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The Family Storybook Treasury with CD: Tales of Laughter, Curiosity, and Fun. HMH Books (October 2011); ISBN 9780547612218; 304 pages
Book Source: Review copy provided by publisher
Both my kids have been sick lately, so we've had quite a bit of time to peruse this large 304 page, 10" x 10" book of stories and poems. The hardcover book offers a really nice selection of titles, and it appeals to a broad age range of kids, from toddlers to elementary age.
Picture books included in this treasury:
• Curious George and the Firefighters by Margret and H. A. ReyThe Family Storybook Treasury is destined to become a cherished addition to home libraries. It would also make a great gift for teachers! Inside the shiny gold cover are several beloved and classic characters. My kids instantaneously recognized Curious George, Martha the talking dog and those five silly monkeys that are always getting into trouble. The text of each of the picture books is unabridged and the illustrations are just as one would expect. All the titles chosen for the volume work wonderfully as read-aloud books and the print size and reading levels vary with each title and poem.
• Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
• Lyle Walks the Dogs by Bernard Waber, illustrated by Paulis Waber
• Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw, illustrated by Margo Apple
• Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
• Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
• The Great Doughnut Parade by Rebecca Bond
• Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Colored paper divides the book sections, making it easy to thumb through the pages to locate the stories. Two page, illustrated poetry spreads also divide each of the stories. The book contains the following poems:
Illustrated Poems:
• "The Cheetah" by Douglas FlorianLike I said, one of the best features of this treasury is the audio CD. Narrated by several individuals, the recordings are high quality. The narration is often accompanied by corresponding background music. Although the audio does not include page-turn signals, the CD is still a nice tool for young children, especially beginning readers. Audio books help children expand their reading comprehension. My daughter has already listened to the audio twice and has not had any problems following along. Her favorite story is one she's never read before, a humorous cumulative story, The Great Doughnut Parade. My son enjoys Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. I especially like that the book includes a few poems. Poems tend to get overlooked by parents but early exposure to poetry is such an important component in a child's development and helps with both language and writing skills.
• "The Egret" by Calef Brown from Soup for Breakfast
• "Caterpillar" by Nikki Grimes (illustrated by Javaka Septoe)
• "Song of the Water Boatman" by Joyce Sidman (illustrated by Beckie Prange)
• "Tree Horse" by Kristine O'Connell George (illustrated by Kate Kiesler)
• "Robert's Four At-Bats" by John Grandits
• "The Sphinx Ain't All That" by Adam Rex
• "Lying on the Lawn" by Bob Raczka (illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds)
Usually books that contain an audio recording cost a little more. However, considering how many stories this treasury includes, this book is extremely affordable. The treasury has a $18.99 suggested retail price (which is a pretty good deal in itself) but it's available right now for $12.91 on Amazon! Snap one up for your family or favorite teacher this holiday season.
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More people are choosing to eat a plant-based diet, whether it be a strictly vegetarian or vegan diet; a pescetarian diet (includes fish), or a more flexible diet that includes a mix of plant-based meals and those that include meat and poultry (the "flexitarian" diet, or other options like Mark Bittman's "vegan before 6"). People are including more plant-based meals in their diet for many reasons including health, environmental, religious, personal, economic, and compassion for animals. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has affirmed that a vegetarian diet can meet all known needs for nutrients. In fact, vegetarians generally have fewer occurrences of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and some types of cancer.
A Healthful Plant-Based Diet
Simply eating removing meat from your diet does not ensure that you are living a healthier lifestyle. The key to a healthy plant-based diet, as with any other diet, is to eat a wide variety of foods, including fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, whole grain products, nuts, seeds, and legumes (peas, lentils, and beans).
- Move your dial: Whether you eat meat daily, are a strict vegetarian, or fall somewhere in between, most people can benefit from adding more plants to your diet. Aim to make one additional meal per week a plant-based one – both health and environmental benefits are seen with small changes.
- Include a wide variety of whole grains, beans, vegetables, and fruits: Don't get in a rut with the same foods day after day. This will not only lead to boredom but may cause you to miss some important vitamins and minerals.
- Beware of higher calorie and lower nutrient vegetarian selections: Even vegetarian diets can be high calorie and low nutrient if it is filled with processed foods, sweets, and too many servings of high-fat dairy products. As with any diet, eating mostly whole foods from a variety of plant sources is the foundation of a healthy plan.
- Be relaxed about protein: As long as calories are sufficient and the diet is varied including plant-based proteins such as beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, and soy products, most vegetarians easily meet protein needs. Don't rely too heavily on cheeses as a primary protein source.
Whether you occasionally include animal products in your diet or follow a strict vegan diet, planning meals is essential to ensure you are eating adequate amounts of the following nutrients:
- Vitamin B12—sources include fortified soy beverages, cereals, and nutritional yeast. There are no plant sources of B12 unless fortified.
- Vitamin D—sources include fortified soy, nut, or rice beverages, some margarine, and as always a bit of sunshine.
- Calcium—sources include tofu processed with calcium, broccoli, seeds, nuts, kale, bok choy, legumes, greens, lime-processed tortillas, soy beverages, grain products, and beverages such as orange juice and nut milks enriched with calcium.
- Iron—sources include legumes, tofu, green leafy vegetables, dried fruit, whole grains, and iron-fortified cereals and breads, especially whole-wheat. Absorption is improved by vitamin C, found in citrus fruits and juices, tomatoes, strawberries, broccoli, peppers, dark-green leafy vegetables, and potatoes with skins
- Zinc—sources include whole grains (especially the germ and bran), whole-wheat bread, legumes, nuts, and tofu
Plant-based diets can be simple and nutritious as long as you keep in mind the basics of balance and variety. Look for items in the café that are marked with the vegetarian or vegan icon and don't be shy to ask questions about ingredients in specific dishes. Your Bon Appétit staff is there to help you to eat a healthy, balanced diet.
Additional Resources:
The Vegetarian Resource Group. www.vrg.org. Accessed July 2016.
Today's Dietitian Nutrients of Concern for those Following a Plant-Based Diet. www.todaysdietitian.com. Accessed April 2015.

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Meet the digital diapered set.
As mere babes devour more and more online media while being baby-sat with the help of the Internet, the crib is becoming America's new tech incubator. And as app developers and gadgetmakers compete to corner the youth market, their innovations are fueling a national debate over the promises and pitfalls of being connected so young.
The folks at Boston-based Rest Devices, for example, probably never dreamed they'd kick a hornet's nest by launching Mimo. Slipped into a onesie, Mimo's sensor and microphone tells the smartphone-packing parent in the other room the baby's temperature, movements and position in the crib, offering 24-7 surveillance with a Bluetooth-transmitted soundtrack of their child's burps and babble.
Whether you consider Mimo an agent of Big Brother, as one San Jose schoolteacher fears, or the ever-vigilant digital assistant that mothers across the land crave, the trend it represents is touching nerves.
It's also gaining strength. From baby-monitoring hardware, to games on an iPad attached to a Fisher-Price bouncy chair, to interactive learning tools for the under-6 set from startups like Palo Alto-based Kidaptive, technology is increasingly being woven into American childhood.
A recent study by Common Sense Media found that 38 percent of children under two have used a mobile device for media, compared with 10 percent two years ago. Even larger increases were reported in tablet ownership among their older brothers and sisters, up to age 8. With companies literally hooking up technology to humans right out of the chute, wearable sensors are the tip of an onslaught of apps and tablet-based learning platforms. And that leaves some adults alarmed.
"It's Orwellian to have too much tech shoved into our kids' lives at earlier and earlier ages," said East San Jose English teacher Robin Edwards-Harvey when she learned about Mimo, which is marketed as a "cure for Mommy brain." "With little kids getting addicted to things like game technology, I see this as part of a really disturbing trend."
But app-makers tout the educational horsepower of their wares, and many parents say they've seen technology have a positive impact on their children's lives. Massachusetts mom Heather McGibbon, 35, says Mimo has been a godsend as she wrestled with her infant son's stomach problems and erratic sleeping patterns. She says the benefits of the device far outweigh any concerns about invasive technology or abusive data-collection.
"They claim they're not viewing or selling my child's information, and I have to take their word for it," she says. "Sure, it's a scary world we live in with all the surveillance going on. But it wasn't the fact that someone could track my baby's biorhythms that was keeping me up at night … it was my baby."
Despite the upside for parents like McGibbon, early-age digital engagement raises two concerns: The American Academy of Pediatrics warns that screen-time of any kind for anyone two and younger could be detrimental to their development. Also, privacy advocates and others say we risk creating a "surveillance society" with all these new tech toys, forging a world where marketers will force-feed products to those far too young to opt out.
"We're normalizing surveillance with these tech devices," says Josh Golin, associate director for the advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. "And I think we need to ask who it benefits. The parents? Are we indoctrinating children into a society where their every movement is being monetized?"
Junne Webbe, of Mountain House, east of Livermore doesn't see it that way at all. Describing herself and her Google-employed husband as "techies from the 90s," Webbe says their 9-year-old son Aiden got his first laptop at 13 months "because we wanted to expose him early on to reading through educational apps. Within months, he was learning to type, and I have videos of him reading a book at age two."
Webbe says she and her husband closely monitored Aiden's use of technology, adding that the third-grader now reads at an eighth-grade level — thanks, she believes, to his early adoption of computers.
Other parents are more conflicted. While Morgan Hill mom Penny Polayes, 53, was impressed with what her two daughters have learned from an all-iPad program at Archbishop Mitty High School, she says "it's kind of disturbing to see a one-year-old playing games on an iPad. I'm not sure if they're learning properly, and I worry that the technology may be detaching them from their environment."
Janet Lansbury, a Southern California-based early-childhood specialist who blogs about the subject, says newborns are wired to take in and learn from the world around them. And face-to-face interaction with a parent is far more natural than staring into a shimmering tablet, like the iPad attached to the controversial "Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity Seat" from Fisher-Price. Critics say the iPad "bouncy seat" encourages parents to leave their children with this "virtual baby sitter," depriving kids of face-to-face time that's essential to the developmental process.
"When a baby or infant sees a screen, it's like this bombardment of their senses," says Lansbury. "Adults can see a screen and filter the images, but babies can't. They see the glow and everything moving all around and they don't understand why that digital dog is there and it doesn't look like a real dog. That's confusing, and it's not something that they can learn from."
Lansbury believes that "by exposing them to this technology at such an early age, you're kind of subtly discouraging them from exploring their universe and encouraging passive rather than active thinking, which fosters their love of learning. Instead, you're fostering intellectual apathy."
Center-stage in America's too-young-for-tech-or-not debate is the question of whether self-described "educational apps" actually help youngsters learn faster. With 72 percent of children age 8 and under having used a mobile device for some type of media activity, according to the Common Sense Media study, more and more parents are buying into the perceived benefits.
Yet many childhood-development experts remain cautious. "We do know that children learn best through interaction with their parents, especially babies who see the expressions on your face and hear your voice," says Dr. Alanna Levine with the American Academy of Pediatrics. "You don't want a device to replace that, and we find that many of these so-called education apps actually take away the child's ability to focus, to problem-solve, and to grasp things like cause and effect."
That said, "these apps are here to stay," says Levine. "We need to look closely at them and study them, but the problem is the technology is moving so fast, and studies take years to see long-term effects, that by the time we do that the next technology is already here."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc
Key findings from 'Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America 2013'
Children's access to mobile media devices is dramatically higher than it was two years ago. Among families with children age eight and under, there has been a fivefold increase in ownership of tablet devices such as iPads, from 8 percent of all families in 2011 to 40 percent in 2013.
Thirty-eight percent of kids under two have used a mobile device for media, compared with 10 percent two years ago.
The percentage of children with access to some type of "smart" mobile device at home, such as a smartphone or tablet, has jumped from about half to three-quarters of all children in just two years.
Almost twice as many children age 8 or under have used mobile media compared with two years ago, and the average amount of time children spend using mobile devices has tripled.
Seventy-two percent of children age eight and under have used a mobile device for some type of media activity such as playing games, watching videos, or using apps, up from 38 percent in 2011.
The percentage of children who use mobile devices at least once a day has more than doubled, from 8 to 17 percent.
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"We're part of a culture," says Phil Pearlman, executive editor at the financial communications platform StockTwits, "that has been through the wringer for the past 14 or 15 years. With all that's happened, we're dealing with very high levels of emotional volatility that are also predictive of post-traumatic stress, so if we're looking at the market as human, as the sum of collective sentiments, then we are at a point where we're extremely sensitive to any kind of stimulus."
That's why now more than ever, financial advisors need to have nerves of steel if they're going to reason with overwrought investors and help them circumvent excesses of behavior such as that demonstrated in reaction to the recent news about the state of Cyprus' banks.
It's an approach that Pearlman—who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and who has in the past managed a long-short equity hedge fund focused on behavioral strategies—says calls for advisors to gather their wits about them and stay the course in order to stick with the fundamentals and get their clients back on track as soon as possible.
"As an advisor, you have to have had a plan laid out with your client, you have to have a strategy in place and at times like these, you've got to sit them down and get them to understand the rationale of that plan, its goals and why it was set up in the first place," he says.
Doing that not only requires levelheadedness on the part of an advisor, it also calls for empathy, Pearlman says. If clients are to buy back into the rationale of their financial plan at times of extreme stress when their rationality is thrown off balance, then advisors need to have formed a good relationship with them, one that is based on trust, understanding and responsibility that has been cultivated through time.
"A financial advisor has to know and feel who his or her client is, how they think, how they feel, how they're going to react; being able to do that depends on the relationship that the advisor has been able to develop with a client," Pearlman says. "So both of these, the importance of the fundamentals as well as the empathy element of the relationship, should be preparatory, and neither of them should be reactive. Advisors who find they have been able to emphasize the rationale through empathy beforehand will find they're on good grounds in acute crisis periods."
Given the state of the current collective markets, even those advisors who are extremely well-prepared and have made an effort to understand their clients' psyches and behavioral patterns are bound to be frazzled by different events as they occur, and dealing with their clients in the right way means they need to get themselves together first, Pearlman says. It's important, he believes, for advisors to take a step back from any proceedings, collect their thoughts and approach their clients in an even keel manner, "because in times of stress, the face an advisor puts on is critical," he says.
For all intents and purposes, the markets are going to remain tense and highly strung for some time to come. After a string of crises including Y2K, the bursting of the tech bubble, 9/11, Anthrax and the 2008 financial crisis, to name a few, it is clear that people are exhibiting the features of what Pearlman calls a "trait," which, as opposed to a "state," is something that is prolonged and sustained over a long period of time.
"I could be a generally happy person, and one day I get up and something went wrong and I feel down, and that is my state at the time, but there is a difference between having a bad day and feeling depressed," he says. "A trait is more of a personality characteristic. The nature of reactivity and how prolonged it's been has features of being a trait that is much more stable of time. We are going to need a significant period of stability of healthy markets in order for us to shift trait, so I think we as advisors should know that people are going to be reactive for a time and be prepared to deal with that."
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How Do We Respond to the Question 'What About Rape and Incest?'
How Do We Respond to the Question 'What About Rape and Incest?'
Republican Todd Akin is standing firm. He has refused to bow to pressure to withdraw his candidacy for the U.S. Senate after he made a comment that Gary Bauer of The Campaign for Working Families called, "a gift to our political enemies."
When the Missouri Congressman was asked by a St. Louis TV station to state his views regarding possible exceptions for abortion, he responded, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." He added: "But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. You know I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child."
For all his good intentions of trying to put the focus on the right to life of the unborn, Akins' use of the phrase "legitimate rape," which he later called a "misstatement," and for which he apologized and asked for forgiveness, has resulted in fierce castigations from Democrats and the liberal media. It has also brought calls from his fellow Republicans to withdraw from the race against incumbent Claire McCaskill.
Ann Coulter wrote, "If Akin truly loves his country and genuinely wants Roe v. Wade overturned, he will step aside and allow another Republican to run in his place."
Coulter and others have said Akin should have been better prepared to respond to the question.
"How about saying," she offered, "'Yes, it's still a life, but more people are killed in drive-by shootings in Chicago every year. You give us the 2 million abortions that aren't a result of rape and incest and we'll give you the few thousand that are.'"
Coulter was correct in pointing to the huge number of deaths every year at the hands of abortionists. But her response still misses the mark on two points.
As lawyer Rebecca Kiessling, who was herself conceived in rape, says, "Rape exceptions in the law actually put the government in the position of having to ascertain when the child was conceived, who the father is, whether the child was conceived during the alleged rape or during intercourse with her husband or boyfriend, and if the child was conceived during the time frame of the alleged rape, then the government would need to determine whether the sexual intercourse was consensual or not."
According to Kiessling, the "rape exception" only perpetuates injustice against rape victims whose accounts are viewed with skepticism. She says that "it further leaves the majority of impregnated rape victims wholly unprotected under the law. Rape exceptions suggest that a 'real rape victim' couldn't possibly love 'the rapist's baby' and that rape victim mothers don't exist."
This assumption was expressed by Susan Milligan in U.S. News and World Report. She called children conceived through rape, "spawn." Such comments deserve as stern a rebuke as Akin's do. No child is any less human because he or she was conceived during a rape. Such a claim denies the biblical truth that all children-including the unborn-are created in the image of God. The circumstances of their conception are irrelevant. The baby in the womb is an innocent human person whose inalienable right to life must be protected just as much the baby outside of the womb.
Coulter's response also overlooked the fact that abortion itself is a traumatizing experience. The truth is: abortion hurts women. Giving a woman the abortion option-whether she is the victim of a rape or a married woman with unplanned pregnancy-is not the "compassionate answer." Abortion does not bring healing; it brings misery, pain, and suffering, as millions of women who have had abortions can attest.
After 39 years of legal abortions in America, the statistics on the effects of abortion on women are nothing short of tragic:
•65 percent of women who abort report symptoms Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that they attribute to their abortions.
•Women who abort have a 62 percent higher risk of death from all causes for at least eight years after their pregnancies.
•Suicide rates in women are 6–7 times higher after an abortion.
Supporters of the abortion industry want to hide the truth that abortion is harmful to women. Every woman considering having an abortion should be told the fact that 31percent of women who have abortions suffer health complications afterwards.
•Women who abort are twice as likely to have pre-term or post-term deliveries in subsequent pregnancies.
•Women who abort are more likely to experience infertility, stillbirths, and miscarriages.
•Women who abort have a significantly increased risk of breast cancer and cervical cancer.
(See the Elliot Institute's Life-Threatening Risks of Abortion)
As Rebecca Kiessling observes, Rep. Akin is not the first political candidate to have run afoul of the media over the question, "What about rape and incest?" "The problem," she says, "is not with these candidates' values. The problem is how they express them."
Kiessling says candidates should respond to the question by giving the following three-part answer:
First, according to the Supreme Court, the death penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment" and rapists don't deserve the death penalty. However, if the rapist father doesn't deserve such punishment, how can we say that the innocent child conceived in rape deserves to die for the crimes of her father?
Second, Keissling points out, rape victims are four times more likely to die within the next year after the abortion, with a higher rate of suicide, murder, drug overdose, etc.. "If we truly care about rape victims," she says, "we should protect them from the rapist, and from the abortion, and not the baby. A baby is not the worst thing that could ever happen to a rape victim-an abortion is."
Finally, notes Kiessling, rape victims choose abortion at half the rate of the average unplanned pregnancy, which is over 50 percent. "Only 15-25 percent of rape victims choose abortion…. The majority of rape victims choose to raise her child - not 'the rapist's baby'-HER child."
At her website, Rebecca has gathered stories of women who became pregnant by rape and either regret aborting, are raising their children, or are birth-moms. She also has stories of those who were conceived in rape and/or incest.
The answer to the question, "What about rape and incest?" is clear-and it's not abortion. Two wrongs do not make a right.


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|Located alongside the scenic Phuket - Ranong coast
highway yet surrounded by lush tropical rainforest of Phang-Nga, Thailand,
the Kuraburi Green view Resort is a true getaway from the hustle and
bustle of big city life. Designed in a rustic style with wood floors
and stone walls yet furnished comfortably to allow guest to relax while
in touch with nature. Its subtle charm, warm welcome and friendly services
make you forget the pressure of life outside.
Along with the Kuraburi Green view Resorts' comfortable lodgings we also offer you a variety of activities to appeal to your interest in the natural environment . Sea-Kayaking through huge expanses of pristine mangrove forest. Snorkeling and Scuba excursions to the colorful coral gardens of nearby Surin Islands Marine National Park or white-water rafting, jungle trekking and bird-watching at nearby Khao Sok National Park.
Then after a day of appreciating all the surrounding wild natural beauty of the region come back to the Kuraburi Green view Resorts' welcome services. Enjoy a dip in our swimming pool, relax with a traditional massage at our resorts spa "The Green Valley Spa" or just chill with a cool drink at the bar within our restaurant that serves both Thai and International cuisines.
|Inspired by Nature All the bungalows at the Kuraburi Green view Resort were built with the natural environment in mind. Beautiful cobblestone walls provide excellent insulation to ensure energy saving measures for air-conditioning and many of the handsome decorative wood trimmings and furniture have been built from reclaimed lumber. Our desire for an effective alternative for preserving and protecting the forest around us. Inside each room you will feel the distinct rustic charm of harmony with nature yet are still pampered with convinces like in room refrigerators, air-conditioning, and steaming hot showers.
Bamboo Cottage, Fan - 4 Rooms
Clay House, Fan - 3 Rooms
Standard Bungalow - 6 Rooms
Superior Building - 10 Rooms
Deluxe Cabin Bungalow - 14 Rooms
Family Room for 3 persons - 2 Rooms
|Swimming Pool
What better way to rinse the dust off after a days activities then a dip in our pool. Designed and built to international standards our swimming pool with its state of the filtration system and supply of cool fresh mountain stream water is a blue gem amongst all the lush green rainforest
The Green Valley Spa
What a better way to relax and condition all those active muscles after a day's activity than with a traditional Thai Massage. From our in house spa we offer massages of various types and degrees of intensity. From firm face and foot massages to more elaborate massages involving deep tissue and therapeutic techniques. All of our staff are trained in state of the art and traditional methods at reputable clinics.
We offer excursions via speedboat to the granite boulder islands of Similan Marine National Park or to the colorful coral gardens of the Surin Marine National Park, an ASEAN Heritage site because of its extensive variety of protected marine wildlife and home to the nomadic and mysterious "Moken" sea gypsy people
Scuba Diving
We offer Daytrip Diving to Surin, Tachai Islands, and to world famous Richelieu Rock. Travel in air-conditioned comfort aboard "Chantida" our cabin-cruiser style boat. Arrive at Richelieu Rock from the Kuraburi Green view Pier in little more than an hour, have 2 dives, lunch, and return to the comfort of Kuraburi Green view Resort in the evening.
Sea - Kayak We offer paddling excursions through a maze of the largest mangrove forest in Thailand. The home to the Crab-Eating Macaques, White-Bellied Sea Eagles, and the elusive, mysterious Dugong.
|Swimming Pool
|Spa Treatment
|Thai Traditional Massage
|Sundeck around swimming Pool
|Riding around the resort
|Ratchaprapa Dam
|Mangrove Canoeing
|Surin Beach (Surrounding Tour)
|Team Building
|Dine with us in country comfort surrounded by sweet
cool rainforest. Enjoy all your Western favorites or Thai specialties
in a quiet casual atmosphere. Whether it is an American style breakfast
or an aromatic Coconut Cream Shrimp soup steaming with fresh Thai herbs
and spices, the casual ambience will have you relaxed and comfy. Freshly
brewed Hill tribe coffee and fresh baked bread is always available.
Vegetarian meals provided on request.
Located inside the Kuraburi Green view Restaurant we have an old wooden bar. Chill with your favorite exotic umbrella drink, old standards like Gin and Tonic, or simply "Belly up to the Bar" for a cold Heineken. Listen to some country favorites, soft rock, or old time blues from our juke box or on occasion some sweet "Live" Thai folk music or enjoy a relaxing evening in discussion with friends and family.
|Kuraburi Green view Restaurant & Bar
|Buffet Line
|Fresh Coffee
|View Corner
|Lobby & Reception area
|Meeting Room
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Scanning through the online photograph archives for the City of Vancouver, BC, Canada, there were a pair of photos showing a circular "railway" used to mount drilling and boring machines for preparing very large "Scotch Marine Boilers" for industrial service. Here are links to the two photos:
You can see two boilers in the background of the first photo. Note how the units are individually connected to electricity by an overhead "extension cord".
You could easily see these units as self-propelled versions, possibly with side tracks to store unused equipment, or another unit with a scaffold for painting or otherwise finishing the boiler.
The prototype appears to be approximately 36" gauge, but there is no logical reason why a minimum gauge version couldn't be considered if it was designed properly.
Searching through the archives with the keyword "machinery" will show you several other photos of these machine shops and boilers.
I hope this inspires someone to create their own little boiler works.


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U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Demers discussed the China Initiative and the process for assessing risks posed by Chinese acquisitions or the business operations of Chinese companies in America.
Council on Foreign Relations, "CFR Backgrounders: China's Environmental Crisis," April 25, 2014
China's environmental crisis is one of the most pressing challenges to emerge from the country's rapid industrialization. Its economic rise, which has averaged around 10 percent annual GDP growth for the past decade, has come at the expense of its environment and public health. As the world's largest source of carbon emissions, China is responsible for a third of the planet's greenhouse gas output and has sixteen of the world's twenty most polluted cities. Life expectancy in the north has decreased by 5.5 years due to air pollution, and severe water contamination and scarcity have compounded land deterioration problems. Environmental degradation cost the country roughly 9 percent of its gross national income in 2008, according to the World Bank, threatening to undermine the country's growth and exhausting public patience with the government's pace of reform. It has also bruised China's international standing as the country expands its global influence, and endangered its stability as the ruling party faces increasing media scrutiny and public discontent.
A History of Pollution
While China's economic boom has greatly accelerated the devastation of its land and resources, the roots of its environmental problem stretch back centuries. Dynastic leaders consolidating territory and developing China's economy exploited the country's natural resources in ways that contributed to famines and natural disasters, writes CFR's Elizabeth Economy in The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future. Moreover, China's Confucian roots helped spur policies that often promoted man's use of nature, hindering the development of a conservation ethos. "China's current environmental situation is the result not only of policy choices made today but also of attitudes, approaches, and institutions that have evolved over centuries," Economy writes.
It wasn't until the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment that China began to develop its environmental institutions. It dispatched a delegation to the conference in Stockholm, but by then the country's environment was already in dire straits that were further exacerbated by economic reforms of the late 1970s. Spearheaded by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, these reforms boosted China's industrial output at an average annual rate of more than 11.4 percent.
The legacy of decentralization characterized by Deng's reforms remains at the heart of China's environmental struggles today. The reforms diffused authority to the provinces, creating a proliferation of township and village enterprises (TVEs) to encourage development in rural industries. In 1997, TVEs generated almost a third of the national GDP. But local governments were difficult to monitor and therefore seldom upheld environmental standards. Today, environmental policies remain difficult to enforce at a local level, where officials often retain economic incentives to ignore them.
China's modernization has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and created a booming middle class. In some ways, the country's trajectory of industrialization is not unlike those of other modernizing nations, such as Great Britain in the early nineteenth century. But experts point to the nation's staggering size and pace of its growth, noting that its environmental effect on the world is far greater than that of any other single country. "It's on a scale and speed the world has never known," says Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
How Bad Is It?
China's energy consumption has ballooned, spiking 130 percent from 2000 to 2010. In January 2013, Beijing experienced a prolonged bout of smog so severe that citizens dubbed it "airpocalypse"; the concentration of hazardous particles was forty times the level deemed safe by the World Health Organization. Later that year, pollution in the northern city of Harbin shrank visibility to less than 50 meters. China Daily reported that December was the worst month in 2013 for air quality, with more than 80 percent of the seventy-four cities with air-monitoring devices failing to meet national standards for at least half the month. Based on a 2012 Asian Development Bank report, less than 1 percent of China's 500 largest cities meet the WHO's air quality standards.
Coal has been the main culprit in the degradation of air quality. China is the world's largest coal producer and accounts for almost half of global consumption. Coal is also the source of as much as 90 percent of the country's sulfur dioxide emissions and half of its particulate emissions. Mostly burned in the north, it provides around 70 percent of China's energy needs. However, emissions levels from coal plants alone in 2011 potentially contributed to a quarter of a million premature deaths that year, according to a Greenpeace analysis. Another troubling trend compounding air problems has been the country's staggering pace of urbanization, with the government planning to move 70 to 75 percent of China's population to cities between 2000 and 2030. China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, having overtaken the United States in 2007.
Yet experts cite water depletion and pollution as the country's biggest environmental hazards. Overuse, contamination, and waste have produced severe shortages; approximately two-thirds of China's roughly 660 cities don't have enough water despite the fact that China controls the river water supply of thirteen neighboring countries and has dammed every major river on the Tibetan plateau. The impact is particularly felt in rural areas, where some 300 to 500 million people lack access to piped water. Industry along China's major water sources has also polluted the supply heavily; in 2005, a plant explosion leaked around one hundred tons of toxic chemicals into the Songhua river.
The pace of contamination has garnered increased media attention: in March 2013, Shanghai came under scrutiny when roughly 16,000 dead pigs were discovered floating through the Huangpu River. Lack of waste removal and proper processing has exacerbated the problem; almost 90 percent of underground water in cities and 70 percent of China's rivers and lakes are now polluted. Combined with negligent farming practices, the water crisis has turned China's arable land into desert, which today claims around 27.5 percent of China's total land mass. Some 400 million Chinese lives are affected by desertification, according to the government, and the World Bank estimates that the overall cost of water scarcity associated with pollution is around 147 billion RMB, or roughly 1 percent of GDP.
Cost of Environmental Damage
Environmental depredations pose a serious threat to China's economic growth, costing the country roughly 9 percent (PDF) of its gross national income, according to most recent figures from the World Bank. China's Ministry of Environmental Protection calculates its own "green GDP" number, estimating the cost of pollution at around 1.5 trillion RMB, or roughly 3.5 percent of GDP, according to its 2010 figures. Due to the sensitivity of the topic, the ministry has only been releasing such figures since 2006, and intermittently.
Data on the public-health toll of China's pollution paint a devastating picture. According to a Global Burden of Disease study, air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010. In late 2013, an eight-year-old girl in Jiangsu province became China's youngest lung cancer patient; doctors attribute her illness to air pollution. Epidemiological studies conducted since the 1980s in northern China suggest that urban air in China causes significant health complications, including respiratory, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular diseases. The pollution has also been linked to the proliferation of acute and chronic diseases; estimates suggest that around 11 percent of digestive system cancers in China may stem from unsafe drinking water. Human cases of the avian flu (H7N9 virus), which broke out in China in March 2013 and has claimed more than forty lives, were caused by exposure to infected poultry and contaminated environments.
China's neighbors, including Japan and South Korea, have also expressed concern over acid rain and smog affecting their native populations. In May 2013, government officials of the three countries added air pollution and climate change to a list of diplomatic issues for the region to solve. Moreover, a recent study reported that emissions from China's export industries are worsening air pollution as far as the western United States.
The damage has also affected China's economic prospects as it continues to pursue resources and pump investment into other countries. Its close economic partners, particularly in the developing world, face costly environmental burdens attached with doing business with China, note CFR's Economy and Michael Levi in their book on China's quest for resources, By All Means Necessary.
Citizen Outrage
Environmental damage has cost China dearly, but the greatest collateral damage for the ruling Communist Party has likely been growing social unrest. Demonstrations have proliferated as citizens gain awareness of the health threats and means of organized protest (often the Internet). In October 2012, demonstrations against an $8.9 billion petrochemical plant expansion in the eastern city of Ningbo suspended the project. Several months later, anger boiled over in Shanxi province, where a factory spilled thirty-nine tons of toxic chemicals into local water sources. In May 2013, thousands of demonstrators gathered in the southwest city of Kunming to protest the building of a nearby chemical plant, which would produce half a million tons of a carcinogenic chemicals annually.
Economy points out that one of the most important changes in China's environmental protest movement has been a shift, beginning in the late 2000s, from rural-based protests to urban movements. The issue has worried the top leadership, which views the unrest as a threat to the party's legitimacy and authority. A February 2013 poll by People's Daily named the environment as one of the top issues citizens wanted addressed by the central government. By early 2013, public protests had succeeded in consistently gaining concessions from local governments, and in March 2013, Li Keqiang, China's new premier, pledged that his government would show "even greater resolve" in tackling China's pollution crisis. Such remarks from the central government reflect "a changing understanding within China about the relationship between economic development and societal wellbeing," Economy and Levi write. But experts say the jury is still out on the current government, which has shown more resolve in cracking down on public dissent. "It seems to me that environmental protests could well fall within the sphere of concern over threats to China's domestic security," says Economy.
What's Being Done?
The government has mapped out ambitious environmental initiatives in recent five-year plans, although experts say few have been realized. In December 2013, China's National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning agency, issued its first nationwide blueprint for climate change, outlining an extensive list of objectives to achieve by 2020. Since January 2014, the central government has required 15,000 factories, including large state-owned enterprises, to publicly report real-time figures on their air emissions and water discharges. And the government has pledged to spend $275 billion over the next five years to clean up the air. More recently, China's legislature amended the country's environmental protection law to allow for stricter punishments against companies or individuals caught polluting the environment.
China is also one of the biggest investors in renewables; its spending could total 1.8 trillion RMB ($300 billion) in the five years through 2015 as part of its pledge to cut its carbon intensity. According to its National Energy Administration, renewable energy sources comprised 57 percent of newly installed electricity-generating capacity in the first ten months of 2013. "China is also reaching out and partnering with international companies to jointly create technologies," says the Wilson Center's Turner.
The Internet has facilitated greater information transparency. Since 2008, the U.S. embassy in Beijing has issued pollution readings via a Twitter feed, a service that also spread to consulates in other major Chinese cities. In 2012, Beijing publicly demanded—to no avail—that Washington cease the practice. Later that year, it began publishing its own hourly data in seventy-four cities.
While policy implementation has been inconsistent, a thriving environmental NGO community has grown to push the government to stay on track. Tens of thousands of these groups—often working with U.S. and foreign counterparts—push for transparency, investigate corruption, and head grassroots campaigns. Friends of Nature is one of its oldest; Global Village and Green Home are among other well-known NGOs. Despite state support, these organizations inevitably face constraints from government fear that their activities could catalyze democratic social change. Beijing, for instance, has advanced an amendment to China's environmental protection law that would bar such groups from suing polluters. The central government has structured its efforts in much of the same way it has pursued economic growth, Economy writes, "by granting local authorities and factory owners wide decision-making power and by actively courting the international community and Chinese NGOs for their expertise while carefully monitoring their activities."
Yet some are sanguine about China's prospects. Despite the political reforms that will be needed to catalyze any real change in the environmental sphere, the public response to China's crisis has sprung some optimism about the future. "If there's any country in the world that can turn it around, it's China," Turner says. "The Chinese people believe they have a right to a clean environment. How can you not be optimistic about that?"
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"Shoring up entitlements and reforming the tax code – closing special interest loopholes and deductions, and moving to a fairer, simpler system – will bring jobs home and result in a stronger, healthier economy," Boehner said during a Wednesday afternoon statement on Capitol Hill.
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Barring any action by Congress, tax rates would spring upward for all income brackets as the 2001 Bush-era tax cuts, which were extended for two years in 2009, expired.
The spending "sequester," established by Congress during the 2011 debt ceiling deal as an incentive for lawmakers to reach a compromise budgetary solution, is also set to take effect at the beginning of next year absent an agreement by Congress. Republicans have grown especially worrisome about the sequester because of the heavy cuts it would make to the defense budget.
As the business of legislating resumes, a key actor in the process could be Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the former Republican vice presidential nominee who lost Tuesday as Mitt Romney's running mate. Ryan simultaneously won re-election to Congress, and said Wednesday in a statement that he intends to resume his post as chairman of the House Budget Committee.


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Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the Hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization.
On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don't realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers - and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy's most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power.
Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result.


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Meet Richard Heinberg, the most mild mannered thrasher you'll ever encounter.
Heinberg, the geeky brains behind the energy and culture think tank Post Carbon Institute, has toiled away over the past few decades crunching the numbers on energy depletion. In the process, he has come to some some pretty grim conclusions.
It's a wonder, then, that the guy seems so peppy. Perhaps it's a survival mechanism to keep us from shooting the messenger. Because the truth is Heinberg seldom has good news on the reality of our energy situation. And he knows that situation back and forth, having penned such blunt tomes as Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post Carbon World; Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines; and Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis.
He's kind of the contemporary wonkish father of the peak oil movement here in the States, inheriting the legacy from its first spokesperson, M. King Hubbert, from whose foundation he received the namesake's award for excellence in energy eduction.
Now Heinberg's got as much downer news to share on the economy. A regular trove of the stuff is revealed in his latest book, The End of Growth; Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. (Also on Kindle.)
It's the economy, stupid
For a while, popular peak oil observers such as Nicole Foss, Michael Ruppert, James Howard Kunstler and Dmitry Orlov have linked energy to the economy, citing peak oil as the precursor to a major economic crisis.
Each has also opined on the simultaneous debt crisis as an equal problem, one likely to come before energy depletion really hits. They expect an unforgiving financial crash that would make the 2008 downturn look like chicken feed. Foss's lecture "A Century of Challenges: Peak Oil And Economic Crisis" and Ruppert's book Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World, particularly hammer home this point.
Now, Heinberg joins their ranks with a full-length book specifically predicting the end of economic growth as a result of the convergence of peak energy, unsustainable debt and climate chaos. But it mostly centers its case around economic factors, fingering fractional reserve banking, escalating sovereign and consumer debt, currency jiu jitsu, Wall Street shenanigans and government fecklessness as complicit contributors to a runaway crisis about to implode.
Indeed the first few chapters go into extreme detail on just how convoluted, incestuous and wily the various pieces of the debt and banking crisis are, whether as a result of bad-faith players, the Fed's hand, cultural presumptions about the need for endless growth and its role in corporate culture, or because of the weak stance of federal regulators and absentee enforcers of law.
In all honesty, all this back story was, for me, TMI, laden as it was in technical minutia. My brain glazed over after all the deficits, foreclosures, bailouts, financial instruments, credit default swaps, mortgage-backed securities, quantitative easings, deflation and inflation and whatnot. I just understand enough of it to know that I want to hogtie the bastards behind it all.
Heinberg, however, is much more evenhanded than me, explaining in patient detail how all these factors combine into one helluva recipe for disaster. And that's before considering the impact of volatile oil prices, which did precede the 2008 near-death economic crisis. In the meantime, he says we're hanging on, but only tenuously, and not without a lot of contortions:
In general, what we are actually seeing so far is neither dramatic deflation nor hyperinflation. Despite the evaporation of trillions of dollars of wealth during the past four years, and despite government and central bank interventions with a potential nameplate value also running in the trillions of dollars, prices (which most economists regard as the signal of inflation or deflation) have remained fairly stable. (While at the time of this writing food and oil prices are soaring, this is due not to monetary policy but to weather events on one hand, and political turmoil in petroleum exporting nations on the other.) That is not to say that the economy is doing well: the ongoing problems of unemployment, declining tax revenues, and business and bank failures are obvious to everyone….Rather, what seems to be happening is that the efforts of the US federal government and the Federal Reserve have temporarily more or less succeeded in balancing out the otherwise massively deflationary impacts of defaults, bankruptcies, and falling property values.
And all of this in the name of so-called growth, that increasingly elusive chimera.
Who should care?
When I interviewed Heinberg earlier this month (stay tuned later this week for that piece, and read my interview with him from earlier this year in the meantime), he said he hoped the book would influence thought leaders and policymakers, and make the jump to the general reader. On the first two scores, there's no doubt this is the must-read of 2011. Heinberg's got the bona fides to back up every case he makes — from Wall Street's role to Washington's — in a logical, clear, and non-partisan manner.
General readers will enjoy the book too, immensely, if they already have a penchant for teasing out economic and banking intricacies. But some may find this part a bit tedious, as did I. You'll be rewarded, however, once you're past all the quadrillion in credit default swapping talk and the Fed's song and dance and move on to what it means in the larger context of the expectation by America's elites that such a major financial debacle was just a bump in the road on the way to getting back to growth as usual.
But returning to past levels of growth will never happen, argues Heinberg, qualifying that statement always with the realistic acknowledgement that, yeah, we may see one quarter's GDP or earnings higher than a previous one. But don't think you have a trend there, friend, warns Heinberg. No way. And that's because of peak oil, he says, which the International Energy Agency said hit in 2006, though with a few mitigating statements that Heinberg doesn't really buy.
Quibbling over the exact meaning of the word "peak," or the exact timing of the event, or what constitutes "oil" is fairly pointless. The oil world has changed. And this powerful shock to the global energy system has just happened to coincide with a seismic shift in the world's economic and financial systems.
Debt is all about future promises to pay.
Knitting together the factors that moved the industrial world into a credit-based economy run on fractional-reserve banking, Heinberg ties economic growth to that thing so almost totally forgotten that it seems quaint to bring it up: Nature. Natural resources that is. Or what the ecological economist geeks like to call "the primary economy."
Though the financial sector has dragged the rest of us along into their delusional stupor over the possibilities of ghost wealth, paper assets and huge accumulations of enormous earnings tied to…well, to nothing…Heinberg reminds us once again that, uh, yeah, in the end it's our natural resources, the work done by God, or Time, or chemistry and geology that yields to our inheritance the vast stores that allow us to build, do, make, become. Debts are all promises of future payment, and unless you're content with getting paid in notional money mined from thin air, you're likely to expect your payout in reliable stock, backed by a real ability to pay—to make good on what's owed.
And there's the gum in the works, when almost every key resource today is stretched to the breaking point due to overuse, overpopulation, declining resource quality and the law of diminishing returns. This is a problem not just for now, but into the future as our kids inherit this compound, dysfunctional mess.
Given that cheap, abundant fossil fuels have been the real-world key driver of economy during the industrial age, its peak, and the ensuing precipitous decline, means the inability to pay back debts, which is crisis enough. But it also puts the kabosh on the entire paradigm of endless growth. That's a good thing for the commons and climate change and our grandkids. But try telling that to Eric Cantor or Lloyd Blankfein, who are emblematic of those who remain focused on the paradigm of growth that Heinberg says is dying before our eyes.
Perhaps the meteoric rise of the finance economy in the past couple of decades resulted from a semi-conscious strategy on the part of society's managerial elite to leverage the last possible increments of growth from a physical, resource-based economy that was nearing its capacity. In any case, the implications of the current economic crisis cannot be captured by unemployment statistics and real estate prices. Attempts to restart growth will inevitably collide with natural limits that don't respond to stimulus packages or bailouts.
Or the end of taxes.
His white hat
Heinberg's not the kind of guy to just give you one-two sucker punches of depressing news without offering clear examples of how communities, NGOs, think tanks and even governments are looking at ways to avert the worst outcomes from the inevitable decline in credit and resources. The close of his book gives insight into where relocalization meets profit and prosperity through resilient, human-scale endeavors as well as through redefining socio-economic success with metrics other than GDP, suggesting Gross National Happiness as a better overall barometer.
He gives plenty of resources to plumb, singling out the Transition Movement, Common Security Clubs and Community Economic Laboratories as proven, successful ways to meet decline with workable plans at the individual, family, community and municipal levels.
But will it work for everyone? Not easily.
There's no guarantee that the participants in this evolutionary and revolutionary transformation will view it as an extension of human progress, rather than the ending of civilization as we have known it. Unless we completely fail to rise to the occasion, in which case the human project will simply cease, there will probably be both elements of collapse and renewal.
On aesthetics
One final note speaks to Heinberg's place as a researcher, a role which his book amply reflects with its copious grids, box explanations and citations. But in this, the book loses some accessibility from time to time, at least in reference to his stated hope for it to filter out to the general reader.
Stark, bright white paper, and a bevy of tables at first flip might turn off some readers before they dig deeper.
The book almost cries out for a companion piece, The End of Growth for Everyman or Dummies or something. In this it would be preferable for Heinberg to operate from the presumption that the end of growth is a done deal, offering only a cursory glance, and instead tipping toward more heart and soul in teasing out the alternatives. His ranging intellect, balanced perspective, ability to contextualize and toolbox of do-able options for the future would benefit from his unleashing some inspiration so that one need not be a closet wonk to get the benefit of his unparalleled insight into the critical challenges of our times.
Oh, and wonk though he is, Heinberg is actually quite engaging. He should totally be on Jon Stewart telling this story. Jon would so dig this book. It's right up his alley.
–Lindsay Curren, Transition Voice


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