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LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Doug Sturm Dialogue, "Is Economy Inequality Undermining Democracy?" will be held Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University.
Discussants are Jan Narveson, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, and Jeffrey Winters, professor of political science at Northwestern University.
The conversation, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Department of Religion at Bucknell.
Narveson has published prolifically in the areas of moral and political philosophy, including The Libertarian Idea (Broadview Press, 2001), Are Liberty and Equality Compatible? with James Sterba (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice: Essays on Moral and Political Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), a collection of his most influential essays, and You and the State (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).
In addition to his scholarly work, Narveson is the founder of the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society; in 2003, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of both his scholarship and his lifelong promotion of music. He holds his doctorate from Harvard University.
Winters' research and teaching center on comparative politics and international political economy. His books include Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State (Cornell University Press, 1996), and Reinventing the World Bank (Cornell University Press, 2002) with Jonathan Pincus, and several books published in Indonesian. His most recent book, Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), was awarded the American Political Science Association's 2012 Gregory M. Luebbert Award for the Best Book in Comparative Politics during 2010-11.
Winters has conducted research in Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, and he has been a recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the J.M. Kaplan Fund. He holds his doctorate from Yale. || Related link: Winters' Huffington Post blog
The Sturm Dialogue, a conversation on contemporary issues from two different perspectives, was established in honor of Douglas Sturm, professor emeritus of political science and religion, who served Bucknell University for more than 35 years as a distinguished teacher and scholar. Upon his retirement in 1995, his friends and colleagues commemorated his service by endowing this Dialogue on Ethics and Social Justice, designed to bring to campus two distinguished thinkers on these issues.
The dialogue format was chosen to reflect Sturm's commitment to fostering engaged reflection on issues of social justice among persons of diverse viewpoints and backgrounds. Accordingly, the endowment specifies that two speakers be invited to participate in a dialogue, "the intention not being for debate or compromise, but for the purpose of constructive interaction in an honest and respectful exploration of an issue."
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In the wake of the devastating tornadoes that ripped through Oklahoma yesterday, and in north Texas last week, Better Business Bureau and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have issued tips to help donors make smart giving decisions and to avoid scams.
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While most teenagers are serving fast food, working with harvest crews, or mowing grass for summertime employment, Alex Schmidt of rural Hillsboro works as part of a mule wagon team.
"I love everything about it," Schmidt, 18, said. "People always have a lot of questions about the mules, and it just seems to make their day when they get to ride in our wagon."
At Marion's Art and Music Stroll on Sunday, Schmidt, his father, Leroy Schmidt, and his brother, Arik Schmidt, traversed Main Street more times than they could count with their mules, Tom and Jerry, giving wagon rides to visitors.
Alex Schmidt's job throughout the day was to serve as a safety check, standing at the back gate of the old-fashioned covered wagon while it was moving, then going around to stand in front of the mules at every stop.
"I stand there to prevent the possibility of runaways," he said. "Tom and Jerry are very tame, but you never know what might happen and we are committed to the safety of all our passengers."
In Marion, the wagon team drivers and mules had to contend with a continual flow of traffic sharing the roadway, as well as the occasional motorcycle.
"They get a little nervous about the motorcycles sometimes and toss their heads a bit, but they have been around all this before," Schmidt said.
Tom and Jerry are crosses between Mammoth Jack donkeys and quarter horse mares. They are both 21 years old and have been with the Schmidt family for more than 10 years.
"We had a very good friend, John Hybsha, who kind of tricked my dad into getting the mules," Schmidt said. "It turned out to be a good thing, something we enjoy doing together as a family."
In addition to serving as a safety check on ride days, Schmidt works with his father and brother to load the mules and equipment, and to get the harnesses on when they reach their destination.
"We give rides about three or four times a month," Schmidt said. "We have gotten pretty good at the harnessing routine and work together to get them ready as quickly as possible."
Schmidt said the best part of his job is visiting with the people, wherever they went, about their mules.
"Sometimes we will meet someone who knows a thing or two about mules and strikes up a conversation," he said. "Other times it is just answering the routine questions, like how old are they, what are their names, what do they eat. It never gets old."
Schmidt's interest in history also is ever evolving with mule-team wagon events, as many of the occasions they hire out for have historic significance.
"Back in the old days, mule team wagons were a main form of transportation," he said. "People these days are fascinated by that."
Schmidt was a freshman at Tabor College in Hillsboro this year and plans to declare a history major there this fall. He said staying around his home community for summer and working with his family suited him just fine.
"I probably won't do this all my life, but it is something I really enjoy right now," he said.


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A former actor on The Sopranos was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer.
A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer.
A jury acquitted Lillo Brancato Jr. of second-degree murder in the death of the police officer, but convicted him of attempted burglary. He had faced up to 15 years in prison.
He pursed his lips and appeared calm as the verdict was pronounced. His relatives wept and one shouted, "We love you, Lillo!" as he was led away in handcuffs.
Before sentencing, Brancato, whose drug addiction figured prominently in testimony during the trial in the Bronx, begged the court for mercy.
"I'm not talking about redeeming my acting career," he said. "I'm talking about much more than that. I'm talking about being a good son, brother, friend and citizen."
But state Supreme Court Justice Martin Marcus wasn't swayed.
"I cannot ignore the fact that, because of the burglary, a brave young police officer is dead," he said, calling Brancato's drug abuse "a sad story of good fortune and extraordinary opportunity that was wasted and abused."
Prosecutors said Brancato and accomplice Steven Armento were looking for drugs when they broke into an apartment next door to the officer's home in December 2005. When Officer Daniel Enchautegui went to investigate, he was gunned down.
Authorities said Armento shot the 28-year-old officer with his .357 Magnum, hitting him in the heart. The dying officer fired back, wounding both men.
Armento was convicted last year of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence without parole.
The acquittal in the murder case against Brancato outraged the slain officer's family and the union that represents police officers. On Friday, a sea of uniformed officers and detectives packed the courtroom and cheered for Enchautegui's family.
The victim's sister, Yolanda Rosa Nazario, told the court that their parents gave up the will to live and eventually died after losing their son.
"I lost Danny, my dad and my mom because of two men who wanted to drink and do drugs," she said tearfully.
After the sentencing, she said of Brancato: "He'll always be a murderer, no matter what the jury said."
Prosecutors had sought the maximum sentence in the attempted burglary conviction. Brancato has already served three years waiting for his trial, for which he will receive credit.
His attorney, Joseph Tacopina, said outside court that Brancato would use the time in jail to straighten out his life with the help of his family. Tacopina had sought the minimum 3 1/2 years, and friends and family had written letters on Brancato's behalf.
Brancato rose to fame in 1993's "A Bronx Tale," playing a young kid from the neighbourhood who is torn between two worlds and two men: a local mobster played by Chazz Palminteri and his straight-and-narrow bus driver father, played by Robert De Niro.
Other roles followed, most notably a stint on the second season of HBO's "The Sopranos." His character carried out a series of low-level crimes for the New Jersey mob before being gunned down by Tony Soprano and his sidekick as he tearfully begged for his life.
Brancato, 32, and Armento, 48, were drinking together at a strip club before deciding to break into the basement apartment in a hunt for Valium, prosecutors said.
Brancato testified that the break-in never happened. He claimed that he had known the owner, a Vietnam veteran, for several years.
He also said he had permission to go inside and take painkillers and other pills whenever he felt like it, and didn't know the man had died earlier that year. He also said he was suffering from heroin withdrawal that night.
He said the pills were part of a drug problem that began when he was introduced to marijuana on the set of "A Bronx Tale." He later became hooked on crack and heroin.
Brancato tried to deflect suggestions by the prosecution that his testimony - at times punctuated by vignettes about his drug-crazed downfall - was another acting job.


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Hello all.
I'm new to this sight, but am already feeling right at home. This thread is striking a cord with me I'm afraid. I hope it's OK to jump in?
A little about me: A lifetime atheist, I've lived amoung Christians from the very start. Married one.
She came out of the closet, two years ago (now she knows she's a lesbian, always has been, just didn't realize it - and no I didn't abandon her, she's my friend) But now she's back in the closet.
Here's why, and here's what I believe. Most people are incapable of breaking out of their early childhood programming. Whoever they were, and whatever they believed, as of about six is who they will be for the duration. They will gain knowledge and experience (or not) but who they are will not change.
Reasoning with them will only make them angry.
When asked, "Isn't it funny how God hates the same people you do?" They will not see the humor, they will not have a apiphany. They can't.
It's just the way most humans are wired. I think it's likely we are in the minority for basically genetic reasons. Our brains demand something different than the average neurotypical. On some level, we can't help it, and they can't either. Think about how useless it would be to try to convince Kelli not to be lesbian, or myself not to be hetero. You might as well try to talk a carnivore into becoming a vegan.
Let's set aside for the moment that it's not really that simple (I know, believe me I know).
I'm fond of saying that "You can not reason someone out of something they were never reasoned into."
It is true, but here is my point, (and I do have one): Do the social and economic calculus before you out yourself to too many people. In my experience any rational cost benifit analysis shows it only pays to tell close friends that you trust, (think what you would do as a Jew in Nazi Germany) and my personal view is to not care too much about the other folks.
And if you do have one, or two, true friends that will stand beside you through anything (and vice versa I hope) then count your blessings, and smile. You're richer than you think.
One man's view.
Thanks for your thoughtful input, Steven. And welcome.
You said, "You can not reason someone out of something they were never reasoned into."--I couldn't find an attribution for that quote, but I like it too. Not certain it's entirely true, but all indicators seem to point to its veracity. We've all come up against those who simply don't understand what we're trying to say. Their brain does not work that way, and it feels like there is little you can do. They NEED to believe what they believe.
The only pertinent insight i have on that is that i was a Christian in my younger years, and even went to a Nazarene college. I believed in God, and went through all the motions. It made me feel safe and accepted, because there was a group of people--a tribe, if you will--who was on my side. (Ironically, we know that this is the very essence of the evolution of human beings...they are naturally social animals who thrive when in groups). But this tribal aspect of Christianity/religion was especially attractive to someone like me, who had no family bonds to fill that void. Now, I'm a card-carrying atheist because i discovered that bond could be had elsewhere, and those beliefs in supernatural beings could be replaced by the wonders of nature and science...and when i look back and consider that journey, it began with EDUCATION and was accomplished through TIME. The more often you are exposed to a new idea, the more acceptable it becomes, so in that sense, yes, it is important for us, as nonbelievers, to spread the word of our own "gospel." But in order to understand all of it, I had to acquire information. Most notably, i studied under a Bible scholar, and the list of questions and confusions only got bigger. This led to cognitive dissonance, and ultimately, my search for the truth. This is why i started working on the 6-VOlume book, Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology (took three years to write it and it should be available from Amazon by mid-March). I cover all this territory in those books....But by recording the details of that intellectual journey, I saw clearly what the facts were. The more I learned about reason and science and logic, the more absurd those Christian beliefs became. Perhaps, then, there are those who can experience that cognitive dissonance, and some who cannot. And that means there will always be some who can't be reached, because they NEED to believe in a god. They would otherwise fall apart if they didn't. That, to me, is more about a weakness in the human being, than a strength that is inherently needed.
I do understand those who wish to scream it from the rooftops that they are atheists. There's a certain pride of ownership, if you will, when you know who you are and what you believe. But to let someone know upfront about your beliefs, i think is not necessary. Would you say,
"Hi, I'm Dave, and prefer sex standing up."? or
"Hello, I'm Tina, and I believe in gun ownership."?
That's like, TMI...If we did that, life would be like an AA meeting all the time. Thus, there are, i believe, appropriate times to bring that up, and perhaps that's what you meant, SteveT, perhaps not. But I do think that it is on a need-to-know basis--personal things like beliefs and sexual orientation, politics. If it comes up, and someone asks, then sure, speak your truth. Or if you are in a gathering that is ABOUT that subject, yes, say it. But there is discernment to be had here, and frankly, it's not always another person's business what i believe, who I sleep with, or what party i vote for.
Thanks to all of you for your thoughtful remarks...I welcome any others.
Kelli Jae Baeli
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Muhammad Ali was not only a boxing legend, he was a legendary Kentuckian, and perhaps the most famous and recognizable American of his time.
Sadly, the man known by people around the world as "The Greatest" lost his final fight last week, the one he had been waging against Parkinson's Disease for years.
When the waiter first told us someone had picked up our check, I didn't understand him.
"You mean our check is at the counter?"
"No sir, someone paid for it," he repeated.
"Someone paid for it," Lori echoed his words to me, slowly enunciating each syllable like she was talking to someone who had difficulty hearing.
The waiter pointed to the booth next to us, as if I needed further clarification: "They did it," he said.
Remember as a kid, when you'd open a box of Cracker Jacks? Sure, the popcorn and peanuts in the box are delicious, but that's probably not why you wanted them when you were 6 or 7 years old.
At least that was the case for me. Nope, it was all about the prize.
Attention Campbellsville and Taylor County. If anyone hasn't noticed, we have a serious and deadly problem in our community.
It is addiction.
For those of you that have experienced this, you already know its impact on the person and their family.
My prayers are with you and your family. We have a choice. We can bury our heads in the sand, pretend it doesn't exist, or hope it will go away, or we can do what we can to change the trend.
"If there's a rock and roll heaven, well you know they've got a hell of a band." — The Righteous Brothers
In their 1974 song titled "Rock and Roll Heaven," The Righteous Brothers sang about musicians the world had recently lost. The song named artists who died in the early 1970s, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Croce and Jim Morrison, just to name a few.
Stepping outside onto our back patio, the frigid early morning air startles me, smacking my cheeks like a trainer popping the face of a prizefighter, making sure the boxer is fully conscious.
Moments before, I had been inside listening to the news reports: the murders in San Bernardino, Calif., were likely the result of a terrorist attack, the newscaster reports, and this on the heels of the murders in Colorado, Springs, Col., at a Planned Parenthood Clinic, and just a few days before that, the terrorist attack in Paris, France.
In order to set the record straight concerning Mike Deaton's comments (CKNJ, Dec. 17 issue) about it being more important to give Taylor County Schools money to "take down a building that no one is going to occupy," and Campbellsville Independent Schools being denied money from the emergency School Facility Construction Commission fund, I submit the following statement.
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David.)
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
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The origin of Free Hug is from the states in 2001. Jason Hunter walked along Miami with the sign after his mother's dead. In 2004, Juan Mann from Australia started to Free Hug Campaign, and his achievement was recorded, broadcast on You tube, and then Free Hugs became famous.
A photo from Akihabara.
The sign says Free Hugs in Japanese.
The purpose of Free Hugs is to share happiness and sadness with people you don't know; however, since hug is not common custom, or the word, "Hug" is not well-known in Japan, it seems to be difficult to get a hug from strangers or passengers.
Here is video from You tube. Free Hugs in Japan.
Do you see this campaign in your country? Have you ever given hug? I have never hugged with people who is holding the sign.
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We rode on horseback across 6,600 acres at the Ranch at Rock Creek in Montana. We slept in a former monastery set within historic caves at Argos in Cappadocia. We inhaled views of Germany's Upper Rhine Valley at Heidelberg Suites.
And we did it to find — for the fifth year running — the absolute best new hotels to open around the world this year.
Our goal wasn't to unearth the most luxurious properties or the hippest hangouts. Instead, it was to discover how the best new hotels — from the Amangiri resort in Utah to the PuLi Hotel & Spa in Shanghai — are reshaping their destinations. And each of this year's 45 handpicked It List hotels delivers an authentic sense of place.
Thanks to prerecession plans, hundreds of hotels opened their doors in 2010. But no matter how splashy the opening, not every hotel makes a true impact in the eyes of a travel expert.
Click for slideshow: 45 best new hotels of 2010
The properties that stand apart connect us to their destinations, says Shane Mitchell, T+L's special correspondent and hotel expert. "A hotel that offers a sensual experience and introduces guests to a place is exciting now," she says. "At Philippe Starck's Palazzina Grassi in Italy, guests can ride on a vintage mahogany Celli water taxi through Venice's back canals into the lagoon at sunset."
Now that travel is finally recovering — according to Smith Travel Research, hotel occupancy is already up 9.1 percent over last year — hoteliers are looking for unique ways to stand apart.
At the new Crosby Street Hotel, in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, all 86 rooms have moved away from the now-ubiquitous minimalism in exchange for color, texture, and original artworks. To further differentiate itself from the competition, the property, which was created by London-based Firmdale Hotels, also offers weekly film nights in its 100-seat movie theater for $25 per person, including cocktails and a bar plate.
Travelers will also find great value at some of the new hotels. If you're heading to London, Dean Street Townhouse offers rooms from $244 a night — a great deal for stylish accommodations in a Neo-Georgian building in the city's West End. For affordable options closer to home, Grupo Habita's newest property in Mexico, Hotel Boca Chica in Acapulco, has oceanfront rooms for only $95 a night.
Not surprisingly, the hotel expansion in Asia continues unabated. In Hong Kong, the Upper House (from Swire Hotels, the group behind Opposite House in Beijing) is a 117-room property that's gaining buzz for its notable contemporary design. For a truly regional — and rustic — experience, Amanfayun, in Hangzhou, takes travelers to an ancient tea-growing village, where designer Jaya Ibrahim transformed traditional courtyard dwellings into 42 memorable villa suites. "We never try to clone a property but instead create it to respond to each unique surrounding," says Adrian Zecha, founder of Amanresorts.
Whether it's the sandy oasis of Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara in Abu Dhabi or a stylish rooftop lounge overlooking Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia at Mandarin Oriental Barcelona, you're bound to find that perfect escape among our favorite hotels in 2010.
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"Not once in all my travels have I met a parent who didn't want their child learning on grade level now—let alone by 2014. I know I do."
— U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
Every parent, regardless of where they live or how much money they make, wants his or her child to receive a quality education. Thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act, parents now have the information they need to be stronger advocates on behalf of their children. No Child Left Behind's goal is to have all students reading and doing math on grade level by 2014. And when schools fall short of reaching that standard, the law empowers parents with new choices such as transferring their children to a higher-performing school, or enrolling them in free tutoring.
By requiring states and schools to test children's reading and math skills every year, the law shows parents, teachers, and taxpayers which students need additional help. This spotlight on achievement enables everyone involved to effectively target time and resources. Under Building On Results: A Blueprint for Strengthening the No Child Left Behind Act, parents would continue to have unprecedented options to ensure their children's educational success.
Accountability—States will be held accountable for ensuring that all students can read and do math at grade level by 2014. They will disaggregate test scores, participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and report state and NAEP results to parents on the same report card.
Promise Scholarships—Public schools that go into restructuring status will be required to offer private school choice, intensive tutoring, or inter-district public school choice through Promise Scholarships to low-income students in grades 3-12. Federal funds will follow the child to his or her new school, to be supplemented by a federal scholarship of $2,500.
Opportunity Scholarships—This new program will support local efforts to expand public and private school choice options within a set geographic area. Modeled after the Washington, D.C. choice program that the federal government has funded since 2004, it would enable students to attend a private school through a locally designed scholarship program. Families could also seek additional tutoring for their children.
Charter Schools—The federal charter school program will support all viable charter applications that improve academic outcomes. In addition, local decisions to convert schools identified for restructuring into charter schools will be allowed, even if the total number of charter schools would then surpass a state's charter cap.
Supplemental Educational Services (SES)—Tutoring and after-school instruction will be offered to all low-income students who attend a school in improvement status from the first year forward, one year earlier than before. In addition, districts will be asked to spend all relevant federal funds or risk their forfeiture, eliminating the disincentive to support SES and choice programs.
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I'm addicted to looking through real estate on sites like Trulia and Zillow; I fantasize about high rise living in Chicago or a beach house on Martha's Vineyard and cruise the ads when I need to take a break from work. Sometimes the pictures shock me. Did these people realize pictures to try and sell their homes were going to be taken that day? Could they have maybe made the bed? Here's one that really cracked me up today. It's a nice place, it looks fairly clean, it's not cheap, but it's very clear that a dude or dudes live here. Dudes that were likely in a fraternity.
Nice open living room, but the fact that a Foosball table is a focal point tips me off that Joey and Chandler may live here.
This kitchen is acceptable and clean. However, if you're trying to sell your home, clear your counters. You may leave a teapot and a wine rack out, but I don't want to see your dishrack (this tells a potential buyer that dishwasher may not work so great), your clutter, and I can't smell the kitchen from the picture, so go ahead and put the Fabreeze away. By seeing it, I'm already thinking that your kitchen may very well stink.
OK, where to start? The dead plant is just bad feng shui. Make your bed. Place your occasional chair in a place that makes sense instead of the middle of the room. Put your clothing and that weird exercise contraption in the closet. Put the TV on a table or stand instead of directly on the carpet. Put the creepy poster in the recycling bin. This room belongs to Patrick Bateman's messier brother.
Again, throwing your comforter over your rumpled sheets is not making the bed. Hang your jacket up. Put your shoes away. Clear that odd console. Don't have wires hanging down from lamps. You literally could have put all the clutter behind where the photographer is standing for five minutes and this room could have looked clean and normal.
Finally, these guys do get points for putting the lid down, my number one bathroom shot pet-peeve. However, put your personal toiletries away. I don't want to see a loofah hanging in the shower, the fact that the bottles are on the shower floor tells me that there is not a handy niche in there and I too will have to bend down to get my shampoo or have one of those stupid faucet hangers that never works right. I'm glad that the owner clearly has good hygiene, but the clutter is distracting.
Again, this place wasn't exactly ready for an episode of Hoarders, it just needed a housekeeper and a home stager. What are your biggest home staging pet peeves?
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A "pioneering agroforestry project" in North Korea is restoring heavily degraded landscapes and providing much-needed food for communities, says the World Agroforestry Centre.
Jianchu Xu, the Centre's East-Asia co-ordinator, said agroforestry – in this case the growing of trees on sloping land – was uniquely suited to DPR Korea for addressing food security and protecting the environment.
"What we have managed to achieve so far has had a dramatic impact on people's lives and the local environment," he explained.
"Previously malnourished communities are now producing their own trees and growing chestnut, walnut, peaches, pears and other fruits and berries as well as medicinal bushes."
Following the collapse of the socialist bloc in 1989 and a lack of subsidies for agriculture in DPR Korea, famine and malnutrition became widespread in rural areas.
DPR Korea is a harsh mountainous country where only 16% of the land area is suitable for cultivation, data from the Centre suggests.
It addded that out of desperation in the 1990s, people turned to the marginal sloping lands but this had a price: deforestation for cropping land and fuelwood left entire landscapes denuded and depleted of nutrients.
In an attempt to reverse the situation, an innovative project began in 2002 involving the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Korea's Ministry of Land and Environmental Protection. The World Agroforestry Centre was later brought in to provide technical advice.
A system of establishing user groups with one representative from each family enabled demonstration plots to be set up and a large number of households have benefited from knowledge about growing multi-purpose trees.
Using these types of trees have helped improve and stabilise soils, as well as provide fertilizer, fodder or fruits.
To further support the development of appopriate skills in North Korea, the World Agroforestry Centre has announced plans to publish an agroforestry manual.
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|Matt stacked up some old closet organizing shelves to show off family photos in the guest room.
|Our bedroom is so calm and pretty now. I love it. We still need new lamps.
|Matthew helped me make the really cool earring organizer.
|Got this awesome mirror for $10 from the restore.
|Grandmas and Grandpas at the head of the stairway.
|This arrangement is the thing I am most proud of.
|I got the idea for the shelf as sofa table from this post on AT. The idea for reclaiming the old window came from these posts on craftynestand here. The window was a freebie from the restore and Matthew did most of the work, although I did major consulting and the painting.
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|This is the final after picture for the powder room. I made the curtains and for once in my life my sewing machine didn't sass me at all and the project was smooth sailing.
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Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, Domhoff's classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society. Domhoff argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington and their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments. By providing empirical evidence for his argument, Domhoff encourages students to think critically about the power structure in American society and its implications for our democracy.
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- You must have a balanced and healthy dietary plan.
- You must adhere to a good, healthy physical activity plan.
- You must have a change in your behavior or attitude.
Healthy Weight Loss Solution
Most of the adult population has been or currently is on some type of diet. Diets are everywhere! Every place you turn, someone is talking about a new diet. A diet that is unlike any other that came before. A diet that will change your life forever and you won't even have to exercise! The truth is there is no such thing as an easy diet. There is no such thing as a life-changing diet. If I was to be completely honest with you, I would even go so far as to tell you that there is no such thing as a healthy diet! There is a large variety of diets out there, and they all have many different aspects of how to lose weight. However, they all have one thing in common; as soon as you lose the weight and step off of the diet, (poof!) the weight comes back, sometimes leaving you with even more weight than you had before the diet! This is called the yo-yo effect, and it is true with any diet. The point I am trying to make is simply this: A diet is not a healthy weight loss solution.
There are many different ways to lose weight, but there is only one way to keep the weight from coming back. Now that we know a diet is not a healthy weight loss solution, we can move on to what is a healthy solution. The only antidote to losing weight and keeping it off while staying healthy is for you to make a change in your lifestyle. It's not as hard as it sounds, and those who choose to make a lifestyle change, actually find it quite easy after the first couple of hurdles are passed, and they don't even look back.
There are three important keys to making a lifestyle change, and they are:
All three of these things are crucial to living a healthy and long life. If you want to lose the weight and keep it off, making a lifestyle change is the only way to do it effectively. A lifestyle change is a healthy weight loss solution
Let us start with number one: having a balanced and healthy diet. Take a good, honest look at the foods you eat on a regular basis, and the amount of it that you eat. Most of us would have to answer that we are eating a lot of the wrong foods, and not in moderation! Fast foods, salty foods and baked goods are all okay - in moderation. When we are eating them everyday or several times a week however, they are not okay. Probably the most important key to learn in having healthy weight loss is moderation. Most things are okay and healthy in moderation, but everything, when turned into an extremity, is certainly not okay, and not healthy to the body, the mind or the spirit! Moderation is a must when it comes to healthy weight loss.
When your stomach starts telling you that it is time to eat, carefully consider your choices. Make sure you surround yourself with good and healthy foods that are low in calories and high in vitamins and protein. When it comes time for a snack, have some veggies and dip or an apple instead of that bag of chips. Or snack on some cheese and crackers in the place of that chocolate bar. Making these kinds of choices is the first step to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Also, make sure your meals aren't left out when it comes to making those good choices. Instead of ordering a pizza or going out for a burger and fries, cook a balanced meal. If you find it hard to do this, I suggest making a meal plan at the beginning of week. That way, half of the work is already done for you. Yes, usually half of the work in preparing a meal is deciding what to prepare! Remember, cook and eat in moderation, and you are well on your way to a healthy weight loss solution.
For those whose main reason in making a lifestyle change is to lose weight, there are some options open to you that there never were a few years ago. One of these options is Proactol. This healthy and clinically proven weight loss pill is not a miracle worker, but it is certainly one of the most beneficial tools for healthy weight loss in the world today. Proactol not only helps the body lose weight, but it also maintains other health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. This doctor recommended medication has also been proven to increase joint flexibility, lessen aches and pains and improve concentration and energy levels. Proactol helps with healthy weight loss by lowering the body's food cravings and decreasing your appetite, making it easier to control your food intake. This also helps you in the learning to eat with moderation. Take Proactol after each meal and you will find that it greatly helps with achieving a healthy lifestyle.
The next step to changing your lifestyle is making a good physical activity plan and sticking to it. This goes hand in hand with one part of the third step, which is setting achievable goals. Too many people want to reach the stars right away when it comes to exercising and losing weight. However, like we have already talked about, everything must be in moderation. Exercise is good, but when it is turned into an extreme, it is not good. Pace yourself. Start off slow, and work your way up from there. Rome wasn't built in a day, and if the builders had had the attitude that most people have towards exercise, Rome would never have been finished! Achieving healthy weight loss is not done too quickly either, or it is not beneficial to the body. Make a reasonable exercise plan for yourself, and try to include someone else as well. Studies have shown that when we exercise with other people. We are much more likely to stick with it, than if we exercised by ourselves. Encouragement is the key to getting into a good physical activity habit. Surround yourself with people that will encourage you and hold you accountable to your lifestyle change. Try out a few different fitness programs and see which one fits your life the best.
The third and last step to improving your lifestyle and reaching a healthy weight loss solution is a behavior or attitude change. We have already talked about setting achievable goals, and the next part of this step is education. Instead of eating all of the wrong foods and then feeling awful about what you are doing to your body, educate yourself with information such as the energy value of the foods you eat and what kind of nutrients they possess. Making a lifestyle change is more than just choosing the right kinds of foods. You must also change your mind. This simply means that you have to change the way you think when it comes to food, your health, and your lifestyle. Sometimes this also means that you have to figure out why you eat, what you eat, and when you eat. Keeping a journal is a great way to do this. Write down everything pertaining to eating. Keep a track of what foods you eat at what times, but also write about why you ate those foods at those times. Sometimes it may be just because you were hungry, but many people eat when they're stressed or emotional, and discovering this about yourself is the first step to changing how you deal with stress and other problems in your life. Change your mind. Change how you eat, when you eat, and what you eat. Change how stress affects your life, and learn how to deal with it more effectively. Eating doesn't make any problem go away permanently.
One more key to changing your lifestyle and maintaining your goal of healthy weight loss is to conduct regular self "check-ups." By this I don't mean the kind of check-up that a doctor would give, but a check-up of lost weight, periodical BMI checks, and of how much you body itself has shrunk since making these changes. Some people like to take measurements of themselves in the areas like the waist, hips and thighs, on a continual basis, such as weekly or monthly. One of the best encouragements is progress. When you see how far you've come already, it is a wonderful boost of confidence and motivation to keep you going. It won't all be a bed of roses however, but when you find yourself feeling down, remind yourself why you are doing it, and how much you have already done. Remember, once your lifestyle change is complete, you will be well on your way to reaching healthy weight loss.


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San Luis Obispo, Calif. - The Gauchos knows what has to be done, they have to win! The Gauchos did just that in game two of a three game Big West Conference finale against the Cal Poly Mustangs, 7-6. With the win, the Gauchos improve to 28-24 overall and 18-11 in the Big West. With the loss, the Mustangs fall to 31-24 overall and 17-12 in the Big West.
The game went back and forth the entire time. The Mustangs jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the first. The Gauchos jumped right back with two runs in the second on an error by the first baseman, Steve Wood.
The Mustangs bounced right back in the third with one more run. Again, the Gauchos scored one run in the third when Jeff Bannon smacked his eleventh home run on the season.
The scoring was not over. The Mustangs took a 5-3 lead after scoring one more run in the third on an RBI single by Kyle Albright. The Gauchos scored the next three runs, one in the fourth, fifth and sixth to take the lead for the first time, 6-5.
The Mustangs tied the game in the sixth on a home run off the center field scoreboard by Steve Wood. This would be the last run that the Mustangs would score.
The Gauchos managed to break the tie in the eighth. With one out, Jeff Carter walked and advanced to third after Mike Kolbach hit a ball that was uunsuccessfully fielded by the first base man. This allowed Kolbach to also go to second. Chad Peshke was then intentionally walked to load the bases for clean-up hitter Dave Molidor. Molidor hit the third pitch to left field for his first hit on the day and drove in Carter. This gave the Gauchos the go-ahead run for good..
Joe Isaacson threw five innings in relief for the Gauchos to earn his fifth win and improve his record to 5-0. Jim Bullard pitched the final four outs to earn his sixth save on the season. Nathan Choate took the loss in relief to fall to 2-1.
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Please Note: This methods had not been tried by anyone for urgent needs as far as our knowledge is concern, We highly recommend this method only when the patients are in stable conditions or is in using our very own methods and guides for their healing periods. With this methods, the patients will be able to consume it easily and does not need to keep finding the fresh leaves of which we believed it is quite a hassle works and the supplier may be short of supply or delayed in the delivery. With this methods in hand.. personal planting of this Herbs may seems to give enough supply for own family members to used as well. This methods also good for those wishes to mix with another known Cancer cure Herbs that has been reported great for cancer. The Herbs are "Graviola Stem and Leaves, Daun dan Pucuk Pokok Durian Belanda". It is reported to have been into the research by pharmaceutical to take its extracts but they failed to do so and they abandon this projects because there will be no profits for them when no patents rights can be obtained. Below article obtained report from unknown sources "We publish it as what we found and do not take responsibility from the readers actions to believed and follow the article guides in hope for healing diseases" ; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good News!!! Recently, I met a man who had Lymphatic Cancer – Stage 4 with 123 lymph nodes affected. His cancer started in March 2008. Affected parts: 1st: Right lung, 2nd: Left lung, 3rd: Groin, 4th: Eye and 5th Mouth. After 9 chemo therapies he stopped the treatment on 10/11/2008 because 5 specialists said he can only survive for 3 months. Today, after more than 2 years, he has recovered and is still living. Thanks to the Sabah Snake Grass (Clinacanthus) which he planted outside his house. He blended the leaves with green apple (minus skin and seeds) and drank them after breakfast everyday. After 3 days, 6 tumours disappeared. After 13 days, he went for a blood test.The oncologist said that he was 96% cured. So far more than 1,000 people who had taken the herbs showed improvement. Case 1) Man – age 54 Lung Cancer: 3rd stage. Chemothrapy 6 times Tumour before taking Sabah Snake Grass 29mm, 44mm, 76mm Tumour two weeks after taking Sabah Snake Grass reduced to 20mm, 27mm, 67mm respectively Case 2) Woman Uterus cancer – tumour size 6cm Scheduled for surgery. After taking SSG, reduced to 3.5cm. Doctor said no need to operate Continue taking the SSG, the tumour disappeared. Case 3) Man Prostate Cancer After taking SSG for 11 days, the tumour disappeared. Case 4) Woman from KL Breast and Lung Cancer Both breasts removed – 4 stage. Very weak, cannot eat, on drip and lying in hospital. Family member poured SSG juice into her mouth through tube. After a few days, could eat and was discharged. 28 days later was all tumours disappeared. Case 5) Woman from Taiping Breast Cancer After taking SSG for 3 days, the wound dried up. Case 6) Leukemia Patients So far 4 cases have been cured after drinking SSG juice.They also drank juice from 3 leaves of Guo Sai Por (Ti Tham Tou) once per week. Case 7) Dialysis Patients After taking SSG for 10 days, stopped going for dialysis treatment Case Patients with High Cholesterol, High Blood, High Uric Acid and Diabetes After taking SSG, the conditions improved. The Sabah Snake Grass Plant Its scientific name is Clinacanthus nutans also known as – 沙巴蛇草 – Sha Ba She Cao, 鰐嘴花 – E zui hua, 憂遁草 – You Dun Cao in Mandarin or Belalai Gajah or Tarum Siam in Malay or Dandang Gendis in Indonesia. Number of leaves used for treatment for Cancer everyday: Stage 1 : 30 leaves Stage 2 : 50 leaves Stage 3 : 100 leaves (either together or seperately 50 + 50 twice a day) Stage 4 : 150 – 200 leaves (divide them and take twice a day) You can either chew or blend the leaves. When the patient gets better, reduce the number of leaves. Direction for juicing SSG a) Pour half cup of clean water in a blender b) Add 1 or 2 ice cubes to prevent heating during blending c) Add 1 quarter of lemon or half a lime juice (provide Vitamin C and prevent oxidization ) d) Wash the required fresh SSG leaves and put them into the blender e) Peel a green apple and remove the core/seeds f ) Cut the apple into 8 pieces g) Put in the pieces of apple and blend h) Sip a mouthful and swish it to mix with the saliva for better digestion to prevent "wind i) Drink with the fibre within 5 minutes. j) Drink it in the morning or afternoon 45 minutes before breakfast or 2 hours after lunch. j) If "cooling" add a slice of ginger or drink warming herbal tea (red dates, wolfberries, dried longans, lotus seeds and a few slices of ginger which is boiled together and let it simmer for at least 1 hour) later in the day. Food to avoid : Sugar and products made with sugar, honey, kembong fish, ray fish, 7 angled-fish, chicken meat, duck meat, yam, glutenous rice, margarine, durians, bird nest, ginseng and other rejuvenating herbs. Anti-Cancer Compounds Besides SSG, papaya, apricot seeds, lemon grass and many types of fresh, vegetables, fruit and herbs are anti-cancer compounds. I believe all chronic diseases can be cured with the combination of detoxification, maintaing blood Ph 7.35-7.4, increasing body oxygen, eating or drinking juices from fresh, raw fruits, vegetables and herbs, a healthy lifestyle and good eating habits. The news was published on 5/4/2011 & 6/4/2011 @ Guang Ming Daily. The plant is available at Penang Snake Temple, Ayer Item Market, BM Desa Rambai Market etc. More details pls refer to the newspaper. Big Cultivator in Malaysia Herbal cancer treatment : Traditional uses of SSG Sabah Snake Grass has traditionally been used for the following health problems: • Sore throat • Uric acid • Gout • Uterine fibroid • Kidney problems • Prostate inflammation • Skin problems like eczema, shingles, and psoriasis Others with high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high uric acid and diabetes have also benefited from Sabah Snake Grass. More uses of Sabah Snake Grass include anemia,lower cholesterol,liver disease,hepatitis B,Juandice,kidney disease,diuresis,bone fracture,painkiller,infection,pms,cut,stomach pain,food poisoning,blood cleanser,sprain injury,clear heat,poisonous snake bite,scorpion string,nettle rash,detoxification,diabetes,bruise,diuresis,kill germs,fever,rheumatism,haematoma, contusion, dysentery,dysuria(painful or diffcult urination)Also effective for deep tissue abscess. Why this herbs are so unique? This herbs was believed to be used traditionally for healing a snake bites and/or any poisons bites from bugs or poison plants. Although we did not found any report on this, but by it plant name, it should be a herbs that heals out toxicity. Cancer do have high possibility that our body detect some level of toxicity exist that brings our immune system to form a tumor to prevent the toxic from spreading it. This is also a reason why most surgical will have a high chances of cancer spreading because we cut the shield form by our body. Tumor is form when our body does not have a right solutions to heals it out or lack in healing stuff to clear the toxicity within our body. Sabah Snake Grass is a well known anti-snake venom amongst the traditional healers of Thailand. The mechanism of action of this plant is believed to be attributed to its anti-cell lysis property rather than as an anti-neuromuscular transmission blocker. They also use the plant to treat scorpion bites and nettle rash. In China the whole plant is used in various manner to treat inflammatory conditions like haematoma, contusion, strains and sprains of injuries and rheumatism. Gastrointestinal Diseases Indonesian and Thai traditional healers make use of Sabah Snake Grass to treat dysentery. The Indonesians take a handful of the the fresh leaves, boiled them in 5 glasses of water until the water level recedes to about 3 glasses and the decoction is given in a dose of 1 glass each time. Other uses In Indonesia the plant is used to treat diabetes by boiling 7 – 21 fresh leaves in 2 glasses of water until the water level recedes to 1 glass and this is given twice daily. Dysuria is treated by taking 15 g of fresh leaves and boiling them for 15 minutes. The decoction is consumed once daily. Thai traditional healers make use of the plant to treat fever. Chinese healers on the other hand consider the plant as effective in regulating menstrual function, relieving pain, anaemia, jaundice and setting of fractured bones. We would also advice anyone outside Malaysia to check with their customs regulations about the possibility to get the Fresh Sabah Snake Grass soaking in Raw Vinegars is allow to pass through one Country Customs Point or not… before placing your order with us. We cannot take any responsibility on the Country Custom Rejections of getting Sabah Snake Grass soak in raw Vinegars. So please check and confirm so that we know which country can received it. Currently this Sabah Snake Grass is on short supply by even the big cultivators.. so we seen our methods will be a more suitable to cater to more people in needs and less disappointment…. Base on our current understanding, once the leafs is harvest.. it need about two months to regrow into harvesting conditions… if this the case… not everyone will get a consistent supply for its leafs.. But if using our Raw Vinegars methods…. one plants can cater to one family for sure… We estimated one plants leafs could be enough for consumption for more than two months for the plants to reach the harvesting periods again. Off course we have no proof on its effective conditions yet but at least many will get the opportunity to get the grass to be used for a longer periods without too much worry on the supply. But base on understanding nature of vinegars…. it does should be work well for extracting plants nutrients….
P/S: Untuk menanan pokok ni sangat mudah , hanya dengan memotong tangkai pokoknya dan cucukkan ditanah, dia akan tumbuh. Batang pokok ni lembut kerna ianya sejenis herba. Cara terbaik penggunaan SSG ini bagi penyakit Kanser: • 50 helai daun SSG • 7 helai daun Jarum Tujuh Bilah • Sebiji epal hijau • Jus daripada 1/2 biji lemon (Semua bahan – bahan di atas digaul dan di kisar) dan menjadi minuman… pembekal pokok belalai gajah dan 7 jarum di sabah hp 0162336604 (belum coba lagi ni) mungkin juga suatu masa kelak jika saya telah menanam herba ini .. anda semua bole berurusan dengan saya 😉
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I've heard about the grass and a friend of mine has been taking it for many years. It was very effective from him. He's been having constant supply from a lady. If you need, you may call Angela @ 010 515 3186 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Apparently she can provide weekly supply and delivered to door step.


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1. Christians believe God is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.
2. Christians believe God has a 'perfect plan' for his Creation.
3. HOWEVER, Christians also claim that God endowed mankind with Free Will. Keep this in mind - it will come into play later.
4. Christians believe in a concept called 'sin':
Definition of Sin (from allaboutgod.com): doing what is wrong or not doing what is right according to God's rules (1 John 3:4). If God says "Do not lie" and you lie, then you have sinned. If God says "Do not steal" and you steal, then you have sinned. According to God, sin separates you from Him (Isaiah 59:2).
5. However, since God is infinite, omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniscient (all-knowing), he must know in advance who will commit sins, when they will be committed, and for what reasons. He must know the circumstances under which they will be committed and he must know all this BEFORE the sin is committed, by his very definition. Otherwise, he is not God.
6. Accepting that God knows beforehand all the sins that mankind will ever commit, these sins must have already been factored into his Plan. So, how can they be wrong if they are in line with God's Plan? And furthermore, how can Free Will exist if God has already foreseen all of our thoughts and actions?
6.1. Christians at this point will most likely argue that, because of Free Will, it is possible to go against God's Divine Plan. They will argue that this is, indeed, the definition of Sin itself.
HOWEVER, by admitting that it is possible for a human being to differ from God's Plan, they are admitting that either:
6.1.1. God is not omnibenevolent, since an all-loving God would, by definition, not allow his Creation to suffer in eternal torment as a result of 'Free Will', something endowed to them by Him in the first place; OR
6.1.2. God is not omniscient, since an all-knowing God would have foreseen all possible outcomes of Free Will and planned accordingly; OR
6.1.3. God does not have a Divine Plan, since the existence of such a plan (one created by an infinite, omniscient, omnibenevolent being) contradicts the existence of Free Will; OR
6.1.4. God does not exist.
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This document is a place to collect all the "do"s, "don't"s and "how to"s for interface elements in Plasma, particularly applets and plasmoids.
The following are acceptable known entries for plasmoids and applets. If your applet does not fall within one of the following categories, leave the category field empty (it will be automatically categorized under "Miscellaneous" for the time being) and contact the Plasma development team to have a suitable category added to the list (at which point you may then use that category).
Since your plugins and packages will co-exist with everyone else's, it is a good idea to use a naming scheme that eliminates possibility of accidental name collisions.
In the examples below where it referse to [name], consider including an element unique to your project or organization in it. For instance, if your packages accompany an application, consider including the name of the application. Using an organizational or domain name are also possibilities.
For example, if your plasmoid was called "SuperWidget", the [name] might be:
Plasma uses a "general to specific" naming system for .desktop files. Following this practice makes it easy to find entries in the file system and keeps things nicely ordered.
In the list below, [name] would most commonly be the plugin name as found in the file. Files autogenerated by ScriptEngines may include additional namespacing information in the file name.


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His death came just over a year after he announced he had lung cancer and had to "call time" on the band and retire.
Keith Altham, his close friend and music publicist, said he had died at his home in Andover, Hampshire, surrounded by friends and family.
Altham announced the death of his "dear old pal" on his Facebook page, adding that the 1960s rock star had suffered a number of strokes recently.
He said: "He was one very real person in a sometimes very unreal world. Our thoughts are with his wife Brenda and the family and those legion of fans who loved his music and his band. I will miss him hugely."
The Troggs - Reg Presley, Chris Britton, Pete Staples and Ronnie Bond (Rex)
Presley's daughter Karen confirmed the death of her father to music website WENN.
She told the website: "He passed away peacefully at home and myself, my brother and our mother were with him. We're absolutely heartbroken."
The singer announced to fans that he was suffering from lung cancer in January last year after being taken ill at a gig in Germany.
He said: "As you all know I was taken ill whilst doing a gig in Germany in December. "During my stay in hospital tests showed that in fact I have lung cancer. I am receiving chemotherapy treatment and at the moment not feeling too bad.
"However I've had to call time on The Troggs and retire. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the cards and calls and for your love, loyalty and support over the years."
Reg Presley, the singer with The Troggs, has died at the age of 71 (Steve Black / Rex Features)
Presley founded The Troggs in the early 1960s and only stopped touring last year.
The Andover band is best known for its 1960s hits Wild Thing and Love Is All Around.
Wild Thing was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and was later covered by stars including Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and countless bar bands over the years. The Troggs also scored a handful of other hits including With A Girl Like You and I Can't Control Myself before fading into obscurity in the 1970s.
For a while it looked as if they were going to be mainly remembered for the Troggs Tapes, an expletive-ridden recording of the band arguing in the studio.
The much bootlegged recording is often reported as the inspiration for the mockumentary Spinal Tap.
But their proto-punk sound kept them gigging and their reputation rose again in the 1990s when first REM and then Wet Wet Wet covered their 1967 hit Love Is All Around.
Troggs frontman Reg Presley in 1995 (left) and with his band mates in 1967 with a lion during the recording of their single The Lion (PA)
The band recorded an album with three members of REM and the success of the Wet Wet Wet version, which featured on the soundtrack of the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral and spent 15 weeks at number one, allowed Presley to pursue his interest in crop circles and UFOs.
He published a book, Wild Things They Don't Tell Us, about the paranormal in 2002.


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Outrage in Tunisia
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A grim turning point for the poster child of the Arab Spring? The murder of a leading opposition voice sparks outrage in Tunisia with increasing violence taking place on the watch of the ruling Islamist Ennahda party.
- Amel AZZOUZ. Member of the Tunisian Parliament, Ennahda (from Tunis);
- Wafa JAOUA. Member of the Central Committee of the Aljoumhouri party;
- Jalila HEDHLI-PEUGNET. President, Think Ahead for Tunisia;
- Marietje SCHAAKE. Dutch Member of the European Parliament; Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (from Strasbourg);
- Mischa Benoit-LAVELLE. France 24 correspondent (from Tunis).
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Belgium CD-i Roots at Philipscdi.com
>> Wednesday, August 29, 2007
One of the first belgium CD-i production came in 1992 when the federal government of Belgium decided to create a CD-i disc about the history and events Belgium has to offer. Belgium, home of the CD-i Test Facility in Hasselt, has a rich history in the world of CD-i but this is the first original CD-i disc from this country. Being the capital of Europe, the disc, named "DISCover Belgium" features information about the history of Belgium, as well as about Politics, culture, art, economy and education of Europe in five different languages. Playable without Digital Video Cartridge (not available in 1992), this is some sort of first generation title on CD-i.
After six months without contact, Philipscdi.com's owner Mathias updated the site with the information about "DISCover Belgium". It's nice to see a small update in their CD-i catalogue which was rumoured to become the largest list of all CD-i websites. I'm afraid that will never happen, but at least, with nice updates once a year, at least we get to see some small gems in CD-i land. And, with Philipscdi.com being a belgium CD-i website, he'll certainly be proud of this! I loved the wonderful index art Mathias created for Philipscdi.com two years ago, and I hope in the future he will continue this!
"DISCover Belgium" is a small encyclopedia about Belgium, presented at the world exhibition in Sevilla. Information about this title is scarce, but perhaps Mathias will post his review of the title, including some screenshots. I wonder if this "DISCover" thing indicates a series, maybe there were other local releases about other countries as well. For now, Belgium is the only edition I know of. Mathias: "On the DISCover Belgium disc was printed that it was a demo version and that it wasn't for sale, but it looked pretty complete to me. I think what they meant to say is that it's not a commercially available title. I'd like to know if anyone has the same disc WITHOUT the 'demo' notice." Maybe this disc was only used for promotional activities, and no commercial version was pressed. I don't think this was the first belgium CD-i production however: That one goes to "Rules of Golf" by Telecity NV. Do you remember that story?
Mathias continues about DISCover Belgium: "This title seems to be a very hard to find one and might not have been commerciallised. It was produced for the World Fair of 1992 in Sevilla. When you start this disc, after a short animation of the Atomium, one of Belgium's largest national monuments. The Atomium represents an iron molecule structure and was built for the Brussels World Fair in 1958. The disc is divided into eight subjects: history, country and people, economy, state and politics, arts and culture, education and science, tourism and Belgium in Europe. Some of these subjects are themselves divided into groups, like arts and culture, where you can choose between music, literature, paintings, etc.
Each of the subjects you select actually starts an audio sequence, accompanied by a slideshow, illustrating the subject. There is however no way of 'looking things up', like we have in our traditional Interactive encyclopediae, no index or directory to browse through. This makes it more like a presentation of Belgium than a real encyclopedia, as the publishers call it themselves. A presentation maybe, but a very nice one nonetheless. The sequences are all very interesting and I did learn a few things about my home country!"
Thanks to Philipscdi.com


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Amada Opens Satellite Tech Center and Showroom in Dallas
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March 7-8, 2012, marked the opening of Amada's Dallas Satellite Center (DSC), featuring a showroom and technical-training center. Training at the DSC will primarily feature laser-cutting systems, press brakes, CAD/CAM software and laser-verified inspection systems.
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You know those nights where all you want is a cheese burger and fries?? Well tonight was one of them…minus the cheese burger. At last weeks farmer's market I picked up two sweet potatoes and figured, why not make fries out of them tonight.
Sweet Potato Fries
2 medium – large sweet potatoes
1 teaspoon of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 garlic clove minced
1/2 teaspoon paprika
enough olive oil to coat the fries
Peel and cut sweet potatoes in 1/4 inch pieces (try to get them as even in size as possible so they cook evenly) In a small bowl combine the garlic, salt, pepper and paprika. In a large bowl coat them with oil, season with the seasoning mixture. Cover a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the coated "fries" on the baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes in a 450 degree oven, turning once.
Let cool and enjoy with your favorite dipping sauce or ketchup.
I've had sweet potato fries before with different kinds of dipping sauces, all different and all very tasty. I've had a few may based sauces, and normally I wouldn't even think to dip a fry in mayo. I actually don't eat much mayo anymore but happened to have some in the fridge so I thought I would try and make one myself:
Sweet Potato Fry Dipping Sauce
1/2 cup fat free mayo
1 tbl spoon fresh lemon juice
1 clove of garlic minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Combine all ingredients and mix well.