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Mobilization and Leadership Training for People's Cooperatives in Bangladesh
Four women groups from Mohalbari, Surail and Damoir villages in Northern Bangladesh participated in a two-day leadership and mobilization training in Dinajpur to spread the initiative of successful women-led cooperatives improving the livelihood of the rural poor. Among the 51 participants, most were landless women coming from Hindu, Muslim and indigenous communities.
The training, organized by ALRD in partnership with SUSTAIN, is part of the project's innovation plan that received ROUTASIA's award of 2,500 USD last year.
ALRD's Innovation Plan entitled "Strengthening Women's Empowerment and Livelihood through Access to Land and Market" was launched in July 2015, as a result of ROUTASIA's Learning Route on women's empowerment in Nepal's Chitwan and Kapilvastu districts, in December 2014. With the financial award and technical assistance of IFAD-PROCASUR's ROUTASIA programme, ALRD and SUSTAIN, its local partner in Dinajpur, are now implementing the plan in the northern region of Bangladesh, where the existing farmer groups are located. ALRD's plan aims to secure equitable land access and control for marginalized landless communities, including farmers, indigenous peoples, religious minorities and women in particular, and to improve their livelihood through effective management of natural resources.
Using local resources, local technology and indigenous knowledge, ALRD's action plan integrated the People's Initiative or "Gonoprochesta" model. This initiative promotes sustainable, small scale, family-based organic farming and rural enterprises, and provides direct access to land and market for disadvantaged communities, which in turn contribute to the country's food security. The Gonoprochesta model empowers women by advocating their recognition at policy making level, and by enabling access to public land and to supporting services such as bank credits, agricultural inputs and technology, information and knowledge, and policy dialogue with government institutions. During the process, women are encouraged to create their own capital collectively, and to invest it in agricultural production of food and organic fertilizers.
By transforming into People's Cooperatives, the initiative sets a unique example to improve quality of life without external financial assistance. It also creates an alternative market for the products of small farmers and entrepreneurs united by cooperative groups, creating a wide range of employment opportunities in rural Bangladesh, particularly for women. In terms of diversification, cooperative farmers use different types of production, including agricultural cultivation (rice, vegetables, fish) and fertilizer production (earthworm compost).
To analyze the socio-economic context in Bangladesh, the path of change and the participants' respective roles in it, ALRD used a participatory discussion method. All participants agreed to the new vision of the People's Initiative process promoting social and economic changes to improve their life and to protect their children's future. They selected a name and a leader for each of their group, and they set up a work plan for the next three months. To create their initial capital, participants decided to save a handful of rice twice a day and to organize their weekly meeting on Fridays, where the saved rice is put on sale to generate financial resources for each group to be used for income generation activities. This collective way of farming enables them to use their small land as a homestead. It was also agreed that all activities would be monitored and guided by SUSTAIN, ALRD's local partner organization.


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Selected Essays.
By Theodore Draper.
305 pp. New York: Hill & Wang. $25.
Theodore Draper observes in ''A Present of Things Past'' that the United States went from happy isolationism to what was called the ''Pax Americana'' in the wink of an eye. As late as 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt saw America's future as a lonely ''citadel.'' But by 1941 a phrase like ''world policeman'' was already creeping into the Presidential language. Mr. Draper remarks: ''There was no time to prepare for the new role, to slide into it gracefully. Doctrines, principles, theories, and, above all, experience of what it meant for the United States to behave as a preeminent world power were lacking. Other imperial powers had learned over centuries; the United States was given a few short years.''
The fewness of the years helps to explain why the world policeman has not always had an easy time of it, why so many of America's postwar doctrines, principles and theories have turned out, at the dog's end of a foolish war or humiliating intervention, to be less than firmly grounded. In the course of the 10 essays in ''A Present of Things Past,'' Mr. Draper makes no effort to catalogue each of these mistaken American notions. But he does zero in on the single most influential of them, the inability to recognize limitations in American power, the tendency to see in any moderation at all an act of treason or at least a sin of timidity.
This delusion took root as early as World War II's waning days, in right-wing criticisms directed at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for failing to push the Allied armies farther in Europe. An Eisenhower drive eastward, it was argued, could have held back the Soviet expansion. But in his essay on Eisenhower's campaign, Mr. Draper, who himself saw service in the European theater, observes that pushing farther east was, from the level-headed point of view that came so naturally to Eisenhower, hardly to be considered. An American conquest of Berlin would have cost tens of thousands of Allied deaths and would have risked weakening the United States militarily at a time when Japan was still an enemy. A drive into Prague might have led to armed confrontations with the Red Army, no small thing.
The same unrealism afflicts the never-ending right-wing criticism of Roosevelt's Yalta agreements with Stalin and Churchill in 1945, which recognized the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. For what was Roosevelt to do, given the Red Army's march toward the west? Roosevelt was not naive about Stalin, Mr. Draper concludes, at least no more so than Churchill or anyone else in that period; but Roosevelt's power did not reach across the Elbe.
In Mr. Draper's view, the delusion of American omnipotence that arose in the 1940's lies behind a series of fiascoes 40 years later. One of his most brilliant essays dissects how, under President Ronald Reagan but with the support of Democratic politicians, the United States blundered into the Iran-Iraq war in 1987. Phrases like ''national security'' and ''vital interest'' evoked an apocalyptic sense of threat that left us unable to withstand clever manipulations by the tiny state of Kuwait, a close Iraqi ally intent on involving the two superpowers in the seemingly endless war, and soon American ships were steaming into the Persian Gulf to protect oil tankers, and the U.S.S. Stark suffered casualties, and the fundamental issue never did involve much more than a threat to Kuwait's tanker-insurance rates. This same fervid inability to distinguish between the marginal and the crucial has produced, within the United States Government, a chronic institutional crisis, which most recently, with America serving as arms dealer to Iran and patron of the Nicaraguan contras, took the form that Mr. Draper memorably calls, in another of his essays, ''Reagan's junta.''Continue reading the main story
Some of Mr. Draper's criticisms single out errors on the left. He dismisses the belief, current among several historians of the younger generation, that traditional American Communism, during the period when Communism had influence here, was authentically American and free-thinking at the grass roots, even if Soviet-dominated at the top. For how, he asks, could the grass roots have been authentically American if every time the Soviet Union demanded a change of line, the grass roots changed the line? Mr. Draper - who is, of course, the pre-eminent historian of United States Communism - casts a very cold eye on any temptation to whitewash Communists as mere liberals or straightforward radicals. He worries about the fate of honorable terms like ''left-wing,'' ''radical'' and ''socialism'' if these words go on being ascribed to Stalinists and authoritarians.
Four of the essays turn away from the cold war and Communism to take up issues of journalistic ethics, notably the question of whether journalists ought to fictionalize scenes and conversations in the course of reconstructing events. An occasional bit of imagined repartee has the virtue of keeping readers from falling asleep. But Mr. Draper upholds the most rigorous standards of fact and proof, and he will not be dissuaded from these standards. He allows for no exceptions, not even in the lofty interest of entertainment.
His own work is a temple to thoroughness. In reviewing a book (most of these essays began as grand-scale book reviews in The New York Review of Books and other journals), he invariably draws on broader research than is provided by the book in question. He might be called an investigative book reviewer. Nor does he waste words on lyric flights (though sometimes he does end up repeating himself). This purity of approach - the devotion to sources and hard information, the historical orientation and the logical ferocity - produces, finally, a characteristic stony tone, such that reading a Draper essay becomes something like driving over a gravel driveway, facts and arguments cheerfully crunching beneath your tires as the argument rolls inexorably forward.
Mr. Draper's high standards have built up, over the course of an enviable career, a definite moral power, which from time to time he deploys in polemical volleys that are so fearsome as to be, at moments, unfair. In his criticisms of the naive historians of American Communism, Mr. Draper barely manages to concede that, along with displaying occasionally a nostalgia for Stalinists, the historians may have dug up invaluable information on such topics as the rise of black political power in Harlem, in which Communists played a role. Going a little far, Mr. Draper calls the younger historians ''Yuppies'' and their work ''intellectual couture.''
In one essay, he challenges an article in The New York Times Book Review by Stephen Schwartz, now of The San Francisco Chronicle, who accused a long-gone colleague of Freud's named Max Eitingon of collaborating with Stalinist hit men. Mr. Draper tears this accusation apart with so much archival razzle-dazzle, but also so many thrusts at Mr. Schwartz, that a reader begins to suspect overkill. For there do seem to be, when you look into it, murky zones in the affair that might better have been acknowledged, if only to signal the unavoidable limitations of Mr. Draper's own argument.
The machine-gun style keeps things lively, though. I was myself cheered to see Mr. Draper say of Jeane Kirkpatrick, in regard to her criticisms of Roosevelt at Yalta, that ''Kirkpatrick's sense of history here is - to be charitable - defective''; and further, ''if Kirkpatrick's history is bad, her attribution of motives is worse''; and further, ''the mystery is how a former UN ambassador could get the whole story topsy-turvy.'' Facts and footnotes pile up like spent cartridges, and still he isn't finished: ''She completely muddles what actually happened.''
Granting some room for his frisky, vehement style, ''A Present of Things Past'' shows Mr. Draper as all in all a man of steady political judgment. His reliability is confirmed, I would say, by the one essay that time has ravaged mercilessly: a 1987 analysis of Mikhail S. Gorbachev that advised ''don't hold your breath'' to anyone expecting revolutionary results from Soviet reforms. This advice was, of course, wrong. Yet it was sound. Only a fool would have predicted the current European revolution, which is why fools, too, have their place in political debate. But Mr. Draper, clear-eyed and thorough, the polemical incarnation of hardheaded liberalism, is anything but a fool.
While the world may be changing rapidly, Theodore Draper fears that the way the United States deals with the world has changed little. His current project is a book on the Iran-contra affair, whose lessons, he says, the nation is ignoring at its peril.
''The implications of the affair are even more serious than what actually happened,'' Mr. Draper, who is 77 years old, said in a telephone interview from his home in Princeton, N.J. ''They bring up the old, painful question of the power of the Presidency, the specter of an authoritarian President in foreign affairs.''
The question, Mr. Draper said, is simple: ''Can the President and his agents do anything they please in foreign policy, or are there limits on their power set by Congress?''
George Bush's answer, he said, is like that of Ronald Reagan. The President, he noted with dismay, recently vetoed a bill to impose criminal penalties on any Federal official convicted of using foreign funds to carry out activities forbidden to the United States Government. And Mr. Draper was disturbed by the invasion of Panama, which he attributed largely to Mr. Bush's personal preoccupation with Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
Such actions, Mr. Draper said, indicate that American hubris and government by ''junta'' are not merely artifacts of history. ''Some variation of the Iran-contra affair is not only possible, but is likely to happen again,'' he said.
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Kyenjojo district has for a long time been challenged by poor academic performance and continuous school dropouts. According to a baseline survey conducted by Kyenjojo NGOs and CBOs Forum (KNCF) in 2013 and subsequent reports since then, the dropout rate between 2011 and 2013 was 8 % while academic performance was generally poor. For example out of the 14,709 pupils who sat Primary leaving exams (PLE) in UPE schools between the period 2011 – 2013 schools, only 669 passed in Division I, while 7,496 passed in Division II, 2,937 in Division III and the rest, 4,085 failed.
Poor academic performance and continuous school dropouts are attributed to mainly lack/limited parents' support of education programs; most parents prefer investing in farming to education either because farming offers quicker/faster profits than education or because they lack adequate knowledge and understanding on the benefits of education and children's rights to education. Other issues challenging education in Kyenjojo district include poverty, domestic violence, child neglect, early marriages, and child labour.
As a development partner, KNCF with support from Independent Development Fund (IDF) through its "Protection of the rights of Women and Children project" between January to May 2014 was able to get sixty seven (67) pupils back to school, handle and settle 100 cases of child abuse and domestic violence, and also reach and sensitize 16,835 children in 25 primary schools about their rights to education. The sensitized children have formed 25 child rights clubs, which go around educating and sensitizing other children about their rights and responsibilities to education. According to Mpamize Robinson a primary seven (P.7) pupil at Butunduuzi Model, child advocacy has yielded. "We are glad for the information on children's rights and to be involved in this sensitization work. We now know our rights and responsibilities to education as children. We also have been taught on how to demand for and how to protect our rights. We hope to be listened to and to see reduced cases of rights abuse among children" Mpamize asserts.
In its interventions, KNCF has through these Child Rights Clubs and women rights activists, community sensitization outreaches, and Advocacy engagements with duty bearers at service Parish, Sub County and District level educated and empowered the populace with knowledge and skills on children's rights, women's rights and child protection. This undertaking has led to increased awareness and consciousness on the rights of women and children especially on the issue of education, as well as increased participation of women and children in development initiatives and processes.
Cases of this are evident in the testimonies from the community about the activists' support to neglected children; for example Kebirungi Agnes an 18 years old primary six (p6) pupil at Rwentuha Primary School in Bugaaki Sub County dropped out of school in 2011 after her fathers' death and mother's failure to pay her school fees. Because of the harsh conditions at home, Agnes sought a job as a bar attendant and house maid. Unfortunately for her, she was impregnated and also neglected by the man. While at the bar Agnes was met by Kaija Helen a human rights activist who educated her on the value of education and encouraged her to go back to school after birth. Agnes gave birth and took the baby to her mother and later went back to school. She is now the head girl, chairperson child rights club and one of the best performers in class. Agnes testifies that Life at school is promising and better. She is grateful to the activist for her counsel and support.
Another example is of Kyaligaba a S.I student at Maddox Secondary School. Kyaligaba was neglected by her father while in primary six. She sought help from activists who engaged her father with little success. Looking at the little girl's zeal for education one activist Businge Rose encouraged her to consider doing petty jobs after classes, weekends and holidays to raise money for her scholastic needs. Kyaligabba agreed and Rose found her several of these to do.
"When I reached p6, I almost failed to continue with studies, but with counseling, guidance and support of the activist, I did not stop schooling. I have been able to hang on and reach S.1 and I look forward to go to university too. Doing petty jobs and rearing chicken have enabled me to pay for my school requirements and brought me this far." Says Kyaligaba.
As more awareness on children's rights to education is created, more children are going to return to, stay in and complete school. Similarly an improvement in the parents' support towards education programs is yet to be witnessed. These coupled with other interventions by Kyenjojo District Local Government, will definitely foster improved academic performance and address the historical challenge of school dropouts in Kyenjojo district.


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The Origin of the 'Mycoplasma mycoides Cluster' Coincides with Domestication of Ruminants
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The 'Mycoplasma mycoides cluster' comprises the ruminant pathogens Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides the causative agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia CBPP, Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae the agent of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia CCPP, Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum, Mycoplasma leachii and Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri. CBPP and CCPP are major livestock diseases and impact the agricultural sector especially in developing countries through reduced food-supply and international trade restrictions. In addition, these diseases are a threat to disease-free countries. We used a multilocus sequence typing MLST approach to gain insights into the demographic history of and phylogenetic relationships among the members of the 'M. mycoides cluster'. We collected partial sequences from seven housekeeping genes representing a total of 3,816 base pairs from 118 strains within this cluster, and five strains isolated from wild Caprinae. Strikingly, the origin of the 'M. mycoides cluster' dates to about 10,000 years ago, suggesting that the establishment and spread of the cluster coincided with livestock domestication. In addition, we show that hybridization and recombination may be important factors in the evolutionary history of the cluster.
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A survey of microcomputer usage and the perceptions of special educators in the instruction of mildly handicapped students within selected school systems of Georgia
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RATIONALE The purpose of the study was to survey the use of microcomputers as instructional assisted tools in the education of mildly handicapped students from selected school systems of Georgia. Specifically, the study addressed the following issues: (1) identified instructional uses of microcomputers in special education; (2) areas of exceptionality wherein instructional micro computer usage is evidenced; (3) perceptions of special educators toward microcomputer applications; and (4) future implications.
SIGNIFICANCE The study will greatly expand the literature base and identify factors related to the use of microcomputers in the instructional process of educating mildly handicapped students.
METHODS AND PROCEDURES Data for the study were generated from Directors of Special Education and Teachers of Mildly Handicapped Students from selected public school sys tems of Georgia. The chief data collection method used was the questionnaire with the interview/participant observation technique being secondary. The question naire used was a modified version of the instrument developed in 1982 by Henry Jay Becker to obtain data for his study, "School Uses of Microcom puters." Items for the revised instrument addressed demographic, usage and perception information.
Both descriptive and inferential statistical procedures were used to analyze the data. Sections I and II of the questionnaire stimulated cate gorical data which produced percentages. The Chi-square statistical method at the .05 level was used to determine the statistically significant dif ference of the nominal data and to test one hypothesis. The Analysis of Variance statistical method was used at the .05 level to accept or reject five of the hypotheses.
The secondary method of data collection involved the interview/partici pant observation methods. Items for the interview questions and the observa tion checklist were original. Sites for the field research were randomly selected to include visitations to the three different size school systems based on student population. Data for this phase of the study were reported in case studies.
RESULTS The findings from the study reveal from a broad perspective that Direc tors of Special Education and Teachers of Mildly Handicapped Students demon strated great support of microcomputer usage in the instruction of mildly handicapped students. Special educators found the most productive use of this strategy in drill and practice and tutorial dialog activities. The area of mathematics was considered strongest with language arts being second rela tive to fundamental instructional use. Most computer time was scheduled during class periods.
Strengths in the instructional applications included individualization, alternative approaches to learning, provisions for immediate feedback, flexi bility in management, increased student/teacher contact, student motivation, and increased student attention span. Problemmatic concerns include: limited and incompatible software, inadequate inservice, student/computer ratios and human interaction.
The .05 confidence level was used to determine statistical significance. The null hypotheses formulated and tested on the variable groups were accepted at the .05 level.
CONCLUSIONS Special education administrators (directors/coordinators) and teachers of mildly handicapped students strongly support the use of microcomputers as instructional assisted tools in the education of mildly handicapped students. Increasing use and versatility are evidenced; however, expanded efforts are needed for budgetary support, staff development, time management and sched uling. As improvements are made based on continued research the use of this technology will continue to enhance the educational opportunities of handi capped students.
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MURDOCK: GOP's Battle Cry is 'Make Obamacare Voluntary'
(Deroy Murdock, Liberty Headlines) Congress should adopt a fine idea that President Trump offered — and give it a better name.
"Now, how about ending the unfair & highly unpopular Indiv Mandate in OCare & reducing taxes even further?" Trump asked Monday via Twitter. "Cut top rate to 35% w/all of the rest going to middle income cuts?"
Trump's suggestion would give Republicans another chance to lasso ObamaCare andunleash $338 billion for fresh tax cuts.
This unexpected infusion would let Republicans alleviate or eliminate key shortcomings in their competing bills:
- The House draft keeps today's top 39.6 percent top rate and, outrageously, adds a new 45.6 percent "Bubble Tax" bracket on incomes between $1.2 million and $1.6 million.
- The Senate blueprint would cut corporate taxes from 35 percent to 20 — not next year, but in 2019. This is a recipe for recession. Many businesses would postpone income for 12 months so they could savor this 43-percent tax reduction. The last thing America needs is one more year of Obama-style stagnation.
- Both chambers fail to kill the much-hated Death Tax immediately. The House keeps it alive for six years. The Senate chickens out and merely raises the income threshold on what Steve Forbes calls "taxation without respiration."
"Currently, the law requires every working-age American to buy health insurance — or pay a penalty equal to 2.5 percent of household income or about $700, whichever is greater," U.S. Senators Pat Toomey (R – Pennsylvania) and Tom Cotton (R – Arkansas) wrote last month at FoxNews.com. "Almost 6.7 million households were forced to pay the penalty last year," they added. "Nearly 80 percent of Americans who paid the penalty last year made less than $50,000."
PREVIOUSLY: Will Individual Mandate Repeal Imperil GOP Tax Reform Bill?
Thus, this proposal would deliver middle-class tax relief.
"The mandate is simply a tax on Americans who can't afford insurance," Toomey and Cotton continued. "This is a moral outrage, and the public agrees: 66 percent of Americans oppose the mandate, according to a 2017 YouGov poll."
Democrats and their media henchmen wail that mandate repeal would make 13 million people lose their health insurance. This is a lie. The Congressional Budget Office reckons that these Americans would flee ObamaCare if they no longer were dragooned into it. Likewise, if Acme University made a required calculus course voluntary, students who spurned that class would not "lose calculus." They simply would exercise their new-found freedom to escape useless mathematical sadism.
Once unshackled, CBO believes, individuals who run from ObamaCare would stop collecting its subsidies. The unclaimed $338 billion could underwrite additional tax cuts through 2027.
"This is a political fight the GOP can win," the Wall Street Journal explained Monday. "If you like your ObamaCare plan, you can keep it. If you don't want it or can't afford it, you don't have to pay a penalty."
"I love getting rid of the mandate. It makes no sense," supply-side godfather Dr. Arthur Laffer told Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer Wednesday morning. "If someone decides they don't want ObamaCare — 'I don't want it' — then you get taxed. Well, this [measure] takes away this tax, which allows you free choice…So, I see no downside, whatsoever, to getting rid of the mandate. I think that's wonderful."
Republicans should sell this concept with a simple slogan: "Make ObamaCare voluntary."
"Repeal the ObamaCare mandate" sounds to the untrained ear as if Republicans were prying life-saving pills from the fingers of the terminally ill. As demonstrated above, this is not so.
PREVIOUSLY: Trump Ready to Gut Obamacare by Exec Order if Congress Balks Again
Still, to make this even more appealing, Republicans should say that their plan would "Make ObamaCare voluntary." By killing the first-ever federal requirement that anybody buy anything, Republicans, once again, would emancipate millions: Those who want ObamaCare may have it. Those who don't may go elsewhere.
Re-christening "Repeal the ObamaCare mandate" as "Make ObamaCare voluntary" will land Republicans on the moral and rhetorical high ground. Let Democrats defend a federal law that forces Americans to buy something they do not want and taxes those who resist.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor and a contributing editor with National Review Online.
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My eldest son is in his final year at high school and is doing a subject called Construction. One of his projects this year was a step ladder. He brought it home recently and I was inspired the other day to use it as a place to display dolls. His reaction was one of resignation and the usual shrug of the shoulders. He thinks my dolls are taking over the house anyway. So, here it is with a few of the dolls I've made on it.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
A new place to put my dolls!!
4 comments:
- Melody said...
This is so clever. What a fabulous way to display your dolls.
- June 9, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Karen said...
Hi Marg. I think your son should be delighted that you want to use something he has made. Your dolls look great displayed on the step ladder. You may have to ask him to make a few more ladders for the rest of your collection!
- June 9, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Michelle Ridgway said...
What a clever son to know just what you needed....a lovely home for your dollies. I love the bunny at the bottom. They look right at home.
- June 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- Allie said...
What a GREAT idea - love the dolls! Your son is very smart to make that for you! *G*
- June 10, 2011 at 10:42 AM
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Recipes > Pasta, Gluten free
Quinua Real Sauteed sweet
Recipe from Isabel Moreno
- Wash the quinoa and bring it to boil water.
- Frothing and add a pinch of salt and turmeric.
- Reduce heat and cook for about 20 minutes or until you see that it is free.
- Meanwhile, cut the vegetables into small cubes. Chop the dates of the same size and chop the almonds.
- In a wok with a little olive oil, saute the fresh garlic and the peppers with a pinch of salt, then add carrots and dates and continue to saute a couple of minutes.
- Then add the almonds, seaweed arame well drained, 2 tablespoons of shoyu, 2 tablespoons of concentrated apple juice and finally the quinoa.
- Stir well to mix the ingredients. Off and serve.
- 1 cup of breakfast of Quinua Real grain
- 2 cups of water
- 1 tablespoon of turmeric dessert
- 1 small handful of arame seaweed soaked
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by Ofer Amitai, August 01, 2002
|Below is a report from Ofer Amitai, our dear brother in Israel. As many of you are aware, he and his son, Nathaniel, were with
us at the Embrace Israel Ministries conference this last week.
Dear ones, Shalom;
Yesterday afternoon, at 1:40 pm, just as we were landing from our return flight to Israel, a bomb went off in the cafeteria of the Hebrew University at the Mount Scopus campus. Seven people died in the blast and ninety were wounded. Four of the dead
were American citizens, as well as several of the wounded. Apparently, a schoolbag full of explosives was placed under a table in the midst of the crowd, by a terrorist posing as a student or a visitor. The police surmise that he may have been helped by an "insider", an Arab worker or student. The cafeteria was crowded at the time with young people from all over the world who had come to take placement exams for the new school year.
Hamas, the terror organization that took responsibility for the attack, said in a leaflet, "This is our (primary) reaction to (the) Gaza massacre. It is (a) simple reaction in the long process of attacks that would target your institutions with no exception. It is a clear message for the wisest of you to quickly depart from our lands or to choose death. Prepard dozens of black bags for our next reaction that the criminal Sharon (will) be responsible for." In English, Sheikh Rantissi, the Hamas spokesman, declared the strikes would continue until Israeli occupation ends. In Arabic, he phrased it differently, "until the Jews are thrown out of this land."
And this, beloved is exactly what the war is all about. Islam is dead set against the fulfillment of G-D's plan for Israel and for His kingdom.
Ezekiel 39:25-29:
"Therefore thus saith the L-rd G-D; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for My Holy Name; After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespas-sed against Me, When they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Then shall they know that I am the L-RD their G-D, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. Neither will I hide My face any more from them; for I have poured out My Spirit upon the House of Israel, saith the L-rd G-D."
Briefly, G-D's purpose in the last days is to reveal His Glory and pour out His Spirit on all flesh. Both of these are part and parcel of Israel's restoration, to the Land first and then to Himself. It is THERE, in the Land, that G-D first reveals His Glory and Face, and pours out His Spirit. And these acts are the Sanctification of His Name!
What should we do about all these things? Watch and Pray! Let us not be overwhelmed by evil and its hellish displays, meant to paralyze our faith and halt our prayers. Let us continue to STAND BEFORE the L-RD and beseech Him to FULFILL His own Word.
The word "Scopus" means, "to watch" or "look out". Mount Scopus is situated on Jerusalem's northern side and serves as a high lookout for those who would prepare to attack her, as it is the most vulnerable border of the city. It was there that Titus pitched his camp when he besieged Jerusalem. Can we, beloved, as watchmen for G-D, ascend the high mountain of prayer and be "keepers" of Jerusalem until He performs His Word? As He said to Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 1:12), "I am watching over My Word to perform it." Let us WATCH with Him until He does.
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Rod originally left this as a comment on our post: England's largest environmental NGOs voice concern over new proposals for our public forests Thanks to him for kindly agreeing to let us post it as an article.
'For me, the pivotal point in the whole process is the tedious issue of Governance: the body that actually holds the real power and this is where the greatest failure & divergence from the [forestry] panel's advice occurs: Defra is proposing a Board of management holding virtually all the power over the [public forest] estate with a chair appointed by the Secretary of State and members through the public appointments process – which to all intents and purposes means by Defra officials. With more and more 'quangocrats' dependant on continuing paid appointments it will mean a Board with all the power completely in the power of Ministers/Defra officials.
Charters, token 'Guardians' & land ownership transferred to the management body will mean absolutely nothing. The Government statement gives some fairly strong pointers what this will mean – an intense interest in the money, and apparently a belief that the proposed arrangements will clear the way for renewed land sales. What is needed is a management Board with a balance that ensures it is the forests that come first in all their deliberations – it must not be vulnerable to party political or single interest takeover. The Secretary of State should most certainly have a voice – in fact, I'm happy for him to appoint the chair, but the seats must be appointed in such a way that the spread of people represent everyone with an interest in our national forests, and whilst individually representing different interests, as a Board work for the forests as a whole.
What underlies all this is that Defra seem to have completely missed the point: it is good they are talking to organised groups including SoW, Our Forests and the Forest Campaigns Network but I feel they think this has brought the 'protest' within the establishment 'tent'. That is a serious mistake with potentially huge political consequences: the big issue over the public reaction to the sales proposal was that whilst 38 degrees and SoW facilitated the response they were primarily a lightening rod for hundreds of thousands of people who are not in organised groups (nor belonging to any one political grouping), nor plan to be – unless the actual forest or forests they love and value as part of their lives is threatened – and any belief that squaring the organised groups will mean there is no resistance to forest sales – or the further erosion of Forestry Commission values by cash cuts or damaging money raising schemes – is a very dangerous mistake, more so in the run up to an election where the forest sales fiasco has the potential to be a political totem stretching way beyond the forests.'
Retired head of policy at the Forestry Commission, Rod worked for the FC for over 35 years. In his time as a forester, he not only worked in Field management & Conservation policy but was also the commission's Private forestry & Environment officer for the South and West of England. Rod is a keen ornithologist and expert on the critically endangered Nightjar. His book 'Birds and Forestry' (co-authored with Mark Avery, ex-RSPB Conservation director), is acclaimed as a step toward sustainable forestry planning. Tackling the issues between forestry and nature conservation. Rod is a founder member of Our Forests!
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There is a growing concern over the rise of the number of small children in the USA whose eyes are being damaged by air guns. The menace increased to approximately 169% from 1990 to 2012. This is not a healthy phenomenon because medical professionals also reported that most of the time a kid gets wounded in the eye, adults are not there.
A good example of such cases can be traced to 10 years ago. This particular victim was just 12 years of age when he was playing paintball on the field somewhere in New Hampshire with his goggles on. When he was hit the first time, he wanted to clean the paint stain on the lens. He took it off for cleaning when he was struck with another air gun bullets for the second time. That was all that he needed to become a regular visitor to Dr. Fredrick's hospital with the case of air gun eye problem.
Dr. Fredrick, a professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of Stanford, said that the absence of the goggles exposed the boy's eyes to the paintball assault and he lost one eye to the incidence. He described the boy's case as a sad one.
He recalled that he worked desperately with his team to save the eye by stitching it back to place, but the components of the eyeball were scattered. There was no other solution than to detach the eye.
Today, that 12-year-old boy is now a grown man with one good eye, and he uses glasses. Dr. Fredrick said the trauma caused by the damage still lingers and it's a pointer to the increased rate of air gun damages.
1. Kids most times get injured in the eye during sports
A statistics showed that in the US, from 1990 to 2012, there was an alarming rise in the number of eye damage cases that are caused by guns without powder like paintball, pellet, and BB, with a percentage of 168.8%. The results of the survey were recently released in one pediatrics journal.
The study revealed that the 23 years duration witnessed torrents of eye damages in kids which they incurred during sporting activities and leisure exercises. Eye damages usually happen when baseball, softball and basketball games are on-going and when the kids are entertaining themselves with powder-free guns.
2. Medical experts caution against the use of Nerf guns due to its harmful tendency to the eye
According to another statistics published from the desk of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a survey was done on some under 18-year-olds who had received treatments in emergency units of health centers and eye clinics between 1990 and 2012, due to eye damages caused by sports activities all over the US.
The outcome disclosed that the standard number of child patients who reported yearly for eye damage issues were 19,324. However, a small increment in the total number of the eye-related problem was recorded.
As good as the data sounds, certain demerits can be spotted in the documents. Only data collated on eye problems that were handled by emergency units were used, leaving out those handled by other health-care means like urgent care.
Also, those who carried out the research could not provide reasons behind the noticeable boost in the eye-damage cases caused by powder-free guns, although some experts seem to have clues.
3. Is there any difference between real guns and air guns?
Trying to answer this question, a professional in sports and medicine who works in one children hospital in Texas, Dr. Jorge Gomez, said that air guns are rapidly growing faster in the market and this means that the weapon is in many people's possession.
He added that 89% of the affected children don't usually have any grown up around them when they get wounded in the eyes from airguns, but the remaining 11% are lucky to have adults close to them. Sadly, he says, that percentage has even declined over the past 17 years. Obviously, two factors can be blamed; the high rate of how guns are being sold in the market and the inefficiencies of mature people who are supposed to monitor the usage and handling of these harmful objects.
Certainly, children need thorough coordination and supervision from adults. The kids must be compelled to have their eye goggle on to shield them from injuries caused by air guns, and they must not remove it until they are through with their activities.
Also, parents must ensure that their kids only handle paintball guns at recreational centers where safety measures on the use of the objects are set up, Pediatrics Academy of America warns. The organization advised that protective eyeglasses that meet health standards must be used when paintball guns are involved.
Dr. Jorge recommended that protective goggles must be worn both by parents and their children whenever such firearms are being used anywhere. Parents should be ready all the time to monitor their kids when they are playing with air guns.


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My mommy gave me a porn star name. My middle name's Nicole, and my xmas stocking from my granny says "Nikki" (apparently she was biased). That's right, AMBER NICOLE STEELE.
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CHUCK BERRY "Fresh Berry's" (1965)
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Johnnie Johnson : Piano
Paul Butterfield : Harmonica
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Chuck Bernard : Bass
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01. "It Wasn't Me" (2.31)
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CAPE CARTERET, N.C. (MAY 16, 2018) – Lowes Foods, a Carolinas-based grocer, will celebrate the grand reopening of its Cape Carteret store located at 321 WB McLean Drive on May 16 with a ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. The renovated store includes special areas called Lowes Foods Originals, which include Pick & Prep, The Beer Den and The Cakery. The Cape Carteret store is the first Lowes Foods to feature a special area dedicated to fresh seafood called Dockside Fish Market.
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Cullinan House: Art nouveau in Houghton
Built in 1910, Houghton's heritage gem, the Cullinan House, is the only remaining example of Art Nouveau architecture in Johannesburg.
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Designed in the classic-revivalist style of Robert Howden, the distinguished architect who would become first president of the South African Institute of Architects, and built by Sir Thomas Cullinan, master builder, founder of the Premier Diamond Mine and namesake of the largest diamond ever discovered, Cullinan House in Upper Houghton is certainly not lacking in pedigree. And neither is its noble lineage lost on its current owners, American-born Lawson Ricketts and Nick Geimer, who have zealously guarded Cullinan's legacy for the past three years. 'Nick was overseas when I spotted the ad for the house,' recalls Lawson. 'At the time, I had no idea where Houghton Ridge was but, map in hand, I found the little enclave of schools and oak-lined avenues and then I pulled up to the most magnificent house… It was a diamond in the rough, for sure.'
The 'rough' Lawson refers to is the state of dishevelled grandeur he confronted when entering the indomitable Art Nouveau fortress with her Greco-Roman symmetrical facade, sandstone architraves and crown of classical pediments. 'Despite being 100 years old, Howden's impeccable exterior craftsmanship had stood the test of time,' he says. 'But the inside was another story.'
'Only one small crack in the brickwork had to be repointed, new gutters fashioned to match the existing half-rounds, and a paint job done to the roof.' – Lawson Ricketts
Art Nouveau-Saving Renovations
Lawson explains how the house had undergone numerous renovations during the course of its life as residence to everyone from Joseph Mitchell, Cullinan's brother-in-law and business associate, to an order of Dominican friars. 'The original ceramic floor was in such a poor state that we had to make the painful decision to pull it up and replace it with Georgian slate and marble,' he recalls, adding that bathrooms were also given a sorely needed facelift. 'We put in modern reproductions of Victorian taps, all imported from London, and added Carrara marble trimmings and underfloor heating.'
The couple also installed a designer kitchen outfitted with top-drawer Miele appliances, and all the windows and doors were reconditioned with solid-brass hardware sourced in the US. Off the conservatory, the terracotta patio and pool deck were removed and replaced with slate and an outdoor living room and braai then instated. An interior designer by training, Lawson and his team at Plaid Cabbage Interiors then tackled the task of dressing the rejuvenated home. 'We followed a simple brief: Respect the heritage of the structure but incorporate furnishings and fabrics with a modern durability and luxury,' he explains.
Culling out Cullinan Garden's Best Plantings
He and Nick also disentangled the home from the ungroomed plantings that engulfed it, removing 17 conifers and other 'invader' species and discovering, in so doing, a subterranean wall that would inspire the layout of the back garden. Retaining walls were straightened and 250 rose bushes, hydrangeas and boxwood planted. Lawson is particularly fond of the charming side garden that flows from the dining room. 'It creates an additional entertaining space for eight months of the year when the weather in Joburg is divine until as late as eight at night,' he says. When asked what he loves most about Cullinan House, Lawson is unhesitating: 'The fact that, in only three years, we have been able to reimagine the grand spaces that were originally designed for one of Johannesburg's most prominent families.' Nick's favourite is the bar that Lawson designed especially for him – and where the couple can be found most evenings, rooted beside the open fire, martinis in hands and dogs at feet.
'The wallpaper in the dining room was chosen from a William Morris collection and is representative of wall coverings that would have been typical in Edwardian homes of the early 1900s.' – Lawson Ricketts
In the Houghton Zone
Situated to the north-east of the Johannesburg city centre, on the southern portion of Houghton Ridge, and separated from Lower Houghton by the East-West section of Houghton Drive, Upper Houghton was developed as a residential area around the turn of the 20th century, primarily by Barney Barnato's Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company (the name Houghton Estate – by which it's also called – is derived from Houghton Estate Gold Mining Company, which initially purchased the property in 1888). Declared a National Heritage Area, seventy percent of the suburb's surviving structures are located on properties that were developed between 1900 and 1930. Lawson Ricketts, owner of Cullinan House, highlights his favourite parts of the area.
The Munro Drive: Named after John Munro, a director of the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company, and initially built from stacked stone in 1919, this circuitous scenic drive connects Upper and Lower Houghton.
The Wilds: Donated to the Municipality of Johannesburg in 1924 by the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company, The Wilds – which covers an area of 18 hectares – was established as an indigenous garden in 1937 and declared a National Monument in 1981.
The 'Education Corridor': With St John's College, King Edward VII School (KES) and Roedean School all within a 10-minute walk from Upper Houghton, the morning school run is a breeze.
The Upper Houghton Heritage Open Garden Weekend: Over the weekend of 4–5 October, a handful of Johannesburg's most magnificent gardens – Cullinan House's among them – are open to the public for viewing.
Contacts Details
- Firzt Realty Company: firztonline.co.za, web reference FZN15043. Asking price R11,5 million.
- Plaid Cabbage Interiors: plaidcabbageinteriors.com
- Upper Houghton Residents Association: upperhoughton.org
- Upper Houghton Open Garden Weeken: gardensofthegoldencity.co.za
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A good hardflip takes an extremely awkward motion—I speak for myself—and makes it look as natural as Apollonia in The Godfather. Like most precious things in life—you know, gold, diamonds, and a lifeboat seat on the Titanic—a good hardflip is rare. The shortest distance between points A and B might be through your legs, but it sure as hell ain't the prettiest. The following are my picks for the ten best scissors of all time.
Love Child, World Industries, 1992
Granted, she dusts some crop before he rolls away. And the grass gap ain't Carlsbad. But you have to see beauty in any first. The first time you got laid might not have been pretty either. But you sure wouldn't leave her name off your list. Actually, you probably would. You get my point. Hardflip at 3:33
Trilogy, 101 Section, 1996
Oh, man. The hip line opener and Lockwood picnic-table vault are just butter-dripping textbook skate nerdology. The snap and catch over the table should be mandatory Clockwork Orange styled viewing for any and all aspiring inductees to the school of hardflips. When you know mine, you'll be dead. Hardflip at 1:15
Third Eye View, Element, 1998
I remember there being a solid decade run where Markovich pretty much manhandled the last part of any and all videos he appeared in (in this case, Barley doesn't really have a "part"). While he may not possess the most refined rendition, his blaster over the New Mexican hip should make the list on shirtless beastliness alone. Hardflip at 5:20
The Chocolate Tour, Chocolate, 1999
Darth Mulder logged a hefty load of Chaffey footage over the years before joining Merrill Lynch in the investment hustle. Following the over-the-wall switch back tail, he just carves in at seemingly the completely wrong angle for a hardflip. And yet, scissors, son. And that's how I know my money is safe. Hardflip at 1:32
Modus Operandi, TransWorld SKATEboarding, 2000
The opening library crusher of Ty Evans and Mike Carroll's first "work" together has not only been pegged one of the best lines of all time (five tricks, four pushes), it single-handedly relaunched the dormant am-madness of the switch front biggie, cemented the MC legacy, and as a sum total closes out with a cherry of a celebratory hardflip. Hardflip at 1:02
Really Sorry, Flip, 2003
PJ ripped the flatground crown off skateboarding's stunned collective head with his WHL [2002] part. As far as hardflips go, I was tempted to go with the one he does to back tail in his DC introductory part [2008] where he seems to land beaming the camera. All the same, his proper form down the "Gay 12" in Really Sorry will do just fine. Hardflip at 0:20
Baker 3, Baker, 2005
The first thing that comes to mind is that YouTube clip where he's showing Koston how "easy" they are. Seriously, dude. You don't gotta rub it in. As far as actual packaged video released clips, I'll go with the classic thirteen-stair opener in Baker 3. Herman is the uncontestable Hardflip Don. I especially like the "flip" of the board. Hardflip at 1:08
8. Jimmy Carlin
Feed The Need, Osiris, 2007
Jimmy's building quite the reputation as a hards man. He unveiled the oft-perplexing 360 version, recently tossed it down the Dome double-set, and clearly has top-shelf mastery of the garden variety 180 type. His fifteen-stair, second-to-last trick in Feed The Need exemplifies exactly how to execute said trick to perfection. Hardflip at 2:40
And Now, TransWorld SKATEboarding, 2008
KC's favorite son, Sean Malto, is another top-shelf contender for hardflip supremacy (Carlsbad Check Outs and whatnot). Like young Jimmy in the Osiris kit, his second-to-last trick in last year's And Now is a fifteen-stair hammer. The golden-hour sunlight, the perfect minor shifty action, and the layback rollaway—he's in the book, y'all. Hardflip at 5:09
Sean Malto from Connor Ferguson on Vimeo.
Alaikit, Alai, 2008
For all you young'uns, looking for stairs and logging onto your forum, this one's out of veteran purist respect. Lebron's been holding down legitimate banged hardflips since he and Jesus Fernandez confused the local gallery of Wassup Rockers at USC a good decade ago. I was tempted to go with his picture-perfect rendition on flat in the line in Nothing But The Truth [2007]. But with a shout out to Alai, he looks just as solid cruising over the bench to can on BCN's beach spot. Si no dices la verdad por buen corazón, dila al menos por cordura. Hardflip at 5:18


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We all have seen the trailer for the movie Pad man staring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor. But has it ever occurred to you on whose life is the movie based?
Well, that man is Arunachalam Muruganantham, he is the inventor of the low-cost sanitary pad making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India.
He is the first man in the world to wear a sanitary pad and experience the discomfort women go through for five straight days every month-barring the physical pain, of course. He is also the first man in India to acknowledge his wife's menstrual problems as his own.
Born in 1962 to a couple who were handloom weavers in Coimbatore, India. He grew up in poverty after his father died in a road accident. His mother worked as a farm laborer to help in his studies, however, at the age of 14 he dropped out of school and took up odd jobs to support his family.
In 1998, he married Shanthi. Shortly after marriage, he discovered his wife collecting filthy rags and newspapers to use during her menstrual cycle, as sanitary napkins made by multinational corporations were expensive.Troubled by this, he started designing experimental pads.Initially, he made pads out of cotton, but these were rejected by his wife and sisters.
Eventually, they stopped cooperating with him and refused to be the test subjects for his innovations. To bring him back to his senses his wife separated from him and sent him a divorce notice so that he would stop making the sanitary pads, but he continued to work in secret. He realized that the raw materials cost 10 paise ($0.002), but the end product is sold for 40 times that price. He looked for female volunteers who could test his inventions, but most were too shy to discuss their menstrual issues with him.
He started testing it on himself, using a bladder with animal blood but became the subject of ridicule when the "sanitary pad" was discovered in his village. As menstruation is a taboo subject in India, it left him ostracized by his community and family. He distributed his products free to girls in a local medical college, provided they returned them to him after use.
It took him two years to discover that the commercial pads used cellulose fibers derived from the pine bark wood pulp.The fibers helped the pads absorb while retaining shape.Imported machines that made the pads cost INR 35 million.So, he devised a low-cost machine that could be operated with minimal training.He sourced the processed pine wood pulp from a supplier in Mumbai and the machines would grind, de-fibrate, press and sterilize the pads under ultraviolet before packaging them for sale. The machine costing INR 65,000 only.
In 2006, he visited IIT Madras to show his idea and received suggestions. They registered his invention for the National Innovation Foundation Grassroots Technological Innovations Award and his idea won the award. He obtained seed funding and founded Jayaashree Industries, which now markets these machines to rural women across India.
His commitment to social aid has earned him several awards.Despite offers to commercialize his venture, he continues to provide these machines to self-help groups (SHGs) run by women. The working of the machine involves few simple steps. First defibering the core material which is wood pulp. Then forming the core of the napkin, followed by finishing the cover. The last step involves UV sterilization of the pads and then packing them. All these steps can be learned in an hour.
Muruganantham's invention is widely praised as a key step in changing women's lives in India. His machine has created jobs and income for many women, and affordable pads enable many more women to earn their livelihood during menstruation. In addition to his own outreach, Muruganantham's work has also inspired many other entrepreneurs to enter this area. On a happy note, Muruganantham has been reunited with his family who help him in his noble cause.In 2014, he was one of Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World. In 2016, he was awarded the Padma Shri.
He has given lectures at many institutions including IIT Bombay IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and Harvard. He has also given a TED talk. His story was the subject of a prize-winning documentary by Amit Virmani, Menstrual Man.[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQL7UJYDIY[/embedyt]
In a country where talking about periods is considered a taboo even in the 21st century, it takes a lot of courage and strength especially for a man to go all out of his way and break the taboos around the menstruation. More power and strength to him to continue his work and break the barriers around menstruation.
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A group of adventurers ("not thieves" as their leader often reminds them as they are re-routing goods) who… get into adventures. Though they have not established themselves to a great deal of fame, this group's mixture of mischief and good deeds, combined with various selfish end games of the individual members makes for an often contradictory guild of loosely connected swords for hire.
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The story is simple - each one of the barnyard animals has a baby animal that is just right for them (the sheep has a lamb, the horse has a foal etc), and ends with the mother telling her child that the child is the perfect one for her. A beautiful story about parent-child love (think along the lines of Robert Munsch's I'll Love You Forever) that had me crying, even though I'm not a mother.
The illustrations are also lovely - simple, clear, and colourful, with a couple of playful cats that appear on each page.
I hope that my nephew and niece enjoy this story, and I'm sure that their parents (my sister is a big fan of Jean Little) will enjoy reading it to them.


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I finally got the opportunity to start experimenting with Photoshop CS5′s new HDR Pro. Having been an avid user of Photomatix Pro, I was kind of set in my ways, and I had a specific workflow. I will say that there are things that I like and dislike in both programs. At this point, I can't say just yet that I prefer one over the other. As with any application, it takes time to learn and experiment to see where it fits into your workflow.
Though I've had Photoshop CS5 since it's release back in April, I haven't had the need to really create any HDR images. I've been super busy with weddings and portraits, leaving me no room to really fit any HDR in. Having said that, I had some rental lenses for a few more days. One of which was a Canon 10-22mm wide angle, which is what I shot the image above with. Great lens by the way I knew that I wanted to shoot some kind of landscape or building using this lens. So I headed off to the local river walk around sunset. I really wanted the challenge of shooting low light HDR. There are a few things you need in order to make this happen. First off, you need a tripod to secure your camera and prevent camera shake. Second, I recommend using an external shutter release. You can also use the self timer on your camera in order to prevent camera shake. As with any low light situation, any camera movement can make or break an image. And lastly, you need to bracket your shots. To create an HDR image, you need at least 3 different exposures. However, you could use 9 different exposures if you'd like. For the image above, I used 3.
Now, after downloading the images, I used a brand new feature in Photoshop CS5 called "Mini Bridge." Which is basically a smaller version of Bridge CS5, conveniently built into a panel right within Photoshop. Why does this feature rock? Because you never have to leave Photoshop. So after finding my 3 exposures -2,0,+2, I used the Merge to HDR Pro feature. This opens all 3 images into Photoshops HDR Pro. The image opens with it's default settings in place. It's honestly a descent starting point, especially after looking at the built in presets (ughhh don't get me started). There's no real magic here, knowing what each slider does, I basically started playing with the sliders until I got the look I wanted. Keep in mind that this process can take some time, you can make presets to use as a starting point, but when all is said and done each image that you create will be different. So using the same preset for multiple shots will unlikely give you the results you are seeking. It works on a case by case basis.
Here is the HDR Pro interface:
Notice all of the settings available to you inside of HDR Pro. Remember that it takes time to really get what you are looking for when it comes to HDR tonemapping. It's also good to note that once you leave HDR Pro, you still have other post-processing to do. Take a look at the "remove ghosts" feature inside of the HDR Pro interface. This feature is great when you have moving objects in your image, such as moving leaves on a tree. Turning this feature on helps remove ghosting by taking the exposure with the least amount of movement from your series of exposures. Lastly, don't forget the very important S-Curve. You can manually adjust the curve of the image by clicking on "Curve" next to the "Color" tab right inside of HDR Pro. Here you can make adjustments to your shadows, highlights and midtones.
Now after you're done tweaking the settings in HDR Pro, click Ok. Your processed HDR image will open in Photoshop. You may notice that the image looks different inside of Photoshop CS5. I'm still trying to figure that one out…But wait, you're not done! Save your image as a jpeg or tiff file. Open your image in Camera Raw. Tweak your image accordingly. Make the necessary adjustments including exposure, fill light, blacks, clarity etc. Finally, open in Photoshop to make any other corrections or enhancements to your image.
Hopefully this image above gives you an idea of the kind of work that goes on after you tonemapping your image in HDR Pro, and making adjustments in Camera Raw. You may also notice that in the layers panel above, there is a layer called "sky." If you go back to the before and after HDR image at the beginning of this post, you will see that the original image has a plain boring sky. How do we fix this? We add in a new sky from a photo we've previously taken and compositing it in using Photoshop. That's it, see ya next time!


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VOLUNTEER I have recently started participating in a 'get out and vote' campaign with the organization ARISE. We have been walking the streets of our "colonias," visiting the houses of registered voters to remind them of voting days and locations. Especially In our community voter turnout and civic participation is very low, only at about 16% (aproximarely 10,000 registered voters). With our effort we would like to increase that by at least ten percent.
Early voting days:
October 18-29. 2010
November 2, 2010.
EXPERIENCE The people that work at ARISE are very energetic, they are also very hardworking. I have had a great experience, quickly felt part of the group:) I encourage anyone who would like to volunteer to consider volunteer at ARISE. There is two more community centers in Alamo and Edinburg. They have several classes adulst from the respective community can take like english language ESL, citizenship, drivers ed (for adults), health, and aerobics.
EVENT!!! Our current campaign will reach a climax this Saturday, October 16, 2010. ARISE along with 3 other organisations (Azteca, LUPE, Social Justice) will be hosting a educational forum FOR candidates and incumbents for state and county positions, including democratic state governor candidate Bill White. The event will be in the McAllen Convention Center from 9-11AM. The forum will be completely in Spanish.
Candidate Accountability Session
October 16, 2010. 9-11 AM
McAllen Convention Center (link to event page click here)
Event page in Facebook RSVP: here
I will be certainly be there and would like to cordially invite any one who can come to join us. Learn about candidates currently running for office and make an informed decision. Text me for questions or details.
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Reinforment and Support: what you need to learn in the academy Logistics, Horse back, Compass, Military Science, and Metal Casting. For speed it is Horse back and Compass. There is different things I have heard about Horse back that you shouldn't go past lvl 6 for the balli will get there to fast and you may lose some while farming by the archers. I have not yet reached this problem though I am currently at lvl 7 and it is working just right there for me. For load it is logistics. Military Sciense and Metal Casting will help you create troops faster. Military Science is for infantry troops adn Metal Casting is for artillary such as balli. You can farm to get the supplies to build more troops and feed the ones you have. Also remember if you need to you can always still truce during that time you can still reinforce. Also if you send troops out as reinforcements you do not feed them which is nice sometimes it can help you build up your food resources. Whoever you reinforce they are responsible for the food. While waiting for you to be needed you are responsible for helping take out those weaker enemies around you or joining in on a group attack to destroy all those around us. Please feel free to add something I may have missed our didn't fully put it all in.
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