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Mixed nuts at UNC Greensboro
by Jacqueline Hawkins
As you can read here, the response to GAP at UNC Greensboro was quite animated. CBR Project Director Lincoln Brandenburg said that many of the students were like hyenas descending upon a scrap of meat. Between the bloodthirsty vitriol and the stealth appreciation, there was a wide range of reactions.
The man who almost wasn't
Based on his expression and the way he spoke, it was obvious he wasn't out for blood like his schoolmates in the crowd. He made neutral inquiries concerning the life of the mother. I gently answered his question, mentioning cases such as toxemia and ectopic pregnancies. I made sure to stress to him and those listening that saving the life of the mother did not involve Planned Parenthood and ripping children apart. It was a matter of administering medical treatment to BOTH patients. Unfortunately, in the case of ectopic pregnancy, saving the child is impossible, given current medical technologies. Satisfied with my answer, he then told me he was almost an ectopic pregnancy. He had implanted very close to the fallopian tube. I told him just how happy I was he had survived and was there to speak with me. He thanked me and disappeared into the crowd.
Maternal instinct
A young woman walked by, just as Bill offered a pamphlet. "I'm pregnant! I don't want to see this!" she exclaimed. She was determined but not antagonistic. She didn't want to see pictures of what she could have had done to her own child. "I'm not doing this! I'm keeping my baby!" This young woman already had a healthy level of maternal instinct. The pictures will help her to encourage the same instincts in her friends and family.
Best argument on campus
The grand prize for best pro-abortion argument goes to the young man who came to within 6 inches of Jane Bullington's face and shouted, "You are STUPID." Jane stood toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye with this learned scholar until he backed off and went to make his prize-winning argument with someone else.
Enlightened pro-abort musings
At the height of the rowdiness, four young women from a protest group came over to Jane Bullington to talk. They had the usual lack of knowledge that facilitated the usual objections. But because they were somewhat open to what Jane had to say, they were able to learn a few things they hadn't known before. At the end, one girl mused, "It is sad that we don't have discussions when we have difference of opinions. We shouldn't just try to shout people down when we could talk to them." Amen to that.
Selling out for consistency
A young black man walked up and asked pointedly, "Why? Why are you doing this?" After answering him, he reasoned that since people are going to have abortions anyway, there was no reason to try to stop them. I applied his argument to slavery. "Would you want them legalize slavery because people are going to traffic humans anyway?" He shrugged nonchalantly, musing that when push comes to shove, legalizing crimes that already happen wouldn't be such a bad thing, even if it meant he got shipped off to the nearest cotton field.
Post-liberal dictatorship?
A male student was a pro-abort, but he was by no means pleased with his fellow students. As they demanded GAP leave campus, he exploded. "F*** all of you! As liberals, if we can't defend free speech of those who disagree with us, then liberalism is dead!" He stormed off continuing to curse at the protesters, "Are we trying to live in a post-liberal dictatorship?" Umm, yeah. We kind of are.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
Tags: abortion debate, abortion pictures, GAP, Genocide Awareness Project, UNC Greensboro, UNCG
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Every time I read the reports of your campus visits and the effect is has on some of the students, I know my decision to make you an automatic monthly donation recipient (I have only two other than my church) has been for very good reason. Every womb baby we can save is one less mother who will have constant regrets and one more potential significant contributor to this world's quality of life. God bless you for your dedication and work.
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This past February my friend Jill wrote a post about parenting in the pew that really resonated with me. As I read through it I felt a deep appreciation for Jill's plans of teaching her son the value of worship during Sunday service.
But, if I'm honest, it also made me feel very thankful to have a children's ministry where I simply dropped my kids off and we all did our own, age appropriate thing.
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Yet, that sacred hour in worship where I can connect with God directly without parental distraction is something nourishing which I deeply appreciated.
Well, we're not in Oklahoma anymore and now my 4 year old Noelle now spends the musical part of worship in big church with us.
The plan is for her to stand with her class along the side wall but with the new-ness of our church she just wasn't comfortable with that. She would see us and cry, reaching out for us across the room… so now stays with us until the message begins.
At first when I realized that our new church included children 2 and up in worship I was excited. It fit Noelle's interests perfectly, the live music, the instruments and the experience of God's people singing.
I was sure she'd be into it. But she's not. She doesn't like it at all.
We tried to explain the vast depth of worship on four year old terms. We gave her very few rules. Only one really: You have to stand up and listen to the music.
You CAN sing, you CAN dance, you CAN raise your hands but you can't sit down and play on your chair. You have to engage it in your own way, whatever that looks like.
Yet even with the freedom of practically anything she whines through most of it, which means I can't engage either. Which sucks for both of us.
I was hoping that something innate would click with her and that she would connect with God in some ageless spiritual way that would tenderize my heart to the innocence of faith.
But, no. So this morning I decided to try something new:
As the music played and the people sang I kneeled beside her, whispering the words in her ear. Then I took it a step further and told her what it all meant.
We're singing about how much God loves us, how he will never forsake us. Forsake means to leave and God will never ever leave us… no matter what we do.
This part means that he is stronger and bigger than anything that could ever happen to us in life. That no matter haw scary or hard life is, he will be with us, he will take care of us.
She still rocked from toes to heels but I swear her eyes lit up a bit.
And in that moment, my knees cold on the concrete floor, we both managed to engage in worship together.
In explaining those worship lyrics I was reminded of the simple, foundational, beautiful truth of the gospel that we all too often forget.


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I spent some time this afternoon playing with Sparkol's VideoScribe at the recommendation of GeneGeek. VideoScribe is a semi-automated tool that animates videos using images/drawings, text, music, and voice-over. Conveniently, they supply many images, fonts, and music to use in your videos; this was a relief for me because I'm (perhaps a little irrationally) always nervous about royalties on music.
I grabbed a couple of images I drew for a scientific poster and made a very short, simple story about a Spotted Winged Drosophila (SWD, my research species) larvae that wants to grow up to be an engineer.
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The story isn't exactly self-contained. It's richer if you know that adult females cut through the skin of fresh fruit and lay their eggs inside; the fruit then rots prematurely. Once the fruit has begun to rot, other species that like rotting fruit (e.g. other Drosophila spp) can get in there too, while the species that would have used the ripe, fresh fruit (like us humans) are out of luck. So, SWD is a little like a micro-ecosystem engineer. I didn't put any of these details into the video because I was just using this story as an excuse to play with the tool.
I found using Sparkols VideoScribe to be lots of fun with a very low barrier to entry. It was easy to pick it up and make fun little things quickly. This is good, because I jumped right in the deep end instead of watching a tutorial first. They made this even easier by adding little tips to the icons when I first opened the program.
Before I make anything else with it, I'm going to check out a tutorial or two. I'd like to figure out how to do some of the things that I know VideoScribe is capable of (because they are in the example videos) but that weren't immediately obvious while playing around with it. For example, I couldn't speed up the morph between larvae and adult fly; I could speed up the "transition time", but that turned out to be the time between clips/effects. I also couldn't figure out how to remove material from the frame – e.g. I couldn't remove the words in the thought bubble, which is why I had to cover them up with an opaque object to add "An Engineer!!".
Once I have it all sorted out, I think this will be a neat tool for making very short videos, and/or for making short clips to save out and edit into larger videos using a different video editing tool.


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Juried Exhibition
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Submissions Accepted March 8, 2017 thru May 14, 2017
The exhibition will be held July 15 to September 6, 2017 at the Mary Condon Hodgson Gallery at Frederick Community College, 7932 Opossumtown Pike, Frederick, MD, (301) 846-2513.
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Fri 7:30AM to 5PM
Sat 7:30Am to 4PM
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- Best Monochrome Image $150
- Category 1st Place People, Places, Things $100
- People's Choice Award
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Ventersdorp petrol attendant is living a nightmare
Though many of Ventersdorp's residents are celebrating the murder of AWB leader Eugene Terre Blanche, his death has plunged John Ndzima's life into further misery.
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"I'm caught between the AWB and my own people. If I say I am happy that he is dead, the AWB will come for me.
"And if I say he came back from prison a changed man, I will be in trouble with the [black] community," he said.
"A part of me wants to believe that Terre Blanche came out of prison a changed man because he was very different after his release. He used to come to this filling station to buy airtime.
"He never said anything. He came once and asked me to pump his tyres. I greeted him and he greeted me back.
But Ndzima still fears for his safety.
"I could be attacked at any time. I work at night and I don't have a car. AWB guys carry guns. Anything is possible here. Sometimes I see farmers talking about me, pointing at me."
"Everyone in this town knows me. At times, I would get a job but as soon as my employers discovered who I was they would dismiss me," he said.
He would like to leave Ventersdorp and find work elsewhere but is concerned for his wife and children.
"My family comes first and they are always worried about me.
"Since Terre Blanche died, they never sleep until I come home. Where will this end?"
The assault on him remains a vivid memory for Ndzima. Terre Blanche and a friend arrived on horseback, carrying shotguns, and beat him for telling the police that two white boys had broken into a pharmacy.
"I pleaded with him, saying I will change the statement at the police station.
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An all-electric TESLA sedan, not sold in Lompoc and rarely seen here, will be parked by the fence along North H Street as part of the festival's Green Wheels Showcase with fourteen other electric and hybrid vehicles.
El Son de Jarocho del Centro of Santa Ana, a seven-person musical ensemble playing the distinctive Jarocho music of the Mexican Caribbean will appear on stage at 2:05 and again at 3:20 as well as for a post-festival party at Angela's Restaurant on South J Street. The party is open to the public.
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As in past years, art, music, and dance will flourish. Acroyoga Addicts, Alley Project, Garcia Dance Studio, and Lompoc High School's Drama Club will also appear. Entertainment for children will include face painting, jump house, Zumbathon and games. The festival is bilingual. Food and artisan vendors will attend.
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Adewale Akanbi Telu 1, is currently in an ecstatic mood over the birth
of his son, Oduduwa. In a chat with Saturday Beats, the monarch said he
was not surprised about the birth of his son because God had already
told him the day his wife was conceived.
a personal relationship with Him. The day my wife conceived, I told her
that she was pregnant and I told her she would give birth to a boy
whose name would be Oduduwa," he said.
named his child, Oduduwa, after the progenitor of the Yoruba race,
because it was an instruction from God.
because God is trying to tell the people that if Oduduwa was alive
today, he would serve only one God. Oduduwa only served one God and that
is the reason God told me to give my child that name. There are a lot
of ways God converses with me and He was the one that told me that I
would become a king no matter what and that came to pass. If God told me
to name my son Oduduwa what else would I do? That name is our name.
no different; it simply means, 'he came out black'. We should not be
ashamed to name our kids after our great progenitors. The name should
even be on the ground a lot but nobody is bearing the name because
people believe it is a fetish name. Oduduwa never worshipped any idol.
All the idols in Yoruba land came after Oduduwa so there is strong
evidence that Oduduwa never worshipped any other God."


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Accession Number : ADA019817
Title : An Atlas of the Solar Ultraviolet Spectrum Between 2226 and 2992 Angstroms,
Corporate Author : NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON D C
Personal Author(s) : Tousey,R. ; Milone,E. F. ; Purcell,J. D. ; Schneider,W. Palm ; Tilford,S. G.
Report Date : OCT 1974
Pagination or Media Count : 87
Abstract : The photochemistry of the earth's upper atmosphere is controlled fundamentally by the incident radiation from the sun, especially the ultraviolet that is absorbed at levels above the tropopause. This atlas presents the incident solar irradiance with the high spectral resolution necessary to calculate the reaction produced when this energy is absorbed by atmospheric molecular gases. Many of these molecules have absorption bands that consist of very narrow lines. Solar irradiance in units of (mu)w/sq cm/A are presented in the wavelength range of 2226 to 2992 A. The curves were determined from high-resolution rocket echelle spectrograms photographed above the earth's atmosphere. Each panel of the atlas covers 14A, with some overlap from panel to panel. The spectral resolution is approximately 0.03A.
Descriptors : *Upper atmosphere, *Aeronomy, *Ultraviolet spectra, Solar ultraviolet radiation, Photochemical reactions, Absorption spectra, Diffraction gratings, Rocketborne
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Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 | 3:27 p.m.
A regulatory board in Alaska will begin accepting applications Wednesday for marijuana business licenses. It's the next step in setting up the state's legal pot industry.
To apply for a license, prospective business operators need to have secured a site. That has proven to be a challenge in some parts of the state because of things like location restrictions or local community bans.
Leif Abel, who is with the Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Legislation, says there's a lot of risk for would-be business owners. But he and others say they're passionate about the industry and want to be a part of it.
While the state's Marijuana Control Board will start accepting business applications on Wednesday, it will still be months before pot can legally be purchased by those 21 and older.


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Two-and-a-half years after financial banking analyst Meredith Whitney wreaked havoc in the municipal market by erroneously predicting hundreds of billions of dollars of defaults, she now says she never focused on munis.
Slideshow: Meredith Whitney On Munis
Now Whitney is promoting her first book, "Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity," which was released last Tuesday, but muni experts say she is irrelevant.
"You probably don't want to hear this but in everything and anything I've done my target has never been municipal bonds," Whitney told The Bond Buyer in an interview last week. "I never focused on the municipal bond market. I more focused on state arbitrage if anything."
Muni market experts' view of Whitney stems from her December 2010 interview with Steve Kroft on CBS' 60 Minutes where she predicted there would be 50 to 100 "sizable defaults" of state and local bonds totaling hundreds of billions of dollars. Her faulty warnings led investors to pull $26 billion from muni funds.
Market participants immediately noted that her dollar amounts were way off base and, further, that she failed to distinguish between governmental obligations, which are backed by the full faith and credit of governments, and revenue bonds, which are backed by a stream of revenues. Conduit bonds default more than GOs. In conduit arrangements, governments issue the bonds for nonprofit and other borrowers, but are not on the hook for defaults.
Moody's Investors Service, which rates about 8,000 local governments with 17,000 credits, said there were only 11 defaults on long-term bonds it rated in 2010 and 2011. Moody's said that of the 71 of its rated bonds that defaulted since 1970, 66 were non-GO debt. Moody's said there were only five defaults of its rated bonds in 2012.
Distressed Debt Securities Newsletter, which uses a very liberal definition of default that includes draws on reserve funds, found there were only 146 defaults totaling $28.78 billion in 2011 and 133 defaults in 2012 totaling $4.059 billion. Those defaults don't even approach $100 billion and most of them were not GO debt.
"When it comes to municipal credit analysis, she is not even in our league," said Dick Larkin, senior vice president and director of research at Herbert J. Sims & Co. "She is like a minor leaguer or a novice trying to learn it. She has gotten more credibility and attention than she deserves in a field that she knows nothing about."
In her book, Whitney, chief executive officer of investment firm Meredith Whitney Advisory Group LLC, predicts the U.S. population is flocking to the central corridor states to take advantage of lower tax burdens and less strained state budgets. She claims the so-called "flyover" states like North Dakota, Indiana and Texas are experiencing economic booms having survived the Great Recession largely unscathed and that this is a likely trend to continue for the next 30 years.
Whitney, 43, claims there is no difference between her latest demographic shift prediction and her muni default warnings.
"It wasn't as if they were mutually exclusive issues," Whitney said. "They are all in one. Nothing has changed about my outlook and my outlook for a demographic shift. Look, a demographic shift exacerbates pain and imbalances in certain areas, which leads to more troubles in municipalities."
"I am not focusing solely on the municipal market," she added, when asked several times by The Bond Buyer about her 2010 muni default predictions or her latest outlook and concerns about the muni market.
"It is disconcerting that Ms. Whitney has such strong feelings about municipal finance and economics and yet failed to come up with any specific recommendations and observations," said Chris Mier, managing director of analytical services at Loop Capital Markets.
Mier said her new book is "a fairly superficial treatment of a fairly complicated issue" of what makes people and businesses move. The locational decisions discussed in her book are not new ideas and have been studied extensively by academic researchers, he said.
"Her treatment is an inch deep," Mier said. "It's contradictory in its approach. It's very fast and loose with the facts."
For example, Whitney completely neglects to mention that North Dakota got 22% of its state tax collections in 2007 from severance taxes, Mier said. Agriculture and corn productions are other factors she also neglects, he added.
"The stuff that she ignores on the way to try and make her case is significant and does not give a full or fair treatment to the topic," Mier said.
Larkin agreed with Mier and said his reaction to her book was, "Duh! [Mass migration] been happening for years and it's not happening at the rate that she says is going to happen ..... I don't think she has a real good grasp on what causes people to leave."
Whitney denied she focused mostly on attributing favorable state tax policy to recent economic booms in the central corridor states and failed to take into account the massive oil production industry taking hold in North Dakota and Texas.
She said the demographic shift is "not going to happen overnight."
"This is the point of the book," she said. "If it were so obvious I wouldn't have written this. I have other things to do."
Whitney said she began to focus on state and local government finances in the depths of the financial crisis and continues to do so not only, "because it was something good to focus on" but also because it "was clear to me at the time that the areas that really drove the U.S. economy over the last 30 years would be the ones that would be the ones most hampered coming out of that."
"The problem is that everybody is impacted and will have to take some type of hit," Whitney said. "The taxpayers have certainly taken the first big hit. Pensioners are taking a hit. Bond investors will take a hit. It comes down to this issue of ability and willingness and the willingness is getting strained."
When asked why she sought to clarify her 60 Minutes remarks in the book, Whitney said she was encouraged to do it.
Alexandra Lebenthal, president and chief executive officer of Lebenthal and Company, said it was too little too late.
"She could have clarified the day after the 60 Minutes interview aired," Lebenthal said. "Even if it was taken out of context and it was over a five-year period or a 10-year period, it was still wrong."


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I weep for humanity. Because of the people I know, and people I wish I didn't know.
It's hard to hear about anybody with a huge ego. It's worse when they've deluded themselves into believing that it's true.
They have no idea. They have no idea the gift that they've been given and they don't know. I don't know how they can't realize it. Every single day of your life is a gift. It should be celebrated and it should be remembered, and it should not be cheapened by petty arguements with one another over who's more "diva".
When did Diva become something to be proud of? When did being "head bitch in charge" become the new thing to be? Why is that something to be proud of? When did degrading other people, and other HUMAN BEINGS become the cool thing to do?
It's NOT OKAY! It's not okay to talk to people like they were second rate, and it's not okay to bully people because they look different, and it's NOT OKAY to make racist comments and get away with it just because you're "pretty".
I hate this stupid shallow obessive culture. Everything has to do with appearance and everything has to do with how "diva". It shouldn't. Life isn't something to be wasted on the shallow things!
Life can be everything, and it's wonderful and amazing and awesome and nobody seems to see that anymore. It's all material things.
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February 2, 2015
The Asofsky Family Foundation Awards KidSafe Foundation a Major Grant to implement a Pilot Project of "Train the Facilitator" for Palm Beach County Professionals working with children.
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It was about two years before AppleBlossom was born that I started blogging and I was a quilt blogger first, and then a book blogger. But when I became pregnant the first time all that changed as naturally I wanted to share the word about some fabulous products that I just fell in love with during my maternity months, and then soon after baby months. While in the two years since she was born I have come across some of my favorite products, by far my most favorite maternity product was something that I got to use during OrangeBlossom's birth and how I wish I had it when AppleBlossom was born.
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After AppleBlossom was born, I mean immediately in the hospital and first couple days spent there, I was miserable. Depressed, in pain, whatever you want to call it I was just bad-off. While when OrangeBlossom was born I was not depressed, nor really in pain (besides the obvious). Things were much better and I was just a plain happier person with a better outlook (except for ravenously hungry!). One factor that I think had a huge impact was my LaborLooks gown. I bought a Bold Floral – Pink/Coral gown and it is awesome. The print is so just gorgeous and I was the prettiest girl there (okay so AppleBlossom was cute in her Big Sister shirt and OrangeBlossom was getting all the attention — but…) and even though I had just given birth I didn't look tired and drab in pastey pale blue or grey. I was glowing with new mama love and a great stylish gown. 😉
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While we were there, nurses other than just our assigned ones (we had a nurse for me and a pediatric nurse during each shift – love that!) would come by to see. They were coming for two reasons I was told, one was the cutest big sister they ever saw and the gorgeous gown with the glowing mama. That in addition to the amazing baby girl we brought home made that a wonderful birth experience and I'd almost say I'd jump right in and do it again (give me a year or so, will ya?!).
Oh, and I almost forgot… one final thought. There are so many different pattern designs that you will be able to find anything to fit the personality of that special mama in mind. I wouldn't hesitate to contact Ashley if you had any questions. These ladies are truly awesome.


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I realized I haven't done a chicken post in a bit and since we've had some ups and downs in the backyard flock recently, I thought I would share and compare one of our major problems with all of you.
One of the biggest issues in recent months has been pecking. Pecking is when chickens start picking at one another's feathers (usually due to stress) and can strip and kill a chicken.
The behavior started last spring after the coyote attacks. Not really surprising. I'd be kind of stressed myself.
There are a couple suggested ways to manage the behavior – one is a disinfecting spray that covers the red spots (the red spots are supposed to be what they're all attracted to and encourage the pecking), it also has the lovely side effect of turning your chickens purple. You wouldn't believe me if I told you how many people asked what was up with the purple chickens. 'Punk?' Not so much. Kids thought it was 'kind of cool' though. The other method is a chicken saddle which is the camo cover on the Orpington above. Have you ever tried to saddle a chicken? Good luck with that. It definitely took two of us and she pretty much won in the end. It was like that old joke about how to give a cat a pill (and if you haven't ever read that, it's here).
My opinion of both methods is/was they didn't work – at least for us. What finally did work was time and distractions. You can see in the photo above her feathers are finally starting to grow in as are the feathers of the other girls who were being picked on. I've been giving them extra protein treats to help and they're looking a thousand times better. They're also laying better which is great too.
So who else has had this experience? What did you do and did it work? I'd love to know. Seems like everyone goes through a bout of this!
Have a great weekend! Caroline


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Those slick, scary ads you may have heard on radio or seen on television and in print, including in this newspaper, don't exactly scream that the sky is falling. But they do sound an alarm that thousands of Missourians might lose their jobs because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allegedly is "in a rush" to impose regulations that would drastically increase energy prices.
The ads' charges, based on calculations paid for by the energy industry, are distorted and misleading. Official estimates of costs and benefits, required by federal law, indicate that the health and economic benefits of even stringent pending environmental regulations exceed their costs by substantial margins.
The ads' allegations also are at variance with a thorough analysis released in August by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. And considering that special exemptions, influence peddling by the polluting industries and legal stalling tactics have delayed some rules for decades, any notion that the EPA is acting "in a rush" is absurd.
The organization that ostensibly placed these ads — Energy for Missouri Jobs — actually is a small cog in a nationwide, anti-environmental-protection campaign orchestrated from Washington for the nation's major coal producers, transporters and users, including electric utilities that operate coal-fired power plants.
The Energy for Missouri Jobs website lists its address as 1315 Washington Ave., Suite 172, in St. Louis. "Suite 172" is a mailbox in a stack of mailboxes for rent — starting at $72 per year — at the back of Washington Avenue Post, a popular coffee shop and general store in the revitalized downtown district. It is the only tenant at that address.
The "Frequently Asked Questions" page includes this disclosure: "Energy for Missouri Jobs is funded by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity" and lists a contact phone number for ACCCE in Alexandria, Va.
ACCCE touts techniques to store carbon dioxide generated by burning coal rather than releasing it to pollute the air and alter the world's climate. But the group also takes in more than $50 million a year from members and other contributors to promote coal usage generally and campaign against tough regulations limiting coal-related pollution.
Its membership list includes St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp., Arch Coal Inc. and Ameren Corp., as well as numerous other mining companies, utilities, railroads and barge companies. Peabody, Arch and Ameren also are listed as members of Energy for Missouri Jobs, along with some area construction companies and labor unions.
One EPA proposal strongly opposed by ACCCE is the Utility Maximum Available Control Technology rule, which covers 10 toxic metals and three acid gases spewed into the air by power plants. Coal-fired plants account for 50 percent of mercury emissions, 62 percent of arsenic emissions and 82 percent of hydrocholoric acid emissions.
More than half of existing power plants already meet the EPA's proposed standards. Others would need to install control filters that other polluting facilities — say, solid waste incinerators — have been using for some 15 years. The EPA estimates that the modifications would add $3 to $4 per month to the average electricity bill.
Weigh that against the benefits: sparing tens of thousands of Americans each year from early death, 11,000 fewer non-fatal heart attacks annually, 120,000 fewer aggravated asthma attacks and a substantial reduction of developmental damage among children.
Controlling these deadly pollutants was required by the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990. So after 21 years, it's absurd to claim that the EPA is "in a rush" (and under federal court order) to announce its final regulation on Nov. 16.
That makes the ACCCE ad campaign remarkably timely. And its exploitation of Americans' all-too-real fears about job security remarkably cynical.
By the Editorial Board of STLtoday.com


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Finding Your Wedding Photographer: How to Avoid Three Common Mistakes
by: Nelson Rodriguez
As a recruiting manager for a photography agency that specializes in weddings, I spend most of my day searching for great photographers. I feel a special bond with the thousands of brides-to-be who start their own search every year. I don't mean to brag, but its tough work. For this reason, I want to share my own experience and ideas on how to avoid the three most common mistakes people make when looking for a wedding photographer. Don't be ashamed if you've already made one… or all of the mistakes I'm going to discuss. That's the reason they're COMMON mistakes. Lots of people make them. Whether you're just getting started, or starting to give up, we hope these tips will help ease the pain.
Tip #1: Know what you're looking for before you start the process.
Now, you might be asking; "how do I know what I'm looking for, if I don't do a little window shopping?" I agree completely. I encourage window-shopping, but in this case, that window should be your computer screen, a friend's wedding album, magazines… anything that you can use to get an initial sense of the visual style that appeals to you. Look at the tone of the images you like. How emotional are they? How intimate? How visually creative? Use this to define what you're looking for in a photographer.
Look through photos in the comfort of your home, and focus in on the style that really moves you. You may find a few different styles of photography that appeal to you. Try to limit your search to no more than 2 or 3 styles, to avoid image overload. You'll never find one photographer who is an expert at EVERY style, so prioritize your favorites. Pick one style you care most about, say photojournalistic, or editorial or traditional and look for photographers who can specialize in that style, while maybe having some experience shooting your second and third choices. Armed with this information about YOUR preferences upfront, you will avoid this common mistake and save yourself a lot of headaches.
The process that you shouldn't jump into right away is making phonecalls, sending emails and setting up in-person meetings with photographers. The time for that will come very quickly, but, believe it or not, starting that too early can do more harm than good. Think about it this way: meeting with a photographer will take you between 2 and 3 hours, including emails, phone calls, traveling to and from the studio, and the meeting itself. If you do this five times, without having a clear idea of what you want, not only will you be susceptible to being sold into a package that may not be right for you, you will find yourself exhausted and probably more confused at the end of 15 wasted hours.
Tip #2: Don't take friends' referrals blindly.
Again, this may sound crazy. Referrals from friends are great at telling you about a photographer's professionalism, their communication style, and how they follow up on issues that come up before, during or after the shoot. That kind of information can take a lot of the pressure off of the interview process. What a referral cannot do is guarantee that the photographer's visual style or approach is exactly what you are looking for. That is the kind of information you will get from READING the photographer's portfolio and looking out for the kinds of images you want to see in your own wedding album.
A quick side note here: photographers are no more and no less honest than you or I. They aren't out to lie to you, but they may be eager to get you as a client. As such, the questions you ask them about their style and approach should be much less important to you than what you actually SEE in their portfolios. And there is no right answer here. Only you know what images will appeal to you. You SHOULD know what you're looking for… if you followed my advice from tip 1.
Friends are a great way to get help in your search for a photographer, but be sure to use your own eyes to make the final decision. Cousin Mabel may be sweet and smart and charming, and have some great advice for you, but if you don't share her exact taste in clothing, furniture, or food, you may not share the same taste in photography.
Tip #3: Don't meet with too many photographers.
You probably didn't expect a science lesson but unfortunately you're gonna get one. Studies have found that the typical human brain cannot hold more than 7 pieces of information at one time. So if you're, say, walking to work AND chewing gum at the same time, you can't possibly be comparing 10 photographers on top of that. In fact, try it, and you'll be lucky not to end up walking into traffic.
Speaking seriously, the one word I hear from brides most often is "overwhelmed". You all know there is a lot of planning to be done, and far too little time, no matter how much you've set aside. Some people try to rise to the challenge by OVERbooking themselves. They have to quit their jobs and hire personal assistants just to schedule all the vendor interviews.
What I do for a living is interview dozens of photographers throughout the year. I haven't gone crazy yet, but remember, it IS my fulltime job. Your fulltime job is something else, and you really do have a limited amount of time and brain power to devote to this.
Limit your meetings to a very short list of photographers whose work has wowed you online, or in a brochure. Also, keep the meetings brief. They're not job interviews or lie detector tests. Most of what you need to know about a photographer will be found in their photos. How they deal with people can be seen in the level of comfort you see on people's faces in the portfolio. How hands-on they are will be seen in the amount of posing you see in their work. How intimate they get with the subjects can be seen in the closeness and emotion of the photos. Their technical ability and visual creativity will make itself known right through the quality and artistic style of the images you see. Use the interview just to get a sense of personality, and rapport. Can you connect with this person? How do they deal with questions and follow-up? Make sure you express your thoughts to the photographer, and take note of how he or she responds to your ideas and suggestions.
Finding a great photographer doesn't have to be the most serious task of your life. There are agencies like my own that help brides manage the work it takes to find the right person, but with a little patience and an adventurous spirit, you can do some of the work on your own. Know yourself, don't overdo it, and have fun.
About The Author
Nelson Rodriguez has spent the last 10 years as a recruiting manager. He wishes he was perfect, but accepts the truth. Contact him if you have any questions or comments. For more help on finding a great photographer, visit http://www.websterhill.com
NOTE: You're free to republish this article on your website, in your newsletter, in your e-book or in other publications provided that the article is reproduced in its entirety, including the author information and all live website link as above.
This article was posted on March 28, 2005


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Tyson's Beef with Tyra
- By Bossip Staff
Posted by Bossip Staff
Tyson speaks on his new Make Me a Supermodel and compares it with Tyra and ANTM:
"Tyra? Are you joking? I'm the only male supermodel there is, the only one who can make a supermodel. Do you think Tyra can just call up Naomi Campbell and ask her to teach these kids how to walk the runway? Please! You know Tyra and Naomi aren't cool like that right? And we're in New York, Tyra's in L.A. Nothing's going on in L.A. [My models] will go on go-sees, be doing what it takes where the action is, in New York. Please!"
Damn, Tyson it's like that? He is right to an extent, but is sounding a bit cocky for his britches.
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Clean Up!
So as I have been organizing our apartment, one of the things I FINALLY was able to clean up a bit was my husband's sand collection. He had around twenty ugly water bottles with sand in them from beaches around the world that he has visited. I wished we could display the sand, but the water bottle looked terrible so I knew I needed to come up with a new idea. I then found little glass bottles at Joann's and put sand in each one! So the collection went from something like this...
To this!
His collection looks so much better now and is proudly displayed! So glad I did that!
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In the village of Medvegia, Regimental Field Surgeon Johann Flückinger investigated stories of blood-sucking corpses. The investigation started with Arnold Paole.
It was said that during Paole's life, he had revealed he had been troubled by a vampire when near Gossawa in Turkish Serbia. Paole had eaten from the ground of the vampire's grave and had smeared himself with the vampire's blood in order to heal his own illness. Paole broke his neck when he fell off a haywagon. He was buried in a normal ceremonial fashion, but after his burial otherwise healthy people went ill. It was said that Paole was feeding from the cattle and people of the village.
A soldier who was sent to help investigate suggested that Paole's body be dug up. When it was, the body had been in the ground for 40 days, but it was found undecayed with fresh blood near his eyes, mouth, nose and ears. The shirt he was wearing was completely bloody, and new nails and skin growth was recorded. Paole's body was staked and burned. The ashes were placed back in the grave. But, because Paole was said to have fed from the cattle, people continued to fall ill and die even after he was cremated.
Within about a three month period, many young and old people had died. These men and women were also dug up and examined for vampirism.
- A woman named Stana, 20-years old, died during childbirth. Two months prior to Paole's death, she had painted herself with vampire blood to rid herself of a three-day illness. Both Stana and her baby, who died right after birth, had been carelessly buried and half-eaten by dogs. But, because she had painted herself in vampire blood, she had to become a vampire. She was completely undecayed. When the body was opened, fresh extra-vascular blood was found. The blood vessels of the heart were filled with coagulated blood, and the lung, liver, stomach, spleen and intestines appeared fresh. The uterus was enlarged and inflamed externally because the placenta and lochia had been left in place. The skin on her hands and feet and old nails had fallen off and new nails and skin were evident.
- A woman named Miliza, 60-years old, died after a three-month illness and had been buried about 90 days prior. When she was exhumed, blood was foun in her chest and her organs appeared fresh. The body was plump, which surprised those who were in the room during the dissection, as Miliza was thin and dried-up when she was living. It was said that she had eaten flesh of the sheep killed by previous vampires.
- An eight-day old child was dug up after being in the ground for 90 days, and his body was found in a vampiric condition.
- The 16-year old son of a haiduk soldier was dug up after being in the ground for nine weeks and was found like the other vampires. He had died after just three days of becoming ill.
- Joachim, a 17-year old son of another haiduk soldier died after a three-day illness. His body was dug up after 60 days in the ground and found in a similar vampire-like condition.
- A woman named Ruscha died after a ten-day illness was buried for six weeks when she was dug up. Her body was full of fresh blood in her chest and intestines. Officials also dug up Ruscha's 18-day old baby, which had been in the ground for five weeks to find the baby in the same condition.
- A 10-year old girl died two months prior was dug up and found completely undecayed with fresh blood in her chest.
- Because the ground above the grave of Gorschiz Hadnack's wife and child appeared similar to the ground above a vampire's grave, officials dug up both their bodies. His wife had died seven weeks prior and the child was buried 21 days prior. Both bodies were decomposed.
- A servant of a local corporal named Rhade, 23-years old, died after a three-month long illness. After five weeks of being buried was found completely decomposed.
- The wife of a local bariactar and her child had died five weeks prior and were also exhumed. Both had completely decomposed.
- With Stanche, a local soldier, 60-years old, had died six weeks prior was found with blood in his chest and stomach.
- Milloe, a soldier, 25-years old, had been buried for six weeks, and when he was dug up, his body was found in a vampiric-condition.
- Stanoika, 20-years old, was the wife of a soldier. She died after a three-day illness and had been buried for 18 days. When she was exhumed, the body was found with a ruddy complexion and a vivid coloring. She had been throttled by Milloe, and the examiner found a bloodshot blue mark about the length of a finger on the right side under the ear. When the body was dissected, fresh blood was found in her chest, and the right ventricle of the heart was found in a healthy condition. The hypodermis and nails were new and fresh.
In each instance of vampiric condition, the head was cut off, the body was burned and the ashes strewn into the Morava river. If the body was found decomposed, it was placed back into the grave.
Flückinger wrote the vampire report "Visum et Repertum" in January 1732. No fewer than five military Officers signed the report, three of these Officers were soldiers in the army that defeated the Turks between 1714 and 1718.
Authorities in Belgrade and Vienna received copies of the report, as did various foreign governments. Various versions were distributed to newspapers and scientific periodicals throughout Europe. If it wasn't for the report, the word "vampire" and stories of the supposed blood-drinking corpses would not have become known.


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Many people want to know How to Learn Mandarin Chinese since learning Chinese, for most people, is very difficult and takes much commitment. However, setting a goal of learning daily Chinese and basic working vocabulary is not so hard, and it can be a lot of fun. We suggest you start with practical and interesting topics when you learn Chinese.
It matters as well if you have the best material and interest, if you want to become fluent in Chinese sooner. Can you find a method allow you to reach accurate recognition and recall with the fewest number of exposures, within the shortest period of time?
If you want to communicate with Chinese speakers, you'd better start Chinese listening first. With time, you can begin to distinguish the Chinese sounds and rhythms. First, learn how to listen, and then learn how to copy what you heard well. Since as a foreign language, the Chinese language sounds different and uses different sounds. Different muscles are employed. The mouth, cheeks, nose, and tongue, along with breathing in or out, may be combined in almost endless ways.
There are many methods you can use to learn Mandarin Chinese.
The way children learn
Assuming you want to speak more than you want to read Chinese, perhaps the best way is the way children learn: first by listening, then by repeating or speaking. Little by little children learn vocabulary and only much later do they learn reading and grammar.
I recommend starting with audio Chinese learning programs that offer short conversational Chinese lessons, as these are more likely to keep the vocabulary simple and practical. Another feature to look for, are the audio lessons that give the word or expression once in English and at least twice in Chinese. The voice in the Chinese language needs to be that of a native Chinese speaker.
My recommendation is to just listen to the audio lessons all the way through multiple times and only then begin to repeat after the native Chinese speaker. Listening to these audio lessons fifteen minutes a day five or six times a week is much more effective than listening for a long time once a week.
At first, it is easy to get discouraged. Even after a few weeks you will find that your brain begins to associate words in English with their Chinese signification. Soon you will even have dreams where you use your limited Chinese vocabulary. Or, a Chinese word will come into your mind along with its meaning.
The way use phrase book
There is an approach in learning Chinese language is to use a phrase book, where an English word's phonetic pronunciation is given (transliterated) based on English language other than the Chinese language. Many language CDs, DVDs and computer programs come with a manual that includes phonetic pronunciations. With the exception of emergencies, you should avoid this approach when you learn Chinese, since most the Chinese words can not transliterate close enough, most of the time the end result is a disaster. If you use this approach, your pronunciation in the Chinese language is likely to be very bad.
However, if you do not have much time, you need to travel to China immediately, a phrase book will come in handy during your first trip to China.
The ideal approach is to learn to speak some Chinese before travel to China. To reach this goal, you should learn polite and basic Chinese expressions, they will give you the confidence to venture out on your own, help you break the ice of formality, and will be of great use in developing greater relationship with the Chinese people.
Take a Mandarin Chinese class
If you learn better when working along with others, taking a Chinese class can help supplement your audio Chinese lessons. A Chinese immersion or conversational class is what you are looking for. There is a Chinese language learning approach where the instructor uses only, or mostly, the Chinese language, and class participants repeat after the teacher. The instructor may point to an object, give the name in Chinese, and then ask you to repeat it first as a group and then as individuals.
Be careful, however, before signing up, make sure that the class is truly conversational and that the teacher speaks like a native.
Work with Mandarin Chinese tutors
Tutors need to be patient, enthusiastic, and willing to help you along at the pace you need to learn Chinese. They need to be just as quick to get excited at your progress and correct work as to be critical at the mistakes you make.
Use computers and the internet
There are many computerized language courses and online Chinese courses. Those that are interactive and come with audio capabilities, can be very helpful indeed.
Some tools can analyze how close your pronunciation comes to the correct one. This may give you the opportunity to correct some errors and improve your pronunciation and understanding. Although some of the Chinese programs offer speaking and listening opportunities, focus on listening first.
As in anything else you learn, practice is very important, as long as you are practicing correctly.
Learn Chinese songs and singing
Vowels are often the major expression of an accent. Trying to make out the lyrics of a Chinese song can be a fun way to improve your ear for the Chinese language, and improve your accent. When Chinese words are sung, vowels are drawn out so their major pronunciation points are emphasized.
Listen to Mandarin Chinese as possible as you can
Listening to Chinese podcast, radio or other audio programs, and watching Chinese television when available, are very helpful. The advantage of Chinese television is that you can catch body language and facial expressions and can capture the context of what is being said a little better.
As a test, you can listen to a Chinese audio program to see how many Chinese words you can pick up. If you can pick up one Chinese word in ten, you have made a good progress!
Learn Chinese culture
At some point after the first year or two you will be ready to tackle the longer Chinese conversations and enjoy reading. Enjoy reading a little about the Chinese culture, geography, or region you are most interested in. Reading children's story books in Chinese could be a good starting point as well.
In addition, once you learned some of the basic Chinese, you would go around, in China town close to you, mouthing every street and store sign in Chinese, and feeling the Chinese culture nearby.
What is the best way to learn Mandarin Chinese? There are a lot of different ways to learn Chinese, you should find a way that works best for you. Hope this article answers the question How to Learn Mandarin Chinese.


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CANNES 2010 -Closing Night Film
After the sudden loss of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn: her father whispers to her through the leaves of the magnificient tree by their house. Simone is convinced that he's come back to protect her family. Soon, Simone's three brothers and Dawn also take comfort in the reassuring tree. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts dating George. Simone moves into the treehouse and refuses to come down. With branches infiltrating the house and roots destroying the foundations, the tree seems to be siding with Simone. Dawn refuses to let the tree take control of her family... starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marton Csokas. From the director of SINCE OTAR LEFT (DEPUIS QU'OTAR EST PARTI).
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas
A fine, unshowy Charlotte Gainsbourg performance anchors a well-paced narrative... For good measure, the film is several grades above the norm for a Cannes closing-night selection... Gainsbourg's Dawn is a wreck, however, and it's the actor's total involvement in this woman's tragedy that makes the central drama work as well as it does. In this way, Gainsbourg is allowed to be something much closer to a human being suffering a devastating loss than she was in last year's Cannes entry, "Antichrist." ... the elemental conflict -- between a little girl's willfulness, born out of love that won't let go of the dead, and her family's urge to get on with the living -- is expressively filmed... "The Tree" is a top-flight technical achievement for Aussie filmmaking, capped by one strong, effects-laden scene in particular. Nigel Bluck's widescreen cinematography plays a crucial role in making the Morten Bay fig seem alive without effects getting in the way, while Gregoire Hetzel's Arvo Part-influenced score tends to telegraph emotions.
Robert Koehler, VARIETY
Given the house's location and the landscape around it, nature is an essential component of the story, intervening every once in a while and with all due respect to little Morgana Davies and to Charlotte Gainsbourg - both touching in their respective parts - the real star of the movie, as the title indicates, is the huge fig tree which sends its branches and roots in every direction, looking for all purposes, like a giant octopus, to quote one
of Dawn's distraught neighbours.... Glowingly shot by Nigel Bluck, Bertuccelli's film has all the compassionate approach required for the occasion...
Dan Fainaru, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL