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Sixty-seven people have been infected across 19 states in an E. coli outbreak that is linked to romaine lettuce , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Officials are investigating lettuce that was harvested from Salinas, California, the CDC said, warning consumers not to eat it and retailers not to sell any from that area.
That includes "whole heads of romaine, organic romaine, hearts of romaine, romaine in salad wraps, and packages of precut lettuce and salad mixes which contain romaine, including baby romaine, spring mix, and Caesar salad," the agency said Tuesday.
"Look for a label showing where the romaine lettuce was grown. It may be printed on the package or on a sticker," the CDC said. "If the label says 'grown in Salinas' (whether alone or with the name of another location), don't eat it. Throw it away."
And if the lettuce doesn't have labeling information on it, don't eat it, said Frank Yiannas, FDA's deputy commissioner for food policy and response.
"Restaurants and retailers should not serve or sell romaine lettuce if they cannot confirm it is from outside Salinas," he said.
Of the people who have been infected -- who range from 3 to 89 years old -- 39 have been hospitalized, the agency said. Six of them have developed a type of kidney failure.
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A 54-year-old German farmer who lost both arms in a farming accident six years ago has become the first patient to receive a complete double arm transplant. The patient, whose name has not been released, underwent the operation at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, part of the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München), last week; he is said to be recovering well.
The operation lasted 15 hours and was performed by a team of 40 specialists in Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery, Orthopedics and Anesthesiology, under the direction of the head of the Plastics and Hand Surgery department, Prof. Hans-Günther Machens, Dr. Christoph Höhnke (Head of Transplants, Senior Physician; Plastics and Hand Surgery) and Prof. Edgar Biemer, the former Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Clinic.
In a press statement released by the clinic, it was revealed that the patient had been thoroughly physically checked and had psychological counselling prior to the surgery to ensure he was mentally stable enough to cope with the procedure. Since completion of the surgery, the patient has been on immuno-suppressant drugs to prevent rejection of the new limbs.
Following the surgery, the press release from the clinic's press manager, Dr. Tanja Schmidhofer, included the following statement:
The flow of blood was [re-]started in intervals of 20 minutes because the anaesthetists had to make sure that the patient would not suffer from the blood flowing back from the transplanted parts. No significant swelling was seen, nor indeed any ischemia (lack of blood flow to the tissues). This is a testament to the surgeons who established a fully functioning blood flow…the main nerves, the Musculocutaneus, Radial and Ulnar nerves were all attached and sewn together, and finally an external fixator was applied, with pins in the lower and upper arms, avoiding the risk of pressure points and sores. The operation was successfully completed after 15 hours. |
Without the immuno-suppressant drugs given to the patient, the risk of there being a Graft-versus-Host Reaction or GvHR, would have been significant due to the upper arm containing a large amount of bone marrow, consisting of ICC's or Immuno-Competent Cells, which would have triggered a near total rejection of the new limbs. A GvHR is a condition which results in the cells from the transplant attacking the immune system of the body.
Indications from the clinic suggest that the double attachment went well, although it could be up to 2 full years before the patient is able to move the arms.
The donor arms came from an unnamed teenager, who is believed to have died in a car accident.

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How long does it take to get from Euston to the ground via the tube?
I'd say about an hour.
Hiho.Going over with good friends to see Fulham - LFC in April. If I'm not mistaken, we're gonna stay at a hotel with the closest to underground being Russel Square.So let me see if I got this right, we can/should take the "blue" line to Hammersmith? I was initially thinking about the "green" line, as that would take us to Putney Bridge, and, more importantly, the Eight Bells . But that looks like it would involve changing lines. Ergo, the "blue" line would be the easiest, no?Thanks!From Russell Square, DARK Blue is the Piccadilly line. Take train to Earls Court (direction Heathrow or Uxbridge), change to the DARK Green District Line and get on a train that terminates at Wimbledon (trains display the LAST station they are going to, on the front, so as long as it goes through the station you want, you can get on it). GET OFF AT FULHAM BROADWAY and turn right. Walk for about 20 mins.
away fans get the whole behind the goal now therefore no neutral end
If he retires I'll eat my fucking cock.
Great anti climax for those expecting jizzihno....
People gonna head to the Eight Bells then?
It looks to me as if we have signed another 'average' player. I'll hold back my complete opinion until I see the lad play
for those travelling by tube just be aware that the district line is closed between earls court and whitecapel. its still operting from earls court to putney bridge. for those coming via euston there are ways around it but dont go down to victoria station to change. best to check with tube staff.
Alternatively, you can get the Hammersmith and City (Pink) line round to Hammersmith and wonder down Fulham Palace Road. Tends to be a lot quicker than the District line, which is quite possibly the worst line in the world.
There are quite a few pubs down that road too, atleast up to about half way down
I was in P3 last year and it was the neutral section - seemed full of our supporters though to me.Only difference seemed to be that people in the neutral side either wouldn't stand or were in the minority and so told to sit down by stewards, whereas across the aisle in the 'away' section everyone was up and bouncing.
Hello,We've got tix for the riverside stand,left from our stand.What's it like in there as I think I can't control myself when we score.
To avoid murdering each other, you'll have to keep yourselves anaesthetised with DVD boxsets and the occasional holiday. Life partner? Joy thief, more like
Will be going to this in a few weeks. I hear The 8 Bells is a good pub for before the game...


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The day after Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana, Delaney Nolan spent hours biking around New Orleans, handing out money to people who needed to pay for supplies or for the hotel rooms where they'd taken shelter.
Once the cash ran out — banks were closed, and ATMs were empty or no longer running without electricity — Nolan Venmo'd people the money they needed. As site coordinator for the mutual aid group Southern Solidarity in Louisiana, she and her team also handed out free meals from restaurants that were cooking up their food stockpiles before they spoiled.
Nolan is among the faces of philanthropy that are tending to the immediate personal losses inflicted by the hurricane. Mutual aid networks like hers spring into action to supplement the more established relief services from federal and local governments, as well as larger charities.
The networks, in which community members pool resources and distribute donations to care for one another, seek to avoid the traditional charity model of giver and receiver. They grew in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic as communities across the country faced dire needs. And now they are mobilizing in the wake of other disasters like Hurricane Ida.
"Mutual aid is the most effective help right now," Nolan said. "It's built on communications with a lot of neighbors and existing relationships, from personally knowing what people need."
Established philanthropic groups are joining to support the mutual aid groups, too. Jasmine Araujo, the founder of Southern Solidarity, said that days after the hurricane hit, the organization GlobalGiving had called her and said there would be donations coming to her group quickly.
"Most of our funds, though, come from individual donors," she said. "We don't usually get a lot of grants from bigger groups right away."
GlobalGiving launched its Hurricane Ida Relief Fund over the weekend to speed distribution of funds for those in need, said Donna Callejon, who leads the group's disaster response effort.
"The funds come in, and we mobilize quickly," said Callejon, adding that because GlobalGiving has worked in the area for years, it has a list of partners that have already been vetted to receive funds. "We have experience working in Louisiana with a lot of historically disenfranchised groups."
Another Gulf is Possible, a collective of 11 organizers and artists based in Louisiana, Texas and Florida had stored up 30 kits of solar panels, batteries, lanterns, power banks, iPads and water filters in preparation for the storm. They are gearing up to distribute the items to community organizers in New Orleans and the predominantly Native American communities of Grand Bayou and Grand Bois. But reaching people in some areas has been difficult because of the power outages, said Bryan Parras, a member of the group.
"People need everything," said Anne White Hat, a Louisiana resident who's part of the group, which has been collecting masks, googles, and gloves to protect communities from mold or lead during clean-up efforts.
Mutual aid efforts "allow everyone, no matter their status, to contribute what they are able," said Tanya Gulliver-Garcia, a director of the Washington-based Center for Disaster Philanthropy. "The pandemic showed us that even in a cash-dependent society, people and their 'stuff' are still a valuable resource."
Most of the nation's 800 formal mutual aid groups formed during the pandemic, according to the group Mutual Aid Hub. Community fridges, for example, have sprung up in many cities since last year, allowing anyone to donate and take food.
Members of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, another group, have been circulating an online form where people sign up to help remove trees, share meals, host spaces for donation collections, provide counseling and perform other services for those impacted by Ida. About 90 new people have signed up to contribute in the past few days, a regional coordinator estimates.
Help has also come from grassroots rescue groups. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, Paul Maiddendorf, a volunteer disaster responder from Houston, traveled across hard-hit LaPlace, driving home to home in a high-water vehicle in an effort to rescue Louisianans from chest-deep floodwater.
Most of those rescued were in shock, Maiddendorf said, with some stationing themselves in their attics, fearful of rising waters and with nowhere to go. Many sought help from CrowdSource Rescue, a Houston-based disaster response group that connects people seeking help with trained volunteers. Along with Maiddendorf, it has aided dozens of other volunteers do rescues or wellness checks during the disaster response.
By the time Maiddendorf arrived at the homes, most of the floodwaters had receded. But some residents still feared leaving their attics. "A couple of the families, I literally coaxed down the attic as the waters receded," Maiddendorf said.
CrowdSource Rescue, which launched in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in 2017, directs people seeking help to call 911 before contacting them. The group says it provides assistance when local officials are overwhelmed with requests. Matthew C. Marchetti, the group's executive director, says its average donation size is $60. So far, Marchetti says he's confirmed that the volunteers have rescued 364 people from floodwaters using boats and high-water vehicles.
Volunteers connected with CrowdSource had been fielding requests for help since Ida made landfall, but the fierce winds had initially made it impossible for them to respond. Maiddendorf, of Houston, rode out the storm at a parking lot in Baton Rouge, before heading 56 miles (90 km) southwest to LaPlace, where he found many trapped by floodwaters. Requests for help also came in for Lafitte, another town that suffered major flood damage.
Despite coordination efforts amongst different rescue groups, Marchetti says there were overlaps in responses. Similar concerned pleas for help had flooded into Cajun Navy Relief, a group of Louisiana volunteers who help with search and rescue after hurricanes and floods.
Owen Belknap, a student at Louisiana Tech University who leads one of the rescue teams, said his team managed to rescue one person in Laffitte. Belknap and his friends, also volunteers with Cajun Navy, began helping with disasters three years ago when a tornado swept through their hometown of Ruston, Louisiana.
They joined the Cajun Navy last year as Hurricane Laura pummeled southwest Louisiana, killing 27 people.
Once a business major, Belkanp transitioned to studying nursing as he grew more passionate about rescue efforts. With a few more days before the school year begins, he has time, he said, to help cut knocked-down trees and distribute supplies to the affected communities.
Amid the devastation, institutional funders have also opened their pocketbooks. Among them, the family foundation of Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder of The Home Depot and owner of the Atlanta Falcons, has pledged $500,000 each to a community foundation in New Orleans and The American Red Cross, whose volunteers are on the ground working on recovery efforts. Verizon's company foundation has said it's donating $100,000 to the Baton Rouge-based Foundation for Louisiana to aid those impacted by Ida.
"My inbox is really full right now with queries from the funder community asking where to really pitch in," said Regine Webster, the vice president of Center for Disaster Philanthropy.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.


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June 9, 2004
Jordan Digital Freedom Initiative
Fact Sheet: US Expands Digital Freedom Initiative to Jordan
Presidential Action
Today, President Bush announced the expansion of the U.S. Digital Freedom Initiative to Jordan.
Digital Freedom Initiative (DFI): The United States is committed to helping countries bridge the digital divide and generate economic growth and opportunity. DFI promotes transfer of information and communication technology (ICT) to benefit entrepreneurs and small businesses in developing countries. It also aims to help countries create a pro-competitive policy and regulatory environment. The program is a public-private partnership and is supported by the USA Freedom Corps' Volunteers for Prosperity initiative.
Key Objectives of the DFI:
Expansion to Jordan: Today President Bush welcomed Jordan as a DFI partner country. The activities to be pursued in Jordan include:
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Firefox is a Public Asset
[Cross-posted from Mitchell Baker's blog. Mitchell is Chair of the Mozilla Foundation.]
Recently a Mozilla observer and contributor asked why Firefox isn't treated as a typical for-profit, commercial effort, and why we are giving up the chance to get rich. This is a great topic for discussion, I'm glad it was raised. I've got a very strong opinion on this, and am quite interested in what others think.
There are many reasons why Firefox is a public asset, built for public benefit rather than private wealth.
To start with, we want to create a part of online life that is explicitly NOT about someone getting rich. We want to promote all the other things in life that matter — personal, social, educational and civic enrichment for massive numbers of people. Individual ability to participate and to control our own lives whether or not someone else gets rich through what we do. We all need a voice for this part of the Internet experience. The people involved with Mozilla are choosing to be this voice rather than to try to get rich.
I know that this may sound naive. But neither I nor the Mozilla project is that naive, and we are not stupid. We recognize that many of us are setting aside chances to make as much money as possible. We are choosing to do this because we want the Internet to be robust and useful even for activities that aren't making us rich.
It's possible that some participants are deferring the chance for personal wealth rather than giving up on it. Contributing to Mozilla, passing up opportunities for stock and wealth now, and planning to step back into that world after a while. This is a topic I'd love to discuss further and may write more about before too long.
But for now I want to concentrate on why I have always believed — and still do — that Firefox can not become a tool for some people to get rich. And why I believe the organizational home for Firefox (the Mozilla Corporation) must remain dedicated to the public benefit.
Firefox is not the creation of a "company" or a set of employees. The Mozilla Corporation and its employees are important, but not enough. Not remotely enough. And even if we had 2 or 3 or 4 times as much money or employees it would still not be enough.
Firefox is a great product because thousands and thousands of people care about it, and contribute to making it better. And the Firefox phenomena is even further removed from anything that could be accomplished if Firefox was a private company. Imagine 50 million people, or 100 million people or more. Now imagine getting all those people to download, install, and migrate to Firefox even though they have a similar piece of software already on their machines.
That used to be known as impossible. Today it's known as Firefox. It is happening because tens of thousands — I believe hundreds of thousands of people — have taken it upon themselves to create Firefox, to spread Firefox, to localize it, to extend it, to tell others, to install it for others, to help others use it.
Firefox generates an emotional response that is hard to imagine until you experience it. People trust Firefox. They love it. Many feel — and rightly so — that Firefox is part "theirs." That they are involved in creating Firefox and the Firefox phenomena, and in creating a better Internet. People who don't know that Firefox is open source love the results of open source — the multiple languages, the extensions, the many ways people use the openness to enhance Firefox. People who don't know that Firefox is a public asset feel the results through the excitement of those who do know.
Firefox is created by a public process as a public asset. Participants are correct to feel that Firefox belongs to them. They are correct legally, since the Mozilla Foundation's assets are legally dedicated to the public benefit. They are correct practically because Firefox could not exist without the community; the two are completely intertwined.
Periodically someone suggests that it's possible to build a community like this around a core of people who own a company, and use that company for the express purpose of generating wealth for a few. I don't buy it. I don't buy it on practical terms. The participants I meet radiate the conviction that Firefox exists to benefit all of us. I don't buy it on a philosophical level either. A people-centered Internet needs some way for people to interact with the Internet that isn't all about making money for some company and its shareholders.
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Scenes From An Italian Restaurant [Live]
From: The Stranger (2 CD + 1 DVD Box Set)
Release Date: July 6, 2008A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I–face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends on your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant.
Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight
I did not know
You could ever look so good after
So much time.
I remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the prom
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
"Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
But there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
They got an apartment with deep pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
They had saved for a couple of years
They started to fight when the money got tight
And they just didn't count on the tears.
They lived for a while in a very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter of course
And they parted the closest of friends
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
But you can never go back there again.
Brenda and Eddie had had it already
By the summer of '75
From the high to the low
To the end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to the greasers
The best they could do was pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
A bottle of red, and bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
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The Google Earth team is in the news yet again, this time with a reapplication of their powerful satellite imagery technology. If we can get accurate representations of the Earth's surface, they asked themselves, why not paintings inside museums?
I have always wanted to see Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights in agonizing detail – 14 trillion pixels constitutes agonizing – without having to leave my bed. Thanks to Google Earth, this is now possible.
What about Ancient Rome? Today I would like to stroll around some ruins, take in the Colosseum and, hey, why not, the inside of the Basilica Julia, but I don't really feel like getting out of bed. Some would think this impossible, but they would be wrong.
I did some basic Wikipedia research on Google Earth which I will summarize here for those who are somewhat interested but not enough to do it on their own.
This satellite-imagery technology started in 2001, when Keyhole, Inc. was founded with the help of, among others, In-Q-Tel, which is a venture-capital branch of the CIA. In 2004, Google swooped down and acquired the most powerful of the Keyhole application suites, Earth Viewer, which, no more than a year later, became Google Earth.
I leave you now with a short video on some of Google Earth's best-kept secrets. One in particular will make little Adolf Hitler Campbell proud of his namesake.


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[The perfect ex libris for any dentist]
[Russian fairy tale]
I posted about this Russian artist about 18 months ago, when reaching the sites carrying his etchings, drawings, paintings and ex libris prints was a very time consuming process. But Sergey wrote to advise that he has a new slick site with high resolution images available. I love the retro fantasy folk whimsy.


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NIDays 2011
February 8, 2011
CNIT La Défense
The Scilab Consortium participates to the NIDays, the annual meeting for engineers, scientists and teachers organized by National Instruments.
It is in partnership that the Scilab Consortium and National Instruments are jointly developing a gateway between their two flagship products Scilab and LabView.
The NIDays 2011 will be the occasion of launching a new version of this gateway and many demunstrations will take place on Scilab stand.
We invite you to meet us there and discover all the new features of LabVIEW to Scilab Gateway.
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What to Expect at a Veterinary Appointment
Knowing what to expect at your first appointment will make the experience more enjoyable for both you and your pet.
1. Get Settled
Please arrive at The Pet Hospital (Parkway) approximately 10 minutes early to get settled, meet the staff, and ask any questions you want about our hospital's policies and procedures.
2. Meet Your Veterinarian
A member of our team will review your pet's history and discuss their issues. You can ask any questions you want, and we'll dedicate time to answering them.
3. Examination, Diagnosis & Treatment
Once your pet has been assessed, we will provide you with a diagnosis and options for treatment. Your veterinarian will work with you to determine a treatment plan for your pet.
After your visit, we will create a detailed report of our diagnosis, the discussion we had with you, and your pet's treatment plan. We will keep this information on hand whenever you need it.
Our Pet Care Philosophy
We proudly serve pet owners from Hattiesburg, Petal and surrounding areas. We are dedicated to providing state-of-the-art veterinary service to you and your pet with care and compassion.
We are passionate about preventive care, client education, and providing comprehensive emergency and rehabilitative care to Hattiesburg pets.
Hospital FAQs
Learn more about our office policies, payment options, and appointment booking by reading through our hospital FAQs.
- What types of payment options are available?
Payment in full is expected at the time services are provided or upon discharge of your pet. We accept payment by cash, check, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express.
- Are there payment plans available for my pet's care?
We are proud to offer CareCredit and Scratchpay as financing options. They offer an easy application process that will give you results in minutes.
- Will I be provided with an estimate of costs?
We will provide a good-faith estimate of the cost of our services before treating your pet. However, unforeseen circumstances may arise that impact your final bill.
We will always discuss our written estimate with all clients before they leave our facility, and require a deposit based on our estimate before any further treatment.
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Yes, please call ahead to book an appointment to ensure we have room in our schedule to see your pet.
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A deposit payment is required for all emergency examinations. Once the staff and doctors have examined your pet, an estimate for treatment will be given to you to determine a treatment plan.
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Time for a coffee? Don't forget the biscuits
Another news from Brazil, and in the same line as two days ago, the Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) granted a Geographical Indication (GI) in the form of indication of source (Indicação de Procedência) to 'biscoitos de São Tiago'.
The traditional biscuits are from the Region Campo das Vertentes in Minas Gerais and this application was made on August 23, 2011 (posted here). Request was made by the Associação São-Tiaguense (formed by 23 members) and aided by the Centre for Technological Innovation (NIT) from the Federal University of São João del Rei (UFSJ) and supported by the Foundation for Research and Support of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG). The city became known for its biscuits that were offered to visitors on hostels farms and it is nowadays recognized as 'A Terra do Café com Biscoito' -- the tradition has extended and the city always holds a 'Coffee with Biscuit Party' early September receiving more that 50,000 visitors.


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Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place
The exhibition Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place investigates the ways in which our memories, dreams, and most intimate moments live on in the objects we create, inherit or give away during our lifetime as acts of faith, love, or hope.
Faith is common to all human societies. By focusing on the material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith, Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place will provide a perspective on why humans across the globe create these material objects. Examining votive objects—often created to fulfill a vow or as a pledge and placed at a sacred space or site of communal memory—Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place will look at the things humans choose to offer in their votive transactions and will strive to uncover the most intimate moments in the lives of humans, revealing how our dreams and hopes, as well as our fears and anxieties, find form in votive offerings. A portion of the exhibition will center on the creation of the votive object from its moment of inception through its construction and memorialization. The place of ephemeral objects, such as food and candles, will also be examined. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as those of humble origin crafted from modest material, more than 300 objects dating from 2000 BC to the twenty-first century will be on display. Powerful works from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, representing the majority of world religions, will expose the global nature of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.


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There's something irksome about defending micro-founded macro from the attack that it is 'without merit'. A voice inside me says: if they aren't doing macro, by which I mean, generating new empirical or theoretical work themselves, who are they to go about proclaiming whether something has merit or not, or how macro should be done? [I'm not singling out Adam here. Lots are at it.] And why should anyone care what they say?
(OK OK I'm being mean with selective quoting. Yates dutifully follows up with this quote: "[T]here's the risk that we come to seem like a cult bent on disengaging, concerned to interact with those outside the cult only so far as is necessary to squeeze them for the money we need to continue playing with our toys.")
Suppose in the real world some consumers are credit constrained, while others are infinitely lived intertemporal optimisers. A microfoundation modeller assumes that all consumers are the latter. An eclectic modeller, on finding that consumption shows excess sensitivity to changes in current income, adds a term in current income into their aggregate consumption function...
Now a microfoundation modeller might respond that the right thing to do in these circumstances is to microfound these credit constrained consumers. But that just misses the point...[E]ven the best available microfounded model will be misspecified, and an eclectic approach that uses information provided by the data alongside some theory may pick up these misspecifications, and therefore do better.
Another response might be that we know for sure that the eclectic model will be wrong, because...it will fail the Lucas critique[.]...But we also know that the microfounded model will be wrong, because it will not have the right microfoundations. The eclectic model may be subject to the Lucas critique, but it may also - by taking more account of the data than the microfounded model - avoid some of the specification errors of the microfounded model. There is no way of knowing which errors matter more. (emphasis mine)
[It's] dangerous to presume that you understood something because you had "microfoundations" when those microfoundations were wrong. After all, Ptolemy had microfoundations: Mercury moved more rapidly than Saturn because the Angel of Mercury left his wings more rapidly than the Angel of Saturn[.]
Just to hammer the point home, see this excellent post by Antonio Fatas, about what macro models need to include that they (mostly) currently omit.
Also, read this additional DeLong post about the tragedy of misspecified microfoundations.
Steve Williamson explains what the term "microfoundations" means, and has a very interesting anecdote about Bob Lucas.
Nick Rowe discusses the same basic tradeoff that Wren-Lewis talks about.
Simon Wren-Lewis expands on his earlier point, and continues to be very astute.
Paul Krugman tells the story of how the microfoundation thing all began.


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{This piece was written by Shoula Romano Horing and originally published at Y-Net. The reason that I am republishing it here is because of the striking parallel Romano Horing draws between the failure and weakness of Jewish leadership during the Holocaust and World War II years and the failure and weakness of Jewish leadership today. Obviously 2013 is nothing like 1941, nonetheless the reluctance to honestly stand up for the Jewish people in opposition to a Democratic president remains a distasteful tendency among those who claim to represent the rest of us. Morton Klein of the Zoinist Organization of America should be commended because he's got some guts. - ML}
The Republicans in the Senate succeeded in delaying the vote to confirm Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense to the week of February 26 but did not yet succeed in defeating his nomination. If the vote will proceed, Hagel will need only a simple majority of 51 votes to be confirmed. The Democrats have 55 senators supporting Hagel including 11 Jewish senators. If only five of the 11 senators will stop their blind worship of President Obama and decide to abstain, the nomination will be defeated. If only the Jewish establishment would stop being frightened and decide to join in the campaign against Hagel, his nomination would be withdrawn.
The Americans Jewish Committee ( AJC), AIPAC, Anti -Defamation League (ADL), the Conference of Presidents and the National Jewish Democratic Council all decided after the nomination not to oppose Hagel and not to campaign against him even though they all raised concerns about his voting record. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and the Republican Jewish Coalition have been the only major Jewish groups to publicly oppose Hagel.
Morton Klein, the ZOA president said in a recent interview with an Israeli newspaper that he was personally called by major Jewish leaders and was told to "stop his organization campaign against Hagel." Klein stated that his counterparts at the other organizations told him that he "was making this a Jewish issue" which they considered "bad for the Jews."
But in reality, Hagel made this a Jewish issue when he stated that "the Jewish lobby intimidates people" and when his voting record revealed his willingness to appease the Jewish state's enemies like Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran .The Washington Free Beacon just reported that in a 2007 speech at Rutgers university Hagel remarked that "the State Department was becoming an adjunct of the Israeli Foreign Ministry."
The fault also lies at Obama's feet for obsessively deciding to choose Hagel , while knowing that his notorious record will raise the ugly head of anti -Semitism and old age Jewish stereotypes..
But much worse, it was the fault of the Jewish senators, other Jewish Democrats and the major Jewish organizations for being silent despite their concerns. First, by being afraid to voice their objections to the president when his nomination was suggested at the trial balloon phase more than 10 days before the public nomination, and second, by dropping their objections to the nomination.
Hagel weakened, ridiculed But this is not the first time the US Jewish leaders and establishment have been shamefully self -indulgent and frightened to speak up for the sake of their fellow Jews.
Scholarly research has revealed that the American Jews were not powerless during the Holocaust, but merely weak. They were like a muscle never fully flexed. The evidence shows that the Jewish leaders and organizations were silent even though they could have pressured President Franklin Roosevelt, to enter World War II earlier and rescue millions of Jews or bomb the death camps and railroads.
As with President Obama, President Roosevelt was considered as the god of American liberalism and of the American Jewish community. The American Jews constituted the most loyal and loving of Roosevelt's constituencies and the vast majority of Jews voted four times for him. No president till then had appointed so many Jews to public office and surrounded himself with so many Jewish advisors.
However, even when Roosevelt closed US doors to Jewish refugees prior to and during the Holocaust, the Jewish establishment refused to confront Roosevelt. Moreover, as Rafael Madoff explains in his book The Deafening Silence, the Jews were also silent because of "their fear of lifting the lid off a simmering American anti- Jewish backlash."
The only Jewish group in the US who struggled against the silence of America and the passivity of Roosevelt were the Jews on the political right which included the Zionist Revisionists, and strictly Orthodox Jews. Instead of joining them the liberal Jewish establishment fought against them.
Consequently, the question must be asked by every American Jew as to what red lines must be crossed before the Jewish senators, congressmen and major Jewish organizations will stop being silent in regard to President Obama's policies? When will they flex their political muscles?
What will they do if Obama decides to try to cut military aid to Israel, or lets Iran become a nuclear power? What will happen if Obama recognizes Hamas and Hezbollah and forces Israel to establish another Hamastan in the West Bank? What will happen if Obama tries to force Israel to dismantle its nuclear weapons or votes with the Security Council or the UN General Assembly to boycott Israel?
Barack Obama should not be coddled by the Jews but should be persuaded and confronted, if necessary, to withdraw the Hagel nomination.
If Obama sought to start the "fight" in order to weaken the pro-Israel support in Congress and to create "daylight" between the US and Israel, he failed miserably. Even if confirmed, the pro- Israel supporters, led mostly by Christians, have already won because Hagel has been weakened and ridiculed to the point that he will be ineffective. The vote in the Senate was the first successful filibuster of the nomination of any secretary of defense in US history.
After that humiliating event , and given how narrow his base of support seems to be in Congress, no one truly believes that Hagel will be able to implement any major changes in US foreign or military policy including trying to appease the Arab world and Iran, and weakening the close US-Israeli alliance.
Shoula Romano Horing is an attorney.
By the way, this is the very first comment under this piece at Y-Net - ML:
1. Need antisemitism in America
American Jews need more anti-semitism. Then they will wake up to reality.


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Eric's recipe made two to three pies, so the first thing I needed to do was effectively halve the recipe. The new list of ingredients became 4 tablespoons of butter, 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, a large egg, 1/2 cup 100% pure maple syrup, 6 oz. pecans broken up by hand, and 6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate. I decided that since we're interested in testing fillings here, I would take the easy way out and use a store bought frozen pie crust.
Eric uses Ghirardelli's Double Chocolate chips in his recipe and warns against the use of milk chocolate. (Double Chocolate is Ghirardelli's branding for bittersweet chocolate for baking.) I was picking up the necessary ingredients at my local supermarket (Save Mart) on the way home from work and was surprised to find that they do not carry bittersweet chocolate chips at all. I picked up a bag of Guittard's Semi-Sweet Baking Chips and thus deviated from Eric's recipe a little (or maybe a lot).
First, I creamed the butter and brown sugar together.
Then I added an egg and mixed until it was fully integrated.
I scraped the bowl down once and added maple syrup. A few more seconds and my Kitchenaid stand mixer had the mixture smooth and consistent.
After removing the bowl from the mixer, I poured in the halved pecans and stirred by hand with a spatula. Then I added the chocolate chips and stirred and folded until the pecans and chips were evenly dispersed, about ten strokes.
The mixture is then poured into the pie crust and leveled. Normally, I would blind bake the crust to ensure that it doesn't get soggy. (Blind baking is where you bake the crust without filling to harden the crust. This gives the crust more structural support to handle a wet filling so it doesn't fall apart or soak up too much liquid before the filling is baked.) Eric's recipe didn't mention this and called for a fairly high heat of 375?F so I did not blind bake the crust.
I then baked the pie in my oven at 375?F until the filling set. I checked the filling by holding the pie on both sides and twisting gently to spin the pie pan. A set filling should not move on the outside and jiggle on the inside (like Jell-O). The pie was done after 45 minutes (just like Eric said).}?>
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The general concensus was that the pie was very good and a welcome departure from the traditional pecan pie. The chocolate lover's especially liked the chocolate chips and some commented on the excellent flavor that the maple syrup introduced. I recommend trying this recipe!
Eric's Chocolate Pecan Pie
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Kershaw 7350TEAL Launch 10 " The Claw "
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7350 Teal Launch 10 Made in USA New in Box
It's obvious why the new Launch 10 earned the nickname of "The Claw" here at Kershaw HQ. It features an aggressive, hawkbill-style blade with angular planes on both blade spine and handle.
Yet even with all that angularity, the Launch 10 is comfortable to carry, hold, and use. The curved blade and the positioning of the razor-sharp tip make it especially handy when opening or breaking down boxes. Rope or cording is also easily mastered with the superb pull-cutting capabilities of the Launch 10.
The curved blade is made of CPM 154 steel with a stonewashed finish. The powdered metallurgy steel takes and holds an excellent edge, offers good corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and toughness. And while the claw-shaped blade curves downward, the handle—built of strong-yet-lightweight anodized aluminum—sweeps up. This balances the overall look of the knife and provides a secure grip.
The integrated backspacer includes a large lanyard hole and the Launch 10's deep-carry pocketclip is left/right reversible (tip-up). A push-button on the handle opens the knife quickly. Push the button again to release the blade and fold it back into the handle.
Made in the USA
Integrated backspacer with lanyard hole
Push-button open
Push-button lock release
Reversible deep-carry pocketclip (right/left, tip-up)
Steel: CPM 154, stonewashed finish
Handle: 6061-T6 aluminum, Teal anodized
Blade Length: 1.9 in. (4.8 cm)
Closed Length: 3.2 in. (8.1 cm)
Overall Length: 5.2 in. (13.2 cm)
Weight: 1.7 oz. (51 g)


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There's a new blog in town and it's all about my studio shop in Fairport, New York, yipeeeee!! I hope to somehow figure out how to connect both of my blogs for easy reference.
Why TWO blogs??? Well, i get 3 blogs from Typepad with the account i use. With my "WHIMSPIRATIONS", personal blog (this one) i want to share my creative journey as an artist, product designer, as well share project ideas and techniques.
On my STUDIO BLOG, joannesharpe.typepad.com/artandsoulfairport i'll communicate the happenings, classes and gatherings at my Fairport shop.
.....imagine the possibilities, there is so much to be creative about!
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Phase 1 September 16: Canada will refuse entry on shipments found to have infested wood packaging (during this preliminary period, only signs of infestation would prevent entry of shipments) with the exception of ship's dunnage. Ship's dunnage will be treated or disposed if non-compliant (i.e. with signs of living pests, or no ISPM15 mark, or no Phytosanitary Certificate).
Phase 2 February 1, 2006: Canada will refuse entry for any wood packaging found to be non-compliant (i.e. with signs of living pests, or no ISPM15 mark, or no Phytosanitary Certificate) with the exception of ship's dunnage. Ship's dunnage will be treated or disposed if non-compliant.
Phase 3 July 1, 2006: Canada will refuse entry on all wood packaging materials including ship's dunnage found to be non-compliant. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Directive D-98-08 (5th Revision) will be updated soon. To view the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Q & A
Canada announces new timber import requirements
Exports to China - Issues over the 'Re-Use' of Wood Packaging Material - Update (2 August 2011) At the end of June we advised UKWPMMP members of an issue in China whereby AQSIQ inspectors were intercepting consignments from Europe because articles of wood packaging material were being found to have country ISO codes within ISPM15 marks that did not relate to the country of re-export. The example given involved a German 'DE' marked pallet which had been air-freighted to China from Austria (AT) and therefore it was deemed to be non-complaint. Having raised the issue as a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) matter with the Chinese Authorities as one in which their approach did not reflect the guidance provided in ISPM15 regarding the re-use of wood packaging material, the European Commission has advised us that the matter has now been resolved and AQSIQ representatives have provided the following statement - 'Wood packaging material AQSIQ agrees with the EU interpretation of ISPM 15, they will issue a notice to CIQs to clarify that wood packaging material ISPM compliant can be accepted even if its origin is not from the country of expedition. EU should signal problems if they remain.' UK exporters are therefore asked to note that the problem has been resolved but that they should continue to report any instances where barriers to export of compliant ISPM15 wood packaging material remain in China. Exports to China - Issues over the 'Re-Use' of Wood Packaging Material (June 23rd 2011) We have recently been made aware via a major international freight forwarding company that AQSIQ inspectors in China are intercepting consignments from Europe because articles of wood packaging material are being found to have country ISO codes within the ISPM. 15 mark that do not relate to the country of re-export. The example given involved a German 'DE' marked pallet which had been air-freighted to China from Austria (AT) and therefore it was deemed to be non-complaint. Through its contacts with the British Embassy in Beijing the Forestry Commission's Plant Health Service advised AQSIQ representatives in China that as para 4.3.1 of ISPM 15 makes it clear that if an article of wood packaging material is simply being 're-used' and shipped from one country to another and then another - no further official intervention is required. It is only in instances where the WPM is being repaired or remanufactured that official intervention in the form of re-treatment or remarking is necessary. In their response AQSIQ officials commented that wood packaging material must be re-treated and re-marked in the country of re-export, regardless the fact that it was treated and marked in the country of origin before. Given the difference of opinion on the 're-use' definition for wood packaging material within ISPM15, which is affecting exporters in a number of EU member States, the UK's National Plant Protection Organisation (NPPO) is liaising with the European Commission with a view to raising the matter as a challenge through Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) or bilateral processes. Whilst the process of an EC or bilateral challenge is being considered, UKWPMMP members are advised to note the situation and to inform their exporting clients of the fact that articles of wood packaging material bearing a country ISO Code within the ISPM15 mark, which does not relate to the country of re-export, then AQSIQ Inspectors may intercept it and order remedial fumigation action. The Forestry Commission's Plant Health Service will advise UKWPMMP members, via TIMCON, of the outcome of any EC or bilateral challenge to China as soon as the results are known. Notice 11 (see Clarification Note) and Notice 32. China continues to encourage exporters to use the 'Declaration of use of non wood packaging material'. See details here in the Phyto News. The Forestry Commission has decided to cease issuing phytosanitary Certificates for ISPM15 Wood material, from immediate effect. Please read information above.(Last Updated: 02/04/2013)
India has published details of its implementation of ISPM15 and landing requirements for wood packaging material w.e.f. 1st November 2004 (see attached Web page)(Last Updated: 31/05/2004)


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Free graduate-level course open to the entire campus and public
Less than 0.1 percent of the planet's water is available for safe use, and challenges centered on H2O form the nexus of some of society's most pressing environmental issues. As a result, the world's water crisis is an urgent matter that must be addressed, according to environmental policy expert Brian Helmuth, a professor of marine and environmental science and public policy at Northeastern.
"The world is becoming flatter but there are still huge disparities in access to clean water," he said, noting that the average American uses 176 gallons of water per day compared to five for the average African. "A lot of experts have said that access to safe water will be the next determinant of global conflict."
The worldwide water problem is the focus of this semester's Myra Kraft Open Classroom series, which will be co-led by Helmuth as well as Joan Fitzgerald, professor and interim dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and faculty director for the College of Professional Studies Doctor of Law and Policy program , which sponsors the seminar series; extreme weather expert Auroop Ganguly, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering; and Lee Breckenridge, a professor of law and expert in environment and natural resources law .
Titled "Water: Challenges of Extremes," the series will run from Jan. 8 to April 13 and be held on Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. in West Village F. Video recordings of every lecture in the series will be uploaded to Cognoscenti, WBUR's ideas and opinions page.
Each semester, one graduate-level seminar is selected for the series and opened up to the entire campus and the public for free. Registration information can be found here while undergraduate and graduate students can take the course for credit.
This semester's series aligns with Northeastern's focus on solving global challenges in health, security, and sustainability. In particular, the Marine Science Center and the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences are marshaling their resources to address the critical need for sustainable urban coastal environments.
Throughout the series, topics of discussion will range from water scarcity, desalinization, fisheries, and aquaculture to energy, economics, national security, and human health.
At the first open classroom of the semester on Wednesday evening, Shafik Islam, the director of the Water Diplomacy Initiative at Tufts University, posed a rhetorical question to a score of students and community members: "Will water," he asked, "lead to war?"
The case for such an outcome, he said, is that clean water is a flexible, yet limited, natural resource—one that will continue to fuel conflict among competing stakeholders for the foreseeable future.
"We need to find common ground when a resource is limited and its uses are many," Islam explained. "In 50 years, access to water will still be a problem unless we begin to think of it differently."
In addition to Islam, the interdisciplinary group of guest speakers will include Eric Danner, an ecologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center; Katharine Hayhoe, at atmospheric scientist and associate professor of political science at Texas Tech University; and Jennifer Pournelle, a landscape archaeologist and research assistant professor at the University of South Carolina.
The semester's final two guest speakers— hydrology expert James Famiglietti and Peter Gleick, the co-founder of the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research and policy center focused on freshwater issues—have been featured in a 2011 documentary on the world's water crisis called Last Call at the Oasis, which is currently being screened at Boston's Museum of Science.


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the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;That would seem to make it pretty open-and-shut: according to the law, corporations are persons. Right?
This reference, the Court submits, incorporates the definition of "person" found in the Dictionary Act, 1 U. S. C. §1, which extends to "corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals." See ante, at 19–20. The Dictionary Act's definition, however, controls only where "context" does not "indicat[e] otherwise." §1. Here, context does so indicate. RFRA speaks of "a person's exercise of religion." 42 U. S. C. §2000bb–1(a) (emphasis added). See also §§2000bb–2(4), 2000cc–5(7)(a).12 Whether a corporation qualifies as a "person" capable of exercising religion is an inquiry one cannot answer without reference to the "full body" of pre-Smith "free-exercise caselaw." Gilardi, 733 F. 3d, at 1212. There is in that case law no support for the notion that free exercise rights pertain to for-profit corporations. [Emphasis added.]But what about churches? Read on:
Until this litigation, no decision of this Court recognized a for-profit corporation's qualification for a religious ex- emption from a generally applicable law, whether under the Free Exercise Clause or RFRA.13 The absence of such precedent is just what one would expect, for the exercise of religion is characteristic of natural persons, not artificial legal entities. As Chief Justice Marshall observed nearly two centuries ago, a corporation is "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law." Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat. 518, 636 (1819). Corporations, Justice Stevens more recently reminded, "have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires." Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n, 558 U. S. 310, 466 (2010) (opin- ion concurring in part and dissenting in part).
The First Amendment's free exercise protections, the Court has indeed recognized, shelter churches and other nonprofit religion-based organizations.14 "For many individuals, religious activity derives meaning in large meas- ure from participation in a larger religious community," and "furtherance of the autonomy of religious organizations often furthers individual religious freedom as well." Corporation of Presiding Bishop of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints v. Amos, 483 U. S. 327, 342 (1987) (Brennan, J., concurring in judgment). The Court's "spe- cial solicitude to the rights of religious organizations," Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, 565 U. S. ___, ___ (2012) (slip op., at 14), how- ever, is just that. No such solicitude is traditional for commercial organizations.15 Indeed, until today, religiousexemptions had never been extended to any entity operating in "the commercial, profit-making world." Amos, 483 U. S., at 337.16
The reason why is hardly obscure. Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community. Indeed, by law, no religion-based criterion can restrict the work force of for-profit corporations. See 42 U. S. C. §§2000e(b), 2000e–1(a), 2000e–2(a); cf. Trans World Air lines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U. S. 63, 80–81 (1977) (Title VII requires reasonable accommodation of an employee's religious exercise, but such accommodation must not come "at the expense of other[ employees]"). The distinction between a community made up of believers in the same religion and one embracing persons of diverse beliefs, clear as it is, constantly escapes the Court's attention.17 One can only wonder why the Court shuts this key difference from sight.
What is the essence of business organization that eliminates religious rights?The answer is right there in the question: it's a business organization, not a religious organization. If a group of people get together for the express purpose of exercising a religious faith (as in a church) that reduces the possibility of religious conflict (thought it does not eliminate it entirely). If a group of people get together to engage in commerce then it is all but inevitable that, if those people do not check their religion at the door then there will be conflict. It is specifically illegal to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religious beliefs, and the chances that you will end up by chance with a group of employees whose religious beliefs align with those of the company's owners is indistinguishable from zero. There are only two possible ways to resolve this inevitable conflict: 1) resolve it arbitrarily in favor of one group or another. This is what the Supreme Court as done. It has resolved the conflict arbitrarily in favor of owners at the expense of employees. Or 2) do what the country has done successfully for over 200 years and keep commercial companies secular.
I vote for option 2.
With regards to my charge of hypocrisy because Hobby Lobby's 401k plan invests in companies that make contraceptives to which its owners claim to be morally opposed, Publius writes:
Claim 1: Hobby Lobby is an investor in drug makers that make the drugs they object toI must confess that I am not well versed in the subtleties of 401k law. But this site says:
Truth 1: The HL employee 401(k) plan is a separate trust, and is neither owned or controlled by Hobby Lobby.
Claim 2: Hobbly Lobby pays an insurance premium, which only indirectly enables others to make moral choices.
Truth 2: HL is self-insured, so it does not pay insurance premiums. It pays an insurance company a fee to administer the health plan, but all costs are paid by HL. There is not risk pooling, or comingling of funds - the cost of employee medical care comes directly from HL's income.
According to federal law, employers (known as "plan sponsors") are responsible for picking the 401k plan funds.So HL, if they chose to, could offer only funds that do not invest in birth control companies (surely such funds exist). That leaves open the possibility that (Publius again):
Hobby Lobby does not seek to control the moral choices of others.That is not consistent with being Christian. Seeking to control (at least indirectly) the moral choices of others is part and parcel of Christian doctrine, as Publius himself points out:
Some religions require participation in public life - say, Christianity, which has the Great Commission to go forth and spread the Good News to all nations.Nonetheless, now that I've looked into it a little further it does seem that the preponderance of the evidence is that the Hobby Lobby folks actually are not trying to foist their beliefs on others. So I withdraw and apologize for my earlier speculation that they are motivated by money and patriarchy.
I don't withdraw the charge of hypocrisy because, as I said, AFAICT Hobby Lobby could, if it chose to, constrain its 401k to not invest in birth control, but it doesn't. They could also choose to not self-insure, which would put additional distance between themselves and the sinful behavior of their employees. Whether or not this would be enough to satisfy them or their god I cannot know, which is exactly the problem. No one can know that except the owners of Hobby Lobby. Which is exactly why the best way to insure everyone's religious freedom is to keep it in the church, the home, and perhaps in the town square. But not in the office.


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Using Rugs in the Bathroom
Our bathrooms are one of the most important areas in the home, a space that helps us unwind, rejuvenate, and can make our morning and evening routines a highlight of the day. Generally speaking, we outfit this room with stylish stone, tile, or luxury vinyl flooring to handle the moisture, humidity, and potential standing water. However, these hard surface options are begging for an added touch of softness that
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Since much of our time spent in bathrooms is standing up, it's important to add cushioning and extra coziness underfoot. Plush constructions and memory foam will provide plenty of comfort and support. Choose an area rug or bathmat material that offers superior absorbency but is also designed to dry quickly to prevent the growth of mildew, mold, or odor-causing bacteria. You will also want to invest in a rug that features non-slip properties, and perhaps even offers a textured surface that helps lock slippery feet in place while you are stepping out of the shower and drying off.
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We love cotton area rugs for the bathroom since they are often machine-washable and will handle moisture appropriately. Cotton rugs also help with slip resistance, spills, and provide a familiar feel that our toes will adore. Many memory foam bathmats are a polyester blend that will absorb water effectively and provide a supremely soft landing. Natural bamboo mats will not offer a comparable level of softness but present organic beauty, inhibit mildew growth, and dry exceptionally quickly.
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Al Pacino Is Joe Paterno's Twin in Movie About Controversial Coach
Al Pacino is really getting into his new role.
The Oscar winner will play late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming HBO movie about the Jerry Sanducky sex scandal.
A picture of Pacino as Paterno is making the rounds and, whoa boy, does he nail the look.
The movie, tentatively titled Happy Valley, will premiere sometime next year. It's definitely dark and heady subject matter, but Pacino may be the perfect choice. He's clearly an actor with the resume to take on such a controversial story and, after looking at this picture, it sure seems like he's got the look down.


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In my test database where I have installed my backup of primary database for testing, there I am getting following error whenever the database gets started and when I try to take full export.
ORA-01157 cannot identify/lock data file string - see DBWR trace file
ORA-01110 can open file 201 E:\oracle\ora90\bin\temp01.dbf
ORA-27041 unable to open file
OSD-04002 unable to open file
At the time of starting database the message appeares in alert.log file. After giving the error message the database gets open and every thing is working fine.
On checking the view V$datafile or dba_data_file it is not showing the temp01.dbf.
When I try to add temp01.dbf to temp tablespace it gives error message file already exist.
I have also issued the commend alter system check datafiles. But still got no effects of it.
1. what is wrong ?
2. How to solve it ?
3. Which view I should check after issuing command
alter system check datafiles.


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Cynthia Epps, MS, IBCLC holds a master's degree in nutritional biochemistry and is a board certified lactation consultant in private practice in Los Angeles, California. She specializes in home and internet consults for new mother/infant couples from birth through two years of age. She covers early breastfeeding questions such as learning to trust the breast, establishing a good milk supply, sore nipples, colic and reflux; as well as "back to work" protocols for the working mother and "transitioning to solids" at six months per the American Academy of Pediatrics and World Health Organization guidelines, plus food wars and gentle weaning guidelines for the older infant. In addition, she has written for LA Family Magazine and Mothering Magazine, and leads infant feeding workshops throughout the community. With the wisdom of motherhood still largely negated or ignored, she specializes in combining ancient matriarchal traditions with modern science to help the new mother transition into the time-honored role of nurturing her baby with body and breast. She continues to pursue the goal of redefining the human infant feeding norm as breastfeeding or breastmilk for all children.


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A science invented by p.a. lopez (aka p. avion) and derived from the science of 'pataphysics as described by ALFRED JARRY. CONTACT: ubu (AT) pataphor.com What is a pataphor?
NEW! The meaning of the universe revealed! !
Table of Contents:
Closet 'Pataphysics - pataphors explained
Pataphor Test
My Pataphorical Farewell
My Pataphorical Grandmother
A Pataphorical Note
Beyond Pataphors: Other Writing
We have to remember that 'pataphysics, in essense, describes a degree of separation from reality. So, for example, if we see someone we know on the street and believe they are ignoring us (even if it is not true), and then begin to imagine a reason they are doing so, we are essentially thinking pataphorically. So pataphors (and 'pataphysics) may also be said to describe the world of our fears, mistaken assumptions and belief systems run amok. They are worlds built of assumptions based on assumptions.
Portrait of Monsier Ubu by Alfred Jarry Collage (top) by Max Ernst, from Une Semaine de Bonte
La pataphore est une métaphore exceptionnellement élargie inventée par l'auteur Americain Paul Lopez. De même qu'Alfred Jarry définit que la 'Pataphysique « s'étend aussi loin au-delà de la métaphysique que la métaphysique au-delà de la physique », une pataphore crée une expression qui existe aussi loin de la métaphore que la métaphore s'étend elle-même au-delà du langage non figuré.
Links to Pataphorical Art, Poetry and Thought Chicago Art Exhibit "Pataphor"
Pataphores, appearing in France's Carnets du College de 'Pataphysique (ISSN 0339-7203) New book of artwork called Pataphor by Dutch artist Hidde van Schie (ISBN 978-90-8690-165-4) (In Dutch)
Band called Pataphor
Pataphor page at U. of North Florida
Movies about pataphors
Pataphors and the Chilean Government (Article in Chile's El Clarín newspaper in Spanish)
Pataphor Conceptual Art PataNoir (Pataphorical Interactive Fiction)
"Pataphor" by Ben Wilkinson (Poem)
"Khun Pataphor" by Evan Swanson (Poem)
Pataphors and Computers (Article)
Pataphore (French)
Patáfora (Spanish)
Patafora (Polish)
Pataphor (English)
Other Links
Pataphor on GotPoetry.com (Poet's Resource)
Palad1n.com (Friendly Blog)
literature is beautiful b.s.
NOTE: Some of this information can now be found on the Wikipedia, to which the author grants permission for usage and/or reprint. all works (c) P.A. Lopez
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Visit the Philadelphia area's Award Winning Antique Center. Owner Dale E. Hunt
Welcome to the Antique Store in Wayne
6500 square ft showroom featuring some of the area's finest Antiques. Over 30 dealers specializing in porcelain, furniture, silver and jewlery. Wide variety of items for the avid collector, dealer or local shopper. Located in the heart of the Main Line, on Lancaster Avenue is Wayne PA for more than 15yrs. Customers initial response is the wow of how large the store is once you enter and our educated stall will assist you in finding that rare antique or one-of-a-kind-gift.


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Explore one of Oahu's most historically significant destinations where it was once a residence of kings, a place of refuge and sanctuary and a training ground for royalty who were intructed in the arts of war, history and social traditions. Kualoa Ranch has tours and activities suited for everyone.
Tour Kualoa Ranch by horseback or on all terrain vehicles (ATV) by choosing a one or two-hour ride. Or, include horseback riding or ATV riding as choices in your full day or half day adventure or Hawaiian experience, which also features your choice of additional activities and tours such as a gun range, movie site and ranch tour, jungle expedition, Hawaiian fishing and garden tour, and many others.
It is impossible to see all of Kualoa Ranch in a short time. The property stretches for five miles along the coast and includes three mountains, two valleys and 4,000 acres. It can take an entire day to see this magical and historical place, which is why we have five fun and informative tours that explore the vastly different areas on the Ranch. Immerse yourself in Kualoa Ranch, Hawaii at its best. For a little more adventure, check out our horseback and ATV tours, or if you have more time to spend on the ranch, check out our packages for some cost savings.
Explore Kualoa Ranch through a number of tours and activities designed to showcase its natural beauty and culture.
Your Half Day Hawaiian Experience includes your choice of any two (2) tours or activities each approximately one hour in length. A buffet lunch is also included along with roundtrip transportation from Waikiki hotels.
Ģ 9:00 AM - Arrival and Briefing Ģ 9:20 AM - Guests escorted to designated area Ģ 9:30 AM - First Tour / Activity Ģ 10:40 AM - Second Tour / Activity Ģ 11:50 AM - Lunch at the Ranch House Ģ 12:30 PM - Depart to Waikiki
Ģ Movie Site and Ranch Tour Ģ Jungle Expedition Ģ Ocean Voyaging (unavailable on Sundays or Federal holidays) Ģ Legends and Legacy Tour Ģ Hawaiian Fishing & Garden Tour
Horseback tours are just one of the unforgettable activities you can enjoy at beautiful Kualoa Ranch. Kualoa's horseback tours combine that special bond with horses with the most spectacular scenery on Oahu. On horseback, riders take different trails beneath the cliffs and overlooking the ocean.
One Hour Tour - See the southern half of the ranch. Vistas of the famed "Chinaman's Hat" (Mokoli'i island) and an ancient 800 year-old Hawaiian fishpond accompany the great feeling of spending time riding horses.
Our friendly and knowledgeable guides will help keiki enjoy riding and begin to understand how to relate to horses.
This is a nice introduction to horses for those children who are too young to go on the regular horseback tour.
Children are led around on their own horse for about 5 minutes.
See Kualoa Ranch up close and personal! Navigate your ATV through trails deep into scenic valleys and to remote areas rarely visited by others. Our ATV tours go out rain or shine - diggin' through the dirt and crossing seasonal streams are part of the fun!
One and two hour tours are available. Our one hour tour will take you over a saddle trail to visit a movie set and explore a WWII bunker converted to an exhibit of Kualoa Ranch's movie history.
Our two hour tours, for more experienced riders, take you even deeper into the ranch's secret spots.
Our most popular tour! Board our ranch buses for a delightful one hour narrated tour across Kualoa Ranch and into gorgeous Ka'a'awa Valley to experience where many of Hollywood's biggest blockbuster movies and television shows are filmed.
Look for the Jurassic Park site, find Godzilla's footprints, see the Windtalkers battleground and visit many more landmark locations. You may just actually get lucky and see some filming in progress, perhaps for the latest smash television series LOST!
Board your 6-wheel drive Swiss Pinzgauer and rumble along jungle trails and up a lush, remote valley for fantastic ocean and mountain views.
This back-country adventure tour will maneuver through isolated stream beds, power up hills and tackle rough terrain going to secluded spots that overlook the dramatic windward coastline and an ancient Hawaiian fishpond.
The Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated group of islands in the world. Using only the stars, the ancient Hawaiians traveled to and populated these islands about 1000 years ago.
Learn about ancient Hawaiian navigation on the Ocean Voyaging Tour. The tour goes into the beautiful Kaneohe Bay aboard a very comfortable 49 passenger catamaran past the famous Mokoli`i Island (Chinaman's Hat) and Hokule`a Beach, the ceremonial home of the first modern replica of an ancient sailing canoe.
The views of Kualoa Ranch and Koolau mountains from the ocean are unmatched and the lively historical narration is educational and enjoyable.
*(Ocean Voyaging does not operate Sundays or Federal Holidays)
The early Hawaiians settled these islands and developed some of the most advanced agricultural practices in the world for a Stone Age culture.
After Captain Cook "discovered" the islands in 1778, more agricultural developments occurred in Hawaii that would leave a permanent mark on the physical, cultural and social landscape of Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Fishpond and Garden Tour explores different facets of this rich history by going through fields of tropical flowers, fruit trees and gardens before venturing out on Moli`i Fishpond.
In the ancient days, before Hawaii was "discovered," the area Kualoa was one of the most sacred places on the island of Oahu. There are numerous references to Kualoa in legends and historical accounts as to the importance of this beautiful land.
The new Kualoa Legends and Legacy tour journeys through the foothills to the base of the majestic Kualoa cliffs while the guides tell of the legends and stories of the area. This fascinating tour, with its historical factual information, compliments the historical exhibit and an informative video at the ranch. A camera is a must!
Kualoa has been considered from ancient times to be one of the most sacred places on Oahu. Learn about our rich history and experience the natural beauty.
Kualoa today is a working ranch with 600 head of cattle and more then 100 horses. Farming ventures on the ranch also include aquaculture ponds, flower fields, and plant nursery operations. The Kualoa Nursery and Gardens is located next to Tropical Farms.
Kualoa Ranch also offers tours and field trips to local schools, including a petting zoo, children's horseback riding, aquaculture tours, hiking tours, a food sources tour, a roping course, and camping trips.
In addition to adventure activities and tours for individuals and families, the Kualoa Ranch is available for weddings, group tours, and other special events.
Kualoa is one of the most historically significant destinations on Oahu. Ancient Hawaiians considered Kualoa one of the most sacred places on Oahu. It was a residence of kings, a place of refuge and sanctuary - a pu`uhonua - and a training ground for royalty who were instructed at Kualoa in the arts of war, history and social traditions.
In 1850, Kamehameha III sold approximately 622 acres of land in Kualoa and all its fishing rights offshore (which included Mokoli`i or Chinaman's Hat) to Dr. Gerritt P. Judd. (Dr. Judd was a missionary doctor who arrived in Hawaii in 1837 and was a personal advisor to Kamehameha III.)
Then, additional acreage in Hakipu`u and Ka`a`awa were purchased by Dr. Judd from the Wilder family. This purchase increased the size of the estate to the 4,000 acres it is today and is now under the Morgan Family name, who are Dr. Judd's descendants.
This estate, Kualoa Ranch, was so named in 1927 and has been used for various purposes over the last eight decades. During World War II, some of the lands of this estate was used as an auxiliary airstrip with many of the large monkeypod trees providing natural hangars for small planes.
The current family owners strive to be role model stewards of the 'aina (land), by preserving and protecting it from development.
KUALOA NAME: Kualoa means 'long back'; the ranch is full of beautiful valleys and mountain peaks.
KANEHOALANI: The shroud of sacredness born by Kualoa, in great part exists because of the majestic mountains rising from it.
The highest peak atop the Kualoa ridge called Kanehoalani, towers 1900 feet skyward and means "Kane's heavenly companion".
The photo above was taken from the air in front of the ahupua`a of Kualoa. The beachfront area extended out much further then than it does now.
There were very few homes along the beach, the pastures were sparse with trees but the beauty remains the same today. Circa: 1926.
The Kualoa Sugar Mill was built by Charles H. Judd and Samuel G. Wilder in 1863. The mill was closed around 1870 after years of meager rainfall that effectively brought an end to sugar farming here.