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The Obama administration says it's considering providing arms to rebels fighting to bring down Syrian President Bashar Assad if the U.S. can confirm his forces did in fact use the debilitating nerve gas sarin in recent attacks. Coupled with news that Israel reportedly launched an airstrike at a target in Syria to prevent a shipment of missiles from reaching Hezbollah, these events could represent a game changer in the conflict-ravaged nation.
The 'Moderate' Opposition
The so-called Free Syrian Army is not a traditional army, but instead made up of many small battalions and brigades that have come together to fight Assad's regime. According to Brig. Gen. Salim Idris, the rebel group's chief of staff, it doesn't operate like a traditional fighting force.
"I don't like to say that we are working just like a regular army because the majority of the forces are civilians," Idris tells NPR's Kelly McEvers.
Idris would likely manage any military assistance the U.S. decides to provide. The U.S. and its allies believe he represents the so-called "moderate" fighters — those who want to topple the president and install a democratic government.
A senior Obama administration official told NPR the weapons the U.S. would most likely provide are shoulder-fired missiles, which could take down aircraft. That would be a good start, Idris says, but it would not be enough.
"We need other kinds of traditional weapons," he says, "because the regime is supported by Russia and Iran, and they have many, many kinds of weapons and a lot of military units."
Idris says he would like to see a full no-fly zone in Syria, but the U.S. supports only partial no-fly zones, where civilians would be protected and rebels could regroup. He says it wouldn't be enough to protect the liberated areas.
"The regime has a very powerful air force," he says, "and when we have only a no-fly zone in the north and the south, it will be not enough because they can [still] use chemical weapons and aircraft against our citizens."
Idris says the regime is using Scud missiles and wants more pressure from allies to prevent the use of the Russian-made ballistics.
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If the U.S. does give weapons to the Free Syrian Army, there is also the danger of those weapons falling into the wrong hands. Hard-line Islamists that don't answer to the group and are more in line with al-Qaida are also fighting Assad's regime.
Idris says the Free Syrian Army doesn't coordinate with factions that don't fall under its command structure and that it doesn't share weapons.
"They don't like to share with us [either]," he says. "All of the members of the Supreme Military Council agreed ... not to share anything with the extremist groups."
He says the rebel army will work hard to keep track of the weapons, should the U.S. provide them.
"We are ready to make lists of the weapons and write down the serial numbers," he says. "The Free Syrian Army is very well organized and when we distribute weapons and ammunition we know exactly to which hands they are going."
Idris says that when the regime falls, they will be ready to give back all of the weapons. It remains to be seen whether he could hold his men and commanders on the ground to that plan.
Note: The audio at the top of this page also includes a piece on Syria-related kidnappings, as well as an interview with filmmaker Olly Lambert, whose documentary Syria Behind the Lines is currently available on Frontline PBS.
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Kelly McEvers.
Coming up, the diary of one detainee inside Guantanamo, and Hunter S. Thompson at the Kentucky Derby. It's a trip.
But first, this week could represent a turning point in U.S. policy on Syria. The Obama administration says it's now considering providing arms to rebels in Syria who are fighting to bring down President Bashar al-Assad. That's if the U.S. can confirm Assad's forces did, in fact, use the debilitating nerve gas sarin in recent attacks.
A senior administration official told me this week the new arms would most likely be shoulder-fired missiles, which could take down aircraft. And that's our cover story today: a game changer in Syria.
MCEVERS: If the U.S. does decide to provide more military assistance to the rebels in Syria, who would manage that? The job would likely go to a man named Salim Idris. He's the chief of staff of the so-called Free Syrian Army. The U.S. and its allies believe Idris represents moderate fighters in Syria, those who want to topple their president and install a democratic government.
We reached General Idris in southern Turkey. He admitted the Free Syrian Army is not a traditional fighting force with the top-down command and control structure.
BRIGADIER GENERAL SALIM IDRIS: I don't like to say that we are working just like a regular army because the majority of the forces are civilians. And now we plan the military operation in that centered monarch.
MCEVERS: Would shoulder-fired missiles be enough to turn the tide on the battlefield, we asked Idris. Would it help the rebels topple the Syrian regime?
IDRIS: It is not enough because we need other kinds of traditional weapons because the regime is supported from Russia and Iran, and they have many, many kinds of weapons and a lot of military units. We hope to see a no-fly zone in Syria, and that our friends do more pressure and speak with the Russian to prevent the regime in Damascus from using the Scuds missiles.
MCEVERS: The U.S. is not considering a full no-fly zone over Syria but rather partial no-fly zones where civilians would be protected and rebels could regroup. But as President Obama weighs these options, he's faced with a dilemma. There are other rebels on the ground in Syria, hard-line Islamists, who fall in line with al-Qaida and its thinking and who don't answer to the Free Syrian Army.
I asked Idris, if the U.S. sends these sophisticated weapons into the fight, can he guarantee they won't fall into the hands of the Islamists?
IDRIS: We are ready to make lists of the weapons and to write down the serial numbers. And when we fall the regime, we are ready to give you back all these weapons.
MCEVERS: It remains to be seen whether Idris could hold his men to that plan. While all the talk this week was about the use of chemical weapons in Syria and what the U.S. will do about it, there's also a growing concern here in Washington: The Syrian conflict is spreading to its neighbors. Syria is surrounded by Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Turkey and tiny Lebanon, which had its own civil war back in the '70s and '80s.
Back then, tit-for-tat kidnapping was a common tool in the war. It's thought that more than 10,000 people were kidnapped - many of them were killed. And now the practice is surfacing again. And this time, it's all about Syria. I recently visited the Lebanese Syrian border to find out more about what's happening there.
I'm standing here in an area called Wadi Khaled. I am standing in Lebanon, and just beyond the border crossing is Syria. This border crossing used to mean that this area was pretty well off because there was a lot of smuggling. Now this border crossing is a totally different thing. It's a place where refugees cross every day from Syria into Lebanon, escaping the violence. This border crossing is also the place where a young man named Mohammad Hussein al-Ahmed disappeared.
It was March 2012 in the afternoon, Mohammad went to exchange his phone for a new one. He never came home. We meet Mohammad's uncle and neighbor at a funeral in Wadi Khaled. Through an interpreter, they tell me once they realized Mohammad was missing, they made some calls, and eventually learned he'd been taken by forces loyal to the Syrian government.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Through translator) He was just a high school student. He did not belong to any political organization. None of us is politically active.
MCEVERS: At first, the family hoped the demand would be for money. They made a few payouts here and there. But still, nothing. Then they heard he was taken to a notorious prison in Syria. So, I mean, how do they responded? If money won't work, what do you do?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Through translator) We tried all methods.
MCEVERS: The uncle and the neighbor smile. They tell me that a few weeks ago, they kidnapped eight Syrians in retaliation. They like to call them guests.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Through translator) The guests are a method of pressure.
MCEVERS: The guests were from the Alawite sect, a minority sect that's the same one as the ruling elite in Syria, including the President Bashar al-Assad. The Ahmed family hopes they can use these guests to pressure their high-ranking relatives to set young Mohammad free.
Do they ever think about, if this works, won't it encourage other people to do the same thing?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: (Foreign language spoken)
MCEVERS: No, they say. This is just a local case. But it's not an isolated case. In recent months, there have been a handful of such kidnappings in Lebanon that are directly related to the Syrian conflict. One family recently paid $100,000 to get their relative back.
Later on, I talked to Nadim Houry. He heads Human Rights Watch in Lebanon. He tells me he was surprised to hear people so openly admit they're involved in kidnappings.
NADIM HOURY: What is really - practically really shocking is the impunity for the kidnapping. Those who kidnapped are known. They're not hiding it. They are meeting with activists, with journalists. They are describing what they've done, and yet the state is not doing anything to deter such behavior.
If we can just get in a car and drive to these towns, the Lebanese police can drive to these towns. And actually, the army has checkpoints all around these towns. But they're - in some ways, they're being accessories to a crime.
MCEVERS: The official policy of the Lebanese government is to stay out of the Syrian civil war. Lebanon is a small, weak state with its own sectarian problems. And everyone worries that if it gets involved, it will only bring more violence. The conflict in Syria can be hard to understand. Sunnis versus Alawites and Shiites, government versus rebels.
Filmmaker Olly Lambert tried to make sense of the conflict during the month he recently spent in Syria. He managed to get access to both government soldiers and rebel fighters. The result was a film called "Syria Behind the Lines." It recently aired on PBS' Frontline and can still be seen on its website. One thing that's clear, and it's something that's true in almost any civil war, the two sides simply don't know each other. Lambert joined us from London to talk about the film.
OLLY LAMBERT: I would say that it's gone beyond propaganda on both sides because with propaganda, you always think that people are aware that it's kind of a narrative that's being promoted. What was much more shocking was to realize that the young people in the high school that I filmed with.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Foreign language spoken)
LAMBERT: When they were coming out with these chants about Bashar's, you know, name is written on the gun, and they were going to die for the regime...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: (Foreign language spoken)
LAMBERT: ...they weren't saying it because they were propagandas. They were saying it because they absolutely believed it. And similarly on the rebel side, the language and the vocabulary's all about martyrdom and, you know, death for freedom.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: (Foreign language spoken)
LAMBERT: I imagine that early on in the conflict, people would use these lines as lines of propaganda. But the more time I spent there, I actually realized that people really had absorbed those ideas into their DNA, that they were going to either win freedom or they're going to die in the process.
Although both sides are in opposition, there's an incredible similarity about the way people spoke, and their own kind of fears and anxieties and desires to what's going to happen in Syria.
MCEVERS: The film is so striking, but what's also really striking is this kind of director's cut on the PBS website. It's called "The Bombing of Al-Bara." It's when you're on the rebel's side. And what happens is you're there when an airstrike hits the village.
MCEVERS: You run toward the scene of the bombing. We watch as injured and dead people are pulled from the rubble. And there's no rescue team. I mean, did you get a sense that the relief effort was coordinated in any way after something like this happened?
LAMBERT: I didn't get any sense of any organized relief operation. It's very ad hoc. And people are just grappling with their bare hand. The flip side is that it was incredible to see how this community rallied around. You know, hundreds of people are putting their lives at risk to stick around and try and rescue often complete strangers.
MCEVERS: One moment that just sticks with me is it's a family that's clearly deciding to flee. A boy says he can't find shoes that match. A woman's stuffing her diploma into her purse, but it won't fit. Almost more than the dead and the dying, I remember this. What made you turn your camera away from the action and film that?
LAMBERT: There's a great cameraman, and he always said that the best advice you could give to an observational documentary cameraman is a quick mind but slow feet. I kept saying this to myself over and over again. And what that means is, like, think very clearly about what's going on here but don't feel you've got to run and rush because, usually, what's happening around you will be a myriad of different images and stories. There were images that would stand out such as the family with the shoes and the diploma in the bag.
But it's those kind of images, strangely, that I knew were going to tell the real story. When I say real, I mean the broadest possible story because so much of the footage that comes out of conflict zone, there's always this sort of death and horror and shocking drama. And I'm far more moved, and I think people are far more moved, by those little human details that are taking place that we identify with.
MCEVERS: That's filmmaker Olly Lambert. These faraway images and stories he describes might have just gotten a little closer to home this week as the U.S. weighs its military options in Syria. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Joe Biden: Delawarean. Vice president. Vocabulary muse.
In new data announced Wednesday by Merriam-Webster, a much-quoted Bidenism from the 2012 campaign set a record for the year in online lookups during a single 24-hour period.
In the 24 hours after the Danville, Ky., vice presidential debate, after Biden famously labeled a claim by Paul Ryan "a bunch of malarkey," look-ups of the noun's definitions on the dictionary's website spiked by 3,000 percent.
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"Malarkey," a pseudo-expletive of Irish origin frequently used by the Scranton native, is defined by the dictionary company as "insincere or foolish talk : bunkum."
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A new celebrity Twitter feud is brewing between rocker Steven Tyler and his American Idol replacement Nicki Minaj after the ex-judge took aim at the new panellist and suggested she wouldn't be able to spot true talent on the show.
The Aerosmith rocker told his fans that new judges Mariah Carey and Minaj should try to get along for the benefit of the "scared" wannabes auditioning for them.
Commenting on the divas' recent on-camera fight over a contestant, he tweeted, "I know that they've got something going on on the judges' panel; it shouldn't be that, it should be the opposite. They should have something going on, which is called 'camaraderie'.
"These kids, they just got out of a car from the Midwest somewhere and they're in New York City, they're scared to death; you're not going to get the best (from them)."
He went on to suggest that Minaj, in particular, would not be able to spot the next great troubadour if he showed up on stage in front of her, adding, "If it was Bob Dylan, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cornfield. Whereas, if it was Bob Dylan with us, we would have brought the best of him out."
Minaj, Carey and fellow new judge Keith Urban were drafted in to replace Tyler and Jennifer Lopez when they quit the show this summer (12), and the Starships hitmaker is refusing to take the rocker's criticisms lying down.
In a series of angry tweets on Monday (26Nov12), she raged, "Steven Tyler said I would have sent Bob Dylan to a cornfield??? Steven, you haven't seen me judge one single solitary contestant yet! You assume that I wouldn't have liked Bob Dylan??? Why? Black? Rapper? What? Go f**k yourself and worry about yourself babe.
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- Jennifer's will host the 10th annual "Art of a Woman" from April 14-26 at the Fort Myers boutique. The exhibit will feature the work of Jo Anne Bedient, JolieJolene Black, Katie Gardenia, Mel Meo, Susan Sadler and Barbara Yeomans. A variety of works will be showcased including abstract and realistic painting, contemporary raku clay creations, painted furniture and whimsical sculptures. All will be available for purchase.
"The Art of a Woman exhibit allows us to showcase some of the best artists in our community," said owner Jennifer Williams. "The work of these women can be found around the world and we are lucky to have them living and creating right here in Southwest Florida."
"Art and fashion go hand in hand," said Williams. "Both fashion designers and artists use their talents to create beautiful and interesting pieces and people are drawn to certain artwork as much as they are drawn to a certain designer or article of clothing. We display the artwork in creative and beautiful ways and ensure that the colors in the clothing and the colors in the art complement one another. You can't help but feel happy and inspired."
Williams opened her Fort Myers boutique in November of 1983 on McGregor Boulevard at Cypress Square; the same location where it stands today. Her style is subtle, simple and sophisticated. Jennifer's has always actively given back to the community.
Jennifer's is located at 13451 McGregor Boulevard at Cypress Lake Drive (Cypress Square) and is open from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Call (239) 481-8582 or visit Jennifer's online at jennifersfortmyers.com
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Contemporary raku fired clay creations. Bold color plays off of black and white on the forms of teapots, pears, vessels, and most famously…shoes! Originally from Southwest Virginia and a resident of Fort Myers since 1980, Bedient has emerged as one of Southwest Florida's premier clay artists. Perhaps best known for her ceramic shoes, she blends realism and fantasy in her inventive designs. She has a preference for hand-building pieces instead of using a potter's wheel. Raku firing revolutionized her work. This Japanese technique involves removing red-hot pieces from the kiln and placing them in combustible material. Smoke permeates the clay and glazes, creating luster, crackle patterns, and richly textured colors. Each firing produces unique results, and the continual experimentation of this method inspires the artist's dramatic, whimsical, and graceful works.
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'Gao Hong and Anjali Mohan Bhatia 'Leadership and turnover. The contradictions of irrigation management reform in the People's Republic of China.'
In: Shivakoti, Ganesh and Vermillion, Douglas and Lam, W.F. and Ostrom, Elinor and Pradhan, Ujjwal and Yode, Robert, (eds.),
Asian Irrigation in Transition: Responding to Challenges.
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text: Tom Thibodeau was named head coach of the Chicago Bulls on June 23, 2010. He is the 18th head coach of the NBA franchise. The Bulls won 62 games in his inaugural season, making him one of only three coaches to win 60 or more games in his first year. He broke the NBA record for fastest coach to 100 wins, reaching the milestone in his 130th game. Thibodeau was named coach of the year for the 2010-11 season and finished runner-up to Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs for the award in 2011-12. His record with the Bulls at the end of the 2013-14 season was 205-107 and he has coached the team to four playoff trips, with a record of 17-22. Before coaching the Bulls, he was an assistant head coach with the Boston Celtics in 2007-10. During that time, the Celtics went to the NBA finals twice and won in 2008. He has also coached for the Minnesota Timberwolves (1989-91), San Antonio Spurs (1992-94), Philadelphia 76ers (1994-96), New York Knicks (1996-2003) and Houston Rockets (2003-07). Thibodeau was born in New Britain, Conn., on Jan. 17, 1958, and has a bachelor's and master's degrees in counseling from Salem State University in Massachusetts.


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A euphemism for sex. So named because in Lord of the Rings, after elves get married they have sex.
I heard noises coming from Sara and Tony's room, then realised they were having an Elvish Wedding. Opening the door, I saw them going at it like animals.
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Out of all of my family history artifacts, the few audio recordings that I have are among my most cherished. My paternal grandfather had an early tape recorder that he carted around to family events in the 1960s. He'd pull out the microphone and create a little variety show, asking various family members to "come up" and say a few words–or even sing a song. So our family now has these wonderful recordings featuring various family members, long gone, singing old Irish ballads. In the world of genealogy and family history, this is pure gold.
Because of how precious these audio memories are to me, I think a lot about how important it is to capture and preserve snippets of audio from my own time and place. It may seem like nothing special right now, to record a conversation with a family member, but I'm convinced that even the most mundane things that we capture will be treasured by our children and their descendants.
I had a great-aunt who died this past Fall, the last surviving sibling from my grandpa's family of twelve kids. I was lucky enough to have been able to visit her back in 2007. She lived in California and I'm living in Minnesota, but I took a special trip to just go out and visit with her. And because I'd traveled so far, I made sure to spend a number of days with her.
The best part about visiting Aunt Alice was that I didn't go empty-handed. I brought all of my family notes and was ready with a number of questions that I wanted to ask her. But the best thing that I brought with me was a little digital recorder. (Something like this). This little device was incredible. I left it turned on for the entire 4 days that I spent with Alice and I collected many, many hours of wonderful stories. The best part is that everything was recorded digitally–so all of the content is already transfered to my PC and (of course) automatically being backed up. I can go back through the audio content and pull out interesting bits of family history data at my leisure. The important thing is that I spoke with Alice before she was gone and, even more precious, I captured many hours of her talking about her life.
We should all make an effort to do this with older relatives. We know that we need to start with the oldest generation first, when looking for information about the family. So we go out and interview them to check our facts, or glean new information. But we should also be recording all of these conversations, just to capture these relatives' stories in their own voices.
Stories are powerful. But they are so much more powerful when recorded as audio. If you haven't already heard of them, take a look at StoryCorps. They are a non-profit who has been traveling around, letting people tell their personal stories in their own words, recording everything and then preserving it at the Library of Congress. The stories are wonderful: moving, heart-warming, sad, tragic and exuberant. Basically a reflection of life itself.
Capturing someone's voice in an audio format is also very different from capturing video. It's much more than just some subset of a video recording, but something much richer. When recording audio, people tend to sit closer to the microphone and just talk–so they aren't moving around or doing something else and you get their full attention. Listening to an audio recording is different, too. Somehow, when there's nothing to look at and you just listen to the person's voice, their stories and history enter your psyche and affect you in a way that video never does.
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After hearing about the StoryCorps and after collecting such wonderful stories from my Aunt Alice, I'm more motivated than ever to really make an effort to capture stories from other family members. I do intend to do this. It just takes a little bit of time and energy.
But I have a slight more immediate goal. I very much want to preserve my kids' voices. My daughter is 4 years old and the most loquacious member of the family by far. My son is only 13 months old, so for the moment he's limited to saying "uh-oh" after he throws his bottle on the floor.
I really treasure the conversations that I have with my daughter Lucy. We have an incredibly long commute and we spend much of it just talking about everything under the sun. It's absolutely a no-brainer for me to try to capture some of this in an audio format. I know that whatever I record and preserve today will one day be a real treasure to her and to her kids.
In the past, I've recorded Lucy once in a while, when it occurred to me. I used the same little digital voice recorder that I bought for my trip to California, and just had a little conversation with Lucy. But I always seem to forget about it. Somehow, reaching for the voice recorder isn't as obvious as reaching for the digital camera or the camcorder.
So I decided about a year ago to do something different to capture Lucy in an audio format. Instead of just recording her, I decided to create an audio podcast that featured some of our conversations. I'm an iPod addict and a huge fan of podcasts, so it seemed an obvious choice.
Capturing audio as a podcast has a couple of benefits. For starters, we'd actually have an audience. If we recorded a regular chat and then published our recording as a podcast, family members could just subscribe to that podcast using a "podcatcher" like iTunes. As soon as I published a new "episode", they would just get it the next time that they synched their iPod. Also, because most people listen to podcasts on portable devices like iPods, they could bring our audio chats with them wherever they went, as opposed to having to go to a web site to find the recordings.
The other benefit of having an audience is that there's a tiny bit more pressure to keep up the habit of recording Lucy regularly. Once grandma has gotten a couple podcasts automatically transfered to her iPod, she'll be bugging me for the next one. And being gently bugged is a good thing, because it will just remind me how important these recordings are.
Finally, you can think of podcasts as a way of ensuring that your recordings won't get lost. To publish the podcast, you'll end up uploading the recording to a server somewhere. We do this so that people can then download the podcast using a tool like iTunes. But it has the happy side benefit of forcing you to have a copy stored somewhere other than just on your PC. Secondly, because other people will be downloading your recording, they all have their own copies. One of the best ways to ensure that your family information is preserved is to disseminate it as broadly as possible.
So this past weekend, I finally got around to publishing the first two episodes of The Lucy Show. If you go to this web site, you can listen to the two episodes right in your web browser. But if you know just a little bit about iTunes, you can also click on the Subscribe link and paste the resulting "feed" into iTunes, becoming a regular subscriber of "The Lucy Show".
I'm very happy about what we put together. I was also very surprised at how easy this was. I spent just a little time finding some "theme music" and learning how to do a little bit of editing to create the podcast. But this was all easy enough that I'd recommend it to anyone who is thinking about a unique way to preserve recordings of their family members. Most of all, I'm excited to make this a regular habit so that these recordings just become something that Lucy has when she's older.
I'll share more details, in a future post, of how I actually created and published these podcasts. Maybe once you see how easy it is, you'll be inspired to create your own podcasts and capture a little bit of family history.
P.S. Let me know what you think of the theme music that opens and closes The Lucy Show. It's Lucy's favorite part.


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Editor and critic Herbert Leibowitz, author of "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You": The Life and Work of William Carlos Williams, discusses the great doctor's oeuvre, from Spring and All to Paterson.
Herbert Leibowitz is the Publisher and Founding Editor of the literary magazine Parnassus: Poetry in Review. His publications include "Something Urgent I Have to Say to You": The Life and Work of William Carlos Williams (2011), Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography (1991), and Hart Crane: An Introduction to the Poetry (1968). He provides the introduction for William Carlos Williams' Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems (New Directions, 1994). He is Professor Emeritus at City University of New York Graduate Center.


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Hunter College Graduate Catalog: pages 208-220
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The Benefits of LLL Supporting Membership
There are multiple benefits of breastfeeding available for both mothers and babies, but did you know that becoming an LLLI supporting member can enhance those benefits? Mothers who are members of LLLI breastfeed longer because they have the information, education, support, and encouragement they need to enjoy the experience. Supporting Membership in LLLI is a real bargain when you consider the costs of not breastfeeding!
Savings Related to Breastfeeding
- Fewer doctor visits, prescriptions, and hospital stays, up to $1435 in the first year.*
- No need to spend money on formula and feeding supplies.
- For one month, the least expensive formula costs $134, the most expensive formula costs $491 a month.**
- The least expensive formula costs $402 for 3 months and $804 for 6 months.**
- To buy the most expensive formula for their babies, parents spend $1475 for 3 months and $2950 for 6 months!**
- Knowing you are giving your baby the very best is priceless!
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- Meet new people in your community.
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- An investment in yourself and your child!
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- Increased funds to purchase new books for the Group Library.
- Helps Leaders stay up to date on the newest breastfeeding research and information, so they can help you get the most out of your breastfeeding experience.
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Horny, Smug, and Rude
It's Mel Gibson, 53 years old, divorcing his wife of 28 years, on the carpet at the Wolverine premiere last night looking like he just set a Cialis record. Horny.
Next to him, his new Russian action, a broad called Oksana who, judging from the expression on her face, is well aware that he's worth a billion dollars. Smug.
How long he retains that billionaire status remains to be seen.
Last night wasn't exactly the smartest move, public relations-wise. Especially not for a dude who was once a People Magazine MiniVan Majority loving favourite. They were heartbroken when they discovered he's a racist, and a terrible drunk, and now he's flaunting his sexpot in the most flagrant way…
Was he coached by Victoria Beckham?
Wolverine is expected to be one of the biggest movies of the year. As such, there was nothing discreet about this appearance. This carpet was far from low key. Mel would have known this. All these years in the business, Mel would have definitely known this.
Worst still, in bringing along his new lady, he essentially usurped the thunder from the film making his photos the top headline – like showing up at someone else's wedding in a wedding gown and throwing the bouquet. Rude!
But he bought his own church. This makes it ok, I guess…? Does forgiveness come quicker when you're the boss?
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CCP are freaking awesome. Cant wait till the May 5th upgrade!
They really are coming through with what they said. I mean... holy shit... the integration is incredible, the complexity is creeping in but you can ignore all that and hit quickmatch if you like. You can voice chat from your PS3 into Eve Online to get updates on fleets in orbit to start bobardment, its scales of things that other games promise but never follow through. They might be a bit weak on new player experience but other than that CCP are the best dev there is.


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AUSTRALIAN consumers have voted for products which offer convenience, best value, instant gratification, or a little luxurious reward in the 2012 Product of the Year Awards.
Seven thousand Australian household shoppers were surveyed to find the most innovative new products to hit supermarket shelves, stretching across 28 categories.
Product of the Year director and mother of two Sarah Connelly said most of the 28 winners reflected the huge time pressure people were under these days, and the desire to find new products to make lives simpler and better.
"Consumers are looking for good value, with supermarket home brands scoring two awards this year, but there's still room for little luxuries, even though purses are being squeezed," she said.
"A number of category winners are not the cheapest options, but clearly shoppers think they are worth paying that little bit extra for."
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Dental care: Listerine Zero
Deodorant: Nivea Deodorant Invisible For Black and White - Men and Women
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Don't Put All Your Exports in One Basket (That Means You, Resource-Rich Country!)
Diversification of a country's exports – increasing both the number of products it produces and the destinations of those products – is considered part of the path to development. Many economists and policy-makers see export diversification as an important means for increasing employment and speeding growth. Diversification also makes growth more stable, as it provides protection against shocks; a country that exports many products will not be hit so hard when the price of one falls, and similarly, a nation that exports to a wide variety of destinations will be shielded against a recession in one of them.
But new evidence contributes to a body of work suggesting that countries with an abundance of natural resources might be more prone to export concentration during spurts of high natural-resource prices – mainly in products, but also to a milder extent in trading partners – leaving them more vulnerable to price swings.


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speed kills
Newtown, CT is half an hour from my home. My son will start preschool soon. Soon after that, his sister will be going to school. And like most parents, I cannot begin to fathom what it must be like to be living in Newtown right now. Meanwhile, I'm grateful for the safety of my own children and calling my Congressman to let him know where I stand on gun control, especially on the issue of auto- and semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Speed Kills
What's the lesson of the Connecticut school massacre? The faster the weapon, the higher the body count.
By William Saletan|Posted Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at 7:20 PM ET This morning, a madman attacked more than 20 children at an elementary school in China. As of this writing, there are no reported fatalities.
A few hours later, a madman attacked an elementary school in Connecticut. As of this writing, 20 of those kids are dead.
The difference? The weapon. The madman in China had a knife. The madman in Connecticut had three semi-automatic guns. *
Look up the worst school massacres in history, and you'll see the pattern. Madmen are everywhere. They strike without regard to gun laws, mental health care, or the national rate of churchgoing. They've slaughtered children in every country you'd think might have been spared: Scotland, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Finland, Japan. They've falsified every pet political theory about what kind of culture or medical system or firearms legislation prevents mass murder.
But one pattern holds true: The faster the weapon, the higher the body count. It's not politics. It's logistics. If you stick a knife in your first victim, it takes time to move on to your second. You might need two stabs or more to finish off the first kid. By then, the other kids have begun to flee. Soon, the cops will be here. How much time do you have? At some point, it's time to off yourself. And all you managed to kill were two lousy kids because the only weapon you had was a kitchen knife.
Google "knife control" and you'll find legions of gun-control skeptics comparing U.S. firearm attacks to Chinese knife attacks. In the past two years, there's been an epidemic of knife attacks on Chinese schools. Some of them show up on Wikipedia's list of school massacres. But none crack the top 10 because the body counts never rise above single digits. It's just too hard to kill that many people, even little kids, with a knife.
Guns do more damage. Look down the list and you'll see gun after gun after gun. But not all guns are equal. I've gone through the 25 worst massacres on the chart, and nearly every shooter had a semi-automatic weapon. The one exception was a guy who had speedloaders and a bandolier so he could keep firing. High-capacity magazines are another common factor. All these patterns converge on a common lesson: Speed kills. Madness pulls the trigger, but the rate of fire drives the body count.
It's not all about guns, either. The worst Chinese school massacre by a knife-wielding madman wasn't caused by the knife. The perpetrator used the knife to scare the kids and make them retreat to the back of a classroom. Then he locked them inside and killed them by starting a fire. Right below him on the list is a guy in Germany who killed one victim with a lance and the rest with a flamethrower that ignited a classroom. Knives and lances take too long. It's more efficient to kill everyone at once. That's what the record-holder did: He wiped out more than 40 victims with a series of bombs.
I wish we could pass a magic law that would stop madmen from killing our children. We can't. There will always be angry lunatics. There will always be knives and shotguns and gasoline. I don't think banning guns will make the problem go away. We don't need another all-or-nothing war between pro-gun and anti-gun ideologues. What we need is a frank, precise, constructive conversation about the problem of high-speed weapons. You don't need rapid-fire weapons to hunt or defend your home. Cops don't need them to shoot down bad guys. And while it's true that passing a law against them won't eliminate them, that's not an argument against legislation. It's an argument for going beyond legislation. The community of gun sellers and enthusiasts must act collectively to track and control the technology of mass murder.
Every child who died in that school in Connecticut today was precious. To lose even one young life in such a senseless way is a gut-wrenching tragedy. But this I know: It didn't have to be 20.
Correction, Dec. 14, 2012: The article originally mentioned the shooter's .223 caliber Bushmaster rifle. The weapons found in the school, according to later reports, were the two handguns, a Glock and a Sig Sauer. All three weapons are semi-automatic. All such reports are tentative pending official confirmation. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
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Oil and natural gas have seeped naturally from underground sources to the surface of the earth for millions of years in onshore and offshore areas. The seeps are mixtures of crude oil, asphaltum (tar), natural gas, and water.
Water salinity ranges from fresh to supersaturated brine depending on the source rock, path of migration, and geologic setting. Seeps sometimes provide water to plants and animals. For example, an insect known as the
petroleum fly lives exclusively in and around seeps. Fossil records from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles show that entire food chains can exist by seeps.
Several hundred oil and gas seeps have been found in 28 counties throughout California. They've played important roles in human social and economic history.
California Indians living near the seeps hand-formed cakes of asphaltum to make trade goods. As a symbol of mourning, crude oil was sometimes smeared on the faces and hair of widows and grieving female relatives. Some widows wore lumps of asphaltum strung into necklaces. Shamans painted their faces with heavy oil before dancing, believing the oil had supernatural powers.Many items—including bowls, jewelry, knives, and canoes—were decorated with asphaltum inlaid with chips of abalone and other shells. Baskets and water bottles were waterproofed inside and out with asphaltum. Chumash Indians used refined asphaltum to build their plank canoes, a crowning achievement of Chumash technology.
Early settlers used oil from seeps for waterproofing, lubrication, and lamp oil. Eventually some natural seeps inspired early pioneers to drill for oil, leading to the discovery of over 50 California oil fields.
For more on California's oil and gas seeps, see two Division publications,
Offshore Oil and Gas Seeps in California and
Onshore Oil and Gas Seeps in California. You may visit the joint
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Tristan Jaxx & Sebastian Fischer in I'm a Married Man
Synopsis: Tristan gets pissed when he finds that his roommate and tenant Sebastian is smoking cigarettes on the premises! Sebastian, however, doesn't seem to have a care in the world, and tells him that he pays rent there, so he can do as he pleases! Tristan gets ready to evict him, but Sebastian wants to resolve the issue another way … the way that involves Tristan's at-work wife not finding out that her husband is screwing Sebastian!
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House Tour a great success
Last Saturday, Sept. 8, the Jamestown Historical Society hosted its annual tour of historic houses on Jamestown. The event was an overwhelming success with more than 300 visitors and volunteers enjoying the wonderful houses and the hospitality of the Antine and O'Neill families. We thank our hosts very much for opening their homes so that so many of us could briefly visit the 19th century and learn a little about how summer Jamestowners lived 120 years ago. A special thanks to David Adams, a greatgreat grandson of the first owner of Belvedere (now owned by the Antines), and his wife Debbie for being at the house to talk about his ancestors.
As usual with such a large event, many people were involved in its planning and realization. Mary Heath was our organizational lead. Sue Maden arranged for the volunteers. Harry Wright researched and wrote about the houses. The house guides included Joyce Allphin, Suzi Andrews, Mary Atamian, Jillian Barber, Judy Bell, Jane Bentley, Donna Chellis, Ann Crompton, Donna and Joe Drago, Cynthia Flagg, Eleanor Gravdahl, Betty Gulley, Anna Harrison- Auld, John Horton, Varoujan Karentz, Bill Knapp, Teddy and John Leyon, Shawn Mayers, Lois Migneault, Jane Miner, Carrie Nelson, Ken Newman, Gloria O'Laughlin, Joseph and Katherine O'Neill, Karan Osenton, Linnea Petersen, Connie Rainone, Paula Samos, Barbara Szepatowski, Geoffrey Turner, Nancy Van Devanter, Joan Vessella, Linda Warner, and Dorothy Zenie.
We thank you all for your help and hope you enjoyed your day in these historic Jamestown homes.
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For advanced heart failure patients and their doctors, making good decisions requires teamwork. Through shared decision making, doctors and patients consider both the options and the patient's preferences before charting a treatment course.
When heart failure (HF) progresses to an advanced stage, difficult decisions must be made. Do I want to receive aggressive treatment? Is quality of life more important than living as long as possible? How do I feel about resuscitation?
What is advanced heart failure?
Of the more than 6 million Americans living with heart failure, about 10 percent have advanced heart failure. The condition is considered advanced when conventional heart therapies and symptom management strategies no longer work. You feel shortness of breath and other symptoms even at rest.
In the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology's A-to-D staging system, advanced heart failure is stage D. Another classification system, developed by the New York Heart Association, grades the severity of symptoms on a 1-to-4 scale. Your symptom severity number can fluctuate, even within a single day, depending on how you feel.
In its early stages, heart failure can often be managed with medication and a healthy lifestyle. As the disease progresses and the heart becomes weaker, treatment gets more complex. This is the time to have difficult, yet important, conversations with your family and doctor about the care you want to receive.
What is shared decision making?
When heart failure progresses to an advanced stage, many treatment options still exist. The decisions, including a do-everything approach or a comfort strategy and everything in between aren't easy. That's why the American Heart Association released recommendations that serve as a roadmap to decision making in advanced heart failure. The goal: A partnership between patient and doctor, where the medical options are honestly discussed and decisions are made based on what the patient wants. Shared decision making means you don't have to make decisions on your own.
Doctor-patient conversations about treatment options, the risks and benefits, and future what-if scenarios should happen early and often, said Larry A. Allen, M.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, who helped write the recommendations.
"We want patients to understand their disease, what the range of future possibilities are, and what therapies they might be able to choose," Allen said. "You don't want to have to start from zero when a big medical event happens that requires tough decision making. Hope for the best, but plan for what may come."
Doctors provide the medical facts and figures, you provide your personal goals and preferences. Together, and possibly with input from family and friends, you and your doctor build a care plan.
To guide shared decision making, the American Heart Association recommends:
- An annual heart failure review to discuss how well you are functioning, current treatment goals, and your preferences for treating possible emergencies, such as kidney failure or sudden cardiac arrest.
- "Milestone" discussions to reassess treatment goals following a major event, such as a defibrillator shock, hospitalization or significant loss of function.
- Honest and thorough conversations about major side effects of treatment, quality of life, loss of independence, impact of worsening symptoms, and increased commitment by caregivers and families.
- Considering palliative care, offered alongside medical treatment, to help manage symptoms and assist patients and families with tough decisions.
- Developing a care plan for the end of life that ensures your needs and wishes are met.
Learn more:
- Recognizing Advanced Heart Failure and Knowing Your Options
- Planning Ahead
- Communicating With Your Healthcare Provider
- Overcoming Barriers to Shared Decision Making
This content was last reviewed May 2017.


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Human Trafficking Series - Asia Graves: A Survivor Speaks
Date: 5:30pm EST November 21, 2013
In 2012, President Barack Obama announced several new initiatives aimed at ending trafficking nationwide, including the first-ever assessment of the problem in this country and a $6 million grant to build solutions. USA Today
Asia Graves is a survivor of human trafficking who uses her past experiences to help others understand the scope of trafficking in the United States. Graves has worked as the Maryland Outreach Services Coordinator and Survivor Advocate at FAIR Girls. FAIR Girls (formerly FAIR Fund) prevents the exploitation of girls worldwide with empowerment and education. Through prevention education, compassionate care, and survivor inclusive advocacy, FAIR Girls creates opportunities for girls to become confident, happy, healthy young women.
Asia Graves is responsible for facilitating FAIR Girls' anti-trafficking curriculum to high school youth in the Baltimore area schools, youth shelters, and detention facilities. Prior to accepting her position in Baltimore, Asia served as FAIR Girls' Survivor Advocate working directly with victims recently exiting trafficking. Prior to starting at FAIR Girls, Asia worked with various non-profits throughout the country to raise awareness on trafficking. She also had several volunteer teaching positions in several public high schools in the Boston area.
She is also a guest blogger for the Huffington Post and has been featured in USA Today, Boston Globe, Marie Claire, New York Times. She has been a guest on Melissa Harris Perry's Show, Nightline and the Katie (Couric) Show. She has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Asia is completing her last semester of her Bachelors in Political Science and plans to attend law school in the future.


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The Mares IRIS USB Infra-Red Interface system is a compact USB interface Mares Dive Computer with your PC. Utilizing this new Interface allows you to transfer scuba dive data to your PC. In addition the software included allows scuba divers to view and manage their dive data and supplement it with additional information to build a complete logbook. The built in dive simulator is a useful diver training tool and analysis instrument.
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[SerializableAttribute] [ComVisibleAttribute(true)] public sealed class String : IComparable, ICloneable, IConvertible, IComparable<string>, IEnumerable<string>, IEnumerable, IEquatable<string>
/** @attribute SerializableAttribute() */ /** @attribute ComVisibleAttribute(true) */ public final class String implements IComparable, ICloneable, IConvertible, IComparable<String>, IEnumerable<String>, IEnumerable, IEquatable<String>
A string is a sequential collection of Unicode characters that is used to represent text. A String object is a sequential collection of System.Char objects that represent a string. The value of the String object is the content of the sequential collection, and that value is immutable.
A String object is called immutable (read-only) because its value cannot be modified once it has been created. Methods that appear to modify a String object actually return a new String object that contains the modification. If it is necessary to modify the actual contents of a string-like object, use the System.Text.StringBuilder class.
Each Unicode character in a string is defined by a Unicode scalar value, also called a Unicode code point or the ordinal (numeric) value of the Unicode character. Each code point is encoded using UTF-16 encoding, and the numeric value of each element of the encoding is represented by a Char object.
A single Char object usually represents a single code point; that is, the numeric value of the Char equals the code point. However, a code point might require more than one encoded element. For example, a Unicode supplementary code point (a surrogate pair) is encoded with two Char objects.
An index is the position of a Char object, not a Unicode character, in a String. An index is a zero-based, nonnegative number starting from the first position in the string, which is index position zero. Consecutive index values might not correspond to consecutive Unicode characters because a Unicode character might be encoded as more than one Char object. To work with each Unicode character instead of each Char object, use the System.Globalization.StringInfo class.
Ordinal vs. Culture-Sensitive Operations
Members of the String class perform either an ordinal or linguistic operation on a String object. An ordinal operation acts on the numeric value of each Char object. A linguistic operation acts on the value of the String taking into account culture-specific casing, sorting, formatting, and parsing rules. Linguistic operations execute in the context of an explicitly declared culture or the implicit current culture. For more information about the current culture, see the CultureInfo.CurrentCulture topic.
Casing rules determine how to change a Unicode character between one case and another; for example, from lowercase to uppercase.
Formatting rules determine how to convert a value to its string representation, while parsing rules determine how to convert a string representation to a value.
Sort rules determine the alphabetic order of Unicode characters and how two strings compare to each other. For example, the Compare method performs a linguistic comparison while the CompareOrdinal method performs an ordinal comparison. Consequently, if the current culture is U.S. English, the Compare method considers 'a' less than 'A' while the CompareOrdinal method considers 'a' greater than 'A'.
The .NET Framework supports word, string, and ordinal sort rules. A word sort performs a culture-sensitive comparison of strings in which certain nonalphanumeric Unicode characters might have special weights assigned to them. For example, the hyphen ("-") might have a very small weight assigned to it so that "coop" and "co-op" appear next to each other in a sorted list. A string sort is similar to a word sort, except that there are no special cases and all nonalphanumeric symbols come before all alphanumeric Unicode characters.
A culture-sensitive comparison is any comparison that explicitly or implicitly uses a CultureInfo object, including the invariant culture that is specified by the CultureInfo.InvariantCulture property. The current implicit culture is specified by the Thread.CurrentCulture property.
An ordinal sort compares strings based on the numeric value of each Char object in the string. An ordinal comparison is automatically case-sensitive because the lowercase and uppercase versions of a character have different code points. However, if case is not important in your application, you can specify an ordinal comparison that ignores case. This is equivalent to converting the string to uppercase using the invariant culture and then performing an ordinal comparison on the result.
For more information about word, string, and ordinal sort rules, see the System.Globalization.CompareOptions topic.
A culture-sensitive comparison is typically appropriate for sorting, whereas an ordinal comparison is not. An ordinal comparison is typically appropriate for determining whether two strings are equal (that is, for determining identity), whereas a culture-sensitive comparison is not.
The Remarks for comparison and search methods specify whether the method is case-sensitive and/or culture-sensitive. By definition, any string, including the empty string (""), compares as greater than a null reference, and two null references compare as equal to each other.
Some Unicode characters have multiple equivalent binary representations consisting of sets of combining and/or composite Unicode characters. The Unicode standard defines a process called normalization that returns one binary representation when given any of the equivalent binary representations of a character. Normalization can be performed with several algorithms, called normalization forms, that obey different rules. The .NET Framework currently supports normalization forms C, D, KC, and KD. A pair of normalized strings is typically evaluated with an ordinal comparison.
Security Considerations
If your application makes a security decision about a symbolic identifier such as a file name or named pipe, or persisted data such as the text-based data in an XML file, the operation should use an ordinal comparison instead of a culture-sensitive comparison. This is because a culture-sensitive comparison can yield different results depending on the culture in effect, whereas an ordinal comparison depends solely on the binary value of the compared characters.
The String class provides members to compare String objects, return the index of a character or string within a String object, copy the value of a String object, partition a string or combine strings, modify the value of string, format numbers, dates and times, or enumeration values into a string, and normalize a string.
Use the Compare, CompareOrdinal, CompareTo, Equals, EndsWith, and StartsWith methods for comparisons.
Use the IndexOf, IndexOfAny, LastIndexOf, and LastIndexOfAny methods to obtain the index of a substring or Unicode character in a string.
Use Copy and CopyTo to copy a string or substring to another string or an array of type Char.
Use the Substring and Split methods to create one or more new strings from portions of an original string, and the Concat and Join methods to create a new string from one or more substrings.
Use Insert, Replace, Remove, PadLeft, PadRight, Trim, TrimEnd, and TrimStart to modify all or part of a string.
Use the ToLower, ToLowerInvariant, ToUpper, and ToUpperInvariant methods to change the case of Unicode characters in a string.
Use Format to replace one or more format item placeholders in a string with the text representation of one or more numeric, date and time, or enumeration values.
Use the Length property to obtain the number of Char objects in a string, and the Chars property to access the actual Char objects in a string.
Use the IsNormalized method to test whether a string is normalized to a particular normalization form. Use the Normalize method to create a string that is normalized to a particular normalization form.
Implemented Interfaces
The String class implements the IComparable, ICloneable, IConvertible, IEnumerable, and IComparable interfaces. Use the Convert class for conversions instead of this type's explicit interface member implementation of IConvertible.
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Immediately after the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, nearly 2 000 greetings to the new Nobel Peace Prize Laureates poured in from Nobelprize.org's visitors and were posted at the website.
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Encourage tenants to select buildings with best practices systems and employed green strategies.
- Select a LEED Certified Building
- Locate the tenant space in a building that has in place two or more of the following characteristics at time of submittal:
Option A. Brownfield Redevelopment: (½ point)
A building developed on a site that has been documented (by means of an ASTM E1903-97 Phase II Environmental Site Assessment)
A building on a site that has been classified as a brownfield by a local, state or federal government agency. Effective remediation of site contamination must have been completed.
Option B. Stormwater Management: Rate and Quantity: (½ point)
A building that prior to its development had:
Less than or equal to 50% imperviousness and has implemented a stormwater management plan that equals or is less than the pre-developed 1.5 year, 24 hour rate and quantity discharge.
If greater than 50% imperviousness, has implemented a stormwater management plan that reduced pre-developed 1.5 year, 24 hour rate and quantity discharge by 25% of the annual stormwater load falling on the site. (This is based on actual local rainfall unless the actual exceeds the 10-year annual average local rainfall—then use the 10-year annual average.) This mitigation can be through a variety of measures including perviousness of site, stormwater retention ponds, capture of rainwater for reuse or other measures.
Option C. Stormwater Management: Treatment: (½ point)
A building that has in place site stormwater treatment systems designed to remove 80% of the average annual site area total suspended solids (TSS) and 40% of the average annual site area total phosphorous (TP).
These values are based on the average annual loadings from all storms less than or equal to the 2-year/24-hour storm. The building must implement and maintain Best Management Practices (BMPs) outlined in Chapter 4, Part 2 (Urban Runoff), of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Guidance Specifying Management Measures for Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters, January 1993 (Document No. EPA 840B92002) or the local government's BMP document, whichever is more stringent.
Option D. Heat Island Reduction, Non-Roof: (½ point)
A building that provides shade (or will have within 5 years of landscape installation) and/or uses light-colored/high-albedo materials with a Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) of at least 30, and/or open grid pavement, that individually or in total equals at least 30% of the site's non-roof impervious surfaces, which include parking areas, walkways, plazas, fire lanes, etc.,
Has placed a minimum of 50% of parking spaces underground or covered by structured parking,
Used an open-grid pavement system (less than 50% impervious) for 50% of the parking lot area.
Option E. Heat Island Reduction, Roof: (½ point)
A building with roofing having a Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) greater than or equal to the value in Table 1 for a minimum of 75% of the roof surface;
A building that has installed a "green" (vegetated) roof for at least 50% of the roof area.
A building having in combination high SRI roofs and vegetated roofs that satisfy the following area requirement:
Total Roof Area ≤ [(Area of SRI Roof x 1.33) + (Area of vegetated roof x 2)]
Option F. Light Pollution Reduction: (½ point)
A building that meets or provides lower light levels and uniformity ratios than those recommended by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Recommended Practice Manual: Lighting for Exterior Environments (RP-33-99). The building must have designed the exterior lighting such that all exterior luminaires with more than 1,000 initial lamp lumens are shielded and all luminaires with more than 3,500 initial lamp lumens meet the Full Cutoff IESNA Classification. The maximum candela value of all interior lighting shall fall within the property. Any luminaire within a distance of 2.5 times its mounting height from the property boundary shall have shielding such that no light from that luminaire crosses the property boundary.
Option G. Water Efficient Irrigation: Reduced Potable Water Consumption: (½ point)
A building that employs high-efficiency irrigation technology, OR uses captured rain or recycled site water to reduce potable water consumption for irrigation by 50% over conventional means.
Option H. Water Efficient Irrigation: No Potable Use or No Irrigation: (½ point in addition to prior requirement)
A building that uses only captured rain or recycled site water to eliminate all potable water use for site irrigation (except for initial watering to establish plants), OR does not have permanent landscaping irrigation systems.
Option I. Innovative Wastewater Technologies: (½ point)
A building that reduces the use of municipally provided potable water for building sewage conveyance by a minimum of 50%, OR treats 100% of wastewater on-site to tertiary standards.
Option J. Water Use Reduction: 20% Reduction: (½ point)
A building that meets the 20% reduction in water use requirement for the entire building and has an ongoing plan to require future occupants to comply.
Option K. Onsite Renewable Energy: (up to 1 point)
A building that supplies at least 5% of the building's total energy use (expressed as a fraction of annual energy cost) through the use of on-site renewable energy systems.
Option L. Other Quantifiable Environmental Performance: (½ point)
A building that had in place at time of selection other quantifiable environmental performance, for which the requirements may be found in other LEED rating systems.
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Embattled comedian Katt Williams was briefly detained by police in California on Thursday (20Dec12) after he was caught carrying marijuana.
The funnyman has been arrested on multiple occasions in the past few weeks over allegations including harassment, assault and reckless driving, but his latest incident was less serious.
Williams was approached by cops after parking his car in West Hollywood and was found to be in possession of a small amount of weed and an empty magazine for a .45 caliber gun.
Officers initially confiscated the items, but they were forced to hand them back to the star after he produced his medical marijuana card, which permits him to carry small amounts of the drug. He also proved that he had not fallen foul of gun laws by producing a permit for his weapon.
Williams, who had been waiting for his rap mogul pal Marion 'Suge' Knight, was subsequently released, but he wasn't let off the hook completely - he was cited for parking too close to a fire hydrant.
Knight arrived on the scene as the comedian was being ticketed and he too was handed a citation for outstanding traffic warrants, according to TMZ.com.


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What could be better for Dad - and for you, if you're a Dad! - than a genuine getaway from the daily routine of working, paying bills, meetings, trying to squeeze a lot of life into a little free time, etc., etc., etc.?
Mother's Day is one of our most beloved holidays here in America. Almost everyone in the country takes a day off to honor our mothers, and all they do for us. So it only makes sense that on this special day, Mom shouldn't have to do anything.
Waikiki in Honolulu packs a lot into its small, 500-acre landscape. At just two miles long and half-a-mile wide, there are nearly 300 hotels with over 50,000 rooms to choose from. And according to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, those rooms keep filling up.
It's that time of year again...where spirits are higher, people smile more, and winter takes on a wonderful, warm glow in which snow is beautiful rather than a bother. It really is the happ-happ-happiest time of the year.
Does paying all cash for a home give me an upper hand over other offers that require financing?
All over America, there are wild and wacky alternatives to traditional places to stay when we travel. B&B's and small inns are emerging from all sorts of buildings that had previous lives...in many cases, about as far from "places to stay" as you could possibly imagine.
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"Rally for Malley" raises $12,000 for local family
Hundreds of community members turned out on Oct. 27th to raise money for Valley City resident Malley Aufenkamp. Organizers estimated that nearly $12,000 was raised at the benefit, 400 community members attended, and 35-40 volunteers from local churches participated. Attendees enjoyed a pasta supper, bake sale, silent auction and carnival games. Malley suffers from biliary atresia and is currently on the list to await a liver transplant. Due to an unrelated viral illness, Malley was in the hospital in Fargo and unable to attend, according to family members. All funds raised at the benefit will go to offset medical costs for the Aufenkamps.