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Let's talk about juice! As parents you may be receiving a variety of mixed messages when it comes to this controversial topic. In fact, some pediatricians are suggesting that fruits juices (even 100% juice) be eliminated from your child's diet completely! As a Clinical Nutritionist and Registered Dietitian (RD), I frequently meet with parents that are shocked and confused by this recommendation. In fact, I've become quite accustomed to hearing statements like… "isn't fruit juice a natural, healthy way for Jessica to get her vitamins and minerals?"…….. "when I was kid I remember always having a bottle or sippy cup of apple juice in my hand!"……or "I thought orange juice was a great way for Eric to get his vitamin C in the morning."
Here's the deal. TRUE – 100% fruit juice is all natural and packed full of vitamins and minerals, but it is also packed full of sugar and excess calories that your kids don't need. In fact, your children can get all of the vitamins and minerals they need from a well-balanced diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables that does not include juice. It is also very easy to over do it with juice. Juice is sweet and tasty, and will therefore likely be one of your child's favorite things to consume. Juice is also readily offered by parents because it is often viewed as "nutritious" and "natural", and parents rarely set limits on its consumption. All together, these factors make "OVER-JUICING" our children very easy.
In 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) thought that over-juicing was enough of a danger to issue a policy statement entitled 'The Use and Misuse of Fruit Juice in Pediatrics'1. Here the AAP clearly states and presents evidence that drinking too much juice can contribute to obesity, the development of cavities (dental caries), diarrhea, and other gastrointestinal problems, such as excessive gas, bloating and abdominal pain in children.
We are all painstakingly aware that we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic in our country, and unfortunately our children are at the forefront of the problem. Overwhelmingly, doctors and researchers have been pointing the finger at excessive consumption of fruit juice (and other sugary drinks like soda) as one of the main reasons why our kids are overweight. It makes sense that if your kids are drinking too much juice, they are consuming too much concentrated sugar (natural sugar is still sugar!) and too many calories that will naturally lead to weight gain.
Keep in mind that the concentrated sugar in juice can also damage the enamel of your child's teeth, leading to tooth decay. This is particularly a problem when juice is offered in a bottle instead of a cup. In addition, the concentrated sugar content of juice can be hard to handle in children whose little tummies and intestines cannot always quickly process a large load of sugar. These problems may include diarrhea, excessive gas, bloating and abdominal pain when juice is over-consumed and/or not diluted with water.
Over-juicing may also lead to the consumption of a diet that is not very nutritious. REMEMBER - when children fill up on juice, there is little room for other more nutritious foods. While your child will be getting a lot of calories, they will mostly be from sugars (simple carbohydrates), and not from fat, protein or complex carbohydrates. This leads to a poorly balanced diet and the potential for malnutrition and anemia. Also, if your child is drinking a lot of juice, they are likely not drinking enough milk, which is an important source of calcium, protein and other important vitamins and minerals in your child's diet. Without further ado, here is the simple answer you are looking for……..JUICE IN MODERATION. You must keep your kids in check as to how much juice they are consuming throughout the day and make it clear to them as they grow and start making their own food choices, that juice consumption should be kept to a minimum. In general, you want to look for 100% fruit juice with no added sugar, and you want to dilute the juice with water (especially for babies and toddlers). This dilution should be 50/50 – ½ juice and ½ water. See the guidelines below for the specifics on how to best include fruit juice in your child's diet.
- It is generally recommended that children under 6 months of age NOT be given juice. Offering juice before solid foods are introduced could run the risk of having juice replace breast milk or formula in the diet.
- Only give juice to infants that can drink from a cup. Juice should NEVER be offered in a bottle, as the nipple of the bottle can rest too long in the mouth and cause increased problems with tooth decay.
- Always offer 100% fruit juice with no added sugar that is pasteurized. "Fruit drinks" and "fruit sodas" should NOT be offered.
- Dilute juice with equal parts water to prevent gastrointestinal problems and prevent over-consumption of calories and sugar.
- Limit fruit juice intake according to the guidelines below: • 6-12 months: 3-4 fluid oz. per day • 1-6 years: 4-6 fluid oz. per day • Children > 7 years: 8-12 fluid oz. per day
- Fruit juice should be provided as part of a meal or snack. It should NOT be sipped throughout the day.
- Instead of juice, infants and children should be encouraged to consume whole fruits (mashed or pureed for infants). These foods will also provide them with fiber as well as the vitamins and minerals that they need without the concentrated sugar.
As a nutritionist, parents often ask me "do I have to give my child juice at all?". The answer is NO… you can choose to keep fruit juice out of your child's diet altogether (at least while you have the control!). If your children are thirsty, it is fine to give them water, but be careful not to overdo it with the water either because those small tummies can also easily fill up with water leaving little room for healthy foods at mealtime.
If you do decide to provide your children with fruit juice, please keep the guidelines above in mind, as it is clear that the problem at hand is not fruit juice itself, but TOO MUCH fruit juice. Gone are the days when toddlers should be running around with an all access pass to a sippy cup of apple juice. We must do our best to avoid over-juicing our kids!
Keep in mind that there are many other important areas to think about when it comes to your child and good nutrition. As you continue to visit BabyMeTV you will discover more about your baby, about nutrition and about how to do your very best to raise healthy kids that will grow into healthy adults.
1AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: The Use and Misuse of Fruit Juice in Pediatrics. PEDIATRICS Vol. 107 No. 5 May 2001, pp. 1210-1213.
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By Rachel Fiske/HealthyLife
National Eating Disorders Week takes place the last week in February and for years I've thought about taking part. Every year I vow to add my voice. Every year I am silent.
And I was this year, too. I piled up excuses, a barricade against a story whose entirety I have only ever told one person (my therapist). But now it's today, and my cheeks are puffing out with the explosive desire I have to tell my own, small story.
The reason has a lot to do with a recent visit with my parents. I realized that, though my mother and I share a food blog, I had never cooked with her until this visit.
Nope. Never.
We've baked together countless times. But not until this visit did we stand side by side, chopping and seasoning and stepping around each other to prepare the entirety of a meal.
It was so, so nice. I hate the word "nice" but this is one of those moments where it feels just right. It was relaxed and gentle, a sharing so basic it left me feeling calmly full before the meal even began. It was really, really nice.
I've been thinking since coming home about why it took so long for this coming together at the kitchen counter. Some of it has to do with not having lived together since I was a jerky teenager who had a hard time spending 10 minutes in the same room with my family without dying of mortification at their awfulness. But my mom and I still baked together then. If anything, baking was a way to come together during those heinous teen years.
And then I figured it out. Baking doesn't require eating. In fact, it's the perfect culinary sport for someone obsessed with controlling her food. Baking is something you do for other people; it generates a product no one bothers to notice whether you consume or not.
Cooking, in that regard, is the exact opposite and the food addict's nemesis. People watch you at dinner. They watch you after dinner. Dinner is, if you will, on the table. It is access, particularly in our family where family dinner was an important and regular staple of our days
So I didn't cook with my mom. I baked and hid and maintained a white-knuckled grip on what went into my body.
It is a bigger story than this. It is, I now realize, something that I will never remember living without. We all have an albatross to carry — this is mine.
I had this deranged idea that being pregnant cured me. While knowing that part of maintaining a relatively healthy relationship with food is contingent on the fact that I nurse my daughter, I still tried to convince myself that I had turned some corner I could never walk back around. And then we all got the flu and two really terrifying things happened.
The first was that I didn't get the flu. John fell first and, without somebody to eat with — to notice my eating — I stopped. Didn't even think about it. I ate two peanut butter cookies in as many days (yes, I still know how much I ate and yes, I know this is kind of sick, but guess what? Having an eating disorder, no matter how you're holding it, is being sick). And I didn't realize until John got better. That's how effortlessly I just stopped eating (again).
The second thing that happened was that I did get the flu, but not like John. That guy was sick — explosively, uncontrollably, every 15 minutes. When I got it, I threw up two times and was disappointed. Which, now that I've got some space from the whole debacle, makes me feel really, really sad.
I am a mother who wants nothing more for her daughter than for her to inhabit her body with love. I practice yoga. I work in food. I have a food blog. I love eating. I have spent years and years in therapy. And yet, when the flu comes knocking, I stop taking care of myself without realizing it and am jealous I didn't expel as much of my insides as my partner.
I have eaten to numbness, binged and purged, and eaten laxatives. I have starved and starved and starved. I have fainted, and pulled out clumps of my hair in the shower. I have dropped out of college because I feared for my life. I have had my husband and brother threaten to hospitalize me. I have known how many calories I consumed in a day, a week, a month. I have avoided social situations for fear that I might be expected to eat bread. I have walked 5 miles to justify eating a cup of plain grits. I could go on. The list is long. I am a professional.
And I have clawed my way out. And I claw myself out. One day at a time. A breath. An expansion. A refusal to disappear. Hands over eyes, I part fingers. I peel them apart and make myself peer out at the world. Be in it. Stop hiding.
An arsenal works against me, so I am stockpiling weapons, each day stashed aside as mine. I am tucking away cooking with my mother. It is in my pocket. It is a reason to fight.
Because cooking with my mom? It's so, so nice.
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ahhaha i and my sister don't have anything for our mom, but we still have love kok. So, in this mother's day, we just do what can we do. Suchas: sweeping, hanging the clothes, and bla bla bla bla bleh. hahhahahaha. It's emmmm..(my mom's said) very enought to make my mom's happy! In this mother's day, we mustn't give a gift. Just give what we have. Just share a love............
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Food for Life is an international relief programme. Following is the mission of Food for Life and some facts about its service to the people of the world
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• served more than a 100 million sanctified meals to the needy since 1974
• is serving free meals at a rate of one every second of the day
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• welfare: to eradicate hunger and malnutrition by providing free sanctified vegetarian meals to the disadvantaged, and victims of disaster (natural or manmade), wherever there is a need in the world
• health: to establish Food for Life Health Education centres throughout the world. These centres will provide free or inexpensive vegetarian meals, counselling, health education and living skills training to those in need
• youth development: to establish Rural Academies for Youth ("Krishna's R.A.Y. of Hope"), whereby people from the ages of 16-25 are trained in bhakti yoga, cow protection and sustainable agriculture, centred around spiritual values
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We all feel it at times, some of us more than others, and it's a dirty little six letter word: S.T.R.E.S.S.
It crawls inside of us and makes its home there when we have to do too many things at once, or some emotional turmoil is getting the best of us, or we just haven't slept for a while for whatever reason, or… you name it! We were never created to do it all and we just can't handle all that is on our plate, no matter how hard we try. But even that is stressful for most of us.
And this kind of low-level constant stress is just plain bad for us. It messes with our hormones, digestive system, eating habits, and so much more.
That being said, it's not like we have no way out. There is always a little something that we can do, and that tiny little sense of control we get through these simple actions will alleviate some of that nasty stress.
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Others can help too! When we feel that everything is up to us, we feel stressed. I know, I know, maybe your child won't make the bed as well as you would have, or your spouse won't buy the exact can of green beans you sent him to the store to get, but in the long run, you will feel better if you let others help.
Slow down! Two minutes, that's all! Just take two minutes to be on your own–the bathroom is a great place for that. Call it meditation time, or decompressing chamber, or whatever you want. For me, it is my daily prayer walk outside or on my treadmill. Use this time to evaluate your priorities, pray, breathe deep or just look at something pretty.
Stop stressing over what you can change–just do it! If you stress over the dirty dishes in the sink in the morning, do them at night. If you stress over an inbox filled with unimportant emails, unsubscribe! There are things that you have no control over, but there are many that you can change. Simply do them–you will be so glad you did!
BALANCE is the key to stress management.
Work must be balanced with fun.
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Today I traveled to Port St. Lucie with my father Sam and brother Tim to watch the Cardinals play the Mets. The town is located 40 miles north of Jupiter straight up Highway 95. New York's home games are played at Tradition Field. It's a spacious, beautiful ballpark that seats more than 7,000 fans and like Roger Dean Stadium there's not a bad seat in the house. Two things that really stood out at this park were the food and the affordability. The stadium has all of the traditional food like hot dogs, nachos, peanuts and popcorn but picks it up a few notches with pulled pork subs, hand tossed pizza, knish, and stadium favorite taco in a helmet. This is a taco without a shell placed in a miniature Mets' helmet. Fans polled say it's awesome. If you have a sweet tooth, I can tell you first hand, the funnel cake topped with powdered sugar is outstanding. A fan can purchase a ticket in the bleachers for six dollars. An upper reserve seat, still close to the field, cost only $12. Having priced tickets throughout the Grapefruit League these seats are about 35% cheaper on average. Now to baseball, the Cardinals beat a Mets team mostly void of its starting players by the score of 15-4. Chris Duncan led the way with four hits including a three run homer in the first inning. Second base candidate Joe Thurston continued to make his case by having a multi-hit game and playing excellent defense. Kyle Lohse found his grove today by pitching four scoreless innings. To my surprise there was no heckling from Mets fans. Actually, I enjoyed exchanging stories with the New York fan sitting next to me about the pond scum days, although I did hear a few times "If it weren't for that Yadi Molina."
- Terry Cancila, News 4


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Oakham Tennis Club completed its finals day after several weeks of delays.
Dan Potter claimed the final title, the men's singles, beating Greg Delaney on Friday.
Potter won a tight contest 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 with only one break per set and a series of long rallies as both players played cautiously in difficult conditions.


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A suspicious envelope received Wednesday at the federal courthouse in downtown Jacksonville was a false alarm, authorities said.
Investigators determined the envelope did not pose a threat after testing off-site revealed it did not contain anthrax or any other harmful substances, according to the FBI.
Special Agent Tom Simon said the envelope was flagged by a clerk who recognized the sender as a known hoaxer while screening incoming mail. The Sheriff's Office hazmat team was then called in to dispose of it.
The envelope was removed from the building and taken to a safe location where it was opened following an X-ray, Simon said.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Silvestre Del Rosario said the courthouse was not evacuated during the ordeal, which did not interrupt the normal course of business.
The FBI declined to release additional details about the envelope's origins and contents, citing the active investigation.
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Barclays's Absa Sees Share of Loans Drop Amid Bad Debt Fears
Absa Group Ltd. (ASA), the South African bank controlled by Barclays Plc (BARC), said it has restricted lending and lost market share to avoid increasing bad debt.
"Our personal loan book has remained virtually flat over the past year and our market share in personal loans has dropped from around 30 percent to below 10 percent," David Hodnett, chief financial officer of Johannesburg-based Absa, said in an e-mailed response to questions yesterday. "Our average loan size has been decreasing."
South African consumers are finding it harder to repay loans as unemployment rose in the first quarter and higher electricity and fuel prices boost inflation. Absa has focused on existing customers, said Hodnett, after setting aside more money for bad loans last year as credit impairments increased.
"As a bank that has a significant share of the retail consumer market, we will have exposure if a deteriorating economic environment impacts the South African consumer," Hodnett said.
African Bank Investments Ltd. (ABL), South Africa's biggest provider of unsecured loans, cut its dividend 71 percent on May 20 after saying bad debts rose more than expected. FirstRand Ltd. (FSR)'s retail unit and Nedbank Group Ltd. (NED) have said they are exercising caution in an environment, which may become even harder for consumers should interest rates go up.
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Peanut Butter Bread
In my quest to expand my culinary skills, I have decided to practice baking with yeast. Last week I made pizzas. This week, peanut butter bread. I was very intimidated to work with yeast. But after a little practice the last 2 weeks, I have learned it isn't as intimidating as I thought! It is actually simple. Well, I have been making simple things, but it is a good start. So don't be intimidated, try working with yeast.
This is not a sweet bread. It is a almost like a sandwich loaf style. It is perfect for a peanut butter and Jelly sandwich or for french toast the next morning. Or spread some butter and drizzle a little honey on a slice fresh from the oven. Perfect! It has just enough of a subtle hint of peanut butter, but isn't overwhelming. It is easy too.
3 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (natural style)
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
1 cup luke warm water
1 egg
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 nonfat powdered milk
Mix the yeast and water. Let it sit for 10 minutes, until the yeast is bubbly.
While the yeast is sitting, mix the egg, peanut butter, brown sugar, vanilla, dry milk and salt in bowl with a stand mixer (using a dough hook)
After the yeast is done, pour the yeast water and the flour into the peanut butter mix. Mix it for 5-7 minutes using a dough hook.
Transfer the dough ball to a large bowl sprayed with pam. Cover with a damp cloth. Keep this in a warm place (I turned on my oven and set it on the stove).
*Dough needs a warm place to rise, 80-100 degrees. If a cool breeze passes by, it could cause the dough to fall. The cloth cover will help protect it as well. Don't get it too warm though, or else the yeast will go bad. i know this makes it sound complicated, but it isn't. Just keep it somewhere somewhat warm for 2 hours.
Once the dough has doubled in size, roll it out on a floured surface. Then roll it up, tuck the ends under and place it in a greased loaf pan. Allow it to rest, covered with a cloth, for about an hour. Until the dough has almost doubled in size again.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Bake the bread for about 25-30 minutes. Until the outside is brown. Darker then golden brown.* the dough will rise a lot while baking. Don't worry, it is normal and it won't expand out of the oven. (LUCY!!!!!)Slice while warm and spread with peanut butter, jelly, butter, or honey.


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A year ago, right after flipping his Mustang on a California highway and somehow surviving the crash with hardly a scratch, a 21-year-old lefty who never had pitched above Class A walked into his first major-league camp. He was promptly assigned No. 77.
"I felt like a lineman," the rookie later recalled.
By October, Dontrelle Willis had blossomed into a fan favorite, an All-Star and a World Series champion.
If there's any time to think big, it's now. Spring training opens with the New York Yankees closing in on a trade for Alex Rodriguez, while even the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay Devil Rays are full of optimism.
Baseball returned this weekend, set against a backdrop of palm trees and cactus in Florida and Arizona.
It also came back under a dark cloud.
Because with all the exciting possibilities -- Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte in Houston, Curt Schilling and Keith Foulke in Boston, Miguel Tejada and Javy Lopez in Baltimore -- fans will be scrutinizing more than lineup cards and stat sheets.
A 42-count indictment this week against four men accused of distributing steroids to top athletes surely will send shock waves through the sport. No players were named, but the whispers that have hounded top sluggers in recent years are bound to turn into shouts -- especially with baseball ready to begin penalizing players for steroid use.
Former NL MVP Ken Caminiti already has admitted to juicing up during his playing days. In a neat twist, the San Diego Padres have invited Caminiti to be a spring instructor, and he's expected in camp shortly.
Pitchers and catchers began reporting Saturday, with Tampa Bay the first team to open. From the get-go, Devil Rays manager Lou Piniella is raising expectations for a team that has finished at the bottom of the AL East in all six years of its existence.
"We're not going to finish last in our division. Put it that way," Piniella said. "We're going to start moving up the ladder."
The Tigers are aiming high, too, after 10 straight losing seasons. Coming off a year in which they set an AL record with 119 losses, they got busy in the winter, signing free agents Ivan Rodriguez, Rondell White and Fernando Vina.
"We're going to see this organization, this Detroit Tigers team, in the playoffs very soon," predicted Rodriguez, MVP of the NLCS last October.
Pudge's old team, the champion Florida Marlins with Willis and World Series MVP Josh Beckett, and the Minnesota Twins will be the last clubs to start camp Feb. 22.
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So what is in your stocking? Did you get awesome gifts from Santa? Did you get showered with big presents and have a grand old time? Or did you have some of those special gifts that you weren't expecting on Christmas Day?
I, for one, only asked for one thing – yes one – Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I could borrow it from a friend but I wanted my own copy – see I don't blast through books quickly I take (at a snails pace) my time. I do better with children's books (maybe I shouldn't admit that but I do) its a hobby and hopefully a career of mine. So I wanted my own copy of this book. But on Christmas Eve/Christmas morning (and the day after) I got more than I expected or asked for.
Those are my two cheeriest gifts. Anyone who knows me well knows that I love snowmen as a matter of fact my Jim Shore snowman is out all year long and so is my snowman plaque. Its not because I am not fond of Santa or even Jesus at Christmas – I just love snow, the quietness, the magical crisp and sparkling hue of snow. Its calming and reflective. So my snowmen made my Christmas cheerier!
Now on to the books – I had been wanting to read Crazy Love by Francis Chan and asked for it specifically for Christmas – but I also got One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. So during the quiet still of winter I will have some great reading to do.
Along with the crazy love of God – there is my crazy love for Steve. We have been together for "a million years" and unfortunately we are not able to spend every waking minute together but along with God, (my creator, first and foremost) Steve has my heart.
I also received a pair of swirly silver earrings, a purple shirt, some cozy socks, a poncho and a sweater. And my other great love, coffee, I have another travel cup to add to my collection (I leave them at church all the time – but that's ok it will keep me coming back).
These are just some of the highlights of gifts I cherished and never expected this Christmas. Gifts given, unexpected and undeserved – yet given freely out of grace, sacrifice and LOVE. Just like Jesus – His grace freely given, His Life , a sacrifice and His redemption is priceless and HIS LOVE is awesome.
Enjoy the rest of your Christmas and Have a blessed New Year!


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"Cuba: The Phantom Menace," The Root, 16 April 2009.
Why Barack Obama hasn't heard the end of Cuba—and why he should.
When President Barack Obama hits Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago this weekend for the Fifth Summit of the Americas, all of the democratically elected governments of the Western Hemisphere will be there to talk trade, recession and security issues. Well, almost all. The single outcast: Cuba, the undemocratic island nation on which the U.S. has maintained a diplomatic and trade embargo since 1962. Though Cuba will not be present at the talks, it's sure to be a hot topic at the summit and in bilateral sessions between the U.S. and South- and Central-American leaders.
For 50 years, the U.S. has essentially tried to pretend Cuba doesn't exist, but this administration won't have that option: Obama dragged Cuba and its aging former president, Fidel Castro, back into the spotlight this week. The announcement that travel and remittance restrictions will be lifted for Cuban Americans was "the first ever such bilingual rollout in the White House, from the White House podium," according to Denis McDonough, a national security communications adviser to the president, who also said Obama has made "a very consequential set of policy changes" regarding Cuba. Americans who don't have Cuban relatives won't feel a thing—but Team Obama clearly hopes they can file this one under "change you can believe in." Many Latin American nations, however, are not yet ready to let the backslapping begin.
Ever since President John Kennedy placed the trade and travel embargo on Castro's regime, U.S.-Cuban relations have been a proxy for other political concerns—the Cold War struggle against Communism, American global authority and tangled domestic politics within the swing state of Florida, where many Cuban Americans are concentrated. Today, leaders from large nations like Argentina, Mexico and Brazil view the cause of Cuban openness as a proxy for their own relationship with the United States. The dozens of nations in the continent that do recognize Cuba reportedly resent a "Cubanization" of regional policy—and "have made Cuba the litmus test for judging Washington's policy toward Latin America," said Julia Sweig, director of Latin Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, at a conference this week. The White House acknowledged as much the same day of its Cuba announcement: The U.S. has "neglected its relationships in this part of the world," said Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow, director of American presence at the summit. "Whether one agrees with that perception or not, it certainly is a very strongly felt perception."
The U.S. delegation would like to focus the summit on three main subject areas: economic stability, energy action and public safety—the former because some 50 million people could drift back under the poverty line after the gains of the last five to six years, and the latter as violence related to drug trafficking has exploded along the U.S.-Mexican border in 2009. (The Department of Homeland Security recently appointed Alan Bersin as a "border czar" to help confront that problem.) The White House has said it will consider appointing a regional diplomat to handle Latin American issues, similar to the kind sent to handle climate change, the Middle East and Israel/Palestine.
But, both because of the new shift in policy and the expectations of summit partners, Cuba may still have an oversized presence in deliberations—a presence it no longer really deserves.
Despite today's heated rhetoric surrounding Cuban human rights abuses, crackdowns on speech, retrograde labor practices or presidential posturing, the island nation has barely been of strategic significance to the United States since the founding fathers thought they would, after annexing Florida, turn Cuba into the next American state. With only 11 million people, it's a fraction of the size of Brazil, which is hankering to join the UN Security Council, and the same size as Bolivia, which sits on important lithium deposits to be used in next-generation battery technology. It has no weapons, and no real enemies—besides the United States.
Still, "unilateral sanctions are bad policy in almost every situation," says William Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council. And Cuba has been a particularly ridiculous case in point. In addition to being hypocritical (the U.S. promotes free trade and is supposedly anti-terror; yet we don't trade with Cuba, and former Cuban radicals live in the United States), the embargo is widely recognized to have been a failure. Both Castro and his brother, Raul, after all, are still running the country. And this stubbornness has enervated American allies in the Caribbean—as Obama may soon find out.
So there is a large incentive to junk the failed policy toward Cuba—not because doing so would change anything about the 21st century world order, but because it presents an easy opportunity for Obama to signal that he's a real change agent. Cubans have seen almost a dozen American presidents come and go with no shift in treatment—though polling suggests U.S. public opinion toward the communist state has softened in recent years.
Havana is warming to more open relations, too. Todd Omestead, a reporter who recently returned from the city, said "there's tremendous enthusiasm" in Cuba about the first black president of the U.S. ("Let's do a trade: You take Raul Castro, we'll take Barack Obama," someone told him.) Indeed, even Fidel Castro is reportedly rooting for Obama to succeed. Following a trip to Cuba with the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Laura Richardson of California said that the elder Castro "watched the election, he listened to the speeches, and he wants Barack Obama to succeed…. He sincerely wants in his lifetime to see change in the United States."
Will the president announce any new changes to Cuban policy while in Port of Spain? That remains to be seen—we know the president likes last-minute surprises. And Carl Meacham, a senior policy adviser to Sen. Richard Lugar, who has been an outspoken advocate in Congress for lifting the embargo entirely, says "the president didn't just talk about the fact that we need to make reforms on remittances on travel, he also said that we need to have dialogue." But by making his first move in advance of the summit, Obama has put Cuba and its allies in the hot seat. Both Castros may say that they side with the popular new president, but, since the age of Kennedy (the last global phenom to fly Air Force One), they've used the U.S. embargo as a foil and a source of blame for any governmental failures. What will they do without it?
Most likely, whatever they can—and the same goes for Americans traveling to and from the troubled regime. While all the nations in Port of Spain have agreed to put Cuba on the radar this weekend, there's no reason to think the president should spend his time courting its approval.
Dayo Olopade


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Mourning into Dancing Saying Goodbye to Grief In this book, Dr Stan focuses on: Chapter One: There is Hope. In time we can experience life again; it requires process, grace, faith and time. Chapter Two: Understanding the Mystery. Not one of us is immune to grief. Grief comes to everyone. Chapter Three: The Word Works. Grief is a biblical concept. We see it throughout the Bible. Chapter Four: Say Goodbye; Say Hello. Your Christian walk affirms death, loss, and grief as a natural part of life. Chapter Five: Grief Relief; Fifteen tips to expedite the mourning to dancing process. Chapter Six: Joy Comes in the Mourning. The seven points God gave me when hope was gone. The author, Dr. Stan DeKoven conducts seminars and professional workshops, both nationally and internationally, based on his books and extensive experience in practical Christian living. He is available for limited engagements at church seminars, retreats and conferences.
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JURPE (Java Universal Role Playing Engine) is a Java API to support the development of computer RPG games based on a skill-based, three dice RPG system. It comes with a small Swing demo featuring a medieval warrior exploring randomly generated 2D dungeons.
A Ranged Weapons feature was added. The hexagon geometry layout was made larger. A "Bow" skill was added (with two sample ranged weapons). An Aim mode ("a" key) was added. Minor bugs were fixed. Source code refactoring was done.
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text: Johannesburg - It would be almost impossible to cross-examine someone on a crime that took place more than 40 years ago, the Constitutional Court heard on Thursday.Arguing for a man who may face a charge of allegedly raping a now 55-year-old woman when she was 13, advocate Jaap Cilliers said: "To examine someone who is 55/56 on her experience when she was 13.. it is.. with great respect, I would say almost impossible."He was arguing in the case of a woman who has been unsuccessful in trying to get her case prosecuted.The alleged rapes took place between 1968 and 1970, but it was only while on a life skills course while serving a sentence for fraud that she decided to lay a charge of rape against the old family friend, who is now in his 70s.She laid a criminal charge against him in 2006, but the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) decided not to prosecute. The woman was unhappy with this and the case was reopened, but again the DPP refused to prosecute.She then tried a private prosecution in December 2007, but the High Court in the Northern Cape granted the man a permanent stay of prosecution.The woman is challenging this in the Constitutional Court, saying that court did not properly consider the pervasiveness of child rape and the lasting consequences for her as an alleged victim.DelayCilliers rejected her explanation that she took so long to lay the charge because she was in the power of the man, who was a family friend, and that her complaint against him could have lost her parents their jobs.Cilliers said the woman had said she told the man to stop the alleged rapes when she was 16, and this showed she already had power over him by the time she was 16.He rejected some of the judges' suggestions that the complexities of child rape and the internalisation of blame could have led to the delay in laying the charge.Cilliers said she told the man to stop when she 16, but she had waited another 35 years before laying the charge.It was not correct to assume that all child rape victims did not come forward to tell their story."There are cases where they don't, but there are numerous cases where they do," he submitted.


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We want to congratulate all of our essay contest winners for their exceptional work, and we wish to thank all of those who participated in the contest.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 02, 2013
The Chicago personal injury firm of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. is proud to announce the eight winners of the firm's inaugural Law School Scholarship Essay Contest, which featured a combined total of $5,000 in scholarship money for the winning authors.
All eight winning essays can be viewed at the firm's website, Salvilaw.com.
"We want to congratulate all of our essay contest winners for their exceptional work, and we wish to thank all of those who participated in the contest," said Patrick A. Salvi, the firm's managing equity partner. "Throughout the course of the contest, we received numerous well-researched and truly insightful entries."
Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. is a leading Chicago personal injury law firm that assists victims of car and truck accidents as well as the families of children who suffer birth injuries due to medical malpractice.
The essay contest was open to students ages 18 and older who are currently enrolled in an American Bar Association-approved law school, the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School or any provisionally approved U.S. law school.
The entrants wrote original essays between 750 and 1,500 words on selected motor vehicle accident and cerebral palsy topics. The entrants posted their essays to a website sponsored by their law school or a personal blog or website.
Raina Kelly, a student from Louisiana State University's Paul Hebert Law Center, won the $2,500 first-place scholarship prize for her essay, "The Inherent Dangers of Semi-Trucks."
Lynda Weatherford from the Phoenix School of Law won second place with her essay, "Courage Amidst Tragedy," while Erica Johnson from the Florida A&M College of Law claimed third place with her essay, "Standing Ovation 4 U." They were awarded scholarships worth $1,500 and $500, respectively.
Five other law students received $100 honorable mention awards for their work. Those students are:
- Sarah Bailey (Regent University School of Law) – "The Story of Me"
- Kevin Ha (University of Minnesota School of Law) – "Preventing Distracted Driving: Can 'Don't Text and Drive' Campaigns Work?"
- John Wendel (Boston College School of Law) – "How Has Cerebral Palsy Impacted Your Life or that of a Loved One?"
- Betsy Noel (Columbia Law School) – "Can Assistive Technology Eliminate Disabilities?"
- Scott Miller (University of Toledo College of Law) – "My Sister Sarah."
"We are proud to award scholarship funds to these deserving law school students, and we hope that our contest has helped to raise awareness about the impact that car and truck accidents can have on people's lives as well as the consequences of medical errors that lead to conditions such as cerebral palsy," Salvi said.
About Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C.
Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. is a leading Chicago personal injury firm with offices in Chicago (22 West Washington Street, Suite 1600, Chicago IL 60602) and Waukegan (218 North Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Waukegan, IL 60085). In addition to representing clients in catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, aviation and product liability cases, the firm focuses on car and truck accidents, airplane and train accidents, construction injuries, birth injuries, brain injuries, unsafe properties and animal attacks. The firm has obtained more than $650 million on behalf of its clients in personal injury and wrongful death cases, including 195 multi-million dollar verdicts or settlements. For more information, call (312) 372-1227 or use the firm's online contact form.


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It was just yesterday that we posted about Mighty No. 9, a spiritual successor of sorts to Mega Man from former Capcom producer and Blue Bomber mastermind Keiji Inafune and his team at comcept. With 29 days remaining, the Kickstarter campaign has already resulted in successfully funding the game.
Around 18,000 backers have managed to raise $1,044,602 and climbing, well over the starting goal of $900,000. Mighty No. 9's all-star dev team—composed of former Mega Man talent, including the first game's composer, Manami Matsumae—plans to release the game on PC in 2015.
So what's next for Mighty No. 9? Stretch goals, of course! Here's what they've got cookin' thus far:
Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. His blog can be found at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter at @Moldilox.


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Flickinger Tone Boxes
This four transistor Tone Box is a vintage inspired tremolo that acts very differently from other pedals of this type. The sound is very choppy, but at the lower depth setting, the tremolo will "squash" under your pick attack. This allows for more rhythmic playing without needing to match the speed of the effect. When using the Tone Box at the lower depth after a fuzz or similar effect, the tremolo will only be heard on the decay of your notes, creating a terrific and very musical after-effect.
- DEPTH: This switch controls the depth, or wet/dry level of the effect. In the top position, the tremolo will be very deep and choppy. In the lower position, the tremolo is less pronounced, and you will find it more responsive to pick attack.
- SPEED: This knob controls the rate of the tremolo. The lowest setting, full counter-clockwise, is the slowest pace. The speed increases as you turn the knob clockwise, allowing you to reach super fast fluttering tremolo sounds.
Your Vicious Cricket can use a standard 9V battery. Also, the jack on the side accepts a standard 2.1mm (BOSS type) AC adapter. Make sure the center pin is negative. Using the wrong polarity will not harm the pedal, however it will not function.
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Before you step in a pile of unsavory material on Market Street because you're gawking at a banner reading "U.S. Out of My Uterus," let us explain.
Seventy banners sporting big silver ribbons and eye-catching phrases will fly along Market Street through January to promote reproductive rights and the increasing danger they're in at the state and federal level. The Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust Women is the brainchild of two local women: Ellen Shaffer, co-director of the Center for Policy Analysis in the Presidio, and Sophia Yen, a doctor specializing in adolescent medicine in Palo Alto.
The two were moved to action by what they see as an alarming attempt to clamp down on reproductive rights in states around the country and at the federal level.
They cite as just a few examples the Obama administration's recent decision to keep the "morning-after pill" prescription-only for girls under 17; Mississippi's failed "personhood amendment" to declare that life begins at fertilization; and the federal legislation to fund government operations in 2012 including a continued ban on federal and local funding for abortions for poor women in Washington, D.C.
Begun a year ago, the Silver Ribbon Campaign is planning to host an event in the city later this month to coincide with the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision and the banners are part of the promotion of the event. Other slogans on the banners include "Her Decision, Her Choice" and "San Francisco is Pro-Choice."
Isn't it kind of like preaching to the choir, though?
"The choir is here, but the choir is looking for ways to pipe up more effectively," Shaffer said. "We think people in the Bay Area have a role to play in terms of understanding this issue and how it's being used as a political football."
She said the campaign in the coming year will focus on spreading its message around the country and the world and sending supporters to places like Mississippi to fight against anti-choice measures.


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|Never say the sky is your limit. Rather, say it's your starting point. For, there are footprints already in the moon i.e. you can break the shackles of limitations. -Emeasoba George
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|Never scold or beat a child until he starts asking you questions whose answers you are unable to give.
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|Never seek what you are not, but nurture what you are.
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|Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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|Never send a human to do a computers job
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|Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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|Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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|Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.
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|Never solve a problem from its original perspective.
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|Never speak more clearly than you think.
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|Never spend your money before you have earned it.
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|Never spend your money before you have it.
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|Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
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|Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
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|Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
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|Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart.
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life : EssayseBook - 2017
*A New York Times Bestseller*
Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.
With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making "adult" budgets, explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette—she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"—detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes, sharing awkward sexual encounters, or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms—hang in there for the Costco loot—she's as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.
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Very enjoyable. Some funny essays with cool point of view.
My girlfriends and I love this book.
Some laugh out loud moments, but overall I felt the author was trying to get everyone to feel sorry for her.
Great title. Great cover. HUGE disappointment.
This is THE most hilarious book I have read lately. Samantha Irby is a comedic mastermind and an excellent essayist. There's sex, cats, bodily functions, embarrassing moments, and more! Along with being silent-shake-laughing funny, however, it is also incredibly honest and authentic as Irby tackles subjects like her Crohn's disease, depression, and experiences of racial microaggressions. I cannot wait to see what Irby brings us next.
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As I mentioned in another thread, I am trying to ramp myself back up on JAVA as it has been a few years. In the process of doing that I figured I would also learn Netbeans and so far I love it. All the CLI programs that I have created compile and run fine. However, I am now working with Swing and have a question. I have created a JFrame using Netbeans. I know that it generates the custom code and I can compile it and run it fine using Netbeans. However, what if I need to hand my work to someone that is not using Netbeans? If I try to compile the .java file outside of Netbeans it is full of issues. Is there a way to save the .java file off so that it will compile and run correctly outside of Netbeans.
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The Buffalo Bills are currently sitting on the longest NFL playoff drought at 16 years. Buffalo's former quarterback and Hall of Famer Jim Kelly joined The Jim Rome Show on Thursday and said the biggest key to ending that drought is staying healthy.
"On paper, yeah, we look great, and we should be a very good team, but you cannot go to the playoffs, you cannot win championships when you're spending most of your time in the training room," Kelly said.
Kelly, who led the organization to the playoffs eight times in 11 seasons, said the key Bills players can't afford to miss a lot of time if the franchise is going to be successful.
"Tyrod Taylor, he's got to stay healthy. We cannot afford for your top quarterback to go down and miss a quarter of the games or half the season," Kelly said. "Your top players, your starters that make a difference on defense, those guys got to stay on the football field. They can't be on the injured reserve list."
However, the first ballot Hall of Famer made it clear he believes there's enough talent on the roster to make the playoffs.
"I know Eric Wood. I know some of those guys that play on both sides of the football very well. We got a heck of a football team, but you can't win if you're not on the football field competing and playing," Kelly said. "So I just hope we stay healthy, because if we do and we don't make it, there's no excuses whatsoever. I think we have the team to do it, I hope we do, I'm excited about this year."
However if the Bills fall short of the postseason for a 17th consecutive year, Kelly added, "I think Rex [Ryan] will probably be looking for another job. I think everybody knows that including Rex."


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Real time PCR results-interpretation - (Nov/06/2009 )
Have a question regarding real time PCR in virus detection.
I´ve recently developed a real time PCR system for detection of this particular virus. It works well in cell supernatants and it is specific and sensitive.
The aim was to develop this method to be used in clinical samples as well. I´ve ran serum samples (which were antibody negative at the time) now and only a few of them are positive. And the ones that are have Ct-nr over 36 and only one of the duplicates is positive. It is known that viremia is quite short in this virus infection and the amount of virus in serum may be quite little. Virus isolation has never been succesful in from serum samples but from whole blood it works well.
So, if only one of the duplicates is positive with high Ct-nr, is it correct to conclude that the amount of virus in serum samples is very little? What are the usual reasons for having only one of the duplicates/triplicates etc positive?
The serum preparation may well damage any DNA floating around in solution.
Your results indicate that there is pretty much no virus in the serum. However, it may be incorrect to conclude that there is no/little virus in the serum, have you looked for viral proteins as well? How is the serum prepared? stored? doe it have PCR inhibitors? Did you try to extract DNA or just use serum? could these things affect the results?
Having one replicate positive with a Ct of greater than 36 indicates that there is probably a contamination of that replicate.


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My friends and I are going to try and climb South Sister in August. We arent mountaineers, and we are accostomed to day hikes, although we are all in pretty decent shape.
1)Whats the quickest route up to the summit, where you start the highest?
2) For people of our fitness (as stated above), what kind of travel time are we talking to the summit and back?
We decided it would be a good idea to practice hiking uphill at altitude, so since we live in Portland, we thought Mt. Hood would be a good choice. One idea was to start at Timberline lodge and hike up to Crater Rock, but we are very concerned about our safety.
1)At what point on the mountain can we expect rockfall?
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- v. Present participle of dimple.
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The chicken and dimpling is good but don't expect large dumplings.
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It's important to look for visual changes such as dimpling around the nipple, itchy scaly rashes or any change in size or shape of the breast, she adds.
Cellulite, a 'dimpling' effect caused by fatty cells trapped under the skin, affects more than 80 per cent of women.
Screening mammograms make it possible to find breast cancers that cannot be felt and breast cancers that are producing no other signs they are present, such as dimpling of the skin of the breast or breast swelling or thickening of the skin of the breast.
It also includes looking at your breasts in the mirror to detect any abnormalities such as dimpling, swelling, rashes, or a change in size on one side and not the other.
Before a cabin sat a woman, fair of skin and rosy as a child, dimpling with glee at the words of another woman in the doorway.
She smiled, her still-smooth cheeks dimpling prettily.
In any case, Mythbusters controlled for this by taking the clay removed in the dimpling process and putting it in the back seat of the car, so that the dimpled car weighed the same as the undimpled control.
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He glanced over the familiar landscape and at the sea dimpling in the light but steady breeze.
And try to remember what happened to HAVSY last month when he was hanging about - and not daring to make any cheeky remarks about any dimpling in any girly butts, I might add.


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Is this native or invasive? Looks like water smart weed?
I have been unable to identify this plant that seems to be increasing in patches in my 2-acre back yard. Should I get rid of this or encourage it?
The plant looks similar to online pictures of "water smart weed" (polygonum amphibium) but to my knowledge has never flowered.
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The plants are in a wild field overrun with invasive weeds, so I do not believe the plants to have been deliberately planted by people, but wild volunteers from wild origins. The field is in western Santa Rosa, clay soil, no trees/just full sun, and summer dry dry dry. There is a "channelized" creek a hundred feet or so away behind our fenceline.
I have attached a few photos, but also here is a description of the plant:
1-2 high growing in a loose ground-cover habit. Sprawling, woody stems with upright ends; leaves appear along the entire length of the stems (which can be from a few inches to a couple of feet long). The leaves are approx. 2-4 inches with smooth (sometimes wavy) margins, pointed tips, slightly fuzzy tops, and arranged neither opposite or alternating but perhaps whorled or random arrangement along the stems. Overall the leaves appear bright to dark true green, and can appear to sparkle a bit in the sun from the fuzzy tops.
The leaves turn yellow or brown in fall and the whole plants dry up and disappear over the winter. I have not ever seen any flowering or fruiting structures, but have not closely observed the plants in spring when they tend to be buried in the invasive harding grass we have growing everywhere. I only notice the plants after we mow the field in the summer, and they dont really seem to do anything except expand with new little plants popping up everywhere along the edges. The plants stand out in the summer when everything else is dry/brown and only this plant stays bright green and fresh looking. Roots might be tuberous (appear thickened and horizontal) and I suspect the plant is propagating by underground runners.
Thanks to any insights, this has been driving me nuts for years.
I would agree that it is a Polygonum species but not P. amphibium. I have P. amphibium growing in my yard and it does not look like the one in your yard. Yours has leaves that appear to be almost leathery looking. Also since it is growing in a meadow and gets dry and comes back, if it was P. amphibium you would be seeing small terminal flower spikes with small white flowers as it tends to be an annual to a biennial and once the stems die they do not revive. Only new seedlings grow. Just checked my plants and what I have are older plants starting to die off with flowers having set seed and younger plants. Leaves are thin but if grown emmersed they can be more succulent in appearance.
There are many species, 14 non-natives and 22 native species, found in California. Have you seen the plant anywhere else? If not then I would opt for native and check them out first. Here is a link to the USDA plant database.
Be sure to click SHOW ALL and scroll down to the bottom to see the distribution of the species in the USA. http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=POLYG4
You can also check the CalFlora page and click on the species links and maybe there will be images of those you can look at. Here is that link:
Good luck.
Thanks for your help
Terrestrial man, thank you for taking the time to help me with my puzzle! I seem to go in circles online - I checked out the pages you linked, and polygonum (persicaria) amphibium descriptions seem to match my backyard plant (except mine haven't flowered) - however images seem to vary greatly. Some look just like what I have while other images look so different.
By now all my plants have withered up from the cold, so I will try to see them again this spring...(-:
Do your smartweed plants have moisture during the summer? I have the theory that my plants look more "leathery" because they get no summer water.
Enjoy the holidays.
oralee, sorry about responding so late. But I treat the Polygonum as an aquatic species and so it wet most of the time. It generally dies back but I have just looked to see what I could find (910PM) and there is one with a just a red lead at its tip as showing the effects of the cold weather but the base of the plant is protected by a large rock and a large pot and has a few young growths that are still green. With adequate water the stems are somewhat succulent. Drier and they become scraggy. Leaf size is also affected by the amount of water the plant has access to.
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152 I found a Fundamentalist Christian book that costs $127.49 USD, is 80% rant, 20% random symbols, and 0% correct grammar.
Behold, "Birth Control is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!!"!
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148 You thought it was a VERY wise use of my time. Which it was.
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145 I wonder where everyone is at?
145 I know dude I mean Ropav, Whisperer, and everyone else.
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Like father, like son.
Will Ferrell went on "Late Show with David Letterman" last night to promote his upcoming political spoof "The Campaign," and shared with Dave an annoying habit his two-year-old son, Axel, has picked up.
"He thinks it's hilarious to walk up to anyone, male or female, and say, 'You have a little penis,'" Ferrell said.
But the "Anchorman" star thinks he can turn that embarrassing little tic into something that could make everyone -- or at least Ferrell -- laugh.
"My brother-in-law wants me to have a big, fancy Hollywood party and invite a bunch of actors," he said. "Hopefully have him walk up to a George Clooney type and say, 'You have a little penis.'"
"Like George Clooney hasn't heard that before!" Letterman responded, for some reason. Maybe he knows something we don't?
Ferrell's youngest child seems destined to continue his jokester ways throughout his life. Ferrell's wife Viveca gave birth to Axel only hours after she appeared alongside Will on the final episode of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien."


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It was one of those rare mornings when the Telegraph didn't lead on rural post offices, bird flu or Blair's survival struggle. The Chinese had zapped a satellite in space, and there the tale was, top of the front page. How come? The paper's digital editor had seen a flurry of hits on his website and said so to a nearby news supremo in the Telegraph's great production amphitheatre. A clear steer: a rapid response. The wonder of integration.
Ah! Integration. The magic media word for the 21st century duly surfaced again last week as the Times unveiled £10m-worth of lime-green 'integrated publishing platform'. The editor of the paper, Robert Thomson, used three other 'i' words - integrity, ingenuity and interactivity - in his launch day message. Anne Spackman, editor-in-chief of Times Online, added one more for luck when she predicted 'a year of constant innovation'. But perhaps it's time to examine the concepts churning behind the jargon rather more closely.
What do newspaper managers and their editors mean when they talk integration? Sometimes they mean fewer expensive journalists doing extra, cheaper things - on the web, in print, on TV or radio, via podcast or mobile - with the same small nugget of news.
But success down that path can't be guaranteed. The Chicago Tribune group's fall from financial grace is widely blamed on an integrationist strategy, and rather too many regional titles in Britain, as well as the US, appear to have lumped technical tasks on to a shrinking staff base without deciding what the selling point of the exercise could be.
Does the holy grail of digitisation entail many fewer journalists doing everything, or fewer production people setting multi-skilled journalists free? Does it mean a single giant newsroom where one staff handles the tasks of the day, or better communication between parallel teams? Does it (in Times terms) offer the opportunity to take themes from the print paper and explore them more deeply on the infinity of the net? Or is it (that Telegraph example) one editor nudging another and propelling a Beijing rocket towards page one?
The fascinating thing about Integration is that the word reflects all these eventualities and many more. It covers the Mirror's modest stab at a site remake last week, as well as the BBC's web cast-list (slightly bigger than Ben Hur's). It is mush, slush and rush; but it is also crucial.
Who's winning the transition stakes? The Guardian by a mile, with the Times and the Telegraph in pursuit on most conventional measurements - though the Telegraph makes some (hotly contested) claims to triumph. But this is victory in terms of unique users and/or page impressions. There's no trophy on offer for other kinds of integration. Nor is there any real consensus. The essential debate is not yet joined.
It exists all right - as when Edward Roussel, the Telegraph's digital editor, describes how (beyond space satellites) his online world can shape the news in print. The top web stories are there on screen, changing and hinting, and reproduced on page two a day later. You don't have to guess what will interest people any longer. You can see how little the punters care as they tap their keyboards, then do something different. And you can examine your columnist's response rates, too.
Integration on this reckoning is a magnificent editing tool, instant information: but don't reckon on agreement across the board. Spackman at the Times curls her lip over news selection by net popularity. Choosing is much more complex, and cerebral, than that.
And nor can you be sure quite which audience you're addressing. Take the Telegraph print readers' average age - 56 - and stack it against the online readers at 41 and remember that only 25 per cent of buyers of the print edition are also online readers. The overlap is relatively tiny - and so is evidence of cross-fertilisation.
Roussel, a thoughtful recruit from Bloomberg, thinks that promotion, effort and streams of information that run over from newsprint to screen can help build paper circulation. Others, like the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger (and probably Rupert Murdoch, too) are more circumspect. The name of their game isn't buttressing print, but an orderly, managed migration - a step into the future, not a hankering after the past.
Telegraph 41-year-olds are important because they represent the young readership the old newspaper has increasingly failed to reach. But the old newspaper still has its 75 per cent of print-only devotees - and though many of them surf the net, they're no integrated advertising agency dream. Can you fit two editorial staffs into one? Can you so combine tastes and interests that a single news agenda hits every spot? Are we talking transition or migration?
And are we, perhaps, also getting a touch ahead of ourselves? The Times's £10m on day one added another couple of 'i's' to the list: immobility, as the weight of demand swamped a creaky system, then reader indignation, via dozens of bilious blogs.
The one I liked most was an ancestral voice from countless print relaunches. Can't find the crossword!, one aggrieved punter complained. Where the hell have you put it?
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Hey everyone! I have a book that tells me a tiny part about the four most common types of magic: Folk, natural, ceremonial (high) and sympathetic. Now it told me that sympathetic magic is the use of objects to represent your desired outcome; for example, turning on the shower to make it rain.
Could anyone tell me a bit more on sympathetic magic? It would be very much appreciated, thanks.
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Sand Toys £15 @ Argos
This lovely Chad Valley Wagon which comes with sand and water toys is for sale at Argos for £9.99 While that is it's 'normal' price, if you also purchase the 25 piece sand accessory set, which is ordinarily £9.99, for £5, meaning the two that would have cost you £19.98 now cost you £15.
I love the thought of a sand pit, but I must admit with a younger child I have concerns about a large sandpit – not to mention the hygiene risk with neighbourhood cats. I like this Chad Valley Wagon, because it is both a manageable amount of sand, and in a portable container meaning play doesn't have to stop for weather.
While the set does come with a few toys, the additional set has 25 toys including rakes and shovels in different sizes, and molds for building all sorts out of sand. Additionally, there's two of everything, which is great if there's more than one child, but more importantly, fantastic if one should go missing!
Of course there are plenty other options in the two for £15 sale which has been around for a while now, and as it's around till almost the end of July there's no rush, but it's still a good reminder in case you're in the market for toys!
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- GateGipsySandpits are brilliant. You can easily get a cover for them. Children love digging, especially boys. And as another mum pointed out, they're going to dig. You just have to decide what you want tracked into your house. Sand or dirt. Sand is easier to hoover up.
- Luschka O.Good point, I guess! My hesitation lies in an episode of House that I once watched where a kid got worms in his eyes from eating fouled on sand in his sand pit!! (I realise that's a TOTALLY rediculous reason, but will admit when I wrote about sandpits a few weeks ago I was relieved to see they come with lids! :p )


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VTB Group comprises VTB Bank and its lending and financial subsidiaries in which VTB owns more than 50 percent of voting shares/rights. The bank's lending subsidiaries carry out banking transactions and the financial subsidiaries operate in the securities markets, offering insurance and other financial services. VTB Group's companies offer a range of financial services to pension and mutual funds, leasing companies and other entities.
VTB Group has one strategically aligned holdings model, which includes:
Under the current management system, procedures fall into two major categories:
VTB Group's Management Committee operates at Group level. The Committee:
The Group's key strategic objectives for the Bank's management structure for 2014-2016 are as follows:
The Vietnam-Russia Joint Venture Bank (VRB) is not a subsidiary of VTB Group. However, the Bank may influence its activities due to its large shareholding in VRB.
VTB Group's corporate management model leverages the Group's competitive advantage, increases its share in target markets, enhances its key performance indicators and strengthens VTB Group's capitalisation.
In terms of group-level integration processes, VTB Group relies on a strategic holding governance model for group-level integration. This allows a unified strategic vision as well as the sharing of concepts and best practices.
VTB Group has one development strategy across all VTB Group companies: a common brand, centralised financial and risk management, integrated compliance systems, coordinated planning and reporting processes, and a focus on ensuring the best practices and common standards.
VTB's corporate governance mechanism enables the Bank to exercise its rights as a majority shareholder without participating in the management bodies of its subsidiaries. Functional coordination of key business lines within VTB Group is regarded as an additional management mechanism for subsidiaries. This, includes support and control lines (such as risk management, planning budget and management reports, brand and internal audit).


text: Exhilarate your senses at Grand Wailea. Surrounded by the rising slopes of Haleakala and the expansive azure blue of the Pacific Ocean, the design of this unique resort captivates and delights the senses. Enjoy the lush, Polynesian beauty of an elegant Maui hideaway, providing an incomparable destination for relaxation and playful adventure.


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10/12/2004 7:05am, #1
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training payoff...?
i was just out with family on saturday... I was standing around trying to keep out of the way, and suddenly i noticed a guy almost leap out of his seat towards me, in no time at all i had pressed down his attacking arm and had my hammer fist about an inch from his face.
And yes, as anticlimactic as this will sound, we didn't hit each other, or do anything else, he just laughed and ended up leaving a few minutes later.
I was scared as ****-- as to what might happen if I didn't hit him-- but in this situation restraint worked much more to my favour..
Anyone ever had that happen? Just having a technique already on its way out as he attacks? Its a good feeling :P Makes me feel gosu! (even though i am not:D)
10/12/2004 7:43am, #2
Had your hammerfist an inch from his face? If you thought he was assaulting you, why the hell didn't you go all the way through?
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I taught my wife some stuff and she managed to choke me out with her legs last week.
10/12/2004 8:09am, #4
I taught a friend how to takedown, mount, punch, and armbar and a few months later he broke a guy's arm in a bar fight.
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My friend was in at a bar, a guy punched him, he tackled the guy, mounted, punched, armbarred him, the arm cracked, the guy screamed, my friend walked away with a fat lip.
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And no assault charge?Originally Posted by pauli
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Aitrus - Where do you live in Canada again?
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Newquay Tretherras' annual Tux & Tiara event was held last week.
The glamorous event raises funds that go towards the school's celebratory Year 11 prom at the end of the academic year.
Around 35 students modelled a range of prom wear from shops including, Cargo, Foster Triniman, Pam's People, New Look and D'Laceys.
With over 150 people in attendance, the night raised nearly £500 to put towards the funds needed to organise the Year 11 prom, which will be held at the Atlantic Hotel on 26th June.
Miss Carley Barber, Deputy Head of Year 11 said, "We had wonderful support from parents and students on the night to make it a lovely evening. All the students were fantastic and looked stunning in their prom wear."


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Hey! So, this is from the manga, as you should know (LOL), I know it's early, but hey, it's late for some people in this world (Meh)
So, I own nothing but my OC character. Please do enjoy, and no! Stay! No spoilers for you! Bad puppies! You and your damn puppy eyes! No!
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Hello,i created a new account for DDTSS (magpie), but after I login (which tells me it works), i dont see my username in the "Infos About" section:
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I use FireFOx 3.5.16 Regards,