text: Paper shredders are usually simple and utilitarian-designed boring boxes, which may be why Bluelarix Designworks went to town on this reimagining of the machine. Paper2Dust is bizarrely sculptural, and works by having a "fast turning cord" spinning inside the top that literally rips the paper you slide into it into dust. The glass lid of the machine lets you see how pulped the paper's getting—when you're satisfied you simply release the power button, and the dustified paper slips down into the machine's leg. There's the usual safety features of course, but if it ever made it into a real product I think its selling power would be the therapeutic value of seeing hated paperwork being vaporised. [Yanko Design]


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MANTOLOKING, N.J. — Hurricane Sandy devastated this barrier island community of multimillion-dollar homes, but in Peter Flihan's view, Verizon Communications has delivered a second blow: the telecommunications giant did not rebuild the landlines destroyed in the storm, and traditional telephone service here has now gone the way of the telegraph.
"Verizon decides then and there to step on us," said Mr. Flihan, 75, a retired toy designer and marketer.
Verizon said it was too expensive to replace Mantoloking's traditional copper-line phone network — the kind that has connected America for more than a century — and instead installed Voice Link, a wireless service it insisted was better.
Verizon's move on this sliver of land is a look into the not-too-distant future, a foreshadowing of nearly all telephone service across the United States. The traditional landline is not expected to last the decade in a country where nearly 40 percent of households use only wireless phones. Even now, less than 10 percent of households have only a landline phone, according to government data that counts cable-based phone service in that category.
The changing landscape has Verizon, AT&T and other phone companies itching to rid themselves of the cost of maintaining their vast copper-wire networks and instead offer wireless and fiber-optic lines like FiOS and U-verse, even though the new services often fail during a blackout.
"The vision I have is we are going into the copper plant areas and every place we have FiOS, we are going to kill the copper," Lowell C. McAdam, Verizon's chairman and chief executive, said last year. Robert W. Quinn Jr., AT&T's senior vice president for federal regulatory issues, said the death of the old network was inevitable. "We're scavenging for replacement parts to be able to fix the stuff when it breaks," he said at an industry conference in Maryland last week. "That's why it's going to happen."
The Federal Communications Commission has long agreed. In its National Broadband Plan, published in 2010, the F.C.C. said that requiring certain carriers to maintain plain old telephone service "is not sustainable" and could siphon investments away from new networks.
"The challenge for the country," the F.C.C. said, is to ensure "a smooth transition for Americans who use traditional phone service and for the businesses that provide it."
But as far as Mr. Flihan and others in New Jersey are concerned, that transition from a reliable service — one that has given them a sense of security all their lives — is not smooth at all. An array of state-sanctioned consumer advocacy groups, as well as AARP, have petitioned regulators to disallow the replacement of Mantoloking's copper lines with Voice Link.
Not only will Voice Link not work if the power fails — a backup battery provides two hours of talking time, hardly reassuring to people battered by Sandy — but Verizon warns Voice Link users that calls to 911 under normal conditions might not go through because of network congestion. Medical devices that require periodic tests over phone lines, like many pacemakers, cannot transmit over Voice Link. Fax machines do not work over most wireless phone networks, including Voice Link. Neither do many home security systems, which depend on a copper phone line to connect to a response center.
"They told us this was the greatest thing in the world," Mr. Flihan said. But he estimates that roughly 25 percent of the calls he makes through the Verizon Voice Link service do not go through the first time he dials, or sometimes the second or third. Occasionally, the call is interrupted by clicking sounds, and sometimes a third party's voice can be heard on the line, Mr. Flihan said.
Verizon responded that it had offered to visit Mr. Flihan's house to address the problems. Mr. Flihan said he had refused if Verizon would not bring back his landline. Overall, the company said that a vast majority of Voice Link customers in Mantoloking and elsewhere liked Voice Link, and if not, they could get phone service over cable television lines through Comcast or another provider.
The difference between wired and wireless, however, is a big one.
Traditional copper landlines use electric pulses to carry voice and data signals over a metal wire, which also carries power, so the phone works during a blackout. Fiber-optic lines are made of a thin glass filament and transmit voice and data at high speeds using pulses of light, but they cannot carry electricity and so do not work during a power failure without a battery. Cable television wires, which can also transmit telephone service, are made of copper, but they require a modem powered by electricity. Even cellphones require power at the cell tower, something that was knocked out during Sandy.
The phone companies point out that even among the households that still subscribe to a copper landline, most probably use cordless phones, which need electricity whether the house has a copper line or not.
The F.C.C. rules that apply to wired phone service — for example, the requirement that every home in the United States must be offered service if desired — generally do not apply to wireless service. The F.C.C. also does not regulate voice service over cable television networks, which are used for telephone service by roughly 30 million homes. And the phone companies argue that they should not be subject to F.C.C. regulations when phone service is transmitted like Internet data via options like FiOS — which uses fiber-optic lines that require electricity to work.
The result is that consumer and public-interest groups — many of whom agree with the phone giants that the transition is inevitable — fear that significant customer protections will be lost.
Those protections require that phones must work in power failures; different companies' networks of wires and switches must connect with one another; emergency calls must automatically give rescue workers the location of callers; and people may keep their phone numbers when they change providers.
"These benefits were not a happy accident," Gigi B. Sohn, the president of Public Knowledge, a consumer-interest group, told a Senate subcommittee in July. "They were the result of deliberate communications policies that demanded a telecommunications network that served its users first and foremost."
The phone companies now say many of those protections are outdated and unnecessary.
"The rules that we have in place were designed to regulate what we considered in the 1930s to be a monopoly wireline voice system," Mr. Quinn of AT&T said. In November, the company asked the F.C.C. to begin tests that would eventually permit AT&T to retire most of its copper lines.
Steven Davis, executive vice president for public policy and government relations at CenturyLink, the third-largest telephone company, said the main concern of phone companies was regulation. "If you burden the new technology with the regulations designed for the old, you will impede deployment, impede growth and hurt profitability," he said.
Even mere uncertainty about potential changes can wreak havoc once consumers hear of shortcomings in the new services. The first wave of resistance came on Fire Island, N.Y., where this year Verizon told residents who had been devastated by Hurricane Sandy that their landlines would not be coming back.
Fire Island residents objected so loudly that Verizon reversed course and said last month that it would build its fiber-optic FiOS service to the island, satisfying residents who wanted some kind of wire connecting their home phone to the outside world.
Verizon says Voice Link in Mantoloking is a short-term fix, and it is looking into other alternatives. But that solution is most likely to come without wires attached.

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New FS Rule Green Lights Road Ripping
HQ is extremely concerned about the new proposed Forest Service rule that would allow categorical exclusions (Cat Ex) for the aggressive decommissioning (e.g. road ripping) of public routes.Article on Proposed Rule to Rip Roads
BRC Media Release on Proposed Rule (good read and lots of info)http://www.sharetrails.org/news/2012...-proposed-rule
According to one notorious anti-access champion as cited in an E &E article The new categorical exclusions appear less controversial than earlier proposals that sought to exempt certain tree removal projects from NEPA reviews, said Andy Stahl, executive director for the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics. Hey Andy, how about cutting OHV some slack when it comes to designating historic "non-system" routes that have been used for decades and some even signed and maintained by the FS?
While some of the proposed cat exs for restoration work could be used to address OHV trail maintenance issues, HQ believes this new rule - with the usual lack of oversight from either the FSs Washington Office or Regional Offices basically gives the green light to Forests that are **** bent on the aggressive decommissioning of routes to go forth and rip.
One example of this is where the BRC et al filed a lawsuit which challenged the Smith River NRAs road ripping (e.g. ground disturbing activities during the rainy season in the watershed of a wild and scenic river) without any NEPA process.
BRC Lawsuit Challenging Road Rippinghttp://www.sharetrails.org/news/2010/05/18/county-and-recreation-groups-challenge-illegal-road-decommissioning-northern-califor
Link to lawsuithttp://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/Turcke_Six_Rivers_Lawsuit_Orig_Filed_May2010.pdf
Another example of an overzealous unit when it comes to decommissioning of route is on the Gunnison NF in Colorado.
HQ blog with info on that Unit (letters, etc.)http://thegeneralsrecreationden.blog...lorado-nf.html
HQ history of Road Ripping (letters and strategy of eco-groups)http://thegeneralsrecreationden.blog...rest-near.html
The most recent example of a unit that focuses on road decommissioning is highlighted in BRCs June 5 scoping comments on a proposed action that combines TMR with a large road ripping project.
BRCs June 5, 2012 Scoping Comments on the Six Rivers NF/Smith River NRA Proposed Actionhttp://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/Tyrone_EIS_scoping_comments_6-5-12.pdf
Stay tuned on this latest version of the road ripping saga...
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Forest Service Proposes Limited Rule for Road & Trail Reclamation
Created by Adam Rissien on June 13, 2012
Today the Forest Service proposed a new rule in the Federal Register streamlining its environmental review for three types of restoration activities:
restore the flow of waters into natural channels and floodplains by removing, replacing or modifying water control structures;
restore lands and habitat to pre-disturbance conditions by removing debris and sediment conditions following natural or human-caused events; and
restore, rehabilitate or stabilize lands occupied by non-National Forest System roads and trails to a more natural condition.
(click here for the official announcement)
So long as there are no extraordinary circumstances involved, these kinds of projects would be authorized through a categorical exclusion (CE), which means a full environmental assessment or environmental impact statement is not required. While this continues the agencys trend of reducing the amount of analysis it conducts to approve projects, which can certainly be problematic, these three new categorical exclusions should increase the number of restoration projects that improve water quality and fish passage, and remove user-created, off-road vehicle routes as well as other routes such as abandoned temporary roads and fire lines.
When the Dept. of Agriculture first announced plans to create a new categorical exclusion for road reclamation, we fully supported it as long as there was a project file to review and opportunity for public comment; this announcement assures that the public will be fully involved and impacts will be disclosed through scoping, a project file, and/or a decision memo. This is great news. If the review or comments demonstrate a project has extraordinary circumstances then an environmental assessment will likely be completed. For example, this may happen if removing a road negatively impacts threatened, endangered or sensitive species such as bull trout or Westslope cutthroat trout.
Unfortunately the proposed CE excludes those roads or trails that are part of the official transportation system. When thinking about all the efforts to rightsize the road system, the new CE is not helpful. By 2015 the Forest Service is supposed to have identified a minimum road system and decommissioning opportunities, but the proposed rule would not apply to these system roads. This means any project that decommissions a system road would have to be analyzed under an environmental assessment or impact statement. We believe that the extraordinary circumstance trigger under the CE regulations offers enough opportunity to determine if such in-depth analysis is necessary, and the proposed rule should be clarified to apply to system roads and trails.
It seems the main reason why the proposed rule only applies to non-system routes is due to the perceived level of controversy that may be associated with reclaiming a road. In the Federal Register the agency explains its rationale:
The Forest Service experience is that the majority of issues associated with road and trail decommissioning arise from the initial decision whether to close a road or trail to public use rather than from implementing individual restoration projects.
Federal Register Volume 77, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 13, 2012), p. 35324
This concern over public access is not a reason to omit system roads and trails from the CE since eventually every forest in the country will have a travel management plan that determines the level of motorized access for public use. Forests that have travel plan decisions in place and that have identified a minimum road system will have addressed access needs for recreation and resource management. If the Forest Service wishes to ensure the CE does not change previous access decisions, it can clarify this in the new rule rather than limiting its scope to only non-system routes. Therefore, decommissioning system roads and trails should be authorized under the new CE.
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Notice the 2015 date to have a minimum system. This is the new round of closures I spoke about awhile back (Nov 2011).
If you do more than live in a metro area or hike more than a couple of miles in, STAY OUT. More management by non-management.
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by Nancy Mitchell, MS-PREP/NESA student
According to an American Journal of Medicine study, regular use of over the counter (OTC) pain relievers may contribute to hearing loss in men. In the prospective study, which included 27,000 men surveyed every two years between 1986 to 2004 approximately 25% of the men said they had been diagnosed with hearing loss. Individuals who used OTC pain relievers at least twice a week were more likely than non-users to be diagnosed. Previous nonhuman research has found some substances in pain-relievers can decrease blood flow to the cochlea, the part of the inner ear that converts waves sound into brain signals.
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Narcotics arrests in Orange County
Orange County Sheriff's deputies arrested two people on Tuesday, Feb. 18, after a search warrant executed at approximately 9 p.m. that evening reportedly lead them to discover 15 grams of methamphetamine at the residence located in the 3200 block of Stephenson Road in Orangefield.
According to a news release from OCSO, detectives with the special services division executed the search warrant on the residence and arrested 24-year-old Justin Lee Noland of Orangefield and 26-year-old Amber Nichole McGhen of Orange for possession of a controlled substance, a second-degree felony.
Both suspects were transported to the Orange County Correctional Facility and arraigned by Judge David Peck. Noland's bond was set at $25,000. McGhen, who had two outstanding warrants for failure to appear and affidavit for the release of surety (bond forfeiture) related to a previous possession of dangerous drugs case, is being held on a $40,500 bond. Both remain in custody at the time of this report.
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FS#256 - CSG texturing modes
Opened by Christian Froeschlin (froesccn) - Wednesday, 10 October 2012, 21:36 GMT
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At times, the current method of specifying texture for
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"Hey! Let's get drunk, steal a gator, and go 4-wheeling!"
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- Officer Cynical said...
A .42, a .40, and a .29. Holy shit, that's some party. I wish I knew what mudbogging was, though.
- July 7, 2011 at 6:46 PM
the escaped/rescued alligator must have been driving.
- July 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM
I wish you would write a screenplay. You would have a hit series or movie!
- July 7, 2011 at 7:22 PM
"It looked so much easier on TV when Moe, Larry, and Curly did it..."
- July 7, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Hey, y'all, watch this...
- July 7, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- William said...
Hey, you unsympathetic jerk, he was grieving real bad! So we shouldn't judge him for drinking a case of beer and stealing a dead animal!
Oh wait, yes we should. Carry on.
- July 7, 2011 at 8:01 PM
But getting drunk and going mudbogging WITHOUT a stuffed alligator would just be so...vulgar...
- July 7, 2011 at 8:13 PM
It's true - all the best stories start with 'Here, hold my [alcoholic] drink'
- July 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM
none of them...gator included....would pass a mental status exam!
these guys aren't exactly youngsters, either. they're gonna go from high blood alcohol levels and stupid stunts right through mild cognitive impairment and vascular dementia without a pause, at this rate! (assuming no accidental death, of course.)
- July 7, 2011 at 9:10 PM
- The Duchess said...
Douglas Earl, John Earl, and Roy Allen.
You might be a redneck if....
- July 7, 2011 at 9:53 PM
- Moose said...
OK, Dr G, here's your first problem: You assumed the nitwits who did this were actually "people".
- July 7, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Packer said...
Dr. G , speaking from the perspective of a 60 y. o. let me give you some understanding of people----BUCKET LIST.
Note the ages of the participants, it is the time of their lives when they begin to reflect on unaccomplished goals, and of course they are no longer chasing women as their youthful good looks , not to mention teeth, have gone away.
- July 8, 2011 at 8:31 AM
I suspect a lot of Mds get their patinets, with these two words: "Watch this"
- July 8, 2011 at 10:12 AM
mudbogging without a gator on your 4x4 would be like mudbogging without beer: pointless...
- July 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- SuFu PhD said...
or as I like to call it, "Tuesdays"
- July 8, 2011 at 10:39 AM
- Texas Pharmacy Chica said...
...and they did not invite me? I must hang with the wrong crowd....
- July 8, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- OldSquid said...
Story would have been much better if it was alive gator. Still, some some parts of my great state are like a world away. Sometimes for the better, other times for the worst.
- July 8, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- kate said...
My weekend plans seem so dull in comparison :(
- July 8, 2011 at 1:09 PM


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Friday, May 11, 6:30 p.m., First Unitarian Church, Portland
WHAT: Amy Stewart, a New York Times bestselling author who writes about the perils and pleasures of the natural world, will deliver a public presentation, "A Wicked Evening with Amy Stewart" on Friday, May 11, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
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WHERE: Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave., Portland, Ore.
COST: Admission is $10 at the door and free for PSU students (with PSU student ID).
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Stewart is the inaugural Tin House Writer-in-Residence at Portland State University this spring, a partnership between PSU's MFA program in creative writing and the Portland-based publishing enterprise Tin House (http://www.tinhouse.com).
Stewart is author of three New York Times bestsellers: Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers; Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities; and, most recently, Wicked Bugs: The Louse that Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects. Her next book, The Drunken Botanist (2013) reveals "the dizzying array of plants that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol".
She has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and every national garden magazine, includingFine Gardening, where she is a contributing editor.
Stewart is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticulture Society's Book Award, and a California Horticultural Society Writer's Award. Stewart lives in Eureka, California, with her husband Scott Brown, where they own an antiquarian bookstore.
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Mamnoon Hussain has been elected the President of Pakistan by securing 432 votes, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd.) Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim announced on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference here, Ibrahim said that as many as 1174 people exercised their right to vote in the presidential election. For the first time, a president was elected in a democratic manner, he said.
Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, who was PTI's candidate in the elections, has secured 77 electoral votes, according to the CEC.
To a question, the chief election commissioner said that no party should have boycotted the elections. But he maintained that it would make no difference to the credibility of the elections.
Army and rangers played a role in conducting free and fair elections, he said.
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Rutgers freshman guard Muhamed Hasani has requested and been granted a leave of absence in order to attend to personal issues in his native Kosovo, according to a statement released by the athletic department. A source close to the program said he will not be returning this season.
"Our thoughts are with Muhamed and his family," head coach Fred Hill said in the statement. "His well-being is our primary concern. He needs to go home and we support his decision to do so."
Hasani has played in nine games this season and is averaging 4.2 minutes and 0.7 points per game. He was sidelined for a month after suffering torn meniscus and having his knee scoped in late December, but returned to the court Tuesday and logged five minutes against Marquette.
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Born in Pasadena, CA, Rowe was a creative child who drew constantly. He received his formal art training at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and soon moved to New York City to work in the publishing and advertising, beginning his career as an illustrator. During his career, his paintings have appeared on movie posters (including a well-regarded poster for the movie "Miracle"), books, billboards, magazines and advertisements throughout the country and around the world. Seeking an additional outlet for his creative vision, Rowe began his Horse Series, bringing together equine beauty and power with emotions of the human spirit. When the publishers of Walter Farley's The Black Stallion saw Rowe's work, they were inspired to re-issue this classic series, commissioning twenty-four new paintings by John for the covers. He has also been part of the rerelease of the books of Marguerite Henry. Most notably, his limited editions of interpretive Disney art are some of the fastest selling images at Disney World and Disneyland. Some of his most popular dramatic pieces include Fathoms Below (The Little Mermaid) ; Wondering (Alice In Wonderland); and Belle's Search (Beauty and the Beast).
In addition to his prodigious output for Disney Fine Art, Rowe has sustained an active, successful painting career for more than two decades, fashioning original art and oil paintings for both illustration and fine art clients. Having worked with fans of his art throughout the United States and around the world, his long list of distinguished clients includes the United Nations, Random House, Simon and Schuster, and Buena Vista Pictures. Beyond movie posters and book covers, his wide-ranging projects have encompassed murals and fine art paintings for clients and collectors from across the country. He is a past president of the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles and former Artist in Residence for La Canada schools as well as a college art instructor. Rowe also has pursued various illustration projects and has worked on a series of paintings of his own vision at his studio is in La Canada, CA, where he lives with his wife and two children.
"My artwork is meant to recall the beauty, majesty and mystery of the life we live, and the world we live it in," Rowe said. "Painting the small delicacy of the light on a child's face, or the overwhelming power and grace of the sky at sunrise, is my attempt to capture some of that wonder. Through my work I hope to remind you and myself how truly wonderful, complex, and vivid life is. Whether we are looking into the eyes of someone we love, or struggling just to breath, life is a priceless gift."
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Viagra (Sildenafil citrate) is a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (impotence) in males and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, originally developed Viagra. In 1006, the FDA approved Viagra as the first drug patented for use of erectile dysfunction in the United States. They are blue, diamond-shaped pills with "Pfizer" marked on one side and "VGR XX." The XX is the dosage, which is either 25,50, or 100 mgs. Viagra is also sold under the brand name Revatio and generically under various other names. It is also widely availabe by many research companies and underground labs.
Viagra treats erectile dys function and works by relaxing muscles and increases blood flow to particular areas of the body (in this case, the penis, specifically). Its effects last up to four hours. The most common side effects of Viagra are headache, facial flushing, and upset stomach. Rarely, blurred vision, or sensitivity to light may briefly occur.
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The courses in the Department of Physical Sciences are all accessible to the future science major and non-science majors alike. Department facilities include six laboratories with specialized equipment for all of the physical science courses.
Meteorology students have access to the NCC Weather Center and computers in the weather
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Geology students may have the opportunity to learn more about the geology of Long Island and the Metropolitan area through field trips and may also be able to participate in special research projects that investigate real issues affecting their local environment. For Geology students interested in the area of gemology, special sections are offered in which instruction utilizing optical identification instruments and real gems is provided in the lab. Field trips provide Environmental Science students with direct observation of environmental phenomenon.
Students wishing to major in Physical Science or who are considering pursuing study in these subjects at the baccalaureate level should see departmental advisors.
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Typhoon Haiyan: Filipino sailors struggle to get news of devastated home
LISBON, Portugal - Tito John Belasa, a 47-year-old Filipino pastry chef on the Portuguese cruise ship Funchal, fought back tears Friday as he spoke about the frustrations of trying to get news about his family.
Belasa's relatives live in the Philippines, in one of the areas hardest hit by the Typhoon Haiyan, which killed thousands and left some 600,000 people homeless.
"I have tried so many times since the beginning (of the catastrophe) to get through to them, but there's no connection," he said on the quayside where the Funchal was docked in Lisbon.
For Belasa and 300,000 Filipino sailors working on the world's high seas, getting news of their families' fates has turned into a lengthy and agonizing challenge. Roughly 20 percent of all seafarers - the men who live and work on cargo lines for months at a time - are from the Philippines and many may have lost friends or family in the superstorm.
One sister who lives in Hong Kong got word to him that Belasa's mother and a brother and sister who live on the devastated shore of Tabugon island are all alive. But two of his nephews are dead and another nephew and an uncle are missing.
"Every day I try to call and to search on the Internet, on Facebook, for news. Every day I'm searching, searching," he said, choking back tears. "What can we do?"
From television news he knows that his hometown of Carles on Tabugon island is "totally destroyed."
Aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, bartender Julius Petersen Tosloc and other Filipino workers saw the disaster unfold on TV. Desperate for news, they bought expensive phone cards to try to call home but making contact was extremely difficult because so many phone lines were down. The situation has improved only slowly.
Tosloc reached his wife in the capital of Manila who said family members were OK, but he was unable to confirm whether his mother was all right. She lives in the battered city of Tacloban at the center of destruction.
"I was finally able to talk to my sister, who lives in the southern Cebu region, three days later and she told me my parents were OK, but the roof had been blown off their house," Tosloc said in Barcelona, where he disembarked to make his first lengthy call home.
Tacloban's city government remains virtually paralyzed, with only about 70 workers on duty compared to the normal 2,500, CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reported. Many were killed, injured, or lost everything in the storm themselves.
A Filipino cabin attendant on the same ship fell into deep depression during the three days he was unable to get in touch with any family members. Tosloc and others pitched in to give him money so he could leave the ship when it docked in Naples.
"He didn't feel like talking to anybody and couldn't do his job anymore, so he took a leave of absence and went back," Tosloc said.
Seafarer welfare organizations, shipping lines and seafarer unions have been working to help these Filipino men get word to and from their families, often from thousands of miles away in the middle of the ocean.
Some groups are providing free phone cards to sailors as they come into ports around the world, while others are providing free satellite phone calls from on-board the vessels and free online newspapers to give the men up-to-the-minute typhoon information. Sailor-specific social media sites with names like CrewToo and special Facebook pages are also filling in the information gap.
V. Ships, which provides merchant marines to vessels, has about 7,000 Filipinos working on ships around the world and about 2,600 of them are from the area affected by the typhoon, spokesman Patrick Adamson said.
The company has sent a team to the battered city of Tacloban to gather information about the families of the merchant marines on its rosters and is calling vessels directly with news for individual sailors.
The company has also assembled an emergency contact team in Manila to help coordinate communications between sailors and their families, Adamson said.
"A guy who's on a ship miles away has no idea where his family is and he can do nothing about it. It's not like he can jump on a plane and go," he said. "He's in desperate straits."
Merchant sailors have been allowed to leave their ships and a few have done so but the company must find replacements so business is not disrupted, Adamson said.
Filipino seafarers have turned to the North American Maritime Ministry Association, made up of port chaplains from various denominations around the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. The organization has members in every North America port and in some Filipino seafarers are asking for special Roman Catholic Masses on board or in port, Executive Director Jason Zuidema said.
The association planned to hold a board meeting by telephone Friday to discuss ways of helping the seafarers and their families.
The Seafarers' House in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has reached out to cruise lines and was asked to perform Masses on board, Executive Director Lesley Warrick said.
Ministries also are reaching out at Port Newark, a major container terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey. At least half of the sailors coming into the port are Filipino, said the Rev. Marjorie Lindstrom at the Seaman's Church Institute.
"It's more listening and being with them in this time of pain," Lindstrom said. "It's been amazing the resiliency they have."


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The latest update for DOTA 2's beta now delivers a "Least Played" mode, which will match players who are forced to use characters other the 20 that have given them the most wins. It's meant to get players in the game's closed beta to explore the game's full roster, which now runs 96 character deep.
"Least Played" enforces the top-20 restriction on all sides, so everyone is playing outside of his or her comfort zone, too. "Having an even playing field for everyone in the match will hopefully encourage players to break out of their comfort zone and try new heroes," Valve said on the Dota blog.
More than 3 million are currently participating in the beta; the post said that DOTA 2 has seen more than 100,000 games played so far.
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Via: Max Gardner's Bankruptcy Boot Camp-
This is an important ruling for bankruptcy attorneys and their clients in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, some of whom have been unable to lien strip as local judges waited for authority from above.
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
No. 11-6012
In re:
Michael James Fisette,
Michael James Fisette,
Debtor – Appellant,
Jasmine Z. Keller,
Trustee – Appellee.
The issue on appeal is whether the bankruptcy court may confirm the debtor's
plan which provides for the avoidance of two junior liens on the Debtor's principal
residence. In particular, we consider whether: (1) 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(2) prevents a
debtor from modifying the rights of junior lienholders of liens on his principal
residence if the value of the residence is less than the amount owed to the senior
lienholder; and (2) if not, whether such modification is contingent upon the debtor's
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Pam Galloway, far right, and her daughters perfect the recipes Sunday they'll prepare for the 52nd annual Country Store Bake Sale set for 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Nov. 20, at the S.D. Lee Home in Columbus. From left, Sally Galloway Edwards finishes a strawberry cake, Betsy Galloway arranges pecan pies, and mom Pam prepares to serve a fresh loaf of banana bread. Photo by: Luisa Porter/Dispatch Staff
The strawberry cake recipe in today's food pages was doubled to make this particular cake.
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These individual pecan pies are a family favorite in the Galloway household.
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November 14, 2012 10:35:28 AM
On Tuesday morning, Nov. 20, Columbus' S.D. Lee Home will once again witness a festive frenzy of shopping as hostesses select fresh pies and cakes, savory cheesestraws, aromatic breads, jellies and sweet candies to supplement their Thanksgiving feasts.
Yes, it's time again for the Country Store Bake Sale, the annual fundraiser presented each year on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving by the Association for the Preservation of Antiquities in Columbus and Lowndes County. For more than half a century, the event has benefited the S.D. Lee Foundation and helped maintain the circa 1847 Lee Home that houses the Florence McLeod Hazard Museum and is a community venue for receptions, weddings and other glittering occasions.
Volunteer power
No tradition thrives for 52 years without a long and faithful stream of volunteers. For many of the Country Store's good cooks, baking for the sale is a legacy passed down from grandmothers and mothers. For others, like Pam Galloway, this is the year their tradition begins.
"This is the first year my girls, Sally and Betsy, and I will be providing something for the bake sale," said Galloway. "I've had many friends who have been involved, and I know we're going to enjoy it, too." Galloway's daughter-in-law, Martha, will also be a part of the family baking team.
The Galloway girls have selected several recipes to prepare. A favorite among them is Mama Liz's pecan pies.
"Mama Liz was my husband's mother," explained Galloway. "She always made these wonderful little pecan pies, especially at the holiday season. Everybody loved them."
A luscious strawberry cake is also on their to-do list, as well as a moist banana bread.
"The strawberry cake is fabulous; it's a relatively new recipe. And the banana bread is a favorite we've made for years," Galloway said.
Repeat volunteer Kathy Howell is planning a pumpkin cream cake for her contribution this year.
"Everybody just loves the sale, it saves them from having to do so much in the kitchen for their holiday meal," she said. "And everything will be ready to give as a present, too," she added. Country Store items make appreciated hostess gifts. One of last year's patrons even purchased several cakes to give firefighters at a neighboring fire station.
Early birds
Doors for the sale will open at 10 a.m., but shoppers hoping for their first picks can stop by the Lee Home at 316 Seventh St. N. starting at 8 a.m. to receive a number. They return before 10 a.m. to line up in single file in the order of those numbers.
Members of the Antiquities Association will also volunteer to act as personal shoppers for those who are unable to attend but hope to get a select dessert, Howell said.
For more information, contact Lillian Wade at 662-328-8012 or Rita Douglass at 662-327-3193.
For a cause
The Country Store's ultimate goal, of course, is to continue support for the S.D. Lee Foundation and Lee Home -- and to be a part of the cherished tradition when families gather around the Thanksgiving table.
"The Lee Home is a blessing for Columbus to have. We feel it's a wonderful mission," remarked Galloway, who, along with her daughters, shares some favorite recipes in today's food pages.
Makes 20 miniature pies
1 cup Karo dark corn syrup
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup pecans, finely chopped
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
6-7 ripe bananas, mashed
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup nuts (optional)
1 box white cake mix
1 3-ounce package strawberry gelatin
1 cup water
1/2 cup canola oil
4 egg whites
1/2 cup mashed unsweetened strawberries
For the frosting:
2 8-ounce tubs cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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The Blind Foundation's equipment display days are a great opportunity to find out about the different items that are available. It's a chance to try some of the equipment out, and order the items that suit you best.
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