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The parents yell at their child, "As long as you live under my roof you have to respect me". During another argument someone says, "I did all these things for you and this is how you show your love and appreciation?" But what is the real issue here???
Nothing is sacred, so we might as well get our sharpest knife and cut right to the bone… Let's make no assumptions and see where we are with this "love and respect" issue. We (believe) do so much for our loved ones or friends and get nothing in return. We feel frustrated and unappreciated.
Parents demand their children to love and respect them, because they raised them, fed them and so on, while they are forgetting that they got the same from their parents and their parents from their parents. So at the end of the day they whole world is here because of someone else's mercy, love or whatever… Everyone here is already a recipient, recognise it or not, this is a fact. The least you got is the gift of life. Now take a deep breath and dive even further.
Friends expect other friends to do as they like, to be there for them. Is it really friendship if you only ever meet to go shopping together? I suggest it maybe just a different form or intensity of friendship. Just like love, friendship takes many forms and has many levels of intensity. One can love humanity or all sentient beings, but one's love intensifies for beings "closer" to one's heart. It is perhaps beyond explanation as there is no distance to really measure in relation to being closer to one's heart, it is the limitation of any spoken language.
I will throw in the idea of setting "our" loved ones free and letting them come to us when they feel like it and only if they feel like it. Not demanding love and respect, because of our actions. And those who think they are giving so much and not getting enough in return, I will lighten your burden of expectation. Just give, without being attached to the outcome. Expect nothing and you will not be disappointed. While this may sound shallow at first, it is as wise as it gets. If you give because "I can" or "why not?" you will have a different perspective.
One terrible example of "giving" is the government of the USA. They are giving money, food, weapons etc to certain poor and less "developed" countries, but they always have conditions. If you only help when certain conditions are met, aka "your demands", that is not real help, that is a business transaction and you are buying something. It's time for us to re-evaluate our relationship and breath new life into them.
It really is a circle or a chain of never-ending mutual giving and receiving without expectation. This is a beautiful cosmic machine oiled by unconditional love and screwed up by expectation which is like sand in this magnificent machine. I'd rather be the machinist then the person who sprinkles dirt into it disguised as "care".
I am shedding illusions every day and I am amazed how easily they creep back in a different form, in disguise. It really is an exercise at first to keep your heart-eye open. The Little Prince got it right "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye". It is not easy at first and while you do it you will realise it gets easier.
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Right, parents? Also, let me brag for her: my daughter got every answer correct on her multiplication test today!!!! Now: should I let her have a cookie BEFORE dinner? I never do and I know that consistency is important. Yet I LIVE/LOVE to give her treats and this seems worthy of one, imo. Help? Love you.

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It's basically SAW: Beauty Edition.
It's not like I've been hiding my nerdery. So, really, it was only a matter of time before two of my favorite things collided. That's right -- manicures and fandom. Because when geeks paint their nails, things HAPPEN.
Actually, what fascinates me about this merging of fan expression and nail art is that a lot of nail artists don't identify as geeks. They just… happen to like painting their nails like Star Wars.
A conversation on Twitter left me with the term fannicures to describe the effort that people sometimes make to display the things they love on their fingertips. From "The Hunger Games" to "The Avengers," people who paint their nails are also expressing how into things they can be.
To boldly polish
I love this so much, y'all. It's a great injustice that I absolutely suck at nail art. If I didn't, I think my nails would always be a signpost to whatever has captured my enthusiasm at the moment.
I'm particularly interested that fannicures don't actually seem to count as fan works. A fan work is a work created by a fan -- isn't that simple and circular? Fan works include fic and vids and fan art. Filk -- rewriting the lyrics of popular songs to be about a fannish thing -- is also pretty cool. But AO3 doesn't seem to be capturing fannicures in its archives. I don't know if that's because the people doing fannicures don't identify as fans or if it's because fannicures are so ephemeral.
One manicure to rule them all.
Most manicures don't last more than a week or so. A specialty manicure, with hand-painted details, might take several hours to perfect. It's a whole lot of effort and most of the payoff is in personal satisfaction. Though, for people posting their nails on the Internet, there's a fair amount of cheerleading going on from the audience.
Pretty much anything can be the subject of a fannicure. The Star Trek and Lord of the Rings manicures don't surprise me -- because Star Trek and LotR fans are hardcore. The other day, at work, we decorated a friend's cubicle in LotR and Hello Kitty mashup style. I'm serious when I say that LotR fans can put Golem just about anywhere.
Meme as nail art - what's not to love?
What's more surprising is stuff like the Paint All the Nails manicure -- that's based on an Internet meme based on a blog entry with an accompanying web comic. (A totally amazing web comic, by the way, if you aren't familiar.) It's absolutely a web geek reference that is hopefully funny even if you don't immediately place the reference.
Nail bloggers even participate in themed challenges. Everything is up for grabs as a topic, including Disney villains and different techniques.
Can you name all the villains?
It's kind of easy to dismiss these challenges as people having too much time on their hands. After all, "it's just nail polish" -- but I think that's the kind of gross dismissiveness that's always applied to fun activities dominated by women. Yeah, polishing our nails is not going to lead to world peace. But neither are a whole lot of other things we think of as worthwhile activities. Nail polish, especially nail art of this degree, is fleeting and sometimes really quite amazing.
I couldn't keep looking at fannicures without trying one myself. I am not being falsely modest -- I really do suck at actual nail art. But I was determined. I was dedicated. I was also persuasive.
That's right, I enlisted Ed's help.
Scrappy little droids make for awesome manicures.
I haven't been to see a movie in the theater since May of 2009. I went to see the reboot Star Trek movie and, yes, actually, I did tear up when the score swelled and the logo flashed on screen. I'm bad at going to the movies because I'm not very good at sitting still. Also, I have issues with modern Hollywood's effect on narrative structure but that's a whole other subject.
But I'm going to the movies in June. I'm going because Ridley Scott has made a new movie, a conceptual prequeal to the Alien franchise. It's called Prometheus and you can hear my squealing from space every time I watch the preview.
They went looking for our beginning. What they found could be our end.
While reports indicate Scott is retiring his iconic Alien model (we've all seen it, the theory goes, so it isn't scary anymore -- I beg to differ), previews showcase the traditional and unmistakable H.R. Giger design. There's going to be something terrifying in this movie and I cannot wait to see it.
And in honor of that sense of anticipation, I barraged Ed with links to the Alien Queen. He freehanded this little alien for me, on a background of silver. Look at her precious little teeth!
It's not much, but it's what I've got -- a burning love of the psychological horror of aliens laying their eggs in our chests and bursting free. Well, that and a lot of nail polish.


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Just before we reached the EU cookie law 'deadline' on May 26, the ICO issued updated guidance for compliance, which expanded on the notion of implied consent.
This was met with anger by some who saw this as a last minute changing of the goalposts, so I caught up with the ICO's Dave Evans to ask about this.
He also talks about how the Information Commissioner will judge the 'success' of its implementation of the EU e-Privacy directive and why sites should be open with users.
What has changed in the updated guidance released at the end of May?
We always said the guidance wasn't a tablet of stone, and the 2011 version was never intended to be the final word. This iteration, which will not be the last, expanded on the implied consent section. It has always been a valid form of consent.
A year ago, people were talking about it as if implied consent meant not doing anything. It doesn't mean this, but it can be a valid way to comply.
There are things you can do to ensure that you are gaining valid consent. For example, if sites make it clear that they are using cookies, and continued use of the site means that you are accepting this, then this is a valid approach.
It doesn't have to intrude on the user experience, and a lot of sites I have seen are getting the message across without putting obstacles in front of users.
There was much anger from websites and developers at the perceived moving of the goalposts with this updated guidance. How do you respond to that?
We haven't changed the rules, it's the same as it was 12 months ago. All we have done is to give a bit more detail within the guidance. I think a lot of people have assumed that you must get opt-in consent by the guideline or the ICO will come and get you, but this is not our approach.
Does this mean implied consent is now acceptable for all types of cookies?
If sites are doing something different from the norm with cookies, perhaps using consumer data in a way that some would worry about, then maybe warnings need to be clearer.
As far as I can tell, very few e-commerce sites have done much about this. John Lewis and others have made cookie policies more prominent and linked to detail on cookies - is this enough in your view?
I think in many cases, this is the first stage of a longer-term plan for compliance, and not the end of the road.
Also, many smaller retailers may rely on the work that the bigger, more visible e-commerce sites are doing to educate customers about cookies.
These smaller businesses could take a softer line as the education work has already been done i.e. as users are used to the fact that sites like the BBC and John Lewis set cookies, they expect it from every site.
Should they list cookies in detail?
This depends. The main point to get across is why cookies are being used, for analytics or whatever, I think most web users just want to be reassured that nothing untoward is going on. This is more important than listing the different types of cookies in detail.
I think many web users haven't a clue about what cookies sites use, and many are simply not interested.
If the aim of the e-Privacy Directive and its implementation in the UK is to raise awareness of privacy issues surrounding the use of data by websites, how will you judge whether or not this has been successful?
We'll be looking at the feedback and complaints we receive from web users, for example, if there are any particular issues in individual sectors that raise cause for concern. This feedback will tell us how serious an issue this is for web users. If there are relatively small numbers of people complaining, there may be no need for further action.
However, if there are concerns about organisations which have taken a softer approach, then we would expect the, to go further. The proof of the pudding will be how consumers continue to use websites. If they see cookie information, know where to find it if the need it, and carry on using sites as normal, then there ,may be no issue.
If there is no compulsion to comply, and websites can simply wait for letter/consumer complaints before they have to take action, why should they bother to comply?
If you think you have to do something, why not take this action and make it fit in with your plans rather than wait for the ICO to tell you?
Waiting for that letter from the ICO is not a good idea. The solution we agree with you may not be as good as one you could have volunteered yourself. Also, the more people get used to seeing information about privacy and cookies on the sites they visit, the more it becomes easier to spot the websites that have done nothing.
Customers may wonder: what are they not telling me? Do they have something to hide?
I think there are benefits to being open with consumers, and they are more likely to trust sites that take this approach. The directive does present a challenge for online business, but it's also an opportunity to be more upfront with users.
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What a joke.
This has to be the most misguided attempt at controlling the internet ever.
The most distressing part is that 99.99% of all websites use cookies to provide their users with a better experience. Whether this is showing them relevant ads and products or using analytics to identify problem areas of the site and create a better customer experience.
Aside from that, the ICO doesn't have the resources needed to police all of the UK's sites. In my mind, it's best to sit back and wait for a letter. A letter that won't show because any decent e-commerce site already lays out to customers how cookies are used and how their data is protected.
We've worked with lots of our clients on their cookie policy messaging. While I appreciate that as Dave says, this issue of implied consent vs informed consent hasn't, from his point of view, changed, it's not hard to see why some people reacted with anger to the latest update.
The guidance from Dec 2011 is a 27-page document, which repeats phrases like "must obtain their consent", "valid, well-informed consent" and "informed choice" throughout. To my mind, implied consent is not informed, and what would have been helpful is a more succinct explanation of consent and how you can gauge whether or not you've got it.
The best message to take from this is that educating web users in standard web practices and operating with transparent processes around function and data collection will only lead to a better web experience.
Speaking to your users with transparency and clarity should be the norm, not the exception. Perhaps this is something the ICO may wish to consider for the future?
The ICO seems to be trying to cover up a multitude of poor communications in recent months. And the ICO still doesn't get it... the Web, the digital industry etc, when they wander about the media and any outlet that will allow them to speak threatening everyone.
At one point, government sites' non-compliance was considered ok while commercial sites were still being threatened. I'm not sure that is still the case isn't it?
So that's one law for the bullying legislators, and another for those creating wealth for this country. Important to stand up to this legislative bullying.
It is not the mark of civilised government to threaten law-abiding citizens with legal action, penalties, huge fines etc (presumably imprisonment too). This type of law-making comes across as dictatorial and also paranoid.
Digital practitioners and the world of commerce do not need a government quango to tell them, like children, to do what they're told.
The core message the ICO, and the Law, should focus on is that - from a customer and company / organisation perspective - abusing customers' data and privacy is the issue, not the humble innocent cookies used daily across the Web which, let's be honest, just ensure website visitors have a decent experience.
There is, it seems, an issue about best reassuring website visitors so they better trust a company's / organisation's online operations - but that applies offline too.
Digital and traditional business / organisation leaders and their teams need to work to develop more trust. Business can grow through trust.
What a complete and utter waste of time for companies and web developers.
The legislation has always been so unclear and open to interpretation that surely that any case of ICO actually trying to fine a company £500,000 just would not stand up in court.
It's not about moving the goalposts. The problem is that nobody has really known where the goalposts were in the first place!
The ICO was on BBC this morning. Did anyone hear him? Should be in the Today programme recording here (although it's not online yet as i type; imagine it's being prepared) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_radio_four/20120608
This reasonable language from the ICO would be fine if it wasn't so far opposite from everything they said in the run-up to the deadline.
There have been quite a few strands to this issue. A major one is the cost and sheer hassle to business and other organisations implementing this law in these very difficult and hard economic times.
Commercial enterprises are working to generate wealth and pay themselves - as well as pay taxes.
And then along comes this extra burden, being driven by politics in some way.
The EU and the Government really need to look at their processes; why harm business at this time? Are consumers being greatly harmed at present?
Another key issue at this time is why was there no attempt to allow the digital industry to self-regulate? Just come along, bang out a law, then threaten everyone everywhere with legal action. Charming.
To adapt Winston Churchill: "Never has so much been written about something so little of relatively little interest to so many."
(Or so we thought... until now.)
Good article, thanks. I have developed a few websites and am considering the best approach to obtaining 'implied consent' from my visitors.
I only use user value enhancing cookies like Analytics, but is it really necessary to have a pop-up window at all (either just mentioning the fact that cookies are being used, or with an opt-in/out button), when the majority of sites merely expanding their cookie info pages?
If not, then the concern for web developers is whether another amendment will come in soon stating that all websites must have a pop-up of some kind. It's hard to know whether to say to clients they should have a pop-up now and charge them accordingly, or just create a new cookie page and hope that will be sufficient for the future.
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Two new therapies made by Sanofi and Novo Nordisk to compete in crowded diabetes market
The FDA approved two new diabetes drugs, Sanofi's Soliqua and Novo Nordisk's Xultophy, that are expected to compete in an already crowded insulin market.
The therapies for type 2 diabetes are both combinations of a long-acting insulin and a GLP-1 medicine. Soliqua is a combination of Sanofi's blockbuster insulin Lantus and GLP-1 Lyxumia; Xultophy is a combination of Novo's insulin Tresiba and GLP-1 Victoza.
Both drugs are considered improvements over current injectable drugs for patients with type 2 diabetes, but the market's appetite for Xultophy and Soliqua remains to be seen given the "intensely competitive landscape" for diabetes care, Leerink analyst Seamus Fernandez wrote in an investor note Tuesday.
See also: Diabetes marketers turn to big data, gaming to improve outcomes
Fernandez said he believes endocrinologists will view Soliqua as a superior product for treating type 2 diabetes compared to Xultophy, likely owing to Lantus' legacy. Lantus is the current market leader in terms of basal insulins, generating $4.2 billion in U.S. sales alone in 2015. He also noted that Victoza is a crucial drug for Novo Nordisk's short-term growth and that may affect the company's ability to sell Xultophy at a competitive price. Sanofi's Lyxumia, on the other hand, "generates next to no revenue currently," he wrote, which gives the French drugmaker more flexibility in how it prices Soliqua.
It's unclear what subset of diabetes patients these drugs would best serve, according to experts. Michael Kuhn, VP of market access at GfK Health, said that there may be a place for them in the market among certain overweight patients. Dr. Leon Henderson, a senior principal for inThought Research, believes they may represent a option for patients at risk of kidney problems.
See also: Following positive outcomes data, a new diabetes class is on the rise
These approvals come at a time when makers of diabetes products are under increased scrutiny from payers and lawmakers to address how insulin is priced and how their therapies can compete against emerging biosimilars.
Novo Nordisk cut its expected profit growth for 2017 from 10% to 5% in October, citing a "challenging pricing situation" for basal insulins like Tresiba and said it would cut 1,000 jobs as a result. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tweeted on November 1 that "people are dying or getting sicker because they can't afford their insulin, just so Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk can make outrageous profits."
See also: Ogilvy's Michael Johnston on Using the Familiar in Diabetes Ads
In September, UnitedHealthcare removed Sanofi's Lantus from its 2017 drug formulary and replaced it with Basaglar, Eli Lilly's Lantus biosimilar. CVS Health also removed Lantus from its 2017 national formulary in favor of Basaglar.
Novo Nordisk plans to launch Xultophy in the U.S. in the first half of 2017. The drug was approved in Europe in 2014. Sanofi said Soliqua will be available in January.


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -Dray Joseph threw for 162 yards and a touchdown and Southern scored 21 fourth-quarter points for a 37-27 victory against Delaware State on Sunday in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge at the Florida Citrus Bowl.
The victory gave Southern coach Stump Mitchell a successful debut as Jaguars coach and the Southwestern Athletic Conference its second victory in the series with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Southern registered the other victory with a 2007 win over Florida A&M.
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The only pause of Gus Malzahn's press conference on Friday spoke volumes.
Much like his hurry-up, no-huddle offense, Malzahn breezed through every question of his media briefing following Auburn's first practice of the fall. That is, until he was asked how well the four quarterbacks battling for the starting position fared on Friday.
Malzahn paused for six seconds before he finally responded.
"There were a few mishaps," he said, "but that's to be expected."
The reps were divvied up "pretty equal," with Kiehl Frazier and Jonathan Wallace taking the snaps in the first portion of the practice. In doing so, Malzahn wanted newcomers Nick Marshall and Jeremy Johnson to "sit back and watch and see how everything went."
They got their turn soon enough, however.
"The second part, the two new guys got all the reps in the rotation," Malzahn said. "So I'd say overall, it was very equal between the four of them all day."
Making sure every member of the quartet receives approximately the same number of snaps is quite a challenge, Malzahn said, but he's comfortable with the strategy the coaching staff designed.
"There's a lot that has to do with our offense (that involves) communication from the sideline before the play starts," he said. (So) it's good for them to get the reps."
The Tigers divided the whole of their first fall practice much the same way they allocated quarterback reps, breaking it into two parts. In the first half, the team's experienced players took precedence, as coaches wanted them "to show the younger guys the pace, the expectations."
At the halfway point, the team slowed its pace to allow the coaching staff to spend more time with younger players at every position.
"It just felt like we needed to do that, and we'll do the same thing tomorrow," Malzahn said. "Then we'll see where we're at."
All in all, Malzahn believed it was a successful first day of fall camp. He wasn't surprised by anything that occurred - and that's exactly how Malzahn wanted it.
"It was hot out there outside early, (so) it was good to be out in the heat to see how they reacted," he said. "I really expected them to be ready to practice and for the most part, they were."
McNeal sits out practice, Parks dismissed
Safety Demetruce McNeal, the team's top returning tackler, was at practice Friday but did not participate. Malzahn said the reason for the senior's absence could be blamed on an undisclosed illness.
Auburn's coach downplayed the severity of it, though.
"He's got a medical issue he's working through," Malzahn said. "It shouldn't be much longer and we really expect him to make a full recovery."
While McNeal will return at some point in the near future, Malzahn announced that another player is no longer a member of the Tigers. Tight end/H-back Ricky Parks was dismissed for what Malzahn called "a violation of team rules."
"It's like I've said before – we have high expectations for our players on and off the field," he said. "We wish (Parks) nothing but the best.
Another Tuberville on the Plains
Malzahn was pleased to have walk-on quarterback Tucker Tuberville make his Auburn debut Friday after redshirting at Texas Tech last season. He's the son of former Auburn head coach Tommy Tuberville, who led the Tigers from 1998-2008.
"He wants to be a coach. He's a coach's son," Malzahn said. "Great kid and loves Auburn. We're glad to have him back."


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Movie bosses behind the latest Batman film The Dark Knight Rises have donated thousands of dollars to replant trees in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after the original greenery was chopped down to make way for the shoot.
The latest installment of the Caped Crusader franchise, starring Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway, has taken over huge areas of the city for high-octane action sequences and car chases.
The tree-lined streets didn't fit in with director Christopher Nolan's wintery vision for the film, and studio bosses chopped down the oaks, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - but they're planning to replant once the shoot is over.
Location manager Ilt Jones tells the newspaper, "We're committed to putting back everything as we found it in Pittsburgh, if not better. We hope to remove all traces of fake snow, and we're replacing far more trees than we removed, in conjunction with the appropriate city agencies."
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This was on 14 November 2012, the first Weird Wool Wednesday post ever!
Are you judging me?
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Can't knit. Have to get up and gather tangles yarns first.
By the way, this is how I'm solving the lack of length in the mitten:
Adding extra diamonds and bringing back the colours from the cuff, which I love.
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Anti-African pogrom in Israel? What anti-African pogrom? To my knowledge, the only Australian ms media reference to Tel Aviv's anti-African refugee pogrom of May 23 came on SBS' World News program.
Briefly, after attending a rally in south Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighbourhood addressed by Likud MKs, one of whom described Israel's African refugees as a 'cancer in our society', a Jewish mob went on the rampage, smashing shop and car windows, and beating up any Africans they could find.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier set the scene by referring, at a cabinet meeting, to the refugees as "illegal infiltrators flooding the country," and adding that, "[i]f we don't stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state." (Israel PM: illegal African immigrants threaten identity of Jewish state, Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, 20/5/12)
After viewing some of the video footage of the pogrom, I couldn't help but notice that the most frequent insult on the lips of the mob was the word kushi, generally translated from the Hebrew as 'nigger'. Written, web-based accounts, corroborate this:
"I went to a demonstration led by MK Michael Ben-Ari 2 days ago... and was joined by my girlfriend, Galina. Ben-Ari, a Kahanist, was inciting the crowd against the African refugees in a distinctly anti-Semitic manner, peppering his talk with incessant references to excrement and urine. At some point, Galina couldn't take it any longer, and shouted something back. Within minutes we were surrounded by an angry mob of about 20 people, composed mostly of women, who hurled curses at her. Someone pulled out a tear gas canister and waved it at her face. Racist and sexual slurs filled the air repeatedly. Time and time again, people expressed the wish she would be raped by Sudanese, and asked her if she was bedding them. A boy, between 10 and 11 years old, screamed at her point blank that what she needs is a 'nigger's cock'..." (Thoughts on an attack by a Jewish mob, Yossi Gurvitz, 972mag.com, 24/5/12)
Gurvitz reflects on the experience:
"And after the shock and fear, an attempt at understanding what took place. The legend that African refugees turned the paradise that was south Tel Aviv into a terrorized crime zone has to be rejected... Statistics proved time and time again the crime wave exists mostly in the minds of the politicians stoking the hatred, of which Ben-Ari is an ambitious competitor. I lived in Hatikva for 2 years; I've seen the people, the despair, the fear at nights, the absence of infrastructure, the flooding every winter when the sewage system collapsed - with my own eyes. Spare me the bullshit about a quiet neighborhood of happy poor workers. First there's the economic hardship, which prevents people from getting an education and getting the hell out of there. Above it, we find Jewish supemacism, the concept of a Chosen People, 'every Jew is the son of a King'. Proud Jews are often people whose Jewishness is the only thing they can be proud of. The blow I received came after I was asked if I am a Jew, and replied in the negative." (ibid)
The 'n' word is apparently in such frequent use that it (and worse) has even been internalised by the refugees themselves:
"I accompanied a group of asylum-seeking children to their homes tonight, as we also do on the days of protests with potential racist developments. As usual we got barraged with swearwords, but policemen advised us about safer routes. The kids sang along the way: 'I'm a nigger, I'm a nigger, nigger, and I clean Israeli homes'. ('What, you don't know it, Rami? Look it up on Youtube'.) Two 12-year-old girls asked me if I know that pretty soon the Sudanese will suffer the same fate as Jews did in Germany. One asked the other to tell her about that man, Korczak, who saved children. They asked if he was Jewish and if he would have saved all the children. One girl asked me: 'What's the opposite of free?' I had trouble finding the word: imprisoned? shackled? She said: 'OK, whatever it is, say shackled, we were born shackled and we'll die shackled'. The girls asked me why the Israelis want to deport them. I asked them: If the streets in your country would suddenly fill up with white people that speak a different language you don't understand, what would you feel? One girl said: 'I'd become a teacher and teach them my language!' Toward the end two 12-year-old girls asked me: 'Say, Rami, if you were in our place, what would you have done?'" (African kids in Tel Aviv: They'll do to us what they did to Jews in Germany, Dimi Reider, 972mag.com, 23/5/12)
Another Israeli, Uri Horesh, explains:
"When I was growing up, kushi was a perfectly neutral term for 'black person', more like 'negro' in the 1960s than 'nigger' ever was. However, nowadays, since more Hebrew speakers in Israel actually know black people, and there are indeed black people living in Israel who speak Hebrew (including migrant African laborers, but of course, Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia), the connotations of kushi have shifted towards the negative - perhaps not to the degree of the taboo that is associated with 'nigger' in the American context, but it is gradually moving in that direction." (Kushi didn't always mean 'nigger', tlvphl.blogspot.com.au, 23/5/12)
One might assume from the testimony above that the kind of anti-black/white supremacist racism, which finds vivid expression in the use of the word 'nigger' on the streets of south Tel Aviv today, is a relatively recent development in Zionist history. Not so, apparently. Given that political Zionism is primarily a European settler-colonial power-trip, it should come as no surprise to find that earlier generations of Zionists were far from immune to an obsession with European 'whiteness'.
Here, for example, British Jew and Zionist, Redcliffe Salaman, Regimental Medical Officer to the 39th Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Judean Battalion, writes of the arrival in Cairo on July 13, 1918 of the Jewish Battalions' latest batch of volunteers from Palestine's pre-World War I Jewish colonies. Salaman refers to them as "the Palestinians":
"The moment they rolled into the station I spotted a nigger amongst them, and before the train stopped I cleared that question up - his mother was a negress, his father a Sephardi (these Sephardim are a fearfully mixed lot; give me Ashkenazim for blue blood!). Then the types varied from blue-eyed handsome pseudo-Gentiles to dark, purely semitic Yemenites - and scattered between were a dozen, perhaps, of semi-negroid but often very handsome Moroccan Jews." (Palestine Reclaimed: Letters from a Jewish Officer in Palestine, 1920, pp 24-25)
Salaman adds, some pages later, that:
"The Yemenites are for the most part undersized and rather poor-spirited natives. They are not racially Jews. They are black, long-headed, hybrid Arabs. Last Saturday I worked with J. M. in the library and we got hold of every authority we could, and, from the historical evidence, it is at once clear that they have but a trace of Jewish blood in them though they probably have rather more than the Falashas. The real Jew is the European Ashkenazi, and I back him against all-comers." (ibid, p 28)
The irony of the Hatikva pogrom is that many of the participants may well have been the descendants of the very Yemeni Jews that Salaman scorned as insufficiently white to be really Jewish.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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...not a bad comparison. Hopefully, McDonagh plays a little tougher than Staal.
Clark also says that during his time at the combine, McDonagh's been the single most impressive guy ever.
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Beantech BT84 Emerald Dream Acrylic Case ReviewBosco -
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The case comes with:
Right side
The system wires are nicely bundled and wrapped in a semi-transparent plastic coil wrap. The wires to the front ports are metallic cables, very sharp looking. The case sides remove via 4 corner screws, which I thought was going to be a pain but in reality, only takes a few seconds longer than removing (for example) 2 rear screws and sliding off a side panel. All external drive bay covers also are screwed in, 1 screw in each side, making for easy reconfiguration of the case if you need to move drives around.
Underneath, a very nice touch - pre-mounted rubber feet. Much better than a) having to mount them yourself, b) only having 2 feet and 2 'bumps' like some cases I have seen and c) hard plastic feet. These tend to grip whatever surface they are on and the case won't move around at the slightest nudge.
Front detail
Here's a (not too fuzzy) detail shot of the front, focussing on the buttons & case lights. The area around the buttons is nicely bevelled, giving a little extra clearance in case of fat fingers. The red buttons looked good to me, red being the spectrum opposite of green they contrasted nicely with the acrylic - it's a matter of personal taste more than anything. The HD and power LED's are the standard green and orange and would be easy to replace should you desire. The front ports for USB & Firewire are at the very bottom of the case, right where they belong. At first I thought maybe they could have included some sort of door for them - but with a clear case, what would be the point?
Interior detail
The only real problem I had during assembly was with the rear of the case. The I/O panel consists of small openings that are partially pre-cut and need to be pushed out. The PCI card openings were no problem but naturally, I forgot to push out the smaller openings for the onboard LAN and sound wiring. You can see them just to the left of the "Ti4200 8X" lettering on the video card box I used for background contrast. This meant removing the motherboard in order to push the small pieces of plastic out. I also had a problem with the card screw-down for the video card. Beantech pre-install brass threadings but they tend to spin under any amount of torque and I never was able to properly secure the video card screw. Lastly, I would have liked to have seen more than 6 pre-installed motherboard standoffs. None of these are critical issues in my book just annoyances.
My last gripe, another fairly mild one. Everything fit nicely, the drives, power supply, everything that was supposed to have holes precision spaced did EXCEPT the hard drive. As you can see (squint and imagine?), there's only one screw installed on each side of the hard drive, and it tends to tilt slightly with pressure from the IDE cable. Again, certainly not critical, the hard drive is still reasonably well secured but it would have been nice to have the proper spacing to put 2 screws per side. You can't move the hard drive any further toward the front of the case UNLESS you want to remove a drive bay cover, as the sides of the bay covers intrude into the case where they screw in.
Other than the few minor items mentioned above, I really liked this case and wish I could have kept it. I had never seen an acrylic case in person until this one, now I can see why there is a decent market for them. It looks great. This particular model overall was roomy and easy to work with. I was a little concerned about cracking something overtightening things but was careful and used gentle torque and never had any problems. It's substantially lighter than a steel case too, and with the way it's packaged, I wouldn't be scared to repackage it and travel with it, for example to a LAN party. Recommended.


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So we thought it may be a good idea to interview some of our most active funders on StartMe and ask why they do or do not contribute to projects on our platform. The answers was shed some real light on the issue of funding goals, rewards, presentation of projects and a few other issues.
In the end we convinced 7 serial funders to give us the low down on their decision process. The answers varied quite a bit as you can imagine but there were a few very interesting common ideas.
These are some representative answers that some of the interviewees gave:
1) Don't ask for too much, tell us what you need the money for
The number one reason I'd say projects fail is that they ask for too much money. I know product design and manufacturing doesn't come cheap but if you have a small little item you want to produce that will have a final price of maybe R2000 or less, don't be surprised when you have trouble raising many tens of thousands of Rands for it.
Whatever you need in terms of money, be sure to explain in as much detail possible how the money will be used and what it will be used for. Sometimes I've seen too-high R projects get more funding when the creators came back to explain how much equipment was really necessary and what the going rates were.
This applies equally to products as it does to things like film or music production. If you asked a random person on the street if R5,000 was enough to record and produce an album in this day and age, I think you'd get agreement. If you said you needed R100,000 to make a record, I think most people would say that is too much. I've seen a lot of film projects ask for upwards of R300,000 for paying a team of editors, but very few of those projects get funded and I think that's because people are used to seeing smaller films done in something like Final Cut or even iMovie and would prefer to see them done for much cheaper.
2) Project need to be creative and unique:
There just seems to be too may generic projects. People on the site really seems to think that us visitors have money to give to anyone. Consulting firms, web developers, magazines, you name it I've seen it. If you want your project funded you better be unique. Look at the Trevz Eco friendly watch project, or the wind turbine project, these are unique ideas that we can excited about. Something I'm proud to put my name next to. A great idea is unique, it addresses a need that nothing else does, and it helps if it does so in a clever way. Now that can be a new iphone app, a great new SA band or whatever else, but it helps if it adds to the world as being a new form of creativity.
3) Why does no one tell us who is in their team. Do people really expect me to contribute to someone who I can't see and don't know who it is at all. Tell me who you are. Why do they not use the My Team section at the bottom of project to tell us more about the team behind the idea. I want to know who I'm supporting.
4) Structure your rewards carefully
Why do project not think about their rewards a bit more? I've seen quite a few of these projects, so lest for instance they have a great idea for a cool thing that I want to help fund (mostly because I want one of the things they will produce), and they are asking for a significant amount of money, but their rewards are structured in such a way that you get one of the things they are producing for a small amount of money.
So imagine you were making a thing and you needed R150,000 for it, but if you gave just R20, you got one of the things. You could offer more copies for R100,R250, and R1000 contributions, but imagine that a normal person only has use for one of these things. Chances are, you're going to have trouble finding 1,500 people on the internet that want your thing in the month or so you run your StartMe campaign. If instead you were giving away the thing at R300, you'd need just 500 people to get you to your goal.
5) So many project get posted and then just raise nothing at all. It seems to me that those projects which does get funded and certainly the ones I always contribute to are the projects that have a chance of making it. I have not posted a project yet as I'm still trying to come up with the right idea but if I was going to post a project I will make sure that a get a few people to contribute t it just to show everyone that, hey this project is going somewhere, lets also support it.
I'd say if you had a project fail on StartMe, the best thing you can do is to try and cut your costs and scope of the project accordingly, and re-launch it. I've seen several projects fail at R100,000+ and come back in a slightly more limited form for less than R50,000 and get funded fully.
Personally I'll far rather post a smaller project of say R30 000 and get it fully funded and come again with the second part of the project. Much rather this than not get funded at all.
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One couple is slandered by a busybody neighbor.
Hey. What happens between consenting adults behind closed doors is fine with you. You're not uptight! You did some crazy things in college, and you're no square! Still, there are some things you just don't want to see. Like swingers.
For the most part, people are pretty okay at minding their own business. But sometimes, there are things that—while we may be cool with them in theory—we don't exactly appreciate them when they're occurring in our own neighborhood. A case in point: according to the Norwalk Reflector, a woman in Wayne Campbell's hometown of Aurora, Illinois thought there was something a little jinky about her neighbors. And by "jinky," we mean that she thought her neighbors were involved in the world of swinging. The Suburban Swingers Club
She was so convinced that this couple was into some sort of sex swapping that she allegedly sent seemingly anonymous emails to neighbors and staff members warning them about their neighbors' proclivities. Evidently, that sort of thing is frowned upon in the Land Of Lincoln.
A judge, likely a fair man, awarded the impugned couple $54,000 for slander which, per Wikipedia, is the median income in Illinois. Generally, I'm against lawsuits in all but the most extreme cases, but as for this couple, well, I'm picturing her being played by Maggie Gyllenhaal and he by Patrick Wilson, with their children facing a stigmatized environment both professionally and socially. In fact, the Patrick Wilson parent in this case claims to have lost all of his computer consulting business over the flap.
What would you do if you thought your neighbors were swingers? (I know what I'd do, and it involves a bottle of champagne and massage oil.) Any tell-tale signs that your neighbors are into the lifestyle? Slander away!


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Doug Paisley
|Doug Paisley
Paisley performing at the 2011 Hillside Festival
|Background information
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|Folk, country
|No Quarter Records
|Associated acts
|Dark Hand and Lamplight, Garth Hudson, Russian Literature, Stanley Brothers: A Loving Tribute, Live Country Music
Doug Paisley is a Canadian alternative country singer and songwriter with record label No Quarter Records.[1] He was born in Toronto.[2] Paisley's "What About Us?" was featured in Mojo magazine as part of a complimentary CD entitled New Harvest.[3] Paisley has previously toured with Bonnie Prince Billy under the name Dark Hand and Lamplight with artist Shary Boyle. Boyle would illuminate her art in the background while Paisley played the guitar and sang his songs. The pairing received recognition when they were selected to showcase at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2008.[4] Doug performed for ten years alongside Chuck Erlichman as a duo entitled Russian Literature and as a tribute act entitled Stanley Brothers.[2]
Paisley's 2010 release Constant Companion receives positive reviews in major publications such as The New Yorker and Spin.[5][6]
Paisley has been featured both on CBC Radio in Canada and on National Public Radio in the United States.
His 2014 album Strong Feelings featured guest appearances by Mary Margaret O'Hara and Garth Hudson. It received positive reviews from Rolling Stone[7] and Pitchfork.[8]
- Doug Paisley (No Quarter 2008)[9]
- Digging in the Ground (EP, Download)
- Constant Companion (No Quarter 2010)
- No One But You / If I Wanted To (Heavenly, UK 7″ 45 RPM 2011)
- Golden Embers (EP, No Quarter 2012)
- Strong Feelings (No Quarter 2014)[10]
- Until I Find You (EP, No Quarter 2014)
- ^ Young, Andy (13 February 2009). "Doug Paisley: The End Of Solitude". npr.org. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- ^ a b William Ruhlmann: "Doug Paisley" at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- ^ "Covers Archive". Mojo. August 2009. Archived from the original on 2 July 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- ^ "Doug Paisley". noquarter.net. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 August 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- ^ Frere-Jones, Sasha (11 October 2010). "Gentle on His Mind". The New Yorker: 14.
- ^ Menconi, David. "Constant Companion". Spin. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ Will, Hermes. "Strong Feelings". Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone.
- ^ Steven, Hyden. "Doug Paisley: Strong Feelings". Pitchfork. Pitchfork.
- ^ "Doug Paisley". Allmusic. 2008. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
- ^ DeRiso, Nick. "Doug Paisley featuring the Band's Garth Hudson – Strong Feelings (2014)". Something Else!. Retrieved 17 January 2014.


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This article is part of our Organic Pest Control Series, which includes articles on attracting beneficial insects, controlling specific garden pests, and using organic pesticides.
Wherever you find grass, you will also find grasshoppers, and a few of the hundreds of grasshopper species found in North America can be major garden pests. Cool, rainy summers cause many grasshoppers to fall prey to disease, while hot, dry weather can lead to major grasshopper headaches.
Grasshoppers weaken plants by removing plant tissue, and they are especially damaging to lettuce, beans, corn, carrots, onions and cabbage family crops grown for fall harvest. Organic controls for grasshoppers include excluding them with row cover or screen barriers, controlled poultry predation, and inoculation of the soil with microorganisms that kill young grasshoppers. Grasshoppers are found throughout the world, and are most problematic in areas where wild grasses dry up in summer, causing the hoppers to move to lush, moist gardens.
Ancient insects that have inhabited Earth for more than two million years, plagues of grasshoppers have been responsible for many famines. More typically, grasshoppers fly into gardens in late summer and chew up plant leaves.
Ragged holes in leaves, especially those near the tops of the plants, are often the work of grasshoppers. In severe situations, masses of grasshoppers can appear suddenly in late summer and devastate gardens.
Most grasshoppers overwinter as eggs laid by females in late summer and early fall, though a few species survive winter as young nymphs. Baby grasshoppers hatch in spring and early summer from eggs hidden just beneath the soil's surface. Young grasshoppers hide out in sheltered spots that are dense with vegetation. Only older, mature grasshoppers can both jump and fly, which they will do in order to find new food sources.
Depending on species and weather conditions, a female grasshopper can lay up to 2,500 eggs before she dies at the end of the summer. Most of these are placed in dry, grassy areas outside the garden where the soil has not been disturbed.
Insect-eating birds are major grasshopper predators, especially in early summer when they must gather high-protein food for their young. While young grasshoppers are feeding in sheltered areas, many are eaten by spiders, ground beetles, frogs and other predators. Wet weather favors the development of several strange grasshopper diseases caused by fungi or other microorganisms.
Many bug-eating birds like to hunt by watching for movement from a perch, so studding your garden with trellises, posts and other upright structures can help birds feed more efficiently.
The surest way to protect plants from hungry grasshoppers is to cover them with a barrier, such as a floating row cover or lightweight cloth. Be sure to hold the covers above plants with hoops or stakes, because grasshoppers are more likely to eat their way inside if leaves are pushing against the fabric. In west Texas and other areas where grasshoppers are especially bad, some gardeners make cones from aluminum screening to keep their plants safe from 'hoppers.
Chickens, ducks, guineas and other fowl eagerly snap up grasshoppers, but they can also damage garden plants. Ideally, you might let grassy pathways in your garden grow up a bit, and then move in a group of birds in a moveable pen. Several readers have reported that turkeys are excellent grasshopper eaters, and they don't scratch around as much as chickens do, so they do less damage in the garden as they forage.
In some areas of the West and Midwest, grasshoppers are so damaging that biological warfare is worthwhile. A naturally occurring fungus, Nosema locustae, weakens and kills grasshoppers when they eat it. Sold as Nolo Bait and Semaspore, this method can help you reduce grasshopper populations at your place over time, making them much easier to manage. Earthworms and most beneficial insects are not harmed by Nosema locustae, but it is damaging to crickets and mantids (both are closely related to grasshoppers). Crickets are major consumers of weed seeds and mantids eat other bugs, so there is a bit of a trade-off here. But for gardeners who can't walk through their gardens without being socked in the head by a flying grasshopper, Nosema locustae baits are a good choice.
Grasshoppers would rather live in a tall stand of grass and weeds than in your garden, so you may want to let a hedge of tall grass grow up near your garden's edge in late summer. If you keep your garden weeded, grasshoppers will naturally gravitate toward the grassy patch.
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Waco, Texas. El Salvador. Haiti. Liberia.
Waco, Texas. El Salvador. Haiti. Liberia.
We help people solve their own problems.
We help people solve their own problems.
Proclamation of the Lordship of Christ and social involvement are inseparable.
They are more than parallel goals, rather integral parts of the same message.
Social action without the empowerment and guidance of the Holy Spirit is unsustainable and/or self-serving.
Economic development without Kingdom values leads to capitalist greed.
A call to Christ that doesn't include a call to service misrepresents Jesus's fundamental message of Agape love.
Good works are not bait to lure people into hearing a message of salvation.
We serve others, empowered by the spirit of Christ, so that they too might be empowered to serve others.
Our role is to help people solve their own problems:
By teaching a process oflearning, not a set oftechnologies.
By connecting communities with resources they would not otherwise have access to.
By building the capacity of local organizations and partners rather than establishing our own projects.
Local solutions and global action are both critical elements in bringing justice to the poor.
Empowerment of individuals and local communities is the most fundamental way of transforming unjust economic and political structures.
Without a supportive national political and economic infrastructure, farmer knowledge and/or innovative technologies will often lead to frustration.
Unjust global political and economic structures limit the social and economic well-being of the poor, and must be addressed by Christians working for Kingdom change.
Partnership Established 2009
Partnership Established 2009
The Valle Nuevo community has collaborated with Shalom Mission Communities (SMC) since 1992, when David Jansen participated in an international team observing the disarmament process. With their encouragement, WHRI began working with the community in 2009.
At the request of the Valle Nuevo Directiva, we have focused on income-generating activities that will help support and attract their youth, many of whom have or will be completing university degrees. Initially, this has involved vegetable production and marketing, and over time we hope to help the community produce and process other high-value crops. A Salvadoran NGO, the Asociación Desarrollo Económica y Sociál (ADES), has partnered with us in these and other efforts.
We have been honored to welcome national award-winning documentary photographer, Mark Menjivar, as a partner in this effort as well. On February 18, 2011, Carlos Colón conducted his requiem, Lamentations of Rufina Amaya, and Mark Menjivar premiered his photographic documentary Retorno, in an event that benefitted World Hunger Relief, Inc. and the community of Valle Nuevo in their work of restoration. Mark's photo documentary is available to churches and other groups who wish to hold educational or fundraising events. Proceeds will support development efforts in Valle Nuevo.
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Partnership Established 1980
Partnership Established 1980
The Ferrier area lies on the northeastern plain of Haiti, between a mountain range to the south and the Caribbean coast to the north. The region is semi-arid, but receives enough rainfall for excellent production of crops with modest moisture needs such as cassava, sorghum, cowpea, and pigeon pea. Several thousand hectares are also flood irrigated for rice production. In addition to crops, cattle, goat and pig husbandry have been, and continue to be, an important part of the local farm economy.
Several Baptist, Pentecostal, and other protestant denominations are active as well as the Catholic church. Most of these denominations appear to coexist relatively peacefully. World Hunger Relief Haiti tries to work with all these groups without discrimination. The current Board of Directors includes both Protestants and Catholics, and reflects our belief that the Kingdom belongs to all who claim Christ.
World Hunger Relief, Inc. first began working in northeastern Haiti in 1980. During that decade, a training center was constructed where dozens of interns from Haiti and other countries have trained. In addition, WHRI dug and maintained dozens of wells for drinking water, enabled the establishment of an orphanage now managed by Hope For The Hungry, and managed a large agro-forestry project in cooperation with a UFIMA, a local farmer's cooperative.
World Hunger Relief—Haiti S.A. was incorporated in Haiti in June, 1990. The organization is entirely Haitian-run, though they do receive financial support and advice from WHRI. They have continued the well drilling ministry, and hold periodic training courses for adults. In 1996 they began construction of a primary school, the College de L'Avenir de Ferrier, which provides practical agricultural training in addition to traditional subjects. In 2008 the school had nearly 300 students in preschool-9th grade. Building construction is an ongoing need and has been supported by WHRI, Mission Waco, and other sources.
In 2008, a participatory community appraisal revealed an interest in renewed agricultural activities. Since this time, WHRI has become increasingly involved in assisting rice producers in the Ferrier area. We are excited about the potential for these activities to provide food and income not just Ferrier, but throughout northern Haiti.
After a visit in February 2009, WHRI staff and interns identified two priorities to address local farmers' concerns regarding the high cost of inputs for rice production. First, the introduction of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)—a management approach that reduces purchased inputs by optimizing transplantation and water management. This system originated in Madagascar, has spread through much of Asia and parts of Africa, but has never been tried in Haiti. We were fortunate to partner with the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) and Jim Carey's Better U Foundation to organize one of Haiti's first SRI workshops. WHRI Haiti president, Jackson Nelson, hosted the workshop for over twenty Ferrier farmers.
A second priority identified was ox traction to reduce the cost of tillage. Many Ferrier farmers have to pay Dominican farmers to use tractors to plow their fields. This is costly and impacts their ability to plant on time, because the Dominican farmers have to finish plowing their own fields before bringing their equipment across the border. To address the need for ox traction, WHRI and WHR-Haiti have added another Haitian partner: Group of Research and Action for Economic and Social Development (G.R.A.D.E.S.). G.R.A.D.E.S. is made up of Haitian agricultural professionals who, among other skills, have developed a training program for farmers interested in using oxen to work in their fields. They have partnered with WHRI and WHR-Haiti to help local farmers purchase oxen, then provide training to how to use oxen for cultivation. SRI support is provided by the Ag Development Foundation and ox traction support by the Vista Hermosa Foundation.
In addition to these on-going activities, WHRI supports agriculture education in two schools located in Ferrier, the aforementioned College de L'Avenir de Ferrier (CAF) as well as Ecole Technique Agricole de Ferrier (ETAF). We financially support two CAF agriculture teachers, Francois Geffrard and Cleanne Nelson. ETAF, established in 2011, currently trains twenty-five students with a broad academic curriculum as well as practical training in vegetable production, tree nursery management and rice production. ETAF is supported by sales of products from these student-managed enterprises, tuition from students, and modest funding from WHRI.
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Ricks Institute was founded in 1887 and had developed a reputation as one of the country's most prominent preparatory schools. Agriculture was a central component of the school with rubber and oil palm plantations on its 1,000-acre grounds. But that was before Liberia's two civil wars, from 1989 to 1997 and 1999 to 2003. The wars ravaged the school as active fighting took place on the campus, and rebels looted and vandalized the buildings, leaving the classrooms and dorms broken and charred. These rooms then became a refuge and shelter for over 30,000 people.
While the scars of the wars are still visible on some of the school buildings, a new story is forming at Ricks. On the wall in the auditorium foyer there is a quote from Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, Liberia's current president, which summarized this new story so well:
"We are committed, as a people, to build a new Liberia from the ashes of an old turbulent and tragic past to a future of hope and promise."
Neil Miller made an initial visit to Ricks Institute in 2012 to explore the potential for this partnership. Since that initial visit, WHRI has had 3 interns participate in our international service learning internship with Ricks as well as Job Carpenter, a biology teacher from Ricks, participate in our 13-month internship in Waco.
Job completed his internship at World Hunger Relief in August of 2013 and returned to Liberia. He accepted the new position of director of Ricks Institute's Agriculture Program and began incorporating many of the practices he'd learned at World Hunger Relief.
The Agriculture Program at Ricks is now using organic farming practices, abandoning the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and using soil conservation practices. They also started keeping records, writing down planting dates and harvest yields, tracking livestock births and sale weights.
As the Agriculture Program at Ricks Institute continues to grow, it not only increases the amount of food it provides to the school and its local communities, it also creates opportunities and jobs for people in the local communities. World Hunger Relief will continue to support these new stories of hope and faith through our exchanges and technical advice.
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Does your pet suffer from the 'Summer Itch'?
What is Allergic Dermatitis?
Allergic Dermatitis in dogs and cats is a very common, yet often a misunderstood disease. It has been well recognised for a long time and is sometimes referred to as 'summer itch', 'summer eczema', 'hot spots', or 'red itch'.
As the name implies, it is a skin condition resulting from an allergy. However, most of the damage seen on the skin is often NOT associated with the original cause but with the damage your pet does to itself through biting or scratching. It is very important then that both the cause and the irritation are relieved. It is true, most dogs that are susceptible to skin allergies will have repeated problems over a period of years, but only if the original cause is left untreated.
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You may be asked by your vet care team about your pet's flea control, diet, where they pet sleeps, what is your pet washed in, or any recent changes in your pet's routine. Previous treatment is usually discussed as this often yields information also. There may be more than one cause of the skin problem, so it is important to be as thorough as possible and take note of any changes in your pet's environment.
Some of the more common reasons for allergic dermatitis are fleas, types of food, washing products, bedding materials, household floor coverings, pollens and other airborne particles, or even the type of grass your pet rolls on!
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In my last column I introduced the SpamAssassin e-mail filtering tool. This intelligent spam detector employs a large number of techniques to accurately identify and tag unsolicited bulk e-mail (spam). This time around, we will examine some of the techniques you can use to fine tune SpamAssassin to the e-mail you receive to better improve its classification results.
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If you have a collection of spam residing in a dedicated spam folder, you can use it to help SpamAssassin identify the spam you receive. The program employs an artificial intelligence classification technique called Naive Bayes to divide e-mail into spam and non-spam. Naive Bayes requires a training stage before it can be effective in filtering, and the wider the selection of data you use for training, the greater the algorithm's accuracy.
The "sa-learn" command is used to train SpamAssassin. To use it you will need to know the path of your spam mailbox, which is likely stored somewhere in your home directory. For users of Ximian Evolution the path is ~/evolution/local/
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Note, it may take several minutes to execute this command if you have supplied sa-learn with a large mailbox. You can also train SpamAssassin to recognise non-spam (ham) e-mail by changing the "-spam" switch to "-ham". Run the above command replacing the path to your spam mailbox with each of your other non-spam mailboxes to train SpamAssassin to recognise the e-mail you consider non-spam.
Adjusting the threshold
By default, SpamAssassin uses a threshold of 5.0 to decide if an e-mail is spam. This threshold is a good starting point, but if — like me — you get a lot of spam, you might find that some messages manage to slip through with a score marginally below 5.0. It is possible to adjust the SpamAssassin threshold to better classify the e-mail you receive. You probably will not need to adjust the threshold a lot in order to greatly improve the classification accuracy of SpamAssassin. The important thing to remember is to set a low threshold, as SpamAssassin could start to wrongly classify real e-mails as spam (otherwise known as false positives).
To adjust the SpamAssassin threshold, open the file ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs in your text editor. If this file does not exist, you can create it by copying the file /usr/share/spamassassin/user_prefs.template to the above path. This file contains the configuration information for SpamAssassin.
If it is not already uncommented, uncomment the line containing "required_hits" by removing the "#" from the beginning. The number after "required_hits" is used to set the threshold. Experiment with different scores here to improve SpamAssassin's spam detection. If you find some e-mails are slipping through into your inbox, scan them again with SpamAssassin by saving a copy of the e-mail to disk and typing the following command in a shell:
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How do you climb a mountain of stacked railway ties? This 1937 photograph by Fox for the Daily Herald was taken in the Great Western Railway sleeper creosoting works in Hayes, Middlesex, England ("railway sleeper" is what railroad ties are called in the rest of the world; creosote is a chemical used to preserve the wood).
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When Burger King in China created their new "PooPoo Smoothie" they were certainly banking on a lot more than the name. Thankfully, after several people have tried the very uniquely-named beverage, they claimed that they're not as bad as the name sounds.
The flavor of the beverage is actually mango, hence the yellowish color, with lychee flavored bubbles at the bottom. The drink also comes with a shot of vanilla (thank god it's not chocolate) ice cream on top.
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BEWARE: lethally seductive alpha male of immense strength, do not look at him. Do not touch him. Do not be tempted. Do not be seduced.
With his long, black hair and dark, mesmerizing eyes, Adam Black is Trouble with a capital T. Immortal, arrogant, and intensely sensual, he is the consummate seducer, free to roam across time and continents in pursuit of his insatiable desires. That is, until a curse strips him of his immortality and makes him invisible, a cruel fate for so irresistible a man. With his very life at stake, Adam's only hope for survival is in the hands of the one woman who can actually see him.
Enter law student Gabrielle O'Callaghan, who is cursed with the ability to see both worlds: Mortal and Faery. From the moment she lays eyes on this stunning male, Gabby is certain of one thing: He could be her undoing. Thus begins a long, dangerous seduction. Because despite his powerful strength and unquenchable hungers, Adam refuses to take a woman by force. Instead, he will tease his way into Gabby's bed and make her want him just as he wants her.
Now, no matter how hard Gabby tries to avoid him, Adam is everywhere, invisible to all but her--perched atop her office cubicle in too-tight jeans, whispering softly from behind the stacks of the law library, stealing her breath away with his knowing smile...all the while tempting her with the promise of unimaginable pleasure in his arms. But soon danger will intrude on this sensual dance. For as Adam's quest to regain his immortality plunges them into a world of timeless magic and the deadly politics of the Faery queen's court, the price of surrender could be their very lives. Unless they can thwart the conspiracy that threatens both mortal and Faery realms...and give them a shot at a destiny few mortals ever know: glorious, wondrous, endless love.
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More than 10,000 moon jellies came ashore Saturday morning. Marine biologists with the park service say it likely happened because of a large ocean swell, combined with a surge in the jellyfish population.
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