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Death Valley temps at least tie record
Jul. 01, 2013
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Temperatures in Death Valley — the legendary hottest place on Earth — at least tied a record Sunday as a heat wave brought triple-digit highs across the West.
The National Weather Service's thermometer recorded a peak temperature of 128 degrees in Death Valley National Park, which ties the record for the hottest June day anywhere in the country.
However, the Los Angeles Times reports that the National Park Service thermometer — 200 yards away — recorded a temperature of 129.9, which shatters the record for June.
Triple-digit heat struck again elsewhere in Southern California, while metropolitan Phoenix saw just a slight drop in temperatures after experiencing record-breaking heat Saturday.
Tragedy struck north of Phoenix as crews battled a fast-moving wildfire in the high heat. Authorities said 19 firefighters died after they were caught by the fast-moving flames near the town of Yarnell.
Forestry spokesman Art Morrison said the firefighters were forced to deploy their fire shelters, tent-like structures meant to shield firefighters from flames and heat.
In Las Vegas, the mercury shot up to 117 degrees on Sunday to tie the city's record high and to cause more discomfort for residents and tourists in the sprawling desert city.
Since record-keeping began in Las Vegas in 1937, the only other times the temperature reached 117 degrees were on July 19, 2005, and July 24, 1942, according to the National Weather Service.
Death Valley's the record high of 134 degrees set nearly a century ago on July 10, 1913, stands as the planet's highest recorded temperature.
Six half-marathon runners in Southern California were hospitalized Sunday for heat-related illnesses. A day earlier, paramedics responding to a Nevada home without air conditioning found an elderly man dead.
Runners in the Southern California race who required medical attention were extremely dehydrated, and some experienced cramps, Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian said. Several other runners were evaluated along the route but weren't taken to the hospital, she said.
Paramedics were deployed along the 13.1-mile race, and buses with air conditioning were provided for runners to cool off. The event was supposed to be a marathon, but it was downgraded due to low turnout last year.
Hikers, bikers and dog walkers were scarce on typically busy trails in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. At midday, two women and a panting German shepherd huddled in a rare sliver of shade along a fire road before striking out in the hot sun.
Atop San Vicente Peak, cyclist Jeff Disbrow, 49, of Santa Monica was clad in black and lathered in sweat as he took a break and refilled his water bottle.
"It's not the best day to be out here — unless you want to suffer," he said. "It's like Arizona."
In Utah, a record 105-degree heat caused an interstate on-ramp to buckle in Salt Lake City, and hampered firefighters in their battle against three wildfires. The Interstate 215 on-ramp had to be closed for four hours Saturday night after a short section of it expanded, Utah Department of Transportation spokesman John Gleason said.
The section looked like a pothole before it was repaved, he said. No problems were reported, and traffic was rerouted around the closed lane.
Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Larry Nunez said the city hasn't seen any deaths that were classified as heat-related, but emergency workers have gotten 98 heat-related calls within the metro area since Friday morning.
The 119-degree high in Phoenix on Saturday marked the fourth-hottest day in metro Phoenix since authorities started keeping temperature records more than 110 years ago. The high temperature for the metro area hit 115 on Sunday.
Temperatures could drop slightly in Phoenix within the coming days as monsoon storms are expected to make their way through the state. Such storms could bring cloud cover but could produce more humidity and possibly contribute to dust storms.
Several Southern California communities set same-day record highs Saturday including Palm Springs, where the mercury peaked at 122 degrees. In Northern California, Redding reported a high of 110, Sacramento had 107 while Fresno saw 109.

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By Morgan Crump
Big 12 Campus Correspondent
Ever since her first year playing volleyball in sixth grade, junior Aubree Piper has excelled at the sport she loves.
Piper attended Canyon Randall High School near Amarillo, where she received numerous awards for her outstanding volleyball skills. She was a four-year letter winner, received second team All-District accolades as a freshman, and was a first team All-District selection her sophomore, junior and senior years.
Piper said she was also a member of the AAU Young Guns, an independent volleyball team out of Amarillo.
When confronted with the issue of where to play college volleyball, Piper said her top choices were Texas Tech, Baylor, and New Mexico State.
"I always knew I wanted to play Big 12 volleyball," Piper said. "I chose Tech because it is close to home. It is really important that my family is able to come watch me play."
During her freshman season at Tech, Piper was an offensive threat on the court. She ranked third on the team in total kills and attempts, and appeared in 26 matches with 14 starts. Piper missed the first three matches of the season due to a pre-season leg injury.
Piper's statistics improved during her sophomore season, where she appeared in 24 matches with 19 starts. Piper finished the season with 144 kills, which was the most for any middle blocker and fourth for the team. Her hitting percentage for the season was .281, over .130 points higher than her freshman season. Piper missed eight matches due to illness that season as well.
Piper has encountered several injuries throughout her volleyball career at Texas Tech, but says she is currently well and hopes to stay that way.
"I had some back issues- a couple of bulging disks and a stress fracture in my back," Piper said. "I had to do a lot of rehab in order to become strong enough to play again, but I have recovered."
In her three years playing volleyball at Tech, Piper said she has grown both as a player and a leader.
"I try to lead by example on the court," Piper said, "and younger girls tell me they look up to me. I think that is awesome because that's the kind of person I want to be."
Piper said she always tries her hardest, giving it her all no matter what she is doing.
"I get super excited for every point. It doesn't matter if we earned the point or if the other team made a mistake," Piper said. "When I get pumped up, it gets everyone else motivated. I try to bring as much energy to the team as I can."
Head volleyball coach Don Flora said Piper is an awesome individual who loves Texas Tech and cares about living her life to the fullest.
"Aubree holds herself to a very high standard, and she is very aware of how much hard work it takes to become great," Flora said. "She works hard at everything she does."
Piper, one of three captains on this year's team, has been instrumental in the Red Raiders' success early on as she is second on the team in kills and first in total blocks. Her .333 hitting percentage also ranks among the top 10 in the Big 12 as well.
"She is very offensive-minded, and she sets expectations very high for her teammates," Flora said. "She's that person with a laugh and a smile at the right time, and she's very good at keeping the team together."
Flora said having Piper healthy this year has been especially beneficial for the team.
"Aubree has a great connection with our setter," he said. "Her offensive numbers have helped us tremendously in the preseason."
Piper's presence in the middle has boosted the competitive nature of the team, Flora said, and the support they all have for one another.
"We go about getting a little better every day, and I like that," he said. "I think this will go well with our development in the next phase of the season."
Piper said she thinks the team will be very successful this year if they play hard for the duration of every match. The Red Raiders enter this week 11-5 on the year heading into a Wednesday night match at TCU.
"I think we need to work on starting hard from the beginning of the game and getting ahead early," she said. "That way we don't have to play catch up."
Flora said he thinks the team needs to work on their ability to play at a high level for every point.
"We need to make our physical presence evident when we compete," he said. "We are improving the serving and blocking part of our game, and if we continue to do those things better, I think we will be tough in the Big 12."


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Manhattanville, 93
Farmingdale State, 76
PURCHASE, N.Y. - Manhattanville scored 58 second-half points and overcame a nine-point deficit early in the second half to record a 93-76 victory over defending Skyline Conference champion Farmingdale State on Thursday night, February 22nd in the Semifinals of the Conference Tournament.
Manhattanville got off to a quick start and jumped out to a 21-12 lead with 11:03 to play in the half thanks to six 3-pointers by four different players. Farmingdale came right back as Damien Santana (Brooklyn, N.Y.) knocked down three of his own from behind the arc, and tied the game at 30-30 with 3:51 remaining. The visitors then ended the half on an 11-5 run to take a 41-35 lead into the locker room.
Farmingdale's Peter Lipka (Shelton, Conn.) opened up the half with three of his 22 points on the night and put the Rams ahead by nine, 44-35. But the Valiants held the Rams scoreless over the next five minutes while scoring 16 points to take a 53-46 lead with 14:24 to play.
Junior Brian Fink (Queens, N.Y.) came out strong in the second half to spark the Valiants. The guard who had tallied six points on two 3-pointers in the first half, knocked down four more 3-pointers to finish the game with 20 points. Manhattanville had four different players in double digits, led by junior Cody Moffett (Brooklyn, N.Y.) who finished with 24 points and eight rebounds. Senior John DiBetta (Valhalla, N.Y.) scored 19 points while picking up three steals and four rebounds. Junior guard Brendan Flynn (Queens, N.Y.) added 11 points in just 22 minutes of action.
Farmingdale had two players in double figures, led by Lipka who finished with 22 points and Santana who tallied 17.
The Rams will wait to hear about an ECAC bid, which will be announced on Monday night, February 26th.


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Dan's Whetstones
This family business is the world's largest producer of natural Arkansas oilstones.
By Larry Williams & Don McConnell
Pages 48-51
As planemakers at Old Street Tool, we do a lot of sharpening and have developed a sharpening process that is easy to maintain, efficient and effective (see "Traditional Honing Technique," page 50). And, because we occasionally teach and do trade shows, we are often asked about our sharpening process, especially regarding the use of Arkansas oilstones.
Through these discussions, as well as comments on online woodworking forums, we've come to suspect there are some significant misconceptions about Arkansas stones and their usage.
There appears, for example, to be widespread perception that the best-quality Arkansas stone supplies are quarried out and there is a rapidly declining supply of the remainder.
We've also come to realize there may be some suspicion that we use and recommend Arkansas stones because we live and work in the state. We know this not to be the case because we both used Arkansas stones before moving here – but did recently decide to take advantage of our relative proximity to the source and explore the quarrying and production of Arkansas stones as it is carried out today.
Our 4-1/2 hour drive south from the Ozark plateau in Northwest Arkansas takes us through the Boston Mountains as well as miles and miles of the Ouachita National Forest. As we approach the Hot Springs/Ouachita Mountains area, we realize that we are entering a geologically interesting region. We are, for example, greeted by many yard-sale-type offerings of various crystals. And we notice signs for the Crater of Diamonds State Park (where visitors are encouraged to hunt for diamonds in freshly prepared soil), which is some distance beyond our destination of Pearcy, Ark. Pearcy, in turn, is a few miles west of Hot Springs, both of which are in Garland County.
We don't realize, however, that we are about to meet a remarkable man and be entranced by him and the small company he's developed, Dan's Whetstones, which produces of a variety of top-quality Arkansas stone products. Clearly, the supply is not played out.
A Hobby Becomes a Business
Dan Kirschman, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines with an engineer of mines degree, worked for a number of years as a mining representative – work which eventually brought him to Hot Springs. During his tenure there, he began cutting and finishing Arkansas stones as something of a hobby. Then, in 1976, when he was asked to move pursuant to his mine engineering work, he decided to remain in the Hot Springs area and turn his hobby into a business.
Web Site: Visit Dan's Whetstone's site.
In Our Store: "Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes," a DVD by Larry Williams.
To Buy: "Traditional Molding Techniques: The Basics," a DVD by Don McConnell.
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Inglorious Bastards: Special Edition (DK - DVD R2)
You can keep your Dirty Dozen, Gabe Powers goes to war with the Filthy Five
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At the tail end of WWII a group of American soldiers are shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from simple desertion to cold-blooded murder. While in transport a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling five of the prisoners to escape. The group decides to head for neutral Switzerland, where they can avoid the fighting and prison. As they make their way to what they assume will be freedom, they unexpectedly find themselves volunteering for a commando mission to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground.
Any film fanatic that doesn't like Robert Aldrich's Dirty Dozen is suspect. The Dozen, of course, had its inspirations ( Seven Samurai, Gun of Navarone, The Great Escape), but few films have infiltrated the world psyche as thoroughly, and few films have inspired so much more of the same. The general rule of thumb in art and entertainment is that rip-offs suck, yet most of the films that have imitated the Dirty Dozen model have been monstrously entertaining in the least. Some of the subgenre's best (and very few movies can claim a subgenre in their wake, maybe Jaws) have come from Italy, a nation known for milking popular formulas to powder.
Though I'm particularly partial to Gianfranco Parolini's Five for Hell, it's hard to argue with the wisdom of trash cineaste Quentin Tarantino when he calls Inglorious Bastards (aka: Quel maledetto treno blindato, Deadly Mission, and G.I. Bro as a re-edited edition) the subgenre's finest, and one of his personal favourite war features. Enzo G. Castellari, the director behind other successful cash-ins like The New Barbarians, and Great White, and genuinely successful Spaghetti Westerns like Keoma and Johnny Hamlet, crafts a joyous romp on the less than serious side of the last great war, and the energy behind his craft is impossible to resist.
The characters are quite arch, and the plot quite incidental (it really could be summed up as 'some tough guys stop Nazis'), but Inglorious Bastards celebrates its shortcomings with effective performances, and a whole lot of '70s style, lo-fi action. The sterling cast is fronted by two grindhouse favourites—Bo Svenson (you may remember him as the Reverend in Kill Bill 2) and Fred Williamson (if you don't know who he is you obviously don't like '70s cinema). Though Svenson is obviously filling the Lee Marvin slot on the roster, his brand of charm is different from the veteran tough guy, and the Swedish born, real life Marine generates a genuinely memorable performance. Williamson, typecast to this day, wisely plays partially against type. He still plays the tough guy, but here he plays most scenes for more light-hearted laughs (like coyly peeking between clasped fingers at bathing German beauties).
The only thing missing from this cast is an effective villain—a Klaus Kinski or even a Werner Klemperer. Inglorious Bastards is a movie about anti-heroes, and because the protagonists often represent the best and worst in people the screenwriters forget to include a dastardly, or even gimmicky evildoer.
For the most part Castellari avoids the weighty issues and morals that normal follow WWII features, instead aiming for a simple, fun time. Considering his other films, the country of origin, and the year the film was made, Inglorious Bastards is also a remarkably bloodless feature. There's a lot of slow motion shoot up, but not much in the way of juicy squibs or racing red stuffs. This sort of innocence just adds to the film's charm and its Saturday afternoon serial flavour. Only a particularly amusing scene of naked, bathing German maidens and a couple of naughty words (the dialogue is actually quite clever for an Italian feature filmed in English and German), Inglorious Bastards would be a fine picture to show the kiddies.
Some readers may know that Tarantino has had his eye on remaking, or rather 're-imagining' Inglorious Bastards since way back in the Pulp Fiction days. Though I'm usually against the idea of redoing what's already been done to death (remaking a rip-off, now that is meta), re-appropriation is QT's forte. If he can take the conventions of the genre and work his beer-goggle magic, this film is a great place to start. There is room for improvement in character development and the intricacies of the team's last act mission, and I'm sure the director could rope in some classic B-actors to star as the bastards themselves.
Old and cheap movies shouldn't be expected to look too good, but this disc goes above and beyond the call of duty (see what I did there?). Details are sharp, and artefacts and dirt are minimal. Colours are nice, but seem slightly faded, especially the greens, which could use a bit of richness. Blacks are relatively deep, and contrast levels are good overall, with a few exceptions where hard lit edges bloom a bit. The sharpness of the transfer is impressive, but leads to a bit of edge enhancement, and a few cases of jaggies on the edges of brighter, solid colours, like reds.
Unless you happen to speak Italian, or you can read German, Norwegian, Finnish or Swedish, I recommend sticking with the English language, Dolby Digital Mono track. Most of the lead actors are dubbing themselves in English anyway. The track is a little flat, and action sound effects tend to lean towards the tinny, but most everything is clean and understandable. As always explosions could do with a bit of bass separation, but there isn't much distortion at higher volume levels and the dialogue is clear, if not low in relative fidelity. The film's bombastic, marching band-like score is also clean, and I guarantee that the main title theme will be stuck in your head several days after your initial viewing.
A note of caution however—because this is a Scandinavian release with no English subtitles (which is strange considering that the extras are all English subtitled), the sections of the film where German is spoken are left ambiguously un-captioned. There is only one spot where this became a bit of a bother, and that's when our heroes infiltrate Nazi ranks. The specifics of the Nazi's plans were totally lost in translation because no one is speaking English. Besides this moment, the Nazi dialogue does not need translating because the things they are saying are made immediately obvious by their actions.
The first disc of this two-disc set is bereft of extra features, but disc two is relatively packed. The two biggest extras are a pair of interviews, both lasting sizable slices of time.
The first interview is with director Enzo G. Castellari, and does include English subtitles. The director ponders his career, the film's he's made, and the people he's known, but mostly sticks to the brass tacks of Inglorious Bastards. This is followed by a few words with composer Francesco De Masi, the man behind such unshakable scores as those of Fulci's The New York Ripper, Joseph Manduke's Take a Hard Ride, and Castellari's Johnny Hamlet. Both interviews are of the talking head variety, and a bit slow, but quite informative and insightful
The international credits (opening and closing), which use the title of The Inglorious Bastards rather than Quel maledetto treno blindato, are here for the completists in the house, as is a slide show of stills, including poster art.
Next, the multilingual disc features English language versions of its cast and crew bios, though the English itself is a little broken, and the writers mistakenly credit Castellari with directing Marino Girolami'a Zombie Holocaust (aka: Dr. Butcher, M.D.). The trivia screens are also in English. The extras are finished off with a trailer, and a series of trailers for other, random releases.
I see no reason not to recommend Inglorious Bastards. It's a fun, wartime romp, complete with tough guys, explosions, gunfire, naked women, trains, and airplanes. Some may find the dated look a bit too quaint, and others may not have the patience for the budget constraints, but the rest of us will have a blast.
You can find Inglorious Bastards and other Dirty Dozen inspired war flicks like Gianfranco Parolini's Five For Hell at Xploitedcinema.com. Check them out and support my sponsor.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 7th August 2007
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English, Dolby Digital Mono Italian
Subtitles: Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish
Extras: Director Interview, Composer Interview, International Credits, Stills, Trailers, Trivia, Bios
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Cast: Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson & Michael Pergolani
Genre: War
Length: 99 minutes
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Happy birthday Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead! The daughter of the late Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead celebrating turning six with a party for friends and family at Great Wolf Lodge indoor waterpark in Mason, Ohio.
Dannielynn prepared for the party with a manicure at Scooops Kid Spa, even asking Dad to get his own — Larry went for pink and purple upon his daughter's request. Guests dined on cheese pizza and enjoyed a triple-tiered chocolate cake complete with pink tiger stripes and polka dots.
The birthday girl spent the night in a cabin-themed suite — the park is about two hours from the family's Kentucky home — after a fun-filled day on River Canyon Run (which she rode 12 times!) and Fort Mackenzie, a four-story treehouse where Dannielynn enjoyed soaking Larry with buckets of water.
For more on Dannielynn's sixth birthday bash, tune in to Access Hollywood starting Monday evening.
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Transcript of Sen. Benigno S. "Noynoy" Aquino's answers during the Makati Business Club (MBC) open forum, following his delivery of "A Philippines That Works: Economic Vision and Platform", January 21, 2010
Four-part video of the open forum, courtesy of NoyTV on YouTube:
Transcript of Responses at the Makati Business Club Forum
Question: In governing you will need the cooperation of Congress, what's your strategy for getting their cooperation particularly in a situation where you do not control either or both of the houses?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: Well sir I think you will agree with me that the tradition for the past congresses has been that the dominant party becomes the party to which the President belongs to. If I'm elected president, we already have our Liberal Party, we have our allies in other aggregations and party-list groups but more importantly, the vast majority will always want to be siding with the administration, whoever it is, so cooperation with congress doesn't seem to be a problem at this point in time as we foresee.
Question: South Africa, after apartheid, formed a Truth Commission. De Klerk, Mandela, wound up winning the Nobel Prize. In South Korea, a similar search for the truth landed … in jail. Given the sustained unpopularity and perceived excesses of the present leadership, will there be priority given by your administration if you win, to ferret out truths about the GMA years? You talk about Garcillano, you talk about Pidal, Peter Wallace and his Wallace 11, ZTE and the like of transactions. What is your administration going to do in this regard?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: The job of the Chief Executive is to enforce all of the laws; recovery of ill-gotten wealth, if it exists, is not a proscribed activity, meaning there are no time limits to it but it has to be a priority. I've already made a public statement that I want closure on all of these issues if elected president. That means that one of the four platforms, the top four in the agenda is judicial reform. There has to be certainty of conviction and punishment if you do commit crimes in this country.
A sad fact is that all of the cases that are filed by the prosecutors, only about 18% wind up as convictions. As you know our system says that a prosecutor, before he introduces a case, should be convinced about the validity of the case, the preponderance of evidence at present. But after having undergone that process, it only results in 18% and those are official statistics. 33% are dismissed; we lose all of these cases. Therefore, adherence to the rule of law seems to be honored more in the breach. Now so, in direct answer to your question, there have never been answers to all of the issues that you have mentioned, be it Hello Garci, be it ZTE. For instance in ZTE, there was a board meeting by the NEDA, there were clear-cut instructions on sovereign guarantees on a BOT basis. This was reversed. Those were orders of the head of NEDA and also who happens concurrently to be the head of republic. Who can supersede the orders of the president of this republic? That has to be settled. What are the loopholes that were exploited so that the NBN-ZTE deal almost became the nightmare? But fortunately the people rose up to oppose.
Again, let me reiterate, it will be one of the priorities that will happen within the first 6 months; I guess within the first month we will already be tackling all of these issues under the Department of Justice and to ferret out and move the investigation, and if so warranted, to file the necessary charges.
Question: Will you or will you not form a Truth Commission?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: In the Truth Commission, was something I've always been studying ever since I became a congressman the first time in 1998. I thought that the model and the idea of closure for a lot of things. One question that I wasn't able to answer then was, as you know, in South Africa, a necessary component of availing of the privileges was to reveal everything you knew about crimes that you had committed during the apartheid regime, by both sides, which included very vivid descriptions of various tortures employed. I was asking myself, in the Philippine context, if a father were to revisit a crime committed to a child, who was tortured by government forces in the martial law years, will that not in turn, foster a new cycle of violence? I've never really been able to answer that question. But in terms of reviewing this past decade and the lost opportunities in what are the systemic loopholes that were exploited that got us to this point, yes, but in terms of filing charges against those who are guilty of committing crimes that I think should be left to the Department of Justice, in the very capable hands of a very active and proactive Secretary of Justice, who I will not name at this point in time lest he be persecuted for that.
Question: Over the last decade or so the Philippine economy has not done well in manufacturing, it has not come out competitive in the world, and agriculture has not developed as you mentioned the way it should, and the country has moved more and more toward being a service industry, very successfully in some cases, call centers, BPO, tourism beginning to pick up, this is an area which I think there is a great potential for the Philippines. But it requires one thing that the two other sectors don't require, education. And the educational system in the Philippines has deteriorated dramatically and alarmingly. We only have a ten-year primary/secondary school system where everywhere else in the world has 12. as you mentioned only 14% graduate from college level. We don't have enough classrooms, books full or errors, all the things you know. What specific things will you do to correct the situation? And where and how will you get the funds?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: There are various solutions to the problem, and first of all let me agree with you Mr. Juarez with all the things you've said previously. What are solutions? How much will it cost to…there is an estimated twenty to forty thousand classroom need in this country. If our main focus will be to pump prime the economy and generate employment, then we will build the schools.
Our experts tell us within a year, maximum of two years we can complete the twenty to forty thousand, even at the cost of a million per classroom, although at this point in time the average is at about 500,000, and where will we get the money? As I've mentioned earlier, there are so much leakages in our revenue collection efforts. The 150 billion, we can allocate a portion of the 150 billion towards meeting at least part of the 40 billion necessary, if pump-priming was the necessary goal.
On the other hand we want a more effective use of the resource, we can contract private schools. I'm made to understand that middle-tier schools have a tuition in the 5,000 to 8,000 bracket. What does that mean? For a class size of 50, that translates into Php400,000 cost per classroom of 50. When we build classrooms, the shell, the basic shell lacking, the chairs, the blackboard, electricity, the books, the teachers, etc., just the basic shell is already on average nation-wide Php500,000. So if we are to send these children, there's an existing program using a voucher system called "Gasbi." If we send these children to private schools but in a direct contracting basis so that there are no abuses in the system, we can save about Php100,000 per classroom. That translates into, or we can utilize that resource into supplemental feeding programs, into a better book development program, into a scholarships for college, into scholarships for teachers, benefits, so on and so forth.
So, the plan is, transform it from 10 to 12, there is a bridge program, it's already in the books, that's why my theme is always "there are no secrets." The plan is a good plan, it's already there, it's really just a question of implementing the same. Now, I think it is unfair for our students to, to expect rather, our students to be able to absorb 12 years' worth of education in a 10-year program, further compounded by the desire to be solving the problems by saying we have no more classroom shortages, and this was done basically by shifting. Shifting is making 2 or 3 classes utilize 1 classroom. And I would just like to emphasize because that really angers me every time I think about it. You're a Grade 1 student, which is the entry level, in our public school system, you have a class supposedly for English, to which Science and Health have been included. So, the child who probably doesn't understand English, is tasked to understand scientific concepts taught in English and together with health. To further compound it, as if he didn't have enough problems, he's given a textbook that has errors known only to the teacher, who is in possession of teacher's notes. The Grade 1 student, I think no, by the DepEd is expected to be able to discern what is right and what is wrong at Grade 1, in a language he doesn't understand.
Therefore the investment is a guarantee of problems down the line. People who cannot be employed think, limitations as to what we can do given the talent that is there before us. So we want to get to the 12-year program, we want to have a pre-school level where they are taught or conditioned to be able to study. And of course those textbooks will really have to be corrected and people who accepted the same and contracted for the same should be liable.
Question: Could we encourage Congress to spend its pork barrel on education?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: Pork barrel will be limited to national priority programs, and of course one of them will be school-building programs.
Question: Mr. Senator, there are a couple of questions that deal with governance issues, particularly corruption, and I'd like to read them and maybe you can answer them as a whole. How will you handle the Lucio Tan cases of tax evasion and the Marcos wealth? Second, you talk about how different you will be from the present administration, what exactly will you do to make GMA, FG and all pay for their crimes? What will you do with the tong of all congressmen? There's another one that has to do with encouraging whistle-blowers. So maybe your strategy with dealing with corruption?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: Can I start with how do I deal with whistle-blowers? It's a sad fact no, I learned this close to about 3 decades ago, if you catch somebody smuggling, you're supposed to entitled to, I'm talking about at this point in time, to a reward of 20% when you give information to catch the smugglers. If you facilitate smuggling, I was told by my informants, you get a 10% fee. So I asked this person, why will you participate in something illegal to get 10% when you can go legal? And point the authorities towards the commission of this crime and get a double reward? And the simple answer was: the 10% is kaliwaan, I get it right away, the 20% I will get when I retire and probably 5 years after that. The explanation is you go through so many processes, the seizing, the goods, for instance, of smuggling, the appeals process, auctioning, etc., I don't think it's that difficult point for government to advance this reward system to make it an effective reward system, point one.
Point 2, as I keep saying, the judicial reform is so essential. We cannot have a situation where a criminal is not deterred from committing a crime basically because even if he gets to trial, he doesn't even have a 1 in 5 chance of being convicted. It seems you are the most unlucky individual to be convicted in this country. Now we have so many leads with regards to the first family, statements of assets and liabilities are there, there are dramatic changes in the statements of various members, and obviously, there are various provisions already with our laws, unexplained wealth, is presumed to be ill-gotten. And in that situation, they are tasked to answer for that.
And at the same time, my father was a very…one of my father's most important advocacies was human rights. Therefore I will ensure that their rights are also protected. Because again, from my father, the true test of a democracy is not your ability to defend the rights of your friends, but more importantly those of your enemies. Because if you allow one group to be oppressed, you are setting up the situation for your group to be oppressed at some point in time. So they will be afforded all of the rights, they will be given all of the opportunities to answer the charges, and like any other citizen, they will be presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
Now with regards to the Marcos and Lucio Tan cases, and these are subjudice, I will be entering the situation, what, at the second or third decade of litigation? One would hope that there is closure to all, even to those issues. When you go into this country, you can expect adjudication of cases to happen in a timely manner. One of the sad facts, and that's why judicial reform, again, our stake, has to be improved, is that on average we understand that it takes 6 years to adjudicate a case. Again, it leads to, a condition where it moves everybody not to follow the laws, and that has to stop.
Question: 2 quick questions, Senator. the heart of the Cory Constitution is social justice. The phrase is not anywhere in your platform, as advertised. What are the specifics of your social justice program? And related, that is the question of what will you do June 30, 2010, we do not have a president or vice president who can be proclaimed and we wake up on July 1, 2010, GMA is still the ruler of this country in one form or another?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: I take exception to the fact that social justice is not in the platform, it is actually embodied in practically all of the 16 points of the platform that we have published on the site. For instance, we want to have the provision of opportunities for everybody to improve themselves, that's why job generation is first in the list of priorities. What does that mean? I think a father wants best, provide me the job and I'll take care of my children's education and health. Education is the second factor, again empowerment, again, opportunities. If you are not educated enough, there are you know, what jobs actually can, what skills do you have, and what jobs can you acquire? Therefore, to have meaningful job generation, the educational support should be there, hence our drive for the 12-year program and even the inclusion of a nursery stage prior to the formal education program.
The ecology, the platform on ecology is very, very simple. We want to translate it so that there's no confusion among anyone. If there are no forests, there are no watersheds. No watersheds, no water. No water, no food, no food, no people. Are you aware that we have an 8% remaining primary forest cover? But what is more criminal, is up to today, we have not delineated the forestry lines. So when you talk about preserving forests, you don't even define what the forests is obviously, we are not preserving anything, and that is there also. I'm sorry, I'm missing the second question.
Question: The second questions asks what you will do come June 30, 2010 when we have no elected president and vice president…
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: Number one, the laws on succession are very clear. But can I just tell you, instead of telling all of you our plans, people, let's not be naive, no? There are talks that certain quarters want to exploit that situation. There are talks of failure of elections or non-proclamation, no-el, so on and so forth. Now, does it behoove me to reveal publicly the plans that we are contemplating at this point in time, and to make our job of preserving this democracy harder by telling our enemies precisely what we will do. I think I will leave my plans close guarded at this point in time and we assure you we are not babes in the woods, and we are ready, as much as possible, we are getting all the necessary info, intelligence and alliances in place, to forestall the grabbing of power by people with purely vested self-interest.
Can I just add, sorry, this has to be really laid in the minds of everybody. We in the Liberal Party say that we are espousing platform-based, issue-based politics. And I am very, very confident that even if I were not in the seat, this occupation is fraught with dangers. I have in the person of my partner, Mar Roxas, somebody who is exactly of like mind, somebody who will pick up if I am unable to finish the job. Therefore, we can assure everybody that will join us, there is a continuity of expectations that are realistic. This is not person-based.
Question: That highlights a weakness in the political system in the Philippines. When we elect you, we don't automatically elect Sen. Roxas because you're voted for independently—so it has to be as a team. In the papers recently there was a two-page ad put in by the government claiming all kinds of things: that this president has achieved. It has numerous faults in it. One of the things is that they are very proud of the fact that this economy had been stimulated and helped by the OFWs and their remittances to the Philippines. Those OFWs are Filipinos who have had to leave their families. So society has been hurt badly by it. It's in fact an economic failure. A failure of government to provide the jobs that they should have had here. What would you do to reverse the situation, to be able to provide the jobs here for Filipinos instead of overseas?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino:: Well, number one, I think I will be lying if I told you that we will have comparable jobs within six years. That I think is an impossibility. But there is I think an obtainable objective of having compensation for people who have skills that have been improved. We can get it to a certain level whereby the increase in wages—although not the same as working abroad—together with the family being in tact, and together with the idea of being a first-class citizen in your own country will be enough to win people away from seeking the greener pasture elsewhere. We believe that the people who have left and who are opting to leave, primarily have no choice. They are political refugees, they are being forced, not for improvement—where it was 20 years ago—but rather even just for survival. And again you're right. The opportunities have to exist here. Now, when I go around the country, when I go around Metro Manila, the opportunities are so abundant, and all it takes is to do the right thing. For instance, in Surigao City, the table you're using right now was about the length of this fish—I don't know what breed of fish that was. But that particular stall in the public market in Surigao City had three of it. The next stall had five of the same size. And the Media asked me in that point in time—this was the senatorial campaign—"Can you raise it up for a photo op?" And of course I'm very macho, and I proceeded to raise it by the head. And the only thing I raised was the head. It was that heavy. And I was saying: "How much would it cost to set up a blast freezing facility here? How much would it cost to turn these things into steaks, train the people to marinate it into that, and export it to countries like Japan or elsewhere, where they'd be thanking us for sharing the bounty … " Mar Roxas's home province of Capiz, you go to the beach at low tide, you have a rake, you rake the sand, you get clams. In Metro Manila you get [the fry] of the clams. Why can't we even get it from Capiz to Metro Manila?
I'm sorry, sometimes I can't stop, because really, the absurdity, the simplicity of the solutions that are not being implemented really gets to me. The fertilizer scam: The greatest sin is 723 million pesos at least could have started a chain of improving productivity. And for those of you who are not aware, when you plant rice in irrigated lands—and that was the hybrid rice program, that was the fertilizer input program —you can double to quadruple your income for our farmers, especially if it's irrigated. You can have five harvests in two years. But this current government made the program in 2004 and really turned it into a disaster. We had ten cropping cycles that we lost an opportunity in. But the biggest sin is that even in investigating this alleged crime took four years. That's why I said ten harvests were lost. So, again, from Masagana '99 we had a hundred kabans per hectare. Commercially we are already now growing 240 to 320 kabans per hectare. I am told, but I'm still validating this, that UPLB and IRRI are even working further than that. And again: a true fertilizer input program, adequate monitoring, serious credit facilities, can undoubtedly at least make us self-sufficient in rice. We teach agriculturists worldwide. At the end of the day, we import food. That has to stop also.
Question: I think you will welcome this next question. It says: do you already have enough money for the campaign?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: I will be lying if I tell you we have enough money. But, there is adequate … but of course, it makes the process that much simpler. Can I just share with you this bit of information that was given to me yesterday? I understand there was a tsinoy who went to our headquarters in EDSA the other day. He proceeds to donate a certain amount of money, I was not told how much, but he had a simple request. I'll say it Tagalog cause it really was… I really made my day that day. He said: "Ito yung pera, bumili kayo ng commercial niyo. Naiinis na ko dito sa isang 'to." That by the way is not a joke. It really did happen. At some point in time we will have to report that contribution to Comelec. We'll have all the details then. But it really made my day.
Question: Two quick questions again, Mr Senator. What will be the roles of your sister Kris and your uncle Peping if you become president? Can you give us a specifically categorical answer on your stand on the Reproductive Health Bill?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: Kris I think will still be my fashion adviser, which means if she does not like what I'm wearing, she will not keep quiet. I think she even had this barong made. So if she complains I'll tell her you're the one who designed it. And that will be the extent. Most of my sisters, and Kris included—Kris is a very busy individual … Anything I ask her, I ask her to attend some ribbon-cutting thing if I become president, that will be an imposition on her time. The three are eagerly looking forward to regaining their anonymity. In fact I'm not even sure if I celebrate my birthday, in the period of incumbency, that they will be present, since it will be a Media event. The role of my Tito Peping: I would be foolish not to seek his wisdom, because of his experience; but at the same time, I will be the one holding the fort. The buck really has to stop with me. I am responsible ultimately for all my actions. Therefore any or all of my decisions will be based on discussion with all the stakeholders as much as possible, but in the end of the day it will be something I can live with in conscience, in what I believe is right regardless on who propounded it.
On reproductive health: Of course, somehow, the secretariat at the senate made it appear that I was an author of the Reproductive Heath Bill. Unfortunately I never authored such a bill. And I intend to interpolate the proposed version before us. The portion that I want to interpolate on is: In government when you have a budget, you don't use it, you lose it. And there will be provisions of the reproductive health for artificial means of family control. And I want provisions that will ensure that if government hospitals—by cunning, by deceit, by misinformation, etc, are able to expend these budgetary items so that they are replenished, then there'd be penal sanctions for the same.
My position is more properly called Responsible Parenthood; and basically it says, "The state has an obligation to remind parents each child you bring into this world carries with it a certain set of responsibilities: to clothe, to shelter, to educate, etc. That is the extent of what the state should do. So there will be educational programs, campaigns, seminars, symposia, to which we will invite all of the churches to put in their two-cents worth. At the end of the day, the state, in preserving the family, mandated by the constitution has to remind everybody that they will and that they should have these set of responsibilities. The state cannot force as to size, the state cannot force as to method. Now, in fact we will oppose any attempt to do so, because a democratic state has to proceed from individual freedoms.
Question: President Arroyo has intervened in a number of industries: power, oil, cement, pharmaceuticals, food—particularly, sensitively, rice. In state of belief, it was necessary to give people relief from otherwise excessive prices. What would be your policy and action?
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: Mrs Arroyo when she was my professor said that there should be minimal government intervention (Questioner: "She's got a poor memory …"), because distortions are created in the marketplace. But then again, given that … you know, it proceeds from a governance of survival there's no logic used except "will it help me retain power or not?" Therefore every decision is faulted from the onset because of that perception. We are hoping that we will get our mandate clear: clear and clearly won, therefore we will have the confidence to embark and ask our people. At this point in time we will have to sacrifice by X amount to get to this level. We want to be transparent in all of the dealings. At the end of the day I assume, god willing we have an intervention for instance in agriculture. You had that 723 million debt really bought fertilizers that were correct. That were delivered at a timely manner at an appropriate price. And perhaps even the, as I mentioned, the purchasing aspect of it be reformed. Things will work out on themselves because we made the right decisions on every aspect. When I pass EDSA, and I guess everybody who passes … can I just a question? When was the last time you remember EDSA as being a smoothly paved road? And this is the premiere road of our National Capital Region. I think most of you will say Highway 54, those who are honest. But when we export our construction companies, our engineers, our designers elsewhere, hindi ba world class? How many of you are aware that in this recent tragedy in Haiti, there were so many Filipinos in a professional basis. And I was surprised that even in Bermuda, the same situation holds: Accountants, lawyers, etc. I always assumed that Bermuda, beneficiary of the British Civil Service System, would have a very efficient bureaucracy, and an efficient professional corps. But it turns out it is again it's again another area for Filipino expertise to shine. So again, they can do it there, undoubtably they can do it better here, so long as the milieu is present that opportunities for everybody are extant. Nobody is excluded, hence our phrase is "Walang iwanan at walang maiiwan."
Question: I was told that we have to wind this up after two final questions, that I'd like to read. One is: "How will you handle the issue of pagbabago the Filipino people dreamt and longed for" and "as a transformational president, what key qualities would you bring to this task?"
Sen. Noynoy Aquino: Well, number one, you will have to lead by example. I think in fairness to my mother, at the onset of her term she inherited a government that was corrupt top to bottom, for the most part because the top set the example. Something as cop on the street who was being bribed for a minor traffic violation: he used to demand for his bribe. At the onset of my mom's term, the phrase was, "Teka, hindi ko hinihingi yan a. Binibigay mo yan, pinipilit mo." There was a recognition that that was wrong. And after that, something as simple as … I complain about traffic, and Mar in I already have an agreement. If we win, and if traffic isn't solved, we'll participate in the traffic. We will not ask of anybody that which we are not ready to do ourselves first. Hopefully we will not talk as much, because we are trying to put a spin on something that is indefensible. And siguro the biggest ambition is in the fourth year, it will just be Mar and I talking because everything is working and it's boring.
Sana po ay hindi na naming kailangan tutukan minut-minuto, dahil nga maayos na ang systema. E ngayon palang ho nagiipon na kami ng mga kwento just in case magkatotoo po yan. Diba? Lahat naman ng magulo sa mundo nating to ay dahil nga yung systema, hinayaan na kung saan interes ng isang tao, isang grupo lang ang importante. Yun ang gusto naming baguhin.
[Archived from the official campaign web site of President Benigno S. "Noynoy" Aquino III]


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Flood-stricken Bangladeshi to get food aid and livelihood support thanks to new EU assistance
The European Commission is boosting its aid to the victims of major floods in Bangladesh. The Commission will give an additional €1 million for food and livelihood support for around 49,000 vulnerable households while they recover from the flood impact in the worst affected areas of the north-western region of the country.
Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, responsible for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response said: "The floods came again at the worst possible time – the lean season, when food was already short, income opportunities reduced, and the prices at their highest. Vulnerable households, such as those of small-scale farmers and agricultural workers, are suffering additional hardships. These people desperately need help and we cannot leave their call unanswered".
The European Commission has already committed more than €22 million for humanitarian assistance in Bangladesh for 2012.
The new funding announced today will help the affected households get enough to eat, keep their assets and stay home rather than migrate to look for jobs elsewhere. The Commission's aid will bring food assistance and cash transfers to 17,500 households, and livelihood support in the form of unconditional cash grants to 31,500 households.
The projects will be implemented through humanitarian partner organisations in the region which include UN agencies and non-governmental organisations.
In late September, the north-western region of Bangladesh was hit by floods for the third time this year, at a time when households were already experiencing food shortages and struggling to make an income due to the impact of previous floods (at the end of June 2012 and mid-July 2012).
Bangladesh, a mostly low-lying country with the world's highest population density, is extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change and frequent natural disasters. The monsoon floods of 2011 affected over a million people and displaced some 200,000. Several areas in the south-western part of the country remain water-logged, with people in need of food and livelihood support. In 2012, flash floods in the south-east also damaged the habitat, water and sanitation facilities and the livelihood of around 1.3 Million people.
The European Commission has been active with humanitarian aid in Bangladesh for many years, focusing both on disaster preparedness and emergency response.
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Annie Clark, better known to fans by her stage name St. Vincent, joins us for a live Friday concert next Free at Noon. The New York experimental rocker is a master of moods, a stunning arranger and an accomplished guitarist. Her new self-titled album is out on February 24th , and can be heard this week on NPR Music's First Listen.
Clark got her start as a member of indie orchestras The Polyphonic a Spree and Sufjan Steven's backing band before forming St. Vincent in 2006. Since then, she has released three other albums including Marry Me in 2007, Actor in 2009, and Strange Mercy in 2011. St. Vincent quickly rose to fame by performing and collaborating with other indie acts like Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear and most recently, David Byrne on 2012's Love This Giant.
The multi-talented musician is known for unique psychedelic tunes employing a variety of sounds - everything from strings to wind instruments. XPN welcomes St. Vincent to Union Transfer for a sold-out show on Friday, Feb. 28th, so catch her while you can at Free at Noon.
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Fails of the Week: Ashton Kutcher, Amar'e Stoudemire and More
At some point this week, we've all turned on the news or checked out a blog, and thought: "Wow, what a fail!" From Ashton Kutcher's insensitive Pop Chips ad to Amar'e Stoudemire's tantrum, here are the fails of the week.
Who: Ashton Kutcher and Popchips
Fail: Airing a commercial that featured Ashton mocking Indians in brownface and dressed in a fake Indian outfit.
Redemption: Although the company's CEO has issued an apology, they should air a new commercial that includes positive representations of multiple races as opposed to mocking them and appearing racist.


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I found some old pictures of my Glamour Shots and shared with you. I got inspired from seeing a show from Ellen that made me want to find them.
With Mother's Day approaching, I gave a TOP 10 gift ideas list for Mother's Day!
I used Animoto to make a video that summarized our Easter. I also shared my Rules of Mother's with Daughter's Post that still makes me smile. EmmyMom put a lil' editing touches on this picture of Reese!
I was so proud to update our office and get my very own Craft Wall started!
I took part in a 10 Reasons to Smile post that EmmyMom hosts which I really need to work on participating every month next year!
I was pretty excited to make a small photo prop and take pictures of my kids for the upcoming July 4th holiday!
I worked so hard on getting all of the details perfect for Reese's 2nd Birthday party!
I also gave a quick little tutorial about how I made DAD letters with washi tape for Erik for Father's Day!
The finest moment for me was when Rayne said MOMMA for the first time and it was her first WORD!!
I created a memory-sake for Ryan's Karate class using a board he broke and matched it up to his belt using the same stripes with pictures of his accomplishments.
These were some busy few months! Sure does make time feel like it has flown by! I'm excited to see your 2nd quarter! So link up and join the giveaway!


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One night while flossing kid1's teeth I saw a black spot in between two teeth. I made Chuck come in and look and sure enough we both saw the spot a little larger than a pin hole. It was devastating! If you read my last post about taking our daughter to the dentist only to have them find cavities you might understand my quest a little more. I wanted to learn everything I could about how I could be a better parent to my daughters teeth. I had long been on the no fluoride bandwagon, much to the dismay of every dentist we have gone to see. And now I was learning that even toothpaste without fluoride was not good for our teeth.
Toothpaste contains glycerin (even the organic all natural ones), that is what you feel on your teeth after brushing them, it is a slick coating that prevents remineralization. Remineralization is your enamel regrowing, this is a natural defense that our teeth have to the foods we eat. So by brushing your teeth with toothpaste you are basically causing sensitive teeth and cavities, the very thing you thought you were preventing.
After learning that our daughters teeth had the start of many cavities I was willing to try anything. When I read about using soap for brushing our teeth, I thought it couldn't hurt. So I went to the local health foods store and searched for a bar of 100% olive oil soap, unflavored. I was not to sure how the "flavor" would come across. For the first week the taste was a little hard to get past, it tastes like, well like soap. But after about a week I could not tell anymore, kid1 was not happy at all. She made awful faces and could not understand why we would put soap in our mouths.
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It has been 8 months and we are still working on the same bar of soap, money savings is another added bonus. Along with our soap we also added a Waterpik for flossing. I have to say my teeth feel pretty amazing.


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ECU professor's 'forgiveness' research featured on PBS
GREENVILLE, N.C. (June 2, 2008) — The adage, "forgive and forget," could be good advice for the body as well as for the mind and heart.
This is according to Kathleen Row, the chair of the psychology department at East Carolina University, who studies correlations between a person's health and the ability to forgive.
Row has been studying the forgiveness question, and how it relates to spirituality, well-being and health, for almost a decade. Her findings aired June 4 in the documentary, "The Power of Forgiveness," on PBS (UNC-TV).
The film, directed and produced by Martin Doblmeier, won the Best Film award at the Sun Valley Film Festival and features interviews and stories from people of many faith traditions. It has aired on PBS stations across the country.
"Some people would like to forgive and they can't; but they still see it as a value. Religions treat it as a value," Row said. "From a psychological perspective, instead of moral or spiritual value, does forgiveness have a physical value?"
Row's research has shown a marked difference in the blood pressure and heart rate recovery levels of those who can more easily forgive compared to those who cannot.
"You literally carry it around with you," Row said. "If you had a heavy sack on your back, your blood pressure would raise to let you be able to carry it around with you. My question is: how is forgiveness mapped onto the body?"
For her research, Row asks participants to fill out a questionnaire about forgiveness. In a one-on-one meeting, the participant, hooked up to heart rate and blood pressure monitors, is asked to recount a time when he or she had been wronged or betrayed.
"One finding is that people with a more forgiving personality will struggle to tell a story about a time when someone hurt them," she said. "Other people will say, 'Where do you want me to start?'"
The blood pressure and heart rates of everyone who interviewed rises as they recount their betrayal, Row said, but those who had forgiven the wrongdoing showed a marked difference in returning quicker to normal levels.
"We want to see what are they like when something negative happens to the body and afterwards. How long does it take to get back to the relaxed state?"
Row has found that older people, in general, are more likely to be forgiving, and that women are more likely to be forgiving in general than men, although men had shown to be more forgiving when considering specific situations.
For much of her 25-plus year career in psychophysiology, Row studied the mind-body connection of how certain behaviors could be predictors of cardiovascular disease.
"At some point, I realized I wanted to look at what psychological states could lead to lower blood pressure," she said. "If you hold in anger, if you are competitive, what are you supposed to do? To be less of these things, what are ways to enhance healthy attitudes that can prevent cardiovascular disease?"
In 1999, Row received a grant that enabled her to extend her research to the question of forgiveness. Her work in the past seven years, she said, validates that forgiveness can yield positive benefits not only for the forgiven, but for the forgiver as well.
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Cowboys sign 3rd-round picks to 4-year deals
Cowboys sign 3rd-round picks to 4-year deals
Jun. 19, 2013
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys have signed both of their third-round draft picks to four-year contracts.
Baylor receiver Terrance Williams was the 74th overall pick in April, six spots ahead of Georgia Southern safety J.J. Wilcox. The team announced the signings Wednesday.
Exact terms of the deals weren't available. Williams will get a signing bonus of more than $600,000, while Wilcox will get a bonus just under that figure.
With those deals in place, the Cowboys have five of their seven draft picks under contract. Unsigned are Wisconsin center Travis Frederick, the 31st overall pick in the first round, and second-round pick Gavin Escobar, a tight end from San Diego State.
Williams is expected to be the No. 3 receiver behind Miles Austin and Dez Bryant. The Cowboys drafted the 6-foot-2 Williams with the extra pick they got when they traded down in the first round.
Last season, he had 97 catches for 1,832 yards, a Big 12-leading 141 yards a game, and 12 touchdowns.
Wilcox moved to safety full-time from receiver for his senior season at Georgia Southern, and finished second on the team with 88 tackles. He also had two interceptions.
The 6-foot, 219-pound Wilcox had 45 catches for 898 yards and four touchdowns in three seasons as a receiver.


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Master and servant relationships among nations
4 March 2014
More people are working from outside Australia to provide Australians with consumer goods, than are working within Australia.
The finding is from a University of Sydney study which analyses international employment and reveals that in 2010 there were more than 11 million workers outside Australia working for the Australian people, while the total workforce in Australia was about 10 million.
In the same year:
- the full-time equivalent work of more than 200 million labourers in China and India was dedicated to producing exports for other countries
- the average domestic wage in Japan in 2010 was $US53,000 while the wage of foreign workers producing imports for Japan averaged $US6,500
- more than 27 percent of the Bangladeshi workforce was engaged in producing clothing for export to countries such as the United States, Britain, Germany and Australia, at an average wage of approximately one quarter that of people working to satisfy its domestic consumption
- 70 million workers from outside the USA supported the lifestyle of American citizens
- 70 percent of Madagascans who worked for export industries had much lower wages than those working within Madagascar for their own country's needs
"Our unique study brings into full view the complex supply chains around the world, making clear which countries are acquiring goods and from where," said Ali Alsamawi, lead author of the study recently published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Ali Alsamawi is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) at the University of Sydney's School of Physics.
The study analyses the production of a country's direct and indirect imports using employment and income footprints.
"The tracing of the 'master-servant' relationships could benefit businesses, governments and non-government organisations concerned with corporate social responsibility and committed to fairer trading," said Dr Joy Murray, another ISA researcher on the paper.
"The master-servant description is economic and does not make assumptions about how workers in these countries perceive their labour."
The results reveal there are 'masters', or net importers of employment who rely on workers in other countries to maintain their consumption, and 'servants', or net exporters, who work to support other nation's lifestyles.
Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland occupy the top-ranking positions of master countries, while many African and Asian countries are servants.
To satisfy its consumption, each Hong Kong resident needs seven 'servants' from the rest of the world for each person in its own workforce, Singapore needs five and the UAE needs four.
Australia is number 10 on the list of master countries. For every 100 domestic Australian workers, there are 103 workers located overseas creating goods for Australian consumption.
"Our results show commodities that are especially 'servant intensive', such as electronics, agricultural products, and chemicals, tend to have complex supply chains, often originating in developing countries," said Dr Murray.
A computer bought in Australia (average domestic wage US$59,700) might be assembled in China (average domestic wage $US2, 700) and Thailand ($US2,100) using electronic circuits made in the Philippines ($US1,700).
"This research reveals exploitation through complex pathways affecting millions of people worldwide, and as such is a powerful analytical tool."
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Treasuries rose, pushing 10-year note yields to almost a two-week low, amid concern that Hurricane Sandy will disrupt business and hurt the U.S. economic recovery.
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommended trading in dollar-denominated fixed-income securities end at noon in New York because of the storm. U.S. debt remained higher even as a report showed consumer spending exceeded forecasts in August. Treasuries were also supported on speculation that Greece will need to restructure its debt, and before a report this week that economists predict will show the U.S. jobless rate climbed in October.
"Most eyes are on the hurricane and as such volume is half the normal amount," said David Ader, head of U.S. government bond strategy at CRT Capital Group LLC in Stamford, Connecticut. "The same European stories and uncertainty brought us a little lower in yield overnight, and those stories and the uncertainty persists. There was nothing in the data that we didn't know coming into today."
The U.S. 10-year yield fell three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 1.71 percent at 8:49 a.m. in New York, the lowest since Oct. 16, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 1.625 percent note due in August 2022 rose 9/32, or $2.81 per $1,000 face amount, to 99 7/32.
Jobs Outlook
The jobless rate climbed to 7.9 percent this month from a three-year low of 7.8 percent in September, according to a Bloomberg News survey of economists before the Nov. 2 report. Employers hired 125,000 workers, following an increase of 114,000 in September, according to another Bloomberg survey.
"The U.S. economy is just not going strong enough to dissuade the Federal Reserve from further stimulus," said Nick Stamenkovic, a fixed-income strategist at RIA Capital Markets Ltd. in Edinburgh. "We don't know how bad Hurricane Sandy will be at this point, but any substantial damage created by it will probably have a near-term negative impact on growth expectation. That will underpin demand for Treasuries."
Treasuries rose on Oct. 26, sending the 10-year yield down eight basis points, after a report showed Spain's unemployment rate climbed to a record 25.02 percent, fueling demand for the relative safety of U.S. debt.
The European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund proposed a restructuring of Greek debt that would require public-sector lenders to take losses, Spiegel reported without saying there it got the information.
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Travel to Fulton Friday night
The Mexico Bulldogs and Fulton Hornets have been football rivals since their first game back in 1920. Friday night marks the 121st meeting between the two teams with the Hornets leading in the winning column 62 to 52. There have also been 6 ties.
In recent years, the rivalry has been dubbed the Highway 54 Bowl. The team that wins is presented the Highway 54 Bowl trophy sign which is presently in the possession of the Bulldogs after last year's 47-6 victory.
This year's game will be at Fulton and is a conference game. This is a matchup between two struggling teams. Fulton's overall record is 0-7 and Mexico has a 1-6 record. In addition, both teams are looking for their first conference win.
MHS coach Ty Harrison has seen some improvement in the past few games with his special teams but they still have their work cut out for them. Even with a winless season, Harrison believes the Hornets are beginning to play better.
"They are experienced but a winless team that has started to play their best football lately," said the MHS coach. To keep the Hornets winless, the Bulldogs will put the pressure on their quarterback. A major obstacle for Mexico will be the ability to stop Fulton's passing game and their wildcat formation when the 'Dogs are on defense. The Bulldogs will also need to execute blocking schemes against a defense they haven't seen much of.
An important aspect of the game for Mexico is consistency in all phases of the game. Harrison's Bulldogs have focused their practices this week to combat their inconsistency in executing assignments.
"We are going back to fundamental assignments on each play. Making sure we are in the right place and making sure we make the play when we are there," said the coach.
To come home with the victory and the 54 Bowl trophy, the Bulldogs' defense will need to shut down the Hornets' passing game.
"We need to stop their passing game and put heat on their quarterback," stated Harrison.
As for Mexico's offense, they need to take charge early in the game. "We need to set the pace of the game by scoring early," said Harrison. To sum it up, the Bulldogs need to be consistent in every play of the game.
Game time is 7 p.m.


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By Michael Winfrey and Harry Papachristou
ATHENS (Reuters) - Parliament in Athens prepared to vote an annual budget on Sunday that will cut spending and raise taxes yet again but which the government insisted will kill off talk of Greece being forced out of Europe's currency union.
An anti-austerity demonstration called by major trade unions mustered thousands of protesters outside during the debate but a spokesman for conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras's coalition reflected confidence the government majority would see the 2013 budget bill pass, probably around midnight (2200 GMT).
"With today's vote, we put an end to the Grexit talk," Simos Kediglou told a Greek television channel, using the term coined for the possibility Greece might force to exit the euro zone.
The measure, following a separate package of belt-tightening approved last week, should ensure Athens receives further credit from international lenders and so avoid imminent insolvency.
However, many of the 10 million Greeks, driven to despair by five years of debt-laden economic slump, fear attempts to cut the public deficit will only deepen the crisis and many poorer citizens say living standards in a country where unemployment is running at 25 percent are becoming hard to bear.
"All those measures throw us back 50 years," said Thymios Marvitsas, 75, during a communist protest march to parliament during the budget debate. "Our pensions and wages are cut. My life is getting harder and harder."
Police estimated the crowd outside parliament at 13,000.
Arguments about the wisdom of cutting spending have also divided the political establishment and Sunday's vote poses a test of confidence in Samaras's three-party coalition.
It managed to pass Wednesday's austerity and reform package by only a narrow majority after the smallest of the partners, Democratic Left, abstained. However, its leaders have said the party will vote for the 2013 budget and, with Samaras having nominal support from 168 of the 300 members, it should pass.
Hours later, euro zone finance ministers meet in Brussels for talks likely to be dominated by the Greek crisis though a final decision on extended more credit is not expected.
Securing both pieces of budget-cutting legislation has been a condition of renewing bailout funding and unlocking more than 30 billion euros in financing from the International Monetary Fund and European Union later this month.
The government, formed after a tumultuous election in June, has ignored sliding poll numbers and occasionally violent street protests in pursuit of favor with its creditors.
"Today we must demand sacrifices so there is hope for future generations," Finance Minister Yannis Stounaras told parliament on Saturday. "Re-establishing our credibility is our only passport to recovery."
For the opposition, Panagiotis Lafazanis of the leftist SYRIZA party, responded: "For three years you have been going from bailout to bailout, rescue to rescue.
"You've already bankrupted the Greek people."
According to the budget draft, the Mediterranean state's economy will shrink for its sixth year running, by 4.5 percent.
The budget deficit will be 5.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), down from 6.6 percent expected this year. But once the cost of paying interest on its huge debt is removed, Greece will show a tiny surplus for the first time in decades.
These deficit figures assume Athens's lenders will extend a deadline for it to narrow its fiscal shortfall by two years in exchange for the new belt-tightening package.
The biggest cost-reductions next year are pension cuts of up to 15 percent for almost half the total 9.4 billion euros in budget savings and public wages cuts of 1.2 billion.
Greece's fiscal adjustment has hit workers more than the wealthy elite. This has become a sore point in a nation where media have published lists of bankers, lawyers and shipping magnates who they say have moved cash to Switzerland.
"It's always the same. The poor pay and no one touches the rich and the tax evaders. Winter is coming and I can't afford heat," said 41-year-old housewife Angeliki Petropoulou.
The budget foresees debt rising to 346 billion euros, or almost 190 percent of GDP, from 175 percent this year.
EU and ECB officials say that means that Athens will not be able to reduce its debt to 120 percent of GDP by 2020, the level the IMF has said is the ceiling for debts to be sustainable in the long term.
That has triggered a debate on how to reduce the debt, which include discussions on cutting interest rates on Greece's official loans, letting the ECB give profits from Greek bonds it holds back to Athens, helping bail out Greek banks with the EU's EFSF rescue fund, and other measures.
In comments published by a German newspaper on Sunday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said the troika of international lenders to Athens was unlikely to deliver a full report in time for Monday's euro zone finance ministers meeting.
European leaders have been waiting for the report by officials from the three institutions - the IMF, EU and the European Central Bank - before agreeing to extend more loans.
"At the moment it does not look as if we will have a finished, complete troika report on Monday, especially given that the Greek parliament is only agreeing the budget on Sunday," Schaeuble said ahead of the Eurogroup ministers' talks.
Time pressure for a deal is growing as Athens has to redeem 5 billion euros ($6.4 billion) worth of treasury bills on November 16 and has been counting on foreign cash to help cover that.
Schaeuble whose country is the biggest contributor to EU budgets, said: "We in the Eurogroup and in the IMF want to help Greece but we will not let ourselves be put under pressure.
"We are not responsible for the time pressure, all parties involved have been aware of this deadline for a long time."
(Additional reporting by Phoebe Fronista; Editing by Anna Willard and Alastair Macdonald)


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The Recycling Council of British Columbia has announced that Vancouver Whitecaps FC are the recipient of the 2011 Innovation Award. The award recognizes the club's Greenzone Sustainability Kick program, an initiative implemented in 2009 in partnership with Evergreen Sports Programming Ltd. The mandate of the initiative was to decrease the amount of waste produced at its home games by increasing recycling and composting resources available at its facilities.
"It is certainly a great honour to receive this award from the Recycling Council of British Columbia. We have worked hard to implement the program and have enjoyed tremendous success since we started," said Hillary Campbell, Whitecaps FC Director of Event Operations. "Back in 2009, we only had 10 per cent of our waste being recycled after each home game, and now we're up to 85 per cent with only a 0.02% cross contamination rate. That is a great achievement and we hope we can eventually reach our goal of 95 per cent. Considering the larger crowds we have been attracting at Empire Field, it's really something that we are proud of."
Such success was achieved by encouraging both fans and food vendors to not only recycle or compost materials at designated waste stations, but also to reduce the amount of garbage coming into the stadium by using reusable containers and serving in bulk rather than single serve items.
The first phase of the plan was initiated at Swangard Stadium back in 2009, and early results showed an improvement from 10 per cent to 70 per cent after just one season. With the move of Whitecaps FC to Major League Soccer and Bell Pitch at Empire Field in the spring of 2011 came the Greenzone initiative. The inaugural season has seen an even greater commitment to the effort from both the fans and the organization to ensure the organization's success.
The Recycling Council of British Columbia is a multi-sectoral, non-profit, membership driven organization that promotes the principles of zero waste through information services, the exchange of ideas and research.


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Gerald Pelletier, who was a farmer, started Gerald Pelletier, Inc. SM, which is an affiliate of Pelletier Brothers, Inc. SM today, after supplementing the family income from as early as the 1950s by hauling logs. Gerald Pelletier, Inc. became incorporated in 1976 and in 1989 took over a wood harvesting operation, which also involved road construction. As each of his sons reached their mid teens, Gerald put them behind the wheel of a truck and when each son came to work in the business, Gerald added another truck to his fleet and the business continued to grow from there.
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Lena was born on May 20, 1930 and Gerald was born on November 15, 1932 and both grew up around the Fort Kent area, marrying on October 24, 1953.
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Computerized firearms: Holder's bad gun ideaEDITORIAL
April 12. 2014 12:01AM
The Obama administration's ongoing effort to place unnecessary restraints on our right to bear arms entered a strange phase when Attorney General Eric Holder floated the idea of requiring that guns be manufactured so that only the lawful owners could use them. It is a dumb idea.
Before a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee on April 4, Holder said: "I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common-sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people, and we talked about how guns can be made more safe. By making them either through fingerprint identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon."
Requiring manufacturers to include single-user restrictions in every handgun renders the weapons useless for anyone else who might need them for protection. Gun-owning families often have one gun in the home, to be used by whichever adult might need it in an emergency.
Holder would require every adult to have his or her own gun, a needless expense.
Despite what he might have seen in the movies, the technology for this is not yet perfected. And making handguns more complex raises their cost and their risk of malfunction. Gun ownership is a constitutional right. Is Holder prepared to price that right out of reach of the poor (who need it the most)?
Furthermore, gun deaths in America are not caused by guns being manufactured incorrectly. They result primarily from suicides (more than 60 percent of all gun deaths), cultural factors and some laws (for instance, drug prohibition, which creates inner city drug gangs and their turf wars) that Holder's gun ID plan would do little or nothing to combat.


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A/C problem 93 honda
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A/C problem 93 honda
I have a 93 Honda civic. Where I live is close to the equator so its hot most of the day. Only when it rains my ac would work. So I changed the evaporator. After the change I vacuumed and regased the system.I noticed that whenever the compressor switches off it only stops for a few seconds and starts up again. While driving in the sun the ac is not getting cold. I re gased the system and vacuum tested myself. The psi on the low side was reading about 25.I used a gauge where I could of only gotten to use the low side port. The gauge would not fit the high sidee so didn't get a reading. Does any one know what happened there? I also noticed a drastic drop in the power of the car.
Re: A/C problem 93 honda
I'm assuming the system is similar to the one that I had in my 92 accord - a marginal system in tip top shape. I live in Arizona, and would consistently melt 1 of the 2 electric cooling fans every few years - I'd recommend ensuring both the cooling fans are running. My accord had a manual transmission, but if you have an automatic (my condolences lol), an external trans cooler will take some heat load off the cooling system and will help on those hot days.
Re: A/C problem 93 honda
Agree, sounds like issue of air flow over the AC condenser. Are all shrouds in place, all fan(s) operating full time?
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