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More state discussions are needed on how to develop Colorado's share of Colorado River water, a task force that met for more than a year on the Flaming Gorge water project reported Wednesday. The task force did not recommend either building or denying the Flaming Gorge pipeline idea, and wasn't expected to. Instead, it worked to create a framework that would bring competing interests to the table to evaluate any project proposing development of a new supply from the Colorado River. Its conclusions will be submitted to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, which funded the task force. "I guess neutral is a big win for us," said Aaron Million, who was one of two sponsors of a Flaming Gorge pipeline who met with the task force last year.
More engineering work is being completed so that the Flaming Gorge project can be resubmitted to a federal agency for environmental evaluation. Million said it would be submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which rejected an application last year, saying more information was needed. If FERC does not accept the new proposal, either the Army Corps of Engineers or Bureau of Land Management would be approached.
The task force recommended the CWCB and Interbasin Compact Committee, an umbrella organization that represents the interests of basin roundtables and the state, develop a way to evaluate if a project meets certain criteria. The top priorities are developing Colorado's share of the water under the 1922 Colorado River Compact and protecting the state from a call on the river that could diminish Colorado's water supply.
The group recommended forming a committee that would continue to discuss issues relating to water and is asking the CWCB for up to $100,000 for phase 2 of the study. The first phase was funded at $72,000 in September 2011, over the objections of environmental groups who tried to kill any consideration of a Flaming Gorge plan.
More coverage from the Associated Press via the Laramie Boomerang. Here's an excerpt:
In a report to be presented to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Basin Roundtable Exploration Committee said questions that should be addressed include not only financing and how Colorado can maximize its entitlements to Colorado River water without overdeveloping the river, but also alternatives to new water supply projects.
The committee said state leaders and each of the basin roundtables in Colorado should participate in the conversation, which it called a "key threshold step" needed to move beyond the status quo in developing significant new water supply solutions. The roundtables represent each major river basin in the state, plus the Denver area.
The report, released Wednesday, described an urgent need for action, citing the gap between the demand for water on the populated Front Range and the supply.
"The municipal gap on the Front Range is immediate, the dry-up of agriculture is real and certain, and the environmental and economic concerns are serious and numerous," the report said.
The report also listed several characteristics of "good" water supply projects. For instance, they should have funding and minimize the need for new infrastructure, and they shouldn't reduce supplies to existing water users, the report said.
Colorado's river basin roundtables agreed to form the committee after entrepreneur Aaron Million announced a $3 billion pipeline proposal to carry Flaming Gorge Reservoir water to Colorado, and a separate coalition of water providers said it was exploring its own plan. The committee didn't set out to endorse any proposal but wanted to answer questions about cost, feasibility, water rights and legalities, along with the environmental, socioeconomics, agricultural and recreational impacts of any Flaming Gorge project, among other issues.
Million has yet to gain permits for his project. He said Thursday his team is doing more engineering work after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last year dismissed his permit application over a lack of specifics.
More coverage from the Wyoming Business Journal (MJ Clark):
The committee is aware of protests by environmentalists and issues raised by their own constituency.
"Rather than focusing on a Flaming Gorge project, the committee is exploring what the attributes would be of any successful new transmountain diversion," the group wrote. "And foremost to that discussion is dealing with the uncertainties of water availability under the Colorado River Compact."
Noting that the staff could not reach an agreement of whether or not to endorse the project, the group concluded that, "At this point, we don't see the benefit of having the Flaming Gorge Committee continue … unless the board directs otherwise, this will be the direction staff takes."
More Flaming Gorge Task Force coverage here.


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Aren't they darling??!!! You can read Tippytoe's Tutorial HERE or I'm going to give the steps to how we created ours.
1. I started by letting the boys pick 3 colors which I painted onto their hand and then they pressed their hands down on a white sheet of card stock paper. We did this at bedtime so they could dry completely overnight. In the morning when they were dry, I cut them out like pictured below.
2. Next you will need to create your parrot pieces. I looked at Tippytoe's and drew out my own to look just like hers. Now just in case the task of creating your own pieces seems daunting, I went ahead and created a little pattern that you can print off HERE to make it easier.
3. Trace the parrot body pattern onto a sheet of card stock paper (I let my boys pick what color they wanted) and then have your child cut it out.
4. Trace the beak and feet pattern pieces onto an orange sheet of card stock paper and cut them out. I did this step because the pieces were curvy and smaller.
5. Once all the pieces are cut out, glue the beak and legs to the parrot body.
6. Glue the handprints (wings) to the parrot body. We also glued on a large wiggly eye at this point. Tippytoe had her students draw their eye on, but since I am obsessed with wiggly eyes, we went that route. 🙂
Ok, now they are totally adorable already, but there is one last step to complete them.
7. Pick 3 different colors of tissue paper to use as the tail feathers and cut about a 3/4″ x 5″ strip of all 3 colors. Then glue them to the bum of the parrot. 🙂 After we completed our parrots I looked at Tippytoe's tutorial and realized they had glued their tail feathers on before their handprints. So you can do it either way you want.
After you are done gluing on the tissue paper feathers, your pretty parrot is complete! Now just stand back in amazement at the beautiful colors and then laugh at your children's parrot voices when they pretend they are talking.
We didn't read a specific parrot book to go along with this craft but we've been reading billions of about birds books that talk about parrots. Here are a couple:
PS-Tippytoe Crafts guest posted a couple days ago here, showing us her adorable Cardinal Craft. If you missed it, you can check it out HERE.


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Urban Meyer, who won two national championships at Florida, has accepted the head coaching job at Ohio State.
The 46-year-old Ohio-born coach has long been rumored for the job, and the Washington Post confirmed that he accepted the job two days after the team lost to arch-rival Michigan for the first time in eight years. Meyer succeeds Luke Fickell, who coached the team on an interim basis after Jim Tressel resigned amid a tattoos-for-memorabilia scandal.
Sources told WKMG-TV in Orlando last week that Meyer would be introduced in coming days after agreeing to a seven-year, $40 million deal. The Post did not confirm those terms.
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Meyer had most recently worked as a game analyst for ESPN. Prior to that, he led the Florida Gators to two national championships, both with Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Tim Tebow at the helm.
Ohio State, one of college football's most storied programs, capped its season Saturday with a 40-34 defeat that left them at 6-6 overall and 3-5 in the Big Ten.


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Vienna The Centreville girls' basketball team, owner of an up-tempo style and winner of 14 of its first 15 games, approached Friday's contest confident it could beat Oakton despite a losing streak against the Cougars dating back to 1995.
But after the opening tip, the Wildcats' confidence turned to timidness against 6-foot-1 Oakton senior Elizabeth Manner and the eight-time defending Concorde District champion Cougars.
Manner scored 37 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as Oakton defeated Centreville 65-48 on Jan. 18 at Oakton High School. The defending state champion Cougars improved to 14-2 overall and moved into sole possession of first place in the Concorde District with a 4-0 mark.
The Wildcats had no answer for the physically imposing Manner, who burned Centreville in the paint, from the perimeter and at the free-throw line. At the other end of the floor, head coach Tom Watson said the Wildcats weren't their usual attacking selves.
"I think we came out scared in the first half," he said. "I think we were awful. I think we didn't bring our game. We were afraid to penetrate—that's not our game. I think that big girl from Oakton intimidated [our players]."
Manner scored 16 points in the paint, made one jumper, knocked down one 3-pointer and went 16-for-19 at the free-throw line.
"We don't have bunches of plays for her," Oakton head coach Fred Priester said. "We're an equal-opportunity offense. But when things break down, the kids have great trust in her and great faith in her. She's a big girl, but she's extremely agile and she moves around that basket very well. . . . She has worked as hard and has come as far as, really, any kid I've ever coached."
"We don't have bunches of plays for [Elizabeth Manner]. We're an equal-opportunity offense. But when things break down, the kids have great trust in her and great faith in her. She's a big girl, but she's extremely agile and she moves around that basket very well. . . . She has worked as hard and has come as far as, really, any kid I've ever coached."
—Oakton girls' basketball coach Fred Priester
OAKTON LED BY 12 at halftime, but Centreville pulled to within five on three occasions late in the third quarter and trailed 43-36 entering the fourth. Manner extended the Oakton lead with a pair of buckets in the opening minute and finished with 15 points in the final quarter. She made seven of eight free-throw attempts during the final four minutes, 25 seconds.
Oakton led 17-8 at the end of the first quarter. Manner scored 11 points in the opening period, making nine of 10 free-throw attempts.
Priester said Manner has come a long way at the foul line since her freshman season. According to stats from the Washington Post's website, Manner shot 76 percent from the line through this season's first 16 games.
"Her freshman year, I think she started the season something like 3-for-28," Priester said. "She got better to get it up to some reasonable number by the end of the year. We didn't do anything ridiculous or strap her to a waterboard or anything like that. Every day we work on form shooting, form shooting, form shooting. It just comes about."
Manner said improvement at the line was about building confidence.
"We work on our shot every day in practice," Manner said, "so I started to get more comfortable with it and then I just stopped thinking about it and just shot the ball like we do in practice every day."
While Watson praised Manner, the Centreville coach wasn't pleased the Oakton center was not whistled for a foul during the game.
"She's great. She's a good player. She's another [Washington Mystics guard and former Oakton star] Jasmine [Thomas]—she gets every call in the world," Watson said. "It doesn't matter what you do, she gets a call. That's irritating for a coach. That's why I was barking. It just gets old. She had 16 free throws and she had zero fouls. How could she not have a single foul in there? You don't think we drove on her and bumped her the same way she bumped us?"
Oakton senior guard Helen Roberts scored 11 points. Senior forward Angela Sickels finished with seven points and sophomore guard Karlie Cronin had six.
Sophomore guard Lindsey Abed added four points and seven rebounds.
"I think Lindsey played phenomenal tonight," Manner said. "She has a good sense of where people are open and she has a good calmness about her where she can take what Priester tells her and put it into action."
After scoring 15 points in the first half, Centerville tallied 21 in the third quarter to make things interesting. Sophomore guard Caroline Wakefield buried a 3-pointer to cut the Oakton lead to 37-32 with 1:37 remaining in the quarter. Senior forward Tori Collar scored her 10th point of the quarter to make the score 39-34 and junior guard Jenna Green's bucket cut the Oakton lead to 41-36, but the Wildcats got no closer than five.
"I think we came out scared in the first half. I think we were awful. I think we didn't bring our game. We were afraid to penetrate --- that's not our game. I think that big girl from Oakton intimidated [our players]."
--- Centreville girls' basketball coach Tom Watson
"I don't think we really came to play today, especially me," said Green, who was born in 1996, one year after Centreville last beat Oakton. "My shot was off. We weren't playing our usual game. I don't know if it was because we were intimidated; I don't know what it was. I definitely think that we can beat them and I can't wait to play them again."
Green finished with 12 points for Centreville. Collar scored 10 points, junior forward Ailyn Kelly finished with eight, and Wakefield and sophomore guard Chrissy Jacksta each added five.
Centreville defeated Chantilly 48-28 on Tuesday, improving the Wildcats' record to 15-2 overall and 4-1 in the district. Centreville will host Robinson at 5:45 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25.
Oakton defeated Westfield 58-48 on Tuesday. The Cougars are 15-2 overall and 5-0 in the district. Oakton will host Herndon at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25.
The second meeting between Oakton and Centreville will be Feb. 5 at Centreville High School.
"I can't wait," Watson said.


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The Clickfree Automatic Backup series has an excellent reputation for simplifying the backup process, and now it's gone wireless. Clickfree Wireless Automatic Backup can cover up to 20 compatible PCs or Macs on your wireless network, and you can choose which file types to safeguard.
Available with 500GB or 1TB, Clickfree Wireless Automatic Backup is really easy to set up. Just perform an initial backup and software install using its integrated USB cable, then plug it into the mains and back up wirelessly.
A menu bar pull-down lets you manage the device, scheduling backups and restoring files. You can also back up connected drives and even iPods/iOS devices.
Ease of use comes at the cost of configurability. You can't restore recovered files to their original location on your Mac, it won't preserve different versions of an edited document and when the drive's full, it won't automatically delete the oldest files to make room for a new backup.
The software application puts an alias on your desktop that reappears on restart every time you delete it, which is especially annoying since the app can be launched from the menu bar anyway, and the interface used to recover backed-up files is clunky too.
Clickfree is a great way to safeguard treasured media and other irreplaceable files, but it should be used alongside rather than instead of a system such as Time Machine.
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text: Study finds that virus naturally found in human genes to be active on immune cells in some people with active MS March 21, 2012 A new study by Dr. Magdalena Laska (Aarhuis University, Denmark) and colleagues suggests that components of a virus called HERV-Fc1 (for human endogenous retrovirus), which are derived from genes normally found in the DNA of all humans, are present at higher levels in plasma and on immune cells in people with active MS. The study, published recently online in the Journal of Virology, provides an intriguing lead to a factor may either cause or result from immune attacks in MS or other disorders. Further research will be needed to better define the unknown role of this factor and its possible implications for people with MS. Background: The cause of MS has been long debated, but likely includes both environmental and genetic risk factors. Among environmental factors, viruses have been frequently associated with MS. A retrovirus called HERV-Fc1 was previously shown to have a genetic association with MS. Components of this HERV have been found in the brain and blood of people with MS. Human DNA from all people contains genes for parts of retroviruses. Normally, these genes remain mostly silent, and few viral components are found in the body. This research group looked at whether components of HERV-Fc1 are increased in the circulating immune cells in people with active MS compared to healthy controls and people with inactive MS. The study: To look for components of HERV, the researchers obtained blood samples from three groups: 30 healthy volunteers, 19 people with inactive MS (no relapses for an average of 36 months), and 22 people with active MS (relapses within an average of 3.2 months). Although all three groups had the same number of copies of the HERV component in their DNA, there were distinct differences in their RNA. (RNA is the first step in making virus from the gene.) HERV levels were four times higher in plasma samples from people with active MS compared to healthy people and people with inactive MS. The team then looked at a protein related to the HERV, examining white blood cells that are known to be important in MS immune attacks. In these white blood cells, more HERV-related protein was found in samples from people with active MS compared to the other two groups. The team also explored whether disease-modifying therapies made a difference in HERV levels in the active MS group, and found no difference between those on therapy versus those who were not on therapy. Comment: This study strengthens a previously suggested link between MS and HERV-Fc1, and suggests that the HERV-related gene components are "switched on" at a higher level in immune cells of people with active MS. It is not yet know whether HERV components play a role in launching or worsening the immune attacks on the central nervous system in people with MS, or whether they are a result of those attacks. Further studies are required to address these and other questions about these intriguing findings, and their possible implications for people with MS or other disorders.


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A section of the 5 Freeway near Frazier Park was closed Wednesday morning after an overnight storm brought snow, ice and high winds to Southern California and led to another road closure north of Los Angeles.
The road reopened at about 9:30 a.m. after the morning closure, prompted by dangerous driving conditions after an overnight winter storm.
Snow and strong wind gusts were reported early Wednesday in the Frazier Park area. Crews responded to a big rig crash -- the cab and two trailers ended up on their sides -- near Lebec.
The closure came after a 60-mile stretch of highway between Los Angeles and Bakersfield was closed late Tuesday during the height of a winter storm. Authorities closed a portion of Highway 58 (map) because of snow and poor travel conditions.
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CHP officers escorted drivers off Highway 58 late Tuesday. The road reopened Wednesday.
The storm from the Gulf of Alaska brought the first significant rainfall to the region in several weeks, the National Weather Service said. Bear Valley Unified schools are closed Wednesday because of the weather.
Remnants of the storm are expected to move out of the region late Wednesday morning, but cold conditions will remain.
"It feels windy, brisky, cold, freezing -- like the air is coming from somewhere cold," said Robert Bitter, who was in Manhattan Beach early Wednesday.
Temperatures will remain at or below normal late this week, said NBC4 forecaster Elita Loresca.
Rain and snow were reported in the Inland Empire Wednesday morning. A winter weather advisory was extended until 6 a.m. for the region.
Skies in the mountain and desert areas will clear Wednesday afternoon.
"A lot of the shower activity occurred overnight," said Loresca. "We're still dealing with lingering rain showers over the next couple of hours."


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Tramigo Launches M1 Fleet Enterprise Server SW for Service Providers and Large Fleets
November 9, 2011
Cape Town. November 9, 2011.
Today, Tramigo announces it is aggressively venturing into another segment of the Fleet Tracking Market, targeting Fleet Service Providers and Recovery Service Providers with the launch of its new M1 Fleet Enterprise software. M1 Fleet Enterprise offers significant changes to the original M1 Fleet software. The key difference is the fact that it is a client-server based architecture.
Said, Simon Prosser, Sales Manager for Asia, "this is a truly exciting offering as Tramigo has created many new wealthy entrepreneurs with its T22 tracking devices and now this opens new opportunities for further business start ups and established service providers, as customers can develop and build their own Fleet service (and recovery) business based on the new M1 Fleet enterprise software."
Mr. Arto Tiitinen, the company CEO said: "Tramigo is committed to offering the absolute best in the tracking market and following many years of success with SME and consumer market across 4 continents, Tramigo, now has the industries best client-server software solution for Fleet Service Providers; and this will enable them to provide more efficient and reliable solutions to their clients whilst increasing significantly their own profitability. The hardest work in Fleet Services is done in the local market places. The Local Services Providers need to have full control of their business, and Tramigo is committed to extend its successful No Monthly Fees, Full Local Control, FREE Software business model to Fleet Service Providers."
The key features of M1 Fleet management are that although mainly a client server based architecture it can be run in a standalone mode. It offers support for fleet sizes ranging from a few vehicles up to several thousands, multiuser support, SQL server database with direct integration to a customer's systems. Other key features are live tracking in multiple windows and important for many tracking users will be the ability to set multiple zones (geo-fencing) in the form of linear lines, any polygonal shape in additional to the usual radial zones. Together with user-friendly TLD Landmarks available to every country, operating Fleet Management or Security Services has never been so efficient.
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Protruding ears can be a major source of embarrassment. But opting to undergo ear correction surgery can make you less self-conscious and more comfortable, thereby improving your quality of your life. Also known as Otoplasty, ear correction surgery is a reconstructive surgery of the auricle of the external ear. Before you decide to go ahead with ear correction surgery, you should go for a thorough one-to-one medical consultation with a surgeon who specialises in Ear Correction Surgery/ Otoplasty. The surgery assures to create a more natural look and restore your facial balance and symmetry.
Ear correction surgery (also known as Otoplasty) is generally a very quick procedure. After evaluating your suitability for Otoplasty, your surgeon will assess the degree of prominence of your ears in relation to your other facial features. Other ear defects may be considered. The specific technique used in your case will depend on individual factors your surgeon will explain during your consultation.
In typical cases, a small incision is made behind the ear to access the cartilage. Permanent sutures may be used to manipulate the cartilage into the desired shape. In some instances sections of cartilage may be removed. The incision is hidden in the natural crease where the ear joins the head.
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Former Miss Hawaii Candes Gentry establishes $50,000 scholarship endowment at the Shidler College of BusinessUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is proud to announce the establishment the Candes Mejide Gentry Endowed Scholarship at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Shidler College of Business. The initial $25,000 gift from Gentry will be matched with funds from Jay Shidler's $25 million gift,
increasing the total value to $50,000. The endowed scholarship is for full-time students majoring in business with preference to students interested in entrepreneurship.
"It is extremely heartwarming to receive an endowment from a recent graduate like Candes especially because she just started her professional career in business," said V. Vance Roley, Dean of the Shidler College of Business. "Candes is a strong supporter of higher education and is committed to helping other
deserving students reach their academic goals. She is also a great role model for our younger generation."
"I greatly appreciated the generosity of scholarship donors who made it possible for me to contribute to financing my own education," said Candes Gentry, director of Gentry Pacific, Ltd. "I hope that I can help other deserving students enjoy a balanced life while earning scholarship funds to alleviate the financial strain of pursuing education, which I value so deeply."
"As a highly talented student, Candes had the opportunity to attend any college of her choice," said Mānoa Chancellor Virginia S. Hinshaw. "We're honored that she chose the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to pursue her MBA. With Candes' scholarship endowment, she is providing increased opportunities for other great students to receive an excellent business education at home."
Candes Meijide Gentry is a graduate of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, earning a BS from the School of Travel Industry Management in 1998 and an MBA from the Shidler College of Business in 2004. Gentry is an accomplished athlete, performer, Miss Hawaii 1999 and world traveler. She is director
of Gentry Pacific, Ltd., one of the many family-owned businesses in which she is an active shareholder.
Gentry was raised in Hawaii and graduated from Punahou School. As a scholarship recipient, she attended Babson College and Columbia University, but decided to complete her education at the
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
About the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Established in 1949 as the College of Business Administration, the College was named in 2006 after alumnus Jay H. Shidler, founder and managing partner of The Shidler Group. The Shidler College of Business is renowned for its expertise in international management education and is consistently ranked
among the nation's top 25 graduate schools for international business by U.S.News & World Report. Long recognized for its Asia-Pacific focus, the College is a professional school, offering a wide variety of degree, certificate and executive programs. The College places a strong emphasis on the development of management skills, entrepreneurship and the management of business information technology. The UH
Shidler College of Business is the only graduate program in the State of Hawai'i accredited by AACSB International. For more information, visit www.shidler.hawaii.edu.
About the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation
The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is an independent, university-related, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise private funds according to priorities determined by the academic leadership of the University of Hawaiʻi and approved by the Board of Regents. Founded in 1955, the Foundation provides
a full range of fund raising and alumni relations services for all 10 UH campuses. For more information on the Foundation, visit www.uhf.hawaii.edu.
For more information, visit: http://www.shidler.hawaii.edu


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Yoshinoya by as Design Service Limited
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As Design Service Limited , the thinktank behind the displayed design Fast Food Restaurant by As Design Service Limited explicates, Designers Four Lau & Sam Sum used "Home" as the core design element to build a "Chic Home", presenting the brand image as young, energetic, and warm. The shape of "House" created a marker that makes the customers easily associated with the new image "Home". Giant Japanese chopsticks, Japanese wooden plate menus, and levels of distinctive colors have become the new image elements of Yoshinoya fast food chain. High malleability and varied house-shaped design could link different areas and makes the spaces more stereoscopic..
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Dining: Upscale Asian
Asian cuisine is already a star in Honolulu. Does it need to get dressed up?
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Picture a restaurant with an Asian menu—dim sum, maybe, or pho. What do you see? Bright flourescent lights, lineoleum floors, formica tables, bargain prices? That may soon be an outdated image.
We're seeing a trend toward high-end Asian restaurants—restaurants with stunning interiors, full bars and wine service, restaurants that compete on food quality, ambiance, service and not just price alone.
This is good. In Honolulu, we've long known that Asian cuisine is not "ethnic food," as it's called on the Mainland. For us, it's just everyday food. It deserves respect.
On the other hand, Honolulu is already the best Asian food city in America, at least in the sense that Asian food is easily found, often on every street corner. It tends not to cost much, and it's often of remarkable quality. Here, you don't have to hunt for good Chinese, Korean, Thai, Japanese or Vietnamese food; it's just there. It's like living in the middle of great buffet of noodles, tom yum, spring rolls and stir-fries with rice.
That makes it tough to do an upscale Asian restaurant. You don't want to be in the position of charging $19.95 for a dish and having the customer say, I could get this better for $7.95 in Chinatown.
Tough environment or not, Honolulu suddenly has some stunning high-end Asian eateries.
E&O Trading Co.
Ward Centre, 1200 Ala Moana Blvd.
Lunch and Dinner daily 11 a.m.-1 a.m.
Free parking, major credit cards
E&O Trading Co. looks like a million bucks, well, actually $2 million, according to news reports. It occupies the old Pacific Cafe space in Ward Centre, but looks nothing like it. Walk through the faux antique wrought-iron gates, and it's all teak furnishings and walls the color of curry powders. To set this off, from the ceiling hang red lanterns, red umbrellas and, in the entrance, an oversized bamboo wind chime painted everything from orange to purple.
If you read E&O's promo materials, the odd restaurant name, the decor and indeed the whole concept are "inspired by a legendary friendship between an English trader and an Indonesian spice merchant." Not quite a legend. The restaurant is the brainchild of Punahou grads Kenwei Chong and Christopher R. Hemmeter, who already have three E&Os in Northern California. Hemmeter is the son of Island developer Chris Hemmeter, who has, in fact, become legendary.
The younger Hemmeter, having learned from the fantasy resorts created by his father, wrote a six-page script, about a completely fictional 19th-century Englishman, John Bailey, who traded European goods with the Orient (hence E&O) and whose warehouse became a culinary gathering place.
I'm always uneasy about theme restaurants. However, to be fair, E&O is a warm, inviting, even stimulating restaurant setting.
Like many upscale Asian restaurants on the Mainland, E&O's food is pan-Asian. It's not really fusion food. Instead, it's Asian dishes, from a variety of cultures, that have the greatest haole acceptance: satay, ribs, calamari, fried rice.
Unfortunately, the food is uneven, and was unevenly served. We were a party of five (on purpose, to order a large variety of dishes). Everyone was ravenous, so as soon as we sat down, I ordered the satay sampler. "Start there and we'll add more food later." A failed strategy. The satay—two sticks each of salmon, chicken, mushroom and steak—arrived late in the meal, a circumstance the waiter blamed on the grill. It was, in fact, better quality than usual satay, especially the steak, although in Honolulu it was hardly adventurous fare, the way it might be at the E&O in San Jose, Calif.
What we got first was something we ordered much later, two orders of naan bread, one topped with roasted tomatoes and onions, the other stuffed with spiced lamb. Naan, an East Indian flat bread, is traditionally cooked by slapping it against the clay walls of a high-heat tandoor oven, where it cooks rapidly, getting puffy on the inside and crispy brown on the outside. You have to eat it right away.
E&O doesn't have a tandoor oven. The tomato-onion naan came out like a thick pizza, and was far too salty. The lamb in the stuffed naan was tasty, but the doughy texture made me miss the real thing.
So it went. Some items were quite engaging: a salad of Napa cabbage, green papaya and fresh ginger. Duck in an udon pot full of broth and vegetables, redolent with tangerine, star anise and ginger.
Some things were disappointments: the too-sweet Thai ribs, the lackluster long beans in sesame and the rib-eye rubbed with Mongolian spices. We asked for the steak sliced pupu style. It came in three big chunks."Oh, what's wrong with those guys in the kitchen?" asked the waiter.


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Four years ago, Jack Bauer was a fugitive from justice. Now an exile, he nevertheless is willing to risk his life and freedom to avert yet another global disaster. The harrowing day will have Jack attempting to thwart an unthinkable terrorist attack that could change the world forever. "24: Live Another Day" premieres Monday, May 5 at 9 p.m. on Fox.


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A horga'hn was a statuette that served as a fertility symbol on Risa, and represented the Risian symbol of sexuality. It came in many sizes, from small carvings to statues to a hotel with a giant horga'hn built into it. It was believed that to own one was to call forth its powers. Displaying one publicly indicated that one was seeking jamaharon, a mysterious and pleasurable practice native to that world.
A stylized horga'hn was used as a door switch in several apartments on Risa in 2152. In addition, several cargo containers in the basement of the Risian nightclub were labeled with horga'hn symbols. (ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights")
In 2366, Commander Riker asked Captain Picard to acquire a horga'hn for him while the captain vacationed on Risa. An employee spotted the item and got the wrong idea about Picard. Picard didn't know until afterward that Riker was setting him up to appear that he was seeking jamaharon. (TNG: "Captain's Holiday")
In the false reality created by Barash, Captain Riker had a horga'hn in his quarters. (TNG: "Future Imperfect")
In 2368, Commander Riker had a horga'hn in his quarters, alongside a memory-less Ro Laren. (TNG: "Conundrum")
On the way to Risa, Quark gave Dax, Bashir, and Leeta each a horga'hn, but made a point of not giving one to Worf. Once there, he eagerly tested the practice by displaying two horga'hn to a pair of Risian females, explaining when asked if he sought jamaharon, "I seek whatever you've got." They replied with the traditional Risian greeting "All that is ours is yours", to which Quark replied, "I'll take it!" Worf later threw his horga'hn against a wall in anger, shattering it. (DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...")
Appearances Edit
- "Captain's Holiday"
- "Future Imperfect"
- "Qpid"
- "The Game"
- "Conundrum"
- DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."
- ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights"
Apocrypha Edit
In the video game Star Trek Online, horga'hns were a central theme of the limited-time Summer Event on Risa (the Lohlunat festival), being the focal point of a periodic "Horga'hn Hunt" mini-event.
External linkEdit
- Horga'hn at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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King, the British game developer and creator of Candy Crush Saga, filed for an initial public offering in the United States valued at more than $5 billion.
The game creator filed the SEC paperwork and will keep the IPO confidential, according to the Telegraph (U.K.) King will likely use the Nasdaq exchange.
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News from around the country and around the globe
King has been compared to Zynga, likely because both startups create games on social networks, although King probably would like to distance itself from the San Francisco-based company who once was valued at $9 billion and now has a market capitalization of $3.6 million. Zynga's stock went from $14.48 a share to in 2012 to $3.61 as of this writing.
According to the Telegraph, King has been profitable since 2005 and has made hundreds of millions of dollars this year already. Its most successful game, Candy Crush Saga, is played an average of 30 billion times a month.
While tech stocks can be volatile, and Zynga's shares have been nothing short of a scary ride for investors, King is in a better position than Zynga ever was.
King has been profitable for eight years before filing for an IPO, so the company is somewhat stable. It does not rely only on Facebook for revenue, but also on app stores across multiple platforms. However, its flagship game, Candy Crush Saga, is unlikely to be matched in popularity again, so the possibility of King experiencing rapid growth is unlikely.


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Ireland : IÉ
Iarnrod Éireann (IÉ) is the sole train provider in Ireland, connecting the small towns with the big cities.
Iarnrod Éireann has invested a lot in its trains and network since 2006 and plans to keep going until its complete transformation in 2015. The Government has agreed a total investment of €34 billion over the ten years.
The company is dedicated to the environment and has a number of projects in the pipeline to sustainably increase railway coverage. The trains and services in Ireland are always improving and with all the beautiful Irish countryside taking a train journey through Ireland is always a pleasure.
You can use your Eurail pass on all trains, as long as you make your reservation beforehand.


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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010 - William O'Brien State Park
'What A Difference A Day Makes' - oil on linen - 8x10 © Marc R. Hanson 2010
I spent the day on studio tasks but was itching to get out and paint the warm and moody gray day. I did in the afternoon and went to the same spot as yesterday to see what the differences would be. I love the color of this kind of a day, so different than yesterday.
After painting I went to Olive's in Marine and had a pizza and wine. I've been there before and couldn't eat the wood fired oven pizza because it was too charred. But that was shortly after they opened and they seem to have gotten the hang of it because tonight's pie was just outstanding! To top it off, I met a lady who taught Art of all things, in the area schools. She and her husband were very nice and it made a nice topper to the painting day.
10 comments:
- JFW said...
Beautiful moody painting. Love it.
- October 23, 2010 at 8:37 PM
- Paul Bachem said...
Two killer pieces Marc. I love seeing them "side by side" and how you handled the difference between the days. Great exercise!
- October 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM
- greggart said...
This is what makes landscape painting so great!!! The motif changes daily and even hourly. Marc, I would like to see this scene change through out the seasons.....perhaps that could be a new project? Again, thanks for posting.
- October 23, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Unknown said...
Marc, this is a outstanding piece. Wonderful grays.
- October 23, 2010 at 11:36 PM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thanks Judy. If I were fast enough, there were many moods to paint. The light was changing, all overcast, but thicker, thinner layers all causing some amazing shifts in the color key of the light.
- October 24, 2010 at 6:18 AM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Hi Paul... Thank you very much. I really appreciate your comments.
- October 24, 2010 at 6:18 AM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thank you Greg! I paint so much of this kind of scene all seasons. But I've never painted this location in the winter because they close the road that goes to it as soon as there's any plowable snow. It's an easy hike down, all down hill. Coming back would be a real job.
- October 24, 2010 at 6:21 AM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thanks Kelley. Love the grays of fall.
- October 24, 2010 at 6:21 AM
- Pam Perras said...
Both paintings are beautiful. I saw the first and oohed. Then I visited your blog and saw the second day with more subtle grays and sighed (surprised it appealed to me even more). I love how unique the light can be and also how each painting can elicit such a different, personal response. I love your work.
- October 24, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Marc R. Hanson said...
Thank you Pam. I'm humbled by the sincerity that comes across in your comments and those of others. Thank you so much, all of you.
- October 24, 2010 at 2:08 PM


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I can't believe the students have only been back in class for two days. Today it seemed like they had been back the whole week. Today was crazy busy. Registering new students, ordering texts for larger than earlier known classes, attendance, etc. I was glad when 3:00 came along and I could leave for the day.
Troy and Tyler both had great first days at school, although they are both happy to go to the lake tomorrow AM for a long weekend.
During Troy's football practice last night I managed to squeeze in an 8 mile run around the lake and still catch the second half of his practice. Not bad.
Tonight I and Topaz finally hit the trail for 6 miles. We hadn't been out there for a few days. Poor Topaz. He is going to be all alone now during the days. He'll get a much deserved rest and maybe even put on a few ounces of fat :)
I'm all packed up for the lake. We'll leave in the AM. I have all my running stuff packed, all my lean proteins, veggies, fruits and oats, my P90X resistance bands, ready to roll.
Have an awesome l o n g weekend and get in some good workouts!


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Rosemary is an herb we use frequently in our cooking, at least when we have it around. In years past I've been able to walk out the front door and cut a few sprigs off the large rosemary bushes in front of our steps. I love how easy rosemary is to propagate. In fact it is so easy to root that you can propagate rosemary in water!
Unfortunately the large rosemary but didn't make it through a hard winter. My two main rosemary plants both died due to the extreme cold and extra long winter we had. The rosemary plants had been in place for about three years. Both plants served very well as both a landscape element as well as a culinary one. But when you are working with living things they can't last forever. Fortunately rosemary is very easy to propagate in water which means that my two plantings in the front will hopefully be replaced very soon.
Why Propagate More Rosemary Plants?
One of my planting strategies is to make several cuttings and put them in different areas. Every garden around our house has a different micro-climate (some much more than others) that increases the odds of at least one plant surviving. Luckily I had one rosemary left planted next to our patio and near the grill with its black cover. Both the grill and the patio gathered heat during the day and released it at night keeping that area a little bit warmer during the winter. It's also on the sunny side of the house which helps a good deal in the cold season.
How to Propagate Rosemary in Water:
When propagating rosemary all you need to do is take a few cuttings like the one in the first picture. It's about 6 inches long. Then I stripped the leaves off the bottom of the branch. This part of propagating rosemary makes a perfect opportunity to do a little culinary magic! Then I stuck it in the jar of water below. In a week or two these cuttings should start rooting and I can plant them outside where I want them.You could probably put your cuttings directly in moist sand or rooting medium and have them root also. Layering is another technique that works well.
Rosemary is great in pots and planters but I like to plant it in the garden. Deer and rabbits never bother it.
I know I've talked about this before but I figured this might be useful for some of the newer readers. The water method is also great for propagating your basil!


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Executive Summary
Reporters consider most risky products newsworthy, but tobacco gets far more coverage than any other risky product, including such illegal drugs as cocaine and marijuana. This is one conclusion of a special year-long, two-part study of news coverage of risky products. The study, conducted by the Media Research Center's Free Market Project, analyzes network morning and evening news shows between August 1, 1995 and July 31, 1996. The study found:
Tobacco as a risk problem is overemphasized.
Tobacco and smoking were the subject of 413 news stories, compared to 136 stories for obesity/fatty foods, 94 for auto safety, and 58 for alcohol. Tobacco even drew more coverage than cocaine, heroin, LSD, and marijuana combined, which were the subjects of 340 stories.
The media have allowed the Clinton Administration to use tobacco as a political weapon.
President Clinton was the driving force behind a good deal of the tobacco news. Eighty-five stories focused on his efforts to regulate tobacco. Only 45 of the stories about illegal drugs mentioned Clinton, and almost all of these references were positive.
There is a double standard in coverage of tobacco as a political issue.
Jack Kemp's flip-flops on affirmative action and immigration were noted in five evening news stories during the 1996 Republican Convention. Al Gore's tobacco flip-flop -- politically exploiting his sister's smoking-related death after having boasted in 1988 about his tobacco farming history -- didn't receive any evening news coverage during the Democratic Convention.
Anti-tobacco sources far exceed pro-tobacco sources in terms of both quality and quantity.
Reporters ran soundbites from 270 anti-tobacco/pro-regulation sources, compared to 116 from pro-tobacco/anti-regulation sources. They also gave anti-tobacco/pro-regulation sources the last word in 132 stories, compared to only 40 for the other side.
Reporters should be skeptical of both the tobacco industry and anti-smoking activists. Currently, they are skeptical of only one side -- the tobacco industry. And they should ask themselves: Is tobacco really more important and newsworthy than illegal drugs?
Part 1: Tobacco Versus Other Risky Products
Consumers face risks when they choose to buy and consume certain products. But the news media do not treat all of those risks the same. Tobacco, especially, receives far more total coverage with a far more negative tone than does every other risky product. This is the finding of a special year-long Media Research Center study of news coverage of risky products and the industries which make and sell them. For the study, Media Research Center analysts reviewed all of the stories about several risky products on the morning and evening news shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as CNN's World News and World Today shows between August 1, 1995 and July 31, 1996. Tobacco and the tobacco industry received more negative coverage by far than any other risky legal product or its maker, such as dietary fat and the food industry, automobiles and the auto industry, alcohol and the alcohol industry, and pesticides and the chemical industry. Tobacco even received more coverage than illegal drugs. This media obsession with tobacco affected coverage of other issues as well, even coverage of the 1996 presidential campaign.
Tobacco and Illegal Drugs
Which is worse, a legal product that if used over many decades can be life-threatening, or an illegal product that can be of more immediate danger?
For America's news media, the answer is overwhelmingly the former. Over the twelve-month study period television news has devoted significantly more air time to reporting on tobacco than to reporting on cocaine, heroin, LSD, and marijuana combined.
There were 413 stories during the twelve-month study period about tobacco; there were 340 stories about illegal drugs. This disparity was present despite well-documented rapid increases in the use of illegal drugs over the past few years, notably among teenagers. It should be noted, too, that many of the stories about illegal drugs were brief anchor-reads about, for instance, the status of football star Michael Irvin's drug trial, not rising drug use.
Among the print media, the disparity has been even greater. A Nexis search of headlines in American newspapers found that the terms "tobacco or smoking or cigarette" were employed 9,067 times between during the study period. Over the same time period, however, the terms "cocaine or heroin or LSD or marijuana or illegal drugs" were used only 3,875 times. In other words, there were more than twice as many stories focusing on tobacco than there were stories focusing on illegal drugs.
Politics, Tobacco, and Illegal Drugs
President Clinton has helped put the tobacco story on the map. Eighty-five of the television news tobacco stories were about the Clinton Administration's attacks on the tobacco industry. Almost all of these stories were upbeat about Clinton's attempts to regulate the industry, portraying him as courageously taking on a powerful industry. NBC's Bryant Gumbel, for instance, announced on the August 11, 1995 Today that "in a historic move the Clinton Administration has declared nicotine to be a drug and has proposed regulations aimed at curbing smoking by teenagers." According to CBS' John Roberts, on the August 10, 1995 This Morning, "President Clinton is stepping up federal efforts to harness smoking among teenagers. He'll detail some tough new measures today that are sure to put him at odds with the powerful tobacco lobby."
But when the issue was the increased use of illegal drugs, Clinton Administration officials were only mentioned in 45 stories, and most of these references were positive. Again, the disparity is revealing. The same reporters who are willing to accept Clinton's premise that government policies can discourage smoking behavior among the young demand little accountability from him for increased illegal drug use. And there was rarely even the suggestion in the media that the president was playing up the tobacco issue to hide how much illegal drug use had increased during his watch.
Among the print media, the same disparity was present. A Nexis search reveals that there were 1,819 stories between August 1, 1995 and July 31, 1996 that had "tobacco or smoking or cigarette" in the headline and a reference to Bill Clinton in the body of the story. Stories with the terms "cocaine or heroin or LSD or marijuana or illegal drugs" in the headline and a reference to Clinton in the body of the story numbered only 204.
This media's obvious distaste for tobacco continued after the study period and affected campaign coverage as the 1996 presidential contest heated up. Normally, when a politician radically changes positions on an issue, it's big news. For instance, there were five network evening news stories during the 1996 Republican National Convention about Jack Kemp altering his positions on illegal immigration and affirmative action once he became the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
"The quarterback became the acrobat today," reported ABC's Jackie Judd on the August 14, 1996 World News Tonight. "Kemp was flip-flopping on long held positions." She noted that these changes "left at least one delegate here feeling abandoned" and that "Kemp's change in position on these core issues fights the very image that he's built for himself as an independent thinker." According to Dan Rather, on that same night's CBS Evening News, "Bob Dole has reversed himself on deficit reduction versus tax cuts. Jack Kemp has reversed himself on how he feels about immigration." Rather wondered: "Isn't that, or is it, going to make it more difficult to attack Bill Clinton on the character issue?"
But these bloodhounds sniffing out hypocrisy turned quiet when Vice President Al Gore radically changed his position on tobacco. In his speech to the Democratic National Convention, Gore said that his sister's death from lung cancer in 1984 prompted his anti-tobacco crusade. None of the networks pointed out that in 1988, he boasted to tobacco growers that "throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug it in. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it." There were no stories on the evening news shows during the convention about Gore's change of heart. The same reporters who derided Kemp for changing positions on immigration and affirmative action didn't find Gore's flip-flop on tobacco at all newsworthy.
Tobacco and Fat
There was an even greater disparity between the number of stories on tobacco and the number on other legal products. On television -- during the same time period in which there were 413 stories about tobacco -- there were 136 stories about dietary fat and obesity; 94 stories focused on auto safety; only 58 stories were related to alcohol and health.
The disparity between reporting on tobacco and reporting on dietary fat and obesity is especially curious. The same health advocates who tell us that tobacco contributes to 400,000 deaths in the U.S. each year also report that obesity contributes to 300,000 deaths in the U.S. per year. It would stand to reason, then, that there would be about three-fourths the number of stories on fat and obesity as there were about tobacco. There weren't.
Reporters acknowledged the riskiness of obesity and dietary fat. "Obesity, of course, is a major health problem in this country," NBC's Tom Brokaw reported on the April 29, 1996 Nightly News. "It is estimated that it's responsible for 300,000 deaths a year from heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and the like." CBS' Jacqueline Adams reported that "for years doctors have known that during pregnancy, obesity can cause serious problems like diabetes and bleeding for the mother. But according to two new studies in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association, obesity in the mother can also cause serious problems for the fetus," including birth defects.
One reporter, ABC's John McKenzie, insisted that even one high-fat meal, if eaten at an inopportune moment, can be dangerous. McKenzie told viewers about a University of Marylyand study in which researchers "found that after a high-fat meal, arteries, when required to handle an increased flow of blood, could expand on average only 50 percent of normal. It means that under conditions of stress and exertion, people who already have constricted arteries may not get enough blood to the heart."
While reporters acknowledged this riskiness, they didn't give the risk of obesity and dietary fat nearly the same amount of coverage they gave to tobacco. There were only about one-fourth the number of stories about obesity and fat as there were stories about tobacco, even though obesity contributes to three-fourths as many deaths each year as tobacco.
Complaints Against Tobacco
There was also a different standard of judgment for the industries that make and sell other risky products. They were never subjected to nearly the same hostility that the tobacco industry endured. There were no stories, for example, about fast-food advertising enticing kids and others to consume products that may one day kill them. Nor were there any stories pointing out the medical costs of obesity. And no network reporter sought to outline the campaign contributions of companies which produce and sell alcohol. But the networks were all critical of tobacco advertising and campaign contributions, as well as the medical costs to society of smoking-related illnesses.
In stories about advertising, the assumption was clear: Cunning tobacco advertising entices unwitting youngsters into lifelong addiction to tobacco. ABC's Nancy Snyderman, for instance, reported "that 12-18 year-olds are in fact most influenced by [tobacco] advertising...and obviously we know that the earlier you smoke, the more addicted you are, the harder it is to break. So I think it's one more indication that advertising works."
But there are those both inside and outside the tobacco and advertising industries who question how effective -- and how constitutional -- proposed regulations on tobacco advertising could be. "How will banning tobacco ads possibly discourage smoking?" asked columnist James K. Glassman in the August 27, 1996 Washington Post. "LSD use rose 183 percent between 1992 and 1995, and I haven't seen any LSD ads recently." Such arguments were rarely heard on television news.
Another big tobacco story: The political donations of the industry and how those donations allegedly affected politicians' attitudes and actions toward tobacco. Reason magazine senior editor Jacob Sullum, writing in the July 29 National Review, asserted that in such reports, the assumption usually is "that tobacco companies had given Dole and the Republican Party a lot of money, so he was clearly in league with the devil." According to Sullum, such reports assume the industry buys votes and never consider "the possibility that politicians...might get tobacco money because they support certain policies, rather than the other way around."
Sullum is right. Linda Douglass, for example, on the June 27, 1996 CBS Evening News, told viewers that "Dole now is in the uncomfortable position of often siding with the tobacco industry just as cigarette makers are pumping unprecedented sums of money into the Republican Party." On the same night, NBC's Bob Kur, after quoting the Clinton campaign's charge that Dole was toeing the tobacco industry line, pointed out, with a large on-screen graphic, that the industry "gave nearly $3 million in political contributions last year, 85 percent of the money to Republicans." Industry -- especially tobacco industry -- contributions were all reporters cared about. The political contributions of trial lawyers or unions sparked little media interest.
Second-hand smoke was the focus of twelve stories. Reporters were much more likely to cover studies showing that second-hand smoke leads to health problems in non-smokers than they were to cover studies which questioned such data. Example: A November 14, 1995 Congressional Research Service study, while not declaring passive smoke to be safe, questioned some of the numbers put forward by second-hand smoke critics. The number of stories on the CRS study -- zero.
Reporters often mistook experts on health and medicine for experts on public policy. Bob Kur, on the April 9, 1996 Today, introduced viewers to a doctor who studied the effects of second-hand smoke on children. Kur didn't show any skepticism toward the doctor when he recommended that "smoking be banned wherever children are present and even suggests smoking be considered in child custody cases and foster home placements. With tobacco under increasing assault, [Dr.] DiFranza also believes a study like his could prompt a class-action lawsuit on behalf of children." Kur didn't allow other views into his story, such as the view that separating children from their smoking parents is a bit extreme or the view that much tobacco litigation is frivolous.
Journalists seem to have lost some perspective when reporting on tobacco. They not only air far more stories on tobacco than on other legal risky products, but they have allowed the Clinton administration to use smoking to deflect public attention from rising illegal drug use. Responsible reporters should not ignore tobacco, but they should not apply to it a standard which is harsher even than the standard they apply to illegal drugs.
Part 2: Sources
One subtle, but powerful, form of bias in the media has to do with selection and placement of soundbites from sources. The most obvious display of source bias is when reporters interview or use sources only from one side of an issue. Sometimes, however, a story is biased even when reporters have conscientiously produced soundbites from both sides. One side may consistently get the last word in a story, thereby giving it an edge. Or reporters may interview sources from one side that will be credible in the eyes of viewers and less credible sources from the other. In the case of tobacco reporting during the year-long study period, every one of these biases was present.
Number of Soundbites
In stories about tobacco regulation, tobacco advertising, tobacco lawsuits, campaign contributions from tobacco companies, and second-hand smoke, there were more than twice as many soundbites from those opposed to the tobacco industry than from those either supporting tobacco or opposing government regulation. In such stories, there were 270 soundbites from anti-tobacco/pro-regulation sources. There were only 116 soundbites from pro-tobacco/anti-regulation sources. In many stories, only anti-tobacco/pro-regulation sources were presented.
Example: The introductory story for the May 23, 1996 CBS Evening News. The story was about a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco industry that had just been thrown out of court and a new study which indicated that smoking had increased among young blacks. Correspondent Jim Stewart's story included a soundbite about the lawsuit from John Banzhaf, an anti-smoking activist, who said: "I think this is a significant setback for the victims, but it is not a reprieve for the tobacco industry. We'll simply bring the cases in state court rather than federal court." He also interviewed Rep. John Lewis about tobacco sales to black teens. "I think there has been a deliberate, systematic effort on the part of the tobacco industry to target black teenagers." Stewart noted that many blamed advertising for the increase in smoking. He didn't make room in his story for comments from those who think tobacco lawsuits are frivolous, or from those who think advertising doesn't explain teen smoking behavior.
Getting the Last Word
The last soundbite in a story is often the most important. The exeprt who is quoted last often gets the chance to refute the best argument presented from the other side. In the stories about tobacco, anti-tobacco/pro-regulation sources were given the opportunity to speak last more than three times as often pro-tobacco or anti-regulation sources. In 132 stories, most of which were about either lawsuits or proposed regulations, anti-tobacco/pro-regulation sources were given the last word. In 40 stories, pro-tobacco/anti-regulation sources were given the last word.
In one typical story, CBS's Bill Plante first ran a soundbite from Bill Clinton arguing that further regulation of tobacco is necessary because "cigarettes and smokeless tobacco are harmful, highly addictive, and aggressively marketed to our young people." He then ran a soundbite from "tobacco-state lawmaker" Wendell Ford, who said: "The administration has chosen litigation over compromise." Plante's next soundbite was from Clinton arguing that voluntary measures won't work: "First of all, there'd be no way to enforce it. Secondly, the history of voluntary agreements with the tobacco industry is not good, to put it mildly." Steve Parrish of Philip Morris, then told viewers: "Make no mistake, the real issue and the real agenda here is prohibition." Plante's final soundbite was from FDA Commissioner David Kessler, who said the issue was solely about children: "If you don't start smoking by 18 or 19, you don't start smoking."
In each case, Plante let soundbites from Clinton Administration sources counter whatever arguments anti-regulation spokesmen brought up, without giving the anti-regulation side the same courtesy.
Credibility of Sources
In the stories about tobacco, television news reporters almost always went to anti-smoking sources that would likely be more credible in the eyes of viewers than the sources interviewed on the pro-tobacco/anti-regulation side. An August 3, 1995 CNN World News story about President Clinton's attempts to regulate the industry is an example. Correspondent Wolf Blitzer first ran a soundbite from President Clinton, who asserted that the best way to improve the health and health care of Americans is to stop teen smoking.
Then Blitzer ran a soundbite from George Dessart of the American Cancer Society. "Trusting the tobacco industry to set and enforce the same limits voluntarily," argued Dessart, "flies in the face of the industry's record, of its best interests, and of its motives." Blitzer then allowed the Tobacco Institute's Walker Merryman a chance to respond: "If the Food & Drug Administration gets involved in tobacco regulation there can be only one result, and that's a ban on the product." Finally, Blitzer ran a soundbite from North Carolina Representative Charlie Rose, who asked, "Why not take the word of the cigarette companies that they will join in a government partnership to keep tobacco products away from kids?"
Is this balance? Blitzer interviewed two sources from each side of the regulatory debate, and he even gave an anti-regulation congressman the last word. But both of those featured on the anti-regulation side of the debate had a personal interest in opposing regulations. This, of course, didn't make what they had to say wrong, but it certainly would taint their opinions in the eyes of viewers, unlike the source affiliated with the American Cancer Society. Blitzer should have also interviewed an expert, perhaps from a university psychology or marketing department, who would have questioned the efficacy of regulations on advertising.
In some cases reporters cannot be expected to find credible sources on both sides. For example, balance does not require reporters to find and interview scientists who claim that smoking is not risky behavior. But on such issues as tobacco regulation, tobacco advertising, tobacco lawsuits, campaign contributions by the tobacco industry, and second-hand smoke, there is a real debate with independent experts arguing, for instance, against the regulation of tobacco and against lawsuits aimed at the tobacco industry.
Usually the only people opposing tobacco regulations who were interviewed were those with a vested interest in stopping regulations, such as tobacco-industry spokesmen or tobacco-state politicians. Such sources should be interviewed. But they are not the only ones who oppose increased regulation. Other disinterested experts should be interviewed as well. Reporters who don't interview credible experts on both sides of such issues are not giving their viewers the entire story.
Put tobacco in perspective. Other risky products do not get nearly the same amount of news coverage as tobacco. Either there is not enough coverage of fat, for instance, or there is too much coverage of tobacco.
Challenge President Clinton. Reporters should ask: If government action can curb teen smoking, then shouldn't he be held responsible for increased teen drug use? And if he shouldn't be held responsible for increased teen drug use, then why does he think government regulation of tobacco will be effective?
Always give both sides of the story. Many stories had soundbites only from anti-tobacco activists. Both sides should always be interviewed.
Show as much skepticism toward anti-tobacco sources as pro-tobacco sources. If the funding sources of groups which oppose tobacco regulation are important, then so are the funding sources of those who support tobacco regulation.
Interview sources on both sides who will be credible with viewers. There are independent, non-industry sources who oppose tobacco regulations. They should be interviewed.


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The challenges of Arab-American Muslims will be portrayed in the film "Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football" at a special screening on Thursday at the University of Redlands. Rashid Ghazi, the film's director, will present his award-winning documentary and will participate in a question-and-answer session following the showing. The event is free and starts at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.
Ghazi, a 1989 graduate of the University of Redlands, is now a partner at Paragon Marketing Group in Illinois, but never forgot his passion for football and documentaries. Ghazi founded North Shore Films to produce "Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football," a story he began developing in 2003 with the belief that his fellow Americans were interested in what American Muslims were really like.
The film begins on September 11, 2009, and concludes at the end of Ramadan ten days later. The story takes place at Fordson High School, a public school from a working-class Detroit suburb built by Henry Ford in 1922 that was once all white but now attracts a 98 percent Arab-American student body. As the Fordson team readies itself to play its affluent cross-town rival, the film depicts a community that is desperately holding onto its Islamic faith while struggling to gain acceptance in post 9/11 America.
Leela Madhavarau, associate dean of the university's office of Campus Diversity and Inclusion and host for the event sees this screening as the perfect opportunity to live our mission of encouraging a pluralistic notion of values by challenging assumptions and stereotypes. "There are few communities in the United States more stereotyped in this post 9/11 era than that of American Muslims. I encourage all members of the community to view the film and engage in a conversation about what it means to be an American in 2012," said Madhavarau.
The award-winning film marks Ghazi's directorial debut. Ghazi, along with his wife Ruhma, solely funded the production, distribution and marketing of "Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football," which was released in 10 major cities in September 2011.


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You know how every so often the alleged literati (I say alleged because the literati meeting place [Facebook] is filled with ignoramuses of the highest order) of the Black community get into a pseudo-discussion about what constitutes a Black movie? Is it a Black movie if it has Black people, the back of Forest Whitakers neck, and black pepper in it? Or is it just a regular movie that just so happens to have Black people in it(like say Medicine for Melancholy), perhaps providing a Black perspective and worldview to otherwise mundane activities of daily living (like say Medicine for Melancholy)? Kind of like VSB. I'm not sure that VSB is a "Black site" though the inclusion of Brothas in our nom-de-plume kind of taints this debate I'm having with myself. For the most part though, we're a bunch of coloreds waxing philosophical about life and its intricacies and because most of us are indeed Black, the lens we observe from and the voice with which we speak tends to be more Blacker the berry than white on rice. So we're Black without being a Black fist, if that makes any sense. It might not. But you've read this far, why stop now?
What we are is unapologetically Black - niggas is a beautiful thing, after all - but aside from specific posts that are intended to be about the Black experience, much of our catalog transcends race.
This is how I feel about much of hip-hop. I think hip-hop is Black despite the rest of the world playing the game. But most albums speak of the Black experience - as its supposed to be an exercise in reality, the Black CNN, as it were - without making me feel like "that was the Blackest thing I've felt in a long time". For instance, Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" is one Black ass song. Puffy's "Been Around The World"? Not so much. This is Black as fuck (see 4:10 mark). This? Not so much, its just music with Black folks at the helm.
However, there have been some hip-hop albums released that are Black fist all day long, b. Like you listen to them and you just feel like you listened to Frances Cress-Welsing give a lecture on conspiracy theories about white balls and inferiority. If you've ever had to sit through one of those…I'm sorry. Here are five of the Blackest ass hip-hop albums ever released.
1. Ice Cube - Death Certificate (1991)
This was the album where Ice Cube sounded the Blackest, most woke, not quite the angriest but well on his way, and most lyrically sound. With songs like "I Wanna Kill Sam","Horny Lil Devil", "Black Korea" and "True To The Game", in that order, he went in on the government, white women, Koreans, and sellouts. He left very few stones unturned on the second half of this album. I remember riding in the car with a friend of mine in 2005 listening to this album. This convo ensued:
Her: Who is this? Oh my God??!!!!
Me: Ice Cube. It his Death Certificiate album! Certified classic from the early 90s.
Her: If I was a white person, I'd be afraid of him.
Me: Sometimes I think that was the point. Too bad he got rich. He lost all of his passion once he started going to PTA meetings at his kids private school. I have no idea if thats true, but his album Lethal Injection is what happens when you get money, aren't angry anymore, and have kids in good schools.
Her: I'll never watch Are We There Yet? the same way again.
Add in the Nation of Islam angle though he swears he wasn't part of the Nation, and it is easily one of the Blackest albums ever recorded.
2. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides (1999)
There is no way to convince me that BOBS wasn't the mother of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly (more on this album later). Easily one of my favorite albums of all time, BOBS opened up Black as fuck, stayed Black as fuck, got a tan, drank the sweet juice that was in the Black berries, then threw in rock 'n roll JUST to make the point that it's Blackness versus everybody. Shots at Elvis, samples from Fela Kuti, Roy Ayers, a song called "Rock N Roll", one of my favorite exercises in "even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coupe" with the song, "Mr. Nigga". This album is the Black experience rolled up into a tidy ass package, complete with the conspiracy theory of "New World Water". I have no idea why there aren't college courses centered around this album. Mos Def was on his A-game lyrically. It was produced beautifully with odes to Black women ("Ms. Fat Booty") and the smart-dumb nigga favorite subject "Mathematics". If you couldn't feel Black and proud listening to this album, its probably because you're not Black. Or your old and he scares you. Also, even the acronym for the album - BOBS - also stands for Big Ole BootieS. Nothing gets Blacker than that. Mos Def for President.
3. Arrested Development - Zingalamaduni (1994)
It's entirely possible that you never heard this album. For good reason, Arrested Development was a niche group if ever there was one. Super positive, earthy crunchy, cheesy, patchouliticians, etc. I loved them though. Mostly for the production. Say what you want about Speech, the man was a great music producer. You don't know anybody who doesn't like "Tennessee". Even hard core rap niggas liked "Tennessee" because who can't enjoy a game of horsehoes, A GAME OF HORSESHOES?! But their second album Zingalamaduni fell on deaf ears. Speech got waaaaaaaaaaaay too preachy. Country cousins turned respectability politicians turn everybody off. That's not exactly what happened, but thats what this album sounded like. Be that as it may, it was FULL of the spirit of Africa. Usher said on VH1's I Love The 90s once that Arrested Development was whatever the "fist" represented…that was them. And its true. Unapologetically Black and full of the spirit of community and upliftment. They were about revolution and freedom and sundresses and Black banks and shit. Again, you probably haven't heard this, meanwhile I paid money for it. Because Blackness.
4. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb (1994)
Digable Planets was one of those groups that was the precursor to movies like Love Jones. They were the poem kids who ate salads and shit and talked about Black cool and enlightment on Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) - a Black ass title if ever there was one for the Five Percenter college set. Lots of words like "manifest" and shit. They weren't Arrested Development in depth at first. All that shit changed on Blowout Comb where they went straight Black Nationalist. Like real Black. When they dropped "9th Wonder (Blackitolism)" we knew it was a whole new ball game. If they could rap who knows what they would have accomplished. Also, they represent folks who moved to New York, and specifically Brooklyn who forgot that for the first 18-20 years of their life they weren't from Brooklyn, reppin like they were born and raised in the County of Kings. Basically, they were every Black person who ever moved to Brooklyn. On a different note, if you want to make a Black ass album, naming it Blowout Comb is a win. All day nigga.
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (2015)
The vast majority of commentary on Kendrick Lamar's sonically full sophomore album has been about how Black it is. From the mood to the tone to the styles to the composition. He covered every part of Blackness that one could imagine. Much has already been said about this so I won't reinvent the wheel here. Let's just say, To Pimp A Butterfly is the Blackest album I've heard in a long time. Fight the power. Had me ready to break out my Malcolm X hat and my shirt with Huey Newton sitting in the chair I can never seem to find at flea markets. And listen to Isaac Hayes. Five…on the Black hand side. Also, the album cover? As Black as Black can get.


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The main rail line between Sydney, Adelaide and Perth is blocked after a freight train derailed about 200 kilometres west of Broken Hill.
The Australian Rail Track Corporation says damage to the track has to be assessed before the route can reopen.
The South Australian Country Fire Service has put out a fire at the scene.
But authorities are now concerned about a leak from the front of the train.


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Rose oil
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Rose oil (rose otto, attar of rose, attar of roses or rose essence) is the essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of rose. Rose ottos are extracted through steam distillation, while rose absolutes are obtained through solvent extraction, the absolute being used more commonly in perfumery. Even with their high price and the advent of organic synthesis, rose oils are still perhaps the most widely used essential oil in perfumery.
Two major species of rose are cultivated for the production of rose oil:[1]
- Rosa damascena, the damask rose, which is widely grown in Bulgaria, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Iran and China
- Rosa centifolia, the cabbage rose, which is more commonly grown in Morocco, France and Egypt.
The most common chemical compounds present in rose oil are:
- citronellol, geraniol, nerol, linalool, phenyl ethyl alcohol, farnesol, stearoptene, α-pinene, β-pinene, α-terpinene, limonene, p-cymene, camphene, β-caryophyllene, neral, citronellyl acetate, geranyl acetate, neryl acetate, eugenol, methyl eugenol, rose oxide, α-damascenone, β-damascenone, benzaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, rhodinyl acetate and phenyl ethyl formate.[2]
The key flavor compounds that contribute to the distinctive scent of rose oil, however, are beta-damascenone, beta-damascone, beta-ionone, and rose oxide. Beta-damascenone's presence and quantity is considered as the marker for the quality of rose oil. Even though these compounds exist in less than 1% quantity of rose oil, they make up for slightly more than 90% of the odor content due to their low odor detection thresholds.[3] The price per sample container varies anywhere from USD$1,740 - USD$2,550
Due to the labor-intensive production process and the low content of oil in the rose blooms, rose oil commands a very high price. Harvesting of flowers is done by hand in the morning before sunrise and material is distilled the same day.
There are three main methods of extracting the oil from the plant material:
- Steam distillation, which produces an essential oil called rose otto or attar of roses.
- Solvent extraction, which results in an absolute called rose absolute.
- Supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, yielding a concrete that may be marketed as a concrete, absolute or CO2 extract.
In the first part of the two-stage process of distillation, large stills - traditionally of copper - are filled with roses and water. The still is fired for 60–105 minutes. The vaporized water and rose oil exit the still and enter a condensing apparatus and are then collected in a flask. This distillation yields a very concentrated oil, direct oil, which makes up about 20% of the final product of the whole process. The water which condenses along with the oil is drained off and redistilled, cohobation, in order to obtain the water-soluble fractions of the rose oil such as phenethyl alcohol which are a vital component of the aroma and which make up the large bulk, 80%, of the oil. The two oils are combined and make the final rose attar.
Rose attar is mobile in room temperature and is usually clear, light yellow in color. It will form white crystals at normal room temperature which disappear when the oil is gently warmed. It will tend to become more viscous at lower temperatures due to this crystallization of some of its components.
The essence has a very strong odor, but is pleasant when diluted and used for perfume. Attar of roses was once made in India, Persia, Syria, and the Ottoman Empire. The Rose Valley in Bulgaria, near the town of Kazanlak, is among the major producers of attar of roses in the world.[4] In India, Kannauj is an important city of fabrication of rose attar, Kannauj is nicknamed "The Grasse of the East" or "The Grasse of the Orient". Grasse (in France) is an important city of fabrication of rose fragance.
Due to the heat required for distillation, some of the compounds extracted from the rose denature or break down chemically. As such, rose attar does not smell very similar to "fresh" roses.
The hydrosol portion of the distillate is known as rosewater. This inexpensive by-product is used widely as a food flavoring as well as in skin care.
Solvent extraction[edit]
In the solvent extraction method, the flowers are agitated in a vat with a solvent such as hexane, which draws out the aroma compounds as well as other soluble substances such as wax and pigments. The extract is subjected to vacuum processing which removes the solvent for re-use. The remaining waxy mass is known as a concrete. The concrete is then mixed with alcohol which dissolves the aromatic constituents, leaving behind the wax and other substances. The alcohol is low-pressure evaporated, leaving behind the finished absolute. The absolute may be further processed to remove any impurities that are still present from the solvent extraction.
Rose absolute is a deep reddish brown with no crystals. Due to the low temperatures in this process, the absolute may be more faithful to the scent of the fresh rose than the otto.
Carbon dioxide extraction[edit]
A third process, supercritical carbon dioxide extraction, combines the best aspects of the other two methods. When carbon dioxide is put under at least 72.9 atm (73,900 mb) of pressure and at a temperature of at least 31.1 °C (88.0 °F) (the critical point), it becomes a supercritical fluid with the permeation properties of a gas and the solvation properties of a liquid. (Under normal pressure CO2 changes directly from a solid to a gas in a process known as sublimation.) The supercritical fluid CO2 extracts the aromatics from the plant material.
Like solvent extraction, the CO2 extraction takes place at a low temperature, extracts a wide range of compounds rendering an essence more faithful to the original, and leaves the aromatics unaltered by heat. Because CO2 is gas at normal atmospheric pressure, it leaves no trace of itself in the final product. The equipment for CO2 extraction is expensive, which is reflected in the price of the essential oils obtained from the process.
It takes a large amount of rose petals to distill a small amount of essential oil. Depending on extraction method and plant species, the typical yield can be approximately 1:3,000.[5] To mitigate the cost, some dishonest dealers will dilute rose oil with geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) or palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii) essential oils, both of which are rich in geraniol, the main constituent of rose oil. Some of these "rose oils" are up to 90% geranium or palmarosa to 10% rose. This is referred to as extending the rose fragrance. This may be done to compensate for chemotype, e.g. Bulgarian distilled rose oil is naturally low in phenylethanol, and Ukrainian or Russian rose oil is naturally high in phenylethanol. Pure rose oil should not be used directly on the skin, as it can cause allergic reactions such as red skin and spots.[medical citation needed]
- ^ Hass, Nancy (September 24, 2015). "Francis Kurkdjian and Fabien Ducher, Changing History in a Bottle". The New York Times (Style Magazine). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
- ^ Khan, Ikhlas A.; Abourashed, Ehab A. (2010). Leung's Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients: Used in Food, Drugs and Cosmetics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. p. 208. ISBN 9780471467434.
- ^ Leffingwell, John C. (1999). "Rose (Rosa damascena)". Aroma from Carotenoids. Leffingwell & Associates. Retrieved 2006-06-08.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "article name needed". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
- ^ Parry, Ernest John (1899). The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes: Illustrated with Engravings. London: Scott, Greenwood & Company. p. 288.
External links[edit]
- The dictionary definition of rose oil at Wiktionary


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About fifteen months ago I announced on TVFury a deal I'd just signed to write a book about the history of the jump shot.
Today I'm happy to reveal a bit more exciting news. Drum roll (drum roll, Russ):
My publisher Flatiron Books has revealed the cover in its Winter 2016 catalog. Check it out: