious liberty and believe in giving women the freedom of conscience to make their own reproductive health decisions.
“While the refusal clause that is contained in the legislation is still too expansive, denying many women, as it does, affordable access to contraception, we are relieved by this announcement. Catholics for Choice and our colleagues in the reproductive rights movement expended a huge amount of energy and resources mobilizing the public to take action on this pivotal issue. In the final analysis, this was a victory for common sense and scientific advice in the interests of the common good.
“The battle over this issue is a warning about what is to come, especially as the bishops are playing the victim card in their pleas for special treatment and their false assertions about alleged attacks on religious freedom. The president and Congress will need to get real about what is going on, and remember that this coming November the electorate will not be listening to the bishops, so neither should they.”
Catholics for Choice shapes and advances sexual and reproductive ethics that are based on justice, reflect a commitment to women’s well-being and respect and affirm the capacity of women and men to make moral decisions about their lives.
[This blog post appeared here. We think the message is simple and direct. Thank you to Laura Kendellen for such a well written response.]
Thank you for contacting me regarding right to life and the issue of abortion.
I fully understand the controversy and diverse opinions surrounding this issue. My own views have been forged over a lifetime of raising a family and following the national debate. In all sincerity, and with due respect to the beliefs of others, I believe that life begins at conception.
Our founding documents establish that we have an unalienable right to life endowed by our creator. Because the abortion debate concerns more than one life, there is not a national consensus as to when life begins or when the life of an unborn child should be protected.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade imposed a judicial dictate that did not end a debate that would be better resolved through the legislative process. As a result, the controversy over abortion has raged for over 3 decades, and there will continue to be attempts to come to a better resolution of the issue legislatively.
I have cosponsored two current bills in the Senate that help define and resolve the issue. I support S. 91 that defines life as beginning at conception, and S. 906 that prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for procedures that so many Americans strongly believe are morally wrong.
Thank you again for taking the time to share your thoughts. It is important for me to hear the views and concerns of the people I serve. Since taking office, I have received over 300,000 pieces of correspondence and have had over 150,000 people participate in live forums and telephone town hall meetings. Please feel free to contact me in the future if I can further assist you or your family. It is an honor representing you and the good people of Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate.
United States Senator
I received the above email this morning. I immediately posted it on Facebook and the comments keep coming.
I’m not sure which email Sen. Johnson is replying to here, but I am so appalled by his use of religious language in official correspondence that I have to share it.
I’m referring specifically to Sen. Johnson’s candid mention of “our creator.” As if everyone believes whatever Sen. Johnson believes. As if imposing his religious beliefs on his constituents is part of his job as a U.S. senator.
Regardless of “our founding documents,” I am a strong proponent of separation of church and state. Everyone is entitled to their own religious beliefs or having no religious beliefs, but religion should have no place in government- in theory and practice.
Unfortunately, that’s not the reality. After all, organizations like NARAL wouldn’t have to exist if it weren’t for the religion-politics crossover.
Although the majority of Americans identify as Christians, 3.9-5.5% identify as non-Christian, and 15% don’t identify with any religion at all.
- A recent Gallup poll shows that those who believe that abortion should be illegal in all cases are the minority;
- A Guttmacher report shows 78% of women who have abortions have a religious affiliation;
- And the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, for example, is made up of about 40 national religious and religiously affiliated organizations from 15 denominations and faith traditions
Clearly, religion and anti-choice sentiments don’t always go hand in hand.
I expected Sen. Johnson’s response to be anti-choice, but I did not expect such a blatant disregard for religious freedom and separation of church and state. Like many politicians, he is using “the issue of abortion” as a platform to promote his personal religious beliefs rather than to simply state his position.
Sen. Johnson’s response illustrates that he is both out of touch and out of line.
Submitted by National Womens Law Center on Jan 5, 2012
By Leila Abolfazli
Here’s to a new year.
Arriving at the National Women’s Law Center three months ago, I never anticipated just how sustained and systemic the efforts to dismantle women’s health and reproductive rights had become. Sure, I had paid attention to the Planned Parenthood defunding fight (which included the “trade” for a ban on DC funding of abortion services and the “this is not meant to be a factual statement” debacle) and had heard about HR 3and the disgusting “forcible rape” debate. Indeed, it was those events that informed my decision to work on reproductive rights issues full time. But even though I was aware of what was going on, it was only when I became involved with the issues on a daily basis where I gained a whole new perspective on just how far those who oppose reproductive rights are going in order to completely unravel women’s rights. And it got me thinking, if so many bad things can happen in just my three months here, what will 2012 look like?
So in order to be prepared for this year, I decided to give a quick review of my first three months – a recap of the numerous anti-choice measures that cropped up in just the final months of 2011. Because when you lay it all out, you can’t ignore how serious these efforts really are.
In my very first week, the House of Representatives voted on HR 358, which literally would allow women to die at hospitals instead of getting the emergency care they need if it included abortion care. Seriously? Ok, next? How about the Rehberg Draft, the House’s version of the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill, which was never reviewed, debated, or marked up in subcommittee before the subcommittee chair posted it online (meaning circumventing the typical process for getting bills through). The draft included defunding Title X (the family planning program), ensuring Planned Parenthood gets no federal funds whatsoever (once again), expanding refusal rights, and taking away funding for implementing the Affordable Care Act. So basically everything that would hurt women’s and their families’ health. Thankfully, these provisions did not make it into the final appropriations bill (although there was a cut in Title X funding), so take a momentary sigh of relief. But with this sigh of relief there is also one of frustration when considering the 2012 appropriations didn’t include provisions providing coverage of abortion in case of rape, incest, or life endangerment for Peace Corps volunteers or permanently banning the global gag rule. Oh, and don’t forget, the bill prevents DC from using its own funds to cover abortion services. Sigh.
Ok, next up we have the debate of the National Defense Authorization Act, where Senator Shaheen was trying to include an amendment in the bill that would correct a very serious gap in coverage for women who rely on the military for insurance. Does it make sense that military women who fight and sacrifice for our country are left without any health insurance coverage for abortion services when they find themselves pregnant after surviving sexual violence? Does it make any more sense that civilian federal employees and those on Medicaid get such coverage and women in the military do not? Despite it making no sense for not providing this coverage to military women, the amendment was blocked from coming to a vote.
Now back to the House again, where there was a hearing in the Subcommittee on Health of the Energy & Commerce Committee on whether the groundbreaking HHS rule guaranteeing no cost sharing coverage of contraception should have an even bigger exemption for more religious entities, like hospitals and universities. Even though the rule in no way forces someone to take contraception, several witnesses at the hearing said that the rule still impinges on hospitals’ and universities’ consciences. Contraception is widely accepted, widely used, and used to be non-controversial. So it makes you think, are we really debating this? Is this where we are now, that even contraception is now up for negotiation? Ugh.
Just weeks after the HHS rule hearing, there was another House hearing, “HHS and the Catholic Church: Examining the Politicization of Grants” where HHS officials were questioned why a grant to help survivors of trafficking (including sex trafficking) wasn’t given to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Although claims were made of an administration bias against the Catholic Church, the issue boiled down to the fact that the Bishops would not provide or refer for all services that were required to get the grant. This includes providing or referring for the full range of gynecological care (remember what we are talking about here – providing care to sex trafficking survivors). The Bishops weren’t going to provide what the grant required, so they didn’t get the grant. Simple enough.
Next, we move on to a real roller coaster of a week. First, the House held a hearing on the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011, a bill that would criminalize race and sex selective abortions. The hearing was unbelievably depressing as members of the House advanced the extremely anti-choice, anti-woman bill in the name of civil rights, even quoting famous civil rights leaders, all the while ignoring the very big elephant in the room – i.e. the fact that those touting this “civil rights” law voted against every other civil rights legislation in the past several years. This one requires a big sigh…
Ok, but no time to dwell on a bill that would basically require doctors to racial profile patients, because now we are at one of the most stunning decisions of the year – i.e. Secretary Sebelius’s alarming decision to overrule the FDA’s conclusion that Plan B should be given over the counter status. Ouch, this one really hurt. And just to add salt to the wound, the next day President Obama said he agreed with the decision,because he didn’t want his daughters to be able to get Plan B between the bubble gum and batteries.Thud, my head has officially hit the table. There are so many problems with this decision (including ignoring the difficulty women can face in obtaining Plan B at a pharmacy) and the subsequent commentary, but, at its core, the decision to deny women over the counter access to contraception is a huge loss for this country.The decision has done great damage to the message about the benefits of access to contraception, women’s ownership of their reproductive health decisions, and elevating science over an incorrect political calculation (yeah sometimes I really want to think global warming isn’t happening, but then I look at the science…). Oh, and did you know that Obama’s daughters could get a lot more dangerous medicines at the pharmacy next to the bubble gum that is a lot cheaper than the $50 needed to buy Plan B… But that’s beside the point, right?
And so, with that great disappointment, 2011 is over, and with it the end of my first three months at the Law Center. Oh, and just as an fyi, this is just what happened on the national level, I did not even step into theNINETY-TWO anti-abortion restrictions passed in the states, which would make this blog even more depressing than it is and, not to mention, as long as the dictionary. But just as a reference - this total is almost THREE times higher the last highest number of state anti-abortion restrictions, which was 34 in 2005.
All of these attacks on women’s reproductive health, what is it about? Is it about controlling women’s decisions? Is it about nervousness about people having sex? Or is it just about scoring political points, and getting reelected?
Whatever it is or isn’t, it is madly saddening. Not only because women’s bodies are being used as political points, but because the conversation that happens in Washington about women’s bodies is completely ignorant of the conversation that is happening in the rest of America. That conversation is that there is an America that is struggling to make it. That there is a stubborn high unemployment rate (which, if the proponents of sex and race selection abortion were really concerned about discrimination and civil rights issues, they would work on legislation to help with the fact that black women in America have been particularly hit by job loss during the recovery). That the income gap is growing, people’s houses are underwater, extreme poverty is rising. These are all serious issues that are affecting Americans. But instead of dealing with these real issues, Washington is focused on women’s reproductive organs and figuring out new and unique ways to restrict, deny, and control them.
It is all very maddening, but if you think of a silver lining, think that the public gets it even if Washington doesn’t. Think about the Personhood Amendment failing in Mississippi by a large margin (yes, Mississippi).
And be ready for 2012.
[This story comes from Anna Merlan at the Dallas Observer.]
?One night late last year, Jason Melbourne walked into a CVS pharmacy in Mesquite, hoping against hope to walk out with an emergency contraceptive, or “the morning-after pill.” It wasn’t the morning after. He and his wife had their “accident” a few days before, and the 72-hour window in which EC is most effective was closing fast. The first four pharmacies he visited had told him they were out of stock.
He was finally referred to a CVS in Mesquite, some 15 miles away. They told him they had just one box left. But when he finally got there, the overnight pharmacist, Minni Matthew, told Melbourne she wasn’t going to sell it to him.
In order for him to buy the meds, the pharmacist said, she’d need to talk to and see the ID of his wife, who was at home with their two young children. He asked why, and she pointed to the fine print on the medication’s box, which says it can only be sold to someone age 17 or older. Melbourne pointed out that he was well over 17.
“I’ve bought this plenty of times in my life, and it’s never been a problem,” he said. “Are you telling me every other place I’ve bought it from has been wrong?”
Didn’t matter, Matthew said, since the medicine obviously wasn’t for him.
“Why don’t you show me the law that says you can’t sell this to a man?” Melbourne replied.
Things devolved from there. Melbourne Googled emergency contraception on his phone and confirmed that there was no law against selling the product to a man. He tried to show his phone to the pharmacist, he says, “but she didn’t want to see it.”
“You’re the only person who has it in the city, and I’ve driven 15 miles to get here,” Melbourne recalls telling her. “My wife is home with our 4-year-old and newborn son. She’s breastfeeding. She can’t drag my infant child out of the house and down here just to satisfy you.”
At that point, Melbourne says, Matthew retreated behind the counter. He shouted after her, “You got a pillow, Minni? Because I’ll be here all night. I’m not going anywhere until you show me a law against selling this to men.”
A pharmacy technician, who gave his name only as “Robert,” jumped in. He let Melbourne know that they don’t sell emergency contraception to men because they might be giving it to “rape victims.”
By then, Melbourne says, he was starting to “freak out.”
“I’m standing in line trying to get something that’s already a little controversial, a little embarrassing,” he says. “It’s for my wife. There are three customers behind me when the guy says that, so it looks like I’m a piece of shit now.”
Matthew then tried to tell Melbourne that the real reason he couldn’t buy the drug was because it was Plan B, the brand name, and that previously he’d always bought the generic version of the drug.
“What does this have to do with anything? It’s the same drug,” Melbourne, a full-time student who happens to be entering nursing school in the fall, shot back. He called his wife and put her on the phone with the pharmacist, but that wasn’t enough. Melbourne then asked for Matthew to call her supervisor, but the supervisor said no, too. At that point, Melbourne’s wife called a nearby Walgreen’s, who agreed to sell him the medicine. Melbourne went there, bought it, then promptly filed a complaint with the ACLU for gender discrimination.
Lisa Graybill, the legal director at ACLU of Texas, says that while denying emergency contraception to a man isn’t technically illegal, “it’s my understanding it’s contrary to the FDA guidelines. They say the medication is available to people over the ages of 17.”
Graybill says that refusing to sell EC to men on the grounds they may give it to minors is “misguided,” as she put it after a polite, diplomatic pause. “I’m not aware of a single case of a man reportedly buying it to push on his underage pedophile victim,” she says. She’s also not aware of men buying EC to force on people they’ve just raped.
“I don’t know where these ideas comes from,” she says. “I’m not telling you there’s never a case that that’s happened, but I’m not aware of any. That’s a sensational story that would get coverage if someone was criminally accused of doing that.”
The ACLU’s been down this road before. They received reports in July of 2010 that Walgreens stores in Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma were refusing to sell EC to men. The ACLU called Walgreens out publicly, which seemed to solve the problem.
In an email, CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis insisted to Unfair Park that they’ve already responded to the incident and appropriately briefed their stores on official company policy.
“CVS/pharmacy’s policy is to follow FDA regulations for the sale of emergency contraception, which allows this product to be sold without a prescription to customers who are at least 17 years old, regardless of gender,” he wrote. “It is our pharmacists’ responsibility to ensure that all customer needs are promptly and completely satisfied. As such, there is no company policy that prevents the sale of emergency contraception to a male customer.”
But DeAngelis was referring to a similar incident in Houston, which he called “isolated.” We told him that actually we were talking about incident in Mesquite. We also informed DeAngelis that we’d spoken with Angela Soto, the store manager of that particular Mesquite CVS. Though she wasn’t specifically aware of the incident with Melbourne, she confirmed to us that as she understood it, it’s “store policy” not to sell EC to men, “because we have to prove that whoever we sell it to is not any minor person.”
We pointed out that Melbourne was over 17. “Well, that’s the issue,” she replied. “We don’t know who he’s going to give it to.” She said she had also heard that “other stores” won’t sell EC to men on the grounds they may give it to women they’ve just raped.
“Those statements are contrary to our company policy,” DeAngelis said when we relayed the manager’s response. He said the company would look into it.
“I’m outraged,” Melbourne says. “I chased this thing all over town, then I get accused of using this for rape, even after they’ve talked to my wife on the phone. It makes me feel like a piece of crap.”
Graybill says that she “won’t contest” that the store’s policy, however logically shaky, may come from “a place of genuine concern” about underage girls. But ultimately, she says, “I think there’s just a gap in communication from corporate to the people on the line.”
“I really want them to be educated,” Melbourne says. “I’m tired of having to tell a pharmacist who’s in charge of a lot more drugs than that one what she can sell. They need to get it right. They need to do some follow up training. I don’t want this crap happening to me again, or to someone else.”
Happy New Year, ASEC Community!
Today (Friday, January 6th), the President’s Council on Science and
Technology will hold its bi-monthly meeting, and 5 representatives from
different sectors of the reproductive health community will address the
Council during the public comment period at 1:30. The speakers will be:
* Dr. Francesca Grifo, Program Director of the Union of
Concerned Scientists Scientific Integrity Program
* Dr. Susan Wood, Associate Professor at the Jacobs Institute of
Women’s Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and
* Mr. Wayne Shields, President and CEO of the Association of
Reproductive Health Professionals
* Dr. Doug Laube, MD, Obstetrician and Gynecologist; Board Chair
of the Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
* Ms. Kelly Cleland, MPA, MPH, Executive Director of the
American Society for Emergency Contraception; Research Staff at the
Office of Population Research at Princeton University
If you’re interested in watching a webcast of the meeting tomorrow,
click here. Each
speaker only has 2 minutes, so hopefully we will succeed in getting the
attention of the Council (and the President) in that brief amount of
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Today we look at music…two big new releases (and one album from last week that’s getting so much buzz I thought I’d ask your opinion). First up, all hail People’s Choice Awards’ own Queen Latifah. Her latest solo record “Persona” hits stores today, and of course she rocked the first single at the American Idol season finale. Also lending a hand on this record we’ve got Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes and Mary J. Blige. (Be sure to check out this featured bonus track “Fair Weather Friend” exclusively on iTunes, written by People’s Choice member Ingrid Woode!) Next, the new record from another leading lady who’s no stranger to TV, Broadway and everything in between — Reba McEntire. The Oklahoma songstress made us wait 6 years for this one, entitled “Keep On Loving You,” and it’s already selling — will you check it out?And finally, we have a new record from one of music’s greatest living legends. Exactly 50 years since he scored his first Number One Hit as lead singer of the Miracles, Smokey Robinson is back — with a new solo release called “Time Flies When You’re Having Fun” (and Smokey gets a little help from his friends Joss Stone, India Arie and Carlos Santana). So what’ll it be, do any of these new titles tickle your fancy? If they do, voice your choice in today’s featured poll and tell us which one you’ll check out first!
1) Queen Latifah “Persona”
2) Reba McEntire “Keep On Loving You”
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By John Clark
A report this week from Detroit’s emergency manager says the downtrodden city is completely broke and may soon have to file for bankruptcy, according to the Associated Press.
The report, a 41-page analysis that aimed to portray a realistic picture of the city’s finances, said Detroit is on the verge of financial collapse, which would lead to lost paychecks for city workers, deep service cuts, and the loss of pension benefits.
And Kevyn Orr, the city’s emergency manager, believes that Detroit’s only remaining option could eventually be a trip to bankruptcy court.
Detroit May Soon File for Municipal Bankruptcy
As the city teeters on the brink of financial collapse, Orr has been given the unenviable task of negotiating deals with Detroit’s numerous creditors.
But James McTevia, a financial expert in Detroit, believes that Orr may head to bankruptcy court when he “gets his back against the wall and he can’t meet payroll.”
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Stage 11 of the Dakar 2012 provided mixed feelings for the Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain. Joan Barreda scored yet another top five result but Paulo Goncalves’ battle for an overall podium is over following a decision by the race jury, which the team finds incomprehensible. Goncalves received a six-hour penalty and is now positioned way down the order.
Joan Barreda opened today’s “survival” stage from Arica, Chile to Arequipa, Peru, a total of 438 miles with a 332-mile special test. He reached a river crossing 25 miles in and got momentarily stuck. Barreda had to push the bike out because of the high water level. Cyril Despres and Marc Coma, who had started behind the Spaniard, therefore caught him. The trio carried on together. Despres then made a navigation error and plenty of riders joined the front-runners. That was pretty much the story of the stage. The route was beautiful but not very difficult in terms of riding requirements. It was dusty and overtaking was close to impossible. Barreda ended the day a well-deserved fifth, promoting him to 11th overall.
Paulo Goncalves began the stage as 16th. He was confident in the morning to make up ground but then came the jury decision. He understandably found it hard to concentrate afterwards. The six-hour penalty was issued due to alleged unauthorized outside assistance. The penalty refers to stage eight where Goncalves first got stuck in a mudhole by himself, before suffering a broken drivetrain caused by a stone. In this situation rider No.15 accused Goncalves of receiving outside assistance. Other riders who came by at that point, and who were in direct competition with the Portuguese, do not confirm such an incident. Still the jury trusted the accusations, robbing the rider and the team of any hopes of a top result overall.
Jose Manuel Pellicer had a good day on the way to Arequipa. He made no mistakes and has improved considerably in the standings. Zé Hélio was also performing well. Both riders are now sitting in the top 20.
The riders are on their own tonight with no service is allowed in the survival bivouac. Barreda starts tomorrow’s stage as fifth. Things will be very difficult and interesting with the dunes of Nasca and a special of 152 miles awaiting the field.
Dakar 2012, Stage 11 Results:
1. Cyril Despres (FRA) KTM, 4:03:37 hrs
2. Gerard Farres Guell (SPA) KTM 1:39 min behind
3. Marc Coma (SPA) KTM, 2:01 min 4. Johnny Aubert (FRA) KTM 3:30
5. Joan Barreda (SPA) Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain, 4:53
15. Paulo Goncalves (POR) Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain, 18:35
16. Jose Manuel Pellicer (SPA) Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain, 19:39
21. Zé Hélio (BRA) Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain, 26:49
Dakar 2012, Overall Standings:
1. Despres (FRA) KTM, 37:11:16 hrs
2. Coma (SPA) KTM, 2:22 min behind
3. Helder Rodrigues (POR) Yamaha, 1:08:40
4. Jordi Viladoms (SPA) KTM, 1:24:46
5. Stefan Svitko (SVK) KTM, 1:34:56
11. Joan Barreda (SPA) Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain, 3:34:20
18. Zé Hélio (BRA) Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain, 5:15:11
19. Jose Manuel Pellicer (SPA), Husqvarna Rallye Team by Speedbrain, 5:23:45
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If the metadata of an image contains odd characters (e.g. © copyright symbol), the image will almost invariably insert into your post as full size.
For some reason, this doesn't always occur. I'm not sure why.
I've tracked this bug to an older version and found that this problem was once fixed.
/wp-admin/includes/image.php: lines 276, 278, 282, 284, 286:
$meta['credit'] = trim($iptc['2#110']);
was changed in 2.6.2 to:
$meta['credit'] = utf8_encode(trim($iptc['2#110']));
And so the problem seemed to disappear. Unfortunetly, the problem seems to have come back. I've applied this fix:
$meta['credit'] = htmlentities(utf8_encode(trim($iptc['2#110'])));
It seems to correct the bug. Sadly, the copyright symbol no longer appears correctly. I'm certain there's a better way to fix this.
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Röttiger (centre) in 1941
16 April 1896|
|Died||15 April 1960
|Allegiance|| German Empire (to 1918)
Weimar Republic (to 1933)
Nazi Germany (to 1945)
NATO (to 1960)
|Years of service||1914–1960|
|Rank||General der Panzertruppe (Wehrmacht)
|Commands held||Inspector of the Bundeswehr|
|Battles/wars||World War I
World War II
He joined the Imperial German Army in 1914 and served from 1915 as a leutnant in the 20th artillery regiment. After World War I he served in the Reichswehr as a battery officer, adjutant and battery chief. He then served as an officer on the General Staff of the Wehrmacht.
At the beginning of World War II Röttiger was an oberstleutnant and he served as from 1939–1940 as the Chief of Operations VI Corps. From 1940–1942 he was Chief of Staff XXXXI Corps and was then appointed the Chief of Staff of the 4th Panzer Army on the Eastern Front, serving at Stalingrad. From 1943 to 1944 he was the Chief of Staff of the 4th Army and of Army Group A from 1944 - 1945 under Generaloberst Josef Harpe. He then became the Chief of Staff of Army Group C in Italy under Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring. On 30 January 1945 he was promoted to General der Panzertruppe.
Röttiger was a prisoner of war of the British and Americans from the end of the war until 1948. In 1950 he was a participant at the meeting to discuss the establishment of a new German defence force. He re-enlisted in 1956 as a Generalleutnant and on 21 September 1957 he became the first inspector of the Bundeswehr and was instrumental in its early development. On 15 April 1960 he died in office.
- Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 388.
- Patzwall, Klaus D. & Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941–1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 3-931533-45-X.
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Social Media: Put Your Money Where Your Customers Are
Want customers? You’ll find them engaged on the social Internet (aka social media).
One out of five minutes online is spent on a social media network where women 15 and above spend 6.5 hours on average – an hour and a half more than men, according to comScore. Despite this disparity, men over 55 are the fastest growing demographic.
While 75% of time spent on social media platforms is spent on Facebook, overlook other, newer options at your peril, particularly the fast growing Tumblr and Pinterest.
So what’s a marketer looking to invest in social media to do?
To help determine where and what social media related marketing and support to incorporate into your plans, here are marketers’ top three social media investment priorities according to Awareness, Inc.
- Expand social media presences across various platforms. As a marketer, you must be where your prospects and customers are on social media. To engage with them requires head count. To put this in perspective, Altimeter’s research found that corporations had an average of 178 accounts, not counting those of individuals. These accounts go across an increased variety of social media platforms. That’s a lot of manpower just to monitor them and ensure that their messaging is consistent.
- Increase content marketing creation. Since social media feeds on content, it’s critical to continually feed the social media beast. (Here’s a content marketing checklist to help keep you on track.)
- Invest in better, more efficient social marketing management and monitoring tools. As social media usage increases within the organization, you need to be able to handle each engagement more cost effectively in real time, rather than chase after individual comments. For larger organizations, this is particularly important because consumer input can have an impact across the organization.
Marketers’ choice of social media networks reflects these priorities.
- Blogs are important for supporting social media with keyword rich content. The bigger surprise is that they’ve been so undervalued by the social media set and corporations as a whole. They provide searchable content and conversation via their posts and comments.
- YouTube enables an organization to create its own television channel. Even better, YouTube is the number two search engine and the number two social media offering.
- Forums make sense in the context of allowing customers to help each other out without needing for the firm to participate.
- Slideshare is a great way to participate by sharing your presentations. It’s useful for B2B where you’re willing to put your content out in public. It can be a cost effective way to expand your reach since the presentation is generally created for some other reason.
- Tumblr is a high growth microblogging site that’s beginning to get notice. It’s a must if you have a younger audience.
Marketers still grapple with getting sufficient social media resources and utilizing them best. Despite increased social media investments, the top social media marketing challenges continue to include the following.
- Lack of sufficient resources. Although social media marketing budgets are increasing, they’re still not aligned with corporate needs. Companies need both financial and human resources for social media because social media doesn’t happen by itself and it requires resources.
- The ability to track ROI remains allusive for marketers. While marketers have made the case for increased social media marketing budget, they haven’t figured out how to track and account for the money. Integrating a contextually relevant call-to-action and a unique trackable promotional code are helpful tactics towards achieving this goal. (Here’s how to ensure your social media marketing ROI is zero.)
- Managing a growing social presence is difficult. As social media expands within the corporation, the need for improved processes to handle inquiries and respond to customer requests, namely customer service, is more important.
As social media marketing investment continues to grow and mature within the corporation, so do the related needs and complexity. Marketers need to be prepared to integrate these related changes into their plans.
Has your social media marketing budget increased? If so, how do you plan to invest it and why?
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On 4/20 i went to a mustard plug show and got the honor to take a pic Dave Kirchgessner and Colin Clive packing up for their next show in the background! It’s pretty cool!!
We had to make a FAKE album in history and I really liked how mine came out. The idea of the album is based of the Less Than Jake album GNV FLA and the name of the album in black and white is the name of a mustard plug album which that album’s name is a parody of cheap tricks record in color. Plus I tossed in rainbow dash’s cutie mark and under it says, “Dash record” if you cant read it. | <urn:uuid:c6b7fd3e-abf1-488d-8f2a-82cbc27b3afb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kazabomb.com/tagged/mustard-plug | 2013-05-18T11:11:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960971 | 146 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Can sheep rhyme? You bet they can! This book, written by special needs students grades K-2, follows the rhyming adventures of a unique flock of sheep. Illustrations are by their teacher, Mr. David Curry.
Inspired by children's authors/illustrators Todd Parr and Eric Carle, I began publishing class-made books a few years back. The collection you see in my bookstore are books written for and with the students in my primary instructional special needs classroom.
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The four semifinalists for the Rugby World Cup have been decided, and I got all the hard to pick games wrong. The French decided to finally play some rugby, Wales played the best rugby I have seen them put together and Australia somehow beat South Africa despite having no ball or territory.
I am feeling very nervous for the semifinal between New Zealand and Australia with New Zealand now down to their third and fourth choice pivots, though admittedly the third choice 10, Aaron Cruden, probably played better when he came on than Slade had been playing. Still, with Weepu stepping up to the plate to direct the game and do the kicking, we should still be alright. Australia have their own worries with the form of Cooper and the fitness of Beale. As usual though the game will be decided up front. I pick the New Zealand pack to front up well against Australia, giving the backs just enough to shade Australia and win.
For the other semifinal, I am picking Wales to continue their march to their first World Cup Final, although you can never write off the French. | <urn:uuid:31addf33-b41a-4136-a100-fa5f652a1ff4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://laymanslayout.wordpress.com/category/layout/graph/ | 2013-05-18T11:33:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976625 | 221 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Published: December 04, 2012
Oxfam Ambassador Aziz Ansari is the gift he gives at oxfamgifts.com -- a Goat!
LAST MINUTE HOLIDAY SHOPPING: 'BE' A LIFE-CHANGING OXFAM GIFT
BOSTON, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International relief and development organization Oxfam America and celebrity ambassador Aziz Ansari are reminding holiday shoppers that gift giving is a thought process that can say a lot about you and the recipient. In a commercial airing on television, Hulu, and YouTube, Ansari stresses that, "you are what you give," by 'being' a goat himself for the holidays. The spot is also available on oxfamgifts.com.
"A goat is the perfect gift. Goats produce a ton of milk, they're very hardy, and they have dope goatees," says Ansari, as a goat, in the 30 second animation.
It's not too late to give a last minute gift that can make a long-term difference. Cards will be delivered by December 25 for orders placed before midnight on December 13. Shoppers also have the option of sending an electronic card to recipients.
To read the complete release at NewsBlaze,
Oxfam Ambassador Aziz Ansari is the gift he gives at oxfamgifts.com -- a Goat!,
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The wait is over, time to show you some of the successful knit tops I sewed for my uber casual holiday. I thought as you’d seen them already in action I would bundle them all into one post. Considering I sewed them all within two days of each other it makes sense.
In chronological order I’ll start with the nautical striped tops, made using two lengths of stripey fabric just waiting for this opportunity to be mobilised, one capped sleeve t-shirt & another 3/4 sleeve Breton shirt. For both of these I used patterns from Sew U Home Stretch, the Built by Wendy book, which if you remember I am particular fond of, it’s my bible for sewing knits & I have made a number of tops & also a dress so far.
It’s a great book to explain sewing with knit fabric, using both overlockers & regular machines. The patterns, as with all BBW books, are provided as basic blocks that you then get shown how to alter to create the various styles. This feels like real pattern drafting & is a great way to develop confidence at making alterations from existing patterns.
So, with the two lengths of stripey fabric & my desire for some low key sailor style, I followed the instructions for this top here, but drew a round scoop neck. I tried SO hard to match the stripes on the side seams & succeeded. However, cap sleeves & matching stripes of sleeve heads – is this really possible? After some head scratching & mental gymnastics I decided it was not for me anyway.
At least each sleeve was identical with its stripe placement. That’s all I felt I could do. Originally I used a strip of self fabric to hem the sleeves a la Renfrew, however, it wasn’t the look I was after, so had to unpick (twin needled-hemming) & re-hem more simply – I overlocked the raw edge then narrow hemmed with my twin needle. I should really have stitched a but further away from the edge as the hem want to poke out on the outside after washing.. I wished I’d bound the neck with a single stripe also, but wasn’t going to fuss with that anymore than I had already.
The second from the BBW stable was a Breton top.
Now, I like a Breton top having worn to death two genuine articles over my adult life. The prospect of making one out of this dark stripe which was rather yummy quality was pretty exciting. The diagram in the book fit the bill & away I cut, following the directions for alterations & making sure stripes matched. Maybe I should have done a bit of in-progress trying on, or measuring before cutting, but I didn’t. It was therefore a surprise to me that the sleeves were wider & shorter than the picture suggested.
I know I can replace them if it matters that much to me, but I am not going to. It’s just not perhaps the Breton top that I’d imagined. It is however practical & has been worn lots, so I’m not really complaining. As well as being prepared for the sleeves, next time however I wouldn’t cut quite such a wide neck …
Finally I’ll join the ranks of the many happy downloaders of Zoe’s free (yes, free!) strappy vest pattern. To say that this is a quick & easy make would be too obvious. I need to say that I succeeded in making three of these in 2.5 hours: cutting out all three took 30 minutes before we went out for a curry; sewing them up & adding the elastic took me no more than two hours (you may recall that my eyes popped open on the morning of my holiday at 5.30am & I sprung into action, completing these late additions to my handmade holiday wardrobe by 7.30 am. I reckon I could have shaved a good 10 minutes off this time if I had used my machines at their usual full pelt & not been mindful of Gary still sleeping!). I used an old t-shirt (which has become nightwear) to test out my elastic sewing skills – this first time was not perfect in terms of tension of the elastic & I’m glad I had a trial vest to gain experience on.
Zoe’s instructions are really clear & I liked the way that flat elastic was stitched onto the tops – a zig zag stitch was used, however you don’t see it if your thread is the same colour as the elastic. It’s a really nice finish, seen below – the zig zag is only visible on the inside.
The second & third vests were made using jersey I got from Manchester recently: red & turquoise.
The different qualities of these jerseys though was interesting – the turquoise appeared to be super stretchy & I had to be careful in not stretching it out of shape as I attached the elastic. The end result though was worth it. I used black undie elastic for the red & cream with scallops for the turquoise.
Both have been worn & I feel more will be on the way. Not only is it great as a summer top, but it will be long enough for being worn as a warming layer in the winter. My inner granny has already clocked that it’ll be nice & long to tuck into even low rise trousers & keep your lower back nice & snug! I’d recommend this pattern, such a useful practical make. Thank you Zoe, I’m a fan | <urn:uuid:24209daf-af0c-407c-8040-8e45b5b0e9bc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scruffybadgertime.co.uk/2012/08/scruffalicious-knit-tops/ | 2013-05-18T11:41:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969846 | 1,166 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
City and town will draft consolidation plan — Could go to vote by November
Submitted by Philip Anselmo on December 22, 2008 - 9:12am
We received the following press release from the city of Batavia:
The City of Batavia and the Town of Batavia today reported the results of a joint public meeting between the City Council and the Town Board held on December 17. The joint meeting was held to receive a report and recommendations prepared by the Center for Governmental Research (CGR). CGR has been engaged to conduct a City and Town Consolidation Study under a Shared Municipal Services Incentive (SMSI) grant funded jointly by the City, the Town, and New York State.
The joint City/Town Consolidation Study Committee supports CGR’s report and recommendation to proceed to develop and present a draft consolidation plan to the City Council and Town Board by July, 2009. If the plan is approved by the two elected bodies, the plan could be presented to the voters of the City and Town in the November, 2009 general election.
CGR and the Committee made a presentation to the joint meeting of elected officials to discuss the initial recommendation. The Study Committee will begin to develop the plan starting in January, and agreed to update the joint boards every few months, to ensure that the process is open and transparent. At the end of the presentation, the joint boards applauded the Study Committee for its work to date, and endorsed moving forward as discussed.
Charles Zettek Jr., CGR’s project Director, noted that there are several key factors that are aligning in favor of consolidating the City and the Town at this time. These factors include: 1. the severe fiscal crisis that is going to drive changes to keep costs as low as possible, 2. new financial incentives from the State to consolidate local governments, 3. strong support by the City Council President and the Town Supervisor, and 4. recent events that have shown that consolidation works and benefits the greater community.
“There is no question that if the City and Town of Batavia become a single new government, this will put Batavia in the national spotlight” Zettek said. “Everyone recognizes that fragmented local governments in New York and across the northeast and Midwest are inefficient. Communities across the country will look to Batavia as being the best example of how to consolidate a city and town to create an efficient government designed for the 21’st century” Zettek said.
City Council President Charlie Mallow summarized the consensus of the two boards by saying “Both boards want to develop a detailed consolidation plan that can be presented to the voters next fall.” “We both realize that consolidating the City and Town will provide significant cost savings that will reduce taxes” Mallow said. “The plan will spell out specifically how services will be provided, how much will be saved and other efficiencies.”
Town Supervisor Greg Post stated, “If you look at the master plan that was done 40 years ago, it viewed the Town and City as one community. Now we have the opportunity to make that vision a reality.”
City Manager Jason Molino told the joint boards that the Committee is going to have an incredibly busy six months, reviewing all the operations and coming up with a plan to present to City Council and the Town Board.” “However, the end result will be a definite plan so that the voters will have the facts and options they need to decide if they want to create a new consolidated government”. | <urn:uuid:3442c478-ab66-46ab-8d58-69704b1c3e18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thebatavian.com/blogs/philipanselmo/city-and-town-will-draft-consolidation-plan-%E2%80%94%C2%A0could-go-vote-november/3644 | 2013-05-18T11:12:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961657 | 731 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It’s a cliché, but the New Year is a great time to make a renewed effort to improve your fitness and get healthy. That doesn’t mean joining a gym that you may only visit once or twice. Going out for a half-hour’s walk, a 30 minute cycle ride or even doing the household chores can help you feel better about yourself and contribute to the 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise five days a week that is recommended to achieve a healthy lifestyle.
The Welsh Assembly Government’s Free Swimming initiative, which allows 16 year-olds and under to swim for free during the school holidays and the over 60s to swim for free throughout the year, is just one way to ease yourself back into exercise, so why not take the kids down to the local pool?
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Plant Cuttings: How To Grow From Them
How to Grow Plants from Cuttings. Free plants? You bet! Many plants will readily grow from stem cuttings, and it's suprisingly easy to do.
Difficulty Level: easy
Time Required: 10 minutes
1. Choose and mix the preferred medium for the plant you have chosen.
2. If possible, have the planting medium prepared in the pot when you take the cutting. If this isn't possible, temporarily wrap the cuttings in wet paper towels, then cover in newspaper or a plastic bag .
3. Use a sharp knife to take the cutting, and don't make the cutting too large. Four leaf nodes (leaf joints) are usually sufficient.
4. Cut the leaves from the portion of the cutting that will be immersed in the medium.
5. Apply a rooting hormone (available from a garden center) around the bottom of the cutting.
6. Use a pencil to poke a hole in the planting medium. If several cuttings will fit in the pot, poke several holes.
7. Carefully slip the cutting(s) in the hole(s) so that the bottom 2 leaf nodes are below the soil line.
8. Gently firm the medium to remove any air pockets.
9. Water with a very gentle spray making sure that the entire pot is well soaked.
10. Cover with plastic and place in indirect light until rooted.
11. Watch closely for new growth for the next 2 or 3 weeks.
12. When tiny new leaves have formed, remove the plant from the medium by gently tugging a larger leaf.
13. Place each rooted cutting in it's own pot of planting medium.
14. Water well.
15. When all danger of frost has passed and the ground has warmed, transplant to the garden.
Don't take cuttings from diseased or wilted plants.
Remove any flowers or flower buds from the cutting.
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What a swell party that was. I'm referring not only to the mayor's la-de-da on the 2nd floor of the Ritz-Carlton, but the alternate party at Buffa's on Esplanade, where I repaired later, after partaking of the hospitality and good humor of hosts Stewart Juneau and Bernardo. (Bernardo gave me a hug! He did!)
Michelle Krupa and Frank Donze of The Times-Picayune have their story up right now, and - despite my admiration of their work in the past - they missed the big scoop, which was over at Buffa's, the site of the opening party for the Rising Tide conference.
Among all the bloggers and the rabble, the door opened and in stepped...Inspector General Robert A. Cerasoli.
In the back room of Buffa's honky-tonk bar. On Esplanade. (Sorry, Chris Rose. You could've been there, man.)
Cerasoli. That dude. That dude who is here in town to take names and (presumably, figuratively) bust heads. The city's swells were still at the Ritz-C, enjoying a fine fête, and the man in charge of putting the shiznit that is this city in order was at a convention of...bloggers? It was like Eliot Ness skipping an FBI banquet to attend a Dungeons and Dragons convention.
Let me repeat that for the back of the class: the Inspector General of New Orleans was at a ragtag, raucous, beer-soaked party in the back of a dive bar (Buffa's, I love you, but...) -- because he had caught wind of who, and what, was driving the stories of corruption in the New Orleans media.
Study on that a minute.
The IG was affable, but dead serious. He spent his time chatting up the blogoisie, giving out his phone number and generally making himself available to the public. Seems he thinks that the local blogging community might be on to some chicanery, some jiggery-pokery, some shenanigans, that the mainstream media may be missing.
I asked Cerasoli if he would do an Q&A with Gambit (with lots of questions supplied by the readers), and he said yes. Yes, indeed. In fact, he gave me his cellphone number.
"That City Hall number...doesn't always work," Cerasoli said.
I'll be calling him this week. And -- just from the few minutes I spent with him -- I would not want to be on the wrong side of Robert Cerasoli. He seems to exemplify ...shall we say... excellence in recovery.
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When in Rome, right?
Going by Kim's Twitter account, she's been having an amazing time and she's loving their accommodations at the ritzy Atlantis, the Palm Hotel.
But while out shopping in the gold district tonight, the mother-daughter duo decided to try to blend in as much as possible. As much as two famous Americans with bodyguards and eyelashes too long for their veils can blend in, that is.
At one store, Kim and Kris were fitted for traditional burqas, robes that cover from head to toe, and even tried on niqabs, which shield the entire face, minus a thin slit to see through.
But even wrapped up in solid black, Kim attracted plenty of attention. According to an eyewitness, their security team had to hold hands to form a ring around the E! stars as they made their way through the marketplace as people—who at least sounded like fans, anyway—cheered and called out to them.
Kim also enjoyed some more contemporary Dubai fashion as well, busting out new colorful caftans and tunics from Marena y Sol and getting dolled up for dinner and seeing the sights.
"Seriously the woman in Dubai are sooo gorgeous!!! I'm sureis so jealous he didn't come w me! WOW these woman are beautiful!" she wrote.
"I was telling my sisters, we've got to start up a hotel in Dubai and design all the different rooms and floors," Kim told reporters during her stay. "I like to pay attention to what my fan base is really asking for, whether it's hair and makeup, clothing brands...everything I think will be successful here and I look forward to getting to know the people here."
For now, anyway, Kim is in town to mark the local launch of her signature fragrance at Sephora in the Dubai Mall, as well as to open the first Millions of Milkshakes location outside of the U.S.
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i live a whered lifeMost pepoel will say I am wheard becouse I am I guy and I like to help eany one and avry one I like horse back riding I also like hp horse power but most of all I will talke with aney one about my problems or thares and I ceep it all to my self when they tell me what's are thare mined and I don't like to fight but iam not afraid to bleed… [more]
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Sylvester Stallone, the writer, was responsible for Rocky. He was also partially or fully responsible for Staying Alive, Over the Top, Cobra…well, more bad than good has been the career of Sly Stallone, writer. But give the guy credit; he’s brought himself back from wallowing in the gallows of direct to video hell with some smartly played moves that feed off our nostalgia and wouldn’t you know it, it’s like we never left 1985. And now, Stallone has written another movie that will star Jason Statham and…wait for it…James Franco…seriously.
The movie is called Homefront (might want to think about changing that title Sly) and here’s a brief rundown on what James Franco is apparently excited to do:
Phil Broker, an ex-DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town hoping to escape his past. However, he finds the town to be overrun with violence, drug traffickers and an evil meth magnate named Gator. To save his endangered family, retribution is now the only thing Broker seeks."
Well, you certainly can’t call Sly original. But I don’t think he's ever had designs on being the next Charlie Kaufman. Statham is set to play Broker, which makes sense and Franco will be taking on the role of Gator. Gator huh… sounds either like a guy who works at a Blue Beacon Truck Wash and looks forward to drinking Michelob, playing pool and kicking ass or a character that would be played Burt Reynolds. Certainly, doesn’t sound like a guy who is considered a Meth magnate, but what do I know?
Franco has become a curious fellow lately what with the roles he chooses. I guess it’s good that he takes things that he may genuinely find interesting or fun, but really, a movie written by Stallone? Think about this James, the guy was also responsible for Rhinestone.
Oh, in case you were wondering, Homefront is being produced by Stallone and directed by Gary Fleder, whose career is pretty unimpressive up to this point. This might be a fun, escapist Saturday movie on a lazy April afternoon, but I’m not going to hold my breath for that.
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The News of the World illegally targeted the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler and her family in March 2002. Photograph: Surrey Police/PA
On the ... really appalling allegations about the telephone of Milly Dowler, if they are true this is a truly dreadful act in a truly dreadful situation. What I've read in the papers is quite, quite, shocking, that someone could do this actually knowing that the police were trying to find this person and trying to find out what had happened - and we all now know the tragedy that took place.
What I would say is that there is a police investigation into hacking allegations. The police in our country are quite rightly independent, they should feel that they should investigate this without any fear, without any favour, without any worry about where the evidence should lead them. They should pursue this in the most vigorous way that they can in order to get to the truth of what happened. I think that is the absolute priority in this police investigation.
Of course she should consider her position, but this goes well beyond one individual ... This was a systematic series of things that happened and what I want from executives at News International is people to start taking responsibility for this, people to start saying why that happened.
Members of the public up and down this country will be appalled by what has happened and they will say British journalism, known for its high standards, known for its history, has had one of its lowest days with these revelations. This is immoral, what was going on. This is truly immoral. My wife said to me this morning this is sick what was going on. I think that's going to be the reaction of people up and down the country.
I think I have been pretty clear, throughout this process, both about the need for the police inquiry to take its course and then the need for a further review or inquiry to take place.
Nick Clegg, to deputy Labour leader, Harriet Harman, at Commons question time
I'm sure we both speak on behalf of the whole House and the rest of the country in saying that if these allegations are true, this behaviour is simply beneath contempt. I mean, to hack into the phone of a missing child is grotesque and the suggestion that that might have given false hope to Milly's parents that she might have been alive only makes it all the more heart-rending.
The home secretary, Theresa May, to the home affairs committee
I think it's totally shocking, frankly it's disgusting. The mindset of somebody who thinks it's appropriate to do that is totally sick.
John Prescott, Labour peer and former deputy prime minister
Prescott, who tweeted on Monday that the hacking proved Rupert Murdoch was not a fit and proper person to own BSkyB, and has now written a letter to the Ofcom chief executive, said:
In the light of recent admissions from Murdoch's News International that his News of the World paper illegally hacked people's phones and the allegation the Guardian that they may also have accessed Milly Dowler's mobile, I ask you as a matter of urgency to review this bid.
Since the secretary of state has said that he can only stop a takeover on the issue of plurality and competition, will you user your legal duties to assess whether Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation are fit and proper people to have outright ownership of BSkyB.
This was a heinous invasion into the Dowler family's privacy, at a time of ultimate grief and fear for their daughter. It moves phone hacking into a new league, it's now a very serious criminal matter. And certainly it involves more executives from New International.
Lib Dem deputy leader, Simon Hughes, said in a statement:
If proven, the accusation shows just how rotten and desperate an institution the newspaper had become under the leadership of Rebekah Brooks.
This practice was not just about gaining information from royals, politicians and others in the public eye. If proved, the allegation suggests that the News of the World was willing to interfere with the lives and emotions of people at their most vulnerable and to interfere with police enquiries.
The Metropolitan police commissioner now has a duty to ensure that no stone is left unturned and every person who has been involved or suspected of involvement in the commissioning or sanctioning of these practices, directly or indirectly, should be investigated with the utmost vigour.
Journalists and those working for them must now learn once and for all that they, like the rest of us, cannot be above the law.
Keith Vaz, Labour MP, in BBC news interview:
Obviously what has been uncovered, as the prime minister has said and Mr Miliband and others have said, is pretty shocking and I think we need to know who knew what when? What did they do about it? And how best they can ensure parliament and the public that this kind of activity is not continuing? Those are the kind of questions we need to ask.
Obviously all these allegations have to be investigated, but I say that the sooner we have a general truth and reconciliation commission of some kind, in which all the editors and all the proprietors who know fine well that their reporters were engaged in this kind of thing, come before the public and confess everything.
Alastair Campbell, former director of communications for Tony Blair, in ITV interview:
So far the newspapers have managed to make this as much about celebrities as the actual crime - I think this takes it to a completely different level. It's been interesting even talking to some of the photographers just now, the sense of absolute revulsion that anybody could have done this. It reveals - I'm not saying this goes right across the media - it reveals the capability for absolute amorality ... the idea that this is just going to go away, forget it.
The Press Complaints Commission said in a statement
The Press Complaints Commission has always been clear in its condemnation of phone hacking. The suggestion that people working for a newspaper listened to, and deleted the voice messages, of Milly Dowler will appal and concern everybody in equal measure.
The PCC is committed to ensuring that such practices are stamped out, and calls upon the newspaper and magazine industry to support its work further to ensure that this is the case. Of course, the PCC must work within the existing framework of laws and It is necessary to remember that there is already statutory regulation in the area of phone hacking in the form of the Computer Misuse Act and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Those laws, which carry prison sentences and are enforceable through the police, did not stop the dreadful actions of certain individuals in the first part of this century.
It is also wrong to judge self-regulation in 2011 based on the legitimate condemnation of practices that took place some time ago. It is right to use this terrible moment in British journalism as a catalyst to improve the reach and range of the PCC. We are committed to working with the industry, and politicians, to ensure that this can happen.
At this point, it would not be correct for us to comment further. There is a live police investigation, which must be allowed to take its course and which is actively pursuing inquiries about these claims.
Needless to say, we will be requiring News International to answer publicly in response to these allegations as soon as the police investigation will allow us to do so. Our Phone Hacking Review committee has the broadest remit to ensure that the public can have confidence that wrongdoing has been exposed and illegal and unethical practices have been stamped out. | <urn:uuid:12069d44-f4c4-4f4b-9612-b36ab436e772> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/05/milly-dowler-phone-hacking-key-quotes | 2013-05-18T12:03:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977139 | 1,531 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When Mark, Darwin and I left the Tobago Cays, we wanted to make a quick stopover in St. Vincent before spending some time in the next island, St. Lucia. On the way south, we had spent the night in Chateaubelair Bay without any problems, even though a boat boy had told us about a robbery not too long before. We didn’t sleep very well, but it was the most convenient stop for us. This time, we planned on doing the same, since Chateaubelair is the best jump off point for St Lucia from St. Vincent. So, we motor sailed all along the wind free west coast of the country, to arrive in our bay of choice, despite other cruisers’ warnings it wasn’t safe there.
In some Caribbean islands, boat boys welcome you to the anchorage. They sell all kinds of things from fruit to fish to handmade souvenirs, want to hand you the line to a mooring ball or help you tie up to shore when needed. All in return for some money, of course. When we arrived in Chateaubelair this time, however, a boy that recognized us (or was it Darwin he recognized?), paddled out on his surf board and didn’t want to sell anything. Instead, he warned us not to anchor at this spot anymore. He mentioned something about another robbery that happened recently (and which we read about later in the Caribbean Compass newspaper) and about the police not wanting boats to anchor this far away from town anymore. Mark and I were contemplating. Do we believe him? Does he just want us closer to town so all his friends can try to sell us things? We were tired, didn’t feel like motoring back south to the previous anchorage and wanted an early start the next morning. We did know ourselves enough to realize we wouldn’t sleep in this place, dog or no dog, and we would be happier in a safe bay. So, we picked up our anchor and took Irie back to Cumberland Bay.
Cumberland Bay in St. Vincent is a very deep bay where one needs some boat driving skills. Since it was getting later in the day, more boats had taken a spot than we had seen before and we had to maneuver Irie backwards between two monohulls, towards shore. At the right moment to give us enough scope (length of anchor chain), Mark had to drop the anchor in more than 40 feet of water and then I had to drive backwards between the two parked boats until we were close to shore, where a boat boy tied our stern line to a palm tree for the equivalent of $ 4. It only took us two tries, while all the other boaters, mostly charterers, bluntly watched.
Cumberland is an interesting place. It is very small and cozy and even though the locals look a bit out of place, they are very friendly. There is a small shack on the black beach and a fresh river to rinse off the salt water. A lot of people just hang around and some of the boys show how brave and cool they are by hanging on your lines and anchor chain. We didn’t have to put our outboard back on the dinghy during this short stop (we always haul it on deck on crossings between islands), because we could just pull ourselves ashore with our stern line to let Darwin out. When we inquired about the situation in Chateaubelair, the police ordinance was confirmed and the bay is openly called unsafe. We were glad about our decision to move for the night and slept well as a result.
The sail to St. Lucia was gorgeous and to top it all off, we were welcomed to the country by a huge pod of dolphins. They played in front of our bow for 15 minutes and we thoroughly enjoyed their beautiful presence. I filmed part of their activity. You might have seen it in the right column of this page! The sight of the Pitons is always breathtaking and we could see them from pretty far away. That in combination with the dolphins created a truly magical moment. This is a very scenic region in St. Lucia and we hoped to spend some time in the National Park.
We stopped in St. Lucia on the way south to Grenada and were very pleased with the country and its officials. We had no problem checking Darwin in and that was one of the reasons we wanted to come back. This time, things went a bit differently, though. The captain, Mark, went to shore in Soufriere and checked us in. A guy from the agriculture department would arrive an hour later and Mark would have to pick him up, which he did. This “official” came to the boat to “inspect” Darwin, but, instead of scanning his microchip, giving him a quick exam and looking through his vaccination records and handing us a permit for EC$ 45 (US$ 18) like the vet on our southbound trip had done, this guy just looked at Darwin, briefly scanned our paperwork and wrote something on it. All for the round amount of EC$ 150 (US$ 60!). Luckily, Mark could “bargain” this “government fee” down to EC 95 (US$ 38), still a lot of money for us, but what are you gonna do? It sure put a sour taste in our mouth about this visit to St. Lucia. One would wonder why we still go through all the effort, time, hassle and money to check our dog into every country along the way… Do you know anybody else who does? And, just for the record, all this happened after we tried to contact the agriculture department for two weeks about checking Darwin in in Soufriere and hearing nothing back. We also wrote them about this last experience to no avail.
Soufriere is not a place we recommend for cruisers. Checking in is easy, but other than that, the people are very aggressive and unfriendly and boat boys abound wherever you anchor in the bay. The mooring balls which you are obliged to moor on and pay for (they are part of the National Park fee) are very close together, making it very tricky NOT to hit another boat. We managed for one night and then moved to Anse des Pitons, the favorite of many cruisers.
This anchorage is located between the two Pitons and is scenic indeed. On shore, a big resort owns the grounds, but boaters have permission to land their dinghy and walk around. Dogs, however, are not allowed on the private property. They are welcome on the beach, but since that’s where a lot of hotel guests hang out, we didn’t feel very comfortable walking Darwin around, even though we “pick up” after him. So, after one night, we left there as well.
Our next stop was called Anse Mamin, near Anse Chastanet. We were the only boat on the moorings and enjoyed the quiet bay and nice black beach with palm trees. This area is part of another resort, but beaches are public in St. Lucia and we didn’t feel unwelcome here. We discovered a maze of trails in the jungle behind the beach and enjoyed a few walks there. Nice place!
We hoped to spend a few nights in Anse de Canaries, but the fishermen removed all the mooring balls, so we had no way of telling where to put the boat. Instead, we spent the remainder of our park days in Anse Cochon, a pleasant enough bay with a nice beach. Because of its popularity, all the cruise ship passengers taking catamaran tours end up here as well.
To finish up our visit to St. Lucia, we anchored over a week in Rodney Bay, the most comfortable anchorage in the country. The bay is huge and there are different areas to drop the hook. The north side and the south side are very busy with vacationers on the beaches and in the water on jetskis, waterskis or Hoby Cats (little sailing catamarans). We started in the northern part of the bay to have a wonderful meal and evening in Jambe du Bois restaurant and to visit Pigeon Island National Park. Dogs are not allowed on the “island” which is now a peninsula, so I explored the park by myself. There are nice walks to the top of two hills which offer fantastic views, and many ruins dot the property.
The south side of the bay is very convenient to go ashore in the marina, walk long and nice Reduit beach or do some grocery shopping via the lagoon. After we did all that, bounced up and down during the day because of all the water sports commotion, lied awake all night because of loud music on shore and had a Hoby Cat run into Irie twice, it was time to move to the middle part of the bay. And there we stayed until the weather improved and it was time to sail to Martinique.
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INDIANAPOLIS – A judge has moved to Fort Wayne the trial of an Indianapolis police officer accused of causing a fatal 2010 crash by driving drunk.
David Bisard is charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, reckless homicide and criminal recklessness in the 2010 crash that killed 30-year-old Eric Wells and injured two others. If convicted, Bisard could face 20 or more years in prison.
A hearing in the case is scheduled for March 8 before Allen County Superior Court Judge John Surbeck.
In an order issued Thursday, Judge Grant Hawkins said that even more than two years after the accident, the case was still generating too much ongoing publicity in central Indiana for Bisard to get a fair trial there.
It appears clear this cause must be brought to trial a distance away from the Marion County media `footprint, Hawkins wrote in the three-page order.
The case has drawn intense local media coverage as legal snarls caused it to drag on for months and police officers handling of the crash scene and evidence stirred public distrust and led to disciplinary action against several high-ranking officers, including the demotion of the police chief.
I dont think anyone who looked at this case objectively thought there could be a fair and impartial jury selected from Marion County, defense attorney John Kautzman said following Thursdays hearing in Marion County Superior Court.
Kautzman said he was still concerned that even an Allen County jury might be tainted, but Deputy Prosecutor Denise Robinson said that was unlikely because the case wasnt likely to attract as much interest in the community 100 miles from Indianapolis.
Robinson said prosecutors were comfortable with moving the case to Allen County in part because Fort Wayne is an urban area like Indianapolis, so potential jurors would be familiar with urban driving conditions, a key component of the case.
Bisards cruiser crashed into two motorcycles stopped at an intersection on the citys northeast side on the morning of Aug. 6, 2010.
Robinson said she hoped the trial could be held sometime this fall.
The case has undergone a series of delays over admission of blood tests that showed Bisard had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit. The Indiana Supreme Court ruled in December that the blood tests could be admitted into evidence.
But Kautzman has said he can still challenge the blood evidence at trial in regards to its chain of custody and that the samples credibility before a jury also remains in doubt.
Hawkins ruled that the blood drawn from Bisard after the crash was inadmissible because it was drawn by a medical assistant, a profession not included among those listed in Indiana law that are allowed to do so in drunken driving cases. But the state Court of Appeals overturned his decision, saying legislators clearly hadnt intended for such key evidence to be thrown out on a technicality.
Hawkins did allow prosecutors to test a second blood sample despite objections by Kautzman that it was mishandled by police technicians. The results of those tests havent been released.
Former Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi stunned the victims and public when he dropped drunken driving charges against Bisard just days after they were filed, which he did because of the discrepancy. After taking office in 2011, Prosecutor Terry Curry refiled the charges against Bisard.
Allen County will likely provide a larger-than-normal pool of potential jurors, said Allen Superior Judge Fran Gull, who heads up the criminal division.
And Allen Countys auditor will bill Marion Countys auditor for expenses related to the trial, such as juror per diems and meals for jurors. But the cost of the courthouse staff, such as the judge and the court reporter, will be absorbed by Allen County, Gull said.
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Weber Names Chester Frazier to Coaching Staff
May 29, 2012
MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber added yet another former player to his coaching staff on Tuesday with the addition of former Illinois standout Chester Frazier as an assistant coach.
“I’m really excited about the addition of Chester to the staff,” said Weber. “He’s another former player of mine who I think is going to be an outstanding coach. He’s sort of in the same mold as (current Vanderbilt head coach) Kevin Stallings and (Purdue head coach) Matt Painter, where I always knew he was going to be a coach. Chester is young (26) and has ties to the East Coast (Baltimore), which were goals for my final assistant spot. He’s a real student of the game and someone who I think will be able to develop strong relationships with our players.”
Frazier comes to K-State after playing professionally for two years in Germany, first for Goettingen (2009-10) and then for S. Oliver Baskets Wuerzburg Basketball Club (2011-12).
As the starting point guard for head coach John Patrick, Frazier helped Wuerzburg to a 20-14 overall record and trip to the semifinals of the German Bundesliga playoffs. He averaged 7.7 points on 37.7 percent shooting, including 28.9 percent from 3-point range, with 3.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.1 steals in 24.4 minutes per game. He ranked first on the team in assists, while he was second in steals and fourth in both minutes and rebounds. He was one of seven former college players on the Wuerzburg roster, including Chris Kramer (Purdue), Ricky Harris (Massachusetts), Ben Jacobson (Northern Iowa) and Ivan Elliott (UC Santa Barbara).
Frazier helped Goettingen to the 2010 EuroChallenge title, averaging 20.4 minutes in 31 games played. He averaged 5.9 points on 50.6 percent shooting, including 34.2 percent from 3-point range, with 3.4 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. In helping Goettingen to the EuroChallenge title, he averaged 3.8 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.0 steals per game. He played along a number of former college players with Goettingen, including Dwayne Anderson (Villanova), Jason Boone (NYU), Chris Oliver (Radford) and Taylor Rochestie (Washington State).
“I am incredibly excited to become a part of the Kansas State family,” said Frazier. “Coaching is my passion and I am looking forward to getting to work and to help build a winning culture here at K-State, along with the rest of the staff.”
Prior to his stint in Germany, Frazier served as a graduate assistant and video coordinator for Weber at Illinois from 2010-11. He helped the Fighting Illini to a 20-win season and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 2010-11. He resigned midway through his second year to resume his playing career in Germany.
As a senior, Frazier led Illinois to 24 wins and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2008-09. He earned honorable mention All-Big Ten as well as Big Ten All-Defensive Team honors and was selected as the team most valuable player. He led the Big Ten in assists (5.3 apg.) and held a 2.4 assist-to-turnover ratio as a senior. He also averaged 5.7 points on 44.8 percent shooting and was one of the best rebounding point guards nationally, averaging 4.8 per game. He was also named to the Big Ten All-Defensive Team as a sophomore in 2006-07.
Frazier prepped for head coach Herman Harried at Lake Clifton-Eastern High School in Baltimore, where he earned first team All-Baltimore City/County honors and second team All-Metro accolades by the Baltimore Sun as a senior. He averaged 16 points, eight assists, six rebounds and two steals in 2003-04. He also spent one season at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Fitchburg, Mass., averaging 16 points and seven assists in 2004-05.
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Zucchini cake made in a bundt pan is a simple, yet pretty presentation. When you add dark chocolate chips and pistachios, the cake is taken to another level.
JILL L. REED, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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One man’s fertilizer is another man’s bomb or illegal drug
Suppose I were to tell you that our most widely used nitrogen fertilizer is an extremely dangerous chemical that in its manufacture, transport, and application has killed and injured thousands of people.
What if I were then to tell you that this same hazardous material, pressurized in big “nurse tanks” is being towed routinely over public roads, usually by pickup trucks, from fertilizer dealerships to farms, over highways and village streets, past residential districts, school playgrounds, and workplaces, without police or any other escort with flashing warning lights.
Suppose I were to tell you that this very same hazardous material is now being routinely stolen by drug dealers and drug addicts to make methamphetamine (meth). By now quite a few of you are eyeing me a little uneasily. I must be a real paranoid kook, right?
Then suppose I told you that the next two most widely used nitrogen fertilizers on farms are also materials of choice to make deadly bombs and that fertilizer dealers, farmers and government officials are all scared stiff about terrorists trying to steal the stuff.
Now you really do think I am some kind of doomsday maniac.
Nope. All of the above is common knowledge in agricultural circles. Anhydrous ammonia is the preferred choice of both farmers and meth makers, but I have a hunch that most of the people reading this have never seen one of the white nurse tanks in which the stuff is towed from fertilizer dealerships to farm fields. I have a hunch that many of those who have seen a nurse tank don’t really know what they were looking at.
It is a credit to safety precautions on the part of farmers and fertilizer dealers that there aren’t more accidents, but enough have occurred to give anhydrous ammonia the most hazardous rating by far of all chemicals in agricultural use. Ammonium nitrate and urea, the next two most widely used fertilizers are much safer to handle but can also be used to make deadly bombs like the one that blew up a big chunk of Oklahoma City a few years ago.
What makes this so ironical is a new study out of the University of Illinois which gives convincing evidence — once again — that farmers are overusing nitrogen fertilizer in farming, and that far from contributing to the sequestration of carbon in soils as the mythmakers want us to believe, nitrogen used in excess is literally burning the carbon out of the soil. The study: The Myth of Nitrogen Fertilization For Soil Carbon Sequestration, but Alan Guebert’s eFarm and Food File (email@example.com for Nov. 9, ‘07), sums it up more than adequately. Guebert quotes one of the authors of the study, Richard Mulvaney: “Under modern high yield cropping systems, we are literally burning up our soils through the over-application of nitrogen.” My grandfather told me the same thing fifty years ago, back before farmers went crazy trying to fertilize their way to profitable yields.
An amusing (well, pathetic is a more appropriate word) fallout from the myth about nitrogen fertilization is that farmers can now sell “carbon credits” to heavy carbon emitters as a way for the emitters to appear “green” (see one of my earlier posts about this stupidity). So-called no-tillage farming (another myth) is supposed to sequestrate carbon in the soil, even though anhydrous ammonia is the fertilizer of choice in “no-till.” Says Mulvaney, as quoted by Guebert, this scheme is akin to “fraud because the way we farm burns, not banks, carbon.”
The pity is that even following the most chemically-focused farm fertilizer recommendations, a farmer can cut his nitrogen use by half or two thirds, if he rotates alfalfa or clover with his grain crops. Legumes pull significant amounts of nitrogen out of the air and into the soil, all for free.
Imagine now that parade of big white “nurse tanks” of anhydrous ammonia rolling down village streets and country roads, looking for a place to cause a grave accident, and listen to Mulvaney’s words from the column quoted above: “I now view those giant anhydrous ammonia tanks… as giant soil burners, and the farmers driving them as unguided missiles.”
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Hello, my name is Mark Juleen and I am the V.P., Director of Marketing for the J.C. Hart Company. I've enjoyed being a part of the apartment/multi-family industry, and this blog serves as my platform to share experiences, thoughts, and ideas from my perspective and others in the industry. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of the J.C. Hart Company. I hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to share it with others. It's what we share that will take us there. Enjoy your day! | <urn:uuid:ff1b657e-aae4-4311-ad4d-bc1bd89ef402> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theapartmentnerd.com/2010/03/beyond-facebook-part-2-optimization.html | 2013-05-18T11:23:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968755 | 115 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Get the entire Picket Fences collection in one money-saving bundle!
By purchasing this bundle you save over 25% off the cost of buying each piece of the collection separately, and you get the full kit, the dotty distressed papers, the solid paper, and the coordinating toothpick banner/word art set. Everything has been created with the hope that you'll be able to use it for both basic layouts and/or to create an entire coordinated album.
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- Picket Fences Kit (24 patterned papers, 44 elements, & 1 full alpha (A-Z, 0-9, & some punctuation))
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Inspired by a true story, The Fat Boy Chronicles reveals the emotionally painful world obese teens experience in the face of a thin-obsessed society.
At age fourteen. 5'5 Jimmy weighs 187 pounds. Outside the comfort of his family and church, life for Jimmy is a constant struggle. The cruel taunts of his classmates make going to school or playing sports a humiliating experience. Yet, he still manages to focus on his goals -- to lose weight and win over the girl of his dreams. | <urn:uuid:52791d72-7cba-49ea-aebe-d4d8e9af2d15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefatboychronicles.com/ | 2013-05-18T11:31:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967454 | 101 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Voice of America is reporting that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is optimistic about the world’s nations coming to an agreement about how to tackle climate change.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told reporters he would go to the Danish capital next week to open the high-level segment that he expects will draw more than 100 heads of state and government.
“I am encouraged and I am optimistic. I expect a robust agreement at Copenhagen summit meeting that will be effective immediately and include specific recommendations on mitigation, adaptation, finance and technology. This agreement will have an immediate operational effect,” he said.
His remarks come as scientists released new data showing the first decade of this century will likely turn out to be the warmest ever. The findings from the World Meteorological Association also predict 2009 will be the 5th warmest year since global record-keeping began in 1850.
Meanwhile in Canada, Greenpeace unfurled banners on Parliament Hill pointing out that Ignatieff and Harper are total failures. Good for Greenpeace for a little direct action. | <urn:uuid:8128bb1c-5620-4283-b5a4-cd8b21ef9752> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thingsaregood.com/2009/12/08/ban-ki-moon-optimistic-about-copenhagen-agreement/ | 2013-05-18T12:01:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938784 | 219 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Healers by Claire Louise Hay
Like artists, musicians and anybody using their gifts, healers can often find themselves in a struggle to live their passion.
Gone are the days of being taken under the wing of a religion funded by donations, healers are choosing to honour their unique spiritual paths and to help others to find their own connection to source from within themselves. This leaves each healer the task of being self-supported, which brings with it its own unique lessons.
I am blessed to be a healer with a background in business. My unique combination of gifts and experience attracts healers to me. Over my many years of being a full-time healer I have helped thousands of healers to transform their own lives, empower themselves and start living their passion.
There are 7 habits of highly effective healers:
1. Focus on love
Healers channel universal energy. Universal energy is love. However, love is not always nice; love often delivers lessons. Healing can feel confronting and unpleasant whilst going through it. As a healer it is important to leave your ego behind. Your job is not to please people but to help people to heal. Customers will sometimes have negative emotional reactions to your work if you are doing a good job! Do not expect or require constant positive feedback. 99% of my customers who have had initial negative emotional reactions to my work have got back to me after a few weeks apologising for their behaviour saying that the truth was hard to hear. Effective healers give the help that is required, do not need praise and are not stopped by criticism.
2. Love what is
A healers path is just that: a path. There is no goal, just constant growth and expansion. Through your desires you are constantly reinventing your goals and adding steps to your path. Your direction is completely your creation. As a healer you are not expected to be perfect, yet it is advisable to be constantly active on your own healing path. There will be times when you look back to see that the help that you gave someone in the past is no longer aligned with you. This is only to be expected if you are growing and expanding, constantly improving. However, those that you can help are attracted to your energy and therefore need what you offer at the time it is given. It does not serve anyone to look back with regret. Effective healers love their own unfolding and trust in what they give.
3. Believe in themselves
Healers are channels and so is everybody else with any skill or knowledge in this world. Healer spirits, angels, entities,… work through healers as an equal to the healers own spirit or higher self. This means that as a healer you are not just channeling healing energy from other spirits, but also from your own spirit. Without your own desire, passion, creativity, effort, time and energy, the healing connection that you embody would not exist. You are the creative force behind what you do. The healing spirits who work with you receive as much from you as you receive from them. They get to experience the creative process through you. We are all creators, humans and pure spirit alike, and we work together as co-creators. Effective healers believe in themselves, their abilities and take ownership of their own important part in the process.
4. Are creative
It is great to learn from other healers but not to copy them. Every healer has their own unique life path which has given them the experiences, the skills, the knowledge and the desire to be able to help others to heal themselves. Every healer as their own unique energy footprint and therefore attracts like-energy customers to them. There is no competition between healers who are being themselves; just cooperation. However, there can be competition between healers who are copying others. Let your own experiences forge your own healing path, let your own healing path drive your desire to help others, let the knowledge that has come from that path mold what you give. Effective healers learn as much as they can from others and offer their unique gifts to the world.
5. Take Action
If you wanted to just hold the energy, or to meditate constantly, then you would have remained in the spirit form of pure consciousness. Instead, you incarnated on Earth. You did this because you wanted to experience your creativity in a more dense, physical plane. You came here to expand, learn, grow, create. Some healers think that they came here just to help others: this is not true. You came to expand your own awareness and experience in your interest area of healing as much as you came to help others. So your healing work is as self-serving as any other work that you could do. Your interest in healing at a higher self level brought you here to indulge yourself in learning more about it. Effective healers indulge themselves in healing and put all of their learning into action.
6. Allow abundance
Healers often have such a focus on giving that they forget to allow themselves to receive. When there is an inbalance between giving and receiving the universe can only give lessons: The Healing Path to Abundance. Until you can allow yourself to receive the balance of energy back that you want to give, you limit the amount of energy that you can give. So if you are out of balance the universe holds those people that you could help away from you. Inbalance of giving and receiving shows up as limited funds, limited customers, yo-yoing finances, inability to reach and help more people. Abundance in plenty is available to everyone as a birth right. You do not need to prove your worth, nor in fact do anything in particular to receive it. All is required is for you to allow it. Effective healers allow the balance of giving and receiving abundance to flow.
7. Speak their truth
Healer spirits want to incarnate into an experience that will ensure their direction in life. As a healer you will have chosen your parents and surroundings very carefully so that you would experience the conditions that would lead you to desire to heal yourself, to create your healing path from this desire, to follow that healing path, to gain the knowledge and experience from doing so, to pass that knowledge on to others. Your life path experience is at the core of what you can give as a healer. You attract to you those people that you are one step ahead of, so that you can help them to heal themselves in the way that you have healed yourself. The more you heal yourself, the more you can help others. Effective healers draw on their own life experience and healing to best help others to heal themselves.
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The Harbaugh brothers--Jim, the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, and John, the coach of the Baltimore Ravens, whose teams will duel in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3--want to purge their sibling ties from the game's story line. "Every moment that you're talking about myself or John, that's less time that the players are going to be talked about," Jim told reporters a day after his team made the Super Bowl.
But in the name of every pair of battling brothers who have spent a lifetime trying to best each other, that isn't going to happen. After all, the Harbaughs have a golden opportunity, on America's grandest sporting stage, to teach families how to behave. "Embrace it," says Jeanne Safer, a psychotherapist specializing in siblings and the author of Cain's Legacy: Liberating Siblings from a Lifetime of Rage, Shame, Secrecy and Regret. "These guys are lucky. How many of us get to make so much money safely acting out our sibling rivalry with the whole country cheering us on? It's healthy to recognize it and healthy for people to see that it doesn't have to destroy the relationship."
Here at the pinnacle of their profession--the Super Bowl, the most watched U.S. television program--stand two guys who were raised in the same Ann Arbor, Mich., house, where, as family lore goes, they'd each try to toss a football over a front-yard tree. And here's the plot twist: only younger brother Jim, the star athlete who played quarterback for 15 seasons in the NFL before retiring in 2002, could do it. He became an NFL head coach nine years later, while big brother John had to spend decades working his way up the coaching food chain. Now they meet at the top of it. "What's happened this year in the NFL, two brothers coaching in the championship game," says ESPN analyst Mike Ditka, who coached Jim Harbaugh when they were both with the Chicago Bears, "will never happen again in any sport."
Many fans have pined for a Peyton Manning--Eli Manning Super Bowl. Both quarterbacks have reached the game twice but not in the same year. The Harbaugh matchup, however, is even more compelling. While the Mannings would each command an offense, the Harbaughs are trying to outwit each other in a high-stakes sideline chess match pitting the Niners' potent offense, led by quarterbacking sensation Colin Kaepernick, against the Ravens' stifling defense, led by linebacking legend Ray Lewis.
The Harbaughs are close but competitive--especially with each other. They used to talk lots of football shop, but now that they both work in the NFL, they've curtailed the strategy sessions. A day after their teams won their conference-championship games, the Harbaughs still hadn't spoken on the phone. "A couple of texts," says Jim of their communication. "I'd imagine [there] won't be much more."
According to Safer, a sibling like Jim is "a tough act to precede." He's 15 months younger than John, who turned 50 in September, and became the starting quarterback of his high school team as a sophomore--beating out his older brother. John blew out his knee in college at Miami University in Ohio. Jim was a star quarterback at the University of Michigan. The Bears drafted him in the first round in 1987. Though he clashed with Ditka, Jim shone in Indianapolis, pre--Peyton Manning. He earned the nickname "Captain Comeback" for his late-game heroics. | <urn:uuid:ce850609-2992-46eb-80bd-17b38a541598> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2134502,00.html?pcd=hp-magmod | 2013-05-18T12:02:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979156 | 742 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
She watched her husband writhing in excruciating pain in the torture chamber of their Toronto apartment and lifted not a finger. For three long months, she watched as her spouse was degraded, beaten and sexually abused by her new boyfriend and said not word.
Michele Mandel has been an award-winning writer with the Toronto Sun since 1984 and currently writes four columns a week about justice issues. Awarded the University medal in Journalism from Carleton University, she joined the Sun soon after graduation and has since covered assignments around the world, from the the cocaine trail in Bolivia to the funeral of Princess Diana. More recently, she has covered the trials of Robert Pickton and Col. Russell Williams Her work has garnered 13 Dunlop Awards of Excellence, a Toronto Police media award and the 2001 Canadian Nurses Association Award of Excellence for her expose on nursing homes.
He is tall and handsome, young and rich, a dabbling philosopher and golden heir to an aviation dynasty.
She is not a famous Hollywood actress, a globe-trotting ambassador for the United Nations or a world icon of beauty.
Sometimes the justice system works just fine.
He got off easy — but that still may change.
Art Morin knows what it is to have your heart ripped from your chest when your child is stolen.
As the news bulletins from Cleveland first flashed on my computer, I felt as if I had read this story before.
The expert witness from across the pond was categorical in his belief that Dr. George Doodnaught is an innocent man whose 21 patients must have been hallucinating their sexual nightmare at his hands.
Keep your paws off the bartender.
Toronto Police Det.-Const. Mandip Sandhu is like the proverbial killer who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy because he’s an orphan.
If I were the lovely family of Sgt. Ryan Russell, I would have wanted to stand up and scream.
So begins the annual rite of pain for the widow of Sgt. Ryan Russell, the yearly deputation she must make if she wants her voice heard when the Ontario Review Board ponders the future of her husband’s mentally ill killer.
This was his soapbox and Chiheb Esseghaier was going to speak, no matter what anyone said.
In a shocking and rambling statement, terror suspect Chiheb Esseghaier told a Toronto court Wednesday morning that he doesn’t recognize the Criminal Code under which he faces five serious charges, including conspiracy to commit murder for the benefit of a terrorist group.
Raed Jaser has lived among us for two decades, so ordinary, so part a fabric of this city, that he has been praised as a friendly and professional manager for a moving company.
Manuel Belo insists he was the mistaken victim of the Spiceman’s wrongheaded vigilante justice.
Later lauded as the vigilante Spiceman, restauranteur Naveen Polapady called 911 and said he was trying to catch a thief who had just hit him.
He is doing a remarkable impression of Alfred E. Newman from the old Mad magazine — the cover boy who’s mantra was “What, me worry?”
She is the most famous woman Toronto has never seen.
That’s what must come with nine decades of wily survival — no regrets and no apologies.
In a highly anticipated decision, a Muslim sexual complainant known as N.S. has been told she must remove her niqab when she testifies at a preliminary hearing.
Peel Regional Police have announced they will launch a probe after the Ontario Court of Appeal threw out a case against an alleged pimp because officers fabricated evidence and lied on the stand.
A forensic psychiatrist asked by the Crown to examine Richard Kachkar says the accused cop-killer was mentally ill when he struck and killed Sgt. Ryan Russell with a snowplow.
At first, her shocked husband thought she must have been hallucinating.
Trevor Middleton has lost his final bid to overturn his conviction for a racial incident where he rammed a car full of out-of-town anglers off the road in September 2007.
If only we could put wife-killer Peer Khairi on a plane bound for Afghanistan right now.
They are dirty cops now throwing themselves on the mercy of the court.
The photos they’re about to see are so bloody, so starkly gruesome, that the judge warns the jury not to be swayed by emotion. They are to regard the horrific pictures with the “same dispassion” as the rest of the evidence they will see.
Tracy Lauren opened her phone bill last week and nearly had a coronary.
At the Ontario Court of Appeal, Shayne Berwick’s name goes unspoken.
The Crown has filed papers to appeal the first-degree murder acquittal of Michelle Liard.
He is a miracle standing.
She may have been able to convince her sex-starved boyfriend to kill for her when she was 15, but Melissa Todorovic, who turns 20 next week, couldn't convince Justice Ian Nordheimer on Thursday to let her serve out the rest of her sentence in a youth facility.
For Delores Langer, her generosity and kindness continue even after being attacked by the very man she and her husband David had tried to help.
Calling it a "just result," the Crown has withdrawn all charges against 11 organizers of the G20 protests while six of the original "ringleaders" have pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
Occupy Toronto is asking a judge for a permanent injunction that will allow protesters and their tents to remain in St. James Park indefinitely.
There was much compelling evidence that led to the unravelling of the gang rape case against the nine former members of the Canada Jesus First Church.
Yelling “shame, shame,” angry Shania stalker John Palumbo was denied bail Wednesday morning.
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Internet access is avaible throughout the campus. All of the computers in the labs, the classrooms, and the library have internet access. In addition each building has wireless capabilities as well as the green space surrounding the buildings. If you are living in the dormitories each room has an internet connection plus the availablity of wireless access. Students in the dormitories may sign up for access using their Internet Browser and answering a few questions, or stop by the Technology Center located on the ground floor of the Library and one of the IT staff will assist you in getting set up. | <urn:uuid:a95aabcb-9172-45a5-8123-7e1017f48766> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.umpi.edu/it-services/info-about/115-internet-access | 2013-05-18T11:32:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966094 | 118 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Partly Cloudy and 56 F at Chicago Executive Airport, IL http://t.co/3jNGOdnHYe
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The 5th annual Ride to Recharge and Climate Steps is here!!! Whose ready to bike and walk the day away?!? #c2ride #bikechi
RT @ohteenquotes: Everyone wants happiness. No one wants pain. But you can't make a rainbow without a little rain.
60.5 (Rising). Wind chill: 60.5 . Humidity: 99%. Rain: 0.00 in. Barometer Rising. Wind: 0 mph N. Gust: 2. http://t.co/leI6eUqRB1
Seriously. The weather is amazing, it's still early, & yet my @americanair flight out of EWR is delayed an hour and a half. How?!
@2kevinjones1 make it drizzle for me too bruh taco meat Howard
Hey everyone. Just stopping through to spread the love and sunshine. Keep shining
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A few #severe t-storms in SW Okla. right now, with a damaging wind threat. Most dangerous supercells this PM. http://t.co/n5wg0mGtty
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Nikon D90: First SLR With Hi-Def Movie Mode
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Nikon has announced its hotly anticipated new DSLR, the D90, and it turns out that yesterday’s rumors were spot-on. First, the numbers: 12.3 megapixels, Live View, face detection (which Nikon describes with some hyperbole as being able to “render up to five faces with newfound sharpness“), a maximum ISO of 6400, a DX sized (ie. non full-frame) CMOS sensor and 4.5 fps shooting.
The one thing we didn’t see coming, though, is the movie mode, a world first for DSLRs. Using the feed from the Live View mode, the D90 will capture 24 frames per second at up to 720p resolution (1,280 x 720 pixels). We foresee a lot of debate over this. Some will call it a “toy” feature, not suitable for a serious camera like a DSLR. Others will love it, especially as it means video shooting with a relatively big sensor chip, giving good low-light performance and shallower depth of field than smaller video cameras.
It also means that you can use the full lineup of Nikkor lenses, from super wide angle up to long, long telephotos. In fact, the more we think about this, the more it seems that this simple addition from Nikon could really change the marketplace for video cameras and coming one step closer to the hybrid photo/video cam we’ve been wishing for.
There’s another innovation inside the D90. It’s the first DSLR to be tweaked to play nice with SanDisk’s Extreme III Edition SDHC cards. The camera will write to these at up to 30MB/s, which certainly comes in handy when throwing HD video onto the card. And as Bryan Pope of SanDisk tells us, the fact that the cards run up to 16GB in size is pretty useful for video, too. These new cards are also fifty percent faster than the previous version.
Photographer Chase Jarvis has been playing around with the Nikon D90 for a few weeks now. In fact, he’s been playing with five D90s, and has shot a video of the testing process (Warning: highly fashionable – and quite questionable – haircuts).
It comes on a little like an ad, but Jarvis seems to agree about the ground-breaking possibilities of the video functions:
HD720 video in an dSLR is really big news. It’s so cool that we’re seeing the merging of high quality still and video pictures into the same camera. Sure, for us pros, we’ve got the RED camera. But for everybody else? This is the future. People: this is an SLR that shoots killer video! It’s the merging of features that the pros are using and it’s made accessible the the amateur at a price point of $1200+ bucks.
Trust me, I played with this feature at length…all of us on location did, for that matter. It’s going to be a powerful tool. You can control your own depth of field so beautifully using the manual focus ring, the audio capture is solid, the high ISO capabilities in video?! Way cool… Long lenses, fisheyes, zoom lenses…versatility. I’m a BIG fan of the D-Movie.
First the D3, with its crazy low-light shooting, then the D700 (ditto) and now an SLR with a video camera inside. I’m not on one side or the other in the Nikon/Canon battle (I own one of each), but Canon must be feeling pretty hungry right now, because Nikon keeps eating its lunch. Body only, $1000. | <urn:uuid:f1ea58fa-9bb3-4cf2-add0-b7ac817288d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/08/nikon-d90-first/ | 2013-05-18T11:51:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382360/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942813 | 801 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
2012 Tryouts Recap
On June 16th, the Wizards held their annual Wizard Girls Open Tryouts at Verizon Center and it was the first time tryouts were held on the arena’s main floor. Wizard Girls’ captains Devon, Brittney, and Julia were in attendance to scout and meet the contestants. “It’s a pretty incredible experience this year,” said Julia, “It’s the first time it’s been on the arena floor. It gives the girls an experience like none other and it’s like being at a game.” Around 150 talented dancers attended the tryout in hopes of becoming one of the 20 members selected for the Wizard Girls’ dance team. Among others in attendance were Wizards’ forward Trevor Booker, Washington Redskins’ tailback Tristan Davis, and local DMV and national celebrities such as 93.9WKYS FM on-air host EZ Street, 95.5WPGC FM on-air host Sunni, and DJ Quiksilva.
The contestants began the day with registration, which included receiving their assigned number. The contestants warmed up and prepared for the intense, yet fulfilling day ahead. Along the sideline, the contestants were critiqued by Wizard Girls staff and celebrity guests. Booker thought the tryout was a success. “It’s a fun event. A lot of people came to tryout so it’s pretty big.” The contestants were shown a routine by Dance Team Manager Derric Whitfield. Many of the contestants fared well in the first round as the choreography was designed to bring out the different passions and styles of the contestants. After witnessing the first round, guest celebrity judge Tristan Davis revealed, “I had a little background in dance so I know what I’m looking for” when asked what he looked for in each contestant. “You’re on a national scale and its millions of people watching some games so you have to come with it."
After the first round of cuts, instructor Whitfield delivered another flawless choreographed routine with more difficulty - this time to test the technical skills of the contestants. Wizard Girls’ captains Devon, Brittney and Julia continued their evaluations of the overall talent. Devon was very impressed with the turnout and the level of competition displayed on Verizon Center’s floor, “Today we’ve gotten a lot of great girls that brought their A game so they really have us looking and thinking WOW!” As the second and third rounds came to a close, the number of contestants dwindled down to 29 finalists after three elimination cycles. The 29 finalists will attend the Wizards' Draft Party on June 28th. Following the Draft Party, the finalists will interview with the Wizard Girl's staff before the final 20 are announced.
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Dustin Pagel of Neenah, a fourth-year Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Carpentry Apprenticeship student at Moraine Park Technical College, earned a third-place bronze medal in the carpentry competition at the 2010 ABC National Craft Championships held in San Diego, Calif., in February.
Pagel, who is employed by Radtke Contractors in Winneconne, earned a berth at the national competition when he placed first in the ABC of Wisconsin Inc. State Skill Competition in December.
"Competing in the National Craft Championships was an extremely exciting experience," said Pagel. "To take third place is an accomplishment I am extremely proud of."
More than 100 top apprentices and craft trainees throughout the country competed in 11 different trades at the national championships. The carpentry competition consisted of a three-hour written exam and a six-hour practical exam judged by construction craft professionals. The practical portion of the competition included building a structure using both metal and wood according to a blueprint.
Moraine Park carpentry instructor Gary Roehrig said, “Dustin has been one of the best apprentices in the program and his success is a tribute to his commitment to furthering his education and professional development.”
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A year ago at Mobile World Congress we boldly declared our commitment to Mobility when we stated that 4G=IP=Cisco. And this year has truly been pivotal with the mobile Internet taking off and Cisco’s acquisition of Starent further demonstrating our commitment to this market.
Though challenged by the combination of increased demand (hear from our friends at Vodafone Spain in the video below) and increased competition from over-the-top providers, I believe now is the time for mobile operators to capitalize on this mobile Internet transformation.
Mobile operators have a great deal of power in their IP-based networks. The mobile operator knows the mobile customer -- their device, their service package, their usage patterns, and even their location. And of course the mobile operator knows their own network -- their available bandwidth, service capabilities, and content and security.
With this intelligence, mobile operators have the unique ability to create and provide rich multimedia services to their customers in a high-quality, secure and reliable manner. Further, operators can enable their subscribers to customize and personalize their own service packages to meet their ever-changing needs.
With this intelligence mobile operators can win a share of these new Internet service revenues, reduce network expenses, and increase customer satisfaction.
As I mentioned in this post, on the introduction of the Cisco ASR 5000, the combination of intelligence and performance in the context of an all-IP mobile network is more important now than ever before.
The holiday season is always a time of excitement, anticipation, and good will. Clearly, mobile is at the heart of all three! I just spent $300 on new smartphones for my family and upgraded our plans to 1200+ minutes, 500+ text messages, and tens of mega bytes per month. That does not even include everything I do with my business phone! If this is any indication, the mobile data traffic will far exceed the projections from the Cisco Visual Networking Index in many markets!
As the new Cisco Mobile Internet Technology Group, under the leadership of Ashraf Dahod, former Starent CEO, Starent’s employees will continue their innovative work to develop and support industry-leading mobile broadband solutions.
I am excited that Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Starent Networks! This important addition, occurring at a time when mobile internet is undergoing massive transformation, would help enable Cisco to better meet the unprecedented needs of our mobile operator and service provider customers as they deliver the next wave of multimedia applications and data services.
To our mobile operators and service providers, this intended acquisition is very much in line with our “4G=IP” vision we’ve stated in the past would, if completed, extend Cisco’s world-class offerings in three key areas.
Scaling mobile operator networks towards 4G LTE solutions, while protecting investment in 3G technologies, to meet the exponential growth in data services
Offering personalized applications to deliver integrated user experiences, create differentiation, and increase ARPU.
Developing innovative business models that deliver incremental revenue streams to address the shrinking voice revenues.
For more details on this announcement, our formal corporate forward looking statement disclaimer, and more insight on the trends causing the need the 4G mobile internet, please see the post by Simon Aspinall, another of our regular SP360 contributors, that is highlighted on our corporate sister blog, The Platform: Cisco to Aquire Mobile Internet Leader Starent Networks | <urn:uuid:dba328ef-050c-422f-8ecd-e977ed408380> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.cisco.com/tag/starent/ | 2013-05-21T13:14:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927172 | 697 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
So my previous Frigidaire has died, and they are bringing me a brand new one. Here's the question. I have the water supply going to the icemaker right now. When I pull out the fridge, I see no valves in the back going into the wall... so I have no way of stopping the water. The stipulation from the store is that the fridge has to be disconnected. What should I do? I am not 100% certain where the overall apartment water stop is......... is there perhaps something I can screw into the existing water line to stop water leaking while they replace the fridge?
It looked a bit like a cable modem valve (I couldn't take it off to look cause water started coming out), so I thought of screwing in a male to male cable modem (RG-8 / UHF) .. something like this:
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is it pssible to make your time run faster without making your units or explosion run faster ?....
i don't care if it then makes that it would take my men 30 min (in opf-time) to go 10 meters....
I just want to experience day and night during an hour play...
as far as i know i have to use the SetAccTime but where should i put it ?.... if it a script then how and where...
I'm totally new into script things...
just make a new readme file and rename it time.sqs...
u will be prompted.. say yes....
open it up and simply and setacttime #
#= wot speed u want the game to run...
0.5 slow down time
1 is normal time
and anything higher than 1 is faster.
go into ur mission and make a trigger. in the on activation field type:-
exec "time.sqs"
make sure the trigger is set to detect west........ once the trigger has been activated it will look for the sqs file in ur mission folder and run it.
o sorry i didn't read the q properly..
if u mean u want everything around u go faster but ur men to stay normal time then that is impos!
Nov 16 2001, 18:32
You can experience day and night with the SkipTime command, for example skiptime 12 will skip time for 12 hours.
Nov 16 2001, 21:43
Maybe if you put in a trigger , skiptime .1, and set it to repeat and have the condition of alive (playername) then maybe it will keep skipping ahead time really fast. not sure if this works or not though, I've never used the skiptime command
yes...that is actually the solution i came up with....
making a trigger that eveytime it's being activated by a civilian (loop waypoint) the time is skipping 30 min.... he activate it every 5 min and it's working smothly....
thanx for your help...
i didn't understand the q.... sorry.
the question was how to make the time run faster...... so you'll experiense day and night in a 2 hour mp....
what i did was the every 5 minutes (our time) there have gone 30 min (opf-time)....that means that after 1 hour of play the time has changed 10 hours in opf...
LAW Soldier fd
Nov 17 2001, 03:41
a cool thought there, thank you :)
just a thought:
why not just make a loop in a script, like this:
<end of file>
this would then wait for 300 seconds (5 minutes) and then skip half an hour, and continue to wait yet another 500 seconds etc.
save this as "skiptime.sqs", and put it on the activation field of one of the units that you know will be in the game?
Just a suggestion, thanks for the great idea. :)
PS. Wouldn't this be kind of cool for a player in the game:
Reload M16 magazine
<edit: smilies off, they suck>
(Edited by LAW Soldier fd at 6:46 am on Nov. 17, 2001)
thanx LAW Soldier fd...i'll try if it works....which I'm in no doupt would :)...
somehow the loop command didn't work..... but i've found a workaround:
---- time.sqs ----
exec "time.sqs"
then just exec time.sqs in a for example a unit or car.... in my case a ship ;)
the good thing about that is that you can forget about waypoint a civ and make a trigger ;)
i've made the time change very often but not that much to make it more smooth.... instead of it would jump 30 min. in every 5 min....but all in all it's the same as you would notice :).....
(Edited by Nozo at 7:36 pm on Nov. 17, 2001)
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A few years back New York poet and friend Elaine Equi suggested she compile a collection of poems like Holiday Cards, by various hands. I once almost applied for a job writing verse for Hallmark Cards in Sydney, back in the 1960s, so I said yes, please do!
Dozens of poets wrote in to Elaine with their poems, and many were supplied with Collages by Kevin Riordan. They’re all in Jacket 32, here, a feast of quirky, light-hearted calendar verse. Take a look!
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We’ve heard about Pinterest’s meteoric rise in usage, and a new report shows what effect this has had on StumbleUpon. Adam Sherk of Define Media Group reports that StumbleUpon traffic has actually decreased by 27% to content and magazine sites.
This is a stark comparison to Sherk’s findings on Pinterest traffic for the same properties last year. Overall, Adam analyzed 47 different properties that he works with and segmented them into 6 different categories:
- Fashion & Beauty
- News & Tech
The biggest categorical drop was in health followed by fashion & beauty then food. The aforementioned categories suite fits the audience of Pinterest to a tee, correlating the fact that Pinterest could be stealing some of StumbleUpon’s traffic.
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Denying previous reports of a domestic dispute in the Bowmarion household, R&B poptarts Omarion and Bow Wow insist they are not frenemies and remain BFFs. (Or is it BFs?) Bow Wow denies reports he dissed his boy by snarking on a recent track, "The Denim jeans is tight, You're an Omarion looka boy.
Bow Wow says he is merely reciting "a fact" because "everybody knows ... how tight his jeans are."
Bow Wow tells MTV News, "O is my homeboy, and I even joke with O about how tight he wears his jeans. He knows how tight his jeans are. That's my homeboy. Everybody knows how tight Omarion wears his pants. It's not a secret. So why is everybody jumping on me? It's a fact. Plus, it's a joke. So why wouldn't I joke on my homeboy?"
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Shocking! Bow Wow Mocks Omarion's "Tight Jeans" [R20]
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Bow Wow Flaunts It [R20]
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Omarion's Rodeo Drive Shopping Spree [R20]
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Because, argues the Kenilworthian, our losses constantly remind us of our lack of knowledge about the game, and this then causes us pain or at least curiosity - and so we come back to the game again and again to learn more. And of course, the more we learn, the more we know how ignorant we truly are, and so the cycle of knowledge, knowledge-gaps, pain, curiosity, learning, knowledge!, knowledge gaps repeats and repeats.
Could well be. "Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess," said William Napier (commonly attributed to Irving Chernev) and, indeed. If we knew we could master chess with, say, five years effort, would we bother? Few do with Connect 4, by comparison for example. And didn't Bobby Fischer say we should all play Chess960 because the middlegames of chess are effectively solved? Could a lack of the pain and the curiosity caused by knowledge-gaps be why he is no longer playing? (As an aside, however, I would be more inclined to speculate on Jan Hein Donner's argument that: "No one is as lonely as the world champion" in any attempt to answer this question.)
On the other hand, the comments here suggest various other interesting reasons. And I'm not sure I can apply all this to myself very convincingly. I started playing socially as a kid after school for fun, and by around my teens began to appreciate the game sufficiently for its own sake - as a thing of beauty, drama and excitement. No doubt curiosity and competitiveness were there too. But when answering the question "Why do I play chess?" I am more likely to formulate some watered down version of Hans Ree's explanation: "Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for." Ree isn't the only chess player to stress this side of the game of course. "If you have never seen this study before and fail to find it exciting," wrote Levitt and Friedgood about the study by V Korolkov on the left for instance (1st Prize, Lelo 1951, white to play and win, click to enlarge) "our only advice is to give up the game straight away. You will have no future in chess!"
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We’re still working on our own plans to grab that $ 10 million Tricorder X-Prize from Qualcomm and our progress has just been given a shot in the arm from Dr. Peter Jansen, who’s released the designs for his tricorders. Making all the specifics open source, his Mark 2 model runs on Linux, while the hardware includes an ARM Atmel microcontroller squeezed into a clam-shell with two OLED touchscreens. Schematics, board layouts, and the firmware is all available at the source below and also includes the initial proof-of-concept device. The tricorders need six AAA to run and include sensors for temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, ambient light, distance and even magnetic fields. Dr. Jansen’s hope is to make scientists out of everyone — including your kids. That is, right after they ask you what Star Trek is.
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You already know the strange powers of Stephin Merritt, but today we’re talking about real magnetic fields. Powerful electromagnets, it turns out, can do remarkable things to the brain — in this case, prevent a volunteer from reciting “Humpty Dumpty.” The carefully directed magnets temporarily disrupt the brain’s speech centers; the volunteer can still sing the rhyme using different areas of the brain, but simply can’t overcome a series of stammers when trying to merely recite it. Of course, it’s not all mad scientist applications: the UK team experimenting with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) thinks it can help us understand and treat migraines (as we’ve seen before with the Migraine Zapper), depression, and ADHD, among other ailments. But improving physical well-being doesn’t make for nearly as entertaining media — see the British inflict some involuntary quiet time in the video above.
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Man, if only this had been discovered before Ariadne was tasked with building impossible dreams. A team of scientists caught high-fiving over at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have a new and riveting announcement to share, and it revolves around our old and trusted friend, graphene. This go ’round, the self-proclaimed “extraordinary form of carbon” is being stressed to its max, but not without good reason. Thanks to inquisitive minds and a “stroke of serendipity,” a research team was able to create magnetic fields in excess of 300 tesla by simply straining graphene in a certain way. For physicists, the discovery is a dream come true, particularly when you realize that magnetic fields in excess of 85 tesla were practically impossible to come across in a laboratory setting. The benefits here? It’s honestly too early to tell, but gurus in the field are already suggesting that the “opportunities for basic science with strain engineering [are] huge.” Something tells us Magneto would concur.
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Last month, we announced we were going to have a grand meetup in NYC at the end of June. The meetup is still on like Donkey Kong, our plane tickets and hotel rooms are booked; we’ve been day drinking for weeks to prepare… but we need your help!
We’ve outgrown the location we booked previously. After thousands of Chivers showed up for our San Diego meetup, we realized we’re going to need a bigger boat. We’re now seeking a location that holds at least 500 people.
I’m going to book the location today and announce it on Monday (I hope) so if you’re a bar or club owner in NYC contact us at thechiverules [at] gmail [dot] com as soon as possible. Your bar must be available on Thursday , June 28th!
Note: Bar owners/ managers only, please don’t email us if you ‘know of a place’ or you have a ‘friend that runs a joint’, we’ve got to finalize this today and we need to talk to somebody who understands what’s about to happen.
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Video:Find Your Company's Nichewith Laura Allen, 15 Second Pitch
Instead of trying to be a jack of all trades, focus on promoting what makes you and your business unique. Try these tips on how to find your "one thing."See Transcript
Transcript:Find Your Company's NicheHi, I'm Laura Allen, co-founder of 15 Second Pitch for About.com. We have all heard the old cliche, "jack of all trades, master of none."
The opposite of this is to present yourself and your business as an expert at something specific because people tend to shy away from hiring generalists. They want to hire the very best person to solve their problems for them.
So today I'm going to show you how to choose your one thing to focus on.
Brainstorm on What Makes You UniqueTo get started you will need a notepad of paper and a pencil. Step one: Write down what is the most unique quality about you or the product or service that you provide?
Spend five minutes brainstorming on this topic. Is there one word or theme the keeps coming up? Circle that key word or phrase on the paper. This is your focus.
Examine Your CompetitionStep two: Make a list of all of your competitors. When marketing ourselves, we all have a competitor, and competitors are good for your business because they help prove that there is a healthy market for your product or service.
Take five minutes to write down every person or business competing against you right now and try to focus your one thing on a need in your field that your competitors are not addressing.
Tailor What Makes You UniqueStep three: Tailor your one thing to make it more effective.
Once you think you know what your one thing is, get out there and start talking about it. And stick with your one thing for at least 30 days. When marketing yourself, consistency and persistence are the best ways to get results.
Take Notes For a MonthFinally, over the next 30 days, commit to taking five minutes before going to bed each night to jot down any thoughts, ideas, or concerns that have come up throughout the day.
At the end of 30 days, sit down and review what you have written each night and take notes of any themes or patterns that emerge. You will be amazed at the insights you see. This will help you better focus your one thing.
Thank you for watching. To learn more, please visit us on the Web at money.about.com.
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On My Participation In The Atom Bomb Project
by A. Einstein
My participation in the production of the atom bomb consisted in a single act: I signed a letter to President Roosevelt. this letter stressed the necessity of large scale experimentation to ascertain the possibility of producing an atom bomb.
I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these experiments would succeed. But the probability that the Germans might work on that very problem with good chance of success prompted me to take that step. I did not see any other way out, although I always was a convinced pacifist. To kill in war time, it seems to me, is in no ways better than common murder.
As long however, as nations are ready to abolish war by common action and to solve their conflicts in a peaceful way on a legal basis. they feel compelled to prepare for war. They feel moreover compelled to prepare the most abominable means, in order not to be left behind in the general armaments race. Such procedure leads inevitable to war, which, in turn, under todays conditions, spells universal destruction.
Under such circumstances there is no hope in combating the production of specific weapons or means of destruction. Only radical abolition of war and of danger of war can help. Toward this goal one should strive; in fact nobody should allow himself to be forced into actions contrary to this goal. This is a harsh demand for anyone who is aware of his social inter-relatedness; but it can be followed.
Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time has shown the way, and has demonstrated the sacrifices man is willing to bring if only he has found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living example that man's will, sustained by an indomitable conviction is stronger than apparently invincible material power. | <urn:uuid:f6fa47c8-ddab-4f90-8980-860b81eebe1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hiroshima/EinsteinResponse.shtml | 2013-05-21T13:21:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959037 | 370 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Vitaly Petrov becomes ROC’s first Russian driver Russian Formula 1 star Vitaly Petrov has signed up to compete at the 2011 Race Of Champions in Düsseldorf. Petrov, who races for the Lotus Renault GP team, will become the first driver from Eastern Europe to compete at the event.
The Russian joins a star-studded field that includes three F1 world champions for ROC 2011 at Düsseldorf’s ESPRIT arena on December 3-4
The 2011 Race Of Champions will feature the event’s first ever driver from Eastern Europe as Russian Formula 1 star Vitaly Petrov will compete at Düsseldorf’s ESPRIT arena in December.
Also Formula 1’s first Russian driver, Petrov has had a strong season in 2011 for the Lotus Renault GP team. A podium in the year’s first race in Australia has been followed by a string of points finishes to leave him in the F1 world championship top ten.
That form is all the more impressive given that – unlike most of the F1 field – Petrov did not learn his race craft in karting. Born in the Russian town of Vyborg, he had no easy access to a local kart track so he began competing in rally sprints and ice racing events. But after winning every race in the 2002 Lada Cup, Petrov was soon on a more conventional road to the top of motor racing via successful years in GP2. Now he has earned an invitation to compete at the Race Of Champions.
Petrov said: “It was a great honor to be the first Russian driver in Formula 1 – and now I’m delighted to become the first Russian to compete at the Race Of Champions. I’ve followed the event for a long time and I know that all the drivers claim to be there for fun, while pushing as hard as ever in the cars. I’ve never raced in an event with such a quick turnaround of machinery but perhaps my unusual background in rally sprints and ice racing can help me. I’ll give my best and see what happens.”
Drivers already confirmed for the 2011 Race Of Champions:
Sebastian VETTEL, 2010 and 2011 Formula 1 World Champion
Michael SCHUMACHER, seven-time Formula 1 World Champion
Jenson BUTTON, 2009 Formula 1 World Champion
Andy PRIAULX, three-time World Touring Car Champion
Tom KRISTENSEN, eight-time Le Mans 24-Hour race winner
Mattias EKSTROM, DTM star and triple ROC Champion of Champions
Sébastien OGIER, winner of five WRC rallies in 2011
Romain GROSJEAN, 2011 GP2 Series Champion
Travis PASTRANA, four-time Rally America winner and X-Games legend
Martin TOMCZYK, 2011 DTM Champion
Vitaly PETROV, the first Russian driver in Formula 1
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by Ric Bessin, Extension Entomologist
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
Two species of fruit flies attack the fruit of sweet and sour cherries; the cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cingulata, and the black cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis fausta. These fruit flies are closely related to the apple maggot and the blueberry maggot which attack apples and blueberries, respectively.
Cherry fruit fly maggots feed on the fruit of sweet and sour cherries, pear, plum, and wild cherry. Infested fruits often appear normal until the maggots are nearly full grown. Damage appears as sunken, shriveled areas on the surface of the nearly ripe and ripe fruit. Fruits may be blemished by the egg laying punctures made by the female near the bottom of the fruit. On unmanaged trees, the majority of the fruit may be infested with these maggots.
The adults are black flies with yellow heads and are somewhat smaller than a house fly. Between the base of the wings is a white or cream colored dot. The dark markings on the wings are used to distinguish the species. The abdomen of the black cherry fruit fly is entirely black, while the cherry fruit fly is marked with a series of four-white crossbands. The wing marking of these flies is very characteristic and can also be used to distinguish between the two species.
Cherry fruit flies spend ten months of the year in the soil beneath the trees. Adults emerge from late May to early July and lay their eggs in the fruits. Normally, a rainfall sufficient to wet the upper inch of soil is required before flies will emerge from the soil. Dry soil conditions may postpone emergence. The black cherry fruit fly generally begins to emerge about ten to fourteen days earlier than the cherry fruit fly. There are usually 10 days between the fly emergence and egg laying. During this period adults feed on aphid honeydew and other sources. The eggs hatch in about 4 days to one week and the maggots feed for about two weeks. When full grown, they drop to the ground and burrow into the soil. They pupate 1 to 2 inches beneath the soil surface. There is only one generation per year of each fly.
Monitor cherry fruit flies with yellow sticky cards hung in the trees in late May. Examine the traps twice a week to determine when adult emergence begins. Use the banding on the wing to distinguish between the species.
Because the female flies insert the eggs beneath the skin of the fruit, the eggs and the larvae that emerge are protected from insecticides. Sprays need to target the adults before egg laying begins. Adults should be controlled 5 to 6 days after they emerge.
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This scholarship is for full-time international students who are pursuing undergraduate or graduate studies in joining sciences. Applicants can be matriculating in accredited joining science programs at institutions anywhere in the world. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must be in the top 20% of their institution's grading system. Applicants must have completed at least one year of welding or a related field of study at the bachelor's degree-granting institution. This scholarship is not available to students who reside in North America; proof of country citizenship is required.
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This scholarship's application process may have items such as essays that could take a couple hours.
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This scholarship won't have as many applicants as most.
The deadline for this scholarship has passed.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Stitching Then and Now
I remember spending a good 3 months on this piece. I usually shipped my Christmas gifts to Anne and her family via "the boat" instead of airmail as it was about a third of the cost. And when you're sending something heavy like a framed piece, that cost can be substantial.
I was exceptionally proud of this. I had to start it in the summer so it could be done and framed to be shipped by Halloween or right after. I remember plopping down in the sofa on a Sunday afternoon and stitching for 3-4 hours. Some things never change. I still do that only I don't have the TV on as background noise. I find I have to remove my glasses to adequately see the chart so whatever's on the TV is a blur. Now music, music I will have on or I sit and stitch in silence. That silence can be very comforting because then I hear Pilchard's purr because she's in my lap.
I don't remember when I started cross-stitching. It seems it's been a part of me since I was a girl. I remember that hairstyle. I have straight hair but went through the desire to have curly hair phase. I don't remember the glasses. Gigantic by my standards now. I remember the blouse and the sweater. The blouse is long gone but, you know, I still wear that sweater.
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Healthy Recipes for Sorbet (Slide 2)
Switching from ice cream to sorbet is an excellent way to reduce saturated fat. This recipe, contributed by Diana Dalsass of Teaneck, New Jersey, has an exceptionally creamy texture, thanks to the banana and roasted mango.
Recipe: Roasted Mango Sorbet
add to 'my eatingwell'
Try this cherry sorbet recipe with a dollop of lightly sweetened whipped cream or some more chopped …View slide
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‎"In the Abyss"24"x18" Acrylic painting on masonite panelI've always been obsessed with the deep sea creatures - those in the abyssal and benthic zones - and I've featured them in several of my paintings. This piece in particular shows several varieties of Anglerfish / Lanternfish - as well as a Gulper Eel! Of course they're a little creepy, but I did my best to make them a little bit cute, too. Many abyssal zone critters have bioluminescent spots and lures which was a lot of fun to paint! And of course I've included a mermaid who lives amongst them. One of my favourites! My own original acrylic painting, painted on a wood/masonite panel, it is 18" high by 24" wide - an original acrylic painting on 2" deep cradled masonite panel - no framing needed - ready to hang! Bidding starts at just one penny, for a 10 day auction ending the evening of Thursday, January 19th at 6:12 PM Central Time - see her here:
This is the original BIG 24"x18" acrylic painting on 2" deep craded masonite, ready to HANG!
(note to people of the future: this link will only be active for 90 days. after that - just check the prints instead below, hehe)
Prints and posters are below:
To see my other CURRENTLY available original paintings (some for auction ending soon!) up at eBay,
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Child care in Rio de Janeiro
when settling in a new country, working parents are mostly concerned about finding child care services for their children.
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Women technologists come to the fore
“Software development is knowledge-based or more cerebral in nature. And it is result oriented. The concept of being in office in the connected world and cloud is becoming increasingly irrelevant,” said Priya Chetty Rajagopal, vice- president, Stanton Chase, which focuses on executives.
As the developers can solve the customer issues over telephone or internet even while they are not at desk or beyond the normal working hours helping women to go home early and still do some part of work from home helping them find a better balance between their work and life. Most companies allow their employees flexible working hours to retain talent.
“It has more global orientation than many other fields. The MNCs cannot have different gender policy which is unfavourable to women in certain countries making the woman on par with their colleagues in other developed markets,” added Rajagopal. According to her this has forced many Indian companies, most of whom serve global clients, adopt the global practices sooner than later.
There is always a push for women at senior levels in technology to move more towards a communications or managerial positions citing that they are good at communicating and team building. Even that system is changing slowly. This is now more an option if they are done with writing codes rather than a systemic push according
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‘Twilight’ fans are buzzing about Kristen Stewart cheating on her longtime boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, with her married ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ director, Rupert Sanders, but is the whole thing staged to end their fake relationship?
According to Celeb Dirty Laundry, Kristen Stewart’s cheating drama is an elaborate rouse to put a res to the fake relationship she’s been carrying on with Robert Pattinson for years. (Say it ain’t so!)
The website claims “Robsten” was all for publicity, and now that the franchise is coming to an end, so is the PR scheme. “Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are not a real couple. They never were. Teirs is a fake ‘showmance’ put together by Summit to promote the “Twilight” franchise.” the site claims.
What do you think? Is this all just to promote a franchise that already has billions of fans? Doesn’t seem likely.
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The best thing happened the other day. My sister moved back to Colorado! Patrick, her fiance, got a job 3 hours west of us and I couldn't be happier. This means I get to kiss my new nieces cheeks, like, 3-4 more times a year than I would have. And that's saying something. Look at those suckers. Girl is not messing around.
No really, get a good look...
My sister and that cheeky baby stayed with me for a few days while Pat drove the U-Haul down from Seattle and unpacked it. I thought it might be lovely to partake in some activity together, and making homemade donuts seemed like just the thing. Except for the fact that when it came time to actually make the donuts my sister didn't help at all.
She slept through the first part.
Then, she sat and watched with the baby for a bit
And then she would change it up and check her phone from time to time
Cameras come in very handy for photographic evidence.
Okay, well she did help with one part - the frying - and If I'm being honest, it's the best part to help me with because I'm a huge wuss with such things. She was afraid too, though, so I didn't feel so bad. However there was no need for fear because it just gently sizzled when the dough hit the hot oil. No splashing. No jumping back necessary. No disfiguring oil scars on our faces like I had initially imagined. I ended up using a spider to place my donuts gently in the oil and to turn and get them out. I highly recommend.
Gentle frying, see?
Even when the oil got hotter, it wasn't bad
My sister dropping in the first donut hole:
I couldn't remember the significance of the bottom tattoo on her wrists, so I asked. She simply said "free bird" like that was supposed to clear everything up. I still didn't know exactly what they were supposed to represent, so I pressed further. All she said was "you know the song Free Bird, right?" like that was supposed to clear everything up. Kaylee does that a lot.
No, Kaylee, as a matter of fact, sometimes you'll need to expound on things. Sometimes you'll need to explain further. I'm not telepathic.
She's always been like this. As the other person, you have two choices. You can either keep asking questions until you can piece together enough information and are satisfied with her answer, or you can shrug your shoulders, walk away and say "oh yeah" and decide it's not worth it. I suggest the latter unless you really need to know because Kaylee dishes out the bare minimum. I can't explain this pheonomenoa, but I can explain donuts, and this is lucky since it's why you came.
There are three things you need to know about homemade yeast donuts:
1) They will take you a good half a day to make. Mine took five hours and this is a process that can't be rushed. I've made yeast donuts at home before and trust me, if the recipe says to let the dough rise and rest for 1 1/2 hours, then that's what it will take. Don't move on to the next step after 45 minutes just because the dough looks doubled in size already.
2) Don't expect homemade donuts to be or taste the same as your local donut shop. I was very satisfied with this recipe, namely because the donuts rose beautifully and puffed up nicely after frying. Also, they were not as heavy as other homemade donuts I've fried, however, they definitely will be much heavier than anything you can buy at a store. This is why they can charge money for such things, you see. I think donut people are magical gypsies for getting donuts so light and airy. Now let us talk about taste. Like I said, these don't exactly taste like your average twisted glaze. They do however taste an awful lot like Krispy Kreme's glaze donuts. I leave that to you to decide whether that is a good thing.
3) Only glaze these once! Meaning, coat them once with the glaze and let them dry on a rack. Do not be tempted, like I was, to keep applying glaze layer after layer. I did this. I admit it. It was not a good decision. One layer will cling and stick to the donut nicely and dry ever so slightly. Two, three, four coast later and the glaze won't set and will appear milky in color.
The kids were just a little excited when they got home. And we all gorged ourselves on donuts.
Vanilla-Glaze Yeast Donuts
adapted from Saveur Magazine, March 2013
makes 1 1/2 dozen donuts
2¼-oz. packages active dry yeast
½ cup sugar
1½ cups milk, scalded and cooled
1 tsp. kosher salt
6 tbsp. vegetable shortening, plus more for greasing
5 cups (1 lb. 6½ oz.) all-purpose flour, sifted, plus more for dusting
Canola oil, for frying
10 tbsp. unsalted butter
⅓ cup evaporated milk
2 ½ tsp. vanilla extract
2 ½ cups confectioners' sugar
INSTRUCTIONS1. Combine yeast, 1 tbsp. sugar, and 6 tbsp. water heated to 115° in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment; (should feel warm to the touch if you don't want to use a thermometer) let sit until foamy, about 10 minutes. Add remaining sugar, plus milk, salt, eggs, and shortening; mix until combined. With the motor running, slowly add flour; beat until dough is smooth. Transfer to a lightly greased bowl and cover loosely with plastic wrap; set in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1½ hours. I set my bowl in a 200 degree pre-heated oven (before I covered with plastic wrap) and let the bowl sit for one or two minutes with the door cracked open, just to make sure my dough got warm for a head start. Then, I placed it on the counter and covered loosely at room temperature for the remainder of the time.
2. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; roll dough into a 13" round about ½" thick. Using floured 3½" and 1½" ring cutters, cut out donuts and holes; gather and reuse scraps. Place on greased parchment paper—lined baking sheets, at least 3" apart, and cover loosely with plastic wrap; set in a warm place until doubled in size, about 45 minutes. Don't skip the parchment paper step.
3. Heat 2" oil in a 6-qt. saucepan until a deep-fry thermometer reads 325°. Using scissors, cut the donuts out of the parchment paper, leaving about 1" of paper around the sides of each donut (the paper makes it easier to transfer them to frying oil - this is why we don't skip this step. The donuts deflate the more you handle them).
Parchment paper step:
Working in batches, place donuts in oil, paper side up, using tongs to peel off and discard paper. Cook, flipping once until puffed and golden, about 3–4 minutes. Test your donut holes first. They will also cook much faster than your donuts. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to a baking sheet with a wire rack; let cool completely. Do not glaze warm donuts. It will make them soggy.
4. Melt butter in a 1-qt. saucepan over medium-low heat. Using a small ladle, skim and discard white film from surface. Slowly pour liquid from pan into a bowl, leaving sediment behind; let cool 1 minute. Add evaporated milk, vanilla, ¼ cup water, and sugar; whisk until smooth. Dip donuts in glaze, coating completely; return to wire rack until glaze is set.
*To avoid oily donuts, remember: Fat attracts fat. The less you use in your dough, the lighter the donut will be after frying. Also go light on flour when rolling out dough, and use a brush to remove any excess; loose flour particles attract and absorb oil | <urn:uuid:e91d3f8b-7f91-4adc-b528-b70cd8e978a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.krystaslifeinfood.com/2013/03/vanilla-glaze-yeast-donuts.html | 2013-05-21T13:08:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700014987/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102654-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96529 | 1,760 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Getting Life Insurance with Medical Conditions
Finding life insurance with a preexisting condition may seem like an impossible task. Preexisting medical issues make you a high risk to the insurer, and thus affect your insurability as an applicant. Indeed, you may have already been told that you are uninsurable as a result of your condition. However, even with medical issues, it is still possible to get life insurance as long as you take the right steps and research your options.
- Find an agent with experience. To get coverage with a preexisting condition, you will need the help of a life insurance agent with experience with high-risk life insurance, also called impaired-risk coverage. Your agent will help present you in the best light possible to prospective insurers to convince them to provide coverage.
- Put together the documentation. Before you apply for a policy, gather all of the documents relevant to your medical issue. You will need to disclose all of the disorders and/or diseases you've been diagnosed with in addition to any treatments or medications you are taking. The insurer will want the exact dosages of these medications as well as a list of every medical professional who has treated you for the past 7-10 years. Once you have all of the documents compiled, make copies and start a file folder.
- Write a health summary. You will need to create a summary of your health up to this point for the insurance company. Try to underscore the favorable aspects of your health. For instance, you might emphasize that you never drink, haven't smoked for 20 years, and exercise every day. You do not need to include diseases that you have fully recovered from because the insurer will not take them into account at the time of application. However, you do need to include any diseases that are in remission or those for which you haven't been fully cured.
- Be candid about accidents. If you've had major accidents as an adult that have had longstanding or permanent effects, you need to disclose the nature of them on your application. For example, if you have a metal plate in your head from an accident that occurred in your twenties, your insurer needs to know about it.
- Select aggressive underwriters. When you're trying to find coverage with a medical condition, you're almost always better off choosing aggressive, small, and relatively new life insurers. Try to apply to at least three or four companies, as all of them will rate the risk you represent differently.
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talked over the whole thing with Mr. West, described to him the
Unto This Last
had produced on my mind, and proposed that
should be removed to a farm, on which everyone should labour,
drawing the same living wage, and attending to the press work in
spare time. Mr. West approved of the proposal, and £3 was laid down
as the monthly allowance per head, irrespective of colour or
But it was a question whether all the ten or more workers in the
press would agree to go and settle on an out-of-the-way farm, and be
satisfied with bare maintenance. We therefore proposed that those
who could not fit in with the scheme should continue to draw their
salaries and gradually try to reach the ideal of becoming members of
I talked to the workers in the terms of this proposal. It did not
appeal to Sjt. Madanjit, who considered my proposal to be foolish
and held that it would ruin a venture on which he had staked his
all; that the workers would bolt,
would come to a stop, and the press would have to be closed down.
Among the men working in the press was Chhaganlal Gandhi, one of my
cousins. I had put the proposal to him at the same time as to West.
He had a wife and children, but he had from childhood chosen to be
trained and to work under me. He had full faith in me. So without
any argument he agreed to the scheme and has been with me ever
since. The machinist Govindaswami also fell in with the proposal.
The rest did not join the scheme, but agreed to go wherever I
removed the press.
I do not think I took more than two days to fix up these matters
with the men. Thereafter I at once advertised for a piece of land
situated near a railway station in the vicinity of Durban. An offer
came in respect of Phoenix. Mr. West and I went to inspect the
estate. Within a week we purchased twenty acres of land. It had a
nice little spring and a few orange and mango trees. Adjoining it
was a piece of 80 acres which had many more fruit trees and a
dilapidated cottage. We purchased this too, the total cost being a
The late Mr. Rustomji always supported me in such enterprises. He
liked the project. He placed at my disposal second-hand corrugated
iron sheets of a big godown and other building material, with which
we started work. Some Indian carpenters and masons, who had worked
with me in the Boer War, helped me in erecting a shed for the press.
This structure, which was seventy-five feet long and fifty feet broad, was ready
in less than a month. Mr. West and others, at great personal risk,
stayed with the carpenters and masons. The place, uninhabited and
thickly overgrown with grass, was infested with snakes and obviously
dangerous to live in. At first all lived under canvas. We carted
most of our things to Phoenix in about a week. It was 14 miles
from Durban, and two and a half miles from Phoenix station.
had to be printed outside, in the Mercury press.
I now endeavoured to draw to Phoenix those relations and friends who
had come with me from India to try their fortune, and who were
engaged in business of various kinds. They had come in search of
wealth, and it was therefore difficult to persuade them; but some
agreed. Of these I can single out here only Manganlal Gandhi's name.
The others went back to business. Manganlal Gandhi left his business
for good to cast in his lot with me, and by ability, sacrifice and
devotion stands foremost among my original co-workers in my ethical
experiments. As a self-taught handicraftsman his place among them is
Thus the Phoenix Settlement was started in 1904, and there in spite
of numerous odds
continues to be published.
But the initial difficulties, the changes made, the hopes and the
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