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Today, April 28th the LEGO Group inaugurated a strategically important main office for the company in Asia. The new office is located in Shanghai, China.
"The new main office in Shanghai, our current main office in Singapore, and the establishment of our own manufacturing here in China, are all testaments to our firm commitment to establish a solid presence in China and Asia. We want to contribute to the very positive development and modernisation China is already experiencing. We want to do so by understanding the culture better, by delivering high quality products for children and educational institutions, acting in a responsible manner and contributing to further focus on learning through play. We believe all of this is very important for children all over the world," said Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, President and CEO of the LEGO Group.
Over the past few years, the Danish manufacturer of play materials based on the iconic LEGO® brick has experienced a massive commercial success and an unprecedented growth, more than quadrupling revenue in 10 years. In recent years growth has been especially strong in China and other Asian markets, where millions of children have placed LEGO products high on their wish lists. In China alone, LEGO sales grew by more than 50% in 2013.
"The potential in China and Asia is huge, and I'm extremely proud that we one day take part in the start of the construction of a new LEGO factory in Jiaxing and the next day celebrate a significant expansion of our physical presence in Shanghai with a new office and strategically important functions located close to our customers, children and parents in China and Asia."
Understanding children in Asia better
The LEGO office in Shanghai will include functions covering Marketing, HR, IT, Facilities, Finance, Operations and not least consumer insights and research.
"At our headquarters in Denmark, 180 designers from 24 countries develop new and exciting play experiences. In future we will seek to increase our research in and understanding of children in China and other countries in Asia, enabling LEGO designers to develop and launch even better products for children all over the world," says I-Chih Chen, General Manager and Vice President for the LEGO Group in China, adding:
"The emerging middle class in China offers unique opportunities for the LEGO Group and supports our aspiration to reach many more children with the LEGO play experience. We have a unique high quality product that stimulates creativity and is really fun and engaging to play with."
Each year hundreds of new LEGO products are launched, and every product is already today tested systematically during development by children all over the world, including in China, to ensure that products appeal to a global audience.
"Feedback from children is extremely important to us, as they are our key stakeholder. Our research shows that children in general find the same things fun and cool all over the world – a fire truck is just as appealing to a Dane, and American and a Chinese child, and a classic line such as LEGO City is a big hit with Chinese consumers," says I-Chih Chen, adding:
"But there are differences from region to region based on variations in cultural heritage and history, and we need to further increase our interaction with children in China and Asia to better understand how we can make great play experiences based on the LEGO system relevant to even more children."
Recruiting and developing global talents
Together with the existing main office in Singapore, the Shanghai location will also increase the LEGO Group's ability to recruit highly skilled and a more diversified work force into the company.
"Shanghai is an ideal location for us, as it is a metropolitan location where international businesses and consequently international and Chinese business talents come together. By having several business areas represented in the new office, we can offer new talent broader career opportunities in the LEGO Group," says Michael McNulty, Senior Vice President and head of the Shanghai Office, adding:
"The main office in Shanghai will help us establish a solid foundation and a visibility as a business in the world's largest economy. We will recruit more employees in the future, and we certainly intend to establish more senior roles here in the coming years. At the same time the location is close to the new LEGO factory we are building in Jiaxing south of Shanghai, which will be another major contributor to our ambitions to enhance our presence in Asia".
About the LEGO Group locations:
While the LEGO Group is well represented around the world through local offices, in 2013 the LEGO Group reinforced its commitment to globalising the company by announcing its intention to grow and establish a number of main offices :
Headquarters will remain in Denmark, and in order to attract a more diverse global work force focus will be put on building presence in London, Singapore and Shanghai as well as at the present LEGO premises in Enfield in Connecticut, USA.
Production facilities:
The LEGO Group currently owns and operates its own factories, in Mexico, Denmark, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
April 27th the construction of a LEGO factory was officially initiated in Jiaxing, 120 km south of Shanghai. The factory will supply all of Asia with LEGO products of the highest quality and safety standards.
• The office covers 2000m2 floor space.
• Approximately 80 LEGO employees will be working at the office in 2014.
• It is currently expected that this will increase to approximately 100 by 2015.
• Currently there are employees in the office of following nationalities: Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, Taiwanese, English, Danish.
• Among others, the following LEGO Group functions will be present in Shanghai: AEM China sales, HR functions for both marketing and production, Corporate Facilities, Corporate Legal Affairs, Corporate IT, Group Finance and Corporate Affairs.
• The office has been decorated with a focus on environmental care. As an example only water based painting and glue have been used in the design and decoration process.
• Natural materials like bamboo have been used for walls and floors in the reception and meeting room areas.
• Eco-friendly sound proof boards have been mounted in offices and meeting rooms.
• The construction and interior decoration of the office began in January 2014 and on April 16th the first LEGO employees moved into the location.
• The office is located in the French Concession area, which has been influenced by a lot of different nationalities in history.


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First Look! Shell Cottage Under Construction in Wales
Apr 24, 2009
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Several weeks ago we reported filming for the Shell Cottage scenes would take place in Wales, with crews due to arrive for work before the main filming next month. Today, TLC is delighted to bring you the first photos of the house under construction on the coastline in the Pembrokeshire area of Wales. Notably, as seen here, we can see the details of the stone house being built, on a beautiful coastline, all which will be the site of the emotional scenes with the Trio and dear Dobby. You can see the rest of these photos here in our image galleries.
The main filming for the Shell cottage scenes are due to take place on location next month, May 11 to May 15th, in Wales.
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Looking older?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 29. Doesn't look it normally, does he? Closer to 20 than 30, non? That's the challenge for baby faced actors. JGL is currently in Vancouver working on Seth Rogen's new film, formerly titled I'm With Cancer. Can we give it a proper name yet? The Untitled Seth Rogen Cancer Project sounds horrible.
So here they are, shooting a driving scene yesterday, and there appears to be a maturity to Joe's face that's new-ish. Or maybe it's just me. But it's the first time I've bought him playing full blown adult, and not 500 Days just out of college adult, but full blown adult. Would it be patronising here to say he's still so f-cking cute? I don't mean to be but he really is.
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Strained relations between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah came to a head on Sunday when Palestinian Authority forces got into a shoot-out with Hamas members in the West Bank that left six dead. Sunday's eight-hour battle was the worst fighting between Palestinians since Hamas wrested control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah two years ago. It has also raised new questions about Palestinians' ability to restart the peace process with Israel without a unity government.
During a patrol in Qalqilya, a northern West Bank town with a strong Hamas following, Palestinian police spotted armed members of Hamas. The patrol followed them to a house where a standoff ensued, according to media reports. When it ended, two senior Hamas operatives, three Palestinian police officers, and the owner of the house were dead.
The incident was followed by major protests in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip where demonstrators accused Fatah, which controls the West Bank, of collaborating with Israel. Hamas officials say that Fatah should be prepared for reprisal attacks.
A Hamas spokesperson in Damascus has called upon Palestinians to fight against the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority forces as intensely as if they were resisting the Israeli occupation, reports Haaretz, a center-left Israeli newspaper. In Gaza, a top Hamas official made similar remarks, ordering Hamas militants in the West Bank not to surrender to PA forces.
The Hamas call for internecine violence was unusual, and presumably includes the use of suicide bombings, since that is among the methods the group has sanctioned in its terror war on Israel.
Israeli security sources said the deaths of the two Hamas operatives seriously damaged one of the group's most dangerous cells in the West Bank. Israel has pressured the Palestinian forces to crack down on the Hamas cell as a way of keeping the Israel Defense Forces out of Qalqilyah.
Last Thursday, Israeli forces killed a top Hamas militant, Abed al-Majid Dudin, in an exchange of gunfire after surrounding his West Bank home. An Israeli military spokesman said he was responsible for two fatal bus bombings in Israel a decade ago.
Tension has been steadily mounting between Hamas and Fatah. Al Jazeera's Gaza correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin reports that "confidence between Hamas and Fatah is 'really at an all-time low.'"
Although the two groups had been engaged in talks held in Egypt about how to create a unity government, Xinhau reports that Hamas is now considering withdrawing from the negotiations. A Hamas spokesperson in Gaza said that the battle underscores an effort by the Palestinian Authority and Israel to "uproot" the Islamic group that rejects Israel's existence.
"We are now studying the suspension of our participation in the Cairo-hosted dialogue as part of the response to the assassination of two holy fighters in Qalqilya city in the West Bank," Salah al-Bardaweel, a Hamas spokesman, told reporters in Gaza.
Meanwhile, officials within the Palestinian Authority now say that their forces were only acting in self-defense and that it was the Hamas members who incited the violence, reports Ma'an, a Palestinian newswire. Hussein Ash-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian Authority official, told Ma'an that Hamas leaders in Gaza were wrongly inciting Gaza residents against Fatah.
The Los Angeles Times writes that the incident, along with Hamas's response, is likely to test Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been criticized as wielding only limited control. Officials close to Abbas said that this latest raid was done without the help of Israel, calling it "100 percent Palestinian."
The Palestinian operation may, however, have been a success in at least one sense as an analysis in the conservative Jerusalem Post says that it showcased the competence of Palestinian Authority forces. Given their apparent commitment to stopping militants, the Post says it may create pressure for Israeli Forces to withdraw from the area.
Sunday's operation ... came just days after Mahmoud Abbas met with President Barack Obama in Washington, where he accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of being an obstacle to peace.
The operation in Kalkilya [Qalqilya] is meant to reinforce that message. On the one hand, it shows the US that Abbas is serious about cracking down on Hamas. On the other hand, it is meant to pressure Israel to relinquish its control over Kalkilya to the PA.
Palestinian Authority forces receive training and support from the US and Europe to help ensure that Hamas will not be able to take over in the West Bank as it did in Gaza, reports The New York Times.
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In Australia to defend her Sydney International title and a finals appearance at the Australian Open, China's top tennis player Li Na has a sense of purpose.
After becoming the nation's first Grand Slam champion in Paris last June, she recorded just six wins in the remainder of 2011.
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Hot, dry, windy and smoky or cold, rainy, wet and cloudy — you name it, the 2009 U.S. rice crop experienced it in some form or fashion in 2008. Here's a closer look from rice experts speaking at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Little Rock:
According to Bobby Coats, an Extension economist with the University of Arkansas, last year's production season in the state "was full of emotional highs and lows. Yield setbacks were more common than success stories.
"Market prices reached record highs in April, a wet spring added two to three weeks to our production season, a delayed farm bill created problems and uncertainty for our producers, record input costs impacted cash flow and the lingering effects from tropical storms added two to three weeks to our production season."
Added to that were some statistical anomalies that may not be cleared up until January or later. Coats believes that Arkansas acreage is probably slightly understated by USDA, while yields are overstated by a greater amount. "Whether the overstatement of production is small or large won't be known until later in the marketing period. So the uncertainty will remain for a period of time."
Coats projects Arkansas rice acreage for 2009 at between 1.07 million and 1.39 million acres, depending on factors such as production costs, rice prices, the global economic situation and prices of competing feedgrains.
Chris Greer, farm advisor with the University of California, says the 2008 growing season in the state "was fairly similar to 2007. We had a very dry spring, which led to some very early-planted rice going in under some cool conditions. We saw some seedling diseases that we usually don't see. We also had some very late-planted rice following wheat.
"The summer was mostly mild. We had some heavy forest fires and we had smoke cover through most of the season, which has a similar impact as cloud cover. We had some cold-weather induced blanking on some later-planted rice, but we had some good conditions for grain ripening. Generally, we had good yields considering the year, and we had some good milling quality for most of the harvest season."
Yields on the state's 517,000 rice acres are estimated at about 81 hundredweight per acre.
Rice acreage for 2009 will depend largely on water availability, according to Greer. "Most of our reservoirs in California are very low. My educated guess is if we sell a lot of water, acreage could be around 425,000 acres. If we don't, 520,000 acres would be my guess."
Louisiana rice specialist Johnny Saichuk says rice producers were on par to break last year's record yields when hurricanes hit the state. "Today, based on the hurricane damage, I think the (NASS) numbers (on yields) are too high."
Saichuk said the state's ratoon crop acreage was a little higher in 2008 than in 2007, and there were expectations for a good second crop, "but hurricanes blew that away."
The season started with a shortage of planting seed, which was due to an acreage increase on suddenly higher rice prices. "We didn't think we'd have the acres we ended up having."
The state's growers "faced a cold April that got us into a late crop and the longest rice season I've experienced. We just harvested our final verification field two weeks ago. We've never harvested rice in the third week of November.
"The crop was set back by glyphosate drift. It's getting to be a huge problem. We're also seeing Newpath injury in adjacent (conventional) rice. We know Newpath is labeled to kill rice. It doesn't take much. We had several hundred acres completely destroyed.
"We found out that hybrid rice doesn't like hurricanes. A hurricane will blow the seed right off the head."
For 2009, Saichuk believes rice acres in the state will remain fairly stable, while Clearfield acreage will continue to rise. "If total rice acreage does go up, it will be to 460,000 acres to 470,000 acres."
Saichuk reports that the state has confirmed Newpath resistance in some fields, "so that is going to be a problem we have to deal with. It will get worse, not better. As we predicted, those farmers who did not practice good stewardship will lose the technology. Those who do practice good stewardship will keep it."
Wet and/or dry conditions had a negative impact on the Mississippi rice crop from planting to harvest, said Nathan Buehring, the state's Extension rice specialist. "We had a lot of wet weather which delayed our planting until the middle of June, which is uncharacteristic for Mississippi. In 2007, we had 75 percent of our crop planted by April 15. This year, we only had 25 percent planted by that date.
Rice yields in the state are estimated at 70 hundredweight per acre, "which, I think, is a little bit high."
High input costs from fuel to fertilizer, also had an adverse effect on the producer's bottom line in 2008, according to Buehring.
Nonetheless, Mississippi rice acreage could reach record levels in 2009, noted Buehring. "Interest in rice is at a high level right now, and that has a lot to do with other commodity prices being depressed. There's a lot of hope that rice prices are going to maintain a range of $5 per bushel to $6 per bushel range."
"The one thing I kept hearing about the 2008 crop was that it was so expensive," said Donn Beighley, rice breeder at Southeast Missouri State University. "There were high input costs, then it got expensive into harvest due to hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Many producers were glad when the season was over."
The season got off to a slow start due to cool temperatures, noted Beighley. "Our farmers like to get started around April 1, and we ended up with the first fields being planted around April 16. With the floods we experienced, we introduced another problem into our growing region, the tadpole shrimp. We saw it on about 5,000 acres of water-seeded rice."
Cool temperatures hung around most of the growing season, Beighley said. "The state climatologist said we had the coolest year in 23 years. That delayed our harvest somewhat. High winds from the hurricanes resulted in lots of shattering and down rice, which slowed harvest and reduced our yields somewhat."
As for 2009 acres, Beighley noted, "It's too early to tell. We need to get a better handle on commodity prices."
Larry Falconer, Extension economist at Texas A&M University, said overall Texas yields in 2008 "were extremely good," although there were problems with salt water intrusion as consequence of hurricanes.
"We also saw less organic rice acreage in Texas this year, mostly due to the increase in rice prices as we went into planting season."
For 2009, Falconer says growers are looking at historically high costs of production. "If we can hold prices where they are, Texas rice acres will probably be right around where they were last year. There is still quite a bit of interest in organic rice."
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I recently reported an interesting statistic out of Lake Bluff, Ill.-based economic research firm Moebs Services: 77% of U.S. consumers chose to allow for debit card and ATM overdrafts since the 2010 implementation of Regulation E.
I began to wonder what this statistic said about American consumers. Do we really view overdrafts as a safety net for those few times we need emergency funds and don't have enough money in our accounts to cover them? Or are we so lazy that we're failing to check our balances and leave adequate cushions in our accounts? Perhaps we're nonchalant about paying for our mistakes, that we view another $30 penalty here and there as no big deal.
I've only overdrawn my account once. I was in college with a low checking account balance and paid about $60 to cover two transactions. I wasn't happy about it and vowed never do it again.
Like all generations, Gen Y makes its fair share of mistakes, and an overdraft fee pales in comparison to the consequences of more serious actions, such as making a severe error at work or driving under the influence. But maybe Gen Y is accustomed to being rescued. The parents of many Gen Yers who make the same mistakes over and over again consistently bail their children out by offering money or housing. If a person always has a safety net waiting below, how does he or she become motivated to correct the mistake?
Overdrafts are, of course, a key component to a financial institution's service offerings. According to the Moebs study, consumers have spoken loud and clear that they want overdrafts. Overdraft fees can also produce a valuable income stream. Especially in the face of new interchange cap regulations, squeezing out noninterest income wherever they can is high on many credit unions' lists.
But in addition to providing overdraft protection, credit unions should help their Gen Y members avoid financial mistakes in the first place through education. For example, CUs can help members adopt good habits by allowing access to an online personal financial management tool.
PFM helps members understand where their money is going, how to come up with a budget and how much money they'll need to put away to reach a financial goal. And if it's integrated into the CU's online system, the account information automatically populates into the PFM platform, giving members a central place where they can bank online and manage spending.
Mistakes are inevitable in life, and without a safety net in place, we'd all be in trouble. But the goal in making mistakes should be to learn from them, not repeat them. By offering educational resources and continuing to do what they do best–providing low interest rates and top-notch customer service that demonstrates a true sense of caring–CUs might help lead Gen Y on a path of good financial choices.


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cleantech necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 22 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Turunen Games
Turunen Games is a startup video game company that focuses on casual and educational social network games. The nature of the company is to be fun, playful, humorous and quirky. Some irony and making fun of traditional, mainstream ideas and concepts (such as the informational signs seen around a city) is good. Additionally, the company needs to convey the sense of being clean, efficient and effective.
The target audience is the professional business and investment communities so the sensibility must be playful and fun as befits a video game company but also combined with a professional aspect.
Thoughts / Ideas / Characteristics / Themes for the logo:
* Finland and Finnish (color scheme is navy blue and white - check out the Finnish flag)
* skier and skiing - check out the sample logo
* playful and a little quirky (this is a video game company after all)
* would like a small stylized human character integrated into the logo to act as a mascot for future marketing and branding
* the human character should be stylized in a manner similar to a city informational sign (i.e. like the character in a bathroom, toilet or handicapped sign)
* optional: smoking (not directly illustrated but stylized via bubbles so as to not promote smoking itself) - note: the bubbles sometimes throws off the visual balance of the logo so this is optional
* need 3 logos in total: 1) a logo that DOES NOT say the full name of "Turunen Games" (incorporating just the "T" of Turunen perhaps); 2) a logo of the entire name "Turunen Games"; 3) a logo that combines the 2 logos above
* the winning design will likely be converted into follow-on work - a powerpoint template, a business card template and 1-page website splash page will all be required in the near future
* IMPORTANT NOTE: Have a concept that breaks any/all of the above requirements but is totally cool? I definitely want to see it!
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The big news from a rather rainy Les Gets, France is that Lapierre will be releasing a new bike for 2012: the X-Flow.
The X-Flow is a cross country / marathon bike that uses the same Pendbox floating bottom bracket system that was introduced back in 2010 on Lapierre's downhill bikes. This time though, the floating bottom bracket style configuration only needs to deal with 120mm travel in a bid to "totally isolate pedalling efficiency and shock absorption for improved performance" as Lapierre put it.
The use of the Pendbox system means the French company are covered by the same patent that covers their downhill bike, and its introduction has allowed the engineers to produce a slacker head angle along with a lower bottom bracket when compared to its closest counterpart, the X-Control.
This should then translate to a more stable ride with even less pedal-induced bob. From the short amount of time we've spent on it, the X-Flow certainly seems to be a more capable bike than the X-Control.
What will come of the X-Control? Well, it's set to continue for 2012 but keep an eye on potential changes to pricing.
The X-Flow will be available in three full carbon models and four alloy versions starting with their 312 alloy version, all the way up to the 912 full carbon bike. All frames feature custom Fox tuned suspension, tapered head tubes, internal cable routing and cable guides and routing for a height adjustable seatpost.
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The other big news is the changes being made to Lapierre's OST platform that can be found on the Zesty and Spicy ranges. Now referred to as OST+, Nico Voullioz has been working the Lapierre engineers hard to get more out of the platform. The final result is intended to produce a more desirable leverage ratio curve, making the initial part of the stroke more supple, offer better support in the middle and increasing its progressivity towards the end of the stroke.
Other significant changes to both Zesty and Spicy ranges include a new carbon linkage, new internal cable routing, shorter chainstays (now 425mm rather than the previous 438mm), lower bottom bracket and slacker head angles. The Zesty now measures in at 67 degrees while the Spicy becomes 66 degrees, both of which, along with the other changes, leave these two more stable than ever.
Initial impressions certainly show that both models can now deal with harsher terrain in a more competent fashion while maintain their ability to carry speed well.
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The Zesty range will consist of three alloy models and three full carbon models while we'll see two alloy versions of the Spicy, and only one full carbon model of this 160mm beast.
The Froggy will continue to use the OST platform but does now include a smaller frame size for 2012 as well as improved mud clearance at the back end. The three models feature improved and updated geometry to increase their stability and fun factor.
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In the days after Emperor Hirohito's surrender at the end of World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur assigns a trusted aide to covertly investigate how best to deal with the deposed ruler. With Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones and Eriko Hatsune. Written by David Klass and Vera Blasi. Directed by Peter Webber. Roadside Attractions
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After reviewing the delicious Brunch at Bailiwick, I knew I had to return for my next "Chef Inspired Dish" segment with Chef Konstantin Plavnik!
Instead of brunch, we decided to re-create their most popular happy hour and dinner menu item, the Grilled Oysters with Thyme, Sake, Jalapeño Brown Butter. Check it out!
- 6 large oysters
- 2 tbsp sake
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp fresh thyme
- 1/2 jalapeño (de-seeded & minced)
- 4 slivers manchego cheese
Begin by shucking the oysters.
Next, add the sake to a small skillet over medium heat, cook until the sake begins to bubble then remove from the heat.
In a separate pan, add the butter and melt, next add the thyme and jalapeños. Brown the butter for 2 minutes. Bring the sake back up to a boil, then add the butter.
Next place the oysters on a grill over high heat. Spoon the sauce over the oysters, cover and cook for 10-12 minutes.
Don't worry if they catch a little flame, that's supposed to happen 🙂
Add the cheese on top of the oysters, cover and grill for an additional minute, then remove from the grill and serve.
For my first Grilled Oyster experience, this one was epic!
Thank you to Chef Konstantin Plavnik, Ali Grant of Be Social Public Relations and everyone at Bailiwick! Also a special thanks to the amazing videography work of Eric Lingle at Web Video Solutions.
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Apparently healthcare is a right. Obama said so himself.
I consider myself corrected.
For the irony-impaired, yes, that is tongue-in-cheek. The question was framed terribly by Brokaw -- Right, Privilege, or Responsiblity? I'm not sure what that even means, and the options are not mutually exclusive. I'd have been happier with a more nuanced answer, but as an advocate of the moral obligation of universal health, I'll take it.
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Apparently healthcare is a right. Obama said so himself.
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Well, McCain took Responsibility, so he had to over the top.ReplyDelete
If that debate had been a week ago, I would have yelled "YESSS!!!" when Obama said it's a right.ReplyDelete
But I read your "it's not a right" post, with which I very much agreed, and thus yelled "NOOO!!!"
Am I teachable or a flip-flopper? I'll take shaved gorilla.
If I am in a restaurant and see someone choking, I believe that I have a moral responsibility to assist them, but they do not have a right to my (or anyone else's) assistance.ReplyDelete
Even if someone were adamant that such a "right" existed, I would hope that they would understand that extenuating circumstances would perhaps limit the "rights" of the sick or injured. So these "rights" are at best relative rather than absolute. How many months in the ICU does a brain dead or terminally ill patient have a "right" to receive from society? We may feel a responsibility to help a person trapped in a burning building, but not at the expense of other lives
If the provision of medical treatment is too expensive, dangerous, or futile, then the supposed right to care becomes not even a responsibility.
So where do we draw the line?
- Anonymous10/09/2008 11:57 AM
Well, if the Messiah said so then it must be true. Now you just gotta believe that he can multiply the loaves and fishes.ReplyDelete


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Ariana Ghez joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Oboe in September 2006. Her playing has been lauded by the LA Times critics as "somewhere up among the galaxies" and as expressing "raw emotion". Prior to her appointment in Los Angeles, Ms. Ghez was principal oboe of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Santa Fe Opera. She has also performed as guest principal oboe with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
As a soloist, Ms. Ghez has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Redlands Symphony Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Caracas, the Aspen Music Festival, among many others, and can be heard playing Bach's Oboe and Violin Concerto, with violinist Lara St John on Ancalagon Records. An avid lover of chamber music, Ms. Ghez performs frequently with her Los Angeles Philharmonic colleagues and guests on the chamber series at Disney Hall. Other chamber engagements include collaborations with Jaime Laredo and Ida Kavafian (92Y), Gil Shaham (Aspen Music Festival), and Pinchas Zuckerman (with the Rochester Philharmonic). She has performed with La Jolla Summerfest, the Mainly Mozart Festival (San Diego), Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Rochester, and Colorado College Music Festival. Ghez has participated in numerous festivals, including the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Ghez holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from Columbia University, where she was enrolled in the Columbia/Juilliard School joint program and studied with John Mack and John Ferrillo. She pursued graduate studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she studied with Richard Woodhams and was an oboe teaching assistant. Ghez is on the faculty of Chapman University in Orange County and has given master classes at the Colburn School, University of Southern California, Oberlin College/Conservatory, Peabody Institute, San Francisco Conservatory, and Kent/Blossom Summer Festival, among others. She has also served as guest faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School.


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I really enjoyed your post and I wasn't aware of those articles. I'm a mid-twenties girl who gets a fair amount of stick for baking, sewing etc. I often hear "i couldnt be bothered doing that, not for love nor money" etc. I think crafting in all its forms is beautiful and should be encouraged, just like women are beautiful and should be encouraged to do what ever they choose to do. And you are right. It is a choice, not an obligation, not an homage to an out dated stereotype. Women are damned if we do and damned if we don't! :)
Sometimes I feel like JSP goes out of her way to offend me personally. Like the time she said the depression wasn't real and was just a trendy made-up illness to make middle class women who were a bit sad feel better.
And I love Kirstie too. She's adorable, very down to earth (considering her incredibly lush upbringing!) and is always amazingly well put together. So what if she crafts? It's a hobby. To her, and to all we crafters, it IS a part of her life. I often wonder how people who don't craft spend their time - what do they do with themselves? I don't think they can have lives ;) Unless, of course, they spend all that time campaigning for equal rights or reading improving literature. Or rescuing wounded kittens or helping old ladies cross the road. Seriously, sitting in front of the telly/getting drunk at the bingo is NOT a better way to spend your time than crafting. It's certainly not more of a 'life'.
Excellent post!
Put blunty - Liz Jones is a (insert bad word here). Couple of weeks ago she wrote an article about how she tried to get pregnant by pinching her ex boyfriend's sperm. Yep, you read right. She then went on to insinuate all women are just desperate to get pregnant, even telling boys they should worry about what their girlfriends do if they go straight to the bathroom after having sex. If I recall correctly, she began that article with 'As a feminist...' If she's a feminist, then I'm the Dalai Lama.
Feminism is about choice, it is about recognising that all avenues are open to women INCLUDING the 'traditional' women's role, if there even is such a thing anymore. It's not about making women feel small for their life choices - whether they are high powered executives or looking after the kids.
Hear hear! I sew and do embroidery because I find it relaxing and very satisfying to see something transform under my hands. Most perople have a hobby and I can't see why something should be worth less than something else. I enjoying cooking and baking and I'm the one who do most of that in our home. On teh other hand, I haven't touched the vaccum cleaner since my darling and I moved in together, so I figure it evens out. Just as I do most of the ironing, but very rarely do teh laundry.
That snarky comment about not being married made me laugh. it says more about the woman who made it, in my view. Not everyone wants to get married, be they male or female. That is also something that ought to be repsected and not assumed that the man, for some reason, haven't "popped the question". (Actually, it was I who proposed to my ex-husband, not the other way around. It worked too)
The "right to choose." THIS! This is what it's all about. Not being shunted into any kind of stereotype about what makes a woman or a feminist or whatever. If I like to bake and sew as well as write articles discussing misogyny and patriarchal oppression, that's my choice. Who cares if it doesn't fit into someone else's idea of what a feminist should be or a woman should be? That's just who I am. And feminism is about having the right to choose what I want to do. Something that I think everyone should support. (Following your condition of excluding things like mass murder, of course.)
I like the idea of having opinion blogs once in a while. I think it's important to discuss these sorts of issues, even if it's just to increase awareness. Sometimes you learn really interesting things that you wouldn't be exposed to otherwise. So I say, keep on!
Liz Jones' issues are hardly hidden.
At 60+, I lived through decades of Feminist noise.
As a young wife, I traveled with my husband ("Oh, you are SO LUCKY not to have to work!" - and - me in a 3rd world country with out electricity)
As a young mother who struggled, budgeted, and yes, chose to stay home with my baby (You'd be a much more effective mother if you got out once in a while.)
As the mother of a scholar, I owned a custom sewing business and worked out of my home, and what did I hear?? (Why don't you get yourself a REAL JOB.)
When my 'baby' went off to the university, I got a real estate licence and managed a land office for 10 years. (Oh, you KNOW you'd make so much more money if you SOLD real estate.)
My parents grew old, became infirm, needed care and frankly, I couldn't work, manage my household, and care for them. I didn't retire, I just quit. (How can you spend so much time with just your family? You won't have a pension! etc. etc. etc. as if it was their business)
Now, my husband of 41 years (Did I mention I married MUCH TOO YOUNG???) and I live in a small house and have few need or wants. I sew, I knit, I bake, I read, I take walk, I pet the dog, AND I have a pleasant relationship with my daughter.
Many women WANT other women to be miserable. Will criticise another woman no matter what she does. I've worked and not worked, traveled the world, seen and done a lot. Nothing outside my home has ever given me as much happiness and pure pleasure as the things and the people inside my home.
I deduce there is little joy and much sadness in the lives of women who denegrate home arts and hearth and home matters.
Oh yes. I sincerely regret not having had at least 4 more children. I absolutely regret weaning the child I had before she was 2.
Like Auntie, I have survived and prospered via the feminist movement. I have been fortunate to have had a diverse professional and personal life, but it is mine, my choices. That said, this post does indeed strike a note for those of us who prefer our sewing, knitting, etc. I would suspect that when these two snarkettes look in the mirror there are lamentations beyond belief. They are projecting their low self esteem and poor self satisfaction into their writing. Sad. Oh Well, get over yourself!
What a grand post.
I have to admit I am not a fan of Kirstie's programmes. Not because I don't like her. I do. A lot. Not because I don't like crafts. I do. A lot. There is just something about it all that doesnt gel with me. But that is just me. I would not dream of being negative about it - I just chose not to watch.
As for Nigella - I have more than a healthy girl-crush on her. That is because I find her easy to relate to, beautiful and inspiring.
That said - I am also a fan of Janet SP. I like her because she speaks her mind, albeit it disagreeably & negatively at times. But that is how she has always been and I accept her for it.
However - there is a lot of nastyness out there. Degrading and derogatory comments and press always get attention. I feel it is aimed to make you question yourself. Those that are sheep will bleetingly follow and join the "hate" bandwagon. It all seems to be about boxes and which one you fit in. Which I find incredibly dreary.
Those that are truly feminist will make a CHOICE to do what they want to, and move on.
Excellent post :)
Excellent post!! Very well written and I agree completely with the points you made! I can't wait for your next "I'd just like to say" :)
what a great post. live and let live, i say
Right on! My MIL, who was a part of that women's movement of the 60s and 70s (Masters in Chemistry in the late 60s when that wasn't super common) said recently that she thought a lot of "feminists" had gotten confused- she said what you said. The point of it all was not to belittle women who chose to be at home with their babies or liked participating in domestic things, it was about giving women the choice to do what they wanted to do. You summed this all up beautifully! Right on, sister!
"high-earning husbands" Pah! I am the earner in our home and we would be grateful if he had a job at all!
I would like to think that feminism means we can celebrate the differences among women rather than be threatened by them or belittle those who choose differently from us. Feminism does not mean we all have to fit into the same mould. Diversity makes life interesting.
Great post. I get stick from my friends and family all the time because I bake, crochet, drink sherry and enjoy home-making. The thing that always annoys me is when people say "oh, I don't know how you have TIME to do all that... I'm just so busy..." It's as though they think I don't have a life! I don't watch much TV so always want to say that I'm busy baking whilst they're sitting on their bums watching I'm a Celeb but that would be offensive and judgemental so I keep schtum. Ha!
Ignorant women who like to write offensive articles just to create an outrage - pah! I kind of like them, they get me fired up! It would be a pretty boring world if we were all the same.
Looking forward to the next post.
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Excellent post! I had no idea such hatred against crafty women existed. But I have noticed that here in Finland the hatred has raised it's head. A lot. We even now have a term called "hatred talk" because there has been so much articles, interviews and internet posts about people hating. Hating gays, hating immigrants, hating women, hating men, hating handicapped etc. All these people have the nerve to say these things, "I don't want handicapped people on my backyard, it puts the apartment prices down", or "I won't accept the invitation to the presidents independents party because there will be gay-people dancing and it offends me" or "Women have the power because they refuse to mate with SecondRateMen, but they really should give men more sex without excuses". Yes... it is shocking to realise this is now the world we are living in.
I just don't get why these women who call themselves feminists fail to see that knitting, baking and doing crafts aren't excluding feminism and female rights? Options and freedom to choose is the most important thing in feminism. Every woman is allowed to choose what they do. If they choose knitting and baking, things that make them happy, that doesn't make female rights go away. Forcing them to do the opposite does!
Great post. Liz Jones is a deeply unpleasant woman in my opinion and clearly has many, many issues! She never has a good word to say about anything or anyone.
I'm so glad you've addressed this, we all feel the same as you. Money in our household is always tight, and always will be. But that's our choice. I chose not to work, to be with my girls growing up, to bake and make and tinker because it pleases ME. I don't feel like I'm missing out, not having a super job in the city, and i some times think....these grumpy women just need to pick up a knitting needle or get the sewing machine out, and realize it IS an a great thing! Everyones different, if shouting out about how pathetic us crafters are floats you boat, then poor you. I feel sorry for them.......
Fab post......well done you x
This is a really excellent post! I have run into negativity at my craftiness several times and find it quite startling. At the end of the day, it was my husband who showed me that these women are jealous of creative/traditional abilities and can find no way to vent, but to belittle those they secretly desire to be.
I am a huge fan of Nigella Lawson and Kirstie Allsop. Not many things please me more than preparing meals or making things for those I love. An investment of time and care is a huge expression of the love the creative person holds for the recipient.
I feel sorry for these catty women who choose to attack others living a creative lifestyle. Clearly, they are envious but cannot or will not allow themselves the freedom to explore their own creative potential.
That is just crazy! I mean I love making things with my hands. It started when I was a senior in college and it was so grueling I just really needed to make a physical thing that I could touch and feel. My passion and enjoyment of hand crafts grew out of that. I like my hobbies but I don't look down on my sister (my actual sisters) because they don't. Goodness it just makes them appreciate the things I make them as gifts all the more. This woman your talking about (I'm in the states) just sounds bitter for some reason. Sorry to hear the crafting world is at the brunt end of her anger right now.
Also I don't find magazines and television shows like the ones mentioned (that would be Martha Stewart here) make me feel inferior. They give me great inspiration and new ideas to try.
Fantastic post! I consider myself a feminist and have never seen this at odds with my love of crafting, baking etc. As others have said, feminism is about being able to choose your your path in life whatever that may be.
I am a 59 year old feminist. I believe that sewing is a feminist act, not a selfless one. Also, I work full-time and plan on a huge garden this year. So, watch this space for preserved jams, etc. Sewing has, literally, saved me from a very deep despair. These women make their living writing this stuff and I could write a book about how perhaps their dreams were dashed and they meant to really be novelists. But, I won't. That wouldn't be very sisterly.
Oh, well said! (Well-written?) There is a solution for anyone who violently disagrees with any point of view televised or broadcast, or written in a newspaper, book or magazine: Stop watching or reading or listening to that program. Find another program with which you agree, and sit down in front of it, instead. Let the rest of us enjoy our simple pleasures -- don't castigate us because we are not you. Life is short and mean people are everywhere, but you will be constantly surprised by the niceness that showers itself upon you if you only let it.
The Rabbit would like to compliment the Squirrel on an excellent post! I do get so depressed by all the backbiting women who identify themselves as "feminist" can inflict upon other women (I also get depressed at women like someone on Twitter I had an argument with who said International Women's Day was pointless because women bitch and can't run things as well as men). I'm also a feminist and someone who loves to cook, run my home (shock, horror!) and am looking forward to being a wife and mother (certain feminists are now positively fainting). But it is indeed about choices - and having the freedom to choose. That's what women didn't have just a hundred years ago, and what women in a lot of places still don't have. I think it's easy to lose perspective of wider inequalities in bitching about TV personalities. Gosh this ended up being a bit holier than thou, didn't it? Your post responded in a much more fun way :)
I find the female-one-female verbal attacks both fascinating (in a sick way) and sad. I'm fascinated because it's become clear that we live in a society that rather than congratulate and lift people up for accomplishments, it's much easier to undercut and belittle them. I find it sad, because so-called "feminists" of this ilk have missed the point. Why must a woman act like a man in order to be feminist? Why can't one be a feminist, like to cook/bake and sew? History shows, over and over again, that women have "taken back" these traditionally "women's" activities and roles and reinvented them to be feminist. And, besides, WHO CARES what you like to do for fun? And BULLY TO THOSE WHO CAN TAKE A PASSION AND TURN IT INTO A LIVING.
Well written, this was a really interesting read! I can't wait for your next opinion piece. xo


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Over the weekend, I acquired a large bag of matchbooks from casinos and other places in Las Vegas. They'll be given to my cigar-smoking father-in-law as a holiday gift, but before that happens I'm going to pull a few out and display them in this space. Consider this the Vegas Matchbooks project.
Debbie and Alan, whoever they are, led things off a couple of days ago. But nothing about their wedding favor was connected to Vegas in any way. Maybe they got married in Vegas, and maybe they didn't. But the Orleans–as pictured above–is definitely in Vegas, so this will be Part 1 of my project.
I googled The Orleans and was surprised to learn they're still around. Many of the places represented in the matchbook bag are undoubtedly closed, because Vegas seems to rebuild itself on a regular basis. The Orleans opened in 1996, and because it's located off the Strip, I've never been inside of it. I haven't been to Vegas in over ten years, but The Orleans would have been there when I last visited. But there's so much going on along the Strip that I wasn't inclined to venture off of it.
The most interesting thing I learned about The Orleans is that George Carlin played his last show there, a few days before he died in 2008. I love George Carlin, and wish I could have seen him perform live. He did so many things, from movies to hosting the first episode of Saturday Night Live back in 1975 to giving us the seven words you can't say on television. The first line of that routine is simply "I love words," and I agree with him.
The underlying theme of that routine is that the words you can't say are just words, like any others. But those words went all the way up to the Supreme Court, who determined that the federal government, through the FCC, can censor words when children are likely to be in the audience. I shudder to think what my children would be hearing on the radio nowadays without that ruling. I'm all for liberty, but I also have two kids to raise.
It's worth noting that Carlin's last show at The Orleans in 2008 wasn't billed that way. He was a 71 year-old guy with a history of heart problems, so he wouldn't be doing comedy forever. But he was going to keep on doing it for as long as he could. That's how life is. You enjoy it while you can, because nobody really knows when their ride is going to come to an end.
More matchbooks will follow over the coming few days, before I give these things away. I'm trying to show how inspiration comes in a lot of different forms, even if it's something as mundane as a matchbook.


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For Agnico-Eagle, 2011 was a difficult year for them. It was kind of like everything that could go wrong went wrong, and we wound up making a bigger investment in the company over that period of time in part because management recognized that there were problems and changed the risk threshold for the ounces they were mining. They instituted plans, put those plans in place, and we felt pretty confident given the people that they were going to be able to execute on fixing those issues.
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Representative Stockman, a Republican from Texas, says that the right to own guns is given by God:
I guess that settles the issue of gun control once and for all.
It's one of several metaphors for valued rights, "inalienable rights" being another.
Stockman is saying "This is a right I will fight for." He's not committing himself to combat; he's stirring others to violence.
The English also used metaphor to describe rights. During the long conflict between the House of Commons and monarchs, the claim in Commons of "our ancient and undoubted rights" had similar meaning. One historian said the term identified a new right. Another historian (in those times before there were written records of the actions of Parliament) said it meant no one alive remembers a time when the right didn't exist.
These kinds of rights have often been designated natural rights, with the intention of specifying rights that exist anterior to government and law, but they have always been controversial with many claiming no such rights can exist. Jeremy Bentham called the notion of natural rights "nonsense on stilts."
Those who do support the concept of natural rights often view them as coming from God, as Jefferson did in the Declaration, although he certainly didn't think it applied to slaves. The problem is to extract clear definitions of rights from scripture—at best unclear and at worst opposed.
Here I thought the Congressman was giving us a sort of Who Would Jesus Shoot charcterization of gun rights and it sounds funny because it's anachronistic.
I thought Jefferson wanted to free the slaves? Okay, I know, he didn't release his own, but that's beside the point--I'm saying I could swear that he made the attempt to write "ending slavery" into the new country's laws and got shot down.
Of course, even later in time, abolitionists didn't always agree with things like de-segregation and such, so even if one disagreed with slavery that didn't mean the person thought black people were really equal or anything, just that it was wrong to enslave them.
Also, I thought Jefferson was more of a Deist and wasn't really entirely talking about "God" in the way the right-wing nutbars in this country now are using the word. More like "nature" or "nature's god" than anything else.
Way back in 1988, President Reagan nominated Federal Judge Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court. One of the many attorneys who attended the televised week-long Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination described it as the best constitutional law course he took. I viewed all but about fifteen minutes of the hearing.
In closing, Committee Chair Senator Joseph Biden described his and Judge Bork's differing views on rights in approximately these words: I believe the people have all the rights except those they give up to live in society. Judge Bork believes the people have only the rights the government gives them.
I agree with then-Senator Biden's view of rights, but in one sense Judge Bork was correct; rights exist only if the government has the resources to enforce them.
Unless Bentham's view was similar to Judge Bork's, his words nonsense on stilts are nonsense.
Bentham, if I understand correctly, did share a view similar to Bork's, but not quite identical to Biden's statement of Bork's view. Bentham thought rights were created by law, that they did not exist prior to codification, but law might come from a monarch as his command or from a legislature through its enactments or perhaps even from the judiciary as an interpretation of existing codes.
He viewed statements of natural rights as wishful thinking, an expression of desired or desirable rights, which might not exist in a particular place and time.
USA is not in a revolution. It is an evolution. Inappropriate comments blaming race, gender, foreigners, and liberals for the present turmoil, using racist, derogatory, threatening treasonous, libelous language does not solve problems or resolve conflict. If we want to get satisfactory results, we have to identify the problem, without blaming or accusing, set some goals, explore options, choose an option with the highest probability of creating a preferred future, and then put the plan into operation. Observe outcomes and if the plan works, continue; if not, select another option and try again. Repeat until the preferred future come into being.
As problems come up in finding options, look for dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors that act as killer phrases and obstacles to progress. They always reveal themselves in hate language. Who is posting hate-mongering signs? Let's take a look:
I am hoping. I am one of the few liberals who sometimes thinks it might come to armed revolution in one of two ways: either the gun-toting right wingers who have become incensed at having a black president will take over this country by force for their ignorant religious views, or on the other side, our country might be so far gone to moneyed interests that the democratic process is nullified, no matter how we vote our so-called representatives will always do what their paying corporate masters tell them in defiance of our rights or will, and we won't be able to take our country back from the corporations unless we take it back by force--not something I want to happen, but something I fear might come to be the only way to fix things. If voting is the only way to change things and the moneyed interests have nullified its effects (through voter suppression or through gerrymandering, or through simply buying the candidates), then what other tools will we really have? Especially since they want to eliminate the internet for the rest of us. If they could make it illegal for us to even speak a differing point of view they would--and they do anyway, as they allow employers to fire people for their political speech outside of work. We have the freedom to think for ourselves, just so long as we don't open our mouths about it to anyone. How do you fight back when that is happening, and keeps getting worse?
Of course, I just get more and more involved in the political process and in campaigning and everything, in the hopes that we aren't so broken that we can't fix things with peaceful means. But it seems pretty hopeless at times, as our rights are trampled more and more by right-wing conservative "business-friendly" human rights unfriendly policies and as our politicians (choose from one of two flavors: Republican or Republican lite!) continue to obey the 1% to the detriment of the rest of us.
One of the advantages of academic life is that is forces you to become a citizen of the world through travel and exchange of viewpoints in your area of expertise. You are faced with the fact that many of your colleagues speak a different language. It is amazingly good for you to recognize the differences in nationalities while at the same time sharing common interests.
I remember a case where a young man from an African country with a repressive government, after finishing a Ph.D., returned home where he was subjected to political threats. A group of mathematicians organized a fake conference in the United States to which he was invited and given a round trip ticket purchased by his colleagues so he could defect and probably save his life.
I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun rather than a nation state is ludicrous, an outpouring of bullshit from Bush Minor, and the tragedy is that the current incumbent of the presidency has been hamstrung by the republican regressives. If a revolution is justified, it is justified to eliminate the undue influence of major corporations over the good of the people.
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In a recent column I showed you how to make a very effective fruit fly trap. I thought my trap was quite effective because I caught those flies that were driving me nuts. Then I got an email message from reader Betty, who offered a couple of improvements. I immediately upgraded my trap accordingly. So much better.
DELUXE FRUIT FLY TRAP. I make fruit fly traps and just put apple cider vinegar in a small bowl and mix in a little bit of dish washing soap. The soap breaks the tensile strength of the surface of the water and the fruit flies sink and drown. No plastic wrap needed.
I have heard of using saran wrap on top of the bowl and poking small holes in the top — apparently they can get in and not out, but I have great success with just the bowl, vinegar and dish soap. — Betty B., email
"THE WORKS" WORKS! We live in the country and have very hard water. My fiance's white work shirt fell victim to a wash where the water softener ran out of salt and turned a horrible rust color. After bleaching and even trying OxiClean with no luck, as a last resort I took a large plastic bowl, put about 1/4 bottle of The Works Tub and Shower Cleaner, then filled with cold water. I put the shirt in, swished it around, gave it a good rinse, and it was as good as new. A bottle of The Works sells at our Walmart for less than $5 and works effortless wonders on any rusty surface. — Kara S., Ind.
EAT OUT, MAKE FRIENDS. Instead of spending our precious entertainment dollars at a restaurant, I'm always on the lookout for church or social hall dinners and festivals. Many churches, social clubs like the VFW the Knights of Columbus frequently have pancake breakfasts and spaghetti dinners. These meals are usually quite delicious, very reasonably priced, provide wonderful opportunities to meet new people and contribute to a good cause. Can't get that from a drive-thru or an IHOP. — Shannon H., Minn.
REBATE ROUTINE. Whenever I apply for a rebate, I make a note in my calendar on the date the rebate is due. If it is 4-6 weeks, I give it the full 6 weeks. Then, if I the rebate has not arrived in my mailbox, I contact the company. I recently had to call Volvo customer service about a missing rebate on some auto accessories. They told me that they had a separate company take care of processing rebates. The rebate company had "no record" of receiving my paperwork. I sent copies (always make copies!) of my receipts directly to Volvo and had my $60 rebate in a couple of weeks. I'm not saying companies are dishonest, but I wonder how many rebates never show up, even after the customer has met all the conditions. — Janet C., email
HALF-PRICE HAIR COLOR. I found a way to make hair color that's packaged for one application good for two uses. The kind I use comes in two separate bottles. The instructions say to mix these together. Instead, I pour half of each bottle into a bowl and mix for one application (there is plenty of product). I carefully cap both bottles, which are now half-full, for next month and then I just pour the contents of one into the other for the second application. You cannot mix all of the product at one time and save half. That won't work because once mixed, you must use it right away. I have been doing this for months now. It's like getting hair color for half the price, all the time. — Cathy R., Ohio
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Care Home Takes Top Spot in Surrey Leader's Reader's Choice Awards
SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 22, 2012) - Amenida Surrey was recently named the Best Senior's Home in the Surrey-North Delta region. For the second year in a row, the care home has secured the top honour in the Surrey Leader's annual Reader's Choice Awards.
With more than 12,000 ballots cast, citizens of Surrey-North Delta voted on everything from best spot for people watching to best coffee shop. Amenida Surrey beat out Carelife Fleetwood and Guilford Seniors Village this year.
"We're extremely grateful to the people of Surrey-North Delta for voting Amenida Surrey as the Best Seniors' Home for a second year in a row," says Teena Love, General Manager at Amenida Surrey. "We know that we provide superior quality of service and care at Amenida and are happy to see that the area's residents recognize that as well."
Amenida Surrey is a seniors' community that embraces the concepts of resident choice, dignity and respect. Residents, with support from their families, determine the services they require from staff.
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The name Amenida comes from the Spanish word amenidad, meaning "pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions". Our wide-ranging amenities make Amenida Surrey a warm and engaging environment that residents are proud to call home. The Amenida staff has provided supportive living for seniors for more than 20 years. Amenida is centrally located in the Newton area of Surrey, BC and offers independent living, assisted living and respite services.
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Support from the SEA
SEAs can provide particularly effective support for district implementation of SES by setting clear expectations or policies on topics such as provider access to school facilities, and on other topics not discussed above, such as district and provider use of enrollment incentives and attendance awards. SEAs can further assist districts by preparing sample SES implementation materials, including district-provider contracts, student learning plans, and student progress reports. By recruiting and approving providers that offer online or in-home programs, or that offer programs in the morning, on weekends, or during the summer, SEAs can also assist district efforts to serve high school students.
Making it work
As SES involves multiple stakeholders and a variety of issues, SEAs might consider developing task forces for setting statewide expectations or policies for SES implementation. Such task forces could consist of representatives of key SES stakeholders, including districts and providers, and could be charged with making recommendations for policy on individual issues in SES implementation, as warranted.


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Using a thin knife or a mandoline, cut each apple half into very thin slices, between 1/8 and 1/16-inch thick, keeping the halves together as they are sliced. Drizzle each of the cut halves with some of the lemon juice to keep them from discoloring.
Cut 6 pieces of parchment paper approximately 14 by 15 inches each. Working 1 at a time, arrange a piece of parchment on the counter in front of you so that one of the short sides is closest to you. Place 1 apple half in the center of each piece of parchment, and press down on the apple so that the slices are fanned out
in a line in line with the longer edges of the parchment, accordion-fashion, slightly flattened. Place a teaspoon of the butter and a teaspoon of the sugar on top of each apple half. Cut the vanilla bean into 6 equal pieces horizontally, then cut each piece in half lengthwise to reveal the inner seeds. Rub the exposed seeds of one of the pieces over the top of the apple slices and then place the bean on top of the apple slices. Bring the long edges of the parchment up so that they meet over the apple, and then fold together several times over the apple slices so that they are snugly enclosed. Repeat with the open ends of the parchment, tucking the edges underneath the apples after they are folded together 2 or 3 times, to make a neat package just slightly larger than the apple itself. Repeat with the remaining apples. Place the apple packages on a baking sheet and bake until the packages are puffed and lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a few minutes before serving. To serve, place each apple packet on a dessert plate and either cut with scissors or allow guests to tear into their packets at the table so that the apple and vanilla aroma wafts up to greet them as they are opened. Serve a dollop of vanilla ice cream over each apple half at the table, if desired.


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One of the foundations of genetics is that some traits are dominant and some are recessive. It's a great way to start the discussion, but it's not the whole story. The most basic genetic options are dominant and recessive, but there is also co-dominance, incomplete dominance, and polygenic traits (plus more variations!) that account for lots of genetic variability. I'll briefly touch on these so you get a better understanding of just how quickly predicting genetic outcomes can get tricky.
In the case of co-dominance, there are actually 2 dominant phenotypes that can be displayed. A better way to grasp this is to picture your alleles as being R = red and R' = white. If the genotype is RR, the flower is red. If the genotype is R'R', the flower is white. But if the genotype is RR', the phenotype is actually both red and white!
Using red and white flowers again, I'll move onto incomplete dominance. In this case, when both alleles are present, neither one is really dominant over the other. So the alleles would be designated as R = red and r = white. When the genotype is RR, the flower is red and when the genotype is rr, the flower is white. But, when the flower is heterozygous and has a genotype of Rr, the flower is pink!
Polygenic traits are traits you have that are actually composed of many genes. For example, eye color isn't one color or another, it can be: black, dark brown, light brown, hazel, green, blue, gray, amber or varying combinations. Skin color is another excellent example of a polygenic trait in humans.
As a bonus, because I'm feeling particularly science-y today, I'll tell you about sex-linked genes too. Sex-linked dominance is the presence of a gene on the sex chromosomes. Since the sex chromosomes in humans are designated as X and Y, any gene that sits on the X or Y is considered sex-linked. Because females have 2 X chromosomes, they will have a different phenotypic ratio than males that have 1 X and 1 Y. An example is some forms of color-blindness are located on the X chromosome, but it's recessive. So girls are less likely to have 2 copies of the recessive allele. If a boy gets the recessive allele, he has the color-blindness, because there's no copy on the Y chromosome to "overpower" his recessive allele on his X. So the phenotypic ratio for girls is 3:1, but for guys, it's 1:1–meaning there's a 50/50 chance of having color-blindness, whereas, for girls it was only a 25% chance. In a sex-linked dominant scenario, girls would have a 75% chance and boys would still have a 50% chance.
It can all get a little confusing, but don't worry, as along as you keep your Punnett square handy, you should be able to work through any scenario.
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Plot Summary: Bulma is a girl in search of the mystical dragonballs that when brought together grant any wish. In her search she bumps into the owner of one of these balls, a strange boy named Goku. The two then set off together, Bulma in search of the dragonballs and Goku on a quest to become stronger.
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