text: World 18 December 2008 John Pilger's wishful thinking for 2009 The good news for the new year is as follows, month-by-month. By John Pilger COMMENTS Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up January: Tony Blair is arrested at Heathrow Airport as he returns from yet another foreign speaking engagement (receipts since leaving office: £12m). He is flown to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes for his part in the illegal, unprovoked attack on a defenceless country, Iraq, justified by proven lies, and for the subsequent physical, social and cultural destruction of that country, causing the death of up to a million people. According to the Nuremberg Tribunal, this is the "paramount war crime". The prosecution tells Blair's defence team it will not accept a plea of "sincerely believing". Cherie Blair, a close collaborator who has compared her husband with Winston Churchill, is cautioned. February: Following the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States, his predecessor, George W Bush, is arrested leaving the Church of the Holy Crusader in his home town of Crawford, Texas. He is flown to The Hague in War Criminal One. (See above for prosecution details.) Laura Bush, after a plea bargain, agrees to give evidence against the former president, "for God's sake". March: Former vice-president Dick Cheney shoots himself in the foot hunting squirrels following a prayer breakfast in Hope, Florida. April: Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest and assumes her rightful place as the democratic head of the government of Burma. May: All American and British troops leave Iraq, including the "300-400" British troops who are to stay behind to "train Iraqis" and do the kind of special forces dirty work almost never reported by embedded journalists. June: All Nato troops leave Afghanistan. July: The British government calls a halt to selling arms and military equipment to ten out of 14 conflict-hit countries in Africa. The chairman of the arms company BAE Systems is arrested by the Serious Fraud Office. August: The British Department for International Development ends its support for privatisation as a condition of aid to the poorest countries. September: Sir Bob Geldof and Bono visit Tony Blair in prison, suggesting a worldwide Crime Aid gig to raise money for their hero's defence. October: The Booker prizewinner Anne Enright apologises to Gerry and Kate McCann, parents of the missing child Madeleine McCann, for speculating in the London Review of Books about the possible involvement of the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter. November: Gordon Brown is kidnapped, hooded and forced to listen repeatedly to his 2007 speech to bankers at a Mansion House banquet: "What you as the City of London have achieved for financial services, we as a government now aspire to achieve for the whole economy." December: Tony Blair is sentenced to life imprisonment and beatified by the Pope. If you think none of this will happen, you are probably right. But beware 2010 . . . John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him." Subscribe To stay on top of global affairs and enjoy even more international coverage subscribe for just £1 per month! This article appears in the 22 December 2008 issue of the New Statesman, Christmas and New Year special


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Experiences of e-IRG involvement in ESFRI 2016 proposal evaluation
In the preparation for the update of its Roadmap ESFRI has decided in 2013 to incorporate questions on e-infrastructure needs in the ESFRI proposal submission form. It was also agreed between ESFRI and e-IRG that e-IRG members would participate in the ESFRI Strategic Working groups and be responsible for the evaluation of the responses to these 'e-Needs' questions. Another e-IRG member participated in the Implementation Group. This short report presents the collective experiences with this evaluation process and some recommendations for improvement.
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e-IRG's reaction to the findings and recommendations of the report of the GÉANT Expert Group.
The GÉANT Expert Group (GEG) was established by the European Commission in December 2010, with the mandate to articulate a 2020 vision for European Research and Education networking and identify an action plan for realising this vision. On October 4, 2011 the GEG presented its vision and recommendations in its Report 'Knowledge without Borders: GÉANT 2020 as the European Communications Commons'.
With this paper, e-IRG provides its response to the findings and recommendations of the GEG-report. e-IRG welcomes the report, recognizes the analyses, and widely supports the recommendations.
The paper starts by presenting a brief summary of the main strategic aims of the GEG-report. It then discusses the issues that are seen as the most important from the point of view of e-IRG in relation to its mission, scope, policies and recommendations in its various Roadmaps and White Papers. It formulates questions and issues that the GEG report raises as well as an opinion from e-IRG on each of these questions and issues. It does not pretend to be complete as regards the issues raised by the GEG report, but concentrates on matters in which e-IRG can provide relevant input.
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The e-IRG Digital Agenda
In this survey we describe the essential role of the e-Infrastructure community for the realisation of the Digital Agenda and the importance of a proper e-Infrastructure governance. Recent e-IRG observations, recommendations and actions issued in White Papers and other e-IRG policy documents are summarized and linked to the seven problem areas recognised in the Digital Agenda. The aim is to provide guidance on the developments and actions required to achieve the goals of the Digital Agenda.
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One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it's possible to imagine a machine making the grade.Turing was one of the 20th century's great mathematicians, a conceptual architect of modern computing whose codebreaking played a decisive part in World War II. His test, described in a seminal dawn-of-the-computer-age paper, was deceptively simple: If a machine could pass for human in conversation, the machine could be considered intelligent.
Artificial intelligences are now ubiquitous, from GPS navigation systems and Google algorithms to automated customer service and Apple's Siri, to say nothing of Deep Blue and Watson — but no machine has met Turing's standard. The quest to do so, however, and the lines of research inspired by the general challenge of modeling human thought, have profoundly influenced both computer and cognitive science.
There is reason to believe that code kernels for the first Turing-intelligent machine have already been written.
"Two revolutionary advances in information technology may bring the Turing test out of retirement," wrote Robert French, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, in an Apr. 12 Science essay. "The first is the ready availability of vast amounts of raw data — from video feeds to complete sound environments, and from casual conversations to technical documents on every conceivable subject. The second is the advent of sophisticated techniques for collecting, organizing, and processing this rich collection of data."
"Is it possible to recreate something similar to the subcognitive low-level association network that we have? That's experiencing largely what we're experiencing? Would that be so impossible?" French said.
When Turing first proposed the test — poignantly modeled on a party game in which participants tried to fool judges about their gender; Turing was cruelly persecuted for his homosexuality – the idea of "a subcognitive low-level association network" didn't exist. The idea of replicating human thought, however, seemed quite possible, even relatively easy.
The human mind was thought to be logical. Computers run logical commands. Therefore our brains should be computable. Computer scientists thought that within a decade, maybe two, a person engaged in dialogue with two hidden conversants, one computer and one human, would be unable to reliably tell them apart.
That simplistic idea proved ill-founded. Cognition is far more complicated than mid-20th century computer scientists or psychologists had imagined, and logic was woefully insufficient in describing our thoughts. Appearing human turned out to be an insurmountably difficult task, drawing on previously unappreciated human abilities to integrate disparate pieces of information in a fast-changing environment.
"Symbolic logic by itself is too brittle to account for uncertainty," said Noah Goodman, a computer scientist at Stanford University who models intelligence in machines. Nevertheless, "the failure of what we now call old-fashioned AI was very instructive. It led to changes in how we think about the human mind. Many of the most important things that have happened in cognitive science" emerged from these struggles, he said.
By the mid-1980s, the Turing test had been largely abandoned as a research goal (though it survives today in the annual Loebner prize for realistic chatbots, and momentarily realistic advertising bots are a regular feature of online life.) However, it helped spawn the two dominant themes of modern cognition and artificial intelligence: calculating probabilities and producing complex behavior from the interaction of many small, simple processes.
Unlike the so-called brute force computational approaches seen in programs like Deep Blue, the computer that famously defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov, these are considered accurate reflections of at least some of what occurs in human thought.
As of now, so-called probabilistic and connectionist approaches inform many real-world artificial intelligences: autonomous cars, Google searches, automated language translation, the IBM-developed Watson program that so thoroughly dominated at Jeopardy. They remain limited in scope — "If you say, 'Watson, make me dinner,' or 'Watson, write a sonnet,' it explodes," said Goodman — but raise the alluring possibility of applying them to unprecedentedly large, detailed datasets.
"Suppose, for a moment, that all the words you have ever spoken, heard, written, or read, as well as all the visual scenes and all the sounds you have ever experienced, were recorded and accessible, along with similar data for hundreds of thousands, even millions, of other people. Ultimately, tactile, and olfactory sensors could also be added to complete this record of sensory experience over time," wrote French in Science, with a nod to MIT researcher Deb Roy's recordings of 200,000 hours of his infant son's waking development.
He continued, "Assume also that the software exists to catalog, analyze, correlate, and cross-link everything in this sea of data. These data and the capacity to analyze them appropriately could allow a machine to answer heretofore computer-unanswerable questions" and even pass a Turing test.
Artificial intelligence expert Satinder Singh of the University of Michigan was cautiously optimistic about the prospects offered by data. "Are large volumes of data going to be the source of building a flexibly competent intelligence? Maybe they will be," he said.
"But all kinds of questions that haven't been studied much become important at this point. What is useful to remember? What is useful to predict? If you put a kid in a room, and let him wander without any task, why does he do what he does?" Singh continued. "All these sorts of questions become really interesting.
"In order to be broadly and flexibly competent, one needs to have motivations and curiosities and drives, and figure out what is important," he said. "These are huge challenges."
Should a machine pass the Turing test, it would fulfill a human desire that predates the computer age, dating back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or even the golems of Middle Age folklore, said computer scientist Carlos Gershenson of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. But it won't answer a more fundamental question.
"It will be difficult to do — but what is the purpose?" he said.
Citation: "Dusting Off the Turing Test." By Robert M. French. Science, Vol. 336 No. 6088, April 13, 2012.
"Beyond Turing's Machines." By Andrew Hodges. Science, Vol. 336 No. 6088, April 13, 2012.
Images: 1) The Alan Turing memorial at Bletchley Park, the site of Turing's codebreaking accomplishments during World War II. (Jon Callas/Flickr) 2) IBM's Watson computer defeating Ken Jennings, the highest-ranking human Jeopardy! player. (IBM) Video: Two chatbots hold a conversation in the Cornell Creative Machines Lab. (Cornell University/YouTube)


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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Bourbon Law: Bourbon + Rye = What?
News came out recently that Wild Turkey is planning to release a blend of bourbon and rye. In the ensuing discussion on one of the forums, this question came up: If you add rye to bourbon, but the final mashbill is still at least 51% corn, can you call it bourbon?
The answer is no. Under the federal regulations, the definition of bourbon includes the mashbill of at least 51% corn, the new, charred oak barrels, etc. It also states that the definition includes "mixtures of such whiskies of the same type." 27 CFR § 5.22(b)(1)(i). Rye is not the "same type" of whiskey as bourbon, so once you add rye whiskey, it's no longer bourbon.
So what is it?
Well, if both whiskeys are straight, it's a "blend of straight whiskeys." 27 CFR § 5.22(b)(5)(i). If both whiskeys are not straight, there is no real category that covers it, other than the generic "whiskey."
Of course, the company could also describe the whiskey composition in the title, such as "Joe's Whiskey, a blend of bourbon and rye." This is what High West did with Campfire, another undefined category of whiskey. The heading on the label simply says "High West Whiskey" but there is a subheading that explains that the whiskey contains straight rye, straight bourbon and Scotch. This makes sense, since it informs the consumer of what is actually in the bottle, and that, after all, is the intent of all of these labeling regulations.
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- Steffen said...
High West also made a Bourye :-)
Nice word in my opinion
(and a very nice whiskey)
- June 5, 2013 at 8:52 AM
Unfortunately, the CFR seems to be rapidly becoming a fiction book.
Middle West Distillers market a really nice-tasting product that they call OYO Michelone Reserve Bourbon Whiskey -- and then go on to describe it further as "wheated bourbon whiskey", the implication being that it is at least 51% corn, with the main small grain being the red winter wheat they use in their wheat whiskey.
Turns out it's more than the wheat they use... it IS their wheat whiskey, blended with sourced straight Kentucky bourbon. Since the total corn content is over 51%, they feel that makes it legitimately bourbon whiskey. I feel they're wrong about that. I'll be you feel that way, too. In speaking with Erik Boettcher and Josh Daily of Middle West, I get the impression that they would have been fine with labeling it something else, but the TTB considers it to be bourbon whiskey, so that's what they went with.
These gentlemen don't appear to be the sort who are looking to sell a product by way of deception. It's a very good product on its own, and that isn't the issue. If the very organization that new distillers turn to for advice on how to label their product (among other key production requirements) is advising them contrary to the laws the organization is there to uphold, then of what value is the venerable CFR to anyone?
- June 5, 2013 at 1:34 PM
- sku said...
EllenJ, that's pretty sad. My experience is similar. I see so many out of compliance labels these days that it makes me wonder if anyone at the TTB has actually read the regs.
- June 5, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Once upon a time I was a Novell network administrator for a very large, global company located here in Cincinnati. A Novel network is a little like a Local Area Network (LAN) except much larger and far more secure. That security is maintained by the fact that the system is run 24/7 by professional administrators, rather than by the end users themselves as Windows networks are organized (if that's the word for it), or automated as internet websites are.
Unfortunately, the very safeguards that administrators are charged with enforcing also thwart the sort of instant, hands-off, outta-my-way-I-just-gotta-get-this-done-NOW personalities that mark the most creative and inventive people. And those are the very people who MY bosses depended on for our continued employment. Balancing "what's actually good for the customer" with "what some committee once SAID we're supposed to do or not do" was the core of many daily traumas (tramae?), all of which I'm happy to be no longer a part of.
But I can easily see the same thing happening to some poor TTB field agent.
Look, there are some folks who believe no whiskey should ever rate being called "bourbon" if it isn't distilled, aged, and sold by one of the eight old-line Kentucky companies that have been there since Repeal. I don't feel that way, personally; historically there is no reason to believe that all bourbon met the CFR regulations (which didn't exist before 1933), or the bottled-in-bond regulations (most didn't, in fact), or any other criteria that post-Prohibition marketers have insisted the brands that they bought the rights to have always met since the first drop of bourbon was distilled (by their founder, of course).
I'm not sure just why new distillers or bottlers of whiskey feel such a need to call their product "bourbon" -- could it be because they feel we won't bother to even try it if it isn't named that? I really think that seems to be the case, and if so, then we -- as consumers of Americian brown distilled spirits -- need to encourage new spirit types by making our desire to sample new stuff instead of just Buffalo Trace's annual product update clear. Instead of badgering your Congressperson to trash the current administration, or to ensure that nothing gets done at all, perhaps we should ask for a re-writing of the CF Regs regarding distilled spirit naming conventions and definitions. Then maybe we should petition liquor merchants to start promoting spirits other than "bourbon", "rye", "corn whiskey", "rum", agave and maguey spirits, vodka, and so forth. We could call ourselves The Long Island Iced Tea Party. Or something.
And you know what would happen if we were successful?
The "my whiskey is not only better than yours, yours shouldn't even be CALLED whiskey" folks will be bellyaching all over the place that the "stupid, corrupt media" has sold them out! Is anyone here really up for that?
- June 5, 2013 at 3:34 PM
Seems success breeds imitation.
Wild Turkey isn't the only one getting in on this act. Jefferson's is releasing a boubon/rye blend, too.
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Every cosmic spectacle presents some stunning images and yesterday's Lunar Eclipse was no different. Many people in the Indian sub-continent were left satisfied this time around, after the June eclipse (awesome pics here) was obscured by heavy cloud cover, leaving eclipse enthusiasts disheartened. We bring to you few photos from around the world.
Show Starter!
Here is one of the earliest photos, circulated by Reuters, which shows the earliest phases of the eclipse.
Blood Red and Brilliant
Here's a brilliant one taken by David Prosper. This is just one of the many he took from his backyard in Oakland, California.
Here's a close-up of the moon, by now just an orange ghostly image. This one was taken by Charles R. Jones, who is a skywatcher. This is from Phoenix, Arizona.
This next one is an absolute beauty. It was taken at the Turret Arch at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah. The photo is taken from Hungeree, which has a few other gems in their kitty too.
The Final Goodbye and Hello Once again!
This one is by Kendra Lakkees, showing the end of the totality phase of the eclipse.
The last one is the end of the eclipse. Taken by yours truly, from Kolkata, India, this closes the article.
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TUESDAY, April 24, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Dark chocolate may lower your risk of heart disease by lowering levels of blood glucose and bad cholesterol while boosting levels of good cholesterol, a small new study suggests.
Chocolate contains compounds called flavanols, which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Previous research has shown a link between flavanol intake and risk for cardiovascular disease.
In this study, San Diego State University researchers assigned 31 people to consume 50 grams per day of either dark chocolate (70 percent cocoa) or white chocolate (0 percent cocoa). Dark chocolate was used because it has higher flavanol levels than milk chocolate.
The participants' blood pressure, forearm skin blood flow, circulating lipid (fat) profiles and blood glucose levels were recorded before and after they consumed the chocolate for 15 days.
The tests revealed that those who ate dark chocolate had lower levels of blood glucose and "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and higher levels of "good" high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol than those who ate white chocolate.
The study is scheduled to be presented today at the Experimental Biology 2012 meeting in San Diego. Research presented at meetings should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
Despite these and other findings that dark chocolate may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, the researchers said chocolate must be eaten in moderation because of its saturated fat and caloric content.
It's estimated that the typical American consumes more than 10 pounds of chocolate a year.
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The ancient city, which is a Unesco World Heritage site, is famed for its well-preserved Greco-Roman ruins, and the Baalshamin temple, built nearly 2,000 years ago, is one of the city's best-known buildings....From the Wikipedia article on the temple:
"The cella (inner area of the temple) was destroyed and the columns around collapsed," he said.
Emma Loosley, a professor at Exeter University who lived near the ancient city for three years, said the temple's cella was "pretty much perfect." "I can't think of another temple as beautifully preserved as the temple of Baalshamin...."
In Sanchuniathon's main mythology the god he calls in Greek 'Uranus'/'Sky' has been thought by some to stand for Ba'al Šamem... As in Greek mythology and Hittite mythology, Sky is castrated by his son, who is in turn destined to be opposed by the thunder god....Here's a picture of the temple as it appeared before Sunday's explosion:


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Treatment for Anorexia
Treatment of anorexia, as with all eating disorders, can be challenging. Effective treatment addresses the underlying emotional and mental health issues, issues that often date back to childhood and a person's self-perception and self-image. Indeed, many of the treatment approaches described below focus on helping a person with anorexia to understand how their own self-image impacts their eating behavior. Self-image can be seen as a foundation of the change that a person with anorexia needs to address, as inaccurate self-image can be devastating — to the point where an emaciated individual still see themselves as overweight.
Some people with anorexia can be in what psychologists call "denial." That is, they deny even having a problem, even if their body weight is dangerously low. They may point to supermodels or other celebrities as proof that they don't have a problem and just want to "look as thin as they do." Part of the challenge of treatment with anorexia, then, may be just helping the person with anorexia understand they do have a serious mental health concern that needs professional treatment (see Family Therapy below).
While there are many different routes to treatment, virtually all of them begin with seeing an eating disorder specialist. Usually this individual is a psychologist who has deep experience and training in helping a person with anorexia. A physical examination and workup by a medical doctor is also an initial part of the standard treatment of anorexia, to understand and begin addressing the physical problems that may have occurred as a result of the disorder.
Psychotherapy for Anorexia
Psychotherapy is the most common treatment for anorexia and has the greatest research support. Psychotherapy can involve a significant time and financial commitment, particularly if you are struggling with other issues (sexual abuse, depression, substance use, relationship problems). Psychotherapy can be very helpful in addressing not only your disordered eating, but also your overall emotional health and happiness. Indeed, the focus of psychotherapy treatment will be to address the underlying emotional and cognitive issues that result in the disordered eating.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is considered the treatment of choice for people with anorexia. With the support of decades' worth of research, CBT is a time-limited and focused approach that helps a person understand how their thinking and negative self-talk and self-image can directly impact their eating and negative behaviors.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is the gold standard treatment for anorexia.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy will often focus on identifying and altering dysfunctional thought patterns, attitudes and beliefs, which may trigger and perpetuate the person's restrictive eating. A researcher in the early 1980s by the name of Chris Fairburn developed a specific model of cognitive-behavioral therapy to help in the treatment of anorexia, using the traditional foundations of CBT therapy — helping a person understand, identify and change their irrational thoughts (the "cognitive" part), and helping a person make the changes real through specific behavioral interventions (such as promoting health eating behaviors through goal setting, rewards, etc.).
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is time-limited, meaning that a person with anorexia will go into treatment for a specific period of time with specific goals in mind. Like all psychotherapy, it can be conducted in either an outpatient (once weekly) or inpatient setting. If done in an inpatient setting, eating disorders are often treated at residential treatment facilities, since eating is such an integral and necessary part of our lives.
According to an article published in 2008 from the U.S. National Guideline Clearinghouse, "For adults, preliminary evidence suggested that cognitive behavioral therapy may reduce the relapse risk after weight restoration. For adolescents, evidence supported specific forms of family therapy that initially focused on parental control of re-nutrition."
"Among anorexia nervosa patient populations, at least one-half no longer suffered from anorexia nervosa at follow up [after cognitive-behavioral therapy treatment], but many continued to have other eating disorders; mortality was significantly higher than would be expected in the population.
"Factors associated with recovery or good outcomes were lower levels of depression and compulsivity. Factors associated with mortality included concurrent alcohol and substance use disorders.
Another form of psychotherapy is known as family therapy. Family therapy helps a person with anorexia see and understand the often-times dysfunctional role they play within the family, and how their eating behaviors maintain that role.
Family therapy is usually conducted with the person who has anorexia and their family. However, in some instances, a few family therapy sessions may involve therapy without the person who has anorexia present. This may help the family understand the roles they are playing in supporting the disordered eating, and suggest ways the family can help the person with anorexia acknowledge the problem and seek out treatment.
The "Maudsley Method" is a specific form of family therapy where parents assume responsibility for feeding their anorexic teen to help them gain weight and improve the teen's eating habits. Research has demonstrated its effectiveness in the treatment of adolescents and children especially, before the disordered eating has become a chronic behavior.
Grohol, J. (2020). Treatment for Anorexia. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 29, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/lib/treatment-for-anorexia/
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Columbus, Aquila/Hudbay and Evolving find gold in French Guiana, Michigan and Nevada
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To put some perspective on its Paul Isnard property in French Guiana, Columbus Gold TSXV:CGT likes to go back in time—roughly 225 million years. That's before tectonic forces tore apart the planet's one and only continent. The present-day Caribbean coast of South America was then joined to present-day northwestern Africa. Consequently there's continuity, the company contends, between South America's Guiana Shield and the Birimian Shield of gold-rich countries like Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Ghana. Thanks to that geology, Columbus has boosted its inferred resource by 184% to 5.37 million gold ounces.
As announced on February 5, the project's Montagne d'Or resource update uses a low cutoff of 0.3 grams per tonne for a deposit starting at surface and reaching an average vertical depth of 247 metres. The company provided additional numbers for higher cutoff grades:
- with a 0.3 g/t cutoff, 117.1 million tonnes averaging 1.43 g/t for 5.37 million ounces
- with a 0.4 g/t cutoff, 111.2 million tonnes averaging 1.48 g/t for 5.3 million ounces
- with a 0.5 g/t cutoff, 101.9 million tonnes averaging 1.58 g/t for 5.17 million ounces
- with a 0.7 g/t cutoff, 81.7 million tonnes averaging 1.82 g/t for 4.78 million ounces
- with a 1 g/t cutoff, 58.1 million tonnes averaging 2.22 g/t for 4.15 million ounces.
The update uses a 16 g/t topcut as compared to the previous 1.89-million-ounce resource, which used a 30 g/t topcut and 0.4 g/t cutoff.
In a statement accompanying the announcement, Columbus chairman/CEO Robert Giustra said modelling "has also identified gaps within the deposit envelope where additional drilling has the potential to add ounces and where tighter drilling may upgrade some or all of the inferred resources to the indicated category. Additional expansion potential is also suggested by untested geochemical anomalies extending more than three kilometres along strike, by incompletely tested parallel zones of gold mineralization, and at depth."
The 149-square-kilometre Paul Isnard project includes a 65-person camp with airstrip on a forest road connecting to a highway 115 kilometres from the port of St. Laurent.
Columbus shares opened February 5 at $0.355, seven cents above the previous close, and hit $0.425 before settling on a $0.365 close.
Another resource update, announced February 4, comes from Michigan's Back Forty project, a 49/51 joint venture of Aquila Resources TSX:AQA and Hudbay Minerals TSX:HBM. The global resource shows:
- measured and indicated resources of 987,236 gold ounces, 11.91 million silver ounces, 110.43 million copper pounds, 74.3 million lead pounds and 1.02 billion zinc pounds
- an inferred resource of 155,885 gold ounces, 1.99 million silver ounces, 18.65 million copper pounds, 17.21 million lead pounds and 113.33 million zinc pounds.
The estimate provides separate numbers for open pit and underground resources. The open pit estimate shows:
- measured and indicated resources of 640,663 gold ounces, 6.96 million silver ounces, 72.27 million copper pounds, 36.22 million lead pounds and 525.54 million zinc pounds.
The underground estimate shows:
- measured and indicated resources of 346,572 gold ounces, 4.95 million silver ounces, 38.16 million copper pounds, 38.07 million lead pounds and 496.13 million zinc pounds
- an inferred resource of 142,351 gold ounces, 1.82 million silver ounces, 18.02 million copper pounds, 15.9 million lead pounds and 103.7 million zinc pounds.
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Casino first stumbled upon his craft when eating shelled peanuts. He found one particular shell to look like him, so he drew a face on it, and thus his foray into painting nut characters was born. The self-taught artist then decided to paint people he admires, starting with Joey Ramone.
But painting a peanut isn't as simple as it sounds. To begin, Casino studies images of the person he will paint. The next step is finding the peanut — the artist may sift through hundreds of nuts before he finds the perfect one. Once the perfectly-shaped peanut is found, the nut inside is extracted, and the shell is glued back together. A shell of wood filler is that spread onto the front, making for a smooth painting surface. Legs and a stand are added, followed by the arms once the painting is completed.
The tiny paintings can take up to 10 hours to complete. Some of Casino's peanut portraits have included nutty renderings of Johnny Cash and June Carter, The Addams Family, the Sex Pistols, Andy Warhol, Wonder Woman and more. To keep the element of fun, Casino leaves the back of each character in its original peanut texture, to add a little surprise and giggle for the viewer. If Casino's character tastes aren't to your liking, the artist will also create custom peanuts for your pleasure.
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The Entertainment Consumers Association will now support chapter organizations created by its members, it announced today. The ECA hopes to create new networks by which consumers within the same area can connect with one another, participate in ECA-sponsored LAN parties, fundraisers and other events.
The ECA has also stepped up to advocate a social network for politically-minded gamers, taking over the National Association forthe Protection of Video Games group on Facebook and hosting a new "action center" on
The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) Sponsors Regional Chapters to Empower Gamers
Community-driven ECA Chapters Aim to Create Networks of Passionate Gamers
WILTON, Conn.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), the non-profit organization that represents video game enthusiasts, today announced their support of chapter organizations created by ECA members.
These newly formed networks give consumers the opportunity to connect with like-minded gamers in their area. Participation is open to activities like ECA-sponsored LAN parties, fund-raisers and contests in addition to attending local events, conferences and shows. ECA chapters are forming now in local gaming communities and college campuses all across the country. They adopt the collective goal of educating the community on political issues that directly affect the interactive entertainment industry and broadening the ECA's mission – to give gamers a voice.
"With over 40 ECA chapters already formed and many more on the way, we're incredibly encouraged by the number of gamers that have taken the initiative and embraced our vision," said Thomas Valentino, ECA Chapter Relations. "In the coming months, we plan to coordinate group advocacy efforts that continue to preserve our rights as gamers."
A variety of community benefits are offered to all ECA members. Chapter members and presidents will be able to take advantage of an active social network by participating in meetings and activities involving passionate and politically charged gaming fans in their area. ECA chapter members can also benefit by gaining access to a larger professional network that can lead to career and educational opportunities in the gaming industry.
In addition to their support of chapter organizations, the ECA recently took over the National Association for the Protection of Video Games (NAPVG), a Facebook group consisting of politically-minded gamers that are making their voices heard. Serving the needs of these individuals and others who share the same passion, the ECA website now hosts an "action center" page where gamers everywhere can contact elected officials and become involved in pending state and national legislation and issues that affect the gaming community.
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"Lifting the Hands Which Hang Down," Ensign, Feb. 2013, 60–62
Lifting the Hands Which Hang Down
Stephen Havertz lives in Utah, USA.
Whether you are experiencing grief or comforting someone who is grieving, keep in mind that people mourn in deeply personal ways.
When I saw Emmalee take her last breath, I was forever changed. Emm, as we called her, was nine years old when she peacefully passed away while lying on the couch in the front room, her favorite spot in our house. We agonized over the decision to bring her home from the hospital. The doctors told us she would likely die in the ambulance, but we knew how much she loved being home and chose to take her there. Gratefully, she seemed to know when she arrived home, even though she appeared unconscious.
Within 20 minutes her breathing slowed. There was no way to prepare for that moment. In my mind, over and over again, I had thought about how I would handle her death, but the emotions just seemed to sneak up and ambush me. I had always been a fairly even person emotionally, but this was one of the times in my life when I felt as if my emotions overpowered all logic. I had experienced this three other times: when Emm was diagnosed with liver cancer, when I had to tell Emm that she was going to die, and when I heard that my first wife had died.
My personal experiences and my professional work—I am a licensed clinical social worker and have provided counseling for more than 21 years—have given me a unique perspective on grief and loss. People often wonder how to appropriately comfort those who are grieving. The Lord has commanded us to "succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees" (D&C 81:5). After passing through my own experiences, I understand more about helpful things to say and do for someone who is dealing with loss.
What Can I Say?
My experiences help me relate with increased compassion to people who have lost a loved one, but I rarely say "I know what you are going through" to someone who is grieving. That's because everyone experiences grief differently. Family members who deal with a suicide face a very different type of grief from family members who grieve the loss of a grandparent who has lived a long, full life. People likewise grieve broken marriages, childlessness, and unfulfilled expectations. Each type of grief comes with its own set of questions and often a heavy dose of regret and emotional pain.
In all cases, those who wish to help will be most effective when they can be sensitive to the unique situation. It's probably best to express your love and condolences to the grievers and avoid making statements about what they should do or how they should feel.
Toward the end of Emm's life, my wife and I learned we were expecting a baby. Our son was born shortly after Emm died.
We needed to clean out Emm's room to make a place for our newborn, but every time we went into the room, we felt too overcome with grief to be able to begin. Someone came to me during this time and told me that I needed to be strong and clean out Emm's room. This person had good intentions, but this remark lacked the type of empathy and understanding I needed.
People who want to help should be very careful about placing a time limit on someone's grief. Some believe that people should be finished grieving after a year and a half. In my personal and professional experience, I have learned that the pangs of grief can recur years later without warning. It has been three years since Emmalee died, and I still feel tremendous pain whenever I visit the hospital where she was sick. This type of grief doesn't mean that I'm depressed or inconsolable, but rather it suggests that I still miss the people I love.
I have found that the most helpful conversations occur when people share their favorite memories of my wife and daughter with me; it's also helpful when they are willing to listen to my favorite memories. I often cry during these conversations, but that doesn't mean my day is ruined. These interactions actually brighten my day. You don't have to help people who are grieving to stop crying. It may seem counterintuitive to cause more pain, but I have found with my own grief that I'm in pain anyway, and these conversations provide a chance for me to release my feelings.
What Can I Do?
One of my most memorable experiences happened after my first wife died. My neighbor, whom I didn't know very well, rang the doorbell. When I answered the door, he reached out and hugged me. His gesture of compassion touched me so deeply that I began sobbing. He continued to hold me as I cried. He didn't say anything, but he communicated his concern and love for me through his actions.
Another friend in my ward owned a landscaping business. A few weeks after Emm died, he sent some of his workers over to our house to do the autumn cleanup. He didn't know I would be home. I started to cry when I saw his team working in our yard. I went out and shook each one of their hands and thanked them. That same friend also planted a tree at Emmalee's elementary school in her memory.
These experiences have taught me that it's best to be empathetic and proactive about helping those who are grieving. If you take some time to observe, you can often come up with ideas for how to help that are specific to the grievers' needs. You can help by providing a meal, giving a hug, sending a card or email, or delivering flowers. Sometimes it's helpful to suggest specific days and activities, such as taking a walk, going shopping, or visiting the zoo. These actions will let the people who are grieving know that you are there for them and will support them when they are ready to receive your help.
Whether we are experiencing grief or comforting someone who is grieving, it is always good to keep in mind that people mourn in deeply personal ways. As we "are willing to mourn with those that mourn … and comfort those that stand in need of comfort" (Mosiah 18:9), we can become more sincere followers of Christ and enjoy a greater abundance of the Spirit.


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I'm so happy to see my son smiling so much despite all that he is facing.
The early afternoon sunlight streams through the straw of Gregory's farmer hat. The only thing brighter than the sun is his smile as he sits atop the big, red tractor. It's just like his toys back home, only this time, it's real.
In many ways, this is a dream come true for Gregory. He has always been happiest when he plays with his toy tractors. They remind him of the farms he has seen on TV, the ones he'd love to visit one day. He also wants to ride a tractor just like his dad. (Technically, his father drives a truck, not a tractor, but it's all the same to Gregory.)
More than anything, tractors represent something for Gregory to look forward to. "He tells me he wants to be a tractor driver when he's older, and I have hope that day will come for him," his mother, Celia, says.
Her cautious optimism might be a result of Gregory's situation. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014. Because of complications, his eyesight is now almost completely gone and he has trouble walking.
Even with these challenges, Gregory doesn't feel sad – he feels blessed. "He always tells us he has cancer, but he also reminds us he is in God's hands and when we see him laughing and smiling we know he is," his mother says. And his wish-granting volunteers hope to make Gregory feel more blessed by making his wish a reality.
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March 22 is a big morning for Gregory as well as the people who support him. At 11 a.m., he travels to Toys"R"Us with his mother, father, and sister and two wish-granting volunteers, Silvana and Gracie. Gregory excitedly picks out a new bed while his sister hunts for craft supplies. The stop is just a prequel to the events later in the day.
Before long, the car is packed up with goodies and the posse is back on the road to The Original Manassero Farms where Gregory will become a true tractor driver. He is wearing denim overalls and sturdy shoes – just the things a real farmer would need.
Dan and Anne, the farm owners, are ready when Gregory and his supporters finally arrive. The couple has gone to great lengths to make them feel welcome on the farm, just like family. They offer all sorts of homemade treats – hot dogs, guacamole and chips, cookies, and their specialty … strawberry smoothies!
But the fun doesn't stop there. To make his day extra special, Dan and Anne gift Gregory two sets of farmer outfits, one for warm and one for cold weather, as well as some toys. They haven't forgotten his sister, either. She receives her very own garden bucket organizer to bring back home.
After all these gifts, Gregory is especially ready to ride the tractor around the farm. He takes his seat up high, smiling ear to ear, and Dan and Anne help him steer around the entire property. Anyone can tell from his laughter that he's a tractor-driving natural!
At long last, the ride must come to an end, but Dan and Anne want to leave Gregory with one more memory of farm life. Gregory, his family and the wish-granting volunteers are given free rein to pick fresh strawberries on the farm. The group fills a whole basket with tasty treats that they can enjoy later that night.
And then, right before he leaves, Gregory gets one last surprise – an electric tractor to take home with him! Now, he can be a tractor driver any day of the week. He is beside himself with joy.
Reflecting back, the volunteers have no doubt that the tractor wish lifted Gregory's spirits. "Seeing his smile was the best part of this day!!!!" Silvana writes.
Gregory's parents also confirm the positive impact that the wish had. "I'm so happy to see my son smiling so much despite all that he is facing," says his father, Gregorio, "a wish like this was a dream come true for our entire family."
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A letter from Indians manager Terry Francona
I am proud to be a Cleveland Indian and a Clevelander. This is a great time for our city and our team. My father played here. We both think Cleveland and this organization are special. When I got the offer to come here, I knew it was the perfect place for me.
Baseball matters -- its values have not been lost to time. I tell the guys that wearing this uniform carries a responsibility. We know what our uniform stands for and what it means to our fans and our city. We don't expect to be handed wins or your respect; we intend to earn them both. We want you to be proud of the way we play. Come encourage us and hold us to it.
Whatever this season is, it will be special. You're going to remember it because we're working our butts off to make that memory a great one. This team has the drive and ability to contend. These guys are special not just because they are great players, but because they truly are a team; like Cleveland, they won't back down. It's a simple recipe of respect, loyalty, fun and the most determined work ethic in the league.
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- Arduino + Wireless shield + Xbee module: seems like an ok option but I will need to get some good examples because the v2 stuff is tricky to setup. I couldn't find too many arduino projects using xbee. This is where I am leaning right now.
In my ideal world, I would like an extremely reliable wifi interface that could reliably be put into and out of sleep mode for long periods to preserve battery life.
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Cannon marathon raises about $1,500
September 26, 2009
How does a 13.1-mile run at 7:30 a.m. sound to start your Saturday?
More than 50 people ran the first 27th Special Operations Support Squadron Wizards Half Marathon at Cannon Air Force Base Saturday morning, with support from about 45 volunteers.
The event raised a take-home total of $1,500 to $1,600 for the Wizard Advisory Council, coordinator Tech Sgt. Adam Bolen estimated.
The advisory council, made up of squadron members, supports the squadron with such things as holiday parties and a clothing drive for Iraqi families.
Runners came from as close as Clovis and as far as Alamogordo and Arizona.
"I'm training for a marathon in October, and I thought this would be a good tune-up race," said the first female finisher, Becky Rowley of Clovis.
With a time of 1:39.22, Rowley said she did about as well as she hoped.
"The course was really nice," she said. "Conditions were about perfect."
Among the men, Michael Kiss came in first with a time of 1:36.24.
Carl Armstrong, Clovis resident and a retired Airman who came in third among the men, said he ran the half marathon to train for a triathlon in November.
"I like this race a lot," he said.
Armstrong also planned to compete in another race the day after the half marathon.
The squadron's 1st Sgt. Brian Rollefson said about 75 percent of the runners came from Cannon, but he hopes to bring in more people from the community next year.
Along with the race, the morning included face painting, an inflatable jumper, an awards ceremony with medals for the first three male and female finishers, a raffle and a barbecue lunch, courtesy of the squadron's spouses club.
Bolen said it was a big deal to have 45 volunteers from the squadron come out on a day off because they work hard during the week.
"It shows a lot about the people in our squadron," he said.
Organizers have been working on the event since June. Because it has "a lot of moving parts, a lot of logistics that take a long time to get coordinated," Bolen said. The idea came from the experience Rollefson had with a similar event at another base.
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Gary Beck, Oregon OSHA's safety enforcement manager, wants employers to remember Oregon OSHA's requirements to protect construction workers from falls.
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In some cases (shown below), workers must be protected from falls if they are working at heights of six feet or more.
When workers are above dangerous equipment, they must be protected from falling, regardless of the height.
Oregon OSHA's fall protection requirements for the construction industry are covered in Subdivision M of Oregon OSHA's safety and health standards. Also, look for information under "Fall protection" in the A-Z topic list on Oregon OSHA's website.
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Apr 26, 2012
In the past month, online brand marketing has become the subject of a lively debate in the marketing trades, specifically AdExchanger and Advertising Age. Impatient with the slow growth of brand advertising online as well as the persistent absence of a validated method for measuring return on social media marketing investments, marketing services experts are openly questioning the viability of online media as a brand marketing channel.
Most online marketing professionals have heard these arguments before, but this recent incarnation began with an article in Advertising Age reporting the findings of a study from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute which found that only 1% of brand fans on Facebook actually engage with brands. Two weeks later, the New York City-based venture capitalist Jerry Neumann wrote a piece in AdExchanger in which he strongly suggested that online media doesn't work for brand advertising. The problem with both of these polemics is that they both rely on faulty assumptions about the way that users actually consume online media.
Brand fans actually comprise a tiny minority of Facebook users and, as the research from the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute revealed, they tend to already be heavy buyers of the brands. Due to this fact, one occasionally hears marketing experts argue that marketing on Facebook only reaches people who are already your customers and thus is not effective for growing brands. However, Facebook is not simply a network of static web pages but rather a networking platform that enables a broad array of dynamic interactions between individual profiles and pages. When a user becomes a brand fan or interacts in any way with a brand whatsoever, that action is broadcast across his/her entire social network on Facebook, presumably many of whom are not currently customers of the brand.
Still, social media marketing detractors will argue that only 1% of brand fans actually interact in any way with the brand. However, as Andrew Lipsman from comScore points out, 1% is more than sufficient to generate broad reach among prospective customers. It turns out that brand marketing on Facebook, and arguably social media marketing in general, is actually a digital iteration of word-of-mouth marketing whereby heavy buyers or "brand loyalists" are activated via engaging, creative content and programming to become advocates for the brand among prospective customers.
Almost a third (31%) of display ad impressions on websites are never seen by anyone, as a recent study from comScore revealed. This fact, coupled with the very limited choices in ad formats on most web sites that have persisted over the almost 20 years since online media began, has led some to believe that online media is not suitable for brand advertising. However these experts are ignoring the revolution currently taking place in the way people consume online media.
The old practice of flipping through web pages is rapidly ceding its prominent position to streaming audio and video, mobile content, and social media. The following are just a few data points which evidence this major transition:
What all this means is that, while we may have exhausted the potential of the banner ad to grow brands online, we have only just scratched the surface when it comes to the full potential of online media as a brand marketing channel. Online media is currently morphing into a virtual world of streaming vibrant content that people can consume anywhere at any time, share with friends, discuss with others and even consume with others simultaneously from separate locations. The branding potential of online media is becoming exponentially vaster because these dynamic, social experiences have the ability to create powerful brand associations, strong brand memory structures and reach broad audiences in ways that never existed for broadcast TV. The present and pressing task is for publishers and network providers to work with advertisers and their agencies to develop these opportunities.
However, given the nature of the latest iteration of online media, fully capitalizing on the branding opportunities will require a clever combination of earned, owned and paid strategies. Facebook is already working to facilitate these kinds of integrated strategies through its new tools "Timeline", "Reach Generator" and "Premium Ads". Moreover, leading global brand marketers like Coca-Cola, Ford and Procter & Gamble are already capitalizing on the myriad of ways to harness online media to build brands.


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Mr. Speaker, I share the views of my hon. colleague on the cautious optimism about this particular bill as it enters committee.
One of the issues the member brought forward, which is dear to my heart, is the idea of how to handle rehabilitation of young offenders in rural areas, and the facilities and programs that are available for that rehabilitation process.
I would like the member to discuss that further. I know she did not have a lot of time and she has a wealth of experience in this sort of thing. She did mention the rural areas. I am particularly concerned about the lack of rehabilitation. Depending on where the resources are, certainly where I am, in an area that is sparsely populated, it is of major concern.
Therefore, I ask the member to bring that up and perhaps bring more details to the House.


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You might think that there's nothing more to say about former Vice President Joe Biden and the touchy-feely behavior that makes some women "uncomfortable," but that's only because you didn't know my Aunt Helen.
Aunt Helen lived in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in a third-floor walk-up apartment that was cluttered and dusty and smelled of cheese danish and challah. She was about 4 feet 2 and weighed in at about 150 pounds, but that's just in my memory, which may be unreliable. I was a little girl when we visited her every month. My mother insisted on the visits because Aunt Helen was Grandpa Morris's older sister, and Grandpa was dead and his brother was in an asylum, so she was the go-to elder in the family.
We took a bus, walked another hundred miles and then trudged up the endless stairs in the shadowy old building. Aunt Helen was always there at the top of the stairs, planted in her doorway. She locked eyes with me and shifted from leg to leg, blocking the entrance. No matter how I ducked and bobbed, she held her ground.
There was nowhere to run. She'd grab me by both cheeks, paralyzing my facial muscles so that I was totally immobilized. Then she'd go in for the kill, pulling my face toward hers and planting a big wet kiss on my lips. Talk about uncomfortable.
Yes, why don't we? My sister and I told our mother that we dreaded the kiss and, even more, the death grip on our faces, but Mom said we had to realize that our visit was the only light in Aunt Helen's life with Uncle Hymie, and she would be deeply hurt if we pushed away her gesture of affection.
I know, it wasn't a P.C. message to tell kids they had to go along with physical contact they didn't want. Somehow, though, I grew up knowing the difference between being tolerant of Aunt Helen and smacking the guy who groped me in the movie theater when I was 12. I hit him upside the head with my Il Bisonte handbag with the metal studs, and he crept away like the pervert he was.
The Joe Biden brouhaha is overblown. There may be many reasons why he should and shouldn't be president of the United States, but his affectionate demeanor isn't a factor for me. You just have to watch the guy in crowds to see that he loves people and likes to make contact, and embraces everyone, and does it all with good humor and a self-deprecating sense of self.
Still, I think House Speaker Nancy Pelosi probably got it right when she said it isn't about his good intentions, but rather about how women have perceived his gestures of affection. They said something. He said he gets it. I get it.
My guess is that Biden, who is 76, was surprised to learn that some women found his hugging offensive. My dad called female wait staff and secretaries "darling" or "dear." He meant to be friendly, although we now know that this familiarity can be patronizing. We can learn and change and move along without an issue becoming what the Biden moment has become: a hyped-up bit of political theater.
Through the years, until she died, Aunt Helen maintained her post in her apartment doorway like an NFL linebacker. We dragged ourselves up the stairs for the monthly visit and endured her kisses. It was OK. We learned that her feelings had to be considered along with our sense of comfort in the moment. That wasn't a terrible thing, and it didn't stop us from maturing into assertive women. We know the difference between molestation and an unwelcome hug.
I bring up my encounters with Aunt Helen because they fall into that middle ground where you don't quite know what to do. Do you hurt an old woman's feelings because her kisses feel icky? There isn't a one-size-fits-all rule for human behavior. Between and among adults, it seems safe to say that if it feels uncomfortable, speak up. But let's keep a sense of proportion, along with a sense of humor, in our interactions.
I would definitely have backed Aunt Helen in a scrimmage with Uncle Joe, although it would have been highly inappropriate, and Uncle Hymie surely would have protested. Aunt Helen would have planted a wet one right on the former veep's lips.
Copyright 2019 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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