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The protest against the Prawer Plan in Ramallah. Photos by Calum Toogood.
Protests were held throughout the Israeli and Palestinian territories as well as 31 cities around the world on Saturday, 30 November, to protest the Prawer-Begin Bill for the Regulation of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, a development plan currently being reviewed by the Israeli parliament which would displace some 40,000-70,000 Bedouin from their communities in the Negev (known as al-Naqab in Arabic), the desert region of southern Israel.
The Prawer Plan, as Prawer-Begin is commonly called, targets dozens of Bedouin settlements in the Negev – "areas not recognized by the government as residential locations," according to an article on the plan published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in March 2012. The tens of thousands of Bedouin due to be displaced by the plan would be resettled in neighborhoods designated by the government for this purpose. While the language of the plan is vague regarding the size and location of the settlements, it states that possible areas for relocation "could include neighborhoods in long-standing Bedouin settlements, in the Abu Basma settlements [11 extant Bedouin villages in the northwestern Negev], or in close-fitting expansions of these and other settlement sites."
Prawer passed its first reading in the Knesset in June of this year and will receive second and third readings in the coming months. "If passed into law," states a report on the Prawer Plan from the Institute of Middle East Understanding, "it could result in the largest displacement of Palestinian citizens of Israel since the 1950s."
Since its adoption by the Israeli government as a proposed plan for the Negev in 2011, Prawer has faced considerable backlash and outcry both from Palestinians and the international community. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated in July 2013 that the Prawer Plan "seeks to legitimize forcible displacement and dispossession of indigenous Bedouin communities."
Saturday's "Day of Rage," organized by a coalition of youth organizations and the Alternative Information Center – a joint Palestinian-Israeli NGO – was the third such day of coordinated protests against the Prawer Plan this year. Large demonstrations were held in Haifa, Jerusalem, and Hura village in the Negev, where more than 1,000 protesters massed in opposition to Prawer. Smaller protests occurred in Gaza City and outside the Beit El settlement near Ramallah.
Israel's government issued a harsh response to the 30 November protests. "We will not tolerate such riots. We shall continue to advance the Prawer Bill," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Violence at the Gates of Beit El
Protestors gathered outside City Hall in Ramallah and bused to Beit El, the nearby Israeli settlement that houses the Civil Administration, which oversees and administers Israel's policies in the West Bank. Led by Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Bil'in Popular Committee, protestors attempted to open the gates of the settlement.
Settlers inside Beit El threw stones at the protestors and fired handguns into the air to disperse the demonstrators. Shortly thereafter, Israeli armed forces arrived and pushed the demonstration down the main street away from the settlement using riot shields and tear gas.
Three people were arrested at the Beit El protest. Ma'an News Agency later published a civilian journalist's video of police brutality during one of the arrests.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary of the Palestine National Initiative, who attended the demonstration at Beit El, called the Prawer Plan "a racist, apartheid, ethnic cleansing plan."
Police Clash With Protesters in the Negev
Approximately 1,000 people, including two Palestinian members of the Knesset, demonstrated in Dura village in the Negev on Saturday, blocking the highway between Beersheba and the Dead Sea. The protest turned violent after police officers, some on horseback, began clashing with youth throwing rocks at the officers. Police used batons and water cannons to attack the protestors.
Clashes continued into the evening, and ten of the protestors were arrested. According to Al-Jazeera's account of the protest, burning barriers were set up on the highway and some young protestors threw Molotov cocktails at the police officers present.
In an interview with Ma'an News Agency, Ahmad al-Tibi, one of the Knesset members who joined the demonstration, said that "the protest was meant to emphasize that Prawer will not pass on the ground, even if it does in the Knesset."
The protest against the Prawer Plan in the Negev. Photos by Lazar Simeonov.
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John was "a good New England boy," as my mother said, and I met him a few years back while pumping gas in Cocoa Beach, Fla. This was just a several miles south of Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, about 40 minutes east of Orlando, and a spit north of Patrick Air Force Base.
OK, OK: not fair, you'll say.
In that particular Bermuda Triangle of robust business enterprise, hi-tech industry, and zero state income tax, he could be one of thousands in terms of his success story.
I tell of the circumstances that brought John to Florida – a place he said is great for a vacation, but too hot for his liking full-time – via his New England roots, in my weekly Portland Sun column, "Brain drain sighting in Cocoa Beach."
Admittedly, John's story is not part of any peer-reviewed study my fellow blogger and UMaine political scientist extraordinaire Dr. Amy Fried might have culled from painstaking interviews in the pursuit of scholarly research.
Still, John's destiny, while anecdotal in my column, nevertheless is one of several other identical (yet unscientific) stories I have heard first hand from young, educated, northern new Englanders who have flown the coop for warmer climes, many in the Sun Belt.
It's not that there's some mass exodus of college grads from Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire; regionalism remains alive and well in the U.S.. My brief research on the subject shows that a solid majority of college grads stay within a 150 mile radius of home.
But if you went to school at Florida State, then that makes sense given John's excellent prospects, salary, and career progression. If you went to school in Orono, Durham, N.H., or Burlington, Vt., that is less likely the case. In those latter scenarios, staying close to home means you are probably less better off than you might be, say, in Chapel Hill, N.C. or Austin, Texas.
And there are only so many jobs in Boston, or just outside our reach, in New York City (full disclosure: place of my birth).
The answers from government won't help much, either. Republicans will claim, predictably, that onerous economic regulations, such as Vermont's school funding laws, which have caused skyrocketing property taxes, have soured the cost of living, and therefore job markets. For their part, Democrats will probably sing their litany that state governments, LePage administration included, have not gone far enough to legislate job markets out of their doldrums.
There's probably truth in both those claims, but what northern New England can't escape is that paltry populations – read: tax bases – can do some good but only so much.
Instead: we tout the natural beauty of our surroundings and call it a "lifestyle magnet," as if the azure of Casco Bay can somehow feed a growing family.
For someone like me who already had had several careers "away" and now has some kind of security, there is no better place. After 18 years up in these parts, I know where I belong.
However, for a young dude and brand new dad like John, it's a totally different story. He may indeed do well with a hi-tech startup in Portland's cool, funky, growing and thriving Old Port, but replicating that place all over northern New England, and getting the likes of him to come back, are another story altogether.
What do you think? What can be done, if anything, to give these promising young New Englanders a chance here, close to home? Share your thoughts below.
Because in Florida, John's little boy has an even money chance of growing up a Yankees fan, of all things.

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Photo:Satellite view of Badlands Guardian.
This feature has been around a while but we didn't realize that it was so easily reproduced. Someone with a little too much time on their hands discovered a geomorphological feature that looks incredibly like a Native American in a full headdress. The image is pretty uncanny and vastly superior to that alledged "face on mars".
The Badlands Guardian is a geomorphological feature located at 50°00?38.20?N 110°06?48.32?W near Medicine Hat in the south east corner of Alberta, Canada. Viewed from the air, the feature bears a strong resemblance to a human head wearing a full native American headdress. Because of additional man-made structure, it also appears to be wearing earphones.
The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall.
The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which has been in place only a few years, and will likely become invisible once the well falls into disuse and its superficial features are eroded. The feature is best viewed from Google Maps (satellite view). The lighting is ideal for bringing out the apparent facial features. Although the image appears to be a positive feature, it is actually a negative feature (a valley)
Originally discovered by Lynn Hickox (screen name "Supergranny" on Google Earth)[1], suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian…..Wikipedia
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"This guy assaulted me!" claimed a woman.
The next moment, the entire crowd in the bus got onto him and started beating him hard. While he took a hard punch from the big muscular guy standing behind him, he wondered, whether calling a lady by poking her shoulder with fingers, is an assault? All he was trying was to return her handkerchief that had fallen on the bus floor.
Fake Assaults!
Yes, that is indeed a not so rare case these days. It's not always that people do actually assault. Sometimes, fake acquisitions too get somebody framed in an assault case. These fake assault claims have really become very common these days. Sexual assault cases being the most common in them, which sometimes lands even the innocent lads behind bars. Sexual assault cases are such sensitive cases that the judiciary hardly requires any evidence, and often the verdict is given in favour of the victim, who "claims" to have been assaulted. But do we ever think about the genuineness or the truthfulness of the claim that the victim is making? Never.
People have this common idea set in their minds that if a girl/lady complains of sexual assault, then it is definitely true, no matter whether the accused guy is involved or not. It's in people and their minds that women do get assaulted, and they will never lie about an assault. But that's not how it always looks like!! It's not always the men who are guilty.
Often these false acquisitions develop as a result of underlying grudges for the accused in the minds of the so called victim. That is what the famous toronto sexual assault lawyer Mr Sam Goldstein has to say. All these years, he has been dealing with numerous such cases where the accused have been framed under false charges by the victims. The reasons behind such false acquisitions can be anything, from domestic issues, to underlying grudges, to even social networking issues. Sam's investigations and handling of such cases have made clear the fact that, it's not always that the victim is right, sometimes the victim too exaggerates things, in order to frame the accused.
If no one believes you being innocent, Sam will do. That is what his work space and field of work says. He has been dealing with such cases for so long that he even now knows the how to trace the events of false acquisitions. He has been able to use social networking mediums as a platform, which would simplify and rather help in solving such delicate cases. Thanks to him, many innocent people have been saved from landing up behind the bars.
These days due to such efforts and proven false acquisitions, the judiciary seems to be impartial and asks for more and more supporting evidence of the victim's claim. As far as the common people are considered, nobody can change somebody's already set mind, but one should always remember, "Every coin has two faces, and one face exists because the other does!"


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A St. Helena man has been arrested after authorities caught him attempting to sell stolen jewelry at a Bluffton jewelry store.
Reginald Rayshawn Bates, 29, was arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of one count of receiving stolen goods after he was found in possession of jewelry previously reported stolen from a River Bend home.
Police made contact with Bates at Golis Jewelry after being alerted by store employees that Bates had presented a ring for sale believed to be stolen. The diamond ring, valued at more than $10,000, was etched with a laser-scribed serial number, which positively identified it has having been reported stolen on July 28 from a Cutter Circle home.
The ring's owner told police the ring, along with several other pieces of jewelry, and a Kindle had gone missing during a residential move being handled by several employees of All My Sons Moving and Storage between July 26 and 27. According to police, Bates was working as a member of the All My Sons crew that conducted the move during which the jewelry was reportedly stolen.
The investigation remains active as investigators work to determine the fate of the remainder of the missing jewelry and identify any possible co-defendants. Additional charges/arrests may be pending as the case continues. Anyone with information is asked to contact Investigator Cpl. J. Moran at 843-255-3422 or the Beaufort County Dispatch Center at 843-524-2777.


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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, McClatchy Newspapers
Last month in Port-au-Prince, President Rene Preval told our congressional delegation that Haiti needs to be "reconfigured" not "reconstructed."
He is right.
Even before the earthquake, development in Haiti was on an unsustainable course. Poor planning, weak building structure, deforestation, soil erosion, and uneven population distribution between urban and rural areas, were all challenges for the Haitian government.
What we learned in Haiti is that the nation can start anew with an innovative approach to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty in an environmentally sustainable manner. President Preval has the vision for a better future for Haiti but he needs help from the international community to implement it.
We visited Haiti on Feb. 12, which marked one month since the earthquake struck. Declared a national day of mourning, it became a day of unity, prayer, and reflection for the Haitian people; a recognition of all that was lost and a sign of their resilience and their commitment to rebuild.
It is in this context that the Haitian government invited our bipartisan, bicameral congressional delegation to visit Haiti to pay our respects to the nation's families, to pledge our support for their future, and to examine the recovery efforts in advance of congressional consideration of long-term assistance for Haiti.
Our delegation observed a moment of silence at the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince on this national day of mourning. The Cathedral was in ruins, but a large cross in front of the Cathedral remained unscathed — an undamaged symbol of hope.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, the call for compassion, aid, and global partnership must be answered — by all of us who are called by our faith and our common humanity to help those in need. Scores of countries and thousands of organizations have worked hand-in-hand to ease the suffering of the Haitian people.
Relief workers and doctors from across the globe and military personnel from America's shores are working around-the-clock to distribute food, water and medical supplies to the injured and the homeless. The personal challenges to Haiti's children are especially troubling. The physical challenges also remain great: we were told it would take 1,000 trucks 1,000 days to remove all of the rubble from Port-au-Prince.
Congress is committed to helping Haiti recover from this tragedy. Congress has not only taken action to express condolences and solidarity with the Haitian people, but also to incentivize charitable giving for Haiti. In the coming weeks, Congress will consider a request from the Obama Administration to help the Haitian people by providing long-term assistance to strengthen the capacity of Haiti's institutions and help its leaders focus on sustainable economic development, reduce the risk of disaster, and prepare for future emergencies.
Our actions will be part of a global effort aligned with the priorities of the Haitian government and aimed at directly empowering the Haitian people to build a future that is better than the past. Strong accountability and transparency must rest at the center of this undertaking.
The moral case alone is reason to help Haiti, but it is also in our national interest. We have an urgent responsibility to help provide a foundation for a stable and more prosperous neighbor. Sustained and constructive American leadership is essential in this fight.
The United States and Haiti share a long history that binds our people together. Haitian immigrants, strengthened by their Haitian heritage, have thrived and contributed to the beautiful diversity of America. They have graced us their artistic genius and entrepreneurial spirit.
The American people have echoed President Obama's clear message in the wake of the tragedy: "You will not be forsaken. You will not be forgotten." This is imperative for the children of Haiti. It is imperative that we continue to support the Haitian people in the reconfiguration of Haiti.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of San Francisco, is Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She can be reached at her official Web site: www.house.gov/pelosi.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
The Cutest Fall Sweater & Confident Twosday Linkup
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You are looking truly radiant! xxReplyDelete
The Cutest sweater on the cutest pregnant lady! I swear Laura you look so marvelous and fit, at first glance it's hard to tell you even have a bump! So precious. I can hardly believe you only have a few weeks left, I am super excited for you!ReplyDelete
Pregnancy suits you very well - you look stunning. x JacquiReplyDelete
Laura, this outfit is fabulous! You look amazing. I had no idea you were 38 weeks already. Oh my, time flies! Like Jacqui said, pregnancy really does suit you...I can't believe how you are glowing at 38 weeks (I was miserable at 38 weeks...oh wait...I was miserable and lost my glow around 32 weeks with both of kids and both arrived before the 38 week mark!) Well, rock on, beautiful mama!ReplyDelete
That's a great sweater! Can't wait to meet your new little one.ReplyDelete
Love this slouchy shoulder on this sweater! You are one chic mama! Thanks so much for the link up Laura!ReplyDelete
Oh that's a beautiful top! :) I've had mixed success with one size fits all pieces in the past, so it's great to hear this is wearable and will fit most. It looks so comfortable too! :)ReplyDelete
I can't believe how close to the end you are - seems like it's flown by!
Thank you for the link up!
Hope you are having a nice (candy-filled!) start to your week so far! :)
Away From The Blue Blog
Oh my gosh! You are so beautiful and adorable!ReplyDelete
I like your take on the 'one size' that is so true! Glad the sweater did end up working out though, it's so cute on you!ReplyDelete
Chic on the Cheap
How sweet that your husband would cuff your jeans for you!! The things you don't think about when you're not pregnant---ha ha!ReplyDelete
And what a fun weekend, Laura!!
This is such a cute sweater and I had to LOL at your SheIn "One Size" comment. I have found that to be exactly the case. There's no way they can mean "one size fits all!" LOL! 38 weeks! Eek!! You are getting so close! So excited for you!ReplyDelete
Gina || On the Daily Express
Hello there beautiful lady, that opulent shade of blue looks majestic on you!!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, that sweater looks fabulous on you. I think it's great how women are non-maternity tops when they are pregnant these days. This top is perfect!ReplyDelete
You look so beautiful, I absolutely love your top!ReplyDelete
xx, Elise
I just love this sweater! The cools is perfect and it looks so comfy tooReplyDelete
Such a stylish momma! I love the cut of this sweater. So cute and looks cozy too!ReplyDelete
You style your baby bump so cute! Will def come back to this when I am preggers!ReplyDelete
Life is just Rosie
You are just too cute! I really like this top with the tank underneath. The draped shoulder look is so sassy!ReplyDelete
That sweater looks super comfy, babe!ReplyDelete
Le Stylo Rouge
Love how this drapes over one shoulder and the fun tank under it!ReplyDelete
I love that sweater--it showcases that bump perfectly! And how sweet that your husband cuffed your jeans for you. I wish Halloween were the weekend--around here we'll be trick or treating tonight and I hate that it's a weeknight!ReplyDelete
You are so close to the due date Laura but looking chic and beautiful at 38 weeks. I love that fun sweatshirt. It has an athleisure vibe. You styled it soooo well!ReplyDelete
Loving the peep of your tank! You look amazing to be 38 weeks Laura! So close!ReplyDelete
Love that navy top! It is really flattering on you!ReplyDelete
love you in navy, this is a great color on you! The taupe booties are darling too. Sounds like you enjoyed Halloween over the weekend ;-)ReplyDelete
Have a great week!
jess xx
That top looks so cozy and is so pretty. Have a lovely Halloween! XxReplyDelete
You can hardly even tell you are pregnant straight on! Cute top. Hope you have a good night tonight.ReplyDelete
Amy Ann
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Very pretty Laura !ReplyDelete
Tonight we're going to a Horror Story telling evening... I'll probably dress up.
You look so beautiful and elegant!ReplyDelete
xo, Joling
Such a pretty look!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the link up & Happy Halloween!
Andrea's Wellness Notes
That was nice of your husband to do that! I love your outfit and your bag!ReplyDelete
This sweater fits you perfectly - and what a versatile piece!ReplyDelete
I hope you are having a great week so far!
Well you are just the cutest. I love the one shoulder and the color of this top!ReplyDelete
Pregnancy suits you very well,you look awesome ❤ReplyDelete
You have the cutest bump!ReplyDelete
The cutest sweater indeed! You look absolutely gorgeous, Laura! Can't wait to meet your little one!ReplyDelete
I love that sweater! I'm actually wearing a "one size fits all" cardigan and although it's meant to be loose, I doubt it would look great on everyone! So one size is definitely tricky. But sometimes an item is worth the risk ;)ReplyDelete
Love how you dressed up that adorable bump!ReplyDelete
Paulina | SHENSKA
Fantastic sweater! I love how the sleeves go from loose to snug. I'm tempted to order it in grey. Beautiful bracelets!ReplyDelete
Emma xxx
Looking good! Thanks for the linkup...xxxReplyDelete
You look beautiful!! I know you're going to love wearing that sweater after the baby comes too! So cozy, my favorite kind of things.ReplyDelete
pumps and push-ups
That's a pretty bag you got there dear! And yes, lovely sweater with a cute bump!ReplyDelete
Jessica | notjessfashion.com
You look amazing! love the sweater!!ReplyDelete
Mónica Sors
Super cute look! Loving that sweater on you.ReplyDelete
That sweater is adorable! I love how it is just every so slightly off the shoulder. Your hair is also super cute!ReplyDelete


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Good news UK fans, on Halloween night you can finally get the chance to see "Paranormal Activity". It will only be Midnight screenings that night, with a wide release planned for November. Then the film will roll out in other parts of Europe and Latin America following that.
Al Snow stars in slasher film. If you don't know who that is, you probably won't care. Move along.
Eminem to make horror anthology called "Shady Talez". You might as well fill out your Razzie cards now.
"Hellraiser" remake to be shot in 3D. All hope I had for this project pretty much just went out the window.
The Govenator tells you and your puny senate to fuck off. He also mumbled something about the "lamentations of the women" on the way out.
Coyote survives 75 MPH hit and run, and being dragged for 600 miles. The couple found it embedded in their front fender, "very much alive".
Public defendants have a tough enough job, without getting poo rubbed all over their faces.
1922: Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini seizes power in Italy, with the assistance of the Catholic Church.


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Tropical Storm Dorian appears to pose an increasing threat to the Southeastern United States, potentially including significant landmarks such as Disney World and the Kennedy Space Center.
As of Wednesday morning, Dorian was nearing hurricane strength, with sustained winds of 70mph. The storm's center should pass just to the east of Puerto Rico today and then have as much as four days to strengthen over open ocean before approaching the Florida coast.
The National Hurricane Center has ratcheted up its intensity forecast for Dorian, such that it is now predicted to come ashore as a Category 3 hurricane on Monday morning, near Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Atlantic coast.
The intensity forecast has really ramped up for a couple of reasons. First of all, the storm is no longer expected to interact with the mountainous terrain of Hispaniola. Its movement is also slower, meaning it will have several days over the very warm waters near the Bahamas, with moderate wind shear. Finally, the upper-atmosphere pattern is very favorable to intensification.
In terms of forecast track, there are some questions about the overall flow pattern in the upper atmosphere, so the landfall location carries more uncertainty than usual. A final landfall remains possible from north of Miami to Jacksonville. There are also questions about where the hurricane moves after it crosses the Florida peninsula. Dorian now seems more likely than not to reemerge in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and eventually turn north, perhaps making a second landfall anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to Southeastern Louisiana.
The immediate concern is heavy rainfall over Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, which could lead to flash flooding. Longer-term, the Florida coast faces the potential for storm surge and strong winds. Both of these will depend heavily on the intensity that Dorian reaches, and where the storm makes landfall, as effects are more significant to the right of the center.
As it now appears that Dorian will make a landfall at nearly a 90-degree angle to the Florida coast, storm surge effects will be amplified as the counter-clockwise motion of the storm's winds push water directly onshore.
In terms of winds, for now, Dorian is a relatively compact storm, so its worst winds may remain confined to within 50 or 75 miles (80-120km) of its center. Wherever the center crosses the Florida peninsula, it will have the potential to cause significant damage.
A final concern is heavy rainfall. The steering currents by this weekend, and into early next week, are not overly pronounced. A slower-moving storm means that some areas of the Southeastern United States—Florida, Georgia, Alabama, or the Carolinas—would see a large amount of precipitation and flooding. It is impossible to say at this time where the worst of this inland flooding will occur, but it likely will be somewhere to the right side of the storm's track, although not necessarily particularly close to the center.


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Weerona is located next door to Talinga and is a spacious three bedroom house, built in the 1970s, sleeping eight guests. The house has large living areas, a north easterly aspect and enjoys fantastic ocean views from the large entertaining deck.
The house is single level with three bedrooms containing one queen bed and six single beds. It is fully furnished, and has a fully equipped kitchen with microwave, solar powered lights and fridge, gas powered stove and hot water. There is power for CPAP in the main bedroom.
Talinga is a split level cottage, and one of the first houses built on Fraser in the 1960s, it has arguably the best property location on the island, boasting absolute beachfront views of the ocean from all upper level rooms. See website for a floorplan.
The house is split level with three bedrooms, and is fully furnished with a full kitchen with microwave, fridge, gas stove. Lights and fridge are solar powered.
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When it comes to being a one-person band, a producer/performer if you will, it would appear that boys like their laptops and their big fancy light shows and us girls like our gizmos and gear. I don't have a term for it yet, but I'm seeing a trend of female artists who aren't quite electronica yet definitely use electronica elements in the creation of their music. I think I may be part of a genre and I'm in good company!
For myself, I got the notion of using a looper from watching guitarists and originally was planning to use my JamMan Loop Pedal with just a bass guitar, layering notes to build chords and rhythms. It didn't quite gel for me and I put the whole thing away for a while. Somewhere between putting it away and pulling it out again to loop keys and drum machines, I encountered Lily Taylor and I think I would be remiss to not admit her performance style was an inspiration. Using a loop pedal, effects pedals, and Casio keyboard, Lily layers lush vocal harmonies over ambient synths to create hypnotic music. She is currently based out of Austin, TX, but seems to visit the San Francisco Bay Area on a regular basis to perform.
Poised on hitting the mainstream, Grimes is a Canadian artist who also performs with a keyboard, effects pedals and a sampler. Her vocals are lovely and ethereal, while her music ranges from ambient to pure pop. She recently performed on Jimmy Fallon and I'll admit I was a bit sad to see they felt the need to dress up her performance with back up dancers and some special effects, but it was still a beautiful performance.
Finally, there is MNDR, which is actually a duo comprised of Amanda Warner and Peter Wade, but Warner performs solo. I've seen Warner perform with a synth and also with a guitar, but it seems she is focusing mostly on singing live. She reminds me a bit of Kim Wilde (of Kids in America fame) so I guess I've included her here just because I really like the music. She's also opening for Duran Duran these days. I think I would like to be her when I grow up. Heh.
I recently realized that I am anti-laptop when it comes to music performance. It feels like a crutch to me, or maybe I just don't want to compete on the same playing field as all the people who can kick serious a** with Ableton Live. I currently describe my music as having all the canned sounds of electronica and all the shaky timing of a garage band (ba-dump-ba), although in truth, I think my timing is pretty amazing considering I make most of my loops live on the fly.
Currently I'm beginning pre-production on my next recording project and also thinking I'd like to perform live again soon. This song, Lessons, performed at the Stork Club in February, will most likely be on my next CD. Check it out and enjoy.


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Lao Dong Bei, New York's newest destination for Dongbei chow from northeast China, has a connection to one of the city's first. The chef used to cook at Fu Run, beloved for its spice-crusted Muslim-style lamb chops, Peter Cuce reports on Chowhound. Opened a couple of weeks ago in the space once occupied by another hound hangout, M&T, Lao Dong Bei serves those chops alongside other Fu Run favorites, including cumin sliced fish (pictured), beer duck, Dongbei-style orange chicken, and blotch soup, filled with spätzle-like bits of dough. "Everything was quality," Peter writes after a first pass through the menu.
Lao Dong Bei [Flushing]
44-09 Kissena Boulevard (near Cherry Avenue), Flushing, Queens
Discuss: Flushing: Lao Dong Bei replaces short-lived SN New Restaurant (former M & T)
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Guests at the event were treated to a luxe, three-course meal including scallop appetizer, tender beef entree and tasty chocolate pastry dessert. And though the dinner was delightful, the highlight of the night was certainly the presentation of the Leonard Zeidenberg Award to Wolf Blitzer. The award was presented by Turner Broadcasting Chairman and CEO Phil Kent who gushed, "I love this guy" before playing a hilarious video tribute to the Wolf-man (below and worth the watch).
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GTK has various widgets that can be visually adjusted by the user using the mouse or the keyboard, such as the range widgets, described in the Range Widgets section. There are also a few widgets that display some adjustable portion of a larger area of data, such as the text widget and the viewport widget.
Obviously, an application needs to be able to react to changes the user makes in range widgets. One way to do this would be to have each widget emit its own type of signal when its adjustment changes, and either pass the new value to the signal handler, or require it to look inside the widget's data structure in order to ascertain the value. But you may also want to connect the adjustments of several widgets together, so that adjusting one adjusts the others. The most obvious example of this is connecting a scrollbar to a panning viewport or a scrolling text area. If each widget has its own way of setting or getting the adjustment value, then the programmer may have to write their own signal handlers to translate between the output of one widget's signal and the "input" of another's adjustment setting method.
GTK solves this problem using the Adjustment object, which is not a widget but a way for widgets to store and pass adjustment information in an abstract and flexible form. The most obvious use of Adjustment is to store the configuration parameters and values of range widgets, such as scrollbars and scale controls. However, since Adjustments are derived from Object, they have some special powers beyond those of normal data structures. Most importantly, they can emit signals, just like widgets, and these signals can be used not only to allow your program to react to user input on adjustable widgets, but also to propagate adjustment values transparently between adjustable widgets.
You will see how adjustments fit in when you see the other widgets that incorporate them: Progress Bars, Viewports, Scrolled Windows, and others.
Many of the widgets which use adjustment objects do so automatically, but some cases will be shown in later examples where you may need to create one yourself. You create an adjustment using:
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Well, technically that title should be PROTON, ELECTRON, and Hepatitis C, the first two words being the names of two recent studies of PSI-7977, a potential new drug for treating hepatitis C virus (HCV).
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There's a lot to talk about with PSI-7977—mainly in light of study results presented a few days ago at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in San Francisco. So let's get the elephant in the room out of the way before we go any further: I do not know what POSITRON and ELECTRON stand for. Nor do I know what FISSION, PROTON, and ATOMIC stand for—but more on that later. All I can tell you is that at some point in the history of drug development, pharmaceutical companies and/or clinical trial cooperative groups decided that acronyms were necessary or advantageous for some reason, paving the way for many a BLT, BOLERO and COMFORT for years to come.
PSI-7977 is kind of exciting. In the PROTON study, this drug, a nucleotide analog, was combined with the then-standard of care, pegylated interferon plus ribavirin. (Since PROTON was done, telaprevir and boceprevir were approved, changing the standard of care.) In PROTON, 96% of patients had a sustained virologic response (SVR), which is the measure of cure for HCV. Now, to balance this, is a wonderful moment of parsing the data: 96% is impressive, no doubt, but it has to be mentioned that the total number of patients in that study was 25, with 24 patients being actually evaluable. It was an early-phase study, so that small number of patients is not unusual, but most reports about the latest PSI-7977 results are highlighting that initial 96%, and it's hard to find the actual N of the study. Here is a PDF of the full report of the PROTON study.
After PROTON delivered its encouraging results, Pharmasset, the maker of PSI-7977, launched ELECTRON, a phase II study in which a number of patients were given the experimental drug plus ribavirin. And that is the key: 10 of the enrollees received NO pegylated interferon. And guess what: the combination worked. All 10 of those HCV patients had an SVR.
Now, a couple of things to explain. First, these were patients with genotype 2 or 3 HCV. The reason why these genotypes were selected is because they tend to be highly responsive to interferon. Wait – so, why were those the people who were not given interferon? Well, the logic was that if PSI-7977 plus ribavirin didn't work, those patients could be more easily rescued with a course of pegylated interferon + ribavirin than HCV patients with, say, genotype 1, the most difficult to treat variety of the disease. As it turned out, that rescue therapy wasn't needed, but still, the logic is interesting when it comes to understanding drug trials.
Another important point is why eliminating interferon from treatment could be useful. There are two reasons. First, some patients respond to interferon and others do not. As it turns out, variations in the IL28B gene are behind that likelihood (or lack thereof), a discovery that has its own fascinating story. (Here's a link to an article I wrote about it for Science last year.) David Goldstein, of Duke University, was instrumental in this finding, as was David Thomas, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, a man whose work with HCV, along with hepatitis B and other illnesses, extends from the genetic aspects to the public health injustices surrounding screening and care.
The second point about interferon is that it's not for everyone, even those who do respond physically. The drug causes harsh side effects, including mood disorders, to the point where some patients, such as those who are clinically depressed at the time of their diagnosis, may not be candidates for treatment, even if they have the IL28B variant that indicates they'd likely respond to the drug. In short, many researchers and drug developers have been working on finding a way to treat HCV without pegylated interferon. The ELECTRON study is the first (as far as I know) to do it.
In the ELECTRON study, alongside those 10 patients given PSI-7977 + ribavirin were three other groups of patients, each of which was given a different schedule of PSI-7977 + ribavirin + pegylated interferon. All of the patients responded well. The outcomes among the patients not given pegylated interferon were the same as for those given that drug. The difference was that patients in the three-drug groups experienced at least one side effect more often (any of the following: headache, fatigue, depression, insomnia, anxiety, irritability, muscle soreness, upper respiratory tract infections), as well as a greater occurrence of moderate-to-severe drops in neutrophils, a type of white blood cell.
Several new treatment arms have been added to the ELECTRON study, including one in which patients will be given PSI-7977 alone. All of the patients are still genotype 2/3 only.
Another word about the genotype selection. Telaprevir (Incivek) and bocepevir (Victrelis) were both approved for genotype 1 HCV. These drugs are highly effective, and while they won't cure all patients, they will cure many. So it may be that the drug maker behind PSI-7977 is focusing on a different genotype for marketing purposes. That being said, the phase III clinical trial program will include three studies, one of which will focus on genotype-1 patients. The other two soon-to-be-launched studies (the aforementioned FISSION and POSITRON) will evaluate PSI-7977 + ribavirin in more than 700 patients with genotype 2/3 HCV, according to a recent statement from Pharmasset. And we mustn't forget the other ongoing study, ATOMIC, a phase IIb study in which 300 patients with chronic HCV genotype 1 are being given the three-drug combo for either 12 or 24 weeks, and 25 patients with genotype 4, 5, 6 or an indeterminate genotype will receive the same medications for 24 weeks.
Other New Drugs for Hepatitis C
If HCV were a party, this would be the point at which the room starts getting a touch crowded; not so much that you have to leave, but definitely to the point where there are no seats left. For although PSI-7977 has got the makers of telaprevir a little concerned about its future earnings, several other compounds, many of which may also work without pegylated interferon, are currently being studied.
These include:
• Second-generation protease inhibitors (telaprevir and boceprevir are protease inhibitors) such as TMC435, danoprevir, GS 9256, BMS 791325, ACH-1625, MK-7009, and BI 201335
• Inhibitors of nonstructural protein 5A, which is involved with viral replication. BMS 790052 is one such compound currently being evaluated
• R7128, another nucleoside polymerase inhibitor (same class as PSI-7977)
• Nonnucleoside polymerase inhibitors (which, for the technically minded among you, seem to exert their effect by "allosteric inhibition of the NS5B HCV polymerase," according to Ira Jacobson, commenting in Gastroenterology & Hepatology, in October 2010.)
• Cyclophilin antagonists, drugs that target the host cell rather than the virus. Cyclophilin is a protein that the virus uses in the replication of RNA. One of the reasons why this approach could gain traction is because it eliminates concern about the virus becoming resistant to treatment, a feature that warrants having as many treatment options as possible, meaning that it's probably good that this party is getting crowded.
• Alternatives to pegylated interferon are also being investigated. For example, albumin interferon alfa-2b and pegylated interferon lambda are two candidates. Loteron is an interferon alpha product that could work, and consensus interferon, which is nonpegylated, was already approved for patients who don't respond to pegylated interferon plus ribavirin.
HCV and the History of the Human Race
On another, related note, we all come across certain topics where we feel like the trajectory of the story somehow encapsulates all there is to understand about human life, or some other big picture for which this smaller story serves as a microcosm.
For me, HCV is one of those stories. This current chapter is not only illuminating so much about the best of modern drug development, but also reveals many of the problems still not being adequately addressed, like screening and prevention (HCV is primarily transferred through dirty drug needles), and the fact that many HCV patients are still not treated until late in the disease, one of the reasons why being a passing of the buck going on at the level of insurance. There is also the question (warning: idealist alert) of whether we will ever come to the day when people won't feel the need to inject recreational drugs, dirty needle or not, and eliminating, or at least severely shrinking, HCV as a concern once and for all.
But then there is a whole trace of human history—steps and missteps—in the story of HCV. The geographic distribution of genotypes is a starting point for a rich and harrowing look at how viruses move across the world. For example, one of the ways that hepatitis was spread through Egypt was through a campaign against schistosomiasis along the Nile delta in the 1960s.
(Here is one interesting PDF on that.) It was a well-intentioned and needed public health measure but the needles weren't sterilized and so as people were treated for the parasite, village by village, the virus made its way around. Egypt currently has the highest rates of HCV in the world. Anti-malaria campaigns in Cameroon had a similar impact.
Also fascinating is the fact that the spread of the virus can be traced across slave trade routes from Africa to Europe. And, as Oliver Pybus, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, points out, that fact brings up another central mystery about HCV, which is that the virus has been around for thousands of years, but the most common modes of transmission that we know of are connected to relatively modern inventions (blood transfusions and needles to inject drugs). "What is clear is that this endemic transmission was occurring across the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and it doesn't seem right that it would be maintained by very culturally-defined and location-specific routes of transmission," Pybus once told me. In other words, as he explained, practices like scarification and tattooing could account for some, but not all, of the spread of HCV in that time and place. Making his insights even more fascinating is the fact that Pybus has managed to use genome sequencing and computer programs to trace the phylogenetic tree of HCV that extends over thousands of years. (Pybus was the CDC's point person on tracking the origin of swine flu a few years back because of the software and methods he's invented.)
found a genetic homolog of HCV in dogs. Here's a tiny bit from me on that (scroll to bottom), and a lot more about it from Carl Zimmer.
You see?
There is a whole trace of history inside the story of HCV. With all of the issues that tend to get our dander up when it comes to drug development (and those exist with HCV, too), here is one that piques our fascination and curiosity.
There is one more looming question. When it comes to the increasing number of HCV medications: why now? We know that pharmaceutical companies are businesses, so obviously there is money to be made in creating new drugs for HCV. Has there been some recent dawning realization about this? Are drug makers for some reason now guaranteed a solid return on the investment, whereas they weren't some years back? Or is it more due to the science and advances in HCV research that have led to so many new targets to investigate?
Clearly, there is at least one more chapter waiting to be written in this compelling story, and I'm sure many more beyond that.


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- Tiffani said...
This is sooo FUNNY!!! I love it! Especially thinking about the college girls!!
You did great "disguising" for you kiddos! I thought I'd die laughing when one of them said "is it about the enviornment??!!" I hooted! My kids are the same way but it's actually mainly JuJu...in her little teeny 4 year old self says "why did you get that for Daddy?? Is it because you're married to him and you LIKE him??"
But, yes, I LOVE being in love after almost 11 years..it just gets better with age...like good wine...or cheese! :) Enjoy those greens, girl! What did the Mister think???
- January 31, 2009 9:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
I saw a bag of those at Fry's yesterday too and, although I was a little annoyed because I needed the reds, pinks, and whites for a cupcake project Kennedy is up to, I thought it was brilliant marketing by the M&M people.
And I can just see those college girls scootin' inconspicuously down the candy aisle trying to avoid the crazy lady with the green M&M's. :)
Oh, and of course the kids minding their own business part? Don't I know it!
I can't wait to hear what the Mister has to say when you share this story with him!
- January 31, 2009 11:47 AM
- Lindsay said...
hehe I love it!! Glad you found some all green ones :-)
- January 31, 2009 12:20 PM
- mer@lifeat7000feet said...
How funny, Kellie.
I wish I liked M&Ms (weird, freak, unAmerican--I know) but I may just have to buy some for J and "pretend" to like them. He'd be happy with that.
- January 31, 2009 12:38 PM
- TJ Wilson said...
Hilarious. Will be on the lookout...
- January 31, 2009 9:50 PM
- Woman Interrupted said...
Hee Hee!
So green M&Ms are your "green light," so to speak...
- January 31, 2009 11:16 PM
- jen said...
Shhh - I bought a bag of those for my Mister too. My kids also asked (probably because I was laughing out loud when I picked them up); I told them, "Daddy just likes the greens...and shhhh, don't tell him I bought these."
- February 01, 2009 5:55 PM
- Carrie and Jim said...
Going green never sounded so fun! Ha, that's a good one!
- February 02, 2009 12:43 PM
- Allison said...
So cute!!!! I'll have to go and see if I can find a bag for myself!
I like your kids' comment about it being for the environment as the reason for the all green! I think I might have quickly responded, "Yes, that is why!"
- February 02, 2009 8:27 PM
- His Girl said...
*giggle* totally going to copy you ;)
- February 05, 2009 2:48 AM
- Ashley Pichea [PicheaPlace.com] said...
a coworker picked up a bag of those last year, thinking that they were out awfully early for st. patty's day... haha... i ate a few with the joke that i was going to get pregnant from eating them... i delivered in september! :)
- February 06, 2009 10:59 AM


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Lightroom Podcast #12: Mikkel Aaland
In the latest installment, photographer & author Mikkel Aaland discusses the Adobe Lightroom Iceland Adventure project. George Jardine writes,
This podcast was recorded Saturday, August 5th 2006, in Raykjavik, Iceland. Now that the Adventure is drawing to a close, Mikkel reflects back on the genesis of the project and the fantastic events of the week. We touch on our great luck with the weather, the fantastic landscape of Iceland, and the working conditions with a beta software product. Mikkel looks forward to incorporating the photographs that were taken by 9 great professional photographers this week into a new book about Lightroom that will be published by O'Reilly.
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Mothers' Monitoring Of Media Tied To Kids' Weight
Researchers found that mothers who were more active in their media supervision had children who were thinner at age seven and who gained less weight over the next few years.
"At this point, we can say there is an association but we cannot say exactly why," Stacey Tiberio, the study's lead author from the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, told Reuters Health.
For example, she said the results could be due to vigilant mothers encouraging their children to be more active instead of letting them watch TV. It could also be that their kids aren't spending as much time being exposed to food advertisements.
The researchers write in JAMA Pediatrics that understanding the role of parental media monitoring is crucial in the development of obesity programs and interventions.
For the new study, they used data from 112 mothers, 103 fathers and their 213 children.
Parents and children answered questionnaires, were interviewed and received physicals when the kids were five, seven and nine years old. The data were collected between 1998 and 2012.
The researchers found that when mothers reported spending less time monitoring their kids' media consumption, kids tended to be heavier at seven years old.
What's more, less aggressive media monitoring by mothers was tied to more irregular weights among children over the entire study period.
Monitoring by fathers was not tied to changes in weight. Tiberio said that may be because mothers tend to be children's primary caregiver. She also cautioned that these are only the results of one study.
But she said showing a link between TV monitoring and weight in this group is important because early adolescence tends to be a crucial point for many people weight-wise.
"It's basically a one-way door," Tiberio said. "If you are obese by middle childhood, you have an increased likelihood of staying in that group."
Jennifer Falbe, who was not involved with the new research but has studied screen time and its connection to weight, told Reuters Health the new study supports current recommendations.
"What they found is consistent with the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation to limit children's total screen time to no more than one to two hours per day of high-quality content," she said.
Falbe is a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.
"Parents should keep TV sets and other electronic media out of children's bedrooms," she said. "Research has also indicated that parents' own TV viewing habits can influence their children. In addition to limiting their children's screen time, it's also important to set a good example."


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I arrived at Miller's Saturday night about an hour before the bluegrass band King Wilkie was scheduled to perform, and quite literally just barely snagged myself a seat. Misplacing my keys or some other time-bandit which I'm sure occurred in an alternate plane of reality would have forced me to stand up for the group's entire set because Miller's was possibly more packed than the band's six members looked performing on the venue's tiny 5' by 5' stage.
Charlottesville is an interesting town, a mixture of the erudite and the dirty, and these types and many more were all present Saturday– in terms of marketing to the different segments of our population, I think King Wilkie has everyone else beat.
After a short intro by the group's manager, Rick Easton, the sextet launched into their first number, an instrumental piece about a minute and a half long. The confines of Miller's stage forced the group to continually reposition themselves to let one or another solo on the lone mic; like the Red Sea under Moses's command, King Wilkie's suited members would ebb, pushing the featured player forward for his cheer-inducing moments of glory.
With barely two seconds of dead air after the conclusion of the first number, the group launched into "It's Been A Long Time," with mandolinist Reid Burgess and guitarist John McDonald singing spot-on two part harmonies. As opposed to verse/chorus structure, the song went verse/fiddle solo/verse/banjo solo/verse/acoustic guitar solo to end, with each of the featured soloists taking center stage in turn.
The next tune, an original by guitarist Ted Pitney, with McDonald singing lead and Burgess on backup, did not seem out of place at all among the group's traditional song set. The vocal dynamics between McDonald and Burgess are definitely one of the high points for the group as far as I'm concerned, making harmony singing, which can be tricky, look like no big deal.
The 3/4 waltzer "In the Pines" made an appearance, with continuous two-part harmony floating over Abe Spear's banjo twinkling in the background, until the a cappella outro. Possibly the slowest song of the evening, the King Wilkie version did not lack energy despite the downtrodden nature of the composition.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Canada pulled off an exciting 26-15 upset over South Africa on Friday in its second game at the Wellington Sevens tournament.
Canada narrowly lost to Wales to open the tournament in New Zealand's capital, but rebounded with a world-class effort to stun the Blitzbokke. Canada showed determination from the opening whistle as team captain Nanyak Dala stole the ball inside the South Africa 22-metre line and burst towards the goal-line.
After Dala was stopped just short of the try-line, speedster Sean Duke gathered the ball from the breakdown and scored under the posts to give Canada a 7-0 advantage just seconds into the match.
Not long after, Cornal Hendrickson responded for South Africa with a tally, but the conversion was missed and Canada held a 7-5 lead. Ciaran Hearn made an incredible individual effort to set up the next score as he drew two defenders and fed Nathan Hirayama a pass for Canada's next points.
After Hirayama converted his own try, and South African Chris Dry scored an unconverted tally on the half-time whistle, Canada led 14-10 at the end of the first half.
Early in the second half, Dala made a brave tackle forcing him to leave the game with a blood-sub. The tackle, however, helped Phil Mack steal the ball and send it wide through the hands which set up Duke to score his second try of the game.
Pouring on the pressure, Canada's forwards corralled the restart and Conor Trainor made a beautiful pass off the touch-line to John Moonlight who barged over the try line as the New Zealand crowd cheered on the looming upset.
South Africa scored another unconverted try at the end of the match, but it was too little too late as Canada ran away with a 26-15 victory over the Blitzbokke.
Duke's two tries moved him into first place in the season's scoring race with 17 tries so far this season.


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Background | Contribution to the official documents | Relevant analytical reports |
EAP Task Force mandate | Additional materials | Related events | Main outcomes of the Conference
The Seventh "Environment for Europe" Ministerial Conference took place in Astana (Kazakhstan) from 21 to 23 September 2011. The two main themes for the Conference were: (1) sustainable management of water and water-related ecosystems and (2) greening the economy: mainstreaming the environment into economic development.
The Conference in Astana took place 20 years after the start of the "Environment for Europe" process. Each previous conference helped to consolidate the role of environmental action in public policies of participating countries, preserve natural capital, and more generally close the gap in the "environmental welfare" of people in the pan-European region.
The OECD has been an active player of the "Environment for Europe" process throughout its entire history. In Lucerne (Switzerland) in 1993, Environmental Ministers established a Task Force for the Implementation of Environmental Action Programme (EAP Task Force) to help transition economies in the process of their environmental "reconstruction" and promote the integration of environmental policy goals into a broader development agenda. OECD's Environment Directorate has facilitated the work of the Task Force since its inception. Currently, the Task Force continues to be one of the major contributors to policy dialogue within the "Environment for Europe" process: it has driven numerous policy reforms and better policy implementation in the partner countries, including on water-related issues. Within this framework, analytical work and country-level pilot projects have supported policy innovation and implementation. The results from a number of recently conducted studies served as background for discussions at the Astana Ministerial Conference.
Contribution to the official documents of the Astana Conference
Jointly with the UNECE Secretariat, the OECD/EAP Task Force Secretariat has developed a background paper for Ministers on sustainable management of water and water-related ecosystems, which was one of the main documents of the Conference. The Note describes recent trends, challenges and achievements as well as recommendations for the way forward in this area. It was prepared through a broad consultative process involving countries as well as partner organizations.
Relevant analytical reports prepared under the EAP Task Force umbrella
EAP Task Force mandate extension
The Draft Ministerial Declaration welcomes the work of the Environmental Action Programme Task Force and invites the OECD to continue this work, including on the themes of the Astana Conference, in cooperation with Regional Environmental Centres of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia and other partners.
Related events
OECD Horizontal work
Main outcomes of the Ministerial Conference
For more information on the Astana Conference and different side events visit: http://www.unece.org/env/efe/Astana/welcome.html
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Adam Brody to Kristen Stewart: If you don't like the fame, there's the door
Adam Brody, no stranger to successful teen franchises, has a message for Kristen Stewart and other actors accused of hating the fame game: Quit.
Appearing on Diablo Cody's new internet talk show "Red Band Trailer" (the screenwriter actually holds celeb chats in an Airstream trailer), the duo broached the perilous lives of celebs, paparazzi and all.
"Do you enjoy being famous, or do you wish that you could just be an actor apart from all that, a la Kristen Stewart?" Cody asked.
"It's only gotten worse, I'm sure, being a celebrity. At the same time, I don't have a lot of patience for people who moan about it too much. Because there are many things you could do," Brody said, calling back to Cody's reference to Stewart.
"It's like, quit ... you don't need to be an actor, so it's like if it's that much of a problem ... there's the door."
Cody and Brody could be alluding to previous comments from Stewart regarding fan obsession and the oppressive nature of being famous.
We'll let you guys decide who has a better point in the comments section below.
Other gems from the sit-down include Brody settling the age-old debate -- Red Lobster or Olive Garden?
"I don't have a lot of experience with Red Lobster, but I trust the pasta over fish," he said.
-- Matt Donnelly
Photos: Kristen Stewart and Adam Brody. Credits: Matt Sayles / Associated Press, left; Los Angeles Times
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