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This salad is unbelievably delicious and ridiculously good for you. A killer combination.
This salad gets its name largely from the quinoa, which is just about the best thing since sliced bread. And unlike bread it isn't bursting with gluten and won't leave you feeling bloated and like you might want to take a bit of a nap. Quinoa has the perfect balance of all nine amino acids essential for human nutrition. This type of complete protein is rarely found in plant foods, although common in meat. Quinoa is also full of fibre and iron. See, seriously super? Eating this salad cannot fail to make you happy. And full of bounce. Like Tigger.
The dressing on this salad is insanely good. It's from an old Ottolenghi recipe and is slurp-it-straight-from-the-bowl and tickle your tummy delicious. A great dressing to have up your sleeve as it's a little bit different and everyone always wants to know how to make it. You can decide whether you tell them or not! The sesame oil in it picks up the nuttiness of the quinoa perfectly and helps propel this salad to the stratosphere of pure and unequivocal bliss. Having said that, drizzle this dressing on roast chicken, rice salads, roasted veggies or just about anything and it's incredible.
This salad makes an amazing lunch just as it is because it's packed full of so many delicious goodies. I made a huge batch and I had it for lunch (and cough cough…and supper today and I intend on having it tomorrow as well!) with a handful of rocket and a dollop of my avocado cream, with some extra slices of roasted sweet potato and it was out of this world yummy (even if I do say so myself, but sometimes you've got to blow your own horn….toot toot).
- 1 cup quinoa (any old mug will do)
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 tin cooked black beans
- 2 x sweet potato
- sprinkling of pine nuts
- 1 handful coriander, chopped
- 3 spring onions, sliced
- sprinkling of dried herbs
- salt pepper
- 1 lemon
- splash of balsamic vinegar
- dressing
- 30ml lemon juice
- 15ml sesame oil
- 15ml thai fish sauce
- 15ml olive oil
- bunch of rocket
- couple of radishes, thinly sliced
- extra sweet potato
- avocado cream
- First, preheat the oven to 190C.
- peel your sweet potatoes and cut them into cubes, you can slice ½ of one into coins and the other 1½ into chunky cubes.
- pop the potatoes into a roasting tray and drizzle with olive oil. season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle on any dried herbs, I like to use mixed Italian, but anything you like would be great here. Splash a teaspoon of balsamic onto the sweet potato and give it all a really good stir so that its all coated and then pop into the oven for 25 mins until the potatoes are cooked through and soft. Five minutes before you take them out of the oven, sprinkle on the pine nuts and return to the oven so the nuts get lovely and toasty.
- Pop the kettle on. (but don't put your feet up just yet).
- Pour 1 cup of quinoa into a saucepan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add some dried herbs and grate in the zest of one lemon. Once the water is boiling, add 2 cups of water to the pan and let it all simmer for 15 mins until all the water is absorbed and the quinoa is light and fluffy.
- Mix together all the ingredients for the dressing and then pour ½ over the cooked quinoa. You can judge whether the quinoa can take more of the dressing and if so add more, but be careful not to drown it!
- Once the sweet potato is cooked, place the sweet potato discs to one side and tip all the cubes into the quinoa.
- Add the coriander, spring onions and the drained black beans to the quinoa and give it all a really good stir.
- Taste. Is it amazing? Thought so.
- For added deliciousness, serve with avocado cream, rocket with sliced radishes and the sweet potato discs.
- Or with rocket, avocado cream, sliced beetroot and a generous sprinkle of sunflower seeds. I promise you however you eat this Happy Power salad you will be left feeling happy and powerful!
So healthy, so delicious and so nutritious.


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By: Michael Kettler
16th February 2011
This past November, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case Friends of the Everglades v. South Florida Water Management District.[1] That case was the first in which a federal appeals court accepted the "unitary waters" theory," an interpretation of the Clean Water Act that treats all bodies of water in the United States as a single body. Environmentalists oppose this interpretation because it exempts from federal permitting requirements transfers of polluted water to less polluted bodies, as long as the transferor does not add any pollutants to the transferred water. Although the Eleventh Circuit as well as other circuit courts of appeal had previously rejected the unitary waters theory, Friends of the Everglades deferred to a 2008 EPA regulation that endorsed the theory. This Field Report discusses the background and aftermath of the Bush administration's adoption of the unitary waters theory. Although Friends of the Everglades was a troubling development, subsequent decisions have limited the damage until the regulation is hopefully repealed by the Obama administration or overruled in the courts.
I. The Clean Water Act and "Unitary Waters"
The Clean Water Act ("CWA") provides the statutory framework for federal regulation of pollution in "the waters of the United States."[2] The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") makes it unlawful for "any person" to discharge "any pollutant" without obtaining a permit.[3] The Act defines the "discharge of a pollutant" as "any addition of any pollutant to navigable waters from any point source."[4] "Navigable waters" are "the waters of the United States."[5] "Pollutant" is so broadly defined that it encompasses almost anything imaginable.[6] And a "point source" is a "discernable, confined and discrete conveyance," such as a "pipe," "channel," "well," or "container ."[7] As these definitions attest, the drafters of the CWA intended to assert broad federal authority over water pollution.[8] However, the statute leaves "addition" undefined, and this word has been the focus of efforts to limit the reach of EPA's NPDES permitting authority.
The unitary waters theory proposes that "the waters of the United States" constitute a single entity. Accordingly, transferring water from one body to another without adding anything to the overall "waters" would not require a NPDES permit, because the actor would not be responsible for the "addition" of any pollutants to the navigable waters. The unitary waters theory would relieve such actors from obtaining a NPDES permit even if they were transferring highly polluted water to a pristine body of water. Prior to 2009, federal courts did not favor this approach.
The First Circuit was the first to address the unitary waters theory-and summarily dismiss it-in Dubois v. United States Department of Agriculture.[9] Dubois' suit alleged that the U.S. Forest Service should have required a New Hampshire ski resort to obtain a NPDES permit for the expansion of its snowmaking system.[10] The resort drew water from a pond "unusual for its relatively pristine nature" and two nearby rivers to make snow; it also used the pond to deposit all leftover water from snowmaking.[11] The river water that the resort added to the pond was less pristine, as it contained pollutants such as phosphorus.[12] The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire held that the Forest Service did not need to require a NPDES permit because the pond and the rivers are all part of the "singular entity" of "the waters of the United States," and thus there was no addition of pollutants.[13] The First Circuit rejected what it termed the "singular entity" theory (apparently the unitary waters theory had not yet acquired that name) since the three bodies of water were not naturally connected. The ski resort was adding a pollutant to the pond because it was the but-for cause of the water transfer: when "water leaves the domain of nature and is subject to private control rather than purely natural processes," it loses its status as waters of the United States.[14]
The Second Circuit used similar reasoning to hold that New York City needed to obtain a NPDES permit to transfer water from one of its reservoirs in the Catskills to another via a creek used for recreational trout fishing.[15] Moreover, the court refused to reconsider its Catskills I decision against the unitary waters theory even after an intervening EPA interpretation called its reasoning into question.[16] The EPA interpretation suggested a "holistic" interpretation of the CWA that did not primarily focus on the word "addition." Under this reading, mere transfers of water between bodies were to be regulated by the states and not the CWA.[17] The Court applied Skidmore deference to the agency's informal interpretation, respecting it only to the extent of its "power to persuade."[18] The Second Circuit did not find the interpretation persuasive. New York City and EPA pointed to section 101(g) of the CWA, which states that "the authority of each State to allocate quantities of water within its jurisdiction shall not be superseded, abrogated or otherwise impaired."[19] However, federal regulation of water quality is consistent with state authority to allocate quantities of water between different users.[20] The city assumed that regulation under the NPDES program would completely shut down this part of New York's water supply system, but the permitting program was flexible enough to preserve state control over water quantity allocation.[21]
Before Catskills II, the unitary waters theory reached the Supreme Court in South Florida Water Management District v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, but the Court declined to resolve the issue.[22] The case concerned the elaborate system of canals and levees built in South Florida to drain and develop land that had previously been part of the Everglades wetlands. The Water Management District maintained a higher water table in the levee-separated wetlands areas-termed "water conservation areas"-in order to conserve fresh water and preserve the natural habitat. To maintain the different water levels and prevent flooding in the developed areas to the east, the District pumped water a short distance (sixty feet) from its canals into the water conservation area.[23] The water being pumped into the conservation area contained runoff pollutants associated with residential and agricultural land use, particularly phosphorus from farming. This phosphorus runoff was disrupting the Everglades ecosystem.[24]
The Miccosukee Tribe brought a citizen suit alleging that the District was required to obtain a NPDES permit in order to pump the polluted water behind the levees and into the Everglades. Both the district court and the Eleventh Circuit ruled for the plaintiffs. Each held that the canals and the Everglades were separate bodies of water and employed reasoning familiar from the Dubois and Catskills cases.[25] The Supreme Court reversed the lower courts and remanded the case because the factual question whether the canals and the water conservation area were actually separate bodies of water was still disputed, which precluded summary judgment.[26]
In keeping with the Bush EPA's administrative interpretation discussed in Catskills II, the Solicitor General submitted an amicus brief in Miccosukee to argue for the unitary waters theory.[27] The Court declined to adopt or repudiate the theory, but the majority's discussion indicated skepticism. The opinion pointed out sections of the CWA[28] and NPDES regulations[29] that seem to contradict the theory and questioned the contention that the unitary waters theory comports with a longstanding EPA interpretation in light of contradictory statements of past EPA officials.[30]
II. Unitary Waters Rising
The Bush administration solidly stood behind the unitary waters theory despite the theory's lack of success in the courts. In President Bush's second term, EPA built on the informal administrative interpretation discussed in Catskills II. In June 2008, EPA issued a final rule endorsing the unitary waters theory,[31] which is now codified in the Code of Federal Regulations:
Discharges from a water transfer [do not require NPDES permits]. Water transfer means an activity that conveys or connects waters of the United States without subjecting the transferred water to intervening industrial, municipal, or commercial use. This exclusion does not apply to pollutants introduced by the water transfer activity itself to the water being transferred.[32]
The Water Transfers Rule discusses two circuit court decisions collectively referred to as "the dams cases" to introduce ambiguity into the interpretation of "addition" in the CWA. One, National Wildlife Federation v. Gorsuch, held that an "addition" occurs when "the point source itself physically introduces a pollutant into a water from the outside world."[33] The other, National Wildlife Federation v. Consumers Power Co., endorsed the D.C. Circuit's reasoning in Gorsuch.[34] The Water Transfers Rule claims that Dubois, the Catskills cases, and the lower courts in Miccosukee took the rationale of the dams cases a step further with their insistence that an "addition" can be any transfer of water from one body to another distinct body.[35] The Rule also recycles the textual arguments addressed in Catskills II to support the proposition that Congress intended the states to control the regulation of water transfers.[36]
The Water Transfers Rule led to the first federal appellate decision upholding the unitary waters theory. Friends of the Everglades v. South Florida Water Management District involved the same Everglades controversy as Miccosukee, but the Eleventh Circuit reversed its position from that case in light of the Water Transfers Rule.[37] Unlike EPA's informal interpretation, which the Second Circuit easily dismissed in Catskills II, the Water Transfers Rule was analyzed by the Eleventh Circuit under the Chevron framework.[38] In all previous cases, courts had interpreted the statutory language "addition" of a pollutant in the CWA without an authoritative agency interpretation. Here, however, the Eleventh Circuit employed the familiar Chevron two-step that upholds the regulation if it is "a reasonable construction of an ambiguous statute."[39]
The key issue in the case then became whether the meaning of an "addition" of a pollutant in the CWA is ambiguous. Curiously, the Eleventh Circuit did not find that the dams cases supported an ambiguous reading of "addition" even though the EPA had relied on them to support the unitary waters theory in the Water Transfers Rule. According to the court, prior to Friends of the Everglades, no federal court of appeals had approved the unitary waters theory.[40] In each of those cases, a NPDES permit was not required because the dams were not transferring water between distinct bodies but rather within the same body of water. As the court put it, Gorsuch and Consumers Power "involved water that wound up where it would have gone anyway."[41] The court properly held that the dams cases stand for the proposition that an intra-body water transfer is not an "addition" of a pollutant, not the proposition that all bodies of water should be treated as part of the unitary whole of the "waters of the United States."[42]
The court, however, did find the statute to be ambiguous. The CWA defines "discharge" as "[a]ny addition of any pollutant to navigable waters from any point source."[43] The Water District argued that the absence of "any" before "navigable waters" supported the unitary waters theory.[44] The Water District contended, and the court agreed that if the drafters had meant each individual body of water, they would have written "any navigable waters." The CWA appears to use "navigable waters" and "any navigable waters" interchangeably when referring to individual bodies of water, and the court interpreted this as an ambiguity.[45] The Friends of the Everglades argued that the unitary waters theory led to an absurd result when the statute was viewed as a whole. Allowing free intermingling of polluted and pristine waters would undermine the CWA's ambitious goals.[46] However, the court pointed to the exemption of non-point sources from NPDES permits as an example of how the text of the CWA does not always meet its lofty aspirations.[47]
After concluding that the statutory text was ambiguous, the court quickly found the Water Transfers Rule to be a reasonable interpretation. The court suggested the following analogy: suppose a rule prohibits "any addition of any marbles to buckets by any person," and there are two buckets, one with four marbles and another with no marbles. If someone moves two of the marbles to the empty bucket, it is reasonable to conclude that he has not violated the rule.[48]
III. Repercussions of Friends of the Everglades
The Supreme Court denied certiorari in the Friends of the Everglades case in November of last year.[49] Commentators suggested that the Court did not want to address the unitary waters issue because the Obama administration's EPA is considering repealing the Water Transfers Rule.[50] Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal supported the Court's decision because, he said, a review is not warranted while EPA considers revising the rule.[51] The Court likely also took notice of the fact that there is not yet a circuit split on interpreting the Water Transfers Rule. The Eleventh Circuit is the only federal appellate court to address the unitary waters theory since the Water Transfers Rule was promulgated. Were another circuit-possibly the Second Circuit in the ongoing Catskills controversy-to rule that the relevant portion of the CWA is not ambiguous and refuse to apply Chevron deference to the Water Transfers Rule, it would then be more appropriate for the Supreme Court to step in to resolve the inconsistency.[52]
Judicial decisions that have addressed the unitary waters theory since Friends of the Everglades show that despite its troubling implications, there are important limits to its reach. The first limit comes from the newly restrictive definition of "the waters of the United States." In West Virginia Highlands Conservancy v. Huffman, environmental groups sued the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection ("WVDEP"), contending that the CWA required the Department to obtain NPDES permits for its discharge of wastewater from abandoned coalmines. Although West Virginia's statutes and environmental regulations required WVDEP to treat this discharge, the environmental groups discovered that WVDEP had failed to neutralize the acidic mining wastewater before discharging it into the state's streams.[53]
WVDEP claimed that this activity should be excluded from the NPDES scheme under the Water Transfers Rule because pollutants were not being added to the water being discharged. In fact, the Department claimed, it was treating the water but not treating it enough.[54] The Fourth Circuit rejected this argument: the abandoned mine sites are not part of "the waters of the United States" (i.e., are not "navigable waters"), and the Water Transfers Rule only applies when pollutants are transferred from one navigable water to another.[55] The court affirmed that WVDEP had to obtain NPDES permits for discharging the waters from abandoned mines.[56]
Ironically, recent Supreme Court decisions narrowing the scope of "the waters of the United States"-decisions that dismayed environmentalists when they were handed down-make this limit on the Water Transfers Rule robust.[57] In 2001, the Supreme Court invalidated the Army Corps of Engineers' "migratory bird rule." This rule had allowed the federal government to exercise jurisdiction over isolated wetlands, such as ponds created from abandoned quarry pits, on the theory that migratory birds that cross state lines used such waters as habitats, thus making these isolated wetlands "navigable waters."[58] Had the migratory bird rule still been in effect, a court unfriendly to environmental regulation might have reasoned that the abandoned West Virginia mines were also "navigable waters" and allowed the pollution to continue without a permit. The Supreme Court further narrowed the definition of "the waters of the United States" in the controversial case Rapanos v. United States: "the phrase 'the waters of the United States' includes only those relatively permanent, standing or continuously flowing bodies of water 'forming geographic features' that are described in ordinary parlance as 'streams[,] . . . oceans, rivers, [and] lakes.'"[59] Though these cases limiting the scope of "navigable waters" represent defeats for environmentalists, they have paradoxically helped mitigate the damage wrought by the rise of the unitary waters theory.
The other limit on the reach of the unitary waters theory is the application of state permitting authority. The ongoing controversy over New York City's reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains is illustrative. After Catskills II, New York City obtained a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("SPDES") permit for its discharge, and the project's opponents challenged the sufficiency of the permit in New York state court. The trial court upheld the challenge to the SPDES permit.[60] Once EPA promulgated the Water Transfers Rule, the city argued that it was relieved of any duty to obtain permits for this type of activity. The intermediate appellate court, however, disagreed: the Water Transfers Rule only applies to the CWA, and New York State is free to apply a stricter standard for permits in its own environmental laws.[61]
IV. Conclusion
The major cases to consider the unitary waters theory illustrate two situations where its application presents a threat to American waters. Dubois exemplified the transfer of water from a body whose historic pollution predated the CWA to a pristine body that is used for drinking water.[62] Miccosukee and Friends of the Everglades addressed the transfer of non-point source pollution-the major water quality problem in the United States today-to a more pristine body via a point source.[63] Though the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a challenge to the Water Transfers Rule and the possibility that EPA will soon overturn the rule currently leave these issues in limbo, both state and federal courts have limited the scope of the unitary waters theory until it can be reconsidered.
* Michael Kettler is a student at Columbia Law School.
[1].570 F.3d 1210 (11th Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 131 S. Ct. 643 (2010).
[2].See, e.g., 33 U.S.C. §§ 1342(a), 1362(12), 1362(7) (2006).
[3].33 U.S.C. §§ 1331(a), 1342 (2006).
[6].33 U.S.C. § 1362(6) (2006) ("The term 'pollutant' means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water." There are exceptions, however, for discharges from military vessels and discharges from oil and gas exploration).
[8].See, e.g., United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc., 474 U.S. 121, 133 (1985) ("In keeping with these views, Congress chose to define the waters covered by the act broadly.").
[9].102 F.3d 1273 (1st Cir. 1996).
[15].Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. v. City of New York (Catskills I), 273 F.3d 481, 492 (2d Cir. 2001) ("Here, water is artificially diverted from its natural course and travels several miles from the Reservoir through Shandaken Tunnel to Esopus Creek, a body of water utterly unrelated in any relevant sense to the Schoharie Reservoir and its watershed. No one can reasonably argue that the water in the Reservoir and the Esopus are in any sense the 'same,' such that 'addition' of one to the other is a logical impossibility.").
[16].Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. v. City of New York (Catskills II), 451 F.3d 77 (2d Cir. 2006).
[18].Id. (quoting Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134, 140 (1944)).
[19].33 U.S.C. § 1251(g) (2006).
[20].Catskills II, 451 F.3d at 84. Furthermore, section 510 of the CWA provides that "[e]xcept as expressly provided in this chapter, nothing in this chapter shall . . . be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of the States with respect to the waters . . . of such States." 33 U.S.C. § 1370 (2006) (emphasis added). The Supreme Court held that this provision preserves the states' authority to allocate quantities of water between different users without proscribing federal pollution controls on water quality. PUD No. 1 v. Wash. Dep't of Ecology, 511 U.S. 700, 720 (1994).
[21].Catskills II, 451 F.3d at 85.
[28].Id. (citing 33 U.S.C. § 1313(c)(2)(A), (d) (2006) (authorizing state standards for non-point source water pollution)).
[29].Id. (citing 40 C.F.R. § 122.45(g)(4) (2010) (relieving NPDES permit holders from the responsibility to remove pollutants that are already present in the water that they use provided that the water is discharged back into the body from which it came)).
[31].National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Water Transfers Rule, 73 Fed. Reg. 33,697 (June 13, 2008) (codified at 40 C.F.R. pt. 122) [hereinafter Water Transfers Rule].
[32].40 C.F.R. § 1223(i) (2010).
[33].Water Transfers Rule, 73 Fed. Reg. at 33,700 (citing Nat'l Wildlife Fed'n v. Gorsuch, 693 F.2d 156, 175 (D.C. Cir. 1982)).
[34].Id. (citing Nat'l Wildlife Fed'n v. Consumers Power Co., 862 F.2d 580, 584 (6th Cir. 1988)).
[37].570 F.3d 1210, 1228 (11th Cir. 2009).
[39].Id. (citing Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, 467 U.S. 837, 842-43 (1984)).
[40].Id. at 1217. In Judge Carnes' picturesque phrase, "The unitary waters theory has a low batting average. In fact, it has struck out in every court of appeals where it has come up to the plate."
[42].The courts in Dubois, 102 F.3d at 1299, and Catskills II, 451 F.3d at 81, took the same view of the dams cases.
[44].Friends of the Everglades, 570 F.3d at 1224.
[49].Friends of the Everglades v. S. Fla. Water Mgmt. Dist., 131 S. Ct. 643 (2010).
[50].Lawrence Hurley, Supreme Court Declines to Take Fla. Water Transfer Case, Greenwire (Nov. 29, 2010), http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2010/11/29/3/.
[52].Commentators have urged other courts to rule that the Water Transfers Rule violates the CWA. See, e.g., Laura Murphy & Alison Stone, No. 9: EPA's Water Transfer Exemption Remains in Force, Vt. L. Top Ten Envtl. Watch List 2011, http://watchlist.vermontlaw.edu/
?page_id=70 (last visited Jan. 27, 2011).
[53].W. Va. Highlands Conservancy, Inc. v. Huffman, 625 F.3d 159, 163-64 (4th Cir. 2010).
[55].Id. at 167 (citing Water Transfers Rule, 73 Fed. Reg. at 33,699).
[57].The Huffman decision also cites 40 C.F.R. § 122.2 (2010) in support of the narrow definition of "navigable waters," id. at 167, but this regulation expresses the Supreme Court's holdings in the wetlands cases discussed in this paragraph.
[58].Solid Waste Agency of N. Cook Cnty. v. U.S. Army Corps of Eng'rs, 531 U.S. 159 (2001).
[59].547 U.S. 715, 739 (2006) (plurality opinion).
[60].Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. v. Sheehan, 892 N.Y.S.2d 651, 653 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010).
[62].Dubois, 102 F.3d at 1297 ("We can take judicial notice that the Pemigewasset River was for years one of the most polluted rivers in New England, the repository for raw sewage from factories and towns. It emitted an overwhelming odor and was known to peel the paint off buildings located on its banks.").
[63].See Friends of the Everglades, 570 F.3d at 1227 ("The point is that it may seem inconsistent with the lofty goals of the Clean Water Act to leave out of the permitting process the transfer of pollutants from one navigable body of water to another, but it is no more so than to leave out all non-point sources, allowing agricultural run-offs to create a huge 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico.").


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Merlinda Bobis (born 25 November 1959) is a contemporary Philippine-Australian writer and academic.
Born in Legazpi City, in the Philippines province of Albay, Merlinda Bobis attended Bicol University High School then completed her B.A. at Aquinas University in Legazpi City. She holds post-graduate degrees from the University of Santo Tomas and University of Wollongong, and now lives in Australia. Written in various genres in both Filipino and English, her work integrates elements of the traditional culture of the Philippines with modern immigrant experience.
Also a dancer and visual artist, Bobis currently teaches at Wollongong University. Her play Rita's Lullaby was the winner of the 1998 Awgie for Best Radio Play and the international Prix Italia of the same year; in 2000 White Turtle won the Steele Rudd Award for the Best Collection of Australian Short Stories and the 2000 Philippine National Book Award. Most recently, in 2006, she has received the Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Book Award, Philippines) for her novel Banana Heart Summer, from the Book Development Association of the Philippines. Bobis won the 2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her book, Locust Girl: A Lovesong.[1]
- Rituals: Selected poems, 1985-1990. (1990)
- Summer was a Fast Train without Terminals. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-76-0
- usaping ina at anak ' '
Short stories[edit]
- White Turtle. (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1999) ISBN 1-875559-89-2 review
- The Kissing (Aunt Lute, 2001) ISBN 1-879960-60-5 [US reissue of White Turtle] review
Banana Heart Summer (Murdoch Books, 2005) ISBN 1-74045-590-8 The Solemn Lantern Maker (Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2008) Fish-hair Woman (North Melbourne: Spinifex, 2011) Locust Girl: A Lovesong (North Melbourne: Spinifex, 2015)
Among her awards are Australian Classical Music Award for Best Vocal/Choral Work of the Year for Daragang Magayon Cantata, 2007; Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (National Balagtas Award: a lifetime award for author's poetry and prose in English, Pilipino, Bikol) from the Unyon ng Manunulat ng Pilipinas (Union of Philippine Writers), 2006; Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Book Award: Philippine publishers' award) for Banana Heart Summer, 2006; Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Banana Heart Summer, 2006; Nomination: Best in Foreign Language in Fiction from the Manila Critics' Circle for Banana Heart Summer, 2006; Judges' Choice Award, Bumbershoot Bookfair, Seattle Arts Festival for The Kissing (collection of short stories published as White Turtle in Australia and the Philippines), 2001; Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award (for the Best Published Collection of Australian Short Stories, joint winner) for White Turtle, 2000; Philippine National Book Award for Fiction (Joint winner) from the Manila Critics' Circle for White Turtle, 2000; NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers' Fellowship for novel in progress, Fish-Hair Woman, 2000; Canberra Writing Fellowship jointly from the Australian National University, the University of Canberra, and the Australian Defence Force Academy, 2000; Prix Italia (international award) for Rita's Lullaby (radio play), 1998; Australian Writers' Guild Award (AWGIE) for Rita's Lullaby, 1998; Pamana Philippine Presidential Award for achievement in the arts (for Filipino expatriates), 1998; shortlist: The Age Poetry Book of the Year Award for Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals (collection of poems), 1998; winner, Out of the Ashes Trans-Tasman Short Story Competition for White Turtle (short story), 1998; commended: National Short Story Competition, Society of Women Writers for The Sadness Collector (short story), 1998; joint winner, ABC Radio National's 'Books & Writing Short Story Competition' for The Tongue (also known as The Parable of Illawarra Street), 1997; Ian Reed Foundation Prize for Radio Drama for Rita's Lullaby, 1995; Carlos Palanca Memorial Award in Literature (Philippine national award), Honourable Mention for Ms. Serena Serenata (one-act play), 1995; Gawad Cultural Centre of the Philippines (national award for poetry in Filipino) for Mula Dulo Hanggang Kanto ('From End to Corner', collection of poems), 1990; Likhaan Award for Daragang Magayon and other poems, University of the Philippines Writers' Workshop, 1990; Carlos Palanca Memorial Award in Literature, Second Prize for Lupang di Hinirang: Kuwento at Sikreto ('Land Not Dearest: Story and Secret', collection of poems in Filipino), 1989; and Carlos Palanca Memorial Award in Literature, joint winner, First Prize for Peopleness (collection of poems in English), 1987.
External links[edit]
- covenant animation of poem
- Food, Love and other Engagements
- Merlinda Bobis in conversation
- Re-Inventing the Epic
- Bobis, Merlinda in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
- ^ "2016 - CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION". NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
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- Australian women novelists
- Filipino emigrants to Australia
- Filipino women short story writers
- Australian women short story writers
- Australian women poets
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All-Star Game has seen its share of changesby Evan Weiner
"It was All-Star. We were all proud to be invited. We recognized the League and the six teams were very competitive and there were an awful lot of good players out there waiting for us to make a mistake so they could take our jobs."
-- Bill Hay reflecting back on the 1961 All-Star Game
The All-Star Game activities in the age of the Original Six hold little resemblance to the last two games held in Dallas and Atlanta or to this year's contest in Montreal on Jan 24 and 25.
In fact, there was no All-Star Weekend in Toronto in 1947 or 1961 because the format was different. This year it will be an East versus West affair; back then it was a group of First- and Second-Team All-Stars playing the defending Stanley Cup champion prior to the start of the season.
In 1951 and 1952, First-Team All-Stars and others played a team of Second-Team All-Stars and others.
The League moved the All-Star Game to mid-season in 1966-67 and went to the East versus West format in 1969. The League has had variations on the format. In 1979, the NHL All-Stars took on the Soviet Union in a three-game series at Madison Square Garden, which was won by the Soviets, 2-1. Another year, 1987, the game was not played because of the Rendez-Vous '87 series between the Soviet Union and NHL All-Stars in Quebec City. The 2006 game was not played because of the Winter Olympics. Another format variation was tried between 1998 and 2002 when North American players faced World players.
In 1961, Bill Hay was a member of the defending Stanley Cup-champion Chicago Blackhawks, and for the first time in five years, the Montreal Canadiens didn't host the contest.
"I guess (NHL President) Clarence Campbell set it up and I guess they thought it was a good way to go," said Hay of the All-Star format. "It was a good draw for the Stanley Cup champions and it was a reason to open the season. That was the first game. It started the season off and I think it was a marketing ploy. It was a League game, but I think the goaltenders didn't enjoy it that much because there was a lack of contact and lack of checking.
"The fans liked it because they were still hung over from the Stanley Cup from the spring before. They were so thrilled to have the All-Stars in town."
Hay said none of the Blackhawks ever had an interaction with members of the Canadiens, Maple Leafs, Bruins, Rangers or Red Wings in those days. They were strictly the enemy.
"(The game) was the only time they would talk to each other," said Hay. "But you know I didn't talk to them and you would not want to hear what I used to say to them."
But players did let their guard down very briefly for the game, according to Hay. In fact, it was the only time they opened up to one another. The All-Star Game featured about 40 players, which was probably 40 percent of the League. In those days, a bad All-Star Game could send a player to the minors, so it was important to play a good game even if it was just an exhibition contest.
"It was All-Star. We were all proud to be invited," Hay said. "We recognized the League and the six teams were very competitive and there were an awful lot of good players out there waiting for us to make a mistake so they could take our jobs."
Hay said that it makes so much more sense now to hold the game in the middle of the season because hockey can be a 10-month job, as opposed to his day when the season opened with training camp in September and was done by mid-April.
The All-Star Game was a big deal for the 1961 Blackhawks. There was pressure on Glenn Hall, Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita, along with the rest of the team, to beat the All-Stars.
"Yes, every time you get on the ice, you are under pressure to win. Nobody ever thought in our era of playing the game easy," he said.
The Blackhawks faced some familiar faces in the 1961 game. In fact, Hay lined up against an old adversary, Detroit's Gordie Howe.
"I checked Gordie Howe my whole career. It wasn't easy, but somebody had to do it," Hay said. "(Right wing) Murray Balfour and (left wing) Bobby Hull got together at Christmas 1959 and (coach) Rudy Pilous asked us if we could check Howe and (Alex) Delvecchio. I said, 'Rudy, you aren't looking at it right. Ask them if they could check our line.' You had to keep one eye on him (Howe) and on the bench as well. He had an awful lot of respect and we liked his competitiveness but you had to watch him."
The only time Hay and Howe were teammates was on the 1960 All-Star squad, which played Montreal.
The 1960-61 Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup because goaltender Glenn Hall was brilliant. But Hall never did like training camp all that much and was always late in reporting to the Blackhawks. But he somehow managed to show up for every opening night of the season All-Star Game between 1955 and 1965 except for the 1959 contest, when Hall was supposedly painting a barn in Stony Plain, Alberta.
"I think the barn burnt down," said Hay with a laugh. "He was a good friend and a grand guy."


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(JNS.org) Palestinian students angry at century-old British policies attacked a senior British diplomat at Birzeit University near Ramallah.
The students swarmed the vehicle of British consul-general, Sir Vincent Fean, as he attempted to leave the university following a meeting with the school's dean. Some leapt over his vehicle and tried to attack him, while others reportedly threw rocks, Israel Hayom reported.
While Fean was unhurt, a photographer from the Associated Press said that he saw a student kicking him.
The violent outburst forced Fean to cancel a speech at the school.
The students were apparently upset over Great Britain's 1917 Balfour Declaration, which supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in the then British-ruled Mandate of Palestine. Israel eventually declared its independence in 1948 amidst Arab attacks, and largely without the support of the British.
"We asked the university to cancel his visit because Britain is the cause of the Palestinian tragedy," said Taha Afghani, student leader of the Fatah group. Fatah is the Palestinian political party headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
"Get out of Birzeit!" they yelled in English, according to the Associated Press.
In a statement, Biezeit University condemned the actions of its students.
"We believe it would have been much more useful if the students had a dialogue with the guest and expressed their political views in a peaceful way," the university said.


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The integration of planning and control
We mentioned in the introduction to Part 5, that control may be related to planning by defining the purpose of control as being to ensure that the organization's activities conform with its plans. Control is itself an activity, therefore, and it should and does affect every aspect of the organization. We may depict the control cycle in the form of a generalized model.
The control cycle illustrated thereon shows that the origin of control is in the objectives of the organization from which plans are developed. These plans, as we saw in our Planning Section, consist of both long-range and annual plans. It is evident from the model depicted on p. 568 that the control cycle integrates both the long-range and the annual plan. Information feedback enables actual performance to be compared with the planned performance required by the annual plan, thus enabling management to control operations and the resources allocated to those operations. At the end of the year, the results may be compared with those envisaged in terms of the long-range plans, thereby providing information feedback for the purposes of reviewing the long-range plan. Finally, the control process allows achievements to be compared with the organization's desired objectives, thereby enabling new goals and new objectives to be formulated.
The control model illustrates the multi-dimensional nature of the control process, and the coincidence of the control process with the planning processes. It is this coincidence which allows the planning and the control process to be integrated into one model which is focused on organizational objectives and the goals derived from those objectives. Overall control is concerned with measuring progress towards the realization of organizational objectives and the strategic goals defined in the strategic plan. This aspect of control is exercised by top management. Using the terminology adopted in this website, management control is a subordinate activity concerned with the efficient use of resources committed to the realization of organizational goals. Finally, operational control is concerned with ensuring that the tasks defined in the operational plan are carried out effectively. Specific performance standards are attached to these tasks, and information feedback allows actual performance to be compared with the required performance.
From the foregoing, it follows that control standards are designed in the planning process. They are used as indices by which the effectiveness and the result of organizational activities are to be assessed, for they provide the basis by which actual and planned performance are to be compared. Moreover, since organizational activities emanate from the planning process, plans themselves also constitute performance standards.
There remains, however, a perceptible distinction between planning and control in the sense in which we consider these terms in this text. A plan reflects the expectations and the means of achieving stipulated goals during a specified period. If such a plan is to be useful for control purposes as well, it should reflect adequately the extent to which those expectations and those means are subject to organizational control. Hence, it should provide the basis for the system of responsibility accounting which requires a clear definition of the controllable elements at every level of responsibility.
In addition to providing information for short-run profit planning purposes, the accountant also often has to provide information for a number of short-run tactical decisions such as dropping a product line or choosing between selling or further processing a semi-manufactured product. As in other areas of accounting, cost information plays an important role in short-run tactical decisions. The costs which are relevant for such decisions are future differential costs.
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The first parts of the rack and pinion steering system are: rubber bellows, pinion, rack, inner ball joint or socket and tie-rod. This rubber bellows is connected to the Rack and Pinion housing. It protects the inside joints from dirt and contaminants. As well as, it retains the grease lubricant contained in the rack and pinion housing. There is an identical bellows on the other finish of the rack for the opposite side connection. The pinion is related to the steering column. As the driving force turns the steering wheel, the forces are transferred to the pinion and it then causes the rack to maneuver in either route. That is achieved by having the pinion in constant mesh with the rack.
As many students or new alums are starting their new jobs/internships or simply taking time without work to absorb freedom before they tackle the true world, I find myself wrapping my thoughts round time traces and reestablishing myself with CAD software. One of the keys to success I've realized in my time at NCSU is the significance of time management and old fashioned dedication. Great ideas are merely paperweights except correctly put into motion.


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Here's the health round-up (kendo is taking a back seat).
- BP is fully controlled.
- Sciatica is significantly improved.
- Shoulder surgery :
First published on November 27, 2006, doi:10.1177/0363546506294855
This version was published on January 1, 2007
The American Journal of Sports Medicine 35:53-58 (2007)
© 2007 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Arthroscopic Distal Clavicle Resection in Athletes
A Prospective Comparison of the Direct and Indirect Approach
Kevin M. Charron, MD, Anthony A. Schepsis, MDand Ilya Voloshin, MD
From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Sports Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
* Address correspondence to Anthony A. Schepsis, MD, Director of Sports Medicine, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston University Medical Center, 720 Harrison Avenue #808, Boston, MA 02118.
Background: The clinical success of arthroscopic distal clavicle resection for athletes has been well documented. There are, however, no published studies that prospectively compare the recovery rates in athletes as well as the outcomes of the indirect versus direct approaches.
Hypothesis: Both procedures are equally successful; however, the direct approach affords faster return to sports.
Study Design: Randomized controlled clinical trial; Level of evidence, 2.
Methods: Thirty-eight consecutive athletes with osteolysis of the distal clavicle or isolated posttraumatic arthrosis of the acromioclavicular joint without instability underwent arthroscopic distal clavicle resection. The patients were randomized into 2 groups: a direct superior approach and an indirect subacromial approach. American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons and Athletic Shoulder Scoring System scores were measurable outcomes.
Results: Thirty-four athletes were available for a minimum 2-year follow-up. The 2 groups were similar, including preoperative American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons and Athletic Shoulder Scoring System scores. Both groups demonstrated significant improvement in both scores at final follow-up when compared with preoperative scores (P < .001). The direct group demonstrated higher American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (82 vs 64) and Athletic Shoulder Scoring System (74 vs 56) scores at week 2 (P < .001) and week 6 (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, 88 vs 77; Athletic Shoulder Scoring System, 87 vs 73) (P < .001). At final follow-up, both groups demonstrated excellent clinical outcomes, even though there was a statistical difference in scores, with the direct group scoring better (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, 95.7 vs 91.2; Athletic Shoulder Scoring System –94.9 vs 88.3). The direct group demonstrated faster return to sports (mean, 21 days) than the indirect group (mean, 42 days) (P < .001). Radiographic analysis demonstrated an equivalent resection. One patient in each group had a clinically insignificant increase in coracoclavicular distance.
Conclusions: Both the direct superior approach and the indirect subacromial approach to the arthroscopic distal clavicle resection result in successful clinical outcome with clinically insignificant difference at final follow-up. Athletes treated with the direct superior approach improved faster clinically and returned to sports earlier.
Key Words: acromioclavicular joint • Mumford • arthroscopic • osteolysis • distal clavicle resection
I'm going to have to do a review of the medical literature re: shoulder injuries and kendo. Dr. Stan says I'll be better than new.


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The Bechdel Test, named after cartoonist Alison Bechdel, asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. (Sometimes the "test" includes whether the characters are also given names.) It's amazing how many films can't pass that simple test. But Gunn promised that "Guardians 2" won't be like them -- or just present generic "strong" women -- because that's lazy, boring writing and he has higher ambitions than that.
Here's part of his Facebook post:
"... Now I know, in these weird times, just for writing this, I will be accused of being an SJW or 'having an agenda'. Who knows. You can categorize it however you want. But in truth I DO have an agenda, and that is telling FULL and TRUTHFUL stories, where ALL the characters are deeply realized. As a person I am a man; as a writer, I need to be everyone. Only in this way will our art and our entertainment adequately express life and inspire all of us. I am sick of stories where there are a bunch of fully realized male characters and one female character, whose primary characteristic is simply being 'the girl' or the personality-less object of some man's affections.
I'm not sick of this because I'm politically correct – those of you who know me know I am far from that – but because it's boring, and it's b.s. Likewise, I don't think only making female characters 'strong' is a fix either - you see her all the time these days, the perfect female warrior, who is a reaction to the stories of the past, but who is equally as boring and one-dimensional.
Great male characters, from Michael Corleone to Marty McFly to Han Solo to the Joker, are never perfect and never one-dimensional. They are sometimes heroic and sometimes villainous and often deeply flawed. But they always reflect the fullness of the world around us. I do not think that is true of the majority of female characters in films.
I have done my best, as a male writer, with varying degrees of success, to bring female characters and female stories to the forefront. Whether they're protagonists like Ana in Dawn of the Dead or Starla in Slither, comedy relief like Deadly Girl, Nightbird, and Power Chick in The Specials, or the insane, scene-stealing roles usually reserved for men, like Libby in SUPER.
And I can't wait for you all to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, with Gamora, Nebula, and Mantis in action, where we not only pass the Bechdel test, but run over it and back up over it again and again in an eighteen-wheeler truck, and where their stories and the men's stories don't come at the expense of each other, but are interwoven in a way to strengthen and optimize all of them..."
He's a good egg. Zoe Saldana returns from Vol. 1 as Gamora, with Karen Gillan as Nebula, and Pom Klementieff as Mantis. Also, Elizabeth Debicki is playing Ayesha, and we have our eyes on her character to make waves as well. Of course there are dudes in the movie, too, and one of them is called Star-Lord, played by the inimitable Chris Pratt. He said the "Guardians" sequel would be the biggest spectacle movie of all time. So Vol. 2 now has several big promises to keep.
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" opens May 5, 2017.
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Four days ago, isssue #61718 was posted, reporting that due to a change in the timing of a traffic light on Whitney Ave, there has been increased traffic.
According to the SeeClickFixer, "Before the new system came online, a maximum of 5 or 6 cars on Armory would have to wait for a green light, the lights would change quickly, and there would be enough time for all the cars to get onto Whitney. Under the new system, the light turns green less frequently and for a much shorter time, resulting in a backlog of 10 - 12 cars at peak rush hour times. "
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How Olive Oil Benefits The Young Eczema Sufferer.
Don't Forget Your Olive Oil! (Extra-Virgin Please)
With Beeswax blocks, olive oil, cooking pots and wooden spoons, you can make your own moisturizing paste right in your home.
In 2008, the Website www.kidshealth.org ('s) Children's Health Newsletter stated that 1 out of every 10 child develops eczema.
Fast forward to 2009. A local Savannah, Georgia news article stated that this figure had steadly risen to 1 out of 3!
Therefore, in just a matter of a year, the statistics of children diagnosed with and developing this unpleasant skin condition increased about 60 to 70%.
The experts have several theories regarding this disturbing trend (such as an increase of toxins in the environment), but haven't quite been able to pinpoint one specific cause.
Instead, they have focused most of their energy's on healing parents find ways to help alleviate the symptoms of this skin disorder.
Unfortunately, my two year old toddler fell right into this statistic when she was diagnosed with eczema at the early part of this year.
* The Characteristics Of Eczema.
Eczema is often characterized by skin that exhibits one or more of these signs; patchy, extremely dry, itchy, swelling, red and inflamed (for darker skin individuals the skin appears ashen or in dark rough patches), crusting, flaking, cracking, oozing, or bleeding.
A cause for much agony and frustration for the sufferer, the key to reducing the symptoms calls for finding and eliminating the triggers, and daily intense moisturizing.
Yet with a bevy of synthetic and all-natural moisturizers on the market, it can be very hard to choose an effective and safe moisturizer for the young eczema sufferer.
* What The Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians Knew.
Surprisingly, the answer to safely getting and keeping the skin hydrated resides right on the shelves in the kitchens of millions of people around the globe - Olive Oil.
What does olive oil do for the skin of an eczema sufferer?
Well, the Greeks (both ancient and present day), ancient Romans, and the Egyptians knew the power simple olive oil held.
For ages olive oil has been used for more than a food source, besides being employed in cooking and baking, the Egyptians used olive oil to rub their bodies after bathing - which served to protect the exposed skin from the intense rays of the sun and contributed toward keeping the skin smooth and supple.
In addition, olive oil was used for its medicinal benefits; to soften and soothe bruises and wounds.
Because of the antioxidant capacity of olive oil's minor components, such as vitamin E and polyphenols (which have been found to possesses antioxidant characteristics that play a major role in human health), olive oil also protects and tones the skin.
The benefits of this simple yet highly sought after oil was so well known, that the ancient Greeks and Romans used olive oil as a skin lotion, and enriched it with herbs for cleaning and moisturizing the skin.
Even today the effectiveness of olive oil on the skin has become widely known. In addition to cosmetics, olive oil has been added to lotions and soaps to increase their moisturizing levels.
* How Should One Use Olive Oil In Their Child's Skin-Care Regimen?
Whether taken internally or used in a topical application, regular use of (extra-virgin) olive oil in your child's skin regimen will not get rid of eczema, but it will provide the skin with the needed moisture to help aid in its healing and overall condition.
Here are some simple suggestions that I have personally found effective (these suggestions should only be put into practice if your child does not exhibit an allergy to olives):
- Ironically, long baths or showers can rob the skin of its moisture. To prevent this from occurring, place a capful of olive oil in your child's bathwater to keep the skin moisturized during bath time.
- Administer a daily dose (one tablespoon full) of olive oil orally everyday. This will help your child's body from the inside out.
- Massage your child's entire body with olive oil at least twice a day (immediately after bath time, or once in the morning and once before bedtime).
- Make a thick paste to achieve a deeper moisturizing effect following this recipe found at www.oliveoilsource.com/oliveoildr-skin.htm: ("make an emulsion of water and oil "like mayonnaise" which would thicken and hydrate. Waxes such as beeswax [which you can find in the candle section of your local arts and craft stores] can be added to make more of a liniment or ointment, heat one pint of olive oil with 1 1/2 ounces of beeswax until melted, cool, add more wax if necessary and repeat. Other ingredients used to thicken emollients are agar, a seaweed extract, methyl cellulose or xanthum gums, both plant extracts, and glycerin. They are all edible and used to thicken everything from ice cream to pancake syrup"). *as a side-note, please ensure that the mixture has cooled completely before use.
Even today the benefits of olive oil are continually expounded on.
From its major heart and anti-inflammatory benefits, to its extensive benefits for the skin; it should come as no surprise that olive oil is considered one of the top natural, safe, and effective alternatives in providing eczema relief for even the youngest of sufferers.
Apr. 17, 2010 update - While cold-pressed is said to be the best since the process it takes does not strip the oil of it's essential nutrients and results in an olive oil that is purer than its counterparts - in addition to one of the visitors comment, and confirmation with a local allergist specialist, cold-pressed olive oil should be avoided since it may contain other ingredients not listed on the bottle. Therefore, putting the eczema sufferer at risk for hidden allergies.
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I'm 27 and never knew I had eczema beofre. I got this cheap suit they gave me for work and I start getting reactions from it (it's polyester and wool), believe it or not I work security for a very high end company under the Gucci group and they gave me this cheap suit. Anyways, it got really bad and when I met up with my mother recently she told me I had ezcema as a kid. So the point is I'm 27 past 25 and holloween costumes, usually cheap polyester, be optomistic, but still a realist.
I always suspected this and you just confirmed it. I am fortunate enough to have access to the most naturally based Italian extra virgin olive oil. I live in a small town in Tuscany. I just ran over to my 3 year old and we slabbered it on our hands. By the way he loves dipping his bread in olive oil. Makes for a great and healthy snack!
Hi Veronica, really good hub you've put together here. Ive been interested in the different treatments available since my youngest started suffering. I'll be looking more into olive oil now. Thanks!
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Olive oil is great at keeping children hydrated during bath times.
Great work Veronica, I love olive oil and always like to hear about different ways to use it.
Thanks Veronica, I will try some olive oil on my skin today. Great hub with lots of info.
Great information. My son is healing from a 2-month long flare up. We use Bag balm and Vaseline. I'm interested in trying the thick paste. Also, my son's allergist recommended that we not use the "cold-pressed" olive oil as it tends to have more ingrediants which may not to be reflected on the label; therefore I cannot tell if the "cold-pressed" olive oil contains any ingrediant my son is allergic to.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the help. One of my sons seems to get an eczema like condition on his elbows and knees when it gets cold out. In and around the summer he is always perfectly fine. He also says it is never itchy. My brother in-law has it pretty bad. We usually use Aquaphor when it seems to come back for a while and that helps. But, I will give some olive oil a try.
Thank you for this informative hub and I am sure many people will be grateful for sharing this information. It must be awful.
Thanks for sharing this. I've been using olive oil for medicinal purposes in my kids long before I started cooking with it.
Such good healthy advice.
Our environment is taking its toll on all of us with children being the youngest victims. When anything becomes epidemic there are major causes, and never one. Toxins are everywhere including in our air, clothes, food, bedding, and on and on and on - everywhere!
But great news about olive oil. Thank you!
Thank for the information, I tell my daughter, so she can do it for my grand son. thanks for sharing. creativeone59
Veronica, you can also try pure petroleum jelly (vaseline) and/or "pine tar" cream or ointment if that quits working.
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Huge collection of vintage fishing lures for sale
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My father has a huge collection of old vintage wooden lures with several of then with the boxes and wants to sell the whole collection If anyone is interested. He has 30+ years worth of collecting and is willing to listen for the whole collection or possibly groups or singles if need be. He has 300 lures pre 1970's and 12 or so worth over 100 dollars and has any particular kind or brand you want or are interested in.
re: Huge collection of vintage fishing lures for sale by Steve Johnson - Nov 9th, 2017 12:00 am
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Chad, I'm not going to jump in and share info with you that I would have had you posted following the lures of this board. The only rules that are specific are that we use our first and last names here. Maybe that is part of the reason there aren't as many views. We all like lures and would like to help, maybe buy those, but there are other ways to do that. If you want to do it here, please follow those simple rules.


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Greentourism at the 4th Landscape Forum 2015
From 21st to 25th of April 2015 Bucharest hosted the Landscape Forum organized by the LE:NOTRE Institute Austria together with Romanian partners:Ion Mincu University for Architecture and Urbanism, University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, ASOP Romanian Association of Landscape Architecture, APUR Professional Association of Romanian Urban Planners as hosts and Greentourism Ecological Association as knowledge partner.
As knowledge partners, we helped in organizing the Pre-forum Promenade: Carpathian Spirit – Exploring Rural Romania, a journey to the Carpathian landscape with a focus on greentourism (19th -21th of April).
We contribute our expertise in order to bring the Forum participants from nine countries to unique places in the Carpathian landscape and present approaches to green tourism in an extraordinary natural and cultural environment.
In their way to the Carpathians the participants visited the Royal court in Valahia's former capital city, Targoviste where Vlad Tepes known as Cont Dracula, the hero of Bram Stoker novel was prince of Valachia.
In the Royal court the participants went up in Chindia Tower where they had the chance to see the urban and peri-urban landscape of the Ialomita river and Chindia lake from the top. After that, a spiritual and cultural encounter at Dealu monastery followed, also enjoing the surrondings of Targoviste and Ialomita river.
The accommodation was provided at Runcu Stone guesthouse surrounded by 60 ha woods and grasslands with an astonishing view. The slow food vegetarian dinner meals were prepared with a lot of patience, enthusiasm and love and the camp fire warmed the atmosphere under the stars. Runcu village is located 50 km from Târgoviste to the north. Runcu is one of the highest hills in the Leaota foothils (Giurcu peak, 840m) from Bucegi mountains.
Next day, after a slow food breakfast the participants were hiking in the surroundings of Runcu Stone to enjoy the natural landscape, then they were searching for the hidden treasures of the rural landscape, meeting local farmers and families and see the way they lived and worked during a spontaneous visit in Riul alb (White river) village.
At Plaiu Domnesc (Royal Fields) Pension they have been welcomed with traditional bread and salt, tuica and had a tasty traditional lunch.
After that, they visited the local folk museum, had a trip to the top of the hill, where a shepard festival is organized every year and descovered more aspects of the slow and green natural life in Runcu village. During an excursion to the Leaota mountains the participants found a hidden peaceful place deep into the forest, "Adormirea Maicii Domnului" monastery where they had the chance to rest and sense the spirit of the place.
The day ended with a traditional dinner and chating in front of the fire place at Plaiu Domnesc (Royal Fields) Pension.
In the last day, going down to Bucharest – back to the urban landscape, the participants visited Buftea dam, the place which feeds Colentina lakes and talked with people from the near village, making the transition to the main subject of the Forum.
You can see bellow some of the most relevant pictures from the promenade
The focal area of the forum was the chain of lakes along the river Colentina, which has huge potential for the sustainable development of Bucharest.
The Colentina landscape represents high relevance for the forum's four focal themes:
– Urban growth and peri-urban sprawl: the urban periphery
– Sustainable tourism and recreation: visions for landscape regeneration
through tourism development
– Heritage and identities: permanence, patrimony, specificity and dynamics of
landscape identities
– Rural fringe and productive landscapes: multifunctional rural landscapes and the economic dimension
The four themes were explored by workshops, excursions, keynote lectures and roundtable discussions during the four main forum days.
During the Sustainable Tourism & Recreation Workshop, Mr. Constantin Serban had a thematic input about green tourism in Romania in general and about the Progressive Green Labeling System in particular, as a useful tool to be implemented for a sustainable development of tourism in Colentina area.
He also stresssed the importance of nature and landscape protection in Colentina area, by taking speciffic measures to limit the antropic pressure (for example limit the use of motor boats on the lakes and implementing a waste managemnt plan).
To connect the center of Bucharest with Colentina area in week-ends, Mr. Serban proposed the establishing of some green tourism lines (bike routes and electric buses) and the development of different facilities and activities for green tourists.
Organizing a DMO (Destination Management Organization) or a Local Action Group would ensure the tourism sustainability, would build a strong brand identity and would atract funds, among many other benefits.
A first step to be done next is to formulate a sustainable tourism strategy for Colentina region based on the findings of this forum, in order to set the framework of a coherent and green development of the area.
Our association also added a green cultural touch to the Landscape Forum by organizing two green arts exhibitions: "Landscape treasures", Oshibana artworks made by Adela Talpes and "Cernica Forest Spirits", natural materials masks made by Constantin Serban. More details and pictures can be found here.


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Where in the world would you take your mother/daughter for one ultimate girlfriend getaway? The people from Budget Travel passed their question openly to their audience and these places got the most votes.
1. Truffle hunting in Cinque Terre, Italy
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A Tribute to VeteransCelebrated
Saturday November 7, 1998
At 1:00 P.M.
Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park
Brief History of the "Huey" #643
The park acquired the helicopter a few years back, and it joined the other aircraft on display. It was basically stripped of all its instruments and in desperate need of new paint and detailing. Capt. Tom Nesbitt, a local Cordele resident and former pilot with the 114th Knights in Vietnam decided to research the tail number of the helicopter and discovered it had flown in his unit in Vietnam from June '67 to July '68.
Although this was a few years prior to Mr. Nesbitt's service in Vietnam, (70-71), he felt compelled to do something to improve the run-down appearance of the Huey. He first tried to get major companies to help sponsor this expensive undertaking but found no help there. He then put the word out to his friends and over the Internet. To his surprise and delight, people from all over the country responded to assist in making this happen.
We are honored today to have one of the pilots who actually flew this Huey in combat and as flight leader on several missions around the Delta, Lt. (Later Capt.) Guy Hatlie.
Official records indicate the chopper was shot down at least once, but personal recollections by other crew members who have been found establish that it was shot down three times. After leaving Vietnam it went to Thailand for overhaul, then to Germany and back to the States to finish out it's service before being "retired."
We thank the following for their contributions:
Labor provided by:
Donations of equipment, nose art, gauges, and monetary
Technical advice, discounts, and moral support:
"Without the assistance of the above individuals I could not have completed this project. I hope I left no one out. Thank you all so very much!"
Tom Nesbitt