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Chicken of the Woods, a common mushroom in Southeast that grows in clusters.
Alaskan Gold mushrooms grow near Auke Rec. There's conflicting research on its edibility factor.
A bear's head mushroom cluster. Martin says it tastes like lobster.
Story last updated at 9/25/2013 - 1:36 pm
Mushrooms are delicious. They're also scary - there's sometimes very little visual difference between a mushroom that will make you sick and one you don't have to worry about including in your pasta.
We've consulted a few different resources on Southeast mushrooms, including local forager Nick Martin, who supplies about 15 pounds of foraged chanterelles, boletes, and other mushrooms to The Rookery and Rainbow Foods every week, to give you information about mushrooms you might see out in the woods. This guide comes with a big disclaimer, however: Any beginning forager should go out with a knowledgeable friend the first time around, do adequate research, and forage with caution. When Martin began foraging mushrooms in Oregon, he and a friend gathered pounds of false morels, discovering only after bringing them home and consulting an expert that the mushrooms they'd gathered weren't the morels they thought they had. Martin recommends caution. "Especially down South, people get poisoned," he said.
Martin said some of the most common edible mushrooms around Southeast Alaska are chanterelles, boletes, chicken of the woods, Alaskan Gold mushrooms, coral fungi, and oyster mushrooms. We've put pictures here of some of the most recognizable edibles, as well as a few that are inedible or questionable.
The Forest Service also has a very handy pamphlet we've linked to online - "Mushrooms of the National Forests of Alaska."
Martin said in any flat place around creek drainages, mushrooms around Southeast Alaska "go nuts." Many mushroom hunters are secretive about their locations, but Martin didn't mind sharing that many of these mushrooms were found at Auke Rec.
This is a kind of coral mushroom; Martin says it's likely Ashy Coral.
Another common coral mushroom in Southeast Alaska is Crested Coral, which is in the Forest Service guide and is edible. Some kinds of coral fungi can cause stomach upset.
Chicken of the Woods
One of the most recognizable and commonly collected fungi in Southeast Alaska, Chicken of the Woods (also known as the less appetizing-sounding "sulfur shelf") grows in clusters of bright orange and yellow. It's best when fresh; when it's older it gets tough. The Forest Service guide recommends eating "the soft young outer portions of the shelf."
The Fly Agaric
One of the most recognizable mushrooms in the world, the fly agaric is credited for sending Alice to Wonderland, inducing the Vikings' notorious "beserker" state, and even for Santa Claus. (It's red, white, and popular with reindeer.) It also has color variation (yellows, reds, browns and oranges) and it's poisonous. Don't mess with this one.
Alaskan Gold
According to various mycology sites, this mushroom is rare. According to the Forest Service guide, it's "fairly common, usually being found in disturbed areas, such as in parks or along roadsides." (Conflicting information seems to be a trait of the well-researched mushroom.) It's also the first mushroom this author harvested... and, after reading a bit more, threw away in an over abundance of caution. It's recognizable because of its generous dusting of yellow powder. It has gills (Rule No. 1 in Mushrooming without Fear is "Never, never take a mushroom with gills!") and apparently has a relatively large amount of hydrocyanic acid, also known as HCN. Other mushrooms, including the Shitake, contain the same chemical, but the concentration is both higher in Alaskan Gold and doesn't "cook off" as much, according to mycology sites. Some guides, however, say it's edible, and Martin survived, though he recommends not eating it while drinking alcohol.
King Bolete/ Porcini
One of the most prized mushrooms in the woods, the king bolete is recognizable because of the flared base of the fleshy stem and the spongy underside of the cap. The Forest Service guide calls it "a choice edible."
Admirable Bolete
This one looks similar to the king bolete, but fruits on trees - almost always hemlock, according to the Forest Service guide - is edible, and has a lemony taste.
Pacific Golden Chanterelle
Martin found this Pacific Golden Chanterelle mushroom somewhere other than Auke Rec, but brought it so we could see what it looked like. The Forest Service guide describes it as a "very popular" edible mushroom. It smells a little like apricots and grows as far north as Haines and Yakutat.
Bear's Head
This fungus reappears year after year in the same spot, growing on logs or stumps, though the Forest service guide says it's not common. It's edible; Martin says it tastes like lobster.
For more detailed descriptions, download the Forest Service's Southeast Alaska mushroom guide at http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5414170.pdf.
There are also lots of mushroom guides available at Hearthside Books.
Mary Catharine Martin is the staff writer for Capital City Weekly. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Right, which is why it's so important to stick with shops that keep with the Basel conventions. Whenever these sorts of stories pop up, it's mainly due to a lack of adherence to the standards or due to the items being shipped to a place that wasn't involved in the first place.
http://www.basel.int/ [basel.int] has more information.
What's the problem? If you want to adhere to the Basil conventions, you send fawlty computers. I fail to see the issue here.
I fail to see the issue here.
Getting a load of fawlty towers with all the manuels missing is a major problem.
Things I never thought I'd see, 257,645 : computer / Fawlty Towers puns.
It's like any other recycling. The ones that actually work (cans, paper sometimes) do because there is an economic incentive behind them (i.e: someone makes money out of it)
Awesome. 50,000 286's and associated peripherals are now on their way to Joe's house. Good luck, Joe!
Awesome. Tomorrow morning your house will be inundated with 50,000 286's, 15,000 dot matrix printers, 12,000 analog tape drives, and a tractor-trailer full of 5.25" floppies. Good luck, Joe!
Be thankful, I work for a volunteer organization that prepares donated computers for charities and people with need. A huge stack of computer equipment of questionable functionality is a chore, not a gift.
Or, if you don't want to pay the shipping to Joe's house, you can advertise free computers on Craigslist. I've given away a lot of stuff on Craigslist, and made some money on some of the more valuable items. When I advertise a free computer (Pentium or better) on Craigslist, I get several replies within hours. I'm not sure what would happen if I advertised something less than a Pentium.
And Joe, if you haven't already, you should consider placing an ad in the "Wanted" section.
Your local newspapers probably a
Dude, your mom's going to be pissed when she finds out you slashdotted her driveway.
No, what you're saying is "the only way for this to be solved without someone having to act on something other than profit motive" is for the economics to work out.
There are other solutions, they just take some work.
This is a wonderful example of where regulation works. It seems like some minimal level of certification of the exported hardware, some basic test to see if it works would solve a large bit of this problem. Yes, people should be able to donate working equipment to the developing world, but no, the developing world shouldn't have to dig through garbage to get it.
These computers aren't causing poverty. These people were poor without the computers and they are poor with them. At least they have an opportunity to make some money to eat rather then begging, looting. Sure its disgusting, but in poor countries people live in the rubbish tips because 1 mans trash is another mans treasure.
We used "development aid" for ages to get rid of our surplus and other crap we'd have had to dispose of for a lot of money, now we do the same with electronics. Where's this news?
I remember someone doing humanitary work there, giving a speech and essentially saying "Please help us. By not helping us". When we dump free food on a third world country, we ruin their farmers because they can't compete with free food. When we dump free clothing on them, we ruin the few textile mills they have. Essentially, what we do with development aid is to push them more and more into dependency because we ruin whatever industry for the local market might start to grow. Instead we force them to build industries for export, so they can somehow pay back the "development help" we "grant" them.
Want to help? Then don't. Don't send your crap down there. Start trading with them. But not with some international corporation that squeezes the country and the people dry. Trade with companies from there.
When we dump free food on a third world country, we ruin their farmers because they can't compete with free food.
Nice sentiment, but, you know, the 'third world' is a big place, and surprise surprise, if you don't live near one of these food producers, and there's a famine, you're dead unless someone gives you food.
None of the Charities are saying that providing food is a long term solution, its just that its hard to talk long term to people whose kids will be dead by the end of the week if you don't hand over some rice now.
Being a parent I find myself sympathising with the parents who know nothing of the wider reasons for the current famine, and who are solely concerned with feeding their child.
Fewer images from news coverage of famines have effected me more then those of parents burying kids who died of starvation.
Believe me, if your kids life is on the line, you give not a fuck about the morrow, just so long as that child is alive to see it.
Yeah. Get it. You have kids; you have the whole "parental mind warp" thing that comes with it going (anyone who thinks Steve Jobs's reality distortion field is bad hasn't observed some parents...), and it makes me personally very happy that you love your children so much you'd probably be willing to cause a global thermonuclear holocaust and kill off the entire rest of the planet just so your oh so wonderful spawn could live.
But that doesn't really help solve the problem. Obviously children dying is bad, and we obviously want to stop that, but we also don't want them to sink into further dependence. And, a MAJOR part of the problem, actually
Since we can't really kill the children, and we don't really want to let them die, we feed them. Then those children reach breeding age and soon afterwards create more children, which also need food. And the circle continues.
So what do we do? Well, a number of approaches have been proposed, including teaching the children how to not make more children the instant they become fertile. But it's really painfully obvious that we need to look further ahead than "stop them from starving", because we're just making the hole deeper. If you're sympathetic to their plight because you also reproduced, try to look for ways to stop the plight in the future, not just mitigate it in the present.
you give not a fuck about the morrow
I think you very eloquently hit the nail on the head regarding the third world's problems. Problem is that one should think about the morrow even before having kids (including planning for cyclical periods of a relative lack of prosperity).
On the other hand, decades of socialist welfare conditions seems to have robbed westerners of the will to do their own forward planning too.
If they are starving, it's because they don't have sufficient resources to sustain their current population. If you let them starve, the population will contract to a sustainable level. If you give them food, the population will increase to even more unsustainable levels meaning you have to keep giving them food or face an even bigger level of starvation.
They really need to stop having so many kids, smaller families will put far less of a strain on the available resources.
And these third world countries were doing just fine before the europeans went and interfered with them... We really should just leave them alone to make their own way without interference.
-1, Malthusian
Wow, someone who actually gets it. Every other species on the planet naturally lives and dies by such logic. Human beings though (especially those who live in first-world countries) seem to think that large numbers of people living within small radii is somehow normal. If there isn't enough natural-born prey to hunt (ie: without resorting to breeding) and/or fauna to pick, then a larger population is _not supposed to exist_! Only mankind could think there's a way to cheat the inevitable.
The fact is that humanity isn't dying off fast enough. In fact, our planetary population continues to increase. Someday the phony sustainability we've been living under is going to crash, and billions are going to die (as they should).
Think about it. If we were talking about an overpopulation of polar bears, birds, or deer that threatened the balance of the planet's combined ecosystem, mankind would have no problem murdering these animals in the billions to fix the problem. Isn't it funny how we overlook such ideas when it's our own "masters of the universe" species that is the problem?
The fact is that humanity isn't dying off fast enough. In fact, our planetary population continues to increase. Someday the phony sustainability we've been living under is going to crash, and billions are going to die (as they should).
There's nothing phony about large scale industrialized farming. That's the natural way for an intelligent species to sustain a high population density. This does require a certain amount of societal stability, and when that stability falters millions will die. Billions of deaths at once in food production and distribution glitches is a bit high for the current population - food is grown too locally for that to happen.
If there isn't enough natural-born prey to hunt (ie: without resorting to breeding) and/or fauna to pick, then a larger population is _not supposed to exist_!
Supposed by whom? God? You? Who is this supposer that requires human populations to not exist except by hunter/gatherer subsistence, and why should we follow his dictates? We don't live by natural means. Artificial means made by human skill or produced by humans. By definition pretty much everything we do is not natural. Get used to it.
That's a tad nazi-ish.
Actually no, that's exactly nazi-ish.
Care to tell me how you'd deal with the epidemic of obesity in the west?
Render down 1 in 10? Start apportioning food based on a persons worth?
Do tell.
Actually no, that's exactly nazi-ish.
Refusing to help people is the same as executing people? Are you retarded?
Care to tell me how you'd deal with the epidemic of obesity in the west? Render down 1 in 10? Start apportioning food based on a persons worth?
Well, that answers that question
It's not nazi-ish at all.
It's educating. It's doing population control, something that the human race constantly battles against with "religion".
The problem won't be resolved until the ROOT of the problem is addressed.
For most of the high population areas of the world, the largest religions locally don't have a 'be fruitful and multiply' commandment or anything like it. You could make a fairly strong case for Mexico or some other parts of Latin America, but what about China, which is mostly either Maoist or Confucian? Or India, with Hinduism and Buddhism for most of their religious background? Sub-Saharan Africa, you could blame Islam or Christianity somewhat, but a lot of the highest population growth regions are again
That's a tad nazi-ish.
Actually no, that's exactly nazi-ish.
How is letting third world countries deal with their own problems "nazi-ish" in any way? It's almost a perfect 180 away from it.
And these third world countries were doing just fine before the europeans went and interfered with them... We really should just leave them alone to make their own way without interference.
Does that seriously sound ANYTHING like something Hitler or Mussolini would say to you? You know, the guy who actually invaded several o
I can't say how they'll deal with the obesity problem, but there's this new product that's hit the market that will help solve the food problem in the Third World. They say it's based mostly on soybeans and lentils, and can be produced much more efficiently than corn, rice, wheat and just about anything else. I've tried it, and it's not bad: a little bland, but it really fills you up. It must be the protein content. There are a couple versions, which have different flavors and consistency. The red and yellow kinds are OK, but I like the green kind the best.
Care to tell me how you'd deal with the epidemic of obesity in the west?
First, by West, you must mean US. There is no epidemic of obesity in Europe.
My solution is simple - the new "Can't catch it, can't eat it" policy. Worked for millions of years. Put it in place in stages.
Stage one is a ban on food delivery services. The morbidly obese will starve down to a weight where they can at least get into their cars and get to the drive thru.
Stage two is a ban on drive thrus, so people will starve down to a weight when they can actually get out of their cars and into the counter or grocery store to get their food.
Stage three is a weight limit on disabled parking passes. If you're so fat that you need a special parking permit to get to your food, you'll starve down to a weight where you can at least hobble in to get your food.
Stage four is a ban on any personal scooters or electric wheelchairs that can support more than 250 lbs. If you're too fat to propel yourself, you'll starve down to a weight where you can at least stand up on your own.
Stage five is the big one - the doors of any food retailer will no longer be allowed to be any wider than 20". Then people will at least starve down to a size where they can fit through the door.
See? Piece of cake. Er....
I actually I agree with what you're saying.
Control the cause not the effect.
Cause: overpopulation
Effect: starvation
EDUCATION WOULD BE THE BEST GIFT - contraception, etc
It's sad that you got modded troll, since you're one of the few that seem to "get it". I'd only disagree with you on one thing:
And these third world countries were doing just fine before the europeans went and interfered with them... We really should just leave them alone to make their own way without interference.
They weren't doing "just fine" - they were miserable, poor, and died at an extremely early age from all sorts of easily curable diseases. The myth of the "noble savage" is a popular one, but it IS a myth.
Even if it were possible for us to just "leave them alone", it wouldn't be a solution. They'd only continue to stagnate. Some (ok, most) of our current efforts might be misguided and even counterproductive, but we ARE helping them to improve their situation, even if just slightly, over a long period of time. What we should be doing is funding micro-lending ventures, and funneling as much money as possible into educating the residents of relatively stable areas. Help them to help themselves, instead of just dropping "aid" on them and leaving them to fight over our scraps.
What we should be doing is funding micro-lending ventures
On this note, a little plug for Kiva [kiva.org], who do just that. Just in case anyone reads the previous post and wonders how one could go about getting involved in something like that.
I've only been a member for a few months but it all seems legit and works as advertised. The only minor problem is that loan repayments aren't disbursed until they've been fully repaid. This seems like it might be limiting the speed at which funds can circulate within Kiva. Presumably funds in limbo are being used for something useful, so perhaps it doesn't matter.
In some cases people are starving because they can't grow enough food to support themselves and can't earn enough income to import food. In many cases, however, there is no shortage of food, just bad distribution. If a corrupt government steals enough of a country's wealth, there isn't money left to import what people need, or to obtain things like fuel and fertilizer that they need to grow food. Corrupt governments can also simply mismanage things to the point of destroying the economy. A current example
Colonialism has caused things like rape to become the number one violent crime in Africa. They have children under 8 in the Congo that respond sexually to strangers because they have been sexualized at infancy. Yet the Congo is allowed to do this by the AU [africa-union.org], the US and the EU. Chap cobalt, copper and diamonds are bartered for these governments to institutionalize rape. We are fully responsible even now for what happens in Africa get your head out of your ass good sir and learn about post and neo colonialism or we may it at fisticuffs. Your ignorance and others like it, is sickly and deadly, know that.
They really need to stop having so many kids, smaller families will put far less of a strain on the available resources.
We need to make sure the capital they get from us for their resources does not go to purchasing defense goods from us. Its all a fucking trick, The US, EU or IMF go in promising civilian aid and industrial development (resource extraction industries) to any country that will hold up a certain set of economic laws that are to the advantage of the international companies doing business in said country. Shortly after this begins the national treasury of the country enjoys record revenue as the companies deliver on their promise of paying them some taxes, kick backs and the like and everyone in charge of the national government or the resource industries has almost absolute economic power and often unifies into a cartel. Because we insisted on economic reforms and not political reforms that would do things like guarantee universal human rights the rest of the people in the country become the participants of a game fueled by the worst aspects of plutocracy and exist in fear of becoming human targets, rape victims and live with dreams of far more bloody things.
We than tell them they can buy weapons from us. For us to continue to sell to some of these countries armor personal carriers that they use as mobile rape rooms, tanks which they use to shell refuge camps and guns, oh god guns; those things that kill 20% of some males in Central Africa is to encourage it at this point, and China should be ashamed to be doing it right now with Sudan. It seems some people like you, who are so self-righteously ignorant should bone up on the situation before letting loose the blind aims of your prejudices.
Go see this movie The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo [hbo.com] and than tell me they have any choice but to hope for international armed intervention. We need a fucking UN with balls that goes after genocide, rape and other truly terrible things with a technologically advanced force.
There again we don't really have a baseline. It has been estimated by some anthropologist (I'd have to look this up; sorry I don't have the refrence on hand) that about 5% of the population of tribal hunter/gatherer societies died from human violence.
If you take that baseline and compare it to the people alive in the 21st century you'd expect about 2 billion people to have died in warfare/homocide. The actual number is about 500 milllion.
and people say there are more wars than ever before.
If you take that baseline and compare it to the people alive in the 21st century you'd expect about 2 billion people to have died in warfare/homocide. The actual number is about 500 milllion.
Yes, Steve Pinker gave an awesome talk [youtube.com] about that at the TED conference. I highly recommend it to everyone, regardless of whether you're familiar with the statistics.
By any reasonable metric violence has decreased dramatically over time, yet people continue to believe in this myth that our world is more violent today t
It sounds bad but if you are located at a place with no food then eventually you will either move, or starve. It has happened in ages past and it will keep happening.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't try but we should focus more on trying to generate food where people are or if not that generate a trade and industry system to bring food there productively.
Then shouldn't we be putting our efforts into getting them to be able to, ya know, feed themselves before we help them be leet haxors (or word processing office temps)?
Someone will respond "Ah, but computers will set them free!"
And I will respond "Gee, thanks Neo, do you have anything to support that other than a bunch of handy wavy digihippy magic? There are a number of reasons we invented agriculture several thousand years before we harnessed electricity."
It's projects like "lets wire the 3rd world" that
You do realize that not everyone is in Africa is actually starving, right?
If country A, starving, borders country B which is poor but not starving, providing more economic opportunities to country B will tend to help them exploit country A out of starvation.
In deed. People don't recognize that Third World nations need something more sustainable than a band-aid. By giving these people food and clothing, all that is accomplished is a temporary fix and a few feel good points for those who donated. Really Third World nations need to be taught how to fish so-to-speak.
I gladly buy from companies who have sweatshops in Central America. Is it because I'm a bad person? Hell no. I'm rewarding those who are trying to provide a living for their families in those poor regions without giving them a hand-out. Really the standard of life provided by the sweatshops in countries with them is much higher than the alternatives.
"People don't recognize that Third World nations need something more sustainable than a band-aid. By giving these people food and clothing, all that is accomplished is a temporary fix and a few feel good points for those who donated. Really Third World nations need to be taught how to fish so-to-speak."
Organizations such as the Peace Corps and many others have spent the past 50+ years trying to educate Africans and "teach them how to fish". 50 years later they are still poor, starving and illiterate. It's
What reality? That it doesn't help jack when you teach people when they're rounded up to fight in a civil war that's perpetuated by the same nations that teach them?
You can't solve a problem when at the same time you perpetuate it. A company that sells fire extinguishers pumps fuel into a burning house isn't doing any good. That's not the tenant's fault, though.
Stop selling them guns and you'll see how it works out.
Your point is backed by African economist James Shikwati in the article "Stop the Aid!"
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html [spiegel.de]
Not really. He's the one I used as a source but didn't remember the link (thank you for providing it, and I do highly recommend reading the article, it's about the best illustration for the whole mess we cause in Africa with our "aid"). So essentially, it's not really backed, we have the same source.
I can see his point, though. We're sending the proverbial fish down there instead of sending them the nets and fishing rods they could use to become self sufficient. Basically it's just yet another form of colon
Well yes, it should be limited to goods they don't already have sufficient supply of...
The trouble is, the local producers can't fulfill all the demand, and many people cannot afford to buy from the local producers. So foreign handouts come along... Suddenly those people who could afford to buy from the local producers, now take the freebies, and many of those who couldn't afford the local producers still have nothing.
On the other hand, there are very few (if any?) producers of computer hardware in the thir
I do agree, this is different from sending food and other "easy to make" goods like textiles or basic tools. Still, the whole idea is being perverted by people and companies who want to dump their litter cheaply and even have the cheek to call it all "helping the poor".
It's a bit like people stuffing the charity cloth bins with old rags. It really is a shame, because the charity organisations have to sort out the crap, pay to get rid of it and what's worst, someone coming with clothing that could still be u
I don't believe your comparison is valid. Africa (apart from South Africa and probably Egypt) do not produce semi-conductors, so there is no industry to kill.
Besides, how old can these computers be? Maybe 8 years? That will mean early P4 / Athlon right? That sounds pretty decent.
So by sending this equipment to Africa, we are destroying their nonexistent computer manufacturing industry?
Watched the YouTube link in the summary, for those of you who are too lazy or don't want to click video links:
Doesn't exactly
I mean second hand computers that actually work. But many times, the computers that are "dumped" in Africa do not work. They are what the folks in the west call junk!
You then find those especially from former Compaq, now HP, that require Compaq specific software in order to work optimally. When software cannot be found especially for the display, poor Africans settle for mediocre resolutions.
I know because I have used several of them at different occasions.
I can say that these computers, with the magic of solar energy, can transform lives. I know a family in a very remote area that uses one of these as a TV, getting free-to-air satellite feeds and earning an income from internet services on the side...all powered by solar energy and the computer.
More computers in Africa means more embattled princes and presidents will have representatives emailing me asking for me to send them money to free up their vast fortunes that they will share with me.
There are a number of isses with this. One of the first is that most exports are pure junk. They typically burn a LOT of energy.
I don't think this is true. Apart from recent innovations, PCs have used more and more power. Perhaps you might remember that CPUs used to all have passive coolers? The idea of a cooler on the graphics chip would have been laughable ~15 years ago. Power supplies have increased in output to 1kW. Unless you buy an expensive power supply, I don't think that efficiency has increased
You fail to see the "equivalent horsepower" side of the coin. A Pentium 2 or so that consumes 100W out of the wall is going to be a lot more energetically wasteful than the modern-day ARM chip of equivalent horsepower that draws a few watts, if less. Even a current atom or core 2 processor downclocked to levels where it has the same computational power will consume much less energy.
Modern systems consume a large amount of energy because power and cooling technology has advanced and downsized, and manufactur
Stop this practice.
The cost involved in gathering up and getting the computers there could be better spent elsewhere.
The mining value in used computers for materials is greater per pound than is found in mining for the original material used to build such computers.
Perhaps there is an industry to be had in extracting these values from junk. I'm sure there are such companies existing in the US.
But I suspect it is just easier for teh lazy minded to just complain about a handout then it is to make use of what
Junked toxic waste? Right. Bad.
But what about an analogy from amateur radio? Used to be if an "Elmer" (mentor), gave you his 20-year old transmitter, you were grateful. I think it's been decades since the American Radio Reley League warned about that. If it isn't half-new, nobody wants it now, will use it, or will benefit from the learning experience.
I've looked at some of the charity sites and it seems a 1 ghz PIII is the least most want. I upgraded a K6-III 400 mhz machine I have sitting around (admittedly with 1/2 a gig of ram) from Xubuntu GG to HH this weekend. Booting is slow. Won't deny it. Program loading is slow. Won't deny it. But you are talking about an up-to-date OS that has the programs for everything most people would want and actual program execution speed is usable. The only thing it won't do is play videos decently with a X2 16 meg AGP card. Actually, it'll play a YouTube video without skipping or stuttering. It'll just play it at 1 fps. To me, someone with no computer at all in Chad, should be happy to have one that good.
I watched a news report about the exporting / dumping of PC's in Africa. I was amazed that in an effort to extract the copper from such cables as mains cables, they just set fire to the cables in some fuel. Surely it's cheaper and far less toxic to get a pair of cutters or knife and pull the copper wire out of it's sheath (easy) then pay for fuel to burn the cables?
Thankfully with Linux, I've not needed to get rid of my older PC's to a dump, have passed my stuff to others that don't need latest equipment ju
Informative? Give me a break. Just as much spam comes from European and American sources. Honestly if some guy in a developing country can outwit someone in a developed country who had top educational resources and economic opportunities, more power to them. Europe and America has been scamming developing countries for ages.
I'm actually serious. I don't believe in any kind of aid that is made of physical material. If you want to help people, you send books, you send teachers. You don't send rice and garbage.
A few reasons for this:
1) When you grow food and eat it, you poop those nutrients right back into your own ground. You send that to another country, and you are impoverishing your own.
2) Sending broken computers to vicious, fell people results in exactly this kind of thing. We want to believe that everyone has a
Or it would leave the children with long term depression. They tried that in Australia with the Aboriginal population. The result - lower life expectancies, alcoholism in the communities, poverty. Those families where the entire family was included in society rather than broken up are doing a heck of a lot better. The Australian government recently apologized formally for the "Stolen Generation". Google it - breaking up families is very very wrong.
Africa was doing okay until the rest of the world waltzed in
I'm a community college physics teacher in the U.S., and I scrounge computer hardware to use in my lab classes. The school provides one Windows box per lab group, i.e., 7 computers for a class of 25 students. The trouble with that is, you get one student doing the graphs on the computer, and the rest of the group just sits there and watches. I've made a geekly hobby out of putting together decent Linux systems from garage sales, thrift shops, etc., to supplement what the school provides. It was interesting comparing the article with my own experiences back here in the developed world.
One thing to keep in mind is that the line between good and bad hardware is extremely fuzzy. I picked up an old 500 MHz e-Machines box recently at Good Will for $89, and with a $20 memory upgrade it makes a perfectly decent Linux machine, especially with a distro like xubuntu that's designed more for low-end hardware (xfce rather than gnome, abiword rather than OOo). Many people would have considered this machine too old to be useful, but it works fine for the application I need it for.
Similar deal with monitors. I actually find that cheap monitors are much, much harder to find than cheap computers. You don't see them much at thrift shops or swap meets, I guess because CRTs are heavy and bulky in relation to what you can sell them for. When I do get an old CRT, its mean time to failure is usually pretty darn short, probably 12-24 months. As far as I can tell, computer CRTs have a certain lifetime, and when you get your hands on a cheap one it's already near the end of that.
One thing that's absurd, when you view computers as potential solid waste, is the amount of air inside a tower case these days. On a low-end machine, the case can easily be 90% empty. It's the equivalent of going to McDonalds and having them serve you your little 99-cent hamburger in a styrofoam clamshell the size of a microwave oven. I'm hoping the Asus eee Box [asus.com] comes out soon, and Asus doesn't jack up the price. For $269, it could be a wonderful deal.
And by the way, if you're in Orange County, CA, and have a working monitor you're willing to donate, please email me at crowell08 at lightSPAMandISmatterEVIL dot com. I'll be more than happy to come and pick it up, and you can have the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that you're helping me spread peace, love, and linux to my students.
I spent some time in Ghana last year and the computer situation there is rather interesting. In all internet cafes the computers are ancient (we're talking 486 and first generation Pentium boxes). The monitors are on the other hand excellent. After we in the west switched to TFTs, they got our CRTs and kept the good ones. They are however of limited use due to the weakness of the computer hardware. It's really atrocious to see Windows 95 in 640x480 on a 21" monitor.
Now as for the computers that don't work, while it is certainly not nice with the child labour and the pollution, if you ask the Ghanaians they would tell you that they would rather get our computer junk than not. The junk does have value and can provide them with an income that they would not have otherwise.
Speaking of pollution, the really damaging thing we are exporting are our old cars from the 80's. They don't have cat-cons and from most cars you can see a black cloud of exhaust gases. Again however, they are happier with the cars than without them.
The junk that we dump on them does nowhere near the damage that our blind and misdirected aid programs do. They result in two things: 1)financing of corrupt government officials 2)increasing the population beyond sustainable levels.
Ultimately however they need to get their shit together. Ghana is one of the more developed west African countries, but the situation is quite bad. The politicians are corrupt beyond belief and the only type of business that thrives is one that colludes with the politicians. In short their local industry doesn't actually do anything. Every engineering project of value has been done by westerners. The talented and able leave the country as soon as they can. There was also from what I could see a complete lack of entrepreneurial spirit. All the smaller businesses are run by foreigners (westerners, lebanese, chinese..).
When you drive down any of the main roads every 500m you have somebody with a small stand selling pineapples. That is as far as the local entrepreneurial spirit extends: street vendors. They sell exactly the same thing and nobody gets the idea of joining up with other vendors, expanding and centralizing etc.. in short running a business.
My conclusion from my stay was that it is a very difficult problem. I'm not sure that it is solvable - they are currently in so deep shit that it's difficult to see a way out. And we can't really help them either in a meaningful way. Investments are impossible as they have a history of nationalizing any successful industry and running it in the ground. In addition you could not make any investments without upholding the corrupt political system. You can't do anything on a larger scale without having resort to massive bribes.
It's however more than that - they not only have to fix their system, but they first have to want to fix their system. Yes, the people are complaining about the politicians, but the first chance they get they elect the rawest populist they can find. And when the government nationalizes foreign industries and seize the property of industrialists (that haven't greased the machinery enough), the people cheer. I know this is not a popular thing to say but to a large degree it's their own fault. Unlike pineapples, industry does not grow on trees (well, actually neither do pineapples as they grow in bushes, but you get the point) and they have to choose between their current style of political and economic management and having a working economy.


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So far everyone has told me there is too much green in the gray color to have a blue door. Any suggestions for any other color. I am pretty much open to anything. Have tried some oranges - but they don't seem to look great. Kind ofl like Halloween. Thanks so much for your help. This is harder than I though.
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Tom Corbett was born in Philadelphia and resides in Glenshaw. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1971 from Lebanon Valley College and a law degree in 1975 from St. Mary's University.
He served in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard from 1971 to 1984.
Corbett was an assistant district attorney in Allegheny County from 1976 to 1980 and an assistant U.S. attorney in western Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1983. He was appointed U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1993.
Corbett was appointed state attorney general from 1995 to 1997 and worked as assistant general counsel at Waste Management Inc. from 1998 to 2002.
He was elected to the first of two four-year terms as state attorney general in 2004. He was elected governor in 2010.
Corbett and his wife, Susan, have two children.
Tom Corbett, a Republican, was swept into Pennsylvania's governorship as a government reformer amid ongoing prosecutions of legislators and their aides ensnared in a corruption investigation he launched as the state attorney general.
All but three of the 25 people on the House payroll who were arrested in the five-year probe ultimately were convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes involving the use of public resources for political campaigns. The nine Republicans and 13 Democrats included two former House speakers whose portraits hang in the Capitol. No state senators or their aides were charged.
Corbett promised in his 2010 campaign that he would not raise taxes, and that pledge remained intact as he approached the end of his second year in office.
But it resulted in deep cuts in state spending for education and social services after eight years of growth under the previous governor, Democrat Ed Rendell. It also created tension at times with fellow Republicans who controlled both houses of the Legislature and contributed to an erosion of Corbett's popularity outside the capital.
A Quinnipiac University poll in June 2012 showed only 36 percent of Pennsylvania voters approved of the performance of their stout, white-haired governor — his lowest rating since he took office.
His legislative record was improving by 2012. His victories included approval of a regulatory system for the state's rapidly expanding natural-gas industry, which Corbett touts as the key to prosperity in some of the state's poorest corners. The law honored his no-tax pledge, but authorizes counties to impose a modest "impact fee." He also won approval for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts for Pennsylvania businesses.
Corbett's efforts to privatize the state's liquor and wine business went nowhere. His support for a bill to require women seeking abortion to have ultrasounds — and his comment that women who did not wish to see the fetal image could close their eyes — angered many people, as did his signing of a law that requires all Pennsylvania voters to show a photo ID at the polls.
Corbett also took some criticism for the handling of the criminal investigation that ultimately led to former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky being convicted on 45 counts of child sexual abuse. Corbett was the attorney general when the local prosecutor referred the investigation to the state in 2008, and Corbett's detractors questioned why it took three years to charge Sandusky. Corbett has responded it was a complicated investigation and that it took time to do it right.
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Among other things, it raises officers' salaries and guarantees them bonuses for good performance.
By SHANNON COLAVECCHIO-VAN SICKLER, Times Staff Writer
Published January 23, 2008
TAMPA - The wrangling between administrators and police union leaders is over, and University of South Florida officials hope the resulting contract helps them improve campus safety by attracting and retaining more officers.
USF and union leaders announced Tuesday that they have reached a tentative agreement to be ratified in coming weeks by campus police and USF trustees. Among other things, the contract raises officers' salaries and guarantees them bonuses for good performance.
Administrators also will immediately boost the starting pay for newly hired officers from $35,041 to $38,000 a year, said USF spokesman Ken Gullette.
The agreement follows months of tense talks between the two sides and comes just a few weeks after university administrators declared an impasse. Police Benevolent Association officials will present the contract to members for ratification this week. The contract then goes to USF trustees for final approval.
Administrators were under intense pressure in recent months as police officers publicly complained that they are undermanned, underpaid and overworked as they try to handle the security needs of the sprawling Tampa campus of 38,500 students.
USF's officer-student ratio, roughly one officer for every 916 students, is the highest among the state's large public universities. Officers and some student leaders say that is unacceptable in an era of terrorist threats and mass shootings such as the rampage at Virginia Tech.
The aim of the new contract is to pay USF officers more so that they don't leave for neighboring agencies that have in recent years paid their officers at least a few thousand dollars more.
"We believe this new contract will make the university more competitive with other police agencies in the area," said USF president Judy Genshaft.
The three-year contract boosts officers' base salaries based on time served and guarantees them retention raises in the second year of between 1.5 and 3 percent, depending on how long they have worked for the department.
An officer who has been with the department for two to five years, for example, will make $40,000 this year and get a 2 percent raise next year. The agreement also allows the two sides to come back to the table in year three to talk about higher salaries and other improvements.
The contract gives all officers a lump bonus of $2,500 this year. It also would give officers bonuses of between $500 and $1,000 this year and next, based on their performance evaluations.
"I think it's a fair package," said Greg Stout, president of the Tampa chapter of the Police Benevolent Association. "Our No. 1 issue is campus safety, and we think this goes a long way to recruiting and retaining quality officers to USF."
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Six days after reaching an agreement in principle, three days after Guillermo Mota's underwhelming physical, and one day after the deal teetered on the precipice of collapse, the Sox sweetened their offer and got their man: Cleveland's Coco Crisp. The deal was expanded to seven players, including the six in the initial agreement, and was announced by general manager Theo Epstein.
Crisp, who will suceed Johnny Damon in center field and atop the lineup, 29-year-old righthander David Riske, and 27-year-old switch-hitting catcher Josh Bard are coming to Boston. The Sox' top prospect, 22-year-old Andy Marte, is headed to Cleveland, along with Mota, 25-year-old catcher Kelly Shoppach, cash considerations, and a player to be named or further cash considerations.
It was not known how much money the Sox would be sending to Cleveland, but this deal required commissioner Bud Selig's approval, and, as a rule, Selig must approve any transaction that involves more than $1 million. .
The Sox managed to secure Crisp without giving up Hyde Park's Manny Delcarmen, whom the Indians asked for after inspecting Mota and expressing displeasure with the condition of his pitching shoulder.
The deal came together Friday night but appeared to be gaining momentum by mid-day yesterday, when several outlets reported that Cleveland reliever Arthur Rhodes was in Philadelphia for a physical. Cleveland and Philadelphia had agreed to a Rhodes-for-Jason Michaels swap last week, with the intention of Michaels taking over for Crisp. But, for the last few days, that deal was believed to be in a holding pattern as the Sox and Indians worked through their differences.
Crisp, who is unsigned and seeking $3.05 million in arbitration, brings the Sox an intriguing bat atop the order. He hit .300 last year with 42 doubles, 16 homers, 69 RBIs, 15 steals, and 86 runs.


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It's a day of golf
during Tougaloo College's Founders Week on October 18, 2018,
at Eagle Ridge Golf Course, Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS, to raise serious money for the
Tougaloo College general scholarship fund. It is for the golfer who wants to, and can play 54
or more holes of golf in a single day. Can't or don't want to
play 54 holes in one day? No problem. Play 9, 18,
27, you get the picture. Can't get to Raymond? No
problem. Play any course. Just register at
Golfer Registration and get golfing.
Each golfer
will attempt to play 54 holes in a single day. Several changes in the format of
the game are made to speed up the play...
may hit multiple balls on par threes, and each ball counts as one
hole played.
Play "ready
No looking
for lost balls, OB's etc. Merely drop another ball on the
course at the nearest point where the ball was lost, or went out
of bounds, and keep stroking.
your score on a hole reaches bogey, pick up, score the hole as
completed, and move on to the next hole.
Play any
hole, or series of holes, in any order as many times as you
On the
green, any putt inside one putter length is a "gimme."
Take a day off
from work and play golf.
Take a day off
from work and play golf.
Recruit sponsors to contribute through donations or pledges.
Each player is requested to raise a minimum of $1000.
Send each of your sponsors a thank you letter, giving the
number of holes played, along with the number of eagles, birdies
and holes-in-one made.
Send each of your sponsors a thank you letter, giving the
number of holes played, along with the number of eagles, birdies
and holes-in-one made.
Have fun.
Have fun.
Golf-A-Thon is over when the first of the following three events
occur: it's too dark to see, the last player is no longer standing,
or the golf course closes for the night.
Don't play
golf or can't play all day? No problem! You can sponsor a golfer,
secure sponsors, feed or water golfers or play as many holes as you
How Do I Sign Up?
Easy. Visit
www.WATAC Golf-A-Thon.com
or contact Trussell Lewis at
or 703-438-0727. Trusell will get you all of the Golf-A-Thon
information you need to sign up or be a sponsor.


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Do you feel like you are talking and talking, and your partner is never listening?
Do you feel like you keep saying the same thing over and over again?
Does your partner make promises, only to break or betray your trust repeatedly?
Is your partner controlling or just plain mean?
Have you read every relationship book out there, practiced your communication skills, and still feel unheard or neglected?
Are you done with second chances?
Should you stay or should you go?
We live in a world of romance and rescue - where everyone believes love will conquer all, and the more we put up with, the more loving we are being. It doesn't work that way. Sometimes we choose mean people, and before long we are in so deep, we don't know whether we are coming or going. One day you want to fight harder, and the next day you are ready to pack it in, and the next day you want to fight harder.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? is a survival manual, a guidebook, and a shot of reality. Some people will never change, and kissing frogs is the stuff of fairy tales, not real life. The Beast never turns out to be a nice guy (or gal). This is a book that breaks down what mean people do to us, how they do it, and what we can do to survive.
©2015 Post Hill Press (P)2015 Post Hill Press
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"This should be your Primary Guide dealing with a Narcissistic Relationship"
If I were to purchase one book to deal with this subject matter, this would be the book. It is clear, concise, and very accurate to all other information I have researched in this field.
For me this book is the Bible for trying to figure out how to recover from a soul destroying relationship with a narcissist. It has been incredibly helpful and I will refer to it again and again. I cannot recommend it enough.
"Only book that breaks down BOTH options!!"
Great book, I loved that it gave both options, & so true what you'll face if you stay in "survival mode". I think it would literally kill me, it almost has. I pray one day soon I'll be grateful he's gone. It's fear of failure, but he eventually always tore me down anyway, no matter how hard I tried. I've come back a lot already, & I'm guessing within the next year I'll be grateful I'm out of the decade & a half of hell. To a better life!
"Wake up call !"
This audio book really hit home for me. It was like it was a story about my life, literally. I now realize how and why I have been suffering for decades. I knew something was wrong but didn't realize the extent of it. Listening to this book on audio was more powerful than reading it because hearing Dr Durvasula beautifully explain herself really was empowering for me. Also, listening to this book in the privacy of my car while driving about was much safer than being caught by my narcissist with such a book in my possession. Thank you!
"Good content, poor narration"
Authors should not always read their own books for audiobook and if they do, should always use professional equipment.
The book is excellent in terms of the content but the poor audio and self-narration make it difficult to listen to. Still worth it but, yikes.
"Most Helpful Book On This Topic"
I can't say enough about how helpful & both reassuring and informative this book was for me.
"Helped me immensely"
I had already read at least 5 books on narcissistic personality disorder but none were as clear as this one. I love that it is based on research but still very interesting. I also love that she does not come off as judgmental in any way. It's very well-organized facts that make so much sense. The book is written with compassion as well. I can't say enough about it.
"narcissist survival"
Provides great insight on making it or breaking it with a narcissist. Detailed overview of traits and behavior needed to deal with around a controlling person.
"RalphyNovotney's Best Pick!!!"
It's more detailed, more informative than ANYTHING else I've read on the subject.
"Good information"
This book was a bit repetitive , reader was a flatly monotone .Good information though .
"Finally someone who "Gets it ""
I was so tired of hearing No Contact is the only solution. Thank You Ramani!
"Very useful audio book, thank you Dr Ramani"
Very useful audio book, thank you Dr Ramani, especially for recording this yourself! One minor comment; as a male 'reader' coming out of a relationship I struggled a little as you refer to the male as the narcissistic partner throughout the book!
"Definitely worth the read"
This book is well set out, meaningful and in depth. I'd highly recommend to anyone in a relationship with a narcissist.
"An absolute insight into the mind of a narcissist"
..and an arsenal of advice on how to survive them. This book is a must-read.
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As the contest deadline for the 13th Annual Caring For the Kenai (CFK) environmental awareness contest sponsored by Unocal Alaska and Agrium draws near, there is good news for high schools and participating students.
Denise Newbould, Environment Health & Safety Superintendent, addressing the Kenai Chamber of Commerce recently said the cash prizes have nearly doubled for CFK 2003. "This year we have increased the amount of money that we give to the participating high school science departments from $5,000 to $7,500 cash, and we have converted the Savings Bond awards to $5,000 cash awards, so what we have done really is double the cash value of the prize awards to the students," said Newbould.
Since it's inception in 1990, CFK has challenged high school students to answer the question, "What can I do, invent, create or improve to better care for the environment of the Kenai Peninsula?" Two years ago, the prompt was expanded to include, "or to improve the area's preparedness for a natural disaster?" According to Newbould the contest continues to evolve as teachers and community leaders gather annually following the finals to evaluate the contest and implement changes to maintain the program's relevance for the students' educational experience. "We also get frank and honest feedback from the students too. They're not particularly thrilled when they first get the assignment, but by the time it's done it has turned into more than just an assignment for them but something they get committed to and really believe in. So the contest is growing and evolving all the time," added Newbould.
A documentary video produced during last year's contest shows kids talking about their CFK experience and the development of their projects. The video received positive reviews from Chamber members. "People like to hear from the kids, so the video is very effective and we like to use it to spread the word at public presentations, but the primary purpose is for showing in the classrooms so the kids that are participating this year get a feel for it from their peers who did the contest last year," said Newbould.
The program's broad community support is reflected in the growing participation of semi-finalist sponsors, which has tripled this year. "This is an example of our teacher evaluation. A few years ago it was suggested that we have hundreds of kids entering each year, and only 12 are getting any recognition, so we opened the program to local groups, businesses, agencies or individuals to recognize students' ideas that they deem significant. That has really grown, and is really what the program is all about, recognizing and encouraging students to be creative problem solvers," said Newbould. The CFK Semi-Finalist display will be held Saturday April 5th, this year at Safeway in Soldotna. The deadline for entries is March 17th and the top 12 oral presentations are scheduled for Wednesday night, April 16th, at the KCHS Little Theatre. Further details on the CFK 2003 program are available at www.caringforthekenai.com or by calling 262-4949.
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She started to run as far as she could. She ran until she was in the deep of the dark woods. She turned around to find nothing in sight, falling to the ground with tears emerging in her eyes. She put her hands to her face and cried. She is ashamed of everything that has happened, nothing was every suppose to get as far as it did. She tried to run many times before, but never had the strength to run this far. She looks at her reflection in the water, and sees the person she can no longer recognize. She let her addiction control her life. The addiction kept on getting stronger. It was getting out of control, but she just couldn't give it up. She needed its comfort, the security she felt with it. She never knew it would drag her down so far. Her addiction was love and it tore her apart.
Her Addiction
January 21, 2012


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I hope you had a safe and happy holiday season. To help ring in the new year I have published a new update to the SQL SPADE open source project found at http://sqlspade.codeplex.com. This update furthers the SQL 2012 support added in the 1.1 release by now supporting installs of SQL 2012 on Windows Server Core. I feel that this is one of the biggest areas of benefit for SPADE considering the steep learning curve that you face when you start working with Server Core. You don't realize just how much you rely on graphical tools and wizards until they're gone. Running SPADE turns installing SQL Server into running a single PowerShell function, no GUI needed.
Along with the support for Server Core, the following enhancements have been make to SPADE release 1.2:
- Added QtWeb (Open Source) standalone browser for viewing the SQL SPADE log on Server Core – I still prefer this over writing the log to a plain text file that would have to be searched for errors
- Changed the Set-SqlTcpPort logic to use the WMI method because the registry method was inconsistent when installing SQL 2012 on Server Core
- Fixed the exists check in the VerifyAdminGroup script to look for the fully qualified domain group
- Fixed a logic error in the Execute-SqlCommand function that was masking exceptions when the SQL connection failed
- Added support for excluding scripts by putting an "_" at the beginning of the file name – when a script is excluded the install will log that the script is being skipped because it has been marked as excluded
- Changed the ConfigureDatabaseMail script to a PowerShell script that uses external configurations stored in the Run-Install.config file – this change was to enforce the pattern of all script variables being centralized in the configuration file and simplifies implementation for new environments
- Changed the order for the RemoveBuiltinAdminsLogin script – moved this script to the end of the process so it is not executed in the event of a critical failure
- Changed the order for the Restart-SqlService script – moved this to the end of the process because the time needed to restart the service could cause failures in subsequent SQL scripts
I have also added script management functionality to the SqlSpadeHelper tool. Watch here for an upcoming article that details how to use it to manage your scripts.


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Yesterday for the first time Michelle Obama gave the weekly presidential address, in order to speak up about the kidnapped and enslaved Nigerian schoolgirls.
Speaking for the first time instead of the US president, before what is Mothers' Day in the US on Sunday, she said the couple were "outraged and heartbroken" over the abduction of more than 300 girls from a school in Chibok on 14 April.
"What happened in Nigeria was not an isolated incident. It's a story we see every day as girls around the world risk their lives to pursue their ambitions.
"I want you to know that Barack has directed our government to do everything possible to support the Nigerian government's efforts to find these girls and bring them home. In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters. We see their hopes, their dreams, and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling right now."
She also said, with angry emphasis: "grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls." Yes.
Ken Wiwa, an adviser to the president and son of playwright and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, wrote in an article for the Observer that there was something "reassuring" in the fact that the world cared about the plight of the girls. He said that, with support, Nigeria could "overcome this challenge", and called it the turning point in the battle against terrorism.
The US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said the security council should act quickly to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist group and hold "its murderous leaders to account". The security council has demanded the release of the girls and is threatening to take action.
"The members of the security council expressed their intention to actively follow the situation of the abducted girls and to consider appropriate measures against Boko Haram," the 15-member council, which includes Nigeria, said.
The logistics are appallingly difficult though.
In her speech, broadcast nationwide on radio and uploaded as a YouTube video, Michelle Obama said: "This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education – grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls."
She noted that the Chibok state secondary school where they were abducted had been closed because of terror threats, but the girls had gone back to take exams. "They were so determined to move to the next level of their education … so determined to one day build careers of their own and make their families and communities proud," she said.


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A trio of stacked lights create an intriguing, modern look for this contemporary 3-light chrome LED bathroom fixture with etched acrylic diffusers.More Details >
Breathe modern life into your bathroom space with the exceptional look of this contemporary 3-light LED bathroom fixture. From Elan, this fixture measures 18 inches and features three long, narrow, stacked lights. The frame is finished in chrome that brings gleaming, polished appeal. Each light is complemented with an etched acrylic diffuser.


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When eating fast food, try to make the right choice! Our healthier drive-through suggestions have little or no trans fat and low calorie counts.
Go for single-patty burgers or grilled chicken (no mayo), and load up on fruit or veggie sides. Try a single hamburger, Apple Dippers with low-fat caramel dip, and 1 percent milk. (460 calories, 12 grams fat).


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December 19, 2012
Understanding Air Pollution On Smart Phones With CitiSense
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com — Your Universe Online
Scientists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) recently revealed that they were able to develop a group of small, portable sensors that would give users the ability to monitor air pollution and air quality in real time on their smart phone. With these findings, the researchers state that the sensors could help people who have chronic conditions affected by exposure to pollutants.To begin, the sensors, known as CitiSense, are part of a system that delivers real-time data on air quality to individuals´ cell phones and home computers. As well, the system is considered the first of its kind. A few of the factors detected by CitiSense sensors included carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone. With this data collected, the interface provides color-coded readings on the smart phone; these codes are based off of the Environmental Protection Agency´s (EPA) quality ratings, with green as good and purple as hazardous.
"We want to get more data and better data, which we can provide to the public," remarked the study´s lead investigator William Griswold, a professor of computer science at UCSD´s Jacobs School of Engineering, in a prepared statement. "We are making the invisible visible."
A total of 30 users participated in the study on CitiSense during a four-week period. Many of the users commented that the tool was an informative learning device that helped them better understand the different things that affect air pollution. Commuters also had the opportunity see how pollution can differ based on the route one takes.
"The people who are doing the most to reduce emissions, by biking or taking the bus, were the people who experienced the highest levels of exposure to pollutants," noted Griswold in the statement.
Furthermore, the researchers believed that it´s possible that the sensors could be built into the smart phones in the future, allowing everyone to be updated on the levels of pollution. They saw that the sensors impacted the users´ knowledge on pollution. As a result of the study, some users changed their habits and shared the information they had learned with family, friends, and even strangers.
"It´s a valuable study," explained Charles Elkan, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. "I think it´s going to have a big impact in the future."
Moving forward, the team of investigators believe that the aim of CitiSense should be to create and implement a wireless network that includes hundreds of miniscule environmental sensors on cell phones. Data will then be passed onto central computers where it can be analyzed and given to users, health agencies, and others. The researchers have also developed and used approximately 20 of these sensors in the field. However, a few technical issues remain such as the long-lasting batteries needed for the phones and sensors. Researchers are currently investigating how to extend the battery life and also how to turn off the phone´s GPS when the device is not being used.
"Sensors will differ. Sensors will fail," concluded Griswold in the statement. "People will breathe on them. We wanted to make sure we got good data in these conditions."


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Welcome to Planet Paradise! Everything here, from the plants to the people, is bigger, stronger, faster and more beautiful than on Earth. The native inhabitants of this maagical planet live in complete harmony with the nature that surrounds them. They pray to a sacred "Tree of Life," which is perched upon mountains that float in the sky like lily pads in a pond due to the magnetic phenomenon of this special planet. It is said that when the inhabitants visit this tree, the Tree Spirits descend upon them and instill in them things like wisdom, strength, and vitality. Roleplay as these magnificent creatures and enjoy all the following in this fantastic fantasy bundle!
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ThinkFilm Schmogul Experimenting With Bold 'Pay No One' Strategy
It's been a while since we last heard from David Bergstein, the embattled studio chieftain whose cash-challenged Capitol/ThinkFilm operation has withstood everything from repeated production stoppages to lawsuit flurries in recent months. In the time since Variety caught up with him on his yacht at Cannes, however, he's been plenty busy polishing his brass balls, today unveiling his secret comeback plan in The Hollywood Reporter. Follow the jump for more specifics on the schmogul's no-cost rebuilding strategy:
"There is always an adjective that precedes us: 'Beleaguered,' 'financially distressed,' " Bergstein said recently from his plush new offices in the Fox Plaza in Century City, with a hint of an accent from his native New York. "And none of these people know anything." ... [A]fter releasing 20-odd pictures in 2006 and 2007, only nine ThinkFilm movies have opened this year. Bergstein apparently has sold off some films, canceled others and has refused to commit to release dates for the only other two films originally scheduled for 2008: January's Sundance Film Festival pickups Phoebe in Wonderland and The Escapist. At the same time, at least four separate lawsuits have been filed against ThinkFilm this year by partners claiming they were short shifted. "Some of what is out there is true," Bergstein said. "The vast majority is not true. And for the stuff that is true, my answer is, 'So what? So what if X, Y or Z might be owed money?' "
Even for us, whom nothing really shocks anymore (except maybe the highly NSFW Cakefarts, itself a Bergstein-career allegory), such insolence is a bit bracing. (And anyway, isn't that just called "bankruptcy"?) Obviously his partners aren't welcoming his philosophy, resetting their dropped jaws long enough to characterize Bergstein as a "disgrace" whose practices aren't only "disgusting, but downright immoral." Not even enduringly quotable ThinkFilm president Mark Urman, who has downplayed the controversy from the start, had a response for THR. Frankly, we're starting to wonder if today's bomb threat went to the wrong office in Century City — can this guy possibly ever make another deal in this town? [Photo Credit: THR]