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'ECB must consider taking captaincy away from Cook'
Michael Vaughan has slammed England captain Alastair Cook's "poor tactics" in the ongoing Lord's Test against India and called for the ECB to consider taking the captaincy away from him.
Vaughan, in his article for the Daily Telegraph, said "We have reached the stage with Cook when he cannot be enjoying cricket. You don't when you are not playing well and the team is struggling."
The former skipper said England should have been strolling in the second Test against India but because of "poor tactics" they are left chasing the game.
Cook's role has come under increasing scrutiny after nine winless Tests and 26 innings without a century, his most recent failure coming in this week's second Test against India at Lord's.
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Pressure of leadership
Ex-England players such as Geoffrey Boycott and Alec Stewart have suggested that Cook can no longer handle the pressure of leadership.
"It is easy for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to say it is going to stick by him but it has to ask what is best for the team and for Cook. The ECB has a responsibility to Cook the person to do the right thing and if that means taking the captaincy away then so be it," Vaughan wrote, giving his candid opinion.
In the column, to drive home his point, Vaughan narrates his own struggles with captaincy and how he came out of it.
"I went through terrible moments opening the batting and captaining the side. I could not buy a run in my first series against South Africa and really struggled in Sri Lanka. It was killing me going to my room at night hating this job," Vaughan said.
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'Moving down the order is not an option'
"I reached a stage in 2004 when it took a very honest conversation with the coach at the time, Duncan Fletcher, to sort it out," he said.
"I am now waiting for that Duncan moment to happen to Alastair. I do not see him as anything other than an opening batsman so moving down the order is not an option. The question should be do you think you can get back to the form you showed on that tour to India and captain the side? Would England miss his tactical captaincy at Southampton if he stood down? The honest truth is I do not think they would," Vaughan wrote.
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'Great players have had to relinquish the captaincy'
He stressed that English cricket has to get Cook back to batting consistently at the top of the order.
Vaughan asked the ECB and Cook to not be stubborn and just carry on because they fear giving in to critics.
"Plenty of great players have had to relinquish the captaincy to carry on being a player. It is not a sign of weakness. It is simply a reality of life," Vaughan said.
"I just want to see Cook the run maker return because then the team will be in a better position and he will be enjoying life more," he said.
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'England should have bowled India out for 150'
Talking about the current Test at Lord's, Vaughan said, "England should have bowled India out for 150 and then made 300, to put themselves in position to win the game but because Cook did not get his tactics right they are chasing the game.
"England have been guilty of allowing the opposition back into the game for more than a year. It started in New Zealand, continued in Australia and cost them against Sri Lanka," he said.
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Annabelle is an Associate Advisor at BIT in the Research team. She is also undertaking a PhD investigating feedback mechanisms to improve decision-making in social services, which is a collaboration between the School of Public Policy at University College London and BIT. Before joining, Annabelle worked in research and evaluation in international development. She has provided research and consultancy for international organisations such as Save the Children, Care, USAID, DFID and most recently as a quantitative research manager for BBC Media Action. Annabelle has an MPhil in International Development from Cambridge University and a MA Hons. in Psychology and Business from the University of St Andrews.


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Oxford — Land has been cleared for Oxford Commons, a $350-million commercial, residential, hospitality and entertainment development project that will cover some 565 acres on the east side of the old university town and feature a mixed-use square that, to a great extent, replicates Oxford's historic square.
The project is adjacent to the Oxford Conference Center and has 120 to 140 acres of frontage along Highway 7. In the past, Oxford's commercial development has been in West Oxford, where Wal-Mart is located.
Oxford Commons will be built in segments over a 10-year period, according to Kenny Farrell, one of the two partners in Kenlan Development of Memphis, which is developing the project. His partner is Lance Forsdick.
"We had our engineers survey the Oxford square and found that it's 380 feet across, not counting the court house," Farrell said. "Our square will be approximately 300 feet across, with a 35-room hotel in the center. The hotel will be modeled on the historic courthouse. It won't be an exact replica but will have a strong relationship to the courthouse architecture."
(There will be three additional hotels in the development.)
Farrell said that the square in Oxford Commons will create the same mixed-use concept as the original square and will be also be surrounded by two- and three-story buildings. There will be retail stores and restaurants on the ground floor and condos on the second and third floors.
"We want to create a town within a town, with the town square being a point of inspiration."
None of the retail stores have been named yet, but Farrell said that the type of stores will include home improvement, bed linens, fashion (both general and women's) and electronics. The types of restaurants will run from drive-thru (though not on the square) to sit-down casual to formal.
There will also be a 10-screen cinema complex with stadium seating and an amphitheater for warm-weather viewing.
"This is a concept that's developing across the country," Farrell said. "Not to renovate and redevelop the old downtowns but to build new town centers within the city limits. It's called the New Urbanism Movement. It features the relationship of pedestrians to the market environment and can include such amenities as bicycle and foot paths."
Farrell said that it's a concept of the ancient Greeks that was carried on into the Romans' building around piazzas, so that "there's a civility there, a synergy with the market place also being a gathering place."
The architect for this first phase of Oxford Commons is Looney Ricks Kiss Inc. of Memphis. The contractor is Grace Construction of Memphis.
In addition to the condos on the square, when the development is finished, Farrell said, some 1,000 to 2,000 residences will have been built. These include row houses along a ridge and townhouses. At that time, some 400 acres will be left and Farrell indicated that use for this land is still being assessed.
"The townhouses will have from zero to four acres of land," according to Clay Short, a Tupelo broker involved with the Oxford Commons development. He added they will be built around two lakes on the property.
Short said that the square in Oxford Commons, while not an exact replica of the historic downtown square, "continues and perpetuates what Oxford has already done so well."
Max Hipp, executive director of the Oxford Chamber of Commerce, said that the development with a square as a focal point was "a very challenging concept and we're excited about something this large on the east side of town."
Farrell emphasized that the quality of the space — a town square — depended on the relationship between the width and length of the square and the height of the buildings around the square that provide enclosure but also give a sense of expansiveness. "It's important that people don't feel smothered or squeezed by the buildings but the space shouldn't be so open that you have no sense of being in a definite, enclosed space," he said.
As for the restaurants in the development, Farrell said that Wendy's has already obtained one of the out-spaces. Strong possibilities for other restaurants include Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Chili's, On the Border and Macaroni Grill.
"During the third week in May, we'll attend the annual convention of the ICSC (International Conference of Shopping Centers) in Las Vegas and secure retail outlets for the square."
Oxford Commons is not the only Mississippi project that Kenlan is developing or that's on the horizon. Such a project, focusing on a city's unique history for a theme, is already underway in Tupelo. Other places under consideration include Hattiesburg, Meridian, Vicksburg, Holly Springs, Grenada and, later, possibly the Gulf Coast.
Just as Kenlan keyed on Oxford's long history — it was founded in the 1830s — for its theme, in Tupelo, the developers are using the city's industrial development past.
The City of Oxford is building an elementary school on the same land parcel, but the school's 15 acres, as well as the land for the conference center, was bought from the parcel's owner prior to the Oxford Commons project.
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I figured I'd give you guys a little something to show that I'm still alive, kicking and working hard on Prometheus. The Kolchis area is now complete, and I've made all the graphics for Lycia which is the next area I'm working on. The programming is what's left to be done there. In other words two out of eight areas are completely done and I've now begun on a third. Mind you the game is nonlinear so you're not necessarily supposed to complete the areas in this order, it just happens to be convenient for me to go through them in the way they will be adjoined in the game. Right now I feel I'm in a very nice flow, the framework for the game when it comes to screen transitions and showing text on the screen etc, is all done so it's the dirty work that is left which is great. From now on out I'm positive things will progress much more smoothly as opposed to before when I had to split my attention between MM42 and Prometheus.
Below are screenshots from the Kolchis and Lycia areas. These were taken from before I put the enemies in there so they will have to be revealed later. I'm going to make a serious attempt at getting Prometheus Greenlit on Steam, so probably once I've finished Lycia I will make a trailer and a NES boxart-style promotional picture for the game for this purpose.


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David Hume's "The Origin of Our Ideas and Skepticism about Causal Reasoning" states his beliefs about knowledge and his idea that we can only have relative certainty of truth. Skeptics concur that there is not enough evidence to predict the future or prove truth. In "An Argument Against Skepticism," John Hospers argues that we can have absolute certainty because there is enough evidence from the past and from our own experiences to prove an argument to be true. Although both Hume and Hospers make strong arguments, Hospers' philosophical beliefs on different levels of knowledge and evidence are more convincing than Hume's concepts on knowledge and truth.
Hume's argument is based on the idea that we can only be certain of analytical truths, such as mathematics; synthetic truths, or "matters of fact" are only and can only be probable, not truth. He believes that induction cannot be rationally justified because the premises support but do not guarantee the conclusion to the argument.
Hume states that through experience, people assume that the future will represent the past, and that similar things will be coupled with similar qualities. Skeptics, like Hume, believe it is not an absolute truth that the sun will rise every day; it is merely supposed that history will repeat itself. If there is any suspicion that nature will change, experience becomes useless in predicting the future. Hume questions why we should accept the uniformity of nature, and anyone who argues this point is said to be "begging the question." He comes to the conclusion that there is no real evidence to prove that inductive arguments are true or false, and accepting them is just routine but can't be justified.
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Version 5.0 of the PACTware operating tool was released on the 7th of July 2015.
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Monitoring Ecosystem Services, Agriculture and Livelihoods in Rwanda
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In 2010, the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network was awarded a 3-year grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to conduct monitoring on ecosystem services in the context of agricultural intensification and climate change to improve human wellbeing. The overall goal of the project is to implement a systematic monitoring network to provide near real-time, quantitative data on biodiversity and livelihoods in Rwanda. In conjunction with the TEAM monitoring, CI's Conservation Stewards Program and Verde Ventures are testing a set of incentives and co-investments that will enable Rwandan smallholder farmers to choose sustainable agricultural practices. The vision of this integrated approach is to give decision makers a way to evaluate the impacts of such incentive programs on ecosystem health and demonstrate the importance of ecosystems to sustainable economic growth.
Conservation International has partnered with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Rwanda to collect data on landscape composition, climate, water, soil, fuelwood and resilience. These data will be combined with household-level socioeconomic data to determine the specific ecosystem services on which Rwandan people rely. Two monitoring landscapes were implemented in 2012 near Gitarama and Nyungwe National Park. CI also organized workshops in collaboration with local and national partners to identify three demonstration sites for assessing the suitability of conservation agreements and examining market conditions, emphasizing links between conservation and economic growth.
In 2013, the TEAM Network was awarded another grant from the MacArthur Foundation to extend the incentive and monitoring framework in Rwanda to sites in Uganda and Tanzania. The demonstration sites in Uganda and Tanzania will be selected in coordination with Vital Signs: An Integrated Global Monitoring System for Agriculture, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being. TEAM aims to connect the financing activities with the Vital Signs Monitoring System to demonstrate how to harness real-time information to analyze the impacts of sustainable agricultural initiatives on biodiversity and ecosystem services within a national-level, adaptive management framework.
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We are now hiring baristas for JJ Bean Railway.
We are now hiring part-time baristas for JJ Bean Railway (460 Railway St., Vancouver). You must have open availability from Monday-Friday.
No experience required: we train successful candidates and promote from within. We look for keen, motivated learners who bring a positive attitude to each day. An open/flexible availability is valuable. Being a people-oriented company, applications delivered in person to your chosen store(s) usually receive priority.
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Deliver your resume with cover letter in person to Rachel at JJ Bean Railway, or email email@example.com with subject line "JJ Railway Barista Application."
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JJ Bean exists to honour people through great coffee, service, food, and spaces. We believe that everyone who takes part in the journey of coffee—from farmers to baristas—deserves to be fairly rewarded for their work.
We are committed to compensating our staff well above industry standards. Our "levels" system gives all of our café staff the opportunity to increase their wages as they improve their barista skills and coffee knowledge.
In addition to hourly wages, we offer quarterly and yearly bonuses, medical benefits, and generous staff discounts. After one year of employment, all employees are eligible for a wellness plan that enables them to pay for fitness, education, and general wellness courses. Also after one year employees are eligible to buy into the company as shareholders.


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SPLAT is the leading Russian developer and producer of innovative, professional oral care products.
Our in-house scientific laboratory and R&D Centre work on pushing the envelope of our unique compounds. At present, SPLAT holds more than 10 Russian and international patents.
The effectiveness of all our products has been proven during extensive tests in Russia, Japan and EU countries.
SPLAT is a family-owned and operated company, which in just 13 years has gone from an idea to being the leading, Russian oral care company with better than 13% of the Russian market to its name. SPLAT's successes are not confined to Russia – the company currently exports its products to more than 28 countries around the world.
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Diploma's economic contributions include the provision of buildings, amenity and infrastructure; direct and indirect employment; payment of taxes to governments; and payments to providers of goods and services.
There is also the opportunity for economic upside as the capital value of investments increase for the purchasers and owners of Diploma properties.
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This press release is from Fortress:
Why the Lazarus Story Meant So Much to Early Christians
MINNEAPOLIS (August 10, 2006)—The story of Lazarus in John 11–12 typically has been understood by scholars as a prototype of the resurrection of Christ. In the newly-released Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social –Scientific Approaches to the Gospel of John, Philip F. Esler and Ronald Piper examine the raising of Lazarus, the relationship between him and his two sisters Mary and Martha, and the theological implications of a social-scientific critique of this relationship and the Lazarus story in general.
Using social identity theory, Esler and Piper set out what social identity theory actually means, how it works, and how it applies to John's Gospel. They then show how their ecclesiological reading of the Lazarus story finds confirmation in the catacomb art from Rome. The book concludes by setting out some of the theological dimensions of the investigation, and ultimately provides fresh theological insight into this New Testament text.
* Uses social-scientific insights into group identity to provide a new interpretation of Lazarus
* Includes four pages of full-color illustrations from the catacombs
Philip F. Esler is one of the foremost New Testament scholars in the world. Vice-Principal at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, he is author of many works, including Fortress Press volumes Conflict and Identity in Romans (2003) and New Testament Theology (2005).
Ronald Piper currently holds two positions: Professor of Christian Origins in the Divinity School, and University Vice-Principal for Learning & Teaching at St. Andrews. Among his works is Wisdom in the Q Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Lazarus, Mary and Martha
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Norway based artist Dino Tomic was born in Croatia 1988, he is a young Croatian tattoo artist who creates beautiful hyper realistic drawings which are a must see for you guys.After high school he started college in Notodden / Telemark where he got his Bachelor degree as faglæarer in arts and crafts. Tomic explores a broad range of stylistics drawings on sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and other fictional themes to fuel his work, but not without realistic animal and people as well.
Dino Tomic Says "While you do that you create your own style. You learn a thing from one artist and something else from someone else." Tomic also adds one more inspiring thought: "Pablo Picasso says it all: All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."


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A soft breath in the cold dawn
One teenage year
Me and my selfie
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Flaming Grace
Bloody Mary & Sloppy Joe
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Bloody Mary & Sloppy Joe
My new home was so confusing, different, and intriguing.
In 2010 I moved to Evergreen, Colorado (USA). As Dutch foreigners my family and I experienced life in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains for 3 years. In the Netherlands I grew up with watching American movies, shows and videoclips. In real life in the States, I sometimes recognized similar places and people from those fiction scenes. It felt like I was living in a constructed reality show. Often the fiction and the reality confused me. More important, I feared my new life would fade like a dream when I would go back home. That all this would be forgotten.
By turning my fascination for the people and places into images, the dream became a memory. A memory of my foreign life in The Rocky Mountains and a memory of my personal discovery out there. This series is really about me, finding out who I am and how I view things. And trying to understand people and the American culture around me. I felt like an anthropologist trying to comprehend people's rules, customs, and ways of thinking. By making the images, I was able to feel less alienated, more aware of my emotions. Looking for the moments that touched me. Affected by beauty, loneliness, affection, horror, oddness, or more likely a combination of all. This is my personal view and journal of my life in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, area code 80439.
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First look: Tempranillo Vinho & Cozinha
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Brought to you by the culinary and alcoholic visionaries of Barteco is Sao Paulo's hottest new wine bar Tempranillo. Located in the swanky Vila Nova Conceicao it is under the command of Jaci Soares (Taberna 474) and Carlos Martignago (Serafina) so you know this will become your new 'go to' spot. Designed by architect Silvana Brandão , the decor is […]
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There are tons of unique, delicious restaurants in Sao Paulo, however Barteco, the newest edition in Pinheiro's stands apart from the rest. Set in a 3 story house with high ceilings, beautiful wood floors and artistic tiled walls. You can sit inside, at the bar or outside under the heat lamps (it's winter in Brazil […]
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The European Capital of Culture project (EPK) has brought the cities involved, region and the country a lot of good, Suzana Žilič Fišer, the head of Maribor 2012, the institute in charge of the project, believes. She thinks it has also contributed to people's "awakening from apathy" and encouraged them to speak up.
Director of ECOC 2012: "International recognisability of Maribor and the parter cities has significantly increased because of the EPK. Maribor has become one of the top ten destinations in 2012, tourist numbers exceeded expectations"
As some are drawing parallels between the EPK and anti-establishment protests that were born in Maribor, Žilič Fišer says in an interview with the STA that after 2012, the year in which Maribor holds the title of European Capital of Culture, the city will never be the same.
"If this project encouraged citizens to become more self-aware, if it encouraged democratisation of opinions and a public dialogue...our goal has been achieved."
As part of the EPK both traditional as well as on-line projects enabled people to express their opinions, positions on various issues, according to her.
Having people expressing their opinion was very much needed in Slovenia, where apathy became increasingly wide spread, especially among the young people.
Žilič Fišer believes the biggest lasting achievement of the project is the mental shift that has happened because Maribor and its partner cities to the project (Murska Sobota, Novo mesto, Ptuj, Slovenj Gradec and Velenje) were put in the centre of attention of international community.
Subsequently, all those who work in these cities have been given an opportunity to be seen in the wider, European region, she says.
"This is why I think coproductions and projects of cooperation with international institutions are so important. I hope this cooperation will continue in the future as well and this is definitely an added value of the EPK."
Žilič Fišer also cherishes the cooperation between culture and science through the University in Maribor as "extremely important for the creativity of the city".
Another positive feature has been volunteering, which the EPK has been encouraging and which Žilič Fišer thinks should be nurtured in the future. "More than 7,000 hours of volunteer work done by different generations certainly indicate a huge shift in the mentality of the people."
The EPK also brought economic effects, including by attracting more tourists. "International recognisability of Maribor and the parter cities has significantly increased because of the EPK. Maribor has become one of the top ten destinations in 2012, tourist numbers exceeded expectations."
"Whether or not this trend will continue, depends on the city leadership and the hospitality sector," the EPK official says.
According to her, the project also connected the partner cities, which opens many opportunities for the future, including in the form of cooperation in the drawing of European funds.
However, the project was also marred by financial issues, while the decision to put a public institute in charge of the project Živčič Fišer labels as "the least appropriate".
She says that while in other culture capitals around the world the institution that is in charge of the project is set up five years in advance, in Slovenia such an institute was set up less than a year before the start of the project.
"Many staffing changes in the management and other bodies of the institute in this short period of preparation for the project significantly destabilised the situation and prevented effective work."
Maribor 2012 also has "extraordinary big problems" with paying coproducers due to delays in payments to the institute from the state
The fate of the institute after 1 January 2013 is also uncertain although initially it was envisaged that the institute will operate until 1 July 2013. "Those who pass this decree knew that they will have to enable the institute to function by July 2013," she says.
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This week at the market I couldn't resists the cheese at Ocello's stall where I purchased a lovely soft cow's milk cheese from Italy called Brillat Savarin. The line of shaved truffle through the centre was a true indulgence.
I also sampled the semi hard cow's milk cheese from Italy called Latteria Vecchio which I bought and bumped alongside these lovely little baby pears.
I found green mangoes and other fresh as fresh can be aromatics at Fiats Thai Produce stall which inspired last night's dinner; yellow chicken and coconut curry with snake beans and Thai eggplant. I also whipped up a green mango salad with frehs mint and coriander.
The passionfruit was so beautiful this week that I decided to make little tarts with creme patissiere topped with passionfruit pulp.
The scent from the stall selling these deep purple bombs of orange and black lava could be smelt a mile away. It transported me back to memories as a kid in my backyard where the whole back fence was covered in this pretty flowered vine.
Shortcrust Tarts with Creme Patissiere and Passionfruit Pulp
Shortcrust Pastry
1 1/2 cups plain flour
125g butter, chopped
1/3 cup caster sugar
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon chilled water
1. Combine flour, butter and sugar in a food processor. Process until the mix resembles fine bread crumbs. Add yolk and chilled water. Process until dough comes together.
2. Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface and kneed until just smooth. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for 30mins.
3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Roll the dough out, cut and place in small tart moulds/tins. Bake in the oven for 15mins or until tart cases are golden brown.
Creme Patissiere
3 large egg yolks
1/2 cup white sugar
3 tablespoon cornflour
300ml whole milk
1 vanilla bean pod, slit and scraped
1. In a medium size stainless steel bowl mix the egg yolks and sugar with a wooden spoon. Sift the flour and add to the mixture.
2. Add milk and vanilla bean to the bowl. Mix until thoroughly combined and smooth.
3. Place in a pot on medium heat and bring to the boil stirring constantly. When liquid boils, whisk for a minute or until mixture becomes stiff and hard to stir.
4. Pour into a clean bowl and immediately cover with cling film to prevent a skin forming. Allow to cool.
5. To serve, spoon creme patissiere into tart cases and top with fresh passionfruit pulp.
These beautiful little tarts are available at my Double Bay and Cammeray stores on Sunday. Why not come in for high tea?
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I will never forget the feeling I felt when my sister-in-law's father Sterling walked up and asked to buy our dinner. It was one day that replays in my mind over and over again!
So tonight, I planned the date night! Dinner at IHOP followed by a movie. What was more appropriate than My thoughts? GREAT NIGHT! So fun to spend time with my husband and reminisce about how we met. The Movie? HILARIOUS until about the last ummmm 20 minutes. Everything got a little, lets just say, I wouldn't recommend the last 20 minutes. It got a little bit dirty. Last thoughts, I love my husband SO much and tonight was so much fun! I am so lucky to have him as my husband!


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I think most of my generation in New Zealand grew up watching repeats of Friends and The Simpsons every weeknight. In most situations you can make a reference to either show, and everyone in the room will have seen the episode so many times themselves they instantly get what you mean. Personally every time I hear an oven timer go off, I feel the urge to yell: "My Fajitas!" and when my hair gets particularly curly: "It's the humidity!" And I know every time one of my friends mentions Hungry, Hungry Hippos that what they're really playing is the waiting game.
It's possible another diagnosis may be on the horizon for me. Nothing confirmed yet; it could turn out to be absolutely nothing. I wasn't going to post about this, until I knew for sure either way but then I realised "the waiting game" is a big part of living with chronic illness. Whether it's test results, approval for new medications, treatments to start working, or answers to the cause of new symptoms, it feels like we're always waiting for something.
I went to see my GP to get some forms filled in last Monday, and in the course of the appointment, I asked her to check my blood pressure. I was pretty sure it was low. I've been having more and more dizzy spells and headaches lately, especially upon standing up from sitting or lying, and I've had a couple of unexplained falls as well. It was, as I suspected, low but we were a little surprised by how low. At the time it was taken, I was feeling fine which suggests it may be dipping even further when I'm having dizzy spells. My GP suggested I should start drinking coffee to raise it, and when I mentioned I'd found drinking water with added electrolytes helped, she checked my blood test results and found my electrolytes levels are also low. I think there are probably a lot of reasons this can happen, but the one that my doctor thinks it could be is Addison's disease. I don't know too much about it, and I'm resisting to urge to google anymore because the Wikipedia page freaked me out. From what I have read, I do have all the symptoms, but given that they are all fairly non-specific symptoms and could be attributed to any one of the other conditions I already have, that doesn't really mean much.
Autoimmune disorders tend to run in packs, so after you've been diagnosed with a few it's not really all that much of a surprise when another one is added. Even so, I have to admit the possibility of this one has unsettled me a little, especially as I hadn't even considered anything new might be wrong, before my doctor brought it up. My GP said it's quite hard to diagnose, and she's on leave for the next month, so for now it's just extra blood tests, self-monitoring of my blood pressure... and playing the waiting game.
Whenever you're waiting on something the advice everyone gives is don't think about it, but as we all know that's like trying not to think about elephant when someone tells you not to think about elephants. Still, I'm doing my best not to worry about it at least.
The waiting game sucks. I really need to get Hungry, Hungry Hippos.
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ALVENA JERRELL, PETITIONERv.COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, RESPONDENT
Appeal from the Order of the Department of Public Welfare in the case of Appeal of: Alvena Jerrell, Case No. 72595.
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Alvena Jerrell, a general assistance recipient, appeals a decision of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) affirming a hearing examiner's order which denied Ms. Jerrell emergency shelter expenses under 55 Pa. Code § 289.4(2)(iii)(B).
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On February 19, 1981, Ms. Jerrell informed her county assistance office (CAO) caseworker that her landlord required her to move by February 21, showed the caseworker an executed lease for another apartment, commencing February 21, 1981, and a receipt for the security deposit for that apartment and, alleging that she did not have the rent money for her new apartment, made a request for a grant for emergency shelter expenses. Because the landlord had given no written eviction notice, the caseworker, to help verify Ms. Jerrell's situation, wrote an informal eviction notice which the landlord signed on February 19. The record does not show a specific reason for that eviction; however, Ms. Jerrell alleges that her landlord's action was due to "personal difficulties" and not because of any failure to pay rent.
On February 20, the CAO sent Ms. Jerrell written notice of its denial of Ms. Jerrell's request for emergency shelter expenses. The notice, in pertinent part, stated:
Manual Section 289.4(a) B -- A person is considered homeless [if] he or she is without a place to stay -- Since you have already paid $175.00 for your apartment you are not considered homeless therefore this grant is denied.*fn1
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On February 21, 1981, Ms. Jerrell moved to a friend's home where she stayed until she moved into her new apartment on March 4. Ms. Jerrell testified that she was unable to move into her new apartment on February 21 because she did not have enough money to pay the first month's rent. Ms. Jerrell also testified that her new apartment required extensive cleaning, that between February 21 and March 4 she spent a substantial amount of time cleaning it, and that she renegotiated her lease so that the rent was lower and the lease period began on March 1, 1981.
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Tonight was Stefan Della Rovere's second game as a pro, having joined the ECHL South Carolina Stingrays from the OHL Barrie Colts. He looked about as I expected, having seen him in the WJC. He's an agitator and played like most agitators do. Like a lot of guys fresh out of junior, he ran around a lot, sometimes from one side of the ice to the other just to make a hit. He always finished his checks -- to a fault. His physicality seemed to turn up the tempo on the game though, which worked to South Carolina's advantage. Della Rovere had several failed hits, as his timing was a bit off. Also cherry picked and had a roughing penalty for putting a guy in a headlock along the boards after the whistle.
Della Rovere played left wing on a line with Pierre-Luc O'Brien and Jeff Corey and had one assist. Also had a good tip in front for a chance, and made a nice centering pass.
Here are some photos.
At warmups.
Listening to the older and wiser Maxime Lacroix explain what to do during warmup.
Crashing the net -- par for the course for him.
Chirping all the way back to the net. Also par for the course.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
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Together with the announcement of the OPPO F3 Plus, OPPO also revealed that they would also be releasing a black edition of the said device.
Related: OPPO F3 Plus launched for P23,990!
With an OPPO executive mentioning that this is the very first time the company has launched a black edition of any OPPO device, the OPPO F3 Plus will bear the same specs as the gold-colored one, but will not be launching alongside the April 1 release date. Sure, it's sexy - it even looks like the iPhone 7 in some angles - but you better have a case ready or else prepare to sacrifice that matte black color to scratches. We also aren't sure if this will be a limited run thing.
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Blaine Pfeifer has been named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He will be inducted into the College of Fellows Class of 2018 this spring as part of AIMBE's Annual Event, to be held April 8-9 in Washington, D.C.
Pfeifer, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was elected to the AIMBE for his outstanding contributions to the fields of complex natural product biosynthesis and vaccine delivery design towards infectious disease applications.
According to AIMBE website, AIMBE Fellows "represent the top 2% of the medical and biological engineering community. They are considered the life-blood of AIMBE and work towards realizing AIMBE's vision to provide medical and biological engineering innovation for the benefit of humanity. Fundamental to their achievements is the common goal of embracing innovation to improve the healthcare and safety of society."
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Pfeifer has published more than 85 academic papers, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and the New York State Department of Economic Development, among others. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
An entrepreneur, Pfeifer is one of the founders of Abcombi Biosciences, Inc., a pre-clinical vaccine and therapeutic development company dedicated to delivering "smarter" vaccine and anti-infective solutions. Collaborators include co-founders Charles Jones, chief executive officer, who earned his PhD in chemical and biological engineering under Pfeifer in 2015; Christopher Kilgore, chief operating officer; Andrew Hill, chief security officer; and Margaret McGlynn, board chair and former Merck Vaccine Executive and chief executive officer of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Pfeifer joined UB's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in 2011. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Tufts University, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where, under the tutelage of Robert Langer, he focused on gene delivery to the sentinel cells (antigen presenting cells) of the immune system with the goal of enabling effective genetic vaccines. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from Stanford University in 2002.
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This week we are moving steadily westward along the Gibb River Road in the Kimberley, and reach our next camping stop - Bell Gorge.
Bell Gorge and nearby Lennard Gorge (see week 40) are located in the King Leopold Range Conservation Park covering 392,100 hectares and protecting some of the remotest country in the Kimberley. There are some spectacular views driving through the Ranges.
The Dept of Environment & Conservation (DEC) campground at Silent Grove is a very popular spot so we picked our spot and pitched our tent before visiting the Gorge.
The first part of the walk into Bell Gorge is fairly easy (1km to the top of the waterfall), however the last part involves crossing the creek and scrambling down a steep rock wall leading to the water – stunning views and another beautiful Kimberley Gorge to swim in.
Looking across the top of the Gorge below which is the waterfall
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We walked out along a ledge to get this photo. You can see people down the bottom of the waterfall relaxing on the rocks. (pity about that little straggly plant clinging to life in the middle of this photo - however you can't change nature - and it is amazing that plants can grow on a rock face!) It is hard to show the scale in these photos, but I hope seeing people in the pic will help give you an idea of the size of the waterfall.
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Walking down to the bottom of the gorge....
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This one is from the top of the gorge wall looking the other direction to the falls.
Near the turn off from the GIbb River Road into Bell Gorge is one of only two places to buy supplies or organize tyre repairs along The Gibb River Road - Imintji Store. As it was around lunch time when we reached here we stopped for lunch in the shade and bought a few supplies from the well stocked store.
You shouldn't travel the Gibb River Road without plenty of provisions, water, and spare tyres.....the road can be very rough depending on when the grader was through last. The photo below is of the tyre repairer at Imintji.
I hope you have enjoyed this part of the trip. Next week we continue on to Windjana Gorge where there is the greatest concentration of fresh water crocodiles in the north.
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After the events of September 11th 2001, the priority of the CIA understandably became apprehending Osama Bin Laden, the leader of the terrorist group behind the attacks. CIA operative Maya (Jessica Chastain) joins a team involved with this, whose initial job is the interrogation of potential leads by any means necessary, but she soon becomes more involved with the bigger picture, and ultimately becomes the only person absolutely certain of the whereabouts of Bin Laden, culminating in a U.S. Navy Seal attack on the house he is believed to be staying in, some twelve years after the search began.
Before I get into this review, I'd like to have a little rant first. Near me, there are two cinemas run by the same company (it rhymes with Smodeon) only a couple of doors apart from each other, so let's just assume they're one big cinema with eleven screens. Zero Dark Thirty, a film which, upon it's release, was nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture, five Baftas including Best Picture and Director and dozens of other awards, and was directed by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) was released in this cinema, with several screenings every day. Unfortunately, it was released the same week as Lincoln, and as I can only really justify going to the cinema at most once a week due to various other commitments (like work and sleep), I had to make a decision, and decided that of these two films, Zero Dark Thirty would be the one more likely to retain it's percentage of screening dominance in the following week. As it turns out this was a mistake, as the week after it's initial release, this multi-award nominated and critically-acclaimed film had just one showing per day, and that was at 17:15. I finish work at 17:00, and it's a good 45 minute cycle (including getting-changed-time) from my place of business to my local Smodeon, so even allowing for trailers and commercials there was no chance of me seeing this film at my convenience. Fortunately I was able to wrangle a viewing at the next cinema over from me, but this involved going quite far out of my way, and visiting a cinema at which I do not receive loyalty points, in order to see a film that really should have been far more readily available.
Due to all the aforementioned palaver with the viewing, my anticipation for the film may have been raised slightly above where it should have been. I was hoping for a great film, as many reviews I'd read had pointed in this direction, and the little I could remember of The Hurt Locker was mostly positive. However, I was also prepared not to enjoy it, as I'm not a huge fan of Bigelow's directing style (this blog's very first post details my disdain for Point Break). What I was thoroughly unprepared for though, was to leave the cinema without any opinion towards the film whatsoever. I'm not saying I was left numbed with shock, I'm saying I was completely and utterly unimpressed and underwhelmed with practically everything I'd seen, as if the previous two and a half hours had been spent in a coma, making this the most pointless cinematic experience I've ever had.
So what, may you ask, am I doing writing a post on something I have no thoughts on? Well, there are three reasons. Firstly, I'm trying to review everything I see in the cinema, in an effort to make this blog a little more current. Secondly, I do have a few opinions on it, although my pocket notebook received the least scribblings in recent memory. And thirdly, this is just the sort of film the 1001 book will include in it's next issue, and if I review it now then I won't have to do it again later. Shallow and selfish, yes, but also efficient. And quite frankly, I don't really want to watch this film again.
So, thoughts. I'd really appreciate it if someone could buy Kathryn Bigelow a tripod. Shaky-cam does work at times, but those times don't exist anymore outside of found-footage films. I didn't get a headache, but it was so very distracting seeing the camera jiggle and shake in a manner that seemed far more exaggerated than would actually be the case if it were being held by someone trying to film whilst walking or running. Add to this the fact that I was sat in a rocking chair and it becomes a triumph that I didn't throw up. Zero Dark Thirty also rivals Les Miserables for most egregious use of close-ups, of which there were far too many for my liking.
In terms of plot, the pacing was good but there were far too many characters to keep track of, and they were occasionally played by recognisable or down-right famous actors, which regularly took me out of what I was watching. I'm fine with people like Mark Strong or James Gandolfini being given their roles, as they added a certain gravitas to the proceedings, but Mark Duplass had me wondering if that was really him, and then of course John Barrowman showed up for 11 words of dialogue. I cannot imagine the thought process that led to him being cast, unless there were several scenes he was cut from that required a rendition of Any Dream Will Do. I also wasn't as impressed as many other people with Jessica Chastain's performance. She didn't really stand out for me, and I get the feeling she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar (and may even win) because, as usual, there haven't been too many spectacular roles for women this year, but she's the main character with the most screen time in a big name picture. It isn't a bad performance, and I do like her as an actress (I love what she did in The Help) but I just wasn't overly impressed with what is supposedly one of the five best performances of the year.
On a positive note, I loved the cut from the London bombing to a guy sharing a chocolate ice cream with some monkeys in the desert, some elements of the plot were genuinely unexpected - which is rare for a film about real life recent events - and the helicopters sounded so incredibly sexy, which means a lot coming from a guy not overly concerned with vehicles that don't have two wheels and a bell.
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We made sure to have everyone dress in colors of the rainbow so we could celebrate with our whole bodies. My kids enjoyed choosing their color, and we were all surprised to find that red and blue are the favorites. After everyone arrived for the party, Ariel and I chose to change our color so we could have more of a variety of the rainbow. No one had chose purple!
We started off the party with the color YELLOW. My mom was the planner for this one, and chose to have a candy balloon game. She filled yellow balloons with rainbow skittles, and all the kids had a turn breaking open the balloons like a piñata. We had a sharp stick, and a fun hat to catch the skittles with!
Our next color we explored was BLUE planned by Cynthia. We all decided she is very resourceful and can turn any piece of trash into something better and fun!
We played a game with blue creamer lids, and blue silverware. There was a bucket full of lids sitting next to us. One person was in charge of adding the lids to the circle, while the rest of us tried to pass them all the way around without dropping them, using only the end of our silverware. If the lid fell, we had to leave it on the ground. The last person in the circle would place the lids aside so we could count how many we got when time was up. If we were able to go through a certain amount without dropping them, and before the timer was up, we each got some Rainbow Twizzlers!
Another blue game we played was with the creamer lids and a bucket of water. We had two teams playing against each other this time for a relay game. The first people had to fill their lid with water, run to the other side and dump the water into a plastic container. The first team to make it to the blue line on the container won.
After a winner was pronounced, it was decided that the winners got to dump their water container on the other players. My daughter got into this the most!
I planned our next color which was ORANGE. We used three cans of shaving cream and mixed it with orange kool-aid. The color unfortunately didn't dye the shaving cream very well, but it did make it smell really good. The kids really seemed to enjoy this, and by the end were covered with the shaving cream regardless of how many times we told them not to touch their clothes.
When the shaving cream was all used up, we took the kids to the grass and hosed them all off. It was a perfect day for it as the weather was quite hot. The kids were all cooled down with their dripping wet clothing!
For the color GREEN Cristina planned for us to play "Red Light, Green Light" The kids really enjoyed this! I personally thought every time they need to go back for continuing to run on the Red light, but they didn't seem to think so.
After we finished playing the game, we all had some very delicious green rice krispie treats!
Michelle planned our RED game, water balloons! We had the kids divided into two different teams, and the fight was on.
Ariel found a new way of playing, by first breaking the balloon then trying to throw the water. I think she might have actually gotten herself more wet this way.
We had some healthy PURPLE smoothies made by Rachael to complete all of our colors
After our colors were finished, we played some rainbow games, and made a rainbow craft. I found these rainbow beanbag balls on the Family Fun website.
After a little trial and error, we were all able to complete our balls. We had a little bit of difficulty getting the balloons stretched out enough to fill up with our split peas.
One of the games we played was "Rainbow Catcher"
1) First you choose a "rainbow catcher." They will stand in the middle of a large play area.
2) Next assign all the remaining players different colors of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
3) The rainbow catcher then calls out a color. All the players that have been assigned that color try and run past the catcher to the other side of the play area. The "rainbow catcher" tries to tag as many of children as they can before they reach the other side. Since we had only a few players, we also had the "rainbow catcher" call out multiple colors to make it a little more challenging.
Another game we played was inside the house, a sort of rainbow scavenger hunt. Each kid was assigned a color of the rainbow, and they had to run around finding three things of that color. The items had to be small enough to carry, and you couldn't get two of the same item. The kids seemed to have fun with this, and we even made a clean-up version of the game!
To end our rainbow party, we turned on the sprinkler and found a real rainbow to gaze upon!


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Transnational food companies are taking over traditional distribution channels in the South and replacing local foods with cheap, processed junk food, often with the direct support of governments. Free trade and investment agreements have been critical to their success. The case of Mexico provides a stark picture of the consequences for the world's poorest people.


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This is my newest religion that i created. You should join, if youre not a member already. I think as of now this is the biggest and fastest growing religion in america. Join now, membership is unlimited, you better hurry, eternal salvation isnt going to wait for you (nor are you going to get it from this religion).
Central beliefs:
The central belief being held by the dominant majority is that this category is not a real category and that the topic of central beliefs will be covered in a later segment entitled "the later segment".
Eccentric beliefs:
The eccentric beliefs of this non religion is that it is not a belief system, thus all of the beliefs are non-centered, even the underlying eccentricism. Accordingly, no two people are permitted to believe the same thing at the same moment in time or out of time. Believing the previous sentence is included in the eccentric belief clause. Violation of this rule will call for immediate non action.
All members must first be initiated by one of the revered priests. These priests originally were limited to fast food workers and the people who ate the fast food, but since our membership has grown to record numbers we must expand the requirements for priestness. In order to become a priest you must not say 'I am a priest'. If you say you are a priest then you will just become a common member. To be initiated by a priest, the priest must look at you. If there are no priests in your area there is one other way to become an official member of this cult-if you eat food you are automatically a member.
The sacred and profane:
What is sacred is to never be talked or written about. Some things that are not to be talked or written about are: the words "the", "I", "a", "you", and "and". These words are mysterious, as for no one, as in me, knows where they originated. This is called the great myth of theiayouand, the myths secrets are never to be revealed because it is forbidden to mention them. Anyone who is caught mentioning them will not be released by the person that catches them. As for the profane, the profane is everything that is easy to explain and just common knowledge. Some examples are how the world was created and where you go when you die. For those of you who don't know, I'm not going to tell you.
The creation myth:
The world was created in 7 days. You see, day 1 had intercourse with day 2, they had two offsprings named day 3 and 4. Day 3 and 4 had two offsprings named 5 and 6. Day 5 and six had two offsprings named 7 and 8. However, due to so much inbreding day 8 died and day 7 had no one to procreate with. Hence, day 7 is the giant organism we live on and leach off of.
Where you go when you die:
Well, I'd say when you died you just went to dust, but then no one would like that. So, I'll tell you the truth. You go to a fantastic banquet with all sorts of uncanny guests. You get to dine with the worms, ants and a whole host of new and interesting creatures.
The later segment:
This section serves no purpose except to serve a purpose as serving a purpose would dictate that serving no purpose serves the purpose of serving no purpose, but that is false because this serves no purpose and true things can be false but this is not true-just completely false, but false things taste good, and things that taste good are yummy which leads me to the central belief that all things are not as cute as dogs.
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Carly was an insanely fine college babe who decided to film a naughty video for her man while they were apart at school. They hadn't seen each other since Winter Break and were both really horny. He'd begged Carly tons of times to send him a video to keep him company while they were apart, but she'd always refused. This time would be different. Carly decided she would strip down and play with her pussy for him. No doubt, it was an awesome video. Carly had big juicy tits that were just right for sucking or sticking your cock between. We were very impressed, and when Carly turned around and showed off her booty, we nearly lost our minds. She had an ass that was unbelievable. It was big, round, plump as hell and perfect for the pounding. As she continued to strip down and play with herself, we could tell Carly was a real freak because she liked to rub her asshole as much as she did her pussy. She went on to rub and play with her pussy until she had an intense orgasm on video.


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The Environmental Protection Agency July 20 agreed to reconsider the mercury and air toxics standards it set for new power plants.
The Institute of Clean Air Companies, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, and others have asked EPA to reconsider the mercury limits for new sources because current technology cannot continuously monitor mercury concentrations so low, which they said could prevent new coal-fired plants from being built (84 DER A-13, 5/2/12).
The mercury emissions limits for new sources are more stringent than for existing sources. EPA does not intend to reconsider aspects of the rule as it relates to existing power plants.
Gina McCarthy, EPA assistant administrator for air and radiation, said in a July 20 letter granting reconsideration that EPA wants to ensure the standards for new sources are "achievable and measurable."
"Our expectation is that under the reconsideration rule new sources will be required to install the latest and most effective pollution controls and will be able to monitor compliance with the new standards with proven monitoring methods," McCarthy wrote.
EPA will take comment on the reconsideration and intends to complete the rulemaking by March 2013. The agency said it will publish a notice in an upcoming issue of the Federal Register staying the emissions standards for new plants for three months.
In the July 20 letter, McCarthy said EPA specifically is granting "reconsideration of certain new source issues, including measurement issues related to mercury and the data set to which the variability calculation was applied when establishing the new source standards for particulate matter and hydrochloric acid, that may affect the new source standards."
EPA in December issued a final rule setting numeric emissions limits for mercury, filterable particulate matter as a surrogate for toxic metals, and hydrogen chloride as a surrogate for acid gases (246 DER AA-1, 12/22/11).
EPA said in a news release July 20 that the reconsideration is expected to "provide greater certainty" for five planned power plants in Georgia, Kansas, Texas, and Utah. It did not specify the five power plants.
Several energy companies that are developing new coal-fired power plants are litigating issues specific to new plants separately from the other issues being raised in consolidated cases challenging the rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (White Stallion Energy Center v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 12-1272, statement filed 7/9/12).
The new power plant petitioners are White Stallion Energy Center LLC, Sunflower Electric Power Corp, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc., Power4Georgians LLC, Deseret Power Electric Cooperative, and Tenaska Trailblazer Partners LLC (126 DER A-11, 7/2/12).
"EPA's recognition that there are serious technical difficulties with the rule--which are precisely those we plan to raise in the litigation--is helpful," Eric Groten, an attorney with Vinson & Elkins LLP representing White Stallion Energy Center, told BNA July 20. "We're very pleased to have [reconsideration] granted, but, unfortunately, it doesn't mean that we can abandon or even delay our legal claims."
The petitioners told the D.C. Circuit they are caught in a "Catch-22" between EPA regulations for mercury and a separate proposed greenhouse gas standard. EPA April 13 proposed new source performance standards for greenhouse gas emissions that would limit new fossil fuel-fired power plants to emitting 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour.
The petitioners said they are unable to begin construction on their coal-fired plants because the mercury limits are unattainable, but they must begin construction by April 2013 to avoid being subject to an unattainable greenhouse gas standard.
The petitioners' first brief in the case is due July 27.
"The air quality control vendors have made a very strong case that they'll have a difficult time meeting such an unreasonable standard," Tri-State spokesman Lee Boughey told BNA July 20. "So perhaps it took the threat of imminent court action to convince EPA to reconsider the new source rules."
The July 20 letter granting reconsideration is available at http://epa.gov/mats/pdfs/20120720letter.pdf.
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In Her Boots Spring 2018 IssueMarch 16, 2018
Women in Agriculture
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Changing the Food System, One Wisconsin Farm at a Time
It's the oldest, newest story: Women raising food to feed our communities. The media today flashes stories of women farmers achieving rock star status and vividly sharing their stories with popular Instagram accounts. But dig a little deeper, and the story of women farmers in Wisconsin, as throughout the country, is one of complexity and challenge. While there's never been a better time to be a woman farmer, there's still much change to plow.
Sure, women working to bring you what's on your plate—both raising food as well as serving it around the table—has been going on since the dawn of modern agriculture. Today's fresh and vibrant generation of new women farmers make up one of the fastest growing groups of new farmers, increasing more than 20 percent over the last 20 years nationally. In Wisconsin, over 14 percent of farms have a woman serving as the primary operator. This number may seem low, but it is about double what it was 20 years ago and is on par with our Midwest neighbors like Minnesota and Iowa. But more than blooming numbers, this inspiring crop of new farmers is cultivating change, viewing their farms not only as businesses producing income, but also as platforms for food system change.
Understanding the Past
Gender plays a long and complicated role in the history of women in agriculture, yet it remains an important lens to look through in order to understand where we are today. It often surprises younger women in agriculture today that women farmers were not specifically counted until the 1970s. This refers to the USDA Census of Agriculture, the national census that takes place every five years that counts the number of farms and farmers in the country and what they are producing.
These census numbers drive the Farm Bill and agricultural policy and, ultimately, what's on our supper plates. Up until 1978, the census only had one spot on the form for the name of the primary operator, which traditionally went to the male head of household. Although women contributed to the farm business, their contributions were not recognized. The good news is the USDA now embraces and champions the fact that farms today are more diverse in ownership, and the new form for the current census includes multiple spots for primary operator to reflect all sorts of partnerships, including more women-run operations.
"There has historically been discrimination against women farmers when it came to receiving—or not receiving—various farm loans through the Farm Service Agency (FSA) because of gender bias," explains Kara O'Connor, government relations director for the Wisconsin Farmers Union. "Because of this, women qualify as a 'socially disadvantaged' farmer group, as other groups such as African Americans or Native Americans, which can be advantageous when applying for some FSA programs such as farm ownership loans."
Dela Ends epitomizes the pioneering Wisconsin women farmers. She plowed new ground way before our state's organic movement took off, launching Scotch Hill Farm in 1994 in Brodhead, one of the first organic farms and community supported agriculture (CSA) farms in the area.
"In our local rural community back when we started, I was still perceived as the 'farmer's wife' versus 'the farmer' in local ag places from the feed store to insurance offices," she recalls. "I remember feeling annoyed and frustrated because I was the main farmer as my husband had an off-farm job, but I also learned to move on and ignore it. I had work to do."
Women Farmers Today
Flash forward to 2018 where your farmer, increasingly, is someone like Katy Dickson, owner with her family of Christensen's Farm in Browntown. Now running an organic vegetable farm and CSA on the family farm where she grew up, she can vividly see the differences over the four decades of her lifetime. Like on most Wisconsin family farms, Dickson helped with everything from driving the tractor to unloading hay while growing up. But it was still her dad who was viewed as the farmer and her brothers who received more of the tutoring on planting and tillage and haymaking equipment than she did.
"I don't think I ever knew a female farmer when I was young, so I didn't really consider it as a possible future for myself," says Dickson. "I remember once when I was a teen and got a ride home with friends on the swim team, also a farming family. The mom driving started lecturing us never to marry a farmer. You could sense she had an inequitable position and overall didn't thrive in the agriculture lifestyle."
Dickson adds, "While I am the full-time farmer, the farm positively works because my husband, Mark Dickson, fully supports what I am doing, and we share the belief in the value of our farm to our family and community." Committed to growing her local food community closer to her and not relying exclusively on the Madison market as many area farmers do, she built the first CSA delivering regularly to Monroe. She did this by thinking out of the traditional marketing box and tapping into education.
"I talked to any and every local group that would invite me to speak, from women's clubs to Optimists," explains Dickson. "My real underlying mission was to help educate folks about what a CSA is and why it's important to partner with and support these farms, and help champion all CSAs in our area, not just my own." Now that's a very female-led, collaborative strategy you don't typically hear in more male dominated industries: Champion others and we all succeed.
It's that cooperative spirit that drives Soil Sisters, a local women farmer network in the Green County area that Dickson is a part of. This informal yet vibrant network has met regularly for over eight years and showcases the fact that women farmers thrive in a peer-based learning model, regularly sharing information, advice and most important, support.
"Many new ventures have come out of our local women farmer network, from a new Wisconsin Farmers Union chapter to the annual Soil Sisters tour," shares Ends, who helped found and lead this group. Soil Sisters: A Celebration of Wisconsin Farms and Rural Life takes place the first weekend in August and offers a variety of on-farm workshops, tours and culinary events—all on area womenowned farms. "If you would have told me 20 years ago that we'd have over 200 women on a local email list committed to sustainable agriculture and run the largest womenfarmer- led tour event of its kind in our country, I'd have called you crazy. But it showcases how women-led farms run and succeed on relationships and how empowering it is to branch out and try new ventures when you know another woman farmer has your back."
Future: Step Up to Lead
What's next for Wisconsin women farmers? A burning realization that for things to truly change in a lasting capacity, we need to think beyond our fields. Women need to be at the planning table, stepping up to positions of leadership, determining policy and, bottom line, making sure diverse voices are collaboratively heard.
"A record number of women are running for office in 2018, with the biggest and most numerous opportunities in rural communities, such as county commissions, where women in rural communities are woefully underrepresented," says Liz Johnson, co-founder and board member of VoteRunLead, a national, nonpartisan organization supporting women running for office. VoteRunLead partners with the Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN) on a special leadership training initiative focused on encouraging and preparing women in sustainable agriculture to run for office, called Plate to Politics. "Research shows that women win at the same overall rate as men, we just need to be asked to run, whereas a man will typically just decide on his own to run. Therefore, we need to be asking our amazing women farmer community to step up to the leadership plate and run for office. There never has been a better time with more resources and support."
Johnson points out that 2018 promises to be a game-changing year for Wisconsin women in agriculture on the leadership front. Sheila Harsdorf, former state senator from River Falls, now serves as the secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, the first woman to head DATCP in the department's 88-year history. And throughout the state, you'll see more women on the ballot running for offices of all kinds, from township and county boards to State Assembly, State Senate and beyond.
One such woman in Kriss Marion of Circle M Market Farm in Blanchardville, an organic farmer and now State Senate candidate for her southwestern Wisconsin District 17, running in the election this November. "My experiences serving as a supervisor on the Lafayette County Board opened my eyes to what is needed to bring fresh perspectives and success to all people in Wisconsin," she says. "As women farmers, we have a particular knack for being nimble and getting things done that naturally translates very well to leadership roles. We prioritize children, family, clean water and conservation. Collaborative values are needed now more than ever in Wisconsin."
Marion adds, "We women farmers share a deep commitment to championing and celebrating the agricultural heritage of our state. The healthy future of Wisconsin goes beyond gender and can frankly unite all sides in a shared commitment to steward our land and rural communities for our children and generations to come. Now is the time to cultivate that change."