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How to use semihosting with a Synergy project
After completing this how-to you will have added a Semihosting Virtual Console interface to a simple Synergy project. Blinky project will be used as a starting point for this example.
Important Note: For Synergy projects you need to be connected to the debugger or else the project will hang. You need to comment out the initialise_monitor_handles() call and every call to stdio (e.g.printf()) for stand alone operation.
An alternative approach is to use the below code to enable initialise and printf only when required:
if ((CoreDebug->DHCSR & CoreDebug_DHCSR_C_DEBUGEN_Msk)==CoreDebug_DHCSR_C_DEBUGEN_Msk) {
if ((CoreDebug->DHCSR & CoreDebug_DHCSR_C_DEBUGEN_Msk)==CoreDebug_DHCSR_C_DEBUGEN_Msk) {
printf("S5 Button Interrupt\n");
Important Note: Using printf in this way can run very slowly. It is best to use this technique when speed isn't at all important and you are just looking for general debugging information. Use other techniques to zero in on time critical issues.
Creating new project
Begin by creating a Synergy Project using the blinky template (Blinky with BSP). In case you need to refresh your understanding of creating new project, please refer to the following guide. Build and debug the design so you know it works on your board. Once you have a blinking LED, exit the debugger and open the hal_entry.c file. You will update this file to add the semihosting capability.
Including console handles
Inside hal_entry.c file open add two lines after the hal_data.h include as seen below. NOTE: initialise is spelled with an 's' in the below example- type it in carefully.
Writing to console
With the hal_entry.c file still open, find the while loop with the LED level check function. Add the printf calls as shown in the image below.
Initializing console
Add the monitor initialization routine as shown in the image below:
Check the linker configuration
Make sure that the linker setup includes the option --specs=rdimon.specs to enable the semihosting feature.
You can verify this in the c/c++ Build properties, under Settings > Cross ARM C Linker > Miscellaneous
Build the project and initialize the debugger. You now need to create a window that you can see the output of the printf() functions. In the console tab of the debugger create a new Renesas Debug Virtual Console by clicking on the console pull-down menu as shown below:
The window will open and you can now begin a debug session. The printf() output will show in the console window as seen below:
What's Next
You should now be able to follow the above procedure to use printf() calls in your Synergy projects.


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The KTA offers twintip races...and I think it is a really good idea, since it attracts riders of all ages, who want to race for fun.
Anyone can win! Awesome!
I think it is a great idea, and has some benefits:
- everyone can participate
- less gear to travel with
Downside is only that you maybe cannot race in 5 knots...
What do you think?

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 was awarded to Charles Glover Barkla "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements".
Charles Glover Barkla received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1918. During the selection process in 1917, the Nobel Committee for Physics decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Charles Glover Barkla therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1917 one year later, in 1918.
Your mission is to arrange an amazing laser party!
Read more about the Nobel Prize in Physics.
All you want to know about the Nobel Prize in Physics!


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Rosie Brown Abstract Red Yupo Coaster Set | DENY Designs Home Accessories
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Say goodbye to water rings on your furniture and hello to the stylish solution: the DENY Designs Coaster Set. Available in a set of four, you can also opt for the coaster tray to house the set or go the a la carte route. Either way, your glasses are going to get a fun drinking companion!
Discovered by Rosie Brown in Coasters


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Satellite Overflight 1
Lesson 1 of 6
Objective: SWBAT describe the relationship between the perimeter or area of an image under dilation and the perimeter or area of the pre-image using an equation or a verbal rule. SWU how dilating a shape affects the perimeter and area of the figure.
Big Idea: Students learn how dilating a shape affects perimeter and area as they design a sign large enough to show up on Google Earth.
Lesson Opener
Today's lesson opener has two purposes, which I explain in the video narrative for this section.
The lesson opener follows our Team Warm-up routine.
Motivating the lesson.
I ask students if they have ever looked at satellite imagery of their home or of the school using Google Earth. I ask if any student knows how that satellite imagery gets updated. I show the website for the NASA Earth Imaging Program (using the links found in the slide show for the lesson) and briefly describe the ASTER program. I show the calendar for the ASTER program for the current month. (Look! We can see where the satellite will be collecting imagery on any particular day of the year.) I introduce the problem students are about to try to solve. Suppose you learned that t a NASA satellite will be taking photos of your community next month, and the imagery will be used to update Google Earth. What if a group of students conceived the idea of spelling "GO HUSKIES" on the football field on the day the satellite is scheduled to fly over?
Review learning targets and the agenda for the lesson (2 minutes). I display the agenda and learning goals for the lesson as I distribute the problem. I ask students to read them over and invite questions.
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Have students work individually on the problem (10 minutes). Tell students that today they are going to be practicing the Standards for Mathematical Practice as they work through a problem such as they might encounter in the real world (MP1). Display the Standards for Mathematical Practice, highlighting the standards to be highlighted in this lesson. Remind students that real-world problems are not always as straightforward as they seem. Display the list of problem-solving strategies. Tell students that if they are not sure where to start, they should try one of these strategies.
Most of the problem-solving strategies listed in the presentation come from Georg Polya's book, How to Solve It.
Ask students to keep working hard for 10 minutes. Students who complete the problem in less time should try to verify their solution by another method. As students work, circulate through the classroom observing what they are doing. Offer encouragement and help students get started, but do not be distracted from your primary purpose, which is to plan the class discussion which is to follow. You may choose to use the accompanying planner (MTPGeometry_Activity6_0_4_StrategyTalkPlanner.docx) to organize your notes. Keep your goals for the class discussion in mind:
- Highlight effective problem-solving strategies
- Give students the opportunity to explain why they think a solution is in error or why they think it is correct.(MP3)
- Help the class to realize that the area of a figure does not vary at a constant rate with the scale factor and invite students to suggest ways to discover what the true relationship between area and scale factor might be.
Have students share their work in pairs and teams (5 minutes). To get students thinking before holding a class discussion, ask students to explain their solutions to a partner and with their teammates.(MP3)
I used a Kagan Structure (Timed Pairs Share), with a few modifications. The instructions are in the presentation MTPGeometry_Lesson6_0_4.pptx.
Conduct the classroom discussion (Strategy Talk) (20 minutes) (MP3). Display student work using a document camera and overhead projector. Plan the sequence in order to bring out key learning points. Watch the time. If necessary, reserve the last 5 minutes for a demonstration that will expose the misconception that the relationship between area and scale factor is linear. Suggested questions:
How did this student find the answer?
What parts of the student's solution do you think are correct? Why?
What parts of the student's solution do you think may be incorrect? Why?
How could you check the answer?
If necessary, guide the discussion to focus on the erroneous assumption that area varies linearly with scale factor:
How do you know that the area of the enlarged sign is five times the area of the original?
To expose the misconception, ask students to draw the dilation of the block letter 'O' (as shown in the diagram that accompanies the problem) on graph paper using a scale factor of 5, then find the perimeter and area. If time is short, ask students to consider a 2 x 2 square:
What is the area of the square?
Suppose the square is dilated with a scale factor of 5. Now, what is the length of each side? What is the area?
To encourage participation in the class discussion, my classes play a game we call Math Ball. Instructions for this game are found in the document MathBall.docx.
Suggested sequence for showing student work:
- A solution with merit but with errors that can be revealed in discussion.
- A solution that uses the approach taken by most students.
- A solution that exposes the misconception that area varies linearly with scale factor.
I do not have students present their own work, because I want other students to explain the thinking behind the solution.
When displaying a student's work, I make sure that the author's name is not visible. This allows the author to take ownership of the work or not, as he or she chooses.
Resources (7)
Resources (7)
Lesson End
Have students reflect on the lesson in pairs and teams (5 minutes). Students share in pairs, then in teams. Teams report out by listing three important things they learned on the white board.
I used a Kagan Structure (Timed Pairs Share), with a few modifications. The instructions are in the presentation MTPGeometry_Lesson6_0_4.pptx.
Assign Homework (3 minutes). No homework was assigned at the end of this lesson, as students began standardized testing the following day. I told them all to get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast.


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Many parents think walkers will help their children learn to walk. But they don't. In fact, walkers can actually delay when a child starts to walk.
Most walker injuries happen while adults are watching. Parents or caregivers simply cannot respond quickly enough. A child in a walker can move more than 3 feet in 1 second! That is why walkers are never safe to use, even with an adult close by.
New safety standards for baby walkers have been in place since 1997. They are now made wider so they cannot fit through most doors, or they have brakes to stop them at the edge of a step. However, these improvements will not prevent all injuries from walkers. They still have wheels, so children can still move fast and reach higher.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has called for a ban on the manufacture and sale of baby walkers with wheels.


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Suggestions for Support of Students
Students studying at EMU benefit greatly from personal, financial and prayer support of family and friends from their home congregation.
To help you stay connected with students from your congregation, we offer the following suggestions for ways that you or your congregation might support your students while attending the university.
Give a Service of Blessing
Give the students an opportunity to share their plans for study and special activities for the coming year with the congregation.
Give personal affirmation
Students especially appreciate your personal expressions of support. For example, you may want to send a card or an email message. Or, you may want to send a gift or care package that serves as a reminder of your friendship and support.
Offer prayer support
Daily prayer support is a tremendous encouragement to students. Let them know you are praying for them.
Visit or write letters to them
Some members come to visit students. Others help sponsor their pastor or youth minister to visit the students on campus.
School for Leadership Training is a good time for pastors to visit students. Pastors should plan to take their students out for dinner or meet them for a meal on campus. Some congregations send weekly copies of their church bulletins and/or newsletters. Others make phone calls or send email messages once per week.
These personal touches can be a great encouragement to students away from home. (Also: Don't forget about bringing the entire youth group for a campus visit on the designated campus visit weekends.)
Pay part of their tuition
Some congregations pick up part or all of the tuition expenses for their students.
Provide matching funds
If your congregation gives $1,000 towards the student's expenses, the university will match this with $1,000. For each dollar contributed in addition to the $1,000, the university will provide an additional 25¢ per dollar in matching funds.
Develop your own creative ideas
Think of creative ways to demonstrate your own support or advocacy for the students. We may even pass them along for others to consider.


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|Albany, N.Y.
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|Mechanical Engineering
|Blackwatch Soccer Club
2013: Appeared in and started 20 games this season … scored three goals and notched six assists for 12 points … first on the team in assists, second in points and third in goals … tallied three assists in MIT's 5-0 victory over Emmanuel (9/07) … scored the game-winning goal in the Engineers' 3-0 win against Clark (10/12) … CoSIDA Academic All-District … NEWMAC First Team All-Conference … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … NSCAA Fourth Team All-New England North … NSCAA Scholar All-East Region Honorable Mention … NEWISA First Team All-New England … ECAC All-Star First Team … she converted her penalty kicks in each of MIT's three consecutive games that went to shootouts.
2012: Played 20 games and started 18 of them … posted one assist for one point … set up the first goal in MIT's win over Wheaton (10/16) … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … first team CoSIDA Academic All-District.
2011: Played in 20 games, started 19 … posted three goals and three assists for nine points … ranked second on the team in assists, and third in goals and points … scored the game-winning goal in overtime against Babson (10/29) … also had the game-winner versus Coast Guard (10/22) … recorded MIT's only goal in a 1-0 win at WPI (10/4) … set up the lone goal in a 1-0 win over Wellesley in the quarterfinals of the NEWMAC tournament (11/1) … first team CoSIDA Academic All-District … second team NEWMAC all-conference … NEWMAC academic all-conference.
2010: Played in 19 games, started eight … totaled three goals and three assists for nine points … ranked fifth on the team in points … registered the game-winning goal against Lesley (9/21) … posted a goal and an assist versus Southern Maine (9/11).
Off the Field at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in applied international studies and a concentration in French … interned with GE Healthcare in MR Hardware Design … completed a biomechanics internship characterizing joint impedance during the gait cycle at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium … through a UROP in the D-Lab she travelled to Guatemala to design and build a wheelchair in collaboration with a local disabilities foundation … studied needle-free injection in the Bioinstrumentation Lab … recipient of the Cheryl Rossini Future Engineers Scholarship and the MIT Public Service Center Expedition Grant … FSAE.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Albany High School … also competed on the skiing, cross country, swimming teams … cross country Big 10 all-star.
Club: Blackwatch Soccer Club, Alleycats Soccer Club, Region 1 Premier League.


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"You know, there's such a great deal of shock over this that the grief hasn't set in yet." –Brandie Fuller, vice president of marketing, Great Dane Trailers
I hate stories like this – I really, REALLY do – for they've become all too common this year as we go through an economic restructuring of the worst sort.
As you know, Great Dane Trailers announced plans yesterday to close its Savannah, Georgia factory on January 9 next year, ostensibly as the company seeks to reduce capacity in the face of falling orders while modernizing its refrigerated trailer production processes. For now, Great Dane plans transfer production to two of its other refrigerated trailer plants in Wayne, Nebraska, and Brazil, Indiana.
Yet this is more than just a readjustment to factory capacity, for closing down this particular plant closes the chapter on a significant piece of Great Dane's history. Built in 1919 for the Savannah Blowpipe Company, this factory became the launching pad for the very first Great Dane trailers – a place that took the lead in developing one of the first-ever factory finished refrigerated trailers.
"There's just so much history here that seeing it going away is hard," Brandie Fuller, Great Dane's vice president of marketing, told me yesterday. "It's not about the factory itself; it's about the people. We've had several generations of families working in this plant – fathers alongside sons and even nephews. It's a community with a lot of memories."
"It's a sad day for us. A lot of family and friends are affected," noted Phillip Pines, COO of parent company Great Dane Limited Partnership. "This plant has remained pivotal in the history of our company. Its closing is no reflection on the caliber of the people or their work. We have simply exhausted the ability of this plant to produce refrigerated trailers at a competitive price."
It's true you can't ignore the reality of the bottom line in the trucking business – especially for the OEMs serving this industry – and a plant that's well over 90 years in age has got some serious built-in shortcomings when stacked against the sleek, modern facilities being used to build trucks, trailers, engines, and other components today.
"This move is necessary to meet customer expectations, while being price competitive," Pines added in a press statement about the plant closing. "Advancements in technology, both in the design and production of trailers, have placed increased demands on manufacturing."
Ah, but can you really replace something that's so steeped in company history? Sure it's just well-worn brick, mortar, and steel – but it's the human hands within that gave the Savannah plant its own unique form of life. I toured it not long ago, talked with several of the workers there about making trailers for a living. The place had its own unique rhythm, a certain background hum and smell – that crackle of ozone from the welder's torch, the click-clack of the riveting machines building trailer sidewalls, the shouts and high-fives for jobs well done.
Some 270 plant hourly and office employees are going to be affected by the plant's closing – not a lot compared to some of the retrenching going on in transportation (DHL is shedding 9,600 jobs from its U.S. operations) but still a significant amount for the city of Savannah – a place rich in history and culture in its own right, from the mundane to the significant.
For example, Savannah – founded in 1733 – is home to the nation's third largest St. Patrick 's Day parade. The capture of the city by General William Sherman in late 1864 helped Lincoln win re-election. It also served as the notorious backdrop to the salacious book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt – a story based on actual events in the town – while providing the lush scenery for the opening of Tom Hanks' great movie "Forrest Gump."
[For fun, watch the trailer of "Forrest Gump" and look for the scenes where Tom Hanks is sitting on a park bench talking to people. Those scenes were filmed in the heart of Savannah and the city had to remove the park bench he sat on as tourists kept carving off pieces of wood for souvenirs.]
Walking through old Savannah is like taking a step back in time – a time certainly of more prejudice and less freedom, but also one where stately buildings, parks, and trees were more welcomed by urban dwellers.
Yet sitting as it does on a relatively isolated spit of land by a bend in Savannah River, this city isn't the ideal location for a manufacturing business that needs easy access to lanes of commerce. Big containerships may move up and down the river frequently, but there are no port facilities for them in Savannah proper. Simply put, it's become and ever-tougher spot for building trailers.
Though Great Dane's corporate offices – which includes sales and marketing, design engineering, manufacturing engineering, research and development, retail accounting, MIS, corporate quality and customer service – are staying put in Savannah and won't be affected by the plant closing, it just won't be the same anymore either. "There was nothing like taking a customer next door to watch trailers being built; to show them how we did things; to let them see what we talked about for themselves," Fuller told me.
Indeed, it's just part of the change affecting all of transportation these days – and not always happy change, that's for sure.


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Jake Gyllenhaal showed his support for military veterans with an emotional poetry reading at a charity event in New York City on Wednesday (08May13).
The Brokeback Mountain star read the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by British soldier and leading World War I poet Wilfred Owen at the inaugural Words of War event for the Headstrong Project.
Gyllenhaal also presented the foundation, which provides mental healthcare and support for war veterans, with a donation of $5,000 for eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing training, a psychotherapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Girls star Adam Driver and actress Joanne Tucker also shared war-themed pieces that touched on the hardships of military conflict and the longterm effects on the veteran's family.


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There's a pretty little spring in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where fresh water has dripped from the rock, probably for centuries.
Now it is the center of a deadly struggle over land.
Israeli teenagers from Halamish, the Jewish settlement a short walk uphill, found the spring several years ago. It flows from a small cave.
"The kids were always looking for something to do in the summer," says Shifra Blass, who moved to Halamish, also known as Neveh Tzuf, more than 25 years ago when her husband became the community rabbi. "When they saw that there was water coming out over there, it was very exciting."
The young Israelis saw great potential and acted on it. They piled rocks into low walls to catch the water into pools deep enough to dip in. They brought in picnic tables, planted trees and passion fruit vines, and built a structure for shade. They put up a sign, naming it after one of the founders of the settlement.
They say nobody was using the spring.
"There was nothing here before those kids started working on it. This place was abandoned," says 24-year-old Tziana Ramol, who grew up in Halamish. "I don't think anyone can claim it was his."
A Palestinian Claim
Bashir Tamimi does. He says he inherited the land around the spring from his father, who inherited it from his father. Tamimi is from Nabi Saleh, the Palestinian village across the road and up the hill.
Tamimi's face looks older than his 57 years, but he moves lightly. One hot afternoon, he squats in the low cave where the spring trickles out of the hillside, scoops a handful of water from as close to the source as possible and drinks it. He says this is only the second time he's come to the spring in more than three years.
"At the end of 2008, [Israeli] settlers kicked out the [Palestinian] farmers who were using my land," he says. "We went to the Israeli authorities, and they actually removed a fence that the settlers had put up and said this is Palestinian land. But the settlers did not give up the spring."
Tamimi went back to the Israeli authorities and then, with the help of an Israeli legal organization, went to court. The Palestinian villagers also decided to act.
Every Friday afternoon, people from Nabi Saleh and many international supporters leave the village and try to march to the spring. Some throw rocks at the Israeli soldiers who are trying to stop the march. The soldiers shoot tear gas, spray water that stinks like sewage, and sometimes fire rubber-coated bullets.
Soldiers have killed two Palestinians in more than three years of demonstrations. They were relatives, as nearly all the 600 residents of Nabi Saleh are from the same extended family.
Mohammed Tamimi, 23, points out where Rushdie Tamimi was shot last November. "See that big tree over there?" he says, pointing across the road from the spring to a large olive tree. "Bullets in his leg and stomach."
He gestures up toward Nabi Saleh. "Mustafa — inside the village. In the street." Mustafa Tamimi was killed in 2011, after he was hit in the face with a tear gas canister shot by an Israeli soldier.
Archaeological Report
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and today some 350,000 Jewish settlers live in the territory. They are far outnumbered by Palestinians, who oppose the settlements and are seeking the West Bank as part of a future state. No foreign governments support the settlements, which are one of the thorniest issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Meanwhile, the Israeli administration that controls this part of the West Bank carried out an archaeological survey of the spring area. Shlomy Zachary, the Israeli lawyer representing Bashir Tamimi in Israeli courts, says the Palestinian's family can't farm there because of this.
"The owners are not able to use it for agricultural needs because it was declared a historic site," Zachary says. "So they're not allowed to plow the land."
He has read the archaeological report and says the one potentially significant finding was a possible Roman-era stone used to mark the road, but that's now been cemented into one of the pools the Israeli teenagers built.
"We cannot avoid the thought," he says, that the archaeological research may be "simply a tool" to support the settlers' aspirations for a picnic spot here.
The first two times I visited the spring, once with Bashir Tamimi, once with Shifra Blass, Israeli soldiers showed up 20 minutes into our interviews and lounged in the shade nearby until we left.
The third time, Israeli tour guides in training arrived. Dmitri Kimmelfeld organizes tours to help Russian immigrants to Israel build a connection to West Bank land.
"We have a map where all the springs are," he says. "That is holy water."
Israeli soldiers have enforced a court order against the settler development of the spring. The Israeli teenagers were told to take down their first shade structure because it was deemed too permanent and was built without a permit. A canvas is now stretched across poles for shade.
Competing Narratives
Bashir Tamimi says he is fearful of visiting, though here and at other springs around the region, settlers say Palestinians are welcome. The people of Nabi Saleh and of Halamish generally don't know one another, but they both say this fight over this spring, symbolic of the much larger effort to establish territorial claims across the West Bank land, carries a legacy.
Blass' 27-year-old son Yehuda Blass finds the young Israelis' work to improve the spring inspirational.
"The heritage is if you believe in something you should make an effort to make it come true, and it will make a difference," he says.
Mohammed Tamimi, from Nabi Saleh, couldn't agree more.
"After we began our demonstration, we felt we are not alone in this conflict," he says. " We felt we have the power to do something."
He says maybe more people will die here, but he is not afraid. He says Palestinians have nothing to lose. "Life," he says, "is not very nice here."
We go now to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to a cave and a small spring where fresh water has likely dripped for centuries. As NPR's Emily Harris reports, this idyllic scene has become a battleground in the slow, deadly struggle for control of the West Bank.
EMILY HARRIS, BYLINE: Bashir Tamimi squats in the low cave where the spring trickles out of the hillside. He scoops up a handful of water from as close to the source as possible for a cool drink on a hot day. Bashir is 57 years old. He inherited this spring and farmlands just below from his father, who inherited it from his father. Bashir lives across the road and up the hill in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh. But he rarely makes it to the spring anymore.
BASHIR TAMIMI: (Through Translator) At the end of 2008, settlers kicked out the farmers who were using my land. We went to the Israeli authorities and they actually removed a fence that the settlers had put up and said: This is Palestinian land. But the settlers did not give up the spring.
HARRIS: Israelis moved into this area 35 years ago, more than a decade after Israel captured the territory in the 1967 War. The settlement of Halamish, also known as Nevetzuf, hugs the hilltop above the spring.
Shifra Blass came here when her husband became the community rabbi. What Bashir calls a takeover of his land, she calls teenagers making something out of nothing.
SHIFRA BLASS: The kids were always looking for something to do in the summer. And when they saw that there was water coming out over there, it was very exciting.
HARRIS: The young Israelis cemented rocks into low walls to catch the water into pools. They brought picnic tables, planted passion fruit vines and built a structure for shade.
S. BLASS: This is the spring that's creating the international incident. That's why Nabi Saleh complains that they have no life. The truth is we have given them life because they have a performance every Friday...
S. BLASS: ...in which they complain about our spring. And journalists come from all over the world and anarchists - by their own definition - come from all over and celebrate with them the fact that we have a picnic table here and we have a few little puddles of water.
HARRIS: Every Friday afternoon, people from Nabi Saleh with many outside supporters leave the village and try to march to the spring. Some threw rocks at Israeli soldiers who are trying to stop the march. The soldiers shoot tear gas, spray water that stinks like sewage, and sometimes fire rubber-coated bullets. Soldiers have killed two Palestinians in over three years of demonstrations.
HARRIS: Soldiers also have enforced an Israeli ruling order against the settler development of the spring. The Israeli teenagers were told to take down their first shade structure because it was deemed too permanent and was built without a permit. A canvas is now stretched across poles for shade. Meanwhile, the Israeli administration that controls this part of the West Bank did an archaeological survey of the spring area. Because of this, Bashir's relatives can't farm it and Israel may declare the land an historic site.
B. TAMIMI: (Through Translator) As usual, they put a religious envelope to every claim that they make. Their claim is that this spring is holy water, sacred water which the Jews need in order for the women to purify themselves.
HARRIS: The Palestinians call the spring al-Qaws. The Israelis have put up signs labeling it Meir's Spring, named after one of the settlement founders.
Twenty-seven-year-old Yehuda Blass grew up in the settlement. He says the young people who made a trickle of water into a lovely gathering place created a legacy.
YEHUDA BLASS: I feel the heritage is, if you believe in something you should make an effort to make it come true, and it will make a difference.
HARRIS: Twenty-three-year-old Mohammed Tamimi, from Nabi Saleh, completely agrees.
MOHAMMED TAMIMI: After we began our demonstration, we feel we are not alone in this conflict. We have the power to do something.
HARRIS: He says maybe more people will die here but he's not afraid.
M. TAMIMI: Why to afraid? We have nothing to lose because the life is not very, very nice here.
HARRIS: Bashir's family is still in court over the spring. Demonstrations continue every Friday. If Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ever get to a deal, the lines negotiators draw on a map would change the lives of people on this land.
Emily Harris, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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'Prezi'nt the Ideas As You Imagine the Concepts
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Objective: SWBAT describe the connection between events in a procedural text and present their ideas using a digital tool.
- Charlie Needs A Cloak by Tomie dePaola
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: imaging, informational text, main ideas, details
- Set up the whiteboard
- 'Imaging & Visualizing Strategies' poster **
- Prezi examples to show - Abraham Lincoln and apple tree
- One iPad to demonstrate with a projector or each student with their own iPad
- upload the Prezi app - it's free, but you have to register because it will save the work
I like this book because it's written by a classic author and the story is simple. The description of the steps to making clothing makes it easy to create a Prezi describing the steps.
Prezi (www.prezi.com) is REALLY easy and super fun to use on the iPad, but spend some time playing with it before the lesson and see how it 'plays' or focuses on the different bubbles as a presentation. Here's an example (it's only a screenshot - it won't move around like a real prezi) that I created about a Abraham Lincoln book that we were reading in about 5 minutes. Creating the presentations works a little different on a laptop than an iPad, so familiarize yourself with the technology that you'll be using. In this lesson, you'll be demonstrating and working with kids to create a group prezi. Creating a Prezi requires an understanding of the topic and how its organized, as well as the ability to move around and create new detail boxes. My goal in this lesson is to help them understand the ideas can be organized and presented in a unique way.
** "Imaging" is the term that my district uses for "visualizing". In order to stay true to the district expectations, I'll continue to use this verbage. Visualizing is a critical skill for 2nd graders because they need to 'go deeper' in the text. By visualizing as they read, they are creating and tweaking images in their minds as they actively read. This kind of 'close reading', forming images using text, verifying and changing those images, and ultimately comparing their images to the author, creates critical readers and deepens comprehension.
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words)
Common starting point
- "We have used the imaging strategy a lot with literature. It helps us to be 'active readers' and predict and connect to the text."
- "Today we are using the imaging/visualizing strategy with informational text. This strategy helps us organize information and connect ideas, which will be REALLY helpful in 3rd and 4th grade." Refer to the poster and how visualizing/imaging helps us.
- "We'll be finding main ideas and details in our text today."
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- "This author, Tomie DePaola, is famous for writing and illustrating great stories. In this book, he tells how to make a 'cloak'. Who knows what a cloak is?"
- "Today, we'll organize the steps that he goes through to make the cloak using an app called 'prezi'. Let me show you some examples of a Prezi."
- These are screen shots of the Prezis to show. Later in the lesson, there are links to my students' Prezis that do move. Here's our discussion about the apple tree sample the discussion of the Abraham Lincoln sample.
Discuss the organization
- "Let's work together to create some great images. When we use imaging with informational text, we need to understand the whole process before we create an image. I'll read the whole book - listen for the steps of the process."
- Read the book and quickly review the steps to making a cloak described in the book.
- "Let's think about what template we want to use to explain the process - to create an image of how to make a cloak. There are several ways that we could organize the ideas. We could make one long organizer with all of the steps, but that might not be that helpful."
- "Let's look back and review the steps - count how many parts of the organizer that you'll need. Let's go through the steps: shear the sheep, wash the wool, card, spin, dye, put it on a loom, weave it into cloth, cut it into pieces, pin the pieces, and sew the pieces."
- "Are there ways that we could identify the main ideas and then pick out some details?" Take ideas. Let's group them into concepts so we can use the prezi to make idea bubbles.
- get the wool
- prepare the wool
- weave the wool
- make the cloak
- Here are the the 4 main ideas of the book on the whiteboard and our discussion about the main ideas and picking a template.
- "Let's put on a title." Here's a demonstration of adding a title.
This discussion about organizing ideas is really the crux of the lesson. Identifying main ideas and details and then being able to describe the connection between these concepts (RI.2.3) helps students organize texts in their mind. The ability to create an image in their heads as they read helps them to bring meaning and order to the concepts and be 'close readers' as they interact with the text.
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Creating the Prezi
Creating the Prezi
- "Before I pass out the iPads, let's take a minute to review the iPad Rules that we have for class."
- "To make our Prezi today, we'll use this organizer and the main idea with details. We'll be adding pictures that you can take with the iPads using the book." Here's what it looked like when my kids were taking screenshots. Your kids could take pictures of the screen if you're showing this to the class.
- "Now that we have the title, add your first main idea. Type in the main idea, add any details if you want and then take a picture with the iPad." This is how my kids did with adding the first main idea.
- "When you're done with the first idea, continue with the other ideas." This is how it looked when my kids were kids typing main ideas.
- "Remember to look back in the text for ideas." Here's how I explained about looking back in the text for ideas. My kids had questions about using resources for spelling and vocabulary. They should be going back to the words and illustrations to check this information.
- Some of my kids wanted to use 2 pictures. They figured out who to changed to a new template so they could choose 2 pictures for the main idea. Another student wanted to add another idea bubble (frame) so here's how she added a frame to the organizer.
Making these Prezis allows the students to produce and publish their writing (W.2.6). This is a great way to get away from the pencil and paper and into some digital tools that the Common Core suggests. Our kids are naturally 'techy' and anything that I introduce that involves an iPad or computer peaks their interest. Challenging them to organize their thoughts and write out descriptions gives them practice with writing and digital tools.
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Share your ideas
- This is the link to my students' prezis and other link to another prezi. You can see how the Prezi moves.
- "So let's reflect a moment -
- Did you like this app?
- Did it help you to image/visualize the main ideas and details?
- Could you use this for other topics? Social Studies? Science? "
- "You did such a GREAT job today. Who would like to show your prezi to the class?"
- Here are 2 examples of my students sharing their prezi:
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
Students with academic challenges may need to have words/ideas written on the whiteboard for grammar and spelling help. They could work with a partner to create the prezi as well.
Students with higher language should be able to go beyond the simple wording that you may suggest (cut, pin) to higher level vocabulary (prepare the material, sew the seam). Challenge them to add their own words to be more descriptive.


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Starting with last weekend's opening game, Brazil vs. Croatia, Cinemark is streaming live via satellite various World Cup matches. Fans have the opportunity to come together throughout the duration of the 2014 World Cup tournament at a Cinemark location near them to watch the matches with other fans. Games will be viewed by customers in the following countries where Cinemark is located: Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Peru.
"Satellite distribution of content allows us to bring these types of world events to our theatres as an alternate viewing environment for fans of the game," stated Valmir Fernandes, President Cinemark International. "Our XD auditoriums bring the action of the games to life in a grand experience with immersive sound in a premium viewing arena."
Cinemark XD is the number one private label Premium Large Format (PLF) brand in the world. Cinemark has constructed over 160 XD auditoriums across the US and throughout Latin America that offer a complete entertainment experience featuring large wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-floor screens, plush seating and custom digital surround sound systems with the latest in sound technology. By the end of 2014, Cinemark will plan to open 30-40 additional XD auditoriums which will bring the total global number to approximately 200 screens.
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The new series, produced by Longoria and created by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, features five Latinas working as domestic servants in the homes of Hollywood's rich and famous - and although it has yet to premiere in America, the show is already drawing criticism from officials at heritage groups, who claim the storyline is offensive and demeaning to their culture.
Longoria has been bombarded with tweets from those who fear the new drama will put Latinas in a bad light and now she has spoken out to address the controversy in a promotional video for the show.
She says, "When we get any backlash for playing the stereotypical maids, my immediate response is, 'So you're telling me those stories aren't worth telling? That those people are lesser than?'"
The cast members agree, with actress Roselyn Sanchez saying, "We don't think that (by) playing maids we're being demeaning to the Latino culture." And co-star Ana Ortiz insists, "The more that we talk about it, the more people are aware of it, the better."
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I have been a subscriber to Mother Earth News for many years and enjoy most of the articles. The article "Grandpa's Hobbit House" (October/November 2006) is one of the best you have ever published. I just wish I lived close to this rare individual so I could visit him. This article more than made up for the article by Al Gore. He is a genuine piece of work and should fold up his tent, go quietly into the night and bother us no more.
Thanks for your excellent article on the importance of buying local food ("How to Find the Best Food," August/September 2006). It was especially valuable that you offered simple, concrete ways that people can find local food and support local economies. One action that I didn't see listed, however, was "Join Your Local Food Co-op." Not only have food co-ops been pioneers in emphasizing local and organic food, but they also are dramatically different from supermarkets and natural-foods chains because they are community-based businesses controlled by their members. Today there are about 300 food co-ops across the country. To find one in your area, visit www.cooperativegrocer.coop/coops.
If there isn't a food co-op in your community, start one! Many successful co-ops started when a few people who couldn't find local, organic produce in grocery stores got together to start one themselves. Today, programs such as "Food Co-op 500" and organizations such as the Cooperative Fund of New England offer support to people who want to start co-ops in their communities. For more information, visit www.foodcoop500.coop and www.coopfund.coop.
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
In response to the "Reduce Air Travel" section within the excerpt of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in the October/November issue, I'd like to clarify that it's not always better in terms of global warming to drive rather than fly. The relative impact of either depends on several key factors. The vehicle's mpg, its EPA Air Pollution Score, the number of passengers, tire air pressure and the driver's driving style all can affect the impact.
Much of an aircraft's emissions are generated during takeoff and landing, so short-range flights have a higher CO2 output per passenger-mile than long-haul flights. Short-range aircraft also typically use less efficient engines and experience more drag because they fly at lower altitudes. Long-haul flights, such as the 3,100-mile trip across the United States, with average occupancy may be less carbon-intensive (958 pounds of CO2) than a single-occupant vehicle (1,390 pounds of CO2). So for long trips for one person, it's better to fly than to drive. Avoid red-eye flights—there is new evidence that flying at night has a greater impact on global warming (see "Hot Trails" in the September 2006 Scientific American).
Whichever way you choose to travel, you can neutralize your emissions through third-party verified, legally accountable programs like those provided by our nonprofit organization DriveNeutral.
Scott died not long ago. Scott was my fish, and fish do die. I am upset when anything dies, but environmental problems killed Scott, and that disturbs me a lot. I had changed the water in his tank, and I guess I didn't add enough chlorine remover. He died two days later. Seemingly minor changes in the environment caused his death. And that made me think about people.
We are changing our environment at an increasingly rapid pace. There is more and more proof that global warming is affecting our ice caps and glaciers, creating more devastating storms and making the oceans rise. More people have asthma than ever before. Cities routinely issue air-pollution warnings. Droughts are occurring in places they shouldn't occur. There seems to be a lot more flooding. The heat wave last summer was a killer.
A lot of people already have gone the way of poor Scott, from Katrina and the heat wave. What can we do now to prevent this from happening? I don't hear much about this from the leadership of our country—they're more focused on where oil comes from than the damage it does to our environment.
Do you want your grandkids to end up like Scott?
An article about mulberries appeared in "Country Lore," August/September 2006. The photo shows berries, but they're not mulberries. Judging by the leaves shown in your photo, they look like blackberries. The berries are very similar to mulberries.
Whoops, we did indeed print a photograph of blackberries (the photographer had mislabeled it). Our apologies. — Mother
Thank you for your update on benzene in soft drinks ("Known Carcinogen Present in Soft Drinks Since 1990," Green Gazette, June/July 2006). I was shocked to learn that benzoate preservatives and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) combined in these drinks produce benzene, which has been linked to anemia, chromosome aberrations, and nervous and immune system disorders—not to mention leukemia and other cancers of the blood. Please keep us updated on this issue!
I am working on an article for Mother Earth News titled "Organized Slime: The Great Septic Ripoff." I'd like to hear from readers who have direct or indirect experience with requirements to install expensive septic systems, either as individuals or as a community. In my part of the world (Northern California), engineers have manipulated wastewater regulations so that conventional, tried-and-true gravity-powered septic systems are seldom approved, and high-tech, environmentally disruptive mound systems costing $30,000 to $50,000 are now the norm.
I am trying to determine just how widespread this practice is, and I am especially interested to hear about entire communities that have suddenly been hit with new, expensive onsite wastewater requirements.
My husband and I have been reading and subscribing to your magazine for a couple of years now, and it has been so inspiring. We're building an addition onto our farmhouse. Because of your great articles, we will be giving up our fuel oil heat and hot water, adding solar panels to our roof and installing geothermal heating and air-conditioning for our entire home (with the pipes running out to the horse pasture). While we are not going off the grid, we feel it will at least help. Last month, our electric bill was a whopping $306, and fuel oil costs as much as $600 some months. I can't wait to make comparisons next year. Thanks for the inspiring articles featured in your magazine and the guidance they have provided for our projects.
I enjoyed reading about the tomato-bug-eating dogs ("Country Lore," June/July 2006) and thought I'd tell you about our natural pest exterminator. Every spring our mountain cabin is inundated with moths, and they drive me crazy. They hide during the day, but once the day darkens and the lights are turned on, they swirl madly against the windows and the lampshades. Now we have nature's best weapon on our side! He's fast, efficient and quiet, plus he's tidy. He arrives every evening just after dusk and goes about his work. He leaves quietly sometime during the night. Since he's such a steady visitor and somewhat friendly, we call him Casper.
Casper is a bat. He catches moths by the dozen in early spring and leaves a very neat little pile of moth wings on the top of a dresser below the rafter where he has chosen to dine. Our friends think we're "batty" for letting Casper swoop around the ceilings. At first I was a little spooked, but I'm so grateful for his services that I've learned to relax while he works.
However, I have learned to sit a bit farther from the lamp while I read in the evenings. One night this spring a moth flew up toward the lampshade and zoom, right between me and the lamp, Casper flew by and picked up the moth. I think he was just showing off! This fall we plan to put in new windows, which will seal the cabin tighter. If we still have moth problems, I think we may have to install a bat door' so Casper can stay on the job.
After several years of watching my well tended, triple-disease-resistant tomatoes keel over, a call to the state agricultural center gave me a clue. Evidently, the roots of black walnut trees extend some distance and carry a toxin called "juglone," which affects certain plants. It inspired me to pen this "augury" for your readers:
When tomatoes wilt do show,
And near black walnut they do grow,
It's juglone toxin's done this deed,
And lots of compost you will need.
Corn and peppers too take heed.
Cukes and rhubarb, too, will suffer;
Spuds and eggplant are no tougher;
Grapes, asparagus and cabbage—
Likewise, vulnerable herbage.
Berries, blue and black;
Rhododendrons and sweet lilac—
All will wilt near walnut black.
OK, we'll stop. Reports indicate that some plants can survive, to varying degrees, the juglone produced by black walnut trees, including squash, melons, carrots, beans, beets, onions and parsnips. — Mother
The coal-mining practice of scooping the tops off of mountains and depositing the material in the valleys, known as mountaintop removal, must see the light of day outside of Appalachia. Through your efforts, and the resulting public outrage, we can and must put an end to this wanton destruction.
Today the well-financed proponents of coal are bombarding the media with ads depicting children praising energy independence, "clean-coal technology," the availability of centuries' worth of coal deposits, etc. But the practice of mountaintop removal is far too great a price to pay, and the public deserves to hear both sides of the issue.
"Moving Mountains," an article by Erik Reece in the January/February 2006 issue of Orion magazine, is a graphic and detailed description of mountaintop removal and its consequences. — Mother
You might like to know that my old copies of Mother Earth News and the Archive CDs are in Mongolia with my son and daughter-in-law as they pursue a homestead-style living there. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
They have gone to Mongolia to teach English and computer skills. They also will teach Bible classes to those who express an interest. The lifestyle in the "suburbs" is fairly rustic. They do have electricity most of the time, but they are using a sawdust composting toilet or an outhouse. They must carry water from their well (which has gone dry for the winter) for everything they do. They heat with wood and live in a log cabin, and the school where they work closes for the day when the temperature is less than 50 degrees below zero. They will plant a garden this year and can or freeze many of the foods they will eat during next winter.
I think it's great to run articles on celebrities who do good for the environment, especially featuring them on the cover. When someone famous is on the cover, people will pick up your magazine, read it and discover all the trouble in the world and how that person is trying to make a difference. The Newmans and Robert Redford care about our Earth beyond the spotlight. Their popularity in show business prompts people to look up to them, and perhaps see the good they are trying to do. It may help draw more people into improving their lifestyles and helping the environment. That's not why I started reading your magazine, but it may help others to start.
Do not do what I did! Do not clean up an existing pond during a drought. I thought cleaning out fallen trees, old cement and burnt lumber (as suggested in Mother's April/May 2006 article, "Build a Pond"), and making my pond a few feet deeper would be a benign process. After dealing with three governmental agencies and paying for more than $3,000 worth of permits, a site plan, special wetland seed mix and a $500 inspection deposit, I learned that this does not apply to my locality in Illinois.
I'm happy to say the eight-month ordeal is over. At least I have my inspection deposit back and a great letter from the Stormwater Management Commission saying I went "above and over" what needed to be done on my "pond enhancement project." My caution to anyone thinking of improving an existing pond: First, check the balance in your checking account and set up a meeting with your local authorities. But I, for one, will never again get involved in making a wetland wetter.
Author George DeVault says: It sounds like you may have inadvertently crossed a line between cleanup and reconstruction, or possibly your idea of "pond" and the law's idea of "pond" were very different. An expensive lesson, but it sounds like you came out of it OK. Enjoy your reborn pond!
I'm writing to let Mother readers know of the passing of cordwood builder and pioneer Jack Henstridge. I think Jack contributed several articles to the magazine over the years. His teaching informed and inspired many of today's best-known cordwood builders. His contributions are many and noteworthy, and his name was well respected in alternative building circles.
If you need more information, please go to www.daycreek.com and click the forum link for updates. It's a sad loss for cordwood builders.
Starting with "We Built a $75,000 House … for Only $10,000!" in May/June 1977, Jack Henstridge was the author or the subject of numerous articles in our pages. Visit our online Archive to find these articles. He inspired many people, and he will be missed. — Mother
In response to "Declare Energy Independence" by Jim DiPeso (June/July 2006), I believe this is an opportune time to bring back the "victory garden" idea. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were planted during the two World Wars to reduce the pressure on the food supply brought on by the war effort. These gardens provided both food and a civil morale booster.
Today, I'm speaking of a different kind of "victory garden." We have a unique opportunity to start a non-partisan move to individual use of solar and wind power. Every average American is hurting from the gas and electricity prices that have doubled and tripled in a year.
To succeed, we need a set of renewable energy projects that most people can buy or build. Small, but productive enough that participants can look at their new energy bill and say, "Wow!" I'm interested for personal reasons as well. I live in the country and would like to build a simple windmill and put some solar panels on my roof. I just don't know where to start.
You'll find many articles about renewable energy projects in our online Archive, and we have several articles planned for 2007 about affordable DIY solar projects. We think this issue's cover story is one of the best energy projects we've published. — Mother
In discussions of renewable energy, tax breaks and government subsidies are not the main question. Rather, it is: What are we, the people, doing to make renewables a reality? If we sit and wait for the government to act on renewable energy, it will never happen: Our government is too ponderous to be effectual, and it never seems to consider the simple long-term solutions.
We, the people, should resolve the problem by looking to each other. A few basic principles could guide a new grassroots project in renewable energy: Government should be left out as much as possible, being used only to break down the walls put up by big business. Our own resources and innovations should fund renewable energy programs. Renewable energy solutions should be low-tech and extremely Earth-friendly, using sources passed over by government and big business.
Wind energy is the most easily harnessed alternative energy source; thus, it should be our primary focus. Renewable energy programs should target on-peak production to yield the highest earnings—this is not greed, it's simply smart business.
The energy industry would like you to think that the only solutions are high-tech solutions. Don't believe it. The best solution is investment in a grass-roots, cooperative, Earth-friendly power company.
Seeing the new flex-fuel vehicles always makes me ask, "Why E85? Can't these things run on 100 percent ethanol?" Is this combination of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gas just another way for Big Oil to ensure a presence in this new market, or does flex-fuel technology really require a small percentage of petrol? Side note: Have you ever seen conversion kits to modify an existing engine to burn this cleaner fuel?
Indy Racing League drivers recently have tested a Honda V8 that burns E100, reporting no problems, and the league plans to adopt it for all cars next year. But that's high-speed racing. Regarding everyday uses, the Union of Concerned Scientists says, "Current flexible-fuel engines require at least 15 percent gasoline to ensure they can start at low temperatures (ethanol does not evaporate well in the cold), but future engine/fuel systems may be able to work with at least E90 and possibly E100. Give the engineers time. As for conversions, the EPA would have to certify conversion kits as there is the potential for serious air-quality problems if the conversion is done poorly. Also, a conversion is likely to be more expensive than if flex-fuel capability is included when the vehicle is built."— Mother
Someone once said federal farm bills should be called food bills, because they affect all Americans, not just farmers. The present farm bill expires in 2007, so talk has already begun on where to go from here. Fundamental change is needed.
We need to loosen the corporate grip on agriculture and revamp the government's role. The present system has forced many farmers out of farming, ravaged the free market in food, encouraged an environmentally destructive agriculture and promoted cheap calories that feed our obesity epidemic.
The next farm bill should promote a freer, more local market in agriculture, sustainable, soil-saving farming and a safer supply of more healthful food. And we should not forget the need to ensure a nutritional safety net for millions of low-income Americans. Let's get our priorities straight. Here is a shopping list for the next farm bill:
Every U.S. senator and representative will have a vote on the next farm bill, which will affect your land, your water, your community, your supermarket and the food on your plate. If this matters to you, give them an earful.
Paul D. Johnson is a northeast Kansas organic market gardener and a family-farm legislative advocate for several churches in Kansas. He wrote this for the Land Institute's Prairie Writers Circle, Salina, Kan.
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2 parades mark MLK Day
Houston groups share one goal: to honor civil rights leader
Houstonians may dream of the day when both of the city's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parades are united in harmony, but for now both events continue to offer their own celebrations to honor the slain civil rights leader.
The two parades start at the same time Monday. One is downtown, the other in Midtown.
The Black Heritage Society is sponsoring the 35th annual "Original" MLK Parade beginning at 10 a.m. on the corner of Texas and Jackson in downtown. Glorice McPherson, event coordinator for the Black Heritage Society, said the festivities will include an awards gala, a health fair, and a groundbreaking for a statue of MLK Jr.
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"It's going to be full of excitement," she said, "full of color and hopefully a perfect Texas weather day in the park at Discovery Green," just a block from the end of the parade.
The 19th annual MLK Grande Parade will also begin at 10 a.m., but on the corner of San Jacinto and Rosalie.
Charles Stamps, chairman and CEO for the MLK Parade Foundation, said the parade will have two battle of the bands contests this year instead of just one, as well as the youth parade.
"We have so many bands from all over the country coming in this year that it didn't make sense to have just one," he said Thursday. "It's the same thing with our parades."
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Since 1996, Stamps and executive director of the "Original" MLK parade, Ovide Duncantell, have clashed over the rights to call their events Houston's one and only MLK Day celebration. After one joint parade in 2006, they have continued to produce both events separately.
"It's not a competition. It's logistics," Stamps said. "If our parades were smaller then it would make sense to combine them, but they aren't."
Both parades are expecting a large turnout and organizers say they hope to unify, not divide, the people of Houston in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.
"With both parades at the same time, I believe that Dr. King is just giving people as many ways as possible to unite in celebration of him," McPherson said. "It's like he's still bringing the people together."


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5th Annual GLIDE Legacy Gala
A Love Supreme was the theme of this year's GLIDE Legacy Gala, which took place at the Regency Ballroom on July 26, 2014 in San Francisco. The black-tie event raised funds for the work of the GLIDE foundation and honored entrepreneur, author and philanthropist Chris Gardner as well as homeless dignity advocate Doniece Sandoval.
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So the last time they hit us with a bunch of out takes and called it a studio album is was a cracker. This time... not so much. Its extraordinary derivative of their own stuff which is fine since its your own sound you're harking back to but a fair number sound like licks lifted directly from earlier songs. Basically this sounds like a soundtrack album for a movie that never existed. Hell, this could be a soundtrack to their own biopic. Its very background music for 90% of the run time, almost wholly instrumental. I really wouldn't get excited. Its fine, its not great, its just fine.
Roger, its time to finally show them how its done and get your next solo album, that youve been promising for 15 fucking years now, out the door.