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Julia Desousa Your Emotional Wellbeing Matters
Welcome. I studied Human Givens Psychotherapy completing all Parts and it is from this therapy modality I work to provide Psychotherapy, Counselling and Hypnotherapy. Treatments for stress, anxiety disorders, depression, anger management,...
Natalie Hall Quantum Healing Hypnosis, Past Life Regression, NLP, Hypnotherapy
Ready to make right now the time of your life? Put habits, anxiety, excess weight, a phobia or any block to your personal joy behind you. Utilising Advanced Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Quantum Healing Hypnosis to let go of past ways.
Laura Lohk Cognitive Hypnotherapist & Coach
Evidence based, researched backed therapy and coaching tailored to your individual needs with great success stories in Dorset and other parts of the UK. FREE initial consultation. Help with stress, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, depression, addictions
Craig James BA (Hons), HPD, DSFH, ASFH (reg), CNHC (reg)
My name is Craig and I'm a fully qualified Solution Focused Hypnotherapist & Psychotherapist based in the Purbeck region of Dorset. I offer Hypnotherapy sessions in Wareham and Swanage.
Lynn Mitcham
Hi, I'm Lynn, and I am a hypnotherapist and counsellor. I love the power of the mind, and how, with help, you can use your mind to overcome whatever is holding you back in life. I offer a free initial consultation, so we can discuss your needs.
Helen Gormley
Hello I'm Helen and I am a qualified transformational coach with many years experience and qualifications (Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, Positive Psychology and Psychology, Mindfulness) in the field of Wellbeing and maximising human potential.
J Tanya Bunting Dip & Post Grad Hyp, NLP Trainer & Licensed Coach, PGCE, NPQH
I am a Licensed Master Practitioner & Trainer of NLP, and a post-graduate Clinical Hypnotherapist. My successful change work includes managing anxiety, overcoming phobias & addictions, trance-forming childbirth and managing weight issues.
Alastair Gibson, Free Consultation in January
Do you want to make changes but don't know how? Helping you start living the life you love. I am a qualified Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, EFT and Lightning Process Practitioner with over ten years of experience.Free initial consultation.
Maria-Luisa Gonzalez MSc BSc DipHE Cert Hyp CS
My name is Maria-Luisa and I run a hypnotherapy business in Bournemouth. I come from a scientific background with a degree in psychology and a masters in neuroscience and neuroimaging. Throughout my career I have worked with many different wonderful...
Carol Davies (Rigler) MHS
Upton Therapy Centre provides Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, promoting a sense of well-being, aiding relaxation and improving energy levels, for a wide range of conditions.
Mr T. Roberts, DHP, SQHP, MIAH, MNGH, MNCH acc. GHR reg.
Dolphin Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy Practice. Clinics in Bournemouth and at a busy Doctors Surgery in Poole. Providing successful treatment for all unwanted habits, behaviours & feelings.
Andy Cox HPD MNCH (Reg) DHyp CHyp CNLP MCMI
Clinical Hypnotherapy in Poole, Wimborne and Dorchester, Dorset; Specialising in confidence, anxiety, stress, insomnia, weight control, phobias, and smoking cessation. Fully qualified & insured, 9 years experience working with over 1,500 clients.
Katalin J Nagy
As a qualified Hypnotherapist and experienced Soul Coach I support my clients in gaining more confidence and help them boost their self-esteem, I assist them in reducing anxiety and stress by relaxation techniques and teaching them self-hypnosis.
Linda Witchell
Feeling stressed, anxious and worry a lot? I know it makes you feel uneasy and out of control because I've helped hundreds of people like you over the years. Learn to feel better fast. Free initial consultation either by phone/Skype or in my office.
Tracy Daniels Dip. SFH, CNHC & AfSFH, Adv. Cert. Counselling, B.A, Cert. Ed.
I provide a friendly and professional service tailored to your individual needs; effective hypnotherapy and NLP for emotional well-being and positive outcomes. I specialise in the management of anxiety including panic attacks and low mood, helping...
Nicolette Pinkney DPSH GQHP GHR & CNHC Reg.
I am a professional hypnotherapist, specializing in Anxiety (incl. stress, phobias & confidence) & Stop Smoking. With nearly 10 years experience, let me help you address these & other issues & make the changes. Please call me for a free consultation.
Zoe Silk
I am very passionate about my work and what I love most is seeing my clients progress. Being able to experience seeing the changes they make and feel within themselves is a wonderful journey to share. I specialise in working with clients that suffer...
Andrea Lindsay
I am a clinical hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, counsellor & coach and I work with adults, couples, children and families on issues such as anxiety, phobias, OCD, stress, addictions, depressive moods, behaviour management and relationship issues.
Lindsay Shepherd
Lindsay Shepherd is a qualified Hypnotherapist based in Bournemouth, Dorset. Working with a wide range of techniques, she can help you to make those positive - and lasting changes - fast! What can Hypnosis do for you? Increase your confidence and...
Helen Downs
My name is Helen Downs and I am a friendly, confidential Hypnotherapist who has a particular interest in Anxiety. I have recently completed a course on Overcoming Trauma and PTSD in Adults.My private practice provides a discrete, holistical approach.
Richard Cawte Ba (Hons), PDCHyp, PCCHyp, BSCH(Assoc), CNCH.
Confidential, qualified, experienced hypnotherapist and stress management consultant with clinics in Wimborne, Poundbury and Sherborne. Free Consultation. Here to help you make lasting changes to your life. I specialize in treating insomnia, stress,...
Alexandra Saxton BSc (Hons) Psychology MCH DHP DCH
Fast track your dream life with Alexandra - The Suggestive Voice of Success. Attain your goals with ease and attract your dreams by removing your subconscious blocks with the power of hypnosis. Clinic based in Wimborne, Dorset.
Sharon Snelgrove (InnerGame Hypnotherapy) - MNCH (Reg.) GQHP
Are fears, anxiety or confidence holding you back in your personal, professional or sporting life? Call now to discuss how hypnotherapy can help you make positive changes and overcome challenges to achieve your true potential. FREE consultation.
Sarah Malone
I am a qualified Professional & Clinical Hypnotherapist with 8 years experience in Life Coaching & NLP. I have helped many clients suffering with Anxiety & related disorders, Stress, Panic attacks, Low Self Esteem & Confidence issues, Fears & Phobias
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To see the real truth of the matter, let us take a look at the Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005. (Go to the linked document, and under "Victims and Offenders" download the pdf file for 2005.)
In Table 42, entitled "Personal crimes of violence, 2005, percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender," we learn that there were 111,590 white victims and 36,620 black victims of rape or sexual assault in 2005. (The number of rapes is not distinguished from those of sexual assaults; it is maddening that sexual assault, an ill-defined category that covers various types of criminal acts ranging from penetration to inappropriate touching, is conflated with the more specific crime of rape.) In the 111,590 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was white, 44.5 percent of the offenders were white, and 33.6 percent of the offenders were black. In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white. The table explains that 0.0 percent means that there were under 10 incidents nationally.
The table does not gives statistics for Hispanic victims and offenders. But the bottom line on interracial white/black and black/white rape is clear:
In the United States in 2005, 37,460 white females were sexually assaulted or raped by a black man, while between zero and ten black females were sexually assaulted or raped by a white man.
What this means is that every day in the United States, over one hundred white women are raped or sexually assaulted by a black man.
The Department of Justice statistics refer, of course, to verified reports. According to the Wikipedia article on rape, as many as half of all rape charges nationally are determined by police and prosecutors to be false:
Linda Fairstein, former head of the New York County District Attorney's Sex Crimes Unit, noted, "There are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen.... It's my job to bring justice to the man who has been falsely accused by a woman who has a grudge against him, just as it's my job to prosecute the real thing."
No wonder there was such absolute belief in the guilt of the Duke students among the leading sectors of liberal America. A drug-addled, half-deranged, promiscuous black stripper accused three young white men of raping her. There are virtually zero rapes of black women by white men in the United States, and half of all rape charges against specific individuals turn out to be false. But in the gnostic, inverted world of liberal demonology, the white students had to be guilty.
Meanwhile, in the real America, week after week, the newspapers report the rapes of white women by black men—though, of course, without ever once using the words, "a white woman was raped by black man." Just last week in the New York Post there was a story about a serial black rapist who invaded women's apartments on Manhattan's Upper West Side; you knew the rapist was black from a police drawing accompanying the story, and you knew the victims were most likely white from the neighborhoods where the attacks occurred. But even when news media's reports of black on white rape make the race of the perpetrator evident (which the media only does in a minority of instances), no explicit reference is ever made to the racial aspect of the case. Each story of black on white rape is reported in isolation, not presented as part of a larger pattern. There is never the slightest mention of the fact that white women in this country are being targeted by black rapists. In the inverted world of liberalism, the phenomenon does not exist.
Lawrence Auster is the author of Erasing America: The Politics of the Borderless Nation. He offers a traditionalist conservative perspective at View from the Right.

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Cory Monteith died of a heroin and alcohol overdose, Kate Middleton's birth plan revealed, and Stacy Keibler opens up about her breakup with George Clooney: See Us Weekly's top 5 stories from Tuesday, July 16, in the roundup!
1. Breaking News: Cory Monteith Died of Heroin, Alcohol Overdose, Autopsy Results Confirm
Cory Monteith died of an accidental drug and alcohol overdose, British Columbia Coroners Service confirmed Tuesday, July 16 in a statement. Found dead at age 31 at his hotel room this past Saturday, the Glee actor "died of a mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol," the press release reveals, citing an autopsy and toxicological testing. "There is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith's death was anything other than a most-tragic accident," the report continues.
2. Exclusive: Kate Middleton's Birth Plan: What Will Happen When She Goes Into Labor?
Royal birth plan! A detailed plan is in place for when pregnant Kate Middleton goes into labor. The palace staff is "on call every day and night in July for this," explains a palace insider to Us Weekly. "There is nothing left to prepare or plan for." As soon as Prince William's wife feels her first contraction, she'll alert her private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, who will then ring Middleton's doctor Marcus Setchell on his palace-issued mobile.
3. Exclusive: Cory Monteith's Ex-Girlfriend: He "Kept Me in the Dark" About Drug Addiction
As Cory Monteith's friends and family members struggle to come to terms with the Glee actor's untimely death, it's clear that his influence was far-reaching — and that he kept his private struggles close to the vest. As his ex-girlfriend, Mallory Matoush, tells Us, Monteith was "just a happy guy." In fact, Matoush tells Us, she never saw any signs of problems when they were together. "Cory kept me in the dark about his drug use," she exclusively tells Us.
4. Stacy Keibler Opens Up About George Clooney Breakup
Stacy Keibler has every intention of remaining friends with her ex-boyfriend George Clooney, whom she recently split with following a two-year courtship. "There's nothing really dramatic that happened, so it's all good," the model and Maryland native told Extra on Monday, July 15. (Even so, a source recently told Us Weekly that the former long-distance couple hadn't "had sex in months" before their breakup.) "I'm someone that's always lived the present moment. I always look at the positive on everything," Keibler, 33, added.
5. Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Cory Monteith's Funeral, Tweets Homophobic Comments
In the wake of Cory Monteith's shocking death on Saturday, July 13, it turns out that the bigger surprise is that not everyone is in mourning. The Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based extremist group known for its very vocal anti-gay sentiments, announced plans to protest the Glee actor's funeral in a series of disturbing, vicious tweets on Tuesday, July 16. "PRAISE GOD ALMIGHTY for killing Cory Monteith — a wicked f– enabling sinner!" the church wrote on its Twitter account.
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Terence Stamp's career has not followed a conventional course – nor, I'd better point out at the start, does my interview with him. It begins on top of an air conditioning unit and ends in a penthouse. At one stage both of us will remove a shoe and Stamp will also sing a verse from the Kinks' classic Waterloo Sunset. If this last part strikes you as a little self-indulgent, bear in mind that he has every right to – after all, it was written about him.
For the time being, though, let us join him in the lobby of a West End hotel where Stamp cuts a distinctive figure among the other guests. At 74, Stamp's hair may be whiter – and thinner – than it once was but otherwise he's aged remarkably well. "Bone structure," he says disinterestedly by way of explanation. "My father had it, too." A famously elegant dresser, today he's wearing a pale brown corduroy suit and a white shirt with unbuttoned cuffs. However, it's not just his looks and his clothes that make him stand out. He is also the only person in the place who's completely still, not moving a muscle as he stares at all the frenetic comings and goings around him.
If age hasn't dimmed him physically, it's done nothing to dim his curiosity either. It soon becomes clear that Stamp is one of those people whose interest can be engaged by almost anything. It's not just the other people in the hotel lobby who fascinate him; it's the vases of flowers, the marble-topped tables, the luggage carts… In the few seconds it takes for the lift to whisk us up to where our interview is due to take place, he even bends down to study the buttons on the control panel. But when we sit down and try to talk, the roar from the air conditioning unit almost drowns out Stamp's whispery voice. Rather nervously, in case he insists on staying put, I ask him if he'd mind if we went somewhere quieter. Stamp, though, is completely unfazed. "I couldn't give a toss where we go," he says, putting his arm around my shoulder. "Let's travel…" Following a consultation with the management, we are shown into an enormous penthouse with sweeping views over the rooftops of London.
Stamp gazes around rubbing his hands in delight. "Oh yes! This is more like it." He's quite an expert on hotel rooms, it turns out, having spent much of his life in them. When I ask him where he lives now, he looks a bit nonplussed and says: "Well, I don't really live anywhere. I stay with friends a lot, or just travel about from hotel to hotel." But where is his home? "Home?" he repeats — the word sitting awkwardly on his tongue. "Oh, I don't have one. Haven't done for years." Like his bone structure, Stamp's restless nature probably comes from his father. Thomas Stamp was a stoker – later a tugboat captain – who spent much of his life steaming up and down the Thames while his wife stayed at home looking after their six children.
Neither, it seems safe to say, ever imagined that their son would become a film star – in those days, working-class boys from Stepney simply didn't do things like that. Stamp, though, was always an unusual child – aged 11, he asked his mother to perm his hair. "Oh yes, that's quite true. She did a very good job, too."
By then, he'd already had what proved to be the defining experience of his life. When he was four, his mother took him to see Gary Cooper in Beau Geste at their local cinema. "Literally, everything changed in that moment. More than anything else in the world, I wanted to be like Gary Cooper. But it never occurred to me to say anything about it because that sort of life wasn't open to people like me. It was just this secret dream. Whenever I could, I went to the movies as a kid; they were really the only light in this otherwise very bleak existence."
For much of Stamp's childhood, his father was away in the War. When he came back, the atmosphere at home suddenly became more strained. "My impression is that he took one look at me and thought, well, his mother's really f----- him up. He used to call me Little Lord Fauntleroy."
Stamp's father is much on his mind today – and for a very good reason. In his new film, Song for Marion, he effectively plays him. His character, Arthur, is a sardonic, emotionally constipated working-class man who has to learn to cope after his wife (played by Vanessa Redgrave) dies of cancer.
Initially, Stamp had reservations about doing the part, he says – mainly because he couldn't see how to make it work. "Then I saw that I could base my performance on my father and that might do it…" He breaks off and stares at the back of his hand – he has oddly flat fingernails that look as if they've been caught in a trouser-press. "It's a strange experience; playing your own father, you know. And what made it stranger still is that I never really knew what he thought of me. I think he was proud, but he'd never have dreamed of saying so."
Partly due to his spending every spare moment in the cinema, Stamp grew up both reserved and solitary. He was also, he insists, completely blind to the gifts that nature had bestowed on him. "I never imagined I was good- looking or attractive or anything like that," he says – although this doesn't sit entirely convincingly with him asking his mother to perm his hair.
Stamp says he and his mother "spent a lot of time together, often listening to the radio." And it was on the radio that he first heard mention of a place called Albany, the Georgian apartment complex just off Piccadilly in the middle of the West End. "I asked my mother what it was and she said, 'Oh, it's where the posh people live.'" From then on, Albany assumed an almost mystical dimension in Stamp's life – not just a symbol of success, but of social exclusivity, too.
When, aged 16, he was working as a messenger boy in Cheapside, Stamp was once given a package addressed to Albany. "I remember going there giving it to this guy in a top hat. He was standing by this open door and through it I could see this amazing vista. And I had this feeling that if I could step inside, something magical would happen. That I'd somehow be transformed. And then this guy in the top hat closed the door."
Shortly afterwards, he started acting in amateur groups. "But I was s---," he says. "I really was. I couldn't learn the words or anything. It was a nightmare." He can't have been that bad, though, because he ended up getting a scholarship to Webber Douglas drama school. Soon after he left, he was picked to play the lead in Peter Ustinov's film of Billy Budd. The film was a big hit and all at once Stamp was famous, part of a new breed of working-class actors like Albert Finney, Peter O'Toole and Michael Caine – with whom Stamp shared a flat for a while.
How did that feel, I wonder; being a good-looking, famous young man in the Swinging Sixties? Surely it can't have been all bad? "Oh no! A lot of the time it was just fantastic. On the other hand, I was never into all the drink and drugs. I tried them, of course, but all the time I was thinking to myself, 'I've got to give this my best shot.' Going out and getting p----- and falling down, that just wasn't for me. Apart from anything else, all the others were so good, you know, Finney, O'Toole… I couldn't just stroll on after a brandy like them. I needed to be as clear-headed as I could."
Although he may have steered clear of drink and drugs, Stamp was a lot less abstemious when it came to women. Among his many girlfriends was the model Jean Shrimpton. "We had this flat in Mount Street and we had this friend who was a decorator. I happened to mention to him that I'd really like to get into Albany. A few days later I got an invitation to tea from John Richardson [the Picasso biographer]. As I was leaving, I said to him, "Listen man, if anything comes up here, let me know.' A few weeks later – bingo!"
Soon, Stamp – now the proud lessee of a "set" in Albany – was mixing with an entirely different crowd to the one he'd been brought up with. At one stage he found himself listening to Princess Margaret telling how, as a teenager, she used to have sexual fantasies about the workmen she saw out of the Buckingham Palace windows.
There were other changes, too – by this time the wheel in his bedroom had turned and Jean Shrimpton had made way for Julie Christie. It was while Stamp was going out with Christie that Ray Davies wrote Waterloo Sunset.
"My brother Chris [who was managing The Who] was very friendly with Ray, and he happened to mention one day that he'd written a song with me and Julie in it." In a strong tuneful voice – in contrast to his flat, still faintly Cockney speaking voice – Stamp starts to sing, "Terry meets Julie/ Waterloo Station/ Every Friday night… Beautiful, isn't it? Always makes me feel funny when I hear it."
But all the while the Sixties were drawing to a close, – and so, too, although Stamp didn't realise it at the time, was his career. After a couple of flops at the start of the Seventies, he suddenly found no one would touch him.
Rather than stick around and repine, Stamp – who'd always had a very intense, ascetic side – went off to an ashram in India.
He ended up staying there for nine years. "In the back of my head, I never completely gave up on acting. But after a while I thought it was never going to happen. And that was fine; I was really very happy in the ashram. I felt I'd enriched myself in a way that I could never have done elsewhere."
Then one morning he was having breakfast in a hotel near the ashram. "By now, I had a beard and I hadn't cut my hair in God knows how long. The concierge says, 'Mr Terence, we've got a cable for you.' And he drags out this grimy, dog-eared envelope addressed to 'Clarence Stamp'. I remember opening the envelope, and there was a tremor in my hand. I think I knew that my life was about to change." Inside was a telegram offering Stamp a part in the first two Superman films. He got straight on a flight, came back to London and was driven to the studio where filming was about to start.
"I didn't even have any chance to buy any clothes and I was still in my orange robes from the ashram. Almost the first thing that happened was Marlon Brando came up to me, took hold of my robe and said, 'What have you been up to then?'" In one sense, Stamp was back – although he wasn't under any illusions about his prospects. "I knew I wasn't a leading man any more. At the time I thought of my looks as going, but they were just changing. Even so, I was getting on a bit. I thought if I could become a character actor, do the occasional thing, that would be fine."
He had also come to realise something else about himself. Children, house, commitment, stability… none of it was for him. "Perhaps I'd known that from the start, although maybe I hadn't acknowledged it. I always saw myself as a kind of strolling player, travelling about, and that was part of the price of the trip, as far as I was concerned."
He'd learnt, too, that he could manage without money. "I didn't really need it – or not much of it anyway. Being in the ashram taught me that. And at various times, I've literally run out. There was a time in the Nineties when I didn't have the money for a bus fare once. But fortunately I'd bought all this white wine, Chateau d'Yquem, in the Sixties. I hadn't drunk much of it, so, whenever things got tight, I could sell a case and that would tide me over."
For the past 30 years, ever since he gave up his flat in Albany, Stamp has led this strange nomadic existence. Although he's worked quite a lot – in films like The Limey, Wall Street, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Valkyrie – he's never planned ahead, nor stayed in one place for long.
Does he know where he's going to be in, say, a month's time? "I really don't," he says. "I have good chums all over the place, so I just pick up on what's happening. And if no one is around I'll just go off to another hotel. Home is where my head is."
Does he ever get lonely? "Yeah! Definitely. I spend an inordinate amount of time on my own. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's not. I'm always happy for the phone to ring, though, and someone to invite me to dinner."
Then, in 2003, Stamp did something quite uncharacteristic: he got married – to an Australian pharmacist 35 years his junior. But it didn't last: after five years his wife divorced him for unreasonable behaviour – he won't say what went wrong – and Stamp packed his suitcase and moved on.
It can't be easy not having a home, I say, especially if you care as much about clothes as he does. "Well, I keep things in different people's houses. Also, it's not as if I'm changing my wardrobe all the time. I tend to hang on to stuff for as long as possible. Take these shoes for instance. They were specially made for me years ago by this brilliant man called George Cleverley."
Leaning forward, Stamp stares at my shoes. "I like those," he says. "I've always had a thing about suede brogues. Cost a bit, though, I bet." When I tell him I bought them from a website for £39.95, Stamp becomes very excited indeed. "That's amazing. Can I have a look?"
So it is that we sit on the carpet and I show him my shoe and he shows me his. Stamp points at his stockinged foot. "Unfortunately, I have to get all my shoes made for me as I have this very long middle toe on my left foot. Evidence of my Neanderthal past." He laughs. "Probably explains a lot about me."
"There's something else I want to ask," I say.
"About shoes?"
"No, not about shoes. About getting older. I wonder how you feel about being 74?"
"Not at all bad, actually," he says. "I'm much more at ease with myself than I was, say, in my twenties. Of course, I'd love to have a head of black hair like I did then, but you can't have everything. You see, I have the life that suits me. It wouldn't suit everyone, I know, but it does suit me.
"And there's something else, too, a lot of the dreams that I had – they've been realised. I mean, there aren't that many people who can say that, are there?"
With that, he picks up my shoe and looks at it again, turning it over in his hands like a piece of porcelain. It seems an appropriate place to leave him somehow. A singular man with one shoe on and one shoe off, striding happily towards an uncertain future.
'Song for Marion' is released on February 22
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Recipe Source Love: Everyday Food by Martha Stewart
As I develop my inspiration recipes for the week using my Fast, Fresh, & Flexible Freestyle Menu Planning system, I turn to magazines often, and I thought I'd share on of my favorites and why I enjoy it.
Everyday Food, is a digest sized magazine, published by Martha Stewart 10 times a year. For $15 you can get both a print and an iPad subscription. Because I tend to tear my magazines apart and file the recipes by category, it's nice to have the iPad version to refer back to it, and it includes video clips on some of the recipes.
There is also a companion PBS show, although I haven't managed to catch it lately.
Why do I like it? The recipes are simple, but tasty, and are as the title suggests, for everyday cooking. Each issue contains a piece that focuses on a single seasonal ingredient; what it is, how to use it, and several recipes. There is usually a recipe scaled especially for a single cook. A weekly plan, including a shopping list is featured, as well as some simple side dishes you probably hadn't thought of.
There are two soft bound compilation volumes, the most recent is Everyday Food Light, which I picked up at Sam's Club for around $15.
This month's issue (March 2012) is the "Budget Issue" (each issue usually follows a theme). It features a caramelized onion soup recipe from Tamar Adler, author of The Everlasting Meal, which is one of the inspirations for Fast, Fresh, and Flexible. The next session of the Fast, Fresh & Flexible class series will focus on seasoning and building flavors in dishes, and caramelized onions will be one of the featured dishes.
I am posting a list of my weekly inspiration recipes with sources on my Facebook page, be sure to follow me there if you want to see what's cooking.
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CONWAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A chemist who worked at a Massachusetts state drug lab was indicted on Monday on state charges of tampering with evidence and stealing cocaine held in evidence, in the second case against a state chemist in recent months.
Sonja Farak, who has been suspended with pay from her position at a state drug lab in western Massachusetts, was charged with theft of a controlled substance from an authorized dispensary and tampering with evidence, and possession of a Class B substance, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said in a statement.
Farak, 35, was arrested in January on charges related to her work at the Amherst Drug Laboratory, about 90 miles west of Boston, and pleaded not guilty to charges of tampering and drug possession.
Her arrest came a month after another state drug lab chemist, Annie Dookhan, was indicted on charges of falsifying evidence in thousands of drug cases, resulting in the release of hundreds of people who had been convicted on related charges.
Last week, a state court judge ordered the suspension of the sentences of eight imprisoned men due to the questions about Farak's evidence handling, according to local media.
Prosecutors charged Dookhan with inspecting samples only visually, a pattern apparently intended to speed up evidence handling. Dookhan has pleaded not guilty.
In Farak's case, prosecutors said she had removed drug samples for her own use and mixed drug evidence samples with counterfeit drugs to hide the theft.
Her attorney did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.
The Amherst lab where Farak worked stores and analyzes controlled substances seized by local and state police. Lab supervisors in January contacted State Police to report a discrepancy in the controlled substance evidence inventory, and police and Coakley's office began investigating.
Authorities said they found controlled substances believed to be cocaine both in Farak's workstation and in her vehicle, Coakley said. In addition, they found Farak had materials consistent with the counterfeit material allegedly added to two of the drug samples.
Farak began working as a state lab chemist at the Hinton lab in Boston in 2002 and moved to the Amherst lab in 2004, Coakley said. State police assumed oversight of the Amherst lab and the Hinton lab from the Department of Public Health in July after learning of Dookhan's alleged activities.
Editing by Scott Malone, Cynthia Johnston and Steve Orlofsky


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Polluted storm water runoff is often transported to Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) and ultimately discharged into local rivers and streams without treatment. EPA's Storm Water Phase II Rule establishes an MS4 storm water management program that is intended to improve the Nation's waterways by reducing the quantity of pollutants that storm water picks up and carries into storm sewer systems during storm events. Common pollutants include oil and grease from roadways, pesticides from lawns, sediment from construction sites, and carelessly discarded trash. When deposited into nearby waterways through MS4 discharges, these pollutants can impair the waterways, thereby discouraging recreational use of the resource, contaminating drinking water supplies, and interfering with the habitat for fish and wildlife.
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CrossFit Kids, a worldwide fitness program designed for children, is working with Infant Swimming Resource, the safest provider of survival swimming lessons worldwide, to teach children water-survival skills, safety, and confidence that will help children Prepare For The Unexpected.
"As the first ones on the scene, fire fighters and police officers know drowning tragedies all too well," said Greg Glassman, CrossFit CEO. "All four of my children have successfully completed ISR's Self-Rescue program, and I am a believer that a moment's inattention does not have to cost a child his life. Through this initiative, CrossFit Kids and ISR will be teaching children to be survivors."
"Many families do not realize the threat that drowning poses to their children. They don't realize they won't even hear a splash, and that a child can be properly trained to survive in the water alone," said Harvey Barnett, Ph.D., pediatric drowning prevention specialist and founder of Infant Swimming Resource. "When it comes to swimming lessons, everyone is in need -- together we are preparing children for the unexpected.
All that we are at ISR, and all that we want to achieve is expressed through our mission: "Not One More Child Drowns." Never has our mission been more beautifully and powerfully captured than by the video series, "Sterling's Story." Through the collaborative efforts of a very special family, ISR, and CrossFit Kids, we are able to share the story of one tremendously compassionate and brave mom and the loss of her son, Sterling. Please take a few moments to watch this video series. We know that it will touch your heart.
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SATO, a leader in barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, recently announced the establishment of SATO Healthcare Co., Ltd., a new business formed with the aim of becoming a "one-stop" company for hospitals, medical organizations and healthcare businesses seeking to improve patient safety and realize peace of mind through the use of auto-identification technology solutions. SATO Healthcare will begin operations on April 1, 2014.
Building on the expertise accumulated over SATO Group's years of involvement in the healthcare industry, SATO Healthcare aims to become the leader in Patient Safety Solutions (PSS). Currently providing solutions utilizing auto-ID technologies such as IC tags and barcodes to reduce medical errors and track medical items such as blood bags, the establishment of SATO Healthcare will expand SATO Group's offering to the global healthcare industry even further with comprehensive solutions of printers, labels, software, and maintenance services designed specifically to meet the needs of healthcare industry professionals and their patients.
SATO Healthcare will also collaborate with SATO Vicinity, another recent addition to the SATO family, and a pioneer in RFID technology, well-recognized for its unique PJM (Phase Jitter Modulation) radio frequency data transmission technology. Cooperation between these two companies will enable SATO to create new value for its customers through the use of cutting edge technology.
"Demand for higher standards in healthcare is sure to increase as societies around the globe continue to change," commented Hiroyuki Konuma, President of SATO Healthcare. "This could be widespread healthcare concerns in relation to aging populations in developed countries, or heightened healthcare expectations from people in emerging economies enjoying increased incomes. Whatever the situation, with the establishment of SATO Healthcare and the potential it has for synergies with SATO Vicinity, SATO Group is showing its strong commitment to support organizations and businesses in the healthcare industry across the world. It is our sincere hope that SATO Healthcare will make a significant contribution to increasing standards of safety, accuracy and peace of mind in the global healthcare industry."
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SATO is a pioneer and leading global provider of integrated Automatic Identification and Data Collection solutions that leverage barcode and RFID technologies. SATO manufactures innovative, reliable auto-identification systems and offers complete solutions to businesses by integrating hardware, software, consumables and maintenance services. SATO's solutions enable businesses to realize precision, labor and resource savings that help preserve the environment and deliver peace of mind to consumers. All of which contribute to the development of a sustainable world.
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NORTH BERWICK, Maine — A public hearing last week brought much heated discussion on proposed zoning ordinances to allow a Hannaford supermarket in this rural town.
The public spoke loudly and strongly, mostly in agreement, on protecting their small historic town. A letter from Darren Szczechowicz, who lives on Route 4, was read. The letter claimed the zoning proposal would change surrounding property from residential to commercial and has the potential to destroy property values.
"This would open up the possibility of any commercial business across the street from my family's home. Instead of the beautiful view of well cared for homes and trees, I could potentially be looking at a strip mall, a gas station, a tire store, or, the worst, an adult business," the letter from Szczechowicz said.
The proposed supermarket and pharmacy would be located at 33 Somersworth Road, near the intersection of routes 9 and 4.
The Community Center on Lebanon Road held a crowd of North Berwick citizens, many who stood to speak.
"Obviously, you can tell that I'm not happy with the zoning change process to date. Changes were proposed without consulting the comprehensive plan. The changes had so many conflicts with our comprehensive plan that our town manger had to come up with an alternative proposal. He recognized that the Planning Board's proposal would never be elected. Expansion of our commercial districts is not needed. There is 77 percent potential percentage increase and 14 sites available," said North Berwick resident Rick Stambaugh.
Stambaugh also presented a list of reasons at the public hearing why a majority of North Berwick residents greatly opposed the change in their area.
"The proposed changes directly conflict with our comprehensive plan by encouraging expansion along routes 4 & 9, which will gut our downtown. There hasn't been enough deliberation of the multiple proposals and their consequences. It's time to slow down and get it right," said Stambaugh.
Voices at the public hearing reached out to the Planning Board stating municipal officials should not be degrading the town to suit Hannaford's request and that the supermarket chain should meet standing requirements.
Two zoning proposals were brought to the public's attention at the hearing: To expand the three commercial zones or allow certain changes to the commercial zone. According to the public statement given at hearing: "The Commercial Zones in the Town of North Berwick are proposed to be expanded to allow for additional commercial opportunities, enhance local tax base and increase the availability of local employment. The commercial zones should remain close to the village on Routes 4 and 9, north and east of the village closest to the interstate highway. But on further review, this does not allow for larger scale development due to the lack of available land and the current residential uses that exist on these land areas. The Planning Board has also proposed expanding the commercial zones north and east of the current boundaries to provide additional land for commercial growth opportunities."
The Town Manager, Dwayne Morin, then presented his alternative proposal that he believes is simpler and has fewer conflicts with the comprehensive plan.
Morin's proposal will prohibit large scale stores, adult businesses, medical marijuana facilities, drive-thru franchises and restrict drive-thru restaurants to expand other than what the current zoning allows.
The Planning Board has considered a change to the commercial zone proposal that states they will increase the three commercial zones in town and hold a town vote.
Both proposals suggest that expansion will be done. The question remains: which proposal will be brought forward?
On Thursday, Feb. 7, a meeting will be held to decide which proposal will be brought to the town selectmen and the voters of North Berwick.


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Worn Out is built from a thousand of the artist's old practice balls when he was an aspiring tennis player. Each ball represents a brick used to once pave his yellow brick road. In this sculpture their purpose and functions have been readdressed for the amusement of others. In front of the carpet is a low set monitor, displaying a video of the artist practicing a bucket of my tennis serves, enticing the audience not to just walk over, but to sit and be apart of the piece. The video is repetitive and monotonous, almost meditative, the way practice always felt to the artist. The serves hit with proper technique are slowed down to be enhanced and savored.


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Hundreds of people in Yorkshire face a long and life-threatening wait for an organ transplant, after it emerged only around 100 people in the county donated organs last year.
The latest figures show there are approximately 800 people on the transplant waiting list in the county at present. Every day three people nationally die waiting for a transplant.
Average waiting times in Yorkshire for liver transplants are 25 per cent longer than the national average at around 222 days, while the average wait for a kidney transplant in the White Rose is a staggering 1,114 days.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTH), Yorkshire's leading transplant centre, is urging more residents to sign the NHS Organ Donor Register after only 114 people in the county donated organs in 2014/15.
Dr Simon Flood, a clinical lead for organ donation at LTH, said: "Sadly there are still approximately 800 people in Yorkshire waiting for a transplant. Just one organ donor can transform the lives of up to nine people and if more families felt sure of their loved one's wishes to be a donor, more lives could be saved."
The lifesaving actions of the 114 Yorkshire donors gave 294 desperately ill patients organs last year. Nationally around 10,000 people are in need of a transplant.
A donor, someone who agrees to donate their organs to others after death, can help up to nine people by donating their heart, lungs, two kidneys, pancreas, liver and small bowel and can restore the sight of two people by donating their corneas.
The Leeds Transplant Centre at LTH has been providing complex organ transplants for Yorkshire for over 25 years. It is the third largest liver transplant unit in the UK, a leading centre for 'live related' transplants and a regional centre for renal transplants.


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RIO DE JANEIRO � The American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll start publishing material with more frequency and fervor after his partner was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport.
RIO DE JANEIRO � The American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll start publishing material with more frequency and fervor after his partner was detained for nine hours at Heathrow Airport.
London police detained David Miranda, the partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald, under anti-terror legislation at the London airport on Sunday. Miranda finally arrived Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with Greenwald.
A defiant Greenwald promised that he was going "to write much more aggressively than before" about government snooping.
"I'm going to publish many more things about England, as well," he said in Portuguese at Rio's international airport when Miranda arrived. "I have many documents about England's espionage system, and now my focus will be there, too. I think they'll regret what they've done."
Miranda said he wasn't threatened while detained at Heathrow, but confirmed that personal objects were taken from him.
"I stayed in a room, there were six different agents, entering and leaving, who spoke with me," he said. "They asked questions about my whole life, about everything. They took my computer, video game, cellphone, memory thumb drives, everything."
In London, a British lawmaker called for police to explain why Miranda had been detained and why it took nearly nine hours to question him.
Miranda was held for nearly the maximum time that British authorities are allowed to detain individuals under the Terrorism Act's Schedule 7, which authorizes security agencies to stop and question people at borders.
"What needs to happen pretty rapidly is we need to establish the full facts," Keith Vaz, chairman of Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee, told the BBC.
"Now you have a complaint from Mr. Greenwald and the Brazilian government � they indeed have said they are concerned at the use of terrorism legislation for something that does not appear to relate to terrorism. So it needs to be clarified, and clarified quickly."
Vaz said it was "extraordinary" that police knew that Miranda was Greenwald's partner and that the authorities were targeting partners of people involved in Snowden's disclosures.
Britain's laws are not unique. U.S. customs officials can search the electronic devices of anyone entering the U.S. without a search warrant. According to a 2011 internal Homeland Security Department report, officers at the border can search the devices and in some cases hold on to them for weeks or months. The DHS has said such searches help law enforcement detect child pornographers or terrorists.
Greenwald has written about NSA surveillance programs based on files disclosed by Snowden, who now has temporary asylum in Russia. The Obama administration wants Snowden sent back to the United States to be tried for the leaks.
Miranda, a 28-year-old university student, was stopped while traveling home to Brazil after visiting Germany, where he met with Laura Poitras, a U.S. filmmaker who has worked with Greenwald on the NSA story.
British police acknowledged that they had detained a 28-year-old man at 8:05 a.m. He was released at 5 p.m. without being arrested, the Metropolitan Police Service said. They have not commented further.
The Guardian newspaper reported it paid for Miranda's flights but said that he was not an employee of the newspaper.
"As Glenn Greenwald's partner, he often assists him in his work," the newspaper said in statement. "We would normally reimburse the expenses of someone aiding a reporter in such circumstances."
In an email Monday to The Associated Press, Greenwald said he needed material from Poitras for stories he was working on with her relating to the NSA, and that he had things that she needed.
"David, since he was in Berlin, helped with that exchange," Greenwald wrote.
Greenwald didn't say what material Miranda may have been carrying, but said only he and Poitras "have copies of the full archives of NSA documents which Snowden gave to journalists, so much of the speculation about what he was or wasn't carrying is misinformed."
The British Home Office did not comment on Miranda's detention.
But it defended Schedule 7 in a report last year, arguing it was designed to help authorities determine whether people crossing U.K. borders have been involved in the "commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism." Border agents are not required to have reasonable suspicion before detaining a traveler.
David Anderson, Britain's official independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said he had asked authorities to explain why Miranda was detained and held for so long. He said fewer than 40 people out of 69,000 stopped under Schedule 7 in 2011-2012 were held for six hours or more.
In most cases, those questioned under Schedule 7 are detained for less than an hour.
"It is such a wide power that it would be surprising if it was used perfectly on every occasion," Anderson told the BBC. "It is a very extensive power and this just points up the need to have it properly controlled."
Isabella Sankey, policy director at the human rights organization Liberty, said the group had challenged Schedule 7 at the European Court of Human Rights. The British government is expected to submit submissions on the merits of the case in mid-September.
"This case very clearly highlights all the huge problems with this power," she said. "Shocking that it is, we're not surprised. We see this power used routinely. ... It's caused huge alienation."
A spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said that "Schedule 7 forms an essential part of the U.K.'s border security arrangements," but added that it was for the police to decide "when it is necessary and proportionate to use these powers."


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While working on a server farm for a client I kept running into some issues with one of the servers. The issue appeared to be a single CentOS Linux server in a cluster of ten CentOS Linux servers configured exactly the same as the other nine CentOS Linux servers was having issues writing to a network storage device. Initially I figured that the CentOS Linux server having the issues had some permission issues with the directory that was mounted to the SAN (Storage Area Network) however after minimal troubleshooting it was verified that the permissions were identical to the other servers. I started looking through other logs on the server having the issue and located some SELinux errors that were noticeably related to the issue at hand. Below I describe where the SELinux error was located, what the specific errors were, and how I was able to resolve the errors on this specific CentOS Linux server.


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'How can I forget her?'
Mohandas K Gandhi has not said that of any woman. 'Woman'?
'Girl', really, from a Tamil family of indentured labourers
working in the Transvaal, South Africa, where MKG had turned, with the
turn of the 19th century, from lawyer to protester for the rights of the
Indian community, from a barrister clutching a rail ticket no one around
honoured to a statesman no one could ignore.
Let me give the reader Gandhi's own description of the woman he
was writing about: "Valliamma R Munuswami Mudaliar was a young girl
of Johannesburg only 16 years of age. She was confined to bed when I saw
her. As she was a tall girl, her emaciated body was a terrible thing to
behold. 'Valliamma, you do not repent of your having gone to jail?'
I asked. 'Repent? I am even now ready to go to jail again, if I
am arrested', said Valliamma. 'But what if it results in your
death?', I pursued. 'I do not mind it. Who would not love
to die for one's motherland?' was the reply."
Valliamma Crossing Over on February 22, 1913.
Gandhi said hers was "an immortal name". It means virtually
nothing to most of us in this generation, certainly to most of us outside
of Tamil Nadu and, I should add, South Africa. There, the name conjures
a legend. There is something wisp-like about her that kindles awe but
eludes knowledge, even understanding. No longer a child, not yet a woman,
what made her join Gandhi's first satyagraha, his first mass march,
that year, 100 years ago?
As Gandhi was preparing for the march from his ashram in Phoenix, outside
Durban, Kastur took her husband to task.
"I am sorry that you are not telling me about this. What defect
is there in me which disqualifies me for jail? You are inviting others…
I also wish to go…" "… it should not appear…
as if you went at my instance…' "If you can endure hardships,
and so can my boys, why cannot I?... I am bound to join" "…
In that case I am bound to admit you…" Even as Valli turned
from 'an ordinary girl' to an extraordinary revolutionary,
Kastur turned from an 'an ordinary housewife' to one who led
a leader to the road where leadership began.
The other women like 44 years old Kastur, on the march — and they
were a minority among the men — were all much older than Valli,
mostly married, most of them mothers stung into action by a new law that
disrecognised Indian marriages.
Valli joined them, regardless, on the long dusty march down the fields,
down the roads, eating little, sleeping less. We can picture her, jumping
over the runnels of water, doe-stepped, with the light of youth in her
eyes, bringing cheer to the older marchers. I can imagine her, very specifically,
comforting the Tamil mother who lost her babe in one gushing stream. I
can imagine Valli being the very life of the determined group of marchers,
the 'Transvaal party' as they were called.
There is no record to tell us if they sang as they marched, Tamil songs,
perhaps, with Hindi ones added or, some in the language, Gujarati, of
their leader they called 'Gandhibhai'.
Indian Tamil, Valli was an Indian South African. She had never been to
India, her motherland. She never was to. She may have pictured, though,
her ancestral village, Thillaiyadi, with its little temple, its paddy
fields. But there where she was, Valli was South African, of South African
earth, knowing only that country's sugar cane fields and the mines
of gold she and her people worked in.
Just as she could not have pictured India in any detail, she could not
have, not at her age, thought of death. I wonder if she thought of consequences,
death included, when during the march at one point, the SA police arrived
in jeeps, raising arrogant dust, when it took the marchers in, when they
entered the jail gates, when the iron clangs shut behind her in the dank
and dark of Pietermaritzburg's jail.
And I wonder, in particular, what one woman said to Valli and in what
language. Kastur was among the women marchers arrested with Valli. Did
Kastur tell Valli ' So… Valliamma… this is it! We have
chosen to suffer, so here we are…. but tell me… I have done
what I have because that man… your Gandhibhai… I have known
him… Moniya… as his parents used to call him…. now for
some 30 years… he is like that only…. he lifts you up and
you just get carried away… and then asks 'why are you getting
carried away?' but you… why did you, child, have to join….'
But Kastur may not have had to wait for an answer. She saw Valli was not
thinking of herself but of something beyond. And that beyond was: did
any doctor come to Valli when she took ill in that jail? Perhaps an indifferent
jail doctor did and perhaps — who knows? — Valli did not care
to be examined by some strange man who did not seem to keen to examine
her. The fact is Valli, given like the others including Kastur hard labour
and food unfit to be eaten, was grievously ill already. Having traipsed
through the march, entered the prison gates like a bird, by the time they
opened to let her out, she was too ill to walk. Kastur - thirty years
later, another jail, another country — her 'own'. The
Mahatma as he is now known and Ba as she is called by millions, are in
The Aga Khan Palace detention Camp, Poona. She is grievously ill, pneumonia
has been diagnosed. A handful of members of the family and family friends
as 'attendants', have been permitted access. MKG writes to
the home secretary, government of Bombay: "The patient is no better.
The attendants are about to break down. Four only can work — two
at a time on alternate nights. All four have to work during the day. The
patient herself is getting restive, and inquires: 'When will Dr
Dinshaw come?'… I hope it may not have to be said that the
relief came too late…".
Their youngest son Devadas asks his father if penicillin, the latest drug
on the block, should not be tried. Kastur herself is too weak to say anything
upon it. "Why don't you trust God?", the father tells
his agonised son. "Why do you wish to drug your mother even on her
death bed?"
He knows, the Mahatma does. It is her death bed. The end comes on the
same date, marked earlier by the same Visitor. February 22. Only the year
is different. Gandhi's remote jailer, the Viceroy writes to his
prisoner to condole. Only the British can manage something as bizarre.
Gandhi thanks him and Lady Wavell for their "kind condolences"
and says, "I have welcomed her death as bringing freedom from living
agony… (but) I feel the loss more than I had thought I would…
We were a couple outside the ordinary".


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At a given bar on a given night, he wrote, these disease-free singles would then make the pool of sexually active adults safer. The article was based largely on an academic paper by another economist, Michael Kremer, theorizing that the spread of AIDS could be slowed in England if everybody with fewer than about 2.25 partners got around a bit moreThe link is to a book review by David Leonhardt, who doesn't think much of what he calls the the economists' "imperialist movement" -- intruding their analysis into all sorts of human affairs:
[The book is] short on the nuance that comes from real human stories. Landsburg's characters tend toward the hypothetical... and his arguments, as he puts it at one point, can sound like "idle Sunday dorm-room chitchat."
This problem plagues many of the new economic imperialists: like the overly chaste singles who are supposedly contributing to the H.I.V. epidemic, they don't get out enough. They are asking good questions about epidemiology and psychology, but they are not spending much time with epidemiologists and psychologists, let alone with the people who are the subjects of their academic research.
IN THE COMMENTS: One of the coolest things about blogging: the author of the book appears and defends himself (in a thread that hilariously begins with the comment "He was great on Barney Miller").


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Mobius Mysteries Untangled with Gwen BortnerThe mobius has long been held as one of the unique forms in geometry, as a three-dimensional object with only one side. But create it in a simple knitted fabric and it can become a beautiful project. The secret to creating a mobius is found at the beginning of the project. Students will gain an understanding of each of the three different methods for creating this mysterious shape while at the same time gaining insights of how knitted fabric is created. A simple cowl will be started during class.
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5-FAM, SE is a single isomer. It is one of the most popular green fluorescent reagents used for labeling peptides, proteins and nucleotides. It has also been used to prepare various small fluorescent molecules.


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The Washington Bridge is a paired bridge carrying Interstate 195 over the Seekonk River from Providence to East Providence. The original (southern) span was opened on September 25, 1930, as a bascule bridge, replacing an older swing bridge on the site that dated to 1885. It is dedicated to George Washington, the first President of the United States.
Excerpt from: Wikipedia article on the Washington Bridge
The Washington Bridge, which spans the Seekonk River between Providence and East Providence, was first opened to traffic in 1793. Since then, there have been four more Washington Bridges in roughly the same location. The original wooden bridge was destroyed by fire and replaced by another wooden bridge, which was replaced in the mid-nineteenth century. This bridge lasted until 1885, when a first Washington Bridge Commission was formed in 1883 (Public Law 1883, ch. 349) to develop a structure to replace the previous wood structure. It, too, was eventually replaced by a steel structure strong enough to carry a streetcar line. In addition, the new bridge also featured a swing span that permitted boats to pass through.
In 1920 the General Assembly established a second Washington Bridge Commission to investigate the feasibility of constructing a higher-level bridge that could accommodate the significantly increased volume of maritime. traffic. The Commission worked from 1920 to 1924, at which time it submitted a final report to the General Assembly. In 1927, the Commission was directed to proceed with construction. A contract for design was awarded to the Merrittt-Chapman and Scott Corporation. The Army Corps of Engineers approved the Commission's design for a drawbridge with a horizontal clearance of 100 feet. Flanking the drawbridge on either side were to be three concrete arches with spans of 105 feet each, and adjacent to these spans on the shores, there were to be three concrete arches with spans of 89 feet each. The open-spandrel construction method that was used for the six arches was designed to minimize the cost of materials.
For the final design, the Commission employed the services of two New Yorkers, consulting engineer Clarence W. Hudson and architect Carl L. Otto (who embodied the "City Beautiful" movement of the early 20th century.) Stone facing on the arches, rounded bridge piers and other ornamentation added beauty to the bridge's symmetrical design.
In November 1930, the American Society of Civil Engineers' Civil Engineering magazine described the bridge as "a product of a combination of the highest type of engineering and architectural skill, and will long stand as an object of utility and beauty of which the people of Rhode Island may well be proud."
The open-spandrel, reinforced concrete arch bridge was a popular style for early 20th century multiple-span highways bridges. When completed, the fifth Washington Bridge stretched 549 meters (1,800 feet) in length, and at 25.9 meters (85 feet) in width. Rather than a massive, concrete-filled structure or solid spandrel walls, the bridge incorporated 6 separate arch ribs, 12 arch spans, and 1,512 vertical columns supporting the roadway deck. At the time, this method was more cost effective because it used less concrete and took advantage of local labor and materials.
After two years of construction, the Washington Bridge opened to traffic on September 25, 1930. The $3.5 million cost of the bridge was financed through the sale of bonds.
Dana Alexander Nolfe, "The Space Between" Public Roads, Vol. 68, no. 2, Sept/Oct 2004.
The State Archives also holds records dating back to the first Washington Bridge, including financial records, hearing records, and a number of sketches; its administration in mid-century, and the builiding of the fourth bridge in the 1880s - 1890s. In addition, the State Archives also has in its custody a collection of lantern slides from the State Board of Public Roads containing images of the various aspects of the bridge's construction (1927-1935.) See Department of Public Works (RG37). Finally, the General Assembly records include annual reports submitted by the Commission. (1995-461 Bridges: Maps and Reports)
Washington Bridge Society Records, 1792-1838
Washington Bridge Society, Account Reports, 1840 - 1861
Washington Bridge Commission, Damage Claim Petitions, 1890-1891


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United Airlines told a group of congressmen and senators that it would delay by up to 60 days the implementation of a policy that denies certain agencies the right to use the carrier's credit card merchant accounts to process credit card sales for United tickets.
United Airlines told a group of congressmen and senators that it would delay by up to 60 days the implementation of a policy that denies certain agencies the right to use the carrier's credit card merchant accounts to process credit card sales for United tickets.
In response to a request from the group to reconsider or at least delay the move, United said it would "individually notify and assist the impacted agents that request more time to adjust to this change, providing up to sixty additional days to transition." On June 19, United notified 28 travel agencies that they would be cut off from its merchant accounts on July 20. In a letter dated July 10, 13 representatives, led by Michael A. Arcuri (D-N.Y.), said the policy "appears to undermine the protections granted to consumers by the federal Fair Credit Billing Act," which includes the right to dispute charges for non-performed service. Noting that the provision has been "an important safeguard for many consumers in airline bankruptcies," the representatives said United's new policy "will shift both costs and large risks to consumers."
After the initial letter was sent, two senators and three other congressmen sent additional letters to United. In its response, signed by Jeff Foland, senior vice president of worldwide sales and distribution, United said its action "neither violates nor undermines the Fair Credit Billing Act. There will be no difference in how credit card disputes will be handled from a customer's perspective."
United said customers who charge their tickets with travel agents will continue to have the right to dispute charges to their card issuer for non-performed services.
Foland's letter also said the "action was very limited in scope, confined to a small number of agencies and in no way was intended to be a broad move in the marketplace as has been interpreted by outside organizations." In addition, United said, it has "commercial arrangements with thousands of agencies worldwide to distribute our services, and has many current and long-standing relationships under which the travel agent acts as the merchant of record."
John Tague, United's new president, reiterated that statement in a conference call with analysts to discuss second-quarter earnings. "We are expanding the definition of how we are going to apply that initially," he said. "You can expect us to continue to take calculated risks such as these" to reduce distribution costs. "There are no sacred cows," he said.
BTC chairman says United's explanation 'doesn't add up'
Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, challenged United Airlines' explanation for its move to deny certain travel agencies the use of its credit card merchant accounts.
In a letter to United chairman Glenn Tilton, Mitchell wrote, "You and I both know that this attempt to shift airline sales-costs to travel agencies and on to your corporate customers can only work if airlines act in concert to affect such a radical change." Mitchell said he would bring the matter to the attention of the Justice Department's antitrust division. "We will be making the case that if UAL's drastic initiative were to be matched by other airlines it would not have been possible without competitor signaling, collusion and action," he wrote.
United's Foland responded that "claims made in your letter are misguided, apparently based purely on rumor or speculation within the agent community. We have not made any broad or major moves, having communicated directly with only a relatively small number of non-aligned agencies on commercial program changes, and have no intention of taking the matter public." Foland said the move was part of United's continuing drive to lower distribution costs, "including the increasing costs of credit card usage." Mitchell responded that "Something just does not make sense regarding your explanation."
He said if the increasing costs of credit card usage is the problem "how does focusing on a small number of low producing, non-contracted agencies that would drive a small amount of cost to UA address it? Something doesn't add up unless UA's early move was the trial balloon most observers believe it was, and that UA is really just in the early stages of a broad based cost shifting move -- in which case you would be 'taking the matter public,' as has already happened."
Mitchell added that "in addition to transferring your credit card costs to the consumer, and causing them to be substantially increased under travel agency merchant agreements, you will be introducing unprecedented complexity and driving significant new costs for travel agents that will also be passed to the consumer in the form of higher service fees."
Mitchell has maintained that many travel agencies, especially in the current economic environment, would not likely be approved for merchant agreements at all, or if approved, not at the charge volumes or affordable discount-rate levels necessary to absorb the merchant card risks from airlines.
He said the likely high reserves required might be unworkable for many agencies, effectively forcing them to attempt to service clients using airline Web sites, where comparison shopping among airline options is "nonexistent."


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Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge 2014 – The Story Behind Jack Russell
Each year Kintalk (Auckland Libraries) issues their Trans Tasman ANZAC Day blog challenge and I always take the opportunity to participate and tell the story of one of my military ancestors. This year my military ancestor is Jack Russell but there are no Russell's in the family. How and why are two questions that leap to mind and there is a simple answer – Jack Russell was a pseudonym that our ancestor used to join the AIF in WW1. He was underage but the truth was only revealed towards the end of the war.
Thomas Henry Alphonsus Spencer was born in Brisbane in 1899 but moved with his family to South Australia. In 1914 he was in the employ of Messrs Simpson and Son as a tinsmith at Gawler Place, Adelaide and was living with a Mr Boase in Adelaide while his parents (father and step mother) were living at Laura. Thomas ran away from the Boase family on 25 May with another boy leaving a letter indicating that they were heading for Queensland. An inquiry from his father Henry Spencer, in the South Australian Police Gazette, describes Thomas as 15 years old, 5 ft 5 ins tall, thin build, fair complexion, brown hair, grey eyes, medium nose and stoops slightly when walking. Towards the end of Jun 1914 there is a follow up notice saying that Henry had heard from his son.
We catch up with Thomas the following year when he enlisted in the AIF on 22 Apr 1915 in Keswick, South Australia as Jack Russell. In Nov 1915 he was sent to Gallipoli, then a year later on to France in Nov 1916. By 1918 the army had become aware of the real identity of Jack Russell. In Feb 1918 his father Henry Spencer was asked to send a copy of Thomas' birth certificate. Henry also advised that he had tried to find Thomas but did not know what name he had enlisted under. He knew from a Chaplain McKenzie that Thomas had gone to Egypt. Henry said that he would have willingly let him enlist had he known and he hoped that everything would turn out alright.
To confirm Thomas' real identity, Henry Spencer had to sign a statutory declaration confirming that the correct name of Trooper Jack Russell, No 1275, 9th/3rd Light Horse was his son Thomas Henry Adolphus Spencer born in 1899 in Queensland. Henry also declared that his son had run away from his apprenticeship and he supposed Thomas had enlisted under the assumed name so that he could not trace him. There was also a statutory declaration from Thomas' landlord, John Boase stating that Thomas had made his home with him for some years owing to the fact that there were differences between father and son and that Thomas' mother was deceased. Boase also stated he was receiving a pay allotment of 4/- per diem from Jack Russell and he asked to be kept informed about what was happening to Thomas.
A court martial in London followed in May 1918 and Jack Russell/Thomas Henry Adolphus Spencer was sentenced to 14 days field punishment. A statutory declaration was also signed by Thomas stating that he was indeed Jack Russell and that he had enlisted on 22 Apr 1915 and that he gave his age as 19 instead of his real age of 16 years. He then went back to France and returned to Australia in 1919.
As a veteran of WW1, Thomas obviously felt the need to serve his country again in WW2. This time he enlisted in Maryborough, QLD under the name of Alfred (previously Alphonsus) Thomas Henry Spencer on 28 May 1940 and served in the AIF until 27 Feb 1942. The following day he joined the CMF and served between 28 Feb 1942 and 11 Jan 1946 with 163 days overseas and the remainder of the time in Australia. He had been wounded in action in the Middle East in Apr 1941 with gun shot wounds to both ankles and this probably explains his medically unfit discharge from the AIF and his reenlistment in the CMF in 1942.
For his service in WW1 Thomas received the 1914/15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. For his service in WW2 he received the 1939/45 Star, the Africa Star, the Pacific Star, the Defence Medal and the 1939/45 War Medal . Personal correspondence on his attestation file/s indicates that he also received medals from France and Spain. On one of his attestation forms he put that he had seen foreign service in Spanish Morocco. His file/s have been combined and digitised by the National Archives of Australia.
After WW2 he seems to have preferred to use the name Alfred Spencer but his various names do not take away from the fact that he served in both World Wars. I do not know how many soldiers did this but it can not have been many. His half brother Charles Douglas Spencer (the subject of my ANZAC Day blog in 2011) won the Military Medal in WW2 and his story appears here. Due to family issues, it is unlikely that the two half brothers knew each other but I can not help wondering if perhaps they did meet up in Libya where they both saw action. More research might answer that question in the future. Until then, lest we forget.
I am not sure how many men enlisted under assumed names but perhaps one of the most famous is the man remembered as Simpson at Gallipoli who had a donkey. His real name was Kirkpatrick http://www.anzacs.net/Simpson.htm
As for serving in both world wars – I have several men in my family who did that, my step grandfather, my great grandfather and at least one of his brothers. None of them however were on the front line in the second world war like Thomas/Alfred.
Thanks for your contribution again Shauna, to our TransTasman Anzac Day Blog Challenge.
My own grandfather ran away at age 15 (from Newfoundland) to sign up with the Royal Navy during WWI, and lied about his age. He served in both wars also. I guess the war seemed like such an adventure for a young lad living in a small fishing village.
What a mysteries our forebears leave behind for us to untangle!
Kind regards SEONAID
It seems so strange that young lads like "Thomas Russell" and Seonaid's grandfather would enlist to serve at war. I thought it especially interesting that Thomas chose to send Mr Boase his allotment money even though he'd left his apprenticeship.
Fascinating Shauna! He must have been very careful and brave to survive both wars!
Thanks Anne, Seonaid, Pauleen and Sharon for the comments. Good to know that others had very young ancestors who joined up. Mr Boase getting the allotment money was interesting and I felt it showed that he might have been more of a father figure than Henry,who I am still trying to find out more about.
What an incredible story. No, I don't think there would be too many who have served in both wars. Wasn't he lucky to survive both?


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America's National Parks see slow Spring
WASHINGTON — Go ahead, blame harsh weather or high gas prices for a marked reduction in visits to Yosemite and other national parks so far this year. The summer droves, though, are returning.
In other words, the time to really beat the crowds may have passed.
At traditionally popular parks from Yosemite and Yellowstone to Mount Rainier and the Great Smoky Mountains, visitation from January through May fell compared with last year, sometimes dramatically. The smaller crowds thrilled park visitors but worried the businesses that depend on them.
"The concessionaires and the gateway communities had a very tough spring," Yosemite National Park spokesman Scott Gediman acknowledged Tuesday, "but the summer will be huge."
Through May 31, Yosemite reported an approximately 7 percent decline in recreation visits compared with the same period last year; the Great Smoky Mountains' decline exceeded 8 percent.
Elsewhere, the falloff has been even more dramatic. Yellowstone recorded a 14 percent decline in recreation visits through May 31 compared with 2010, and Mount Rainier reported a stunning 26 percent reduction.
"It's rather difficult to know why," Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash said Tuesday. "We don't survey people who don't show up."
Nash noted that this year's visitation figures almost inevitably pale compared with the park's record numbers last year. Yellowstone also garners its biggest visitation numbers, by far, during the summer.
Many of the major, so-called "crown jewel" parks experienced reductions significantly greater than the overall National Park Service visitor decline of less than 1 percent.
The reasons can range from the parochial to the global.
At Great Smoky Mountains, for instance, park spokesman Bob Miller noted that the temporary closure last year of a major highway nearby forced many more visitors to drive through the park as an alternative. This inflated last year's visitation total and made a reduction this year predictable.
More broadly, any decline in international travel will ripple through the U.S. parks, where foreigners can make up a big share of the visitors. Economic hard times certainly can keep people at home.
"Our best guess may be that some of it is from fuel prices," Miller said, "but we don't really have a way of knowing why people don't come."
In April 2010, the average U.S. retail price for gasoline was about $2.90 a gallon, according to the Energy Department. A year later, the average price was nearly $4 a gallon.
Weather has dampened visitation as well. Heavy storms, for instance, forced Yosemite to close for several days in March, while deep and persistent snow continues to slow road openings at Mount Rainier and Yellowstone.
"We had a big winter, with a lot of snow, and it lingered," Nash said.
At Yosemite, snow forced park officials to postpone the opening of the important Tioga Pass highway until June 18, about two weeks later than last year and a month later than 2009.
National parks were still a big draw, to be sure, even during the relatively slow spring and winter months. Through May 31, a total of 89,318,694 recreation visitors were recorded in all National Park Service units.
Some of these park service "units" are obscure, such as the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Northern California (1,162 visitors, down a grand total of 62 from last year). Others are heavily trafficked, such as the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina (2,651,237 visitors, up a remarkable 701,209).
When the weather turns, moreover, visitation can rise quickly. The very snowfall that blanketed Yosemite and deterred visitors earlier this year, for instance, now is engorging the rivers and propelling the waterfalls that more visitors are flocking to see.
"We see a lot of people traveling, a lot of people on the road," said Lester Bridges, the president of the Mariposa County Chamber of Commerce, near Yosemite.