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Cats live healthier, safer and longer lives indoors. Keep your cat inside at all times, making sure to offer plenty of opportunities for exercise, play and mental stimulation.read more
When Cleveland, Ohio cat owner Ingrid Danziger's mom was diagnosed with Type II diabetes, Danziger became worried not only about her mother, but also about her cat. "Like my mom, Sam was really overweight. I couldn't go back and rewrite my mother's history, but I could try to do something about Sam's size before it was too late," said 38-year-old Danziger.
Sam's veterinarian recommended cutting portion size and also feeding a commercial food containing L-carnitine, which is thought to alter metabolism. Studies suggest it reduces body fat while increasing muscle mass. "It's an uphill battle," acknowledges Danziger. "But my efforts are starting to make a difference."
Below, Dr. Sally Perea, veterinary nutritionist and professor at the University of California, Davis, weighs in on other nutritional choices that can help prevent common kitty complaints.
The Issue: Immune System Function
Keeping your furry friend healthy starts by enhancing its ability to fight off illness in the first place. "Proper nutrition is important for proper immune function, so nearly all of the essential nutrients for cats are important for maintaining it," says Dr. Perea. "That means protein, amino acids, essential fatty acids and essential vitamins and minerals. Copper, zinc and iron are three essential minerals in the diet that are known to be important for proper antibody and enzymatic defense mechanisms."
To ensure your cat is getting all it needs, Dr. Perea recommends a commercial cat food that has "complete and balanced" somewhere on the packaging. A seal of approval from the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), the group that regulates the pet food industry, will verify the food's claim.
The Issue: Skin and Coat Health
Just like you, your cat can have a bad hair and skin day, with flakiness, dryness and more. To combat the underlying problems, make sure your cat's diet contains essential fatty acids. These are the omega-3 and omega-6 fats found in sources like chicken, fish oil and eggs. They work to maintain the water barrier function of the skin, similar to how moisturizer can create a protective barrier on human skin.
According to Dr. Perea, foods that are good for skin and hair are the ones that contain the mineral zinc, as well as A, E and B vitamins. "Zinc is integral to rapidly dividing cells, like skin cells, while vitamin E takes on an antioxidant role in the body's cell membranes," she explains. "Vitamin A and B prevent hair loss and scaling skin."
The Issue: Joints and Mobility
To maintain its overall health, a cat needs exercise, and to maintain an active lifestyle, it needs to be pain-free. To prevent joint and mobility issues, Dr. Perea recommends a food containing glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate and that seemingly magical elixir: fish oil.
"There hasn't been a lot of research on any of these in cats, but chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine, as well as long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as those found in fish oils, have been shown to help improve signs associated with osteoarthritis in dogs," says Dr. Perea. "These have become popular and are possibly beneficial for cats as well."
The Issue: Overall Body Condition
As with immune system maintenance, overall body maintenance relies upon a complete and balanced diet containing all of the animal's essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals. But make sure not to give your pet too much of a good thing. "Lean body condition is important to overall health, so make sure to feed appropriate portions," says Dr. Perea. "Obesity is a growing problem in cats, and it can be very difficult to implement weight loss once they become obese. Prevention is very important."
Measure your cat's food on a daily basis using the guidelines on the packaging. Consider feeding a diet that contains L-carnitine, the ingredient recommended for Ingrid Danziger's cat. Be especially careful about weight gain after your pet has been spayed or neutered. Studies have shown that fixed cats are more prone to weight gain due to a decrease in physical activity.
The Issue: Digestive Disorders
If your cat has an upset stomach, a relatively empty litter box may be your first clue. Cats often suffer constipation, which can be relieved by foods containing carbohydrates, like corn, as well as fiber. "Fiber helps with the health of the large intestine," says Dr. Perea. She emphatically adds, "They also need enough water!" Make sure to fill your feline's bowl with clean, fresh water. Change it at least twice, or even more often as needed.
The Issue: Oral Health
A dry food diet with a relatively larger kibble size forces your pet to really bite down on each individual piece. "This achieves a mechanical brushing action against the surface of the tooth," explains Dr. Perea. "Other foods on the market may incorporate a calcium-chelating agent on the surface of the kibble. This binds calcium and helps prevent tartar formation." In order to provide your cat with such a food, look for a diet that claims to promote oral health. The claims should again be verified by an AAFCO seal.
Protecting your cat's well-being is as easy as a trip down the pet food aisle. Armed with a little bit of knowledge about your feline's basic needs, you can stave off the most common cat conditions. Your cat will reward you with the pleasure of its company for years to come.
Darcy Lockman is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based freelance writer and frequent contributor to The Daily Cat. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times and Rolling Stone.
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Tisha says: Here's a suggestion, plant cat nip or regular grass inside so she doesn't have to go outside.
AMMELIA PIERCE says: myyearold declawed cat runs out the door ,she wants to eat grass all the time. What to do?
Tisha says: My 14 yr. old siamese Taz ate grass too. She generally would eat it right before a change in the climate, like a storm. You could always tell bad weather was on it's way by her grass eatting.
Nancy Forland says: I was hoping you would have some suggestions on specific cat food brands to buy. My cat has scaley skin and is scratching and biting and losing hair, due to stress..New baby in the house...,! Any suggestions???
Suzan says: 8 year old male cat for the past 6 months throws up almost daily (at night). Sometimes a hairball but not often. I have changed food and made the food dish higher so he doesn't eat at ground level. Other cats are fine.
Pat C. says: My cat is 11 years old (approx) - marks all over the house even tho she has lived in same place 5 years. Has frequent diahrrea and even tho she has her ownlitter box, poops where ever she pleases. We have vets, changed her meds, changed her litter, etc. HELP! We're gonna have to replace the carpet when we move, it's so bad. Any suggestions?
M.R. says: Interesting article.
Carl Laviolette says: We have 4 cats. We have 6 litter boxes for them which we clean twice per day and chage the litter frequently. We use very good clumpable litter. Despite all this,Max has started urinating outside the litter box, on the face of doors, even on the face of dressers. We have taken him to the vet and changed foods recommended by the vet all to no avail. We do not want to get rid of him but we can't keep buying new furniture. What can you suggest? CL
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First of all, "dumbing down" is an awfully harsh term here. The for loop and if statement solutions that LanX suggests are functionally equivalent to any other solution that has been proposed, and there is no meaningful performance penalty.
To me "dumbing down" would be avoiding powerful language features (such as regexes) because they are confusing. That would be dumb. But this is nothing more than a benign style preference.
Perl's allowable syntax is so vast that anyone who wants to write sane code will only use a subset of it. Maybe avoiding map and the ternary operator is going too far. But as much as I love map, I have to admit that I am usually using it "because I can" not because it is clearly advantageous in my code. And as much as I love the ternary operator, it has its pitfalls (such as the can-be-used-as-an-lvalue-making-assignments-have-unexpected-behavior pitfall).
Finally, all of your examples are professionals using their jargon with other professionals. Any good doctor will speak quite differently when talking to non-medical staff or a patient. Perl, because of the nature of the language, is often used by Perl "non-professionals"--sysadmins, web designers, and others who only spend a small part of their time writing Perl code. If this is your context, it makes sense to write the code with that in mind. It would be foolish not to.
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A professional sky diver from Elgin who also made her mark as a drag racer died in a sky diving accident Thursday afternoon, relatives said Friday.
LaSalle County authorities are investigating the death of 32-year-old Stephanie Eggum. A preliminary investigation found Eggum cut away her main parachute and then deployed her reserve chute at an altitude too low to allow full deployment, sheriff's police said.
LaSalle County sheriff's deputies and an ambulance were called to a site in Dayton Township, near Ottawa. Officers were directed to a cornfield where they found Eggum, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Eggum took off from Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, her father said. No one answered the phone at the company Friday evening.
Eggum grew up in West Dundee and graduated from Jacobs High School in Algonquin, then attended Sasson Academy in Chicago, relatives said. Her family includes parents Jim and Pam Eggum of Elgin and a younger sister, Diana.
Stephanie Eggum was shy and somewhat of a homebody in high school, but a whole new side of her personality shone through with sky diving and drag racing, her father said.
"When she did what she loved, she was outgoing," he said.
She started sky diving around 2002, then got into drag racing a couple of years later after watching the movie "The Fast and The Furious," her father said.
Precision Turbo and Engine President Harry Hruska, whose Indiana-based company sponsored Stephanie Eggum's racing, remembered her as "an overall amazing woman" in a Facebook post Friday afternoon.
"I feel fortunate that I was able to spend a few quality years with her chasing the dream of a NHRA Sport Compact Hot Rod Championship. Along the way, we learned a lot about each other, taught each other, laughed a lot, and set records that to this day haven't been broken," Hruska wrote.
"Passionate and fearless in everything she did, she was a true pioneer in the sport. She was an inspiration to all, and will not be forgotten."
Stephanie Eggum eventually circled back to her original passion for sky diving, which ended up taking her all over the country and places as far as Switzerland, Jim Eggum said.
She had sky dived more than 1,000 times and was a wind tunnel sky diving instructor, her father said. She had a professional license so she could jump during outdoor events, he said.
She was supposed to go to Denver, Colo., this weekend and to Hawaii in two weeks. "Everything she does, it was for sky diving in one way or the other," her father said.
Stephanie Eggum spent time on the West Coast, coming home every four to six weeks, her father said.
On her visits home, Eggum, a hairdresser, would make appointments with clients at Headquarters Salon & Spa in Elgin. Salon owner Debra Junod knew Eggum since she was a baby.
"She was very serious about her work, and also serious about her play. Work was one way she could be able to afford to play," Junod said. "We kind of enjoyed living through her. She did a lot of living in her short time."
Eggum was in a great mood during a private Pilates class on Wednesday, said Taylor Abitua-Lamanna, her friend and owner of Inner Peace Pilates in West Dundee. The two grew up in the same neighborhood.
She was planning to train to become a Pilates instructor and move out west, Abitua-Lamanna said.
"She lived life to the fullest," she said. "She was a go-getter. Everything that she wanted to do, she went and did it. She was very full of life. She was fearless. She was also very compassionate."
Abitua-Lamanna said she sky dived a few times with Eggum in the last three years. "It was just so cool to see her in her element. She just looked like a rock star," she said.
His daughter died doing what she loved, her father said.
"It doesn't make you feel any better," Jim Eggum said.
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Although I prefer the appearance of the HW100 sporter, I would also go for the HW110.
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The University's crime prevention program is based upon the dual concept of minimizing criminal opportunities whenever possible and encouraging students and employees to take an active role in their own personal security and the security of others.
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The Department of Public Safety has access to local police agencies on an immediate basis to report crime and/or ask for assistance.
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Squats: 106.5kg 3,2,0
Press: 45kg 5,3,3
Deadlift: 113.5kg 1x5
Pullups: 3,3,2
Damn, I don't know what happened to the me that was turning out squat PRs the last couple of weeks. I thought they felt weak today, but one of my gym buddies said he saw a set and they looked strong. Maybe I'm just underestimating myself/bitching out. OHP was better than last time but still not really close. Deadlift felt good. It was really heavy but I powered thru it nicely. Pullups were shit. Might have to start throwing in some negatives or something.
Haha, "bitching out". I know what you mean. Sometimes the only explanation for why I fail a set is that my mind wasn't fully committed to it. Don't let it get you down! You've made such impressive squat gains, I'm sure you'll be able to destroy it next time.
What are you weighing these days? And are your pullups weighted or BW?


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Making Halloween Decorating History
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours painting some paper mache skull masks. In doing so, I've broken a personal record for Halloween prop making.
Which record I've broken is yet to be decided.
It's either: a) The latest I've ever started working on a Halloween party theme, or b) the earliest I've ever started on a Halloween party theme, if these don't get used until next year.
Where on earth did the last two months go?
I think I may have also set a new record for amount of colds caught in a single year.
And I find myself on October 11th with only this to show for my party decorations. This afternoon, in between prepping Thanksgiving dinner for my mother and her household, I sat down to brainstorm a list of prop/decoration ideas that I might be able to complete in two weeks.
I usually start prep in late July/early August. "Behind schedule" for me means "I didn't get started until September and man am I panicking!".
This is two weeks before I would normally host my annual gathering. It's epic.
I still have tomorrow's Bazaar of the Bizarre to vend, and Sunday will be my first completely free day.
I think by midweek I will know whether these skulls will make their debut this year or next.
So start placing your bets.
Will Ghoul Friday create a brand new theme in time for a party, or will she have to pull out decorations and just...you know...decorate. Like normal folk. Like it were Christmas.
Side bets for breakdowns optional.
Ok. I need to tend to some roasted potatoes.
Happy Gobble Gobble Weekend, my Canadian compadres.
I feel your pain
I've been woefully behind schedule this year as well, and I don't even have any real reasons for it. Other than general distraction. Anyway, I'm placing my bet that those masks will be used this year :)
Happy Thanksgiving!
2 Weeks? That's like an eternity. ; ) I'm sure you will pull it together no problem. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
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Alcohol in the Atlantic
David Carey Jr.
Dating from the earliest times in Latin America, alcohol has played a crucial social, economic, political, and cultural role. Often reserved for politico-religious leaders, alcohol was a conduit through which power flowed in many pre-contact indigenous societies; indigenous drinkways (production, commerce, and consumption habits) were associated with communal ritual events and social prestige. Introduced to the Americas by Europeans, distillation profoundly altered the potency of alcoholic drinks for people who were accustomed to fermentation. Even as the social and cultural practices of alcohol consumption changed over time, alcohol continued to have political and economic implications in the colonial and national periods in Latin America. Fearing that inebriation bred disorder and recognizing that moonshining undercut their own revenues, colonial and national governments alike sought to regulate, if not control, the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. In nations as diverse as Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, and Guatemala, indigenous women came to play integral roles in the (oftentimes illicit) sale and production of alcohol. A cash nexus for moving labor and land and a crucial component of the economic system by which (often unscrupulous) labor brokers recruited workers, alcohol was a currency of local economies. As a commodity of local, national, and international significance, alcohol shaped the fate of nation-states.
People's class, ethnic, race, and gender identities all played into their access to alcohol. Although a person's choice of libation could define their position, some of the more fascinating histories of alcohol are punctuated with women and men who used alcohol to disrupt social conventions. Through the consumption of alcohol, rituals and ceremonies created and reconstituted community both within and across ethnic groups. Imbibing could also divide people. Even while they sipped their cognacs and brandies, elites portrayed indigenous people, the poor, and other marginalized people getting drunk on moonshine to discount and denigrate them. Often associated with (particularly violent) crime, alcohol was seen as a vice by many and excoriated during temperance movements. Yet defendants across Latin America took advantage of judicial systems that considered alcohol a mitigating circumstance in many crimes. As 20th-century evangelical sects that preached abstinence as the route to wealth and marital bliss grew to unprecedented numbers, traditional healers and biomedical practitioners continued to tout alcohol's medicinal value. In short, alcohol was a marker of social position and cultural identity, a crucial component in community and state building, and a commodity around which different cultural traditions, healing practices, and policing policies developed and evolved.
Border Wars in South America during the 19th Century
Peter V. N. Henderson
While Europeans basked in the glory of their so-called century of peace between the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815) and the onset of World War I (1914), Latin Americans knew no such luxury. Conflict became a way of life for Latin Americans attempting to construct nation-states. Liberals and Conservatives dueled with one another for political power, while caudillos (military strongmen) added their unique twisted logic to the political process. Historians have spilled considerable ink detailing these internal conflicts that complicated Latin America's struggle for effective state formation in the early national period but have paid much less attention to the external wars over disputed boundaries that involved every South American nation during the 19th century. As historian Robert Burr described it: boundary conflicts were the "congenital international disease of Spain's former colonies."
Caste Wars in Yucatán
Michele McArdle Stephens
The Caste Wars of the Yucatán tore apart the peninsula between 1847 and 1901. While the violence was not constant throughout the more than five decades between the start and conclusion of the war itself, the threat of rebel hostilities was ever present. Scholars have debated the origins of the war for many decades, with most recent academic treatments focusing on heavy tax burdens, poor working conditions for Yucatán's peasantry, and the loss of land that occurred during the second half of the century. Tensions between political leaders exacerbated relations with the Mayas in particular and the peasantry more generally. The emergence of the breakaway state of Chan Santa Cruz, in the southeastern part of Yucatán, allowed rebel forces to coalesce between 1850 and the early 1870s. Here, a "Speaking Cross" oracle gave direction to the rebellious Mayas, who crushed their enemies and exacted revenge against those who would not support their cause. The emergence of Porfirio Díaz as President of Mexico in 1876 led to a gradual "reconquest" of the areas held by the cruzob, or "people of the Cross." By 1901, the Mexican military ended the Caste Wars, though violent episodes still marred Yucatán until the early 1930s.
Chin Chun Chan: The Zarzuela as an Ethnic and Technological Farce
Jacqueline Avila
Chin Chun Chan premiered at the Teatro Principal in Mexico City on April 9, 1904, to an enthusiastic audience. The first Mexican zarzuela written by José F. Elizondo and Rafael Medina with music by Luis G. Jordá initiated a new current in Mexican lyric theater that moved away from the Spanish zarzuelas and the operas popular during the Porfiriato: the teatro de revistas, or revistas. With the subtitle of "A Chinese Conflict in One Act and Three Scenes," Chin Chun Chan is a story about mistaken identity in which a fed-up man attempts to escape his jealous partner by disguising himself as a Chinese dignitary at a grand hotel in Mexico City. Chin Chun Chan was a significant move away from Spanish productions, attempting to create a local entertainment that could be defined as Mexican through popular characters, dialogues, music, and colloquialisms. This formula set the stage for later revistas particularly during the armed struggle of the Revolution (1910–1920). Through a closer examination of the music numbers and the dialogue, Chin Chun Chan offers new readings on the position of ethnicity, nationalism, and sexuality during this contemporary period of political and social instability and initiates an important period in Mexican theatrical history.
Commodities and Consumption in "Golden Age" Argentina
Eduardo Elena
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the global trade in commodities forged new economic interconnections and contributed to the emergence of modern ways of life. As one of the leading exporters of temperate goods such as wool, beef, and wheat, Argentina was at the forefront of these trends, and the country underwent remarkable expansion between 1875 and 1913. Although export goods linked Argentina to consumers in Europe and elsewhere, these vital relationships were often obscured by the malleable nature of commodities, the far-flung scope of overseas trade, and the perceived divergence between rural and urban worlds. Within Argentina, similar dynamics were also at work, but commodities became referents in disputes over economic distribution, social inequality, and national development. The tensions between the export sector and an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society geared toward mass consumption raised questions as to how to manage the nation's wealth—conflicts involving commodities that parallel those of other Latin American societies. By placing the economic history of commodities into conversation with recent research on the social, cultural, and political history of consumption, this article reconsiders Argentina's "Golden Age" of expansion and its aftermath. The connecting and distancing power of commodities reveals how populations in Argentina and abroad experienced modern capitalism, including its signature transformations of the natural world and everyday life.
The Conjunction of the Lettered City and the Lettered Countryside in 19th-Century Mexico
William E. French
A persuasive literature has argued that the course of Latin American history from the arrival of Europeans to the present has been shaped to a large extent by a small but expanding group of literate bureaucrats, church officials, lawyers, and intellectuals, known as letrados, who made their lives in urban centers. Those marked by this combination of power, urban living, and the written word, an assemblage that Angel Rama has dubbed "the lettered city," utilized literature, history, the law, politics, and higher education to imagine the country into existence textually and to justify the hierarchies and inequalities that characterized their rule. Yet in Mexico, as elsewhere in Latin America, writing has a long history in nonelite settings, a venue that, in recognition of this fact, has now been referred to as "the lettered countryside." Moreover, as understandings of a single literacy are giving way to a concern with "literacies," defined in the plural and operating in relationship rather than opposed to such things as orality and visuality, traces of literacy practices are being discovered in many locations. Foregrounding the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside is an attempt to bring these venues into conversation while doing away with the binary that associates literary with the city and orality with the rural.
Over the course of the 19th century in Mexico, although the written word was still pressed into the service of national imagining, a number of other characteristics shaped the conjunction of the lettered city and the lettered countryside. A struggle over secularization was one new development, as authority came increasingly to be invested in the written word itself rather than justified in religious terms. New forms of literacies emerged, especially those associated with the novel and other forms of publications, including newspapers, periodicals for and by women, and the penny press, creating new publics with distinct senses of themselves as communities of readers and listeners; oratory, public discussion of politics and other issues in various venues, and the phenomenon of indirect readers also brought together these two locations. As early as the 1840s, rural residents in some parts of the country had made writing their own, drafting political proclamations in which they defined such things as federalism in their own terms and asserted themselves in national politics. While elite diarists, both men and women, left traces of their emotional lives in various forms of life writing over the course of the entire period, ordinary people, including mine workers, agricultural laborers, and women who carried out household duties, wrote love letters to each other by the last third of the century, if not before. Composed and exchanged by means of cooperation, the use of intermediaries known as evangelistas, or by individuals with various degrees of facility in reading and writing, love letters served as privileged means of communicating the emotions they brought into being while often ending up as evidence in legal proceedings that continued to assert the prerogatives of the lettered city even as it came ever more intimately conjoined with the lettered countryside.
The Creole Circus and Popular Entertainment in 19th Century Argentina and Uruguay
William G. Acree Jr.
Theater in Argentina and Uruguay, which together compose the Plata river region of Latin America, has been a predominant form of entertainment since the 19th century. Theaters abound in Montevideo, while its sister city. Buenos Aires, has its own Broadway in the famed Corrientes Street. In the age of digital culture, the theater remains a mainstay of cultural life for Argentines and Uruguayans. The success of theater and the making of a theatergoing public in the region have their roots first in the variety of entertainment offered by hemispheric travelers to the region from the 1820s through the 1880s and then, most significantly, in shows put on by itinerant circus troupes in the countryside that only later filled urban theaters. From the mid-1880s through 1900 these circus troupes performed plays known as dramas criollos that dealt with rural traditions and explored issues of migration, social stratification, and tensions of economic modernization. These Creole dramas, like the narrative and poetic tales of gaucho heroes that informed them, became wildly successful, attracting spectators in the countryside and city alike, in venues ranging from makeshift tents to the most opulent theaters. They also became the namesake of the circo criollo, which referred as much to types of performers staging the tales as to the circus event where people flocked to see the new main attraction—the dramas. In effect, the Creole drama phenomenon expanded the presence of popular entertainment across the region and consolidated a theatergoing public. It also gave way to a new strand of modern popular culture in which storylines and characters reappeared in other media, and the impact of the Creole drama experience long outlived the spectacle itself.
Economic Integration in 19th- and 20th-Century Central America
Dora María Téllez
Throughout their history, the countries of Central America have attempted several forms of political and economic integration. After declaring independence in the 19th century, the region lacked its earlier cohesion vis-à-vis Spanish colonial governance. The former provinces aligned themselves in favor of either centralizing regional power in a federal republic or establishing complete political autonomy through the formation of new nation-states. Forces in favor of the latter eventually prevailed.
An attempt at economic integration began in the mid-20th century. It was actively backed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and eventually led to the creation of the Central American Common Market (CACM). Despite favorable economic conditions in the Post-World War II period, a number of complications undermined integration efforts: war, political crises, and interests that ran contrary to those of the United States. Integration was postponed until the end of the 1980s, after the Esquipulas II Accord reestablished peace in the region.
After the countries of Central America signed the Guatemala Protocol in 1993, economic integration was promoted under the banner of free trade. This was done by regional economic groups with the goal of reconnecting the region to global commerce under the most advantageous circumstances possible.
The Extraordinary Career of Juana C. Romero, Cacica of Tehuantepec
Francie Chassen-López
In the 1850s, Juana Catarina Romero, known popularly as Juana Cata, peddled her cigarettes on the streets of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, an activity that enabled her to serve as a spy for the liberals under the command of Captain Porfirio Díaz during the War of the Reform (1858–1860). By 1890, Romero (1837–1915) had emerged as an international merchant, sugar cane producer and refiner, philanthropist, and "modernizing" cacica of the city of Tehuantepec. As powerful women rarely receive credit for their achievements, popular myth attributes her success to the men in her life, a supposed youthful love affair with Díaz or a later lover, Colonel Remigio Toledo. In contrast, a study of her career helps to shed light on how women could attain and exercise power in the 19th century and the ways in which they participated in the construction of the nation-state and a capitalist economy. Her trajectory shows that when allied with these forces of modernization, women could take on a more public role in society. It also reveals that it is through the lens of local and regional history that women's contributions and accomplishments, so often erased in national histories, can be made visible.
Free Afro-Brazilians in the 19th Century
Richard Graham
Although the slave trade to Brazil did not end until 1850, and slavery itself lasted until 1888, the practice of freeing slaves had been common from the time of first colonization by the Portuguese in the 16th century, and the children of freed women were born free. The result was that, by the time of a national census in 1872, there were 4.25 million free blacks and mulattos in the country, accounting for over three quarters of all those of African descent and two fifths of Brazil's total population.
To understand the willingness of Brazilian slave owners to free so many one must first consider the general nature of Brazil's social structure and the paradigms that ordered it. For most, society was not thought of as being made up of individuals equally protected in their rights and mobile in relationship to one another, but by castes, ranks, corporations, guilds, and brotherhoods, layered one atop another or arranged side by side. Almost everyone could feel superior to someone else, even if inferior to others. The nuanced distinctions of ranks somewhat restrained the threat to social order that free and freed blacks might otherwise have been thought to pose. "Free-and-equal" was not a phrase heard in Brazil.
There is overwhelming evidence that race was an important variable affecting one's position, and discrimination against blacks was widespread and constant. The government reinforced the prejudices of white Brazilians, acquiesced in maintaining a hierarchy based on color, and presented obstacles to the ambitions of free African Brazilians. Civil service positions were usually denied to them, regardless of their qualifications. Recruitment for the army was focused on the poor, that is, on African Brazilians.
Yet, it is also true that many individuals found their way around those obstacles and rose to positions of some importance, for skin color was just one of the many characteristics to be considered. There are multiple examples of freeborn mulattos (and some freed and freeborn blacks) who succeeded in 19th-century Brazil. Some became doctors, pharmacists, journalists, and teachers. Others entered politics and rose to positions of real power. A few worked energetically to bring about the end of slavery.
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Investigators continued searching for an explanation to the deadly workplace shooting as the manhunt widened beyond Long Island for 64-year-old Sang Ho Kim, who by now, police say, could be anywhere.
"This is an individual who shot two people, he murdered one, and he is considered armed and dangerous and he's still on the loose," said Det. Vinny Garcia, Nassau County Police Department.
The drama unfolded just after the workday began in a light industrial area near the Roosevelt Field Mall.
Police say Kim walked into a light bulb importing business called Save Energy, took out a gun, and opened fire.
He critically wounded the company's CEO John Choi and killed another man. The victim's name has still not been released.
"We have nothing to suggest this individual is on a random shooting rampage. This seems to be motivated by his relationship with this business and with the people that he has attacked," Garcia said.
Kim was last seen driving away in a white Honda Pilot with the New York license plate, FMA-3648.
Hoping he hadn't gone far, police locked down the area and blocked access to or from the nation's 10th biggest shopping mall.
And 15 miles away in Fresh Meadows, Queens, the NYPD descended on Kim's apartment building, but he wasn't there either.
Back in Garden City, Burt Grant was counting his blessings that he wasn't at Save Energy when the gunman burst in.
"My office called me and they were in a panic," Grant said.
He'd been scheduled to meet with the CEO, less than two hours later.
"They knew I was having a meeting at Save Energy, called in a panic, 'Where are you, are you there yet?'" Grant said.
Businessman John Choi is well known to many municipal leaders throughout Long Island.
He's also very active in the Korean community.
Choi, who's from Woodmere, started Save Energy in 2002.
It's a company that specializes in energy reduction technology.
His wife also works there.
A man who is a long time business associate of Choi's asked Eyewitness News not to put his face on camera because he's fearful of the suspect still on the loose.
But, he says he was shocked when he heard what happened to his friend.
"He's a good guy, he somehow knows everybody and everybody likes him, he's a likeable guy and I can't understand what happened," the business associate said.
While police try to figure that out, Choi is struggling to hang on.
He's in critical condition at Nassau University Medical Center.
"It's a very unfortunate event hopefully he'll be OK," the business associate said.
The suspect, Sang Ho Kim, 64, is described as a 6'2" Asian male, wearing a red shirt, grey or brown suit jacket and driving a white Honda Pilot. He is considered to be armed and dangerous.
Earlier Wednesday, the Roosevelt Field Mall and nearby schools were all put on lockdown or lock out mode but those were all lifted after 2 p.m.
Detectives request anyone with information regarding this crime to contact Nassau County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous.


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The Republican Party is running low on public approval. But it's not lacking in advice — much of it unsolicited — on how to bounce back from its federal-shutdown and debt-ceiling fiascoes.
Even President Barack Obama offered this suggestion to his political opposition last Thursday after Congress passed a compromise bill that broke those impasses 16 days after the shutdown began — and mere hours before the deadline to raise the debt limit:
"You don't like a particular policy or a particular president, then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election."
Fair enough. Mr. Obama, after all, has won two presidential elections. And his party has won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections.
But before dismissing the GOP as a spent political force, remember that it regained control of the U.S. House in 2010 and retained it in 2012.
Consider also that while there were only 23 Republican governors when Mr. Obama became president, there are now 30. Another upward GOP trend: When Mr. Obama first took the presidential oath, Democrats controlled 27 state legislatures to only 14 for Republicans. Today Republicans have a 28-17 lead in that grass-roots category.
Of course, those GOP advantages on the state level can't erase the Democrats' continuing control of the White House and Senate. And that Washington numbers game inevitably doomed the Republican House's misguided quest to "defund" the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
No, it wasn't unconstitutional for GOP lawmakers to demand budgetary input.
Yet it was unwise to trigger those futile shutdown and debt-ceiling fights from a position of legislative weakness.
That divisive spectacle, driven by Tea Party excess, also was a distraction from the revealing mess of the Obamacare rollout that began on Oct. 1.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., made that point again Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," offering this blunt post-mortem on his party's latest public-relations blunder:
"It's a wake-up call. Conservatism is an asset to the Republican Party. We're a right of center nation. We're not a right ditch nation. I think we've learned that this was a political gift to the president by the Republican Party at a time he needed it the most. The tactic of defunding the government, unless he repealed his signature issue, was as poorly designed as Obamacare itself — almost."
Yet Sen. Graham was the only South Carolina Republican in Congress to vote for the legislation that stopped the GOP's self-inflicted bleeding. Sen. Tim Scott and all six Republican House members from our state voted against it.
Sure, it's a continuing shame that Congress keeps ducking its duty to make specific budgetary decisions. Instead, it has gotten into the irresponsible habit of simply passing one continuing resolution after another based on previous spending levels.
Meanwhile, the hard calls needed to save Medicare and Social Security keep getting postponed, making those overdue choices increasingly difficult with every passing year.
Entitlement reform, as the defining fiscal challenge of our time, should be the GOP's focus as it looks for a way to climb back up from its dismal poll standing in the wake of the shutdown mess.
While Sen. Graham correctly criticized some fellow Republicans Sunday, he also fairly faulted the president for being "virtually AWOL" and refusing to negotiate spending cuts during the debt-ceiling fight.
And as Sen. Graham put it: "The good news for the Republican Party is that the debacle is over if we don't do it again, and Obamacare is a continuing debacle."
Even better news would be if Republicans — and Democrats — stopped lurching from one fiscal crisis to the next while dodging the tough decisions they were elected to make.


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Follow That Bird
Why does every white basketball player get compared to Larry Legend?
With seconds left and his team down one, Adam Morrison dribbled right, rose up from beyond the three-point line, and banked the ball high off the backboard. Impossibly, the shot fell through without touching rim, giving Gonzaga a dramatic win.
"Larry Bird, baby!" croaked CBS color man Bill Raftery rapturously. "It felt like guarding Larry Bird," agreed Oklahoma State's Marcus Dove.
Morrison leads college basketball in scoring. He's a 6-foot-8 white guy with floppy hair and a crustache. He's got Type 1 diabetes, which is the rough medical equivalent of growing up in French Lick, Ind. And if that weren't enough, the kid hung a Bird poster in his freshman dorm room. Ladies and gentleman, introducing Adam Morrison—your next "next Larry Bird."
With no disrespect to Morrison, the habit of anointing every young white player the second coming of Larry Bird has to stop. It's bad for the Bird wannabes and it's bad for Bird himself.
Want proof that getting compared to Bird is a one-way ticket to the Caucasian basketball graveyard? A list of players who've been identified as Bird-like reads like the roster of a CBA team sponsored by the KKK. There are the Dukies: Danny Ferry, Mike Dunleavy Jr., and Christian Laettner (according to Charles Barkley, "the only thing Christian Laettner has in common with Larry Bird is they both pee standing up"). There are the guys whose main qualification was playing college ball in the Midwest: Troy Murphy and Wally Szczerbiak ("a Larry Bird game, a Tom Cruise smile," one scribe said). There's the inexplicable: Australian Andrew Gaze. And the monstrously, hilariously inexplicable: center Eric Montross, whom Celtics exec M.L. Carr said was cut from the same cloth as the Birdman.
Since he entered the NBA in 1979, Bird has always been seen as the Great White Hope. That's because he's the Only White Hope. After the Celtics knocked the Detroit Pistons out of the 1987 playoffs, Dennis Rodman groused that Bird was "very overrated" and racked up MVPs because all the awards went to the best available paleface. Jack Sikma and Kurt Rambis didn't offer much competition.
"I think Larry is a very, very good basketball player. He's an exceptional talent," added Detroit's Isiah Thomas. "But I have to agree with Rodman. If he were black, he'd be just another good guy."
It's true that if Larry Bird were black, he would be just another player—albeit another really, really great one. According to the Web site Basketball Reference, the list of players whose statistics mirror Bird's most closely includes one German (Dirk Nowitzki) and six African Americans: Kevin Garnett, Antoine Walker, Clyde Drexler, Magic Johnson, Dominique Wilkins, and Julius Erving. Instead of being classified with his true peer group—the Magics and Dr. J's—Bird has become the patron saint of slow-footed white guys like Troy Murphy and Adam Morrison. Such is the burden of the white archetype.
The Bird myth goes that he got no favors from his DNA but scraped by on his wits and work ethic. While he couldn't jump high, it's ludicrous to suggest that a man who continually outclassed the best athletes in the world wasn't blessed with natural athletic ability. I'm sure there are tens of thousands of Indiana farm boys who shot hoops as much as Bird did growing up, and none of them developed his remarkable shooting touch, not to mention his knack for rebounding. Does that come from hard work or innate skill?
The allure of the Bird comparison is that many of the qualities that made him great—his court vision, his anticipation, his leadership—are stereotypes associated with white basketball virtue. Take a look at these tidbits from Morrison's nbadraft.net scouting report: "Old school right down to the stripes on the socks ... Like a coach on the floor ... Great intangibles, competes and inspires others to play hard ... Fundamentally solid, does all the little things to help his team win ... Sees the floor well, and is creative finding teammates for baskets ... Runs decent, but needs a head of steam." Let's run that through the racial translator: "[White] right down to the [white] on the [white] … Like a [white] on the [white] … [White, white] and [white] … [White], and is [white] … [White], but [he's really slow and also he's white]."
As far as we've come in pro sports, we've yet to reach the point where white basketball players can be comfortably compared to their black peers (and vice versa). One problem is that black basketball players don't have many white peers. The pool of modern-day African-American basketball stars is orders of magnitude larger than that of white ones. When it becomes clear that Grant Hill—or Harold "Baby Jordan" Miner, for that matter—isn't the next Michael Jordan, it's easy to ratchet things down a notch or 12. But if a white swingman falls short of Bird territory, revising him down to an appropriate level is almost too cruel. The next Tom Gugliotta? The next Brian Scalabrine?
To be fair to Adam Morrison, he is a better case study than his Caucasian brethren—he consciously modeled himself after Bird, even emulating his patented high-release shot. It's also true that the current player whose skills most align with Bird's is the Mavs' Nowitzki. Europeans like Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic, and Pau Gasol come closer to matching Bird's size and skill than any of the stiff-legged white Americans now plying their trade in the NBA. Still, none of these guys are in the same league with Bird when it comes to passing or toughness—they just make the American guys look even more pitiful by comparison.
The folly of strict racial comparisons is clear when you try to conjure Bird's best historical analogue. The only other scoring big man who could match Larry Legend's rebounding ability, floor-bound approach, and pure mastery of the space around him is Magic Johnson. And he isn't white.
A 1997 Sports Illustrated piece argued that the lack of white stars in the NBA has caused a "white inferiority complex." As a consequence, half-decent players become whites in shining armor. In that SI piece, Keith Van Horn complains that ever since he was in high school he felt the burden of being compared to Bird. Who did he liken himself to? African-American swingman Derrick McKey.
Bird is one guy who never had a white inferiority complex. Actually, he did—he thought every white player was inferior to him. Last year, Bird said in an interview that back in his playing days he "really got irritated when they put a white guy on me." Why did he care if whitey guarded him? "[B]ecause it's disrespect to my game."
The fact that every fair-haired forward gets compared to the Celtics great means that Bird's leaden feet—rather than his scoring, rebounding, or passing—will be his legacy. Now that's disrespectful.


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AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - Jan 3, 2013) - Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: APNT) announced that Solexel (www.solexel.com) presented its world record achievement of 20.62% efficiency from 156 mm x 156 mm full-square solar cell using its low cost ultra thin epitaxial silicon film and porous silicon lift-off technology at PV Asia Pacific (APVIA/PVAP) Expo 2012 in Singapore on October 24, 2012. This record thin-silicon efficiency was achieved by Solexel's unique epitaxial cell architecture and proprietary manufacturing process flow, utilizing Applied Nanotech's proprietary aluminum metallization material.
Solexel's disruptive technology and production process is based on proven semiconductor processes mapped and scaled to solar photovoltaics industry. This disruptive technology combines the deposition of ultra thin epitaxial silicon film on the top of a porous silicon layer. The porous silicon layer created on reusable silicon wafer templates allows a lift-off process and the release of the thin film solar cell from the mono-crystalline silicon. This unique technology is a complete ultra thin-silicon total solution based on an extendable modular technology platform for high performance, low cost, scalable PV products.
The Solexel's solar cell structure is based on its innovative back contact/back-junction cell design and manufacturing process flow, and for the metallization of the contacts necessary for solar cell completion Solexel is utilizing ANI's proprietary aluminum metallization material using Solexel's proprietary manufacturing process.
"We are pleased to work with a partner like Solexel who has the outstanding technology that has the potential to revolutionize the solar industry in the near future. We are continuing to improve our aluminum metallization material and expect to achieve still higher efficiency with Solexel in the future," commented Dr. Zvi Yaniv, CEO of Applied Nanotech, Inc., a subsidiary of APNT.
Applied Nanotech and Sichuan Anxian Yinhe Constructional & Chemical Group Co., Ltd (YHCC) would also like to use this opportunity to announce the opening of YHCC's high volume production plant in YHCC's high tech industrial park in Sichuan Province. This plant is operated by Sichuan Yinhe Starsource Technology Co., Ltd. This plant is dedicated to volume manufacturing of metallic (aluminum and silver) inks and pastes for the solar PV industry under exclusive license from APNT and was designed for a capacity of over 1,000 tons of inks and pastes per year.
"One of our key strategies is to create sustainable revenue sources resulting from commercialization of our technologies through cooperation with leading companies such as Solexel and YHCC in this industry as the market continues to develop," said Doug Baker, CEO of Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
About Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. is a premier research and commercialization organization focused on solving problems at the molecular level. Its team of PhD level scientists and engineers works with companies and other organizations to solve technical impasses and create innovations that will create a competitive advantage. The business model is to license patents and technology to partners that will manufacture and distribute products using the technology. Applied Nanotech has over 300 patents or patents pending. Applied Nanotech's website is http://www.appliednanotech.net.
About Solexel, Inc.
Solexel is an innovative solar PV module manufacturer, based in Milpitas, California. The company is developing thin crystalline silicon solar modules that offer the performance, quality and reliability of the industry's best-performing modules, at significantly lower cost. Solexel's approach is based on a disruptive, IP-protected technology which eliminates dependency on the traditional silicon supply chain, and at the same time, enables unique product performance features. Its high-efficiency, low-cost, high-energy-yield solar modules offer compelling value to multiple market segments, including residential, commercial, and utility-scale power generation. Solexel's website is http://www.solexel.com.
About Sichuan Yinhe Starsource Technology Co., Ltd.
Sichuan Yinhe Starsource Technology Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Sichuan Anxian Yinhe Constructional & Chemical Group Co., Ltd. It focuses on electronic paste in the photovoltaic industry. Based on the production of the metal paste for crystalline silicon solar cells, the company is mainly engaged in the manufacturing of the front and back silver paste and aluminum paste used for solar cells. In February 2011, YHCC and ANHI formed the industrial and R & D alliance, which laid the foundation of Starsource Technology. Starsource's website is http://www.starsource.com.cn.
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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- The Pace University baseball team broke open a tight game in the latter stages, scoring twice in the sixth and four times in the seventh, as the Setters topped the Mercy Mavericks 8-1 in a nonconference contest.
The Setters got on the board in the second inning when, with one out, senior James Pjura singled through the right side. Senior Chris Gili followed with a walk. Two batters later, sophomore Frank Mayo looped a single in back of first base to plate both runners and put Pace up 2-0.
The game remained steady until the sixth when senior Ian Wukitsch led off with a walk. Two batters later, Gili delivered a bunt single up the first base line. After a fly-out, Mayo singled through the middle to plate Wukitsch, pushing the lead to 3-0. Junior Brett Bittiger was then hit by a pitch to load the bases before sophomore Andrew Coffey drew a walk to force in Gili to make it 4-0.
After the Mavericks tallied a run in the top of the seventh, the Setters took advantage of two Mercy errors in the bottom of the frame to score four runs and seal the victory.
Sophomore Mike Sweeney started and threw four shutout innings, allowed two hits and struck out two. Junior Samuel Gaitan earned his first Pace win, tossed a shutout inning and struck out two.
Pace will play Le Moyne on the road for a Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division series starting with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 12, at noon.
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Carly Rae Jepsen has laughed off suggestions she tried to hide her age to break into the youth-oriented pop industry.
The Canadian star shot to fame in 2012 with her breakthrough single Call Me Maybe, but fans were stunned to learn she is actually almost 10 years older than her mentor, Justin Bieber.
She was accused of wearing playful outfits to appear younger than she is, but Jepsen insists she has never lied about being in her 20s.
She tells Cosmopolitan magazine, "If people think I look younger, then that's great; I'm stoked. But I turned 27 in November, and when I look in the mirror, I see all of the years attached to that face, and I'm content with me...
"I love being classy and as elegant as possible in my apartment. But when I'm onstage, I can't dance in four-inch heels, so I'll generally sport flats. I'm 5ft 2 (inches), so yeah, I'm going to look a little bit more playful. But I don't think that means I'm trying for an age younger than I am."


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Daniel Craig & Rooney Mara: New 'Dragon Tattoo' Trailer!
Check out the extended trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo featuring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara!
The nearly 4-minute long clip also features co-stars Robin Wright and Christopher Plummer in the flick, which hits theaters this December.
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Rooney chatted with EW last month about her last meeting with director David Fincher after two-plus months of auditioning.
"At that point I was just super frustrated. I was like, 'You have to decide. Either you think I'm the girl or you don't. There's not much more I can do to prove it to you.' I went in there sort of ready to fight," she explained.
"I was pissed. But David sat me down and gave me this long speech about the part. Then he handed me his iPad, and it had the press release on it," she added. "He said, 'I'm prepared to send this out. You have half an hour to let me know if you want the part.'"
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For the first time I understand why zucchinis are the butt of a gardener's jokes. When I left town for my brother's wedding in July, the zucchini plants were a spindly, weak vine with dozens of tender blossoms. Two weeks later I returned home to find it had turned into a savage beast that took over precious real estate in the garden. My neighbor had kindly taken care of my urban farm while I was away and now my kitchen counter was also filled with zucchinis. The excitement of seeing the fruits of my labor laying there ripe and ready to eat, quickly turned to shock and concern. These squash left me wondering what had occupied this patch of land before I moved in. Perhaps a nuclear plant or maybe this fertile land had been the site of an ancient cow pasture. I have never seen a vegetable, organic mind you, which grew to this size. It was larger than my children at birth; actually neither of the boys was this big until they were walking. I opened the refrigerator and she had stuffed more in there. I panicked and did what every zucchini grower does; I tried to give them away. My neighbor explained that she had already taken all that she wanted for herself and I was not welcome near her home with even a single baby squash.
That is when I realized I had to disguise the vegetable and get rid of it in the form of tasty baked goods. This chocolate zucchini cake was inspired by one I ate while in college in Burlington, Vermont. I worked as a photo assistant, after classes at UVM and before my shifts at Ben & Jerry's. One day we were shooting a spread for a magazine about using up the plethora of zucchinis from your garden. (The foreshadowing is not lost on me today.) A chocolate cake sat on pedestal and became the centerpiece of the shot. After our work was done we ate the spread of food and that cake blew my mind. Not in a million years would you guess there was zucchini in it, and the result was moist, sweet, but not overly so, and intensely chocolate. I was a starving student and the generous baker wrapped the rest of the cake up for me to take back to my dorm, along with the recipe. During one of my several moves that recipe was lost and this is the closest I have come to recreating it from distant memories.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake:
2 cups (10 oz) unbleached all-purpose flour, scoop and sweep
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup brown sugar, well packed
¾ cup sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup plain yogurt
2 cups grated unpeeled zucchini, tightly packed
4 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled to room temperature
Confectioners' sugar for the top of the cake
To prepare the cake:
Preheat oven to 350° F
Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt Pan, set aside.
Cut the tops and bottoms of the zucchini off, and then cut into quarters. Remove the seeds if they are large and at all tough. This was only necessary for the child-sized squash, when I picked them early and they were a reasonable size I didn't have to remove the seeds.
Use a Box Grater or the grater attachment for a Food Processor.
Sift together the flour, soda, salt and cocoa powder, set aside.
In a stand mixer cream together the butter, brown sugar and sugar using the paddle attachment, until it is light and fluffy. Slowly add the oil, until it is evenly distributed. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Beat in the vanilla extract.
Add the dry ingredients alternately with the yogurt in 3 additions each.
Remove from the mixer and stir in the grated zucchini until it is evenly distributed.
Stir in the melted and cooled chocolate.
Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake in the middle of the oven for about one hour or until a tester comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan until nearly room temperature, you should be able to comfortably handle it.
Dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with fresh whipped cream or ice cream. This cake is even better the next day for breakfast.
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It wasn't so long ago that long-term care operators looked at HUD funding with a disdain bordering on contempt. But the Department of Housing and Urban Development has come a long way in a short time. By staying in the game, offering good rates and speeding up its approval pipeline, this public option has quietly gained a newfound respectability.


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Program Planning Committee
The Program Planning Committee (PPC) is an Academic Senate committee that reports to the Curriculum and Research Committee of the Academic Senate. The composition of the committee includes: two faculty members from each college, two faculty or staff at large, a graduate and an undergraduate student, the Director of Assessment, the AVPs of UGS, GS&R, and IEA, and the Provost. The list of current members can be found on the Senate website.
The PPC performs a campus peer review of the program plan and associated documentation for all programs at SJSU after the department and dean have responded to the external review. The PPC is responsible for drafting Letters to the Provost, which summarize key points in the program plan and associated documentation, as well as the committee review and recommendations. Other roles of the PPC include the following:
- Acts as liaisons between the colleges and the PPC in communicating requirements of program planning, as well as feedback and concerns of the deans and departments.
- Recommends to the Curriculum and Research Committee proposed changes in the policy and guidelines and other matters relating to program planning and review.
Program Records- Assessment and Program Planning documents
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Google Earth has always been impressive. The amount of time and resources it takes to create an accurate, interactive map of the globe is far beyond the grasp of most companies. But Google has taken the challenge head-on. With the new 3D maps Google has revealed at their maps event today, they'll be taking that challenge to the next level.
Created by using entirely automated technology, Google's new 3D maps are breathtaking. By using a fleet of planes, Google has been able to capture aerial images at a 45-degree angle, from several different angles, autonomously lacing them together to paint an accurate 3D model of the world around you.
While it wasn't revealed exactly when Google's new 3D mapping technology would be made available to the public, it should be coming soon. Whether or not 3D mapping will come to Google maps, and not just Google Earth, is still unclear. From what we've gathered, it will be available in Google Earth only, at least initially. Whenever Google Earth with enhanced 3D drops, look for it on both Android and iOS.
What do you think of Google's new 3D maps? Just a gimmick, hardly worth its own press event, or will it change the way we interact with maps from this point forward?