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If the FDA expects to persuade American smokers to quit in large numbers, it must continue its aggressive approach in blunting the marketing abilities of cigarette makers.
If the FDA expects to persuade American smokers to quit in large numbers, it must continue its aggressive approach in blunting the marketing abilities of cigarette makers.
On Tuesday, the FDA gave the public a sneak peek at new cigarette labels with graphic, macabre imagery that the federal health agency will mandate on all packs of cigarettes beginning in 2012.
The labels include pictures of rotting and diseased teeth, the corpse of a smoker, diseased lungs and a man with a tracheotomy smoking through a hole in his throat. Phrases like "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer" will also be prominently displayed on the packs.
The labels also promote a "quit line" for helping smokers kick the habit. The labels must cover the top, front and back of the pack. Unpleasant? Yes. But sometimes the truth is ugly.
Although smoking kills 443,000 Americans each year, it's not just the fatal diseases that are of concern. Last week, there was fatal fire in Taunton, in which "careless smoking" killed a 64-year-old woman who was on a breathing machine but still smoking.
Earlier this month, families in Abington and Quincy escaped such tragedy, but their homes were damaged by fires that officials said were caused by the careless disposal of smoking materials.
This week's packaging announcement is a milestone in the long, slow evolution of government response to the health hazards of cigarettes. Warning labels first appeared on cigarette packs in 1965, and television advertising ceased on Jan. 2, 1971. The FDA attempted to assert its authority to regulate tobacco in 1996, only to lose a Supreme Court decision on the matter in 2000. Not until the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act became law in 2009 did the FDA gain control of tobacco regulation.
The FDA claims that the labels will cut the number of smokers by 213,000 in 2013, with smaller reductions through 2031.
More than 30 other countries, including Canada and many European nations, have already mandated the large stark labels on cigarette packaging, warning of the ill health effects to smokers and those around them.
Canada has seen a 6 percent drop in the number of smokers since it introduced graphic warnings in 2000. If the graphic warnings implemented by the FDA persuade even a small number of the die-hard smokers that are left to kick the habit, what's the harm?
More than anything, the new cigarette labels are about truth in advertising. In light of all the lies and deceptive marketing practices the tobacco companies have pushed at Americans – including children and minority communities – to try to get us hooked over all the years, perhaps the truth may finally set us free.
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From: Alma Boyd [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 25 July, 0054 A.S. 4:04 p.m.
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Congratulations
Ms Cole,
Minister Prescott, the cabinet and I are all pleased with your first report. It sounds as though you are proving we can coexist already.
Keep those emails home short, sweet, and safe. For everyone.
Dr Boyd
Neith, Ruthie and Elle were playing a game called knucklebones on the floor by the fire. Ruthie was winning, barely. Elle was putting up a serious fight, in spite of performing with Amos in her lap, hugging her around the neck, or playing peek-a-boo from behind the bookshelf. Neith consoled herself that in addition to being the noob, she was meant to somehow ignore the cherub sitting there. That was difficult. First of all, he was all alive. Beyond that, he was cartoon cute about it; and doing all this in front of a book collection. Neith would master the complicated stunts the game called for with these small aluminium pieces when the magic of sharing a room with little people and their treasures wore off.
After Ruthie had completed the entire series of game challenges a second time with her left, unfavoured hand, Elle slumped back onto the base of the beloved reading chair and let out an exasperated sigh of defeat. Ruthie patted her mother's arm with a look of exaggerated sympathy and tidied away the game. She took a lunging step up onto the bucket seat behind her mother and resumed (re-)reading a book about a Rapunzel-character confined to a space station. This hadn't made Neith's Republic lists and she was eager to sample it when Ruthie was through.
Neith crossed her legs and leaned back onto her hands, relishing the unique heat she'd come to know from the log-burner. She eyed Ninja the cat – who seemed to only pay her any mind when she vied for prime position next to a heat source. The warmth seemed to come in a surging curtain she could almost see and was like no heating she had known in the City.
"The fire alone is reason enough to live in isolation," Neith said, nodding towards the glow beyond the burner's door.
Elle did her pained face, which Neith had learned wasn't always irritation. It was the same face she did when her children were unbearably cute, when they exposed themselves for hurt she wasn't sure she could prevent, or when Neith spoke of the City. Perhaps it could more aptly be described as her empathy face, but you wouldn't know that until you spent more time with her. "Isolated from the world, isolated from the rest of the country, or isolated from your own village?" Elle asked with candour, maintaining the empathy expression.
Neith looked down and picked at a rug on the floor to think. "All of the above."
Ruthie looked past her book and smiled for a moment, then turned a page.
Neith had wanted for some time to ask if the family's positioning in the camp was because of her arrival or Elle's choice. She dared to venture, "What about you? Is it worth it? Being removed, within the camp…"
"Heavens, yes. Although I wouldn't have to give up the fire to be closer to the rest of Nydia – I could go tomorrow if I chose, and still have a fireplace – there's no trade for me."
Neith paused, then pressed on, "Why don't you?"
Elle gave her eye-crinkling smile, looked into the fire, and then tucked a loose blonde curl behind her ear before answering; "Because I prefer it this way. When my husband died, people assumed I would want to be absorbed into the mass somehow. They could help carry me along. There was a lot of talk of yoking yourself with your neighbour to make your burdens lighter, and 'it is not good for you to be alone.' Then for a year or so, no one wanted to talk to me at all. They weren't sure what to say after all that. So much for yokes and burdens."
Neith nodded to show she was listening. Elle had confirmed it – her husband wasn't on some extended leave, or divorced and living with someone else in Nydia. He was dead.
"But I wasn't alone. I had my sources of strength. Including these guys," she reached behind her and rubbed one of Ruthie's drawn-up legs. Ruthie raised her shoulders with a smile as if to say, I can't help being this wonderful. "And quite honestly, having people around after," she swallowed, "was exhausting. As time went on, I didn't want all that social contact. I liked the quiet over here. Don't get me wrong, I love to fawn over the new babies, and sit in a new mother's home and help her acclimatise to the many 'firsts' babies bring. And I love Longest Day. I love a good conversation. But living here means I can go and get those things when I want them, instead of swimming in it all. Once people actually started talking to me again, I usually found a swarm of mothers in a circle meant talking comparisons and complaints, in turn. I was screaming inside during those meets!" Elle laughed and shook her head, confessing this. Neith smiled. She didn't like groups and meetings either. "I wanted to say out loud, 'You think this is hard?! Try doing all of that without your husband! While you grieve!' or 'At least you have a choice!' because if any of them asked me – which they didn't, I'd tell them to quit complaining so much about their pregnancy sickness or the night wakings, because they still had choices. If I had the choice, I'd be doing all of it. Every bit of it, I'd do it again." Her eyes glistened.
"My mother would say the same thing," Neith said quietly.
Elle leaned forward and squeezed Neith at her ankle, since that was what was in reach.
"So that's the long answer," she chuckled. "Yes, isolation is worth sacrificing things for. Here, in my own home, I can enjoy my children instead of focus on their flaws."
Neith had seen it. The woman would inhale them on the air sometimes, as though she could intake a breath of children. Her smile was her default setting, it would only leave her face when she was redirecting a child or speaking firmly when things got too rough or unkind. The smile always returned.
She was the only mother Neith had ever watched with little ones. Memories of Neith's own childhood hadn't resurfaced often as she'd aged – there were no younger versions of herself to see in anyone else, to make her think, I remember doing that.
"It's a good answer." Neith said.
They sat there quietly for a while. Elle used a poker to shift logs inside the burner to make room for more wood. Ruthie turned pages. Amos began to settle in Elle's lap with eyes at half mast. Neith looked for Davey, and found him giving voices to sewn toys in the corner, feeding one with a wooden spoon.
"You've been a godsend, Neith. To have company and conversation without being constantly met with pity or complaint…" Elle looked heavenward when she said this, as though she found the reality impossible to comprehend. She left the sentence unfinished. "You never complain, and you have more cause than any of them."
"What she's trying to say is: we love having you here." Ruthie had stopped reading to speak.
This was it. This was exactly the kind or progress MinSci was hoping for. Was she meant to report those words? It felt like doing so would spoil Ruthie having uttered them. Neith needed to think. The reports she was sending felt dishonest. Nydia had consented to her being here, observing, and presenting her findings – but she knew Elle presumed a final presentation was the whole of her report. There wasn't supposed to be any other reporting going on, and Neith hadn't given them any indication otherwise.
Not wanting her silence to signal ungratefulness, Neith pushed up from the ground and said, "Elle, you're a saint, and a genius." Then whispered towards Ruthie, "I love being here too. And not just for the fire." Elle smiled up at her, overhearing. Neith squeezed her shoulder and went to get her drawing tools.
She tried to draw, but her thoughts continued to spin. She wanted to retire somewhere to think, but there was no place to do so.
Elle made a move for bedtime. Neith joined the family in the circle for prayer. Davey looked up at her once before it began, with an approving smile. They all folded their arms, bowed their heads, and began to pray. Neith remembered to close her eyes consistently, now – and didn't steal peeks…much. She looked forward to some of the thank-yous that found their way into Davey's prayers, in particular. He always counted food as the foremost blessing (not just at meal-times). He followed this with items ranging from the amusing absurd to the touching heartfelt. Tonight, he was invited to offer the family prayer and he said "Thank you that Nee could feel our fire." Neith wanted to be more honest with Elle. She cared too much for these people to keep so many secrets habits and thoughts. Besides, keeping secrets did nothing for a mission about gaining trust. Perhaps she could better fulfil her assignment and demonstrate trust by removing some of the secrecy now that some time has passed.
After the kids were asleep, Elle was up again, making tea.
Neith spoke. "I have to tell you something." Neith wasn't sure where she was going with this. "I can't bear keeping secrets from you." How could she tell this warm, generous human being she loved being in Nydia, that she could be trusted, but she wasn't sure about the people who sent her. She knew where she needed to start. "I've been keeping something from you and it doesn't feel right."
"What is it, Nee?" The nickname. The love and concern in her voice.
"It's my phone." Neith blurted out. "I brought a phone with me to Nydia. I know you don't want those sort of things here, but I brought it anyway."
"I know."
"You do?"
"Jamin told me, the day you arrived. He scanned it – scanned you – found no mics, like they promised. The microphone, camera, and all parts that would allow transmission had been removed. He said it was basically a skeleton of the original thing. He also said you didn't complain once, on the way in. It seems I'm not the only one that appreciates that about you."
Neith was reeling. She had stripped her phone bare. She didn't know Jamin knew that – that he'd searched through her stuff. She was bewildered. Elle knew?
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"It looks like I didn't have to."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. Whoever modified the phone seemed to know what needed to be done. And we knew – the council knew, that when someone came here, it would be hard for that person to leave everything behind. I'm actually surprised I've never seen it."
"The loo. I use it in the loo!"
Elle chuckled softly. "What do you even need it for?"
Neith considered how far she was going to go. She wasn't sure if she should tell Elle she could turn the "bare" phone into a transmitting device to email. Or if she should go all the way and confess her fears about what lengths she feared Prescott still might go to. Boyd said he had been forced to adopt a gentle approach, but from what she'd seen, force was his preference. At what point would his natural tendencies override his diplomacy? His voice on the Cabinet – and others on the opposing side to Boyd in debate – frightened Neith. But there were the Cabinet members who would fight for protecting Nydia. Maybe Neith being here really could open the door to the only option left.
Was Elle ready? Was Neith ready to stop emailing her parents and Grace if Elle asked her to? She didn't think so. She also didn't think her reports failing to arrive would go down well. If Elle knew this much about the phone and it hadn't upset her, Neith wanted to leave things there. She'd shared. And what she shared probably wasn't going to upset MinSci when she reported it later. They seemed concerned about keeping Nydia happy, and about trust. It seemed like Neith had gained more of that tonight, if anything. Her half-baked theories about what came after her stay in Nydia were just theories, anyway, and the emails – she sent them away from the house.
"I use it to read. And type sometimes, like a journal." Half truths? Emails were like journal entries, weren't they? She was almost coming clean about her device. "I never actually learned to write with a pencil."
Elle was agape. "What? The phone makes sense now – that you were using it to record notes. I never saw you write anything down…Wait, you draw so well…"
"I know, but tablets have been used in education and for emailing for generations now! I know the letters. I can read them, I just…haven't practised forming them. Drawing was something I worked on." She left off, "in private."
Elle looked thoughtful. Neith waited. She would understand if Elle was angry. The angelic woman was not.
"If it doesn't transmit anything, I don't see why you can't bring it inside."
"Pardon me?"
"You can keep a journal, and your notes, Neith. You know I do. If you'd like to learn to write, I can teach you that. But until you can write things down with a pencil, you should use your phone."
"But the agreement…"
"We don't want transmitting devices here, Neith. It's the radiofrequency energy and radiation from all of the technology humming up in the cities that we don't want here. We're not sure why…why you suffer as you do," she meant being barren; the barrenness. "But we don't want to take any chances here. From what Nydia pioneers have recorded in our histories, people sleep with, eat with, and carry these radioactive things with them everywhere. And now…things aren't working for you. I'm sorry that it's happening, but you must understand, we don't want any part of that." Before Neith came here, she would have found this kind of talk sensationalist and eccentric. Elle added in a whisper, "We have a lot to lose."
It didn't seem so lurid and strange to consider the risks – sitting here, in Nydia. Sitting on a couch with a mother of living children who had already lost enough. Nothing transmitting seemed perfectly reasonable. Neith considered her internal chip, embedded in her subcutaneous flesh, at her waist. It was always transmitting. Could it be doing harm? Wait, what was she doing – this was Elle's hippy ancestry talking.
But what if plagues or IVF weren't to blame? What if there was something to this "pure" notion? Neith needed more time to think.
"Thank you for telling me. I'll explain it to the kids. You can use your phone. I'll tell them it's like the computer at the school."
"The computer at school?" Neith was wide-mouthed.
"Yeah. There's a computer at the school and a projector in the hall. We watch The Sound of Music as a mid-winter tradition. You arrived just after that, actually. We have technology here, Neith, we just keep it disconnected; no transmissions, no wireless this, no Bluetooth that." Neith bit her lip at hearing the archaic terms. Well well, Nydia, you have your surprises too. But she heard the message loud and clear: all transmissions were unwelcome. "Good night, Neith."
"Good night."

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Tune in to my interview on LA Talk Radio's "The Writer's Block" (10 pm CT / 9 pm ET / 8 pm PT), with Jim Christina and Bobbi Bell. I'll be discussing The Lies That Bind - or anything else the hosts are curious about. The premise of the show is to talk to writers of all ilks and get their thoughts, ideas, how they come up with their stories, lyrics, poems, etc. Dig into their heads in a looser format and certainly not scripted.
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The Marlboro Youth Fellowship camping trip fundraiser was a success and a lot of fun. Lots of people came out to have their cars washed and the youth worked hard to keep the line moving.
The casualties from "water wars" were minimal and the youth managed to grab a few slices of pizza between cars. It was a lot of work and a lot off fun too.
The Shiloh SDB Church even brought out their church van for us to wash. Thanks Shiloh.
Thanks to the generous donations of everyone who came out, the youth earned $318 toward their camping trip.


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Hygiene tips when abroad
Seeing something new at last, broadening your horizons and allowing yourself some relaxation: travelling can be great fun. But people do things differently in other countries – particularly as far as hygiene is concerned. Here we have some advice about what you and your family should bear in mind when eating and cooking abroad.
Holiday planning
Maybe you're on a beach in Thailand watching the sun go down, or in Egypt climbing the Pyramids – a holiday turns dreams like this into reality. Before planning your holiday, though, it's always a good idea to check with a travel agency or on the Internet whether the trip you want to go on is suitable for children. With small children in particular, you shouldn't take any risks when it comes to hygiene. A relaxed holiday in the mountains or in a holiday home by the sea is fun for the whole family. And, wherever you're going, take out overseas medical insurance before you set off.
At your holiday destination: tips for cooking and peeling
As hygiene standards abroad are not the same as at home, always remember the golden rule: "Peel it, cook it, or forget it.??? This means you should only eat cooked vegetables, freshly peeled fruit and food which has been cooked. And remember:
- avoid tap water and ice cubes – if you do drink tap water, make sure to boil it first;
- only drink bottled drinks and water;
- only use bottled water for cleaning your teeth;
- only eat well-cooked meat, fish and eggs;
- avoid desserts containing raw egg, such as tiramisu and zabaglione;
- only eat packed ice from a supermarket;
- peel fruit and vegetables and wash them thoroughly before use – with bottled water or mineral water if you can;
- always wash your hands thoroughly. If you want to be sure, use mineral water for washing your hands as well.
If diarrhoea occurs
In case you need to deal with a case of gastroenteritis, carry a small first-aid kit with you containing medicinal activated charcoal tablets and salt tablets to counter diarrhoea. If the diarrhoea becomes more severe, try to compensate for fluid and salt loss as quickly as possible. The WHO-recommended oral rehydration solution is suitable for this. In 1 litre of freshly boiled water, dissolve eight teaspoons of sugar, almost a teaspoon of salt and half a teaspoon of baking power. Cool down the solution in a closed container and then drink it in small sips. If you want to be on the safe side, mix up a batch of the salt/sugar mixture at home. Salt sticks and cola can also help. If you aren't feeling better soon, don't hesitate to seek the advice of a doctor.


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Get a Good Night's Rest In Ruston, LA With Sleep Apnea Treatment
If you routinely wake up feeling as tired as when you went to bed, sleep apnea treatment from Ruston, LA dentist Dr. Patrick Stuckey can help you get a better night's rest. Sleep apnea sufferers experience frequent pauses in breathing during the night when their airway becomes partially closed.Dr. Stuckey on sleep apnea treatment Read Transcript
We do treat sleep apnea patients and of course, the CPAP machine is the gold standard, but not everyone can comply with that. They can't take the constriction of the mask at night. We offer a mouthpiece that advances the jaw forward and opens up the throat, and allows them to breathe comfortably and stop snoring as they sleep. When you can take a patient and reduce their snoring, their spouses love it.
Dr. Stuckey can fit you for a custom oral appliance that will:
- Gently shift your jaw into a position that keeps your airway open
- Help you get a good night's rest – along with any members of your household affected by your loud snoring and restless sleep
- Eliminate sleep apnea symptoms such as dry mouth, headaches, and chronic sore throat
- Help keep you more alert during the day so you can function better
- Lower the chances you'll experience related health conditions like high blood pressure
If you're not sleeping well at night, call 318-255-8648 for a sleep apnea consultation. Your treatment may even be covered in part by your insurance! We'll work with you to find out.
You May Prefer An Oral Appliance To A CPAP Machine
Dr. Stuckey can work with you and your physician to schedule a sleep apnea test. If you do have apnea, the two most common solutions are an oral appliance or a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine. Both help keep your airway open while you sleep.
Compared to a CPAP, most people find a sleep apnea mouthpiece:
- More comfortable, because it doesn't cover your nose and face
- Easier to transport, because it's small enough to fit into a pocket or a purse
- Less restrictive, because there's no tubing to get in the way
- Simpler to use, because you don't need an electrical outlet or a battery
Dr. Stuckey can also make custom mouthguards to help with other dental problems such as teeth grinding.
What Are Sleep Apnea Symptoms?
How do you know if you have sleep apnea? You should speak with Dr. Stuckey if you have these common sleep apnea symptoms:
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- Gasping for breath while sleeping
- Frequent fatigue
- Insomnia
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If you're ready to enjoy more restful sleep, call Patrick Stuckey, D.D.S. at 318-255-8648 to find out more about sleep apnea treatment. You can also use our online form. Our Ruston, LA dentist office is located near Ruston City Hall.


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Tyrol Ski Trip
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Join fellow Hoofer SNS members on our trips to Tyrol Basin, just 30 minutes away in Mt. Horeb!
Trip Costs:
$25 lift ticket
$18 Rental
Transportation is FREE with purchase of lift ticket and/or rentals.
Transportation is $5 if you do not purchase a lift ticket or rental.
*Note: You do not need to purchase all three options if you already have your own equipment or own a season pass.
Van leaves Madison at 9:00- 9:30 AM (depends on pick-up location) and leaves Tyrol Basin at 4 PM
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How to search for a travel inspirations?
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A lot of travelers, especially since there are cheap air trips affordable, like to go some place different, from time to time. Holidays, Longer weekend, spring break, and any other occasions, when we have plenty of free time. We do not require to go 6th season in a turn to the seashore in Croatia, or touring Warsaw once again, there are different options. But how to find it? and where? There are few of sources we can search through in that event.


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text: Share: Comments Print January 12, 2009 at 4:00 PM Northwest flooding Posted by Seattle Times staff <img src="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2009/01/12/2008619381.jpg" width="345″ class="pic" /> Chris Joseph Taylor / The Seattle Times All signs point to water along Jackson Gulch Road off Interstate 5, just north of Highway 530 near Stanwood. Destructive behavior Editor, The Times: After reading Danny Westneat's column Sunday ["The beaver just can't leave river," Times, Jan. 11], I wanted to scream. The latest example of why Karl Marx said capitalism cannot survive is provided by the federal government underwriting those who continue to choose to live in floodplains. We are voluntarily writing yet another chapter in our collective epitaph when we allow such programs, enabling the misguided to practice destructive behavior. — Joseph Faulkner, Gig Harbor Escape the excess With a keen interest I read the column in Saturday's paper titled "Steps we should take before the next flood" [Dan Siemann, guest columnist, Jan. 10]. There are two main points in this piece. On the later point, it goes without saying that the current and well-established policy regarding federal flood insurance is flawed. Through the law of "unintended consequences," it has greatly reduced the risk incurred by those who chose to build, live and work in the floodplain. Therefore, over the past few decades we have seen an enormous expansion of both residential and business growth in these vulnerable flood-prone areas. To this point, I agree there needs to be a significant change to this policy to reverse this costly and risky societal behavior, and move people to higher ground. Regarding the first point about global warming, the assumption that the use of "cap and investment," the so-called carbon-credit system, is the best solution overlooks the fact that it unintentionally allows for the worst of polluters — the producers of vast amounts of released carbon dioxide — to continue that course as long as they are willing to pay someone else to "do the right thing" and reduce their use. In basic terms, this type on policy allows affluent businesses and individuals to pay the less affluent to be their proxy in lowering their carbon emissions. This is an example of our unique, American need to live in excess, the elitist idealism that we are deserving of whatever excesses we can afford. A better approach is for every individual and business to be held accountable for their own contribution to the reduction of waste and excess. Let's have the leaders of our society, elected officials and affluent members, lead by example. Rather than pay our neighbors to do the right thing for us, let's take a serious look at our carbon footprint and associated consumption of precious resources. Let's hold each other accountable for reducing the footprint we all are responsible for. Some simple, although painful, steps in the short term: Shut down the use of coal as a source of power in the Pacific Northwest, where it is by no means our only option. Raise the tax on all petroleum-based fuels to force the research and development of less impactful options. Easier steps for the individual are to drive less, ride the bus whenever possible or stop buying mega-houses where, in many cases, the occupants have five or 10 thousand square feet each. Buy local produce that has not been shipped or flown in from South America. Park the gas-guzzling vehicles like the Hummer; sport-utility vehicles are not required for travel from the hills of Redmond or Issaquah to your job in Seattle or Bellevue. Turn off lights, bring your own cup to work and, for that matter, a plate and silverware too. The list is short if we all just stop the maddening rush to collect "stuff," and apply our collective brainpower to the simple and powerful philosophy: reduce, reuse and recycle. — James Becker, Fall City Song of agreement Thanks to The Times and the writer of a very informative article on the repeated flooding of our area ("When disaster becomes routine," page one, Jan. 12). In the words of songwriter Joni Mitchell, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." — Tom Likai, Shoreline Comments | More in weather


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Canon 50mm f/1.8 focus problems
Over the weekend I borrowed a friend's 50mm f/1.8 to see how it compared to my 40mm f/2.8. I'm looking through the RAW files now and I have to say... the 40mm blows the 50 out of the water.
The 50mm is almost never tack sharp and just seems to be missing the focus point. He was having problems with it not recognizing what to focus on using his T3i, and I was having the same issue on my 60D. Has anyone else seen issues like this?
I'm definitely feeling pretty good about spending the extra $50 for the 40mm over the 50mm. f/1.8 would be nice from time to time, but not at the cost of losing focus.


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I read a blog post a few weeks ago about coconut oil uses, but it wasn't until an esthetician suggested buying one for exfoliation that I decided to actually make the recipe, but I wanted to make it my own! Yes, you can go to the store and buy one, but I'm pretty sure you probably have 3/4 ingredients in the kitchen right now ! You can literally use this scrub all over your body, let it sit for a few minutes, wash off and you'll feel baby soft.
Ingredients and instructions are below, let me know what you think if you decide to make it !
1/4 – 1/2 Cup ANY carrier oil (coconut, olive , sweet almond) I used sweet almond oil (start with 1/4 cup, add more if you want it ultra moisturizing )
1/2 tsp Vitamin E oil (OPTIONAL)
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Life is such that it can feel harsh and even unfair when you don't have the means to pursue your passion. But what about our left arm seamer Kulwant Khejroliya, who never watched a single game of cricket on T.V or in a stadium until just a few years ago!
"As a kid, I would always aspire to be a cricketer, but due to financial constraints and with no support from my family, I had made peace with the fact that I would never be able to pursue it professionally, so I never watched it since childhood," he told Wisden India in an exclusive chat.
"From waiting on tables to turning them over, Kulwant's chronicles" - Read the full article.
Hailing from a strict household in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, Kulwant would sneak out of his house to play cricket, as his father, a farmer would set out to complete his chores in the fields. Being the youngest sibling with the elder ones pursuing 'safer' career options like CA and teaching, his father was bound to be averse to his cricketing ambitions.
After completing his graduation, he attempted to clear competitive exams to get into the army and railway police, much in vain. Academics didn't appear to have been his calling, but there were much bigger things in store for him.
The family was still bogged with financial constraints, which was further affected with a loan taken for his sister's wedding. With his cricketing dreams still unfulfilled, he went to Goa to work in a restaurant, on a friend's recommendation. "It was year end, a lot of tourists were expected and since I could speak a bit of English, my friend said I had a good chance of being tipped heavily by foreigners."
Heart over head prevailed and Kulwant didn't settle on the pleasure of steady income. "Woh cricket ka junoon kabhi gaya hi nahi (That cricket obsession ceased to leave me)."
A call from a friend who had enrolled himself in a Delhi academy changed Kulwant's life. The self confidence was there now to make that Bold call to pursue his passion. Knowing that there wasn't any way he was going to convince his father, he told them that he bagged a job at a friend's firm in Ahmedabad, only to make his way to Delhi!
"I had read that Shikhar Dhawan, Ishant Sharma and Rishabh Pant were a part of the Sonnet Cricket Club and was really keen to join," he says. "Since I had never played with a season ball until then, I didn't want to make a fool of myself. So I joined the Uday Bhan Cricket Academy for a couple of weeks, it was more like an audition to prepare myself just to ensure that I could impress Tarak Sinha sir when I would meet him
"I didn't even own a pair of sports shoes, I went to his club wearing the fancy shoes which I wore for my sister's wedding…I was so naive."
He impressed Sinha, but needed to train with the season ball everyday. He joined the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, where Gautam Gambhir trained, under Sanjay Bharadwaj's tutelage.
"Sanjay sir was kind enough to adopt me and take care of my expenses without expecting anything in return," said Kulwant of his coach in Delhi.
He made his debut for Delhi in List A cricket in 2016, making his way to the list of reserve players in the Ranji Trophy. He ultimately debuted for Delhi in the First class games in October 2017, guiding his team to the Ranji Trophy final enroute to taking 18 wickets in 7 games.
But his performances in T20 were even more spectacular, with his ability to bang the ball in towards the batsman's chin inspiring Delhi to clinch the Syed Mushtaq Ali 2018 trophy. His 14 wickets at an economy rate of about 6.5 was enough to convince the RCB management that he had the ability to Play Bold, ahead of the VIVO IPL 2018 auction in January.
2 wickets from 3 VIVO IPL games going at more than 9 per over were only modest returns for Kulwant, considering his form early on in 2018 for Delhi. But the early signs were promising, showing his all round bowling repertoire against Kings XI Punjab - signs that bode well for our future.


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Rare B'wood memorabilia up for auction
The famous scarf that Shammi Kapoor wore in 'Junglee' and the last unreleased song by Kishore Kumar are some of the vintage items going under the hammer at the upcoming Osian's-Cinefan auction this month.
First major Indian film memorabilia auction in India since Osian's 'The Historical Mela ? ABC: Art, Book and Cinema', the event offers Indian cinephiles a rare chance to own vintage items resourced from many private collections around the country.
Special highlights of the auction include a focus on the legendary star, the late Shammi Kapoor. His famous scarf from 1961 film 'Junglee', the sweater from 1971 movie 'Andaz', the Shehnai from his last film appearance in 'Rockstar' (2011) and one of his favorite personal Mont Blanc fountain pens are up for sale.
The last unreleased song by Kishore Kumar completed just three days before his demise will provide a unique opportunity for the film fraternity and the fans of Kishore da to purchase the rights for this rare song.
The other highlights include a rare album of 45 signed black and white photographic stills by the late Dev Anand, costumes worn by Sanjeev Kumar and Amjad Khan from 'Shatranj ke Khilari', Satyajit Ray designed film posters of the 1960s, the turquoise ring set in silver worn by Farooque Sheikh in Muzaffar Ali's 'Umrao Jaan' and a cricket bat signed by Aamir Khan and the team from 'Lagaan'.
The auction also offers rare photographic stills mounted on lobby cards and Show-Cards from classics like 'Aan', 'Mother India', 'Dil Diya Dard Liya', 'Leader', 'Humraaz', 'Zanjeer', 'Aan Milo Sajna' and other films, along with original calendar art featuring stars such as Jayalalitha, Waheeda Rehman, Hema Malani, Mumtaz, Sridevi, among others.
"It is sad that in a country which is so passionate about cinema and where film stars are larger than life, the market for vintage Indian Cinema publicity material and memorabilia is at such infancy compared to say the market for Hollywood memorabilia...
"I hope this auction inspires our collectors and the film fraternity to value its cinematic heritage more effectively," said Neville Tuli, the founder chairman of Osian's. The new annual auction dedicated to film memorabilia, will take place on July 31 as part the 12th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival which takes place from 27 July to 5 August 2012. PTI


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I get it now. Malabrigo is just awesome…soft, beautiful stitch definition, did I say soft? I had no idea or I would have knit with it sooner!
The colour is off (at least on my monitor) and actually more of a deep red than it looks. Hopefully I can get some better pictures along the way to show the true colours 🙂
The Hedgerow Coat is coming along nicely…one skein (of ten) used up so far…


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A. Age: Almost 30B. Bed size: Queen, cause I have an awesome DBF who talked me into a bigger bed
C. Chore that you hate: Cooking. There is absolutely NOTHING better than walking into a complete homemade meal every night. I hate cooking.
D. Dogs: Are not quite as awesome as cats with a few exceptions (cause Tia is awesome!)E. Essential start to your day: My most amazing daycare-mom ever always sets me up with a cup of coffee for the ride to work. Did I mention she's amazing?
F. Favorite color: Atlantic gray.
G. Gold or Silver: I'm allergic to gold of almost any kind so I'm a .925 Sterling kinda gal. (Though I would love to be a platinum kinda gal.)
H. Height: 5'10"I. Instruments you play: I played the clarinet and marched bass drum in high school, though my best instrument is my voice.
J. Job title: Quality Assurance Technician, Tarot Reader, Pagan Community Organizer
K. Kids: Yup, a 5yr old munchkin who is a fantastic cross between a Valkyrie and a Princess
L. Live: Baltimore, MD
M. Mother's name: SandyN. Nicknames: Well... Kat is the most known one. The others are only allowed by family, except for Megatron, but Rahat's special
O. Overnight hospital stays: Can't think of one other than the C-Section.
P. Pet peeves: Interrupting me in the middle of a sentence; this is my dad's fault. Oh, and the word irregardless.
Q. Quote from a movie: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
R. Right or left handed: Right
S. Siblings: 2 younger sisters, who rockU. Underwear:. Typically boring cotton, sadly
V. Vegetable you hate: Peas... they just taste green... ick!
W. What makes you run late: The aforementioned 5yr old
X. X-Rays you've had: Teeth, ankle, back, and an CAT scan and MRI for good measure
Y. Yummy food that you make: A version of my mother's chicken in white sauce.... delicious!
Z. Zoo animal: The big cats, any of them :)
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Freedom of Expression as "Liking"
Millenia T. - LLI Toledo
Should schools discipline students based off of what they "like" on social media? This seems to be an arising question in a generation with growing technology. Students all around are using social media to express themselves, or to share their life experiences with friends and family. However, when a student "likes" something that could be threatening, or does not abide by school rules, does it constitute speech? In my opinion, it does, unless it is offensive or an immediate threat to the school.
Imagine "liking" your friend's picture of a gun, then getting suspended for it the next day. This is what happened with a middle school student in Trenton, OH. Zachary Bowlin "liked" a picture of a gun that was captioned, "ready." The school believed this was a threat, but Bowlin said he just "liked" it when scrolling down Instagram that evening. So, does this necessarily mean that Bowlin was condoning violence?
It seems to me that the "like" given in this situation is protected by the first amendment, mostly because there was no comment given under the post, nor did Bowlin repost it. This suggests that this "like" was something done unconsciously, and was not thought about. Not only that, but whether or not the picture was posted by someone from the school, the poster should have been a question by the school. The school should have spent more time on who posted the gun, not who "liked" it. In addition, they should have asked if the person who posting was Bowlin's friend or not. Knowing this information could have changed the situation completely.
However, in a situation like that of the California School district who suspended students based off of "liking" a racist post, I think the suspension was valid. The post consisted of black people hanging, and others had black people being compared to apes.
Also, since the students who posted it attended the school, then the suspensions are valid.
Not only in situations like that above, I believe that suspensions are valid in cases like that of Ravick. In this case, a student sent emails with anti-Semitic statements, a picture of Hitler, and referenced the "Trenchcoat Mafia," saying that the group would be coming to the school. Since this is both offensive and threatening, then the suspensions are valid.
Although many would say that a "like" should not get you in trouble, if it is brought to the attention of the school because of people's feelings being hurt, or the school being threatened, then punishments should be given. Giving these punishments can also give a reality check to the students. It lets them know to be careful of what you "like" on social media because there is always someone watching.
Social media may be private, but it does have its consequences if not used correctly.
Sources Considered
- Robbins, Ira P. "What is the Meaning of 'Like'?: The First Amendment Implications of Social-Media Expression." American University Washington College of Law Research Paper, vol. 7, issue 1, no. 2013-14, 2013, pp. 144-147.
- Kelly, Heather. "U.S. Court Saying 'Liking' Something on Facebook is Free Speech." CNN. 19 Sept. 2013.
- "Students Suspended for 'Liking' Racist Instagram Posts Sue School." CBS Sacramento. CBS Interactive. 5 May 2017.
- Brown, Ken. "Middle School Student Suspended for 'Liking' Photo of Gun on Instagram." Fox 19 Now. WXIX. 5 May 2017.
- Knuth, Sara. "Cañon City High School to Discipline Students for 'Liking' Tweet." Education. The Daily Record. 13 Oct. 2016.
- Walton, Xavier. "Over 20 NC Students Suspended for Liking Instagram Post." MFMYNEWS2.com. WCNC. 21 March 2017.
- Dinzeo, Maria. "Judge Wrestles with School's Handling of Racial Cyberbullying." Courthouse News Service. 27 July 2017.


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NAIROBI, Kenya—Epitace Nimbona spent 17 years in the Burundian army, climbing to the rank of captain. As an infantry soldier, he fought against rebels during the country's civil war. He then advanced to a military university and underwent logistics training in the capital, Bujumbura, and in nearby Kenya. Later, he trained with American soldiers and deployed with two separate peacekeeping missions elsewhere in Africa.
His career, however, ran aground following President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in 2015—a bid that many people inside and outside the country deemed to be unconstitutional. Protests against it, and Nkurunziza's ensuing crackdown, sparked a political crisis and the worst violence Burundi had seen since the civil war ended in 2003. Amid that unrest, Nimbona increasingly clashed with political and security officials. Fearing for his safety, he defected last year.
He currently lives in an East African capital city that he does not want named out of fear for his safety. Staying in an unmarked house made of corrugated iron, he struggles to support himself with a stipend from the U.N. refugee agency while doing his best to keep a low profile.
But he has reason to believe that Burundi's notorious intelligence agents have tracked him down. This past December, a note was slipped under his door bearing threats in Kirundi, Burundi's most widely spoken language. "We will find you. We know you're here," it read. "We will hunt you like the dog that you are." Though Nimbona has no way of proving who left the note for him, the threat is consistent with methods Burundi's intelligence and security apparatus has used to terrorize dissidents even after they've left Burundian soil.
Along with undermining Nimbona's sense of security, the note affirmed his belief that he cannot go back to Burundi as long as Nkurunziza remains in power. Given how things are looking back home, that means he could be in exile for a very long time.
After Nkurunziza launched his re-election campaign in 2015, protesters took to the streets of Bujumbura to denounce what they saw as an unlawful power grab. Nkurunziza, who assumed office in 2005, had already served the two terms allowed under the constitution. But the president argued that his first term didn't count because the 2005 election was decided by lawmakers rather than ordinary voters.
Those who protested the president's third term bid encountered stiff resistance from the security forces, whose response became even more forceful after a failed military coup in May 2015. The election went ahead in July 2015, and Nkurunziza won 69.4 percent of the vote after the opposition decided to boycott.
In the three years since then, surrounded by an ever-narrowing cast of regime loyalists and intelligence chiefs, Nkurunziza has consolidated power and sought to strengthen the rule of his party, whose unwieldy formal name is the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy, or CNDD-FDD. He has done so with a steady campaign of enforced disappearances, torture and killings targeting those deemed to be enemies of the state. According to estimates from the United Nations and human rights groups, more than 1,200 Burundians have been killed to date, and thousands have been detained. Nkurunziza has also taken the unprecedented step of withdrawing Burundi from the International Criminal Court, which could have held perpetrators of grave crimes accountable.
Burundi's formerly vibrant media scene has been effectively shuttered, with radio stations and newspapers closed and individual journalists arrested, detained, tortured and, in some cases, killed. The country's domestic network of civil society organizations no longer exists. The business community and much of Burundi's middle class have fled. International aid has also dried up—a devastating blow in one of the world's poorest countries and the poorest in Africa after the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nevertheless, Nkurunziza maintains that he is the best person to lead Burundi forward, and that he has the interests of its citizens at heart.
To his opponents' dismay, his hold on power is about to get even stronger. On Thursday, Burundians will head to the polls to vote on a referendum that will, assuming it passes, establish new presidential term limits. Instead of two five-year stints in office, presidents will be granted two terms of seven years. Additionally, the restriction will not apply retroactively, meaning Nkurunziza will be able to run twice more after his current term expires in 2020—and potentially stay in office until 2034.
Nkurunziza's government has hailed the referendum as a milestone signaling a return to calm and normalcy. But to civil society activists, it represents something else entirely: the near-completion of the country's fall from a fledgling democracy to an authoritarian regime.
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza launches the ruling party's campaign calling for a "Yes"
vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum, Bugendana, Burundi, May 2, 2018 (AP photo).
Meanwhile, the plight of Nimbona and other Burundians living in exile across East Africa highlights how the consequences of the conflict have spread far beyond Burundi's borders. The U.N. refugee agency says 431,632 Burundians have fled the country, many of them seeking refuge elsewhere in the region.
But just because they're gone doesn't mean the government has forgotten about them. In many cases, they've been hunted down by the national intelligence service and the militarized youth wing of the CNDD-FDD. Members of this youth wing are known as the Imbonerakure, which in Kirundi means "those who see far."
Human rights groups such as the International Federation for Human Rights and Refugees International have documented attacks by suspected Imbonerakure on Burundian refugees at camps in Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Congo. I have interviewed refugees in both Rwanda and Uganda who describe being targeted by Burundian security forces, including the police, and the Imbonerakure.
Like Nimbona, these refugees have reported surveillance and threatening messages. There have also been violent attacks and forced disappearances.
Boaz Ntaconayigize, a well-known former journalist with Radio Bonesha in Bujumbura, fled to Kampala, Uganda, in early 2016. Several months later, he was attacked by four people who stabbed him multiple times, including in the chest. "Before the attack I received a lot of calls, people asking me where I live," he says. He is convinced the violence was orchestrated by Burundi's intelligence service.
Ntaconayigize refuses to register as a refugee, fearing he'll be attacked again. He also avoids associating with other Burundians in Uganda. "I have a lot of fear," he says. "I would have gone somewhere else because I do not feel safe here, but I have nowhere to go."
From Soldier to Fugitive
Today, Nimbona has no words when asked about what's happening back home; he can only shake his head. The fact that the army he proudly served for so long—a force that was once known in the region for being relatively well-trained and disciplined—has devolved into a tool of terror for Nkurunziza is especially devastating.
When the crisis began in 2015, Nimbona had finished a rotation as a peacekeeper with the African Union Mission in Somalia and was awaiting deployment to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. Stationed in Bujumbura, he was charged with securing two neighborhoods, Jabe and Nyakabiga, where protests against Nkurunziza's third-term bid were picking up.
Nimbona remembers that he felt responsible for orchestrating a calm response to protests that were heated, but nonviolent. The ability to maintain order was what distinguished the army from other elements of the Burundian security apparatus, including the police, which had a reputation for being less disciplined.
One day in late April 2015, police and intelligence officers came to where Nimbona was stationed with the intention of killing peaceful demonstrators. Nimbona, however, stood his ground. "I told them, 'I cannot be held responsible for this because these people are under my responsibility,'" he says.
The police backed down, but Nimbona was soon hauled into the headquarters of the intelligence service for questioning. "They told me, 'You must allow police and intelligence to do their work,'" he remembers. "And I told them, 'If you want to shoot on them, you have to wait until I am out of the area.' They proposed some money and I refused that, too."
After that, he had the feeling that his personal security had become jeopardized. As he continued to patrol parts of the city that police officers and government officials had deemed "opposition neighborhoods," he was followed by intelligence officers. He began to travel with six heavily armed men at all times. Two weeks later, he was deployed to a different part of Bujumbura, a transfer he says was ordered so he would be forced "to cede the ground to police and intelligence."
As protests against Nkurunziza's third term continued, the interior minister declared them illegal and the police ramped up their tactics to disperse demonstrators. Within weeks, two protesters had been killed and the police were arbitrarily rounding up residents of neighborhoods where they'd been organized. Before long, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights was reporting that at least 400 protesters had been arrested, and that detainees were being subjected to abuse and torture in jails in Bujumbura.
Nimbona deployed to the Central African Republic before the election in July 2015. His wife and two children stayed behind in Bujumbura. Weeks after his deployment began, they were visited several times a week by intelligence officers. The officers searched the house, claiming they had a warrant for Nimbona's arrest.
Toward the end of his rotation in the Central African Republic, Nimbona heard from multiple sources in Bujumbura that his name had appeared on a list of "enemies of the state." Like others on the list, he viewed this as a death warrant. In January 2017, no longer convinced he was safe on his deployment, he fled his military contingent and went into hiding in the capital, Bangui, before eventually leaving the country.
Military forces leave the presidential compound, Bujumbura, Burundi, May 17, 2015
(photo by Adriane Ohanesian).
Nimbona's family has also fled Burundi, but he does not think it is safe for them to be near him. He moves often to maintain a low profile. When not looking for work, he spends his days listening to radio reports and other dispatches from home.
He says his concerns for the future have only mounted ahead of this week's referendum. "They are terrorizing civilians to register to vote, and we are hearing reports that the Imbonerakure is trying to disarm members of the military," he says. "It's terrible, really terrible. I have nothing else I can say."
The "Torture House"
One day in June 2016, about a year after Nkurunziza's re-election, a police officer and two intelligence agents showed up at the office of Evaliste Nduwimgoma, a businessman and well-known supporter of the National Liberation Forces, Burundi's leading opposition party. His son Ronald watched as Evaliste was forced out of the building and into the bed of a police pickup truck.
The reasons for the abduction were not explained, but it was the last time Ronald would see his father. Two weeks later, a well-connected friend in the military told Ronald his father had been killed after three days in the custody of Burundian intelligence officers.
Ronald feared he could also be targeted. An unemployed engineer, he had helped out at the wholesale company his father owned and was an active member of LAFEALDE INEZA, a now-defunct civil society organization that campaigned against Nkurunziza's third term.
Sure enough, two weeks after his father's disappearance, the same car pulled alongside Ronald as he was walking down a street in Bujumbura. They forced him, too, into the back of the truck and drove him two hours outside the capital to a building he refers to today as the "torture house."
For seven days, Ronald endured brutal torture along with aggressive questioning about his disloyalty to Nkurunziza's regime. "They kept on asking me, 'Why are you opposing the CNDD-FDD?' and 'Who was your dad working with?'" he recalls. "I kept on saying, 'I don't know anything.'"
He believes his interrogators were Imbonerakure. They denied him food, used ropes to hoist him to the ceiling and electrocuted him as they shouted for him to admit his opposition to the president. Ronald lost consciousness twice. After the second time, he remembers waking on the side of a road with a knife wound in his chest, presumably having been left for dead.
After a two-week stay in a hospital back in Bujumbura, Ronald returned home to continue recuperating. But his trouble with pro-regime forces wasn't over. One day, three policemen and 12 members of the Imbonerakure arrived at his house. This time, Ronald managed to escape through the back and flee to the border with Rwanda, where he entered the Mahama refugee camp, which is home to more than 50,000 Burundian refugees.
Testimony compiled by Human Rights Watch and other organizations is similar to Ronald's and that of other men I've interviewed, all of whom were taken into custody on suspicion of being opposition sympathizers. Torture by suspected Imbonerakure has involved beating detainees with hammers and metal bars, driving sharpened steel rods into their legs, dripping burned plastic onto their skin and jolting them with electric shocks after tying cords around their genitals.
The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented 651 cases of torture in Burundi between April 2015 and April 2016, and local activists say the practices have continued unabated. A 2016 report from Human Rights Watch detailed politically motivated torture that the group said had "reached new levels" and "become increasingly vicious."
In the lead-up to this week's referendum, Nkurunziza loyalists are believed to have ramped up their use of these tactics to sow fear and head off anti-government protests. "Burundian officials and the Imbonerakure are carrying out violence with near-total impunity to allow Nkurunziza to entrench his hold on power," Ida Sawyer, Human Rights Watch's Central Africa director, said last month. The organization has documented 19 cases of abuse since December, including the beating to death of one person who was unable to provide a receipt showing he had registered to vote in the referendum. Most victims were members of the National Liberation Forces, or FLN, whose leaders insist the number of victims is much higher. They've compiled a list of 42 party members they say have been arrested and held without charge between December and March.
Once he reached Rwanda, Ronald hoped his days of being hunted might be over. But in Mahama, the refugee camp near the border, he faced threats similar to those he'd encountered in Bujumbura. Like many in the camp, he says he has been threatened by Imbonerakure and agents of Burundi's national intelligence service. In an official complaint he sent to the U.N. refugee agency, Ronald describes encountering the same intelligence agent who arrested his father, a man known as Leon, on the outskirts of the camp.
In March, Ronald returned to his temporary housing in Mahama to find that the door to his tent had been covered in animal blood. Someone had used the blood to write his father's name and the word mujeri, which means "thin dog" in Kirundi. The ruling party is known to have used the word to refer to those marked for death.
Destroying the Opposition
Those familiar with the history and tactics of Nkurunziza's party aren't surprised that it is seeking vengeance against everyone who opposes it, from military officers like Nimbona to unemployed young men like Ronald.
The CNDD-FDD emerged out of the ethnically Hutu rebel movement that fought in Burundi's civil war, which began in 1993 following the assassination of the country's first democratically elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu. The ethnic violence of 1993 claimed 300,000 lives, and spasms of violence that played out largely along Hutu-Tutsi lines flared again from 1995 through 1997. The conflict was thought to have ended with the signing of a cease-fire in 2000 and the installation of a transitional government in 2001. The CNDD-FDD, however, did not sign the cease-fire and continued to wage a military campaign against the transitional government before finally agreeing to a power-sharing deal in 2003.
Academics and former party members often say that while the current crisis is political rather than ethnic in nature, Nkurunziza and other high-ranking CNDD-FDD officials have continued to rule with the same so-called bush-fighting mentality that governed their wartime conduct. Even in 2010, when Nkurunziza easily won a second term after the opposition boycotted the vote because of complaints that earlier local elections were rigged, opponents were tracked down and killed, says Lewis Mudge, a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa division. "This really solidified the notion that for many people in the ruling party, it's a zero-sum game," Mudge says. "They want complete control. They want to destroy any notion of viable opposition."
With this track record, Mudge says he would not be surprised if the party had, via the intelligence service and Imbonerakure, established a system for targeting dissidents who had fled the country. "I wouldn't put it past them to create a loose infrastructure where informants are going to refugee camps to ascertain who was there and what they are talking about," he says.
Despite the documentation of atrocities in Burundi and against Burundians abroad, there has been little international outcry as the crisis has deepened. Other governments in East Africa, including Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania, have been accused of paralysis by observers who suggest that few of Burundi's neighbors are genuinely invested in a resolution to the crisis, despite the strain of hosting refugees and the potential economic consequences for the region.
As the lack of outside pressure emboldens Nkurunziza, young men like Ronald remain on the run, without any idea of when they might be able to return home. "By God's mercy I am somehow still alive, but it is like torture being a refugee abroad," he says. "I get panic attacks from nowhere—I can always feel my heart. I was just looking for peace."
For Onesime Nduwimana, a former fighter with the CNDD-FDD who previously served as a government spokesman under Nkurunziza, it's clear where the blame lies. The president and his allies, he says, have "embarked on a path without return," and this referendum is only the latest step.
"The situation in Burundi today makes me ashamed, revolted, and I pity for my countrymen," he says. "They deserved better."
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I made a freebie for you! I have plans to make a little collection of activities with the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie book, but I am not sure if I will get them done in time. So, I decided to post the one I do have done as a freebie! It's a sequencing activity. I am the English Language Development teachers for first grade, which means the state puts some hefty rules on us about how long we teach what subject, etc. Oral language is a huge part of that, so everything I make has to have some sort of oral language piece. This activity is a cut and paste sequencing activity with an oral language part to it. The kiddos have to color and cut out the Old Lady and the things she ate. Then they have to glue them onto the strip of paper in order of how she ate them. After that, they have to retell the story to a friend. Enjoy!
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I love the Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie sequencing activity! Those books area always a big hit in my class!
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This year's 4-day MIX will help middle school students understand John's answers to many of life's big questions by looking at God's family in comparison to the world's chaos.
Our middle schoolers will leave Valley View's campus at 12:30pm on Monday, June 11, and spend the week in Waxahachie, TX. We will return to Valley View on Friday, June 15, around 10:00am.


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What is Amenorrhea?
Amenorrhea is the condition when menstrual cycle does not occurs in women. Amenorrhea is of two types. It may be primary as well as secondary.
Primary Amenorrhea: When a girl or woman have not started her menstrual period after puberty, condition is called Primay Amenorrhea. In this condition the girl is older than 15 years and has gone through all other changes that normally happen after puberty.
Secondary Amenorrhea: A women who had normal menstrual cycles before and suddenly the menstrual cycles were absent, the condition is referred as secondary Amenorrhea.
Natural Amenorrhea
Please note that absence of menstrual cycle also occurs during pregnancy and menopause. It is a normal natural phenomenon and should not be confused with Amenorrhea.
What are Symptoms of Amenorrhea?
Although absence of menstrual cycle is thought to be the key symptom of amenorrhoea, however there are also a few more symptoms as well that can give you the hint about amenorrhea. Some of the main symptoms may include:
- Changes in the size of breast
- Gaining or losing the weight
- Milk discharge from the breast
- Acne problem
- Pelvic pain
- Sudden increase in the growth of body hair
- Vaginal dryness
- Vision changes
- Voice changes
- Headache
What Causes Amenorrhea?
There are a number of causes of Amenorrhea in females. Some of them may be a part of routine life, however a few causes might be due to the side effects of medicines or because of certain medical issues.
Contraceptives: The females who use birth control medicines may experience this condition. Even if they stop taking those pills, it might take some time to regulate the natural cycle of periods. Similarly the women who get the injections of contraceptives might also suffer from Amenorrhea.
Medicines and pills: There are some specific medicines and pills that may be quite harmful for your natural menstrual cycle and using those medicines at regular intervals may cause you amenorrhea. Some of those medications include:
- Antipsychotics
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Antidepressants
- Blood pressure medicines
- Allergy drugs
Lifestyle Factors that Cause Amenorrhea: At times the lifestyle plays key role in developing amenorrhea, some of these factors are as follows:
- Low body weight
- Too much exercise
- Getting in stress
Other Reasons: In addition to the causes given above there are some other causes as well that may lead a woman to amenorrhea, that may include:
- Uterine scarring
- Lack of reproductive organs
- Structural malfunctioning of the vagina
How Amenorrhea is Diagnosed?
Your medical health provider would advise to conduct a few tests to diagnose Amenorrhea:
First of all, he would like to take your blood test to check hormones level secreted by your pituitary glands and the ovaries. He might also ask you for the Ultrasonography of the pelvis to determine whether there is any abnormality in your genital tract or not besides he would also want to look for polycystic ovaries. Your doctor would then ask you for the CT scan or MRI of your head.
If the above tests don't draw a clear picture and doctor is unable to conclude anything, then he would possibly go for some additional tests such as:
- Thyroid working tests
- Checking the prolactin levels
- Hysterosalpingogram or saline infusion sonography (SIS)
- Hysteroscopy (visual check-up of your uterine cavity)
Treatment of Amenorrhea in Homeopathy
There are several medications that can be helpful for the treatment of Amenorrhea. Some of them are as follows:
- Calcarea carbonic
- Ferrum metallicum
- Sepia
Please note that this condition can be cured completely using homeopathic medicines without any side effects or other complications. By taking regular medicines from an expert homeopathic doctor you will see improvement in your condition within few weeks.


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By Dan Collyns
Footage reveals infant and adult dolphins being harpooned, stabbed, clubbed and in some cases, butchered while still alive.
Peruvian fishermen slaughtered dolphins to use as bait for shark fishing, an undercover investigation has revealed.
Footage showed infant and adult dolphins being harpooned then stabbed and clubbed before, in some cases, being cut open and butchered while still alive. The slaughtered dolphins were cut up and used as bait. Dolphins are also killed for human consumption in Peru even though it is illegal.
Up to 15,000 dolphins are being killed in this way every year by Peruvian long-line shark-fishing fleets, according to three organisations – Peruvian NGO Mundo Azul, US NGO Blue Voice and the UK-based Ecostorm agency – involved in the month-long investigation.
The footage was filmed secretly on two shark-fishing boats and numerous interviews with fishermen corroborate that dolphin killing is common practice.
"We videotaped from the boat and in the water and what we saw was unimaginably horrific," said Stefan Austermuhle, executive director of Mundo Azul, who spent 24 days on one shark-fishing boat off the Peruvian coast.
"I just went numb looking at the pitiful dolphin being battered with a club. All I could do was continue recording the event, as well as the butchering of the sharks in the hope that making the world aware of this tragedy can somehow bring an end to it. More....


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So here it is…I am a Green Lantern fan. When I was a kid and reading comic books Hal Jordan and Green Lantern was my guy. As much as I love Batman, Iron Man, and a few lower comic book heroes, Green Lantern was always my guy. So I was always going to like this movie unless it was a colossal failure on the scale of the film Batman & Robin. This movie is nowhere near that kind of failure. I do have some issues with this film, but unlike most of the movie going population of the planet, I did like the film and it sits in my movie collection.
Hal Jordan, played by Ryan Reynolds (Smokin' Aces,) is a test pilot for Ferris Aircraft when he is recruited by the Green Lantern Corp upon the death of Green Lantern Abin Sur who crash landed on Earth. Sur's death is due to a battle against an evil entity known as Parallax that lives and grows off of the fear of other beings. While Hal is sent to the planet Oa to learn about being a Green Lantern, old childhood friend Hector Hammond, played by Peter Sarsgaard (Jarhead,) is asked to inspect the dead body of Abin Sur and while doing the autopsy become infected with Parallax's energy that was left over in Abin Sur. Eventually Hal is forced to fight Hammond a couple of times, one of which not only puts his sort of girlfriend Carol Ferris, played by Blake Lively (The Town,) but summons the entity Parallax to kill off the Lantern who bears the ring of Abin Sur and absorb the people of Earth to become even more powerful and destroy the home world of the Green Lanterns.
So the biggest problem bringing Green Lantern to the big screen and introducing him to a world of people who aren't familiar with his story, is explaining his personal story. Unlike Batman where in five minutes you can show that he is the son of a billionaire whose parents are murdered by a thug, or Superman who is an alien from another world who was sent to Earth to live, Green Lantern takes a human and introduces it to a galactic police force comprised of aliens. It's hard to explain the basics of the story of Green Lantern in 30 minutes. It's going to take time to not only tell the story but set up the relationships between them. So as the movie tries to show the backstory of the Green Lantern Corps and of Hal Jordan. Because of this the movie is paced slowly and not as exciting as the Batman movies before it and many of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. I just don't see how it can be helped because it's a complicated story and not easily understood.
As for the other big issue many people have I am one who also doesn't have a problem with Ryan Reynolds playing Hal Jordan. Reynolds does the charismatic, narcissistic, hero with a heart and some demons with a sense of humor well. It is in his wheel house as an actor. In Green Lantern he is running around doing what Ryan Reynolds things and it works.
My problems with the rest of the cast vary from looking like they are phoning it in, which describes Blake Lively, to the characters that were written poorly, like Hector Hammond. I think Sarsgaard did an admiral job of the character but his backstory of being a failure in the eyes of his father, Senator Hammond, played by Tim Robbins (Jacob's ladder,) considering he is a college professor seems a little heavy handed. I just wish they would have come up with something better.
I guess the problem with Hector Hammond is that he isn't Hal Jordan's greatest enemy but he is a lessor one that is a classic villain but not the best one for a debut film. And then teaming him up with Parallax which is the equivalent to Batman's Bane or Superman's Doomsday, all villains who destroyed their super hero counterparts, really doesn't help the story. I am guessing that if the producers of the film knew that this movie wasn't going to do well at the box office they probably would have scrapped this story and gone with Hal Jordan's greatest nemesis, Sinestro. Sinestro, played by Mark Strong (Kingsman: The Secret Service,) does have a part in this film as a member of the Green Lantern Corps, which he was in the comic book lore, and challenges Hal Jordan at every level in the film. This is all correct in developing the back story for the Green Lantern Corp. The sequel of this film was surely going to have Sinestro as the enemy but with the failure of this film it never materialized. This is a shame because I believe that film would have made up for this one's lack of action for sure, in my opinion.
A lot was made of the special effects of the film and how the movie seemed to spend more on that then on plot development. While I will agree that the plot is weak, we are again talking about an intergalactic alien police force. Special effects are going to have to be involved and are going to have to be heavy, it's unavoidable.
That's about all I have on the film. I was disappointed that the producers cancelled the sequel but I am also guessing it had to do with the new direction Warner Brothers and DC wanted to take the DC universe on which is on a parallel course to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Green Lantern would not have been a good start to it and I believe it's the last DC comic book movie made that has no ties to the future films that started with Man of Steel. As a fan of Green Lantern I will have to wait until Justice League to see if he makes an appearance in it and if it doesn't I have to wait until 2020 for the Green Lantern Corps to be released. Hopefully it will honor the lore of the character and make the movie going public happy.


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Stampin' Blends are here!
I have had a little more time to play with the Stampin' Blends alcohol markers since my previous post when they first arrived. I'm getting better as I learn from experience and from other demonstrators.
Here are a few more samples and tips.
-For best results, use Memento Black ink and Whisper White Cardstock. I had to add some ink refill to refresh my inkpad as it was getting a bit faded.
-They come in pairs of light/dark – great for Blending. But they also blend well with other colors. For example the Pool Party plus Bermuda Bay. Or Calypso Coral plus Cherry Cobbler.
-The lighter colors such as Pool Party and Crumb Cake are great for adding sky and ground.
-The darker colors such as Night of Navy and Cherry Cobbler are great for accents. Be sure to stop short of the black lines with these colors so you don't overwhelm the outlines or spread the color outside the lines. The Color Lifter can push back the color. Hold the bullet tip over the mistake until it pushes into the back of the paper.
-For large areas – flick color on with the brush tip in one direction starting with the lighter and adding dark where there are shading lines or where there might be shadows. Then go back to the lighter shade and use the bullet tip in circular motions for blending. (IMPORTANT -If you use the brush tips for blending, you risk fraying the tips – the brushes should be flicked in one direction- not back and forth). If too light, go back and add more of the darker color. If too dark, the Color Lifter will push away the color. Unlike water based markers which leave streaks and damage the paper if overworked, the alcohol markers give you more options. They do bleed through when used properly, so be sure you have paper protecting your work surface.
-The Smoky Slate light marker is great to add a shadow on the outside of your image on one side. Soften it with the Color Lifter for subtle dimension.
-You can see that many Stampin' Up! stamp sets work well with the new Stampin' Blends. And they will look great mounted on the matching cardstock – my favorite part of crafting with coordinating Stampin' Up! products.
You can purchase the Blends at my shop in singles, pairs or the entire set. And another tip – if you want the entire set, consider purchasing the Demonstrator Starter kit and get all 26 markers for just $99 and free shipping too. Now is a great time to get the demo discount and even earn some extra cash for the holidays. Join the fun at my website. I'd be happy to answer any of your questions.
Happy crafting,
Kim Wilson
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