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Beams of yellowed light break through the hazy, morning mist, dissolving the cloud cover. The sun begins its ascent over the nearby mountain ridges. A calm wind rustles the fronds of a dozen palm trees that line a driveway leading up into the green groves. Rooster crows resound through the leaves, perched and at-home in the branches of elfin persimmon trees. Cows moo from their grassy meadows and baby goats chortle and romp about their mother's feet. Smiles spread across the faces of two young girls, each of their hands occupied at filling their pails with creamy milk. A waterfall splashes over rocks into a small pond with fish and ducks and turtles.
A youth with blonde hair and earmuffs pushes a lawnmower along through the grass, his lips mouthing the words of a song. Four children and their teacher sit beneath the shade of a mulberry tree and take turns reading from a book. Dishes clack and tinkle through the big windows into the kitchen. Back at the laundry lines a dark-skinned 3 year-old strains to keep his hand in the air as he hands his mother a clothespin.
A gentle breeze blows westward, from the
garden, through hundreds of grapefruit trees and carries across the
pond. An orange tractor rumbles along, plowing up the dark, moist soil.
Hoes rise and fall to the earth. Outside the green house two thoughtful,
sun-hatted men nod to one another and gesture towards an unsown patch.
Bees send their gleeful buzzes up through the air, where beyond the
garden the terrain rises upward into a thicket of trees. From them hang
thousands of green gems-avocados, twinkling and bouncing in the breeze.
Looking down from atop the avocado mountain, the whole world seems to slow down. The front gate stands wide open, fixed and determined to welcome all who might discover this special place...
This is a small window into our life here at the Morning Star Ranch. We are a community in the true sense of the word, families and single people who live together in common unity. We are people from all walks of life who have left everything else behind to follow the Messiah, being brought together in a common faith. Patterned after the life of the first believers in Acts 2, we are a commonwealth, sharing our income, our work, our mealtimes and our common culture, as well as a common salvation. We gather each morning and evening to give thanks and praise to our Creator for giving us this life. Then during the day we work together, building truly sustainable relationships with one another, as we obey the gospel of the kingdom, laying down our lives each day for those around us, bringing our children alongside of us in our faith.
We enjoy frequent visits from guests whom we meet through our farmstand &Yellow Deli, the many farmer's markets we attend, our website, and our freepapers. We are currently accepting WWOOFers (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) where guests can stay for a time, helping out on the farm in exchange for room and board. So far we've had helpers from France, Italy, England, China, Japan, Canada, as well as other states inside the US. If you live close or you'd like to get to know us, every Friday night we host a festive celebration for the Sabbath, usually beginning at 6:00, which includes a gathering of song, dance, and thanksgiving, followed by a home-cooked meal and more celebration. Our gates are always open and we love answering any questions. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Attorneys for a Tuscaloosa businessman who pleaded guilty to criminal schemes that cost victims millions of dollars say he should be spared prison time.
Attorneys for a Tuscaloosa businessman who pleaded guilty to criminal schemes that cost victims millions of dollars say he should be spared prison time.
Danny Ray Butler committed bank and wire fraud that resulted in a total $3.1 million in losses for the Small Business Administration, Alabama One Credit Union, West Alabama Bank and Trust and a business that financed the car inventory at his used car lot, according to court documents.
Butler will be sentenced in federal court today. Prosecutors have asked that he serve three years in federal custody.
His attorneys have asked U.S. District Court Judge Scott Coogler to allow Butler to serve home detention with electronic monitoring. They provided the judge with five character reference letters, written by Northport Mayor Bobby Herndon, Tuscaloosa County Probate Judge Hardy McCollum, family friends and business associates.
Butler has been the guardian for his mentally disabled brother since their mother died in 2008, defense attorney Stephen Shaw of Birmingham wrote in a sentencing memo filed in the case. Butler ensures that his younger brother, who lives alone, receives medication, meals and transportation to work at a nonprofit agency for people with disabilities. If Butler is sentenced to prison time, his brother would likely be institutionalized in a group home, his attorney wrote.
Prosecutors say his family situation shouldn't be a factor.
"Although his brother's needs did not prevent the defendant from committing repeated fraudulent acts that exposed him to the risk of prison and absence from his brother, the defendant now seeks to use his brother as a means of avoiding full punishment for his myriad crimes," Assistant U.S. Attorney George Martin wrote in the government's sentencing memo. "The defendant's request is unseemly, desperate, and will lead to an absurd outcome in this case."
Entering a guilty plea
Butler pleaded guilty in February to three counts of wire fraud and three counts of bank fraud. Federal prosecutors say that he defrauded the Small Business Administration of $1.76 million in connection with a loan to build Fosters Groceries and that he engaged in a check-kiting scheme that caused Alabama One Credit Union to lose $1.275 million. Butler also made misrepresentations to a company that financed the car inventory at his used car lot, causing that company to lose $50,000.
Butler's attorney wrote that he often travels to a West Point, Miss., auto dealership for work, conducts other business from home and intends to pay restitution.
"The series of incidents which gave rise to these charges were at an isolated time in his life," Shaw wrote, adding later in the memo that "the intent was not to deprive anyone of funds, but to make ends meet and to repay the money which was loaned."
In his letter to the judge, Herndon wrote that he has known Butler for more than 10 years and that he has had dealings with him in his job as a professional surveyor and as Northport's mayor.
"He has always been a client who has been fair and honest on any project we have worked together on," Herndon wrote.
McCollum wrote that he has known Butler since he worked at Phifer Wire. He said that Butler had a reputation as a hard worker, noted his devotion to his brother and his soft spot for helping animals.
"Danny Butler is a good man," McCollum wrote. "I have never heard of him taking advantage of anyone; quite the opposite. His generosity has helped a lot of folks."
According to court documents, the first scheme Butler committed began in early 2010 when he sought to borrow about $5 million from West Alabama Bank and Trust to build a supermarket in Fosters, a community about 12 miles southwest of Tuscaloosa. The bank agreed to loan him half the amount for the project, and the SBA agreed to finance 35 percent. Butler was to provide the remaining 15 percent.
Almost immediately after construction was complete, he defaulted on the loans by failing to make payments to the SBA and the bank, the U.S. Attorney's Office said, causing the SBA to lose more than $1.7 million.
According to the indictment, between March 2010 and October 2012, Butler defrauded SBA by submitting false, forged and altered documents including an altered check to get the SBA loan. One count of the original 51-count indictment alleged that Butler submitted a construction company's cost proposal for the grocery store, but that he altered it to increase the proposed cost from $2.3 million to $4.2 million.
Butler was also accused of a check-kiting scheme in 2011 and 2012. The U.S. Attorney's Office claimed that he made "carefully timed deposits and checks between his Fosters Groceries account at West Alabama Bank and Trust and his Butler Wholesale account at Alabama One Credit Union to artificially inflate the account balances."
Hundreds of checks, totaling about $45 million, were deposited from one account to the other at the two financial institutions, according to the indictment.
The third fraud scheme mentioned in the indictment involves Butler's misrepresentations to Next Gear Capital to buy used vehicles for his car lot. Each loan from Next Gear was secured by a specific car, and Next Gear conducted monthly inspections of the dealership's inventory. According to the indictment, Butler employed various schemes to defraud Next Gear Capital in order to continue receiving loans. His fraudulent representations included representing that cars were part of the dealership's inventory even though the cars had already been sold and lying to representatives of Next Gear when they conducted inspections of his inventory.
Making restitution
Martin asked that Coogler sentence Butler to three years.
"The recommended (three-year) sentence will serve as notice to other struggling business owners tempted to cheat the government, their bank or customers that fraudulent conduct is unacceptable and will be punished appropriately," Martin wrote.
Sentencing guidelines, which take criminal history and other factors into consideration, would put Butler's sentence between four years and three months to five years and three months. Prosecutors are asking for a shorter sentence, based on Butler's cooperation. If he had been found guilty of each of the original 51 count indictments, Butler could have received a sentence of more than 1,000 years and a fine of more than $35 million, in addition to restitution.
The amount of restitution Butler owes is under dispute.
He has agreed to pay restitution to the SBA and Next Gear Capital in the full amount of their losses, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, but claims he owes nothing to Alabama One Credit Union.
In the plea agreement, he agreed to pay $1.275 million to the credit union or any person who compensated the credit union for its loss.
He paid the credit union $294,045 once the check-kiting scheme was exposed, according to court documents. Jerry Griffin, Butler's business partner in the supermarket, compensated the credit union for its remaining loss, which totaled $980,954, by entering a loan agreement with the institution for that amount.
In exchange, Butler transferred property to Griffin, including the real estate where Jupiter Bar and Waffle House are located on University Boulevard and half of the company that operates Jupiter Bar. He also transferred his half of Fosters Groceries to Griffin, who paid the debt and sold the business at a profit of $602,000. Griffin has a contract to sell Jupiter Bar for
$2 million and expects to receive $262,252 after paying the debt. The government calculates the value of property transferred by Butler to Griffin at $563,252. That would leave a balance owed to the credit union of $417,702.
Both sides will present their arguments for the restitution amount and amount of prison time Butler should get at a hearing scheduled for 1 p.m. today at the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Tuscaloosa.
Unrelated to the criminal charges are at least three pending civil suits in state court that allege Butler and officers and some employees of Alabama One Credit Union and the credit union defrauded individual customers. One civil suit also alleges that forged signatures were used to raid a plaintiff couple's line of credit at Alabama One to funnel money to Butler.
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Just returned from another wretched trip to Pogadishu, once again challenging my moral endurance. One of the more blatant signs of disconnection from reality; several Soldiers complaining vociferously about Pizza Hut running out of beef while nearby a Soldier who was passing through Bagram to go on leave had come from a FOB where running out of water for days at a time was relatively common, and needed supplies were unable to be delivered due to a lack of airlift capacity. The ridiculousness of the concerns of the denizens of Pogadishu is highlighted in the presence of those who pass through their midst on their way to and from the real war.
The Soldiers who pass through are subjected to visions of high-rise (three story) conex condos while they are subjected to the horrors of the "transient tents." These hovels house nearly two hundred men who share four shower stalls, two urinals and three toilets. Overflow capacity is provided by several porta-johns nearby. I haven't been to the east side of Bagram in two years, but I hear that conditions over there are even more horrific. How that can be escapes me, but there must be another level of depravity on that side of the runway. In the north transient tents, one tent, which is not an Army tent but the type of enclosure that might hold diners at an outdoor wedding, holds double-deck bunk beds that house at least 175 men. It is nearly always filled to capacity, a scant foot to a foot and a half between bunks. Dimly lit, it is like a holding pen for a level of Hell that is filled to capacity. Bare plywood floors are perpetually dusty, and there is an air of resignation.
The other tent, of the same construction, has standard Army cots separated by the same intervals. This tent easily houses a hundred men. It seems more pleasant because of the ability to see from one end to the other. Not all of the occupants are transients. Many Soldiers and contractors are "housed" there for weeks at a time before getting more "permanent" housing, likely in one of the many B-huts which have small living areas separated by cubicle-like "walls" with lockable "doors." The "walls" cannot go all the way to the ceiling because there are only two Chigo (heating and air conditioning) units, one at each end of the hut. Often a dozen men will be housed in one B-hut. B-hut living is tolerable. It is sheer luxury compared to the Spartan living in the transient tents.
In the transient tents, privacy is a matter of mind over matter. The iPod is a savior. If one puts in the iPod, one can almost forget the man snoring 18 inches from his left ear. As I lay there on my cot, the roar of two F-15's taking off shattered the near-serenity of Pachelbel's Canon. I restarted the tune, immersed in the quiet dignity of what is likely my favorite piece of classical music. A bit later, another pair of fighters took off, afterburners punctuating Steppenwolf's invitation to a young woman to join them on a Magic Carpet Ride. Brilliant.
I think that the iPod saved my sanity.
But there is no saving one's sanity from the utter fobbitry. NFL on Fox made the trip to Afghanistan, only to root themselves in the land of those who serve, forward deployed but not in any way, shape or form an actual participant in the hostilities. As we were conducting training for several days to one of the headquarters elements, we moved through what is to us is something out of Alice in Wonderland. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if I were approached at Bagram by a huge, time management-challenged rabbit. So, eating in one of the dining facilities during lunchtime, we saw Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long as they exited. They had been seated in the large, cramped DFAC and had signed many autographs. Asked by a friend back home if I had said anything to them, I replied, "Nah, this place is full of fobbit jock-sniffers. I don't want to be one of them."
I was informed that coffee being shot through the nose is very uncomfortable and stains shirts.
I am reminded that Toby Keith heads out to FOBs and COPs where he has played for very small groups of Soldiers on an acoustic guitar. It was a nice gesture for NFL on Fox to head to Afghanistan, it really was. When I first came to Afghanistan, half of the people I knew weren't even tracking on this country. It was the forgotten front of the "War on Terror." Iraq was where all the money, troops and attention went. So for Fox to come to this land was a great gesture. But the kids at Bagram have everything.
Except beef on their pizza… at least for a few days.
There are Soldiers and Marines all over this country who get squat… even water… while Bagram has "Karaoke Nite" and "Salsa Nite." Then the spoiled wonders there even have the temerity to rant out loud about not getting beef with their pepperoni for their Pizza Hut pizza (delivered, no less). Now, I can't fault them for making their lives as comfortable as possible, but there is silly and then there is ridiculous. Salsa Nite is silly.
Housing the warriors who normally live in Spartan conditions that the fobbits at Bagram would riot over in those pathetic "transient tents" is ridiculous. You do not see field grade officers spending the night in those wretched holes called "transient tents." If a full Colonel ever got stuck in there for a night, lots would be made of the event shortly thereafter. But it is perfectly fine to "house" a young Sergeant with two Purple Hearts, who has lived for days without clean water and who has no electricity on a regular basis, in the slums of Bagram while the full-time denizens of that massive disconnect from reality are housed in apartment complexes formed of stacked shipping containers with cable TV and internet service in their rooms.
The word is disparity.
"I can't believe that they have the nerve to even open their mouths about not having beef on their pepperoni pizza," the young Sergeant stated, "but it just reminds me that they are nothing." He continued, "They come here and then they go home and talk about how they went to Afghanistan, but they aren't even in this war. This is like an American town in the middle of Afghanistan. This isn't Afghanistan, and these people ain't shit. Hearing stuff like that pisses me off, but it reminds me that I'm an Infantryman, and I'm in it for real."
Bagram really needs to do something about the shameful disease vectors that it calls "transient housing." There should not be a soul living in pampered condos while the warfighters themselves pass through the scummy misery of those fetid tents. Tons of money is being spent there on construction, and yet a man who lives in crap out on a FOB has to share four shower stalls with over two hundred other men? Bagram is a hub for all who pass in and out of Afghanistan. The notoriously snarled air traffic leaves people hanging for days at a time… to suffer the indignity of an ill-run "transient housing" situation. It is unconscionable.
They didn't show the celebrities the "transient tents." Why? Why not show them where the real warriors get stuck when they pass through on leave or rush home in family emergencies? Because they are not idiots. If you chain your child in a closet, you know better than to show anyone. Certainly not anyone with a camera. Not only is Bagram disconnected from the war, but they treat anyone who actually is connected to it like some kind of animal. For anyone going on leave, Bagram is just part of the hellish journey that only becomes any semblance of normal when they reach Atlanta.
It's a shame.
I've caught yet another upper respiratory infection in the transient hell of Bagram. If you ever really just have a burning desire to get sick, go to the transient housing office at Bagram and tell them you need a place to stay.
Every combat veteran I have ever met hates the REMFs. I know there are some critical jobs being performed back there by some good men, but for the most part I thank the majority (especially the officers) are a useless as tits on a nun. Just let those that count know we are thinking of them today (Veterans Day.)
I was recently in a debate about how cushy the prisons are compared to what our Warriors live in at FOB's. Unfortunately, you more than proved my point.
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Silly civiliian question…
If the President decides to send 40,000 to Afghanistan, do they have the infrastructure to support a force increase of that size? It seems they have a serious issue with that…
Bagram sounds a lot like LSA Anaconda in Iraq. Didn't take long to learn when I "adopted" a soldier at Anaconda he didn't need stuff, he had more fast food places than my little town does. He did need letters tho.
I can't imagine the conditions you describe are allowed to exist. Sounds like the transients are stuck in tents left by the Soviets when they left Bagram.
Where are those "inquisitive reporters" when you really need these conditions brought to someone's attention? Who exactly should be shamed into making changes?? Maybe someone should start a work program that trades construction skills for pizza. They get meat when a unit is livable.
Sounds like things have not changed much since 2004-2005, except that the permanent contigent now has Pizza delivery, net and TV (!).
Oh, I was a Major then, and I did stay in the circus tents (made by a revival tent maker in Waco Texas) on a cot, when I was a transient…of course the permanent party was moving from Tier III tents to B-Huts.
Sad to see the transient areas are not much better than 4 1/2 years ago.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 11/12/2009 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
And just think Brian Williams from ( mbc ) was just there. and not once did Brian say he and his crew stayed in a tent.
I see nothing has changed in the last four decades. It still chaps my hips, though.
Don't forget those who leave the wire from BAF on a daily basis, the Army Aviators & crew chiefs who are flying their asses off to protect and resupply true Soldiers like you.
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Thanks again for telling it like it is Blue. And for serving!!!
Stay as safe as you can. (And look after that nasty upper respiratory infection.)
Links for your readers curious about your iPod choices:
Hey Blue,
Remember the ANA and ANP in those tents before the mission kicked off. Bet the poop is still in the bunkers. lol
After Brian WIlliams and NBC showed up at my sons FOB and did a 20 second news clip, I emailed Mr Williams. Asked him if he had noticed that they had NO technology (no internet, no phones, no nuttin' to be in contact with families except snail mail. It's 2009, and we are reduced to letters that take weeks & weeks & weeks!!!) Anyway, I actually got a reply from someone at NBC, who gave me numbers for a very BIG shot in the USO.
Yes, the USO. I can't begin to imagine what the USO can do to get technology to the hundreds of soldiers serving at a "remote" base. This base has been up & running for years by Canadian forces. But they're leaving, and taking their stuff with them,
Too bad NBC didn't notice that the soldiers are living in a 1940 time warp!
The USO is awesome…and apropos BAF: the Bagram USO was recently renovated thanks to funding from the NFL and is probably the only building in Afghanistan that resembles an Alpine chalet on the inside and out.
The location is extremely convenient for people passing through (unlike the transient tents), and it provides just about the only place to stay sane if you're stuck in BAF. TV, wireless, comfy leather chairs and power outlets…better than the tents.
Gee Blue, I can't remember running out of water except on fast offensives (91). I think it's probably indicative of how far we've strayed – I wonder how many current CO HQ and 1SG's could resupply their troops if they had KBR yanked away.
On fobbits – well, wrote a small 64 post blog on that 06-07. Wasn't positive.
Uh dude…reading the tea leaves over here. Support is plummeting, from Tony Blankley (R) to Ed Koch, and you know where the Left stands. Not to ruin your day, BUT…
When your CINC…isn't… you retrograde. In any case the decision to bring KSM and crew to NYC renders this all moot. Bammy just rejunvinated AQ when they were on the ropes.
As he says, the GWOT is over.
So get the kids the fiki outta there, they are America's future. He doesn't want it dude. And it will go bad fast if you stay there. Extract. Sorry.
The Global War on Terror is Over. The War in America is about to begin.
My husband is currently "stationed" at Bagram. He has been there 3 months and is still living in an 80 man tent. He said today they moved out the people in the tent next to them and dogs moved into that tent. Yes, DOGS! My husband and the rest of the guys in his unit are literally living like dogs. With the exception that the dogs aren't in bunk beds. Here's to 30,000 more soldiers headed that way!
I spent six months at Bagram. As the 1st comment from "coffeypot" states, there are some critical jobs being done there, but watch out coffeypot, some of them are being performed by your "useless…tits on a nun…officers". Folks like me (an AF Reserve O-5) who provide a critical mission… anesthesia. Trauma anesthesia to be precise. I ask that any one reading this comment will hopefully realize that not everyone at Bagram fits Blue's description of a fobbit. Yes indeed, Bagram is somewhat removed from the "real war", but then I saw the horrors EVERYDAY! Burned kids, blown off extremities, mangled but still attached extremities, gonads blown off, US service member suicide attempts, kids run over by HMMWVs and MRAPs, RPGs to the torso, gunshot and fragment wounds to the head, and on and on. I am not a trigger-puller, but I am there for the trigger-pullers. Cried my eyes out a few times there after a 20-something Marine with a wedding band on his hand died in my O.R., or a 30-something Soldier with tattoo pictures of his kids on his forearm takes his last breath in the ICU. 'Nuff said…
@Will (Above)
I have so much respect for you and others who work hard, in atrocious conditions, day in and day out to save the lives of others with little or no recognition. I too work for the military in the medical field but am a civilian and work with many of the soldiers who's lives and broken and crushed.
It pains me to hear of the conditions which our government find suitable for our servicemen and women. Sickens me to the core.
I hope that someone finally does something about this. Surely in 2010 for thousands of soldiers sharing such few bathroom facilities needs to be looked into.
No wonder I have to work with so many men and women who suffer SEVERE mental health issues. No wonder.


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Tindall linked with Biarritz switch
ESPNscrum Staff
January 15, 2012
Mike Tindall was left out of England's squad for the forthcoming Six Nations © Getty Images
England outcast Mike Tindall could be poised to quit English rugby altogether and join French side Biarritz, according to reports.
The 33-year-old Gloucester centre was left out of Stuart Lancaster's 32-man squad for the Six Nations earlier this week and is out of contract at Kingsholm at the end of the season. The Daily Mail reports that he has now opened talks with the Top 14 side in a move that would end any hope of an unlikely international return due to the Rugby Football Union's policy of not selecting overseas players.
Tindall, who won the last of his 75 caps in England's Rugby World Cup victory over Scotland, would later lose his place in the Elite Player Squad in the wake of a drunken night out in Queenstown earlier in the tournament but he was reinstated on appeal only to be left out of Lancaster's plans for this year's Championship.
On the domestic stage, Tindall featured in his side's narrow 20-14 Heineken Cup defeat to Harlequins on Saturday night but finds his place under increasing pressure due to the presence of young guns such as Henry Trinder. Director of rugby Bryan Redpath has refused to guarantee Tindall a new contract and has stated that the veteran has to fight to earn a new deal.
If Tindall, who joined Gloucester from West Country rivals Bath in 2005, was to switch to France then he would link up with close friend Iain Balshaw who served as best man at his recent wedding to the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips.
And Tindall responded on his Twitter account to the rumours saying: "never ever believe what read in the MoS not known for its factual info".
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cant wait to see the big bois in action.
WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie
The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - JK Galbraith
"Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality." - Bob Hawke
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
The Dimas ceremony in Athens when he got that ovation still makes me emotional.
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
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was listening to that the other day to get into the Olympic spirit.
"But fortunately it wasn't all bad luck for Andropov, who came back later in the day and took out a Gold Medal in the Lightweight division".
Kazak bloke is crazy. None of the usual farting around you see from weight-lifters, walks onto the platform and lifts pretty much straight away - with such ease as well.
Burgey competing in the 100kg+ jerk category.
Gold medal favourite iirc.
Cevno's sole contribution to the Olympics forum even looks like a little gold medal....
The weightlifting floor is nothing short of a disgrace this year. Lacks the bounce that is required to thrust the sport into spectator friendly status. Need to see the bar jumping up to the chest area when the competitor throws it down.
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I like celebrating Cinco de Mayo every year by creating a spread of popular Mexican dishes. This year I decided to add a tres leches cake to the mix. This rich dessert is made by combining whole milk, sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk and pouring it over fresh baked cake. The cake soaks up all the milk and is then topped with whipped cream. I also like adding a bit of color with strawberries and kiwi which, combined with the white whipped cream, represent the colors of the Mexican flag.
Tres Leches Cake
1 1/2 cu All Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 cu Salted Butter, softened
1 1/4 cu Sugar
5 lg Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
zest of a Lemon
1 cu Whole Milk
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk, 14oz size
1 can Evaporated Milk, 12oz size
2 tbl Grand Marnier (optional)
2 cu Heavy Cream
1/2 cu Powdered Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Strawberries, optional for garnish
Kiwi, optional for garnish
Grease and flour a 9" x 12" baking pan and set aside. I've actually had better luck with glass baking dishes with this recipe versus metal.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt together in a medium sized bowl. Set aside.
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Three International Paralympic Tourneys Slated for Colorado
July 13-18 will be an exciting time for Paralympic judo in the United States as 120 blind and visually impaired athletes from 15 countries converge on Colorado Springs for three tournaments and a training camp.
The IBSA World Youth and Student Games and Para Pan American Games will be held on Saturday, July 13, followed on July 14 by the USA Judo International Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired, expected to be one of the largest international events for the blind in the world, said Tournament Director Heidi Moore of Denver Judo.
The World Youth and Student Games will feature up-and-coming athletes ages 13-20. The Para Pan American Games and U.S. International Championship will showcase elite athletes from around the world, including Team USA's Paralympic Silver Medalist Myles Porter And Bronze Medalist Dartanyon Crockett. The tournaments will be followed by three days of intense training at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Countries scheduled to compete in these events include Brazil, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Cuba, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Turkey and Venezuela.
"It is very exciting to have this level of Paralympic competition coming to the United States," said Scott Moore, Team USA's 2012 Paralympic Judo Team Head Coach. "We are looking forward to showing them what the US can do on our home ground!"
Following are the U.S. rosters.
World Youth and Student Championship Team:
Cassaries Johnson, Menomonee Judo/Chicago, IL
Josh Farra, Liberty Bell Judo/Philadelphia, PA
Nadia Montanez, Menomonee Judo/Chicago, IL
Sara Luna, Menomonee Judo/Chicago, IL
Korbin Anderson, Twin Cities Judo/Bloomington, IL
Ashleigh Heitt, Colorado Springs Judo Center/ Colorado Springs, CO
Robert Tanaka, Ju Shin Kan Judo/Denver, CO
Benjamin Goodrich, University of Minnesota/Minneapolis, MN
Pan American Team:
Ron Hawthorne - 60kg US Olympic Training Center/Colorado Springs, CO
Josh Sisson - 66kg Welcome Mat Judo/Kansas City, MO
Josh Farra - 73kg Liberty Bell Judo/Philadelphia, PA
Adana Gutic - 81kg White Tiger Judo/St. Louis, MO
Ryan Jones - 81kg Denver Judo/Englewood, CO
Dartanyon Crockett - 90kg US Olympic Training Center/Colorado Springs, CO
Myles Porter - 100kg US Olympic Training Center/Colorado Springs, CO
Steve Mulhern +100kg Liberty Bell Judo/Philadelphia, PA
Mike Larsen +100kg Cahill's Judo/San Bruno, CA
Tina Thomas - 48kg, Mojica Judo/Los Angeles, CA
Cindy Simon - 57kg, Kokushikai/Wayne, NJ
Sara Luna - 70kg, Menomonee/Chicago, IL
Gaia Iacarrino +70 Kg, Menomonee/Chicago, IL
Head Coach - Scott Moore, Denver Judo/Englewood, CO
Team Leader - Marc Vink, Liberty Bell Judo/Philadelphia, PA
Competition will be held Saturday, July 13 and Sunday, July 14 at St. Mary's School located at 2501 E Yampa St, Colorado Springs, CO 80909.


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Not since the days of the cold war has so much political significance been attached to the outcome of a sports event.
As Russia's hitherto underdog national soccer team has stormed to a series of unexpected triumphs over the past two weeks in the Euro 2008 championship finals, the country's mood has visibly soared. Commentators ranging from President Dmitri Medvedev to many average Ivans-in-the-street have promoted the victorious team as a metaphor for Russia's own stunning return from national oblivion.
Russia has not made it into a European soccer championship match since 1988, when it was still a part of the USSR. In the 1990s, widely viewed by Russians as a decade of national depression and disgrace, most of the country's best athletes went abroad to find success. That memory was called up for many Russians in a bittersweet way last week when Igor Larionov, one of the former Soviet Union's top hockey players, was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame for his achievements in the National Hockey League, after leaving Russia in the early '90s.
But lately, Russia's been on a roll. Former President Vladimir Putin managed to win the 2014 Winter Olympics for Sochi, Russia's Black Sea resort center. In May, Russia's national hockey team beat its traditional rival Canada to pick up the 2008 Ice Hockey World Championship. Later in the month, a Russian singer Dima Bilan won the Eurovision Song Contest.
"The past couple of decades have been perceived by our citizens as a chain of failures," says Sergei Mikheyev, deputy director of the Center for Political Technologies in Moscow. "Now we're winning, and it's an enormous boost for social morale. Of course our politicians are making maximum political use of this – they'd be fools if they didn't."
After an early defeat at the hands of Spain, the Russian team roared back, knocking Greece and Sweden out of the tournament. Following a crushing victory over the Netherlands last Saturday, as many as 700,000 Muscovites poured into the streets of the Russian capital chanting "Rossiya – champion," and other jubilant slogans, in what the official RIA Novosti press agency called the biggest spontaneous street demonstration Moscow has seen since the USSR defeated Nazi Germany in World War II.
Mr. Medvedev called it "an outstanding game and a convincing victory," and suggested that Guus Hiddink, the team's Dutch coach who is widely credited for the turnaround, might be granted honorary Russian citizenship.
Russian officials said that the agenda of a Russia-EU summit meeting – now scheduled for Friday in the Siberian oil boom town of Khanty Mansiysk – had been altered to make sure Medvedev and other participants would have time to watch the face-off between Russia and the undefeated Spanish team in Vienna on Thursday.
The company licensed to make Russian flags, the Moscow-based BIAR, reported that sales of the white, blue, and red national tricolor soared to a record 100,000 in June, up from a usual monthly average of 20,000.
Some say petrodollars have made all the difference. With the global price of oil, Russia's chief export, spiking at record levels, there's money to lavish on sports for the first time since the Soviet collapse. Huge state-connected firms are directing cash into once dismal teams, paying players and attracting top managerial talent such as the miracle-maker Mr. Hiddink. For example, the state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom sponsors the soccer club Zenit Saint Petersburg, home of soccer star Andrei Arshavin, while the private energy giant LUKoil is backing Moscow's Spartak.
"The main reason for our victory is the unprecedented levels of financing being invested to ensure a professional level of trainers and management," says Eduard Sorokin, sports expert with the independent Stadion information agency in Moscow. "It's important that athletes can be sure they won't live in poverty, even after they leave professional sports."
Hiddink, who earlier groomed teams from South Korea and Australia for championship performances, has won near universal accolades from the Russian media.
"Hiddink made our players believe in the inevitability of victory," wrote Vyacheslav Nikonov, director of the Russky Mir Foundation, an officially backed group tasked with promoting Russian language and culture, in the daily Izvestia on Wednesday. "He created a team such as we haven't had in the past 40 years. Our team has played so well that citizens can believe once again in their own country and its revival."
But comparisons with the famous Soviet Red Machine of ice hockey, which was known as "clap-clap" for the sound of the puck being rapidly passed between its players, may be premature. Experts say that despite the infusions of cash, little has been done as yet to restore the vast nationwide infrastructure of the former Soviet Union, which reliably produced generations of top athletes in almost every branch of sports.
"Right now Russia's pride is splashed out in big victory celebrations, but whether this will have any impact on the future of our sporting prowess is hard to say," says Artyom Lokalov, a columnist with the Moscow-based Sovyetsky Sport newspaper.
"The key problem is, will our authorities start to pay more attention to children's sports, build more stadiums, and start to really invest in our sports infrastructure? That's what we're all waiting to see."


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Stephen Cohen Column
Stephen Cohen's Weekly Column in the New York Observer
Understanding the Climate Policy Debate.
Developing a Sustainable Planet--The Basics.
Stephen Cohen is a professor at Columbia University and it's the Earth Instittue.
As Stewart Brand said in the introduction to the Whole Earth Catalogs,
"If we are going to act like gods, we might as well get good at it."
And Biomimicry is one key, and in a sense, one of the legacy's of the Whole Earth movement. Like Buckminster Fuller's comprehensive antipatory design science, Biomimicry is (1) the exploration and understanding of nature, i.e., the environment, as the technology and economy of an exquisitely evolved and designed regenerative life support system (living machine) that has been tested and developed over 4.8 billion years of evolution, and then (2) applying those battle-hardened principles to all aspects of human activity--designing, creating, and managing of society, from industrial products, to urban and regional systems, to public policy, business, the economy, etc.
Sustainability 2030's (S2030) research/practice program addresses the following key questions:
1. How can you/we become effective, powerful, even transformational forces for sustainability?
2. What is the program required for ultimate sustainability success--the end game?
3. Who has part of the answer now (current sustainability champions), how far do they take us, and how can we harness the state-of-the-art leading edge sustainability to an innovative research/practice program that gets us to ultimate success in the limited time remaining? (more)
1. Assessment: Storm Clouds & Hope
2. Productive Framing: Donella M. on Love
Advance, accelerate, and amplify an accurate understanding of the sustainability challenge and how to harness the power and potential of sustainability for an effective response before time runs out. The Strategic Sustainability2030 Institute (S2030I) is a web-based think/do tank (more).
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May 2-4, Portland, The Living Future Unconference for deep green professionals.
June 15-18, Brazil, Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
as Buckminster Fuller observed, is
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Stephen Cohen's Weekly Column in the New York Observer
Stephen Cohen's Weekly Column in the New York Observer
Understanding the Climate Policy Debate.
Developing a Sustainable Planet--The Basics.
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Barton Seaver's Advocacy for Sustainable Seafood
All this sustainability talk makes Barton Seaver hungry. How one chef wants to raise your consciousness deliciously.
Barton Seaver is only half kidding when he throws up his hands and says the way to save the oceans is to eat more broccoli.
The seafood chef and save-the-fish advocate drops the broccoli provocation on a conservation-minded crowd that has come, in part, to hear Seaver's green-blue message, but also most emphatically to chow down on his wood-grilled barramundi.
The occasion is to celebrate The End of the Line, British environmental journalist Charles Clover's seminal documentary on overfishing, based on Clover's earlier book of the same name. The Brit has crossed the Atlantic for the screening/dinner at Washington, D.C.'s Blue Ridge restaurant—and to launch a new Web site, Fish2Fork.com, which rates eateries on the greenness of their seafood offerings. (Not surprisingly, Blue Ridge earns high marks.)
In short order Seaver will head down to the kitchen and cook up dinner. The barramundi will be drizzled with cilantro-garlic pesto and served with heaps of vegetables, including crispy, wood-grilled broccoli with garlicky toasted pecans and lemon zest that will turn out to be the runaway hit of the evening. (Restrained portions of animal protein shored by greens, grains, and nuts is Seaver's mantra.)
This event is a worlds-in-collision experience for Seaver: He passionately and actively campaigns to save the fish, but at the same time, he's quickly becoming one of America's best-known seafood chefs. (He was anointed Chef of the Year last fall by Esquire.) It's not always easy wearing both hats.
"Sometimes I don't know what I'm doing here. I see myself as mainly a cook, but I was given a megaphone and am willing to use it," he says of his crusader persona. "It's intellectually engaging and a way to connect with a surprising number of people." Surprising because more and more diners are beginning to care what fish they're eating and where it came from. They sense that the seas, boundless on their surface but hidden below, are in peril—that broccoli may be the only choice if decisions to conserve aren't urgently made.
Seaver thrives on a high-octane lifestyle. At the moment, he's juggling a cookbook (to be published in 2011) while shoring up sponsors for a PBS series about environmentally conscious fishing. He helped develop an online guide and mobile phone app for Blue Ocean Institute. In April he'll speak at one of the prestigious Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conferences. "Barton is at the forefront of ocean advocacy, and there aren't many chefs out there who are," says TED's Bonnie Calvin, producer of the ocean-focused event, which will include world policy makers, activists, and marine scientists.
Seaver's also in the fundraising phase for his next gig, the Diamond District Seafood Co. and Market, a sustainable fish restaurant and shop in an up-and-coming D.C. neighborhood, where he'll be executive chef and a partner. It's a logical step for Seaver, who was executive chef at Hook, an ecofriendly seafood restaurant in Georgetown, before becoming chef at Blue Ridge. It will help move Seaver's seafood agenda—sustainability, taste, and price—forward.
Seaver wants consumers to expand their fish horizons: Choose barramundi, which has the same sweet, clean flavor as endangered red snapper; experiment with lower-profile varieties of sustainable wild Alaskan salmon, like chum, along with the more familiar king, coho, and sockeye; and give bluefish, mackerel, and sardines a chance.
Seaver insists that sustainable varieties can save money. Tilapia is cheaper than endangered species it resembles, like orange roughy. His vision for Diamond is to both sell and cook what he preaches, and he hopes the business will serve as a prototype for seafood restaurant/markets elsewhere.
With tousled hair, longish sideburns, ripped jeans, and earnest manner, Seaver looks more like a brainy indie rocker than a guy who makes his living shaking sauté pans and scorching his fingers (he eschews tongs and kitchen towels, using lightning-quick fingertips on the hottest foods). In conversation he'll bounce from Robert Kennedy as inspirational figure (imagine a better future, then shape it) to the stylings of blues guitarist Earl Hooker and harmonica player Slim Harpo, and on and on. It doesn't feel show-offy, though, and when he turns to complicated scientific problems—and seafood sustainability is nothing if not complicated—the listener tends to get the picture.
"We need to create awareness about our relationship to the ocean, and the best way to do it is to talk to people about something they can relate to," Seaver says. Most of us can relate to fish and chips, sushi, and crab cakes rather than bycatch statistics. The message is more pragmatic than evangelistic. "I'm not trying to save the fish. I'm just trying to save dinner." Seaver cares about the environment, deeply, but from a chef's hungry perspective: He wants salmon, bluefish, and sea bass for his grill, forever.
A few weeks before the screening, over lunch at a trattoria, Seaver recounted his first "Aha!" moment, connecting fish to the health of the sea and humans.
After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America and working in the States for a while, Seaver found himself knocking around the coast of Spain in winter 2003 with no specific agenda. "The hostel I was planning to stay at was closed and someone said there was a ferry to Morocco, so I figured, Why not?" Entering post 9/11 Morocco isn't as easy as it was in hippie days of yore, but Seaver eventually found himself hitchhiking the country, waiting for long-distance group taxis, and at one point, trekking into the desert with Berber clansmen.
Making his way to Essaouira, he ended up at an open-air food market and fell in with local fishermen—logical company for Seaver, who summered on the Chesapeake Bay in his youth and has fond memories of fishing and crabbing with his father and brother. The next few weeks in Essaouira were spent on fishing boats hauling in small nets filled with mackerel and sardines. Here, he saw, was the meaning of sustainability in a nutshell: Families and entire villages depended on there being enough fish in the sea for their livelihoods. "When the net went into the water, these guys were thinking of dinner first, dollars second."
The consequences of poor fishing practices, writ large, are catastrophic. Seaver points to the Newfoundland cod collapse of the early 90s as perhaps the most dramatic example of what happens when a fishery disappears. Greed and overfishing resulted in the complete loss of an industry and 40,000 jobs that had sustained one of Canada's poorest provinces for generations. Desperate to bring the fish back, the government enforced a moratorium in 1992, but the cod didn't come. One of the world's largest and richest fisheries had, unimaginably, vanished.
Eating our way through a species isn't new. Veteran Chef Eric Ripert, of New York's three-star seafood mecca Le Bernardin, recalls how the swordfish ban in the 90s moved him to be a spokesperson for and to the food community. The ban was successful, and fishing stocks dramatically recovered, mostly due to improvements in fishing practices.
As cod disappear, other fish move in to become staples of the fast-food industry or fashionable in high-end restaurants. Then these new species fall prey to overfishing. How's a chef—or consumer—to know? To keep track of sustainability issues, Ripert looks to ocean conservation organizations like the Monterey Bay Aquarium, with its extensive online guide ranking seafood via a color-coding system: green is best, yellow a "good alternative," red a no-no. In recent years, trendy Chilean sea bass, orange roughy, and Bluefin tuna have all slid onto endangered lists. Ripert has yanked them from his menus. But, he says, he'd prefer better laws to protect our oceans and fish, rather than rearguard menu actions, "so we don't have to go to such extremes." Regulation requires public pressure, which celebrity chefs can bring to bear.
Seaver and like-minded chefs buy fish from people like Michael Dimin who, with his family, runs Sea to Table, an ecoconscious seafood supplier. Dimin works with about 200 U.S. restaurants and a dozen fisheries, as well as about 100 fishermen in Tobago who fish like their grandfathers did with hand lines, hooks, and bait.
There are, encouragingly, some sustainable fisheries. Geoff Shester, Senior Science Manager of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program, cites the Alaskan salmon fishery and some ecosensitive fish farms (freshwater and contained, not saltwater and in the ocean) as steps in the right direction. He believes boycotts and pressure from environmental groups are highly effective, and says distributors and fish farmers the world over are finally starting to show an interest in sustainability. The time is right: "We have a tremendous opportunity to vote with our dollars."
But the challenges are also tremendous: At the Blue Ridge screening of The End of the Line, Clover predicted a collapse of all the species we eat by the middle of the century if we don't take action and "stop squandering our resources."
By action, Clover means changing a dauntingly long list of fishing practices, which in many cases occur in international waters. Overfishing by monster fleets is a big threat. Poor regulation leads to massive bycatch: Birds and other sea life end up in huge commercial nets along with targeted fish. Pole and line fishing is far preferable to large balloon-shaped seine nets or "long lines," rows of fishing lines that catch whatever happens to swim up.
Likewise, deep-sea dredging, in which heavy nets with huge anchors sweep across the ocean floor, catching much in their wake, continues to scar the sea bed and pull in inordinate amounts of by-catch. Open-net fish farming has its own issues: pollution; escape of diseased fish into wild populations; and toxic chemicals from poor farming practice.
This tangle of challenges is what prompted Clover to make his film and establish Fish2Fork. As with pandas, it is a matter of raising consciousness—except fish aren't cute and we eat them. "I want people to think every time they go into a restaurant or supermarket whether the fish they're going to buy has a bad effect on the ocean." Clover believes consumers can be moved to agree with him that sustainable seafood tastes better because "we eat it with a clear conscience."
Seaver seems less moved to change consciences than to expand palates. At Hook, he noticed an encouraging trend: Although Americans typically shun all but the most familiar fish, customers at Hook would devour all the sustainably caught oddball species listed on the chalkboard. That included fish he thought would be a hard sell, like oily, strong bluefish ("One of the best things out of the ocean if it's super fresh"); the little-known barramundi; and gigantic tiger prawns from West Africa. He is heartened by this evidence of adventurous palates. "There are about 300 commercially available species. Most chefs know about 15, and most home consumers, about 5 to 10."
On a wintry night a few weeks before the screening, Seaver cooked a rare dinner at home in the closet-sized kitchen of his D.C. duplex. Sustainably caught rockfish was on the menu. Seaver pumped up the flavor by brining the fillets before wood-grilling them. He sautéed minuscule fingerling potatoes, garlic, and almonds in olive oil, then added a bit of water and layered broccoli rabe on top. The pan went into the broiler with the fish fillets atop.
While the rabe turned crisp, the fish steamed from the bottom and developed the barest crust on top. Seaver spooned anchovy butter over the warm fish. Slightly bitter, with a hint of fruitiness from the olive oil, crunchy with sautéed almonds, the rabe needed nothing else. Here was cooking so good that in Seaver's hands, it just might help sustain the oceans.


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From Interstate 44 (traveling from Springfield/Lebanon):
Take the Marshfield exit (Exit 100) and go south 1.5 miles on Highway 38 to 4-way stop, turn right and cross railroad tracks. At stop sign, turn right onto Highway A and go 0.4 mile to red brick building just south of City Hall on east (left) side of road.From Highway A (traveling from Rogersville/Fordland/Seymour):
Follow Highway A north into Marshfield, past Fraker Funeral Home and Marshfield Christian Church to red brick building just north of Country Mart convenience store on east (right) side of road (0.3 mile inside city limits).From Highway 38 (traveling from Hartville):Follow Highway 38 west into Marshfield, past MFA on right and Marshfield Community Center (old Junior High School) on left. Road curves south around old school. Follow it 0.4 mile to red brick building just south of City Hall on east (left) side of road.Missouri Department of Transportation realtime traveler information map
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Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has reportedly avoided arrest after being served with a warrant by the country's anti-corruption watchdog.
Fraud investigators want to quiz Mr O'Neill over allegations he personally authorised an illegal payment of about $31 million to law firm, Paul Paraka lawyers.
But the Prime Minister refused to leave PNG's parliament on Monday and instructed lawyers to try and stay the warrant for his arrest, according to the PNG Post-Courier newspaper.
The case was being heard on Monday night (AEST).
AAP is seeking further comment.
Mr O'Neill issued a statement denying the allegations against him, which were first raised last year, when Opposition Leader Belden Namah produced a letter allegedly bearing Mr O'Neill's signature and authorising the payments.
In January, Task Force Sweep announced Mr O'Neill had no case to answer following interviews with staff at the Prime Minister's Office, as well as checks of their outgoing correspondence register.
Also in January, the Opposition produced three National Court warrants for Mr O'Neill's arrest over the affair, however the government successfully had them overturned.
The Paul Paraka affair – called Parakagate in Port Moresby – is one of PNG's longest running fraud investigations.
Mr Paraka, one of the most powerful lawyers in PNG, was arrested and charged in 2013 for allegedly receiving the state monies.
Task Force Sweep alleges the payments were spread over a seven-year period and ran into the "hundreds of millions".
In May last year, Mr O'Neill threatened to sack everyone in his finance department over the alleged scam involving top officials and lawyers.
Mr O'Neill commands a huge majority in PNG's single house of parliament, with roughly 95 out of 111 MPs supporting his government.


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The Last Song Before the War is a feature-length documentary that captures the inspiring rise and uncertain future of Mali's annual Festival in the Desert. Against the backdrop of stunning musical performances, the film subtly reveals the challenges and triumphs of creating an artistic event in such challenging economic and political circumstances. After 12 years of success and unforgettable musical moments, the Festival in the Desert came to a halt in 2012 when separatist rebels and Islamic militants seized control of Northern Mali.


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The Yellow Wallpaper to be presented April 9 at Thomas University
Arts for the Community at Thomas University (ACTU) will present a dramatic reading of "The Yellow Wallpaper" as the spring theatre production on Wednesday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the Flowers Foods Executive Classroom of Smith-Bonvillian Hall on the Thomas University Main Campus.
Through her dramatic reading of this work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Assistant Professor of Speech & Theatre Lisa Mitchell hopes to share the isolation and despair of a woman's frightening descent into madness.
"This powerful story, first published in 1892, still pulls us into the fear we have of losing control," Mitchell said. "Even in this century, we all desire to be rational in every situation but often worry that we may be overwhelmed, fighting to keep our sanity."
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ALMH physical therapy adds new treatment: dry needling
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[April 29, 2014]
When you are experiencing muscle
pain, it is difficult to focus on anything else. Luckily, there are
many options available to help find relief. Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital now offers dry needling as new local option for pain
relief. ALMH provides the only dry needling treatment available in
Logan County.
In addition to
relieving pain such as hip and knee pain and tension headaches, dry
needling is also used for acute and chronic sport-related injuries
like shin splints, rotator cuff injuries, and tennis or golfer's
Tim Heitzig, ALMH physical therapist, administers the treatment.
He has worked in the ALMH Rehabilitation Department for 10 years and
received the certification as part of the Abraham Lincoln Healthcare
Foundation's professional certification program.
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"Dry needling is an evidence-based treatment that has been
proven to be effective. At ALMH, we want to provide excellent
care for our patients, and this new offering is one more way we
can help them," said Heitzig.
Dry needling, although effective, may not be appropriate for
everyone, including women in their first trimester of pregnancy and
people with clotting issues. Individuals who are interested in
exploring whether the dry needling technique is right for their
condition can call 217-605-5500.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Life may exist on planets orbiting dying or failed stars such as white or brown dwarfs although they are likely not the best candidates, a U.S. astronomer says.
White and brown dwarf stars are nothing like our sun, but both still glow and so could be orbited by planets with the right ingredients for life, Rory Barnes of the University of Washington said.
White dwarfs are the hot cores of dead stars and brown dwarfs are failed stars, objects not massive enough to start nuclear burning as the sun does, but both can be bright enough to theoretically support a habitable zone, a region of space where an orbiting planet's surface water could be in liquid form, thus giving life a chance.
However, both types of dwarf stars slowly cool and become less luminous over time, so their habitable zones gradually shrink inward.
A planet in such a shrinking zone would "face a difficult path to habitability," Barnes said, even if they're discovered right in that habitable zone.
Such a planet probably lost the means to host life as it would have spent some time at the inner edge of the zone where the heat would have turned it into a runaway greenhouse, like Venus in our solar system, long before the shrinking habitable zone moved inward to place it in the center, Barnes said.
"These planets, if we find them today in a current habitable zone, previously had to have gone through a phase which sterilized them forever," he said in a university release.


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Posted: Apr 23, 2014
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – UMBC men's lacrosse senior attackman Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River) was nominated for the 2014 America East Men's Lacrosse Fans' Choice Player of the Year, as announced by the league office on Wednesday.
Gregoire leads the team with 36 goals and 39 points. Against the Mount, he recorded UMBC's first six-goal goal since Scott Jones scored six times versus Vermont on April 6, 2013. Entering the week, he is fifth nationally with 3.0 goals per game and the 36 goals are tied for the 11th-most in UMBC school history for a single season.
Gregoire now has 13 career games with three or more goals scored, including seven in 2014. He now has 94 career points (84-10-94), needing six more to become the 31st player in school history to reach the 100-point plateau.
Voting will go until 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29 and can be done on the America East Facebook Page. The winner will be announced that evening via release at AmericaEast.com.


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So with the reveal of BG Evil Lyn, I've been pondering how to incorporate her and the first release into my collection and story.
My first approach was to make them Lyn at two different points, with BG Evil Lyn being her natural form, and the yellow version being a result of her working with dark magic. I thought about it some more, and came to another idea.
I've decided that the 1st release is actually Evil-Lyn's mother...The Sultress!
The Sultress was an ambitious sorceress bent on gaining ultimate power. During this search, she came into contact with King Hsss who told her of a spell that would allow her to steal power from the Council of Elders. What was required was an heir to sacrifice as part of the ritual. They made a deal that King Hsss would provide her with the ritual if she agreed to help him and use that power to defeat the Council. Sultress eagerly agreed.
Sultress managed to seduce Nickolas Powers and become pregnant. What the Sultress didn't realize was that she was being used as a pawn by King Hsss to get the Eye of Serpos. Once Evelyn was born and Sultress brought her to King Hsss to perform the rite, Sultress was killed by the Snake Men and baby Evelyn was taken hostage and held ransom for the Eye of Serpos, which Nikolas turned over to King Hsss for her safe return. This ended in tragedy anyway, as Zalesia was destroyed and the Council turned Nikolas into the Faceless one for his actions.
Anyway, that's my take. What's yours?


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While New York's subway is only slightly less scary than the pipes under the Mushroom Kingdom, both underground tunnels are much improved by the addition of Super Mario Bros. composer Koji Kondo's infectious beats.
In this video, shot on Manhattan's uptown R-train, guitarist Gypsy Joe Trane entertains bored commuters by serenading them with songs from the famous plumber's famous series. The subway riders might not look all that appreciative, but you have to remember that in New York, scowls mean "thank you."
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