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Latin America Rising::Discussion Guide
You can find the articles mentioned below on our website: see the section index to our Latin America Rising issue. You are welcome to download and photocopy the articles free of charge. If you would like to purchase multiple copies of YES! or subscriptions for your class or group, please phone 800/937-4451 and ask for the Discussion Group Discount.
Historically, the fortunes of Latin America have been closely tied to policy set by the United States. Though many citizens of both North and South America consider the United States' treatment of Latin America to be exploitative and unfair, the United States has always claimed to be acting in the best interest of the South. In recent years, globalization and neoliberal policies have taken an additional toll on Latin American development. But now, all over Latin America, people are standing up for their rights and refusing to play by the rules of economically stronger nations.
Latin America's movement toward self-determination can no longer be ignored by the United States. After ?decades of answering to U.S. policy, Latin America is looking for answers internally, and finding them. Not only are the people reclaiming their own power and pride, they are discovering effective ways to build compassionate, ?cooperative societies. A look at Latin America may gently remind the United States that the function of a democracy is, after all, to care for people. What can we learn from Latin America's progress? What, if anything, can we apply to our own society? This issue of YES! seeks to find out.
This discussion guide will focus on the following articles:
- Democracy Rising by Nadia Martinez
- Bolivia's Indigenous Uprising by Jubenal Quispe
- Health Care for All…Love, Cuba by Sarah van Gelder
- In Venezuela, a Cooperative Mood by Michael Fox
- U.S. Role Turned Upside Down by Sarah Anderson, Jeremy Orhan Simer, and Eva Golinger
Democracy Rising
SEE ARTICLE ONLINE :: Democracy Rising by Nadia Martinez
Martinez discusses the historic and cultural symbolism woven into the increasingly powerful people's movements of Latin America. From the reclamation of indigenous Bolivian pride, to the rise of a metalworker turned president in Brazil; from the self-proclaimed Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela's Chávez to the creation of the ?alternative trade agreement "ALBA," Latin America's democratic movements are proving to be rich in passion and in promise. Leaders are responding to the demands of the people rather than the commands of the influential, and democracy is rising from the bottom up.
- Latin Americans are not only overcoming economic and political barriers, but also the expectation that they will obey the commands of the United States. Which of the Latin American people's movements do you find the most impressive? Which do you find the most surprising? Could you see these movements working in the United States? Why or why not?
- Most of the U.S. media vilifies Hugo Chávez. However, he has used Venezuela's oil revenue to attack domestic problems such as illiteracy and poverty, and to foster regional cooperation. Does the information about Chávez in this article surprise you? Does it change your opinion of Chávez?
Bolivia's Indigenous Uprising
SEE ARTICLE ONLINE :: Bolivia's Indigenous Uprising by Jubenal Quispe
Evo Morales has become an icon of indigenous pride in Bolivia. From his humble beginnings in the countryside, Morales rose to power through the unions of the coca fields in which he worked. Now, as the first president of indigenous heritage, Morales restores the people's dignity by ?inspiring them to move toward sovereignty. The president's tangible first steps include redistribution of the revenue gained through renegotiating oil and gas contracts.
- Morales has been criticized by the U.S. government for trying to restore the coca leaf—an ingredient of cocaine, but not the drug—as a symbol of indigenous sovereignty. The leaf is illegal in the United States, but in Bolivia, it is used for medicinal purposes and is part of everyday life. What do you think of the claim that there is no connection ?between indigenous coca use and cocaine traffic? What are your thoughts on the United States' ?intervention in the growing of this crop?
- Bolivia has its first indigenous leader in Evo Morales, and Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio da Silva, was a metalworker. What cultural differences do you see that allowed the election of these men? What obstacles prevent a blue-collar person from becoming president of the United States?
- The one piece of advice Oscar Olivera has for the citizens of the U.S. is to let go of their fear. What do you think he means by this? What do you think he hopes to see in the United States? What lessons of courage can we learn from Cochabamba?
Health Care for All…Love, Cuba
SEE ARTICLE ONLINE :: Health Care for All…Love, Cuba by Sarah van Gelder
YES! Executive editor Sarah van Gelder included the Cuban health care system in the many people's movements she investigated during her three months in Latin America. She discovered that Cuba has developed an ?innovative network of doctors and nurses who live in the neighborhoods where they work, and are readily available to all. Doctors are familiar with the environmental hazards, stress factors, and other aspects of the neighborhood, so they are able to concentrate more on prevention than on cure. Now, Cuba has turned its medical miracle into an asset to share with the world, by "exporting" doctors to other nations, and training young people to practice medicine in poor communities worldwide.
- "You can introduce the notion of a right to health care and wipe out the diseases of poverty," says Dr. Paul Farmer. Many in the United States oppose the idea of government-funded health care, while in Cuba it is viewed as a fundamental human right for which the state takes responsibility. Where do you think this difference comes from? Which position do you take? What are your reasons?
- Cuba has sent doctors to treat immediate problems, as well as the means to establish medical facilities, to scores of nations around the globe. It is also providing free medical education to hundreds of young people from impoverished regions. Would you favor a similar program funded by the United States? Why or why not?
In Venezuela, a Cooperative Mood
SEE ARTICLE ONLINE :: In Venezuela, a Cooperative Mood by Michael Fox
A new model of business is transforming Venezuelan economics. Government-funded cooperatives, in which collective ownership takes the place of hierarchical structure, are proving that the people can manage themselves better than a corporate boss can. Decisions are made as a group. Cutting out the middle man allows co-op members to sell their products cheaper while earning more money, so this form of "endogenous development" (development from within) benefits all.
- More and more Venezuelans are employed in cooperatives. Employees enjoy the democratic ?decision-making process despite the long meetings necessary to involve everyone. How would you feel about working in a non-hierarchical workplace? How would this differ from the policies of your workplace? Would it be good, or bad?
- Look at the chart on page 45. Do you think Venezuela is a democracy or a dictatorship? Which of these factors do you think are most important in a democracy? How do you think Chávez measures up? How does Venezuela compare to the U.S.?
U.S. Role Turned Upside Down
SEE ARTICLE ONLINE :: U.S. Role Turned Upside Down by Sarah Anderson, Jeremy Orhan Simer, and Eva Golinger
U.S. President Monroe swore to defend Latin America from European imperialism. While his intentions may have been pure, the Monroe Doctrine has been used to justify U.S. interference in Latin American politics, economics, and society, frequently taking countries in directions they do not want to go. This article presents five ways in which the people of Latin America are casting off their Northern "protector" and showing they can stand on their own.
- What will happen to U.S.–Latin American power relations now that Latin America has paid off such an enormous part of its debt to the IMF? How do you think this will affect the nature of capitalism in Latin America?
- Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, said, "We can negotiate with the U.S. about a base in Manta, and if they let us put a military base in Miami, if there is no problem, we'll accept." Is Correa's proposal fair? Ridiculous? Plausible?
- Golinger reports on the U.S. channeling of funds to anti-Chávez groups in Venezuela. How do you feel about this intervention? Do you think the U.S. should be able to fund political activities in other countries when it's illegal for other countries to fund political activities in the U.S.?
What are you doing?
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Tell-All (Paperback)
Anchor, 9780307389824, 192pp.
Publication Date: May 31, 2011
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For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine "Miss Kathie" Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart—and boudoir. Soon, Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity memoir foretelling Miss Kathie's death in an upcoming musical extravaganza. As the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans and for posterity.
About the Author
Chuck Palahniuk's ten previous novels are the bestselling Fight Club, which was made into a film by David Fincher; Survivor; Invisible Monsters; Choke, which was made into a film by director Clark Gregg; Lullaby; Diary; Haunted; Rant; Snuff; and Pygmy. He is also the author of Fugitives and Refugees, a nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Praise For Tell-All…
"Subtle as a straight right to the jaw, and just as bracing." —Los Angeles Times
"Dreamlike, insane, Burroughs-esque." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Over the top in Palahniuk's patented style, made even richer by some athletic wordplay." —The Oregonian
"Chuck Palahniuk is one of modern American fiction's most interesting stylists, and he's at it again. . . . A masterful feat." —Associated Press
"With his love of contemporary fairy tales that are gritty and dirty rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut's place in American writing." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Among sick puppies, Palahniuk is top dog." —People
"Reading a Palahniuk novel is like getting zipped inside a boxer's heavy bag while the author goes to work on you, pounding you until there is nothing left but a big bag of bones and blood and pain." —The Miami Herald
"Palahniuk doesn't write for tourists. He writes for hard-core devotees drawn to the wild, angry imagination on display and the taboo-busting humor." —The New York Times
"So funny. . . . There are a lot of laughs to be had, notably from some outlandish Broadway productions of the playwright Lillian Hellman, and the excruciating extracts we read of Westward's juicy and self-aggrandizing memoir, gloriously entitled Love Slave." —The Independent (London)
"[Palahniuk] knows how to spin whacked-out stories particular to our times." —The Seattle Times
"Chuck Palahniuk is William S. Burroughs and David Foster Wallace rolled into one." —San Diego Union-Tribune
"Few contemporary writers mix the outrageous and the hilarious with greater zest. . . . Chuck Palahniuk's splenetic, anarchic glee makes him a worthy heir to Ken Kesey." —Newsday
"An author who continues to challenge and intrigue readers." —The Boston Globe
"[Palahniuk] has a singular knack for coming up with inventive new ways to shock and degrade." —New York Post
"Place this bet in your time capsule: Chuck Palahniuk's novels will be required reading in American literature classes 100 years from now." —The Fort Myers News-Press
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Stoned wallabies blamed for crop circles: That's one introduction that really doesn't need any embellishment. I've been aware of birds getting drunk from eating partly fermented berries (with sometimes tragic results), but I'd not come across stories of animals that had moved past recreational drugs and onto the hard stuff. According to news reports, wallabies have discovered poppies, grown Down Under for medicinal purposes, and happily munch them to the point of intoxication. I'm a bit skeptical of the suggestion that their subsequent aimless wanderings create a circle in nearby crops, but I would love to see someone turn this anecdote into science by determining whether the animals deliberately seek out the poppies, or if the wallabies are just getting an incidental high.
You seem familiar—can I give you money?: The Journal of Consumer Research provides us with this fine bit of jargon: "The Persuasive Role of Incidental Similarity on Attitudes and Purchase Intentions in a Sales Context." The focus of the paper isn't actually on physical similarity, but trivial things such as a shared birthdate. These shared items apparently increase the probability that a consumer will purchase from the salesperson. Apparently, the effect is mediated in part by the expectation that having something shared will provide the consumer with a solid basis for a long-term service relationship. Still, it makes me wonder which similarities will work, and which won't. Shared piercings, maybe?
Maybe it's better not to have some details: Here's a disturbing one. Contrast agents are commonly used to highlight different tissues during medical imaging, which should lead to a better noninvasive diagnosis. Unfortunately, it looks like at least one of those agents can cause more problems than it solves. Although a number of contrast agents have been shown to cause temporary damage to the kidneys, the harmful effects appear to linger. After adjusting for the general state of health in a group of patients, researchers have found that those who received an agent called iodixanol had double the rate of adverse incidents, including death, stroke, heart attack, etc., as their peers.
Fast animals could pop a wheelie: Chances are good that you've seen someone on a motorcycle or bicycle pop a wheelie, in which a quick burst of acceleration, combined with a bit of lift on the front tire, allows the rider to ride along with the front wheel off the ground. I've also personally experienced the wheelie's converse, where a rapid deceleration lifts the back tire off the ground. It turns out that fast animals run into these problems, too. Researchers followed the biomechanics of polo horses and racing greyhounds during competitions, and found that, at low speeds, the primary limit to their acceleration and deceleration is simply keeping all four legs in contact with the ground.
Clubbing in the name of science: Another Weird Science point awarded for a jargon-filled title here: "Side biases in humans (Homo sapiens): three ecological studies on hemispheric asymmetries." The ecological studies? They involved going into a club and working with people in their (semi) natural habitat. Hemispheric asymmetries? The ones in question are the left and right sides of someone's head. The researchers tried to bum cigarettes off clubgoers partially deafened by the music and found that requests made to the right ear were more likely to be met with success than those directed to the left ear. I'm sure there's a way for public health authorities to use this information, but I'm not quite sure what it is yet.
Bend it like a mitochondrion: Anyone who has gone through a basic biology course has undoubtedly seen a cutaway view of mitochondria, with their elaborately convoluted internal structure. Those folds don't simply occur naturally, though, and researchers have now found a protein that helps the membrane to curve. This isn't much of a surprise, as a number of proteins that can curve membranes have already been identified, but the whole process still stands out as strange. Remember that a membrane has the consistency of a soap bubble immersed in warm water, so the thought that a protein could physically impart a structure onto something that ethereal always amazes me.
As if the beatings weren't bad enough: The world is filled with spurious correlations, but that doesn't mean that observing a correlation isn't valuable—they're often the first evidence that sets scientists down a fruitful path of research. Now, researchers have noticed a very strange one that will almost certainly warrant a follow-up: those who suffer childhood abuse have a 49 percent higher rate of cancer diagnoses than their peers. The study was limited to Canadians, so the basic correlation needs to be confirmed in other countries, but the substantial population size (over 13,000 individuals) suggests something may be afoot.
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Militants killed a Pakistan army captain and two soldiers in a cross-border attack early Saturday in a tribal region near Afghanistan, as an airstrike killed 13 suspected extremist fighters, authorities said.
A group of some 60 militants carried out the attack, entering from Afghanistan and firing on a vehicle carrying security forces in the Bajur tribal region, said Shah Nasim, a senior government administrator there. He initially said the militants had attacked an army post.
Another soldier and a civilian cook were injured in the attack, Nasim said, which ended with the assailants escaping to Afghanistan's Kunar province, some of them injured from the exchange of fire.
The foreign ministry condemned the attack, saying "a strong protest has been lodged with the Afghan side in Islamabad and Kabul."
Pakistan's army largely has cleared the Bajur tribal region of militants but its posts often come under cross-border attacks. In June, militants killed 20 soldiers in three attacks. Pakistani troops killed some 50 attackers in retaliatory actions.
Pakistan and Afghanistan share a 1,400-mile border and militants from both sides routinely launched attacks from one side before fleeing back to the other. Pakistan has asked Afghanistan's government to take action against the Pakistani militants who escaped a recent military offensive in the Swat Valley and elsewhere for safe havens in eastern Afghanistan.
In a separate statement, the military said it killed 13 suspected militants Saturday in airstrikes targeting Mir Ali, a town in the North Waziristan tribal region, where the military last month launched a major operation against militants. It said the strikes also destroyed seven militant hideouts. The military's claim could not be independently verified as reporters are not allowed to work there due to the offensive.
The military says so far it has killed more than 400 terrorists, though activists and locals say civilians also have been killed.
Since the start of the operation, more than 800,000 people have fled the region, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis.
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tfrizz wrote:offsides wrote:I'm liking Sid, Kunitz and Neal.
Any time you have Kunitz-Crosby/Malkin-Neal it's going to be good. However, the lack of top-6 wing depth necessitates them being split up when both Crosby and Malkin are in the lineup.
It works because Kunitz knows what to do and that is to create space and let the other 2 do their thing.


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Magical run of 1990s Tribe teams brought back to life
You could feel it again, in that fleeting moment when a red-clad crowd went crazy during lineup introductions, celebrating a Wild Card-winning Indians club that unexpectedly brought playoff baseball back to Cleveland.
And then Delmon Young homered off Danny Salazar and Alex Cobb did his rope-a-dope routine and Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and, well, that was that. The 2013 Indians, it turned out, were not bound for the glory of some of their 1990s predecessors, who themselves were not bound for the ultimate glory of that ever-elusive World Series title.
You could feel it again, in that fleeting moment when a red-clad crowd went crazy during lineup introductions, celebrating a Wild Card-winning Indians club that unexpectedly brought playoff baseball back to Cleveland.
And then Delmon Young homered off Danny Salazar and Alex Cobb did his rope-a-dope routine and Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and, well, that was that. The 2013 Indians, it turned out, were not bound for the glory of some of their 1990s predecessors, who themselves were not bound for the ultimate glory of that ever-elusive World Series title.
But there is, nonetheless, something undeniably magical about a packed-to-the-gills Progressive Field, and the Indians have been chasing that feeling ever since the famed 455-game sellout streak met its inevitable end 13 years ago. In fact, they're not the only ones.
That unrepeatable era, ushered in by the birth of what was then known as Jacobs Field, had an aura that other MLB clubs have certainly tried to emulate, with varying degrees of success, and it's an era first-time author George Christian Pappas attempts to capture in his new book, "A Tribe Reborn: How the Cleveland Indians of the '90s Went from Cellar Dwellers to Playoff Contenders" ($24.95, Sports Publishing).
Pappas' 225-page work serves as both an academic and a narrative examination of how a long-suffering franchise reversed its fate.
Certainly, the book hits all the high points of the Tribe's six division titles and ensuing postseason appearances from 1995-2001, and the reader comes away with the expected incredulity that the '95 club, with arguably the most lethal lineup in the game's long history, did not go the distance and the '97 club, two outs away from Cleveland's first major sports championship of any sort since 1964, didn't finish the job.
But that's nothing Cleveland sports fans haven't rehashed countless times before, even if Pappas' sabermetrically inclined lineup analysis does shed new light on how those 1990s lineups compare with the likes of Mickey Mantle's Yankees and the Big Red Machine, among others.
Where the book truly entertains and informs, though, is in its attention to detail about all the twists and transactions that led to that point.
The major plot point there, of course, is the sale of the ballclub from the estate of Steve O'Neill (that the Indians were owned by a dead man was all too fitting) to Dick Jacobs, whose strengths were a shrewd and opportunistic business acumen combined with the good sense to let baseball people make the baseball decisions (and if the book has a lesson for other franchises, this is probably it).
Hank Peters was the first such baseball man brought aboard by the Jacobs regime, and Peters himself writes the foreword to this book, providing a rare first-hand account from a man whose importance to the Indians' uprising is often overlooked.
"I told [Jacobs] if I took the job, it would be for only four years," Peters writes. "And then I gave him the bad news -- we would not be a winner during those four years."
Indeed, Peters and his associates -- fellow Baltimore Orioles import Tom Giordano, scouting director Chet Montgomery, area scout Tom Couston (the man who discovered Jim Thome), to name a few -- were important bridges in Indians history. They connected the abyss of the 1980s, when the Indians were rumored to be moving anywhere from St. Petersburg, to New Orleans to Dallas to Oakland, to the hope of the early 1990s, when Cuyahoga County voters narrowly passed a sin tax for the construction of the Gateway Project just as Peters' handpicked successor John Hart, another Oriole import, was orchestrating the construction of a championship-caliber ballclub to make the new stadium shine.
Hart is generally credited with popularizing the notion of locking up young talent to contract extensions that clubs like the Atlanta Braves (for whom Hart now serves as an advisor) still employ to this day. The book does well to point out that Hart didn't strike gold with all those contracts. Some of them were stinkers, in fact. But he was right more often than he was wrong, and the Indians, as a result, created quite a core, with the ballpark's arrival in 1994 allowing them to spend the money it took to fill out the roster with proven veterans.
Thankfully, Pappas makes it a point to investigate not just Hart's thought process but also the importance of guys like Rick Wolff, a roving instructor who helped improve the psychological focus of the Tribe's young talent, and John McNamara, the man who preceded Mike Hargrove in the dugout and demanded hustle and fundamentals.
Of course, that doesn't mean proper reverence isn't bestowed upon the likes of Albert Belle and Thome and Omar Vizquel and the trade that truly started it all -- Joe Carter to the Padres for Sandy Alomar Jr. and Carlos Baerga. Belle, unexpectedly, did not grant Pappas an interview for this book, and that's our loss, because his story could fill several hundred pages on its own. In fact, there are many colorful stories involving the characters on those 1990s teams that probably deserve their own in-depth treatment.
But in terms of providing a thoughtful examination of the many special factors that aligned to usher in an era unlike any other in Cleveland sports history, Pappas' book achieves its mission.
And it arrives just in time for a new season in which the Indians hope to bring that magic feeling back again.
Anthony Castrovince is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @Castrovince.


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A perfect downtown San Antonio hotel location, located adjacent to La Villita, The Fairmount Hotel is twenty minutes from San Antonio International Airport, two blocks from The Alamo, one block from the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and steps away from the famed Riverwalk. The hotel's Texas style history, romantic ambiance and prime location make The Fairmount Hotel the ideal place for anyone visiting San Antonio.
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How To Make Poached Eggs
Learn how to make poached eggs with this easy step-by-step video tutorial and recipe!
With Easter just around the corner, I thought this would be the perfect time to post a little 5-part video miniseries here on the blog that I've wanted to do forever, focusing on one of the most egggg-citing fundamentals of cooking.
That's right, we're going to spent the whole week talking about how to cook EGGS! ????
As us romantic-comedy-lovers-of-the-90s learned from "Runaway Bride" back in the day, there are — of course — lots and lots of different ways that you can prepare eggs. And I don't know about you, but most people I know seem to also have lots and lots strong opinions too about how they like their eggs. Hopefully we'll cover your favorite kinds of eggs this week! But to kick things off today, I thought it only appropriate to begin with the kind of eggs that Julia Roberts finally told Richard Gere that she loved the absolute best:
Poached Eggs! ??
How To Make Poached Eggs | 1-Minute Video
Ok ok, actually Julia's character said that Eggs Benedict were her favorite kind of eggs, but we'll get to that full recipe soon.
For today, let's focus on how to make that perfectly poached egg that always steals the show in Eggs Benedict. It's the method that often seems to intimidate people the most. But it's actually incredibly quick and easy, especially when you follow these tips:
- Use fresh eggs: Different methods of cooking lend better to different ages of eggs. But when it comes to poached, always remember — the fresher the better.
- Add vinegar: I always recommend adding a tablespoon of vinegar (preferably a mild-tasting vinegar, like rice or apple cider vinegar) to the water before adding your eggs. It helps the whites to coagulate more quickly. And don't worry — you can't even taste it.
- Swirl that whirlpool: This is my favorite trick to getting the whites to wrap tightly around the yolk. Watch in the video below!
- Ease the egg into the water: It's best to be as gentle as possible when adding the egg to the simmering water when poaching. So I recommend first cracking the egg into a small bowl, then gently lowering it into the waver (vs. cracking the egg directly into the water). Small step –> big difference.
- Don't overcook: Set a timer so that you don't forget about your eggs as they cook.
See? Totally easy. You've got this.
Happy poaching!
How To Make Poached Eggs
Learn how to make perfectly poached eggs with this easy recipe and video tutorial.
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon vinegar (preferably a mild-flavored vinegar like rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar)
- salt and pepper
- Crack the egg into a small bowl. Set aside.
- Add enough water to a small saucepan until it is 1-2 inches deep. Stir in the vinegar.
- Bring the water to a simmer. Then use a spoon to swirl the water round and round until it forms a "whirlpool". (See video for a visual.) Gently lower the egg into the swirling water, and watch as the water wraps the whites around the yolk.
- Simmer the egg for 3-4 minutes total, depending on how firm you'd like the egg whites.
- Remove egg with a slotted spoon, trimming off the uneven edges if you'd like (optional).
- Serve immediately, seasoned with a pinch of salt and pepper.
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32 comments on "How To Make Poached Eggs"
I've heard of the vinegar trick many times, might as well really try it, since I've never been able to poach eggs successfully!
Charmaine Ng
Thank you for this!!! I've always been so intimidated by poaching eggs, but this looks way easier than I thought.
I love your pics! Now i`m hungry :-)
Neele vom
What if you want to make more than one egg at a time? Do you swirl the water only once or each time you drop an egg in?
Love the whirlpool trick! Any tips on making multiple eggs so they are all warm at the same time. For example, if you were making Eggs Bene for 4 people, how do you get all 8 eggs to come out and be both cooked and warm at the same time?
It took me years to master poaching eggs and I finally nailed it and nail it every time. For me the big difference was using a deep frying pan rather than a saucepan. I can do 4 eggs at once. I use 2 inches of water and have a strong simmer (before I wasn't simmering enough), break the eggs directly into the water and I don't use any vinegar or swirling and then put the timer on for 3 minutes. I dab the eggs with kitchen towel. Perfect everytime!
Hi Ali, thanks for your video! My question is in regards to poaching more than one egg. Do you do each of them separately every time? I cook eggs benedict a lot for my whole family, so I'm making up to 6 plates with 2 eggs on each – so 1 dozen poached eggs!! Any tips on bulk poaching? Thanks!
My husband mutilated his poached eggs this past weekend. I'll need to show him this tutorial!
Not nearly the best way…eggs consist of actually three parts, not two: yolk, thin white and thick white. To make perfectly poached eggs every time do this: Bring water to about 180…simmering…break egg into a wire sieve and let the "thin white" drain out and then place the egg in the simmering water for between 45-60 secs. or so drain and enjoy…remember you heard it here first…try it and you will be amazed…
What is the sauce poured in this? And whats the recipe? Looks tasty
YES! The first time I ever heard about eggs Benedict was when I watched this movie. So naturally the next time I was somewhere that had it on the menu that's what I got, cause I didn't know what is was. It too, has become a breakfast favorite of my family. Thanks for the poached egg tutorial!
Love poached eggs! Yum! What is your hollandaise sauce recipe?
But how about that hollandaise sauce though!!! Stole the show
I have neverrrrrr mastered this! I tend to wrap my uncooked eggs into a little cellophane parcel and throw them into the boiling water resulting in a little round poached eggie.
This seems far easier, and dare I say, easier?
Oh, so delicious!
I use lemon juice to acidify the water. Works just as well as vinegar.
Looks delicious.
Great post Ali! Quite timely as well – so cute to do a an egg series Easter season. Easter has got to be the cutest season ever – between eggs, chicks, and bunnies! My hubby's favorite kind of egg is poached and sadly, I've never tried making them at home. Your video makes it look super duper easy so guess what, I'm going to try it. Thanks for sharing!
I've been meaning to learn parched eggs forever…thanks for the timely blog! Great stuff. Can't wait to try out your sauce as well.
I totally agree with Gary Vineyard. Vinegar works, but my SO could not take the smell in the morning kitchen. Removing the whispy whites in a sieve is perfect. No swirl needed. I sieve an egg and the drop it into an egg cup. I can carefully and slowly slip the egg into the water from there.
Simmer, don't boil. I go 3 minutes, then flip with a slotted spoon and go one more minute. This lets me remove the egg upside down with the slotted spoon, blot the bottom with a paper towel, flip/guide it onto my muffin, and now the pretty side is up. Blot the top… done.
One of my favorites! This is such a helpful post. These look delish!
Anyone who starts with a great 90s reference has got me hooked :) I've always wanted to poach an egg, and now that I have these tips and clear instructions, I'm ready to try it! Thanks, Ali!
First of all, thank you for this series of posts on how to MAKE perfect EGGS . We love eggs in this house. So, I'm always looking for foolproof ways to make good ones. May I share a recipe for fast, easy, and most of all, delicious SCRAMBLED eggs? I learned the "secret" ingredient from Paula Deen's Food Network show years ago. Our sons have special developmental needs and, because of it, are EXTREMELY PICKY eaters, but our oldest absolutely LOVES these scrambled eggs (with a squirt of ketchup on top ?). Mornings are pretty hectic around here, so we mix-up the ingredients the night before, cover, and put the bowl in the fridge, ready to go for the next morning.
Break two eggs into a shallow, microwave-safe bowl sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
Add two tablespoons of sour cream (you can use more or less to taste. My husband has used WAY more at times, when he wasn't paying attention, LOL!) Reduced-fat sour cream works fine if you're concerned about fat content. Mix the eggs and sour cream very well. I use an OXO Good Grips Egg Beater sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. That little handraulic mixer is one of our best kitchen gadget purchases ever!
Tear two slices of American cheese into strips and place the pieces on top of the egg mixture. Or you can sprinkle whatever cheese you prefer on top. We've used shredded mild cheddar, mozzarella, even Asiago before. All were delicious.
Pop it in the microwave on high for 90 seconds, remove, and stir well. If you have a finicky teenager, top with ketchup. And ENJOY
I'm so excited to try this out this weekend! Question – if you want to do more than one egg, can you make 2 at once, or should you make them one at a time! Thank you for all of your amazing recipes!


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Dessi Sieburth, an 11-year-old birder from Pasadena, California, has just set the PhotoBigDay record for Antelope Valley, and for a great cause.
Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle, co-authors of The Warbler Guide, started PhotoBigDay earlier this spring. Big Days are a tradition in the world of birding, a challenge to see how many different species of birds you can spot in a single day. Today, Big Days have become increasingly competitive, with seasoned birders and ornithologists using advanced equipment to catalogue species midnight to midnight. Stephenson and Whittle created PhotoBigDay with ordinary birders in mind, and with an added twist: participants must document every bird they see on film.
Sieburth recorded 85 species on his PhotoBigDay, including:
- White-Faced Ibis
- Snowy Egret
- Burrowing Owl
- Caspian Tern
- American White Pelican
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Wilson's Warbler
- Western Tanager
- Nuttal's Woodpecker
- Osprey
Sieburth used his PhotoBigDay as a fundraiser for conservation, and raised $200 so far for the preservation of a local migration area and seed for bird feeders.
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The use of deadly force by a North Carolina law enforcement officer � which happened on Nov. 25 in Kinston � is governed closely by the state.
The use of deadly force by a North Carolina law enforcement officer � which happened on Nov. 25 in Kinston � is governed closely by the state.
For North Carolina law enforcement officers, use of deadly force is governed literally by the book.
From part-time police to the largest of forces, everyone is to act in compliance with N.C. General Statute 15A-401(d)(2). Simplified, it authorizes the use of deadly force in circumstances when the officer or another person is under attack from or under imminent threat from deadly force.
However, it also contains the caveat that the officer must believe that responding in kind is reasonably necessary, a standard set in the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court case Graham v. Connor. Then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in the court decision the lawful use of force should be what a reasonable officer on the scene considers objectively reasonable, given the need for law enforcement to make split-second decisions.
Training on the policy is a regular part of the job for officers of all experience levels.
�It�s mandated through the North Carolina criminal training standards, and every year as part of our mandated training, we review policy and so forth for the use of deadly force,� Kinston Department of Public Safety Sgt. Scott Jackson said. �Also, they come out with training videos that are part of our mandated in-service (training) that we have to review. And they review certain court cases that directly affect use of force in the state of North Carolina.�
Under the oversight of the N.C. Sheriff�s Standards and Education Training Commission, the Lenoir County Sheriff�s Office goes through two in-service training reviews annually.
�I can only speak for the Sheriff�s Standards � law enforcement officers qualify twice a year, both in a normal qualification and in combat training,� LCSO Chief Deputy Chris Hill said. �Twice a year, law enforcement officers have to go and pass a firearms course. We have several firearm instructors here at the sheriff�s office. Those officers are exposed to that training and must pass it twice a year.
�If they do not pass it, their firearm is removed and then they are given remedial training until they can. If they still cannot pass it, then we notify Sheriff�s Standards and what happens is that officer would be dismissed, or he would be transferred to a non-gun-carrying position.�
The LCSO deputies involved in the shooting death of William C. �Billy� Bibbs III in a Waffle House parking lot on Nov. 25 were off-duty, but according to a standard applied in the North Carolina case State v. Gaines in 1992, officers are able to discharge their duties at any time while in their home jurisdiction.
�Whether they�re on-duty, off-duty, in uniform, out of uniform, it doesn�t matter � as long as they�re in their jurisdiction which they are sworn to protect, they are a law enforcement officer 24 hours a day, seven days a week,� Lenoir Community College basic law enforcement training instructor Dennis McLawhorn said.
He added, �Before any type of force was used, if they were in an un-uniformed or out-of-uniform type capacity, No. 1 they would have to identify themselves as an officer. This incident that happened this past weekend, that officer was in uniform, so it�s a given who he is.�
Once an incident takes place, the investigatory machinery whirs into motion.
�What happens is, law enforcement agencies typically call an independent law enforcement agency to conduct an impartial investigation,� Hill said. �This protects the integrity of the department, or the officer, during the process, so that we don�t hear complaints that the investigation was influenced in any way because it was one of our people.
�We call in an independent agency such as the SBI to conduct an impartial investigation into the matter. And, that�s what happened in 2009. The same exact thing happened.�
On April 8, 2009, LCSO Detective Rickie �Allen� Pearson was killed and Detective Ryan Dawson was shot in the neck while trying to apprehend Clarence Douglas Phillips, who murdered his girlfriend earlier in the evening. Phillips died in the gunfight. Pearson had been a certified basic law enforcement training instructor at LCC, working part-time in physical education.
Following the independent investigation, not only are the officers involved open to potential liability, but the law enforcement agency is, as well. The thoroughness of the department�s training operation, and the training of the officers involved can be called into question.
�Only when departments become liable for the incident is when something is done wrong on part of the officer,� McLawhorn said. �Usually, as far as any shooting is concerned, if the officer acts in their scope of training, and in the general scope of the laws which we enforce in this state, then they are covered legally to use deadly force, if need be.�
Hill said the threat of litigation is an understood part of their every day work by LCSO deputies.
�Every law enforcement officer knows that we live in a litigious society, and that everything we do exposes us to lawsuits,� Hill said. �We come into work every day knowing that somebody is itching to sue us. We know that some people look at law enforcement as a conduit to a deeper pocket � meaning the county, and the county�s insurer. That�s already part of our psyche. We already know that, so we�re aware of that.
�We know, as administrators, that there is an enormous amount of liability because we have officers carrying firearms. But, we also have liability when we execute search warrants or care for inmates. A lot of our lawsuits come out of the jail. The liability is quite large in a law enforcement agency, because of all the things we are sworn to do.�
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at WolfeReports.
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N.C. General Statute 15A-401(d)(2)
A law�enforcement officer is justified in using deadly physical force upon another person for a purpose specified in subdivision (1) of this subsection only when it is or appears to be reasonably necessary thereby:
a. To defend himself or a third person from what he reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of deadly physical force;
b. To effect an arrest or to prevent the escape from custody of a person who he reasonably believes is attempting to escape by means of a deadly weapon, or who by his conduct or any other means indicates that he presents an imminent threat of death or serious physical injury to others unless apprehended without delay; or
c. To prevent the escape of a person from custody imposed upon him as a result of conviction for a felony.
Nothing in this subdivision constitutes justification for willful, malicious or criminally negligent conduct by any person which injures or endangers any person or property, nor shall it be construed to excuse or justify the use of unreasonable or excessive force.
Source: N.C. General Assembly


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Noninvasive tests that help your doctor see inside your ankles.
Imaging tests can allow your doctor to see the structures inside your ankle noninvasively. The most common imaging tests to diagnose ankle problems are:
- X-ray (radiography). A standard X-ray is a simple test in which an X-ray beam (a form of electromagnetic radiation) is passed through the ankle to create a two-dimensional picture of the bones that form the joint. Your doctor can use X-rays to view:
- joint space. Narrowing of the space between the bones, which are normally covered by cartilage, can be a sign of arthritis and its severity.
- bone spurs. Bony overgrowths at the joint are a sign of osteoarthritis.
- fractures. Broken ankles will show up on X-rays, however, small cracks in the bone may not.
In some cases, a contrast dye is injected into the ankle to enable the doctor to better see the joint on X-ray. This is called arthrography.
- Computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan. Also called a computed tomography (or CT) scan, this noninvasive test combines X-ray equipment with sophisticated computers to produce multiple images, which are combined to depict cross-sectional slices of internal structures. CT scans may be used to diagnose ankle fractures that don't show up on X-ray. They also show soft tissues, such as cartilage, ligaments and muscles, more clearly than traditional X-rays, so they are more useful for diagnosing certain ankle problems, including arthritis and sprains.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This procedure uses a strong magnet linked to a computer to create a picture of the internal structures in black and white and shades of gray. Because an MRI shows the soft tissues, as well as the bones, it is particularly useful for diagnosing injuries to the cartilage, tendons and ligaments, as well as areas of swelling.
- Bone scan. This technique can be used to view stress fractures caused by repetitive trauma. It involves injecting a small amount of radioactive material into the bloodstream. The material collects in the bones, particularly areas of new bone growth where fractures are healing, enabling doctors to see those areas with a scanner.
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7 bedroom detached house for saleShip Inn, Scarborough Road, Langtoft, Driffield, YO25 3TH
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Property Description
Key features
- Former public house
- Lapsed planning consent for residential
- 7 bedrooms (including owner's accommodation)
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Tenure: Freehold
LOT 25 **FOR SALE BY AUCTION** on 8th August at 12:00 at Kensington Town Hall, 195 Hornton Street, Kensington, London W8 7NX
A former public house with owner's accommodation and additional en-suite bedrooms.
There is lapsed planning consent for change of use of part of the building, and development to create two residential dwellings.
The property is situated just north of the village centre.
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|Bar, pool room, kitchen, WCs, stairs down to beer cellar
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|Reception room, 3 bedrooms (1 en-suite), bathroom
|4 bedrooms with en-suites
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Mozilla is first Silicon Valley entity to denounce bill
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tech giant Mozilla has publicly slammed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) which passed the House last week, labeling the legislation an "alarming" threat to privacy.
"While we wholeheartedly support a more secure Internet, CISPA has a broad and alarming reach that goes far beyond Internet security. The bill infringes on our privacy, includes vague definitions of cybersecurity, and grants immunities to companies and government that are too broad around information misuse. We hope the Senate takes the time to fully and openly consider these issues with stakeholder input before moving forward with this legislation," Mozilla, which is best known for its Firefox browser, said in a statement.
The statement is important because it marks the first time any Silicon Valley entity has denounced CISPA, with an array of powerful companies lining up in support of the legislation which passed the US House of Representatives 248 to 168 and now heads to the Senate.
Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Symantec, AT&T and Verizon have all backed the bill, with Microsoft re-affirming its support yesterday after rumors the company was getting cold feet, while Google has refused to take either side.
CISPA has been identified by many as a greater threat to privacy than SOPA, which was opposed by a deluge of major tech firms after a viral online opposition campaign, but because CISPA has received less attention, corporate giants have found it easier to stay mute.
Not only would CISPA mandate ISPs to share Internet data of users with government "notwithstanding any other provision of law," it also empowers the Department of Homeland Security to monitor the communications of the federal courts and Congress, and intercept tax returns sent to the IRS.
The bill "gives companies a free pass to monitor and collect communications and share that data with the government and other companies, so long as they do so for 'cybersecurity purposes,'" the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has noted. "Just invoking 'cybersecurity threats' is enough to grant companies immunity from nearly all civil and criminal liability, effectively creating an exemption from all existing law."
"The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government's power," writes TechDirt's Leigh Beadon.
As we have documented, the Obama administration's threat to veto the bill is little more than a crude stunt and carries no more weight than Obama's promise to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, which he signed on New Year's Eve after the White House itself lobbied for the NDAA's most egregious provisions to be included.
Indeed, the White House's primary beef with the legislation appears to be the fact that it doesn't hand enough power to the Department of Homeland Security.
CISPA now moves to the Senate where it will be amalgamated with one of two other bills before heading to Obama's desk. Don't hold your breath on that veto.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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benvolio needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 206 designs submitted by 60 freelance designers.
It's pretty simple, he's a tennis player. He needs a branding suite that is clean, modern, sleek, striking and powerful. The identity will be used on a range of things from the website to his attire.
BK Brydan Klein
Desired Style:
striking. powerful. extreme. modern. professional
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One of the few promising young tennis players in Australia, Brydan has the hopes and dreams of the tennis community on his shoulders. Go here for a view of his profile: http://www.tennis.com.au/pages/Play…=1047&id=4
For a look at the direction we're heading check our Roger Federer's apparel: http://i9.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/d5/30/e2d5_1.JPG
The target audience is:
- young fans - young players, fans and 'tennis groupies' who will want to follow his career
- prospective sponsors - sponsors and sponsorship managers who want to know that Brydan has a professional approach to his career all the way down to his brandingThe identity needs to be clean, modern, sleek, striking and powerful. Some kind of icon that can be re-used independently of the text as a branding element is required and should center around the initials "BK."
Other than this – the brief is completely open. We have no colour preferences (but the logo should work in black+white) or font preferences - although sans-serif is probably appropriate.
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"Rolling Stones" by Roberto Rabanne
"Rolling Stones" by Roberto Rabanne
1966 London
24.25" x 16" archival digital print on metallic paper
Signed in black bottom right, artist proof
Comes with certificate of authenticity signed by Roberto Rabanne
The images of photographer Roberto Rabanne captured the energy, complexity and beauty in music, fashion and art for more than five decades.
When the Vietnam War was still raging and so was Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City. Rabanne became a student activist and got a job as an usher at the newly opened Fillmore East on Second Avenue on the Lower East Side, now called the East Village. One day at a soundcheck he decided he had nothing to lose and asked Jimi Hendrix if he could take his picture with his Yashica twin lens reflex. "Sure, man," the flamboyant guitarist said, and Rabanne began snapping away. Afterwards, Hendrix said, "Wow, man, I like these" and stuck a $100 bill in Rabanne's hand. He was his first 'client' and that was the beginning of his career as a professional photographer.
Rabanne's photos were first published in magazines like Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, Cream and the East Village Other. They ran the gamut of the great bands – from the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver to Big Brother and the Holding Company, Cream, Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and more. Early on, Rabanne befriended Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead. The legendary musician gave him priority access and allowed the photographer to do several studies of him and the band. Rabanne was also the only photographer to photograph Studio 27.
"I have a simple philosophy about photography, it's that the image has to be powerful" explains Rabanne. "And I find this happens when you capture the subject engaging in the non-defensive, unguarded essence that is truly 'them.' The picture always has to tell a story, but in doing so, you can break all the rules."


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 no.7 Cape Town jul. 2009
Democracy and sustainable health care
Dirk Hagemeister
Family Medicine, Drakenstein Sub-District, Paarl, and Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, W Cape, firstname.lastname@example.com
To the Editor: In his State of the Nation address on 3 June 2009,1 President Jacob Zuma lauded the 'functional constitutional democratic system' of South Africa, as demonstrated by the 'seamless transition' in the political leadership. This is an admirable achievement, and many countries, including my native Germany, struggled seriously to reach such political stability.
However, political stability and functional democracy are no guarantee of an equitable and sustainable health care system. The USA has an estimated 45 million people, approximately equal to the total population of South Africa, not covered by health insurance and therefore without access to primary health care (source e.g. Kennedy2). The World Health Assembly recently re-emphasised its commitment to 'Primary Health Care and Health System Strengthening' as in the Declaration of Alma-Ata (1978) and the United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000).3 Faced with a health care system that produces mediocre outcomes in terms of population health parameters, despite having one of the world's highest per capita expenditures on health care, Michael Porter advocates a value-based system.4 Porter speaks of 'increasing value for patients the health outcomes achieved per dollar spent', and the focus is therefore not on 'substitute values' such as 'free markets' and 'socialisation of key industries'. I am still traumatised by the proceedings of last year's South African Medical Association conference on 'The future of health care in South Africa how will it be provided and funded?'.5 SAMA is regrouping behind a new Secretary-General, and the challenges that our country, and especially the health sector, face are recognised and documented (e.g. National Department of Health6). Yet the Boksburg conference gave me the impression that there is no coherent strategy in our Medical Association, and no viable concept for a sustainable South African health care system. Instead, there is factionalism that might be described as two 'camps': the 'private sector camp' with a 'change-whatever-you-want-in-the-public-sector, but-don't-touch-our-system' approach, and the 'activist camp' with a 'change-it-all, change-it-now' approach. Neither approach is appealing, nor do they seem sustainable. If we allow further 'Americanisation' of our health care system, with rising expenses fuelled by inefficient interventions and an internal 'brain-drain' of health care professionals from the public sector, the eventual collapse of the public sector will not leave a blessed private island unharmed. On the other hand, the public health sector is seriously challenged by infrastructural, organisational and staffing shortfalls. Whether one blames this on the legacy of previous socio-political systems or on current corrupt and nepotistic practices depends on one's political affiliation. Regardless of these discussions, it is obvious that the struggling public health sector cannot easily be fixed by pouring a large amount of money into it.
I plead for an intensified, open-minded and outcome (value)-orientated discussion about the future of the health care system in South Africa. The current situation is unsustainable and change is inevitable. As a medical profession, we might adopt an ostrich approach and wait for this change to happen to us, or actively tackle the challenge and play a leading role in the 'revitalisation' of health care in our country. To avoid uninformed political 'quick-fix' solutions, I would prefer the latter and for SAMA to be the vehicle for our profession to shape these changes.
1. http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2009/09060310551001.htm (accessed 6 June 2009). [ Links ]
2. Kennedy EM. The role of the Federal Government in eliminating health disparities. Health Affairs 2005; 24(2): 452-458/ DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.452. [ Links ]
3. Sixty-second World Health Assembly, Resolution WHA62.12, 22 May 2009. [ Links ]
4. Porter ME. A strategy for health care reform toward a value-based system. N Engl J Med 2009; 360(23): 1-4/ DOI 10.1056/nejmp0904131. [ Links ]
5. http://www.samedical.org/images/Downloads/Conference%20Report%202008.doc (accessed 6 June 2009). [ Links ]
6. National Department of Health, South Africa. The national HIV and syphilis prevalence survey. South Africa. 2007. Pretoria, 2008. http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008/20080904_southafrica_anc_2008_en.pdf (accessed 6 June 2009). [ Links ]


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|チュウシン Chūshin
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Chūshin (チュウシン, Chūshin) is a member of the Magaki Group who attempted to steal the Tsuchigumo clan's kinjutsu.
Chūshin is a very talkative man, in sharp contrast to his teammate, Nangō. He is also fairly sadistic, cowardly, and underhanded when stomping Naruto's head while the latter was trapped in a fūinjutsu. In addition, he seems to get into minor arguments with his fellow teammate, Benten quite frequently.
Chūshin has a thin, gaunt face and body, a receded hairline preceding dark, unkempt, near-shoulder-length hair, and a distinctive cleft in his chin. He has a large shuriken on his back.
Chūshin is very fast and flexible, able to evade a trap even when it caught him by surprise. He wields a large shuriken and is possibly very skilled in using it. Being a part of the Magaki Group, he specialises in cooperative techniques and, alongside Nangō and Benten, plays the role to transfer his chakra to Akaboshi in order to increase the deadliness of his attacks. In combination with his teammates, he can use supplementary techniques like a team transformation, shattering barriers or restraining enemies with a shadow-rope, but also a variety of aggressive techniques like a restraining technique in a small and a larger scale, a pyramid that explodes by will, killing the one's trapped inside and also a deadly Lightning Release attack. The team's strongest technique is the Impermanence of Worldly Things, which creates a shard that breaks up into multiple shards and impales the opponent. Yamato hailed the technique as being quite formidable.
Part II
Six-Tails' Unleashed
Akaboshi, Chūshin, Nangō, and Benten make for Mount Katsuragi in search of the Tsuchigumo clan's kinjutsu. They manage to destroy the barrier around the mountain and make their way up. While climbing, Chūshin is almost pushed off the cliff, but he managed to recover and continue. They could not find the technique anywhere and ran into Tonbee, whom the group defeated quickly. They discover that Hotaru has the technique and they begin searching for her.
Later, Chūshin and his comrades are seen receiving new orders from a mysterious man. After meeting with their leader, the four-man team encountered Utakata, who single-handedly bested the group until they caught him in their barrier technique.
After this, the group headed to the Tsuchigumo Village, where they ambushed Hotaru with the help of the villagers in the hopes of getting the kinjutsu. Nangō uses his mud body to restrain Hotaru and takes a scroll from her backpack, which he then hands to Akaboshi. The scroll turns out to be a rigged trap, which explodes, allowing Hotaru to escape. Chūshin and his team then pursue Hotaru, and, just after catching her, are interrupted by Utakata, who claims to have business of his own with Hotaru.
After Utakata escaped with Hotaru, Nangō and the rest of his squad were confronted by their leader, who showed them that Utakata was a missing-nin from Kirigakure with a bounty of 50 million ryō. Akaboshi asked their leader what they should do, to which he began to muse about.
Later, when Naruto Uzumaki sought Shiranami, believing him to be an ally, Chūshin and the other Magaki ambushed Naruto and used Infinite Embrace to drain his chakra. Chūshin stomped on Naruto's skull and mocked him for being concerned about their leader and explained how Infinite Embrace was utilised. Naruto's anger at being deceived caused his Nine-Tails chakra to be unleashed and he destroyed the house they were in. The Magaki then used Multiple Infinite Embraces on Naruto but he was still able to overcome it. Chūshin was ready to get the fight over with, but Utakata appeared and used his Acid Permeation, which caused the group to leap off the cliff to safety. Utakata angrily demanded that they tell him were Hotaru was, displaying his Six-Tails chakra to intimidate them. Akaboshi, who decided that to meet with Shiranami, retreat.
A while later, Chūshin, along with his teamates and Shiranami, confronted Naruto and Utakata by controlling the villagers of the Tsuchigumo. Before they could close in, the rest of Team Yamato arived and disabled the controlled villagers. Akaboshi destroyed Yamato's Wood Release with his own Lighting Release and freed the villagers. The Magaki charged in to attack, with Chūshin giving out a maniacal laugh. He threw his shuriken at Team Yamato, but Yamato thwarted it. When Yamato trapped the villagers again, Chūshin once more used his shuriken to destroy the barrier, while saying it wouldn't be fun without an audience. Both teams witnessed the explosion caused by the kinjutsu after Shiranami forced Hotaru to gather natural energy. Yamato used the Wood Release, but Chūshin easily dodged it and jumped into the village mob, threatening to kill them. The Magaki surround Team Yamato and seemingly finished them off with a technique, but it turned out to be just wood and ink clones. Sakura and Yamato defeated Benten and Nangō, which left Chūshin and Akaboshi as the only two left. Chūshin was later seen lying defeated with Akaboshi.
- Chūshin can mean innermost feelings (衷心), centre; heart (中心), loyal retainer (忠臣), faithfulness; devotion (忠信), moderate earthquake (中震), or information; making a report, e.g. to a superior (注進).


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El baile del tigre caught my eye as books with cats on the covers always do. The cover shows a tiger dancing with a little girl. I once tried to "commission" my sister to paint a portrait of me sitting in a cat's lap, the cat reading me a story. I suppose I always fancied interacting with animals that way, in a fantasy world. At any rate, I borrowed El baile del tigre from the school library and was enamored by the story and the drawings. This book now carries a special memory; I had the pleasure of hearing my own mother read it to my students.
Originally published in English as The Dancing Tiger, Malachy Doyle creates a precious story of a little girl who discovers a tiger dancing in the forest in the moonlight. You can only see him when it's quiet and the moon is full. One night, the little girl ventures out into the woods and surprises the tiger in mid-dance. He whispers to her not to tell anyone what she has seen. He promises that, if she keeps the secret, she can return to dance with him when the moon is full. And from then on, the little girl visits with the tiger once a month, season after season, to dance as only a little girl and a tiger can.
The illustrations by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher are truly special, in particular the scene where tiger and little girl waltz in the newly fallen snow, leaving their prints. This book is translated very well. The poetic text is perfect for teaching mood, setting, and descriptive language. One could even integrate the concept of seasons and phases of the moon. Personification also comes to mind, as we've recently discussed examples of this in my class.
In the end, the narrator is revealed as an old woman who brings her granddaughter to the forest, to continue enjoying this wonderful fantasy. The woman sits and beholds the magic of the little girl and the dancing tiger in the moonlight.
Last week, our school held a special day-long reading event, with invited guest readers. I seized the opportunity to bring my own parents to school to read to my students. I handed my mother this book to read to my fourth graders. She was wonderful, pausing to show the pictures, holding the book up for all to see. She read to my class as if she were reading to her own grandchildren. While she read to my students, I hoped that for a moment, they would remember their own grandmothers. I know that Mami and I both tucked the moment away in that place of special memories.


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The Montgomery County Commissioners are coming to Pottstown Monday for 'a conversation,' giving area residents the opportunity to state what's on their minds and hear what's on the minds of officials.
Some 21 miles from the county seat, Pottstown is at the westernmost edge of Montgomery County, with issues and needs that may differ from the larger population centers at the eastern end.
But the problems, and the challenges, here are every bit as important to residents as those in Cheltenham, Upper Merion and Norristown. Tonight's meeting gives residents a chance to say that face-to-face to Commissioners Josh Shapiro, Leslie S. Richards and Bruce L. Castor Jr.
One of the issues likely to be brought up is the heavy concentration of public housing in Pottstown compared to the rest of the county. Along with Norristown, Pottstown has the lion's share of the Section 8 housing vouchers issued in Montgomery County.
The First Suburbs project of southeastern Pennsylvania which advocates for older towns in the suburbs has reported research recently showing that 89 percent of housing choice vouchers allocated in southeastern Pennsylvania are used in only a handful of communities, all of them fiscally challenged. Pottstown fits that profile.
To be clear, the county commissioners do not set federal housing police nor do they directly control where vouchers are issued, but they have some sway with the appointed county housing authority, which does control that.
The suggestion the commissioners need to hear is that it's time some pressure is brought to bear to spread the impact of public housing across municipalities instead of concentrating in the older, less wealthy towns.
There may be other issues residents want to bring up -- we imagine rebuilding of the Keim Street bridge will be mentioned -- and we hope the commissioners come prepared to engage those attending the session at Montgomery County Community College.
This is the chance for commissioners to demonstrate an understanding of the needs and importance of tackling some of the challenges faced in older towns and the surrounding region.
Pottstown struggles with some difficulties that are not of its own making, among them the concentration of public housing that drives down the tax base, increasing the tax burden for homeowners.
We hope the commissioners can understand some of these issues and find ways to address them.
The meeting is 7 p.m. Monday in the community room of Montgomery County Community College on College Drive in Pottstown.


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Sarah Palin has released an ad to encourage people to become involved in her political action committee the SarahPAC and — oh, boy — is it ever Sarah Palin-y. Not only is it called "Loaded for Bear," but it also rambles on and on, sort of talking about the dangers of politicians and the Big Bad Media all while, as the Atlantic Wire points out, relying heavily on segments and news clippings provided by the Big Bad Media to make her appear more relevant.
You know what one of my favorite/one of the worst things about Sarah Palin is? It's how none of her sentences ever really make sense. She just strings evocative words together and says them in an emphatic way, like "They talk about rebranding the GOP instead of restoring the trust of the American people. How about rebuilding the middle class?" or "Toss the political scripts! Don't let them invalidate you! Tea party! Small Businesses! Booooorack Obama!"
Wait, Sarah. Who's trying to rebrand the GOP? How do you rebuild the middle class? Which political scripts are you talking about? None of these questions will ever get answered because she has no idea how to answer them. Sure, this was scary when we thought that she might be holding high office, but now that she's scrambling to remain visible, it's just amazing political theater.


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