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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 1:53 am
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I had a couple and female laid eggs. Of course they were fertilized. 4 chicks hatched. 3 of them I gave it to my friends. But I decided to keep one chick for myself. After several weeks female died and now in cage I have father and daughter left. They have recently started mating.
My question is what can I do? Should I separate them? or leave how it is?
I think its bad idea to install nest right?
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Inbreeding has been used for 1000s of years to create animals.. and plant with selected attributes.
This is how certain bre3eds of dogs, cats even plants can be susceptible to things like heart conditions, poor bone structure etc.
Once these side effects get into the gene pool it becomes impossible to breed out.
Hence why any bird that we even suspect has a weakness gets culled.. regardless of any other aspect. Unfortunately most breeders are not ruthless about this.. and it very common to get these 'reject' birds passed onto pet shops.. then get bred from...
So the couple things I have to ask
1/ how old was the female? kakariki in captivity live from around 12 to 18 yrs.
2/ why did the demale die.. kakariki are one of the most hardy and tolerant of environment and diets around.
Kakariki being an endangered species, and has been very limited to the gene pool for well over 100 yrs now.
When inbreeding, for whatever reason, one is always looking for a new genetic pool as unrelated as possible.. One may breed back to a parent or even great grand patent.. but at least in every 2 levels of inbreeding new genetic material gets introduced.
If/ when one finds a genetic defect, it is traced back...everything that has been breed down that line gets culled out...
The chances are that your birds, due to lack of genetic blood lines available , could be many generations inbreed.
We found that when several blood lines, new and related, where put in a community flight, and let them select their own partners, they selected the most unrelated ....
We spent many yrs breeding hybridisation out of our wilds, by selecting the pairs. A breeder in europe made the suggestion to let them choose, the results we where looking for appeared in the 1st generations and improved from there on. The birds became larger healthier and far more robust.
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Thanks for your reply.
Female Kakariki was 1y and 2 months old. She died because I let her put eggs and incubate chicks twice in a row. As I found out later I should have given her some time to recover after the first round.
So should I separate them? or let them mate and just don't install the nest? So that daughter is not able to lay eggs.
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A pair of kakariki in a moderate climate in an outdoor aviary, good diet. Will produce a batch of 6 to 9 eggs every 8 to 12 weeks for 3 yrs non stop with around 80% egg to healthy adult ratio.
At around 110 healthy adults the number of chicks and eggs reduce dramatically . At around 130 healthy adults she will continue to lay eggs but will not hatch.
The rate of defective chicks/ young adults was around 1%.. these are birds that would if in the wild nature would have culled.
If mated to another mate , still the same.
Mate the male to another female and will start reproducing.
This is all stuff we have done/ experimented with personally.
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Interesting... I was told that I shouldn't allow kakariki to lay eggs more than once a year, because otherwise she would get weaker and die. That is the reason why I think that my female died because I let her incubate eggs twice in a row within 6 months period.
What about my question, should I separate now Father and Daughter?
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should I separate now Father and Daughter?
Keep a look out for new stock.. preferably from a different part of the country, long way a way.
We where told a lot stuff, hence why we did a lot of hands on experiments.
So much is passed on wives tales... word of mouth...until actually 'test' yourself.
One was advacardos.. smaller parrots/ birds can crush the seed/
Along those lines, apple pear seeds... dont feed a full hand ful.. or eat that many yourself, arsenic...on the other hand arsenic is required in very minute quantities for balanced good health...
Ever seen a lot dead birds around a apple orchard.. that having been shot..no?
We eat quite bit fresh fruit, the cores/ pips etc are given to the birds.
Chocolate, believe so with dogs.. havnt tried.. my house parrot sulphur crested , many yrs ago regularly got into a chocolate bar left out.
W left a very rich self saucing pudding on the bench over night.. the king parrot got into it...loved it.. down side was the mess in the kitchen.. flapping trying to fly..
We had a crimson wing get into the rat poison.. raw palm oil being part of regular diet.. high in vit K... everyone expected her to die as was a long time before noticed and administer vit K ... didnt even get sick.
Experiments with poisonous plants/ big branches.. background was would a captive breed bird of many generations know / identify a poison plant if released into the wild. We left fresh branches.. several species, in the flight for over a week. They inspected then would not go to that end of the flight till branches removed.
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Couldn't bring myself to get up too early, so I headed out at about 9:30 am. Actually I felt really good for the first 14 miles or so. Winds were really high and I knew it would be easier to be heading into them to start . . . but they where to my back for the first 4 miles. But after about 9 miles and heading back to the southside of the lake, I still felt good. Winds were bad across the Eaton's Ferry bridge and the hill up was tough. But I was keeping a fairly good pace.
Once to the top, I picked up a bottle of Gatoraide I had dropped and headed over to Eaton's Crossing and those hills! They kicked my ass. Then, into another subdivision and I was dragging. Survival shuffle back to Eaton's Ferry Estates and my house.
We all have good days and bad days. Clearly, this wasn't a good day! But the question is why wasn't it? I had had two weeks rest from my last marathon. Should be plenty of rest. Was it the temperature? Maybe . . . but 75 degrees isn't all that hot!
Still . . . 18.7 miles. Done. But not a very positive run leading to the Frosty 50k January 10. But I keep telling myself the temperature was a big factor . . . Guess we'll see come January 10th.
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This weekend I participated in the NYC Madness Flash Fiction Challenge, where you have 48 hours to write a 1000 word short story for an assigned genre/location/object. My group got ghost story/a coffee shop/a light bulb. At first I was super excited because ghost story is right up my alley – the one time I was assigned the 'open' genre, I actually wrote a ghost story (which eventually became my short film High Heels & Hoodoo).
But as soon as I started brainstorming ideas, my enthusiasm waned – everything felt so cliché or like it was going to be the same as everyone else's story. I mean, that light bulb was going to be flickering in all of them, right? And it was either going to be a barista serving a customer who was actually a ghost or a customer being served by a barista who was actually a ghost. Eventually I came up with something I hoped at least started the story in a slightly original way and was also a fun kind of meta (the protagonist had to submit a short story for a competition's midnight deadline, but her internet went down, so she was parked outside a coffee shop for wifi).
By the double halfway point (500 words in at 11:30pm Saturday night), I finally admitted I hated my story with the heat of a thousand suns. It was stupid and, worse, boring. I briefly attempted to fix it by rewriting it in the style of Edgar Allan Poe, but soon realized unless the judges got what I was doing, they were just going to think I was a terrible writer (so many adverbs, adjectives, and repeated words!).
As I was pulling out my hair in writerly despair, a new idea revolving around format popped into my desperate brain. I was intrigued but wasn't sure I could make it work. I spent the next hour thinking and pondering (it might have looked like I was napping, but I was working, I swear) until I had a plan, and then I was off! By 5:30am, I had a rough draft. I finally grabbed some zzz's and then spent Sunday afternoon rewriting it several times. I managed to turn it in five minutes before the midnight deadline on Sunday night. Whew!
It's not one of my finer efforts, but it's not the shame-inducing mess of words that was my first attempt. The big format risk is that the entire thing is an online chat, with a few tweets thrown in at the end. So if the judges don't spend time hanging out online, they might not understand what I was doing, and I'll be completely screwed. Plus, since it all happens online, they might decide I didn't meet the coffee shop location requirement. We'll see, but regardless, it was fun to stretch myself with something new.
Here's my title and synopsis: A Spirited Chat - Kerri meets an exciting guy online, but he might be seeking more than she's willing to give.
And now for my awkward segue… NYC Midnight is the group that originally introduced me to twitter fiction, so here are my 15 Minute Tweet Tales for the week:
9/18 - She wants to play Dad's favorite song at his funeral. When the palinoia makes her fingers bleed, she's ready - she slips him the cyanide.
9/19 - At fist day roll call, she sighs at a name. Had his four hellion brothers, so it's ineluctable he'd be in her class. He hurls a spitball.
9/20 - Dr. More's wife had a jugal jut that caused people to call her exotic. Accurate, since he created her in a lab by splicing cat and human.
9/21 - Never one for birthdays, he celebrates his 38th with a perfervid energy that baffles his friends. Six months later cancer claims him.
9/22 - While the crepuscular lighting in the room is appropriately symbolic, Jane wants to feel the sun on her face when it's her turn to die.
9/23 - She recites his evil acts seriatim. Tied up, defiant, he says, "If you'd been this focused on housework, U wouldn't have needed discipline."
9/24 - Since his cube-mate has been hurt before, he plans a proreption to win her heart. But she thinks he's gay and starts dating Stan from HR.
Play along and write tweet tales for the above words. If you're willing to share, post them on twitter with the hashtag #15tt or add them below in the comments because I'd love to read them. Any thoughts about this week's tweet tales or #15tt words?


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I finally got a brown from a tunnel I've been trying from time to time, near work. That same day, another one bit from the under "le grille". Glamorous, no?
Deer Creek was pretty fun, although I was disappointed to see "No Parking" signs along one of my favorite places to park. Tragic! Parking about a quarter mile up the road, I hiked down a really steep hillside to get to a spot that looked inviting. Mountain goat access only.
Yeah, I got my feet wet today.
Just a few feet underwater, a nice shelf stuck out a few yards before dropping off into the deep. Hopping a brown marabou jig with a black head along the ledge got some follows and eventually some bites. There were several that came off before I could get them in, but a few hung on.
The big one of the day was definitely over 20", but it got off at my feet. These two and a couple of smaller ones were still fun to catch.
On the way home, I stopped along the lower section of the North Fork of the Provo River (en route to Sundance) to try one of my old spots. Just upstream, however, "No Trespassing" signs started to appear and I had to quit. The fish in there are super spooky and it was difficult to get the one that I did.
This week:
The family needed to spend a sunny Saturday together and we took a long drive to a place where the tiger trout are big and angry. It's a windy place that can really put the brakes on fishing and I've left without a bite several times.
As expected, we missed the calm of the day (usually for about an hour or two after sunrise) and a stiff breeze greeted us in the face as we crested the dam. Sonia and I rigged up our minnows and tossed out. My usual spot on the cliffs was less than easy access, so I got as close as I could.
My first cast didn't land where I wanted it, so I slowly brought it in, tugging it every few seconds. Once it was within sight, I let it drift down a little deeper and a bronzy flash zipped around a couple of times before streaking off with it.
It fought bigger than it looked, but it was still a pretty good fish. It taped out to 20"
Sonia was getting worked by the wind and pretty much gave up, taking cover with my daughter behind an umbrella. I grabbed her rod and took a walk down the dam to try to get that minnow some attention. About halfway across, next to a patch of submerged brush (I've never seen the lake so full), a nice tiger shot in to investigate.
It swam around it a few times before quickly darting off to the deep with it. I set the hook and the fight was on...and on. It was very aggressive and took a couple of minutes to get close to shore. Once there, it still required a few more runs to deeper water, peeling drag at will.
Finally in hand, I brought it back to camp and taped it at 24". It weighed 4lbs, 6oz.
After several hours of casting lures and minnows in all directions, nothing else could justify any further battle with the wind and we stopped along a small tailwater stream on our way to the next reservoir.
Wild browns and cutthroat were eager to bite if I could remain undetected on my approach. Many tiny treasures were brought to hand and it was nice to trick them for a few minutes. What a great little stream.
The reservoir above the creek was a different story though. I've never, in 5 years, caught a single fish from this lake. I've seen some and know that the better area is near the inlet, but that requires either a boat or a long hike. Add the typical wind to the mix and it just never comes to fruition for me.
One day I'll just ignore the tiger spot so I can dedicate a full day to the other lake, where wild Bonneville cutthroat proliferate naturally.
Ready to go home, we hit the road, vowing to stop at our favorite rest area, the I-80 Echo rest stop. The view is spectacular and the prairie dogs are very friendly. The kids have a blast playing with them and giving them morsels of granola bars. Okay, we all do.
Overlooking the canyon, the tiny Echo Creek slowly meanders before eventually connecting to the Weber River, below Echo Reservoir. After our fun with the critters, we decided to take the cliff side road and I stopped to catch a fish in the creek really quickly.
I'd caught some very small cutthroat in there, my only other time fishing it. This time, I missed two and got one, but it was just what I needed to finish off the day. I just love fishing in places that others usually drive past.
With that, the day was complete, all of us pleased with our time spent together on another wonderful day outside.
Happy Fishing, Humans.


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Introducing My New Book - Parenting UnChained/
The publication date of my book is drawing closer. I expect it by July 1, so in a bit of a tease, I'd like to share two excerpts to give you an overview of the book. In the first excerpt, I share from the introductory chapter, and answer directly the reader's question:
How Can Reading Parenting Unchained Help?
"If you haven't figured it out already, Satan is a liar. And if parenting is important to God, rest assured that Satan wants to deceive parents and disrupt the transmission of their faith. Satan wants you to take your eyes off of the most important aspects of parenting and put your focus on trivial or even destructive things. Parenting Unchained helps you keep the most important principles of parenting in mind while avoiding Satan's traps. It gives you insight to make important educational and child-care decisions, and it reminds you of the importance of simply being present. Parenting Unchained explains the biblical motives for modeling, discipline, and instruction, illuminating the methods that Jesus, the Master Teacher, used. It teaches you how to help your children find their ultimate purpose in life and lays out the three final steps that will launch your children toward their unique futures.
The family is God's idea, and He intends it to be a setting for disciple making. The family is the bridge to the next generation of disciples. Sadly, this bridge is cracking under the weight of prodigal children and their discouraged parents. Satan has played a leading role in this devastation by telling lie upon lie. Parenting Unchained will help you break Satan's chains so you can lead your children to lay a foundation of faith."
In this second excerpt, I sum up the last chapter of the book by focusing on a challenge to parents:
"The challenge of this book is not just for you to let your children go out into the world; my message is to prepare them and then send them. Send them out armed with that strong foundation of relationship you formed with them. Your unconditional love is their introduction to God. Send them out with a tank full of memories of your presence in their lives. Send them out with a mental imprint of your genuine life in Christ modeled before them, disciplined in love and taught by your wise words. Send them out clothed with the experience of your family's mission and passion. And finally, send them out armed with an active prayer life and the knowledge of the Holy Spirit. The best news is that if they have the Holy Spirit, He won't be content just to give them knowledge. He'll go with them, in the secret compartment of their hearts."


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This is one in a series of leadership profiles drawn from our new book, Leading with Strategic Thinking, highlighting what the most strategic leaders do differently.
Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google in 2005, founding the engineering team in Chicago and leading numerous initiatives regarding the transparency and openness of Google's products. One of those initiatives was Google Takeout, a revolutionary product that enabled any user to easily export their personal information from Google at any time.
His ideas and approach were controversial at times—he was making it easier for users to leave Google if they want—but they ultimately gained the enthusiasm of his fellow engineers and the support of Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Brian's success relied on what we call collaborative leadership. Brian couldn't have accomplished his goals alone, as he advocated ideas that went beyond his area of responsibility and the resources he controlled. That didn't limit his impact, as he built relationships among his peers, listened to understand their goals and needs, found common interests between product owners and his own area of focus, shared his own resources to make others successful, and established a track-record that earned the trust of others.
Brian's reputation and influence among his peers is widely recognized, earned through his understanding of how engineers want to work:
I don't know how it works at other companies, but Google is half engineers. Most engineers are brilliant creative types, and rather anti-authoritarian. They do not respond well to someone hitting them with a stick. If someone comes in and says "You're going to have to comply with this" they're going to say "Yeah, whatever." Instead, the better way is to get people to buy in, show them why this is important and then make it easy for them. I like to say "speak softly and carry a large engineering team.
Brian's approach is rooted in collaboration, a leadership style that you don't have to be an engineer to appreciate. We explore this idea and three other leadership types in our book.
Leading with Strategic Leadership comes out on April 13, 2015.
Find out more about Brian and Google Takeout:
@therealfitz (Brian on Twitter)


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In the past few days for some reason some (not all) of our categories are displaying more than once on the dashboard site. The category headings are appearing twice and underneath each of these headings the subheadings are appearing twice (so some subheadings are appearing 4 times!!). If a search is performed for one of these category headings it appears twice in the search. Only one web folder definitely exists for these categories. Has anyone else come across this problem and if so can you help?
We had a similar problem with documents, but not categories.Does your workspace name contain any uppercase characters? If so it may be this that is causing the problem. We managed to solve our problem by renaming the workspace, though I don't reckon that is supported/recommended by Microsoft.


text: Marco Polo Jnr Versus the Red Dragon August 21, 2012August 16, 2012Rodney A boy finds out that he is the seventh son of the seventh son of Marco Polo. His adventures start when he arrives in the land of Xanadu hoping to find the missing half of an old family heirloom, the golden medallion of Khubla Khan. Read More


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Sometimes I don't understand the name of cocktails, this is one of those times. All I can come up with is the "Jeanie" rhymes with "martini". I'll try to put this behind me as I sample this cocktail. Kathryn was flipping through the bar book and this one caught her eye, so let's give it a whirl. I have to admit that I am not sure if this goes with the football gathering we are hosting. Go niners!
- 1.5 ounces Malibu Rum
- 1 ounce lemon Vodka (Kettle One)
- 1 ounce Cointreau
- 1.5 ounces cranberry juice (unsweetened)
- 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
- lemon twist
Nothing different here, mix up in a shaker over ice, shake it up, through it in a chilled martini glass.
Dave's Thoughts:
- I should confess that I don't like coconut. This drink smells of coconut and tastes a little of coconut, so there's that.
- That said, this is a really nice drink, the flavors are very nice and its very satisfying.
- Not the manliest color, but I think this is a great drink.
Tasting Notes:
- Dave's Rating: 9/10
- Strength: 6/10 (with the "it's a martini disclaimer")
- Sweetness: 7/10
- If you don't like coconut and you want coconut.


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Healthy faith!
Verse for Today: Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Psalms 31:9 – Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief.
Many of our sicknesses come from the way we respond to the distress that we pass through. If we negatively react to our disappointments for long, it crushes us emotionally and slowly affects the various systems of our bodies. Many of us are thus sick and suffering from various ailments. When disappoints come our way, it is a challenge for which God wants us to react on the basis of faith that He will turn it into hope. When we react by faith, God gives us the courage to face our situation and the strength to do what we ought to do to overcome it. But when disappointments linger for long in the emotional realms of life, it will intensify pressure and tension caused by the stressful situations. When our emotions are thus unduly pressed upon, we draw extra energy from our bodies to cope with it. Thus our emotions work on our glands, muscles, joints, vital organs and even our skin and all the systems of our body. When the pressure becomes greater than what the body can take, it takes its toll on our bodies and weakens its functions. Over a period of time, our bodies absorb the pressure and slowly fall into single or multiple ailments of various types. Our immunity is also affected and so we fall prey to infections of various kinds. But God doesn't want us to fall sick and lose our vitality and vigor which He wants us to use for His glory. He wants us to live with a positive outlook based on our ardent faith in Him and in His mighty power to turn our disappointments into hope. But unfortunately we succumb to pressures from our situations and fall sick and lose our confidence in life. David went through such experiences in life when he was buffeted by his enemies and situations. But God in His mercy helped him to put all his faith in God, and so he found healing through God's touch. David found that faith was the panacea for all his emotional illnesses.
Dear friend, are your experiences of continuous disappointments leading you to increased pressure, tensions and frustrations in life? Are these frustrations taking away your appetite, deprive you of sleep and affecting your body clock? Are you getting more frequent bouts of headaches, irritable bowels, nausea, exhaustion, drowsiness and lethargy? Do you often lose interest in anything and feeling aimless with changing moods? Perhaps today you are going through frustrations, despondency, doubts, confusions and lack of courage which come from lack of faith in the Lord to deal in all your situations. Faith in the Lord is the panacea for all your emotional aberrations. If you put your trust in the Lord, He will fill your heart with hope, courage and boldness to face your situations. Only faith can answer your perplexing questions in life. Yes, by faith you will get strength to face all your situations with courage and boldness. You will thus be enabled to hand all your disappointments over to the Lord and rest in His presence. He will then fill you with His peace in all your situations. Today if distress and grief come to overtake you, pass it on to the Lord. He will give you His peace in all situations. He will give you joy in spite of your situations and make you confident to face it all with Him on your side. Thus you will have joy in your heart, strength in your bodies and praise in your mouth.
1 Peter 5:7 – Cast all your anxiety on the Lord because He cares for you.
Thought for Today
The healing touch of Jesus will give us emotional and physical health and fill us with joy our hearts and praise on our lips.
Prayer for Today
Dear Lord Jesus: Help me today to hand over all my frustrations to You and experience Your joy in all my situations. Amen!
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This is the weekly Wednesday evening class on the book Al Ajwibah Al Mufeedah 'An As-ilat Al Manaahij Al Jadeedah by our noble Sheikh Saaleh al-Fawzaan, hafidhahullah.
We begin with Question no. 105: Who is the Jama'at at-Tableegh and what is their manhaj?
You may download a copy of the original Arabic text here: الأجوبة المفيدة عن أسئلة المناهج الجديدة
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Swiss bank UBS has agreed to buy back $19.4 billion of debt securities whose value collapsed during the global financial crisis and to pay $150 million in fines to settle charges it misled investors, Massachusetts' top securities regulator said.
Adding to concern over the deepening legal fallout of auction-rate securities that UBS and other banks marketed as being as safe and liquid as cash, the Bank of New York Mellon said one of its units was under investigation by U.S. regulators over auction-rate transactions.
This comes a day after Citigroupand Merrill Lynch said they would buy back almost $20 billion of such securities between them.
The UBS agreement, confirmed by Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, could force Europe's biggest casualty of the markets turmoil to make further write-downs on the value of its assets beyond the $37 billion it has already taken.
JP Morgan reckons UBS could face $1 billion in write-downs. Others estimated that such a move could cost UBS $1.8 billion.
UBS now has a bill for the securities at face value even though they are worth less.
The $150 million in fines would be split between Massachusetts and New York, which accused UBS of steering broker clients into auction-rate securities that became impossible to sell when the credit market froze. (See the accompanying video for an exclusive interview with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for more on the state's accusations.)
"It's obvious in the case of UBS, and we have internal documents that prove this, that they were well aware of the problems in the marketplace, that they manipulated them,'' Galvin told Reuters in an interview.
"Individuals who were orchestrated a campaign to sell these instruments to unsuspecting investors were in fact unloading their own personal inventory because they didn't want to suffer losses,'' Galvin added, describing the fallout over auction-rate securities as a national problem that festered for months.
"We're talking about $19.4 billion that we're seeking to get returned. That money has effectively been out of the American economy for several months. That has caused significant economic damage in this country.''
Accusations Against Merrill Lynch
Auction-rate securities are like regular bonds only the interest rate is set periodically at an auction. If no bidders turn up for the auctions — typically held every seven, 28 or 35 days — the market freezes.
Many big banks that sold the securities to investors had played down the risk of such a freeze.
The Bank of New York Mellon said in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the SEC was investigating auction-rate transactions involving its Mellon Financial Markets unit. It said the unit was cooperating.
Galvin plans to proceed with a similar complaint against Merrill Lynch, accusing the bank of a sales and marketing scheme that misstated the nature and stability of the auction- rate market.
"In Merrill's case, it's as serious and in a sense more serious because there was a clear effort at manipulation of research, which is even a greater issue than the misleading sales of these auction rate securities instruments,'' he said.
Merrill denies any manipulation of its research.
"Our research reflected the honest belief that auction-rate securities offered higher returns in exchange for less liquidity and noted that market changes had begun to occur,'' Merrill spokesman Mark Herr said.
Brian McNiff, a spokesman for Galvin, said the UBS agreement likely will be announced officially on Monday.
UBS has declined to comment beyond saying it was "consistently working with regulators towards a comprehensive solution for all auction-rate securities investors.''
The agreement came as Europe's biggest computer chip maker, STMicroelectronics , took legal action against Credit Suissefor investing its money in auction-rate securities without asking.


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Oriana Fallaci
Italian writer
Oriana Fallaci (June 29, 1929 – September 15, 2006) was an Italian journalist, author and political interviewer. She was a partisan against Fascism in the Italian resistance movement during World War II.
- What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
- A Man (1979)
- There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
- The Rage and The Pride (2001). Editor Random House Incorporated, 2002 ISBN 0847825043, 9780847825042. p. 17.
- Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony...In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
- The Force of Reason (2004). Editor Random House Incorporated, 2006. ISBN 0847827534, 9780847827534. p. 34.
- People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.'
- Gurley, George. "The Rage of Oriana Fallaci", The New York Observer (27 January 2003)
- "Americans," she said, repeating for me something she told the American Enterprise Institute, "you have taught me this stupid word: cool. Cool, cool, cool! Coolness, coolness, you've got to be cool. Coolness! When I speak like I speak now, with passion, you smile and laugh at me! I've got passion. They've got passion. They have such passion and such guts that they are ready to die for it."
- "The Rage of Oriana Fallaci", in The New York Observer (27 January 2003)
- Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called "objectivity." Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
- "The Rage of Oriana Fallaci", in The New York Observer (27 January 2003)
- Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
- As quoted in "Prophet of Decline" by Tunku Varadarajan, in The Wall Street Journal (23 June 2005)
- Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon... I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
- As quoted in "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker (5 June 2006)
- If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
- As quoted in "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker (5 June 2006)
- It's been four years since I spoke about Islamic Nazism, the war with the West, the cult of death, the suicide of Europe. A Europe which is no longer Europe but Eurabia, which with its softness, its inertia, its creed and its enslavement to the enemy, is digging his own grave. (Sono quattr' anni che parlo di nazismo islamico, di guerra all' Occidente, di culto della morte, di suicidio dell' Europa. Un' Europa che non è più Europa ma Eurabia e che con la sua mollezza, la sua inerzia, la sua cecità, il suo asservimento al nemico si sta scavando la propria tomba.)
- "Il nemico che trattiamo da amico", in Corriere della Sera (15 September 2006)
- Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense... I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion... I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans... Look at the school system of the West today. Students do not know history! They don't know who Churchill was! In Italy, they don't even know who Cavour was!... Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty... State-run television stations contribute to the resurgent anti-Semitism, crying only over Palestinian deaths while playing down Israeli deaths, glossing over them in unwilling tones... The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom... The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization... The struggle for freedom does not include the submission to a religion which, like the Muslim religion, wants to annihilate other religions... The West reveals a hatred of itself, which is strange and can only be considered pathological; it now sees only what is deplorable and destructive... These charlatans care about the Palestinians as much as I care about the charlatans. That is not at all... When I was given the news, I laughed. The trial is nothing else but a demonstration that everything I've written is true... President Bush has said, 'We refuse to live in fear.'...Beautiful sentence, very beautiful. I loved it! But inexact, Mr. President, because the West does live in fear. People are afraid to speak against the Islamic world. Afraid to offend, and to be punished for offending, the sons of Allah. You can insult the Christians, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jews. You can slander the Catholics, you can spit on the Madonna and Jesus Christ. But, woe betide the citizen who pronounces a word against the Islamic religion.
- A Sermon for the West">From "A Sermon for the West" By Oriana Fallaci - Oct. 22, 2002 Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute
- The problem is that the solution does not depend upon the death of Osama bin Laden. Because the Osama bin Ladens are too many, by now: as cloned as the sheep of our research laboratories. In fact, the best trained and the more intelligent do not stay in the Muslim countries... They stay in our own countries, in our cities, our universities, our business companies. They have excellent bonds with our churches, our banks, our televisions, our radios, our newspapers, our publishers, our academic organizations, our unions, our political parties. Worse, they live in the heart of a society that hosts them without questioning their differences, without checking their bad intentions, without penalizing their sullen fanaticism.
- A Sermon for the West">From "A Sermon for the West" By Oriana Fallaci - Oct. 22, 2002 Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute
- To make you cry I'll tell you about the twelve young impure men I saw executed at Dacca at the end of the Bangladesh war. They executed them on the field of Dacca stadium, with bayonet blows to the torso or abdomen, in the presence of twenty thousand faithful who applauded in the name of God from the bleachers. They thundered "Allah akbar, Allah akbar." Yes, I know: the ancient Romans, those ancient Romans of whom my culture is so proud, entertained themselves in the Coliseum by watching the deaths of Christians fed to the lions. I know, I know: in every country of Europe the Christians, those Christians whose contribution to the History of Thought I recognize despite my atheism, entertained themselves by watching the burning of heretics. But a lot of time has passed since then, we have become a little more civilized, and even the sons of Allah ought to have figured out by now that certain things are just not done. After the twelve impure young men they killed a little boy who had thrown himself at the executioners to save his brother who had been condemned to death. They smashed his head with their combat boots. And if you don't believe it, well, reread my report or the reports of the French and German journalists who, horrified as I was, were there with me. Or better: look at the photographs that one of them took. Anyway this isn't even what I want to underline. It's that, at the conclusion of the slaughter, the twenty thousand faithful (many of whom were women) left the bleachers and went down on the field. Not as a disorganized mob, no. In an orderly manner, with solemnity. They slowly formed a line and, again in the name of God, walked over the cadavers. All the while thundering Allah–akbar, Allah–akbar. They destroyed them like the Twin Towers of New York. They reduced them to a bleeding carpet of smashed bones.
- Rage and the Pride">
- I am not speaking, obviously, to the laughing hyenas who enjoy seeing images of the wreckage and snicker good–it–serves–the–Americans–right. I am speaking to those who, though not stupid or evil, are wallowing in prudence and doubt. And to them I say: "Wake up, people. Wake up!!" Intimidated as you are by your fear of going against the current—that is, appearing racist (a word which is entirely inapt as we are speaking not about a race but about a religion)—you don't understand or don't want to understand that a reverse–Crusade is in progress. Accustomed as you are to the double–cross, blinded as you are by myopia, you don't understand or don't want to understand that a war of religion is in progress. Desired and declared by a fringe of that religion, perhaps, but a war of religion nonetheless. A war which they call Jihad. Holy War. A war that might not seek to conquer our territory, but that certainly seeks to conquer our souls. That seeks the disappearance of our freedom and our civilization. That seeks to annihilate our way of living and dying, our way of praying or not praying, our way of eating and drinking and dressing and entertaining and informing ourselves. You don't understand or don't want to understand that if we don't oppose them, if we don't defend ourselves, if we don't fight, the Jihad will win. And it will destroy the world that for better or worse we've managed to build, to change, to improve, to render a little more intelligent, that is to say, less bigoted—or even not bigoted at all. And with that it will destroy our culture, our art, our science, our morals, our values, our pleasures...Christ! Don't you realize that the Osama Bin Ladens feel authorized to kill you and your children because you drink wine or beer, because you don't wear your beard long or a chador, because you go to the theater or the movies, because you listen to music and sing pop songs, because you dance in discos or at home, because you watch TV, wear miniskirts or short–shorts, because you go naked or half naked to the beach or the pool, because you *** when you want and where you want and who you want? Don't you even care about that, you fools? I am an atheist, thank God. And I have no intention of letting myself be killed for it.
- "Rage and the Pride">Oriana Fallaci - The Rage and the Pride - Universe Publishing; Intl edition, 2002, ISBN 9780847825998
Intervista con la StoriaEdit
- Among today's Italians, when treading upon Haile Selassie's memory, the sense of guilt and shame is such that they react by seeing only his positive traits: the merits of his past actions. His portrayals always brim with excessive deferance, unwarranted admiration and delusion. They go on and on about his priestly composure, his regal dignity, his great intelligence and his generosity towards former adversaries. They never explain who this sovereign, who we made into a victim, really was. They never dare tell us if he was something more, or less, than a victim. For example, that he was an old man hardened in principles which were centuries out of date; that he was the absolute ruler of a nation which has never heard the words rights and democracy, which lives in a near prehistoric fashion in the suburbs, opressed by hunger, disease, ignorance and the squallor of a feudal regime which even we did not experience during the darkest years of the Medieval period.
- On Haile Selassie, (June 1972), as quoted in Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011) p. 509
- Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.
- On Norodom Sihanouk, (June 1973), as quoted in Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011) p. 100
Quotes about FallaciEdit
- With Oriana Fallaci's demise at 77 from a host of cancers, in September, in her beloved Florence, there also died something of the art of the interview. Her absolutely heroic period was that of the 1970s, probably the last chance we had of staving off the complete triumph of celebrity culture.
- Christopher Hitchens, "Oriana Fallaci and the Art of the Interview", Vanity Fair (December 2006)
- Ever since the secret trip to China, my own relationship with Nixon had grown complicated. Until then I had been an essentially anonymous White House assistant. But now his associates were unhappy, and not without reason, that some journalists were giving me perhaps excessive credit for the more appealing aspects of our foreign policy while blaming Nixon for the unpopular moves. .
These tendencies were given impetus by an interview I granted to the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, without doubt the single most disastrous conversation I ever had with any member of the press. I saw her briefly on Nov. 2 and 4, 1972, in my office. I did so largely out of vanity. She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be keeping. I had not bothered to read her writings; her evisceration of other victims was thus unknown to me.
I paid the price for my naiveté. The quotes ascribed to me, statements of marginal taste gathered together in what she presented as a conversation, were the most self-serving utterances of my entire public career.
- Even though you are on the blacklist of my authorities, I'll add you to the whitelist of my heart.
- Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (October 1973), as quoted in Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011) p. 563
- Who is this woman? Where does she come from? What does she want? Enough, go away, ça suffit! ça suffit!!
- Haile Selassie, as quoted in Interviewed by Oriana Fallaci, Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 24, 1973


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I'm always on the look out for a new smoothie recipe because I love smoothies. I was so happy when I stubbled upon the Ultimate Pregnancy Smoothie recipe inYOU: Having a Baby by Michael Roizen, MD, and Mehmet Oz, MD. It looked delicious and I knew I had to try it. Confession, I did change the recipe a tad. I used almond milk instead of the juice they recommended and I was glad I did. Growing up my father use to make these really delicious and nutritious smoothies for my brother and I, which I still crave to this day. They were so yummy. So, I can blame my love of smoothies on my dad. Thanks Dad!
Smoothies the ultimate comfort food
A really good smoothie is comfort food for me and this smoothie is just that, yummy comfort. I have been using the Ultimate Pregnancy Smoothie recipe for many years now as a foundation for other smoothies I make. So here is my revised version.
The Ultimate Omega-3 Rich Pregnancy Smoothie:
- 1 cup of almond milk or coconut milk or hemp seed milk or organic milk (can add water to the mix if you want it less thick).
- 1 small banana or 3⁄4 cup of your favorite berries
- 2 tablespoons organic whey protein or a vegan protein
- 2 tablespoons flax, freshly ground (helps with constipation and provides omega-3s)
- 1 tablespoon hemp seed nut, hemp protein, or psyllium husk (for fiber)
- 1 tablespoon Salba or chia seeds (provides omega-3, calcium, magnesium, and protein)
- 1 tablespoon wheat germ (for B vitamins)
- 4 - 5 walnuts
- 3 200-milligram purified fish oil capsules, free of heavy metals, PCBs and dioxins (break and use oil or you can just swallow the capsules. Fish oil may change the taste of the smoothie, so you may want to swallow them instead).
Combine all ingredients into a blender. Cover and blend for 30 seconds. Add ice cubes and/or water to change thickness or temperature if desired. ENJOY!
Why is this good for you and your baby?
Great source of potassium as well as Vitamin B6. Potassium helps maintain electrolyte balance, normal blood pressure and heart function. Bananas promote stomach health because they rich in the fiber called pectin and have a natural antacid affect when mixed with milk. They also help protect the lining of the stomach by creating thicker protective barrier against stomach acids. They are rich in Vitamin C and manganese and help protect the body from free radicals oxidative damage.
Chia Seeds
Are an excellent source of energy. Chia seeds are packed with minerals like blood building iron, stress relieving magnesium and bone building calcium. 1 oz has more calcium than ½ cup of milk. They are a good source of fiber. 1 oz has about 10 grams of fiber. And they are loaded with heart and brain healthy fats. Some studies have shown that chia seed enriched diets may improve insulin resistance and normalize blood lipids. Chia seeds may even reduce visceral fat (the fat around the organs).
Flax seeds
They are a great source of heart healthy fiber and omega 3 fatty acids. They are the richest source of a cancer-fighting phytochemical called lignans. 2 TBSP = 6 grams of fiber. They are a good source of bone building calcium, more calcium than an equivalent serving of milk. Flax seeds can be used to replace eggs in most recipes. For each egg, mix 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed meal with 3 TBSP of water. Let it sit for 1 – 2 minutes until mixture becomes gel-like. Add it to your recipe. Also add it to salads, smoothies, or baked goods.
Hemp seeds
Don't worry. Hemp seeds won't make you high. It's an easy to digest protein that contains all 9 essential amino acids in levels close to those of the complete proteins found in animal products and soy. 1 oz = 7 grams of protein (slightly higher than 1 egg). Just 2 – 3 TBSP can add 10 – 16 grams of high quality, easy to digest protein. They are also rich in inflammation-fighting essential fats. Hemp seeds are fiber rich and a good source of Vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, and iron. They have the perfect balance of omega 3s and omega 6 fatty acids and together they may help reduce the diseases affected by inflammation. For example, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. They also have a protective effect on the brain.
Wheat Germ
Is high in Vitamin E and studies show that Vitamin E my protect DNA from oxidative stress. Vitamin E protects cell membranes, brain cells and cholesterol from free radicals. It's rich in fiber, which helps control blood sugar levels and is good for intestinal health. It also helps control cholesterol levels. Wheat germ is packed with important B vitamins, such as folate, vitamin B1 (thiamin) and vitamin B6. B vitamins are important for the heart, to make proper mood chemicals for our brain, and are critical for cardiovascular health. Folate can prevent birth defects such as spina bifida. It's a good source of essential fatty acids like omega 3's. It contains tons of minerals like iron, magnesium, zinc, calcium, selenium, and manganese.
Are high in anti-oxidants and rich in omega 3's. They are full of protein, fiber, magnesium, phosphorus, vitamin E, selenium and polyphenols. They may even help you sleep better because they naturally contain melatonin. Walnuts are good for your heart and blood vessels. Toss them on oatmeal, smoothies, salads, or baked goods.
Coconut Milk
Loaded with Vitamin C, E and many B vitamins. It is abundant in magnesium which is responsible for many biochemical functions in the body, including regulating the heart's rhythm and supporting the function of nerve cells. Coconut milk is rich in potassium, which maintains the tissues of the heart, kidneys, brain and muscles. It also contains phosphorus which keeps teeth and bones strong. It also has iron, which helps create red blood cells and carries oxygen throughout your body. It's loaded with antioxidants. The best part is that coconut milk is rich in lauric acid, which is a medium chain fatty acid. Lauric acid is abundant in breastmilk. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, lauric acid has many germ-fighting, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties that are very effective at ridding the body of viruses, bacteria and countless illnesses.
Almond Milk
Almonds are referred as "The King Of Nuts" because they are very nutritious. They are an excellent source of the healthy fats, protein, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, and vitamin E. High in anti-oxidants and considered heart healthy. Studies show that almonds can help a person achieve a healthy weight. Almonds promote healthy digestion and elimination. They may even help you sleep better because they re a source of tryptophan.
QUESTION: Do you have a favorite smoothie recipe you would like to share with us? If you do please leave your recipe in the comment box. I am looking forward to trying it!
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Pregnancy is a time when you need lots of support, love, comfort, affection, healthy-nourishing foods, rest, and a stress-free environment. (Okay, I know that a stress free environment is difficult in this day and age but stress affects your growing baby as much as it affects you.) But try to reduce stress as much as possible. You have to be your own best friend, take care of you and your growing baby. Love yourself as if you were your own child and believe me, you and your baby will benefit. You are your baby's nutritionist, teacher, nurturer, protector and healer. Check out my page just for expecting moms.
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Balch, P. & Balch, J. (2010) Prescription for Nutritional Healing. (5th ed). New York, NY: Penguin Putnam Inc.
Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S. and Tannis, M.S., R.H.N. (2009) The 100 Healthiest Foods to Eat During Pregnancy. Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press
Boone, R.D.,(2013) Powerful Plant-Based Super Foods. Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press.
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