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LINCOLN — An ad hoc committee of residents appointed by the Lincoln selectboard will meet Wednesday to finalize a recommendation to the board on how to proceed with building a new town office building.
The committee has been working since September on the proposal, and will meet on Jan. 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the present town office.
Selectman Bill Finger said the town has had discussions about replacing the 45-year-old town office building since 2009. He said the growth of the town has rendered the structure too small.
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BRISTOL — A committee charged with evaluating the feasibility of making repairs to Mount Abraham Union Middle/High School issued its report to the district school board, recommending that the district pursue a renovation project.
"It is the position of this committee that the community is ready for an upgrade to the facility," the report states. "We believe it is now up to the board and concerned citizens to advocate for the scope of changes to be performed."
BRISTOL — The chair of the Mount Abraham Facility Advisory Committee on Dec. 18 enumerated for the Bristol selectboard some of the reasons the Mount Abraham Union High School facilities should be updated.
Troy Paradee stressed that the building is by no means unsafe — rather, some school officials and residents believe it does not meet the educational needs of students in this day and age.
MIDDLEBURY — While the prospect of building new municipal offices and a new recreation center is grabbing most of the headlines in Middlebury these days, the town is also taking stock in two other substantial capital projects: major repairs to a portion of the Ilsley Public Library roof, and the need to install a liner in the town swimming pool.
BRISTOL — When Tropical Storm Irene slammed Vermont a year ago, Bristol wasn't as badly marred as some Vermont towns. But large sections of several major roads were wiped out, construction projects were taken back to phase one and several old structures were destroyed.
One year later, Bristol Administrator Bill Bryant said the town's infrastructure and finances are in good shape. He credited the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), among others, for aiding in the recovery.
BRANDON — Three months after Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont had set a new standard for the rest of the country as crews worked to repair and replace roads and bridges in record time. To the credit of state and local officials, critical flood plain development policies and regulations were coming to the fore with the epic flooding as an eerie exclamation point.
MIDDLEBURY — Downtown Middlebury's Mill Street will be closed to traffic from 7 to 11 a.m. for several consecutive days beginning Monday, Aug. 27, as workers replace sidewalks along the narrow, one-way road linking Main Street with Weybridge Street.
EAST MIDDLEBURY — As Middlebury officials look to protect East Middlebury from future flooding, they told a crowd of local residents last Thursday that they're caught between outside regulators, feeling abandoned by the state and blocked by the feds.
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It was announced this week that designer L'Wren Scott partnered with Lancome for Holiday 2010. One of the collection's highlights: a new day-to-night red lipstick. We're intrigued. (via InStyle)
YSL has a new foundation, Teint Radiance, that promises flawless skin by diffusing light and imparting a radiant glow on skin. Sounds promising!
Another fashion- beauty collaboration was revealed this week, Marchesa x Le Métier de Beauté. Check out the gorgeous steely silver packaging – available exclusively September 10 at Bergdorf Goodman. (via The Cut)
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The name of the village is obviously in part derived from that of the river, itself meaning "trespasser" from its tendency to flooding. The second word comes from the original name of the crossing of the nearby River Stour, which was called Crow Ford, until the present bridge, called Crawford Bridge, was built.
Although Dorset generally is a very hilly county, around here the hills are not very big (although some are steep-sided), with cattle grazing in smallish green fields bounded by hedges, interspersed here and there with small patches of woodland - a quiet, gentle, very rural country.
The River Tarrant runs roughly north to south, but the lower part through Tarrant Keyneston and Tarrant Crawford to its union with the Stour veers to south west. It meets the Stour about at right angles, as the larger river runs north west to south east, eventually meeting the sea in company with the Salisbury Avon at Christchurch.
The Tarrant runs for most of its length through a narrow, steep sided valley, but Tarrant Crawford lies where the valley begins to open out a little as it joins the broader, flat-bottomed valley of the River Stour. The highest point in the parish, along part of its north east boundary, lies about 200 feet above sea level, while at its lowest where part of the south west boundary runs along the Stour it is only about 100 feet up. Almost every one of its buildings is close to the lower elevation.
The parish is very small in area, being only just over a mile along its longest axis, which runs north east to south west, and about four fifths of a mile at maximum in the other direction.
It is located about 3 miles south east of Blandford Forum and about 6 miles north west of Wimborne, both nowadays smallish market towns, but large enough to provide for most day-to-day requirements. The entertainments and amenities of a larger town are available about 10 miles away in Poole, and immediately beyond that, even larger Bournemouth. The nearest shops, pubs and similar village institutions are a mile or so away in Spetisbury, just across the River Stour.
A map of the parish (total 71,820 bytes) is on a separate page.
An abbey of Cistercian nuns was established near to where the church now stands, back in the reign of Richard I (1189-1199) according to one source, but a little later in 1223 according to another. The latter source, a booklet available in the church when I last visited, refers to an earlier community of Anchoresses, living in a house adjacent to the church (called the Manse of the Nuns), so perhaps this was confused with the abbey by the first source quoted. The building is long gone, but it is thought that some of the stones from the outbuildings have been incorporated in the large farmhouse, called Abbey Farm.
Two relatively famous names are associated with Tarrant Crawford. One is Queen Joan, the wife of Alexander II of Scotland and daughter of King John of England (Richard I's brother and successor), who is buried here and was the first lay abbess.
The other famous person was Bishop Richard Poore, builder of Salisbury Cathedral, who was baptised in the church and later (in 1237) buried in the abbey, which he founded. He was at one time Dean of the old cathedral at Old Sarum, and later became bishop of first Chichester, then Salisbury and finally Durham.
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This is a view of the Tarrant Crawford countryside and a couple of houses, from beside the cross.
The main walls and the chancel were built in the 12th century, and most of the remainder in the 13th. The only major (15th century) later additions were the upper part of the tower and two of the windows. The tower houses three bells, two of them mediæval and one 17th century.
This photo (31,757 bytes) gives a general idea of the interior of the church, but does not show the wall paintings (see below) at all clearly.
The thing which most attracts people to this church, however, is the set of ancient wall paintings which cover most of the aisleless nave. Most date from the 14th century, but the earliest is 13th and the most recent from the 16th or 17th century. Particularly impressive is the south wall of the nave, which is divided into two by a horizontal band. Above the band is a series of 14 scenes from the life of St. Margaret of Antioch, complete except for the last two - said to be the most extensive and complete such sequence in England. The sequence dates from the early 14th century, but, though rather faint, the twelve remaining paintings are still visible. In all there are 24 paintings on the walls, only three of which are indecipherable.
Not mentioned in any literature I have seen, but which my family and I found of interest, was the tiny organ (photo 38,482 bytes). No bigger than a standard upright piano, it has a single keyboard, and the two large pedals are used by the player to drive the bellows which operate it! (No, we didn't try it.)
I am indebted to the (unknown) author of the booklet from the church (mentioned above) for most of my information about the church and the history of the abbey. The booklet was probably produced by The Churches Conservation Trust, who maintain the church.
These are of interest to other people (N.B. links are email links to the interested researcher):
HUND (Michael Sprackling)
KNOTT, Rev. Robert Rowe was the chaplain of the Donative of Tarrant Crawford from 1849 to 1865 (Maurice Snowdon)
MEADER, Henry, b 1830 at Oakley - owned the Willet Arms in Oakley in the mid-1850's. Father Andrew lived in T. Monkton. (Shelagh Kew Barker)
SPRACKLING (Michael Sprackling)
STEVENS (Michael Sprackling)
WARR, Reuben, b.1830 at T. Crawford & Charlotte (née Meader), b.1819 at T. Monkton. (Shelagh Kew Barker)
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The New York-based festival will open on Apr 17 with the world premiere of Tom Berninger's documentary Mistaken For Strangers.
The film chronicles the biggest tour to date by The National, the Brooklyn-based band led by the director's brother Matt Berninger, as well as the director's amusing efforts to juggle his role as band roadie and irreverent documentarian.
Matt Berninger, Carin Besser and Craig Charland produced Mistaken For Strangers and former Oscar nominee Marshall Curry served as executive producer.
The premiere screening will be followed by a live performance by the band.
"Mistaken For Strangers exemplifies the independent spirit and vitality that Tribeca is excited to showcase every year," said chief creative officer Geoff Gilmore. "We are thrilled to open with a film that embodies the journey of an independent film-maker, and is at its core a highly personal and lighthearted story about brotherly love. It will be a great night of both indie film and music."
"We're really happy to premiere this movie at Tribeca, as New York has been home to us for these past 15 years," said Matt Berninger. "I was happy to give my brother whatever access he needed. I just didn't expect this movie to include shower scenes."
"When my brother asked me along on tour as a roadie, I thought I might as well bring a camera to film the experience," said Tom Berninger. "What started as a pretty modest tour documentary has, over the last two-and-a-half years, grown into something much more personal, and hopefully more entertaining. It's a huge thrill to be showing this movie at the Tribeca Film Festival."
Tribeca Film Festival will announce its feature film slate on Mar 5 and 6. The festival will run from Apr 17-28.


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- Chicago detectives are still searching for the assailant in a 15-year-old girl's rape
- Police superintendent makes a surprise visit to a meeting of angry parents
- "The young lady is still on the fence ... as far as how she's doing," he says of the victim
- "We're going to make sure that we catch this monster," he tells crowd
Chicago police continued to search Friday for a suspect in the brutal rape of 15-year-old girl who was walking to school near one of the city's Safe Passage routes for children.
Meanwhile, as the crime put national attention again on Chicago's violence, police Superintendent Garry F. McCarthy made a surprise visit to a community meeting Thursday night, where residents expressed anger and outrage over the crime.
The 15-year-old girl remains hospitalized, with a head injury suffered in the assault.
"The young lady is still on the fence, if you will, as far as how she's doing," McCarthy told the gathering of parents and other residents in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the city's northwest side.
"We're going to make sure that we catch this monster. We're going to make sure that it doesn't happen again in this community or in any other community in the city of Chicago," McCarthy added.
The 15-year-old girl was walking to her high school in predawn darkness when an assailant hit her on the head, dragged her between two houses to a yard and raped her, police said, with the assault taking place just a half-block away from one of the city's "Safe Passage" school routes especially for students.
Just this fall, local officials pledged that an expanded Safe Passages program -- with its big yellow signs above sidewalks patrolled during key times by paid, trained workers -- would be a sanctuary for children walking to and from school.
The initiative came as Chicago became the nation's homicide capital of America in 2012, according to FBI statistics.
This school year, city and school officials doubled the number of Safe Passage routes to accommodate more children being forced to walk greater distances because the school system closed a record 48 elementary schools amid a $1 billion budget shortfall. About 12,000 students are attending new schools this year because of the budget crisis, and many of them must walk through some of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods.
This week, local authorities noted that the 15-year-old victim was walking to school Tuesday morning a half-hour before her nearby Safe Passage route was staffed with patrols.
A resident found the girl half-naked and bleeding from the head on a snowy walkway at the side of his home. She lay for about two hours in the cold before she was discovered. She was conscious but barely moving when she was found, authorities said.
"Just opening up the door, and take a morning sweep of the sidewalks and to find something like that is just shocking," said Michael Klockowski, the resident on the city's northwest side who found the schoolgirl. The snow outside his home was still stained Thursday.


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BERKELEY — Cal confirmed Wednesday morning that offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Jim Michalczik has been let go, meaning that all five holdover assistant coaches are out as new head football coach Sonny Dykes begins assembling his staff.
Michalczik, Ron Gould, Ashley Ambrose, Wes Chandler and Marcus Arroyo initially were retained for the transition period after head coach Jeff Tedford was fired Nov. 20.
Dykes, hired last week, already has brought on two offensive aides from his staff at Louisiana Tech — offensive coordinator Tony Franklin and assistant head coach/wide receivers assistant Rob Likens.
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On the mobile front, BlackBerry 10 is still waiting to get in on the Skype action, but the same can definitely not be said about the calling / messaging services on the more desktop-oriented platforms that are OS X and Windows. On this occasion, the application's new revision brings, most notably, an eGifting feature that's set to allow Mac and PC users to send Skype credits to anyone they deem worthy of receiving them -- so long as they have an account set up, of course. Skype's also slightly redesigned the top toolbar on the Windows edition to make it more of an all-around hub for accessing "Home," "Creating Groups," and "Adding Contacts," while, in version 6.2, the OS X app gets the ability to send one-way SMS without the need for number verification. Both updates are available now, so hit that source link if you're interested in checking out the novel features.
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Mitt Romney delivered the Top 10 list on David Letterman's show back when he was one of a zillion GOP presidential contenders and in a dead heat with Newt Gingrich.
I stumbled onto the clip on You Tube tonight and to see Romney's stiff performance that Dec. 19, 2011 on Letterman is stunning compared with the delivery of his speech Thursday at the Republican National Convention.
Check out the "Top 10 things Mitt Romney would like to say to the American people." My favorite is No. 10 although the gangstas line is delicious.


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This page lists the status of KDE4 on Solaris; for KDE on Solaris instructions on getting KDE4 on Solaris see the other Techbase page.
While Solaris 10 is getting a bit dated, there is one nice thing about building current software on it. Almost nothing conflicts. If it does, then it's something that's done once, and it doesn't pop up again. Unlike SXCE/Nevada/OSOL, where the list of dependencies is changing bi-weekly. I find that just too annoying for words. Another reason, is that for the most part, stuff from Sun's JDS project or the Spec Files Extra project can be prototyped in very quickly, so the benefit of the initial port work is already done. Solaris 10U8 has 64-bit libraries for libssl and libcrypto, which has been a bit of a blocker, and with the addition of a 64-bit libusb library, there shouldn't be much that can't be built.
Spec files are the mechanism that drives building one of the component software packages. In there, a discussion is made that examines how the former model of an all-inclusive secret handshake DUDE tarball can be decomposed to the really important pieces which are the patches, configuration, build and install instructions. For packages without DUDE tarballs, there's enough there to get you started. We can rely on the internet to download current and possibly obsolete sources to build a package. What this really means is that while you are starting out, you don't have to download 7GB of stuff just to get started. You get mercurial, a checkout of the spec files, tweak some stuff on your Solaris system with Studio 12.2 compiler and start building. Having a decent internet connection is probably a good thing, and if not, figure out a way to get stdcxx, current qt source (4.7.1 now), and a few others to your SOURCES directory. Overnight downloads or a USB Key/USB Disk at work to transport home always can make a slow internet connection less *painful*.
Due to a year of neglect, there are some new dependencies that are going to need to be done for Solaris 10. In the short term, we are going to use mysql-5.1 from webstack, until we decide whether we back port the mysql-5.1.37 which is in the opensolaris SFW tree. We are using this version because the 4.x version in Solaris is old, and only has the 32-bit libraries.
Ruby18 is also part of Webstack, so we'll use that until we decide that we'll backport the ruby18 that is also in the opensolaris SFW tree.
The following list is the growing set of dependencies that is being migrated from the old DUDE tarball structure, to complete spec files. Any upgraded spec files can be easily recompiled to the original by just changing the Version or src_ver variable. This is done to retain compatibility with the original 4.1.4 release that was done.
There are several sets of modules which require a circular dependency build to effect all the functionality. gettext requires libiconv, but libiconv requires gettext. So we build gettext, then libiconv, then remove gettext and rebuild it again with libiconv support, then rebuild libiconv support with the real gettext support. Why do we do this? Cause a really smart and dedicated guy figured out the dependencies to make them work the way they were really intended to work. Just slogging some code together eventually results in someone having to figure out why something breaks.
TODO: Upgrade gstreamer, gst-plugins-{base,good,bad,ffmpeg,etc) Upgrade hal and dbus to current JDS levels
Port (not necessary, but should remove an external dependency): mysql5.1, ruby18, Apache Portable Runtime and Python2.6 to remove dependency from webstack
The intention of this showstopper list is to provide more detail and context for what we consider showstoppers for getting KDE4 on Solaris shipped. It doesn't correspond to the Release Team's list, at least not until we get a lot more Solaris mindshare. Each showstopper should have a name, a KDE Bugzilla entry and a long(er) description.
no bugs.kde.org entry yet
In a konsole tab, you can break the link between the shell / session / tab output and konsole itself, so that nothing gets printed anymore. To reproduce this problem, you need to either hit ^C at an inopportune time (there's plenty of that) or produce an unusual output pattern. Here's a long-winded way of looking at the ^C issue:
Here is a way of breaking the link without ^C but by producing a not-very-special output pattern. You need to have the C compiler installed:
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You cannot keep typing indefinitely in a session that is not reading output; it seems like eventually the output from the shell hangs as well. Also, you can hang konsole completely by doing this.


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The Indians
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The Indians especially, "the wild men" as they were called, slipping out of the shadows or vanishing into mysterious distances, were a source of anxiety and endless speculation to the early settlers. European writers like Rousseau, who had never seen an Indian or heard a war-whoop, had been industrious in idealizing the savages, attributing to them all manner of noble virtues; and the sentimental attitude of these foreign writers was reflected here, after the eastern Indians had well-nigh vanished, in such stories as Mrs. Morton's
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The Colonists, on the other hand, had no poetic illusions about the savages. Their enjoyment of this phase of human nature was hardly possible so long as they had to proceed warily on a forest trail, their eyes keen for the first glimpse of a hideously painted face, their ears alert for the twang of a bowstring or the hiss of a feathered arrow. Their deep but practical interest in the Indians found expression in scores of books, which fall roughly into three groups. In the first are the scholarly works of the heroic John Eliot, "the apostle to the Indians"; of Daniel Gookin also, and of a few others who made careful studies of the language and customs of the various Indian tribes. In the second group are the startling experiences of men and women who were carried away by the savages, leaving slaughtered children and burning homes behind them. Such are Mary Rowlandson's
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Well, most will probably not be interested in this, but Aceeca has released details about two new PDAs that will run Linux (note that they also run WM -- ie you get a choice). The reason I say most people won't be interested is because Aceeca is kind of an odd company. They sell rugged and waterproof PDAs as far as I know, and previously sold only PalmOS PDAs. See their website here: http://www.aceeca.com/home/mez_comparison.php
The MEZ2000 looks like a powerhouse of a PDA to me with all the fixin's (although quite big). I guess if you're into kayaking or something and need to check your e-mail (wow, that's an odd scenario) this may just be for you. A little expensive too ($700), but it's basically customized for you (I think).
Let me just say that I know very little about this company, but just happened across their new PDA offerings and figured I'd jump on the bandwagon and report.


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Our dietary habits that is and the way we eat probably influence our health even more than the foods we choose to eat. Developing good dietary habits should begin as early as possible, because these habits will help or hinder us for life. Once they are "under our belt," so to speak, they are very difficult to change. For example, obesity is as much a result of how we eat as it is of what we eat. Overeating, eating late at night, or eating too many different foods at a meal can weaken our digestive functions and make it much easier to gain weight. Overeating at meals and snacking between meals are common eating problems, and often these habits are picked up from other family members during our developmental years. The focus on food and the socialization around eating are family dynamics that become deep-seated very early. Our psychological and emotional states are often tied into habits such as these. Equating food with love or prosperity, and eating for emotional satisfaction or security, are powerful psychological factors which are influenced by eating patterns and problems. Thus, weight reduction is a significant challenge that encompasses major shifts in our psyche, attitudes, emotions, and, hopefully, our physique.
Specific food attractions are also part of our personal eating pattern. These likes and dislikes often develop when we are children and are usually difficult to change. They also influence our health and weight. Breads, pastas, meats, peanut butter, chips, ice cream, fried foods, sugars, hot dogs, hamburgers, and french fries are not our most healthful foods, but these are surely in greater demand than carrots, celery, and apples. The Western family?s attraction to fatty foods continues to influence children, teenagers, and young adults, toward the trend of obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Tastes for specific flavors, such as for salty or sweet foods, also develop when we are young, and are accordingly difficult to change. Occasionally, people become attracted to sour or spicy foods, to bitter foods, such as leafy greens, or to other, less common, flavors. In our culture, abuse of or addiction to sugar and salt is very widespread and influences health significantly. From sugar added to baby food, cereal, coffee or tea, and salt added to almost everything else, to further hidden salt and sugar in most restaurant or fast foods, we are constantly bombarded with these two flavors. The Chinese consider that there are five flavors?sweet, salty, sour, spicy, and bitter?all of which must be balanced to create a healthy diet (see further discussion in Chapter 12, under Flavors [Balance]).
The abuse of sugar and salt in America and even worldwide is significantly influencing the types of diseases seen. Too much sugar affects the teeth, contributes to obesity, and may be an important factor in the development of adult diabetes. Extra salt affects the body?s water balance, thereby affecting the kidneys, blood pressure, and, eventually, the entire cardiovascular system. Most of these problems could be greatly reduced with a more balanced diet.
During the last quarter century, we have seen a dramatic increase in fast foods, snack foods, artificial foods, and foods containing excessive amounts of sugar, salt, or fats. Though these foods may be less expensive for the consumer, the overall costs are more than just what it takes to pay for big factories, expensive equipment, and many employees; it affects the health of our internal and external environment, and that?s a high price to pay! Nowadays, nearly 40 percent of the food dollar is spent in restaurants. Fat intake is more than 40 percent of the average diet. A large portion of the American diet consists of those poor-nutrition foods with their empty calories and excess fat, salt, and sugar?hamburgers, french fries, soft drinks, pizza, hot dogs, fried chicken, bacon, potato chips, candy, pastries, and so on. The attraction to and regular intake of these foods because of their flavors, consistency, availability, or social acceptance easily become ?habits??we seek them out without thinking, and they become a regular part of our diet, often in place of more nutritious foods.
Luckily, we can change these habits. We can change what we eat, how we eat, and when we eat. We can shed addictions to sugar, salt, or other specific foods. We can gain new attractions to more wholesome foods, and lose weight, allowing our body to find its more optimal shape and metabolism. Any change, however, does require motivation and time to allow for physiological readjustments and even withdrawal to take place; this usually takes at least a few weeks. But more and more people are choosing natural foods and losing their tastes for unnatural, oversweetened, salty, greasy, meaty foods. Preparing simpler meals with simpler foods in modest quantities spread out through the day is a healthful way of eating that has come back into vogue.
Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How
There are many factors involved in eating to achieve a balance of physical nourishment, mental relaxation, and emotional harmony. These goals are easily undermined when we let certain patterns develop and lose our sense of eating as a way of nourishing body, mind, and spirit. When we do not take the time to prepare wholesome food, or if we hurry our meal or eat in unpeaceful settings, we risk creating difficulties in digestion and assimilation and losing the basic nurturing potential of our food. Let us take a brief look at a healthful way to approach food and our relationship to it.
Who is it that is eating? Of course, it is each of us that is ultimately responsible for our nutrition, except when we are babies or young children. However, many of us never grow up when it comes to being responsible for what we consume and learning about healthful nutrition?how to shop, how to store food, and especially how to prepare it. It is not the responsibility of our spouse or the cook at the local restaurant; we all need to learn the art of food preparation so that we can ultimately nourish ourselves and others. Anyone who feels that their only role is to go out into the world and make money is selling himself or herself short as complete human beings. I am not suggesting that we all become gourmet chefs, but I would urge everyone to learn the basics of meal preparation so that when left to our own devices we will not just survive, but thrive. As we grow, we need to develop our sense of what is the best diet for each of us, and not live by the needs of our housemates, spouse, parents, or children. This individual process is an essential part of good nutrition throughout life.
With whom we eat is also important. Creating a peaceful setting around food preparation and food consumption is a vital part of the nutrition process. ?What goes in is what comes out? is a wise saying regarding the transformative powers of energy?and if love and a nourishing spirit go into food while it is being prepared, it is likely that the person eating it will experience those qualities. When a meal is prepared by someone who is frustrated or angry, it may take on a whole different nature. That is why loving mothers and grandmas are often the best family cooks?they put their love into everything they make.
This leads to another important aspect of eating?the social setting in which we eat. The family meal, with its members sitting around the table sharing the day?s experiences, is potentially wholesome and relaxing. But if there is more stress than peace, more argument than discussion, or too much coming and going, digestion and nourishment can be negatively affected. If we are particularly sensitive to others or easily upset, it might be best to eat in peace by ourselves or with another who likes to eat quietly. But many families and cultures use mealtimes to socialize, and I believe that we can adapt to this with the right attitudes. Everyone should make the time to relax and breathe before eating?before receiving new energy. To receive nourishment, we must be receptive. Eating on the run or while doing other things, even having an intense conversation during a meal, does not really allow us to pay attention to the whole process of eating?chewing, tasting, and swallowing our food. Overeating is common in these situations. I believe that when individuals, couples, or families have their main or primary contact around the dinner table, inappropriate attitudes toward food can be created?associating being social or close to others while eating, or even using food as a barrier against social interactions and closeness, are some resulting problems.
It is a good idea to ask ourselves with whom and in what kind of setting we like to eat?quietly alone, with a certain friend over an intimate dinner, or in a quick, move-?em-through meal. When we tune into our own preferences, we can nourish ourselves to the fullest potential.
What we eat is probably the most important factor. (However, even the healthiest diet will not be utilized properly if we are stressed, upset, or eat on the run.) A balanced diet is, of course, what we all need. What this actually is may vary from person to person. Our diet is ultimately based upon our individual needs, our cultural background, and our current knowledge and tastes. At best, we should eat moderately and eat a variety of foods.
A balanced diet in my ?book? contains lots of fresh foods?fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seeds, and nuts. More concentrated foods such as eggs, milk products, and animal meats, can be added as desired and tolerated, though they should make up a much smaller percentage of the diet than the vegetable source foods. An even smaller amount of manufactured, processed, or baked foods should be included?these are really not needed at all.
Food combining and rotating our foods so as not to eat the same things every day, may help alleviate or prevent such problems as poor digestion or allergies. We may
find that certain foods feel very good in our body both short and long term, while others do not resonate very well.
The topic of ?what to eat? is really what a good part of this book is about. Also,
see Part Three, Building a Healthy Diet.
When we eat is a fairly controversial concept in nutrition. Though most cultures have regular mealtimes, this is ultimately an individual choice based on body cycles, work, energy levels, and sleep patterns.
The first rule of eating is to eat when we are hungry. The message of hunger tells us that our body has digested and used the last food we consumed and is ready for more. Many people, especially those who are overweight, experience more emotional or psychological hunger than the physical feeling we are talking about here.
We need to balance this hunger response with regular eating patterns, as it is also important to plan meals and have food available when we are hungry. If our schedule is such that we have specific times for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, we need to eat sufficiently but not excessively, so that we are feeling some hunger at the time of our next meal. There are many people in the world, especially in Western cultures, who rarely experience hunger. There are also millions of impoverished people on this earth who rarely experience nutritional satisfaction.
When to eat what kinds of foods and how much food to eat are nutritional issues about which there have been a variety of theories. That we should not eat too much too late in the day is a pretty unanimous viewpoint. Eating a wholesome, well-balanced dinner in the late afternoon or early evening is a fairly well-accepted activity. Dinner tends to be the most social meal, a time to relax after a hard day at work, school, or home. In many parts of the world, particularly Europe, people tend to eat lightly in the morning, and then eat their main meal in the early afternoon. Dinner is usually light with soup and bread or salad, and often a social time with friends or family. See Chapter 9, the Italian diet, as an example.


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Wilton Vises & Clamps
Wilton Tools
The company name "Wilton," founded in 1941, was inspired by the intersection of Wilton Ave. and Wrightwood Ave. in Chicago, where the company was first located. Wilton's first product, a machinist vise designed by Hugh Vogl, was introduced more than 70 years ago and featured a finely threaded spindle that allowed for a straight pull and even pressure; reducing unnecessary strain on the round channel vice nut. The round channel nut design also provided an enclosed cover for the spindle and nut assembly that prevented shop debris from entering the tool. Vogl's patented design offered consistent performance and extended the life of the tool.
The Wilton commitment to quality was evident from day one. Even in the 1940's, Vogl made sure that his machines were precisely engineered to eliminate excess wear and side twisting. By the 1950's, Wilton had designed a series of light-duty carriage clamps, as well as a series of heavy-duty machinist clamps able to withstand greater pressures thanks to their optimal tensile strength. Soon the Wilton brand became the preferred name for industrial grade vise tools.
Today, Wilton Tools is still the trusted name in work holding equipment. Not only do they offer work holding tools such as clamps and vises but also striking tools such as sledge hammers and pein hammers, work piece positioners such as the Pow-R-Arm series and heavy-duty pipe wrenches.


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Just as the news was getting better on Rob Gronkowsi's arm, there's word his back is once again acting up and could require surgery as well.
The New England Patriots tight end recently underwent an MRI on his back to check on a disk issue he had dating back to last season, a person informed of Gronkowski's medical status told USA TODAY Sports.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the Patriots' policy of not publicly detailing injuries, said the issue was with a different disk than the one that needed to be shaved down in surgery in 2009 and a final decision on whether surgery would be required had not been made. The person said Gronkowski would see spine specialist Robert Watkins in the near future, after next week's surgery to install a new plate into his forearm.
The person said the hope was, if surgery on his back was required, Gronkowski would be back within the same time frame as his recovery from the arm injury, which he initially suffered in November but has been prolonged because of an infection in the limb.
Gronkowski missed the entire 2009 season – his last year in college, at Arizona – with his first spinal issue. He was sidelined for the NFL scouting combine that February, which hurt his draft status and allowed the Patriots to select him in the second round.
Leading up to the draft, there was a report Gronkowski had spinal stenosis (a narrowing of the spine), but his agent Drew Rosenhaus denied that was the case. Gronkowski's latest issue appears to once again be a disk issue and not an indication of a career-threatening issue.
Still, it's another medical issue for Gronkowski during an offseason that's been quite the inactive one. Due to the arm issue, he hasn't been allowed to work out. So even when he's cleared to return to action, it could be awhile before he's able to get back to top form.
Gronkowski, 24, is signed through the 2019 season after agreeing to a six-year contract extension last summer. He received $18 million guaranteed for injury as part of the contract, which was worth a total of $54 million.


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Dan Marino
"NFL Today" host Dan Marino visits the ladies of THE TALK to preview this weekend's Super Bowl match-up between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, Wednesday, January 30, 2013. All week THE TALK broadcasts live from CBS Super Bowl Park at Jackson Square in the heart of the historic French Quarter in New Orleans, airing on the CBS Television Network. Sara Gilbert, from left, Dan Marino, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Julie Chen, shown. Photo: Heather Wines/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved


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2007/3/18: The .ui file isn't working with trunk from svn
I fixed it by using this instead:
<!DOCTYPE kpartgui SYSTEM "kpartgui.dtd"> <kpartgui version="2" name="tutorial3"> <ToolBar name="mainToolBar" >
<text>Main Toolbar</text> <Action name="clear" /> </ToolBar> <MenuBar> <Menu name="file" > <text>&File</text> <Action name="clear" /> </Menu> </MenuBar>
I'm not shure why. Should this be added to the tutorial?
-- Jonarne
Let's wait, to my experience this is repaired quickly --Tstaerk 21:12, 18 March 2007 (CET)
after creating the files i get this error message after starting the tutorial 3 application (through dbus-launch ./tutorial3):
tutorial3: WARNING: KXMLGUIClient::setXMLFile: cannot find .rc file tutorial3ui.rc
but this file exists in the current directory... any hint? thx --Stefon 21:41, 16 April 2007 (CEST)
sorry. you are right. maybe we can stress this difference out a little more?
--Stefon 00:31, 18 April 2007 (CEST)
KAction has no constructor which takes a KActionCollection and a QString as stated in the tutorial. Also, moments later in the "final" code section, this constructor is not used.
A QAction is also being used! :@
--Gavinbeatty 22:50, 19 June 2007 (CEST)
Well it seems that KActionCollection extends QAction, so I doubt it's even possible or sane to use a KAction here. Not to mention that if you use QAction you depend a little less on the kdelibs. The problem is that knowing that, you learn basically nothing about KAction in this Tutorial.
The link on KStandardAction is dead, it should lead to http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/namespaceKStandardAction.html but leads to classmapper, which doesn't find it. 12/27/07
Without this tutorial, this revision would not have been possible. Thanks! --Tstaerk 09:03, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


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1st August 2017
Alan Dunton gets to the core of the issue...
News began hitting early Monday that Apple had suffered yet-another-leak of seemingly classified product information. This time, upcoming designs of its iPhone 8 could be viewed across the internet. Spolier alert: the upcoming – most bestest and amazing iPhone! – will have a slimmer bezel and no physical home button. Apple will proclaim this design revolutionary, never mind that Samsung and Google have already been shipping phones like this for a while.
It's a given that Apple's products will be covered when announced. They could push out a release on Christmas and still dominate the headlines. Over the years the company has groomed a media army to market their products for them. In return, the press get invited to events that feature notable pop acts and plenty of fodder to fill their Twitter feeds for a few days.
So the question is: When Apple knows it can command this army to do its bidding at a time and place of its choosing, why does it resort to leaking information before 'official' announcement days?
Hold on, you say … Apple isn't intentionally leaking this information! Yes. Yes, they are. What do you think all those ex-clandestine staffers are doing for them anyway? Its iPhone 8 designs were found INSIDE firmware of its also yet-to-launch HomePod speaker. That's cold-war genius, not to mention awesome.
Here's a few reasons why Apple leaks its stuff early:
I recall looking forward to Apple press days before the leaks had become so egregious. Unfortunately, the spectacle of most of the recent ones on memory have been diluted because all the big-ticket items have been covered ad nauseam in the days, weeks, and months leading up to the main event.
For the record, I've never worked for Apple in any capacity, but the Apple II was my first computer and despite a weird Android experiment I went on a few years ago I've always been a loyal follower. And as soon as that iPhone drops, I'm getting it. Because Apple says I should.
Alan Dunton is managing director of Grayling San Francisco.
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The stealthiest cancers
Linda Sherif was leaning out of her car to pay a bridge toll on the way to work in the spring of 2004 when she felt a strange stiffness in her left arm. Her anxiety grew when she noticed that her left breast had begun to swell, and the nipple had inverted. While examining the changes one night in late May, she became genuinely frightened. "I could actually feel a cord from just under my nipple to my armpit, like a rope," says Sherif, a 37-year-old lawyer in Albany, California. She went to her computer, searching everywhere for a benign explanation. She didn't find one. "I knew I had breast cancer," she says.
Every physician was booked weeks in advance, but a doctor friend got Sherif an appointment two days later with a nurse-practitioner in private practice. She agreed that the left breast looked unusual but examined her for lumps and felt none. It's not cancer, she told her patient. But Sherif was still uneasy, so the nurse sent her to a radiologist for an ultrasound exam. It came back negative. The radiologist didn't see any need for a mammogram or MRI. Sherif was told to wait three months and come back. "I was convinced it was cancer," she says, "but when somebody who has been trained gives you an out...."
When Sherif returned to see a gynecologist three months later, her breast had grown firmer, upright—even nicer looking "in a Hollywood, Pamela Anderson way," she recalls. The doctor took one look at her inflated breast and ordered a biopsy. She had inflammatory breast cancer, an uncommon and aggressive form of the disease in which cells generally don't form lumps or tumors but block lymph vessels, leading to swelling of the breast and soreness under the arm. Sherif's cancer hadn't metastasized, but at stage III, it was advanced.
Nearly 11,000 otherwise healthy women younger than 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, the American Cancer Society in Atlanta estimates. Finding their cancer can be fraught with pitfalls. Changes in the breasts during the course of the menstrual cycle can make it tricky to tell benign lumps from malignancies in women of childbearing age. Swollen breasts during pregnancy can mask the disease, and delays in diagnosis can range from 5 to 15 months after the onset of symptoms, according to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Doctors are also thwarted by the shortcomings of mammograms, which are easier to interpret when done on older breasts. Meanwhile, better techniques such as digital mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are more expensive and not widely available.
For many women, however, it's not biology or technology that complicates diagnosis. It's the human factor—the inability of patients, and even their doctors, to believe that this is really happening in women so young. Women of childbearing age represent only about 5 percent of breast cancer cases, and although some of them have a family history of the illness, most—like Linda Sherif—have no indications they are at any special risk. Among Sherif's support group, the Bay Area Young Survivors in San Francisco, about half of the 100 members were misdiagnosed on their first visit to the doctor, says Angela Padilla, the group's cofounder. In most cases, she says, well-intentioned, smiling doctors reassured them that they were too young to have breast cancer and sent them home. "They were told it was a cyst or a swollen pimple," says Padilla, an attorney diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago at age 36.
A delay in diagnosis is always troubling. But it's especially disconcerting for young women because they are more likely to have aggressive breast cancers, with faster-growing tumors. (Doctors aren't sure why: One answer could be that slower-growing cancers remain smaller and undetected until women get older.) "Young women are dying of this disease," Padilla says. She reminisces about a close friend from Harvard University whose cancer was initially misdiagnosed. She died right after her 38th birthday—less than a year after doctors found her cancer—and left behind two girls, ages 2 and 4. "If it had been caught sooner, like mine was, she might still be alive today," Padilla says. "It's a scandal more attention hasn't been paid to this."
Bryn Macari Rude was relieved and excited to be breast-feeding her 2-week-old daughter, Rylie. The graphic designer in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, had found it difficult to nurse her first daughter, but this time around, with the help of a lactation consultant, everything was going wonderfully. And then, at the age of 36, she felt a lump in her right breast. "It's a plugged duct," the nurse in her gynecologist's office told her in March 2003. Sure enough, there was a plug, but after it cleared up on its own, Rude could still feel the lump.
Her gynecologist agreed with the initial diagnosis. "It's irritated inside, and you will constantly be getting plugged ducts," the doctor told her. In October, she went back a third time, complaining the bump was starting to itch. "It's nothing," the nurse said, though she offered to schedule a mammogram. But she wrongly told Rude she would first have to stop nursing and get her period, delaying the test yet again.
Rude finally got her mammogram in November 2003—eight months after she'd first noticed the lump. Her worst fears were confirmed: It was a malignant tumor. She's had two surgeries, followed by chemotherapy, radiation and tamoxifen. The cancer hasn't returned, but there's no way of knowing if the doctors got it all—or if the delay in diagnosis made it harder to cure. "I have awesome doctors," she says. "I've found the best in the area. But because of what happened with my first doctor, I have a hard time accepting that what I'm being told is the truth. If I hadn't felt ignored all those months, I might still have faith in the system. But I'm having trouble getting past that."
Breast cancer is a relatively common disease. Many doctors see it every day. So why do so many women have trouble getting a good diagnosis?
Larry Norton, M.D., deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, says the problem is due in part to the complicated psychology of patients and doctors when they're confronted with a life-threatening illness. "There are two kinds of patients," Dr. Norton says. "Some say, 'Doctor, whatever you do, cure me; don't hold back any information or worry about scaring me.' Others say, 'Doctor, whatever you do, don't hurt me.'" They say it not in so many words but in their demeanor. "I can tell right away when somebody comes in the door," Dr. Norton says.
When a patient appears frightened, some doctors may respond with unrealistic reassurance. Instead, physicians should relay the facts, which are always less scary than imagination, Dr. Norton says. Every lump should be evaluated. Many will be benign. And though doctors differ in their approach, Dr. Norton favors the use of mammograms and other scans in younger women. "Early diagnosis is important," he says. A delay doesn't always affect the outcome—but it can. "So you might as well do the exam as soon as possible," he says.
Yet as Rude's experience shows, screening tools are not routinely used on younger women; even those at high risk can go without. Young women's lean, dense breast tissue shows up white on a mammogram—and so do tumors, explains Ellen Mahoney, M.D., who was a breast cancer surgeon at Stanford University School of Medicine for many years before moving to private practice in Arcata, California. "When you have a lot of white in the background, it's harder to see the tumor," Dr. Mahoney says. "It's like looking for a polar bear on the ice." As women age, their breasts acquire more fat and become less dense, and their normal tissue darkens on the mammogram, so tumors are easier to see. That's why mammograms are recommended as a routine screening tool only for women 40 and older.
Two newer diagnostic techniques show promise for young women. One is digital mammography, which, like a digital camera, produces an image on a computer rather than on film. A 2005 study concluded that this tool may be particularly useful for younger women, says principal author Etta Pisano, M.D., director of the University of North Carolina Biomedical Research Imaging Center in Chapel Hill. "We found more cancers with no more false positives" compared with traditional mammograms, she says. The other tool is MRI, which produces images based on blood flow, including the tiny blood vessels that carry nutrients to tumors. For now, however, the two newer technologies are less widely available than mammography and ultrasound.
A digital mammography machine can cost $500,000, and MRI equipment about $1 to $3 million. And MRI machines are big, meaning installation costs can sometimes double the price. That's one reason the scanners are not available in every facility, explains Jane Tuvia, M.D., a radiologist and the founder of Manhattan Women's Imaging in New York City. Digital mammography and MRIs are also expensive for patients, up to $2,000 per screening. Insurance reimbursements, ranging from $400 to $1,800, often fall short, Dr. Tuvia says. Insurance companies can be very hesitant to approve breast MRIs in some young women, she adds, recalling one patient in her 30s who was denied coverage despite having a mother who died of the disease at 43. Hospitals often settle with the patient for whatever the insurance company pays them, notes Robert A. Smith, Ph.D., director of cancer screening for the American Cancer Society.
Doctors, too, may be reluctant to green-light MRIs for younger women. The tool's greater sensitivity, which allows it to find more breast tumors, also results in more false positives, says Nagi F. Khouri, M.D., a radiologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. "Any woman who wants an MRI should be ready to undergo biopsies of things that aren't cancer," he says. Dr. Norton, however, says that use of breast MRI is likely to spread as doctors learn more about it. He notes that a panel convened in 2005 by the National Academy of Sciences endorsed MRI as the best technology to use in addition to mammography. "MRI has made a dramatic advance in our ability to diagnose breast cancer in young women," Dr. Norton says. "We should see more of it."
Better scans might help restore patients' faith in the system, but they will not address the critical human problem: doctors and patients being too ready to accept good news without insisting on a thorough exam. What if, instead of the wildly different approaches taken now, health care providers agreed on a precise set of guidelines spelling out what doctors should do when a young woman walks into the office with a lump, nipple discharge or soreness under the arm?
A clearer standard of practice has become the crusade of Bill Thiel, a former landscaper in West Pittston, Pennsylvania. Thiel's wife, Maureen, a beautician, first found a lump in her breast in 1994, when she was 39. A mammogram and ultrasound were negative, and for two and a half years, according to Thiel, doctors told Maureen that she had fibroid cysts. By the time doctors did a biopsy and diagnosed cancer in 1997, it had spread to her lymph nodes. After his wife died, Thiel settled a lawsuit and used the proceeds to establish an advocacy group he calls Maureen's Mission. "We won't eradicate breast cancer until we find those women who need to get back to the doctor," Thiel says. "Maureen's story saves lives."
Thiel's proposed guidelines include several commonsense provisions: All lumps should be treated as cancerous until proven otherwise; an ultrasound, mammogram or both should be performed; and if those are negative, the patient should be given a choice to proceed with a biopsy. "Basically, that's the right message," Dr. Mahoney says. "If the patient thinks there's something new and different there, doctors should assume it is cancer until they can absolutely prove it's not."
The message to the patient remains clear: Insist on a thorough diagnosis. Young women themselves will always play the critical role in learning to spot changes in their breasts and demanding a complete examination using every tool available. "When there's a tie in the opinion," Dr. Mahoney says, "the decision goes to the owner of the breasts."
It's a lesson Linda Sherif learned as she underwent chemotherapy, a mastectomy, breast reconstruction and radiation. She finished active treatment in July 2005. "Right now, there's no evidence of disease," she says. She's making plans for the future. She contributes the maximum amount to her retirement fund, she's buying furniture and she recently splurged on a handbag so expensive, "I'll have to live another 20 years to justify it," she says with a laugh.
Would she do things differently if she was given another chance? "Definitely," Sherif says. "Doctors are experts, and you want them to be right. But I'm a lot more assertive now."
Photo Credit: Dr. Kathy Cho, NIH Radiology/Cancer.gov


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It seems I keep getting this bombardment of what I think about Senator Craig. Well, here we go.
I have no quarrels with the man. He wasn't always the nicest man in the hallway when passing. Then again, I don't think I have met a Senator yet who really went out of their way to say hello. That is the extent of my personal experience with him. I think I said hello twice passing in the underground tunnels between the Dirksen and Russell Buildings.
Beyond that, here is my take on the scenario. Idaho seems to like him and have always done so. He met their needs and I think he enjoyed his role as Senator.
However, the little ordeal in Minneapolis is something that was quite foolish. Having been in stupid positions before, I know all the little ways you try and weasel out of it. Which it surely sounds like he did. I am not so much concerned what happened in that stall, whether he was soliciting or not, but he played the weasel in trying to get out of it. For the most part, he was successful. They only charged him for disorderly conduct. It would be hard to catch him on more unless he allowed the police officer to actually climb in his stall or he climbed in the other one. Then I would say we have serious grounds for what his intentions were. Picking up toilet paper, a piece of paper, with whatever hand, or just waving a nice hello to the person in the stall next to him doesn't really matter. To me they don't prove anything lewd or a great breaking of the law. Now if there was a mirror in his hand, there are some issues…
It does bother me that police don't have something better to do than sit in a bathroom stall to find those who want to enjoy some time with another man. On the other hand, I am disappointed that people actually do this enough that it is a public disturbance that the police have to be called in to do this. At any rate, it is a bad note of commentary of the society that use the restrooms at Minneapolis. I expect this is a wider problem than just the cold and snow of Minnesota.
Alright, the Senator got caught with his hand in another stall. For what reason, I don't think I or Idahoans generally care. The lying or trying to back peddle out of it, that seems just human nature to a large degree. I can even see pleading guilty to the charge to just be done with it. How many of us could really fight that speeding ticket they say we were going 11 over when we are pretty sure it wasn't more than 8? But we pay it just to be over and done with it. That seems like what has happened here. Okay, I am fine with that.
I am somewhat concerned that a US Senator would be allegedly caught doing something like that. I think his electorate might even think twice before reelecting him. But what concerns me is that a Senator seems to be so thoughtless in his actions. For his being not very nice in the hallway of the Russell Building, he sure seemed pretty nice to say hi to the person in the stall next to him. That was not thinking. Next, he should have made it public knowledge and just been done with it. It is a petty situation but not reporting it to those who care about it made it stink.
But the thing that alarms me is that he isn't willing to fight. For a man who sits in Senator William Edgar Borah's seat and perhaps even behind his very desk, he seems shameful. The Lion of Idaho would be ashamed a man would falter and not raise his mighty fist to the party. What comes first? Idaho or Republicans? Senator Borah was known for standing for principle, for his state, and not ever being dictated to by the party. This man seems to be weak and willing to forfeit what he was elected to in Idaho for what the party thinks elsewhere. I still don't hear many people calling for his resignation in Idaho. It is elsewhere, some of his own selfish companions in the Senate. What happened to principle? What happened to standing up for something? What happened to honor and integrity. Well, we don't really know what happened in that stall. Whatever it was, I hope his honour and integrity is still intact. But sadly, it doesn't appear to be.
A straight man doing actions confused with being gay? A Senator claimed to be doing something in a bathroom stall? A State Representative faltering to a Party? If he is a good man, he will stand up and serve the remainder of his term, regardless of who calls for his resignation. He has nothing against him which disqualifies him from finishing his term. A Misdemeanor does not remove a Senator from office. Even an Ethics Committee wouldn't remove him for that. If he serves Idaho, he will remain. If he serves the party, he will leave. If such is the case, good riddance. Let's find us another man to honorably fill Senator Borah's shoes.


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Mark Lynas, himself an environmentalist, thinks so.
An author on climate change, environmentalists and former anti-biotech activist, Lynas spoke Thursday at length about the changing nature of his views on genetically modified crops. Here's the speech.
And here's a snippet in which he begins by speaking about his deep involvement in the anti-GM crops lobby:
We employed a lot of imagery about scientists in their labs cackling demonically as they tinkered with the very building blocks of life. Hence the Frankenstein food tag – this absolutely was about deep-seated fears of scientific powers being used secretly for unnatural ends. What we didn't realize at the time was that the real Frankenstein's monster was not GM technology, but our reaction against it.
For me this anti-science environmentalism became increasingly inconsistent with my pro-science environmentalism with regard to climate change. I published my first book on global warming in 2004, and I was determined to make it scientifically credible rather than just a collection of anecdotes.
So I had to back up the story of my trip to Alaska with satellite data on sea ice, and I had to justify my pictures of disappearing glaciers in the Andes with long-term records of mass balance of mountain glaciers. That meant I had to learn how to read scientific papers, understand basic statistics and become literate in very different fields from oceanography to paleoclimate, none of which my degree in politics and modern history helped me with a great deal.
I found myself arguing constantly with people who I considered to be incorrigibly anti-science, because they wouldn't listen to the climatologists and denied the scientific reality of climate change. So I lectured them about the value of peer-review, about the importance of scientific consensus and how the only facts that mattered were the ones published in the most distinguished scholarly journals.
My second climate book, Six Degrees, was so sciency that it even won the Royal Society science books prize, and climate scientists I had become friendly with would joke that I knew more about the subject than them. And yet, incredibly, at this time in 2008 I was still penning screeds in the Guardian attacking the science of GM – even though I had done no academic research on the topic, and had a pretty limited personal understanding. I don't think I'd ever read a peer-reviewed paper on biotechnology or plant science even at this late stage.
Obviously this contradiction was untenable.
It's a long talk so here's a short summary, courtesy of a reader who sent the speech to me:
- Lynas apologizes for his previous, ignorant opposition to genetically modified foods.
- Explains how these crops reduce the need for insecticides, fertilizer and water and how increasingly necessary that will be on planet Earth.
- Opposition to GM foods is essentially an emotional hearkening to food antiquity. "France will become a food museum."
- Science, as Norman Borlaug and others have long noted, is well and thoroughly on the side of "food technology."
- If GM food remains blocked, especially in the developing world, people will die in large numbers.
It's a good read, and an important reminder that we should be careful to not let our own personal biases cloud our interpretation of scientific information.


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