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By Kristi Sands, CFCA sponsor
I've sponsored Maria for 12 years and Isabel for two months through CFCA. They have the same name ó Maria Isabel ó but the younger one goes by her middle name.
Both live in Nicaragua ó a country that 12 years ago I had little interest in and had difficulty pronouncing.
While sponsors aren't required to write, I knew letter writing would be essential to building a relationship with Maria, my first sponsored child.
Sometimes I was tempted to give up. Communication through letters that CFCA staff members then translate isnít always easy. I felt there were huge gaps in our ability to get to know one another.
Letters took a long time (generally six to eight weeks) to arrive. When I learned that one person does translations for an entire regional project, and that he/she generally translates 30 letters a day, that helped put things in perspective.
So despite the frustrations of not being able to read or write in Mariaís language, I felt inspired to stick it out.
God had given me this precious relationship and responsibility, and I intended to see it through to the end. Gratefully, communication eventually improved.
I didnít know that Maria planned to go to college until she announced she would be studying accounting at a university. She also wants to get her master's degree and become a CPA.
I tucked that away as something to ask another sponsored child much earlier. I didnít know that college was an option for her, so I never asked what she wanted to do when she grew up.
For several years I considered a CFCA mission awareness trip to Nicaragua, but it never quite worked out.
Finally I figured my opportunity to meet her was now, because she was 23 and would graduate from college and exit the program.
About a month before my trip, during a Holy Spirit moment, the idea came to sponsor a second child now so I could meet both!
I went online and browsed the Nicaraguan girls awaiting sponsorship, and 9-year-old Isabel stretched out her little arms and wrapped them around my heart.
Before the trip, I was nervous about the small amount of time between disembarking the plane in a foreign country with a foreign language and meeting my group beyond customs, and also about trying to communicate.
But this week had been covered in prayer. From the beginning I was anointed with an overwhelming feeling of joy in being able to experience ìmy girlsíî world. Everything was beautiful to me.
In the Nicaraguan airport, I decided to swallow my lack of confidence in trying to communicate, paste on a wide smile, and try to use the language of love and my little Spanish to the best of my ability.
As my spiritual director would remind me, I know how to smile in Spanish!
During the trip, we passed many homes that I suspected were much like Maria's and Isabel's ó some in better condition than others.
Corrugated metal roofs, many of which are not well sealed for the rain. Walls of wood, plaster, cement block, tarp, trash bags ó whatever they have.
Many have no windows, no security, no way to lock up at night.
They live on so little and need to work very hard, just to get by. Both girls have dirt floors, and Isabelís home is in ìpoor condition.î
All 25 sponsors on this trip got to meet our friends for the first time Monday evening. I was so pleased that Maria and I recognized each other immediately.
[CFCA staff worker] Ana was very helpful in translating, but before we had anybody to aid in communication we just stood there, hugging and smiling.
Isabel said she was a little shy, but that only lasted a few moments. She was soon attached at the hand and sitting on my lap.
We couldnít speak much in words, but our smiles spoke volumes. I told her weíll have to catch up in letters later.
Whenever she did understand something I said, her face would break out in a wide grin as she shook her head vigorously up and down and said, ìYes!î (very clearly in English).
I enjoyed pointing out anything in Spanish that I know, asking for more words (having the girls write them down for me in my notebook). Not exactly heart-to-heart dialogue, but we managed to have fun.
One sponsor said we were the giggliest three he knew!
On Wednesday, Maria rode with us to her hometown.
I found a page of menu items in my dictionary and we had fun learning Spanish/English words and asking ìDo you like…?î
We discovered we both donít like mushrooms and like baking better than cooking.
I also saw her high school and where she works! She runs a snack bar at a car wash to help her dad with the family income.
A highlight was meeting Mariaís family (mother, father and brother) and seeing her house. I am so grateful for all the benefits her family has received through CFCA.
Twelve years really makes a difference!
I really had no idea how much their living situation had improved. I didnít know that when the family applied to the sponsorship program, they lived in a small shed-type dwelling in the back yard.
When Maria pointed it out to me, I was amazed. I knew that when I first started sponsoring her, the family cooked with firewood. Most families do, often in outdoor kitchens.
Mariaís family no longer needs to rely on firewood, nor do they need to cook outside. For four people, their home is quite spacious.
The most recent addition they proudly showed me was a new bathroom with a flush toilet and shower!
As we were parting, I taught Isabel how to say ìI love you.î
She mastered it beautifully. I wonder what her house is like. I hope CFCA can help her family as it has helped Mariaís.
How good it was to meet them both face to face! They will always have a special place in my heart.
The theme of the trip was so fitting: Esta aventura solo comienza! This adventure is just beginning!
I've taken Maria up on her challenge to join her in becoming bilingual and have begun learning Latin American Spanish. So far, so good ó and it's been fun, too!
I have also come away pumped and enthusiastic to try and find sponsors for other children ó since I'm not able to sponsor them all myself!
I got to see firsthand that CFCA is doing a phenomenal job of helping impoverished families build a path out of poverty.
It serves more than 300,000 children and aging persons in 22 developing countries.
Thirty dollars a month goes so far in these countries ó providing food, education, medical assistance, and in Maria's case, a much improved housing situation.
I encourage those of us who are already sponsors to go a step further, whether itís to:
- write a sponsored friend for the first time or more frequently
- display photos at work or home and share the sponsorship experience with those who inquire about them
- invite others to join in the sponsorship experience
- take on another sponsored friend
- remember our friends more frequently in prayer or by living more simply on occasion
- if circumstances allow, plan on meeting face to face!
Go ahead and get creative. This isnít an exhaustive list.
Iíll wrap this up with a simple prayer. As they say in Central America, Gracias a Dios! Thanks be to God!


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Yeah that is true. I had issues with Crean as treasurer as well IIRC.Originally Posted by Slow Love™
Yeah that is true. I had issues with Crean as treasurer as well IIRC.Originally Posted by Slow Love™
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"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Crean would've made a good John Brumby, IMO.
I heard on ABC radio news last night that the QLD government are funding 4 different medical trials with unclaimed winnings from either a lotto or casket tickets. The prize was in the millions, can't remember exactly how much it was. I think you have 7 years to claim your prize from lotto winnings. That's a big prize to miss out on!
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I'm a member of Club KerryOriginally Posted by Richard
I'm Green
The color of immortality, nature and envy - you are truly a unique person. While clearly the color of nature, you also symbolize rebirth, fertility and hope in the world. On the other side of the spectrum, a natural aptitude to money with green coming to signify money and possibly even *********!
Labor's apparently been hit badly on federal polling in the wake of all the state fracas, after a pretty good run over the last few months.
Anybody really believe the polls? I have very little confidence in their methodology, although people who are into statistics always assure me that most of them are valid indicators.
"Youre known for having a liking for men who look like women."
- Linda
"FFS I'm sick and tired of having to see a bloke bend over to pick something up or lean over and see their arse crack. For christ's sake pull your pants up or buy some underpants you bogan because nobody want's to see it. And this is a boat building shed (well one of them) not a porn studio."
- Craig
And Orkopoulos has just been admitted to hospital following a not entirely unpredictable suicide attempt (not meaning to sound harsh, but there it is):
Yeah, I hate the way these ***** politicians try killing themselves whenever something like this happens.Originally Posted by Slow Love
Rest In Peace Craigos
There was that massive poll farce a few years back 2001 I think, predicting Beazley. I'm abit hazy on all the details but when Howard proceeded to smash him, the company looked pretty bad and the newspapers that published them had egg over the faces. Anyways after that I don't really put to much faith into them.Originally Posted by Slow Love™
I know, but it bought up something that annoys me - our education system!Originally Posted by Matteh
R.I.P Craigos, you were a champion bloke. One of the best
R.I.P Fardin 'Bob' Qayyumi
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"How about you do something contstructive in this forum for once and not fill the forum with ****. You offer nothing." - theegyptian.
"There's more chance of SoC making a good post than Smith averaging 99.95." - Furball
"**** you're such a **** poster." - Furball
Pfft the education system in fine.
Hilarious.Originally Posted by luffy
What is also going to be hilarious is Howard looking more emissions aware than Labor within two months.
What was also again hilarious was Howard describing the proposal by the French to apply levies on imported goods into Europe from countries who don't sign Kyoto as "silly". At least it'll mean that it's in the national interest to sign the bloody thing...
It's just too easy.Originally Posted by luffy
It's cold on the outside they say
But the cold leaves you clear while the heat leaves a haze
With the IR ruling today. The only way for the new IR legislation to not be passed is by Labor winning the federal election.
But how much of a visionary is Howard? he's the most poll-driven PM ever. All this crap about him being a man of steel and so principled is just that - crap. Look how he is flip-flopping on global warming. Fair dinkum, today is the coldest Sydney November day since 1900, so he'll now flip back to global cooling.Originally Posted by masterblaster
His treatment of refugees is a disgrace, and he's done bugger all to improve the infrastructure of this country despite an unprecedented economic boom brought about by the resources boom.
If there's racism at the cricket this year he'll tut-tut and say how bad it is, but then turns around and sends every poor fugee who lobs here to bloody Nauru, all the while saying what a terrible regime Saddam was (true), invading Iraq yet at the same time refusing entry to the very people who were fleeing that regime.
Apparently that's "strength", that's "visionary" and that's "leadership". It's actually having the media in his pocket and big business.
If this comment was on the ABC I'd have to now give a spray to Beazley about being porcine to be "impartial" - what a crock of S... !
For pure political class, check out these great quotes from the PM before Howard.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - JK Galbraith
"Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality." - Bob Hawke
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
Have to say, that's an impressive rant. Don't disagree with a single word.Originally Posted by Burgey
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Unfortunately, your off-campus apartment probably won't be holy, unless you live in your church. Fortunately, your off-campus apartment will also not be holey, unless you like rain leaking through your roof. Ba dum tssshh. Living in Abilene, Texas is easy since it has a low cost of living, and there are plenty of places near the school. In addition, having your own private space is a real plus since you don't have to deal with RAs, guest policies, curfews, etc. For help looking for a place that is right for you, check out our apartment search guides!
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have your caddy bring a weed eater for the back 9, I really hope it gets a good brushhog/mowing this week. The wife and I played it Saturday. also have your caddy teach you how to straddle putt out of a cedar tree.......wish we were goin back to Marshall because unless a lot of work is done this week, clover dell is not ready for a state championship. We also need the option to drive off of the grass on the back nine next to the wood chips for safety reasons.


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MONTREAL — To get access to a Quebec cabinet minister, it used to help to know a consulting engineer who would sell you a $1,000 ticket to a Liberal fundraising event.
Now that the Parti Québécois is in power, it helps to know Mario Beaulieu, the spokesman for several anti-English pressure groups.
As The Gazette's Aaron Derfel reported on Thursday, it was Beaulieu alone who persuaded Health Minister Réjean Hébert to order the transfer of the Lachine Hospital from the bilingual McGill hospital system to the local public health network.
Beaulieu raised the question of the hospital's language status at a meeting with the minister on modernizing the hospital.
He had been invited to the meeting because, the chair of the hospital's council of doctors, dentists and pharmacists told Derfel, "we wouldn't have got the meeting without Beaulieu."
Hébert followed up by issuing the order in a letter Dec. 20 to the director of the Montreal health and social services agency.
He has since been forced to retreat by fierce resistance from francophones.
In a second letter dated Jan. 11, which Derfel obtained, Hébert instructed the agency to hold consultations that will inevitably show overwhelming opposition to the transfer.
But Hébert's original concession to Beaulieu showed that the PQ was willing to sacrifice even the quality of health care for French-speaking Quebecers to internal political considerations.
By all accounts, conditions at the hospital improved after the McGill University Health Centre took it over in 2008.
As part of the officially bilingual MUHC, the Lachine Hospital was allowed under the French Language Charter to use more English.
Still, it continued to serve the French-speaking residents of the West Island in French, as all Quebec hospitals are required to do.
Some francophones even credit the MUHC with saving the 100-year-old hospital, after it was nearly run into the ground under the same government agency to which Hébert would have returned it.
But none of this matters to Beaulieu, in the campaign he has long been waging against the McGill hospital system.
He opposed the construction of the new McGill teaching hospital, and he has had his hawk's eye on the Lachine Hospital since its transfer to the MUHC was announced.
And none of it mattered to Hébert when he issued his original order, which he justified solely on language grounds.
The Lachine Hospital looked like a consolation prize to the hawks for their disappointment with the "new Bill 101" the Marois government proposed Dec. 5.
With Bill 14, the government reneged on its "CEGEPs 101" promise to the hawks to restrict admission to English-language colleges.
And that promise was to compensate hard-line nationalists for PQ leader Pauline Marois's refusal to commit to holding a sovereignty referendum.
Now it looks as though Hébert will disappoint the hawks again, by leaving the Lachine Hospital in the MUHC.
But that doesn't mean the end of language politics in the health sector.
One of the objectives of Bill 14 is to restrict access to public services in English at the provincial as well as the municipal level, including the health sector.
It's to stop what the minister responsible for the French Language Charter, Diane De Courcy, has called "slippage toward institutional bilingualism" in areas under Quebec jurisdiction, including the hospitals.
So the proposed legislation would make French the "normal and everyday language" in which the government, its ministries and other public agencies "address others and are addressed."
The hawks may have lost a battle over the Lachine Hospital. But a PQ war against English in public services, including health, may be only beginning.
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As it turns out, yesterday's Internet-leveling tease for Nike's Back To The Future II-inspired sneaker was just a ploy, but at least it was a ploy for a good cause: Nike announced yesterday that its Nike MAG would be issued in a limited edition of 1500 pairs available only through auction, with proceeds benefiting The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Another caveat: While in all other respects they're exact replicas—at least for the 3,000 hours of battery life that will keep their lights on—Nike says you'll still have to wait until 2015, wink wink, for power-laces, despite the widespread assumption that the company's filing a patent for the technology last year meant they'd finally figured it out.
Still, though the shoes are lacking their most obviously attractive feature, and exist solely to trick you into helping people, there have already been plenty of bidders, including one person who reportedly bought a pair for $37,500 at last night's Joel McHale-hosted live auction. The numbers are only slightly less intimidating at the eBay-hosted auction, where most are topping out around $5,000. So realistically, the below promo starring Christopher Lloyd, Bill Hader, and Kevin Durant is still as close as most of you are going to get to a pair of these, at least for right now.


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Toby Keith should be as good as he once was in no time.
But first, the country-music superstar was forced to cancel Thursday's show in Sparta, Wis., while he recovers from surgery to have his gallbladder removed.
His prognosis is apparently excellent, because he'll pick right back up on Friday at the WE Fest in Detroit Lakes, Minn., according to a message on his website.
Pink, another star with no gallbladder anymore
As for presumably disappointed ticketholders hoping to catch Keith's Live in Overdrive tour this week at Fort McCoy in Sparta, that show has been rescheduled for Aug. 30.
Gretchen Wilson, who was previously scheduled, and other special guests will be performing in Keith's absence Thursday.
A rep for Keith says he's doing fine following today's outpatient procedure--which he underwent less than 24 hours after rocking the audience at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in western New York.
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Tim and Nancy Timmerman's Farm-Raised 1948 Chevy
Like many of us, Tim Timmerman longed for the ride he had in high school. A lengthy search was rewarded when a friend told him of a "fixer" on a farm in Modesto, California. They drove some 400 miles north through the California Central Valley fields with a trailer in tow to pick up the pickup.
The 1948 Chevy 3100 needed some suspension work and had no bed floor, but the cab was in good condition. Tim was ready to make it the custom truck he had dreamed of when he was a teen. He began this daunting task going from shop to shop trying to find someone reputable. It wasn't until he joined the South Orange County Rod and Custom club when he was introduced to quality shops and builders. Let's start from the ground up.
Tim met Bryan Hayes from O.C. Cars in Lake Forest, California, and decided to have him modify the frame and engine mounts for the new ZZ4. O.C. Cars added the crate motor, chrome firewall, custom inner wheelwells, Camaro front clip, and rewired the entire truck. An 18-gallon CPP aluminum fuel tank was added under the bed, while the truck rolls on 14- and 15-inch Spirit of America Wheels with Michelin Harmony rubber. Sitting atop the ZZ4 350 is a Holley 670 Avenger with a K&N filter, keeping cool with a custom radiator. Hedman headers push the exhaust through 3½-inch tubes to Flowmaster mufflers. Tim added bits and pieces here and there to the truck over the next couple of years before tearing it completely apart again.
The truck came from the farm with a channeled bed and shaved door handles. Alberto's Paint and Body in Garden Grove, California, smoothed out the body panels, fabricated custom sills for the bed wood, and sprayed a mix of three different colors on the body: a basecoat of white, followed by a green midcoat, and topped with a special mix of orange and tangerine with a blast of pearl. The result is a unique blend that shows a different color as the light rolls around the curves. Finishing touches include a custom chrome side rocker valance and Chevs of the 40's mirrors. The bed of the truck came empty with a vinyl cover to hide the missing floor. All that changed when Tim found some wormy maple and chrome "wow strips" to finish it off nicely.
The dash highlights a custom insert of Auto Meter gauges, an Alpine head unit with speakers installed by Audio Toyz in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, and a Lecarra steering wheel. Gabriel Custom Upholstery in Palm Desert, California, installed the sound-deadening panels, Acura custom bucket seats wrapped in light and dark brown Ultraleather, and custom carpet.
When Tim brought the truck back home to his canyon cabin in Modjeska, it felt like a whole new truck with little road noise and comfy seats. Now he rolls through the beaches, back roads, and hills of Southern California with "Take Me Home, Country Roads" playing in his head. The truck may not have been born on a farm, but it was certainly raised from the fields.


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I wrote a bit yesterday about Virtue's Last Reward, the fantastic adventure game that has been keeping me up every night for the past week and a half.
Today publisher Aksys released the English version of an animated 12-minute intro video created to show off the new visual novel, which is out for 3DS and Vita on Tuesday. (Interestingly, your hero, Sigma, has his own voice in this short. In the game, he isn't voiced.) Enjoy!


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Welcome to Marinate Blog! I really wish we could sit down together with big mugs of warm, creamy coffee and chat all about life, God, the Bible, and the mind-blowing "more-than-enoughness" of Jesus.
Since that's probably not possible, I want to invite you to take a seat in my virtual "big comfy chair" and hang out with me awhile.
You may have to pour your own cup of coffee, but I will supply the encouragement, biblical insight, and lots of resources to help you live a life that is flavored with the sweet, savory, and deeply satisfying truth of the Bible.
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Program Benefits Veterans, Saves States Millions
A program in Washington state uses data sharing to help veterans access proper benefits, and saves millions in state Medicaid funding.
A little diligence can save states millions. A 10-year partnership between Washington state, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) saved the state $30 million and ensured that veterans were getting proper services and benefits. According to a story on USMedicine.com, similar collaborative programs are being used in Maryland and California, and Texas is embarking upon a similar effort.
Washington's program started 10 years ago when a veteran's widow showed Bill Allman, a manager in the state's Department of Social and Health Services, a $70,000 bill for her deceased husband's long-term medical care. Though willing to pay the bill, the woman was unsure if she needed to. A little investigation by Allman revealed that the deceased veteran's military benefits would, in fact, cover most of the bill.
"I didn't have anything in the computer system that stated he was a veteran, and she didn't know what benefits he had, because he had taken care of everything," Allman said. "Come to find out, he was a retired colonel, and he had TRICARE coverage as a retiree, which is about as good a kind of medical coverage as you can get."
In Washington state, officials now use the Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS), a database of Medicaid clients designed to prevent fraud, to compare the state's records to VA and DOD records. This step allows the state to ensure that those entitled to veterans' services are receiving them. It also helps reduce state costs by splitting Medicaid costs for veterans with the federal government.
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Daniel J. DeNoon
July 17, 2009 — Pandemic swine flu vaccine should be fast-tracked, with vaccinations starting in mid-September — soon after schools open.
That recommendation came today in a unanimous vote by the National Biodefense Safety Board (NBSB), an influential board of outside advisors to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Getting swine flu vaccine by September means skipping all but the most preliminary clinical tests of vaccine safety and effectiveness. But it means getting some 60 million to 80 million doses nearly at the same time the CDC expects the next wave of the pandemic to hit the U.S.
"We cannot wait beyond mid-August [to make a decision] if vaccine is to be in supply by mid-September," the panel's pandemic influenza working group states in its recommendations. "A critical goal is to have some [standalone] novel H1N1 vaccine available by mid-September 2009, should it be needed."
Why rush through a swine flu vaccine? The first wave of the swine flu pandemic is only just starting to ebb in the U.S. But the virus spreads quickly among children — and the nation's schools begin opening in late August.
"A second wave is likely to occur, as soon as fall 2009," the recommendations state. "Best estimates suggest that infection rates will be two to three times higher than expected with seasonal influenza. The second wave could peak in October, but we must anticipate onset as early as September."
Initial doses likely will go to those most severely hit by the pandemic so far: infants, toddlers, school-age children, pregnant women, and adults with risk factors for severe flu disease. Next week, the CDC's vaccine advisory board will recommend a priority list for exactly who will first get the vaccine.
The NBSB recommendation puts into words a fear that government officials have so far expressed only privately.
"Having vaccine only after the peak [of the pandemic] may be worse than having no vaccine at all: It incurs all of the risk and cost with no potential benefit," the recommendation reads.
The National Biodefense Science Board advises Sebelius on emergency preparedness for biological threats. Whether to act on the NBSB's decision is up to her — and, ultimately, to President Barack Obama.
Why deploy a vaccine that hasn't completed safety and efficacy testing? Because we already have a lot of experience with similar vaccines, concluded the NBSB flu vaccine working group, led by University of Utah flu expert Andrew Pavia, MD.
Pandemic swine flu is a type A, H1N1 flu virus. For decades, a type A H1N1 vaccine has been part of the regular seasonal flu vaccine, and the new vaccine is made exactly the same way.
Fast-tracking the vaccine will mean guessing at the best dose, but that's an educated guess based on the well-established dosage for the seasonal H1N1 vaccine.
A more critical guess is whether people will be protected against the new flu bug with only one shot of vaccine. The NBSB working group suggests that previous exposure to H1N1 virus and H1N1 vaccine will prime virtually the entire population so that only one dose is needed — even though the seasonal vaccine does not protect against pandemic swine flu.
Fast-tracking the vaccine would also mean deciding who's first in line. Robin Robinson, PhD, director of BARDA, the Health and Human Services agency responsible for the logistics of emergency medical supplies, says 60-80 million doses could be available in mid-September — if vaccine makers start packaging their products in mid-August. Similar quantities would follow in each subsequent month until demand was met.
Voting members of the NBSB include experts from universities, the pharmaceutical industry, and medical groups. NBSB chairwoman Patricia Quinlisk, MD, MPH — who was absent from today's telephone-based meeting — is director of the Iowa health department. Nonvoting members of the NBSB include representatives of the White House, the Health and Human Services Department, national security agencies, the FDA, and NASA.
National Biodefense Science Board: "H1N1 Countermeasures Strategy and Decision-Making: Detailed Report," and executive summary, July 17, 2009.
National Biodefense Science Board meeting (by telephone), July 17, 2009.
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Daniel J. DeNoon
Daniel J. DeNoon is senior medical writer at WebMD.
WebMD Health News © 2009 WebMD Inc.
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I couldn't do a lesson on chibi Chihiro without making a tutorial on her close friend Haku. I decided that I would make "how to draw chibi Haku", step by step, but I would make this tutorial as he looks in dragon form. Haku is Chihiro's friend that helps her get out of the spirit world. I absolutely love the way that this drawing came out and I am really excited to be submitting it to the site. I know there are so many Spirited Away fans which is why I know that this submission will be popular. As you can see Haku in dragon form takes the shape of a traditional looking Chinese style dragon. Of course there are also Japanese dragons that hold this very same form, but as far as I know, Haku is a Chinese dragon. The soft light mint colored body and dark mint colored hair that flows down the head and back makes an awesome color combination. I want to remind you guys that you can choose to request any chibi figure you think would make a great addition to the chibi category section. I love drawing Spirited Away characters so feel free to request more of them if you want. In the meantime, enjoy drawing chibi Haku as I'm sure you will.
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Pastor Mike Wissink has been working in campus ministry at Ferris State University since 1994.
In 2001, he began a Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) chapter on the Ferris State campus specifically targeting the varsity athletic programs. The head coaches of the Bulldog men's and women's basketball, football, women's soccer, and women's volleyball have extended him the invitation to work as a Team Chaplain within their programs.
For his work, Pastor Wissink was acknowledged by the Ferris State University Athletics Department as the 2006-07 recipient of the "Pete Peterson Pride Award" for his volunteer efforts within these athletics programs.
In 2005, Wissink helped organize and travel with a group of 23 Ferris students and FCA members, which included several FSU student-athletes, on a spring break trip to Engelhard, N.C., where they helped construct and build a 60-x-80 foot church addition in an area devastated by Hurricane Isabelle. Since then, he's coordinated a yearly trip to various parts of the country in need.
Wissink's also been involved with a number of other community activities and local organizations which have provided support to Bulldog Athletics thru his church involvement over the years.
Pastor Wissink started his involvement with Bulldog Athletics in the late 1990's. He was the 19th individual affiliated with FSU Athletics to receive the "Pete Peterson Pride Award", which initially began following the 1981-82 athletics season.
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- Vets from the Philippines bureau of fisheries and aquatic resources measure the carcass of a 300-kg (660-pound) juvenile whale shark that washed ashore along a fishing village in Tanza town, Cavite province, west of Manila on September 5, 2013. The dead whale shark washed ashore far from the endangered giant fish's traditional feeding grounds, fishermen and a wildlife official said Thursday.
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MANILA (AFP) – (AFP) – A dead young whale shark has washed ashore in Manila Bay near the Philippine capital, far from the endangered giant fish's traditional feeding grounds, fishermen and a wildlife official said Thursday.
The five-metre (17-foot) corpse took locals by surprise in Tanza, a fishing district near the mouth of the bay, fisherman Edgar Biri told AFP.
« It was near the shore, we thought it was some kind of a deadly shark, » he said.
« When we approached, we saw it was not moving anymore. »
Local fisheries bureau veterinarian Marco Espiritu said he would examine the 300 kilogram (660 pound) carcass to determine the cause of death.
« It is unusual to see whale sharks around these parts, » he told AFP.
« Their migratory patterns are far from here, but it may have been following food that's why it came into the bay, » he added.
In 2009, he said a dead whale shark about the same size was found at a busy wharf on Manila Bay.
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), the largest fish species in the world, are slow-moving creatures that can reach 12 metres in length and weigh more than 20 tonnes, feeding mostly on plankton, small fish and crustaceans.
Found in all tropical and warm seas of the world, they show up in large numbers between April and May in plankton-rich areas far from Manila.
Switzerland-based watchdog group the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has placed the species in its list of « vulnerable » species.
Philippine fishermen once hunted the fish, but the practice has been outlawed and its annual migration has become a tourist draw in some central Philippine coastal resorts.


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This week marked the International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women. If any voices should be heard at this time, it is those of survivors. Here are two, addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and financial costs of the harm done to them by male abusers.
Sexual assault has robbed me of my confidence and my self-esteem. My dignity, my autonomy and my self-respect. My faith in myself and my faith in the world have been decimated
Kate Ravenscroft
On Wednesday, the 21st of May, the man who raped me was sentenced. Four years, four months and four days after the assault took place. In the end, he did not face charges of rape – the two charges of rape were dropped and the Prosecution accepted a plea deal from the Defense for the accused to plead guilty to one charge of "indecent assault".
At the plea hearing, I read a Victim Impact Statement to the court. I have posted my statement below.
A Victim Impact Statement is the sole space where the criminal justice system allows the victim of a crime – or the Crown Witness in Victoria's criminal justice system – to speak of how the crime has affected them. Victims can choose to read their statement to the court themselves or have it read for them by the Prosecutor.
I chose to attend the court and read my statement myself. My family came with me for support and my mum also read a victim impact statement to the court – reflecting on the impacts she had noticed in me and also on the impacts the crime had on our entire family.
It was a distressing experience. Also present in the court were the accused, his legal team, the prosecution, the judge and her staff, journalists and my entire family. To stand up and speak of how my life has been ruined, how I have been crushed, by sexual assault before this group of people was one of the most intimidating and vulnerable things I have ever done. It is not often that we reveal our suffering plainly, explicitly before an audience. To do so publicly, and before the very person who caused that suffering, was distressing and somewhat humiliating.
However, I chose to speak my statement myself because I wanted my words to be my own. I didn't want them coming out of someone else's mouth. I didn't want them spoken by someone who has not lived what I have, who has not been subject to sexual assault, who could not know what I am trying to convey. I wanted to claim this one paltry opportunity provided in the criminal justice system to be heard as a victim and to speak for myself.
It's hard to know what the value of a Victim Impact Statement is, whether it makes any difference. But when the system has so little time or care for victims this is our one chance and I was grateful for the opportunity it provided, even if I am still reeling from the experience of delivering it.
The impacts of sexual assault for me have been devastating, profound and far-reaching. They have impacted every area of my life and every part of my self.
Almost immediately after the sexual assault, the losses started and to this day I continue to be held back and limited in my life because of the impacts of sexual assault.
First of all I lost my home. Rae Street, my home, was also the place that the sexual assault took place and, to this day, that area remains a place of terror and distress to me. I managed to return to that house only a few times after the assault. Within days of the assault I knew that I would have to move out, leaving my friends, my housemates and an area I loved. My family had to move my belongings from the house because I could not manage even that, the associations were so negative and fearsome.
I lost my career. At first, I took 5 weeks off work. Then I tried to return part time. But it quickly became clear that I was in no state of mind to manage even that. The impacts of trauma were so invasive and so omnipresent that I could no longer carry out my job. As a manager my role entailed responsibility and high-level decision-making. It was a stressful and demanding position, full of challenges. I had thrived on those challenges. But now, trauma prevented me from accomplishing even the most basic tasks. I would jump if the phone rang. I would try to work but flashbacks and intrusive thoughts prevented me from concentrating. As a result, I felt I had no choice but to resign from my position while I sought help to heal my mind and my body.
That was only the beginning of my professional losses, however. About a month before the sexual assault I had applied for a scholarship with the French government for a teaching position in France. A few months after the assault I received notification that I had been awarded a scholarship. A teaching position in Paris. Had I not been assaulted this would have been a dream come true. Something I had long wanted to do. However, I was no longer in a position to take up such an exciting opportunity. I had to turn it down. All because I no longer believed I could be safe. All because, with the traumatised condition I was in, I knew I couldn't survive without the constant loving support of my family. I needed the familiarity of my childhood home, the security of my family's unwavering assistance and the relative safety of a country in which my extensive support networks could be constantly about me. There was no longer any way I could move to the other side of the world. Losing this opportunity still devastates me today and will remain a life-long disappointment for me.
To this day – nearly four and a half years since the assault – I have not been able to work full-time. The physical and psychological impacts of the assault continue to interfere in my daily life and prevent me from achieving what used to come so easily. I do not know when I will be in a position to return to full-time work.
Not being able to work full-time for over four years now has had a significant financial impact – severely restricting my earning capacity and costing me tens of thousands of dollars in lost income. It has meant that at different times during the past four and a half years since the assault I have been dependent on family or on welfare to support me. However, it has also exacted a huge personal cost. Not being able to work full-time is humiliating and distressing. Full-time employment is not just a way to make a living, it is a way to participate in and contribute to the world.
I see a psychiatrist every month for support with the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. The hyper-vigilance, the repetitive and intrusive thoughts, the flashbacks, sleeplessness, insomnia, nightmares, difficulties in concentration, memory problems – all of these are things I struggle with on a daily basis. I continue to rely on psychiatric medications to support me to manage these symptoms. The persistence and invasiveness of post-traumatic stress wears me down and consumes so much of my energy that full-time work is not a possibility.
However, my career is not the only thing I have lost as a consequence of sexual assault and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. I have also lost my social life. Before the assault I had an active and vibrant social life. Spending time with friends, going out, socialising – these were things I took completely for granted. They were a normal and completely unremarkable part of life. This is no longer the case. Since the assault, I have lost my social life and the inability to socialise freely and regularly has meant that in many ways I have lost my social networks.
So much of my life revolves around negotiating the impacts of sexual assault, of coping with post-traumatic stress and of trying to keep myself safe and well. All this takes up time and energy – time and energy which, prior to the assault, would have gone to work and to my social life.
But it's also more complicated than that. Sexual assault has robbed me of my confidence and my self-esteem. My dignity, my autonomy and my self-respect have all been compromised as a result of the crime carried out against me. My faith in myself and my faith in the world have been decimated.
I struggle to believe I have anything to offer my friends anymore. I am not the person I was before the assault and I will never be the same as a result of what has been done to me. I struggle to remember what life was like when things like safety could be taken for granted. I am afraid I cannot live up to the expectations of those who knew me before. I struggle to connect to people in good faith and to trust them. I constantly wonder if the people around me mean well or mean me harm. I struggle to find the energy, on so many days, to fight through the difficulties sexual assault has created for me and reach out to others. Solitude and isolation too often seem like the safe option, the safest option and so, social isolation has become yet another reality of life for me since the assault.
It has not all been bleak. I have found ways to cope and I have had the extraordinary good fortune to have a supportive and loving family who have unwaveringly stood by me. I have had excellent professional support, too. However, the impacts of sexual assault continue to affect me, years after the assault, on a daily basis. Not a day goes by when what was done to me does not interfere with my life or limit the life I lead in some way. Sexual assault has cost me profoundly, in many ways, and has set my life on a completely different course from the one it would have taken, had I not been assaulted. I have lost so much and many of those losses cut right to the core of who I am and can never be undone.
For information about Victim Impact Statements and services for victims of crime in Victoria you can go here.
Consider the huge financial burden of putting women back together
Kylie Ryder*
An estimated 198,000 sexual assaults [occurred in 2011 in Australia], the vast majority of which were against women. The average medical cost for those injured was $950 per incident. The estimated total cost of sexual assault, including those not reported to police was $775 million.
These sobering statistics are found in Counting the Costs of Crime in Australia: A 2011 estimate by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), released this week by Minister for Justice Mr Michael Keenan MP
As a survivor of sexual violence, I read with great interest. One line in particular stood out to me:
'The average medical cost for those injured was $950 per incident.'
I recalled my own personal history and the lengthy process of working towards healing, and the costs associated with recovery, $950 seemed low. (Of course, the financial costs for victims of rape and sexual assault are often far greater than merely medical as the account above shows).
In the process of obtaining a restraining order against the man who had abused me for almost a year, I incurred legal bills totaling almost $4000. My parents came up with the money somehow, as I was a traumatized nineteen year old university student and my few shifts a week in a fast food chain didn't cover much more than petrol money.
Therapy, extending over twelve years and three psychologists totalled about $6000.
I spent hundreds on a variety of antidepressant medications, including Zoloft, Pritiq, Escitalopram that GPs offered me as I struggled with depression.
At one point, my husband resigned from his job in a leadership role to stay home and care for our children because I could no longer function. This was around the time when I had finally reported my abuser. After months of going back and forth with police, they concluded that because the perpetrator was exercising his legal right to remain silent, they did not have enough evidence to charge him.
Our family survived on a carer's pension during this period while my husband played the roles of both father and mother and I just slept and slept. I recall one day her came into our room, gently woke me and said,"It's 4pm, maybe you should get up?"
We had hoped to spend more time on my recovery, on slowly building my strength back up and taking on some of my regular tasks again. However, circumstances necessitated my husband get back into the workforce sooner than we had anticipated, when our landlord significantly raised the rent and we could no longer afford it. After applying for ten different properties and being rejected from all, it was clear we could not keep a roof over our heads without my husband resuming full time employment, which he did. By this point, of course, we were in a pretty desperate situation and my husband had to accept a job with a $20000 pay cut. We didn't have the luxury of being picky.
There were appointments with the psychiatrist, ten years later, who finally diagnosed me with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which I had been living with ever since the abuse without knowing there was a name for it. Throw in a few hundred dollars for those appointments.
I was fortunate to be accepted into a clinical study where researchers at a hospital in the city had been awarded a substantial government funding to study different treatments for PTSD. I was one of nineteen people who participated in the study and received treatment. Six weeks of intensive treatment, including PET scans and MRI scans to record any changes to the brain throughout and after the process was competed.
Hospital appointments and follow up appointments every three months. How many thousands of dollars were spent there?
At the time, I lived in a regional area, hours from the city. My petrol costs driving to and from the city each week came to around $2000.
Then there was the day when I couldn't bear it any longer and I overdosed on pills, landing myself in the hospital attached to a cardiac monitor. Who knows how much that cost?
That year of sexual abuse has taken a massive toll on myself and my family, emotionally and financially. While I wasn't personally covering every cost outlined above, someone was – whether it was Medicare, government grants, my parents.
We cannot underestimate the cost of rape, sexual assault and violence against women. Consider the huge financial burden of putting women back together. I can't help but wonder what the world might look like if we hadn't been broken in the first place.
*Real name withheld by request


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What is wireless convergence? Well it's a follow on from wireless and fixed line convergence. Nowadays voice over IP – VoIP is readily available through Wi-Fi Hotspots at major city termini, hotels, restaurant chains, coffee shops. With Broadband connectivity through your cell phone and being able to listen to your messages on the move through a bluetooth connected headset the ideas of the mid 20th Century are becoming a reality.
Now we have MVNOs (mobile Virtual Network Operators), who provide global reach to multi-national organisations ensuring their workers never have a moment without being contactable (What has the world come to!). The other technologies making wireless convergence possible are GSM, GPRS, CDMA, EDGE and UMTS.
Over the next few years we expect an explosion in new products and services through wireless convergence. But it does depend on PTOs investing in infrastructure.. How long did it take the UK to catch up with Europe on non-dial up internet access? We may see WiMAX become more popular as is 3G. Soon (who knows) Mobile-FI will overtake the competitors.
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Although cracking one's head on a diving board is generally not recommended to today's Olympians, one could make the argument that it was both the best and the worst thing that could have happened to Greg Louganis. Best in that, although he made an incredible recovery from his accident at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and went on to win a gold medal, it's the concussion that everyone remembers and what made him a star. Worst because, not only did it smart like hell at the time, it fed into the rampant homophobia that Louganis faced after coming out in 1995 and revealing that he was HIV positive, when all his sponsors dropped him and everyone in the world stupidly wondered whether that meant he'd infected every one of his competitors in the pool.
Another reason that injury was unfortunate: It formed the ridiculous centerpiece of the 1997 Showtime movie Breaking The Surface: The Greg Louganis Story, where Mario Lopez lives out Louganis' life via flashbacks as he tumbles into the water. And though Louganis willingly participated in that film as its narrator, he could still use a more dignified movie version of his life—especially now that he's back in the 2012 Olympics, mentoring the U.S. diving team and reminding everyone of his importance. Producer Will Sweeney, whom you may recall from our Pop Pilgrims visit to The Royal Tenenbaums house, is hoping to do just that with the indie documentary Back On Board, aiming to complete the film by 2013, or the 25th anniversary of Louganis' fateful year.
Contributors to the movie's Kickstarter fund can, of course, win all sorts of things, ranging from getting their name in the credits to memorabilia from Louganis' archives to dinner with Louganis himself (a popular incentive recently). Imagine how many variations on "did it hurt?" you could ask!


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Jewish Songwriters and Christmas
JEWISH SONGWRITERS have created some of the most enduringly popular songs of the season -- Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," of course, but also "The Christmas Song," "Silver Bells," and "I'll Be Home For Christmas," among others. Some people might view that as a heartening, only-in-America expression of interfaith goodwill and warmth. But not Garrison Keillor:The Keillor column is actually a bit more nuanced that Jacoby lets on, since Keillor takes a swipe at a Unitarian church where (in his words) "I discovered that 'Silent Night' has been cleverly rewritten to make it more about silence and night and not so much about God."
"All those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck," he fumed in a recent column for the Baltimore Sun. "Christmas is a Christian holiday -- if you're not in the club, then buzz off." His piece bore the sour headline: "Nonbelievers, please leave Christmas alone."
Remember the days when Keillor was endearing and witty? It's a shame to see him grown so cranky and intolerant. What kind of grinch thinks "White Christmas" is "dreck?"
Well, here's hoping that all the songs written by those "Jewish guys" didn't put too big a damper on Keillor's Christmas this year. And let's hope no one ruined it entirely by letting him know that the Jewish connection to Christmas didn't start with Irving Berlin.
But the issue still remains: Is it really a bad thing that Jewish songwriters have written a lot of the most popular Christmas songs?
In the first place, all the most popular songs by Jewish writers are secular, and not religious in nature. There is a lot of holly, and no baby Jesus. So it doesn't seem that Jewish songwriters have been asserting any theological concepts that they don't believe.
In the second place, Christmas is a time of good cheer, family and giving for the 80% of Americans who claim to be Christians, and doubtless for most of the remainder who, whatever their religious beliefs, enjoy the vast majority of things that come with Christmas.
So should Jews, and particularly Jewish songwriters, begrudge any of this? Should a catering firm run by Gentiles refuse to cater bar mitzvahs? Only if one thinks that other people's religious observances are illegitimate. We can think of some religious practices in some places at some times that really are illegitimate. But Christmas isn't among them, and neither are any of the religious practices of American Jews.
And we can't help wondering, of what religion was the person who wrote "Grandma Got Run Over By a Raindeer?"
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County Weights and Measures (Weights and Measures (County) has jurisdiction over all pricing and scanner issues.
If anyone gets overcharged, they need to notify the store that there is a problem, and then notify their local Weights & Measures office.
Prices: Overcharges - AB 1721 (Koretz, D-West Hollywood)
Prohibits any person or store from charging an amount greater than the lowest price posted for a product, even if there is an expiration date posted for that product. This law clarifies that expired sale signs that are not removed must be honored by the merchant. It also clarifies the language of the law to cover scanner overcharges.
- SEC. 2. Section 12024.2 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
- SEC. 2. Section 12024.2 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
12024.2. (a) It is unlawful for any person, at the time of sale of a commodity, to do any of the following:
(1) Charge an amount greater than the price, or to compute an amount greater than a true extension of a price per unit, that is then advertised, posted, marked, displayed, or quoted for that commodity.
(2) Charge an amount greater than the lowest price posted on the commodity itself or on a shelf tag that corresponds to the commodity, notwithstanding any limitation of the time period for which the posted price is in effect.
(b) A violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by both, if the violation is willful or grossly negligent, or when the overcharge is more than one dollar ($1).
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Students at Emmanuel College recently voted Elizabeth "Libby" Synan to serve as next year's Miss Emmanuel. A 2010 graduate of Franklin County High School, she begins her junior year at Emmanuel this fall and is majoring in early childhood education.
"I am unbelievably honored to be Miss Emmanuel for the 2012-13 school year," Synan says. "Although I am completely undeserving, I know God has placed me in this position to serve my college, peers, and needy children."
The duties of Miss Emmanuel include speaking at special events on campus, leading a weekly small group, and 20 hours of community service during each semester. "I chose to focus this year on partnering with Children's Rescue Initiative, raising money to free child slaves, and giving them a chance for a happy childhood like we have been blessed to experience," she says.
Synan is also involved in the campus' Student Government Association, Baptist Collegiate Ministry, and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Next year, she will join Emmanuel's Cross Country and Track & Field teams, led by Coach Jose Larios.
She also works as a Student Counselor in Enrollment Management. "Libby is an amazing young lady who displays excellence in character and service at all times," says Wendy Vinson, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing. "She's a great asset to the enrollment team and a godly model of an Emmanuel student."
Synan's parents are the Rev. Bert and Debbie Synan, and her grandparents are Vernon and Phyllis Synan. She is a member of Peniel Pentecostal Holiness Church, where her father serves as pastor.
"I am thrilled to be a part of this time in Emmanuel College's history. God has blessed Emmanuel in so many unexpected ways, and I am so excited to continue serving this amazing college during this time of growth and expansion," Synan adds.


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Threats to Alaska's wilderness—such as global warming, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and destructive logging—have made news headlines in recent years, but there is another dangerous situation that has mostly been kept under wraps. Currently in the exploration phase, the Pebble Gold and Copper Mine Project plans to create the biggest open pit mine in North America, as well as the largest dam in the world.
The plan has been mounting since it was first presented in 2001 by the Canadian company Northern Dynasty Minerals. In 2007, Northern Dynasty formed a 50:50 partnership with London-based Anglo American, the global mining leader. While they prepare to apply for development permits in 2009, these companies plan to spend $100 million on exploratory drilling in 2008.
"Open pit mining" refers to the extraction of minerals close to the surface of the earth through an open pit—as opposed to underground mining, which requires tunneling into the earth for minerals. The pebble mine would be two miles wide, several thousand feet deep, and require 58,000 one-ton blasts every year. The proposal also includes the building of an underground mine, the removal of massive amounts of water from Upper Talarik Creek and the Koktuli River (both important fish habitats), and the construction of the world's largest dam to hold all of the associated waste. Less than 1 percent of the extracted material resulting from this destruction will hold any value.
Over 99 percent of rock in the giant dam will end up as "tailings," nothing but leftover material. Tailings dams contain toxic ponds full of pollutants including cyanide, sulfuric acid, arsenic, and a slew of heavy metals. The risk of toxic spills and leakages from these unconventionally sized dams is enormous, particularly because this area is an earthquake-prone zone and in close proximity to the active volcano, Mt. Iliamna.
The proposed site for Pebble Mine is in beautiful Southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark, at the headwaters of the Mulchatna/Nushagak River and Newhalen/Kvichak River drainages—which both feed into Bristol Bay. The area is currently undeveloped, with no roads, no cars, and no telephone poles. There are simply miles of rolling tundra, lush forests and rivers; pure wilderness surrounded by a handful of native communities. Northern Dynasty says it will construct an open pit mine in the Pebble Valley and dam and reroute nearby rivers to contain all of the toxic waste.
Because the site is so remote, simply providing power and access to the unfettered area could have significant negative ecological effects. The current plans to power the project involve a submarine cable stretching across the Cook Inlet. The construction of a 104-mile access road is also planned. The road would fragment aquatic and terrestrial wildlife habitats, connecting the mine to the port site in the Cook Inlet and intersecting roughly 100 streams along the way. It is estimated that the road will have a footprint of 12.5 square miles; however, the long-term effect will be significantly greater because it will open the inaccessible areas to human traffic.
The unique Bristol Bay region is renowned for possessing the largest salmon runs on the planet, and for housing hearty populations of rainbow trout, grizzly bears, moose, caribou, myriad migratory birds, and one of only two colonies of freshwater seals in the world. The planned water removal, habitat destruction, and the huge risk of water pollution could be disastrous for the entire ecosystem.
Copper is one of the most toxic heavy metals to fish, and it can limit the production of algae—an essential food source for aquatic organisms, whose decline would affect other species higher up the food chain. Even small amounts of copper can destroy a salmon's olfactory sense, which can leave a fish dangerously disoriented because of its role in navigating streams and distinguishing predators from prey. Copper can also impair the fish immune response.
Decreased fish productivity due to habitat loss is another worrisome outcome. The removal of 70 million gallons of water a day from the Koktuli River and the Upper Tolarik Creek threaten the salmon and other fish species that use the creeks for spawning, rearing and overwintering. Since salmon are andronomous and characteristically return to their birth place to spawn, any destruction of their habitat could halt reproduction. Habitat loss is a major concern for the Bristol Bay's native wildlife, with the likely destruction of denning sites for grizzly bears, nesting and feeding sites for migratory birds, and feeding and calving sites for the Mulchatna caribou herd population.
Even if precautions are taken, it is inevitable that fine material such as dust will wash into the waterways and begin to accumulate, introducing toxins and degrading water quality. The Environmental Protection Agency has found that mining activities have polluted over 40 percent of the headwaters in the Western United States.
Although most of the lower 48 have been overdeveloped, Alaska stands as a wildlife haven, drawing almost 2 million tourists a year. A large number of Alaskans are against the plans, though many are lured in by talk of short-term profits that overshadow the unsustainable nature of the mine. Fortunately, a diverse group of stakeholders including local Alaskan natives, environmental organizations, commercial and recreational fishing groups, and Members of Congress (including the typically pro-development Republican Senator Ted Stevens) are vocal opponents of the plan.
The fight for Alaska's wild places has forged on for years, and neither side seems to be faltering. If the Pebble Mine project moves forward, the door would be opened for other similar mining projects in Bristol Bay. This outcome would not only threaten Alaska's wildlife and its unadulterated landscape, but it would also contribute to the rapid disappearance of true wilderness in the United States.


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Finally, we've found a magazine that doesn't lie to its readers with its cover lines. Yes, Amber Heard's torso looks strangely whittled on the cover of Women's Health, but the editors clearly labeled the image "Sculpt Sexy Curves." As in, you can't achieve this look from this month's silly diet and exercise tips, you'll need to digitally sculpt this silhouette in Photoshop.
And if it's just a weird angle, and not a digitally whittled, scooped-out back, why choose this image for the cover? The behind-the-scenes video on the mag's website shows that the lady is a fantastic model and the editors had lots to choose from. (It also shows what her waist does not actually have a smaller circumference than her thigh, which is what the cover might lead you to believe.)
Here are a couple of (untouched) stills from the video:
UPDATE: Michele Promaulayko, VP/Editor in Chief of Women's Health has responded: "We did not photoshop the image to make her look thinner. These are her real proportions. We choose cover stars who are fit and healthy. Amber exemplifies that. "


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Around 300 new call centre jobs are to be created in Accrington town centre.
Telecoms giant BT has announced that it is to open new state-of-the-art customer contact centre at the Globe Centre on St James Street.
The move follows months of negotiation with Lancashire County Council.
Hyndburn council leader Miles Parkinson said it was a massive boost to the area.
Coun Parkinson said: "It is fantastic news, particularly during this time of increasing unemployment rates nationally that BT has decided to bring new jobs to Accrington.
"It's particularly pleasing that BT have recognised what the skills and commitment of the local workforce will bring to their business.
"They recognises there will be people who have the skills required for these roles in Hyndburn and hopefully the new jobs will go to people who live in the borough."
The centre is expected to open in the autumn, when the county council says the recruitment process will begin.
The opening of the centre will soften the blow of the closure of holiday company Sitel's call centre which was based at the Globe before it closed before Christmas with the loss of 250 jobs.
Michael Damms, chief executive of the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, which is based in Accrington, said the announcement will hopefully encourage other blue-chip companies to invest in the region.
He said: "It is excellent news for Accrington town centre where this is a lot of work already going on to rejuvenate the centre and bring in investment.
"Creating new jobs in the town centre is certainly a good thing."
Councillor Geoff Driver, leader of Lancashire County Council, said the news builds on the council's long-term partnership work with BT.
He said: "These jobs will help to boost the county's economy and create some excellent new opportunities for local people."
Tony Chanmugam, BT's chief finance officer, said the company was thrilled to bring more jobs to Lancashire.
He added: "We have a great relationship with the local authority, which is helping us set up a new contact centre in an area where we wanted to be with committed people who have the right skills to help our customers."
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Lawmaker cuts $10M from KU Medical Center project
Most funds set to come from private donations
A Kansas Senate committee has ratified a conservative Republican lawmaker's proposal to deny $10 million to the University of Kansas Medical Center for an expansion.
The Ways and Means Committee backed Sen. Tom Arpke of Salina on a voice vote Monday before endorsing spending recommendations for the state's higher education system.
Those recommendations overall are largely in line with Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's proposals for about $2.5 billion in annual spending.
But Brownback wanted the $10 million for the expansion of the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. The total project is expected to cost $75 million, with the rest of the funds coming from private donations.
Arpke argues the University of Kansas isn't operating as efficiently as it could and can tap reserve funds for the project.