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Question: I remember the Bible describing the Holy Land as flowing with milk and honey. When I visited there recently, I found it dry and more desert-like. Was the Bible exaggerating?
Answer: Probably not. There is good evidence that the Holy Land as we know it today is somewhat warmer and drier than in biblical times.
For example, in Genesis 13, the region of Sodom and Gomorrah is described as being well-watered and like a rich garden. But the text makes it clear that this was its appearance "before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah" (Gn 13:10). Today that region, likely the area around the Dead Sea, is deep desert.
Other areas of the Holy Land seemed to have featured more trees and agriculture in biblical times than today. For example, in 1000 B.C., Solomon is described as being able to harvest prodigious amounts of trees for his building projects. Land-use studies and archeology also provide evidence of the prevalence of crops and forests, which were suited to cooler, wetter climates.
Israel currently has a program attempting to reverse the desertification by planting trees, a program that has received large financial support. This is an attempt to partially reforest Israel.
Your visit may also have been affected by topography and season. Israel has a wet season from October to April and a dry season from June to September, and this affects the greenery a great deal. Further, the region up north around the Sea of Galilee is far more green and lush than the areas south near Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Therefore, the Promised Land known in biblical times likely did flow with "milk and honey." This expression speaks to abundant livestock and the rich crop life of an area more green and lush than today.
Question: With regard to long-adopted traditions within Christianity, like Santeria in Latin America, would it be safe to say that charismatic, Pentecostal dancing can also be traced back to black slavery voodoo practices and Santeria?
Answer: No. Dancing is widespread in all cultures. We cannot narrowly attribute dancing, even in liturgical settings, as simply due to voodoo, Santeria or to pagan or even demonic roots.
It is true that different cultures ascribe different meanings to dance and thus have different tolerances for it in liturgical settings.
In the West, dance is more usually associated with romance and secular entertainment. In Africa and some places in the Far East however, dance is also used for praise and also has sacred meanings.
The Church generally frowns on dance within the sacred liturgy. There are, however, exceptions made for liturgies that take place in Africa and certain other settings.
Santeria and voodoo, though tacitly ignored by most Catholic prelates (due to racial and cultural complexities), cannot be equated with or "adopted" to the proper practice of Catholic Faith. That the practitioners of these borrow from Catholicism is not evidence that they are Catholic any more than Protestants (who also borrow from Catholicism) should be considered Catholics.
Msgr. Charles Pope is the pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian in Washington, D.C., and writes for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., blog at blog.adw.org. Send questions to Pastoral Answers, Our Sunday Visitor, 200 Noll Plaza, Huntington, IN 46750 or to email@example.com. Letters must be signed, but anonymity may be requested.
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UPDATED: The lineup has been posted and Domonic Brown will make his major league debut, hitting sixth and playing rightfield tonight against Arizona.
Here is the lineup:
1. Polanco, 2B
2. Dobbs, 3B
3. Ibanez, LF
4. Howard, 1B
5. Werth, CF
6. Brown, RF
7. Ruiz, C
8. Valdez, SS
9. Halladay, P
The Domonic Brown era has begun.
Centerfielder Shane Victorino was placed on the 15-day disabled list with an abdominal strain on his left side, the Phillies announced.
The Phillies selected the contract of Brown, the organization's top prospect, from Triple A Lehigh Valley to take his roster spot. Brown will wear No. 9 and will be available for tonight's game against the Diamondbacks, presumably as the starting rightfielder.
Victorino was hitting .250 with a career-high 15 home runs and 53 RBI in 98 games for the Phillies this season.
Victorino, who has a team-leading 20 stolen bases this season, suffered the injury while diving back into first base during a pickoff attempt in last night's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Citizens Bank Park.
Brown, 22, has combined to hit .327 (112-for-343) with 46 extra-base hits, including 20 home runs and 68 RBI over 93 games for Double A Reading and Lehigh Valley.
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Tape out: the cassette-styled USB hub
Datahub meets mixtape
This is the USB Cassette 4-Port Hub from Asian gadget seller Brando. As the name suggests, it features four USB ports and looks like a retro cassette tape.
Tape those cables up
There's no reason why a USB hub should be styled after a cassette tape, but who needs a reason? We just think it looks cool.
Plug and play with both Windows and Mac, it utilises USB 2.0 and is backward compatible for USB 1.1.
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This week in the world of late-night television, Conan was replaced by a furry doppelganger and Chris Christie lampooned himself.
The secret is out: after his wonderfully self-deprecating appearance on Saturday Night Live in December, the world knows that New Jersey governor Chris Christie has some serious comedic chops. But on The Late Show this week, Christie had a few more jokes up his sleeve — along with a jelly donut. He shamelessly pulled it out less than a minute through his chat with Dave Letterman as if he were craving the calories, griping "I didn't know it would be this long." Let's hear it for a politician who can take a joke — and give right back.
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Are any of you on the sites listed in the title or some other programming/algorithm competition sites such as Code Forces?
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
I'm not on there, but the problems at TopCoder are really hard and interesting to solve. Such sites are nice as they take the emphasis off of syntax and focus more on algorithms and math.
I have an account on both of those, I think, but I do not use them. Also have a SPOJ account.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
Red on all of those now!
I can't believe my success in this nowadays. Top 50 on SPOJ too!
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EPIC v. BBG - Tor
Top News
- NSA Attacked Tor, a Privacy Enhancing Network: The NSA and GCHQ have attempted to break the privacy protections of the Tor anonymity network, according to a series of documents published in The Guardian today. The documents describe the efforts of the NSA to de-anonymize Tor users by compromising their computers and Tor software with viruses. The NSA also relies on Doubleclick advertising cookies to identify Tor users. Despite their efforts, the documents reveal that the intelligence community has had limited success compromising the Tor network. One presentation, titled "Tor Stinks," concludes that they will "never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time." In May 2013, EPIC filed a FOIA request seeking evidence of government interference with the Tor network. In 2000, EPIC had also filed a complaint with the FTC about Doubleclick's efforts to merge users' browsing activity with personally identifying information. And in 2007, EPIC objected to Google's acquisition of Doubleclick, warning that it would place at risk the privacy of Internet users. For more information, see EPIC v. BBG; EPIC: Privacy? Google/Doubleclick Merger. (Oct. 4, 2013)
- EPIC FOIA Request Reveals No Evidence of NSA Interference with Tor Network: In response to a FOIA request to the BBG, EPIC has received 74 pages of documents that reveal no efforts by the NSA to undermine the security or reliability of the Tor network. Recent news reports show a concerted effort by the National Security Agency to compromise cryptographic standards set by the NIST as well as Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry encryption. The NSA and FBI have also targeted the communications of Tor users. EPIC will continue to pursue FOIA requests that shed light on the efforts of the intelligence community to undermine cryptographic standards. For more information, see EPIC v. BBG. (Sep. 25, 2013)
- EPIC Files FOIA Suit to Determine If Tor Is Compromised: EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a federal agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media. EPIC seeks information about the federal government's interest in the Tor network. Tor is a program designed to allow encrypted, anonymized online browsing and is used by many human rights organizations. Recent news reports indicate that the National Security Agency has targeted the communications of Tor users. In a related matter, EPIC has asked the Supreme Court to halt the NSA collection of domestic telephone records. For more information, see EPIC: EPIC v. BBG - Tor. (Sep. 9, 2013)
EPIC v. BBG is a Freedom of Information Act case in which EPIC is seeking documents related to the Broadcasting Board of Governor's (BBG's) surveillance of internet traffic traveling through The Onion Router (Tor).
Tor is software currently maintained by The Tor Project, Inc. and the Tor Solution Corporation. Internet users around the world use Tor to maintain anonymity and circumvent Internet restrictions. It works by encrypting Internet data and routing it through a series of "nodes" hosted by volunteers to create a secure relay between the user and their destination. This obscures both the origin and destination of the user. Tor is used by academics, political dissidents, law enforcement, journalists, whistleblowers, NGOs, the U.S. Navy, and everyday individuals. Tor adheres to a policy of openness and transparency in its own management while working to protect the anonymity of its users. To that end, Tor publishes its list of sponsors, its open-source software, its financial reports, documentation, and lists of projects. Tor provides an invaluable tool for encrypted web use.
The NSA's Involvement in Cryptography
The National Security Agency (NSA) developed the cryptographic algorithm, known as Skipjack, underlying the Clipper Chip, a cryptographic device purportedly intended to protect private communications while at the same time permitting government agents to obtain the "keys" upon presentation of what has been vaguely characterized as "legal authorization." The "keys" are held by two government "escrow agents" and would enable the government to access the encrypted private communication. While Clipper would be used to encrypt voice transmissions, a similar chip known as Capstone would be used to encrypt data.
EPIC, along with other privacy organizations and technologists, challenged the proposal. In addition to subjecting the public to increased surveillance, the design of the Clipper Chip was classified, and therefore the strength of its algorithm could not be evaluated by the public. By 1996, following intense public opposition, the Clipper Chip was defunct.
Despite losing the public debate over the Clipper Chip, the NSA has introduced vulnerabilities into many of the encryption technologies used by Internet consumers. These vulnerabilities have allowed the NSA to defeat the encryption that protects the personal data and communications of individuals. The agency has accomplished this through collaboration with technology companies, covert influence in encryption standard-setting processes, and brute-force decryption using supercomputers.
The NSA's Attempts to Undermine Tor
On October 4, 2013, The Guardian published a set of PowerPoint slides from GCHQ, the British counterpart to NSA. The slides reveal that the NSA and GCHQ have attempted to find ways to break the Tor privacy network. The documents reveal that the agencies run Tor nodes, exploit vulnerabilities in the Tor/Firefox bundle, and host secret servers to redirect users to malware-injecting websites that allows the NSA to compromise individuals' computers. They also use Doubleclick advertising cookies to try to identify Tor users.
Despite the efforts of the NSA and GCHQ, the documents reveal that the intelligence community has had limited success compromising the Tor network. The NSA has only been successful in identifying Tor users on an individual basis, often by exploiting a weakness in the user's web browser. The anonymity provided by the Tor network allows NSA can differentiate between Tor users and non-Tor users, since the former all look the same and the latter are individually identifiable. Technologist Bruce Schneier explained in The Guardian, "The very feature that makes Tor a powerful anonymity service, and the fact that all Tor users look alike on the internet, makes it easy to differentiate Tor users from other web users. On the other hand, the anonymity provided by Tor makes it impossible for the NSA to know who the user is, or whether or not the user is in the US." A slide in one of the presentations, titled "Tor Stinks", concludes that the intelligence community will "never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time."
EPIC's Interest
Since the June 2013 revelations of NSA surveillance of electronic communications, there has been a dramatic increase in interest for anonymity and encryption tools. On September 5, 2013, it was revealed that the NSA had compromised many of the encryption technologies used by consumers and citizens on the Internet. Through covert partnerships with internet providers and software developers, the NSA has built in secret "backdoors," or deliberate network vulnerabilities, that allow the agency to surveil, decrypt, collect, and even control the flow of user data. According to top-secret NSA documents published in The Guardian, The New York Times, and ProPublica, "For the past decade, NSA has lead an aggressive, multi-pronged effort to break widely-used Internet encryption technologies... Vast amounts of encrypted Internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable." The Washington Post noted that sixty percent of Tor's funding comes from the Department of Defense, prompting the paper to ask whether the network suffered from similar backdoors and vulnerabilities. That story was followed quickly by a report that Tor was being used to spread malware that could identify Tor users. As of October 2013, the slides published by The Guardian confirm that the NSA is playing an active role in trying to undermine Tor's cryptographic standards. By hosting exit nodes, the intelligence community is attempting to monitor and control segments of Tor traffic. Additionally, the NSA is working to de-anonymize Tor users.
EPIC's interest in the federal government's attempts to undermine the Tor network reflects EPIC's longstanding concern about the role of the NSA in the creation and control of cryptographic standards. Last year, Tor's major funders were the BBG, Department of State, and Department of Defense - which houses the NSA. While Tor has published the details of its interactions with the BBG, EPIC's FOIA request seeks to discover whether the BBG controls other records which could shed light on the extent of the federal government's interest in the public's ability to encrypt.
EPIC's Freedom of Information Act Request and Subsequent Lawsuit
On May 31, 2013, EPIC submitted a FOIA request to the BBG requesting:
- All agreements and contracts concerning BBG funding or sponsorship of The Tor Project, Inc., Tor Solution Corporation, and Tor Solutions Group;
- Technical specifications of all BBG computers running Tor nodes;
- All reports related to BBG's modification of the Tor software; and
- All agreements and contracts between the BBG and The Tor Project, Inc., Tor Solution Corporation, and Tor Solutions Group regarding features or capabilities in the Tor software.
Legal Documents
EPIC v. BBG, No. 13-01326 (D.D.C. Sep. 9, 2013)
- EPIC's Complaint, (Sep. 9, 2013)
- Joint Stipulation Of Dismissal With Prejudice
Freedom of Information Act Documents
- EPIC's FOIA Request (May 31, 2013)
- EPIC's FOIA Appeal (July 26, 2013)
- BBG Request Reponse (July 26, 2013)
- BBG Appeal Response (Aug. 2. 2013)
- BBG Document Production (Aug. 12, 2013)
Related Cases
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility v. NSA, C.A. No. 93-1074-RMU (D.D.C. 1993)
- In re EPIC - NSA Telephone Records Surveillance, No. 13-58 (2013)
- EPIC NSA Petition, last updated Aug. 23, 2013
Related Documents
- The Tor Project, About Tor, 2013.
- The Tor Project, Tor Sponsors, 2013.
- Broadcasting Board of Governors, 2012 Technology, Services, & Innovation Annual Performance Report, January 2013.
- Broadcasting Board of Governors, Internet Anti-Censorship Fact Sheet, May 2013.
News Items
- Lauren Kirchner, Why journalists can still trust Tor, Columbia Journalism Review (Oct. 8, 2013)
- James Ball, Bruce Schneier and Glenn Greenwald, NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users, The Guardian (Oct. 4, 2013)
- Bruce Schneier, How the NSA Thinks About Secrecy and Risk, The Atlantic (Oct. 4, 2013)
- Bruce Schneier, Attacking Tor: how the NSA targets users' online anonymity, The Guardian (Oct. 4, 2013)
- Bruce Schneier, Why the NSA's attacks on the internet must be made public, The Guardian (Oct. 4, 2013)
- Kate Tummarello, NSA tried, largely failed to crack Tor network, The Hill (Oct. 4, 2013)
- Charles Arthur, Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula, The Guardian (Sep. 21, 2013)
- Ryan Gallagher, Cryptographers Attack NSA's Secret Effort to Subvert Internet Security, Slate (Sep. 18, 2013)
- The NSA and cryptography: Cracked credibility, The Economist (Sept. 14, 2013)
- Kevin Poulsen, FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack, Wired (Sep. 13, 2013)
- Greg Thomas, Pirates In Germany Dodge the NSA's Watchful Gaze, The Atlantic (Sep. 10, 2013)
- Ryan Gallagher, New Snowden Documents Show NSA Deemed Google Networks a "Target", Slate (Sep. 9, 2013)
- John Biggs, The NSA Can Read Some Encrypted Tor Traffic, Tech Crunch (Sep. 7, 2013)
- Dan Goodin, Majority of Tor crypto keys could be broken by NSA, researcher says, Ars Technica (Sep. 6, 2013)
- Brian Fung, The feds pay for 60 percent of Tor's development. Can users trust it?, Washington Post (Sep. 6, 2013)
- Matthew Green, On the NSA (blog post), A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering (Sep. 5, 2013)
- James Ball, Julian Borger, and Glen Greenwald, Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security, The Guardian (Sep. 5, 2013)
- Nicole Perlroth, Jeff Larson, and Scott Shane, N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web, New York Times (Sep. 5, 2013)
- Brian Fung, We've all practically given up on internet privacy. Here's how not to, Washington Post (Sep. 5, 2013)
- Andrea Peterson, A bunch of Tor sites spread malware. Was the FBI behind it?, Washington Post (Aug. 5, 2013)
- Rodger Dingledine, Rodger's status report, The Tor Project (Jan. 10, 2013)
- Cory Doctorow, Tor project considers covering costs for exit nodes, Boing Boing (Jul. 26, 2012)
- Brad Chacos, Tor Project Considers Paying Users $100/mo. For Operating High-Speed Tor Relays, Maximum PC (Jul. 25, 2012)
- Darren Pauli, Tor Project mulls $100 cheque for exit relay hosts, SC Magazine (July 25, 2012)
- Turning funding into more exit relays, The Tor Project (July 24, 2012)
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Unusual Material Mashups
One of the things that began to stand out while visiting the booths at Maison & Objet was an embrace of unusual material pairings. The juxtaposition of unexpected materials, finishes and textures makes for pieces that are memorable, sometimes for their unexpected beauty and sometimes simply due to the shock of the mix…
But, reactions to individual pieces aside, it was definitely a design construct that was prevalent enough to feel like a real direction. Done right, I think it's quite exciting and am sure it's something we'll continue to see plenty of, especially from cutting edge brands and designers.
Shown above, top row, left to right:
1. Ceramic and twine: Les Artisans de Tunisie
2. Neon acrylic and wood: Jean Marie Massaud with Christina Morozzi at Skitsch
3. Fur and glass: Nativo Campana
4. Marble and logs: Stephane Parmentier
5. Acrylic and logs: Bleu Nature
Middle row, left to right:
6. Glass and rope: Eno Studio
7. Leather and lacquer: Memento
8. n/a
9. Wood and leather on a cutting board: Memento
10. Logs and lacquer: Bleu Nature
Bottom row, left to right:
11. Crochet and mirror: Wonderable
12. Wood and brush fringe: ALKI
13. Rope and ceramic: Reiko Kaneko
14. Leather and glass: Nativo Campana
15. n/a
What do you think? Do you like the concept of making materials mix?
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Superstorm Sandy was not kind to the arts community. It not only upended paintings, equipment, tools and paper, turning them into tangled and soggy heaps, but also the livelihoods of hundreds of artists who have helped make the New York area a dynamic art capital.
Six weeks after Sandy, Pier Glass, a studio of four glass blowers on an old pier in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, remains without power. Corrosive salt water destroyed its furnace, scattered grinding and polishing tools, shattered glass, and destroyed historic prints.
It had also seen some water in last year's Tropical Storm Irene, but nothing like this.
"With Irene we had a few inches," said Mary Ellen Buxton-Kutch, one of its glass artists. "That you can handle. We probably could handle four feet. But over five feet was catastrophic."
Artists, galleries and lofts, many that helped bring about a renaissance in the ribbon of all-but-abandoned warehouses that line New York's coastal areas, face tens of thousands of dollars in repairs. Though no major museums reported damage, the toll among smaller operations and individual artists is steep. In response, various institutions and foundations are offering recovery help ranging from grants to free advice on how to rehabilitate damaged works of art.
Requests to the New York Foundation for the Arts for storm-related assistance total $12 million among almost 500 artists in New York and New Jersey, nearly 90 percent of them in New York, executive director Michael Royce said.
The Craft Emergency Relief Fund, or CERF+, said it has gotten applications from 65 artists, most without insurance in devastated areas of Staten Island, Red Hook and Brooklyn's Greenpoint section where many waterfront warehouses have been turned into art studios.
Many individual artists "are still dealing with life issues and can't be thinking of earning a livelihood. Many are still really very fragile," said Craig Nutt, director of programs at CERF+, a national organization that helps professional craft artists like Buxton-Kutch through personal and natural disasters.
Pier Glass has received a grant from CERF+ and plans to seek more money from NYFA and other groups. It also plans a fundraiser even as friends have generously contributed in amounts of $1,000 and $1,500.
"You still have all your bills to pay even as you're getting this money," Buxton-Kutch said.
Apart from the studio, she and her husband, Kevin Kutch, were flooded out of their house in Brooklyn's Coney Island area and have been camping out with relatives and friends ever since the Oct. 29 storm.
Even without electricity at their studio, not working is not an option. Pier Glass does large private and public commissions and work for architects and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"My partner has gone to another facility to rent because we're trying to stay in business as well as rebuild," said Buxton-Kutch, who estimated the studio suffered as much as $200,000 in damage. A new furnace would cost an additional $20,000.
Nutt visited artists in Brooklyn and Staten Island in early December to assess their recovery.
"Our main concern is, what do they need to get back to work?" he said. His group has gotten calls for help from two artists in New Jersey and two on Long Island, but he expects there will be more from people still without power and unable to communicate their needs.
Royce, of NYFA, said the aid application figures likely don't scratch the surface of the thousands of artists hurt by Sandy. He reported pledges of $1.4 million to the fund, mostly through the Warhol, Rauschenberg and Lambent foundations. NYFA will seek out other donations but doesn't foresee being able to meet the amount requested, "as it continues to go up on a daily basis," he said.
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Salt water damaged some textiles and ceremonial batons at the New York City Police Museum and soaked about 60 boxes of paper archives at the New York City Opera, said Eric Pourchot, professional development director for the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.
At Westbeth Artists Housing in Manhattan's West Village, eight feet of water inundated a labyrinth of studios in the basement of the artist colony about a block from the Hudson River, submerging paintings, sculptures and musical instruments. The adjacent Martha Graham dance company lost costumes and sets.
In New Jersey, a historic conservation group called Preservation New Jersey has reports of storm damage from 40 historical societies and house museums, some of it from falling trees and wind in addition to flooding.
Most waterlogged items can be saved, Pourchot said, but sometimes the time and the cost may be prohibitive.
"For individual artists and galleries, that's a terrifying decision," he said. "Can they be saved in such a way that they can be sold?"
Pourchot's institute has fielded 120 requests, mostly from individual artists.
"This response has been so different from anything we've been involved in," he said. "Often we can get federal funding through some of the federal arts foundations, but they are really restricted by their mandates to fund nonprofit public collections. So when it came to for-profit galleries and individual artists, that's something they can't easily cough up money for."
The conservation institute and a consortium of local arts groups are putting the finishing touches on an 18,000-square-foot center in Brooklyn where artists can get free space and expert advice to help them stabilize their collections. Even works that have been dried may still need cleaning to remove residues and mold spores.
The Cultural Recovery Center will be open three months, or longer, if necessary, Pourchot said.
The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the institute, also has issued a guide on how to conserve works of art damaged by water.
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The guys who brought up the HTC One X camera shootout have also uploaded a few hands-on videos of HTC's new lineup, the official commercial for the HTC One X, and a stress test demonstration. We could go into detail and talk about the different videos, but it's probably easier to let you sit back and watch them instead.
There's been a little bit of HTC One overload today and we expect things to stay this way until after the launch of the HTC One series next week. As always, leave us a comment and let us know what you think of the videos. I was fascinated by the HTC One X camera shootout video, but it's nice to know that the HTC One X can take a beating and still hold things together.


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Veterinarians in Jackson County now must report rabies vaccinations to the county's Health and Human Services Department as part of an effort to ensure the animals are licensed — and that the county is paid for those licenses.
The Jackson County Board of Commissioners approved the ordinance Wednesday. County officials said the move will boost in revenue through increased licensing fees and will give loose animals a better chance of being returned to their owners.
"More licensed dogs in our county means more dogs getting returned to their owners more quickly," said Barbara Talbert, Jackson County Animal Care and Control manager.
Licensing revenue accounts for about one-third of Animal Care and Control's budget, or about $443,000. It costs $20, $35 or $49 for one-, two- or three-year dog licenses, respectively, Jackson County's website shows. Fees for non-neutered animals are $30, $53 or $75.
"We're not hiding that we're looking for increased revenue," Commissioner Don Skundrick said.
Wednesday's public hearing drew opposition to the ordinance.
Gail Colbern, of Green Springs Veterinary Service, said the ordinance will create a public health risk, saying she believes it will discourage pet owners from getting rabies shots for their animals. Colbern said she works in rural areas where the presence of rabies-carrying animals such as foxes and raccoons is higher, which means an increased risk of unvaccinated dogs getting the disease.
"I just don't think this is the best way of going about getting these animals licensed," Colbern said.
Stacy Motschenbacher, who co-owns the Animal Clinic of Rogue River, said it also will hurt veterinarians in the county. She's concerned the ordinance will send business to nearby Josephine County.
"There are several clinics within 10 to 15 minutes of us in Josephine County," Motschenbacher said.
She added the ordinance could make veterinarians look like enforcers to the public, a role she said they aren't trained for.
"I just don't think it's up to the vets to be the policemen of this," she said. "That's not part of the veterinary oath."
Under the ordinance, veterinarians must report the vaccinations within 60 days. If the county finds dogs on the vaccination list that are not licensed, officials will send a notification and license application to those owners. State law and a county ordinance require all dogs older than six months be licensed and vaccinated against rabies.
The ordinance goes into effect in 60 days.
Animal control officials said there are about 21,000 licensed dogs in the county, estimating that's only about 40 percent of the total number of dogs.
County officials said the ordinance will be re-evaluated after a year.
Jackson Baures, manager for Jackson County Environmental Public Health, said that Lane, Klamath and Multnomah counties have similar ordinances. He said Multnomah County veterinarians resisted the ordinance when it was first passed, but later switched their position.
"There are no data that showed rabies vaccinations decreased," Baures said.
Reach reporter Ryan Pfeil at 541-776-4468 or by email at email@example.com.
Veterinarians required to report rabies shots
Veterinarians in Jackson County now must report rabies vaccinations to the county's Health and Human Services Department as part of an effort to ensure the animals are licensed — and that the county is paid for those licenses.


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On March 12th 2010, Tara A. Khoshnaw bought a home at 203 Rembold Way in Williamsburg, VA from Centex Homes. The home was purchased for $344,995.
Tara Khoshnaw is a local physician practicing internal medicine. She went to medical school at the University of Salahadin, Salahadin Medical School and graduated in 1996. Dr. Khoshnaw has been practicing medicine in Williamsburg for 14 years.
203 Rembold Way will be built in 2010 in a new community, Marywood of Williamsburg. The new home will be colonial style, with 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms. It will have about 2,524 sq ft and also feature a 2 car garage. Rembold Way is in Williamsburg, which is part of the Hampton Roads metro area in James City County.
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Bold Bedroom Geometry: Welsh Tapestry Blankets
Vintage Welsh tapestries from the 50s, 60s, and 70s along with their contemporary counterparts, feel both charming and modern, bearing sophisticated color palettes in bright and neutral tones and deliciously complex geometric patterns.
Many traditional patterns continue to be produced and updated today by mills like Melin Tregwynt or have inspired designers such as Donna Wilson, whose Nos Da Blanket Collection (image 5) is particularly lust-worthy.
1. A Traditional Welsh 'Carthenni' Blanket featured on House to Home, similar available from Blodwen
2. Dos Na Collection by Donna Wilson
3. Undyed Caernafon pattern tapestry from Jane Beck Welsh Blankets
4. St. David's Cross pattern blankets by Melin Tregwynt
5. Welsh Wool Tapestry Blanket by Trefriw Mills from Planet Girl Vintage
6. Cold at Night blanket from fforest
7. New Traditional Welsh 'Carthenni' blanket from Blodwen
8. Welsh Tapestry Blankets and Bedcovers from Jen Jones Welsh Quilts
9. Vintage Caernafon tapestry from Jane Beck Welsh Blankets
10. Tapestry vintage blanket from Blodwen
Images: 1, Adrian Briscoe, House to Home; 2, The Future Perfect; Others as linked above


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|Agroforestry in the West African Sahel (BOSTID, 1984)
"Sahel" has become a synonym for environmental degradation and the desperate struggle for survival in a region losing its carrying capacity through a series of severe drought years and the destructive impact of human activity on natural resources, a process commonly termed desertification. In this case, desertification, or desert encroachment, does not refer to the southward extension of the Sahara Desert but to the formation and expansion of desert like patches around cities, villages, wells, and other centers of concentrated activity.* In this report, the term "Sahel" is broadly applied to the semiarid Sudano-Sahelian zone. Areas receiving between 400 and 750 mm of precipitation are emphasized.
While water deficiency can be addressed by instituting a variety of more environmentally sound water use and conservation practices, it remains, nevertheless, the key limiting factor for life in the Sahel.
Rainfall distribution patterns are highly irregular in time and space. The rainy season generally lasts from July to October, with an average of 24 rainfalls, 10-12 of which occur in August. Rainfall intensities range from 5 mm to over 50 mm per event. While 5 mm of rainfall are considered effective for wild and cultivated plants, 20 mm or more are required to produce the surface runoff essential for filling,temporary and permanent water holes and replenishing ground water reserves. Figures 1 and 2 show mean annual precipitation and associated vegetation types in the Sahel.
The climate is further characterized by high diurnal temperature fluctuations and low relative humidity. During the "cool" dry season, from November to February, daytime temperatures often peak above 38°C and fall to 12°C during the nighttime, with relative humidity averaging 15-25 percent during the day and 40-50 percent at night. During the "hot" dry season, from March to mid-July, temperatures commonly exceed 43°C during the day and drop as low as 17°C at night. During the rainy season, from July to October, temperatures range from 35°C during the day to 22°C at night, with relative humidity from 95 to 60 percent. Thus considerable moisture is lost through evaporation. In addition, the harmattan--a dry northeasterly wind--occurs frequently from November through February, causing considerable desiccation and wind erosion.
In addition to the effects of climate on the Sahel's fragile environment, man and livestock also play major roles in desertification. Even where an ecological balance exists among man, animals, and the surrounding natural vegetation--as existed throughout the Sahel a few generations ago--extensive deterioration will generally occur when population pressures exceed a critical level. As a result of a growth rate of 2.6 percent, the population has almost doubled in the last 20 years. By the end of this century, the present population will have doubled again.
With increases in human populations have come increases in herds of cattle and small ruminants and changes in the traditional land use patterns of various ethnic groups. Herders, who once were predominantly nomadic, tend to settle around permanent sources of water in villages and even in towns. They remain with their herds in the northern part of the Sahel throughout the year, whereas formerly they migrated southward to more favorable pastures during the dry season. A network of deep wells, powered by diesel engines, has tapped fossil ground water resources to make water available throughout the year in many areas where it was not previously assured. The net result has been a rapid increase of herds of cattle and small ruminants (Figure 3). As many as 20,000 head of livestock are often concentrated within a few kilometers around wells. The locally available vegetation on which they depend has already been over exploited, degraded, impoverished, and, in fact, has largely disappeared, leaving desert like "islands" around the wells.
The destruction of the herbaceous or grass layer, as a result of overgrazing and trampling by herds, marks the beginning of desertification. Plants die and their roots no longer hold the thin topsoil, which is washed or blown away. Fine clay particles spread over bare patches during the short rainy season, causing surface hardening and sealing. Seeds cannot penetrate these hardened surfaces.
FIGURE 3 Cattle herds have increased rapidly in the Sahel, and in many areas their numbers now exceed the carrying capacity of the pasturelands. IFC/WORLD Bank Photo by K. M. Ibrahim)
Frequently these patches are covered by stagnant water for extended periods during the rainy season. Because of the destruction of the topsoil cover and loss of organic matter, rains are no longer absorbed where they fall but drain toward lower lying areas, causing the slow but certain death of trees and shrubs due to lack of water or, where it accumulates, to waterlogging. In some areas, the process of degradation continues until the ability of the soils to retain water is almost completely lost.
Even where there is little wind, terrain is flat, and soils are too sandy to cause runoff, continuous farming of the same fields will eventually deplete the soils to such an extent that the land will have to be abandoned or revegetated unless specific steps are taken to maintain or increase soil fertility. While the revegetation of barren flats is extremely costly, fencing off endangered areas for 3-5 years during the initial phases of degradation can lead to an astonishing recovery of the vegetative cover.
Advanced farming technology can also accelerate degradation. For example, the removal of stumps, indiscriminate and more complete land clearing, and the use of machinery for deep plowing or frequent pillage expose ever larger areas of land to wind and water erosion. The introduction of cash crops such as cotton requires more thorough land clearing and places higher nutrient demands on the soil. Mechanized transport (even bicycles or donkey carts) permits local farmers to reach more land and makes possible the transport of firewood or charcoal over longer distances. Livestock improvement activities require more grazing resources, and irrigated agriculture requires more water.
A final cause of degradation is migration. People of the Sahel and Sudan are mobile by tradition. During the last few decades, however, there has been a steady movement from rural lands toward central settlements, causing rapidly increasing pressure on natural resources in the vicinity. Firewood has been drastically over exploited within a range of about 100 km around many capital cities, resulting in a severe energy crisis. Moreover, many young people are leaving the Sahel to try to make a living in urban centers along the Nest African coast. This exodus is severely draining the area of capable manpower and is reflected in a reduction in the numbers of agricultural workers in the Sahel.
The concept of carrying capacity is useful in looking at development or conservation issues since the limits of the available natural resource base cannot be ignored. It is encouraging that a margin still exists between actual and potential production capacities and that locally appropriate resource management options can be pursued through changes in land allocation and land use. When examining resource conservation measures, the following objectives should be considered:
· Providing people with adequate supplies of basic goods and
· Conserving those resources that still exist
· Increasing the region's long-term sustained carrying capacity.
Long and often disappointing experience has conclusively shown that any conservation activity, to be applicable, must be understood and accepted by the local population. Without the willingness of villagers to cooperate and eventually integrate whatever technique is introduced into local farm and land use practices, any idea, regardless of how valuable it might be, simply will not take hold. Because it is the rural, local people who ultimately decide the feasibility of any new idea, the following criteria must be taken into account.
First, the intervention must be technically sound and must focus on such factors as the limited amounts and irregularity of rain and the periodic occurrence of drought years. Rainfall, though infrequent and irregular, is often a direct result of violent, local convectional storms of short duration and high intensity. Under such circumstances even small watersheds or catchment areas yield sharp, high peak flows. Spillway capacity of improvement efforts has to be large, as these short, high-volume flows carry unusually large amounts of sediment, which can quickly destroy inadequately designed water control structures. Terraces intended to control water erosion must accommodate such flows, or they will rapidly wash out. Rainfall quantities and distribution patterns, compared with those of temperate zones, are extremely erratic. Mean annual precipitation is little more than a general indicator. Rainy seasons that are above or below average are frequent (Katz and Glantz 1977).
Second, investments in agricultural development activities must be appropriate to local skills, techniques, and tools. Projects relying on heavy equipment, expensive commodities, and outside technical assistance require such a large capital outlay that there is little chance the project can be replicated or continued by the local people once outside help has ceased.
Third, proposed activities will almost certainly require some changes in and adaptation to the existing local socioeconomic framework. Increased production and higher returns are not the only criteria used in calculating whether a new idea or technique is worthwhile to all concerned. In fact, local farmers may be more interested in protection against "downside risks" than in a chance to gain higher returns.
Fourth, to be successful from an institutional point of view, the interventions considered should be compatible with the existing political thought in the region of concern.
Finally, cultural values, including those dealing with traditional patterns of tenure and use of land and natural vegetation, are deep-rooted and reflect generations of experience. Modifying animal herding practices in ways that appear minor to outside project designers may well be the focal point of resistance on which an entire scheme may founder. Cultural attitudes and inflexibility may prove insurmountable in many other ways: restrictive definitions of the role of women, reluctance to abandon seasonal migration, traditional views of land tenure, or open grazing rights can pose serious obstacles to an otherwise well-designed conservation project.
Conservation measures, within these practical limits, are outlined below; agroforestry and related efforts are underlined. (For specific agroforestry techniques, see Chapter 4.)
1. Increased soil fertility
a. Introduction of Acacia albida or other leguminous treesinto farm fields
b. Cover crops, farm management (rotation)
c. Manure, compost, residue
d. Tree crops, combined with agricultural crops (Taungya)
2. Revegetation
a. Access and use control b. Seed bed treatment, direct seeding, planting c. Fire management
3. Erosion control
a. Wind
(1) Shelterbelts/live fencing
(2) Sand stabilization, dune fixation
b. Water
(1) Contour planting/farming to control sheet erosion
(2) Vegetation strips
(3) Infiltration ditches, berms, terraces
(4) Bank and slope protection to reduce channel erosion
(5) Small check structures, gully plugs
(6) Small dams to slow surface runoff.
4. Conservation of surface water
a. Micro-catchments
b. Water spreading, water harvesting
c. Reservoirs, ponds
Land use planning involving the integration of agriculture, animal husbandry, and useful trees and shrubs can take several courses. Production can be undertaken concurrently and continuously on the same tract of land; systems of alternating or rotating land use can be employed; or production activities can be geographically separated so that use pressures are distributed over a larger area. All of these variations are elements of traditional Sahelian land use strategies (see Chapter 2). Specific future strategies and emphases will naturally vary depending on local needs and preferences. Nevertheless, the key is to balance overall land use so that total economic returns and social benefits are maximized in the short and long runs.
While land use planning is a useful tool, traditional cultural values often govern the way land is used, owned, or transferred by individuals, families, tribes, ethnic groups, or entire nations. In many areas of arid and semiarid Africa, retaining current land use patterns, in the face of increasing demographic pressures and notions of progress, is leading to resource destruction. The "first come, first served" approach to the exploitation of common goods such as rangeland or indigenous trees interferes with conservation efforts, requiring the introduction of access control and use regulations. If land and soil resources are to produce, on a sustained-yield basis, more than they do now, basic readjustments of present use patterns and beliefs must be made.
Changes in land use based purely on resource management logic are unacceptable to most societies, where the first priority has been and still is the survival of the clan or tribe. Seasoned by generations of experience with recurring, devastating droughts, local farmers and herders feel they cannot afford to abandon their current strategies, particularly when they believe no other options are available. Farmers and pastoralists do not destroy their environment out of indifference or carelessness: currently, they have no other options for existing or for surviving periods of drought.
However, more productive land use patterns could be adopted if governments and regional agencies shared the risks. Considering the above constraints, the best that one can expect is that a more "rational," balanced approach to land use can be established gradually, beginning with low-risk, small-scale demonstration projects, which might serve as examples of how things could work. Such demonstrations might include:
. Small watersheds with well-planned conservation measures; controlled, multipurpose use of fuel wood and forage; surface water development
. Agroforestry projects that use land in a balanced manner to serve several local needs (stable farm soils, fuel, fodder)
. Small, well-identified grazing areas with the necessary vegetation and water reserves restored to help small, well-managed herds survive the next drought.
Unfortunately, only a few incomplete (and expensive) demonstrations have actually been carried out in the field so far.
Numerous large-scale land use schemes have been tried, with very mixed results. Group ranching, with or without herder cooperatives, in East Africa is one example. Results, judging by the slow adoption rate by the local herders, are inconclusive.
Large-scale irrigation projects are being constructed in the mayor river basins at current (1982) initial costs of over $10,000 per hectare. Although "poor" herders and farmers are being resettled, the rupture of family ties, abandonment of traditions, and exposure to different life-styles have increased divorce, suicides (practically unheard of before), and mental illness. Social tension, political unrest, and the incidence of diseases such as malaria and schistosomiasis have increased (Bodley 1975).
These experiences suggest that, in spite of knowing what logical and systematic land use measures could stem and possibly reverse resource degradation, there is currently no acceptable answer as to how--at the same time--to meet basic social and cultural needs, which are often closely tied to traditional land use patterns,
Carefully planned, sensitive schemes throughout Africa have attempted to bring about the necessary changes with a minimum of social tension and disruption. While insufficient progress has been made thus far to say that real changes are on the way, encouraging examples do exist.
. In Senegal and in Chad, pastoralists have cooperated in government-sponsored efforts and private initiatives to revegetate open rangeland. Traditional herders have planted trees in open spaces of the grass steppe, strictly on a voluntary basis and without compensation.
. In the Ngong hills of Kenya, local farmers now construct infiltration ditches and gully plugs and plant trees on their farmland to provide additional erosion protection. This initiative was based in part on a recently compiled "District Environmental Profile."
· In Niger, in the vicinity of a project where, with the help of the American private voluntary organization CARE, over 250 km of shelter belts have been planted in the last 6 years, villagers are putting pressure on the local administrators to help them carry out a similar project around their own fields.
Similar projects have been undertaken in other parts of arid and semiarid Africa. Subtle change is possible; some approaches do work. These limited success stories show, however, that new land use techniques must recognize, consider, and work within the basic social, economic, and cultural frameworks of the people involved. Agroforestry would appear to be almost uniquely capable of integrating these diverse environmental, social, and economic variables into coherent, stable systems of production.


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Goreme (Göreme, pronounced guh-reh-meh, uh like er in "her") is a town in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. The town is centered in the middle of a internationally popular region that is best known for its natural rock formations, often called "fairy chimneys".
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By bus
Several bus companies (Nevsehirliler, Metro, Goreme Tourism, Suha and Göreme Cappadocia) have day-time and overnight buses that run directly from Göreme to Istanbul (or directly from Nevshehir, 20 minutes down the road). You can catch a bus from Istanbul by catching a ferry to the Harem ferry port. Make sure you book a couple of days in advance in peak times as buses book out. There are connections to Konya (3½ hours), Denizli (10 hours), Pamukkale (10 hours), Selçuk (12 hours), Kusadasi (12 hours), Marmaris (13 hours), Bodrum (13 hours), Alanya (9 hours), Çıralı (10 hours), Canakkale (17 hours), Kayseri, Trabzon, Van.
If you book your ticket directly to Göreme, make sure that the bus (or a smaller van associated with the bus company) will drop you off at the Göreme bus station (otogar) even if the bus ticket says Goreme. It is a common occurrence for a bus company to sell you a ticket that says Göreme but then drop you off somewhere in Nevshehir, sometimes at a tour office, and hope that the folks at the tour office will help you get to the Goreme bus station.
There are numerous buses from Göreme to other parts of Turkey. The cheapest fare quoted to Istanbul as of July 2010 was 50 TL direct from Sultanahmet (Old City), Istanbul by Suha Company with reclining seats and tv-sets at the back of every seat, though this required changing buses at Nevsehir and arriving at Göreme by shuttle most of the times.
By plane
The nearest airports to Goreme are in Kayseri or Nevsehir. To Kayseri Airport, Turkish Airlines as well as Onur Air or Pegasus have several flights a day from Istanbul. SunExpress is another low-cost option.
Outside the airport are only taxis (cost 12 TL to the main bus station, otogar) and arranged shuttle buses, no dolmuş. The stop for city buses is a bit down the road following the airport exit. The Kayseri otogar is far from the airport. From otogar, there are very limited direct lines to Göreme (10 TL), but more frequent lines to Avanos, where you can transfer to a local bus for the remaining 9km to Göreme; the station is unmarked and the ride costs 2.5 TL.
If you have a hotel transfer option, take it: it is much more convenient.
Get around
The town of Goreme is fairly small, and walking is your best option. Walking also provides excellent views of the surrounding canyons, which are sights themselves. Available for rent are mountain bikes, scooters, motorcycles and all terrain quads. There is regular bus service to Nevşehir (every half hour as of Oct. 2008), and from there to regional destinations including the underground cities at Kaymaklı and and Derinkuyu. Dolmus (minibus) service also runs approx. every hour to nearby cities like Avanos and every two hours to Urgup. However, the last dolmus services are in the late afternoon, and you will need to check the schedule in advance to avoid getting stuck.
While the valleys are close to Goreme, it is best to rent a car or take a tour to see the major sights, such as the underground city and the best fairy chimneys, as they are located far away from town and are difficult to reach by public transportation.
Goreme has a wide selection of natural and cultural wonders. Simply walking through the village you will be amazed at the bizarre 'fairy chimney' rocks cut naturally by the wind and rain.
Several tour operators offer a one day package that includes a stop at a Caravansari, one of the amazing underground cities, a walk through the ancient churches decorated with frescoes, and finally a stop at a carpet/pottery/oynx shop. These one day tours are excellent and worth the money, as they include admission. Avoid buying at the shops, however, as you pay 2-3 times higher through commissions.
For a cheaper option take the 15 min. scenic minibus ride to the nearby city of Nevsehir where you can get the same service in a non-tourist place for as low as 25 TL. Just get off at the main intersection in Nevsehir and ask around for "Hamam".
Pottery - Avanos, 10 km away, has been a pottery center for centuries. Many stores will sell pottery in Goreme, and you may end up at a pottery workshop at the end of a tour, but for the best prices, head into Avanos and wander around the back streets. Compare the prices and quality, and if you are worried about it surviving shipping/your backpack, ask them to stand on it to test the strength (vases, jugs, and larger objects should take their weight). While the quality in touristy shops is often high, you will be paying 2-3 times what you otherwise would.
Carpets - Goreme and the surrounding area are known as one of the top places to buy carpets in Turkey. Their proximity to well known local weaving villages means the prices are generally cheaper than Istanbul and the atmosphere for purchasing far more relaxed with few if any hassles. Try Tribal Collections -Nomadic Rugs & Textiles- they get the best reviews. There are also many more carpet shops in nearby Urgup.
Goreme has a wide selection of typical Kebabs and Pide, as well as some unusual 'pottery' dishes that are prepared and served in a clay pot which you can 'break' open. Often the 'pottery kebabs' are precooked earlier in the day so check around to see which restaurants require a 'pottery kebab' booking - it's likely that they will be the places that make the kebab on the spot (they take about an hour to cook). Many of the restaurants and bars change hands on a regular basis, making specific recommendations difficult.
That said, Alaturca, with mains from 15-20 YTL, is considered to be one of the finer dining establishments in central Turkey, but is overpriced for the quality of food and a stiff service that is out of place in an otherwise informal town. Alaturca is on the secondary road that heads towards the open Air Museum.
Simply walking by carpet shops will open invitations for tea. If you're thirsty, take advantage of this free drink and learn something about carpets at the same time.
Most bars have been closed down in recent years, and there are only one or two dive bars with scant clientele remaining. There are no discos left in Goreme. The social scene is much livelier in nearby Avanos and especially Urgup, which are larger towns also offering discos, bars, cafes, and dining options. However, there is no public transportation to these towns after late afternoon, and taxis are expensive.
Göreme has a huge selection of hostels, hotels, and guest houses (some 60 odd). The friendly (and tout-free) accommodation office can help you find something. Upmarket and boutique hotels also exist in Göreme. Many places include breakfast in these prices (as of Mar 2008). As of 2012, prices have become higher - 20 TL is the starting point for dorm beds with breakfast, and doubles run upward of 50 TL.
Many of Göreme's hostels and hotels offer the unusual option of sleeping in a cave. Much of the rock in the area is sandstone (tufa) which is fairly soft, and for centuries rooms (and houses) have been created by cutting directly into the soft rock. Comforts in these 'cave rooms' range from truly cave like to beautiful and tasteful with modern bathrooms. However, be warned that cave rooms are often very humid or even damp, and may not be suitable for those with breathing difficulties such as COPD or asthma. Higher quality accommodations will have ventilation systems and windows, which may alleviate the problem to a certain degree.
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Stay safe
Hiking is mild, not notably strenuous or fraught with danger that can't be ascertained by oneself. Women however should not go hiking in the valleys alone as there have been a few incidents over the years.
It is not recommended to hitch rides with the locals after dark. Drunk (or otherwise intoxicated) driving and speeding are very common, as are fatal accidents, particularly on the roads between Goreme-Avanos and Goreme-Urgup.
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Careful who you call primitive: cave dwellers, it now emerges, were better at drawing animals than many of their highly trainer latter-day successors.
Hungarian researchers analyzed 1,000 images of four-legged animals and found the surprising result that the cave artists were far more accurate at portraying the animals' much-misunderstood gait. Before the work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who published his classic "Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements" in 1887, modern-era artists got the gait wrong a remarkable 83.5% of the time, the scientists found. Post-Muybridge, the error rate fell to 58%.
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I think being able to submit our pictures of the tea leaves would be nice. I've been tempted when I create a new tea or such, but, I then think that the company that made the tea if they ever have a presence here might not really like that… but a personal gallery of this is what my tea leaves looked like, this is how it looked brewed, etc would be kinda neat. Or, maybe I'm just odd because I like looking at that kinda thing :P
Here's a link to a discussion with more blog links, to give you ideas for your (potential) blog. I'm particularly fond of sororiteasisters.com
Trying again.
I'd love a way to search my own cupboard for types of tea (ie: pu-erh) OR for ingredients (that would go through the names of the teas, descriptions, and my tasting notes of the teas, if that's possible.. you know.. look through anything in my cupboard for the word vanilla).
Mobile formatted site! Mobile formatted site!
I would like to be able to post pics of my teas
Is there somewhere to rate tea companies not just the teas? I see you can rate tea places and teas and tea products…but not companies themselves. If I'm going to purchase from X company it would be interesting to know about their history, what city they are based in, really any information that tells me more about their company and what experiences other steepsters have had with them.
Something that show when you have read, or commented on a thread. Like a little icon. Some are over 1000 replies and span years.
Jason, we are all putting ideas and wishes for a long long time here and I am sure you'll consider them all but …is there really another version of Steepster in the (soon) pipeline ? I'd like to know :)
I think it would be helpful to have 'custom lists' that we could either make Top 10s, Swap, Samples, Wishlist, etc.
I second this one.
Hi Jason, It would be great if there was a filter for Organic teas on the Best Teas page: http://steepster.com/teas Thanks!
I think adding a small shout-box on our profile pages would be nice for users to drop in and say "Nice teas!" or something friendly like that. It would be a nice and easy ice breaker to help us meet people on here~.
If you're worried about flaming and such, you could make them user approval based.
One more thing, I think that a little status updater would be kind of nice for little personal updates as long as it has a 150-200 character limit so that we won't be overflowing with long personal statuses on our dashboards.
I think the shout-box is a more realistic idea though.
Let me know what you think if you can. :)
Edit: Also, I think that you guys should add a "Teaware" list and "Teaware" reviews and ratings in their own category.


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Confessor, apostle of Flanders, born Nantes, France, 594; died monastery of Elnon (now Saint Amand), 684. Clotaire II sent him to Flanders; his monasteries at Ghent and Mount Blandin were the first in Belgium. For a while bishop of Maastricht, he later labored in the Basque country (Navarre), returned to Belgium, and founded several other monasteries. Patron of inn-keepers, wine-merchants, brewers, and Boy Scouts. Emblems: church, chair, flag. Relics at Saint Amand. Feast, 6 February.


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On July 13 and 14, Hingham Bay will be filled with sailboats as far as the eye can see.
The Hingham Yacht Club will host the USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival for sailors varying in experience levels from ages 8-18.
"Ideally, participating in regattas like this, these Junior Olympic events, provides an Olympic pathway for a certain number of select, talented junior sailors," said event chair Jen Drohan. "But it's really intended to be a lot of fun with also a high level of competition."
HYC is expecting over 300 youth sailors from as far as New York and New Jersey to compete in the event.
The sailing event is open for the most experienced sailors to beginners. Registration will remain open until July 12 at 8 p.m. and can be done online at www.regattanetwork.com. The cost is $90 per racer.
Three different sailboats will be racing during the day – optimist dinghy, 420 and laser radial.
The optimist dinghy is a 10-foot, one-person boat designed for the least experienced sailors. Results will not be kept in this division.
"The goal is to really just make it fun," said Drohan. "It's their first introduction to racing.
"Safety is our absolute priority. … We have a whole safety plan and are prepared for anything that might come up."
The 420 is a two-person, two-sail boat while a laser radial is a one-person boat for the most experienced sailors.
"Sailors who do really well at Junior Olympic events like this typically progress to the national arena as they get older," said Drohan. "These kids, especially at the highest levels, are very accomplished sailors. The way that they can handle a boat and extreme weather conditions is really impressive."
HYC hosts the Hingham Bay Junior Regatta annually. Last year's event drew 225 racers. The HYC has hosted the Junior Olympics before, with the last time coming in 2011. There are 30 Junior Olympic regattas held across the country.
"The Hingham Yacht Club has a long history of having a very strong race committee and racing program at all levels – junior levels through adult levels of sailing," said Drohan.
Depending on conditions, races can be as short as 20 minutes or last up to an hour.
Planning for the event starts right when last year's regatta ends.
"This event couldn't happen and wouldn't be fun and successful without all of the people at the yacht club who volunteer their time, which is asking a lot in the summer," said Drohan. "We have such amazing and dedicated volunteers at the yacht club who help make this a safe and fun event for the kids."
For a spectator, the best viewing experience is on the water. Drohan said that typically every spectator who wants to get out on the water does.
Nationally the event is sponsored by Sperry, Hill, New England Ropes, KO Sailing and Zim Sailing. Local sponsors include Avalon Bay, Star's on Hingham Harbor/Caffe Tosca, Monahans, Aquarion, Drohan Tocchio & Morgan, Breakwater Blue, Carolann's, Wahlburgers, Hingham Lobster Pound, The Fruit Center, The Fresh Market and 3A Marine.
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Armenian Eggplant Spread
Here's an easy roasted eggplant spread which can be a dip, or side dish, or sandwich stuffer or pasta topper, that takes less than ten minutes of work time and can be made in advance. Although the presented dish is a brown mass of suspicious looking stuff, never mind the suspicions, it is awfully delicious no wonder some calls this - Russian Caviar. To me this is more appetizing than the real Mccoy.
1 eggplant(i prefer 2 chinese eggplant)
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tomato, chopped
2 Tbsp. olive oil
½ tsp. salt
1/2 tsp.black pepper
½ tsp. dried basil
1½ tsp. dried oregano
Slice eggplant, sprinkle liberally with salt. Wrap in kitchen towel and let sit for half an hour. Rinse eggplant slices and pat dry. (if using chinese eggplant, just slice into half lengthwise and grill/broil without salt. This type of eggplant will not be bitter)
Grill eggplant on an oiled stovetop grill pan or broil in the oven until golden on both sides. Cool slightly and chop coarsely.
Sautė onions and garlic in olive oil until onion is transparent.
Add tomato and eggplant to onion mixture. Cook until tomato and eggplant are very soft. Crush the dried basil and oregano by rubbing them between the palms of your hand, then stir them in.
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First up, this app is not some sort of immature rubber-based condom game in the guise of iFart and chums. This is a useful piece of technology designed to point out exactly where the nearest condom dispenser is when you need it.
MTV's Staying Alive, a global youth HIV awareness program, has joined forces with the app in order to push youngsters to log the locations of nearby condom machines, to encourage safer sex.
The application relies on user info to keep you posted on condom machine details, like if it is a shop that stays open 24 hours or if it doesn't work.
Currently the strongest maps exist in Paris and the United States, we, however, dwell in the much more glamorous north end of London and as such had to test things out nearby.
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Once you have iCondom all downloaded and up and running it is a bit like Foursquare really. The application will ask for your location immediately and then point you to the nearest shops or dispensers. Good really, as it means minimum faffing, likely a bad thing when you are ahem...doing stuff.
The four options at the bottom of the app will lead you to various condom-based factoids. Start will either pop open the map when you tap find nearest or allow you to add a new shop or dispenser you have discovered.
The idea is that all things are crowd sourced, so the more accurate and detailed the information the better. Amazingly given the application is not advertised has having a major presence in the UK, we found plenty of shops to go on nearby. There was however little commenting. Perhaps embarrassment? Who knows.
The list view simply changes things to a broader approach and allows you to head further afield in case somewhere has perhaps sold out.There isn't very much else that can be said about iCondom other than it works and has a good intent. The application makes what could be a potentially embarrassing moment quick and easy to solve, whilst encouraging young people to be a bit more careful. Not bad really. Just needs an Android app, not all teenagers can afford iPhones you know!


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