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The Centre for Access to Football in Europe held our first European conference on 24-25 September 2011 at Wembley Stadium, London.
The theme for the conference was 'Total Football, Total Access', and the aim was to highlight the importance of good access to stadiums for football fans.
We welcomed over 170 delegates from all across Europe, and a number of high-profile speakers from many different backgrounds. Highlights of the event included the first 'twinning' of two disabled supporters associations - Hibernian FC and FC Groningen - as well as the launch of the Good Practice Guide. This document was co-produced by CAFE and UEFA, and we hope that it will provide essential advice on what exactly is 'good access'.
We also welcomed many huge names from the world of football, such as CAFE Chairman David Bernstein, England international defender Danny Mills and former Manchester United winger Danny Wallace. They were joined by Polish legend Dariusz Dziekanowski, former Chelsea captain Paul Elliott and ex-Scottish midfielder Tony Higgins. Representatives of UEFA and some of Europe's biggest clubs were also present.
To see the CAFE Conference Agenda:
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CAFE and UEFA launch Access for All
24 September 2011
CAFE are delighted to announce the release of 'Access for All' - the UEFA and CAFE Good Practice Guide to Creating an Accessible Stadium and Matchday Experience. Created in partnership with UEFA, we hope that the good practice guide will become an essential guidance item and prove to be of great benefit to all football fans.
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New iPods need new add-ons for TV playback?
Apple's new iPod Classic and iPod Nano will require new accessories if you plan to display the videos the players contain on your TV, it has been alleged. Apple has apparently blocked TV output from these new players when they're connected to old docks.
Acccording to a report on newssite iLounge, plugging the two new iPods into an old add-on automatically prevents users turning on the players' TV Out option from the Video Settings menu.
You can watch videos on the Nano or Classic's own screen, but not on a TV through an old iPod dock.
The site alleges Apple has begun equipping its own add-ons with authentication chips, and without such a chip, the Classic or Nano - and presumably the iPod Touch too - won't play video out through their dock connector. Some third-party accessories makers are also using Apple's authentication chips, it claims.
Apple's support website lists the Classic and Nano as both supporting TV-out functionality, and lists Apple's Universal Dock as a device that can be used with the player for TV output. The Apple Universal Dock as a revised version of the older iPod Universal Dock, which is also said to enable TV out on the Classic and Nano.
Interestingly, the Classic manual says: "Use the Apple Component AV Cable, the Apple Composite AV Cable, or the Apple AV Connection Kit. Other similar RCA-type cables might not work."
But there's nothing to indicate the older add-ons can't be used to support TV out on the new players beyond the fact they're simply not mentioned.
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How the Primal community loves the concept of a dietary paradox. How we eagerly point to its various manifestations as supportive evidence for our way of eating, living, and moving. You know the French Paradox [1] and how it confounds the experts. To mention all those smug surrender monkeys [2] with their brie and their butter and their duck confit and their Gauloises and their seeming imperviousness to heart attacks is to make Dean Ornish binge on bran and pull out tuft after tuft of frizzy hair. And then there's the lesser-known Israeli Paradox [3], which attempts to answer why Israelis have skyrocketing rates of heart disease despite a skyrocketing intake of "healthy" omega-6 fatty acids. In its wake, Walter Willet might be found weeping into a mug of safflower oil. There's even an American Paradox [4] – those who ate the most saturated fat had the least coronary heart disease – that had the minds of researchers thoroughly boggled.
All those paradoxes work out in "our favor." Saturated fat [5] gets off pretty much scot-free and omega-6 vegetable oils get raked over the coals (and, presumably, oxidized). And if people were honest about things, they would see these paradoxes not as paradoxes, but as reasons to reevaluate previously-held beliefs about health and diet.
But what about the Asian Paradox? How can Asian countries consume so much white rice and so many noodles and remain so thin? If carbs make you fat, how do they eat so many of them? This is a question I get from Mark's Daily Apple readers all of the time, so it's about time I gave a thorough response.
First of all, I want to confirm that Asia eats a lot of rice. It may be a "side dish" or not the main course, but there's no dancing around the fact that a lot of rice gets eaten – the stats (PDF [6]) are pretty clear on Asian rice consumption. I briefly covered the Asian Paradox in the rice post [7], but I think the subject deserves more than a brief paragraph. So, today, I'm going to explain why the Asian Paradox (like all "paradoxes," really) isn't actually a paradox, and why I consider it to happily coexist with all of the other Primal-friendly paradoxes. I'll also explain why I think the Asian Paradox offers us Primals a chance to evaluate our own beliefs (because that's the only honest thing to do).
They Move(d) Frequenty at a Slow Pace
Whenever I'm in a large city with a sizable Asian immigrant population, I notice a different approach to walking. For instance, Carrie and I were recently visiting San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. We spent the day just walking around and getting sort of lost, and we both noticed the difference. Of all the multitudes of people walking, jogging, and otherwise being active, everyone but the older Asian folks seemed to be actively exercising. Exercising on purpose. Trying to "burn calories" or "improve VO2 max." We noticed as a young mother with strollered child powerwalked down the path, wearing compression tights, a baseball cap, and the latest running shoes, while the elderly Chinese grandma she passed wore some keds and a knit sweater. Two seemingly identical joggers (one in Vibrams!) with Bluetooth earpieces jabbed at each other with business-speak opposite a pair of old friends strolling along and loudly speaking (in another language) of politics and times long past (again, it was another language) in well-worn suits and loafers. A group of cyclists could have passed for pros with all their gear and advertisements and special cycling shoes, while an older Asian gentleman wearing a collared shirt and slacks cruised by on a simple ten-speed. I got the distinct impression that walking or cycling or just getting around using your own limbs as the vehicles was simply a way to get from here to there for the older Asian folks. It wasn't a special occasion. It was an everyday occurrence. It was normal. For everyone else, it was exercise. It was a big event that you had to get geared up and spend money for. Exercise is great, and walking with intent of getting healthier is great – I do it all the time. But my observations speak to a huge cultural difference between the way older Asian folks who immigrated over (and, presumably, the cultures back at home) and Americans treat moving frequently at a slow pace.
People living in Asian countries have historically been more active than people living in the States. It's not that they're all lifting weights and running sprints and joining gyms; it's that their average daily activity levels are higher. And as everyone here probably already knows, the simple act of walking on a regular basis does wonders for one's health. Daily walking is consistently associated with (among other health benefits) improved insulin sensitivity [8] (better tolerance of carbohydrates like white rice), better mood [9], lowered blood pressure and triglycerides [10], and greater longevity [11]. America is a car country, and has been for about a hundred years. We don't – and haven't for over 50 years – have to walk to get around. Heck, oftentimes we can't walk to get where we want to go even if we wanted to walk, since many of us live in a kind of suburban sprawl that requires the use of cars just to buy groceries or take the kids to school. The result is a country that takes fewer steps per day than the rest of the world [12]. As Asians start buying more cars, relying more on vehicular transportation, and moving further away from labor-intensive work, I suspect you'll see more carbohydrate intolerance, fat gain, and general ill health begin to emerge. It's already happening, as you'll see.
I think daily activity levels are probably the biggest determinant in tolerance to carbs. In American cities where walking is required or more convenient than driving, like New York, people are generally healthier, slimmer, and longer-lived [13]. Things are changing, though. In 1989, 65% of Chinese performed heavy labor [14] on a daily basis. By 2000, that proportion had dropped to 50% – still far more than in Western nations, but the downward trend is clear. You'll notice on that same page that the proportion of overweight children also increased by the year 2000.
An Otherwise Unprocessed, Nutritious Diet
Traditional Asian food is highly nutritious. Go to a Vietnamese noodle house and the signature dish is pho, a big bowl of homemade beef marrow bone broth, tripe, tendons, brisket, and rice noodles. Go to a real Thai restaurant and get bone broth soup with cubes of pork blood, greens, rice noodles, and a duck egg. Go to a Chinese restaurant and get sauteed (alas, in soybean or corn oil these days) pork kidneys with Chinese broccoli and rice on the side. Go to a Japanese restaurant and get wild caught salmon eggs rolled with seaweed [15] and rice, mackerel sashimi, and some fermented miso soup with kelp strips. Go to Korean barbecue and eat a dozen different kinds of kimchi, grilled short ribs, beef tongue, and liver all wrapped in lettuce, with rice on the side. In all these foods, rice is present, but so are the benefits of real bone broth [16] (with its collagen content [17]), fresh meat, fermented cabbage [18], offal [19], and vegetables. The presence of rice does not invalidate or negate the presence of every other nutrient.
Of course, that's restaurant food. If you want to get an idea of how Asian folks cook at home, go to their supermarkets and note what people are buying. It's not as fancy or flavorful, but it's just as nutritious. Stand by the register and you'll see twenty kinds of whole fish; live oysters [20], mussels, clams, crabs, snails, and sea urchins; a pig's entire digestive tract [21]; buckets of chicken feet; bags full of strange leafy green [22] things and exotic vegetables like bitter melon; all sorts of herbs, roots, and teas; fermented, pickled foods; a dozen different kinds of root vegetable [23]; and yes, rice. If you want to isolate the rice from that list of nutrient-dense offerings and say "What about that?" be my guest, but not me. I'll be admiring the handsome beef foot oozing healthy collagen [17] and marrow [24] and imagining all the wonderful dishes it could make (while I mentally compare the contents of shopping carts in Asian markets to the contents of shopping carts in standard American grocery stores… guess who wins).
Before recently, Asians ate less refined sugar and used animal fats [25] for cooking. Sugar intake is rising now [26], of course, and cooking oils made from corn and soybean have largely replaced lard and tallow, but rice in the context of a low-sugar, no-HFCS (remember, the oft-cited 55/45 fructose/glucose breakdown for HFCS is highly misleading and actually quite often incorrect [27]), low-vegetable oil, nose-to-tail nutrient-dense diet is (or was) acceptable. You can't reduce a food down to its constituent parts and focus on, say, the bit of fructose in a blueberry and then condemn the entire berry because of it. Similarly, you can't reduce a diet down to a single constituent food and condemn – or praise – it based on that single food. You have to look at the entire picture, and the Asian diet is largely a nutritious one.
More Rice, Less Wheat
Thanks to regular monsoons, 90% of the world's rice production is located in Asia. It's been cultivated in the region for close to 10,000 years, so the region's occupants tend to eat a fair amount of the stuff.
Luckily for them, rice, especially white rice (the favored type across most of Asia; as a Thai friend of mine who grew up there and came to Hollywood in the 60s told me, "rice bran was for the chickens"), is a mostly non-toxic source of glucose. On the grain spectrum, where wheat [28] and other gluten [29] grains reside at one end, rice relaxes at the opposite end. It's not "good," but it's also not "bad." It just is. It's pretty much neutral. Whether you can handle (or need) the glucose load is another thing, but you can rest assured that white rice will be generally free of gut irritants, phytic acid, and deleterious lectins. If you're eating wheat, on the other hand, you have gluten, wheat germ agglutinin, and a host of other antinutrients with which to contend. And, as Ned Kock's masterful (and under-appreciated) series of stats posts on the China study data suggests [30], rice intake is associated with a reduction in cardiovascular disease while wheat flour intake is associated with an increase in cardiovascular disease. The upper level of rice intake did correlate with a slight increase in CHD, however, but not a major one.
All else being equal, people will be healthier on a rice-heavy junk food diet than on a wheat-heavy junk food diet.
Is Asia Even All That Healthier Anymore?
Healthy, long-lived Asia isn't so healthy and long-lived. Both China [31] and India [32] are facing diabetes epidemics. In Taiwan [33], Korea [34], Vietnam [35], and Thailand [36], diabetes is also increasing. The perfect storm – of sedentary living, processed junk food full of carbs and bad fats, and poor sleep [37] – that has ravaged America and other industrialized nations for almost a century and led to a host of debilitating illnesses is beginning to descend upon Asia. Cooking oils have displaced traditional animal fats and sugar intake is rising. People walk less and eat more wheat.
Even the low BMIs [38] of Asian countries are misleading. At equal BMIs, Asians generally have more body fat than other groups (PDF [39]). So, on average, the American or the Pacific Islander with a BMI of 25 has less body fat than the Chinese guy with a BMI of 25. It's not clear whether these higher body fat levels (at lower BMIs) correspond to increased risks for certain diseases, but it does suggest that BMI is an unreliable barometer for a country's leanness on a particular diet. You can be skinny-fat with a low BMI – and it appears that significant numbers of Asians with low BMIs fit that profile.
So, like every other one before it, the Asian Paradox topples: there is actually no paradox. Asian countries remain lean (if they're actually lean, that is) on a rice-heavy diet by virtue of lots of low-level aerobic activity to promote insulin sensitivity, lots of nutrient-dense food to go with that rice, and because rice is the least offensive grain.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives will bow to political pressure and pass the immigration bill approved by the Democratic-led Senate by the end of the year, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer predicted on Sunday.
Schumer, a member of the bipartisan Senate group that crafted the immigration measure, said House Republicans who are now vowing they will not pass the Senate measure will ultimately be convinced by political concerns about the party's future.
"I believe that by the end of this year, the House will pass the Senate bill. I know that's not what they think now. And they'll say, 'Oh no, that's not what's going to happen.' But I think it will," Schumer told the "Fox News Sunday" program.
Senior House Republicans rejected Schumer's prediction. Republican Speaker John Boehner has said the House will write its own immigration bill rather than bringing up the Senate bill passed on Thursday, which is supported by Democratic President Barack Obama.
Fourteen Senate Republicans joined Senate Democrats in backing a Senate bill that features a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States, an approach vehemently opposed by many conservative House Republicans who view it as rewarding law-breakers.
Some Republican leaders worry that rejecting the Senate bill could further alienate Hispanics, a fast-growing bloc of voters who overwhelmingly supported Obama's re-election in 2012, and could handicap the party in future presidential elections.
Schumer said House Republicans eventually will allow a vote on the Senate bill to get the issue off their backs and ease the pressure from immigration reform supporters including religious, civil rights and business groups.
"Within several months, Speaker Boehner will find two choices: no bill or let a bill pass with a majority of Democratic votes and some Chamber of Commerce-type Republicans. And he'll find that the better choice," the New York senator said.
House Republicans sarcastically shrugged off Schumer's prediction.
"I was moved almost to the point of tears by Senator Schumer's concern for the future prospects of the Republican Party. But we're going to not take his advice," said Republican Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who heads the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee.
"The Senate bill is not going to pass in the House, and it's not going to pass for myriad reasons," Gowdy said.
"I'm more interested in getting it right than doing it on Senator Schumer's schedule," he added.
Boehner has said an immigration bill will be put to a vote only if a majority of House Republicans back it. Boehner supports a piecemeal approach using smaller, targeted bills rather than the sweeping Senate legislation.
Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, another member of the bipartisan group behind the Senate bill, said it would not be easy to convince the House to pass broad immigration reform but held out hope.
"I really hesitate to tell Speaker Boehner exactly how he should do this. But I think Republicans realize the implications (for) the future of the Republican Party in America if we don't get this issue behind us," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday."
"I believe that the coalition that we've assembled of support ranging from evangelicals, to the Catholic church, business, labor, farm workers, growers ... I frankly have never seen such widespread support. And I am hopeful that we can convince our House colleagues," McCain said.
Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the top Democrat in the House, said she was optimistic the political realities of immigration would force House Republicans to come around.
"It's certainly right for the Republicans if they ever want to win a presidential race," Pelosi said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program.
A proposal being talked about in the House as an alternative to the Senate bill would offer possible citizenship in the future after illegal immigrants spend a decade working through a legalized status that gives them work permits.
Representative Robert Goodlatte of Virginia, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said it was possible the House could pass a measure that did not include a pathway to citizenship but focused on a "pathway to legalization" for undocumented immigrants. On ABC's "This Week" program, Goodlatte also made clear the House would not pass the Senate bill.
"When you use the word pathway to 'legalization' as opposed to pathway to 'citizenship,' I'd say, 'Yes,'" he said when asked about the chances for an immigration bill getting through the House.
"Not a special pathway to citizenship where people who are here unlawfully get something that people who have worked for decades to immigrate lawfully do not have," Goodlatte added.
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Portland, Oregon is known for being a bike city, even called America's Best Bike City by Bicycling Magazine, so it's no surprise at all that Portland State University is full of bike enthusiasts.
Nowhere was that more clearly demonstrated than in Seattle last week, when 14 students and faculty from Portland State turned up to present their research at the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium.
Click here to read this story on the OTREC site.
The Symposium, held on June 19-22 at the University of Washington, explored ways to plan cities around biking. There were international plenary panelists from China, The Netherlands, and New Zealand to offer a look at urban cycling around the world, and a mixture of research into bike-related planning efforts in the United States.
Portland State was there in full force. Faculty researchers Jennifer Dill and John MacArthur presented research on the use of e-bikes in the United States, and what this could mean for the bicycle mode share.
PSU professor Miguel Figliozzi outlined ways of modeling the effects of weather on cycling ridership; a particularly relevant factor in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Krista Nordback, OTREC's resident bicycle counter, specializes in methods of counting bikes. She presented her research on counting bicyclists with the use of pneumatic tube counters on shared roadways.
Knowing the number of bicycles that cruise through an area on any given day can be important for policy decisions; for example, an intersection with a high amount of bike traffic might warrant a bike signal.
To learn more about what that bike signal might look like, you'd have to take a look at Sam Thompson's research: he presented a state-of-the-practice review of existing bicycle signals, which are federally unregulated and lack standardization across jurisdictions.
Sam is a graduate student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering program, one of ten PSU students who attended the symposium. His dissertation focuses on bike signals, including research into how cyclists and motorists respond to them. He enjoyed being at the symposium, and found particularly interesting a panel on the use of GPS data, which discussed various ways of using that data in transportation studies.
Pam Johnson, a PSU engineering student, attended just to soak up the event and talk with fellow bike enthusiasts and transportation planners. Steven Gehrke, another PSU engineering student, presented research which described the impact of land use diversity on bicycle travel.
Other student presenters included Kirk Paulsen, who gave a comparison of bicyclists' performance at various types of intersections, and Patrick Singleton, whose research explored the synergy between bicycle and transit use, demonstrating evidence that many bicycle commuters combine their commute with the use of public transit. Singleton also looked at future opportunities for the relationship between transit and biking.
All of the research at the symposium focused on identifying ways that cities can best encourage and accomodate bicycle travel in the future. Tara Goddard presented an evaluation of protected cycling facilities in the US. Mark Haines produced findings from a case study in Portland about the green wave for bicycles.
Alex Bigazzi, a Ph.D. candidate whose research focuses on air quality, presented research about traffic-generated pollution taken in by urban bicyclists.
Kristi Currans and Christopher Muhs presented a study on transportation mode choices, with a survey of individual and establishment-level perspectives on biking. Kristi and Alex Bigazzi are both OTREC scholars and former OTREC students of the year. Sam, Patrick, Tara, Kirk, Steven, and Christopher -- in total, 8 of the 10 students who participated in the conference -- are also OTREC scholars.
Kristi Currans also presented research on behalf of Kelly Clifton, another PSU faculty member who was unable to attend. Clifton's paper was titled Consumer Behavior and Mode Choices, and was an examination of various restaurants, pubs, and stores and the level of bicycle access they offer.
All of the PSU attendees enjoyed the symposium as a chance to get together with fellow bike-lovers and talk about cities of the future. For Nordback, one of the best aspects of the event was its size: small. "You could keep running into the same people," she explained, "so you could really build relationships. There was a really great energy to it. I hope they do it again next year." The symposium focused on long-term planning, with a vision of increased bicycle infrastructure in urban areas within the next 20-30 years.
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Kinston City Council OKs controversial apartment complex
Call it the biggest carrot in town.
The Kinston City Council approved a permit last week allowing the construction of a new 60-unit apartment complex at the north end of Doctors Drive. It�s meant to not only provide more rental options in town, but serve as attractive housing that could keep young professionals in the area.
An earlier attempt to build a complex in the area failed after protests regarding its status as affordable housing. The new complex, �Cambridge Farms Apartments,� is designed to be higher-end and won�t accept Section 8 residents.
�I believe the council supported the project because it appeared that the constructive criticism of the project, the developers were willing to implement some of those ideas, including water-related issues,� Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy said. �As well as, there is obviously a need for newer apartment complexes with amenities to attract young professionals.�
A petition signed by 14 North Herritage Street businesses � including Piggly Wiggly, San Juan Mexican Restaurant, Sweet Frog and U.S. Cellular � and the King�s Restaurant North Queen Street location, supported the complex.
The petition read, �These apartments are being built to house young professionals such as teachers, police officers, firefighters, computer technicians, etc. They are not public housing.�
Murphy said he had heard requests for assistance and read the petition.
�Some of the public comment documents included a letter from the (Lenoir County) school superintendent (Steve Mazingo) regarding the ability to recruit teachers, as well as a petition from several business owners in the community in support of building new apartment complexes with amenities for young professionals,� Murphy said.
Residents of Stallings Drive, writing the City Council, are less enthused. The road lies on the other side of a tree line from the field that will be the Cambridge Farms location.
�It will definitely affect the property value of the homes in this area,� former Kinston Mayor Buddy Ritch wrote. �You may gain the taxes that will be generated with the new project, but you will lose the tax value on the existing homes in the area.�
A number of people had concerns about the flooding of Adkin Branch, noting the field�s location in a FEMA flood zone and exacerbation caused by runoff from solid surfaces.
�It is easy to understand replacing �crop land,� that has a heavy absorption, with a lot of hard surfaces will embed the flow of water,� RaDonna Marshall wrote. �I seriously doubt raising some of the buildings solves the problem of water shed.�
To handle the problem, developers will create a retention pond. Marshall wrote that a suggestion she made to the developers � putting a fountain in the lake to discourage mosquito breeding � was accepted.
As plans currently stand, there are to be three apartment buildings three floors high, a clubhouse with a screened-in porch, picnic area with two tables and a grill, several seating areas and a gazebo. Each apartment will have either two or three bedrooms.
Part of the funding from the project comes from a state-based grant and the plans have been given the Energy Star endorsement. There are plans for 36 two-bedroom apartments and 24 three-bedroom apartments.
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TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR has suggested that Ireland could vote against the Mercusor trade deal with South American countries unless Brazil takes steps to protect the Amazon rainforest.
His comments follow international concern over the fires, with figures showing the area has seen the highest number of blazes for any year since 2013.
A vote on the deal is at least two years and and would take place under the EU's Qualified Majority Vote system, where a vote needs at least four council members representing over 35% of the EU population to be blocked.
The controversial deal, announced in June, could save European companies billions of Euro in trade duties every year and would open up new markets for exporters.
However, critics believe that it will lead to products with lower standards being imported into the EU, and that it may have a negative impact on the environment.
Irish beef farmers in particular say the deal could threaten their livelihoods, as it would open up European markets to some South American beef producers.
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Listening to music on your Windows Phone and use a Last.fm account? You'll need this app installed. ScrobbleMe is a simple app by Arnold Vink, the creator of ZuseMe and ZenseMe, which offers "scrobbling" support for all music played on the Windows Phone ("scrobbling" is basically to feed Last.fm data on your music history). Really handy if you're one to enjoy keeping on top of play counts and show friends what you're listening to. And, it works pretty well.
Xbox Music currently doesn't sport such functionality across supported platforms. We also can't (quite yet) fire up the Music app and check out what friends are listening, what we've enjoyed the most and any recommended tracks based on the collection of data (more advanced than what's presently available). It's definitely a feature Microsoft should look into to expand the service. Zune had solid foundations to a good service, it just needed to be built on.
Simply hit the button to submit the list of songs accumulated by the app and Last.fm will subsequently display all entries pumped up into the cloud. Note that the scrobbling is limited to local tracks only. Streaming isn't picked up. Be sure to download you Xbox Music playlists to get scrobbling. We'll look forward to Microsoft implementing such functionality into their music service so everything works seamlessly.
The hidden beauty of ScrobbleMe is that there's no requirement to run the app in the background. Boom, job done. Simply fire up the app whenever you feel like updating your Last.fm and ScrobbleMe will populate everything you've played on the device. It's easy to use and appears to work well. As for Xbox Music service, this is one of the suggestions we have for Microsoft to look at addressing immediately.
That's about it. Really nice and simple. Should you happen to uninstall the app, the developer notes that play counts will be reset when reinstalled. There's a backup tool published on the developer website that can provide a helping hand here.
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Missouri bill would end scanning of personal documents
Less than six months after the state Revenue Department began scanning driving applicants' personal documents into a state computer system, Missouri lawmakers sent the governor legislation Wednesday that would force the department to stop.
Republican lawmakers began pushing for the measure after learning about the new license procedures early in the legislative session. The push accelerated in March after a Stoddard County man filed a lawsuit challenging the state's new licensing procedures. They said that scanning documents, such as birth certificates and concealed weapons permits, were an invasion of privacy. But Revenue Department officials defended the procedures during several legislative hearings on the matter and said they provided increased security and cut down on fraud.
The bill passed the Senate 25-8 on Wednesday and the House earlier this week. It would prevent any future document scanning and would require the department to securely destroy any documents collected since September 2012.
The legislation now heads to Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon whose administration has been under attack from Republicans over the new procedures. Nixon said earlier this year that the department would no longer scan concealed weapons permits but would continue the procedure for other documents. Former Revenue Department Director Brian Long also declined to stop scanning other documents when questioned by a Senate panel in April.
The department began scanning documents shortly after a clerk in a St. Joseph license office pleaded guilty Dec. 11 in a scheme to accept false identification documents that federal prosecutor say resulted in Missouri licenses being issued to more than 3,500 people living illegally in the U.S. New license procedures were implemented that required local license office clerks to scan documents into a computer that had previously just been shown by applicants to the clerks.
Republicans argued that scanning documents would not necessarily prevent similar instances of fraud because only a limited number of scanned documents are reviewed by department officials.
Many Democrats opposed the legislation, arguing that it wasn't necessary. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, voted against the bill Wednesday and accused Republicans of engaging in "shenanigans."
"We have so many pressing issues we should have dealt with," she said. "I am fed up with all of that back and forth and trying to affront the governor for some political purpose."
Republicans did retreat on a provision of the measure from earlier versions that would've prevented the department from conducting facial recognition analysis on license photos. Sponsoring Sen. Will Kraus, R-Lee's Summit, said the department wanted to have the option to use facial recognition for law enforcement purposes.
The bill also would prevent any state agency from sharing the entire list of concealed weapons permit holders with the federal government. That provision was added after lawmakers learned the Highway Patrols shared that list with a federal agent in the Social Security Administration. It would also allow people to file civil lawsuits against the state if they were harmed or the victim of identity theft because the department scanned their documents.
Some Republican lawmakers feared the department's new system was an attempt to comply with the federal Real ID Act, which sets stringent requirements for photo identification cards to be used to board commercial flights or enter federal buildings.
Missouri has a 2009 law prohibiting the state from taking steps intended to comply with the goals of the 2005 federal identity law. In a Dec. 12 letter to the U.S. Homeland Security secretary, former Revenue Director Alana Barragan-Scott asserted that Missouri's security standards for issuing driver's licenses "are comparable to or exceed the substantive security standards of the federal REAL ID Act." One of those requirements is to retain a database of scanned source documents.


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Has any new information come out at recent conferences about the addition of aromatase inhibitors after 2.5 yrs. of Tamoxifen for estrogen-positive DCIS, after a lumpectomy with clear margins? A consultation indicated that it was not necessary in my case. In my research, I find that 5 yrs. of Tamoxifen is considered adequate for DCIS.
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Marlon Harewood earned Hartlepool their first win of the season, as they battled back to beat Wimbledon 2-1 on Saturday.
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Marlon Harewood earned Hartlepool their first win of the season, as they battled back to beat Wimbledon 2-1 on Saturday.
Pools had lost their first four games of the campaign, but deserved to get off the mark with a determined display against in-form opposition.
But they did it the hard way, as they fell behind on ten minutes.
Sean Rigg picked out striker Matt Tubbs in the area, and he was left unmarked 16 yards from goal to pick his spot and roll his finish past goalkeeper Scott Flinders.
Right-back Barry Fuller sent a cross against the bar as Pools were forced onto the back foot and Flinders saved low from an Adebayo Akinfenwa shot.
But seconds into the second half, Pools levelled.
Ryan Brobbel's free-kick ballooned up in the penalty area and striker Charlie Wyke was inside the six-yard box to head in after signing on loan from Middlesbrough on Friday.
Brobbel tore down the left on 68 minutes to roll the ball into Harewood's feet, and he turned two defenders and rolled his finish low past keeper James Shea.
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Beulah Mae Combs, 76, of Willisburg and formerly of Owenton, passed away October 1, 2008, at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington.
Born September 12, 1932, in Owenton, she was the daughter of the late John Willie and Hallie Herndon Chipman. Mrs. Combs was a homemaker and a member of the Grapevine Christian Church.
Douglas M. Wright, 66, of Marysville, Ohio, formerly of New Columbus, died September 24, 2008, at his home.
He was a truck driver for 33 years with Consolidated Freightways, a landscaper and gardener.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Burgess and Melissa Wright; a brother, Tom Wright; a sister, Betty Mallory; and several half sisters and half brothers.
Delores "Sug" Harlow Aldridge, 71 of Sanders died Sept. 13, 2008, at her residence.
Funeral services were held Sept. 16, 2008, with the Rev. Joel Santos officiating. Burial was in Worthville Cemetery.
Mrs. Aldridge was born March 22, 1937, in Carroll County to the late Bennie and Maggie Allen Harlow.
She was a homemaker and a member of the Worthville Christian Church. She attended school in Carroll County.
John "Nobe" Mahoney, 82, of Worthville, died September 24, 2008, at the Carroll County Hospital.
Born August 24, 1926, in Henry County, he was the son of the late Alford and Ola Miller Mahoney and was preceded in death by his siblings, George, Charles E., Lloyd B. and Mildred Mahoney and Aileen Lee. He was also preceded by his son, Billy Rae Mahoney. Nobe was a farmer and a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
Irma Scheuermann, 86, of Cincinnati, died Friday, September 26, 2008, at Mount Washington Care Center.
Born October 12, 1921, she was the daughter of the late Theodore and Doretta Helligrath. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Scheuermann; a daughter, Patsy Bodley; a son, Robert Bodley; and a brother, Harold Helligrath.
She was the mother of Doretta (John) Ferguson of Cincinnati, Debbie (Ed) Ashcraft of Owenton, Donna Hill of Cincinnati, and Nelson Bodley of Glendale, Ariz. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
Ama C. Wright, 85, of Corinth, died September 18, 2008, at St. Luke Hospital West in Florence. She was a homemaker and a member of New Columbus Baptist Church. She was the widow of Joseph H. Wright who passed away in 2000.
She is survived by two sons, William L. Wright and Bruce C. Wright, both of Corinth; two sisters, Helen Osborne of Owenton, and Louise Gordon of Wheatley; one brother, James Mason of Crittenden; six grandchildren; and give great-grandchildren.
Davis C. Griffith, 62, of Sadieville, died Sept. 14, 2008, at his residence. He was a supervisor for MPW Industrial Services of Georgetown. He was a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War and a Kentucky Colonel.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Phyllis Marie Griffith, in 1994; and two daughters, Phyllis Marie Angel Griffith and Anita Ann Griffith, both in 1991.
Roberta Robards Stamper, 77, died September 23, 2008, at St. Joseph Hospice.
Born December 8, 1930, in Mercer County, she was the daughter of the late Hilary Cegale Goodlett and Ruby Nichols. Roberta was an operator for AT&T, the office manager for Owenton Express, and a member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church.
David C. Burton, 82, of Corinth, died Sept. 15, 2008, at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, South in Edgewood. He was a retired machinist for Conoco Phillips in Williamstown and a farmer. He was a member of New Columbus United Methodist Church and a World War II Army veteran.
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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
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Onderstepoort j. vet. res. vol.81 no.2 Pretoria Fev. 2014
Molecular biological characteristics of foot-and-mouth disease virus in the African buffalo in southern Africa
Christopher J. KasangaI; Rahana DwarkaII; Gaothlele ThobokweIII; Jemma WadsworthIV; Nick J. KnowlesIV; Misheck MulumbaV; Ezekia RangaVI; Jimis DeveXI; Cornelius MundiaX; Patrick ChikungwaVIII; Laureta JoaoIX; Raphael SalluVII; Mmeta YongoloVII; Philemon N. WamburaI; Mark M. RweyemamuI; Donald P. KingIV
ISouthern African Centre for Infectious diseases Surveillance, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
IIOnderstepoort Veterinary Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa
IIIBotswana Vaccine Institute, Botswana
IVWRLFMD, The Pirbright Institute, United Kingdom
VSouthern African Development Community Secretariat, Botswana
VIMinistry of Livestock Development and Fisheries, Tanzania
VIITanzania Veterinary Laboratory Agency, Tanzania
VIIISouthern African Development Community, Transboundary Animal Diseases Section, Malawi
IXSouthern African Development Community, Transboundary Animal Diseases Section, Angola
XSouthern African Development Community, Transboundary Animal Diseases Section, Zambia
XISouthern African Development Community, Transboundary Animal Diseases Section, Mozambique
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in most countries in southern Africa. African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) are known to play a significant role in the transmission and dynamics of FMD virus (FMDV) in wildlife-livestock interface areas. The aim of this study was to investigate the serotype and determine the genetic relationships of FMDV recovered from animals in Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique, and compare them with viruses detected from elsewhere in the sub-Saharan region. A total of 150 oesophageal-pharyngeal (probang) samples collected in 2010 from cattle and buffaloes in Marromeu (Mozambique), Katavi (Tanzania) and Lochninvar (Zambia) National Parks were used in this study. The presence of FMDV was determined by laboratory methods such as VI, antigen ELISA and real-time RT-PCR. Phylogenies of VP1 sequences were determined by the neighbour-joining method. The overall FMDV genome detection rate was 6.7% (n = 10), with SAT 1 being the most frequent serotype (60%; n = 6) isolated in cattle and buffaloes in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia followed by SAT 3 (30%; n = 3) and SAT 2 (10%; n = 1). Genotyping showed that type SAT 1 viruses fell into either the TOPOTYPE 1 (NWZ) or UNASSIGNED topotypes, type SAT 2 into the AFRICA topotype I and type SAT 3s into topotype IV (SEZ). This study reveals that serotypes SAT 1-3 are maintained in cattle and buffaloes in livestock-wildlife interface areas in Marromeu, Katavi, and Lochinvar National Parks. Phylogenetic analysis of FMDV isolates from Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique showed that they are genetically related to lineages and topotypes from Africa. This information contributes to the understanding of the epidemiology of FMD in southern Africa. In Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, lack of consistent surveillance systems and animal movement controls make it difficult to determine the exact source of FMD and transmission dynamics of FMDV. Further studies are needed to elucidate the complex epidemiology of FMD in Africa.
This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust Grant WT087546MA to the Southern African Centre for Infectious Diseases & Surveillance (SACIDS).
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Note: Proceedings of the 2nd One Health Conference in Africa. Jointly organised by the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and the Tanzania National Institute for Medical Research, held at the Snow Crest Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania from 16th to 19th April 2013: http://www.sacids.org/kms/frontend/index.php?m=119.


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|A less decadent, homemade mashed potato recipe, intended for basic, everyday use, any day. Pictured here with my Mississippi Roast and gravy.
Everyday Creamy Mashed PotatoesRoasted, baked, twice-baked, butter steamed, in casseroles - no matter how you make them, we sure do love our potatoes in The South and most especially... we really love them mashed and creamy.
Served plain, with just a pat of melting butter as pictured above, made Creole style with an onion and an egg, or with green onion infused milk. Mixed with cabbage, piped into rosettes, or doused with cheese and twice baked in a casserole and loaded. We just love them all.
They are delicious when made into patties and fried to a crusty crunch on the outside, and decadent when, over the holidays we give ourselves permission to load them with plenty of heavy cream, butter and even cream cheese, and often, making them for a crowd. But, for regular everyday meals during the week and on weekends, we usually keep them a bit more tame. This is how I make my regular, any day mashed potatoes and while a bit less decadent, they are still mighty good.
Bring a large pot filled with plenty of water - at least double the volume of the potatoes - to a boil, and be sure to also generously salt it, before adding in the potatoes. If you do this, you likely will not need much, if any, additional salt. Rather than boil them whole, or even in larger chunks, I like to peel the potatoes and cut them into a smaller dice for these everyday mashed potatoes. The smaller dice makes them both quicker to cook for those weekday meals and easier to hand mash... but, it also makes them absorb more water. I'm not fond of watery potatoes, so once they are drained, I return them to the pot just briefly, over a low heat, to help drive out any excess water before mashing and adding the butter and milk.
Since we are foregoing whole milk or heavy cream for this version, using evaporated milk also helps with the creaminess, since it is a concentrated milk product that has had more than half of the water cooked out. I usually add about two tablespoons of butter to mine, though you can indulge a bit more if you like and add up to a full stick, for the extra creaminess and flavor.
Here's how to make them.
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Recipe: Everyday Creamy Mashed Potatoes©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 15 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 4 pounds of Russet potatoes (about 5 to 6 large)
- 1 tablespoon of kosher salt, for the water
- 2 to 4 tablespoons of butter, or to taste, softened at room temperature
- 1/4 teaspoon of white pepper or freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
- 2 (5 ounce) cans of evaporated milk, well shaken
Bring a large pot of water to a boil; add the salt. Meanwhile, peel and cut potatoes into a large dice, add to the boiling water all at once. Boil until potatoes are fork tender, about 12 to 15 minutes. Drain well. Return potatoes to the pot and heat over low for a few minutes to extract any excess water, stirring often.
Keeping the pot over a very low heat, add the butter and pepper to the potatoes and hand mash thoroughly. Begin to slowly incorporate the evaporated milk, a little at a time, gently stirring, until potatoes reach desired consistency. You won't use all of the milk. Taste and adjust salt and pepper as needed. Serve immediately.
Cook's Notes: Add a little Cajun seasoning if you like. Can also use a hand or stand mixer if you prefer not to hand mash. For a richer, more indulgent mashed potato dish, increase the butter up to a full stick. Transfer any leftover evaporated milk to a glass container for other use. May substitute whole milk.
Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes: Substitute warmed buttermilk for the canned milk.
Browned Butter Mashed Potatoes: Increase butter to a full stick and melt in a skillet over medium heat until aromatic and nutty, about 10 minutes, stirring often. Set aside to cool while potatoes boil.
Skinny Version: Boil the potatoes in about 4 cups of chicken broth; drain but reserve the broth. Mash potatoes without the addition of milk and butter, by adding some of the broth back to the potatoes, until they reach the desired consistency. Season to taste. Can also substitute margarine, or a reduced fat butter replacement for the butter, as well as a lowfat, skim milk or buttermilk, to reduce calories.
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Ssssh. There's a secret, well it's not a greatly kept secret, but it's a little knowledge that you visitors to Taupo might not know about….
We have cats on our mountain.
Ok……. we're talking Cat Skiing, and no, that does not involve strapping your favourite moggy to a pair of planks – but a mechanical caterpillar vehicle, ready to haul you up the mountain in style, to the less accessible runs and clean lines of Tukino skifield.
Mount Ruapehu, situated just south of Lake Taupo, has the well known fields of Whakapapa and Turoa on which to snow-slide your way to heaven but little Tukino, tucked on the mountain's eastern slopes, gets much less press as a smaller, local gem.
Tukino is a slice of life as it used to be on New Zealand ski fields; it is run for club members and the public by the club. Sporting a 4WD access road, a small club hut complete with roaring fire and only you and the snow to contemplate, queues are not in the vocabulary here at Tukino. Crowds, hardly! The only thing there is a lot of is fresh tracks to be had. Whoopie!!
Learners are always welcome and there is a learner area and lessons available. Learning to use the nutracker rope tows is probably the hardest part of learning to ski at Tukino, but once you've got that mastered you'll be away.
The 3 nutcracker tows cover a great range of terrain, and for intermediate and advanced skiers and boarders the good folk of Tukino have made life even easier with Cat Skiing. An awesome Cat will drive you up to the very fresh, untouched snow you've been longing for.
There is nothing like un-tracked snow, and NOT having to hike your heavy load up yourself only sweetens the deal, so we highly recommend you get a few mates along and spend the day shredding the gnar via Cat. Minimum input, maximum output!
You can purchase one cat ride with your lift pass (Adult Day Pass is $60) for $35 a pop, or if you prefer, get a five-ride concession card which you can use on any day you are at the field for $150. Midweek, a group of ten can hire the Cat for the day at a cost of $2000, including up to five runs and an alpine barbeque. The field is sheltered from the prevailing westerly wind and so can often be open when the rest of the mountain is closed.
If you just can't bear the thought of leaving, there are accomodation and ski packages available too. You will stay on the mountain at a ski club lodge and be provided with meals, although there is a roster so you have to chip in and help with the chores. It's a really unique, kiwi experience and affordable, with stay and ski packages beginning at $125 per adult, per night.
Just think….. 500 vertical metres per run of sun-facing slopes delivered to you by Cat.
Tukino is just over an hours drive from Taupo. It is important that you do not attempt to drive up the Tukino mountain road until you have confirmed (via the Snowphone – 08 322 5000 or the online Tukino snow report) that the road is open.
Always check conditions before you embark on your day's adventures and dress appropriately for the weather conditions which can change rapidly at Mt Ruapehu.
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In 2007, Luxembourg- and Berlin-based visual artist Su Mei Tse lived at Bostons
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, drawing inspiration from the museums rich collection, its history, and the Dutch Room, where the empty frames remain as an ever-present reminder of loss and absence.
This summer, the 2003 the Golden Lion award-winner returns to present a solo exhibition and new sound installation in Floating Memories, on view July 16th through October 18th, 2009. Programming during the run of exhibition includes artist and gallery talks, a book signing, and a musical performance featuring Su Mei Tse, contemporary visual artists Lee Mingwei and Cliff Evans, songwriter and performer Niko Hafkenscheid, gallery owner Peter Blum (Peter Blum Gallery, New York), curator Enrico Lunghi, Director of the Mudam Museum in Luxembourg, and Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art, Gardner Museum, will accompany the exhibition.
In art, Su-Mei Tse searches for and achieves complete harmony, says Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Gardner Museum and curator of the exhibition. It is a painstaking relentless process of discovery and balance and an incredible privilege as a curator to follow and learn to understand it. Since Su Meis [2007] residency at the Gardner, I have been following her work, and have delighted in the unique forms she creates to express her ideas, says Anne Hawley, the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Su Meis artistry is always filled with invention.
Su-Mei Tse first emerged on the international contemporary arts scene in 2003, winning critical acclaim and a Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at the 50th Venice Biennale for her first show, Air Conditioning, where she showed the work Echo for the first time. The daughter of a Chinese violinist and an English pianist, Su-Mei Tses work as a visual artist is also informed by her background as a classically trained cellist. This part of her training has enabled her to take up music and sound, not as themes in her work, but as tools and languages to express her ideas. This is why her work often merges sound, images, and sculpture into a single poetic form. Her work also conveys a deep appreciation for craft and gesture. Tses work has the pared-down aesthetic quality of minimalism with an emotional charge; her videos, sculpture, and sound installations in particular having been compared to haiku poetry for their elegant and spartan imagery. Tse moves frequently between different cultures in her work, occasionally diverting them and testing them against common clichés in order to pose the question: What might be a universal language?
In Floating Memories, Tse presents a new installation merging sound, sculpture, and a video projection while reflecting on the passing of time, distant memory, absence, and longing. The artist has embedded a gold monochrome rug in an empty wooden frame, carved with the partially worn and faded pattern of the 17th century Italian silk damask that originally covered the walls in the Dutch Room (a reproduction of that same fabric now hangs on the walls to preserve the original from irreversible damaging light). Tse has paired this with an image flashback from her childhood of an endlessly revolving vinyl record, floating like a distant shimmering mirage. Rug, frame, and image are suspended in a poetic limbo by the incessantly scratching turntable sound of a revolving LP.
Tses installation resonates within the Gardner collection particularly in the Dutch Room, where time has come to a standstill while a sense of absence, distant memory, and longing fades in and out of every empty frame, adds Cavalchini. On the exhibition title, she explains: Floating Memories are distant memories that suddenly bubble up to the surface before us, only to recede again. But they are never quite forgotten.
Su-Mei Tse has exhibited in New York at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Peter Blum Gallery; London at the Albion Gallery; Roskilde, Denmark at the Museet for Samtidskunst; Chicago at The Renaissance Society; Stockholm at the Moderna Museet; Seattle at the Seattle Art Museum; Athens at the Alpha Delta Gallery; Antwerp at the Tim Van Laere Gallery; Taiwan at MOCA Taipei; Amsterdam at the Foundation De Appel; Jerusalem at the Israel Museum; Paris at the Centre Culturel Suisse; and San Francisco at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. A major exhibition of her work was recently presented at Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain. This last spring, Tse presented the first major survey of her work in Asia at Art Tower Mito, Japan. In addition to the Gardner Museum, Tse has been an artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge; and Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Tse was recently awarded the prestigious Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize for Contemporary Art (May 2009). Her numerous honors and awards, in addition to this award and the Golden Lion award, also include the SRMedienkunstpreis given by the Saarlandischer Rudfunk as well as the Prix dart Robert Schumann. In 2005, Tse became the first recipient of the Edward Steichen Award, earning a grant for a six-month artists residency in New York City. Her work has been reviewed in national and international publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, ARTforum, Art in America, Art Asia Pacific, ARTnews, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Independent, ART (Germany), Art Press (France), iD-Magazine (Germany), Art it (Japan), and more. Tse was born in Luxembourg in 1973. She currently lives and works in Luxemburg and Berlin.
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Ed and Rogene Johnson will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on May 14. Congratulatory cards may be sent to the couple at 4317 Faulkner Ct., Lincoln, Neb., 68516.
Sherry Simpson of Council Bluffs and Kelly and Connie Simpson of Oakland have announced the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Erica Leone Simpson, to Ronald Eugene King, son of Dennis and Delores King of Malvern.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of LeRoy and the late Roberta Nelson of Fontanelle, and Jerry and the late Margaret Simpson of Logan. She graduated from Buena Vista University with a bachelor's degree in human resources management. She's employed at the Glenwood Resource Center as a supervisor.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Rachael Simon and Zachariah Miller.
Parents of the couple are David and Jean Jaskierny of Glenwood, Jack Miller of Holdrege, Neb., and Joseph and Christy Simon of Hudson, Wis.
The bride-elect graduated from Hudson High School in 1998 and from St. Olaf College in 2002. She went on to receive a law degree from Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. She's employed as an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C.
Alyssa Stege-Tompsett and Michael Mayberry are planning an Aug. 28, 2009, wedding at St. Luke United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Neb.
Parents of the couple are Marlene Stege and James Tompsett of Lincoln, Neb., and Tim and Mary Mayberry of Glenwood.
The bride-elect attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in accounting. Her fiance graduated with an associate's degree in criminal justice from ITT Technical Institute and is currently working at First National Bank.
Rev. Don and Mary Jo Maynard will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at Heritage Hills Church of the Nazarene in Papillion, Neb., on Sunday, June 21, 2009, at the close of the morning worship service. Rev. and Mrs. Maynard were married June 19, 1959, at West Side Church of the Nazarene in Indianapolis, Ind.
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Richard and Kathy Dix of Glenwood will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on Friday, April 3.
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In recent weeks, there have been a number of major news stories that have -- to one degree or another -- pivoted on the sharp doctrinal divisions among American Catholics. Think religious liberty vs. the Health and Human Services rules. Think about the case of Father Marcel Guarnizo and the Buddhist-Catholic-artist-gay-activist Barbara Johnson. In the midst of all that, the top brass at The New York Times decided to accept an extremely blunt advertisement from the Freedom From Religion Foundation that, well, urged liberal and nominal Catholics to walk out of the pews that they were rarely if ever visiting anyway.
The overarching image? Liberal Catholics, argued this advertisement, are like wives caught in abusive relationships who are afraid to try to escape. The text contains virtually every image that you would ever see in classic anti-Catholic literature. Here's a key clip from a longer version of the basic text:
You're better than your church. So why? Why continue to attend Mass? Tithe? Why dutifully sacrifice to send your children to parochial schools so they can be brainwashed into the next generation of myrmidons (and, potentially, become the next Church victims)? For that matter, why have you put up with an institution that won't put up with women priests, that excludes half of humanity?
No self-respecting feminist, civil libertarian or progressive should cling to the Catholic faith. As a Cafeteria Catholic, you chuck out the stale doctrine and moldy decrees of your religion, but keep patronizing the establishment that menaces public health by serving rotten offerings. Your continuing Catholic membership, as a "liberal," casts a veneer of respectability upon an irrational sect determined to blow out the Enlightenment and threaten liberty for women worldwide.
You are an enabler. And it's got to stop.
If you imagine you can change the church from within -- get it to lighten up on birth control, gay rights, marriage equality, embryonic stem-cell research -- you are deluding yourself. If you remain a "good Catholic," you are doing "bad" to women's rights. You're kidding yourself if you think the Church is ever going to add a Doctrine of Immaculate ContraCeption.
Some were shocked, shocked to see the Times leadership publish this ad and wondered if the nation's most prestigious newspaper would accept a similar item that, well, urged progressive or moderate Muslims to flee their ancient and dangerous faith. Sure enough, one of the usual suspects quickly produced an advertisement that, in terms of images and rhetoric, was a line-by-line tribute and/or satire of the anti-Catholic screed. Click here to see it.
To no one's shock, this anti-Muslim screed was rejected by Times executives.
(Cue: audible yawn) All of this was highly predictable, of course.
However, I thought there was an interesting subject lurking just below the surface of these boiling waters. Here's the key question: Why DO so many doctrinally liberal people remain members of the Catholic Church? Why don't they do the logical thing and join, oh, a visually Catholic Episcopal parish down the block? I once put that question to Andrew Sullivan in an online exchange and there was immediate silence on the other side of that exchange in cyberspace.
At the same time, statistics produced by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life have made it clear that millions of people are leaving Catholicism -- roughly four people headed out the Catholic doors for every one who comes in through conversion. The bottom line: One in 10 American adults is an ex-Catholic, of one form or another. Many simply join the masses of unchurched Americans. Many head to conservative churches and a few head into liberal Protestantism. Click here to see the specifics.
While surfing through some reactions to the anti-Catholic ad in the Times, I bumped into some America commentary by theologian Tom Beaudoin, who teaches at the Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York City. He is currently doing research into "deconversions" among what many call the "secular Catholics" on the doctrinal left.
Pay close attention:
Whatever one thinks of this ad, it seems to mark a particular moment in the unfolding history of the Catholic Church in the United States. That a full-page ad in one of the most influential newspapers in the country would ask members of a major religious group to walk away from that group is an extraordinary occurrence.
I hope that before people take sides pro or con on the ad, before the tendency to separate into "evil vs. good" or "good vs. evil" here, we might be able to take this opportunity for some serious thinking, and ask: What is happening with religion in general and Catholicism in particular today that would make such a moment possible?
The ad trades on the newly widespread awareness that Catholicism is shedding adherents: that most Catholics live on the "lower" end between moderate and marginal affiliation, instead of high affiliation, and that a great many are actively disaffiliating. It trades on the widely understood distance between most Catholics' beliefs and practices and official teaching on certain matters. Most important, as far as I can tell, is its remarkably confident appeal to a kind of personal agency that would make Catholics, who so often see religion as something akin to an ethnicity, walk away from it.
Whatever you think of the Freedom From Religion Foundation advertisement, and whatever you think of Fordham, the Jesuits and what not, the numbers indicate that there is a huge story looming over these debates (and I'm not talking about the wisdom of ad policies at the Times).
Once again, we are dealing with the myth that there is one body of Catholics in America with one set of beliefs. Truly, the spirits that drive the various camps within American Catholicism are legion.
Beaudoin responded to my emails and discussed what he sees happening on the Catholic left. That conversation became the hook for my Scripps Howard News Service column this week and then the weekly GetReligion "Crossroads" podcast. Here's a bite or two of what the Fordham theologian had to say:
"Secular Catholics are people who were baptized as Catholics, but they find it impossible to make Catholicism the center of (their) lives, by which I mean Catholicism as defined by the official teachings of the church," said Beaudoin. For these believers, there are "things that they learned about faith from Catholicism. Then there are things they learned from their jobs, from school experiences, from their music and from their favorite movies.
"They are hybrid believers and their faith comes from all over the place."
And what about those Pew Forum numbers?
In the end, it's impossible to ignore this mass of "secular Catholics" because it's such a large chunk of today's church, he said. In some parts of America, various kinds of "secular Catholics" now constitute a clear majority, while those who affirm traditional dogmas and doctrines are a minority.
Some of these "secular Catholics" eventually leave the church. Others choose to remain on membership rolls, on their own terms, because they find it hard to walk away, said Beaudoin. After all, there are parts of Catholicism that they affirm and they know they can ignore the parts that they reject. They have changed the church for themselves.
From his perspective, Beaudoin said it's important to believe that this trend is "not the result of lethargy, laziness, relativism, heresy or apostasy. ... There will be Catholics who insist on saying that these secular Catholics are falling away from traditional Catholic norms. But I think it would be more helpful to talk about them not as having fallen away from the Catholic faith, but as having created new, evolving spiritual lives for themselves."
That sound you hear is traditional Catholics screaming in protest.
However, think this over. If roughly 3 to 5 percent of American Catholics are going to confession on a regular or even occasional basis, then how many Catholics are left who are actually attempting to live according to the teachings -- most of the teachings, let's say -- of their faith?
I remain convinced that it's impossible to write about Catholic life today without taking this into account in the vast majority of news stories and columns.
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This afternoon, from the Bush compound in Crawford, Texas, came the news that First daughter Jenna Bush and her boyfriend of two years, Karl Rove minion and Republispawn Henry Hager, are engaged and immediately, an angry rain threatened to overcome the entire state of Texas. Not that those incidents were related! Because unlike some people, we don't really believe there's guy in the sky who controls the weather. (Speaking of splashes, an over-the-top wedding does not a happy marriage make!) Anyway, if they manage to weather the storm, here's the shit Jenna and Henry can look forward to as they begin their life together:
- It's not looking too good for Republican folks in Washington. [Washington Post]
- But at least Jenna and Henry don't live in Iraq, where many women have been forced to sell their bodies in order to feed their kids. [CNN]
- And we know Jenna wants kids. Assuming she can have them. Let's hope she's not infertile. Because IVF could bring up some pretty big issues for her. [Salon]
- Also, we hope both she and Henry are prepared for the fact that they are not going to be having a ton of sex in the future. According to the Red Hot Mamas organization's Sex and Menopause Survey, over half of women report a decrease in sex drive during menopause, and 44% report suffering from vaginal atrophy—their vaginas just like, dry up and it hurts too much to have sex. Ugh. [Reuters]
Anyway! Congratulations Henry! Best wishes Jenna!


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Just when you think things are beginning to look up for Sony, the PlayStation goes and gets its very own skin disorder: PlayStation palmar hidradenitis.
The new skin condition springs from the case of a 12-year-old girl, treated in a Swiss hospital for intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands. The doctors examining the girl determined that she had idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis, a condition usually linked with heavy physical activity and intense sweating that results in sores on the hands and feet. Having the sores only on ones hands was rare, and the young lady in question hadn't been participating in outdoor activities...but she had been playing a great deal of PlayStation. Aha!
Sure enough, after 10 days spent avoiding the console, the girl's condition cleared right up, and the British Journal of Dermatology got a new entry in the form of PlayStation palmar hidradenitis.
Of course video game consoles have been hurting us since the very beginning of the industry. I used to have to tape my hands because the Atari 2600 joystick had torn the skin between my thumb and forefinger to shreds. I think the main difference between this case and all of the cases before it is that the parents didn't have enough sense to put two and two together and had to get doctors involved.
Researchers are calling this a physical symptom of video game addiction, similar to the acute tendinitis that has been reported by playing too much Nintendo Wii. It should be noted, however, that no one has ever listed tennis elbow as a symptom of tennis addiction. Just something to think about.
A Sony Computer Entertainment Europe representative was quick to reply to the BBC.
"As with any leisure pursuit there are possible consequences of not following common sense, health advice and guidelines, as can be found within our instruction manuals.
"PlayStation was launched in 1995 and has sold hundreds of millions of consoles over the last 13 years.
"We do not wish to belittle this research and will study the findings with interest. This is the first time we have ever heard of a complaint of this nature."
See? Because most people can make the association between too much game playing and sores on their palms. Thanks a lot, little Swiss girl.
Game consoles 'cause skin sores' [BBC - Thanks David!]


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Oh goody! A perfect situation to challenge you.
We won't call it an IQ challenge; we'll call it a clear-thinking challenge.
And it will be multiple choice, but there is a right answer.
Oh goody! A perfect situation to challenge you.
We won't call it an IQ challenge; we'll call it a clear-thinking challenge.
And it will be multiple choice, but there is a right answer.
You boarded a ship in Galveston, Texas, for a four-day Gulf of Mexico cruise with 4,000 people who, by the end of the cruise, will be related to you.
The first day, a fire in the engine room knocked out the major power sources disabling and stranding the ship in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. No engine power. No power to prepare hot or cold meals, so you lived on chicken and ham sandwiches and had to stand in long lines to get those. No power for televisions, radios, movies, slot machines or any other entertainment. No plumbing for toilets, showers, swimming pool, ice machines, beer coolers or anything else. No air conditioning in those hot little cabins, so you pulled your bedding out and slept on deck.
Your feet slipped and squished through the raw sewage running along the corridors and down the walls from the overflowing toilets on all levels of the ship.
The stench literally burned your lungs when you breathed.
This is your life for five days while the ship is being towed into Mobile, Alabama, when you can get off.
Now the challenge: When you get off in Mobile, which one of these all-expense-paid choices will you take:
A) You can immediately board buses that will get you back to the comforts of your homes in Galveston and Houston in seven hours. (Or to the Houston Airport.)
B) You can immediately board buses for a two-hour ride to New Orleans, spend the night in a hotel and then fly to Houston very early the next morning and be home by the afternoon.
The clear-thinking answer comes later.
But let's get back to the passengers' unimaginable hardships while aboard.
Seemingly the greatest hardship was the deplorable sanitation conditions they faced for five days. These were only some of the same sanitation conditions that hundreds of millions of people in India, China, Bangladesh, Niger and many countries are born into and live with their whole lives. There are also the same sanitation conditions that tens of thousands of Americans face daily in the poorest counties of Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and the poorest parishes of Louisiana.
Another unimaginable hardship was standing in long lines to get those ham or chicken sandwiches. Were those lines thousands of people long as they are in the refugee camps in Turkey, Sudan, Palestine, Kenya, Haiti and many other places waiting just to receive a cup of flour or rice? Or stretching for blocks as in the cities of America to receive a bag of canned goods from food banks?
So it was unimaginable to have to sleep on the hard deck with no air conditioning and have no power for a television or entertainment? You mean like the tens of millions of people who live in the cardboard favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the tin shanties of Soweto, the stifling slums of Cairo and in the makeshift cabins on American Indian reservations in our United States?
What is unimaginable is that nearly 5 billion people of the Earth's 7 billion people never experience indoor plumbing, potable water, hot showers, electricity, piped sewerage systems, daily meals, meals with meat and any of the millions of things we have come to expect and take for granted.
Many of those 5 billion people would be grateful to make a cruise ship their home under the same conditions. First, you would have to tell them what a cruise ship is; what a mattress is; how to turn on a faucet; and how to flush a toilet. And then make them believe that they will get food to eat — every day.
So tell me again about the unimaginable hardships?
Ready for the clear-thinking answer? B, of course. And how were all the people related by the time they got off the ship? Because they all smelled alike.
I know, I know: That is dark and biting sarcastic humor, but they deserve it for being so self-absorbed.
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