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Pakistan Seizes Key Pro-Taliban Cleric
Sufi Muhammad
A pro-Taliban cleric who helped negotiate a short-lived cease-fire between the militant organization and the Pakistani government was arrested in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Sufi Muhammad, the head of the banned jihadi organization Tehreek e Nifaz e Shariat Muhammadi—which translates as the Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Sharia Law—was detained in the town of Seethi, near Peshawar, intelligence and police sources told CNN.
Muhammad's two sons, Rizwanullah and Ziaullah, and one friend, Maulvi Tahir, were also arrested. North West Frontier Province officials confirmed Muhammad's arrest, though not the reason for his detention, at a news conference in Peshawar.
In February, Muhammad acted as an intermediary between the government and the Taliban in negotiations over a cease fire in return for the imposition of Sharia law in the Swat Valley.
However, the agreement was short-lived and in April he withdrew his support, claiming that the government was not holding its side of the agreement.
Muhammad had been jailed by Pakistan authorities previously and was released in 2008 after agreeing to renounce violence and work towards peace.
He is also the father-in-law of Maulana Fazullah, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Violence in the Swat Valley has had a devastating effect on the region's residents.
The United Nations estimates that 375,000 Swat Valley residents fled their homes during the fighting. In all, 2.5 million Pakistanis were displaced in what was said to be one of the largest human migrations in recent history.
IMF approves $2.6 bln loan for Sri Lanka
A vegetable vendor in Colombo. The International Monetary Fund recently approved a 2.6-billion-dollar loan for Sri Lanka.
The International Monetary Fund has approved a 2.6-billion-dollar loan for Sri Lanka to support its economic reform program and help the country weather the severe global downturn.
The IMF executive board approved the loan as the Asian country emerges from a 37-year civil war.
The so-called Stand-By Arrangement is in an amount equivalent to 1.65 billion Special Drawing Rights, an IMF asset that is based on a basket of currencies—the dollar, yen, euro and pound—and calculated daily.
The 20-month loan is worth about 2.6 billion dollars, the IMF said.
A first instalment of about 322.2 million dollars is immediately available to Sri Lanka, while the remainder will be phased in "subject to quarterly reviews," the multilateral institution said.
"The key objectives of the authorities' economic reform program supported by the fund are to strengthen the country's fiscal position while ensuring the availability of resources for much needed post-conflict reconstruction and relief efforts."
The IMF said the program also was intended to rebuild international reserves and strengthen Sri Lanka's domestic financial system, "and to protect the most vulnerable in the country from the burden of the needed economic adjustment."
Britain abstained from voting on the loan after politicians indicated they could not support it.
British Financial Secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms said it was "not the right time for the program," in light of the political situation on the island threatening its success.
Britain wanted to "secure long-term peace and prosperity" for Sri Lanka through reconciliation between its communities, Timms wrote in a letter to the multi-party parliamentary groups on Sri Lanka and Tamils.
"While we remain determined to help Sri Lanka avoid a damaging balance of payments crisis that would disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable, we judged that the immediate risks of a Sri Lankan default have recently diminished in the light of recent capital inflows and an improved reserve position."
India Launches First Nuclear-powered Submarine
India launched the first nuclear-powered submarine built on its soil, asserting itself as a world power by joining just five other countries that can design and construct such vessels.
The 367-foot-long submarine, named "Arihant" or "Destroyer of Enemies," was sent for sea trials at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
It will be capable of launching nuclear weapons, said Rahul Bedi, an analyst with Jane's Defence Weekly.
That would complete India's strategic triad for nuclear weapons—giving it the ability to deliver them from the air, ground-based mobile platforms and the sea, he said.
Singh called the project a "historic milestone in the country's defense preparedness."
India is upgrading its armed forces as part of efforts to match its military strength with its growing economic and political clout. The plans include a proposed $9 billion purchase of 126 new fighter jets.
Singh insisted that the nation does not seek to threaten anyone.
"Nevertheless, it is incumbent upon us to take all measures necessary to safeguard our country and to keep pace with technological advancements worldwide," he said at the launching ceremony in the southern port city of Vishakhapatnam.
Previously, only the United States, Russia, France, Britain and China had developed nuclear submarines.
There was no immediate comment from Pakistan, India's neighbor and longtime rival. The submarine's development is likely to rattle Islamabad, which has fought three wars with India, two of them over control of the Kashmir region, since they won independence from Britain in 1947.
But India is looking beyond the old rivalry, asserting itself as a power on the Asian and international stage, according to Uday Bhaskar, a former naval commander and director of the National Maritime Foundation.
The U.S., in particular, has encouraged India's role as a possible counter to China, stepping up exercises with the Indian navy and selling the South Asian nation an American warship for the first time in 2007.
Ambanis Slug it Out
Indian workers setting up a huge billboard featuring the logo of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group in Kolkata. The Ambani brothers are embroiled in a bitter dispute over gas price.
India's billionaire Ambani brothers are at loggerheads again—this time over a rich gas field—and the row has taken a political twist with the government intervening in the bitter dispute.
At stake is the price at which tycoon Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd will sell gas from an offshore block in the vast Krishna-Godavari basin to a company owned by his younger brother Anil Ambani.
The seeds of the latest battle between two of India's biggest corporate names lie in a deal carving up the Reliance empire after the 2002 death of their wheeler-dealer father Dhirubhai Ambani, who left no will.
In that family pact in 2005, Mukesh Ambani agreed to sell 28 million cubic meters of gas per day to his brother's company Reliance Natural Resources Ltd at 2.34 dollars per million British thermal unit (mBtu) for 17 years.
Later, Mukesh's Reliance Industries Ltd, India's largest private company, sought to change the sale price.
It cited a 2007 government order which said gas from the field, one of Asia's largest fossil fuel finds, can't be sold below 4.20 dollars per mBtu—44 percent higher than the price set out in the brothers' pact.
Anil, who wants a part of the gas for his group's power plants, won a ruling from the Bombay High Court saying the pact should be upheld.
But now the case is before the Supreme Court and the government, which controls fuel prices, has stepped in, insisting the supply agreement be cancelled.
The government has asked the court to annul the deal on grounds the siblings cannot set a price for the gas, a scarce resource in energy-hungry India.
"We cannot leave the industrial development of the country at their mercy and have contractors of gas fields decide on their own on the utilisation and price of gas," a government official said.
But in a court affidavit, Anil's firm accused the government of "blatantly and openly supporting" RIL's "unlawful design" to wriggle out of its commitment.
Gurkhas Welcome Lumley
British actress and Gurkha campaigner Joanna Lumley waves to supporters as she arrives at the Tribhuvan international airport in Kathmandu.
British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley arrived in Nepal to a raucous welcome from hundreds of Gurkha veterans and their families.
A huge cheer went up when the 63-year-old star of TV show
Absolutely Fabulous
, who spearheaded a campaign for the British army veterans to be allowed to settle in Britain, arrived at Kathmandu airport on a six-day visit.
Lumley was presented with flower garlands and a traditional Nepalese shawl known as a
as she stepped through the airport gates, before being engulfed by her cheering fans and the gathered media.
Gyanendra Rai, an ex-Gurkha who was seriously wounded in the 1982 Falklands campaign, was at the front of the queue to meet the television star.
"I don't have the words to describe how happy I am that Joanna Lumley is coming to Nepal," he said. "She is like a goddess to the Gurkhas."
Lumley, who will meet the president and prime minister and travel to three towns with large Gurkha communities during her visit, said she was "delighted" to be in Nepal.
Punching the air, she shouted "Ayo Gorkhali" as she left the airport—echoing the fighters' traditional war cry, "The Gurkhas are coming."
Crowds of supporters had waited hours for her to arrive, braving the monsoon rain and carrying banners that read "Welcome Joanna, daughter of Nepal," and "Gurkha heroes welcome our British heroes."
The actress's impassioned lobbying in Britain earned her the adoration of the Gurkhas, who have described the trip—her first ever visit to Nepal—as a "homecoming."
The British government announced in May that all Gurkha veterans who had served at least four years in the army could apply for residency after a climbdown in the face of Lumley's campaign.
Previously, only those who retired after 1997 had been eligible to apply.
"We are proud and honoured to have her in our country. She is truly a daughter of Nepal," said Krishna Kumar Rai, vice-president of the Gurkha Army Ex-Servicemen's Organisation, ahead of Lumley's arrival.
"She has done us, the British army veterans, an unforgettable favour—she has given us justice."
Bangla BOP Soars
Bangladesh's balance of payments rose to a surplus of $1.327 billion in July-April from a $75 million deficit a year earlier, due to a slowdown in import growth, central bank officials said.
Demand for key Bangladeshi garment exports and the inflow of remittances, two mainstays of the impoverished country's economy, were not much affected by the global financial squeeze, the officials said.
The current account showed a surplus of $1.32 billion during the period, compared with a $278 million surplus previously.
Imports for July-April increased by 9 percent from a year earlier, while exports rose 12.6 percent, shrinking the trade deficit to $4.46 billion from $4.47 billion in the same period of last year.
Bangladesh's foreign exchange reserves rose to a record $7.47 billion at the end of June.
Remittances from more than 6 million expatriates totalled $9.68 billion in the year to June, 22 percent higher than the previous year.
The central bank's latest monetary policy announcement said it would spend a portion of the reserve money on development of infrastructure, one of the key constraints on growth, as the global economy is starting to show signs of recovery from its worst recession since 1930s.
Court Backs Probe
A court in Gujarat has rejected a bid to delay a probe into the role of the chief minister in communal riots in 2002.
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the riots which began after 60 Hindus died in a fire on a train.
The cause of the fire has never been clearly established.
Hindu groups alleged that it was started by Muslim protesters, but an earlier inquiry said it was an accident.
Justice D.H. Vaghela ruled that the probe against the chief minister and 62 others should not be delayed.
The rejection of the petition means that a Special Investigation Team is now free to summon Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues and question them about their role at the time.
The petition was filed in June by a former legislator of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Kalubhai Maliwad, who is also listed for investigation.
The SIT's remit is to investigate the riots which followed the killing of 59 people in a fire on a train at Godhra after a skirmish with locals at the railway station.
A former member of the Indian Parliament, Ehsan Jaffri, was also killed in the rioting in Ahmedabad. His widow, Zakia Jaffri, had filed a different petition alleging that the chief minister and 62 of his colleagues and officers were involved in the riots.
In the past the Supreme Court has criticised the government of Gujarat for failing to protect its Muslim citizens.
Modi's supporters have always said he could have done little under the circumstances to prevent the violence.
Last year, a commission of inquiry set up by the state government exonerated Modi over the riots.
Lanka Pressure
Relatives of murdered aid workers in Sri Lanka say they do not want to press for more compensation from the French charity that employed them.
They say the Sri Lankan government has given them letters to sign seeking more money from Action Against Hunger.
The authorities deny the letters exist, but the BBC has seen copies of them.
There was an outcry when the 17 aid workers were killed in 2006. Critics say Sri Lanka has a long history of failing to prosecute rights abuses.
The aid staff—all but one of them ethnic Tamils—were working on tsunami relief projects in the north-eastern town of Muttur when they were killed on 4 August 2006.
" Money will not help us - we cannot get our relatives back anyway "
Nordic monitors overseeing a truce in the country's civil war at the time blamed security forces, who denied the charge.
Earlier this month, Sri Lanka's top human rights panel cleared the army, pinning the killings on Tamil Tiger rebels or Muslim home guards.
The commission of inquiry also said compensation already paid to victims' families of about 400,000 Sri Lanka rupees (about $3,480) was "totally inadequate."
A number of relatives of the murdered aid workers say they do not want to sign the government's letters.
"Money will not help us. We cannot get our relatives back anyway," one family member of the victims told the BBC.
Some relatives refused to comment due to what their lawyers described as fear of intimidation.
The BBC has seen three letters seeking more compensation from Action Against Hunger (Action Contre La Faim, ACF).
The letters were handed to the victims' families on July 19 at a government administration office in the eastern town of Trincomalee. They were due to be signed and handed back by July 25.
Blast Verdict Due
A special court in Mumbai is set to deliver a verdict on the explosions that killed 55 people in the city in 2003.
Three people were charged with causing the twin blasts near the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, which also injured 180 others.
The accused were charged under India's Prevention Of Terrorism Act.
It will be the biggest verdict in a terror case since 2006 when 100 people were convicted of Mumbai's 1993 blasts.
The three accused are Haneef Sayyed, his wife Fahmeeda and Ashrat Ansari.
Two other accused, Mohammed Ansari and Mohammed Hasan, were discharged after a review by the special court last year.
The prosecution said the blasts were planned in Dubai by Pakistani nationals at the behest of the Islamic militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The blasts caused devastation in Mumbai at the Gateway of India, one of the country's most famous landmarks. There was also carnage left at the Zaveri Bazaar gold market.
New Lizard Species
Scientists have discovered a new species of lizard in the lush Western Ghats mountain range in Maharashtra.
The small reptile is a form of gecko and was found by taxonomist Varad Giri in the Kolhapur district. It has been named Cnemasspis kolhapurensis.
Giri and his co-workers published their findings in this month's edition of the
It is the third new species of lizard recently discovered in the area.
Giri, a curator at the Bombay Natural History Society, told the BBC that the Western Ghats has never been surveyed for amphibians and reptiles.
"A gecko of this particular character has not been recognised elsewhere in the world," he said.
Giri said he first noticed the lizard in 2005 during a survey of one of the forests in the area.
"When I first stumbled across it, the lizard looked like a normal specimen," he said.
"It was basically a form of gecko but then I saw that it was interesting because its scales were shiny."
He said that when the gecko was held up in a certain light, the tail dorsum exhibited an "iridescent sheen."
Iridescence is commonly reported in a variety of reptiles—but not geckos.
Once Giri and his co-workers had analysed the specimen, they realized it was a previously unknown species.
They then enlisted the help of Dr Aaron M. Bauer, an expert on lizards based at Villanova University in the U.S., to confirm the discovery.
Leopard Cub Freed
A clouded leopard, previously thought to be extinct in Bangladesh, has been released after being caught by tribes people in a remote area of the country.
Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh chief executive Mohammed Anwarul Islam said that that the leopard cub is now in the jungle on the border with Burma.
It had been caught by tribespeople after being separated from its mother.
Professor Islam said that the cub was released only after villagers were satisfied it could survive on its own.
"They made sure that the cub was eating meat before releasing it. The locals feel that it is now able to find food and survive in the forest," he told the BBC.
Professor Islam said that the cub was found by indigenous villagers near the town of Rangamati in the south-eastern Chittagong Hill Tracts in June.
"The villagers were understandably concerned that if they released it too soon, it would die in the jungle without its mother."
Professor Islam said that the last time a clouded leopard had been spotted in Bangladesh was in 1992.
He said that the cat was considered extinct in the country because of habitat loss.
Local people reportedly saw the cub's mother and one of its siblings as they were feeding on a monkey.
They chased the leopard family away, but captured one of the cubs.
Clouded leopards used to live in forests around Mymensingh, Sylhet, and the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
They are solitary, nocturnal and arboreal cats. They are also one of the least studied leopards, principally because of their secretive and timid nature.
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Happy New Year everyone! This year for a change I'm going to actually write my resolutions at the start of the year like a normal person. I know what you're thinking. "Jenny, why do you keep doing this, it's embarrassing and nearly always ends in failure." In a way, yes it does. I rarely complete the list but I always make an attempt and any achievement is good right?
Besides, I achieved other things that weren't exactly in my control so wouldn't have gone into a list like this. So, as usual, here's my evaluation of how I got on in 2013:
Practise shorthand – fail
Read one book a month – done (as long as that's just an average, I read 16 in five months)
Pass my driving test – fail (didn't fail the test, just didn't do the test)
Maintain my blog better – done
Go for a walk once a week – fail
Write everyday – done
Brainstorm – fell down around April
Work through Ready, Set, Novel! – fell down in December
Do 30 Day Creative Writing Challenge – fail, but ongoing
Work through Writing Fiction, Step by Step – fail
Some of them you might know as mid-2013 writing resolutions. Once again, could be better, could be worse. Onwards and upwards so here are my 2014 resolutions.
Shorthand – exact same goal as last year because I only failed from laziness. One day a week, adding a day for every month.
Read 24 books – That averages as two books per month but it's not limited.
Pass my driving test – I'm determined to pass in 2014. End of story.
Continue to better my blog.
Brainstorm ideas for work, writing, blogging and freelancing once a week.
Finish Ready, Set, Novel! and start my own novel.
Finish "30-Day" Creative Writing Challenge – not necessarily in 30 days, but I have to complete all challenges.
Do The Artist's Way – Again, I'm determined!
Learn Spanish again – I'm even going to do a course for this one.
Wish me luck, and let me know what your resolutions are.


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Time for action. Check your schedule for tomorrow and prepare yourself tonight. Set out some clothes, know what you're making for breakfast, set the alarm clock, etc,
Before you go to bed don't forget to make a thankful lists. One for the five things in your life that you are most thankful for, one for the five things you like about your husband, one for the five things about each of your children and one for the five things you know that God is promising for your future. (Your hopes and dreams)
Now get a good nights sleep and tomorrow we will meet again.
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Now, I've taken the Myers-Briggs tests twice so far, and have come out an ENTP and today I was quite delighted to find out that ENTP maps to the Inventor Rational type. There was also a list of famous Inventor Rationals, and Feynman was one of them.
Not that I have a claim to a Nobel Prize, but such company is flattering :)
I actually found the Keirsey temperament explanations, though riddled with typos (and biographical inaccuracies on celebs' pages) much more revealing than the Myers-Briggs ones I read before.
The Keirsey site lets you determine which of the four main temperaments you are for free, and wants to charge you for finding out which exact sub-type you are. If you know your Myers-Briggs type, you can simply find which sub-type your four-letter type maps to on their temperament overview pages.


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Working Past Age 65 and Benefit Plans
Today many people are working past age 65. Most benefit packages are set up to reduce some benefits at 65 and discontinue others. If you are an employee or an employer and working past age 65 is on the horizon, make sure your benefits carrier is aware of what is going on and educate yourself as well. Here are a few comments on things you should be reviewing.
The Canada Pension Plan, CPP, introduced a number of changes effective 2012. You can still start collecting your CPP at 60, but you must continue to contribute. As well, you can enhance your CPP income by putting the income off until age 70. More complete information is available at:
Life Insurance benefits usually drop by 50% at age 65. You may request your group carrier to change that to age 70 or whatever. If that is not available, perhaps you should be supplementing your life insurance coverage with more personal life coverage.
Most LTD benefits end at age 65. We know of one provider that will guarantee issue personal LTD benefits after age 65. You can have an individual plan that will now cover you to age 75.
Drugs and Health benefit plans all vary to some degree. Persons in Ontario are covered for most drugs past age 65. You can request to be removed from your drugs and extended health benefits group plan as you will have duplicate coverage in many situations through the provincial government. If you are a company owner, discuss this in detail with your turning 65 employee.
Most dental benefits can be continued past age 65, but make sure your benefits contract allows for it.
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Up the Sandbox
Opened December 21, 1972
Barbra Streisand's sixth film, her first for her partner-owner company First Artists, would have the social significance she wanted to convey in her work. "I had wanted to have a little more input into the films I was making," Barbra explained. "So becoming a producer, a production entity, one does have some say in what the movie looks like, what it sounds like, what it's about and so forth. So it was a step beyond for me, rather than just being the actress ... It was the first film for my own production company, Barwood Films, Limited, and so I was able to have much more input into the content and style of this film."
Sandbox was based on the 1970 novel by Anne Roiphe. "When Up the Sandbox came out and it was recognized as a feminist novel, I was rather surprised," Roiphe told The New York Times. "It didn't come out of a political frame, it came out of an observational, deeply felt frame—which happened to be political."
Producer Irwin Winkler purchased the novel rights for $60,000. "It wasn't a best-seller," he said, "but I thought it would be, otherwise if I had waited I could have gotten it for a lot less."
Streisand explained the movie version of the novel to writer Vernon Scott, "This is the first realistic picture I've ever done. It's not Hollywood. The female I play has no obvious charm. I hardly smile." She continued: "I took some risks playing a character that may not be liked by audiences."
As Margaret Reynolds, a New York housewife with two children who discovers she is pregnant with her third, Streisand plays a character who questions motherhood and being a housewife. "That's where all the fantasy scenes come in. It's great because Margaret—and me, too—is able to say everything in the fantasy that she should have said in reality."
Streisand went on to explain that her role in Sandbox "is the first time in movies that I've ever really created another personality. I wanted to de-emphasize Streisand and have women of all classes relate to Margaret Reynolds and understand her."
More succinctly, Streisand said: "I really want people to think of me as an actress."
David Selby, who appeared off-Broadway in the Tony-winning play Stick and Bones, was cast as Streisand's husband, Paul Reynolds. He also appeared in the hit television show Dark Shadows. He told the New York Post, "Working with [Streisand] was a treat. She was charming, conscientious, and cared only about making a good film."
The director of Sandbox, Irvin Kershner, toasted Streisand at the 2001 American Film Institute tribute. He recalled that he was warned about Streisand. "'She'll kill you, she's a murderess.' That's what people told me before I directed Up the Sandbox. Of course, they were wrong. Because I discovered working with her that I had the most joyous time of my career. [Barbra is] beautiful in any light, at any angle, as a woman and as an artist."
Kershner elaborated on how he assembled his team in his director's commentary for the Sandbox DVD:
Before we started I took dozens of photographs of Barbra – different lighting conditions, different angles, trying to find where she looked glamorous, where she looked 'house-wifely', where she looked like a love object, where she looked like a mother who'd been up all night with her babies. Well, I think we found it. I had to talk [cinematographer] Gordon Willis into doing the picture because he had heard stories about how difficult Barbra Streisand was. Well, I was a bit worried myself. But I knew that I needed Gordon Willis. I'd done a film called Loving with him and he was the best that I had worked with so far. He loved the story, he was just afraid of Barbra. Well, I showed him all the photographs I had taken, introduced them. He liked her, of course, because she has a great personality — and made him laugh, which he of course enjoyed — and finally said he would do it. And that was my essential team.
Up the Sandbox was shot in Hollywood and New York. The maternity ward scenes at the end of the film were shot in Watts, Los Angeles; Paul Reynolds' school scenes were lensed at Columbia University, New York; The exterior of Margaret's apartment was at 601 West 112th Street, New York; and the playground scenes were filmed at Riverside Park in Manhattan.
Ironically, with the attacks of September 11th now many years behind us, the scene in which the Statue of Liberty was toppled by bombs was filmed on Liberty Island, with the just-opened World Trade Center towers visible in the distance.
Cinematographer Gordon Willis denied any difficulty working with Streisand, too. "I had a very good time with her. She's very bright," he said. "Harry Stradling [Funny Girl's cinematographer] put cross hairs in front of a woman's face and bang, that's where the light went. Barbra would prefer the key light right between her eyes, but you can't always get it that way. Harry Stradling lit a movie in a certain way — I don't light that way. If I start lighting actors one way and the movie another it looks stupid. We worked it out very well. I thought Barbra looked great and she was helpful. She will work with you."
Portraying Margaret's fantasies in the film was difficult to get right.
Streisand, in her commentary on the Sandbox DVD, discussed their approach to the fantasies in Up the Sandbox: "How do you do fantasies in movies that are very truthful and very real? We didn't do a traditional cut or dissolve to a fantasy, and I think that confused people. Although to me, it was great—it was true. It was walking a fine line. It was dangerous ... they were so subtle and so realistic I found out the audience had a hard time knowing what was true and what was untrue. Which broke my heart because I thought they were so clever."
Back in 1972, Streisand told columnist Robert Taylor that after she sneak-previewed the movie with test audiences, "The audience went in expecting another What's Up, Doc? They were confused. There were things in the movie that I wanted to change, and the audience confirmed them. For instance, they didn't like it when my husband—David Selby—yells at me. They didn't know it was a fantasy."
"The changes we've made since the preview have not been in the basic structure, but in the content. We've used music to indicate where the fantasies begin. Now you can pretty much tell which is real and which is fantasy. It's less confusing."
The family scene at the parents' home "was my idea," Streisand said, "it was based on the last time my family had a reunion. Everybody has been to them, and everybody also has very mixed feelings about them."
The woman singing "Beautiful Dreamer" in an operatic style was based on Streisand's own mother who used to sing similar tunes. The man with the home movie camera was based on Sheldon Streisand (Barbra's brother) who also liked to photograph family events.
Asked by journalist William Nazzaro if she was happy with the final picture, Streisand replied: "Happy? No artist is ever completely happy with his work. The film has many flaws, but that's part of life. It would have been better if there had been more time, but there comes a time when you just have to let go.
"I felt we were dealing with important ideas—things that meant a great deal to me," she said. "This film was a total experience, a team effort. Everbody pitched in and helped, from the script to the dubbing. I didn't get paid. I'm taking a big chance, but it's more exciting that way."
Sandbox Music
Two music scores were written for the film. Dave Grusin began scoring Up the Sandbox but was let go. Billy Goldenberg was the second composer brought in for the film. Kershner wanted a smaller sound for the film—less Hollywood-esque. Goldenberg achieved this by using a toy piano over the opening credits. He told Time magazine that Streisand would call him as late as 2:30 a.m. after she'd finished shooting the picture for the day and ask him to "hum me the music for tomorrow" over the phone.
Below: In the "Sandbox" pressbook, the Columbia single was promoted.
At one point, Streisand asked Goldenberg for an end title song by 4:00 p.m. the next day. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalled. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word writers, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, to fit it out with a lyric." The song became "If I Close My Eyes", the movie's single – although the song was not used in the final film. (It was released as a 45 rpm single in January 1973, backed with an instrumental version of the song).
Dave Grusin's song "A Child is Born", written for Up the Sandbox, was eventually rescued and used on Streisand's 1975 album, Lazy Afternoon. The lyrics to "A Child is Born" are by Barbra's friends, the Bergmans.
Filming In Africa
In June 1972, director Irvin Kershner took his crew on location to remote East Africa. "While I was shooting the film," Kershner said, "Barbra said to me, 'Where are we going to shoot the African scenes?' And I said, 'On a backlot at MGM. They have a very good jungle there.' She says, 'Will it look right? Will it look real?' I said, 'Well, it'll look as real as we can make it. I'll have to build the village for the tribe.' She said, "Why don't we go to Africa?' I said, 'You'd want to go to Africa to shoot it?' She said, 'Well, yeah. It'll be so much better for the film.' So I said, 'Let's talk to the producers. They'll have to talk to the studio. It'll be quite a bit more expensive.' The next thing I know, a few days later, we're going to Africa."
Kershner used Samburu tribesmen as extras, portraying the fabled Masai tribe. Streisand remembered Kenya as "quite beautiful ... I remember it being so hot. We had no air conditioner or anything, so I had a little, dinky trailer filled with flies. Flies everywhere. But I loved the people, the Samburu people, and I made very good friends with a woman of the tribe. We didn't speak the same language, obviously, but she understood what I was trying to say to her. She showed me how to dress. Everything was held together with safety pins so nobody had to sew anything. I had the greatest outfits. You rip the fabric and you safety pin in where you want it. And then jewelry made out of telephone wires, little beads. She taught me how they put makeup on their eyes with the ground stone, blue ..."
Photographer Steve Schapiro accompanied the film crew to Africa and took the "fashion pictures" of Streisand in native garments. "I would photograph her while she was trying on these outfits, and we'd set up a portrait sitting on the fly," he recalled.
In 1972, Streisand was proud of the film. "I know a lot of women who are feeling guilty about leaving children at home with a sitter, or at a child care center, and going out and doing other things. At the same time there are women who want to stay home with their children and their husbands, and they shouldn't feel guilty either.
"[Up the Sandbox] has been a great experience, a very rewarding experience. Even if it fails. I'd rather be more responsible for something that fails, than less responsible for something that succeeds."
Above Left: Streisand attends a San Francisco screening of Sandbox; Above Right & Below: Streisand, in fur, at the New York premiere of the movie.
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Excitement is building around OOIDA HQ as more and more plans come together for the 40th anniversary bash at Kansas Speedway. And while October may seem a ways off, preregistration for the show is going on now. For those who hurry, they could have a free suite for three nights at an award-winning resort near the Speedway.
Those who plan ahead to attend the Heart of America Trucking Show on Oct. 18-19 at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, KS, and preregister will be eligible to win three nights of accommodations at the Great Wolf Lodge during the event. The Lodge is recognized as one of the nation's top family resorts. From the hotel, you can see (and hear) the Speedway. The massive northwest-themed lodge features an indoor waterpark, and winners of the drawing will also get a free pass to the waterpark.
You can preregister at ooidatruckshow.com. And do it soon. The drawing for the suite will be held June 30.
Preregistration will continue after the drawing. But in order to be eligible for the drawing for the room, you'll need to get in before the June 30 drawing.
On the subject of preregistration, for those who want to participate in the Heart of America Truck Beauty Contest, signups will be online soon.
The classes will be determined by the number of entries, year model and category. For example, we'll have Dressed For Excess – the trucks that are shiny inside and out, customized and polished to the max. And then we'll celebrate Grandstand Good – working trucks that get the job done in fine style, but aren't quite as detailed.
The event will also feature more than 100 exhibitors, seminars, food, beer garden, awards, attendee competitions and much more. Plans are brewing for excitement in the free overnight truck parking lot as well. Check the website often as plans are being finalized all the time.
Concerts? We'll have those, too.
Lucas Oil Products Inc., owned by longtime OOIDA Support Member Forrest Lucas, is sponsoring the main event concert on the Friday night of the show. Lucas Oil's team is in the process of nailing down the act or acts for that night. And if you were a fly on the wall at OOIDA, you'd be impressed at the names being tossed around as possibilities.
And, if there's one guarantee, it's that Forrest and Charlotte Lucas don't do anything halfway. Stay tuned; we'll know more soon.


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By Peter Snarr---The Oakland City Council has approved moving forward with negotiations to sell SunCal a city owned parcel of land. This is the latest development for SunCal's exclusive 188 acre project at the former Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
The project plans on transforming the area around the former Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, which has stood abandoned for 20 years, into a high-end housing development in the Oakland Hills.
Residents who attended a City Council meeting on Feb. 7 had many concerns with the Oak Knoll project.
Instead of selling the public parcel to the developer, Oakland resident Alyssa Dennis wants the city to keep the land and use the money from SunCal's impact fees to develop it's own affordable housing on the parcel.
"Here we are with a piece of land, a piece of city owned land, a piece of public land, that's available for building affordable housing," Dennis said. "It's hard for me to understand how building [luxury homes] on this city owned site is a benefit to the community."
Oakland stands to make about $20 million from Oak Knoll impact fees, according to the City Administrator's office. Currently, there is no affordable housing proposed for either the public parcel or the land SunCal already owns.
Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan assured the public that she would not consider a deal if a proposal did not include affordable housing on the public parcel.
"When the actual deal terms come back, I fully expect them to include affordable housing," Kaplan said. "I will not vote for them if they do not."
Ben Rivera, who spoke on behalf of East Bay Residents for Responsible Development, spoke about the negotiations between SunCal and the local workforce and asked the City Council to encourage those negotiations. According to Rivera, deals were close to being finalized but went stagnant with no explanation. "[OakKnoll] seems like a sweet deal, but let's look inside, because there are a lot of unresolved issues."
Councilmember Larry Reid, who represents the district where the development will happen and who has been working with the public since the Oak Knoll project was introduced in 2005, welcomed any comments and ideas to ensure that the project is fair to residents. "There are people who have empowered themselves to make sure that this is a development that all of us can be proud of," Reid said. "We understand the concerns. It is an incredible opportunity to do something special."
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Paul Merriwether commented 2017-04-01 14:51:38 -0700What price range is considered affordable housing? Or are we talking rentals?
S Rope Wolf commented 2017-03-18 04:36:15 -0700Affordable housing in a city already turning into SF pricing is the way to go. I live across the street from this development.


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Responding to Donald Trump's comments that a judge presiding over a lawsuit involving his business was biased because of his Mexican heritage, House Speaker Paul Ryan ripped into his remarks, calling it "the textbook definition of a racist comment." Nevertheless, Ryan – along with others from the Republican establishment – went on to endorse Trump for the presidency. To endorse an avowed racist for the highest office in the land while recognizing he is a racist is the textbook definition of white privilege. White Privilege occurs when those not impacted by racism, because they are white, vote for, or refuse to vote against, someone detrimental, if not deadly, to communities of color.
In my last article, I argued that even though I was a financial supporter of Bernie Sanders since he announced his candidacy for president, and even though I have deep reservations concerning Hillary Clinton's neoconservative worldviews and neoliberal economic tendencies, I will nonetheless vote for her because she will be less damning to communities of color. Some Bernie Bros advocating Bernie or Bust are, like Speaker Ryan, exhibiting their white privilege because a Trump Administration, while undesirable, does not threaten their security, livelihood, or very life. If nothing else, Trump will strengthen white privilege more so than Clinton (or Sanders, if he would have gotten more votes and become the nominee).
Last week's article must have hit a nerve because it received thousands of hits and scores of comments. Although I make it a personal policy never to reply to responses, today I thought I would do so in an effort to school my dear white liberals on their white privilege and explain why I, and some people of color who resonate with my views (obviously not "all," because no one elected me as the official spokesperson), remain suspicious of liberals claiming to be our allies while shedding crocodile tears.
- The Messiah Complex, otherwise known as the Great White Hope. Several of the emails I received reminded me that only Sanders will save us from the establishment who has sold out to special interests. All other politicians are bought. Whenever a white person is set up as the savior of "colored folk," people of color worry. This has never worked out well in the past. Liberation can only come from those who struggle under repression and subjugation. Of course white allies are crucial, as long as they walk next to us in our quest for justice, and not paternalistically ahead of us. Besides, it is somewhat naïve to believe that the head of the empire, regardless of color or gender, would be anything except an emperor (or empress).
- I'm the real racist. If I had a dollar for every time I have been called a racist, I might be as wealthy as Trump. When those on society's margins attempt to establish a dialogue to investigate how they too can inhabit this country as full and equal citizens, those (including liberals) whose position within society is jeopardized by such assertions, cast themselves as the victims, while labeling Latinx seeking dialogue as "playing the race card" or as "race hustlers."
- Sanders is leading a revolution, not a political campaign. No, sorry, this is a political campaign. I actually lived through a revolution (Cuba) and witnessed how revolutions eat their young. Because of some of the hate mail I received from Bernie Bros, who are eating their young – (meaning critiquing those who dare to question the party line) – I maintain a healthy concern about revolutionary zeal. We social democrats believe in free and open elections, and we believe that the will of the majority who voted should not be dismissed because our candidate did not garner the most votes. Is our nominating process byzantine? Absolutely. Should it be reformed? Yes. But at the end of the day, Clinton got more votes – many of which were from communities of color. For mainly young white liberals to overrule this is not a revolution I want to be part of.
- I'm angry at the Sanders campaign because they didn't hire my wife. Yes, this was one of the accusations hurled at me. First of all, my wife is already employed, thank you very much. But more important, by labeling people of color "angry," whites are then given permission to ignore every critique offered because, after all, it lacks rational thought, being instead a product of passion/anger. Also, to say that people of color's thinking is only motivated by opportunity, specifically financial gain, is to imply we can be bought because we lack altruistic qualities, an ability to look beyond our self interest for what is best for the overall community.
- Clinton hoodwinked people of color to vote for her, I should focus on that. My dear white liberals, please don't show your racist tendencies by suggesting we cannot decide what is best for our communities, and that we need YOU to tell us what to focus on. For the record, I was one of the few people of color who supported Sanders, even though he made minimal efforts to deal specifically with Hispanics. But to imply that communities of color who failed to support him are gullible sheep is truly beyond the pale. Reread bullet point number one! Unlike Sanders (one of my main critiques of my last article), Clinton made a concerted effort to reach out and listen carefully to communities of color and thus was subsequently rewarded with their votes.
- Focus on economic justice and not identity politics. Why assume it is an either/or when it should be both/and? Still, I find it fascinating that those who created identity politics since the foundation of the Republic create a national narrative where "they" are the victims. Let's be clear, communities of color did not enshrine in the Constitution that blacks were 3/5 of a man, or established Jim & Jane Crow laws, or today maintain a law and order that racially profiles the type of person disproportionately stopped by the police, convicted by judges, and inhabiting prisons. Fixing economic injustices – as crucial as it is – will not solve racism or ethnic discrimination.
- I'm a closeted Clinton supporter pretending to be a Sander backer. Yeah, right. 'Cause we Latinx are so sneaky. Can't trust any of us.
Here is the bottom line: white privilege emulating from either liberals or conservatives is equally damning to communities of color. I am just as suspicious of white liberals who assure me they get it, as I am of conservatives claiming color blindness. Right now, every four days, five brown bodies die crossing the deserts on our southern borders. Brown mothers, children, and infants are behind bars due to our current immigration policies. Children! Infants! I'm sure there would be an outcry if white children and infants were behind bars. And yet, the silence of my so-called liberal allies is deafening about this. Will a Clinton Administration end this? I doubt it. But this I know: the proposed Trump administration has vowed to make this situation much worse for brown folk. Literally more brown bodies will perish under his presidency. We people of color have no illusions about this. Unlike liberals protected by white privilege, we have skin in the game. Our vote is never cast for someone who will save us, rather for who will harm, or even kill, less of us.


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In this article, Natalie Cisneros investigates the rhetoric of the "problematic of alien sexuality," or the fear surrounding the procreation of people who do not have or are not perceived as having/deserving citizenship. These anxieties are closely connected to discussions of children who are born to parents who may or may not be documented citizens during pregnancy and birth (in essence, 'anchor babies'). The birthright citizenship policy of the United States (those born within the US have automatic citizenship) complicates this discourse and brings into question which sort of bodies are perceived as producing citizens and which are not. There is a long history of women being treated as the producers of the next generation of citizens rather than being recognized as citizens in their own right.
From this history emerges discussions of the perceived worth of women's bodies as compared to the worth of fetuses (note: such rhetoric equates women with wombs and this is, of course, a cissexist perspective; at the same time, this gendering of reproduction is significant because it demonstrates how conceptualizations of women—regardless of childbearing capacity—have been, and continue to be, linked to sub-citizen roles by understanding them as a means to an end). Women have increasingly been viewed as vessels for future citizens in political discourses, a shift that further pushes women towards this sub-citizen role while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of fetuses' future citizenship.
Cisneros explores the dilemma that arises when government groups are both fearful of 'alien' reproduction yet are also concerned about the wellbeing of the fetus (in such a discourse, classified as an unborn child), at least theoretically. As the fetus becomes an increasingly visible figure in the US, mothers—especially mothers deemed alien—are increasingly erased. Even the prevalence of the term 'anchor baby' in discussions of citizenship, access to services, etc. emphasizes the fetus and erases the mother.
The figure of the alien mother upsets the concept of 'virtuous motherhood' because she is not perceived as fitting the idealized mother's image as an honorable site of nation building. Cisneros notes that while the fetus represents a nationless tabula rasa of sorts, immigrant mothers are viewed as fundamentally outside the charmed position of citizen. Here, positive and negative eugenics come in to play, or the idea that some bodies are encouraged/obliged to reproduce while others are discouraged/prevented from reproducing, respectively. Which bodies are perceived as producing desirable citizens, or citizens at all? In light of these ideas about 'healthy' reproduction, how are alien mothers doubly regulated?
Early on in the article, Cisneros describes the 'alien' subject as "always-already" racialized and classed, and therefore automatically with a history that positions such sexuality as other, undesirable, and threatening. I found the phrase "always-already" to be especially perceptive. How does this "always-already" process of thinking about alien mothers keep them in the category of other?


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Health in Uganda
- Background
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General information
Uganda is a landlocked East African country lying astride the equator.
It is bordered (clockwise from north) by Sudan, Kenya, United Republic of Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Climate: Equatorial, tempered with breezes and showers. Cooler in the higher areas. Heavy rain from March to May, and in October and November. Little rainfall in the north-east, though north-east parts of the country experienced unusually heavy rainfall in the latter part of 2007 with heavy flooding displacing tens of thousands of people.
The most significant issues are draining of wetlands for agricultural use; overgrazing, soil erosion and deforestation; water hyacinth infestation in Lake Victoria; and poaching.
36,346,000 (2012); 16 per cent of people live in urban areas and five per cent in urban agglomerations of more than a million people. The population growth rate stood at 3.2 per cent p.a. between the years 1990-2012. In 2012 the birth rate was 44 per 1,000 people (49 in 1970) and life expectancy was 59 years (50 in 1970 and 48 in 1990).
The rural population predominates, with most settlements concentrated around Lake Victoria. The majority of the population consists of Bantu peoples (Baganda 17 per cent, Banyankore ten per cent, Basoga eight per cent, Bakiga seven per cent, Bagisu five per cent and Bunyoro three per cent) in the west, south and east;
and most of the rest of Nilotic peoples (Iteso seven per cent, Langi six per cent, Acholi five per cent, Lugbara four per cent, Alur, Karimojong and Kakwa) in the north and parts of the east; with minorities of Asians and refugees from neighbouring countries (2002 census).
Uganda is classified as a low-income economy by the World Bank.
Joined Commonwealth: 1962
Population: 36,346,000 (2012)
GDP per capita growth: 3.3% p.a. 1990–2012
GNI per capita: US$440 (2012)
UN HDI 2012 ranking: 161 out of 186 countries
Life expectancy: 59 (2012)
Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births): 69 (2012)
Largest contribution to mortality: Communicable diseases, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions
Government health expenditure: 2.5% of GDP (2011)


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Previously, we announced our dual heirs for this generation, Erik and Stan! I will be controlling them on alternate days, so they will have chances to be idiots as well as THs. All four kids aged up to child, and we had a bunch of fails.
Also, I have now updated the downloads page; most of Faith's siblings are uploaded. The only ones missing are Will and Leo, whom I don't have shots of for their trait cards – they will be up soon!


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C-methyl-methionine (MET) is the most celebrated, widely and regularly employed amino acid used as a tumor-imaging agent in positron emission tomography (PET). While MET is easily synthesized (1), the short halflife of the carbon-11 component presents a disadvantage. The mechanism of MET uptake in gliomas depends primarily on the L-like transport system. This latter system is related to the proliferation rate of human glioma cells in vitro (2). Unlike 18F-fludeoxyglucose (FDG), MET diffuses less into both inflammatory and normal brain tissue. Consequently MET-based imaging detects and delineates cerebral tumors more efficiently than FDG (3) Accordingly, MET accumulates readily in gliomas, even when MRI or CT contrast enhancement is absent (4, 5), and FDG uptake is low (3, 6, 7). This property ensures that a PET-MET semi-quantitative analysis technique is able to accurately monitor the effects of chemotherapy in gliomas, particularly for low-grade oligodendrogliomas (16). Additionally, using PET-MET is possible to differentiate between recurrent brain tumors and radiation necrosis following radio-surgery in malignant glioma (8).
We have previously addressed the importance of PET-MET for use in the stereo-tactic guidance of brain biopsies in previous studies (9-12), and also in the delineation of the target area prior to radio-surgery or neuronavigation. Indeed, we have found that uptake of MET was significantly higher in tumors showing anaplastic changes (13). (Figure 1)
Radio-surgical techniques such as the 'Leksell Gammaknife' have acquired a considerable reputation in the management of brain tumors as they both destruct the brain target lesion by focusing large numbers of radiation beams on the abnormal brain area, whilst preserving the normal surrounding structures, without jeopardizing patient safety. In our institution, we employ a fucidial system in radio-surgery, namely a stereo-tactic framefilled with isotope and secured in a customized head holder, permitting fast and analogous positioning during CT, MRI and PET procedures. This method provides submillimeter spatial accuracy for the co-registration of PET-MET with MRI and/or CT imaging (14), and so optimizes radio-surgical targeting. Adding in the metabolic information delivered by MET imaging, to the result of the morphological CT/MRI analysis, turns out to be crucial to effecting an improvement in radio-surgical treatment of complex clinical situations (i.e. pituitary tumors and infiltrative primary tumors) (15).


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Now right off the bat you can probably imagine that there won't be any funny or exciting stories here. But don't go just yet.
Boring boy messaged me on Match.com, we emailed for a day or two and then he asked me to meet him at Lemongrass in Delray. (MORE SUSHI, YIPEEEEE!)
His pictures were A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E. He looked like he just stepped out of a J.Crew magazine, fall collection.
We met on a week night. I got a parking spot right outside of the restaurant. That in itself makes the night great. You know you are excited when you get "THAT" parking spot, you think "best. day. ever"
I arrived a few minutes early, and went inside the restaurant to wait for him. I sat at the bar and was looking at my iphone mirror app; Making sure I dotted my I's, crossed my T's and wiped the lipstick off my teeth, okay were good. Then I did some texting to friends, searched through PINTEREST and thought about a facebook check-in, but I refrained.
Finally he came in the door of the restaurant and we immediately looked at each other. I can only imagine the first thing that comes to people's minds when they meet for the first time. If we all had a "word bubble" over our heads we would probably be screwed. My thoughts were simple, "MmmmMmm, I like"
The restaurant was very busy. They were offering a "buy 1 LOBSTER MONSTER get the other free" coupon, and all of Boca Raton was going to make sure they took advantage of that! We were seated at one of those "one side is booth one side is a chair" tables. We had to do that awkward walk around dance deciding who should sit on what side. You know the one where someone goes left and the other person goes left to go around them and then you try to go right and they do too. What a mess.
Our table was in the middle of two other tables, one couple on each side of us. We stuck out like a sore thumb. Actually we just stuck out like two young kids on their first date.
Not only was I going to have to make sure that I kept up good conversation with the "boy", but I needed to make sure Mr. and Mrs. Nosey on the left had something good to listen to and Mr. and Mrs. Gawking on the right had something to look at. I should have told them to take a picture, it lasts longer.
They probably just wanted to live vicariously through our date since they didn't even speak to each other the entire time. Put the iphone down and nobody will get hurt…
Here we are AGAIN, sushi time.
At this point I have mastered eating sushi in front of boys. I knew exactly which rolls to choose. I knew that white rice gets stuck in your teeth a lot easier then brown, never order anything with more than three ingredients in it; and stay away from anything that has the words " volcano" or "dragon" in it.
"I'll have a spicy tuna roll, brown rice, seaweed on the outside, no sesame seeds please." Now this may sound picky, but you are saving yourself a lot of embarrassment such as: food dropping out of your mouth, food getting stuck in your teeth, or simply looking like a chipmunk trying to eat that oh-so delicious hurricane bomb roll in just one bite.
Now the date went a little like this.
We both opened the menu, I said "how about we share, we can split 3 rolls". He said "perfect". I decided that I would pick one he would pick one then we would decide together on the last. Teamwork at its finest. This way I could make sure to sneak my spicy tuna in for my "safety" roll.
The food came faster than a speeding bullet, so we didn't even have too much time to have conversation. He was the same age as me so we talked about some funny things we remembered as 80's babies, where we went on our teen tour in high school and the sports we played growing up. We were out of there in about 45 minutes. Now what?
We walked over to Kilwins. NOW, if you have never been to Kilwins you need to go. Like now. You can smell that place from a mile away, the hot press making the waffle cones. YUMMY! ( am I making you hungry yet ?)
I got my fav ice cream, Rocky Road. I especially like it from Kilwin's because they have the perfect amount of nuts to marshmallow ratio. What can I say, I am a foodie.
We talked about going to see a movie the following week. I was totally for it. The date was coming to an end and I did have a nice time, it was just a little uninteresting.
We started walking back towards Lemongrass . I said thank you and he said he had a really nice time. I was waiting for the awkward hug moment, (already prepared, arms under Lindsay, arms under), but all of a sudden he put out his hand to give me a hand shake. WHAT?!
He immediately stopped himself and said "Wait, what am I doing?" I said, " I am not exactly sure?" Then he goes "come here"…NOW comes that ridiculously awkward hug.
He texted me a few days later trying to set up a time to see a movie.
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December is upon us and it's time to reflect on the past year. Stepping into my role as President of our Academy has been a highlight for me, as it's allowed me to become more involved with all of our members and plan for our 43rd Annual Meeting, August, 2-4, 2018, at the Terranea Resort in California.
Our upcoming meeting will certainly be a high point for our Academy. Recently, we released the full program for our Annual Meeting on our website, which came together thanks to the dedication of Markus Blatz and Marc Nevins. I encourage you to read through our full lineup of expert speakers presenting on the meeting's theme, The Stars are Aligned: Shaping the Future of Excellence in Esthetics.
The strength of this year's educational program demonstrates the level of dedication we have as a group to advancing esthetic dentistry through research and collaboration. I'd like to encourage you to donate to the 12th Annual Silent Auction to be held at the meeting, as all proceeds support AAED's educational mission.
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Enrico Zini wrote: >>One of the obvious things that got asked multiple but that none of the >>'keep debconf promt'ers answered is: Why is it critical for you to have >>these defaults done with debconf as opposed to customizing config files? >>>The alternative is to replace or edit other packages files, and this >>>is error prone and hard to do within the current policy. > I should recall that Custom Debians are about creating a pre-configured, > 100%-true-debian-and-policy-compliant distribution. Nontheless it should be your goal to get policy adjusted to your needs not to encourage behaviour currently questionable. I don't quite see how a distribution is "policy compliant" as opposed to the shipped packages being policy compliant. In my reading of the policy, the installation program can basically do anything it desires. I can see that you aren't allowed to just have packages messing around with the configuration files of other packages, but surely that isn't the only way to do customization. > The best solution Custom Debians came up so far to address this issue is > to pre-seed hidden debconf questions, which are set to priorities so low > that they never get asked. Yeah, but low is not the priority never asked. If you absolutely want to go with preseeded debconf values, maybe you could ask Joey to allocate a priority "invisible" (or whatever you want to call it) that is exclusively used to do CDD configuration where, as in the case of NTP, prompting *a user* is completely unneccessary. (I only searched the debconf bug list for "priority", so I'm not certain that you didn't.) > > This is so far the best way for a package to customize others for > special environments. Everyone reckons this is not optimal, but it's > the best that's been found, it requires no policy changes and little > effort from packagers. It requires that package maintainers disregard a publicly stated and more or less accepted best packaging practice. > I'm more and more convinced that common Custom Debian problems need a > bit of rationalization, structure, examples and communication to the > rest of the community. The thing that really disturbed me about the discussion is that the subject and introduction of Petter's mail suggested that package maintainers are unwilling to cooperate when they're only trying to reach policy goals (and minimization of user interaction is an eplicit goal in policy). If you CDD guys (presently) need debconf for purposes other than user interaction (and again, I would not have any problem with that), you need to propose a way to do this and not whine about people cutting out debconf where user interaction is not needed. Regards Thomas -- Thomas Viehmann, <http://beamnet.de/tv/>
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- 14:52 Also, twitterific on my macbook is a fail today -- I've not been able to post from it in a couple hours.
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Designed to simplify soldering servo wires with MPX connector. Besides this the joint is more robust in case of vibrations. All six pins of the MPX connector are transferred to the adapter PCB. However, the adapter has 8 soldering pads. It's because the outside ones at bouth sides are connected together in pairs.
The most common functionality is to connect two independet servos to one MPX connector, for example two wing servos. Diagram shows how the adapter pads are connected with the MPX pins. The are two "1" and "4". It means that those pads are connected together in pairs and uses one pin of the MPX connector.
When connecting a two servos to the MPX it would look like this:
– PWR + (typ. Red) : Pad no 1
– SIGNAL (typ. White or yellow): Pad no 2
– GND – (typ. Black): Pad no 3
– PWR + (typ. Red): PAD no 4
– SIGNAL (typ. White or yellow): Pad no 5
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The Temptations of Research
After almost a year and a half of slaving, DESERT WIND, my seventh Lena Jones novel, has been sent to the publisher. Now I'm working on my 10th mystery, THE LLAMA OF DEATH. This probably explains why I haven't been blogging like I should, although I've tried to keep up on Facebook.
We writers are strange creatures. Although of necessity we keep up with important current events ("BIN LADEN DEAD!!!" "TRUMP DROPS THE F-BOMB!!!" "NEW BARBIE DUE OUT!!!"), at the same time we're almost like hibernating bears while working on a book. But instead of going to sleep, we enter a waking dream-like state where we live entirely in our heads, coming up for air only for trips to the potty and other necessary forays outside our dens. When our friends run into us at the grocery store or dry cleaners and attempt to engage us in conversation, we stare at them through glazed eyes and say something like, "I'm so glad your little Brucie was chosen honor student of the year, and did you know that an Argentine duck has a 17-inch-long penis?"
We don't even notice when our circle of friends starts shrinking. Until, of course, that day when we pack up our manuscripts and ship (or e-mail) them off to our publishers. Then we look around and wonder where everyone disappeared to.
That's the situation I find myself in right now. When I call a friend, they ask, "Betty who?" After a pause, they add something like, "Oh. I thought you were dead." Once I convince them I'm not a ghost, we play catch-up.
Speaking of ghosts, I actually wrote one into DESERT WIND. The ghost's name is John Wayne. That's right. John Wayne, the movie actor. What happened to Wayne in 1953, while he was filming THE CONQUEROR, is a major plot point of DESERT WIND. And Mr. Wayne created a problem for me. About halfway through the first draft, I realized that I was committing the major writing sin of "telling, not showing." After all, the man died decades ago. So in order to show the pertinent portion of Wayne's life, I set pivotal scenes in different decades, thus turning what could have been a contemporary novel into a semi-historical one. Which, of course, meant tons of research.
Here's the trouble I have with research. I LOVE it -- madly, crazily, goofily LOVE it. In another life, I was probably a historian, so I've always had a hard time putting the research down and just writing the book. But oh, the things you learn while plowing through sixty-year-old magazines. For chapters set in 1953, I learned not only about the era's major events (Red Scare, anyone?), but also what songs people were listening to. You see, history isn't just made up of the big things -- history is also the "little" things, and to a great extent, those "little" things are what we notice. Most of us aren't in the White House War Room, and most of us aren't Arizona ranchers trying to figure out why our cattle are suddenly dying. And goodness knows, most of us aren't movie stars sauntering through a film set in a remote desert canyon. We're just normal, everyday people out shopping, trying to figure out what kind of skirt to buy (in the 1950s, we'd have bought a skirt with a poodle appliqued on it).
Despite all those historical temptations, I finally finishedDESERT WIND. I'd planned to take a month off to just sit around reading other people's books, but you know how writers are -- finish one book on Monday, start a new book on Tuesday. So that's what I did.
Now I'm knee-deep in research on llamas, those lovely Peruvian creatures who hum when they're happy (bet you didn't know that, did you?). But as soon as I finish THE LLAMA OF DEATH, I know there won't be any vacation -- I'll just plunge straight into the research for DESERT REGRET.
Oh, I can't wait!
5 comments:
- J.P. Farris said...
I always say that a writer is a student of everything, and that leads to the temptations of research. We are born with a curiosity that makes us what we are. I'm looking forward to reading the book.
- May 11, 2011 at 8:32 PM
- Eunice Boeve said...
Right on! We must forsake kith and kin to some degree if we're going to one day hold a book in our little hands with keyboard roughened fingers. I too love research and find it hard to stop and start to write the story. Also, I find it amazing/interesting to find when the story is done, what I've used and what I haven't from the reseach material.
- May 12, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Trish said...
Your blog is as funny in print as you are in person! Loved it -- will be looking for llamas ...write on!
- May 14, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- Vicky Ruth said...
Speaking of penis envy! Freud would have had fun with that information. Isn't it interesting what we pick up from blogs?
Congrats on another Lena book! Yeah, I can't wait. John Wayne? That will be interesting, I never liked his movies or him, so I am sure you will make him likeable, or is he the villian?
Yep, research is the best fun! Thank you for sharing the writing life! Now, this was a very interesting blog.
- May 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM
- Betty Webb said...
Vicky, oddly enough, I totally shared your view of Wayne before I began my research (which entailed watching a 20-film Wayne marathon back-to-back). By the time I was through with the films & the books, I felt differently. Lena, whose opinion of him mirrors mine, may -- or may not have -- changed her mind, too.
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RANGELY | Last Thursday the young lady Panthers traveled to Altamont, losing 14-10.
"This was a great game, we just fell short at the end," said head coach Jimmie Mergelman.
Mary Scoggins finished with eight points, and Rylee Allred added two.
The team traveled to Meeker Saturday for a triangular. The seventh grade B team played Meeker B first, losing 28-3. Shauna Lapp finished with two, and MacKenzie Manchester added one point. The A team also took on Meeker and lost 46-10, Scoggins finished with eight and Halcomb added two points. The A team took on Hayden and won 28-13. Scoggins finished with 14, Goshe with eight, Halcomb with four and Wagner with two.
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Then, I woke up.
When I decluttered and painted this room the cabinet seemed too dark and somber for the new space. I love this finish but it was paint. My daughter and son both had reservations about redoing it. I pointed out that this is not that BIG furniture decision--whether or not to paint over wood. This wasn't the original finish. I also have other pieces with this finish and would never use all of them together in the same space since it would be super matchy-matchy. When did this decorating by committee start?
Part of the problem with this storage solution is that you can see the contents through the glass.
I started by removing the hardware and popping out the glass, so I could paint the decorative piece in the door. The glass was held in place by these little pieces of trim on the inside.
Removing the glass made me nervous, but there wasn't a choice. Besides, I had an idea for it.
I decided to place the textured side out and went about replacing the glass and trim. I added wood glue for a little extra insurance.
These things are always so messy...
Once the painting was complete (this project took 3 1/2 cans of white semi-gloss) I allowed it to dry thoroughly.
The last step was to use sand paper to remove paint from certain areas to give it a slightly aged look. Not too much since I was going for a fresh clean look.
We placed it back in its original spot and I organized my accessories. It's nice to be able to see things and painting the inside white really brightened everything up in there!
I love the contrast of the rough burlap with the glossy white finish. And my skeptical offspring both gave it high marks when they saw it, admitting that it looked much better and suited the new room really well. I wasn't sure how I'd feel with all this white but it is very refreshing.


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…of the brain, that is. Albert Einstein once said "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
I love this because more and more I am learning that the key is not one side of our brain or the other, but how we honor and use them both. And the reason I called this post "Come on over to the right side" is that generally, in Western culture we do a pretty good job of using our left hemispheres, but could probably use some help maximizing our right.
But before we go there, a bit of background might be helpful. As most of you probably know, the brain is divided into two hemispheres, connected but separate. Unlike most other mammals, whose hemispheres are mirror images of each other, we evolved to have different functions located in different parts of our brains. The theory is that in order to do the more and more complex thinking required as we evolved (and still have heads small enough to walk upright) our brains needed to specialize. Thus different sides took on different functions.
It used to be that we thought of the left brain as the seat of logic, language and linear thought, and the right brain as the home of emotion and creativity. But recent studies have found it's a bit more complex than that. We actually process language and thought in both hemispheres. And our emotions and creativity are far too complex to say they are housed in one half of the brain or the other.
Still, there are differences. The left brain takes a very specific, focused, separate view of the world. It finds Waldo in the picture, and keeps us focused on one voice in a noisy restaurant. It's good at focusing on one thing intently and closely. It can attach specific language and labels to things. The right brain, on the other hand (pun intended) takes the world in broadly and with a soft focus. It sees things as interconnected. It is aware of everything all at once. It is taking in massive amounts of information, but not necessarily focusing on any one thing. It also takes in information from neurons in our heart and gut. But it doesn't have the left brain's ability to assign labels and language and pull out what is important.
We get all sorts of information from the right hemisphere which needs to be sorted and labeled before we can use it. And herein lies the problem — because it's all a bit hazy and undifferentiated, we don't know what to do with what the right brain knows. So we tend to simply ignore it. When I am explaining this to my clients (especially those who tend to dismiss things like intuition and emotion as being non-essential to leadership and effectiveness) I tell them this is like ignoring half your team. It's a team that is looking at everything, but doesn't know exactly how to tell you about it. So you have to help them, and you will get really valuable information when you do.
As coaches, we can sometimes have challenges convincing our more "left brain" clients to trust us when we see that what is needed is what we might call a "right brain" coaching technique. I've found that simply educating them about the two hemispheres can help. I tell them that the most effective people are those who have found ways to integrate the two sides of the brain. And then I offer to take them through a coaching technique that will expand their brain's capacity. I mean, who wants to use only half their brain?
The rational mind is a faithful servant. It makes meaning and enables us to focus. But the intuitive mind is a sacred gift. It brings in things we don't rationally understand at first, amazing richness of potential insight and understanding. As coaches, we do some of our greatest service when we help our clients integrate these two halves of their brain.


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Is there a deliberate policy that circulates this myth of "paying half what I earn in tax" ?
The only people who ever "lose half their money in tax" are very low earners who may lose large amounts of benefits by earning a small amount. You only pay the marginal rate on the money you get above the limit.
For 2003-2004, you'll pay a total of $16,182 tax at $62,500 -- that's 25.9% tax -- then start paying 47 cents of any dollar above that (not counting any other fancy bits off or on).
To get close to paying 47% of your total income you have to be getting much, much more, e.g. 42% tax on $262,500; 46% tax on $962,500. Since 80-90% of Australians earn less than $62,500 pa, there'd be a very small number indeed liable. Most of those would be doing "taxation minimization" (very legally of course).


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View from a distance of Saltwood Castle in Kent, showing its great gatehouse. This is an ancient fortified site, on a steep hill, which used to be surrounded by marshland. There were Roman and Saxon forts here before the medieval castle. However Saltwood is most famous for being at the centre of the 12th century dispute between Thomas Becket and Henry II. Becket claimed the castle was the property of the Archbishops of Canterbury but Henry, who had already quarrelled with Becket over several issues, was reluctant to hand over a stronghold to a potential enemy. It was here in 1170 that the four of the King's knights William de Tracey, Reginald Fitzures, Hugh de Morville and Richard Le Breton met to plan Becket's assassination. After Becket's murder, the castle was retained by the church and the great gatehouse seen in this view was built by Archbishop Courtenay in the 1380s.


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Jennifer is a valued colleague of mine and a contributing participant in this Work of Trueness. The spirit of connection is powerful. A mutual friend (Ric, who introduced me to Jennifer) recently asked when I had last seen her. I had to remind him that she and I had never met face-to-face.
In the case of the relationship and interactions Jennifer and I share, the spirit of presence is validated. While I look forward to an inevitable and desired face-to-face meeting, I treasure the realness in our virtual camaraderie.
You see, presence is more than physical. Physicality is a valued element in relationship. Take for instance Ric, about whom I write and who has written his flowing words for my blog. I greatly value the face-to-face time I get with him because we live over 700 miles apart. But our relationship began virtually and continued for quite some time before we ever met face-to-face. And here's the cool part, I don't even remember when that was!
Your Trueness is the impact of your presence.
Your impact as a leader has its only shot through your authentic self. Trueness practiced is active impact. And we are the beneficiaries of this impact in your presence. And your Presence stands on the solid base of who you are−regardless of the miles between us.