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Inspire your afternoon and refresh your senses by creating sacred space for a personal tea ceremony.
From the fragrant aromas to the delicate flavors to the simple comfort of a warm mug, tea is a meditation for the senses. It also creates space to unwind and reconnect.
Preparing it is a process, one that forces you to slow down and relax. "Tea is a gift from the earth," says Diana Rosen, author of "Meditations With Tea," "and enjoying it is a gift to yourself."
By creating your own daily tea ritual in the afternoon when the day tends to drag, you can refresh your senses, refocus your thoughts, enjoy some peace, and -- the best part -- introduce a sacred moment into your day.
Prepare for Tea
In one traditional Japanese tea ceremony, guests are met at the gate by their host and led silently through a garden to the tea room, signifying a departure from the everyday world and an entrance into a spiritual realm.
You probably don't have a dedicated tea room, but you too can create a space in your afternoon for disconnecting from the day's stresses, whether you're at the office or at home. Here's our simple step-by-step approach to creating your own personal tea ceremony.
Dedicate a Space
This can mean moving to another room, a favorite chair, or just to the other side of your desk -- or simply clearing a space for tea on your table or work space. You might consider using a place mat or a tray to visually set your tea space apart from everything else.
Set the Stage
A tea ceremony is about atmosphere. Light a candle or play music to set the mood. If you're in a busy office, just close your eyes and listen to your breath for a few minutes to switch gears and set the tone.
Select Your Tea.
Bring some intention to your choice. What are you in the mood for? A mild, grassy green? A refreshing peppermint? A rich, vibrant oolong or black tea? As Confucius said, "Let your palate be your guide."
Use Your Favorite Accoutrements
The personal objects you use for tea making will help make this practice your own. Whether it's a pretty mug, an iron teapot, or a favorite infuser, using something special for your tea ritual inspires a ceremonial feel.
Enjoy the Process
As with wine and cheese, tea snobbery abounds, but don't be fooled by it. Tea appreciation does not require special expertise. "Tea can seem intimidating, but it really doesn't have to be," says Reem Rahim, cofounder of Numi Tea. "You put your tea bag or a teaspoonful of loose tea in a pot and add hot water. That's it."
There are, however, a few good guidelines we suggest to ensure an enjoyable process and a great cup of tea.
Brew Properly
Start with good quality water -- tap is fine, but Rosen suggests spring water as opposed to distilled water, which lacks the minerals that can bring out the full flavor.
Brewing times vary depending on the tea. When in doubt, underbrew. White teas, as a rule, require only about 30 seconds; greens anywhere from 30 to 45 seconds; and blacks steep the longest, from 2 to 5 minutes, according to taste.
Whites, greens, oolongs, and herbals are typically enjoyed as is, whereas you may prefer milk or cream, or soy substitute, and a little sugar or honey with black tea.
Engage your senses.
Tea is a sensual pleasure, with its aroma, warmth, flavor, and visual appeal. Watch the tea slowly infuse its color into the water. Feel the steam rise. Focus on the complexities of flavor: Is it mildly sweet, or vegetal? Fruity or spicy? Breathe and absorb each delicious moment.
Keep It Fresh and Interesting
Rituals are about being engaged in the process. And unlike routines, they are not static but can change as you do. Allow your tea ritual to fluctuate with your moods and evolving tastes.
Teas to Try
With the recent explosion in tea culture, you'll find no lack of variety, whether you visit a specialty tea vendor or your local grocery store. Select organic teas when possible, and if you prefer tea bags, look for those that are unbleached and biodegradable. Here are a few staff favorites:
White Teas
Numi Moonlight Spice
Numi Flowering Dragon Lily White Tea
Republic of Tea Silver Rain White Tea
Celestial Seasonings Decaf ChinaPearl White Tea
Green Teas
Mighty Leaf Green Tea Tropical
Republic of Tea Green Tea with Toasted Rice
Traditional Medicinals Green Tea With Ginger
Choice Organic Dragon Well Green Tea
Black Teas
Numi Chinese Breakfast
Republic of Tea Vanilla Almond
Choice Organic Irish Breakfast
Mighty Leaf Bombay Chai
Herbal Teas
Tazo Refresh
Numi Moroccan Mint
Mighty Leaf Chamomile Citrus
Choice Liquorice Peppermint
Stash Tea Chanakara Vanilla Honeybush


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Car Deals
'80s American Muscle Cars For Under $10,000
Most car enthusiasts would agree that the decade of the 1980s wasn't the greatest in muscle car history. Heck, most muscle cars then were just stickered up with nice graphics and fancy wheels to make them look a lot more menacing than they actually were. Still, there are some great examples that have stood the test of time and are sought out by collectors and enthusiasts. So break out the Poison and Whitesnake cassettes, pop them in the boom box, and read on as we look back on some of our favorite '80s muscle machines.
1985 - 1990 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z
Introduced in 1985, the IROC-Z was styled similarly to the racecars competing in the International Race of Champions. For its first two years of production, the IROC-Z was only available with a 305 V8, but an optional 350 became available in 1987. In 1988, the IROC-Z became an actual trim, replacing the Z28. Sadly, the only way to get a manual transmission when ordering an IROC-Z was to put a check mark for the standard 305 on the option sheet. Power ranged anywhere from an asthmatic 155 horsepower base engine to an available 5.7-liter with 230 hp. With lofty power numbers for the era, the IROC-Z could sprint from 0 - 60 in 6.9 seconds. A rare treat is to find an IROC-Z convertible, as they're hard to find in good condition.
1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2
The Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 was a limited-edition model built to satisfy NASCAR requirements for racing. The name 2+2 came from the legendary Catalina that was launched in the '60s. The idea for this sleek aerodynamic coupe, along with a prototype of the 2+2, was initially proposed by NASCAR legend Richard Petty. Styling cues that set it apart from the regular Grand Prix were a rounded front bumper and flat rear glass that extended across to the trunk. Sole power was an anemic 165-hp 305 V8 with a 4-speed automatic transmission. Finding an immaculate example is like finding a needle in a haystack, since only around 1,100 were built.
1989 Dodge Shelby Dakota
For one year only, Dodge introduced the limited edition Shelby Dakota pickup. Production of this high performance pickup was limited to only 1,500 units, sporting 175 horsepower and 270 foot-pounds of torque. In order to get this much power under the hood, Dodge removed the 3.9-liter V6 and replaced it with a 318 cubic inch V8. The only colors available where white or red and were highlighted by blacked-out bumpers, grille, and Shelby graphics on the hood and sides of the truck. 0-60 times were commendable for the time at 8 seconds. The Shelby Dakota was Carroll Shelby's first rear wheel drive creation since the Mustang.
1979 - 1993 Ford Mustang
Debuting in 1979, Ford's Fox-body Mustang was a welcome change to the mediocre Mustang II it replaced. The new Mustang featured an aerodynamic wedge shape and featured a sloping hood and sculpted roofline. Engine choices ranged from an 88-hp 4-cylinder to a 5.0-liter V8 sporting 140 hp. Some of the more popular trims included the Ghia and the Cobra with its flashy hood graphics. A favorite among collectors is the Indy 500 Pace Car replica featuring a blacked-out grille, red and orange striping, and Recaro seats.
1983 - 1988 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS
Just like its Pontiac 2+2 sibling, the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS was created for NASCAR racing requirements. One of the last carbureted, rear-wheel-drive muscle cars left, the SS featured a unique front bumper, blackout grille, and rear spoiler. Early models were offered only in white and blue, but in 1985, black, maroon, and silver were added to the color palette. T-tops were also made available as an option in 1985. 1986 saw the introduction of the Aerocoupe, which featured sloped rear glass and a shorter trunk lid. Due to their limited numbers and 2-year only production run, these are sought out among collectors. 1988 was the last year of production. It would be over a decade before a Monte Carlo SS would return to the Chevrolet lineup.
1983 - 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Hurst/Olds
Following on the success of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS, Oldsmobile reintroduced the Hurst/Olds in 1983 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the original. Painted in silver and black with red stripes, the 442 also featured 15-inch wheels, eye catching hood bulge, and a rear spoiler. Power was supplied by a 307 cu-in engine pumping out 180 hp. The interior was classic Oldsmobile, with its plush seating and featured the 3-stick Hurst Lightning Rod shifter. 0 - 60 runs were pretty impressive for the time at about 8.5 seconds.
What it means to you: If you're searching for the '80s muscle car you didn't get back in the day, there are some good examples out there waiting for you.

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The EPOSbed™ project proposes to design and validate a specialty bed with an easy-to-use positioning that allows patients with limited mobility to change their position in bed without need of assistance from hospital personnel.
An actuator system will change the bed configuration in order to assist comfortable:
- lateral positioning,
- sitting / Fowler positions.
To facilitate that elderly people can use the assistive system, an intuitive user interface was implemented based on an intelligent sensing system that interprets the movement intended by the patient and automatically activate a servo-actuator system accordingly. This system avoids the need of the classical remote controllers and ensures the autonomy of elderly patients
The Market
Revenues in the hospital specialty beds market reached approximately €800 million in Europe in 2005, with an annual growth rate of 9% as a consequence of the population aging. Despite the existing mentioned strong demand for a system enabling patients improved mobility, there is not a satisfactory product in the market. The aim of this project is to enable European SMEs to either enter or strengthen their competitive positioning in the specialty bed market by working together with world class RTD performers in the development of new technology that fills unmet market needs.
The Eposbed Website has been made to inform the public about this project. The authors reserve the right not to be responsible for the completeness or correctness of the information provided on this Website. If you find information on this Website which is incorrect, please inform the webmaster, who will try to update the information as soon as possible.
The information on this Website does not necessarily represent the view of the European Commission (EC).


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Well, we're in a singles group, right? So here goes.
I am obviously an atheist, or I wouldn't be here. This particular group was appealing to me because I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, any lady lovin' lady I meet here will be an atheist like me, and she'll also be single. :)
So, I am 31, a recent graduate with an IT degree. I am a passionate writer, and that is how I am making my living until I find a job more in line with my field. I am a bleeding heart liberal, child free and planning to remain that way, and a fierce activist for the secular and LGBT rights causes.
I am a total geek, and I love to read. I'll literally read almost anything, so long as it's at least mildly interesting. I am also a social media addict, at least in the realm of utilizing those tools to promote causes I care about.
I am seeking someone similar. I am not terribly picky, just since she is an atheist(or some version of nontheist), child free, and out of the closet, I'm game. I am a fun, easy going, people loving girl! I like almost everyone, for real. So, if you're a single lady lovin' lady aged 28-45, hit me up. Even if we do not hit it off in a romantic way, I am sure we'll be great pals. This is just one picture, feel free to PM for more, or, if you're really cool, skype!
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Sounds good, except I fail the Y-chromosome test. ^.^
... and lives in the Seattle area.
Meh, location isn't a concern, if anything comes of it, I'll work that out.
Cool, Paul. Thanks for the tip.
We can still be friends, Orson! Message me anytime.
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After viewing most of the collections for the 2010 Fall / Winter season, I was left feeling….well…..a bit bored. Thank God Anna Sui woke me from my nap, she never fails to put on a fierce show! There is nothing I don't love about this particular collection…..fabulously bright colors….flattering cuts…..the trippy prints…..It's a psychedelic wonderland!
I had a hard time choosing just a few but here are some pics of my favorites!


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Quick trip to New Orleans
I took my first break from the farm to trek down to Jazz Fest in New Orleans this weekend. It was a combo trip: music festival with my husband Dave (a work trip for him), surprise birthday visit with my Dad (his big 60th is next weekend). Mom, sis, brother-in-law Brian and our best family friends, Carol & Jim Williams, joined the party, too. Dave and I got in on Thursday and hit up Lilette where I had my idea of the perfect dish - crispy fried Korabuta pork belly (each little package melted when I bit into it) tossed with pea shoots, melon wedges, cucumber bits, tarragon, mint, and fennel slices in one huge salad. It was that utterly addictive concoction of salty sweet with lots of acid -- brilliant since it paired this delicious but extra fatty piece of meat with all this light, spring freshness. We then traipsed over to the Howlin Wolf for some brass band music and Dave's favorite part of the night, the Lunchbox special (a shot a whiskey and a Miller Hi Life for $7). Two of those and we were good for the night.
Friday, after saying hi to my sis Shannon and her guy Brian, we made our way to the racetrack for the Jazz & Heritage Festival where a few of the bands Dave's agency represents were playing this weekend. We spent the day wandering between shows and hung out with the guys from the Benjy Davis Project for a bit before I finally dragged Dave over to the Jazz Fest Oyster Bar (it is, after all, a professional obligation).
We stood in line for a dozen, watching the shuckers rip through burlap bags of oysters. These were from Black Bay, an area where, like most of the Gulf, the oyster farms were almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. They've obviously had an incredible recovery and we were psyched to try out the Gulf flavor. A few major differences: they serve the oysters on what we would consider the top, or flat, shell instead of inside the cup. They also had a huge condiment bar with horseradish and hot sauce. All I wanted was a couple squirts of lemon for these bad boys, which were huge and stuffed with meat. My first bite yielded decent results: earthy, almost muddy flavor with some really good chew. But oysters 2 and 3, plus a few that Dave tried were, sadly, frozen almost completely solid.
Not pleasant...at all. We gave up after those first few, utterly disappointed, and made our way back out into the heat of the festival. I made up for it with a few really tasty fried oysters at Besh Steak later that night (after we surprised Dad and spent a little time on the casino floor).
Saturday gave me the chance to show off ICO oysters to the fam. I'd had 3 dozen shipped down to our hotel so we sat by the rooftop pool and Uncle Jim and I shucked them for the crew. Jim was actually the one who introduced me to oysters back in Spartanburg, SC. We met while living there in the 80s and spent the years as a family ever since. Carol reminded me that Spartanburg was where Jim first started shucking oysters at home; now it's one of his favorite holiday traditions (that, along with watching old classics like Holiday Inn every year). Jim, meanwhile, told endless stories, like trying to explain why he and my Dad once used a vice and a greasy screwdriver to open oysters ("Those suckers just wouldn't open") and how his brother Biff once jabbed himself with a shucking knife and passed out on the floor at the sight of blood. And then, almost immediately, he did it to himself. He was using this handy little tool Mom had smuggled over from Houston, but still managed to jab himself twice, drawing blood (and when Jim jabs, boy he does it with gusto).
After a few more shows and more fantastic food, I made my way back to Boston last night, hoping to get back as soon as humanly possible. If not for the oysters, than most definitely for the cochon, fried pork belly, boudin balls, and po boys. Between that and the company, it was an absolutely priceless trip.


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Reuters editor charged with hacking: I was fired
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A social media editor who has worked for two of the nation's largest news-gathering organizations is scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday to face charges that he conspired with hackers to deface the website of the Los Angeles Times.
The attorney for 26-year-old Matthew Keys said he will plead not guilty during the arraignment in Sacramento, his first court appearance since charges were filed last month.
On Monday, Keys said via his Twitter account that he had been fired by his most recent employer, the Reuters news agency. The federal charges stem from an incident that occurred before he was employed by the company.
Keys is charged with giving the hacking group Anonymous the log-in credentials to the computer system of The Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and other media properties.
He was fired by a Sacramento television station owned by Tribune two months before the Times' website was hacked.
The charging documents say a hacker identified as "Sharpie" used information Keys supplied in an Internet chat room to access the Times' web system and alter a headline on a December 2010 story. The headline was changed to read "Pressure builds in House to elect CHIPPY 1337," an apparent reference to another hacking group.
Keys, of Secaucus, N.J., said in a Facebook posting last month that he did not provide the log-in information.
He "absolutely, 100 percent ... denies these allegations," said Keys' Ventura-based attorney, Jay Leiderman. He said his client is not talking to reporters.
Prosecutors say Keys encouraged Anonymous members to hack into the Tribune's website and applauded their success.
"Anyone can use any nickname in any chat room at any time," Leiderman said. "If in fact those things were said, they were not said by him."
Keys is charged with two counts that each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison — transmitting and attempting to transmit information with the intent of damaging a protected computer. He faces a third count of conspiring to transmit that information, which carries a maximum sentence of five years.
Legal experts say Keys likely would spend far less time in prison if convicted, especially if he has no prior criminal history.
The indictment fed an ongoing debate over when an online prank becomes an Internet crime and whether the government is going too far in punishing the perpetrator.
The debate was sparked by the suicide in January of Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist who was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment as he awaited trial on allegations that he illegally downloaded millions of academic articles and helped post millions of court documents on the Internet.
Tribune employees spent 333 hours responding to the 2010 hacking that Keys is charged with orchestrating, costing the company of $17,650 in labor costs alone, according to an October 2012 search warrant affidavit filed by the FBI. The FBI searched Keys' three-bedroom, two bathroom apartment looking for computer equipment.
In the affidavit, FBI Special Agent Gabriel Andrews said there is probable cause to believe that Keys broke into the Tribune Media computer system after he was fired in October 2010 by the Tribune-owned FOX affiliate KTXL-TV in Sacramento. He stole an email list of FOX 40's customers, then "offered to sell this list to members of Anonymous," according to the affidavit.
"Keys also used this list to send spurious emails to FOX 40's customers and to disrupt the business operations of FOX 40," the affidavit said.
Leiderman, his attorney, denied the allegations.
The television station told the FBI that Keys also changed the passwords to the station's Twitter and Facebook accounts after he was fired. He deleted 6,000 followers from the station's Twitter account and posted news headlines from the station's competitors during the four days he had unauthorized control of the accounts, according to the affidavit.
Leiderman said that involved "a dispute over ownership" of personal accounts Keys had been using on behalf of the station.
Keys was not charged with any of the alleged incidents involving FOX 40. The station referred requests for comment to Tribune Corp. spokesman Gary Weitman, who declined comment.
Keys was working at Thomson Reuters Corp.'s New York office at the time the charges were announced and was suspended with pay. A company spokesman on Monday would not elaborate on why it no longer employed Keys, but the social media editor said in a Twitter posting that it was not because of the indictment.
Rather, Keys tweeted a copy of a "final written warning" he said he received from Reuters in October, which admonished him for unprofessional behavior after he mocked a Google executive from a fake Twitter account.
Keys said his union, the Newspaper Guild, would file a grievance on his behalf.


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(CNN) -- The cassette should have died. Instead, it's turning 50 in an atmosphere of celebration.
Whether it's Cassette Store Day, new releases or simply nostalgia, the old tape cartridge isn't going gently into a good night that's already swallowed Edison cylinders, 78 rpm discs, Betamaxes and DATs.
That doesn't surprise Dale Wiggins, U.S. head of research for Philips, the electronics and technology company that invented the cassette back in 1963. He reminds people that the cassette was created on the heels of reel-to-reel taping, a bulky technology that required a lot of manual effort.
"All of a sudden you get this small form that you just plug into a player and it automatically achieves everything that used to be so hard and so cumbersome," he says. "It really was a precursor to a lot of the innovations that we have today."
Opinion: Can cassettes be cool again?
The cassette actually made its debut a little more than 50 years ago, when the "compact cassette" tape and its player were introduced at a Berlin fair on August 30, 1963. But Philips dates the introduction to two weeks later -- September 13 -- when the format was launched in Amsterdam, the company's headquarters.
In the years since, the player and tape have seen highs and lows, from the 1980s ubiquity of personal players, boomboxes and mix tapes to its decline in the era of digital music and streaming radio. It's only in the past few years, with cassettes being seized upon by hipsters and metal bands, that it's entered a mild revival.
Mind you, not everybody is happy about this.
"Dear God, no," said commenter Patrick Butler on a Stereophile magazine article about Cassette Store Day. "I lived through cassettes once, and they sucked. But that's all we had. It was high school. Now it's just a bad joke."
Cassettes, which are inexpensive and easy to duplicate, remain popular around the world.
Cassettes, which are inexpensive and easy to duplicate, remain popular around the world.
Butler has a point.
Cassettes were originally invented for dictation, not high-fidelity music. And even with improvements over the years -- better magnetic oxides, Dolby noise reduction, high-quality tape players -- the medium was plagued by audio inconsistences, drop-outs and, for careless users, the dreaded tape snarl. (Get out your pencil and start spinning the spool -- it's going to be a long afternoon.)
Even Wiggins, who's 50 himself this year, admits that the cassette has its faults.
"My memory says it wasn't all that great," he chuckles.
But cassettes have also proved to be remarkably versatile, he says. You could record off the radio. You could share music with friends. You could make lovingly crafted mix tapes -- aural valentines -- for potential romantic partners.
Because Philips licensed the technology widely, it spread worldwide.
Today, the medium is prized for its low-fi capabilities and its ease of reproduction.
"It's still a common format for a lot of Middle Eastern, Indian and Asian street or folk music, too, because cassettes are so cheap to reproduce," record store owner Scott Seward told CNN.
Cassettes are even a fashion accessory. There are iPhone cases that look like cassettes, and one enterprising designer has woven ties out of old tape.
Philips' Wiggins adds that the ideas that company invested in cassette technology continue to be useful today. It's not just audio, either: One Philips technology, Magnotech, involves a medical diagnostic device that takes a small blood sample and, through magnetic nanoparticles, can determine markers.
"That's all based on the same magnetic principles that were used in that original cassette tape," he says.
Is the cassette boomlet peaking? That's anyone's guess. But, next year, there's another technology that's due to celebrate its golden anniversary. Maybe it's time to get ready.
Will anyone speak for the 8-track tape?


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The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
In fact, in the spiritual world, we change sexes every moment.I first tried to read The Story of an African Farm some years ago when I went on a Doris Lessing binge; I hadn't heard of the novel before reading Lessing's praise of it, and what she said intrigued me. But I went into The Story of an African Farm expecting it to be, well, a story, and it was soon apparent that, for all the book is, it is only "a story" in the loosest sense -- indeed, it's more accurate to say it is a book containing a lot of stories, but even that misses much of what is wonderful and unique in Olive Schreiner's creation.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
I object to anything that divides the two sexes ... human development has now reached a point at which sexual difference has become a thing of altogether minor importance. We make too much of it; we are men and women in the second place, human beings in the first.
--Olive Schreiner to Havelock Ellis, 19 Dec 1884 [quoted in Monsman]
The next time I thought about reading African Farm was when I first encountered J.M. Coetzee's White Writing, wherein Coetzee seems somewhat dismissive of the book, noting that it is a kind of fantasy because the reader gains almost no sense of how the farm in the novel is able to be sustained. I then assumed African Farm to be just another Africa-as-exotic-setting novel, something of historical interest perhaps, but not much more than that.
As I was first thinking about putting together a new version of my Outsider course, though, I came upon some references to Schreiner and this novel that piqued my interest and brought me back to it. I wanted some context to consider the book in, so I grabbed library copies of Olive Schreiner's Fiction: Landscape & Power by Gerald Monsman and Olive Schreiner by Ruth First and Ann Scott. These were extremely helpful, especially the Monsman, because he provides a valuable analysis of the book's structure, defending it from the many critics who have said that African Farm, whatever its virtues, is a failure as a novel. Monsman places the book within a tradition of philosophical novels such as those by Walter Pater and Thomas Carlyle, although Schreiner's book is, to my mind at least, more accessible and emotionally affecting than those. Nonetheless, they are important to mention in any defense of Schreiner, because it's too easy to assume a narrow definition of "the novel" and judge Schreiner a failure against it. She clearly wasn't trying to create a book to fit that definition.
Monsman notes that African Farm displays many narrative modes: dream, sermon, confession, polemic, allegory, song, letter, etc. This diversity of modes is stitched together through a careful, symmetrical pattern of events, imagery, ideas, and allusions -- what Monsman calls "an almost coldly rational design" (82). I'd strike the "almost". The cold, rational design of the book is one of its great strengths. That design is a solid structure to contain and harmonize a cacophony of elements, and its coldness mitigates the wild Romanticism and high passions of the characters. The ultimate effect is one of great contrast, suggesting a world that is too complex to be contained in any single mode. As Monsman says,
The text continuously turns back upon its events and images, contrasting and diversifying them, prohibiting definitive form. Its narrative web is undercut by chronological and scenic disruptions and juxtapositions that deliberately frustrate any attempt to fix a unilinear sequence of events, a rigid structure that encloses the story like a frame around a landscape painting. Schreiner's sense is that the "story" of her African farm is simply a fragment of a larger context of incident, one story behind another like the layers of a lily bulb. (91)The structural effect is necessary to the book's philosophical concerns, which are mostly questions of metaphysics and questions of power, particularly power as it relates to gender. The novel offers us caricatures of power in the figures of Bonaparte Blenkins and Tant' Sannie -- cruel, greedy, ignorant people; it offers caricatures of passivity and gentleness, too, especially in the character of Waldo's father, Gottlob, who is a kind of holy fool. Contrasted to these caricatures are more complex figures, the people to whom readers are encouraged to have at least some sympathy: Em, Waldo, Gregory Rose, and, especially, Lyndall -- except for Gregory, we meet each of them in childhood, and we watch the development of their lives and ideas. Waldo seeks a spiritual life beyond the Christianity he inherited, while Lyndall seeks a way of living as a full, free human being, a person unencumbered by gender roles or by the power of other people over her. Waldo and Lyndall are the fullest portraits in the novel (all the other characters could be seen as foils for them), and the sense of fullness comes from their complexity: these are not characters who can be summed up easily in a sentence or two, and both contain paradoxes in their personalities and actions. By the end of the book, the effect is surprisingly powerful -- because of the coldness of the structure and the intellectuality of so many of the passages, I did not expect to be so profoundly moved by the final chapters. It is one of the great accomplishments of The Story of an African Farm: a reader who engages with the ideas, who struggles through some of the dry philosophical passages, will be rewarded with final chapters of real intellectual and emotional power.
In The African Image, Es'kia Mphalele notes that The Story of an African Farm presents non-white African people primarily as part of the background landscape: "an organic part of the African setting: violate the black man, you violate the setting; respect the one, you respect the other." This is mostly true, and the language and attitudes of the characters are generally consistent with what we would expect of Victorian whites. What differentiates this book from so many not only of its time but after it is how a certain awareness of class is reflected in the portrayal of power relationships.
Olive Schreiner was not an aristocrat, and her perception of the Africa where she was born is a different perception than, for instance, the perception of someone like Karen Blixen, who, for all her remarkable empathy, brought her aristocratic assumptions to the continent and conceived herself as a benevolent goddess on a farm that existed because of the land-grabbing and punitive tax policies of the colonists. Schreiner's parents were missionaries whose lack of success got them assigned to ever more remote parts of southern Africa, where they often lived in abject poverty, and her father's trading led to him being kicked out of various missionary societies until he tried to become an entrepreneur and went bankrupt. Schreiner's experience of African farms was not an experience of her own family's farm, but of the farms where she worked as a governess or teacher, often in difficult and grueling circumstances.
Coetzee's criticism of the novel for not presenting a realistic economic portrait of farm life is a criticism that makes sense within the template he uses to discuss a wide range of novels by white writers about rural life in South Africa, but one that is useless outside such a context. Though Schreiner avowed that she was seeking a kind of realism (see her preface to the 2nd edition), her realism is a felt realism rather than a fact realism. Hers is a novel of perception, and the realities of how profit and loss are accounted on the farm are accounted outside the perceptions here. Farm life is not romanticized -- I'd be surprised if any reader closed the book and thought, "Oh, I wish I, too, once had a farm in Africa!" -- but farm life is also not chronicled here as it would be in an almanac or history. As Monsman notes, even the "facts" that appear in the book are sometimes contradicted elsewhere in it, preventing the reader from accessing any reality outside that perceived by the characters.
A tremendous influence on the young Olive Schreiner was Herbert Spencer's book First Principles, and the influence of Spencer is palpable throughout African Farm, though not for what he has generally been most known for (social darwinism). There are echoes of social evolutionist ideas in Schreiner's work, and particularly echoes of recapitulation theory, but the obvious and pervasive influence is Spencer's idea of The Unknowable. This influence is mixed with various Romantic and Transcendentalist ideas, especially Emerson's concept of Unity ("the Over-soul"). The Story of an African Farm was first published under the pseudonym "Ralph Iron", and main characters are named Waldo and Em -- the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson is not hidden. Ralph Iron, in fact, creates a unity of the two main strands of the novel represented by the characters of Waldo and Lyndall: Transcendentalist metaphysics and cold, hard, stubborn self-reliance.
One of the most amazing sections at the end of the book involves Gregory Rose's cross-dressing. Gregory is first given to us as a passionate, patriarchal character -- consumed with love for Em and utterly confident of the idea that women should be entirely subservient to men. At first, he finds Lyndall and her self-sufficiency abhorrent, but his abhorrence, it turns out, is the inverse of his attraction to her, which reveals itself to be even more powerful than his attraction to Em. His opinions of women's subservience also become inverted: his desire towards Lyndall is a desire to be a servant to her. What doesn't change is his sense of gender roles (it is perhaps his strict idea of gender propriety that leads him to see things only as binaries: male/female; master/servant), and so, in the end, when he finally tracks Lyndall down and wants to serve her as a nurse, the only way he can do this is to dress himself in Lyndall's mother's clothes -- he becomes not only Lyndall's servant, but a servant dressed in a nurturing and engendering disguise.
The effect is not at all grotesque. Gregory is accepted in his disguise, praised for his nurturing, and allowed to carry Lyndall into her last moments. The chapter is titled "Gregory's Womanhood" and Lyndall had, much earlier, when Gregory was in the midst of his full patriarchal fervor, perceived him as a woman:
"There," said Lyndall, "goes a true woman -- one born for the sphere that some women have to fill without being born for it. How happy he would be sewing frills into his little girl's frocks, and how pretty he would look sitting in a parlor, with a rough man making love to him!"The limitations imposed by gender roles, by men's and women's spheres, are obvious to Lyndall, who has struggled so much against the expectations placed upon her, and it is central to the book's exploration of power.
Earlier, when Waldo and Lyndall were reunited after Lyndall had been away for years at school, Lyndall had asked Waldo if he ever wished he were a woman. Waldo says no, and Lyndall accepts that, saying the only men who ever might have wanted to be women would be the lunatics on Robbin Island. "It is delightful to be a woman," she says, "but every man thanks the Lord devoutly that he isn't one." When Gregory Rose cross-dresses, though, and is accepted by society as a woman, he is not crazy -- he is, the reader is led to believe, for the first time truly sane, complete, and happy.
There is much more to the novel than I have written here, but I simply wanted to record some of its richness and wonder. I look forward to helping my students through it, for though it will require probably more help from me than any other book we read except Heart of Darkness (and, perhaps, even more than that), it is a book of such profound poetry and paradox that working through it with a group of people will be exciting.


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Former U.S. Congressman Bob McEwen urges students to vote on Godly principles
As disagreements about the contents of our nation's constitution began to swirl in 1787, Benjamin Franklin urged President George Washington and fellow members of the Constitutional Convention to pray before each meeting.
In his address Franklin stated, "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proof I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men."
Weeks after his speech, the nation's Founding Fathers wrote the United States Constitution, establishing justice and securing the blessings of liberty in America.
Former U.S. Congressman Bob McEwen addressed students during Monday's convocation, reminding them of the principles and values the country was founded upon. He also emphasized the importance of a Godly worldview over one based on man's standards and ideologies.
"The United States is a unique, special place because it understands that God is the source of our rights, McEwen said. "There are those who want to change our association, our tradition — our history that makes us. Then they want us to be just like any other country and when they do it — if they do it — there will be no other place for us to go."
While the country faces challenging economic times, the speaker pointed to the freedom and wealth Americans still have, stressing the necessity of protecting those qualities.
"Limited government gives us more freedom," McEwen stated. "Fewer taxes give us more freedom. A strong defense protects our freedom, and that's what government should do."
Before exiting the stage, the former congressman challenged students to preserve their God-given freedom by exercising their right to vote on Nov. 4.
"What you are about to do is very, very important," he said. "I know that you will choose the leadership for our country that understands that blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."
McEwen represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives for six terms. He is the senior advisor with the nationally recognized law firm of Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, maintaining offices in Cincinnati and Washington, D.C.


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TANZANIA. Last week, I was given the opportunity to train BRAC Tanzania staff on Kiva in Kibiti, which is located about 150 km outside of Dar es Salaam. Riding from the noisy, congested (yet still completely lovable) city to the luscious green countryside brought refreshment to my senses.
Kibiti is a small agricultural town on the way to one of the famous game parks in Tanzania, thus making it a popular stopping point for people passing through. The center of town is the highway, and life for its residents seems to revolve around what the highway brings and takes away.
The town has no electricity, although electric lines run right through the town toward another destination. I asked someone why Kibiti wasn't receiving any electricity from the lines, but the only answer I was given is that the government is still working on it. As a result of the lack of electricity (except for generator usage), the stars that night were indescribable.
I, along with the two BRAC staff who accompanied me, stayed that one night at the nicest guesthouse in town. A room cost 4,000 Tanzanian Shillings (about $3.50). The guesthouse even had running water and a generator which I was told runs after dark for 4 hours each night. I was surprised that night when the generator remained running past the 4 hour mark. Only afterward did I realize that they had kept it running just for me, the foreigner. As soon as the light in my room went off, the generator went off. In the morning, I asked the BRAC staff if it was normal for the generator to be on so late and was told no. I felt guilty because my stay probably cost them more in generator fuel than the $3.50 it had cost for the room. Once again, because of my skin color and Tanzania's value of gracious hospitality toward foreigners, I was given undeserved privilege.
The town had one main restaurant, where the customers pretty much have to order most items a day in advance. In the town, there were also the typical street cafes, where women sell plates of rice, beans, and stew. The BRAC staff and I sat at one of the street cafés for some after-dinner tea that night and found out that the seller had been one of BRAC's former clients. Last year, the woman had taken a 100,000 Tsh (about $90) loan from BRAC in order to buy more cups, plates, and food stock for her business. She had been able to pay back the loan, but in the end, it hadn't benefited her business that much because the demand for her food is so low in the town. She told us that the only way her business survives is by selling a plate of her food at 600 Tsh (about 55 cents) whereas the other places sell at 800 Tsh and above. Each night, she has her regular 12 customers– bachelors living in the town. Her daily profit is 3000 Tsh. She acknowledged that unless she upgrades her café by building a structure and providing seating, she will never be able to attract more customers. Although she has fear about whether or not she would be able to pay back another loan like the last one, she agreed that borrowing smaller loans could potentially help her business move slowly toward her dream. She seemed so happy to talk to us about her struggles and probably thankful that she had exceeded her 12 customer limit for the night. I too was thankful. Her ginger tea was delicious, and I was thankful that that night we were able to become a small part of her amazing story.


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Wake, Sleep, or Turn Off the iPad
The iPad can be turned on or off like any other electronic device. You can also put the iPad to sleep, and wake it when you need it again. Using Sleep mode (a state in which the screen goes black), saves precious battery life, and lets you run your iPad longer without plugging it in.
First, to power on the iPad, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on the top of the iPad until the Apple logo appears. While the iPad is on, it draws from its battery (unless it's plugged in, of course.)
To put the iPad temporarily to sleep, press the Sleep/Wake button. The iPad goes to sleep; the screen goes black and is locked.
If you bought a Smart Cover with your iPad, just fold the cover over the front of the screen and iPad goes to sleep; open the cover to wake up the iPad.
To wake the iPad back up, press the Home button or slide the Sleep/Wake slider. The iPad wakes up. Swipe the onscreen arrow on the Slide to Unlock bar on the bottom of the screen to unlock the iPad.
To turn off the iPad, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Slide to Power Off bar appears at the top of the screen, and then swipe the bar. The iPad powers down.
The iPad automatically enters sleep mode after a few minutes of inactivity. You can change the time interval at which it sleeps by adjusting the Auto-Lock feature in Settings.


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The MacPadd mousepad is a little matchy-matchy, but we can certainly appreciate the intent. Engineered entirely from anodized aluminum, the $25 MacPadd promises industrial durability, bacterial resistance, increased laser mouse precision and, of course, a complimentary style to your aluminum MacBook of choice. But for those who aren't excited over a mere metal mousepad, then consider this post the first official scoop of an ultra-thin MacBook with no screen, inputs or power source. Oooh! [MacPadd via TidBITS]
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October 24th might be the official day o' food, but really how can we restrict such a flurry of events to just one day? Check out FoodDay.org to find out about all the fun and informative food happenings occurring this week all around San Diego County (& the rest of the country). Some of the highlights include tours, cooking demos, and a kids scavenger hunt at the SD Public Market; tasty fundraisers at local restaurants to support Food Day activities at elementary schools; and tours and special events at local farms such as Olivewood Gardens and Seeds@City Urban Farm.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern women's basketball team held off a late-game surge from Mobile to win 58-56 Tuesday evening in the Panthers' home opener in Bill Battle Coliseum.
The Panthers move to 1-2, while the Rams fall to 3-4.
BSC jumped out to an 8-0 lead to start the game and led for the entire first half, going up by as much as 10, 12-2, at the 11:04 mark. Mobile came back to cut the lead to two, 22-20, with 1:58 left in the half, but the Panthers used a 7-2 run in the final 1:16 to go back up by seven, 29-22, by halftime.
The Panthers built their lead back up to 11, 38-27, by the 15:55 mark of the second half, and led 42-35 with 10:59 left to play. But the Rams scored eight unanswered points after that to take their first lead of the game, 42-43, with 9:35 left.
The teams traded points after that, playing to two ties before Mobile took back the lead, 49-47, at the 6:26 mark. The Rams went up by four, 51-47, after that, their largest lead of the game, but the Panthers were able to tie it up 51-51 at the 4:10 mark. The teams traded baskets, with Mobile pulling ahead and BSC tying it back up 53-53, after which the Rams went up by three with only 39 seconds left in the game. BSC senior Melanie Short made a layup and was fouled with 15 seconds left, but missed the free throw, allowing Mobile to maintain a 56-55 lead. The Rams then missed the front end of a one-and-one with 11 seconds left, and BSC senior Alex Adams pulled down the rebound. A long pass from senior Caroline King found senior Erin Moore under the basket, who made the layup, putting BSC up 57-56, and was fouled with three seconds left in the game. She made the free throw to give the Panthers a two-point lead, and Mobile was unable to get a shot off before time expired in the game.
Short led BSC with 18 points on 8-10 shooting, and led all players with 10 rebounds. Moore scored 15 points on 5-7 shooting, and King had 10 points. Adams led with four assists.
Deonica McCormick led Mobile with 18 points, four rebounds, and six steals, followed by Briana Edwards with 14 points and a team-high five rebounds.
BSC out-shot Mobile from the field, hitting 23-46 (.500), and from three-point range, sinking 4-16 (.250). Mobile shot 22-67 (.328) overall and 1-6 (.167) from beyond the arc. The Rams were more efficient at the free throw line, however, going 11-13 (.846), while the Panthers were 8-12 (.667).
BSC struggled with turnovers, giving the ball up 34 times, but out-rebounded Mobile 46-27. The Rams turned it over 12 times.
The Panthers are back on action on Monday, Nov. 26, traveling to face Maryville College at 6 p.m. Eastern. BSC returns home on Friday, Nov. 30, to take on Emory at 6 p.m. in Bill Battle Coliseum.


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You make maintenance decisions about things such as:
- Components: Clean, adjust, repair, replace — how do you know when to do what? Doing these activities when unnecessary means incurring unnecessary costs. Not doing them when necessary incurs unnecessary risk.
- Equipment. Is equipment reaching the end of its cost-effective service life? What about controls, instrumentation, lubrication systems, and other "peripherals?"
- Infrastructure. Do you need to upgrade, replace, or maintain your power distribution and communications infrastructure? What about production systems infrastructure (e.g., air compressors, HVAC, chilled water)?
Only with proper testing can you make the correct decisions. The above examples share the goal of cost control. However, here are some that do not:
- Replace feeder cables?
- Replace service drops (or laterals)?
- Take that 1,500kVA service transformer offline for maintenance now or during the next planned outage?
You can't routinely replace these items "just in case." However, failure to replace them when needed can prove catastrophic. A "catastrophic" event is one you can't recover from. Game over.
Do you have the expertise to properly conduct the tests needed to make good maintenance decisions? We'll explore this question in Part 2.
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Student blends philosophy studies, modeling career
August 09, 2012
Isaac Ekblad '13 was sitting in a local coffee shop, cramming for a test when he was "discovered."
At the time, Ekblad declined the invitation to become a model. But now, three years later, he's flying high for fashion house Givenchy while staying grounded as a philosophy major at Lewis & Clark.
In a conversation with New York Magazine, Ekblad proves that models can be both smart and centered. He's currently reading The New Jim Crow and cites The Brothers Karamazov as a favorite. Says Ekblad, "[Dostoyevsky's] books…really plumb the heart and depths of the human soul. He develops characters that you can really imagine."
When asked if he's "too smart to model," Ekblad is quick to defend his colleagues. "Really, modeling, I don't think it's super easy. You have to learn what you look like in front of the camera, how the light hits your face, what your features are. But no, guys like [my friend and fellow model] Hampus Lück, they read a lot. The ones who do well are the ones you see sitting in the corner, reading, focused. We go out to the club, and then we talk about existentialism."
Ekblad plans to return to Lewis & Clark this fall and to attend law school or graduate school for a Ph.D. in philosophy after graduating.
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Fresh and Light Roasted Corn and Shrimp Salsa
Roasted corn, shrimp, bell pepper, and sweet onion make a chunky, flavorful, salsa to eat by the spoonful (when no one's looking). You won't find this yummy salsa on a grocery store shelf!
Roasted Corn and Shrimp Salsa
Prep time: 30 minutes
Yield: About 3 cups dip; 8 servings
3/4 cup frozen corn or 2 cobs of cooked corn
1/4 cup diced green bell pepper
Vegetable cooking spray
3/4 cup seeded, finely chopped ripe tomatoes
1/4 cup minced Vidalia onion
1-1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
1/8 teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons honey
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 cup chopped precooked shrimp
Preheat oven to 400°F. Put the corn and the diced peppers on the cookie sheet and spread evenly. Spray lightly with vegetable cooking spray.
If you're using fresh ears of corn, carefully scrape the corn from the ears using a mandolin or paring knife, and then spread on the cookie sheet.
Place in the oven and roast for 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
Combine the tomatoes, onion, cilantro, sea salt, honey, olive oil, and lime juice in a small bowl, tossing together lightly to combine.
Place the shrimp in a medium bowl. Add the tomato mixture and the roasted corn and peppers, and stir to combine. Transfer to a serving bowl and refrigerate for at least an hour to meld the flavors.
Per serving: Calories 86 (From Fat 18); Fat 2g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 55mg; Sodium 101mg; Carbohydrate 10g (Dietary Fiber 1g); Protein 7g; Potassium 210mg.


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This past March, the Department of Homeland Security posted its Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) for the implementation of the Real ID Act of 2005. The NPRM has been open to the public for comments, but that comments period is slated to end on May 8. If you're concerned about the implications of a national ID card and a national database with tons of your sensitive data in it, and you'd like to join the growing revolt against the Act by an ideologically diverse array of states and citizens' groups, then you can find instructions and aids for submitting your comments to DHS at the following links:
- The Privacy Coalition
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Privacy Activism
At least one of the links provides a sample letter that you can modify and submit, but if you really want your voice heard then it's best to write some comments from scratch. It took me less than five minutes to put together a quick, two-paragraph e-mail to Congress and DHS based on the talking points given at the above links, so I urge you to do the same.
Now, none of the links above make clear what this round of comments is about, and if you've been following Real ID you may be thinking, "Didn't this already pass... what's this about 'stopping' it?" To understand what the NPRM is about, and what you can do to stop Real ID, you need a bit of historical context.
Congress passed the Real ID Act back in 2005 by burying it so deep within a "must-pass" military appropriations bill that it wasn't discovered by privacy advocates until just a few days before the bill came up for a vote. With such short notice, there wasn't time to rally enough opposition to the Act to get it stripped from the bill—and that's in spite of the fact that it contained an unprecedented and supremely odd "Trojan horse" type A3S2 provision that apparently guts judicial review for a really obscure reason.
The states have pushed back against Real ID, because many of them simply don't have the money to comply with the Act's requirements by the proposed deadlines. Meanwhile, DHS has submitted a proposal for public comment that outlines how the agency plans to actually implement the Act's legislative requirements. The rules laid out in this NPRM document are designed to be followed by DHS and the states, in order to bring them into compliance with the Act. This NPRM is what must be commented on by the public before May 8.
In writing to oppose the Real ID Act, you'll be joining a broad-based coalition that includes organizations from across the entire political spectrum... except for the NRA, an organization of which I used to be a card-carrying member. (Literally, I had one in my wallet, and in my first year at Harvard Divinity School I used to delight in freaking out the Unitarians with it.)
A look through the NRA's site turned up a lengthy argument against the proposed inclusion of polar bears on the endangered species list—an issue that has to do with global warming but not guns or "freedom"—but no mention of Real ID anywhere. Google couldn't help either. This is especially odd, given that Democratic minority at the time of the Act's passage added language to the bill that would explicitly prevent Real ID's provisions from being used to create a national database of gun owners, language that was then struck down by the majority in a party line vote. I'm totally compelled to point out this bizarre episode at every opportunity, because in the NRA mythology on which I was raised, a national gun database is the first horseman of the black-helicopter apocalypse. First, they make us all register our guns... then, they come and take them away. See this quote by former NRA president Marion Hammer, for instance.
Actually, I did find a 2002 speech in which the NRA's CEO, Wayne LaPierre, stated his opposition to a national ID card scheme that involves DNA sequences, ATM withdrawal histories, credit history, turnpike use, movie rentals, pharmacy prescriptions, phone records, etc. all encoded into a hologram. This is super scary—especially the hologram part—but it's not Real ID. But all kookiness aside, it's worth taking a closer look at the national ID and citizen database objections to Real ID, and at DHS' attempts to evade criticism on this front.
DHS either doesn't understand databases, or they think that we don't
One of the most important criticisms of Real ID is that it will create a national ID card that's backed by a national citizen database containing all sorts of info that identity thieves, some of whom may even manage to score a job at a DMV, would love to get their hands on. But DHS explicitly denies that Real ID will be either a national ID card or that it will result in "a national database of driver information." Indeed, this denial is repeated multiple times in the NPRM document.
I want to zero in specifically on the "national database" portion of the problem, because DHS's insistence that Real ID doesn't create a national database hinges on a somewhat lawyerly definition of the term "database."
In reading through the NPRM, especially section II.E.6 and following, it becomes clear that DHS has bent over backwards to avoid the creation of a single, federally maintained database of DMV data, while still providing all of the functionality of such a database (with none of the potential security advantages that you'd get from centralization). In lieu of such a centralized, federally maintained database, they've created a set of carefully crafted rules and standards that would have the effect of creating a national DMV database, but this database will be distributed, and it will be built and maintained by the states. Different states will have different levels of security for who can access this distributed database, with DMV personnel screening requirements and actual technological implementations differing from state to state.
What do I mean by a "distributed database"? First, all the state DMV databases, which are implemented variously, will be linked together, so that they can talk both to each other and to the federal databases to which they already have some amount of access. Then, DHS will support the development of a "federated query service" that each state DMV can use to pull data from all state DMVs and federal databases with a single query.
Now, notice the sleight of hand here: DHS won't be developing this federated query service itself—that's the states' job. DHS also will not operate this service, nor will the agency require that states use it. The states run the service in their DMVs, and one state can still query another state's database directly, if it chooses.
The end result of the Real ID Act's database connectivity requirements and the federated query service is that someone sitting in a DMV can use a single query to pull a citizen's data from all state DMVs and federal databases. This is functionally a national citizen database, even if citizens' data is physically spread out over multiple records in multiple databases at multiple sites with multiple levels of access control, logging, and oversight. So like I said above: all of the functionality of a centralized database, but with none of the attendant security, oversight, and auditing benefits of a single, locked-down implementation.
Ultimately, DHS's objection that Real ID does not create a "national database" is only sustainable using a narrow definition of "database." But if by "database" you mean, "I can write one query to pull data from multiple records," then the Act and DHS's proposed interpretation of it will indeed create a "national database." With the NPRM, DHS has taken the already terrible idea of a national citizen database, and then made it infinitely worse in the name of appeasing privacy advocates.


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Do you like it quick? Do you like it easy? I do!
So when I saw SANA's Covercom SPF 50 Foundation in a stick, I had to buy it:
I really like a lot of SANA's products – they are like a Benefit of Japanese products, coming up with interesting and innovative beauty products. Here is my stick:
Is it any good? Find out after da jump!
So this product is a foundation comes which is quick swivel up stick – its supposed to be quick and easy to apply! Check out the quick use guide:
This foundation comes with SPF 50 which is very high of course – instant protection from the sun and the texture is quite soft and creamy without being too greasy:
This foundation only comes in 2 shades, 01 and 02 – I went for 02 as I have a warm medium skin tone and it blends in fine with me – perhaps a tad light for NC35 skin. But its fine:
Its also quite long lasting to be honest but I would still suggest a dusting of powder to make it set – on oilier skins this may feel a little greasy.
The coverage is medium, buildable for sure and can be used as a concealer if necessary.
I paid about $15 for this on eBay and I do like it a lot certainly for quick touchups and it works for both concealing and as a base. However, it is a little bit to light (Japanese brands don't tend to go to dark generally) which makes me cautious about just slapping it on all over.
If you have lighter skin than me and especially drier skin and want medium coverage, this really would be a dream in stick! (eBay seller: Singing_pierre_shop).


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Home > Patients & Visitors > Health Library > Childbirth: Perineal Massage Before Labor
In women, the perineum is the muscle and tissue between the anus and the vulva. During childbirth, the perineum stretches and sometimes tears. One way to help prevent tearing is to stretch and massage the perineum for a few weeks before your due date.
Studies show that women who did regular perineal massage reported less perineal pain in the weeks after childbirth. Women having their first vaginal delivery also had lower rates of episiotomy.footnote 1
Starting at week 34 of your pregnancy, take about 5 minutes to massage your perineum, three to four times a week. The goal is to get the muscle and tissue used to stretching. At first, it may burn and feel uncomfortable. But this will get better after a few massage sessions.
Beckmann MM, Stock OM (2013). Antenatal perineal massage for reducing perineal trauma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4).
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Tipps der Redaktion aus dem Nachrichtenportal
The European Union has removed eight countries - including Panama, the United Arab Emirates and South Korea - from its 17-country blacklist of international tax havens, just seven weeks after the list was compiled. Brussels (dpa) - The eight
French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday his government planned to bring forward a law to help limit the impact of fake news on future election campaigns. Paris (dpa) - Macron told journalists gathered for a New Year's message in the
Democratic lawmakers are to question US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday about his past statements on communication between President Donald Trump's electoral campaign and Russia. Washington (dpa) - Sessions is to appear at a routine
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Catalan President Carles Puigdemont were holding separate meetings Monday as the crisis triggered by an unauthorized Catalan independence referendum marred by violence unfolded. Barcelona (dpa) - Rajoy started
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a second, undisclosed meeting during the G20 summit in Hamburg, news reports said Tuesday. Washington (dpa) - The second meeting lasted about one hour and took place after the more
Six Balkan nations - not necessarily with a strong track record of collaborating - will come together for a summit on Wednesday to exchange ideas about how to cooperate and build ties in their region, according to the European Union. Belgrade (dpa) -
Tipps der Redaktion aus dem Reiseportal
Pyeongchang, South Korea (dpa) - Norway's Marit Bjoergen wins the 30-kilometres cross country ski race to become the best decorated Winter Olympian of a all time with eight gold, four silver and three bronze.
Pyeongchang, South Korea (dpa) - China highlighted that construction for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is in full swing while trying to defuse questions on the sensitive issue of artificial snow-making at the ski venues.Organizing committee BOCOG
Berlin (dpa) - Figure skating events at the Pyeongchang Olympics, with day and time (in GMT), 2014 champions and athletes to watch.Monday, February 12, 0100: team event (Russia) Thursday, February 15, 0130: pairs (Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov,
Seoul (dpa) - An overview of venues to be used to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in 2018.Pyeongchang Mountain ClusterLocated around 180 kilometres east of Seoul in the Gangwon province. Here there is the 35,000-capacity Olympic stadium for the
Frankfurt (dpa) - Germany will be unable to host an Olympic Games inside the next decade but the subject will not remain closed, a leading official has said."The overall topic of a potential bid has rather a mid- or long-term character," German
Pyeongchang, South Korea (dpa) - The International Olympic Committee advanced plans on Thursday to set up an independent anti-doping testing system following the drugs scandal in Russian sports.The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is also set to


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- Android
Game Cheats:
Everything unlocked
The following is required for this trick: A fully rooted Android phone or tablet; A file manager capable of accessing the root files (for example, Root Explorer); an internet connection on the phone (either 3G or WiFi) to connect to Com2Us Versus Server; and v1.4.0 of Homerun Battle 3D. Using Root Explorer, backup the "jesus.dat" file located in the root files on your phone at "/data/data/com.com2us.HB3D/" by copying it and pasting it somewhere on your SD card. This must be done in the vent you decide to restore your saved game back to the original. Go into your game and use all of your Gold Balls to purchase anything that you do not have yet. Log on to the Matchup Server and log into any Channel. Note: With v1.4.0, this step saves your items that you have onto Com2Us servers. While you are in the channel, save at least 20 rivals onto your rival list to get an extra 500 Gold Balls each time you reset (as explained later). Shut down the game. Now that all your items are saved on Com2Us's server, use your Root Explorer to delete your "jesus.dat" file. Go back into your Homerun Battle 3D game. Go through the tutorials as you did when you first installed the game. When you are on the home screen of the video game, tap "Rank" and let it connect to the server. This step is very important, because it loads your nickname and some of your stats which gives you achievement rewards on the next step. Select "Play", and "Log onto the Matchup Server", and log into any channel. Once it loads, you will receive some Gold Balls ranging from 1,000 to over 3,000 depending on your previous achievements and online matchup records. This is why you should have at least 20 rivals saved, in order to get the "Celebrity" achievement. This step also unlocks all of your gears that you have previously owned. Log off the server. With the Gold Balls you have just received, purchase any equipment that you do not have. You can still have Gold Balls remaining. After you have used up the Gold Balls on your new equipment, once again log onto the matchup server and log into any channel. This saves your gear onto Com2Us's server. Exit the game and repeat the steps from deleting the "jesus.dat" file until you have everything. Note: You may not have enough to buy the more expensive items, depending on your previous achievements, but all you have to do is get some easy achievements done. Remember to log into a matchup channel to save your items. If you are starting out fresh, with no achievements, you must play the game a little bit and receive a few achievements before you be able to do this. The best achievements to get are the ones that you receive through online matchups, because these are mainly the ones that are saved onto Com2Us's servers. This also is useful if you want to change your nickname at no cost.


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Girl Who Defied Taliban Makes Top 10 Most Admired List
(NEW YORK) -- The results are in and America has spoken: Malala Yousafzai is among the top 10 most admired women of 2012.
The fifteen-year-old Pakistani teenager became an international symbol after she was shot by the Taliban in October for arguing that girls should receive an education.
Yousafzai ranked number six in the annual survey, compiled by USA Today and Gallup, behind Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, who's been number one a record 17 times.
The most admired man of 2012 was President Barack Obama.
USA Today and Gallup posed the open-ended question in a Dec. 19-22 survey, asking 1,038 American adults to say who they'd nominate for most admired man or woman of 2012, living in any part of the world.
Clinton has been the most admired woman for the past 11 years. Obama has been named the most admired man five years running now.
Following a close second after Obama was Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa.
Rounding out the top are Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee who lost to Obama in November, the Rev. Billy Graham, former president George W. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI.
Although he's never clinched the top spot, Graham has been included in the top 10 most admired men a record 56 times.
For the most admired women, the top three choices following Clinton are all African-American. At number two is first lady Michelle Obama, followed by talk show host Oprah Winfrey and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Other women on the list include Sarah Palin, Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher.
Each year the ratings are based on total mentions.
Gallup first asked Americans what man they most admired back in 1946. The question was opened up to include women in 1948.
Copyright 2012 ABC News Radio


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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 47
Punching —Sorting—Tabulating Machines
T H E R E is no problem in connection with
the use of office appliances that will so
test the ingenuity of an accountant as the
problem of arranging work to be applied to
this type of machine.
The fundamental principle on which the
method is based is classifying by numbers.
For illustration, main classes are numbered
ranging from 00-09 to 90-99. Classes requiring
them are sub-divided into ten divisions
each, viz., 001 to 009, and each of
the divisions into sections, viz., 0001 to


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The two new mommas to be that I had the honor of photographing back in August in this post have had their babies. It's been a tense two weeks praying for both of them and trying to get updates. One birth went pretty much exactly as planned, the other had some disappointing challenges but both babies are here and healthy.
Thinking of these two new mommies, I've been thinking about the 6 births that I have given...have I scrapbooked them...well, yes at least five of them but only from a storytelling perspective for the child's benefit. To births were extremely difficult, one I did write out in long hand for therapeutic purposes, but I'm not sure where it is. I guess this is something I should put on my to do list...someone in my future may care about my birthing/motherhood thoughts.
Here are my thoughts on a layout I prepared for an article I wrote a few years ago. It's still one of my favorites and one of the very few 100% digital pages I've done.


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You have made the right choice in choosing Loyola. Now make Loyola your home. Over 60% of your time in college will be outside of the classroom—and we have several beginning traditions to experience all of the co-curriculars Loyola has to offer. Every first-year student is greeted by the Vice President of Student Development and welcomed into Convocation. Welcome Week is your chance to explore, build relationships, and have fun. Jesuit Fest continues the introductions with a chance to meet Jesuit priests and brothers on campus as they host a night of food, fun, and games.
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At Loyola, we value "cura personalis" — care of the whole person. We firmly believe that part of Loyola's promise to prepare people to lead extraordinary lives requires us to truly be a home for all our students - embracing all races, sexes, gender identities, religions, ethnic backgrounds, socio-economic classes, sexual orientations, and abilities. Our Department of Diversity & Multicultural Affairs (SDMA) provides a variety of programs and educational opportunities to promote diversity and cultivate a critically thinking, supportive community in the Jesuit tradition.
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Fraternity and Sorority organizations offer you an opportunity to enhance university life in a unique environment. Fraternities and sororities promote and value scholarship, leadership, brotherhood/sisterhood, social advancement, service, and diversity. Loyola currently has 17 social Greek organizations with over 500 members.
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There are a variety of leadership opportunities at Loyola, including (but not limited to) involvement in student organizations, community service, and leadership positions (such as serving as a Resident Assistant or a senator in the Student Government of Loyola Chicago). The first place to start on your leadership journey is Student Leadership Development (SLD). SLD provides students with opportunities to enhance their leadership capacity and efficacy while taking part in programs that help students build networks and have fun!
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The heart of Jesuit education is transforming ourselves into being "leaders-in-service." At Loyola, you will find that every department integrates service and justice into its programs - providing all students to live out Loyola's character of being "men and women for others." Campus Ministry and the Center for Community Service and Action are your first stops in getting engaged in service and justice. From spring/summer/winter break service trips (called Alternative Break Immersions—or ABIs) to community services to Hunger Week, you can get involved today in making the world a better place.
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Loyola is home to more than 175 student organizations divided into 9 groups: academic/honorary, club sports, cultural/ethnic, Greek, hobby/special interest, media, political/social issues, service/spiritual, and student governments/program boards. These groups are open to you and offer a number of opportunities for you to explore new and old interests, build relationships, develop leadership skills and just have fun.


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Lynne Bradley, Carrie Lowe, John Windhausen and Mark Bard met with Ellen Blackler, Executive Director (Regulatory Planning and Policy), Carol W. Wilner, Assistant Vice President (Federal Relations), and Brent M. Olson, Assistant Vice President (Regulatory Policy) over at AT&T.
Information on States
Wisconsin-Badgernet could be a model for deploying broadband.
Texas-Requires discounts be given to libraries (5% above cost) for telecomm.
California-Has a discount program, but is burdensome for telcos to get money out of it.
Michigan-#1 ranked for technology (some thought it was because of the right of ways
Ellen from AT&T thought that aggregation of demand for libraries in the stae is a good option to pursue. Several states will figure out how much it costs to connect each library, averages teh result and that is what everyone pays. She thought this was a model of how the low cost connected can subsidize the high cost connections.
Simplification of E-Rate (supports ALA stance :)
Examine how the Rural Healthcare networks are being set up. Apparently, USAC is soliciting bids from companies for them to bid to build networks to connect rural health care providers.
Does not recommend having states build the networks. Rather, they think that the states should solicit bids to have networks built to the private sector.
They do not recommend running a broadband program out of USAC. Rather, they think a new system should be created.
Instead of solving the entire problem at once, it was recommended that the broadband problem (both for libraries and the public be solved piece by piece because there is no one size fits all.
All solutions should be technologically neutral. Again, there kis no one size fits all for every location.
Next states to be have video franchsing can include Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia.
Recommended Contacts
Rob Atkinson has a reports on states and technology.
One Economy has done some great work on broadband deployment to the home. Perhaps we should partner with them to discuss strategy. Note: Jill Nishi from Gates has recommended this as well.


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Dave (channel)
"I'm in Heaven!"
Dave is, by no doubt the best channel known to man started in the magical hidden valley behind the Hard Knock Pass near Boot, Cumbria in ancient times by the wizard Gandalf.
In 1945, scientists working on the British radar project detected an unknown signal coming from Cumbria, the signal was decoded as some from of radio waves unknown at the time. They never found out exactly where the signal came from nor what exactly it was.
In 1955, a linguist named David Davidson recorded a sound recording of Andrew Sheppard the last fluent speaker of Cumberlandic, thought to be the first, and therefore oldest language in the British Isles. What he wanted recorded first was a poem that, on his grandfather's death bed, he promised to record. This is a transcript that was recorded.
|Ni ørr øim ee yore
É G'Yar seef soilef Tétha Top Gear za QI za Téthen qa har.
|In old times of yore
a great vision appeared. Showing Top Gear and QI and shows we love(ed)
These two events seemed totally separate until the year 1990, when developers in a project to create a way to send digital video and audio images found out they could pick up an unknown channel. They nick named the signal and the channel 'Dave' after one of the cleaners at the labs.
In the year 2005 Ofcom (the UK's version of the American FCC) certified it safe for general broadcast and released it to the public as a new channel.
It is still a mystery how they managed to get episodes of shows 4,000 years before they are actually recorded.
Shows on Dave[edit]
- QI - The only show that makes you smarter as you watch it.
- Top Gear - Three alpha males smashing ridiculously expensive cars.
- Mock the week - Also known as Frankie Boyle's laughter hour.
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks - A gameshow involving flying Bee-Penis Hybrids.
- Red Dwarf - Smegheads in space.
- Have I Got News For You - A panel show that has been running for about five hundred davezillion years.
- The Young ones - A sitcom in which four university students smash things with their heads, a possible forerunner to Jackass.
- Generic BBC 3 sketch shows everyone has forgotten about.
Arguemental is a self made show by Dave that first appeared in 2008.
Arguemental is a show in which two grown men Quibble over inane matters (No they aren't inane they are very very important issues I'll have you know). Many of these pointless issues include Public transport (A very important issue indeed), computers (a vital thing in a modern world) and politics (Extremely important).
Look can you stop talking over me? (No, I feel that people need to hear another opinion). Well that's what you do on the show you mustachio'ed fool! (MUSTACHIO'ED?! THAT'S IT).
Now that my mustachio'd idiot of a co host is incapacitated... (He's tied me to a god dammed chair!) Two teams the reds and the blues are given an argument to put forward, the person who the audience thinks makes the best argument wins the round. (Though the wisdom of the crowd is not always the best.) SHUT IT ALL READY! The group who wins the most rounds wins the game.
The Chocolate riots of 2008.[edit]
During a filming of Arguemental on the 31/5/2008, a fight broke out over what was better, Calling Snickers by its old name 'Marathon' or using its current name 'Snickers'.
One of the co-hosts 'Marcus Bridgestock' remarked that the name snickers rhymed with 'Nickers'. At this point an unknown person shouted 'YOU ARE A PAIR OF NICKERS!' At which point a fight broke out between Bridgestock and Dave Gorman. The fight soon spread to the rest of the studio and at one point an unknown woman gabbed the camera and said these immortal words:
At that point an estimated 150,000 people took to the streets attacking shops that sold snickers bars and anyone found in possession of them. Meanwhile, another estimated 150,000 people in support of the name snickers took to the streets and attacked those who preferred the name marathon. Riots broke out in six cities in the UK that lasted 2 weeks non stop in rolling street battles. This came to be known as the night of the Crushed nuts.
The Aftermath[edit]
- To this day there are still hate crimes between the two groups.
- Communities have polarized to form mainly Snickerite areas and Predominantly Marathonite areas to the point 'Peace walls' have been installed to keep the two apart.
- Marathonite marches happen regularly. Often those who take part in these marches sing inflammatory songs and carry banners with the Marathon packaging on them.
- There has been a scandal when an Unnamed US senator had been found giving donations to Marathonite groups known for violence.
- Several plays have been written on the events of the 31/5/2008. The most famous being 'The Nuts and the Nougat', about a family where the mother was a Marathonite and the father a Snickerite.
Dave's idents seem to involve a load of hip eccentrics frolicking around a country house, an image thought to be from a dimension similar, yet different to our own.
Nobody knows where the country house is or whether it exists in this world. The contenders in this world is thought to be either Wrotham Park or Niddrie castle (in ruins in this world) in Broxburn near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Problems faced in our understanding of physics[edit]
How shows were being shown 4,000 years ago is still mystery to science.
For one, it breaks the laws of science. Electro-magnetic and digital signals cannot travel through time.
For two, how did people 4,000 years ago develop technology to view (according to the seemingly ancient poem) a channel that could only be viewed with modern technology.
For three: Why is it so bloody good?