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Remember lifestreaming?
Lifestreaming is " a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life." It started out as something visionary, but was downgraded over time to mean "all of your social media activity in one stream."
Lifestreaming is nice. The problem is that your "electronic life" isn't your actual life -- you know, where you go in the physical world, what you do, who you meet and even how you feel? Isn't that the stuff we'd really like to remember?
Besides, do we have to share everything? And are the things we share the only things we want to remember?
I love social media, and I even use Google+ as my personal blog. But there are many things I'd like to remember -- ideas, thoughts, experiences, pictures, videos -- that I don't want to share with the general public or even anyone at all.
Where does all that stuff go? Evernote, right? Well, not so fast.
There is no sharp line between what's public and what's private. It's more of a gradient from aggressively public (pushing content at people), passively public (making it available for those who come looking for it) to semi-public (available to people I know) to semi-private (shared with close family and friends) to private (only me).
Any of these kinds of content might be part of what I want to remember in my "real-life stream."
Why Google+ is best for 'real-life streaming'
Google+ is the most capable system for "real-life streaming" that I'm aware of, for four reasons.
First, it's a social network, so all levels of social sharing or nonsharing can go in the same place. You don't have to post once to share and again to save into your "real-life stream."
Second, it's searchable.
Third, it accepts texts, links, pictures, videos and other kind of data.
Fourth, you're not locked in. If you decide later to move your "real-life stream" if something better comes along, you'll be able to download it all from Google Takeout.
I know, I know: The idea of "real-life streaming" on Google+ may strike some as volunteering to have your privacy violated. The privacy issue is a topic for another column. This piece is about how you can personally benefit from the data harvesting that's already taking place.
Here's how to remember the places you go, the people you meet and the things you do -- and how you felt about it all -- all in reverse-chronological order on Google+.
Remember the places you go
Location-based social networking services like Foursquare can be annoying. Still, it's great to remember some places you've been, even if you don't share it.
Google+ does non-annoying location remembering and sharing with some surprising features.
Let's take a look at one of them.
This is the profile of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. If you hover your mouse pointer over his location information near the bottom of his profile banner photo, you'll see that the picture is replaced by his location on a map for as long as you hover.
This is cool for two reasons. First, Hadfield is currently orbiting the planet, so his location changes constantly. Second, this feature is available to everyone.
What does this have to do with "real-life streaming"? Well, nothing, except it's a bonus feature that happens automatically when you use Google+ to keep track of some of the places you visit -- whoever you authorized to know your location can see it by hovering over your profile.
Here's how to easily capture your physical location from time to time in your Google+ lifestream, and all the time on your profile banner picture.
First, go to Google+ Settings and check the box next to "Enable Location Sharing." Just below that, you can choose exactly who has permission to view your location. It can be everybody, nobody or anybody in between.
Next, install Google Latitude on your Android phone or iPhone. Under the app's "Settings," turn on "Background Updating."
That will update your Google+ profile with the location feature.
Finally, when you're at some location you want to remember in your "real-life stream," tap the "Check in" button, choose the location, and choose who is allowed to see your location. Then click "Check in here."
Note that the public or private settings don't affect your lifestream. No matter which you choose, the check-in will be visible to you on your Google+ stream. Also: A live link to the Google+ Local entry (with details about the place) will be added to your post automatically.
Google's approach to location check-ins is super non-annoying. There are no badges to unlock, no mayors and, best of all, no spamming your friends with your check-ins.
Even if you choose to post to "Public," that post will not spam the streams of people who have circled you. In order to see a Public check-in, they would have to actually go to your profile.
Also: when you turn off location sharing on your phone, the profile map goes away -- it doesn't retain your last-known location.
Once your post is in your stream, you can use the post's drop-down menu to add thoughts and notes or a hashtag, if you like.
Another way to remember the places you go is to "review" them on Google Local, which is integrated into Google+. Just click the Local button on the left of Google+ and search for the restaurant, hotel or business. Click "write a review," rate it, type a few words, then click "Publish." It won't spam your circles, but it will put the establishment under a "Reviews" tab on your profile. That "Reviews" tab becomes a permanent record of all the places you like best (and why).
Remember the people you meet
Google's integration between Gmail and Google+ lets you easily remember people you converse with via email.
If you use Gmail, just go to the Find People page on Google+ (the button is on the left). The top "Suggestions" include people you've chatted with recently on Gmail. Circle the people you want to remember to retain those connections.
Another way is when you do a Google+ hangout, you can capture screens with the faces of the people you're hanging out with and save it to your Google+ "real-life stream." Just click the new camera button at the bottom of the hangout screen. Others in the hangout will be notified when you do.
Remember your events
People use Events on Google+ to schedule meetings, talks and parties. But far fewer use it for its best purpose: Collecting everyone's photos from an event for posterity.
The Events "Party Mode" lets all of the invitees post their pictures of the event while it's happening to the shared Event page. They come flowing in in real time (you can even put them up on a screen at the event and a slideshow will flip through them live).
Best of all, those photos become part of your permanent lifestream memory of the event.
Remember your photos -- this time with emotion
Photographs are probably the best way to remember your real life. Google+ added two new features that enhance those memories.
The first is that Google+ now supports full-quality picture uploads (Facebook always compresses and degrades uploaded pictures). Note that if you turn on this feature in the Google+ Settings, any files larger than 2048 pixels will count against Google storage, where you get 5GB free but pay a monthly fee for additional storage.
Another fun feature combines futuristic technology with a trivial application. It's called +Emotion. By clicking one button, Google's technology reads the emotion, age and even species of every human, dog and cat in the picture, and will put a thought bubble on each showing that information.
The +Emotion feature detects moods, glasses, sunglasses, babies, dogs, cats and other things.
To use it, post a photo on Google+ to just yourself. After it's posted, click on it, then click on the smiley face button on the upper left. You can then "Share" with Public or just yourself.
Why 'real-life streaming'?
Your lifestream posts don't have to be public. They can be private, just for you, or they can include a combination of public, shared-with-family, and you-only posts.
That's the beauty of it.
It's easy to order your "real-life stream" into its own stream. By giving your lifestream posts a unique hashtag, then saving a search for that hashtag, your "real-life stream" will always be just a click away. For example, I could use the hashtag #MikesRealLifeStream123. It doesn't matter what the hashtag is, as long as it's unique. You save a search by searching for the hashtag on Google+, then click the big, red "Save This Search" button.
As we move into the era of wearable technology, more people will lifestream their real lives.
If you're looking forward to Google Glass, for example, that product plus Google+ will be the ultimate "real-life streaming" combination for capturing the world as we experience it.
But you don't have to wait for Glass. You can use existing Google+ tools to remember where you go, who you meet and what you do -- and how you felt about it all.
And you don't have to share it with anybody.
Mike Elgan writes about technology and tech culture. You can contact Mike and learn more about him on Google+. You can also see more articles by Mike Elgan on Computerworld.com.
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A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 1, Issue 46
November 4, 2001
This article ran exclusively at WorldNetDaily.com on Thursday, November 1, 2001.
As parents and children fanned out to walk neighborhoods on Halloween night, a real danger lurks in rail yards in virtually any town or major city accessible to railroad traffic.
Parents may be worried about unwanted substances in candy, but what's really scary is what may be parked a couple hundred yards away from their children's public school, according to one courageous whistle blower who had the guts to come forward.
Thousands of pressurized rail cars cross U.S. borders daily, and U.S. Customs is doing virtually nothing to inspect them, making each one a handy vehicle for contraband distribution. Worse, deadly chemicals available to any terrorist with phony identification and a credit card can be purchased in Mexico, then moved around the United States to be parked indefinitely at thousands of rental rail spurs. Rail cars can even be moved back and forth with a laptop computer, to be placed in key areas for later illegal drug off-loading, or worse.
Fill one of these pressure tanks with diesel fuel oil and fertilizer, and what do you have? The world's largest pipe bomb. Imagine that if one Ryder rental truck-bomb in Oklahoma City destroyed half of a giant federal office building, what could a huge rail tanker filled with poison gas or explosives do to your average city?
Are these the concerns of hysterical citizens looking under every bed for a post-September 11 bogeyman? Hardly. U.S. Customs' federal agents have been warning about this danger for years, without any real action to stop it taken by U.S. Customs managers. When several U.S. Customs agents brought their concerns to the local FBI office in California, fearing their own agency had been compromised, nothing happened, they claim. Finally, frustrated by inaction and fear, they went public. Some have testified in front of the U.S. Senate, but still there is no substantive action to address this real danger.
Former U.S. Customs federal agent Darlene Fitzgerald-Catalan recently contacted my foundation - The Patrick Henry Center - because she had heard that I tried to warn others about national security dangers, but had also hit a brick-wall when agency bureaucrats simply did not want to listen. She thought we could help.
Darlene is a classic whistle blower. The difference is that Fitzgerald-Catalan and six other federal agent associates, and a U.S. prosecutor walked out en masse in 1999, but their brave mutiny, complete with staged public protests, netted them nothing but scorn and retribution from U.S. Customs managers.
Fitzgerald-Catalan cannot prove that Customs managers were on the take. In fact, she can recite many examples of agent managers who reeked of incompetence. But, U.S. Customs managers' inability to manage agents and investigations is one thing. When Fitzgerald-Catalan tried to conduct pressurized rail car investigations to determine the extent of contraband coming into the United States from a corrupt rail yard in Mexico, her investigations were shut down by worried and strangely acting managers. When other agents attempted to help her, they were punished severely and subjected to endless administrative probes, designed to get them to resign or retire.
Every time a federal agent exhibited interest in conducting a serious probe of rail car smuggling, he or she found themselves on the wrong end of U.S. Customs' fury. They were followed and subjected to false allegations designed to destroy their careers. They even found "hidden" video surveillance cameras aimed at their personal residences which they believe were meant to be seen, so as to intimate them into leaving the rail car investigation alone.
Did they have grounds to suspect that pressurized cars were being used to haul illegal drugs or worse? Not only did they find cars filled with illegal drugs, but they had railroad detectives pointing out numerous cars that by their very weight records - which made each car appear empty - were actually filled with mysterious material weighing tons. Why would anybody pay to have "empty" cars moved about the United States? Of course nobody would, and that is why the railroad detectives and honest U.S. Customs agents knew something was up!
Why did Fitzgerald-Catalan's managers shut down her investigation and punish anybody who tried to help her, or who came to her defense when Customs internal affairs agents set out to ruin her? In an interview in Boston recently, she told me that at first she believed that Customs managers were just being "good old boys" and may have been jealous of her high-performance investigations. But when a more sinister pattern of punishment and harassment began, it was obvious to her that more was going on than the mere damage to some lesser investigators' egos.
"Besides," Fitzgerald-Catalan explained, "It didn't matter what the other agents did or didn't do in their jobs. Those deemed to be in favor with management and who went along with the corruption were rewarded with cash incentives and favorable notes in their personnel files. Those who rocked the boat and questioned mysterious decisions by management to back off of certain investigations - like pressurized railroad cars - were rewarded with scorn, punishment and endless internal affairs investigations."
Darlene Fitzgerald-Catalan has written a book describing the incredible events leading up to her voluntary resignation in 1999. Then, she worried about out of control drug trafficking, with pressurized rail cars as the vehicle. Today, Fitzgerald-Catalan is glad she brought her concerns to the public in her book, U.S. Customs - Badge of Dishonor, because she and her former U.S. federal agent associates understand the real potential for disaster.
Fitzgerald-Catalan stated, "When a federal agency tasked with the protection of U.S. citizen's interests is too incompetent or too corrupted to do the job, something needs to be done."

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We had good wind on the morning we set sail to complete the 90 mile last leg (from St. Martin to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands) of Bubble's circumnavigation. With a full boat, I was on deck explaining some navigational markers to some of the more virgin crew when Trevor at the helm yelled [...]
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Where Does Donor Milk Banking Fit in Public Health Policy?
from BREASTFEEDING ABSTRACTS, February 2002, Volume 21, Number 3, pp. 19-20.
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In 1980 the World Health Organization and UNICEF issued the following joint statement:
Where it is not possible for the biological mother to breastfeed, the first alternative, if available, should be the use of human breast milk from other sources. Human milk banks should be made available in appropriate situations1 [Italics added by author].
Even after the publication of reports that HIV could be transmitted through human milk, WHO and UNICEF continued to make positive statements about donor milk banking:
When a baby is to be artificially fed, the choice of feeding method and product should not be influenced by commercial pressures. If donor milk is to be used, it must first be pasteurized, and where possible, donors should be screened for HIV.2
Donor milk banking also plays a role in another WHO/UNICEF initiative, The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. Donor milk banking can be applied to six of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. Written breastfeeding policies in the hospital should list donor milk as an alternative feeding (Step 1) and all staff in the hospital should be trained to implement the policies relating to the use of donor milk (Step 2). All pregnant women should be informed of the benefits of human milk and how important it is for infants to have human milk as first feedings, using donor milk if no maternal milk is available (Step 3). All mothers should be shown how to express their milk (Step 5), and hospital staff should provide no food or drink other than human milk, with donor milk being used in preference to formula when supplementation is needed (Step 6). This means that the Baby-Friendly Hospital should have a supply of donor milk on hand, making it as easy to pull off the shelf as formula. Step 10 deals with community support of mothers. Part of community support should be knowing where donor milk banking resources are and helping mothers to access them, either to become donors or as the mother of a potential recipient.3
There are also policy documents in place within the US which could support donor milk banking services. While donor milk banking is not specifically mentioned, it is an integral part of the policies relating to the importance of breastfeeding and human milk. For example, the Healthy People 2010 Goals for the Nation place an emphasis on prevention of morbidity through an increase in breastfeeding rates.4When used clinically, donor milk has comparable potential for preventing and reducing morbidity and mortality.
The last policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics to deal exclusively with donor milk was in 1980, pre-HIV.5 While this statement has not been updated, other more recent references to donor milk banking in AAP publications such as the Pediatric Nutrition Handbook, Guidelines for Perinatal Care, and the Red Book on Infectious Disease have become replacement policy statements.6, 7, 8 They specify that anyone using donor milk should follow the voluntary guidelines established by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America.
Perhaps the most powerful AAP policy statement which addresses donor milk usage indirectly is the 1997 breastfeeding statement.9
Human milk is uniquely superior for infant feeding and is species specific; all substitute feeding options differ markedly from it.
"Human milk is the preferred feeding for all infants, including premature and sick newborns, with rare exceptions. When direct breastfeeding is not possible, expressed human milk, fortified when necessary for the premature infant, should be provided.
Donor milk is one way to obtain expressed milk and remains species specific despite some immunological losses during processing."
The most recent policy statement into which donor milk is easily incorporated is the Strategic Plan from the US Breastfeeding Committee.10 The first goal in the Strategic Plan is to "assure access to comprehensive, current, and culturally appropriate lactation care and services for all women, children, and families." Donor milk banks are a lactation service, providing human milk when a mother has been unable to supply her own. Most milk banks in the US also provide lactation support in the form of counseling to donors and others in communities far and wide. Strategies for implementing the first goal of the Strategic Plan include education of health care providers as well as reimbursement by third parties of lactation services. This means that milk banks themselves must take a lead role in the collection of data and the education of health care providers and insurers, as MacPherson and Talbot stated in 1939:
"The milk bank also has the opportunity to educate physicians and medical students and nurses, by means of lectures and personal interviews. This should be one of its duties whenever the opportunity arises because of the tendency today to overemphasize the ease of feeding with cow's milk mixtures."11
"母乳库也有机会通过演讲和个人访谈来教育医生、医学院学生和护士。只要有机会,这应该是它的职责之一,因为今日的流行趋势是过于强调配方奶喂养的简便性。" 11
With so many places for donor milk to fit in the public health policy picture, why are we making so little progress in the US with donor milk banking? Why does Brazil, for example, have a milk banking system that is rapidly growing while in the US milk banking is rapidly losing ground? Politics, lack of funding, and lack of direction from agencies within the federal government combine to make milk banking very difficult in the US. More money needs to be put into breastfeeding and milk banking from all sectors of healthcare funding. Milk banks in the US also need to be federally regulated so that they can gain the trust and confidence of the healthcare community. Federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) need to decide on jurisdictional issues and develop a cohesive plan of action relating to donor milk banking. Milk banks also need to collect better data and publish studies on clinical uses of donor milk in order to demonstrate need for the service and cost-effectiveness. Only then will we turn the tide and start growing milk banking again in the US.
Lois D. W. Arnold is the former Executive Director of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America and is the President of the National Commission on Donor Milk Banking. She is an administrative consultant to Baby-Friendly USA and is a co-author of the recently published Reclaiming Breastfeeding for the United States.
1. World Health Organization/United Nations Children''s Fund. Meeting on infant and young child feeding. J Nurs Midw 1980; 25:31-38.
2. World Health Organization/United Nations Children''s Fund. Consensus statement from the WHO/UNICEF consultation on HIV transmission and breastfeeding. April 30-May 1, 1992, Geneva.
3. World Health Organization/United Nations Children''s Fund. Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding: The special role of maternity services. A Joint WHO/UNICEF Statement. Geneva: WHO, 1989.
4. Healthy People 2010 Goals. Available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at www.cdc.gov or Health Resources and Services Administration at www.hrsa.gov
5. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition. Human milk banking. Pediatrics 1980; 65:854-57.
6. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition. Pediatric Nutrition Handbook, 4th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: AAP, 1998, pp. 15-16.
7. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Fetus and the Newborn and American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Committee on Obstetric Practice. Guidelines for Perinatal Care, 4th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: AAP, 1997, pp. 288-90.
8. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases. 1997 Red Book, 24th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: AAP, 1997, pp. 76-77.
9. American Academy of Pediatrics Work Group on Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding and the use of human milk. Pediatrics 1997; 100(6):1035-39.
10. United States Breastfeeding Committee. Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda. Rockville, MD: MCH Bureau, Health Resource and Services Administration, DHHS, 2001.
11. MacPherson, C. and F. Talbot. Standards for directories for mother's milk. J Pediatr 1939; 15:461-68.


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HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA-Methodist used eight runs in the first two innings to take a 9-2 victory at Ty Cobb Ballpark on Tuesday afternoon. With the loss, Hampden-Sydney falls to 11-23 and is 6-8 in the ODAC; the Monarchs improve to 21-18 overall and are 6-6 in the USA South.
Methodist recorded 11 hits to Hampden-Sydney's six. After Methodist scored four runs in each of the first and second inning, Dalton Renick (Glen Allen, VA/Deep Run) pitched the next four innings, allowing just one run on one hit. He also struck out two and walked three.
Sophomore Andrew Tucker (Fincastle, VA/James River) put the Tigers on the scoreboard in the eighth as his two-RBI triple scored Chatham Wurdeman (Elkin, NC/Elkin) and Spencer Wiles (Belmont, NC/South Point).
Luke Brunot (Chesapeake, VA/Atlantic Shores Christian) pitched three shutout innings for the Tigers, allowing just one hit and two walks.
Methodist's Michael Judge was the winning pitcher throwing two scoreless innings. Tyler Younger and Brandon Thigpen led the Methodist offense with two hits each. Younger also had a team-high three RBI.
Billy Nixon (Sedley, VA/Southampton) was the Tiger's pitcher of decision, allowing eight runs on nine hits in two innings.
Wiles was impressive at the plate with a 2-for-3 day to go with his run scored.
Hampden-Sydney returns to action tomorrow, Wednesday, April 18, as it travels to Virginia Beach to take on the Marlins of Virginia Wesleyan in an ODAC double header. The first game is set for 1:00 pm.


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Philippe Amiel (born in1956) is a French sociologist and jurist specialized in public health and in health law.
Master in Ethnomethodology and PhD in Law, he has led the Research Unit in the Social and Human Sciences (2005-2015) of the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif (France)—a leading cancer care center in Europe—whithin which he produced numerous works on cancer survivorhip.
At the interface of Law and Sociology, he has worked on the organisation and law of clinical trials (Des cobayes et des hommes : expérimentation sur l'être humain et justice, Paris: Belles Lettres, 2011).
He publised a manual on Ethnomethodology (Ethnométhodologie appliquée, Lema, 2010) and was the editor (with A. Fagot-Largeault) of the thesis of Pierre-Charles Bongrand on human experimentation L'expérimentation sur l'homme, sa valeur scientifique, sa légitimité, Villejuif, Presses de l'Institut Gustave Roussy | IgrPress, 2011).
Professor at University of Paris 8 (2003 à 2009) where he created a master diploma in Hospital Law, he currently teaches at University of Montpellier and at Paris Diderot University where he is co-director of a postoctoral diploma in Medico-legal expertise law (http://diudem.fr)
Philippe Amiel is a member of the Committee "Ethics & Cancer" (under the aegis of the French League against Cancer) and of the INSERM's Ethics Review Committe (CCEI-IRB)
He was made "chevalier" of the "Ordre des Palmes académiques" in 2007.


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Betty White's appearance in a Super Bowl ad sparked a Facebook campaign that has actually come to fruition, as the octogenarian funnywoman will host an upcoming episode of "Saturday Night Live."
Yes... I don't know why or how," White told People, when asked if she would be hosting.
The Betty White to Host SNL (please?)! Facebook page launched shortly after White was seen by millions playing football with men one-third her age in a Snickers commercial. Since then , it has attracted more than 485,000 fans.
When the word first got back to White, she dismissed it as ridiculous.
"I don't even know where that came from," White said to People when the topic first came up in February. "That just came out of left field. It's ridiculous. I don't think [SNL creator and producer] Lorne Michaels even knows about it, so we won't worry about it."
For you whippersnappers out there who don't know any better, Betty White is a comic genius whose work as one of the original passive-aggressive monsters on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" still holds up more than 30 years later. The woman has serious chops.
At 88, White is poised to shatter the record for oldest person to host "SNL." That distinction is currently held by Miskel Spillman, an 80-year-old woman who in 1977 won the show's "Anyone Can Host" contest.
It was during Spillman's episode that Elvis Costello gave his notorious performance of "Radio, Radio," which he'd been forbidden to play by the show's producers because of its indictment of broadcasters. This led to Costello being banned from the show for more than a decade.
Betty White's so hot right now even Robert "Twilight" Pattinson thinks she's "sexy."


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This section is for resources for GURPS GMs or players that I've created or helped with. It's also where you'll find various worked examples of what can be done in GURPS, from sample characters to writeups of super-powers or other abilities.
1. Historical Folks Conversion for GURPS Fourth Edition.
A few years back, Brian C. Smithson released Historical Folks as a free (unofficial) supplement for GURPS Third Edition. MyGURPS is proud to host the Fourth Edition Conversion of this incredibly useful e-book.
2. Revised GM Control Sheet (MS Word).
I've always liked the overall layout of the official GM Control Sheet, but find that it could use space better. This version gives each character two lines of info, keeps all of the attributes together, has a spot to track both HP and FP, gives you two lines each for reaction bonuses and DR, and even has room left over for notes. The lower half of the sheet is basically unchanged. It's all done with tables, so you can fill it in on the computer and print it out. Click here for a snapshot of what the sheet looks like, or click on the title to download the MS Word file.
Update: The GM Control Sheet is now available in PDF format, thanks to Eduardo Alvarez. He has created two different versions -- a standard PDF and one with editable fields so you can still fill it in on the computer if you don't have MS Word.
3. Creating a "Super Archer".
Archers like Green Arrow and Hawkeye have been a part of the supers genre for some time. Using Alternative Attacks, it's remarkably simple to create all of their trick arrows and then some.
4. Diabetes as a Disadvantage.
A brief summary of the effects of Type I and Type II diabetes, followed by how to build each one in GURPS using existing disadvantages. Find out why Dependency (Insulin) is the wrong way to approach this condition.
5. Using "Either/Or" Limitations.
Have you ever needed to build a power that was affected by either one limitation or a different one, but not both at the same time (e.g., an attack that doesn't have its full range except in direct sunlight)? Though it isn't immediately obvious, the rules do officially support such a thing, and it's surprisingly easy to do.
6. Super-Effort for Striking ST.
GURPS Powers added a new Super-Effort enhancement so that bricks and telekinetics could make amazing lifts in high-powered games. Here's a similar enhancement for Striking ST that makes it a more reasonable purchase in games offering Innate Attacks.
7. Cosmic Power for "Super Gadgeteers".
A set of ground rules and a modifier for characters who use their Modular Abilities to build "super gadgets" (like "Density Nullification Rays" and "Teleportation Belts"). Boils everything down to one modifier, one roll, and a few simple rules.
8. Upgrading the Magic System.
A few simple adjustments and optional rules that I've added to the GURPS magic system. Balancing Ritual Magic is a minor tweak to prevent the point-crock abuse that seems to invariably occur when the ritual magic rules are used in a game. Modifying Spells is an easy answer to the question, "How can I make my fireball homing?" Long-Ranged Magic is a worked example of modifying spells, to allow for a world in which mages aren't limited to just a few yards of range.
9. Heavier Weapons for Stronger Characters.
Since every melee weapon has a minimum ST (and thus a maximum ST) rating, it can be useful to know how to raise this value for very strong characters. Here are some simple and fast guidelines. (Also includes a tangent on quickly calculating armor weights and such for humanoids with non-zero Size Modifiers.)
10. Infinity's Table of Organization for Infinite Worlds (PDF).
Infinite Worlds is easily one of my favorite settings, though trying to keep track of how all of the departments interact can be tricky, especially when it comes to remembering exactly where the United Nations fit in. So I've drafted up an "org chart" for Infinity Unlimited, including page references for every group listed. The second page is a brief summary of each group, intended to be printed on the back side -- this makes for an excellent player handout.
11. Absorption Revised.
The current rules for Damage Resistance (Absorption) produce some odd results, such as paying 4 character points for the privilege of being able to temporarily add 1 character point to a single ability when attacked. I've taken it apart and rebuilt it -- though not quite "from the ground up."
12. "Upon Death" Abilities.
I present some guidelines for building abilities which are linked to the death of the user, whether that means, "I can use it, but at the cost of my own life," or, "It triggers automatically when I die." There are a variety of approaches which can be taken, depending on exactly what the effect is, though fortunately they're all pretty straightforward.
13. New Techniques.
A repository of new techniques that I've created, both ex nihilo and using the system in GURPS Martial Arts. A bit sparse at the moment, but I will be adding to it every time I come up with something I feel is universally useful.
14. Veterans of the Weird West.
My conversion guide for playing Deadlands using GURPS Fourth Edition. This is based on a loose combination of original Deadlands, the newer Savage Worlds take on it, and some of my favorite things about how GURPS does things.
15. Beetle - A Sample Wastelander
In our first game of GURPS After the End, I was a player, not the GM. And my PC was "Beetle," a 200-point experienced scavenger "ghost." Check out his character sheet for an idea of the kind of adventurers you can build with GURPS After the End 1: Wastelanders.
16. Splitting IQ from Per/Will in GURPS After the End.
If you plan on using my house rules for divorcing IQ from Per and Will in a GURPS After the End game, use these simple rules to do so.
Here is where my thoughts, ramblings, and pontifications on GURPS end up. Many are of a rules-related nature, but don't really count as house rules, either because they're only guidelines or they focus on examining a rule rather than changing it. Others are just opinions or experiences that I felt were worth sharing. In all cases, I hope you find them useful.
1. Yes, Virginia, You CAN Afflict Yourself.
In an attempt to put an end to the confusion about using Affliction to give yourself an advantage, I got to the bottom of how it's really supposed to work. Read why you can zap yourself with your own shrink ray, but why you may not want to.
2. Innate Attacks, Wuxia, and You.
My thoughts on Martial Arts and allowing Innate Attacks in a cinematic wuxia game, along with some guidelines and limits that work well for preventing such things from harming the flavor of the campaign.
3. Just Say No to Mass Combat Systems.
Mass combat systems have their place -- specifically, when the PCs initiate a huge battle with another sizeable force. But not when the PCs are just soldiers in a larger war. Read on to see why the question of "who wins" is a meaningless one -- and why the battle itself should never take center stage.
4. Nipping Problem Allies in the Bud.
While few people actively set out to abuse the Ally advantage, certain designs can prove quite problematic if the GM isn't prepared for it ahead of time. After sparking a discussion about this with several veteran gamers, I've tried to condense the key issues (and solutions) down to a single article.
5. Preserving the Polarity of Weirdness Magnet.
One of my pet peeves is the persistent meme that Weirdness Magnet is hardly a disadvantage. Both players and GMs often seem to treat it like anything from a minor inconvenience to an actual advantage. For those gamers, this part-rant, part-article attempts to present Weirdness Magnet in a new light.
6. Gun! Versus Pistol.
A short article, based on a playtest email, which addresses the utility of Wildcard skills. Some gamers see each Wildcard skill as restricted to a fixed list, instead of as a cinematic "uber-skill." This is especially prevalent with the Gun! skill, which I address specifically here.
The good Dr. Kromm created the Dungeon Fantasy series to show that GURPS can truly handle any genre -- even the classic dungeon crawl. The combination of a new-school system with old-school gaming worked surprisingly well. I'm honored to have contributed to the series officially, and I'd like to continue contributing in this small section of MyGURPS.
Much of the following is now available in a handy PDF format, along with other rulings and additions posted to the forums. Basically, this is the file that I print out for my own games. Each section is labeled with the Dungeon Fantasy book for which it acts as an addendum.
1. Splitting IQ from Per/Will in Dungeon Fantasy.
One of my most popular house rules (above) is the one separating Will and Per from IQ. It's rather self-explanatory, except when you're trying to use premade templates . . . which is what Dungeon Fantasy is all about. So here are some guidelines for tweaking the templates to preserve point balance while fixing the IQ issue.
2. Alchemy (and Alchemists) in Dungeon Fantasy.
Here I expand the rules for alchemy in Dungeon Fantasy, creating a middle road between "NPCs make real elixirs in town" and "PCs use Gizmo for a potion that must be used immediately." In doing so, it makes a new character type possible: The Alchemist (a lens for the Artificer template).
3. New Template: Seventh Son.
You are the seventh son of a seventh son (or daughter -- the "son" part is just tradition), a blessed wanderer, or a peasant adventurer. You don't have the specialized training that any of the other templates have, but you're quick and clever and the fates are definitely watching out for you. This template is good for those looking to play an "underdog" without actually sacrificing survivability.
This template was created by aesir23, not me. I offered suggestions and feedback and made a few tweaks.
4. Splitting IQ from Per/Will in Action.
Okay, this doesn't exactly belong here, but I know that gamers associate the Action line with the Dungeon Fantasy line closely, due to the very similar design and approach of the two. So here is the Action breakdown of how to split Per and Will from IQ for each template.
As my first true series of GURPS books, the Monster Hunters line is something I'm particularly proud of. Hopefully, the following resources and musings will help anyone trying to run their own game of hunters vs. The Enemy. Be sure to also check the GCA Files section of this site (below) for Monster-Hunters-related GDFs.
1. Splitting IQ from Per/Will in Monster Hunters.
As for Dungeon Fantasy and Action (see the section above), this article will be of great help to anyone who uses my house rule about splitting IQ from Will and Per. Here, I break down the necessary changes for all of the primary templates from Champions and Sidekicks.
2. Sample Monster-Hunting Team.
Whether you're a GM looking for some grab-n-go characters for a one-shot, or a gamer trying to decide whether the Monster Hunters series is right for you, these premade monster hunters are just what you're looking for. This five-person team of champions includes character sheets (in both PDF and GCA format), full loadouts, and just enough background and overview for the players to sit down and start using them.
3. Ritual Path Magic FAQ.
An open-ended, flexible system like Ritual Path magic is bound to have some questions come up from time to time. For the most part, these should be decided upon between the player and GM -- but a few questions are either so universally applicable or have come up frequently enough that I've collected them here.
4. Energy Accumulation Auto-Calculator.
Does your caster need to make hundreds of energy accumulation rolls for dozens of different spells? Now you can avoid all of that painful dice rolling! Just enter some basic information and this page will show you the details for each ritual you attempted to cast.
5. Clues and Deductions Worksheet (PDF).
I'm quite proud of the investigation rules introduced in The Mission, as they allow both players and characters a chance to figure out what's going on. However, they do involve many skill rolls, and it can be tricky for the GM to keep track of it all. This worksheet makes the GM's job easier, by providing a single place to keep track of each hunter's deduction roll and current clue bonus, along with all of the clues that are either waiting to be revealed or have already been discovered.
This website is administered by Reverend Pee Kitty [About Me]. All original content is ©Copyright 2005-2019 Reverend Pee Kitty.
The material presented here is my original creation, intended for use with the GURPS system from Steve Jackson Games. This material is not official and is not endorsed by Steve Jackson Games. GURPS is a registered trademark of Steve Jackson Games, and the art here is copyrighted by Steve Jackson Games. All rights are reserved by Steve Jackson Games. This material is used here in accordance with the SJGames online policy.


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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Geologists at the University of Illinois have confirmed the discovery of Earth's inner, innermost core, and have created a three-dimensional model that describes the seismic anisotropy and texturing of iron crystals within the inner core.coreA
3D illustrations of the Earth's inner core structure and the texturing of its iron crystals. The transparent outer surface is the inner core boundary (at radius 1220 km). The opaque inner sphere is the inner inner core (slightly less than half of the inner core radius) found in this study. The sticks represent the alignments of iron crystals in the outer part of the inner core. The longer the stick is, the higher the degree of alignment is and the stronger the seismic anisotropy is. The fast direction is parallel to the spin axis. The illustration A is a 3D view. The illustrations B, C, and D are cut-away views along the longitudes as labeled. The labels NP and SP stands for the North Pole and the South Pole, respectively. The anisotropy at the top 100 km is weak. The anisotropy at greater depth is stronger in the western part than in the eastern part. The form of anisotropy in the inner inner core is different from that in the outer part.
Composed mainly of iron, Earth's core consists of a solid inner core about 2,400 kilometers in diameter and a fluid outer core about 7,000 kilometers in diameter. The inner core plays an important role in the geodynamo that generates Earth's magnetic field.
The solid inner core is elastically anisotropic; that is, seismic waves have different speeds along different directions. The anisotropy has been found to change with hemisphere and with radius
The layering of the core is interpreted as different texturing, or crystalline phase, of iron in the inner core, the researchers say.
"Our results suggest the outer inner core is composed of iron crystals of a single phase with different degrees of preferred alignment along Earth's spin axis," Sun said. "The inner inner core may be composed of a different phase of crystalline iron or have a different pattern of alignment."
Although the anisotropy of the inner core was proposed 20 years ago, "this is the first time we have been able to piece everything together to create a three-dimensional view," Song said. "This view should help us better understand the character, mineral properties and evolution of Earth's inner core."


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That's right! We ride again! But before that happens I'm afraid we will need submissions. The Deadline this is August 31st. You can send submissions to:
103 State st. apt #4
Northampton, MA
Last year we received over 400 pieces of artwork from over 100 artists. We are trying this to top that record and so we will need all the help we can get! Thanks a Bunch,
- PG Northampton
Donnerstag, 29. Juli 2010
Sonntag, 25. Juli 2010
Ah, yes. The teaser deadline has been taken a lot more seriously than I was expecting, so for all of you still wanting to submit to PaperGirl-NY.... you Can!
The deadline is now for August 1, but send us an email, and we'd be more than happy to extend the date for you!
Check out all of the information on PaperGirl-NY at www.PaperGirl-NY.com
2 Galleries in NYC and 1 in Albany. This is something you don't want to miss!
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Donnerstag, 15. Juli 2010
Still Callin!
All submissions can be mailed to:
Papergirl SF
PO Box 410156
San Francisco, CA 94141
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Freitag, 2. Juli 2010
PaperGirl-NY is on its way
I am currently in Berlin, and so excited for the opening on Sunday. There is so much wonderful art, and so many fabulous people! In a couple of weeks we'll be getting visitors from other cities (Bucharest, Manchester, Cape Town) with whom we'll be sharing ideas, experiences, and the joy of being a part of PaperGirl. Together we'll do bike workshops, presentations and the distribution!!
PaperGirl-Berlin is so wonderful to be a part of. I hope that my other PaperGirl, PaperGirl-NY, can be half as successful at it has been here. What's the trick? I dunno, but time, perseverance and a good team, I suppose. Perhaps a funny video too??
Deadline 20 July.
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Our Conservation teams set up camera traps in the hope of catching valuable wildlife sightings, and captured rare footage of two leopards wandering the Annapurna Mountain range in Nepal.
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A volunteer, Catherine from Australia, talks about the work she did at the Care project and how she was able to apply what she had learnt when doing her speech pathology degree.
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A video showing the stunning location of the Conservation Project in Nepal, including volunteers working and relaxing.
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A volunteer from Switzerland speaks about volunteering at the Care project in Nepal and describes her experience working with children.
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Fighting malnutrition in Nepal, the Nutritional Rehabilitation Home aims to make a difference to families who are truly in need of help.
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I am always on the lookout for recipes which require me to spend no more than 20-30 minutes in the kitchen, slogging over the stove.
Ever since I saw this post of Rajitha's, I have had her garlic sauce on my mind. I have no idea how garlic came to be an indispensable ingredient in my kitchen because I do not remember my mom ever using it to the extent that I do, and it certainly has not been a part of our cuisine traditionally. But I love my garlic!
I pack of frozen broccoli florets, thawed
1 head of garlic, cloves chopped finely
1 Tbsp sesame oil
½ tsp red chilli flakes
4 tsp hot chilli- garlic sauce
3 Tbsp soy sauce
6-8 Tbsp hot and sweet ketchup
2 tsp rice flour dissolved in water
Spring onions/scallions for garnishing
Salt to taste.
Heat the oil in a large pan.
Sauté the garlic and then add the red chilli flakes, chilli-garlic paste, soya sauce and ketchup. Cook for 2 minutes or so.
Add the thawed broccoli florets along with a cup of water. Cover and cook for about 5 minutes.
Add the rice flour dissolved in water to the pan and continue to cook until the mixture thickens. Depending on the consistency needed, add required amounts of water.
Garnish with scallions. Serve hot with fried rice.
Thanks for the fabulous recipe, Rajitha. I will try it with tofu the next time. :-)
This goes to Sunita for her monthly spice event. The spice of the month is garlic.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Broccoli in Garlic Sauce
I am always on the lookout for recipes which require me to spend no more than 20-30 minutes in the kitchen, slogging over the stove.
Cooked by TBC on Monday, January 21, 2008
Labels: Broccoli, Garlic, Indo-Chinese
36 Burps:
- Shankari said...
I am always on the look out for recipes with brocolli in it. This is a spicy soup and will be a super hit in my house for sure
- January 21, 2008 at 1:31 PM
- TBC said...
Shankari- this was not meant to be a soup:-(
Hey, I have other broccoli recipes too on my blog...in fact, I have one for a broccoli soup. ;-)
- January 21, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- Laavanya said...
2 posts in 3 days.. :) Back on track are you? I had guests at home so didn't even come close to my laptop until now. Beautiful dish indeed.. love the picture and I made this recipe of Rajitha's too (on Sat.) with Tofu - loved it! Great idea to use broccoli.
- January 21, 2008 at 2:16 PM
- Namratha said...
Hmm now that's a good looking dish, love anything with garlic in it :) Fab pic TBC!
- January 21, 2008 at 3:14 PM
- Hima said...
The picture is so tempting tbc.
- January 21, 2008 at 5:06 PM
- sunita said...
tbc, garlic and broccoli are two of my favourites...so I'm sure to love this dish...thanks for sending it over.
- January 21, 2008 at 5:18 PM
- Rajitha said...
tbc..it looks great..i will make it with brocolli the next time..and i hear you on the garlic..my mom's head reels at the amount i use..esp. when we never used garlic and used onions once a week!!
- January 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM
- Padma said...
TBC, loved the picture and I can omagine the garlic flavor filling ur kitchen.... thanks for this wonderful recipe
- January 21, 2008 at 5:59 PM
- Padma said...
TBC, loved the picture and I can omagine the garlic flavor filling ur kitchen.... thanks for this wonderful recipe
- January 21, 2008 at 5:59 PM
- Rachel said...
that looks yummy but I would substitute the broccoli with something else..the sauce looks rich and creamy
- January 21, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- Cris said...
Hello... Winter has been a source of inspiration for your cooking, lovely! Your last recipes are so good, I have to wait until the winter to try them out, well, except for the smoothie, which I think sounds great, because it uses tofu...
- January 22, 2008 at 6:36 AM
- Richa said...
1 head of garlic - yoohoo :)
- January 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- Seema said...
Great one TBC.. Lovely dish, looks heavenly.. amazing photo!
- January 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- musical said...
This must be having a rocking taste! Gotta' try it sometime!
- January 22, 2008 at 4:30 PM
- Mona said...
Hmmm, looks perfect for a wintery day. Am gonna try it, I love garlic too :-)
- January 22, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- Vanamala said...
TBC , looks delicious..beautiful pic.
- January 22, 2008 at 7:42 PM
- Priya said...
Thanks for stopping by my site - http://365daysveg.wordpress.com. The sandwiches tasted YUM too. try it out and let me know :)
- January 23, 2008 at 9:25 PM
- Priya said...
Just added you in my fellow bloggers. Love your recipes!
--Priya from http://365daysveg.wordpress.com
- January 23, 2008 at 9:28 PM
- Cynthia said...
I like this version of broccoli in garlic sauce.
- January 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM
- Sia said...
tbc, that has to be one of the most tempting pics i have seen:) it looks delicious. perfect with chinese fried rice i guess:)
- January 24, 2008 at 5:05 AM
- vimmi said...
Great recipe for the cold weather. would taste great with fried rice, wouldnt it. Lovely photo too
- January 24, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Mythreyee said...
Fabulous dish!
- January 24, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Seena said...
lovely dish, looks like great with fried rice..
- January 24, 2008 at 2:38 PM
- bee said...
looks lovely. but 20-30 minutes? that's too much. :D
- January 24, 2008 at 6:28 PM
- bhags said...
I hate brocolli....but your pic made me say, oh i want to have that broclli right now...:P
- January 25, 2008 at 3:54 AM
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Ooooh, yes - yum! Can't go too far wrong with broccoli and garlic in my book, but this looks delicious!
- January 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM
- Dhivya said...
hey nice recipe using Broccoli..my husband likes broccoli but i dont know any dishes made from this one..want to try
- January 25, 2008 at 7:42 PM
- TBC said...
Laavanya- yeah , it was good while it lasted!;-)
I have been wanting to make something similar to the dish we used to get from our regular Chinese take-out place in Buffalo. This is good but nothing like the original.
Thanks for the compliment. How did you like it with tofu? Waiting to see your version.:)
Namratha- I do too! and thank you.:)
Hima- thanks.:)
Sunita- I like garlic, not too fond of broccoli but this is one combo I love.:)
Rajitha- it is odd indeed! Garlic and onions were traditionally a no-no for us. But these days sab chalta hain! ;-)
Padma- thank you.:)
Rachel- I'm not a broccoli fan either but this is one dish I love. :-)
Cris- you're back! Long time, no see?
I never realized that I had been cooking with a lot of winter veggies!
The tofu smoothie was delicious... do ty it.:-)
Richa- this recipe needs it. It was
finger-licking good!:-)
Seema- thank you:-)
Musical- where art thou???
Mona- Do let me know if you try it out:-)
Vanamala- thanks:-)
Priya- You have some fabulous recipes yourself! And thnaks for adding me:-)
Cynthia- u like it enough to try it out? ;-)
Sia- thanks girl! for the compliment here and for the technical support;-) Thanks to you, I did a back-up after much debating, finally hit the import button on Wordpress!
Vimmi- yes, that would be perfect.:-)
Mythreyee- thanks:-)
Seena- thank you.:-)Now I have to make fried rice too!? :-(
Bee- thank you.
I know! I thought so too! But a "dutiful" wife should spend at least that much time in the kitchen, right?;-)
Besides, not all of us are clever enough to come up with those 3-minute recipes. ;-)
Bhags- what are you waiting for then? ;-)
Aforkfulofspaghetti- thanks for stopping by. I'm off to check your space now. :)
Dhivya- try this one out...I'm sure you'll like it too.:-)
- January 25, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- Raaga said...
I'm bookmarking this... have some 5 broccoli heads at home... they'll wait for me to get back... and then with some fried rice... this will be just great.
- January 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- TBC said...
Raaga- let me know how you like it if you do try making it. It would be great with fried rice:-)
- January 27, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- AnuSriram said...
Broccoli is my favourite ... Trying new recipes with it... yours looks delicious.. will try it soon..
- January 29, 2008 at 2:34 PM
- Shella said...
Brocolli is never been my thing.... but your recipe looks really inviting, I am sure to give it a try.
- January 31, 2008 at 10:06 AM
- Kribha said...
I'm a garlic lover too. My! your sauce looks so good. I'm sure it will be a great side dish for fried rice. I'll surely try it.
- February 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- TBC said...
Anusriram- thank you:-)
Shella- Do let me know what you think.
Kribha- thanks:-)It was Rajitha's sauce. I borrowed it for my dish;-)
- February 4, 2008 at 11:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
I tried this recipe and loved it.
Thank you for posting this.
- May 27, 2008 at 6:08 PM
- TBC said...
Hi Raven,
I'm glad u liked it, and thanks for letting me know!
- May 27, 2008 at 8:12 PM


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Cypriot Justice Minister Loucas Louca emphasised that fundamental rights are particularly important in times of crisis: "Despite serious fiscal constraints, we must honour our obligation to our residents, especially the most vulnerable."
FRA Director Morten Kjaerum : "Although access to justice is available in theory, the reality looks very different. In times of austerity more focus on access to justice is needed, not less. How can we use the current circumstances to deal constructively with the situation, which could perhaps even give rise to new, innovative ways forward?""
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay spoke of the importance of international standards in order to safeguard the rights of especially vulnerable groups: "Mounting social tension in several countries shows the dangers which can be associated with curtailing economic, social and cultural rights. Authorities should mitigate the social impacts of the austerity measures on the most vulnerable segments of the population."
Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE): "By being at this conference, we are reaffirming our commitment that fundamental rights are here to stay."
Paula Teixeira da Cruz, Minister of Justice, Portugal : "Member States face challenges to build a society that is equal and fair - the crisis cannot be an alibi nor an excuse".
Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding emphasised that access to justice is a principle at the heart of the European project. In this context she stressed that the FRA is helping to strengthen fundamental rights in the EU by helping to fill a data gap. She stressed how important it was that the Agency could continue its work, and regretted that so far the Council had not agreed on a new multi-annual framework for the FRA.
Two panel debates concluded the day, one on 'Justice in recession? Current trends and challenges for access to justice', and the other on 'Access to justice in austerity: new opportunities for reform?'


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Every week, FOOD52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: A corned beef and cabbage feast that's untraditional in all the right places. Welcome to spring, St. Patrick's Day.
- Kristen
Corned beef and cabbage never really had a fighting chance.
As St. Patrick's Day rolls in with the last days of winter, we're already itching for a little excitement (this might explain the green beer). By the weathered end of March, our affections for stews and rustic hunks of meat are on the wane.
It's a dish that's comforting in its reverent plainness, and that's about the best it could hope for -- until now.
Enter Suzanne Goin, a chef more synonymous with sunny California farmers' markets and Mediterranean cooking than economic meats and carbs. (Her restaurant in L.A. is named after a French olive -- who is she to tell us how to make our Irish-American stew?)But perhaps that's just what corned beef and cabbage was waiting for all this time: a little sunshine. And, since Goin's version comes from Sunday Suppers at Lucques, her much-loved book of family-style menus, it's almost as easy as the old school dump-in-the-crock pot approach, with a few brilliant tweaks.
First off, she treats the vegetables as equal partners. James Beard may have boiled his carrots for an hour, but modern cooks have since gotten the memo that vegetables might not be in their prime after stewing along with a salty slab of beef for so long.
In fact, they are not and having surrendered their souls to the broth, they will taste of nothing but corned beef, through and through.
So Goin divorces the vegetables from the meat, and they're free to cook in their own time -- that is, briefly. The beef will bubble merrily in the oven for hours before you even need to peel a carrot. Then out comes the beef and the vegetables go in, just for a dip. Goin isn't alone in this method, but she does clock the vegetables out in perfect time.
She adds the potatoes first (because there's no such thing as an al dente potato). Then after five minutes, the rest of the team -- carrots, cabbage, and turnips -- join in to poach for about 15 minutes. They cook just enough, soaking up seasoning from the broth, but staying true to themselves.In an exciting twist, while they're simmering, Goin has us throw the beef in the still-hot oven to brown and crisp up a bit. (At the market, choose a specimen with at least a thin layer of fat left on top -- you'll be glad when it gets sizzling.)
Finally, she brings in what any salty, long-cooked broth craves: a sauce that vibrates with life. She takes a traditional corned beef condiment -- a flour-based white sauce with parsley and mustard -- and reincarnates it into an herby vinaigrette, very much like a feisty chimichurri or Italian salsa verde.
Think of what a dill pickle does for your corned beef on rye -- that's what a little vinegar does here, swirling in your soup along with sharp bites of shallot, the emerald stain of pounded parsley, and mustard seeds that slide across the meat and pop under your teeth.
Suzanne Goin's Corned Beef and Cabbage with Parsley-Mustard Sauce
Note: If you use all-natural corned beef, or brined your own and didn't use pink salt (i.e. salt with sodium nitrite or similar), you will end up with brown, not pink, slabs of meat that will taste just as good but won't look as you remember them.
I leave it up to you to decide where you fall on the nostalgia vs. nitrites spectrum. We got our corned beef from The Meat Hook, pink salt and all, and were glad we did.
Adapted very slightly from Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin with Teri Gelber (Knopf, 2005)
Serves 6, with leftovers
For the Corned Beef and Vegetables:
One 6-pound corned-beef brisket2 onions4 whole cloves2 bay leaves, preferably fresh1/2 bunch thyme2 chiles de arbol6 small carrots9 golf ball-sized turnips1 1/4 pounds yellow potatoes, peeled1 medium green cabbage (about 2 pounds) For the Parsley-Mustard Sauce:
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons finely diced shallots1/4 cup red wine vinegar3/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley1 tablespoon whole grain mustard1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil1/2 lemon, for juicingKosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
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The term was coined in the 1960's as such and came from the International exhibition of "Decorative arts & modern industries" held in Paris in 1925. This exhibition was meant to be held long before this date as a direct response of the International exhibitions of Torino and Milan, respectively held in 1902 & 1906. Due to lack of funding, agreements between organizers and finally WW1, this major exhibition was put off until 1925, when times became more favorable for such a massive undertaking. As one can imagine, the tastes of 1925 were drastically different than in 1910 and allowed for radical new ideas to emerge. Now, what is "art Deco"? Be it in France, USA, Japan or Europe in general, the similarity is striking. The main difference is timing, French Art Deco lasted from 1918 to 1939, American Art Deco goes beyond that time and started later on as a movement. We know this movement was abandoned in France in 1939 as the German Nazis started using Deco symbols and the French reacted negatively and simply moved away from this style. In essence "Art Deco" is a style represented by symmetrical, rectilinear lines, abstract designs & bold contrasting colors embracing industrial techniques as a whole. In contrast, Art Nouveau was more focused on asymmetrical lines (whiplash curves), realistic true to nature design and soft coordinated colors, with the big movement leaders against using industrial techniques (though most used it). Our focus here will be on glass, more importantly on one great artist of this era: Charles Schneider. Schneider is fast becoming recognized, and rightly so, as the leading force in art glass during the Art Deco movement. His contribution is an important one in influencing and initiating the art glass movement transition from Art Nouveau to Art Deco in France.


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Former President George W. Bush's dog Barney has gone to that great kennel club in the sky.
But I'll bet Barney died smiling. He lived to see the day when humans finally acknowledged that cats are a menace.
In fact, government-affiliated scientists have produced statistical proof of feline perfidy, in a new study showing that cats stalk and kill 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals in the United States each year, give or take a few billion.
This "kill rate" is two to four times higher than previously believed, and worse than that attributable to windmills, cars and other "anthropogenic" threats.
The victims include not just rats and mice but also songbirds, chipmunks and other valued wildlife species, according to The New York Times.
Feral - "stray" - cats, which number 80 million or so, are the main culprits, the study concluded. But the nation's 86.4 million domestic cats account for about 29 percent of cat-on-bird killings and 11 percent of cat-on-mammal slaughter.
Scientific though it may be, the report is not irony-free. It brands cats an "invasive" species, imported to North America by humans and unchecked by natural predators. Yet three of the 11 most-victimized bird species in the study are also invasive: the house sparrow, the rock pigeon and the European starling.
In my book, that means every time a cat takes out one of those winged pests, it's a case of justifiable avicide.
But never mind that. "Scientifically sound conservation and policy intervention is needed to reduce this impact," the study notes.
I don't think they're talking about federally subsidized tummy rubs.
Some environmentalists think that euthanasia may be the only way to prevent an uncontrolled killer-cat population from ravaging wildlife, given the absence of a natural predator.
Others recoil at mass cat-killing to cure mass bird-killing. Some animal welfare advocates think the solution is to sterilize feral cats and then release them. A variant is to rehabilitate freshly neutered or spayed stray felines as "working cats," who keep rats out of human hangouts, including - in one actual case - a Los Angeles police station.
But it has been rightly noted that the life of a stray is pretty miserable, what with the constant threat of cars and disease. Useful as mousers may be, the supply of working cats will probably always exceed demand.
Our frontier ancestors surely would have marveled at a society so civilized and affluent that it can indulge in such quarrels. And arguments don't crop up only in the context of cat vs. bird. Controversy rages in the D.C. area about how to control Rock Creek Park's population of white-tailed deer. The National Park Service recommends a hunt to cull the herd, but critics favor strictly non-lethal means, such as mass administration of contraceptives.
For my part, I don't have a dog in any of these fights. My only semi-serious point is that it is much easier to declare one's concern for animals, their welfare and even their rights than to act on that concern in a logical, consistent manner. When it comes to moral reasoning about animals, we're all sort of chasing our tails.
Science can help describe issues and inform debate. But it still takes human judgment, leavened by instinct and intuition, to balance the interests of the various species affected - homo sapiens included.
Even The Times, in an earnest editorial on the feline "superpredator" study, conceded that, while restocking suburbia with coyotes would help control cats - just as Australia got results by siccing dingos on them - "most Americans will never put up with a burgeoning coyote population." So much for that otherwise promising idea.
At least domestic cat owners can help by keeping their pets inside, The Times suggested, echoing novelist Jonathan Franzen's call for "a movement to keep cats indoors."
But even that innocuous recommendation could be a prescription for cruelty, depending on your perspective.
Mietzi, our long-haired Norwegian forest cat, is not allowed out. She spends hours each day crouched against the window, glaring at birds and squirrels as they impudently hop by.
Her tail twitches. How she longs to spring at her prey, as her ancestors did among the pines of Scandinavia!
But the glass - that incomprehensible transparent hardness - frustrates her every time.
Mietzi feels better when we feed her tuna, ground up and packed into a little can with a convenient pop-top lid. I'm pretty sure it's dolphin-safe.
Charles Lane is a member of the Washington Post's editorial board.


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In 1960s, space travel was sometimes likened to an enlightening event - a moment where a person became more than they thought possible. In Star Trek, travel beyond the edge of the Galaxy caused some people to develop god-like powers. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, space travel led to the next phase of human evolution. Exposure to cosmic rays gave the Fantastic Four superpowers.
Reality, it seems, is not quite as accommodating Recent research by a team at the Rochester Medical Center has done a series of experiments that suggests that exposure to the radiation of outer space could acctually accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease for unfortunate travelers.
According to lead researcher M. Kerry O'Banion in a press release, "Galactic cosmic radiation poses a significant threat to future astronauts. The possibility that radiation exposure in space may give rise to health problems such as cancer has long been recognized. However, this study shows for the first time that exposure to radiation levels equivalent to a mission to Mars could produce cognitive problems and speed up changes in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer's disease."
As part of the study, the researchers exposed mice with known timeframes for developing Alzheimer's to the type of low-level radiation that astronauts would be exposed to over time on a long space journey. The mice were then put through tests that measured their memory and cognitive ability. The mice that were exposed to radiation showed significant cognitive impairment.
The mice also showed physical signs of degradation. An examination of their brains showed differences in blood flow in their brain. Also, the mice exposed to radiation showed larger plaques of the type seen with Alzheimer's patients.
"These findings clearly suggest that exposure to radiation in space has the potential to accelerate the development of Alzheimer's disease," said O'Banion. "This is yet another factor that NASA, which is clearly concerned about the health risks to its astronauts, will need to take into account as it plans future missions."
It's not going to be an easy problem to solve, either. The radiation the researchers used in their testing is composed of highly charged iron particles, which are relatively common in space. Due to their size and energy, those particles can pass through the walls of a spaceship. Shielding from that radiation is no simple task.
"Because iron particles pack a bigger wallop it is extremely difficult from an engineering perspective to effectively shield against them," said O'Banion. "One would have to essentially wrap a spacecraft in a six-foot block of lead or concrete."


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Posted by Andrew Roman on June 25, 2010
On the inside of the gatefold of the Beatles American LP "Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles," the narrative of the band's young 21-year old bassist, Paul McCartney, starts this way:
Paul is sometimes called the "Nut Beatle" or "Beatle Nut" because he is the zaniest of the group.
Whether that was actually true or not is a matter for Beatleologists.
What is for certain, forty-six years later, is that the "Nut Beatle" isn't zany at all. Rather, the ever-wrinkling "cute one" is a bona fide "shut up and sing" archaic hippie moron with a disgusting and warped sense of values. He is not only reaffirming to the world that even the greatest of musical geniuses can have the emptiest of heads, he is further showing himself to be an insensitive mental oaf in his (almost) old age. That he also worships the most incompetent American President since James Earl Carter only emphasizes his oblivion.
The crotchety old songsmith from Liverpool – who once wrote a song called "Freedom" in response to the 9/11 attacks (a song that was harshly ridiculed by left and has all but been banished from the face of the earth since then) – has already disgraced himself in recent weeks by insulting a former American President on American soil while receiving an award from the American government.
Such class.
Well the "Beatle Nut" has brilliantly advanced his own cause toward immortalized irrepressible idiocy by comparing those who don't buy into the global warming myth to those who deny the Holocaust.
Yes, the fool on the hill is saying that to deny the unproven, unsubstantiated, ever-crumbling claims that the world is in danger from rising temperatures due to human activity is akin to denying the most well-documented atrocity in human history.
To this day, there is not a stitch of proof – only agenda-driven theory, scattered supposition, wishful leftist thinking and fear-mongering – that human beings are not only causing the planet's temperature to rise, but that we are putting the planet in danger by doing so. Yet, proof of the Holocaust exists in abundance. To deny it would be like denying the existence of the sun.
From Fox News:
Sir Paul McCartney just can't let it be.
The former Beatle predicted in an interview that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might expedite a move to cleaner, renewable energy sources in the world.
Sir Paul could have stopped while he was ahead, but McCartney went on to compare people who don't believe in global warming to "those who don't believe there was a Holocaust."
"Sadly we need disasters like this to show people," McCartney said in an exclusive interview with The Sun. "Some people don't believe in climate warning — like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust."
McCartney continued, "But the facts indicate that there's something going on and we've got to be aware of it if we want our kids to inherit a decent world, not a complete nightmare of a planet — clean, renewable energy is for starters."
Sir Paul is obviously among the many deep thinking hysterics on the left who believe that temperatures are naturally static, with little fluctuation. I would ask him: What temperature should it be right now, Sir Paul? And how would he explain the melting of all the Ice Age ice thousands of years before the advent of the Hummer?
To begin with, the planet is not in a warming cycle.
Even Phil Jones – the Maharishi of the man-made global warming hoax – admitted that during the last fifteen years there has been no 'statistically significant' warming.
As I wrote in February:
There is not one scintilla of data (i.e., evidence) showing that CO2 causes temperatures to rise, as asserted by the likes of King Hysteric, Al Gore. In fact, a closer look at King Gore's famous hockey stick charts purportedly showing that increased CO2 levels trigger temperature boosts actually suggests that the opposite may be the case.
There is not a neutron's worth of scientific evidence that human activity is causing temperatures to go up, nor is there anything to back up the claims that the planet is in danger. Every so-called bit of proof put forth by the enviro-fascists is either inconclusive, irrelevant, anecdotal or an outright misrepresentation. There is nothing – repeat nothing – scientific about the so-called causes of global warming and the so-called effects of such warming, nor is there anything of any kind proving that human beings are contributing anything to such phenomena.
It's all nonsense
But even if there was some sort of warming trend, so what?
Temperatures fluctuate all the time. There have been plenty of warming periods in this planet's history as well as plenty of cooling trends. It is the height of arrogance – and ignorance – to think that human beings can have such a major impact on global temperatures. If we so desired – if the very existence of humanity depended on it – no matter how we might try, we do not have the ability to raise the earth's temperature in any significant way.
But the bigger issue here is equating the denial of something that is, at best, scientifically questionable – a left-wing movement riddled with scandal, manipulation and outright deceit – with the denial of something as provable (and abhorrent) as the Holocaust.
To deny the greatest documented evil of all – the Holocaust – is itself evil.
Thus, to equate the denial of man-made global warming to Holocaust denial is to say that disagreeing with the likes of Al Gore, Ed Begley Jr. and Paul McCartney is evil.
It not only trivializes Holocaust denial, it is the ultimate insult to those whose lives were impacted by the Holocaust.
It is shameless.
Not that anyone is paying much attention, mind you.
Rest assured, however, had McCartney compared the denial of God to denial of the Holocaust, he certainly would have gotten play in the lamestream media.
McCartney without a guitar or piano is much like Barack Obama without a teleprompter.
Incidentally, the lyrics to the now extinct song Freedom are:
This is my right
A right given by God
To live a free life
To live in freedom
Talkin' about freedom
I'm talkin' 'bout freedom
I will fight
For the right
To live in freedom


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Men?s Golfer of the Week ? No. 4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – For the second time this season, Julian Taylor of William Woods (Mo.) has been named the NAIA National Men's Golfer of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Taylor was selected based on his performance from April 1 – 7 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated group golfer of the week selections.
Taylor, a native of York, England, led William Woods to its third team title of season with a first-place finish at the William Woods University Spring Invitational at the Tanglewood Golf Course in Fulton, Mo., April 1—2. The sophomore shot a 5-under par 139 (70-69) en route to his second-consecutive victory – fourth of the season. He topped a field of 76 golfers from 12 teams and was one of only three golfers to finish under par.
Taylor currently owns the NAIA's fifth-best scoring average (71.0), while also ranking fourth in par 4 scoring (4.06). His previous National Golfer of the Week honor came on March 27 after a victory at the Eagle Invitational in Daytona Beach, Fla., March 18—19.
The next Men's Golfer of the Week will be announced on April 17. For the complete 2013 Golfer of the Week schedule, click here.
Nominees: Tyler Falk, Northwest Christian (Ore.); Alastair Tidcombe, Cumberlands (Ky.); Todd Balkin, Oklahoma Baptist; Brandon Thompson, Morningside (Iowa); Rob Carlson, Kansas Wesleyan; Keith Long, Northwestern Ohio; Nate Kolmerten, Indiana Tech; Thailer Carlson, AIB (Iowa); Ryan Schlueter, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Seb Stobart, William Penn (Iowa); Joe Parker, Madonna (Mich.); Adam Schmaltz, Siena Heights (Mich.); W. Greg Gentry, Webber International (Fla.); Kristofer Karlsson, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Seth Bryan, Southwestern (Kan.); Omar Tejeira, St. Thomas (Fla.); Derrick Dierman, Midland (Neb.); Brian Ulrich, Bethel (Ind.); Garrett Bradley, Union (Ky.); Martin Hetelle, St. Francis (Ill.); Chris Yeater, Bethel (Tenn.); Jed Dalton, Concordia (Ore.); A.J. Nelson, Warner Pacific (Ore.); James Walsh, Menlo (Calif.); Zach Cabra, St. Thomas (Texas).
2013 Composite Award Winners
Week 1 (March 20): Nathan Anderson, Texas Wesleyan
Week 2 (March 27): Julian Taylor, William Woods (Mo.)
Week 3 (April 3): Anthony Marchesani, Oklahoma City
Week 4 (April 10): Julian Taylor, William Woods (Mo.)


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Ban T-Shirts on the use of the word commie:
If you ever get called a "commie" then this T-shirt is for you. Of course most people who use the word "commie" have no idea what communism actually is, or anarchism, socialism, liberalism, libertarianism, or any other political theory: they just think that anyone who disagrees with their ideas is a "commie". So getting called a commie is usually a sign that you're doing something right.
You Say Commie Like It's A Bad Thing is available now from Ban T-Shirts for $20.