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Broadcast: July 28, 2004
This is Bob Doughty.
And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Hoover Dam. It was the largest and most difficult structure of its kind ever built when work started in nineteen-thirty-one.
Our report today about Hoover Dam must begin with the Colorado River. This river made the dam necessary. The Colorado River begins high in the Rocky Mountains. It begins slowly, during the dark months of winter. Heavy snow falls on the Rocky Mountains.
The snow is so deep in some areas that it will stay on the ground well into the hot days of summer. But the snow does melt. Ice cold water travels down the mountains and forms several rivers -- the Gila River, the Green River, the Little Colorado, the San Juan, the Virgin and the Gunnison Rivers. These rivers link together and form the beginnings of the Colorado River. The Colorado River flows through or provides water for the states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. Then it crosses the border into Mexico.
The Colorado River has always been extremely powerful. The river created the huge Grand Canyon. The violent water cut hundreds of meters deep into the desert floor of Arizona. The Grand Canyon is proof of the power of this great river.
The Grand Canyon was cut into the desert floor beginning thousands of years ago. But the power of this river has been demonstrated in more modern times.
Between nineteen-oh-five and nineteen-oh-seven, the Colorado River caused great amounts of flooding in parts of Arizona and California. Huge amounts of water ran into a low area in the dry, waterless desert that had once been an ancient lake. In two years of flooding, the Colorado River filled the ancient lake. That lake is called the Salton Sea. Today, it is about fifty-six kilometers long by twenty-five kilometers wide. It is even larger in years of heavy rain.
The flooding that created the Salton Sea also flooded homes, towns and farming areas. Many people were forced to flee their homes. Government leaders knew they had to do something to prevent such floods in the future. In nineteen-eighteen, a man named Arthur Davis proposed building a dam to control the Colorado River. Mister Davis was a government engineer. He said the dam should be built in an area called Boulder Canyon on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada.
Building the dam would not be a simple matter. The people of seven states and the people of Mexico needed and used the water of the Colorado River. Much of that area is desert land. Water is extremely important. Without water from the Colorado River, farming is not possible. Without water, life in the desert is not possible.
On November twenty-fourth, nineteen-twenty-two, officials signed a document in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That document is called the Colorado River Compact. The document tells how the seven states would share the water of the Colorado River. It was agreed this could be more easily done with the aid of a dam. Later an agreement was signed with Mexico to supply it with water from the Colorado River.
The area chosen for the dam was called Black Canyon. The walls of Black Canyon rise almost two-hundred-forty-three meters above the river. An ancient volcano formed the rock in Black Canyon. Engineers decided the rock would provide a good strong support for the proposed dam.
However, the area also presented problems. The nearest railroad was sixty kilometers away. There was no electric power. And, in the summer, the temperature in the desert in Black Canyon could reach as high as forty-eight degrees Celsius.
A great deal of work was done before operations started on the dam. Workers built a town called Boulder City to house employees working on the dam. They built a large road from Boulder City to the area of the dam. They built a railroad from a main line in Las Vegas, Nevada to Boulder City. They built another railroad from Boulder City to the dam area. And they built a three-hundred-fifty kilometer power line from San Bernadino, California. This provided electric power to the area where the dam was being built.
The work on the dam began in April of nineteen-thirty-one. Workers called "high scalers" were some of the first to begin building the dam. They were suspended from ropes as they used heavy air-powered hammers to break any loose rock away from the face of the canyon walls. When they could not use hammers, they used dynamite. One high scaler became very famous. His name was Arnold Parks. He caught another worker who had fallen off the top of the canyon.
Mister Parks held the worker to the wall of the canyon until others came to help. Today, visitors can see a statue of the men who worked as high scalers to build Hoover Dam.
The high scalers worked on the sides of the canyon. Other workers dug huge tunnels deep in the floor of the canyon. This was done to permit the Colorado River to flow away from the construction area. This had to be done so the floor of the dam could be built.
On June sixth, nineteen-thirty-three, workers poured the first load of a building material called concrete. Men in two special factories worked day and night to make the concrete building material for the dam.
Huge equipment moved millions of tons of rock and sand. In the summer months, the terrible desert heat slowed the work but did not stop it. Men who worked at night on the dam suffered less, but the heat was still as high as thirty degrees Celsius.
Slowly the great dam began to rise from the floor of the canyon. From the canyon floor it reaches two-hundred-twenty-one meters high. Workers poured the last of the concrete on May twenty-ninth, nineteen-thirty-five. They had used almost four-million cubic meters of concrete in the dam. Workers also used more than twenty-million kilograms of steel to strengthen the concrete in the dam.
The work was dangerous for the more than five-thousand men who worked on the structure. The extreme temperatures, falling objects and heavy equipment caused accidents. The workers were provided with medical care and two emergency vehicles to take them to a new hospital in Boulder City. However, ninety-six men lost their lives during the building of the great dam.
The companies building the dam had been given seven years to complete the work. They did it in only five. The dam was finished on March first, nineteen-thirty-six.
Other work now began. This work would make the dam into one of the largest producers of electric power ever built. The dam was built to control the powerful Colorado River. But it was also meant to use the river to produce large amounts of electric power.
Today, seventeen huge machines use the river's power to produce electric power. The states of Arizona and Nevada share the power. So do many cities in California, including Los Angeles, Burbank, and Pasadena.
When the Hoover Dam was finished in nineteen-thirty-six, it was the largest dam in the world. It was also the tallest. And it was the largest power producer that used water power to make electricity. Today this is no longer true. Taller dams, larger dams and a few that produce more power have been created. But Hoover Dam is still a huge and interesting place.
Visitors to Hoover Dam drive on a small road that passes Lake Mead. They enter a special visitor's center to learn about the dam and the men who built it. They ride high-speed elevators that go deep inside the dam. They see the huge machines that produce electric power.
Many visitors say they thought the name of the huge structure was Boulder Dam. They are told that Hoover Dam is often called Boulder Dam. However, it is named after former President Herbert Hoover.
Before he was president, Mister Hoover worked for many years to make the construction of the dam possible. It was officially named to honor him in nineteen-forty-seven.
Visitors leave the great dam with an understanding of how difficult the project was. They learn that it still safely controls the great Colorado River. And it also provides water and electric power to millions of people in the American southwest.
This program was written by Paul Thompson. It was produced by Mario Ritter. This is Steve Ember.
And this is Bob Doughty. Join us again next week for another EXPLORATIONS program in VOA Special English.


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When emergency room patients are deemed "a danger to themselves or others," every state requires hospitals to hold them until a psychiatrist conducts a face-to-face evaluation to decide whether it is safe to let them leave. In rural hospitals across the country, it can take days for a psychiatrist to show up and perform the exam.
Five years ago, rural hospitals in South Carolina illustrated the problem. On a typical morning, more than 60 people were waiting in the state's emergency rooms for psychiatric exams so they could either be discharged or admitted for treatment.
Today the scene is quite different, thanks to a "telepsychiatry" program that allows psychiatrists to examine South Carolina patients through videoconferencing, reducing the average wait time from four days to less than 10 hours. In 2010, North Carolina began rolling out a similar program, and a dozen other states, including Alabama, Kentucky and Wisconsin, plan to follow suit.
Five years after it was launched, more than 20 South Carolina hospitals are participating in the program, and psychiatrists have performed about 19,700 video examinations. According to a study by the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, the program has reduced the frequency of hospital readmissions and involuntary commitments. It also has improved compliance with follow-up treatments, and patient participation in drug and alcohol rehabilitation has doubled.
Overall, the study found, the program has reduced costs by about $1,400 per consult, or a total of nearly $28 million.
"Some hospital administrators are understandably skeptical at first," said Ed Spencer, director of South Carolina's telepsychiatry program. "But when they see the cost savings and patient and physician satisfaction rates, they usually change their minds."
The Duke Endowment, a philanthropic organization that funds non-profit hospitals, contributed $3.7 million in start-up funding to help South Carolina hospitals purchase hardware for the program. To protect patients' privacy, the participating hospitals paid to install secure telecommunications lines. Since 2011, South Carolina lawmakers have allocated $4 million for the project.
In North Carolina, which began its own program in the northeast section of the state in 2010, the Duke Endowment (which is based in Charlotte) kicked in an initial $800,000. And last year that state's legislature appropriated a total of $4 million to expand the program statewide starting January 2014.
When South Carolina embarked on its telepsychiatry program, most states already were using telemedicine in rural areas, but mostly for physical conditions such as heart disease and strokes. "We had heard about some isolated uses of telepsychiatry," said Lin Hollowell, the Duke Endowment's associate health director, "but not on the same scale we were thinking about. We wanted to build a statewide network."
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The system kicks in when an emergency room physician determines a patient needs a psychiatric exam. A call goes out to one of seven psychiatrists who are on duty between 8 a.m. and midnight, seven days a week, including holidays. Once a psychiatrist takes the case, the patient's medical records are made available and clinical notes are transmitted from the attending physician in the emergency department.
A cart equipped with a large television screen, a microphone and camera is wheeled into the patient's room for the exam. During the session, which typically lasts 30 minutes, the psychiatrist can zoom in on the patient and tilt the camera at different angles to observe important physical indicators of mental illness and substance abuse, such as pupil dilation, facial tics and flushing and overall body movements.
Once the exam is completed, the remote psychiatrist reports back to the emergency room physician and if needed, an outpatient mental health facility designated for follow-up treatment. The report is also retained by the state telepsychiatry team in case they are called in again to examine the same patient.
In South Carolina, the psychiatrists who provide the service are full-time employees of the state mental health agency. In North Carolina, with more than double the population of South Carolina, they are private practice doctors who are reimbursed by Medicaid, other insurers and the state.
South Carolina's $2.7 million program is now partially paid for through an annual hospital fee. Small hospitals with fewer than 75 beds pay $6,000 per year for 150 consultations; larger hospitals pay $20,000 per year for an unlimited number of consultations. Hospitals are in turn reimbursed primarily by Medicaid. The state legislature and the Duke Endowment continue to provide additional funding, although the total amount is declining.
This month, the Duke Endowment awarded South Carolina $750,000 and North Carolina $1.5 million to take its fledgling program statewide. North Carolina plans to offer the service to all of its 108 hospitals. Even in urban areas where more psychiatrists are available, the service has significantly decreased wait times in emergency rooms, said Mebane Rash, legal director at the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, which has studied the telepsychiatry program.
South Carolina has targeted rural hospitals. By the end of this year, Spencer expects six new hospitals to sign up, bringing the total to 26, out of the state's 67 hospitals. More will be added next year, he said.
Doctor Shortage
Nationally, the expansion of telepsychiatry and telemedicine in general has been slow, in part because of legal barriers. Medical licensing and malpractice laws vary across the states, making it difficult for doctors to practice across state lines. In addition, Medicaid, Medicare and private insurers do not uniformly pay the same fees for services delivered remotely as they do for in-person services.
But of all the medical professions, psychiatrists are in the shortest supply – and most practice in urban areas. South Dakota, where only 15 percent of the need for mental health services is met, has the most severe shortage of mental health workers. Wisconsin is second worst with less than 21 percent of its need met, followed by Alaska (23 percent), Arizona (24 percent), Oklahoma (25 percent), Montana and Delaware (26 percent), New Mexico (30 percent), Connecticut (32 percent) and Maine (36 percent), according to federal data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
Only Rhode Island has enough mental health workers for its population. South Carolina and North Carolina rank somewhere in the middle, with only 55 percent and 52 percent of mental health needs met, respectively.
The supply of psychiatrists is expected to shrink in the future, because more are retiring than are entering the field. "It takes a long time to mint a new psychiatrist," said Kenneth Duckworth, medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
"Access to psychiatric input remains a crisis across the country," he said. "Telepsychiatry represents an opportunity to extend the reach of psychiatrists." Duckworth and other physicians say there are few downsides to telepsychiatry, although the field has not yet been thoroughly vetted.
"The major professional societies have not yet opined that this is identical to seeing the person in the room," he said. But South Carolina's Spencer, a mental health clinician himself, points out that psychiatry generally does not involve physical contact.
In the North Carolina study, Dr. Jody Osborne, emergency department director at Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, said, "It can be difficult to build trust," when examining a patient remotely. "Overall, though, I would say that the utilization of telepsychiatry has been an asset," he said. "My hope for the future of telepsychiatry is that it can be expanded to local clinics, not just emergency departments."

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Computer Maintenance and Tune-ups
If you want your computer to function optimally for as long as possible it is important to carry out maintenance and tune-up tasks at least once a year.
When it comes to maintenance and tune-up tasks there are two broad types, which include:
• Software maintenance and tune-up
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Software Maintenance and Tune-up
Due to poor maintenance, over time, computers will tend to suffer from a number of software related problems, such as:
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Hardware Maintenance and Tune-up
From time to time your system may also require hardware maintenance so that the computer works efficiently.
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1. Personal information we collect about you
We will collect the following personal information about you.
Information you provide directly to us:
- When we communicate with you (including your name, email address, company name, postal address, telephone number, any other personal information you provide and the content of our communications).
- When you register for a SportAccord event (including your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, work position, transaction details, credit card, passport details).
- When you attend a SportAccord event (including your name, email address, work position, conference and events booked/attended, areas of interest, industries of interest and images and videos of you taken at our events).
- When you subscribe to SportAccord email or postal mailing lists (including your name and email, work position, company, or postal address, as appropriate).
- When you apply for a position with us either directly or via an agency (including your CV, references and other recruitment information).
- Other information that you choose to provide or send to us during our relationship.
Data we derive through your interactions with us:
- General user information about your computer and your visits to our website (including your IP address, location, browser, operating system, referral source, length of visit and the pages you visit). This information can be facilitated by cookies.
2. How we'll use your personal information
We'll only use your personal information for our legitimate business purposes as set out in this privacy notice.
We use your data:
- To administer our events, our websites and our business.
- To enable your use of our services, including registration and attendance at our events.
- To respond to your requests for information.
- To send you email or postal mail e.g. brochures or newsletters. When communication are sent to for direct marketing purposes, you will have the right to object at any time to processing of your information. Such communications will always include a clear, simple option to refuse, or 'opt-out' of such future communications. You may also opt-out at any time by contacting us (see below sections 10and 11).
- To publish the event delegate list to be posted on both the event mobile application and our website. We will only disclose your photo, name, working title and organisation on such list. You may at any time opt-out from the event delegate list or object to some of your information being disclosed on the event delegate list by contacting us (see below sections 10and 11).
- To send invoices, reports, statements, payment reminders and collect payments from you.
- To deal with any enquiries or complaints by or about you.
- To understand how you (and others) are using our services and to help us improve and develop our services, including conducting internal analyses.
- To keep our events and systems secure and prevent fraud.
- To send you other necessary information about our services and our relationship.
- To contact you about new SportAccord services, offers, events or news where it is legitimate for us to do so.
- To otherwise manage our relationship with you or comply with our contractual obligations.
3. Electronic badges
- We use badge scanning technology at our events for security reasons and to help improve your experience and network effectively with our delegates and exhibitors.
- Everyone attending our events requires an official, printed badge. The information displayed will be provided by you during registration – either online or on site.
- You'll need to allow us to scan your badge to gain entry on to the exhibition and other restricted areas.
- Lead retrieval and all other badge scanning is optional. You do not have to let anyone else scan your badge.
- If you allow an exhibitor to scan your badge, you're giving them a copy of some of your registration information, just as if you were handing them a business card. The exhibitor may use this information to contact you after the event or for other purposes that you agree with them. The exhibitor's use of your information in this situation is subject to your direct relationship with the exhibitor and their own privacy policies.
- We use a third-party supplier for badge fulfilment and lead scanning services. They'll process your information for us, and for the exhibitors that you authorise to access your information when they scan your badge. The supplier will not have access to your information post-event. We will enter into agreement with such supplier requiring it to comply with all applicable laws and controlling how it process your information.
4. SportAccord mobile application
We provide an event mobile application (the "app") with the functionality to send messages and meeting requests to delegates attending SportAccord events. The app is available to all delegates registered to one of our events from the moment the registration to the event are open until the moment where registrations to the next event are open.
- Each delegate is free to download or not download the app.
- All delegates are included in the event delegate list within the app regardless of whether or not they have downloaded the app for use.
- All other delegates using the app have access to the complete list of delegates. By clicking on another delegate's profile they have access to the following information regarding such delegate: delegate photo, name, title and organization. They also have the option to send a message or meeting request to the delegate via the app without having access to contact details of the delegate.
- Once a message or meeting request is sent via the app, an email is sent from the app to the receiving party informing him/her that he/she has a message waiting for him/her in the app with information about the sending delegate.
- You have the right to object at any time to processing of your information through the app. Every email sent to you from the app will always include a clear, simple option to opt-out from the event delegate list. You may also opt-out at any time by contacting us (see below sections 10 and 11). Please bear in mind that if you do so, other delegates will not be able to contact you via the app.
5.Cookies policy
- We use cookies when you browse the SportAccord website. Cookies are small files that allow a website to recognise and track users.
- Our cookies do not store personal information such as your name, address or registration data; they simply hold the unique ID that, once you are signed in, is associated with this information.
- You can set your browser to reject cookies (see the 'Help' menu of your browser to find out how to do this), but please bear in mind that if you do this, certain user-generated features of our websites cannot be provided to you.
6. When we share your personal information with others
We work collaboratively with others as part of providing our services and we may need to share your information with them as follows:
- Delegates, exhibitors, partners and other event attendees: Our events facilitate all kinds of interaction between those attending. This includes online facilities via our mobile app to arrange meetings, to send messages to or network with others at our events.
- Consultants, partners and service providers: We may need to share some personal information of event attendees with our consultants and partners to deliver some of the show services such as PR, and catering. This data may include your preferences (e.g. dietary requirements, educational qualifications, expertise and interests etc.) as necessary to provide these services to you.
- Official show suppliers: We'll share contact information (name, email, organisation, job title) of exhibitor coordinators and partners registered for the show, with selected official suppliers who provide key exhibiting services including electricity, stand construction.
- Travel and accommodation providers: We may share your data with our travel agent, hoteliers and ground transfer partners to arrange your travel and accommodation at the show.
- Other third-party suppliers: We also work with a number of other suppliers in our business e.g. IT and software companies, hosting and communications providers, payroll providers etc. to provide our services to you, who may need to process your data for us. All of our data processors are contracted to protect your information and comply with applicable data protection law. Third-party suppliers include: Salesforce CRM, Etouches, TapCrowd, Pardot, and Google Analytics.
- SportAccord Stakeholders: We may share your attendee information across our group of companies for the same purposes.
- The SportAccord website will have a real-time event delegate list disclosing the photo, name, working title and organisation of each delegate attending our event. Such delegate list will be available to anybody visiting SportAccord website plus any delegate using the app.
- Professional advisors and insurers: We may have to provide information to our advisors as necessary for running our business.
- Regulatory bodies and law enforcement: We may disclose personal information to a third-party authority, such as a law enforcement agency, if required to do so by law.
- We may, from time to time, expand, reduce or reorganize our business and this may involve the sale and/or the transfer of control of all or part of our business to a third party. Any personal data that you have provided will, where it is relevant to any part of our business that is being transferred, be transferred along with that part and the new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this privacy notice, be permitted to use that data only for the same purposes for which it was originally collected by us.
7. How we store your information and keep it secure
We'll take care to ensure that your personal information is secure.
- We follow good practice security protocols across our business to ensure that information is protected.
- We regularly review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorised access to our systems.
- We restrict access to personal information to SportAccord staff, contractors and agents on a need-to-know basis.
- When we share information with our suppliers we enter into agreements with them requiring them to comply with all applicable laws and controlling further distribution or disclosure of the information to other parties.
We store your data on the secure servers of our registration system provider and CRM provider which are located is the USA where the protection of personal data does not provide an adequate level of protection. Access to such servers is protected by means of an individual password. Since as stated in this privacy notice, some of the recipients of the personal data we process are based in the USA or are hosting their data in the USA, we endeavor to ensure that your data are adequately protected by either agreeing on contractual guarantees with these providers or by ensuring that these providers have adhered to the CH-US-Privacy Shield certification system.
8. How we transfer your information internationally
SportAccord is an international business with a global customer base. We may need to transfer personal information between any of the countries we operate in and to our suppliers in countries, other than Switzerland or European Union countries. For example, our event registration and management system is hosted and backed up on a server in the USA.
We may also need to transfer your personal information to countries outside European Union to make arrangements for any SportAccord event you have registered to attend, or in any other case where we have your specific consent.
We do not transfer any data to other countries or international organisations unless they are deemed by applicable law to have adequate privacy protection, or recognised legal mechanisms are in place to ensure adequate protection of your information.
9. How long we will hold your information
We'll try not to keep your personal information for longer than necessary for the permitted purposes. We regularly review the data we hold and implement programmes to delete unnecessary information from our systems.
We may need to keep certain information for reasonable business or legal purposes (e.g. accounts information, unsubscribe records, information needed to prevent identity theft, legal disputes and misconduct) even if deletion has been requested.
10. Your data protection rights
You have these rights in relation to your information:
- Access: You can obtain confirmation of whether we hold any information about you and, if so, you can access your information and details of how we process it, if this does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
- Rectification: We will rectify any errors in the personal information we hold on request.
- Erasure: You can ask us to delete your personal information from our systems in the following situations:
- The information is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
- You withdraw your consent on which the information processing is based and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.
- You object to the information processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing.
- The information has been unlawfully processed.
- The information must be deleted for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
- Right to restrict processing: You have the right to restrict our information processing on specified grounds.
- Notification: Where you've asked us to rectify, delete or restrict processing of your information, we'll pass on your instructions to anyone we've shared your information with, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort, in which case we'll let you know.
- Data portability: You have the right in specific circumstances (where automated processing is based on consent or contract) to receive your information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit the information to another entity without hindrance.
- Right to object: In certain circumstances you have the right to object to our processing of your information, including in relation to profiling, direct marketing or scientific or historical research purposes.
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Washington, DC…On Thursday, September 10, at 7 PM, the National Archives, in partnership with the National Park Service Carter G. Woodson Home Historic Site, will present a discussion on preservation in African American life and culture entitled The Shaping of Black History: A Hopeful Vision—A Dream Realized. This event will be held in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building, which is located on the National Mall at Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, NW, and is fully accessible.
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Or, 'The Return of the Martha Metricator'.
I don't know about you, but I think both titles have their charms.
This is another recipe that I have been meaning to write about for ages. Truth be told, the reason I haven't done so is that I don't like the photo I took of them, but after the Mushroom Cookies, it seemed like a natural thing to do. Sharing the American recipe love with the rest of the world, I mean.
Whoopie Pies aren't popular at all in the UK. They should be though; they're basically cake sandwiches at the end of the day. And if a cake sandwich cannot be popular in the country that brought you the sandwich in the first place (thank you, John Montagu!), there is something terribly wrong.
I saw Martha make these on television when I was in New York once (I was towelling my hair not really paying attention, and at that point didn't even know who Martha was, but there's only so many times you can hear somebody repeating the word 'whoopie' in an odd voice before you sit up and take notice), and immediately decided to make them for Halloween the following year. Which was this year and also my friend Bridie's birthday - she had the cake stand. More than enough cause for a baking session, I'm sure you'll agree. I don't suggest you wait for such a reason though. Just get in the kitchen and get going right now!
Incidentally, Lynda, who I know reads this (Hi Lynda!), told me when we were staying at her place in Melbourne, that in her neck of the American woods (so to speak... She's not an Aussie), they call these cakes 'Moon Pies'. I think that's a much better name! So that's what I am going to call them from now on.
I halved the recipe by the way. You don't need to feed an army.
Pumpkin Moon Pies
You will need:
200g plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp ginger
200g dark muscovado sugar
125ml vegetable oil
400g pumpkin purée (one can - you could just steam and mash a butternut squash, and then weigh 400g of it)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
200g cream cheese
100g icing sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
- Sift the dry ingredients together. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking sheet.
- In a large bowl, mix the oil and sugar, using a wooden spoon.
- Then add the eggs, vanilla and pumpkin, and stir until smooth.
- Fold in the flour mixture.
- Using an ice-cream scoop, place dollops of mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, well spaced apart.
- Bake for about 12 minutes or so, until a tooth pick inserted into the centre of the cakes comes out clean.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- When cool, sandwich the cakes together, flat sides facing, with cream cheese frosting, which you make by mixing all of the ingredients together in a bowl until smooth.
- Eat! They make great sharing food. But I won't judge you for having a whole one to yourself.


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The reality of Paradise is something which people will never be able to understand until they actually enter it, but God has shown us glimpses of it in the Quran. He has described it as a place essentially different to the life of this world, both in the very nature and purpose of life, as well as the types of delights which people will enjoy therein. The Quran tells people about Paradise, which God offers to them, describes its great blessings, and proclaims its beauties to everyone. It informs people that Paradise is one of two ways of life prepared for them in the afterworld, and that every good thing will be theirs in Paradise to a degree that surpasses our present ability to imagine. It also shows that Paradise is a place where all blessings have been created perfectly and where people will be offered everything their souls and hearts will desire, and that people will be far removed from want and need, anxiety or sadness, sorrow and regret. Every kind of beauty and blessing exists in Paradise and will be revealed with a perfection never seen or known before. God has prepared such blessings there as a gift, and these will be offered only to people with whom He is pleased.
But what is the nature of these delights in Paradise, and how will it be different from the delights of this world? We will try to highlight a few of these differences.
Pure delight without pain and suffering
While people in this world experience some delight, they also face much toil and suffering. If one was to scrutinize the life which they live, they will find that the amount of hardship they face is much more than the ease and comfort. As for the life of the Hereafter, there will be neither hardship nor suffering in it, and people will live therein in pure joy and delight. All the causes of sorrow, pain and suffering which people experience in this life will be absent in the Hereafter. Let's take a look at some of these causes.
When one thinks of success in this life, they usually conjure the image of big houses, fine jewelry and clothing, and expensive cars; financial stability is seen to be the key to a happy life. To most people, success is inseparably related to wealth, even though this is the furthest from the truth. How many times have we seen the wealthiest of people living such miserable lives, that it sometimes even leads them to commit suicide! Wealth is something which humans in their very nature desire at any cost, and this desire has been created for a great and wise purpose. When this desire is not satiated, it causes some extent of grief in a person. For this reason, God has promised the inhabitants of Paradise that they will have all that they imagined as far as wealth and belongings are concerned, both for those who were extremely poor, experiencing even hunger and thirst, to those well-to-do but who desired even more. God gives us a glimpse of this when he says:
"… there will be there all that the souls could desire, all that the eyes could delight in …" (Quran 43:71)
"Eat and drink at ease for that which you have sent forth (good deeds) in days past!" (Quran 69:24)
"… They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and they will wear green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade. They will recline therein on raised thrones. How good [is] the recompense! How beautiful a couch [is there] to recline on!" (Quran 18:31)
Disease and Death
Another cause of pain and suffering in this life is the death of a loved one or disease, which are both non-existent in Paradise. None will feel any sickness or pain in Paradise. The Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, said about the people of Paradise:
"They will never fall ill, blow their noses or spit." (Saheeh Al-Bukhari)
None will die in Paradise. All shall live eternally enjoying the pleasures therein. The Prophet Muhammad said that a caller will call out in Paradise when people enter it:
"Indeed may you be healthy and never be sick again, may you live and never die again, may you be young and never grow feeble again, may you enjoy, and never feel sorrow and regret again." (Saheeh Muslim)
Social Relationships
As for the remorse felt due to a rift in personal relationships, people will never hear any evil or hurting comments or speech in Paradise. They will only hear good words and words of peace. God says:
"They will not hear therein ill speech or commission of sin. But only the saying of: Peace! Peace!" (Quran 56:25-26)
There will be no enmity between people nor ill-feelings:
"And We shall remove from their breasts any (mutual) hatred or sense of injury (which they had, if at all, in the life of this world)…" (Quran 7:43)
The Prophet said:
"There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening." (Saheeh Al-Bukhari)
People will have the best of companions in the Hereafter, who were also the best people in the world:
"And whoever obeys God and the Messenger – those will be with the ones upon whom God has bestowed favor – of the prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth, the martyrs and the righteous. And excellent are those as companions!" (Quran 4:69)
The hearts of the people of Paradise will be pure, their speech will be good, their deeds righteous. There will be no hurtful, upsetting, offensive or provocative talk there, for Paradise is free of all worthless words and deeds. If we were to discuss all the causes for anguish in this life, we would surely find its absence or opposite to be true in Paradise.


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Leather Head Sports designs and manufactures vintage-inspired leather sports balls.
As an American manufacturer, It is important that we distinguish ourselves with eye catching designs and careful craftsmanship.
We started with a single product, the Lemon Ball baseball and slowly added additional sports balls to our product line. We are inspired to use the sculptural qualities of sports balls as a vehicle to showcase fine and beautiful leather. But Leather Head Balls are not happy sitting on a shelf, they're designed for the rigors of outdoor play.
What are the key factors that have helped your store be successful?
One thing that contributes to our success is that we occupy a universally appreciated, but narrow niche. As leather craftspeople, we chose to focus very narrowly on leather sports equipment. With little competition, we are free to focus our energy on our craft.
What are your top recommendations for new store owners?
Our design sensibility is minimalist, so we chose a clean web-site design. Great photography and minimal distractions allows the beauty of our products to stand out.
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Shopify has created an amazingly robust platform. Our strengths are design and craftsmanship, and Shopify has given us the power to create a beautiful and powerfully function web presence that allows us to focus our energy on our craft.


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Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Lauren Jauregui + More React to Aretha Franklin's Death
The music industry lost one of its most powerful and influential forces on Thursday (August 16) when Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and powerhouse behind classics like "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," lost her reported battle with cancer at the age of 76.
On social media, celebrities from all corners of the entertainment industry converged to pay their r-e-s-p-e-c-t for the beloved "Respect" singer.
On Twitter, Beatles icon Paul McCartney wrote, "She will be missed but the memory of her greatness as a musician and a fine human being will live with us forever."
Fellow soul icon Patti LaBelle also tweeted her respects, calling Franklin her "sister in song."
Below, see some more reactions to Aretha Franklin's passing.


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Vanderbilt Allows Students to Observe Wiccan Holidays
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Reuters reports that Nashville's Vanderbilt University is now offering excused absences to students wishing to observe Wiccan and pagan holidays. Four Wiccan holidays were on the calendar Vanderbilt's Office of Religious Life sent to faculty as days on which they should work with students who asked for excused absences. "Vanderbilt's Office of Religious Life makes available to the campus community a calendar of holy days from a respected international source to raise awareness of the diverse religious practices that may exist on campus," reads the university statement. New Jersey public schools also recognize Wiccan holidays along with Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Scientology and others. The practice is already followed by the U.S. military, where chaplains recognize these beliefs and any others practiced by members of the Armed Forces. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Todd Breasseale, in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, said, "We make all reasonable accommodations."


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Office of the Press Secretary
December 12, 2001
Nominations and PCAST Appointments
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate twelve individuals and appoint twenty-two individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Robert B. Holland to be United States Alternate Executive Director of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a term of two years. Holland is currently the Managing Partner of Texas Limited, a consulting and investment partnership in Dallas, Texas. From 1993 to 1999, Holland was General Counsel, chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Triton Energy Limited, and from 1977 to 1994, he practiced law with the Texas law firm, Jackson Walker. Holland is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Texas Law School.
The President intends to nominate Arthur Jeffrey Hedden to be the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Hedden has been employed by the U.S. Marshals Service since 1983. He served as Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Middle District of Tennessee from 1983 to 1986, and he has served as Deputy in Charge of the Greenville, Tennessee, sub-office since 1986. Hedden is a graduate of Appalachian State University.
The President intends to nominate the following ten individuals to serve as Members of the National Council on Disability:
For three year terms expiring September 17, 2004: Lex Frieden of Texas and upon confirmation will be designated Chairperson Jacqueline Kelly Collamore of Maryland Carol Hughes of Georgia
For the remainder of a three year term expiring September 17, 2002: Barbara Gillcrist of New Mexico Graham Hill of Virginia Patricia Pound of Texas
For the remainder of a three year tem expiring September 17, 2003: Robert Davila of New York Young Woo Kang of Indiana Stephanie Smith Lee of Virginia Kathleen Martinez of California
The President intends to appoint the following twenty-two individuals to serve as Members of the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology:
Charles Joel Arntzen of Arizona.
Norman R. Augustine of Maryland
Carol Ann Bartz of California
M. Kathleen Behrens of California
Erich Bloch of the District of Columbia
Stephen B. Burke of Pennsylvania
Gerald Wayne Clough of Georgia
Michael S. Dell of Texas
Raul Fernandez of Maryland
Marye Anne Fox of North Carolina
Martha Diane Winters Gilliland of Missouri
Ralph E. Gomory of New York
Bernadine Patricia Healy of Ohio
Robert John Herbold of Washington
Barbara Kilberg of Virginia
Walter Eugene Massey of Georgia
Gordon E. Moore of California
Kenneth Nwabueze of California
Steven Gerald Papermaster of Texas
Dr. Luis M. Proenza of Ohio
George Martin Scalise of California
Charles M. Vest of Massachusetts


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