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First of all, I overslept and missed my train. I was pretty mad, but then, by the luck of the Europeans, I remembered that we went into daylight savings time the night before and I was able to catch my train. When I got on my train I was just sitting there reading. Announcements in Czech kept buzzing in and out but a little more frequently than usual. Of course, I couldn't understand what was being said so I just kept on trucking along in my book.
All of a sudden we hit a stop and tons of people start to get off the train. I keep watching and I notice that everyone is getting off the train. I don't know if it is a coincidence or if something happened that was explained in all those cryptic Czech phrases. So I am just sitting there contemplating to get off the train or not. I decide fuck it, this train is supposed to go to Plzen, I look at my time table and I confirm the stop we are at. I come to the conclusion that I should just sit on the train and wait.
So as I am just sitting there a younger girl speaking broken English tells me that I should get off the train. I am confused as hell but I decide. She then quickly runs onto a bus (there were 2). As soon as she gets onto the bus it drives away. I have no way to ask questions, I just get on the other bus show the driver my ticket and he blurts some phrase at me. It didn't seem like a no, so I just sat down and hoped it all works out. In the end it did, the bus left shortly after I got on ended up transporting us to the train station at Plzen. I had to take a bus from Plzen to the same city again to get home as well. I am not sure why we had to get off the train; I assume there was working being done on the track.
I was so lucky that this chick came back on to tell me. I don't understand why the train conductor didn't prod my ass out. Maybe eventually he would have, in either event not knowing what the fuck going on sucks, but it also makes it kind of cool and exciting!
Plzen as a city was okay, it was nice but not spectacular. There was a major site to see in the town square - St. Bartholomew's church, but it wasn't impressive at all compared to St. Vitus' Cathedral in Prague or St. Barbara's Cathedral in Kutna Hora. Otherwise the city was pretty large and was modernized with tidbits of history interlaced.
What made the trip worthwhile was a visit to Pazdroj Brewery where they make Pilsner Urquell. One interesting thing is that SAS Miller (from Milwaukee) owns this brewery! I was able to take a tour of the brewery paying attention to key engineering details like capacity, throughput, process descriptions etc. The facility was pretty cool. It has 124 fermentation tanks each with a capacity of 2,500 hecto-liters (hecto is 100). The filling rate for bottles is 60,000 per hour and for cans, 38,000 per hour. The yearly throughput is 1.8 million hector-liters of beer, but the brewery can increase capacity up to 2.8 million. The tour ended taking a trip into the old cellar where beer used to be brewed. The cellar had paths totaling over 9 km! Unfortunately, most of the space is unused and empty now, but there are about 50 barrels of beer that brewed for 2 very important reasons: 1. To check that the modernly brewed beer was still comparable to old style quality. 2. To please tourists.
At the end of the tour we had a beer tasting from beer brewed in the cellar. This was unfiltered, un-pasteurized and absolutely delicious. It was worth traveling 6 hours to taste this one cup of beer. It was unbelievable; I have never met a beer that tasted so good. Dominic had told me had tasted the best beer of his life in Plzen, I can understand and wholeheartedly agree. Looking back on the beer, I would probably step over my own mother to get another one.


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I was going to follow the great sweep of the Danube approximately northwards. From the cycle path opposite the Parliament building to the campsite at Esztergorm on the Slovakian border it was a brilliant day. Some of the route was along a fairly busy Route 11, but I was so relaxed and enjoying t he day it didn't matter.
My way followed the banks of the river, slipping between the forested hillsides of the national park, through towns, villages and forest. The path was hard to follow in places, and some signs were quite cunningly hidden just in case people might want to use them, at least one was almost 100% behind a pole
At Visegrad tucked in a bend on the river I stopped to photograph the old castle on the hill top. Seconds later a huge bird of prey soared past. I dug in the bag for my binoculars and got a reasonable look at it. I'm sure it was an eagle, it was several km away and still impressive. I'll claim that as a possible Golden Eagle.
I went into the petrol station there and topped up my water bottles and refueled myself with a bar of chocolate. Two bikers on high powered motorcycles pulled up and refueled at the same time. No doubt they enjoy the freedom of two wheels and the open road too.
I stayed at a campsite maintained by the local rowing club. As I paid up the manager poured me a large glass of delicious white wine. I was the only person staying there and chose a pitch between two tiny cartoon type caravans tied up for the winter. A little brown dog ran over to me with a well worn tennis ball in its mouth as I erected the tent. So I simultaneously played ball with the dog and put up the tent.
There was a fabulous sunset later on as the sun sank behind the apartments on the opposite Slovakian bank of the river
The bridge over the Danube and into Slovakia was only a few hundred metres away, and I was at the border shortly after breakfast. I even got a stamp in my passport!!
I was in two minds as to what to do, cover as much road as possible or take it easy. In the end the decision was easy. On such a sunny day through pretty farmland I couldn't make myself rush. I stop regularly to take it all in, there are so many birds here again, some I see rarely at home, like tree sparrows, others I've never seen, like yellow wagtails.
I arrive in Komarno at 2pm. Its great to get settled into a town so early. The campsite is part of the Panorama hotel complex and was full of retired Dutch and German couples in camper vans. I think there is also a spa here.
The hotel itself is interesting as it is built into the space below the stand of the local football club. That would certainly be an innovative way for Derry City FC to fund the construction of the much needed new stand
A retired Dutch school teacher comes over to me as I could on my mobile kitchen unit, (ok little gas stove). He chats away about his days camping and how he remembers WWII and how things are so much better now even is prices are rising fast. He tells me that Slovakians are happy to join the EU and hope things will improve for them.
In the town centre workmen are decorating the town hall with huge flags in preparation for the big day next Saturday.
This Saturday turns out to be dull and damp. The rain starts as soon as I leave t he campsite so its into the waterproofs. The sign says 100km to Bratislava, I wonder.
I'm making good time along the main road, busy but a good hard shoulder when I meet a German cycle tourer. The rain has stopped now and we chat a while by the roadside swapping info. Erasmus is on the way to Istanbul and tells me there is a good cycle path on the retaining wall of the Danube. He also gives me a little map of Bratislava with a hostel marked on it. That will save a lot of time later as I've no where planned. We wish each other good luck and head our separate ways.
I find the path no problem and enjoy the freedom from traffic. I lost the path for about 20km and end up on the main road for 20km due to not paying proper attention to the signs, but find it again near Bac. The last stretch to Bratislava is on an excellent path alongside a lake. Grey sky, sun breaking through ahead calling me onwards. If you ever visit Bratislava then you should rent a bike and explore this path.
I have dried out now and removed the trousers, I'm thinking I will reach a capital fairly dry, I'm only 5km away, the heavens opened an in a minute I'm soaked. No time to get waterproofs on. Oops I done it again!!

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Zachary Matthews, the staff person for the guards' union, Local 2968 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), told the Portland Press Herald that to prevent prison violence, "Nothing replaces boots on the ground and staffing levels that are adequate or better."
More bluntly, former union president Ira Scherr says: "There's not enough staff to run the prison. They're all overworked and tired."
A hostage-taking is a failure of prison security, but Corrections has not said publicly it was the guards' fault, and the department has not released information on what its internal investigation has found. Commissioner Martin Magnusson's first reaction was to praise prison staff for its "exceptional job" in handling the situation without anyone getting killed. In July testimony before the Legislature's Criminal Justice Committee, he suggested violent incidents at Warren were inevitable because prisoners will always fabricate weapons.
"There are probably 300 inmates right now with a weapon in their hand," he said. This statement did not disturb committee members, who expressed no interest in investigating the cause of the prison violence. Committee members are mostly former or current members of law enforcement, and they usually defer to the Corrections bureaucracy.
But guards and former guards paint a picture of overworked, not-well-paid, often-inexperienced — and, in some cases, teenaged — correctional officers who become so stressed that they not only create an insecure institution, they also sometimes take out their frustrations on prisoners. For three years, the Phoenix has published stories about prison guards' abuse of inmates. But it's not just the prisoners who are abused.Hard, long hours
Scholars who study prison guards and their interactions with prisoners lay the blame for disorderly, violent institutions on a host of factors, including overcrowding, a lack of inmate educational and vocational programs, and the presence of harsh Supermax solitary-confinement units — all conditions within Maine's prison system. A major cause is poor prison management, especially prison leadership's fostering of an "us versus them" guard culture (on this subject, see "Time for a Clean Sweep?" by Lance Tapley, July 25).
But another big cause of prison disorder is the stress suffered by guards, who belong to an occupation — like police officers — long studied by social scientists as particularly stressful. One result for guards: "Stress impairs their judgment as they enter a cell or confront a prisoner who is disobeying orders or causing conflict," an official who trains guards told the blue-ribbon Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, according to its 2005 report. In other words, stress causes guards to get tough on prisoners. The consequences can be bad for prisoners and guards.
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MEDINA TOWNSHIP, Wis. - A Wisconsin woman was arrested on a charge of felony child neglect in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, who officials say drank gasoline.
Connie Hartmann, 35, of Medina, is also facing a charge of felony child neglect resulting in great bodily harm to the girl's 4-year-old brother.
The Dane County Sheriff's Office said Hartmann was taken to jail early Thursday morning after she was arrested in connection with a domestic incident at her home at 1128 Berlin Road in Medina Township.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 9 -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday wrapped up his visit to Tajikistan, where he attended the opening of the High-Level International Conference on the implementation of the International Decade, "Water for Life," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here.
Helen Clark's opening speech at UNDP side event on The Critical Importance of Water for Sustainable Development and the SDGs
I am pleased to welcome you to this UNDP side event on "The Critical Importance of Water for Sustainable Development and the SDGs". The international community is on the verge of agreeing on an ambitious and transformational development agenda which will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The agenda will be universal in nature, cover all three dimensions of sustainable development, and aim to address the many interlinked challenges our world is facing. The agenda is relevant to countries rich and poor.
UNDP Administrator and Deputy Administrator visit Tajikistan National Mine Action Centre
The Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ms. Helen Clark and Ms. Cihan Sultanoğlu, UNDP's Assistant Administrator and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS visited the Tajikistan National Mine Action Centre (TNMAC). The Center was established as an independent national entity by the Government of Tajikistan in January 2014. Since 2003 a comprehensive mine action programme had been set up and coordinated with the support of UNDP. "Nationalizing Tajikistan's mine action center is an important step towards taking on full national ownership", explained Deputy Director Alisho Shomahmadov during the visit.
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Dushanbe, 03 March 2015 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Governments of Tajikistan and Japan as well as Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed off today on a new, two and half year project that will see 160,000 people from Tajikistan and Afghanistan using the target Border Crossing Points (BCP) and cross border markets benefit from a safer, better run border.
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Train was pretty quick again, taking only an hour and a half to get down to Angers. There's so much water everywhere, at one stage the fields were flooded on both sides of the track, as if we were on a boat rather than a train. Availed ourselves of some on board SNCF snacks via the dining car (no frocked transvestites like the Singapore to KL train Jill). Found our hire car place at the station and picked it up no problem
When booking there was a lot of contradictory terms about requiring an international licence in addition to your own but it all turned out to be a non-event, though the in built Sat-Nav was a little on the shite side, even when we finally worked out how to switch it to English. It was quickly nick-named "Bimbo" in memory of Tracey's hired GPS in Brisbane a few years back.
As interesting as my waffle about picking up a hire car is ("Oooh did you hear that Mavis, they picked up a hire car". "Oh Wilfred, how exotic!"), I'll cut to the chase and say that about an hour later we arrived at the Chateau. Didn't need to worry about finding it in Challain la Potherie, as there's the chateau and about 40 houses. Not a very big village!
There was a lot of "Wow" coming out our mouths as we were greeted and shown around by Fabienne the head gardener / guest relations / chef (yeah, weird combo) and the self appointed guardian of the Chateau, the sad-eyed Zeus (an Alsatian).
First stop was for a welcome cuppa in the basement kitchen complete with limestone walls, a crackling fire, battle scarred kitchen table and copper skillets & pots hanging from a rack above the table. Next Fabienne showed us to our room. More "Wow" and a few "OMGs" being uttered. It's even better than the pictures on the website!
We actually have three rooms – the entry with the bathroom off to the side, then through to a sitting area and then finally the bedroom in the round tower with an honest-to-god massive four poster bed
Went out to the car to get our luggage after rugby-tackling the massive wooden front door to get it open again (must have been funny to watch), then promptly lost our way and couldn't find our room. None of the rooms have names. The only way to identify yours is by a small number etched near the door knobs. As you also can't lock your door we were a bit afraid of barging into an occupied room and finding someone in flagrante as was. After a bit of trundling around we finally found the right bit again and dumped our bags.
Cameras out and we were off to explore the chateau.
Basically if it didn't have a no entry or private sign on the door then you're free to roam at will ... and we did! The basement and first two floors have been renovated, leaving the top three floors still undergoing work.
The basement has that wonderful homey kitchen plus other more functional rooms like storage etc, the ground floor is full of lounge, sitting, dining and banquet rooms and the first level and a mezzanine floor house the bedrooms
Most of the walls in the ground and first levels have been covered with fabric panels of silk brocade, finished with a cornice of silk tassels. Candelabras adorn every ceiling, stylised candle wall lights, gilded mirrors, old oil paintings, dark antique furniture with plush cushions, vases of flowers, portraits and cabinets bursting with silverware and crystal stemware fill every room. Oh and or course, there is an awful lot of taxidermy on display.
In the entrance hall are many animals, including a lion, and one room we found was literally stuffed to the gills with all manner of beast and bird. Foxes, wolves, birds, a wildebeest head, a baby elephant and even a giraffe! All seemed a bit odd to us, but apparently a lot of these chateaus were originally hunting lodges so there is rhyme and reason to the display of deceased animals!
As pretty much nothing is open in the village during the holidays, Fabienne the head gardener / chef let us book for dinner at the Chateau tonight - as you like. At 8pm we poked around downstairs until we found the dining room, set-up with a table for four, decorated with glam linen, gold plates, candles and all the trimmings
Shortly we met the other couple who were staying at the Chateau – Jamie and Melissa – Canadians, now living in America, who were on their belated honeymoon. Both friendly but boy was Melissa a talker and I've never seen someone eat so slowly in my life!
Dinner started with a salad of artfully arranged egg quarters, pamplemousse (grapefruit) and avocado on a bed of lettuce, followed by steak with vegetables and rice for me, fish for Jeff, a cheese course of smelly cheese, and finally a tarte tattin for dessert! Accompanied by french bread and wines along the way. Full as a goog after this fine repast!
11:30pm by now (that's the slow talking Melissa for you) and very, very sleepy so off to our tower bedroom. Sunk into that beautifully soft bed feeling like "the Princess and the Pea".


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Cocoa, Florida (FL Today) -- A Brevard Community College math instructor is being investigated by the college for allegedly using class time to urge students to vote for President Barack Obama and for distributing campaign material that says "I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket."
Associate Professor Sharon Sweet, 58, requested and was granted an unpaid leave of absence Monday morning as senior college officials look into the matter. Sweet did not return phone messages or an email seeking comment Monday.


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"black panther on 'roids with a love affair of genocidal dictators" [1].
I've been called many things, but never before something so hilarious. Really, criticizing our resident neoconservative would be superfluous -- his work speaks for itself.
Nevertheless, the essay Anti-Europeanism in America is an intelligent look at the phenomenon. (mglazer seems to think that it is a book rather than an editorial in a publication that happens to be called "NY Review of Books." Be glad you didn't make that embarassing mistake in a graded assignment. :-)
If I was going to pick out just a few passages, it would be these:
Robert Kagan argues that Europe has moved into a Kantian world of "laws and rules and transnational negotiation and cooperation," while the United States remains in a Hobbesian world where military power is still the key to achieving international goals (even liberal ones).[...]
[...] American writers should, but often don't, distinguish between legitimate, informed European criticism of the Bush administration and anti-Americanism, or between legitimate, informed European criticism of the Sharon government and anti-Semitism.
I wish mglazer would get his head around that second one and cut out the "anti-semitism" trollery.
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On a related note, I listened to Bush's State of the Union on BBC World at lunch time. I suppose to be fair non-American ears have to edit out all the religious references, which seem to be obligatory in US politics. I'm not sure how I feel about it overall. He has a good speechwriter.
One interesting thing was his use term "American Coalition" -- it seems to have condensed out of the earlier, somewhat clumsy "American-led Coalition". (Does the new one imply ownership? And can you have a coalition of one?) It strikes me as quite a nice and handy term for the current political power structure, parallel to "Roman Empire" or "British Commonwealth". Practically everyone reading this lives in the entity called the American Coalition, or at least on the margins of it.


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Repeat After Us: I Will Stop Eating Candy in 2007
I am lurking in a stall in the bathroom at work, preparing to feed my addiction. Wait. I hear someone. They're washing their hands. I pause, keeping quiet.
My mouth begins to water. What's taking them so long? You just need to squirt a drop of soap into your hands and rinse. Squirt and rinse. And wipe. OK, squirt, rinse, and wipe. There's nothing difficult about that procedure. But to any junkie attempting to scratch an itch, no one seems capable of getting it right.
When the coast is clear, I eagerly dip my hand into the pocket of my long, blue trench coat. I grasp a box, yank it out, and then spew a portion of the contents into my hand. I shove the pieces in my mouth.
As they cascade down my esophagus, I feel the substance disperse into my bloodstream. An unmatchable state of euphoria ensues. The high lasts about 45 seconds. Once the feeling begins to subside, I exit the stall and look in the mirror. That was one good pack of Milk Duds, I think as I gaze at my reflection. Time to get back to work.
I'm addicted to candy. It's my best friend and worst enemy. I've been teetering on the brink of addiction since birth. When I was little, I used to suck on sugar cubes as if they were a part of the five food groups. As a result, I have cavities in every tooth except the front four. I even had two of my wisdom teeth yanked because they had rotted away to stubs (and, yes, I brush my teeth twice a day).
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A week has passed since my bathroom binge. I am wandering around Brooklyn chomping on a rope of red licorice. A flyer stops my snacking. It reads, "Suffering from the sugar blues? If you are constantly craving sweets and want to understand why, or if you want to gain control without willpower, please join." The advertisement is for a free lecture given by a holistic health counselor.
It's an omen. I know I'm out of control; if I don't stop soon, I may end up with a bad case of diabetesnot to mention dentures. The class is just what I need to regain control of my life.
At the workshop the next week, I scan the crowd as I take a seat on one of the foldout chairs. I see an older man and his daughter, a middle-aged woman with glasses, and a young couple. The instructor, 27-year-old Felicia Desrosiers, welcomes me to the group and informs me that we are going around the room sharing what our favorite sweets were as children, what our favorite sweets are now, and how sweets make us feel.
Licorice, I reveal, was my favorite sweet growing up. It still is.
"My intention for this afternoon is to permanently change your relationship with sugar," says Desrosiers.
I'm not sure I am ready for that. Most of me wants to end my unhealthy relationship with sugar, but a deplorable part of me knows that it makes me happy. And it's not just the instant high I get from eating candy that I don't want to give up. Similar to a smoker, a candy addict has an oral fixation on the sweets. Much of the joy I get from eating Jujyfruits is hearing my jaw click as I smack those rebellious suckers into submission.
But after listening to what Desrosiers has to say about how sugar will ruin your life, I change my mind. I'm ready. The thing that affects me the most about her talk is a simple diagram she creates about how sugar affects your blood. She starts by drawing a horizontal black line. This is what your blood sugar is supposed to be likean even keel. She then draws a spike in the line and tells us that this is what happens to your blood-sugar levels when you eat refined sugars (candy, sweets, white bread, pastas, etc.). She says that in order to get it to come back down, your body produces insulin.
She brings the spike back down under the original line. We learn that if you eat sugar throughout the day, you put your body through a roller-coaster ride. Do it for too long, she says, and you may develop hypoglycemia. Do it for a lifetime, she continues, and diabetes might ensue.
By the end of the lecture, Desrosiers has scared me straight. I leave the class vowing not to eat refined sugars for the rest of my life.
I made it a week.
The day of my relapse, I'm out shopping with my roommate in the East Village. After a two-hour walk, we grab a bite to eat. The meal fills me, but my roommate suggests we get some rice pudding for dessert.
"Rice pudding?" I ask. "What's that? It sounds gross."
Amazed by the fact that I have never had rice pudding, she insists we go. I tell her that I can't eat any because I haven't eaten any sugary substances for a whole week.
"Come on, it's Sunday," she begs. "Every- one deserves a break on Sunday."
No, they don't, I think, but opt to take one anyway. We share a bowl of the cookie-dough flavor. My mouth doesn't like the mealy morsels of rice swimming in the ultra-sweetened creamy substance. Nevertheless, with one bite the candy freak in me is unleashed. Immediately after leaving the pudding shop, we stop off at the closest Duane Reade so I can buy packs of gummy bears and Twizzlers. They are inhaled.
Every day after work, once I get off the C train, I pass a Super Foodtown grocery store. Now, this isn't just any grocery store. The important thing to note about this store: It sells strawberry laces. Each coiled lace contains an artificially flavored abundance of sweet goodness.
Thus, the journey home creates a constant battle. Should I stop off and buy a pack of the laces? Or can I muster up the courage to fight my craving? My only motivation to fight it is knowing that when I do give in, I usually fall victim to a tragic overdose, which leaves me shriveled up on the couch in a bout of paralysis. I didn't intend to make the stop today, but the laces wouldn't stop calling me.
Once I commit to giving in to my wanton craving for the tantalizing sweets, I become impatient. By the time I make it into the store, I'm so eager to consume the candy that I run to the metal shelves where the laces are stored and I eat a few on the spot. On my walk home from Super Foodtown, which is only two blocks, I've consumed 20 of the 50 laces. As predicted, exactly one hour later, the box is history. So am I.
I decide to hit up Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, the medical director of the New York Diabetes Center and author of Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars and The Diabetes Diet: Dr. Bernstein's Low-Carbohydrate Solution. If anyone can scare me into giving sugar up, it's him.
Bernstein assures me that it is quite possible to be addicted to sugar. He tells me about a two-decade-old study that found that if rodents were fed carbs, the serotonin levels in their brains increased.
"[Sweets] raise serotonin levels in your brain and make you feel better," he says. And they are fast-acting.
Bernstein reminisces on a time 40 years ago when sugar addiction wasn't as prevalent in our society. He remembers riding with a cab driver who used to get excited when he stopped at red lights.
"He liked to look at the girls," Bernstein says. "He especially liked it when the sun shone through their skirts."
But now most of the people he sees on the street are obese. The diabetes epidemic is proof of our addiction to sugar, he says.
"And it's not just sugar. It's things that get rapidly converted to sugar, the happy things that raise your serotonin levelsbread, pasta, and carbs."
I guess they call them "simple sugars" for a reason. America has become so fixated on instant gratification that, at the moment we begin to feel pain, we numb it with a spoonful.
By this point, it's pretty evident that I need professional help. There is only one option: Desrosiers's services. She offers one-on-one counseling to help you kick your sugar addiction. I schedule a session with her.
Two weeks later I arrive at her castle-like brownstone. She greets me with a warm hug.
First we go over my diet history. She asks me questions like "What kinds of things did you eat growing up?" and "How often do you exercise?" I notice that I remain defensive throughout the session. She'll inquire about what I ate for lunch and I'll blurt out that I had pizza every day this week, but I usually don't do this and it has just been a really, really bad week, so give me a break, OK? Then I remember she was only asking what I ate for lunch.
Later, I let her know that I have pangs of hunger every hour or two. If I don't eat, the right side of my stomach hurts immensely. She suspects that I have already developed hypoglycemia. I tell her that this can't be. She tells me that it can.
It's the end of the session, and once we discuss the price of her services, I realize I will not be able to complete the program. Her six-month solution costs $1,500which is $1,350 more than I can afford. I inform her of my low funds and she lets me know that we can work out some sort of payment plan. I entertain the thought, but realize that a payment plan doesn't work if I don't have any money.
So I'm at it alone again. The only difference between my situation now and my predicament of two weeks ago is that I know what not to do. For example, I'm aware that vowing never to eat candy again isn't going to work. If I want to stay clean, I must come up with a goal and a plan to get there. The first thing I give myself is a date to work toward. If my goal is only to stay clean for a select amount of timeinstead of eternitythen I'm less likely to freak out and relapse. Once I reach that goal, I will be reluctant to throw all my hard work away and eat sweets again. (I am sticking to eliminating all refined sweets because they are bad for you, too.) It's a kind of reverse psychology.
I stash a chocolate chip cookie in my desk at work. If it is still there in three weeks, then I win. (Note: I don't particularly like chocolate chip cookies, but I know that if I become desperate enough, I will eat anything short of Splendaand I have even tried that.) Halloween, of course, will also be a test.
The next part of my solution includes shopping at the beginning of the week for groceries. I usually don't buy groceries in advance; I just take it one day at a time (which pretty much means purchasing my meals from newsstands). But if I stock up on alternatives to candy, I just might stand a chance. For example, if I feel a craving coming on, I can try to combat it by eating a piece of fruit instead.
My journey starts the next day. I go to the Super Foodtown. Unfortunately, this is place that sells those strawberry laces. They whisper sweet nothings in my ear as I stroll by them, telling me that I should walk on over and rescue one of them from confinement. I saunter over, look at them, and contemplate taking "just one." But I can't let them win. I tell them to shove it and add kiwi, Asian pears, apples, and black seedless grapes to my cart instead.
The first couple of days are the worst. During this period of withdrawal, I often find myself getting up from my desk to stare at the bevy of beauties that the vending machine offers. Today they have Skittles. They haven't had Skittles since I've worked there. They're even in two slotsD4 and E0. I imagine what it would be like to "taste the rainbow." Eventually, I remember my diet and return to my desk.
I wake up Halloween morning knowing that I need to put my game face on. Trick-or-treating didn't stop for me until I was 18.
That afternoon, my co-worker and I head over to an office party. It's at another location, so we have to walk four blocks to get there. On our walk, we spot a couple of people who are just leaving. One of the ladies pats her sweater pocket, which is loaded with candy.
"Make sure you get a pocketful of candy while you are there," she exclaims.
We get to the party, and just as I anticipated, mounds of candy are spread over the orange-cloth-covered tables. My co-worker goes straight for the gold: a pack of Starburst. She eats one and offers me the other. I decline. To divert my attention from the luxurious piles of Dots, M&M's, and Skittles, I paint a pumpkin. Ten minutes later, after I realize that the attempt at diversion isn't working, I ask my pal if she's ready to go. She takes a few pieces of candy for the road. I take nothing.
Sometimes the biggest obstacle in getting over an addiction isn't your enemies; it's your friends. That night, my crew and I go to the annual Halloween parade in the Village. Before joining the masses, we stop off at a grocery store to load up on snacks. They all buy sweets. One purchases yogurt-covered pretzels. The white delicacies look glorious, peering through the plastic container. My friend pops open the top and sticks the container in my face.
"No, thanks. I can't eat sweets," I murmur.
Five minutes later, the container is in my face again. I shake my head.
"Uh-uh," I say.
Ten minutes go by, and I am being offered the treat a third time.
What's the harm in tasting one, I wonder. I mean, really, there's a pretzel underneath. That has nutritional value. But before I can grab one, my mouth blurts out, "No." Thank God for my mouth.
My next obstacle: Every Friday at 4 p.m. we have a gathering at work we call "cookie time." It's an opportunity to celebrate the week's being over with conversation and cookies in the conference room. Today is special because cake has replaced the usual cookies. There are two kinds: chocolate and carrot. The carrot looks especially delicious. It's laced with orange and green carrots made of frosting.
As people enter the conference room, they pick up small plates of cake and gather in groups to chitchat. I bring in a cup of water. I find myself staring at a spot of carrot cake that has fallen from someone's plate onto the table. I imagine what it would be like to lick it off.
By this point, it is evident that I can't hang with the cake eaters. There's too much heartache. I go back to my desk and nibble on the leftover broccoli and potatoes I brought for lunch. They're good for you, I tell myself.
The day before the three-week mark is absolutely dreadful. From the second my alarm clock wakes me up, I long for a pack of Red Vines. By the time I get off work, I'm in dire need of a boost. My first inclination is to run into the grocery store, go straight to the candy aisle, rip open a bag of licorice with my teeth, stuff my face into it, grasp as many vines as I can fit into my mouth, and run. But not only is that stealing, if I go that route I will have thrown away two weeks (and six days) of being clean.
I scan the streets looking for a solution. The first thing that I focus on is the Popeyes across the street. A buttery biscuit with gooey honey and jam just might suffice.
"I'll take a biscuit with honey and jam," I tell the woman behind the Plexiglas window.
She turns around to wrap one up.
"Wait," I say. "I'll take two."
She adds another biscuit to the bag.
"Can you throw in another pack of honey and jam while you're at it?"
She follows directions and hands me my purchase. My hands sift through the contents of the bag. They wrap around a pack of honey. My teeth rip it open. I unravel the soft, hot biscuit and squirt the honey onto the top. I moan as I take the first bite. It's so moist, so succulent. I let the contents melt in my mouth. The bliss lasts for about 30 seconds. After the sixth bite, I realize that this might have been a mistake. My stomach begins to ache as I near the biscuit's end.
In a strange way, eating that bite of sugar (in the form of gooey honey and jam) reminds me that sweets really are the root of all evil and that, without them, I can possibly live a better life. Sure, eating candy feels good for 30 to 45 seconds, but after the initial high is over, I feel miserable. I guess I finally understand what Desrosiers was preachingthat the short high you get from eating the candy simply isn't worth it.
So now I've made it. I'm at the end of week three.
Total number of times I wanted to give up: 99.
Total number of urges I had to hit myself in the face with a baseball bat to divert my attention from sweets: 57.
Total number of minutes spent staring hopelessly at vending machines and newsstand displays of candy: 16.
But let's also look at the bright side of things:
Total packs of candy eaten: Zero.
Total amount of sweets consumed: Nada.
Total times I relapsed: Borscht.
Well, I guess if you want to get technical, you might consider the luscious piece of carrot cake I had last Saturday at 11:46 p.m. to celebrate my success a sweet. But that doesn't count. That was a reward.
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In these concepts, you will be introduced to seven key concepts of algebra and will practice your problem solving skills. There are seven concepts, and each one focuses on a key algebraic thinking strategy. You will focus on describing, identifying your job, planning, solving, and checking your thinking.
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:13 PM GMT on March 11, 2014
Climate change's most iconic research project is in danger--a victim of budget cuts in an era of increased government belt-tightening. The Keeling Curve is a measurement of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere made atop Hawaii's Mauna Loa, begun in 1958 by Dr. Charles Keeling. It is the longest-running such measurement in the world. The curve was instrumental in showing how human emissions of carbon dioxide were steadily accumulating in Earth's atmosphere, and raised awareness that human-caused climate change was an ever-increasing threat to the stability of our climate. After Keeling's death in 2005, the measurements were continued by his son, Ralph F. Keeling. Support from NSF, NOAA and NASA is being diminished or withdrawn, and Keeling has turned to crowd-funding to help raise funds to continue these important measurements. I hope you can join me in making a donation.
Figure 1. The Keeling Curve: climate change's most iconic image. The curve's steady year-by-year increase in CO2 due to burning of coal, oil, and natural gas has wriggles on top of it, due to the natural seasonal cycle in CO2--plants suck in CO2 during the Northern Hemisphere growing season, then release it during the winter. Image credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USCD.
Figure 2. Dr. Charles Keeling posing at the entrance to the Charles Keeling Building at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. Image credit: NOAA/ESRL.
CO2 Levels Hit 401 ppm
The latest data from the Keeling curve website shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are surging upwards in their usual late winter push, as plants return CO2 to the atmosphere before the Northern Hemisphere spring growing season hits. CO2 levels reached 401 ppm (parts per million) last week on top of Mauna Loa, setting a new record. CO2 levels were at 280 ppm in 1870, increased less than 1 ppm per year in the 1960s, then accelerated to 2 ppm per year during the 2000s. Less than 1% of the increase since 1870 has been due to natural sources, such as volcanoes. The last time carbon dioxide levels reached 400 ppm—between 2.5 and 5 million years ago during the Pliocene Era—the Earth was 3.5 to 9° F warmer (2 to 5° C), and sea levels were 65 to 80 feet higher.
There is a hashtag #savetheKeelingCurve
Eli Rabett's post, Shaking the Cup for Science
What Does 400 ppm Look Like? December 2013 blog post by Robert Monroe of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Santa Barbara, Calif. -- Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at the University of Pittsburgh have provided "proof of concept that quantum spin information can be locally manipulated using high-speed electrical circuits," according to the abstract of their paper being published Jan. 23 on the "Science Express" website, Science Magazine's rapid portal for publication of significant research findings to appear subsequently in print in Science.
The findings are significant because they demonstrate a solid-state quantum logic gate (i.e, control mechanism) that works with gating technologies in today's electronics, today's computers. This research also moves esoteric spin-based technologies of spintronics and quantum computing from the futuristic closer to within reach of present-day possibilities.
The research was carried out in a joint venture between David Awschalom, Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB and Director of the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation (part of the California NanoSystems Institute [CNSI]), and Jeremy Levy, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation.
A year ago at a program on Quantum Information held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB, the two physicists fell into a conversation that led them to wonder how electron spins in semiconductors could be manipulated in all three dimensions.
The problem was an old one. So-called "spin resonance" techniques, used extensively for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and chemical identification, manipulate electron and nuclear spins in three dimensions using rapidly alternating magnetic fields. However, such magnetic fields are difficult to generate and control on a local scale. By contrast, local control over electric fields forms the basis of all of electronics, from CPUs to cell phones. The challenge was how to figure out a way to control electron spins using electric fields.
Awschalom and Levy realized that if a host for electrons could be designed for which the axis of spin rotation changed with an applied electric field, the spin direction could itself be controlled. That is, they could turn electric fields into effective magnetic fields.
The two researchers realized that semiconductor sandwiches made of aluminum gallium arsenide and gallium arsenide could provide just this sort of control. The material was built atomic layer by atomic layer in the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) laboratory of UCSB Materials Professor Art Gossard by Robert Myers and Dan Driscoll, graduate students jointly of Gossard and Awschalom. Myers and Driscoll guided the deposition of the material such that the parabolic quantum wells (PQWs) "are grown by varying the aluminum concentration x, ranging from 7% at the center to 40% at the barrier, to shape the conduction band into a parabolic potential," according to the paper "Gigahertz Electron Spin Manipulation Using Voltage Controlled g-Tensor Modulation."
The "Science Express" results provide just such a demonstration. Awschalom's physics graduate student, Yuichiro Kato, conducted the low temperature experiments at Santa Barbara. He used microfabrication techniques to construct the semiconductor devices and operate them, and experimental techniques developed by Awschalom and Levy to show that the researchers have indeed accomplished what they set out to accomplish.
Harkening back to that conversation of conceptual breakthrough between Levy and him, Awschalom said, "We realized that if we write down the equations of motion of the electron that are normally operated on by magnetic fields, we can replace the magnetic fields with electric fields. Then we thought if that is the case, we could use miniature gates to operate on spins instead of magnetic fields for scalable architecture for computing."
Key to understanding the far-reaching implications of this proof of concept is the use of electrical fields, instead of magnetic fields, to control the electrons. Today's semiconductor, charge-based technologies (including computers) operate by control of electrical fields. Most researchers approaching the spin-based paradigm for spintronics and quantum computing technologies have assumed that the behavior of spins must be controlled by magnetic fields. The prospect of controlling 100 million magnets each independently on the equivalent of a chip has boggled the imagination of researchers. By contrast, controlling 100 million devices with electrical gates is what we already do in computers sitting on a multitude of desks throughout the world.
The parabolic quantum wells are grown with varying concentrations of aluminum gallium arsenide, sandwiched between gallium arsenide, flanked by metal plates, grown by deposition on the gallium arsenide. Think of a sandwich with Swiss cheese in the middle (aluminum gallium arsenide quantum wells) flanked by meat (gallium arsenide) in turn flanked by bread (the metal plates). The plates are the gates with one lead for the application of electrical current that in turn creates the electrical fields, which enable manipulation of the electrons through the material whose varying concentrations of aluminum govern the rotational speed of the electrons and the direction of their axes.
The result is "electron spin resonance (ESR) on a chip." This engineered nanostructure allows use of very small voltages in traditional gates to operate on electron spin in all three directions in which the axis can point without requiring fast alternating magnetic fields. "The experiments show that it is possible to build a very scalable array of quantum gates using semiconductors in a relatively straightforward manner," said Awschalom.
The experiments were conducted at low temperature and at a 50-micron scale, but designing them to operate at higher temperatures and smaller scales will likely not be difficult, according to Levy. "This work describes and demonstrates how to replace magnetic with electrical fields for the control of spin information in semiconductors," said Levy. He described the findings as an "enabling technology" for spintronics and a "feasibility demonstration" for quantum information processing. For the latter, the size of the gates must be reduced so that the spin of a single electron can be precisely controlled. Such a feat would enable electron spins to be used as quantum bits or "qubits" for a quantum computer. "Ultimately," the researchers write at the end of their paper, "these electrical gates may be scaled down for operation on single spins and in quantum dots to form qubits."
In contrast to bits, the "1"s and "0"s of present-day computers, qubits can be in both the "1 state" and "0 state" at the same time, enabling a much richer and more powerful paradigm for computation. The orientation of an electron spin can be used to store one qubit of information. Quantum gates are then needed to reorient the electron spins and perform "quantum information processing".
And then there is the issue of spin-spin interactions, the next research hurdle to be overcome to enable another milestone in this line of progression toward full feasibility demonstration for quantum information processing. As the researchers write, "Control over single spin operations is sufficient for universal quantum gating, provided there is a 'backbone' of spin-spin interactions."
But, said Awschalom. "For the industrial sector looking at quantum information processing and asking whether there a future, there is a trillion dollars of semiconductor technology for leveraging, and electrical control of spin makes the leveraging far more feasible and cost-effective than control with magnets. The only thing new here is the concept; the technology is today's technology. There's nothing so special that would keep anybody anywhere from doing this experiment. Our hope is that people will do this much better in the next generation."
And, adds Awschalom the physicist in contradistinction to Awschalom the technologist, "This work points towards a way for potentially manipulating quantum states and entangling them to test some of the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics with existing technology."
Funding for the work is being provided by the Defense Research Project Agency (DARPA).
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Alternate name: Snowball Cactus
Family: Cactaceae, Cactus view all from this family
Description One or a few tiny, nearly spherical stems have several white, rose, or yellow flowers near top.
Habit: succulent native perennial shrub; variable.
Height: 2-8 in or more.
Stem: usually solitary, spherical to oval, spiny, with diagonal furrows in a pineapple-like pattern, 1-6 in (1-15 cm) tall, rarely to 10 in (25 cm) tall, 1-6 in (1-15 cm) diameter.
Leaf: spine, smooth, straight, hard; radial, 15-35 per areole, white or cream, 0.125-0.5 in (3-13 mm) long; central, 4-11 per areole, reddish-brown to black, lighter at base, 0.2-0.8 in (5-21 mm) long.
Flower: white, pink, magenta, yellow, or yellow green, vase-shaped, 0.5-1.5 in (12-38 mm) wide, 0.4-1 in (10-25 mm) tall; may remain closed on cloudy days.
Fruit: round to cylindrical berry, green to greenish-red to tan, drying to reddish-brown, to 0.25-0.5 in (6-12 mm) long, 0.2-0.4 in (5-10 mm) diameter.
Warning This cactus has very sharp spines.
Flower April to July.
Habitat Powdery soils among sagebrush and pinon and juniper, montane, and prairie grasslands, coniferous forests; 4600-11,500 ft (1400-3500 m); also cultivated ornamentally.
Range Eastern Washington to west-central Nevada and northern Arizona; east to northern New Mexico, western Colorado, western South Dakota, and western Montana; also reported in Kansas.
Discussion Also known as mountain ball cactus, Simpson's footcactus, hedgehog cactus. Three varieties are recognized. Protected in Arizona and Nevada. Flowers may be pink on east-facing slopes, yellow on west-facing slopes.
This cactus is fairly popular with collectors. Other species of the genus are rare. Mass collecting of cacti is inexcusable, but even the person who digs only one has a detrimental effect, for if many take only "their share" eventually entire plant populations are depleted.


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I've fished under the causway Rt1 bridges and caught Tarpon on light spin gear using Mirro-lures and even landed a few on a 10 wt from the shore near Bud'nMary's...Call local shops for information and invest in a guide (for at LEAST one day) to learn from those who know the what where how when etc...It's alot easier than wasting your valuable time trying to invent a wheel that already exists. After you are exposed to the "program" you will be better able to fend for yourself...but the "education" will pay of in the long run and you won't regret the experience. Woulda'Coulda'Shoulda' Don't forget the polarized sun glasses and SPF-30! and have a great time!!!
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Steamboat Springs Routt County Republican Party leaders went to bed disappointed Tuesday night after watching their party fall short of the presidency as well as lose three of four local races to the Democrats.
But when they woke up Wednesday morning, local GOPers, along with their three unsuccessful local candidates, didn't wait long to start planning a comeback.
"If anybody's got any guts, you should roll up your sleeves and get ready to work like hell," Will Potter told the Routt County Republican Central Committee at its monthly meeting Wednesday. "If you don't, get in the bread line and make out the best way you can because that's where we're headed, folks."
Potter's speech to a room of about 20 Republicans included several calls for the party to remain vocal and passionate in the wake of a disappointing election night.
Everyone in the room acknowledged the local party has some major challenges to overcome, including a growing and well-organized Democratic contingent in Routt County.
Republicans here took it on the chin Tuesday night.
Aside from state Rep. Randy Baumgardner's decisive victory in the race for Senate District 8 — he took five of seven counties but lost in Routt and Summit — Republicans here were defeated handily in two county commissioner races and in the race for House District 26.
Reflecting on the losses at the Routt County Courthouse on Wednesday, GOP leaders said their party needs to adopt a more focused message and reach out to young voters by better explaining to them the financial burdens Republicans say they could inherit by government entitlement programs like Obamacare.
"The message that we have to stop spending money, that we have to be more fiscally responsible, did not resonate with the voters," Routt County Republican Chairman Dave Moloney said. "And now we'll see what comes of that over the next several years. In my estimation, it's going to be disastrous for the country."
Others at the meeting were quick to criticize President Barack Obama and lament that their party's message of fiscal conservatism didn't attract enough independent voters to prevail on Election Day.
And the candidates who didn't succeed here in Routt County said they learned some lessons.
"When I started this process in June, I didn't realize just how much of an endangered species Republicans are in Routt County," Jim "Moose" Barrows said, reflecting on his unsuccessful race for the Board of Commissioners' District 1 seat. "I think there are a lot of things we need to do as a party. We need to try and separate ourselves from the far right wing of the party (that) so many people identify Republicans with."
Amid the gloom of Tuesday's local losses, many in the room Wednesday were defiant.
"Chuck McConnell, and we cannot quit," the unsuccessful House District 26 candidate said when roll was called at the start of the meeting.
Moloney attributed his party's losses in local races to the area's growing Democratic electorate and its superior get-out-the-vote efforts. He said local Democrats knocked on 2,000 doors as Election Day neared and successfully got young voters to the polls.
Both parties' path to victory here depends on turnout efforts and attracting independent voters. While final voter registration breakdowns weren't available Wednesday, figures released as the Oct. 9 registration deadline neared showed Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters each representing about one-third of the electorate in Routt County.
Moloney and the Republicans said the next election will arrive quickly, and they voted Wednesday to form a new strategy committee to position the party for victory in 2014.
"The ground game is important, and as hard as we worked, they were more successful in getting people to the polls yesterday," Moloney said, referring to local Democrats. "I think the election shows that Steamboat Springs in particular has moved a little bit further to the left. We have to look at how we can better formulate our message to reach independent voters and the youth vote and women voters and drive home some of these conservative principles."
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Description Viburnum dentatum — southern arrowwood or arrowwood viburnum or roughish arrowwood — is a small shrub, native to the Eastern United States and Canada from Maine south to Northern Florida and Eastern Texas.
Like most Viburnum, it has opposite, simple leaves and fruit in berry-like drupes. Foliage turns yellow to red in late fall. Localized variations of the species are common over its entire geographic range. Common differences include leaf size and shape and placement of pubescence on leaf undersides and petioles.
Viburnum dentatum dentatum
Viburnum dentatum lucidum - smooth arrowwood
Habitat Grasslands & prairies, Fields.
Range Great Lakes, Plains, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Southeast, New England.
Comments Flood, insect and disease tolerant. Suckers freely from base and transplants well. Most soil-adaptable of the viburnums. Pest free.
Exposure Preference Sun to partial shade.
Flower May - July
Native Distribution Florida to e. Texas, n., especially on the Coastal Plain to Massachusetts & Ohio
Site Preference Stream banks; moist woods
Soil Preference Dry to wet, acid soils and sands. pH 5.1-6.5
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Chritton's stepmother, child abuse doctor testify
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MADISON, Wis. - The stepmother of a Madison man accused of abusing his teenage daughter testified Monday in his trial.
Chad Chritton is charged with party to six felonies, including false imprisonment and child neglect resulting in bodily harm.
He is accused of locking the girl known in court documents as "SLC" in his basement and depriving her of food until she wasted away to 68 pounds.
The defense called a couple of witnesses out of order, including Evelyn Chritton. The defendant's stepmother was asked to explain email exchanges submitted for evidence, but she was visibly frustrated as she testified.
Evelyn Chritton, also known as Evy, said the victim in the case stayed with her and her husband for about two months in the summer of 2007.
"She was sweet. She was a sweet kid," Evelyn Chritton said.
Chritton described situations in which SLC was tediously tidy during chores. Chritton said SLC claimed she learned those habits from her parents, Chad Chritton and Melinda Drabek-Chritton.
"I didn't find her in the least bit dangerous. In fact, I was concerned because when she was done cleaning up, there was not a speck of paper left. And it was, it was such a small speck that I wasn't concerned about," Evelyn Chritton said.
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Dr. Barbara Knox, a University of Wisconsin child abuse pediatrician, was also called as a witness. She evaluated the victim after she was found in February 2012.
Knox showed the jury a growth chart and told jurors that SLC was far below the weight and height curves. Knox said SLC would never get taller as a result.
"You have to have persistent malnutrition before your height falls off. The fact that we saw both her weight and her height fall off is a good indication of persistent starvation," Knox explained.
Contrary to the defense's argument, Knox said SLC's symptoms did not indicate an eating disorder.
"(It) clearly indicated that she was describing a situation of not being given food," Knox said.
Knox went through her list of diagnoses for SLC, which included isolation, terrorization, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The final witness was Hannah Cooley, a friend of SLC's stepbrother, Josh Drabek-Chritton. She described a night in which she visited the house, and Melinda set out a meal. Cooley said SLC refused to eat.
The prosecution will continue its case Tuesday.
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"Seven-in-ten Indians are dissatisfied with the way things are going in India today, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. And, with the Indian parliamentary elections just weeks away, the Indian public, by a margin of more than three-to-one, would prefer the Hindu-nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to lead the next Indian government rather than the Indian National Congress (INC), which heads the current left-of-center governing coalition."
By a margin of better than two-to-one, the public says the BJP would do a better job on each of a half dozen challenges facing the nation – from combating corruption to fighting terrorism. And the BJP candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi, the chief minister of the state of Gujarat, is more popular than putative Congress party prime ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi, grandson and son of former Indian prime ministers. These are the findings from a Pew Research Center survey conducted between December 7, 2013 and January 12, 2014. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 2,464 randomly selected adults at their place of residence, in states and territories that are home to roughly 91% of the Indian population. The margin of error is 3.8%. (For more details, see methodology statement at end of report.)


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Description ADULT Typical morph appears blue-gray overall, but neck is tinged pinkish and adorned with black and white streaks down center. Note the mainly white face and crown, separated by broad black stripe that ends in short plumes. Lower breast feathers form shaggy plumes; note also the reddish "trousers." Lores are blue at height of breeding season. In flight, seen from above, note the dark flight feathers; from below, wings look uniformly dark gray, except for reddish leading edge to inner wing. White morph has pure white plumage; intermediate forms also occur with variably pale pinkish blue body plumage and white head. JUVENILE Similar overall to adult, but blue morph birds are less strikingly marked, particularly on head: crown is dark and head plumes are absent.
Dimensions Length: 39-52" (99-132 cm); Wngspn: 5' 10" (1.8 m)
Habitat Locally common, nesting colonially in vicinity of wetlands. Present year-round in much of southern U.S., but range extends north in spring and summer and contracts south to ice-free habitats outside breeding season; often seen on coasts in winter. White morph ("Great White Heron") and intermediates are restricted to Florida.
Observation Tips Given this species' size and often bold nature, it is hard to miss in most suitable wetlands.
Range Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, California, Texas, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, Alaska, New England, Northwest, Southeast, Florida
Voice Utters a hoarse fraarnk call in flight; otherwise mostly silent.
Discussion Huge heron with long legs and neck and huge, daggerlike bill. Typical blue-gray form is unmistakable but white morph ("Great White Heron") could be mistaken for smaller Great Egret, which has dark (not yellowish legs) and a proportionately smaller bill. Diet of all birds is highly variable and includes fish, amphibians, and crustaceans, and even mammals and birds on occasion. Flies with deep, powerful wingbeats, neck hunched up and legs trailing. Sexes are similar.


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As expected, the birds started to rubber-neck and checked their wings before starting to walk off. Sure, a quick move might let me kill one of them, but it might also wedge my barrel into a mess of cedars or provide an obscured shot at a fleeing bird. No way.
So I waited, and the turkeys walked directly away. When they hit the 15-yard mark, the lead gobbler was in the open, so I didn't hesitate. And when he tumbled to the Texas dirt, he didn't flop.
I'd like to say I jumped out of the cedars and was on the bird in a second, but it took me a few moments to dislodge everything from that mess. Yes, the plan and blind had worked out well. Next time, however, I'll carve out some better shooting lanes.
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496. dsauder03:17 PM GMT am 24. September 2012
Is there ONE good reason why terms like "100 year flood (or drought)" and "all time high(or low)" should be used in any scientific context? There is no such thing as a "100 year flood" and there is no such thing as an "all time high".
How long were accurate records kept?
It is VERY unscientific to use such ambiguous terms when talking about what most folks regard as science.
It is no wonder at all why there is ongoing controversy and doubt about so-called scientific subjects such as "global warming", "biological evolution of life from non-living matter", "worm holes", "multiple universes", etc.
These and other issues that cannot be experimented upon directly and repeatedly are beyond the realm of science. Therefore, all statements regarding such issues are guesses at best and total nonsense at worst.
I am only complaining about writers stating as fact that which is conjecture at best.
Please grow up and learn some critical thinking skills!
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Reclaiming Democracy: How Communities are saying "NO" to Corporate Rights and Recognizing the Rights of Nature
In November 2008, Synergia sponsored the Democracy School in Grass Valley, California. Thomas Linzey and Shannon Biggs made excellent and inspiring pubic presentations before teaching the Democracy School in Grass Valley. The DVD of their presentations, taped by professionals at Peak Moment Television, is now available.
Linzey and Biggs describe how more than 100 communities have enacted laws that place the rights of communities and nature over the claimed "rights" of corporations. Their organizing stems from a new understanding of the origins of corporate power. It's a radical and inspiring approach that brings decision-making back to communities.
Linzey is an environmental attorney with Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Biggs is the Local Green Economy program director with Global Exchange and is the head of Global Exchange's rights-based organizing campaign.
Event sponsor Synergia highly recommends this DVD for anyone interested in corporate personhood, community self-governance, rights-based organizing, and the rights of nature (to name a few) "This new model is complex and empowering. We think it's essential for real change, starting at the community level."
In this excerpt from a longer presentation by Thomas Linzey and Shannon Biggs, Shannon describes how more than 100 communities have passed local ordinances asserting their rights over the constitutional "rights" of corporations. Shannon explains how the rights-based organizing model takes decision-making out of the hands of the corporate minority and brings it back to communities.
The entire DVD, titled Reclaiming Democracy: How Communities are saying "NO" to Corporate Rights and Recognizing the Rights of Nature is available as follows:
- S. Biggs presents "Who Decides" 18 min.
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- Q&A 35 minutes.
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Newport Hills and Lake HeightsA joint-neighborhood project, with artist Bruce Myers designing a pair of bus shelter treatments and an additional artwork. Together, these artworks will reflect and enhance the character of the community. The community selected 119th Avenue Southeast, between Southeast 56th and 60th streets, as the site for the artwork. How much of the art work designed can be built will depend on budget available.
Art selection panelists include neighborhood residents Lisa Vierick, Debra Haraldson, Cheryl Nygaard, Barbara Moffatt, Michelle Hilhorst, Arts Commissioner Genevieve Tremblay and public artistist Jen Dixon.
Bridle TrailsThe artist selected to work collaboratively with this neighborhood will create artwork incorporating Bridle Trails' equestrian tradition. This artwork will reflect and enhance the character of the community. The community selected possible sites for the artwork.
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MYRTLE – A suspect in a domestic violence incident in western Union County died after being shot by a Union County deputy sheriff on Tuesday night.
Sheriff Jimmy Edwards declined to identify either the deceased or the deputy involved in the shooting until more investigation has been conducted.
"It was shortly before 8 o'clock that a 911 call came in," Edwards said. The caller reported domestic violence, and a deputy was dispatched to 1218 County Road 51.
"It ended with the suspect being shot," Edwards said.
Union County Coroner Mark Golding confirmed that the body of Clyde Bailey, 62, was being taken to Jackson for autopsy. He said Bailey died at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto after his condition became critical en route to Regional Medical Center in Memphis, and the ambulance detoured to the Southaven facility. Bailey died at 12:14 a.m. Wednesday, Golding said.
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