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Choir: Christmas Carols
As promised, here are the playlists for your choir carols this year! On the YouTube playlist, there is not a decent version of I saw three ships so you will have to listen to Spotify for this. I have also put all the congregational carols on the playlists too. Enjoy and LEARN.


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So it's the one week long March holidays and I haven't planned much to do with Phoebie.
At almost 33 weeks pregnant, and having quite a bit going on in the family lately, I decided to take things slow this week and make ad-hoc plans as the days come.
This pregnancy has certainly been different from when I had Phoebie. I feel a lot less agile (some friends say it's because I'm also a few years older now) and I've had to deal with quite a bit in the past few months. The saving grace, though, is that Phoebie has been very sweet and excited at the notion of having a baby brother soon. I pray that her thoughtfulness remains, or better yet, increases when the baby finally arrives.
Anyway, I decided to bring Phoebie to stay at my mum's place for the week since it's the school holidays. This is partly to keep my mum company and help her adjust now that my dad is gone, and also for Ben to have a good rest because he has a busy week at work.
Phoebie lived here for slightly more than a year before we moved back to our own place, so she is very comfortable here. She still has her toddler bed here and has no problem sleeping.
I try my best to create opportunities for Phoebie to bond with her Popo, aka my mum. My mum had always been the less confident one between my parents when it came to looking after Phoebie. She worried that Phoebie wouldn't take instructions from her or that Phoebie wouldn't understand her if she spoke in mandarin. Now that Phoebie's mandarin has improved by leaps and bounds, that is one less thing to worry about.
I feel the need to build my mum's confidence in looking after Phoebie, also because my mum will most likely be the one to care for her when I go into labour. So Phoebie, please be nice and learn to listen to Popo.
We didn't do much on Monday, except to run some errands relating to my dad. Phoebie spent some time with my mum in her room, talking and tickling each other. I guess that helped Phoebie feel more comfortable about being alone with my mum too.
I had to attend a funeral yesterday, so for (I think) the first time, Phoebie was left alone with my mum for a few hours. I called home to check once and my mum said Phoebie was taking a nap. Guess that helped ease her in on caring for her granddaughter.
Today, I decided that we could make a short shopping trip to Ikea, since my mum needed some cushions.
My mum was concerned about letting Phoebie walk all over the market hall area, so I explained to her that Phoebie was simply curious and wanted to explore. As long as we gave clear instructions and kept her in sight, Phoebie would be fine. Soon, my mum caught up with my instructions to Phoebie about following the arrows on the floor.
My mum also saw how curious Phoebie was about these small activity stations all over Ikea and used them as conversation opportunities. I thought that was excellent because Phoebie got to learn about matching pictures, and my mum got to learn more about communicating with Phoebie.
While we had lunch at the cafe, Phoebie kept whining about going to the play area. I told her that we would have to finish lunch before she could go. She tried to eat a little faster but would whine from time to time about going off to play.
I saw that my mum was almost done with her food, so I thought it'd be a great chance again for Phoebie to learn to take instructions from my mum. I told Phoebie that Popo was almost done and that Popo would bring her to get her hands washed before she could go to the play area. I also told her that I would check with Popo if she had listened to instructions.
And it worked! When I caught up with my mum at the play area, I asked her how the little bathroom trip was and my mum said Phoebie held hands with her and listened to her instructions. I thought it was great because it would do two things. One was to build my mum's confidence in giving instructions to Phoebie, and two was for Phoebie to know that she has to listen to her Popo, just like how she has to listen to her parents.
My mum had her reservations about letting Phoebie play where there were some bigger kids who seemed to be playing rough. I told my mum not to worry and that Phoebie had to learn too. When some of the older kids got too rough, Phoebie looked at me and said she didn't like it. I took the chance to tell Phoebie that playing rough wasn't nice and she shouldn't do it. Later, I explained to my mum that whatever other kids did that didn't look pleasant, I could use the chance to teach Phoebie what not to do.
The ice-cream session marked the end of our little trip to Ikea and by the time we took a cab home, Phoebie was snuggling up to her Popo and my mum was all smiles.
I noticed that my mum also caught on with how Ben and I would give Phoebie a time limit whenever we needed her to end an activity. It will come in handy when my mum has to be alone with Phoebie again.
I guess not having too many plans is good sometimes. Ad-hoc activities can be fun. And I love that Phoebie and my mum have more time to get to know each other through short outings and short sessions at home.
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OAFC BBS - All Topics: Archive: Angels and A's almost lost their identity
I think all of this contraction talk has surfaced again for a reason. I think that it's still possible that in the next few years, MLB will consider eliminating a couple of teams. I hate to say it, but with the A's low revenue base and no new stadium in sight, it looks like they're not yet off the chopping block.
Yes but the reason the A's remain in limbo is due to Selig and Co preventing a change in ownership who would maximize and explore the potential of their presence in the 5th best MLB market in the US and ultimately build a ballpark with a true parnership btween corporate and the city as it should be.
"I think that it's still possible that in the next few years, MLB will consider eliminating a couple of teams."
Btw nick, I think you're absolutely correct in stating that this near contraction/relocation, or
So shoot me for a year or two - it just makes me real nervous continually hearing all this contraction talk and to have Schott admit that he was part of the discussions. He is in no way committed to the team or city - the only way I would see him sticking around for the long term is for him to get a subsidized park in the South Bay and that's not going to happen due to the territorial issue as well as the lack of funding to come from taxpayers or corporations. So it leaves him with a choice to sell out to the highest bidder. He tried to do this a couple of years ago but MLB shot it down. The only reason that I could think of for this is that MLB doesn't want the A's in Oakland/Bay Area. I genuinely believe that it's only a matter of time before the A's are relocated or contracted. Even during the baseball season, when I should be enjoying a winning team, this is always in the back of my mind and it suuuuuucks!!!
He tried to do this a couple of years ago but MLB shot it down.
I don't think you can dismiss this all that easily. Where there's smoke, there's fire. With this ownership group, I don't trust anything. I think they'd sell out there mother if they could make a buck and think that they'll cash in as soon as they can, whether it be to a local buyer or not.
Oh, I agree that we can't dismiss anything and I think we have to really keep very close tabs on what they're doing. I may have given the impression that I'm not worried, but I do worry and I think we should stay very alert to anything they do.
There's a lot of talk about contraction in the NHL. If hockey teams fold, I think it will be more palatable for MLB to fold teams as well.
I see there's been alot of talk about contraction since I last visited. Seems to be an issue that is on every A's fan's mind, huh? And for a good reason.
I don't know but how can mlb be even think of contracting the A's organization. The franchise has the second most world series titled tied with the Cards and second only to the Yanks. Does that kind of history mean anything to the baseball powers or does the all might green dollar mean more. I don't think the A's will get contracted because it doesn't make sense. Even with a cheap owner and no new park, the A's will continue to spend their money wisely than three fourths of the teams in baseball and still have more on the field success.
Portland seems EXTREMELY hungry for a team, and is ready to spend tax money to build a stadium. They're likely to get the Expos unless Northern Va ponies up. The question is can/will that market support a team. I think they'd be the smallest.
Portland does have Paul Allen there as he owns the Blazers but still, I don't think the A's will go there. The Bay Area can support two teams no matter what others say. I believe somehow, someway that somebody will buy the A's from Schott and Hoffman and build a park somewhere in downtown Oakland. If that's in the uptown area or near the waterfront, it will happen; I just don't know when. Selig's b.s. will get exposed for what it is when he tabled the Dolich group and the way he's treated the A's and called them an "anamoly"(sp?). People may call what I believe wishful thinking, but my philosphy with the A's is you gotta believe that all bad things that have happened to you will turn around eventually and you'll get rewarded soon afterwards. It's happened before. Haas saved this franchise from the hands of Finley era. There has to be another Haas family out there to save this team from this ownership group.
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Everything has worked out for Anthony Pettis (16-2) after all. Following back-t0-back title shot losses, due to injury, the Milwaukee native will now headline UFC 164 in his hometown against UFC lightweight champ Benson Henderson (19-2) for the title. Following news of top contender T.J. Grant being forced off the card with a concussion suffered in jiu-jitsu training, UFC president Dana White had taken to Twitter to verify the match-up last night.
If you're unknowing of the first match-up between "Bendo" and Pettis, it was the icing on the farewell cake that WEC served back in Dec. 2010 upon its closing. Pettis brought notary on the sport with his now legendary cage kick to the head of the WEC champ. Pettis would steal the WEC title on the promotions migration to the UFC, snapping a 10 fight win-streak.
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Even after logging five years behind the wheel of a school bus, Ethleen Page takes no chances.
Like many of her co-workers, she spent part of Friday giving her bus a careful inspection to assure there would be no glitches when classes begin Monday.
"I went in today but didn't have to," said the Palm Springs resident, who stopped by the central county school bus compound on Summit Boulevard west of West Palm Beach. "I made sure my bus was clean, that it had a tank of gas, that everything was working."
That scrutiny can mean the difference between completing a route on time or "sitting in the middle of a street with a gang of schoolchildren yelling because your bus broke down," Page said. "And you can't get the compound on the radio [for help) because it is chaotic, absolutely chaotic, during the first two weeks of school," she said.
The rush to get 620 buses ready kept a lot of people busy Friday.
Some drivers were out on the road in their buses, learning new routes or familiarizing themselves with new stops.
Transportation coordinators were assigning first-time bus drivers to buses. And in the garages, mechanics were making final adjustments.
"There's a lot going on," said Bob Riley, the school district's assistant transportation director.
Manuel Valdesuso, foreman of the south county school bus compound off Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach, said all 165 of his buses were ready.
But when drivers start their engines in the pre-dawn darkness on Monday, there are bound to be "a couple of renegades" - buses that won't work properly, he said.
The entire fleet carries about 56,000 students to 123 public schools and travels about 56,000 miles a day.
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Today sees both an end and a start. The ending is Armchair BEA 2013. It has been another intense year, but that intensity hasn't put me off coming back next year. Not even with the added work of a book release in the middle of it! For those of you who haven't joined in with Armchair BEA this year, come back next year and give it a try! It is so much fun!
And now for the start. May 30th saw the release of my second novel: Last Chance. Today is the start of the blog tour. I'll be touring the internet with guest posts and interviews and reviews for the new book, but let's kick off with a few bits about the creation of the cover…
When I first started looking at book covers for The Keeper's Chronicles, I had an idea of what I wanted. Serenity standing in the trees, clad in a cloak, turned ever so slightly towards the viewer. The trees were dark with autumn leaves. And when someone looked close enough, there would be faces peering out from behind those trees.
The end result turned into something completely different, as you can see.
And that's what happened with Last Chance, too.
After seeing the success of The Last Keeper's cover and hearing the responses, I made a decision very early on that I wanted something similar. A face in cloth, with a pair of bright eyes staring out at the reader. But not the same image, and not the same character.
So the first step was deciding which characters played a big part in Last Chance and who would be best suited for the cover. The answer there was pretty easy: Elena, Kiros, Serenity, Ray, and Lizzy. Those are the main five characters in Last Chance. Given that Serenity is on the cover for book one, and she and Lizzy look alike that left me with only three choices, and one problem.
Who could I get to play the part?
In the end I asked my good friend Rachel. Not only is she absolutely gorgeous, but she looks good as a blonde, too. So I got hold of a blonde wig, asked Rachel to come play dress up, and set about getting the pictures taken.
On the day, we went through five costume changes, two set changes, one location change, and over four hundred pictures. These included the obligatory test shots and silly shots, including the one below.
The guy in the tea towel is my husband, and the one in the chair, who looks far too happy, is Rachel's husband.
The first shots for the book cover were very similar to that of book one. Close ups of Rachel in her make-up and costume. Shots of her dressed in a cloak with the hood around her face. However, it wasn't any of those that drew my attention.
When the pictures came through and I had chance to sit and look through them, one stood out from all the rest. It wasn't overly posed or one that we had planned, but when I saw it, I knew. It was the one.
And even though it's not the same as the first one, it is everything I wanted for this book. I just didn't know that was what I wanted until I saw it.
But I'll let you decide. Here is Last Chance's book cover:
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In the next few blogs I'll be writing how I made the neck and headstock. I've been working on these for a while but haven't written anything about them yet, so it's time to catch up a bit.
First, the headstock. Most headstocks are sawn off the neck blank at a 15 degree angle and glued 'under' the neck. The result looks something like this:
I've been taught a different method where the headstock is glued 'over' the neck. The advantage of this method is that when the fretboard (the black bar in the sketches) is glued down, it adds extra strength to the joint:
The length of the resulting headstock is the same in both pictures, as measured from the start of the tilting angle. But, it's clear from these drawings that the 'over' approach means the length of the wood used for the headstock is longer than the 'under' approach. The remaining wood for the neck is thereby shorter. Overall of course, you use the same amount of wood for both approaches.
I'm not experienced enough to judge the effect of this method, but it makes sense to me and I can't see any drawbacks.
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Could Be Time To Revisit The "Fire Norv Turner" Theory
Hating on Norv Turner was all fun and games back when the Chargers were 1-3 and looked like they forgot how to play football.
Then they went 4-2 to tie their record at 5-5.
Then they won 6 in a row to get to 11-5.
Do the math: that's 10-2 in their last 12.
Then yesterday they won a playoff game for the first time in many years, beating Tennessee 17-6.
Now they play at Indianapolis next week, a team they happened to beat back in November, though it was at San Diego, in the rain, two factors that won't be in play here.
Hmmm. I'm no fan of either Norv Turner, or his brother Ron (offensive coordinator of the Bears). In fact, I think both are coasting on out-sized and unearned reputations. But fair is fair, and it would be pretty hard to keep up the "Norv Turner hiring was a mistake" line of argument.
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The Primary Years Program (PYP) and Inquiry Learning at Bradbury School A presentation for Year 1 Bradbury Parents September 2011 Chris Duncan and Lisa Harris. Shift Happens!!!!!!!. Why Make the Change? Our curriculum has become over-crowded.
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The Primary Years Program (PYP)and Inquiry Learning at Bradbury School A presentation for Year 1 Bradbury ParentsSeptember 2011Chris Duncan and Lisa Harris
Our curriculum has become over-crowded.
Curriculum has become very content driven.
Time is not available for subjects to be studied in depth
Current curriculum model is not equipping our students with the skills they need to live and work in an International setting in the 21st Century.
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I am absolutely in love with this piece of music. From the movie Twilight, it reaches the depths of my soul like no other music has. It brings such raw emotion to the surface of my being that I am unable to hold back the tears. Happiness, anger, contentment, frustration, joy, resentment, love ... these are but few words that I know to describe the sheer scale of feelings that I have when I hear this. At the very least, should you listen to it, I hope you enjoy this serene melody.Bella's Lullabye by Carter Burwell.
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Baby X is an intriguing novel. I must admit I find clinical intelligent thriller-y type things interesting (see my obsession with House), but this genre, if you can call it that, is rarely coupled with emotional intelligence. Baby X is a great achievement just from the outset: it's an intelligent novel with a heart.
We begin with Dr Alex Mansfield driving a new-born baby to her grandmother's old house. Alex is worried and tells us that 'I did what I had to do.' Why does she have this baby? And why is it called X?
Alex's story is interspersed with Karen's. Karen and her husband have had many miscarriages and they approached Dr Mansfield so that they can realise their dreams of becoming parents. Alex wants to grow the first baby outside of a human body; the imagery of the artificial womb in the lab is sharply drawn. These women's stories are alternated with chapters dating from 'much later' at an inquiry, as we piece together Alex's actions from her workmates and try to come to terms with what made her steal the baby.
Alex is a complicated character and, initially, I was worried that she would prove too complicated. There are some issues I thought I would have when I started this book – why can't a woman be a doctor without her maternal instincts getting in the way? In the wrong hands this book could have bordered on offensive, it could have been a "single doctor woman" vs "want desperately to be a mother and have a family woman" but it goes far deeper and is infinitely more compassionate than that. Alex's reasoning is organic, apart from one major coincidence which felt a little too much.
The inner worlds of both Karen and Alex are well drawn, but so is outer society. The press is following the first artificial baby avidly, keen to moralise about perfect babies and things not "being natural", which felt too real. Karen and her husband are hounded into an interview and the journalist forces their story into the one that she wants, resulting in heartache for the couple. There is also an interesting meeting between Karen and an online troll, which showcases Smith's compassion and willingness to write something that doesn't tread old arguments but confronts society as it is.
There is a also thriller aspect with a troublesome ex-boyfriend of Alex's; this builds throughout the novel, which is running over three timelines. The pace never slows because of this and shows excellent plotting.
I read Baby X so quickly and would definitely read more by Rebecca Ann Smith. Mother's Milk Books have done it again – they are carving out an identity for themselves as a publisher of compassionate stories, stories which aren't saying the same thing as everybody else.
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Apparently they've gotten wise to Bat Guano's snooping...
This should be interesting, as far as I understand it they don't actually have the authority to do this. Anything drone-related falls under FAA jurisdiction, and they're taking their damn time on the regulations there.
The military definitely has the authority to restrict the airspace above installations


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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Oven-Roasted Zucchini
8 medium zucchini, thickly sliced (½ inch) on the bias
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 garlic cloves, pressed
2 roasted garlic cloves, chopped, and 1 fresh garlic clove, pressed
2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
6 fresh basil leaves, chopped or ¼ cup chopped herbs of your choice
Note: Tarragon and chervil or tarragon and thyme or oregano and thyme or dill are all good.
Zest of 1 lemon, see photos if you need them
Juice of ½ lemon
Salt and pepper
1. Place the zucchini in a roasting pan(s). Add the olive oil, toss to coat, and arrange in a single layer. Sprinkle lightly with salt. Put the pan(s) in the oven and turn the temperature to 425ºF. Roast for 30-40 minutes, turning once mid-way. The zucchini should be nice and brown on both sides.
2. Mix together the garlic, parsley, lemon zest, and herbs.
3. Make a layer of some of the zucchini slices on a serving dish. Sprinkle with some of the herb mixture, season with salt and pepper and drizzle with the lemon juice. Continue making layers until all the ingredients are used, ending with some herbs on top.
4. Set aside in a cool place for about an hour for the flavors to mingle before serving. Can serve warm or at room temperature. To warm slightly, put the dish in a microwave and heat for 1-2 minutes.
Note: I have made just steps 1 and 2 of this recipe with salt added along with the olive oil. Even at its most simple, it is a delicious dish.
4-5 servings
Adapted from The Silver Spoon, a comprehensive cookbook of Italian food
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I will say it again. The amount of hot tail running around Miami, FL is just embarassing. This is the Florida International dance squad. Seriously? I wasn't even sure this school actually existed. I kinda thought it was some online boondoogle like University of Phoenix. Appareantly, and thankfully, I was wrong.
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The amount one pays for insurance depends on a number of factors; age is certainly not the only one. The cost of premiums will typically be more expensive for young drivers than they are for older, more experienced drivers.
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John William Harreld (January 24, 1872 – December 26, 1950) was a United States Representative and Senator from Oklahoma. Harreld was the first Republican senator elected in Oklahoma and represented a shift in Oklahoma politics.[1]
|John W. Harreld
|United States Senator
from Oklahoma
|In office
March 4, 1921 – March 4, 1927
|Preceded by
|Thomas Gore
|Succeeded by
|Elmer Thomas
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma's 5th district
|In office
November 8, 1919 – March 4, 1921
|Preceded by
|Joseph Bryan Thompson
|Succeeded by
|Fletcher B. Swank
|Personal details
|John William Harreld
January 24, 1872
Morgantown, Kentucky
|December 26, 1950 (aged 78)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
|Political party
|Laura Ward
Thurlow Ward
|Alma mater
|Bryant & Stratton Business College, Louisville, Kentucky
Harreld was born near Morgantown, Kentucky to Martha Helm and Thomas Nelson Harreld.[2] He attended public schools, the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and Bryant & Stratton Business College of Louisville, Kentucky, where he taught while studying law.[3] Admitted to the bar in 1889, he begin his practice in Morgantown.[3] He was prosecuting attorney of Butler County from 1892 to 1896.[3] After marrying Laura Ward on October 20, 1889, and having a son, Ward,[2] he moved to Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1906.[3] He was a referee in bankruptcy from 1908 to 1915, when he resigned to become an executive with an oil corporation.[3] He moved to Oklahoma City in 1917 and engaged in the production of oil and continued the practice of law.[3] After his first wife's death, he married his wife's sister, Thurlow Ward, in 1931.[2]
Harreld was elected, on November 8, 1919, as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph B. Thompson[2] and served from November 8, 1919, to March 4, 1921. He was not a candidate for renomination, having become a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator; he was elected to the Senate in 1920 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 4, 1927; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926.[3] He served as Senate chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs.[3] He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress and returned to Oklahoma City, where he continued the practice of law and his interest in the oil business.[3]
He died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1950, and was interred in Fairlawn Cemetery.[2]
|U.S. House of Representatives
|Preceded by
Joseph Bryan Thompson
|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district
|Succeeded by
Fletcher B. Swank
|U.S. Senate
|Preceded by
Thomas Gore
|U.S. Senator from Oklahoma
|Succeeded by
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Letters - Bumi empowerment is impressive but how much do they gain?
Posted on 31 May 2017 - 07:44pm
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AFTER chairing the Bumiputra Economic Council, the prime minister proudly announced that 23 ministries have at least reached 90% of their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and eight had attained 100% of their performance targets.
This achievement is impressive and laudable indeed. But it begs the question as to how much these bumiputra target groups have really benefited from these vast expenditures.
It is good to spend public funds to empower bumi businessmen and women, but are there leakages like corruption and wastage of public funds and sub-contracting?
More importantly, are these taxpayers' funds actually equipping these bumi contractors with the right skills, capabilities and real experience in sustaining the bumi business progress?
A large chunk of 63% of the value of the annual works of ministries and government agencies was awarded to bumi contractors. This is a significant size of government budget funding and it is hoped that the bumi contractors did not sub-contract or rent out too much to others.
It is therefore proposed that our government needs to monitor these sub-contracts – especially to foreigners, who will then benefit more than the bumi contractors. They would take away their experience and acquired expertise back to their own countries. Then our bumi contractors would not have gained as much knowledge and skills as they should, in obtaining these small and especially large contracts. Hopefully, the bumi contractors are competent and capable, otherwise the public suffer from wastage and poor performance of projects and services.
The bumi cooperatives also benefited from a large cumulative turnover of RM31 billion. Hopefully, these huge funds were efficiently managed to enhance the welfare of the needy cooperatives and especially the low-income cooperative members.
More affordable houses were built in 2016 for bumis. About 3,476 units were built in 2016 compared with only 213 units in 2015. This is most welcome although much more could be done in this vital area of high demand for low-cost housing. The Industrial Building System (IBS) can accelerate the building of affordable housing and government should step up the building of affordable housing through the IBS, even if vested interests obstruct the IBS.
Actually housing is a basic need and comprises a large share of consumer spending in rentals and meeting housing loan instalments. Greater priority could therefore be given to build affordable housing, not only for bumiputras but for non-bumiputras as well.
When too much differentiation is made to provide basic needs like housing and scholarships, to Malaysians of different races, reactions and even resentment builds up. This can cause national disunity, which has to be avoided, in the interests of better welfare and progress for the whole country.
The SLIM or "1 Malaysia Training Scheme", is most useful for training bumiputras to find suitable employment. With thousands of bumiputras and other graduates left unemployed the SLIM role to train them to find suitable jobs, especially in the fields of technology and the service industries, is worthy of all our support.
But it begs the question as to why the public universities seem to be producing so many unemployable graduates. The private universities do not have similar problems. Hence, it might be pertinent to review curriculum and medium of instruction in many of our universities to ensure that we are not churning out more unemployable graduates, most of whom would be bumiputras. This issue is important to address soon, as these unemployed graduates can pose social problems, cause social tensions and even instability.
The Bumiputra Economic Empowerment programme is a pillar in our overall socioeconomic development planning and the foundation of the 11th Malaysia Development Plan. The programme has to be pursued energetically to achieve its KPIs.
But we have at the same time, to ensure that the enormous funds that are generously provided by the government for bumi enhancement, are efficiently and effectively utilised to benefit the bumiputras positively.
They must be able to gradually reduce the subsidies and protection given to bumiputras so that they may raise their capacities to compete independently in the increasingly competitive globalised world.
We cannot carry on with these protective policies up to 2050 under the Transformation National 50, without adversely affecting Malaysia's long-term sustainability and the progress of the bumiputra and other Malaysian communities.
We have to face the realities of a more competitive and digitalised economy that is already here to stay – or lose out to the rest of the world.
Our leaders must ensure that Malaysia Boleh!
Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam
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Sydney's spectacular harbor, featuring the much-photographed Opera House, is comparable in many ways to the Bay area of San Francisco or New York Harbor. Its waters form dozens of coves and bays providing haven for thousands of pleasure boats. Along with scores of tour boats, ferries and commercial vessels, they cruise throughout the area of low cityscape and nearby highlands creating a bustling and beautiful memory. Here are a few personal tips:
* Don't go directly to Sydney. The flight is interminable - between 25-30 hours. Better to plan a stopover break to get yourself closer to Australian time and recharge your batteries. Hawaii is perfectly positioned for two or three days of R&R that will help you arrive in Sydney refreshed and ready to go.


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Apparently I'm a project enthusiast. Christmas is my favorite holiday for those of you new to reading this blog. I LOVE Christmas. It's like my fairytale happily ever after. Project Give will be having a Christmas special dedicated to goodies for military children. I know it's not even Thanksgiving yet but I'd like to get an early start for my Christmas project. I'm looking for non-profit organizations or organizations in general that help veterans/military personnel. I am currently making a list of all the organizations and will be making donations to each of them. If any of you readers know of any organizations, please let me know!
So far my list includes the following..
Team Rubicon
Operation Homefront
Operation Gratitude
Wounded Warriors
Thanks for your help! 🙂 Sorry for the lack of recipes. I've been working more hours at work so my blogging time is slowly fading.
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courtesy of City of North St. Paul • North St. Paul had a new severe weather siren installed on the roof of City Hall May 3 next to the existing siren, which will continue to be sounded at noon every day. The new siren, which has a different tone, will only be used in the event of severe weather.
North St. Paul installed a new Federal Signal siren May 3 to be used for severe weather warnings. The siren that residents are used to hearing every day at noon has not been decommissioned and will continue to mark midday.
submitted photo • An Oakdale-based cheerleading squad made up of 14 metro area girls recently won its division at the All Star Cheer Competition National Championship in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lightning, a cheerleading squad out of Oakdale, won the Recreation Level Three Division All Star Cheer Competition National Championship, which was held recently in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Courtesy of Minnesota House Public Information Services • Despite having numerous broken bones, State Rep. Leon Lillie made a surprise appearance at the House Capital Investment Committee the morning of May 4, according to a tweet posted by @MNHouseInfo that same day.
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State Rep. Leon Lillie was hospitalized after he fell off a ladder at his home April 22, breaking multiple bones.
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submitted photo • Kaocheneng Yang's photograph titled "The Lock of Soul" took second place in the 2018 Congressional Art Competition, which was open to high school students in the Fourth Congressional District.
Kaocheneng Yang of North High School took second place in the 2018 Congressional Art Competition for her photograph titled "The Lock of Soul."
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Photos courtesy of School District 622 • Some Cowern Elementary School fourth-graders celebrated Arbor Day, April 27, by planting seedlings.
Exciting changes are ahead for District 622.
courtesy of Roseville Police Department • Michael Terry Flodine was sentenced April 26 to jail time for the Dec. 2, 2016, crash, in which he plowed head-on into the SUV driven by Steven Gernes on Fairview Avenue in Roseville, severely injuring Gernes.
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The man who drove the wrong way down Fairview Avenue at speeds faster than 100 miles per hour and head-on into an SUV in a December, 2016, crash that bewildered area residents has been convicted of criminal vehicular operation.
courtesy of Keely Vandre • From left, "Why I Run" panel event participants Clare Verbeten, deputy political director of the Walz-Flanagan gubernatorial campaign; Huda Yusuf, an inspired audience member, Melanie Leehy, who is serving her first term on the Falcon Heights City Council after her third time running; Lila Eltawely, who ran for House District 53A, moderator Marquita Stephens; and Alberder Gillespie, who also ran for District 53A.
Do Good Roseville, the Roseville Area League of Women Voters and Roseville Area Schools hosted the first-ever "Why I Run" panel event on April 24 at Roseville Area High School.
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For DeMarco Cavil, coming home and opening a restaurant on the East Side is a dream come true.
"It feels so great," Cavil said of opening a restaurant in the neighborhood where he grew up.
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by Dean S. Karlan & Jonathan Zinman
- 1069-1082 Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case of New York City Taxi Drivers
by Henry S. Farber
- 1083-1102 The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
by Jeffrey R. Brown & Amy Finkelstein
- 1103-1127 Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws
by Leigh Linden & Jonah E. Rockoff
- 1128-1144 Ordering the Extraction of Polluting Nonrenewable Resources
by Ujjayant Chakravorty & Michel Moreaux & Mabel Tidball
- 1145-1162 Strotz Meets Allais: Diminishing Impatience and the Certainty Effect
by Yoram Halevy
- 1163-1177 Monetary Policy, Judgment, and Near-Rational Exuberance
by James Bullard & George W. Evans & Seppo Honkapohja
- 1178-1188 Evolution of Time Preference by Natural Selection: Comment
by Arthur J. Robson & Balazs Szentes
- 1189-1194 Matching with Contracts: Comment
by John William Hatfield & Fuhito Kojima
- 1195-1196 When Does Coordination Require Centralization? Corrigendum
by Ricardo Alonso & Wouter Dessein & Niko Matouschek
May 2008, Volume 98, Issue 2
- 1-1 Editors' Introduction
by William R. Johnson & Jane E. Voros
- 1-37 The Economics of Climate Change
by Nicholas Stern
- 38-42 Returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
by Christina Paxson & Cecilia Elena Rouse
- 43-48 The Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Labor Market Outcomes of Evacuees
by Jeffrey A. Groen & Anne E. Polivka
- 49-53 How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets
by Ariel R. Belasen & Solomon W. Polachek
- 54-57 Measuring the Labor Market Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Migration: Evidence from Houston, Texas
by Molly Fifer McIntosh
- 58-63 Consumption Disasters in the Twentieth Century
by Robert J. Barro & Jose F. Ursua
- 64-67 Variable Rare Disasters: A Tractable Theory of Ten Puzzles in Macro-finance
by Xavier Gabaix
- 68-73 Disasters and Recoveries
by Francois Gourio
- 74-78 Disasters and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty
by Ian W. R. Martin
- 79-83 How Big Are Total Individual Income Tax Expenditures, and Who Benefits from Them?
by Leonard E. Burman & Christopher Geissler & Eric J. Toder
- 84-89 Tax Expenditures for Owner-Occupied Housing: Deductions for Property Taxes and Mortgage Interest and the Exclusion of Imputed Rental Income
by James Poterba & Todd Sinai
- 90-94 Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals
by Gilbert E. Metcalf
- 95-99 Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?
by William Easterly
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by Dani Rodrik
- 105-109 The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions
by Yadira Gonzalez de Lara & Avner Greif & Saumitra Jha
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by Daniel C. Esty
- 122-126 Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
by Martin Feldstein
- 127-132 EU Institutional Reform: Evidence on Globalization and International Cooperation
by Richard Baldwin
- 133-137 Widening and Deepening: Reforming the European Union
by Erik Berglof & Mike Burkart & Guido Friebel & Elena Paltseva
- 138-145 Should the Euro Area Be Run as a Closed Economy?
by Carlo Favero & Francesco Giavazzi
- 146-150 Modeling Competition and Market Equilibrium in Insurance: Empirical Issues
by Pierre-Andre Chiappori & Bernard Salanie
- 151-156 Does the Secondary Life Insurance Market Threaten Dynamic Insurance?
by Glenn Daily & Igal Hendel & Alessandro Lizzeri
- 157-162 Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance
by David M. Cutler & Amy Finkelstein & Kathleen McGarry
- 163-168 The Impact of Computation Time and Experience on Decision Values
by K. Carrie Armel & Antonio Rangel
- 169-174 Economic Insights from "Neuroeconomic" Data
by Andrew Caplin & Mark Dean
- 175-180 Theories of the Mind
by Isabelle Brocas & Juan D. Carrillo
- 181-186 Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees
by S. Nageeb Ali & Jacob K. Goeree & Navin Kartik & Thomas R. Palfrey
- 187-193 Costly Expertise
by Dino Gerardi & Leeat Yariv
- 194-200 Information Aggregation and Strategic Abstention in Large Laboratory Elections
by Marco Battaglini & Rebecca B. Morton & Thomas R. Palfrey
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by Canice Prendergast
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by Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak
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by George A. Akerlof & Rachel E. Kranton
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by Timothy Besley & Neil Meads & Paolo Surico
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by Alan S. Blinder & John Morgan
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by Christina D. Romer & David H. Romer
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by David Colander & Peter Howitt & Alan Kirman & Axel Leijonhufvud & Perry Mehrling
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by William A. Brock & Steven N. Durlauf & Giacomo Rondina
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by Blake LeBaron & Leigh Tesfatsion
- 251-255 Allowing the Data to Speak Freely: The Macroeconometrics of the Cointegrated Vector Autoregression
by Kevin D. Hoover & Soren Johansen & Katarina Juselius
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by Barbara Petrongolo & Christopher A. Pissarides
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by Robert Shimer
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by Albert S. Kyle & S. Viswanathan
- 280-284 Microstructure Bluffing with Nested Information
by Archishman Chakraborty & Bilge Yilmaz
- 285-290 Manipulation and Equity-Based Compensation
by Lin Peng & Ailsa Roell
- 291-296 Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance
by Zvi Bodie & Doriana Ruffino & Jonathan Treussard
- 297-303 Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds
by Francisco J. Gomes & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Luis M. Viceira
- 304-309 Why Don't People Insure Late-Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle
by Jeffrey R. Brown & Jeffrey R. Kling & Sendhil Mullainathan & Marian V. Wrobel
- 310-314 Mortgages, Risk, and Homeownership among Low- and Moderate-Income Families
by Raphael W. Bostic & Kwan Ok Lee
- 315-320 Rates for Vehicle Loans: Race and Loan Source
by Kerwin Kofi Charles & Erik Hurst & Melvin Stephens
- 321-326 Saving whilst Gambling: An Empirical Analysis of UK Premium Bonds
by Peter Tufano
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- 333-338 Home Bias at the Fund Level
by Harald Hau & Helene Rey
- 339-344 Is the 2007 US Sub-prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison
by Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff
- 345-350 Using Selection on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables When Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization
by Joseph G. Altonji & Todd E. Elder & Christopher R. Taber
- 351-356 Treatment Effect Bounds under Monotonicity Assumptions: An Application to Swan-Ganz Catheterization
by Jay Bhattacharya & Azeem M. Shaikh & Edward Vytlacil
- 357-362 Estimating Average Treatment Effects with Continuous and Discrete Covariates: The Case of Swan-Ganz Catheterization
by Qi Li & Jeffrey S. Racine & Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
- 363-369 Transitions: Career and Family Life Cycles of the Educational Elite
by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz
- 370-375 Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study
by Roland G. Fryer & Steven D. Levitt & John A. List
- 376-381 Do Women Supply More Public Goods Than Men? Preliminary Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies
by Steffen Andersen & Erwin Bulte & Uri Gneezy & John A. List
- 382-386 African American and White Differences in the Impacts of Monetary Policy on the Duration of Unemployment
by William M. Rodgers
- 387-391 The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families
by David Card & Rebecca M. Blank
- 392-397 Poverty Volatility and Macroeconomic Quiescence
by Philip N. Jefferson
- 398-402 Non-white Poverty and Macroeconomy: The Impact of Growth
by Gary A. Hoover & Walter Enders & Donald G. Freeman
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by Kasey Buckles
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by Kristin Mammen
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by Annamaria Lusardi & Olivia S. Mitchell
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by Julie R. Agnew & Lisa R. Anderson & Jeffrey R. Gerlach & Lisa R. Szykman
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by Emi Nakamura
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by Ariel Burstein & Christian Hellwig
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by Fatih Guvenen
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Anyway on to the mini-rant.
I guess the place to start is to state that there is no question climate change is happening. We know this because Earth's climate has always undergone change. This is a scientific and historical fact, so claiming there is no climate change is about as intelligent as claiming the Earth is flat.
|Source: USGRCP (2009)
- It's unlikely we can isolate 'human effects' from 'natural forces' in a model like this, because the planet's climate is a complex machine that we don't fully understand.
- How can anyone seriously believe that all the upward change is due to human activity alone? This would mean there are no natural forces that lead to increases in average temperature. What about sunspot cycles? Volcanic eruptions? Global weather patterns?
- Just me, but any theory that suggests humans are somehow all-important smacks of arrogance, not good science. This kind of arrogance is what led to theories like geocentrism, so I tend to look askance at such claims.
So much for the basic skepticism I bring to this discussion. Now let's move to the important stuff: the data. And then after we peruse it, we can destroy the conclusions being bandied about regarding climate change. In so doing I promise you one thing: by the end of this mini-rant - whatever your political stripes are - you will not be happy with what I have to say. So if you only like to read things you agree with, stop now.
|From Bart Verheggen's blog: My View On Climate Change
So, looking at this chart, the obvious interpretation is that temperatures are going up and they are much higher than they have been in the past. One could argue that the shift is small, especially as it relates to something with as many unpredictable and little understood inputs as global climate. However, let's not quibble. For the sake of argument let's accept the data and the conclusion that global temperature is going up and that it's higher now than at any point in this chart. After all, this is what leads to the alarm about global climate change.
My argument is that to use this data to draw that conclusion, even accepting everything I have mentioned above, is wrong. First, we need to dispense with an unstated - but nevertheless accepted - notion that I feel lies under all the climate change discussion: that climate change is somehow abnormal. The truth is that climate change is not a recent phenomenon that has popped up in the last century thanks to humans. Climate change is the norm on planet Earth. It's totally natural and would be happening even if humans had never discovered fossil fuel. In it's history, the Earth has been a whole lot hotter than it is now and it has been colder. For a good portion of Earth's history, there were no polar ice caps. So while the fact ice caps are shrinking poses significant problems for humans and indeed many other kinds of life, it is not something especially novel. In contrast, the 'Snowball Earth' theory suggests that Earth has been plunged several times into a deep freeze in which the entire surface of our planet was covered in ice sheets (or perhaps slush sheets). So climate change is normal, and it can be extreme. It's not pleasant to think 'Mother Earth' isn't terribly maternal, but some changes in climate have been so extreme that mass extinctions occurred. In fact, most life that has risen on Earth is extinct and most of these extinctions happened before humans existed (another blow to our species' self-importance). So the bottom line is that if you want a stable climate, then you should move to the Moon because stability has never been an option on Earth.
Now that we have that underlying assumption cleared up, let's dispense with the argument the scare mongers explicitly raise: climate change we see in the last century is somehow abnormal. More specifically, the rate of the change is somehow abnormal. If you look at the temperature chart above, you might buy into this voodoo. However, the problem is that the chart only shows data for about 100 years. Drawing conclusions about climate change from such a short time scale is akin to looking at three feet of concrete sidewalk in front of you and saying the surface of the entire planet is paved in concrete. The point being that the time scale of this data is near-sighted (and sometimes probably intentionally so to make it scarier).
This full picture tells us a lot of things, but the most important for this discussion is that the current temperature is actually quite cool. One might even say the Earth is due for a warm-up after millions of years of cooling. [Note for context: the Tertiary Period began 65 million years ago, right after the dinosaurs went extinct]. One has to ask if, after about 30 million years of cooling, whether it isn't a bit silly to get worked up over the tiny, short term lift shown in the first chart? If all our fossil fuel emissions and other 'unnatural' behavior hasn't raised the average temperature by even 1 degree C in 100 years, then humans can't be that important.
Scare mongers have an answer to this. They produce charts extrapolating climate change into the future. Extrapolations are legitimate mathematical tools, but too often they are done by taking the existing trend and running it out as if the factors that give rise to the trend are not changed. Since we do not totally understand climate change, this seems a bit dicey. But more importantly, I would suggest it is almost certain the factors that give rise to the warming trend will change. Consider: even within the 100 years, human technology has moved from coal to oil to a mix of oil, nuclear, and clean energy. There's no reason to think fossil fuel emissions will be the same for the next twenty years, let alone the next century.
In summation, my opinion is climate change is happening but that our contribution to it is minimal and, even if it weren't, we've passed the hump of the worst behavior. As a result, there is little we can do to stop what changes are occurring, and we certainly have no power to save the planet from its next climate crisis (which, by the way, may not occur for thousands of years). The whole issue has been blown way out of proportion!
Now, if you are a conservative reader, here's where you stop liking what I have to say. Just because we have minimal impact on climate change does not mean we can't make a colossal mess of our environment in the short term. As I pointed out before, successful species impact environment. That has always been true. So we will hurt the environment if we indiscriminately burn fossil fuels, spill oil into the oceans, spray aerosols all day, and negligently dump chemicals into the water supply. It's the same thing as spraying an anthill with pesticides; the ants die when their environment is polluted. The only issue with the analogy is that the ants have an out humans do not. They live in one little hill, so they can move over a few feet and start all over. Humans societies occupy huge spaces, and we only have one planet, atmosphere, and hydrosphere to rely on. If we ruin it, we're done. By the way, you could also argue that ants aren't stupid enough to dump pesticide into their own living space while humans...ahem, let's move on.
And it's not like this is just an opinion. To see what things would look like without the restraints those pesky environmentalists, all you've got to do is look at China. There are photos all over the web about the debilitating smog clouds there. It gets so bad that people sometimes return from traveling there coughing blood from exposure to...whatever it is that's in that smog. So, regardless of the truth or fiction of global climate change, smog and pollutants can make our environment in the here and now very unhealthy. Since we have a vested interest in an environment that sustains a diversity of life (e.g., fish, cows, and crops), we are obligated to curtail actions that harm the environment.
The argument from capitalists is that environmentalism hurts business profits. Yes, it does. But business profits are not the only consideration in the universe. What the question boils down to for capitalists is essentially: Do you want to be the guy who smokes his cigarette and blows the smoke right into everyone's face and makes them cough? Thankfully, most business people get the problem and would answer 'no' to that question. However, there are some (mostly the born-again, Tea party variety...mostly) who would answer 'yes' or say they don't care if they make people cough by blowing smoke in their faces. They have every right to feel that way, as we are all entitled to our opinions. However, if that is how you feel, you really should get over being shocked that people treat you like a selfish moronic douchebag and try to pass laws to protect themselves from your irresponsible greed. Note to environmentalists: you'll be taken far more seriously by sensible capitalists if you avoid hysterical climate change predictions and focus on environmental impacts that actually exist.
In conclusion, climate change is not something to be concerned about as it occurs on long time scales. If it ever did occur on a short time frame, we wouldn't need scientists to tell us it was happening. Further, we would be unlikely to have caused it and even less likely to have any power to stop it. So don't wig out about a cool summer or a warm winter when you get one. Don't fret that every change in our environment is some omen of doom brought about by the evil of humans. Just support efforts to end practices we know are detrimental to our natural resources; that's the problem which actually affects us and we can do something about.


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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Want To Be A Pro Baseball Player?
Posted on March 29, 2010 to AOC Physician Articles
Dr. Clayton G. Lane Ask any of the BayBears what the key to becoming a pro athlete is, and most will say "staying healthy". At the pro level, enormous amounts of time, resources and research is spent developing and implementing stretching, strengthening, and practice regimens.
Shoulder Separations and Shoulder Dislocations
Posted on March 19, 2010 to AOC Physician Articles
Dr. Clayton G. Lane A shoulder separation is often confused with a shoulder dislocation. A shoulder separation is technically an injury to the acromioclavicular joint. This joint is located at the top of the shoulder just under the skin and is often a visible bump in thin individuals. A shoulder separation or AC injury occurs […]
Shoulder Separation
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Dr. Clayton G. Lane This football season, I saw a fair number of shoulder separations in my office. It was clear in talking to my patients, that many were not sure exactly what this injury is. Therefore, I think this explanation of the injury and prognosis may be helpful to my patients as well as […]
Pediatric And Adolescent Sports
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Dr. Clayton G. Lane When parents read stories of childhood "prodigies" such as Tiger Woods learning a sport as young as 3 years old, it is natural for us to wonder what sports are best for our child and at what age they should start. While there are no sure answers as to when a […]
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Dr. Clayton G. Lane Here in South Alabama athletes have the advantage of being able to train outdoors year-round thanks to our subtropical climate. The downside of that is that in mid to late summer the heat and humidity can combine to put athletes at risk of heat-stroke, a deadly condition responsible for the deaths […]
Handling the Unexpected: Forearm Fractures
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Dr. Clayton G. Lane, M.D. Forearm fractures are the most common long bone fracture in children. They usually result from a simple fall onto an outstretched hand while running or playing sports. When this injury occurs, it is arguably more traumatic to the parents than it is to the injured child! Here are some basic […]
AOC 12th Annual Charity Golf Tournament
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I just finished watching one of the most amazing movies I've ever seen – Persepolis. It's a cartoon about how Iran has changed since the Islamic Revolution. Before, it was an open, liberal country. Yes, the Shah wasn't perfect, but neither were the Ayatollahs that came after him. After the revolution, a lot of things changed – women were forced to veil, men and women were often segregated and could not go out in public together, the "moral police" were constantly on guard, thousands of political prisoners were executed, and thousands of innocent people were thrown in jail. (This is all according to the movie.)
The story is told through the eyes of a girl who is about 10 when the Shah is overthrown. She moves to Vienna for a few years, then returns, only to find that Iran isn't really her home anymore. She finds life in Tehran impossible. She is forced to marry at 21 since she can't go out in public with the man she is in love with. She is forced to veil, to accept flawed religious rhetoric at school and university, and to constantly be afraid.
What struck me is that these changes that happened in Iran are happening all over the Islamic world. Capitals that used to be open and liberal are now becoming closed, strict, extreme even. Cairo, Beirut, Tehran. What is happening to these cultural centres?
Were the millions of Muslims who grew up in the 50s and 60s in these cities not good Muslims? Most women did not veil, there was no segregation, couples dated, people were not as judgmental – does this mean all of these people are going to hell? I don't think so, but I'm 100% sure that many Muslims of my generation would disagree and say that yes, those generations were not good Muslims.
Why does Islam (according to these countries) today mean being so strict, so afraid of doing anything? Why does it mean segregation? Why must all women veil (either due to laws or social pressure)? Why can the Qur'an not be interpreted according to time and place? Why should I be called a bad Muslim for even asking these questions?
To make matters worse, Muslims in Islamic countries are sometimes more liberal than converts/Muslims in Western countries. So many converts feel the need to Arabize when they become Muslim – take an Arab name, wear Arab-style clothing – when in fact that isn't necessary. These converts also end up adopting Arab (or North African) traditions such as strict segregation and female circumcision, thinking they are Islamic.
In Tariq Ramadan's book about the Prophet, he quotes the Prophet as having said that moderation is best. Moderation is NOT what I see when I look at many of today's Muslims. And to be honest, it worries me. Either I've got it wrong, and Islam is not what I believe it to be, or I'm right, and we just live in an age today where Islam is being interpeted in a particulalry literal and strict manner.
Ramadan also wrote of the following story: some Muslims were about to go on a journey, and the Prophet told them to not stop and pray on the way, but pray when they arrived at the village. On the way, there was an argument between the Muslims – some thought the Prophet was being metaphorical and meant that they should stop and pray but do it quickly, and some thought that he had literally meant that they should not stop and pray. When they returned, they asked the Prophet which was correct. The Prophet said both. Thus there are two ways of understanding the Prophet's sayings – by following the literal meanings, or by trying to understand the purpose of the saying, its spirit, and occasionally its figurative meaning. "Both approaches had been accepted by the Prophet, and both were therefore correct and legitimate ways of remaining faithful to the message."
I often find myself torn between 2 types of Islam – strict Islam, which I see most Muslims practicing, and a more open Islam, which I see many scholars, academics, and thinkers supporting, and which I also see when I read the Qur'an and books about the Prophet's life. Inshallah I'm on the right path.