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Secretary Clinton held a press conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari yesterday in Baghdad. Secretary Clinton said:"It is encouraging to both see and hear about the progress that is being made in Iraq, and that came through to me not only in my official meetings with the foreign minister, the prime minister, and the president, but also with the special representative of the secretary general of the United Nations. The special representative briefed me about the work that the UN is doing, including the recently concluded report on disputed internal borders.
I especially appreciated the chance to meet with Iraqis, including a group of women who were both war widows and who were helping widows and their children. I also participated in an historic town hall meeting with Iraqi citizens representing a broad cross-section of Iraqi society. At every stop, I have emphasized President Obama's message that our strategy working with you may be in a new phase, but we pledge our full and continuing commitment to Iraq and the Iraqi people.
We are committed to seeing an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant, and fully integrated into the region. We are working toward an orderly transition of responsibility from the American military to the Iraqi security forces, and we continue to help train and equip these forces so they will take the lead in safeguarding their country.
Like President Obama, I condemn these violent recent efforts to disrupt the progress that Iraq is making. My heart and America's sympathy go out to the people who have died and the families who have suffered. This violence has only reinforced the Iraqi people's determination to seek a better future for their country. Their response and the response of Iraqi's leaders has been united and firm.
The end of the United States' combat presence in Iraq by 2011 will mark the beginning of a new phase in our country's relationship. As we draw down militarily, we will deepen our civilian cooperation in accordance with the strategic framework agreement. We will work on development and diplomatic initiatives and a regional agenda that includes border security and refugees.
The Iraqi people have withstood challenges of the most vicious and violent sort from those who would have torn their society apart, and Iraqis from everywhere have made tremendous sacrifices. The United States has also shared in those sacrifices. But we are proud of the progress that the Iraqi people have made. I said today that the Iraqi people are known for intelligence, hard work, and courage. And we will stand with you as you build a future worthy of all of the children in Iraq."
Read the transcript of the press conference.
SNP in Syria writes:
Get new flag with more appropriate emblem that represent Iraq. Raising a flag with SIN emblem is not fair to the other Mesopotamia deities lords. Likely to keep trouble in Iraq until their rights are acknowledged, so better without SIN only emblem.
Patricia S. in New York writes:
I applaud the Secretary's efforts but the Obama administration has set out to on a "to do" and "accomplish" list that seems to headline -- wishful thinking.
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Patrick in Maryland writes:
Hi, people of the States Department.
I hope Secretary Clinton had a good visit to Iraq, and everything went well. I like the photo of Hillary with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari .
Have a Good Week cya....:)
Onur in Afghanistan writes:
Actually the U.S.A. is one of the most guilty state for the instability in the middle east. They have supported Israel by neglegting Arapstates rights and this not only has produced terrorism but also has discriminated between muslims and non-muslims. Throughout The Afghan invansion U.S.A. nurtured extremist Islamic groups in the region,thus the origin of Taliban were made up.
As to Iraq, American invansion provoked the actual disintegration and as usual, Western powers carried out notorious divide and rule policy.. when the U.S. troops withdraw , iraq will be on the edge of an domestic war.
There are some "necessities" to do for the U.S.A. First of all, they give up shattering groups and trt to unified iraq's ethnics. then, they have to take contributions of turkey that is the region's unique both muslim and democratic and prowestern power.
John in Greece writes:
@ Onur in Afghanistan
Sure! (IRONY) Onur! U.S.A. is the "devil" in Middle East? Whatever you say?
And what about the "devil" inside your claustrophobic and fanatic religion empathia?
QUOTE: "and this not only has produced terrorism but also has discriminated between muslims and non-muslims" END OF QUOTE.
I imagine you mean U.S.A. again. Right? (LOL)
Discrimination made in (from) America... (IRONY again)
By the way, can you tell us if there was a U.S.A. nation or country, when you begun your "spiritual", "holly" war, attempting to "get" all Europe, when the "dream" stopped outside Austria?
I imagine U.S.A. (THAT DID NOT EXIST BACK THEN) had also produced "terrorism, but also had discriminated muslims and non-muslims". Israel too. Right?
During ancient times, when Persians (Iran) came to Marathon and other today's Greek places (Peloponnesus etc.) in order to conquer everything, they were "forced" by the CIA. Right? NEVERTHELESS, THERE WAS NO CIA BACK THEN?
By the way (2): would you have internet today, if Americans were not there in order for you to have a free expression?
Best Regards Onur!
John in Greece writes:
Some months ago, Joe in TN had wrote that Palestinians would not have a "chance" without the existence of Israel. I'll add: Middle East would be a chaos without U.S.A. and Israel's efforts.
Iraq would fight Kuwait!
(by the way: some people say that America never won a "war". Sure! Among others, I remember G. Bush's great historical victory.)
Iran would fight Iraq!
Lebanon would fight "Palestine", or all together Turkey and Turkey Kurds and Syria and "Palestinians". And it goes!
You see my friend from Afghanistan, Middle East (Middle East is "further" than you think) is a geo/religion empathy, between many different local "teams" that either cannot collaborate, or they do not want to -- in order to keep on making money.
What America has to do with this "negative environment" that many "Middle Easters" create on a daily basis?
Onur in Afghanistan writes:
DEar JOhn you wrote down rights things. But i wanted to know one thing. What is the main reason among Middle Eastern Countries? what has caused to this hatred? Western people came and draw borders without taking into account anything. Saddam Husein was supported by America during 1981-1988 war. Extremist and islamic groups were supported by america during soviet invansion in afghanistan. We had lived in peace with our muslim brothers and non muslim brothers under the reign of Ottoman Empire.. western countries sent their missioners and broke all ties between two community namely muslim and non-muslim community. We have never demanded anything except peace and indepence. But picture is different now, people hate each other in the middle east thanks to western led by USA.
Only a Muslim country can solve the complex situation in the middle east and it is Turkey. Surely, Turkey should take western support by military and financial and political means. Actually I mean United NATions should take over the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the main troops should consist of Turks. Because not only middle eastern people but also afghan people love and obey to Turkish soldiers..
John in Greece writes:
@ Onur in Afghanistan -- Do you think that I am an 101? I don't buy such "nationalism games". I am not officially expressing the Greek government and surely, I do not hate or love Turkey. Do you?
I am saying this in order for you to understand that when I sign the by-line of my comments as "John in Greece", this does not necessarily mean that I think "local", unfortunately as you do. (think global-act local)
When I'm in here reading or writing, I respect this great platform of freedom and it's my global thirst for communication that orients my brain's and pen's behaviour and not my "DNA's nightmares", concerning religions or ex-dead-empires, you will never see again.
However, Onur, it's the second time that you write:
1. "But picture is different now, people hate each other in the middle east thanks to western led by USA."
2. "We had lived in peace with our muslim brothers under the reign of Ottoman Empire"
I think that's enough for me, for "closing the embassy of this discussion" between the two of us. I mean, I strongly disagree with you. I have an American ATIS, you have a religious-ethnical "low elevation". I love U.S.A. -- you love Ottoman Empire and you hate West.
What can I do?
The first thing you learn in DipNote (diplomacy in general) is: We agree 2 disagree!!!
Best Regards!
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Onur in Afghanistan, First of all, welcome to the blog.
As an Afghan friend once said, regarding the talebs, the original taliban; blind kids that were offered shelter and learning in madrassa,...
"If a taleb is taught to believe that the sky is brown, how will you teach him it's blue?"
I think my friend, one must look at the whole in order to understand causaulogy of history.
All a blind man wishes for is one good eye to see the truth.
One then can see that no one nation or people are responsible for creating this reality when all are doing so, with intent. Of one sort or another.
Aye, and there have been many victims of interpretation of intent throughout history.
In a land that has been conquered time and again, I suppose it takes people some getting used to for a nation such as the U.S.A. to give a whole country back to the original owners, time after time.
OK fine, so a society still has this "thing" about big powers having run things, but you're able to tap into Dipnote, so you're only a click or two away from State's entire history of American foreign policy.
Going to the source may help you understand those good questions you ask.
Ba Sepaas.
Onur in Afghanistan writes:
Dear John from Greece,
the words "we had live in peae during the Ottoman reign" doesnot belong to me. Abdullah,The king of the Jordan ,said it to haluk bayulen , former foreign minister,minister of national defence , ambassador, and one of the closest friend of Father bush. Haluk bayulken is my step- grand father and i quated King Abdullah's words. It is the undeniable truth. But you wrote i love USA. It smells lackeyness. I did not say I hate the USA. But the responsible of terrorism and middle east problem belongs to Western.
John in Greece writes:
@ Onur in Afghanistan
Nice story with your step-grand father. My Uncle Ben had told me a similar story:
rice is not rice / pilaf is the rice.
In 'heaven'!
Of course, my uncle was not either a King, nor a minister. However, a good cook!


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BOSTON (MainStreet) -- The U.S. housing bust has hit consumers, banks and financial markets hard -- but it's also hurt tenants in cities where homeowners who lost properties to foreclosure moved into apartments, driving up local rents.
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- Median asking prices per square foot for all rentals advertised on Zillow.com
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- How much each community's median rental value has increased or decreased over the past 12 months
- Each market's "break-even period," an estimate of how many years of homeownership it takes before buying a place costs less than renting
Gudell says the worst cities for tenants have not just high rents, but rapidly rising ones. They also have relatively low home prices that translate into short break-even periods, meaning many renters do better buying places instead of renting.
But bad cities for renters are often good cities for real-estate investors, Gudell says. After all, rapid increases in rental values point to good tenant demand, while short break-even periods mean investors can expect solid capital gains on their purchases.
"Looking at the bottom of the list is a good jumping-off point for investors," Gudell says, although she adds that Zillow's rankings only project each rental market's future conditions out a year or so.
Look below for a rundown of the five cities at the bottom of the Rental Bang for Your Buck rankings (or click here to check out the communities at the top of the list.)
Zillow ranked cities on a weighted index of zero to 100, with a 100 score equaling first place in all data points measured.
All figures are as of Aug. 31 and refer just to housing within city limits, not to properties in surrounding suburbs. Dollar figures refer to the Zillow Rental Index, an estimate of how much a typical residence (even those not for rent) would fetch on the open market, while annual percentage gains refer to the 12 months ended Aug. 31.

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Public Defender Office moves Family Court
MAYVILLE – A move which has been described as "advantageous" by Public Defender Ned Barone will finally take place in February after more than a month of discussion with the Public Safety Committee's past and newly elected members.
The county will now lease approximately 1,536 square feet of office space on the second floor of the Chautauqua Municipal Building from Feb. 1 through Jan. 31, 2016, at a rate of $700 per month from the town of Chautauqua. The move will cost $2,492.85 and will be entirely paid for through a grant from Indigent Legal Services.
"This was a proposed lease I put together with the town of Chautauqua," Barone said at Wednesday night's committee meeting.
Family Court proceedings take place in the Chautauqua Municipal Building, which is two blocks away from the Gerace Office Building.
"Everything's here (in the Gerace Office Building) and our attorneys are required to travel back and forth," Barone said. "It's so much more efficient, not only for the clients, but our attorneys as well. I felt if we were going to make a move, it'd be right to the heart of where Family Court is."
The resolution was unanimously passed by the committee, and was also approved at the Audit and Control Committee meeting on Thursday morning.
In other matters regarding public safety, Sheriff Joe Gerace provided an update on the county's public safety radio system, which is outdated and currently undergoing a complete upgrade.
Motorola will be the new provider for the system and should be in full operation as of January 2015.
Fire service radios are not on the same bandwidth, but Gerace said the eventual goal is to have everyone on the same bandwidth in order to communicate from border to border within the county.
"To be the optimal system we want it to be, there are some real significant features," Gerace said.
Lastly, the committee agreed to deny the state permission to use the name and seal of Chautauqua County in relation to the SAFE Act and anything associated with it.
"Basically, I believe the state police are putting together a website and requested agency seals as part of this website," Gerace said. "Many counties object it. I made it known we object. There was quite a bit of reaction from counties across the state."
The SAFE Act was implemented by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013 and imposed a variety of restrictions on gun owners. Since its implementation, it has been a highly controversial topic amongst law enforcement agencies and gun owners.


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At the 13th Summit of Non-Aligned Countries
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
24 February 2003
(Delivered by His Royal Highness Prince Faisal Bin Al Hussein)
It is an honour for me to deliver this message to Your Excellencies on behalf of His Majesty King Abdullah II.
Your Excellency, Distinguished Delegates,
It is a privilege to have this opportunity to address you today. May I congratulate you, Dr. Mahathir, on assuming the chairmanship of our Non-Aligned Movement. Mr. Chairman, I am confident that with your guidance and help, the movement will achieve great successes. I, and my entire delegation, thank you – and the people of Malaysia – for your generous hospitality at this summit and the warm reception we have received in this beautiful city, Kuala Lumpur.
Let me also express my appreciation to NAM's outgoing chairman, His Excellency Thabo Mbeki. President Mbeki has given his talent to this movement during four critical years and I know that he will continue to be a source of strength and wisdom. Your Excellency, we thank you.
Mr. Chairman, this is our first summit in the 21st century. It can be a century of great promise – for real development, for freedom and security, for justice and peace. Yet as we meet here, too many of our people experience a different reality – a reality of suffering, extreme poverty, and violence. How do we lift these burdens? How do we take charge of our destiny, to create a better, wiser future?
I believe the answer lies in the deepest principles of this movement: respect for the equal dignity of nations cooperation and solidarity in the cause of development and the creation of a new, global agenda, an agenda that upholds the rights and serves the interests of our people.
These are the principles that helped our nations rise out of the old colonial world and rise above the bi-polar division of the Cold War. Today, they are the principles that will carry us into the future ensuring our role as dynamic players on the global scene.
Nowhere is this more critical than in the Middle East, where two crises threaten the peace of nations.
Today, the Palestinian-Israel conflict continues unabated. This vicious cycle of occupation, oppression and violence perpetuates destruction and injustice. Now more than ever, the people of both sides need peace.
Jordan has worked hard to bring about a "Road Map" that can make real peace a reality. An important part of the blueprint is the landmark Arab Peace Initiative, articulated in Beirut last year. It presents a vision for a just, lasting and comprehensive peace – two states, side by side, in historic Palestine; an end to Israeli occupation; withdrawal from all Arab territories occupied in June 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights and the remaining Lebanese territory; and collective Arab guarantees of security. Those guarantees reflect a critical reality: The route to coexistence depends on secure borders for Arabs, Palestinians and Israelis alike.
But let us be clear. Time is of the essence. Palestinians are now living in desperate conditions of suffering and hardship. The evils of life in occupation; extensive poverty; soaring unemployment – these and other deprivations are undermining the basic rights of life.
In this crisis, Jordanians have once again reached out with full hearts. Our country serves as the Palestinians' only conduit for humanitarian supplies, food, blood for transfusions, even medical assistance. But all the humanitarian assistance in the world cannot substitute for the conditions of freedom and peace that are the basis of life and hope.
In fact, both sides are tired of conflict. Neither people want to live like this any more. Israel is now experiencing negative economic growth, for the first time in years. All are suffering. Enough is enough. We need to move forward now on the road to peace.
Mr. Chairman, the situation in Iraq is another great challenge. Iraq is an important member of the movement as well as the League of Arab States. The crisis unfolding there has dire consequences for the world.
Peace, not war, is what is needed in the Middle East. Talk of war only diverts us from concentrating our efforts on the important fight against international terror. That fight is a continuous process, and one that needs the full attention and cooperation of our nations.
Today, Jordanians, like so many others in the world, are experiencing "war fatigue." World opinion is against war. The international community seeks peaceful means to resolve conflict. And those means exist, manifested in Security Council resolutions and the will of the international community.
In the Iraq crisis, the Security Council must continue to have primary responsibility. We hope all parties will continue to respect this fact, and the UN will see its resolutions faithfully implemented.
Mr. Chairman, peace is the immediate crisis. But we must not ignore the deeper, ongoing challenges – underdevelopment, debt, terrorism, regional conflicts, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. If we are going to address these seriously, we must act boldly, and we must act together.
Our first priority must be to alleviate the underlying causes of suffering and violence. This demands an end to poverty and all its evils. One important step is the international commitment to slash poverty in the least developed nations by half, by the year 2015. But this commitment is just a beginning. Now, the international community must achieve this goal. In this effort, NAM has a central role as advocate for the billions of poor and dispossessed.
Action is also critical in solving the crushing problem of debt. For too many developing nations, debt burdens are suffocating economic growth and preventing sustainable development. Indeed, in many of our nations, debt servicing has surpassed sustainability levels.
It is time for a comprehensive solution – one that sets debtor nations on the path to sustainable growth and prosperity. This means designing debt relief measures that enable developing countries to raise the resources necessary to attain development goals.
In this and other areas, non-aligned countries must seek and obtain a greater say in international decision-making. The simple fact is that the challenges of this century cannot be met without the active participation and leadership of our nations. In the 21st century, our problems will not be solved by power politics or ideological antagonism. They will be solved only through concrete actions that resolve our divisions – and bring real advances in equality and opportunity.
To achieve more, NAM must make improvements in the way it manages its business. A first step is to commit ourselves, today, to the recommendations submitted by our Foreign Ministers. Let me take this opportunity to salute the efforts of President Mbeki and previous NAM chairmen. Their commitment to revitalise and strengthen the movement is embodied in these ideas. Let us put our voices and votes behind them.
As we look ahead, we must also ask ourselves hard questions about how we, as a movement, can achieve more. That means reviewing our priorities, and focusing sharply on new and emerging issues. Issues such as human rights, terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, trafficking in weapons and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – these issues are high on the international agenda. NAM should be a strong voice for our nations' concerns.
One area of special interest is peacekeeping. Today, the majority of the forces deployed in world hot spots come from NAM countries. The risks and sacrifices of that presence make a very tangible contribution to the common good. And that, I believe, entitles our nations to a larger role in the international security system. The current cooperation between the leading powers in the North and NAM in this context must be developed further. Our nations should be playing an active role, from the earliest stages of preventive diplomacy to the resolution of conflicts.
Mr. Chairman, our movement represents solidarity of effort and cooperation at a time when a global partnership for peace is more important than ever before. Our nations represent important models for development and growth at a time when the world cries out for new solutions.
So let us work together, and act boldly, for a better world. And let us look with optimism toward the century ahead.
Thank you.


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The axolotl (pron.: /ˈæksəlɒtəl/; etymol. Nāhuatl āxōlōtl [aː'ʃoːloːt͡ɬ] (singular) or āxōlōmeh [aː'ʃoːloːmeʔ] (plural) "water monster") or Mexican salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum) is a neotenic salamander, closely related to the tiger salamander. Larvae of this species fail to undergo metamorphosis, so the adults remain aquatic and gilled. It is also called ajolote [ɑːhɒˈlɔte] (which is also a common name for different types of salamander).[1] The species originates from numerous lakes, such as Lake Xochimilco underlying Mexico City.[2] Axolotls are used extensively in scientific research due to their ability to regenerate limbs.
Axolotls should not be confused with waterdogs, the larval stage of the closely related tiger salamanders (A. tigrinum and A. mavortium), which are widespread in much of North America and occasionally become neotenic, nor with mudpuppies (Necturus spp.), fully aquatic salamanders which are not closely related to the axolotl but bear a superficial resemblance.[1]
As of 2010[update], wild axolotls are near extinction[3] due to urbanization in Mexico City and polluted waters. Non-native fish, such as African tilapia and Asian carp, have also recently been introduced to the waters. These new fish have been eating the axolotls' young, as well as its primary source of food.[4] The axolotl is currently on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's annual Red List of threatened species.[5]
A sexually mature adult axolotl, at age 18–24 months, ranges in length from 15–45 cm (6–18 in), although a size close to 23 cm (9 in) is most common and greater than 30 cm (12 in) is rare. Axolotls possess features typical of salamander larvae, including external gills and a caudal fin extending from behind the head to the vent.[citation needed] Their heads are wide, and their eyes are lidless. Their limbs are underdeveloped and possess long, thin digits. Males are identified by their swollen cloacae lined with papillae, while females are noticeable for their wider bodies full of eggs. Three pairs of external gill stalks (rami) originate behind their heads and are used to move oxygenated water. The external gill rami are lined with filaments (fimbriae) to increase surface area for gas exchange.[citation needed] Four gill slits lined with gill rakers are hidden underneath the external gills. Axolotls have barely visible vestigial teeth, which would have developed during metamorphosis. The primary method of feeding is by suction, during which their rakers interlock to close the gill slits. External gills are used for respiration, although buccal pumping (gulping air from the surface) may also be used to provide oxygen to their lungs. Axolotls have four different colours, including two mutant colors. The two normal colors are "wildtype" (varying shades of brown usually with spots) and melanoid (black). The two mutant colors are leucistic (pale pink with black eyes) and albino (golden, tan or pale pink with pink eyes).[citation needed]
Habitat and ecology
The axolotl is only native to Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco in central Mexico. Unfortunately for the axolotl, Lake Chalco no longer exists, as it was artificially drained to avoid periodic flooding, and Lake Xochimilco remains a remnant of its former self, existing mainly as canals. The water temperature in Xochimilco rarely rises above 20 °C (68 °F), though it may fall to 6 to 7°C in the winter, and perhaps lower. The wild population has been put under heavy pressure by the growth of Mexico City.[5] Axolotls are also sold as food in Mexican markets and were a staple in the Aztec diet.[4] They are currently listed by CITES as an endangered species and by IUCN as critically endangered in the wild, with a decreasing population.
Axolotls are members of the Ambystoma tigrinum (Tiger salamander) complex, along with all other Mexican species of Ambystoma. Their habitat is like that of most neotenic species—a high altitude body of water surrounded by a risky terrestrial environment. These conditions are thought to favor neoteny. However, a terrestrial population of Mexican Tiger Salamanders occupies and breeds in the axolotl's habitat.
The axolotl is carnivorous, consuming small prey such as worms, insects, and small fish in the wild. Axolotls locate food by smell, and will "snap" at any potential meal, sucking the food into their stomachs with vacuum force.[citation needed]
Axolotls exhibit neoteny, meaning they reach sexual maturity without undergoing metamorphosis. Many species within the axolotl's genus are either entirely neotenic or have neotenic populations. In the axolotl, metamorphic failure is caused by a lack of thyroid stimulating hormone, which is used to induce the thyroid to produce thyroxine in transforming salamanders. The genes responsible for neoteny in laboratory animals may have been identified; however, they are not linked in wild populations, suggesting artificial selection is the cause of complete neoteny in laboratory and pet axolotls.[citation needed]
Neoteny has been observed in all salamander families in which it seems to be a survival mechanism, in aquatic environments only of mountain and hill, with little food and, in particular, with little iodine. In this way, salamanders can reproduce and survive in the form of a smaller larval stage, which is aquatic and requires a lower quality and quantity of food compared to the big adult, which is terrestrial. If the salamander larvae ingest a sufficient amount of iodine, directly or indirectly through cannibalism, they quickly begin metamorphosis and transform into bigger terrestrial adults, with higher dietary requirements.[6] In fact, in some high mountain lakes also live dwarf forms of salmonids, caused by deficiency of food and of iodine, in particular, which causes cretinism and dwarfism due to hypothyroidism, as it does in humans.
Unlike some other neotenic salamanders (sirens and Necturus), axolotls can be induced to metamorphose by an injection of iodine (used in the production of thyroid hormones) or by shots of thyroxine hormone. The adult form resembles a terrestrial plateau tiger salamander, but has several differences, such as longer toes, which support its status as a separate species.[citation needed]
Use as a model organism
Six adult axolotls (including a leucistic specimen) were shipped from Mexico City to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1863. Unaware of their neoteny, Auguste Duméril was surprised when, instead of the axolotl, he found in the vivarium a new species, similar to the salamander. This discovery was the starting point of research about neoteny. It is not certain that Ambystoma velasci specimens were not included in the original shipment.
Vilem Laufberger of Germany used thyroid hormone injections to induce an axolotl to grow into a terrestrial adult salamander. The experiment was repeated by Englishman Julian Huxley, who was unaware the experiment had already been done, using ground thyroids. Since then, experiments have been done often with injections of iodine or various thyroid hormones used to induce metamorphosis.[citation needed]
Today, the axolotl is still used in research as a model organism, and large numbers are bred in captivity. They are especially easy to breed compared to other salamanders in their family, which are almost never captive-bred due to the demands of terrestrial life. One attractive feature for research is the large and easily manipulated embryo, which allows viewing of the full development of a vertebrate. Axolotls are used in heart defect studies due to the presence of a mutant gene that causes heart failure in embryos. Since the embryos survive almost to hatching with no heart function, the defect is very observable. The presence of several color morphs has also been extensively studied.[citation needed]
The feature of the salamander that attracts most attention is its healing ability: the axolotl does not heal by scarring and is capable of the regeneration of entire lost appendages in a period of months, and, in certain cases, more vital structures. Some have indeed been found restoring the less vital parts of their brains. They can also readily accept transplants from other individuals, including eyes and parts of the brain—restoring these alien organs to full functionality. In some cases, axolotls have been known to repair a damaged limb, as well as regenerating an additional one, ending up with an extra appendage that makes them attractive to pet owners as a novelty. In metamorphosed individuals, however, the ability to regenerate is greatly diminished. The axolotl is therefore used as a model for the development of limbs in vertebrates.[7]
Captive care
Axolotls live at temperatures of 12 to 20 °C (54 to 68 °F), preferably 17 to 18 °C (63 to 64 °F). As for all poikilothermic organisms, lower temperatures result in slower metabolism; higher temperatures can lead to stress and increased appetite. Chlorine, commonly added to tapwater, is harmful to axolotls. A single typical axolotl typically requires a 40-l (10-gal) tank with a water depth of at least 15 cm (6 in). Axolotls spend a majority of the time at the bottom of the tank.[citation needed]
Salts, such as Holtfreter's solution, are usually added to the water to prevent infection.[8]
In captivity, axolotls eat a variety of readily available foods, including trout and salmon pellets, frozen or live bloodworms, earthworms, and waxworms. Axolotls can also eat feeder fish, but care should be taken as fish left in the tank may graze on the axolotls' exposed gills.[citation needed] Axolotls are prone to cannibalism.
Axolotls may suffer from impaction-related issues if not kept on the correct substrate with fine sand being the preferred option. Impaction can be caused by the digestion of gravel and could be severe enough to cause death, so they must never be kept on gravel or stones that are smaller than the axolotls' head.
In popular culture
In 1958, MAD Magazine parodied Wordsworth's Daffodils as a poem about axolotls, likely the first time any of its readers had heard of the animal.[9]
See also
|Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Axolotl.
- ^ a b Malacinski, George M. (Spring, 1978). "The Mexican Axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum: Its Biology and Developmental Genetics, and Its Autonomous Cell-Lethal Genes". American Zoologist (Oxford University Press).
- ^ "Ambystoma mexicanum". Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ^ Matt Walker (2009-08-26). "Axolotl verges on wild extinction". BBC. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ^ a b Weird Creatures with Nick Baker (Television series). Dartmoor, England, U.K.: The Science Channel. 2009-11-11. Event occurs at 00:25.
- ^ a b "Mexico City's 'water monster' nears extinction". 2008-11. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ^ Venturi, S. (2004). Iodine and Evolution. DIMI-Marche. https://sites.google.com/site/iodinestudies/morosini
- ^ Roy, S; Gatien, S (2008 Nov). "Regeneration in axolotls: a model to aim for!". Experimental Gerontology 43 (11): 968–73. doi:10.1016/j.exger.2008.09.003. PMID 18814845.
- ^ Clare, John P. "Health and Diseases", Axolotls
- ^ Unknown author (1958), "I wandered lonely as a clod", MAD Magazine (#43), reprinted in Leslie Pockell, ed. (2008), 100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits, New York: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN 978-446-51192-6.


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In Small Island Developing States (SIDS), climate change will have a wide range of effects on the environment, which could have knock-on consequences for food production.
Climate change affects not only food security but food quality and quantity, as well as health, culture, transportation, infrastructure, and trade.
Identified in the IPCC IV report as being among the regions most vulnerable to climate change, SIDS will be forced to address food security sooner than many other areas of the world.
Despite a prolonged period of substantial progress on the social and economic front in the Caribbean region, large segments of the population are still suffering from food insecurity and chronic undernutrition.
Persistent inequities in income distribution and access to social protection networks mean that the members of more vulnerable households in the poorer areas receive insufficient food and nutrition, which impedes their normal development.
Worldwide, faced with the daunting task of feeding close to 10 billion people by 2050, we are challenged to produce more food; putting significant pressure on water, land, oceans and entire ecosystems. But the fact of the matter is, the reason the numbers of the hungry are on the increase is not because we do not produce enough food.
For example, while food production has risen steadily in the Caribbean region and exceeded the population's requirements by over 40 per cent in the middle of the last decade, some 45 million people, however, still did not have access to sufficient food, and 4 million children under the age of five were reportedly underweight and over 8 million were short in height for their age. Among the factors behind this fluctuation is an increase in aggregate demand accompanied by persistent inequality and repeated natural disasters.
Research shows that the world produces more food than is actually needed; food that is lost along the supply chain or wasted due to poor consumption decisions.
Both UNEP and FAO have pointed out in recent years that at least one third, or 1.3 billion tones of food produced is wasted - an amount corresponding to over 1.4 billion hectares of crop land.
In January last year, UNEP, FAO and partners launched the Think.Eat.Save: Reduce Your Foodprint campaign in support of FAO's SAVE FOOD Initiative and the UN Secretary General's Zero Hunger Challenge, in order to raise awareness and encourage action to stop food waste. It was the theme of the World Environment Day in 2013 which catalyzed 2,683 registered food waste prevention activities, representing an estimated 1.4 million participants around the world. Wasting food makes no sense economically, environmentally and ethically.
Achieving food security, therefore, is not about increasing global food production, given its large impacts on natural systems. It is about creating better food systems, sustainable production and consumption approaches, more efficient policies and smarter investment patterns across relevant sectors.
Food waste and loss carry direct economic and environmental costs and depletes the natural resource base that underpins food production:
In the UK, tackling household food waste would reduce the volume of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, equivalent to taking 20 per cent of cars off UK roads.
The water and energy embedded in the production of food that is wasted in the US represents 25 per cent of total water use and 4 per cent of total energy use (Hall et al 2009).
Post-harvest loss in small scale fisheries is generally regarded as being the highest in the food production system. It is caused by poor handling, spoilage and the discarding of by-catch. Spoilage is responsible for an estimated loss of 10 per cent of total global production. The discard of unwanted by-catch produces an additional 20 million tonnes of waste yearly.
Thisis especially significant in the trawl and gillnet fisheries, where the proportion of species caught incidentally can reach 95 per cent of the total catch (FAO, 2012).
UNEP research shows that the protein lost from fish by-catch and discard, if harnessed, could provide enough fish meal to increase current aquaculture by 50 per cent.
Food Consumption and Inequality
People in developed countries, who represent only 18 per cent of the global population, consumed an average of 41 per cent of the global production of animal protein and 30 per cent of grain in 2008 alone, according to FAO studies. Overconsumption in developed countries has direct impacts on global food security.
For example, the inefficient conversion of cereals to animal feed or biofuels is a diversion of food resources. According to the Worldwatch Institute (WRI), the total global grain harvest of 2004, if used directly for human consumption, would feed 6 billion people. If this same amount of grain is used for animal feed, the meat produced would only feed 2.6 billion.
Moreover, overconsumption in developed countries and across more affluent societies drives up food prices, causing more poor people to suffer hunger.
What drives these trends?
In addition to growing populations and migration to urban areas, increased incomes is an important factor in driving trends that impact food security.
While poverty remains unacceptably high - particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - the UN reports that the percentage of the population living in households below the poverty line has decreased worldwide since 1990. Additional progress has been made in transitioning low-income households to the ranks of the middle class (UNDESA).
The increase in expendable income has considerable effects on the global consumption of food.
For example, global meat and dairy consumption doubled between 1950 and 2009. If this trend continues, global animal protein consumption will increase by a factor of four by 2050 (Bouwman, 1997).
The Agro-ecological Resource Base
The increase in consumption of resource-intensive agricultural foodstuffs is directly responsible for the rising pressures on land, water and other natural resources used in food production:
The global production of food occupies nearly one quarter of all the habitable land on earth.
It is responsible for more than 70 per cent of freshwater consumption; for 80 per cent of deforestation and is the largest single cause of species and biodiversity loss.
More than 20 per cent of all cultivated land, 30 per cent of forests and 10 per cent of grasslands are undergoing degradation due to unsustainable agriculture.
Deforestation, resulting from turning forest into crop land contributes to more than 30 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
Globally, the agro-food system accounts for nearly 30 per cent of end-user available energy.
FAO reports that fish consumption has reached an all-time high with the contribution of fish to global diets reaching nearly 17 Kg per capita and supplying at least three billion people with 15 per cent of their average animal protein intake. But 75 per cent of the world's major marine fish stocks are either depleted or overexploited.
Aquaculture, which most often utilizes wild caught fish as feed for farmed species, does not relieve pressure on wild stocks. For example, 20 kg of wild-caught feed is generally required to produce just 1 kg of farmed tuna (FAO, 2011). Global production of fish from aquaculture grew by more than 60 per cent between 2000 and 2008. Today, more than 50 per cent of the world's fish consumption comes from aquaculture.
The Future
At present, studies suggest that the current unsustainable trends and patterns of food consumption will remain unchanged.
In the next few years, food consumption is expected to increase by around 30 per cent due to population growth, while the effects of climate change are expected to reduce agricultural yields by up to 5 per cent in some areas.
The production of food is entirely dependent upon well-functioning ecosystems in the form of healthy arable land, healthy soils, plentiful water and resilient fisheries.
Unsustainable production and consumption patterns threaten the resilience of life's support systems and limits the expansion potential of cropland, rangeland and fisheries.
To bring about the vision of a truly sustainable world we need to transform the way we produce and consume our natural resources.
The restoration of ecosystems will not only increase the amount of food produced, but will also improve the state of the environment upon which food production is dependent.
Cutting the rate of food loss and waste in half by 2050 would close 20 per cent of the food gap, according to studies by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and UNEP.
Reducing excessive demand for animal products, particularly by developed countries, would spare hundreds of millions of hectares of forests that otherwise would be cleared for grazing.
Farmers can increase crop yields on existing agricultural land by implementing a suite of soil and water management practices, such as agroforestry and water harvesting.
Increasing farmers' efficiency levels through capacity building and access to technology can help reduce waste through the supply chain, while improving the livelihood of small-holder farmers.
Identifying innovative ways of safely capturing and converting food waste into animal feed provides one of the greatest opportunities for improving future food supplies and minimizing the global environmental footprint. Freeing cereals, currently used as animal feed, for direct human consumption could increase available food calories by as much as 70 per cent, according to UNEP studies.
But how do we create a holistic approach to solving the food waste problem?
As a key product of the Think.Eat.Save campaign, the FAO/UNEP Sustainable Food Systems Programme, as well as the SAVE Food initiative, UNEP is publishing this month a Guidance document that provides clear and comprehensive steps for governments, businesses and other organisations to develop strategies, programmes and activities to prevent and reduce food and drink waste and achieve the associated financial savings, reductions in environmental impacts and increased food and nutrition security.
This Guidance document will be Version 1.0 and it will be updated in the future, as best practices in food waste prevention and reduction continue to be implemented throughout the world. The objective of this Guidance will be to catalyse action around the world by sharing proven methodologies for food waste prevention. My colleagues, James Lomax and Dr Richard Swannell, from Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) will be giving you more information about this in the next session today.
We need to take immediate action to save food, improve livelihoods and conserve the environment.
Solutions and opportunities exist. But we need to seize the moment and create the needed momentum.


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Future computer chips will contain more circuitry and components, causing them to generate additional heat and requiring innovative cooling methods. Engineers are studying ways to improve cooling technologies, including systems that circulate liquids to draw heat from chips. Using a liquid to cool electronic circuits, however, poses many challenges, and industry would rather develop new cooling methods that use air.
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Voltage is passed into the electrodes, causing the negatively charged nanotubes to discharge electrons toward the positively charged electrodes. The electrons react with surrounding air, causing the air molecules to be ionized just as electrons in the atmosphere ionize air in clouds. This ionization of air leads to an imbalance of charges that eventually results in lightning bolts.
The researchers are able to create the ionizing effect with low voltage because the tips of the nanotubes are extremely narrow and the oppositely charged electrodes are spaced apart only about 10 microns, or one-tenth the width of a human hair.
Future cooling devices based on the design will have an "ion-generation region," where electrons are released, and a "pumping region," made up of another set of electrodes needed to create the cooling effect.
Clouds of ions created when electrons react with air can then be attracted by the second region of electrodes and "pumped" forward by changing the voltages in those electrodes. The voltages are rapidly switched from one electrode to the next in such a way that the clouds of ions move forward and produce a cooling breeze.
More work must be done to perfect the technique and develop a prototype, the researchers said. Another version of the design might replace the carbon nanotubes with a thin film of diamond, which would be sturdier and easier to fabricate than the nanotubes. The researchers envision cooling devices that are small enough to fit on individual chips, actually making up a layer of the chip.
Most features of the device could be manufactured with conventional silicon fabrication techniques used in the semiconductor industry to make computer chips, according to researchers.
The researchers are to establish how much cooling could be achieved with the technique. New experimental results quantifying the cooling performance may be reported this summer.
There are more innovative cooling mechanisms, like Peltier elements, developed and used in some products. However, so far air-cooling along with heat-pipes have been the most cost-efficient ways for cooling down computers.


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Lancaster, SC (Tuesday 09/03/2013) – Sheriff Faile and the members of the Lancaster County Sheriff's are excited to announce the implementation of the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office Crossroads program. The program finds its roots in the traditional "Scared Straight" programs and is designed to work with troubled youth who are at an important crossroads in their life. The program intends to expose young people to the dangers of criminal activity by exposing them to the consequences of danger behavior. The overall goal of the program is discourage troubled youth from choosing a life of criminal activity and dangerous behavior. Participants begin the program at 5:30 pm when they will be sentenced to 1 night of incarceration at a detention facility. During the time in the program, the participants will wear inmate clothing, eat inmate meals, and attend educational sessions about drug abuse, criminal activity, and dangerous behavior. Participants will also clean cells and participant in physical fitness training. The program will conclude the following morning after the participant spends the night in a jail cell.
Parents who register their child in the program will also attend a workshop designed to help them learn techniques to deal with their troubled child more effectively. The program will be facilitated by Deputy Sheriff's and several local community organizations will assist in some of the educational sessions.
The program is 100% voluntary and parents may register their child beginning immediately for the first session. Youth ages 12-16 are eligible for participation. Boys and girls will be separated and attend separate sessions. Registration forms are available at the front desk of the Sheriff's Office Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm. A registration fee of $25 ($50 out of county residents) is due at the time the registration is turned in. Programs will be held each third Friday of every month and registrations are due the Wednesday prior to the scheduled event. Each month will alternate between male and female participants. Space is limited to 7 participants for each session and applications will be accepted on a first come first serve basis.
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Additional sessions will follow the same schedule and be announced via the Sheriff's Office website and Facebook page.
Sheriff Faile said, "We are extremely excited about this program. We are confident that we will be able to guide a young person away from a life of crime and dangerous behavior. Our children are our most valuable resources and the Sheriff's Office is committed to helping protect and educate them. We hope that the program will truly make a difference in a child's life. We would much rather spend this time with the child then have to arrest or bury that child later in life. Our staff has worked hard organizing the program and we can't wait to get started."
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Microbial Pathogenesis of Oral Organisms
The human body is home to trillions of bacteria. While most of these bacteria are commensals that exist in a beneficial relationship with their human host, others are pathogens which can cause severe and life-threatening disease. Research efforts on microbial pathogenesis in the Department of Oral Biology are focused on understanding the molecular basis of the mechanisms by which these bacteria cause disease, and the defense response of the human host.
Every project in a mentorship program has an emphasis on publishing—the "currency" of science—with a view toward high-impact journals
It has been determined that the human body contains more bacteria than cells of its own.
The bone loss in periodontal disease is due almost entirely to the exaggerated host immune response elicited to fight oral bacteria.
Oral biology research at UB has provided provocative evidence that oral diseases such as periodontal disease can contribute to the initiation or progression of such systemic diseases as myocardial infarction, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and pneumonia.
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The unique thing about our PhD program is that, in most cases, the graduate students are also clinical residents, so they get a unique exposure to both worlds.
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Miller named first team All-NSIC; Bigler chosen as NSIC Coach of Year
The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference announced Wednesday that Southwest Minnesota State senior guard Jordan Miller has been named All-NSIC first team, while Mustang head coach Brad Bigler was named the NSIC Coach of the Year.
The awards were voted on by the league's 16 head basketball coaches.
It's the second straight season Miller has been chosen to the first team squad. He is one of 10 players chosen to the team. Miller becomes the first SMSU player to earn first team all-conference honors in back-to-back seasons since Jacob Fahl in 2002 and 2003.
Miller led the Mustangs in scoring in 2012-13 at 15.2 points per game and was second on the team with 6.0 rebounds per game. He also led SMSU in assists (109) and 3-point field goals made (72). Miller shot 41.2 percent from the field and 35 percent from beyond the arc. He was also a team-best 84 percent from the free throw line. Miller's 109 assists ranks as the eighth-highest total in a single season in program history and his 72 3-pointers ranks 10th highest in a season.
Miller played and started in all 115 games of his four-year collegiate career with the Mustangs. He finished third in SMSU history in career points (1,563), second in assists (321), third in 3-pointers made (253), fourth in free throws made (300), fifth in free throw percentage (83.1), sixth in field goals made (505) and tied for 10th in games played.
Bigler was voted by his peers as the conference's coach of the year. He led SMSU to a 16-14 overall record and a 13-9 mark in the NSIC, which tied for seventh in the 16-team conference.
SMSU played one of the toughest schedules in NCAA Division II and Bigler's team ranked among the top 10 in the first two NCAA Central Region rankings that were released in late February. Bigler has led SMSU to three winning seasons in four years as head coach of the program, including two appearances in the NSIC tournament championship game, an NSIC tournament championship in 2012 and an NCAA tournament appearance.
Winona State senior forward Clayton Vette was chosen as the conference's player of the year. Minnesota State-Mankato's Jarvis Williams earned both the conference's newcomer of the year award and the defensive player of the year award. And Daniel Jansen of Augustana was selected as the NSIC's freshman of the year.


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The Lookout Mountain 50 begins high atop the mountain at the spectacular Covenant College campus. The course offers a variety of challenging climbs, highly runnable sections and moderate descents on predominantly single track trails and other than a mile or so at the beginning to thin the field out, there are no roads. Runners traverse beautifully diverse ecosystems in the scenic and historic Chattanooga National Military Park, the first national military park in the country and passes directly above Craven's House and the Battle Above the Clouds, one of the most decisive battle sites in the Civil War. Runners navigate two exposed bluff lines with fantastic views. On one section of trail, it is possible to see 5 states on a clear day. Runners will follow or cross no less than 5 different creeks. One of them being Rock Creek, which leads the runners to Lula Lake Land Trust that winds through rhododendron, mixed hardwood, and Hemlock forests and the towering 120' Lula Falls. Great aid stations with hot soup, a dose of Southern hospitality and camp fires at night.50 Miler Cutoff Times:mile 22.5 - 1:10 (15 min/mile pace)mile 28.0 - 3:10 (16 min/mile pace)mile 34.0 - 4:15mile 38.5 - 5:30mile 44.5 - 6:30mile 50 - 8:30Cutoff Times will be strictly adhered to. Failure to do so could impact your safety and the safety of the race staff and volunteers. Transportation back to the start/finish will be arranged if you are pulled from the course. Please be respectful and cooperative with race officials if you are pulled from the course.
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Pete Townshend has revealed how The Who contemplated splitting up after the release of Quadrophenia in 1973.
Speaking at the media launch of the "director's cut" reissue of the album in London on Wednesday night, the guitarist said the record's broad themes of alienation and attempts to represent the four distinct personalities of the band had the air of a final chapter. "It felt like the end," he said.
Townshend also played a short solo acoustic set at the event, including a version of Bob Dylan's Corrina Corrina, announcing that he's also recorded the track for an Amnesty International album, with the help of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
Dark Times
He said the band went through some dark times in the few years after 1969's Tommy, because of their hectic touring schedule in the wake of the rock opera's release, the aborted Lifehouse project and the songs salvaged from that project for the Who's Next album.
"The years before Quadrophenia were chaos, they really were, we were so lost. I felt we'd lost contact with our original audience, and I wanted to reconnect with the neighbourhood we grew up in," he said.
"Although the album has some personal stuff in it from me, I always wanted to portray what the others had gone through, I wanted the album to tell our fans things they didn't previously know about us - what was it about those guys that I used to like?! John Entwistle, for instance; it wasn't until the day of his funeral that I discovered that he'd spent most of his life as a freemason.
"I've been working on my memoirs, and while going through my old diaries I found an entry from 1969 that just read "explore four", which was probably the initial seeds of Quadrophenia. One idea was to have each of us write one side of a double album. I don't think John or Keith [Moon] really liked the music The Who had being doing in the previous few years, they didn't like the aggression, so I felt the way to get back on track was to let them curate the next album."
That original blueprint faltered, however, because neither Moon nor Roger Daltrey had much confidence in themselves as writers, Townshend suggested.
Three landmark albums
"We didn't make that many albums, in fact I would say that we only made three landmark records; Tommy, Who's Next and Quadrophenia," he said. "I've always felt that Quadrophenia was the last definitive Who album. I've always regarded it as a very ambitious album, but what got away was the story.
"Whenever we've played the songs live since, they feel new, so we wanted to bring the album, the actual recorded music, into the 21st century and have that feel new as well, which is why I spent the best part of the last year working on the remastering.
"I'm very proud of it, it's the only Who album I produced on my own. I'm amazed by what we managed to achieve with an eight-track studio. I had complete control and it proved that when I have complete control I get it right.
"But to me, it felt to me like it was the end. The reason I've spent so much time working on this new edition is because it's an epochal record, the last great album by The Who."
In addition to the Dylan track mentioned earlier, Townshend's brief live set included Drowned and I'm One from Quadrophenia, and Acid Queen from Tommy.


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Tuesdays With Rita: First Crush and Weddings
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Love your photos...priceless! My first crush was a boy named Dana...he was 10 and I was 5. We lived in Maryland on an Army post and I was a very prissy little girl and didn't like to wear anything but dresses. My mom made me wear pants and then made me go out and play. I refused to leave the front porch...which only made her even more angry...guess I was always stong willed...he he...OR stubborn as mom would say ;)ReplyDelete
Anyhow, Dana saw me crying on the front stoop and sat down beside me and asked me why I was so sad. He was so sweet and kind and I was smitten every more...ahhh young love...ain't it grand! Thanks for sharing, fondly, Roberta
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love these old pictures and your storiesReplyDelete
my first crush lasted for lots of years and then i got marry to someone i can't believe how it happened
life is funny ;-)
p.s. i want an inner critic!!!!
Your cousin sounds like a lot of fun with that list of talents and hobbies. I remember marathons playing board games too. You were a lovely bride!ReplyDelete
I honestly can't even remember his name....ReplyDelete
But my Hubby has been my best friend for 16 years now...and I sure do have a crush on him!
Ciao Bella!
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What a darling photo, btw!ReplyDelete
2 cute!
Ciao again!
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I'm always dumbfounded by your photos - that you have them and that you can find them! Amazing! My first boyfriend was Robbie, the boy next door. I didn't know about boyfriends he was just always there. He was about 6 months older than I so started school the year before I did. His parents moved to Seattle for better schools - they still had their house next door for weekends and summers, but I was heartbroken when they left and it was never the same after that. I still love Robbie and found him in that house a couple of summers ago. The house I lived in has been torn down, but his is still standing and he lives there with his cats. I have been married 40+ years to the guy I met when 18.ReplyDelete


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