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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Paying it Forward
After nearly losing everything to stage-4 cancer, Kim Lohnes finds more
Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, with Kim Lohnes
Nearly two years ago, Kim Lohnes was diagnosed with stage-four ovarian cancer. Thanks to innovative care – and her strong spirit – Kim plans to mark that milestone and spend the first half of 2011 caring for others in impoverished African health centers and orphanages.
In March of 2009, Kim was a busy small business owner operating a successful flower shop. She had a healthy, active lifestyle and seemingly boundless energy. Since Kim had a family history of breast and ovarian cancer, she was on a regimen of special medical observation every six months. Despite this careful approach, by the time Kim's enlarged ovaries were detected through trans-vaginal ultrasound the disease had already spread throughout her abdomen.
Exceptional surgical care, innovative clinical trials
Two weeks after her diagnosis, Mass General Cancer Center Gynecologic Oncology DirectorJohn Schorge, MD, performed aggressive cytoreductive surgery. Dr. Schorge was not only able to remove virtually all of Kim's tumor tissue, he also placed a catheter in her abdomen and recommended a clinical trial of intra-peritoneal (IP) chemotherapy combined with bevacizumab to eradicate any traces of the disease.
Michael Birrer, MD, PhD, medical oncologist and director of the Cancer Center's gynecologic cancer research program, worked with Dr. Schorge to see Kim through the clinical trial. The therapy was intense: 18 cycles of chemotherapy over 4 ½ months, including the intra-peritoneal (IP) therapy that delivered chemo directly to her abdomen. By the midpoint, Kim felt very weak. She lost 30 pounds and could no longer meet the physical demands of running her busy shop.
Despite the physical toll exacted by the clinical trial, Kim finished the entire regimen in September 2009. Initial scans appeared devastating – glowing spots indicated that tumors tissue remained throughout her abdomen. However, her medical team was cautiously optimistic. "Sometimes, following intense therapy, abdominal scarring can occur" explains Dr. Birrer. "The scarring can look like tumor tissue on scans, so we have to wait until the body heals a bit to assess the effectiveness of therapy." Fortunately, Dr. Birrer's theory proved correct – scans one month later showed no trace of cancer.
Kim was elated, of course, but still quite weak. It took almost another year before she truly looked and felt like herself again. During that time, she evaluated her life goals and what she had learned from her cancer experience.
Moving forward, giving back
Before her diagnosis, Kim longed to sell her business and seek out a new challenge, but put that dream off due to the poor economy. Going through treatment helped her realize she could no longer postpone her happiness. She set a firm date – June 1 – for selling her business, and began to research opportunities to give back through volunteerism.
"I have always had an affinity for healthcare," says Kim, who studied Pharmacy in college before beginning a career in the corporate sector. "My experience in treatment brought that into sharper focus and I knew I wanted to help care for the under-privileged." Not one to shy away from a challenge, Kim completed an immersion program in EMT training last fall and is currently taking her certification exams. After her final exam this week, she will travel to Ghana for three months, then on to South Africa for two months, splitting her time in both countries between orphanages and health care visits.
So often, we are struck by what cancer takes from us. It can take our resources, our health, our hair, our strength, our loved ones and our lives. For Kim, it took a long year of intense treatment, and she lives with the knowledge that she could have a recurrence in the future. But going through treatment can also be a transformative experience that yields surprising gifts.
"Before treatment, I'd volunteered abroad, but never for so long," Kim reflects. "Going through this experience has given me the courage to commit myself wholeheartedly. I have more in my life now. I laugh more, do more, feel more, and I love more."
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N.Y. Stock Exchange: The Futures of TradingBy Larry Dignan | Posted 2005-03-07 Print
The exchange wants to automate its trading systems. But many clients prefer dealing with human specialists. How John Thain will try to reach both objectives.
Doreen Mogavero's marching orders appear on a screen in her cramped booth on the New York Stock Exchange floor: Sell 50,000 shares of Bank of New York. No rush. Get the best price possible.
Mogavero, president and CEO of Mogavero, Lee & Co., an independent broker with direct access to the trading floor, first taps a touch screen to get a chart of Bank of New York, or "BK." She accesses the NYSE's electronic trading system, known as Direct+, and unloads 1,000 shares at $30.34.
"That gets us rolling," Mogavero says. She would have sold more. But Direct+ trades are capped at 1,099 shares every 30 seconds, so electronic trading won't take away the heart of the NYSE—its system of auctioning shares between specialists in handling particular stocks.
Pending approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mogavero in about a year will be able to sell the entire 50,000-share block electronically if she so chooses.
The NYSE plans to meld electronic trading with its traditional auction system to create a hybrid market that will appeal to split-second traders as well as institutional buyers looking for the pricing stability that a market managed by specialists provides. The hybrid market is one of chief executive officer John Thain's top tasks as he tries to restructure the NYSE and ward off inroads from increasingly popular electronic trading networks such as Archipelago and Instinet's INET, which have a strong presence on the rival Nasdaq Stock Market.
On the Nasdaq, Archipelago and INET combine to move 51% of shares traded. For NYSE-listed stocks, Archipelago and INET accounted for 5.3% of shares traded in January, up from 4.4% a year ago. Another emerging player: Liquidnet, which electronically arranges block trades averaging 63,408 shares for institutional buy-side money managers, the NYSE's core market.
To make matters worse, Thain must carry out this sea change at the same time he has to revamp a board of directors left reeling by the $187.5 million pay and retirement package it granted former chairman Richard Grasso. The CEO also has to find some way to boost the value of a seat on the exchange, which has plummeted from $2.6 million in 1999 to $1 million today.
And he has to bolster the spirits—and business—of the specialists while he's at it.
Specialists don't exist in purely electronic exchanges. But the New York exchange relies on these auctioneers as the grease that keeps its gears moving. If an institution wants to sell a holding but has no customer for its stock, the specialist steps in and acts as one. Similarly, the specialist steps in if an investor wants to buy a specific stock but no seller is on the spot. Today, specialists—who know the behavior of their assigned stocks perhaps better than that of their spouses—line up trades verbally. Under the hybrid market, they can line up trades using algorithms that consider price spreads and historical data to match buyers and sellers.
What the NYSE will get is a market where electronic trading will dominate for highly liquid stocks such as General Electric. The current auction system will stay in place for less widely traded shares, to narrow price gaps such as an offer to buy at $40.50 and an offer to sell at $40.25.
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Portland State University has been awarded funds from a grant received by the Teaching Research Institute at Western Oregon University, to collaborate with other math and science faculty in Oregon to develop graduate-level courses and professional development modules. The program will be available online, in weekend workshops, or at summer institutes.
The three-year grant award of $685,000 from the Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education will be used to fund the launch of a new certificate program called Preparation for Instruction of Science and Math (PrISM). PrISM is a statewide collaboration of public and private colleges and universities to build the capacity of Oregon's K-8 teachers in mathematic and science instruction. The program will prepare K-8 teachers, science museum educators, and members of science and mathematic educational organizations to integrate mathematics and science instruction in ways that engage all learners. Courses will be offered by participating universities/colleges beginning spring quarter and summer 2008.
The consortium of Eastern Oregon University, George Fox University, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon State University, Portland State University, University of Portland, and Western Oregon University are accepting each other's credits for the certificate, so individuals can take courses from any of the institutions. There has also been an agreement between the public and private universities, equalizing costs and credits between semesters and terms.
The program has a number of benefits for educators and their students including: students will benefit from hands-on lessons that integrate mathematics and science concepts which teachers learn through this program; new graduation requirements in math and science increase pressure on elementary and middle schools to emphasize math and science content more; and for schools struggling to make adequate yearly progress in mathematics or science, PrISM offers an effective way for teachers to improve instruction as well as confidence in their teaching.
The program will also allow academic credits earned through the program can to be applied toward licensure renewal and the PrISM certificate will signify teachers' mathematics and science proficiencies to principals and districts, spotlight teachers who are ready to take on mathematics or science leadership roles and augment the portfolios of recent graduates searching for jobs.
For more information about the program, visit www.prismoregon.org. PrISM Oregon is funded by a grant from the Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. The program is managed by The Teaching Research Institute at Western Oregon University.
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New version fully supports Sprint Spark
As part of their national Sprint Spark rollout, Sprint will be releasing a new version of the Galaxy S4 in the coming weeks. Support for LTE bands 25, 26 and 41 will be included, and the new version will be compatible with the new LTE network in the locations that currently have it available, as well as any and all expansion sites.
Today, Sprint Spark is limited to Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Tampa, but Sprint says it will expand to 100 markets over the next year.
The new version of the Galaxy S4 will cost $199 with a new agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate, or just $25 monthly with Sprint's One Up financing.
Existing Galaxy S4 phones will not be compatible with Sprint Spark. See the full press release after the break.
Sprint Debuts Samsung Galaxy S 4 with the Benefit of Sprint Spark
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sprint (NYSE:S) expects to begin delivery of Samsung Galaxy S® 4 (16GB) with the addition of Sprint Spark™ (enhanced LTE) to its sales channels in the next few weeks. This enhances the current version of Galaxy S 4 with a design change to take advantage of unprecedented speeds by combining all three Sprint bands (800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz) of 4G LTE wireless spectrum.
Sprint Spark allows tri-band devices, like Galaxy S 4, to support active hand-off mode between 800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz and provide data session continuity as the devices move between spectrum bands.
Sprint Spark provides the capacity to greatly improve the performance of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications while opening the way for futuristic applications. Sprint Spark is designed to support a new generation of online gaming, virtual reality, advanced cloud services and other applications requiring very high bandwidth.
Sprint plans to deploy Sprint Spark in about 100 of America's largest cities during the next three years, with initial availability in five markets now. The first markets with limited availability are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Tampa and Miami. Sprint 4G LTE service is expected to be available by mid-2014 to approximately 250 million Americans, and Sprint expects 100 million Americans will have Sprint Spark or 2.5GHz coverage by the end of 2014.
This super-high-speed capability demonstrates 50-60 Megabits per second (Mbps) peak speeds today with increasing speed potential over time. Given Sprint's spectrum and technology assets, it is technically feasible to deliver more than 2Gbps per sector of over-the-air speed.1
Samsung Galaxy S 4 with Sprint Spark will be available for $199.99 (excluding taxes) with a new line or eligible upgrade and two-year service agreement after a $50 mail-in rebate via reward card2 or $25 per month with Sprint One UpSM.
Customers can take advantage of Sprint One Up3, a new program that offers customers an affordable option to upgrade their device more frequently. With Sprint One Up, participating smartphone customers get unlimited talk, text and data for an introductory rate of $65 per month4 – a $15 per month savings off their Unlimited, My Way standard rate plan and Sprint's guarantee of unlimited talk, text and data for the life of the line of service.5 Sprint One Up is also available for smartphones on the My All-in plan.
Sprint offers unlimited 4G LTE data, text and calling to any mobile device with no metering or overages, all while on the Sprint network, making it the ideal carrier for customers who want to use every feature of their Galaxy S 4 every day of the month without worry. Sprint 4G LTE is available in select markets.
Manufactured by Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), Galaxy S 4 is powered by Android™ 4.3, Jelly Bean, boasts a brilliant 5-inch full-HD Super AMOLED™ touchscreen, 1.9GHz quad-core processor and access to the Sprint 4G LTE network. It also offers Multi Window, which allows the use of two apps side-by-side.


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More than most stars of her rare magnitude, Ingrid Bergman was an actress who went her own way. A Hollywood luminary for decades, from the Thirties well into the Seventies, the Swedish-born beauty acted in films that not only entertained millions but that also satisfied her own, personal need to constantly test and broaden the limits of her craft.
In 1943, for example, she told LIFE magazine, "I am an actress and I am interested in acting, not in making money." Coming from almost anyone else in her position, that might sound like a public relations platitude. But even at that relatively early point in her career, Bergman had already proven herself a singularly versatile artist, with solid and even iconic performances in films ranging from psychological thrillers (Rage in Heaven) to horror (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) to romance (Intermezzo) to arguably the very greatest of all American movies, the 1942 Best Picture Oscar winner, Casablanca.
Bergman won three acting Oscars during her long career (two for Best Actress, in Gaslight and Anastasia, and one for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 1974's star-studded Murder on the Orient Express), and was nominated four more times. She also won Emmys, a Tony, Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Circle awards—in other words, she proved again and again that she could act as well as star in almost any role, on film, stage and the small screen.
And for pretty much all of those years that she lit up the screen and the stage with her combustible mix of intellect, emotional honesty and sensuality, LIFE magazine covered Bergman's life and her career. When she was the "hot new thing" in Hollywood (after making a name for herself in her native Sweden in the 1930s), LIFE raved about the "new brand of charm" she brought to the American screen. When, in 1946, she starred on Broadway in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine (for which she won her only Tony), LIFE referred to her deserved "enormous reputation" as Hollywood's "undisputed queen." When her career took a hit in the States after she left her husband and daughter, Pia, to live with and eventually marry the great Italian director Roberto Rossellini—shocking and angering her American fans who had, simplistically, come to view her as something like a saint—LIFE sympathetically covered her life and her work in Europe.
And when, years later, she was again embraced and beloved by fans who "forgave" her her trespasses, and flocked to see her in films like Orient Express and Autumn Sonata and watched, in the millions, her Emmy and Golden Globe-winning turn in the Golda Meir television biopic, A Woman Called Golda, LIFE celebrated her return to America's good graces.
Here, on the anniversary of both her birth and her death—she was born Aug. 29, 1915, and died Aug. 29, 1982, at a too-young 67 after a long battle with breast cancer — LIFE.com presents pictures of the one and only Ingrid Bergman as she appeared in LIFE through the years.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.


text: Sneaky Ways to Tone at the Beach\\nNo gym? No problem! With a few props and lots of creativity, you can sculpt lean muscle and torch calories on the sand.\\nYou don't have to give up time spent at the gym for time spent on the beach. Follow the tips of these trainers who share ten ways to sculpt muscle while catching some rays.\\nA boogie or surf board isn't just good for burning calories on the water: It can also be a prop for on-sand workouts, says Chris Freytag, a personal trainer and group fitness instructor in Minneapolis. Stand on one side of your board, facing the same direction the nose is pointed; then hop laterally over the board to the other side. (If you've got a wide board, you may need to stand toward the front where it gets skinnier.) \\"I call it 'Fire Feet' because you can pretend you're jumping up and over a row of fire,\\" she says. \\"You can keep your feet together, or you can jump one foot and then the other; the important thing is to keep your knees high.\\" Hop back and forth across the board, 10 times on each side, then rest and repeat for four sets total.\\nWhen Freytag sets up outdoor bootcamps, she uses small traffic cones to mark the \\"course\\"—but you can also use anything from your beach bag in their place. \\"Put your water bottle down in one spot and your sunscreen down a few yards away—or just draw two lines in the sand,\\" she says. Then, for 30 seconds, shuffle back and forth between the two as fast as you can, bending down to touch each marker (or sand line) when you reach it. \\"Shuffling is really great because it's lateral movement, which most of us don't get a lot of in our normal workouts,\\" Freytag adds. \\"And being barefoot makes such a difference—it really works muscles that are ignored when we're wearing shoes and on solid ground.\\"\\nWhen lifeguards are off-duty, their chairs can be versatile pieces of fitness equipment: \\"On most lifeguard chairs, there's a footrest you can do pull-ups or just hang from,\\" says Long Island-based trainer and yoga instructor Jimmy Minardi. (Use your best judgment, and be sure it's stable before putting too much weight on it.) If the chair is tipped over, try doing inclined push-ups or mountain climbers against one of its legs. Or \\"hang\\" from a leg with your body in a straight line and feet still in the sand and do modified pull-ups, keeping your body in an upside-down plank position the whole time.\\nWhen Minardi tells his beach bootcamp clients to spread their towels out on the sand, it's not for a sunbathing break. \\"Your beach towel is great for all kinds of sit ups and crunches to work your core,\\" he says. To try Minardi's \\"high-hat\\" version, lay two towels out end-to-end and grab a partner. Sit facing each other and interlace your feet together (one of you inside and one outside, with feet wrapping around ankles). Keep your knees bent and lower down onto your backs, reaching your arms up overhead. Use your abs to sit all the way up and lean forward, high-fiving each other; the higher the better. Do four sets of 20.\\nSimple warm-up moves on solid ground? Easy. Simple warm-up moves on the beach? Much harder. Jumping jacks get your heart rate up, and because the sand is constantly changing under your feet, it's challenging your muscles to constantly adjust and adapt. \\"You have to work a lot harder to keep yourself stable,\\" says Minardi, \\"and that works your core and your entire lower body.\\" Try alternating one minute of jumping jacks—as many as you can without compromising your form—with one minute of walking lunges (another good stabilizing exercise); then repeat for 45 seconds each, then 30 seconds, then 15.\\nYou can't carry an entire weight room to the beach with you, but you can certainly fit a pair of 2- or 5-pound hand weights in your bag. Hold onto them while you do jumping jacks or running drills, says Minardi, or use them to do bicep curls and shoulder presses while sitting or lying on your towel. (Adding in a single-leg bridge, as shown, will also work your back, chest, butt, thighs and hamstrings.) For even less weight in your bag, bring along a flat, wide resistance band instead. You can do many of the same basic arm moves, Minardi says, by looping the band around your feet or around a stationery object like a bench or jetty rock.\\nRunning in the sand burns about 30 percent more calories than pounding regular pavement does, and puts many more muscles to work. But to make your outing a bit more interesting—not to mention effective—add some intervals. Fartlek drills are a great option, says Minardi, because you don't need a watch or any set course; you can make it all up on the fly. \\"Pick a point on the beach—say you see a log in the distance—and sprint to that point,\\" he says. \\"Then pick another point and jog to that point to recover. Then repeat. Your route can be different every day, and you can always have different markers: landmarks, people, beach umbrellas, you name it.\\"\\nYou can do core exercises anywhere, including on the flat sand—but on a slightly elevated surface, like a big piece of driftwood, the moves may feel easier. (Just make sure your prop's not slippery or sharp in any spots!) Try holding a plank for 30 seconds, then do 8 to 12 inclined pushups. Rest for 30 seconds, then repeat, moving your hands slightly farther apart or closer together on the log. Do a total of four sets, experimenting with different positions and working different muscles throughout. Can't find a natural prop? Head up to the boardwalk and find a bench.\\nYoga on the beach can be challenging enough—the sand makes for an uneven and constantly changing surface on which you have to balance. To ramp up the intensity (and the fun), try practicing some postures at the water's edge, says Freytag. Keep your eye on the horizon line as you flow through a sun salutation, holding each pose longer than usual to get the most muscle-toning benefit. High lunges and one-legged postures, like the Warrior sequence and Tree Pose, may be especially challenging as the waves lap at your feet. And because your body has to work extra hard to stay upright, you'll be burning more calories.\\nHalf an hour of beach volleyball can burn about 245 calories, and can also tone your abs and quads if you keep your core engaged and sneak in some squats while you wait for the ball. Paddleball (also known as Kadima) can burn about 184 calories in 30 minutes, and even playing Frisbee will torch nearly 100. The beach makes it easy to fit in fitness no matter what equipment have with you, says Freytag; you can even dig a hole in the sand or build a sand castle. \\"Every little bit of activity counts, so anything you do above and beyond sunning yourself on a beach towel is a great way to squeeze in extra burn.\\"


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Some random thoughts on gun violence, gun control, and the Newtown massacre…
In a comment thread below, one of my readers said that it makes sense to him that states with lax gun laws have higher rates of gun violence. That got me to thinking about my own state, Louisiana.
I live in rural Louisiana. I would say that most households in my parish have at least one gun, and many more than one. Poverty is common; gun violence is not. Forty miles away is inner-city Baton Rouge. Poverty is common — and so is gun violence. Something else is going on.
In 2010, the most recent year for which I could find crime statistics, Louisiana led the nation in murders and non-negligent homicides. But if you dig a little deeper, you find that the New Orleans murder rate dwarfs the rest of the state combined — though Baton Rouge is also one of the most violent cities of its size in the nation. What's more, the Louisiana gun murders in 2010 were overwhelmingly committed with handguns. Ban "assault rifles" if you will, but you won't make a dent in our murder rate.
The Baton Rouge Advocate reported earlier this year that while gun crime is spreading all over the city, it remains heavily concentrated among poor black people in the northern part of the city. The victims and the killers are both likely to be young black men. And Baton Rouge police say drugs are usually at the center of killings there.
According to 2011 FBI statistics, blacks were responsible for 37 percent all murders in the US — three times the percentage of African-Americans in the US population. Unsurprisingly, young men, too, were disproportionately responsible for murders. And broken down by murder and victim, statistics show that in 2011, US murders are heavily a matter of white people killing white people, and black people killing black people.
So: if your state has lots of black people in it, you will have more killings overall, given that they are disproportionately represented among killers and victims. One in three Louisianians are black, versus 13 percent nationwide. If gun homicides are disproportionately concentrated among African-Americans, then states with proportionately larger African-American populations are going to register higher rates of gun homicides. Moreover, according to the 2010 Census, 60 percent of New Orleanians are black, and 33 percent white — the exact opposite of the black-white ratio in the rest of the state. The black-white ratio in Baton Rouge is comparable. You do the math.
So what does this have to do with last week's shootings? Given the nature of the crime (slaughtering first graders in their classroom, I mean), and the blanket media coverage, it's no wonder people are freaked out. The thing is, mass killings like Newtown's are unspeakably horrible, but also extremely rare. Now, I would by no means say that we care more about the dead in Newtown because they are white. I think that would be untrue, and repulsive. What I would say, though, is that the grotesque nature of that particular crime blinds us to the fact that homicide in this country is heavily a thing to do with handguns (versus other types of firearms), and concentrated among African-American males under the age of 29. (See the victim stats, and the offender stats.)
Twenty-six people were murdered in Newtown last Friday. In 2011, around 24 Americans were murdered each and every day by gunshot. Perhaps we don't feel these deaths as much, collectively, because we figure that most of them are what you expect from gangbangers and those involved in the inner-city drug trade. Frankly, if some crack-dealing thug gets shot to death by some other crack-dealing thug, I don't care remotely as much as I care about a classroom of first-graders being blown away by a maniac, nor do I care remotely as much about the thugs as I do about innocent children in those poor neighborhoods being hit by thug crossfire.
But I wonder: maybe these deaths don't matter as much to us because they are occurring within a politically powerless community, as opposed to within a prosperous suburb. If the sons of middle-class and upper-middle class white people were killing and being killed at the rate that the sons of poor black people are, how would the national discussion differ?
Another thing: nationwide in 2011, handguns were used in so many more gun deaths than other firearms you can barely compare them. We're talking about seven times more deaths than all other firearms combined (note: 1,700 deaths were attributed to non-specific firearms, but it's reasonable to assume the distribution among the categories will remain the same). Look at the stats. Once again, banning so-called assault weapons might or might not be the right thing to do — I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other right now — but the idea that it's going to make a meaningful dent in US gun deaths is simply not borne out by the FBI's data.
Besides, less than one percent of US murders are part of so-called spree killings. These things are virtually impossible to predict. In 1996, a maniac shot up a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland, killing 16 children, one adult, and then himself. He did so with handguns; a shocked Britain banned handguns in response. In 2010, Derrick Bird, a UK taxi driver, went on a homicidal rampage in Cumbria, killing 12, injuring 11, and then committing suicide. His weapons? A rifle and a shotgun. Both were legally obtained, and registered.
A subsequent inquiry found that there was no way the government could have anticipated his act — the killer had no prior psychiatric history — or prevented it through existing gun control policy. I suppose they could have outlawed all private ownership of weapons, and attempted to confiscate all firearms in Great Britain. We have a Second Amendment in the US, and a far more robust gun culture than the UK does. That wouldn't work here, at all.)
Anyway, Great Britain has some of the toughest gun control laws in the world, and yet, this berserker still managed to massacre a dozen people. Think about that.
And think about this: in 1992, a man who was almost certainly serial killer Derrick Todd Lee — who, as it turned out, lived in our neighborhood, and was a peeping tom who had been spotted peering into houses there, and even entering on occasion — stood on the other side of my sister's door late one night, while her husband was away, pounding hard on it. She drove him away by yelling at him that she had a pistol and would use it if he came through that door. She wasn't lying. She was armed and waiting for him. By the time police arrived, he was long gone. If she had not had a gun, and had not been able to say what she said and back it up with bullets, if it came to that, things could have gone very different for her that night.


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As Colin Kaepernick has skyrocketed to NFL notoriety, taking over the starting quarterback job for the first-place San Francisco 49ers, his mother has watched excitedly, swelling with pride. There remains one problem for Heidi Russo, however: She's never met her adult son.
The story was told in detail on Tuesday by Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports. Russo, 44, is Kaepernick's birth mother. With Colin's father not around, Russo, 19 at the time, gave Colin up for adoption because she wanted a better life for him. She personally selected Rick and Teresa Kaepernick to adopt him, and, although she and her son have had sporadic written contact recently -- she has yet to meet Colin.
"I have to respect" his decision, she says.
Russo lives in Denver now, and reunited with the Kaepernicks earlier this year when she attended a 49ers-Broncos preseason game. But she only met with the parents, not with her son.
"It was like meeting old friends after 25 years," she said. "You couldn't ask for better people than Rick and Teresa, how they have loved him and taken care of him. As a parent, you never think that anyone could love your child as much as you do, but they have.
"... You can see that everything he wants and everything he has worked for is coming together. That's something that any parent would be happy to see for their child."
Kaepernick declined to be interviewed for the Yahoo! story. But the decision not to meet with his birth mother is one he has lived with for a long time. In October of 2010, when he was still quarterbacking the University of Nevada-Reno and NFL stardom was only a dream, he told ESPN about his dilemma.
"That's something I'm still contemplating," he said. "To be honest, I'm not too sure if I want to or don't want to. It's something I want to do, but at the same time, I feel it might be a little bit awkward."
Two years later, a lot more people are excited to watch Kaepernick play football. No one more so than Heidi Russo.
"Until he tells me otherwise, I'll continue supporting him," Russo said. "It's very emotional for me to watch him, especially (the 49ers' Week 12 victory over the New Orleans Saints) and you could see how happy he was. I just hope and pray for him."


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So, after all the hoopla, after all chatter about the Fox News outing and the subsequent Al Qaeda postings, Matt Bissonnette, true to the gutsy Navy SEAL roots, has doubled down on all the media attention: He's in negotiations for a movie.
We wonder if he'll play himself. At this point, he might as well.
The New York Post reports that Bissonnette met with world renowned director Steven Spielberg as well as with reps from Dreamworks pictures.
Meanwhile, Admiral Bill McRaven indicated that if any classified information makes its way to the public because of Bissonnette's flirtation with American media, then he'll move forward with prosecutions. The publisher of Bissonnette's book, "No Easy Day," says the book was properly vetted by a lawyer who is also former special operations soldier.
Bissonnette's movie would be the third in a line of films about the bin Laden raid. Kathryn Bigelow, director of "The Hurt Locker," plans to release the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" this December and The Weinstein company has given indications it may produce a movie called "Code Name Geronimo" prior to the election.


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So I got the chance to play a demo of the game at GenCon and was suitably impressed. We played three on three with each of us controlling either two Tie fighters or one X-Wing. I don't have a full report, but here are my quick impressions.
- The models looked great, particularly the X-Wings. I was impressed with the level of detail.
- The gameplay seemed to be a slight variant on Wings of War, which I played a demo of at last year's GenCon. My buddy pointed out that the movement tokens from Wings have been replaced with a movement dial, something we both liked.
- Things seemed a little unbalanced in favor of the Imperials. The X-Wings are definitely more powerful, durable, and maneuverable, but the 2 to 1 advantage was just too much to fight against.
- I liked the un-tiled map, as it seemed to add to the verisimilitude of the game, but clearer rules for where overlapping ships get shunted to would be nice. Perhaps place holder tiles for the movement phase would be helpful too.
Overall, I enjoyed the game quite a bit. If the end product resembles what I played, then I'll definitely be picking it up. Nice work FFG!


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'Battleship Sailors of the Dreadnought Era'
(See P. Stillwell, pp. 26-33, February 2010 Naval History)
Commander James L. Barrett, U.S. Navy (Retired)
While reading this interesting story I found, much to my surprise, a photo on page 33 that included my father, James Edgar Barrett, a USS Nevada (BB-36) plankowner who served on her from 1916 to 1925. He was a member of the racing team during his nearly nine years on the ship, and the Nevada won many races, competing against other battleships. I have two timepieces engraved with dates for races that were won and also some racing medals.
My dad was very proud of his time on the Nevada and spoke often of his racing-team members. He served on four other battleships beginning in 1912 followed by 17 consecutive years at sea. After serving on two coal-burning battleships in their firerooms, he was so pleased to be assigned to the Nevada, the Navy's first oil burner. He retired in 1927 as a chief shipfitter and was called back to active duty in 1940, retiring again in 1947 as a chief warrant carpenter.
Shortly before his final retirement in 1946, Dad was a ship's superintendent at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard where the Nevada was being prepared for the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. One day he grabbed a yard worker who was holding a Skilsaw and walked up to the battleship's quarterdeck.
There, he saluted the officer of the deck and said, "I'm a plankowner of this ship, and I'm here to get my plank." The OOD, somewhat intimidated by this rather large man, promptly stepped aside and the yard worker began to saw out a section of the deck. I still have that piece of teak.
James H. Buckley
In 192021 my father was a boiler tender second class on the USS Neptune (AC-8), a Fleet collier.
Seeing the picture of the boiler room and the conditions the men worked under gave me a better understanding of how my dad could have developed black lung and other lung problems. He and his younger brother served on board the Neptune, and both died of lung diseases. During World War II my older brother served on the USS Bullard (DD-660) as a water tender, but the conditions, I'm sure, were better than the ones on the Neptune.
'Cat on a Cold Steel Dive Plane'
(See R. A. Taylor, pp. 40-43, February 2010 Naval History)
Major General J. D. Lynch Jr., U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
I first read about Cat Futch, the go-go dancer who performed on the USS Finback's dive plane, in the Washington Post during September 1975. The Post story was easy to remember because, contrary to it, the submarine's skipper, the late Commander Connie Stevenson, was a Naval Academy graduate, not a "mustang" as reported. I have known many mustang officers, and they take a backseat to no one in terms of dedication and professionalism. However, Connie was what he was, a highly respected and extremely popular member of the USNA Class of 1956, and he was indeed the "people guy" described in the article.
After reading your article, I wondered what purpose it served. The ostensible one was a warning to commanding officers: Don't get too innovative. On reflection, the incident's aftermath can serve deeper purposes.
Once matters are firmly in the hand of the chain of command, official action normally follows. If the matter attracted the media, the action to be recommended—if not that taken—is going to be a modern version of a flogging around the Fleet. Those are two phenomena worth remembering.
A third may be found in the Chief of Naval Operation's actions. His decision can be construed as an admonition to the chain of command. In short, "you went too far." But once events run their course, even the topmost officer's powers are limited.
The fourth and final purpose may be found in the briefly described incident regarding the reactor casualty and Connie's actions.
If we had been at war in 1975, Connie Stevenson would likely have been a highly prized attack boat skipper. Had there been a Cat Futch on the dive plane, the news would have never reached the CNO and the Finback would not have been recalled from patrol. The incident would have been handled later, as it should have been: in an unforgettable, informal session with the boss. Other skippers could have been quietly told to not imitate the mistake. And most important, the services of an outstanding officer would have remained available to the country.
Captain John M. Donlon, U.S. Navy (Retired)
The superb article needs only one slight correction. I am misquoted on page 41: ". . . a radiation leak . . ," which is incorrect. That should read, "a radioactive liquid leak." The precise terminology is necessary to preclude derision by my fellow nukes, especially contemporaries (most of whom are deceased) and to assure that Admiral Hyman G. Rickover does not frown on his one-time pupil from his current office.
'The Sad Case of Sir George'
(See R. Malcomson, pp. 54-55, February 2010 Naval History)
Theodore Kuhlmeier
After reading and enjoying Mr. Malcomson's article, I was curious as to the evaluation of Sir George Collier and his squadron's pursuit of the USS Constitution in another classic naval history of the War of 1812. In his Naval War of 1812, Theodore Roosevelt agrees with William James, writing, "The British captains certainly bungled the affair." That is one of the few occasions Teddy Roosevelt agreed with the British historian.
A review of the index listings under James' name in Roosevelt's book shows headings titled: "most valuable authority on British affairs, hatred toward Americans"; "misstatements"; "unreliability"; "grossly inaccurate, inexcusable garbling of reports"; "willful perversion of the truth"; and "endeavor to prove American seamen cowards." I cannot help but believe that if Roosevelt could have been present when Captain Sir John Phillimore caned James for a similar analysis of actions by his vessel, Teddy would have smiled and, perhaps, shouted an approving "Bully!"
Commander Tyrone G. Martin, U.S. Navy (Retired)
The author opens his tale with several errors of historical fact.
While the Treaty of Ghent completed ratification on 17 February 1815, the ensuing 30-day period was included to permit time to notify dispersed units, any action occurring within that time frame being considered a part of the war. Thus, the war was not technically over until 17 March.
During her final war cruise the Constitution was armed with 32 24-pounders. Captain Charles Stewart had removed the forwardmost and aftermost pairs of 32-pounder carronades on the spar deck and replaced each with one recently captured Congreve 24-pounder "shifting gunade." As the name implies, these British weapons were a cross between a long gun and a carronade, having a somewhat longer effective range than the latter but still light enough to permit rapid relocation from side to side. Stewart put them to good use in his battle with the Cyane and the Levant.
The initial phase of the battle saw Stewart taking on both Britons simultaneously. By deft maneuvering, he divided them from one another (it took more than 15 minutes) and then defeated them in detail.
The Constitution's escape from Boston in December 1814 occurred after Collier had taken the Leander to Halifax and when his two subordinates, instead of remaining underway off the port, moored in the lee of Cape Cod near Provincetown.
Whatever his personal shortcomings, Sir George was ill served by his juniors.
'A Naval Tragedy's Chain of Errors'
(See N. A. Trudeau, pp. 44-52, February 2010 Naval History)
Rear Admiral Frederick C. Johnson, U.S. Navy (Retired)
This article is without question the most realistic and factual short account of the 8 September 1923 multiship stranding at Honda Point that I have ever read. My interest in that tragedy started at age 12 and continued throughout my career. At that very young age I found it difficult to comprehend the incident but was thrilled with the rescue efforts that followed. Subsequently, I read every article and book on the topic. To this day, the photographs of the wrecks sicken me, and as a sage once said, "There but for the grace of God go I."
Many years later, while Commander, Destroyer Squadron 21 (COMDESRON 21) in the U. S. Pacific Fleet, the event came to the fore of my thinking. The squadron was scheduled to make a southbound transit from San Francisco to San Diego after a Labor Day port visit. Sailing orders from my flotilla commander called for a close inshore transit generally similar to the route DESRON 11 followed in September 1923. Subconsciously aware of the Honda incident, I respectfully advised the admiral that unless otherwise directed, the squadron would prefer to follow a north-to-south-southeasterly track well westward of the usual coastal route most seafarers followed. There were no further communications from the admiral, and I assumed that all was permitted as proposed.
The entire offshore transit was made in clear weather and quite comfortably except for the heavy starboard quartering sea experienced until we rounded San Clemente Island. However, the very close offshore track and high-speed transit that the admiral directed would have resulted in a hairy voyage because of the low visibility, variable winds, and sea conditions likely to be experienced. As it was, the thick marine layer shrouded the coastline as we steamed southward and became increasingly denser as soon as we rounded San Clemente Island just after daybreak. It is interesting to recall that the difference in steaming time between the seaward and close-in offshore route was negligible and the night's steaming was quiet, peaceful, and far more comfortable for all hands.
When questioned by the admiral's chief of staff during the debrief call as to why I had followed the more seaward route, I respectfully reminded all present of the Honda stranding. I stated that between the devil and deep blue sea and as exacerbated by Murphy's Law, if something could go wrong, it would happen unexpectedly at the worst time. Thus it seemed more prudent to select the chosen route.
The kindly old admiral nodded his gray head and said no more. His staff did not press the issue any further, and the debrief meeting and transit were closed.
While I cannot excuse the commodore and flag captain's command and navigation errors in the ill-fated USS Delphy, I can empathize with the trailing ships' conning and their commanding officers during the sequence of unfortunate events that followed. While obviously not there at the time, I think that I understand the mindset of the participants and appreciate them for their adherence to the standing doctrines, disciplines, and procedures of the era.
'The Pearl Harbor Warning That Never Was'
(See W. F. Ruck, p. 7, February 2010; R. E. Young, pp. 6-7, December 2009; R. J. Hanyok, pp. 6-8, October 2009; L. Jewell, p. 6, August 2009; P. Ribbey pp. 7 and 64, June 2009; and R. J. Hanyok, pp. 50-53, April 2009 Naval History)
Thomas W. Gillette
My father, Claude Sexton Gillette (U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1909), was one of those who, after rapid promotion in World War I, stayed in the Navy during the long dry spell of the 1920s and '30s. Mr. Ruck's comment that the peacetime Navy officers "concentrated on staying within their limited budget and polishing their officer reports in the hope of being promoted," is an unprovoked insult to the many officers and men who were there to hold the line in 1942 and led us to victory in 1945. Their peacetime training and experience provided the essential nucleus around which the World War II Navy was built.
In the late 1930s, my father (an engineering duty-only officer) turned down a position paying more than five times his naval salary because he knew that war was coming. As a result, in 1941 he was manager of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and had responsibility for salvage and Fleet repairs until the Battle of Midway. Thereafter he was promoted to rear admiral and made manager of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, the largest naval ship repair facility on the West Coast until early 1945.
Mr. Ruck should be grateful for the existence of people who placed duty to their country above personal gain, and not be disparaging them.


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Riebeek Cellars is a winery in the picturesque Riebeek Valley, in the heart of the Swartland wine region of South Africa.
We have a passion for the unique Swartland landscape and for the people of the Riebeek Valley. Through close collaboration with our community we produce quality wines that are testament to the expressive nature of the Swartland wine region.
Established in 1941, we are the authentic W.O. Swartland wine producer. 30 Families across the Riebeek Valley, including 3rd and 4th generation wine grape growers, are our only source, ensuring continuity of the finest quality W.O. Swartland wines.
Like our wines, the Riebeek Valley thrives with creative energy, gourmet fare, farm fresh produce and the vibrant, uncomplicated lifestyle of its people. It captures the essence of the Swartland - where passion, creativity and simplicity are distilled into a captivating experience.
CEO: Andre Engelbrecht
Fast forward 300 years of proud wine-making tradition, nine local wine grape farmers in the Riebeek Valley, established Riebeek Cellars in 1941 on the foothills of the Kasteelberg Mountain. The first of its kind in the Swartland, Riebeek Cellars is the authentic wine producer in the Swartland wine region.
Continuously evolving and innovating, Riebeek Cellars has successfully transitioned from a co-operative wine cellar in the early days, to the modern wine company we are today. Our wine team, including a full-time viticulturist, partners with our local wine grape growers to harness the unique Swartland terroir.
The Swartland is a rugged place of untamed beauty and unique, distinctive terroir.
The terroir of the Riebeek Valley is mainly affected by a Mediterranean climate and diverse, prehistoric Sandstone and Shale soils from the majestic Kasteelberg Mountain. Both significantly influence the style and quality of our wines.
Average age of the vines is 12 years. Oldest are 47 year old bush-vines.
Download Riebeek Cellars 2017 harvest report
Our vineyards are situated at heights that vary from 60m to 300m above sea level, against the slopes and foothills of the Kasteelberg Mountain. Because of the topography, the soils offer rich diversity, including: Oakleaf and Dundee alluvial soil from the sediment of die Berg River and Swartland and Glenrosa soils from underlying shale along the Kasteelberg Mountain.
Rainfall occurs during winter months with enough cold units to ensure a proper rest phase for the vines before bud-break in early September. The summers are intensely hot and dry with some cooling westerly winds that are ideal conditions for producing fine white and red wines.
A low bearing region with limited irrigation, our key vineyards are still farmed as either dry land farms, or with some supplementary irrigation to help the crop to optimum ripeness. The soils and dry land conditions have proved ideal for bush vine (un-trellised) vineyards. The dry land conditions result in small berries with layered flavour, near perfect colour and soft tannin structures that deliver fruit-driven, expressive wines for the novice and connoisseur alike.
The Riebeek Valley supports a great diversity of varietals that flourish here but it is our exceptional Chenin Blanc, Shiraz & Pinotage that shows the best of what the Swartland terroir can do.
Our wine team, including a full-time viticulturist, works with our grape growers to sustainably develop varietals and sites that best translates the Swartland terroir. Using only free-run juice from the finest grapes, a passionate wine team craft clean, crisp, well-made wines that are true-to-type with focussed fruit and great purity.
"I firmly believe that the specific character of each wine has its origin in the vineyard and therefore my goal is to express the uniqueness of our terroir in each glass of wine. Understanding and harnessing the diversified terroir of the Kasteelberg Mountain and the individuality of each vintage guides me in creating special wines rather than blindly following fixed recipes."
"Innovative technology and modern cellar equipment enables me to produce wines that boast sought after titles and prestigious awards. Wine lovers are invited to experience the fruit of our wines and to enjoy true Swartland hospitality."
"Essentially the winemaking process begins in the vineyard as winemakers can only make superior wines from quality grapes. Such grapes are only produced when terroir and sustainable vineyard practices are unified. We partner closely with our wine grape growers to ensure that we get the best from our vineyards and preserve this unique terroir for generations to come. It's all about respecting what we have, and being passionate and considerate in what we do with it. ".
THEMBILE NTLOKO & WOUTER LOUBSER: Assistant winemakers.
Riebeek Cellars is passionate about the ideals of the Integrated Production of Wine (IPW), a South African initiative that aims to decrease chemical intervention and improve waste management throughout the industry. It's also why we're a member of the WWF's Biodiversity in Wine Initiative (BWI), which underlines our commitment to protecting our remaining endemic 'renosterbos' and adopting better farming practices to ensure healthier natural systems.
Riebeek Cellars is WIETA accredited and we require that all our producers are also certified. WIETA accreditation helps us focus our energies toward ethical trade, fair labour policies and the highest level of occupational health and safety compliance. While we regularly review and update our HACCP and ISO9001 rating, our BRC rating is covered by our shareholding in Paarl Valley Bottling Co. where we bottle all our own wines.
The Wine and Spirit Board of South Africa, appointed by the Department of Agriculture, certifies that:
1. The vintage, variety and origin that are shown on the label are correct.
2. The wine has been produced sustainably, in an earth-friendly manner.
3. The wine can be traced all the way from the vine to the bottle.
4. It was bottled in South Africa – so it is 100% South African!
Because we value the people in our community, Partnership Vineyards is the fruit of Riebeek Cellars' empowerment project. Our farm & cellar workers are shareholders of these vineyards and wine company that produces superior, Fairtrade certified wines.
Riebeek Cellars collaborates with wine lovers to produce innovative wines for leisure drinkers and connoisseurs alike.
Using only free-run juice from the finest selection of Swartland grapes, our wines are fruit-driven and well-balanced, with velvety tannin structures and layered flavour profiles that express the unique Swartland character.
Our brands are proudly and authentically W.O. Swartland, and enjoy local and global acclaim.
Zakkie Bester, CEO/Cellar Master of Riebeek Cellars, reveals how four of his highly rated and diverse wines uniquely portray the lifestyle of this South African artist community. Click here for the complete article and video.
Riebeek Cellars, located on the western coast of the Cape Province of South Africa, was established over 70 years ago. These wines are meant to be consumed early in life, and therefore the focus is on unmanipulated, unadulterated, straightforward, abundant fruit."
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue #208, August 2013)
"Located in the Western Cape region of South Africa, this winery was established in 1941, which makes it relatively old compared to all the new wineries that have sprung up in this area. Among the first Pinotages I can recommend, it's also a good value. Pinotage, which is, of course, ubiquitous in South Africa, was first made in 1941, when the Cinsault grape (primarily grown in southern France and the Rhone Valley) was crossed with Pinot Noir." -
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue 201, June 2012)
While he humbly named the valley after his patron, Jan van Riebeeck, Riebeek Cellars feels it is only fitting that their valley's most coveted treasure should carry the name of its founder. So, in honor of Pieter Cruythoff, this range of fine wine bears his name.
This bubbly is extra dry but maintains a complex, fruity nose of tropical fruit and biscuit flavors. Crisp acid ensures a fresh, clean, and very drinkable sparkling wine.
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Supplementary irrigation in vineyard. Harvested in early February at an average of 19° Balling.
500 liter / ton free run juice was used. Fermented with selected yeast and left on the fermentation lees for 6 months before stabilization and bottling. Malolactic fermentation racked without SO2, matured on fine lees for at least a year, stabilized and bottled.
Enjoy well-chilled with lighter meals like pasta, salmon and salads or as a glass on its own with good friends.


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Call of the heroes for long-suffering Spain: Otra! Otra!
David Migoya is a Denver Post business reporter — and elated Spain supporter…
After decades of waiting — in my case nearly five — my beloved Spain has cracked the World Cup final!
It's like rooting for the Cubs, though that ill-fated franchise has at least won a title. Our team, representing an entire country, has never even made the semi-finals.
And that since the first tournament in 1930.
Friends in Madrid sent me text messages today of crowds arm-in-arm chanting "Otra! Otra! Otra!" (Another! Another! Another!) to mark the win over Germany.
My mother in Galicia sends me a voice message simply of the crowd in the streets below her balcony.
My brother near Seville sends me a text of joy, surely with trembling fingers in the middle of a mass of mayhem.
It's a thrill and Puyol today is a hero, even if he does play for Barcelona.
–David Migoya


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Ekant Maun & Aradhana Shibir (121)
7 - 11th May 2020
Ekant Maun Shibir
Ekant Maun Shibir is a spiritual retreat held for 5 days for intensive spiritual striving in a conducive external environment. Participants stay in silence and in isolation during the entire shibir. The daily programme includes Param Pujya Bhaishree's param satsang on a focused topic over the 5 days usually taken from a scripture. There is also 5 hours of meditation along with self-study, contemplation and devotional bhakti.
The retreat is only for those Mumukshus who are part of the Raj Marg Nu Yogarohan scheme. Application for the shibir is required beforehand with Br. Karsanbhai. Acceptance into the shibir is then confirmed prior to the shibir. Those participating in the shibir must adhere to the strict rules and no communication is allowed during this time.
Aradhana Shibir
Simulataneous to the Ekant Maun Shibir is an Aradhana Shibir. This is open to all. Param Pujya Bhaishree's satsang is broadcast from the Ekant Maun Shibir. In the afternoon there is a Swadhyay series conducted by the Brahmanishts.
The Aradhana Shibir is open to all and although prior registration is encouraged it is not mandatory.
Room Booking
If you are attending the shibir please ensure you have booked your room with the Ashram office. You can do this online here.


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Penne with Sausage, Beans and Broccoli Rabe (Rapini)
Penne with Sausage, Garbanzo Beans, and Broccoli Rabe
(Makes 6 full-meal servings or 8 small servings, recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from many online recipes.)
5 links hot turkey Italian Sausage (19.5 oz.)
1 large bunch Broccoli Rabe (next time I might double it, which would lower the carbs)
1 can Garbanzo beans, rinsed very well and drained
1/4 cup chicken stock
2 T olive oil
1 T balsamic vinegar
3 cups (dry) Dreamfield's Penne
(reserve 1/2 cup pasta cooking water)
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Wash Broccoli Rabe very well (I used a salad spinner) and then cut crosswise into ribbons. I also chopped some of the stems, but discarded the bottom portion of the stem.
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The national bibliography is available as web publications and as an online database.
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New publications are registered as deposit copies on their arrival to the National Library of Estonia, earlier publications are entered into the database retrospectively step by step.
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Today in Land Use class, I had an abysmal time attempting to teach Avco v. South Coast Regional Comm'n, a 1976 California Supreme Court case that is crucial in understanding the "vested rights" doctrine. Avco holds that a developer has vested rights to develop only when 1) it relies on a permit; and 2) has undertaken substantial work in reliance on that permit.
Seems simple enough, right? Not really: in the case, the plaintiff had a vested right to keep doing the preparatory work for its subdivision because it had a permit to do so (and had invested $2 million in doing so), but did not have a vested right to build, because it didn't have a building permit yet. I had a hard time making this clear to the students, and that where Donald Rumsfeld comes in.
Rumsfeld, of course, was subjected to widespread — and in my view, completely unwarranted and unfair — ridicule for his distinction between various levels of knowledge. Here is the statement, from his February 12, 2002 press conference, put in poetic form:
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
Very funny, at least in this presentation, but absolutely correct! And actually, quite a good way to say it.
So what does this have to do with law teaching? Law teachers, especially those who use some equivalent of the Socratic method, have to fill in the fourth category of knowledge, which Rumsfeld didn't mention, in order to be effective. In other words, law teachers need to be aware of the unknown knowns, that is, those things that we know but that we do not know that we know!
That seems like a strange category, but it isn't. Back to Avco: in order to understand the facts in that case, you have to know that developer first needs to get a permit to prepare the subdivision — the streets. water, sewer, infrastructure, open space, etc. — and then needs to get building permits to order to build the buildings, such as houses, apartments, commercial areas, etc.
And I knew that. But I didn't really know that that was a specific piece of information that I knew! It was an unknown known. And because I didn't know that I knew that, I didn't explain it as clearly and precisely as I should have to the students. And so they didn't understand the case as well as they could have, if I had been clearer.
So: there are known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns, and unknown knowns. You could put it in a two-by-two matrix. This is about as close as I am ever going to get to the famous Rule Four developed simultaneously by Calabresi & Melamed, and in Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb. But I think it is important for law teachers: make sure that you know what it is that you know, but your students don't! It's a way to make things clearer.
Got that?
And speaking of knowing…
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MURDER ELITE (aka) ELIA MORDERCOW(1985)Saturday, March 1st, 2014
'Murder Elite' is somewhat of a curio piece; a British pseudo-slasher set in the bucolic countryside, that feels more like a particularly sedentary episode of 'Bergerac' than a lurid 80's horror. Thus far it sounds as if I am being condescending, but I'm merely try to place this rather obscure title in a truer perspective; while it concerns the murderous machinations of a provincial serial killer, 'Man Bites Dog' it 'aint!
All that said, and with its palpable lack of sanguinary violence, I really enjoyed it; and while it is definitely more tea & biscuits, than Troma & Jack Daniels; the fact that 'Murder Elite' takes a rather sedate, bucolic approach, which ultimately endeared the film to me greatly; and this was largely down to the largely excellent cast: Billie Whitelaw and Hywel Bennett were tremendous in the roles, and it was a joy to see Garfield 'The Sweeney' Morgan reprise his role of Detective Chief inspector Haskins (sort of!) and while he didn't get to do more than sneer, and regard everyone's paltry alibi with scorn; as expected, he did this with aplomb! This stoic fellow was born to play a TV copper, such verisimilitude, such perfect pitch of derision was never quite so pronounced in any other thespian. Again, this is a largely esoteric reason to enjoy a film, but there it is! The one major suspension of disbelief has always been that Ali MacGraw was in any way,shape,or form a competent actor: she wasn't; and the energy expenditure it required to accept that she was Billie Whitelaw's sister took infinitely more creativity than N. J Crisp displayed in his somewhat piecemeal script. Watching Steve McQueen's main squeeze stumble-bum through her performance as a libidinous strumpet, was, in its own way hugely amusing. The weary plot would suit the yellowed pages of a pre-30's pulp pot boiler, and, along with MacGraw is definitely the last chicken in the shop; but the true gold is the woefully grandiose score by Hammer legend James Bernard; his heady, Gothic bombast raises this anodyne effort to that of magnificent folly with his HUGE overbearing score; let me just say this is no fault of his; he remains one of the all time greats; but this slender tale couldn't hold the cumbersome weight of his muscular score: a bit like slathering the most grandiose John Williams effort over a scratchy Doris Wishman effort: thereby creating a gravitas overload which soon escalates to unbound jocularity. If Christopher lee were creeping, swivel-eyed through the misty gloaming; repeatedly tearing nubile throats asunder, THIS would be a stupendously exhilarating score: Hywel Bennett repeatedly mucking out the stable is, frankly, too prosaic a visual, and requires considerably less orchestration, if any, really.
The film is absurd, hysterical, and rather pedestrian, and, still, I found much to enjoy here: I definitely prefer the European title of 'Elia Mordercow' to 'Murder Elite': 'Murder Elite'? Why? Because it's a far better moniker than 'bloodless killings on a near-bankrupt farm' Just remember to crank up the giddy James Bernard score! 'Elia Mordercow' will probably have its greatest appeal to Hywel Bennett fans, or those singular individuals who can glean inordinate amounts of pleasure from the kind of ragged, celluloid nonsense most sensible folk would cast violently from the village with bilious hue & cry, and raised, angered pitchfork.


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A referee who authorities said was punched by a player during a soccer match in Livonia, Mich., Sunday has been declared dead, leaving behind a wife and two young sons.
John Bieniewicz, 44, of Westland, Mich., was on the ground and unconscious when police arrived, police said in a news release.
James Acho, Bieniewicz's friend of 30 years, said Bieniewicz is being kept on a ventilator until his organs can be harvested and donated through Gift of Life.
Bassel Abdul-Amir Saad, 36, of Dearborn, Mich., was arraigned Monday on a felony charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder and received a $500,000 cash/surety bond.
"The charges will be reviewed and amended when appropriate confirmations are made and other necessary documentation is received," said Maria Miller, a spokeswoman with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.
Bieniewicz worked as the lead medical assistant in the Pediatric Chronic Dialysis unit at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich..
"He's a fantastic human being," Acho said. "A guy who lives life to the fullest."
A fund has been set up at JohnBieniewiczMemorial.com to help with funeral and burial expenses and to also help his children, ages 9 and 13, moving forward, he said.
Bieniewicz was licensed to referee professional, collegiate, high school and rec league soccer and was very passionate about the game, often refereeing up to three games on a Saturday.
"He just absolutely lived it and loved it," Acho said.
Saad's attorney, Brian Berry, said his client cooperated with the police investigation and voluntarily turned himself in.
"Our hearts are saddened to learn of the passing of John Bieniewicz. May God bless him and his family members as they deal with this loss," Berry said in an email to the Free Press.
"Based on certain witness statements that have not yet been published, it is believed that the facts of this case have been mischaracterized," the e-mail said. "Mr. Saad is presumed innocent unless and until a fact finder determines differently. As tragic as this event is, we must keep open minds and listen and wait for all the facts of this case to unfold."
Scott Herkes, 39, was playing in the adult soccer match Sunday and said he was about 30 yards away when he saw the referee punched by a player on the opposing team.
"It was terrifying," he said.
He said it happened as Bieniewicz, who had stopped the game to eject Saad, was looking down, and he didn't see the punch coming.
Herkes said Saad was complaining about a call made by a referee and was issued a violation, his second in the game.
There were about 30 players at the game and a handful of spectators, many of whom saw what happened, he said.
"I have never in my life seen something like this," Herkes said.
He said the man who threw the punch fled the field after it happened, and some players got the license plate number and a description of the vehicle he left in.
"The ref did nothing to provoke this attack," he said, calling it "unfathomable" that it would happen.
Bieniewicz never regained consciousness after being hit, Acho said.
"The force of the blow to the jaw caused a traumatic impact to the brain," he said.
A preliminary examination in the case is set for July 10 in Livonia, authorities said.
Elisha Anderson writes for the Detroit Free Press


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Violence against women drops in Khost this year
Violence against women drops in Khost this year
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Incidents of violence against women significantly decreased in southeastern Khost province from 55 last year to so far 17 incidents this year, an official said.
Khost women's affairs director Malala Wali told an academic research seminar on violence against women here that the incidents happened this year included denial of inheritance right, divorce, underage marriages, forced marriage and beating.
She said her department had been able to address seven of the cases in consultation with legal experts.
She linked the decrease in violence against women to her department's efforts at creating awareness among the females about their rights.
Khost governor Hukam Khan Habibi said illiteracy, use of drugs and old traditions contributed to the violence against the gender.
He said if the authorities concerned and religious scholars joined hands in preventing crimes against women, the situation could further improve.
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New Cathedral of La Asunción de la Virgen
Contact details
Plaza Juan XXIII s/n
37008 Salamanca (Castilla y Leon)
Tel.:+34 923281123
Tel.:+34 923217476
- Autonomous region: Castilla y Leon
- Province/Island: Salamanca
When we speak of the Cathedral of Salamanca in fact we are referring to two churches joined together. First, there is the old cathedral dating from the 12th-13th centuries; and then the new one from the 16th century.
The Old Cathedral is in the Romanesque style with the outstanding Gallo Tower. Inside this temple, the construction of which began at the end of the 12th century, is the San Martín or Oil Chapel. The main reredos, which dates from the 15th century and was created by several painters with Dello Delli at the head, is also worthy of note. The mural painting which covers the vault is the work of Nicolás Florentino. In this great pictorial work it is possible to see the image of Christ at the Last Judgement. The Old Cathedral attracts the eye of the visitor due to the beautiful tombs of the bishops' and members of the nobility to be found inside. The New Cathedral, built in the 16th century and completed in the 18th century by Churriguera, houses the image of the Virgin of the Assumption, carved in 1626 by the sculptor Esteban Rueda. The temple's Baroque retrochoir is very beautiful and contains Renaissance images such as that of The Virgin of Loreto and those of Saint John the Baptist.
- Construction: Cathedral
- Artistic period: Romanesque
- Historic period: 17th century, 12th century
- Setting: The University and The Clerecía building.
Practical information
- From Oct 01 to Mar 31
From Monday to SundayFrom 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- From Apr 01 to Sep 30
From Monday to SundayFrom 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- General: €5
- Reduced: €4
- Children: €3
- Large families: €1,5
- Disabled persons: Admission free
Audio guide, Guided tours, Shop Visits to Cloister, El Perdón doorway, Choir, and Diocesan and Cathedral Museum.


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There are strict rules when it comes to a dog pooing in public - the owner must pick it up and dispose of it, or face a $300 fine. But it's more than that, picking up your dog's dump - sorry to be so crass, but it bugs me - is a social responsibility.
Not that you'd know it, judging by the state of the lawn outside our house. Every time we walk out the front gate to get into the car I have to say to the girls: "Watch out for the dog poo."
We don't have off street parking, so we have no choice but to walk across a grass verge to get to the car each morning, and brave the dog poo minefield. There are little ones, big ones, and downright obscene ones.
And I am a poo magnet. Always have been. Put it in front of me and I will walk in it. Just ask my wife. Back when we had just started going steady I turned up at her door step oblivious to the fact that I had trodden in some poop on my walk to her house and it had gradually squelched, rubbed and worked its way up the inside of my leg.
Kids are poo magnets too. They don't look where they're going, they just go - and though my little Mia hasn't trampled poo into the house, there have been some close calls. Also, kids are fascinated by these foreign dog logs and stop to study them intently.
It seemed, not that long ago, that carrying a plastic bag with you as you walked your dog was a proud and honourable thing to do - even though there was bound to be a slightly shameful moment when you had to pick up a steaming hot turd.
But these days, have dog owners regressed? Gotten lazy? Does the Auckland Council need to redeploy some of those bus lane camera guys and place them on doggy doo duty? I think so, and I reckon they could make a bit of revenue out of monitoring the lawn outside our house and around our Mt Albert neighbourhood.
We sometimes see the culprits from our kitchen window. Their dog has obviously stopped because the owner is yanking gently on the lead, trying to get it to hurry up. They look from side to side nervously to see if anyone is watching them. Then they shuffle off as if nothing has happened. We're not really the types to yell out the window and ask them to pick it up - but it's getting to that stage. And a home-made sign on the grass verge might be going a bit too far.
We are thinking about laying some paving stones so we can island hop through the poo field.
To be fair, we also see those lovely people who do take the time to bend down and bag the puppy (as in the poo). But you other lot that leave it lying on the ground, you stink.


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I have been told by 3 different doctors in the last few weeks, to give the game away. Easier said than done, the last one to tell me was more on the mark and sympathetic of my situation, he said my body wont last another 20 years mowing, and that it is time to either move on or employ people to do the work. He said its time to really start to make decisions and be sorted out within 2 years max.Its a bit hard to swallow when this is all I know, I have been in the turf maintenance industry since I was 15 years old, so there is nothing to fall back on. Even though this work has all its problems and faults I still love what I do and would probably do it all again, maybe a little different. Only last week I had cut a lawn early one morning, the sun was out, and you could smell the freshly cut grass, and I thought to myself I really love this, but it is just about over.
I am depressed and worried about what to do, any advice on growing to a larger business??? I would need at least 2 employees ,its a big decision I don't know what to do.I have had an offsider before but that was casual, this would be a whole different ball game.
I have thought about setting up a business just spraying and fertilizing lawns, but Im not sure if I would get enough work to keep me going.Any thoughts guys


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The House Theatre of Chicago, in residence at the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park, will kick off its 2012-13 season with "The Iron Stag King: part one," the beginning of a new trilogy by Chris Matthews and Nathan Allen ("The Sparrow") wherein a "young man seeks to unite his realm in peace." Allen said that the new show is a fusion of Arthurian and Norse mythology with "uniquely American themes." Performances begin on Aug. 31.
Following the annual production of "The Nutcracker" (as previously reported, the show will be staged simultaneously in Chicago and Miami this year) House will re-stage its 2007 production of "The Magnificents," once again showcasing the magic of Dennis Watkins, the star of its current show, "Death and Harry Houdini." Performance begin in January.
Allen said that the new production would be far more expansive than the premiere.
In April, House will premiere "Ploughed Under: An American Songbook," a new song cycle created by composer Kevin O'Donnell that aims to pair new compositions with "Familiar folks tales and tall tales."
Watkins continues to appear in "The Magic Parlour,' the late-night magic show at the Palmer House Hotel that has been doing boffo business in an open-run. Additional 8 pm performances have been added.


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The Baylor Quarterly. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 1, 1888
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Date: February 1, 1888
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Linda Hamilton is "Manic, Mad and Full of Secrets" in the Defiance Season Finale
Aug 28, 2014 9:47 AM EDT
Come with me if you want to live! Linda Hamilton emerged from 1984's The Terminator as one of the great heroines of science fiction — now she's threatening to do some terminating of her own. On Thursday's two-hour season finale of the futuristi… Read more