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To hear of human rights abuses of Uganda's LGBTQ population is not new, sadly. Gay activist David Kato was the father of the Uganda's LGBTQ rights movement. To many of his fellow countrymen, Kato was a dead man walking once his homosexuality became public. The country's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, dubbed the "Kill the Gays Bill," criminalizes same-sex relations. And depending on which category your homosexual behavior is classified as — "aggravated homosexual" or "the offense of homosexuality" — you'll either received the death penalty or, if you're lucky, life imprisonment.
Kato didn't live to receive either punishment. On a list of 100 LGBTQ Ugandans whose names and photos were published in an October 2010 tabloid newspaper calling for their execution, Kato was murdered in January 2011.
Throughout the African continent there are stories of homophobic bullying, bashing and abuses of its LGBTQ population. None of us will forget Zimbabwe's despot Robert Mugabe, who treated his LGBTQ citizens with torturous action but has yet to be brought to justice. Mugabe's condemnation of his LGBTQ population is that they are the cause of Zimbabwe's problems, and he views homosexuality as an "un-African" and an immoral culture brought by colonists and practiced by only "a few Whites" in his country.
However, the one country you don't expect to hear anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and human rights abuses from is South Africa.
South Africa is the first African country to openly support LGBTQ civil rights. In 2004, its Supreme Court ruled that the common-law definition of marriage included same-sex unions. And in 2005, South Africa's Constitutional Court "made any inferior status imposed on same-sex partners unconstitutional."
But South Africa has a serious problem with its LGBTQ population, and especially with lesbians. Its method to remedy its problem with lesbian is "corrective" rape.
On any given day in South Africa, lesbians are twice as likely to be sexually molested, assaulted and gang-raped as heterosexual women. There's a reported estimate that at least 500 lesbians are victims of "corrective" rape per year. And in Western Cape, a province in the southwest of South Africa, a report put out by the Triangle Project in 2008 stated that as many as 86 percent of its lesbian population live in fear of being raped. And their fear is not unfounded.
"Lesbians get raped and killed because it is accepted by our community and by our culture," a South African man told New York Times reporter Lee Middleton.
"Corrective" rape is the South African version of "reparative therapy." Its intended objective is to rectify the sexual orientation of women who are lesbians or perceived to be lesbians to that of heterosexual.
The term "corrective rape" was coined and first identified in South Africa after well-known cases of "corrective" rapes of lesbians like Eudy Simelane and Zoliswa Nkonyana became public internationally.
Because of the stigma associated with homosexuality and gender non-conforming behavior, members of the women's family or their local village sometimes supervise these rapes.
Corrective rape is a hate crime that for the most part goes unreported and un-prosecuted in South Africa. These rapes are the major contributor to HIV/AIDS epidemic among South African lesbians.
To many South African men who hunt down lesbians or happen upon them, "corrective" rape is seen neither as a hate crime nor as a sexual assault. South African men are sexually entitled to do them. And it's just what patriotic men are expected to do for their country and tribe in a culture that upholds violent heterosexual patriarchal views at penis point.
In depicting a double rape, hers and that of her friend's, Lungile Cleopatra Dladla shared with The New Yorker reporter Charlayne Hunter-Gault how matter-of-factly their rapist was with them.
"An armed man, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, came up behind them and directed them to a field. Then he undressed us. He tied us, and then he was going, 'Ja, today I want to show you that you're girls.' He raped [us] both. And then, immediately after, he dressed and untied my friend's hand and then untied my feet and then he walked… From a distance, he shouted, 'Now you can dress and go.'"
Dubbed as the "Rape Capital of the World" (A study by Interpol, the international police agency, has revealed that South Africa leads the world in rapes), sexual violence is a problem throughout South Africa from the highest man in office to the goat herder in a small village.
According to South Africa's rape statistics for 2011, "It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read."
In 2011 a woman was raped in South Africa every 17 seconds. One in four men admit to having raped, and "of South African men who knew somebody who had been raped, 16 percent believed that the rape survivor had enjoyed the experience and had asked for it."
For example, South African President Jacob Zuma has been accused of rape. He was acquitted of charges that he sexually assaulted the daughter of a family friend. "He said that the woman in question had provoked him, by wearing a skirt and sitting with her legs uncrossed, and that it was his duty, as a Zulu man, to satisfy a sexually aroused woman," Hunter-Gault reported.
And "baby rape," not a new phenomenon in South Africa, has come out of the closet. It's the belief that having sex with a baby or virgin girl child cures AIDS. But what's not being talked about in "corrective" rape is how it too can be seen as a cure for AIDS.
For these men who are feeling the societal pressures and scorn of raping babies and young girls, lesbians are the next best choice.
With both populations of females believed to be virgins, "corrective" rape can convince a rapist that he's doing his manly duty and he's being rewarded by being cured of AIDS, too.
Rev. Irene Monroe is a Huffington Post blogger and freelance journalist. A native of Brooklyn, Rev. Monroe is a graduate from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African American church before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a Ford Fellow.
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Gone are my people, but I exist yet,
Lamenting them in my solitude...
Dead are my friends, and in their Death my life is naught but great
The knolls of my country are submerged
By tears and blood, for my people and
My beloved are gone, and I am here
Living as I did when my people and my
Beloved were enjoying life and the
Bounty of life, and when the hills of
My country were blessed and engulfed
By the light of the sun.
My people died from hunger, and he who
Did not perish from starvation was
Butchered with the sword; and I am
Here in this distant land, roaming
Amongst a joyful people who sleep
Upon soft beds, and smile at the days
While the days smile upon them.
My people died a painful and shameful
Death, and here am I living in plenty
And in peace...This is deep tragedy
Ever-enacted upon the stage of my
Heart; few would care to witness this
Drama, for my people are as birds with
Broken wings, left behind the flock.
If I were hungry and living amid my
Famished people, and persecuted among
My oppressed countrymen, the burden
Of the black days would be lighter
Upon my restless dreams, and the
Obscurity of the night would be less
Dark before my hollow eyes and my
Crying heart and my wounded soul.
For he who shares with his people
Their sorrow and agony will feel a
Supreme comfort created only by
Suffering in sacrifice. And he will
Be at peace with himself when he dies
Innocent with his fellow innocents.
But I am not living with my hungry
And persecuted people who are walking
In the procession of death toward
Martyrdom...I am here beyond the
Broad seas living in the shadow of
Tranquillity, and in the sunshine of
Peace...I am afar from the pitiful
Arena and the distressed, and cannot
Be proud of ought, not even of my own
What can an exiled son do for his
Starving people, and of what value
Unto them is the lamentation of an
Absent poet?
Were I an ear of corn grown in the earth
of my country, the hungry child would
Pluck me and remove with my kernels
The hand of Death form his soul. Were
I a ripe fruit in the gardens of my
Country, the starving women would
Gather me and sustain life. Were I
A bird flying the sky of my country,
My hungry brother would hunt me and
Remove with the flesh of my body the
Shadow of the grave from his body.
But, alas! I am not an ear of corn
Grown in the plains of Syria, nor a
Ripe fruit in the valleys of Lebanon;
This is my disaster, and this is my
Mute calamity which brings humiliation
Before my soul and before the phantoms
Of the night...This is the painful
Tragedy which tightens my tongue and
Pinions my arms and arrests me usurped
Of power and of will and of action.
This is the curse burned upon my
Forehead before God and man.
And oftentimes they say unto me,
'The disaster of your country is
But naught to calamity of the
World, and the tears and blood shed
By your people are as nothing to
The rivers of blood and tears
Pouring each day and night in the
Valleys and plains of the earth...'
Yes, but the death of my people is
A silent accusation; it is a crime
Conceived by the heads of the unseen serpents...
It is a Sceneless tragedy...And if my
People had attacked the despots
And oppressors and died rebels,
I would have said, 'Dying for
Freedom is nobler than living in
The shadow of weak submission, for
He who embraces death with the sword
Of Truth in his hand will eternalize
With the Eternity of Truth, for Life
Is weaker than Death and Death is
Weaker than Truth.
If my nation had partaken in the war
Of all nations and had died in the
Field of battle, I would say that
The raging tempest had broken with
Its might the green branches; and
Strong death under the canopy of
The tempest is nobler than slow
Perishment in the arms of senility.
But there was no rescue from the
Closing jaws...My people dropped
And wept with the crying angels.
If an earthquake had torn my
Country asunder and the earth had
Engulfed my people into its bosom,
I would have said, 'A great and
Mysterious law has been moved by
The will of divine force, and it
Would be pure madness if we frail
Mortals endeavoured to probe its
Deep secrets...'
But my people did not die as rebels;
They were not killed in the field
Of Battle; nor did the earthquake
Shatter my country and subdue them.
Death was their only rescuer, and
Starvation their only spoils.
My people died on the cross....
They died while their hands
stretched toward the East and West,
While the remnants of their eyes
Stared at the blackness of the
Firmament...They died silently,
For humanity had closed its ears
To their cry. They died because
They did not befriend their enemy.
They died because they loved their
Neighbours. They died because
They placed trust in all humanity.
They died because they did not
Oppress the oppressors. They died
Because they were the crushed
Flowers, and not the crushing feet.
They died because they were peace
Makers. They perished from hunger
In a land rich with milk and honey.
They died because monsters of
Hell arose and destroyed all that
Their fields grew, and devoured the
Last provisions in their bins....
They died because the vipers and
Sons of vipers spat out poison into
The space where the Holy Cedars and
The roses and the jasmine breathe
Their fragrance.
My people and your people, my Syrian
Brother, are dead....What can be
Done for those who are dying? Our
Lamentations will not satisfy their
Hunger, and our tears will not quench
Their thirst; what can we do to save
Them between the iron paws of
Hunger? My brother, the kindness
Which compels you to give a part of
Your life to any human who is in the
Shadow of losing his life is the only
Virtue which makes you worthy of the
Light of day and the peace of the
Night....Remember, my brother,
That the coin which you drop into
The withered hand stretching toward
You is the only golden chain that
Binds your rich heart to the
Loving heart of God.....
Almost 100 years since Gubran wrote this and unfortunately it still holds today. He speaks of the unearthly famine that hit Lebanon and Syria during the First World War Hundreds of thousands of people died during that period and yet no one recalls the suffering of the unpopular crowd, almost as if we were/are sub humans. Ironic? Just as Gubran, i would give my life for peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean region if i could, but alas..
, , , a poignant write, , , beautifully written, , ,
.......a remarkable poem...it is shining like stars in the crown of a king who finds he is worthy of an even higher kingdom...
this is so heart warming
The first time I read this, it brought tears to my eyes. It is truly the saddest and yet the most wonderful of poems ever written.
I am a Syrian living in the West, watching hopelessly the death of my people. I read this poem almost every day, and cry every time. Gibran put beautifully in words, the pain and the guilt of seeing our people dying while living comfortably. It is probably the most wonderful poem ever written
My people died a painful and shameful Death..... Birds with broken wings Dying for / Freedom is nobler than living in The shadow of weak submission... senility..... //.... The lines I have quoted underline the plight and irony of an oppressed people. The concluding lines call upon all men and women to help out others in difficult situations and be worthy of God's bliss. Thanks.
There are many tragedies in this world in our lives but I would not want this kind of burden on my soul- I don't think I could ever again have a happy day when my people are suffering in torment... it must be awful for God as well
A poignant write that shows the plight.
the greatest humanitarian note and word- My people denotes the humanity the heart of poet is crying for those people who are on the way of meaningless death great writing
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.I would like to translate this poem

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Vote No on Bankhead Transfer Station Settlement
**UPDATE: The Commission meeting to vote on the proposed settlement has been changed to March 19, 2013 at 9 am.**
The Bankhead "TRASH" Transfer Station has raised its ugly head again and has found its way back on the Cobb County Commission agenda for February 19, 2013 to be approved to accept 150,000 tons of household waste per year in our community. As you may recall, the commission voted unanimously, with one abstention, last summer to deny BTS's zoning and land use applications. The company's attorney appealed the decision. In Cobb County, all filed cases are required to go to mediation. The mediation of this case took place in December 2012 and the county agreed to settle this matter by essentially allowing the Bankhead Transfer Station to bring trash back to our community. Please sign our on-line petition asking Cobb County Commissioners to reject this settlement offer and to vote no to allowing BTS to accept municipal trash in our community.
AJC Article: Cobb Settlement could allow expansion at waste transfer site
Marietta Daily Journal Article: Residents already turn up their noses
at latest expansion discussions for trash transfer site
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Our goal during this "mini tutorial" is to set up a system that secures your site with an easy to use authentication mechanism.
At the top of the site to secure, place the following code snippet:
Typical usage example for PEAR::Auth
require_once "Auth.php";
// Takes three arguments: last attempted username, the authorization
// status, and the Auth object.
// We won't use them in this simple demonstration -- but you can use them
// to do neat things.
function loginFunction($username = null, $status = null, &$auth = null)
* Change the HTML output so that it fits to your
* application.
echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"test.php\">";
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\">";
echo "<input type=\"password\" name=\"password\">";
echo "<input type=\"submit\">";
echo "</form>";
$options = array(
'dsn' => "mysql://user:password@localhost/database",
$a = new Auth("DB", $options, "loginFunction");
if ($a->checkAuth()) {
* The output of your site goes here.
This few lines of code instantiate the authentication system.
The first line in the above script includes the file from your PEAR directory. It contains all the necessary code to run PEAR::Auth. Next, we define a function to display the login form which the visitor of your page has to use to enter his login data. You can change all the HTML formatting in this function.
Since we want to use a database to verify the login data, we now
create the variable
$dsn, it contains a valid
DSN string that will be used to connect to the database via
PEAR::DB. For the default
database table schema or to use a different storage container,
please see below for more information.
After that we create the authentication object. The first parameter defines the name of the storage container. Because we want to use a database driven storage container, we pass "DB" here. The second parameter is the connection parameter for the container driver. We use the previously defined DSN string. The third parameter is the name of our function that we defined at the beginning of the script. It prints the login form.
Now our authentication object is initialized and we need to check if the user is logged in. This is done via the method checkAuth(). If it returns TRUE, we can pass the content of our page to the user.
Using optional authentication
// In this test, the file is named "test.php".
require_once "Auth.php";
function loginFunction()
* Change the HTML output so that it fits to your
* application.
echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"test.php?login=1\">";
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\">";
echo "<input type=\"password\" name=\"password\">";
echo "<input type=\"submit\">";
echo "</form>";
if (isset($_GET['login']) && $_GET['login'] == 1) {
$optional = true;
} else {
$optional = false;
$options = array(
'dsn' => "mysql://user:password@localhost/database",
$a = new Auth("DB", $options, "loginFunction", $optional);
echo "Everybody can see this text!
";
if (!isset($_GET['login'])) {
echo "Click here to log in\n";
if ($a->getAuth()) {
echo "One can only see this if he is logged in!";
This is a pretty nice example for the optional login feature: The
last parameter
$optional can be either TRUE
or FALSE. If it is FALSE, the login form is not shown and the user
only sees the text "Everybody can see this text!". If he clicks on
the link above this text, he gets the same page but with the GET
parameter "login=1". Now he can enter his login information in the
login form. If he successfully logs in, he can then see the text
"Everybody can see this text!" and the text "One can only see this
if he is logged in!".
Logout functionality
The following example performs a "logout" for the current user and displays the login form again.
if ($_GET['action'] == "logout" && $myauth->checkAuth()) {
In the following passages we cover more detailed information about the functions of PEAR::Auth.
This SQL statement creates a table usable under the default database authentication scheme using MySQL:
CREATE TABLE auth ( username VARCHAR(50) default '' NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(32) default '' NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (username), KEY (password) );
These are the table and field names necessary for working authentication. When hashing the passwords with the MD5 algorithm, which is the default encryption method in PEAR::Auth, the password column must be at least 32 characters long. When using another encryption method like DES ("UNIX crypt"), the column size has to be changed correspondingly.


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Originally, .co was just the Internet country code for Colombia. But now it's becoming a popular top-level domain for major global brands such as BMW, Canon, Honda, Nike, Nokia, Pfizer, Sony and Visa.
More than 39,000 organizations applied for .co domains during a "prelaunch" phase for signing up big-name companies, according to the official .co domain registry, .CO Internet SAS, which has headquarters in Miami and Bogota, Colombia. Last month, it started offering the domain to the general public through registrars and resellers.
The company is capitalizing on the difficulty of registering a meaningful name with the ubiquitous .com top-level domain, because virtually all common words and brand names have been taken.
Furthermore, the "co" in .co already has broad global recognition as shorthand for words like company, corporation and commerce, the registry said in a statement.
Overstock.com Inc. announced that it paid $350,000 to acquire "O.co" in an effort to target new audiences and make it easier for shoppers to find its Web site. Meanwhile, the political news site Politico is using Politi.co as its official URL shortener for Twitter.


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I'm unable to predict when I'm going to have a hypoglycemic episode. They don't happen often, and when they do, after I've gotten my blood glucose back up and after I've fought off the desire to eat half of what's in the kitchen, I try to think back and reconstruct events leading up to the low blood sugar so I can figure out what to do in order to prevent it the next time.
Short of an obvious (and unintentional) overbolus — a rare instance indeed — putting my blood-dotted, lancet-pricked finger on a specific cause for a low is an exercise in maybes and what-ifs. There are just too many factors contributing to each hypoglycemic episode. Too, too many. In hindsight, of course, I try to and am often able to think I know what it may have been. "Oh, that's what it was!" Because the desire for a eureka moment is strong in me. I want to know. And I'll think I've figured it out, the one or two reasons I sank into that miserable, sweaty, shaky, foggy-brained fifteen minutes of 45 to 60 mg/dl.
How do I avoid, for instance, Tuesday's low in the checkout line at the grocery store, during which the clerk's ringing my purchases and I'm pacing back and forth trying to figure out how to treat the low that's arrived. In my brain the connections aren't happening. Yes, a sugary soda right there in the checkout cooler. Root beer! Oh, but there's an entire rack of sweets. Twix! Not good for me. Not a good way to treat.
But something, I need something. Fruit. I don't want fruit. Milk. Blech. What should I choose? And oh, but good god am I hot. I'm sweaty. Can they see I'm sweaty? Should I take off my jacket? Do people know what I'm going through? Of course they don't. Are they staring? I can't think straight. Should I tell the cashier, the bagger? I'm an adult, dammit, figure this out. Fix it. You know how to fix it. Get that soda. But do I need to pay for it first? No, no I don't. Open up the root beer and take a swig, a few sips, that's all. You want those carbs in your mouth. Those carbs on your tongue begin the trip back to good.
Then I can walk to the car, sit in the car, check my glucose in the car, wait out its rise in the car, in the parking lot, in the car, in the cold, snowy afternoon (oh sweet, sweet cold! I'm so hot right now, so sweaty, wiping my forehead and hyperaware of my shirt clinging to my back). Then I'll drive home. Then I'll think about this incident. I'm sure that if I change the things I did that led to this I won't let it happen again. I'll avoid another low. At least one like this. A low that sucked.
Except they all suck. And it will happen again. Seeking that one thing that led to the low — be it bolusing too much for an afternoon snack, changing up my exercise routine, taking cold medication or cough syrup, enduring a stressful meeting or worrying about something I have no control over — what it may have been caused the hypo is no doubt a confluence of any number of things, each of which is weighted differently in its contribution, but each of which is important, each an arm on a very sensitive and difficult-to-balance mobile of good blood glucose control.


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Eco-innovation will be a key driver of industry efforts to tackle climate change and realise "green growth" in the post-Kyoto era. Eco-innovation calls for faster introduction of breakthrough technologies and for more systemic application of available solutions, including non-technological ones. It also offers opportunities to involve new players, develop new industries and increase competitiveness. Structural change in economies will be imperative in coming decades.
This book presents the research and analysis carried out during the first phase of the OECD Project on Sustainable Manufacturing and Eco-innovation. Its aim is to provide benchmarking tools on sustainable manufacturing and to spur eco-innovation through better understanding of innovation mechanisms. It reviews the concepts and forms an analytical framework; analyses the nature and processes of eco-innovation; discusses existing sustainable manufacturing indicators; examines methodologies for measuring eco-innovation; and takes stock of national strategies and policy initiatives for eco-innovation.
This book is part of the OECD Innovation Strategy and is also one of the first contributions to the OECD Green Growth Strategy.
Acronyms and abbreviations
Executive Summary (download pdf)
Chapter 1. Framing Eco-innovation: The Concept and the Evolution of Sustainable Manufacturing
Chapter 2. Applying Eco-innovation: Examples from Three Sectors
Chapter 3. Tracking Performance: Indicators for Sustainable Manufacturing
Chapter 4. Measuring Eco-innovation: Existing Methods for Macro-Level Analysis
Chapter 5. Promoting Eco-innovation: Government Strategies and Policy Initiatives in Ten OECD Countries
Chapter 6. Looking Ahead: Key Findings and Prosepcts for Future Work on Sustainable Manufacturing and Eco-innovation
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Bugzilla is an essential tool to the working process of Mozilla, and many of us spend a good portion of their day in Bugzilla. The Bugzilla Tweaks jetpack is an attempt of me and Johnathan to make this process more efficient and productive. If you have never heard about it, it would be a good idea to first read Johnath's original post and then my previous one.
Since I published the original enhanced version of the Bugzilla Tweaks jetpack, I have received a lot of positive feedback. Max Kanat-Alexander event suggested that he likes the UI so much that he's going to consider using it when the feature is ported to Bugzilla itself. Several other people have also suggested things that they would like to have in their every day usage of Bugzilla. I've been implementing all of these features and adding even more new features and fixes to the Jetpack. I thought that the volume of changes has been large enough to deserve another post, so here we go!
Did you ever wonder at which point a flag on an attachment was set, and what the context was? Wonder no more! Bugzilla Tweaks now linkifies the attachment flags to point to the exact location where the flag was set. No matter whether it's a review, superreview, ui-review, approval, or any other type of flag, merely clicking on the flag name takes you to the exact location where it was set and you can see the exact context right away.
Now, the attachment numbers generated by Bugzilla Tweaks in history events are links which point to the attachment edit page. The name of the attachment appears as the tooltip for that link.
Bug dependency changes are now linked to their respective bugs. The title and status of the bug also appears as a tooltip for those links.
We are used to the fact that things like URLs, bug numbers and comment numbers are linked in Bugzilla. To keep this convention so that Bugzilla Tweaks is as good a citizen in Bugzilla as possible, I've made it convert all of those to links as well.
We all have seen comments with this content too many times in different bugs:
*** Bug 123456 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is an automatic comment which Bugzilla puts in a bug when another bug is marked as a duplicate of it. Nearly most of this comment is just noise, and it's really part of a bug history, not a real comment. So, Bugzilla Tweaks converts them to history events, so that you don't confuse them with actual comments. There is one interesting point here. Since Bugzilla shows these as comments, they have a comment number and can be linked to by adding #cNN after the bug's URL, where NN is the number of the comment. In order to keep those URLs working, I made them point to the history events instead of the comment which no longer exists.
To get the latest version of the Jetpack, you can either install it from this page if you don't already have it, go to about:jetpack and refresh the installed version of the Jetpack, or simply wait until the Jetpack engine updates it automatically from the server in the background.
Feel free to suggest any other interesting things which you would want in this Jetpack. So far, every feature that others have requested from me has been implemented, so there is a good chance that yours would be as well!


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Seven hours the magic number for sleep: study
People who sleep more or fewer than seven hours a day, including naps, are increasing their risk for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, a study published Sunday shows.
Sleeping fewer than five hours a day, including naps, more than doubles the risk of being diagnosed with angina, coronary heart disease, heart attack or stroke, the study conducted by researchers at West Virginia University's (WVU) faculty of medicine and published in the journal "Sleep" says.
And sleeping more than seven hours also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, it says.
Study participants who said they slept nine hours or longer a day were one-and-a-half times more likely than seven-hour sleepers to develop cardiovascular disease, the study found.
The most at-risk group was adults under 60 years of age who slept five hours or fewer a night. They increased their risk of developing cardiovascular disease more than threefold compared to people who sleep seven hours.
Women who skimped on sleep, getting five hours or fewer a day, including naps, were more than two-and-a-half times as likely to develop cardiovascular disease.
Short sleep duration was associated with angina, while both sleeping too little and sleeping too much were associated with heart attack and stroke, the study says.
A separate study, also published in "Sleep", showed that an occasional long lie-in can be beneficial for those who can't avoid getting too little sleep.
In that study, David Dinges, who heads the sleep and chronobiology unit at the University of Pennsylvania school of medicine, found that 142 adults whose sleep was severely restricted for five days -- as it is for many people during the work week -- had slower reaction times and more trouble focusing.
But after a night of recovery sleep, the sleep-deprived study participants' alertness improved significantly, and the greatest improvements were seen in those who were allowed to spend 10 hours in bed after a week with just four hours' sleep a night.
"An additional hour or two of sleep in the morning after a period of chronic partial sleep loss has genuine benefits for continued recovery of behavioral alertness," Dinges said.
In the study about sleep and cardiovascular disease, researchers led by Anoop Shankar, associate professor at WVU's department of community medicine, analyzed data gathered in a national US study in 2005 on more than 30,000 adults.
The results were adjusted for age, sex, race, whether the person smoked or drank, whether they were fat or slim, and whether they were active or a couch potato.
And even when study participants with diabetes, high blood pressure or depression were excluded from the analysis, the strong association between too much or too little sleep and cardiovascular disease remained.
The authors of the WVU study were unable to determine the causal relationship between how long a person sleeps and cardiovascular disease.
But they pointed out that sleep duration affects endocrine and metabolic functions, and sleep deprivation can lead to impaired glucose tolerance, reduced insulin sensitivity and elevated blood pressure, all of which increase the risk of hardening the arteries.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that most adults get about seven to eight hours of sleep each night.
Shankar suggested that doctors screen for changes in sleep duration when assessing patients' risk for cardiovascluar disease, and that public health initiatives consider including a focus on improving sleep quality and quantity.
"Sleep" is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.
(c) 2010 AFP


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|The feather plumes measure 6" long at its longest point x 3 3/4" wide at its widest point.
The head and neck of the peacock measure a combined 3 1/2" long x 1" wide at its widest point, and the tubular band measures 3/4" wide at its widest point.
Each lapis stone measures over 1/4" in diameter.
This piece offers a wearable length of 16 1/2" (the inner circumference)


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We celebrated #RelaxationDay on Barking from the Bayou.
http://t.co/FFo6HdxJ5y #dogs
— M. K.Clinton (@mk_clinton) August 15, 2015
Saturday, August 15, 2015
It is #Relaxation Day
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Yay for relaxing!ReplyDelete
Aren't all bassets relaxayshun eggsperts?ReplyDelete
We have a basset hound that lives next door here...he is ALWAYS relaxed!! Happy Saturday!ReplyDelete
You're a pro with your chillin' out sunglasses.ReplyDelete
One super handsome and cool hound I would say!ReplyDelete
yes, you are an eggs-pert! and I will show your post to my staff that they get the motto of the day too :o)ReplyDelete
we are so with you on this one :)ReplyDelete
Wow, I had no idea it was relaxation day today! Guess I'll have to postpone it until next week ~ I'm working this weekend :-)ReplyDelete
We're with you, Bentley! Relaxation Day, here we come!ReplyDelete
you are one cool dude!ReplyDelete
We will make sure to get lots of celebrating in!!ReplyDelete
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
Um...#Relaxation Day is every day for us. ;)ReplyDelete
I'd say that Bentley has relaxation down to a science! We spent the day with our two young grandsons, so it was anything but relaxing...LOL!ReplyDelete
Jan, Wag 'n Woof Pets
We like that holiday, #relaxation!ReplyDelete
I like that idea!ReplyDelete
Oh yeah! I am IN!!! And...margaritas go FABulously with relaxin'!!! ☺ReplyDelete
Ruby ♥
We like to think that every day is relaxation day.ReplyDelete
You look so relaxing, I need to do that!ReplyDelete
Bentley you look so Chill, we could all learn a lot from you! And you look super cool in those shades.ReplyDelete
Love & Biscuits,
Dogs Luv Us and We Luv Them


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Ty Cobb
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- Born:
- December 18, 1886 Georgia
- Awards And Honors:
- Baseball Hall of Fame (1936) Most Valuable Player (1911) Baseball Hall of Fame (inducted 1936. Triple Crown 1x MVP 12x batting champion
Ty Cobb, in full Tyrus Raymond Cobb, byname the Georgia Peach, (born December 18, 1886, Narrows, Georgia, U.S.—died July 17, 1961, Atlanta, Georgia), professional baseball player, considered one of the greatest offensive players in baseball history and generally regarded as the fiercest competitor in the game.
Cobb took to baseball early in his life: by age 14 he was playing alongside adults on the local baseball team in Royston, Georgia. In 1904 he joined a semiprofessional team in Anniston, Alabama, and the following year he signed with the minor league Augusta (Georgia) Tourists. While playing with the Tourists, Cobb had his personal life jolted by an unusual tragedy: on August 8, 1905, his mother shot and killed his father, who was atop the family's porch roof in an attempt to catch her being unfaithful and whom she purportedly mistook for a burglar. That event overshadowed his promotion to the Detroit Tigers later that month. His combative reaction to his subsequent rookie hazing created animosity between Cobb and his teammates that lasted for years, which greatly helped to establish the antagonistic public persona that would become one of Cobb's hallmarks.
He spent 22 seasons as an outfielder with the Tigers (1905–26) and also managed the team from 1921 through 1926. Cobb led the team to three consecutive American League (AL) pennants (1907–09), but the Tigers lost all three World Series in which he appeared. A member of the Philadelphia Athletics when he retired in 1928, Cobb hit .323 in his last season, at age 41. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed, stood about 6 feet 1 inch (1.9 metres), and weighed 175 pounds (79.4 kg).
During his 24-season career in the AL, Cobb established numerous batting records. His career hits record of 4,189 lasted until it was broken by Pete Rose in 1985. He also set the runs-scored mark of 2,246, a total that was not surpassed until 2001 by Rickey Henderson. Cobb's total of 892 stolen bases was surpassed in 1979 by Lou Brock. Finally, Cobb's lifetime batting average of .366 was unequaled through the 20th century. (It should be noted that there is disagreement among sports statisticians as to the exact figure for Cobb's batting statistics.) Cobb led the AL in batting 12 times. Three times his batting average topped .400 (1911, .420; 1912, .409; and 1922, .401), and for 23 straight years he batted at least .300. In the first election to the Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1936, Cobb received the most votes. He invested his baseball earnings shrewdly and amassed a comfortable fortune.
Cobb's historic baseball accomplishments are occasionally overshadowed by his notorious personality. Known for sharpening his spikes in order to cause the most damage to opponents' legs when sliding, he was one of the most aggressive players in baseball history, and his short temper led to numerous on-field scuffles (he even attacked a heckling fan in the stands on one occasion). His autobiography, My Life in Baseball, ghostwritten by sportswriter Al Stump, was published in 1961. Stump amended the record in 1994 with Cobb: A Biography, which presents a far more honest view of the great player. Cobb's racism, misogyny, and volatile and violent personality are covered in Stump's second book, which was the basis of a 1994 film, Cobb.


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The Reason Behind the Sales-Surge for Nuclear-Proof Bunkers
On April 15th, ZeroHedge bannered "Doomsday Bunker Sales Soar After Trump's Military Strikes", but this growth in the market for nuclear-proof bunkers is hardly new; it started during the Obama Administration, in Obama's second term, specifically after the Russia-friendly government of Ukraine, next-door to Russia, got taken over in 2014 by a rabidly anti-Russian government that's backed by the U.S. government.
This boom in nuclear-bunker sales is only increasing now, as the new U.S. President, Donald Trump, tries to out-do his predecessor in demonstrating his hostility toward the other nuclear superpower, Russia, and displaying his determination to overthrow the leader of any nation (such as Syria and Iran) that is at all friendly toward Russia.
For earlier examples of feature articles on this booming market for homes that allegedly would enable buyers to survive the first blast effects, and the most immediate nuclear contamination, of a Third World War, see here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here.
This surging demand for nuclear bunkers started right after the U.S. government arranged a coup in Ukraine that replaced the existing Moscow-friendly democratically elected President by installing a rabidly anti-Russian Prime Minister (pictured) and national-security appointees from Ukraine's two nazi Parties, the Right Sector Party, and the former Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine (which the CIA renamed "Svoboda" meaning "Freedom" so as to enable it to be acceptable to the American public). Then, the intensifying U.S. effort to replace the secular pro-Russian Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad by a sectarian jihadist government that would be dependent upon the Saudi-Qatari-UAE-Turkish-U.S. alliance, has only intensified further the demand for these types of «second homes».
Whereas all of the purchasers of these bunkers are being kept secret, the U.S. federal government provides, free-of-charge to top officials, nuclear bunkers so as to allow the then-dictatorship (continuation of America's current dictatorship) to function, in order, supposedly, to serve their country, which they'd already have destroyed (along with destroying the rest of the world) by their determination to conquer Russia. No one knows what the reality would actually be in such a post-WWIII world, except that there would be no functioning electrical grid, nights would be totally dark for anyone whose sole reliance is on the grid, and all rivers and other water-sources would be intensely radioactive from the fallout, so that groundwater soon would also be unusable — and, of course, the air itself would also be toxic; so, lifespans would be enormously shortened, and excruciating, not to say extremely depressing.
No one has published a computer-model of a U.S.-Russia nuclear war, because doing that would be unacceptable to the "military-industrial complex" including the U.S. government, but in 2014 a "limited, regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan" was computer-modeled and projected to produce global ozone-depletion and "the coldest average surface temperatures in the last 1000 years", which "could trigger a global nuclear famine". But such a war would be only 50 bombs instead of the 10,000+ that would be used in a WWIII scenario; and, so, everyone who is paying money in order to survive WWIII is simply wasting money.
But, somehow, there are people who either want a Russia-U.S. war, or else whose preparations for it are directed at surviving in such a world, instead of at ending the current grip on political power in the United States, on the part of the people who are working to bring about this type of (end to the) world. At least the owners of the major U.S. armaments-firms, such as Raytheon Corporation, would have an explosive financial boost during the build-up toward that war, but buying bunkers in order to survive it would seem to be a dubious follow-up to such an investment plan. On the other hand, it might appeal to some thrill-seekers who don't even feel the need for a good computer simulation of a post-WWIII world; maybe they've got money to burn and a craving to experience 'the ultimate thrill', and don't want unpleasant knowledge to spoil the thrill.
After President Trump threw out his National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and replaced him with the rabidly anti-Russian H.R. McMaster (pictured), and then lobbed 59 cruise missiles against the Syrian government (which is protected by the Russian government), the cacophony of press that had been calling for President Trump to be impeached and replaced by his rabidly anti-Russian Vice President Mike Pence, considerably quieted down; and, so, the Obama-Trump market for nuclear bunkers seems now to be established on very sound foundations, for the foreseeable immediate future. And, if anyone in the U.S. federal government has been planning to prepare the U.S. for a post-WWIII world that has not been publicly announced, and no news media have even been inquiring about it — so, nothing can yet be said about it.
The general message thus far is that, after World War III, everyone will be on his or her own, but that the dictators will (supposedly) be in a far better position than will anyone outside that ruling group. However, if the survivors end up merely envying the dead, it will be no laughing matter, regardless of how silly those nuclear bunkers are. It would be nothing funny at all.
On April 17th, Scott Humor, the Research Director at the geostrategic site "The Saker," headlined "Trump has lost control over the Pentagon", and he listed (and linked to) the following signs that Trump is following through with his promise to allow the Pentagon to control U.S. international relations:
March 14th, the US National Nuclear Security Administration field tested the modernized B61-12 gravity nuclear bomb in Nevada.
April 7, Liberty Passion, loaded with US military vehicles, moored at Aqaba Main Port, Jordan
On April 7th the Pentagon US bombed Syria's main command center in fight against terrorists
April 10, United States Deploying Forces At Syrian-Jordanian Border
April 11, The US Air Force might start forcing pilots to stay in the service against their will, according to the chief of the military unit's Air Mobility Command.
April 12, President Donald Trump has signed the US approval for Montenegro to join NATO
April 13, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg announced the alliance's increased deployment in Eastern Europe
On April 13th, the Pentagon bombed Afghanistan. The US military has bombed Afghanistan with its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB)
April 13, the US-led coalition bombed the IS munitions and chemical weapons depot in Deir ez-Zor killing hundreds of people
April 14, The Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) has been deployed to the South China Sea
April 14, the US sent F-35 jets to Europe
April 14, Washington failed to attend the latest international conference hosted by Moscow, where 11 nations discussed ways of bringing peace to Afghanistan. The US branded it a «unilateral Russian attempt to assert influence in the region».
April14, the US has positioned two destroyers armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles close enough to the North Korean nuclear test site to act preemptively
On April 16th, the US army makes largest deployment of troops to Somalia since the 90s.
Mr. Humor drew attention to an article that had been published in "The Daily Beast" a year ago, on 8 April 2016, "CALL OF DUTY: The Secret Movement to Draft General James Mattis for President. Gen. James Mattis doesn't necessarily want to be president—but that's not stopping a group of billionaire donors from hatching a plan to get him there". Though none of the alleged "billionaires" were named there, one prominent voice backing Mattis for the Presidency in that article was Bill Kristol, the Rupert Murdoch agent who co-founded the Project for a New American Century, which was the first influential group pushing the "regime-change in Iraq" idea during the late 1990s, and which also advocated for the foreign policies that George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump, have since been pursuing, each in his own way. It seems that whomever those "billionaires" were, they've now gotten their wish, with a figurehead Donald Trump as President, and James Mattis actually running foreign policy. Humor also noted that Mattis wants to boost the budget of the Pentagon by far more than the 9% that Trump has proposed. Perhaps Trump knew that even to get a 9% Pentagon increase passed this year would be almost impossible to achieve. First, the unleashed Pentagon needs to place the military into an 'emergency' situation, so as to persuade the public to clamor for a major invasion. That 'emergency' might be the immediate goal, toward which the March-April timeline of events that Humor documented is aiming.
As regards the military comparisons of the personnel and equipment on both sides of a U.S.-Russia war, the key consideration would actually be not the 7,000 nuclear warheads that Russia has versus the 6,800 nuclear warheads that the U.S. has, but the chief motivation on each of the respective sides: conquest on the part of the U.S. aristocracy, defense on the part of the Russian aristocracy. (Obviously, the U.S. having continued its NATO military alliance after the Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact military alliance ended in 1991 indicates America's aggressive intent against Russia. That became a hyper-aggressive intent when NATO absorbed Russia's former Warsaw Pact allies. NATO even brought in some parts of the former USSR itself, when in 2004, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, entered NATO, and in 2014 U.S. President Obama tried to get Ukraine into NATO, and these five countries hadn't even been Warsaw Pacters, but had instead been parts of the USSR itself. It was as if Russia had grabbed not only America's allies, but some states in the U.S. itself. This constituted extreme aggression, and shows the U.S. aristocracy's obsessive intent for global empire — to include Russia.)
Any limited war between the two powers would become a nuclear war once the side that's losing this limited war becomes faced with the choice of either surrendering that limited territory (now likely Syria) or else going nuclear. On Russia's side, allowing such military conquest of an ally would be unacceptable; the war would then expand with the U.S. and its allies invading Russian territory for Russia's continuing refusal to accept the U.S.-Saudi and other allies' grabbing of Syria (on 'humanitarian grounds', of course — as if, for example, the Sauds aren't far more brutal than Assad). After the traditional-forces' invasion of Russia, Russia's yielding its sovereignty over its own land has never been part of Russia's culture: If Russia were to be invaded by allies of the U.S., then launching all of Russia's nuclear weapons against the U.S. and America's invasion-allies, would be a reasonably expected result. Here's how it would develop: On America's side, which (very unlike Russia) has no record of any foreign invasion against its own mainland (other than the Sauds' own 9/11 'false flag' attacks), the likely response in the event of Russia's crushing its invaders would be for the U.S. President to seek to negotiate a face-saving end to that limited war, just as the American President Richard Nixon did regarding America's invasion and occupation of Vietnam.
However, a reasonable question can be raised as to whether, in such a situation, Russia would accept anything less than America's total surrender, much as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in WWII was determined to accept nothing less than Germany's total surrender, at the end of that war. If Trump wants to play Hitler, then Putin (acting in accord with Russian tradition) would probably play both FDR and Stalin, even if it meant the end of the world. For Russia to be conquered, especially by such intense evil as those invaders would be representing, would probably be viewed by Russians as being even worse than ending everything, and this would probably be Putin's view as well. If America did not simply capitulate, Putin would probably nuclear-blitz-attack the U.S. and its allies, rather than give Trump (or Pence) the opportunity to blitz-attack Russia and to sacrifice all of the U.S. side's invading troops in Russia so as to 'win' the overall war and finally conquer Russia. It would be like WWII, except with nuclear weapons — and thus an entirely different type of historical outcome after the war.
Consequently, either the U.S. will cease its designs on Russia, or there will be WWIII. Russia's sovereignty will never be yielded, especially not to the thuggish gang who have come to rule the U.S. (both as "Republicans" and as "Democrats"). The bipartisan neoconservative dream of America's aristocrats (world conquest) will never be achieved. Russia will never accept it. If America's rulers continue to press it, the result will be even worse than when the Nazis tried. It's just an ugly pipe-dream, but any attempt to make it real would be even uglier. And nobody who buys a 'nuclear-proof bunker' will get what he or she thinks is being bought — safety in such a world as that. It won't exist.
About the author
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is a contributing writer to EuropeReloaded among other independent media sites, and the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.


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Pension Woefmiauw (Tina, 1982)
José María Casanovas Magrí began his career drawing 'El Pequeño Mundo' for magazine Futuro (1957) and the series 'Superfuerte' for publisher Ferma (1958). He subsequently drew for El Capitán Trueno Extra, and illustrated several issues of Historias Selección (Jules Verne's 'Las indias negras' and several titles in the series 'Pollyanna') and Joyas Literarias Juveniles ('Las Indias Negras, 1975, 'Un Descubrimiento Prodigioso, 1978, and 'El Perro de los Baskervilles, 1982).
Joyas Literarias Juveniles #194 - Un Descubrimiento Prodigioso
In the 1980s he was present in the Dutch girl's magazine Tina with 'Pension Woefmiauw'. For the German Bastei Verlag, he has illustrated 'Geisterjäger John Sinclair' through the Comicon Studio in 2004-05.


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Seeking a new approach to shelter the homeless of Portland, Ore., Holst Architecture and Walsh Construction Co. developed a solution used progressive, high-performance design to address rigorous programmatic requirements for dignified housing on a tight urban site. Every design decision at Bud Clark Commons (BCC) considered the users' health and well-being, as well as that of the environment. The project provides 130 permanent apartments, a 90-bed temporary men's shelter, and a day center with support services such counseling, job training, and community space.
The BCC replaced what had been a gas station and parking lot near the entrance to the Broadway Bridge, between an emerging historical neighborhood and an upscale mixed-use neighborhood. To help protect the nearby Willamette River, the team minimized excavation on the low-lying site and added street planters that treat stormwater runoff from the bridge.
Since it will own and operate the facility for many years, the client took a lifecycle-cost perspective and shifted funds that had been committed to building operations to pay for energy conservation measures. High-performance technologies include an effective thermal envelope; efficient boilers; heat-recovery units and Passive House strategies for residential floors; and a solar hot-water installation that furnishes 80 percent of the building's hot water needs.
In the small residential units, refrigerators and the body heat of the occupants provide most of the needed warmth, and electric valence heaters make up the difference. Heat-recovery units circulate fresh air into each apartment (a key strategy in tuberculosis control), and sensors automatically shut off heaters when occupants open windows. Ample daylighting allows the building's fluorescent and LED lighting to be turned off 55 percent of the time.
Rare for a project of this type, size, and high level of use, a graywater-recycling system was incorporated to reclaim water from showers and washing machines that is then used for toilet flushing. The team customized the innovative system with more robust pumps and filters, and streamlined maintenance procedures. The year-round availability of reclaimed water generates savings through smaller tanks on the urban, half-block site and through significantly lower sewer costs. The facility requires less than half the water of similar building thanks to the graywater system, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and native and drought-tolerant plants.
Generous daylight greets occupants through an interior courtyard, windows, and full-height glazing in public areas, including two-story spaces. Holst also enhanced connection to the outdoors with numerous views, landscaped courtyards, and balconies.
Designing the building to last 100 years, the team mixed durable materials with accessible features to accommodate technological improvements over time. The brick and concrete skin includes high-performing windows that can be replaced in the future without affecting the façade and, in many areas, the post-tensioned concrete structure serves as flooring and ceilings. Painted concrete and weathering steel in the courtyards, along with solid-surface counters and solid-core doors inside, assure long-term durability. To maintain a restorative atmosphere far into the future, Holst also situated the courtyards for maximum sunlight exposure after the adjacent developments that are anticipated are built.
Project completion date: June 2011
Building gross floor area: 106,000 square feet
Estimated percent of occupants using public transit, cycling, or walking: 95
Daylighting at levels that allow lights to be off during daylight hours: 55
Lighting power density (watts per square foot): 0.63
Percent of views to the outdoors: 55
Percent of spaces within 15 feet of an operable window: 35
Percent reduction of regulated potable water: 53
Potable water used for irrigation: No
Percent of rainwater from maximum anticipated 24-hour, two-year storm event that can be managed on site: 52
Total EUI (kBtu per square foot per year): 80
Net EUI (kBtu per square foot per year): 76
Percent reduction from national median EUI for building type: 51
Third-party rating: LEED Platinum
Total project cost as time of completion (land excluded): $28,750,000
Architect, interior designer, lighting designer: Holst Architecture, holstarc.com
Furniture selection and procurement: Czopek & Erdenberger, czopek.com
Client, owner: Home Forward, homeforward.org
Mechanical engineer, electrical engineer: PAE, pae-engineers.com
Structural engineer: ABHT Structural Engineers, abht-structural.com
Civil engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers, kpff.com
Geotechnical engineer: PBS Engineers, pbsengineers.com
Construction manager, general contractor: Walsh Construction, walshconstructionco.com
Landscape architect: Mayer/Reed, mayerreed.com
Green consultant: Green Building Services, greenbuildingservices.com
Acoustical system, ceilings: Armstrong, armstrong.com
Adhesives, coatings and sealants: Dow Sealants, dowcorning.com
Air, moisture, and vapor barriers: Henry, us.henry.com
Alternative energy systems: Solar Water Heating Heliodyne installed by Advanced Energy Systems, heliodyne.com and aesrenew.com
Appliances: Whirlpool, whirlpool.com; Kitchenaid, kitchenaid.com
Building management systems and services: Trane Controls, trane.com
Carpet: Interface, interface.com
Cladding: Mutual Materials, mutualmaterials.com
Curtain walls: Kawneer, kawneer.com
Exterior wall systems: Pioneer Sheet Metal,pioneersheetmetalinc.com
Flooring: Floor Solutions, floorsol.com
Furniture: Knoll, Herman Miller, Sit-On-It, Norix, Central City Concern, Nevins
Glass: Viracon
HVAC: American Heating, americanheating.net
Insulation: Dow, building.dow.com
Lighting control systems: Cooper Lighting, cooperindustries.com; Greengate, cooperindustries.com; Wattstopper, wattstopper.com
Lighting: Prudential, prulite.com; Waldmann, waldmannlighting.com; Cooper Lighting, cooperindustries.com; Focal Point, focalpointlights.com; Gammalux, gammalux.com; Selux, selux.us; Gotham, gothamlighting.acuitybrands.com; FC Lighting, fclighting.com
Metal: Hanset, hansetcorp.com; Timblin Steel
Millwork: Walsh Construction, walshconstructionco.com
Plumbing and water systems: MSI Mechanical Systems, msimechanical.com
Roofing: Tremco Roofing and Waterproofing, tremcoroofing.com
Signage: Mayer/Reed, mayerreed.com
Windows and doors: Cascadia Windows, cascadiawindows.com
Data provided by AIA and Holst Architecture.


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Title: Wings Over Poppies (Over #2)
Author: J.A. DeRouen
Genre: New Adult
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Cover Design: Mae I Design And Photography
Perfection. One word. Three syllables. Every reason why I'll never have the one thing I truly want. I stand dutifully on the pedestal he's built, waiting for the day he truly sees me.
Then one amazing night, he lets down his walls, only to leave me the next day.
Years have passed, and I've tried to move on with my life. But I still dream of him. I still miss him everyday. The memories haunt me. How can I look to the future when my past remains a mystery? The time has come to find the boy who stole my heart and ran away without a word.
But not everyone who is lost wants to be found.
My name is Alexandra Fontaine, and this is my story of unfinished love.
Wings Over Poppies is book #2 in The Over Series and can be read as a standalone novel.
I shift closer to him and wrap my arms around his waist. I lay my head on his chest and breathe him in. His shoulders relax, if only slightly. The need to comfort him is overwhelming. I want to wash it all away for him, hold the world at bay while I erase the worry permanently etched in his forehead.
"Everything is going to be okay, West. I just know it," I lie. I don't know that everything will be okay. I don't know anything at all.
We sit in electrified silence, the crackling of dead leaves under us the only sound. I memorize the feel of him, the smell of him, the rhythm of his breathing. I'm lost in the moment, already anticipating the loss that's to come.
"I leave in a month."
The words cut through the silence like a judgment. Instead of hurt, I'm filled with resolve. I won't let him push me away anymore. I'm done playing by his rules.
I rise up to meet the storm brewing in his eyes. His hand wraps firmly around my neck, and his eyes dart hungrily to my lips. I swallow nervously and refuse to look away.
If he turns his head or pulls my hair, I swear I'm going to tackle him to the ground.
I lean in hopefully, somewhat expectantly, and close my eyes. His warm breath dances across my lips, and my every prayer is answered. He presses his mouth firmly to mine and stills, almost memorizing the moment.
That one small touch is the beginning of the most memorable kiss of my life. It's hello and goodbye, I love you, I'll miss you, and everything in between.
He sucks my bottom lip, and I inhale sharply, completely overcome. His hands dive into my hair, and his tongue slides against mine just once before he pulls away. He touches my forehead to his and chuckles softly.
"What have we been waiting for all this time?"
"You," I whisper breathlessly, "I've been waiting for you."
My admission is all he needs. He devours me, a tangle of lips, teeth, tongues, and hands. I don't know where I end and he begins. I'm exhilarated and relieved all at once.
I run my hands down his arms and grip his wrists tightly. I pull away and look into his hooded eyes.
"Tell me something, West. Tell me something I don't know."
He runs a thumb over my swollen lips while he studies me. I've never felt more loved, more worshipped.
"I can't imagine a world without you in it. No matter where I am, I'll always dream of you. It'll have to be enough." He places soft, scorching kisses up my neck until he reaches my ear. "God, I don't think it'll ever be enough."


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Sitting at the corner of Howard Street and Highway 79 is a plywood shipping crate that inventor Al Arellanes says holds the answer to future battles against floods along the Mississippi River and elsewhere.
"It deploys in one second," Arellanes said of his product, known as RDFW, for Rapid Deployment Flood Wall, and manufactured by Geocell, his San Francisco-based company.
The company's claims raise eyebrows in flood-prevention circles, where the standard method of holding back floodwaters remains sandbagging, a painstakingly slow process that requires massive amounts of labor to fill, carry and place each 30- to 40-pound bag.
So Arellanes, president of Geocell, and Rey Rodriguez, the firm's vice president, are trying to get some publicity for RDFW this week in Clarksville, a town of 500 where residents have battled valiantly with perhaps half a million sandbags to keep the Mississippi from deluging its downtown art and antique shops.
Turns out RDFW is not alone in Clarksville. Metalith, a competitor's product, is an interlocking aluminum-sided barrier that is filled with sand. It is being used to protect buildings surrounding a makeshift drainage pond on one downtown street.
Arellanes demonstrated his invention beneath the emergency lights at the town's main intersection.
RDFW is a 4-foot square, 8-inch high interconnecting grid system made of the same plastic used in disposable water bottles. The 17-pound sheets fold flat, somewhat like the cardboard bottle separators in a case of wine, then snap into their ready position without the need for any tools. Once fitted together, as wide as needed and as high as 14 feet in some applications, the grids are filled by a front loader with sand and, presto, instant wall.
'Legos for adults'
"We're rated for nine feet of water," said Arellanes, who likes to call his product "Legos for adults."
"Time after time over the last few weeks, all I've heard is there wasn't enough time, there wasn't enough material," he said.
Rodriguez noted that sand will naturally condense if it's held in place. "Get a Coke cup from McDonald's, cut the bottom off it, fill it with sand and you can stand on it," he said. With RDFW's lateral reinforcement technique, "What we're doing is reinforcing soil."
Although the RDFW has been around for a decade, it has been painfully slow to win acceptance from emergency managers for two reasons, Arellanes said: "Everybody's used to sandbags" and the system costs about three times what sandbags do. However, the grids can be recertified and used up to six times, so they eventually pay for themselves, he said.
RDFW also has a number of military applications that have seen it used in Iraq and elsewhere, including as roads over swampy areas, bunkers, security walls, even blast-containment structures that can withstand the force of a 500-pound bomb, Rodriguez said.
In flood emergencies, in addition to creating new levees, RDFW can be used to quickly top existing floodwalls and repair levee breaches and "boils," where water is coming through a levee in advance of a breach. The product was used earlier this month to repair a dry levee that had been intentionally breached in the course of construction work at the BASF plant in Palmyra, Mo. It has also been used on levees in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta area, Arellanes said.
With contracts from the Army to test both civilian and military applications, "It's starting to take off," said Arellanes, 59, an earthworks contractor who has worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He got the idea for RDFW about 20 years ago while building roads over drifting sand.
In Clarksville, however, RDFW was beat to the punch by another product, Metalith, manufactured by Infrastructure Defense Technologies. The Belvidere, Ill.-based company supplied the town at no charge with interlocking aluminum panels that form 3-foot tall, 4-foot wide, 8-foot long chambers that are then filled with sand.
The city used the system to quickly create a pressure-relief pond for its beleaguered storm-drain system. Metalith's maker says on its Web site that the product is guaranteed for 20 years and will probably last for 40. It claims that it can be set up two to three times faster than any similar product and also has a host of military and security applications.
Sizing up the shiny metal panels that were lining Clarksville's streets as his product remained in the plywood crate, Rodriguez declined to take a swipe at the competition.
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Computer Laboratory > Teaching > Course material 2008–09 > Unix Tools
Principal lecturer: Dr Markus KuhnTaken by: Part IBSyllabus
This non-examinable 10-h lecture course takes you onto a quick tour
through a few important and highly useful Unix development tools
including the shell, make, Perl and LaTeX on 2008 October 9 –
November 11, 10:00–11:00 in Lecture Theatre 1 of the William Gates
All in PDF for
easy printing:
Most of the tools discussed in the course can be explored and used
on the PWF
Linux installation in the Computer Laboratory's Teaching Lab,
which is currently a customized version of openSUSE Linux 10.3. However,
due to home directories residing on a Novell server, PWF Linux has a
few quirks and
restrictions compared to a typical Unix or Linux system. Problems
with PWF Linux should be reported to
firstname.lastname@example.com [but feel free to cc to me
(mgk25) as well].
I like to encourage students who own a PC and are interested in
Unix to try out one of the various excellent freely or cheaply
available Unix-like operating systems: Linux (Debian, Mandriva, Novell/SUSE, RedHat/Fedora, Gentoo, Knoppix, Ubuntu), NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. In particular, the
Computing Service's Unix
Support runs an FTP
and NFS
server with all the files and updates for the latest SUSE,
Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu Linux distributions.
The following steps outline briefly, how to install SUSE
Linux on your PC. (The instructions and links are for openSUSE
Linux 10.3, which is what the PWF uses, but should work similarly for
future releases):
First make sure you have space for a generous new harddisk
partition. While a minimal system can be installed in as little as 500
MB, partition sizes of 1–4 GB are recommended
for a full-featured system. If your entire harddisk is already used by
another operating system, you may want to reduce the size of an
existing partition first. This can be done without reformatting, using
tools such as PartitionMagic or GNU Parted.
Then there are three options for getting the software onto your PC:
Directly from the network: If your PC is connected to the Cambridge University Data
Using the Computing Service as an installation source will
not create network traffic outside Cambridge, for which your college
would otherwise be charged. If
you are not on the University network, use another
From self-made CDs/DVD: Alternatively, you can burn yourself
the the
full five CDs or the single
DVD from the ISO images provided by the Computing Service. There
is also a Installing Novell
SUSE Linux in Cambridge page there.
From bought CDs/DVD: Finally, boxed sets of these CDs with
printed manuals are available in various computer stores in town
(PCWorld, Maplin, etc.).
© 2008 Computer Laboratory, University of CambridgePlease send any comments on this page to Dr Markus KuhnLast modified 2008-10-11 21:59 by Markus Kuhn


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We've recently made some updates to the REST API which is available here on WordPress.com and for any Jetpack-enabled site that has the REST API module activated. The API now has full read and write support for custom post types and post metadata.
You can specify a post's post type when you create or edit it. If you're fetching a single post, you will receive its post type in the response. Of course, you can also specify a post type when fetching a series of posts. In all cases the parameter to use or look out for is
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If Bill Clinton was the first black president, Barack Obama, if elected, will be the first "gay" president. No, I don't mean he'll personally decorate the West Wing, open a bathhouse in the Rose Garden or take up with Barney Frank. I mean he'll be the most radically pro-homosexual, anti-family president in history. He's very quietly pledged as much to the homosexual "Human Rights Campaign" and other fawning members of his homofascist fan club.
In the wake of the current economic crisis, neither presidential candidate is talking much about social issues. But in the months and years preceding this election cycle, Obama did plenty of talking. Unfortunately, most people have no idea what he's said. If the mainstream media would do its job, quit shilling for their ideological messiah and objectively report on Obama's unwavering fidelity to extremist homosexual pressure groups, many of his unsuspecting supporters might kick him to the curb.
You may have heard the term "San Francisco values" bandied about from time to time. These values do not so much derive from a geographical locale as they do from a shared, deeply engrained "progressive" worldview – a worldview marbled throughout in murky tones of secular humanism and moral relativism. Central to San Francisco values is the notion that the only thing immoral is to believe there are things immoral.
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While Barack Obama may hail from Illinois, Hawaii, Kenya or wherever, his set of core principles – his values – discernibly stem from the underbelly of San Francisco's hyper-sexualized Castro District. The very San Francisco values that brought you the behaviorally driven homosexual AIDS epidemic, San Francisco's public Folsom Street orgy and the preposterous and oxymoronic notion of "gay marriage" are the same values embraced by both homosexual activists and Obama, the latest politico to make 'em light in their loafers.
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Still, don't take my word for it. Obama's own words betray his veiled extremism. Despite a series of utterly hollow and politically expedient platitudes to the contrary, the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that Barack Obama fully endorses the postmodern concept of "same-sex marriage." He's promised homosexual activists – in hushed tones – that if elected, he'll do everything possible to make it happen.
The only thing keeping counterfeit "gay marriage" from spreading state-to-state is the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Due to the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause – which requires that states respect the "public acts, records, and judicial rulings" of other states – "gay marriage," without DOMA, becomes a communicable social malady. DOMA is a boost of penicillin in America's arm. It inoculates states from being forced to recognize counterfeit marriages from other states like California, Massachusetts or Connecticut.
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In 2004, Obama called DOMA an "abhorrent law" and said, "The repeal of DOMA is essential. … For the record," he continued, "I opposed DOMA in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying." Obama also came out earlier this year in favor of the May 15 California Supreme Court decision that unilaterally redefined natural marriage in that state to include same-sex duos. "I want to congratulate all of you who have shown your love for each other by getting married these last few weeks," Obama gushed. Despite assurances otherwise, these are not the words or policies of a man who opposes "same-sex marriage."
But Obama's contempt for the sanctity of natural marriage is only the beginning. As a candidate for the highest office in the land, his hostility toward the tens of millions of Americans who respect traditional sexual morality is unprecedented. He has enthusiastically signed off on every demand of militant homosexual pressure groups. Said Obama, "We must be careful to keep our eyes on the prize – equal rights for every American. We must continue to fight for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). We must vigorously expand hate-crime legislation and be vigilant about how these laws are enforced. We must continue to expand adoption rights to make them consistent and seamless throughout all 50 states, and we must repeal the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' military policy."
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ENDA and "hate-crimes" legislation will unconstitutionally compel Christians and other people with traditional values to abandon those beliefs and adopt – under penalty of law – the postmodern "anything goes" view of human sexuality. Such "sexual orientation" laws have been the precursor to even more oppressive "hate-speech" laws in Canada, Great Britain and throughout Europe. But as Obama has signaled, these laws will not remain confined to his beloved Europe. There is little doubt that such laws will be similarly enforced here in the U.S under his administration. If you happen to believe that God created human sexuality to be shared between husband and wife within the bonds of marriage, you'd better not say so or you'll suffer very real consequences.
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Finally, Obama's promise to require "gay" adoption in all 50 states is particularly troubling. Here, his blind arrogance billows over. Once again he and his homosexual activist cohorts presume to know better than both God and science. As if common sense weren't enough, studies have firmly established that children are best served with both a mother and a father. Although it's not always possible, mom and dad each provide unique qualities vital in healthy child development. To selfishly place untold thousands of children in intentionally motherless or fatherless homes so that Chad and Thad can dress up and play house represents the height of narcissism.
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Hammershøi from Kähler is a stylish and elegant series created by Hans-Christian Bauer with great respect for Kähler's artistic heritage, design history and craftsmanship traditions. And these three unique Hammershøi miniature vases in black are no exception. The striking colour makes the vases go together beautifully as a set, but you can also easily separate them around your home – on the table, on the windowsill or as decoration on a shelf. For example, the striking black shade will create a stylish contrast to a pretty display with seasonal flowers. Shaped with distinctive grooves, the miniature vases from Hammershøi are mini versions of the iconic Hammershøi vases created by artist Svend Hammershøi in Kähler's workshop in the early 1900s. There is also plenty of opportunity to create your own still life with different candleholders and one of the larger vases in the series filled with flowers.
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Hammershøi from Kähler is a stylish and elegant series inspired by one of the most talented and famous designers in Kähler's history: Svend Hammershøi. He joined Kähler in 1893 and became known for his designs with strong contours and distinct grooves. These grooves were the inspiration of designer Hans-Christian Bauer when he created the Hammershøi series in 2015 as a tribute to the great Kähler champion.
Svend Hammershøi became a world-renowned artist during his life, exhibiting in museums all over the world, but when he started at Kähler, he was very interested in learning the art of shaping himself, which is why he initially sat a lot at the turntable. He particularly enjoyed turning the large pots and vases by hand to give them the right look.
The Hammershøi series has gained iconic status and is today a modern classic that appeals to a wide range of design-interested people. The clean, minimalist lines and comfortable, round shapes give Kähler Hammershøi a timeless elegance in line with the Scandinavian design tradition and Svend Hammershøi's design visions. The series includes plates in all sizes, mugs, jugs, dishes, vases and much more. All created with the hands of Kähler's tradition, making the design look nice, diverse, welcoming and authentic.
Hans-Christian Bauer is known for uniting the warmth and uniqueness of ceramics with a rational and modern idiom. This is precisely what is expressed in the Hammershøi series, where the interplay between the iconic grooves and the new silhouettes, functionality and colour choices has been considered in every detail, so that the design reflects Svend Hammershøi's creativity and original works in the best possible way.
To contrast the classic lines, Hans-Christian Bauer has also worked with different glazes that make the material stand out and which create a very special depth as they run over the distinctive grooves. A very special feature of the Hammershøi series is that it also includes the Easter, Christmas and Poppy collections. These are complete series that can be set up for special occasions, but different pieces can also be combined with the classic, white Hammershøi service, which you may already own, so the table setting can easily be spiced up depending on the season and occasion.
With the newer coloured addition to the Hammershøi service, it's easy to create an immediate and eye-catching renewal of the service you already have at home. A new thing in a new colour will instantly elevate the table setting and create a different and fresh look. It's an easy way to create an artistic and personal style that can vary according to mood, occasion and season. The colours in Kähler Hammershøi also complement the series' classic and timeless design and highlight the iconic grooves beautifully. Here the harmonious and balanced accent colours create notes of warmth and depth when combined the other different colours, shapes and materials in the Hammershøi series.
The many different colours adorn everything from vases in several sizes, the thermal jugs, bowls, the salt and pepper mills to the oval serving dishes. The colours have also been selected to match existing Kähler series, namely Hammershøi Poppy, Hammershøi Spring and Hammershøi Christmas. Having the same shades on different parts of the table creates a beautiful cohesion in the table setting – in some places in the full colour and in others as part of a motif.
Innovation and authenticity have always been key words at Kähler and both of these come together in the Hammershøi vases. The vases not only honour and reference Kähler's design history, they also look ahead to innovation and renewal. Kähler's iconic Hammershøi series includes both the well-known and classic Hammershøi vase in faience and the newer version in mouth-blown glass. You will instantly recognise the iconic grooves, while the transparency of the glass in the glass vase provides a completely new experience of the design compared with the Hammershøi vases in faience. Suddenly, the grooves take on a new dimension and a new sense of space, and the transparency creates a lightness and grace – even though the vases still have a good solid weight and stability on the table.
And it's not just the material that is different. In terms of shape, the design of the glass vase is very close to the Hammershøi vases, but the trained eye will notice that there are small variations in the lines, which give the glass vase its own unique personality. The look is still soft and elegant, but the angle towards the bottom is slightly sharper. The Hammershøi vases are a simple and timeless design, perfect for all kinds of flowers, decorative branches or nothing at all.
The vases are an elegant addition to the other parts of the Hammershøi series. For example, they work well as part of the table setting in combination with the ceramic tableware, where they will add a new and fresh lightness to the overall look. Or in combination with candlesticks and bowls from the series – beautifully arranged on the coffee table, on the window sill or on the dresser. Common to all products across Hammershøi ranges is that they are created by hand and have the authenticity and quality that characterises Kähler's diverse cultural heritage and many years of proud handmade traditions.
The Kähler story
A unique design adventure that began in 1839Read more about Kähler
The story of Kähler begins as early as 1839, when the Dutch potter Herman J. Kähler opens a small ceramics workshop in Næstved and turns the first Kähler vase. It marks the start of a unique design adventure that will one day resonate around the world. However, it is only when his son Herman A. Kähler takes over the famous workshop in 1875 that the ceramic adventure really begins.
The story of Kähler begins as early as 1839, when the Dutch potter Herman J. Kähler opens a small ceramics workshop in Næstved and turns the first Kähler vase. It marks the start of a unique design adventure that will one day resonate around the world. However, it is only when his son Herman A. Kähler takes over the famous workshop in 1875 that the ceramic adventure really begins.
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