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This is a teachable moment. Unfortunately all our political leaders are too busy insulting each other to get to the point.
First probably over 70 percent of the population doesn't know or care that a partial shutdown of the federal government has occurred. Most of those who do are federal employees or contractors and look to the government for their livelihood.
There is enough blame for everyone.
If the Senate had done its job for the last four years and passed a budget we would not be here. This is the result of "Continuing Resolutions." The Constitution allows that all revenue bills begin in the House. If the two bodies cannot agree the they establish conference committees who work out compromise. The Senate Majority Leader refuses to do this.
The President if he has particular strong opinions for or against some part of the budget may enter in to these discussions or veto any budget.
The President is absolutely correct in his boast that he won re-election. However that only gives him control over a third rd of our three branches of government. The House can if they choose boast that the people elected a majority of conservatives as a check or balance against out-of-control spending.
One need only look at the makeup of our government to see that gridlock was the primary weapon of the people. One hundred senators and 435 Representatives should debate every bill and every budget, the idea being, that which is bad for AMERICA (not Republicans or Democrats) would be talked to death. This step was left out of the Affordable Care Act (ObammaCare) because those sponsoring knew it would not survive. They didn't even write it down or read it. All legislation has two steps – passage and funding, where we are now with ACA. The House of Representatives gets two bites at the apple. They are in the passage and the beginning of funding.
Tell your kids that this is how a Constitutional Republic works and to pray that the little band of conservatives stand strong and hold our weak-kneed Speaker up.
Do most of you know that most good things that have happened in history were begun by a small, but determined, minority.
Your question for today is was it a small or large group of Americans who favored throwing the tea in Boston Harbor?
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Varda, Agnès
Agnès Varda 1928–
French director and screenwriter.
Although her work is sometimes compared to that of her husband, filmmaker Jacques Demy, Varda is more often grouped with Alain Resnais and Chris Marker. These filmmakers are considered, along with others, the "Left Bank group," directors pursuing various experimental styles and emphasizing technique in film. Varda worked with Resnais in editing her first film, La Pointe courte. Resnais was hesitant to greatly alter the work Varda had done, for he saw in the film cinematic ideas which he himself intended to realize. Many critics have indeed called Varda a forerunner of the nouvelle vague (new wave) movement in film.
Varda worked on La Pointe courte with almost no prior experience and little formal knowledge of filmmaking. In some ways, however, she had already acquired an intuitive conception of contemporary film theory, and had definite ideas of what she wanted to accomplish with the medium. "I had the feeling … that the cinema was not free, above all in its form, and that annoyed me," Varda states.
She was a still photographer for the Theatre Nationale Populaire, and this experience is stylistically reflected in her films. She independently produced her first work, and was then commissioned to film three short travelogues for the French Tourist Office. The project had inherent limitations, but O saisons, O châteaux and Du côté de la côte nonetheless display the original artistic personality of their maker.
A distinguishing trait of Varda's cinematic method is her attempt to distance the viewer from characters in the film. Part of her objective with such films as Cléo de 5 à 7 and Le Bonheur is to avoid establishing a relationship between the characters and the audience, so that the situation of the characters might be judged more than sympathized with. The focus on stylistic aspects in Varda's films, in addition, eclipses character and narrative content. Varda moves more toward narrative meaning and message in her recent work Une chant et l'autre pas. A study in feminism, the film has been termed simplistic but technically artful propaganda.
It is for her technical skill and innovation that Varda is most often praised by critics. The graceful artificiality of Varda's cinematic world adds a distinct style to contemporary film, as well as enlarging the possibilities of the art form.
FrançOis Truffaut
According to the advertisement—which, for once, is true to the work being promoted—[La Pointe Courte] is a "film essay to be read," made up of two accounts: one about a couple who have been married for four years, and another about a fishing village (La Pointe Courte, near Sète). The film doesn't try to reproduce an experience or to prove any point. It tells its stories slowly, in rhythm with the consuming, transforming passage of time, in rhythm with inexorable time, under the glow of time that is beautiful as well.
Behind the suspect simplicity of the project, a number of secret intentions are hidden, left unstated because they are almost impossible to articulate. Some might fear they bear only a distant relationship to the direction and the handling of the actors.
Since the heroine of the film is in touch only with iron, and her partner only with wood, there is an intense moment of crisis when, at a certain moment, the saw cuts into a plank of wood. That is the kind of idea—I would not have discovered this one unaided!—that recurs in La Pointe Courte, as images that have been a bit too carefully "framed" follow one another, accompanied by exchanges of dialogue that are straight out of the highly intellectual theater of Maurice Clavel.
It is difficult to form a judgment of a film in which the true and the false, the true-false and the...
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Parker Tyler
[L'Opéra Mouffe] is a sensitive documentary, and, as such, "experimental" to the extent that it introduces imaginative moods into the documentary. We see lyrically, unaffectedly nude lovers; we see children playing monsters in masks; we see the pitifully old, the morally and physically misshapen. But is the method of showing these things imaginative enough? For one thing, it is uneven. At times, it is pretentious, arty, and banal (as in the young girl running slow-motion through a field and in the trapped dove) and at other times it simply "drifts" by adding one image statistically, rather than meaningfully, to another (as in the sequences of drunks and the people wiping their noses)…. Image added to image without development or impetus is not true montage but picture-magazine journalism…. Technically, L'Opéra Mouffe is a "suite," a series of facets, but these facets possess no unifying principle either intellectual or sensuous. Supposedly, one thinks: "How human! how pitiful! how sweet! how strange!… in brief: how lifelike!" Yet, however interesting and well-photographed in the conventional sense, the "anthology" attitude that life is an endless network of strange contradictions can never get, in terms of meaning, beyond the stage of clever reporting; it can never reach the stage of meaning that is art as an efficient form; it falls apart into the scattered materials of potential art.
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Bosley Crowther
[A] French film that fairly glitters with photographic and cinematic "style," yet fails to do more than skim the surface of a cryptic dramatic theme, is "Cleo From 5 to 7."… Objectively, it might be favored as a fair example of the slick techniques of the French New Wave….
[The] film indicates at the outset that it is going to be a thing of fleeting moods, of casual illustration of the vagrant and fragile anxieties of a shallow girl….
Obviously, Mlle. Varda has wanted the changing scene to reflect the moods of her young woman, the encounters to counterpoint her thoughts. And, in some respects, she has succeeded, superficially but quite attractively. There are times when her girl is moving around Paris and picking up wisps of street music, or other times when she is listening to the chatter of her companions that flash little hints of haunting sorrow.
But, generally, Mlle. Varda is so absorbed with her camera stunts, as she is in that scene in the hat shop or when she is screening [a] comedy short, that the essential concentration on the heroine is neglected and the interest lost. The character becomes incidental to the techniques by which it is being explained.
Bosley Crowther, "'Cleo from 5 to 7'," in The New York Times (© 1962 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), September 5, 1962, p. 43.
Roger Manvell
[Cléo de 5 à 7] is a film that very much depends on the extent and nature of the sympathy you can find for the particular girl with whom you are invited to spend a hundred minutes during a crucial period in her life. She has two hours to wait for the results of a medical examination which will confirm whether or not she has cancer and, if she has it, whether or not she can be saved from death.
Cléo is a vain, spoiled, revue artist at the beginning of a successful career as a popular singer…. Yet she is not altogether worthless; she is in fact still quite human, though the vanity of her life has given her neither the emotional nor the spiritual resources with which to face a period of endurance such as this. So at the point when we discover her she is pathetic and vulnerable, facing a particular test of character which any one of us might have to face at any time….
Cléo is discovering that everything that happens to her now is a heightened, almost symbolic experience. The streets that seem real and ordinary to us … become alien and unreal to her; her lover comes and goes, but there is no human or physical contact; one of the new songs composed for her, 'Sans Toi', has a bitter and melancholy significance. Everything is memento mori….
[Cléo de 5 à 7] is a film of personal vision, and its strength lies in this. The structure to which Agnès Varda commits herself...
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Gordon Gow
[Agnès Varda's method in Le Bonheur] is the antithesis of the conventional scripted film: she has hoped that it will draw from its audience the kind of reactions she experiences herself when she looks at snapshots or at impressionist paintings: the ideas reside in the images, in the light and warmth and delicate shadows of summer, and later on in the maturity of autumn when sweaters worn by humans match the golden leaves but the idyll is modified by a chill fogging of the breath.
Happiness exists en famille at a picnic in the woods to celebrate Father's Day. The pictures have a gentle glow, and the careful planning of colour serves to remove us sufficiently from reality, into the small...
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Elizabeth Sussex
When Resnais or Godard use a series of fragmented shots, they do it with a purpose that is visually cumulative; the whole sequence will stand for more than any one or two of its parts; style and content are inextricably linked…. [In Le Bonheur] fragmentation is simply a method of varying the presentation of a series of pretty pictures. It is style for style's sake: a symptom of all that is wrong with Varda's picture. (p. 200)
[With] every shot, reality recedes a little further from Varda's grasp. The film begins and ends with a picnic (picnics or making love or both are François's characteristic ways of being happy), and the very first scene is shot to extract, at least to some extent, a...
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Roy Armes
Drawing inspiration from William Faulkner's novel The Wild Palms, [Varda built La Pointe Courte] around the juxtaposition of two disparate themes. The first of these concerns the efforts of two young people … to revive their four-year-old marriage which is on the point of breaking up…. [In La Pointe Courte the] characters remain deliberately abstract, nameless and unpersonalised, and their conversation has a distinctly literary ring. One of the few weaknesses of La Pointe Courte is that the excessive theatricality of these two leading performances causes an unnecessary clash with the soberly handled background theme, which is concerned with the lives of the fishermen of La Pointe...
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Max Kozloff
After perhaps some initial confusion, a viewer might most profitably view Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur as a pastoral, in the old, even Renaissance sense of the word. Imbued with a simple gravity, nymph and shepherd enact a gracious courtship (here a self-refreshing marriage), which is yet miraculously attuned with nature. It is a genre convention as little current today as the implied vanity and death theme in Varda's earlier Cléo de 5 à 7. But it has the advantage of suspending the apparent implausibility of the wife's suicide in a mythic mold that would be totally unexplained in the usual narrative, or psychological context. Set in a modern Paris suburb, replete with high-rise housing projects, the...
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Jonathan Hoops
[Lions Love must be counted among] film weirdities. Agnes Varda abandons the sureties of the conventional film (like Le Bonheur) for what tries to be new, liberated, and honest and nearly succeeds. Story-telling is out: each scene connects to what has gone before as its significance unfolds in the viewer's mind—no plot guides us. The point is to enjoy what is at hand, as in Cleo from 5 to 7. No other choice except nonenjoyment or suicide exists for the three main characters, Viva, Jerome Ragni, and James Rado, who live in a rented house (metaphysical note: as the soul is said to do in the body) in Hollywood and wait for stardom (read "immortality," i.e., death). It should be clear that Varda...
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Sue Lermon
Some may feel that [Daguerreotypes] is too claustrophobic in its form, in its photography, and in its approach to the content, that more controversial issues should have been raised for discussion, that this section of the so-called silent majority might have been given a greater opportunity to condemn itself in the eyes of a sophisticated and radical audience, and that more of modern Paris might have been provided as a context. It would have been interesting, particularly for an English viewer, for whom much that was shown is already virtually of a bygone era, to have known how much such ways of life are in jeopardy and what kinds of danger are foreseen by the Daguerreotypes themselves. After all, the...
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Pauline Kael
["Une chant et l'autre pas" or "One Sings, the Other Doesn't"] is all up front. It's a cheery, educational feminism-can-be-fun movie. Pomme and her combo tour provincial towns, performing songs with lyrics … such as "I'm neither a tough cookie nor a busy beaver nor a utopian dreamer—I'm a woman, I am me." Decked out in harlequin colors that suggest a French child's dream of what Haight-Ashbury was like, they chant "My Body Is Mine." Singing about the joys of pregnancy when it's "your choice and your pleasure," they wear pillows stuffed inside their long dresses—"It's beautiful to be a balloon." When these bubble dollies send actual balloons into the sky or sing about the "ovules," Varda brings a Disney touch to...
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Judith Thurman
So much life is looked at in ["One Sings, the Other Doesn't"] that it has a certain old-fashioned and well-furnished vastness, like that of a family saga. It is, however, an extended family of women friends and children. Men are not excluded and they are not unimportant, but they are peripheral to the action. And this is neither inaccurate nor unfair. How many of our fathers have actively been there? (p. 26)
There is a spareness and lightness to Varda's decisions about her images which keep the melodrama contained to particular moments, balanced by dailiness and irony. She narrates the story herself in a quiet, editorial voice, and this makes it possible to read the film with a certain distance, to...
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Mark Abley
[One Sings, the Other Doesn't is] full of virtues and empty of life. With a plot thicker than The Edge of Night, with stylish acting and memorable images, One Sings, the Other Doesn't sinks under the weight of its worthiness. (pp. 69-70)
There are some things Varda cares passionately about, notably a woman's right to abortion: When Pomme and Susanne meet after a long separation, it's at a pro-abortion rally where Pomme sings Mon corps, c'est à moi. But the movie is so cool and passive that you long for any sort of passion. If it lacks the stridency of a Lina Wertmüller movie, it also lacks the risk and flamboyance that made Swept Away or Seven Beauties...
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At Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon, Intel Corp. unveiled a future high performance computing (HPC) optimized version of its forthcoming processor codenamed Nehalem-EX. The chips aimed at supercomputers will feature lower amount of cores, but will sport higher clock-speed along with some tweaks to boost performance of HPC-specific cases.
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Severe asthma and a crippling spinal cord injury can�t deter runner Kitty Consolo from chasing down her dreams in the upcoming National Senior Games
Name: Kitty Consolo Age: 55 Event(s): 5K and 10K Listening to Kitty Consolo rattle off her various health woes, it�s hard not to cringe. �I�m allergic to dairy products, bananas, yeast,� says the 55-year-old runner from Granville, Ohio. �I have severe asthma, but I�m allergic to most standard asthma drugs. I use a nebulizer, and I have to do four breathing treatments before I run, four after I run.� On top of that, Kitty has sustained a number of serious injuries over the years. �I�ve had spinal cord compression, which gives me nausea and intense fatigue. Sometimes I just feel like laying on ice all day and not doing anything,� she says. But Kitty, who has been running for 38 years, refuses to let these health challenges keep her from lacing up her running shoes doing what she loves. �When I run, it�s a real spiritual experience. It�s like my disabilities totally disappear,� says Kitty, who is gearing up for the upcoming 2013 National Senior Games in the 5,000 and 10,000-meter events. Kitty began her running career in 1975 as the sole woman on the Wake Forest University Men�s Cross Country team. Running in old leather tennis shoes because proper footwear for females was hard to come by at the time, Kitty astounded her fellow teammates by finishing 3 miles in under 18 minutes in an all-men�s meet�a time that qualified her for the Women�s Nationals. After that, she went on to win the Revco Cleveland Marathon in 1982 and again in 1985 and qualify and compete in the first Women�s Olympic Marathon Trials in 1984. Now, in spite of all the obstacles that have been thrown in her path, Kitty is eager to revive her running career with a shot at taking home the gold in the 2013 National Senior Games 5K and 10K events. As much as she would like to win, however, Kitty�s main priority is just to be on the starting line. �With my body, I never know if I�ll have spinal cord compression or nausea or severe asthma,� she says. �So my goal is simple: I just want to be there and finish the race and enjoy every step.� Because of her compelling personal story, Kitty was selected out of 10,000 athletes to carry the torch at the National Senior Games final ceremony. �To me, that is such an honor because I feel that I am representing the spirit of the national games�that I�m representing all of the incredible athletes ages 50-plus,� Kitty says. �Honestly, the race is secondary to all of that.� As a tenured associate professor at Ohio University Zanesville, where she teaches health courses such as one called �Health of Aging,� Kitty serves as a powerful role model for young adults. She hopes that her personal story can give students the push they need to transform their health�and their lives�for the better. �I want to inspire people to not just study health but to live health,� Kitty says. �Any time I can get someone to change their behavior I feel like I�ve been very successful. That�s what�s so wonderful about what I do.� CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO THE STORY Brought to you by: Spry - Healthy Living and Wellness for Women


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This is not good at all and it's hard to watch. I could moan and whine about how this game should be at Lambeau because of the ridiculous Seattle call – but the fact is that reality changed after that happened and we've had plenty of time to figure this out. Our defense is really not very good at all.
Packers look really bad tonight
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Lynn Dickey Says:
January 12, 2013 at 9:59 pm |
Maybe we shouldn't have shit the bed against the Colts or Vikings! Can't blame the shitty scab refs for this.
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January 12, 2013 at 10:01 pm |
What kapernick is doing to us is embarrassing & ridiculous. Terrible game in all facets so far is ridiculous. Theyscre here & it is game over
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Nite guys. Cant watch this anylonger


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There is a reason rabbits are equated with Easter: Spring is the time of year they ruin gardeners' crops, especially greens. March and April particularly make up the high season for a number of leafy greens, including Swiss chard, spinach and varieties of lettuce.
Swiss Chard
This hearty, broad-leafed plant has long been considered one of the healthiest vegetables on the market. Slightly bitter, the thicker leaves are high in vitamins A, K and C as well as a rich source of polyphenol antioxidants and minerals like magnesium, manganese and iron.
Swiss chard can be served raw in salad—rinse with cold water and do not soak, as this will reduce the number of nutrients. Boiling will bring out the sweeter notes in the leaf, making it a great addition to toss in fresh pasta, EVOO, lemon juice and roughly chopped garlic.
The root behind many child-parent dinner table standoffs, spinach is a downright superstar of the healthy diet sect and a springtime champion grower. The vegetable Popeye made famous is loaded with vitamins (A, K and C), protein, folate and folic acid as well as minerals: magnesium, iron, potassium, calcium and manganese. (No wonder it made Popeye so strong.)
Spinach lends itself to a number of preparation techniques to be used as an ingredient, a flavor-enhancer, a side, sautéed in butter with a pinch of garlic and salt or simply raw in a salad tossed with tomatoes and feta. Local grower Kai-Kai Farms brings four pesticide-free spinach varieties to the market—Corvair, Donkey, Emu and Red Cardinal (right).
For the herbivore, life simply wouldn't be as tasty without lettuce. The leafy greens that make the foundation for salads has so much more to offer than iceberg and romaine. Names like Red Cross, Black Seeded Simpson, Cherokee, Firecracker, Flashy Trout Black, Two Star and Magenta may not stand out in the Publix produce section, but at specialty markets and with artisanal growers, these are just but a few of the varieties harvested around Palm Beach County. Like all leafy greens, lettuces can be a rich source of vitamins A, K, C and B as well as minerals, but they are also great sources of zeaxanthin, a carotene important for eye health.
Coming in a variety of colors, shapes, tastes and smells, many local growers produce butterhead, romaine, leaf, bibb and summer crisp varieties, both as mature and micro selections. Swank Specialty Produce's multi-leaf Salanovia Type lettuce blend is a treat on its own or as an artisanal accompaniment to some bison sliders.


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It is public record that Engle, on October 6, 2010, was convicted of 12 counts of bank, mail and wire fraud related to two real-estate loans. But Engle, along with friends, family and acquaintances familiar with the case, are shocked that the case existed in the first place, and by its premises. And they mourn the fact that someone who does so much for others will be taken out of circulation.
"I am so angry," says his ex-wife, Pam Engle, with whom he maintains a close relationship. "It's upsetting that the banks get bailed out and they are coming after the consumer."
"This case is bogus, and it is not over," says his father, Richard Engle of La Quinta, California, a longtime real-estate broker, who attended every minute of the six-day trial and is intimate with every detail of the case. "We are protesting to the Department of Justice, anybody who will listen."
Engle was initially investigated for tax evasion. I ask him what he was actually convicted of? "Basically, I'm going to prison for allegedly overstating my income on a loan application," he says.
Dunlap and other sources, including local Greensboro newspapers, suggested that Engle may have used the loans to help fund the feature-length film Running the Sahara, which was produced and directed by Academy Award winner James Moll and executive co-produced by actor Matt Damon (who also narrated the film) and Jim Van Eerden, who led the project's investor group.
Engle emphatically says that not a single penny of his own money went into financing RTS, which had a final budget of over $3 million. The net equity of the loans, he says, was around $140,000. "We couldn't have gotten past day two of the Sahara expedition on that," he says. "It's hurtful that Running the Sahara is tainted at all, because of all the great people involved."
"There is a rumor circulating that Charlie helped fund the expedition and film with his money," says Van Eerden of the Helixx Group, when contacted about the accusation. "That is simply not true. We funded Running the Sahara with third-party investment. Charlie was paid a fee as expedition leader along with the other runners."
So, it was with mixed skepticism confusion and anticipation that I had traveled to Greensboro to meet the enigmatic Engle.
While Engle grew up an athlete, running a 4:40 mile in high school and playing quarterback on the football team, he always incorporated running into his life, including through his 20s and a hellish 10 years as an acute drug and alcohol addict. In the late 1990s, when he was in his 30s, he embarked on a fast-track "career" in adventure racing and extreme ultrarunning, swapping his substance addiction for another. After a string of marathons in the early 1990s, Engle one day watched a Discovery Channel documentary on the Eco-Challenge/British Columbia adventure race, and that was it.


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Hunt 1207: CWMU Buck deer
Bear Mountain
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9-1-2014 to 10-31-2014
- Nonresident permits: No
- Resident permits: 1
- Total permits: 1
The Wildlife Board establishes timeframes for hunting on CWMUs. Hunters should expect to hunt at least five days within these timeframes
Type: CWMU
Species: Buck deer
Weapon: Any legal weapon
Bear Mountain
DescriptionJust southeast of Mount Pleasant, Utah is the Bear Mountain Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) ranging from 10000 feet to about 6200 feet. The west part of the Unit is a series of moderate sloping benches and rapidly climbing slopes. On the east at the higher elevations, Bear Mountain CWMU, is cut by the Straight Fork of Pleasant Creek, Dry Pole Creek, and the North and South Forks of Coral Fork. The most common elevation is 7300 feet but ranges from 6200 feet to 10000 feet with an elevation difference of 3800 feet. Fifty (50%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 7300 feet and 9100 feet an elevation difference of 1800 feet.
Much of the Bear Mountain Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit is covered with Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland (41). At the higher elevations there are substantial areas of Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland (22). At lower elevations there is some Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland (36). At the higher elevation besides the Aspen Forest and Woodland, there is a mixture of Rocky Mountain Subalpine Mesic Spruce-Fir Forest and Woodland (28), Rocky Mountain Montane Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland (32), and Inter-Mountain West Aspen-Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland Complex (38). There are patches of Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe (62) scattered from the lowest elevation to the highest.
One of the Bear Mountain Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, ELECTRIC LAKE (422424), is about 13.0 km northeast from the northeast edge of the CWMU. ELECTRIC LAKE has twenty-seven (27) years of records, 1980 - 2007. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 6.31 inches, but it can be as high as 10.05 inches or as low as 1.73 inches. During the 91-day FALL period, 26 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inch of precipitation, 18 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inch, or 4 days of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inch of precipitation. There is no reliable snowfall data for ELECTRIC LAKE. FALL temperature at ELECTRIC LAKE averages 36.6 degrees F. but can be as high as 81.0 degrees F. or as low as -22.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 71 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and no days above 90 degrees F. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
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March 11, 2002
BRONXVILLEWarning that a recovering economy will require additional supplies of electricity, New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Operating Officer Eugene W. Zeltmann said Monday that it would be "a serious miscalculation" to delay or drop plans to build a new generation of clean, efficient power plants.
"When the economy recovers, as its apparently beginning to do, electricity use will start shooting up again and keep on growing," Zeltmann told the Bronxville Rotary Club. "We must use what could be a very brief respite to get ready."
Zeltmann noted that the national economic slowdown and the September 11 attacks "have led, at least for now, to falling prices and easing of supply problems in New York and other parts of the country." But he said new power plants will be needed quickly both to meet anticipated future requirements and to improve air quality by replacing old, inefficient units.
Even for this summer, Zeltmann said, the New York Independent System Operator, which runs the state's wholesale power markets, and Con Edison predict that peak demand for electricity will be roughly at last years record levels.
He said the Power Authority, under Gov. George E. Patakis leadership, is helping to carry out a three-part strategy to meet power needs and protect the environment. In addition to building clean new power plants, the approach includes strengthening the power transmission system and promoting energy efficiency and renewable supply sources.
Zeltmann told the audience at J.C. Fogartys restaurant that Westchester County residents and businesses benefit from the Power Authoritys installation of 10 small, clean gas-turbine generators in New York City and of the worlds most advanced transmission control device at its Marcy Substation near Utica.
By bolstering power supplies, the gas turbines have helped to lower the prices paid by all Con Edison customers, including those in Westchester County. The transmission device, called a convertible static compensator, is scheduled for completion later this year, but has already eased bottlenecks in Central New York, permitting more electricity to reach Westchester and other parts of the Hudson Valley.
Zeltmann said Westchester County taxpayers save about $30 million a year through use of economical Power Authority electricity by the county government and about 100 other public entities, including the Town of Eastchester and the villages of Bronxville and Tuckahoe.
"Westchester commuters also benefit," he said, "since our electricity powers the Metro-North trains."
In addition, said Zeltmann, NYPA power supplied under Governor Patakis Power for Jobs program and other initiatives helps to protect nearly 22,000 jobs at businesses and non-profit organizations in Westchester ranging from Readers Digest, Coca-Cola Bottling and Kraft Foods to St. Josephs Medical Center in Yonkers.
Also in Westchester, he noted, the Power Authority helps to meet power needs, improve air quality and cut dependence on foreign oil by advancing energy efficiency and clean new technologies.
"Westchester facilities and the taxpayers supporting them save more than $6 l/2 million a year thanks to our efficiency efforts," Zeltmann said. "These projects also benefit the environment by cutting power-plant emissions by nearly 53,000 tons annually."
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Working alongside doctors and nurses in the local hospital, working with farmers on their land, using engineering skills to bring clean water or simply parents sharing ideas on children's education are examples of the way that JHF associates and staff have entered and become part of communities in China.
The way that JHF associates and staff enter the community usually takes the form of a "project". The ideal eventual aim of each project is to place its management from outsiders' hands into local hands. Each project idea within JHF is approved and monitored by a committee called PAMEC (Project Approval Monitoring and Evaluation Committee). PAMEC is made up of JHF associates and staff from different regions of China and careful consideration is given to each new project idea before it is started in the community. Support and advice are given to the project manager as the project progresses and is evaluated and this sometimes comes from sources outside of JHF. This process helps us to learn from the past and aims to raise the quality assurance and accountability of the project work we do.
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Dr. García de Jalón has a long career and has developed their daily work in prestigious national hospitals and medical centers. Specializing in Urology is an expert in the field of Urooncología and Minimally Invasive Surgery (laparoscopic and endourological Surgery), one of the pioneers in developing laparoscopic techniques at the University Hospital Miguel Servet since 2004, with particular emphasis on the laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for the management of prostate cancer. In addition, I am also a pioneer in the application of no-scalpel vasectomy without needles in Zaragoza.
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Expert in:
- Prostate Cancer
- Endourology
- Urologic Laparoscopy
- Prostatectomy (prostate removal)
- No-scalpel vasectomy
Professional experience
• More than 20 years of experience• Assistant professor of urology at the Hospital San Millan de Logroño (2005) • Deputy of Urology at the Hospital Miguel Servet (1999 - 2010)• Specialist in Medical Cabinet Hernan Cortes (2008 - 2011)• Specialist in Clinical Moliere (2008 - 2011)• Specialist in DKV Medical Center (2008 - 2012)• FEA urology at the Hospital Ernest Lluch of Calatayud (2010 - 2013)• Specialist in Urology at the Adeslas Medical Center (2008 - present)• Specialist in Urology at the Chiron Clinic Floresta (2011 - present)• FEA Urology at the University Hospital Miguel Servet (2013 - present) ...
Positions in public associations
• Member of Aragon Group Experimental Surgery Training in Biomedical Research Centre of Aragon (CIBA)
• Resident Tutor at the University Hospital Miguel Servet (2008 - 2010)• Professor in Experimental Urologic Laparoscopy Course at the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery of Cáceres (2010) • Director 4 courses of experimental surgery at the Center for Biomedical Research of Aragon and teaching in 3 others, all annual edition (2010 - present)• Consultant on 2 Focuss postgraduate training programs Aragonese Health Service: Management of Urinary Incontinence Management probes and catheters in urological patients (2011)• Focuss Tutor program "Management of urological emergencies in primary care in rural areas" (2012) ...
• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Zaragoza (1991 - 1997)• MIR specialist in Urology • Residency at Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet (June 1999 - June 2004) ...
Languages spoken
- Spanish
- English
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Endourology is the set of techniques used in minimally invasive surgery in urology. Diagnostic, therapeutic, transurethral, percutaneous, endoscopic Endourology is the set of techniques used in minimally invasive surgery in urology. Diagnostic, therapeutic, transurethral, percutaneous, endoscopic or imaging maneuvers are some techniques that can be performed in Endourological. This treatment is implemented through the urinary tract. ...
No-scalpel vasectomy
No-scalpel vasectomy and needles is an intervention without surgical incision to perform the partial removal of the vas deferens, which are the tubes No-scalpel vasectomy and needles is an intervention without surgical incision to perform the partial removal of the vas deferens, which are the tubes that carry sperm out of the testes. It is one of the most simple and effective contraceptive methods. Unlike a traditional vasectomy, which knife is used, this technique is performed with collets, causing the opening of the skin separating the fibers, not by cutting. The advantage is that patients have less pain and bleeding during surgery and less bruising, infections and other possible postoperative complications. In addition, not having to make cuts, no scarring. ...
Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer occurs when abnormal cells grow in the prostate, which is a male sex gland located below the bladder and above the rectum, respon Prostate cancer occurs when abnormal cells grow in the prostate, which is a male sex gland located below the bladder and above the rectum, responsible for producing seminal fluid. It is one of the most common cancers in men, and the odds of suffering increases with age. In its initial stage, symptoms such as difficulty and pain when urinating, frequent urination, inability to urinate, blood in urine, painful ejaculation, pain in the lower back and pelvis that does not go away with time, loss Unintentional weight, etc. Treatment options depend on the stage of the cancer and health status of the patient, but usually include surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. ...
Prostatectomy (prostate removal)
La prostatectomia è l'intervento con il quale si rimuove, parzialmente o totalmente, la ghiandola prostatica. Solitamente, la prostatectomia rappresen La prostatectomia è l'intervento con il quale si rimuove, parzialmente o totalmente, la ghiandola prostatica. Solitamente, la prostatectomia rappresenta il trattamento principale per il tumore alla prostata. L'operazione può venire effettuata con tecniche tradizionali, a cielo aperto, o con tecnica laparoscopica. ...
Urologic Laparoscopy
Laparoscopy is a surgical technique inspection of the abdominal cavity that does not require large incisions. During the procedure, the abdomen is introduced into a laparoscope, which is a tube containing an optical system coupled to a light source. The camera allows the doctor to inspect, from a monitor, the pelvic organs and, if necessary, introduce other instruments through the same laparoscope to correct any problems. The advantages of laparoscopy in urology are many, such that shorter hospital and recovery is required, there is less chance of infectious complications, decreases postoperative pain and no visible scarring. Laparoscopy is mainly used in processes such as prostate cancer or some renal diseases. ...
Balanitis is an inflammatory disease that occurs on the surface of the glans and foreskin. The causes can be bacterial infection or irritation. The most common symptoms are: swelling; itch; erythema; pain; irritation; presence of vesicles; narrowing of the foreskin (phimosis); difficulty urinating; bleeding. Treatment is usually based topical antimicrobials or creams containing cortisone. In particularly severe cases, the patient will have to undergo circumcision surgery. ...
Bladder Cancer
The bladder is a hollow organ in the lower abdomen whose main function is to store urine before it is expelled from the body. Bladder cancer occurs when cells cancersosas in the inner membrane of this body are formed, and its symptoms are painful urination or lower back, frequent urination and blood in the urine. The main risk factors are smoking and exposure to certain chemicals, along with a family history of the disease. This type of cancer can be limited to the lining of the bladder, and then called surface or spread through the lining of the bladder and even to nearby organs, which are called invasive in this case. Treatment depends on the severity and type of cancer, but may generally include radiation therapy, chemotherapy and / or surgery. ...
Circumcision is the total or partial excision of the foreskin, which is the skin that covers the tip of the penis by a surgical procedure. It is effective to correct disorders such as phimosis (which prevents the foreskin can be retracted and thus discover the glans) and paraphimosis (most often due to an inflammation of the foreskin) treatment. Circumcision is widespread universally, and many parents prefer to practice in their newborns, not a prescription, but for cultural reasons. This is a very simple operation, which lasts only a few minutes, and does not require general anesthesia. The recovery of the patient is also very fast, within a few days and can lead a normal life. ...
Cystitis is inflammation of the urinary bladder. You can be infected or not. Its main symptoms are burning sensation during urination, a strong urge to urinate, blood in urine and discomfort in the pelvic area. Cystitis caused by a bacterial infection is usually treated with antibiotics. Cystitis is more prevalent in women because they have shorter urethra and is closer to the anus. ...
Cystocele hernia is a protrusion or bladder into the vaginal canal. It occurs when the muscle that supports the bladder wall is so weak that it is unable to maintain its normal position, so the bladder tends to move down. This weakness can cause urine leakage from the bladder when abdominal pressure increases, which is what happens when you cough or sneeze, for example. Cystocele is relatively common in women after age 40 disorder, and the likelihood increases with age at menopause, after a particularly difficult birth and when obesity, among other reasons. In mild cases, treatment consists in performing Kegel exercises, which strengthen the pelvic floor muscles. Surgery is needed in severe cases or when they fail those years. ...
Diseases of the penis
Penis diseases are those that affect the male reproductive system. In addition to causing pain, can affect sexual functioning and fertility of men. The disease most common penis is erectile dysfunction, which is the inability to achieve or maintain an erection. Other common diseases are priapism, Peyronie's disease and balanitis. Although it is a rare form of cancer, penile cancer it may also appear. ...
Interstitial Cystitis
Cystitis is inflammation of the urinary bladder. The term interstitial cystitis (also called interstitial cystic) is used to designate cases in which the condition is chronic. It is far more common in women than in men, and the cause is unknown, although it is known that it is not caused by bacterial or viral infections. People affected by this type of cystitis wall have completely swollen and painful bladder, which causes scarring of the bladder or causes stiffness, resulting in the inability to expand as it fills with urine. Symptoms vary widely, but typically include pulse urgency to urinate, urinary frequency, and even pain during intercourse. There is no definitive cure for interstitial cystitis, so treatments are usually focused on improving symptoms, and may include diet, exercise bladder control, medication, physical therapy, etc. ...
Kidney cancer
Kidney cancer is a malignant tumor that involves the uncontrolled spread of cancer cells in the renal tubules. It is a disorder that affects mainly to adults over age 50 and men generally. The most common risk factors include smoking, hemodialysis and other genetic reasons (the exact causes are unknown). Symptoms of a kidney tumor usually the appearance of blood in the urine, pain in the lumbar area (near the diseased kidney), weight loss and abdominal weight gain. However, the majority of renal tumors are asymptomatic and tend to randomly detected from an x-ray test done for other reasons. It is a cancer that is detected early can be cured, and that because humans can live with one kidney, you can proceed to the removal of the malignant tumor organ to stop. But, when it is detected metastases (tumor spread to other organs) other specific treatments should be made to halt the spread of cancer cells. ...
Kidney Stones (Urolithiasis)
Kidney stones are solid pieces of varying aspects mainly formed at the expense of salts in body fluids. When the calculations are formed or accommodated in any area tract or urinary tract it speaks of urolithiasis. More specifically, when formed in the kidney, they called renal or kidney stones, and form due to waste products from the urine. They vary in size from the size of a grain of sand to a stone of considerable proportions. Moreover, in most cases, kidney stones leave the body without medical intervention, but can also remain in the kidney or urinary tract scroll through and get stuck, blocking the urinary tract and causing great pain. As for treatment, they are usually given painkillers, but has caused a blockage, it is necessary to resort to surgery. ...
Pelvic Floor
The pelvic floor is the set of muscles and ligaments surrounding the abdominal cavity at its bottom. Holding all the pelvic organs (bladder and urethra, uterus and vagina, and rectum) and ensure their normal operation. The pelvic floor is dynamic, adapting to our movement while still maintaining adequate voltage to hold the organs inside the pelvis. When the pelvic floor is weakened, as problems that can affect urine leakage, discomfort, pain and even the fall of the abdominal organs arise. ...
Phimosis is a condition in which there is congenital or accidental of the foreskin of the penis ring narrow, which makes it impossible to retract to show the glans. It is common in children and can sometimes be caused by forced retraction of the foreskin at an early age. It can also be caused by an infection or scars that form after injury. Phimosis can be corrected by a simple surgical procedure called circumcision, which involves removing excess skin around the glans (bridle), permanently leaving it exposed. Instead, parafimosis is unable to return the foreskin over the glans. Usually causes pain and some swelling, and usually occurs in children or the elderly who have not been circumcised. ...
Prostatic benign hypertrophy
The prostate is a male sex gland located below the bladder and above the rectum, and is responsible for producing the seminal fluid. The BPH occurs when you increase the size of the prostate gland due to a hormonal imbalance in men: increase female hormones (estrogen) on male hormones (testosterone). Usually occurs in people over 70 years and among the symptoms that appear gradually, are: difficulty urinating, frequent urination, urgent feeling to urinate, need to press for emptying the bladder, etc. In severe cases, prostate hypertrophy can produce absolute inability to urinate, blood in urine or impaired kidney function. Is usually treated with medications (hormones) and, in more severe cases, surgery. ...
Prostatitis is inflammation of the prostate, a gland below the bladder of man, and that helps make semen. It is one of the most common disorders of the male genitourinary system, caused, in most cases, by bacterial infection, either chronic or acute. Other inflammatory conditions of the prostate may be chronic nonbacterial prostatitis (producing perineal or pelvic pain) and asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis (the symptoms are not obvious). The most common symptoms that can lead us to think that there is an inflammation of the prostate are associated with urinary disorders. When the cause is an infection, it is treated with antibiotics for several weeks to remove bacteria from the prostate. ...
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a set of different microorganisms caused by infectious diseases, which have in common that are preferably spread during sex. More than 20 known STDs, including: chlamydia and lymphogranuloma, gonorrhea, genital herpes, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), genital warts caused by human papillomavirus, syphilis and trichomoniasis. Although most STDs affect both men and women, women have the most serious health problems. Not all STDs can be cured: those that are caused by bacteria, such as chlamydia, are fought with antibiotics, but they are caused by viruses, such as genital herpes, treatment is limited to alleviate the symptoms. ...
Short Frenulum
Penile frenulum is the skin fold task of binding the underside of the glans with the inner surface of the foreskin. Its function is to help contract the prepuce over the glans. We speak short or short bridle when the frenulum is so short that restricts movement to do the foreskin, leading to discomfort during sexual activity. One consequence is that you can get to tearing, causing pain and some bleeding, which is not a medical emergency if complicated but requires medical treatment. There are different methods for this: from the use of corticosteroid creams and conducting exercises bridle manual extension until restorative plastic surgery (fenuloplastía), elimination (frenectomy) or circumcision. ...
Urinary Incontinence
Urinary incontinence is the inability to control the bladder, which means that you can not always hold urine. It can affect anyone, but is most common in people over 50 years. Most control problems occur because the muscles that keep the bladder are too weak or too active. If they are weak, small amounts of urine to perform actions such as laughing or coughing are lost, which is known as stress incontinence. On the contrary, if they are too active, you can have an urgent need to go to the bathroom while having little urine in the bladder (urge incontinence or overactive bladder). Other causes include prostate problems and neurological damage. The treatment of urinary incontinence depends on the cause and type, but in general usually includes simple exercises, medicines and special devices. Surgery may be helpful at times. ...
Urodynamics or urodynamics study is a test to know the functioning of the lower urinary tract, that is, how it is stored and eliminates urine. It is used to diagnose diseases such as urinary incontinence, neurological diseases affecting the urinary tract, urinary infections, etc. The test consists of several parts. First, the patient must urinate into a container called a flow meter, which measures the amount and speed of urine. After a probe is placed through the urethra using a numbing gel that reaches the bladder, and is used to measure pressure and filled with sterile saline. Finally, urinate around the tube, which is then removed. This is a total which lasts about 30 minutes simple procedure. ...
Urogenital injuries
Trauma is an injury to an organ or tissue due to actions or external causes. Urogenital trauma refers to injuries in the genital and / or urinary. In this case, the organ is damaged more often is the kidney, followed by the bladder, urethra, testicles and ureters. In addition, there are two types of urogenital trauma. On the one hand, they are called closed, which are the most common, and include injuries from falls from heights, traffic accidents, sports injuries and direct hits on the external genitalia. Moreover, open trauma, caused mainly by stab wounds and fire or abdominal surgery is contemplated. ...
A varicocele is a varicose vein tumor formed by an (unusually swollen vein) or a group of varices, usually located in the scrotum or in the spermatic cord. Usually develops during the course of puberty, most often on the left side of the scrotum, and although it is usually not harmful, in some people it can damage the testicles or decrease sperm production. If testicular varicocele causes infertility, surgery, called varicocelectomy, which involves cutting the affected veins for blood flow is performed. An alternative to surgery is varicocele embolization, which makes a much smaller incision and involves placing a catheter into the vein. ...
Vasectomy is the partial or total removal of the vas deferens of man, which are the tubes that carry sperm out of the testes. What it does is clog the channel sperm, and therefore prevent sperm out of the testes. So it is an effective method for birth control, since women can not become pregnant, but is not recommended in the short term, because for a while there remain stored sperm. This is a simple outpatient surgery, in most cases, in which local anesthesia is used. Recovery takes less than a week. After vasectomy, the man can still have orgasms and ejaculate semen. ...
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In September, the United States will mark its second year as a member on the United Nations Human Rights Council. U.S. engagement at the Council has led to a number of new mechanisms to spotlight and address serious human rights concerns and focused international attention to some of the world's most egregious human rights abusers. The United States will continue to work hard to diminish the Council's biased disproportionate focus on Israel. The United States maintains a vocal, principled stand against this focus, and will continue its robust efforts to end it.
Key accomplishments of the past two years include:
Deepening Engagement in Country SituationsIran: The Council took bold, assertive action to highlight Iran's deteriorating human rights situation by establishing a Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Iran. The rapporteur will investigate and report on abuses in Iran and call out the failure of the Iranian government to meet its human rights obligations.
Cote d'Ivoire: U.S. leadership led to a Special Session on the situation in Cote d'Ivoire, sending Laurent Gbagbo a clear message that the world is watching what he does and that atrocities and human rights violations would not go unnoticed. At its most recent session, the Council established a Commission of Inquiry to investigate these abuses and amplified the international community's unequivocal message that President Ouattara must be allowed to serve as the elected head of state.
Libya: The United States played a pivotal role in convening the Council's Special Session in February 2011 during which the Council condemned the recent human rights violations and other acts of violence committed by the Government of Libya, created an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate those violations, and recommended to the UN General Assembly that it suspend Libya's membership rights on the Council. The UN General Assembly acted on that recommendation several days later.
Kyrgyzstan: The United States worked with Kyrgyzstan to draft and galvanize support for the first-ever resolution to address human rights violations there in the wake of the killings and abuses that took place in June 2010. It called for a credible investigation by the Government and international assistance for victims and requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide follow-up reporting. The resolution paved the way for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate these events.
Guinea: The United States led the Council to adopt several resolutions on Guinea. The Council condemned the September 2009 violence, welcomed the High Commissioner for Human Rights' decision to open a country office, and requested technical assistance from the international community for the transition to democracy, which produced concrete results on the ground.
Tunisia: The United States worked with the EU and the interim government of Tunisia to adopt a resolution that welcomed the process of political transition that has started in Tunisia, invited the UN to provide technical assistance to the transitional process in Tunisia, and encouraged the government of Tunisia to implement recommendations of the High Commissioner from its report on its mission earlier this year.
Burma: The United States has worked to ensure the continuation of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma. The Special Rapporteur plays a critical role in reporting on the ongoing human rights abuses in Burma, including calling for a commission of inquiry into the situation.
North Korea: The United States has worked to ensure the continuation of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea. While the government of North Korea strongly opposes this mandate, the number of votes in favor of the resolution increased this year, demonstrating the level of international concern with the situation there.
Sudan: The United States led efforts to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert tasked with monitoring human rights throughout Sudan, including Darfur, over the Sudanese government's strong opposition.
Initiating Concrete Action To Drive Human Rights PrioritiesProtecting Freedom of Assembly and Association: The U.S. Government co-sponsored a resolution to create the first-ever Special Rapporteur to protect Freedom of Assembly and Association, to monitor crackdowns on civil society groups and advance protection of the right to free assembly and association through its vigilant exposure of state conduct.
Combating Discrimination Against Women: The United States championed the establishment of a Working Group of Independent Experts to prevent Discrimination Against Women; the five independent experts will address discrimination against women in law and practice. One of the experts is the first Israeli citizen to be appointed by the Human Rights Council President to a special mechanism.
A Strong Statement on LGBT Rights: The United States led a group of 85 countries to sign a statement entitled "Ending Acts of Violence and Related Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity." It represents a landmark moment in UN efforts to highlight human rights abuses faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people around the world.
Defending Core PrinciplesProtecting Freedom of Expression in the Context of Religious Intolerance: The United States was instrumental in galvanizing support for a consensus resolution that marks a sea change in the global dialogue on countering offensive and hateful speech based upon religion or belief. The "Combating Discrimination and Violence" resolution underscores the vital importance of protecting freedom of expression and ends the divisive debate over the highly problematic concept of "defamation of religions."
The State Department's Acting Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said, "...The United States remains determined to continue to push the Council to address a broad range of urgent and serious human rights concerns worldwide. To this end, the United States Government intends to pursue a second term on the Council at the Human Rights Council elections in New York in May 2012."
He continued, "We believe that U.S. engagement in the Human Rights Council has directly resulted in real progress. In our two years on the Council, we've not been happy with every outcome, and have firmly denounced Council actions we disagree with, but the Council has made important strides. Much work remains to be done for the Human Rights Council to sustain the gains of the last two years and to fully realize its potential, and the United States looks forward to continuing our efforts to do so."
You can read his full statement here.
Related Content: Fact Sheet -- Key U.S. Accomplishments at the UN Human Rights Council and Ending Acts of Violence and Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity


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- Subjects:Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Writing, Parent and Teacher Communication, Teacher Tips and Strategies, Working with Families and the Community
Easy Halloween Tricks & Treats Across the Curriculum
- Grades: PreK–K
As if teaching weren't chaotic and stressful enough, there's holidays to deal with. The first major holiday of the school year is Halloween, and aside from all the projects, parties, and pigging out you'll have to consider, there's also the question of whether you should celebrate at all. First of all, 5-year-olds don't always like spooky things. And second, some parents don't approve of the holiday. What's a stressed-out teacher to do?
How do I deal with it? If my students get scared, I don't tell them it is silly to be scared. During school time, I am their protector. I reassure them that I am strong and will protect them.
Spooky and scary things can be turned into benign and interesting lessons and yet still retain the overall mood of the occasion. Everything I do is as innocent and wholesome as possible. If a parent still doesn't approve, I send their child to a different classroom during selected lessons and give them a special activity to work on. I also recommend to the parent that they keep their child home during the class party.
Unlike other holidays, Halloween is rife with potential content. On the one hand, that could mean a lot more work for you. On the other hand, it could mean more opportunities for teaching relevant topics you usually don't have time for. I use the theme of Halloween in all subject areas across the curriculum for cohesion and structure. And most importantly, I make all my projects and activities really, really easy. Interested in how I accomplish this? Read on!
SUBJECT: Summer's End, Harvest, Seeds, and Pumpkins
TEACH THIS: Harvest is the end of summer, the beginning of autumn, and the time to gather the crops. A pumpkin garden is called a pumpkin patch. A seed is what makes a pumpkin grow. A pumpkin is a vegetable. It can be any size, from very small to very large.
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SUBJECT: Facial Expressions and Emotions
TEACH THIS: A jack-o'-lantern is a pumpkin with a face on it. When people carve faces on jack-o'-lanterns, they show many different emotions. Facial expressions and body language can indicate how you are feeling on the inside.
Ask your students to think of a time they felt happy. Tell them to pretend it is happening right now. How do they feel inside? How do their faces feel? Are they smiling or laughing? Try the same exercise for other emotions.
TEACH THIS: If you disguise yourself, you change the way you look so that people will not recognize you. A disguise can be anything that you wear — a wig, a hat, glasses, mustache and/or beard, coat, etc. — that makes you look different. Or it can make you look like something specific, such as a zombie or a vampire.
Invite a child to put on a simple mask. Can you still identify him? What makes a good disguise?
Why do these people wear disguises?
SUBJECT: Nocturnal Animals
TEACH THIS: Many animals are nocturnal, which means that they are awake and active at nighttime instead of in the daytime. Nocturnal animals include bats (like vampire bats!), cats, owls, mice, rats, and spiders.
Hide black cutouts of nocturnal animals around the room. Hang up a plastic glow-in-the-dark moon. Turn off the lights, play some Halloween sound effects, and let the children search for the animals with flashlights.
SUBJECT: Skeletons, Bones, and Blood
TEACH THIS: Everyone has a skeleton of more than 200 bones inside their bodies. Without a skeleton inside us, we would all be blobs. A body is built with bones, just like a house is built with beams. Bones allow us to move, and they act like helmets or armor to protect other parts of our bodies.
Blood is the red liquid inside our bodies. It helps us breathe. We can see blood when we cut ourselves.
SUBJECT: Mummies
TEACH THIS: Ancient people protected dead bodies by wrapping them up before burial. These preserved bodies are called mummies.
Let students mummify Barbie dolls by wrapping them in toilet paper and wetting them with water from a spray bottle.
SUBJECT: Measuring, Weighing, Comparing, and Sequencing
TEACH THIS: Get five pumpkins of different heights and widths. Cut two lengths of string for each pumpkin, one for the height and one for the width. Have your students measure the pumpkins by height and width by finding the right size string for each.
Have students weigh pumpkins, either with a scale or by picking them up and deciding which is heaviest.
Have students sequence pumpkins by height, width, and weight.
SUBJECT: Counting, Matching, and Sorting
TEACH THIS: Cut the tops off pumpkins and clean them out, or use fake pumpkins. Number them and have students put the right number of seeds inside each.
SUBJECT: Sorting
TEACH THIS: Have your students sort M&Ms, Skittles, and Starbursts (or any other multi-colored candy) by color.
SUBJECT: Independent Reading
TEACH THIS: Turn off the lights, put on thunderstorm sound effects, and let the children read Halloween books with flashlights.
SUBJECT: Ghosts
TEACH THIS: Ghosts are "white, transparent silhouettes who appear to be human forms" (blurtit.com). Sometimes they float. They might try to scare you, ask for your help, or just glide along as if they don't even notice you.
SUBJECT: Witches
TEACH THIS: When we talk about witches on Halloween, we are talking about a fictional character, usually mean and ugly, who has magical powers. This kind of character has appeared in such tales as "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Hansel and Gretel." The quintessential mean witch is probably the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.
SUBJECT: Pumpkins, Skeletons, and Creepy and Nocturnal Animals
SUBJECT: Monsters
TEACH THIS: In a famous book by Mary Shelley, a scientist tried to create a man, but ended up creating a monster. People often mistakenly call this monster Frankenstein, but actually, Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. The monster was simply called The Monster.
Some friendlier characters: Casper the Friendly Ghost, Glinda the Good Witch, & Cookie Monster
SUBJECT: Jack-o'-Lanterns
TEACH THIS: Make a pumpkin, shirt, and pants pattern. Have the children cut them out and put them together with paper fasteners. They can decorate the faces to make a jack-o'-happy, jack-o'-sad, jack-o'-angry, jack-o'-scared, jack-o'-surprised, or whatever emotion they want.
SUBJECT: Spiders
TEACH THIS: Have your students make a spider with their handprint facing both ways. Remember, only four fingers on each side! You can also include silver glitter.
SUBJECT: Skeletons
TEACH THIS: Provide a skeleton pattern, with bones for your students to cut out and put together with paper fasteners. Optionally, let them put glow-in-the-dark application on their skeletons.
SUBJECT: Ghosts
TEACH THIS: Let your students draw ghosts on white paper using invisible ink. Then switch UV lights on and off to make the ghosts appear and disappear.
You can either use a ready-made invisible ink pen, or use lemon juice for the ink. Heat will make the ghosts appear just as well, but then they will not be able to disappear again.
SUBJECT: Witches
TEACH THIS: Follow these directions to make a zipper witch:
- Make a pattern for the hat, head, nose, dress, and shoes.
- Have the kids cut out the shapes and glue everything together except the shoes. They should glue the shoes on to the zipper, and then glue the zipper (long or short) to the back of the witch for the legs. Reinforce with staples.
- Use yarn for the hair, and marker for the eyes and mouth.
- Tape on a twig with yarn for the broom.
SUBJECT: Monsters
TEACH THIS: Have your students create their own creatures.
SUBJECT: Disguises and Vocabulary
TEACH THIS: Print out the following rhyme, leaving enough space at the bottom of the page for a picture:
Knock, knock, sounds like more
Trick-or-treaters at my door.
I open the door and what do I see?
____ ____ smiling at me!
Have each child decide what disguise their trick-or-treater(s) will be wearing. That will go in the second blank. How does this disguise describe them? That will go in the first blank.
Alternatively, you can come up with the vocabulary as a class, and let each student pick one. I've done this activity both ways.
SUBJECT: Disguises and Writing
TEACH THIS: Make a ghost on two pages. On the first page, write:
Ghost, ghost, tell me do
Who is hiding under you?
On the second page, write:
It's _____,
who wants to be seen dressed as ______
on Halloween!
Have the children fill in the blanks and draw themselves under the ghost.
SUBJECT: Pumpkins and Writing
TEACH THIS: Download the "Little Orange House" story, courtesy of Toddler Village. Have the kids watch you make the house as you read the story. Then help them make their own houses, glue them onto black construction paper, and write the words Little Orange House either on the house itself or on a piece of light-colored paper glued to the black paper.
SUBJECT: Skeletons and the Human Body
TEACH THIS: Singing and dancing can help us learn.
To listen to the music and to see the playlist, press the play button.
SUBJECT: Everything Halloween
TEACH THIS: It's okay to just have fun sometimes.
For fun, I make a witch's brew and potion. I add the ingredients to cauldrons in front of the class, and when it's all prepared they get a cup of brew and a vial of potion. The potion is not to drink! To drink, I make "vampire blood" juice, with Hawaiian Punch and 7-Up.
Witch's Brew:
1 cup ladybugs (red jellybeans)
1 cup slippery snails (Cheerios)
1 cup fingernails (Bugles)
1 cup colored spiders (M&Ms)
1 cup dragon wings (Fritos)
1 cup beetles (Milk Duds)
1 cup seaweed (chow mein noodles)
1 cup vampire's teeth (candy corn)
1 cup cat's eyes (peanut M&Ms)
1 cup turkey bones (thin pretzel sticks)
1 cup muskrat eyes (chocolate chips)
1 cup goblin bellybuttons (mini marshmallows)
Witch's Potion:
2 drops green slime (green food coloring)
3 drops juice from an evil curse (blue food coloring)
4 dead fish eyes (4 drops cooking oil)
3 drops bile from the liver of a bat killed at midnight (yellow food coloring)
3 drops catsup (red food coloring)
2 snake eyes (2 drops cooking oil)
2 drops rattlesnake poison (yellow food coloring)
Slowly stir the brew to swirl the colors.
Add a teaspoon of Bromo-Seltzer. It will fizz and bubble for a minute and turn the mixture black.
Obviously, I am going to be a witch this year.
Miss Bindergarten is going to be a ghost.
I bet lots of you out there have tons of great ideas for fun and easy Halloween projects and activities. I'm all ears!
Treat yourself to a boo-tiful weekend!
Comments (9)
Love these ideas for Halloween! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Yanina ~ I am so happy to hear from you. I am so glad you enjoyed this post. I hope I am able to provide you with lots of ideas that you can save for your own classroom. Thank you so much for all your positive comments and please come back often to see what else is going on in my classroom. ~Allie
Ms. Magnuson this is Yanina your old in-field student from CSN. I told you I would come visit!
I love the new blog, I love Halloween. I think you did a great job touching on all subject matters and connecting them with Halloween.
The different book suggestions you gave were great and I will have to save them for future reference.
My favorite crafts was the hand paint making those black spiders (also will have to steal this idea). The disguises and writing is a great element for the children to use their imagination, and creativity in language arts.
Halloween is such a fine time and its great to see that your class room creates a fun halloween environment, but you still get things done in an educational matter.
Looks like you are disguising these subjects for the children!
Can't wait to read more!
Mary ~ I want to go back to kindergarten, too... as a student! To get the carousel widget, just go to one of mine and click on where it says "Get Widget". It will take you right to the Amazon page where you can add your own items.
Nancy ~ ha ha -Trick or Treat! Miss Bindergarten is hoping to get lots of candy! Thanks for passing this along to your niece.
Colleen ~ thank you for reading and the positive comment. This was a really fun topic to write about. Keep reading for more ideas.
Your ideas for Halloween are SPOOKTACULAR!!!! I'm enjoying reading your blog...lots of great ideas!
Allie, I want to go back to kindergarten. I love cross-curricular teaching. This is absolutely fabulous. I have been trying to create a book carousel for my blog. How did you do it?
Haha! What a great post. I am actually forwarding it to my niece, who is a first grade teacher. You have so many great lessons packed in there! I also love you as a witch, but Ms. Bindergarten looks the best lol.


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Alleged arsonist appears in court
FAIRMONT – A 20-year-old Fairmont man facing charges in three separate cases – including arson charges related to a fire at Lincoln School – was in court Monday.
Arraignments are still pending in two of the three cases against Timothy Jude Brickner.
On Monday, Brickner's attorney, Ryan Wood, requested more time to research whether a heavy influence of caffeine may have affected Brickner's behavior in a case dating back to October 2011.
That case consists of misdemeanor counts of filing a false police report and disorderly conduct.
The other two cases, from 2012, are felonies: one for arson, in which Brickner is accused of attempting to set fire to Lincoln School on April 26 of last year, and a third case filed from last fall for allegedly making threats against a Fairmont police officer on Facebook.
In September, Wood filed a petition for dismissal of the 2011 case but it was denied by Judge Robert Walker last month.
The complaint states that Brickner made a fake Facebook profile and used it to exchange threats with his real profile. Brickner then allegedly claimed the "man" in the fake profile committed suicide in front of him.
The story set off several rumors at Martin County West schools, and school officials contacted the Martin County Sheriff's Office to investigate.
Brickner is reported to have stuck to his story when questioned by police, but after investigators were able to prove the story was false, Brickner allegedly admitted he had made it up.
In the petition for dismissal, Wood argued that Brickner's story was protected under free speech. But Walker cited state law in his ruling: "Whoever informs a law enforcement officer that a crime has been committed … knowing that it is false and intending that the officer shall act in reliance upon it, is guilty of a misdemeanor."
On Monday, the arraignment for the 2011 case and the arson case were pushed back to April after Wood requested more time to research if caffeine use could have influenced Brickner's behaviors.
"Caffeine was a factor at that time," Wood said.
The next hearings for all three cases will be April 1.


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Where's all the Can't State fair weather fans this year? I haven't heard shit, is the honeymoon over already? Waiting and hoping basketball will win a few games so you can brag about something again?
Come on this should be a hell of a game. One point spread. Two 2-7 1-4 underachievers.
Who's coming to the game? Who's hiding behind their TV/notebook/tablet?


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Foreign languages have upsides
My mom has spoken Chinese to me often from the time as I was born, and she has always had Chinese classes for my older sister and I on weekends. I was bilingual before I even knew what that word meant. Then, later, when I was a freshman at Marquette Senior High School, I had the opportunity to learn Spanish. I thought it would be cool to learn another language in addition to Chinese so that I could be trilingual.
I have found Spanish to be much easier than Chinese to learn because in Chinese there are literally four thousand characters you need to know to be considered literate. Also, I have found that Spanish is fun to learn, especially because I have a great teacher, Mr. Reilly. My favorite part about learning Spanish would have to be learning about Spanish-speaking countries and their cultures. There are a lot of amazing things about those countries that I would not have learned if my Spanish book did not have about four pages devoted to culture and customs before each chapter. Mr. Reilly took students to Costa Rica last year and I can't wait until I too can have a similar experience.
There have been many perks about learning Chinese as well. I have been to the place in China where my mother is from a total of five times and I have enjoyed each trip. My first trip there was in 1998 when I was just a year old. My last trip there was two years ago. I remember surprising my mom on that trip when I understood the majority of what she was saying to her friends. I guess she didn't realize how much Chinese I had really learned. I also sometimes use Chinese to tell my mom things I don't want my dad to understand.
I hope I get to travel to a Spanish-speaking country someday. I think it would be a wonderful experience, but I need to learn more Spanish first. When I went to San Diego with my mom last year, I couldn't understand people speaking Spanish as easily as I could in China listening to Chinese. I wish I had known more Spanish. I was happy to be able to recognize a lot of the public signs in Spanish, though.
I encourage anyone to learn any foreign language. It will be a definite challenge, but it will be worth it. If you're still in high school or college, you could take language classes and you could study abroad. An advantage of studying abroad would be truly experiencing the culture of another country.
Maybe I will be able to use my language skills in a future job when the time comes, but for now, I'm just happy that I can use three languages to say simple things, sometimes to avoid embarrassment, or to keep a secret.
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