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So, as I mentioned in the previous post, there is an embarrassment of riches as far as performing options are concerned, if you're willing to think outside the box. The past few years I've been playing the Sci-Fi/Fantasy circuit. I hesitate to call it the "Sci-Fi/Fantasy Convention circuit" if only because some of the best paying gigs I've gotten recently happen to be at organizations outside of the Convention circuit proper.
And some of that has started to creep into the so-called 'high arts' realm with organizations such as Symphony Orchestras playing themed shows dedicated to particular Sci-Fi or Fantasy franchises (e.g. Lord of the Rings, Star Wars) as part of their pops seasons.
On the whole, however, there's always been music at conventions–even if it only consisted of filk music. Part of the Klingon schtick is as much act as play and the idea came to me as a whim after il Troubadore started playing Sci-Fi conventions at the request of some bellydancers. We decided we needed our own act and schtick, thus was born the il Troubadore Klingon Music Project.
Ok, so I talk about the short series of events from bellydancer request to Sci-Fi convention to developing a full blown Klingon Band personae as if it's an everyday thing. But seriously, for me, it is.
That's the specific issue at hand here. Over the years I've heard all manner of musicians grouse about the lousy economy and the lack of work. And here, I'm talking primarily about those musicians who do not hold full time or professional positions as musicians–this includes freelancers, but also just your normal everyday band musician. I know I've brought up this issue plenty of times in the past, but don't want to flood this post with a ton of links.
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As federal investigators look into the financial dealings of former Lackawanna County Commissioner Robert Cordaro, they have asked questions about the complex financial arrangements behind his purchase of a $700,000 house near Lake Scranton.
Mr. Cordaro acquired the house in March 2006 at 57 Tiffany Drive, Dunmore, a 5,000-plus-square-foot home with four fireplaces, a home movie theater and sweeping views of the valley. At the time, he was employed as county commissioner, earning a salary of $76,017 a year. He also had other business interests, including his law practice and real estate concerns, that may have produced additional income.
The purchase is bundled in a knot of apparently interlacing mortgages. There may be a good reason why the sale was structured this way, but none was forthcoming from Mr. Cordaro, who has refused to discuss the transaction.
"I'm not talking to the Scranton Times," Mr. Cordaro said Friday before hanging up the phone.
At least two people say the FBI has questioned them about the sale: Tom Nolan, the lawyer who did the title insurance work, and Paul Taramelli, Mr. Cordaro's former chief of staff. Mr. Taramelli said he was interviewed and asked if he knew how Mr. Cordaro bought the house. Mr. Taramelli said he told the agents he did not know anything about it. The agents also subpoenaed Mr. Nolan's files on the sale.
The deed was not filed for more than two years after the closing, according to court records.
Three mortgages were filed at the time of purchase, but because the deed itself was not filed, the realty transfer tax was not paid and there was no county record of a change in legal ownership of the property.
Mr. Cordaro paid the realty transfer tax - totaling $14,000 - when he filed the deed in 2008.
The late payment was brought to the attention of Evie Rafalko McNulty, the county recorder of deeds.
"It raised a question," she said, noting the delay could have resulted in fees and penalties. She notified tax revenue officials in Harrisburg about it, but never heard back, she said.
A state Department of Revenue spokeswoman said she could not comment on specific properties.
Ms. McNulty said the law doesn't require someone to file a deed, which provides public proof of legal ownership of a property, but it does require that the realty transfer tax be paid when a property is sold. And the only way the county knows the realty transfer tax is due is when the deed is filed.
Several attempts to contact the listed seller, Brian K. Tuffy, were unsuccessful. Documents filed in connection with the Tiffany Drive house sale list Mr. Tuffy's residence in the 200 block of Pittston Avenue. A woman who answered the door there, Betty Harmer, said she was renting the property from him. She said she did not know where he was and he had not been by to pick up the rent in two months.
She said his brother, Shawn, lived in Glenmaura.
The Tuffys' father, James, who lives on East Mountain not far from the home Mr. Cordaro bought, said he had been advised by his lawyer not to comment on any inquiries.
He declined to elaborate and said questions about Shawn should be directed to the FBI.
The Scranton office of the FBI also declined to comment.
Mr. Nolan, the Scranton lawyer, said FBI agents had asked him which of the two Tuffy brothers appeared at the closing in his downtown office. Mr. Nolan said he couldn't identify which man it might have been. The three men were the only ones present at the closing, according to Mr. Nolan, who said he was sent out of the room by Mr. Cordaro after the title insurance part of the transaction was finished. He didn't see the rest, he said.
Courthouse records show three transactions dated March 13, 2006, and recorded within seconds of each other on March 14, 2006:
- A $350,000 mortgage from CORD Realty Partners to the seller, Brian Tuffy. Usually in a property sale the buyer, not the seller, incurs the mortgage. The amount of the CORD mortgage was hand-written in the margin. The mortgage was satisfied two years later, according to court papers signed by CORD Realty partners Michael J. Cordaro, Ronald J. Cordaro and Mr. Cordaro. Efforts to reach Michael and Ronald Cordaro were unsuccessful.
- A $400,000 "open end mortgage" from First National Community Bank of Dunmore to Mr. Tuffy, secured by the Tiffany Drive house. Open end mortgages allow additional amounts to be loaned to the borrower without the need to create a new mortgage.
- A similar $400,000 open end mortgage from FNCB to Mr. Cordaro.
Language in the two FNCB mortgage documents indicates they are related to each other. FNCB executives would not discuss the dual mortgages, saying its customers' business is a private matter.
Several lawyers said it was possible the two $400,000 mortgages were a way for the bank to protect itself by having both the buyer and seller on a mortgage, because the deed had not been filed.
The deed was not filed until Aug. 7, 2008. It was dated March 13, 2006, and listed an official purchase price of $1 but disclosed actual cash consideration of $700,000 for the purpose of calculating transfer taxes.
Following that, there was more borrowing activity this year, according to court records, including:
- Another open-end mortgage to Mr. Cordaro for $400,000 with FNCB, dated March 13, 2009, recorded on March 24. The language in the 2006 mortgage contains language that Mr. Cordaro could "renew or extend the line of credit from time to time in the future." That could mean this year's $400,000 mortgage was a renewal of the 2006 mortgage line of credit, though it is not clear from records.
- A mortgage for $10,948 taken out March 25 on the property from FNCB and recorded at the courthouse on April 2.
- A new $300,000 commercial open-end mortgage on the property from Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank in Dunmore. The mortgage was made March 30 and filed at the courthouse on April 13.
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Noah and Sadie have this CD full of silly songs. One of the songs is a little jingle about all the things you can wear on your shirt- stripes, polkadots, animal prints, etc. Noah's favorite part of the song is when they say "I like to wear stains on my shirt". Fast forward to today... with Sadie in school all day, I thought today might be a good day to start working on potty training. So today was Noah's first time in underwear. He quickly learned that he could change the words of his favorite "stains on my shirt" song to "stains on my underwear!" That kid is all boy. So after he sang his newly worded silly song all day, I thought I'd pull out the video camera and capture it for all eternity. When he's a little older I'll use this video clip of him as blackmail! So without further ado, here's Noah with his original tune, "Stains on my underwear!" (Don't forget to pause the music player to the left.)
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The battle for the GOP presidential nomination stands to gain a degree of clarity after Tuesday – amid signs that the race has hurt the eventual nominee's chances in the eyes of some Republicans.
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
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The nominating fight has stretched two months already has been marked by an especially negative tone. And it's taken a toll; 40 percent of U.S. adults – and 23 percent of GOP primary voters – said the primary process has given them a less favorable opinion of the Republican primary, according to Monday's NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.All eyes on Ohio for Super Tuesday
"I think if you polled folks, they very much want to have a spokesperson — an identified candidate — sooner rather than later," said Rep. Steve LaTourette, a Republican who's backing Romney, and a veteran of Capitol Hill.
LaTourette represents a district in northeast Ohio, the consummate swing state which plays host to one of 11 contests on Super Tuesday in which delegates are at stake. The competition is especially fierce in Ohio, where Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are rehashing their fight from Michigan's primary just a week before.
A week later, the tables have been turned for Santorum. He's now the candidate who must beat expectations and halt Romney's momentum. Ohio, and, to a lesser extent, Tennessee, have become the proving ground for the Pennsylvania senator on Tuesday.
"Politics is a game of expectations — who overperforms, who underperforms ... I still believe a coalescing needs to take place behind an alternative to Romney," said Bob Vander Plaats, an influential social conservative leader from Iowa whose support helped propel Santorum to an ultraslim victory over Romney in the state's Jan. 3 caucuses. "I think what he [Santorum] needs to do is he needs to over-deliver on expectations."NBC Political Unit's Guide to Super Tuesday
In both Ohio and Tennesee, Santorum has witnessed his lead over Romney evaporate after Romney successfully defended his native Michigan, and defeated the former Pennsylvania senator in the state. Super Tuesday might not offer Romney an opportunity to deliver a knockout blow, but, at a minimum, he could put Santorum on the ropes by beating him in one or both states.
Team Romney believes that factors within the Republican Party are beginning to move in the former Massachusetts governor's direction. Romney enjoyed his highest-ever level of support among Republicans compared to past NBC/WSJ polls, and the closing gap in some Super Tuesday states, especially in Ohio, suggests momentum.
"There is a feeling that we have had a vigorous debate about the direction we want to take as a party, and how we want to prosecute Obama on the No. 1 issue, which is the economy," one Romney adviser said. "We are seeing a movement by many voters to consolidate all the different factions behind one candidate, that candidate being Romney."
The GOP logic is that once the nomination fight has wrapped, the eventual nominee will be able to pivot toward President Barack Obama, and reverse the damage to the party's brand.
"Right now there's a media narrative that none of them are up for prime time," said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican pollster who argued the prolonged primary has actually made Romney a sharper candidate. "The good news for Republicans is once we have a nominee, he'll be able to define himself."
Whether the campaign will reach that inflection point Tuesday night is a matter of campaign mechanics as much as raw votes and momentum.
Vander Plaats called Romney the "odds-on" favorite to win the nomination as long as GOP voters fail to rally — quickly — behind Santorum as the lone alternative to Romney. He argued that Gingrich should consider exiting the campaign after Tuesday night if the former House speaker fails to score any significant wins.
But the Gingrich campaign has worked intently on winning Georgia, which offers Tuesday's largest kitty of delegates. And a Gingrich surrogate, Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, argued that recent weeks of focus on Santorum's social views have illustrated the risk in making the former senator the GOP's nominee.
"We're not 100 percent sure that Santorum has the right language. You have to be very delicate and diplomatic about the things you say," he said. "I think there are some things that he has said along the way that weren't vetted that would come back to haunt him."
And as for Vander Plaats's wish that Gingrich drop out if he loses Georgia? "I think that he would probably look at that, but I don't think that's going to happen," Kingston said.
If it's the case that Romney wins Tuesday and none of his challengers exit the campaign, the race for the nomination may shift into a new stage with Romney in more commanding position, all while fighting to keep his momentum going and bleeding his rivals of support and finances.
LaTourette said he didn't expect the campaign to end after Tuesday, but expressed his sense of the sentiment among Republicans on Capitol Hill that the nominating battle should wrap up by no later than Memorial Day.
"There comes a point in time when it's too late. I remember Bob Dole and President Clinton. He never got rolling, if you will," he said. "I would expect Santorum's money to dry up if he doesn't pull out a couple rabbits tomorrow … If he wins it goes on for a little bit, but I really don't see him capturing the hearts and minds of the average Republican voter."
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'I've never thought of myself as a skyscraper man," says Terry Farrell, sitting in his richly decorated London flat. Above our heads hang models of historic aircraft. Across the room, amid lots of exotic plants, goldfish circle each other in huge bowls. "Many of the world's most famous skyscrapers are designed by architects few people in the profession can name." I ask him if he can remember who designed the Empire State Building and he gets it wrong. "Well," he says, "you've made my point."
But Farrell – perhaps best known in this country for the MI6 building, that hulking, postmodern fortress on the banks of the Thames – has just become a skyscraper man, thanks to KK100. This gleaming, 442-metre high colossus that shoots up, pencil-thin, from the business district of Shenzhen in China isn't just his first skyscraper, though. It's also the tallest building ever realised by a British architect.
With a chuckle, Farrell explains that the tower is for a group of developers known as Kingkey, who were keen to show China and the world how far they, and Shenzhen, had come in the past few decades. "So they asked for a 100-storey design and wanted to call it the Kingkey Tower. I told them that, in English, this sounds like 'kinky' and might not be a good idea." But these giant high-rises are all a bit phallic, aren't they? "Machismo, yes," says Farrell. "It's the characteristic that drives China's skyscrapers."
In fact, if anything, KK100 looms like an improbably tall blade of glass over Shenzhen, a city on the border with Hong Kong that has indeed come a long way at breakneck speed. In May 1980, Deng Xiaoping, then chairman of the Communist party, declared the former fishing village a Special Economic Zone. In a little over 30 years, its population has exploded from 20,000 to over 10m; its container port on the Pearl River is, after Shanghai and Hong Kong, now the third largest in China.
"I find it astonishing," says Farrell, who founded his practice, Terry Farrell and Partners, in London the very year the Shenzhen boom began. "It changes so fast. I first came – well, to Hong Kong, actually – in 1964. I was on a travelling scholarship. I had a Chinese pal, a friend from Newcastle University, in Hong Kong and went to see him. I took a photograph over the Chinese border towards Shenzhen. Here it is."
Farrell turns the pages of one of the monographs he keeps of all his work. The colour photo of Shenzhen sits within a full-page shot of KK100. The low mountain backdrop appears the same in both images, but where one shows paddy fields and junks moored to thin strips of land, the other is dominated by a forest of skyscrapers, with KK100 reaching into the tropical cloudscape.
Farrell is not one of those architects who has rushed to cash in on the recent boom in foreign-led design in China, but someone who has built up a long and increasingly rich relationship with the country. His Hong Kong office, opened in 1990, is the same size as the London one he opened a decade earlier; last month, he opened a third, in Shanghai. This is understandable, given the sheer number and the scale of the stations, airports, hotels and public buildings he has created across Guangzhou, Kowloon, Hong Kong and Beijing, not to mention the vast urban masterplans he has developed around the country.
Farrell is clearly proud of KK100. "I can't quite believe it's real. As an architect, you get asked to do design after design, competition after competition, and you're used to ambitious projects coming to nothing. I was amazed, really, when we started to build a real skyscraper." Sheathed in glass and steel, KK100 boasts floor after floor of offices that taper up to a 250-bedroom hotel. This is all rounded off with a delightful sky lobby, rather like a vast and ultra-modern birdcage, with a bar and terrace open to the public. The space inside this glass tip is taken up by an egg-shaped pod several storeys high containing small private spaces, some perched on balconies, where guests can sit, drink and take in jaw-dropping views of Shenzhen and beyond. By night, the tower is lit from top to bottom by LED lights.
Can a developer like Kingkey simply stride into central Shenzhen with a pile of cash and build what it likes? "Far from it," says Farrell. "The city does have planning regulations – you can't just do what you want." The site of KK100, he says, used to be Caiwuwei village, a poor and rundown area. Kingkey had to build seven towers to rehouse local people and a further seven for other locals to own and rent out, so that they might share in the boom. It's an extraordinary idea: even as China hurtles into capitalism, it does still show remnants of old socialist ideals.
Because all of these new towers took up a lot of space, the only way Kingkey could make the kind of money it was looking for – lots – was to build its showcase tower as high as possible. The company, notes Farrell, was "founded by a bricklayer". He clearly approves – but then he is one of the few British working-class boys (Norman Foster is the best known) who have risen to the top in architecture. Farrell was born in Sale, Manchester, in 1938, his father a messenger for the Post Office. His devoutly Catholic family moved to Newcastle upon Tyne. Farrell wanted to be a painter, but his parents wanted him to be a civil servant; they thought artists were immoral.
He got to university – architecture at Newcastle – and since those days this unpretentious, highly intelligent and likable man has kept his feet firmly on the ground, even as his buildings began to soar skywards. Between designing the bright and colourful, low-cost HQ for TV-am – one of the best British buildings of the postmodern era – and setting up shop in Hong Kong in 1990, Farrell produced one memorable and controversial work after another, not least One Embankment Place, a monumental office block built around a great arch over the platforms of London's Charing Cross station.
There are other ambitious buildings in the pipeline. Farrell shows me designs for the 520-metre, 123-floor Z15 Tower, which will be the centrepiece of Beijing's Chaoyong business district when it opens in 2015, as well as a taller neighbour to Rem Koolhaas's mighty CCTV HQ. Continuum, a book cataloguing his practice's work, explains that Z15's elegant concave shape was inspired by traditional Chinese wine vessels, bamboo-weaving and sky lanterns, not to mention "the freshness and beauty of flourishing lotus flowers". A very Chinese skyscraper, in other words.
In fact, sitting talking with Farrell in his flat – with its Chinese pottery, low lighting and sliding screens – the ways in which his life and work have become entwined with China is richly apparent. And when his wife Mei Xin Wang, a volunteer for the British Museum's Department of Asia, comes home, the picture is complete. Farrell is wedded to China.
He is still, though, very much the young man brought up in the north, with a love of British buildings, aircraft, paintings and railways. He has even had a train – a First Hull Trains high-speed number – named after him, following the success of The Deep, his thrillingly angular aquarium on the Hull waterfront completed in 2002. "The train's been moved to another line since then," says Farrell, "and they've taken my name off it." But then he has been an architect for long enough to know that reputations, fame, fortune – and even one's name – come and go as fashions change and economies swing from boom to bust.
While his firm continues to pick up more commissions in China, rivals are getting in on the act, racing up ever higher buildings. Farrell seems to welcome the competition, shrugging it off and saying in his matter-of-fact way: "We won't have the tallest building in Shenzhen for long."


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Rebbe Mendel of Riminov said that saying Parshas HaMon on Tuesday of Parshas B'Shalach is a Segulah for Parnossa (wealth, income).
That's today, and here it is...
Parshat HaMon - w/Artscroll Linear Translation
Parshat HaMon - Hebrew w/Onkolos
The process seems to be that this should be 3 times, twice in Hebrew and once with targum onkolos (the aramaic translation of Onkolos).
Two explanations of why are here and here. Here's a brief excerpt from Zchus Avos Yogen Aleinu…
The source of this custom is Reb Menachem Mendel of Rimanov, one of the four primary disciples of the Noam Elimelech. The halachic works say that it is a good thing to read Parshas Hamon everyday. (Tur 1; Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 1:5; Aruch Hashulchan 1:22; Shulchan Aruch HaRav 1:9).
Shevet Mussar says that the segula of Parshas Hamon is when it's read "shnayim mikra ve'eched targum" and Siddur Segulas Yisroel says to say it with the cantillation (trup or the musical Torah notes). Mishna Berura quotes the Talmud Yerushalmi in Brochos that says one who says Parshas Haman will not lack sustenance, and quoting the Taz says that reading it alone isn't sufficient, but one has to understand from the reading that our sustenance come about through Divine intervention. By reading the account of how Klal Yisroel was sustained by Hashem in the desert for 40 years, we ingrain in ourselves that our livelihood comes about only because Hashem wills it. …It's not a magic incantation but an affirmation of Hashem being the "Hand that feeds us".
A wish of great parnossa to everyone!
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NEW YORK — If you're a Comcast cable customer, your home's private Wi-Fi router is being turned into a public hotspot.
It's potentially creepy and annoying. But the upside is Internet everywhere.
It's been one year since Comcast started its monster project to blanket residential and commercial areas with continuous Wi-Fi coverage. Imagine waves of wireless Internet emitting from every home, business and public waiting area.
Comcast has been swapping out customers' old routers with new ones capable of doubling as public hotspots. So far, the company has turned 3 million home devices into public ones. By year's end it plans to activate that feature on the other 5 million already installed.
Anyone with an Xfinity account can register their devices (laptop, tablet, phone) and the public network will always keep them registered — at a friend's home, coffee shop or bus stop. No more asking for your cousin's Wi-Fi network password.
But what about privacy? It seems like Comcast did this the right way.
Outsiders never get access to your private, password-protected home network. Each box has two separate antennae, Comcast explained. That means criminals can't jump from the public channel into your network and spy on you.
And don't expect every passing stranger to get access. The Wi-Fi signal is no stronger than it is now, so anyone camped in your front yard will have a difficult time tapping into the public network. This system was meant for guests at home, not on the street.
As for strangers tapping your router for illegal activity: Comcast said you'll be guilt-free if the FBI comes knocking. Anyone hooking up to the "Xfinity Wi-Fi" public network must sign in with their own traceable, Comcast customer credentials.
Still, no system is foolproof, and this could be unnecessary exposure to potential harm. Craig Young, a computer security researcher at Tripwire, has tested the top 50 routers on the market right now. He found that two-thirds of them have serious weaknesses. If a hacker finds one in this Comcast box, all bets are off.
"If you're opening up another access point, it increases the likelihood that someone can tamper with your router," he said.
What about connection speed? Having several people tapping a single machine tends to clog up the Wi-Fi. Comcast says it found a way to make this work.
With two separate networks, each antenna has its own data speed cap. Comcast said the private channel provides whatever speed customers already pay to get (most have 25 Megabits per second). The public hotspot channel is given 15 Mbps and allows up to five people to connect at a time.
That means having your data-hungry friends over shouldn't slow down your Netfli stream.
Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas promised "there's more than enough capacity" in the cables connecting to people's homes to make this work.
"You shouldn't experience any conflict between the two networks," he said. "It's something our engineers thought about carefully. The last thing we want to allow is to create a bad user experience."
Comcast's project that started in northern New Jersey has now spread to Boston, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and elsewhere.
"Before this, there was no value in having Internet when you're not at home," Douglas said. "Every time you left the house you walked away from your subscription. But with all these hotspot locations, you can connect to the Internet remotely. Everyone's device is mobile. It makes a lot of sense."
But what if you hate the idea of your private boxes turned into public hotspots? You can turn it off by calling Comcast or logging into your account online. The company says fewer than 1% of customers have done that so far.


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The Hair Shirt
This is the sort of thing that really sets The Kid's teeth on edge. Yesterday it seems that some people at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan may have improperly put some Qurans in the burn bin. Of course, this threw the entire U.S. operation in Afghanistan into a tizzy and earlier today General John Allen, commander of all ISAF forces in theater, released this statement:
To the noble people of Afghanistan –
I have ordered an investigation into a report I received during the night that ISAF personnel at Bagram Airbase improperly disposed of a large number of Islamic religious materials which included Korans.
When we learned of these actions, we immediately intervened and stopped them. The materials recovered will be properly handled by appropriate religious authorities.
We are thoroughly investigating the incident and we are taking steps to ensure this does not ever happen again. I assure you … I promise you … this was NOT intentional in any way. I offer my sincere apologies for any offense this may have caused, to the President of Afghanistan, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and most importantly, to the noble people of Afghanistan.
I would like to thank the local Afghan people who helped us identify the error, and who worked with us to immediately take corrective action.
Manana, Tashakur.
Let us first state that we recognize that there is a line to be danced around here. General Allen and the U.S. government are bending over backwards to soothe Muslim outrage because, short term, to not do so puts U.S. military and civilian personnel at greater risk. However, The Kid maintains that the outsized wailing and gnashing of teeth puts more Americans in danger in the long term.
Ferchrissakes, we apologize more obsequiously for "offending Muslim sensibilities" than for accidentally killing people, and this is a problem. By wearing the hair shirt we are validating the overall Muslim narrative, that being the untouchability of Islam. And with every self-debasement concerning these incidents, we further solidify the image of our submission, and our status as dhimmis.
What we have consistently failed to understand is that this war is about the competing narratives. It's not about the Taliban threat to the Afghan Government, or other micro-issues. We are saving ourselves grief on the tactical level, while ceding ground strategically. This puts American lives at risk long term. Our ideology, of openness, tolerance and Liberty is the correct one. That is the strategic political goal we should be defending, rather than submitting to the Islamic narrative. Our willingness, our eagerness, to debase ourselves for perfectly understandable mistakes does not make us look tolerant in the eyes of the enemy. It marks us as the "weak horse" ripe for exploitation.
Obviously, we cannot be successful by spitting in the eye of Muslim world, and we are not going to liberalize them overnight (or ever, if our current strategies are to be pursued). When we make mistakes, we should apologize. But there is a line between apology and self-debasement. Where that line is exactly, The Kid cannot tell you. But it's clear General Allen sailed way over it.


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uLemonade necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 109 design presentati da 24 designer.
uLemonade is an online service that provides tweens and teens with a safe and parent friendly eWallet.
When your parents give u lemons, make lemonade!
Desired Color Scheme:
Open to designers recommendation
Our Name
uLemonade represents the idea of a kids first business being a lemonade stand where they earn money to go and spend it on the items they want.
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When your parents give you lemons, make Lemonade.
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Stationery set (business cards, letterhead, presentation folder, envelope)
We are looking for a logo that is fun, youthful (but not childish), and incorporates the idea of lemons, lemon tree, or money into the design. Logo must appeal to both children and adults. A design style that we like can be seen at turbomilk.com. The logo should be able to be used as a wordless icon or a full logo. We prefer vector-based files as logo will be used both online and in print.
Our stationery set needs to be fully integrated with the logo and website design elements.
1. Business Cards: Include basic contact info and logo
2. Stationery (A4): Page should include the uLemonade name and logo along with company contact info.
3. Presentation Folder: Should hold A4-size materials, include uLemonade name and logo on front, and contact info discreetly inserted elsewhere in folder.
4. Envelope: Should include uLemonade name, logo, and contact info.
Technical Specifications: Vector-based files. Stationary set must be ready for printing.
If your Logo design is selected, you agree to forward ALL source files and material for the deliverables upon payment.
Your logo and design is not a copy or alteration of someone elses logo and/or website design.
If nothing is found to meet our identity strategy, I reserve the right to cancel this contest.
You are the legal owner of said deliverables, and hold all rights to said deliverables.
You agree to transfer ownership and all rights of said deliverables to me upon payment.
Full payment is only paid if all requirements are met.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
- Stationery Design
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Last year Michele Shirlow, 54, was awarded the Farming Champion Award at the Farming Life & Danske Bank Annual Awards.
It was her sheer dedication and commitment to the overall industry that set Michele apart from others nominated in her category.
Michele, who lives in Co Down, always felt a career in the food sector was likely to be on the cards.
She explained: "After university I had the opportunity to travel and could never understand why other regions had such pride in their food.
''Even though we had great produce that pride and passion wasn't apparent at home. ''So I went on to study at the Irish Management Institute with some people from the Kerry Group and was amazed at their vision.
"I've always had an interest in food ingredients and cooking but was really inspired to do something about the lack of a message for local food when working with Dan Flinter, who was chair of the Food Strategy Implementation Partnership.
"I saw a lack of promotion and awareness around local food and producers and wanted to change this.
''My goal is to enhance the reputation of food from Northern Ireland and to put Northern Ireland in the top quartile of food regions in the UK and Ireland."
Michele said there has been great strides forward in the Northern Irish food industry in recent years resulting in greater exposure for local producers and restaurants.
''Great progress can be seen on an international scale with producers such as Hannan Meats becoming a twice supreme champion in the Great Taste Awards, local restaurants winning Michelin stars. Also there has been a recent increase in the drinks industry with growth in the number of local drinks being produced."
And how did winning a Farming Life Award last year help her cause?
Michele admits: "I was delighted and shocked but quietly pleased winning the award.
''I was very honoured and surprised when I won as I didn't know I had been nominated.
''The nicest part was telling my father, uncle, mother and father-in-law who have all been a tremendous support.
''I really have to thank the board of Food NI and our 450 members for all of their support and especially to my family - my husband Alex and daughters Alexandra and Nadine for putting up with me working so many unsociable hours in the quest to get local food the reputation it so richly deserves.
"It now sits on the shelf above my Aga and every time I glance at it I'm reminded of how difficult it was to achieve milestones on the way to our Year Of Food & Drink and how worthwhile all the hard work was.
"Winning the award in 2016 was a tremendous boost, we were right in the middle of our first ever Year Of Food & Drink and winning the award somehow helped me to keep the energy level going.
''I would greatly encourage anyone thinking of entering. Enter often and don't be afraid or ask for help of feedback on an award entry before you submit it."
Read more: Champion of local food industry
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Inbox: When to expect Heaney, Nicolino?
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When will Andrew Heaney or Justin Nicolino get called up?
-- Anthony S., West Palm Beach, Fla.
This will be one of the most asked questions in Spring Training. You may be aware that MLB.com ranks Heaney as the No. 1 left-handed pitching prospect , while Nicolino is seventh on the list. Both were standouts at Double-A Jacksonville last year, and Heaney impressed in the Arizona Fall League.
Because Jose Fernandez made the leap from Class A to the big leagues a year ago, many wonder if Heaney and/or Nicolino will make the jump from Double-A to be in the Opening Day rotation.
Right now, they are long shots, but that could change based on performance in Spring Training. If they show they're ready, they could indeed be on the Opening Day roster. But there will be plenty of competition.
Barring something unforeseen, like injury, Fernandez, Nathan Eovaldi and Henderson Alvarez will lock down the top three spots. Jacob Turner has the inside edge for the fourth spot, and Tom Koehler is the incumbent in the fifth spot. Plus, the Marlins have left-handers in Brian Flynn and Brad Hand, who is out of options. Kevin Slowey is a non-roster invitee who could be an option to open the season in the rotation until some of the young arms are ready.
I think the most realistic time of arrival for Heaney and Nicolino is sometime in June or around the All-Star break. With so much young depth, there shouldn't be a need to rush any of the young starters.
Considering the Yankees' acquisition of Masahiro Tanaka, as well as the success of pitchers like Yu Darvish, Hisashi Iwakuma and Hyun-Jin Ryu, do the Marlins have plans to establish a scouting network for Japan, Korea and Taiwan in the near future?
-- Rodrigo L., Santiago, Chile
You bring up a topic that the club probably should give more consideration. The Marlins have never seriously pursued players from Asia, opting to focus much of their international attention on Latin America. One reason is the wealth of talent in countries like the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Miami is striving to be the Team of the Americas, and that is the organization's international priority.
Obviously, countries like Japan have tremendous talent as well. But the posting system has made many of these players very expensive.
Even with the successes of the pitchers like Tanaka, the Marlins are expected to stay the course in their international efforts.
With such a young rotation, I think it is a mistake not to bring a veteran arm with Major League history into the mix. There are plenty of starting pitchers out there, and not all of them are high profile. Why not sign one of them or trade for one?
-- Elizardo M., West Palm Beach, Fla.
This is a follow-up question to a similar one asked in a recent Inbox. I understand where you are coming from, believing a veteran would help eat up innings. I just disagree that one is needed. The strength of the organization is the starting pitchers. The Marlins have basically 10 or 11 candidates who are either big league-established or close to being big league-ready.
At 21, Fernandez already is among the top five pitchers in the game. Bringing in a veteran will not change that. Plus, Fernandez's innings limit will be relaxed this year, probably getting him close to 200. Eovaldi has elite stuff, and his rotation spot is a lock. Alvarez threw a no-hitter in the final game of the season, and he has been in the rotation with the Blue Jays and Marlins the past two years. His spot is set. So you are talking about two slots. Turner, obviously, has had his struggles. He's also shown promise and he's 22. Turner will have to show more consistency. If he does, he will probably be the fourth starter. Whether Koehler starts or relieves, he is a hard-thrower who was game tested in 2013.
Lefties Hand and Flynn have quality arms, and they have a chance to show they are big league-ready. The veteran example you are talking about could end up being Slowey, who filled that role in the first half last year.
Miami doesn't really need a veteran to eat up innings to save innings from young pitchers, because the organization has so many prospects. Heaney and Nicolino are high-end lefties who are expected to be in the big leagues at some point this season. If some of the names I just mentioned step up in the first few months, and then they falter a bit, promoting Heaney could be like trading for a quality arm by the All-Star break.
Unless there is a veteran who is real upgrade, I wouldn't bring in more than non-roster signings to add to the pitching depth.
With the amount of picks in the first 120 selections of the First-Year Player Draft, plus their international bonus money, can the Marlins set a good foundation? Or will they hold up on signing top bonus players on July 2?
-- Juan V., Enfield, Conn.
Without question, the First-Year Player Draft will be important.
You correctly point out the Marlins have plenty of high picks. They have six selections in the early rounds, including Nos. 2, 36, 42, 77, 106 and 108. The club has budgeted accordingly to sign all of its picks.
Drafting and developing homegrown talent is crucial for clubs like the Marlins, who don't have some of the financial resources enjoyed by many other clubs. They aren't expected to spend on the highest-priced free agents, so they are relying heavily on accumulating as much homegrown talent as possible -- that could be through the Draft, trades and the international market.
I expect the team will place addition focus on these areas instead of taking away.
What does the signing of Ty Wigginton mean for how the infield will shape up in Spring Training? Will he be a starter or come off the bench?
-- Angela C., Miami
Wigginton signed a Minor League contract with an invitation to Spring Training, which means he isn't guaranteed a roster spot. He will have to make the team. The fact that Wigginton has so many years in the big leagues works to his advantage. From the Marlins' standpoint, he adds more depth at either third base or first base. Yes, Wigginton has played second and corner outfield positions in his career, but he isn't seen as a serious extra outfielder choice.
Casey McGehee was signed to start at third base. But if something changes in Spring Training, like an injury, Wigginton is a candidate with big league experience to step in. He also is a right-handed-hitting pinch-hit option.


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It's nearly impossible to look away. Recent news photos and articles tell heartbreaking tales of starving children in eastern Africa -- stories of mothers forced to choose between who will live or die because there simply isn't any food.
Do the faces in those news reports show us a glimpse of our future?
Forty years from now, our world will be hotter, our cities will be more crowded and more of us will be hungry. While the current crisis was triggered by drought, infrastructure and policy changes are needed to prevent even more famine in coming decades.
As Minnesotans, it's easy to dismiss global hunger as a problem that doesn't directly affect us. And with a quarter of our state's residents now considered obese, not having enough food may seem like the least of our worries.
But we should worry. Demographers predict that by 2050, the world's population will reach 9 billion; a high percentage of those people will live in cities or climate-challenged areas where they can't grow their own food -- much like today's Somalia and its neighbors.
And as their incomes increase, people will expect not just food, but more nutritious (and, thus, more expensive) food.
Minnesota exports $5 billion worth of agricultural goods each year -- about a third of our total agricultural production, and the basis for about 40,000 jobs.
Our farmers, our agribusinesses, our nonprofits and, yes, our universities, all play key roles in global hunger prevention. Many of our newest immigrants hail from parts of the world where population and hunger are expanding fastest.
We have no choice: Minnesota must be part of the solution. These are big challenges, without one-size-fits-all answers.
But by making some reasonable -- in other words, nonideological -- policy changes, we can help mitigate this looming potential disaster. Here are five ways I believe we can reach the goal of sustainably feeding everyone:1. Support funding of agricultural research and development.
Such work will boost the productivity of farms in the United States. The resulting technologies and practices can be transferred to developing countries, along with exported food.
Between 1950 and 1990, U.S. ag productivity grew at a brisk 2 percent a year, thanks largely to publicly funded research, and American farmers made enormous breakthroughs in production, which helped feed a growing global population.
But the decline in federal agricultural research funding that began in 1980 has caught up with us, and in the last 20 years productivity has stagnated.
Why should taxpayers fund agricultural research?
Think of it like medical research: Publicly funded research from organizations like the National Institutes of Health builds a knowledge base for private companies to develop drugs and other products that have saved millions of lives.
Why can't we do the same in agriculture and food production?2. Be vigilant about the effects of climate change, disease and drought, and be prepared to work on a global level to mitigate them before they reach crisis levels.
Here's one example of how such cooperation can work: Scientists from dozens of countries are working together to prevent the spread of Ug99, a devastating cereal rust disease that threatens 90 percent of the world's food supply.
The work includes nonprofits, educational institutions, international agricultural agencies and farmers.
Recently, University of Minnesota researchers announced a key breakthrough -- mapping the rust pathogen genome -- that wouldn't have happened without this global collaboration. This fight is taking on added urgency in eastern Africa, where Ug99 has been most devastating and famine is spreading.3. Accelerate the shift toward second- and third-generation biofuels such as algae and cellulosic material.
When commodity prices reach record highs, as they did in 2008 and may do again this year, food prices go up, here and around the world. This year, for the first time, more corn will be needed for making fuel than for feeding animals, according to the USDA's forecasting agency.
That's simply not sustainable.
Researchers and producers know that next-generation fuels can be produced from nonfood crops; the question is how to produce these new fuels on a large scale in an economically viable way.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar and two colleagues recently proposed redistributing some subsidies for corn ethanol into research for future fuels. That's a step in the right direction, and agricultural producers -- who should be part of any biofuels discussion -- generally agree.4. Concentrate efforts on small-scale farmers, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, where many of the world's poorest people reside and where much of the population growth will happen.
This advice comes from Shenggen Fan, director of the International Food Policy Research Institute (and a U of M alumnus) and is echoed by many others.
The Green Revolution of the 1960s and '70s took this approach, with great success. But simply helping farmers increase their crop yields won't be enough this time.
Yes, farmers in poor countries often lack seeds, fertilizer, water and enough land. In today's global markets, equally large problems come from the lack of a market infrastructure -- even roads to get crops to market -- as well as access to technological innovations and financial tools to reduce the risks of weather and price volatility.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been advocating this approach as well in efforts to continue funding for the "Feed the Future" program, which is at risk of major cuts by Congress.5. Recognize that simply having enough food isn't enough.
The World Hunger Organization reports that global agriculture currently produces enough food to theoretically give every person about 2,700 calories per day, which is more than enough to survive -- if you set aside questions of access and pricing.
So we have to ask the hard questions about what people eat.
The growing middle class in developing countries like China and India will expect to eat better in the coming decades, which usually means more food choices. That's an opportunity for agricultural producers, but also a challenge.
As diets shift toward bigger portions and fattier, sweeter food, people tend to gain weight. Global obesity rates have doubled since 1980, the World Health Organization says, and people in developing countries already are at risk.
As we develop ways to grow and distribute more food, we must ensure that available food is healthy as well as safe. WHO's guidelines on diet and physical activity are a good start.
These are long-range solutions to a long-range set of problems, but now is the time to make the policy decisions that can lead toward a world with enough good food for all.
Forty years from now, regardless of where they live, our grandchildren may thank us.
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Allen Levine is dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota and is director of the Minnesota Obesity Center. The views he expresses are his own and do not reflect an official position of the University of Minnesota.


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In keeping with TD's commitment to the environment as a core corporate responsibility, CCU's sustainability program is an important focus of the gift agreement. Gift funds will also provide support for athletic programs and fund scholarships. According to DeCenzo, the donation will be used to strengthen CCU's sustainability initiatives, support athletic programs, and provide endowed scholarships and summer school academic support.
"TD is an active supporter of several institutions in the Carolinas, and we became better acquainted with CCU when former TD Ameritrade CEO and current Chairman Joe Moglia joined the CCU athletic staff," said Rob Hoak, Regional President in the Carolinas for TD Bank. "A real interest in a partnership with CCU began when we learned about the university's sustainability programs. TD has made a major commitment to protect and conserve natural resources not only through more efficient business operations, but through community involvement and sponsorships. Working with CCU to grow its green initiatives is a natural fit for TD."
CCU will officially name its sustainability program the TD Campus and Community Sustainability Initiative, and all "green" programs on campus will bear the TD logo, including water-refilling stations, recycling bins and Bicycle FixIt Stations. Campus sustainability events and student groups will be identified by the TD brand, including the TD Sustainability Fair, the TD Recycled Boat Race, the TD Eco-Reps student organization and the TD Student Green Team.
In addition to the support of campus green programs, the TD gift will support the University's combined athletic facilities, to be named the TD Sports Complex. The complex will encompass the University's football, baseball, softball, soccer and women's lacrosse venues.
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Initial funds from the gift will help CCU athletics go green through the installation of an artificial playing surface at Brooks Stadium/Benton Field, a move that is expected to conserve between 500,000 and 1 million gallons of water annually. This conversion will also allow for expanded use of the stadium field, specifically, practice sessions for football and women's lacrosse.
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I for one, am all about the sock bun. They help make any look a little classier and put-together and they allow you to sleep in a few extra precious minutes- all wins in my book! Oh and back to the outfit. Although I sport sock buns on a semi-regular basis, I chose to style my hair this way because of this shirt. Since the shirt has so much volume and detail, I didn't want my long hair detracting from the shirt. I then decided to make it a little more fun by pairing it with my favorite colored jeans. For more conservative work environments colored denim might be pushing the envelope a bit, but if you pair them with other classic elements and perhaps add a blazer it helps keep it more professional. Also, if colored jeans aren't the norm at your office, stick with more classic colors and save your highlighter pink jeans for the weekends.
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Cassandra Clare launches e-serialization based on popular 'Mortal Instruments' character
Can't get enough of Magnus Bane? Let the new short story cycle, The Bane Chronicles, fill the void. Cassandra Clare will collaborate with YA authors Sarah Rees Brennan (Unspoken, Team Human) and Maureen Johnson (The Name of the Star, 13 Little Blue Envelopes) on the serialization which will be focus on Bane, the immortal warlock seen in Clare's Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series.
Starting in February, one story in the cycle will be released every month in e-book format leading up to The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones movie (out Aug. 23). This will be followed by a single print edition in 2014.
What are you initial thoughts on The Bane Chronicles? And are you excited to see Godfrey Gao portray Magnus on the big screen? Sound off in the comments.
Read more:
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Cassandra Clare talks 'Mortal Instruments' movie and teases her other series
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Is the party over in Vang Vieng?
Drugs, alcohol, loud music and crazy games on the river. Laos' notorious party town Vang Vieng may sound like a teenager's holiday heaven, but it's become too much for the country's authorities.
Officials are clamping down on Vang Vieng's hedonistic ways, shutting 24 riverside entertainment venues "being operated in contravention of regulations, including the provision of unsafe drinks to customers, while some also had no business licenses," reports the Vientiane Times.
The English-language newspaper said the closures follow the findings of a task force made up of senior tourism, health and public security officials.
The group was sent to Vang Vieng to refocus the popular tourist destination following reports of problems in the district, from bars openly selling cocktails made with hallucinogenic mushrooms to several tourist deaths.
"We have set ourselves the target to bring a new face to Vang Vieng district by October," said the leader of the task force, Boualy Milattanapheng.
Among the most recent reported incidents, a Canadian was accidentally killed while using one of the many "flying fox" swings over the Nam Song river, reported the Vientiane Times.
'Barefoot zombies stumbling back to their guesthouses'
So just how wild is Vang Vieng?
Earlier this year, we ran a photo feature showing what it's like to spend a few days there.
Readers came out in force to both defend and condemn the backpacker hotspot in the comments section.
Here's a quick excerpt from that feature: "One place advertises a kilo of weed at US$300, in case you're planning on a long stay. A small 'bucket' of whiskey comes in at US$3.
"You only need to wander down the main street to see the barefoot zombies stumbling back to their guesthouses.
"That's if they make it. Not all of them do. A special tourist police has been set up to make sure those in the worst shape get home, and also to bust a few unlucky drug buyers whom the police randomly pick on."
More on CNN: Vang Vieng: Backpacker haven or tourist hell?
This year's mass of international media coverage of the area's notoriety certainly contributed to the new crackdown on Vang Vieng, an area of great natural beauty that took on a life of its own about 10 years ago when a couple of enterprising locals started renting out inner tubes for tourists to float down the Nam Song River.
Besides the closure of bars, the Vientiane Times quotes Boualy as saying other measures to be put in place include closures of the flying fox swings (revelers ride down a zip line into the river). Some will only be allowed to reopen once proper safety measures are put in place.
Local tubing activities are also in their sights.
"In an effort to enjoy the river safely, the committee has stipulated that those wanting to use kayaks and tubing services must wear life jackets and these facilities are allowed to operate only between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m."
To read the full report on the Vang Vieng crackdown, visit the Vientiane Times website.
Have you been to Vang Vieng recently? Are officials being spoilsports or is the party scene out of control? Tell us about your visit in the comments box below.


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Buster Olney says the bat is Gordon Beckham and Ken Rosenthal says the arm is someone better than Dan Hudson. Kenny Williams should be hanging up now.
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The other problem in acquiring Fielder is, again, the asking price. If Williams thought it was high for Dunn, he hasn't seen anything yet. Start with John Danks or Gavin Floyd and add in Beckham.
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Environmental Justice: making students comfortable about the uncomfortableApril Baptiste, , Colgate University
On being hired to teach exclusively environmental justice, I was now challenged to bring my knowledge and personal experience with environmental justice to a group of students who are not readily exposed to these concepts. Additionally, for many students, social justice issues as it relates to the environment and more specifically as it relates to minority and marginalized populations is new. What I have found after my early years of engaging students on concepts of race, class, rights, and environmental problems as it relates to both domestic and international issues is that the missionary approach is often not the best. As such, I had to find creative methods to engage students with the difficult concepts but also to challenge their underlying worldviews of the contradictions that they believe might exist in addressing environmental justice, particularly in the US context.
I have begun to use strategies from the National Coalition Building Institute, which has a group of active participants on my campus. This has allowed me to use small group workshops at the beginning of the semester to allow students to address different forms of discrimination, and oppression and brainstorm ways in which these can be effectively addressed even when there are differences of opinions in the room. This I have found addressed the elephant in the room in an open manner and it also set a tone of openness for the semester. My classes have been much better with this approach.
Class discussions have become an important component of my classes on environmental justice. I schedule class discussions into my syllabi and I have students lead the discussions, with me as the facilitator summarizing the main points at major points during the discussion. This allows two things. 1. First, my students take responsibility for the material and own it. By this I mean that my students have to find their voice and develop their ideas on the readings and the problems that are assigned for that day. In this way they have to think about both their position and the position of others who may not agree with them and be effective in not just dismissing these thoughts but rather be able to engage someone in a conversation who has a difference of opinion on the issues of race, class, rights, and environmental issues as it pertains to minority groups. 2. Secondly group discussions allow my students to be able to work through problems with each other rather than rely on me to "tell them what I think is the right answer." It allows them to realize that in dealing with social situations, that often times there are no black and white solutions; hence the reason environmental justice is often contested.My approach to teaching environmental justice is one of openness and to allow students to critically think about the processes that have resulted in minority and marginalized populations being negatively affected by environmental hazards. Most of my students though environmental studies majors are being exposed to concepts of race, class, rights, and environmental issues for the first time and to be able to provide them with an open classroom to explore these concepts in an honest manner, I have found to be the best approach.


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Each micro palette contains a range of colors that are skewed energetically. By energetically, we mean whether the colors are hot or cold, warm or cool, calming or stimulating, uplifting or grounding, moist or dry, etc. On a simplistic level, East Indian medicine works by exerting a balancing force in the direction opposite of that which may tend to erode an individuals homeostasis.
We chose to work with East Indian medicine and Ayurveda because they are user-friendly systems that invite participation by the layperson. We put great care into designing color palettes that correspond to key concepts of Ayurvedas framework.
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The East has generated many practices that promote harmony. These practices relieve stress by helping us understand how to create balance from day to day. The ability to increasingly gain control over our lives is a form of alchemy that can lead to an increase in the quality of life as well as to the extension of life itself.
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The core of Indian medicine, like Asian medicine in general, is based on what is known as energetics. This does not mean the sensing of something invisible. One simple way of understanding energetics is that we were created with differences. By learning how to support and balance the physical, mental, and spiritual core of our make up, we nourish our essence. It is not difficult for someone with no prior knowledge to reach the point where it is possible to make use of traditional Indian healing methods. They teach us how the cumulative effects of repeated actions add up to something substantial. They are learning tools that induct you into a system of life-affirming patterns by helping you to recognize the significance of patterns of behavior. It is the comprehension of pattern recognition that is the key.
Design rudiments of the Ayurveda Essence palettes
Ectomorph/Vata/Air and Space (Ether)
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A palette of vibrant and stimulating colors with warm overtones
We have a total of 108 colors in our system, with the palettes arranged into three energetically distinct micro palettes of 36 colors. For each micro palette, the starting place on the color wheel was chosen for the strongest balancing effect: violet for the vata palette, green for the pitta palette, red for the kapha palette. Each palette is skewed accordingly to maximize balance. Vata is balanced by earthy colors that subdue hot and cold, pitta is balanced by cooling, complex colors, and kapha is balanced by stimulating and warming colors.
Each micro palette includes all of the basic hues of the color wheel, as well as all the value levels normally designed into contemporary color systems. As a whole, Ayurveda Essence incorporates colors that range from the deepest and most chromatic brights to the most muted lights and neutrals. The steps in value between colors has been designed with an eye toward a pleasant contrast. This design feature automatically eliminates the kind of clash that can result from colors which are too close to one another in value, and makes the creation of monochromatic schemes easier. The key difference among the palettes is how they handle chromaticism. Each micro palette is constructed to avoid those portions of the color spectrum that would be the most aggravating to the respective constitution, as well as keeping the balancing power of value in mind.
A chief criterion throughout the design process was to create a sequence of complex colors that easily harmonized with one another. This approach was important due to the concise nature of the palettes. Another way to put this is that regardless of the palette, colors were sequenced for their ability to work together as families with relationships. This approach minimizes contrast and maximizes harmony.
All progressions were constructed with three colors laid out, as the fourth color in the progression was chosen. Also, the same hue from the previous value level was referenced against the lighter hue in the succeeding value level. This allowed for five colors to be viewed simultaneously and checked for harmony. For example: color 84 (green) was chosen for its ability to progress harmoniously from colors 83 (green), 82 (gold), and 81 (coral), as well as for its ability to harmonize with 77 (green).
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