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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - June 2009
The time has come for the latest from Taricaya and even though the weather has been unseasonably wet we have managed to achieve a huge amount with the lodge reaching capacity and everyone working hard as usual. The dilemma, as usual, is where to start!
It has been a while since I have updated you on the work of Daniel Medina, our resident botanist, and he has been out on the trails with the volunteers collecting data, identifying new species and collecting seeds for nursery beds at the pilot farm. When I last updated you we had a total of 221 species identified and the ongoing total is now 240 with 47 species of fungus and 15 species of mosses. Daniel is also starting to process his data from leaf litter traps as we try to measure the productivity of the forest amongst other things. I am sure over the coming months there will be much more to update you as many plants have different flowering cycles and when the tree produces its flowers and seeds its identification becomes much simpler. As for the seed nurseries we are concentrating on the ironwood tree at the moment as its seeds are in plentiful supply and it is a very useful type of wood both for construction and producing charcoal thus making it very commercially viable for farmers should they plant it on their land. The interesting feature about collecting these seeds is that they are seldom to be found under the producing tree. This phenomenon is due to the fact that the seeds are fed on by a couple of species of bat and they fly around the forest dropping them once they are finished. This would appear to be harmful to the seeds chances of germination but in fact the gnawing of the bats is crucial to breaking the hard exterior of the seeds and this wonderful association is yet another example of the complex relationships found in the rainforest ecosystem.
Our bird list also continues to grow and this month we have added five species to take our total to 414. This is a truly amazing figure and a reflection of lots of hard work and hours mist netting. This month Rachel has taken over the mist netting duties and she has been dutifully moving her nets along Quebrada trail taking three days to sample at each site. Whilst we caught many species we have already identified we were also able to catch and photograph many species that we have recorded but not been able to photograph. Such examples included the Chestnut woodpecker (Celeus elegans), Curl-crested aracari (Pteroglossus beauharneassi) and the Striolated puffbird (Nystalus striolatus). The presence of these birds in Quebrada is very interesting as we had not previously sampled this long trail that hugs the creek and it is obviously a feature of the adjacent water that attracts them to this area. The new species caught in the nets were the Cinerous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) and the White-lined Tanager (Tachyphonus rufus). Both of these birds were caught in the mid-canopy nets and further solidifies the theory that we have much more to discover at Taricaya and the sampling of the higher ecological niches will no doubt bring us many more surprises over the coming months. The remaining species that we added were sightings by both myself and Mauricio who is back to help us during our busy period. These new discoveries were the Short-tailed pygmy tyrant (Myiornis ecaudatus), the world's smallest flycatcher, the Double-toothed kite (Harpagus bidentatus) and the Neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus). The last of these was an oversight on my part as this bird has been seen many times over the years around the reserve in the temporal swamps and the omission was detected as Mauricio over-hauled the list with the new taxonomic changes that have been implemented. The last major review of the naming of the bird families was in September last year and whilst the majority of the English and Latin species names remain unchanged the orders and families of many bird groups have been revised and the new taxonomy needed to be updated. The re-classification of species and their evolutionary relationships is a constant in the biological community and a headache for our experts whether it is in the field of ornithology or herpetology.
June also saw us welcome back Marco from Arequipa. Marco is a biology student who specialises in Lepidoptera, butterflies and moths, and he is performing a study in Taricaya with a view to producing his thesis for graduation. Marco's visit timed very well with completion of our butterfly house and he spent many hours out on the trails with the volunteers moving fixed traps and sampling with long-poled nets. Whilst I am awaiting the updated list of species due to the complex identification process that required Marco to take samples back to the university for further investigation we will have increased our total at Taricaya by at least 15 species. Marco hopes to return in September and November to continue his research in the different seasons of the year and we look forward to having him visit us again.
With the approach of our turtle project Daniel Neira has been busy making preparations at the pilot farm as the artificial beach required its annual maintenance. The area needed to be cleared of vegetation to allow the sun to heat the eggs as they would be warmed in the wild and rotten wood had to be replaced with fresh planks. The onset of the egg-laying season meant that Daniel also started his weekly census of adult turtles in the area. This information is important as we can try to establish resident populations and as numbers increase around the critical egg-laying period we can ascertain how many females have come to the rivers from surrounding lakes and streams in the annual migration. Turtles will always return to their hatching beaches to lay their eggs and whilst they may leave the rivers during the year to avoid competition for food there will be an increase in their numbers over the coming weeks in the river. Whilst the weather prevented us from completing a couple of the trips we had a fantastic surprise on our second outing down the river. We saw and photographed an adult female with a distinctive cut on her shell. We are the only group in the area working in the repopulation of these freshwater turtles and every individual we release is marked with a code for each year. This will be our fifth year with this project and this female was one that we released in 2005. It was incredibly satisfying to capture on film this sub-adult and we can only hope that over the coming years we will see even more marked animals as they reach adulthood and return to the river to lay their eggs.
The animal rescue centre has had its ups and downs this month. The accidental death of one of our young spider monkeys was a sad moment and everyone at the lodge was upset. It would appear that Gretel was playing in her enclosure when she got tangled up in her hammock and suffocated. This is a freak accident and one that could never have been foreseen but it was still very hard on everyone involved especially the longer standing volunteers who had seen her nursed back to health over recent weeks. Such incidents are few and far between and serve to reinforce how important the work with these animals is and the great sense of accomplishment that comes with every successful release. On a much more positive note we received some new arrivals this month as INRENA entrusted us with two baby spider monkeys (Ateles chamek), a brown capuchin monkey (Cebus apella) and a pair of young jaguarundis (Herpailurus yaguarondi). This means that our enclosures are all fully occupied and with this in mind we have been pushing the authorities to accelerate the paperwork for the release of some of our older residents. This should be possible next month and the first releases will be the pair of male coatis and the Spix's guan.
Elsewhere around the reserve we have been working hard to clear the trails and reopen areas that had suffered in the heavy storms; our wildlife observations have given us some great sightings including red howler monkeys, white-lipped peccaries and many groups of both saddle-backed tamarins and squirrel monkeys; a caiman hunt enabled me to capture a black caiman and a rarer smooth-fronted caiman and a nocturnal frog hunt provided us with sightings of night monkeys and the elusive kinkajou.
I am sure there will plenty more to report next month as our numbers continue to swell with the annual visit of our 2-week special volunteers, the beginning of the collection phase of the turtle project and much more...so until then!
Stuart Timson
Conservation Director
Projects Abroad
4th July 2009


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VOTES 2016 Project
Clinton is pick of U.S. teens who voted in this national mock election.
The VOTES election night video is below. View the VOTES photo gallery.
What is VOTES?
VOTES (Voting Opportunities for Teens in Every State), a nationwide mock election project for high school students, is celebrating its 28th anniversary.
The project, begun in 1988 by history teachers Jim Shea and Lorrie Byrom from Northfield Mount Hermon, includes teen voters from at least one public and one independent school in each state. For these teenagers, nearly all of whom will be eligible voters in the election of 2020, the project teaches the significance and the excitement of the democratic process.
This year's American election has captured the interest of people around the world, and VOTES 2016 promises to be an important educational program. Explore this website to learn more about the project. Project Director Jim Shea welcomes your questions. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Schedule of Events
- September and October: On the NMH campus, numerous events will take place to educate and excite students about the upcoming election. Events include political speakers, campaign rallies organized by NMH students, formal political student debates in front of the entire school, an essay-writing contest, a political film series, and political exhibits in Schauffler Library.
- The week leading up to Tuesday, November 1: Participating VOTES schools across the country, including NMH, cast votes in mock elections at their schools for the presidential candidate of their choice.
- Tuesday, November 1: All VOTES schools election results are due to Jim Shea at NMH.
- Sunday, November 6: Simulated election-night coverage from James Gym at NMH. The 2016 VOTES Project results will be announced and streamed live over the Internet from 6:30 to 9 pm. A VOTES Project winner will be announced by 9 pm. VOTES election results from around the country will be announced by student anchors at VOTES election headquarters, James Gym at Northfield Mount Hermon in Gill, Massachusetts. The evening will feature reports, interviews, and political analysis done by NMH students from election headquarters. Live on-air coverage will be livestreamed and broadcast on WNMH, the campus radio station. Campaign music will be provided by the NMH Singers and the Jazz Band.
VOTES Fun Facts
- The VOTES Project was created on the NMH campus in 1988.
- About 100 NMH students play a direct role in the VOTES Project along with the 600+ NMH students who will cast votes in the mock election.
- About 130 high schools participated in the 2012 VOTES election.
- Thirty-five schools have participated in all seven previous VOTES mock elections.
- Over 50,000 teen votes are cast in each VOTES election.
- VOTES teen voters have picked the winner in six of the past seven elections.
- VOTES has been covered in USA Today, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, The Huffington Post, Forbes, The Denver Post, The Salt Lake Tribune, and National Public Radio, among other major news outlets.
- At least one public and one private school from each state participate in the project each year.
- VOTES Project teen voter turnout has averaged 77 percent across the nation since 1988.
- VOTES students from Northfield Mount Hermon have gone on to careers in national politics, polling, candidate advocacy, and law.
- Over the years, participating VOTES schools have been identified as some of the best high schools in the country and several have been listed on Newsweek's list of top schools as well as on the Department of Education's list of "blue ribbon" schools.

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So Much for the Optimism on Manufacturing
By Kunal Kumar Kundu
Dashing hopes of a swift recovery, India's industrial production in December contracted by 0.6 %. As we mentioned earlier, the sharp growth recorded in October of 8.3% was a reflection of a low base number the year before and does not herald signals of an imminent recovery. Even worse, the November index was revised downward and now shows a contraction of 0.8%, compared to the earlier estimate of a 0.1% contraction.
The decline in industrial production was led by a 0.7% drop in manufacturing, which accounts for 75.5% of the Index of Industrial Production. The revised data for the previous month makes for even starker reading. While the first estimate showed growth of 0.3%, the revised estimate actually shows a contraction of 0.6%.
All this means that the advance estimate of the gross domestic product for the year ending March 31 released by the Central Statistical Organization last week (and disputed by the government) may be on the mark. The much talked-about uptick in activity (that the government has been publicly banking upon) has failed to materialize so far. On the other hand, the belt-tightening measures that the government has embarked on to control the fiscal deficit will compress government expenditure, weighing down the economy. Unless the services sector comes to the rescue (by clocking growth much higher than anticipated), the CSO estimate is likely to come true.
This data also brings out the sharp difference between the PMI data (which is a survey of large manufacturing units) and industrial production data (which covers units of all sizes.) While the December manufacturing PMI went up sharply to 54.7 (from 53.7 in November), the industrial production data moved in the opposite direction. This clearly highlights the difficulties being encountered by a large number of small and medium industrial units, faced as they are with high input inflation, high interest rates and lower demand.
A look at the disaggregated data shows that consumer goods production contracted by 4.2% during December (the highest contraction since March 2009). More importantly, the revised data for November now shows a contraction of 0.3% compared with an initial estimate of a 1% increase. Consumer non-durables contracted for the second straight month in December, an indication of falling rural demand. Going forward, one can expect this segment to record even poorer performance in the January to March quarter as the government cuts back on social sector spending.
It seems that slowdown continued into January. The Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers said recently that passenger car sales contracted for the third straight month. Despite large discounts on offer, January sales fell by 12.5%. This follows a drop of 12.5% in December and 8.3% in November. For the 10-month period ending in January, overall sales are lower by 2% compared with the same period a year before. SIAM, which had earlier reduced its annual growth forecast for sales of passenger cars to 1% to 2% from an earlier estimate of 10% to 12% growth now believes that sales may fall even further.
When we wrote about October's industrial production data, we mentioned then that it is important to watch the data over the next two months before we can conclude that manufacturing in India is finally out of the woods. Quite evidently, we see no room for optimism now.
The author is an economist based in New Delhi. These are his personal views. Follow India Real Time on Twitter @indiarealtime.
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Western Michigan University has been providing computer resources to students, faculty and staff since the early 1960s. Facilities have improved a lot since then, as seen in the above slideshow.
Today, WMU offers more than 2000 computers for students, in just about every discipline, college and building. Student technology fee dollars pay for operational expenses and hardware and software upgrades which are done on a rotating basis.


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Markets ended positive for the second consecutive week. The Nifty closed at 5366.30 for the week ended August 17. The benchmark index achieved short term targets of 5380-5400 levels as expected last week and closed near crucial resistance level of 5400. It has strong breakout at these levels and if it sustains above this level then only further up trend can be confirmed for higher targets. Short term trend is up till the Nifty remains above 5300. Break out from this narrow range of 5300-5400 levels will finally confirm future trend of the market. One should expect market to finally confirm breakout from this range on either side next week. Breach below 5300 levels can drag the Nifty to 5160 levels on downside and topping 5400 levels can lift it to 5550 levels on upside in the short term.
Further, the market remained very stock specific this week as well. RIL,Infosys, HUL, L&T etc were the major contributors of the index on the upside while metal shares such as Hindalco, Sterlite were underperformers in overall market. midcap and small Indices continued to remain underperformers for the third consecutive week as compare to benchmark indices Nifty & sensex. It is not a good sign for overall bullish structure of market as participation has to be broad based for strong medium term uptrend of the market.
The WPI Inflation for July 2012 at 6.87% was below market expectation against 7.25% in June 2012. Sustainability below 7% will only provide some comfort to the Reserve Bank of India at its forthcoming policy meet next month.
The report by The Comptroller and Auditor General spooked market sentiment on Friday. Three CAG reports that were tabled in the Parliament focused on the alleged losses to the government because of violation of norms in allocation of coal blocks, the concession
agreement and land given to DIAL, and award of Ultra Mega Power Projects to companies like Reliance Power and Tata Power.
Meanwhile, the Prime Ministers' Economic Advisory Council lowered 2012-13 GDP forecast to 6.7%, said fiscal deficit is likely to be 5.06% of the GDP, while current account deficit is expected to be 3.6% of the GDP. FY13-end inflation figure is expected to be in range of 6.5-7%.
Rupee is still trading in a narrow range of $56 to $54. Breakout of this range will only confirm further trend in USD/INR. Short term trend is up till the Rupee remains above $54. Global market remained range bound with positive bias. They are also trading near their
crucial resistance/breakout levels. Indian markets may also take cues from global markets next week.
Educomp looks good to BUY at current market price of Rs 158.50 with stop loss at 155.40 for target of 165. PNB has taken support around 710 levels. One should buy at current market price of Rs 725 and also at every decline till above this level for target of 750. Hindalco looks weak in the metal sector, one should sell at current market price of Rs 113 and also at every rise with stop loss at 120 for a downside target of 105. Tata Power seems to have completed its pull back rally and confirmed weakness on charts. One should sell it at current market price of Rs 97 with a stop loss at Rs 100.40 for a lower level target of 92.
To summarise, markets are likely to remain range bound with positive bias till it gives breakout at either of side. One should be very stock specific in this kind of market. The writer is Portfolio Manager-PRO TECH-PMS at Sharekhan Ltd.
Disclaimer: The analyst may have a position in the scrip mentioned above; the views given
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To err is human? Fog of War makes its case
There's an interesting juxtaposition on Sony Pictures Classics' release schedule. The Statement and The Fog of War both opened in December for award consideration before rolling out to the rest of the country some time later. They needn't have bothered with The Statement, but The Fog of War went on to win the Best Documentary Feature Oscar in a great year for documentaries.
The Statement is a fictionalized story of a man who, in "following orders," was responsible for seven deaths in World War II. Over 40 years later, he's being hunted as a war criminal.
The Fog of War is the true story of a man who, by influencing others, was responsible for over 100,000 deaths in World War II and many thousands more in Vietnam. After both wars he's practically a hero for admitting his "mistakes" in this film (and a book that was published in 1995).
Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admits the irony when quoting his WWII commander, Gen. Curtis LeMay: "LeMay said, 'If we'd lost the war, we'd have all been prosecuted as war criminals.' And I think he's right... but what makes it immoral if you lose but not immoral if you win?"
Subtitled "11 Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara," The Fog of War is a fascinating portrait of a man in his mid-80s trying to improve his standing in the history books and give later generations the chance to learn from his mistakes.
The specific lessons, extrapolated by filmmaker Errol Morris, are a mix of practical advice (#1: Empathize with your enemy), simple truths (#11: You can't change human nature) and vague ideas that require the context the film supplies to make sense (almost everything in between).
Perhaps the most important thing to be learned sounds like a response to recent events, but is McNamara's hindsight-aided reflection on Vietnam: "I do not believe we should ever apply that economic, political, or military power unilaterally.... If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our case, we better re-examine our reasoning."
It's fitting that a man who based world-altering decisions on statistics, logic, and probability should find his lasting impression subject to the whims of a film editor. If there's one thing better able than statistics to prove any desired conclusion, it's film editing.
"The conventional wisdom is learn from your mistakes," McNamara says at the outset. "With nuclear weapons there's no learning period. You destroy nations."
Morris begins with the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. "It was luck that saved us," McNamara concludes. "Rational individuals came that close to the destruction of their societies." While he and others urged President Kennedy to exhaust all non-nuclear options, he claims, LeMay "wanted to destroy Cuba."
McNamara paints LeMay and Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, as hawks, and himself as being sympathetic toward peace but sometimes persuaded by circumstances that the use of force would be a more "efficient" way of achieving the desired result.
Just as I was thinking LeMay sounded like something out of Dr. Strangelove, McNamara revealed that his own middle name is Strange, and I knew we had crossed into the Twilight Zone.
The report of McNamara's Statistical Control Department led LeMay to firebomb Tokyo ("I was part of a mechanism that in a sense recommended it"), killing 100,000 in one night, five months before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
McNamara saved lives when, as president of Ford Motor Company, he pushed for seat belts and other safety features.
The U.S. buildup in Vietnam was ordered by Johnson on McNamara's advice, which in turn was based on reports of attacks on our ships, some of which proved to be false. As we got deeper into it ("Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," as Pete Seeger sang), the pullout of our "military advisors" McNamara had hoped for became impossible. He and LBJ grew "poles apart" in philosophy until he could no longer serve as Secretary of Defense. His tenure ended in 1967 but not unceremoniously.
Whatever influence he may have had, McNamara says war is ultimately "the President's responsibility." His admission of his own mistakes amounts to a cosmic "oops." The only time he shows emotion in the film is when he describes how he selected Kennedy's burial site.
McNamara explains the strategy he used in press conferences– "Never answer the question that has been asked of you. Answer the question you wish had been asked of you"– but he doesn't seem to employ it here. Morris isn't pitching softball questions, but he doesn't become a hostile interviewer, either.
While maybe half the screen time is taken up with McNamara's talking head, and even more of the soundtrack is filled with his musings, Morris is not about to give us a dry history lesson. He's dug up tons of archival footage dating back to 1918 and employs it– along with images he's shot for the occasion– in imaginative ways. The style, including a subtly effective score by Philip Glass, is recognizable from Morris' 1988 breakthrough film, The Thin Blue Line.
I'm not a viewer of the History Channel, and I thought restraints might be required to make me watch 107 minutes of historical testimony, but I found The Fog of War riveting. It's also objective enough that no matter how you feel about war, you'll find something in it to prove your point.


text: As the Journal celebrates its 125th year, we look back on how the paper covered the biggest news events since the first paper – just four pages, priced at two cents – was published on July 8, 1889. (Subscribers in 1889 were offered an annual deal of just $5, though of course that didn't include a digital edition.) Watch this space for how the paper covered wars, crashes, sinkings (we didn't get the Titanic quite right), celebrations, inventions, triumphs and other notable events.


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(UPDATE Truth Wins Out's Wayne Besen condemns racial intolerance within the LGBT community and says it is "reprehensible to look for scapegoats." People for the American Way president Kathryn Kolbert also releases a statement. Both after the jump.)
Not that this wasn't expected. The recent passage of California's Proposition 8 has exposed some of the latent racism of many within the LGBT community—instigated in part by many in the e-telligentsia such as revisionist Andrew Sullivan and sex advisor turned sociologist Dan Savage. Unfortunately the "blame the blacks" meme is being commonly accepted by some so-called "progressive" gay activists. A number of Rod 2.0 and Jasmyne Cannick readers report being subjected to taunts, threats and racist abuse at last night's marriage equality rally in Los Angeles.
Geoffrey, a student at UCLA and regular Rod 2.0 reader, joined the massive protest outside the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Westwood. Geoffrey was called the n-word at least twice.
It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.
Los Angeles resident and Rod 2.0 reader A. Ronald says he and his boyfriend, who are both black, were carrying NO ON PROP 8 signs and still subjected to racial abuse.
Three older men accosted my friend and shouted, "Black people did this, I hope you people are happy!" A young lesbian couple with mohawks and Obama buttons joined the shouting and said there were "very disappointed with black people" and "how could we" after the Obama victory. This was stupid for them to single us out because we were carrying those blue NO ON PROP 8 signs! I pointed that out and the one of the older men said it didn't matter because "most black people hated gays" and he was "wrong" to think we had compassion. That was the most insulting thing I had ever heard. I guess he never thought we were gay.
Jasmyne Cannick has a similar and unfortunate report. "I have received several phone calls from Blacks, both gay and straight, who were caught up in Westwood around the time of that march. From being called 'niggers' to being accosted in their cars and told that it was because of 'you people gays don't have equal rights and you better watch your back,' these gays have lost their damn minds."
The verbal harassment follows a steady stream of racist comments left on this blog and many others across the gay virtual community. At least a dozen racist comments have been removed from this blog since Tuesday, such as, "Thank you Black people for denying gay people the same rights that you deserve and have", "Black people make me feel like a piece of shyt when it should have been a night of celebration for all," and the succinct, "F--K you niggers."
Pam Spaulding notes the larger gay community continues to "ignore the elephant in the room" and emphasizes this is an especially difficult time to be both black and LGBT. "What is painful is seeing the how easily I am marginalized in any of the identities I inhabit. There is nothing to gain in slicing our movement up in this manner because we're all hurting," she notes, taking to task those who made racial remarks were made on her blog who "either conveniently forgot my commitment to LGBT rights as a matter of self-interest or have never read my vast archive of criticism of homophobia in the black community."
There is more than enough blame to go around—the homophobia of the black church, lack of outreach by mainstream LGBT organizations, reluctance by the Obama campaign, many blacks gays and lesbians in the closet, deep pockets of the social conservatives, take your pick—but it is a statistical fact that millions more whites voted for this initiative than blacks. You want to blame somebody, go to overwhelming white Orange County, Bakersfield or San Fernando Valley and blame them. Or better yet, head up to San Francisco and blame the 50 percent of voters who didn't even bother to vote. Look, whenever the rights of a minority are put to popular vote, they almost always lose. But very telling indeed many white gays instantly revert to racism to explain Prop 8's passage. It's going to be difficult for gay groups to reach out to blacks with this mentality.
OMG The Gays Are Trying To Get Gangsta With It [Cannick]
Prop. 8 Protesters Target Mormon Temple [LAT]
N-Bomb Is Dropped on Black Passerby [PHB]
Did You Read ...
WeHo Marriage Rally Attracts "Noah's Arc" Stars [R20]
"Yes We Can" to "YES on 8": Blacks Overwhelmingly Approve Prop 8 [R20]
Anti-Gay, Black Pastors Use Children for Prop 8 [R20]
Blige, Etheridge Raise $3.9M for No on Prop 8 [R20]
"Noah's Arc" Cast Urges "No" on Proposition 8 [R20]
"Noah's Arc" Actor Doug Spearman, Black Ministers Urge "NO" on Prop 8 [R20]
SCLC Leader Criticizes Anti-Gay, Black Pastors [R20]
Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, which has done outstanding work fact-checking the ex-gay groups, speaks out against blaming black voters for Prop 8. Besen cites this post and says it's time to join forces and move forward.
Truth Wins Out today expressed its grave disappointment in those in the LGBT community who have emulated our bigoted opponents by scapegoating minorities. It has been reported that African Americans have been verbally abused and have had racial epithets hurled at them during Anti-Proposition 8 rallies.
"It is reprehensible to look for scapegoats and target innocent people with vile racial epithets," said TWO Executive Director, Wayne Besen. "We call on all GLBT people behave intelligently and act responsibly, so we can figure out–together–the best way for our movement to proceed and achieve equality."
Another great statement from Kathryn Kolbert , the openly lesbian president of progressive advocacy group People for the American Way. It's much longer but very emotional.
The past 72 hours have brought an extraordinary range of emotions - great joy at the election of Barack Obama and defeat of John McCain, and sadness and anger at the passage of anti-gay initiatives in Florida, Arizona, Arkansas, and California. That sadness has turned to outrage at the speed with which some white gay activists began blaming African Americans - sometimes in appallingly racist ways - for the defeat of Proposition 8. This is inexcusable.
As a mother who has raised two children in a 30-year relationship with another woman, I fully understand the depth of hurt and anger at voters' rejection of our families' equality. But responding to that hurt by lashing out at African Americans is deeply wrong and offensive - not to mention destructive to the goal of advancing equality.
Before we give Religious Right leaders more reasons to rejoice by deepening the divisions they have worked so hard to create between African Americans and the broader progressive community, let's be clear about who is responsible for gay couples in California losing the right to get married, and let's think strategically about a way forward that broadens and strengthens support for equality.
Kolbert is spot-on and frames this issue exactly as it is. A divide and conquer strategy by the religious right. If you check out any of the many right-wing blogs who have linked this post such as The Corner at The National Review, the assignment desk for the right wing, or freeper central at Ace of Spades, you will see they are loving the gay-on-black hostilities.


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My turn in the barrel....Getting close to being done. I did things a little different. First the background; '04 Adventurer, 26" Sony CRT over the dash, replaced with 32" Panasonic. What I did differently is to totally remove the face frame, the plastic shroud underneath, and the metal frame that held the original TV. Biggest surprise to me was how much the metal piece I took out weighed; 40 pounds! That and a 77 pound TV means I'll loose almost 100 pounds with the new setup. I modeled the setup after what is done in the Sightseers with front flat TVs. After I had it all removed, I just installed a piece of wood just behind the cabinet faces on the sides, made a hole in it access the connections. Only comes down as far headliner on the bottom. Carpeted the new panel with cheap black automotive style carpet. Simple non-adjustable mount for the TV bolted to the new panel. The new TV only hangs a few inches below the cabinets on either side. I need to make a new headliner still, to cover where I removed the plastic shroud, but some luan and some cheap tan vinyl will take care of that. I will be adding some powered visors at the same time, no old holes from that swap is a bonus. Some damage from the old face rubbing on the "wood" of the side cabinets to deal with sometime, but that is mostly cosmetic.
I have a Sunrise 32V. We do not like looking up at an angle to watch TV. The easy chair that normally sits behind the passenger seat was not there when we purchased the unit so Cleo the dog sleeps there. I'm taking about 8 inches of the floor space and installing a flat screen with a lift. Using a lift as I will be blocking a window when watching TV. Will make a cabinet to match current wood work which will hide TV and lift when not in use. This is a work in progress and will post some pictures when it's done. The existing TV location will be modified into a storage cabinet for DVD and what ever. Rear TV has been removed and space turned into a towel storage cabinet. Purchased a 32 inch Samsung LED/LCD from Costco for $376 CND and have been using it a little in the house to break it in prior to install in MH.
This TV is in my 1989 Itasca. I would like to replace it but we are not interested in a large TV. I would like to fill the same space with a new digital TV.I would appreciate hearing some ideas on how to do this.Old TVThanks,Jim & Deanna
Is it just me or were the designers drunk on hard liquor when they decided to put a TV screen in a position that is really uncomfortable to watch. Should have let the Germans do the design Moving mine to sit opposite of the sofa where it really should sit.
I agree. I guess putting tv over the driver and passenger's head was to get it out of the way. That is one the main reasons that we bought a Winnebago Voyage with the 38 J floor plan, as the tv is across from the recliners we have installed.
Great thread - thanks John for starting it. We're arriving in Casa Grande, AZ next week for 3½ months, and my priority job is to replace the hulking great Squeak-Monsta as soon as possible with a 26" or 32".I'll no doubt be whimpering on here in due course! Dougie.
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Winter Storm Preparedness
Are You Prepared for the Winter Storm Season?
While we don't know exactly how much precipitation we will get this year, we do know that living in an area of relative isolation means we must be prepared to be on our own for up to several days in the event of a severe storm or natural disaster. Are you ready?
Check list suggestions from the Town of Portola Valley's Emergency Preparedness Committee and Public Works Department (for a printable pdf checklist, click here)
Go to www.smcalert.info and sign up to receive alerts on your cell phone and email. You will be notified quickly of floods, fires, road closures, mountain lion sightings, planned events with traffic disruptions, etc.
Tune your portable and car radios to 1680 AM for emergency broadcasts from the Town of Portola Valley. To listen to a streaming online broadcast, visit http://bit.ly/PortolaValleyAM1680.
Plan now for extended power outages that may last several days or longer.
When roads are closed due to flooding, trees down or mudslides, you may need to leave your area by a different route than you are accustomed to. Learn these routes now, before you need them. Make arrangements to temporarily stay with family or friends should you need to evacuate your home.
Always maintain at least a half a tank of gas in your vehicles.
30 minute storm drain prep checklist
Maintain emergency supplies at home
Maintain a "Go-Bag" near exit door or in your car
Contact Information
- For emergencies dial 911
- Town of Portola Valley- Public Works Department (650) 851-1700 x 200
- Online maintenance reporting https://www.portolavalley.net/for-residents/pv-connect
- San Mateo County Sheriff (650) 363-4911
- Woodside Portola Valley Fire District (650) 851-1594
Homeowner Recommendations
Fix leaks in ceilings/roofs or replace roof
Seal foundation cracks with mortar or masonry caulking
Invest in a battery-powered sump pump and test pumps
Move expensive items to safer location
Anchor fuel tanks so they won't float away
Stock up on sandbags
Take digital pictures of insurance policies for storage
30 minute home storm drain inspection checklist
Prepare with rain boots, gloves, flashlight, rake, and shovel
Check if rain gutters and roof drains are clear of debris
Walk around property and inspect all storm pipes, drains, grates and remove and dispose of all tree lose debris that could backup water flow
Check all surface drains and French drains
Inspect drainage ditches through your property to determine that they are free and clear. Inspect with your neighbors.
Check all retaining walls for cracks, subsidence, overtopping, and drainage
Clean storm drain pipes under your driveway. You should clearly see daylight at the other end of the pipe.
If a storm drain pipe or drainage ditch is blocked by dirt, labor may be needed to dig out the outlet to let it flush out
Re-inspect and clean the above items during and after heavy storm events throughout the rain season
Inspect hillsides for erosion. Consider using straw wattles and straw erosion blankets for problem hillsides
Check watercourses. Watercourses on your property shall be kept free of debris according to Town ordinance
"Go-Bag" Near Exit Door or in Car
| Prescription medications
| Extra eyeglasses
| Copies of important documents
| Fully charged electronics
| Matches or lighter
| Flashlights with extra batteries
| Bottled Water
| Portable radio with extra batteries
| Extra undergarments and socks
| Sweater or sweatshirt
| Writing pad and pencils
| Pet leashes/food/medicines
| Food bars/nuts/snacks
| Cash
| Space blanket
| Towel
| Gloves
| Multi-tool
| First Aid kit
| 50' rope
| Rain poncho
| Batteries
| Hat
Emergency Supplies at Home
One gallon of water per person per day for up to 5-7 days
Enough food (not requiring refrigeration) for up to 5-7 days
Plenty of battery powered flashlights/lanterns
Portable radio, battery and/or crank powered
First Aid kit and extra batteries for lights and radios
An exit plan for your family to meet if separated
Plans for feeding/evacuating pets & large animals
Camping gear/tents (for backyard if house uninhabitable)
Trash bags (WAG bags preferably) to line toilet for waste disposal if sewer and/or water is out of service
Flooded streets and returning home after a flood
Do not drive where water is covering the road. You can be
stranded or trapped. Parts of the road may be washed out.
Do not try to cross waters of unknown depth. The water may be much deeper than it looks. Avoid dips and low spots.
If your car stalls in a flooded area, abandon it as soon as
possible. Floodwater can rise rapidly and sweep a car away.
Return home when authorities say it is safe.
Let qualified specialists inspect your home and make repairs to utility and structural damage before re-entering.
Portola Valley Sandbag Station Location
765 Portola Road, Portola Valley Town Center along its southern driveway, across from the basketball courts. The station is accessible daily and will remain available through the end of the rainy season with sandbags, sand, and shovels. Please visit www.portolavalley.net/sandbagstation for more information.
How you can help the Town's Public Works Department
You can help the Town by keeping an eye on the street drains and small drainage ditches in front of your home or on your street. Many drainage problems are caused by floating leaf debris and silt blocking a drain entrance and can be easily removed with a rake or shovel in a matter of minutes. By stopping blockages before they begin, your help would save the Town a lot of time and potential flooding of the street. The Town also has a volunteer Public Works Committee that assists after hours to address street issues. Report any maintenance issues on PV Connect. Sign up here to report issues online or on your phone.
Larger maintenance problems should be reported to the Public Works Department at 650-851-1700 x 200 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information on how to prepare for winter storm emergencies:
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• http://www.portolavalley.net/for-residents/public-works
• http://www.fema.gov/plan-prepare
• http://www.fema.gov/view-your-communitys-preliminary- flood-hazard-data-0
• Current fire dispatch response times: www.firedispatch.com
Get Involved
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Opening this weekend is the animated film Hotel Transylvania. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack), the story centers on Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) trying to throw a party for his daughter Mavis' (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday, but his plans go haywire when a human (Andy Samberg) comes to the monsters-only hotel and develops a crush on Mavis. The film also features the voices of David Spade (Griffin the Invisible Man), Steve Buscemi (Wayne the Werewolf), Kevin James (Frankenstein), Molly Shannon (Wanda the Werewolf) and Cee Lo Green (Murray the Mummy). For more on the film, here's six clips and all our previous coverage.
At this year's Toronto International Film Festival I got to speak with Samberg and Gomez. During our very loose interview, we talked about how they got involved in Hotel Transylvania, the recording process, how things changed during production, and more. In addition, we joked about future touring plans, how this year's Oscar race is be between The Master and Hotel Transylvania, Samberg's upcoming BBC show Cuckoo, and Gomez talks about Feed the Dog which she just finished filming. Hit the jump to watch.
Andy Samberg and Selena Gomez:
- We start off with a lot of joking around about how The Lonely Island doesn't tour. Selena Gomez jokingly says she's going on tour with just Andy
- What does it mean to be part of TIFF. Andy Samberg says it's a two horse race at next year's Oscars and it's between The Master and Hotel Transylvania
- How did they get involved in the film
- How did the script and characters change during production
- Did they ever record together
- Samberg talks about his upcoming BBC show called Cuckoo
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On the 10th of July, a colorful street entertainment, for the general public, has taken place in Toulon city centre, in front of the Mediterranean Maritime Prefecture. Under the theme "I like my coast without oil-spills", the street animation hig...13/07/2013 Learn more
After three years of research, the final project conference has taken place the last 10th of July at the Maritime Prefect Residence, institutional partner of the project. The Amiral Yann Tainguy commented: "This is a major stake for the Mediterranean, which is a closed sea, as the pollution is likely to end up on the coast if a maritime accident occurs".
Here we go for the 4th TOSCA experimental survey. It is to take place off the coasts of Balearic Islands. On the 25th of October, 5 partners of the TOSCA project will come on board of the research vessel Garcia del Cid with the equipment developed by the project.
The 2nd TOSCA experimental survey took place in the Gulf of Trieste between the 23rd and 27th of April. In this framework, 40 drifters were released to monitor for the first time the surface circulation and to study the dispersion in this area. The network of HF radars installed in the first phase of the project and the results from a numerical model covering the northern Adriatic Sea complemented those measurements.
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Idaho National Lab's Grossenbacher discusses R&D bill, funding challenges
What is the outlook for nuclear energy funding under the new Congress? During today's OnPoint, Vice Admiral John Grossenbacher, director of the Idaho National Laboratory and president of Batelle Energy Alliance, discusses federal funding for nuclear energy research and development. He explains his lab's current research projects and talks about INL's new partnership with Third Way, which seeks to address immediate challenges to the deployment of nuclear energy.


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Here's an issue we don't talk about enough. Every year, peer-reviewed research journals publish hundreds of thousands of scientific papers. But every year, several hundred of those are retracted — essentially, unpublished. There's a number of reasons retraction happens. Sometimes, the researchers (or another group of scientists) will notice honest mistakes. Sometimes, other people will prove that the paper's results were totally wrong. And sometimes, scientists misbehave, plagiarizing their own work, plagiarizing others, or engaging in outright fraud. Officially, fraud only accounts for a small proportion of all retractions. But the number of annual retractions is growing, fast. And there's good reason to think that fraud plays a bigger role in science then we like to think. In fact, a study published a couple of weeks ago found that there was misconduct happening in 3/4ths of all retracted papers. Meanwhile, previous research has shown that, while only about .02% of all papers are retracted, 1-2% of scientists admit to having invented, fudged, or manipulated data at least once in their careers.
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Asking people to reduce their dietary salt intake can help them slightly lower blood pressure, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on their risk of heart attack or heart-related death, according to a new review of existing research.
You've Lost Weight. Now How Do You Keep It Off?
Losing weight is hard enough. Keeping it off is even harder. Now a new study by researchers at Penn State suggests that the techniques that work for losing weight aren't necessarily the same as those that help keep you slim.
The Healthland Podcast: Diets, Divorce and Cigarettes
On the podcast this week: results from a major Harvard study on how to eat right. Also, a controversial new trend in how some divorced parents are raising their children. And finally, the war over government labeling of …
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When it comes to keeping your weight down, a new study by Harvard researchers suggests that the quality of your food matters more than its calorie count.
Study: Could Diet Help Prevent Vision Loss?
Here's another reason to get your daily recommended allowances of vitamins and minerals: to lower the odds of vision loss in midlife.
Can Olive Oil Help Prevent Stroke?
Olive oil, which has long been associated with a heart-healthy diet, has now also been linked with a lower risk of stroke.
Tips for a Healthy, Cancer-Free BBQ
It's summertime, and that means cookouts and barbecues. But that also means an increase in cancer risk — both from the act of cooking food on the fire and from the processed, red meats that commonly make their way onto the …
Diet Bake-Off, Round Two: DASH Diet Nabs the Top Spot In New Rankings
In its first ever ranking of 20 popular diets, U.S. News & World Report rated the DASH diet No. 1.
Study: The Perils of a Heavy Bottled-Water Habit
Americans quaff nearly 10 billion gallons of bottled water each year, in large part because they assume, wrongly, that it's healthier and safer than tap water. Somewhat surprisingly, the data has suggested, underserved black and …
Diet Psych Out: Why 'Health' Food Is Less Satisfying, Even If It's Sinful
The problem with most health food is that nobody likes it — not least your own stomach. New research suggests that the stomach signals less satisfaction after eating "health food," regardless of the actual fat and calories …
Study: Red and Processed Meats Linked With Colon Cancer Risk
Burger lovers may feel disheartened as the case against red meat continues to grow.
Diet Bake-Off: Jenny Craig Wins, Says Consumer Reports
If you're looking to drop some weight, Jenny Craig may be your go-to diet plan, according to Consumer Reports, which just released its third round of diet-plan ratings. Jenny Craig came in first place, beating out stalwarts like …
Do Immigrant Kids Get Fat to Fit In?
Many foreign-born American citizens have said they feel that their fellow U.S. citizens question their Americanness. This spurning can be particularly difficult for immigrants' U.S.-born children: some Asian-American kids, for …


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Mom always wants what's best for you, so why not get the best for Mom? Find that absolute perfect gift this year to present to your mother or grandmother on Mother's Day with Celebrity Fashion Stylist & Style Expert, Marina BerBeryan.
Presented by Style Fashion Week and hosted at The Reef L.A., Filipino-American Designer Andre Soriano debuted his Spring /Summer 2015 Collection "Aristocrat: Young, Rich and Beautiful." on Friday, October 27, 2014.
It was a celebration of fashion, music, and dance this fashion season at the Rock That Fashion IX & RUNWAY® 2014 Fall Issue Release Party held at Lure Hollywood.
Internationally renowned designer SUE WONG wowed Angelinos and her overseas guests with her seductive and sensual rock opera fashion show "Fairies & Sirens" featuring her Spring and Summer 2015 Collection during LA Fashion Week.
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During LA Fashion Week, Concept Los Angeles showcased Emily Daccarett's "Doll Valley" Spring / Summer 2015 Collection. The fashion event was held this year at Ace Museum in West Hollywood, C.A. also known as WeHo.
Ferrari celebrated it's national 60th Anniversary on Sunday, October 12th, 2014 on Rodeo Drive, in the heart of Beverly Hills, CA.
The official LA Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, October 10th, 2014 with an impeccable show like never before, Day to Night Fashion Show.
Persian-Armenian lead actor Vahik Pirhamzei who not only played the main role, Ray Ardalan, in the suspense- thriller The Guardian Angel, also thanked his fans for a warm welcome...
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In Reunited Germany, One Town Remains Divided
'Little Berlin' Kept Its Wall as Memorial, to Dismay of Some Who See Old Divisions Persisting
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MÖDLAREUTH, Germany—As the country celebrates its reunification this weekend, a tiny village divided by the Iron Curtain for four decades continues to live its division, complete with wall, death strip and watchtowers.
Mödlareuth was known as "the village at the end of the world" and "Little Berlin" during the Cold War due to its precarious location straddling Communist East and capitalist West.
Today, it is the only German community still divided by a wall—a preservationist move that seemed like a good decision at the time, but one that some locals have come to regret for reasons both practical and psychological.
While the bulk of the Berlin Wall has long been built over, Mödlareuth, population 50, kept its 11-foot-high, half-mile long concrete wall, barbed-wire fence, shoot-to-kill death strip and two watchtowers as an outdoor memorial. More than 65,000 people, including tour groups from as far as South Korea, flock here each year to sample its Cold War heritage.
"It is irksome for the community," says Dieter Rebelein, head of the far-left Die Linke party in the local district assembly, said of the crowds.
"Every year the camera teams show up and ask the same questions," says a local woman at the village's only pub. "At some point people don't want to discuss it anymore. These aren't always pleasant stories."
It hasn't helped that the tourists have brought familiar disturbances but leave little wealth behind in what basically remains a farming community. Apart from the one pub, there are few facilities for the tens of thousands of people who visit each year: no hotel, no souvenir shops, no candy stores for the hordes of schoolchildren.
A few people have suggested getting rid of the relics, but having been transformed into a publicly funded museum and memorial, dismantling them now would be politically explosive.
Meanwhile, the perennially divided Mödlareuth remains stuck in its Cold War time-warp, split between the states of Bavaria, which fell under U.S. control after World War II, and Thuringia in the Soviet sector.
While the border patrols, barking guard dogs, and secret police are gone, east and west Mödlareuthians have their own mayors, speak with different accents, dial different area codes and sport separate license plates on their cars.
"It isn't yet so homogenous, even with young people, the language outs them immediately," says a middle-aged receptionist at the Hotel am Maxplatz, in Hof, a nearby town on the Bavarian side.
Similarly, struggling Thuringia and wealthy Bavaria remain worlds apart.
Bavaria's 4% unemployment rate is half Thuringia's. Thuringia's population has shrunk by 500,000 since 1989, while Bavaria's has swollen by 1.4 million.
'At some point people don't want to discuss it anymore. These aren't always pleasant stories.'
Bavarians have re-elected conservative-led governments for the past six decades. Thuringia is expected to get the first state premier from the successor party to the once-ruling, now-defunct East German Socialists, following elections last month.
Locals say visitors from distant places tend to underestimate the depth of the trauma left by four decades of separation. The Mödlareuth Wall may have been short by Berlin standards, but in such a small community, it was perhaps a more overwhelming presence.
Outside of town, the wall became a fence, but one lined with minefields and automatic shotguns securing a no-man's-land of about 50 feet.
East-Mödlareuthians were forbidden from communicating or even waving to people across the wall. There was no crossing nearby, so people who got a visitor permit had a trip of around three hours to get to the other side of town—a stone's throw away.
It never got dark nor completely silent in Mödlareuth, as floodlights illuminated the wall 24 hours a day, to the dull buzz of an electricity generator.
"Back then, seeing armed guards emerge from the mist, I can barely describe that feeling of insecurity," said Horst Zippel, who often takes groups to Mödlareuth, where he used to carry out pest-control duties.
Resting on a shady bench next to Mödlareuth's duck pond, Martin Wiesend, an educator from nearby Bayreuth in Bavaria, says that for those who grew up post-reunification, "attitudes toward life have aligned." Aside from different accents, "there are barely any differences anymore," he says.
Karin Mergner, a retired farmworker, says "we are one village," echoing the "we are one people" motto of the peaceful uprising in East Germany 25 years ago. For many residents, however, the phrase feels more like a wish than an accurate description.
Klaus Grünzner, the mayor of the village's western side, says "the equalization process," as he calls it, has been far slower than reunification was.
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Syrian troops enter village near Turkish border
Activists say Syrian troops backed by tanks and snipers have entered a village along the Turkish border.
Thousands of Syrian refugees have been flooding into neighboring Turkey as the government cracks down on a 3-month-old uprising.
The revolt has posed the gravest challenge to President Bashar Assad's rule.
The Local Coordinating Committees, which track the Syrian protest movement, said Thursday that tanks had entered Khirbet al-Jouz and snipers were spotted on rooftops.
The opposition estimates 1,400 people have been killed and 10,000 detained in the crackdown.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
BEIRUT (AP) - The Syrian regime, besieged by street protests at home and condemnation abroad, on Wednesday lashed out at European governments for threatening a new round of sanctions and accused the West of trying to sow chaos and conflict in the Arab nation.
But Foreign Minister Walid Moallem also reiterated the president's call for national dialogue and spoke of democracy over the horizon - a bold assertion after more than four decades of iron-fisted rule by the Assad family and months of bloody reprisals.
It was the regime's latest attempt to blunt three months of widespread demonstrations, a movement that was inspired by pro-democracy upheavals elsewhere in the Mideast and that has persisted despite the reported killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces. A skeptical opposition rejected the overture while the Syrian military is occupying towns and shooting protesters. Seven were reported killed on Tuesday.
An official said the European Union is planning to hit the Syrian regime with more sanctions, targeting seven more individuals and four companies in a bid to stop the crackdown against protests. That would bring to 34 the number of Syrian individuals and entities that are hit with an asset freeze and travel ban.
The EU official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. The 27-member bloc also has an embargo on sales of arms and equipment that can be used to suppress demonstrations.
Moallem said the suggestion "amounts to (an act) of war" and warned "we will forget that Europe is on the map."
"Stop intervening in Syria's affairs, do not stir chaos nor strife, the Syrian people ... are capable of making their own future away from you," he said. "Any external intervention is rejected."
The televised statements by the longtime trusted Assad aide also went beyond the vague promises of reform made Monday by President Bashar Assad and amounted to a rare official admission that Syria has ignored basic democratic principles.
In his speech, President Assad had said he was forming a committee to study constitutional amendments, including one that would open the way to political parties other than the ruling Baath Party. He said a package of reforms was expected by September or no later than the end of the year.
Moallem added a promise that the Damascus government would soon present "an unprecedented example of democracy" in the troubled Middle East.
"There will be social justice, equality before the law and accountability," he said, when asked about his vision for Syria in three months. But he gave no specifics.
Moallem called for regime opponents to enter into political talks, and urged Syrian exiles to return, pledging that "even the harshest opponent" of the regime will not be arrested.
"Whoever wants to test our seriousness should come to the national dialogue to be a partner in shaping the future," he said.
But a prominent dissident rejected the idea of talks.
"There can be no dialogue when a gun is being held to your head," Damascus-based activist Hassan Abdul-Azim said.
Responding to Moallem's statements, the dissident Abdul-Azim said dialogue was impossible with the regime's security forces still cracking down on dissent. "Such a dialogue would provide a cover for the security crackdown," he told The Associated Press.
That view was echoed at the highest level of the United Nations later Wednesday, when Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told New York reporters he didn't see "much credibility" in the Assad statements "because the situation has been continuing."
The U.N. chief suggested unified Security Council action to pressure Syria "would be helpful." Russia and China have opposed such action.
The U.S. State Department also demanded action instead of words, saying the status quo was unacceptable.
"They've thrown around a lot of rhetoric, and meanwhile, they've used unremitting violence against innocent civilians," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Syria dissidents noted that previous talk of reform has produced little change in Syria's autocratic system.
"We are not against dialogue in principle, but we currently have no confidence or guarantees that anything would be implemented," said London-based Syrian activist Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Among the opposition's demands is the withdrawal of Syrian troops from cities, trials for security personnel responsible for killing protesters and the release of all political prisoners.
The opposition estimates 1,400 people have been killed and 10,000 detained in the attempted suppression of the 3-month-old pro-democracy movement, which was inspired by successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Hundreds of soldiers and police officers have also been killed.
Activists said the sweeping arrests have continued even after Assad's speech. Abdul-Rahman and others said dozens of students were beaten and others detained, including female students, during a raid at Damascus University dormitories Tuesday night.
Abdul-Azim said the scattered opposition movement would announce within a week the formation of a National Coordination Council for democratic change, encompassing all groups inside and outside Syria.
The foreign minister sounded confident there would be no Western military intervention or no-fly zone over Syria, saying the international community is mired in the "scandals" of its military intervention in Libya.
Moallem added that Arab countries "without exception" support Damascus. The Arab League on Monday issued a statement of support for Syria and opposition to foreign intervention there.
Moallem also denied that Syrian allies Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement are helping the Damascus regime put down unrest. The U.S. has accused Iran of sending reinforcements and equipment to Syria.
Associated Press writers Raf Casert in Brussels and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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"Taqueria, please just let me explain."
Such as it were I was in the former home of Tao Tao Noodle Bar sizing up a new wall menu full of Mexican standards. Looking back, I did try and go to Tao Tao not all that long ago, but it was, you guessed it, closed. Even though I'd never slurped back one of their famed xiao long bao, I was still a little sad to see it shuttered so suddenly. And when I saw that it was going to become a menudaria and taqueria, I had to make it back as quickly as I could, if for nothing else than to help it not turn into a cursed restaurant-swallowing hole.
Despite its tagline, I didn't come to El Rico Dicho Menuderia y Taqueria for menudo, as this spicy tripe broth is not as appealing on a Wednesday night as, say, a bleary-eyed Saturday crudo-nursing morning. But Rico Dicho is more than just menudo and tacos, and is a step up in decor and ambiance from your typical taqueria, even if that "step up" means a very literal dedication to the greatness of El Chapulin Colorado.
I met a couple of friends there and we ordered a spread of food that filled every corner of the table. Among the consensus favorites was a rich broth of carne seca. Carne seca translates to "dried meat", and that is exactly what you get. But the Rico Dicho Northern Mexico-inspired version is far from your typical jerky. We were comped a plate of these house made meat strips which we devoured along with a squirt of Tapatio and twist of lime: thin and crispy, yet surprisingly flavorful and not the least-bit chewy.
alambre I have had in Denver.
as I often do), it, like the carne seca, was made in house. For that reason we also got a plate of tacos de chorizo and were universally smitten with our choice. Mexican chorizo is like bacon in that one can add to about anything and that thing becomes better. And homemade chorizo on a warm corn tortilla makes for a can't miss taco. We also got an order of barbacoa tacos, in this case, beef cheek. Steamed and shredded beef cheek is a wonderfully rich and silky-smooth way to enjoy a cow, and simply spiced and served on a plain corn tortilla, this version absolutely killed.


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Local volunteers take part in National Day of Service
President Barack Obama is trying to boost turnout for the National Day of Service.
The charitable event is held every year before Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
This year, the presidential inauguration is on the same day as the holiday in honor of the late civil rights hero.
The day of service is being promoted by the president's inauguration committee, and online there's a list of hundreds of service projects across the country.
In Milwaukee, dozens of volunteers took part in the day of service by sorting donated clothes at the Repairers of the Breach.
"I'd heard about the organization before. It had some longstanding history in the community. And the mission was something that interested me, called to me, so I wanted to come out and help," volunteer Carolina Stark said.
For the first part of their day here, volunteers helped organize the area where donations are stored.
The volunteers' help with these clothes was particularly important in light of the cold weather headed our way. Thanks to their help, people who come down here looking for warm jackets will be able to find them more easily.
"They opened up a gateway for me. Because I had a problem getting back there. We got appliances back there, they need to come out of there, and so now I can maneuver through there without having to step over bags and stuff like that," event coordinator Dennis Moore said.
Volunteer Barbara Tucker came to the charity for the first time. She's from Brookfield and thought the day of service was an effective way of bringing in new volunteers.
"It's just a great way for anyone who cares about people, and the state -- not just the city but the state that we live in," Tucker said.
Organizers said they hope that spirit extends beyond this weekend.


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Foundation Aid for NYS School Districts
May 11, 2018Most of this year's school aid increases came in the form of Foundation Aid, which is intended to support high-need school districts. All districts received an increase, but some wealthier school districts fared better than others.
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Statement on the NYS FY2019 Budget
March 31, 2018The budget gap will be closed using short-term measures instead of restraint in and reform of spending commitments.
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CBC Urges State Leaders to Respond to the Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act To Promote Competitiveness and Protect New Yorkers
March 26, 2018With budget negotiations in the final push, here's what State leaders should do now and in months to come.
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CBC Statement on Governor's 30-Day Amendments in Response to Federal Tax Legislation
February 12, 2018The Governor's proposals represent bold and important steps to address the negative impacts the federal tax law will have on New Yorkers and to maintain New York's competitive position.
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Statement on NYS Executive Budget for FY2019
January 17, 2018The overall approach is to use short-term fixes that do not address the long-term structural problem of spending outpacing revenues.
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CBC Convenes Special Committee to Focus on Federal Tax Cuts
December 21, 2017The Special Committee consists of CBC trustees, civic leaders, and policy experts, and will identify the greatest impacts and options for appropriate state and local government action.
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Economic Development in the New York State Budget
June 14, 2017Reporting is limited and differs by program. With $4.0 billion in annual state spending and tax expenditures, a significant investment is being made without enough information to evaluate its success.
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April 20, 2017Interactive map that shows the distribution of Foundation Aid per pupil and per district
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Statement on the NYS FY2018 Adopted Budget
April 10, 2017Despite fears of substantial cuts in federal aid, the nine-day tardy adopted budget includes excessive spending without needed reforms.
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Statement on NYS Emergency Budget
April 03, 2017Achieving a fiscally sound budget is more important than an "on time" budget, but issues could and should have been resolved as part of a more effective process.
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Statement on the "Collins Amendment"
March 22, 2017The recent addition of the "Collins Amendment" to the House of Representatives' American Health Care Act provides a strong incentive for New York's Governor and Legislature to eliminate the mandated local share of Medicaid costs, a policy change long advocated by the Citizens Budget Commission.
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District Map of Proposed Foundation Aid for SY 2017-2018
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I don't get as much time to check out my feedreader as much as I like. But every once in a while, when I have time, I'll pop open Google Reader. Sometimes I'll see a post title that catches my eye which makes me zero in on it.
Ess wrote an eyebrow raising post about how not to recruit healers.
Here's one of the points Ess offers:
2. Whisper them every time they log in.
So, this person that has been whispering me the second that I log in has been doing this for the past several days. Really… is it necessary to whisper me every single day? I have gotten the picture  I know they want me to join their guild. I'm always polite about the recruiting part, and tell them I appreciate it, but remind them that I plan to stay with my guild. (Are they hoping to wear me down?)
Also, they're usually asking me to heal something at that moment for them. Because they ask me every day, I find myself much less inclined to run with them. I don't want to do anything to encourage this behavior. If you were hoping to build a relationship with someone, would you really call them every single night and ask them to do something? Hopefully not. It sends bad signals, suggesting that you are high maintenance. This is a definite turn off. It makes me wish there were some sort of invisibility setting so they couldn't see me when I logged in.
I can't say I've ever experienced this stalking behavior. I'd get a lot of additions onto friends lists and I do get my share of messages when I do log on. But it hasn't happened as much since the debut of expansion. Maybe the tanks or DPS just got tired of waiting for me to say yes and moved onto other healers instead. That's okay. I prefer to test the waters anyway.
I gotta say, I really like Ess's style and post here.
In the spirit of
single's awareness Valentine's day coming up in a little under a week, I'm issuing a challenge to WoW bloggers to write a valentine's themed post. Here's a few post ideas and themes that you're welcome to use. By all means, feel free to come up with your own! I'll feature a few pieces that caught my eye next week (if I have any takers). I think I found my sweet spot. I should come out to Waves more often. London Fog seems to be the fuel for my blogging engine.
The GM's just not that into you: Recognizing the Signs
Azeroth's romantic getaways (Booty Bay takes on a whole new meaning)
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