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Under Schmidt, village code violations are not enforced and routine maintenance is ignored.
Link to set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28307334@N07/sets/72157614536239811/
Link to slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28307334@N07/sets/72157614536239811/show/
For more of the same, please visit http://www.schmidtbrennankonig.com.
Aes-thet-ics \ (es-'thet-iks) 1. 1. the branch of philosophy concerned with the study of the concepts of beauty and taste
While I agree that this slideshow is a gutless cheap shot (sign your real name if you want single others out!) used in order to convey their message, the root of the message is clear. Homeowners who live here are sick and tired of paying exorbitantly high taxes without getting the beautiful town they deserve in return.
Considering the amount of taxpayer money going to "Services" and the service people who perform them, we all deserve better in clean-up, governance and appropriate legislature in place to prevent these eyesores.
How nice the woman behind the counter is, whether they let you slide for a day on the occasional gallon of milk…those are traits of any good salesperson who wants continued business (though not as common as they used to be but I digress).
The point being made here is that no one seems to be looking at the aesthetics of the town, and if they are, there is nothing being done to mitigate the situation. Where is the 'Advisory Board on the Visual Environment' when you need them?
I was born and raised in this town and have never quite understood how simple aesthetics have avoided this town like the plague. I would like to make a recommendation that the members of said board have a pre-requisite in aesthetics before availing themselves a position on this board.
"Members must be village residents, and qualified in architecture, community planning, landscape architecture, real estate or other relevant activities."
The minutes of these meetings seem to suggest that the only role is to review store signage…yet none of the members are required to have an art, graphic design, or aesthetics background.
I am not attempting to take a cheap shot at the members of this board, I am simply expressing confusion around the name of the board, the function it performs, versus the perception the name creates (and what taxpayers expect it to do for us!). Maybe we need a change in function or name or both, but more importantly we need someone looking out for the real visual environment. While so many who post on this contentious blog complain but offer no solutions, I will outline a few possibilities…
Someone in this new role could start by enforcing current policy while also paying attention to the studies we have paid for in the past around burying our electrical wires (would have been nice to couple this effort when we dug up and patched Maple Ave and the middle of the entire upper village!), creating some sort of consistency (and written standards) for signage, and giving this board a little power to levy fines against those who continuously offend the visual environment with their trash or dumpsters improperly shielded from sight (notice the word "continuously" - meaning they've received warnings).
Businesses of the town should be encouraged to utilize materials native to this area (Brick, Stone and Wood) to create harmony that is consistent throughout the town. Stucco (bleck!!) or Vinyl should have no place in our visual environement. Wood embossed signage with gooseneck lighting and awnings versus the lightbox style crap that continues to fly through the approval process would be a major step in the right direction. These guidelines could also help set a standard for any new devlopment in Harmon.
The town has taken steps in the right direction lately with the sidewalks and curbs going up around the town…but how about inlaid brick crosswalks in Harmon and the Upper Village to add a little pop? While we're at it…let's force homeowners to park their cars in their garages or driveways at night rather than littering the street with their functioning car while a junker sits in their driveway. This rule would cause a general change in homeowner parking habits while providing more on-street parking (particularly in the upper village) for those looking to frequent the few businesses we do have.
Last, let's all take ownership of our town and clean up if we see garbage laying around…rather than taking pictures of it!
And let's encourage our children to do the same.
Sincerely, Adam Schmidt
Adam, congratulations on a well written and interesting post. I agree with what you say but want to point out the role of the Visual Environment Board. They are talented and caring residents who again, volunteer their time, to improve the quality of life for all of us. The problem, I think, is that they have no enforcement power. They can point out violations of an ordinance but that's the best they can do. They can require certain criteria for signs, sizes, placements, colors etc., but they can't make it happen. This is true for the Planning Board as well. Both boards do excellent jobs but it's up to code enforcement to insist on complaiance. And even they are limited in what they can do. They write up the violation ticket and then its up to the courts to enforce it if the violator ignores the ticket. And then we have the additional cry of "be friendly to businesses in Croton". Are we being "unfriendly" when we insist on compliance with requirements intended to beautify our village?
Of course routine maintenance and clean up is our DPW responsibility but there's no reason in the world that shopkeepers can't or won't sweep outside t heir establishments and water a few plants.
As much as it pains me, I have agree with Maria Cudaquest & Co on this particular issue. Nothing in those slides is especially bad - or, as our mayor might say, "egredious." I think the origional poster is looking for a problem where there isn't one, and strikes me as the kind of stick in the mud who might call the cops if I forget to mow my lawn.
so since crotonblog redesigned, i've had a harder time finding stuff from the past.
well anyway i disagree with scott davidson. plus i want to share a link here because it shows that crotonblog has definitely always been against schmidt and his side. here it is. i mean look through all the posts in this whats up doc section.
i never liked schmidt from the start so i always liked reading the posts here because i agreed.
anyhow, schmidt is the guy who takes credit for everything but actually does nothing. he's a mayor without a plan and croton will continue going down with him in charge.
so, on march 18, vote NO MORE bullschmidt!
To the Gazette:
My name is Susan Konig and I am running for re-election as your Village trustee, along with Trustee Tom Brennan and Mayor Greg Schmidt.
I want to address a disturbing slide show I came across from the anti-Croton Web site Crotonblog highlighting one of our hardest working businesses as an undesirable neighbor. There are nine photos of the Dairy Mart in Harmon under the heading "Schmidt's Croton."
There's a quote from Mayor Schmidt: "Croton is a great place to open a business." I agree. But on this site, which has always opposed our mayor, the slide show snarkily suggests that the Dairy Mart is simply not our kind of business.
The proprietors of this dawn to late hours shop provide a valuable service to anyone who needs staples like milk and bread in a hurry. But it also is a lifesaver for moms looking for baby Tylenol and chicken soup at 10 o'clock at night, or teens who forgot they had a project due and need some school supplies or folks who work late and need a bite of food.
I shop in the Dairy Mart every day and sometimes twice a day. The woman behind the counter is always friendly and helpful and many people don't realize she has her sweet little baby son back there, all bundled up and delightful while mom works.
I value all our hard-working business owners in Croton and am proud to patronize them. Posting vitriol on the Internet is not the way to attract commerce to our lovely Village and anyone seeking to hold office in this community should quickly disassociate themselves from such garbage.
Susan Konig, Village Trustee
dear Susan i agree with you very much i think that the people who did that slide show was unprofessional i wish we can find the so we can get theme. good luck
Thank you Susan
marion says "thank you Susan." Susan who? Susan Konig? Susan Schmidt? Susan who? Who the heck gives a damn?
The opening post in this column clearly states that is was Susan Konig who wrote the letter that seems to have agitated you. Evidently you have a reading problem or didn't read it completely.
Susan is the incumbent Republican/Alliance Party candidate running for RE-ELECTION this year.
She knows the industrous owners of the Dairy Mart very well because she shops there. She was upset that her opponents were making an issue about Dairy Mart's business and wanted to defend them. She was right. Don't you agree?
I'm working on a NCN posting to counter the nasty tone of the pictures and the phony attempt to put the blame on Mayor Schmidt.
However, if we just focus on the Dairy Mart pictures which were taken last summer and do not reflect any changes since then, the photos target a few scraps of paper left by inconsiderate litterbugs or drivers passing by, cob webs, signs in the window, a box to collect plastic bottles for recycling and a garbage can left to collect litter.
There was no attention given to the benefits of placing these receptacles to minimize publc litter OR that the hardly noticable summer cobwebs were on an overhang that protected folks sitting on the 2 merchant provided benches below from rain or sun OR that signs in windows were a standard legal way for many merchants to advertise their products to passerbys. Of course, these complaints are from the same folks who want to rezone Harmon to improve business viability! Give me a break!!!
More significantly, Mayor Schmidt was not responsible as the photagrapher tried to imply! Of course, his opponents feel he is responsible for everything including the current housing mess and the economy.
I know Susan was upset that a hard working family, trying to make a living, was being targetted by her opponents and wanted to make her support of this merchant clearly understood. I suspect she also wanted to make clear her support of Mayor Schmidt and his accomplishments and put an end to this form of "scorched earth" politics! How do I know? She told me about the former purpose…I just guessed at the latter!
Susan is that kind of lady and I hope you will show your support for her by voting for her on March 18!
What about the disgusting rats and roaches flier delivered to North Highland residents last election by Susan Konig (and Im sure you had a hand in it too!). Talk about "scorched earth" politics!
And on the Chamber of Commerce, businesses didnt join because under Schmidt's "leadership" the organization was completely and totally INEFFECTIVE! It was an absolute joke among business owners and NO ONE had any faith that he could get anything done!
Under an effective leader, droves of businesses would join a Croton specific Chamber of Commerce. I applaud the Democrats for committing to reform the Croton Chamber. As a business leader Schmidt is a complete failure! And he is obnoxious and full of himself as well.
When Schmidt went down to the boat club to talk with members, he pissed off EVERYONE! We know he is planning to jack up our rent on the next lease agreement. Keep taxes low and FEES high, thats his M.O.
Many people have stopped in to the Dairy Mart, and other businesses portrayed, to let them know about the photos taken. These business owners are understandably upset. Said one irate shopkeeper in an email yesterday:
"We are all just hanging on, yet many of us have brought in new stock and are making small renovations nevertheless. Now we see this. Does whoever took these photos think that because they cropped out the name of a store, people won't know? Property owners, the village staff and businesses sweep a dozen times a day yet we are now to be held accountable for the spider that takes up residence in our eaves and the careless folks that toss their litter about despite an abundance of cans? FROM LAST YEAR! Do they want us to simply fold our tents and go away, how does that help anyone. Or is that part of the plan so they can raze Harmon to the ground and build their mixed use utopia. Thank God for your more positive slideshows".
What more is there to say except that the following slideshows are still online:
Springtime in Croton http://www.ncnlocal.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1203
Allen Design Clocks now in stock at Trinkets http://www.ncnlocal.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1166
Another Pleasant Hour Spent at Serious Toyz http://www.ncnlocal.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1125
Let's continue to shop locally when we can and ignore the bashing of our business community for political expediency.
This is just too sad for words, more lovely people you seldom meet. If there's an upside to any of it, its that one businessman in the upper village is so irate, he is now actively campaigning, all day long, to get people to vote for Konig Brenann and Schmidt.
I heard yesterday that some local businesses are exploring their legal options. Good for them!
Hopeful, Susan Konig wrote the letter and everyone should see it. Let's all make sure they do and the one about the chamber too.
I think the Dairy mart might give a damn along with all the other businesses who were portrayed and not too happy about it I'd bet.
Apparently the Dairy Mart didn't know, he does now. We should make sure ALL the other businesses portrayed know as well, including Manhattan mortgage who re-did that entire building and Trinkets should be told too.
Newsflash for Trustee Konig:
I tried to identify your favorite store in the pictures as the Dairy Mart, but couldn't. You see, the sign is all busted up. Whoops, longstanding village code violation.
And to the contrary, ma'am, the point of the slideshow is that this business looks like crap. Have the owners no pride in thier business or for our town?
Frankly, I won't shop there because I am so pissed that it is so run down. I guess the litter, debris, and broken signage are fine with you. Too boot, there are sign ordinance violations all over the place. Beer and cigarettes signs falling down everywhere…not to mention. Don't look now Croton teens. Trash strewn about. Now that's a great thing to promote in the Gateway.
Face it, you and your runningmates all got caught with your pants down and trying to portray Crotonblog as anti-Croton is stupid.
Anti-Schmidt though? You got that right…and deservedly so. And these pictures prove it.
This guy is Croton's Brownie, as in "heckava job Brownie!"
And while I'm at it. F&%k Nappy and his corner junkyard too. What a disgrace.
Apparently, the anti-Croton blog wanted to show that they can do slideshows as well !
And I do hope whoever made this, picked up the litter that he/she photographed—like any good citizen would ? Well….did you ?
And what exactly is your beef with the Dairy Mart, anyway?
Good for Trustee Konig to bring this to public light.
And again, what does it say about the candidates and politicians who repeatedly post at that site ?
At a time when the economy is in near-total meltdown, unemployment is rising, and retail is suffering even in trendy Beverly Hills, my heart goes out to the hard working men and women of Croton's business community. Struggling against incredible economic odds, as all are struggling in this economy, they also have to contend with the business hurdles that Mr. Scott so eloquently laid out in one of his recent BACKING INTO ZONING CHANGE installments. See http://www.ncnlocal.co/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1145
The last thing they need is to be singled out for negative attention on the internet.
I know the owners of Croton's Dairymart only peripherally yet on a night when I was short a few dollars—and not knowing me from Adam—they insisted that I take the quart of milk I was going to put back. You can come back tomorrow and pay me the woman said cheerily.
I've been a regular customer ever since.
What a shame. Perhaps it's time to do a slideshow on this business as well. The kind that points to the important service they provide to the village. They may not be upscale enough for some, but Croton needs its locksmiths, its shoe repair shops, and yes, the Dairymart.
I wasn't going to put up the Springtime in Croton/Easter slideshow until tomorrow. Clearly, it needs to be done sooner than that. Stay tuned.
Residents should be aware that every time they post a comment at this forum, it is being placed on the Crotonblog as if it came directly from you, i.e., as if you went to the blog and posted it there yourself, including the main forum topic at North County News, and someone assumes your identity when they post on that site, also infringing on your copyright. No references are made back to the newspaper as well. I suggest, as has been the case before, that you bring this matter to the attention of the the Administrator Jim Garber and the moderator Mr. Bruce Apar
You have got to be kidding me! This is "evidence" of "Schmidt's Croton"?! I'm not a democrat. Nor am I a big fan of our mayor and his ways, but this is ridiculous. Talk about divisive behavior! Unfortunately, this seems to have become the common operating mode here. Let's try something different. For those people complaining about the trash, pick it up. Or better yet, organize a group to walk around and beautify the village together. We are a community, and need to act like one. Let's work together, or nothing will get done. As it is, we have seen business fall away at an alarming rate. Let's bring life back to our lovely little village. It's time to come together and heal, stimulate and reinvigorate. Best regards.
I think Croton looks shabby and neglected.
And Schmidt has done nothing to enforce the village code on his commercial-property-owner-friends, like Franzoso, who's business is leaving Croton anyway.
After all, village laws are meant to protect residents from uncaring landlords like the ones included in this slideshow. Left unenforced, this is what you get.
With businesses struggling everywhere and without any care or concern for those businesses or how the village is portrayed, residents might like to know that supporters of the Harmon proposal and Democratic candidates have put up a series of photos on a local blog. Those photos are of businesses, trash cans, winter debris, that those people feel are somehow Schmidt's fault. Properties belonging to Fransozo, the Dairy Mart, and more are shown. I will be contacting these businesses and property owners immediately. I suggest we all do the same. One building's cob webs under an eave are being shown as "Schmidt's Croton" and a bottle in a pond too. The photographer was obviously too busy trying to portray the village in the worst possible light than he was with picking it up. With desperation to achieve power and shove these changes down our throats now escalating to this latest show, aren't you all way past wondering what is REALLY going on here? My family and I are.
Residents might want to know that their comments posted here are showing up copied and pasted on a local blog as if they went there and posted those postings themselves to that blog. I do not post to that site. I guess they are so desperate for hits they are even resorting to pretending that people are posting on that site. I was told that my post above showed up pasted on that other site.
Other blogs try to create controversy so that readers will post on their blogs. Your best bet is to stay on the blog you are most comfortable with and post there even if your comments are moved to another blog. This also holds true if you want to respond to a posting on the other blog. Post your response on the blog where you are most comfortable and bring the users of the other blog to you. They can't last for long if they keep losing customers. Eco 101!
There is no form of ethical conduct on some of these blogs or from their posters. That's why I prefer to post on the NCN blog!
Bob Wintermeier is the head of Croton's Republican party.
And he is such a joke. It was just last week that Dolores Gariepy was outed as being the person who libeled Kieran Murray on the NCN by saying:
Here's the blog post.
So much for your moderated forum Bob.
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You know you are a spinster when...
1. Your 20 year old brother buys his gfriend an engagement ring to properly propose while you have never had a relationship. Ever. And my internet first dates do not count. Nor do the times that I have ever gone on a second date...especially since they all happened like 3 years ago.
2. My only meaningful relationships going on right now involve the "wabbit habit" and the recently recently acquired "Samuri." Ideal actually, considering that all I have to do to keep them "disease free" is to wash them in warm soapy water and keep them in a bag underneath my bed until I want to play with them. How many men are as easy to maintain?
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4. I blew $80 today on a vibrator. Why may you ask? Well, I thought about buying a pretty shirt to wear out to the bars/work/French class/synogogue/to take a picture for a jdate profile in order to meet a nice guy. Hell I could have put that money to better use and gotten myself a facial or highlights. But I have reached that point where I am laying in my bed asking myself, why? To be perfectly honest, I am exhausted when I come home from work (as in I do not even want to be bothered with phone calls from friends and loved ones) and the guys who I have been meeting lately are...eh. At least with 2 vibrators I can pretend to be seeing 2 guys...especially if I read different erotic stories and give them different names. Like the Wabbit I'll name...Peter! and Samuri I'll name...Ichi! Boy do I have a hott sex life at the moment. Jealous?
But I have this fear that I am going to end up a spinster or one of those women who never get married/never has a another good date/never feel intense physical chemistry again. Not because I am busted...when I put effort into my appearance and I am operating within that first hour and half of a nights drinking, I look hott. Especially when my hair is straight and I am wearing a low cut top. No, I am going to be a spinster because I ruin everything, and I secretly sabotage myself.
I told a very good looking Italian law degree finance-type grew up in Mexico because his parents did something diplomatic shared my view on the world of living life and friends/family are more important than money...I could go on...I told him that I wasn't interested in having anything right now. With anyone. So, I could have potentially went home/brought home a cute foreign boy for a romp and possibly more (like all of my other friends are seeing someone/have boyfriends), but I blew it. WHY?!?!
Instead I sat on a train coming back to NYC from a BBQ in CT by myself as my friends coupled off with their S.Os (significant others) falling asleep and exchaging kisses.
I masterbated for an hour this morning.

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If you have been following my progress on the St. Croix painting, you've probably noticed that it's slowed down recently. Lately much of my time is being spent on preparing my studio space for winter. I have been blessed with good help in wiring and insulating (John Apitz pictured) so that I can continue painting in the coming months. Insulation is nearly finished and the heat will be hooked up soon. Then it will be back to painting!
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JOHANNESBURG, September 14 – The High Court sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court on Friday, found former Parktown Boys water polo assistant coach, Collan Rex, guilty of 12 counts of assault and 144 counts of sexual assault.
Judge Peet Johnson said that Rex was an open witness and accepted responsibility for his conduct.
Rex admitted to 144 charges of sexual assault. He was found not guilty of rape, attempted murder, sexual grooming and exposing a child to pornography.
While reading his judgment, Johnson said he found it improbable that Rex could have penetrated the anus of one of the teenagers through his pants and a costume.
Johnson said it was improbable that someone could be raped in front of many people on a bus.
"One of the requirements for attempt murder is the attempt to kill. One has to look at the sounding circumstances, there are different forms of intent."
Johnson said that Rex told the boys to "tap-out" and would release them when he saw that they could not cope.
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He said that Rex intentionally assaulted the boys but the State failed to prove how many times.
During closing arguments, Prosecutor Arveena Persad said the remaining counts that Rex did not admit to were what were in dispute.
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The States 18th witness was the a teacher and boarding house director, Christian Bossert, who was the one who saw Rex touching a boy on the schools CCTV footage and reported it to authorities.
Bossert said that he saw Rex forcing his hands down the pants of a learner before going into a dorm room with him. He said that prompted him to notify the school heads as well as the police.
Persad said that as much as Rex said he did not intend to kill two of the boys who passed out when he strangled them, he foresaw the possibility of death which was why the State felt he was guilty of attempted murder.
"None of the witnesses contradicted themselves or gave evidence that wasn't credible."
Defence lawyer William Robertse later argued that every complainant stated that the he did not think that Rex tried to kill them.
"This on it's own puts an end to the State's attempted murder charges," he said.
Robertse said all the complainants failed to say how many times Rex allegedly attempted to kill them and only gave estimations.
"The complaints contradict the State's indictment."
He said that when it came to the alleged rape incident, as much as rape was rife in women and children there were cases where an accused was acquitted because the complainant had lied.
Robertse said the boy chose not to report the incident despite two teachers being present on the bus.
He said the boy telling his 19-year-old sister about the rape incident was a contradiction of the code of silence that the boys claimed was at the school.
Robertse added that the boy said that Rex stuck his fingers in his buttocks, which he said was not the same as putting his fingers in his anus.
"The State has failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused indeed raped the complainant," Robertse said.
"The evidence of the state can not be relied upon and the accused should be found not guilty for all the charges."
After the court proceedings, Gauteng Education member of the executive council (MEC) Panyaza Lesufi thanked children who testified and the parents who supported them.
"Mixed emotions but relieved that we got a guilty verdict. It's still a huge pain that we subjected our children through this pain," Lesufi said following proceedings.
He said he was on the parents side and he would not behaved differently if it was his child involved.
Some parents seemed disgruntled following proceedings.
Pre-sentencing proceedings are expected to start on Monday. (ANA)


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What is Code Coverage?
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First things first: Happy Sint Patricks Day everybody!
May you have food and raiment,
a soft pillow for your head.
May you be forty years in heaven
before the devil knows you're dead
a soft pillow for your head.
May you be forty years in heaven
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I've been a bad little blogger... the past couple of weeks, I haven't been blogging as much as I would have liked and the worst thing is, I don't even have a good excuse! Life just got away from me, with sunny days, my birthday last week and just plain no time to paint my nails, let alone write a blogpost about it. But no more! Today is the first day of a new nail art challenge some of my friends and I set up on Instagram.
Yes, that's right, No Rules, so no excuse not to participate! You can do as many days as you want or just a couple and if you're nail art challenged like me, get creative with color, stickers, water decals, just have fun with it!
For today, the theme is Green, perfect for St. Paddy's Day :D
I had some fun with it and created little leprechauns on my nails and I added a good luck shamrock, just because I could! I love this mani, but it's nowhere near perfect. Next time, I'll try to paint the little buckles a little higher on the nail and I've found I'm not the best at drawing heart shapes... but who cares? It's a no rules challenge, so no need to be perfect!
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One time while running with a couple friends, I posed the question: "Do you think everyone has a preset limit as to how many miles their body can log before they can't run anymore? Or do you think we all have the capacity to run our whole lives?"
I asked this because you always hear stories about how so-and-so so used to be a runner but wrecked some part of his or her body, and either lives in chronic pain or had to have surgery, and now can't run anymore. It's as though each of our bodies is built to tolerate a certain amount of stress from running or some other physical activity, and once we cross that line the game is over.
And then there's my chiropractor's colleague, who believes running is the worst thing you can do for your joints and that no one should run. There is a general sense that running poses a hazard and that runners take a calculated risk when they choose to pursue the activity, which I can accept. But hearing someone deem running a categorical no-no shocks me. In a society that struggles with obesity, permits people to drive around in cars, and commemorates life occasions with alcoholic beverages, why the antagonism towards running?
There is a recent study that suggests running does not contribute to osteoarthritis and can actually benefit our joints. I'll leave the scientific debate to those who are better informed than I am, but what I know empirically is that I have never been more fit or felt stronger than I do now. And I attribute that to long-distance running. I've picked my poison, and lo and behold it hasn't killed me.
In fact it was three years ago this month that I dove into the half marathon training program that sparked my current passion for running. I went from someone who had to be dragged out on a 1-2 mile run to a runnerd with a bucket list of places to run and races to do before she dies. A fanatic who buys 10 times more running clothes than normal clothes. And follows the Olympic marathon trials live on Twitter.
Where am I going with it? What do I hope to gain?
The simple answer is: I'm in this for the long haul. I want to run in this body for a very long time. I want to get to the point of winning my age group at races not because I'm fast, but because I am the only one who still manages to show up and run. Yep, I want to be that crazy old lady.
As my friend Beth said so poignantly in response to my question: "I think everybody's got a forever pace." A run-forever pace that ultrarunners are so expert at locking in. The one that enables them to trot with zen-like focus over hill and dale, from sunrise to sunset, until they get to their destination. But I think the forever pace is about more than just how fast your run. It is about dialing back your approach to running overall, being patient, foreseeing what it will take to be able to run at age 50, 60, 70 or whatever your heart desires, and figuring out how to preserve yourself for that.
I wonder what my forever pace is. Is it one marathon a year, or one good one and that's it? Is it running no more than 3 times a week? Or running soft surfaces only? I took up long distance running at the inopportune age of 39, with old bones and worn ligaments. Whenever something feels off or downright painful, I often wonder if it's indicative of a middle-aged body just needing more recovery time, or a major systemic screwup. I don't always figure it out but I am definitely always thinking and being attentive to my body. Listening, reevaluating, and honoring where my body is at today. Forever pace. Sustainable running.


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Writing A World Class Paper
The Right Way To WRITE AN Analytic ESSAY
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The term "Analytical Essay" might sound dangerous to you, but no doubts, this is pretty much confirmed which you have compiled definitely one prior to! When we have a look at the classification, the term assessment would mean that a crucial and sufficiently considered-out observation of any precise practice. Due to this fact, an systematic essay is a bit of writing that provides an instructive viewingfor the distinct topic or plan. So let us suppose that your problem associated with preference is Weed . Needless to say, writing an essay on the subject of marijuana is actually normal. There may be a great deal you should cover: from the origins in medieval times to its consequence at the war on illegal drugs. Bear in mind, the analytical essay requires you to make a minor part of the total theme, and use necessary planning to make some form of discussion, also known as your thesis!
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In "What sort of Civil Combat Begun" by John Jackson, this writer argues which the legitimate reason for the beginning of the Civil Combat was not slavery, as lots of really feel, but was in fact the clash of civilizations and greed for money.
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Exploration points out precisely how the journalist had written systematically or ineffectively to convince an individual visitor.
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Txt, Reader, and Writer are easy to grasp. When writing the analysis, you will have to think of which kind of wording it is and the creator desired to offer the visitors just think, do, or imagine. The primary debate your research will response is, "How sensible was the article author at persuasive that specific target audience?" Situation translates to a number of things: just how the article suits a brief history of chat of the challenge, the old moment soon enough when a article is drafted, together with point in time in time any time a person scans the article. In such circumstance, Exigence is synonymous with "suppositions," "bias," or "worldview."
Bursting the big perception into these several elements could quite possibly help you get developed and manage your ideas. Within paper, you'll want to address from about three to any or all five of the above aspects.
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- How is it printed?
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Thursday, May 03, 2001
: . Political Correctness must be the most imprecise sin of our time. After all, opponents of Political Correctness have no qualms about advancing other Politically Correct codes: Family Values, The Rule of Law, The Right to Life, Don't Ask Don't Tell and so on. Freedom is never absolute. Freedom as the cliché goes comes with responsibilities and restraints: forms of 'correctness' need to be enforced in order for freedom to be preserved. So the question must be which form of Political Correctness should we enforce? For whom? And how? In his 1995 Presidential Address to the American Historical Association, the African American scholar Thomas Holt observed:
I grew up…in a politically correct world—southside Virginia in the 1950s. This p.c. was of a more serious sort than that envisioned by Lynne Cheney. This was p.c. backed by power, by capital, by racial privilege. This p.c. was far more aggressive, too, more effective in censoring and controlling gestures, expressions, and behavior than anything charged against the political Left today. This p.c. decreed that I could not enter the front door of most restaurants and other places of public accommodation, could not sit in the front of a bus, could not attend the nearest public school. Of course I was lucky; this p.c. had once decreed that my mother and my father would not have the benefit of a public high school at all.
Yes I know p.c., and because I know it so well, I can recognize its offspring in contemporary public discourse. It seeks again to dictate the minutest details of our lives—our sexual preferences and the nature of our families. It would seek to dictate the content of our history books and impose limits on how we might re-think that history. Under the guise of freedom, it seeks to re-exclude those only recently accepted as worthy of exclusion. It is this p.c.—not the alleged censorship of the powerless but that of the powerful and the privileged—that we should take note of.
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Dewberry announced that Aaron Cheskis, PE has been promoted to associate in the firm's Baltimore office.
Cheskis has been in the transportation engineering industry for nearly two decades. His broad range of experience as a civil engineer in transportation and land development design projects includes horizontal and vertical alignment of roadways, drainage design, coordination of utility relocation, cost estimating, erosion and sediment control, and grading.
Cheskis spent nearly five years working as a designer on the Dulles Corridor Metrorail project in northern Virginia and seven years on the Intercounty Connector project in Maryland. He is a professional engineer in Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and the District of Columbia and an erosion and sediment control designer in Maryland.
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by Bob Egelko
Court Says Judges Can Ban Deceptive HMO PracticesSAN FRANCISCO -- In a victory for consumers, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a patient can go to a judge, rather than an arbitrator, to ask for a ban on false advertising and other deceptive practices by an HMO.
Lawyers said the ruling was the first of its kind in the nation. Federal law and U.S. Supreme Court rulings have generally supported enforcement of arbitration clauses contained in standard consumer contracts of health maintenance organizations, banks and many other businesses.
The 4-2 ruling also represents a modest advance in patients' rights against HMOs.
A new state law, effective Jan. 1, lets patients seek damages if they are substantially harmed by a health insurer's decision to delay, deny or alter necessary treatment. Most such cases would be decided by one or more arbitrators, rather than a judge and jury, because the law left HMOs' arbitration requirements intact.
Thursday's ruling lets HMOs require arbitration of medical malpractice and other damage claims. But the court said a request for an injunction under a consumer-protection law, barring unfair business practices that hurt other members of the public, must be heard by a judge.
"Publicly accountable judges, rather than arbitrators, are the most appropriate overseers of injunctive remedies explicitly designed for public protection," said the opinion by Justice Stanley Mosk.
Dissenting Justice Ming Chin said the ruling violates federal arbitration law and shows "judicial hostility toward arbitration."
Arbitrators can award the same damages as juries. But consumer groups and trial lawyers say arbitration is biased in favor of businesses, which can steer cases toward certain arbitrators who have ruled in their favor.
Critics also note that arbitrators hear cases in private and cannot be overruled even if they fail to follow the law. Businesses that favor the procedure say arbitration is faster and more efficient than court litigation and just as fair.
Advocates on both sides declared victory.
"A conservative California court is saying that when society has issues... those matters should not be locked behind the curtain of a private arbitration process," said Jamie Court of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights.
The ruling gives Californians new rights against "any member of big business that has a predatory, unethical business practice," said Christopher Angelo, lawyer for the Long Beach family of a brain-damaged baby whose lawsuit was the subject of the ruling.
The family's HMO, CIGNA HealthCare of California, issued a statement that noted the court's approval of arbitration for damage claims and didn't mention the newly created exception for injunctions against deceptive practices.
"We are pleased that the state Supreme Court recognized the value of arbitration," the company said. Lisa Perrochet, a lawyer for CIGNA, said the injunctions discussed by the court are seldom sought, but arbitration might have been seriously weakened if HMO patients could take some damage claims to court.
Angelo's clients, Keya Johnson and her son, Adrian Broughton Jr., gain little from the ruling, which appears to require them to arbitrate their damage claims.
Their suit said inept medical care caused the boy to be born brain-damaged and paralyzed in one arm in December 1993. Besides medical malpractice, they claimed false advertising by CIGNA.
Johnson said the HMO's door-to-door solicitor induced her to sign up by promising better care and one doctor throughout her treatment. Instead, she said, she was cared for by a physician's assistant during pregnancy.
Besides damages, the family sought an injunction against future deceptive practices. The court said the private claim for damages could go to arbitration, but the request for an order to protect the public must be heard by a judge.
The case is Broughton vs. CIGNA, S072583.
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The War-Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 30, 1926
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PTE Speaking
The PTE Speaking module tests your conversational English speaking skills. The time given to this section is 77-93 minutes (including both speaking and writing modules).
The key to success in this module is to practice your everyday conversational skills in the English language.
These are the five major PTE Speaking Test tasks:
- Read Aloud
- Contains questions that demand long-answer speaking item type.
- Tests your ability to read a short text aloud using correct pronunciation and intonation.
- It assesses your reading as well as speaking skills.
- It contains 6-7 items.
- Scoring is partial credit for this section.
- Repeat Sentence
- Contains questions that require short spoken-answer responses.
- This section tests your ability to understand and remember a sentence, and then repeat the sentence exactly as you hear it using correct pronunciation.
- This section assesses both your speaking and listening skills.
- It contains 10-12 items.
- Scoring is partial credit for this section.
- Describe Image
- You will be asked to describe an image displayed on the screen.
- The trick is to organize all points which need to be spoken about so that you can organize your answer for better scores.
- It contains 6-7 items.
- Scoring is partial credit for this section.
- Re-tell lecture
- Here you will be asked to summarize the information in a given lecture.
- The lecture may be accompanied by an image which will add information to the context.
- It contains 3-4 items.
- Scoring is partial credit for this section.
- Answer short question
- In this section, you will be asked a question based on the presentation in form of recording.
- You are required to provide a correct – short and concise – answer to the question.
- No scores are awarded for an incorrect response or no response.
For each of the tasks in the PTE Speaking section, your score is based on three factors:
- Reading and Speaking frequency,
- Oral Fluency,
- Assessment of pronunciation and content.
Speaking item types require you to respond orally using fluent speech, correct intonation, stress and pronunciation that are easily understandable to the majority of regular English speakers.
As a rule of thumb, effective speaking requires attention to the five areas listed below:
- Fluency and Cohesion
- Organization
- Listener's needs
- Command of the language
- Appropriate intonation and stress pattern.
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Ideal candidates for this position should have experienceinthe following areas:
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Hey, tell us a bit about yourself
Ash: Hey, we're a 4-piece making oddball pop music from our house in East Oxford. Charlie and I met at a ceramics evening-class ages ago. I was making a very challenging pot. We moved in together, started recording music late at night, and brought in James and Patrick to complete the line-up.
Charlie: When we first started hanging out we were listening to a lot of doo-wop and soul, but we all ended up gravitating towards R&B and old pop music. I guess we kinda see our music as a representation of those genres through a weird suburban lens.
Where did the new single come from?
Ash: I went to a new year's eve party a few years ago and was in a bad mood. I fell asleep in a hearth while people were still dancing and woke up to the new year covered in soot. I was recently reminded of that night because I'd been thinking a lot about rebirth and the myth of Persephone, so I decided to write a song about it. When it came down to the recording and production, we tried to capture that woozy end-of-the-night feeling with a lazy shuffle beat and wobbly brass synths.
Is there more content in the pipeline?
Charlie: We've got some more singles lined up for the next few months and we'll probably bundle them up for an EP at the end of the year. We're also shooting a couple of music viddies at the moment. One of them involves a man full-on making out with a supermarket fridge. It's gross and wonderful.
What's on the horizon for you?
Charlie: More tunes, more shows.
Ash: More ceramics.


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Summery: They say not to mesh past relationships and work together. So when Angela Lockson was named Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief, why is a surprise that there was drama?
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After lunch I took to the kitchen, making Jim Beam chocolate brownies, bourbon chicken wings and crabby pancakes for a night in with friends.Oh my those brownies were good!
Normally after a spate of cleaning I like to relax by reading.
It is quite simply my most favourite thing. I'm lucky, as my job is basically reading, and on occasions writing about what I've read. My hobbies are reading and writing on here. I also love photography, but time is key with that one.
If I'm at a loose end with the internet near by I like to slip into @pinterest the things in there either relax me, inspire me to try new things or give me ideas of what I can do and how I can improve my lifestyle. I love that place. So much stuff in one location. It's mind boggling and much cleaner than snipping bits out of magazines.
I'm starting to enjoy looking at beautiful gardens and hope this means I may embrace gardening as a fun activity, what with the size and state of mine it needs a lot of hard work and inspiration!


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The Alter Ego's lively directional shape had our testers hooked. "This board is stiff, aggressive, and awesome! It powers through turns in chop even at high speeds, and it's quick enough to whip around anywhere on the mountain," one tester wrote. Others dug its spring-like edge-to-edge transfer and deep sidecut, noting, "It flexes like its on independent suspension snapping right into the next edge." Loaded with tech like urethane and carbon sidewalls, which offer dampening and zing at the edges, along with an array of carbon fiber stringers in the tip and tail make it explode out of ollies and turns and cling to the surface at high speeds. Combined with a fine-tuned wood core, the Alter Ego has a polished, performance ride that our testers couldn't get enough of. "This board rules. The buttery smooth flex was awesome whether riding slow, fast, choppy, slush, ice, whatever," another added. Others were amazed at how well its split tail design held up, too. "I was surprised with how much pop was retained it the split tail, it supports a hard turn well," one tester noted. With generous rocker in the nose and the optional swallowtail, it was made to crush powder, too. For those familiar with Ride's other offerings, heed this description: "If you're looking for a directional powder gun, this board is pretty radical. It reminds me of a Ride Berzerker with a looser tail and a little more directional feel."
Length (cm) – Sidecut Radius (m) – Waist Width (cm)
155 – 8.4/7.1/8.1 – 24.6
159 – 8.5/7.2/8.2 – 24.8
162 – 8.7/7.4/8.4 – 25.0
Flex: 4/10 (with tail unclipped) 7/10 (with tail clipped)
Camber: Directional Hybrid Rocker—positive camber from outside of bindings to larger rocker in the nose and shorter rocker area in the tail.
(Flex is not standardized and differs by brand. The rating here is the best estimate of
the board's flex.)
(Sidecut Radius: If you arced the tightest turn possible to make a complete circle, the sidecut radius would be the distance between the direct center of that circle and its rim, in meters. A board with a deeper sidecut would have a smaller radius and would generally make tighter turns. As the radius number increases, a board can be expected to make wider turns. Multiple numbers on the same length board means the radius is blended.)


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Tutorial Series: Free C# Fundamentals via ASP.NET Web Apps
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This is the challenge called ChallengePhunWithStrings, designed to test your knowledge about manipulating and formatting strings. This challenge consists of several miniature challenges all compiled into one. Each of them has a guideline and starting point in the CS-ASP_035-Challenge code folder.
The first challenge is to write a block of code that will take a hard-coded string, such as your name, and print it in reverse:
You'll be given a starting point of a string with a series of names: Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca. Your goal is to reverse the order in which these names appear so that it looks like this:
This challenge is a little bit trickier. You're required to take a string of names,the same as before, and add ascii art to both ends of the names:
The total number of characters, including the name itself, should be 14. This means that the number of ascii's should be different depending on the length of the name.
This challenge requires you to take a pre-generated string and convert it to the required format:
This requires the use of several helper methods for the string class, and will take several steps to complete. Just break the problem down into logical steps that you can then tackle.
More details are included in the CS-ASP_035-Challenge_Code file, including notes inside the provided Project file. This challenge requires a lot of thinking and tackling individual problems in order to come up with the solution, so take your time and think through each step. If you get stuck, check out the solution provided. Good luck!
Lesson 1 - Series Introduction
Lesson 2 - Installing Visual Studio 2015
Lesson 3 - Building Your First Web App
Lesson 4 - Understanding What You Just Did
Lesson 5 - Working with Projects in Visual Studio
Lesson 6 - Simple Web Page Formatting in Visual Studio
Lesson 7 - Variables and Data Types
Lesson 8 - Data Type Conversion
Lesson 9 - Arithmetic Operators
Challenge 2 - ChallengeSimpleCalculator
Solution - ChallengeSimpleCalculator
Lesson 11 - Conditional If Statements
Lesson 12 - The Conditional Ternary Operator
Challenge 3 - ChallengeConditionalRadioButton
Solution - Challenge Conditional RadioButton
Lesson 13 - Comparison and Logical Operators
Lesson 13 Challenge - First Papa Bob's Website
Solution - Challenge First Papa Bob's Website
Lesson 14 - Working with Dates and Times
Lesson 15 - Working With Spans of Time
Lesson 16 - Working with the Calendar Server Control
Challenge 4 - Challenge Days Between Dates
Solution - Challenge Days Between Dates
Lesson 17 - Page_Load and Page.IsPostBack
Lesson 18 - Setting a Break Point and Debugging
Lesson 19 - Formatting Strings
Challenge 5 - Challenge Epic Spies Assignment
Solution - Challenge Epic Spies Assignment
Lesson 20 - Maintaining State with ViewState
Lesson 21 - Storing Values in Arrays
Lesson 22 - Understanding Multidimensional Arrays
Lesson 23 - Changing the Length of an Array
Challenge 6 - Challenge Epic Spies Asset Tracker
Solution - Challenge Epic Spies Asset Tracker
Lesson 24 - Understanding Variable Scope
Lesson 25 - Code Blocks and Nested If Statements
Lesson 26 - Looping with the For Iteration Statement
Challenge 7 - Challenge For Xmen Battle Count
Solution - Challenge For Xmen Battle Count
Lesson 27 - Looping with the while() & do...while() Iteration Statements
Lesson 28 - Creating and Calling Simple Helper Methods
Lesson 29 - Creating Methods with Input Parameters
Lesson 30 - Returning Values from Methods
Lesson 31 - Creating Overloaded Methods
Lesson 32 - Creating Optional Parameters
Lesson 33 - Creating Names Parameters
Lesson 34 - Creating Methods with Output Parameters
Challenge 8 - Challenge Postal Calculator Helper Methods
Solution - Challenge Postal Calculator Helper Methods
Solution - Mega Challenge Casino
Lesson 35 - Manipulating Strings
Challenge 9 - Phun With Strings
Solution - Challenge Phun With Strings
Lesson 36 - Introduction to Classes and Objects
Challenge - Hero Monster Classes Part 1
Solution - Hero Monster Classes Part 1
Challenge - Hero Monster Classes Part 2
Solution - Challenge Hero Monster Classes Part 2
Lesson 37 - Creating Class Files Creating Cohesive Classes and Code Navigation
Lesson 38 - Understanding Object References and Object Lifetime
Lesson 39 - Understanding the .NET Framework and Compilation
Lesson 40 - Namespaces and Using Directives
Lesson 41 - Creating Class Libraries and Adding References to Assemblies
Lesson 42 - Accessibility Modifiers, Fields and Properties
Lesson 43 - Creating Constructor Methods
Lesson 44 - Naming Conventions for Identifiers
Lesson 45 - Static vs Instance Members
Challenge 10 - Challenge Simple Darts
Solution - Challenge Simple Darts
Lesson 46 - Working with the List Collection
Lesson 47 - Object Initializers
Lesson 48 - Collection Initializers
Lesson 49 - Working with the Dictionary Collection
Lesson 50 - Looping with the foreach Iteration Statement
Lesson 51 - Implicitly-Typed Variables with the var Keyword
Challenge 11 - Challenge Student Courses
Solution - Challenge Student Courses
Lesson 53 - Working with Enumerations
Lesson 54 - Understanding the switch() Statement
Lesson 55 - First Pass at the Separation of Concerns Principle
Lesson 56 - Understanding Exception Handling
Lesson 57 - Understanding Global Exception Handling
Lesson 58 - Understanding Custom Exceptions
Lesson 59 - Creating a Database in Visual Studio
Lesson 60 - Creating an Entity Data Model
Lesson 61 - Displaying the DbSet Result in an ASP.NET GridView
Lesson 62 - Implementing a Button Command in a GridView
Lesson 63 - Using a Tools-Centric Approach to Building a Database Application
Lesson 64 - Using a Maintenance-Driven Approach to Building a Database Application
Lesson 65 - Creating a New Instance of an Entity and Persisting it to the Database
Lesson 66 - Package Management with NuGet
Lesson 67 - NuGet No-Commit Workflow
Lesson 68 - Introduction the Twitter Bootstrap CSS Framework
Lesson 69 - Mapping Enum Types to Entity Properties in the Framework Designer
Lesson 70 - Deploying the App to Microsoft Azure Web Services Web Apps
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 1 - Setting up the Solution
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 2 - Adding an Order to the Database
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 3 - Passing an Order from the Presentation Layer
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 4 - Creating the Order Form
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 5 - Adding Enums
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 6 - Creating an Order with Validation
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 7 - Calculating the Order Price
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 8 - Displaying the Price to the User
Papa Bob's Mega Solution Part 9 - Creating the Order Management Page


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Mo Farah record 7:40.99 at Aviva International Match
At the UK Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham last Saturday, Mo Farah erased the old mark by some six seconds.
He ran 7:34.37 to beat his nearest rival Kenyan Shedrack Korir by more than four seconds.
Farah lowered his own previous British record which was just set last month at the Aviva International Match where he won the race in 7:40.99.
He is now the second-fastest European of all time, behind only Spain's Alberto Garca who ran 7:32.98 (Sevilla 2003).
The Mogadishu born British athlete previous major title includes silver at the European Championships 2006 in the 5000m and gold at the 2006 European Cross Country Championships.
And now with the recent British indoor record in the 3000 metres, the 25 year old is set to be the favorite in the 3000m event for next month's European Indoor Championships.


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Brits are biting back on the USDA lies about a vegan diet. American media remains conspicuously silent and the issue.
A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children's health by denying them meat.
UK experts immediately contested the findings of Professor Lindsay Allen, of the University of California at Davis, and Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC that the claims were "rubbish".
Prof Allen conducted a study of impoverished children in Kenya, and found that adding as little as two spoonfuls of meat a day to their starch-based diets dramatically improved muscle development and mental skills.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Washington DC, she said: "Animal source foods have some nutrients which are not found anywhere else.
"If you're talking about feeding young children and pregnant women and lactating women, I would go as far as to say it is unethical to withhold these foods during that period of life. There's a lot of empirical research that will show the very adverse effects on child development of doing that."
Prof Allen was especially critical of parents who imposed a vegan lifestyle on their children, denying them milk, cheese, eggs and butter, as well as meat. "There's absolutely no question that it's unethical for parents to bring up their children as strict vegans," she said.
Sir Paul, a vegetarian for 20 years, telephoned the BBC to dismiss the claims as "rubbish", telling the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show: "I really do think this is rubbish. I think the medical profession itself, apart from this one person, come to the conclusion that a veggie diet is good for you and can help with colon cancer and stuff, so I suspect these things are engineered by livestock people who have seen sales fall off.
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"From my own point of view, it has been a good thing for me and my children, who are no shorter than other children."
However, the British Dietetic Association said the study looked at impoverished, rural children with a poor background diet low in essential nutrients such as zinc, B12 and iron, and its findings were not applicable to vegan children in the developed world.
"There is no evidence that our vegan and vegetarian children in this country suffer impaired development," a spokeswoman for the association said.
She said Prof Allen's assertion that some nutrients could only be obtained from animal sources was incorrect. Even vitamin B12, which is only found in animal products, was used to fortify vegan alternatives such as Marmite.
Vegetarians could obtain sufficient calcium from sesame seeds, nuts and fortified soya milk, and iron from dried fruit and fortified breakfast cereals, the spokeswoman added.
The African study involved 544 children in Kenya, typically aged around seven, whose diet mainly consisted of starchy, low-nutrition corn and bean staples lacking these micronutrients. Over a period of two years, one group of the children was given a daily supplement of two ounces of meat – equivalent to roughly two spoonfuls of mince.
Two other groups received either a cup of milk a day or an oil supplement containing the same amount of energy. The diet of a fourth group was left unaltered.
The changes seen in the children given the meat, and to a lesser extent the milk or oil, were dramatic.
Prof Allen, the director of the US Agricultural Research Service's Western Human Nutrition Research Centre at Davis, said: "It was found that, compared with controls that had no intervention, the meat group had 80% more increase in muscle mass over the two years of the study, and the milk and energy group had 40% more increase in muscle mass.
"In terms of cognitive function, the group that received the meat supplement showed the biggest improvement in fluid intelligence over the two years, and those who had either milk or energy supplements were better than the controls. The group that received the meat supplements were more active in the playground, more talkative and playful, and showed more leadership skills," she said.
Test scores for mental skills improved by 35 points for the meat group and 14 for the milk, while remaining unchanged for the children who received no supplements, she said. Adding either meat or milk to the diets also almost completely eliminated the very high rates of vitamin B12 deficiency previously seen in the children.
"It's important to know that these important benefits to human function and human capital were seen in just two years," Prof Allen added. "Had these children received these foods earlier in life, or their mothers received them when they had been pregnant, or people could receive them throughout their lives, we think that the improvements in human capital development would be even more dramatic."
She said that, although the study had been conducted in a poor African community, its message was highly relevant to people in developed countries. Studies of vegetarians in both the US and Europe had shown that missing out on meat and dairy products could permanently impair a child's development.
Liz O'Neill, the head of communications at the Vegetarian Society, is seven months pregnant with her first child, and said nothing in Prof Allen's research had dissuaded her from the intention of raising her baby as a vegetarian.
"This study should not scare any parents in this country. It's just not relevant," Ms O'Neill said. "Certainly a balanced vegetarian diet will be much healthier than the average meat-eater's diet. As soon as you take something out of your diet, it makes you stop and think about how to replace what is missing."
However, Dr Alastair Sutcliffe, a senior lecturer in paediatrics at University College London, said human ancestry showed that natural diet includes meat and that a diet inclusive of meat was likely to produce a taller, stronger child.
"Whilst I respect a person's ethical decision to eat a vegan diet as an adult, it should be very carefully considered if that is the right decision for a child," Dr Sutcliffe said. He said he believed a vegetarian diet including dairy products would probably be fine for children.
The British Dietetic Association spokeswoman said the study raised the important point that pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children were vulnerable as vegans, and that parents should carefully review their children's diet to ensure they were eating a well-balanced diet.
However, she dismissed as "extreme" Prof Allen's assertion that feeding children a vegan diet was unethical, and recommended parents read the nutrition guides available from the Vegetarian Society to help them plan a balanced diet.
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As the first independent Caribbean state – and the only nation established on the back of a successful slave revolt – Haiti holds a particular and special place in world history. Unfortunately, freedom came at a steep price. The island nation was forced to pay reparations to France, a debt which left their economy largely crippled and led to a spiraling of despotic regimes and military juntas. As a result, Haitian history is one defined by turmoil and upheaval.
In recent years, Haiti has been devastated by a rolling series of natural disasters – from a brutal 2010 earthquake to the recent destruction of Hurricanes Matthew and Irma. The results on the already impoverished nation have been catastrophic. Amidst, and perhaps in spite of, the country's tumultuous past and volatile present, a vibrant Haitian culture has long flourished. Haiti is home to a people tempered by tragedy and steeped in tradition. Its literary culture is built on an eclectic mix of African and European-tinged mythology, and folklore presented through the lens of Haitian Vodou (commonly known as voodoo). The result is a powerful and engaging literary tapestry. The books below – many by Haitian authors – provide an opening view into the fascinating world of Haitian literature.
Hadriana in All My Dreams
Edwidge Danticat and René Depestre
Originally published in 1988 by one of Haiti's seminal authors, Hadriana in All My Dreams is an erotic fever dream of a novel centering on a young man's lust for a beautiful woman named Hadriana. Beyond its winding narrative, Hadriana is a brilliant examination of Haitian culture.
Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat
In this award-winning memoir, Edwidge Danticat – one of contemporary Haitian literature's most prominent voices – recounts her own experience as an immigrant to the US. At the age of four, Danticat was placed in the care of her Uncle Joseph when her mother and father immigrated to America. At age twelve, she joined her parents in New York City. Brother, I'm Dying recounts her struggles adjusting to her new home amidst the fears of deteriorating political landscape in her home country.
Masters of the Dew
Jacques Roumain
Jacques Roumain was a pivotal figure in the development of Haitian literature in the early twentieth century and Masters of Dew is one of his most beloved novels. It centers on a peasant family in rural Haiti whose son returns from working in Cuba to reunite his village. It is equal parts fable and an examination of everyday life in rural Haiti.
Love, Anger, Madness
A Haitian Triptych
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Marie Vieux-Chauvet was an iconic voice in Haitian literature during the dictatorship of Francoise "Papa Doc" Duvalier. She was kept under heavy surveillance during this period, and the publication of Love, Anger, Madness – which was seen as a strong rebuke of Duvalier – actually led to fear for her family's safety in Haiti.
Roxane Gay
This debut novel from Roxane Gay centers on a woman named Mireille Duval Jameson. She is the daughter of one of Haiti's richest men and finds herself kidnapped in broad daylight outside her father's Port au Prince estate. What follows is a powerful examination of privilege set against crushing poverty.
The Roving Tree
Elsie Augustave
Elsie Ausgrave's debut novel is a powerful examination of loss, privilege, and cultural identity. The story follows Iris, a woman who tells her remarkable story from beyond the grave. Adopted by an American family as a child, Iris grew up torn between worlds – that of her new American family and her roots in Haiti.
Aunt Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories
Yanick Lahens
Aunt Resia and the Spirits is a kaleidoscopic collection of short fiction by one of Haiti's most renowned writers. In stories tinged with equal parts compassion and despair, Lahens explores the day-to-day experiences and the triumphs and tragedies of Haiti and its people.
Haiti Noir
Edwidge Danticat
This far-reaching anthology edited by Edwidge Danticat features a broad collection of tales from the Haitian diaspora. While the stories deal largely with criminals and crimes – as one would expect from the Noir title – they nonetheless give sharp insight into Haitian culture.
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder
Mountains Beyond Mountains tells the story of Paul Farmer, a infectious-disease specialist renowned for his humanitarian efforts in developing countries around the world and most notably in Haiti. Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder charts Farmer's efforts in this captivating book.
All Souls' Rising
A Novel of Haiti (1)
Madison Smartt Bell
This book, Master of the Crossroads, and The Stone that the Builder Refused, comprise Madison Smartt Bell's renowned Haitian Trilogy. In an epic piece of historical fiction writing, Bell explores the beginnings and eventual fallout of Haitian Revolution which saw Haitian slaves rise up to overthrow French colonial role and establish Haiti as an independent state. It was an event that had tremendous ripple effects throughout the Americas and a defining moment in Haitian history.


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