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Strategies for Conducting Difficult Dialogues
An Interactive Workshop
with Libby Roderick Associate Director, UAA Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence at UAA
Friday, December 9, 1:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Alumni Lounge, Constitution Hall
In this interactive workshop, participants will focus on a few strategies to effectively introduce controversial topics into the classroom. You will (1) learn about the Difficult Dialogues initiative, (2) briefly explore the rights and responsibilities of academic freedom, and (3) examine a handful of strategies for proactively introducing controversial topics into the classroom.
Libby Roderick is Associate Director of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence at UAA where she focuses on issues related to difficult dialogues, sustainability and climate change, 21st century trends in higher education, and effective teaching to diverse student populations. Libby also serves as the Director of the Difficult Dialogues initiative at UAA and has conducted this workshop at numerous institutions across the U.S.
Actress/Author Geri Jewell to come to UAF for book signing
Famous for her role on 'The Facts of Life,' Geri Jewell has written an inspiring memoir, 'I'm Walking As Straight As I Can'. The title refers both to the struggles growing up with cerebral palsy and her sexuality.
This candid memoir details her rise to stardom as a stand‐up comic and becoming the first person with a disability to act in a recurring prime‐time television role. Her journey takes her from the Comedy Store to the White House, followed by a downward spiral that almost ended her life. Through her tears and triumphs, she is transformed into a shining symbol of hope for anyone who dares to follow their dreams.
There will be a welcome reception Tuesday, December 6th at 2:30 pm in the Alumni Lounge. There will be a presentation and book signing Tuseday, December 6th at 3:30pm in the Wood Center Multi-Level Lounge. Both events are free to attend.
These events are sponsored by the Fairbanks Resource Agency and are presented at UAF in part by the following departments: UAF Communications Department, UAF Disability Services, UAF Women's Center, UAF Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity, and UAF Theater.
FREE Screening of award-winning film
"MISS Representation"
Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer to be Honored at UAF
Experience mZuri Moyo, acclaimed singer and performer, as 60's civil rights activist and "freedom fighter" legend, Fannie Lou Hamer, in a meet and greet reception as well as a presentation Thursday, November 17th at UAF.
- Reception to welcome mZuri Moyo
Alumni Lounge, UAF
Thursday, November 17, 2011
- Presentation
Wood Center Ballroom, UAF
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Moyo's UAF visit is sponsored by the Chancellor's Diversity Action Committee with the support of Alaska Airlines, UAF Office of Equal Opportunity, Office of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity, Women's Center, and Women's & Gender Studies Program.
Alcan Highway Presentation
Dedicated to the African American army engineers who built the historic Alcan Highway during World War II and completed the Sikanni Chief River Bridge on October 28, 1942
Thursday, October 27, 2011
11:00 AM - 12 noon
UAF Rasmuson Library
Media Room
Guest Presenters:
- Bishop Dave Thomas
- Juan Pollard
For more information contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity
phone: 907 474 7300 or email: email@example.com
TeVaka Workshop at UAF
October 23rd, 2:00 pm UAF Wood Center Ballroom
Te Vaka is a group of musicians and dancers from Tokelau, Tuvalu, Samoa, Cook Islands, and New Zealand whose "South Pacific Fusion" music features log and goat skin drum rhythms.
The 2:00 pm workshop with Te Vaka is open to all. No experience necessary.
At 3:00 pm, Te Vaka will be welcomed with performances by:
- Troth Yeddh (Athabascan) Dancers
- Inu-Yupiaq Dancers
- Pavva Inupiaq Dancers
- Tupu Tafa'ifa
Add Sexual Orientation & Stir
Brown Bag Lunch Discussion
In Spring 2011, the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination clause.
What are the implications of this policy change?
How did the change come about?
What groups are protected by the addition? Who is left out?
Join us for a discussion facilitated by Sine Anahita & Sean Parson
In honor of National Coming Out Day
Tuesday, October 11
1:00-2:00 pm
306 Gruening
UAF, Fairbanks Campus
Sponsored by Women's & Gender Studies Program, UAF Women's Center, Faculty Senate Committee on the Status of Women and the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity
For more information: 474-6360 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Rachel Simon in Fairbanks
Writer & Speaker Rachel Simon Visits Fairbanks
Wednesday, December 8th, 6:30 p.m. at the Westmark.
FRA Annual Gala*Rachel Simon Guest Speaker
Wednesday, December 8
6:30 p.m. at the Westmark
Tickets for the Gala are $40 each and are available by calling Fairbanks Resource Agency at 456-8901.
''Where are the Women?''
Panel Discussion
Recent Events
Choose Respect Community Rally - March 31, 2010
Alaskans Ending the Epidemic of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Women's History & Culture Month Keynote
Celebrating the Power of Women's Voices with Diane Benson
In the spirit of "writing women back into history," Diane E. Benson, Alaska poet, playwright, politician, dramatist, educator, activist, truck driver, and the actress who played Elizabeth Peratrovich in "For the Rights of All," will recount her dramatic journey giving voice to Elizabeth Peratrovich's story. Benson will also share her own story of how one woman can change the world.
Find the UAF Women's Center on Facebook & for more information, pictures, and events check our blog, "Women at the Top," at http://uafwomen.blogspot.com
For more information about the National Women's History Project's theme for 2010, Writing Women Back into History," visit http://www.nwhp.org
Download a full color copy of the keynote flier at the link below.
Tale of Two Disappearing Women
Thursday, March 251:00-2:00
Alumni Lounge
Sociologist Sine Anahita tells the story of two innovative women advocates for SouthernAppalachia, Marguerite Butler and Olive Dame Campbell, who are disappearing from the popular historical record.
Download a full color copy of the Disappearing Women flier at the link below.
International Women's Day - Women and Community Water Projects in Ghana
Presentation by Josie Sam
Click on the link below to access the recording of Josie's presentation.
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Hering Auditorium/Lathrop High School
Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
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Remains found in CVNP are those of missing Akron woman
(Boston Twp.) - Remains found in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park have been identified as missing Akron woman Taylor Robinson.
The 19-year-old hasn't been seen since being dropped off for work May 3.
The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office confirms the remains are those of Robinson. Additional examination of the remains, including anthropologic examination, will need to take place to determine the cause and manner of death.
Gary Guenther of the Summit County Medical Examiner's office tells WTAM 1100 that pathologists began comparing Robinson's dental records to the jawbone found Monday in a wooded area of the park.
Guenther says without a full skeleton, determining the cause of death may be difficult.
(Photo from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's Office)
Members of the FBI's Evidence Response Team also continue to search the densely wooded area off Riverview Road in Boston Township. Some clothing was also discovered, although investigators can not tell whether they are mens' or womens' items.
The remains were found by hikers who went off the marked trail.
(Photo by Carmen Angelo/WTAM 1100)
CVNP encompasses 33,000 acres along the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. Managed by the National Park Service, CVNP combines cultural, historical, recreational, and natural activities in one setting.
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Arthritis is inflammation of one or more of your joints. Pain, swelling, and stiffness are the primary symptoms of arthritis. Any joint in the body may be affected by the disease, but it is particularly common in the knee.
Knee arthritis can make it hard to do many everyday activities, such as walking or climbing stairs. It is a major cause of lost work time and a serious disability for many people. There are 2 types of arthritis the knee joint in the human body can get afflicted with. They are:
The form of arthritis which, with increasing pain, slowly wears down the joint cartilages is called osteoarthritis. This form of arthritis usually affects people after the age 40. The symptoms of osteoarthritis include:
- Severe pain in the knee joints
- Pain after walking up the stairs and it subsiding once you are on rest
- Severe pain after the movement of joints for a long time
- Pain that becomes worse in rainy days
- Joints becoming stiff after waking up in the morning but they improve in the latter part of the day
- Pain which also occurs in the thighs and the genital regions coupled with joints swelling and joints getting stiff after rest.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic form of arthritis caused because of the knee joint inflammations. This form of arthritis can occur at any age. Being an auto-immune disease, its symptoms include, but are not limited to:
- Severe pain in the morning
- Mild fever accompanying the pain
- Joints suddenly becoming swollen, red and warm causing, immense pain
- Sudden stiffness of the joints
- Pain that increases in cold weather
- Mild fever, extreme tiredness and weakening of the muscles
Doctors are still doubtful about what exactly causes the disease; but the deformation of the immune system might cause the damage of the joints, causing people who are already suffering from obesity, smokers, and women, in general, more prone to this disease.
When the knee pain is diagnosed as a form of arthritis, the following treatments are suggested:
- If you are overweight or obese, losing some of those extra pounds can go a long way in reducing the pain.
- Muscle-stretching exercises are effective in keeping the knee joints flexible.
- Dry needling, cupping, taping can help to control the pain and keep the joint supported.
- Prescribed dosage of anti-inflammatory drugs such as Tylenol, Motrin, and Advil or injections of hyaluronic acid might relieve your pain.
If regular treatments do not work, you might opt for knee-replacement surgery and osteotomy (the process of cutting a bone with the help of surgery) which might better the alignment of the knee by transforming the bone shapes.
Physiotherapy for knee arthritis
Physiotherapy treatment is aimed at improving the symptoms of the disease (i.e. knee pain, swelling, stiffness), and you should begin to notice a positive difference within one or a few physiotherapy sessions. The main goals of physiotherapy for your knee arthritis are:
- Reduce your knee pain and inflammation.
- Normalise your knee joint range of motion.
- Strengthen your knee: esp quadriceps (esp VMO) and hamstrings.
- Strengthen your lower limb: calves, hip and pelvis muscles.
- Improve your patellofemoral (knee cap) alignment and function.
- Normalise your muscle lengths.
- Improve your proprioception, agility and balance.
- Improve your technique and function eg walking, squatting. If you wish to discuss about any specific problem, you can consult a Physiotherapist.
Dear Doctor, leg below knee are painful. Even after full night I find pain in the morning. I am not diabetic. Uric acid was little higher. What should I do.
My wife 55, is taking thyrox50 for thyroid treatment for last 30 months. But for last few years her both the legs have swelled up and no pain. Will you please tell me what to do. Thanks
Dear sir, I was married 11 months back. Due to job we are in separate locations, but every weekend will meet and participate in sex, and planning for children, 2 months back I refer in Google getting fast pregnancy have to participate sex in 14th day of period cycle. Last 2 months I had met with my wife in 14th day only, but till there was no results. My wife mensuration cycle is 30 days. Now what will suggest to us? Please share.
I am diabetic patient. Want to change. Planning for baby. But my hips is 7 kya its ok to conceive or what is the range of hbaic to conceive please tell I am taking medicine trajenta and diamicron.
Hi sir i am heaving back pain form a long time so plz suggest me something for that plz help me for that
Spinal surgery becomes inevitable when back pain cannot be managed with medications and/or exercise. This is a major decision and requires planning for many things before, during, and after the surgery.
Before a spinal surgery- This preparation will help in smooth recovery, especially if you do not have a full-time caretaker.
Discontinue pain killers: Discontinue pain killers at least 10 to 14 days before surgery. These are blood thinners and can prolong bleeding during the surgery.
Prepare for blood loss: Most people experience some blood loss, but not excessive.
Use a toilet seat raiser: Sitting and getting up from the toilet seat may be difficult. The seat raiser is used to increase the height, making this movement easy.
Enable easy access to common items: Before heading for the surgery, keep things which are commonly used within easy reach. This will help reduce movement and avoid searching (especially if someone else is going to be doing it).
Stock it up: Cooking may not be feasible during the initial postop period, and so it is advisable to stock up food items (ready to eats, fruits, soups, etc.) which will come in handy.
Slip-ons: Bending down and tying shoes may not be easy, so slip-ons can be used.
Caregiving: It is always advisable to have someone stay over with you during the initial postop days. They could help with regular household chores, cooking, etc.
Lifestyle changes: Ensure you eat well in the days before surgery, quit smoking, quit/use moderate amounts of alcohol, and exercise as advised by your surgeon.
After Surgery- Post surgery, there will be some pain and limitation of movement. It is important to understand that adherence to post-op instructions will improve the success rate of the surgery. Also, recovery time for spine surgery is slightly longer and affects overall quality of life, so psychological preparation is required.
Postoperative medications: These will be given to control infection and pain in the immediate postop period, and should be taken without fail
Rehab: The surgeon will recommend physical therapy and rehab exercises which need to be followed. Complete recovery may take anywhere between 3 to 12 months. During this time, care should be taken to avoid repeat injury.
Support: Adequate back support should be provided using lumbar support and ergonomic chairs, and the right posture should be maintained. Ensure there is no undue strain on the back muscles.
Weight management: With excess weight, there is too much strain on the lower disks. Therefore, weight should be managed to reduce this strain.
Smoking and alcohol should be completely stopped, as healing can be hampered.
With some preparation, spinal surgery can be sailed through smoothly.
A stroke or paralysis can occur when the blood supply to that part of your brain is curtailed or drastically reduced. Due to this, the brain is deprived of the essential oxygen and the nutrients, and within a few minutes the brain cells can undergo severe damage and die. It is often treated as a medical emergency and can cause complications for life if left unattended.
With regards to a stroke, a quick and an immediate treatment can be the difference between life and death. It is very much mandatory to note the symptoms of stroke and to impart the treatment accordingly. Some of them can include:
- Trouble with speaking: Your speech pattern gets affected, and you may have trouble talking.
- Paralysis: When the oxygen is cut off, a part of the body can become numb thus rendering it lifeless.
- Headache: A severe headache may occur that can make the body go into spasm. Dizziness and unconsciousness can follow it.
- Walking and mobility: You would be unable to walk on your own, or there can be a huge difference in your walk pattern. Most of the times, you might not be having any control over your legs.
Risk Factors
There are many risk factors associated with stroke and paralysis. The most common one is undoubtedly overweight. Physical inactivity, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse can contribute equally to the occurrence of stroke. Cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and old age may also be risk factors. Paralysis can be the biggest drawback of stroke where one part of your body can be lost to movements. You might also lose control of your face or arm, and this can affect your walking steps. This can be a life changing factor and more than medication sometimes physical therapy heals the person to an extent.
Physiotherapy for Paralysis:
You can feel helpless and frustrated, and this can lead to depression. There are many ways by which physiotherapy can help you. The therapies are made in such a way that you can try to lead a normal life without any hindrance, and this depends on the nature of the paralysis you are undergoing. In most of the cases, a person can get back at least 60% to 70% of his/her mobility back though not completely. Also, current medicines have advanced that there is a possibility to get back the movement in the paralyzed areas.
One of the major challenges you will face is to relax as the physical feeling of helplessness can hamper your thoughts in the long run. Stay relaxed and always remember that you are not alone. Take the help of a family member or a friend. Be relaxed all the time and make a determined effort with physiotherapy exercises. Avoid the lifestyle which you had before and embark on a healthier lifestyle and make sure you watch your diet at all times. Try to indulge in your favorite pass time and over a period start your daily chores without the help of an aid. You can undergo the physiotherapy exercises for life as they can be positive even after the condition subsidies.
The spine plays a very crucial role, both from a person's movement and sensation point of view. It carries the nervous supply for a lot of internal organs and the lower body. By virtue of its structure, it also helps in movement through the disks. Due to various reasons, spinal injury is common, causing pain along the back, lower extremities, neck etc.
Medicines and exercise are the first line of treatment for most spinal injuries. The issue, however, is that these only provide relief from the pain and the medicines, but do not actually 'rectify' the underlying problem. Whether it is a herniated disk or a pinched nerve, the medicines and exercise can relieve the symptoms, but the disk continues to be herniated and the nerve continues to be pinched. Definite treatment is in the form of surgery, and with recent advancements in the field of spinal surgery, there are minimally invasive surgical options, which provide complete cure with minimal recovery time. Some of the benefits of this are listed below-
Smaller incision compared to traditional surgical procedures, where only the injured area is accessed
The surrounding tissues are untouched, unless they are injured and require repair
Lesser bleeding compared to earlier techniques
Lesser painful procedure
Reduced hospitalization period
Quicker recovery and return to normal activities
The question, however, is whether this is indicated in everybody. A detailed discussion with your surgeon keeping the below points in mind will help identify the answer for this. The main driver should be the answer to the question – will the surgery be able to effectively relieve you of the pain and symptoms? Additionally, the following factors help in getting better results out of a minimally invasive spinal surgery.
Presence of symptoms relating to nerve compression, including pain from the spine down the leg.
Recent onset of symptoms, with pain starting days to months before seeing the doctor. This indicates the condition is relatively new and so damage is minimal, indicating favorable outcome. Chronic pain conditions take slightly longer time compared to recent injuries.
People with active lifestyle who engage in regular physical exercise are likely to have better benefits from the minimally invasive procedure.
Smoking reduces blood flow to the spine, leading to disk degeneration and weakening of bones. Healing is highly slowed down and recovery is overall delayed.
Excessive weight puts strain on the back, and so healing can be delayed or badly affected with more complications. It is not a contraindication, but be prepared for a longer recovery period.
Talk to your doctor keeping these points in mind, and you can bid farewell to your back pain forever. If you wish to discuss about any specific problem, you can consult a Neurosurgeon.
Greetings, amRaja of age 25. Came up with a humerus shaft fracture (transverse) before 6 weeks, bone seems to be in alignment and shows signs of healing .how long should I be in the cast and how to identify that it's about time to remove my cast and start with pt. Can see a fluffy cloud pattern around the fracture but inside the unity isn't 100 percent yet. Once healing Is complete, can I resume lifting weights slowly by increasing the weight?
Hey I low in calcium for few years but it's tablets are too big to swallow that's why I don't eat it but my joints pains frequently and cramps too. I married 3 months before. Due to this my mom in law give me dry fruits apple banana milk mix in breakfast n regular normal lunch and dinner. Please suggest a diet for me which will be helpful for me now and in near future also?
Problem is that I was in depression, anxiety disorder and breathing problem like happen and when it starts my hand and legs started to pain after drinking water am getting relief ,I got treatment with neurologist and cardiologist they did test of Hb and EEG of brain report was normal and they gave me medicine but am not getting relief the attack of breathing (huffni) is cautious what should I do please help me mam.
My husband has disc problem and sciatica pain. Dr. X-ray and told that there is gap between disk. Dr. advise rest and exercise. What should to do in future.
I have been experiencing pain and uncomfortable in my left leg for a month now. The pain occurs mainly after I lie down to sleep at night. I cannot sleep during this pain. In the morning, I again experience pain different. My lower back becomes totally stiff, so much so that I cannot move for a few minutes. Also, I cannot bend and work for too long. Pain starts after 10 mins of such work. I am 30 years old, unmarried female. Pls help.
I met with an accident know in my knee there is swelling and the water is influence there saying tat either I have to inject r go fr operation. Am confused wat should I do. Is it advisable fr injections.
I am 25 and married but yet to plan for kids 1) Need suggestion to reduce weight in a healthy manner 2) Going through severe pains in the joints especially on to lower back and knees. Upon taking a lab report found out that I have very low vitamin D count. Also, getting angry and shout at people in the recent past. Could this also b because of the deficiency in vitamin D.(Count is 8) 3) how to reduce the tummy.
Plantar fasciitis is an orthopedic problem that gives rise to pain in the foot and heel due to strain or pressure on the plantar fascia. This is a ligament or connective tissue which lies in a flat band, connecting your heel with the toes and effectively, providing a basis for the motion of the feet in general. Inflammation, swelling and bruising of this tissue or ligament can lead to excessive pain in the heel.
Let us look at ways that can help you deal with this pain:
- Rest: Taking rest and giving your feet a break from all kinds of strain inducing activities can help in relieving the pain. Also, you can keep your feet elevated to help in reducing the pain in the area.
- Supportive footwear: Using pads within your shoes with gel built into them, or using specific footwear that help in walking without feeling too much of pain is a good way of dealing with Plantar fasciitis. The shoe inserts must be rubber, felt or plastic so that they are soft for your feet. They also give your heel and its arch good support, while Orthotics pulls the ligament so that there is less stress on the same. You can also pull on a pair of night flints which will keep the foot and the ligament stretched while you enjoy a good night of sleep.
- Exercise: Indulging in mild muscle strengthening exercise that also involves stretching and heel hooks can help in alleviating chronic pain that you may be suffering from. Lie flat on your back and take a towel. Lift your leg and hook your foot into it. Now press against the towel and pull down the towel simultaneously. Repeat at least ten times per foot. This will give you flexibility and strength in the area.
- Painkillers: Use pain killers only when absolutely necessary and with due advice from the doctor or Orthopaedic specialist. The use of Ibuprofen and other pain relievers can help in numbing the pain inducing nerves in the brain and give you instant relief.
- Anti-inflammatory drugs: Your doctor may prescribe anti-inflammatory medication that can bring down the swelling for more comfortable functioning when you are on your feet. Naproxen is one such drug that helps in bringing down the inflammation. Also, corticosteroid injections can relieve severe pain.
- Surgery: Heel spur removal or Plantar fascia release are some of the surgical options for chronic and severe cases.
Taking care of your feet is a matter of ensuring that you look into the slightest discomfort and report the same to a doctor.
Spinal cord is a very important part of your body as it renders support to your body. It also gives your body a good posture and thus maintaining a healthy spine is very essential. An unfit spinal cord can lead to various complicated problems.
The following are 5 must do exercises in order to maintain a healthy spine:
- Exercising your core muscles can help you to maintain a fit spine. Your core muscles refer to the muscles of your lower back and your abdominal muscles. These muscles give support to your spine. So exercising them can give you a healthy spine.
- Walking regularly can also give you a healthy spine. It is suitable for people of all age groups. Daily walking can help you to recover from various spinal illnesses as well such as spinal stenosis.
- Swimming is also a good exercise for maintaing a fit spinal cord. Swimming helps to exercise all back muscles and thus, gives you a healthy spinal cord.
- Lying down straight with your face down on an even and firm surface for about twenty minutes can help you to get a healthy spine and also a good body posture.
- Cycling can also help you achieve a healthy spine. While cycling, all your back muscles and the muscles of the lower part of your body are engaged in physical activity. If the muscles of your lower back are strong, then it can help you to keep your spine fit.
Other than these exercises, stretching your limbs and other stretching exercises are also beneficial for a healthy spine. But it is highly recommended for you to consult a doctor before doing any exercise in order to be guided in the proper manner and avoid further complications.


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Mrs HULL (Riverina) (9.10 pm) — I move:
That the House:
(1) recognise the seriousness of the drought situation across rural Australia; and
(2) calls on the Government to:
(a) recognise the need for long term commitment for Exceptional Circumstances (EC) declared areas, and to provide continued support to allow those areas to fully recover from the drought;
(b) look at the history of EC declared areas and the direct correlation between longevity of declaration and hardship inflicted;
(c) commit to the extension of support programs to allow those areas to fully recover regardless of meeting current EC requirements; and
(d) extend EC assistance to all rural based businesses who meet the criteria.
Mr Chester — I second the motion and reserve my right to speak.
Mr CHESTER (Gippsland) (9.20 pm) — I rise to speak in support of the motion and, in doing so, seek to highlight the extremely difficult conditions facing many Australian farming families and their communities. I deliberately refer to 'farming families and their communities' because, when a drought hits regional Australia, it hits us all, from those on the front line in our nation's diverse farming enterprises to the small businesses which supply them, to the teachers, doctors and health professionals who often deal with the social consequences and to the families themselves. Quite apart from the obvious economic impacts which other members have spoken about tonight, droughts are insidious as they sap the energy and enthusiasm of our farming families and communities and corrode the hopes of the next generation.
This motion calls on the government to recognise the need for a long-term commitment to exceptional circumstances funding declared areas and to provide continued support to allow those areas to fully recover from the drought. It is timely that I speak today on behalf of the people of Gippsland who have recently seen the inadequacy of the current EC system, as I have mentioned once or twice before in this House. While I am pleased to report that there has been a breakthrough in Gippsland and the EC funding has been extended until next April, I stand here today firstly to apologise to the Gippsland farming families for the unnecessary and additional stress and hardship that they have been exposed to in recent weeks. I am sorry that the system failed them when the National Rural Advisory Council and both the state and federal ministers agreed that EC funding should be discontinued in Gippsland from 30 September this year. It was a mistake, and I am pleased to say that it has been addressed.
The original decision was made after a desktop analysis by NRAC. There was no visit to Gippsland, no attempt to assess the circumstances on the ground and no effort to listen to the concerns of locals. It took considerable time and effort—and that is time away from the farming enterprise and it caused a great deal of stress for our farming families to get NRAC to actually visit Gippsland and recognise the need for an extension to the EC funding, which has since been implemented by the minister. I thank him for that. There needs to be a long-term commitment for EC declared areas to support communities like Gippsland as they recover from this drought. Perhaps just as importantly, NRAC representatives must visit or receive an on-the-ground assessment of conditions before any decision is made to remove any EC funding from a region based on lines on a map.
As we all know, when it does eventually rain it will not be raining money, and there will be a lag time in this recovery process. I urge the federal government to continue working in partnership with state and local government to support communities throughout Australia as they emerge from the drought. There is a direct correlation between the number of years in a drought and the community's capacity to recover by itself.
We have seen in the past that during a drought period regional areas lose skilled workers and many young people move on, literally seeking greener pastures. Governments must invest in the capacity of these regions to help them get back on their feet when the rains do come. The Victorian state government, for its part, has been dragging its heels on this issue, but today, thankfully, a support package in the order of $115 million, I understand, has been announced. It stops short of the $20,000 cash grants which the Victorian state government has provided in the past, but I understand that the package does include a municipal rates subsidy, which has been strongly supported by the Liberals and Nationals in Victoria. I believe the states must continue to do their part in addition to the federal government's EC assistance packages because it helps to send a message to the farming families that we certainly value their contribution, and they are important contributors to the future of our rural and regional communities.
Money is going to be needed for basic survival, let alone on-farm works such as fencing and maintenance work along with productivity related things such as improving pastures. All of these things fall behind when conditions are tough and money is tight. I believe our challenge with EC funding is to support these farming families to basically get them over the hump, knowing full well that they will prosper again on the other side when the rains come. This is not welfare or charity; it is an investment in the future of our nation's productive farming enterprises.
On that point, I strongly urge our farming families in EC affected areas to seek information on whether they are entitled to any assistance. Do not do the self-assessment and do not take the view that this is some form of welfare if you access the income support or the interest rate subsidies which are available through exceptional circumstances funding. After meeting with several groups of farmers in my electorate, I fear that many of them are too proud to put their hands up and ask for assistance which is available to them. It disappoints me that the state and federal governments on both sides of politics in the past have spent a small fortune on advertising and propaganda but have failed to inform enough of our farming families about the benefits which they may be able to access. In closing, I commend the member for Riverina for moving this motion and urge all members to recognise the seriousness of the drought situation across rural Australia.
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In honor of Peculiar People Day, we've rounded up 12 celebs with completely and utterly unique senses of style. Helena Bonham Carter + more ahead!
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Wowzers—there really IS a holiday for everything! Case in point: Happy Peculiar People Day! Although no one really knows where Peculiar People Day came from, we love the idea of a day dedicated to celebrating people who are un-ordinary, extraordinary, unusual, strange, odd, uncommon, intriguing, different, and quirky. So, in honor of the occasion, we've rounded up 12 celebrities with completely and utterly unique senses of style, especially when it comes to the red carpet. Love 'em or hate 'em, you've got to applaud them for wearing whatever the heck they feel like, no matter what anyone else says about it.
Have a wonderfully peculiar day, Bettys!
1. Helena Bonham Carter
Nobody dresses quite like Helena Bonham Carter. It's true that she's pretty much always on the worst dressed list, but we wouldn't have it any other way.
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2. Lady Gaga
Natch. The flowered headpiece speaks for itself.
3. Robert Pattinson
When it comes to red carpet fashion, men are generally more limited in their range of choices than women are—and yet somehow, Robert Pattinson almost always manages to come up with something at least a little bit unexpected. Sure, he might wear a suit… but instead of black, it'll be, y'know, green or something.


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Right before I set off for the Netherlands' fine and aqueous and legendarily tolerant capital, friends who know Amsterdam well informed me that rumors of a city wreathed in a marijuana nimbus were, if not altogether untrue, misleading and unfair.
Sure, they said, one finds "coffee shops" devoted to the sale of marijuana and hashish and space cakes and bongs and seeds and hookahs, and also a score of cheery establishments that offer magic mushrooms in settings as bright and consumer-friendly as a Ben & Jerry's store. Yet keep in mind, my friends added, how, under pressure from the United States and her anxious neighbors in the European Union, Holland has lately deployed the might of its narcotics, tax, licensing, and social welfare bureaus to restore what it could of the old windmills-and-wooden shoes aura to an urban landscape that had come to seem as if it had been hijacked by the spawn of Cheech & Chong.
The number of Amsterdam's coffee shops, my friends were quick to point out, has dwindled radically over the past 15 years. Whereas in 1990 there were 480 of them, now only 200 or so remain. And yet I cannot have been dreaming that the city in which I arrived on a fantastically hot and drowsy July afternoon—a day of milk-blue cloudless skies during the longest sustained heat spell the country had known since records were first kept in the 18th century—was also experiencing a parallel weather front, this one composed of a sweet marijuana fog.
It was pointless to try to ignore it. The odor insinuated itself everywhere. Drifting along the street where I ate dinner on my first night at a canal-side restaurant, it blanketed the robust taste of the wild salmon I had ordered and killed the delicate aroma of a plateful of river shrimp, each hardly larger than a comma.
It crept through the vent of a high-end store where I went to peruse rarities by great Dutch designers like Gerrit Rietveld. It snaked through the shutters at another restaurant like the vaporous genie in comics, the kind that alters shape to form a beckoning hand.
Let me state promptly, in the interest of full disclosure, that I have inhaled. This, however, was many decades ago. My vices now run almost exclusively to intoxicants produced by grape fermentation, so Amsterdam's reputation as a Valhalla for lovers of cannabis turned out to hold no appeal. I could say the stuff was a nuisance, but that would make me sound like a party pooper and a grump. And it would be pointless, too, since the hotel where I was lodged was adjacent to the Red Light District in the oldest part of town.
Once a convent, then a city hall, and now a fancy hostelry, the Grand is where Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands chose to celebrate her civic wedding many years ago; though billed as a pleasantly stuffy five-star, and not a louche rock-star, hotel, it happened that the place was packed with musicians during my stay, many of them inked all over with the Technicolor graffiti characteristic of the tribe. Somehow I found all the tattooed rockers in the lobby reassuring, since their presence took a little pressure off my brief.
I had come to Amsterdam to look into the notion that the city had stealthily turned into a capital of style, an idea that, when I remarked on it to some Dutch fashion designers of my acquaintance, gave them to look at me as if I were stoned.
"Actually, the reason we remain here is the absence of style," said Rolf Snoeren, who, in partnership with Viktor Horsting, makes up the gifted design team of Viktor & Rolf. "There's so little stimulus, it helps us concentrate."
Snoeren had a point, as I soon came to learn. Despite being home to more good-looking locals than almost any European destination I can think of, Amsterdam can only be called a fashionable place if one's concept of chic runs to cargo shorts and Birkenstocks.
True, the city itself is a meticulously rendered work of engineering genius and brute labor (the canals were dug by hand). True, it is a city of seductively shifting moods, crooked beauty, and eccentric architectural poetics. True, it is a Calvinist Venice whose narrow waterways mirror the city back to itself not with the luminous pomp of the Grand Canal but in a series of chaste and intimate miniatures. True, it is a homely city where hollyhocks seem to bloom wherever there is a crack in the pavement. And it is also the European capital most responsible these days for producing a generation of furniture and product designers who seem increasingly destined to swipe the limelight from a fashion world so overexposed that even its more celebrated practitioners can't wait to get out.
But style?"Who told you that?'' Horsting said, with a look of genuine concern.
Style is best taken on its own terms, I suppose. After weeks spent in certified fashion capitals like Milan, where the line can thin pretty quickly between fashionable ostentation and unintended self-parody, and Paris, where the eye quickly tires of by-the-numbers Gallic chic, it's a relief to be in a country where an essential element of the national character is a will to anonymity.
The umbrella phrase the Dutch use to describe this concept is "act normal," a concept somewhat analogous to the communally enforced modesty Australians refer to as Tall Poppy Syndrome. Under most circumstances, acting normal is not an idea of which I am a proponent; way too much normalcy already gluts the world. Yet, happily, in Holland the latitudes for normality are bracingly askew. At least superficially.
The stolidly handsome businessman bicycling to work in a natty double-vent jacket no more sets standards for normalcy than does the pothead slacker in a Rastafarian tam. The burdened member of that international mule-train fraternity, the global backpacker, has the same social valence as the young housewife whose market tote spills over with dahlias and sweet peas. In a fine crazy way, the neatly coiffed matron taking tea on Dam Square is socially equivalent to the kinky beasts who must clearly abound in Amsterdam, to judge from the quantity of retail establishments, and even hotels, that cater to those for whom a night of pleasure is incomplete without a quirt or a neoprene diving suit.
It is a great relief to me that these latitudes also extend politically in Holland to a greater degree than the press would have one believe. Fears of anti-Semitism all over Europe and of a trend toward the radical right are far from unfounded; a bomb barrier was erected around Amsterdam's historic Portuguese Synagogue just a month before I arrived. Yet in the middle of my stay, the government of the rightist Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende collapsed abruptly when a coalition of ministers from the D66 party quit to protest his party's harassment of the controversial writer and parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ali, of course, is the Somali-born Cassandra who made her name writing about a Europe of the future swamped beneath an unstoppable tide of Muslim immigrants. She termed this doomful place Eurabia, and since the publication of her best-selling book, The Caged Virgin, has been forced into a security bubble, constantly protected by bodyguards.
Yet it does not escape one's attention that Ali's almost heedless brand of candor (she has written of the prophet Mohammed as a "tyrant" and "pedophile") would be unlikely to find a hearing in many other countries of the world.
This seems consistent, somehow, with Amsterdam's tolerant relationship with various forms of otherness, most famously the "bad women" who ply the world's oldest profession so openly here. A lot of ink has been spilled describing Amsterdam's prostitutes. Yet it is rarely mentioned how, far from being urban one-liners, the people who occupy the city's hundreds of glass-storefront windows constitute a well-organized and taxpaying workforce that even has a union of its own.
And of all Amsterdam's residents, its hookers are doubtless the most sartorially stylized, although theirs is assuredly a style that Paris will not be copying soon. Part Wonder Woman, part Pamela Anderson in Barb Wire, the hookers in Amsterdam during my summer visit favored metallic thongs and gladiator sandals, luxuriant hair extensions and what were certainly man-made bosoms, plump and shiny and as domed as a bombe in a French patisserie.
That these women have not just excited visiting lager louts but also inspired some of Holland's best-regarded writers and artists is, oddly enough, not mentioned in the tourist blather that makes up Iamsterdam, the city's current effort to improve its tourist image; I cannot imagine why. Better than all the ludicrous key chains and delft clogs and bovine bumper stickers crammed into store windows around town, it is Amsterdam's prostitutes that represent something authentic about her history of urbanity.
As illustrated by the harlots he often depicted, this was as true in the era of Rembrandt—whose 400th birthday is being celebrated throughout 2006—as it is now. It would be hard to find on today's international art market a painter more coveted than Marlene Dumas, whose watercolors of personages from the Red Light District easily command six-figure sums. Born in South Africa and now a resident of Holland, Dumas has often spoken about artificial dualities, the deadliness of "them" and "us." These distinctions exist in Amsterdam, as everywhere, but they feel somehow less glaring here than in other parts of Europe, where it is unusual to find people rubbing shoulders across race or class.
Yet like its one-time colony, New York, Amsterdam bristles with mechanical cranes. Dumpsters jam the tiny lanes laddered between muddy canals. And so one has to wonder how long the city's more evocative and ramshackle quarters will stave off the sanitizing influx of wealth, how long the politicians will continue to cede the heart of the city to glorious vice, and whether the whole place will soon enough take on the tedious sameness with which so many cities now seem cursed.
But thoughts like this were far from my mind as I dined one evening at a street café with French pretensions and New York prices, which could only be reached along an alley at the terminus of the Red Light District's main drag. When a jittery American couple arrived to claim their reservation, they were accompanied by an embarrassed hotel bellman kitted out in a buttoned tunic and monkey cap. For a brief moment after their duenna took off, I considered sending the couple a drink and suggesting that they relax. A little edginess, some disorientation, a bit of contradiction: isn't that half the point of leaving home?The area's potheads, I wanted to explain, were too spaced-out to present much trouble. The prostitutes, it was worth noting, were simply business people pulling up the shades for a night of love-for-sale.
Paradox is a "very Dutch thing,'' an antiques dealer named Hesdy Artist explained to me the following afternoon, the two of us seated on plump bergères in a gallery he owns near the Spiegel-kwartier, Amsterdam's antiques district. "In one way, nobody in Holland wants to stand out,'' Artist says, alluding to the prevalent "act normal" ethos. In another, less overt sense, the Dutch, he explained, like it understood that beneath their very proper image an unruly spirit lies barely concealed.
Artist himself is a clear anomaly in some basic ways, at least professionally. "There are very few dark people in antiques sales in Holland,'' says the 37-year-old former banker, whose skin is the color of a ripe plum. "Maybe in Europe," he adds. "Maybe the world."
To browse through Artist's stock of Dutch copies of 18th-century French furniture, or 19th-century English copies of 17th-century Flemish silver, or 17th-century lithographs of old master paintings of slaves, is to conclude that his taste is far from the concerns of contemporary Netherlands designers. Yet it seemed to me that much of the Dutch output now captivating the international marketplace has something in common with Artist's interest in mining what appear to be exhausted veins of history.
Among cognoscenti, the names of Dutch designers have taken on near-totemic status: Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders, Jurgen Bey, Piet Hein Eek, Tejo Remy—each has contributed so much to Holland's current stature on the international map that it is still a little startling to recall that most were unknowns before the debut, at the 1993 Milan Furniture Fair, of a Dutch collective called Droog.
For that first show, Droog's founders, Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker, cracked the lacquered surface of the design world with a bunch of materially humble and intellectually sophisticated objects that were unlike anything anyone could recall having seen before. A dresser was made from secondhand drawers jumbled atop each other and loosely held with a belt. A bookcase was formed of compressed paper. A chair was shaped from bundled rags lashed with industrial packing straps.
These same objects, of course, now turn up everywhere—at New York shops like Moss, at high-end auctions held by Phillips de Pury, and at prestigious fairs like Design '05 in Miami, where a New York dealer sold as a rarefied object Remy's aforementioned chest of drawers, charging roughly as much as a BMW might cost. That the dresser is still in production at Droog might be reason enough for some folks to get on a plane to Amsterdam.
"Of course, we still make it," Ramakers told me one afternoon in the conference room of the company headquarters, a simple attic space where an artist had been commissioned to paint each surface and object a different shade of blue.
"We're getting one in tomorrow if you're interested," the pragmatic Ms. Ramakers remarked.
One afternoon I asked the furniture dealer Wiet Hekking what it was about Dutch designers that had suddenly made their work so appealing. The two of us were drinking iced tea at WonderWood, the gallery where he sells classic 20th-century objects alongside work by Droog alumni and newcomers like Karel de Boer, whose laser-cut mirrors are inspired by Rorschach inkblot tests.
"We Dutch have a tremendously rich history, and for years we didn't really understand that," Hekking said. From outside the windows came the unexpected rhythm of hoofbeats on cobblestones. "The 16th century in the 21st century," Hekking said, grinning at the anachronism. "That is the point."
Consider Studio Job, a firm whose principal, Job Smeets, is among the Dutch design world's current stars. "Twenty years ago, no one would have been interested in using the techniques Job Smeets uses," Hekking said. Pointing out a Studio Job dowry trunk in the corner, Hekking noted that it was made using the inlaid-wood technique called marquetry. The last big design-world obsession was new technology, as we all know, and not a craft form as old as the guilds. "There is this link with the past," Hekking said. "There are these traditions and factories, and the designers are using the past now, instead of hiding from it."
Perhaps the least often acknowledged dimension of that past is the Dutch colonial adventure, very likely the origin of what the American critic Aaron Betsky—now director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam—admiringly termed the infusion of "spiritual beliefs borrowed from other cultures" into contemporary Dutch design.
More than once on my visit, it struck me that Holland's complex colonial past (Indonesia was not granted independence until 1950) was at least partly what her designers were attempting to invoke with all their scavenged rags and castoffs and their purposely naïve reworking of historical motifs.
When I saw Ramakers, I asked her about this. "That's your interpretation," she curtly replied.
Yet a visitor to hip Amsterdam shops like the Frozen Fountain or Droog or Pols Potten can hardly fail to note the embrace by designers of the country's layered history in all its complex ramifications. This includes the bourgeois coziness beloved by the Dutch and enshrined in the catchall word gezelligheid. It includes the vaunted simplicity exemplified in an observation often made of the Netherlands' queen: "Bea- trix is a simple person," a friend of mine explained, "but she is always 'Your Majesty.' " It includes the unexamined utilitarianism that was a requisite of global conquest: more than once on this trip it was pointed out to me that the Netherlands was the first multinational.
"At the end of the eighties there was a lot of design based only on form and on concealing technology," explained Cok de Rooy, co-owner of the Frozen Fountain, an influential design store located on the Prinsengracht. "Philippe Starck made a radio and you had to tell people it was a radio, because you couldn't figure out what it was or how to turn it on."
The frank legibility of designs by the Dutch who came after Starck evolved both in response to design-world conceits and also as a result of a native obsession with functional honesty. "Dutch designers want to say, 'Look at it. This is what it is. This is what it does,'" de Rooy said.
I thought then of the humorous Wookiee-like rugs, felted from the wool of sheep that she raises herself, by Claudy Jongstra; of cabinets mitered and assembled from Javanese scrap wood by Piet Hein Eek; of the fractured fairy-tale patterns of Table Stories, a set of china designed by Tord Boontje; of Hella Jongerius's dishware, whose flaws are preserved in homage to reality in an era of mandatory physical perfection; of the wittily tweaked blue-and-white delftware by Margit Seland, Jacob de Baan, and Marjet Wessels Boer.
The porcelain service Jurgen Bey recently produced for venerable manufacturer Royal Tichelaar Makkum (the oldest company in the Netherlands, founded in 1594) is made with clay mined from prehistoric Friesian deposits, using molds and relief techniques that date back to the 17th century. The anchor-and-chain shapes Studio Job employed to create deceptively massive-looking but actually light accessories for one of Viktor & Rolf's shows in Paris made clear allusions to the Netherlands' maritime past.
It was the Dutch architect and intellectual magpie Rem Koolhaas who once pointed out a hunger in contemporary life for historical depth, for coincidence, for what he termed "the rising and waxing of individual cultures and relationships." Koolhaas's observation came to mind one morning as I stumbled upon Amsterdam's eccentric and out-of-the-way Tropenmuseum, a wondrously weird hoard of loot accreted across the centuries during which the Dutch East Indies Company dominated the lucrative global trade in spice.
In a sense, the Tropenmuseum is a monument to what is romanticized as the golden age of exploration—and to a less splendid reality of fortunes made on the backs of coolies and slaves. The pepper prized for centuries at Continental tables was supplied by Dutch Sumatra. The Dutch-controlled islands of Banda grew nutmeg and mace. Dutch Molucca raised cloves; cinnamon bark came from Dutch Ceylon.
The enduring influence of subject cultures—those borrowed spiritual beliefs of Betsky's—continue to enrich Dutch design, albeit in ways that are sometimes intentionally left obscure. Or so it struck me when I came across a woolly-wigged effigy of the amateur scientist and collector Georg Rumphius.
Assembled in a 17th-century volume titled The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet, Rumphius's collections have been replicated lavishly by the Tropenmuseum in a huge diorama of display cases jammed with chambered nautiluses, sea fans, mottled tortoise shells, stuffed parrots, and blue macaws. What reads today as an accumulation of exotica served didactic uses in earlier times—as the end product of a laborious and protracted 17th-century form of Google search. Yet if the objects in Rumphius's cabinet look forward to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the collector's rapture in the presence of so much natural abundance signifies a certain awe at the splendors of creation, and a wonder that we seem to have lost.
Yet wonderment may be a common denominator in so much current Dutch design, I thought one night at Club 11, where from a high window I had a heady view across the pewter harbor to the city's irregular yellow-brick gables as the late twilight burnished them to gold. Set on a high floor of the Brutalist Post CS building, where the Stedelijk Museum is temporarily housed, Club 11 is a museum commissary at lunch, a dining outpost until late evening, and after that a nightclub that attracts some of the best DJ's around.
As the hostess, Anna Zee, seated me, I asked about the dining scene in Amsterdam, never a city exactly renowned for its cuisine. "It has become much more about quality than quantity in terms of food and wine," said Zee, a former model. "It's like Amsterdam is finally being recognized."
If it happens that Amsterdam has some distance to go before it can be deemed a culinary destination, I nevertheless ate surprisingly well there: a succulent pork roast at the tiny Blauw aan de Wal, a restaurant in the Red Light District that may be the definition of a hole-in-the-wall; a tartly sauced homemade roast chicken at Sukasari, a dingy but welcoming Indonesian place barely two feet from the tourist hordes of Dam Square; a multicourse Broadway production at the hilariously pretentious and Michelin-starred Café Roux, where the sommelier informed me after I had ordered white wine to accompany my fish entrée that he had consulted the tuna and the tuna preferred red.
But it was at dinner with an old friend in a converted greenhouse set well away from the center of town that I encountered the best example of what one ends up admiring about Amsterdam and things Dutch. The set menu at De Kas offered, among other delicacies, a single seared scallop served atop a folded pillow of braised leeks, an oblong of halibut resting on a purée of fresh spring peas, and a roast baby chicken made fragrant with fresh herbs gathered from the restaurant's garden.
The meal had been assembled from fine basic ingredients, prepared simply and with easy assurance. The wine list was well chosen and unpretentious. The service was not so casual that it shaded into neglect, as at some places I tried, nor so hyperattentive that I felt infantilized. I did not have the sense, as one often does, that the same meal, assembled along the same lines, was being served in a hundred other restaurants around the planet, or even one. (Well, maybe one: Chez Panisse.) As with the best Dutch design and art and architecture, the principle behind De Kas felt surprisingly simple and straightforward: extract the fullest portion of pleasure from the stuff of the season, the place, the day. For a moment I found myself sharing in the conviction, or conceit, understandably held by the locals of my acquaintance, that what is fine in many other places is inevitably somewhat better here.
When to Go
Summer can be crowded—and disappointingly drizzly; fall promises sparse crowds and temperatures that hover around 55 degrees. Late spring sees the arrival of Holland's famous tulips and daffodils in Keukenhof gardens, outside the city. (Make this side trip on Queen's Day, April 30, when Amsterdam's streets are always clogged with drunken revelers.)
Getting There
Northwest, Continental, and Delta fly nonstop from New York's JFK and Newark airports to Schiphol Airport; Northwest has nonstop flights from Chicago and Los Angeles.
Where to Stay
College Hotel
Adjacent to the Museumplein and the Oud Zuid shopping district, this 40-room property is run by hospitality students under a seasoned management team. Guests inclined to overlook the occasional service hiccup will enjoy five-star surroundings at wallet-friendly prices.
1 Roelof Hartstraat; 31-20/ 571-1512; doubles from $260.
The Dylan
Gaze out onto the historic Keizersgracht from this 17th-century charity house turned boutique hotel; spend afternoons relaxing in the tranquil courtyard garden after pedaling around town on one of the Dylan's signature black bicycles.
384 Keizersgracht; 31-20/530-2010; doubles from $536.
Grand Sofitel
This refurbished convent, a 17th-century landmark, has 131 individually decorated rooms, a lavish hammam, and an unbeatable central location.
197 Oudezijds Voorburgwal; 31- 20/555-3111; doubles from $430.
Lloyd Hotel
The 116 rooms are rated with up to five stars, based on design. The two-star rooms offer large showers, starkly stylish whitewashed walls and furniture, and river views.
34 Oostelijke Handelskade; 31- 20/561-3636; doubles from $102.
Seven One Seven
It's like bunking with a madcap rich uncle. This über-B&B's eight suites are simultaneously luxurious and laid-back; guests enjoy a jaw-dropping breakfast spread every morning and first-rate South African wines in the firelit library every evening.
717 Prinsengracht; 31-20/427-0717; doubles from $530.
Where to Eat
Blauw aan de Wal
This diminutive multilevel space is reached via an alley off one of the Red Light District's main drags. The Continental menu with Asian and Californian influences is complemented by a wide-ranging wine list.
99 Oudezijds Achterburgwal; 31-20/330-2257; dinner for two $110.
Café Roux
The Michelin-starred brasserie in the Grand hotel.
197 Oudezijds Voorburgwal; 31-20/555-3560; dinner for two $120.
De Kas
Organic meats and produce from De Kas's own gardens make this one of Amsterdam's freshest and best dining experiences. The setting, a converted 19th-century greenhouse, is stunning. Take a cab; it's a 15-minute ride outside the city center.
3 Kamerlingh Onneslaan; 31-20/462-4562; dinner for two $130.
Eleven/Club 11
On the 11th floor of the Post CS building, in the industrial-cool Eastern Docklands. The kitchen dishes up basic lunch fare (sandwiches, salads, beer) and sophisticated dinners (grilled squid with arugula and borlotti beans). After hours, Eleven morphs into the city's premier club.
3-5 Oosterdokskade; 31-20/ 625-5999; dinner for two $150.
A reliable gem just off Dam Square, this family-owned restaurant serves one of Amsterdam's best rijstafels—multiple meat and side dishes with hot sauces and rice.
26-28 Damstraat; 31-20/624-0092; dinner for two $65.
Where to Shop
Droog Design
The showroom of the renowned collective.
7A/7B Staalstraat; 31-20/523-5050.
Frozen Fountain
Owner Cok de Rooy deftly edits a selection of furniture, kitchenware, and accessories, plus the largest selection of Royal Tichelaar porcelain outside the factory showroom in Makkum.
645 Prinsengracht; 31-20/ 622-9375.
Kunsthandel Artist
Dealer Hesdy Artist's stock ranges from 18th-century sculpture to botanical prints.
9 Kerkstraat; 31-20/428-1360.
Pols Potten
A cavernous housewares emporium lined wall-to-wall with handcrafted furniture, pottery, glassware, and lighting, on the main shopping drag on trendy KNSM island.
39 KNSM-laan; 31-20/419-3541.
Gallery-cum-shop specializing in vintage furniture and home accessories from the 40's, 50's, and 60's.
3 Rusland; 31-20/625-3738.
What to Do
Stedelijk Museum
Visit the long-running Municipal Art Acquisitions exhibition, highlighting modern Dutch works, in the Post CS building, the museum's temporary home.
5 Oosterdokskade; 31-20/573-2911; tickets $12.
Part of the Royal Tropical Institute, this fantastically weird collection chronicles the extent of Holland's colonial reach in the 17th and 18th centuries—there are more than 254,000 pieces in all.
2 Linnaeusstraat; 31-20/568-8215; tickets $10.


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Hey there, first of all thanks very much for making such a clean and elegant skin. I am a long time user of Mediaportal but I have dabbled with XBMC and with Eden and especially this skin I am in the process of changing over for me and my family.
Two things though (and feel free to say no to them both! Your time and effort after all). 1) Would it be possible at some point to be able to hide the plot of TV shows as they often show spoilers but leave Film plots always on?
2) The only thing that I don't like in the skin is the icon within the TV shows. Too much black in it. The one thing that plex does well is has three icons for media. Full circle for unwatched, half-filled for partially watched and empty circle for when fully watched. Would love something like this or for users who want to choose to be given a choice of icons.
Once again thanks again for the skin though and it is really is such a clean attractive and very user-friendly.
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1. Film, tv show, and movie plots are all seperate settings for each view so yes its possible for you to do this.
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Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past one as unpredictable in love as it was in war. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to a desperate woman who belongs to another.
For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle.
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Singh brings her Psy/Changeling world closer to cataclysm in this engrossing 11th episode (after Kiss of Snow). Riaz and Adria, both dominant wolf changelings, have been burned in previous relationships: Adria is slowly recovering from a relationship with a male who couldn't accept her strength, while Riaz still aches from being rejected by the woman destined to be his mate. As the Psy edge closer to civil war, Riaz and Adria are battered by politics, violence, and their compulsive attraction to each other despite their certainty that they cannot form a mating bond. The action is also driven by past protagonists whose romances continue to develop realistically. Singh handles the division with deft style, weaving threads of her previous tales into the looming conflict without ever neglecting the budding relationship. Perhaps more important for returning readers, she stays beautifully faithful to her own mythology, creating a truly satisfying romance and compelling action in one of her strongest episodes to date. Agent: Elaine Spencer, the Knight Agency. (June)
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Hoping for some advice and support in my ongoing issues with my in-laws. I've been told some of this is petty and nothing to break up a family over, and to a large degree I agree with that. However, my personal feelings can't just be turned off. So I thought I'd try getting some outside advice on here instead of going to family who are biased. Background: I met my husband while he was on deployment overseas. The distance (physical distance and him not being able to talk all the time) between me and my then boyfriend and him and his family created a situation where me and his sister kinda latched on to each other and talked nearly every day. We talked all about my boyfriend and all about our personal lives. Custody of my children by a previous husband was a pretty popular topic, seeing as I was doing the whole ugly restraining orders and court dates all the time. When my boyfriend returned our relationship got deeper and he became the person I shared all my gossip and issues with. And me and his sister didn't talk as often after that. But something like 5-6 weeks after he returned from Iraq we planned a trip to his sisters house half way across the country. It was a fun trip overall. A few hiccups, among them; we drove with two kids under the age of 3 for over 24 hours (not fun), kids got sick and then got her kids sick, got there and I had the whole nervous-about-meeting/being-around-new-family-member and so I was completely too quite and awkward. So we stayed for roughly 4-5 days and then returned home. Within a couple weeks me and my boyfriend got married. And within a couple days I was already having my first 'issues' with my in-laws that have continued for a year now.
The day after we were married, SIL (sister-in-law) sent a message to us about us not answering our phone (she is kinda known for talking your ear off and we didn't want to talk). By 3 days after our marriage she sent another message going off (I'm completely guessing her reason, because we still hadn't gotten back to her). "Sick of you and my brothers bs", "he is a liar... I'm really starting to wonder about you as well", "If you two even work out" etc. Circumstances being what they were I didn't even become aware of these messages for like ten days. I replied to her and basically a lot of 'what are you talking about? ..you aren't making sense..we have been busy and not trying to ignore you...etc" I got no reply back and we didn't talk for a month.
Two months later I got a message from my MIL (mother-in-law) that completely bashed me for my agreement that I made with my ex about our custody. My husband's response to her email was to tell me that his mom will say what she needs to say once and then let it go. I think it is ENTIRELY INAPPROPRIATE for her to get into my business like that and wrong of him to act like its okay and acceptable. And my 'business' was working out how I was going to move with my children over 300 miles away and finally move in with my husband - we were working out longer visitations and transportation costs. Here is some of the highlights of her message "...I would have never voluntarily gave my ex extra time with the kids...never allowed him to not financially support his children...never offer him money for anything...never let him have the kids extra time just to save money and make it convenient for myself... I would of rather fought for my kids than had new furniture, so you can make it real easy on yourself and just let him have custody. save yourself some money,,, at least you have new furniture..." Her message of course pissed me off. But literally being in the family for 2 months I didn't want to rock the boat. I tried replying telling her my reasons for doing what I did, making the agreements that I did, but never got a response. I didn't confront then but wish I had in hindsight, the fact that money was never an issue. I always had my lawyer paid. More money wouldn't have made any difference.
That was in March. Finally in May I got everything worked out in court and was finally able to move in with my husband. By June another issue popped up. Virtually all phone calls between myself and SIL (sister-in-law) had stopped and we communicated (several times a week) via email and facebook. I got a message "...I don't think any child should look up to your husband at all..." (I guess she thought my husband had forgotten to wish his nephew/her son happy birthday. A fact she was wrong about) "...also...you and I need to have a conversation so...if you get the courage..." "if you want to call me I'm not doing this over facebook...unlike you i do not play the fb game, and write crap back and forth i will leave that to you and the XXXX family (My ex in laws) to do...I'm out of your lives..." This message completely blindsighted me, I asked my husband to explain, he explained the birthday part but couldn't explain the rest. I was too proud to bend to her demands and 'call her if I got the courage' so I left it alone. She then deleted me as a friend on FB. (And I'm the one playing FB games?)
A couple weeks later, SIL (sister-in-law) posts several pictures of my husband's daughter (my step-daughter) on her FB. All three were my pics from my page. The only reason I was able to see them was because I was still friends with MIL (mother-in-law) and MIL (mother-in-law) was tagged in the photos. SIL (sister-in-law) claims ''it was my mistake tagging her-and making it where you could see them". MIL (mother-in-law) has stated herself that she knows SIL (sister-in-law) tagged her and made it visible to me just to piss me off. ANYWAY, it became obvious that SIL (sister-in-law) was gettin on her moms profile and still looking at mine. It really offened me because she ranted at me, deleted me, and then steals my pictures like she has the right. AND cropped the group picture of my two children with their step sister and cut my children out before posting.The whole thing pissed me off. I made my husband call his mother to talk with her about helping the situation. She was currently at work and hadn't yet seen the pics, but listened to him explain, and she said she would get online that night and look. Later when I got online and looked, I saw that she had 'liked' all the pictures that SIL (sister-in-law) had posted. I felt like that was a slap in the face. Like it was her subtle backing of SIL. S me AND my husband reported the pics to FB. That resulted in her account getting deleted. And that resulted in a lot of 'she is so immature' 'juvinile' 'childish' comments on fb by MIL (mother-in-law) and both SILs.
Over the next couple months, there were many things that happened to keep the tensions up, but nothing big enough to be called an 'issue'.
My MIL (mother-in-law) and younger sister in law (YSIL) continuted to act like me and my husband (or just me) were not showing the amount of attention to my husbands first daughter than we were to my two and later to our new child. And my YSIL monitering my page and telling my husband anything she disapproves of.
-We went to the lake for a day, took pictures, and later posted them. I posted dozens of pictures, but my YSIL picked one of the photos of just my two kids and commented on it and asked if my step-daughter hadn't gone. She was in every other picture!
-I post a picture of my daughter playing with a toy and my SIL (sister-in-law) comments on it "Isn't this (my step-daugter's) christmas gift from her father?" SOOOOO????
-I posted a few pictures of myself in full coverage bra and panties and showing off my baby belly (I was like 7-8 months pregnant). I posted them in a album that only allowed women to see the pictures. My YSIL called my husband while he was out training for ten days out in the field and left him a message saying I was posting pics of myself laying in bed with hardly any clothes on. And put a very negative spin on the pics. My husband calls me at 3 in the morning, yelling at me. I explain what they are and show him and he apologises and agrees there is nothing wrong with them.
After my SIL (sister-in-law) stole my pictures and I received no help from MIL, I restricted my MIL (mother-in-law) and YSILs access to a lot of my posts and pictures. And some of the particular good photos that my husband specifically asked me to show them, I put watermarks on. That caused them to block me from a lot of their stuff but I didn't care.
My MIL (mother-in-law) needling my ex.
-On several instances MIL (mother-in-law) would get on FB and comment on pictures of my son (Directly after my ex would comment on them) and make references to how much my son looks like my current husband.
-I made a post about how I had just gotten pictures in the mail and would be sending them to family soon and tagged my MIL, YSIL, ex, my mother, and my sister. My ex commented "great! can't wait" and soon after my MIL (mother-in-law) commented, "Me and papa got ours today!" Which was a complete lie, I guess trying to make herself seem special or to upset my ex because he hadnt gotten any yet.
His mother wanting to look at my pictures and lying about her allowing me to see hers.
-My husband would talk to his mom and tell her about some fun event we had gone to and afterwards would tell me how his mom wanted to see pics and how his mother denied blocking me from seeing any of her pics. That she was just deleting them. I called bs and showed how pics were hidden from me (because she had tagged me in specific pictures that were in specific albums. And those tagged photos were still showing on my page but when I went to her pictures to look for the album they were in-I couldn't find them. I set up an example and showed my husband that if she had deleted those pics they would have disappeared from my page too) after proving to my husband that she had just lied to him. He got the whole "I don't understand why she would lie to me, but oh well" attitude.
Since all of this has happened I finally confronted them about some of these things. I was starting to have so much resentment for all of them that I couldn't breath. And I knew when I had the baby that I would probably be around them at least a little, so I wanted to get out old issues and move on. It DID NOT work. It started an email fight. And all I got was TONS of rude emails from all of them. And as much as I've avoided them, we are suppose to go see them in a week for Christmas and I'm freaking out. With some of the new things that have recently been said, besides calling me names, saying: "His daughter should come first in your husbands heart", telling my husband that my Ex shouldn't be on my facebook, texting my husband 5+ times over the last month to tell him to call her 'when she isn't around', "I don't give a damn about you or your pictures" (and the VERY next day takes on my pictures of my newborn son that I had watermarked, she removed the watermark and reposted on her page. And when I posted on another picture for NO ONE to take and repost my pictures, she did it again.
I just wanted to add after reading some of the comments, that the reason I didn't just delete them all from FB originally was because me and my DH (dear husband) shared a FB. And I didn't feel like it was my place to cut him off from them. We both live states away from ALL of our families and it is a huge part of how we share with everyone. But recently I did have to ask my husband to get his own so I wouldnt have to deal with them.
But that didnt stop the drama because after that was when SIL (sister-in-law) started demanding he call her when I'm not around, and after I saw some of the things she was saying about me to my husband on his FB (I was on his Fb with his knowledge, I wasn't being sneaky), calling me his 'dumb ass wife', anytime I confronted them about anything my SIL (sister-in-law) accused me of being a snoop and telling me to 'stay off her brothers FB'


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Osho,You said that love is possible only with death. Then will you please explain buddha's love.
For an ignorant person love is always part of hate, it always goes with hate. For the ignorant mind hate and love are just two aspects of the same coin. For the ignorant mind love is never pure.
And that is the misery of love - because the hate becomes a poison. You love a person and you hate the same person also. But you may not be doing both simultaneously so you are not aware of it. When you love a person you forget about the hatred part, it goes below, it goes into the unconscious and it waits there. Then when your love is tired, it falls into the unconscious and the hate part comes up. Then you hate the same person.
And when you hate you are not aware that you also love - now the love has gone deep down into the unconscious. This goes on, just like night and day. It goes on moving in a circle. It becomes a misery.
But for a buddha, for one who is enlightened, the dichotomy, the dualism, disappears. Everywhere - not only as far as love is concerned - the whole life becomes a oneness. Then there is no dichotomy, the opposite doesn't exist.
So really, to call Buddha's love "love" is not good, but we have no other term. Buddha himself never used the word love. He used the word compassion. But that too is not very good. Because your compassion is always mixed with your cruelty, your non-violence is always mixed with your violence - whatsoever you do will have its opposite just nearby. You exist between contradictions; hence the tension, the anguish, the anxiety. You are not one; you are always two. You are a crowd, divided into many fragments, and those fragments are opposing each other. Your being is a tension; Buddha's being is a deep relaxation. Remember, tension exists between two opposite poles, and relaxation is just in the middle, where two opposing poles are no longer opposing. They negate each other - and there is a transcendence. So Buddha's love is basically different from what you know as love.
Your love is a dis-ease; Buddha's love is total relaxation. There is no head part to it, so the quality of it changes completely. Many things will be in Buddha's love which cannot be in ordinary love. First, it cannot be hot. The hotness comes from hate. It is not passion, rather it is compassion. It is not hot, it is cool. To us, a cool love means something which has gone wrong. Buddha's love is cool, there is no heat to it. It is not like the sun, it is like the moon. It will not create passion in you, it will create a deep coolness.


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