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(Maui)– The Maui Culinary Academy (MCA) at the University of Hawai'i Maui College (UHMC), in partnership with the Fairmont Kea Lani Maui and Youngs Market Company of Hawai'i will present the 17th annual Noble Chef benefit on Saturday, October 26th, 2013. The event begins with a VIP reception at 5 p.m., followed by a full reception at 6 p.m., and an elegant gourmet dinner with entertainment and auction at 7 p.m. Tickets are $250 for preferred seating and $185 for general seating. Table sponsorships begin at $3,000.
The Noble Chef is MCA's largest annual fundraiser, and features a mentorship program that pairs together many Maui's celebrity chefs and MCA students. This year's event theme is "The World on a Plate", represented by a celebrity chef-designed reception menu spanning the culinary "hot spots" of the world, including Japan, Vietnam, Morocco, Spain, Great Britain, India, Greece, New Zealand, and Mexico. After the reception, guests will sit down for a multi-course gourmet French dinner and dessert prepared by MCA's faculty chefs. Wine and spirits throughout the evening are provided by Young's Market Company of Hawai'i, Ocean Vodka, and Maui Brewing Company.
In addition to preparing the evening's meals together, the celebrity chefs and the students they mentor spend several days together beforehand in an intimate learning exchange, providing invaluable hands-on experience for MCA students. This year's celebrity "noble chefs" are:
Chef Greg Gaspar, Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa.
Chris Kulis & Brian Etheredge of Capische?
Brett Martin of Andaz Maui at Wailea
Lyndon Honda of Laulima Events & Catering
Marc McDowell of Makena Resort Maui
Anton Haines of Pacific'O
Bret Pafford of Gannon's
Wes Holder of Pulehu, an Italian Grill
Bryan Beneke of Four Seasons Maui Resort
MCA faculty chefs include Jake Belmonte, Tom Lelli, Craig Omori, Jeff Scheer, Theresa Shurilla and Christina Pafford.
Noble Chef Table Sponsorships directly benefit the Maui Culinary Academy, and are available for a limited time. Table Sponsors currently include: Maui No Ka Oi Magazine, Maui Oil Company, Gunars and Jorene Valkirs, Hawaii Gas Company, Bank of Hawai'i, Johnson Controls, First Hawaiian Bank, and Sodexo. To view sponsor packages, interested parties can visit http://bit.ly/SponsorNC13.
For more information about The Noble Chef event, visit: http://noblechef.maui.hawaii.edu
To learn about the Maui Culinary Academy, visit http://www.mauiculinary.com


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It does a lot more. Although it contains the same number and amount of male-specific nutrients it goes much further in supporting all the organs and systems, which in turn provides support against the main causes of aging and helping in the prevention of degenerative conditions.
To illustrate this better the Premium version contains about three times the amount of SAMe and Resveratrol, both important nutrients. It includes Phosphatidyl L-Serine which targets the brain. There are an additional 7 amino acids included, as well as an immunity blend of another five nutrients and additional anthocyanins for eye health.
The daily dose is seven tablets a day. This can be split into two or more doses a day but it is still OK to take the full dose at one time. It can be taken with or without food. As the tablets are enteric coated there is no risk of an upset stomach.
The tablet is already at the highest possible level of potency. The reason why the daily dose rate is so high is because it is not physically possible to get the number of nutrients that your organs and systems need in a lesser number of tablets.
We use the most potent forms of nutrients to get the maximum 'punch' per milligram but in order to achieve the objectives for this supplement and those of our customers we simply cannot reduce the number of tablets.
We accept it can be inconvenient for some people but having the ability to take them all at once without the need for food helps offset that inconvenience.
We strongly recommend that all of our customers take the recommended daily dose whenever possible, as this is required to gain the maximum benefits that we say may be expected from our supplements. If you are not in a position to invest the amount needed to enable you to take the full dose you are better to switch to the Standard version which is about half the cost.
This is because the levels of the vitamin and mineral component in Total Balance Premium is based on the full daily intake of seven tablets, so if you take less then you would not be getting the optimal dose of Vitamins and minerals.
The enteric coating on the Total Balance tablets protects some of the sensitive ingredients, such as SAMe, from being be destroyed by the stomach acid. The enteric coating ensures the tablets do not begin dissolving until they enter the small intestine, where the best possible absorption can occur.
The Male Rejuvenator and Total Balance Men's Premium are separate and individual products. Depending on your needs, you may find you can take them both together for optimum health. If you are taking the full dose of Total Balance Men's Premium you may find that taking half the dose of Male Rejuvenator, at three tablets per day is adequate, but there is no problem should you wish to take the full dose of both.
Quite possibly yes. Often the reason why testosterone levels diminish in men as they get older is because the testosterone they are producing is being converted to estrogen. Total Balance Men's Premium contains Chrysin which inhibits the conversion of testosterone to estrogen thus resulting in an increased level of testosterone.
Other ingredients present which support other organs and systems may also help stimulate the production of testosterone. Also, it is important to be aware that if you are on a cholesterol reducing drug such as a statin that this can have an impact on your testosterone as cholesterol is an important substance for your sex hormone cascade.
Some of the male-specific nutrients included within Total Balance Men's Premium have been included specifically to help with an enlarged prostate which is generally the cause of An advanced nutrient system containing 98 bio-active male-specific vitamins, minerals, nutrients, antioxidants & herbs for optimal male health. visits to the bathroom. These have proven to be very successful over the last 18 years.
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Total Balance Men's Premium is recommended for men 30 years and over to help provide additional hormonal, prostate and sexual support that may be required from this age onwards. However, there is no reason that it cannot be used for men aged under 30 if specific testosterone or sexual health concerns are present. Generally, these concerns are not common in men aged under 30 which is why we recommend Total Balance Unisex for this age group.
As with all supplements, caution must be taken if you are on medications of any sort. Total Balance contains ingredients like Gingko Biloba, which help thin the blood, so if you are on blood thinning medication this has to be taken into account. It contains a small amount of Vitamin K which may affect blood clotting as well. If you are taking Coumadin / Warfarin please advise your doctor in case your medication needs to be adjusted.
Very rarely there is an issue although it is always a good idea to allow a 2 or 3 hour gap between the Total Balance and your medication.
Nonetheless, we always suggest checking with your doctor before beginning Total Balance.
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It is possible but unlikely. Some people may experience mild detox symptoms such as nausea, headaches or stomach upsets in the first few days of starting Total Balance. The likelihood of experiencing these effects will depend on your health status, as well as dietary and lifestyle factors. Total Balance helps to flush out toxins which may accumulate in the body due to a diet high in sugar, caffeine, alcohol, as well as smoking or exposure to environmental toxins. If you consume a less than optimal diet or are exposed to other toxins in your daily life you may well experience some mild detox symptoms.
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To find a celebrant in Northern Territory, either do a keyword search in the search box or choose one of the areas listed below.
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Still in an introspective mood after... well.
I find myself returning to some old Meyer-Briggs Personality Test results. I've known for years that I'm an INTJ, and here's my profile (as found here). Relevant parts have been italicized:
To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.
INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.
INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; INTJs have also been known to take it upon themselves to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or co-workers. On the other hand, they do tend to be scrupulous and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into a project, and have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.
In the broadest terms, what INTJs "do" tends to be what they "know". Typical INTJ career choices are in the sciences and engineering, but they can be found wherever a combination of intellect and incisiveness are required (e.g., law, some areas of academia). INTJs can rise to management positions when they are willing to invest time in marketing their abilities as well as enhancing them, and (whether for the sake of ambition or the desire for privacy) many also find it useful to learn to simulate some degree of surface conformism in order to mask their inherent unconventionality.
Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.
This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete, paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness.
Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications.
Indeed. Scary how accurate this is.
Another site says this:
Other people may have a difficult time understanding an INTJ. They may see them as aloof and reserved. Indeed, the INTJ is not overly demonstrative of their affections, and is likely to not give as much praise or positive support as others may need or desire. That doesn't mean that he or she doesn't truly have affection or regard for others, they simply do not typically feel the need to express it. Others may falsely perceive the INTJ as being rigid and set in their ways. Nothing could be further from the truth, because the INTJ is committed to always finding the objective best strategy to implement their ideas. The INTJ is usually quite open to hearing an alternative way of doing something.
Hell, I don't understand me sometimes. Heh.


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Not Paying Attention? You Wish
Tea Partiers have their eyes open. That's why they're mad.
Who's going to argue with Sen. John Kerry's recent claim that the American electorate "doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on, so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening"?
Hey, that's why John Kerry keeps his job. That's why a simple three-word slogan and a bunch of saccharine speeches can propel a fresh political face into a spectacularly failed presidency.
And that's why the Party of Intellect, Decency, and Selflessness has a hallowed duty to point out the hard facts and truths about its opponents, those Aqua Buddha-worshipping, witchcraft-loving, Talibanish, rape-approving, women-hating, foreign-influence-peddling brutes.
Or, as the president calls them, the "enemy," a group so masterfully devious it can swindle a nation but yet too dumb to take seriously.
Without a doubt, Kerry's deft prognosis of the electorate allows that this epidemic of ignorance most often sweeps the nation when Democrats lose elections. Its existence—like that of PBS or the Coast Guard—is a mystery.
But these particular midterm elections are more intensely focused on philosophical disagreements and public policy than any in memory.
If you've been paying attention, you know it's not Sharron Angle's and Ken Buck's sophisticated personalities, soaring orations, or spellbinding answers that make them competitive. It's their ideology—and the ideology of their opponents.
Tea Party types are interested in ideology, not just the economy. They will be disappointed at the first whiff of "bipartisanship" consensus on spending. They will be irate when Republicans fail to shut down unnecessary federal departments as promised. (As others have pointed out, if the GOP doesn't have the stomach to defund those nerds at NPR, how can we expect it to repeal Obamacare?)
Most elections aren't as historically momentous as partisans would have us believe, but many can shift the trajectory of the national conversation for a long time.
Now that the Tea Party has cleared the brush and lived to tell about it, the next round of candidates will be far less apprehensive in advocating free market reforms. In fact, the next round of economically libertarian candidates—folks who never would have thought of running against the establishment previously—are likely to be more polished, impressive, and intellectually prepared to make their case.
They've been paying attention.
A new Rasmussen poll finds that 75 percent of likely voters believe a free market economy is better than an economy managed by the government. When further broken down, 90 percent of "mainstream" voters prefer free markets.
Among the "Political Class"—which I believe is technically defined as "people who hate America"—only 34 percent feels that the free market is better, and 30 percent likes a government-managed economy.
Anyone "paying attention" can see that a managed economy is a stagnant economy. Anyone "paying attention" can see that as clearly as he can see Nov. 2. There have been few elections as clearly delineated by ideological differences in action as this one.
So despite the claims by Democrats that voters are misled or confused, trust me; an electorate paying attention is the last thing they want.
David Harsanyi is a columnist at The Denver Post and the author of Nanny State. Visit his website at www.DavidHarsanyi.com.


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A Boston development team wants to build a pair of towers in front of TD Garden that could reach 600 feet in height, creating a gateway for the arena with stores and restaurants, 500 residences, offices, and a 200-room hotel.
The project, by Delaware North Cos. and Boston Properties, would dramatically reshape the area around the Garden and North Station. At 1.7 million square feet, it would be among the largest developments in the city, adding shopping, dining, and living options to an iconic sports property.
"This project will help to transform the rest of Causeway Street and become a new front door to the TD Garden and North Station," said Charlie Jacobs, a principal of Delaware North.
The developers submitted an outline to the Boston Redevelopment Authority Thursday. They must undergo a monthslong review process but indicated they hope to start construction early next year.
The project would make good on long-delayed plans to redevelop 2.8 acres along Causeway Street where the old Boston Garden once stood. The site has been used for parking since the new arena opened in the mid-1990s.
Documents filed Thursday describe a towering complex that would rise over a shared "podium" of retail stores. The complex would have about 600,000 square feet of office space, 500 luxury residences, and a hotel.
Although retail leases will not be finalized for months, executives have talked about a mix of large and small stores, along with restaurants and possibly a supermarket.
A brochure circulated in recent months about the project featured a Target department store, but Jacobs said Thursday that the retailer would not open in the complex.
Construction is planned to unfold in phases. Jacobs, who declined to provide a price tag for the project, said the work would start with the retail base and a new glass concourse into the Garden.
Next would come the offices, hotel, and residences, situated in separate towers over the retail shops.
The exact height of the towers is not yet known, but Jacobs said the complex could top out at 600 feet. John Hancock Tower in the Back Bay stands at 790 feet.
The project is one of several that could transform huge swaths of property around North Station. Collectively, developers are proposing to build more than 1,800 residences, along with office towers, public parks, and many new stores and restaurants. Five large mixed-use projects are planned for lots surrounding TD Garden.
The area's revival has unfolded in fits and starts over the years. It began with the Big Dig and the redesign of North Station and later attracted its first significant private investment with construction of the Avenir apartment complex at the corner of Canal and Causeway streets.
Development stalled during the economic downturn, but the area got a huge boost recently when Converse Inc. agreed to move its corporate headquarters to the Lovejoy Wharf development, off North Washington Street.
The project, by Beal/Related Cos., will bring hundreds of workers to the property and result in construction of a residential building, stores, a large waterfront park, and a new section of the city's Harborwalk.
Nearby, the developers AvalonBay Communities Inc. and Equity Residential are each planning 500-unit apartment buildings, and Simpson Housing is building a 286-unit apartment and retail building overlooking the Zakim Bridge.
The Delaware North-Boston Properties project could have the most significant impact on the area. It would cover the bland, gray facade of the Garden and update the site with fresh architecture and amenities.
The buildings would be designed with generous amounts of glass and include a large archway leading visitors into the Garden. The complex would be situated over an entrance to North Station. The plan includes 300,000 square feet of new retail space.
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St. Romanos was born of Jewish parents in the latter part of the 5th century in Emesa, Syria. He converted to Christianity as a child. When he came of age, he moved to Beirut and served in the Church of the Resurrection there as a deacon. He loved to sing, but was not known to have a particularly melodious voice.
During the reign of the Roman Emperor Anastasius (a.d. 491-518), St. Romanos went to Constantinople and served in the church as a deacon and a singer. He also spent time in the Blachernae Church where the omophor of the Virgin Mary was kept, for he loved her very much. Patriarch Euthymius loved St. Romanos because of his virtues, and encouraged him to sing with the more accomplished singers, who often ridiculed him. When he was assigned to lead the singing on the evening of the Nativity of Christ, he desperately prayed for help, and in a dream the Virgin appeared to him and gave him a scroll to eat, which he did. The next day, blessed by Christ and the Virgin, he beautifully sang the hymn, or kontakion, that has come down to us, "Today the Virgin." St. Romanos became famous and wrote over 8,000 hymns.


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Official music video for HVOB's "Ghost"
Music meets video meets installation: "Trialog" is a multilayered art project. The track " Ghost" is like the electronic duo's album, the result of a trialogue with artist Clemens Wolf and HVOB. At the heart of the project are materials and the processes of their transformation, addressed on all three artistic levels and wrapped up in a single work. Each track is therefore a self-contained piece comprising installation, music and video.
Process: Etching
"Trialog" is released via Stil vor Talent and is now available on vinyl, CD and digitally.
Video by Clemens Wolf & lichterloh.tv
Written & Produced by HVOB
Mastered by Robin Schmidt
Camera by Jochen Russmann (www.tykeflims.at)
Camera by Michael Brandstetter (www.mbrand.at)
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Memory Quilt #6
Yes, I was asked to make one more. This one will go to the deceased person's mother. You can see the other ones: one, two, three, four, and five. This one is once again machine pieced and quilted. It is 49 in X 63 in.
5 comments:
- StitchinByTheLake said...
My goodness you get a lot done! I love the use of stripes and plaids in this one - I'm always hesitant to use stripes but when I do I'm rarely disappointed. Just need more confidence I guess! Beautiful.... blessings, marlene
- September 6, 2008 at 8:54 AM
- rlbates said...
Thanks, Marlene.
- September 6, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- Cathy said...
It is lovely. Does it also have the route 66 material for backing?
- September 7, 2008 at 2:44 AM
- rlbates said...
No, I just used a pretty "gold" floral since it was for his mother.
- September 7, 2008 at 6:38 AM
- Chrysalis said...
Ramona, you better be careful we'll all be placing orders! :)
- September 7, 2008 at 7:10 AM
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(adapted from this Green Tea Cheesecake by Dessert First, makes approx 20 squares)
200g Arnotts Nice biscuits (or any other plain sweet biscuits)
100g unsalted butter, melted
150ml pure (whipping) cream
170g cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup caster sugar
100ml milk
1 1/2 tsp matcha powder (adjust to taste, I like mine a bit stronger)
1 1/2 tsp powdered gelatin
Optional: Fresh blueberries or strawberries and extra whipped cream for topping
Remove from fridge and slice into equal sized squares. Top with fresh whipped cream and/or berries and serve chilled. Can be stored for two days in the refrigerator.


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Between January and June of 2011, the United States carried out more than 46,000 deportations of the parents of U.S.-citizen children, according to previously unreleased federal data obtained by Colorlines.com's publisher, the Applied Research Center. The figures reflect a striking increase in the rate of removals of parents and raise serious concerns about the impact of these deportations on children, many of whom are left behind.
Congress demanded two years ago that the Department of Homeland Security begin to compile this data by July 2010, but it had not been made available to the public. The Applied Research Center obtained it through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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The data on parental deportations does not reveal how many children each of these parents had, or whether their children remained in the U.S. or left with their mothers and fathers. However, the Applied Research Center has also found a disturbing number of children languishing in foster care and separated from their parents for long periods. After a year-long national investigation, we estimate there are at least 5,100 children in foster care who face barriers to family reunification because their mother or father is detained or deported. That number could reach as high as 15,000 in the next five years, at the current rate of growth.
The rising number of parental deportations has corresponded with an overall increase in immigration enforcement under the Obama administration; in fiscal year 2011, a record 397,000 people were deported. Yet parental deportation has also increased as a proportion of all removals. Between 1998 and 2007, the last period for which similar data is available, approximately 8 percent of almost 2.2 million removals were parents of U.S.-citizen children. The new data, released to the Applied Research Center in September, reveals that more than 22 percent of all people deported in the first half of this year were parents of citizen kids.
If rates of parental deportation remain steady in the year to come, the country will remove about as many parents in just two years as it did in the ten-year period ICE tracked previously. The number of children of non-citizens placed in the U.S. child welfare system will no doubt shoot up as well. Already, according to our research, one in 16 kids in Los Angeles' child welfare system are the children of detained or deported parents. Certain jurisdictions on the U.S.-Mexico border and at least one Florida county included in our field research had even higher rates.
The Obama administration has accepted the deportation of parents as an acceptable consequence of its immigration enforcement policy. In an interview aired on PBS' "Frontline" last month, Cecilia Munoz, the administration's top advisor on immigration, said that unless Congress passes a comprehensive immigration reform bill to provide a path to lawful status for undocumented immigrants, the deportation of parents will continue.
"At the end of the day, when you have immigration law that's broken and you have a community of 10 million, 11 million people living and working in the United States illegally, some of these things are going to happen," said Munoz.
"Even if the law is executed with perfection, there will be parents separated from their children," Munoz added. "It is a result of having a broken system of laws."
The Obama administration has been clear that ICE holds vast power to determine who it will and will not detain and deport. In July, ICE director John Morton released a memo affirming that agents have discretion in enforcement decisions. The memo instructed agents to consider "whether the person has a U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse, child, or parent" when determining who to detain or deport.
Yet, Munoz's comments and the data we've obtained suggest that indiscriminate deportation of parents may be an inevitable result of a rapidly growing immigration-enforcement juggernaut. It is less a matter of a broken system than of the Obama administration's very intentional policy of deporting 400,000 people a year.
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In October, the New York Times reported that almost half–48 percent–of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. arrived before 2000. Long-term residents, who are more likely to have children with U.S. citizenship, are increasingly the targets of federal immigration enforcement.
Indeed, the flow of immigrants crossing over the U.S.-Mexico border has declined in the last several years. And of the majority of the diminishing numbers of people still picked up crossing the border have already lived in the U.S. In 2010, 56 percent of people caught at the border had been deported before, up from 44 percent in 2005. Advocates say many of those who are returning are coming back to be with their children, who were left behind when they were deported.
These long-term residents of the U.S. are targeted by a federal deportation policy that relies increasingly on local police. A controversial program called Secure Communities, which has elicited protest from governors in three states, now turns a traffic stop or other run-in with police into a path to deportation.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintains that parents who are deported have control over what happens to their children. "The parent can decide whether to have the child leave with them or stay in the U.S.," an ICE spokesperson wrote in an email to the Applied Research Center, explaining the new data.
Yet, as our research on the intersections of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system shows, that is not always the case. Detained and deported parents regularly face the prospect of permanently losing their parental rights because their children are in the foster care system. These parents are often left out of decisions about where their children should live.
According to policy advocates, ICE has for years said that it does not believe significant numbers of families are separated in this way.
Emily Butera, senior program officer at the Women's Refugee Commission, a policy advocacy organization in Washington, said, "ICE tends to say, 'We think these are isolated incidents.' Everyone we've talked to from DHS and ICE say that they can't do anything unless they know how big the problem is."
Our research suggests the problem is substantial. In just six months, 46,486 parents of an unknown number of U.S.-citizen children were removed. According to our national study, thousands of their children face extended and sometimes permanent separation from their parents.
The data on parents of U.S.-citizens deported is overdue.
In 2009, after Homeland Security's inspector general released earlier data on the number of deported parents, Congress directed ICE to "begin collecting data on the deportation of parents of U.S.-born children no later than July 1, 2010" and to report that data at least semi-annually. Despite these demands, no data has been released to the public until now.
The new data suggest that parents living in certain parts of the country are particularly likely to be deported. The breadth of removals includes not only known deportation hubs like Arizona, Texas and California, but also parts of the South and Midwest. The ICE office covering Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina ordered large numbers of deportations, as did the one based in Chicago and covering seven states in the Midwest. These geographic trends provide further evidence of the changing orientation of immigration enforcement; it is moving increasingly to communities in the interior of the country.
As immigration enforcement spreads across the country and more parents of United States citizen children are deported, the collateral effects are likely only to grow.


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United States Armed Forces
|United States Armed Forces
|Military manpower
|Military age
|17–45 years old[1]
|Males & Females ages 17–49:
109,305,756 (2005 est.).[2]
|Regular Army: No Citizenship Requirement For Enlisted Members / All Officers must be US Citizens. National Guard: Citizens Only.
|Reaching military age annually
|Males & Females: 4,180,074 (2005 est.)
|Total armed forces
|2,685,713 (Ranked 2nd)
|Active troops
|1,426,713 (Ranked 2nd)
|Total troops
|2,685,713 (Ranked 7th)
|Military expenditures
|Dollar figure
|$441.6 billion (Ranked 1st.)
|Percent of GDP
|3.7% (FY2006 est.) (Ranked 26th)
|Dollar Figure (per citizen)
|$935.64($1470)[3] (ranked 3rd)
The United States Armed Forces are the military of the United States. It has six branches: the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, the Space Force and the Coast Guard.
The U.S. President Joe Biden is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. All branches except the Coast Guard are part of the Department of Defense, which is controlled by the Secretary of Defense. The Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security. The Marine Corps is part of the Navy.
About 1.4 million people are currently on active duty in the military with another 1,259,000 people on reserve (with 456,000 people in the Army and Air National Guard). There is currently no conscription. Women can serve in most combat positions, and in all non-combat military jobs. Because of war, some of these non-combat jobs actually see combat regularly.[4]
Ranks Edit
All the branches of the US military have Commissioned Officers and Non Commissioned/Enlisted Personnel. Most Enlisted members with a rank of E-4 and above are called Non-commissioned Officers (NCOs); the exception is the Air Force where E-5 is considered the first NCO rank. Their usual duties are to supervise or make sure that common jobs are done properly every day. Most branches also include Warrant Officers (Chief Warrant Officers in the Navy.) They are considered experts in their field, they are higher rank than other enlisted troops, but below officers. There are four ranks of Warrant Officers: WO-1 through WO-4 (CWO-1 to CWO-4)
Here are some common ranks for the US Army, Air Force and Marines. These branches of the military use different names for the enlisted ranks, but they all use the same for officers. The Navy and the Coast Guard have different ranks; for those see United States Navy.
*Each branch of the military has only one of these specific E-9 grade enlisted personnel and are considered the senior enlisted person of their branch. The Sergeant Major of the Army, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force are the spokespersons of the enlisted force at the highest levels of their services.
References Edit
- ↑ People of 17 years of age, with permission of parents, can join the U.S. armed services.
- ↑ CIA World Fact Book https://cia.gov/cia//publications/factbook/geos/us.html Archived 2007-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Money spent by different countries on their militaries
- ↑ Go Army. "Careers & Jobs". Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved May 8, 2006.
Other websites Edit
- Official U.S. DOD site
- Global Security on U.S. Military Operations
- Today's Military website
- Largest Military Personnel Locator
- US Military ranks and rank insignia
- US Military Mottos


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I'm excited to share the cover reveal of Henge by Realm Lovejoy. Henge is a YA Fantasy that is a modern spin-off of the Arthurian legends featuring Morgan le Fay as the protagonist. It is due to release this fall. The cover art is by the author, Realm Lovejoy.
About the book:
Modern-day Camelot. Where knights no longer carry swords. Magic is dangerous. And those who seek control are not to be trusted.
Sixteen-year-old Morgan le Fay is a fire user. An ordinary girl with an extraordinary skill, she has the ability to create and command fire at will. Her dream is to become the Maven—the right hand of the future King Arthur. In the chance of a lifetime, Morgan is selected to join Arthur's Round, an elite group of young magic users from which the new Maven will be chosen.
Along with the other fire, water, and wind users in Arthur's Round, Morgan is rigorously trained and tested. The handsome Merlin, a brilliant water user, takes a particular interest in her. Is his friendship to be trusted, or is Merlin simply trying to win the position of Maven for himself? Among the many rivals Morgan faces is the current Maven, Mordred, who seems determined to see her fail.
But Morgan has a secret—years ago, her mother was executed for using fire magic, and Morgan's desire for justice makes her more than ready to take on the challenge before her. Can she prevail in Camelot's tests of survival and magic? Only time—and Morgan's powerful fire—will tell.
Realm Lovejoy's modern Arthurian series features one of literature's most complicated and powerful female figures. Henge is the first book in the LE FAY series, and—like Morgan le Fay's magic—it is sure to dazzle and amaze.
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Brocade has extended an OEM relationship with IBM to include its recently acquired Foundry switches in a deal that appears to be in retaliation for Cisco's recent entry into the blade server market.
IBM will rebrand and sell Brocade's Foundry switches through its global sales force and authorized business partners. The switches include:
• NetIron MLX series, to be rebranded IBM m-series Ethernet routers;
• NetIron CES 2000 series, to be rebranded IBM c-series Ethernet switches;
• FastIron SuperX line, to be rebranded IBM s-series Ethernet switches; and
• FastIron GS series, to be rebranded IBM g-series Ethernet switches.
The amended OEM agreement, announced this week, extends the existing relationship between Brocade and IBM in the SAN market. That arrangement has been in place for over 10 years, according to Brocade, and includes the multi-protocol Brocade DCX Backbone along with Fibre Channel directors, stand-alone and embedded switches, and related software.
Meanwhile, IBM has been selling networking equipment from Cisco for just as long, and recently began selling LAN switches from Juniper Networks.
The Brocade extension is viewed by some as an IBM countermeasure to Cisco's entry into the data center blade server market, which has been a stronghold of IBM's for decades.
Cisco's decision to develop its own blade servers may have angered IBM, HP and others in that market. As a result, server vendors are aligning themselves with Cisco competitors in the networking space.
Some believe Cisco won't feel the impact of the IBM/Brocade deal. Others see this as more than a response to Cisco entering the blade server market.
"This is less of a response to Cisco and more of a reaction to the need and use of Ethernet in the storage environment," says Abner Germanow, an analyst at IDC. IBM is looking at all the various vendors of Ethernet and picking out the best of what all of those companies have to offer. They're not putting all of their eggs into one basket."
Or two: IBM says the Cisco and Juniper resale arrangements will continue despite the extended deal with Brocade. "Juniper and Cisco are key IBM networking partners and we will continue to resell their products," an IBM spokesman stated in an e-mail. "The expansion of the Brocade agreement is about providing additional choice to IBM's customers."
Juniper also says it is business as usual with IBM. IBM resells Juniper's EX line of LAN switches, which debuted 13 months ago. "The relationship with IBM is very strong," says Hitesh Sheth, executive vice-president and general manager of Juniper's Ethernet Platforms business group. "The resale arrangement is going to remain in place and we will continue to strengthen the relationship we already have with IBM. We have to separate what may be tactical stuff going on vs. strategic."
IBM expects to make these products generally available in May.


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Brandon Sands and Simba Circle campers prepare for morning Libations ceremony.
Simba Circle Nation Builders, LeLand Bass and Brandon Sands.
Nation Builder Craig Ashley gathers Simba Tribe for morning Libations ceremony.
Dr. Lewis Dodley and Simba camper Romel Williams prepare for face- mask making activity.
Nation Builders Ayinde West and Horace C. Neal and Simba campers at African drumming lesson.
Nation Builders Aaron Romire and Sam Fergerson with Simba Tribe.
Simba Circle Council of Elders members Sean McMillian and Gaylord Thomas and Nation Builder Brandon Morton.
Simba Circle campers participate in crafts activity.
Simba Circle campers at breakfast.
Nation Builder Eddie Vinson and Simba Tribe listen to instructions on African drumming.


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Michelle Lab Muffin, Alanna Pretty Purple Polish, (not this week: Holly Hooked), Tif Polished Genious, Lyndsey Nails by Ms. Lizard, Sofie Swååfie, Catrine Unnakednails, Melanie Nail & Polish, Jessica Beauty Gnome
Nail art and polish blog - freehand nail art and swatches! Neglelak blog, frihånds neglekunst og neglelak swatches!
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Inspired by favorite color(s) - Artsy Wednesday
Michelle Lab Muffin, Alanna Pretty Purple Polish, (not this week: Holly Hooked), Tif Polished Genious, Lyndsey Nails by Ms. Lizard, Sofie Swååfie, Catrine Unnakednails, Melanie Nail & Polish, Jessica Beauty Gnome
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I really like the purple sponging on that beautiful blue. It looks great!SvarSletSvar
Thank you, I'm happy you like it :)Slet
This is such a cute manicure! =) And royal blue with this purple is amazing. <3SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, I'm glad you like the combination!Slet
gorgeous color combo, and those daisies are so cute *.*SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much my friend :)Slet
Well, with this kind of answer I would put the gun away and let you live, because the colours are beautiful! :-)SvarSlet
Color Club Wild at Heart is gorgeous and also your flowers! :-)Svar
Phewww, I'm so happy that I'm still alive LOL - thank you so much!Slet
very pretty, love the color combinationSvarSletSvar
I'm happy you like it, thank you :)Slet
Pretty, Love the combo.SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much!!Slet
I adore this, Maria! And I have to admit, I would be hard pressed to choose between purple and blue as my favourite colours. I like how you've incorporated them into one lovely manicure!SvarSletSvar
LOL I'm happy to hear you like both colors just as much - thank you so much!Slet
How beautiful! Especially the blue on it, really nice! Love the flowers!SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much NailTalk, and yes the blue is soo gorgeous!!Slet
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This is stunning! <3SvarSlet
So pretty. I love it :)SvarSletSvar
I'm so happy you like it, thank you so much!Slet
Very pretty! I love seeing Frostbite work on others, I have a hard time wearing that color.SvarSletSvar
Thank you hermetic, I recently bought it and don't understand why I waited this long. But it's fun how colors either suits us or not at all :)Slet
Thank you Karen :)SvarSlet
I love cobalt blues too!!!! So pretty!SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, it's such a vibrant color :)Slet
I absolutely loves those! So pretty :)SvarSletSvar
I'm so happy to hear it Lena :)Slet
beautiful as always maria, so gorgeous with the flowers! adds a nice touch :)SvarSletSvar
Aww, thank you, I'm so glad you like it!Slet
This is fantastic! Very artistic x :-)SvarSletSvar
Oh, I'm so happy you think so, thank you :)Slet
My second favourite colour is Blue! :)SvarSletSvar
LOL - it IS closely related to purple, so that might be why we like both of them :)Slet
Nice combination! I feel the same about color...I fancy the whole rainbowSvarSletSvar
LOL - there is a color for everything in life - that's so amazing about all the colors in nail polish :)Slet
This is amazing! The combo is lovely!SvarSletSvar
Aww, thank you so much :)Slet
So pretty! I love the little flowers!SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, I'm happy you think so!Slet
So gorgeous, as always! I love the blue and purple color combination! :-)SvarSlet
~ YunSvar
Aww, thank you Yun :)Slet
omg this is sooo pretty! i love the purple holo polish you used! :)SvarSletSvar
Aww, thank you, and yes Wild at Heart is so pretty :)Slet
Such a cute design, perfect for the summer!SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, I'm happy you like it!Slet
Wild at Heart is so beautiful on you! I really like this design :)SvarSletSvar
Aww, thank you so much LabMuffin!Slet
aww these are really pretty!!! :) love them! nothing to do with the purple holo LOL hugs*SvarSletSvar
hahaha, no nothing at ALL to do with a purple holo LOL - thank you my friend!!Slet
Tusind tak, Christina!SvarSlet
Wow, that is such a dynamic blue, and the daisies look adorable over your diagonal! The colours seriously pop! :DSvarSletSvar
Thank you so much Elizabeth, I'm happy you like it, and welcome to my blog!Slet
Oh Maria, this is beautiful! I am loving this one!SvarSletSvar
Awww, thank you Fingers, happy to hear it!Slet
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Thank you, FrugallyMe :)Slet
I love this blue and purple together! Gorgeous!SvarSletSvar
Thank you, I'm glad you like it ScarsLikeLace :)Slet
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Based only on what I saw in the research record, this person has little or no chance of receiving tenure at their university, which expects a certain amount of activity with respect to publications and grants.
But then I looked at what this person has done in terms of teaching and advising, just in terms of time spent on these activities (I had no information about quality), and it was a lot. It was immense, considering that the university also had moderate research expectations of its science faculty.
I am missing some important information about this situation, such as whether this person could have decreased the number of courses taught by obtaining grants and 'buying' out teaching time, but just from what I saw, it seemed like there was a huge mismatch between expectations (by the university) and what was humanly possible (for the tenure-track professor).
I have written before about how I feel fortunate that my job has a good balance of teaching-research-service in terms of expectations/time for each. If all of these components of the job are valued by the university, and if we are evaluated based on how well we do with each of them, then we need time to do them. That seems obvious, but I know there is disagreement in the land about how professors should spend their time.
I should note that my positive view of the teaching-research-service balance in my current job is not just based on how I feel now, as a tenured professor; I felt the same way as an assistant professor, at least in terms of teaching and research expectations. I did feel that I was doing more service work, particularly in the department, than some of my peers, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle (and I believed that I could have said no to some of the committee work, without consequences, if I had wanted to).
I also realize that just because I think my job has a good balance (and I would say the same thing for my job at my previous university), that doesn't mean that everyone else thinks the same thing about their similar professor-jobs in my department/university. The reasons why I have this positive view are many and complex, including my being happy to work a lot, enjoying doing many different things (though not necessarily too many or all at the same time), and the flexibility of of my department in determining teaching schedules.
Do you feel that you have a good (reasonable) balance of what your institution expects you to do? Or is there a big mismatch between, say, teaching load and research expectations? (It would be helpful to specify career stage, discipline, general type of institution.)
If you do feel there is a big mismatch, do you think this is a general feeling shared by your colleagues in your department/institution, or is there a lot of variability within your unit? Is there anything that can be done about this mismatch, or is it hopeless in the face of widespread belief that professors don't teach enough, and yet should also be pulling in the big grants and publishing in Nature or Science every few months, while serving on 9 committees and doing outreach?
If you feel that there is a good balance in your job, is this also a widespread view in your department/institution, and is there someone in particular responsible for creating this good work environment? (dept chair, college dean, provost, president..).


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The overall cost has nearly tripled, from an initial $1.7 million in early 2011 (when the City Council approved the project) to an estimated $4.5 million today. The cost increases have followed a series of city decisions to redesign and add to the project, with wider sidewalks and -- currently proposed -- new street lights estimated to cost about $1 million.
But it wasn't the controversies that have plagued the project that have driven up costs -- such as the wholesale removal of the 63 or so former street trees on the commercial stretch between El Camino Real and the Caltrain tracks. Numerous merchants and residents also have expressed deep concern about the plan to narrow the lanes from four to two to allow wider sidewalks and landscape areas.
As with other cost-ballooning projects, the California Avenue project is being funded by a significant level of non-city funds, specifically a $1.2 million grant from Santa Clara County's Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). The city's share was to be about $500,000. It is not completely clear why the short, essentially dead-end street qualifies as a major VTA "transportation" project, other than the Caltrain stop at its eastern end.
Historically, one project stands out as an example of a grant-inspired city investment. It is known simply as "The Homer Tunnel." The bike/pedestrian tunnel (where Homer Avenue runs into Alma Street in downtown Palo Alto) more than quintupled in cost from initial estimates to its final cost of $5.4 million.
In addition to serious concerns about the design, especially for bicycles exiting onto narrow Alma or one-way-head-on Homer, the Weekly and others marveled unbelievingly at the cost explosion.
"Just as distressing is the $5.4 million latest cost estimates for the tunnel, several times the initial estimates of less than $1 million, or even the $2.2 million envisioned after the first design/engineering study," the Palo Alto Weekly commented in an editorial Sept. 22, 2004. It noted that the tunnel was "initially presented as costing local taxpayers virtually nothing due to potential grant funding and a $250,000 contribution from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
"But the price tag swelled past any rational limit due to a combination of state requirements coupled with add-ons from several city commissions and boards, plus an added track for "Baby Bullet" trains, and contingency costs of tunneling under a working railroad and relocating underground utilities," the editorial noted.
Sound familiar?
At the time, the Homer Tunnel on a small scale rivaled the cost increases plaguing the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, increases that almost caused Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to cancel that project, now nearing its final stages as a world-class structure.
The late former Councilman and Mayor Gary Fazzino just shook his head as he drove past the new Homer Tunnel -- questioning its worth in the big picture of city investment in infrastructure. Its defenders cited its contribution to the economics of downtown Palo Alto by linking it more closely with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and large hotels adjacent to it.
On a trip to southern New Zealand I took a photo of a "Homer Tunnel" through a mountain and sent it back to Weekly staffers, wondering if it cost as much as the Palo Alto version.
Downtown parking structures also have carried high price tags. At a luncheon meeting with Weekly editors, Stanford University President John Hennessy informally quipped that Palo Alto's then-new structure on Alma Street cost about twice what a similar-sized parking structure cost Stanford.
I was not surprised: On a walking tour of the Alma Street structure I was impressed by the thin stainless-steel cables enclosing the stairwells. I had once replaced a couple of stainless-steel stays on an old sailboat and knew their solid-gold cost, even many years earlier.
And we're not done yet, it seems.
Other projects seemingly on their way over the top include a major bicycle/pedestrian bridge over state Highway 101 to the city's expansive natural baylands, and a new plan for a pedestrian/bicycle trail along Matadero Creek in Midtown Palo Alto.
The 1.3-mile creekside trail is still in a conceptual phase, but the bridge is moving along through city approvals.
The bridge is estimated to cost about $10 million, of which so far $4 million would come from a grant from Santa Clara County. Early design concepts show a sweeping overpass structure creating an architecturally impressive gateway to the baylands for south Palo Alto residents and others. It would avoid the inherently dangerous San Antonio Road vehicular overpass and supplant the Adobe Creek bike/pedestrian underpass that is flooded out for half the year -- for all year this year, in fact.
There is still discussion about the eastern alignment and its impact on the baylands, both during construction and visually. Planning Commission member Arthur Keller in December suggested straightening the eastside alignment to aim it more directly at entrances to trails in the baylands and create a more cohesive appearance.
The bridge is scheduled to open by 2017. Its ultimate real-world cost has not yet been guesstimated, beyond the initial $10 million estimate. Will it follow what former city Chief Transportation Official Joe Kott once termed the "Palo Alto cost" pattern? There certainly are many opportunities in this one. Stay tuned.
Finally, the Weekly this week is reporting on a relatively new plan to construct a bicycle/pedestrian trail along Matadero Creek in Midtown Palo Alto.
Like the baylands bridge, it also ties into the Stanford and Palo Alto Trails Program, which would expand or create more than eight miles of recreational corridors. The program would eventually link San Francisco Bay trails to Stanford University and city's Enid Pearson Arastradero Preserve. The trail is considered a key element of the city's 2012 Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Plan (adopted by the City Council last July) and would link with future bike boulevards along Ross, Greer and Louis roads.
As outlined so far, most of the trail would follow an existing county water-district maintenance road along the north side of Matadero Creek, except from Middlefield to Ross roads where it would shift to the south side.
But planning and assessment of the trail, and its alignment, won't even start until after the new city budget year begins in July, with a feasibility study scheduled to start in the fall. Some residents already are expressing concerns that the trail comes too close to their back yards, one woman saying it would be just six feet from her house. Privacy and safety will be issues, and even the necessity for any trail compared to side streets.
Palo Alto has received a $1.5 million grant for the trail from Santa Clara County, and the city could contribute about $500,000 from its 2014 Capital Improvement Program budget, according to city Chief Transportation Official Jaime Rodriguez.
So we have a $2 million estimate on the table. Do I hear three?
NOTE: Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson can be e-mailed at firstname.lastname@example.com with a copy to firstname.lastname@example.com. He writes regular print columns for the Weekly and blogs at www.PaloAltoOnline.com (below Town Square).


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Herlinger, Albert
Title/s: Emeritus Professor
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- B.S., 1965, Hobart College.
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, 1970-71, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests
The goal of our research is to design, synthesize and use novel ligand systems that show unusual properties or selectivity toward specific metal ions. Chelate systems based on pendent arm macrocycles, crown ethers and substituted bisphosphonic acids are employed in our work. Potential applications for these ligands include use as reagents for the determination, separation, or immobilization of metal ions. Alkyl-substituted bisphosphonic acids, for example, are effective solvent extraction reagents which are used to prepare extraction chromatographic exchange resins.
Recently, supercritical fluid carbon dioxide modified by the addition of complexing agents has been utilized in the extraction of metal ions from various matrices. It has been observed that the introduction of fluorine- and silicone- substituted groups to the ligands can enhance the efficiencies of extraction using supercritical fluids. Our current research is focused on novel bisphosphonic acid ligands that could be used for supercritical carbon dioxide extraction. Specifically, selected gem-bisphosphonic acids are being rendered carbon dioxide-soluble by the introduction of appropriate "CO2-philic" substituents. Partial esterification of a bisphosphonic acid can enhance its solubility in non-aqueous solvents while leaving the remaining acidic hydrogen atoms available for charge neutralization. Thus, our target ligands are the partial ester derivatives in which silicon- or fluoro- containing groups serve as the ester functionality.
A highly efficient method for selectively forming P,P´-dialkyl partial esters of methylenebisphosphonic acid from the corresponding acid chloride was recently developed. This method uses tetrazole to catalyze the selective coupling of methylenebis(phosphonic dichloride) with two equivalents of alcohol under mild, anhydrous conditions. Preliminary results indicate that the fluoro-containing partial esters and silicone-containing tetraesters that can be formed by the reactions shown in Scheme 1 show enhanced supercritical carbon dioxide solubility. The aggregation, solvent extraction and metal ion complexation chemistry of these "CO2-philic ligands is currently under investigation.
Selected Publications
"Alkaline Phosphatase Inhibition by Vanadyl-β-Diketone Complexes: Electron Density Effects", Amanda J. Ziegler, Jan Florián, Miguel A. Ballicora and Albert W. Herlinger, J. Enzy. Inhib. Med. Chem., 24(1), 1-7 (2009).
"Bis[3(trimethylsilyl)propyl] ethylenebisphosphonate, H2DTMSP[EBP]", C. C. McLauchlan, A. J. Ziegler, C. R. Sosnowski and A. W. Herlinger, Acta Crystallographica, C63, 132-134, (2007).
"Metal Extraction by Sulfur-Containing Symmetrically-Substituted Bisphosphonic Acids. Part I. P,P'-Di(2-ethylhexyl) Methylenebisthiophosphonic Acid", P. R. Zalupski, R. Chiarizia, M. P. Jensen and A. W. Herlinger, Solvent Extr. Ion Exch., 24, 331-346 (2006).
"Acid-Base Equilibria and Organic-Water Distribution for Symmetrically Substituted P,P'-Dialkyl Partial Esters of Bisphosphonic Acids", P. R. Zalupski, M. P. Jensen, R. Chiarizia, M. P. Chiarelli and A. W. Herlinger, Solvent Extr. Ion Exch., 24, 177-195 (2006).
"Investigation of Acid-Base Equilibria for Symmetrically Substituted P,P'-Dialkyl Partial Esters of Bisphosphonic Acids", P. R. Zalupski, M. P. Jensen and A. W. Herlinger, J. Solution Chem., 34, 869-880 (2005).
"Application of Molecular Connectivity Indices to the Design of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Soluble Metal Ion Extractants: SC-CO2 Solubilities of Symmetrically-Substituted Alkylenediphosphonic Acids", D. R. McAlister, M. L. Dietz, D. C. Stepinski, P. R. Zalupski, J. A. Dzielawa, R. E. Barrans, Jr., J. N. Hess and A. W. Herlinger, Separation Sci. Technol., 39, 761-780 (2004).


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By STEVEN WINE
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MIAMI (AP) — Turning to make a pickoff throw, Jose Fernandez stumbled and fell, spiraling to the dirt like a human corkscrew as his throw went sailing for an embarrassing error.
The Miami Marlins rookie rose smiling. It's easier to shrug off the occasional pratfall with a grin when you win, and after a humiliating start this season, the Marlins have found their footing.
Miami began a trip this week far from first, but no longer worst. After a 13-41 start that inspired comparisons to the 1962 Mets and other historically awful teams, the Marlins reversed course with a 17-10 tear.
By beating San Diego for the third game in a row Monday, the Marlins climbed ahead of the Houston Astros in the race to avoid baseball's lousiest record. With another 22 victories in a row, the Marlins would be above .500. They might even win more games this year than the Miami Heat — in the regular season, at least.
"Winning's way better than losing," first baseman Logan Morrison said. "Somebody who's pretty wise once said that."
The Marlins' miserable start, worst-in-the-majors attendance and $37 million payroll has made them easy to overlook. But with an abundance of young talent, the winning might just be beginning.
The 20-year-old Fernandez briefly looked like a rookie making his clumsy pickoff move Monday, but with 94 strikeouts and an ERA of 2.72, he might be bound for the All-Star Game. Or perhaps the Marlins' representative will be 22-year-old rookie center fielder Marcell Ozuna, who leads the team in hits even though he spent the first month of the season in Double-A.
Rookie infielders Derek Dietrich and Ed Lucas were called up in May to further revive a feeble offense, and rookie shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria has played Gold Glove-caliber defense.
"We've had some changes definitely for the good," outfielder Justin Ruggiano said. `It's fun coming to the ballpark. Every game we feel like we can win."
There have been young reinforcements for the rotation, too. Jacob Turner, a 22-year-old right-hander, started the season in Triple-A after a disappointing spring but has regained his command and gone 2-0 with a 1.76 ERA in six starts, including a complete game Saturday. Nate Eovaldi, a 23-year-old right-hander, is 1-0 with a 2.00 ERA in three starts after missing the first part of the season because of shoulder inflammation.
The trio of Fernandez, Turner and Eovaldi form the foundation of a rotation that thrifty owner Jeffrey Loria considers ideal — talented but cheap.
"That group of young pitchers is impressive," Padres manager Bud Black said. "The Marlins have got to be real happy with those guys."
The rotation becomes even younger when 23-year-old Henderson Alvarez makes his 2013 debut Thursday in Atlanta after being sidelined by shoulder inflammation. With Alvarez healthy again, the Marlins are almost certain to trade right-hander Ricky Nolasco, their career leader in victories and by far their highest-paid player at $11.5 million.
Less certain is the status of 23-year-old right-fielder Giancarlo Stanton, the 2012 NL slugging leader. Unhappy about the Marlins' payroll purge last year, he started the season poorly, then missed five weeks with a strained right hamstring.
Stanton's tape-measure homers draw scant attention in Miami, and because he longs to play in his native California, there's speculation he'll be traded rather than sign a long-term contract. In the meantime, he regained his stroke and provides much-needed pop for a team that still ranks last in the majors in runs, homers, slugging and on-base percentage.
"Having Giancarlo back really helps," Morrison said. "Not that he's old, but he has been around for a while. And he's a great hitter. Any publicity he gets, if he was playing for the Dodgers or Yankees, he'd get 10 times as much."
The Marlins could be grateful for any lack of attention in April and May, when they played like laughingstocks. A slew of injuries contributed to the dismal situation, and things got so bad veteran Miguel Olivo quit one day after batting practice, deciding he'd rather retire than be a third-string catcher for the team with the worst record in the majors.
"The first couple of months were rough," rookie manager Mike Redmond said. "We weren't really in that many games."
But 2013 was never about the won-loss record. All that matters is how the youngsters plays, and on that score the season has been a success.
More top prospects are on the way, with outfielders Christian Yelich and Jake Marisnick expected to break into the big leagues sometime after the All-Star break. The Marlins may be far out of first place, but there's a sense the roller-coaster franchise is headed upward.
"Let's fly under the radar as long as we can," Ruggiano said.
In Miami, that shouldn't be too tough.
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One requirement I have of most of the men (and women) I do consults with is that they read The 48 Laws of Power (The Art of Seduction is in the class syllabus as well). In the introduction author Robert Greene runs down the ethical implications of understanding and employing the various laws. If you look at the synopsis of the laws I linked you can get an idea of how uncomfortable some of these laws will naturally make people feel. Many of these laws understandably rub the uneducated the wrong way because for the better part of our lives we've been taught to emulate socially acceptable mannerisms and adopt a mindset of cooperation above self interest.
Most people are conditioned to think that deliberate use of power is inherently manipulative, self-serving and sometimes evil. In context this may or may not be true, but in so demonizing even the desire to understand power, not only do we inhibit a better critical understanding of power, but we also make the uneducated more vulnerable to the use of power against them. The 49th Law being: Never educate others of the principles of power, which is itself a form of using power. Never talk about Fight Club.
I bring this up because, just as with the Laws of Power, there will be articles of Game, or foundations of intergender communication – complete with all of the underlying motivators – that Men (and women) will be uncomfortable accepting or employing to the point that it challenges some deep rooted emotional or ego investments. Let me be the first to establish that discomfort is part of understanding; truth is supposed to make you uncomfortable in order to inspire you to action.
I should also add here that even though you may not be comfortable in exercising a particular tactic or don't feel confident in approaching an interpersonal situation in some way, it is still vital that you do understand the concepts and methodologies behind why those laws, principles, techniques, attitudes, etc. do work. You may have personal reasons for not wanting to involve yourself in some particular aspect of Game, but it's imperative that you fully acknowledge the mechanics behind that aspect before you decide it's not something you can employ. Declining to use a particular Law or aspect of Game doesn't make you immune to the consequences of it, nor does it invalidate that aspect when others use it for their own benefit, and potentially to your own detriment.
Half the Battle
The primary (though not exclusive) focus of this blog has been devoted to the critical analysis of the mechanics behind intergender dynamics, Game-practice, Game-theory, social and evolutionary psychology just to name a few. I can understand the want for practical applications of this field of study, and while in my line of work I have done my own 'field testing' with the majority of what I explore here, I have neither the time, opportunity or resources to develop practices beyond what I offer here. At least not to the degree of which the majority of my readers are able – and that's the good news.
"This is brilliant stuff Rollo, but how do I use this to make my life better with the next girl I sarge, etc.?" This is a common desire from my readership, and the best I can offer is Knowing is Half the Battle. One size doesn't fit all for everyone in Game or intergender relations. Anyone hawking a book giving you an instruction manual on how to have a great marriage or how to pick up chicks is still limited by their own individual experience. In other words, they're not you.
It's for exactly this reason I spend more time and critical thought on the foundations and functions of gender dynamism than pick up artistry. When I get associated with the "manipulative machiavellian Game gurus" it only serves to highlight an ignorance and lack of any depth of understanding what I focus on here. Game is psychology, sociology, economics, biomechanics, evolution and politics. Game is far broader than simple tricks and techniques. And it's exactly the latent purpose of these applications (PUArtistry) and the mechanics behind their workings that threatens the ego-investments of those who's feminized interests would rather see them marginalized and passed off as folly, or usefully ridiculed to shame the curious for fear that the underpinnings might be exposed.
Head in the Sand
Sweetening the poison doesn't make it any less deadly.
I can remember a time in my mid-20s working as a stage tech for a casino cabaret show. The magic act I set up and struck every night involved a Bengal tiger and a black panther. Both of them were professionally handled by trainers, but even though they seemed the most docile of animals I knew they had the potential to seriously fuck me up under the wrong set of circumstances. The trainers would keep them at distance from the rest of the cast and crew, only myself and one other tech were able to get close since we were the ones wheeling them out in special cages at their particular point in the show. One trainer told me, "the moment you think of them as pets is the moment they'll go feral on you." They would play with these wild animals, and they seemed to have a special connection (almost like a pet), but when you watched them eat, you knew what they were capable of.
I learned a valuable lesson from this when one night I was wheeling the panther out to the curtain. She was in what was basically a reinforced acrylic aquarium on casters with a velvet cloth draped over it. A few minutes before my cue I'd thought the drape was falling to one side and lifted it to even it out. It was then that I was face to face with this "pet" in nothing but faint stage lights and about 4 inches of transparent acrylic between us. She looked at me with those yellow-green eyes and gave me a very low, almost muted growl and flashed just enough of her teeth to let me know this was not a "pet".
It's a mistake (and sometimes a fatal one) to ignore what you know is just under the surface. It's comforting to believe that you've got a special connection, and while the conditions are right, you'll preserve a relationship based on mutual trust and shared affinity. The flaw is in believing that trust, and kinship is unconditional; that the underlying feral motivators are subdued to the point of being inconsequential. It may be that you do have a special bond that goes beyond just the physical, but that relationship is still founded on physical rules that constantly test and influence that individual.
You know better, but the desire for that connection is so strong that you marginalize the natural impulses into feel-good rationalizations. Every divorced man I know has uttered some variation of "I never thought she was capable of this." In their comfort they wondered how they dropped the ball, especially after having played by the rules for so long. Some knew about Hypergamy, others made it their "pet", only their beautiful panther went feral.
Play My Game
It is a far healthier approach to accept the laws of power, the laws of Game, Hypergamy, etc. and fashion a life around an understanding of them than to convince oneself that they are an exception to them.
There are those who seek power by changing the game – by lowering the basketball hoops in order to better shoot a basket – but in 'leveling the playing field' they only succeed in changing the nature of the competition to better suit their individual abilities, neither improving the game nor themselves. The temporary change of rules only serves their inadequacies in that game.
Then there are those who accept the game for what it is, they understand it and they master it (or at least attempt to do so). They understand the need for adversity and the benefits it gives them when they reach the next level of mastering the game – not only in technique, but from the confidence this genuinely and verifiably confers.
Don't wish things were easier, wish you were better.
It's the aberration who seeks to legitimize her cheating at the game as the new way the game should be played. Shoot the arrow, paint the target around it, and you'll always get a bullseye.


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Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2010-0032
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