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"Managed" dental care is a great idea.
However, many dentists strongly feel that it should be "managed" by their patients, for their benefit - instead of by a dental insurance company for its benefit.
If you are covered by a dental insurance plan, and if your employer offers you a range of different programs, the time you spend investigating benefits will be time well spent. Doing so puts your family in control of the quality of dental care you can demand and receive from your dental coverage.
Words can have very different meanings, depending on an individual's point of view. Some low cost dental insurance plans restrict patients to "preferred providers" of dental care. That sounds impressive until you recognize that providers are "preferred" by the insurer, not necessarily by you. And in many cases they're preferred, frankly, because they agree to sell their services at a discounted rate.
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Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have claimed responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian military transport plane, and say four crew members have been taken prisoner.
Russia's Interfax news agency on Monday quoted separatists in the rebel-held city of Luhansk as saying the captives are in the border city of Krasnodon and undergoing interrogation.
Details of the shootdown were not clear late Monday. Interfax quoted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry as saying eight people were aboard the aircraft, which was carrying food and drinking water to personnel at checkpoints in the war-scarred east.
The ministry also said the plane was flying too high above Luhansk to have been hit by conventional surface-to-air missiles, prompting speculation that rebels either used more powerful Russian missiles, or that the plane was hit by Russian missiles from Russian territory
Ukraine on Monday accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the country's east.
"Information has ... been confirmed that Russian staff officers are taking part in military operations against Ukrainian forces," President Petro Poroshenko said.
Poroshenko voiced similar complaints about Russian incursions on Sunday to the European Union presumably in hopes of pushing the bloc to exert greater pressure on Moscow in the form of expanded sanctions.
His office said Kyiv would provide documents offering proof of incursions from Russia to the international community through diplomatic channels.
Moscow has been denying that is supporting the rebels with personnel or equipment.
Reuters video on Monday also showed Ukrainian armored vehicles destroyed in an attack near Luhansk.
After a campaign to break through the perimeter of Luhansk over the weekend, Ukraine's Defense Ministry claims government troops are in control of villages around the rebel-held city of about 428,000 people.
Meeting with security chiefs on Monday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russian military officers of fighting alongside rebels to strengthen separatist forces in the country's east. He added that a new Russian missile system was being used against Ukraine forces.
The latest Ukrainian push to regain control of the Russian-speaking east came as Moscow blamed its neighbor for the cross-border artillery shelling death of a Russian civilian.
The Kremlin threatened Ukraine with "irreversible consequences" for the death, which Moscow said came from an errant artillery shell. Ukraine has denied involvement, and said the shelling may have been the work of provocateurs seeking to trigger a Russian response.
Renewed Russian troop build-up?
Meanwhile, Ukraine has again accused Russia of a renewed troop build-up along its border, with separatists backed by "mercenaries" firing on Ukrainian border guards in attempts to resupply fighters with equipment from Russia, a Ukrainian security spokesman said.
Saying that Russia was embarking on a course of escalation in Ukraine's east, National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists: "In the past 24 hours, deployment of [Russian] units and military equipment across the border from the Sumy and Luhansk border points was noticed. The Russian Federation continues to build up troops on the border.''
"The events of the last few days show that the Russian side has embarked on a course of escalation of the conflict in the Donbas,'' he said, using the Ukrainian name for the industrial heartland in the country's east.
Meanwhile, NATO is confirming that Russia has continued to build up troops along its border with Ukraine. According to current alliance assessments, Russia now has between 10,000 and 12,000 troops in the area, up from below 1,000 in mid-June, a NATO official told VOA.
Forces include a wide range of combat capabilities, including infantry, armored forces and tanks, artillery, logistics and supply personnel and vehicles, as well as special forces, the official said.
Fighting has surged in the east since the Ukrainian government refused to renew a unilateral cease-fire June 30. Since then, Ukrainian forces have driven pro-Moscow rebels out of several cities, including Slovyansk, which was their main stronghold.
Kyiv and many Western countries accuse Russia of fueling the insurgency in an effort to destabilize Ukraine following the ouster of its pro-Moscow president and Kyiv's pursuit of a pro-Western course.
VOA's Jeff Seldin contributed to this report. Some information provided by Reuters.

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Leadership Webinar (Google Hangout) with Bill Treasurer -- "Leaders Open Doors"
April 25, 2013
Watch the video in the IATF Members Only Area HERE.
CLICK HERE to watch the video recording. The link will take you to the IATF Members Only Area. Not an IATF member? CLICK HERE to join.
Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topic in business.
In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten the leadership load by distilling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity for others.
Please join us for this live and interactive Google Hangout (webinar) when Bill will share present the idea of open-door leadership - - that is, the responsibility that leaders have for noticing, identifying, and creating opportunities for the benefit of people, organizations, and society.
Learn about the six unique "opportunity doors":
- the proving-ground door
- the thought-shifting door
- the door to a second chance
- the doors you open for others
- the door to personal transformation
- the door to your open heart
You'll learn that leadership isn't a complex and abstract concept. It's a set of practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations and generations. Leadeship is a tradition that makes people's lives better by opening doors of opportunities for them to thrive, achieve, and lead.
Event Details
Leaders Open Doors
Friday May 17, 2013
Starts at 1 pm Eastern (NY City time zone)
runs for 60 minutes
Bill Treasurer, Author and Leadership Coach
Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF
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Reproduced with permission from the American Nuclear Society.
Myth # 1: Americans get most of their yearly radiation dose from nuclear power plants.
Truth: We are surrounded by naturally occurring radiation. Only 0.005% of the average American's yearly radiation dose comes from nuclear power; 100 times less than we get from coal [1], 200 times less than a cross-country flight, and about the same as eating 1 banana per year [2].
Myth # 2: A nuclear reactor can explode like a nuclear bomb.
Truth: It is impossible for a reactor to explode like a nuclear weapon; these weapons contain very special materials in very particular configurations, neither of which are present in a nuclear reactor.
Myth #3: Nuclear energy is bad for the environment.
Truth: Nuclear reactors emit no greenhouse gasses during operation. Over their full lifetimes, they result in comparable emissions to renewable forms of energy such as wind and solar [3]. Nuclear energy requires less land use than most other forms of energy.
Myth # 4: Nuclear energy is not safe.
Truth: Nuclear energy is as safe or safer than any other form of energy available. No member of the public has ever been injured or killed in the entire 50-year history of commercial nuclear power in the U.S. In fact, recent studies have shown that it is safer to work in a nuclear power plant than an office [4].
Myth # 5: There is no solution for huge amounts of nuclear waste being generated.
Truth: All of the used nuclear fuel generated in every nuclear plant in the past 50 years would fill a football field to a depth of less than 10 yards, and 96 % of this "waste" can be recycled [5]. Used fuel is currently being safely stored. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the equivalent scientific advisory panels in every major country support geological disposal of such wastes as the preferred safe method for their ultimate disposal[6].
Myth # 6: Most Americans don't support nuclear power.
Truth: In a survey conducted in September 2013, it was found that 82% of Americans feel nuclear energy will play an important role in meeting the country's future electricity needs, and half believe this importance will increase with time. In addition, 84% of respondents favor renewing operating licenses for nuclear power plants that continue to meet federal safety standards, and 77% believe that nuclear power plants operating in the United States are safe and secure, a four percentage point increase from last February [7].
Myth # 7: An American "Chernobyl" would kill thousands of people.
Truth: A Chernobyl-type accident could not have happened outside of the Soviet Union because this type of reactor was never built or operated here. The known fatalities during the Chernobyl accident were mostly emergency first responders [8]. Of the people known to have received a high radiation dose, the increase in cancer incidence is too small to measure due to other causes of cancer such as air pollution and tobacco use.
Myth # 8: Nuclear waste cannot be safely transported.
Truth: Used fuel is being safely shipped by truck, rail, and cargo ship today. To date, thousands of shipments have been transported with no leaks or cracks of the specially-designed casks [9].
Myth # 9: Used nuclear fuel is deadly for 10,000 years.
Truth: Used nuclear fuel can be recycled to make new fuel and byproducts [10]. Most of the waste from this process will require a storage time of less than 300 years. Finally, less than 1% is radioactive for 10,000 years. This portion is not much more radioactive than some things found in nature, and can be easily shielded to protect humans and wildlife.
Myth # 10: Nuclear energy can't reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Truth: Nuclear-generated electricity powers electric trains and subway cars as well as autos today. It has also been used in propelling ships for more than 50 years. That use can be increased since it has been restricted by unofficial policy to military vessels and ice breakers. In the near-term, nuclear power can provide electricity for expanded mass-transit and plug-in hybrid cars. Small modular reactors can provide power to islands like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Nantucket and Guam that currently run their electrical grids on imported oil. In the longer-term, nuclear power can directly reduce our dependence on foreign oil by producing hydrogen for use in fuel cells and synthetic liquid fuels.
- National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements No. 92 and 95
- CDR Handbook on Radiation Measurement and Protection
- P.J. Meier, "Life-Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Systems and Applications for Climate Change Policy Analysis," 2002
- Nuclear Energy Institute
- K.S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics, John Wiley and Sons, 1988
- Progress Towards Geologic Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Where do We Stand?, Nuclear Energy Agency, OECD report, 1999
- Nuclear Energy Institute survey, 2013
- Chernobyl Forum reports 20-year findings, offers recommendations, Nuclear News, Oct-05
- United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- K.S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics, John Wiley and Sons, 1988


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A little over a week ago, I posted a query to the Elihu's Corner Facebook Page: "What are you Reading?" The responses were excellent! I believe daily Bible reading to be a vital part of our Christian walk, so it's of great value to hear different strategies people use to remain consistent.
A couple of readers commented that they use "Scripture writing." I wondered if there was a site or book they used to determine what they'd write. Apparently, there are many websites that post scripture writing lists for each month.
There is such great value in writing and memorizing scripture. When we write out a scripture, we consider each word as we copy. Because it slows us down, we gain a sharper focus on what the text conveys. My middle daughter saw me checking into various plans, and said, "Oooh! Can we do this together?" (Who would say no to that?)
Near the end of this month, I will post the scripture writing list we will be using and also share links to various scripture writing plans for you to consider.
Today, I'd like to give you a shorter list of 11 passages to write out and commit to memory—an Anti-Anxiety Arsenal. Satan will use our anxiety to undermine our faith. Prepare to fight back. When we commit these scriptures to our hearts, we can, like Jesus, send Satan scurrying away with the words, "It is Written."
Write these scriptures down.
Memorize them.
Pray the promises within them whenever fear strikes.
Sharpen your pencil, sharpen the sword of the Spirit, and prepare to engage the enemy.
The Anti-Anxiety Arsenal
God is our reliable refuge even when everything around us crumbles.
Psalm 46.1-3: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling."
Romans 8.35-39: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Proverbs 30.5: "Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him."
Promises to speak in Prayer
Hebrews 13.5-6: "Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?""
Philippians 4.6-7: do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
You Are Valued by God
Matthew 10:28-31: "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows."
1 Peter 5.6-7: "Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you."
God Provides.
Matthew 6.25-27: "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
Matthew 6.28-30: "And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Matthew 6.31-34: Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Psalm 23.1-4: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Now read this: Can I get through disappointment with hope?
This post originally appeared on Elihu's Corner and was republished with permission.
Elihu Anderson is a surviving California native currently thriving in West Texas. When she isn't writing for Elihu's Corner, she is teaching, researching, walking, and book-worming with a cup of chai. Visit Elihu at elihuscorner.com


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Welcome to the exciting world of paper money collecting - sometimes called notaphily, and other times listed with coin collecting as part of numismatics. This site is all about collecting United States one dollar bills. The popularity of collecting paper money has quite literally surged in recent years, and this fun sub-specialty of the hobby offers many interesting avenues for the dedicated collector. On these pages you will learn how to identify which of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks printed your note, how the different series are determined, and the many ways in which people collect serial numbers. In addition, there is information here on the history of the U.S. one dollar note, tips for storing your collection, and links to resources to help you on your journey.
The dollar bill is the work horse of the United States economy. Chances are a couple have already passed through hands today. So take a quick look at the information on this site, and then take a quick look at what's in your wallet, and you'll be well on your way to a lifetime of fun collecting U.S. dollars.


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As a single mother of three with a full-time career, I've got a lot on my plate. Between making the children's breakfast in the morning and making sure they brush their teeth at night, I hardly have any time to take care of myself. Sometimes, I just get so darn busy that I'll realize it's 6 p.m. and I haven't even eaten yet! Can you imagine? Not that I'm complaining, though. I love being a mom. But I'll tell you what—sometimes I find it just about impossible to find a spare moment to stimulate my clitoris until I reach glorious climax.
From the moment I wake up, I'm always worrying about someone else. I've got to make the kids' lunches, get them on the bus—no easy task when it comes to Melanie—and then race around to get the house straightened up so I can leave for work. And after a grueling eight-hour day, I've got to turn around and go grocery shopping, stop at the bank, and pick up the kids after their extracurricular activities. I'm telling you, sometimes it feels like I barely have a second to breathe, let alone 20 minutes to writhe beneath my bedspread with the passionate thoughts of sensuous lovemaking until I gasp with the force of my full-body orgasm.
Of course, I can't blame that entirely on the kids. Sure, there are times when I'm picking up dinner, and I think about how easy it would be to sneak off to the restroom and rub off a quickie. But then a special on that cereal the kids like distracts me, or I happen to run into a chatty neighbor, or I'm just too pooped out from work to take that special "me time." And that's really no one's fault but my own. I just keep telling myself, "That's okay, Sheryl. Tomorrow you can take the afternoon off and run a bath, light some candles, and tease your engorged vulva to thoughts of that carpenter who put in our basement molding. Tomorrow."
But I never do.
I'm not usually one to whine about such things, but my work isn't doing me any favors either. All day long I'm in meetings or filling out expense reports or trying to fix the work that that damn Carol didn't do right the first time. Even if I do take my lunch break to slip off into the handicapped stall, hike up my skirt, and start pleasuring my body with two, three, sometimes four fingers at a time, inevitably my cell phone will ring or someone will walk in and distract me, and eventually I just give up and go back to my desk having never shuddered uncontrollably with the powerful release only my dexterous hands can provide.
No one tells you when you're young, but having kids just upends your whole life. One minute, you're more than willing to lie on the couch for two or more hours, rubbing massage oil over your breasts and inner thighs until your primed body is aching for that last gentle stroke that will send it over the edge. And then the next minute you have a few children and all of the sudden the only thing that gets you excited is not finding another cavity at the dentist's office. It's all about priorities. And, until the kids go off to good colleges and I save up enough vacation days to make it worthwhile, I guess getting down on all fours in front of the full-length mirror and slowly working my trusty purple vibrator in and out of my dripping love canal with increasing speed and intensity will just have to wait.
I only wish I still had a husband to take some of this work off my hands. If I had a man around the house, I bet I could find all sorts of opportunities to masturbate.
Ah, well. No rest for the weary, I suppose. I'm certainly not going to win any points with the feminists by saying so, but maybe we women simply can't have it all. Maybe we have to make the choice between being a working woman who occasionally coaxes her pussy into such a lather that her hands are slicked with love juices, or a mother who spontaneously pulls over to the side of the road on the way to pick up the kids from day camp and swirls her fingers over her love button over and over and again and again, faster and faster until she's screaming, "Yes! Yes!" and slamming her fists on the car horn.
Because sometimes when you try to have it all, you end up losing what's most important to you: earth-shattering, toe-curling multiple orgasms.


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The BSA Family Award program offers activities to help strengthen all families—whether two-parent, single-parent, or nontraditional. This program helps families accomplish worthy goals while building and strengthening relationships among family members. All family members are encouraged to participate and may earn the award.
Some packs, through a volunteer family program chair, actively encourage and support families pursuing this award. If your pack does not promote and support the family program, your family may still participate on its own. The BSA Family Activity Book (available at your local council service center) gives all the requirements as well as step-by-step instructions for earning the BSA Family Award.
To earn the award, a family must complete 10 activities within a 12-month period. The family chooses one activity in two topics in each of the following categories:
When a family has completed the requirements, all family members are eligible to receive an award certificate, patches for uniform wear, and/or pins for non-uniform wear.


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The Panache Floris was introduced a few seasons ago, and while I own many colourways and would describe it as one of my favourite bras, I haven't yet gotten round to reviewing it! However, the Floris has been released for this season in an absolutely breathtaking Aurora colourway, and when Panache asked if there was anything I'd like to review from them, I knew exactly what it would have to be.
I would consider my usual size to be a 30K (70K in Ewa Michalak, 30JJ/32J in padded Curvy Kate), but I usually take a 30JJ in Panache, so this is a 30JJ with size 14 briefs. Continue reading


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Steve Taylor's Musical Matinee
Christian Music Crossroads
October 1995 Volume 1 Number 2
© 1995 CCM Communications
Pages 30-36
When recording and producing take their toll, Steve Taylor likes to relax behind the camera.
Photos by Ed Rode
Steve Taylor, whether he realizes it or not, knows physics.
For years, the lanky alterna-troubadour has deftly vibrated air molecules, both as a solo artist and frontman for the much-lamented Chagall Guevara, to elicit senses of irony, humor and sometimes confusion in his audience.
More recently, though, he has turned his considerable talents to the visible spectrum, manipulating light waves to complement the audio vibrations of other artists, and creating some of the most inventive music videos in the Christian music industry.
Taylor's interest in filmmaking is not a recent development, however. As a student at the University of Colorado, his curriculum included experimental film classes, the products of which were, pun intended, enlightening.
"Some of them were stupid, some of them were, you know, pretentious, but some of them were really great in that they got you thinking about light," Taylor says. "And when it comes to filmmaking, that's definitely the most important thing, the light."
Taylor's own early productions pointed in the direction that his professional creative career would lead him--sideways down the wordplay path. "When it came time for us to make our own little three-minute film, I would automatically veer toward more narrative types of films, usually leaning more toward comedy. Usually the class was so bored watching these experimental things, I could always get them to laugh at something I was doing," Taylor says.
As his stint of higher education was coming to an end, young Mr. Taylor thought the time would be right to take his new-found expertise out in to the brave new world of cable television.
"When I got out of college, I had an idea for making a comedy short based on a story I'd come across about a man and wife who tried to trade their baby in on a Corvette," he remembers. "I got the local Denver personality who sold mobile homes late at night--which, you know, every city has one of those--and his face was instantly recognizable to the local people. He played the owner of the car lot and I played the salesman. We put the whole thing together, and my uncle loaned me the money.
"I thought I could get on HBO, because at that time they were showing these short films, but I got a very curt letter from them saying they didn't find the subject matter of a baby being traded for a car very funny," Taylor says. "So that was the end of my short film career, but that was about the same time I got my recording contract."
Taylor's first album for Sparrow, Meltdown, introduced the world to his sometimes skewed world view. But because in 1982 music video was in its infancy, Taylor was also afforded the chance to show the world his visual ways.
"That was about the same time MTV was catching on, and the whole idea of music videos being an end unto themselves," Taylor says. "I went to the record company and said, 'Wouldn't it be great to do a video of [the song] "Meltdown at Madame Tussauds's," and they said 'Yeah, it would. Here's five thousand bucks, go knock yourself out.'"
So where does a young man with a song, an idea and a minuscule budget go to fulfill his video dream? The Hollywood Wax Museum, of course.
"It turns out the owner was a B-movie effects guy, so he figured out a way to make the heads look like they were melting without messing anything up," Taylor says. "I hadn't planned to direct it, but the only way to pull it off was if I did direct it, because there wasn't any money to hire anybody. There really wasn't even enough money to hire a cinematographer, but there was a guy going to our church who was a really great cinematographer and who had done a bunch of commercials. He got a crew together for me.
"I had to deal with everything, arranging catering, making a deal with the parking lot next door, permits, all that stuff. It was a real trial by fire."
Visually, the "Meltdown" video was a success, even if it didn't spur the expected trend of performers using floor mops as mic stands. Mentally and physically, the process was such a chore for Taylor that he swore to himself that when the time came to make a video for his second album, someone else's posterior would grace the director's seat.
He didn't get his wish. After the first director bowed out, Taylor moved into the role, ignoring one of the primary rules of show business and working with a throng of kids on the clip for the song "Lifeboat."
"We had a full-on casting call," Taylor explains, "and a room full of kids in this casting office. I explained to them what was going to be happening with the video, and then I said, 'Let's go around and tell us your name,' and the first girl said, 'Do you want my name or my agent's name?'"
Taylor's next concept video project (after a concert film shot at England's Greenbelt festival) was an entire video album for 1987's I Predict 1990 record. The Predict project was full of innovations, including the creation of the "Taylor-Cam," an intricate harness strapped to Taylor's person supporting a bevy of Super-8 cameras, recording his every movement and lip-sync for the song "Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel A Lot Better."
Predict was Taylor's last album for the Christian market before embarking on a self-imposed exile that really didn't last that long. He returned to music as a member of the critically lauded, yet commercially ignored Chagall Guevara. Chagall made one video, a clip for the song "Violent Blue," in which Taylor's only chore was that of animated frontman.
When the time came for Taylor to venture back into the Christian music scene in 1993 with the album Squint, part of the bigger picture of the project was another long-form video. This time, with the help of photographer Ben Pearson, Taylor started thinking on a global scale and used his production budget to take a very small crew to shoot in more than half a dozen countries.
The finished product showcased videos with a vibrant simplicity that took great advantage of their locales. Part of that simplicity came from the dearth of equipment the crew was able to use. "Once we came off the tripod, we were naked. We didn't have cranes, we didn't have dollies, we couldn't take that stuff on a trip around the world. It was very much a matter of playing to our strengths, which were composition, location and action within the frame," Taylor says. "Ben, being a photographer, has this really great eye for composition, and he's got a temperament that's really well suited for this. He's very patient, a very hard worker and a really good friend."
Taylor says he approaches each video project with a goodly amount of divine help. "Each one, there's a lot of prayer involved, because you realize how many things could go wrong, and no matter how well you plan in advance, if God isn't there, you're screwed.
"We experienced it in massive doses on the trip around the world. I mean, there is no reason that thing should have come off. At any checkpoint we could have had all of our film confiscated, something could have gone wrong with the camera--I mean, you can't get your 35mm camera fixed at the mall overnight," Taylor says. "I'm not one of those guys who will suggest that God manipulated weather patterns to help us make our video, but for whatever reason, it went off better than anybody could have possibly expected."
Their creative partnership solidified after their trip around the world, Taylor and Pearson began producing videos for such artists as the Newsboys, Twila Paris, Rich Mullins, Dakoda Motor Co. and Out of the Grey. Although some of these artists are not creating music that would nominally fit into the Steve Taylor style, he is able to take his unique visual sense and mold it to fit each artist.
"At the essence of a video, you've got an artist that you're having to portray. Everything makes a statement. You hate to talk too much about image, but you realize when somebody steps in front of a camera, there's an image there, no matter what you do to it. If they don't comb their hair, that's making one statement. If they wear what they wear to the gym, that's making another statement," Taylor says. "Then you've got what the song is about. Sometimes the song is obvious enough, and it doesn't need any further explaining. I don't think we've ever done a straight performance piece. I think with everything there is a subtext there, and it's that subtext that every good video has to have."
Taylor's next video projects include a new Out of the Grey clip and one from Guardian's new record Buzz, which Taylor also produced. Following several dates opening for the Newsboys this fall, Taylor will go back into the studio to create the follow-up to Squint, and there's no telling what laws of physics, both sonic and visual, he'll break then.
Associate editor Lucas W. Hendrickson counts videotaping a family reunion as his only directorial work.
Special thanks to Will Pike, General Manager of Regal Cinemas Bellevue Cinema 12 in Nashville, for allowing us to use the theater for our photo shoot.


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As we approach the end of 2013, Texas' power grid is soon to embark on a new clean energy path. While most people don't get too excited about electrical transmission and distribution lines, the much awaited Competitive Renewable Energy Zone (CREZ) transmission project– set to come online in a few weeks and roll out through 2014 – could be the exception.
Approved by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) in 2008, CREZ is a 3,600 mile transmission line that will connect remote West Texas wind energy to the eastern cities that need its power – 18,500 megawatts of power to be exact. This is enough power to energize 3.7 million to 7.4 million homes and increase available wind power supply by a whopping 50 percent.
Much like some other wind-rich regions in the country, wind in the West and Panhandle regions of Texas was partially unused, or curtailed, because local communities could not use all of the available supply and the state's current, outmoded electric grid could not efficiently deliver the abundant energy to high-demand eastern cities. This "congestion" bottleneck forced wind farms to lower prices and at times pay the utilities to take their electricity.
According to Jeff Clark, Executive Director of the Wind Coalition, "there just isn't enough space on the lines, so it becomes a case of I undercut you and then you undercut me, and that's not competitive. … We lose about $500 million a year in unsold power and power sold under price."
Texas is already the nation's wind leader, but CREZ now enables Texas to provide three times as much available wind power as any other state and, ultimately, climb the global ranking of leading wind energy producers. One project in particular near Lubbock is a planned 1,100-megawatt wind farm that promises to be the country's largest wind energy project.
As a testament to the success and future growth in Texas wind, the CREZ lines aren't even fully operational, yet grid operators are already reviewing 21,000 megawatts of new wind project proposals. Eager for these new lines, Pattern Energy Group broke ground on its new 218 megawatt Panhandle Wind Farm in Carson County, putting roughly 200 people to work during the construction phase. Once the wind farm is complete, it will generate enough power for about 60,000 homes and keep about a dozen people at work in permanent positions.
Landowners and businesses are benefiting, too. Through right-of-ways, developers constructed the electrical lines on private properties, sited close to roads and highways. Landowners were offered just compensation for the use of their land, all while maintaining ownership of the property. For companies looking to invest and grow in Texas, the CREZ investment provides reliability and assured, low electricity prices.
The CREZ lines are also opening up right as the Department of Interior recently announced their approval of the first major U.S. transmission project in decades. The 990-mile Gateway West Transmission Project will carry renewable energy – about 1.5 gigawatts – from southern Wyoming to southern Idaho. Most of the energy will be from the many wind farms in the region, transmitting electricity to load centers from Utah to Washington State. This proves that the future of wind is promising not just for Texas but also for the entire US as well.
Jeff Clark sums it up best, "when we look back on the investment in CREZ, it will be one of the most visionary investments the state has ever made."


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Everything You Need To Know About The NFL Conference Championship Games
Only four NFL teams are still alive: Packers, Seahawks, Colts and Patriots. Two of those squads will advance to Super Bowl XLIX with a victory on Sunday. Here's a preview of the NFC & AFC championship games:
NFC Championship Game: Green Bay at Seattle
CenturyLink Field, 3:05 p.m. (ET) on FOX
Quick Take: A-Rod vs. The Legion of Boom. The two best teams in the NFC — perhaps in all of football — face off for a Super Bowl berth. How much does Green Bay regret that Week 15 loss to Buffalo now? If the Packers had won that contest, the NFC title game would be at Lambeau Field instead of Seattle's raucous CenturyLink Field. These teams have already played one nationally televised game this season -- the Seahawks' 36-16 opening night rout of the Pack. Don't expect a repeat of that score.
Keys to the Game
Green Bay: Eddie Lacy — The intimidating Seahawks' defense doesn't have many weaknesses, but it did allow big games to DeMarco Murray, Tre Mason and Jamaal Charles in respective losses to the Cowboys, Rams and Chiefs this season. Lacy, the Packers go-to running back, has recorded back-to-back 100-yard rushing games, and he can make plays coming out of the backfield. If Lacy and James Starks can gash away at Seattle's defensive front, it could help free up Aaron Rodgers' passing lanes against the Seahawks' stellar secondary.
Seattle: Beast Mode — Marshawn Lynch ran for 110 yards and two scores in Week 1 against the Packers, whose run defense ranked 23rd in the NFL this season. The more that Lynch can go 'Beast Mode' this Sunday, the less time Rodgers will have to dissect the Seahawks defense. If it's raining Skittles in Seattle, Green Bay may taste defeat instead of the rainbow.
AFC Championship Game: Indianapolis at New England
Gillette Stadium, 6:40 p.m. (ET) on CBS
Quick Take: The Quarterback of the Past vs. The Quarterback of the Future. Unless something goes terribly wrong, Tom Brady and Andrew Luck won't play a single down across from one another. Still, the pre-game hype will speak about the QBs as if they are prize-fighters staring down each other in the ring. This game will come down to which team executes best. The Patriots just about executed the Colts in a 42-20 rout in Week 11.
Keys to the Game
Indianapolis: Take Care Of The Ball — Andrew Luck had 22 turnovers in the regular season — tops among AFC quarterbacks. Some of those mistakes came from Luck trying to win games on his own (because the Colts have no running game). Luck, his talented receiving corps and his no-name running backs must avoid turnovers on Sunday to win the game. Indianapolis is the only one of the remaining teams that didn't finish among the top four of the NFL in turnover margin.
New England: Adjust & Destroy — Darth…er, Bill Belichick is on another breathtaking roll. He, Tom Brady and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels find ways to beat teams in the postseason — like Julian Edelman passing to Danny Amendola vs. Baltimore or LeGarrette Blount stampeding over the Colts for 234 yards in last year's AFC playoffs. Hell, Jonas Gray piled up 201 yards and four touchdowns against Indy in November, and he's not been seen since. Given time and protection, Brady, Bill and the Pats figure out how to win.


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Gilad Shalit Fury Grows Over Canada Paper's Attack on Former Israeli Captive
B'nai B'rith International has disassociated itself from a news story critical of former captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit published in a Canadian Jewish newspaper.
In anticipation of a four-city visit to Canada by Gilad Shalit, The Jewish Tribune, Canada's largest Jewish newspaper founded and still closely associated with B'nai Brith Canada, criticized the former Hamas hostage.
"The Jewish Tribune story in no way represents the views of B'nai B'rith International or its members and supporters around the world," the organization said in a statement. "B'nai B'rith International has the deepest respect for Shalit and the horrors he endured as a Hamas captive."
The statement added that the organization hosted Shalit as a guest at the B'nai B'rith Europe Young Jewish Adult Forum in London in November 2012, where 200 delegates from more than 20 European countries, Israel and the United States witnessed as Shalit was made an honorary B'nai B'rith International member.
"While his story is intriguing and his return heartwarming, some have expressed concern that by appearing worldwide as an invited guest speaker, Shalit — who showed no resistance during his abduction nor made any attempt to protect his fellow IDF soldiers — could now become a new Israeli icon," wrote Atara Beck, the Tribune's Israel correspondent, in the story published last week.
The article did not cite any sources critical of Shalit's visit. He is scheduled to make appearances in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.
The newspaper also published a letter referring to Shalit as a "stumblebum" and calling his visit a "dubious honor."
Shalit was the only member of a three-man crew who survived a cross-border, guerrilla-style attack on June 25, 2006 by armed Palestinians who captured him and hid him in Gaza. He was released in a 2011 deal with Hamas in exchange for 1,027 prisoners, many of them convicted terrorists responsible for killing Israelis.
The head of the Jewish National Fund of Canada, Shalit's host for his Canada visit, said the planned speaking venues will be full.
"The response to it has been overwhelmingly positive," CEO Josh Cooper told the Canadian Jewish News.
Cooper told the Tribune that Shalit was not being honored by the JNF, but rather his visit was a way of thanking those in Canada who supported him during his captivity.
Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, defended Shalit's visit. "He represented the very ethos that the Jewish state, Israel and the Jewish community in the Diaspora will do what it can do, however wrenching, to secure the release of those who served the state," Fogel told CJN.


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After spill, water ban lifted for part of W. Va
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The ban on tap water for parts of West Virginia was lifted on Monday, ending a crisis for a fraction of the 300,000 people who were told not to drink, wash or cook with water after a chemical spill tainted the water supply.
It could still be several days before everyone is cleared to use water again, but officials were grateful to give the green light to about 6,000 to 10,000 customers. Gov. Earl Tomblin made the announcement at a news conference, five days after restaurants and schools had to close because they didn't have any water, and people were told to use it only to flush their toilets.
"We are finally at a point where the 'do not use' order has been lifted," Tomblin said.
Officials were lifting the ban in a strict, methodical manner to help ensure the water system was not overwhelmed by excessive demand, which could cause more water quality and service problems. An online map detailing what areas were cleared showed a very small portion in blue and a vast area across nine counties still in the 'do not use' red.
Customers were asked to flush out their systems before using the water again, and the water company credited accounts with 1000 gallons. The average residential customer uses about 3,300 gallons per month.
Officials cautioned the water could still have a licorice-type odor, but they said it was safe.
"It's not going to bother me as long as we know it's clean," said Peter Triplett, a state library commission worker whose home was in the first area allowed to use water. "It's been rough going."
About 6,000 to 10,000 customers were cleared to use the water again Monday, and it could be days before the entire water system was cleared, West Virginia American Water President Jeff McIntyre said.
The first area cleared was downtown Charleston, the state capital and its largest city. Most restaurants, day-care centers and schools there had closed during the emergency.
Schools Superintendent James Phares said he hoped the largest two school systems could reopen Tuesday, but cautioned: "We're not going to be rushing them back to school if it's not safe."
The water crisis started Thursday when a chemical used in coal processing leaked from a Freedom Industries plant into the nearby Elk River.
Complaints came in to West Virginia American Water about the odor. The source was the chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol that spilled out of a 40,000 gallon tank.
State officials believe about 7,500 gallons leaked from the tank. Some of the chemical was contained before flowing into the river and it's not clear exactly how much entered the water supply.
Federal authorities, including the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, opened an investigation into the spill.
Over the past few days, tests have showed that levels were consistently below a toxic threshold, and in some samples, there was no trace of the chemical at all. Officials were also keeping a close eye on water downstream to make sure there was no impact to aquatic life, wildlife or pets. No fish kills were reported.
Water distribution centers have handed out bottled water and trucks with large tanks of water have filled up containers for people to take home.
Some people put plastic bags around faucets so that they were reminded not to use the water. Others have left town to take a shower and find an open restaurant.
Only 14 people exposed to the contaminated water were admitted to the hospital, and none were in serious condition.
The chemical, even in its most concentrated form, isn't deadly. However, people were told they shouldn't even wash their clothes in affected water, as the compound can cause symptoms ranging from skin irritation and rashes to vomiting and diarrhea.
Lawmakers were to return to the Capitol on Monday after Friday's session was cut short because there wasn't any water. Their work now will likely include a look at how Freedom Industries flew under the regulatory radar.
Freedom Industries' tanks don't fall under an inspection program and the chemicals stored at the facility weren't considered hazardous enough to require environmental permitting, but there's already talk about changing that, Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman said. One idea is to require tanks to be a certain distance from the river, he said.
Company president Gary Southern held a brief news conference Friday night, but otherwise company officials have declined to comment.
"We have mitigated the risk, we believe, in terms of further material leaving this facility," he said then.
The coal and chemical industries are major forces in the state's economy, providing thousands of jobs, but they also pose risks of spills and mine disasters. West Virginia is the second-largest coal producing state, behind Wyoming, and the state has about 150 chemical companies. The area where the spill happened is known as Chemical Valley.


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We are unabashed fans of Key lime pie. We love it so much, we often make the filling alone, to serve crustless in pots de crème or ramekins (for a grandiose presentation, you can use martini glasses, and for a "deconstructed" Key lime pie, sprinkle the top with graham cracker crumbs). The peak season for Key limes is June through August, so you can find this special fruit in your market now and use these delicious and easy recipes.
The Key lime has a higher acidity, a stronger aroma, and a thinner rind than the Persian lime (Citrus x latifolia). While each food has a unique, compared to other limes, the Key lime is tart rather than sour. Some ascribe bitterness to it, but we'd say it has a milder quality, and therefore just right for desserts.
There are other major varieties of limes that can be found in the U.S. The rangpur lime (Citrus X limonia Osbeck) from the Pacific Rim, which is generally candied or pickled and, in the west, most popular in marmalade; the kaffir lime (Citrus hystrix), whose leaves are used in Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian cuisines; the sweet lime or limetta (Citrus limettioides), a hybrid between a Mexican lime and a sweet lemon or sweet citron, grown in California and Italy and eaten as a fruit in South America, India and North Africa. See the different types of limes in our Lime Glossary.
The recipe for Key lime pie, a lime custard pie, was created in Key West. There were no cattle on the island, and canned milk, first marketed by Borden's in 1859, was used for all purposes. The original Key lime pie was a no-bake pie; the acid from the lime juice curdled and set the egg yolks.
Today, Key lime pie is the state pie of Florida and the official dessert of Key West, where there are variations of the recipe, including those with meringue topping and/or a pastry crust (believed to be the original crust)—plus a lively debate as to which is the "correct" form of the pie.
While Key limes seem rare and exotic today, they were grown commercially in southern Florida until they were wiped out in a 1926 hurricane. The growers replanted with the hardier and easier* Persian lime trees.
*Persian limes are not only easier to grow, but easier to pick because they have no thorns, and easier and more economical to ship due to their much thicker skin.
Authentic Key lime pie has a firm custard texture and a pale yellow color. Many people use bottled Key lime juice; but as with anything, the difference between bottled and fresh-squeezed juice makes the difference between a decent and a spectacular pie. The good news is that, you can squeeze the juice and freeze it for up to three months. Until next Key lime season, you can substitute Persian limes in this recipe (but the flavor of Key limes is more bright and special, which is why people pay more for them).
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Ola, India's largest ride-hailing service, is being probed by the Competition Commission of India for 'predatory pricing,' including for allegedly spending more than its revenue per trip by offering incentives to customers and drivers.
The probe reflects the fierce competition in the Indian ride-hailing market, with a number of well-funded companies investing large sums to get a quick lead in the market.
The CCI has initiated the investigation following a complaint by rival Fast Track Call Cab that ANI Technologies, which runs Ola, is using funds raised, including from Japan's SoftBank, to wipe out equally efficient competitors who cannot indulge in such predatory pricing in the radio taxi services market. Fast Track has also charged Ola with creating barriers for new entrants.
The CCI has clubbed together taxi services that offer booking by phone or computer or through an app as "radio taxi services," which it considers different from traditional yellow-black colored taxis that have been in operation in the country for years. It has also arrived at the preliminary conclusion that Ola holds a dominant position in the radio taxi services market of Bangalore, which was the city named in the complaint.
Fast Track has also alleged that Ola restricts its driver fleet operators from using any other competing platform for providing their services. Ola is also said to have "incentivized" its drivers unrealistically by using the money raised from foreign investors, which cannot be matched by existing radio cab operators or local enterprises planning to start similar operations in the country.
Based on the material placed on record, the CCI observed that Ola spends per trip around 574 rupees (US$9), while earning an average revenue of 344 rupees, leading to a direct loss of 230 rupees per trip.
"While the propriety of these figures is a subject matter of investigation, prima facie, the Commission is of the view that, they indicate predatory pricing aimed to oust other players from the relevant market," the agency said.
ANI acquired in March a smaller rival TaxiForSure, run by Serendipity Infolabs, for $200 million.
The potential of the Indian market has become evident with Uber Technologies making a pitch for it. But the U.S. company ran into a controversy in December with local authorities after its driver in Delhi allegedly raped a woman passenger. Uber was banned in the city after the incident. Other app-based taxi companies have also come under scrutiny following the rape. Delhi's transport department framed new rules, called the Radio Taxi Scheme, which puts tighter controls on taxi operators.
ANI did not immediately comment on the CCI probe.


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"The world has quietly entered a new era, one where there is no national security without global security. We need to recognize this and to restructure and refocus our efforts to respond to this new reality." –Lester R. Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Many countries have implemented taxes on environmentally destructive products and activities while simultaneously reducing taxes on income. The scale of tax shifting has been relatively small thus far, accounting for only 3 percent of tax revenues worldwide. It is increasingly clear, however, that countries are recognizing the power of tax restructuring to reach environmental goals.
The market price for a gallon of gasoline, for example, reflects the cost of drilling, extracting, refining and transporting the oil. The market price does not account for the air pollution and acid rain produced by burning gasoline, nor its contribution to climate change as evidenced by rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and more destructive storms. Raising taxes on environmentally destructive products and activities is designed to more closely align the market prices with their actual costs.
Germany, a leader in tax shifting, has implemented environmental tax reform in several stages by lowering income taxes and raising energy taxes. In 1999, the country increased taxes on gasoline, heating oils, and natural gas, and adopted a new tax on electricity. This revenue was used to decrease employer and employee contributions to the pension fund. Energy tax rises for many energy-intensive industries were substantially lower, however, reflecting concerns about international competitiveness.
In 2000, Germany further reduced payroll taxes and increased those on motor fuels and electricity. As a result, motor fuel sales were 5 percent lower in the first half of 2001 than in the same period in 1999. Meanwhile, carpool agencies reported growth of 25 percent in the first half of 2000. Thus far, Germany has shifted 2 percent of its tax burden from incomes to environmentally destructive activities.
One part of the United Kingdom's environmental tax reform involved a steadily increasing fuel tax known as a fuel duty escalator, which was in effect from 1993 until 1999. As a result, fuel consumption in the road transport sector dropped, and the average fuel efficiency of trucks over 33 tons increased by 13 percent between 1993 and 1998. Ultra-low sulfur diesel had a lower tax rate than regular diesel, which caused its share of domestic diesel sales to jump from 5 percent in July 1998 to 43 percent in February 1999; by the end of 1999, the nation had completely converted to ultra-low sulfur diesel.
The Netherlands has also shifted taxes to environmentally destructive activities. A general fuel tax, originally implemented in 1988 and modified in 1992, is now levied on fossil fuels; rates are based on both the carbon and the energy contents of the fuel. Between 1996 and 1998, a Regulatory Energy Tax (RET) was implemented, which taxed natural gas, electricity, fuel oil, and heating oil. Unlike the fuel tax, which was designed principally for revenue generation, the RET's goal was to change consumer behavior by creating incentives for energy efficiency. To maintain competitiveness, major energy users were exempted from the taxes, so this tax fell mainly on individuals.
Since sixty percent of the revenue from these Dutch taxes came from households, the taxes were offset by decreasing income taxes. The 40 percent of revenue derived from businesses was recycled through three mechanisms: a reduction in employer contributions to social security, a reduction in corporate income taxes, and an increased tax exemption for self-employed people. This tax shift has caused household energy costs to increase, which has resulted in a 15-percent reduction in consumer electricity use and a 5- to 10-percent decrease in fuel usage.
Finland implemented a carbon dioxide (CO2) tax in 1990. By 1998, the country's CO2 emissions had dropped by almost 7 percent. Finland's environmental taxes, like those in most countries, are far from uniform: the electricity tax is greater for households and the service sector than for industry.
Sweden's experiment with tax shifting began in 1991, when it raised taxes on carbon and sulfur emissions and reduced income taxes. Manufacturing industries received exemptions and rebates from many of the environmental taxes, putting their tax rates at half of those paid by households. In 2001, the government increased taxes on diesel fuel, heating oil, and electricity while lowering income taxes and social security contributions. Six percent of all government revenue in Sweden has now been shifted. This has helped Sweden reduce greenhouse gas emissions more quickly than anticipated. A political agreement between the government and the opposition required a 4-percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2012. Yet by 2000, emissions were already down 3.9 percent from 1990-in large measure due to energy taxes.
The myriad exemptions given to energy-intensive industries in existing tax shift programs, created out of legitimate competitiveness concerns, slow the creation of more effective tax systems. Using border tax adjustments-where companies have environmental taxes rebated to them upon export and have domestic environmental taxes added to imports-can ensure international competitiveness without tax exemptions.
Eliminating subsidies to environmentally destructive industries will also help the market send the right signals. Worldwide, environmentally destructive subsidies exceed $500 billion annually. As long as government subsidies encourage activities that the taxes seek to discourage, the effectiveness of tax shifting will be limited.
If properly constructed, tax shifts can help make markets work more effectively by incorporating more of the indirect costs of goods and services into their prices and by changing consumer and producer behavior accordingly. The emergence of a world-leading wind turbine industry in Denmark, for example, is one result of Danish taxes on fossil fuels and electricity, which are among the highest in the world. These measures have also spurred sales of energy-efficient appliances and encouraged other energy-saving behavior.
Expanding the tax base to encompass more products and services with deleterious environmental impacts would greatly enhance the effectiveness of tax shifting. Aviation fuel, for example, is currently tax-free worldwide, despite airplane emissions causing 3.5 percent of global warming. However, recent European discussions of imposing taxes on jet fuel are a promising development. Such taxes might slow the projected growth in worldwide air travel and encourage manufacturers to make efficiency improvements that lower jet fuel consumption.
The goal of tax restructuring is to get the market to tell the ecological truth. Thus far, tax shifts have been limited in scope and have produced positive, if modest, results. Creation of an eco-economy calls for tax shifts on a broader scale, and of much larger magnitude, in order for prices to incorporate environmental costs and to produce the requisite changes in individual and collective behavior.
Copyright © 2002 Earth Policy Institute


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Yeah, I know. My photos are usually of natural things. Like real food. No, I haven't lost my mind (not totally, anyway).
Let me explain. I just received an email from one of my blog readers asking me what the deal was with the High Fructose Corn Syrup commercials. I hadn't seen them, so I did a little research and while I'm not going to jump all over the Corn Refiners Association (well, maybe a little) — sure enough, they're pulling out what they're calling the "Sweet Surprise" campaign. And on the surface, they're not fibbing about the facts. No, they aren't lying, BUT (the famous "but") they're also not telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God.
They suggest that HFCS is fine in "moderation." Moderation is a bandwagon I continually jump on, BUT my definition of moderation and theirs is probably very different. There are also many things I wouldn't consider eating — even in moderation. Plus, foods that contain HFCS are usually highly refined junk foods that often contain other forms of sugar and non-food additives. HFCS pals around with hydrogenated fats, artificial flavors, strange dyes, and other questionable friends. As I mentioned in my prior sugar post, highly refined sugars (white table sugar, HFCS) have had all the nutrient value stripped through the processing, leaving a nutritionally void source of calories.
So, as I sit here reading the ingredient list that accompanies these little treats pictured above, I stick with my original story. Use natural forms of sugar such as honey, pure maple syrup, or molasses and use those in moderation. Skip the processed stuff and eat real food, which is usually lower in calories and comes with the nutrients and fiber your body needs and wants.
Thanks, but no thanks to the Corn Refiners Association and HFCS — even with this new and "enlightening" information.
Check out these commercials and tell me what you think.
These little snacks pictured here have been hidden away on my closet shelf for over a year. I've been saving them for something special. Today's the day! Don't worry, even though I'd do just about anything for a few organic jelly beans right now (I'm doing a sugar cleanse), I'm not tempted to eat these things. Even if they were gluten-free. I bought them because I wanted to see how long they'd last. They're back in the closet again. Look for another post using these same models next year.
The label list on the pink treats (I won't name any names) is about 45 ingredients long, with 3 forms of sugar, 2 being at the top of the list. There's not much nutritional value there. The best thing on the list might actually be the pork gelatin (yes, that's an ingredient). Or maybe the beef fat. Ugh!
You get the idea. Now, go eat a peach. Yum, that's a real sweet surprise!


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Members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) agreed on one thing at Tuesday's meeting: the Internet does not need to be fixed. Despite this shared sentiment, the FCC's commissioners are divided on whether the government should act in anticipation of potential problems as the Internet matures. The panel voted 3–2 in favor of the Open Internet Order, designed to ensure what has commonly been referred to as "net neutrality".
Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn joined FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in passing the order, whereas commissioners Robert McDowell and Meredith Attwell Baker strongly dissented, disagreeing with the government's involvement in enforcing conduct on the Internet.
Genachowski acknowledged that the Internet and the World Wide Web have blossomed despite minimal federal regulation, but he also expressed concern over a lack of enforceable rules to protect consumers from any emerging Internet-related practices that might divide users into haves and have-nots. "I believe our actions today foster an ongoing cycle of massive investment, innovation and consumer demand both at the edge and in the core of broadband networks," he said during the meeting in Washington, D.C.
The order addresses several key principles: Users have a right to information about the performance of their broadband connections as well as the way in which their broadband providers manage the network itself (in particular, how they prioritize different types of traffic). The order, which applies to both fixed and wireless broadband services, prohibits the unlawful blocking of content, apps, services and the connection of devices to the network.
The Open Internet Order's goal is to create a level playing field where the commercial market, rather than the government or some other central authority, picks winners or losers, according to Genachowski, who added, "That's the role of the commercial market and the marketplace of ideas." As such, the order does not permit pay-for-priority arrangements between broadband providers and businesses operating on the Internet that would produce so-called fast lanes for some companies' content but not for others. Such arrangements "would allow broadband providers to skew the marketplace by favoring one idea, application or service over another by selectively prioritizing Internet traffic," he said.
This does not, however, prohibit broadband providers from developing tiered-pricing models to help them manage the expansion of and help with the investment in high-speed networks. The key distinction here is that it would be up to broadband providers, not their customers, to decide which content is prioritized.
"The crux of the order we're adopting, which is based on a strong and sound legal framework rooted in the [Tele]communications Act, is straightforward," Genachowski said. The order establishes an Open Internet Advisory Committee to ensure that these rules are adopted and enforced.
Genachowski also indicated that his support for the order was influenced in no small way by the position of Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The chairman cited a Berners-Lee article in the December issue of Scientific American at Tuesday's meeting, saying, "Although the Internet and Web generally thrive on lack of regulation, some basic values have to be legally preserved."
The commissioners opposed to the FCC's new broadband rules indicated that industry groups had been successful in monitoring Internet fairness and questioned whether the federal government had the legal right to intervene. McDowell said the order suffered from "regulatory hubris" and added, "Fortunately, the cures for this malady are obtainable in court." In a Wall Street Journal editorial on Sunday, McDowell wrote, "Nothing is broken that needs fixing."
Baker concurred. In a Washington Post editorial on Tuesday, she wrote, "Discouragingly, the FCC is intervening to regulate the Internet because it wants to, not because it needs to."
FCC Ends Net Neutrality Debate (for Now) by Passing Its Open Internet Order
The controversial measure will let broadband providers prioritize Internet content, but detractors say the government is fixing something that is not broken
Members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) agreed on one thing at Tuesday's meeting: the Internet does not need to be fixed. Despite this shared sentiment, the FCC's commissioners are divided on whether the government should act in anticipation of potential problems as the Internet matures. The panel voted 3–2 in favor of the Open Internet Order, designed to ensure what has commonly been referred to as "net neutrality".


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aidezThursday, November 10, 2011
It took me a while to put this sweater together. It also took me a while to get photos. I can only blame that on daylight savings time and the color. The color of the yarn.
While I love everything about this sweater, I have one regret that I didn't make it in the natural color. Something about those cables... look so good in natural.
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Absolutely gorgeous!! Congratulations on lovely work.ReplyDelete
I think it's amazing in navy. But I'm partial to navy. Nice work, Leslie!ReplyDelete
I looks lovely on you. I had to chuckle though, because all I could think of was the rude commenter mentioning your headless shots. Nice job, Leslie!ReplyDelete
But it is beautiful in blue too!ReplyDelete
Really beautiful!ReplyDelete
Love the sweater. I am becoming a huge fan of cables.ReplyDelete
It looks very good, a job well done! And it looks very good on you. I like the blue with the jeans, I think the cables do stand out very beautiful in blue.ReplyDelete
As I was one of those many to suggest Aidez, I am certainly happy you like it. I love this sweater and would make another if I didn't have a ton of other knitting I'd like to do!ReplyDelete
I made mine in a natural shade, but I love your navy.
it's beautiful, leslie! i like the blue quite a bit.ReplyDelete
Another one of your cozy, lovely knits, Leslie!ReplyDelete
Ahhh! Beautiful. I am working on my last sleeve now! Yay. Similar color to your blue, which I love your color selection, but I am concerned about size. Yours looks great. I am making the M and am hoping it won't be too big/ long. Hmmm. So pretty!ReplyDelete
Wow. It's Gorgeous. I love the back!ReplyDelete
This is really, really beautiful, BUT... you can always make another in natural if you desire! :)~JanReplyDelete
Love it! I have some dark blue waiting for this pattern as well... I have to get on it!ReplyDelete
It's awesome!ReplyDelete
This is GORGEOUS!!!! Oh wow I really like the blue too. It looks fantastic! You did a great job.ReplyDelete
Ok just followed the link and can I tell you I like yours so much better?? It fits you better and much more flattering on you than the model they show on line. I may need to do this one....ReplyDelete
Very pretty! I love the color blue. Those cables are gorgeous.ReplyDelete
This is stuning!ReplyDelete
i understand what you mean about cables popping in a natural color yarn - but i think this looks great indigo. it will be a super handy sweater to have and throw on.ReplyDelete
so i'm glad you made it in this color. but ouch on the dark yarn and winter light for knitting.
I don't know...that blue is pretty beautiful! What a gorgeous sweater!ReplyDelete
Oh, I think this sweater looks lovely in this color! And, it does look nicer of you. I'd love to have one and have moved it to the top of my queue (first time I moved anything around my queue).ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Great job!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, as usual! I love your color choice. I made mine in a wine color, and I love it, but I do have enough skeins of navy that I'm seriously considering making it again. But next time, I might use a smaller needle size--the first one I used US11 and made the small, and it's a little big.ReplyDelete
Leslie, it's just perfect. I have to agree with another commenter who thought yours looked better than the pattern model - yours is a great fit! And I know the navy wasn't your first choice, but it looks smashing on you. The cables DO pop. Love it!!!!! Happy new fall sweater!ReplyDelete
Your sweater looks fantastic!! I have had this on my list and now seeing yours wants me to go out now and get the yarn. Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
It looks very nice! I think it's a great color choice. What a popular pattern!ReplyDelete
Leslie, you are a friend to give us a view of this lovely cardigan, and the info so that we might attempt one of our own.ReplyDelete
I see what you mean about it's having just that perfect blend of enough detail to keep it interesting to knit, yet enough simplicity and a gauge that will guarantee speedy results.
The color you've chosen to use is a good one. I like doing Aran inspired patterns in colors, even some surprising colors.
Another lovely sweater, just beautiful! I love your blog, such pretty pictures.ReplyDelete
oh my gosh that is so gorgeous! i really love the color on you. it is a fabulous knit.ReplyDelete
it's in my queue now too because of you (i hope mine turns out half as nice).
Your sweater is LOVELY!! the color is beautiful....your choice is perfect!ReplyDelete
Love the color. Beautiful knit!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/12/2011
looks great leslie.ReplyDelete
Those cables look lovely in navy, too! Lovely. Congrats!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/12/2011
Yes yes yes! Loooove this sweater. I wear mine all the time. Yours is gorgeous. Makes me want another one in blue.ReplyDelete
Oh, I just love those 'go-to' sweaters that you can throw on any old time! This looks great, Leslie! Although I understand your thoughts on the color, I absolutely LOVE the navy!!ReplyDelete
I too am making one. I love the blue! We must be on the same wave length...Beautiful work!ReplyDelete
wonderful job leslie! I love a sweater that you can wear all the time...this looks fabulous.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love this sweater!!!!ReplyDelete
I think the color you chose is very lovely. I, too, like natural colors, but I think the pattern is lovely in the blue.
Your sweater is gorgeous! And the blue is terrific.ReplyDelete
I love the blue. What better with a white t and jeans? Another lovely knit.ReplyDelete
Looks stunning on you!ReplyDelete
Love that sweater!ReplyDelete
That looks fantastic! I've actually got Aidez on the needles, in a light grey colour. Have totally lost my knitting mojo for it though, today was 37C in Sydney today (98.6 F)!ReplyDelete
Simply stunning.ReplyDelete
- Maureen11/14/2011
Beautifulknitting...gorgeous sweater! Please have no regrets about the color - indigo is perfect and different from all the natural color sweaters out there!ReplyDelete
- Bobbie in AK11/14/2011
I love the blue! The cables just pop!ReplyDelete
love it!! love it!! love it!!ReplyDelete
I think the color is perfect!
and another perfect fit on you.
- Anonymous11/15/2011
Love it! I made Aidez in midnight blue as well... but I used a different yarn. I agree with you in the sense the dark color doesn't really highlight the different stitches. However, dark blue looks fabulous on blondes! Enjoy!ReplyDelete
-Dublin16 on Ravelry
This has been in my Rav queue for ages and your post really makes me get on to it! I actually much prefer it in a darker colour rather than the original natural and you confirmed it!ReplyDelete
It looks great! I'm almost done with mine--one sleeve to go--and can't wait to put it on!ReplyDelete
- Tricia U.11/15/2011
I think it's gorgeous! I wasn't so sure about this one at first because I thought it looked a little too big on the model. There was just something about the fit on her. But now that I see it on you, I'm sold. Then I saw the many that have been made on Ravelry and think I want to give it a whirl. I love the color you chose, too.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/16/2011
I love Berroco patterns and will be adding this one to my (ever-growing) list! It's just beautiful!ReplyDelete
totally cute...as always :)ReplyDelete
I am so late to the party but LOVE your Aidez! (even in the dark color :-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12/01/2011
I have been looking for a cardigan pattern and really wanted to spice things up with cables. After seeing your beautiful blue "aidez" I am pumped!! So glad to have found your blog!ReplyDelete
What a great sweater. Looks so cozy too. I'm going to go 'fav' it now.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful cardigan! You must get so many compliments on it. Well done :)ReplyDelete


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Amyloid beta in the brain of individuals with Alzheimer's disease
The deposition of amyloid beta in the brain of individuals with Alzheimer's disease is the focus of much research into both its cause and treatment.
While there may not be a consensus as to whether the deposition contributes to the disease or is a consequence of the disease, there is agreement that it is not favoured thermodynamically, meaning that something else is promoting the process.
Other proteins are often co-deposited in vivo with amyloid beta and one such protein is serum amyloid P component (or SAP). Recent evidence has suggested that SAP is elevated in Alzheimer's disease and a team of researchers from Keele University in Staffordshire, UK, led by Professor Chris Exley, has shown that physiologically-significant concentrations of SAP promote the deposition of amyloid beta under conditions approaching those found in vivo.
Professor Exley said: "We have shown that SAP is bound by fibrils of amyloid beta and that this interaction stabilises the fibrils over timescales which are physiologically significant. This is the first example of a physiologically significant biomolecule promoting and stabilising the formation of amyloid fibrils of amyloid beta 42 under near-physiological conditions."
The group also found that this property of SAP was enhanced in the presence of aluminium, a metal which has also been shown to be co-deposited with amyloid beta in Alzheimer's disease. There have been recent efforts to reduce the plasma concentration of SAP as a therapy for Alzheimer's disease and the research provides strong evidence that SAP is involved in the deposition of amyloid beta 42 in Alzheimer's disease and that by reducing the plasma concentration of SAP it might also reduce the deposition of amyloid beta. Their observations support serum amyloid P component as a therapeutic target in Alzheimer's disease.
Chris Stone
IOS Press