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You might be sitting on a heap of unread Facebook messages - correspondence dropped into an inbox you never knew about. Before we tell you where it is, here's a quick history lesson.
Once upon a time, if you had set your Facebook privacy settings to keep your profile in an iron fortress, the only way someone could interact with you was via a 'Poke'.
People didn't get 'Poke', and it quickly became a digital precursor to 'Netflix & Chill'. Facebook instead added the ability to send someone you weren't a friend with a message - but rather than ending up in their regular inbox, it would arrive in a little-known section called 'Other'.
Recently, Facebook changed the rules again: if you head to the message section of your profile, you'll see a new section called 'Message Requests' - which could be full of messages you never knew about.
This is Facebook's way of filtering out the spam that it fears might be sneaking into your inbox from false profiles, bots or companies that are trying to sell you stuff you don't want. However, if it's from a contact you're not friends with, their message could end up here.
Have a browse, and see if that crush from Ibiza 2011 has actually been trying to get in touch with you for the last few months.
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Heather Darby
Heather Darby, Ph.D. Extension Associate Professor
- Ph.D. Crops and Soils Oregon State University
- M.S. Agronomy University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Soil quality and nutrient management ; grain production; organic farming; forages; hops; oilseed crops; biofuel productionSoil quality and nutrient management ; grain production; organic farming; forages; hops; oilseed crops; biofuel production
Heather Darby is an Agronomic and Soils Specialist for the University of Vermont Extension.Being raised on a dairy farm in Northwest Vermont has allowed her to play an active role in all aspects of dairy farming and gain knowledge of the land; creating an awareness for the hard work and dedication required to operate a farm. These practical experiences, complemented by her education have focused her attention towards sustainable agriculture, and promotion of environmental stewardship. Heather is involved with research and outreach programs in the areas of fuel, forage, and grain production systems in New England.
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Phone: (802) 524-6501
Office Hours: by appointment
Website: Northwest Crops and Soils Program
I teach the following courses:
- Digging In: A Nutrient Management Course for Farmers
- Biomass to Biofuels (PSS 296)
Recent Publications:
Research reports and project information can be found on our web site: www.uvm.edu/extension/cropsoil
Darby, H, S. Bosworth, and K. Hills. 2009. Digging In: A Nutrient Management Course for Farmers. University of Vermont Extension.
Behar, H., C. Daley, H. Darby, S. Flack, E. Maltby, L. McCrory, 2010. How to Comply with the Pasture Rule on Your Organic Dairy Farm: A 10 Step Summary. eXtension Foundation [Online]. Available at: http://www.extension.org/article/30340 (verified 10 Oct 2010).
Darby, H., P. Halteman, V. Grubinger. 2010. Sunflowers for Biofuel Production. eXtension Foundation [Online]. Available at: http://www.extension.org/article/29605 (verified 07 Nov 2010).
Darby, H.M. 2009. Organic Dairy Cropping Systems. eXtension Foundation [Online]. Available at: http://www.extension.org/article/18324 (verified 22 Sept 2009).
Darby, H.M. and Gamroth, M. 2009. Strategies for Extending the Grazing Season on Organic Farms [Online]. eXtension Foundation. Available at: http://www.extension.org/article/18648 (verified 22 Sept 2009).
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Treat yourself to this delicious combination of sweetness, tartness, and crunchiness for breakfast!
Lemon Yogurt Fruit Parfait
- 1/2 cup fresh or frozen berries
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1. Place berries in the bottom of a glass cup.
2. Measure out the Greek yogurt, and stir in 1 toothpick of lemon essential oil (dip a toothpick in the oil, and then stir the toothpick around in the yogurt).
3. Spoon the yogurt into the glass over the berries.
4. Sprinkle granola over top of the yogurt.
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For those of you that restrict your news intake to just the mainstream media, you may be unaware of the ongoing trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the late term Philadelphia abortionist. This trial began March 18th and until very recently, there was a virtual media blackout of coverage of all the gruesome details of what this monster did. But the intense scrutiny by both conservative bloggers and Twitter have forced even the most liberal news outlets to finally take notice.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, aged 72, ran an abortion clinic in Philadelphia for 20 years. It was raided in 2010 on charges of illegal prescription drug trafficking. It was then that officials noticed all of the other issues with the clinic. The facility was dirty, blood-stained, and unsterile, reeking of cat urine. According to the Grand Jury Report, investigators found nearly full term babies disposed of in bags and shoeboxes, some even kept in the doctor's freezer. They also found that Gosnell kept jars of severed infants feet, as well as pictures of his patients' genitalia.
Currently, Gosnell faces 5 (originally 8) counts of murder: 4 first degree counts of murder regarding the deaths of four babies born alive, and one third degree charge regarding the death of a patient: a 41 year old refugee from Bhutan name Karnamaya Mongar who was given a lethal overdoes of anesthesia and painkillers during a 2009 abortion. As the trial enters closing arguments this week, the horrific reality of what this doctor did forces us to face a reality that the pro-choice lobby would rather not discuss: abortion by definition involves the killing of babies.
If abortion is legal, then why is this doctor on trial for the murder of infants? The fact is that Gosnell's specialty was late term abortions, where he induced labor at the point where babies born this early could survive if they received appropriate medical care. Unfortunately, since these babies were not wanted by their mothers, either Gosnell or members of his staff, ended their life by inserting a scissors in the back of the infants head, and severed the child's spinal cord in a process he called "snipping". The Grand Jury report gives several examples of this, starting with Baby Boy A: "His 17-year-old mother was almost 30 weeks pregnant – seven and a half months – when labor was induced. An employee estimated his birth weight as approaching six pounds. He was breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal. The doctor joked that this baby was so big he could 'walk me to the bus stop.' Another, Baby Boy B, whose body was found at the clinic frozen in a one-gallon spring-water bottle, was at least 28 weeks of gestational age when he was killed. An Baby C was moving and breathing for 20 minutes before an assistant came in and cut the spinal cord, just the way she had seen Gosnell do it so many times."
These are only a few of the gruesome details of what this real life Hannibal Lecter did at this clinic, which was shut down initially because of the drug trafficking, not because of the danger he posed to women and babies. Unfortunately, you would be surprised to know that abortion clinics are not regulated like other medical clinics. In fact, in 1993, the Pennsylvania Department of Health bowed to pro-choice political pressure to completely stop all oversight of abortion clinics. As noted in the Grand Jury Report, "with the change of administration from Governor Casey to Governor Ridge, officials concluded that inspections would be 'putting a barrier up to women' seeking abortions." So instead of protecting women, it seems the pro-choice lobby seemed only interested in protecting the abortion industry. You have to wonder, what is it about abortion that it makes it so important that you would risk women's health in such a fashion, even to the point of ignoring infanticide? You also have to wonder how anyone can still argue that these breathing, squirming babies are not just that, not only based on what science tells us but what you see with your own eyes?
If you want to read the full Grand Jury Report, you can see it here: http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/pdfs/grandjurywomensmedical.pdf . But I warn you, the details of what he did are graphic, with pictures too horrific to even be posted here. If you are a supporter of life, it will turn your stomach. And if you are a supporter of abortion, it may cause you to start to question that belief. But, if you are too afraid, then I suppose you could always decide to do what the media has done, and just ignore the truth of what happened to these women and to Babies A, B, and C, right?
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997)


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The United States Labor Department announced Wednesday the closing of loopholes in the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act) allowing employers to hire anti-union consultants, known as "persuaders," without reporting the arrangements.
As the law stands, reporting is only required if the persuaders are speaking directly with employers, but not if their influence reaches the workplace via intermediaries. So, consultants could advise company supervisors looking to suppress the organization of the workforce on what to say to workers and how to say it, and completely bypass the reporting requirements.


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By Dr. David Duke — The new request by President Barack Obama for an increased $500 million "aid" to "rebels" in Syria—which actually means arming the al Qaeda militants in ISIS who threaten the US-supported government in Iraq as well—is a treasonous act which is only understandable in terms of the Jewish Supremacist control and direction of the American government.
The ISIS, al Qaeda offshoot which America has supported and trained in Syria, is now overrunning Iraq! This terrorist organization has promised terrorism and attacks against America as well as Americans anywhere in the world.
Zio-toadie Sen. Graham recently on the CBS Face the Nation program said that ISIS wants to make more 9-11 attacks against America.
Yet, our Zio-controlled talking heads didn't dare ask him the obvious question. "Then why have you been supporting Syrian terrorists, considering that ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda elements dominate the rebel forces?
Hasn't the U.S. Government prosecuted Americans who have given money to terrorists? Why shouldn't you and most of the Congress of the United States as well as the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, be prosecuted for treason?"
The CNN map below shows the terrorist, al Qaeda organization, ISIS, dominating almost all of the "rebel held" territory in Syria, under the thumb of Zionists who hate Syria because of its strong support of Palestinians, traitors in the United States government have been supporting this al Qaeda offshoot with American money and weapons.
Now they have swept into Iraq as well. Now we are being told that they are planning 9-11 style attacks on United States.
Only when you understand the Zio stranglehold on the American government and media can one know why we have been supporting our supposed worst enemy in Syria.
The Syrian Government has been making great gains against the terrorists and with the end of the horrific bloodshed in sight American Nobel Peace Prize-winning Barack Obama is now sending a half of billion dollars of weapons of mass destruction to the terrorists in Syria to fulfill the Jewish Zionists wish for the slaughter to continue, even escalate.
There is one obvious reason why America would support the radical terrorists in Iraq against a Western educated medical doctor, Bashar Assad, who has the support of the majority of the citizens of Syria. He has dared to remain a supporter of the Palestinian people and the Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon who successfully defeated the Israeli invaders of Lebanon.
Syria was one of most advanced, secular states in the entire Mideast, as was Iraq. Both nations had flourishing Christian communities, education of women in universities, until the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the driving out of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians into Syria. Now the combined Christian population of the two nations is in danger of genocide from the mass murderers of ISIS.
Over a million Christians are in Syria and they all support the government as well as the leading Sunni Cleric of the nation, the Grand Mufti of Syria. The reason why America supported the al Qaeda invaders is simply because Israel wanted to see the successful, anti-Zionist state of Syria destroyed.
Why would America support al Qaeda terrorists and mass murderers, the answer is very, very simple: Because American policy and media is completely dominated by Jewish radicals who don't give a damn about America. All they care about what they see as Israel's interests.
There is simply no other reason why the American government would send even more money, arms and training, to the "Syrian rebels"—who, as everyone around the world knows, are completely dominated by the radical ISIS (also known by the acronym ISIL) element.
According to news reports, Obama sent Congress a $500 million request Thursday for a Pentagon-run program that would "significantly expand previous covert efforts to arm rebels" in Syria.
Although White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden claimed that the military assistance would "help the Syrian people . . . push back against the growing number of extremists like ISIL" this is an obvious lie.
The reality is—as has been shown even by a recent election in Syria, acknowledged by observers as free and fair, given the violence in that country, which saw President Bashar Al-Assad win nearly 90 percent of the vote—that the vast majority of the Syrian people support the current Syrian government.
There is therefore no reason for the White House to claim that the "Syrian people" are being attacked by their government. The only people doing the "attacking" are a handful of malcontents, backed by an internationally-motivated group of extremists such as the ISIS—and armed, trained and supplied by the American government.
On the face of matters, there is no rational reason why the US government would want to arm "rebels" who are aligned to the very group which is violently opposed to American interests in Iraq—and which is responsible for the most extreme, bloody and violent massacres and mass murders of recent times.
The only way in which this apparent contradiction can be explained is by the "strategy" being employed by Israel in the Middle East—which is a microcosm of the overall worldwide strategy pursued by the Jewish lobby against all Gentile nations.
This "strategy" consists of creating discord and disunity, so that attention is diverted away from Jewish Supremacist activities.
This is no "secret" policy—it was recently openly declared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on American television, particularly referring to Syria and Iraq.
On the NBC "Meet the Press" show, Netanyhau laid out the strategy as follows:
"What you're seeing in the Middle East today in Iraq and in Syria is the stark hatred between radical Shiites — in this case led by Iran — and radical Sunnis led by al-Qaeda and ISIS and others," Netanyahu said.
"Now both of these camps are enemies of the United States, and when your enemies are fighting each other, don't strengthen either one — weaken both.
"And I think by far the worst outcome that could come out of this is that one of these factions, Iran, would come out with nuclear weapon capability. That would be a tragic mistake — it would make everything else pale in comparison.
"I think that there are two actions you have to take: one is to take the actions that you deem necessary to counter this ISIS takeover of Iraq, and the second is not to allow Iran to dominate Iraq the way it dominated Lebanon and Syria.
"You actually have to work on both sides — as I say, you try to weaken both."
This "strategy"—as set out by the wirepullers who control the US government and its foreign policy—explains why Obama now seeks to increase "aid" to the "Syrian rebels" even though this is blatantly against American interests.
While the whole world calls for an end to the horrific bloodshed, the New York Times gives an insight into the Zionist position.
Here is a quote from the New York Times from September 5, 2013. The article's title is "Israel Backs Limited Strike Against Syria."
"This is a playoff situation in which you need both teams to lose, but at least you don't want one to win — we'll settle for a tie," said Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli consul general in New York. "Let them both bleed, hemorrhage to death: that's the strategic thinking here. As long as this lingers, there's no real threat from Syria."
This high up Israeli Zionist criminal says it all.
While the world wants to end the slaughter, The Israelis and their Zionist cohorts in the United States want the mass murder of innocents in Syria to go on and on!
There is simply no other reason for America to arm and supply "rebels" in Syria. All that will happen is that the bloodshed, suffering and misery of millions of innocent people will continue and even be extended.
Yet this extended bloodshed and suffering is exactly what the Jewish Supremacists want. It forms an intrinsic part of their atavistic hatred of all Gentiles. As long as the Jewish Supremacists can instigate violence and destabilize other nations, the less time the world will have to focus on their own activities.


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We will be offering our 5th Annual Graduate Programme in Graduate Research, June 25 - July 2, 2019. Further information on location will be posted shortly.
Designed and facilitated by academics with a track record of running highly successful PhD/Graduate programs associated with conferences - in Vienna, Austria; Denmark, Germany; UK and USA, and last year's Course in Corvallis, Oregon. The program features:
- Learning with contributors to the specialist Graduate components, all of international standing in the Systems field...in addition to having access to all of the conference elements and speakers
- Networking and relationship building with other Graduate students using, or keen to use, Systems ideas and methods in their practice, including research practice
- Learning with and from alumni of previous Graduate programs
- Co-developing the conference experience as a critical learning system with opportunities to feedback to the conference on your joint learning.
- You may be able to negotiate arrangements for credit with your home institution.
- Participation certificate from ISSS.
Here is what previous participants have said:
"Thank you very much for everything. It's a great experience for myself, and I do believe all other students have the same feeling!"
"First of all I would like to thank you once more for the fantastic opportunity to be part of the PhD group. I can definitely say that this experience has opened my eyes to approaches I did not know existed."
"Nonetheless ISSS PHD Course ... will be for my work and my thinking a life changing experience, and after some days of holidays I am looking forward to start writing and making more and more connections to the systemic theories and practices."
Please Note:
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- Meals, teas and coffees from June 25-27 are not included in the fee, but lunch and coffee breaks will be included during the main ISSS conference. Accommodation throughout is not included in the registration fee. Accommodation booking will be available on the website early in 2019.
You will be required to be present from the start of the program plus the full following ISSS conference to obtain your certificate of participation.


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Old Yankee Stadium Balconies
Saved for the People of New York!!!
After extensive communication and lobbying with Mayor Bloomberg, the Parks Department, and the Design Commission, the City of New York has accepted the plan of the Committee to Commemorate Old Yankee Stadium & HistoryOfTheYankees.com to preserve the original balconies from Old Yankee Stadium Gate 2, pictured above, for the People of New York!!!
These treasures, previously slated for complete destruction, will now be permanently displayed at either Old Yankee Stadium Park (formerly known as "Heritage Field"), or at an appropriate museum, as attested to in the attached letter by the Parks Department to the Committee to Commemorate Old Yankee Stadium. Accordingly, the City's previous plan to totally destroy the balconies has been scrapped instead.
We thank the City for this decision and pledge continuance of our full devotion to further commemorating Old Yankee Stadium, working around-the-clock toward a majestic park design and national landmarking of the greatest site in the history of American sports!!!
See you at the Vigil, on Sunday, April 18th, at Old Babe Ruth Plaza!!!
(Noon to 1, before the Game across 161st street, at NYS)
For Previous Media Releases, Stories & Related Videos, Please See:
http://ccoys.blogspot.com/ & http://ultimateyankees.com/CCOYS.htm
For Commemorative Video Depictions of Balconies and History of Old Yankee Stadium, see:
www.YouTube.com/watch?v=mAN7LfBtckw (Save the Gate That Ruth Built on YouTube)
For Further Information, Please contact:
Brad Turnow
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By LINDA SEEBACH
Scripps Howard News Service
August 19, 2005
Competing for students who primarily want a credential so they can qualify for bigger salaries but want it to cost as little as possible in money or effort, universities lower their admission standards, weaken their degree requirements and course standards, and rely more and more on low-cost adjuncts to teach courses that have little or nothing to do with what school leaders need to know.
Little in Levine's scathing report will come as news to people familiar with schools of education - though his anecdotal reports on just how bad things are, and the candid assessments of the unidentified professors and deans he interviewed, are illuminating - but that someone of Levine's stature in the profession is the one saying these things ought to get people's attention.
Maybe that will happen. But I doubt it will change anything.
The report, "Educating School Leaders," is from the Education Schools Project, which is in the middle of a four-year effort to study more than 1,200 departments and schools of education across the country. It was released in March, to little attention, and is available at www.edschools.org online.
"The majority of programs range from inadequate to appalling," Levine says, "even at some of the country's leading universities." He mentions a couple of "strong" programs, but none that meet nine criteria relevant to program quality in higher education - clear purpose, curricular coherence, balance between theory and practice, faculty quality, admission standards, degree requirements, research quality, financial resources and continuing self-assessment.
These are not diploma mills, mind you, where you can buy a degree for a few weeks' work; they're real universities, just offering programs of very poor quality.
Why would universities do that? Sometimes, it's to earn the prestige of granting doctoral degrees. Educational administration is often the easiest field in which to gain approval.
"Too often these new programs have turned out to be little more than graduate credit dispensers," Levine says. "They award the equivalent of green stamps, which can be traded in for raises and promotions, to teachers who have no intention of becoming administrators."
Sometimes it's just for the money. Levine quotes a university administrator who told him, "We get $4,300 per undergraduate from the state and tuition is close to $4,000. So we have around $8,000 to work with and our programs cost a little under $6,000. You can admit a lot of education majors and make money. Nursing students cost $12,000 per student. So you have to admit a lot of education majors to have some money left over so you can admit a few nursing students."
It would, of course, be nice to know who these people are, but if we did, we wouldn't know what they really think. They'd be too embarrassed to say.
If a university did want to offer a rigorous exemplary program, who would apply for it? Students intending to enroll in a graduate program in educational administration have an average score on the Graduate Record Examination 46 points below the national average on the verbal part, and 81 points below the average on the math part. And that may be optimistic, since only the relatively strong schools even ask applicants to take the GRE. In practice, many accept everybody who applies.
Sometimes they don't even need to apply. One dean told Levine, "Students would show up and we would let them stay."
Another administrator, from a respected university, said about the students who enroll in its off-campus programs, "We have admitted some people with GRE scores just above what you get for filling out the form."
It's not just the students who sometimes fall short of academic excellence.
At one state university that awards doctoral degrees, Levine says, the faculty members' "lack of scholarly interest and productivity is remarkable."
One professor told him, about doing research, "The hardest part is finding places where you can publish where everything doesn't have to be original research."
Yes, that is supposed to be hard.
The quality of research in educational administration is so poor, Levine says, that it "cannot answer questions as basic as whether school leadership programs have any impact on student achievement in the schools that graduates of these programs lead."
If they don't, the entire enterprise is meaningless. But school districts pay more to people with advanced degrees, even if the degrees are worthless, so people go and earn them. They don't want to spend a lot of time jumping through pointless hoops, so they choose the easiest and cheapest programs they can find and universities accommodate them.
You can't blame people for responding to incentives, but when the incentives are perverse, they ought to be changed.


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This example illustrates the use of string input. The subject is presented with a question and is asked to type a response. The subject's response echo's to the display, so that they may see
their response as they are typing.
String input in E-Prime is currently supported by setting the MaxCount parameter on the Advanced property page of the Duration/Input tab for the object collecting the response. The
MaxCount parameter allows you to set the maximum number of keys allowed for input. The Termination Response property designates the input to be used to terminate the input mask prior
to reaching the maximum response count set in Max Count. This example uses the Enter key as the termination response. The Echo tab in the Advanced Properties permits the user to specify the
device to which input will be echoed, and to set properties for that device. In this sample, the response is echoed via the Display device, and the properties are set to echo black text on a white
background below the question presented to the subject.
For more information on the properties related to string input please refer to the Advanced Device properties heading under section 220.127.116.11 in the E-Prime Reference Guide.


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If you're a man over 60, chances are you focus less on your own health than the women around you.
In countries such as Australia, older men are less likely to speak to a doctor when they come across a problem with their bodies.
Better Health Victoria suggests there's a number of reasons why this is the case.
For some of us, it can be seen as less masculine to seek help. Others feel as though they're invincible and that they can make themselves better without the help of doctors. Then there are those of us who simply avoid seeing a doctor because we're scared of what the visit could reveal.
Unfortunately, none of us are getting any younger, meaning that we are more at risk of health problems.
We here at Starts at 60 know how hard it can be, which is why we've put together this list of major health topics all older men need to be aware of.
We're all aware that cancer is a big killer around the world, but did you know that prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death for older Aussie men?
You've probably heard horror stories of how doctors check for this kind of cancer, but rest assured that it's nowhere near as bad as people make out. You usually only need to get a test once every four years, but there are things you can look out for between visits.
Symptoms usually start to show when a tumour is big enough to put pressure on your urethra. When this happens, you'll likely experience a bigger urge to wee or find it extremely hard to pass urine. You could also find it painful when urinating and in extreme cases, even find blood in your wee.
Others who have been diagnosed found that they had bad pains in their lower back and hips. If you start noticing any of these, see a doctor as soon as possible. It doesn't necessarily mean you have cancer, but it's always best to be on the safe side.
Heart disease is actually the number one cause of death for older Australian men. If you've been experiencing chest pains or finding it hard to breathe, it could be a sign there's a problem with your heart.
Heart disease usually occurs when your arteries become blocked and can often result in a heart attack.
While preventing it isn't always possible, especially if your heart problems have been passed down through genetics, there are small changes you can make to lead a healthier lifestyle.
These include lowering your cholesterol levels, exercising more, eating healthier foods and stopping smoking.
Behind heart attacks, strokes are the next biggest killer of Australian men.
More than 35,000 people are hospitalised each year from a stroke and they usually occur when blood is cut off from the brain.
A quarter of all strokes can be fatal, so it's really important to realise that you can't mess around if you suspect you're suffering from one.
The Stroke Foundation urges all people to be aware of their F.A.S.T campaign as a way of helping yourself or someone you suspect is having a stroke. F is for checking if your face has drooped, A is if you can't lift your arms, S is to check if your speech is slurred, while T stands for time to call for help if you're showing any symptoms.
Maintaining a healthy weight and lowering blood pressure are just some of the lifestyle changes you can make to prevent a stroke.
Research has found that thousands of people are currently living with Type 2 diabetes and don't even know it. It basically occurs when your pancreas isn't producing the right amount of insulin, resulting in your body leaving too much glucose in your blood.
Most people living with Type 2 Diabetes will be required to take medication or insulin to help them with their condition.
For others, simply monitoring your blood glucose and making small lifestyle changes can be enough to manage the condition.
These changes can include, but are not limited to, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising frequently, eating a healthy diet that doesn't include many processed meals and reducing levels of alcohol consumption.
Believe it or not, depression is something that impacts more males than we're aware of.
Studies suggest that one in eight of us will experience it at some stage in our lives, with suicide being one of the leading causes of premature death in the country.
While progress is being made when it comes to mental health, men are still less inclined to talk about their feelings. In fact, many of us still think that depression only means feeling sad, which isn't the case.
It can also be that feeling of helplessness, unable to control our emotions, unable to sleep or focus. If you've also lost interest in things you usually love such as social events or sports, this could also be a sign of depression.
If you feel like you're depressed, it's always a good idea to talk to your GP about what options are available for you. It doesn't always mean you'll be put on medication and you could find there are small changes you can make that will make you feel a lot better about yourself. For emergency situations, Lifeline is available 24 hours a day on 13 11 14. You can also visit beyondblue.org.au.


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My friend Andrew Breitbart threw a party for GOProud at the CPAC festivities last night. Another friend — Roger Simon — celebrates Andrew's party as a "a game changer," as Glenn Reynolds notes here. I want to restate my dissent from the excitement.
Looking around the GOProud site, the organization appears to integrate traditional conservative limited government goals with a homosexual rights agenda. Its legislative priorities include repeal of Don't Ask/Don't Tell and opposition to "any anti-gay federal marriage amendment." The group states that "[m]arriage should be a question for the states." I can't find the group's position on gay marriage otherwise noted on the site, but I infer from the group's formulation of the position on a federal marriage amendment that opposition to gay marriage is deemed "anti-gay" by definition.
The rationale of GOProud appears to be the advocacy of a homosexual rights agenda within an otherwise conservative framework. "What is GOProud?" The organization answers that "GOProud represents gay conservatives and their allies." I'm drawing the inference, but, again, the implication is that allies of gay conservatives are conservatives who support the agenda of homosexual rights.
I doubt that the big tent can be quite this big. The Republican Party was founded in the belief that it was "the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy, and Slavery," as the party platform of 1856 put it. Utah would not be welcome in the Union until Mormons ditched their devotion to plural marriage.
GOProud takes us back to an issue whose arguments we have mostly forgotten. Charles Krauthammer connected homosexual marriage and polygamy by the logic supporting each. He notes that "it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement — the number restriction (two and only two) — is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice."
That doesn't answer the question why homosexual marriage and polygamy should be opposed in the first place. Indeed, Krauthammer leaves himself open to the argument for homosexual marriage. As I say, this is a subject with respect to which we have mostly forgotten the arguments, which inevitably lead back to nature and nature's God, as set forth in one of those mysterious documents whose age exceeds one hundred years.
There is a reason why the advocates of homosexual rights have found their home within modern liberalism. I'm not looking to pick any fights within the conservative movement, but I think the founders of the Republican Party had it right, both with respect to slavery and polygamy. By the same token, to the extent that a conservative group advocates the homosexual rights agenda, I think it is mistaken. It should be opposed even if we welcome the group's support in resisting the rest of the liberal agenda.
JOHN adds: I'm not sure whether it was a game-changer, but it was a heck of a good party–clearly the hottest social event at CPAC so far. We had to wait in line to get in; the fact that people were willing to do so in yesterday's freezing cold here in D.C. was impressive. In line, we bumped into our friends Roger Simon and Roger Kimball. It was one time when Roger Simon's trademark hat came in handy.
You could tell the party was at a trendy venue because it didn't have a sign. If not for the line, we would have missed it. It was the sort of party we hadn't been at for a long time. This video gives a sense of what it was like:
I chatted with Andrew Breitbart for a while. He was excited about the party's success and also, I think it is fair to say, dismayed by attacks leveled against him for putting it on. Andrew is a huge asset to the conservative cause, undoubtedly the number one impresario on our side. There once was a Southern Senator who, when asked his position on an issue, would say, "Some of my friends are for it and some are agin' it, and I'm for my friends." That formula doesn't seem as silly to me now as it did when I was younger. This is one of those issues where I am for my friends.
My own view, which I think is a little different from Scott's–a rare occurrence!–is that there are some issues that are deal-breakers from the standpoint of the conservative coalition, and others that are not. If someone says he is for increased federal spending and debt, I'm sorry–he may be conservative on a variety of other issues, but he isn't someone we can count on our team. Likewise if he wants to dismantle the military and is clueless about national security threats. (This is part of the reason why I do not consider Ron Paul and his supporters to be legitimate members of the conservative coalition.) But for me, gay marriage is not a deal-breaker. Those who are with us on fiscal and security issues are, in my view, our allies; we can continue to debate the gay marriage issue but it should not impede our making common cause on the matters that, for me, define modern conservatism. Moreover, the enormous talents of the gay community can be a real asset to the movement. So I say, welcome to the fight.


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Green Party Founder Says Wind Farms Are A Disaster
Green Energy Chronicles
John's weekly update on graft, corruption and waste in the energy sector.
Wind Power Propaganda: Coming To A School Near You
Any parent involved with their children's homework or school knows that "green" is in. But too often more than that, "green" notions are presented as self-evident truths where there should be critical thinking and discussion. Also too often, federal and state funds are being dispensed to create the 'greenest' possible hearts and minds for tomorrow.
Such is the case with an industry that is economically useless and environmentally destructive: industrial wind power. A website of the U.S. Department of Energy, Wind Powering America, describes how schools can receive taxpayer funding for wind projects. The site provides links to wind-friendly educational materials from Canada, California, Idaho, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona.
Wind companies and their trade groups are also involved. In Ontario, my province, teachers are asked how they feel about corporate logos in schools in exchange for such "benefits" as free computers. The response is often negative, but industrial-wind propaganda abounds in textbooks, learning materials, and kid-friendly websites.
Take a peak at these corporate "green" programs all around you. Here in Canada, there is Lego, and his/her treats, Dad's Cookies (now Kraft). Eco Logo products for kids abound. Spin Master, third largest toy manufacturer in the USA and the largest in Canada, now advertises that it uses Bullfrog Power, thus luring young purchasers further into green propaganda.
Green Movement Founder Says Wind Farms Are A Disaster
One of the world's top environmentalists has said wind farms risk becoming "monuments of a failed civilisation" as he fights to stop a 275ft turbine being erected near his home.
Professor James Lovelock, 93, a founding father of the Green movement, is famous for inventing "Gaia Theory" and predicting global warming would wipe out four fifths of the world's population by 2100. But he has now expressed despair that the original intentions of the movement have been misconstrued as a license to cast aside our "priceless ecological heritage."
In recent years the scientist has outraged many followers after becoming an advocate of nuclear power and a staunch opponent of wind energy. Prof Lovelock is protesting against a single turbine at Witherdon Wood, Broadwoodwidger. It is believed he lives or has a property 43 miles away near Barnstaple.
In a letter to Torridge District Council, his local planning authority, Professor Lovelock wrote: "I am an environmentalist and founder member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood.
Britain's 4th Largest Wind Farm Approved Despite Vocal Critics
The approval comes despite local opposition, with a survey of Lincolnshire residents showing that 90% opposed the wind farm.
While they were forced to accept the latest decision Lincolnshire has already fulfilled its requirements of providing wind energy, he said, adding: "We understand the need for renewable energy. However, we can't ignore the impact wind farms are having on our beautiful and historic countryside for what appears to be very limited gain."
UN Finally Admits Solar Activity Plays A Significant Role In Global Warming
The Earth has been getting warmer -- but how much of that heat is due to greenhouse gas emissions and how much is due to natural causes? A leaked report by a United Nations' group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought.
"The public needs to know now how the main premises and conclusions of the IPCC story line have been undercut by the IPCC itself," Rawls wrote on his website.
Rawls blames the U.N. for burying its point about the effect of the sun in Chapter 11 of the report. "Even after the IPCC acknowledges extensive evidence for ... solar forcing beyond what they included in their models, they still make no attempt to account for this omission in their predictions. ... It's insane."
The Wind Power Tax - Wall Street Journal
Should businesses and families have to pay higher electricity rates to underwrite the cost of wind energy they don't even use?
That is the issue as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission takes up a complaint by Interstate Power and Light Co. (IPL) that 500,000 rate payers in Iowa and Minnesota will have to pay $170.5 million from 2008-2016 for transmission lines and upgrades to connect wind farms to the electric grid. The utility provides compelling evidence that "the burden of these huge costs is unrelated to any benefits that may accrue to IPL and its customers." And they are paying even though they "have not experienced any material improvements to reliability or lower energy prices."
The case has ramifications nationwide because the price tag for upgrading and expanding power lines to reach offshore and remote wind turbines could reach $150 billion. The green energy lobby and Obama Administration want to socialize these costs on the backs of all rate payers.
We criticized this stealth consumer tax two years ago when Michigan rate payers were asked to subsidize about 20% of the $16 billion cost to build wind-based power lines outside the state even though those customers received little benefit.
Terence Corcoran: The Price Of Keystone May Be A Carbon Tax
Hello Canada! Are you ready — ready for a new national tax on carbon that will ding pocketbooks across the country? My bet is that a new carbon tax is coming, made almost inevitable by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's full-bore push to secure Washington's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
For early clues on the carbon tax/Keystone trade-off, tune in Tuesday night to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. As the president speaks, he will be alert to the chorus of Hollywood stars, environmental activists, editorial writers and industry leaders who are pushing for him to make the biggest climate-change decision he can possibly make: Impose a carbon tax.
It is time Canadians became aware of the giant trap being set in Washington over Keystone. The short version is this: The president approves Keystone, greatly expanding the flow of Canadian oil sands production into the United States. In return, however, Canada has no choice but to accept a carbon tax at home as part of a grand bargain.
The Keystone-carbon tax trade off was also suggested in a recent editorial in Nature, the science journal. The editorial was big news in Canada, thanks to its endorsement of Keystone and Canada's oil sands. "Regarding the Keystone pipeline," said Nature, "the administration should face down critics of the project, ensure environmental standards are met and then approve it." The science writers at Nature also benevolently said Canada's oil sands are "not as dirty as many believe."
The Washington Post is on the same two-track policy theme. Last month the Post urged the president to "ignore the activists who have bizarrely chosen to make Keystone XL a line-in-the-sand issue." Last week, in a climate-change editorial, the Post presented the other half of the bargain with a ringing endorsement of a carbon tax. Putting a "slowly rising, significant price on carbon emissions" would encourage people to burn less fossil fuel. As an added fiscal bonus, since Washington needs new revenues to meet its fiscal crisis, "a carbon tax would be an ideal source" of revenue.
Video - Carbon Tax Fraud
Nations Going Seperate Ways As EU Carbon Efforts Fail
Europe's failure to raise carbon prices enough to spur green energy use means more nations are expected to follow the example of Britain and take action on their own. EU efforts in the immediate term are focused on a Feb. 19 vote in a committee of the European Parliament which will provide the next signal of whether a plan to bolster the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme can proceed.
Even if agreed, analysts predict it will be years before European carbon prices rise to the level of at least 40 euros ($53) that analysts say is needed to spur investment in low-carbon energy. That's good news for intensive energy users and coal-burners, but bad for governments committed to 2020 environmental targets for which they need to bolster green energy use.
A positive vote next week would give an indication of whether the European Union has the political will for deeper reform needed over the longer term. It would then require further debate among member states and a plenary session of the European Parliament.
New Bill To Limit U.S. Funding For The IPCC
Following last night's State of the Union Address in which the president pledged to implement a job-killing climate change agenda, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) today introduced legislation to prohibit the United States from contributing taxpayer dollars to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Luetkemeyer said the IPCC has received a great deal of criticism over the last several years, particularly when emails publicly released from a university in England showed that leading global scientists intentionally manipulated climate data and suppressed legitimate arguments in peer-reviewed journals. Researchers were asked to delete and destroy emails so that a small number of scientists could continue to advance their environmental agenda. Since that time, more than 700 acclaimed scientists have challenged claims made by IPCC.
"The American people should not have to foot the bill for an international organization that is fraught with waste, engaged in dubious science, and is promoting an agenda that will destroy jobs and drive up the cost of energy in the United States," Luetkemeyer said. "Unfortunately, the president appears to be ready to fund these groups, revive harmful policies like cap and trade, and further empower out of control federal regulators at a time when we should be doing everything possible to cut wasteful spending, reduce regulatory red tape, and promote economic growth."
House Unanimously Passes Hydropower Bill
America's hydroelectric power sector received a boost as House Resolution 267, also known as the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013, received a unanimous 422-0 vote of approval before the U.S. House of Representatives earlier today.
The legislation is essentially the same as H.R. 5892, which was a bipartisan energy policy designed to promote growth of mini hydro and in-conduit projects by streamlining the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) permitting process for low-impact proposals.
Specifically, the Hydropower Regulatory Act will:
- Increase the small hydro exemption from 5 MW to 10 MW
- Remove conduit projects under 5 MW from FERC jurisdiction
- Increase the conduit exemption to 40 MW for all projects
- Provide FERC the ability to extend preliminary permits
- Require FERC to examine a two-year licensing process for non-powered dams and closed-loop pumped-storage
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Brookfield Buys Maine Hydropower Assets
Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners has reached an agreement to purchase 19 hydroelectric dams in Maine, including the two largest in the state.
The company, which is managed and majority-owned by Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management, is acquiring the portfolio of 19 hydroelectric dams, as well as eight upstream storage reservoir dams, from NextEra Energy Resources LLC for approximately $760 million, according to a media release from the company.
The 19 dams are primarily on the Kennebec, Androscoggin and Saco rivers and have a total capacity of 351 megawatts and annual generation capacity of 1.6 million megawatt-hours, according to the release. All of the facilities have licenses from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, most of which are valid through 2025. All output from the facilities is sold into the New England wholesale power market.
These dams belonged to the original 31 hydroelectric dams FPL Energy of Maine acquired from Central Maine Power Co. in 1999 after Maine restructured its energy industry, forcing electric utilities like CMP to sell off its generating assets.
Brookfield Fails In Bid, Western Wind Remains For Sale
Brookfield acknowledged in a press release last night, that it had failed to obtain the sufficient number of shares required under the Rules for a Permitted Bid by an Insider, namely, acceptance by 50% of independent shareholders of its bid of $2.60. Significantly, in its press release, Brookfield deliberately omitted to state the number of shareholders who had tendered to its bid, a fact that we believe indicates that many shareholders decided to reject their offer and confirms Brookfield's news release of January 28, 2013 where Brookfield confirms only 22% of the shareholders have either tendered or may do so in the future. This leaves more than 75% of shareholders who have said "NO" to the Brookfield Offer. The Brookfield bid has been public since November 23, 2012, with a nominal increase of $0.10 per share made on January 28, 2013, sufficient time for shareholders to make an assessment.
Brookfield has previously stated, three times, that their bid was a "final offer" and that "time is running out". Brookfield has now extended its bid by ten days as a result of its huge failure to obtain the required number of tendered shares.
Flashback - Brookfield And Occupy
EPA Releases Draft Of Action Plan For Climate Change
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft proposal of its plans for adapting to climate change. The proposal will be open for public review and comment for 60 days. "Adaptation will involve anticipating and planning for changes in climate and incorporating considerations of climate change into many of the agency's programs, policies, rules and operations," the EPA said Thursday.
Scientific evidence demonstrates that the climate is changing at an increasingly rapid rate, outside the range to which society has adapted in the past. Climate change can pose significant challenges to the EPA's ability to fulfill its mission. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is committed to identifying and responding to the challenges that a changing climate poses to human health and the environment.
It is essential; therefore, that the EPA adapt to climate change in order to continue fulfilling its statutory, regulatory and programmatic requirements, chief among these protection of human health and the environment. Adaptation will involve anticipating and planning for changes in climate and incorporating considerations of climate change into many of the Agency's programs, policies, rules and operations to ensure they are effective under changing climatic conditions. Adaptation also necessitates close coordination between EPA and its many partners and stakeholders
House GOP Puts Wind Tax Credit Under Microscope
The wind production tax credit will be the subject of increased oversight this Congress, Rep. James Lankford told The Hill on Tuesday.
Congress, with a strong push from the White House, extended the credit for one year in the January deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff." The renewal included an alteration that allowed wind projects to collect the credit if developers commence construction by 2014, rather than turbines beginning to produce power by that deadline.
It's a change that will allow more projects to qualify over the next year — and one that's raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill. Some conservative lawmakers say the tweak will expand the program and the federal deficit, noting the one-year extension would cost $12.1 billion through 10 years.
Obama Floats 'Energy Security Trust' In SOTU Speech
President Obama proposed a program in Tuesday's State of the Union address that would divert some revenues from federal oil-and-gas drilling into research for alternative fuel technology. In a nod to the economic challenges facing many families, Obama cast the initiative, which he called an "Energy Security Trust," as a way to reduce household gasoline expenses.
Lukewarm Response In Solar Tender Offer
Large bidders keen on setting up utility scale solar power generation projects have backed out of the bids called by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation, according to industry sources.
Players such as IL&FS, Crescent Power, a multinational player in solar project and large developers have expressed their inability to invest in the solar project at the tariff quoted by Tangedco. Last week, the utility had initiated negotiations with bidders where it had quoted the figure of Rs 6.48 a unit.
A large real estate developer who had participated in the bid said the company found that there would be 'negative cash flow' at that level not counting the benefit of accelerated depreciation. Investment of over Rs 8.5 crore a MW cannot happen depending purely on accelerated depreciation.
Chinese Solar Suntech Says It May Be Victim Of $690 Million Fraud
Suntech, the world's largest producer of solar panels, said Monday that it might have been the victim of a $690 million fraud related to a European investment. The suspected fraud could affect the Chinese company's ability to pay convertible notes due next year and Suntech said it may delay reporting second quarter earnings while it conducts an investigation. Suntech shares fell 15.3% to $1.33 Monday morning.
It's a convoluted tale involving phantom German government bonds, the China Development Bank, a Spanish solar entrepreneur and Suntech's top executives.
Carbon Credits - And VAT Fraud
Bilta, a company incorporated in England and registered as a vendor for the purposes of VAT, traded in the purchase and sale of carbon credits on the Danish Emissions Trading Agency. It bought carbon credits amounting to €294m during 2009 from traders outside the UK. The purchases were therefore zero-rated. They then sold these carbon credits to persons in the United Kingdom who were registered for VAT, none of which businesses had a use for carbon credits and these supplies therefore standard rated.
Bilta was unable to pay the VAT due on its supplies because it had made no profit and the proceeds of its sales had been paid away to the overseas traders. HMRC raised eight assessments on Bilta for VAT in an amount of £38 million and the company went into liquidation.
U.K. Carbon VAT Fraud Gang Jailed for Total of 35 Years - Bloomberg
Three members of a U.K. gang seeking to steal "as much money as possible" from the public purse in a value-added tax fraud involving carbon permits were sentenced yesterday to a total of 35 years in jail, the government said.
Sandeep Singh Dosanjh was jailed for 15 years, Navdeep Singh Gill for 11 years and Ranjot Singh Chahal for nine years, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs said today in a statement on its website. Four other people were acquitted.
The gang set up a chain of bogus companies in order to trade fraudulently in European Union emissions allowances, stealing around 38 million pounds ($60 million) through a "complex missing-trader fraud" in a six-month period starting in January 2009, according to the statement.
Europe lost about 5 billion euros in revenue for the 18 months ending 2009 because of the CO2 VAT fraud, according to an estimate by Europol.
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The forecasts have been right about mornings becoming cooler... with a cloudless sky, temperatures dropped just below frost level, and a slight breeze blew -1°C / 30°F air in from the north.
After the end of the office week, I want to bed early yesterday night (but not without enjoying one of the DVDs I bought before... Iron Sky is out on DVD and Blu-Ray since yesterday!). Waking up this morning, around 7.30 am, I opened the window to see stars twinkling above and to get a first feeling of the crisp morning air.
I fixed myself a mug of strong and sweet black coffee, then went out onto my balcony - skyclad, as usual - and did a breathing meditation, deeply inhaling the cool morning air, feeling my sinuses clear up, exhaling and watching my breath trail off in wisps of steam. The frosty air felt like Mother Nature wrapping me in a cold veil. Gazing to the south-east, I saw Venus shining brightly just before sunrise. After about five minutes, I felt relaxed as well as invigorated and went back into my apartment to get the coffee, stepping out again, still naked, and feeling the mocha brew warming me up from inside, while feeling my skin tingle slightly, as the slight cold breeze wafted over my skin.
Morning Nuddhism on my balcony might be becoming more challenging, with temperatures dropping, but I still feel it to be the best way to greet the day: feeling the morning air on my nude body, while I power up and relax at the same time, doing a breath meditation, followed by a mug of coffee.
Living a barefoot and naturist life, always nude at home, including my personal spirituality into it, is an expression of being truly me. Some people might say, it's a quirk, or just weird, or that I'm ugly and shouldn't dare showing myself that way... Quite frankly, I take strength from such comments, since there are other people who share my love for living the most natural way and support me.
And I'm happy to know, that I'm not alone doing so... Blessings and greetings to all kindred spirits, joining me in greeting the day the most natural and comfiest way.


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The initial cost to set up a horse racing syndicate is a one-off fee of $275 per syndicate, with an annual renewal fee of $55 to maintain your syndicate.
Use the following guide for syndicates up to 20 people, and for 5% & 10% shares.
Each member of the 20 person syndicate is responsible for 0.5% of the ongoing monthly costs.
Training prices vary from trainer to trainer. In our experience, especially in recent times, the bigger the stable, the more you pay per month.
Approximate ongoing costs for 10% Share
Training: $350-$500 per month ($18-$25 per month per person)
Spelling: $100-$140 per month ($5-$7 per month per person)
Each member of the 10 person syndicate is responsible for 1% of the ongoing monthly costs.
Approximate ongoing costs for 10% Share
Training: $350-$500 per month ($35-$50 per month per person)
Spelling: $100-$140 per month ($10-$14 per month per person)
Each member of the 5 person syndicate is responsible for 2% of the ongoing monthly costs.
Approximate ongoing costs for 10% Share
Training: $350-$500 per month ($70-$100 per month per person)
Spelling: $100-$140 per month ($20-$28 per month per person)
Single shares of 5% or more do not require a syndicate and can be purchased outright.
All 5% & 10% share owners get their owner's name in the racebook on race day plus associated owner's privileges, and are are responsible for the full ongoing monthly share costs.
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Seattle's bag tax is a bad idea without substantive environmental impact
A tax on grocery bags is a bad idea for Seattle, write economists Peter Nickerson and Randy Rucker. The tax is ill-conceived and regressive and will have little impact on litter or oil consumption.
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A few weeks ago, the American Chemistry Council dumped $300,000 into the anti-bag-tax campaign, bringing their total contributions to more than $1 million.
Seattleites, ever quick-triggered in their denunciation of anything resembling corporate evil, were understandably aghast. Despite the urge to grab our light sabers and fight this invasion, we will be better served by carefully considering the policy itself and not its corporate opponents. Chemistry Council or not, the bag tax is a bad idea for Seattle.
There is no doubt that the proposed tax (or "fee" in political speak) will decrease the use of paper and plastic grocery bags in Seattle. Virtually all of the other claims about its effects are unsubstantiated or flat-out wrong.
Plastic-bag taxes and bans were designed to help decrease plastic-bag litter in places like China and Ireland. Bag litter is not a Seattle problem. Seattleites are in fact conscientious non-litterers. Last year Forbes ranked Seattle as the country's second-cleanest city. If you need affirmation, walk the streets and parks. There is no bag scourge.
Plastic grocery bags make up a tiny percentage of our landfill waste; likely less than two-tenths of 1 percent. This tax will have a trivial effect on that percentage. This is because many stores are exempt from the program and at the others, some people will accept the fee and continue to use the store-provided bags. The total number of plastic bags distributed by stores will go down by less than half. We are also likely to start buying plastic bags off the shelf, many of heavier weight, to use for all the things we now use the grocery bags for, including garbage, dog pickup, lunches and gym clothes. Ironically, the city is already passing out free plastic doggy pickup bags in city parks and the county is distributing free plastic bags for compost disposal. Though the compost bags are biodegradable, similar grocery bags would not be exempt from the city's bag tax plan.
The tax will have no impact on the number of marine mammal deaths in the Pacific Ocean. Proponents of the tax incorrectly cite a 1987 study that shows that 100,000 marine mammals were killed every year by plastic nets. Many of these nets have already been rightly banned. The study has nothing to do with plastic grocery bags.
The tax will have minuscule impacts on our oil consumption. These bags are produced mostly with domestic natural gas. Even if they were produced with more oil, only 3 percent of oil is used in all plastic production and plastic grocery bags comprise only a small fraction of total plastic produced. The plastic in our iPhones, our running shoes, hiking gear, skis and other toys contain much more oil-based plastic.
This tax is ill-conceived. Neither our city officials nor anyone else knows what its effects will be. The tax will solve no environmental problem. It is probably more regressive than our sales-tax system. It will make some people feel good but will create a significant new taxing bureaucracy. Moreover, it will interrupt and complicate a million grocery transactions in the city daily.
More important than any of the preceding issues is that the bag tax expends political capital. There are lots of policies that could be implemented to help the environment. Asking consumers to pay a tax that has no real impact will make it harder to enact such programs. Seattleites who really want to help the environment could be riding buses more. They could also be demanding that their legislators implement a national carbon tax and significantly increase gasoline taxes. These actions, though controversial, would at least have real impacts.
Peter Nickerson is an economist and consultant and a former professor at Seattle University. Randy Rucker is an economics professor at Montana State University-Bozeman. Both are principals with the Northwest Economic Policy Seminar. Their interns manage www.seattlebagtax.org.
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PRESS RELEASE: Trend-setting research project 5GNOW on the future of mobile communications rated "excellent"
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Prior to his performance to honor former President George W. Bush at a performance at the Kennedy Center, Garth Brooks, the Grammy award-winning country singer recently put his full support behind Barack Obama, saying that his job as President must be hell.
"Yeah, I think what President Obama is finding out is all that we want to do, the system kind of doesn't allow the most powerful guy in the world to kind of do his job and I'm sure nobody's more frustrated than him to complete those promises that he did and I think he's trying his heart out. I love him to death and I fully support him and I just wish him well because it's got to be hell in that office," Brooks told CNS News.
"The whole political system kind of has me concerned right now to tell you the truth --200 years old and we might think of about, you know, kind of kicking it in the ass a little bit. It just seems like we vote for things because they're Republican or Democratic," he said.
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"I think we should vote for them because they're right or wrong and we kind of have seemed to have fallen into that trap so that would be the one warning I would give all us," he added. "Put down where you're from and what flag you fly under and let's get to putting the best person, man or woman in the office and let's start making some strides."
If Brooks is looking for the "best person" to be in the office, then why is he putting so much support behind Barack Obama, who is an enemy of America?
When Brooks was asked to specify his statement, he said, "For me, it's if my guy didn't get in then I drag my feet for four years and we don't get anywhere and if my guy gets in, you drag your feet for four years and we don't get anywhere. We've got to stop doing that. Once we get there let's try to be four years down the road further than we were and let's see what happens. Let's all work together and that's kind of what this is all about tonight."
Reading between the lines, obviously Brooks believes that "getting somewhere" means more laws and more regulations, not more liberty. If we are to just "work together" to push our nation towards more socialism and communism, is Brooks in favor of that? Or would he be in favor of "dragging his feet"?
Furthermore, allowing a president to go beyond the scope of his enumerated powers should not be encouraged, which Brooks seems to be in favor of since he gives his "full support" to Barack Obama, who has violated the Constitution and has been involved in numerous lies, cronyism and corruption.
Frankly, I could care less what Garth Brooks thinks, but I recognize that he speaks to many people who do listen to him and he will have an influence upon. Let's keep in mind that this man couldn't keep his vow before God to his wife and has engaged in unrepentant adultery, so why should he care that his elected officials violate their oath?
As Christians, we should be those who hold people to their word. If that means when they violate their oath, we "drag our feet," meaning we don't support them, but desire that justice be administered to them, then so be it. When someone asks others to support lawlessness, we should shame them as lawless people and have nothing to do with them (Prov. 1:10).Don't forget to Like Freedom Outpost on Facebook, Google Plus, & Twitter. You can also get Freedom Outpost delivered to your Amazon Kindle device here.


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Conception Convent
Conception Convent in 1882
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|Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow (1360s), Feodor I (1584)
|Hegumenia Juliania
|Moscow, Russia
|55°44′23″N 37°35′28″E / 55.73972°N 37.59111°ECoordinates: 55°44′23″N 37°35′28″E / 55.73972°N 37.59111°E
The Conception Convent or Zachatyevsky Monastery (Russian: Зачатьевский монастырь) is a Russian Orthodox stauropegic convent on the northern bank of the Moskva River in Khamovniki District of Moscow. The convent was closed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and did not reopen until 1995.
Later sources claim that the convent occupies the site of the original Alekseyevsky (Alexis) Convent, the oldest nunnery in Moscow. It is believed to have been founded by Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow in 1360 and was consecrated to the Feast of the Conception of Saint Anne. Notable nuns included Alexis's own sisters Eupraxia and Juliana, both canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
After the great fire of 1547, the convent was relocated eastward to the present-day site of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. In 1584, a new convent was established on the old site by Feodor I of Russia and his wife, Irina Godunova. The couple, being childless, asked the nuns of the Conception Convent to pray for the conception of their own child. (Another version asserts that the new convent was restored on the old site by the surviving nuns of the Alexeyevsky Convent immediately after the 1547 fire.) It was looted and sustained much damage during the Time of Troubles.
The extant church over the main gate was built in 1696 with funds provided by the Rimsky-Korsakov noble family. This Naryshkin Baroque church and walls are the only remains of the convent as it existed before the Russian Revolution of 1917. The katholikon was built in 1804-1807 in the Russian Gothic style to Rodion Kazakov's designs. It was pulled down in the 1920s.
In the Soviet period, the convent buildings were used as a prison for juvenile delinquents. A school building was constructed on the site of the katholikon. A venerated icon of the Theotokos the Merciful was transferred to the nearby parish Church of St. Elijah.
Efforts to revive the convent began in 1991. It was officially reestablished in May 1995. By 2005, the church of St.Anne (third from right on the 1882 photograph) was completed. The Russian Orthodox Church declared the Gothic-influenced style of the old katholikon improper for a Russian Orthodox temple and demanded it to be rebuilt in a more traditional Byzantine style.[1] In October 2006, Yuri Luzhkov approved a Russian Revival design by Alexander Obolensky on condition that the building's height would be decreased.[2]
As of June, 2009, the new five-domed katholikon, made of in situ concrete, was structurally complete. On November 25, 2010 the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady was consecrated. Construction works were financed by billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who was awarded the Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov I degree by Patriarch Kirill for funding this project.[3]
Public transportation access[edit]
Moscow Metro: Kropotkinskaya, Park Kultury-Radialnaya
Convent territory is open for general public in daytime, until the end of 5pm Vespers, with certain limitations; photography inside the walls requires prior consent of hegumenia Iuliania.
- ^ Russian: "От реставрации к поиску нового стиля", Независимая Газета, 05.04.2006 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-04-17. Retrieved 2007-03-16.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Russian: www.archi.ru
- ^ http://www.kp.ru/daily/24597/764882/
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Conception Convent.
- Russian: Map, schedule of services
- Draft of new Nativity Cathedral, October 2006 www.archi.ru


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On October 08, 2015 at 12:49 UTC the "Atlas-5" rocket-carrier was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA. The launch was performed by United Launch Alliance supported by the 30th Space Wing of US Air Force. The rocket orbited the payload named as NROL-55 for the National Reconnaissance Office. The NROL (National Reconnaissance Office Launch) abbreviation is used to identify classified satellites operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office. The main payload is a pair of the NOSS-3 (the Naval Ocean Surveillance System) electronic intelligence satellites. The rocket-carrier was also to orbit several CubeSats.
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