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by Margaret A. Hill
Let's face it. When compared with a lot of organisms, humans are big wimps. We can't live in boiling water or on Antarctic ice, and we need special pressurized suits to survive the crushing weight of water at low ocean depths. We avoid these hostile places for the most part because we don't want to turn into boiled jelly, ice pops, or flattened pancakes. Yet, a multitude of microorganisms have no problem making themselves at home in these extremes.
Imagine pressure so great that a submarine is crushed flat. Load a column of water one mile (1.6 km) high over the top of the vessel and splat! Your submarine is now horizontal metal ready for the recycling bin.
Imagine going seven times deeper—to one of the deepest known spots on the ocean floor, the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean, seven miles (11 km) below the surface. You won't find any submarines, but you will find bacteria called piezophiles (from the Greek words piezein, "to squeeze," and philos, "loving"). Even at submarine-crushing pressures, these piezophiles aren't squeezed to death. Their name makes it clear—they "love" the pressure!
What special traits allow these bacteria to live under such high pressures? That's what a team of Japanese scientists wants to know. This group, called Deepstar, collects mud samples from ocean bottoms to hunt for piezophiles. Led by Dr. Koki Horikoshi, the Deepstar team uses underwater robots called submersibles to do the dirty work. One of the submersibles, the Kaiko, is capable of withstanding water pressures as deep as the Marianas Trench and has brought back more than 180 different types of bacteria.
Submersibles aren't the only man-made probes finding their way to the ocean floor. Drills mounted on ships are also cranking down to ocean bottoms searching for strange life forms. Right now, the best deep-ocean drill can reach only to four miles (6.5 km), and must operate in mild waters.
All that is set to change, though, as a joint scientific effort between the United States, Japan, and 20 other nations will open exploration of the deepest, most frigid ocean bottoms known. The U.S./Japan effort, called IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program), formally began in April 2003. A new drill ship being built, the Chikyu, will be able to drill in any deep ocean location by 2008.
In the meantime, scientists like Dr. Horikoshi are studying the deep-sea piezophiles that submersibles have dug up. Understanding how these creatures successfully deal with high pressure is the scientists' aim.
Success at high-pressure living is at least partly due to the creatures' simple, one-celled structure. One-celled bacteria have no air pockets that collapse or rigid bone structures that break. Their small size protects them from bursting like water-filled balloons.
But it isn't enough to be small and one-celled, as a pair of U.S. scientists discovered.
Doctors Anurag Sharma and James Scott of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, DC) tested the ability of normal, surface-loving bacteria to live under the kind of pressures found at the ocean bottom. These researchers made a squeezing tool that not only put bacteria under deep-sea pressures, but also measured metabolic changes taking place inside the cells.
It turned out that an amazing 16 out of every 1,000 bacteria (1.6 percent) lived through the ordeal. This shows that bacteria are already capable of living a high-pressure existence. But because so many of the surface-loving batch didn't survive, the piezophiles must hold some secrets of high-pressure living that make them more fit for their ocean bottom home.
Those secrets are special adaptations that allow piezophiles to grow and reproduce under monstrous pressures. Scientists are only at the very beginning of understanding exactly what those adaptations are. It will take much scientific detective work to figure out the details. In the meantime, it's likely that these pressure-loving microbes won't just be scientific curiosities—they'll be put to work, too!
While industries have limited uses for whole bacteria, they do have needs for certain parts of these creatures. Examples are the proteins that run the metabolic machinery in bacteria. Called enzymes, these proteins can be pulled out of the bacteria and used for a variety of tasks. Enzymes may be useful in high-pressure food processing, in breaking down toxic waste, or as substitutes for harsh chemicals used in paper production.
Whether studying their structures or figuring out ways to put them to industrial use, scientists are convinced of the importance of investigating these bizarre microbes. Living their lives under pressures great enough to flatten a house, piezophiles have given the researchers a whole new way of pondering what makes a "home, sweet home."
- metabolic:
- Relating to the process by which living things change food into energy and living tissue.
- microbe:
- A very tiny living organism.
- microorganism:
- An organism, such as a bacterium, so small that it can be seen only by using a microscope.
- In which zone of the oceanic biome do piezophiles live?
[anno: They live in the oceanic zone.]
- How are piezophiles adapted to live in the Marianas Trench?
[anno: The piezophiles are able to withstand an incredible amount of pressure.]
- Why are scientists interested in studying the piezophiles?
[anno: The scientists hope to find uses for the bacteria or the bacteria parts, such as the enzymes. The scientists think the enzymes might be useful in high-pressure food processing, in breaking down toxic waste, or as substitutes for harsh chemicals.]
- Would you expect to find large organisms in the Marianas Trench? Why or why not? Write a few sentences to explain your answer.
[anno: Answers will vary. Students might think that large organisms would not live in the Marianas Trench because it would be difficult to develop a skeletal structure that could support an animal under great pressure.]


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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Homemade Christmas: Felt Poinsettia Pins
If you've been standing
behind me in in line at
Michael's, Walmart, or
any other store I've haunted
in the past few weeks...
this would be
a view of my ponytail.
See that cute little felt flower?
(It's really a felt pin but...
I like to clip it on my ponytail elastic)
Here's a closer look...
(pstt...there's one on my hoodie too)
I've been a
busy little crafty elf
making these (recycled) felt poinsettia pins.
(I shipped 30 of them to
Amarillo, Texas last year!)
Each one is different,
I mix and match my reds and pinks
and use vintage buttons in the center.
They're adorable on
top of packages
(see this one under my Christmas tree!)
My daughter has one sewn onto
her pony tail holder
(if you want one of those just "Convo" me on Etsy!)
Want one of your own?
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on the right,
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution will celebrate survivors and fundraise for a cure in partnership with the Massachusetts Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for a Cure this Saturday, Oct. 2, when the team hosts a Breast Cancer Awareness game at Gillette Stadium.
The Revs will host defending MLS champion Real Salt Lake at 7:30 p.m., with special ticket packages available for $50, which include two tickets and two commemorative Revolution breast cancer awareness t-shirts.
Highlighted activities of the night will include a pregame presentation of survivors on the field, as well as pink accents in the game including:
Additionally, game-used and game-worn items will be up for both raffle at the game, and up for auction starting Wednesday, Oct. 6, at biddingforgood.com. All proceeds from both the game raffle and the online auction will be donated to Komen MA in support of breast cancer screening, treatment, education programs and research.
Items that will be available through either the in-game raffle or the online auction include:
Komen MA will be on-site for the game, as well, to collect direct donations. Additionally, commemorative Revolution breast cancer awareness items will be for sale in the ProShop and retail stands, with proceeds from those sales going to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The special breast cancer awareness game ticket packages are still available by calling 1-877-GET-REVS, or at revolutionsoccer.net. For more information, visit the team's web site.
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The smartphone wars have a new soldier. Nokia will launch a $99 Lumia with Verizon next week. George Stahl reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.
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Nobody wants to wipe bottoms
So says Alex Thomas, a medical student. Dr Grumble agrees. He has said as much himself. As Alex says, there is not much point in getting nurses to wash their hands if they will not deal with patients lying in their own excrement. Senior nurses of 20 years ago warned Dr Grumble of the the consequences of moving nursing away from basic nursing care and towards the technical. We didn't dream then it might move further towards the diagnostic - that would have been unthinkable. But very quickly the unthinkable has happened. The nurses of old were right and Dr Grumble was very wrong. If the government wants nurses to become doctors, then train them to be doctors. And then the logical thing would be to train the healthcare assistants to become good old-fashioned nurses. But this won't happen because this would cost too much. So let's have the nurses doing nursing. And let's reward them for doing the really difficult tough nursing. Why do you have to sit in an office to get paid well as a nurse? Or do the doctors job? It's much more difficult to run a busy ward well. And this job used to command respect. It really did.
This post was first published on 3rd December 2006. Dr Grumble has republished it now because the public is now becoming aware of how recent government policies have damaged the nursing profession. The govermnent failed to recognise the value of proper nursing. Partly as a consequence, the distinction between medicine and nursing has been eroded. Roles and responsibilities need clear definition. Tooke has recognised this. Without this you get chaos. Caring for the acutely ill is a bit like fighting a war; proper command and control at ward level are essential. But command and control on the wards is a thing of the past.
Some people seem doubtful as to the veracity of Lord Mancroft's allegations. Dr Grumble can tell you that, in response to questionnaires, reports of nurses talking over patients are commonplace. The managers react by sending out a round robin telling people to behave. But what you really need is proper nursing by proper nurses.


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Ciudad del Este is a city in Paraguay. It is mainly a shopping destination for Brazilians and Argentinians. Apart from that the city is not very attractive.
Get in
The bus terminal is located around 1km South of the city center, a bit hidden behind the large sports stadium on Bernardino Caballero.
International Border Crossing
To leave Ciudad del Este back across the Friendship bridge one has three options.
1) Walk back across the bridge and wait in line at Brazilian immigration along with scores of people returning from Shopping.
2) Take a bus from the bus terminal that goes into Brazil or directly to Puerto Iguazu and wait in the long line of cars.
3) Hire a motorcycle to take you across the bridge through the line specifically for Motorcycles that is rarely ever stopped by immigration officials. This can be rather dangerous as the driver will weave in and out of incoming traffic. This option is by far the quickest and took the Author 3 minutes to get from one end of the Friendship Bridge on the Paraguayan side, to the other end of the bridge on the Brazilian side - Past immigration. Cost = 10 Argentine Pesos
Border Scams
If you are transiting Paraguay (not coming back across the same border the same day), you will have to go to the Paraguayan customs office just past the bridge. Citizens of Mercosur are granted entry just with their ID: others need a passport. The stories of bribings and scams in the Paraguayan customs offices are frequent. Make sure that you get everything that you are supposed to get when they check your passport and/or ID.
Those that handle them the ID should receive back, along with the ID, a formulary with the arrival stamp in it. If you're with the passport, you'll receive only the usual stamp on the page.
A common trick is not handing the stamped paper back with the ID; that way you cannot prove having legally entered the country. If so, you'll certainly be asked for money for the exit to be granted. So make sure you get the stamped paper at the border.
Get around
If you arrive with your own car make sure you find a parking lot (usually the local touts will lead you to one. However, if you do not feel comfortable with the situation you still can research a parking lot in advance as some of them have websites on the Internet.
There are many local city buses available, typically charging 2500 Gs. It is common and advisable to sit down without paying due to the number of people boarding and disembarking as well as the fast pace of traffic. The driver's assistant will come by eventually to collect your payment and make change.
Taxis are available, but are unmetered. Always agree on a price before getting inside. If possible, contact your hotel in advance to find out what the normal fares should be (20000-30000 Gs from the bus station to Hotel Austria or Hotel Munich for example). Taxi drivers commonly attempt to overcharge foreigners either by quoting an unreasonable fare up front, or claiming they had quoted a higher fare at the end of the trip. Paying with exact change or close to it will provide leverage in case the driver attempts to increase the fare at the end of the trip.
For the adventurous, motorcycles taxis are common and a fast way to move through the heavy traffic near the Puente de la Amistad bridge. Drivers are generally easy to spot due to their reflective shirts and should provide you with a helmet.
Shopping is the main business of the visitors. The main shopping streets are San Blas and Camilo Recalde, where you can buy about anything and everything. Many people come for electronics.
If you want to buy electronics such as cellphones or cameras, make sure you do this:
Ask to test the device if it works. Never give it back to the shopkeeper/assistant as that person might exchange the device with faulty versions or hand the box back filled with paper but not with what you just bought.
Due to the premium placed on street-front property, Ciudad del Este's eateries and dining establishments are commonly found inside multi-leveled shopping malls and are relatively scarce on the main street of San Blas.
As a consequence of considerable immigrant populations, Ciudad del Este has a diverse variety of ethnic food options that one can take advantage of. Arab food can be found off the main streets and in many shopping centers and typically serve good Shawarma/kebab to go. Chinese and Korean food restaurants can also be found. Your best bet is to ask a local to direct you to the nearest restaurant or eatery. Additionally, because of the large influx of Brazilian nationals that enter Ciudad del Este every day, the most popular restaurants are those which serve typical Brazilian fare and are easy to find.
For some of the better-looking Asian restaurants, try exploring the areas around the corner of Adrian Jara and Av Boqueron. Not far from the same area are some US style burger houses. Above the 'Area Iris' supermarket (corner of Av Pioneros del Este and Adrian Jara) is a good but relatively expensive Japanese restaurant. In the supermarket various foods and other supplies can be had. Outside the supermarket, cheap hotdogs are available (but ensure that the hotdogs are heated well and not merely warmed - and this heating advice is recommended for foods from all street vendors).
Many street vendors grill delicious and cheap asado at night on Cap. Miranda just north of the main route through town. A plate of asado with manioc is 10,000 Gs, and salad, bread, and a liter of beer can be had for an additional 10,000 Gs.
Vegetarians will have to ask around, but outside the city center there are a few vegetarian Chinese restaurants. Friends have reported that an Indian vegetarian restaurant called Gourangas is located behind the Municipalidad, not far from the city centre.
Like most businesses in Ciudad del Este, you can pay for food with Argentine, US, Paraguayan, or Brazilian currency and expect to receive change in the same currency used for payment.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
No Easy Answers
The main reason I didn't blog on it is because I honestly don't know what I think about that as a solution. We've had some innovative needle exchange programs here, bordering on legalizing drugs, actually did legalize some, and what can I tell you?
It hasn't stopped the crime at all. It hasn't meant all people have been helped either.
Now, James said in the comments, "But if we can stop thinking of these people as criminals, and start seeing them as victims, then perhaps we might try to help them a little more. But if we can stop thinking of these people as criminals, and start seeing them as victims, then perhaps we might try to help them a little more."
I'm not referring to it to argue with him. I refer to the comment because it's what made me think, about why I don't think this way. I don't see all drug addicts and prostitutes as victims. In my own mind I've never classified them that way unilaterally. Nor do I think I should.
It all goes back to some of my experiences years ago. And something about personal responsibility. This is one of the things I don't want to talk about at great length, but I knew a lot of people who became users, a lot of girls who weren't too far removed from street workers and, well, when I was assaulted as a teenager and finally forced to switch schools for my own safety, it was a group of girls more on the streets than not that did that.
The problem is, knowing them means I know a fair number of things. I saw them make victims of a lot of people. Thinking of them as victims? They were as much a victim as any of us were. I've never pretended here I had a particularly happy home life. Some of those girls had it better, some of those girls had it worse. End of the day we all made choices about how we were going to live our lives. I retreated into books and church. They started carrying, whoring and using.
Maybe it's completely unfair of me to see it that way. I don't know. But I know other people who've faced worse things in life than all those girls put together who didn't resort to becoming a drug addict. Victims, yes. And college graduates who are responsible taxpayers, raising families.
After four seasons of The Wire I'm not so sure I would be so quick to legalize drugs anymore. At least, if something like free zones were established they would have to be run differently. And here comes the problem: the police. Could I honestly blame any one of those officers assigned to watch that behaviour day in and day out for feeling sick? No.
The one thing you take with you watching The Wire is there are no easy answers. Not to the problems in our schools, in society, on the streets.
With the revelation that one of the arrested is a former special constable there will be new issues to be looked at, no doubt. Issues that eclipse the crimes and the victims in many respects.
It's my opinion that people still look on prostitutes as trash and that they're considered disposable. I'm not saying I agree with that. I don't. So I'm not prepared to call them all victims right off the top – really, it's a chicken-egg debate. Whatever put you on the street, sooner or later you're a victim. But often you're also a victimizer.
I don't have a problem with the idea of legalizing prostitution. I do have concerns with the idea of legalizing drugs. Should we give drug addicts the fix they need in rehab as we wean them off? For sure. Absolutely. But make it all legal?
I lived in Vancouver for years and would move back in a heartbeat, but not to the building I used to live in. One of the things I hated most about it was the serious migraines I got from second-hand marijuana. Legalize it and make all the criminal activity that goes with it go away, problem solved, right? Nope. Some problems solved, some new ones take their place. I mean, do I want to walk down the street and see people shooting up? Take the kids to the park and Mr. Jones is snorting coke over on the park bench and the kids all wave and smile?
We all mean pseudo-legalize, don't we? Minute that it become a normal acceptable activity we see out our front door we're going to think again, right? That's the whole reason it isn't legalized, I'd venture to say. It's the 'not in my back yard' mentality.
And no matter what any of us think about this from the perspective of intellectual debate, there's one critical thing we're forgetting.
A lot of these girls who end up on the streets don't want to be found. They're running. A number are underage. Some are criminals before they get there. They don't want to work someplace that they have to have a social insurance number and be registered as an employee at. That's the whole idea – they want to disappear.
No matter how well intentioned, how do you legislate around that?
To me, the root of addressing the problem comes a lot sooner. It's identifying what puts some of these kids on the street and stopping that from happening. There needs to be more intervention in our schools and through social services when people are being abused.
But even then, no easy answers. Maybe I'm too harsh in my opinions. I don't know. It's definitely something I'll wonder about today.
Okay, heavy serious topic that I have no conclusions on. Time to suggest a bit of holiday reading, filled with warm and good cheer. Bryon's flashing and it's a genius idea. The story, not the flashing.
21 comments:
The fact is, the so-called War on Drugs has been lost for a long time, and the people paying the price are not those using drugs but those stuck with the bill for paying for the war, which is most all of us.
The Morality War Against Sex has been losing for thousands of years too. The cost there is more subtle but more pernicious.
Legalizing drugs is not the same as legalizing people shooting up in your front yard. Alcohol, therapeutically more dangerous by any number of measures than marijuana, is legal for adults in the West, but we nonetheless have laws against public intoxication, driving under the influence, and disturbing the peace which cover the problems of having to confront it in places where we don't want to.
Prostitution is illegal because, for the most part, legislating scolds don't like the idea that anyone might be having sex. That's not stopping us.
Is teenage, pimp-battered prostitution a problem? Certainly, but that's a different problem from the question of whether consensual adults should be restricted from paying for sex from other consensual adults.
In the end, it's simply idiotic to legislate the ways people want to alter their moods or achieve sexual gratification.
What we can do is reasonably legislate where it happens. Right now, we are wasting billions of dollars in resources fighting battles that can't be won, and then we wonder why we can help a teen runaway who gets roped in by a violent pimp.
I advocate making most illicit drugs legal, controlled by the same laws that control alcohol use. Some drugs, I admit I would keep criminal, mostly drugs that tend to produce violent behaviors like PCP and methamphetamine. But pot? Give me a break. I'd rather run into a guy stoned on pot than a raging drunk any day of the week.
And the sex thing. Well, guess what? We all do it, and most of us like it. Many of us started young and will keep doing it as long as we can. The current approach to sexual legislation doesn't stop the sex, but it certainly has helped increase sexually-transmitted disease among our youth. The places in the United States where sexual legislation is the most draconian also shows the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STD. Duh.
- 12:14 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
I agree Bill - we are paying. We pay one way or the other.
My hesitation about saying it should be legalized - nice in theory - is not knowing if things will be any better on the other side of that, or if we'll just compound problems. In the scenario where girl runs away from abusive situation and doesn't want to be found, if she can't get work in a legalized brothel (because she's underage, can be tracked) then what does she do? Does she turn to robbery to stay alive? Or still end up working streets in a far more sinister fashion?
Legalize prostitution, but how far does it go? Will we turn a blind eye if the girl is 16? 15? 13? And what if what the customer wants is extreme? Will we open the doors to beastiality?
I think, ultimately, that's why this never becomes more than talk. Lines still have to be drawn. We aren't talking about erasing them. We're talking about moving them. And that raises all sorts of new questions about how far we move them and why we leave some things on the other side of the law and allow others.
It may be true that potheads are easier to deal with than a lot of drunks, but I still don't want to ingest the second-hand smoke, so how do you deal with that?
See, no matter how good the idea intellectually, there are always complications.
- 12:43 p.m.
- JamesO said...
When we were in New Zealand last year, going to the pub was a particularly pleasant experience because the Kiwis in their enlightened way had banned smoking in the workplace. Since the pub is someone's workplace, that meant no smoking. Similar, if rather muddled, legislation is now being introduced in England and Wales. Scotland already has it.
This doesn't stop people smoking in their houses, on the street, and in the communal areas of tenement buildings - which I guess is where your secondhand pot smoke beef comes from. But as Bill says, it's perfectly possible to limit the scope of legalisation - keeping drug use off the streets and prostitution to brothels. No, neither of these things will make all the world's ills go away. Yes the police will still have to deal with shit on a regular basis. But my main point, and the one I still come back to, is that at the moment banning the things society disapproves of costs a lot of money and does not have the desired effect. Legalising, taxing and controlling at least allows some revenue to be raised to try and educate people to change their habits.
There will always be people who don't want to be helped, who are running from something, who are too scared or too mentally instable to integrate normally with society. Legalising drugs and prostitution probably won't help them a great deal, but I doubt it will make things worse. And it could make things a great deal better for the majority of people.
- 12:58 p.m.
Bestiality is really a non-issue though. People still have consent. If I was a prostitute (lotsa laffs there) and someone wanted to do something I didn't want to do, it would be up to me to say it was off the menu. If they forced me, well, guess what? Rape is still rape. Where's the problem?
As for smoke, well, I don't like cigarette smoke, and nice for me I don't have to deal with it in restaurants anymore. But smoking remains legal (as it should be), and if I live somewhere where I can smell someone else's smoke from their home, in all honesty it's my problem. There's a point where we're just butting into other people's business. Maybe we don't approve, but too bad. We may be up to any number of things they don't approve of.
Girls who are underage (and boys too, which I see plenty of in the streets of Portland) are a problem now. They won't be less of a problem if adult prostitution is legal, but what we may have if we stop wasting resources legislating the so-called morality of consenting adults are resources to put into dealing with these other problems.
Sure it's complicated. But what we're doing now is complicated AND ALSO a resounding failure. Feeling uncomfortable about other people's sex lives is not a rational basis for public policy, nor is pretending alcohol and drugs are somehow fundamentally different. (You can go to jail for growing pot but Captain Morgan is advertised on television? Drug policy is spelled h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y.)
The reason this doesn't get discussed seriously is because scolds don't like people having sex or getting a buzz. Period. The lines aren't that hard to draw, but until people get over their sexual hang-ups and desperate need to interfere into other people's private lives, we'll continue to waste money and resources on non-existent problems as we wring our hands over our failure to protect the children.
(Can you tell I feel a bit of passion about this?)
- 1:10 p.m.
- John McFetridge said...
It's interesting you use the word, "solution." I was thinking about your blog yesterday and the idea of stories having "endings" and sequels, or series, or just characters that continue.
It's this idea of something being finished, over and done with, let's move on, that trips us up.
Bill's right, alcohol is legal and we have to deal with the consequences of that. In some parts of the world most drugs are legal and there are ongoing consequences. Same with prostitition. And, even where these things are legal and regulated and policed, there are still plenty of black market activities.
Laws might help in how we deal with the consequences, they might even have a small effect on the numbers, but you know, we have laws against murder, not really stopping it.
Usually someone has a six step idea and we install the first two steps, decide the next ones are too expensive and don't bother. Then it doesn't work and we say, oh look, that didn't work.
But whatever, the 'ending' is always tough.
- 1:17 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Nothing wrong with a bit of passion Bill. This is one of those things that I'm remarkably able to sit on the fence and mull over.
I just can't shake the idea of little Kevin running out into the yard and asking, "Mommy, what's he doing?" as the next door neighbour injects himself. And I don't care if I sound a bit morally reserved saying that - I grew up seeing a lot of things young kids don't often see and I didn't like it. I don't frequent bars or drink to excess precisely because I had enough of it as a kid. Solve some problems, yes. Open a new can of worms? Definitely. I mean, if it's legal to shoot up at home kids can't be removed from parents who are addicts, can they? You have to go on the slippery slope of proving negligence or outright abuse, and that...that's a bit of a pipe dream. Of course, the current system sucks and isn't addressing all the problems - I know people who were sexually abused who were returned to that environment by social services.
I just shudder to think that there are repercussions nobody's able to see on this side of the equation. But if you legalize it where does it go from there? If you realize the problems that come as a result are worse, can you go back?
That's why it doesn't change.
John, funny, I was just thinking about that case in Toronto where a woman from the US alleged she saw a man sexually abusing a child on a feed over the internet and he was arrested and charged. Of course, here we've been watching arrest after arrest for possession of child pornography. This is where I could get real nitpicky and go back to what Bill said in his first comment - In the end, it's simply idiotic to legislate the ways people want to alter their moods or achieve sexual gratification. and say, "Is it really idiotic?" Because there's a trade in underage girls, there's a trade in children.
Since you did so much internet porn research for Dirty Sweet John, maybe you can blog about your thoughts on the business?
- 1:35 p.m.
From working with the Rape Crisis Center for years, I can tell you rape is Not still rape when it comes to prostitutes in the eyes of our legal system. Many believe prostitutes Can't be raped, which shows you how little people think of women in that line of work. I think legalizing prostitution would just perpetuate the already rampant view of women as nothing but sex objects for men to use as they want and would actually Increase violence against women, let alone the message it'd send to young women in our country. Despite the fact that there are some men in prostitution, there's honestly not many compared to the amount of women in it and so I still see it as crime against women by taking advantage of women in trouble and struggling by sexually using them. It'd be a sad day indeed if our government reinforced this age old sexism.
- 1:44 p.m.
I think you're unreasonably and unfairly conflating consensual sexual behavior between adults and child sexual predation. Decriminalizing prostitution among adults is not the same as okaying pedophilia. I've never utilized a prostitute myself, but I have friends who have, both legally in places like Germany and Nevada, and illegally. None of them are pedophiles, and none of them are interested in the "child trade."
And legalizing heroin (for example) and allowing it in public are two different things. Most municipalities now have laws against public drinking, even though alcohol is legal. Legalizing drugs doesn't automatically mean we have to allow heroin users to camp on our doorsteps, just as we don't allow drunks to do the same.
In practical terms, I wouldn't argue for a blanket shift from "everything that makes people feel good is illegal to everything that makes people feel good is legal" anyway. Phased decriminalization of morality crimes over time, with resources diverted from law enforcement to regulation, then shifted to more pressing problems. How much money would we have to, for instance, combat child pornography and "the child trade" if we stopped wasting it on adult prostitution law enforcement and "abstinence" programs?
- 1:59 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Hmmm. Although Mai Wen has raised some interesting, thought-provoking points. And it wasn't so long ago that people still thought a wife couldn't be raped.
Has anyone published studies on Amsterdam and assessed whether their 'solution' works?
Oh, and John, part of what I meant about 'solution' was the idea that legalizing prostitution would protect them from killers like this guy in the UK (hence referring to the arrest later). I didn't do a good job of explaining that in my post, although it made more sense if people read James' post.
But my mind was elsewhere this morning, and still is, I'm afraid.
So... now I have more in the mix to think about. Yes, the fence hurts a bit. Interesting discussion, though.
- 2:03 p.m.
- angie said...
Legalizing prostitution (and drugs) is not that same as legalizing rape, bestiality, public intoxication, drunk driving, robbery, assault, etc. Frankly, I'm much less concerned with the alcohol abuse/addiction than I am with the crime of driving intoxicated & killing someone. I'm really annoyed when intoxication is seen as an aggravating factor - does it make it worse that the wife beater is drunk, or is it an excuse? I would think the crime is what's important.
My biggest beef is the whole "prostitutes are victims" thing. That's just insulting to the women who are sex workers - and an extreme oversimplification of the wide variety of reasons that women become prostitutes. It also suggests that prostitutes are incapable of having control of their lives or choices. Um, sorry. Not buying it.
Is it a dangerous way to make a living? Yes. Is it a job that usually results in less protection in term of the law? Yes. Does that mean all prostitutes are victims? No.
Underage hookers and runaways are an issue only tangentially related to the concept of legalizing prostitution. Linking the two is a great way to muddy the water. Kids who do not want to go home - for whatever reason - will find a way to survive within or without the confines of the law. I don't see how legalization of prostitution will overtly help or harm this already untenable situation.
- 2:23 p.m.
- JamesO said...
"I think legalizing prostitution would just perpetuate the already rampant view of women as nothing but sex objects for men to use as they want and would actually Increase violence against women, let alone the message it'd send to young women in our country."
In many ways, it is the view that is the problem here, mai wen, not the fact that prostitution is illegal or legal.
Perhaps I am naive in hoping that a legalised sex-trade would go some way towards changing this misogynist viewpoint. A prostitute should have as much right to say no to a punter as a girl in a nightclub has to a bloke trying to hit on her. They should be equal in the eyes of the law with the church-going mother of three who is attacked and raped in the park, which is to say in all these cases if the man forces himself on the woman without her consent, then he is guilty of rape.
Of course, all three cases are treated differently today, and that is a completely different problem to the one of legalisation of the sex trade. At least if prostitution took place in well-regulated brothels and to well-understood rules, then it would be harder for a man to argue that what he did was or wasn't rape.
- 3:50 p.m.
- John McFetridge said...
yeah, Amsterdam. Right now they have the same problem as many other cities - women brought in from eastern Europe to work illegally as prostitutes. They undercut the price of the legal prostitutes in Amsterdam.
Any change is going to be hard. Laws usually follow years behind social morals, which are changing. It's usually two steps forward, one step back.
But people do get passionate about it and that's good. More talk, more stuff out in the open, more information, it all helps.
And as for my research on internet porn, well, that's for another day.
- 4:22 p.m.
Hoo! Talk about a can of worms!
Excellent post title, Sandra. You're right. There are no easy answers. So here's me tossing my own grenade into the fray. ;-)
As George Carlin said, "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?"
Legalizing drugs or prostitution won't solve the problems, but I do think it will help.
Legalization does not mean unregulated. Just because it's legal doesn't mean that the crack-head shooting up in your backyard is in the right. It's like cars. Driving is legal. Driving on the sidewalk is not.
One of the reasons, and I admit only one as this is a hugely complex issue with lots of opinions on all sides, that drugs and prostitution are so lucrative comes down to a simple equation of supply and demand.
Product X is illegal and therefore difficult to come by. Product X, however, also has high demand. People want it because they like it, and, in a little twist of psychology, it is now verboten, and we all know the allure of forbidden fruit.
That equation makes product X expensive. Really expensive. High risk for the manufacturers, the transporters, the sellers. The costs go down and down the line because everyone wants a cut and the market will bear the exorbitant prices. And because there is so much money to be had, untaxable, untraceable money, a lot of people are vying for control of the same markets. A lot of people with guns. Because, you know, those are illegal, too, and if you're heading down one road of laceny, what's the problem with adding another?
If you look at the heads of the Mexican Cartels you'll find men who could easily be running Fortune 500 companies. In essence, they are. They just don't have the SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley to contend with. In order to make the profits they're making they need their product to be in high demand and low supply. Hence, they need it to be illegal. Legalizing it, regulating it, taxing it would undercut their business model.
Once the profits start to dry up people will move onto other, more lucrative venues. Some legit, some not. The same thing happened when prohibition was repealed. A lot of people made a lot of money in a few years and then it all disappeared. They moved to other venues. Like politics.
Legalization and regulation is really no different than what is being done today. It's just a shift. Reduce the sentences for certain things and increase the sentences for others. The crack-head in the backyard's going to get a pretty stiff penalty. But if it's a guy smoking weed in his basement, what's the problem?
It won't get rid of the problem, but it will move a lot of them problem people out of the market. It's not a black or white issue. Not everything should be made legal. Some things are simply too dangerous to a lot of people. If you've got a substance that causes a high rate of psychotic episodes, you're probably not going to want to relax the regulations for it.
There are ways to make it work. Relax some of the sentences and fines for some drugs. Make them more available. Tax them. Use that money to pay for programs to ensure that people can control it. A habit is one thing, an addiction is something else. Instead of focusing on a punishment to control it, focus on things that keep people from making it a problem in their life in the first place.
Prostitution, though, is a different matter.
Prostitution as it exists today in most of the U.S. is a sticky issue (heh). But it's less the source of problems, and more of a symptom.
A professional sex worker who has chosen the job and is confident that he or she will be protected in that line of work is a very different person than the homeless woman giving $5.00 blowjobs in an Andy Gump on Skid Row.
Let's start with that second woman.
The problem isn't the blowjobs. The problem is that she's homeless. Maybe she's insane. Maybe she's selling herself to buy crack that's been cut with rat poison because it's cheaper and she can get more of it. She can't get a place to stay. When she goes to the hospital they won't hold her on a 5150 because the line's out the door and there are screaming GSW's in the hallways. Easier just to pack her up and have the County Sheriff drop her over on 5th and San Pedro with all the rest of the outcasts. If she's lucky the Midnight Mission might have a bunk for the night. If she's luckier she'll wake up the next day. Maybe.
You don't solve that by making prostitution legal or illegal. It's outside that and irrelevant. You solve that by helping people and instituting programs to get people to turn their lives around, or get the psychiatric care they need or the boost to get out of a bad situation.
But what about the professional who chooses the job because it's what he or she wants to do?
All moral and religious arguments aside, all questions on an individual's psychology and exploitation left alone, there is only one logical problem with unregulated prostitution. Disease.
The adult film industry out here in Los Angeles had an AIDS scare a couple of years ago. Some of the actors tested positive. The industry did what it could, halting productions across the southland and forcing everyone to come back in three months with a negative result. Well, the more visible ones did, at any rate. The thing is the industry did it itself, as there is no regulating body that oversees it.
Part of their solution was PR spin of course, but it heightened awareness in certain circles that this was a real problem. Not that it wasn't already known. Long before that some production companies, and even actors, were enforcing the use of condoms in their films.
Some good things have ultimately come out of this, though. Like SXCheck a program put together by the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation, which has partnered with a health lab to allow inexpensive STD exams. It's not a solution, but it's all they've got.
Nevada has had a lot of success with legalized prostitution. Any county that wants to allow legal prostitution can do so. Many of them do. Sex workers are required to get regular medical exams and the places of businesses are overseen by the state. Granted, how effectively is something else entirely. It's still a government agency with its own problems.
The point is, though, that they regulate it. Workers are protected like any other worker. The incidents of rape and violence are reduced substantially. Sorry, I don't have numbers to back that up. Still looking.
Like drugs, legalizing prostitution isn't about giving free rein. It's about doing it intelligently and about regulating it such that the people who engage in it are protected. There are still lines that need to be drawn, but I think those lines are too rigidly defined right now to be effective in protecting the people they are ostensibly designed to protect.
- 4:33 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Stephen, why didn't you email me that? You could have guest blogged for tomorrow!
Definitely with you on the issue of disease. Sounds like there are some models in place with prostitution that make it look like a positive to legalize it.
You make good points about the homelessness and other aspects that go with prostitution and drug use. One of the things that happened in the GVA (greater Vancouver area) when they closed one of the mental hospitals was that those people had nobody regulating their meds anymore and they were fine on meds, but off they weren't able to function. So they ended up on the street, addicts, homeless, robbing and doing whatever to keep going. Looking at prostitution or drug use in isolation won't lead to answers, because some people lump all the street violence/crime into those categories and tend to think that if you legalize the biggies all the other issues go away.
And the issues of homelessness and the insane won't go away if you legalize the drugs and prostitution. So, going back to the seed that started it all on James' blog (the recent murders in the UK) legalizing prostitution might get those ladies off the street, but it doesn't get all women off the street. As others have said, legalizing prostitution doesn't eliminate the blackmarket. Interesting about Amsterdam - I guess the brothel overhead is enough to make a lot of people go for the back alley discount, and what that means is that you're left with some of the same problems you started with.
It's enough to give a person a headache.
- 5:44 p.m.
"So, going back to the seed that started it all on James' blog (the recent murders in the UK) legalizing prostitution might get those ladies off the street, but it doesn't get all women off the street. As others have said, legalizing prostitution doesn't eliminate the blackmarket."
True. There will always be people who fall through the cracks. The trick is to make the cracks actual cracks, not gaping chasms. You can't save everybody. Hell, you can't save anybody, but we might as well try to help them save themselves.
We have an enormous problem here in Los Angeles with homelesness and poverty with people being dumped in Skid Row because no one wants to deal with them. There was a proposition passed (63? I don't remember) to give more money to the city for mental health facilities. That's all well and good, but it only solves a small part of the problem. And that's only if it's used effectively.
Poverty and drug use are the bigger issues. Then throw in the gangs dealing the drugs and exploiting people already too far gone to protect themselves. They;re selling heroin outside of methadone clinics. And the scary thing is that the place has improved since the LAPD increased their presence.
- 6:01 p.m.
if I live somewhere where I can smell someone else's smoke from their home, in all honesty it's my problem. There's a point where we're just butting into other people's business.
I am afraid I must disagree with Bill here. The cardinal rule of all civilized societies is "Do what you want as long as no one else is hurt"
So if you want to smoke pot, you are free to smoke it in your home. Millions of people are more than likely doing it already. But if you open a window and your smoke drifts into my house, then you have broken the sacred rule.
Whenever someone claims that they have the right to engage in a behavior in public, such as drug use, what is actually being inferred is their rights are superior to mine.
There is a non-smoking bylaw being enacted in Calgary that prohibits smoking in any public place. Is that unfair to smokers? Yes. But do they have the right to smoke wherever they want? No. Second-hand smoke causes negative health effects on others. I mean, can it be rationally argued that my right to engage in a behavior is more important than the fact I am shorten someone else's life when I do it?
We have the right to have privacy and to do pretty much whatever turns our crank in our own home, but that is where it ends.
As for prostitution, until the day that all men and women involved in it can say they are in it because it was a career choice and not homelessness or drug addition that is driving it, we need to chart a careful course. I have know men in the past who sought out prostitutes from high class escort agencies. Should they be arrested? I don't think so. But when the same man travels three blocks over and picks up a crack addicted prostitute, he knows that she is not a career woman but an outcast of society. The reality is that if there was no demand for street prostitution, it would disappear. The sad reality is that if it was legalized, the street prostitution would more than likely go underground and attract a certain kind of man who would want 'special things' that are best not described here.
And if you are drug addicted or homeless, you might find it very hard to say no.
- 8:30 p.m.
evil kev, perhaps I can elaborate on my smoking point, and then either we'll continue to disagree or I will have explained myself better.
First off, I don't like smoke either. I completely support the no smoking in public places legislation that has been enacted and continues to gain ground is many locales for the very reasons you cite.
Regarding the smelling "someone else's smoke from their home," well, we've reached a point where my desires in the public space have collided with someone else's desires in their private space. Right now, in the summer, when my neighbor smokes on his back porch I can smell it while I'm out in the yard. I don't like it, but it's his home. Smoke that might drift my way when the breeze is out of the southwest, but not when its out of the east might bother me, but I have to, I believe, respect his right to smoke on his own property. What if he's a vegetarian and doesn't like the smell of me barbecuing on those days when the breeze is out of the east. It's smoke too, with its share of carcinogens.
Perhaps you would argue there should be no smoking at all. I don't know. And there might be a reasonable case made that the social costs of smoking would merit such a ban. I certainly wouldn't miss the secondhand smoke, but I think such a decision would be draconian and and unreasonable interference into an individual's right to make personal decisions within his or her domain.
For me, I have choices. If the smoke bothers me enough, I can ask him to smoke elsewhere. In fact we've discussed that, and while he's a nice guy who wants to be accomodating, he happens to enjoy a smoke on his back porch. Further, I could forgo the backyard in the warmer months, or move.
But I think, honestly, I would be out of line to interfere with his desire to smoke in his own home, whatever I think about it. He's already restricted just about anywhere in public. His home, no matter how I feel about the blowback, should remain, at least, his sanctuary from restrictions.
- 9:43 p.m.
- S. W. Vaughn said...
Oooh, I saw prostitution! :-) Let's legalize it. Hell, let's legalize everything! The system is fucked anyway! Woo!
-S.W., who is running on far too little sleep these days. Hey, Sandra, I'm OK now -- wanna send me some stuff? *G*
- 9:30 a.m.
- Trace said...
It is about personal choice. I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, to put it lightly. Many of the kids I grew up with spent time in prison. Not just jail. Prison. I'm lucky I'm not one of them. I'm lucky I had a brother who encouraged my writing at an early age, and who told me that I had a choice about who I wanted to be.
- 9:40 a.m.
- JamesO said...
And of course if you ban smoking totally, Bill, the smokers don't go away. They are forced underground where their addiction is fed by the same people hawking heroin outside methadone clinics. And you create another class of criminal at the same time.
'Care in the community' they so cleverly called it over here when they closed all the asylums and forced the mentally ill onto the streets in a bid to save money. Legalising prostitution and drugs is not going to do anything for these people, but how we deal with them humanely and safely is a whole other can of worms. Perhaps a rant for another day.
- 10:03 a.m.
Here, here, evil kev! Very well said, I totally agree with you!
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Patrick Greene necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a simple, stylish web design for a project we are starting at http://www.answerservice.com. The site will be a question/answer similar to a forum where people can ask technical questions and get answers by experts.
Our target audience is the general public. Specifically people that are not very technically savvy and need help with computer questions etc.
We want the page to be Google easy - a no brainer. Most people visiting the site are not techy.
* Web must be "web 2.0" ish, easy to use, similar to 99 designs and other referenced sites below.
* Must utilize attached logo file
* Must follow color scheme of logo
* Design should be easily deconstructable into HTML - we do not want a page that is heavy on images, we would like something designed that uses images sparsely and as many "simple" style contructs (e.g. borders, colors, fonts) as possible so that it loads very quickly and is easy to transition into HTML/CSS
* Design should be a center layout with a fixed width, centered content (e.g. 800px). Width should be chosen so that all screen resolutions will be able to handle it without scrolling. Left and right will fill with blank space (or solid color) based on additional screen width.
* Design should utilize the colors in the logo and one or two additional complementary colors.
* PSD file delivered should be divided into layers so that we can transition easily into an HTML layout.
Please see the attached document containing layout details and a very very basic wireframe. Don't feel forced to structure like the wireframe, it's just an idea.
We do not currently have a web site - you are designing the brand new one.
this site makes great use of colors, borders, etc. to avoid having a bunch of images for style. The only real image on this site is the logo - we aren't saying to be that extreme, but you get the idea
Beautiful site that we love the design of. The fonts are great.
Another simple, clean, web 2.0 ish site. Fonts are great. We like how vimeo's main content is in a separate color (white) from the header/left/right.
Great center-page layout. Good colors and fonts.


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Yesterday, I went to a Christmas meal at my grandma's wearing the playsuit above.
It comes in wine red or black, however I believe both are now sold out (boo, I wanted the red). Although it is an extortionate amount of money for such a small piece, I do love how it looks.
My complaints would be about the back of the piece, which I have not shown here. It has the most awkward way of being put on and taken off, including two separate clasps on the mid and high back (which I am awful at explaining) as well as a zip on the shorts. This trio makes it almost impossible to go to the toilet/get dressed/get undressed on your own (as if normal playsuits weren't hair enough)! I'm considering sewing some elastic into the back so I can slip it on and off instead.
Oh well, beauty is pain and all that.


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LAB 44 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 158 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
o See our complete creative brief in the file attached (PDF document)
o See our photos thanks to the following link : http://www.box.net/shared/5lz4zuzoij
o Feel free to use also public photos you can find on the web.
IMPORTANT to consider the Ratings System:
0 star - Not in accordance with our brief
1 star - Some brief's requirements are missing, but idea is there !
2 star - We like it, but it could be enhanced.
3 star - Customer is watching you
4 star - Good work ! You have reach the top ten shortlist
5 star - You belong to the very last selection.
o The target is international and all ages
o create one homepage
o create one inner page showing one of the four moment of the day (lunch time here). To illustrate the menus, feel free to add pictures you find on public libraries.
o Give priority to large, or very large images (as a backgroud) to tell about the atmosphere.
o Use colours : warm colours that create a nice atmosphere
o The website has to be practical oriented as well as visual oriented.
o The navigation has to be very logical, very simple, and design
o As far as font is concerned, "Light Regular" font is an option.
o Integrate the existing logo "Dupont Café" in the design (the image of the logo is attached with the other files).


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Welcome to FENSA - a government authorised Competent Person Scheme for the replacement of windows, doors, roof windows and roof lights in England and Wales against the relevant Building Regulations
FENSA works with thousands of double glazing contractors in England and Wales who have been assessed for their ability to install replacement windows and doors in accordance with the relevant Building Regulations.
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KS01it necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
01 IT, Inc.
01 IT, Inc. is a small IT company which specializes in hardware/software installation, computer troubleshooting, and systems integration, among a variety of other services. Our focus is on quality of service, with an emphasis on explaining the issues and solutions in terms the consumer can easily understand.
Our slogan is "fast. friendly. sensible. SOLUTIONS." If you can incorporate all of it, great. However, using just the "SOLUTIONS" portion works just fine as well. We'd like the business card to reflect a sort of playfulness, indicating that while the work is taken seriously, we like to have fun and be approachable to the customer at the same time. Think "Cheers" on this one - "You wanna go where everybody knows your name." The founder takes great pride in providing personalized service on an individual level, and we'd like our materials to convey this at a glance. Please be creative, we can't wait to see what you come up with!
The bulk of our clients are in the manufacturing and healthcare industries, centered in Orange County, CA. Our clients span from working middle class engineers to wealthy Dr. offices in some of OC's most affluent neighborhoods. The business card design needs to have a uniqueness to it, that will appeal to both ends of that large spectrum, as well as to any potential new clients in other industries that come our way.


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New Website, New Clubs, and Teens Crying Out to God For Their School —all stories by Bob Heath
New Website:
Having your website "hacked" is a very upsetting experience. About a month ago I became aware that something was really wrong with the ministry email accounts. I had no idea that for roughly four months before that the KFCUSA website had been violated. The individuals or group that did it stole all our email addresses and had been sending spam of all sorts. Something like four million people received mail from KFCUSA addresses stating that they had won the British lottery. As a result, we have moved our email and website to separate servers. The upside is that we have a new website with a new look and a lot more capability.
Communication is a big deal to me, and as you may know, I have worked for years to find new ways to communicate with you, our partners and friends. Our Facebook group is up to about 1400 people now, most of which are not on our enews list. We teamed up with Tatango: a text messaging system for groups like us. For use when urgent updates when needed. The deal is, I believe you can reach everybody you want to reach if you can find their communication "hot button"; so we have made signing up for all three lists easy -- from the home page of our site. Please take just a minute to sign up while you're looking over the new site.
New Clubs:
Since we began to grow nationally, I had dreamed of assisting someone in my birth state of Michigan. We have come close many times in different cities around the state. Well, I am thrilled to announce that not only did we assist a lady in Michigan, but in the city of my birth! Can you imagine? I was born on April Fools Day in Kalamazoo, MI and the first club we are associated with in Michigan was launched in the same city!
Our parent sponsor, Regina, is proof of the power of Facebook. We connected on Facebook, I shared the basic concepts with her via messages and a couple phone calls. Next thing I know she is getting permission to start from the principal of her children's school.
On October 7, they had their first club and all the kids there "had a blast"! She reports that, "The computer in the room wasn't working, so we had to "old school" it and do everything with me teaching. I had put everything on cds and dvds and did a PowerPoint presentation, but we can do that next time. The kids still had fun and learned about the Word. They enjoyed snacks, singing, hearing the word, playing games, winning prizes and praying. They all said they will bring more friends next week (especially since they get a prize for bringing one!). We are very excited about the positive response from the school and the parents. The school staff is happy to see us, even at 7:50 in the morning!"
Then this week, the mom I have been working with in Bettendorf, IA is ready to get started too. This was an internet connection as well. What is so awesome about these new clubs starting is that they are proof that anybody can do this. You don't need me to come to your city, preach, train, meet with your team: You can read my book and then we can talk by phone and internet and you can make it happen. DON'T get me wrong -- I love to travel and pour this vision into congregations, but together we can reach every school in the USA faster as a grassroots-type movement. There are other cities we are talking to and believing God to get kicked off real soon, as well as some new ones here in our own hometown.
Teens Crying Out to God For Their School:
If you have spoken with me in the past year, you know I have been looking forward to this school year with GREAT ANTICIPATION for some time. You see every year since we began back in 2001, I am asked about "long-term fruit". In other words "How can I be sure this is really making a difference?" The comment was usually made by some condescending individual who was trying to make some kind of point to me.
Well for the past couple years I have been watching a wave build slowly as the students in the classes of 2010-13 reached High School age in the district in which we began years ago. They are doing as I dreamed they would 8 ½ years ago: they are running the club in spectacular fashion!
Every week I can hardly wait till Friday so I can sit in the corner and watch them: ITS AWESOME!!!! They are free from their family's denominational differences, oblivious to the clicks they run with, and are absolutely in love with and hungry for God.
Just a couple weeks ago I spoke briefly to one of the groups and proceeded to get out of the way and watch as they dove into worship. There were 67 teens in that room 45 minutes before school began, but when they began to worship it sounded like twice that. They sang, and literally cried out to God for their school. I had to leave to go speak at an elementary school at 8 AM, but as I left they were still worshipping.
Later that day during his lunch hour my son (one of the club leaders) called me. He asked me when I left and I informed him 8 o'clock. He responded, "DAD you missed it! Right after you left we circled up and prayed for our school and the kids across this city". He went on and said, "Some kids were loud, some were quiet, some were crying, it was awesome! Then when the first bell rang at 8:10 nobody wanted to leave, we just kept praying. We quit just before the second bell. (THE TARDY BELL) We were all headed to the office to get tardy slips because we knew we were going to be late. As we walked an announcement was made over the intercom that due to some special practice the ROTC kids were doing, NO ONE was to be counted late until 8:30"! It was like God got them a prayer pass.
I had a leader from two other school districts tell me last week that the same thing is happening in their schools. Keep watching, because I expect to be writing about these kids again.
Please continue to pray and support us, as I truly believe and expect this year to be amazing! If I hadn't blabbered on and on I would share more from the elementary schools, so be watching for updates.--bob


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October 11, 2017, 10:16 am
Hornets guard Michael Carter-Williams (knees) will not be ready for opening night on October 18th.
Coach Steve Clifford said there is, "no way," Carter-Williams will be ready for the opener which sounds like he could miss significant time. The young guard had stem cell therapy and both knees and has not yet been cleared for contact. In the meantime Julyan Stone and Malik Monk could both handle backup point guard duties behind Kemba Walker. Monk is the only fantasy relevant play due to the vast amount of shots he takes when playing. Minutes have also opened up behind Jeremy Lamb at the two with Nic Batum's elbow injury which could further Monk's playing time. You can grab Monk as a flier in the later rounds of your draft.
Fantasy News
February 22, 2019, 1:53 amAustin Rivers - G - Houston Rockets
Austin Rivers scored five points on 2-of-7 shooting with a rebound, a steal and a 3-pointer against the Lakers on Thursday.
Rivers was probable with a right elbow injury and played through it and logged 22 minutes. Now that he's a backup point guard there isn't any value to squeeze out of Rivers from a fantasy standpoint.
February 22, 2019, 1:45 amLeBron James - F - Los Angeles Lakers
LeBron James led the Lakers in their 111-106 comeback win over the Rockets on Thursday with 29 points on 11-of-23 shooting to go with his 11 rebounds, six assists, a steal and a block.
James activated "playoff mode" which is sweet music to his owners. A playoff season without LeBron is unheard of and he's going to do everything in his power to drag the Lakers into the picture. The first half of the game he was lethargic and almost disinterested, but you could tell the moment he snapped into focus that he was going to bring the heat. He had a beautiful statue of liberty dunk you can find all over Twitter and went 7-for-10 at the line which is the only blemish from his night. It's going to be fun watching him power his way through the home stretch of the season.
February 22, 2019, 1:42 amBrandon Ingram - F - Los Angeles Lakers
Brandon Ingram scored 27 points on 8-of-16 shooting with 13 rebounds and an assist against the Rockets on Thursday.
The scoring is nice and he's finally playing to his strengths by taking the ball to the hoop and drawing fouls, but his line is actually empty when you take another look. He went 11-for-14 at the line which is impressive considering he's a .660 free throw shooter on the year, but no peripheral stats and one assist leaves a lot to be desired.
February 22, 2019, 1:41 amJosh Hart - G - Los Angeles Lakers
Josh Hart returned to action on Thursday and scored four points on 2-of-3 shooting with two rebounds and an assist.
He missed the previous two games before returning tonight. Hart came off the bench and logged 19 minutes and as it stands there isn't enough playing time for him to play to establish himself a standard league asset. Even with Lonzo Ball (ankle) out, Hart is taking a backseat to Reggie Bullock (14 points, five rebounds, an assist, a steal and four 3-pointers) and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (six points, three rebounds, a steal and two triples) because Coach Walton likes their ability to spread the floor.
February 22, 2019, 1:39 amJaVale McGee - C - Los Angeles Lakers
JaVale McGee scored 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting with six rebounds, an assist and two blocks on Thursday.
McGee logged 20 minutes as the Lakers opted to spread the floor with LeBron James. As long as he plays 20 minutes or more, McGee is good for some boards and a couple of blocks which is what we're expecting from him anyways.
February 22, 2019, 1:38 amKyle Kuzma - F - Los Angeles Lakers
Kyle Kuzma scored 18 points on 6-of-13 shooting with six rebounds, five assists, a steal, a block and two 3-pointers on Thursday.
Kuzma's shooting touch is back and he's playing well alongside LeBron James. He's one of the few dependable Lakers players on the perimeter and his value is high right now, but it remains to be seen if he can keep this up alongside James and the rest of the Lakers so a sell-high wouldn't be a bad idea.
February 22, 2019, 1:37 amTyson Chandler - C - Los Angeles Lakers
Tyson Chandler grabbed a rebound in six minutes of action on Thursday.
He missed the last game before the All-Star Break and was questionable to play due to a neck injury and saw the floor for six minutes. Coach Walton kept a tight rotation tonight and the Rockets were running with lineups that were a bit too quick for him.
February 22, 2019, 1:35 amJames Harden - G - Houston Rockets
James Harden scored 30 points on 11-of-24 shooting with five rebounds, six assists, two steals and two 3-pointers against the Lakers on Thursday.
Harden had three fouls within the first quarter which threw him off his game, but he was still able to rack up the points and keep his 30-point scoring streak alive. His 3-point shot was off tonight and he was called for four offensive fouls which is an anomaly considering he's usually on the other end of those calls. Even on his bad nights, the Beard drops a full line so owners can't complain too much even if it's hard after being spoiled for a month.
February 22, 2019, 1:34 amChris Paul - G - Houston Rockets
Chris Paul nearly triple-doubled on Thursday with 23 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists while chipping in a steal, a block and three 3-pointers.
Paul looked great against the Lakers and he had a little extra lift in his bounce tonight. The 3-point shot was on point for him as he went 3-for-5 from deep and also 9-for-15 from the floor. He's struggled with shooting efficiency all season so hopefully this is a sign of things to come.
February 22, 2019, 1:33 amClint Capela - C - Houston Rockets
Clint Capela returned to action on Thursday against the Lakers and scored 12 points with 11 boards and a block.
He went 6-for-9 from the floor and logged 33 minutes which means there's no minutes restriction for the big fella. Go plug him into your lineups with confidence as the Rockets gear up for their playoff seeding push.


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Green Star Schools®: Zero Waste Certification Program for Private Schools
Many private and charter schools have expressed an interest in becoming a Green Star School®. In response, Eco-Cycle launched its Green Star Schools- Zero Waste Certification Program in the spring of 2011. Through this program, Eco-Cycle provides significant assistance in establishing Zero Waste practices, procedures and education for private/charter school communities for an initial fee and a yearly recertification fee. Learn more about our Green Star Schools program.
Eco-Cycle will help private schools customize their Zero Waste efforts to reflect school culture and projects already in place. Recertification involves school documentation of Zero Waste practices and an Eco-Cycle audit of the facility.
Green Star Schools®: Certified Private Schools in Boulder County
Lyons Community Montessori
Lyons, Colorado
Certified in 2011 - 2012
"The key thing I have noticed about this new (Green Star Schools) program is that we are only using two trash cans as opposed to three and a half or four! If we can keep this up, I can reduce my trash cost down to two cans!"
– Laurie Kennedy, Director of Lyons Commmunity Montessori
Shining Mountain Waldorf School
Boulder, Colorado
Certified in 2011 - 2012
"Thank you, Eco-Cycle! We couldn't have asked for a better partner in our quest to reduce our school's waste stream and eventually be Zero Waste (or darn close!). Nancy 's and Eco-Cycle's great technical and educational support have already taken us to the next level, and we look forward to years of great collaboration to come."
– Pete Chandler, Shining Mountain Waldorf School Sustainability Coordinator
Aspen Academy
Greenwood Village, Colorado
Certified in 2012 - 2013
"Aspen Academy is proud to work with Eco-Cycle in our quest to become a Zero Waste school. The students are motivated to make it happen, and our third grade students are leading the charge to help our school become an educated community on living green."
– Carly Partridge, Director of Service Learning
Mountain Shadows Montessori
Boulder, Colorado
Certified in 2012 - 2013
Boulder Country Day School
Boulder, Colorado
Certified in 2015-2016
Watershed School
Boulder, Colorado
Certified in 2016-2017
"Eco-Cycle's Green Star School program has inspired our community to be more conscious of our surroundings. We learned what is compostable, recyclable and what is waste, but more importantly, we learned how our school motto – Respect yourself. Respect others. Take responsibility for your actions. – can be applied to the way in which we care for our environment. I couldn't be more proud to be leading a school with this in mind."
– John H. Suitor III, Head of School
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Hello everyone,
I'm looking for a stainless steel bento box suitable for an adult male. I'm athletic and I probably consume my major meal around lunch time so it should be on the larger size (I tend to eat sparsely at breakfast and dinner).
Non-leaking is important, it will be in a bag with my laptop!
I'm looking for stainless steel for environmental reasons, but also because my dog's favorite thing to do is try to eat tupperware containers left in the sink. With steel at least he cannot cause much damage. Also I find tupperware tends to become stained pretty easily from sauces and grease adheres to it.
I'm not much of a bento-traditionalist, if that matters. My bento is just as likely to filled with baby carrots, pita and hummus as onigiri and kinpira.
Thank you
This one http://www.to-goware.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=51 is 6.5 cups of stainless steal food carrying. But is sizable enough to need it's own bag (depending on what you carry your laptop around in). When I pack this one it's usually for myself and my daughter to share.
I have this one http://www.veryasia.com/slb-1000.html is flat and claims to be 1000ml. It's much to big for me to pack for myself but probably the best option for a sizable manlunch. =^.^= I wrap it in a cloth when I send it with my boy, but that's mostly drip paranoia. I wouldn't put soup in it though.
This one http://smilinggreenmom.com/2010/03/planetbox-eco-lunch-kit-review/ is also flat but likely too small. Unless you went out of your way to pack it with super calorie dense foods... which seems silly.
Thank you! That Very Asia one looks like just the ticket, I'll wait till they have them back in stock.
The reviews of the eco-lunchbox made it sound pretty small and flimsy.
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Updated 12:15 p.m. PDT with quotes from a press conference following the announcements.
As Google looks to extend its empire to the living room, it's already lined up some heavy hitters in the consumer electronics world as allies.
On Thursday at the Google I/O conference the company announced its strategy for intermingling TV and the Web in home electronics via a platform dubbed Google TV. It's a technology that will be built into TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, and other devices that will allow people to do things like use Google Search to find videos from the Web and whoever your channel service provider is, as well as watch full-screen YouTube videos, find shows on Hulu, buy TV shows on Amazon on Demand, among others.
The first partners include Sony, Dish Network, and Logitech. All of them plan to have their first Google TV-based products in stores by fall. Best Buy is going to be the first retailer to sell them.
Sony will have both a TV and a set-top box with Google's Android-based technology. The Sony Internet TV and a set-top with a Blu-ray Disc drive will go on sale in the fall. No price was provided.
"This will create whole new content experiences that can only be imagined," said Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, in a press conference after the event. Sony already offers an oddly-named service called "Qricocity" for linking Internet-delivered movies to big-screen TVs, but Stringer thinks that the Google TV software can offer a much wider range of content because of the ease of switching between traditional television and the Web.
Dish Network will be handling the integration slightly differently. The satellite provider says any Google TV device can be plugged into their Dish Network receiver over HDMI and then use the Google TV search feature to find Dish content along with Web content and then save to their Dish DVR. Dish says its software will be updated on all its HD DVR receivers sometime this fall.
However, Dish customers will need to buy new boxes in order to make this happen, said Charlie Ergen, CEO of Dish Network. That's mainly because the software requires a special Intel Atom processor with special hardware acceleration for graphics.
Logitech also revealed a device it's calling a "companion" box that will run Google TV. It's a set-top that will hook up to any HDTV and will allow a person to use Google TV with any other channel service set-top box, whether that's TiVo, Comcast, Time Warner, or others. It uses the same technology inside a Harmony remote that configures all the entertainment devices in the living room to work together. The box comes with a controller that is a small keyboard, remote control, and touch pad for navigating the service. Later, Logitech will sell a camera that will let users make video calls from the TV, and an application that will let any smartphone act like a Google TV controller. Devices of "other form factors" are planned for later as well. The set-top will be available this fall.
Beyond these products, it should be noted that this is the beginning of a new partnership between Sony and Google. Besides the TV and set-top box, the two companies plan a more broad integration of Android and other Sony devices, for home, mobile, and personal technology.
Tom Krazit contributed to this report.
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