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1965 Dodge Coronet - The Mod Squad - Fun In The Sun
A Pair Of Canvas-Covered Cruisers With Comfort To Spare
Of the endless amount of body styles Ma Mopar produced, the B-Body rides have proven themselves over and over as the ride of choice (at least by the letters we receive). Road Runners, GTXs, Coronets, and Chargers seem to be what most readers are building. Concours restorations still have their coveted place, but often car enthusiasts are building their rides with more personal touches than the factory offered.
Is this a bad thing? Definitely not. The variety of details and personal touches allows us to venture into a car show and get a myriad of new ideas for our cars. The two modified marauders here have likely never met, but they show a diversity of ideas in quality street crafting. The one thing these drop-tops have in common is a cutting edge look at what's possible if you dream.
Class ActDon Schall of Rochester, New York, says the so-called popular muscle platforms are not the only things worth enhancing, and his '65 Coronet is a prime example. From a distance, one would think it's a restored car with a new set of wheels. Closer examination, however, proves this is no ordinary Dodge.
Don started with a shell of a convertible and enlisted the aid of Mike Servas of Five Guys Collision. Servas and crew straightened and replaced the sheetmetal, added new rear framerails, and installed subframe connectors. A new '64/'65 Race Hemi-style scoop from Kramer Automotive was bolted on the hood and everything was painted '98 Intense Blue Pearl. A final touch: all of the missing stainless trim was replaced in airbrushed detail by local craftsman Brian the Brush.
These little features blew our minds. How about the working third brake light mounted in the trunk lid? Another trick feature that makes the nose look a little different is "old school;" notice the single headlights? Don used a grille restored by Special T's that incorporates only one headlight per side ala AFX '65 style, instead of the factory double layout. The front suspension is still torsion bar, but a rack-and-pinion steering system helps cut corners.
Carrying out the "custom" theme meant a custom interior, so the seats of Don's ride were pirated from a '94 Buick Regal, while the console and shifter were removed from a '95 Dodge Intrepid. Carl's Auto Seat in Rochester, New York, covered everything with gray leather. The factory dash was replaced by a custom-built unit housing a full complement of Classic Instruments gauges to monitor what's happening up front. A Ron Francis Wire Works harness was installed to send the electrical signals to items such as the gauges, ignition, and other electronics. It's hard to notice the Vintage Air air conditioning because all the hoses and wires were hidden.
These days it seems the Hemi engine is finding more homes than ever before. Don wanted a Hemi in his ride, but added a twist. For starters, the block was sent to Drake's Engines in New York and opened up .030-inches. The stock crank and rods, although lightened and polished, were reassigned to the task of spinning the Keith Black 10.25:1 pistons in their respective bores. The factory cast heads were then ported and polished and the stock valves were reinstalled. To give his Hemi a new-age flavor, a custom-built EFI unit was mounted in front of a sheetmetal intake. The spent gases exit via a modified set of race-type headers and the 3-inch Jet-Hot coated exhaust. Transferring the power to the 3.23 geared and Sure Grip filled 831/44 housing is a 518-overdrive transmission reprogrammed with a TransGo kit and a 10-inch TCI torque converter.
If you wonder how he stops those big 17x8 Colorado wheels with 215-50-17 Michelin radials up front and the 17x12s with 335-35-17s in back, he's hidden the power brake unit under the dash.
When we met up with Don at the 2001 Chryslers at Carlisle event, he was just starting to clean off the 400-plus miles of road grime he accumulated driving to the event. In Don's own words, "Who needs a trailer?" We were sold. This ride is one of the cleanest resto-mod style buildups we've seen, and whether on the showfield or the highway, it's definitely a class act.
Red Alert-Glen Melby's '64 FuryGlen Melby's automotive dream started in the fall of 1963 while he was exiting Beloit Memorial High School at lunchtime. It was then he saw a Ruby Red '64 Plymouth Sport Fury convertible. Over the years he owned many Mopars, including a white '64 Fury two-door hardtop. It just wasn't his dream car.
In October 1991, while reading Hemming's Motor News, he saw an ad for a "'64 Sport Fury convertible partially restored, California car, no rust, some new chrome, new top, complete car but no engine and trans, for sale or trade." His wife Dianne immediately said, "Get it" (she's a keeper, Glen), and a deal was struck. Without seeing the car, a check was mailed to California and the seller lined up transportation to get the car to Glen. However, when Glen called to confirm this, the transport company said they didn't move unfinished cars. He finally found a trucking company in Florida, RE Auto Transporters, that had a truck in L.A. and would bring the car to its new home.
Though solid, the body was in primer with no top, and was full of boxes. The first order of business was to get it up on a rotisserie and media-blast it at Musclecar Restorations. Next, Glen had the shell acid-dipped. Although he had planned on doing things himself, he ran into Rick Phillips, whose '63 Dodge was then being painted by John Balow's crew at Musclecar Restorations. After checking it out, John came to Glen's home to give him an estimate on the car. Dianne just said, "Send it to him" (we're tellin' ya, Glen, it don't get no better than that).
When the body came back, Glen continued to accumulate parts and installed the rear springs and differential. He says he felt overwhelmed by this first attempt at such a massive project. He learned how to powdercoat in his garage and coated every bracket on the car whether it was visible or not.
The 426 wedge motor came out of a '64 Dodge, and the machine work was done at Power Built Engines in Burlington, Wisconsin. The engine was filled with fully floating Ross pistons hung on the stock rods. It also has a stock forged crank, and the rotating assembly has been balanced; Kent Nelson handled the assembly. Muscle Motors "killer street heads" were installed, and an Edelbrock dual quad manifold with two 500-cfm carbs added the visual finishing touch and performance to the motor. The factory high-performance exhaust manifolds were Jet Hot-coated and mated to a complete 211/44-inch stainless exhaust system exiting through stainless Dynomax mufflers. Mike Koehler in Beloit built the 727 transmission. The case was powdercoated and filled with a mild shift kit and stall converter. The factory shifter was chromed and modified for single-cable shifting, eliminating the factory dual-cable setup. An 831/44 Sure Grip rear from a '65 Dodge was filled with 3.55 Richmond gears and The Driveline Shop Inc. of Springfield, Missouri, furnished the polished aluminum driveshaft.
Glen and friend Kent Olsen restored the interior to its factory red and white hue using parts from Legendary Auto Interiors. The stereo was mounted in the glove box with an infrared repeater installed in the face of the existing AM radio. A remote control operates the Eclipse AM/FM/CD even with the glove box door closed. Remote power door locks and an alarm system with a pager were also installed. It's James Bond all the way, baby.
A Vintage Air heat and air conditioning unit was installed in the original heater box location. The compressor was mounted below the alternator with the lines, made by Tubes and Hoses in Janesville, Wisconsin, hidden in the right-front wheel well.
Stopping the red car in our mod squad are front disc brakes from Master Power Brakes with the rear utilizing 11-inch drums. Bill's Special T's Unlimited of Prospect Heights, Illinois, restored all of the aluminum trim and the dash bezels. A high school friend and artist, Roger Foss of Foss Signs in Beloit, Illinois, repainted all the red/white/blue accents on the trim. So, after approximately 3,000 hours and ten months of labor, he was driving, not trailering, the roarin' '64 from Wisconsin to Columbus, Ohio, for the 2001 Mopar Nats.
This pair of beasts represents the higher end of the hobby; the time, effort, and money are evident from every angle. On the other hand, the ideas that make them stand out from the crowd can also be applied to any project you might be contemplating. Think about it.


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Reluctant hero? Cleaner fish show it pays to be selfless
Putting yourself in the line of fire is shown to reap huge rewards, in a new study published this week in Science.
Researchers from the Zoological Society of London, University of Queensland and the University of Neuchâtel have discovered that male cleaner wrasse are quick to play the hero when their dinner is at stake.
Cleaner wrasse live on coral reefs and feed on the parasites of larger 'client' fish. They gain an even bigger meal if they take some of the mucus off the skin of a client, but this cheating behaviour results in a disgruntled customer.
The 'Alan Sugars' of the fish world, male cleaner wrasse prove they're no small fry when it comes to punishing their employees for upsetting clients. Males will aggressively chase females who deliver poor customer service, seemingly protecting the interests of the client when in fact they've got their own stomachs in mind.
Lead author Dr Nichola Raihani from the Zoological Society of London says: "Clients will leave if they are cheated at a cleaning station. That means the male's dinner leaves if the female cheats. By punishing cheating females, the males are not really sticking up for the clients but are making sure that they get a decent meal".
This tendency to stick up for a victim is something that humans are particularly prone to, but no one really knows why we do it. This study raises the possibility that 'Robin Hood' type behaviour might be less charitable than we think.
The next stage of the research will concentrate on the threat posed to male fish by similar sized females who can undergo sex changes and ultimately challenge their authority.
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Dave Walton is a Compassion Advocate of two years and a sponsor for nearly 30. He reflects here on his first visit with his sponsored child and the importance of recognizing and encouraging the child's natural parents' role in his life.
Whether or not our sponsored children realize their God-given potential has much to do with our support. Not withstanding this and the encouragement the parents and caregivers receive from us because we sponsor their children, we add value to the parents' lives when we include them in our correspondence to "our kids."
No different from parents everywhere, parents in poverty are in the trenches of child-rearing day in and day out. So, encourage your child's parents in your next letter. Consider including a Bible verse or a small card "For Mom & Dad."
I believe that by our encouraging and expressing appreciation for their efforts, they will be better parents and that will be reflected in the life of your sponsored child.
I recently had the opportunity to visit my sponsored child in Ecuador. I had anxiously awaited and prepared for this adventure for almost a year. While on the threshold of this event, I thought about the language barrier, the food, the water and what it would be like to meet Luis in his own country, culture and family. This was going to be different … very different.
Luis, like most young boys, is full of energy and adventure. When we met, he wanted to try everything. He handled questions and conversation easily, even through the dynamics of an interpreter.
Luis has a natural passion for ball games and ice cream, and he also has a younger brother as well as a sibling on the way. It was a delight to spend time with him.
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Though soft spoken, it was easy to tell from the tears in Luis' mother's eyes how much she and her husband appreciated that someone very far removed from where she lived would care enough to partner with them to give their son opportunities they could never provide alone.
The quality of time spent with Luis helped me to realize that Mom and Dad are doing the best they can with what they have.
I put together an assortment of pictures from our day together. I included a letter addressed to Dad and Mom and made a point to express admiration for the great job they are doing in raising Luis and the privilege it is to partner with them for his future.
From what I saw, Mom and Dad are making every reasonable effort to "raise up their son in the way he should go." This truth is evident to me every time I look at Luis' picture.


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Just like the title states, what is the difference between multiple 12V rails and one?
I was under the impression that multiple rails isn't really a good thing compared to one strong rail, but everybody and their brother is slapping "next generation" and "multiple 12V rails" together in the same sentence.
What do I lose by going with a single rail system? What are the benefits? Cost/power consumption/stability/performance/upgrade possibilities... How are these impacted by multiple/single rails? In which ways (positive/negative)?
This might turn out to be some good information to sticky for the noobs that need help (such as myself, currently )


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PEPPERELL — Three days before Christmas, resident Deb Marciano made the three-hour drive into Newtown, Conn., with $1,400 in $20 bills in her pocket. She had collected the cash from residents and businesses of Townsend, Pepperell and Ashby to donate to the first responders of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that had taken place only a week before.
As she and her sister-in-law Patti Robinson pulled into Sandy Hook, a small sub-community in Newtown, a three-mile backup of traffic on Main Street greeted them as residents from all across the nation attempted to visit the many memorials dedicated to the 26 victims of the shooting. Dozens of people stood somberly, faces wet with tears, in front of rows of Christmas trees that lined the street, one for each child killed. Signs commemorating lives lost adorned trees and fence posts everywhere they looked. Thousands of teddy bears and other assorted toys crowded every sidewalk from the center of town into Sandy Hook. Twenty stockings hung from the fence of the Sandy Hook cemetery, and 20 small angels representing the children stood everywhere.
"It was memorial after memorial. You couldn't get through there without sobbing," said Marciano.
But she and Robinson were on a mission. After finally making it to the traffic stop and explaining their purpose to the police officer, the women were waved through.
"We said we drove from Massachusetts and we really want to get gift cards to the first responders. He said go right ahead," said Marciano.
Earlier that day, the women had stopped at five local restaurants in Newtown on their way into Sandy Hook, using the collected $1,400 in $25 increments to buy hundreds of restaurant gift cards for the first responders to the shooting. Before making the drive, Marciano had called the proprietors to alert them to her mission, and they were all happy to oblige.
"Sal Pepe's was closed, but they drove in just to meet us," said Marciano. "They knew we were coming and they wanted to be a part of it."
Meeting with the restaurant owners took three hours.
"They were all full of hugs. They were so appreciative," she said. "We were talking about our kids in school and trying to get to know each other. It felt like we were connected in some way. And I guess we were. We're trying to share some of their grief."
Marciano and Robinson traveled through Sandy Hook to deliver the gift cards to the Fire and Police departments. The fire station stands right in front of the elementary school. Marciano was greeted by firefighter Michael Reyen.
"He's shaking his head and looking at me with a grin on his face like, 'What did you do?' He was so excited, he gave me the biggest hug," she said.
Marciano handed over half of the gift cards, telling Reyen she was present on behalf of the entire community that had rallied around Newtown.
"He said, 'You don't know how much of a relief this is. We've been so exhausted. It's been overwhelming,'" said Marciano.
Next, Marciano delivered gift cards to the police station. Although none of the first responders had returned to work since the tragedy, she was told that the gift cards would make it to them.
"It was very, very healing," she said.
As Marciano and Robinson drove out of town, they contemplated what else they could do for the community. After the shooting and the nation's overwhelming response, the town and the families had asked for no more donations of toys or money. Over $3 million dollars had been raised for the families, said Marciano. Still, she said, she wants to keep the memories of the victims alive within the North Middlesex community. Right now, she and Pam Mariano, owner of Bailey's Bar and Grill, and other members of the community are planning local events to honor the North Middlesex teachers. They are also looking for suggestions from the community for more fundraising ideas.
"We would like to think of ways to keep them in our thoughts, our hearts," said Marciano.
Marciano can be contacted at email@example.com and Mariano can be contacted at Bailey's Bar and Grille at 978-812-0200.
As for Newtown, Marciano said the community was resilient, and was being extended comfort from all over.
"There's such a strong sense of community throughout the world," said Marciano. "The first response I got was out of all this evil, there were equally enough good due to the response of everybody. It doesn't take away the evil but there's plenty of good to go around."


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This Web Conference, broadcast on October 21, 2003, was the fourth in a series on bioterrorism conducted throughout 2003 via the World Wide Web and telephone. This Web conference focused on how information technologies and surveillance systems are being used in bioterrorism preparedness programs. The User Liaison Program (ULP) of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed and sponsored the program.
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Bioterrorism represents a significant public health threat to the United States. Addressing this threat requires the rapid development of Federal, State and local capacity to respond to potential bioterrorism events. To be as effective as possible, these efforts must be directed toward improving the abilities of both our public health system and our health care delivery system, including the individual systems of care, facilities and clinicians that comprise the latter to detect and respond to such threats.
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August 31st, 2015
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EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands – August 31, 2015 -- Adimec (www.adimec.com), a world leader in application-specific, leading-edge Defense & Security camera solutions, will demonstrate several new innovations that expand the possibilities of full motion video, including a new global shutter CMOS Full-HD camera providing up to 60 frames per second at the DSEI event in London September 15th to 18th.
The TMX74 is the first camera in Adimec's new extended daylight rugged full-HD and beyond HD camera portfolio of TMX cameras. It is the first rugged global shutter full HD resolution (1920 x 1080) daylight camera with GS-CMOS technology. It provides excellent color imaging from low to high light scenes with optimal contrast reproduction using the latest generation Sony IMX174 CMOS image sensors having significant improvements in image quality and sensitivity. In a live comparison between the most recent CCD image sensor-based and the latest generation advanced CMOS-based solutions, Adimec will show the significant performance increases that can be realized in Mission Critical Airborne, Land and Naval EO/IR systems.
The new camera portfolio is based on the very well received and integrated, rugged-qualified TMX-DHD product line and enables highest performance and reliability with fast time to market at low SWaP and Cost, enabling airborne performance for ground-based vehicle applications.
We will be discussing the advances towards beyond HD imaging, advanced image processing (such as turbulence mitigation), CoaXPress video interfacing and other topics including hyperspectral imaging.
Adimec will be in the Dutch Pavillion (Booth Number N2-330) on the exhibition floor.
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Brandon Pierce of Covington, La., was named a recipient of the 2012 Presidents Leadership Award, the United States Golf Association and American Junior Golf Association announced Thursday.
The Presidents Leadership Award was created to recognize one boy and one girl junior golfer who demonstrate leadership, character and community service through their involvement with the Leadership Links program a joint initiative founded by the USGA and AJGA in 2005 to further develop junior golfers through volunteerism.
Pierce and girls recipient Cassie Wang of Lenexa, Kan., will be honored and formally presented the award during the Rolex Dinner of Champions, June 28, in Alpharetta, Ga., during the Rolex Tournament of Champions. Additionally, they will each receive four tickets to a U.S. Open in a year of his/her choice, access to the USGA hospitality tent during the U.S. Open, and an automatic entry into the 2012 Rolex Tournament of Champions, one of the worlds most prestigious junior golf events.
Brandon Pierce
Birdies typically influence just one person's scorecard, but Brandon Pierce's birdies have touched the lives of many over the last two years.
In 2010, Pierce founded Brandons Birdies, a fundraising program to raise money for underprivileged children in his local community. Donors pledge money for every birdie he makes during his state, regional and national tournaments. Since its inception, Pierce has raised more than $35,000 for local charities in the New Orleans area.
When a birdie goes into the hole, I always give a little fist pump, Pierce said. But when I take the ball out of the hole, I flash a smile at my mother, knowing that the money raised will help other young people.
Pierce, 17, was inspired as a young golfer on the Fore!Kids Foundation Junior Tour. Since age nine, Pierce has devoted his time each year as a volunteer at the PGA TOUR Zurich Classic of New Orleans, an annual event hosted by Fore!Kids Foundation that makes a major charitable impact on the city of New Orleans.
The Fore!Kids Foundation taught me values, courtesy, sportsmanship and honesty, Pierce said. They helped me grow into the person I am today and I really feel I need to give something back to them.
The Fore!Kids Foundation is one of several beneficiaries of Brandons Birdies. Other charities include The Kelly Gibson Foundation, CP3 Foundation, St. Michaels Special School, Hope House Childrens Advocacy Center and the AJGA Foundation. In 2011, Pierce raised $2,000 for the AJGA ACE Grant program, which was accompanied by a $1,000 donation from the USGA.
This year, Pierce is raising money for Playing fore their Future, a Leadership Links program supported by the Nicklaus Childrens Health Care Foundation and benefiting CureSearch for Childrens Cancer. Pierce has currently raised the second-highest amount for the program. The eight juniors who raise the most are slated to receive an award from Jack Nicklaus during the Rolex Junior All-America Awards Banquet in November.
As for the future of Brandons Birdies, Pierce has increased his initial fundraising goal from $40,000, a mark he is already set to pass, to $50,000 raised by the time he graduates high school. He hopes his philanthropic efforts will inspire other young golfers.
I have been extremely blessed in my life being able to pursue my dreams, Pierce said. I am hopeful that by giving back to childrens charities and exemplifying a caring, sharing and positive attitude, it will motivate others to chase their dreams and give back to their communities.
Pierce recently shared his life mantra with The First Tee of Roanoke Valley during the Scott Robertson Memorial Junior Golf Tournament. Later this year, Pierce will address golfers and guests during the Kelly Gibson/Fore!Kids Foundation Junior Tour Awards Banquet.
In the meantime, Pierce will continue doing what he does best making birdies really count.
About the USGA
The USGA conducts the U.S. Open, U.S. Womens Open and U.S. Senior Open, as well as 10 national amateur championships, two state team championships and international matches. Together with The R&A, the USGA governs the game worldwide, jointly administering the Rules of Golf, Rules of Amateur Status, Equipment Standards and World Amateur Golf Rankings. The USGAs working jurisdiction comprises the United States, its territories and Mexico.
The USGA is a global leader in the development and support of sustainable golf course management practices. It serves as a primary steward for the games history and funds an ongoing For the Good of the Game charitable giving program. Additionally, the USGAs Course Rating and Handicap systems are used on six continents in more than 50 countries.
For more information about the USGA, visit www.usga.org.
USGA-AJGA Presidents Leadership Award Past Recipients
2012 Brandon Pierce (Covington, La.)
Cassie Wang (Lenexa, Kan.)
2011 John Farese (Sayville, N.Y.)
Natalie Turk (Franklin, Tenn.)
2010 Drew Johnson (Oak Ridge, N.C.)
Jacqueline Calamaro (Newtown Square, Pa.)
2009 Zach Herr (New Hope, Pa.)
Emily Gimpel (Lafayette Hill, Pa.)
2008 Smylie Kaufman (Birmingham, Ala.)
Kelsey Conway (Ventura, Calif.)
2007 Joseph Suarez (Richmond, Va.)
Angela Villela (Sylmar, Calif.)
2006 Adam Michel (Orinda, Calif.)
Katrina Delen-Briones (San Francisco, Calif.)


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Is activism therapy?
by Shaun Chamberlin on June 15th, 2011
Last night I went to the première screening of an excellent new film called Just Do It. It's a record of the direct action climate movement – Climate Camp, Plane Stupid et al. – made with the full cooperation of the activists, and it's worth checking out, especially if you've never been directly involved yourself.
It is a story of people responding to the threat to their future with courage, determination, humour and camaraderie. It's also a film that I remember existing only as a flyer, asking whether we would like to see a truly independent film developed outside mainstream production models and distributed for free. Hundreds of us donated, and I was keen to see the result.


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Food waste becoming hot global issue
Ireland is Europe's fifth-worst offender with 280kg wasted per head each year
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Ireland produces one million tonnes of food waste each year
Of all our dietary foibles, the avoidance of bread heels and crusts would seem pretty innocuous. However, this trivial preference for the centre of the loaf comes at a surprisingly high price.
According to Tristram Stuart, author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, Marks & Spencer in the UK instructs its sandwich supplier, Hain Celestial Group, to discard four slices from every loaf it produces, the heels and the adjacent slices, for quality control reasons.
This adds up to 13,000 slices of freshly baked bread being chucked in the bin every day.
This rather stark example of waste, accounting for just one product line in one supermarket chain, illustrates the scale of the problem. It is estimated that 30 per cent of food produced for human consumption is either lost or wasted across the global food system.
The problem infects every step of the food chain; from farmers being forced to discard cosmetically ugly fruit and vegetables to supermarkets dumping short-dated stock. From there, it extends to households buying too much food and to restaurants serving over-sized portions.
Ironically, Marks & Spencer is one of the better retailers when it comes to tackling food waste, recently implementing a series of tighter controls which has seen its food waste drop by 40 per cent since 2009. It also stipulates that none of its waste here or in the UK ends up in landfill.
That aside, food waste has become one of the hottest global issues, not least because it exists alongside chronic levels of food poverty, even in supposedly first-world countries like Ireland. Research commissioned by the Department of Social Protection in 2010 indicated that one in ten people in Ireland were living in food poverty, up from 7 per cent at the height of the boom. Other surveys suggest it may be as high as 15 per cent. The food waste figures for a small country like Ireland make for unpleasant reading.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates Ireland produces one million tonnes of food waste each a year, comprising 500,000 tonnes of agricultural waste or surplus, with the remaining 500,000 tonnes split evenly between commercial and household waste. On a per capita basis, the average Irish person generates about 280 kilograms of food waste each year, the fifth highest in Europe.
"There's no one solution to this problem. There's going to have to be a major rethink at all phases of the food chain," says Odile Le Bolloch, head of the EPA's Stop Food Waste programme. She says throwing away uneaten food is an unnecessary waste of money especially in these straitened times.
Every kilogram of food waste costs the economy €3, which adds up to a €3 billion annually. The problem costs the average household between €700-€1,000 per year.
Producing food that is not consumed also leads to unnecessary CO2 emissions, in addition to the lost economic value of the food produced.
Ms Le Bollock is sceptical of claims by supermarkets that consumers simply won't buy wonky fruits and vegetables, believing shoppers to be less fussy.
Indeed, a recent poll in the UK found 80 per cent shoppers claimed not to be put off by irregularly shaped produce. Tesco has recently started selling what it calls market value produce, in other words the less beautiful food, at a lower price.
By ignoring "sell by" dates and using their common sense, in other words their eyes and noses to vet food, consumers can significantly reduce their waste footprints, Ms Le Bollock says.
Regardless of the issues surrounding household waste, thousands of tonnes of surplus produce goes to waste each year simply because there isn't a food bank in Ireland large enough to take it. One organisation trying to bridge the gap is the Bia Foodbank.
The group wants to set up a national food recovery system which will store and maintain surplus produce resulting from overproduction or shipment delays which can then be accessed by the country's charities, many of which are too small to take in the amount of food which manufacturers want to offload. Charities and voluntary groups in the Republic currently spend €12 million on food support services every year.
"Around the country, many small local charities benefit from some form of food donation. The approach, however, is generally piecemeal and ad hoc," Bia Foodbank chairman Jack Dunphy says.
"Due to this lack of co-ordination, and the lack of appropriate outlets for surplus food, there are huge quantities of potentially usable surplus food going to landfill, for composting or for rendering."
Mr Dunphy says companies are willing to donate but are, understandably, anxious to ensure the food is adequately stored and used safely on secondary markets for legal reasons. In the US, producers who donate food in good faith are protected by the Good Samaritans' Act which indemnifies them from any liability, resulting from the donation. There is no comparable legislation here.
However, Mr Dunphy believes companies are willing, even in the absence of legislation, to give to food banks provided the proper controls are put in place to ensure the food is adequately stored and safely distributed, consistent with the product guidelines.
Because disposing of surplus produce is costly, firms will actually ship the food for free and pay the food bank to take it, according to Mr Dunphy. In the US, food banks have become lucrative businesses, generating millions of dollars in profit which can be used to build up and support the organisation's distribution network. Mr Dunphy has received positive signals from the relevant ministries regarding the group's proposal, and he wants the Government to consider using part of the EU's food aid budget for Ireland to fund his initiative.
He has already earmarked a site off Dublin's M50 and estimates an initial investment of €350,000 would be enough to establish an initial food recovery system for Dublin, Kildare, Louth, Wicklow and Meath, in advance of establishing similar regional hubs in Cork, Limerick and Sligo. Mr Dunphy, who has served on the board of the European Federation of Food Banks for the last 15 years, is something of an evangelist when it comes to food, and wants to tie the project into series of community food initiatives, aimed at promoting healthier eating patterns and reducing food poverty. This is a social enterprise that needs to succeed.
Food Glorious Food app
Students in Trinity College, Dublin have developed a unique initiative aimed at bridging the gap between food waste and food poverty in the city. The Food Glorious Food project recently secured a service agreement with the US developer of an app which links food businesses with charities.
Restaurants and cafes wanting to donate surplus food simply post notices of possible donations via the app which will, in turn, send text notifications to nearby charities. If the charity declines the offer, the next nearest charity will be offered the food until the donation is accepted.
"The idea is to keep it all local. Ideally, the charity would be within walking distance of the business," project leader Iseult Ward said. "Initially it was difficult to find willing businesses or charities. Fears around legal liabilities and the lack of a surplus food redistribution culture were the main barriers."
The project, which recently made it to the bootcamp stage of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland awards, provides legal protections for food businesses by obliging participating charities to sign a legal waiver.
"By participating in this initiative businesses and charities work together to alleviate hunger and avoid sending perfectly good food to landfill," Ms Ward said.


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Today I spent the day with some girlfriends touring 6 beautiful homes here in Greensboro, NC that were all part of a Holiday Home Tour to raise funds for the choir at Caldwell Academy and they were decorated for the holidays. Here are some of the highlights from the tour. We first toured 4 homes and then of course we had to fortify ourselves with lunch and beverages at a a place called Lindley Park Filling Station. Very cute and small restaurant with wonderful food. I had half of a sandwich called the Madison Avenue… Smoked Turkey, Granny Smith Apples, Honey Walnut Cream Cheese on a Croissant and half of the The Filling Station salad…Dried Cranberries, Bleu Cheese Crumbles, Walnuts over Spring Mix with their House made Balsamic Vinaigrette. Every bite as delicious as it sounds. I can't wait to go back. You know I couldn't not talk about the food!
Anyway, back to the home tour. My favorite of the 6 we toured ended up being the first one we toured. This home was in the Lake Jeanette area and It had an "Old World" look to it
This was the kitchen where they had a large gingerbread house display on the counter.
I thought this was a different idea. Copper buckets were hung by the fireplace instead of stockings and then the initial for each child hung off of those buckets.
This home had a pretty staircase. We liked the burlap ribbon that was part of the garland.
This home also had a pretty table set in the dining room. Silver and gold were mixed together.
This was a grand old home built in I believe they said 1927 and was located near Greensboro Country Club in the Old Irving Park area. We are talking old money here. Old Southern money and very grand. They told us the owners moved out for 2 years while the home was renovated. Can you imagine that?!
The kitchen in this home was beautiful. I loved the big farmhouse sink and they had an AGA oven. The owner told us it stays warm at all times. I always wanted to see one in person.
I loved this outdoor fireplace area on their back patio.
This beautiful home was in the Sunset Hills area. Loved the side porches on this home.
This one had a renovated kitchen and it was beautiful.
This was the view out the kitchen window. There was even a waterfall off to the right side.
This is the last home we toured. We did tour two others but my photos of those two home did not turn out very well. (We had to take our shoes off to tour all of the homes and the basket in the photo above is filled with little booties.)
This home had a "bridge" that was also decorated with garland. This home also had a grand piano in the foyer as you came in the front doors. Why I didn't take a photo of that…I don' know!
Even the kid's bedrooms in this house had decorated Christmas trees in them. This girls bedroom was decorated with purple and black. The colors really looked great together.
And this girl's room was decorated in soft pinks and soft greens.
Here is what I noticed that most of the homes had in common decorating wise:
~Wreaths hung with ribbon over mirrors
~Lots of fresh greenery in vases
~Magnolia leaves in garlands and wreaths
~silver and gold mixed together
~Lot's of Mark Jacobs Santa Fairies
~Glass domes with ornaments, cookies, and more Santa Fairies under them.
~Big bows used as tree toppers with glittery stems poking out of the tops
~Lot's of glitter
~Candles that smelled wonderful
~wreaths suspended by ribbon hung on windows inside the house
~Apothecary Jars filled with candy.
~Burlap ribbon used in the garlands
I have to admit that as much as I hate seeing so many Christmas things in the stores already and it's not yet Thanksgiving, the tour today put me in the holiday mood. We might even hang our outdoor Christmas light tomorrow because the weather is supposed to be so nice. But I promise we won't be turning them on till after Thanksgiving!


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On Campus
If you intend to live on campus and have not yet returned your housing contract, please do so as soon as possible. Housing assignments will be announced a week or two prior to the start of the term.
If you have signed a contract to live in one of the Drake residence halls, you will probably share a room with an American student or another international student. Most of Drake's residence halls have four levels ("floors"). Men and women often have separate wings on each floor, although single-sex floors still remain an option in some residence halls (please inform the Office of Residence Life is this is your preference). Your room will be furnished with 2 single beds, 2 desks, and 2 closets. You must provide your own bed linens. There are bathrooms with showers on each floor. No one has a private bath.
Living in a residence hall will make it easier for you to become friends with other Drake students because people living in the residence halls often organize social and recreational activities together. It will also be a valuable way to learn about cultural variety in the U.S. because you will meet students from all over the country. In fact, only about 1/3 of Drake students come from Iowa!
First and second year students are required to live in a residence hall. All undergraduate exchange students are also required to live on campus. Even if you are eligible to live "off-campus," we still strongly suggest that undergraduate students live "on-campus" in the residence halls. Students say it is more difficult to meet friends, learn English or to know what is happening on campus if you don't live in the residence halls. Drake does not offer on campus housing for graduate students.
Note: Residence halls are closed between semesters and students must find alternate housing during the winter break. The residence halls are open during the other break periods.
Off Campus
Graduate students and third or fourth-year undergraduate students who decide not to live in the residence halls, must rent an apartment near the campus from the private businesspeople who own them. The Office of International Programs and Services can talk to you about how to find an apartment, but you must make these arrangements yourself. If you will live off campus you should arrive a few days prior to International Orientation so you have time to find an apartment. An apartment listing will be given to you upon arrival.
Drake West Village
The Drake West Village apartments were completed in summer 2008 are similar to residence hall rooms in that they are fully furnished and most utilities are included in the monthly fee, they cover the water, trash & sewer - with a monthly cap towards the electric. Each apartment has a kitchen (meals are not included in the monthly fee). The complex is located on the east west edge of campus on 30th Street. Students may elect to rent a one-bedroom apartment or to share a larger apartment with roommates (students without pre-arranged roommates may ask to be placed in a apartment and assigned roommates). Accommodations are available for both undergraduate and graduate students. Leases are based on the full-year, although leases can be arranged for the academic year for an extra fee. Information about Drake West Village can be found at www.drakewestvillage.com.


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GM's next generation OnStar will get a major upgrade and challenge Ford's Sync system with infotainment options. In addition to OnStar's well-known unparalleled route guidance and safety assistance services, the new system will get apps like Facebook.
A Bloomberg story outlines the differences in the new version of OnStar, which should focus its attention on more features designed to make Sync less of a deal maker for their rivals and outline the advantages of OnStar's always-on fat data pipe connection.
They're reporting it'll add text message voice translation and, somehow, Facebook. Will you be able to "like" places you see on the road or "share" routes with your friends? We'll find out soon.


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Hi All,
I have a winform app in VS - 2008, It is client server based application using .net remoting 2.0.
On My server I have a Method which would be called from client.
Now in this method, I want to update value of Datagrid in one of my winform. Here I am getting an error:
"An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: ActiveX control '8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment."
I tried converting my thread to STA using SetApartmentState but was not able to do so...
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Cristina Kissing a Caribbean Reef Shark - Photos: Eddy Raphael
Cristina Zenato has been diving with sharks for many years - more than most in the industry. While her expertise is mostly with Caribbean Reef Sharks in The Bahamas, she has interacted with many different species. She also brings a balanced point-of-view: on one hand she loves, hugs, and cuddles with sharks (strong connection and passion) and on the other, she is the head of diving at UNESXO (shark business, dive operator, protocols, etc.). Most people discussing these topics are at either end of the spectrum.
I recently came across a great piece written by Cristina on shark diving and feeding - it seems like to me in the end it just boils down to common sense (unfortunately this is something that many people lack) and treating each situation and scenario as unique.
Hope to be able to meet her one day...
In Cristina's words (link to complete post below):
"I am a shark feeder: I have been feeding Caribbean reef sharks for the past 18 years. One might assume then that any discussion coming from me would always conclude that feeding is the only way to conduct a shark dive. Not so.
Simply defining the interaction with all sharks as a feeding or a non-feeding situation is too simplistic. It would collect approximately 400 species of sharks under the single umbrella of generalized gray, tubular, finned, toothed creatures who just swim around the oceans behaving as we would want them to behave. Instead we can, and should, take the time to learn how each and every shark species behaves. This can be a controversial and difficult topic to present -- please understand that there will always be unique situations and habitat niches. As with any complex issue, knowledge and understanding are key...."
Complete post here on the Shark Saver's website.


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Man Gets 65 Years in Prison For Dismemberment Killing
One of two men accused of killing a southwestern Illinois woman and dismembering her body has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 65 years in prison.
A Madison County judge sentenced 29-year-old Patrick Chase of Alton to 45 years on a first-degree murder charge and 20 years on a charge of dismembering a human body.
Chase pleaded guilty to both counts moments earlier.
Authorities charged Chase and 32-year-old Brandon Chittum of Collinsville in the death of 30-year-old Courtney Coats of Alton. She had been missing for nearly a month before her body was found last December near an Illinois River bridge in Greene County.
Prosecutors say Chase and Coats were lovers and apartment mates when the killing happened during an argument.
Chittum has pleaded not guilty and awaits trail.


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Many are asking if Detroit's fiscal situation and bankruptcy are a foreshadowing of what's to come for other local governments as a number of factors continue to push them towards a financial cliff.
Municipal bankruptcies are rare around the nation. They have never happened in New York, and with good reason. Bankruptcy proceedings of municipalities in other states have left fiscal problems unresolved for years, while making it more difficult for local governments to deliver services.
But there are wider lessons to be learned from Detroit. One of the biggest takeaways is the importance of having an honest conversation about the difficult challenges facing local governments and how they can best achieve real solutions when their regional economies, demographics and traditional revenue sources change.
Here in New York, the Great Recession and our slow national and state recovery have directly affected several sources of local revenue. For instance, sales tax revenues have suffered major declines, state and federal aid haven't kept pace with inflation, and property taxes – the most significant source of local revenue – have been capped by the state.
Additionally, spending is outpacing revenues. From 2006 through 2011, county expenditures jumped 17.2 percent, while revenues climbed 13.4 percent. Total city expenditures increased 8.4 percent, but revenues only increased 6.4 percent. And town expenditures grew 12.9 percent, as revenues merely increased 7.1 percent. By 2011, nearly 300 local governments had deficits and more than 100 had inadequate cash on hand to pay their bills.
Meanwhile, population and job losses in many communities outside of New York City have resulted in higher-than-average unemployment, rising poverty rates and an increased demand for government services.
Combined, these factors are having a very real and adverse effect on the day-to-day operations of local governments. So what are the solutions that can help?
Before you can attack a problem, you need to understand what you are facing. This is why my office has developed an early warning system to present a realistic account of local government finances and help foster much needed public discussions at the local level about fiscal stress so that corrective actions can be taken. This way, we can reach lasting solutions and avoid steps that may cause needless harm to our communities.
My Fiscal Stress Monitoring System uncovers specific counties, cities, towns, villages and school districts that are in significant stress or approaching stress. The system – developed by experts who understand the complexity of local government finances – scores municipalities and school districts on various financial indicators.
Our system's first set of scores identified two dozen communities from every region of the state facing some level of fiscal stress. This included eight counties, three cities and 13 towns. This list was a wakeup call for many local officials and for taxpayers.
Now the attention must turn to solutions. Although there will be no one-size-fits-all approach to dealing with fiscal stress, there are initial steps that should be taken.
Given the tough choices facing local governments, elected leaders and their constituents must work together. Local officials should go the extra mile to inform their constituents and seek their input on budget decisions. Voters owe it to themselves to learn more about the financial decisions being made in their communities and help prioritize their community's needs more effectively.
To help our partners at the local level become more efficient, more creative, more forward-thinking and more effective with available resources, my office also created a new local government support program – ACT FAST – which stands for Avoid Crisis Tomorrow with Fiscal Awareness Strategies Today.
By request, we will provide accelerated risk assessments to determine the specific services that could be beneficial to individual communities. This approach will help us provide the best resources and advice to local governments so that they can make better budget decisions. These can include audits, budget reviews and help with long-range financial planning.
I believe these types of preventive actions – ideally developed with active participation from citizens who will be affected − will result in less cost and less disruption to vital services.
At the end of the day, knowledge is power. By fostering a much-needed public discussion about fiscal stress, we can help communities across New York avoid following Detroit down a troubled financial path.
Thomas P. DiNapoli is the comptroller of New York State.


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Yesterday I came across a post by Cindy Krischer Goodman on the Miami Herald's Web site, about a speech given by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the Commonwealth Institute South Florida. The appearance featured tales from Albright's recently published book, "Read My Pins," as well as a little personal history: she was a journalist, researcher, full time (single) mom to three daughters, and later a professor… all before ever stepping foot on Capitol Hill.
Pretty amazing. So amazing you might think you've nothing in common with the Artist Formerly Known as Madame Secretary. But believe me, you do.
In regard to work/life balance, Albright said: 'There are no easy choices. Every woman's middle name is guilt.'
Told you.
Guilt. It's truly a woman's problem, isn't it? Much like the need for approval, it's almost a birthright.
And what is it good for, anyway? I mean, I'm sure Jiminy Cricket would insist it serves a certain purpose, helping that know-it-all goody two-shoes on our shoulder ensure we don't actually beat up the idiot driver who cut us off or steal the shoes we can't afford or get busy with the guy in the mailroom, no matter how tempted we might be. But it's not the same as a conscience–and I think we're quick to confuse the two.
Nor do I think there's any doubt that guilt weighs heavily on our choices. To a certain extent, it drives them. And keeps us looking over our shoulders. And stresses us out. That wicked emotion can be downright paralyzing. We don't want to hurt anyone, put anyone out, do the wrong thing. It hits us from both sides, too: Sometimes we make choices we don't really want, strictly because we'd rather not deal with the guilt. And other times, we choose to go the other way–and then are left feeling guilty over it. It complicates things, loading each choice down with some additional–and not necessarily relevant–worry. In the same way that factoring others' feelings and our own fear of being judged out of our decisions requires conscious work, so does eliminating the guilt factor. How often do we do things we don't want to do? Say yes when we don't mean it? And women, with our oversized To-Do lists and our underdeveloped sense of balance–well, I don't think it's too wild a stretch to suggest the two are related.
So, how do we get rid of it? Hell if I know. But perhaps a good place to start would be to take back our middle names and cut that Guilt Monster down to size. Are you with me?


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|Longmont, Colorado, 1979 -- Robert Adams courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
|Nebraska State Highway 2, Box Butte County, Nebraska, 1978 & Neahkahnie Mountain, Oregon, 2004 -- Robert Adams courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
So I'm glad I saw the show but I didn't like it. That is not meant to denigrate the considerable efforts of my colleagues to put together a comprehensive survey of work by an important photographer. My inquiry is more about how exhibitions work, what they are for, what they can offer. In this case, quality isn't the issue but quantity is; it's about a big retrospective not feeling like a good fit for an artist of such subtlety. Certainly the idea of examining the depth and breadth of Adams' considerable oeuvre is a good one, offering the opportunity to assess
|covers of Robert Adams: The Place We Live and What Can We Believe Where?
Adams is known for his books as much as his photographs and over the years has put together a group of remarkable publications characterized by their careful selection and sequencing. They are small books, easily held by human hands, easily picked up and put down while thinking. In their structure and their pacing, these books invite leisurely, contemplative consideration, which is probably the best way to apprehend Adams' work. A retrospective exhibition is, almost by definition, antithetical to that kind of ease, intimacy, and thoughtfulness. All of Adams' work is black-and-white, all of it is the same size, all of it was matted and framed identically in the exhibition. While that kind of consistency of presentation is standard in a museum show, with the intention of keeping emphasis on the pictures themselves, what tends to happen is that they all look the same. It's hard to fight that effect, especially with small pictures that require the viewer to get up close to view each one individually. Adams' work demands and indeed merits that kind of attention, but the march of frames across pastel walls wasn't particularly enticing, even for someone as invested in seeing the show as I was that day. Seeing all those pictures didn't support the message of Adams' work for me, it diluted it.
|Northeast of Keota, Colorado, 1969 and From the South Jetty, Clatsop County, Oregon, 1991 -- Robert Adams courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
After I returned home, I found the statement I was missing, written by the curators as the afterword to the aforementioned book What Can We Believe Where? I don't think I have ever had occasion to write these words before, clichéd as they may be, but the book is a triumph. Three paragraphs of words at the beginning by Robert Adams and a half dozen at the back of the book by Chuang and Reynolds are just right in offering clarity and resonance to the selection of pictures in between. The images reproduced are, again, from across the artist's career. But this time they are unconstrained by chronology and are arranged with great sensitivity into a river of joy and sadness and laughter and shock, concluding with the inexorable tides that will surely outlive us all. What a beautiful testament to Mr. Adams and his work.
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Soldiers fighting Congo rebels live in squalor
The nest of straw, like something an animal sleeps on, was a Congolese army soldier's bed before rebels seized this military camp. Broken windows were stuffed with grass and the only protection from the frigid night air was a handful of charcoal.
The squalid conditions help explain why thousands of government soldiers are on the run from a few hundred rebels - and have little incentive to fight.
Congo's mineral-rich east has been wracked by fighting since April, when army deserters calling themselves the M23 Movement launched a rebellion to demand better pay, better armaments and amnesty from war crimes. The fighting, the worst in years, has forced some 280,000 people from their homes.
Last month, M23 rebels seized the army camp at Rumangabo, the biggest in eastern Congo, some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Goma. They point to it as an example of the miserable conditions the regular army faces. Without electricity, running water or even basics like blankets, the rebels refuse to stay in its filthy barracks and are lodged in a nearby hotel.
"The conditions are unbelievable, aren't they?" said rebel spokesman Col. Vianney Kazarama as he took The Associated Press on a tour this week. "Animals are treated better than this."
Three blackened stones and some charcoal in a corner of a dormitory were the only source of heat against the cold in a mountain region where nighttime temperatures drop below freezing. Windows were covered with cardboard and plastic; a stone fire on an outside verandah was used for cooking.
Bathing facilities consisted of makeshift enclosures of bamboo branches covered in plastic. Bundles of filthy clothing, an abandoned helmet, a worn black boot and a tin plate littered the barracks floor.
There were pathetic attempts at privacy: a curtain of twigs and netting, a crude door made of mud bricks. A woman's cloth wrap and a child's plastic sandals were signs that wives and children lived in the barracks with the troops.
Congo's 150,000-man army is poorly armed, infrequently paid and badly provisioned with food or other basics. Deserters from Rumangabo told the AP that soldiers did not even have a gun each; among the things abandoned at the camp were home-made batons fashioned from D-sized batteries, lashed together with banana leaves.
An overgrown vegetable garden of corn, potatoes and cassava indicated the soldiers tried to grow their own food at the camp, which housed 1,000 troops before it was seized.
Ordinary soldiers are supposed to be paid $60 a month, but by the time higher-ranking officers skim off a share, a trooper gets only about $5 a month - and that is when the payroll is met, according to Congolese military officers who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being reprimanded.
That helps explain why Congo's soldiers are accused of more looting than any of the foreign rebel and local militia groups they fight in eastern Congo.
And why soldiers have joined other armed groups in illegal mining in Congo - ventures that help fuel the cycle of violence and have made multimillionaires out of rebel leaders like renegade Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The U.N. has identified Ntaganda as the leader of the latest rebellion, though the rebels deny this.
The M23 rebels are remnants of back-to-back civil wars that drew in the armies of a half-dozen nations in a scramble for Congo's vast mineral resources, and killed as many as 5 million people. An internationally negotiated peace deal was signed in 2002, but the conflict persisted in eastern Congo, where foreign and local militias continue to fight for control of the lucrative mines and to terrorize the population.
Since the civil wars of the 1990s, Congo's army has been a mixture of former enemies expected to fight together. Dozens of local militias, mainly tribally based, are welcomed into the army once they surrender.
At the Rumangabo camp, a collection of gabled white buildings topped by red iron roofs built during the Belgian colonial era, a sign at the entrance is a reminder of that legacy: It describes it as a center for army integration and retraining. "Unity creates might," is the motto inscribed on one wall.
Rebels like those who launched the latest rebellion, were among those integrated into the army in unsuccessful exercises that have left it with parallel chains of command. And those who desert and return are often better rewarded with rank and monetary incentives than soldiers who remain loyal.
"Continuous armed group integration has created feelings of unpredictability and unfairness within the ranks," analyst Jason Stearns noted in his Congo Siasa blog this week.
"Who would want to risk their lives for an enemy that might very well be welcomed back again into the army, perhaps in an even more privileged position than before?"


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Kelly Clarkson will perform on "Saturday Night Live" for a third time this weekend (alongside host Charles Barkley), and the "Mr. Know It All" singer is looking forward to returning to the late night comedy show.
"It's so much fun," Kelly – who was looking fabulous, sporting sexy, newly-cropped bangs – told Access Hollywood during "SNL" rehearsals in New York on Thursday. "Everybody's always so nice here and the cast is like a family, so it's a really cool environment."
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The singer, whose fifth studio album, "Stronger," is steadily climbing up the music charts, said she loves acting in skits, but doesn't believe she'll be able to take part in any of the sketches this time around due to her out-of-state tour rehearsals.
"I'm literally flying out tomorrow morning — I have rehearsal in Connecticut," she told Access. "We're starting my tour soon, so we're literally flying in and out."
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If Kelly's schedule were to miraculously allow the singer to appear in a sketch, she's prepared with an idea of who she'd like to play – fellow chart-topper/"The Voice" mentor Christina Aguilera.
"My skit I wanted to do was 'The Voice,'" she told Access, referencing the hit NBC reality singing competition. "I wanted [Charles] to be on his knees and play Cee Lo [Green] and I wanted to be Christina.
"I just love that show, so I wanted to totally make fun of it," she added with a laugh. "I make fun of things I like!"
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While the 29-year-old – whose love life is often the subject of media scrutiny – hasn't yet found the man of her dreams, she still believes she'll get married sooner rather than later.
"It's not like Jane Austen times — I haven't lost my glow or anything, hopefully!" she laughed, when asked if her impending 3oth birthday was causing her to wonder if she'd ever say "I do." "I come from a small town and everyone gets married real quick and has children and everything, and that was never my dream. I've never been that kid… I think maybe in the future. But I love my job right now.
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Until she finds her soulmate, Kelly — who operates an animal rescue with her family – says she's content with two her of her canine rescues, who keep her company on the road.
"They sleep with me and they're like my little buddies. I call them 'my little boyfriends,'" she said of her dogs. "They're just awesome. I love them."
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Jim Tressel has resigned as football coach at Ohio State amid a spiraling scandal that began with several Buckeye players trading awards for tattoos.
Tressel, who won a national championship and posted a 106-22 record in ten seasons at one of the nation's most storied programs, stepped down before the NCAA levied an expected severe penalty against the program.
"After meeting with university officials, we agreed that it is in the best interest of Ohio State that I resign as head football coach," Tressel said in a statement Monday morning. "The appreciation that [wife] Ellen and I have for the Buckeye Nation is immeasurable."
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The school had stood by the embattled coach even as new developments continued to raise questions about what he knew and when about NCAA violations by players, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor. He had announced a self-imposed five-game suspension to begin next season.
Pryor, running back Daniel Herron and three other players already faced five-game suspensions for trading memorabilia, including the "golden pants" awards given to each player after a victory over arch-rival Michigan, for tattoos from a local artist ensnared in a federal drug investigation. The players were allowed to play in this year's Sugar Bowl, which Ohio State won over Arkansas.
But Tressel's forthrightness was called into question after he first said he knew nothing about the incidents, then said he kept quiet about it because he didn't want to "compromise" the federal investigation. As coach, he was required by his contract and NCAA bylaws to report any rules infraction he was aware of.
His departure leaves one of the nation's premier programs without a coach and facing potentially crippling NCAA sanctions. Assistant Coach Luke Fickell was named interim coach, and former University of Florida Coach Urban Meyer, who recently bought a home in Columbus, has been rumored to be Tressel's eventual replacement.


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All the killer instinct of a baby seal pup stranded on an ice floe. Sloppy. Disjointed. Slightly befuddled in their own zone. Coughing up more furballs than Garfield.
The adopted slogan — Every Game Matters — that pulsates from the pixels on the Scotiabank Saddledome JumboTron that leads the local gladiators out into battle on a nightly basis?
Well, at a precarious 1-2-1, with the swaggering Chicago Blackhawks due in for a late Saturday evening date, Thursday's tilt against the dog-tired, injury-depleted Colorado Avalanche might actually have mattered more than most.
The Avs, after all, had flown in from Vancouver past midnight, still smarting from a 3-0 beat down at the hands of the Canucks.
Their goaltender, J.S. Giguere, was making his first start of the season.
Gabriel Landeskog, their best player, remains sidelined, dealing with head-issues (oh, an upper-upper body injury for those technical nitpickers).
The Calgary Flames themselves, meanwhile, were carrying the momentum of a confidence-boosting W over those precocious Oilers on Saturday. They were fresh, rested and (apparently) rarin' to go after four days off to fine-tune.
This was an opportunity to at least make some hay off a ridiculously favourable opening portion of the abbreviated season — five of the first half-dozen starts on home ice.
The significance could not have been lost on any of them.
And yet the Flames come out flatter than Herman Munster's head.
Hard to fathom. Let alone explain. As a subdued coach Bob Hartley attempted to do in his post-game media availability.
"We gave the game away," said the new boss, perhaps only now absorbing the enormity of his assignment. "It's as simple as this. We gave ourselves a chance to win the game offensively. Defensively, we turned the puck away so many times in key situations of the game. Like the goal at the end of the first period.
"We just gave them life.
"Here's a team that played three games in four nights. Going for the killer instinct . . . we let them back in the game. Whenever you do this to any NHL team, you're taking a big gamble. We got burned bad tonight."
Instead of the overworked Avs wilting, it was the home side sagging late, outscored 3-zip in the third period.
Mercifully, in the analytical aftermath, the captain wasn't about to blame too much time off for the abjectly-poor performance.
"If you'd drawn it up on paper, we'd like that matchup with them playing those game and us waiting," acknowledged Jarome Iginla. "So there's no excuse. We blew a game.
"Give them credit. They battled hard. But at the same time, we were bad.
"It's not going to sit well with us. And it shouldn't. We gotta get right back at it and start climbing because we're going to start playing (games) every second day and we've got to finish this homestand off properly and build it in the right direction again."
Heading into that fateful closing 20 minutes, only a brave bettor would've plunked down any sort of wager on the Avs. Because just when it seemed the Flames were in peril of losing the plot line entirely, watching a 2-1 lead pratfall into a 3-2 deficit, the magnificent Jiri Hudler out-Tanguay-ing the man himself, skimmed a lovely short pass to No. 40 for a one-timer that reduced Giguere to a spectator and tied the score.
Only 17.7 seconds remained on the clock.
But rather than charge out and press their advantage after the intermission it was the rested Flames, not the weary Avs, that wilted.
After the Calgary power play frittered away a chance with the game still tied and six minutes left, Paul Stastny slammed a wraparound past Miikka Kiprusoff during a Colorado PP at 17:20, then he scored an even-strength tally a minute and a half later before P-A Parenteau located an empty Flames' net in the game's final minute to really rub the bad little doggies' noses in the doo.
"We weren't nearly good enough," said Iginla flatly. "We weren't sharp. It was a sloppy game, but it was still there to be won.
"A lot of us weren't very good tonight, myself right at the top of that. Jiri Hudler, Cervenka and Staje were going very well. They gave us a chance to be in that game, to win that game.
"They had a power play late, we had ours. They got it done. We didn't."
No, not nearly enough from the No. 1 line. Nor Michael Cammalleri. Mikael Backlund squandered a hat-trick of chances to propel his side ahead before Stastny did the business and was left wanting.
Maybe the whole sorry evening could be summed up with a second glance at Colorado's first goal, in the final minute of the first: Flames' D-man Chris Butler, just returned to the lineup, serves up the puck on a platter rather than take a hit from old pal Chuck Kobasew, allowing John Mitchell to snap his first of two on the evening past Kiprusoff.
So now the Flames are left no alternative but to the beat the 6-0-1 Hawks to not fall further off the pace and salvage something from this extended homestand.
Good luck with that.
"We're capable of much better than this," said Hartley. "They made us pay on every play that we turned the puck over. That was the difference in the game.
"I don't think it was a lack of desire. It was about execution. We didn't lose the game late in the third. We lost the game much before this.
"We played with fire and we burned ourselves."
The is not enough Polysporin on drugstore shelves citywide to ease the pain this morning.
George Johnson is the Herald's sports columnist.
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Other White Sox links: James looks at the end of Sergio Santos' scoreless streak in yesterday's loss, Cheryl looks at today's win, FutureSox looks on Ryan Buch's promotion to Class-A+ Winston-Salem (Buch: 3.69 ERA, 3.75 FIP, 1.14 WHIP, .266 BABIP, 46.1 IP, 46 K, 17 BB) and thatshortkid attends a Birmingham Barons game at Regions park and writes about it.
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Moose Scowron is fighting lung cancer
It has been a rough few months for Skowron. After turning 80 in December, he collapsed at a ballpark in Arizona during spring training.
"He collapsed into my arms," said oldest son Greg, a trucking executive in the Phoenix area. "We were leaving a spring game around the fifth inning, which was unusual for him. Then he turned down an autograph request, which I'd never seen him do before. Then he turned to me and said, 'I don't feel so good.' "
The initial diagnosis was pneumonia.
Tests later found lung cancer.
Since then, Moose's life has spun around chemotherapy and radiation sessions at Rush University Medical Center. Not to mention the ceaseless faith, nurturing and hope from wife Cookie and daughter Lynnette.
"Don't leave out Jerry Reinsdorf and the White Sox people in all of this," said Skowron, who has served the South Siders as a community relations representative since 1999. "Bob Grim, Ed Farmer, Steve Stone, so many … They've all been great."
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WhatsApp is now available only for iPhone.
The messaging app "Whatsapp", is no more available for the iPod and iPad because of a decision taken by Apple, and it has now removed from the App Store for those devices. Now the WhatsApp App is only available for iPhone.
While WhatsApp for Android is free, WhatsApp has a price in the App Store, and Apple is not refunding the amount of any previous purchase.
WhatsApp keeps working on those iPad and iPod devices in which it is still installed. But you won't be able to update or purchase WhatsApp for iPad or iPod anymore.
Those iPod and iPad users who had already purchased it and who want to keep using it in the near future will be able to do so as long as they don't erase the installed app, and as long as the installed version remains compatible enough, because there's no (legal) way to get a WhatsApp app for your iPad or iPod.
You can create a backup of the app syncing the device with iTunes in your own computer, and then copying the file "WhatsApp.ipa" located inside the folder: "C:\Documents and Settings\Windows username\My documents\My music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Mobile Applications" (in Windows XP; other newer Windows operating systems store the app data in a similar route).
Note: that files has a unique ID, and works only in the device in which the original purchase of the app took place, as it is synchronized with the user's iTunes account. Copying and pasting that WhatsApp data file in a different iPad or iPod will make the app to stop working.


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It is very clear to me that if certain fundamentalist Christians add - to the book of Genesis and to the Biblical timescales since 'creation' in the genealogies - some major scientific discoveries about Earth's history, then the result is awful nonsense. Bad 'science' and false 'history' which is "obviously wrong" - to quote Bill Nye who a year ago fared better than Ken Ham in a high profile debate at Kentucky's 'Creation Museum':
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/b ... /46812.htm
What discoveries am I referring to? The great height of the highest mountains on Earth, the reality of (not obviously biblical) biological speciation, the vastness of Earth's biodiversity today and the fossil record with its record of vast numbers of extinct creatures including massive and not so massive dinosaurs, and the strong evidence such as valleys carved out by ice which points to 'ice age' glaciations in Earth's past when glaciers and icesheets were much larger and more widespread than now.
Thus young Earth creationism 'informs' us that literally the whole planet was covered by hundreds or thousands of feet of water for almost a year during the Bronze Age - even the very highest mountains on the planet (they falsely claim that eg the Himalaya were much lower at the time) with only eight humans surviving this catastrophe. They claim that there was a 'rapid' glaciation - a 'one-off' ice age - during the Bronze Age after that apocalyptic flood described in Genesis. They claim that dinosaurs and human beings both 'must' have lived on the planet at the same time, including during the Bronze Age, despite there being no geological evidence for this and Genesis never referring to the creation of vast giant land creatures. They insist that Noah's Ark somehow contained representative 'kinds' or maybe genera of every land animal species that then somehow recolonised Earth during the Bronze Age and since - to produce the vast biodiversity seen today, not to mention the vast number of creatures that unfortunately then went unbiblically extinct.
Is Ken Ham concerned that what he and his organisation churn out for Christians 'bothered' by science is "obviously wrong" and is pseudo-science? Not in the slightest:
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I look forward to seeing what outlandish claims Ham might make in his video due on 2 February! Is he helping or hindering Christianity I wonder. It is also interesting that if you 'stand up for the Bible' in a scientific era (trying to mesh observable reality with 'infallible' words written over 2,000 years ago) any God who wrote the Bible seems to force such a Christian to make repeated untruthful statements whilst also attacking science and scientists relentlessly.
I also plan to listen to a 'creationism special' on Radio 4's 'BBC Inside Science' on 5 February.
I sent the above text as a limited circulation email. However, I fear Bill Nye is not infallible. I must check this out:


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CHICAGO – Pole dancing is heating up the Windy City, but not everyone is enamored with the new exercise craze.
A grandmother is threatening to block liquor from being served at Flirty Girl Fitness, a Chicago fitness parlor that specializes in pole dancing. Flirty Girl Fitness is next to the Montessori Academy of Chicago, where the grandmother's 18-month-old grandson attends, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
At Flirty Girl Fitness, ladies are invited to bring their bikinis and one of the parlor's towels, head to a private enclosed patio and "relax on our lounge chairs while you sip deliciously healthy smoothies or our yummy cocktails," according to the parlor's Web site. One of the drinks offered at Flirty Girl Fitness is a "Flirtini," or a customized martini.
"Seeing how close that is to the school, drunken ladies in their bikinis doesn't seem appropriate," grandmother Kelly Pucci told the Sun-Times.
The patio where the bikini-clad women are invited to drink is scheduled to open in July. Flirty Girl Fitness owner Kerry Knee told the newspaper that the patio will be "completely enclosed."
There is a question of whether Montessori Academy is a school or a day-care center. That would have to be determined by the Department of Business Affairs and Licensing, which is awaiting public comment from Pucci and other voters who live within 250 feet of Flirty Girl Fitness before deciding whether to issue the "incidental" liquor license, the newspaper reported. Liquor licenses are prohibited within 100 feet of a school, library or house of worship.
Ironically, in a separate story, the S Factor Chicago opened this week to offer classes on striptease-based fitness. The founder of S Factor, named for the curvy S of a woman's body, is actress Sheila Kelley. Other actresses who are taking the class include Teri Hatcher, Kate Hudson and Allison Janney.
"To say this is a striptease workout isn't quite right," Kelley said in today's Chicago Tribune. "It's gentle yet strenuous. It's an intimate, strong, feminine workout. To me, it's really beautiful and natural."