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At the beginning of chapter thirty-one, Wussy, Sam, and Ned are in Sam's convertible driving to the Big Bend Hunting Lodge. When they walk into the lodge, both the bartender and a woman sitting on the bar are topless. Sam tells Ned this is a late graduation present. Ned comes to later in bed with a woman named Marion. Actually, Marion isn't her name. She is from Marion, Illinois. On their way back to Mohawk in the convertible, Ned realizes that sometime during the night he was separated from his duffel bag. Sam and Ned break into the Night Owl to retrieve his duffel bag behind the bar. When they exit, they run into Andy Winkler, the smallest cop Ned has ever seen—and thankfully a friend of Sam's. Andy lets them off the hook, and then Sam drives them...
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We're Bringing BBQ Back!
Our loyal fans send us delicious and creative product requests on a daily basis, be it through Facebook, our website, blogs, online forums or at gluten free events. While we love hearing all of your great ideas, what we love more is being able to fulfill such wishes. It was very exciting, therefore, to officially announce the launch of our Hamburger and Hotdog buns and new Ancient Grain Breads at Natural Products Expo West.
For too long, eating gluten free has meant eating BBQ free. Grilling on hot summer nights just isn't the same when you can't enjoy a juicy cheeseburger or a perfectly charred hotdog in a bun. And, with BBQ season just around the corner, we weren't about to let our great fans suffer through one more disappointing BBQ. Relive your favorite childhood summer memories with the Classic Hamburger and Hotdog Buns, or try the Whole Grain Hamburger Bun for an extra kick of nutrition. Soft, savory and durable, all three buns are the perfect accompaniment to whatever you're cooking on the grill.
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Biopuncture – Mesotherapy
Biopuncture Alternative Healing Cure
Do you suffer from chronic pain or inflammation? Are you troubled by persistent eczema, allergies, hay fever, or bronchitis? Do you have an auto-immune condition such as Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Vasculitis or Hashimoto's Thyroidits? If your answer to any of these is "yes", you may want to consider Biopuncture.
Alternative ways to treat pain. Simple, safe and cheap.
Biopuncture can cure everything from chronic pain to allergies. This natural, safe, and effective treatment often brings relief to patients who have tried conventional treatments without success, are concerned about side effects from prescription medications, or wish to avoid more aggressive treatments.
Using injections of plant based remedies to treat pain, biopuncture treatment combines homeopathic remedies with the principles of acupuncture.
What is injected?
The two most commonly injected products are ultra-low doses (ULDs or "micro-doses") of mainly medicinal plant and mineral-based products and/or glucose. The plant and mineral derived formulas were introduced in Germany in the 1930s. Currently, more than 100 million injectable vials are used per year throughout Europe, and in the United States.
Glucose has been injected primarily by United States physicians for over 50 years for both its pain-relieving and inflammatory-regulating effect. Traumeel® is also thought to inhibit the release of pain- and inflammation-causing chemicals from nerves. Injections given just under the skin and into the muscle affect the peripheral nervous system, which is in charge of tissue repair and degeneration.
What are the most common micro-dose formulas used in the US?
The most common products used in sports medicine and pain practices are Traumeel®. Lymphomyosot®, Spascupreel® and Zeel®. Traumeel® is used to reduce pain and swelling. Lymphomyosot is used for lymphatic drainage. Zeel® is used for arthritis. Spascupreel® is used for muscle spasm. Each of these formulas contains a combination of botanical and mineral ingredients, i.e. Traumeel ® has arnica montana to reduce swelling, comfrey to decrease joint pain, chamomile and St. John's Wort to reduce pain, and calendula (marigold) and echinacea to stimulate the immune system. The product which is best researched and most widely used in oral, topical and injectable forms is Traumeel®. (Ed. note: The author has no financial relationship with Traumeel®; however, much of the published research focuses on this product.)
What Is Biopuncture?
Biopuncture is a therapy whereby specific body locations are injected with biologically active substances which are physiologically regulating. These substances are used to treat pain, swelling, inflammation and toxin accumulation, among other problems. Most injections cause only minor discomfort because they are very shallow, given just under the skin or into the muscle.
What kinds of products are injected?
Products commonly used in Biopuncture are, for example arnica, Echinacea, and chamomile. Arnica is used for muscle pain and Echinacea is used to boost your body's immune system. Biopuncturists usually inject a mixture of natural products. Traumeel for example is used for inflammation in the setting of sports injuries and inflammation. Zeel is used for chronic joint pain. Spascupreel is used for muscle spasms/cramps. Lymphomyosot is utilized for lymphatic drainage in chronically swollen or congested tissues. These products are combined with a local anesthetic medicine like lidocaine.
Are products safe for me?
The solutions are not in high concentration. They contain diluted products. Therefore, toxic side effects are very unlikely. The medications used in Biopuncture are manufactured by companies that guarantee the production quality of their products. Most of the solutions are made in Germany, under strict quality control regulations. Clinical studies on thousands of patients have confirmed the safety of solutions like Traumeel and Zeel.
How can these dilutions actually have an effect on my body?
The fact that most solutions contain low concentrations of plant extracts is often a reason for conventional physicians to criticize the possible effects of these products. Products used in Biopuncture are not diluted to the extent that the solution contains no active product (as in homeopathy). That's why we call them "micro-doses." How does this small dose influence the body? A good example is to think of a tetanus vaccination – only small amounts of the product are necessary to stimulate your immune system against lockjaw. A few injections can protect your body for several years against this serious disease. Biopuncture injections are not vaccinations of course; however, the mechanism is similar: small doses of the right product can have a strong effect. Biopuncture produces its clinical effects because it stimulates your own immune system and restarts your healing capacity. (The medications used in Biopuncture have no relation whatsoever to the current controversy over childhood immunizations).
Will Biopuncture help me as quickly as conventional therapies?
It's obvious that injections of micro-doses are less powerful than, for example, cortisone injections. The dose used is too small to immediately suppress inflammation. But that iss not the goal of Biopuncture. We consider inflammation as an important element of true and lasting healing. The goal of Biopuncture is to stimulate the natural inflammatory processes in order to get a complete and natural healing of the injured tissues. So, we do exactly the opposite of conventional drugs. As a result, the symptomatic relief may take longer, especially for chronic cases. But when approaching acute injuries, such as sports injuries or whiplash, the effects of the injections are apparent almost immediately.
Where are these injections given?
Most people – especially those who are apprehensive about needles and injections because they have had bad experiences – are surprised how easily and quickly these injections are given. In fact, these injections cannot be compared to the "usual" injections given in conventional medicine. They are not as painful as those used to draw blood or a knee or shoulder joint injection. The needle is very fine and the quantity injected is very small. In fact, the injection sites look more like little pinpricks. Most of them are given into or just under the skin; others are given into specific muscle points or into ligaments. Your doctor does not give the injections arbitrarily; the injections are administered in carefully chosen locations. The place where the doctor injects the product is as important as the product itself. It is different for each patient and each type of problem.
How many injections will I receive each session?
A lot of these injections are given at more than one spot during each session. For example, if your doctor wants to work on your liver to help with detoxification, he or she will give about seven small injections just under the skin on your abdomen. When you have pain in the elbow, your physician will inject several painful spots in your arm muscles or elbow ligaments. In such a case, you may receive an average of three to 10 injections in your elbow, neck or back. In most cases, injections are given in the specific pain zone.
What are the risks of the treatment?
It is clear that the physician who decides to use Biopuncture will always do so according to the latest technical and therapeutic standards. This includes correct injection technique and appropriate infectious precautions with disposable one-time use needles. The most common adverse effects after treatment are a small red area after injection or small bruise. Serious side effects are rare.
What is a "detox" treatment?
In addition to treating painful areas, detoxification of the body is one of the keys to success. Detoxification refers to "cleaning the body" of toxins that may have accumulated, for example from the environment, poor nutrition, certain medications, smoking or alcohol use. These toxins can interfere with your body's normal healing response and optimal functioning of your immune system. They can disturb the reflex responses of your nervous system. Elimination of these toxins is important, particularly in the case of chronic pain, but also in cases of optimizing peak performance. Some injections work specifically on the liver, kidney and/or lymphatic system. Improving the function of the lymphatic system with Lymphomyosot is considered very important in Biopuncture.
When should I consider Biopuncture?
Most physicians use Biopuncture for minor orthopedic problems. Biopuncture would not be a considered a treatment for a fracture, large herniated disc with neurologic weakness or serious underlying medical illness. Common indications for Biopuncture include: neck, mid back, lower back and sacro-iliac pain; various tendon problems (tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, patellar tendonitis); shoulder pain; knee pain, tension headache etc. Biopuncture is very successful for treating sports injuries. The use of biotherapeutic injections can benefit patients who have tried conventional medicine but have had no success, or for those who have had to stop taking conventional medication because of side effects. Some Biopuncturists specialize in treating patients with bronchitis, sinusitis, hay fever, eczema and other chronic inflammatory conditions.
Can Biopuncture be combined with other treatments?
Some people believe that one has to stop conventional treatments when choosing natural medicine. This is not true. For many patients it may be best to combine treatments. When you are being treated with Biopuncture, you can continue the medications you already take. Your treating physician can discuss the specifics of your situation with you. For orthopedic problems, it is often recommended that patients receive physical therapy or exercise regularly to achieve optimal results. Biopuncture can also be combined with acupuncture, osteopathic manipulation and other techniques.
When is Biopuncture not appropriate?
Let us be very clear. Biopuncture cannot heal cancer, diabetes, a heart attack or AIDS, among other serious conditions. Doctor Pakula at Vita Health will help you determine if you are a candidate for biopuncture.
Biopuncture is a safe and effective technique in complementary and integrative medicine. It uses biotherapeutic injections to stimulate the natural self-healing capacities of your body. It is worth considering if it can help with your personal health problems. Consult with Dr Pakula for more information about Biopuncture.
Patient Education Handout. Adapted from Jan Kerschott, MD Founder of Biopuncture


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Are Bella Thorne & Tyler Posey Officially Dating?
It seems like Bella Thorne and Tyler Posey might officially be a couple after the two stars were spotted flaunting a lot of PDA!
The 18-year-old actress was seen kissing and holding hands with Tyler, 24, while spending time together on Friday (September 16) in West Hollywood, Calif. You can go see the photos now on TMZ!
The two stars worked together earlier this year while hosting the MTV Fandom Fest during Comic-Con.
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Storing Energy: Fuel Cells and Beyond
Storing energy is important for both long-term and short-term uses: to meet changes in energy supply and demand and to iron out irregularities in energy output, whether that's in a car engine or on the power grid.
Unfortunately, we can only store a tiny fraction of the electricity we produce in a single day. Instead, power plants have to send their thousands of megawatts of electricity to the right place, at the right time. For more details about electricity transmission, see Power Grid Technology.
Our current electric grid has various quick storage solutions to help make energy delivey smooth, and we use energy storage in cars, phones, and anything else that needs to be moved around. However, batteries and other storing options leave much to be desired.
Devices like capacitors and flywheels can store energy for extremely short periods. Few technologies exist to store large amounts of energy over time periods ranging to several days: only pumped (water) storage is widely used to store energy on the scale of a power plant.
As energy sources are expanding to include more renewable and intermittent resources like wind and solar onto the electricity grid as we try to both meet growing energy demand and control greenhouse gas emissions. Likewise, there is increased interest in having reliable energy storage for vehicles, instead of gasoline and diesel fuels.
Depending on the type of battery, these devices can store energy on location, like at home or in the car, in a laptop or cell phone. Note that though batteries and fuel cells can help integrate renewable energy sources, most electricity is still generated from fossil fuels. Both charging batteries and making hydrogen for fuel cells thus produce greenhouse gas through reliance on the prevailing sources of electricity, and using these devices is less efficient than plugging into the wall because there's always energy loss to byproducts like heat.
Batteries store chemical energy. Chemical reactions in the battery release that energy as needed. Eventually all the starting materials of the reaction are consumed and the battery is dead, or at least unusable until it's recharged. There are many kinds of batteries, made of a wide array of chemicals. Polysulfide Bromide (PSB), Vanadium Redox (VRB), Zinc Bromine (ZnBr), Hydrogen Bromine (H-Br), and sodium sulfide batteries are some that the electricity industry has interest in.
Electric utilities use lead-acid batteries, which can be recharged, but there is research into other materials for utility and transportation use. Some of the best batteries used today for cars are nickel metal hydride and lithium ion.
Hydrogen fuel cells aren't the same as batteries, but they can serve a similar purpose. Fuel cells are lumped with batteries because they both function through stored chemical energy. However, in practice, fuel cells are more like engines. They run off hydrogen "fuel" and produce energy and waste products, mostly water vapor. As long as hydrogen keeps being added, the cell can run, just like a gasoline engine can keep running as long as more gasoline is added. A battery has a finite amount of energy unless it's recharged with electricity.
For more about how to make hydrogen for fuel cells, see The hydrogen economy, hydrogen sources, and the science behind these.
For a description of different hydrogen fuel cells in development right now, see here.
One way to smooth bumps in electricity delivery is through flywheels, which store energy in the form of rotational kinetic energy. A spinning potter's wheel stores the energy of a good kick to be used moments later to mold a clay pot, and flywheels operate on a similar principle. In automobile engines, flywheels ease the transition between bumpy firing pistons and the drive shaft.
Flywheels can store energy for limited periods of time, from seconds to a few minutes.
Pumped storage (of water) is the only widely-used method for storing huge amounts of energy for long periods of time. The United States has a capacity of more than 20,000 megawatts of pumped storage, according to the National Hydropower Association.
During times of excess electricity production, that excess energy is used to pump water to a higher altitude, increasing its gravitational potential energy. When extra energy is needed, the water is allowed to flow back down by way of turbines, turning that potential energy back into electricity.
For a figure of pumped storage see the National Hydropower Association
Other technologies are constantly being investigated for energy storage. Compressed air storage is when air is forced into spaces like mines or caves and held at high pressure, using up energy in the process. When the compressed air is let out again, it can turn turbines to generate electricity.
Thermal energy storage exploits the difference in temperature between a system and the environment. In the late 1800s, Americans used thermal energy storage by cutting blocks of lake ice during the winter and storing them underground packed in insulating wood shavings. When the summer rolled around, they retrieved that stored ice to make food cold, exploiting the difference in temperature to force thermal energy out of the food.
Thermal energy storage can also happen in the other direction. Electricity or other forms of energy can be used to heat various materials, which are stored in insulated containers. Later, when the energy is needed, the hot materials can heat water into steam, and that steam can push turbines, which in turn produce electricity.
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You might see a bat, a witch's hat or big black cat arching its back, or even better, a shark with sharp teeth, an octopus with eight tentacles or maybe a starfish with five arms. Any child dressed as one of these sea creatures or any other marine animal will be admitted free. Adults and all other children will get a discounted admission of $5.
Aquarium of Niagara members, as always, are free. Sure to be "fin-filled" and spine tingling, this annual event gives the staff a chance to be scary or funny, or both, while on the job. Youngsters, who "trick-or-treat" at the Aquarium of Niagara, will find lots to do and see.
Each child will receive a small "treat bag" full of surprises. While enjoying the Halloween fun at the Aquarium of Niagara, they will also create a craft to take home.
There will be more surprises with special sea lion shows featuring the marine mammal staff and the Aquarium of Niagara's always-entertaining sea lions.
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Ιn our linked data world your research results become yet another piece of the puzzle. Publishing/depositing in OA is a major step, but doing it properly is equally important.
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Supt Gavan Ryan, the policeman leading the criminal investigation into the crash, in which at least 30 people died, said the director of public prosecutions would decide if the crewmen would face multiple charges of manslaughter and reckless endangerment of life.
"A brief of evidence is being compiled. Based on what's happened in the past I would well and truly anticipate that the crew would be charged in the future," he told the West Australian newspaper.
Australian and Indonesian police are also on the trail of the man suspected of arranging the trip from Java to Christmas Island. The authorities believe Ali Regi, a notorious people smugger who specialises in transporting Iranian and Iraqi Kurds to Australia, organised the voyage.
Regi uses several different names and passes himself off as Iranian, although he may hail from Afghanistan.
He is believed to be a senior member of a smuggling network that arranges accommodation and transport for asylum seekers. If Regi is located, it is likely that the government in Canberra will want to extradite him to face trial in Australia, which has much stricter people smuggler legislation than Indonesia.
New anti-people-smuggling laws, passed earlier this year, created the offence of "people-smuggling involving exploitation or danger of death or serious harm", which carries a maximum sentence of 20-years in jail.
Indonesian police are able to charge smugglers only under general immigration law, and convictions rarely lead to a custodial sentence.
There is concern in Australia that if Regi is arrested in Indonesia he may slip through the net, after two suspected people-smugglers were recently released from custody while Canberra was seeking their extradition.
Agung Sabar Santoso, Indonesia's national police director of transnational crime, said his division was co-operating with the Australian Federal Police. Several days ago an Indonesian police spokesman said it was not the responsibility of Indonesia to investigate because "that was a disaster, not a crime".
Yesterday (SUN) survivors of the disaster held a vigil for those that died as police divers trawled underwater caves searching for more bodies. The death toll has remained unchanged since Friday, but police fear it could rise to about 58 when the exact number of passengers on board the vessel is determined.
Among the dead were seven children, including four infants. Three children were orphaned in the tragedy.
More than 5,000 refugees, mostly from Iraq, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, have made their way to Australia this year on rickety boats from Indonesia, prompting a raging political debate over asylum seeker policy.


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4 ways Heirs is basically just like Gossip Girl
The much anticipated drama, The Heirs, finally premiered and it did not disappoint. However, I couldn't help but notice some similarities between the characters and those of Gossip Girl. Of course, I am not saying they are the same, but these 4 characters take me back to those perfect beginning days of Gossip Girl.
1. Choi Young Do and Chuck Bass (the inspiration for this article)
From their dashing good looks, to their snarky attitudes it is clear that both of these characters possess a very similar charisma. From what we've seen so far, their actions are similar as well! For example, they are both flirty and they both go looking for trouble. They are twisted and have definitely mastered their gorgeous brooding looks. Both characters also have complicated relationships with their rich fathers.
2. Rachel Yoo and Blair Waldorf
Blair Waldorf will forever be one of my favorite tv characters, and so far Rachel Yoo is reminding me of her! Blair is never afraid to call anyone out on their crap, and Rachel is the same so far. Both also have mothers who have gotten divorces and then get remarried (or are about to). I am wondering if she will be any good at scheming like our Queen B though, maybe even with Choi Young Do.
3. Cha Eun Sang and Dan Humphrey
These last two are a little more of a stretch, but there are still some pretty big similarities. First off, both are "poor" compared to the wealthy people they know. They both also get involved romantically (I'm assuming with Heirs) with people who have more money than they do. They are both innocent of the corruption that the world of money brings, at least at first with Dan.
4. Kim Tan and Serena van der Woodsen
Both Heirs and Gossip Girl start off with these two M.I.A. from their homes. Kim Tan is in exile because of his brother, and Serena also exiled herself to run away from her past. They are both wealthy but they manage to also have friendly personalities. Also, they both get involved romantically (again I'm assuming) with people who have less money than they do.
These are just based on Episode 1, so who knows if these similarities will continue. But I don't think I would mind if they did! All I know is that I can't wait for more Heirs!


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Fracking for shale gas is 'extremely unlikely' to pollute ground water supplies, UK geologists say.
Campaigners have called for a moratorium on fracking in the UK in the face of earthquakes in Lancashire last year and amid fears it could lead to pollution of drinking water by methane gas or chemicals in the liquid used in the process.
Fracking has proved controversial in the US, where shale gas is already being exploited on a large scale and where footage has been captured of people able to set fire to the water coming out of their taps as a result of gas contamination.
But Professor Mike Stephenson, of the British Geological Survey, said most geologists thought it was a "pretty safe activity" and the risks associated with it were low. He said the distance between groundwater supplies around 40-50 metres below the surface and the deep sources of gas in the shale a mile or two underground, made it unlikely methane would leak into water as a result of fracking.
"Most geologists are pretty convinced that it is extremely unlikely contamination would occur," he said.
There was no evidence in peer-reviewed literature of pollution of water by methane as a result of fracking, he said, adding that the presence of the gas in US water supplies was likely to be natural.
But a survey was currently being conducted in the UK, to establish a baseline of any gas naturally found in groundwater before drilling took place.
"If you don't know what the baseline is, you don't know if people are running a tight ship. There's natural methane in groundwater and you have to distinguish between what's there already and what might have leaked in."
He said two cases of methane pollution of water in the US, neither of which were due to fracking for shale gas, were the result of mismanagement. The UK has one of the strictest regulatory regimes in the world, he added.
Fracking by energy company Cuadrilla was halted in the Blackpool area last year, after two small quakes in the area which the geologists are certain were caused by fracking.
Although they were felt by around 50 people in the area, they were too small to cause any damage.
Professor Peter Styles, of Keele University, said the rock in the UK was not strong enough to transmit the energy to cause larger earthquakes from one to two miles underground, where fracking occurs. But he said it was important to have effective seismic monitoring of sites from day one, if companies including Cuadrilla apply for licences to drill elsewhere in the UK such as Sussex.
The company had no monitoring of seismic activity in place in Lancashire when it began fracking, with the British Geological Survey picking up the first quake and putting in instruments on the site which registered the second tremor.
But it has pledged it will employ monitoring and a "traffic light" system which will halt fracking before seismic activity can build up to a similar quake in the future.
Cuadrilla has estimated the resource in the area could be as much as 200 trillion cubic feet.
The estimate by the British Geological Survey is much smaller, at just four trillion cubic feet in Lancashire, and work is currently under way to assess the extent of the shale gas resource.


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What a week! Without providing too much detail words in a description would include hospital, operation, fall, pain, embarrassment and damned inconvenience. Words that would explain the causes would include ageing, arthritis, lack of focus, stupidity and, well, I guess, Fate. (Read my latest book!) Current words, at the end of this week, would include, incredible nurses and doctors, amazing result, gradual improvement, great drugs, (prescription!), plenty of rest and finally, acceptance. So a better week must be coming up.
What it proves is that life is never predictable, no matter how it sometimes seems, when the word boring is frequently bought to mind. This unpredictability is part of what it is to be human and so thank goodness for that.
Now, once more, after almost a month of trying to get down to re writing a 10,000 word extract from a memoir I have been trying to write for ever, or so it seems, I can now sit in front of my trusty (hahah!) computer and type away. Whether good, or bad, or inappropriate words will ensue is still to be tested. But I will keep going until some other unpredictable event passes my way and interrupts the proceedings. So, on with the show.
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Riding the Fate Train Now Out
New book ready to look at. Riding the Fate Train, a Collection of Short stories, many devised from true stories. Set in both Australia and Britain over a few decades. Check it out on Amazon.com. Both Paperback and ebook available. Love to know what you think.
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Seattle, September 10, 2008—PATH today announced receipt of a new contract focused on orphans and vulnerable children, to help reduce the burden of HIV and AIDS in South Africa. The project will support "care for caregivers" and provide training on child protection and abuse identification to organizations that provide services for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS.
This is the first such award for PATH since its designation in 2007 as a "prime contractor" for an HIV and AIDS program funded by the US Agency for International Development. PATH leads a consortium of organizations preapproved to compete for certain contracts under the AIDS Support and Technical Resources program, informally known as AIDSTAR. PATH will partner with Health and Development Africa and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance to implement the five-year, $10 million project, which is part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Health and Development Africa, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, will provide technical leadership.
A primary goal of the South Africa project is to create more stable living environments for these vulnerable children. "This is an excellent opportunity for PATH's AIDSTAR consortium to contribute to PEPFAR's goal of providing care and support to 10 million people worldwide by strengthening organizations to improve the quality of services provided for orphans and other vulnerable children," said Dr. Julie Pulerwitz, project director and director of the HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Global Program at PATH.
Dr. Saul Johnson, managing director of Health and Development Africa, said, "With this project, we can not only leverage our existing curriculum and training for caregivers, but also highlight South African leadership and determine how to comprehensively address the needs of children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS. We look forward to continuing to have a positive impact on the crisis with orphans and other children affected by HIV and AIDS."
PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. PATH currently works in more than 70 countries in the areas of health technologies, maternal and child health, reproductive health, vaccines and immunization, and emerging and epidemic diseases.
PATH's response to HIV and AIDS has unfolded on multiple levels since the epidemic began. PATH works with individuals and communities to encourage behaviors and social norms that can prevent HIV infection. The organization collaborates with health care providers, governments, and other organizations to strengthen the health systems that bring HIV/AIDS services to families and communities. And PATH joins with public- and private-sector groups to develop and introduce low-cost technologies to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, especially in low-resource settings.
Other members of the PATH AIDSTAR consortium are Chemonics, Dimagi, The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, International Relief & Development, International Training & Education Center on HIV, MIDEGO, Westat, and World Relief.


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An interdisciplinary team of U-M sustainability experts and engineers has developed a " green guide" to aid developers and operators of energy storage systems. Titled "12 Principles for Green Energy Storage in Grid Applications," the 12 Principles offer researchers, designers and industry professionals a clear, concise picture of the most important criteria to consider when designing and operating sustainable energy storage devices and systems. The principles are detailed in the January 19 issue of Environmental Science and Technology.
Because of the intermittency of electricity production from renewables, energy storage is an important complement to renewable power. It's a way to keep using solar energy in the dark and wind energy on a calm day. The renewable industry is growing dramatically; the US boasts twice as many solar workers as it did five years ago. The deployment of storage technologies is expected to grow in tandem as the use of wind, solar, and other renewable technologies continue to grow.
The Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council, together with Advanced Energy Economy, Ceres, the University of Michigan's Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, and the World Resources Institute are hosting a one-day conference Corporate Pathways to Advanced Energy: The Growth of Market Demand for Clean Energy Solutions on February 2, 2016 at The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit. The conference will bring together thought leaders from the world's most dynamic corporations who are investing in advanced energy projects across the globe.
Consumers feel their home energy costs would have to more than double before they had to use less or reduce other expenses to compensate, according to a new index created by the University of Michigan's Energy Institute and released today. The university's energy affordability indices are modeled on U-M's Survey of Consumers, and like their progenitor, the surveys ask questions of consumers about how much their own bills for things like gasoline, electricity, and home heating would have to rise before they became unaffordable. The energy surveys, which canvassed 3,400 Americans over two years, found that throughout the survey period, even consumers in the lower third of the income scale would have to see their home energy costs double before costs broke the bank. The survey also looked at gasoline prices and found that consumers would not find it unaffordable to fill their tanks unless pump prices more than doubled to $5.50 a gallon.
The students in EARTH/ENVIRON 380 found that the answer is yes. Students will present details on how U-M can become fully powered by renewable energy sources.
Should the US end the ethanol mandate?
Wall Street Journal, feat. John DeCicco
The Renewable Fuel Standard, otherwise known as the ethanol mandate, requires refiners to blend an increasing amount of biofuels into the U.S. gasoline supply each year.
Panel debate over emissions doesn't follow partisan lines
E&E News
It was an unusual scenario, to say the least.
Republican lawmakers yesterday needled witnesses on the nuances and intricacies of carbon accounting for biofuels -- models created to showcase how well the fuels performed as a tool for averting climate change.
Joe Trumpey, a professor in the School of Art & Design and the School of Natural Resources will discuss the sustainability issues related to the house, farming, and energy storage.
The Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan focuses on technologies, processes and policies to increase the rate at which carbon dioxide is removed from the global carbon cycle and help identify and support technologies that are scalable. Visit globalco2initiative.org for full project details.
Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the global conservation organization known for its intense focus on collaboration and getting things done for the benefit of people and nature. He is the author of the Washington Post and Publisher's Weekly bestselling book Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature.


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For those taxpayers with undisclosed foreign assets, time is running out. With the introduction of FATCA and a global standard for the automatic exchange of information between countries' tax authorities, it is unlikely that undisclosed foreign assets will remain as such for long, resulting in serious consequences for the taxpayer.
It is in light of this that the Minister of Finance in his Budget Speech announced that a Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme (VDP), a 'third amnesty', would be introduced in order to encourage affected taxpayers to regularise their tax and exchange control affairs.
This Special VDP differs from the first two amnesties or VDP in that in this VDP a taxpayer cannot make use of his unutilised foreign investment allowance in order to offset the levies payable on the unauthorised offshore assets.
The Special VDP has a limited window of application, being from the 1st of October 2016 to the 31st of March 2017.
Provisions of the Special VDP, which we would like to bring to the attention of affected taxpayers, are as follows:
- There will be no normal tax levied on income earned in respect of unauthorised assets prior to 1st March 2010. This means that a taxpayer only needs to go back 5 years insofar as reporting is concerned, and provides certainty to the taxpayer
- During the window period, dependant on whether the taxpayer elects to repatriate the unauthorised assets or their proceeds, or whether they elect to leave the assets offshore, a levy of 5% or 10% respectively, on the market value of the assets will be payable by the taxpayer. The possibility of a lower levy upon repatriating the assets is an attractive option to the taxpayer, who may, in any event thereafter remit the assets back offshore using the R10 million p.a foreign investment allowance;
- After the limited window application period, the taxpayer may voluntarily approach the Financial Surveillance Unit to disclose unauthorised assets, and the Financial Surveillance Unity may, at their discretion, impose levies of between 10 and 40%; and
- In the event that assets are not disclosed through the VDP or voluntarily, the taxpayer will face the full force of the law.
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Celebrating a giving spirit.
Wilmington NC – [Click the Listen button to hear Paul's commentary.]
I was talking to a group of newly minted doctors about the importance of a spiritual life, of prayer, in all our lives. And, in the back, a young intern fidgeted impatiently in her seat. And you, I asked? How?s your prayer life? It was as if I were speaking from another planet, in a foreign language. I don?t have time for anything besides my work, she blurted back as she looked at her watch.
For some reason my ADD-riddled mind leaped to the bible story about the widow?s mite. You know the rich man in the temple who gives so abundantly and congratulates his generosity so liberally ? as the widow offers her copper coin, eyes downcast. And I invited this young intern to be just like that widow. And to offer her mite.
When she got up the next morning, and looked into the mirror, I asked her to simply say, ?God this is all I got to give. Be with me today. Now I?ve got to get going.? Prayer over. Go on, brush the teeth.
For I think if we can muster it, that copper coin?s worth of prayer may count more than a lot of our pious mutterings, if offered in utter honesty and with the right intention. For who is it we are praying to? Some sort of unappeasable grouch with a stop watch? Some sort of great-bookeeper-in the sky who keeps precise records of our every failing, our inattentiveness, our unkindness, our downright stupidities? Someone who doesn?t understand the pressures of our lives?
I think sometimes we forget. This is the God who made us. This is the God who knows human nature because he is the architect of human nature. This is the God who knows the fog of our minds, who knows the glories and the weakness of our flesh. This is also the God who within all this humanity, implanted something we call a soul, the very essence of divinity. And it is this connection, soul to soul, that can never be severed. The lines are always open.
We have this image of our hands reaching out to God, grasping. And we forget that God?s hand remains extended. Always. In our shortest prayer, we join hand in hand, soul with soul. Rabbi Abraham Heschel wrote a great book called ?Man?s Quest for God? and then flipped the equation around with another book, ?God in Search of Man.? For this quest is a two way street. And, as only a loving father can do, God accepts our tiniest prayer, our widow?s mite. Because that?s what we have to offer right then, that?s the best we can do. And what parent?s heart is not warmed at seeing a child do just that: the best they can.
So, as you think about your prayer life in the days ahead, you might try to ? as the Scriptures tell us ? pray always. Or, like my Trappist monk friends, go into the chapel and pray six times a day. Or, you might just be able to give your widow?s mite. No more. Don?t worry about the length or frequency of your prayer. Just do it. Give what you can. God expects only that and will allow that little copper coin to multiply in ways you may never have imagined.
And, if I might step outside my role as commentator for just a second. For, like you, I am also a backer of WHQR. If you haven?t yet given to this great station, please do. Whatever you can. Thank you.


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As ECM implementations mature, and enterprises themselves expand, the need to convert data on a large scale has become increasingly common. Maybe its legacy document management solutions that must be converted to OnBase, or it could be existing databases that must be converted to a Microsoft® or Oracle® platform.
Here in Hyland's Global Services we see this all the time.
We know that critical, often legacy, ancillary components of your existing or newly acquired infrastructure can present critical challenges to the ECM strategies both in technical complexity and resource or time constraints.
Whether you need to need to convert a warehouse of paper to digital format or convert terabytes of acquired legacy data onto the OnBase ECM platform, we have the resources, expertise and accountability to help you efficiently move past these hurdles.
Together, we'll create a well-performing enterprise system that is flexible, exponentially scalable and strategically integrated with your other systems.
Our Conversion Services have performed hundreds of successful conversions of all sizes and complexity—including large, multi-terabyte conversions and proprietary file format migrations.
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Part 1: The Flight To London
Part 2: Wow, Hello London! Nice to meet you.
Part 3: Royal Albert Hall, Double Decker Buses & 1st Hard Rock Cafe In The World
Part 4: My 130 Bucks Pasta in London
Part 5: Midnight Walk in London
Part 6: Picadilly Circus & Crazy Queue At Trafalgar Square!
So the next morning, we were supposed to meet up at 9am for breakfast. I woke up at 7 and went out to walk around the hotel area by myself. LOVE the cool air and the whole 'London' thing as it was my first time there.. everything looked interesting to me ahahahha
I came our from the hotel and I saw this..
If this was in Malaysia, I bet people would have stolen these and there would be no bicycles left
I then continued walking.. admiring the building architectures.. which we dont get to see here in Msia.
2 things that signify London.
People were all rushing to work I think.. they looked serious. Heh
Marks & Spencer! I went in to check it out and noticed that their version is so much nicer to shop in.. selling clothes, household items and groceries..


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Meet Dr. Santone
Cathy Santone DDS graduated with honors, Cum Laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry in 1995. She has enjoyed practicing dentistry in Encinitas, CA since graduating from UCLA. Dr. Santone is passionate about creating beautiful and natural smiles for her patients while providing a relaxed and comfortable dental experience from their first dental visit. She specializes in conservative aesthetic and cosmetic restorative dental treatment, and strives to educate each patient through the use of technological advancements such as digital photography and an interactive online practice.
To support the welcoming atmosphere of her cosmetic dentistry practice, Dr. Santone has surrounded herself with a highly skilled and gentle dental team. Our team is comprised of three registered dental hygienists, two experienced Registered Dental Assistants, a professional and courteous Office Manager, and an additional front office assistant. To further ease and protect our patients' overall experience with our cosmetic dentistry practice, we use an advanced dental software system to keep thorough and accurate patient records. With the Dentrix dental software, our office is able to offer holistic dentistry and we consider ourselves a green dental office, striving for a paperless environment, while already employing various green technologies, such as LED curing lights.
Did You Know?
Dr. Cathy Santone became an Accredited Member of the prestigious American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry in February 2004. At the time, she was 1 of 10 in San Diego County and the only female in San Diego County, and 1 of 302 in the United States.
Dr. Cathy Santone served as past president and as a board member of the Southwest Affiliate of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) in San Diego. As an Accredited member of the AACD, she has served as the committee chairwoman for the Membership Benefits and Recognition Committee and participates in the "Give Back a Smile" program in conjunction with the AACD. Dr. Santone is a founding member and mentor advisor for the San Diego Advanced Dental Study Group, an affiliate of the Seattle Study Club. She has been in private practice for over 18 years and enjoys spending time with her husband and nine-year-old son skiing and snowboarding, sailing and traveling.
- American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD)
- President of Southwest Affiliate of the AACD
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I made a mistake during DMEM medium preparation and instead of 2-2.2 gr NaHCo3 per liter I added 3.7 gr/lit, my cells grow slowly in this medium and the color of medium doesnt turn to yellow in long term cultures what should I do ? is there any way to fix this or I should just throw it out?
Submit your paper to J Biol Methods today!
too much nahco3 in medium
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The bicarbonate is the buffering system to keep you medium at approx pH 7 if placed in a CO2 incubator. Adding too much bicarbonate will make the solution too basic and it should be discarded. Do not grow your cells in it, they may survive but you will be altering how the population behaves (by selective pressure), which may affect downstream experiments and reproducibility of results compared to other labs using the same cell line(s).


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WebEHR – Provider's Peace of Mind
WebEHR, the latest innovation in the healthcare industry, brings peace of mind for providers and practices in several ways. When a practice signs up for a WebEHR, it gets relief from a lot of burden. Signing up for a web EHR is not like an ordinary buying and selling transaction, but is more like a partnership where the practice shares half of its burden with the EHR vendor.
Once signed up for the WebEHR, practices no longer need to worry about implementation, technology, and training, etc. All this is the responsibility of the vendor. The vendor gives the practices web-based access to EHR and manages the rest.
WebEHR is based on a subscription model in which practices subscribe to a web-based EHR for a certain fee. Some EHR vendors also offer it for free and charge only for maintenance. The subscription model is one of the most economical models in which practices get true value in exchange for a small fee.
One of the major benefits of WebEHR for practices is that it takes away liability from them. Data storage and confidentiality becomes the responsibility of the vendor. Providers can access and store the data at any point in time without worrying about data safety concerns. The cloud-based storage makes it doubly secure.
Software updating is another major headache that a WebEHR vendor takes away from practices. The vendor regularly and automatically updates the software without needing any effort from the provider.
In brief, WebEHR is a profitable investment for practices. Along with the above-mentioned advantages, it also contributes significantly to helping practices earn the meaningful use incentives. It features easy data sharing and is interoperable across various platforms and applications. These unique features of WebEHR enable it to give providers a fast track to earning meaningful use.


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Western Grebe about to submerge – Nikon D300, f7.1, 1/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light
I often try to capture the eye of a bird diving into the water at the moment just before the eye submerges below the surface. I was able to succeed with this Western Grebe.
It might seem simple enough to capture that precise moment but it really isn't. I can't tell you how many times I have failed. I do get lots of practice with Pied-billed, Western and Clark's Grebes at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and Farmington Bay WMA in northern Utah. This image of a Western Grebe about to submerge was taken at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. The light wasn't the best but I can try again.
Life is good.
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Jennifer Lopez is back on set after a lovely weekend in the Hamptons!
The 47-year-old actress was spotted while filming scenes for Shades of Blue on Wednesday (June 28) in New York City.
During some downtime, Jennifer took a phone call and grabbed a bite to eat from the food tent.
Over the weekend, Jennifer and boyfriend Alex Rodriguez coupled up for a trip to Long Island to enjoy some time at the beach.
JLo and ARod were spotted getting some shopping done and spending quality time with Jennifer's nine-year-old twins Emme and Max.
"#aboutlastweekend #summertime ☀," Jennifer wrote on her Instagram, along with sweet photos from the trip.


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White Rocks Trail is a 6 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Sperryville, Virginia that features a waterfall and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, nature trips, and birding and is best used from March until October. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Could not find the entrance to this trail??
The GPS didn't take us to the this trail. It took us just outside of the national park. I would advise to keep going toward the signs for Shenandoah and ask the rangers at the entrance. We ended up going to Whiteoak Canyon area. It was a really nice hike down hill along the creek with a lot of waterfalls. Going up was more challenging but not bad at all.
the entrance to this trail is not correct it doesn't exist anymore longer. The trail does hook up a bit further off of white Rock trail.
Nice hike with a good campsite off the trail before you go down to the falls/cave. Id advise setting up camp if your backpacking then going to see the falls.Its a really sharp incline getting there. My wife and I went down with 50 pound packs and had to come back out


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SINGAPORE, June 12 (Reuters) - Gold edged lower on Tuesday
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* Spot gold lost 0.3 percent to $1,589.89 an ounce by
* U.S. gold futures contract for August delivery also
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scenario should Athens decide to leave the euro.
* Atlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart said on
Monday he was not convinced that current economic circumstances
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UPDATE: August 23, 2014
John Alan Simon's movie version of Radio Free Albemuth became available for home viewing (via streaming) in late July. As you can read here, in an article I wrote about the film for PKD fans, I have mixed feelings. I LOVE many aspects, especially that one of our very own fan group members is a screen writer and movie maker and produced this quality work on a VERY low indie budget. I've also decided I love the movie on a small screen. It's intimate and you feel like you truly are "in on the conspiracy." Check it out!! The many ways to watch are provided here on the Radio Free Albemuth movie and blog site | movie trailer below:
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Anthony Peake: Master of the Mysterious and AKS author Morgan have participated in podcasts and interviews regarding Phil (PKD) and AKS, as well as OOBEs, Astral Travel and lucid dreaming. Peake credited me in the introduction of his PKD bio The Man Who Remembered the Future. A link to our Ancient of Day podcast is here, on another post. This is Anthony's recent interview with our PKD pal Nick Buchanan and another sample of the Consciousness Hour
Also, here is Anthony (below) discussing Out-of-Body experiences and lucid dreaming, or check out his FORUM on a wide range of topics, including PKD (Philip K. Dick) and OOBEs.
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Anthony on Whitley Streiber's Dreamland podcast | here is Anthony discussing "DeJu Vu" (podcast with a Phil fan)
the Alibi article about Dickheads and AKS novel (from Albuquerque's local alternative press)
Our Philip K Dick fan site (which includes links to AKS and our Otaku 'zines)
Direct to PKD Otaku fan zines with features on AKS or articles by ej "jami" Morgan: Otaku #21 (First PKD Festival Review and the "AKS Story") |Otaku #22 (more AKS reviews and my interview with Tessa Dick (Phil's final wife) | Otaku #23 (Hell Chore article by ejm) Otaku #25 ("Explaining the Inexplicable" by ejm) | first article in the Paul Williams Memorial Issue (#28) | Lead editorial in the famous #30 Anniversary Otaku and the above linked article on Radio Free Albemuth as a film adaptation in PKD Otaku #31.


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text: After operating one of the swing-reaches manufactured by the Raymond Corporation on the companys factory floor in Greene, Santa inked a deal to purchase a fleet of the state-of-the-art fork trucks to use in his massive warehouse in the North Pole. He says theyll work out great in all those narrow aisles (that were apparently built with elves in mind). Were getting closer! Find out where hell be next in Fridays Evening Sun.


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The Good Wife Recap: It's Never Over
It's been a little unsettling to see Alicia buy into the myth of Saint Alicia.
"You win the election. You think it's over. It's never over."
Alicia learned that the hard way on last night's episode of The Good Wife. We'll get to that, but before we do: I don't quite buy the incredulity with which Alicia has approached this entire electoral process. She's been a political wife for years, and she's seen the reality of taking office firsthand. She knows politics is an engine fueled by scandal and corruption, and for her to act otherwise has felt odd, all season long. Maybe the writing here is intentionally overlooking this in order to tell a better story (which is at least a little understandable), but maybe we're being led to believe that Alicia thought that because this time it was HER campaign, things would be different. We've seen more and more of that superior side of Alicia this season — it's at least in part what gave her the gumption to run — and it's been a little unsettling to see that she's bought into the myth of Saint Alicia.
And last night, Saint Alicia got royally, royally screwed over. Eli learns the investigation into possible voter fraud in Alicia's election will be going forward — apparently, some of the touch screens involved were tampered with, causing votes for Prady to register for Alicia. (This is something real-life Chicago voters are unfortunately familiar with.) And when Prady sends a lawyer to a "friendly" meeting with Alicia rather than turning up himself, it's clear that Prady's finished bending over backwards to accommodate Alicia, which sends her and Marissa to meet with the state DNC chair, Frank Landau.
Landau connects Alicia with highly regarded, semi-famous attorney Spencer Randolph (the outstanding, immaculately bespectacled Ron Rifkin), who represents her throughout the election board proceedings. Parillo, Prady's representative, has lots of tricks up his sleeve — after Rifkin says Parillo's claims based on how precincts should have broken down statistically are bogus, Parillo counters that Peter "all but assured" Alicia's victory in the press the morning of the election. (Irony of ironies, Peter was only doing that to piss Alicia off.) Parillo claims Peter was certain of her victory because he oversaw voting machines given to Illinois through a federal act, and so he had every chance to tamper with them.
Only he DIDN'T oversee them, and here's where I'll pause to point out one of the key problems with last night's episode: This was all excruciatingly slow and frustrating to watch, especially alongside the continued onslaught of the Kalinda and the Metadata story line (which we'll get to in a second). In part, that frustration served the storytelling — of course this was frustrating to watch unfold because the electoral recount process is sheer, near-lawless agony, like an endless, higher-stakes game of Jenga played underwater. Seriously, this is how elections are made now? Really? Sharing that frustration actually pulled me closer to the story, and to Alicia's experience. But on another level, it's just frustrating that The Good Wife continues to tell these election stories, because frankly, an episode of The Good Wife in which Alicia is continuing to run for office is no longer The Good Wife at its best. It's way past time we settled this.
And even after all of that, it still isn't settled. Alicia tracks down the man who really DID oversee the voting machines, Ernie Nolan, who tried to bribe Alicia way back when she first declared as a State's Attorney candidate. He then tries to claim Alicia blamed HIM, and then there are half a dozen other twists and turns, and then, even when it looks like it all might fall on Alicia's side, Landau from the DNC tells her she's going to need to step aside. If the recount continues, other candidates on the ballot might come into question, and that will put the Democrats in the state house short of their two-thirds super majority. Alicia's horrified, and tells Spencer Randolph she— wants to stand up and keep fighting despite the DNC's threat to go after her or Peter if she does. Spencer assures her he understands, then stands up in the hearing, announces Alicia's been lying the whole time, and publicly encourages her to step down. It's cruel — there's no other word for it — and when Alicia confronts him, saying she'd trusted and admired him, he says smugly, "Your problem can be summed up in three words: two-thirds majority." It's no wonder she breaks down in Peter's arms a few minutes later, the first full-on loss of control we've seen from her since Will died.
Meanwhile, back at the firm's offices, Diane muses, "And here we are back again. Right back at the beginning." Diane's referring, of course, to the presence of Geneva Pine in her office, offering Diane immunity from prosecution for using the email with the falsified metadata to save Cary. (On a related note, raise your hand if you're ready to never hear the word metadata again.) Earlier in the episode, Diane learns that Kalinda falsified the email and let her use it; together with David and Cary, they decide to go to the police review board and tell them the truth. Cary begs Kalinda for the chance to be her attorney, which is a little odd — if anything, it's shocking that he's not angry with her, since doesn't this mean Cary could face prosecution again? Or is that double jeopardy? (Despite seeing the feature film Double Jeopardy twice — I have a thing for Tommy Lee Jones — I'm still not sure how it works.)
Once Geneva learns about the falsified email, everyone's back in court in front of the judge who heard Cary's case, who likens the whole deal to a bad Spider-Man remake or sequel. The judge makes it clear that Diane's actions are very serious — again, I'm no lawyer, but I feel like if you don't know you're doing something illegal, you should maybe get a pass — and that he'll hear arguments the next day. He also makes it clear that this is something Diane could spend years in prison over. And that's when Geneva comes to Diane with the aforementioned deal: Testify against Lemond Bishop, and we'll let all of this slide. Gears start turning in Kalinda's head, and Cary realizes she's considering turning on Bishop herself. Cary goes to Geneva and says HE'S going to be the one to testify against Bishop, which is either really, really gallant or really, really dumb.
There are only three episodes remaining in The Good Wife's sixth season (and not for nothing, but even though experts have called the show's renewal a sure thing, we still don't know for sure that there will be a seventh). I'd truly thought these last few episodes would be Alicia's victory lap, but here I am, absolutely unsure where Alicia will be when the series finale airs. On any other show, that's troubling, but this is The Good Wife. I can't help but be excited.


text: Is anyone else but me peeved that they won't admit you for the quarter you applied for but will for Spring 2006? What's up with that? It's like saying you're not good enough for this quarter but you can come in the Spring when your numbers won't count in the USNWR.


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For the Most Helpful Recipes, Unplug Your Internet
Once upon a time, there was no internet. If you wanted to check up on your friend, you had to write her a letter or call her on the phone or drop by her house. If you wanted to know about basically anything, you had to read a book—if you wanted to know how to cook something, you had to read a cookbook.
Of course, that wasn't your only option. You could ask your friend how they made that thing that time. You could ask a professional: Your butcher could advise you on how to cook a certain cut of meat, or your grocer could tell you what to do with vegetables you may not have seen before. You could even write into Gourmet Magazine and ask them how to make a dish you tried at a restaurant while you were on vacation, and there was a pretty decent chance that they'd reply with a recipe. Oh, the olden days!
Today we search hashtags on Instagram to watch 12-second videos on how to make cake in a mug in the microwave. Usually, a pair of disembodied white hands makes quick work of pre-prepped ingredients, and upbeat "mood music" replaces cooking sounds. This is not what cooking used to look like. And the biggest gap between internet and pre-internet cooking is in the concept of the recipe.
On the internet, a recipe merely exists among other recipes that may share a lifestyle (paleo; egg-, nut-, gluten-, and dairy-free; world's busiest mom cooks dinner every night), but are often weakly connected beyond that. For many, this is just fine. If you simply want to know how to cook something, if you want to understand the order of operations and the necessary ingredients, then the internet can help you. If you already know how to cook and you know exactly what you want to make and you know how to evaluate a prospective recipe for potential disasters, Google away.
But so much is lost—or is simply absent—on the internet, in this place of mostly anonymized, context-less versions of recipes. The big questions go unanswered: how this recipe came to be and why it exists, what conditions (cultural, sociological, political, religious, technological) led to its development and refinement, who helped it along over time, whose life was shaped by it. These are the questions that we can learn from. The answers to these questions give meaning to our meals and, potentially, our understanding of who we are and where we come from. Because cooking is a cultural, historical act. And cookbooks are our primary source material.
A book author is someone who can communicate the essential information about a culture and its ingredients and methods. They are the opposite of disembodied hands; they are full characters with clear voices and perspectives and experiences. Their purpose is not simply to distract you for a moment, but to change you for the rest of your life.
Contemporary cookbooks can offer some reprieve from the hollowness of internet recipes. There are beautiful writers today working hard in their kitchens and in the wider world to bring new stories, new recipes, and new approaches to the hungry masses. (The Piglet is an excellent place to find some of the best new books out there.)
But given the nature of the contemporary cookbook market—up from $420 million in US sales in 1994 to $780 million in 2001, and growing at a more-or-less steady rate of 4-6% every year since then—there's a harsh reality in the numbers: More cookbooks does not mean better cookbooks.
More cookbooks means more books: more creativity and more new voices, to be sure, but also more books that are, in the parlance of our times, "content." So many of these books were born from the internet and reflect that in their, put simply, flat ubiquity. Looking back in time, before the internet, we are faced with a higher density of intentionality, and out of this comes books of substance.
So where to begin? There are cookbooks dating back to very ancient times (written in Latin) and there are cookbooks dating back to less ancient times (Chinese and Arabic and German cookbooks from the 13th and 14th centuries) and then the printing press was invented and even more cookbooks were produced (most notably Modern Cookery for Private Families by Eliza Acton [1845], Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton [1861], and The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer [1896]). But in the United States some of the most compelling, creative, and enlightening books were written in the second half of the 20th century—after World War II and before the invention of the internet.
I'd like to recommend some books to you, dear internet reader, and offer you a place to start or expand or reaffirm your pre-internet cookbook repertoire. All of these books will teach you something you did not know. All of these books were created by men and women who sat and talked and ate and shared with other men and women, who learned about their own cultures and the cultures of others, and who dutifully and spiritedly wrote those lessons down (with all the attendant details) so that we may experience the essential acts of cooking and eating as fully as possible.
If you want to imagine (or, better yet, live) a life marked by parties and celebrations:
Read The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso (1985), which will give you the experience of having your kooky but completely lovely elderly neighbor corner you in the hallway and sweetly lecture you about the past in the most absolutely charming way. Or Martha Stewart's Hors D'oeuvres (1984), which will have you alternately rolling your eyes at the amount of energy Martha assumes you have and taking notes for the party you just started planning.
If you want to travel, read:
- Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco by Paula Wolfert (1987)
- Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni (1980)
- How to Cook and Eat in Chinese by Buwei Yang Chao (1945)
- The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking by Barbara Tropp (1982)
- Good Things by Jane Grigson (1973)
- Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan (1992)
- Simple French Food by Richard Olney (1974)
- A Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden (1968)
- The Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas (1982)
- Please to the Table by Anya Von Bremzen (1990)
- The Art of Mexican Cooking by Diana Kennedy (1989)
All of these books do travel differently (some focus more on technique, some more on ingredients, some more on culture) and all their authors have wildly different personalities. So try out a few, see who whispers in your ear most clearly, and remember that these books are best read with a glass of wine in hand to aid in teleportation.
If you feel overwhelmed—low on energy, money, or inspiration; buried by work, stress, or other people's needs:
Read The Pauper's Cookbook by Jocasta Innes (1971). You'll know you're going to be okay because you're laughing and you've got your appetite back, which are both good signs.
If you want to be in the presence of a master:
Read The Making of a Cook by Madeleine Kamman (1971). Whatever your skill level, Kamman knows what you need to know, and knows how to transmit that information as by a laying of hands: firmly but gently, with perfect intuition.
If you want to know what living intentionally as a part of a true community looks like:
Read The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis (1976). I have yet to encounter a more glorious portrait of people living in harmony with each other and the earth.
If you want to bake, and experience the deep pleasure and magic that come from the alchemy of mixing butter and eggs and sugar and flour:
Read Cocolat by Alice Medrich (1990), or Delia Smith's Book of Cakes (1977), or Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts (1974), or Stars Desserts by Emily Luchetti (1991). These are books that, at the very least, allow for us to imagine a life with (actual) sweetness, and give us the simple tools to realize those dreams.
If you want a friend:
Read Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin (1988) or As They Were by M.F.K. Fisher (1982). If you want a frenemy, read An Omelet and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David (1984).
If you miss your grandmother or want to know how people used to cook and eat before the internet was a twinkle in anyone's eye:
Go to your local used bookstore and find whatever comb-bound community cookbooks they have gathering dust on the bottom shelf. These are true jewels.
Read these books and cook from them and then live with them; make them a part of your physical space. Keep them on a shelf where you can see and touch their spines. Let them remind you of the vast possibilities that are held in a day and in a lifetime, and of the multitude of worlds that are possible.
Sarah Whitman-Salkin is an editor and writer, and the founder of the online bookshop Classics Cookbooks.


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SETTING up links to potash jobs, holding employment workshops, creating extra allotments and painting the sides of houses form a raft of ideas which have been drawn up as part of a masterplan to revamp the east side of Whitby.
The Eastside Action Plan is the result of a year of meetings, discussions and research by a working group made up of residents, councillors and Groundwork North Yorkshire - a charity which helps transform neighbourhoods.
It sets out the main issues and challenges facing life on the east side, divided into four areas - Church Street/Green Lane, Helredale/St Peter's, Eskdale Road and the Business Park - and some suggestions for tackling them.
The report says action was needed after local people and organisations called for changes.
It says: "East Whitby is a great place to live but also an acknowledgement that it has some problems and issues that need to be improved. This Action Plan represents a vision for the future of the Eastside, an aspiration for the kind of community and neighbourhood we want to be part of."
The Action Eastside Steering Group is looking for feedback on the proposals for improving the east side and for more residents, businesses and agencies to get involved.
It will then oversee the implementation and management of the plan over a five year period.
But the group admits some of the proposals are "ambitious and far-reaching" and need external funding which might be difficult but believe the action plan report will boost funding bids.
It adds: "Competition for external funding is fierce, particularly in the current economic climate when match funding from local organisations is limited.
"However, having the Action Eastside Plan in place as an agreed and well supported strategy for the area will considerably strengthen the Eastside's position in funding bids."
See Friday's Gazette for a more in-depth feature.