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Broadcasters Betray Trust With Citizens United
On Feb. 15, Leslie Moonves, the brilliant CEO of CBS, gave a piece of good news to investors — there would be an addition to the bottom line in 2012 of about $190 million, thanks to huge spending on political commercials coming into the network and its owned and operated affiliate broadcast stations.
Moonves got the number by estimating that the spending for political spots would hit $2 billion and that CBS would garner 9 percent to 10 percent of that.
Moonves, to his credit, decried what has happened to political discourse and did not embrace the scorched-earth messages that will dominate the airwaves this year. But he did shed light on a dynamic that most broadcasters do not want to talk about — these guardians of the public interest over the public airwaves are perhaps the biggest beneficiaries of the post-Citizens United trash heap of vicious ads that will be the biggest phenomenon of the 2012 elections. And now we are discovering daily that broadcasters are among the biggest enemies of transparency that would at least shed light on who is funding the ads.
In the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to enable corporations and unions to intervene directly in the election process in a way corporations had been unable to do since 1907 and unions since 1947. But the court, by an 8-1 margin, endorsed robust disclosure as a disinfectant against the unlimited spending it unleashed. Since then — thanks to subsequent judicial decisions, the feckless FEC and the failure by the IRS to enforce its own regulations — disclosure has become a farce.
Voters this fall, especially in battleground states, are going to be deluged with awful spots, with a majority of them likely to come from groups with innocuous names such as Crossroads GPS, that will end with the disclaimer that it was paid for by an organization unaffiliated with any campaign or candidate. But voters in most cases will have no idea who is behind these ads or funding them.
To pick one prominent example among many: Karl Rove's group, American Crossroads, is an openly political organization that is required to disclose its donors. He set up the separate Crossroads GPS to provide a safe haven for the wealthy individuals and corporations that wanted to give their money in a stealth fashion. This violates the spirit of Citizens United. But it also, in my view, violates the law and IRS regulations when it comes to what
501(c)(4) groups are permitted to do.
What to do about this? One avenue is to use existing precedent and regulations to enhance disclosure. That is where broadcasters and the Federal Communications Commission come in.
Broadcasters, as part of their public interest obligation, for decades have had to put information on who is funding the political ads they run and the rates they pay into their public file — a file ostensibly accessible to anyone who wants to see it. But those files have been kept in paper form in a back room at individual station offices — and as lawyers and public interest and academic researchers have discovered, the stations routinely deny access to them.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed that the biggest stations in the larger markets — i.e., the ones that air the most ads and reap the financial benefits — put this same information online and make it accessible through their own and the FCC's website.
And, as Justin Elliott of ProPublica has detailed, the largest and most well-heeled broadcasters (other than CBS) are howling in outrage and spending a fortune hiring lobbyists to keep that from happening. They claim it would be an onerous financial burden. The opposite is true — it would cost no more for a station to key the numbers into a computer than to write them out by hand and file them away.
Broadcasters also say this would reveal sensitive pricing information (in an outrageous and embarrassing comment, Allbritton Communications Co. executive Jerald Fritz said it would lead to "Soviet-style standardization" of ad sales).
The problem with this line of attack is that all of the information on ad sales has been part of the public file for decades. So, in effect, broadcasters such as Fritz are admitting that their existing public files are themselves a farce — they have hidden away the information. The advertisers with whom they negotiate have always legally been able to get access. It is the public that is left in the dark.
Broadcasters are fighting against any online disclosure. But if there is any, they are trying to get the FCC to put mushy, aggregate data online that would make disclosure much less meaningful.
The FCC proposal is actually a modest one. The agency has the authority to order broadcasters to put online within 24 hours the identity of the real ad buyers, including the actual big funders of their ad buys, not just the names of the directors of their organizations. It can require the disclosures to be accessible to everyone, including reporters, researchers and voters using regular search engines. And it can make sure that rivals know where to go, and what to pay, to have rebuttal time. But the FCC plan is still a significant step.
It is more than ironic that broadcasters, the guardians of the public interest and presumably champions of transparency, have become the biggest adversaries of the public and of transparency. It is shameful. And to those lawmakers who used to champion disclosure but now are carrying their water: Shame on you, too.
Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.


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French outlets are reporting that Brange will marry at Miraval on Saturday which also happens to be Brad's parents' 50th anniversary. There has been speculation around this date for months, ever since they announced their engagement. Now Paris Match is sourcing local outlet France 3 Cote d'Azur's claims that there has been wedding activity on the property for days. France 3 is now stationed outside Miraval watching it all go down. Meanwhile another publication in the area, Var Matin, insists that the Brange business is bullsh-t and that while the wedding is indeed imminent, it won't be happening this weekend. Every weekend this summer has been a possible weekend. Every entertainment news outlet has been on alert every weekend since June about these two. I almost wish they'd just get it over with so we can enjoy the rest of our summer without having to sleep with one eye open creeping on their status which, obviously, is what they want. Why put us out of our misery so early?
So will they? On Saturday?
It's just...
I don't put a lot of faith into Euro gossips, you know? They're even less reliable than the constantly full of sh-t Radar Online. And besides, right now those two have nothing to play for. Not yet. You know how it is with them - always timing, always leverage the timing.
Why not head into the weekend with a little excitement? It could help with the Olympic withdrawal to have a Brange wedding to talk about next week.
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1951 Chevrolet 3100 - Better Than Factory Shine
Mark Freund's '51 3100
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Some say a lowered and shaved truck is the cream of the crop; others may prefer a clean factory look. But the question has to be asked, is building a restored truck easier than building a custom pickup? I would say both have issues when building, but I would not say one is easier than the other.
When restoring a classic truck the hope is that everything comes off easy and is not damaged or lost during the makeover. I should know about losing a part or two because it happens all the time in my garage, especially since there are thousands of nuts, bolts, trinkets, and doodads that all seem to move on their own. It's like a ghost is in the garage and starts hiding the small parts. I'm kidding, but it feels that way sometimes.
It all started when Mark Freund began to see his good friend Bill Wharmby's '62 Chevy take shape. The two guys were in mid restoration with Bill's truck and that's when Mark said "I would restore a truck, but it would be nice if the pickup was built the same year I was born."
A few weeks had passed and Bill brought over a local paper with a '51 Chevy pickup that was advertised for sale. So the two enthusiasts took a look at the truck, and before they knew it, the pickup was in Mark's hands. The previous owner stated that the truck was in a garage for the last few years, but before that, it was under a tarp outside for 10 years or so.
When Mark finally got the truck home he checked the engine to see if it turned over, and to his surprise, it did. The three-on-the-tree shifted OK, but Mark knew that both the transmission and 216ci stovebolt needed a rebuild. When the engine was cranked over before the rebuild it only had about 3 pounds of oil pressure and the valvetrain made lots of noise. There was about a tablespoon of oil in the transmission and it was black with dried oil all over it.
A large mousetrap in the headliner and a few interesting skeletons under the seat were cleaned out with rubber gloves and a dust mask. The wiring also looked like the elements and a few hundred varmints chewed on it, so with suggestions of a complete rebuild Mark started ripping the truck apart.
Mark said "I had a great time in the garage alone with some country music on the radio, just a man and his pickup truck." About this time Mark's nephew Andrew McDuffie was home alone during spring break, so what better way to spend time with him than having him help out with the build during summer break.
This was also around the same time when some other family members helped out: Mathew Radek, David Radek, Mark McDuffie, Walter Freund and Mark's wonderful wife Cynthia Freund. Before Mark knew it, the truck was back together with new paint, wheels, tires, and everything in between. Mark would like to think that the truck turned out a little better than when it came out of the assembly plant in St. Louis of January, 1951.
1951 Chevrolet 3100
Mark Freund
Spring, Texas
Frame: '51 Chevy 3100
Modifications: none
Rearend / Ratio: stock / 3.90
Rear suspension: leaf spring
Rear brakes: drum
Front suspension: straight axle
Front brakes: drum
Steering box: stock
Front wheels: stock
Rear wheels: stock
Front tires: Coker
Rear tires: Coker
Gas tank: stock
Engine: 216 inline-six
Heads: stock
Valve covers: stock
Manifold: stock
Ignition: stock
Headers: stock
Exhaust / Mufflers: stock
Transmission: three-on-the-tree
Modifications: none
Shifter: stock on column
Style: 3100
Fenders front: stock
Hood: stock
Grille: stock
Bed: stock
Bodywork and paint by: Paint House
Paint type / Color: Forrester Green
Headlights / Taillights: stock
Outside mirrors: stock
Bumpers: stock
Dashboard: stock
Gauges: stock
Air conditioning: none
Stereo: none
Steering wheel: stock
Steering column: stock
Seats: stock
Upholstery by: owner
Material / Color: Naugahyde
Carpet: rubber
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Heart safety claim for naproxen pain pills voted down
There is room to update safety language for all NSAIDs, U.S. panel says
A majority of federal health experts said Tuesday that new research is not strong enough to conclude that naproxen, the pain reliever in Aleve and many other medications, is safer on the heart than rival drugs used by millions of Americans to treat arthritis and everyday aches and pains.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 16-9 against the conclusion that naproxen has a lower risk of heart attack and stroke than similar anti-inflammatory medications like ibuprofen, sold as Advil and in other generic formulations.
The drugs, known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs, include over-the-counter medications like Aleve and Motrin as well as more high-powered prescription drugs like Celebrex, marketed by Pfizer to treat arthritis. Uniform labelling across all the drugs warns that they can increase the risk of heart attack and other life-threatening cardiovascular events. But debate over whether one drug in the class is actually safer than others has waged for more than a decade without a clear answer.
The FDA convened a two-day meeting this week to review the latest evidence, including a massive analysis published last year suggesting naproxen does not increase the risk of heart problems as much as its peers. Despite an apparent "drift" toward fewer heart problems with naproxen, a majority of panellists said the evidence was not conclusive and did not warrant changing the drug's label.
"If I were forced to bet on what the truth is, my bet would be that naproxen is somewhat safer," said panellist Dr. Susan Ellenberg of the University of Pennsylvania. "On the other hand, I'm not sure how that relates to our regulatory standard, as there's still a lot of uncertainty here."
Panellists who voted in favour of naproxen's safety conceded that the evidence is not definitive, but also cited a "duty to inform the public."
"I'm convinced enough to change my own use of NSAIDs to naproxen — and that of my patients — based on what I've heard these last two days," said panellist Dr. Peter Kaboli of the University of Iowa.
The findings favouring naproxen came from Oxford University researchers who combined results from more than 700 NSAID studies and found fewer heart problems with over-the-counter and prescription naproxen. But most panellists said those results were difficult to interpret. Known as a meta-analysis, the process involved combining safety data from roughly 350,000 patients across hundreds of unrelated studies.
"Meta-analyses are good for raising questions, not for settling them," said panelist Dr. Sanjay Kaul of UCLA School of Medicine.
Despite the panel's opinion against relabelling naproxen, the group did suggest there was room to update some safety language across all NSAIDs.
Current labelling suggests that heart risks only appear after 10 or more days of continuous use. But a recent analysis by Danish researchers found that heart attack and stroke can occur within less than a week of treatment.
A majority of panellists said the FDA should consider revising the label to warn of this short-term risk.
"Any suggestion that those first two weeks come for free should be removed from the label," said panellist Dr. Brendan Everett of Harvard Medical School.
This week's FDA meeting is the latest chapter in an ongoing safety review of NSAIDs that stretches back to 2004, when Merck & Co Inc. pulled its blockbuster pain reliever Vioxx off the market because of links to heart attack and stroke.
Vioxx had been heavily advertised as a new kind of NSAID that was supposed to be easier on the stomach. But its withdrawal shook the medical establishment and ushered in a new era of drug safety at the FDA.
In 2005, the agency added boxed warnings to all prescription NSAIDS, including Celebrex and high-dose versions of ibuprofen and naproxen. Celebrex is the only drug from the same class as Vioxx that remains on the market. The prescription NSAIDs are generally used for long-term chronic pain conditions like arthritis.
The agency also added similar warnings to lower-dose, over-the-counter NSAIDs like Aleve and Advil. Those drugs currently warn patients to take the lowest dose possible for as short a period as possible.


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1880: Andrew Scott and Thomas Rogan, bushrangers
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On this date in 1880, Andrew George Scott and Thomas George "condemned to death for the part they took in the outrage at Wantabadgery, resulting in the death of constable Bowen, were executed at Darlinghurst Gaol."
Scott is our main man here, an Anglican lay reader turned grifter turned flat-out outlaw with the nom de plunder "Captain Moonlite": one of the strangest characters in Australia's criminal annals.
How did a fellow with such a family-friendly alias end up involved in an "outrage"?
This colorful, charismatic immigrant (from Ireland, via New Zealand — and, legend has it, with a side trip to Italy to fight with Garibaldi) became a notorious public figure when, in outlandish masked getup, he robbed the bank of the South Victoria gold rush town of Mount Egerton.
His distinctive voice — remember, he was a parish reader — was recognized by his erstwhile friend at the other end of the gun, but Scott brazenly reversed the accusation and actually had his victim in the dock for a time. This Mount Egerton crime is the source of the man's luminescent nickname, after the signature placed on a stickup note.
When he got out of prison in 1879 — having defended himself with panache, and escaped once along the way — he had a public profile, and actually got out on the lecture circuit for a brief spell.
But he soon returned to the annals of preposterous criminality.
Gathering five young followers, Moonlite went full-time into the bush. Allegedly spurned in a bid to join Ned Kelly's gang, Moonlite et al sought work at Wantabadgery Station.
When this refuge, too, turned them away, the outlaws found themselves in a rather pathetic state of hunger and desperately seized the place by main force. The resulting "outrage" was not a wholesale plunder of the station or wanton abuse of the prisoners (no rapes, no murders … although Moonlite did conduct a kangaroo "trial" of one of his hostages for attempting to escape: the verdict was not guilty): it was the inevitable ensuing shootout with police in which the bushrangers James Nesbitt and Augustus Wernicke died, along with the constable Bowen.
Two of the other three who survived this shootout also survived their brush with the law by blaming Captain Moonlite. The "Captain" may have been plenty eager to accept this fatal inculpation for reasons beyond those of mere honor.
In his prolific prison correspondence awaiting execution, Scott avowed his broken-hearted love for James Nesbitt, one of the two companions who had been killed in the shootout. The terms are astonishingly explicit for the time.
"My boy with a golden heart who died trying to save me … He was my constant companion; we had the deepest, truest bond of friendship. We were one heart and soul, he died in my arms and I long to join him, where there shall be no more parting. He died in my arms; his death has broken my hear. When I think of my dearest Jim, I am nearly driven mad. My dying wish is to be buried beside my beloved James Nesbitt"
Scott hanged wearing a ring of the late Nesbitt's hair,* but his wish to share a burial plot was not honored — until Captain Moonlite was exhumed and reburied in 1995.
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* Asserted in Who's Who In Gay and Lesbian History from Antiquity to World War II.
Part of the Daily Triple: 1880 and Death.
On this day..
- 1877: Dato Maharaja Lela, Perak War rebel - 2020
- 1823: Giles East - 2019
- 1875: A day in the death penalty on opposite sides of Pennsylvania - 2018
- 1905: John Johnson - 2017
- 1922: Eleuterio Corral and Rumaldo Losano, escapees - 2016
- 1979: Julio Vargas Garayar, the last executed in Peru - 2015
- 2013: Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sorouri, viral video stars - 2014
- 1964: Preap In, Khmer Serei operative - 2013
- 250: Pope St. Fabian - 2011
- 1677: William Drummond, for Bacon's Rebellion - 2010
- 1758: Francois Macandal, forgotten black messiah - 2009
- Feast Day of St. Sebastian - 2008
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Australia,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Hanged,History,Homosexuals,Murder,Occupation and Colonialism,Outlaws
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Beach Mantel - Beach Candle Holder tutorial
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Ahhh, I can feel the sand on my toes and hear the waves crash.....love it!! Way cute and peaceful to look at I bet!ReplyDelete
I agree about the beach I too miss it, lived in Huntington Beach California for a brief time. Love the mantel idea!ReplyDelete
this is soo pretty! i love the turquoise! i just might try this! thanks!ReplyDelete
Really loving this, Crissy!! Perfect kind of decor for my home, since we live on the seashore. I'm inspired!! Thanks for linking-up at the Our House Of Joyful Noise Link-Up Party, as always! Congrats on being featured! I hope you spread the word! (I couldn't find you on Twitter?)ReplyDelete
I have lived landlocked for a long time. Now I'm so happy to live near the ocean. I can imagine how you miss it. Your mantel is super lovely -good that we can create our home environment to reflect our passion!ReplyDelete
So refreshing and pretty - looks great! I found you as I was searching whipperberry and looking for ideas of my mantle! Love those blues!ReplyDelete
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Very pretty! I'm slowly bringing blue into my living room and this looks like a great project! Please stop over and link up to my party this weekend and I'm also having a giveaway! Love your blog and am now following you!ReplyDelete
So very pretty and "summer-y" -- love all of the turquoise details!ReplyDelete
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Your shelf turned out great. I love the colors. I'm working on my own beachy shelf so your link-up caught my eye. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete


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If you are involved in the Global Video Doorbell industry or aim to be, then this study will provide you inclusive point of view. It's vital you keep your market knowledge up to date segmented by Applications [Residential & Commercial], Product Types [, WiFi & DECT] and major players. If you have a different set of players/manufacturers according to geography or needs regional or country segmented reports we can provide customization according to your requirement.
This study mainly helps understand which market segments or Region or Country they should focus in coming years to channelize their efforts and investments to maximize growth and profitability. The report presents the market competitive landscape and a consistent in depth analysis of the major vendor/key players in the market along with impact of economic slowdown due to COVID.
Furthermore, the years considered for the study are as follows:
Historical year – 2014-2019
Base year – 2019
Forecast period** – 2020 to 2026 [** unless otherwise stated]
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The titled segments and sub-section of the market are illuminated below:
The Study Explore the Product Types of Video Doorbell Market: , WiFi & DECT
Key Applications/end-users of Global Video DoorbellMarket: Residential & Commercial
Top Players in the Market are: Amocam, Aiphone, Ring, Zmodo, Honeywell, Smanos, SkyBell, VTech, Vivint, August, Eques, Kwikset & SmartThings
Region Included are: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific etc
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Video Doorbell Market Insights
3.1. Market Segmentation
3.2. Industry landscape, 2015 – 2026
3.2.1. COVID-19 impact on industry landscape
3.3. Industry ecosystem analysis
3.3.1. Raw material suppliers
3.3.2. Manufacturers
3.3.3. Distribution channel analysis
3.3.4. Vendor matrix
3.4. Technology landscape
3.5. Raw material analysis by Type
[, WiFi & DECT]
3.5.5. COVID-19 impact on raw material supply, by region
184.108.40.206. North America
184.108.40.206. Europe
220.127.116.11. Asia Pacific
3.6. Regulatory landscape
3.7. Industry best practices & key buying criteria
3.8. Pricing analysis
3.9.1. Regional pricing
188.8.131.52. North America
220.127.116.11. Europe
22.214.171.124. Asia Pacific
188.8.131.52. Latin America
3.10 Cost structure analysis
3.10.1. COVID-19 impact on pricing
3.11. Industry impact forces
3.11.1. Growth drivers
3.11.2. Industry pitfalls & challenges
3.12. Innovation & sustainability
3.12.1. Future trends including COVID-19 impact
220.127.116.11. Production trends
18.104.22.168. Demand trends
3.13. Growth potential analysis
3.14. Porter's analysis
3.14.1. Supplier power
3.14.2. Buyer power
3.14.3. Threat of new entrants
3.14.4. Threat of substitutes
3.14.5. Industry rivalry
3.15. Competitive landscape
3.15.1. Company market share analysis, 2019
3.15.2. Strategy landscape
3.16. PESTEL analysis
3.17. …………………………..
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A critical path package is a specially managed package in Fedora that provides some essential or core functionality. Updates for critical path packages must undergo additional verification before they can be distributed to the community at large.
Previously, documented policy treated every package the same. While good for uniformity, in reality certain packages require extra attention and care when updating and testing. These packages have potential to break the critical path of use of our Fedora distribution. As part of a Fedora Activity Day, several contributors proposed a critical set of actions that must not be broken. The packages required to sustain these actions make up the critical path.
Packages within the critical path are required to perform the most fundamental actions on a system. Those actions include:
- graphical network install
- post-install booting
- decrypt encrypted filesystems
- graphics
- login
- networking
- get updates
- minimal buildroot
- compose new trees
- compose live
A set of groups are defined in the
comps.xml file to include packages required for the critical use cases listed above. Since package dependencies change regularly, the
comps.xml groups are then used to dynamically generate the list of packages.
The critical path package groups in
comps.xml are listed below:
@core @critical-path-base @critical-path-gnome @critical-path-apps @critical-path-kde @critical-path-lxde @critical-path-xfce
You can list the packages in these groups with the following command, replacing 'critical-path-base' with the name of the group you're interested in:
dnf group info critical-path-base
For more information on
comps.xml see how to use and edit comps.xml for package groups.
Where can I find the critical path?
The critical path package list for all releases is stored in PDC.
The most recent lists of critical path packages are available at:
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Dear Mexican: Please explain to me why so many mexicanas seem to think it's more important to stay home and baby-sit than attend school (so that they may become more in life than producers of offspring).
As an educator (lately of students identified as "at risk" for failure in high school), I have faced "absent on account of child care" as the leading excuse for non-attendance and truancy among my mexicana students. Please note, too, that these are not the young women's children; often, they are not even the children of the nuclear family. Consider as well that this is a rare-to-nonexistent excuse among any other student group. (In other words, this does not come up among diverse Latina or other populations.)
Teach Her
Dear Gabacho: I'm not really sure what's the point of your question. Are you trying to imply that Mexican families don't want their daughters to go to school? I'm hearing nowadays in education circles concern about how Mexican teenage boys are falling behind their hermanas in educational attainment. Do you know for a fact that those girls are taking care of kids at home?
I'm not trying to deny or excuse the disturbing rates of truancy among Mexicans, among the highest of any ethnic group in the United States, but instead of harping on one particular, imagined cause, how about about attacking the whole enchilada? In "Preventing Truancy and Dropout Among Urban Middle School Youth," a paper in the January 2009 issue of Education and Urban Society by Louie F. Rodríguez of Florida International University and Gilberto Q. Conchas at the University of California at Irvine, the profes identified high truancy rates as a leading indicator of an at-risk student (DUH!) and did what you seemingly don't: Ask the students why they're truant.
They also studied a Boston-area community group that succeeded in reducing truancy among Latinos and African Americans. The trick? Giving a damn about kids, demanding they and their parents care, and making sure it takes a rancho to get the chamacos to succeed.
"Educational research, policy and practice have much to learn from grassroots community-based organizations that directly battle with the social struggles in urban communities," Rodríguez and Conchas concluded. "Educators must assess the factors and influences within community-based organizations that motivate truant young people as a means to build stronger bonds across institutions."
Why do Chicanos criticize gabachos while they are in the USA, and when they come back to México, why do they despise their compatriotas mexicanos by showing their dolares? Seems that they don't belong in either the USA or México.
Chale con el Chilango Chafa
Dear To Hell With Chilango Riffraff: The gabacho part is easy—Mexicans of all colores criticize gabachos, because the Virgin of Guadalupe told us to.
As for the criticizing Mexicans in Mexico: They're just learning from the natives, who never miss a moment to trash Mexicans who live in el Norte and their children as somehow lesser than Mexicans who live in Mexico. All we ever did? Save Mexico's ass from the Third World over the past 30 years with our billions of dollars in remittances.
Ask the Mexican at firstname.lastname@example.com; be his fan on Facebook; follow him on Twitter @gustavoarellano; or ask him a video question at youtube.com/askamexicano!


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100,000 people dialled in to speak to Aamir!
Aamir Khan is a man with the Midas touch. As the first episode of his debut TV show "Satyamev Jayate" was aired, about 100,000 people dialled in to speak to the superstar to initiate a serious discussion on social issues facing the nation.
Out of approximately 100,000 people who made the effort of calling in to share their views on the show, only around 10 or 11 were actually able to speak to Aamir due to time constraints, said a source from telecom company Airtel, which is facilitating the SMS and dial-in procedures for "Satyamev Jayate".
Nevertheless, Aamir exchanged quality discussions with the callers.
He shared views on social activist Anna Hazare's movement against corruption, took up issues regarding female foeticide - the doctors who conduct sex determination tests and abort the girl child, and how the medical system of the country fails to take any action against such law breakers.
A Gurgaon-based caller named Apoorv compared the show with Hazare's movement, which had found immense support from Aamir as well. But he expressed concern that the effect of the show must not fizzle out.
"I'm afraid that this movement should not end as Anna's movement got. As it's known to a very few people only that Anna is again initiating a movement from Pune. So now I'm a bit sad and think Anna was better in his home rather than facing the way his movement is getting diminished now," said the 25-year-old in a conversation with Aamir.
But Aamir reiterated that change is only in the hands of each individual.
"Anna's movement could only be successful towards corruption if every individual has to ask oneself if he or she is associated with corruption or not," responded the actor.
"Only we are the one who can bring the change. As you have already said that once you were a notorious guy & you changed yourself. So if we change ourselves, only then our society can feel the change," he added.
Yogendar, a caller from Guwahati, questioned the motive behind "Satyamev Jayate".
To that, Aamir replied: "This is an effort from our end to show the crucial issues of our society and our country. We have worked for two years to gather the complete information about the same. We will come every Sunday to tell you about one issue every week."
Though a lot of people tuned in to Star Plus to watch the show, and subsequently took to social networking platforms to share their views on it, Aamir says Television Rating Points (TRPs) do not matter.
The Star Plus show, which went on air Sunday brunch time 11 a.m., caught the attention of viewers from all quarters of the nation.
The channel has collaborated with Airtel, which has reduced the cost of every SMS directed to the show from Rs.3 to Re.1.
The revenue collected through each SMS will be donated to a charity.
"We have always taken the lead in associating with events, shows and initiatives that resonate well with the preferences of today's India. With connecting with people spread across India as a common focus area for both 'Satyamev Jayate' and our brand," Bharat Bambawale, director, Bharti Airtel said in a statement.
"We look forward to the role it ('Satyamev Jayate') will play in entertaining the masses while bringing inspiring stories to the fore," added Bambawale.
The show is aired in eight different languages on a total of nine channels, including eight STAR TV network channels and is simulcast on national broadcaster DD1.


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Of course, anytime someone uses the word 'best' it comes down to a matter of opinion.
I'm going to attempt to support my opinion with information and experience.
You can either watch the video or skip to underneath the video to read more.
Here Is My Personal Story About Using The Hydro Floss
I had always been a little annoyed that my gums would bleed during dental cleanings. But, I thought it was normal and no one told me otherwise for years!
Then one day the hygienist and dentist decided that I would need what was called a SRP treatment or Scaling And Root Planing.
This was a shocker for me because no one explained that I was in any real danger. Nor had that dental office spent any time educating me about gum disease, which I finally figured out was the problem.
No previous diagnosis of this from my dentist. I wasn't given information at all in the past, except that I should think about 'using mouthwash' in addition to regular brushing.
The worst part of all, they wanted to do the SRP that day! Right away, I didn't have time to think it over.
I don't like being pushed, which is what it felt like.
I decided to say: "No". After all, I could always have it done later if it was necessary.
I started doing my research and I began to understand a lot more about gum disease. Did you know that about 75% of people have some right now? As in my experience, most people have no clue that they have this problem.
They won't know until it is time for expensive dental work to be performed. Or, when they lose a tooth.
I have talked to enough people over the last few years to know that my story is NOT at all unique. Many people have similar or even worse 'wake-up calls.'
Searching For The 'Right' Answers
I continued looking for solutions and tried some things like essential oils, oil pulling, Vitamin C and Co-Enzyme Q-10, but nothing was really having an impact. In fact, it seemd that some things may have made it worse.
Then one day I read about the Hydro Floss with its magnetic technology. It frankly sounded a bit strange to me at the time.
But, I figured I needed to do something, because that Scaling and Root Planing is nothing that I wanted to experience.
I used the Hydro Floss 'religiously' (more than I actually needed to as I later found out) for five months!
When I went back to the same dentist she looked at my mouth and I could see the look of amazement on her face as well as that of the hygienist.
Finally, the dentist said after several minutes of staring into my mouth, "Whatever you are doing, keep it up. You don't need that treatment anymore."
The Journal of Clinical Periodontology published two studies on the Hydro Floss
The first was in May of 1993 and the second was in April of 1998. The second researcher, I have been told, intended to prove the first set of results wrong.
To her surprise, she actually obtained slightly better results than the first study.
What were those results? Simple, they showed that the Hydro Floss was about (not exactly) 50% better at reducing tartar and plaque build up between office visits than irrigators tested without the magnetic technology.
Tartar and plaque are where gum disease really gets its strength.
In scientific research a figure like 45 or 50% is considered "statistically significant". That basically means it is outside the range where you might suspect the results were 'accidental' or perhaps 'not meaningful'.
These two studies were both published in the professional journal of periodontists mentioned above.
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Trenton, NJ - The Christie Administration today announced state and federal hotlines available to help New Jersey residents, health care workers and first responders manage emotional stress and stay healthy.
"New Jersey residents are incredibly resilient. During my visits to affected hospitals, shelters and communities, I met many displaced residents, health care workers and first responders who are demonstrating incredible courage and resourcefulness in helping patients, families, friends and neighbors," said Health Commissioner Mary E. O'Dowd.
"It is important for everyone--the public and EMS and health care workers--to recognize the signs of distress and take advantage of the resources available during these challenging times as we get back to normal," said Health Commissioner Mary E. O'Dowd.
"No one who lives through a disaster is untouched by the experience," said Department of Human Services Commissioner Jennifer Velez. "It's right and real to feel emotional, and important to know that there are state and federal resources available to help individuals experience these feelings in a safe and constructive way."
The New Jersey Department of Human Services' Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services - Disaster and Terrorism Branch, is coordinating statewide efforts to help individuals and communities manage the emotional impact of the storm.
Disaster Mental Health Teams are currently providing support in many shelters around the state and are mobilizing to assist in FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers over the coming days, weeks and months as needed. These locations will offer free face-to-face disaster crisis counseling.
In addition, the Disaster and Terrorism Branch provides informational materials about coping, and partners with the Mental Health Association in New Jersey to offer assistance through a toll free Disaster Mental Health Helpline: 1-877-294-HELP (4357). A TTY line is available for persons who are deaf and hearing impaired at 1-877-294-4356.
The federal government also has a Disaster Distress website (http://www.disasterdistress.samhsa.gov/) and helpline that provides 24/7 crisis counseling and support resources available at 1-800-985-5990 or Text TalkWithUS to 66746.The federal Helpline is staffed by trained counselors from a network of crisis call centers located across the U.S., all of whom provide crisis counseling for those who are in emotional distress.
Signs of distress may include any of the following physical and emotional reactions:
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Stomachaches or headaches
- Anger, feeling edgy or lashing out at others
- Overwhelming sadness
- Worrying a lot of the time; feeling guilty but not sure why
- Feeling like you have to keep busy
- Lack of energy or always feeling tired
- Drinking alcohol, smoking or using tobacco more than usual; using illegal drugs
- Eating too much or too little
- Not connecting with others
- Feeling like you won't ever be happy again
- Rejecting of help.
To help New Jersey residents as they cleanup homes and businesses after Hurricane Sandy, the Department of Health has public health experts available through the state's 2-1-1 system to answer questions about food and water safety and mold removal.
To reach public health experts, call 2-1-1 or 1-866-234-0964. Public Health officials are available 8 am to 8 pm on weekdays and 10 am to 5 pm on weekends. The 2-1-1 human services hotline is open 24/7.
More than 800 New Jersey residents have called the Department of Health hotline seeking help with food and drinking water safety, mold removal and prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Additional resources about Hurricane help and recovery--including lists of shelters, food pantries and soup kitchens--are available at: http://www.nj211.org/hurricane.cfm.
Information about avoiding poison monoxide poisoning is available at http://www.cdc.gov/co/guidelines.htm
Additional information about hurricane and flood recovery is available at http://www.state.nj.us/health/er/natural.shtml and http://www.bt.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/
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San Francisco Bike To Work Day Goes Fairtrade
All 17 Morning Energizer Stations Convert to Fair Trade Certified Coffee
Thursday, May 14th is Bike to Work Day in San Francisco and all seventeen morning energizer stations will be serving Fair Trade Certified coffee. Join commuters old and new in making a statement about the importance of cycling and raise a cup for the world's farmers. Stop by one of the 17 morning energizer stations and load up on Fair Trade Certified coffee, healthy snacks and even a convenient tote bag for future commutes.
Fair Trade Certified products directly support a better life for farming families through fair prices, direct trade, community development and environmental stewardship. When you choose Fair Trade Certified coffee along with your morning ride, you are choosing a better life for the world's farmers, a cleaner environment and a more sustainable commute.
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2012 Presidential General Election Results
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Return to State Ballot Question(s)
Suspension and Removal of Elected Officials
Constitutional Amendment (Ch. 147 of the 2012 Legislative Session)
Question 03
(Amending Article XV, Section 2 of the Maryland Constitution) Changes the point at which an elected official charged with certain crimes is automatically suspended or removed from office. Under existing law, an elected official who is convicted or pleads no contest is suspended and is removed only when the conviction becomes final. Under the amended law, an elected official is suspended when found guilty and is removed when the conviction becomes final or when the elected official pleads guilty or no contest.


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Schurter Inc. announces its C22F appliance inlet with filter for use in equipment requiring electrical components rated for high ambient temperatures. The unique design provides higher temperature ratings in a standard compact package, thus filling a gap between existing products on the market and the increasing demand for higher performing components.
The C22F appliance connector is rated at 155°C. The chamfered shape of the inlet differentiates its style according to IEC 60320 C22, versus the rectangular shape of the more standard C20 style rated at 70°C. Combined with a power line filter rated for ambient temperatures ranging up to 16A at 75°C and 20A at 65°C, the unique design provides exceptional attenuation characteristics at high ambient temperatures.
The C22F and C20F are ENEC approved at 16A at 250 VAC and cURus approved at 20 at 250 VAC. SCHURTER also offers the inlets without filters. The filters are available in standard and medical versions suitable for applications according to IEC 60950 and IEC 60601-1. Applications include power distribution units, IT servers, medical heating appliances and imaging systems. Versions with extra large X capacitor of 330 nF are available. Terminals are quick-connect or solder. Wire leads are available on request. Mating cord connectors and moulded cord sets are also supplied. For more information, click here.
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Top Stories: Italy Downgraded, Greece On 'Precipice,' Perry In NY
Good morning.
Our earlier headlines:
-- 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Fades Away, Media Say
-- Murdoch's Media Co. Offers $4.7M To Family Victimized In Hacking Scandal
-- At The UN, Palestinian Bid For Membership Dominates Discussions
Other top stories of the day so far:
-- "S&P Downgrades Italy's Credit Rating." (The Financial Times)
-- "Greece Nears The Precipice, Raising Fear of Default." (The New York Times)
-- "European Stocks Advance On 'Productive' Greece Debt Talks." (Bloomberg News)
-- "Rick Perry To Criticize Obama On Middle East." (USA Today's On Politics blog)
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Making Cinnamon Toast Finnish-Style
Ingredients for Making Scandinavian or Finnish-Style Cinnamon Toast
The method and ingredients for making baked cinnamon toast are simple,
and can be adjusted to your taste.
and can be adjusted to your taste.
I soak some day-old home-made bread in milk, cream, a dash of salt, cinnamon and sweetener for a half-minute, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, then bake it on a buttered baking sheet in a low oven (250*) until lightly browned and dry. Let it sit overnight in the oven for a real crunch. Optionally, you can remove the toast after baking it for an hour, and re-coat it in the milk, cream and cinnamon batter, sprinkle it again with cinnamon and sugar, then bake again for as long as you believe necessary. This toast is usually dunked into coffee, as it is meant to be very crunchy.


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Emily Blunt Took Tom Cruise to a 'Sex Club'! (WATCH)
Emily Blunt took her Oblivion co-star Tom Cruise clubbing in London, and showed him a night he'll never forget.
RELATED PICS: First Pic of Emily Blunt's Adorable Baby Girl
The 31-year-old actress explained on Thursday's Jimmy Kimmel Live! that her and her husband John Krasinski had decided to do something crazy for Matt Damon's birthday and invited Cruise, 51, to come along. "I don't know if you've heard of this club called The Box. It's kind of like a burlesque ...sex club. ...There's weird things that go on and make you cringe."
"Earlier, I think he thought it was going to be a nice, civilized dinner," Blunt recalled. "So, I emailed him and I was like, 'Tom, change of plan. Um, we're now gonna go to this club called The Box. Just wanted you to know, you may not be comfortable with this. It's kind of like a sex club.'"
Cruise's responded, "He emailed back and went, 'Jesus Christ! Well just don't let me walk out of there alone!' which we didn't."
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"Great lover, scholar, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer. Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time, and the law of physics are nil. He can reach inside of a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them as castanets. He can lead a band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless; he never fails." – Time (1931)
Praise for Vol. 1:
"What I really took away from this book… was Gottfredson's considerable (and very nuanced) compositional and storytelling skills…an entertaining read and still a thrill to see what Gottfredson work out and then master this longer styled-format. Disney fans — or just fans of solid, entertaining comics in general — won't be disappointed." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
"The lighter approach makes this book a better choice to share with your young ones. They should love the timeless highjinks of the mouse and his friends. And anyone can appreciate the skilled cartooning and astounding art, so well-done it almost seems to move on paper." – Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Vol. 2: Robin Hood Rides Again
by Floyd Gottfredson
280-page full-color 10.5" x 8.75" hardcover • $29.99
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Who are we?
Ingram Micro touches 80% of the technology you use every day with our focus on Technology Solutions, Cloud, and Commerce and Lifecycle Solutions. With $46 billion in revenue, we have become the world's largest technology distributor with operations in 56 countries and more than 35,000 associates. We continue to strategically expand our global reach with 32 acquisitions since 2012.
We are highly committed to expanding our business across Middle East, Turkey, and Africa regions. To achieve our ambitious goals, we need talented people to join our go-to-market Sales Presales, Sales and Business Development) and Marketing teams. Our business is focused on resellers in the Business-to-Business space (B2B).
In this job of Purchase Controller, you will be working on the purchase activities of complete assigned vendor product portfolio complying with the company and government policies.
What will you do?
Which Talent do you bring?
What's in it for you?
You will get a great opportunity to be part of the ambitious plans we have for growing one of the most important parts of our organization. We will support you in your professional and personal development, by providing you with access to LinkedIn Learning and many high-quality training courses to increase your technical knowledge and expertise. You will also get opportunity to work with passionate team members and stay connected as one family.
Ingram Micro is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment where all associates are valued, respected and supported. We are highly driven by our tenets of successes: Results, Integrity, Imagination, Responsibility, Courage and Talents.


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NDP leader John Horgan is promising to "give British Columbians a raise" by raising the province's minimum wage to $15 by the end of his first term as premier.
Horgan made the announcement at a party conference in Kamloops Sunday.
"Minimum wage is no longer something earned just by teenagers in their first jobs," Horgan said. "Students, parents, seniors, new Canadians in every part of the economy are paid minimum wage."
In May, Premier Christy Clark announced a 40-cent top-up to her government's minimum wage formula, bringing it to $10.85 effective Sept. 15. The B.C. Liberal government's cost-of-living formula called for a 10-cent increase this fall.
Clark said her government will add another 30 cents to the next scheduled increase in September 2017. Assuming another 10-cent cost of living increase, the wage would be $11.25, which Clark said would give B.C. the third highest rate in Canada.
The B.C. formula discounts the minimum wage by $1.25 for restaurant and pub servers, to reflect the income they receive from tips.
The B.C. Federation of Labour immediately issued a statement Sunday congratulating Horgan for backing their long-running campaign to move the minimum wage to $15 an hour.


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Twenty five years ago I was a hunting and fishing outfitter in Montana. For six months of the year, I was so busy taking care of clients, that I seldom had time to enjoy a meal with my family. From early June through Thanksgiving, my life revolved around providing hunting and fishing adventures for clients from around the world.
Early one June morning, while driving from our home in Missoula to my tackle shop in West Yellowstone, I was blessed with, what seemed at the time, an unusual inspiration. My life was about to change forever. During a twenty-minute time interval, the idea for a totally new jacket design entered my mind.
At that particularly busy time in my life, the very last thing I spent time thinking about was clothing. These inspirational thoughts were not only out of the ordinary, they preoccupied my thinking for the next several weeks. It wasn't until I "coincidentally" met a garment, pattern maker later that summer, that the idea took on a life of it's own.
By late summer, those jacket pictures in my mind, became a real garment. Naturally, I started wearing it while guiding and figured that was the end of the story. By the time hunting season began, however, I had clients who were so intrigued with the unique design that they wanted one. Now What? A new garment manufacturing business, "coincidentally" opened just 45 minutes from Missoula. An article in our local newspaper about this new business, compelled me to meet with the owner. In early December, my first production agreement resulted in my original prototype, becoming the first of 25 more innovative jackets. A hunting client, who purchased a jacket from me, "by coincidence", happened to be a patent attorney in a prestigious patent and trademark law firm in Houston, TX. He advised me that I better get my jacket design patented. Two years and 200 jackets later, the Ultimate Jacket, received patent #4,569,089
Today, Outdoor World provides "Made-In-Montana" clothing products to customers all over the world. Our family-owned business has survived and grown despite monumental challenges. Most significant among them has been the business education and personal growth of the man who was blessed with the original inspiration.
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Secret to Home Repairs: Plan and Save
Which is harder: saving for a down payment and getting a mortgage on your first house, or paying for maintenance and repairs after you buy it?
If you think paying for maintenance and repairs is easier, you're probably among the majority of first-time homebuyers -- and wrong, housing experts say.
"So many people who are struggling and saving and working two jobs, they think getting in (a house) is the hard part," says Jorge Casas, who oversees classes for new homeowners at the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance. "Staying in it, that is the real challenge."
Here are some tips from the experts on how to keep ahead on household repairs and avoid falling behind on your mortgage.
Home repairs can be predicted and planned for. That might seem like an odd thing to say, especially if your central air suddenly went kaput on a hot June day. But every major appliance and household system has a life span. You'll need to replace your roof and central air conditioning system every 20 years. Your furnace and dishwasher may last 10 years, while your gas-fired water heater will conk out somewhere between years five and 10. "A lot of those appliances last as long as a dog," says Jim Morrison, president of Allan Morrison Home Inspection in Tewksbury, Mass.
Get a second opinion. Before you even buy your home, you should trail behind the home inspector taking notes. Failing that, shell out another $300 for a second inspection after you've moved in. This will give you an idea of the years left on the major appliances and systems and form the basis of your maintenance plan, Casas says.
Build a team. You will also need the numbers of a few good contractors you can call when something breaks. At the least, you will need the number for an HVAC professional, a plumber, an electrician and a roofer, says Casas.
Start saving. Knowing that your furnace has three more years to live is pointless if the dreaded day comes and you don't have a dime socked away. Depending on what blows, you could be faced with having to come up with anything from $1,000 for a water heater to $15,000 for a new roof. Consider stashing away money regularly in a savings account. At the least, you should have access at all times to at least $5,000, Casas says.
One formula calls for putting aside 1 percent of your home's value each year. That sounds like a lot, but Larry Hoytt, head of Hoytt Inspection Services in Novato, Calif., and former president of the Amer ican Society of Home Inspectors, offers no apologies. "There are a lot of people out there buying homes that have no business buying homes," he says. " If they can't afford to properly maintain a home, they shouldn't be buying it."
Consider financing options. Home equity loans are nice, but given falling home prices, they can be tough to get. However, one way for buyers to cope with the risk of a major household system meltdown is to buy a home warranty. In fact, given the sluggish housing market, buyers now might have the leverage to persuade sellers to throw in warranties with houses, says Kit Hale, general manager for MKB Realtors in Roanoke, Va. "I encourage our sellers to do it. You want to set yourself out -- it's a buyers' market right now."


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The Library also provides a range of services which many solicitors use on a regular basis including its very popular enquiry and research service, the document delivery service, the Library Updater, the current awareness service, tailored e-bulletins and the Libero Database, which is an important portal of legal information for practitioners in this jurisdiction.
The Library and Information Service is once again running its in-depth Compact Research Courses for solicitors. The numbers at each session will be capped at approximately 4 to ensure maximum benefit for each participant. The emphasis of the course will be very much "hands on" with participants encouraged to use the resources and facilities available to develop their legal research experience and techniques.
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• one of the sessions is an interactive tutorial on best practice, tips and techniques for using the internet for legal research.
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|Cedar Nut Sheller
This equipment and method of shelling Siberian Cedar Nuts brings the difference in the quality of "RINGING CEDARS OF RUSSIA" Siberian Cedar Kernels and Siberian Cedar Nut Oil
If you are involved with cedar products, have read much literature about cedar nut oil, and are using cedar nut oil almost daily, occasionally you may be surprised by the question that sometimes arises: "Cedar nut oil, but what is it for?" Nevertheless, this question arises fairly often.
Life is astonishingly multifaceted and diverse. To the extent that different people will quite often find confirmation of completely different claims in one and the same phenomenon.
There exists a fairly large number of natural remedies, whose use gives good restorative and medicinal results. And it is probably not that important whether a person will choose this or that remedy, the main thing is that the person wanted to make his or her life better, wanted to obtain positive results, and in the end used the chosen remedy.
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Some people use pharmaceutical multivitamin complexes and consider that they use them successfully, while some people do not trust pharmaceutics all that very much, and look for something natural, such as, for example, Red Sea products, aloe juice, or cedar nut oil. And it is impossible to say that this one is better, and that one is worse. The entire point is the person's choice and his or her intentions. The selection is considerable, and diverse information about natural health remedies may be found not only on the Internet, but in various magazines, newspapers, and on television.
Returning to the question, just what is cedar nut oil for, we can begin with the fact that, first and foremost, we have in mind a product for use in food, or a biologically active supplement - the oil of cedar nuts.
This is a virgin oil, obtained by cold pressing of kernels of cedar nuts from which the shells have been removed. Many people look precisely for virgin olive oil on supermarket shelves. This type of pressing makes it possible to preserve all the vitamins, biologically active substances, and trace elements in the oil. In this instance, cedar nut oil presents all the healthy properties of cedar nuts in a concentrated form, which indeed makes it such a valuable product.
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Thus, cedar nut oil is a source of a valuable complex of vitamins, trace elements, and mineral substances. This contributes to its wide use as a natural multivitamin.
Cedar nut oil contains:
vitamin A, which promotes the growth of the body;
B group vitamins and vitamin D, which normalize the activity of the nervous system, improve the composition of the blood, and have a favourable effect on the skin;
vitamin E (55 mg in 100 g, tocopherol, in Greek, "I bear offspring");
cedar nut oil is a true concentrate of vitamin F - there is more of it in this oil than in Vitamin F preparations based on fish fat. Vitamin F assists in * the reduction of the level of cholesterol and prevents the formation of plaque on the walls of vessels;
the proteins of the oil include 19 amino acids, 70% of which are essential;
cedar nut oil contains a large proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids - linoleic, linolenic, oleic, arachidonic, palmitic, and stearic;
trace elements - phosphorus, copper, magnesium, zinc, manganese, cobalt, iodine;
magnesium - there is no other food product that can compare with cedar nut oil in the quantity of magnesium. Magnesium dilates the blood vessels and reduces the heightened excitability of the nervous system.
|Cedar Nut Oil with Cedar Resin
Thanks to the fact that so many vitamins and healthy substances are combined in cedar nut oil, it is also used in folk medicine as a stimulant for the immune system in cases of various symptoms of indisposition or vitamin insufficiency. Cedar nut oil is also used for preventive purposes as a general fortifying remedy to fight chronic fatigue syndrome, to increase physical and mental work capacity, and for the preventive treatment of age-related illnesses, such as atherosclerosis, disorders of the digestive organs and heart.
Several alternative methods exist for the use of the oil. For preventive purposes, the most effective is the following: 1 teaspoon taken 30 to 60 minutes before meals, 2 to 3 times a day, for a period of 40 to 60 days; however, a noticeable effect is also obtained from a single, daily dose of one tablespoon of cedar nut oil on an empty stomach. To assimilate it best, it is preferable to absorb the oil in the mouth.
Virgin cedar nut oil has an attractive light-amber colour and a pleasant nutty fragrance. Its flavour qualities surpass the best grades of olive oil and almond oil, and the strength of its medicinal effect exceeds sea buckthorn, burdock, coconut, and high grade olive oil.
Cedar nut oil has also been used for a long time as a valuable vegetable oil for the preparation of food and various sweets. Of course, it could be afforded only by residents of the taiga and neighboring provinces, as well as well-off people who knew about the amazing properties of cedar nut oil.
Residents of Siberia prepared a "vegetable milk" and "vegetable cream" from cedar nuts. The kernels were extracted from the dried nuts, they were dried more, the skin was cleaned off by hand rubbing. The dry kernels were crushed in wooden mortars, hot water was added a little at a time. The gruel-like substance obtained was poured into a cast iron or clay pot, and was brought to a boil in a Russian stove - and the cream was ready. Before use, boiling water was added to the cream, and vegetable, or cedar nut milk was obtained. In its fat content, cedar nut cream is twice as rich as dairy cream, and two and a half times as rich as meat. The calorie content of cedar cream is higher than all the products named. Nut cream and milk, as a medicinal remedy, have been used by folk medicine since days of old. In 1786 the Academician P. S. Pallas wrote that the vegetable cream "is used in chemist's shops, a milk is made from it, a milk that is prescribed for chest illnesses, the cream is used effectively by people with consumption."
There exist a large number of excellent culinary recipes both using cedar nut oil as well as using cedar nuts, and cedar flour. Interesting recipes and also much useful information about the use of cedar nut oil and other cedar products may be found in books.
Cedar nut oil is an ecologically pure product without any contraindications, and is most completely assimilated by the human body.
Cedar nut oil is not an inexpensive product, and cannot be inexpensive by virtue of the special features of its production. But the price of cedar nut oil is completely comparable to the price of pharmaceutical multivitamins, which often provoke allergic reactions and have a fairly questionable effectiveness. Abroad, cedar nut oil is very highly valued, it is no accident that Western companies try to buy up and export cedar nuts by fair means or foul.
|Unfiltered Cedar Nut Oil
Yet another area where cedar nut oil is used is cosmetics and personal care products. The presence of biologically active substances, and especially the large quantity of vitamin F, makes cedar nut oil a wonderful base.
In conclusion, when speaking about the truly marvellous properties of cedar nut oil, we would like to note that, of course, cedar nut oil, just as other natural products, is not a panacea or a medication for all diseases and ailments. Rather, a panacea may be considered to be the daily, practical efforts made for the good of one's health. A broad, systematic, and rational approach is always required - both for prevention as well as for treatment. It is in this type of rational and multifaceted approach that cedar nut oil may become one of the basic constituents for effective treatment.
If we speak of the daily use of cedar nut oil as vegetable oil, then here, as in everything, it is good to have limits. On the Internet you can find the enthusiastic opinions of a woman who writes that she even fries potatoes in cedar nut oil. Perhaps this is a good thing, but most probably not all together rational. After all, cedar nut oil is fairly expensive, and it is well known that prolonged heating breaks down the vitamins and biologically active substances. And besides, the excessive use of even the most beneficial substance may do harm.
So, I wish to conclude this essay with wishes that you take care of your health in a well-rounded way and, mainly, that you do it daily, and use cedar nut oil in your food in moderation, preferably in the "raw" state.
Yes, and remember that it is best to store cedar nut oil in the refrigerator.
With wishes for health and joy.
prepared by Victor Rod


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On August 21, 2006, Orion Township Public Library and Lake Orion Community Schools officially formed a partnership, known as ThinkLink. Similar partnerships have been very successful in other parts of the country, and we are optimistic about the positive impact this partnership will have on students, families, teachers and the community as a whole. For more information on services offered through this partnership, see our 2022-23 ThinkLink Services Offered document (pdf).
ThinkLink, the partnership between Orion Township Public Library and Lake Orion Community Schools, will expand the educational opportunities and enhance the academic achievement of each student. As partners in education, we will work collaboratively by combining our strengths and resources to invest in each student's future and accomplish, together, results that we could not otherwise readily achieve.
To ensure every Lake Orion Community Schools student has and uses an Orion Township Public Library card to borrow materials and to access databases. To develop programs, activities, and events for all Lake Orion Community Schools students and their families, that encourage reading, advocate the completion of school assignments, promote scholarship, and provide the best possible chance of overall academic success.
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Regular readers of Dooce know that blogger Heather B. Armstrong gets a whole lot of hate mail. Yesterday, she launched a site featuring entertaining examples of it, surrounded by advertisements galore: A little something she calls Monetizing the Hate.
Whether you think this is a brilliant example of turning lemons into lemonade or a shameless exercise in greed and self-pity will probably depend on your existing opinion of Armstrong. And does anyone not have an opinion on Armstrong at this point? I've been a fairly regular reader of her blog for a few years now, and I'm constantly amazed at how someone who primarily writes amusing stories about her family and dogs, who rarely makes a political statement — and when she does, always couches it in like 20 paragraphs on how she respects differing viewpoints and loves her conservative, religious family members — has become such a lightning rod. What the hell did Heather Armstrong do to you people?
I can only assume it has to do with the Number 26 factor — Armstrong's rank on Forbes's recent list of 2009's "most influential women in media." As she puts it:
You've got Oprah Winfrey at the top of the list, and then it goes on to Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and others like Ann Curry and Katie Couric and Martha Stewart and Lesley Stahl, and everything is fine until you get to number twenty-six, Heather B. Armstrong, and it's like the list suddenly falls off the edge of the earth... I mean, ridiculous. That's exactly what it is. Absurd. But that did not stop me from reminding Marlo about it every time I changed her diaper. I was all, DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM, KID? YOU'VE GOT NUMBER TWENTY-SIX WIPING YOUR BUTT.
To me, that passage is quintessential Armstrong: Funny, self-deprecating, humbled by her good fortune yet justifiably proud of all she's accomplished, down-to-earth, always up for a good poop joke. And to others, that passage is quintessential Armstrong: Arrogant, boastful, just clever enough to feign humility so simple fools will be duped into identifying with her, completely out of touch with the common folk, worryingly obsessed with scatalogical references.
This insistence that she's nauseatingly egotistical, that every display of gratitude or humility is obviously a calculated act, has been around since long before she made the Forbes list, but between that and the recent Maytag episode (in which she harnessed the power of a million Twitter followers to get herself some goddamned customer service — only to be accused of bullying the poor, defenseless Whirlpool Corporation), Dooce-hate seems to be at an all-time high, much of it devoted to taking her down a peg or 12:
Quit the hype and propaganda, you're not even close to being a top blogger. A stupid one yeah?! Now go cash your WIC, welfare, and meet your HUD qualifications so you can keep writing delusional pieces of self absorbed garbage that only YOU thinks is good.
I just wanted to let you know.. that I think your full of crap. I've tried, and I can't really target it to just one specific area for you to improve upon; your are (as far as I can tell from the posts I read on your website) full of crap in every single capacity of life.
It's actually REPULSIVE to me that you're able to make a living doing this. I guess you've rounded up the biggest retarded losers on earth and somehow hooked them into following you.
You have elephantitis of the ego. It's for sure now. Vain, vain, vain. Get a grip.
Believe it or not, SOME people in this world are famous for LEGITIMATE reasons, such as owning a modicum of talent... just because you've been on Oprah DOESN'T MAKE YOU MORE IMPORTANT.
The fact that Armstrong's become a phenomenally influential blogger via some combination of smart moves, timing, lucky breaks, hard work, self-promotion, self-revelation, and terrific writing just doesn't sit well with some people. Some of it is plain old jealousy, to be sure — I'm jealous as hell, and I like her. But what I'm not is threatened by successful women, even ones kicking a thousand kinds of ass in my chosen field. And I can't help thinking that's what's really at the heart of the vitriol directed at Armstrong — and every other lady blogger with any kind of an audience.
I've got a fraction of Armstrong's readers, and I've heard versions of nearly every single complaint on Monetizing the Hate, minus the ones specific to her parenting, Utah, etc., more times than I could possibly keep track of. (My personal favorites so far are the people who believe I should be ashamed of myself for promoting my own book, on my own blog. So unseemly! If I had any real confidence in my writing, I'd trust that the book would find an audience without my having to brag about it. IT IS NOT FAIR TO ABUSE YOUR PLATFORM LIKE THAT.) Every female blogger I know whose traffic exceeds the number of her friends and family members has gotten this shit, and I know a lot of female bloggers. The second some people actually start listening to you, a ton of others become deeply invested in reminding you that it DOESN'T MAKE YOU MORE IMPORTANT.
So I think it's fantastic that Armstrong is putting the hate out there for all to see — and if she can profit from it, more power to her (though the sheer amount of ads, while amusing in context, does make the site very nearly unreadable). Monetizing the Hate is not just a clever way to neutralize the intended effects of hate mail, but an excellent case study in anti-lady-blogger vitriol. Whatever the details of these missives, the aggregate makes it clear that the real problem is not that Heather Armstrong is a bad mommy, a careless dog owner, an arrogant bitch, a bad writer, or a bully — it's that she's a woman with an audience. A woman with influence. And that kind of hatred and fear of female power affects women who are not Number 26, women who don't have blogs or book deals, women who have never been on Oprah. It affects all of us.
Image by Heather B. Armstrong, from her blog.
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Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Photo: Wilson Webb / 20th Century Fox.
Following Monday's announcement that Paul Greengrass' Captain Phillips would open NYFF51, Film Society of Lincoln Center has more thrilling news: Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will have its world premiere on Saturday, October 5 as the Centerpiece Gala presentation of this year's 51st New York Film Festival (September 27 – October 13).
The film, directed by and starring Stiller, is loosely based on a classic story by James Thurber (previously adapted as a Danny Kaye vehicle) about a dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance, and action. When his job, along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world, embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt and Sean Penn also star. The 20th Century Fox release is set to open wide on Christmas Day.
NYFF's Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, "Ben Stiller has expanded on James Thurber's beloved short story and crafted a beautifully lyrical comic epic, grounded in present day realities and concerns. He is wonderful in the lead, Kristen Wiig is nothing short of magical as the woman of his dreams, and it's great to see Shirley MacLaine in perfect form. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one terrific ride, and I'm thrilled that we're able to present it as our Centerpiece screening."
In a statement, Ben Stiller expressed his excitement for the premiere: "I am incredibly honored and excited to have The Secret Life of Walter Mitty premiere in the New York Film Festival. When I first heard, I wanted to make sure it was the one at Lincoln Center and not one in Utica or somewhere. Making this film has been a wonderful collaboration with a really special screenwriter, Steve Conrad, and all the extremely talented cast and crew who worked on this movie. Having grown up a few blocks away on Riverside Drive, I couldn't be happier to have it premiere here."
Stiller talked with FilmLinc Daily ahead of the announcement, marvelling at how relevant this story from 1939 still is and why it spoke to him: "I think you get to a certain point where you realize your life is happening and is going by. For a long time, when I was younger, everything existed so much more into the future."
NYFF's tradition of Centerpiece Gala presentations began in 1994 with Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. Walter Mitty joins a tradition of highly-regarded Centerpiece films, such as Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, P.T. Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, and Pedro Almodovar's Volver. Last year's Centerpiece was Sopranos-mastermind David Chase's feature film debut, Not Fade Away.
Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Photo: Wilson Webb / 20th Century Fox.
The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The selection committee, chaired by Jones also includes: Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Cinematheque Programming; Gavin Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Film Comment; Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Sight and Sound; and Marian Masone, FSLC Associate Director of Programming.
Subscription Packages and VIP Passes for the New York Film Festival are on sale now to Film Society Members. General Public tickets will go on sale September 8 after a Member pre-sale period. For more information about becoming a Film Society Member, click here.
To sign up for email updates about the 51st New York Film Festival, click here.
Past New York Film Festival Centerpiece Films
1994 Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen, USA)
1995 Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
1996 Thieves (André Téchiné, France)
1997 The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
1998 Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia/Germany/France)
1999 Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, UK)
2000 Pollock (Ed Harris, USA)
2001 Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, USA)
2002 Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, USA)
2003 The Fog of War (Errol Morris, USA)
2004 Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
2005 Breakfast on Pluto (Neil Jordan (Ireland/UK)
2006 Volver (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
2007 No Country for Old Men (Ethan & Joel Coen, USA)
2008 Changeling (Clint Eastwood, USA)
2009 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lee Daniels, USA)
2010 The Tempest (Julie Taymor, USA)
2011 My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis, UK)
2012 Not Fade Away (David Chase)