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Why should we concern ourselves about what is happening half a world away, when we have so many problems at home? Because our demand of palm oil is destroying families, indigenous peoples, forests and their inhabitants, particularly, but not only orangutans. Because of ongoing and angry debate, we offer the following information.
NOTE Not all Palm oil is automatically bad - Certain supplies of Palm Oil are from South America, which is sustainably grown and harvested, from areas that were not primary forest sites, and where 10% of the area is set aside or remains a wildlife corridor to allow the free movement of inhabitants. There are also Rainforest Alliance Certified options, that improves the live of farmers, protects the wildlife and waterways and conserves forests.
Food for thought: Worried about palm oil? No body asks about ethically sourced olive oil. Because we don't live in a vegan world, it doesn't exist. Has anyone thought to check how many thousands of rare native Australian parrots are killed each year to reduce olive orchard damage, nut orchard damage and stone fruit orchard damage? Sometimes 10,000. Every year thousands of kangaroos, parrots and other native animals are killed by farmers to produce wheat, nuts and fruit. There's no moral difference between Australian killed wildlife and Malaysian killed wildlife. There's no moral difference between eating palm oil and eating olive oil, peaches or almonds. To say that palm oil and orang utans are more important than olive oil and corellas is quite simply speciesist. Encourage certified sustainable farm practices, yes. Cultivate a gradual transition to a vegan world by conducting peaceful vegan education, yes. But boycott palm oil? No. It doesn't make anymore sense to boycott palm oil than boycotting olive oil, bread, pasta, fruit and nuts. Even if the boycott was successful, farmers would just grow something else like bananas.
Palm oil is *not* the drive behind rainforest destruction as only 3% of cleared Malaysian rainforests were replaced with palm oil and of that 80% of the product produced from the plantations are used as livestock feed. If you want to see where the Malaysian rainforests have gone, you'll find in the cardboard packaging of cereal boxes because it's timber that's the main drive of the forest clearing.Palm oil has serious issues, but so does every other vegan product out there. And finally, worldwide, the number one cause of rainforest destruction and land clearing is livestock production. 90% of the Amazon rainforest destruction is for the purpose of producing meat and dairy products for the western world. And don't forget the global clearing of seabed floors and grasses by fishnet weighted trawler boats for seafood. The fastest way to stop habitat loss and extinctions is to go vegan. Source Alice Springs Vegan Soc
This excellent article clarfies the situation and puts things in perspective ; From Louise Mead, (eatingconsciously.tumblr) a great perspective on the continuing Palm Oil controversy: Palm Oil
There is a lot of discussion about whether palm oil is vegan. The TL:DR is - palm oil is a plant, it is definitely vegan and if we genuinely want animal liberation, campaigning against it is actually counter-productive to our aims.
A lot of people argue that because of the environmental destruction palm oil causes, often with particular mentions of orangutans, that it is not vegan to use or consume palm oil. But aside from being incorrect - because palm oil is vegan - this is a huge oversimplification of an incredibly complex issue. To start with, the sheer size of the human population is such that no matter what we eat, it's pretty much impossible to avoid some sort of environmental impact. So we have to look at the most effective ways to reduce that impact - and singling out specific plants is not the answer. There are a number of reasons for this:
1. The biggest cause of environmental destruction and species extinction in terms of food production is without a doubt, animal agriculture - by a long shot. So our priority should be on ending animal agriculture. If we focus on palm oil or any other specific useful crops rather than ending animal use then we create an extra pressure for new and potential vegans that might make them think twice about ditching their use of animals. We also give nonvegans yet another excuse (not like they need any more of those!) as to why they should avoid making a change to veganism. Not only that but if animal agriculture was to come to an end, there'd be a vast amount of land freed up for planting palm and other crops because as we know, it takes many times more land to produce a pound of animal protein than it does to produce a pound of plant protein.
2. Out of all the plant oils, palm oil has by far the highest yield out of any of them (more than double most other oils). This means it takes up less land to produce the same amount. Unless humans stop using oils - which is unlikely - then palm oil is actually one of the lesser evils. It also requires less chemicals and pesticides in its production - which is also a positive in terms of environmental impact compared to other oils. This article goes into more detail about this particular topic. http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/conservation-and-development/can-palm-oil-deforestation-be-stopped
3. A lot of palm oil is planted on land that has already been cleared for another purpose - such as illegal logging, or narcotics. So when the palm oil industry is singled out as the cause, it's not entirely accurate and is actually a distraction from a number of very serious environmental problems.
4. Palm oil is a single issue campaign. Whilst our initial instinct is that single issue campaigns may raise awareness of the plight of some animals, what they invariably end up doing is promoting speciesism and as we know, speciesism leads to people making distinctions between animals they want to protect and animals who they see not problem in harming. Take for example the narrative of palm oil being associated with orangutans. There are few people who wouldn't be moved by heart-breaking images of homeless and orphaned orangutans. However, by promoting the cause of orangutans in relation to palm oil, we reinforce the idea - particularly in the eyes of nonvegans - that some animals are more important than others. For starters, not all palm oil is produced in locations where orangutans are a native species but because people are speciesist, orangutans have been adopted as the poster 'child' of the campaign to emotionally manipulate people – there are far more species who are affected by habitat destruction caused by animal agriculture than by a single plant product. Further, the nonvegan alternatives to palm oil come from a number of farmed animals - butter, lard, dripping etc. Who are we to say that orangutans are more important than cows, geese, pigs, or ducks? How can we honestly say that an orangutans value their lives any more than other animals? We can't. I would seriously recommend, if you can try and find the time, you listen to this podcast for an excellent and comprehensive explanation as to why single issue campaigns are actually counter-productive for animal rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__oszGN5PjM
5. If you're going to object to palm oil then to be consistent you should probably be objecting to bananas, coconuts, mangoes, sugar, and all other crops that come from tropical plantations. When we put it like that, doesn't it seem a bit crackers to say things like bananas and coconuts aren't vegan? More on this here http://eatingconsciously.tumblr.com/post/30330216488/palm-oil-is-vegan.
So to sum up - palm oil comes from a plant, so it's definitely vegan. Palm oil has its merits, environmentally speaking, compared to other oils. Palm oil is a single issue campaign that promotes speciesism and can actually distract from or give some people the excuse they were looking for not to become vegan. Veganism is the best chance we have of solving the issues of environmental destruction and species extinction, and therefore we must recognise that no matter how much our heartstrings are pulled, we must be rational and focus on promoting veganism - nothing less will do.
Deforestation for the establishment of palm oil plantations is responsible for habitat loss for threatened and endangered species. Priority species impacted by forest clearing are the Asian elephant, tiger, Sumatran rhinoceros and the orangutan.
Nearly 80 mammal species are found in Malaysia's primary forests but in contrast, disturbed forests have just over 30 mammal species, while oil palm plantations have only 11 or 12 (Wakker 1998, in Clay (2004) "World Agriculture & Environment"). Similar species reductions occur for insects, birds, reptiles and soil microorganisms.
Borneo and Sumatra are two of the most bio-diverse regions of the world, yet they have the longest list of endangered species. This list includes the magnificent orangutan. Despite amazing biodiversity, an area the size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour in Indonesia and Malaysia to make way for the production of one vegetable oil. That's 6 football fields destroyed each minute. This vegetable oil is called palm oil, and is found in hundreds of the everyday products, from baked goods and confectionery, to cosmetics and cleaning agents... many of which you buy in your weekly shopping. Borneo and Sumatra are two of the most bio-diverse regions of the world, and have the longest list of endangered species, including the orangutan. Despite amazing biodiversity an area the size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each HOUR in Indonesia and Malaysia, to make way for the production of one vegetable oil, called palm oil, found in hundreds of everyday products, from baked goods and confectionery, to cosmetics and cleaning agents.
In Malaysia, there are an estimated 50,000 stateless Indonesian children living in Sabah province, the country's palm oil producing heartland. Thousands more have come from the Phillipines, born to workerswho arrived in waves since the 1970's to fulfill a demand for cheap labor, in what is now the world's second-largest palm oil industry.
In some cases, land has been developed by oil palm plantations without consultation or compensation of the indigenous people occupying the land. This has occurred in Papua New Guinea, Colombia, and Indonesia. In the Sarawak state of Malaysian Borneo, there has been debate over whether there was an appropriate level of consultation with the Long Teran Kanan community prior to the development of local land for palm oil plantations. Appropriation of native lands has led to conflict between the plantations and local residents in each of these countries. According to a 2008 report by NGOs including Friends of the Earth, palm oil companies have also reportedly used force to acquire land from indigenous communities in Indonesia. Additionally, some Indonesian oil palm plantations are dependent on imported labor or illegal immigrants, which have raised concerns about the working conditions and social impacts of these practices.
Orangutan means 'Person of the jungle' in the Indonesian language. It is estimated that 6 to 12 of these 'jungle people' are killed each day for palm oil, when they wander into a palm oil plantation looking for food, or sold in the illegal pet trade after they've been captured and kept in extremely poor conditions and provided with extremely poor nutrition.
Data concludes that over 50,000 orangutans have already died as a result of deforestation due to palm oil in the last two decades. Experts say that if this pattern of destruction and exploitation continues, they will be extinct in the wild within 3 to 12 years, in other words they could be gone by 2016.
(http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/ ; http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04, http://en.wikipedia.org)


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Infinite's nostalgia-inducing conclusion teased Bioshock's original fanbase with the possibility of further adventures in Bioshock's underwater metropolis. This, however, is unlikely...at least for 2013.
1. Infinite's vacation from Rapture could potentially be used as a primary selling point for a Bioshock 3. If history is an indication, the next release in Irrational's acclaimed franchise would arrive in 2016, more than half of a decade after 2010's Bioshock 2. Hopefully, there is such a release planned, and if said Bioshock 3 were to come, Irrational's executives would already be conceptualizing basic elements, meaning they would already be conscious about turn-offs for potential customers. As fans and, by extension, Irrational's revenue source, would you be less excited for the return to Rapture (in a retail release) if you'd already explored the underwater city with your previous Bioshock purchase?
2. With both Rapture and Columbia's immense care and dedication, the imminent addition of a third and even fourth locale is unlikely, and rightfully so. With this said, I shall theorize that main Bioshock titles will continue to be mainly Rapture-based, whereas those with the "Infinite" extension will be based around infinite possibilites and, by extension, tear-based gameplay.
3. Booker and Elizabeth's interactions with Rapture is a sensitive area for Irrational's writers, as little under/over half of a century separates Infinite from the original Bioshock and its sequel. Elizabeth's comfortability with bending the fabrics of time could fix this complication, but, because of Infinite's conclusion, Elizabeth wouldn't be available to access other time periods, cutting off any of Infinite's cast from accessing the stunning underwater metropolis.
Despite these cons, however, a 1912 return to Rapture provides an interesting narrative-based possibility: How would you like to see Rapture before Jack and Delta's interactions with the city? Is this an opportunity for Infinite to be a prequel and a spin-off/sequel at the same time? What if the city was originally significantly different, and what changed? Could Booker and Elizabeth have been involved? Because prequels aren't as commercially successful, Irrational is unlikely to green-light a game dedicated to Rapture's backstory, so could Infinite's developers opt to explore said backstory through less commercially-risky DLC?
These are my thoughts spread throughout 400 words, comprised entirely of my complaints and my desires for Irrational's upcoming releases. I do acknowledge that these ideologies might be miles off from my readers, so, please, drop your counter-arguments in the comments section below. It's alright - I can handle it.
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Chris Lindley wrote: > SPF support in James: Nobody is actively working on it... I think there's some skepticism about how effective it can be given the sender-rewriting requirement. Support probably wouldn't hurt though. Or at least instructions on how to assemble it. > As we are Java specialists and use the James mail server we'd like to > see SPF support brought into Jakarta James. There is already a > sourceforge project to provide a Java library to parse SPF strings > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/spfjava/) albeit in its infancy, and > the matcher/mailet architecture of James would mean that it should be > relatively trivial to write a matcher which retrieves and parses SPF > strings given access to the DNS. > > Is anybody working on this ? I do not believe anyone has said publicly so. You can search the mailing list archives though. > After an initial investigation into how this could be done, the biggest > barrier is the lack of exposure of the DNS methods from the underlying > library to matcher code. Are there any plans to open up the DNS > interface for use by matcher/mailet code ? If this were done, then > adding an SPF matcher would be straight-forward. As it stands it would > require a patch to core James code. We're happy to look into this > further but prefer not to affect core James code or clash with any other > work to provide this facility. I can see how it's useful, though I'm not sure if it's been discussed. We are right now pushing to get some releases out before we do much redesign of the mailet or James APIs. You can lookup the DNSServer using the Avalon lookup mechanism. We're not big fans of using that lookup architecture, but should work. -- Serge Knystautas President Lokitech >> software . strategy . design >> http://www.lokitech.com p. 301.656.5501 e. email@example.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Let's not have any reality in our reality television, please
12/19/2013 10:01:00 AM Ed Morrissey
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I'll start off my rant on A&E and the Duck Dynasty contretemps with a couple of disclosures. First, I have never seen the show, although I've seen plenty of advertising for and commentary about it. I mostly stopped watching A&E when
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12/19/2013 9:21:35 AM Ed Morrissey
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Over the last few weeks, my travels have put me out of touch with the weekly initial jobless claims metric, although I know Steve Eggleston kept Hot Air readers up to date on it. In October, the level of new claims went below the 300K barrier, at least
Two guilty of hacking British soldier to death
12/19/2013 8:41:11 AM Ed Morrissey
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It didn't take long for a British jury to decide on guilt for Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, but then again, neither defendant denied murdering and nearly beheading Lee Rigby. Both pleaded not guilty, but claimed that the horrendous
Paul: Clapper's crimes are more injurious to US than Snowden's
12/19/2013 8:01:39 AM Ed Morrissey
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CNN's Wolf Blitzer focuses this segment with Senator Rand Paul, who has certainly been vindicated more than he probably expected by Barack Obama's task force on NSA surveillance, by asking whether he plans to sue the NSA to stop the more
Quotes of the day
12/18/2013 10:41:07 PM Allahpundit
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Long-time Clinton hand John Podesta is in trouble with Republicans just days after joining the Obama White House, after he described the House GOP as a "cult worthy of Jonestown." But the comment — considering the severity of the
War on Moms: MSNBC pundits plot to fraudulently claim our Amazon benefits
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First, Matt Yglesias shamelessly wrote a how-to for those looking to defraud a company of the benefits meant for budget-conscious moms: Amazon has a program called Amazon Mom that's a pretty neat way to save some money on common household items.
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Why won't you die. Via The Hill: In a letter sent to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Monday, 25 senators urged the committee not to let tax credits expire for offshore wind investments and cleaner vehicles, among
Backfire: Instead of whitewashing NSA surveillance, Obama's handpicked review panel urges change
12/18/2013 8:01:11 PM Allahpundit
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Not the result His Majesty expected, needless to say. Remember, he chose this panel because he trusted they'd go face-first into the tank for him by rubber-stamping mass surveillance. In the end they recommended 46 changes to the program, the most
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Via Politico, a nice illustration of how members of the guild have grown more willing over the years to cop to institutional biases. You could replace Tapper, Kelly O'Donnell, Mark Leibovich, and Peter Baker here with virtually any four reporters
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After cloture passed 67/33 on Monday, final passage of the budget bill was a fait accompli. The only mystery was whether any Republicans who voted with Reid two days ago would switch now, knowing that Democrats could pass this thing on a party-line vote,
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Last week, Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz finally, mercifully acknowledged the increasingly undeniable fact that the United States' energy outlook is much changed from the 1970s scene in which oil disruptions and artificially induced
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12/18/2013 4:01:26 PM Allahpundit
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The deadline was December 31st, but faced with the prospect of 50 percent or more of their new enrollees going uncovered in January due to nonpayment, some individual insurers had already begun granting grace periods. Then HHS announced that it was
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No, this isn't a quote from Twitter or talk radio, but from ABC's White House correspondent Jonathan Karl at yesterday's press briefing. Karl asked Jay Carney about the PR campaign from the Obama administration that's attempting
The Ed Morrissey Show: Guy Benson, Mary Katharine Ham
12/18/2013 2:51:49 PM Ed Morrissey
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Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), it's time again for our Salem All-Stars! Guy Benson and Mary Katharine Ham join me today to discuss cults, Kool-Aid, New Tone, and much much more. Don't miss it! The Ed Morrissey Show and its dynamic
Did Obama "hijack" tech summit over NSA snooping to pitch ObamaCare?
12/18/2013 2:41:36 PM Ed Morrissey
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After months of increasing criticism over the NSA's activities in on-line surveillance and the impact it has had on American Internet service providers, the White House arranged to have a summit meeting with executives to air out their issues. Once
The obligatory "Pajama Boy" post
12/18/2013 2:01:25 PM Allahpundit
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Liberals were getting snippy on Twitter last night over how much fun conservatives were having with this because the jokes were too masculonormative or whatever. Which means it's a must-post. A major political operation puts their spokesman in a
K Street raking it in with the onslaught of new regulations
12/18/2013 1:21:33 PM Erika Johnsen
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It's no secret that the administration waited until after they had secured President Obama's reelection to really let loose on all of the new rules and regulations they'd been waiting to unleash on America; plenty of the rules relating
CBS poll: ObamaCare hurts more than it helps, say insured and uninsured
12/18/2013 12:41:35 PM Ed Morrissey
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The uninsured continue to be almost as unimpressed by ObamaCare as the insured, according to new results released from the last CBS/New York Times poll. Majorities of both populations oppose the law, and only small minorities think it helps more than it
New WH advisor thinks Republicans are "a cult worthy of Jonestown"; Update: Apologizes
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This piece from Politico on the man brought in by Barack Obama to rescue his second term from hubris and incompetence contains no small amount of irony, especially coming within hours of Barbara Walters' admission that the media saw Obama as
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It's early for a palate cleanser but I'mnot sure this doesn't qualify as legit news. I … did not expect to find myself eager to revisit the Romney 2012 campaign on film, but here we are, my friends. Here we are. It's true
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It's funny that the same posters who are big Gagner fans also do anything to discredit Dubnyk.
I guess I don't see any connection between the two .... I mean is it funny that the same guys who are big MPS fans are big Dubnyk supporters as well? Seems like a pretty random correlation to me.
I also wonder where you get that idea that anyone in this thread has been doing their best to "discredit Dubnyk". What I see is a handful of posters going overboard and saying that he was "unreal" , "spectacular" and so on.
I think I've watched hockey for enough years to know what an "unreal" goaltending performance looks like, and that wasn't it imo. Are these comments so offensive to Dubnyk fans that we have to watch them go full ****** in this thread?
If anything the fact that he not only kept his head above water but actually played pretty well with some horrible defense in front of him is commendable and should serve as a major positive for him going forward.
So the defense was horrible, but the shooters he faced were lethal? Not sure how that works.
The Spengler is a second rate tournament, always has been. That Dubnyk didn't embarrass himself in the tournament is nice, especially since he hasn't played any hockey this year that I know of, but I really don't see how three games (on international ice against over-matched opponents) can be seen a "major positive" for him going forward.
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Plaschke: Doc Rivers makes noise, Clippers show poise
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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers needed an answer, and quick.
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Do Small Classes Reduce the Achievement Gap between Low and High Achievers? Evidence from Project STAR
Given that previous findings on the social distribution of the effects of small classes have been mixed and inconclusive, in the present study I attempted to shed light on the mechanism through which small classes affect the achievement of low- and high-achieving students. I used data from a 4-year large-scale randomized experiment (project STAR) to examine the effects of small classes on the achievement gap. The sample consisted of nearly 11,000 elementary school students who participated in the experiment from kindergarten to grade 3. Meta-analysis and quantile regression methods were employed to examine the effects of small classes on the achievement gap in mathematics and reading SAT scores. The results consistently indicated that higher-achieving students benefited more from being in small classes in early grades than other students. The findings also indicated that although all types of students benefited from being in small classes, reductions in class size did not reduce the achievement gap between low and high achievers.
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Not great. Picked this up from Aldi and it's about as good as expected.
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Eh. It's better when we're out to eat, for some reason.
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Completely unimpressed.
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Very fruity, delicious wine. Perfect blend of ruby red wine and hints of orange, lemon and lime.
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Sweet dessert wine. One glass will do on this sweet treat.
Robert Mondavi Private Selection Pinot Noir 2011
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My first pinot noir. Not at all impressed.
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Delicious shiraz cabernet
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Rex Goliath Giant 47 Pound Rooster Moscato
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Yummy floral moscato from Argentina.
Robert Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon
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Heath: I want to stay
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Leeds United defender Matt Heath has spelt out his desire to stay at the club.
Matt Heath has spelt out his desire to stay at Leeds United and he is prepared to wait for the club to come out of a Football League transfer embargo in order to do so.
The defender's contract expired at the end of last season but the League One club are not permitted to finalise a new deal for the 25-year-old.
Leeds are currently under a Football League transfer embargo which was placed upon the club after they entered administration in May.
Dennis Wise has recently bemoaned the situation his club are in claiming it is damaging his pre-season preparations.
The Leeds boss feels he has already missed out on 10 potential new signings because of the regulations.
The embargo also forbids the club from completing new deals for out-of-contract players who are already at the club.
Manuel Rui Marques and Tore Andre Flo are also uncertain regarding their futures but new deals cannot be agreed until the club come out of administration and receive the approval of the Football League.
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This sentence presents a simple case of cause and effect. The key phrase here is self-seeking and avaricious. The woman has found the man to be selfish and greedy. Therefore, she refuses to believe he can do something_______. What words immediately come to mind? Selfless, generous, charitable? The missing word is, of course, altruistic. The woman expects selfishness (self-seeking) and greediness (avaricious), not altruism (magnanimity). The correct answer is Choice D.
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For a quick, general sense of the opening clause, break it up. What does it say? Critics……….the movie's sugary sweet mood.
How would critics react to something sugary sweet and over-hopeful? They would disapprove. Your first missing word must be a synonym for disapprove.
Now eliminate the misfits. Choices A and C fail to meet the test: applauded and acclaimed signify approval, not disapproval. Choice B, condemned and choice D decried, however, all disapprobation; they require a second look.
To decide among Choices B and E, consider the second blank. The movie's sugary, overly hopeful mood is at odds with the novel's tone: the two moods disagree. Therefore, the novel's tone is not hopeful or sugary sweet. It is instead on the bitter or sour side; in a word, acerbic The correct answer is clearly Choice D.
Funda-4 : Watch for signal words that link one part of the sentence to another
Note the function of such a contrast signal word in the following question.
- Paradoxically, the more ——— the details this artist chooses, the better able she is to depict her fantastic, otherworldly landscapes.
The artist creates imaginary landscapes that do not seem to belong to this world. We normally would expect the details comprising these landscapes to be as fantastic and supernatural as the landscapes themselves. But the truth of the matter, however, is paradoxical: it contradicts what we expect. The details she chooses are realistic, and the more realistic they are, the more fantastic the paintings become. The correct answer is Choice B.
Funda-5 : Use your knowledge of word parts and parts of speech to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words
Note the application of this Funda in the following typical example.
- This island is a colony; however, in most matters, it is and receives no orders from the mother country.
First, eliminate any answer choices that are obviously incorrect. If a colony receives no orders from its mother country, it is essentially self-governing. It is not necessarily methodical or systematic nor is it by definition heretical (unorthodox). Thus, you may rule out Choices B and C.
The two answer choices remaining may be unfamiliar to you. Analyse them, using what you know of related words. Choice A, dichotomous, is related to the noun dichotomy, a division into two parts, as in the dichotomy between good and evil. Though the island colony may be separated from the mother country by distance, that has nothing to do with how the colony governs itself Choice D, autonomous, comes from the prefix auto-(self) and the root nom-(law). An autonomous nation is independent; it rules itself. Thus, the correct answer is autonomous Choice D.
Funda-6 : Break up complex sentences into simpler components
See how this Funda helps you to analyse the following sentence.
- Museum director Hoving ——— refers to the smuggled Greek urn as the "hot pot;" not because there are doubts about its authenticity or even great reservations as to its price, but because its ——— of acquisition is open to question.
In calling the smuggled urn a "hot pot, " Hoving is not necessarily speaking characteristically or redundantly or cheerfully. He is speaking either informally or colloquially. (Hot here is a slang term meaning stolen or illegally obtained.) Its costliness is not being questioned. However, because the urn has been smuggled into the country, there clearly are unresolved questions about how it got here, in other words, about its manner of acquisition. The correct answer is Choice C.


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Three years ago this July 19th, the greatest show in the history of the Universe came to a sad, sad end.
So . . .
From The Boy in the Iceberg to Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang - from the introducing intro to the concluding credits - it's time for a rewatch!
I don't care how you do it - DVDs, online, in your head. I don't care if you just read the transcripts and skim through piandao.org. I don't care.
But you must rewatch.
The Schedule
June 24: Wherein the Avatar is Rescued from the Iceberg
The Boy in the Iceberg, The Avatar Returns, and The Southern Air Temple
June 25: Wherein Characters are Introduced via Filler
The Warriors of Kyoshi, The King of Omashu, and Imprisoned
June 26: Wherein Plot Coupons are Distributed
Winter Solstice Part 1: The Spirit World, Winter Solstice Part 2: Avatar Roku, and The Waterbending Scroll
June 27: Wherein a Sandwich Most Emotional is Created
Jet and The Great Divide
June 28: Wherein Kataang Begins
The Storm, The Blue Spirit, and The Fortuneteller
June 29: Wherein Aang Hurts Katara
Bato of the Water Tribe, The Deserter, and The Northern Air Temple
June 30: Wherein the North Pole is Saved
The Waterbending Master, The Siege of the North, Part 1, and The Siege of the North, Part 2
July 1: Wherein Kataang Occurs on Two Levels
The Avatar State, The Cave of Two Lovers, and Return to Omashu
July 2: Wherein the Nakama Grows
The Swamp, Avatar Day, and The Blind Bandit
July 3: Wherein Zuko Paints a Triptych
Zuko Alone, The Chase, and Bitter Work
July 4: Wherein a Desert is Traversed
July 5: Wherein Ba Sing Se is Reached
The Serpent's Pass and The Drill
July 6: Wherein Walls Separate Them All
City of Walls and Secrets and The Tales of Ba Sing Se
July 7: Wherein Appa is Lost and Found
Appa's Lost Days and Lake Laogai
July 8: Wherein the Earth Kingdom Falls
The Earth King, The Guru, and The Crossroads of Destiny
July 9: Wherein the Fire Nation is Infiltrated
The Awakening and The Headband
July 10: Wherein the Siblings are Special
The Painted Lady and Sokka's Master
July 11: Wherein the Past is Discovered
The Beach and The Avatar and the Firelord
July 12: Wherein the Invasion Approaches
The Runaway, The Puppetmaster, and Nightmares and Daydreams
July 13: Wherein the Sun is Black
The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion and The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse
July 16: Wherein Fire is Bent
The Western Air Temple and The Firebending Masters
July 17: Wherein Rock Boils
The Boiling Rock, Part 1 and The Boiling Rock, Part 2
July 18: Wherein Katara Decides
The Southern Raiders and The Ember Island Players
July 19: Wherein Destinies Are Faced
Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King, Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters, Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno, and Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang
Remember: These aren't official until tomorrow. If you have any suggestions to rearrange them, let me know!
The Assignments
And each day, check back for the day's assignments. That's right . . . you're going to have to do something in honor of the episodes we watch that day. ;3
Here's how it works: I'm going to post a question of some sort, and you can answer it in any way you choose. You can post an explanation, a drawing, a song, a video, a quote, a poem, a story, etc. Whatever floats your boat. Feel free to mix 'n' match. It doesn't have to be yours. You can post it here, in a sandbox, on your own blog, whatever you want.
June 24: Wherein the Avatar is Rescued from the Iceberg
101: The Boy in the Iceberg
Of all the characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender, who would you like to rescue out an iceberg? Why?
102: The Avatar Returns
Would you want to be the Avatar? Why?
103: The Southern Air Temple
You're starving. You haven't eaten in days, and your stomach is twisting painfully . . . and now you find a bat lemur. Do you eat it or make it your pet?
June 25: Wherein Characters are Introduced via Filler
104: The Warriors of Kyoshi
What are your thoughts on sexism? Have a story about it? Share.
105: The King of Omashu
Make up a crazy challenge for a character. Which one and what challenge?
106: Imprisoned
For what would you willingly go to prison?
June 26: Wherein Plot Coupons are Distributed
107: Winter Solstice Part 1: The Spirit World
Imagine if your friend/love/family/pet/breakfast was in mortal danger. Would you help?
108: Winter Solstice Part 2: Avatar Roku
Would you accept a quest that could likely end in you losing your life?
109: The Waterbending Scroll
What type of bender would you want to be - or no bender at all?
June 27: Wherein a Sandwich Most Emotional is Created
110: Jet
What's your opinion about love?
111: The Great Divide
Do you think that you can intervene to solve another's conflicts?
June 28: Wherein Kataang Begins
112: The Storm
If you had to send a nightmare - not a dream, a nightmare! - to any one character in the show, who would it be, and what would the nightmare be?
113: The Blue Spirit
Lock two or more characters in a room/box/whatever and assign them something to do . . together. A challenge, if you will.
114: The Fortuneteller
Do you believe in fortunetelling? Why or why not?
June 29: Wherein Aang Hurts Katara
115: Bato of the Water Tribe
Have you ever felt foreign? Not necessarily from another country. Maybe due to your gender, religion, likes, etc.?
116: The Deserter
Have you ever hurt someone by accident?
117: The Northern Air Temple
Ever experienced culture shock?
June 30: Wherein the North Pole is Saved
The Waterbending Master
Love . . . think about Yukka shipping for a moment. Was Yue right? She didn't love Hahn; she loved Sokka. Should she have gone with Sokka? What are your views on marrying for love?
The Siege of the North, Part 1
Have you ever felt like you just couldn't do something?
The Siege of the North, Part 2
Should Zhao have been killed or spared?
July 1: Wherein Kataang Occurs on Two Levels
201: The Avatar State
Have you ever been forced to use your talents against your will?
202: The Cave of Two Lovers
Awkward love moment time. Share yours.
203: Return to Omashu
Would you ever leave a friend, even if s/he asked you to leave him?
July 2: Wherein the Nakama Grows
204: The Swamp
Whom would you see in the Swamp? If it's too painful, don't answer.
205: Avatar Day
If you were Aang, would you defend the honor of the Avatar, or would you flee before you could be discovered?
206: The Blind Bandit
Have you ever been protected "for your own good", even if it wasn't actually good for you?
July 3: Wherein Zuko Paints a Triptych
207: Zuko Alone
If you were to see Lee - the kid Zuko saved - what would your first reaction be?
208: The Chase
Sleep deprivation! What are your experiences with it?
209: Bitter Work
In terms of your life, are you more like Zuko or Aang in this chapter?
July 4: Wherein a Desert is Traversed
210: The Library
Life or knowledge? The age old question.
211: The Desert
Which is, in your opinion, the most emotional/touching scene in this chapter?
July 5: Wherein Ba Sing Se is Reached
212: The Serpent's Pass
Have you ever lost your hope and drive only to have something bring it back?
213: The Drill
Who contributed most to the destruction of the drill?
July 6: Wherein Walls Separate Them All
214: City of Walls and Secrets
Have you ever felt like you needed to do something, only to have someone or something obstruct your path? How do you get around it? Could you get around it?
215: The Tales of Ba Sing Se
Which tale was your favorite? Why?
July 7: Wherein Appa is Lost and Found
216: Appa's Lost Days
Animal cruelty. Thoughts?
217: Lake Laogai
Do you think Jet should have died? Why didn't Katara heal him with the Spirit Oasis Water?
July 8: Wherein the Earth Kingdom Falls
218: The Earth King
Do you think that convincing the Earth King could ever have prevented the coup? Why or why not?
219: The Guru
Favorite chakra. Why?
220: The Crossroads of Destiny
Should Zuko have joined the group, and should Katara have used the Spirit Oasis Water on his scar? Kind of a What If here.
July 9: Wherein the Fire Nation is Infiltrated
301: The Awakening
Ever needed your honor back? What's your opinion on honor?
302: The Headband
Blending in or hiding out?
July 10: Wherein the Siblings are Special
303: The Painted Lady
Do you think what Katara did was right? Would you have done the same?
304: Sokka's Master
Ever felt like a fifth wheel?
July 11: Wherein the Past is Discovered
305: The Beach
For whom did you feel most sorry?
306: The Avatar and the Firelord
Do you think what Sozin did was right? Do you think that Roku could have acted differently? How is the next generation affected by what we do?
July 12: Wherein the Invasion Approaches
307: The Runaway
Scams. Is cheating a cheater a-okay?
308: The Puppetmaster
Analyze Hama. Do you think, in her circumstances, what she did was right?
309: Nightmares and Daydreams
What's your way of coping with stress?
July 13: Wherein the Sun is Black
310: The Day of Black Sun, Part 1: The Invasion
Did Zuko's decision make sense in context? Why or why not? Didn't it seem too sudden, considering how happy he was with Mai [and etc.] in the last chapter?
311: The Day of Black Sun, Part 2: The Eclipse
Do you think Aang should have abandoned the Invasion [as the Invasion asked him to do?], or do you think he should have stayed and fought?
July 16: Wherein Fire is Bent
312: The Western Air Temple
If you were in the Gaang, would you have accepted Zuko, considering the past history?
313: The Firebending Masters
Firebending. Destruction, life, or both? How can this analogy be moved to other things?
July 17: Wherein Rock Boils
314: The Boiling Rock, Part 1
Why do you think Chit Sang's girlfriend and friend weren't involved in the second attempt?
315: The Boiling Rock, Part 2
Would you betray your friend for your love?
July 18: Wherein Katara Decides
316: The Southern Raiders
Is violence ever the answer? Is revenge like a two-headed rat viper?
317: The Ember Island Players
Are you sympathetic with Aang or Katara here? What could they have done differently? What are their motives?
July 19: Wherein Destinies Are Faced
318: Sozin's Comet, Part 1: The Phoenix King
What if Energybending wasn't possible? Do you think that Aang should take Ozai's life or not?
319: Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters
Why does the rest of the team rally around Zuko? Have you ever been in Aang's position - given advice by all of your trusted family and friends, then given advice you'd like to hear from a total stranger - and how did you respond?
320: Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno
Whose side of the battle - the fight with Ozai, the Agni Kai with Azula, the retaking of Ba Sing Se, or the airship battle - do you think was most important?
321: Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang
How has Avatar: The Last Airbender changed your life? In three words, describe the series.
My Turn
I've been asked to take down all of the hotlinked images, so if you'd like to see them, please let me know. =] I will only display that day's image from now on.
See you next time!
~The Avatar Demotivator


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Old motor works, but runs slow (and only on high). Replaced the motor and now have full power, but inside spindle won't turn, so wipers only go up 4". Put old motor back on and spindle turns fine and wipers go all the way up (super slow). Second motor is an exact match for my vehicle. What could be wrong?
Wagon won't stop as of a week ago. New brakes and master cylinder,early June 2014. Have bleed when brakes were done and again a week later when new master cylinder was installed. Now pedal goes to floor and difficult to stop with e-brake at times. Any suggestions.....
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"For us it's just making plays," said Kennedy after his team fell to 17-10 overall and 5-7 in Southeastern Conference play. "They obviously made more plays than us in the second half."
Time and time again Mississippi State went downcourt and ran a play to make something happen offensively. Tim and time again, the Rebels would shoot and miss a 3-pointer.
Ole Miss was 4-24 from 3-point range for the game, only 1-for-16 in the second half.
And for years against State.
Team leader Chris Warren was an uncharacteristic 1 for 8 from 3-point range, much like his teammates. When that happens the Rebels, who rely so much on their outside scoring, are doomed.
"We got good looks, we just weren't hitting them," Warren said, with 13 points. "At halftime it was 0-0 and 20 minutes left. They just came out on the better end."
Renardo Sidney plays like an All-American when the Rebels are the opponent. He played well in Oxford, even better here. His stat line was 22 points on 8-12 shooting, with 12 rebounds in 31 minutes.
"You obviously shoot 34 percent for the game and only 4 for 24 from 3, you're going to struggle on the road," Kennedy said. "Their ability to make plays and our inability to make plays was the difference."
MSU, 14-12 and 6-6, methodically extended its lead, and its largest lead was 17 points late in the game.
Zach Graham came out early and paced the Rebels but ended with only 12 points. Terrance Henry had 11.
Ravern Johnson didn't start but followed Sidney with 16 points for the Bulldogs.
MSU shot 46 percent from the field and 41 percent from 3-point range (9 for 22). The Rebels actually outrebounded the Bulldogs 41-34 and on the offensive board 19-8.
"What's so disappointing is we're coming off a 90 point game (90-59 win against Auburn) with 25 made field goals and 19 assists," Kennedy said. "So you would think we're getting it. But then we come down here and start pressing.
"I thought we lost some poise," Kennedy continued. "We lost our poise a little bit when they made that run, and before you know it eight goes to 15."
Kennedy said Ole Miss target Dee Bost, the Bulldogs all-star guard, and were effective. He only had five points but with nine big assists.
Kennedy also said there is a pretty simple evaluation of Sidney against the Rebels, who twice now has had his best games as a Bulldog.
"Obviously he likes the matchup."
Benock said the Bulldogs simply did what they do best.
"A lot of it was our defense," he said. "We had a lot going for us in transition. We had a lot of assists and not many turnovers. This was a game we needed."
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New proposals to deal with debt will be discussed by the Cabinet today, and threats of a prison term expected to be removed.
Independent.ie are reporting that the Government is to bring into legislation recommendations from the Law Reform Commission, recommendations that include the end of the jail option to pursue debtors in Ireland.
The new focus will be those who 'can't pay' and those who 'won't pay'.
Those who are deemed to be in the 'can't pay' category are to be offered various payment plans to pay off the debt.
Those deemed to be in the 'won't pay' category will be placed in a position where the money owed will be taken from their incomes, known as attachment orders.
"We can't sustain a situation whereby one person pays their bills but their neighbours get away with it," said a government strategist to the paper.
However, there is also a consideration for 'poverty protection' to ensure that those on social welfare do not have too much of their income removed.
In addition it is being reported that fines and penalties will not apply until 15 months after the bill was issued. That means that nobody will have any money taken by attachment orders from water bills until July 2016 at the earliest.


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Far-red fluorescent protein mKate2 (excitation/emission maxima at 588 and 633 nm, respectively) is almost 3-fold brighter than its parental version TagFP635, and is 10-fold brighter than mPlum at the physiological pH=7.5. Within the optical window optimal for light penetration in living tissues, the calculated brightness of mKate2 is at least 2-fold higher compared to any monomeric fluorescent protein reported to date. Also, mKate2 is more photostable under both widefield and confocal illumination than other monomeric far-red FPs. The exceptional brightness, far-red emission spectrum, excellent pH resistance and photostability, coupled with low toxicity demonstrated in transgenic Xenopus laevis embryos, make mKate2 a superior fluorescent tag for imaging in living tissues.
Location of featuresPCMV IE: 1-589Enhancer region: 59-465TATA box: 554-560Transcription start point: 583 Zyxin: 636-2349mKate2: 2370-3076SV40 early mRNA polyadenylation signalPolyadenylation signals: 3221-3226 & 3250-3255mRNA 3` ends: 3259 & 3271 f1 single-strand DNA origin: 3318-3773Bacterial promoter for expression of Kanr gene -35 region: 3835-3840-10 region: 3858-3863Transcription start point: 3870 SV40 origin of replication: 4114-4249SV40 early promoterEnhancer (72-bp tandem repeats): 3947-4018 & 4019-409021-bp repeats: 4094-4114, 4115-4135 & 4137-4157Early promoter element: 4170-4176Major transcription start points: 4166, 4204, 4210 & 4215 Kanamycin/neomycin resistance gene Neomycin phosphotransferase coding sequences: Start codon (ATG): 4298-4300Stop codon: 5090-5092G->A mutation to remove Pst I site: 4480 C->A (Arg to Ser) mutation to remove BssH II site: 4826 Herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase (TK) polyadenylation signalPolyadenylation signals: 5328-5333 & 5341-5346pUC plasmid replication origin: 5677-6320For the Original Manufacturer's Data Sheet please click here.Our product description may differ slightly from the Original Manufacturer's Data Sheet.