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It's one of the oldest mountain running races in the world and this year the Mount Marathon Race celebrated it's 88th race and 100 years since it first began in 1915.
Spanish and Swedish runners and couple Kilian Jornet and Emelie Forsberg were there to race and celebrate the historic event. They both won and crushed the men's and women's records.
"It has been a new experience and I am very satisfied," Kilian says. "This race is amazing, not only because it's very technical but also because of the atmosphere surrounding it."
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Kilian and Emelie were both inspired by the iconic stature of the race, it's famous cheering crowds and the vast Alaskan wilderness.
Held every year on US Independence Day (July 4) in Seward Alaska, the 5 km race route starts in the town and ascends 921 m up the steep flanks of Mount Marathon to its 1257 m summit. Runners then make a fast descent back to the town.
The mountain is so steep in places runners must climb, scramble on all fours, and contend with a slippery, rocky surface as they make their way up.
Both Emelie and Kilian met stiff competition during the ascent of their races. The women's race was first and Emelie and young Alaskan running phenomenon Allie Ostrander were neck-and-neck until after the half way mark, when Emelie broke away, gaining a 50 second lead by the time she reached the summit. Once she took the lead, Emelie was unchallenged to the finish line, breaking the 25-year-old women's record by 2m82s.
"I was really not thinking I could do such a good time," she says. I know I have been training well, but I have also been doing some vertical kilometers and didn't feel rested enough. So this was super cool."
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Kilian also fought hard with other runners all the way to the summit, but once the descent began his downhill technical skills meant he shot ahead, leaving the competition behind him. He slowed down in the final stretch, giving high fives with fans, spinning for the cameras and still managing to break the previous men's record by 1m07s.
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Check this cool bike out. It was a concept last year, and now it's a reality. Pretty amazing, huh? Yes? Well, WRONG. Check it running and see why:
See what I mean? As soon as the Uno hits 20mph, the Kaneda-worthy red metal bullet transforms into this... this... this vehicle for the Ringling Bros. clown troupe? Except that not even a clown will ride it. The inventor, Ben Gulak, says that it's all for a good reason:
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Tokai Humming Bird from the late 1960s way before Tokai had gotten into the swing of producing such accurate and well-made replicas of Fender and Gibson guitars that those companies became seriously worried by the Japanese competition.
The Humming Bird is a guitar of its age. It has the same generic pickups that we see on other Japanese guitars of the same era, plus a very basic sub-Bigsby vibrato arm. The body horns are quite pointed which again brings to mind various of its Japanese-made contemporaries (e.g. Yamaha's early solidbodies, the SG-2 and SG-3) and the body has some German carve contouring around the top edge. The front pickup is angled a la Mosrite guitars. (Mosrites were famously used by The Ventures, a band who were seriously BIG in Japan).
I admire the seller's honesty when he/she says that it is "not the best playing guitar ever made by far, but more of a desirable collectors item". There's no BS and no hyperbole, it's just telling it like it is, and I wish more eBayers would take a leaf out of this seller's book.
Likewise, the pricing is not out of this world. The starting price is £250 and the Buy It Now price is £375 (currently listed on eBay UK).
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Rachel Corrie, a 22-year old peace activist from Washington State, was killed on March 16, 2003 by a Caterpillar bulldozer operated by the Israeli military while trying to stop a Palestinian family's home from being destroyed. Some witnesses claimed she was struck deliberately, but an Israeli inquiry found her death to be an accident. -more-


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As a student here at Northern Illinois University I was intrigued by the possibility of joining a business organization. During my freshman year I had already solidified the opportunity to participate in an honors society where they only selected 44 members of the sophomore class. It was a great way to meet people who were as motivated as I in bettering my education. In my mind the journey had just begun in terms of getting involved on campus. As I attended my first Honors course of my sophomore year I was looking for something new to take my ideas and passion towards. Jacob Ferguson and Ben Clark have become two of my better friends over the past year and were the first to introduce me to NIU Cause.
One afternoon I chose to follow them after class to a meeting where I then began to understand what I was going to invest my time in. NIU Cause is a social entrepreneurship organization and it's unique because of how we solve real life problems using business principles. We work with real life organizations that help actual entrepreneurs who live in third world countries. During my first couple weeks at the NIU Cause meetings I wasn't very willing to speak up or get involved. Not sure why at the time I guess it was just a little intimidating at first. It all started to change one weekend when the President Zach Fiegel my former Community Advisor noticed my coverage of the baseball winter meetings. Along with all my other activities, I also write for three sports blogs CLNSRadio.com, FishStripes.com which is featured on SBNation.com as well as Viewfromthebleachers.com which is on the ESPN Sweet spot Network. He brought it up at the meeting and asked the group if I could take over the social media for Cause. What happened next is history. Over the next several months I not only improved my communication skills but made lifelong friends along the way.
After doing the social media for a few weeks I was introduced to a new role on the NIU Cause fundraising committee. This was definitely out of my comfort zone as I participated with three other members narrowing down restaurants and stores to look for donations. As time passed one of our members Chris Leifel introduced the idea of doing a weekly pizza sale. Four members became the pizza makers of NIU Cause Pizza: Laine Smid, Rachel McBride, Chris Leifel and I. As the first semester came to a close we began a pizza sale on Thursdays where we would go to Pizza Pros' located in DeKalb to make pizzas. In my mind I was thinking there was no way I could accomplish this as my skills in the kitchen were very limited. To this day I'm glad I took that leap of faith and went with them that Thursday morning. These were skills that yes might not be transferable to business classes but definitely earn me some points someday by calculating costs or using teamwork skills in making the pizzas. Rough estimates on our sales last year included making 200 plus pizzas. In addition, due to the sales and money we raised through other avenues we were able to donate 350 dollars for the Nyegina Library and Community Resource Center in Tanzania. We also contributed $500 to Rebecca Clark one of our members who with other college of business students collectively raised over $2500 for Mari Chuy. The campaign was started by the NIU Micro Finance Class where they wanted to help Mari Chuy achieve her dream of building a family restaurant in Bucerias, Mexico.
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News from the Peru Rainforest August 2004
August at Taricaya Research Centre saw us concentrating on two of our projects in particular – our mahogany project and our animal release programme.
We have carried out careful studies on mahogany growth in order to make mahogany plantations a viable economic possibility for the local farmers. At the pilot farm the volunteers were kept very busy preparing the nursery beds for the planting of the mahogany seeds. The seeds needed a special bed of damp sawdust covered by a roof of netting to prevent excess light from destroying them (see right).
We used the local expertise of a forestry engineer by the name of Gustavo who came to Taricaya and taught us the correct (but painstaking!) method for planting the seeds. Each seed needed to broken open in the right place and then carefully placed in the correct position on top of the sawdust before an additional layer was then placed on top. The photo on the right shows seeds prepared and then laid out in neat rows. By the end of the month we were well over 75% had started to germinate (well above the normal average of 50%!). Next, special beds need to be prepared to transfer the young saplings to in a few weeks. The saplings will be given more space in this second phase and then after a further 16-20 weeks we'll transplant them to the grassy areas where hopefully they will flourish.
This month we were also kept very busy with the animal release program. We received a young female collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) of 3 months and hope that with time she will bond with our young male - together they could provide us with our own pack of wild peccaries! They are both allowed to roam free around the centre and are often seen following volunteers along the trails, familiarising themselves with the area of the reserve! The parrots, macaws and Preciosa the young jaguar are all responding well to their new environment, space and their change of diet – the bird's clipped flight feathers are moulting to be replaced by new complete ones and Preciosa is growing quickly and her glossy pelt indicates her current good health.
To read the full report and find out more about Taricaya Lodge visit https://www.projects-abroad.org/volunteer-destinations/volunteer-peru/
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Life is hard.
Life for Americans is not only hard, it is usually frantic.
We are frantic, almost driven, people. I did not realize this until I went to a country where people live by a different internal clock. The contrast was stunning.
Americans are certainly not the only people who race from deadline to goal to commitment to task. And we have a sense of self about how we do it that is our special grace among the driven places on this earth. But living here is a tough boogie.
Life is hard and it is fractured and in some ways desperate. Our nation is divided between the drop outs who just sit, and the doers who never sit at all. In both cases there is a kind of desperation and overwhelmed thing going on. In the case of the drop outs, overwhelmed is where they live and what they do. But for the doers, overwhelmed is the demon they fight every day.
Judy Valente, the author of Atchison Blue, is an overwhelmed fighter. She is an astonishingly high achiever who has managed to carve out a flourishing career for herself in two competitive worlds: free lance writing and human interest broadcast reporting.
Her private demons are a nagging dread of death and the great bugaboo of everyone; family problems. The major betrayal of her life was being laid off from her job at the Wall Street Journal the year after she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Based on what she writes in this book, losing this job was an earthquake for Ms Valente, a wake-up call about trusting career to be the all-in-all of life.
Her solution for her human woes is to seek the thing we lack in our American society: Wholeness.
It is a simple fact that the abundant life that Christ offers us is based on a spiritual and emotional wholeness that the larger society (any larger society) can never provide. Anyone who wants to be whole must find a way to retreat at intervals from the squabbling bitterness of our workaday lives. Without these retreats, we slide into a kind of fractured insanity without being aware of it. I see this insanity quite often in the exceedingly fractured world of politics. In fact, there was a time, back before Jesus rescued me, when I was pretty sick with it myself.
There is no permanent cure for this fractured-ness. It's causes are so thoroughly woven into this fallen world and the way it treats people that no one anywhere can completely escape its pull. However, for overworked, over-stimulated Americans, it is particularly ubiquitous. We are a driven people. The fact that we in large part drive ourselves does not change this.
Without retreats, stopping places, we become so fractured that the insanity of life becomes our own insanity.
My retreat is simply going home. When I walk into my house and shut the door behind me, I leave the frantic outside world. Nobody inside those walls is going to attack me or betray me or go on the internet posting lies and accusations about me. Inside these walls, I am free of that.
Ms Valente sought something akin to this when she went to the Benedictine monastery, Mount Scholastica, in Atchison Kansas.
I'm beginning to think that monasticism is a particularly good fit for writers. After all, writers are already contemplatives by nature and avocation long before the monastery bug bites them.
For someone like Ms Valente, who is a poet and human observer writer, walking into the monastery must have been something akin to what I feel when I walk into my house. She must have known at some level that this was home.
Atchison Blue is a lovely book written by a journalist-poet whose writerly skills enable her to tell the story without letting the poetry overwhelm it and still keep the romance of the contemplative life in the midst of the story. It's a delicate balance; the kind of writing that probably comes naturally to a journalist-poet.
Reading this book makes me want to pack my bags and head off to Atchison myself. I imagine it will do the same thing for many of its readers.
Love stories are like that. They make you want a love of our own.
In the final analysis, that's what Atchison Blue is; the love story between one woman and monasticism. It is the tale of her homecoming to wholeness in the contemplative life at a Benedictine monastery.
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NEW YORK – Real Salt Lake playmaker Javier Morales believes that his club has what it takes to capture a treble in 2011.
"I think we have the tools to achieve it," he said on FutbolMLS.com's Tiro Libre podcast. "But when you talk about the team, it depends a lot on the mental state of the squad and how we start [the season]. If we get through the CONCACAF Champions League, then it could lift our spirits and push us to fight for every trophy."
The Argentine is currently in preseason with Real Salt Lake as they prepare for the Champions League quarterfinals against fellow MLS side Columbus Crew. The first leg will be played on Feb. 22 in Columbus, and both teams will be on equal ground as far as conditioning is concerned.
[inline_node:322265]RSL have made it abundantly clear that the Champions League trophy, which provides a ticket to the FIFA Club World Cup, is the organization's chief priority. Should they advance past the Crew, Real Salt Lake would then face either Olimpia (Honduras) or Saprissa (Costa Rica). Morales already knows which he would prefer to face.
"If I could pick one for any reason, maybe it would be the team from Honduras," he said. "Saprissa play on synthetic surface and I don't like it too much. But it would only be for this reason."
In the meantime, RSL will continue to focus on physical conditioning and they have already moved past the 2-1 exhibition loss at the hands of Vancouver on Feb. 1. Despite the setback, Morales was ecstatic about the performance of newcomer Arturo Alvarez, who represents the club's biggest acquisition of the offseason.
"We didn't make a lot of moves on the transfer market," Morales said. "The idea of the club is that it wants to maintain a base [of players]. … We're coming off a great season last year and there aren't many moves to make. It's good for us that a player comes in like Arturo Alvarez, who can add a lot to our attack."
If there is any member of the RSL old guard who may be playing with a chip on his shoulder, it will likely be Morales. His red card in the opener of the playoff series against FC Dallas prevented him from being on the field as his team bowed out in the second leg.
"I finished last season with a little sadness," he said. "Sadly, [the season] escaped us in little details and errors and I include myself in that with the red card.
"I think in 2010 we deserved to get to the final even more than the year before, when were champs. We did things really well during the entire year. … We have to focus on our game and focus on what we've been doing in recent years, which has worked really well for us."


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An Afghan border policeman was killed in an exchange of fire with Pakistani troops along the country's contested eastern border, an Afghan security official said Thursday, in an incident that threatens to further inflame tensions between the neighboring countries.
Pakistani forces fired artillery rounds late Wednesday at Afghan border police in the Goshta district of eastern Nangarhar province, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. In an ensuing five-hour firefight, one border policeman was killed, he said.
Pakistan's government blamed Afghan forces for opening fire at a border post and described the incident as one of many "repeated violations" of the borderline. A statement said two Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were wounded.
"This is not the first time that the heavy fire was initiated from the Afghan side causing heavy injury and damage to the Pakistani structures," the Pakistani Foreign Office said in a statement. It added that the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad was summoned to the ministry and a complaint was filed.
Earlier, a Pakistani military official who confirmed the exchange of fire had said it involved Afghan militants firing at his country's border forces.
Ties between the two neighbors have been severely strained in recent months, and the mountainous region where the latest shooting took place has seen acrimonious exchanges between the two sides over the demarcation of their border.
The two neighbors often trade accusations that each side is firing across the border, and Pakistan has said in the past that it is targeting insurgents who are seeking to enter its territory.
The Pakistani Foreign Office asked Afghanistan to use procedures already in place, and set out in a recent agreement, that allow forces on both sides of the border to communicate with each other to avoid such incidents
A Pakistani official had earlier said that a group of militants from the Afghan side of the border attacked a Pakistani post in the Mohmand tribal region, sparking the gunbattle. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with Pakistani military policy.
A western military official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the Pakistanis fired tank rounds into the Afghan side of the border as part of the exchange of fire. The official said it was not clear what started the skirmish, which was observed remotely by the U.S.-led coalition.
Afghan accusations that Pakistan is allegedly trying to torpedo efforts to start peace talks with the Taliban have also contributed to deteriorating relations. Both countries have also accused each other of providing shelter for insurgents fighting on the other side of the border.
Last month, Afghan President Hamid Karzai charged that Pakistan was setting up a border gate in the Goshta district without asking Kabul's permission. He ordered his ministries of foreign affairs, defense and interior to remove the gate and all installations around it.
However, it remains unclear how they would do that as Pakistan claims the facility is on its territory. But Afghanistan does not recognize the disputed Durand Line, the 19th century demarcation between present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan as its border. Pakistan accepts the line as the boundary between the two sides.
Also, Afghanistan has been deeply suspicious of the motives of a in Islamabad that long backed the Taliban regime and has since seemed unable or unwilling to go after militant leaders taking refuge inside its borders. The killing of al-Qaida chief, Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan only strengthened Afghan wariness of his neighbor.
The contested border has created problems for the United States.
In late 2011, the Pakistani closed all land routes to NATO cargo traffic after U.S. airstrikes along the border killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The routes were reopened more than seven months later after the U.S. apologized for the incident. During the closure, the U.S. was forced to use more costly and lengthy routes into Afghanistan through Central Asia.
In an effort to defuse tensions, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry brought Karzai and Pakistani military chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani together in Brussels last month for security talks aimed at improving relations ahead of next year's withdrawal of most NATO combat forces from Afghanistan.
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I recently published a video session on Project Botticelli web site regarding querying in DAX. You can write DAX queries to extract data from both PowerPivot and SSAS Tabular models. This could be particularly useful in three scenarios:
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It's not news that Zynga hasn't fared well on the open market this year. The company's stock has fallen into the low single-digit numbers, hitting an all-time low recently at $2.66. It seemed like things couldn't get any worse for the social gaming company.
But it can, and did, on Thursday afternoon. The company lowered its revenue projections for the remainder of the fiscal year, slashing around $100 million from their estimated bookings of $1.15 billion to $1.23 billion, now lowered to $1.09 billion to $1.1 billion.
Mark Pincus, however, doesn't want his employees freaking out (at least, not more than they already are). The CEO sent out a conciliatory yet upbeat letter to his troops, rallying them not to lose hope.
But there's a line in the memo that could give some cause for concern. "We're addressing these near-term challenges by targeted cost reductions and focusing our new game pipeline to reflect our strategic priorities," Pincus wrote in the company-wide memo.
Translation: Expect some cuts in the weak-performers' department.
That could mean taking resources away from some of the Ville-style games that were once its most popular. That includes one of the company's recent titles, The Ville, the underperformance of which was first chalked up to being launched late in Zynga's last earnings quarter.
It could also mean cutting a number of employees entirely.
Zynga declined to comment beyond its company blog post or wire press release.
Instead, the company will continue to focus on it's tried-and-true core strengths. "We're further investing in other genres like casino where we already lead with Zynga Poker," Pincus wrote. That's an old-hat stance, repeated from the previous quarter. They've also expressed interest in re-upping talent in mid-core games like Mafia Wars, a category that the company calls "blue PVP."
In other words, more wood behind fewer arrows.
The constant barrage of bad press and depressed outlooks for the company has to be crushing for its employees — especially early ones — whose stock options are now worth far less than ever before.
And speaking of stock, ZNGA hit yet another all-time low in after-hours trading on Thursday, sinking to $2.29 per share at a sharp 18.35 percent drop.


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Each year, Horace Mann celebrates employees and agents whose volunteer work is making a difference in their communities. Sutherd received $1,500 to donate to her charities, while the remaining three finalists — Jim Daugherty, Linda Ethell and Lori Maltby — each received $250 to donate to their charities.
Sutherd said she was motivated to volunteer for American Cancer Society fundraisers as a commitment to friends and co-workers who battled the disease, including Brian Austin, who passed away in 2014."I want to be part of finding the cure for the disease, so others don't have to lose their loved ones and know the loss of losing their Brian."
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Our Staff
Management Team
Makala Jasper – Chief Executive Officer
BSc in Forestry; MBA in Leadership and Sustainability. I have been working for MCDI ever since it was established in 2004. I am passionate about our cause, because of the tangible changes we bring to the lives of poor people. Our strategy of bringing about development through forest conservation is very important and it makes us unique. When I am not working I enjoy travelling, because you can learn a lot from exploring news things in life.
Likes: traditional Tanzanian dishes
Dislikes: drinking beer
Jonas Timothy – Director of Field Operations - Head of Landscape & Restoration Department
Diploma in Forestry. I have been working for MCDI since its inception in 2004, and still enjoy it every day! This might be because I love 'the bush life' and staying outdoors, which I can do a lot during my visits to the communities where we work. My favorite moments are evenings staying around a camp fire, hearing stories from different groups of people. My favourite animals are African hunting dogs.
Likes: beer
Dislikes: strong spirits
Glory Massao – Group Certification Manager (FSC) - Head of Certification Department
MSc in Management of Natural Resources and Sustainable Agriculture. I started working for MCDI in 2010. My favorite parts of the job are working with my fantastic colleagues, who all are equally committed to the work we are doing. I also enjoy visiting the villages where we work; sometimes it takes time for local people to grasp the processes involved in managing their forests, but the feeling when they really understand and are grateful is very rewarding.
Likes: cooking, baking cakes, and watching soap operas
Dislikes: drinking beer (but a bit of wine is OK!)
Yuvenal Pantaleo – Project Manager & Assistant Group Certificate Manager
MSc in GIS and Natural Resources Management. I've been working with MCDI since 2010, before which I worked for WWF-Tanzania as a voluntary Technical Field Assistant. This job is an adventure to me because I love nature and interacting with different people. It's also so rewarding to be able to actually see the benefits nature can provide when communities act to manage it responsibly - it truly changes lives. In my spare time I like travelling to experience new ideas and cultures.
Likes: seafood, cold beer and fresh juice
Dislikes: soda
Innocent Anthony – Marketing & Sustainability Manager - Head of Marketing & Communications Department
Bachelor of Business Administration; Master of International Business(MIB). I have been working for MCDI since August 2019. I am so grateful to see that the economic and social needs of the villages supported by MCDI are improving.
Likes: Listening to music and watching movies
Dislikes: Staying Idle
Emme Abel – Finance Officer - Head of Finance & Administration Department
Advanced Diploma in Accounting. Throughout my career I have been working in finance departments of several organizations. I started working for MCDI in 2012, and enjoy learning about the importance of conserving community forests - the work is very rewarding because of all of the positive changes we have helped bring about. In my spare time I like singing gospel songs and enjoy farming.
Likes: stewed meat with banana, soda or fruit juice
Dislikes: seafood, e.g. octopus and prawns, and beer
Kassim Ulega – Technical Analyst and Communication Officer - Head of Finance/Administration & Marketing/Communication Departments
BSc in Infomation Communication Technology. I have been interested in IT ever since I was young and studied computing at university. I have been working for MCDI since 2015, where I enjoy being able to help my colleagues with their (many!) computer crises, and get motivated when I see villagers excited about our support. When I am not working I love to relax and to chat with friends.
Likes: my favorite food is ugali with fish and I like to drink water. I also like the rainy season in Tanzania when it isn't too hot
Dislikes: Wasting time
The Rest of Our Team
Certification Department
Iddi Hamisi – Senior Field Officer
Bachelor of Arts with Education (Geography). I've been employed by MCDI since 2013, and enjoy working with nature and forests; seeing the benefits they bring to local people's livelihoods. In my spare time I enjoy listening to music as a way to refresh and clear my mind.
Likes: Cold weather, chickens and the colour blue
Dislikes: Hot weather, whiskey, cats and the colour red
Benjamin Kisoka - Field Officer
BSc in Wildlife Management. I started working for MCDI since March, 2018. I really enjoy working at MCDI because we work as a team to ensure we succeed on conserving biodiversity.
Likes: Reading books, Bird watching, Watching animal documentaries
Dislikes: Drinking Beer, Soda, Wine
Joseph Protas – Field Officer
BSc in Environmental Sciences and Management. I've been working for MCDI since August 2014. I especially enjoy visiting the villages where we work and watching communities really get engaged in forests conservation activities and earning money from sustainable timber. In my spare time at the weekends I like watching movies or football.
Likes: soft drinks
Dislikes: smoking cigarettes and drinking beer
Monitoring & Evaluation Department
Eward Mosha – Senior Field Officer
Bachelor of Arts with Education. I started working for MCDI in 2013. I really enjoy it because we work as a team we understand each other and live like a family; staff are so kind the door is open to anybody who wants to learn more about what we do here. Our interaction with communities is also next to none and we help them realise the benefits of forests for their livelihoods, so they understand and become fully committed to preserving them. After work, I normally like to make stories with my friends and exchange ideas about work.
Likes: watching football (Chelsea fan!) and the colour blue (obviously - Chelsea)
Dislikes: spiced food (pilau)
Landscape & Restoration Department
Joel Fares - Project Administrator
BSc in Cultural Anthropology and Tourism. I worked as a part time tutor at the National College of Tourism before starting at MCDI in 2013. I like how supportive the management team at MCDI is, and in general the good working atmosphere and cooperation between staff. At the weekends, I like to go dancing and to watch movies.
Likes: Serengeti beer, black and white colours, and my favorite animals are dogs
Dislikes: Nothing
Marketing & Communication Department
Paolo Kwilanga – Driver Cum Mechanic
I've been with MCDI since 2013. As a driver, I enjoy it when we expand to new villages, so that I can travel to new places and see the forests they have there. I am a mechanic and chainsaw operator by trade.
Likes: Fruit juice
Dislikes: Gossip
Finance & Administration Department
Lucy Boniphace – Office Administrator and Personal Assistant to the CEO
B.A in Geography and Environmental Studies. I have joined MCDI since October 2017. I love working in conservation areas since nature is life and life is nature. Being close to the communities that practice forestry is what makes my career.
Likes: Outing,Dancing and listening to the music
Dislikes: None
Trezia Nyika – Accounts Clerk
Diploma in Community Development. I began working for MCDI after receiving my Diploma. I am passionate about this line of work because I like to serve communities by helping them to participate in forest conservation. Besides that, the organisation is very supportive to its staff and my colleagues are great.
Likes: dancing at weddings and listening to gospel music
Dislikes: cooked bananas, mushrooms and seafood
Fatuma Saidi – Office Assistant
I have been working for MCDI since 2009, and have a background in cooking and cleaning. In my spare time, I enjoy dancing to traditional music.
Likes: Ugali and beans
Dislikes: Mlenda


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Mexico City's Ravishing Renaissance
When I mentioned to friends I was visiting Mexico City, I was told to not drink the water, to not get kidnapped, and to be careful with the pollution. I was told these things repeatedly by almost everyone... almost everyone who had never visited Mexico City.
Well, I am happy to report that I did not get sick once on my trip, I was not the victim of any crime, and my lungs do not struggle any more during physical exercise than they did prior to my visit.
Big and gritty and complex and glamorous, Mexico City defies categorization. El Distrito Federal or DF, as the city is commonly called, is far more nuanced than many of the country's famous resort towns, where the tourism bubble stays easily intact.
Here, you are in it; it's real life in a real, big city. This is where people work, live, eat... and, yes, party. Spending a few days among DF's 20 million people, you'll discover a vibrant culture, delicious food, a hoppin' gay scene, and a colorful whirlwind of unexpected surprises.
Mexico City has come a long way, baby. The sky is clearing up more each year thanks to green initiatives that have included vertical gardens, emissions regulations, and the EcoBici bike-sharing program. Police presence is up, violent crimes are down and culture is everywhere.
Beyond the 150 museums, the city's monuments and public art projects make every step out the door an artistically fulfilling experience: high-perched sculptures sprout from busy intersections; artist designed benches dot Paseo de la Reforma, the city's grand boulevard; and vibrant murals brighten commuting through the city's crowded metro.
The Zócalo, the buzzing grand plaza in the Centro Historico, has been the core of Mexico City life since before Mexico City existed. Here lie the Aztec ruins of Templo Mayor, dating back to 1325. This heart of a civilization lay hidden under paved streets until 1978, when electricians working underground discovered a massive pre-Hispanic stone. Now, you can stroll through what remains of the ancient temples, while exploring the roots of modern Mexico City in the adjoining museum.
Outside, modern-day Aztec warriors dance in full plumage, adding to the whirlwind of vendors, tourists and locals crisscrossing the busy plaza.
From recovered ancient stone to reflective avant-garde metal, continue your artistic journey toward the art collection of Forbes "World's Richest Man," Carlos Slim. When your private collection includes works by Rodin, Picasso, and Dalí, it deserves to be displayed within a shimmering curved masterpiece designed by Mexican architect (and Mr. Slim's son-in-law) Fernando Romero. Located in the upscale Polanco neighborhood and free to the public, the silver pentagon tiles of the Museo Soumaya's exterior are as much of a draw, if not more, than the collection itself.
Across town, the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) presents something new with every visit. Flooded with natural light from skylights and windows, the museum features rotating temporary exhibits covering the visual, sound, film and performance arts. Additionally, MUAC reinterprets its own permanent collection every year by inviting a guest curator to organize the works with a fresh focus.
When was the last time someone promised to satisfy your every wish? The W Mexico City will be your swanky genie-in-a-bottle. Whether you want a mariachi band performing in your bathtub or VIP tickets to a private club, the W concierge will make it happen through their "Whatever/Whenever" service (legally permitting, of course). Located in the Polanco area, steps from luxury shopping, galleries and Bosque Chapultepec, the largest city park in Latin America, the W Mexico is the place to indulge.
With the AWAY Spa and Fitness Center, Whiskey Bar, Solea restaurant at your fingertips-and spacious rooms that feature a hammock in your shower (should you be exhausted from your hygiene regimen)-you may have to force yourself to venture beyond the hotel's colorfully accented lobby.
A hop, skip and a stumble from the bars of Zona Rosa-DF's main gay neighborhood-the Valentina Hotel is a bright, modern and inexpensive option to lay your head. Part of the Room Mate Hotels chain, the hotel offers bikes for rent, free Wi-Fi and a complimentary breakfast buffet, served till the gaily-civilized hour of noon.
From street grub to molecular gastronomy, Mexico City restaurants are as diverse as its people. To sample the staple dish of DF, visit any of the El Califa locations, serving every delicious taco variety till 4am. When roaming Centro Historico, sample seasonal specialties and flavored margaritas in the enclosed courtyard of Azul Historico. And at least one night treat yourself to a multi-course tasting menu of ancient and modern Mexican dishes reimagined by the genius Chef Enrique Olvera at Pujol.
Though the biggest concentration of gay nightlife is still in Zona Rosa, gay bars have sprouted in almost every neighborhood. When in Zona Rosa, you can't stroll down Amberes Street without hearing the alternating English and Spanish music booming from the roof terrace at Lipstick. This indoor/outdoor club welcomes a mixed youngish clientele of men, women, tourists and locals. If you're hungry for a little more beef, head to Nicho Bears & Bar for the bigger boys or to Tom's Leather Bar with its rotating roster of naked go-go dancers and groping room. In the Centro Historico, a mostly local crowd packs into Marrakech Salon for a feel-free-to-dance-on-the-bar, attitude-free night out.
For the thumping club experience, Living continues to be the biggest and most popular gay nightclub in Mexico City, while Karmabeat hosts sweaty, shirt-off, circuit parties on special occasions and holiday weekends. If you're craving a little boom-boom-boom before going back to your room, the gay bathhouse So.Do.Me. is a popular destination to "hang out" in whatever capacity you choose, either by lounging with old friends at the bar or with new acquaintances in a more intimate setting.
Aeromexico, Mexico's global airline, offers direct flights to Mexico City from 17 gateways in the United States, including New York, Chicago, Miami and San Francisco.
For more great reasons to visit Mexico City, visit MexicoCityExperience.com


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Psychology Department
Individuals with a bachelor's degree in psychology have the flexibility to pursue various types of careers, whether they may involve working immediately after college or moving on to post-baccalaureate work.
Learn more about careers in Psychology
A number of students major in psychology with the intent to become a clinical practitioner. Here are some local options.
From the program bulletin: Located in Durango, Colorado, the Four Corners Distance Education MSW Degree Program is a unique partnership among the State of Colorado Department of Human Services, Pueblo Community College and many other Four Corners agencies. Since 2002, this innovative program has met a need for graduate level MSW education in the rural and tribal communities of the Four Corners area. The courses offered during the academic year are taught using a variety of technologies: summer intensive courses taught on-site in the Four Corners region, classes simulcast and broadcast from Denver using Interactive TV (ITV) and online and hybrid courses using web-based technology. Both GSSW faculty and local adjunct faculty teach the on-site classes. Students and instructors have online access to the University of Denver Penrose Library. A full-time Durango-based faculty member serves as site director and offers a local presence, coordinating all aspects of the program. Coordination with a Denver-based Distance Education Director ensures that all aspects of the program are integrated between the University of Denver campus and the on-site Four Corners program.
Click here for more information on the four corners program.
Fort Lewis College also has a special cooperative program under which Psychology undergraduates can apply to substitute the first year of the Four Corners MSW program for their FLC senior undergraduate year of coursework. Click here for more information on Psychology undergrad
From the program brochure: The Master of Arts degree is a 60 credit-hour (semester) program, which is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) and the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). This program prepares students for careers as professional counselors. The didactic and experiential courses in the Community Counseling track fulfill the education requirements for the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado.


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This website provides access to the research results of the VECTORS project, which can be used to support marine management decisions, policies and governance as well as future research and investment.
VECTORS was a large scale project that brought together more than 200 expert researchers from 16 different countries. It examined the significant changes taking place in European seas, their causes, and the impacts they will have on society.
In addition to reporting individual drivers of change, it was critical for VECTORS to consider interactions between multiple users and sectors and possible conflicts in terms of resource exploitation from different sectors, with specific reference to the VECTORS target areas of concern; outbreaks, invasive species, and changes in species distribution and productivity.
The nature of interactions can be considered as follows:
Figure 1: Possible interactions between pressures for the North Sea system. These are subjective expert assessments which are "average" effects and do not preclude specific interactions that vary from the suggested model. The colour indicates the nature of the interaction (Neutral, Additive, Synergistic, or Interference) but there is no indication of the effect being "good" (wind farms in association with protected areas) or "bad" (litter impacting on tourism). This is case dependant.
These interactions can lead to constraints and enhancements in the development of single sectors and will influence the net pressures on the VECTORS areas of concern. In predictive terms, the first two responses are easier to deal with, while the latter two are more conceptually awkward. However, this classification of interactions does not imply either beneficial or damaging overall effects, for example some enhancements (additive or synergistic) might be considered "a good thing" (i.e. increased primary productivity). The consequences of most interactions will depend on local context and thus the nature, scale and dynamics of the habitat must also be considered. Conceptually, this is moving towards "the ecosystem approach" as advocated in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. These context-dependant interactions represent a particular difficulty in terms of transferring the scientific knowledge into policy mechanisms1.
The VECTORS deliverable D1.22 begins with a subjective assessment of the interactions (Fig. 1) and briefly describes the most important uses of the marine environment and their interactions, as well as the existing and the potentially arising conflicts in the VECTORS European regional seas.
The content of this website may be subject to copyright, if you wish to use any of the information or figures please contact the attributed author(s).
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 266445
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About ElderCarelink
ElderCarelink, a division of QuinStreet Inc., is a provider referral service that is available to you at no cost—that's right, it's FREE. Our job is to do the research and the work for you so that you can focus on solving your eldercare needs. ElderCarelink is an internet-based referral service - free to consumers - that specializes in eldercare case matching for elders and their families. ElderCarelink assists families in finding a multitude of services, including assisted living, nursing homes, adult day care, private duty nursing, care management and homecare. With participating providers in all 50 states, ElderCarelink identifies qualified eldercare service providers and product suppliers who meet the specific needs for each family's individual situation.
ElderCarelink employs proprietary profiling technology and web-based marketing techniques, and is a leading provider of qualified lead generation services within the eldercare industry. ElderCarelink helps families identify the right type of care and services needed by an aging relative or friend, highlighting both medical and lifestyle needs, as well as budget and financing options.
After we determine the needs and preferences of the aging family member, they are uniquely matched with those participating providers in our network who can potentially meet their needs. The names of the matched providers are sent via e-mail to the requesting individual, while the requesting individual's name and profiling information are passed along to the matched provider(s). These providers are pre-approved through an authorization on the profile submission to contact the requesting individual regarding their inquiry and to pursue further discussions.
All of the participating providers in the ElderCarelink network must apply to participate and are screened prior to joining the ElderCarelink network. In addition, each provider must meet ElderCare link's participation standards and has contractually agreed to abide by the terms for inclusion in our network.
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ElderCarelink was founded by Robert Brooks and Kenneth Housman, who collectively have nearly 50 years experience in healthcare and technology. Prior to founding ElderCarelink, Mr. Brooks and Mr. Housman served as CEO and CFO, respectively, at Seniorlink, a national eldercare company that provides full-service care management solutions to families, employers, and insurers across the U.S.
Mr. Brooks and Mr. Housman also are former executives with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, one of the nation's largest health insurers and a leader in disease management and quality patient management. In addition, they have extensive healthcare technology experience as a result of their leadership positions in Physician Weblink and InfoMedtrics, companies focused on improving clinical care management through the collection and dissemination of healthcare information to patients, physicians and health plans.
ElderCarelink Program Overview
Simply put, ElderCarelink matches you up with pre-screened eldercare service providers based on some basic information that you make available to us. Your specific needs are gathered through an online survey (a "Needs Assessment"), which you complete and submit to us. The results from your Needs Assessment are then compared against the provider information in our proprietary database. We will identify the providers from our network in your particular geographic area which most closely meet the needs you have identified for us, and forward them the information that you provide to us.
Once you submit your Needs Assessment, sit back and let us do the work. Within hours you will receive an e-mail containing information about the providers that meet your specific needs. You can then expect to be contacted directly by these providers, who — based on your Needs Assessment — will be prepared to help you address your eldercare needs. If your particular situation is urgent, you also have the option of contacting these providers directly through the contact information that ElderCarelink will provide you.
All of our eldercare service providers are screened for participation in our program, so you can feel confident knowing that you are being referred only to pre-screened providers. Unlike many online referral programs, you are under NO OBLIGATION to buy anything, ever.
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Caring for your elderly loved ones can involve a wide range of services. ElderCarelink can help you with all of them. Here's just a sampling of the services available through ElderCarelink:
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How are ElderCarelink's providers screened?
Each eldercare provider specialty has its own standards of certification within its particular industry. ElderCarelink requires all of its participating providers to maintain all required licenses, authorizations and insurance as needed to provide the services and/or products to consumers. Furthermore, each provider is at all times required to meet ElderCarelink's Provider Participation Standards and abide by ElderCarelink's Terms of Use.If ElderCarelink learns that a provider has failed to continue to meet or abide by ElderCarelink's Provider Participation Standards or Terms of Use, the provider will be disqualified from continued participation in the ElderCarelink program.
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If there are no providers in the ElderCarelink network that meet your requirements, we will promptly notify you. You will then have the option of either keeping your information in ElderCarelink's secure database or instructing us to permanently remove your information from our database. If you opt to have us maintain your information, we will notify you in the event that we expand the network at a later date to include providers that are right for your needs.
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All participating providers are independent and not owned or controlled by ElderCarelink. As such, customer satisfaction issues must be addressed with the individual provider or company to ensure you receive the appropriate level of attention and resolution to your issue. ElderCarelink requires that participating providers have a published policy regarding customer dispute resolution. If you are unsatisfied with the response from one of our participating providers, let us know. If a provider demonstrates a pattern of unresolved customer satisfaction problems, they can be terminated from participating in the ElderCarelink program.
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ElderCarelink receives its fees from participating providers, allowing us to provide you with a high-quality matching service that is available at no cost to you.


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Sen. John Cornyn and Sen. Ted Cruz are among 15 Republican senators formally requesting Chuck Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense be withdrawn — a level of opposition not seen to a Defense Secretary nominee since former Texas Sen. John Tower's 1989 nomination by George H.W. Bush.
According to the letter sent to President Obama, no Defense Secretary has ever been confirmed with more than 11 opposing votes. The senators argue that the Secretary of Defense should be a candidate that has a wide base of bipartisan support.
"The occupant of this critical office should be someone whose candidacy is neither controversial nor divisive," the letter stated.
In addition to citing the divisive environment surrounding his nomination, the senators argued that his behavior throughout the process suggests he is unfit for the position.
"Senator Hagel's performance at his confirmation hearing was deeply concerning, leading to serious doubts about his basic competence to meet the substantial demands of the office," the letter stated. "While Senator Hagel's erratic record and myriad conversions on key national security issues are troubling enough, his statements regarding Iran were disconcerting."
In addition to Cornyn and Cruz, the letter's other signers were Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott of South Carolina, Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Marco Rubio of Florida, David Vitter of Louisiana, Jim Risch of Idaho, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Dan Coats of Indiana, Mike Lee of Utah, John Barrasso of Wyoming and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
Tower was rejected by his former Senate colleagues after acrimonious debate that touched on his private life and lobbying activities.


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BNC Connectors are radio frequency connectors that are used with coaxial cable.
With a quick release bayonet connection, BNC connectors were a widely used and reliable standard in RF applications. While most commonly used for allowing televisions to receive analogue signals form terrestrial antennae, the connector was also used in radio and signal test instrumentation and even in early computing hardware.
The Bayonet Neill-Concelman connector is usually used in applications requiring below 4 GHz frequency and below 500 volts, and matches the characteristic impedance of 50 Ohm or 75 Ohm cable.
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From the Institute of Museum and Library Services:Creating a Nation of Learners.
A promotional advertisement for the study:The Future of Librarians in the Workforce - What will it look like?
Study OverviewThis is a multi-year study sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Science (IMLS) that will identify the nature of anticipated labor shortages in the library and information science (LIS) field over the next decade; assess the number and types of library and information science jobs that will become available in the U.S. either through retirement or new job creation; determine the skills that will be required to fill such vacancies; and recommend effective approaches to recruiting and retaining workers to fill them. The study will result in better tools for workforce planning and management, better match of demand and supply, and improved recruitment and retention of librarians. The study is led by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, Dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and includes researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University, the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).
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It's truly something to be able convene in the Capitol of our great nation with HOSA Leaders from across the nation, to learn and grow as leaders in an ever-evolving, ever-diversifying organization that stands at the forefront in the bridging of leadership and quality health science education.
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Robb is outstanding to work with both in terms of the process as well as the end product. I've worked with Robb on several caricature illustrations for co-workers and the person is always blown away by their portrait and I always have several others asking me for his contact info. If you want someone to be beyond satisfied use Robb.
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My sweet girlie has left her teen months.
Today, she turned 20 months old.
She is doing and saying so many things. I thought about listing all the words she says, but it literally changes daily. The list would be very long, and I'm sure I would still forget so many....suffice it to say that she is speaking very well, and has more words in her vocabulary than I remember any of the boys having at this age!
She also understands very well. She follows even two and three step commands when we give them to her. {She must take after her father in that, because everyone knows how much I like to follow given directions!} Every mother says it about their child, but she just seems exceptionally smart!
In the video below, I *somehow* managed to capture three of my favorite things:
- She knows the 'clinking' sound of the treat jar. When she hears it, she runs into the kitchen and begs for whatever happens to be in there at the moment. (Which means I have to be in constant stealth mode when I'm sneaking peanut M&M's if I don't want to share
which is always.)
- She knows what the Wii is, and can say "Wii", but it's almost German-sounding. It sounds a bit like "Vvvvfeee". Hysterical.
- She calls Ethan "E-E" now. He is her buddy--the two have become inseparable since the biggies went back to school. If he is not in the room, then she is searching for him!
I warn you: the video below is horrible quality, but you get the idea. Enjoy my girlie in action and be jealous that I'm surrounded by this face each day! :)


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"Sale is definitely a potential," says Ken Golden, the company's director of strategic public relations. "We still believe the wind industry is a good industry and a growth industry. We are just evaluating whether or not Deere, which has a lot of other core businesses, should be in the wind business."
Deere may be considering a move away from wind because of a management shake-up and a renewed focus on its core businesses. "Deere and other companies got the lights scared out of them because of the credit crisis," says Lawrence De Maria, senior vice-president at brokerage firm Sterne Agee and an analyst in the global industrial infrastructure division.
At the height of the credit crisis Deere, along with many other corporations, feared it would suddenly lose access to working capital through the so-called commercial paper market. In the end, Deere's fears went unrealised.
"It was a little bit of a scare that didn't happen," says De Maria. But the crisis led to a new ethos of operation and an internal shuffling of top management at Deere, including Bob Lane being replaced as CEO by Sam Allen. Lane, who was also chairman, stepped down the day before the company announced its potential exit from wind.
"The new management team is super conservative," says De Maria. "To sign off on $400 million a year of cash flow to a wind business that you're not really in because it's not your core business is probably viewed as a non-essential allocation of capital." Since 2005 Deere says it invested over $1 billion in its wind business, currently operating 34 wind farms in seven states totalling 706MW.
Deere's foray into wind was primarily for tax-management purposes, says De Maria. Large firms that own wind plants or an equity position in them can receive a $0.021/kWh 10-year production tax credit (PTC), which has driven much of the recent US wind boom.
It is too early to tell, says Golden, whether Deere will sell off all its operating wind projects or retain some and continue to extract PTCs. "Maintaining the business is the other option," he says. "You find someone who would service the business as well as you would like to see it serviced and you sell the business. Or you say there's not someone that has come forward and you decide to maintain the business and continue to grow it." There is no timeline and the situation is very fluid, he adds.
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Deere's wind division, John Deere Wind, made a big splash in the US wind market as a developer, owner and operator of wind projects in 2005 because of its corporate weight, strong balance sheet, and the synergies that the company would be able to leverage when negotiating land-control agreements in farming country.
In John Deere Wind's early days, company CEO David Drescher explains, many farmers already had John Deere tractors in their barns, so the prospect of John Deere-owned wind turbines on their property was more familiar than dealing with an unknown wind developer. In these few short years, the company build up a formidable wind fleet.
But Deere has problems in the wind industry. Many of its in-house projects used Suzlon blades, many of which were affected by a series of failures requiring over 1,000 blades to be repaired under warranty. In recent years Deere diversified its equipment to include Vestas, Repower and GE Energy turbines.
Deere sent signals during the height of the credit crisis in late 2008 that it would ride out financial turmoil with a continued position in wind when it acquired the 69MW Noble Thumb wind project from New York-based Noble Environmental Power. Now it could be entering its final days as a major wind player.


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A Georgia man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday for throwing scalding water on a gay couple spying in an apartment, NBC News reported.
Jurors deliberated for about 90 minutes before finding Martin Blackwell, 48, guilty of eight counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated assault in the February attack on Anthony Gooden and Marquez Tolbert.
Gooden spent about a month in the hospital — two weeks of that in a medically-induced coma. Both men suffered severe burns that required multiple surgeries and skin grafts.
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According to prosecutors, it was a premeditated attack. Tolbert testified that after pouring the boiling water on them, Blackwell grabbed him as he jumped and screamed, telling him: "Get out of my house with all that gay."


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I finished Mr BAM's Big Grey Jumper a whole week ago, and even the photos were done and ready to post! So just insert the usual excuses about life getting in the way of blogging here, and we'll move swiftly on. Aside from my Inner Gollum's dark mutterings regarding the quality of the seams. I'm actually very proud of it! And more importantly, my husband loves it.
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Mr BAM doesn't enjoy having his photo taken, but he still agreed to pose in his new jumper on a damp Monday morning in my mum's back garden (well, as you can see, it's more of a yard really!) I would have been really stuck trying to photograph the jumper without him modelling it as the 1×1 rib section at the top makes it look an odd shape without a body inside to fill it out!
Mr BAM actually went with me to a local yarn shop to pick the yarn (!), and although I gave him a choice of aran weight or chunky, to my relief he pounced on the Stylecraft Life Chunky in Dapple Grey straight away! I adore my husband, I really do, but the thought of knitting him a jumper in DK yarn was enough to make me break out in a cold sweat, so the thicker the yarn the better. I almost couldn't believe it when he chose a chunky yarn that could be machine washed (it's 75% acrylic and 25% wool), so I won't even have to worry about hand washing it.
I did steer him towards a choice between a couple of patterns, but he was unlikely to look through all of the ones in the shop anyway. He settled on a pattern intended for the yarn he'd chosen (Stylecraft pattern 8696) which I could see was simple enough to knit up quickly, but not so plain as to bore me senseless whilst knitting it. Actually it was simple enough that I even managed to work out how to knit it one size bigger than the largest size, which was a bit of a gamble on my part as I have little to no experience in customising patterns! It was important to Mr BAM that the jumper wasn't too tight or clingy, so adding some extra stitches to the front and back made sense, and as the jumper was supposed to have quite a wide neck it all stayed pretty much in proportion anyway.
I hadn't knitted an adult size jumper in over ten years, and the last time I tried to knit something like this for someone else was when I struggled on and off for about five years with a cardigan for my dad before I ultimately gave up and handed it over to my younger sister to finish (which she did sickeningly quickly!)
I ordered the yarn for the Big Grey Jumper at the start of January, giving myself to Mr BAM's birthday at the end of March to finish it, so completing it in seven weeks, well before my deadline, feels like a real achievement! Even more so when you take into consideration all the other things I've been working on this year!
I'm not really one to believe in the Sweater Curse, but I think after being married to Mr BAM for over five years I don't have much to worry about. He may or may not get much use out of the jumper, but I loved knitting it for him, and he's super cuddly when he does wear it!
With a bit of luck I might even finish the socks I'm knitting him in time for his birthday too…


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Not one but two cute pooches roam the circular hot-pink landscape of the Marriott Theatre's "Legally Blonde," the much-maligned Broadway musical based on the 2001 Reese Witherspoon movie about Elle Woods, a savvy Malibu homecoming queen of the "Clueless" type who dusts off the books and heads for Harvard Law School. There, she tries to win back her superficial boyfriend, only to over-achieve, discover herself and strike a blow against the stereotyping of unfortunate, misunderstood blondes everywhere.
Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin came up with a peppy, poppy, zesty score that contains such lyrical classics as "Omigod You Guys," "Bend and Snap" and, lest you think all of this is a trivial confection, "Serious." And Marc Robin is at the helm of the first Chicago-area production of the show (the tour aside) that sticks Elle in the round, rounds up a star in Chelsea Packard who most certainly is a winner in the gene pool (as they say of Elle), and, based on the crowd Friday night, lowers the average age of a Marriott audience by a good few decades.
I'm all for that — it was fun in the lobby to watch all the mothers and daughters, along with a few grandmothers and granddaughters, loving being all glammed up and laughing together on a Friday night — and I've always liked "Legally Blonde" slightly more than most. O'Keefe and Benjamin's score did not get the credit it deserved thanks to "Legally Blonde" arriving on Broadway at a moment when there was widespread rebellion against the sudden plethora of popular movies being turned into musicals that did little more than trade on the familiarity of the source. Certainly, "Legally Blonde" is no formative masterpiece. It follows the movie very closely and, once you see it in the round with limited scenery to help with location, you can get distracted by the rather chaotic 20 minutes in which the thing is all cheerleaders, sped-up chronology, bitty little scenes and scraps of numbers that belong in a movie, not a show. Seeing this piece one night after the masterful "Gypsy" at the Drury Lane Oakbrook certainly lays those early scenes in sharp relief.
But "Legally Blonde" grows on you (just as several of its catchy numbers lodge in your skull) and, by Act 2, Robin finds a workable visual groove that certainly delivers a flashy show. (Nancy Missimi delivers a spectacular suite of shimmering costumes.) Each of the three times I've seen the material, I've warmed to the romantic subplot involving Elle's working class Boston hairdresser, a beaten-down woman who helps Elle find herself and who eventually finds her own Big Brown love, a hunky UPS guy. Christine Sherrill, an actress who invariably packs a lot of surprises, once she lets herself loose — is especially good in Robin's production, and so is Steve Calzaretta as the well-delivered object of her affection.
Indeed, Robin has found a very strong cast for all of his biggest roles, including Gene Weygandt as the authoritarian professor whom Elle must beat, Summer Naomi Smart as a fitness entrepreneur and Elle's first client (Smart is stellar) and David Larsen as Elle's eventual love interest. Larsen, a rising Broadway player, is one of those inherently likable actors — warm, kind, slightly goofy — whose characters are so easy to empathize with. It's a perfect piece of casting, and Larsen calms many of the rougher edges elsewhere.
I've seen quirkier Elles than Packard, a well-established New York performer making her Marriott debut. She's a straight-up kind of musical-theater actress in a role that could, like this whole production, use a few additional notes of irony and a lean or two in the direction of the off-beat. But Packard cuts a dazzling figure — in pink, navy or whatever she happens to be wearing in the moment — and she has the vocal demands of the show down cold, as well as the choreographic chops to help Robin make her look good. The travails of this character drive the entire show: Ellie is in almost every scene and, in Act 2, sings in every number except the first. That's seven straight ditties. Tough, even for a blonde. Her energy and zest is crucial, and Packard drives all that home admirably, you guys.
When: Through Apr. 1
Where: Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire
Running time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
Tickets: $40-$55 at 847-634-0200


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strike, concentrated work stoppage by a group of employees, the chief weapon of organized labor. A suspension of work on the employer's part is called a lockout. Strikes usually result from conflicts of interest between the employer, who seeks to reduce costs, and employees, who seek higher wages (or in times of depression try to stop wage decreases), shorter hours, better working conditions, union recognition, and/or improved fringe benefits. Employers may attempt to continue operation without the striking employees, and in such cases violence may occur. Violence, long a feature of U.S. labor history, often resulted from the use of armed guards (hired by the employer) or of police or state militia against pickets (see picketing) or for the protection of strikebreakers. During the middle and late 1930s workers in the mass-production industries (especially in the automobile industry) perfected the technique of the sit-down, later declared illegal, which was designed to prevent strikebreaking; the workers remained on the premises while refusing to work. Another cause of strikes has been the jurisdictional dispute to determine which union should be the bargaining agent for the employees. After the separation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from the American Federation of Labor in 1935 (see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), such strikes were numerous until they were forbidden by the Taft-Hartley Labor Act in 1947.
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What Does It Mean To "Eat Right"?
We are frequently asked, "How do I know if I am eating the right foods?" With all sorts of food and nutrition information at our fingertips, the answer to this question can get lost in sometimes conflicting and confusing messages. The recently released 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide a practical guideline to help you make healthy food choices and improve your health.
The Dietary Guidelines encourage us all to eat more:
Whole Grains: Make at least half your grain servings whole grain. Adults should have three – 1 oz. servings (48 grams) of whole grains daily. Choose whole grain breads and cereals, brown rice and whole wheat pasta, to name a few.
Vegetables: Eat 2 ½ cups of vegetables per day. Choose a variety of colors and include beans and peas.
Fruits: Eat 2 cups of fresh, frozen, or canned fruit per day. Again, let color be your guide. Fruit makes a great snack.
Low-fat or fat free milk, yogurt, cheese or fortified soy beverages: Include 3 cups per day for calcium, vitamin D, and protein.
Lean Meats and Seafood: Eat 6 ounces of lean meat (poultry, beef, pork) or fish per day. Fish (salmon, tune, mackerel, herring) twice a week gives you the omega-3 fats you need.
If you include the recommended serving of these food groups then you will know that you are "Eating Right"!
* The servings listed above are recommendations for adults. For more information for all ages, visit www.mypyramid.gov