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At the Alaska Mission of Mercy (AKMOM) event, thousands of patients will be seeking dental treatment in a limited time period. During this two-day event, dentists in the dental triage unit will be asked to establish individual treatment plans with the goal of relieving pain and infection. Those plans are then reviewed with patients to ensure they understand their immediate needs and agree to what can be accomplished during that day.
In private practice, dentists can develop comprehensive and long-term treatment plans because they know that future appointments are likely. This approach is unrealistic for patients who attend events such as the AKMOM; access to dental care may continue to be a problem so the limited treatment available needs to be carefully prescribed and prioritized to yield the greatest impact on the patients' oral and overall health. Each practitioner must consider the needs of the entire patient population as well as each individual they treat.
Patients and their families will receive one-on-one oral health counseling before dental treatment. Prior to dental triage, patients will complete a limited medical assessment. It is important for medical personnel working in medical triage to identify patients with:
- Serious medical conditions, medications, or other issues that may interfere with or prevent dental treatment
- Infections
- The need for antibiotics prior to dental treatment
- The need for immediate medical treatment that cannot be provided on site
- Patients in consultation with the triage dentist will rank their top treatment priorities. Clinical dentists should focus treatment efforts on the first priority but can use their professional judgement to determine if time allows for additional procedures, for instance, within the same quadrant.
The priority guidelines for treatment are:
- Providing dental treatment to relieve pain and infection
- Providing dental treatment specific to a medical condition (e.g., prophylaxis for patients with diabetes or advanced periodontitis)
- Extracting teeth that cannot be restored in a limited amount of time (e.g., 45 minutes). Patients will receive a list of community dental care resources upon exiting the clinic.
- Restoring teeth when appropriate and time permits (e.g., pulp caps may not be appropriate treatment at this event as we do not know whether the patient will seek the recommended follow-up care.)
- Endodontic procedures on anterior teeth can be done.
- Recommending x-rays only as needed or appropriate based on the professional judgement of the triage dentist rather than for routine screening purposes.
- For extractions, restorations and endodontics, x-rays should be taken, as deemed appropriate, in the general x-ray area.
- Children should be sent to the Pediatric Department for x-ray determination.
- Providing anterior treatment partials to restore a patient'smile within the capacity of the clinic's lab.
- Dental hygiene should focus on debridement of gross calculus.
- Routine prophylaxis for patients without immediate dental treatment needs if the hygiene department
- lead indicated availability of space and time.
Following treatment, patients will also receive:
- Post-operative care instructions with a phone number to call if they are experiencing problems with the care they receive at the clinic.
- Community resources for follow-up care or additional treatment.
- Information regarding available government programs.
- An opportunity to provide feedback about the care they received at the event.


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When I made up my kit to make the first Anita's Grecian Wrench I put a lot of green squares in the kit and then decided that I didn't like some of them together so I pulled them out and added different colours to make it scrappy. So now I had all these green squares and had to decide what to do with them so I just added more assorted squares and made a second quilt. I like the way there is a secondary pattern when it is all put together.
Anita's Grecian Wrench
I also completed another quilt. This one is such a simple block called a nine patch. I then sashed the nine patches and then added white sashing to all the squares.
Sashed Nine Patch
This was suppose to be a larger quilt but since I like smaller lap sized I just made less squares and came up with a 38 x 50 inch quilt.

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Deutsche Elf Backstage
They have to go through some things: team castings, trips to the Spanish island of Mallorca, being trained by Bigfoot - How do Lukas Podolski, Miroslav Klose, Bastian Schweinsteiger and company cope with it? It all happens backstage...
- Animated Webisodes, 54 x 2 min.
- DirectorAxel Sucrow
- ProducersThomas Schneider-Trumpp
- WritersDirk Haberkorn


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Seit er Mitte der 1970er Jahre entdeckt hatte, dass in der westlichen Filmgeschichtsschreibung Asien fast gar nicht vorkommt, hat sich der britische Filmjournalist Tony Rayns daran gemacht, dieses Missverhältnis zu ändern. Seitdem hat er Unmengen von Artikeln (eine Auswahl findet sich unten) und einige Bücher zu asiatischen Filmen, Genres und Regisseuren geschrieben, die mittlerweile zum Standard gehören. Wichtiger noch als Rayns Arbeit als Autor war jedoch sein 1988 begonnener Job als Kurator der asiatischen Sektion "Dragons & Tigers" auf dem Filmfestival von Vancouver, das dieses Jahr vom 25. September bis 10. Oktober stattfindet. Dort liefen erstmals Filme von heutzutage so bekannten Regisseuren wie Takeshi Kitano, Tsai Ming-liang, Kim Ki-duk und Jia Zhang-ke vor westlichem Publikum. Auch auf den Filmfestivals von London und Rotterdam betreute Rayns lange Jahre die asiatische Filmauswahl und war damit einer der entscheidenden Wegbereiter des asiatischen Kinos im Westen.
2005, ein Jahr, bevor er seine Arbeit in Vancouver beendete, sprach The Wayward Cloud mit Tony Rayns über seine kuratorische Arbeit, über die radikalen Wandlungen der Rezeption asiatischer Filme im Westen in den letzten Jahren, über seine Abneigung gegen die Filme von Kim Ki-duk und Park Chan-wook und warum er Tsai Ming-liangs The Wayward Cloud nicht zeigen konnte.
Interview mit Tony Rayns
The Wayward Cloud: Most people not associated with film festivals only have a vague notion of what a curator's work consists of. Mainly they see him as a kind of selector, who watches a lot of movies and than says yes or no. How would you describe your work?
Tony Rayns: When Vancouver's Festival Director Alan Franey approached me and asked if I would like to do some programming for an Asian section for the Vancouver International Film Festival, we first had to agree on the geographical area. We decided on Pacific Asia, which includes all Asian countries on the edge of the Pacific, from Korea in the north to Indonesia in the south. The first reason I did agree to do this job is because I had a high degree of freedom. My starting point for thinking about my curative work was that I wanted to offer a kind of inclusive panorama of East Asian cinema. I took it as my job to go to these countries, look what's happening in these film cultures and try to represent it in Vancouver. That included mainstream commercial films, arthouse titles, independent works, documentaries, animation, avantgarde. I see my final selection as a kind of bulletin, a report from the region that notes interesting developments. This could be the emergence or breakthrough of an individual filmmaker, a generic shift, the resurgence of a certain style or genre. Part of my job is to report that, to simply acknowledge: This is happening. But I have to qualify this by saying that when we started this, more than 15 years ago, Asian cinema was little known in Western countries. It was a time when other festivals here were not clamoring to show the new film by Shunichi Nagasaki or Takeshi Kitano. Now they are, there has been a dramatic shift in recent years. I wouldn't say that Asian cinema has become mainstream but at least vastly more visible than before. The amount of Asian films you can find in any DVD store around the corner nowadays would have been unimaginable even ten years ago. My job as a curator has been changed by this. When we started we presented exceptionally rare films and tried to get attention for them. Now it's rather the opposite, there are films which are refused to this festival because the sales agents deem them to be too popular to throw away on a non-market festival. My curatorial response to this situation is to focus on next generation talent. If you look at the evolution of the program you'll notice an increasing shift toward the indie sector. That's the area where discoveries still are to be made, because mainstream and arthouse titles are already very much present in other festivals and the minds of the distributors.
Let's talk a little bit about the practical side of discovering new talent in such a large region. How do you get to know about new films, where do you see them?
First of all this a question of financial resources. When Alan Franey first approached me he was very upfront about the situation. He told me there's no budget to send me on research trips. He was aware that my work took me to this region anyhow and his hope was that I would be able to do the research for the programming work on the back of my other work in those countries. On the outset that's what happened. I would learn about and see films at festivals I was visiting, people would tell me about films, friends and film-makers would send me tapes which allowed me to gradually put together a program. After a few years we found ourselves premiering a lot of work that had not be screened anywhere else outside its home country. We were the first to show films by Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Miike and quite a number of other filmmakers who have become big names since then. And also we were the first festival which these directors actually visited, we even had an exhibition of Kitano's paintings and did a lot of things which were ahead of the curve. Because of the section's increasingly high profile Alan Franey wanted to give it a name and we decided on "Dragons & Tigers", far before people began to talk about the economic crash of the Tiger states or Ang Lee made his famous film. Also in 1994 we introduced a competition section, with a jury and a cash award, for films of young directors who haven't won significant international recognition. That changed the pressures on me because it meant that I actually had to come up with discoveries every year. And that meant that I had to go on specific research trips. This led to a difficult situation for me because I was starting to spend my salary on being able to do my job, i.e. air fares and hotels. I ended up with nothing for myself effectively. To avoid going bankrupt I approached Alan. His response was a raised salary since he wasn't able to come up with a specific research budget. That's the situation at the moment, one I don't find very comfortable, but that's the way it works. I still do most of my work on the back of other assignments. There are five festivals that are fixed points in my calendar and where I see most of the films: Jeonju, Puchon and Pusan in South Korea, the Hong Kong Film Festival and Tokyo FILMeX. I use these visits as starting points for other research, for example I will spend some time in Seoul, visiting the Korean Film Council. As I said my approach is inclusive, so often I spend days looking at student films or shorts.
Does the research for a film go beyond seeing the film and talking to the director? Do you for example visit certain regions in which a film takes place?
Oh no. I've been doing this work for a long time and as you will have noticed, I'm a very old man so I have a achieved something which the English would call "form". Over many years I have built up a network of connections and a certain amount of knowledge about the countries that I'm working in. So when I see a new film I am usually kind of prepared for it, I am familiar with the director's background, we've usually met before. When you look back at the feature films we screened in Vancouver you'll quite often find that we screened shorts by their directors in previous years. We have quite a good track in discovering interesting talent even at student stage and following their careers. We built up a lasting relationship with a number of people. "Research" is a too grand term for this kind of networking. Only occasionally there's a film that comes out of nowhere, as it happened this year with Liu Jiayin's Oxhide. That was a very unexpected film for me. But more often films come out of somewhere that you are familiar with.
Most festival visitors do not have the same knowledge you have, so for them directors or styles which for you are utterly familiar can be something new and fresh. Do you try to find a balance between the audience' and your own curiosity and sense of wonder?
Well, it depends. Take a film like Park Chan-wooks Oldboy for example. Some people accused me for not showing it but it doesn't matter because the film is widely available, you can buy the DVD one block from here. The festival doesn't need me to bring Oldboy here, and Oldboy certainly doesn't need me to promote it. Also, I was never part of any fanclub for Park Chan-wook. I've showed only one of his films in this festival, a short called Never Ending Peace and Love which was part of the original If You Were Me-project which deals with problems faced by immigrant workers in Korea. I haven't shown his features because I did not like them very much, but again I'm old enough to have seen his early films which he made before the political change in Korea. He then went on to become an industry figure who made two completely undistiguished feature films in the nineties before he reinvented himself and made a very conscious bit to make a reputation for himself. Because I have seen his old stuff I was not so impressed by this and decided not to show his new films. That kind of decision, which was looked upon by some people as kind of odd I guess, was based on the fact that I've been around that long. Sorry, I know this guy, I think he's a phony.
Do you make decisions like that alone or do you have a team which partakes of the selection process?
I am afraid it's only me, sorry. That may sound idiosyncratic but I think there is a balance between objective and subjective decisions. As I said before, I see my job as presenting a kind of report from the region. If in Taiwan there is new wave of independent video work then I will cover it, that is the objective part. At the same time there are always things that I am in interested in and things that I am not interested in, like the work of Park Chan-wook.
Or the films of Kim Ki-duk on whom you wrote a rather negative article called "Sexual Terrorism" in Film Comment …
Sorry, but the first festival in the world that Kim Ki-duk came to was this one. I was his first supporter. I met him when he was a totally despised figure in Korea because he didn't go to film school and wasn't very well educated. At that time he gave me a copy of his first film Crocodile and asked me to look at it. I thought the first five minutes were fairly extraordinary, I thought the last five minutes were fairly extraordinary, I thought the middle 90 minutes were not so extraordinary and rather offensive in terms of their sexism and their endorsement of rape. Another problem was that the film was atrociously subtitled so I told Kim that some aspects of his film are very interesting but that it cannot be shown with those subtitles. The audience would have lynched me. He didn't believe me and thought I was only looking for an excuse for not showing it. But he came back to me with his second film Wild Animals which he made in Paris. Again I thought there were some extraordinary scenes in it so I said: "Ok, I'll do it, I'll show this film." And we did, he came, that was his first ever trip to a film festival and the first time he stood before a foreign audience. So I don't have any apologies to make to Kim Ki-duk. What happened was that in later years he became extremely self-important, after The Isle had been invited to Venice and become a scandal which in my view had been rather cynically engineered by the festival. Suddenly Kim Ki-duk's sense of ego dramatically expanded and also his films began to change. His earlier works were all metaphorical autobiography, based on his own experiences and projections. Wild Animals is a kind of imagined autobiography about his time in Paris, when he was living as a struggling street artist. The style and themes of his early films was firmly rooted in his own imagination and consciousness, whereas the later films are rooted in his DVD collection. Bin-Jip clearly is a rip-off of Tsai Ming-liang's Vive l'amour. To me that is a bit disappointing. I think he's run out of aspects of his own life to explore.
What are the main problems that you face in putting together the best of all possible programs?
One thing that is not really a problem but a source of resentment is that some films are unavailable because distributors and sales agents don't want you to see them yet. One of the things that is important for me is to show films of directors whom we have supported for a long time. If the audience is nurtured on a particular filmmaker there is a kind of contract with it and the people should be able to see this director's new work. Take Tsai Ming-liang for example: I think we are the only festival in the world who have shown his early TV works. Subsequently we have shown everything he has made, so it would have been logical to present his film The Wayward Cloud in Vancouver. Unfortunately its sales agent Wild Bunch didn't want it shown because they screened it in Toronto, which is a market-festival, and they were looking for a deal. They decided not to play it in Vancouver because they thought the screening in two Canadian festivals would damage their chances of selling it. Tsai Ming-liang himself contacted them and told them he would like his film to play here because of his long connection with the festival, but they were unmoved by this.
Are you in any way involved with the financial side of bringing Asian films to Western screens?
A number of sales agents have asked me over the years to work with them in various ways, some filmmakers even asked me to become sales agents for them. I always said no because I think I'm more useful as an independent voice.
In the article "Berlin Blues" on the Asian films at the Forum of the Berlin Film Festival 2005 you talked about its problems in adjusting to "modern programming". Could you describe what you mean by that?
In the late sixties and early seventies when the Forum was founded, along with the Quinzaine in Cannes and the Rotterdam Film Festival, there was a movement to present a certain kind of cinema that was not shown at the major festivals. It was seen as an alternative to the mainstream. At that time it was really easy to define what fit in and what didn't. This has drastically changed. Today someone like Park Chan-wook can win a major price in Cannes with Oldboy which shows that the mainstream arthouse competition sections have adapted to embrace and acclaim genre cinema. That has taken away one area of responsibility for the alternatives. But the shift is even deeper. In the late sixties there was a pretty clear line between what was considered commercial and alternative cinema. Today it would be very difficult to draw that line. Today the sense of what is actively interesting in film culture needs to be nurtured and discussed much more intensely. So I think modern programming has to be in touch with the needs of the moment. I am sure that there still are issues which are not being tackled by the big mainstream events like the film festivals in Cannes or Berlin and that remain for the fringe events to deal with. Some of them do it sucessfully and others don't.
Are there criteria for judging the success of a program, apart from the size of the audience?
In "Berlin Blues" I was writing about a consistent failure over many years on the part of the Forum programming team to deal with the realities of Japanese cinema. In a way the Kim Ki-duk problem is related to this. Though there has been great progress in the reception of Asian cinema there exists still a great deal of ignorance and naivete towards these cultures. And it seems to me that the failure to imaginatively engage with these countries is sometimes reflected in dubious distribution and programming decisions. And also in criticism, of which I read a lot. I do not wish to cast the first stone here, when I started writing about Hong Kong cinema back in the seventies I made a huge number of mistakes based on my ignorance of the culture out of which the films came. I had no idea how a film fitted into a particular kind of genre tradition. However, I think today there is less excuse for such kinds of mistake because there is so much material available. In the seventies there were absolutely no reference books, there was nothing on Asian cinema in any western language. I scoured the library for any information I could find but there was pathetically little. David Robinson published a book called World Cinema around that time. He was a fine and decent critic and this work was a doorstopper of a book but you could only find one mention of Chinese cinema and even that was in brackets. Thai, Korean, Indonesian cinema didn't even get a passing mention. For Robinson Asian cinema meant India and Japan which were the only Asian countries at the time from where some films had been exported. Now the situation has completely changed, there are many books and articles on the subject, there are filmmakers who are constantly traveling and promoting their work. So there is less excuse for ignorance. You can no longer justify to exoticize East Asian cultures and films. Things like "Oh, it's so beautiful" or "How buddhist" or "How transcendent" or "That must be mono no aware" are no longer defensible. We have moved on from that.
Some articles by Tony Rayns:
> Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life
> Wong Kar-wai's 2046
> Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times
> Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Blissfully Yours, Syndromes and a Century
> Takeshi Kitano: Kids Return, Hana-Bi, Kikujiro, Dolls, Zatoichi
> Tsai Ming-liang's What Time Is it There?


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Another year, another barrage of stupid legislation. This is the thread to nominate the Dumbest RSO Laws award for 2011. You have until November 30, 2011 to nominate. Post your nominee in the comments section and I will list all current nominees here.
Texas Law allows Department of Family and Protective Services allows caseworkers to add your name to the sex offender registry without a trial:
This law is so messed up, State Rep. John Zerwas, R-Katy, had to propose a bill, HB 1194, which would allow suspected abusers greater due process to challenge their inclusion in the registry. Before a name goes into the database, Zerwas wants the accused to be properly notified, have a copy of the record and access to swift appeal to a state administrative hearing judge.
Even the exonerated were added to the list.
Missouri's Hallowed Grounds Act will ban sex offenders from burial in national cemetaries:
The "Hallowed Grounds Act," introduced by Republican Rep. Vicky Hartzler, would prohibit an individual who is classified as a Tier III sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act from being buried at a veterans or national cemetery. A Tier III sex offender is one whose offenses against a child might include the crimes of aggravated sexual abuse or abusive sexual contact."While veterans guilty of capital crimes have justly been denied burial in our national cemeteries, veterans guilty of sexual abuse of children are still entitled to these honors," Hartzler said. "Allowing these offenders to rest in fields of honor is an insult to America's military heroes. Furthermore, it is an outrage to the victims and their families."
AL HB 378, Alabama's SORNA Act:
- Registered sex offenders who are homeless are required to check in once a week.
- Those who do day labor must provide local law enforcement with details about where and when they will be working each day.
- Sex offenders will have to pay a $10 fee every time they register. That same fee will also be charged for every move.
- A travel permit is required through local law enforcement if a sex offender plans to be away from their residence for more than three days or if they plan to travel outside the area.
- Those sex offenders who have been classified as sexual predators or convicted of sexually violent crimes will be required to wear a Global Positioning System (GPS) for 10 years, at their own expense.
- Some youthful offenders and juveniles, those charged with more serious sex crimes, will have to register for a lifetime instead of 10 years.
Missouri's Amy Hestir Student Protection Act: "Under a new Missouri law, teachers who "friend" a current or former student on Facebook could soon run afoul of state codes...The new law states that teachers "cannot establish, maintain or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child's legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian." The legislation also bans teachers from using "a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student." I understand why you'd want to discourage parent-teacher sexual relationships but this law takes it too far by implying that any time treachers and students talk its for sex.
Florida's HB 251, the "Walk in Their Shoes Act" (a.k.a. the Lauren Book Act): The Shiitake Awards just wouldn't be the same without some representation from Florida, would it? This is the Lauren Book law. What makes this bill dangerous is that this bill allows prior convictions or accusations to be admitted as evidence in trial, which all but guarantees a former offender will not get a fair trial. It also denies access to evidence in child porn accusations, which will bar defense attorneys from presenting adequate defense.


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Ceramic classes for amateurs ,advanced and professionals - pottery-courses on the Cycladic Island of Tinos
Pottery-classes on the potters wheel duration: 1 week
The ceramic workshop 'Tinos Ceramics' is situated in a central and peaceful area on the Island of Tinos, just 2.5 miles north from the town of Tinos. The studio is near to the Medieval Road which connects the town to the Castle of Exombourgo, today used as a donkey and footpath. An excellent starting point for trekkers.
The studio was founded in 1982 as a base for the sculptress Margarita Delatola-Aicher who was later joined by Bernhard Aicher in 1986, an experienced ceramic teacher.
With Bernhard you can model, making pots on the potters wheel (4 electrical potter wheels are available), free development, basics of firing ceramic kilns.
Course can be adapted to personal desires concerning main emphasis and course time.
Independent of your choice we will teach you basics of clay-preparation, shrink and drying , glazing and firing.
According to our experiences we are offering 5 hours a day, Monday till Saturday, to give you opportunity for other activities as swimming, hiking etc. Timeline : May till September.
Course price in low season € 15 / hour, in high season (July and August) € 20 / hour without material and fireing costs.
Prepayment upon registration.
Course days and course times according to individual agreement, except Sundays and August 15th.


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Man Sets His Wife On Fire After Lighting A Cigarette At A Gas Station [Video]
The scene caught by an Atlanta gas station security camera is terrifying as a man lights a cigarette while pumping gas, eventually leading to his wife being engulfed in flames.
The woman suffered second and third degree burns on her body, and the man was also burned on his hands.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the man, citing reckless conduct but the whole thing looks fishy to me.
This is just my opinion, but doesn't it look like the guy purposely points the gas pump at his wife?
I mean, he's obviously an idiot for lighting up while pumping gas, but once the initial fire starts, it looks like he sprays his wife with it! After re-watching it a few times, it looks like they may have been arguing before it all happened.
Watch it again and let us know what you think.


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Chief Spence is no Gandhi, but the 'truth force' is in motion
When Mahatma Gandhi engaged in protest fasts against the British occupiers of India, he considered it a spiritual practice of satyagraha, which translates as "truth force."
Public fasts, like the month-old one engaged in by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, aim to prick consciences. As acts of self-sacrifice, they try to goad people in power, such as Stephen Harper, into taking action on uncomfortable truths.
And a lot of truths are coming to light because of Spence's fast from solid foods, which she says she began Dec. 11. She has drawn international headlines and re-focused Canada's media and politicians on thorny aboriginal problems.
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e of the unpleasant truths rising to the fore appears to be that Spence is no Gandhi. She is showing signs she does not have the South Asian activist's spiritual and moral discipline.
One disturbing indication is the audit showing Spence's connection to financial negligence involving millions of dollars at her beleaguered village on the shores of James Bay.
Other indications are Spence's erratic actions and lack of transparency, including her frequent refusal to engage journalists. Such behaviour does not suggest a person of Gandhi-like maturity.
Then again, there are not many people as upstanding as Gandhi.
There is no use denying the elements of truth embedded in Spence's sweeping crusade for enhanced aboriginal land claims and an end to environmental exploitation, nor her claims that Canada's 1.5 million aboriginals have often been abused and shortchanged.
In the realm of civil disobedience, fasting can be a legitimate form of non-violent resistance – a pressure tactic built on personal risk. Fasting kills most people after 52 to 74 days.
RELATED: Aboriginals heal with ancient ways, psychology and Christianity
Gandhi engaged in 17 fasts over two decades. Unlike Chief Spence, who remains physically large after 30 days on a diet of tea and fish broth, Gandhi's body became and remained skeletal.
Gandhi taught that anyone who starts a fast should immediately stop if they detect any signs within themselves of impurity or lack of faith, including feelings of anger or impatience.
Inspired by the "self-suffering" love of Jesus, Gandhi's methodology also seemed more clear than that of Spence, whose actions have unleashed chaos among aboriginal leaders and the Idle No More movement. Gandhi fasted to accomplish identifiable goals.
Many people in recent years and decades have taken part in protest fasts, ranging from Cuban dissidents to B.C. Doukhobors. Some have proved effective, especially over the long term.
South Africa's Nelson Mandela fasted while in prison to oppose apartheid. A century ago British suffragettes also fasted. The women were force-fed, to ghastly effect.
Irish independence fighter Bobby Sands took part in a fast in Maze Prison in 1981 that resulted in his death. Even Margaret Thatcher said she admired Sand's bravery.
A British Columbian woman died during a fast in 1985. Mary Astaforoff, a Sons of Freedom Doukhobor, was in prison for a series of arsons and nude protests. Her self-sacrifice did not gain much public sympathy, however, since her anti-worldly beliefs were to most people incomprehensible.
Highly publicized protest fasts have also been undertaken in the past year in India, Sri Lanka and Turkey. Perhaps the most famous one, by Indian anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare, led to the government bringing in tougher legislation.
Some politicians and commentators, including in Canada, have responded to protest fasts by claiming they're "blackmail."
But does the label stand up? The Oxford dictionary defines blackmail as the criminal act of demanding money in return for not revealing compromising information about a person. Even "emotional blackmail" is said to involve devious trickery.
The Attawapiskat chief has not brought Gandhi-like moral purity to her fast, to be sure. But it does not seem fair to condemn what she has done as unethical. As much as I would not want to be Stephen Harper in this situation, it's not illicit to cause people with authority to squirm.
And it's positive Spence's actions are bringing unpleasant truths to the fore: that there is a crisis among the country's aboriginals, many of whom are devastated by alcoholism, poverty, abuse, suicide, illiteracy, financial mismanagement, a victim mentality and bleak prospects.
Things have to drastically change on numerous fronts. Perhaps the largest truth being exposed by Spence's fast is that there is not just one thing behind the plight of the country's aboriginals – and the responsibility for fixing it must be shared by both non-aboriginals and aboriginals.


text: Koja (Straydog, 2002) gives the tried and true "oddball new student vs. the bullies" theme a well-oiled workout. Comfortably invisible within the crowd, Justin at first wants nothing to do with new transfer Michael, or "Jinsen," to use his "spiritual name." After all, his shaved head, oversized shirt, and habit of wandering about the lunchroom with a begging bowl quickly earn him the nickname "Buddha boy" from alpha male McManus and his circle of goons. As he watches Jinsen respond calmly to escalating harassment, though, Justin's reserve begins to break down—particularly after he discovers that Jinsen is a superb artist, and learns that he had once been an incorrigible sociopath who had turned his life around with a conversion to Buddhism after being orphaned. Fortunately for the tale's credibility, Jinsen's self-possession isn't superhuman, and after two prized art projects are vandalized, only Justin's well-timed intervention gives him the moment he needs to regain his hard-won balance. Justin also does the friend thing by blowing the whistle on McManus, and unlike so many similar situations in teen fiction, justice is thoroughly, satisfyingly served. Koja barely touches on Buddhist practices and principles, but she does show how loving one's enemies rather that hating them often makes them crazy, as well as securing the moral high ground. Jerry Spinelli she is not (or not yet), but fans of Crash (1996), Loser (2002), and the like will enjoy the familiar scenery. (Fiction. 12+)


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Karen Hattingh
Gnaraloo Wilderness Foundation
Karen Hattingh is a West Australian based scientist and project manager with a strong commitment to biodiversity and the continuation of life in all its diverse forms in functional natural environments. She was trained as an environmental scientist and lawyer. Karen has over 20 years' commercial experience in Australia and overseas on national and international projects for various sectors, including international aid agencies. She has provided environmental advice to the Gnaraloo Station Trust since 2005 and was instrumental in creating the Gnaraloo Wilderness Foundation. Karen is the co-founder and Principal Scientific Officer of the highly successful Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program (2006 to date), the Gnaraloo Feral Animal Control Program (2008 – 2015), the Gnaraloo Scientific Internship Training Program (2008 to date) and the Gnaraloo Community and Schools Engagement Program (2008 to date).
Mark Scholmann
Chilli Finance
When he is not helping turtles, Mark Scholmann, a Director with Chilli Finance in Western Australia, provides financial solutions for clients. Mark's liking for computers in the early 80's saw progression into computer programming, website design, 3D graphics, TV commercials and video editing roles which resulted in 8 years at the IT Department of Lotterywest. Mark hopes that his commercial and IT experience will assist the GWF Committee in achieving its goals.
Linda Brnjich
Chilli Finance
Linda Brnjich is the lead finance broker and a company director of Chilli Finance in Western Australia. Linda has expertise in complex financial structures, commercial and residential lending requirements, and reviewing business financials. Linda discovered an early appreciation for nature and is hoping her "numbers" skills will translate into helping the Gnaraloo turtles and more.
Alistair Green
Gnaraloo Wilderness Foundation
Committee member
Alistair Green (also known as Skip) is a Scottish wildlife biologist with a deep love of all things marine. He completed an M.Sc in Wildlife Biology and Conservation after graduating from the University of Glasgow with a B.Sc (Hons) in Zoology. He started volunteering with loggerhead and green sea turtles in 2010 and has since worked on a number of projects from around the world. Alistair joined the Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program in 2015, where he was a part of the scientific research team. He has continued his involvement and support for the conservation of Gnaraloo's wilderness area. With a keen interest in education, he has led several classes aimed at raising awareness on the threats posed to our marine ecosystems.
Paul Richardson
Gnaraloo Station Trust
Committee member
Paul Richardson offers the Foundation a wealth of homegrown and international knowledge and commercial experience given his 30 years' worth of business dealings. He is the owner of the Gnaraloo pastoral lease that adjoins the coastline at Gnaraloo and the co-founder of the Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program and Gnaraloo Feral Animal Control Program. Paul, along with his family in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, has contributed over $1.5 Million to the Gnaraloo turtle program during 2008 – 2015. Along with a partner company, Animal Pest Management Services, he has contributed over $300,000 to the Gnaraloo feral program during 2008 – 2015. He continues to protect and support conservation values at Gnaraloo and is a co-founder of the Gnaraloo Wilderness Foundation.
Colleen Mason
Gnaraloo Station Trust
Committee member
Colleen Mason has been working on-ground at Gnaraloo for the Gnaraloo Station Trust since 2009. With a background in advertising and as a legal secretary, she manages the bookings of educational presentations by the seasonal scientific Gnaraloo turtle team in Western Australia. Education and community engagement lie at the heart of the Gnaraloo Wilderness Foundation and the Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program. The Gnaraloo Community and Schools Engagement Program has been very well received and is much loved with up to 7,000 students and teachers being reached every year, from kindy level to University. Colleen's desire is to see Gnaraloo remain a wilderness experience and we aim to promote conservation through public outreach to maintain Gnaraloo's biodiversity for our future generations.
Dof Dickinson
Dof is a Sydney-based Creative Director known for her campaign work with major global brands. She brings a passion for environmental advocacy and over 20 years of marketing expertise to the Gnaraloo Wilderness Foundation. She has helped us with strategy and implementation to recruit members, share our achievements, raise funds and improve awareness through brochures and our new website. In 2015/16 her company BRAINS developed our unique Turtle Tracker App that enabled to public to follow the journeys of 10 satellite-tagged turtles. She also directed and produced our documentary, The Mystery of The Gnaraloo Sea Turtles and developed and implemented our 2016 national schools environmental challenge.
Claire Guillaume
Soundwave Nomad Production
Communication & Marketing
Claire is a graphic designer committed to do her part to save species from extinction. As a genuine ocean advocate and keen diver fascinated by the underwater world, she truly cares about the environment and has participated in several conservation programs around the world. Since 2010, she has helped to bring the visual identity and professionalism of our Conservation Programs to the next level. As a professional Photographer with beautiful imagery of the Gnaraloo Wilderness Area, she teamed up with Jeremie Collado and Karen Hattingh to create our series "Keep Gnaraloo Wild". She also shares our efforts with the public through our website and social media.
Jeremie Collado
Soundwave Nomad Production
Video Communications
Jeremie is a sound engineer who is passionate about wildlife and the ocean's creatures of any kind. For the past decade, he has been developing and crafting his filmmaking skills in order to help conservation and environmental advocates raise awareness about the threats our planet faces. Besides his limitless attachment to the Ningaloo Coast and specifically to the Gnaraloo surroundings, Jeremie has travelled in Oceania and South East Asia to find conservation projects that work in finding solutions for a better living for all inhabitants of this world. Jeremie produced and directed the series "Keep Gnaraloo Wild".
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Zest Health, a consumer-focused, mobile health company that enables more informed and cost-effective healthcare decisions, has named Ann Mond Johnson as Chief Executive Officer.
With more than 20 years of experience, Mond Johnson is a nationally recognized leader in healthcare consumerism and has built her career managing innovative healthcare technology companies. Previously, she served as Chairman, Board of Managers and Advisor for ConnectedHealth, LLC, which provides private health insurance exchanges. She was instrumental in developing the company's strategy and guiding business development and fundraising. Prior, Mond Johnson served as Senior Vice President at WebMD after selling Subimo to the healthcare information giant in 2006. Mond Johnson was CEO and co-founder of Subimo, which provided healthcare decision support applications to large employers, health plans and financial institutions. She also served as senior vice president at Sachs Group (now part of Truven Health), and currently advises several early stage companies including Conversa Health and is on the board of Ludi, Inc.
"Zest Health's technology is transforming the way people use their healthcare," said Mond Johnson. "By providing access to information and resources to help them make better, more cost-effective healthcare decisions, we are bringing healthcare closer to people and helping lower costs, even as healthcare costs continue to rise. This is a transformational achievement in the increasingly complex and cost-prohibitive healthcare industry."
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Zest Health is a mobile health company that provides technology to help people make more informed and cost-effective healthcare decisions. It has reinvented the way consumers understand, navigate and consume their healthcare in today's costly, complex ecosystem, helping them be smart and buy better. The company is rooted in healthcare IT and consumer technology innovation and was incubated at 7wire Ventures and co-founded by 7wire Managing Partners Glen Tullman and Lee Shapiro, the former Allscripts executives, as well as Lightbank's Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, co-founders of Groupon, Echo Global Logistics, MediaOcean, Uptake Technologies and other technology companies. The company's solution is sold to employers, health systems and health plans. Visit www.zesthealth.com to learn more.
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Where to even begin with this.
The internet is apparently back at it again with the good jokes, after it emerged that "soccer" fans in San Diego are voting in their thousands to name the team that will eventually grace their city "Footy McFooty Face".
At present, more than 7,600 of the 23,000 or so sports fans who care enough to "like" the forthcoming Californian franchise on Facebook have voted to give the team a stupid name. If this new bid goes through, the team could name their firm "the bag of hammers".
The joke is based on a crappy meme from last year, in which a lot of people voted in vain to give a new British Arctic exploration vessel the name "Boaty McBoatface". It was eventually called RRS Sir David Attenborough, causing all sorts of indignation amongst people whose names are now on a list.
In what will come as a relief, however, for people who don't like intensely played out memes, the firm behind the expansion – which is competing with 12 other American cities for introduction into Major League Soccer in 2020 – has been wise enough to say it will pick a name from the top 10 submissions, presumably to prevent itself from being lumbered with terrible jokes like this.
The name that's currently in second place is the unspeakably insipid "San Diego Surf", which is so anodyne as to be nailed on as the eventual winner. Barely more than 2,300 people want it, which begs the question who in San Diego is worse, the majority who don't understand what humour is, or the minority who prefer to eat their toast dry.
In third is the only serious contender: "San Diego Bad Hombres", which incredibly only has 1,600 or so votes.
San Diego is competing with cities including Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Nashville and Phoenix to host one of two new teams to be added to MLS in 2020, in a deal which will include $150 million-worth of startup cash, as the league and teams are centrally owned and operated. There are currently 22 teams playing in MLS across two conferences, though the powers that be want this number grown eventually to 28.
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Graffiti has been found scrawled on wooden sculptures in Hotham Park in Bognor.
Graffiti has been found scrawled on wooden sculptures in Hotham Park in Bognor.
The carved Mad Hatters Tea Party, which had additional figures unveiled in April, now features names and even references to social media details – although it is not clear whether these are those of the culprits.
Sculptor Simon Groves made the Alice and Wonderland themed sculptures for the Hotham Park Heritage Trust.
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When we tell people that we work together; that Amit's an illustrator and I'm a writer, the reply is usually 'You've a readymade team at home! How convenient!'
Actually, it's anything but! It's exhilarating, challenging, dynamic – but it's not very convenient. If you're a writer and you live with an artist, then you have two sets of creative tantrums to put up with. Not only are we constantly working on our marriage–all couples do–we're also working on our careers at home. How far can one be critical of another's creativity without ruining one's love life? On the other hand, everyone values constructive criticism–so how do you balance love and creative differences?
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Then it's his turn–he's drawing and I'm watching. Most of the time I'm happy with his work, but there are others when I'm not. I have to be careful. I can't pretend I like something I don't, but too much criticism and pencils will be downed! A few doodles, a couple of references to other books, some layout suggestions, and usually we're good to go.
Those are the parts I love – when we interface and manage to solve problems. The part I hate? When he's illustrating and goes into Prima Donna mode. Nothing about his work pleases him then. He draws stuff and rejects it summarily–nothing anyone says will alleviate the dark sulk. With time and much doodling, however, the cloud passes. There's a breakthrough and he's drawing like a fiend! The household heaves a sigh. All is well. The master is smiling again!
Anita and I worked on our first two books together. But this year I illustrated three books and surprise, surprise! Not one was by her. We just worked together on some concepts, a competition entry and a magazine dummy. Anita too had stories published by Puffin, but they weren't illustrated by me.
Though we enjoy working together, it's usually not our decision. Most of the time, Art Directors send you work from authors who you will probably never meet. And I discovered that it's not a bad thing at all! I can pretty much do whatever I want to with my characters and their environs (with the Art Director's blessings), and be sure that Ruskin Bond, for instance, won't charge down from the hills brandishing his cane because I gave his character a coat and not a dark-green-striped pullover!
To be fair, I ventured into children's book illustration only because of Anita. But having said that, it's also a pain to have the writer peering over your shoulder, breathing down your aching neck to see if you've got her favourite character's expression 'just right'.
Writers tend to think that the story can exist only in their imaginations and that a mere pencil-pusher cannot be trusted totally with their work. I like working with authors and interpreting their words with them, but sometimes it can hinder rather than help. A 70-year-old writer called to say that she wanted "two mischievous-looking children (resembling her grandchildren), one Pomeranian pooch and a raggedy cat (both her own pets) and a cuuuute-looking elephant" to appear all together on one tiny book cover! She even sent me photos of her family and other animals so that I could see the 'naughty glint in their eyes'! She also wanted me to put her photo on the back cover. But thankfully the publishers drew the line at that one…


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Is Iniesta one of the greatest players in the world? He certainly is. Will he go down in history as one of the greats? I think he will. Iniesta was key to Spain's victory over Holland in the 2010 World Cup and, he has been a key figure in the success of Barcelona ever since he started playing there. Since his star with Barcelona they have collected La Liga trophies and won the Champions League twice.
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Pete Wentz rocks and he rocks the vote. He stopped by What's Trending live chat about his new electro-pop duo, Black Cards, innovative ways to distribute music, social media and his passion for politics.
What can people expect when the Black Cards go on tour?
"It's like bringing a house party on stage, we have a good time. I think that with Fallout Boy, it was cathartic... it was about emoting. I think this is about being happy, having fun."
Do you think you approach music a different way with all these digital tools now available?
"The great thing about social media is that... bands are constantly using it to broadcast. I think what's really cool about it is that you should be listening. It's a two-way street. You got to be able to take the temperature or put your finger on the pulse of what's happening."
Owning a label, Decaydance Records, and signing breakout bands like Panic! At The Disco, Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes, what do you look for in new talent?
"It's something that's intangible. People who are willing to hustle, who are true to themselves and you have to be willing to get out and hit the road but you have to engage people on the Internet too."
Being involved with all these businesses, do you see yourself as an entrepreneur?
"When I look at myself in the mirror, I see a 14-year-old."
Why was it important to get involved in "Rock the Vote?"
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|Medtronic TYRX(TM) Antibacterial Envelope Reduces Cardiac Device Infection Rates at 12 Months
Long-term Citadel/Centurion Clinical Trial Findings and Independent Data Presented at Heart Rhythm Society 36th Annual Scientific Sessions
DUBLIN and BOSTON - MAY 15, 2015 - Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today announced that its TYRX(TM) Antibacterial Envelope reduces major cardiac device site infections by 80 percent, up to 12 months after implantation. These data were presented at Heart Rhythm 2015, the Heart Rhythm Society's 36th Annual Scientific Sessions in Boston.
The Citadel/Centurion Clinical Trials are the first prospective, multicenter studies to evaluate the impact of the TYRX Antibacterial Envelope on cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) major infections and mechanical complication rates following implantation in high-risk patients. The results show a low rate of surgical site infection at 12 months (0.44 percent) in the 1,129 patients who received the TYRX Antibacterial Envelope compared with a control group of similar patients reported in previously published literature1 who did not receive an envelope (2.2 percent; p=0.0023).
CIED infections are associated with substantial morbidity, mortality and cost2,3,4 and are increasing in frequency. The average cost of a CIED infection in the United States is estimated at $54,926.5
"Clinical studies show that the use of the TYRX Envelope is associated with a significant reduction in implant-related cardiac device site infections," said Charles A. Henrikson, M.D., M.P.H., FHRS, chief of electrophysiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. "These new findings reveal that the TYRX Envelope decreases the rate of infections that can occur within the first year after implantation. This is very good news for patients, especially given the associated mortality and costs tied to CIED infection."
12-Month Results of Citadel/Centurion Clinical Trials
"These data support the long-term safety and efficacy of the TYRX Envelope and showcase the clinical benefit of this novel technology for cardiac device patients at increased risk for infection," said Marshall Stanton, M.D., vice president and general manager of the Tachycardia business, which is part of the Cardiac and Vascular Group at Medtronic.
Results of Independent Study of TYRX(TM) Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope
"Our study is the first-of-its-kind, comparing the incidence of major cardiac device-related infection in high-risk patients who, during implantation, received either the TYRX Absorbable Envelope or the non-absorbable Envelope, with a control group of patients who did not receive a TYRX envelope," said Christopher R. Ellis, M.D., FHRS, FACC, principal investigator of the study and assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "After a minimum of three months, results showed only one reported infection in the 488 patients who received either the original or newer, absorbable TYRX Envelope, compared with 20 infections in the control group of 638 patients. Additionally, it was encouraging to find no difference in infection rates between the original TYRX Envelope and the newer, fully absorbable version."
About CIED Infections
About the TYRX Antibacterial Envelope
The TYRX Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope is fully absorbed by the body approximately nine weeks after implantation. Both TYRX Envelopes are FDA-cleared and have received CE Mark and are available in the United States and Europe.
In collaboration with leading clinicians, researchers and scientists worldwide, Medtronic offers the broadest range of innovative medical technology for the interventional and surgical treatment of cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrhythmias. The company strives to offer products and services that deliver clinical and economic value to healthcare consumers and providers around the world.
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1 Gould, et al. Outcome of advisory implantable cardioverter-defibrillator replacement: one-year follow-up. Heart Rhythm, 2008; 5(12):1675-81.
2 Sohail MR, Henrikson CA, Braid-Forbes MJ, et al. Mortality and cost associated with cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections. Arch Intern Med 2011; 171:1821-1828.
3 Le KY, Sohail MR, Friedman PA, Uslan DZ, et al. Impact of timing of device removal on mortality in patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections. Heart Rhythm 2011; 8: 1678-1685.
4 Habib A, Le KY, Baddour LM, et al. Predictors of mortality in patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic device infections. Am J Cardiol 2013; 111:874-879.
5Shariff N, Eby E, Adelstein E, et al. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. Health and Economic Outcomes Associated with Use of an Antimicrobial Envelope as a Standard of Care for Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Implantation. 2015 Apr 6. doi: 10.1111/jce.12684. [Epub ahead of print]


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FRAUD IS FRAUD – no matter who perpetrates it.
It has become quite clear, in both the eyes of the law and from a moral and ethical standpoint, that we have just witnessed another DESPERATE attempt by DESPERATE people to acquire the positions of power that they DESPERATELY want! I am of course referring to the case against The Speaker which, was concluded in The Speaker's favour earlier today.
The Claimants in this instance should be held accountable for:
- Abuse of their position of trust – MP's supposedly acting in the best interests of their constituents and country at all times rather than themselves;
- Their FRAUDULENT use of signatures;
- The time and money they have wasted both of which could have been better used in supporting the Government's attempts and measures to IMPROVE the state of well-being of the country's people;
- Breaches of the law and of the Leadership Code.
The question of course is – "Will justice prevail or will the 'big men' get away with it…again?"


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(VIDEO) Is This Sci-Fi Reimaging of 'Paradise Lost' Hollywood's Next Big Franchise?
Watch "The Garden" Proof-Of-Concept Video and Decide For Yourself
An apocalyptic horror/fantasy short, written and directed by E.B. Rhee, is poised to launch the next big sci-fi franchise. Within days of being uploaded on Vimeo, The Garden snagged the attention of Polymorphic Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers, and Rhee struck a development deal.
After learning that the sun is dying, a group of explorers set out into deep space in search of a new home for humanity, watch the rest here:
While some of the computer-generated FX feel a bit 2-dimensional, the film is incredibly well produced especially given the budget limitations. Rhee has already developed a script for a series based on The Garden (which he wrote with Aaron Strongoni), vastly increasing the likelihood of this short evolving into something much bigger.
From E.B. Rhee:
"Made for $30k with credit cards and small donations, the vast majority of the cast & crew are friends who worked on this pro bono. My writing partner and I first wrote a feature script, and in an effort to draw some attention to it, we decided to try and make this to give potential investors a tiny glimpse of what the movie could be like. The stylized visuals are obviously not final- you'll have to wait for the feature for that. We're indie filmmakers, and we couldn't afford to hire a VFX company, so we did what we could with what we had. For more info, visit www.thegardenshort.com"
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Plant Revisited
It's no secret that I love The Plant Cafe. They have numerous locations around San Francisco, but their sit-down dining outpost is right on the water at Pier 3. It is a gorgeous space in which to enjoy some really yummy food, and my visit there a few days ago was no exception. What was exceptional, however, was my ordering! Normally I go for the Napa Cabbage Salad with baked tofu or the Plant Burger and call it a day, but I was feeling feisty (and super hungry) so I mixed it up this time:
First up was the avocado salad. So glad I tried this! The avocado comes served atop a bed of arugula, fennel, and grapefruit segments, and the whole thing gets topped with crushed macadamia nuts and a creamy black pepper-macadamia dressing. Delicious, and the perfect bright and fresh compliment to my hearty entree:
This is their seasonal special (get it while it lasts) - a cornmeal-crusted tempeh with brussel sprouts, olives and baby broccoli all atop a bed of quinoa and served up with a savory sauce. There were a lot of bold flavors on this plate and I'm not sure all of them worked perfectly together, but it was very yummy and satisfying all the same.
Moral of the story? I (and maybe you?) need to order outside of my comfort zone when dining at familiar places. I may just discover a new favorite!
Speaking of favorites, don't forget to keep checking in at Vegan Favorites. The daily posts there are awesome, and not just because I write half of them. :) I'm off to Florida soon, so say tuned for updates from the land of 80 degree weather and some of my favorite restaurants in the world!
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- Nichole said...
When are you headed to Florida? I'm heading out March 19-26 (my parents live out there). What places do you like to hit up besides Sublime?!
- March 1, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Sky said...
If you're near Ft. Lauderdale/Miami, Sublime is the best, but there is great vegan food elsewhere in the vicinity like the Cafe at Books and Books on Lincoln Road in Miami and Lido at the Standard Hotel, also Miami. Sushi Samba in Miami also has great vegan options as do most of the Mediterranean places like Pasha and Opa, and just about every Chinese or Indian restaurant.
Here's an old post about central florida eats in case they're up there:
Plus there's always to Whole Foods salad bar. Love that! :)
- March 1, 2011 at 7:02 PM
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Alfredsson signs 4-year deal with OttawaNHL.com @NHLdotcom
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) -The Ottawa Senators re-signed captain Daniel Alfredsson to a 4-year contact Thursday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Ottawa Sun reported it was worth $22 million.
The 35-year-old Alfredsson has 334 goals and 856 points in 861 career regular-season games with the Senators. He has spent his entire career with Ottawa and served as the team's captain since 1999.
"The Senators organization and the city of Ottawa have embraced both me and my family as part of this community," Alfredsson said in a statement. "It's an exciting time for our family to know that we'll be able to spend the rest of my NHL career in Ottawa."
The Senators play the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.
Alfredsson, a five-time NHL all-star, has three goals and six assists this season. He was a member of Sweden's gold medal-winning 1996 Olympic team.
"Daniel is the type of person and player that we want to continue building this franchise around," Senators general manager Bryan Murray said. "We are happy to have him here to lead our team towards the goal of bringing a Stanley Cup to Ottawa."


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NASA satellite imagery highlights details of Arctic greening. Almost a third of the land cover – much of it Arctic tundra – is looking more like landscapes found in warmer ecosystems.
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The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska and Canada. In a changing climate, almost a third of the land cover – much of it Arctic tundra – is looking more like landscapes found in warmer ecosystems.
With 87,000 images taken from Landsat satellites, converted into data that reflects the amount of healthy vegetation on the ground, the researchers found that western Alaska, Quebec and other regions became greener between 1984 and 2012. The new Landsat study further supports previous work that has shown changing vegetation in Arctic and boreal North America.
Landsat is a joint NASA/U.S. Geological Survey program that provides the longest continuous space-based record of Earth's land vegetation in existence.
"It shows the climate impact on vegetation in the high latitudes," said Jeffrey Masek, a researcher who worked on the study and the Landsat 9 project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Temperatures are warming faster in the Arctic than elsewhere, which has led to longer seasons for plants to grow in and changes to the soils. Scientists have observed grassy tundras changing to shrublands, and shrubs growing bigger and denser – changes that could have impacts on regional water, energy and carbon cycles.
Extensive Arctic greening
With Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 data, Masek and his colleague Junchang Ju, a remote sensing scientist at Goddard, found that there was extensive greening in the tundra of western Alaska, the northern coast of Canada, and the tundra of Quebec and Labrador. While northern forests greened in Canada, they tended to decline in Alaska. Overall, the scientists found that 29.4 percent of the region greened up, especially in shrublands and sparsely vegetated areas, while 2.9 percent showed vegetation decline.
"The greening trend was unmistakable," the researchers wrote in an April 2016 paper in Remote Sensing of Environment.
Previous surveys of the vegetation had taken a big-picture view of the region using coarse-resolution satellite sensors. To get a more detailed picture of the 4.1 million square-mile area, scientists used the Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites.
Landsat, like other satellite missions, can use the amount of visible and near-infrared light reflected by the green, leafy vegetation of grasses, shrubs and trees to characterize the vegetation. Then, with computer programs that track each individual pixel of data over time, researchers can see if an area is greening – if more vegetation is growing, or if individual plants are getting larger and leafier. If, however, the vegetation becomes sparser, the scientists would classify that area as browning.
Researchers have used similar techniques to study Arctic and northern vegetation with other satellite instruments, such as the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). But Landsat can see smaller differences across a landscape – it takes one measurement for each 30-by-30 meter (98-by-98 foot) parcel of land, which is about the size of a baseball diamond. AVHRR collected one measurement for each 4-by-4 kilometer (2.5-by-2.5 mile) area.
Landsat reveals Arctic greening trends
"We can see more detail with Landsat, and we can see the trend more reliably," Ju said. With finer-resolution and better calibrated data from Landsat, the researchers were able to mask out areas that burned, or are covered in water, to focus on vegetation changes. The more detailed look – now available to other researchers as well – will also let scientists see if a correlation exists between habitat characteristics and greening or browning trends.
"The resolution with Landsat is drastically improved, it lets you look at the local effects of things like topography, such as in areas where you might have small woodlands or open areas," Masek said. "You can do detailed studies of how climate impacts vary with geography."
Adding the Landsat study to previous studies using the AVHRR sensor also adds to the certainty of what's going on, Masek said. While the two tools to measure the northern vegetation did produce different results in some places, overall the trend was the similar – more plants, or bigger plants, in the Arctic reaches of North America.
With the higher resolution Landsat data, the researchers also found a lot of differences within areas – one pixel would be brown, and its neighbors green, noted Ju. "It's very localized," he said. "The vegetation is responding to the microclimates. That's the benefit of using Landsat data, is that we can reveal this spatial variation over very short distances."
With the large map complete, researchers will focus on these short distances – looking at the smaller scale to see what might control the greening patterns, whether it's local topography, nearby water sources, or particular types of habitat. They also plan to investigate forested areas, particularly in the greening Quebec.
"One of the big questions is, 'Will forest biomes migrate with warming climate?' There hasn't been much evidence of it to date," Masek said. "But we can zoom in and see if it's changing."
To assess the North American high-latitude vegetation response to the rising temperature, we derived NDVI trend for 91.2% of the non-water, non-snow land area of Canada and Alaska using the peak-summer Landsat surface reflectance data of 1984–2012. Our analysis indicated that 29.4% and 2.9% of the land area of Canada and Alaska showed statistically significant positive (greening) and negative (browning) trends respectively, at significance level p < 0.01, after burned forest areas were masked out. The area with greening trend dominated over that with browning trend for all land cover types. The greening occurred primarily in the tundra of western Alaska, along the north coast of Canada and in northeastern Canada; the most intensive and extensive greening occurred in Quebec and Labrador. The browning occurred mostly in the boreal forests of eastern Alaska. The Landsat-based greenness trend is broadly similar to the 8-km GIMMS AVHRR-based trend for all vegetation zones. However, for tundra, the Landsat data indicated much less extensive greening in Alaska North Slope and much more extensive greening in Quebec and Labrador, and substantially less extensive browning trend in the boreal forests that were free of fire disturbances. These differences call for further validation of the Landsat reflectance and the AVHRR NDVI datasets. Correlation study with local environmental factors, such as topography, glacial history and soil condition, will be needed to understand the heterogeneous greenness change at the Landsat scale.
Junchang Ju and Jeffrey G. Masek; The vegetation greenness trend in Canada and US Alaska from 1984–2012 Landsat data; Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 176, April 2016, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.01.001.
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Nevatim AFB's ground control personnel, which will receive the "Adir" tomorrow, recently paid a visit to the IAF's new Ground Control Simulator and practiced for the landing. They simulated the communication with the American pilots and began training for the combination of transport and fighter aircraft
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In order to insure that the historic landing will be performed smoothly, Nevatim AFB's ground control personnel visited the IAF's advanced ground control simulator in Ouvda AFB and simulated tomorrow's events.
Photography: Mor Tzidon
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All of the information regarding the Adir's meticulously planned fly-over was uploaded into the simulator. Every movement in the formation has been calculated to the second. "Ground controllers from all of the towers come to the simulator to train and are impressed by its ability to simulate the environment of every AFB and show them unique viewpoints of the process", shared Maj. Roei, Commander of the Ground Control Instruction Center in Ouvda AFB's ATC Unit. "Each training exercise takes various conditions into consideration: the weather, the moon's position and the estimated visibility level".
The ground controllers have more to prepare for than just the two "Adir" F-35I stealth fighters. They will be escorted by "Ra'am" (F-15I) jets and photographed from above by "Lavi" (M-346) instruction jets. They are also prepared for various weather conditions and for the integration of fighter and transport aircraft in the same AFB. "We have trained for various weather scenarios, some that may even require us to change the fly-over plan", explained Maj. Inbar, Commander of Nevatim AFB's Runway Services Department. "The combination of fighter and transport aircraft in the same airspace is complex when considering the different speeds and heights. Fighter aircraft require a different kind of reaction speed from the controllers, and the simulator helps them understand the situation and adapt themselves to the new reality".
Photography: Mor Tzidon
The New Simulator: A Quantum Leap in Ground Control Training
The simulator is powered by a processor that can run 24 scenarios simultaneously and is equipped with a 360 display and unique acoustic walls identical in size and organization to a control tower. Its ability to simulate a wide viewpoint of any given AFB's runways and close airspace allows the controllers to maintain eye contact with the coming and going aircraft
"It can also simulate emergency scenarios such as aircraft catching fire, aircraft losing control or accidental release of munitions near base – scenarios impossible to rehearse in reality", specified Maj. Roei. "Our vision is to build a training designated control tower, install this technology in it and train entire teams and large groups".
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