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1. Home schoolers were organized.
The day after Bill Clinton was elected we started getting an enormous
number of calls from people who were panicked that Clinton would work
to revoke home schooling freedoms. Our response was: This is not a time
for panic but for preparation.
Frankly, the greatest danger is posed not by a liberal presidents actions but by liberal congressmen who will be emboldened to attempt legislative maneuvers unthinkable with another in the White House.
To prepare for any attack by the education establishment and their friends in government, we created the Congressional Action Program (CAP) to
assist just in case a federal legislative emergency arose. But the real preparation and organizational work had already been done over the past 10 years by state and local home school groups who worked to advance the cause of home schooling freedom. Home School Legal Defense Association and the National Center for Home Education simply built a federal response network to network with existing state and local home school groups. The decade of preparation which proceeded this
alert was essential in our collective ability to respond quickly and effectively.
2. Home schoolers were educated.
If we had been required to spend a long time explaining to the home schooling community why teacher certification was a bad idea, we all would have been dead in the water. The first major threat ever to endanger the home school movement came from the laws in a number of states which required all teachers (including home school parents) to be
One by one, states removed these laws. The last three states to relinquish certification laws created home schooling legends. North Dakota, Iowa,
and Michigan were the famous triumvirate of evil for their steadfast insistence on teacher certification laws. Home schoolers around the nation closely followed the Bismarck Tea Party, the DeJonge case in Michigan, and the multiple tribulations faced by parents in Iowa.
Fighting these battles not only served to educate home schoolers on the substance of the teacher certification issue, it also gave them valuable experience in the intricacies of the political process. For example, home schoolers were well-schooled in the principle that all calls and letters must be polite. The overwhelming feedback we have received from Congress is that home schoolers were incredibly polite, yet very firm. Many congressional offices tried to
convince callers that the threat to home schooling was non-existent.
The reality is that Congress had conducted no hearings on the Miller provision. There was no evidence that a federal teacher certification rule was a good idea for public schools. It is probable that many congressmen never thought about how their language would affect home schools and private schools. But the absence of subjective sinister intentions is wholly irrelevant. What mattered was the legal meaning of the words employed in the act. In all of the cases challenging teacher certification laws which we have handled, there has never been a law which was originally written to apply to home schooling. In every case, a law written to apply generally to all teachers ended up forcing home schoolers into compliance. There are often unintended consequences to legislation. And most home schoolers were smart enough to not be misled by condescending assurances. Moreover, many of the Congressmen making these assertions had not read the relevant provisions, nor had they read the corresponding definitional sections, nor did they have any understanding of the home school law in their states. Indeed, in his speech on the floor of the House, one congressman claimed that home schoolers in Michigan were violating the compulsory attendance law. Most home schoolers knew better than to be led astray by the assurances of intent made by people who publicly decry home schooling as nothing more than truancy.
3. Home schoolers acted on their beliefs
Tens of millions of Americans were concerned about homosexuals in the military. Similar numbers held strong views about NAFTA. Every citizen was directly affected by the Clinton budget and tax increases. Yet, according to some congressmen, many congressional offices received more calls on H.R. 6 than on these other three issues combined. Many others besides home schoolers called on H.R. 6. But everyone recognized that the lions share of activity came from home schoolers. Most Americans complain about various proposals in Congress. However, until those complaints are directed into meaningful political action, very little will be accomplished. On Capitol Hill there is now a standing joke: If you want to defeat a bill on providing foreign aid, call it The Foreign Aid and Home Schooling Regulation Act. I have received a number of requests to crank up the home school network to pass or defeat many pieces of legislation. As deeply concerned as I am about a broad range of political issues, the HSLDA network is reserved for issues that involve one of three things: (1) bills which directly or indirectly involve home schooling; (2) parental rights; or (3) religious freedom. Home schooling rights are built upon the twin foundations of parental rights and religious freedom, so we must be very vigilant in these areas as well.
But I must confess that I long for the day in which freedom-loving Americans, affronted by the continual erosion of their liberties in other arenas, will demonstrate the same degree of seriousness displayed by home schoolers protecting their educational liberty. It is my belief that those of us who believe in traditional moral principles have not because we ask not. You all are doing a tremendous job. Just teach your children and neighbors to be organized, educated, and to vigilantly take action on their beliefs and our country will be much improved.
Updated March 17, 2007
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Geneva, 13 June 2012 - Africa, a latecomer to establishing complex, modernized economies, should strive to do this in a way that uses the continent's abundant natural resources in an efficient, "green" manner that both raises living standards and protects the environment, a new UNCTAD report urges.
The Economic Development in Africa Report 20121, subtitled Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development in Africa, was released today. It focuses on the dilemma of accomplishing much-needed economic growth while protecting the environment.
While the rest of the world is flocking to the continent for resources that are increasingly scarce elsewhere, the report notes that Africa, with its abundant supplies, had a per capita domestic material consumption of 5.3 tons in 2008 - about half the global average. The 13.4 per cent of the world's population living in Africa in 2008 used only about 5.5 per cent of globally consumed resources. As domestic material consumption on the continent inevitably increases, the report says, careful domestic planning and enhanced international financial support and technology transfer will be required for what it terms "sustainable structural transformation"
The challenge is to modernize the continent's economies - including expanding industrial capacity - through the efficient use and consumption of domestic natural resources, thereby avoiding the mistakes made by early industrializers elsewhere. Past experience has shown that industrialization and structural transformation - that is, the shift in economic production towards higher-value goods and goods of greater variety and complexity - was often achieved at the expense of the environment and through intensive use of natural resources, the report says.
The report is based on a comprehensive analysis of resource use and productivity in Africa. It shows that Africa remains a small player on the global stage in terms of total resource extraction and domestic material consumption, even though Africa's resource use is rising fast.
The fact that intensive energy and material consumption on the continent has not yet occurred provides an opportunity, the study contends. Given current levels of technology and know-how, and given that the world's advanced economies also must make the difficult shift to "green" production, it should be possible, and it will be best, if African countries start the process that way.
Africa accounted for only 7.2 per cent of total global material consumption in 2008, compared to 6.8 per cent in 1980. However, domestic material use increased by 92 per cent between 1980 and 2008. Energy use remained low, increasing by only 16.3 per cent over that same period. Since Africa - as a latecomer to industrialization due to various domestic and external constraints - has not yet been able to use its abundant natural resources and harness its energy sources to build modern industrial economies, it should embark on the process now armed with the best knowledge, strategies and technologies possible, the report says.
The report contends that Africa should not follow the same "grow now, clean up later" approach that was adopted by currently industrialized countries. The continent should instead pursue a different path which reconciles economic growth with environmental sustainability.
Implementing sustainable structural transformation in Africa will not be easy, and there is no "one size fits all" approach. Each African country will have to design strategies and policies based on its own sectoral and resource priorities, environmental challenges, initial conditions and domestic capabilities. Among other areas, focus should be placed on efficient, sustainable resource use in energy, industry and agriculture. Countries that are well embarked on that path include Kenya, Mauritius and South Africa (in Africa), and China (among large developing countries).
The report urges African Governments to shift from traditional to modern, less polluting energy sources, by increasingly powering their economies by renewable energy such as wind, solar and hydro power, wherever these energy sources are economically and environmentally viable. In addition, it says that expanding the use of organic agriculture has proved to be an environmentally sustainable way of increasing harvests, bringing higher prices to farmers, and keeping rural populations engaged in farming rather than joining the vast migrations of population to Africa's cities.
For Africa to successfully transform its economies in a sustainable way, it will need to build capacities to obtain, use, and adapt existing environmentally sound technologies to local conditions, the report says. Indigenous technological innovation will be critical, as such ideas and adaptations work best for local conditions.
Overall, the process will require significant support from the international community, the report notes. Developed countries will have to increase financial assistance to Africa, particularly to productive sectors such as energy. Equally important will be greater technology transfer from developed and emerging countries to Africa, increased "South-South" cooperation in green technology use and adaptation, and greater flexibilities in the design of the global intellectual property rights regime. In addition, more "policy space" will be needed for African Governments so that they have the ability to use incoming funds and technology in the most efficient way for their specific circumstances. The report calls for greater coherence between trade, environmental and investment policies at the international level to help rather than hinder this sustainable structural transformation.
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Molasses Roasted Yams and Sweet Potatoes Medley
You can never go wrong with roasted sweet potatoes and yams. I like to make a medley of the two. Sweet potatoes are different than yams and each brings a different flavor and level of sweetness. This recipe is ultra simple, so it'll give you extra time to focus on other dishes for your meal.
Yields: 41.5 lbs yams
1 lb sweet potatoes
2 Tbs dark brown molasses
1 mandarin, freshly squeezed
3 Tbs butter, melted
1 Tbs olive oil, optional
4 sprigs creeping red thyme, plus extra for garnish
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp black peppercorns, freshly ground
Preheat the oven to 400°F
Wash the yams and sweet potatoes. Fill cold water in a pot until it barely touches the steamer level. Place the potatoes, bring to a boil then reduce the heat to a medium high. Steam for about 20 minutes. The potatoes should be fork-tender. Remove from the steamer. Let it cool down.
Peel the potatoes. Place them in a oiled baking tray. In a bowl, mix the butter, mandarin juice and 2 tablespoons of molasses. Drizzle with the butter/molasses mixture. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Remove the thyme leaves from the stem, then sprinkle all the dish. Drizzle some olive oil if the potatoes are not entirely coated.
Bake for about 20 minutes. When there's a nice brown crust, your potatoes are ready!
Transfer to a nice serving platter, garnish with sprigs of red creeping thyme and drizzle with the molasses-balsamic syrup.
Bon appétit!
I used the "full flavor" Brer Rabbit brand molasses.
I peel my potatoes with a Messermeister peeler. I think it's the best peeler. It's very sharp and make very thin peels. It's also very useful for food decoration.
It's ultra easy to remove the thyme leaves from the stem, hold the top of the stem with one hand and the other slides through the stem and pulls the leaves off. I like to bruise the leaves a little in a mortar and pestle to release all the flavor and make the dish more potent.
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Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die kanonische Verbindung klassischer globaler Schwerefeldmodellierung in der Konzeption von Stokes (1849) und Neumann (1887) und moderner lokaler Multiskalenberechnung mittels lokalkompakter adaptiver Wavelets. Besonderes Anliegen ist die "Zoom-in"-Ermittlung von Geoidhöhen aus lokal gegebenen Schwereanomalien bzw. Schwerestörungen.
A continuous version of spherical multiresolution is described, starting from continuous wavelet transform on the sphere. Scale discretization enables us to construct spherical counterparts to Daubechies wavelets and wavelet packets (known from Euclidean theory). Essential tool is the theory of singular integrals on the sphere. It is shown that singular integral operators forming a semigroup of contraction operators of class (Co) (like Abel-Poisson or Gauß-Weierstraß operators) lead in canonical way to (pyramidal) algorithms.
Combined Spherical Harmonic and Wavelet Expansion - a Future Concepts in Earth" s Gravitational Determination (1995)
The basic theory of spherical singular integrals is recapitulated. Criteria are given for measuring the space-frequency localization of functions on the sphere. The trade off between space localization on the sphere and frequency localization in terms of spherical harmonics is described in form of an uncertainty principle. A continuous version of spherical multiresolution is introduced, starting from continuous wavelet transform corresponding to spherical wavelets with vanishing moments up to a certain order. The wavelet transform is characterized by least-squares properties. Scale discretization enables us to construct spherical counterparts of wavelet packets and scale discrete Daubechies" wavelets. It is shown that singular integral operators forming a semigroup of contraction operators of class (Co) (like Abel-Poisson or Gauß-Weierstraß operators) lead in canonical way to pyramyd algorithms. Fully discretized wavelet transforms are obtained via approximate integration rules on the sphere. Finally applications to (geo-)physical reality are discussed in more detail. A combined method is proposed for approximating the low frequency parts of a physical quantity by spherical harmonics and the high frequency parts by spherical wavelets. The particular significance of this combined concept is motivated for the situation of today" s physical geodesy, viz. the determination of the high frequency parts of the earth" s gravitational potential under explicit knowledge of the lower order part in terms of a spherical harmonic expansion.
Spline functions that approximate data given on the sphere are developed in a weighted Sobolev space setting. The flexibility of the weights makes possible the choice of the approximating function in a way which emphasizes attributes desirable for the particular application area. Examples show that certain choices of the weight sequences yield known methods. A convergence theorem containing explicit constants yields a usable error bound. Our survey ends with the discussion of spherical splines in geodetically relevant pseudodifferential equations.
A: New Wavelet Methods for Approximating Harmonic Functions; B: Satellite Gradiometry - from Mathematical and Numerical Point of View (1995)
Some new approximation methods are described for harmonic functions corresponding to boundary values on the (unit) sphere. Starting from the usual Fourier (orthogonal) series approach, we propose here nonorthogonal expansions, i.e. series expansions in terms of overcomplete systems consisting of localizing functions. In detail, we are concerned with the so-called Gabor, Toeplitz, and wavelet expansions. Essential tools are modulations, rotations, and dilations of a mother wavelet. The Abel-Poisson kernel turns out to be the appropriate mother wavelet in approximation of harmonic functions from potential values on a spherical boundary.
Orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiresolution analysis, scale discrete and exact fully discrete wavelet transform on the sphere (1996)
Based on a new definition of delation a scale discrete version of spherical multiresolution is described, starting from a scale discrete wavelet transform on the sphere. Depending on the type of application, different families of wavelets are chosen. In particular, spherical Shannon wavelets are constructed that form an orthogonal multiresolution analysis. Finally fully discrete wavelet approximation is discussed in case of band-limited wavelets.
Discrete families of functions with the property that every function in a certain space can be represented by its formal Fourier series expansion are developed on the sphere. A Fourier series type expansion is obviously true if the family is an orthonormal basis of a Hilbert space, but it also can hold in situations where the family is not orthogonal and is overcomplete. Furthermore, all functions in our approach are axisymmetric (depending only on the spherical distance) so that they can be used adequately in (rotation) invariant pseudodifferential equations on the frames (ii) Gauss- Weierstrass frames, and (iii) frames consisting of locally supported kernel functions. Abel-Poisson frames form families of harmonic functions and provide us with powerful approximation tools in potential theory. Gauss-Weierstrass frames are intimately related to the diffusion equation on the sphere and play an important role in multiscale descriptions of image processing on the sphere. The third class enables us to discuss spherical Fourier expansions by means of axisymmetric finite elements.
A new class of locally supported radial basis functions on the (unit) sphere is introduced by forming an infinite number of convolutions of ''isotropic finite elements''. The resulting up functions show useful properties: They are locally supported and are infinitely often differentiable. The main properties of these kernels are studied in detail. In particular, the development of a multiresolution analysis within the reference space of square--integrable functions over the sphere is given. Altogether, the paper presents a mathematically significant and numerically efficient introduction to multiscale approximation by locally supported radial basis functions on the sphere.
This paper presents a method for approximating spherical functions from discrete data of a block-wise grid structure. The essential ingredients of the approach are scaling and wavelet functions within a biorthogonalisation process generated by locally supported zonal kernel functions. In consequence, geophysically and geodetically relevant problems involving rotation-invariant pseudodifferential operators become attackable. A multiresolution analysis is formulated enabling a fast wavelet transform similar to the algorithms known from one-dimensional Euclidean theory.
Metaharmonic wavelets are introduced for constructing the solution of theHelmholtz equation (reduced wave equation) corresponding to Dirichlet's orNeumann's boundary values on a closed surface approach leading to exactreconstruction formulas is considered in more detail. A scale discrete version ofmultiresolution is described for potential functions metaharmonic outside theclosed surface and satisfying the radiation condition at infinity. Moreover, wediscuss fully discrete wavelet representations of band-limited metaharmonicpotentials. Finally, a decomposition and reconstruction (pyramid) scheme foreconomical numerical implementation is presented for Runge-Walsh waveletapproximation.


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Ritter signs dog racing bill; Simulcasts to start Wed.
Gov. Ritter on Thursday signed a bill that will allow the state's racetracks and off-track-betting parlors to simulcast greyhound races without having to hold live dog races in-state, a big win for the operators.
Bruce Seymore, executive director of Mile High Racing & Entertainment, told me today that he plans to begin greyhound simulcasting on Wednesday. He still needs to submit paperwork to the state and do final checks on the betting system.
By May 30, Arapahoe Park, Havana Park, Red & Jerry's and Mile High Greyhound Park should have 9 greyhound signals – meaning races from 9 different tracks. Arapahoe Park kicks off live horse racing this weekend.
Senate Bill 174 went through the legislature with some controversy because of outcry from the state's kennel operators, who say the measure will effectively kill off live greyhound racing in Colorado.


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A need-based financial award, the Nonresident* Graduate Partial Tuition Remission, is available only to eligible full-time international students (F-1 visa holders). View the guidelines.
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This amount varies from year to year based on changes in tuition. All awards are subject to funding availability from the state of Wisconsin.
Awards are made on either a semester or academic year basis. Remissions are not available for completing a second graduate degree or certificate at UW Oshkosh. This award is available only to international students.
The award is automatically renewable unless funding is no longer available or the student fails to meet any academic or administrative requirements as applicable. A full tuition remission (waiver) is not available.
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Attend our monthly events and activities for Turks expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
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Department of Revenue News Release
January 12, 2010Jefferson County Man Arrested for Fraudulently Obtaining State Vehicles; Evading Sales Tax Payments
SALEM - A High Ridge, MO resident has been arrested and arraigned on charges of evading paying sales taxes, fraudulently posing as a Missouri auto dealer, and defrauding the Missouri Department of Conservation by stopping payment on a check he used to purchase vehicles from the department.
Robert B. Hector surrendered to Dent County court authorities Jan. 7 in Salem. He was arraigned on the same day, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 4. He is free on bond of $45,000.
Hector, 46, is charged with fraudulently obtaining five vehicles and their titles at a Department of Conservation surplus property auction on Oct. 17 in Salem. He bought three pickup trucks and two Dodge Caravans at the auction and is charged with stopping payment on the check used to pay for the vehicles.
Hector is also charged with representing himself as a Missouri motor vehicle dealer to avoid paying sales tax when purchasing the vehicles. The purported business he was representing, Worldwide Capital A/S, is not a licensed Missouri dealership. Normally, a person purchasing a vehicle must pay sales tax on the purchase. However, licensed dealers do not have to pay sales tax for such a transaction.
Hector is also accused of selling the vehicles to a legitimate motor vehicle dealership using the fraudulent titles.
A special agent of the Missouri Department of Revenue's Criminal Investigation Bureau investigated the case and provided details to the Dent County Prosecutor's Office so that the charges against Hector could be levied.
"This is a brazen case of fraud and tax evasion," said Nick Humphrey, director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. "The bureau believes Mr. Hector deprived the Department of Conservation of the proper payments for its vehicles, he evaded paying the sales taxes he owed, and he misrepresented himself on the titles and to other people as a legitimate dealer when he bought and sold the vehicles. Blatant fraud such as this against Missouri citizens and the state government needs to be rectified to discourage others from doing the same thing in the future."


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So we have done a lot of changes on our website. We have changed entirely the look and feel of movie reviews and quotes. Right from changing the theme of it (which has now become more awesome btw), to outsourcing of quotes which we assumed was quite the need of the hour, and removing a couple of unwanted menu items that helped us to primp it down further. Quotes can be accessed via the "Quotes" menu which will redirect to you our tumblr version, which as a matter of fact, is doing pretty fine per se.
We have also ventured into Instagram waters and are wading just fine in kudos. Of course, that is restricted to quotes alone. You can find the link here:
The front static page of Straight From A Movie is still open for ideas. We have stopped including a "portfolio view" of the things we were onto on the landing page since it was causing speed issues. Another idea of revamping movie reviews and quotes site is through the inclusion of a section that celebrates the forgotten movies. We are still thinking about including such a corner, or might settle on using the Blog section We have also included a "Quote of the week" section in our movie reviews and quotes website which will let you have a
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South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-Up for November 2010 (Low-Glycemic Recipes)
Every month I find recipes that only need small changes to make them South Beach Diet friendly, so it's noted after the link if the recipe needs any changes to be Phase One. Of course, there are always good Phase One recipes that I don't find, so if you're a food blogger who's posted something you think would be good for Phase One, see after the recipe links for how to submit it.
Phase One Appetizers and Condiments
Cucumber Raita Sauce from Eat Little, Eat Big
Spicy Roasted Red Pepper Hummus from The Texas Peach (eat with celery or other veggie dippers for Phase One)
Easy Basic Tomato Sauce from Eat Little, Eat Big
Tartar-Like Sauce from Budget Bytes
Sesame Tuna Skewers with Wasabi Mayonnaise from A Conscious Feast (skip the pickled ginger which contains sugar)
Eacargot Style Roasted Mushrooms from Pro Bono Baker (use olive oil instead of butter)
Garlic and Rosemary Mushrooms from Cook Almost Anything
Phase One Salads and Salad Dressings
Lebanese Lentil Salad with Garlic, Cumin, Mint, and Parsley from Kalyn's Kitchen
Phase One Soups, Stews, and Chilis
Venison Chili from Sugarcrafter
Cuban Black Bean Soup from Soup Chick
Phase One Vegetables and Side Dishes
Vegan Creamed Kale from Cheap Healthy Good
Roasted Broccoli Pomodoro from Eat Little, Eat Big
Brussels Sprouts Chiffonade with Lemon and Thyme from She's In the Kitchen
Easy Roasted Cheddar-y Cauliflower from Sarah's Cucina Bella
Spinach with Toasted Pine Nuts from AskGeorgie.com
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Vinegar from Two Peas and Their Pod
Soy Sauce Glazed Brussels Sprouts from Jeannette's Healthy Living (second recipe in this post with brussels sprouts and squash is not phase one)
Spiced Cauliflower with Sesame Seeds from 101 Cookbooks
Roasted Zucchini with Thyme from $5 Dinners
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Vinegar from San Diego Foodstuff
Golden Shredded Brussels Sprouts from Cheap Healthy Good
Braised White Beans from Leite's Culinaria
Rainbow Chard from Stuff I Make My Husband
Phase One Meat, Chicken, or Fish Entrees
Braised Chicken with Snake Beans from Souvlaki for the Soul
Spice-Crusted Salmon with Ginger Cilantro Yogurt Sauce from Eat Little, Eat Big
Oven-Braised Beef with Tomato Sauce and Garlic from Champaign Taste (don't serve with pasta or rice for Phase One)
Cod with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce from AskGeorgie.com
Herb Mustard Pork Loin from Budget Bytes
Cream Dory with Onions and Bell Peppers from The Peach Kitchen
Keralan Green Chicken Curry from The Culinary Chase
Phase One Vegetarian or Meat-Free Entrees
Vegan Creamed Kale from Cheap Healthy Good
Roasted Broccoli Pomodoro from Eat Little, Eat Big
Steamed Asparagus with Poached Eggs from SkinnyTaste
Braised White Beans from Leite's Culinaria
Phase One Breakfasts
Mini Quiche from Eat Little, Eat Big
Swiss and Roasted Asparagus Omelet from Sarah's Cucina Bella
Steamed Asparagus with Poached Eggs from SkinnyTaste
Brekkie Spaghetti (Squash!) from Cara's Cravings
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Nate Berg is a freelance reporter and a former staff writer for CityLab. He lives in Los Angeles.
Picture talking a walk down the street and stopping at the corner to pick up an apple. Not from the corner store, but from the corner apple tree, planted on the street, right out in the public. This imaginary walk would be little more than a dream in most neighborhoods. But in Vancouver, it could become a reality.
As The Vancouver Sun recently reported, the city is looking to add more fruit- and nut-bearing trees to its urban tree inventory. As part of a plan to plant more than 150,000 trees by 2020, the city is considering making food-producing trees a major part of that effort:
Vancouver city council and the park board will consider motions next week that would incorporate planting food-bearing trees into the Urban Forest Management Plan, due to be completed next year.
"We will have a plan to plant the trees, care for the trees and harvest the fruit," said Vision Vancouver park commissioner Niki Sharma, who introduced the notice of motion at park board Monday. Mayor Gregor Robertson introduced the notice to council Tuesday.
The city already has an inventory of about 600 street trees that produce fruits and nuts. Another 425 are located in city parks and community gardens.
For the most part, city trees don't tend to provide fruit – not the kind of fruit people want to eat, at least. The reasoning is fairly obvious: fruit trees produce a lot of fruit, and when not tended to this fruit can be a mess and a vermin attractor. While cities do maintain their tree populations – periodic trimming and culling as needed – they don't tend to spend the sort of time watching over trees that they'd need to in order to help a fruit crop grow. So it's interesting to see Vancouver announce this plan.
But official city-sanctioned fruit trees aren't the only way the urban forest can become more of an urban orchard. Amateur arborists in San Francisco known as the Guerrilla Grafters have been grafting fruit-bearing tree branches onto already growing and stable street trees. As Amy Biegelsen reported for The Atlantic Cities back in February, Tara Hui, the leader behind this movement, has grafted cherries, plums and pears onto city trees – all without the city's approval.
Hui sees maintaining data as a key element of the project. "It's difficult to counter an argument without any data to disprove it," she says. The grafters are working on a mapping application with data on tree type and location in hopes that the citizen science will bolster their project and any future negotiating they may need to do.
They have good reason to worry on that score. The city's public works director, Mohammed Nuru, recently told the San Francisco Examiner that trees in the right of way are "not for grafting" and that the city "considers such vandalism a serious offense. There would be fines for damage to city property."
And in L.A., a project called Fallen Fruit has carefully mapped out the locations of fruit-bearing trees that are growing on public land or at least partially hanging over public land, making it easy for people to legally access locally grown food for free.
Official fruit trees, though, are relatively rare in cities. But that may be slowly starting to change. The town of Unley, Australia, for example, recently approved a trial program where more than 60 fruit and nut trees were planted in a public park. Officials see it as a way to increase food security and also to encourage locals to consider planting fruit trees in their own yards. The shift for cities to take on the responsibility of caring for fruit trees is not insignificant, though. How well efforts like these work will largely be a matter of maintenance over the long term – both by city officials and by local community groups and neighbors. But if they can pull it off, there should be more cities willing to follow suit. And maybe some day that imaginary walk to the corner apple tree will be reality.
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Per Grankvist is "chief storyteller" for Sweden's Viable Cities program. His job: communicate the realities of day-to-day living in a carbon-neutral world.
As the District lagged on its Vision Zero goals, bike and pedestrian advocates in Washington turned traffic fatalities into a rallying cry, and got results.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
While little known outside of France, architect and city planner Tony Garnier (1869-1948) is as closely associated with Lyon as Antoni Gaudí is with Barcelona.
Finland's most ambitious library has a lofty mission, says Helsinki's Tommi Laitio: It's a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement.


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Bloodmoor Imperator Wednesday 11/04/2007, 01:18
Again your mail-system failed me so I have to do things this way.
I have been trying to play the tournament (10:30 am Australian time) and discovered my name does not appear on the list of challengers...thus I am not challenged.I am not set to invisible or anything...and re-booting hasn't worked.
I'm not a happy camper....I've put a LOT of time and money into this game and only get the chance at 2 tournaments a day.With math....you can see it takes me 10 days to be able to buy at the market.....so this is a significant set-back for me.


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Sept. 10, 2000
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The second-ranked Santa Clara women's soccer team defeated sixth-ranked Connecticut 2-1 in sudden-victory overtime this afternoon at Alumni Field, completing play at the KeyBank Classic in South Bend, Ind.
The Broncos, now 3-2-0, ended a two-match losing streak, Santa Clara's first in six seasons. In September 1994, Santa Clara lost three straight to Loyola Marymount, Stanford and North Carolina.
Connecticut falls to 1-2-1.
Rain and strong winds greeting both teams as overtime began. But freshman Veronica Zepeda's rebound off her own deflected shot scored the game-winner at 99:01 to end the match. It was Zepeda's second goal of the season.
Senior forward Kathleen Celio scored her fifth goal of the season at the 70:26 mark. She received a pass from freshman Kristi Candau, but her first shot was deflected by a Husky defender. Celio scored on the rebound, 2 yards out.
Connecticut posted a 1-0 lead at the 35:11 mark when Mary-Frances Monroe sailed a shot over Bronco goalie Alice Gleason.
"This win wouldn't be possible without a complete team effort," head coach Jerry Smith said. "It's as gutty a performance as an SCU team has had in several years. It feels so good to score a come-from-behind victory. We haven't had to do that in a long time. The heart, determination and mental toughness they showed
The Classic ranks as the nation's premier regular-season women's soccer tournament and is the only Division I tournament in the 2000 season that features four teams from the NSCAA's top-10 poll: No. 2 Santa Clara, No. 4 Notre Dame, No. 6 Connecticut and No. 10 Stanford.
Santa Clara has competed against Connecticut seven times in the last 10 years, but this was the first regular-season meeting since 1993. The Broncos now lead the series 6-2-0, winning the last six contests. Three of those wins in the last four years eliminated the Huskies from the NCAA Quarterfinals (1996, '98, '99).
The Broncos return to California for the Stanford Classic and will begin the tournament against No. 9 Maryland at 5 p.m. on Fri., Sept. 15.
Team 1 2 OT Final
Connecticut 1 0 0 1
Santa Clara 0 1 1 2
Connecticut 13
Santa Clara 16
Goalie Saves
Yatrakis 6
Gleason 5
Goal Summary
UCONN Mary-Frances Monroe (Sarah Popper, Salla Ranta) 35:11 UCONN, 1-0
SCU Kathleen Celio (Kristi Candau) 70:26 Tie, 1-1
SCU Veronica Zepeda (unassisted) 99:01 SCU, 2-1


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Women's rights activist Sandra Fluke has decided not to run for Congress this year, announcing that she will instead run for a Southern California state Senate seat.
Fluke, who rose to political stardom after conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called her a "slut" in response to testimony she gave during a congressional hearing on birth control coverage, had said she was "strongly considering" running for the Los Angeles-area congressional seat that will be vacated when longtime Rep. Henry Waxman retires at the end of his current term. Earlier this week, she filed paperwork to seek the endorsement of the California Democratic Party.
But the 32-year-old attorney and Democratic activist told the Los Angeles Times that she decided not to join the field of candidates running for the 33rd Congressional District. Instead, she will launch a bid for the state Senate district currently represented by a Democratic legislator also running for Waxman's seat. She confirmed the news on social media Wednesday morning, updating her Facebook page and sharing the decision with her 63,000 Twitter followers.
"Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to #runsandrarun! I've announced my candidacy for #CA State Senate," she tweeted.
Fluke, who has played a prominent role as a Democratic fundraiser and campaign surrogate in recent elections, told the Times she believes serving in the state Legislature "is a better way for me to advance the causes that are important to our community."
"I believe that the families and communities of this district -- from West Hollywood to West L.A. and from Santa Monica to Torrance and beyond -- deserve to have a fresh perspective from a new generation of progressive leadership in Sacramento, and I am eager to get to work fighting for the causes that matter most to our future as a community, state and nation," Fluke said.
The race for Waxman's seat has already attracted several other prominent Democrats, including former Los Angeles City Controller and 2013 mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel and state Sen. Ted Lieu, whose current district Fluke will now seek.


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Exam survey reveals 25% dissatisfied.
The exam survey, modeled after a program launched by the New Jersey Credit Union League in 2012 that targeted all credit unions in Region II, aims to provide CUNA with national baseline figures from which to gauge future trends in federal and state exam processes. The online survey, promoted by CUNA and the leagues, was conducted in December 2012 and January 2013 and generated a response rate of approximately 25%.
Overall, 60% of credit union CEOs surveyed said they were satisfied with their exams. However, 25% said they were dissatisfied.
"The rate of dissatisfaction is never going to be zero," said CUNA Chief Economist Bill Hampel, "but it would be nice to move in that direction."
Credit unions that reported being dissatisfied with their exams were more likely to be state-chartered credit unions with more than $250 million in assets, and therefore subjected to joint exams. Dissatisfied credit unions also tended to be undercapitalized, with net worth ratios between 5% and 6%, and saw their examiner assign a riskier CAMEL rating after the exam.
Credit unions with positive opinions about their exam tended to be state-chartered and not subjected to joint exams that saw their CAMEL ratings improve as a result of the exam.
Statements regarding examiner performance and exam processes that elicited negative responses were consistent with two issues already identified by the NCUA: examiners applying guidance and best practices as if they were regulatory requirements, the increased use of documents of resolution. Additionally, respondents overwhelmingly said increased regulatory requirements and exam requirements are putting increased pressure on credit union resources.
The survey also revealed that 43% of respondents received one or more DORs during their last exam. Deputy General Counsel Mary Dunn said the ability to quantify the use of DORs will be helpful to CUNA as it works with the NCUA to reduce the use of the document. Previously, the trade group was only able to provide anecdotal feedback to the regulator on the issue.
"The biggest weakness in any advocacy program is a lack of actual information and hard fast data that substantiates your claim," she said." This allows us to sit down with regulators and show them what the data indicates, that there are too many DORs out there."
Paul Gentile, CUNA's executive vice president of strategic communications and engagement, agreed with Dunn. He said he launched the survey in New Jersey last year as president of the NJCUL because "credit unions are very vocal about exams that don't go well, which is good, but the problem when advocating for credit unions is those are one-off stories."
After presenting NCUA Director of Examination and Insurance Larry Fazio with the Region II findings last year, Gentile said he was pleasantly surprised with the regulator's response. Exam scheduling problems with New Jersey credit unions were revealed in that survey, and Gentile said the NCUA has already remedied the problem.
Dunn also lauded the NCUA for its willingness to improve the exam process, saying her team has never sent exam suggestions developed by CUNA's examination supervisory subcommittee because the NCUA has implemented the ideas faster than she could edit the document.
"We're in a different place this year compared to last year, with the agency recognizing that improvements need to be made, and embarking upon those improvements," she said. "But, so long as the economy is still improving, we will still have exam issues."
Although the results will be used in advocacy efforts, Dunn said the statistics won't be proactively used to call out the NCUA before legislators.
"The exam fairness bill is still out there, and it's an important issue to credit unions, so to the extent that survey data substantiates what is being said on Capitol Hill, we'll use it," she said. "What we don't want to do is paint the NCUA as unwilling to change because that's not true. But there are still areas that need to be addressed."
The exam results will be discussed at GAC during a breakout session on exam issues, Gentile said.
The NCUA was unable to comment on the survey at press time.
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* National exam survey expands NJCUL Region II data.
* 25% of respondents say they're dissatisfied with most recent exam.
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There's something happening here; what it is ain't exactly clear.
At this hour, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have given the go-ahead for the Bird's Point levee on the Mississippi River along the Illinois-Missouri border to be deliberately blown up via a massive shipment of explosives that was quickly barged in last night.
The state of Missouri itself does not want the levee exploded, and has filed a last-ditch effort to get the Supreme Court to stop it. I've seen sources that give differing takes on how Kentucky feels about it, but both versions put Fulton County squarely in the risk region. Apparently Kentucky is, in fact, in favor of the levee's destruction:
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said his state would join Illinois because failure to blow up the levee could cause an estimated $32 million in damage to Fulton County Kentucky including the town of Hickman nearby.
The town of Cairo has been evacuated against its will, and reports are that hundreds of thousands of acres of prime farmland will be permanently submerged under water by bombing the levee.
So why is this happening?
Two "sand boils" have erupted in nearby Cairo, Illinois, and they're enormous. Workers trying to control these spontaneous volcano-like eruptions of sand and water from deep under the Earth's surface are saying it's the biggest sand boil breakout they've ever seen. The sand boils are a sign of immense water pressure, and fear is that Missouri's aging and weak levee will not be able to stand this pressure much longer before collapsing.
Additionally, sinkholes are popping up everywhere, even in the middle of city streets. The ground is quickly reaching the disaster point of soil liquefaction.
Now, obviously, the levee collapsing would be a bad thing, so I'm not really sure why they think it's such a great idea to jump ahead and destroy it ourselves. The end result will be exactly the same - catastrophic flooding. They say doing it their way, with a controlled detonation, will save the town of Cairo and divert the water elsewhere. But if the sand boils are already in Cairo itself, then I'm confused, boss.
No, the only reason I can fathom to do this - and this is just me speculatin', this isn't something I've heard any public official admit yet - is because a sand boil, according to usgs.gov, is symptomatic of earthquakes. The only logical reason to willingly destroy a levee, ruin farms, and risk dangerous flooding for everyone downriver, is because someone knows something we don't - perhaps that the sand boils are indicating great tectonic pressure and they're trying to stave off an Earthquake on the New Madrid Fault (which is already overdue to blow, some say.)
But will a giant explosion at this site prevent an earthquake - or cause one?


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operated by the state of Florida Department of Children and Families.
Eligibility: Adopted Adults, Birth
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and Adoptive Parents on behalf of their Adopted Minor Child.
The way FARR
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Fees: There is NO fee. Applications may be obtained from the
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Or Florida's Adoption
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1-800-96-ADOPT (in Florida)
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No kidding... Once I buy the domain, I'll have a web site using almost the exact method you described (though I'll likely use dyndns as my router has a built-in function for it). That'll cost me all of $5 and the 450MHz Pentium 3 with 12GB HDD and 368MB of RAM sitting next to my main machine. Even if I had to pay for the machine, it would cost less than hosting.
That said, I won't be able to host anything besides HTML and maybe a few pictures, due to the poor upload speed of comcast cable.


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The mission of the DCMP is to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning through described and captioned educational media. The ultimate goal of the DCMP is for accessible media to be an integral tool in the teaching and learning process for all stakeholders in the educational community, including students, educators and other school personnel, parents, service providers, businesses, and agencies.
The DCMP supports the U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan by committing to the following goals: 1) Ensuring that all students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind have the opportunity to achieve the standards of academic excellence. 2) Advocating for equal access to educational media as well as the establishment and maintenance of quality standards for captioning and description by service providers. 3) Providing a collection of free-loan described and captioned educational media. 4) Furnishing a clearinghouse of information and research about accessible media.
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Swept Side™ Aluminized Steel Cat-Back Exhaust System with Single Side Exit (316511) by Gibson®. Exhaust System Type: Cat-Back. Exhaust Tubing Material: Aluminized Steel. Main Tubing Diameter: 3". Exhaust System Sound: Aggressive / Loud. Get increased horsepower and torque in the rpm range where you need it most, with this Swept Side Cat-Back Exhaust System. This Gibson exhaust system makes maximum low end power, which is best for towing, general performance and increased fuel economy, with a deep, aggressive exhaust tone. It's made of aluminized steel and comes with a polished stainless steel exhaust tip.
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There are many performance exhaust system manufacturers that make extravagant power claims, with a lot of talk about increased flow with huge exhaust tubing. But their systems usually make the most power at 5000-6000 rpm, an rpm range seldom used on the street, even by performance vehicles. And those sewer pipe sized tubes actually reduce torque at lower rpm, where you need it the most.
The Gibson Swept Side Cat-Back Exhaust System is designed and built to make horsepower and torque for real world driving conditions. Dyno results show that this system makes maximum horsepower and torque at 1800-3000 rpm, where you can feel it during every day driving and where you need it when doing things like towing a trailer. And along with that increased power and improved performance you get better fuel economy and a nice deep, aggressive exhaust tone.
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Recipe Swap Part of WAG Exhibition for Foodies!
Feast, a new exhibition opening at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on October 29, is all about food. What role does food and feasting play in our lives? How does one extol the virtues of a fine glass of wine, a bag of greasy French fries from the local chip truck? Feast is a unique and tantalizing exhibition featuring a smorgasbord of approximately 30 works from the Gallery's permanent collection that explores a variety of fascinating issues and ideas surrounding food and the daily act of eating.
The works in this exhibition, curated by the WAG's Art Educators, run the gamut from decorative ceramic plates to drawings and photographs to paintings and cutlery.
Since it's all about food, there's even a recipe swap! Visitors are invited to bring along their favourite recipe and drop it in the recipe box to share with others. They are then welcome to sit down, check out the other recipes, and copy out some exciting new ones. Recipes will also be shared online on the WAG's BLOG.
Feast continues at the WAG until March 25, 2012.
Related Program
Art for Lunch • Wed, November 30, 12:10pm • Exhibition tour with WAG art educators.
Approaching its centenary in 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery is Canada's oldest civic art gallery and Manitoba's leading visual arts institution. With a collection of over 24,000 objects spanning many centuries and cultures—including the world's largest collection of contemporary Inuit art—the WAG is constantly moving between the historical and the contemporary in an effort to engage a growing public with the power of art in our lives.
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Dell dangles dongle PC at enormo-display-desiring road warriors
USB stick-sized Android mini computer, anyone?
CES 2013 Dell, is that a memory stick-sized Android computer in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? The former, it turns out.
Dell's Wyse subsidiary - the thin-client computing pioneer the PC giant acquired in April 2012 - will today show off 'Project Ophelia' at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas/ Ophelia is a tiny Android machine that plugs into a monitor or TV to provide "instant" access to its owner's cloud content, the web and apps running on remote systems.
Not Ophelia, but something like it
Internet connectivity comes courtesy of on-board Wi-Fi, peripheral linkage through Bluetooth. The doohickey also has a USB port.
Ophelia lacks a battery - power comes through its MHL connector, a Micro USB-style jack that also feeds out video signals. MHL supports 1080p video and HDCP content protection. Many TVs and monitors have MHL, and there are plenty of MHL-HDMI adaptors out there too. It's a technology widely used in HTC, LG and Samsung phones.
This being a Wyse device, the gadget is ready to run as a thin-client to tap into applications hosted on servers and desktops running Citrix, Microsoft or VMware.
Dell's notion is that office drones on the road and folk away from home will want to access their files remotely but don't necessarily have access to carry a laptop or a tablet around, or need to make use of a large display. It's pitching Ophelia as a handy-to-stow alternative ready to be hooked up to a big screen, although the user will still need to find a Bluetooth mouse at the very least to be able to operate the gadget.
"Project Ophelia transforms ordinary displays into a window to entertainment, communications and a person's own personal cloud," puffs the company. "Mobile devices have small screens, tablets and PCs aren't always convenient to haul around, and all these devices require batteries that can run down."
Ophelia - the go-to-market name is TBD - will be out sometime before July, Dell said. Or you can get something similar from a dozen or so Chinese suppliers for 40 quid via eBay. ®
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Ski star Ted Ligety hopes feeling golden is his forte
Back in the day when a 1996 song No Diggity was all the rage, Ted Ligety was a 12-year-old up to no good on the mountain he called home.
"We built forts and threw snowballs at tourists," Ligety says, pointing out places at the Park City Mountain Resort, where he learned to ski at age 2.
"Before they renovated this building, we would go to the top floor, sneak out the window, go up on the roof and throw snowballs," he says with a laugh.
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Now 29, the memories of those days come back easily. "In a lot of ways the mountains became my babysitter," he says. His parents would drop Ted off, then pick him up at the end of the day.
"Every kid dreams about being the best in the world but I don't know if you really realize it's possible," he says.
Entering his third Olympics, Ligety might be the best skier in the world with the least fanfare. This past season, like his entire career, much of the attention once again fell on Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller.
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"I kind of like it," says Ligety, a four-time world champion and an Olympic gold medalist. "I don't mind being off to the side a little bit. Lindsey is going to take 95% of the spotlight being who she is and Bode is such an interesting story and has such a good chance at winning medals so he's going to have a lot of the spotlight as well.
"I'm in ski racing because I love it. I don't want to be a celebrity. I like to go to the store in sweatpants and nobody think anything of it. I'm pretty happy being relatively anonymous."
One former ski racer thinks the days of anonymity are about to come to an end as Ligety heads into his third Olympics as a gold medal favorite in the giant slalom, his specialty.
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"Ted has the ability to blow everybody's socks off," says Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street. "Not just because he's so able on his skis but because how articulate, friendly and warm and how much exposure he brings to the sport. There's so many kids out there again saying, 'Yeah I want to be a ski racer.'"
Ligety was that kid. Throughout his childhood, Park City was a regular stop on the World Cup tour.
"It was really cool, seeing guys like Alberto Tomba come through," he says. "It was cool to watch the race then get their autograph. It was a pretty good confidence booster knowing that you're skiing on a World Cup level hill every day in training."
Last season when Ligety became the first skier since Jean-Claude Killy in 1968 to win three gold medals at a world championship, La Bomba himself sought him out. Tomba said Ligety's feat was something he couldn't have done. "It was cool having one of my childhood heroes talking about how neat my accomplishment was."
Not surprisingly, when Ligety is not racing, he's working with kids on the slopes. Nine years ago, he started hosting his own ski camp at Mount Hood. "A big reason why I do it because when I was younger I was coached by Tommy Moe and he was one of my first big heroes growing up," he says about Moe, who won his gold medal 20 years ago at the Lillehammer Olympics.
He also supports Boston-based Youth Enrichment Services' Operation SnowSports program, a program focused on introducing the sport to inner-city kids.
Though Ligety quietly goes about his business in his typical low-key manner, a new JC Penney ad, which harkens back to the music of his youth, along with an oft-aired cold medicine commercial, has put him in the American spotlight in the lead-up to Sochi.
In the department store ad, a remixed version of the 1996 Blackstreet/Dr. Dre hit, No Diggity becomes No Ligety in a spoof of the original music video. Ligety even gets his own figurine in the ad, Lil' Ligety.
I like the way you work it
Go Ligety, you've got to round it up
Feeling golden is a forte
Each and every day
Like Ligety
By no means low key
Like a podium in Sochi
Last weekend, Ligety finished on the top of the podium, winning the final giant slalom before the Olympics, in St. Moritz. The win was his 21st World Cup (20th in GS).
"Hopefully I can carry that confidence over the next couple weeks," he said, as if feeling gold is his forte.


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- Liverpool child, 7, asks Father Christmas for 'a home and food'
- Marine E reveals identity and suicide attempt
- Grace Millane died 'accidentally during sex', murder accused claims
- Sai Aletaha: Kickboxer who died after bout 'liked by everyone'
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- Forgotten cache of RNLI pictures 'preserved for posterity'
- Did UK Special Forces murder Afghan children?
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Finch Hutton brings French-American style bistro to Nederland
Driving to 1147 Boston Ave. in Nederland provided a surprise like no other encountered on recent assignments. Arriving at my destination, a new restaurant, Finch Hutton, I had no idea what to expect. A gracious welcome to our party by an attentive staff impressed me right off the bat, but when I saw the menu offered at this French-American bistro, shock is a mild word to describe my feelings. Each member of our group looked over the choices offered and decided to each try something different to see what was in store for customers and friends who want a truly different dining experience.
Meeting Katy Maloney, the front of house manager in training (her description of her job duties) and sensing her enthusiasm about the eatery made me curious as to how this new establishment came into being. In some ways, there was an old familiar feel to the ambience, décor, and even the menu, but I could not put my finger on it at the moment. Asking whom the owner/manager was, Maloney told me it was Chef Rafael Ruiz. Bingo. It all clicked. I had met and interviewed Ruiz at another well known eatery and learned his life's dream was to open his own restaurant, serve the kind of food he chose, make the customer feel very important and cherished, and to create something so different from surrounding eateries. He has more than succeeded in Finch Hutton in the old business district in Nederland. You will have trouble remembering where you are once you taste your food.
Ruiz, serving as a master chef in several establishments for more than 15 years, has perfected the dining experience and made it available for area residents. Explaining how the name Finch Hutton come into being, Maloney said, "Chef Ruiz is an avid reader and he was fascinated with the novel 'Out of Africa,' where one of the main characters is Finch Hatton, but when our accountant and attorney filed the paperwork for our various licenses, he spelled 'Hatton' as 'Hutton.' It stuck and we all like it, so Finch Hutton it is."
One member of our party ordered the beef and chicken brochette and I ordered the famed tuna tower. Neither was disappointed with the food or the service. The restaurant features steak, seafood and poultry dishes that are blended with southern touches. You'll find a lamb burger with blue cheese crumbles, a peppercorn crusted filet of tenderloin served with cognac shallot sauce, and a delicious roasted garlic and mushroom pasta. The bread and Finch Hutton's butter is worth going for, but skip on over to dessert and try the strawberry tart, hot bread pudding, or chocolate truffles. The only real problem we had was in deciding which of the delicious meals to order first.
Noticing two burly young men at a table down from us, I approached the two guys and asked why they had chosen Finch Hutton rather than a traditional burger or chicken place. Andy Doughty, a 2009 graduate of Nederland High School and a friend from Midland, Steven Reker, seemed delighted with their choices. Doughty lives in Nederland and said he had heard about the new restaurant and that it was different, and he decided to bring his guest there to try it out for himself. Doughty had what he termed his "first grown up grilled cheese," and it was a beauty, while Reker had the grilled chicken Caesar salad. Both cleaned their plates and said they would be back for more. "It really is good food, and I just like the place because it is different," said Doughty. "We'll be back for sure."
Ruiz opened his dream eatery Oct. 6, 2011, and from all appearances, it is off to a fantastic start. Reservations are strongly suggested because the elegant and sophisticated restaurant is filled every night. You may call (409) 722-3100. Finch Hutton is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and for Sunday brunch from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., and is closed on Mondays. Congratulations to Chef Ruiz and his culinary team for bringing a five-star dining experience to Nederland.
Brenda Cannon Henley can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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Cloud-based services are still often seen as too risky for sensitive information. Take the case at Kingsport, Tenn.-based Eastman Chemical Company, which said "no" to the cloud when designing its new crisis communications system.
Eastman Chemical, which operates chemical manufacturing facilities, decided to put in a new messaging system for interactive early warning notifications to thousands of employees in the event of any kind of emergency. They wanted one that would be IP-based with integration with Microsoft Lync VoIP, Eastman's Active Directory as well as its legacy corporate pagers and radio systems. They could have chosen a cloud-based option from the vendor they selected, AtHoc. But it was decided the data Eastman Chemical might be sharing from its dispatch center was simply too sensitive to consider using a cloud-based service.
"Eastman retains all messages on the Eastman network," says Keith Bennett, area supervisor, plant protection services, emphasizing that no emergency notification message is allowed to leave the Eastman corporate network, even though a cloud-based notification service for this was possible through AtHoc.
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Through the customized crisis communications system, a central dispatch system is functioning around the clock in order to direct a range of notifications to individual computers, VoIP phones, texting, RSS feeds, as well as e-mail, phones, pagers and two-way radios.
The kind of information that could be sent to thousands of Eastman employees via the IP-based live response system might pertain to anything from tornados, fire, medical and chemical safety to possible terrorism. It's tailored to send messages to appropriate individuals via VoIP phones, mobile devices and computer pop-ups, allowing them to respond about safety status. "We needed to take advantage of new technologies but we use legacy radios and pagers," Bennett points out.
Because it's considered "operations critical" messaging, Eastman decided that this was all too sensitive to permit the information to travel outside its private network and into the cloud and it was a requirement that AtHoc had to build the system for Eastman to keep it closed in that way.
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Proportionality and Gaza
One thing that Walter Russell Mead confirms in his post on Gaza is that he doesn't understand proportionality:
If the other guy comes at you with a stick, you can't pull a knife. If he's got a knife, you can't pull a gun. If he burned your barn, you can't nuke his capital. Your use of force must be proportionate to the cause and to the danger.
This is a definition of proportionality as imagined by an advocate for total war. That is, Mead is defining proportionality in such a way that virtually no one would ever agree to it. It's important to appreciate just how wrong Mead is. What matters is not the means of retaliation, but the target and effects of retaliation. The issue is not really that one belligerent is technologically superior to the other and must not use its more advanced weapons for the sake of fairness, but that in using them it engages in indiscriminate killing and creates worse evils than those the retaliation was intended to overcome.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the requirement of proportionality in just war theory is that "the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated." By any reckoning, the current operation in Gaza has already done this, and the harm will be compounded if the Israeli government decides to launch a ground invasion. The fact that it is not yet as disproportionate as Operation Cast Lead or the second Lebanon war doesn't make it all right. There are several other tests required in just war theory that Mead simply ignores, including whether there are "serious prospects of success," which assumes that a given military operation has definable, obtainable objectives. Those objectives seem somewhat unclear in this case, so it's difficult to argue that there are serious prospects of reaching them.
Mead also retells a favorite story of his about "Jacksonian" Americans to explain why most Americans sympathize more with the Israelis according to various polls, but I suspect that the reason for this sympathy is much more straightforward. First and foremost, virtually every elected official from both major parties in our government supports Israel's actions, and it doesn't seem to matter what those actions are. When almost everyone in a position of political leadership supports something, that has some real influence on how Americans think about an issue. Considering the near-unanimity in the political class on this question, it is interesting that American public opinion is more divided. Another factor is that Israel is a client of the U.S. As such, Israel is generally perceived to be on "our" side, and Americans are going to sympathize more with a government and a nation that they believe to be on "our" side than with the people on the other side of the conflict.
I don't think most Americans are indifferent to indiscriminate killing and disproportionate violence in war as a general rule, but like many other nations most Americans make exceptions for the conduct of the belligerent that we believe to be in the right. Conduct by one state or group that would earn "our" condemnation is defended or overlooked when committed by one of "ours." That's an unfortunate attitude, but it's hardly limited to "Jacksonian" Americans.


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- 1/4 cup liquid egg substitute
- 1/4 cup skim milk
- Dash black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons packaged bacon bits
- 1 can (13.5 ounces) whole leaf spinach, drained well
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In a bowl, whisk together egg substitute, milk, pepper, salt, and bacon bits. Stir in spinach and mix well. Pour mixture into a nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until most of the liquid has evaporated.
Yield: 1 1/2 cups.
Serving size: 1/2 cup.
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Calories: 70 calories, Carbohydrates: 5 g, Protein: 8 g, Fat: 2 g, Saturated Fat: 1 g, Sodium: 700 mg, Fiber: 2 g
Exchanges per serving: 1 vegetable, 1 very lean meat. Carbohydrate choices: 1/2.
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