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When Martha Dandridge Custis marries her second husband, George, she never suspects that the soft-spoken Virginia planter is destined to command the founding of a nation—or that she is to be "Lady Washington," the woman at the first President's side. Only a select inner circle of women will know the cost of sharing a beloved man with history . . . and each will draw strength from the unique treasure given to them by a doomed queen.
Seeing farm and family through each harsh New England season, Abigail Adams is sustained only by the fervent reunions stolen between John's journeys abroad. She will face the terror of an ocean crossing to join her husband in France—and write her own page in history. And there she will cross paths with kings, commoners—and young Sally Hemings.
Just as Sally had grown from a clever child to a beautiful woman, so had her relationship with Thomas Jefferson grown from a friendship between slave and master to one entangled in the complexities of black and white, decorum and desire. It is a relationship that will leave Sally to face an agonizingly wrenching choice.
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In the early days of our nation's history, the Founding Fathers wrote a constitution and created a system of government with limited powers. The poor would be cared for by charities or religious organizations — groups established as safety nets for those in need.
It is only with the vast expansion of federal and state governments during the last 50 years that we have seen a crowding out of the role of charities — from good works that nonprofits do from housing and feeding the poor to volunteer physicians and nurses who give medical care to the sick.
As Americans continue to debate the Affordable Care Act and the expansion of Medicaid in the states, policymakers and citizens should remember there is a partner available to help care for Georgia's poor and uninsured: the state's more than 100 charity care clinics.
Staffed with volunteer physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and other health care personnel, these charity clinics help these patients manage chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, asthma and other illnesses so patients don't wind up in emergency rooms and cost taxpayers more money.
Health care professionals volunteer their time because they want to heal the sick and have a sense of compassion, no matter what the financial status of patients. It is because of that sense of giving that Georgia has more charity health clinics than any state in the nation.
Several of the state's charity clinics also have dental clinics on site. Some are faith-based, while others are secular. They are a great example of communities taking care of their own.
Last year, Georgia's charity clinics treated about 323,000 adults from rural, high-unemployment areas to urban centers, including Macon, Augusta and Atlanta.
According to the Georgia State Auditor, these clinics provide $200 million in care while reaching 16 percent of the state's uninsured population.
And charity clinics can fill another need. They will continue to provide access to health care as more and more physicians refuse to accept Medicaid as a form of payment. A recent study by the Mongan Institute for Health found that 28 percent of primary care physicians who treat Medicaid patients no longer accept new patients with Medicaid cards.
But charity care continues to be available — and in demand — to those who can't receive care elsewhere.
For example, the Good Shepherd Clinic in Morrow, like almost all charity clinics, is popular and has a long waiting list due to high unemployment and few adults in its community with health insurance. Like many of Georgia's charity clinics, Good Shepherd does not charge eligible patients. Charity clinics that do charge patients have a sliding-scale fee.
Good ideas never go out of style. Policymakers need to consider lending a hand to charity health care providers. Neighbors step up to aid neighbors when given the opportunity. If charity health care worked when our nation was in its infancy, it certainly can be part of the solution for a country facing potential bankruptcy over health care entitlements.
Donna Looper is executive director of the Georgia Charitable Care Network.
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My name is Maura, and I'm an addict. My substance of choice isn't as dangerous as heroin or cocaine. No, my habit is...peanut butter. I feel shaky and out of sorts every morning until I get my fix, ideally on whole wheat toast with blueberry jam. In emergencies, however, I spoon it straight from the jar.
But there's more to it than that. See, I can get kind of crazy about it. My last boyfriend started calling me a PB junkie after witnessing some of my peculiar behaviors: I keep a stash of no fewer than three containers in my cupboard -- backups for when I finish the one in the fridge. I showed up for my first weekend at his apartment with Trader Joe's Creamy and Salted in my overnight bag. And I stuck a jar in the glove compartment before we set off on our first road trip. "What gives?" he asked. I told him I'd have a meltdown if I ever ran out. "You're addicted!" he retorted. I laughed; wasn't that a little extreme? The next morning, I waited until he was in the shower before digging yet another container of PB out of my luggage and sneaking a few spoonfuls.
My ex was onto something. Startling new research has found that the way some people respond to food is very similar to the way substance abusers react to the drugs they're hooked on. Additionally, a number of experts believe that the level of food addiction in the United States may be epidemic. "Overeating and obesity kill at least 300,000 Americans every year due to diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer," says Mark Gold, MD, of the division of addiction medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. "While no one knows exactly how many of those people might be food addicted, we estimate it's half of the total."
Women may be at the greatest risk: 85 percent of those who join Overeaters Anonymous are female. "Many of our members will say they're obsessed with food and that they think constantly about what they'll have next," says Naomi Lippel, the organization's managing director. "They also talk about eating until they're in a fog -- until they're essentially intoxicated."
Take Angela Wichmann of Miami, who used to overeat until she couldn't think straight. "I could eat almost anything compulsively," says Angela, 42, a real-estate developer who tipped the scales at 180 pounds. "I'd buy junk food and eat it in the car or consume it at home in secrecy. My favorites were crunchy things like M&M's or chips. Even crackers would do the trick." She always felt shame and regret afterward, but says, "I was embarrassed that I couldn't control myself. In most areas of my life I've been able to achieve anything I set my mind to -- I have a PhD, and I've run a marathon. Kicking my eating problem was another story entirely."
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Try PB with no added sugar or salt. It's not as tasty and definitely not as addictive. And when you want to eat, even though you're not, distract yourself as much as possible until the next meal time. It takes time, effort and willpower but eventually it will replace your old habit.10/15/2013 02:33:05 PM Report Abuse
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I am also addicted to peanut butter. I can relate to it and binging on the foods that I deprived myself from eating. I but what can i do if it makes me feel better when I grab a spoonful of PB and I can't stop myself to lick more. After that craving force myself in exercising to death. Is this psychological?11/13/2011 08:31:35 AM Report Abuse
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TREASURE COAST -- Treasure Coast Fire Chiefs' Association honored Lt. David Dangerfield as Emergency Service Provider of the Year at their annual awards banquet held Jan. 18 at Gator Trace Country Club in Fort Pierce.
"The TCFCA wishes to congratulate Lt. Dangerfield for his extensive involvement throughout his career with his department and the community," said retired Fire Chief Lori Sunderman, president of the TCFCA. "We are honored to present the 2012 'Emergency Service Provider of the Year' award and proud to recognize his work for the Treasure Coast."
Lt. Dangerfield is a 24-year veteran of the Indian River County Fire Rescue. He is currently assigned to Fire Station No. 2 where he is the Field Training Officer for the Dive Rescue Team of A-Shift.
In addition to responding to traditional calls for the area, Station 2 houses marine rescue units which respond to calls from backyard pools, canals, marshes, intracoastal waterways and the Atlantic Ocean. Lt. Dangerfield also serves on Special Operations - High Angle Team.
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San Francisco — Intermittent dosing of vemurafenib extended the lives of lab mice with drug-resistant melanoma tumors, according to results of an international study.
Researchers with University of California, San Francisco, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Emeryville, Calif., and University Hospital Zurich, found that adjusting the dosing of vemurafenib (Zelboraf, Genentech) and using an "on-again, off-again" schedule prolonged the lives of mice with melanoma tumors, Newswise reports.
The investigators learned that a mechanism by which melanoma cells become resistant to vemurafenib also causes them to become hooked on the drug, resulting in the cells using vemurafenib to cause a growth in rapidly progressing drug-resistant tumors.
The researchers theorized that if the melanoma cells resistance to the drug also caused it to become "addicted" to it, the drug-resistant tumors might shrink when vemurafenib is eliminated. When the investigators stopped giving the drug to mice with resistant tumors, the tumors shrank again. Mice that were continuously treated with vemurafenib died of drug-resistant disease within about 100 days, Newswise reports, but those mice given drug holidays lived beyond 100 days.
"These data highlight the concept that drug-resistant cells may also display drug dependency, such that altered dosing may prevent the emergence of lethal drug resistance," study authors wrote. "Such observations may contribute to sustaining the durability of the vemurafenib response with the ultimate goal of curative therapy for the subset of melanoma patients with BRAF mutations."
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Truths and Facts. Does Science prove anything?
There is a great deal of interest of us in examining claims of 'truths' and 'facts'. In such examination there is a noticeable stress on scientifically proven facts which can be taken as fundamentally true. This is possibly because mathematics is the language of Science and we make mistake thinking mathematical proofs to be reflecting the essence of scientifically proven facts.
Does science necessarily prove anything? The way mathematics proves a proposition?
It is surprising that such a basic debate cannot be laid to rest and a conclusion arrived at even after 1934 book by Karl Popper: The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Alan Moghissi, Matthew Amin and Connor McNulty of Institute for Regulatory Science, Alexandria, Va wrote to the editor of Science (the magazine) disagreeing with Peter Gleick and 250 members of the (US) National Academy of Sciences writing to the editor of Science : All citizens should understand some basic scientific facts. There is always some uncertainty associated with scientific conclusions; science never absolutely proves anything.
Is there an absolutely proven scientific fact?
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May 20 2013: Nilesh, this is the reply to your comment. You are analysis raises a cardinal point that defines facts in reality unambiguously through Sankhyan logic. Only cyclic changes can be detected. The instant at which it is detectable is the point at which a changing parameter is STOPPED as when two particles collide at a POINT in space and then reverse. The detection of the next stationery point after completion of the following cycle of interaction. This interval between the two events has a bearing in Physics. Since there is movement during the interval between two collisions it cannot be measured or detected and gave rise to the principle of uncertainty. Further since detection was only at the colliding points, that time intrval created the concept of the quanta. That interval between counts gave the concept of a wavelength (displacement ) and became the frequency in a larger time interval or cycle. In Sankhya space is a continuum as a sea of elemental components but its detect ability was PERIODIC as explained above. Lacking a an axiomatic theory, the experimental discoveries were literally converted into a process of discontinuities. It is like inferring that air is qaantised medium because we can only hear discrete claps. . The so called quanta or Planck's constant contains in fact 9E16 interactive counts merged into a that cycle but Sankhyan axiomatic derivation quantifies the REAL individual interaction in space as having an inertial delay or mass as 1.3 E minus 51 kgs of mass. This large hidden interactive state contributes to explaining the anomalous dark matter/ energy findings. More important there is no need for dimensionality as the process counting interactions is ONLY a relative or RATIO of comparison for the fundamental components in space do never change or disappear.Hence the most elegant concept of conservation is derived by equating ONLY INTERACTIVE COUNTS DIRECTLY and not through a process of dimensional conversion.
May 24 2013: Mr. Srinivasan,
Thank you for further contribution to fundamentals as it pointing towards eternal dynamism and dimensionless ratios in reality. Numbers doesn't exist in reality but help you comprehend total process comprise of three part of cyclic time as compression ,resonance & expansion as fundamental logic. Need to explore further with fresh mind as previous knowledge more often becomes screen or resistance to see objectively. Thanks again.
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Wind chills of 5 below zero are expected tonight. Snow is expected to begin falling late this morning.
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Topics: Business & Economics, Chuck Colson, Ethics, Health Care, Marriage & Family, Politics & Government, Religion & Society
Circling back around on caring for elderly
Note: Chuck did a BreakPoint radio commentary on this today and there is a "Speak Out with Chuck" post on this topic today. The Speak-Out link is: http://www.breakpoint.org/features-columns/speakout/entry/26/17148 If you go to the commentary page (audio and text) there are quite a few comments there as well.
To Lee and Jason - good responses! I'll address them. To Lee's point about "which set of parents" - in my experience, it was whoever helped the kids build the house! I lived in two different houses like this, one a two story and one a three story. In one case, the lady who built the house put her mother on the first floor, herself and family on the second floor and the third floor got rented out - which is how I was there. In the other case, the grandparents were on the first floor and the son and his family had been on the second floor, but built a house next door and rented out the upstairs. In that case it might have been that the grandfather had built the house for his son, as it was an older house. I have seen many other combinations, but often the generations would live together and build together. And yes, some of the houses were big and expensive, and most did not build until they had saved over many years. Later they rented floors out, made money back and passed them down to future generations.
Jason, I see your point on migration and mobility, but I also have lived around people who have left their home countries to live here in the US. They usually go to great pains to get their parents over here as well and, yes, they often live in the same house!
I still believe we need to recapture some of that philosophy of caring for our parents if we can.
"I lived in Austria and Germany for many years and the practice there was for a young or middle-aged couple building a new home to build a separate floor for one set of parents."
Just *one* set, Alan? I can only imagine the arguments between the husband and wife over *which* in-laws will move in... ;-)
You're right; "caring" involves much more than money. But isn't a financial commitment a necessary condition, even if not a sufficient one?
Of course, we actually *are* making a financial commitment, via taxes that fund Medicare and Social Security. Or at least 50% of us are. What's missing is seeing that as a result, some dear elderly person is given something more than mere professionalism. I.e., the care can be delivered perfunctorily, and those of us who pay have no connection to the one receiving the care, either emotionally or in seeing a result of our "giving". Imagine, instead, if some group sent out letters like PFM does, where we could read stories of how our tax dollars gave someone a happy old age. And yes, it's hard to imagine that old age being better than it would by being surrounded with a loving family.
P.S.: *New* homes, in Austria and Germany? And sufficiently affordable to allow adding an entire floor? Wow.
"Most of the world does not operate this way, however, including much of the non-Christian world. What is up with that?"
Mobility. America was an automotive nation before Europe and it was a migrant nation before that.
There are other issues as well
"Caring" means more than money. The Biblical injunction to care for our [his] own in I Timothy means more than just provide money. How many mothers [widows] or fathers or both only want a child to pay the bills for a long term care facility, with little other contact? Many would rather die. Such care may well be part of the solution, but certainly not all of it.
I think our society has a much deeper issue with learning how to "care" for parents. I lived in Austria and Germany for many years and the practice there was for a young or middle-aged couple building a new home to build a separate floor for one set of parents. That way they were close enough to care for and spend time with them but still separated by a 6 inch concrete floor to ensure some necessary privacy. We have long abandoned inter-generational living in our country, with our jokes about "two weeks with the mother-in-law" etc. Most of the world does not operate this way, however, including much of the non-Christian world. What is up with that?
So the whole "Colson would walk over his own grandmother to get Richard Nixon elected" affair probably brought back painful memories. I'm very sorry that that was the case.
In the debates over the proposed GOP budget, we hear repeatedly that cutting Medicare and Social Security would leave senior citizens to use up all their own personal funds, and then be destitute. Their relatives (and friends, and fellow church members) are never even mentioned as a possibility.
Most of us who were born after 1950 have grown up in Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society". We've been enculturated to believe that "retirement" means "begins to draw Social Security and Medicare benefits". It can be challenging to simply think that there are alternatives, much less to act upon them.
It seems we have institutionalized the avoidance of personally caring for parents. It's amazing to think that such indifference is bankrupting us. Apparently God takes 1 Timothy 5:8 much more seriously than we believe He does.
My son is permanently disabled, and receives both Medicare and Social Security. Only recently have my wife and I begun to emerge from the financial issues that arose from his accident. We're now in a position to think about the options for caring for him in the long term, as well as thinking about our own retirement. Regarding the latter, I find it easy to say I don't want to "become a burden" to my other children, but also easy to make myself a burden to taxpayers. At the same time, I'm very bothered that my son is a burden to them. I definitely need to ponder this more.
How did we as a nation transition from "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" to "I paid taxes into Social Security and Medicare, and now THEY OWE ME"??
Thank you, Chuck. You're right; we should be talking much more about this, especially as believers.
This is s great article that raises many issues including ethical ones.
Just in time for Doing the Right Thing. One thing not raised is what is the responsibility of the Christian family when a Christian needs this kind of help. With my wife's recent illness not only was I able to care for her at home until her death but I received alot of help from my earthly family and my Christian family to which I am eternally grateful. Do Christians have a responsibility as well?


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From Public Market to La Marqueta: Shaping Spaces and Subjects of Food Distribution in New York City, 1930 to 2012 by Anne Babette Audant Advisor: Setha M. Low Public markets are definitive parts of the urban landscape. Policies shaping municipal food provisioning, including public markets, produce and reproduce differentiated subjects and unevenly developed spaces. Social science has not paid sustained attention to public food markets; this research contributes to a fragmented and multi-perspective body of work that demonstrates the many ways in which markets intersect with urban processes. I look at the geographic distribution of food in and through New York City's public markets from 1930 to the present by mapping intersections of politics, citizens, consumers, social class, gender, ethnicity, race, government, capital, and the retailing landscape. Tracing these processes over more than a century, this study demonstrates that food distribution is a dynamic and highly contested aspect of urban life, underscoring a deep if sometimes under-articulated recognition of the work done by the flow of food through city streets. Focused on New York City's public markets, particularly the enclosed retail markets built in the late 1930s and early 1940s to contain New York City's pushcarts and street peddlers, this study explores how the immigrant working classes became the objects of municipal food policy. Food habits became a means through which to Americanize - and civilize - the masses. Along with their bodies, their food landscapes became the targets of state intervention. Working class neighborhoods were - and are - vulnerable to state interventions that too often further alienate already disempowered populations. Food policy has the potential to advance social justice. In New York City, we are witnessing the emergence of a new municipal food policy, which, if implemented, will be the first comprehensive policy to be proposed since the Progressive Era. Aimed at reducing inequities and improving public health, and integrated with broad goals of environmental and economic sustainability, the proposals on the table point in promising directions.
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This dissertation is a theoretical and historical account of the art-making activities of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, a small, close-knit community living and working in mid-century San Francisco. Assemblage was a common denominator within the group, which included Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, and Manuel Neri, along with other, less constant members. The first book-length study devoted to the Rat Bastards, this project explores the political, social, and aesthetic concerns in their assemblages. It also reexamines the term assemblage, to take into account process and intent along with medium and technique. Allowing for this performative dimension impels a re-evaluation of these artists' works, its impact on subsequent developments, and its place among process-based practices in art since the 1950s.
Abstract ETHNICITY IN HAGIOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF DARERCA/MONINNA/MODWENNA/MONINNA IN THE BRITISH ISLES, SEVENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES By Diane Peters Auslander Adviser: Professor Thomas Head This is a contextual study of four related hagiographies written from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries in the British Isles. It is probable that there was a seventh-century original that is no longer extant much of which was retained in the tenth-century life. The saint herself is Irish and the earliest name we have for her is Darerca, but her name changes as the lives are rewritten. She is called Moninna in the eleventh-century life, Modwenna in the twelfth-century vita, and Modwenne in the thirteenth-century vie. Darerca is an Irish saint who lives and travels within Ireland and her Irishness is retained throughout these vitae. In the Life of St. Moninna, however, the saint's persona has been conflated with the legends of other saints of the British Isles, many of whom are difficult to identify with any certainty. Moninna's hagiographer includes her Irish journeys, but has her traveling to Scotland and England. In England, she is said to have founded Burton Abbey in the midlands, indicating that her name had become confused with that of a St. Modwenna whose relics were buried at Burton Abbey. In the early twelfth century, the abbot of Burton Abbey rewrote the Life of St. Moninna, retaining its Irish elements, but making it more relevant to an English audience. In c.1235, the text was reworked again at Burton in Anglo-Norman verse. The period during which these four lives were written was one of almost constant movement of peoples and mingling of ethnicities in the British Isles.. For some newcomers, such as the Vikings, the processes of resistance were succeeded by varying degrees of assimilation. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, however, there developed a virulent institutionalized ethnic hostility toward the Irish. Therefore this study examines these lives through the lens of ethnicity, ethnogenesis, assimilation, and bias.
The Supreme Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc clarified that federal trial judges were to serve as evidentiary gatekeepers for scientific evidence, evaluating scientific reliability when determining admissibility. When judges fail at gatekeeping and admit unreliable expert testimony, the Court expresses faith in the ability of cross-examination to reveal the reliability of testimony for jurors. For cross-examination to function as the Court intends, attorneys must recognize scientific flaws and craft cross-examination questions that expose scientific threats. Moreover, these scientifically informed cross-examinations must act as a form of scientific training for jurors. I conducted two studies to empirically examine the Court's assumptions regarding cross-examination. In Study One, 95 attorneys read a trial summary that contained expert testimony regarding an intelligence test. I varied the validity (presence v. absence of experimenter bias threat) and reliability (moderate v. high reliability indices on test-retest, inter-observer, and internal consistency scores) of the intelligence test. Attorneys provided lower ratings of scientific quality when the test was unreliable but did not craft cross-examination questions designed to expose the low reliability indices of the scientific test. Attorneys did not provide lower ratings of scientific quality when the intelligence test was invalid; however, a proportion of attorneys did craft cross-examination questions to expose the validity threat. In Study Two, I again varied the reliability and validity of the intelligence test and whether the cross-examination educated jurors about the study's flaws (scientifically informed vs. naïve). Either a judge or an attorney conducted the scientifically informed cross-examinations. Scientifically informed cross-examinations did not assist jurors with evaluating scientific reliability or validity. These studies suggest that cross-examinations may not function as a safeguard against flawed scientific evidence. Although some attorneys may be able to meet the Court's expectations, cross-examination may be an ineffective method of providing methodological training for jurors.
Comparative ads, in which a brand compares itself to a competitor brand, are frequently used in print and television media. When marketers compare their brands to others, they often show comical situations in which misfortunes befall those consumers who are using competitors' brands instead of theirs. Extant research has examined the impact of comparative ads without taking consumers' affective reactions into account, even though persuasive messages have been shown to elicit affective reactions that may mediate consumers' attitudes and behaviors. In the current research, I examine "schadenfreude," defined as the pleasure at the misfortunes of others, as an incidental emotional response elicited by comparative ad appeals. Across a series of studies, I show that more competitive individuals are likely to experience greater levels of incidental schadenfreude when they are exposed to comparative ads. More importantly, I examine the downstream implications of invoking schadenfreude and show that more competitive individuals are more likely to buy the advertised product when a higher-status brand uses comparative ads, since these ads make them experience greater levels of incidental schadenfreude.
The scope of cultural heritage management has been extended from tangible to intangible products in the few last decades. Debates surrounding the field of heritage raise fundamental questions about its inherent political character, calling particular attention to the ways in which heritage programs are dominated by nationalistic concerns. This study examines UNESCO-initiated intangible heritage making in Turkey. I focus on the complex relationship between heritage and nationalism, and the various levels of heritage making of marginalized cultural practices by national governments. This study shows that global heritage protection mechanisms have diverse and uncertain outcomes even in the same country. Yet when examined together, these outcomes reveal how heritage mechanisms nonetheless continue to be dominated by nationalist government interests. Drawing on interviews, ethnographic research, and content analysis of the UNESCO documents, I offer three case studies of recent heritage management programs in Turkey launched by the Justice and Development Party (JDP) government to safeguard marginalized cultural practices. These are the Mevlevi Sema ceremony, Nevruz festival, and Alevi-Bektaºi Semah ritual. Radical differences in the Turkish government's methods of handling the heritagization processes of these three practices uncover a recent transformation in the official nationalist policy and discourse in Turkey, from secularist Turkish nationalism (of Kemalism) to Islamist Turkish nationalism (of the JDP). It is these shifting nationalist trends that make Turkey's intangible heritage practices not only an aspect of the politics of recognition (in the case of the Mevlevis), but also of nonrecognition (in the case of the Kurds), and misrecognition (in the case of the Alevi-Bektaºis) regarding the extent these marginalized ethnic and religious identities comply with the current government's nationalist agenda.
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Building new dams for hydropower is not generally regarded favorably. While they allow electricity to be generated without carbon emissions, there is unacceptable collateral environmental damage to both surrounding upriver areas which are flooded and to the downriver areas where the best prices on brand cialis water flow is suddenly constrained.
But existing dams for flood control are already built and are not going to be removed anytime soon. And there is a hydroelectric potential at these dams which is presently going unused. The department's list includes 70 potential sites which are located throughout the western US.
The power generation would be done by private firms or other non-federal entities under a "Lease of Power Privilege Agreement," which gives a 40 year right for use of the facility to look here woman and viagra produce electric power. The department also states that this could provide power for 85,000 homes and will help reach the government targets to meet 80% percent of U.S. energy needs with clean sources by 2035.
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written by Kalirren, April 13, 2011
Admittedly it's base load power, but still, I'll bet this isn't a very cost effective idea compared to the construction of new solar power plants. Sounds like the Bureau of Reclamation is up to its old money-moving tricks.
Read Cadillac Desert.
written by Matt, April 13, 2011
Then if you want to think really big, there is the gulf stream and the "stream" running down the western side of the country. There are approaches to capture this energy also.
And just "pay" the power companies to buy levitra in europe do it.
- Charge them N cents for every KW-hour of electricity they make using coal, gas, or nuke. Ok, charge higher for coal if you like. Can increase N over time.
- Pay 10*N cents for every new KW-hour of electricity by green (hyrdo, tide, wind, solar, geothermal) they produce, up to the amount that they were charged. Passed that amount they a smaller amount back as a tax refund. This amount would be cap by the funds raised by the program.
- Yes it isn't "fair" to existing green power, but they idea is to get more green power to replace old power plants.
- Funds generated and not used, could be used to fund either energy saving programs
o Insulation programs for old buildings in the country
o Conversion to better lighting options
o etc
Or to as loan money to build new green power.
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The 2F Folding Chair
"I wanted to keep it very simple, with few mechanical parts, so that when it's flat it looks like a graphic outline more than a chair."
Designed by Hannu Kähönen of Creadesign, the 2F seat is so cleverly designed that it is cut from birch veneer plywood with only the smallest amount of waste and can be stored totally flat.
This means that it is the most efficient folding chair you could possibly have in a small apartment. Kahonen drew his inspiration from the cutting out of paper dolls. It's coming from Martela this Spring. (Via Metropolis)
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Very cool...will it cost a fortune?
Wow cool...pretty slim but couldn't a similar chair be made out of plastic at half that size?
"but couldn't a similar chair be made out of plastic at half that size?"
half thickness? no way. not out of sheets. wouldn't have the ridgidity. Molded maybe, with ribs for support, but molding it would defeat the purpose.
Price is going to depend upon where its manufactured, volumes, assembly labor as the raw materials should be reletively low.
Is it comfortable?
Of course it's comfortable, Lisa, as comfortable as sitting on a sheet of laminated birch plywood.
I think this chair is fantastic! It must produce very little waste when manufactured!
This site is great at displaying space saving furniture, but absolutely useless at helping potential buyers with information on where to buy and how much to pay.
Spoke to Martela's west coast showroom this morning. Unfortunately, after rigorous testing, "it was decided not to put this product into the commercial line. It has not been abandoned entirely" they said, but don't look for this great concept to be available anytime soon... I guess even laminated birch plywood doesn't hold up structurally...??


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TV picks: Weekend, July 6-8
"The Walking Dead"
DRAMA. All 19 episodes of this zombie drama are resurrected (heh) for a marathon that includes behind-the-scenes featurettes with the cast and crew showcasing what's to come for Season 3. It's followed by a live edition of "Talking Dead" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), during which host Chris Hardwick will debut a scene with one of the series' new characters, and concludes with a special black-and-white version of the "Walking Dead" pilot.
Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m., AMC
"Dog Whisperer"
REALITY. Cesar Millan brings his "tsst!" tactics to misbehaving canines — including those who live with Hugh Hefner and Kelsey Grammer — for one final season.
Season premiere, Saturday, 8 p.m., Nat Geo Wild
"Inspector Lewis"
DRAMA. The wits of savvy cop duo Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Detective Sergeant Hathaway (Laurence Fox) are tested when a professor obsessed with the Lewis Carroll poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is murdered and a secret society is exposed.
Season premiere, Sunday, 9 p.m., PBS
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REALITY. Larger-than-life "Mob Wife" Angela "Big Ang" Raiola attempts to give her Staten Island bar, the Drunken Monkey, a facelift — with collagen injections, perhaps?
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Children & Youth: Building tomorrow today
As young people mature, the decisions they make have an enormous impact on their families, their communities and our world. But growing up surrounded by poverty, war or in the aftermath of disaster increases their risks and limits their choices.
That's why giving children and youth the right support at this most critical time is essential to building tomorrow's strong, productive communities.
When disaster strikes, young children are especially vulnerable to developing emotional and social problems that can jeopardize their futures. Mercy Corps worked with experts to design our signature Comfort for Kids program that helps children process their trauma and recover through play, sports and art activities. See our expert's recommendations for how parents and caregivers can help children through times of crisis ▸
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Afghanistan: Fathers and sons learn a trade together June 13, 2012
Multiple generations are learning new job skills like carpentry in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where decades of conflict have limited opportunities to earn an income.
Niger: Children suffer most in hunger crisis June 6, 2012
Lauretta dreams of becoming a teacher. But she hasn't been to school since January, when she had to drop out in order to help her family at home.
Nepal: Teaching kids to prepare for floods June 6, 2012
Young students at a school in flood-prone western Nepal learn how to stay safe in the event of disaster.
Haiti: Tuning into youth June 5, 2012
We may not be the Sesame Street Workshop, but here in Haiti, the Mercy Corps team has been busy producing a locally-made educational television program for kids.
Haiti: Youth celebrate Soccer for Life May 28, 2012
A few kids take it easy during Mercy Corps' Foutbol pou Lavi ("Soccer for Life") activities, which started last December.
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The latest group of students to graduate from our vocational training program in southern Afghanistan — more than 3,600 of them — show that real success is giving young people hope.
Colombia: Reclaiming children of war May 14, 2012
As many as 14,000 children are fighting in Colombia's armed conflict. Each year, hundreds are rescued or escape — but it's too risky to return home. Mercy Corps is helping them start over.
Colombia: Helping fellow soldiers back from battle: Adriana's fresh start May 11, 2012
Helping former child soldiers rejoin society is familiar territory for Adriana. She was raised by her uncle in a small village where armed insurgents operated openly.
Indonesia: Mothers connect in the field May 11, 2012
Portland, Seattle, Taipei, Jakarta, Brebes, Kutamendala. After 44 hours of travel my colleague and I wander into our final destination — a secluded village in the jungles of Java.
Colombia: Capture or surrender earns second chance May 8, 2012
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This speeds the introduction of the new product, but it does mean that designers … aim to anticipate … problems before a physical build of the vehicle is completed or a new production facility is built. Experience [from] the past is useful, but new vehicles have new features…. For these reasons, we need models that predict how humans of different types will behave in vehicle and workplace environments.
I love Julian James Faraway's reasoning process at the beginning of his paper on ergonomic simulation. He starts out by addressing the most important question: why should I care? rather than assuming "STEM is useful" or "Mathematics is good by fiat".
Instead of saying that some bit of maths is "important" because "important" is an adjective and he felt like putting an adjective there, Dr. Faraway explains why mathematics is relevant to this specific problem which people already care about.
- Because of the production constraints, the automobile manufacturers need to figure this out on computer before building and testing something in reality.
- Because we don't have infinite money to build a lot of test space programmes, we have to calculate exactly the trajectories and rocket pulse timing beforehand.
- Because the Aswan dam is so hugely expensive, we need to mathematically plan how it should work before making it.
And so on. It suggests that the practical application of mathematics is in areas where prototyping is prohibitively expensive.
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Many bank robbers get their nicknames from an item of clothing they wear. Investigators named the latest bandit to hit Chicago for something he carries. It also something many of kids grab as they head off for school. FBI special agent Ross Rice says investigators gave the "Lunch Box" bandit his name because that's what he uses to carry out the stolen money. They say he used a plain blue, vinyl lunch box when he robbed a northwest side bank back on December 20th. Agents say he struck again on January 18th when he robbed a TCF bank branch in a Jewel Food store in the 3500 block of North Elston. They also say the "Lunch Box" Bandit's m-o was the same each time. Rice says the bandit "enters the bank, approaches a teller and announces a robbery. He then instructs the teller to place cash in his lunchbox and not to push any buttons."
Investigators have received few tips or leads in this case because his face was well hidden during the robberies. Bank security camera photos show the "Lunch Box" Bandit wearing a jacket with hood and a scarf around his face. Despite that, FBI agents still want you to take a good look at these photos.
Based his disguise, agents don't know much about what the "Lunch Box" bandit looks like. Here is what they do know so far. He is described as a white male, 6' 0" - 6' 2", 200 to 220 pounds, with a medium build and a light complexion.
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Police say two robbery suspects will be charged with the murder after a third suspect died in a shootout with restaurant employees in Fayetteville on Sunday. Fayetteville police say Leadron Johnson and Alonzo Starks were robbing employees of the China Café when a deliver driver pulled a weapon and shot Starks five times, including a round to the face. The restaurant owner was shot and remains in critical condition. Police would later discover Starks' body in an abandoned home in Clayton County.Police said that Johnson and the suspected getaway driver, Alvin Scott, will be charged with murder in Starks' death because they were in the act of committing a felony when the fatal shooting occurred."This is as dangerous as it gets, and the fact that they dumped their friend in a…cold-hearted way in an abandoned house just tells you the kind of people we are dealing with," said Lt. Mike Whitlow of the Fayetteville Police Department.Johnson is still on the run; Scott was arrested on Monday.Fayetteville police believe the three also recently held up the Golden Chopsticks restaurant not far from the China Cafe. Police say the robbers tried to lock the employees into a refrigerator. Other departments are investigating to see if the trio was involved in other robberies. "Henry County, Clayton County, city of Hapeville, city of Morrow and there are a few other jurisdictions which are looking at some of their unsolved armed robberies," Whitlow said.Police believe the men were spending the money on adult entertainment in the Atlanta area.
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An ITF delegation led by its President GM Pablo Trajtenberg accompanied by Master Ruben Marchini 8th Degree and 6th Degree Fernando Castro visited the island of Cuba from November 19th to 23rd.
During that time they visited the city of Camaguei where they attended to different gyms in order to observe how the activity is developed in the country. They were received with an exhibition by practitioners from different provinces who showed an excellent level.
This request to the ITF came from Instructor Eugenio Villafranca, who is an old practitioner of the ITF style in Cuba (he was separated from Instructor Reina who was aligned with GM Choi) for that reason he organized during 3 days a 12 hours seminar conducted by the ITF delegation, which was attended by approximately 30 Black Belts.
On the technical level we can say that although it needs some adjustment it is in the hands of passionate practitioners with a very good physical condition and that they gradually will have an excellent development, also they organized a banquet with traditional gifts as part of an excellent protocol. During the visit we had the opportunity to publicise the ITF including one interview for television.
We can say that a new country has been added to the ITF that even with a lack of financial resources that other countries have, it has a human potential and of quality worthy of notice....Read more
88th International Instructors Course - Oostende-Belgium November 22nd-24th, 2013
ITF-Belgium hosted the 88th International Instructors Course with the ITF Technical Committee, GM Hector Marano, GM Willem Jacob Bos and GM Kim Ung Lan.
It was the 3rd time an IIC was held in Belgium, the first time in Oostende, the biggest town at the belgian coast.
Registration started on Thursday November 21st. This was necessary, since there were 236 participants coming from 21 different countries. Amongst them 2 GrandMasters, GM Rolf Becking from Germany & GM Orello Ellis (UK), and 19 Masters.
On Friday and Saturday the course was organised in the "Royal Stables", a building with a history. It was built by a norvegian architect on demand of King Leopold II. Later it was the first basketbal arena used by the club of Oostende, playing in the First League.
Because of the big amount of participants the Technical Committee decided to have two "separate" IIC's, one for I° to III° degree, one for IV°degree and up. This was nice since this way all participants had the opportunity to see their whole program.
Friday evening 143 persons participated at the banquet.
On Saturday afternoon, after the classes of that day, there was the closing ceremony. Master Frank Vanberghen presented the GrandMasters paintings he had made especially for them. Also Master Christa Wintzer, 8th degree, was honoured. At the age of 70 she decided this was her last IIC.
Saturday evening at the top floor, the 9th floor, of hotel Ravelingen the organizers invited all GrandMasters and Masters for a nice dinner.
Sunday morning the venue was in Ravelingen, where most of the participants were staying. It was reserved for the Kids Development Program, conducted by Master Donato Nardizzi.
Meanwhile in the meeting rooms on the 4th floor there were a lot of gradings going on.
It was really an honour for the organizing committee to welcome all the participants to Oostende.
All pictures scan be found www.iicbelgium.be
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Mrs Annick Van Driessche
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This past weekend, the NTA-ITF hosted, for the first time in the USA, the official ITF Kids Develpment Course in Queens, New York. With the participation of 32 black belt instructors from Canada, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and USA, Master Donato Nardizzi shared his deep knowledge on the subject of childrens education and the ITF Kids Programme.
The feedback form all participants was very positive and all of them look forward to implementing the official ITF Kids programme in their respective schools....Read more
On the 9th and 10th of November, the ITF held the first International Kids Course for Central America, in the halls of the Barceló Hotel, in Managua city, Nicaragua.
The course was organised by Master Robert Webster, President of the Union of Taekwon-Do Nicaragua, and was attended by 31 participants from Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. The course was conducted by Mr Fabián Izquierdo, member of Children´s Development Committee.
There were twelve hours of intensive theoretical and practical work, characterized by the excellent predisposition of those present to learn, discuss and participate in each of the proposed activities.
Congratulations to the organizers for this event....Read more
The ITF Social Media Connection with our members is contiuning to grow as the ITF Communications and Marketing Committee of Stephen Ryan (Chairman), Paco Ferrando and Fabian Izquierdo continue to develop our online presence. This started with the ITF Facebook page but has now grown to include Twitter, Youtube, Picasa and Google+. Help us to communicate with our members around the World by connecting and sharing....Read more
During the ITF World Championships, chairman of the communications committee, Stephen Ryan had the opportunity to interview the ITF President, Grandmaster Pablo Trajtenberg. During the interview our President spoke about his impression of the championships, the high level of the competitors, the growth of the ITF in a coordinated way, the presence of the pioneer GM Park and the future vision of the ITF....Read more
A couple of weeks have past since the World Championships and we are now taking an opportunity to look back at the biggest World Championships in the history of ITF with over 1,000 black belts competing. We take this opportunity to chat to the Chiarman of the Organising Committee, Mr. Paco Ferrando, who undertook the task of leading the team to organise this historical event....Read more
Dear Members and Visitors
This is to inform you that the ITF has become a member of TAFISA
TAFISA Membership and Services (Member No. ES-IM-001)
On behalf of the TAFISA President and Board of Directors, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the TAFISA family following the preliminary approval by the TAFISA Board of Directors on 23rd October 2013 during their Board Meeting and then the final approval by the General Assembly, TAFISA's supreme governing body, on 25thOctober 2013 in Enschede, Netherlands.
Wolfgang Baumann
TAFISA Secretary Genera...Read more
We are sad to announce the passing of one of the original Taekwon-Do pioneers, described by General Choi in the early years as his "right hand man". Grandmaster Nam Tae Hi is known as the father of Taekwon-Do in Vietnam as he lead the first group of Instructors to teach Taekwon-Do there. Grandmaster Nam was chosen by General Choi to lead the 29th Infantry "Fist" Division, where Taekwon-Do developed into maturity. He was also famous for breaking 13 roof tiles with his fist in a demonstration for the Korean President Syng Man Rhee in 1954, which lead to Taekwon-Do being officially adopted by the korean military forces, a key moment in the history of Taekwon-Do. GM Nam was a founding member of the ITF and an ITF VIII Dan by 1973. Without pioneers like Grandmaster Nam Taekwon-Do would not exist as it does today. We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge him for his contribution to the development of Taekwon-Do....Read more


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Brunswick Hospital building comes tumbling down
The demolition of Brunswick Hospital Center in Amityville got underway this morning. Crews came in and began razing the building, which once was a medical facility serving Amityville and surrounding communities.
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This is truly a sad day in our lives. And end of a era that lasted over 125 years. I was born in Brunswick Hospital. My mother, Emily Brandt worked there from July 1956 to February of 1983. I was going on 5 when mom began working. I was a handfull of kids who went to the Nursery School that once stood where PMR is now until 1962. I was 10 at the time. It was for the kids who parents worked for the Hospital. I was a patient there more times than you could count. Emily McAlister, Florida


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With several multi-million-dollar investments coming to its islands and a new $3 billion resort in Nassau opening later this year, the Bahamas is on its way back, Prime Minister Perry Christie said Friday in Miami.
"The Bahamas is a place you can do business in. You can do business effectively and you are able to make a return," said Christie, speaking at the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers (NABHOOD) conference at the Biscayne Bay Marriott in Miami.
"We have this incredible opportunity. Not just in Bimini but in Grand Bahama," he said, naming some of the new hotel investments. "We are developing these islands. We have a whole chain of islands with wonderful opportunities."
Yet, even as his government seeks to lure more hoteliers and tourists from Latin America and Europe, Christie and others acknowledge the lack of airlifts remains a key obstacle. It's a challenge facing almost every Caribbean nation, from struggling Haiti to tiny Anguilla, which has been feeling the effects of a decision by major U.S. carriers to cut back on flights into the Eastern Caribbean.
"It's costly to travel just from Florida to the Bahamas right now," Bahamas Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe said, noting efforts to begin talks with airlines about increasing service and decreasing ticket prices. "There's interest in coming to the Bahamas, but you have to put the airlift in place."
Rick Fox, former Los Angeles Lakers player turned Bahamas tourism pitchman, said the lack of flights to the other islands keeps many from enjoying "the many flavors, tastes, sounds that make up our culture."