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The vast majority of items in this exhibit come from a recently acquired collection (Mss 202) of 101 pamphlets, booklets, cards, and flyers cut in shapes such as animals, books, bottles, boxes, cans, fruit and vegetables, hats, oysters, and shoes. Many of the items are highly illustrated and printed in vivid colors. Most are early- mid 20th century, some from California.
UCSB Special Collections has one of the largest and best-known collections of advertising literature in the country, particularly in the area of trade catalogs. The most prominent is the Lawrence B. Romaine Trade Catalog Collection. Romaine, a Massachusetts antiquarian book dealer, spent approximately 30 years collecting over 41,000 trade catalogs from the 19th and early 20th centuries, on every imaginable product from agricultural implements, clothes, medical, and surgical instruments to weathervanes and windmills.
Other important collections include the James C. Williams (Mss 170) and Larry Badash (Uarch FacP 33) collections. Also the Sound Recording Catalog Collection contains lists and other publications from the early 20th century by numerous recording companies, mainly U.S. More recently acquired trade catalogs are found in our Trade Catalog Additions Collection (Mss 202).
The trade catalogs come in various shapes and sizes. They range from single sheets to large bound volumes. Many are heavily illustrated and some contain samples of their products. The die-cut items, however, are quite unusual and scarce. Their fanciful images capture the attention of the viewer, which of course is a primary aim of advertising.


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What does it mean to be physically "fit?"
Physical fitness is defined as "a set of attributes that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity" (USDHHS, 1996). In other words, it is more than being able to run a long distance or lift a lot of weight at the gym. Being fit is not defined only by what kind of activity you do, how long you do it, or at what level of intensity. While these are important measures of fitness, they only address single areas. Overall fitness is made up of five main components:
In order to assess your level of fitness, look at all five components together.
What is "cardiorespiratory endurance (cardiorespiratory fitness)?"
Cardiorespiratory endurance is the ability of the body's circulatory and respiratory systems to supply fuel during sustained physical activity (USDHHS, 1996 as adapted from Corbin & Lindsey, 1994). To improve your cardiorespiratory endurance, try activities that keep your heart rate elevated at a safe level for a sustained length of time such as walking, swimming, or bicycling. The activity you choose does not have to be strenuous to improve your cardiorespiratory endurance. Start slowly with an activity you enjoy, and gradually work up to a more intense pace.
Muscular strength is the ability of the muscle to exert force during an activity (USDHHS, 1996 as adapted from Wilmore & Costill, 1994). The key to making your muscles stronger is working them against resistance, whether that be from weights or gravity. If you want to gain muscle strength, try exercises such as lifting weights or rapidly taking the stairs.
Muscular endurance is the ability of the muscle to continue to perform without fatigue (USDHHS, 1996 as adapted from Wilmore & Costill, 1994). To improve your muscle endurance, try cardiorespiratory activities such as walking, jogging, bicycling, or dancing.
Body composition refers to the relative amount of muscle, fat, bone, and other vital parts of the body (USDHHS, 1996 as adapted from Corbin and Lindsey, 1994). A person's total body weight (what you see on the bathroom scale) may not change over time. But the bathroom scale does not assess how much of that body weight is fat and how much is lean mass (muscle, bone, tendons, and ligaments). Body composition is important to consider for health and managing your weight!
Flexibility is the range of motion around a joint (USDHHS, 1996 as adapted from Wilmore & Costill, 1994). Good flexibility in the joints can help prevent injuries through all stages of life. If you want to improve your flexibility, try activities that lengthen the muscles such as swimming or a basic stretching program.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Physical activity and health: a report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; 1996.


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Sign language interpretation at Hot Metal Bridge Faith
The Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community is now providing American Sign Language interpretation by a professional interpreter on Sunday mornings at their 11:30 a.m. worship gatherings.
The service is followed by a free lunch.
"Our goal is to welcome everyone by removing as many barriers as possible that keep people from participating in Christian community," said Mike Holohan, director of ministries at the church. "By removing this language barrier we hope to welcome more folks from the deaf community."
In addition to interpreting the music, prayers, and sermons of the worship service the interpreter will also be present for the mealtime to help facilitate conversations over lunch between deaf and hearing worshippers.
The Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community is at the corner of 27th and Jane streets in South Side. The 48 and 75 bus lines have stops nearby and parking for cars and bicycles is available on-site.
The church can be reached at 412-481-4010, via email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or on the web at http://www.hotmetalbridge.com.


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Jun 26, 2008
Day 38: William Shakespeare
Download the PDF here.
16 comments:
- Joseph Chiang said...
Thought I'd offer something away from the popular culture today. So I present to you William Shakespeare, reputedly the world's greatest English playwwright!
- June 26, 2008 at 2:27 AM
- Unknown said...
joe, this is so cool. i think shakespeare is my fave so far!
- June 26, 2008 at 2:43 AM
- wildman said...
I am impressed with the diversity of your choices for models.
You have a devious mind.
- June 26, 2008 at 5:10 AM
- XCAR Malavida said...
You got to do William Faulkner, please.
- June 26, 2008 at 5:22 AM
- Unknown said...
- June 26, 2008 at 5:35 AM
- Ampharos64 said...
Great project idea. As an Eng. Lit. student, I think I'll have to make Shakespeare first. He can sit on my computer at Uni and (hopefully) inspire me. For something more lowbrow, how about Sylar from the Heroes TV show?
- June 26, 2008 at 6:02 AM
- Operator said...
He looks just great!
- June 26, 2008 at 6:07 AM
- bsidhipong said...
Christopher Walken, holding a cowbell.
Please? :-)
- June 26, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Unknown said...
Sorry,Ampharos64 but "Lost" before any other show,right Joe?
- June 26, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- MommaBird said...
He looks great for a dead guy.
- June 26, 2008 at 10:26 AM
- Joseph Chiang said...
Thanks everyone! I had lots of fun doing this and I try to cover a diversed range of characters so that everyone can have something he or she likes.
- June 26, 2008 at 7:52 PM
- Deal said...
Sure hope Shakespeare and Wonder Woman are added to the download list soon. What a pair! [Referring to both of the toys, of course.]
- June 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM
- Kimberly Pye said...
LOVE this one! NEEED to download it!!
- July 1, 2008 at 7:47 AM
- Unknown said...
This is fantastic! Thanks! I've printed this out to make tomorrow. I've also linked to this on my Shakespeare for Children lens.
Could you make the Squidoo squid as a model? I know that all of us lensmasters at Squidoo would LOVE it!
- September 11, 2008 at 1:07 AM
- Sean Fenzl said...
eeek!! So delighted to come across this on Pintrest and discover your site =) I will be making these with my Lit class next semester when i introduce Shakespeare along with the paper toy of the Globe theatre I found. Thank-You!
- November 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- Marie Johnson said...
I'm so happy to have come across your website! My boys love these type of hands-on! We are a homeschooling family and today we are learning about William Shakespeare, thank you so much for doing this FREE!!:) OK, so will card stock paper work? or do you suggest something else? Oh, I will definitely share your website with our homeschooling website www.christianhomeschoolhub.spruz.com
thanks again and great job!
- February 2, 2012 at 8:23 AM


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Miley Cyrus has released her first song since her 2010 album Can't Be Tamed.
"We Can't Stop" debuted Monday morning on Ryan Seacrest's radio show and is already racing up the charts. The single was produced by Mike WiLL Made-It and co-written by Cyrus, Mike WiLL and Rock City. The song is part of her as-yet-untitled fourth album, which is slated for a fall release.
Maxim Hot 100 List: How many Disney Stars made the Top 10?
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If you've already seen the Battlestar Galactica finale last friday, great! Didn't you love when Lee Adama and Baltar had a "whose hair is cooler" contest? Here's a roundup of io9's coverage. Some spoilers follow.
• Grace Park answers some questions (Slight spoilers, but silly fun)
• The DVD version will have some extra scenes (Slight spoilers)
• The BSG finale you didn't see (Major spoilers)
• Final episode review (Yes spoilers!)
• All of BSG's sex scenes (Hey hey!)
• 12 plotholes that should have been filled in the finale
• The truth about Daniel (Slight spoilers)
• Battlestar Galactica at the UN
• 5 BSG spinoffs they'd like to see


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Last week we mentioned a bit of Linux-related news from Novell, namely its acquisition of Linux desktop company Ximian. The point of the acquisition was plain enough: Novell's porting GroupWise to Linux, and the need for a decent client is apparent. Ximian's "Evolution" product fits the bill for a mail and calendar application. Simple.
What we left out of our recap of LinuxWorld news was the more interesting long-term picture for Novell, which involves the end of NetWare as a competitive platform, and Novell's exit strategy from the OS market, which is all about Linux.
For a while, as its own fortunes dwindled, Novell eyed Linux with a deserved amount of distrust. NetWare has taken its share of knocks from people who don't remember how it found its way into so many shops in the first place: on the strength of its stability and general usefulness. We saw more than one organization, though, that found NetWare hit the spot as recently as a few years ago.The trend, though, has been against NetWare. According to IDC, NetWare slipped from a market share of 19 percent to 11 percent in a mere two years thanks, in no small part, to Windows' maturation in terms of user and resource provisioning and Linux's tempting.
Now, it seems, Novell's figured a way out of its flagship's decline: dropping its focus on development of an operating system proper and repackaging print, directory, and file services as Linux components. From where we stand, that looks like a win-win situation. The general consensus is that NetWare's standing was never formed due to admiration for the internals of the operating system, but rather was derived from how simple it is to configure it to provide services over a network to large numbers of users.
Old Unix hands and Linux advocates will argue that the same simplicity is present in assorted tools already found in most Linux distributions, but we see the existence of NetWare-style services on the Linux platform as a whole new world of opportunity for both Novell and Linux. For enterprise users who've stuck to NetWare through the years, the combination of Linux's stability and Novell's experience at making services easy to provide might look like peanut butter and jelly.
We should point out that Novell isn't precisely dropping its operating system, either. NetWare as a stand-alone operating system will go into maintenance mode for the foreseeable future, and "NetWare 7" will be an operating system as well as a set of services available for Linux. Simple.
In Other News:
- SCO Watch: It's been a quiet enough week on the SCO front. All the company did this week was announce suspension of IBM subsidiary Sequent's Dynix/ptx, a relatively obscure Unix licensee. It also sold the first of its special Linux licenses to a Fortune 500 company. The company was left unnamed, and the "slight discount" SCO says it granted its new customer was unspecified.
- The misfortune of Windows users afflicted with Blaster seems to smell like opportunity to Sun, which announced early registration for Mad Hatter (the subject of some speculation on our part last week). Calling reliance on a single vendor (that'd be Microsoft) "an achilles heel in the safety and security of the world's network infrastructure," Sun said it's Linux-based alternative will offer a full suite of applications needed to migrate from Windows desktops in the enterprise. Since the offering doesn't seem to be actually available, we'll chalk it up to high hopes that someone, somewhere, is mad enough to sign a purchase order before there are any purchases to order. We also noticed that Sun doesn't actually use the "L" word in its press release despite Mad Hatter's Linux foundations: We're not sure what the reticence is all about, but it tells us the company's still trying to figure out how to embrace Linux without looking like it's holding too hard.
- A few weeks ago, we mentioned growing support for Rendezvous, Apple's take on Zeroconf. Now there's open source, royalty free Howl, which provides a cross-platform implementation of Zeroconf meant to allow Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD systems to interoperate with OS X systems publishing Rendezous services. At this point, there's not much there except an SDK and a few samples to demonstrate how to embed Zeroconf support in an application, but it's a start.
Tips of the Trade
When is a Wildcard Not a Wildcard?
Answer: when it's a regular expression.
Unix vets refer to them as "regexps," but Unix newbies don't usually know to call them anything, at first. They're confusing because in many examples for commands, like grep, it looks as if wildcards are being used.
Wildcards are a common concept both in Unix shells and in other operating systems like MS DOS. They do things like allow commands such as rm *.doc instead of rm a.doc b.doc c.doc d.doc to execute. Wildcards are great; most users would even argue they are essential. (Those of us, at least, who haven't crawled into a GUI to wile away our productive time.)
Regexps, though, are slightly different, and they're much more sophisticated. They turn up in commands like grep, which is used to perform sophisticated searches for specific patterns of text, or sed, which is used to perform changes to a file.
Here's an example of the differences:
Suppose you want to search a Web server's log file for every host that starts with "www" and ends with ".org." Many Unix novices might know that they want to use the cat command to list the contents of the file, and they might even know that they'd pipe the output to grep to search for the hostname, but they get hung up when they try to use wildcards for their search:
cat /var/log/apache/access.log | grep www*org
That won't return anything at all, let alone the correct results, because grep uses regexps, and in regexp syntax "*" doesn't mean "any group of characters" as it does in most wildcards. It means "match the preceding character in the expression one or more times." Knowing that, you'd try the same command with just a small tweak to get better results:
cat /var/log/apache/access.log | grep www.*org
In the case of regexps, the "." means "any character," and the "*" means "one or more times." So where the wildcard "*" character means "any number of characters," the regexp ".*" means the same thing.
It's a tricky concept, and not one we've got a lot of space to work with. If you're looking to learn more, we heartily recommend the O'Reilly title "Mastering Regular Expressions" as a way to get the hang of them. The Web is also full of tutorials to explain the basics. When we return next week, we'll go more in depth with regexps, and show how to work out some of the kinks you probably found trying out our example. Give us a month, and we'll have you wondering why you ever thought wildcard's were all you'd ever need.


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It's not often that I get to write a post with a title like this, but right now there are two opportunities worth mentioning. Firstly, if you are a student looking for a Ph.D. position in foundations then Caslav Brukner has one available in Vienna. The advert is attached below.
Secondly, the application process for the next round of fqxi grants now appears to be open. I haven't received an email from them about this yet, but I just noticed that the form was up on their website. They have funded quantum foundations projects in the previous round, along with projects on many other foundational questions in physics.
OK, here is the Vienna advert:
PhD position in the group "Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum
Information" (www.quantum.at) at the Faculty of Physics, University of
Vienna is available immediately. The student will undertake research on
the foundations of quantum physics and theoretical quantum information
in collaboration with Prof. Caslav Brukner
Candidate is expected to have an undergraduate degree in Physics, Maths,
Computer Science or Engineering. She/he will be able to work
independently and collaboratively. Interest to work on foundations of
physics and experience in quantum theory and/or information theory will
be advantageous. Enthusiasm will be essential.
The position is supposed to be fully integrated into the Doctoral
Program "Complex Quantum Systems" (www.coqus.at). Applications, prepared
to meet the standards (http://www.coqus.at/index.php?id=333) of the
application to the CoQus Doctoral Program, should be sent to Canan
Goeser (Secretary) (firstname.lastname@example.com).
The position is funded by the FWF-Project "Quantum Information:
Foundations and Transition to Classicality" of the Austrian Science Fund


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6 Tips for Educators Dealing with Harassment of LGBT Students
From Stepping Out of the Closet, Into the Light: A Report on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People in Education
1. Take complaints seriously.
If a student comes to you with a complaint about being bullied, please don't dismiss it as "just teasing." Listen to the student, and tell the student you will take the appropriate action. No allegation about bullying should be ignored because the charge seems improbable or because the behavior seems unlikely to recur or is perceived as a "harmless rite of passage."
2. Report the alleged bullying.
Keep your principal informed of all the bullying cases that you are aware. And if the bullying seems to be based on the student's race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, immediately report the student's complaint of bullying to the authority in your district designated for investigating such incidents (often it is the district's Title IX grievance officer). If you don't know who that authority is, ask your principal. In all cases where a bullied student has come to you, follow up. Check back with the student to find out whether he or she has been informed by the school system the steps it is taking.
3. Reassure, do not judge.
If a bullied student comes to you for help, reassure the student that you care about him or her and will do what you can. Do not, however, question the student about why he or she is being bullied. It is the behavior of the bully, the perpetrator that matters. If a student volunteers information about his or her sexual orientation or other personal information, do not judge that student—the student's safety and education should be your concern—and of course keep the information confidential.
4. Get the student the appropriate professional help.
If a student seems to be in emotional or psychological distress, offer to help the student get in touch with a counselor, social worker, or school psychologist right away; be supportive. But don't give advice beyond your expertise. And if the student seems in imminent physical danger, alert the school administration immediately.
5. Stand up and speak out for students in need.
Learn about bullying. There is now a wealth of information on the Web about bullying and how to stop it. Share what you've learned with your colleagues, and in your staff meetings, advocate for bullied students. Become part of the solution.
6. Do something.
If in the hallway, stairwell, or your classroom—or some other school space—you witness a student being harassed and humiliated by another student, intervene—but get additional support if necessary. Everyone involved—the victim, the perpetrator and the witnesses—needs to know this is unacceptable behavior. Research shows that creating a safe learning environment for all students requires the adults in the school working together.


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Fine dining: UVA tests its chefs
How do you distinguish a cook from a chef? Are chefs the only creative cookers, the only true artistes, or can cooking quickly and efficiently with impeccable consistency– in, say, a diner or school cafeteria– also be called an art?
And what if a cook also happens to be an innovator who considers the virtues of health, variety, and gourmet appeal as important as speed and bulk?
Merging the talents of the chef and the cook seems to be the primary goal of UVA's executive chef, Brian Murtagh. If he has his way, students will soon opt for dining hall cuisine over the offerings of the many restaurants on the Corner Meal Plan.
Sound like a stretch? It did to me at first, since my best college memories don't tend to include food (except for that semester in Rome). But even if you're not a regular diner on Grounds, take the inaugural 2004 UVA "Chef's Challenge" Murtagh orchestrated as proof of his devotion to upping the quality of UVA dining.
"Over the last several years in our commitment to improving food quality, menu selection, and customer service, a sense of competition arose between O-Hill, Newcomb, and Runk," Murtagh explains. "Our main goal [with the Chef's Challenge] was to showcase the vast culinary talent of our staff and to come up with some new menu items that could be added to our menus on a regular basis."
Inspired by the Food Network's infectious Iron Chef, this competition gave each dining hall chef and his or her team three hours to prepare and present three dishes based on regional themes (Mediterranean, Latin, Southern) to a panel of judges made up of students and administrators. Just like on TV, (4) challenge ingredients were assigned at the last possible moment, ranging from garbanzo beans, tomatillos, and black-eyed peas to barley, brown rice, and bananas.
Though many of the resulting dishes could find a home on the menu of a hot new restaurant in town, O'Hill's Latin creation was declared the official 2004 Chef's Challenge winner on March 4.
Here's what these "iron chefs" created in a crunch: "Quinoa and Roasted Corn Salad," "Spiced Chicken Chimichanga," "Tomatillo and Green Chile Rice," "Fresh Tomato Salsa, Guacamole, and Cilantro Sour Cream," and a "Cinnamon Banana Flan with Coconut and Mango." All such a dinner needs is a great cup of coffee- and as Dish reported previously, Fair Trade coffees have been a UVA option since last Fall.
What's Murtagh's definition of a chef? "A chef is a person who is at ease to communicate the fact that he/she loves (and lives) to cook," he tells Dish. "Artist, creator, organizer, and educator, a chef must have a complete understanding of basic cooking techniques and the ability to apply these techniques in any given situation."
Clearly Murtagh has already won this particular challenge. As they sharpen their knives in preparation for the 2005 Challenge, his growing fleet of university chefs will likely follow his ambitious lead.
Crozet Pizza changes hands but not families
As Cocina del Sol prepares to heat Crozet up with Southwestern spice, the always-hot oven at this town's original destination restaurant, Crozet Pizza, is changing hands. But not families.
Owner and pizza-maker Bob Crum, who started this cozy, carefree, characteristic little pizzeria 27 years ago, is selling to his daughter Colleen Alexander and son-in-law Mike Alexander. The 63-year-old self-declared hippie will continue to make pies two days a week, while otherwise relaxing into retirement. Regulars can relax, too. Things should stay the same for the time being, though the new owners will likely aim to serve more hungry customers.
As it is, Crozet Pizza turns a significant number of customers away thanks to a reservations-only policy for dining in and the owner's preference for keeping things small and low-key.
"I never wanted this to be a giant place," Crum tells Dish, "but now that I'm retiring, I'm sorry I've been such a hippie."
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Yitshak Kugler
Is there any place where i can find the names of the manuscripts in QSM that are indicated by their abbreviations. It would be helpful if this list included the names in Hebrew as sometimes there is s big difference. For example The Manual of Discipline is very different in Hebrew, SEREC HaYACHAD, which means the Order of the Community.


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Remembering that literally half of the first 2 months or so are spent nursing, and knowing that my girls would happily spend that time parked in front of the TV if I let them, I've been gathering. Books, colouring books, puzzles, stickers - anything that will hopefully keep them engaged and not cranky about the being that will literally be sucking the life out of me.
The girls share the biggest room in our house. And the childless, middle aged couple that owned the house before us thought it would be a great idea to put French doors on that room. So pretty, but oh so impractical. Even though I redid their room last summer, I never got around to replacing the curtains on this windows. Knowing that I'd be up and about at all hours with the dragon in my belly I thought I better replace them ASAP. We'd had enough cheap lunch dates/free babysitting at IKEA this winter for all of us to fall in love with this fabric. An hour on a sunny morning and they had new curtains. Double layered and they actually block out a pretty good chunk of light.


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Posted on 30 July 2013
Dear all,
Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I've kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.
I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It's been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it's been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)
日本の皆さん、がんばってください。 再稼動反対、子供を守れ! 1mSv/yの約束を守れ!
For more Fukushima update go to: www.nuclear-news.net, http://fukushima-diary.com/, https://www.facebook.com/fukushima311watchdog, http://enenews.com/, http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/, http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/ http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/
Petition: Support Mari Takenouchi and Radiation Protection
日 本の皆様へ、個人的な感情面から、竹ノ内真理さんのことを批判したい方は、すでにそうしたのだから、これからは、その時間とエネルギーをエートス批判に向 けるべきではないでしょうか? そしてボランテイアで、海外に向けて、英語発信する真理さんは、海外の情報源にとって、貴重な存在だと思います。 (Mia)
(English) https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Office_of_the_Prosecutor_Iwaki_Branch_Fukushima_Japan_Support_Mari_Takenouchi_and_Radiation_Protection/?pv=4
(Japanese) https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Fu_Dao_Xian_Jian_Cha_Ting_Dian_ziyanarisutonoZhu_Ye_Nei_Zhen_Li_Shi_Save_Kids_JapanwoQi_Su_sinaidekudasai/?pv=8
Urgent Petition: ttp://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/ask-japanese-government-promise-for-necessary-aid-for-children-who-are-still-exposed-radiation-more-than-1msv-year-3
National Parents Network to Protect Children from Radiation
"I hope that every child in Japan is given comprehensive thyroid blood testing including at the minimum TSH, Free T4, Free T3 and thyroid antibodies. Their thyroid function should be regularly tested on an ongoing basis. " By Dana Trentini http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/thyroid-testing-for-japanese-children.html
*latest Fukushima Thyroid examination results released on Nov 12. (Complete English translation) (Source) http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/thirteenth-prefectural-oversight.html
National Parents Network to Protect Children from Radiation
*Fuel Removal From Fukushima's Reactor 4 Threatens 'Apocalyptic' Scenario In November, TEPCO set to begin to remove fuel rods whose radiation matches the fallout of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs
*Kashiwazaki Nuclear Plant: Fukushima Governor stands in the way to stop restarting! 柏崎原発:再稼動させないよう立ちはだかる新潟県知事泉田氏 http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/kashiwazaki-nuclear-plant-fukushima.html
*Statement: Japanese civil society requests that the reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on Fukushima be revised 日本の64の市民団体が福島事故に関しての国連科学の報告内容を改訂するよう要請 www.http://hrn.or.jp/eng/a tivity/area/worldwide/japanese-civil-society-requests-that-the-reports-of-the-united-nations-scientific-committee-on-fukus/
Anand Grover, Esq., UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, criticizes UNSCEAR report on Fukushima -10/24/2013 (1 of 4)国連「健康に対する権利」の特別報告者のアナンド・グローバー氏: 国連科学の報告を批判 Video - http://vimeo.com/78483070 October 24, 2013 (NYC, NY)
*Medical experts criticize UNSCEAR report for playing down consequences of Fukushima nuclear accident ドイツの専門家が国連科学の報告書を、「福島事故の影響を過小評価している」と批判! http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/2013/11/05/medical-experts-criticize-unscear-report-for-playing-down-consequences-of-fukushima-nuclear-accident/
*Frightening Report from the UNSCEAR (The United nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation UNSCEAR-国連科学委員会による、恐るべき報告。http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/frightening-report-from-unsear-united.html
*Heavily Criticized Recent WHO Report on Health Risk Assessment from the Fukushima Disaster 厳しく批判された最近の福島事故による健康被害についてのWHO報告 http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/who-report-on-health-risk-assessment.html
*UN Report – Japanese Delegation to The UN Spreads Lies and Deception! 国連報告書2013年4月 国連への日本政府代表団のうそとごまかし! 抗議締め切り5月17日! http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/un-report-japanese-delegation-to-un.html
*まとめ:国連報告書2013年4月 国連への日本政府代表団のうそとごまかし! 抗議締め切り5月17日!http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/un-report-japanese-delegation-to-un.html
*A letter to all young athletes who dream of coming to Tokyo in 2020 東京オリンピックを目指している若い選手の方々へ Some Facts You Should Know About Fukushima 0.086Bq/kg was normal amount of ionizing radiation in fish before the Fukushima accident. Now it is 100Bq/kg 1160times more radioactive. http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/a-letter-to-all-young-athletes-who.html
Fukushima Petitions ☢ Please Sign and Share! Japan needs Worldwide Help NOW! Stop Fukushima Radiation – UN Action Needed
Mobilize the U.N. Security Council to declare Fukushima a global emergency;
*Tokyo radiation is worse than Gomel - Mika Noro's speech on the impact of radiation in Japan http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/tokyo-radiation-is-worse-than-gomel.html
*Police arrest animal rescuers inside Fukushima evacuation zone — "They cannot be contacted and are being charged with crimes" http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/police-arrest-animal-rescuers-inside.html
Resistance posted by Ian Thomas Ash, a director of Fukushima Documantary Film "A2-B-C"
… As one does not train with weight that is too light,….. And as I write this, I realize something for the first time: the more I embrace the resistance, the more I am becoming it. http://ianthomasash.blogspot.jp/2013/11/resistance.html
*福島原発で働く皆さんへ、世界からの暖かいメッセージ http://nuclear-news.net/2013/12/01/to-the-fukushima-workers-we-support-you-address-to-j-village-supplied/
(Japanese translation)http://goo.gl/re5822
*Fukushima Farmers negotiate with Japanese Government/Tepco 福島農家の若者、政府と東電に対して勇気ある発言 http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/fukushima-farmers-negotiate-with.html The current government limit is 100Bq/kg... 0.1Bq/kg for cesium in rice before the Fukushima disaster. … We feel guilty about growing it and selling it...
*Atomic bombs survivors received fair compensation, not so in Fukushima!
The Japanese Gov recognizes radiation related illnesses! http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/atomic-bombs-survivors-received-fair.html
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Deposition to UNESCO from a nuclear researcher and UK based blogger - DEAD LINE TODAY!
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Paul wrote:Yo Itchy!!,
Are you smoking your weed with tobacco?, if you are you should try leave the tobacco out as it will certainly irritate your p due to tobacco being extremely poisonous, try and smoke your weed by itself through a bong or pipe or even eat it, the active substance in marajuana (THC) apparently has benefits for psoriasis,
Good luck bro!!
Hi Paul, I am aware that some people believe or say THC has helped their psoriasis. But any person I know who has used Marajuana (how ever you spell it?) causes their psoriasis to become much worse. Infact, I know one person who only has psoriasis if/when he is smoking........ but again, everybody is different! One person's poison may be another's cure etc etc.


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LeBron James, Heat too much for much-improved Lakers
- Miami Heat beat Los Angeles Lakers 99-90 Thursday night
- Lakers%2C calling game %22measuring stick%2C%22 showed improvement behind solid defense%2C keeping game close
- LeBron James scored 39 points on 17-for-25 shooting%2C added eight assists%2C seven rebounds for Heat
LOS ANGELES — In Game 3 of the Los Angeles Lakers' self-proclaimed "new season," did they prove they could play defense against an elite team?
Did they prove they could stick with an elite team most of the way?
Did they prove they could beat an elite team?
No. Not an elite team with LeBron James on it, anyway.
James (39 points on 17-for-25 shooting), Dwyane Wade (27 points) and Ray Allen hit clutch shots down the stretch to propel the defending champion Miami Heat to a 99-90 victory Thursday night.
"Just a phenomenal player," Kobe Bryant said of James. "One of the best we've ever seen."
The Heat (26-12), the defending NBA champs, were playing the last game of a six-game road trip on which they have struggled. The win gave them a 3-3 mark on the trip.
"It was very important for us," James said. "We want to continue to get better and end this trip on the right foot. This was a good, quality win."
The Lakers won their previous two games, drubbing the Cleveland Cavaliers and Milwaukee Bucks. Bryant called Thursday's matchup with the Heat "a measuring stick" for what the Lakers, who recently lost six games in a row to fall to 15-21, believe is a much-improved product.
The verdict: Yes, they're improved, and they played the Heat to a standstill — 83-83 — through 3½ quarters, with the Staples Center faithful rocking with renewed hope.
But the Lakers fell to 17-22, confident they're an improving team but still out of the current playoff picture.
"We've just got to keep motoring, keep pushing," Bryant said.
Bryant, the league's leading scorer who told USA TODAY Sports Wednesday that winning a third scoring title this year means nothing to him, played a facilitator role early in the game, passing up open perimeter shots to pass the ball inside to Dwight Howard and others.
When he started shooting, he was cold, and he finished with 22 points, missing 17 of 25 shots, though he did tie it at 90 with a three-pointer with 2:12 left.
"I allowed myself to be too much of a decoy," Bryant said. "I should have been more aggressive from the start."
The opening minutes couldn't have gone much worse for the Lakers, as they committed turnover after turnover and the Heat scored their first eight points on dunks, two by James and two by Wade.
But the Lakers weathered that storm and settled into something of a defensive battle — Lakers? Mike D'Antoni? Defensive battle? — for the rest of the half.
The Lakers continued to struggle with taking care of the ball -- they committed 16 first-half turnovers, including four each by Steve Nash and Bryant -- but outshot and outrebounded the Heat and took a 45-44 lead into the halftime break.
Pretty amazing, actually. If the Lakers were told before the game that at halftime Bryant would be outscored by James 18-6 and they would turn the ball over 16 times and would score just 45 points, they might figure they'd be trailing by 10 or 15.
Then again, if they had committed 10 fewer turnovers, they might have led by 10 at halftime.
"We should have had some separation," D'Antoni said. "The turnovers just killed us. Ninety-nine (points) against the best offensive team in the league, that's good enough (defense) to win."
Before the game, D'Antoni left himself a lot of wiggle room about just how big this game was for the Lakers.
"It's not the end of the world if it doesn't work out," he said. "It's always a test against the champions . . . We'll spin it some way to our benefit."
Here was the post-game spin: "I thought we played well enough to win. We just have to keep getting better defensively and smooth out our offense."


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Crime game L.A. Noire is Rockstar's take on 1940s-era Los Angeles, complete with guys in hats, guns and big, fancy cars. But what is noir?
There is disagreement among film scholars regarding what exactly "noir" is. Some say it is a genre, others disagree. There are elements of noir, sure, such as femme fatales, detectives, voice-overs and even Venetian blinds, but not all noir films feature detectives. Not all feature voice-overs. And not all feature femme fatales. Venetian blinds were pretty popular, though.
Paul Schrader, who penned both Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, argued that noir was not a genre, but "a moment in time". During World War II and the years following, a spate of dark films hit cinemas. They often centered around crimes and featured characters that were rendered powerless by situations that were rarely resolved with happy endings. America might have emerged as victor, but that doesn't mean cynicism pervaded.
The term "film noir" was coined by French film critic Nino Frank in the mid-1940s, and one of the first (if not the first) noir pictures is 1940's Stranger on the Third Floor. Noir ended in the late-1950s, but there was a revival in the decades that followed. Directors influenced by noir began taking noirish elements and incorporating them into "neo-noir" films like Chinatown, Blade Runner, Red Rock West, L.A. Confidential, among many, many more.
These neo-noir films differ from the noir films they are inspired by and are different and unique in their own right, reflecting the times in which they were made.
While L.A. Noire appears to take many of its cues from neo-noir like Chinatown and L.A. Confidential as well as Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy crime novels, here are ten classic noir movies from the 1940s and 1950s.
Maltese Falcon
An early noir film and Bogart's first. The actor would go on to star in noir like the nonsensical (but brilliant) Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep.
The Third Man
Not all noir were set in America or made by Americans. The Third Man (set in Europe, directed by a Brit) is a perfect example of that. Welles' cuckoo clock speech dazzles.
Gun Crazy
Gun Crazy was inspired by the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde and was one of the first movies to film inside a moving car — as opposed to on a sound stage with a phony processing shot.
Crime Wave
Once a crook, always a crook.
The Killing
Before Quentin Tarantino told scenes from different points of view, Stanley Kubrick did it in The Killing.
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder, who also directed the brilliant noir Double Indemnity, shows that noir can star screenwriters and washed-up silent film actors.
The Asphalt Jungle
Directed by John Huston (Maltese Falcon), The Asphalt Jungle starred Sterling Hayden and featured an early screen appearance by Marilyn Monroe.
Double Indemnity
Some of the best movie dialogue ever.
Kiss Me Deadly
The "briefcase scene" in Pulp Fiction was directly inspired by a scene in Kiss Me Deadly.
Touch of Evil
Charlton Heston as a Mexican! Super fat Orson Welles! Music by Henry Mancini! Touch of Evil is one of the last noir films — and one of the best.
There are tons more film noir (like D.O.A. or Detour or In a Lonely Place). The films all share a cynicism, a vibe. They reflected the time period in which they were made. As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s, the popularity of noir declined. Times change.
L.A. Noire might have gotten that extra, French-style "e" from a a programming mistake. But that spelling couldn't suit the title better: L.A. Noire isn't pure noir. It, like the more recent neo-noir films, incorporates elements of noir. But whether it creates something new and different like, say, Chinatown, remains to be seen.
L.A. Noire is slated for release next spring.


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If you regularly follow art news, than you already know almost everything about Ai Weiwei. But, do you really? Maybe you know about his activism and political controversies, but do you know that this great Chinese artist creates beautiful sculptures? In this article, we will take a look at 10 most expensive art sculptures created by Ai Weiwei. In the last couple of months, almost all the news about Ai Weiwei were, unfortunately, related to human rights abuses, the problems artist has with Chinese authorities, and so on. For example, we wrote about his dispute with Lego Company, about listening devices that were found in the artist's studio, about UK denying him visa, and so on. Unfortunately, not much was written (in the last couple of months) about his art. So, let's focus on Ai Weiwei art for a change.
We could say that Ai Weiwei belongs to the group of "celebrity artists". He is very popular (maybe thanks to his activism on social media). It's quite difficult to classify his work, as he uses a variety of different art media. Apart from being sculptor, he is also a performance artist, photographer, conceptual artist, designer… His work is highly influenced by Chinese tradition, political and social issues, relations between past and present, and so on. But, probably the most important feature of his art is his attempt to spread social messages through the beautiful artworks he creates. When it comes to sculpture, he is probably one of the most innovative artists in the world, pushing the boundaries of contemporary sculpture practice. In addition, his works are very popular among art collectors; so let's see – what are 10 most expensive Ai Weiwei art sculptures? Scroll down and find out.
Sometimes it is difficult to classify Ai Weiwei' works. Many of them have characteristics of both sculpture and installation. This is the case with the Bubble of Ten, a piece created in the medium of enameled porcelain (in 10 parts). The deep blue porcelain orbs of Bubble sprout in a geometrical grid design from the lawn, each carrying reflections of the opulent palace and gardens in their simple glazed surfaces.
The piece (Edition size 10) was sold for $365,000 at Sotheby's New York. For more information on the artwork, please click here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Bubble of Ten (courtesy of mutualart.com)
This sculpture is a part of probably the most iconic series in Ai Weiwei's oeuvre. Zodiac Heads/Circle of Animals now forms a significant international project. The series recreates the 12 traditional Chinese zodiac sculptures that adorned the Yuanming Yuan imperial fountain-clock in Beijing and were subsequently looted during the Opium wars. The death of Chairman Mao in 1976, the demise of the Cultural Revolution which sought to destroy such artifacts, and the subsequent reopening of China's economy all encouraged a renewed veneration of these objects domestically as well as a demand for them abroad. This project simultaneously signals Ai Weiwei's position as China's most internationally pervasive artist whilst exploring the themes of globalization and identity that guide his praxis.
This piece (Edition size 8) was sold for $490,000 at Sotheby's New York in 2015. For more information about the artwork, click here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Zodiac Head Dragon (courtesy of johnseed.com)
A conflict between the progression of the modern and the preservation of traditional – what else could be said about the sculpture where we see a Twentieth Century logo festooned upon a two-thousand year old vase; the emblem of American capitalism emblazoned on an ancient Chinese artefact, a unique hand-crafted object adorned with the ornament of mass-production. Deeply conceptualized, this artwork poses many questions: the relationship between consumerism and traditional way of life, between American capitalism and Chinese "one state-two models" system, new and old. This piece was sold for $665,000 in 2014, at Phillips, De Pury & Luxembourg New York.
To find more about the piece, click here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Coca Cola Vase (courtesy of londonslant.files.wordpress.com)
This amazing sculpture, created with mixed media, was inspired by the ongoing building boom in Beijing. The piece is offering a sly commentary on the aesthetics of new construction. Chandelier is grandiose and flashy, reflecting the competitive drive among Beijing's builders for ever greater opulence. At over four meters tall, the chandelier would suitably adorn the foyer of a grand office building or hotel. Divorced from such a location, however, and lowered to the level inhabited by the viewer, Chandelier overwhelms its viewers, exemplifying the urge toward competitively conspicuous consumption that is common among China's nouveaux riches.
The sculpture (edition size is 2) was sold for $657,000 at Sotheby's New York in 2007. More information you can find here.
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Chandelier (courtesy of mutualart.com)
This stunning sculpture (or installation, as someone would also name it) is made of 32 Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) stools woven together to form a semi-spherical bowl. Ai Weiwei has asserted that these three-legged stools are a fundamental expression of the aesthetic of rural China; they can be found in every countryside home, often passed down through the generations. By giving stools a completely unique form, Ai Weiwei points to the potency and rapidity of the social, economic, political, and artistic changes facing China in the 21st century.
This piece was sold for $697,601 at Phillips, De Pury and Luxemburg London, in 2015. Click here to find more information about the artwork.
Featured Image: Ai Weiwiei - Grapes (courtesy of tes.com)
Forever Bicycle is a work created in 2003. It's a sculpture created with 42 dismantled Forever brand bicycles, which have been reconstructed to create a tall, interconnected circular shape. As a leading brand, Forever bicycles were a regular feature on the teeming streets in large and small cities alike. With the advancement of technology following modernization, however, the Forever bicycles began to disappear with time, replaced by larger, more efficient automobiles. The irony of the "Forever" bicycles can thus be fully felt by its audience.
The artwork (Edition size 5) was sold for $730,310 at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2015. To find more about this amazing artwork, click here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Forever Bicycles (courtesy of ashzeyn.files.wordpress.com)
In this series which began in the mid-1990s, Ai Weiwei takes Neolithic and Han dynasty ceramics and coats them in brightly colored industrial paint, often allowing small areas to remain uncovered so that they act as windows to the historic artefact sitting below. In these fascinating works, Chinese historical artefacts are placed in direct conflict with components of enveloping modernism, causing one's thoughts to move swiftly to the effects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the difficult relationship China still holds with its past today.
The artwork was sold for $735,296 at Sotheby's London in 2014. Find out more about the sale by clicking here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Colored Vases (courtesy of architectural-review.com)
The Map of China was made from the tielimu (ironwood) of a demolished Qing Dynasty temple. It was constructed from different pieces of wood using the mortise-and-tenon joinery technique, and became a full map of China, featuring Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hainan Island. It consists of old objects that have their own histories, and has evolved into an art work with the form of a readymade item. The great conflict that Ai Weiwei speaks of stems from the change of form. This type of change is a metaphor for the existence of traditional Chinese culture within a context of rapid economic development.
This amazing artwork was sold for $1,527,715 at Sotheby's Hong Kong. For more information on the sale, please click here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Map of China (courtesy of zgeography.files.wordpress.com)
In this amazing piece of art, Ai Weiwei has reinterpreted the twelve gold animal heads representing the traditional Chinese zodiac that once adorned the famed fountain-clock of the Yuanming Yuan, an imperial retreat in Beijing. Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads is the artist's first major public sculpture project.
The piece was sold for $4,434,726 at Phillips, De Pury & Luxembourg London. Find out more by clicking here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Circle of Animals, Zodiac Heads (courtesy of portlandartmuseum.org)
Designed in the 18th century by two European Jesuits serving in the court of the Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong, the twelve zodiac animal heads originally functioned as a water clock-fountain, which was cited in the magnificent European-style gardens of the Yuanming Yuan. In 1860, the Yuanming Yuan was ransacked by French and British troops, and the heads were pillaged. In re-interpreting these objects on an oversized scale, Ai Weiwei focuses attention on questions of looting and repatriation, while extending his ongoing exploration of the "fake" and the copy in relation to the original.
The artwork was sold for $5,427,101 at Phillips, De Pury and Luxembourg London. To find out more about this amazing sale, click here!
Featured Image: Ai Weiwei - Circle of Animals, Zodiac Heads (courtesy of nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com). All Images used for illustrative purposes only.
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Mission Bay YC Members Want Fireworks Show Back
Byline: Ambrosia Brody
MISSION BAY — Members of Mission Bay Yacht Club have launched a fundraiser to help bring back a traditional on-the-water Fourth of July fireworks show. The event entertained Mission Bay boaters for 30 years — until it went dark in 2012.
Last year marked the first year that the show did not run, and club members are determined to make sure fireworks light up the sky this summer.
Until last year, Mission Bay residents gathered on nearby beaches and on the water for the annual Independence Day fireworks show over Sail Bay. However, a lack of corporate sponsorship and funding resulted in no show for 2012.
"The show is enjoyed by everyone on Mission Bay," said David Tillson, a Mission Bay YC member. "It's such a great tradition that I would hate to see go away."
Tillson, along with other Mission Bay YC members, is leading an effort to raise $25,000 by May 14 — enough to bring back the much-beloved holiday event.
The price tag covers renting a barge for the fireworks launch, purchasing fireworks and securing all the necessary permits. Club members will volunteer their time to handle the logistics of the show, including coordination leading up to the event and managing the on-the-water safety perimeter during the show. Mission Bay YC will coordinate with law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of spectators both on the water and on shore, Tillson said.
"It's great to see friends and family come together and sit on the shores of Mission Bay to watch this show," he said.
The show's history dates back to 1983, when the city's Parks and Recreation Department contacted then-Mission Bay YC member John Leppert to help run the show. At that time, the city provided $2,500 for the show, with the club raising additional funds.
In 1987, the club was required to relocate the show from the corner of its property to the bay, which brought on an additional cost of paying for the barge needed for fireworks launches. Leppert died in 2001; however, the club continued the event, working to attract new sponsors.
Last year, a difficult economy and talk of increasing regulation of local waterfront fireworks led the Mission Bay fireworks show to experience its first year without a sponsor. But club members are determined that the show will go on in 2013.
For the past month, Tillson and other yacht club members have been spreading the word by passing out postcards and "Bring Back the Show" flyers at local businesses. Fundraiser supporters should also know that they will not be charged if the club does not meet its overall funding goal to produce the 2013 event.
Approximately $550 had already been donated for the event at press time.
"The more money we raise, the longer and bigger the show will be," Tillson said.
Mission Bay YC's annual show is the only Independence Day fireworks display on Mission Bay, not counting SeaWorld's regularly scheduled theme park fireworks.
Donations for the Mission Bay Fourth of July fireworks show can be made online at indiegogo.com/projects/mission-bay-fireworks. For more information, visit missionbayfireworks.org.


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Cauliflower, egg & potato curry
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal534
- fat38g
- saturates18g
- carbs30g
- sugars0g
- fibre5g
- protein22g
- salt0.95g
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 large onion, peeled and diced
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- 1 plump red chilli, seeds removed if you want, finely chopped
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- 6 hard-boiled eggs, halved lengthways
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- 2 tbsp toasted flaked almonds (optional)
- large handful of roughly chopped fresh coriander
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
Heat a large, deep non-stick frying pan, wok or shallow saucepan over a low heat. Add the oil, stir in the onion and fry over a medium heat for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened and starting to turn golden.
Stir the chilli, garlic and ginger into the onion mixture and fry for 2 minutes. Raise the heat a little, add the potatoes and cook for 3-4 minutes, stirring frequently, until the outsides are just softening. Stir in the curry paste, cook for 1 minute, then toss in the cauliflower and stirfry for a further 1 minute to coat.
Pour the coconut milk into the pan and stir thoroughly. Add some salt, raise the heat and bring to the boil, stirring frequently, then half cover the pan and reduce to a slow simmer. Cook the curry for 20-25 minutes, stirring often, until the sauce has thickened slightly and the vegetables are tender.
Half bury the eggs yolk-sides up in the sauce, then cover and continue to simmer gently for a further 1-2 minutes to heat through. Serve with a scattering of toasted almonds, if liked, and coriander.


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Published 1 October 1973 in Volume 6 No. 2.
Cite as: Gostand, Reba. 'Review by Reba Gostand.' Australian Literary Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1973, doi: 10.20314/als.f9c7533b98.


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A deferment is a period during which borrowers are entitled to postpone repayment of the principal balance of their loans.
Residents in the AEGD program are not eligible to receive financial aid. Dental residents may be entitled to in-school deferments on existing student loans. If you are entitled to receive one, you should be proactive in ensuring that you receive your deferment.
Lenders must grant an in-school deferment based on enrollment and in-school status of a borrower as certified by an institution of higher education or an affiliated hospital. It is anticipated that lenders will be able to determine the borrower's eligibility for the deferment based on:
Again, dental residents must double-check to see if this has occurred. If the lender defers the loan based on a loan application or enrollment status information, the lender must notify the borrower that the deferment was granted and give the borrower the option of continuing to repay the loan.
Loan consolidation can simplify repayment and may lower your monthly payment. You can combine your student loans even if you borrowed from more than one lender, have more than one type of loan or have different interest rates or repayment plans on the loans.
You must be in your grace period, deferment or in repayment to consolidate your loans. The following loans may be consolidated:
You can choose which loans to consolidate. Under certain circumstances, consolidation loans can be consolidated with other student loans. Check with the Direct Loan Program for details about loan consolidation.
The fixed interest rate is based on the weighted average interest rate of all the loans your consolidate, rounded up to the next highest 1/8%, with a maximum rate of 8.25%. Your student loan interest may be tax deductible if you meet certain conditions. Contact your tax advisor or the IRS for details.
You have a choice of a standard, graduated, income-sensitive or extended repayment plan, and you may change the repayment plan once a year. Depending on the total amount of your student loans, the repayment will take 10 to 30 years.
Contact the Direct Loan Program to apply for loan consolidation. If you are in repayment, the program can temporarily suspend your loan payments while your consolidation is being processed.


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It Would Be "Extraordinary" To Strike Down Health Care Reform Law
Right-wing media are attacking President Obama over comments he recently made in which he pointed out that if the Supreme Court decides to strike down the Affordable Care Act, it will be an "unprecedented" and "extraordinary" step. In fact, the Supreme Court has not struck down a central provision of a landmark federal statute since the 1930s.
Obama: Overturning Health Care Law Would Be An "Unprecedented, Extraordinary Step"
Obama: "I'm Confident" Supreme Court Won't Take "Unprecedented, Extraordinary Step" Of Overturning Major Legislation. During an April 2 joint press conference from the White House Rose Garden, President Obama said:
And I think it's important, and I think the American people understand, and ... I think the justices should understand, that in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with preexisting conditions can actually get health care. So there's not only a economic element to this, and a legal element to this, but there's a human element to this. And I hope that's not forgotten in this political debate.
Ultimately I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. And I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint -- that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example. And I'm pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step. [The White House, 4/2/12]
Right-Wing Media Claim Obama's Comments Are Evidence He's "Rejecting" Judicial Review
Fox's Napolitano: Obama Is "Rejecting" Judicial Review Which "Has Not Been Seriously Questioned In 175 Years." On the April 3edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano claimed Obama was "rejecting a basic premise of American law that has not been seriously questioned in 175 years." From Fox & Friends:
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): He's calling the Supreme Court an unelected group of people? Judge Andrew Napolitano joins us live. What was he doing yesterday?
NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, we were scratching our heads when we were watching this and had it played over and over again because this is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the head of the Harvard Law Review and he taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Two of the best law schools in the country and he's rejecting a basic premise of American law that has not been seriously questioned in 175 years, which is this.
The courts have the right to review what the Congress does and what the president does and if the court finds that behavior unconstitutional, they can void, they can invalidate what the Congress and the president does. That's our system. That's what preserves the Constitution against the tyranny of the majority. No president has questioned this since Andrew Jackson! [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/3/12]
WSJ: "What's Up With That 'Unprecedented'?" In an April 2 editorial, The Wall Street Journal questioned Obama's claim that overturning the health care law would be an "unprecedented, extraordinary, step." From the editorial:
President Obama is a former president of the Harvard Law Review and famously taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But did he somehow not teach the historic case of Marbury v. Madison?
Presidents are paid to be confident about their own laws, but what's up with that "unprecedented" ? In Marbury in 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall laid down the doctrine of judicial review. In the 209 years since, the Supreme Court has invalidated part or all of countless laws on grounds that they violated the Constitution. All of those laws were passed by a "democratically elected" legislature of some kind, either Congress or in one of the states. And no doubt many of them were passed by "strong" majorities.[The Wall Street Journal, 4/2/12]
The Blaze: "Decision Blocking Laws That Are Passed By 'Strong Majorities' Is Not So 'Unprecedented." On April 2, The Blaze reported:
How accurate is Obama's charge of "judicial activism," though? While it's true that the Supreme Court has at times deferred to the will of Congress, or of state legislatures, a decision blocking laws that are passed by "strong majorities" is not so "unprecedented" as he might think. In fact, the Court struck down an act of Congress as recently as 1996 - specifically, the Line Item Veto Act, which passed the Senate by 69-29, and passed the House by unanimous consent. This is a much stronger majority than existed in the case of Obamacare, and ironically, the judges who struck the law down were (with the exception of Clarence Thomas) all from the liberal wing of the court. Another case where the Court struck down a law passed by the Federal Congress concerned the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
In fact, very recently, the Court arguably took on both the President and the Congress in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which not only ruled that the Bush administration could not try detainees under military commissions without express authorization from Congress, but explicitly set aside an existing act of Congress which arguably removed the Court's jurisdiction over the case. Again, the majority in this case consisted of liberal justices, and Justice Anthony Kennedy. [The Blaze, 4/2/12]
In Fact, Striking Down Health Care Law Would Be "Unprecedented" And "Extraordinary"
Cohn: "Rarely In American History Has The Court Struck Down Laws In Decisions That Would Have Such Quick, Widespread Impact." In a March 29 post to The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
Rarely in American history has the Court struck down laws in decisions that would have such quick, widespread impact. In the modern era, only two cases come to mind: Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. Both were acts of ambitious, even audacious judicial activism. But, in two key [respects], they were different from a potential ruling against the Affordable Care Act.
Brown was a unanimous, nine-to-zero decision. Roe was a lopsided seven-to-two. These margins mattered: The justices knew that their decisions would be controversial, in part because they were overruling democratically elected majorities--in these cases, state legislators who'd passed laws enforcing segregation and prohibiting abortion. The justices' authority in these cases derived, in part, from their moral authority. A closely divided bench would have made that impossible.
Virtually everybody agrees that a vote to strike down the Affordable Care Act would be five to four--a bare majority. And it would bea bare partisan majority, with the five Republican appointees overruling the four Democratic appointees. The decision would appear nakedly partisan and utterly devoid of principle. Appearances would not be deceiving. [The New Republic, 3/29/12]
Drum: "Very, Very Rarely Has" Supreme Court "Overturned A Major Piece Of Federal Legislation." In an April 1 Mother Jones article, Kevin Drum wrote:
There are two ways to look at this. The first is through the lens of what it would actually mean to overturn Obamacare. On this score, Jonathan [Cohn] is right: it would be unprecedented. The Supreme Court has handed down plenty of big decisions before, but very, very rarely has it overturned a major piece of federal legislation. Not since the mid 30s, in fact. What's more, it would be overturning this legislation -- a consummately political compromise forged in a consummately political area of public policy -- based on a distinction that I think even most of Obamacare's critics would acknowledge is a very fine point of constitutional law. And that's not all. It would be overturning the law on a party-line 5-4 vote, and it would be doing so in the wake of oral arguments in which several of the justices made arguments so transparently political that it felt more like we were listening in on the Senate cloakroom than the chambers of the Supreme Court.
So yes: in terms of its actual impact, overturning Obamacare would be a very big deal indeed, and among a large chunk of the chattering classes it would certainly lead to a more jaundiced view of the modern Supreme Court as a nakedly political body. [Mother Jones, 4/1/12]
Jeffrey Toobin: It Is "A Grave And Unusual Step For Unelected, Unaccountable, Life-Tenured Judges To Overrule" Government. In an article for the April 9 issue of the New Yorker, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote:
The involvement of the federal government in the health-care market is not unprecedented; it dates back nearly fifty years, to the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The forty million uninsured Americans whose chances for coverage are riding on the outcome of the case are already entered "into commerce," because others are likely to pay their health-care costs.
Kennedy's last point, about the "heavy burden" on the government to defend the law, was correct--in 1935. That was when the Supreme Court, in deciding Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States--a case involving the regulation of the sale of sick chickens--struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act, a principal domestic priority of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the ground that it violated the Commerce Clause. Two years later, however, the Court executed its famous "switch in time that saved the Nine" and began upholding the reforms of the New Deal. The Justices came to recognize that national economic problems require national solutions, and they deferred to Congress, usually unanimously, to provide those solutions, under the Commerce Clause.
For example, the Justices had no trouble upholding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which used the clause to mandate the integration of hotels and restaurants. "It may be argued that Congress could have pursued other methods to eliminate the obstructions it found in interstate commerce caused by racial discrimination," Justice Tom C. Clark wrote, for his unanimous brethren. "But this is a matter of policy that rests entirely with the Congress, not with the courts. How obstructions in commerce may be removed -- what means are to be employed -- is within the sound and exclusive discretion of the Congress." In other words, Justice Kennedy had it backward. The "heavy burden" is not on the defenders of the law but on its challengers. Acts of Congress, like the health-care law, are presumed to be constitutional, and it is -- or should be -- a grave and unusual step for unelected, unaccountable, life-tenured judges to overrule the work of the democratically elected branches of government. [The New Yorker, 4/9/12]
SCOTUSBlog: "The Court Rarely Strikes Down Major Laws That Are A Central Part Of The Political Agenda Of The President And His Party." In an August 10, 2011 post on SCOTUS blog, Ilya Somin, an associate professor at the George Mason University School of Law pointed out that "the Court rarely strikes down major laws that are a central part of the political agenda of the president and his party." From SCOTUS blog:
Nonetheless, the federal government probably has a better chance than the plaintiffs. The Court's four most liberal Justices have consistently refused to recognize any meaningful limits on Congress's powers under the Commerce Clause. Thus, the mandate will be upheld if even one of the five conservatives votes in its favor. And the conservatives have often been a fractious bunch in federalism cases. For example, Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia voted to uphold a sweeping assertion of federal power in Gonzales v. Raich, which ruled that the power to regulate interstate commerce authorizes Congress to ban the possession of medical marijuana that had never crossed state lines or been sold in any market. Furthermore, the Court rarely strikes down major laws that are a central part of the political agenda of the president and his party. [SCOTUS blog, 8/10/11]


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Tugg and Lionsgate-owned Codeblack Films will partner on the release of Free Angela And All Political Prisoners.
The documentary about the Civil Rights activist and University Of California philosophy professor who rose to prominence in the 1960s will open in select cities at AMC Theatres on Apr 5 and is available through Tugg for special theatrical engagements nationwide.
"We're incredibly excited to empower individuals and groups across the country to host their own screenings of this gripping and inspirational film," said Tugg co-founders Nicolas Gonda and Pablo Gonzalez.
"Free Angela is a perfect film for local communities to rally around and participate in a conversation about social justice that is still relevant today."
"Much like Angela Davis used her voice and the voices of others for change, our initiative with Tugg will allow individuals the ability to come together and share a common experience," said Codeblack CEO Jeff Clanagan.
Free Angela And All Political Prisoners premiered at Toronto 2012.


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Trio Talks "Half-Blood Prince" Movie; Name of Lavender Brown Actress Revealed
Nov 12, 2007
CBBC Newsround has posted a new interview conducted with the Trio of Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson where they discuss filming on the upcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." In this new interview (video at the above link as well), actor Rupert Grint talks about his scenes as Ron Weasley and the actress who will play his new love interest (Lavender Brown) in the sixth Harry Potter film. Rupert says:
"I was involved with the Lavender Brown audition and the whole Lavender thing. Her name's Jessie and she is really cool and it's going to be really funny."
Emma: "She seems really sweet and perfect for the role of Lavender. The casting is so good and I am looking forward to her scenes with Ron. I think it's going to be quite a comic film."
We do not yet know the full name of the actress who will play Lavender Brown, and we will update with more when we can. Actor Dan Radcliffe continues on in the interview and mentions the filming for the movie, where he worked with the new actor who is playing the new Professor in the film.
"It's going very well. So far we've been doing a lot of work with Slughorn, who is being played brilliantly by Jim Broadbent."
UPDATE: On a related note, BBC is also running another article, focusing yet again on the actors and their reactions to the revelation that the character of Dumbledore is gay. "Radcliffe told BBC News: "JK Rowling is an incredibly intelligent woman. She can't have thought for a moment that that would go down well in the Bible Belt of America, but she put it brilliantly herself: 'He's my character – I can do what I want with him.' Which I think is fair enough."
David Yates, who directed the fifth Harry Potter film – Order of the Phoenix – said he was told in September by JK Rowling during a read-through for the next film on the set of the Great Hall at Hogwarts.Jo leaned over to me and said: 'You know Dumbledore's gay don't you, David?' And I thought 'Wow that's pretty cool'." Yates, who was speaking at the press launch of the Phoenix DVD, added: "He's a wonderful character, Dumbledore – graceful, wise, powerful, quirky, terrific sense of humour, loves knitting. There's a jumble of things in there and his sexuality is just another thing." ….
"Michael Gambon hasn't changed his approach. A person's sexuality is just one part of who they are, and so it hasn't really shifted where we're taking him."
Producer David Barron confirmed that Dumbledore would remain "the character Michael Gambon has already established".
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Publisher Announces Three More 'Duck Dynasty' Books
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, announced Monday that three more "Duck Dynasty" books will be released next year.
Included in the list of upcoming releases is Phil-osophy, the second book from Duck Commander founder and family patriarch Phil Robertson, according to a press release. Robertson's first book, Happy, Happy, Happy, debuted in the top spot on The New York Times Best Sellers list and over one million copies of the book are now in print. His new title will tentatively be released in October 2014.
The other two titles will be released earlier in 2014. Faith in the Duck Blind, which is expected to be available in March, is the first book by Jase Robertson, who runs the manufacturing side of the family's duck call business, according to the Duck Commander website, and is the second-oldest son of Phil and Kay Robertson. The third title, The Women of Duck Commander, will feature stories from some of the female "Duck Dynasty" cast members and will tentatively be released in April.
Kay Robertson also has a cookbook, Miss Kay's Duck Commander Kitchen, coming out in just over a month.
The season four premiere of "Duck Dynasty" in August was watched by a record-breaking 11.8 million people, according to a press release A&E.
But the Robertson's aren't just known for their hit show, multi-million dollar business and iconic beards. They're also known for the closeness of their family and their willingness to share their Christian faith.
Si Robertson, who is affectionately referred to as "Uncle Si," recently told CP how he feels about seeing his own image on "Duck Dynasty" merchandise.
"It's very humbling, number one," he said. "There's a lot of kids who look-up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the son of God's kingdom."
Si Robertson's book, Sicology 1, debuted at the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list and has continued to hold the number one spot since its early September release. The book, which released with one million copies in print, is just one of eight "Duck Dynasty" titles that are now available or have been scheduled for release.


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GOP questions whether Wisconsin DNR should slow down land purchases
Republicans on the Wisconsin Legislature budget committee peppered state Department of Natural Resources officials with questions about the agency's stewardship program Tuesday, hinting it may be time slow down land purchases and concentrate on paying down debt.
The DNR's stewardship program is the agency's main mechanism to buy land for conservation. The program has long been a sore spot for Republicans, who cringe at the government removing property from tax rolls by buying up land in lieu of private parties.
The stewardship program authorizes the DNR to borrow money for land purchases, boat landing repair, property development and grants to conservancy organizations. The 2011-13 state budget authorized the DNR to borrow up to $60 million per year through 2020 for those purposes.
Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 executive budget continues that overall authority, but scales back borrowing authority for land acquisition by $21 million. He would move $14 million to fish hatchery development and $7 million to various infrastructure improvements on state property, including signs, parking areas and state park upgrades.
Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee asked DNR Budget Director Joe Polasek to walk them through how much debt the stewardship program has accumulated over the years and how much land the program has consumed.
Polasek told them the state has used $931 million of stewardship bonding authority since fiscal year 1991, when the program was created. The state has repaid $425 million, including about $246 million in interest.
The DNR expects to spend about $83 million on stewardship debt payments and $13 million to local governments to offset property taxes lost because the state acquired land in each of the next two fiscal years, he said. Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Cascade, pointed out the DNR pays more on its debt and in property tax compensation in a year than what it is authorized to bond.


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There is a great chance that Apple's new iOS 6 might be released at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference that will kick off on July 11.
While Apple has not taken the wraps off from the possible features of the iOS 6, different blogs and websites are posting their wishlists for Apple's next operating system.
Meanwhile, with iPad 3, the Cupertino based tech giant has released an updated version of the existing iOS 5, naming it iOS 5.1. The new OS, which took a three-and-a-half month's extensive investigation, however, did not bring revolutionary features with it. Rather, the list of new features of the latest iOS 5.1 largely consisted of bug fixes and interface tweaks.
But with the new iOS, expectations of users have skyrocketed. At least, all the websites collecting users' expectations prove that.
Let's check a comprehensive list of features that are at the top of users' wishlists:
1. Face Recognition
Apple's recent patent applications hint toward a facial recognition feature in its new iOS 6. While Galaxy Nexus and some other Android Ice Cream Sandwich phone users already enjoy the Face Detection/Recognition feature, iOS users could soon be using facial recognition technology to lock or unlock their iDevices.
Reportedly, the Apple device's front-facing camera will capture an image of the user and instead of studying the entire face, the face-detection system would consider only the high information portion areas like the eyes, nose and mouth. These areas would be matched with a reference image using more complex algorithms.
2. Better Siri
No more Beta version of the Siri!
All Apple lovers now want a revamped version of the iPhone 4S's intelligent personal assistant app, Siri. Other users had to jailbreak the iPhone 4 to run Siri. Therefore considering the popularity of the feature, we would expect that iOS 6 would integrate Siri even more into the operating system and make it available on more devices.
It's been long since we are kibitzing about the possibility of Near Field Communication to be featured in the next iOS devices. Now that we know that Apple has won a major patent in March for iWallet, we can expect to see this feature coming with NFC to complete credit card transactions through phone.
4. Multitasking
While the iPhone screens would be very small and perhaps uncomfortable for multitasking, iOS 6 can indeed launch this feature for iPads.
A good number of Apple lovers, in different forums, have included this feature in the wishlist of iOS 6. A possible 'top-and-bottom screen' approach has also been suggested by some. According to the latest multitasking approach, the user can watch a Netflix movie running on top while keeping the Safari or Social Networking sites running underneath.
5. Turn-by-Turn Navigation
Another much-awaited feature that tops the wishlist of the Apple fans is an operating system that comes with a map that allows location-finding through the Global Positioning System (GPS).
And, [T]o introduce an accurate and user-friendly turn-by-turn map in iOS 6, it is possible that Apple will be working with either Google or MapQuest, says Delaon of Planet Insane.
6. Date/time stamps to iMessage and text messages
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNet wishes to see an option to add a timestamp to each text or multimedia message, or iMessage communications that's been sent and received in the Messages app.
Although he fears that all that information might clutter up the otherwise sleek user interface, but some people find information useful, believes Adrian.
7. AirDrop for iOS
Apple, with its Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, has launched a very handy feature called AirDrop.
AirDrop allows users to transfer files between nearby Macs, running Lion wirelessly and simply. And to transfer files the users don't even have to be on the same WiFi network.
The ardent Apple fans now want this hassle-free file transferring feature in IOS too.
8. Quick Toggles in Notification Center
This feature is something that will be widely welcomed by all Apple users.
In the case of iOS 5, most users jailbreak their existing iPhones to get custom-setting shortcuts on the home screen or on the notification tray. While SBSettings is the tweak that helps you access the commonly used settings without shuffling through the menu and lets you add quick toggles for commonly used features such as brightness, 3G, airplane mode, Bluetooth and more. But why should jailbreakers have all the fun? This feature of quick toggle should be integrated in the next iOS 6 so that users won't have to jailbreak their iPhone 5.
9. Automatic App Updating
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has also demanded that a feature of automatic update for apps on the next iPhone and iPad should be introduced with the new iOS 6.
10l. App Store Shopping Cart
Usually on your iOS device, every time you finish buying a new app from the App Store, iOS gets you back to the home screen. To purchase another app, you need to visit App Store.
A feature like an App Store shopping cart should be added to iOS 6, which will enable the user to purchase several applications and download them at the same time without going back and forth to the App Store.
Other Must-Have Features in iOS 6: Demand of Apple Users
- Better UI
- Faster camera/video auto-start with the ability to take pictures while shooting video, and more customized photo editing with filters (for non-iPhoto users).
- No limitations on the number of apps in folders.
- The ability to add attachments while creating a new message in Mail. Oh, and a select all (for deleting) feature would be nice.
- The ability to delete default apps.
- Private photo album options that are password protected.
- Ability to monitor data bandwidth usage dynamically in real time, and to determine which open apps are the biggest bandwidth and memory hogs
- Improved auto-correct.
- Support for opening emailed ZIP file attachments
(Information from ios6.info and 9to5forums)


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Creating the Extraordinary Student Experience
Time: Monday, February 17, 2020 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Alonso Family Room, Ohio Union
The Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Cohort is a program under The Student Life Multicultural Center that focuses on personal identity and leadership development, community building, and mentorship. The program actively engages the APIDA student community by collaborating with student organizations and community members to provide space to discuss current issues around campus and the nation from an APIDA intersectional perspective.
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