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Santen to acquire InnFocus
Santen Pharmaceutical announced on July 19, 2016, it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InnFocus, developer of the MicroShunt glaucoma implant device.
Santen will acquire InnFocus for an upfront payment of $225 million, plus performance-based considerations upon achievement of development, commercial and regulatory milestones, according to a press release.
The MicroShunt, which has a CE mark in Europe, is designed to lower and sustain IOP for the treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma. In clinical trials outside of the U.S., the device "has shown significant and sustainable lowering of IOP" alone or in combination with cataract surgery, according to the release.
"With this acquisition, Santen will strengthen our glaucoma pipeline and stay at the forefront of innovation in ophthalmology. This agreement is in line with our long-term vision to become a specialized pharmaceutical company with a global presence," Akira Kurokawa, president and CEO of Santen, said in the release.
The MicroShunt is currently in late-stage clinical studies in the U.S. and Europe in advance of a premarket approval application to the FDA, according to the release.
Source: Healio.com


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[Sailor Moon] Usagi Tsukino is just about the most unassuming bisexual of all time. So unassuming she has no idea herself. This is a series of one-shots showing what it would be like if she fell in love with each of the Inner Senshi (plus Naru and some other bonuses). Fluffy enough to fill a dakimakura!
(AKA, The Many Lives/Wives Of Usagi Tsukino)
Fluff Level: (5) Puppies and Bunnies
Genre: Friendship, Romance
Incest: None
Sexual Content: None
Warnings: None
Chapters: 6 Table of Contents Series: None
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Blogging Marathon# 46: Week 2/ Day 1
Theme: Lemon/ Lime Recipes
Dish: Cilantro-Lime Quinoa
We are starting another week of Blogging marathon today and my theme for this week is 'Lemon/ Lime recipes'. Adding lemon juice to any dish brings out the flavor and makes it taste refreshing.
I wanted to make Cilantro-Lime rice for today, but used quinoa instead of rice and made this cilantro-lime quinoa. This is a light and fresh tasting dish that is a great alternate to plain quinoa. Lime and fresh herbs make this dish a perfect complement to heavier stews and fried foods, and it's super simple to put together, too, a great plus when there are other dishes cooking on the stovetop.
I served this with some spicy black beans and roasted vegetables. Even my picky son loved the combination. I wanted to take a photo of all the dishes together but the kids got hungry before I could click the photos and ate up all the accompaniments — I saved a bowl of quinoa to take these photos.
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Cilantro Lime Quinoa
- 1 cup Quinoa
- 2 tbsp Lime juice
- 2 tsp Lime zest
- ¼ cup Cilantro - finely chopped
- 1 Green Onions - finely chopped
- to taste Salt Pepper &
- In a heavy pot, combine quinoa, 1¾cups of water or broth, olive oil, lime juice, zest and salt and pepper to taste. Bring the mixture to a boil, lower the heat to a simmer, cover the pot and cook for 15~20 minutes, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice grains are tender.
- Remove from the heat and sprinkle the cooked quinoa with chopped cilantro and green onions. Fluff the quinoa gently. Serve immediately.
Lets check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked today for BM# 46.


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As we know well, welding is an ancient art which is prevailing since the Bronze Age. It is the process used to join materials, usually metals or thermoplastics by melting the work pieces. The molten material is then allowed to cool and become a strong joint, with pressure sometimes used in conjunction with heat to produce the weld. Welding produces a secure, strong joint that cannot be compared with other methods. In today's world, welding engineering has become an arising need in job market. Welding and Fabrication Engineering Technology is structured to support welding and joining operations. Here engineers pass plans and projects to mid-managements personnel who are supposed to carry out the planning, organization and delivery of manufacturing projects.
The major emphasis lies on developing skills needed to lead projects and interface with engineering and development teams. Welding and Fabrication engineering involves the techniques of utilizing welding and fabrication methods in an efficient way. Fabrication is an industrial term that refers to building metal structures by cutting, bending and assembling. The cutting part can be done by sawing, shearing or chiseling. The bending is done via hammering, press brakes or similar other tools. And finally, assembling is done via welding, binding with adhesives, riveting, or threaded fasteners. Fabrication and machine shops that use engineering techniques have overlapping capabilities, though they generally concentrate on metal preparation and assembly. Fabrication and welding engineering generally covers essential fabrication and welding skills like safety, engineering communications and teamwork.
Welding fabrication engineers make, join and repair metal parts for machinery and equipment such as motor bodies, trailer units, containers, truck frames and bridges. The fabricator is the one who employs or contracts out steel detailers to prepare shop drawings, which the fabricating shop will use for manufacturing. Manufacturing engineers will program CNC machines as needed. Welding is considered to be the main focus of steel fabrication. Initially the formed and machine parts will be assembled and tack welded into place, then rechecked for accuracy. In case if multiple weldments have been ordered, a fixture might be used to locate parts for welding. The welder then completes welding as per the engineering drawings. Special precautions might be needed to prevent warping of the weldment due to heat. This includes re-designing the weldment to use less weld, welding in a staggered fashion, covering the weldment in sand during cooling. Using a stout fixture and straightening operations after welding.
Welding and Fabrication engineering involves all the processes and skills involved in creating a material. The author is well renowned in the field of engineering and has written several articles on it.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
A Plant with a Bad Name
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Mountain Biking in NatureWalk
Below you'll see some pictures from a mountain biking event held in NatureWalk on weekend in June
Monday, June 27, 2011
Aviation Biofuels About to Take Off
An extraordinary convergence of recent events seems poised shortly to make aviation biofuels the belle of the investor's ball.
The first is that on 8 June the follows the international standards certifying body ASTM International announcing its approval of its BIO SPK Fuel Standard, to be made official later in the year, of the use of hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) Jet A-1 fuel in commercial aviation. The potential financial implications are massive, as together the airline industry and the U.S. military use more than 42.25 million gallons (1.5 million barrels) of jet fuel a day.
In March 2010 Biomass Advisors released their 116-page study, Camelina Aviation Biofuels Market Opportunity and Renewable Energy Strategy Report, projecting that by 2025 one billion gallons of camelina biofuel would be produced for the aviation and biodiesel sectors, creating 25,000 new jobs and producing over $5.5 billion in new revenues and $3.5 billion in new agricultural income for U.S. and Canadian farmers. Biofuels Digest is projecting that global advanced biofuels capacity will reach 4.003 billion gallons by 2015, based on company announcements to date, with capacity reaching 718 million gallons in 2011, 1.522 billion by 2012, 2.685 billion by 2013, and 3.579 billion gallons by 2014.
Fuel and oil comprise 25 percent of civilian airlines' operating costs. When the price of jet fuel rises one cent, it increases the global cost of aviation $195 million.
The second development is that the critical mass of HRJ fuels on both civilian and military aircraft has been completed, with various military and civilian aircraft flying with HRJ additives made not only from camelina, but jatpropha, algae, babasu and coconut oil, among others. Production is set to soar from small "designer" batches of HRJ produced up to now for testing.
Quick of the block in playing to the big boys, Neste Oil will showcase its NExBTL HRJ renewable aviation fuel at the Paris Air Show later this month and airlines in the Virgin Group are collaborating to attempt to develop and share aviation biofuels at their common port of Los Angeles International airport. More airlines are sure to follow.
Another unexpected development leveling the playing field for aviation biofuels was the unexpected vote on 16 June by the U.S. Senate to repeal tax credits worth about $6 billion annually for producing ethanol, produced from U.S.-grown corn. With its 73-27 vote, the Senate passed an amendment to end the 45-cent-a-gallon subsidy the government gives oil companies for blending ethanol into gasoline and the 54-cent-per-gallon tariff it places on imported ethanol to protect the domestic market. Other biofuel producers for years have complained about the subsidies, which, contrary to popular imagery, go primarily to the oil companies, not small-time farmers.
Ethanol is the most heavily produced biofuel in the U.S., with nearly one third of U.S. corn production diverted to producing it while Brazil distills its ethanol from sugarcane, as an additive to gasoline. Other biofuel producers have complained that the subsidies both gave an unfair advantage to bioethanol producers but also soaked up much of the investment funding that might have other supported other renewables.
Between receiving formal approval for civilian airline use and the federal government preparing to end its support for U.S. ethanol welfare queens, sharp investors will be looking for potential winners on a playing field that is suddenly becoming much more level. And I haven't even mentioned Pentagon interest in biofuels - yet.
A story for another time.
To read the full story visit The Market Oracle Here
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
7 Airlines commit to flying on Biofuels
In the US, a group of seven airlines has signed letters of intent with Solena Fuels for a supply of 100% biomass-derived jet fuel to be produced in northern California.
The fuel will be produced at Solena's GreenSky California biomass-to-liquids (BtL) facility, located in northern California. At the plant, 550,000 tonnes of urban and agricultural waste will be converted into 16 million gallons a year of jet fuel by 2015. The facility will also produce 14 million gallon a year equivalents of other energy products.
'Today's announcement reinforces the ongoing steps that ATA member airlines are taking to stimulate competition in jet fuel production, contribute to the creation of green jobs, and promote energy security through economically viable alternatives that also demonstrate global and local environmental benefits,' says Nicholas Calio, the president and CEO of the industry trade organisation for the leading US airlines Air Transport Association of America (ATA).
'It is through the leadership and commitment of ATA member airlines and the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) that we are able to bring this groundbreaking alternative aviation fuels project in California to fruition,' he continues.
American Airlines and United Continental Holdings led the development of the agreement with Solena and were joined by five additional ATA member airlines – Alaska Airlines, FedEx, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines and US Airways – and ATA associate member Air Canada in signing the letters of intent, as well as Frontier Airlines and Lufthansa German Airlines.
World Jatropha Biofuel Report May 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Biofuel-powered jet flies across the Atlantic.
Honeywell shows off capabilities of its "green" jet fuel
By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch
PARIS (MarketWatch) — A business jet flew from New Jersey to Paris powered with a blend of "green" jet fuel and petroleum-based fuel, successfully completing the first biofuel transatlantic flight, Honeywell International Inc. said Saturday.
The flight highlights the growing importance of making aviation more environmentally friendly ahead of next week's Paris Air Show, which will bring together key players from the aerospace and defense industry.
This year, the show — Monday through June 26 — will devote a specific area to companies working on developing alternative aviation fuels.
The Honeywell-operated Gulfstream G450 jet left Morristown, N.J., at 9 p.m. on Friday and landed at Le Bourget airport outside Paris about seven hours later, closely tracking the route of Charles Lindbergh's historic first flight across the Atlantic.
Honeywell's "green" jet fuel was derived from camelina, an oilseed crop that can grow on marginal lan, and its use on the flight saved around 5.5 metric tons of net carbon dioxide emissions compared to the same flight powered by petroleum-based fuel, Honeywell /quotes/zigman/234291/quotes/nls/hon HON -0.89% said.
"This first biofuel trip across the Atlantic, along with more than a dozen other commercial and military test flights conducted to date, demonstrates that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel more than meets the demanding requirements for air travel," said Jim Rekoske, vice president and general manager of renewable energy and chemicals for Honeywell's UOP, in a statement.
"Now that the initial ASTM International approval is in place, we are one step closer to commercial use that will help the aviation community reduce its carbon footprint and dependence on crude," he said.
Honeywell said it has produced more than 700,000 gallons of "green" jet fuel from camelina, jatropha, algae and other sources for use in commercial and military testing. In the 16 biofuel flights conducted to date, the fuel has met all specifications for flight on military and commercial platforms without any modification to the aircraft or engines, according to the company.
Interest in renewable sources of fuel has been growing in the aviation industry. For example, at last year's Farnborough Airshow in the U.K., EADS unit Airbus showed off an aircraft powered by algae juice. Read more about the efforts of Airbus in this area.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Lowly shrub grows in stature as biofuel
Jatropha seed oil touted for jets
By Mark Kellner - The Washington Times
A plant that some have scorned as a predator might well turn out to be part of the answer to rising fuel bills for consumers.
Jatropha curcas, a poisonous, semi-evergreen shrub that can grow as high as 20 feet, produces seeds laden with oil that backers say is an ideal biofuel. One company that maintains 194,000 acres of the plant under cultivation in India is looking to expand farming, and fuel production, in the United States.
Mission NewEnergy, an Australian-based firm with operations in India and Europe and a recently opened branch in San Antonio, says it can deliver refined Jatropha oil at about $40 to $50 a barrel. The firm's U.S. entry also included listing its shares on Nasdaq, complementing its Australian Stock Exchange presence.
Mixed with traditional jet fuel, Jatropha oil already has been used on test flights by Continental Airlines, Air New Zealand and other carriers. Once approved for general use, Jatropha could help cut one of the aviation industry's highest costs.
Jatropha can provide "environmentally responsible fuel without compromising the food supply, so we can help the Earth while helping the public," said James Garton, president of the firm's U.S. branch. "That means we can finally reverse the skyrocketing prices at the pump and dependence on traditional sources of oil."
The race for the next big thing in biofuels is attracting serious investor attention. Jatropha is seen as a leading candidate along with such rivals as algae and camelina, a flowering flaxlike plant that, like Jatropha, can grow in marginal agricultural lands.
Jatropha has been touted as among the most promising biofuel sources, but it is not without problems.
In a study released last month, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looked at the efficiency of Jatropha and more than a dozen other proposed biofuel sources. Jatropha scored well as a fuel source and because the plant's husks, shells and meal could be used as fertilizer and other industrial purposes. Some of that gain, however, is offset by production and refining costs and the need for land to cultivate the plant.
"You can't say a biofuel is good or bad - it depends on how it is produced and processed, and that's part of the debate that hasn't been brought forward," James Hileman, who teaches in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, said in a statement accompanying the survey, which was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Mission NewEnergy said it is linked to its producers via contract farming agreements in more than 15,000 villages across five Indian states. Those operations, the firm said, are providing sustained employment for more than 140,000 previously impoverished farmers. It takes three to four years to get maximum yield from a Jatropha plant, with a 20-year productive life estimated for most plants.
Using a biofuel such as Jatropha in an industry such as aviation has its appeals.
At the end of May, two industry executives briefed congressional staffers on a report about the use of biofuels in the U.S. aviation industry. Speaking with The Washington Times by phone after the event, the executives noted the need for biofuels as a way to help meet the rising cost of jet fuel. A 1-cent increase in the price of jet fuel rings up an extra $175 million in costs for U.S. airlines, reports indicate.
"Fuel is our single biggest cost. Today, fuel costs 47 percent more than it did last year. That's a pretty big spike for your single largest cost," said Keith Loveless, vice president of corporate and legal affairs for Seattle-based Alaska Airlines. "We are looking for all sorts of alternatives," he added.
Added Billy M. Glover, environment and aviation policy vice president at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, "It's not a matter of one [biofuel] feedstock being better than others. It's going to take a portfolio of feedstocks, a portfolio of processing methods. … [T]o get to scale and make biofuels viable, you need feedstock options and a variety of processing methods."
Jatropha is being developed in Ghana, Tanzania, Peru and other nations such as India; a common denominator is the effort to grow the plant in areas where other crops aren't easily cultivated. Some environmentalists have said Jatropha has been overhyped and that optimal oil production requires initial irrigation and fertilizer that otherwise would be used for food production, a condition supporters say would affect only the short term.
Government officials in the southern African nation of Namibia late last month put the brakes on plans for large-scale Jatropha plantations in the country's northeast, citing the need for more study on the potential disruptive impact on food cultivation, landownership patterns and a loss of access to communal property.
Patrick M. O'Brien, a retired executive of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service who is now consulting for Mission NewEnergy, said Jatropha could find a domestic production base in an area extending "from Texas around the Gulf Coast up to South Carolina," although not too far north because of frost concerns. The areas where Jatropha could be grown domestically include some where farmers might reap profits.
To read the full story in the Washington Times, click here
Friday, June 10, 2011
Opec Concerned about the Growth of Biofuel Production
Just when America had all it could handle with the intense political struggle on Capitol Hill and around the country, a new column by Financial Times Commodities Editor Javier Blas tells us that the internal politics of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, may be far more troublesome.
Blas reports that after nearly a decade of relative cooperation among the member countries, the coalition is beginning to unravel. Blas warns that the more moderate voices in the cartel (yes, amongst this group Saudi Arabia is the moderate voice) are losing their influence.
Instead, rogue nations like Iran and Venezuela are exerting more influence in a drive to keep global oil prices above $100 per barrel. Previously, this level was thought to be too high and would result in demand destruction that the cartel sought to avoid. But no more. As Blas writes, "The hawkish camp needs much higher prices than it did over the last decade to survive economically. Venezuela, Iran and their allies need oil prices above $100 to balance their budgets after years of expansionary policies, generous subsidies and rampant military spending."
That last rationale for higher oil prices should give everyone pause. Nations with expressed ill-will and desire to see America fall are seeking to bolster their efforts by increasing the rate of wealth transfer from America to oil-rich regimes. Americans are already sending nearly $1 billion a day overseas to pay for our oil addiction.
All of this comes against a backdrop of American political angst and misleading efforts to derail America's pursuit of renewable alternatives to oil. Many lawmakers, including those claiming to be tough on countries hostile to the U.S., are seeking to undermine the growth and evolution of American ethanol and biofuel production and cement oil's position as the default American fuel. They are seeking to prevent the installation of blender pumps that offer consumers a choice when refueling. They are seeking to pull the rug out from under and industry that is still maturing and threatening to derail the progress of new ethanol technologies like cellulosic ethanol production. The only outcome of such policies is higher gas prices and an increase in oil imports – the exact outcome for which Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are cheering.
The black and white of it is that ethanol is the only alternative to oil that is having any impact on America's voracious oil appetite. The use of 13 billion gallons of ethanol in 2010 reduced America's need for imported oil by 445 million barrels – more oil than we import from Saudi Arabia annually.
Moreover, ethanol is reducing the pain American's feel at the pump as a result of oil markets being held hostage by the whims of OPEC. According to a report from respected economists at the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, the mere presence of ethanol in the market kept gasoline prices $0.89 lower than they otherwise would have been in 2010. That is a savings of some $800 for the average American family.
The impact of ethanol can even be seen in oil pricing around the world. As RFA's Geoff Cooper noted in his analysis of the unusual and growing spread between the West Texas Intermediate crude contract at the terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma and the Brent Crude price in the UK, "… ethanol now constitutes 10% of the U.S. gasoline pool and represents a rapidly growing share of U.S. refinery input. In other words, the glut of North American oil creating the logjam at Cushing is in large part the result of increased ethanol production and use. Larger ethanol supplies are eating into U.S. oil demand and putting downward pressure on WTI prices."
To be clear, all OPEC members are concerned about the growing role of biofuels. In confidential 2010 U.S. Embassy cables recently uncovered by WikiLeaks, Ambassador James Smith stated that the Saudi assistant petroleum minister had expressed concern that Saudis could be "greened out" of the U.S. fuel market by biofuels like ethanol. According to the cable, "Prince Abdulaziz (the Assistant Minister of Petroleum) noted that in 2009, the U.S. for the first time consumed more ethanol domestically than Saudi oil. Saudi officials watched the ethanol debate with great interest…"
Even the "moderate" voices in OPEC are concerned about the growth and potential of American ethanol production to replace the need for imported oil.
With the motives of OPEC nations clear, it begs the question, "Why would we let them off the hook?" Instead of seeking to turn back the clock to the days of gas lines and oil embargoes, the nation should be seeking ways to expedite the growth and evolution of the American ethanol and biofuel market. Sadly, as is the case within OPEC, politics are threatening to trump sound policy.
To read more visit the Renewable Fuels Association Site here
Colone as a currency play
The Colone is up over 22% against the dollar over the past 16 months and almost 30% against the Euro and our views are backed up by this interesting article by Jackie Flynn, Publisher of International Living:
to Protect and Grow
Your Savings as the End
of the "Age of America" Draws Near...
Dear International Living Reader,
Donald Trump... Mitt Romney... Barack Obama...
Despite all the hype, it won't matter much who becomes America's next Commander in Chief...
...Because according to a top-level economic report,
the next president of the United States could be the LAST
to lead the world's biggest economy...
This tectonic shift in global economic power would have two very important consequences:
- The standard of living in the United States will drop.
- The buying power of the U.S. dollar will plunge even further.
According to the report – which the International Monetary Fund quietly posted on its website last month – adjusting for exchange rates, the Chinese economy will grow to $19 trillion in 2016. Meanwhile, the size of the U.S. economy will rise to just $18.8 trillion.
Take a moment to digest that...
In the 1980, China was poorer than Afghanistan...and it had half the per capita income of Niger or Chad.
And as recently as a decade ago, the U.S. economy was three times the size of the Chinese economy...
...Yet in less than five years from now China
could eclipse America in economic might...
Unfortunately, most folks simply aren't prepared for this. And as a result, they are in danger of seeing their savings shrink over the coming years. That's because:
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- They have too much of their money invested in U.S. government bonds – investments that could be WIPED OUT as inflation rises.
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But investors who understand the ongoing shift of power stand to profit from the growing number of opportunities outside of America's borders.
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But, ultimately, it's up to YOU which group you belong to – those who take action or those who don't.
It's Happened Before –
When the Sun Set on Britain's Empire
This won't be the first time an economic superpower has come and gone. And it won't be the last.
Imagine, just for a moment, it's 1910...and that you are part of the comfortable British middle class.
You work for a successful business. You earn a decent wage and provide for your children. You are neither at the top of the economic pyramid...nor the bottom.
Life is good...
London is the center of the world. And the British Empire stretches all the way from Australia...to India...Singapore...to Canada.
The currency in your bank account, the British pound, is the currency of global trade. And your government is the world's biggest creditor.
You're not worried about this changing. Because your army...and navy...are the most powerful on the planet. And because you have known nothing different. As far back as you can remember Britain has stood head and shoulders above all the world's other economies.
The world is the way it should be. And you see your children...and your grandchildren...enjoying the same standards of living as you do. Or better.
But it is a false sense of security.
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Greece. Rome. Portugal. Spain. All at one stage or another have been dominant world powers, only to shrink in stature and be forced to share the world's economy with others.
The End of the "Age of America"...
This is a story that affects YOU.
You see, like it or not, the end of the "Age of America" is the biggest economic story of our time...
...It will change how you live and how your children live.
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It's critical that you take steps now to protect your portfolio from the changes that are coming.
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500 houses to get solar panels as part of clean energy project
As part of a pilot program to promote clean energy, the roofs of 500 homes in Costa Rica will receive solar panels that can produce electricity for the company Nacional de Fuerza y Luz (CNFL).
The project will cost $1 million and be financed by CNFL, according to the Costa Rican daily, La Nacion. For the participants there aren't any bills, but they will receive a monthly fee for renting their roof and allowing the installation of CNFL's technical equipment. On each home, CNFL will place two 200 watt panels. The company will also install an "inverter" that can pass direct current to alternating current. In total, the equipment to be installed in each home will cost $2,000 and remain as assets of CNFL.
If a house uses more than 400 watts, the extra watts required will come from conventional electricity sources. If the demand is lower than 400 watts, the excess will go to the national electricity distribution system.
The first 300 panels will be set up between November and December this year and the last 200 in January 2012. The CNFL will soon publish a report on the process for selecting suitable houses. According to Henry Solis, the Director of CNFL's Innovation and Energy Sufficiency Department, the main aim of the project is to show people how they can contribute to prevent climate changes. He also hopes that the project will lead to a greater demand for electric cars.
"The cost of this equipment is still very expensive and hard to finance, but it is expected that in 3 years a new generation of affordable panels will be available," Solis said.
CNFL is the second distributor within recent years to launch a pilot scheme on distributed generation. Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) also started off its program in late 2010. ICE's goal is to install 5 megawatt capacity wind-based generators, water, sunlight and biomass (waste). The plan includes many Costa Rican businesses and industries though the subscribers will pay for the cost of the equipment.


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The western misunderstanding of Communist China has been called "the liberal myth." With our mindset and experience, it is almost impossible to grasp that a country can fail to open up politically when it opens up economically. "The more we bring China into the world," said then President Bill Clinton, "the more the world will bring freedom to China." We have thought that the new middle class would make itself a force for liberalization. But in the socialist market economy, it has instead aligned itself with the Communist Party. We have thought that the internet would forge opening up from below. But behind the Great Firewall, it has instead become another instrument of control from above. Liberalisation has not happened, but we cling to the belief that it will. When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, it was thought, with no evidence whatsoever, that the time had come for a new leadership of reform. What has followed is ever tighter dictatorship.
The Chinese model is entirely unique, like nothing the world has ever known. We simply get it wrong if we try to squeeze it into our own models. It needs to be understood on its own terms.
For those who deal with China from outside, there is a huge temptation to see it in a good light. It is a big power and economy with which we must get along. It is an ancient oriental culture which attracts interest and fascination. The west is bedazzled by China's mysticism and bigness. Henry Kissinger, for example (in On China), pays Beijing tribute with his romantic notion of the "civilization state." The academic literature on China is generally critical, but even much of that criticism conforms in its way with the liberal myth. We observe the absence of rule of law, but take that to be a pathology in a regime that could do better. We observe the censorship, the propaganda, the "thought-work," and the thuggish "stability maintenance" and criticize the regime for its excesses.
The abuse of the law and the courts and the brutal clampdown on any form of active opposition are, however, not "mistakes" on the part of a confused regime. These practices are logical and necessary, given the regime as it is.
In the Chinese party-state, there is a single supreme determination that trumps all others: stability, meaning the regime's perpetuation of itself. The post-Mao rulers have had two strategies of self-preservation: the purchase of legitimacy and the exercise of control. During the last decades of rapid economic growth, they could rely on being rewarded for economic betterment. But mega-growth is now over and people's expectations are outrunning government delivery. The leaders are therefore shifting to relying more on controls. Behind Xi Jinping's tightening of dictatorship lies a steely analysis of what is needed to avoid the disintegration that has befallen previous Leninist systems, primarily the Soviet Union.
A dispassionate analysis of today's Chinese system is unavoidably despondent. Not much, if anything, can be expected of reform for the better from within. Dictatorship is here to stay.
However, the model is still, to some degree, in the balance, if only between harder and softer dictatorship. That difference matters enormously for the Chinese people and for the world.
The current leader is flirting with a new ideology of nationalism and chauvinism under his slogan of the "China Dream." Ideologies are always dangerous and their force should never be underestimated. If the new ideology were to take hold, Xi could abandon all of the pragmatic legacy after Deng Xiaoping and embrace all-out totalitarianism, now of nationalistic rather than Marxist inspiration.
Our misunderstanding of China leads us to confusion in our dealing with the new superpower, as recently for example in Britain's failed attempt to make itself China's best friend in Europe. The truth is that we must continue to do business with a regime that is and will remain repugnant. It is safer to do that with open eyes than by pretending that hard dictatorship is benevolent autocracy. It is more productive to be straight with a Chinese leadership that does not believe flattery.
The outside world has very little sway over developments in China. But we do have one lever that could give us some influence to possibly hold China to at least pragmatic dictatorship. The leaders are not content with power but desperate for respect. It is in our gift to award or withhold respect. That influence cannot change China for the better, but it might do something to prevent it from getting worse.
To use this lever to effect we should stand firm on our own values and principles and claim democracy's moral high ground. We should then engage with China on all levels, economically and politically as well as in science and culture and in other ways. By engagement, China binds itself to international rules and commitments.
We, our leaders that is, should speak out in clear language against China's breach of human rights and rule of law. That should always be done with reference to China's own constitution and laws, which are in these respects sound (if ineffective). And we should speak out in clear language against China's policies of aggression. That should always be done with reference to international law.
The Chinese leaders want respect because they need respect abroad for legitimacy at home. We should let them know that if they want our respect, they must respect their own people and other nations.


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Do you just not have the intimidation factor necessary to have people do what you say? Well, here's a possible solution: an original Darth Vader costume used in The Empire Strikes Back. Yeah, that'll get their attention.
The costume is going up for auction at Christie's in London and is expected to fetch between $250,000 and $365,000. Sure, that's a whole lot of money for a costume, but come on. Halloween is this weekend, and I'm pretty sure you'd put any other costume to shame with this thing. Worth it!
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5 Questions with Sommelier Kelly Peterson Bates
Hi, my name's Kelly Peterson Bates. I am the beverage manager and a certified sommelier here at The Boarding House at 720 N Wells in Chicago Illinois. For anyone that is not familiar with The Boarding House, we are owned and operated by Master Sommelier Alpana Singh. I work directly under her. We focus on a global wine list here at The Boarding House; it's about 500 selections and it is curated to pair with Chef Tanya Baker's contemporary American menu
Q1: Tell us about your journey to becoming a Beverage Manager at The Boarding House.
I've been working in restaurants since I was probably about 15 or 16. Started off at Red Lobster as a hostess and a busser and then ended up getting a serving job at a little Italian family-run spot, it's outside of Baltimore, called La Cucina (it's no longer there). But I served tables there all the way through high school and moved to Boston to go to college where I also waited tables to put myself through college. And that was at The Parish Cafe. That was more beer and sandwich driven, so we did a wine and beer tasting one day. So a rep from a company came in and did this wine tasting. Never had done it before in my life and I ended up calling out everything. She was asking us to go through and talk about what we smelled, what we tasted and afterwards she came up and was like, "Did you ever work in the wine industry before?" No, not at all, and she's like, "Well you might want to look into this," and she gave me a bunch of information. Court of Master Sommeliers was one of the websites she recommended to go and visit. Didn't really do anything with it through college. I was focused on music, which is what I got my degree in. So then I moved to Chicago and got a job out here at Sunda, which is here in Chicago, and there the wine and the sake program was a lot more intense than I'd ever worked with so I really was really able to develop in the beverage aspect of things. So then I started taking it seriously. I bought a bunch of wine books, started reading it and within probably about a year of intense study, I went and took my Level 1 and my WSET 1 & 2 and then it just went from there. Found out that Alpana was opening up a restaurant and I applied and I got hired the next day. She called me personally and I've been here ever since.
Q2: What does your typical week entail?
It's always hectic-crazy. Mondays I come in and focus on liquor and beer ordering. So I inventory and then put the orders in for what we need for the week. Tuesday is all non-alcoholic beverage as well as the first round of wine orders – which is usually whatever we've 86'ed and run through throughout the weekend. Wednesdays I usually set up appointments, do tastings with a lot of my reps and any kind of extra-curricula things that are presented for me to do. Every Wednesday at 3pm we have staff training here at The Boarding House so I'm in charge of running that. I prepare a little mini-lesons and we do an hour of intense study for them – blind tastings, things that are new to the list, just to kind of keep them engaged and learning. We have an awesome staff here that is very, very dedicated and they're here every week so we do that on Wednesdays. Thursday is the rest of my wine ordering, as well as any other appointments that I have set up and then Friday is reprint-day; which is what I've been doing today. So you just get the list all cleaned up and ready to go for the weekend, and any new additions are placed on. Throughout the week I work the floor, 3 to 4 times a week. I actually have a section and work as a floor [Sommelier] throughout the building. That's pretty much it. And then on my weekends I do all of my administrative from home – just setting up appointments for the next week and […] just kind of where i want the list to go and figuring out new additions that I want to put on for the week to come and really just cleaning things up. It's really non-stop. In my spare time I'm studying – I'm taking my Advanced soon. So yeah, it's just non-stop. You eat, sleep and breath it.
Q3: If you could have a glass of wine with anyone, dead or alive – who would it be, what would you pour and why?
Currently, right now, probably my brother – who's not dead – thank god! He actually just found out, like a week ago, that he's shipping off for basic training. I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to him. It was just so quick and furious. So I wouldn't minding sitting down with him and having a little glass of bubbles and saying cheers to his future in the Army.
Q4: Favorite touristy thing to do in the city?
Don't have a lot of time to do touristy things, but whenever I do, obviously in the summer going to the lake – hanging out over there is nice. But my main thing is honestly just going and trying out all of the different restaurants. My husband is a chef in the city, so he and I have a very long list of places that we're trying to check off. It's hard because every week there are new ones coming on, so basically when we have time we just try to go through and do the whole eat around Chicago thing.
Q5: What food and wine pairing shouldn't be missed on your menu?
Right now we're actually just going live with this tonight. We have a Coravin system here and we're going to be featuring Williams Selyem, their 2011 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir. That would go really nicely with the Peking duck breast that chef Tanya just recently added to the menu. We've had it on for about 3 weeks now, it's delicious! It's one of the best duck I've ever had, but with the Pinot it's a classic pairing and it's just going to go really nicely and Williams Selyem's a classic. And we only have 5 bottles of the William Seylem, so that's going to sell out quick. So if you want to get it, definitely do it within the next month.


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A unique introduction to education text designed to help pre-service teachers identify and confirm certification levels for their future careers in teaching. The book focuses on 12 students, as well as teachers and administrators, using them as examples in the opening chapters as well as throughout the book. Along with the book comes a DVD that is also unique in that it includes classroom footage of the focus students and teachers featured in the text. The overall theme of the book is "how are the children?" This serves as a reminder that all teachers must always remember to think of the student first. The text brings teaching to life by taking the reader into a real school with real teachers and students. All but one chapter begins with aTeaching in Focusfeature that focuses on one of the ten-featured teachers and an experience from their classroom that fits with the content of the chapter. Rural, suburban, and urban schools are represented to help teaching students decide if teaching is right for them, what kind of teacher they want to be, and what age students they would like to teach. Some of the other pedagogical features in the book include: Teacherrs"s Days, Delights, and Dilemmas-In each chapter a state Teacher of the Year writes about experiences and lessons learned related to the chapter content. Letter to the Editor (Chapters 1-7, and 10-12)-a public response to a relevant issue in education in the form of a letter help readers decide what their teacher identities might be. In the News-this feature links ABC News footage on the DVD of national issues and gives opportunities to reflect on the impact of the content on teachers, classrooms, and students. A scales icon marksBalance Margin Notesin each chapter. What Role Will Diversity Play in My Teaching Identity?-these boxes appear at the end of every chapter. Professional Practice features also appear at the end of every chapter to help students apply the chapter content to what they need to do to become a professional educator.


text: Share: Comments Print September 1, 2013 at 9:08 AM Tony Floor's Tackle Box loaded with September salmon fishing option Posted by Mark Yuasa (Tony Floor with a 20 pound king caught at Buoy-10 late last month. Photo by Mark Yuasa.) Say it after me… Oncorhynchus Kisutch. Say what? If you guessed it's a term for ordering a pizza delivery to your boat, you guessed wrong. It's the scientific name for coho salmon and here comes September, known by many salmon anglers as time to do the coho shuffle. King salmon time is winding down for many of us, with a few exceptions such as Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor on the Washington coast, but September is a coho salmon stampede, barreling down the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Washington coast throughout the month, like a runaway freight train. And baby, in a year like this, we have a lot of coho salmon fishing options. These coho salmon are bound for tributaries to all Washington rivers, averaging in size from six to 12 pounds as three year old fish, ready to make their contribution to the next generation of their species. Scientists suggest and have recorded a maximum size of a coho salmon at 31 pounds. Are you kidding me?! A 31-pound coho has the power to close the roof on Safeco Field! Let's examine the numbers. The Columbia River plans to host a return of around 500,000 coho salmon. Two stocks of coho dominate the run, an early timed stock and a late timed stock. The early stock traditionally peaks around Labor Day weekend entering the river, while the late stock peaks around the first week of October. Grays Harbor, which often produces the largest coho stocks in the state (Chehalis and Satsop Rivers), should witness a return of around 300,000 fish. This is a windfall, in terms of numbers. In 2012, for example, 198,000 wild coho were forecasted, accompanied by 47,000 hatchery fish. In 2013, the forecast suggests 196,000 wild coho salmon will return, along with 85,000 hatchery produced fish. The regulations say anglers can keep three per day, either wild or hatchery fin-clipped fish. Mercy! If you're looking for me, find me in my Grays Harbor regional office, 1-800-123-fish per day! Puget Sound, not to be denied, has a forecast of 880,000 coho salmon, combined hatchery and wild fish. That's 150,000 more than 2012 which was considered an awesome coho year. The Edmonds Coho Derby, September 7th, followed by the biggest salmon derby on the west coast, the Everett Coho Derby, September 21-22 could see record catches. They are two tournaments representing the grand daddies of the NW Salmon Derby Series, all built around coho salmon returning to the Sound. I spend a lot of time, writing about chinook salmon, and, without the luxury of visiting the confession booth, they are my favorite salmon species whether they be blackmouth (immature) or kings (mature). In fact, they are my favorite species of fish in the world. But coho salmon earn my respect, especially when they exceed 10 pounds. Great fight, great eats and they do not require fine-tuned skills to get them to bite. In fact, I had one knock on my front door last weekend announcing that they were in town. I know, it's September. Decades ago, back in the 70's, my mentor Frank Haw introduced me to coho fishing in early September up at Neah Bay and Sekiu in mid-September. He suggests that coho fishing out of Neah Bay in the Cape Flattery region is all-world. If you want to catch a big coho, on fly gear, whether it be bucktailing (trolling a surface fly 50-60 feet behind the boat at a fast clip) or trolling a plug cut herring in the top 30 feet of the water column, you're in business. Mooching works too as this technique, of working a plug-cut or whole herring in the upper part of the water column was the way, to historically fish for and catch salmon. Not anymore. Technology in trolling techniques with spoons, flies and hoochies own the sport salmon fishing world in Washington. Get over it. Coho fishing out of Sekiu in mid-September is ridiculous. Try and find a room to rent. Camping, hauling an RV, it doesn't matter: No Vacancy. Sleeping in a tree is an option, but not in Sekiu as they are full too. Why? Big coho salmon, baby, ocean run fat boys. Eating and eating and eating, the way John Belushi did in his movie Animal House. As these fish move down the Strait, toward Puget Sound, their feeding behaviors change as they become finicky eaters and pursue deeper parts of the water column. After all, they have been pounding the baitfish hard, for the last few months. Whichever direction you choose, from Neah Bay to Puget Sound, or down at the mouth of the Columbia River and of course the big show in Grays Harbor, here come the coho salmon. I'm stocking my Grays Harbor office now, for show time beginning September 16th, when the fishery opens. Giddy-up coho lovers! See you on the water. (Tony Floor is the Director of Fishing Affairs for the Northwest Marine Trade Association (NMTA) and a former 30-year veteran of state Fish and Wildlife. NMTA advocates for and promotes recreational boating and fishing in the region.) Comments


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Mental Health
AMHS-KFLA offers a diverse array of supports and services for people experiencing a mental health problem, mental illness or mental health condition. For more information about accessing the AMHS-KFLA Mental health services that are right for you, please call 613-544-1356 (Kingston & Frontenac) or 613-354-7521 (Lennox & Addington) weekdays 8:30am-4:30pm.
For professionals making referrals on behalf of clients, please use our external-referral form or downloadable form.
Case Management
Case Managers work with individuals who have mental health or addiction issues and are living independently in the community. Clients are assigned a Case Manager with whom they can meet regularly. Services are designed to assist clients in their home, work, school and social environments. Case Managers provide goal-oriented and individualized supports focusing on improved self-sufficiency, through assessment, planning, referrals, advocacy and the development of skills and resources that meet the individual's needs. Meetings are confidential and can take place in the home, in a community setting (e.g. coffee shop), or at our offices. Case management can assist with:
- Development of problem solving and coping skills.
- Development of skills for budgeting and personal care as well as time, anger and stress management.
- Learning about mental illness or addiction and symptom management.
- Connecting to other community supports and services.
- Interactions with landlords, Public Trustees, ODSP or other services.
A consulting psychiatrist is available for consultation around medication and treatment options.
Transitional Case Management: Provides services to clients for up to 12 weeks, offering assistance and support in dealing with issues that arise in the aftermath of a mental health or addiction crisis. TCM service provides advocacy, support and referrals to help navigate community resources and supports.
Rural Outreach: Case Managers provide services to individuals living in Central and North Frontenac and Lennox and Addington counties. Offices in Verona and Sharbot Lake are staffed by appointment.
Youth: Recovery-oriented, person-centred support and links to services for youth aged 16-24 who are experiencing mental health or addiction issues is available within our Case Management program.
Group Treatment and Support
AMHS-KFLA offers a range of group treatment programs and support groups to help individuals reach their recovery goals. You can view dates and locations for all upcoming groups on our events calendar. Programs we offer include:
- Making Connections – Open to anyone with no registration required, this group is well-suited for those who are considering connecting or have recently connected to AMHS-KFLA services. Weekly rotating modules offer resources on Coping with Stress, Self-Care, Managing Emotions and more.
- Managing Powerful Emotions* – a 12-week program offering strategies and support for managing emotions, coping with stress and avoiding destructive behaviours.
- Understanding Addiction* – a weekly program with rotating modules including Triggers & Coping Strategies, Self-Care, Coping with Negative Thoughts, Mindfulness and more. Abstinence is not a requirement, however we ask that you not attend while under the influence.
View dates and locations for all upcoming groups on our events calendar.
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Counselling and Treatment
This program offers evidence-based psychotherapy with a focus on recovery and wellness for people with serious mental health concerns.
Therapy is available in different formats (individual, groups) and is informed by different evidence-based approaches based on people's presenting concerns and treatment goals.
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Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multi-disciplinary approach that provides a comprehensive, collaborative array of treatment, rehabilitation and support services to individuals requiring intensive support. ACT serves individuals with acute or persistent mental health concerns who may also have co-occurring problems such as substance use disorders, homelessness or involvement with the legal system. ACT is delivered by a team that includes occupational, behavioural, recreational and vocational professionals, addictions and peer specialists, nurses, social workers and psychiatrists. These highly-qualified staff provide individual and family support, as well as advocacy and assistance in accessing other community services. The goal is to assist those experiencing serious mental health concerns in reaching their recovery goals. The team is mobile and provides services to people in their community, using psychosocial rehabilitation principles and practices to promote recovery and community integration through a person-centred approach.


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Political ideology and feelings about the Bush administration aside, history is likely to show that the surge in Iraq was a success -- at least militarily. The surge was authored by Gen. David Petraeus and involved the commitment of 30,000 extra troops to improve security in Baghdad. It also involved embracing the payoffs of Sunni leaders and a call for what turned out to be a tenuous truce from cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
Remember, too, that the first six months of the surge, from January to early July 2007, were some of the war's toughest months.
Into this complicated global stew, David Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, has gone micro to look at a group of soldiers brought into the surge to serve a 15-month deployment. Finkel's often lyrical book, "The Good Soldiers," follows a U.S. Army battalion, the 2-16, nicknamed the Rangers, from tearful send-offs in the wintry windswept fields of Fort Riley, Kan., to a former Iraqi air base on the outskirts of eastern Baghdad, where "everything was the color of dirt and stank."
You won't hear much about Petraeus -- or President George Bush, for that matter -- in this look at the surge at the grunt level. That might be better left to books like Thomas Ricks' "The Gamble," in which Petraeus admitted that he looked back on that time as a "horrific nightmare."
Instead, Finkel's main protagonist is Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, who "believed in destiny, in God, in Jesus Christ, and in everything happening for a reason, although sometimes the meaning of something wasn't immediately clear to him." He would lead some 800 soldiers into the surge. Fourteen would not come back; and scores of others would face a new world of prosthetics, antidepressants and nightmares after it was over -- like the soldier who lost an eye and now wears a fake one with a crosshair pattern.
Finkel's journalistic skill is significant. He has a sharp eye for detail that illuminates the bigger picture. For instance, he captures the frustration of trying to secure an old spaghetti factory that was to be key to establishing a command post in a volatile Baghdad neighborhood. The problem: The factory sat above a basement with several feet of raw sewage, with a cadaver floating in it. The sewage became known as "the float" and the cadaver was nicknamed "Bob." The phrase "Bobbing the float" will never be the same. After several attempts to respectfully retrieve the body and much paperwork and bureaucracy, the factory was eventually mortared and made unusable by insurgents.
Finkel's skills at taking us inside is also one of the problems with "The Good Soldiers." Similar to books like "Blackhawk Down" or even "Into Thin Air," the narrative sometimes suffers from too many names and situations to clearly consume. One of the demons of war is that violence and death become too common and repetitive. So, too, do the well-documented but redundant costs to the soldiers of the 2-16.
It's a small criticism, though. Finkel's lens has the dispassion of the journalist but the focus of someone who has been allowed to be intimate with the rawest of emotions in the rawest of times. "The Good Soldiers" will have value as a document of one small aspect of the surge, but it also should stand on its own as a valuable piece of combat literature beyond the Iraq War.
Mark Brunswick, the Star Tribune's military affairs writer, reported from Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq and was embedded at the camp where 2-16 was stationed. He is at 651-222-1636.


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Israel, Jesus, & the Church
Let the richness of that statement settle in:
You are a member of a chosen people. This goes way beyond a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The group of chosen people is a royal priesthood and a holy nation. It's called out and set apart by God - not to get private benefits for themselves, but to give public blessings to others. This goes way beyond any particular flag, national anthem, or pledge of allegiance - this is global. The group belongs to God. It's God's possession - bought at a price. This goes way beyond pot-luck suppers and pizza parties. It's about the full, deep realities of the cosmos. And the group exists to declare the praises of God. This goes way beyond Sunday morning. It's about your whole life, so that all your waking and resting, eating and drinking, working and playing can be offered to God as acts of praise and worship.
But here's the catch: this vocation is not original to Christians in the New Testament, it's an echo of Israel's vocation in the Old Testament.
"You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (Exodus 19:4-6 NIV).
How did this text make it from the Old Testament Israelites to the New Testament Christians? That's part of the long story the Bible is telling.
God created. Man rebelled. Sin spread.
God promised. Pharaoh enslaved. God delivered.
God offered. Israel tried.
Kings ruled. Prophets threatened. Babylon conquered.
Exile started. People returned.
And they waited...
Rather than embracing their God-given identity through obedience to God and blessing to the nations, Israel chose the path of folly, arrogance, and disobedience. So instead of nations being blessed by Israel, the nations mocked Israel.
And so they waited...
for God to become their king again, for God to dwell in their midst again, for God to implement the new covenant spoken about by the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
Then out by the Jordan River, a fiery prophet named John, who is known as the baptizer, starts gathering a people to prepare the way for the one who is to come - the Messiah, the King of the Jews, and the Lord of the whole world.
Jesus emerges as the one they've been waiting for. He is the one to whom all the signposts of the Old Testament are pointing - David's son, the suffering servant, the Son of man, the Temple, the sacrifice, the Word and Wisdom of God. Jesus is presented as the one who fulfills and upstages them all - most notably on the cross and through the resurrection when new creation sprang to life in the midst of the old.
Then we find ourselves back again at 1 Peter 2:9. Now, with the volume amplified, hopefully the echo can be heard more clearly. The identity of "God's people advancing God's purpose" was assigned to Israel in the Old Testament, but their particular role was fulfilled by Jesus and has now expanded to include the worldwide web of Jesus' followers who are gathered and scattered in churches comprised of people from every nation, tribes, and tongue.
"Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age'" (Matthew 28:18-20 NLT).
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The 2009 Black List is out. Thanks Pia for the heads up and "Niles" for firing the first salvo on The Black List on the Discussion Board
For those of you who don't know, The Black List is an annual list of Hollywood's most liked unproduced screenplays. It started in 2004 when Franklin Leonard, a development executive for Appian Way, asked folks in the business to send in their list of top 10 unproduced screenplays. Those lists were complied into The Black List (which now as a site entirely devoted to The Black List).
Previous Black List scripts include "The Queen" , "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Juno".
This year's list is topped by THE MUPPET MAN by Christopher Weekes The life story and tragic early death of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets." and THE SOCIAL NETWORK by Aaron Sorkin The story of the founders of the social networking
Read, Elizabeth Currid's excellent opinion piece, The Black List: what it can, and cannot, do for Hollywood filmmaking
It can't be emphasized enough, however, that The Black List is a compilation of most liked, not best. This is clearly evident based on Mystery Man on Film's August, 2009 review of one of The Black List scripts, Balls Out (in pdf format hosted by The Robotard 8000). The script was written by Tim Talbott and Malcolm Spellman under the psudonym The Robotard 8000. When insurance salesman Jim Simmers has a near death experience, he decides that nothing matters except getting a promotion, a new car, and the hot girl from work. Jim's new attitude alienates his friends and co-workers, and he must figure out how to live his new life without losing his old one.
MMoF begins his review, "I found this script to be a vile, degenerate, 107-page piece of shit, about as witty as a maggot-infested corpse but only half as intelligent… Read the rest of the review, it only gets better. – Don


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Our current Take It Make It challenge is in full swing, with some amazing entries so far!
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NEW DELHI, Oct 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday he was "relatively confident" that Washington can manage its fiscal challenges.
The U.S. economy could be pitched into a new recession because of substantial tax rises and government spending cuts - the so-called "fiscal cliff" - due to hit early next year unless Congress agrees to cancel or delay them.
But Geithner sounded a cautiously upbeat note at an India-U.S. business forum during a visit to New Delhi.
"Now we're growing close to potential but if you look through those factors, its a little more encouraging than you might think," he said. "We are now in a much stronger position than what is true for any other major developed economy."
(Reporting by Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Singh; Editing by John Chalmers)
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Indonesia wants to block gay-friendly mobile applications, adding to a series of measures targeting sexual and gender minorities in the country.
The Ministry of Communications and Information has requested that US technology giants Google and Apple block more than a dozen gay dating apps from their app stores for the Indonesian market, spokesman Noor Iza said.
Three of the apps - BoyAhoy, Grindr and Blued - have been singled out for an immediate ban, Iza said.
"For the time being we are prioritising those three apps because those are the most obvious in their promotion of sexual deviance," he said.
The move came after police arrested two people last month accused of using mobile apps to lure minors and connect them with "gay clients" to have sex.
Human rights groups have voiced concerns over growing hostilities against sexual and gender minorities following remarks by some officials denouncing homosexuals.
Anti-gay sentiment in the mainly Muslim country rose earlier this year after Higher Education Minister Muhammad Nasir banned university groups advocating for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.


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Speaking at a press conference on the island of Majorca last week, Miquel Pou has announced that he will be a candidate in the elections for president of FC Barcelona that will be held in June. Pou defines himself as 'the people's candidate'.
Being a candidate. "People falsely think that to be the president of Barça, you need to be a property developer or a multimillionaire. I don't believe that because I don't know any president who has put one euro of his own money into the club."
The signatures and the bank guarantee. "It will be complicated. Everything will depend on a good campaign, looking for support and using the new technologies like the internet. Regarding the money, that should come from all those who support this candidacy."
Support and campaign. "I'm very well-knowm among the Barça club members on the isle of Majorca and I've planned to go to Barcelona in April to campaign. In fact, I will travel there as many times as is necessary for people to get to know me."
Sports area. "I don't want to talk about signings because that's not ethical. The sports director will be chosen by the coach to avoid differences between them."
Economic area. "I will count on a team of professionals."
Match time. "I will negotiate with the televisions so that the games of Barcelona are played before 8 pm. If it's later, the people from outside Catalonia are forced to spend the night in Barcelona and that's very expensive."
Alliances. "At this moment, I'm not considering to join another candidacy. I'm only thinking about getting as far as possible. If things don't work out, we can still talk about it later."
Miquel Pou is an employee of the University of the Balearic Islands. The 44-years old Majorcan is vice-president of a Barcelona fan club he co-founced in 2003 and of which he was the president for five years. Pou is also responsible of the social area of Spanish fourth division club Atlètic Balears.
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From Chapter 7, Symbiotic Rebranding, aka Marriage:
Churches and temples have such unflattering lighting for magazine-cover-quality picture taking, so it's the rare big celebrity wedding ceremony that ever sees the inside of one. Since this event must have the utmost air of exclusivity, the ceremony and reception can't be held in any two-bit hotel or catering hall, where the public they're so desperate to have love them might accidentally ruin everything by crashing their wedding. No, it has to be on a grand estate somewhere, lent to them for the occasion by some billionaire producer or oil sheikh. And it absolutely must be outdoors, so that the much-maligned paparazzi can scale the gates or launch helicopters overhead. A true attention whore would never stage her nuptials inside, where there's no chance for outsiders to turn it into a frantic media circus. Then the whole thing will have been for nothing.
Bearing in mind that this is purely gossip at this point, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Britney Spears:
Britney Spears is ready to walk down the aisle with boyfriend of one year David Lucado.
And she plans to do so in rock 'n' roll style at Graceland, the home once shared by Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla, according to a Tuesday report from RadarOnline.
The Toxic singer is interested in the Memphis Tennessee location – which is now a museum – because the 32-year-old wants to grab as much attention as she can for her third wedding, according to the site.
While she is not yet officially engaged, the Toxic singer has her eye on the estate not just because it is her dream venue, but also because it is potentially a big money earner.
A source told the website: 'Britney wants to get as much attention and money for pictures with her third wedding as she did for her second, which is why she is considering reaching out to Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, to ask if she can be married in the Graceland Estate in Memphis, Tennessee.
'Getting married at the home of the late king of rock and roll in an elegant Southern-style ceremony would certainly generate one-of-a-kind pictures that Brit already plans to make the front page of magazines around the world.'
Like we said, it's purely gossip at this point, but should it ever be confirmed, you all have our permission to shout out "BE ME OR DO ME BINGO" as soon as you hear the news. Still, while this certainly has attention-whoring written all over it, we doubt it'll surpass Kanye and Kim's wedding for sheer celeb-asshattery.


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I don't want to waste it away -- the time -- on waiting to live fully only in the fullness of light.
I want to see, live nestled inside these moments with little boys who only want to snuggle their mommy and serve her pretend sparkling wine from the restaurant of imagination.
I don't want to lose it to the darkness of anxiety-laced thoughts about MRIs and ENTs and MDs and whatever follows those letters and their diagnosis.
I cry-pray rest enough to unclench white knuckles from clinging to my life.
I cry-pray hot tears, sink my hands into the low back of a black kitchen chair and feel two small arms wrap around my thigh, a head press against the side of my hip.
I weep quietly for a few moments and usher out breath from my shaking lungs, squeezing tightly the shoulders of my oldest son.
I won't go there.
I won't go to the places where I'm drowning deep in the waters of picturing his life, his brother's life, his father's life if the what-ifs were to unfold.
I stand my ground against diving into the waters and then force jelly-like legs to move into the wide-angle frame of life outside the tunnel in which I'm standing.
He follows me around the house, stays close enough in his play that he could dive in after me if I jump.
At not even five, he thinks he's lifeguard to my wild-toddler-at-the-shore moments.
And I know I have to move away from the sand, the beach, the lure of drowning myself in what-if waves and stand firmly on the Rocks
my back to the ocean face toward the Sun glowing in the horizon of tall grasses and little boys and a strong-heart husband and this life-gift spread out before my eyes.
A few friends have said I was too vague in this post and asked for explanation to the MRI references. I've had some lingering head pressure issues we thought were stemming from sinuses ... but my sinuses are clear. A specialist suggested doing an MRI to see if we can find what's causing the pressure. It's probably bothing but as someone who battles anxiety, the unknown can grow if I let it.


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That said, I have not cooked much (Mr. K can attest to this) and we have been surviving on [gasp] leftovers, mainly in the form of casseroles.
Now I hail from Iowa. Thus, I was born and raised on casseroles.
There is nothing wrong with them. Don't be a hater.
Whoever invented this brilliant idea was a genius. One pot meals are a Godsend. Yes. They. Are. Especially for the working Mama. Like myself. I recently scored a long-term subbing gig and have since been spending the majority of my days in a junior high classroom.
Pray for me.
It has been good but I can honestly say you couldn't PAY me to go back to my pre-pubescent, hormonal, everything-is-drama days. Oh Lord, why was middle-school created?
If someone could please inform me that would be fabulous. Please and thankyouverymuch.
But I digress.
Casseroles. And one-dish meals.
Lately I have been making the rounds with a few of my favorites. Dishes that freeze well and taste justasgood, if not better, the second time around.
What are these?
Well let me share.
1) Lasagna. One of the most popular "casseroles" around. I am of the Italian-turkey-sausage-is-the-only-way-to-go camp but you can use whatever ground meat you like. Or veggies. Or whatever.
2) Chicken Corn Chowder. Freezes beautifully, is mildly spicy and intensely flavorful. It's one of Mr. K's favs. Pair it with some good crusty bread and you have the perfect autumn meal.
3) Pulled pork. This stuff is incredibly versatile. If you make up a few pounds, you can use it for sandwiches, stews, quesadillas, on a BBQ pizza, the list is endless. It's definitely a go-to. Pair it with Rudy's BBQ Sauce and you have yourself a carnivorous feast.
4) Homemade pizza. I pre-freeze the dough in portion-size balls and take it out, letting it rise throughout the day while I'm gone. When I come home all I have to do is punch it down, roll it out, dress it up, and bake it!
The link will guide you to a friend's webpage- who featured my recipe a while back.
5) Meatloaf. This is SUCH a comfort food in our family. I like to pair it with some fresh, roasted brussels sprouts and some sort of potato (usually baked sweet potatoes or rosemary roasted fingerlings). My son loves it. Loves it, I tell you. And Mr. K has come around- he now asks for seconds. This is a big leap from previous years. He's a work-in-progress.
So yes. Those are my must-haves lately. Or rather, my quick-fixes.
What meals do you go-to when life gets crazy? And please don't tell me "takeout". Boo! I want to know what homemade meals you make in a flash.
Do share.
PS- I apologize for my lack-of-postage after the London trip. Unfortunately I was not able to hit up The Cheshire Cheese. I was quite depressed about it. I may-or-may-not have cried. Maybe. But I did visit many yummy a la carte eateries! I may feature one in particular in the near future :)


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How to Charge Your iPhone Battery
Like all battery-powered gadgets, your iPhone is useless with an uncharged battery. The good news is that iPhone recharges in less than an hour, and you can charge the battery in several ways.
The battery icon in the status bar indicates roughly how much battery power you have. If you want to see a specific percentage, tap Settings→General→Usage and turn on the Battery Percentage switch toward the bottom of the screen.
How to plug your iPhone into the USB charger
Your iPhone comes with a USB connection cable and a USB power adapter. To charge the battery, plug the dock connector into the dock port at the base of your iPhone. Plug the USB end into the USB power adapter and plug the power adapter into an electrical outlet. iPhone beeps, which lets you know it's actively charging.
How to charge with your iPhone with your Mac or PC's USB port
When you connect your iPhone to a USB port on your computer to sync or transfer photos, the battery automatically begins taking a charge. If your computer is turned off or is sleeping, your iPhone battery may drain instead of charge, so make sure your computer is on whenever you connect your iPhone to it.
Although plugging your iPhone into any recent or new Mac can charge your iPhone, the same isn't necessarily true for recent or new Windows desktop and notebook computers or older Macs. Apple explains that's because the USB ports on certain of those models don't pass through enough wattage to charge your iPhone.
If connecting your iPhone to your USB port doesn't yield a charge — you know it's charging because it beeps and there's a lightning bolt next to the battery in the status bar — try plugging into a port dock on a powered USB hub. If that doesn't work, you'll have to plug into a charger to charge your iPhone.
If iPhone's battery charge drops very low or runs down completely, your iPhone automatically shuts itself off. To bring your iPhone back to life, you must attach the USB cable to a power source (your computer or an electrical outlet).
When your iPhone shuts itself off because the battery charge is too low or nearly empty, you won't be able to use your iPhone until the battery reaches a minimal charge level. Usually you only have to wait a few minutes before your iPhone turns itself on again.
To preserve the overall life, you should cycle the battery on a monthly basis. Cycling is letting the battery completely discharge and then charging it fully.
How to change the iPhone battery
If you keep your iPhone for many years, sooner or later, you'll need to replace the battery. Despite our DIY (do-it-yourself) world, you can't replace the battery yourself. You have to send it in to the Battery Replacement Program.
For $85 (at the time of publication), you send your iPhone to Apple or take it to an Apple store, the battery is replaced, and Apple takes care of disposing of the old one. This service is covered if your iPhone is still under the one year warranty or you extended the warranty to two years with the AppleCare protection plan.
Technically, you should get about eight hours of talk time on an iPhone 5 on the 3G network. Realistically, if you play games and go on the Internet, you probably get less. Here are some tips for keeping the battery charged longer and for maintaining long battery life.
Turn Off Location Services: Go to Settings→Privacy→Location Services. (Remember though that the apps that use it do so only when you're using them.)
Turn Off Wi-Fi: If you have Wi-Fi turned on and there's no Wi-Fi network, your iPhone keeps searching and searching and consuming battery power. To turn off Wi-Fi, tap Settings→Wi-Fi→Off or swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open the Control Center and tap the white Wi-Fi button so it's dimmed.
Turn Off 4G: If 4G isn't available where you are or you don't need to access the 4G network, turn it off. Tap Settings→ Cellular→Enable 4G Off.
Turn Off Siri: If you don't need Siri's assistance, may as well send her out to lunch since she's a power hog. Tap Settings→General→Siri Off.
Turn On Airplane Mode: If you happen to be out of your network range, your iPhone consumes a lot of battery power as it continually searches for the cellular network. Eventually the words No Service appear instead of the carrier name and your iPhone settles down and stops searching.
Consider putting your iPhone in Airplane mode: Tap Settings→Airplane Mode On or swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open the Control Center and tap the Airplane Mode button.
Use Fetch Instead of Push: Rather than having your iPhone constantly check for new information with Push, you can set your iPhone to sync with whichever cloud service you use at set time intervals, or sync manually. Tap Settings→Mail, Contacts, Calendars→Fetch New Data→Push Off.
Use Auto-Brightness: Dimming your screen also improves the length of a charge. The ambient light sensor dims or brightens your screen based on the light it senses. You can turn the automatic adjustment on by going to Settings→Wallpapers & Brightness→Auto-Brightness On.
Bluetooth: Tap Settings→Bluetooth→Off if you don't have any Bluetooth devices connected and don't plan to use any for a while or swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open the Control Center and tap the Bluetooth button so it's dimmed.
Cellular Data: Tap Settings→Cellular→Cellular Data Off. You can still use the phone and Wi-Fi connection.


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