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The Truth About Compression Wear (Plus, 7 New Styles)
I'm not much into repression, depression or even obsession (unless we're talking about Loeffler Randall boots and Mistral hand cream.) But, these days, I am totally on board with compression.
Once upon a time, we thought ultra-tight compression shorts were for guys, keeping their "family jewels" in place (out of view) and their legs from chafing while running. Turns out that compression garments actually warm the body's muscles, warding off injury, and even increase athletic ability. Plus, now they come in all these cute styles for us ladies.
According to a 2003 Journal of Sports Sciences study, where the subjects included 10 male and 10 female track athletes, compression garments impacted movement and muscle warmth: "Hip flexion angle was reduced. Skin temperature increased more and at a faster rate during a warm-up. Muscle oscillation was decreased during vertical jump landing. Countermovement vertical jump height increased."
So, what does that mean? Well, basically, compression shorts likely increase "extension torque" and may help hamstrings control the leg during sprints: "The compressive garment significantly reduced impact force by 27% compared with American football pants alone. Through various mechanisms, these findings may translate into an effect on athletic performance and a reduction in injuries."
Sounds good to me! Now, the athletic-wear industry has caught on, so there are myriad women's choices -- way beyond just shorts -- for every style and need, including these 7 latest options below:
You'll be an animal at the gym in these new zebra Print Compression Shorts ($17.99) by Soffe with a low-rise, 3-inch inseam and, of course, tight fit -- also available in tiger and leopard prints. Roar.
Lines like 2XU -- an Australian brand associated with Ironman -- have made compression an art form. Their newest high-tech apparel is divided into three categories: PERFORM for intense workouts, XFORM, for workouts and recovery and REFRESH solely for recovery exercise. Their newest launch is a Compression Recovery Tight ($160), developed and researched over the course of five years. They're made from a powerful PWX "weight" fabric with "medically graduated compression ratings" and breathable circular knit lycra to increase blood flow, flexibility and muscle support.
Sometimes the upper body needs a little compression action too, which is why Sugoi created their Piston 140 Long-sleeve Top ($80.00) with mesh inserts, moisture-wicking fabric and built-in bra.
A little longer in length, but in the vein of compression shorts, Lululemon's RUN:Inspire Crops ($86) are made with Power Luxtreme, which is designed for "no bounce muscle support."
Nike's Core 5" Women's Compression Shorts ($25) in black are made with Dri-FIT fabric to wick away sweat.
For tennis players, the original compression peeps, Under Armour, have just released Women's Tennis Compression Shorts ($29.99) with ball pockets and their Signature HeatGear Technology to modulate core temperature.
C9 by Champion for Target is inexpensive, but high-tech, with upcoming pieces for fall 2011 like this Women's Compression Capri Tight in Flashbulb Fuschia ($19.99), launching in late August.
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Although supervillains tend to cause their mayhem in the private sector, a handful of superpowered schemers find more success pulling strings inside the government. How might supervillains change the American political landscape? For one thing, we'd have more lightsabers.
Something Awful's latest Photoshop Phriday challenged members to insert supervillains into American politics. Yes, you might argue, American politics are already sufficiently villainous, but they created some inspired images of evil elected officials. Check out all the images at Something Awful.
Supervillains in Politics [Something Awful via Super Punch]
Top image by Ferrule.
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is rampant and contagious. Is there any good business reason to switch.
This time last year, Oracle's Unbreakable Linux Network launched at OpenWorld to much fanfare. It was supposed to be a Red Hat killer. It has had as much impact upon Red Hat has a dead sheep. Larry Ellison says this is going to change. During his OpenWorld keynote this year, the Oracle CEO said the company means business next …
perhaps Larry should get his own software house to a functional level first. the recent Q&A hosted by Ellison himself, regarding Oracle's Fusion project, indicates that they have trouble dealing with the product line they already have.
if Oracle wants to be better, faster and smarter than RedHat, it would help if the company was at least as effective as RedHat is right now. this does not appear to be the case. Larry's ponderous monster looks like the snake that ate an elephant, and is wondering how to go about digesting the meal.
considering Mr. Ellison's (nonexistent) record of friendly cooperation with external entities, i'd say RH has a sizable advantage - RH has no shortage of players who want to partner with the 800-pound Linux gorilla. quite the congenial ape it is, too, by most accounts.
one would think RH would be paying attention to Ubuntu, not to Larry (he does go on though, doesn't he?). Shuttleworth's creature appears to be a far more effective and agile competitor, a velociraptor to Oracle's brontosaurus.
Oracle's strategy - especially it's marketting - has been wrong from the start, bordering on the suicidal. They have pushed themselves down the path of being confrontational to RH rather than announcing themselves as just another Linux distro. This means they have set a perception goal that they must take business from RH to prove their success before they can move on to attacking the Windows and UNIX installed base. TBH, this is madness. Most of the decision makers that put in RH (or SuSE, or any other Linux) had to fight long and hard to get senior management to agree to the idea, they had to show that RH could do the job and give the right level of support, and RH (and Novell) spent a lot of time and effort building up relationships with their customers. And Oracle expects those customers to just roll over for an inferior offering just because it's cheaper? I sometimes wonder how Ellison got rich in the first place.
I've never used Oracle. I gather you have to pay for it. Paying for software is not something I am in the habit of doing ..... I think I might have paid for a DOS game, once.
If you pay the full price for Oracle, do you get the complete Source Code? Just like you do with Postgres or MySQL, which you *don't* have to pay for? And if you don't get the Source Code, then what's the point of paying for it?
Its pretty clear that Oracle Linux isn't supposed to do anything except stick in Red Hat's side and punish them for acquiring JBoss, which Oracle wanted.
Oracle can afford to do it, but and Red Hat probably wishes they didn't. Where it will hurt is in big cream puff contracts. Rather than Red Hat getting to charge the list price for a large contract, they face price pressure. Hurts but they'll live.
Oracle's dubious "Unbreakable Linux" might have had some merit if it wasn't for that fact that there's a far cheaper (and some would argue significantly better than UL) clone to RHEL already out there, namely CentOS.
For businesses, there's only 2 sensible choices - ether buy RHEL and get proper support/cerification or get CentOS for free and use the community for suport (or your own in-house expertise). Oracle's Linux is a half-baked mongrel that deserves no-one's time or money, IMHO.
@Richard Lloyd
No company can live with "support from the community"!
How many "would love to be a Hacker" guyz have you seen in the community forums giving answers they don't even understand?
Honest, the amount of threads which contain bs solutions, even if they work, is horrendous!!!
just search for "rm" in the forums and you will see what I mean .... dangerous advice is being given by guyz who don't understand the problem or their cure! The problem is that this bad advice is then available in google and spreading .... don't get me wrong, I love/use linux, but community support? come on!


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Art Design
#origami #paper
Origami Masks and Tessellations by Joel Cooper
Paper artist Joel Cooper folds these astounding masks and tessellations from single pieces of paper. Given the right conditions I might be expected to fold a piece of paper in half, and on a good day even into fourths, but I simply can't fathom the patience and understanding required to transform paper into three-dimensional objects like this. You can see more of his work here and some of the pieces seen here are available on Etsy.


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Xiamen GRAND SLAM | 22 - 27 October 2013
Weather conditions: 21°C - 28°C
Currency: RMB
Time zone: GMT + 8hrs
Nearby popular attractions: Gulangyu Islet (Garden on sea), South Putuo Temple (the largest in Southern China), Yundang Lake (the largest sea water lake in China)
Local Tourist Office website: http://www.xmtravel.com.cn/
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325-327 Qianpu Zhong Road
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Around 6km (10 minutes by bus) to the venue. A daily shuttle service will be available.
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Discount price approx 450 RMB (~74 USD) per night for one double or single room (breakfast incl.)
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Burger Joint at Le Parker Meridien
Midtown West, New York, NY, USA
After wandering past the the swanky Le Parker Meridien Hotel's check-in counter, the best place to head is towards a dark curtained wall. There you will find a dim, narrow hallway with a neon-lit burger at the end of it. Usually – as was the case when I arrived – there will be a line of people, all with the same goal in mind, waiting patiently in the shadows. The anticipation to see whats inside the doorway grows with every minute, until finally you can peek in and are transported to an entirely different world. In stark contrast to its most of basics of exteriors, you end up in a joint filled with menus written on cardboard, a collection of retro movie posters and a barrage of pen and texta scribble all over the walls. Getting some Seinfeld Soup Nazi flashbacks are understandable as their (at first) intimidating instructions on how to order threaten having you look like a chump, or worse yet, endure the pain of being sent to the back of the line if you're too slow. But don't fret. There are only 2 options of burgers, so if you get it wrong – yeah, you're a chump. I went with the Works Cheeseburger that came on a humble hamburger bun with a classic beef pattie (cooked medium-rare), cheese, lettuce, tomato, red onion, sliced pickles, mustard, ketchup and mayo.


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Contour Maps
Selecting Make Contour Map from the Edit menu brings up a dialog box which allows one to specify how the contour map will be created for the current image in the current graph (indicated by the green bounding box)...
Click on the Make Contours button to build and draw the contours. After a set of contours is created, its parameters can still be modified in this dialog box and the contours recreated (replacing the previous version) with the Make Contours button. Contours are created as a POW curve, so one can control its display features (color, line style, etc) from the Edit Graphs dialog box.
If the original image contains WCS information, the contours will be created in terms of celestial coordinates. (Without WCS information, contours will be drawn in pixel coordinates.) As a result, one can place the contours made from one image into a graph containing another image (with its own, possibly different, WCS information) and the contours will be positioned appropriately for the new graph. This can be used to compare observations of the same object at different wavelengths (eg, radio and optical).
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Okay, does she really need an introduction? If you don't know Vanessa Christenson of V and Co, well, just don't tell anyone, because that would be a little embarrassing. We LOVE her...and she has like eleventy billion followers, so we are not the only ones... This is a darling quilt that she sells in her shop along with several other fun patterns. Loads of good tutorials here... and just put her in your reader, or you would be missing out!
this quilt was inspired when my family and i spent a saturday day hiking together. no i didn't see a ton of dandelions that day. i just realized that this summer i really wanted to focus on being outside with my kids and family.
i figured hand appliqueing a quilt would be a great project for the summer. we spent every day at the pool, and on weekends we spent them camping, going to grandma's house, or roasting smores after a BBQ. every where we went my quilt came along as well and i was able to make progress everywhere i was.
i enjoyed this last summer so much that i think i've started a new tradition of doing some kind of hand work over the summer so i could travel and create not only memories but a project that i will remember my summer by as well!
Thanks so much Vanessa. We really love this quilt. So darling and whimsical. Thanks for letting us feature you!


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Audi worked hard to make history at the Nurburgring 24 and to prove again that while the R8 might be nine years old, it can still kick ass. Here's how it went down.
Just a week after winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans with their crazy diesel-hybrid prototypes, Audi's Meuspsath-based Team Phoenix Racing went to the Nurburgring with their R8s to play a much more old school game on Germany's 15.2 mile long circuit with no place for errors.
After losing one car, finishing three minutes before a pair of SLS AMG GT3s with the other R8 LMS Ultra certainly put Audi on top of the world for a few glorious hours.
BMW and Mercedes-Benz certainly has more racing heritage for now, but if Audi keeps pushing this hard in the next few years, BMW will have to start thinking about what their M badge is worth without actually racing.
Their buyers will, and 6th and 8th at the Nurburgring 24 won't cut it with them.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids with same-sex parents are less likely to have private insurance than those with opposite-sex married parents, according to a new study.
But some of those differences go away when states allow same-sex marriage or civil unions, researchers found.
The connection isn't surprising but is important, lead author Gilbert Gonzales, from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, said. Evidence links insurance coverage with better general health among children, including fewer deaths, he told Reuters Health.
The study also showed kids with unmarried opposite-sex parents are less likely to be privately insured than those with married opposite-sex parents.
Gonzales and his coauthor Lynn Blewett looked at data from the nationwide American Community Survey collected between 2008 and 2010. The survey included roughly 5,000 children and teenagers with same-sex parents, 1.4 million with married opposite-sex parents and 100,000 with unmarried opposite-sex parents.
The researchers found 78 percent of children with married opposite-sex parents had private health insurance, whereas 63 percent of children with dual fathers and 68 percent of those with dual mothers were covered by similar plans.
"A 10-percent difference is large enough to raise some concerns, especially when health insurance is important to children's access to preventive and medical care," Gonzales said.
The difference was smallest in states where same-sex marriage and second-parent adoptions are legal, like California, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Children of dual mothers were just as likely to have private insurance in those states as kids of opposite-sex married parents, although for dual fathers there was still a notable disparity.
"Private insurance is mostly insurance from their parents' employers, and most Americans are covered by private employer-based coverage," Ninez Ponce of the department of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in Los Angeles, said.
"If there is a gap in private insurance, then this means that there may be eligibility rules, or tax incentives at play that differentially advantage the children of opposite-sex couples from same-sex couples," Ponce, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
About 60 percent of U.S. children are covered by private insurance and 30 percent by public insurance like Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to the State Health Access Data Assistance Center.
The new results appear in Pediatrics. The journal is published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which endorsed same-sex marriage in March.
Christopher Carpenter, a professor of economics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, called the study "critically important." That's because it is the first look at coverage disparities for children, not adults, in same-sex families.
He said the proportion of gay and lesbian couples with children will only be increasing in the future.
Therefore, "this study is fundamentally important for documenting the first evidence that children in these households face lower health insurance coverage rates - which could translate to reduced access to care and poorer health," Carpenter told Reuters Health in an email.
The findings help make the case that same-sex marriage could improve overall well-being for gay and lesbian households, he added.
More and more families of all kinds will likely get private insurance in the next few years under the Affordable Care Act, Gonzales said.
"More middle-class and working families will find themselves receiving subsidies and enrolling in private health insurance through the online marketplaces," he said.
"In addition, the Supreme Court's striking down of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) this past summer will make it easier for gay and lesbian workers to add partners and their children to employer health plans."
SOURCE: bit.ly/1gA08f3 Pediatrics, online September 16, 2013.


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Message to Deekshaites21-Feb-2015
Dear Deekshaite,
It's that time of the year – scrambling for the books, clarifying doubts from the teachers, connecting with friends to learn more and almost letting go of all entertainment in an attempt to reach the top!
Message to Parents09-Feb-2015
Dear Parent,
Here's wishing you a warm and happy 2015!
It's that time of the year! You are trying to do all that you can to make sure your child excels in the examinations. We felt like sharing some thoughts in this context – we certainly are taking a liberty in doing so, knowing fully well that it is you who knows better about for your child.


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Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival
Volunteers at the heart of the
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[August 26, 2014]
LINCOLN - In order for the Art and
Balloon Festival to be successful each year, it takes literally
hundreds of volunteers.
At this year's volunteer dinner hosted by Region's Bank and
Culver's, Andi Hake, executive director at Lincoln/Logan County
Chamber of Commerce spoke of the need for more volunteers while
discussing what it takes to make the festival happen. Lincoln Mayor
Keith Snyder praised the work of the volunteers who help make the
festival "Tremendous!"
who volunteer often find it a rewarding experience. For instance,
Jennifer Steele (pictured left), who has volunteered as a craft
coordinator, says she "likes getting to see all the people every
year, and getting to connect with people outside the community and
show what Lincoln is all about and what a great community we have."
Barry Simons, who has parked cars and passed out books for the past
couple years, enjoys working at the airport and seeing all the
people who come out for the festival.
Shafer (pictured left), who has helped the Boy Scouts selling
popcorn and candy downtown for many years says, "It is a great
service for our community." Bryce Watkins, one of the Boy Scouts who
is volunteering for the first time, says it is a good time to get
experience with selling items to raise money for their projects.
volunteers also enjoy the chance to be involved in the festival and
all its delight. Kathy Johnson, who likes to chase balloons and is a
first time coordinator for admissions this year, says it will be
"exciting." Roger and Jeannie Bakken (pictured left), other first
time volunteers enjoy the balloon glow and meeting friends at the
Art of Wine.
Etcheson has worked at the beverage center for nine years and says
she "likes meeting new people, enjoying balloons, and watching my
kids' eyes light up when they see the balloons."
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and family often help to recruit volunteers. Bill Meyer (pictured
left), who is a first time volunteer this year, says a friend
recruited him to drive golf carts at the festival, which he says
should be a "fun experience."
Michelle Squaire, who has volunteered at the Art Fair for three
years, it is a family affair, as she works with her children and her
mother. She says, "It takes a lot of work to set up." She loves all
the different types of art, comparing it to being at an art museum.
mother Sonnie Alexander, who has worked as a coordinator at the Art
Fair for the past few years, likes the fact that it offers, "fine
art, juried artists, and judges with good credentials." She says
that "it is fun to see all the good talents and the variety of
As the volunteers tirelessly put in hours to make the Art and
Balloon Festival succeed, their work brings pride to our community
and joy to the thousands of people who attend.
[By ANGELA REINERS]
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Ilyan Eades
Biography of : Archpriest Very Reverend Father Ilyan Eades, Parish Priest of Saint Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church, Dunedin, NZ.
My date of birth 18.11.46 (now nearly 60 yrs old) I was born Alan Reginald Eades (but given the name Ilian by Sayidna Gibran at ordination – my Patron Saint being Saint Ilian of Homs in Syria, which I then added as my first name by deed poll. So legally now it is my first Christian name).
My father Reginald was an Anglican priest, deceased 23.11.77. My mother Joan, deceased 28.1.2001. My wife Mary Joycelyn (nee Coate, born 14.10.50), and I, met whilst we were both training as nurses at Tauranga Hospital and we married 30th August 1970. Our children : Angelina (aged 33) is married with 3 children, and Nicholas (nearly 30 yrs old) who is single.
We were received as a family into the Orthodox Church by Father Jack Witbrock (in Auckland) on the 26.3.78, and attended Orthodox Services at both the Antiochian and Greek Churches from that time on, depending on their availability.
Accepted the call to the priesthood for the Saint Ignatius Parish in Auckland during 1984, and commenced supervised study and preparation, subsequently ordained by Bishop Gibran to the sub-diaconate & diaconate on 26th Sept 1987 and to the priesthood the following day 27th Sept 1987. We moved to Auckland from Te Awamutu in the Waikato region, and I was the resident priest at Saint Ignatius in Auckland, until my transfer to Saint Michael's in Dunedin, end of October 1992.
During my time in Auckland, we secured a tenure of lease on the Hall of Saint Christopher (a former Anglican Church Sunday School hall my own father started in 1953) which became the Orthodox Church of Saint Ignatius of Antioch 1988-1989, subsequently purchased from the Anglican Synod of Auckland for $115,000 in 1990. The Charitable Trust to administer the financial affairs of Saint Ignatius became a legal entity in my first year as priest in 1988.
To support myself financially, I had part-time employment at Mercy hospital, my wife working at a local Anglican Geriatric Hospital.
At first my congregation consisted of New Zealand convert Orthodox like ourselves, some NZ born Lebanese & occasionally some Greek or Serbian people who may have heard of us. My relationship with the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan in Wellington became most amicable when difficulties occurred with the Greek Church in Auckland, and Metropolitan Dionysios approached Bishop Gibran to find some accommodation for Father Michael Balafas at our Altar when he wanted to serve, and some of the Greek Community's families began attending our Liturgies. The Metropolitan also made an arrangement with Sayidna Gibran for me to go to the Greek Church (up the road in Western Springs) to conduct Weddings, Funerals, and Baptisms, when needed.
Following enquiries from members of the congregation of Saint Michael's in Dunedin, consultation followed with Sayidna Gibran and Father Jack, and I left Auckland for Dunedin in late October 1992.
We found an existing church in Dunedin, with no house or hall, and after being billeted for 2 weeks, were able to rent the house directly behind the church. Within a year we sold our North Island property, and personally purchased the 109 year old house for $68,000, the mortgage for which we are still paying off.
Sayidna Gibran did say (during his last visit to us in February 1997), that the Diocese could purchase the house from us when I move on to another parish, whenever that might be in the future, to accommodate the new priest.
Soon after my arrival from Auckland, there was a letter from Metropolitan Dionysios requesting my help in looking after the Christchurch Greek Community, as they were without a priest. So for the first 3 1/2 years of my stay here in Dunedin, I flew to Christchurch on a monthly basis to care for the Greek Orthodox Community (at that time approx 200+ families), and up until 2004, to other centres like Auckland, Napier, and Wellington, as requested.
Because of having to serve for the different nationalities, I use Greek, Slavonic, and English, especially as we are the only Orthodox Church in Dunedin & Southland except for the Coptic.
As there is no priest's salary in Dunedin, I continue to earn a living working for the IHC which cares for people with an intellectual disability. My wife (now a Veterinary Nurse) teaches at the Otago Polytechnic.
At the beginning of 2004, I was approached by the Multi-Nations Council in Invercargill, requesting monthly Divine Liturgy there, and consequently we have been travelling down to that centre to hold Services in a borrowed Anglican Church, near the Airport.
His Eminence Archbishop Paul has ordained Andrei Grenfell a sub-deacon, and he is in the fullness of time being prepared for the diaconate, to assist me with the two centres Dunedin & Invercargill (which is 2 1/2 hours south of Dunedin. )
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Man shot dead in Beaumont's north end, another treated and released
Beaumont Police are investigating a homicide and an aggravated assault that occurred late Monday night, Aug. 27.
At 9:58, patrol officers responded to the 1800 block of Glasshouse in Beaumont's north end when several citizens reported hearing gunshots. One caller told 911 operators that a victim was inside a residence at 1828 Glasshouse.
Officers arrived at that house and found 20-year-old Trazayre Sanders with multiple gunshot wounds. Beaumont EMS transported the victim to St. Elizabeth ER where doctors pronounced him dead.
At 10:19 p.m., 18-year-old Jacoby Holman arrived at St. Elizabeth ER via private auto with a superficial gunshot wound to his left hip. This male told ER staff that an unknown subject shot him in the 2800 block of Gulf St. ER doctors treated then released Holman. Patrol officers transported him to the Jefferson County Jail for outstanding city warrants. Detectives interviewed Holman at the jail. Holman bonded out of the jail Tuesday morning after that interview.
Detectives also took written statements from other people who were near the scene of the shooting.
Detectives believe the two shootings are related but are working to determine the exact nature of that link. Judge Ray Chesson ordered an autopsy that pathologists were performing the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the Jefferson County Morgue.
Police are asking that any person who has information about this shooting call the Beaumont Police Department at (409) 880-3830 or 832-1234. You may also call CrimeStoppers at 833-TIPS.


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HARTFORD - A man who was imprisoned 21 years for a rape and murder he did not commit is set to testify at a first-ever Connecticut hearing to determine how much he should be compensated.
Kenneth Ireland, who was imprisoned at the age of 18 and released in 2009 at age 39, after DNA tests, is seeking between $5.4 million and $8 million. The hearing scheduled for Tuesday marks the first time a wrongful imprisonment claim is going to the state claims commissioner, said his lawyer, William Bloss.
Ireland says in his claim that he lost the opportunity to learn a trade, earn a living, get married and raise a family. Labeled a sex offender, Ireland said in his claim he witnessed and experienced prison violence, losing part of a finger.
Attorney General George Jepsen has told Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr. that he does not object to the award compensation sought by Ireland.
Ireland was convicted in 1989 for killing Barbara Pelkey, a mother of four, in 1986.
In 2007, the Connecticut Innocence Project, which looks into potentially wrong convictions, began reviewing the case against Ireland. Following DNA tests, a Superior Court dismissed all charges against him.
In 2012, Kevin Benefield was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the beating death of Pelkey, who was 30. Benefield worked at a catering and car business in the Wallingford building where Pelkey worked and Ireland was employed at a local sandwich shop.
Investigators looking into Pelkey's death took a sample of Benefield's saliva in 1986 and submitted it to the state police crime lab in 2009 because of new DNA technology that had been developed. Testing linked Benefield's saliva sample to the killing, police said.


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Facebook and Skype are reportedly back in talks about offering web-based video calling.
The two companies originally began talks on the subject last year, but these seemingly came to nothing further than Facebook integration in Skype.
According to Bloomberg, two sources 'familiar with the discussions' have confirmed that video-calling talks are back on.
Ugh, video calling
While some of us rue the day Apple decided to put its magical marketing might behind video-calling with its FaceTime app, many people see it as the next big thing and a Facebook/Skype tie-in would see the social network's 500 million users able to video call each other to their hearts' content.
Facebook released the following statement regarding the rumours: "Last year, we announced the integration of Facebook in Skype, so people can keep up to date with their Facebook friends through News Feed in Skype and even call and SMS their Facebook friends on any phone from Skype.
"With regards to any further integration, we don't comment on rumor and speculation and have nothing to announce at this time."


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Dimensions - Width: 197.00cm x Height: 99.00cm x Depth: 98.00cm
The Memphis 3 seater sofa with two standard back cushions is a contemporary piece that offers both style and function. This is a perfect additional to any lounge to provide extra space for guests to stay over.
It features 2 large scatter cushions with a choice of colours and patterns available. The scatter cushions also have the body material of the sofa on the reverse for a more plain look.
The Memphis 3 seater sofa comes with cold cure seat interiors for unbeatable longevity, comfort and support.
This sofa is made from beautifully textured chenille and is available in a wide range of subtle colours that will help bring harmony to your room. There is also a choice of 3 different coloured feet light wood, dark wood or chrome to suit your interior.
Supplied with a 10 year structural guarantee and a 10 year cold cure seat cushion guarantee for long lasting support.
How do I get free delivery?
Internet Orders Over £2999
Spend £2999 Or More Online to get FREE delivery to your door, we will attempt to take goods into your room of choice for you (access permitting) we will ususally be able to do this for you, but must stress that as every home in the UK is different, that this cannot be a condition of sale. To ensure that we can deliver anywhere on the UK Mainland we of course have to use delivery carriers to certain postcodes, just as companies like Amazon do, these carriers are essentially delivering a box, they are not furniture assemblers, nor experts at delivering furniture, if you require this level of service then we recommend you pay a few hundred pounds more and buy at your local store .
What we do promise is the best price in the UK (we will try and get the furniture in for you) but for the reasons stated above we are unable to guarantee to get the furniture inside your house and we cannot assemble internet orders. We have to state clearly that our delivery officially ends at your property door. There are millions of different types of homes in the UK and we cannot see who is ordering what, so if you order something that won't fit, or something like a recliner sofa that needs bolting together you are responsible for this. We are always on hand to help with instructions on how to carry out any assembly.
Important - To Manage Expectations :-
Please note that whilst we will always try and deliver into your home, and will do this wherever we can, officially our obligation to deliver ends at your front door and on internet sales, we do not carry out an assembly service. Certain recliners and sofas will need connecting together by the customer, we can provide instructions on how this basic task is carried out so that you can do this yourself with ease, (typically a straightforward connection using supplied wing nuts).
Contract delivery staff will not usually connect recliners / recliner sofas together so please do not expect this, you must ensure that you have a competent person on hand to carry out this task. If you are unable to connect the recliners together yourself and feel that you need this doing for you, we can put you in touch with your local independent technician who would usually charge you between £60 - £80 for this service.
We will always try and put goods into your room for you, but in instances where goods will clearly not go in easily after an attempt has been made, you will be expected to accept your goods and make arrangements to get them into the room safely in your own time for the very final stage of the delivery. We feel that this is a reasonable request as every home is different and we are delivering your goods nationwide, so once you have the goods at your door threshold, you can take a careful planned approach allowing much needed time, if things are a little tight.
Of the thousands of deliveries we make each year, this thankfully only happens a handful of times, but we would rather be completely upfront about this point, unlike other companies who perhaps wait until the event happens. We of course always do what we can to help, includding putting your furniture into garages, conservatories etc for you, as often once you remove doors and furniture items which are blocking the route when time allows you, this can then make all of the difference in allowing the goods to be taken in carefully and in a considered manner in your own time.
If you are in any doubt as to whether goods will fit, or if you are unable to assemble your own goods or accept goods into a garage / conservatory etc in the unlikely event that they will not go into your home easily, then please do not place an order with us.
The delivery personnel used for web orders are general carriers, just like when you buy from most online stores, it is the only way as a small company we can cover Lands End to John O'Groats, this is not the same level of delivery service as buying from a store and recieving a local delivery, but nor is it the same price.
Local Deliveries
Spend £2999 Or More instore to get FREE two man, room of choice, (access permitting) home delivery within our 50 mile two man home delivery radius. - by Clayton's Local Two Man Team.
Where we give free delivery, we give this regardless of how many items you order, as long as the total basket value is over the minimum spend amount.
My order is less than the free delivery threshold so how much is delivery?
For Online Orders You just pay our flat rate delivery charge of £39
For instore orders, you pay for two man deliveries depending upon where you live, as an example central lincoln is £39, Market Rasen is £49, Grantham is £59 (please call in store for details)
Where we charge delivery, you only pay the delivery charge once per order, regardless of how many items you order in a single transaction.
How does the free delivery work?
Once you have added all of the items you wish to purchase to the basket, you will then have the choice of selecting from the dropdown box 'collection' or 'delivery'. Where you have selected 'delivery' and you proceed to checkout, in the next step you will be asked to enter your postcode, this will then confirm if you are within our delivery area.
The system will check your order value and will either display Free delivery if you qualify or a delivery charge amount if your order amount is under the minimum qualifying spend. You then enter your delivery details and proceed through to the card payment screen and complete your order.
I live near Lincoln, can I collect my purchase & save the delivery charges?
Yes, no problem. Just place the order online and in your shopping basket just select 'collect from store' from the dropdown box. We will then contact you when the goods are in stock and you can collect them from us and save yourself the delivery charge where applicable.
How do we deliver?
Internet Orders
For Internet Orders Delivery is officially to your front door, the carriers will often (access permitting) lift goods into the room of your choice, but this is not a condition of sale. We do not assemble sofas, recliners, beds, wardrobes, tables etc on any internet order.
If you live further a field, we are able to cover the entire uk mainland via a delivery carrier system, but as such, we rely upon courier companies who deliver to your front door on our behalf. Understand that a carrier service will not be as flexible as our own delivery crews, so please plan for what will happen in advance if you have to accept the goods at the door on delivery.
Local Deliveries
For local deliveries, we operate a different service and use our own Clayton's own home delivery staff and a seperate delivery charging structure operates in store to reflect our local dedicated two man home delivery crew who will deliver access permitting into your room of choice.
Our own local delivery staff are trained to try and help install your furniture purchase in the room of your choice (where access permits), if good do not fit on delivery, you will be still expected to accept them at the doorstep and make provision for getting them into the property yourself, although we may be able to re-deliver for an additional charge once you have planned for removal of windows etc to allow access where necessary. (We are unable to remove packaging where your purchase is sold as self assembly).
Some smaller items such as rugs etc may also be sent by doorstep courier meaning that a signature will be required and the goods handed over to you at your front door.
Do you assemble goods?
Typically the answer is no. On instore purchases, we will try where possible to help by putting divan beds together and put feet on sofas etc, but we do not assemble furniture, other than bedroom furniture items which are sold with Free assembly.
On internet sales, we do not carry out an assembly service. Certain reclining sofas will need connecting together by the customer, we can provide instructions on how this basic task is carried out so that you can do this yourself with ease, (typically a straightforward connection using supplied wing nuts).
Contract delivery staff will not usually connect recliners / recliner sofas together so you must ensure that you have a competent person on hand to carry out this task. If you are unable to connect the recliners together yourself and feel that you need this doing for you, we can put you in touch with your local independent technician who would usually charge you around £60 for this service.
We are unable to assemble items such as flat pack bed frames, wardrobes, tables or build any other kind of flat pack furniture. We regret that we are unable to do this due to time constraints, and outside our local area we often use a carrier service who simply deliver on our behalf. If you place an order online with us, it is done on the condition that where goods require assembly, you are solely responsible for carrying this out.
I'm not sure if the goods will fit?
You must satisfy yourself that any goods ordered will fit into your property. As we do not visit your property prior to delivery, you are totally responsible for goods going into your property. If the goods don't fit, we can leave them in another room or garage etc for you to put in the property yourself, or we can take them back to our distribution centre to allow you to remove windows etc, but please be aware that where goods are returned to the depot, you would have to pay the contractors re-delivery charge which is usually around £70 (even if we had given you free delivery initially, as re-delivery carries a charge levied by the contractor).
If there is any doubt at all that the goods may not fit, please don't order them as you are responsible.
Please note that any costs incurred affecting delivery will not be the responsibility of Clayton's Carpets LTD (ie window or door removal etc). Clayton's are only responsible for delivery to your front door.
Do you offer a disposal service?
Sorry, no. We are unable to take old furniture away for disposal. We will however take the packaging from furniture if we have unpacked it, away free of charge for recycling (this must be done at the same time as delivery, we cannot return later to collect packaging).


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Washington DC Nano News - A Day with the FDA
authored by Margaret Glass, ASTC
My overwhelming impression after sitting through a day-long session titled "FDA Nanotechnology Public Meeting" was of the excruciatingly slow pace of the regulatory process, at least as it relates to nanotechnology in the US. In October, 2006, the FDA held an initial public meeting on this same topic. So what has changed between 2006 and 2008? To find out, I looked up the announcement and agenda for the 2006 meeting and followed the process to the present. The October, 2006 meeting was held as a result of the formation of an internal FDA Nanotechnology Task Force formed the previous August. The Task Force was "charged with determining regulatory approaches that would enable the continued development of innovative, safe, and effective FDA-regulated products that use nanoscale material." As requested by Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Andrew C. von Eschenbach, the Task Force opened a docket and held a public meeting for input on October 10, 2006. In July 2007, the Task Force submitted the initial findings and recommendations of the public meeting to the Commissioner in a report. The Commissioner promptly endorsed the report and its recommendations – and directed the FDA to "issue additional guidance to provide greater predictability of the pathways to market and for ensuring the protection of public health. Please move forward with these recommendations, pursuant to FDA's good guidance practice (GGP) process (21 CFR § 10.115), as appropriate." This current public meeting was held to solicit comments on the Task Force report of the first public meeting, which was held to gather input after the creation of the Task Force, which was created after public input called for the FDA to regulate nanomaterials in consumer products…One wonders how long this parade of public meeting collecting the same kind of input can go on. As long ago as May 2006, a coalition including the International Center for Technology Assessment's (ICTA) and Friends of the Earth filed the first legal action on the risks of nanotechnology, a petition to the FDA calling on the agency to regulate nanomaterials in consumer products. "FDA has had the blueprint on how to move forward with nanotechnology pending before it for over two years, wrapped with a bow," said ICTA staff attorney George Kimbrell aftert his latest meeting. "That the agency has failed to act is more of this administration's anti-science, anti-regulatory political agenda that will pass the buck to the next administration to tackle." At this point of time – less than two months before the national election – I'd say it's safe to consider that buck passed.


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We now have more details about the domestic case that prompted Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs to surrender his gun collection to authorities. It's not pretty.
According to the domestic complaint obtained Friday by The Baltimore Sun, Suggs' longtime girlfriend, Candace Williams, claimed the All-Pro punched her in the neck and dragged her alongside a speeding car with their two children in the vehicle. The woman said she suffered "severe road rash" as a result of the incident.
As is standard protocol in the wake of a complaint of this nature, Suggs was ordered to turn over any firearms in his possession. The Sun reported he turned over seven guns. WBAL-TV reported Suggs surrendered nine.
Suggs does not face criminal charges stemming from the September incident. The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year issued a statement Friday addressing the issue.
"My fiance and I have two beautiful children together whom we both love and care for tremendously," the statement read. "The personal issues that the two of us have faced recently have been addressed in a responsible and adult manner and have been resolved. I am certain that we will get through this matter and move forward as a happy family."
In December 2009, Williams alleged Suggs held her down on the floor, poured bleach on her and their son and kicked her in the face, breaking her nose, according to The Sun. Williams also claimed physical abuse dating to the start of their relationship in 2007.
Williams was granted a protective order as a result of those 2009 claims, The Sun reported. It later was rescinded after the couple reconciled and Williams dropped a $70 million lawsuit against Suggs.
Follow Dan Hanzus on Twitter @DanHanzus.


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TODAY is my last day at
To put the problem in the simplest terms, the interests of the client continue to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making money. Goldman Sachs is one of the world's largest and most important
It might sound surprising to a skeptical public, but culture was always a vital part of Goldman Sachs's success. It revolved around teamwork, integrity, a spirit of humility, and always doing right by our clients. The culture was the secret sauce that made this place great and allowed us to earn our clients' trust for 143 years. It wasn't just about making money; this alone will not sustain a firm for so long. It had something to do with pride and belief in the organization. I am sad to say that I look around today and see virtually no trace of the culture that made me love working for this firm for many years. I no longer have the pride, or the belief.
But this was not always the case. For more than a decade I recruited and mentored candidates through our grueling interview process. I was selected as one of 10 people (out of a firm of more than 30,000) to appear on our recruiting video, which is played on every college campus we visit around the world. In 2006 I managed the summer intern program in sales and trading in New York for the 80 college students who made the cut, out of the thousands who applied.
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.Continue reading the main story
When the history books are written about Goldman Sachs, they may reflect that the current chief executive officer,
Over the course of my career I have had the privilege of advising two of the largest hedge funds on the planet, five of the largest asset managers in the
How did we get here? The firm changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.
What are three quick ways to become a leader? a) Execute on the firm's "axes," which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the
Today, many of these leaders display a Goldman Sachs culture quotient of exactly zero percent. I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It's purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. If you were an alien from Mars and sat in on one of these meetings, you would believe that a client's success or progress was not part of the thought process at all.
It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as "muppets," sometimes over internal e-mail. Even after the S.E.C., Fabulous Fab, Abacus, God's work,
It astounds me how little senior management gets a basic truth: If clients don't trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn't matter how smart you are.
These days, the most common question I get from junior analysts about derivatives is, "How much money did we make off the client?" It bothers me every time I hear it, because it is a clear reflection of what they are observing from their leaders about the way they should behave. Now project 10 years into the future: You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the junior analyst sitting quietly in the corner of the room hearing about "muppets," "ripping eyeballs out" and "getting paid" doesn't exactly turn into a model citizen.
When I was a first-year analyst I didn't know where the bathroom was, or how to tie my shoelaces. I was taught to be concerned with learning the ropes, finding out what a derivative was, understanding finance, getting to know our clients and what motivated them, learning how they defined success and what we could do to help them get there.
My proudest moments in life — getting a full scholarship to go from
I hope this can be a wake-up call to the board of directors. Make the client the focal point of your business again. Without clients you will not make money. In fact, you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm. And get the culture right again, so people want to work here for the right reasons. People who care only about making money will not sustain this firm — or the trust of its clients — for very much longer.Continue reading the main story


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Kevin Smith got to know comedian Tracy Morgan very well working on their buddy cop movie "Cop Out" with Bruce Willis. PopcornBiz needed an instant personality analysis of one of the most intriguing, and off-the-wall figures making us laugh today.
His diagnosis? Smith believes that while Morgan might act a little bit crazy, but there's very much a method to the madness.
"I think he's a genius acting crazy," Smith tells PopcornBiz. "He knows what he's doing. I would say he's no (expletive) dummy and it's not luck that he is where he is today."
With "Cop Out" arriving on Blu-Ray and DVD on July 20, Smith talked about Morgan's on-set behavior, which never was as extreme as the "Tracy Jordan" antics from "30 Rock." But there was a Morgan entourage on-set.
"Does he have people around him? Yeah," says Smith. "Does he have people like Griz and Dotcom (from "30 Rock")? No. They are not catering to his every need."
Instead Morgan's posse provided comedy inspiration for the star. At times, members of the group would provide feedback to Morgan on how to make a scene funnier. Or else they just served as a comedy sounding board to find the funny in a scene.
"At first I was like, "Tracy what are they doing?' " Smith recalls. " And he'd be like, 'They're just here to be funny with.' And you start to get it. "
"Just having them around gets his comedy juices flowing," says Smith. "You're just funnier around certain people. Tracy is smart enough to know that he's not going to get many shots to co-lead a movie with the likes of Bruce Willis. He was coming over-packed and over-prepared."
But most importantly, Smith admired at how free and easy Morgan really is. It's not just an act. "Tracy reminds me very much of a little kid," says Smith. "I'd like to consider myself a free person, but Tracy Morgan puts us all to shame."
You can see that just by the way the comedian shows off his growing gut to the folks on set and the world. "He's the kind of guy who will take his shirt off and work the gut even more than it is," says Smith. "He doesn't have a huge gut, but he leans into it. He'll put it on a chair."


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Our new line of bezel/crystal/dials feature a solid brass diamond cut bezel, curved glass lens and a metal dial and back plate.
Clocks made with battery-operated movements do not need a hinged bezel/crystal/dial. It is always best to set the time with the knob on the back of the movement. Why pay for the most expensive part of the bezel/crystal/dial if you don't need it?
In the event that there was a problem with the clock hands, the bezel and glass can be removed.
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(I will warn you now - this post is long. Sorry but it's about my feeeelings and I tend to ramble when it comes to my feeeelings.
If you've already read this post then you know that that last sentence is totally laughable.
If you haven't you'll just have to read to find out why.)
I've been composing this post in my mind for days, mentally writing and then discarding each draft. Not one word actually made it on to the computer screen in front of me until now - such as they are.
Julie tagged me for the "Evolution of Blogging" meme, or more specifically the "Evolution of your blogging" meme. At first I was thrilled by the idea - finally, a meme that had nothing to do with how I fell asleep every night (rubbing my ankles together like a cricket, just so you know) or what was in my bag (diapers and cracker crumbs mostly) - but the more I thought about it, the more I realized what this particular meme meant to me (and, yes, I was over thinking - again), the more terrified I became of the question how has my blogging changed and evolved.
I don't know if it's evolved. To the contrary, I think it may be going the other way. Because, you see, if you think about it I don't really talk about me on this blog.
(Go ahead, mull that one over for a minute. I'll wait. But first read the next paragraph.)
One of the things that fascinates me about blogging is the perception we have of those we read on a regular basis gathered from the nuggets of information that can be gleaned from one's blog. I've never met many of you but I have a mental picture in my head of who you are: what you sound like, how tall you are, how you walk, hell even how you laugh. It's all crap, I'm sure, and when I finally meet some of you this summer in some cases my mental image will be shattered. Yes, I have drawn assumptions. Will I be disappointed? I don't know, but that could certainly happen, and you, in turn, could be disappointed when you meet me.
(It's okay. Just keep it to yourself and I won't be hurt.)
(I wound very easily. Have I ever told you that? Probably not.)
From reading this blog, having never met me, you know that I like a good joke. You know that I love wine. You know that I work with dogs and I have two of my own that drive me crazy, that I have one (devastatingly adorable) toddler whom I love, and that I have a husband who occasionally does stupid things but whom I also love. You know that I lost my mother to cancer and I miss her very much. You know that I can overreact to things and then overreact about overreacting. And you may know that women, as a group, usually freak me out. But is that it? Is that all of me?
I'll answer my own question: No.
The reason why you, as a reader, don't know more about me from this blog is because by nature I am an incredibly guarded person. I really do not share that much of myself with others. I keep my cards close to my vest, I rarely wear my heart on my sleeve... Blahdee blahdee blahdee.
Which leads me to the evolution - or the de-evolution of this blog.
(And for the record I know the opposite of "evolution" is "regression" or "deterioration" but that seems a bit extreme, don't you think?)
(And and... Don't you think it's about time I got to the reason for this post? I mean c'mon... get to the point already.)
When I began Chicky Chicky Baby I had hoped that the (perceived) anonymity of the internet would help me open up about certain pieces of my life - and it has, a bit, but it has also made me more aware of what I talk about and, in turn, even more guarded. For one reason - I let my husband read this blog. And then I shared it with my sister. The two people, besides Chicky, who mean the most to me in this world now have access to my inner-most feelings. And speaking of Chicky, she could read these posts one day. Do I really want them to learn certain things about myself - things I might not feel comfortable bringing up to them in person - through a blog? Where complete strangers can read it first? Uh uh, don't think so. That's not fair.
And I will not even think about other parts of my family or friends who may stumble upon this one day. I've said a more than a few embarrassing things but so far nothing too damning that I couldn't recover from.
But I have to admit, I sometimes long for total anonymity. I do wish that no one I knew had learned about this blog. Not that I would share stories of elicit affairs or second lives (if you knew what my life was really like right now you'd laugh at preposterousness of that last statement. Affairs? Who has time or energy for affairs??) but because I really have no trouble with people knowing that my life is messy. To what level of messy is what I have trouble with, but I would like to learn how to open up more. Therapy without the co-pay.
And lest I forget, for some reason there are people out there who seem to like this blog. People (you?) who read what I write on a regular basis. How bizarre is that? I'd be lying if I said that my stat counter has not affected my way of writing one bit.
I'd like to open up more. I'd like my voice, my true voice, to be heard through the din. But not now. At least not today.
The bottom line is I have to remain true to myself, on this blog and in real life. If I'm not going to sit on a playground picnic table and share my innermost thoughts and feeeelings with you then why would I on an internet page?
(I said bottom line, but I didn't really mean it. Do I ever?)
I know that being guarded is not necessarily healthy. I've made things very difficult and unpleasant for myself these past few years in the name of privacy and I need to fix that. So you may just find yourself on my site one day learning about any manner of juicy details about me.
Especially if I'm drinking and blogging. I've been known to do some silly things when I've got the drink in me.
Just don't tell my husband or my sister that.
Shit, I guess I just did. Hey! Maybe I'm evolving!
Now I have to tag people for this meme. This is the part that I hate the most, even more than talking about my feeeelings (whoa whoa whoa Feeeelings). Let's see, who can I piss off with a tag... How about Redneck Mommy, Motherbumper, and Jen. Have at it, betches.
Monday, June 11, 2007
More than me(me)
(I will warn you now - this post is long. Sorry but it's about my feeeelings and I tend to ramble when it comes to my feeeelings.
Labels: It's all about me, memelicious, meta, things I should tell my therapist
22 comments:
- Absolutely Bananas said...
Well said! I feel many of the same things. Additionally I find that I've created a certain "image" of myself which becomes one more censoring factor... I don't want anyone to think I'm really stupid... only funny stupid... you know. Anyway, I enjoyed your post.
- Blog Antagonist said...
I've never thought of you as "gaurded". I think you share what is appropriate to share about yourself. Some people put waaaaaaay too much personal stuff on their blogs. Feelings are good. But sex lives, bathroom habits, spousal oddities? I dunno.
Anyway...you're cool. :?)
- Cate said...
Nothing wrong with being guarded.
"Do I really want them to learn certain things about myself - things I might not feel comfortable bringing up to them in person - through a blog?"
Why not? If the option is not bringing them up at all, a blog can be a good thing. I'm amazed at how people I know have responded to things I've written, thing I would never in a million billion years say out loud.
- Binky said...
Nice to get to know you a little bit more.
- metro mama said...
I feel pretty censored lately. I think I've been opening up less and less.
- mothergoosemouse said...
Thanks for taking this on. I know the difficulties with which you struggle.
- Lawyer Mama said...
I know what you mean in a way. I think I've gone the opposite way, but that's pretty much open up more IRL once I'm comfortable. But I'm never going to get down and dirty about my sex life!
Well done on this meme! I don't know if I could say it as well as you, as I am also a guarded person and feel somewhat inhibited with my blogging for the sole reason that my husband and family read this regularly.
Kudos to you on letting it "all" out here!
- Oh, The Joys said...
I'm looking forward to meeting you. I know what you mean about the mental image - still - I haven't met a one I didn't like yet.
- Jennifer Playgroupie said...
Great meme topic! I really enjoyed reading your answer. It's true that we all have mental pictures of one another in our heads. I often wonder how guarded people are or if we are reading the true person.
- flutter said...
I think you're charming, and fresh. I never thought guarded for a moment
- jen said...
the guarded makes sense. i needed this to be wholly mine, and even still, i fumble around.
- Rock the Cradle said...
Guarded? Maybe. Sounds to me like you just are really in tune with who you are and what you are comfortable sharing. Which is spot on.
When holding "feeeelings" in is making you anxious and crazy, though...that's when it's not so good for you. But that doesn't mean you have to let it go in any way that makes you uncomfortable.
You're selective. That's a cool way to be.
Cheers, mate. Hope we get to meet up soon.
- Redneck Mommy said...
HBM has already tagged me for this meme, which I have been trying to compose, but now with the added pressure of you breathing fire down my neck like a small little dragon, I guess I'll actually DO IT and not just think about it. Don't expect it to be brilliant like yours though...I don't specialize in brilliant. Pervy, yes. Brilliant, no.
So you rub your ankles together like a cricket eh?
Good to know. I'm going to bring ear plugs on the off case that you sound like a cricket too...
- mamatulip said...
This is such an interesting meme...I've read so many takes on it and it fascinates me each time.
Kudos to you for talking about the heavier stuff -- the guarded stuff.
- Kara said...
I wrote with generally uncensored abandon in the early days. Now? Not so much, and for many of the reasons you listed and more.
And once I installed stat counter, I had the blogging equiv. of pee anxiety. People reading? Oh hell. Can't write now.
You're very, very, very good, though. I hope you keep on writing!
- Nancy said...
I struggle with the same balance between the catharsis of discussing my innermost feelings and my fierce need to protect my privacy. I can rant and rave about dumb stuff on my blog, but I feel totally exposed when I talk about anything that REALLY bothers me. And I do wonder about what it would be like to have one of my girls come across the blog someday...
FWIW, I love to read about whatever aspects of your life you are comfortable sharing. And I will respect your privacy when you are not comfortable providing intimate details.
- Her Bad Mother said...
I didn't bring it up in my post for this meme, but I've written about it before: the blog is not me, not entirely. It's an honest picture of part of me, but still - not me.
Not yet.
- Ruth Dynamite said...
Look - I don't want you to be caught unawares when I meet you this summer, so I'll just tell you now that I'm a cross between Sarah Silerman and Eleanor Roosevelt. Hope that's helpful.
- Ruth Dynamite said...
- Bobita~ said...
THAT is it! I'd say (er, write) the same about my blog. My blog represents me, but there are things about me that NOBODY wants to know!! Hell, I don't want to know half the shit I know about myself!! Heh.
But, my blog is me. I just happen to be bigger, deeper, wider...than a blog.
I loved this post.
- kfk said...
I have to agree. But we just find the happy medium.


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The scheduled seasonal flights from
Japan arrive here on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays and come
direct from Narita in Tokyo.
Jim Boult, Chief Executive of Christchurch Airport, says
the services have always been popular with Japanese visitors, who
know exactly what they want to see here.
"Like most international travellers, Japanese visitors
come to New Zealand for the scenery they see in travel brochures -
the South Island mountains and lakes," says Mr Boult.
"That is why they love flying in to Christchurch over the
Southern Alps. They fly in here over the mountains, land with a
clear view out the windows of the mountains and the promise of the
brochures starts to be delivered.
"Christchurch Airport welcomes millions of visitors every
year and it's clear the South Island is a must-see destination for
Japanese travellers."
Air New Zealand General Manager Japan Ed Overy says
this year's charter programme is additional to Air New Zealand's
regular scheduled services from Tokyo and Osaka and is expected to
bring up to 3500 additional Japanese tourists into New Zealand over
the peak summer months.
"Christchurch is a hugely appealing destination for
Japanese visitors and these charter services will be a welcome
boost to South Island tourism over summer," says Mr Overy.
"The services are very popular and consumers and trade
partners like flying directly into Christchurch, because they can
begin tours of the scenic South Island immediately after landing.
Travel to New Zealand for our high season from Japan is
looking very positive and we hope to bring many thousands of
Japanese visitors to Christchurch over the summer, on our scheduled
services from Tokyo and six charters from Nagoya commencing on
Boxing Day (December 26)."
The seasonal services from Japan direct to Christchurch
will have the added appeal of a new service being offered by Air
New Zealand, flying to Mt Cook and on to Queenstown. The Mt
Cook flights begin on December 23, coinciding with celebration of
the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
The beginning of the regular seasonal services from Japan in
late October has led to a 110% increase in Japanese arrivals into
Christchurch for the past month. Arrivals from Asia are also
on the rise, with Korea up 70% this month. So far this year,
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Reading Binge
Posted by Lydia Kang at 6:30 AM
60 comments:
- Sarah said...
I read Before I Die by Jenny Downham. Talk about opening up the saline faucet. Whoa.
- January 5, 2011 at 6:42 AM
- Christine Danek said...
Love your star method. I have Matched, Uglies, and Wintergirls on my list. I'm reading Paranormalcy now. I really like it. I have way too many books on my list.
Have a great day!
- January 5, 2011 at 6:43 AM
- Samantha Vérant said...
How was Matched? I've heard a lot about that one. Me? I'm currently reading the last installment of Steig Larsson's series. Happy New Year, Lydia!
- January 5, 2011 at 6:44 AM
- Laura Pauling said...
I loved Wintergirls. I thought the writing was incredible! I read Anna and The French Kiss over break. And am also currently reading Paranormalcy.
- January 5, 2011 at 6:54 AM
- Anne Gallagher said...
If you have time, see my post up for today. You'll see what I read over break.
- January 5, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- B.E. Sanderson said...
Over the holidays, I read Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan, The Ranger by Monica McCarty, and The Grimrose Path by Rob Thurman. Good reads all - even if none of them made me cry. ;o)
- January 5, 2011 at 7:18 AM
The Kite Runner is a FABULOUS book--loved the movie too...
Books don't generally make me cry, but I almost teared up while reading the end of Linger. Can't wait for the next one.
I'm working on Matched now.
It DOES feel good to read, doesn't it?
- January 5, 2011 at 7:35 AM
Oh, after reading Leviathan, I've so wanted to read the rest of his books. I'm reading Girl with a Dragon Tattoo right now.
- January 5, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Angela Felsted said...
I read a ton, probably way too much, which is why I visit the library regularly to keep from going broke.
- January 5, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- Kelly said...
You did have a great reading spurt! I so want to read Matched! I read an Abundance of Katherines by John Green over the holidays.
- January 5, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- Rachna Chhabria said...
I have only read The Kite Runner from your list. Will try to read the other books too.
- January 5, 2011 at 8:08 AM
- Jessica Bell said...
I read a lot during the year so I spent most of Christmas watching DVDs! :o)
- January 5, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- Faith said...
I read a lot over the holidays... a loooot... that said, I tend to read to avoid writing, so maybe finishing all those books wasn't necessarily a good thing... haha.
- January 5, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Old Kitty said...
I'm still struggling through my to be read by the end of 2010 pile of books (Kite runner is there!!)!! LOL!!
Good for you though!! Take care
- January 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Melissa said...
YAY reading binge's. That's basically what my whole year is going to look like because I'm doing a 110 book challenge thing plus I have books from school!
- January 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Carol Kilgore said...
Read? We're supposed to have time to read during the holidays? Nobody told me.
Actually, I finished a bad book. Yea! And started a good one. Double Yea!!
- January 5, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Magan said...
You sound like me traveling! I pack two books and then soon realize that I've read those two on the plane ride there and need something else. I've thought about getting a Kindle to make things easier...but I just love holding a book so much.
- January 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- Meredith said...
I love crying over a good book! That's such a great tearjerker list :)
- January 5, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Melissa Gill said...
I also read "Matched" over the holidays, also a book called "Girl Stolen", a book called "The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise" (absolutely hillarious), and I'm almost finished with "We Hear the Dead."
I read "The Kite Runner" several years ago, it was fabulous.
- January 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Olga said...
I didn't have a chance to read something during holidays. We went to our friends' houses and entertained friends at home. Meanwhile I was preparing for the show. After reading your post I feel hungry for books. As soon as I have a chance I will read An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists.
- January 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM
- Krista said...
I love Uglies! Scott Westerfeld's YA stuff makes me happy.
I cry like a baby while reading books (less so during movies...). When something really gets to me, I can cry days later while thinking back to it.
- January 5, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Priya Shankar said...
I love Kite Runner! Two of my winter reads were Paul Farmer's Mountains Beyond Mountains, and Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life.
- January 5, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- Sarah said...
I know what you mean about writing sometimes cutting down on reading time. I'm always having to justify my reading as essential to my writing in order to make time for it.
But, when I get into a really good spurt of working, sometimes reading goes down to a paragraph a night or so. I need more hours in each day! More hours, please!
P.S. Uglies is great!
- January 5, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Erin Cole said...
I have Kite Runner on my shelf - I know I must read it.
In December, I read Brida, by Paulo Coelho - charming, The Cowboy and the Vampire, by Clark Hayes and Kathy McFall - very fun read, and Joyce Carol Oates', Black Water - intense, amazing writing.
Wow! you did read a lot, which is as important as writing. I love the new energy I get returning to my pen afterwards.
Thanks for the suggestions, Lydia.
- January 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Heather said...
I've been dying to know how Matched is. I didn't get nearly as much reading done as you did but I did manage to read The Hunger Games. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I really enjoyed it. I'm not big on first person and I'd never read anything written in present tense so upon reading the first page I didn't expect to like it. It's nice to know I can still be surprised!
- January 5, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- Munk Davis said...
Take All to Nebraska (Sophus Winther), Their Blood is Strong (John Steinbeck) and Dirt Track Summer (William Gault)... On the more normal front, I read Harry Potter 3 with the kids. Next up... Ender's Game.
- January 5, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Munk Davis said...
oh... there no crying was involved, unless you count the BCS choosing to show all of their bowl games exclusively on cable.
- January 5, 2011 at 12:29 PM
- Nas Dean said...
I've done lot of light reading over the holidays, and yes I'm also of the silent faucet brigade so Christmas stories set me off!
Hey, I wanted to let you know there's a new series for us unpubbeds and our struggle every Wednesday known as Wednesday Warriors- Tales of the Unpubbed. My scars will be up next Wednesday for all to see! Check out this weeks:
- January 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM
- E. Arroyo said...
I've been reading like a mad woman too. I do have to get back to writing. And ditto on the Kite Runner.
- January 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM
- Nas Dean said...
I've done lot of light reading over the holidays, and yes I'm also of the silent faucet brigade so Christmas stories set me off!
Hey, I wanted to let you know there's a new series for us unpubbeds and our struggle every Wednesday known as Wednesday Warriors- Tales of the Unpubbed. My scars will be up next Wednesday for all to see! Check out this weeks:
- January 5, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Nas Dean said...
I've done lot of light reading over the holidays, and yes I'm also of the silent faucet brigade so Christmas stories set me off!
Hey, I wanted to let you know there's a new series for us unpubbeds and our struggle every Wednesday known as Wednesday Warriors- Tales of the Unpubbed. My scars will be up next Wednesday for all to see! Check out this weeks:
- January 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
I've read To Kill A Mockingbird and The Catcher In The Rye for the first time over the holidays!
I'm trying to catch up on all the books that I'm always being told I must read.
- January 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM
- Shannon said...
Hi Lydia,
Sounds like you had a great holiday! Glad to hear it! =)
I had planned on reading a few books, but didn't get much done - we were constantly on the go. Had a great time, but my TBR shelf is growing!
- January 5, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Lindsay (a.k.a Isabella) said...
Yay for reading binges. I cried at Wintergirls as well.
I have Matched and Uglies on my list to read, but not had chance to read much over Christmas. :(
- January 5, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- Carol Riggs said...
I rarely cry when I read (cuz well, I hate to), but Wintergirls was very gripping; I felt rather depressed reading it, actually, which attests to the skill of the writer. I totally got in to the MC's head and feelings. I have Matched on my To Read list. I know what you mean by not reading, and then finally getting to (or getting around to) doing it! It's great, aaaah.
What a cuuuute updated Facebook badge photo of you! Love it.
- January 5, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
I got an Orson Scott Card writing book and started reading that. Probably won't make me cry. Unless I really start thinking about all the places I screwed up with my book...
- January 5, 2011 at 4:45 PM
- Holly Ruggiero said...
I've done that to, but not this holiday season.
- January 5, 2011 at 4:47 PM
- Corey Schwartz said...
OMG, I just watched the movie Rudy with my kids and I think I cried on FIVE separate occasions!
- January 5, 2011 at 5:04 PM
- M Pax said...
Replay by Ken Grimwood. Third Magic by Welwyn Katz and Where the Crooked River Rises by Ellen Waterston. All excellent reads. Oh, and The Flood by Margaret Atwood.
- January 5, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- Colene Murphy said...
Reading Matched now! All the others are on my tbr list! They're all great, right???
- January 5, 2011 at 7:30 PM
- Sweet Virginia Breeze said...
I got a Nook for Christmas, so I've been reading ever since I got it. I'm ready to be snowed in or stranded since I've got 43 books on it.
- January 5, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- Tracey Neithercott said...
I read Matched over the holidays too. I thought Wintergirls was great, but I agree: The Kite Runner is the one that had me bawling. I guess I'll have to buy Uglies to round out your list. :) I've been wanting to read it anyway.
- January 5, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- The Happy Whisk said...
I like the use of the stars.
- January 5, 2011 at 9:09 PM
I did a little reading but not much. I vegged and relaxed from blogging and stuff. I did write a lot for my MS though. But that's about it.
- January 5, 2011 at 9:36 PM
- Kayeleen Hamblin said...
I got Matched for Christmas and read it in about a day and half. Really enjoyed it. I'm a reading nut, so I've read quite a few things in the last few weeks. Most of what I'm currently reading is either a repeat that I love or an oldie that I missed.
- January 5, 2011 at 11:45 PM
- Bee said...
The Kite Runners is one of my fave books ever!
I've read so many books over the holidays, I've lost count: Ballads of Suburbia, I Know It's Over, 10 Things I Hate About Me, Twenty Boy Summer, Before I Fall (still reading)..
- January 6, 2011 at 3:38 AM
- Giles Hash said...
I actually did a good deal of reading over the holidays. I finished Paranormalcy by Kiersten White, and I started Blameless by Gail Carriger. Great books, both.
- January 6, 2011 at 7:12 AM
- Jennifer Hoffine said...
I'm in the middle of MATCHED right now, and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole UGLIES series.
Loved (and cried during) WINTERGIRLS...also had my first serious fit of writer's jealousy at how wonderful (and different than SPEAK) the voice is in that one.
Haven't read Kite Runner yet, but I've hear enough about it to know I might give you a run for your money on number of cries.
- January 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- LTM said...
I would like to know what you thought of Matched, as it's on my TBR pile, and I've heard mixed reviews...
I read a TON during the holidays... some of the best was a few bleeps' MSs! How exciting~ :o) <3
- January 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM
- Lisa Gail Green said...
I was kind of stuck on one book for a while, but when I finally got through it (and ended up enjoying it it just had a slow start) I found I was hungry for more. Now I'm in seventh heaven reading the book I've been waiting to get to seemingly forever! Like three weeks. :D
- January 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina said...
Ah, The Kite Runner. I cried too. There are so many wonderful books out there. And I think a writer needs to read as much as they write, or even more.
- January 6, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- The Red Angel said...
The Kite Runner is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it about three times so far, and during each of those times, I bawled like a baby!
I heard it Wintergirls is supposed to be a pretty good book too. :)
Glad you got to do some light (well, not-so-light) reading over break!
- January 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM
- Olivia Carter said...
I went to the launch party for MATCHED. That Ally Condie is one put together nice lady. I had a blast!
Over the winter break I read THE REPLACEMENT & NIGHTSHADE. They were both good in REALLY different ways. I didn't think I'd like either so I was pleasantly surprised.
- January 6, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- Kathi Oram Peterson said...
I really like your stars for how many times the book made you cry. Do you have some symbol for how many times the book made you laugh out loud? That might be worth thinking about.
Wish I could read as fast as you do.
Happy New Year!
- January 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Yes! Read Great Expectations, starting Crime and Punishment, going to read some random YA fiction, and finished The Waste Land. I've been hungry as well!
- January 6, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Krispy said...
Break was my break from EVERYTHING. I finished a book right before New Year's, but I haven't read anything since! I think that was good though. I've been jumping right into new books after I finish one that they all started sounding the same to me. :P
I started Matched today. Been hearing a lot about it, so even with library due dates pressing on other books, I'm going to read it first.
- January 6, 2011 at 8:19 PM
- Mei said...
Hi Lydia, thank you for follow, didn't know that little corner will open up at all... very nice space you have here and you're really welcome to drop by again anytime! Mei
- January 7, 2011 at 6:46 AM
- CailinMarie said...
hmmm... of that list I've only read Kite Runner - now my interest is peaked!
- January 9, 2011 at 8:03 PM
- Naomi Ruth said...
I want to read Matched so very much. I very recently read Wintergirls. 'Twas very good.
I love Reading binges. Mmmm...
- January 11, 2011 at 12:04 AM
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A leader has been appointed for Rusatom Overseas, Rosatom's newly-formed subsidiary for promoting Russian nuclear technology and services abroad. The company has already started creating a worldwide network of marketing offices.
Rusatom Overseas was registered by state atomic energy corporation Rosatom in August 2011, with authorized capital of 1 billion rubles ($31.5 million). It is tasked with the promotion of products, services and technologies of the Russian nuclear industry to the global market.
According to Rosatom, "Rusatom Overseas acts as an integrator of Rosatom's complex solutions in nuclear energy, manages the promotion of the integrated offer and the development of Russian nuclear business abroad, as well as working to create a worldwide network of Rosatom marketing offices." It also "acts as a developer of Rosatom's foreign projects, which are implemented with the build-own-operate (BOO) structure." One of the first projects that Rosatom is implementing using the BOO structure is the Akkuyu plant in Turkey.
Former deputy chairman of UralsIB Bank Djomart Aliyev has been appointed as general director of Rusatom Overseas. Since the company was set up last year, Alexei Kalinin - also director of Rosatom's international business department - has acted as head. Aliyev will assume responsibility on 20 August.
Rosatom deputy general director for the development of international business Kirill Komarov commented, "Rusatom Overseas faces the very ambitious task of becoming the company's office abroad, creating a network of regional representatives around the entire world that are convenient for our clients, and creating for our partners the best possible conditions for cooperating with Rosatom companies, which can offer any client in any country an offer unique on the market."
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If you happen to feel the same way, here are 5 tips to master the art of taking self portraits!
1* I don't usually smile in photos, because I don't like the way I look when I do. However, I found an easy way to solve it: use someone else's smile!
You can do the same with any part of your body ... Well, pretty much, hehe.
2* If you feel uncomfortable posing in front of a camera, I recommend doing something awkward so that your weird self is not so much on the spot; get it? People's reaction to the photo will be more something towards "What the hell is she doing?!", instead of "What the hell is that awful forced pose?!". I'd much rather get reaction numero one, if you ask me :p.
AND use a photo editing program to add a hipster touch to them. I use Pixlr o matic.
3* A self portrait should always depict your quirky personality; for that purpose, you can, for instance, snap your feet wearing mismatching shoes.
4* You and I know that animated gifs are really "in" in the blogging world. Jumping pics are so hackneyed! Go a step further, be original and go nuts. And why use Photoshop to create an animated gif when you can use a website which gives your photos a "cool" low-fi effect? Haha.


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The UN Foundation tells us that in the closed room of the UN Security Council, last Friday, the Marshall Islands and other low lying States noted that Russia, China, and a long list of Developing States refuse to see the potential demise of the islands and low lying States as a Security issue. This is no badge of honor to the deniers – it splits the G77.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations {February 15, 2013, at the Arria formula UN Security Council non-Meeting} appealed to the U.N. Security Council to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival.
Tony deBrum, a minister and assistant to the Marshall Islands president, said Friday the island nations are facing opposition from Security Council permanent members Russia and China and a group of more than 130 mainly developing nations, which argue that the U.N.'s most powerful body is the wrong place to address climate change.
DeBrum told reporters after a closed Security Council meeting on the "Security Dimensions of Climate Change," organized by Britain and Pakistan, that he hopes more council members will be convinced that "this is a security issue and not just an economic-political-social issue."
The low-lying islands, which are already being inundated with sea water, want the council to bring its "political weight" to the issue and help their countries survive, for example, by harnessing new technologies and ensuring alternative energy supplies, he said.
DeBrum said it was "ironic, bizarre perhaps" that 35 years after he went before the Security Council to seek the independence of the Marshall Islands he was back again "to appeal for the survival of my country."
He said climate change has already taken a toll on the Marshall Islands. Wells have filled with salt water, making drinking water scarce and in turn affecting food production. One small island in a lagoon is now under water, and coastlines are being eroded.
The impact of climate change is also causing migration to other islands, as well as to Australia and the United States, he said.
In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, Rachel Kyte, the World Bank's vice-president for sustainable development, said that since the council's last discussion of climate change "the sense of immediacy and urgency has increased."
"The question is: Do you want to keep on cataloguing all of the terrible things that are going to happen if we continue on a business as usual track, or are we actually going to start doing anything about it?" she said.
Kyte said she explained to the council on Friday that "it is possible to stop the worst from happening but it will require real, concerted policy action globally at every country level."
"Economically we know what to do, but politically it's going to take leadership," she said. "And every day we don't act we make the job more difficult for ourselves."
"What the Security Council has to do is understand that everything has to be seen through this lens. Climate change is changing the future scenarios for every country," Kyte said. "It's framing decisions on security, economic security, food security."
Germany's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Miguel Berger recalled that in July 2011, at his country's initiative, the Security Council discussed the security implications of climate change at a formal meeting and adopted a presidential statement expressing the council's concern about the possible adverse effects of climate change on international peace and security.
Berger told the council that Germany was happy to see the council taking up the issue again and stressed that all U.N. entities, including the Security Council, need to intensify their efforts to combat climate change and its security implications. He called for these implications to be included in Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's reports to the council on climate change.
"Let us not forget: Climate change and its security implications will shape tomorrow's world in a way that is almost impossible to overestimate," Wittig said. "We should also consider whether a U.N. special envoy on climate and security could help us to tackle the foreign and security policy implications of climate change."
Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador Masood Khan said the meeting would galvanize actions in all U.N. forums to combat climate change.
"Our response should not be anchored only in politics; it should also be guided by science and technology," Khan said. "Our response should not just counter immediate threats; it should forewarn and prepare us for the impending threats that impinge on our security."