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I haven't eaten potatoes in almost 4 years. Although I undeniably enjoy the starchy goodness of a potato and the multiplicity of ways to enjoy them, consuming them just isn't worth the allergy-induced joint swelling and digestive discomfort that inevitably results.
Instead of mourning over the loss of potatoes, I found solace in other starchy vegetables. Sweet potatoes have always reigned supreme over any other true potato in my book, and I enjoyed a reason to romance their sweet, orange flesh. I adopted my mother's love for parsnips and beets at a young age, and explored their versatility further, quickly becoming obsessed with their different yet equally sweet flavors and hearty textures. I explored the glory of the celeriac, the gnarly vegetable that is also known as celery root, and took a liking to its unique, strong flavor. I tried every squash I could get my hands on, and prepared it almost every way I could think of. I mashed cauliflower to use as a topping for shepherd's pie, made creamy pureed soups from turnips, and made french fries out of rutabagas and carrots.
Truly, I haven't missed potatoes a bit.


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2008 Presentation High Varsity Track MVP... 2008, 2009 and 2011 Western Catholic Athletic League (WCAL) 800m Champion... 2009 Varsity Cross Country MVP... 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Track MVP... Placed second in the WCAL 1600m... Placed fourth at the Central Coast Sectional (CCS) 800 with a time of 2:14.56... 2010 and 2011 WCAL 1600m Champion... Placed second in the 2010 WCAL's 800m... Placed 7th at the 2010 CCS 800m... Third place at the 2011 CCS 800m... Placed thirteenth in the 2011 State 800m with the time of 2:12.82.
Daughter of Lisa and Nick Tsolis... Is a pre-economics major... Has competed in soccer for her high school and club team... Her favorite sports team are the San Jose Sharks... Most memorable sports moment was when she set a personal record at State her senior year... She enjoys all movies that Will Farrell is in... Her favorite pass time is going to the beach.
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From the days of Albert Einstein's nonconformist youth forward, we've come to understand that the brilliant minds wrestling with quantum mechanics are pretty far out there compared with the rest of us. Frankly, many physicists seem to delight in their public personas as outlying oddballs who dwell in the spacey clouds of other worlds. But the notion that modern theoretical physics owes its survival, in part, to the counterculture movement of the 1960s and '70s? Really?
David Kaiser's new book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, paints a carnival atmosphere of psychedelic imagery. Kaiser writes of a generation of physicists – latter-day disciples of Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, and others postulating the significance of black holes, time travel, and the concept of entanglement – who did their best work while mixing it up with tripped-out contemporaries of Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Ken Kesey.
Picture the Young Turks of theoretical physics, who laid the groundwork for today's concepts like string theory and nanotechnology, contemplating the most arcane of mathematical equations even while holding forth on ESP and UFOs. Picture scuzzy geniuses and rebels with high IQs behaving like ski bums, yet rubbing shoulders with adoring, Nobel Prize-winning elders.
Yes, it actually happened. Kaiser's narrative takes shape along a curving line of events extending from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It also reveals how and why – for a time – many of America's math whizzes were recruited by the likes of the CIA to work on encryption, the space race, and national defense during the cold war.
For Kaiser, the people that give this book its centrifugal force are eccentric members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group based for the most part in San Francisco. Among them were Fritjof Capra, author of 1975 classic "The Tao of Physics," along with Gary Zukav ("The Dancing Wu Li Masters"), Jack Sarfatti, ("Space-Time and Beyond"), and Nick Herbert ("Quantum Reality").
Even as some of them sought to unlock the limitations of their minds with LSD and Eastern mysticism, they plunged headlong into such things as the paradox of Bell's theorem, which basically suggests that in order to understand the real picture of the universe one needs to accept that we know far less (not more) than we can see or understand.
It is the ultimate license for thinking outside the box of what is perceived to be reality.
The title of the book pertains to a crucial period during the late 1970s and '80s when demand for physicists by the government and the private sector radically declined, yet the salonlike atmosphere started during the Fysiks era kept quantum physics alive and moving forward.
"The young hippie physicists of the Fundamental Fysiks Group had to blaze a new trail themselves," Kaiser writes, "carving out their own patrons, forums, and communication outlets during the lean years of the 1970s. Just as their group was winding down, the fortunes of the physics profession began to rebound."
While many books about physics, even popular ones, tend to suffer from too much headiness, Kaiser, an associate professor at MIT, does an admirable job of making the very concepts of quantum mechanics palpable. What Kaiser's storytelling does best is make a case for the value of freewheeling free thinking, particularly now, when institutions of higher learning are under siege.
Another sobering point made at the end of the book is that brilliant minds do not sit idle. They can be harnessed as forces for good or, as Kaiser points out, their gifts can be squandered.
After the cold war ended in the early 1990s, some of the physicists and mathematicians that used to contemplate the elemental forces of the cosmos were recruited by Wall Street financial firms and asked to apply their thinking to creating a new investment vehicle. Its name: the derivative, the misuse of which helped to nearly bring down the US economy in 2008.
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Interesting piece by Jarvis (who knows a thing or two on the subject), from the Telegraph 29/5/08
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Jarvis Cocker: the secret of saying the unsayable
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 29/05/2008
Bowie's a master, James Blunt misses the point completely. Singer-songwriter Jarvis Cocker celebrates the misunderstood art of composing pop lyrics:
Are lyrics important in pop music?
Take Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. The lyrics are unintelligible but it doesn't matter: it just sounds right. There are at least 130 versions of Louie Louie out there, but none of them comes even close to that one.
Yet when a lyric and a piece of music really work together, the combined effect is much more powerful than either of them on their own. "We could be heroes just for one day" is a vaguely uplifting sentiment. But when I listen to the song, I'm there. I am swimming with the dolphins. When I'm listening to that song, Bowie has me sold on the whole package.
Because, apart from the words and the music, the delivery of the song is a massive factor in its success or failure. David Bowie delivers "Heroes" as if he's trying to sing the throat out of his body, and the result is heroic.
I remember having an argument with Noel Gallagher over the lyrics to I Am the Walrus. Noel cited that as an example of how you could write any old nonsense and it didn't matter, which I vehemently disagreed with. To me, John Lennon is not just stringing together a load of unrelated imagery. It's an active rejection of meaning. A two-fingered salute to those who look for significance in song lyrics, and to the whole concept of making sense. A refusal to play the game or participate in the charade of straight society, which he felt at the time that his use of LSD had exposed as a sham.
But, although I Am the Walrus dispenses with most established rules, there is one it does adhere to - it rhymes. Should songs rhyme? My answer to this is a qualified yes. There's a sense of intense satisfaction when you get a good rhyme in a song. But beware: it can also lead to some of the greatest crimes that have ever been committed in the name of song.
I Am the Walrus uses internal rhymes, so you've got, "I am he, as you are he, as you are me" and "See how they run, like pigs from a gun". So the end of the lines are floating free. The more complicated rhyming structure gives the impression that the song doesn't really rhyme at all, but, in fact, it's quite carefully structured.
This question of rhyme is where many a songwriter comes a cropper. It's the one thing they know a song must do, and so they pursue it at all costs. And they become a rhyme whore. A rhyme whore will do anything for a rhyme. They will defy all notions of good sense, good English, intelligibility, logic, syntax, taste - you name it, anything goes as long as they get a rhyme. And this can have unintentionally hilarious results.
Take Life by Des'ree: "I don't want to see a ghost/That's the sight that I fear most/I'd rather have a piece of toast/Watch the evening news." Such a blatant use of a word just because it happens to rhyme destroys any credibility a song might have, especially when it has such a portentous title as Life.
All this naturally leads to bigger questions. Are lyrics poetry? Well, they both rhyme. They're both concentrated forms - both songs and poems tend to be very short, one or two pages at the most. If we look at the way that lyric sheets are generally laid out, the similarities seem undeniable. But typesetting does not create poetry. They're the words to a song. The only reason they exist is to be part of something else. And, when you see them on the printed page, you see them taken out of their natural habitat, away from that something else. To see a lyric in print is like watching the TV with the sound turned down. You only get half the story.
Great songs can have a poetic quality, but what really turns me on about lyrics is inappropriate subject matter. Take Heroin by the Velvet Undergound. That Lou Reed wrote so openly and intelligently about drugs would be pretty impressive today, but back in the Sixties it must have been totally unprecedented. You were simply not supposed to write songs about that sort of thing. He was saying the unsayable, putting a spotlight on things that many people would prefer to pretend did not exist, and in such a matter-of-fact, non-sensationalist manner.
Is the art of lyric-writing dead? My answer to that would be an emphatic no. In fact, I think that lyrics are becoming more and more important, because pop music as we know it has existed for more than 50 years. All the great riffs and chord progressions have probably been discovered by now. So one of the few ways that people can innovate, or make their song stand out from other people's, is in what they write about. That's why rap music has stayed in relatively good health, because it's almost all about the words.
Arctic Monkeys have made much of their love of hip hop, and I think you can hear that in Alex Turner's lyrics. Amy Winehouse goes one better and just makes words up. I think Pete Doherty harks back to I Am the Walrus - he plays games with words. So the art of lyric-writing is in good health.
What I look for in a song is something of the personality of the person who wrote it. Listening to a song should be like having a conversation with someone - afterwards you know more about them. And, if they do their job really well, the "m" can flip to make a "w", to make "we". The personal becomes the universal. They've expressed things that we have dimly perceived in ourselves but have been unable to give utterance to. They have bridged the gap between what we want life to be and what it actually is. They have said the unsayable.
This is an edited version of a lecture given at the Brighton Festival. For more Jarvis Cocker go to myspace.com/jarvspace


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Ford Expedition vs Ford Expedition EL: Which one is better?
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The reason I asked that question is because I just bought a 2009 Ford Expedition EL XLT 4x4 in March with optional features. But my friends said I should've gotten the standard size Expedition instead. Personally, I'm partial to larger SUVs and I was intrigued by the styling of the EL, which made my decision the more easier.
Anybody else care to weigh in on this question?
Anybody else care to weigh in on this question?
Doesn't matter what you friends think. You've got a new car that is a month old and you are questioning it because they don't agree with it? It's not like you can bring it back, so enjoy it and worry about bigger things.0
I understand where you coming from. But my friends came around and told me that they now envy me, so I'm not worried about it. Now one of them wants to buy a EL King Ranch. In other words, It looks like I must've started a trend because the dealer had 6 other people come in to ask about buying one after I gave one of them his card.0
Depends on your needs. If you don't need the extra room behind the 3rd row, then the standard Expedition is great, with it's flexible seating arrangements etc. I'm still mixed on my decision to go with a standard length Expe. My previous vehicle was a Suburban and I miss the extra cargo room. But I also like the shorter turning radius with the shorter wheel base.
I'd say the EL is a package better overall. You get a bigger fuel tank, more cargo room, and the longer wheelbase should provide a bit better ride and a more stable towing platform.0
zap314 Posts: 1I bought a new 2008 Expedition EL last April. I previously had a 2005 Expedition which I traded due to the larger cargo capacity. I was tried of folding the seats up and down. I love this vehicle. I would not go back to the regular Expedition. I no longer have to fold the third row down. My best friend has the regular Expedition and she basically has to keep her third row folded down due to having to haul kids hockey gear and miscellaneous items. I can grocery shop for a family of 7 and not have to fold the seats. The rear package shelf in the EL is also a great feature. Don't listen to your friends. Mine is now sorry she didn't buy the EL.0
My best friend has the regular Expedition and she basically has to keep her third row folded down due to having to haul kids hockey gear and miscellaneous items. I can grocery shop for a family of 7 and not have to fold the seats. The rear package shelf in the EL is also a great feature. Don't listen to your friends. Mine is now sorry she didn't buy the EL.
Good point, going from the Suburban to a standard length Expe, I find myself doing the same thing. The rear seats are always down unless someone needs to sit back there. With the seats up, their is basically very little room for cargo. That said, I don't really regret my decision because I bought my 07 EB used and got a great price. I couldn't find very many used EL with the options and color combo I wanted. If I was buying new, I would have definitely gone with an EL.0
wvgasguy Posts: 1,405I had bought the EL. This thing is a gas pig anyway and the extra length can't hurt that much. But there have been several times while travelling that I could have used the extra space.0
Well its been nearly eight months since I bought my '09 EL XLT. I have to say that after logging over 6300 miles, it was the best decision that I ever made. Even my wife thought I made a good choice because of the extra stuff we had to haul, plus every time she sees a standard Expedition she thinks its too short. Now I have others asking about taking a spin, including one asking if I would swap my EL for her '08 Chevrolet TrailBlazer SS. Too bad I had to turn them down.0
potranco Posts: 1I just bought a used '07 Expedition EL Limited and our family loves it. We had a 2000 Expedtion for 8 years and really enjoyed it. When we decided to trade in we looked at the EL and we never looked back. We just got back from a week trip to Colorado and it was great, The extra room makes all the difference. And I found a model with the power rear liftgate and my wifes loves it. We slapped on a 15 inch drop down DVD and it's perfect. We'll have this car for 5 years+. Unless you have 4 or less in your family, the EL is the way to go.0
exbdishin Posts: 6Er, there's only 4 in our family and we love our EL.
Just bought it 2 weeks ago; I've never driven anything as big so I was a bit worried I wouldn't be able to handle it but apart from a scary moment on the very first day it's been wonderful.
I told my wife that to justify having one of the biggest cars on the planet we either need to have another child or get a boat. She chose the boat... In the meantime we put one kid in the middle row and the other kid in the 3rd row and that helps to justify it.0
mikesheldon Posts: 7has there been any word yet on a remodel of the ford expedition/expedition el? it has to be about due for another one since the last remodel was in 2007.0
No changes for 2011. The only thing they did for '11 was the addition of HD radio as a standard and silver exterior cladding. Ford has revised the trim levels on the Expedition EL: The new standard XL, XLT (now upgraded and replaced the Eddie Bauer trim) Limited, and King Ranch.0
The Exploder is all new for '11, that's where they spent their money. Not sure I'm a fan of how it looks just yet.0
Well, I saw it and it is unique and refreshing, not to mention a radical departure from the previous generations. I wouldn't be surprised if this version will serve as the inspriation for the next generation Expedition/EL series somewhere down the line. And with GM prepping the next generation Suburban/Yukon XL for a '12 or '13 launch, we could see this one coming down the pipline in the near future.0
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The toy of tech: The Mattel Aquarius 30 years on
'A machine so cheesy, they should have supplied rubber gloves to wear while using it.'
Disappointing reception
The "system for the 70s" had other failings. "To say that the Aquarius possesses editing facilities is really stretching the definition to its limits. You have a delete key which can be used in immediate and program mode to delete one character at a time... If you want to edit a line which is already in the computer's memory you're out of luck." The manual, revealed Palmer, suggested you simply re-type the line.
Add the £30 Expander to give the Aquarius a decent - and competitive - amount of memory and you still ended up with a computer that was £10 more costly than the 16KB Spectrum but without the Sinclair machine's "wealth of independent peripherals and cheap software", noted Practical Computing.
"I was disappointed with the Aquarius," Personal Computing Today's Palmer concluded. "I cannot see it competing with the Spectrum or even the Oric as a programmer's machine. Like the TI-99/4A it really comes into its own when being used with pre-programmed cartridges." In short, little more than a videogames console - the Intellivision with a keyboard.
Mattel executives seem to have come to the same conclusion - and were stung by the Aquarius' generally uncomplimentary critical reception on both sides of the Atlantic. The company was also then struggling with group losses of $156.1 million, with the computer and videogame side of the business pulling down the rest thanks to a loss of $166.7 million, all in the six months to 1 July 1983, the period covering the Aquarius' development and US release. Mattel's regular dividend payments were threatened.
In early July, Mattel laid off 260 of its Electronics division's employees and then 400 more in August - together 37 per cent of the Mattel workforce. Among them was a small team working on the Intellivision IV, a gaming system based on the Motorola 68000 processor later set to make a mark in the Apple Mac, the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. By this point, the Intellivision IV had been in the lab for more than a year.
Mattel wants out
Mattel threw out Electronics' management, too. Division president Josh Denham was replaced by Mack Morris, who decided Electronics' future lay in games software not the hardware they would be played on. It wasn't the strategy to turn the business around, and Mattel Electronics as an entity didn't survive for much longer. Mattel shut it down on 20 January 1984.
Meanwhile, the Aquarius' $160 US release price wasn't pulling in the punters. It was higher than either the Vic-20 or the TI-99/4A could be had for at the time. So the company quietly called it a day in October 1983. Development work on future peripherals had already stopped. Mattel handed the Aquarius - along with the branding rights and a licence to sell Mattel's games software - back to Radofin with a view to being out of the home computer hardware business by Christmas.
"The deal we have done with Mattel means that they will bring the price down [to £59.95] and then, at some point, we will take over supplying dealers directly," Radofin MD Alan Leboff told Popular Computing Weekly. "We hope the price drop will have a dramatic effect on sales." Cartridge and peripheral prices were cut too.
The reduction certainly helped reverse an abrupt sales decline that began at the end of October after the Mattel pull-out news broke, and sales started to rise again through the rest of 1983. But they never lifted the Aquarius above 13th place in the Top 20 Home Micro chart of the time, a peak it reached in October 1983.
Still, in December 1983 Radofin bullishly announced the Aquarius II would be out in January 1984 and be followed in April by the Aquarius III, a machine it was working on in the labs when Mattel first came knocking on its door. Neither computer ever made it to market in volume, though some Aquarius IIs did find their way into consumers' hands. Personal Computer News took a look at it in June 1984 ahead of its forecast September release - by then it was up against the likes of Amstrad.
PCN's David Guest reckoned the new machine was much more of a programmer's box than its predecessor had been, but the graphics remained poor - even with the extra commands included in the Extended version of Microsoft BASIC, among them the editing tools absent from the original.
The £129, 36KB machine may have made it to market - it's listed in Your Computer's October 1984 autumn micro round-up, as is the £50 Aquarius - but with the caution: "Limited software availability likely to be a problem."
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Examiner.com writer and Arizona League official scorer Rodney Johnson has posted an article about minor league umpire Mike Terry, who's chasing the dream of an umpiring job in the big leagues.
The development process is similar to that of a minor league player, working to move up to the next level while enduring brutal conditions and minimal pay.
Rodney's column introduced me to the Professional Baseball Umpire Corporation (PBUC), which is Minor League Baseball's entity for training umpires. I ran across an article on the St. Petersburg Times web site published on August 29 about a switch-throwing reliever with the Tampa Yankees named Pat Venditte. The article said that the PBUC developed a special rule requiring Venditte to announce before facing a batter how he would throw, left-handed or right-handed. Now I know who the PBUC is.
As an aside, I was researching Venditte because I spend the last few days calling the Brevard County Manatees' post-season games on the Internet. The Manatees were playing the Yankees. (The Yanks eliminated them last night.) If you're interested in my bargain-basement webcasts, go to my Florida site SpaceCoastBaseball.com and you'll see the links at the top of the page.


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White Storks In Its Nest at ruins of Volubilis - Morocco - Volubilis
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The Deck is one of the best restaurants in town for escaping from the noise and motorbikes of Ho Chi Minh City.
Its a place where patrons are welcome to take their time, and there are few spacious outdoor restaurants in the city with such breathtaking views of the river as this place.
Just 20 minutes from the city center, The Deck transports us to the real Vietnamese countryside.
It is located right on the bank of the Saigon River and opposite a riverbank festooned with water coconuts, making the restaurant an ideal setting for the morning yoga class it hosts.
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Mardi Gras is a Louisiana cultural event that stems from
the belief that celebrations of over indulgence should
precede the forty-day fasting period known to Catholics
as lent. Thibodaux's carnival is a time for young and
old to get out and "Laissez Les Bon Temp Roulez" Cajun
Style with family oriented celebrations, parades and
parties. These community gatherings are a great way for
tourist and locals alike to get out and celebrate the
Mardi Gras season.
Louisiana's largest all-volunteer fire department
sponsors the Thibodaux Fireman's Fair and Parade during
the first weekend in May, which over the years has
evolved from a small family event to a large-scale
community celebration of over 50,000 people. It is the
oldest continuous annual parade dating back to 1858,
only skipping three years due to the Civil War. The fair
and parade honors and supports these volunteer firemen
who are well-trained and proudly devoted to the care of
all citizens with a pageant, auction, live music, rides
and great food. The fair funds up-to-date fire equipment
and continuous fire education and training.
festivals abound in Bayou Country. Thibodeauxville Fall
Festival is an art, craft, food and music festival held
on the downtown streets where local merchants and
citizens come together to reminisce and celebrate
earlier days. Thibodeauxville is held on the second
Saturday of every November, sponsored by the Thibodaux
Chamber of Commerce. Thousands of visitors attend each
year and enjoy good food, good music and a good time as
well as to participate in the rubber duck race in Bayou
Located on the banks of Bayou Lafourche, the Jean
Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve is
Thibodaux's own Federal Park. Beautifully landscaped
grounds surround the lovingly restored Percy Lobdell
Building that houses a theatre for the performing arts,
a library and a museum of local culture and exhibits. At
the Thibodaux Playhouse, located in the park, is where
local actors showcase their talents for the community by
performing original plays and classics.
What's in a name
"Thibodaux" Video
Lafourche Parish Public Library is housed in the upper
level of the Jean Lafitte Center while the lower level
is dedicated to the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center
where visitors can learn about Thibodaux's unique
culture and heritage. Through exhibits and videos,
visitors learn that Indian tribes originally inhabited
the area currently called Thibodaux as early as 1686 and
made alliances in 1699 with Iberville, who called them
river or bayou people. In about 1750, early French and
Spanish colonist came from New Orleans and established
their settlements along Bayou Lafourche. The bayou
became their chief means of commerce and is referred to
as the "Longest main street in the world."
Transportation, communication and fresh water made early
Thibodaux a thriving trade center. Many settlers, after
1755, took refuge with hospitable compatriots of
Thibodaux as a result of the expulsion of the Acadians
from Nova Scotia and the French refugees of the French
revolution. Many names and customs of present Thibodaux
residents reflect that of these early Acadian settlers.
Their hard-working, fun-loving culture is Thibodaux's
major influence.
flavor of southern Louisiana cooking is savored in
Thibodaux's locally owned restaurants offering delicious
seafood and other southern and Cajun favorites. It's
southern hospitality at it's best with popular bayou
side restaurants, golf course, 8 recreational parks, 2
major hotel chains, and the City's Civic Center which is
home to music, antiques, basketball, RV hook-ups and
other fun events.
into our beautiful City will feel protected while
touring around Thibodaux because of our progressive
Police Department.
is a quality hospital with doctors of every specialty
offering excellent "Care With a Personal Touch."
Churches of every denomination welcome residents and
visitors alike. Clubs and organizations open to
participation and membership on the local, national, and
international level.
Louisiana is the city "Where Yesterday Welcomes
Tomorrow." Many visitors who come to taste the flavor of
Thibodaux with its nearby swamp tours, hunting, fishing
and water sports come back to visit or retire in the
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A winner was selected from 128 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
Design a logo, color(s), and font reflecting the meaning of Arcadia
Arcadia Homes, Inc.
Arcadia is associated with the words contentment, peace, simplicity, perfection, pastoral. I havent chosen a tagline yet but simplistic perfection will be probably be used. So I want the logo to be simple. It doesnt necessarily have to represent the trade of homebuilding but is OK if it does. Colors should probably include both green and blue again reflecting the meaning of the word Arcadia. We will be building both simple workforce housing but also baby boomer houses. We are a new company in the Southeast.
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- item 3 must include company name
- item 4 Should be able to use logo and name seperately
- Item 1...the usual, cheesy Homebuilding logo
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|2012-11-01, 07:06
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Well not to sure if the buff white devices totally blocked Sumika's reading on Takeru , for i think she get an inkling, what Takeru is feeling the moment he meet with at the px Meiya , Ayamine Chizuru etc .... (Seriously ..... even Tama , Mikoto too .....the power of the Loli and DFC imouto must be strong on this two ..... For the bratty savior not to resist ......
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I'm not sure if this should go here but.........are the Raptor's stealth capabilities useful against the BETA or did the US just add them with the expectation that they might come up against other TSFs?
Also, do the Raptors carry nothing but Assault Cannons into battle or can they be fitted with heavier firepower when the need arises?
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Nope, as far as I know, Raptors can only use assault cannons and knives. Probably Melee Halberds too.
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Raptor's can't carry melee halberds. Only the YF-23 could do that (and consequently it had its own blade designed made just for it), but hence it was rejected, melee halberds are not used by U.S military.
The only U.S craft that can carry them are licensed and modified versions of U.S craft, like the MiG-21 (F-4R), Type-89 Kagerou (F-15J), F-5G/E/I Tornado and J-10/Lavi (F-16) - but none of those is employed by American forces proper.
"Heavier firepower" would usually include missiles, and I'm pretty sure that Raptor could potentially carry some sort of missile containers. However, there aren't any "bigger" TSF armaments, excluding the 1200mm Trans-Horizon Cannon (which is a prototype, and mothballed in Yokohama) and EU's Mk.57 Assault guns, which due to politicking aren't really being exported.
Do keep in mind though, that standard caliber for TSF weaponry is a 36mm chaingun with coaxial 120mm smoothbore cannon (AC130 carriers a 105mm by comparison), so that's usually more then enough to kill any single specimen.
Regarding buffwhite devices, I wonder just why Yuuko couldn't equip Unit-00 with those earlier, given that 00 was about as stable as my old Windows 98.
It also makes you wonder if Inia and Cryska's clips are really amplifiers. Given what they did with Zhar, it wouldn't be surprising if Soviets are normally restraining them, kind of like chained Cerberus.
It would explain why Cryska wasn't able to get back at those brats from Zhar at the beginning of Kamchatka arc.
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The Advanced Tactical Surface Fighter Project assumed that within several decades the war with BETA would be over, and the nations of the world would be fighting each other for G-Elements. As such, the Raptor's stealth is geared towards fighting TSFs and other human opponents, though as The Day After shows it is possible to negate some of those advantages if you can prepare the battlefield in advance.
A common misconception is that the Raptor's stealth is superior to the Black Widow II; this is not the case, as according to TSFiA #08 Question of Honor, both TSFs had similar levels of stealth. The Black Widow II was also superior to the Raptor in anti-BETA, anti-TSF and hive infiltration. The Raptor was however easier on both the logistics, price, and fitting in with US doctrine (it's essentially do everything you did in the Eagle, but much better).
Also, while the nations of the world condemn the US for being backstabbing asshats with stealth fighters, Boening is marketing the F-15SE Silent Eagle as an upgraded Eagle with stealth features, and at least one nation was interested enough to purchase twelve examples for test and OPEVAL purposes.
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Raptors have only been shown carrying assault cannons thus far, but at a guess they can probably be outfitted with missiles if need be.
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Here's an /m/ thread where most of the differences have been capped.
Warning, one or two may be NSFW by virtue of shower/bath scenes.
BD2 also got some fixups, though less extensive.
A few of them are posted here, though not all.
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Hello just started watching the TE anime and i am lost with the whole entire series, so could someone care to explain what happens from the start of this series (Muv Luv) to all the sequals and how does TE tie in with the story ? Also about the anime was that an anime original ending or will the true ending be revealed in the VN?
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The main trilogy in Muv Luv is broken up as follows: Extra -> Unlimited (these two come as one game/VN) -> Alternative. Total Eclipse is a side story from the Alternative world (the BETA filled one shown in TE). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe TE ends a little bit before the finale of the trilogy, Alternative, begins.
As for the anime, I believe that while some aspects of the ending were anime original, it still was pretty similar to the point where the novels stopped being published at. Nonetheless, the "true" or canonical ending will be revealed in the soon to be released VN.
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Remember the last time you were on a flight taking down some seared, diced watermelon tossed with goat cheese mousse topped with crushed pistachios, followed by a vanilla panna cotta layered with strawberry consommé? Yeah, me, too.
That would be never.
You can now, though, if you fly First or Business Class on Lufthansa Airlines, because Andrés Jiménez, executive chef for The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, is on round two of the "Star Chefs" program he launched for the airline last May. Jiménez designed the menus for First and Business classes this month and next, which means anyone flying in those sections on their way to Frankfurt, Munich or Dusseldorf will get to eat things such as pan-roasted beef tenderloin with butternut squash cake (First) or seared cod in artichoke and carrot broth (Business).


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Paul Allen: 'For all of us that know Bill, it's a signature moment'
Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, spoke with the Seattle P-I this week about Gates' shift away from day-to-day duties at the company. Edited excerpts:
ON GATES' DEPARTURE: All companies go through an evolution like this, and people go through their own personal evolutions, and I think this is a natural one for Bill. Steve (Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO) has been running the company for a while now. Bill wants to focus wholeheartedly on his philanthropy, and I think that's a great thing. Of course, in the early days, when we started the company, we never even thought about retirement or the day we would step down. For all of us that know Bill, it's a signature moment.
ON GATES' FUTURE: Bill has a wide-ranging and curious mind. I've already had lunches with him where we've talked about different alternative energy sources. He has a near encyclopedic knowledge about the state of the art in research on different kinds of vaccines. If you sat down with him, you'd be really amazed at the depth of his knowledge in these areas of cutting-edge medical research. I talk to him about some of the things I've been doing on the brain and alternative energy. I think he finds some of those areas fascinating, too. It will be interesting to see what things he ends up really diving into, because once Bill dives into something, he really wants to make a difference. He's an incredibly smart person, and I'm sure he'll end up making a difference in whatever area he picks.
ON STARTING MICROSOFT, AND REMAINING FRIENDS: It was a very intense period, and we were just arm-in-arm, doing all those things for all those years, and we were friends together in high school. So we still love just to go to a movie, or have dinner or talk about things. There's a mental rapport that we have, especially if we're talking about problems that can be solved, or different aspects or challenges in technology. I'm not sure either one of us will ever find someone that is complementary to the other person to that degree. It's a real charge and an exciting thing to spend time with Bill and talk about the future.


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If you need a doctor's order to relax, Kenneth Pelletier, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, will happily write the prescription. When the mind and body are in a state of relaxation, he says, inflammation in arteries, joints, and nerves decreases, pain in the muscles subsides, the heart rate decreases while blood pressure drops, and the gastrointestinal system functions better as well.
In addition, electrical activity slows down between the two hemispheres of the brain so they "become more synchronous, more in harmony, and you have more access to both sides of the brain," Pelletier says. Relaxing can also help keep you trim, as high levels of the stress hormone cortisol can lead to deposits of abdominal fat.
"The state of relaxation is biologically, psychologically, and chemically a time when the mind and body are in a state of regeneration," says Pelletier. But these days, stress levels are at an all-time high, believes Pelletier, who cites four contributing factors: "hurry sickness," or the sheer pace of everyday activities; financial worries in an unsettled economy; post-9/11 fears of terrorism; and the pressure on baby boomers who must care for children as well as parents.
Pelletier feels it is especially crucial, therefore, to "exercise our relaxation muscles all the time" by incorporating mini-breaks into our daily lives. So for him, part of the enduring value of a relaxing summer vacation is bringing home that "feeling of inner balance, equanimity, and unity between mind and body."
Clench and relax. If you find yourself holding an inordinate amount of tension in your arms, legs, or back, for instance, tensing then releasing the muscles in that area will remind your body to relax there.
Visualize a favorite place. In moments of stress, close your eyes and imagine a place you've spent time -- perhaps on a previous vacation -- where you felt happy, safe, and at ease.
Smile, even if you don't feel like smiling. The acts of smiling and laughing actually release biochemicals that can change your mood to happy.
"The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body," says Gabrielle Roth, director of the Moving Center dance studio in New York City. "The harder you dance, the deeper you breathe. The deeper you breathe, the deeper you live. Breath, body, beat, bliss -- they go together."
If Roth had her way, we'd all be moving all the time, tuning in to our internal rhythms as well as the rhythms of the natural world. She says, "Everything alive is moving, so why be the exception?"
During our regular, over-scheduled days, we tend to surrender to patterns and rhythms imposed on us from work, family, social interactions. Summer vacations are a prime time to "take yourself back," says Roth. "Vacation is not simply a time to stop but a time to tune in to the rhythms, patterns, cycles, and waves that make you who you are. Following your own rhythm even for a week nourishes your entire psyche."
Shake it up. Try this exercise with or without gentle, percussive, tribal music. Place your feet shoulder-width apart and gently bounce to the beat of the music without moving your feet. Keeping your feet planted helps you to relax as you move the rest of your body. Soften your knees to cushion your bounce.
Shake and relax each body part, from face to shoulders to hips to knees, until your whole body is shaking. Continue until you feel loose and sinuous. When you practice shaking, you don't get thrown when the universe shakes you up.
Unplug. Switch computers and cell phones off as much as possible. High tech keeps you in high gear.
Underschedule. Cultivate "open moments" and "empty spaces," to allow for serendipity and sensual experiences.
Over-chew. Vacations allow you to enjoy long, leisurely meals and savor flavors, settings, and conversations. Good meals often create memories that people bring back from vacation and remember for years. Eat slowly.
When you are totally absorbed in an activity, says John Daido Loori, author of "The Zen of Creativity," the mind can "take a break from that incessant internal dialogue that scatters our energy." Creative activities that engage our bodies and minds at once are especially conducive to this absorption, so bringing paints, pencils, and paper on vacations is an excellent way to stop the mind from chattering.
If drawing or painting is not your thing, don't despair. "There are so many ways to be creative," Loori points out. "You can be creative with cooking, with solving problems, with sewing or knitting."
Not only can creative activity help us to release tension, but being in a state of relaxation can also aid the creative process. "Creativity has to do with an awareness of what is around us," says Loori. "Your hearing becomes more tuned in, and all your senses wake up."
True relaxation "is a release of tension and a letting go of everyday cares and worries, combined with the letting in of fresh nourishment -- physical, emotional, spiritual, psychic, even intellectual," says Belleruth Naparstek, psychotherapist and founder of Health Journeys. "Relaxation can look like anything -- reading a book in a hammock; meditating on the beach; learning to sail a schooner or mastering the art of rock climbing; taking an intellectually stimulating tour sponsored by a university."
Those experiences can also provide us with fresh perspectives, evocative images, and sensory memories to draw on when we return home. Try conjuring up "the more delicious sensory details" of your summer and you can benefit from self-guided imagery. No matter where she is, Naparstek, who has vacationed on Martha's Vineyard for decades, can conjure up "the balmy feel of that luscious, scent-laden Martha's Vineyard breeze on my face... or the feel of waves lapping at my ankles and the sand squishing between my toes" and be instantly transported from tension to peace.


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These are big games!
Yes, there are a couple other things to talk about today. Eli and the Giants win the Super Bowl. And who will win the caucuses? But let's get focused, folks – the Nuggets play at Portland tonight and then host Utah on Wednesday.
It's a long season, yeah, yeah, yeah, but in the airtight Northwest Division, the title could – and likely will – come down to a couple of games. The Nuggets must approach these games with the utmost seriousness.
Allen Iverson pointed out how the Nuggets, suddenly, cranked up the intensity in the fourth quarter against Charlotte. But if they play the first three quarters against Portland/Utah the way they played it against the Bobcats, it's hard to think the Nuggets would win the games. They must set a precedent that these games will be dogfights, which Denver has done in other games, and the outcome has been favorable for the boys in powder blue.


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Mother Superior called a young novice into her office one evening. ''Now dear, I want you to give the Father his nightly bath. You are to do as he tells you and be sure to report to me in the morning,'' she said. The novice agreed to do as she was told and went to prepare the Father's bath. Doing as she was told, the novice washed the Father's hair and back. While she was doing this the Father told the novice that he had the key to heaven. The Father told her that if his key to heaven fit her gate, she would be saved.
The next morning the novice entered Mother Superior's office.
''So how did it go last night dear? He didn't try anything on you, did he?'' she asked.
''Oh, Mother, it was wonderful! I did exactly as you told me to and when I was giving him his bath he told me the HE has the KEY TO HEAVEN! I was amazed, and he went on to tell me that if his key fit my gate, I would be saved. And Mother, his key FIT my gate! And it was the most beautiful thing in the world!''
And the Mother said, ''Damn that man! He told me it was Gabriel's horn and I've been blowing it for 40 years!''


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Silent Winter?
Silent Winter?
Biopharmed crops are turning wildlife-and us-into lab animals.
WILLOWS, California-A winter storm is arriving here at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Ducks and geese are circling above the ponds, and as the first rain drops begin to fall, the birds start to drop from the sky by the thousands-feet outstretched, necks arched, and wings beating back as they land on the water. Overhead, hundreds of black ibis etch thin rippling lines against the dark gray clouds. The noise is phenomenal-the squawking of mallards and pintails, the honking of Snow and Ross's geese, along with the sound of their wings flushing the air. In the background, resident red- wing blackbirds, already hidden in the reedy marshes, let out an occasional high-pitched trill.
The annual return of hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowl to the Sacramento Valley is quite a spectacle. From the birds' perspective, the Valley is a tempting buffet. In the winter, flooded rice fields and riparian habitat offer their favorite aquatic foods and grasses. There are tons of seeds and grains to glean, left over from harvesting almost a half million acres of rice and other crops, and no less than six carefully managed National Wildlife Refuges to choose from. But these days, both resident and returning birds are feeding on experimental rice fields that have been planted with genetically engineered strains, including at least 50 acres of rice that has been engineered with human genes.
The intrusion of transgenic rice into the Sacramento Valley presents significant risks to wildlife and to the delicate ecosystems on which it depends. And it threatens the $500 million California rice industry, which has worked hard to develop a high quality product (including a thriving organic rice business) and an environmentally friendly image through its efforts to protect waterfowl and shorebird habitat. Now the possibility that rice with human genes and other novel proteins could also contaminate the human food supply is stirring up a storm of controversy.
So far, California's food crops have been free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs.) But two agrochemical corporations, Monsanto and Aventis/Bayer CropScience, are pushing for the right to grow herbicide tolerant (HT) rice here. And Ventria Bioscience, a small biotechnology company located in Sacramento, is seeking approval to enlarge the area they use to test their transgenic human protein rice. While they await approval for full commercial planting, both types of transgenic rice are being grown in the open air in the Sacramento Valley, where birds, insects, and other wildlife have unfettered access to them.
Ventria Bioscience's rice is generating the most debate. Currently, the company is testing rice that has been genetically engineered with human genes to make two proteins found in human breast milk, lysozyme and lactoferrin. Nursing mothers supply these proteins to their babies in their milk, offering them enhanced resistance to bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microbes. Lactoferrin provides an iron supplement as well. While Ventria is experimenting with several human gene-enhanced rice strains, it plans to use its human-breast-milk-laced rice as an "alternative to the use of antibiotics in poultry diets" and as a supplement in infant formula. Why would anyone take proteins that are already available in their natural form and genetically engineer them to create new recombinant forms of these same proteins? Because this is the only way a company can patent and own these valuable substances. This new and largely untested scheme raises unprecedented agricultural, economic, legal, environmental, and ethical questions. So, the general public might assume that the regulatory agencies involved in approving such experimental uses of food crops are addressing these issues adequately. Unfortunately, that is not happening.
Risk Paralysis
When it comes to GMOs in general, and transgenic pharmaceutical rice in particular, the regulatory field is muddy. Responsibility for field testing GMOs falls to the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). APHIS's job is to ensure that plant and animal diseases don't proliferate. It does not look at the larger ecological impacts of newly created organisms. Basically, APHIS is concerned with protecting agricultural plants and animals from invasive pests and pathogens, including protecting crops from wildlife, not the other way around. To do its job, APHIS depends on applicants to volunteer information about the potential risks their products might pose. But once permitted field tests are completed, the products are "deregulated" and APHIS conducts no further monitoring or evaluation.
GMO crops that involve pesticides come under the purview of the Environmental Protection Agency, but the two forms of rice currently proposed for commercialization in California are not pesticidal GMOs. The Food and Drug Administration regulates drugs, of course, but they ruled long ago that GMO foods were equivalent to conventional foods, so unless something like a food allergy might be involved, they are not concerned. Ventria Bioscience, a company founded by some long-time biotech veterans, is calling its rice a "medicinal food," a term that is undefined. If their products are not used as drugs, they just might fall between cracks in the regulatory framework.
That leaves the state regulatory process to deal with this problem. California rice is unique in that the state legislature created a quasi-public body (the California Rice Commission, or CRC) to handle certain regulatory, educational, and promotional matters. It's a combination grower-processor-commodity-trade group. Recently the state charged it with reviewing proposals for transgenic rice and offering rulemaking recommendations to the state department of agriculture.
Tim Johnson, CRC's president, said that California rice growers are the only commodity industry that has the ability to review new varieties and implement planting and handling protocols. "Otherwise," he said, "there would be no process beyond what APHIS does." He said that the CRC does not have the power to stop a particular rice variety from being planted and that he would give GMO rice the same respect as any variety that had commercial value. Johnson is confident that the California rice industry can develop protocols that will contain transgenic rice varieties and avoid the rampant contamination that has, for instance, plagued the corn industry.
This echoes what Ventria Bioscience is saying: their rice does not pose a risk to the environment or other rice growers because, unlike corn, rice is a self-pollinating plant. And they say the protocols they are proposing to the CRC, which will impose extensive human controls over planting, harvesting, and handling-including using "dedicated" equipment and harvesters-will ensure that contamination does not occur. Other commodity crops have achieved some success at such "identity preservation" efforts, but the process is expensive and it allows for a small amount of background GMO contamination.
In conventional corn, soy, and canola crops in the United States, such contamination is now rampant. In February the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reported that more than two-thirds of these crops were contaminated with genetically engineered DNA. And contamination of the food supply by biopharmaceuticals is also now a fact, not just a fear. In 2002, biopharmed corn was found to have contaminated conventional soy grown for food. Dr. Jane Rissler, a plant pathologist at UCS and the report's co-author, says that now, in addition to GMO contamination, "among the potential contaminants are genes from crops engineered to produce drugs, plastics, and vaccines." When it comes to these new recombinant pharmaceutical and industrial proteins, experts like Bill Freese, a research analyst for Friends of the Earth (FOE) and author of an FOE report on biopharming, says there can be nothing less than "zero tolerance" for contamination of the human food supply.
In California, the possibility that any GMO rice, let alone biopharmed rice, might get into other rice fields or mills is causing real concern. Millers say they won't touch transgenic rice because they have no means of keeping it separate from ordinary rice. The insurance industry will not consider taking on any GMO risks. Organic rice farmers say they are feeling particularly vulnerable because GMO contamination of their crops would cost them both their certification and their premium markets. And the legal questions about who is liable for contamination have not been sorted out; so far, farmers and processors have been left holding the bag. Still, Aventis (now Bayer Crop Science), the same company that was responsible for extensive GMO contamination in Europe and the Starlink food recall fiasco in the United States (which cost taxpayers, farmers, and food processors millions), is proceeding as if their transgenic rice will not cause contamination problems.
There is nothing in the pending protocols or in the field practices currently being used by biopharming companies that would require them to take precautions against exposing wildlife to these novel proteins, such as netting to protect the health of birds or prevent them from transporting the grain to other rice fields. Other countries are not so sanguine. Brazil, for instance, requires protective netting over test plots of herbicide- tolerant rice. When authorities found test plots without it, they ordered the crops destroyed.
I asked the CRC if they were considering insisting on wildlife protections in their protocols. Johnson emphasized that all questions were still open, but that they were satisfied with an APHIS finding that biopharmed rice would have "no significant impact" on wildlife. Any restrictions CRC imposed, Johnson said, would require a scientific basis. However, there is no scientific basis for coming to a conclusion, one way or another. The CRC's current position is based on an oral communication from APHIS, which bases their conclusion on a single environmental assessment they did on another variety of Ventria's biopharmaceutical rice in 1997. That assessment relied only on general assumptions about transgenics plus information "supplied by the applicant." Without any independent analysis or studies, APHIS concluded that there is "no reason to believe" there would be any impact on wildlife or other "non-target organisms."
The dismal lack of research on how genetically engineered crops affect wildlife demonstrates just how inadequate the federal regulatory system is. In the 1980s the biotechnology industry successfully lobbied the government to forgo any new legislation governing GMOs. Today, federal agencies use the same laws that were passed to control chemicals to address the impacts of GMOs, even though GMOs are living organisms that behave very differently in the natural world. When Dan Quayle announced the regulatory framework for biotechnology in 1986, he set forth the system that is, with minor revisions, still used: industry voluntarily provides information on their products to the government and it is accepted at face value. No independent analysis or review is conducted. Thus, biotechnology companies do not need to reveal flaws in their products or even study environmental impacts. And they use the cloak of "confidential business information" to hide crucial facts, such as the locations of open-air test plots. The public, nearby farmers, or even school gardens, cannot find out if a biopharm is planted next door. There are thousands of such secret test plots all over the country, growing biopharmed plants that are visually indistinguishable from conventional crops.
Federal agencies simply ignore studies documenting the environmental and human health problems caused by transgenic crops. But opponents of transgenic rice hope that the scientific evidence they are presenting to the CRC will get a fair review. They are challenging the biopharming industry's claim that rice is a self-contained crop, for instance, citing studies done in Canada and Europe that show a high degree of interbreeding between rice varieties. Commercial rice is also known to cross with nearby weedy relatives such as red rice. Farmer groups are pointing out that growing transgenic rice will have serious environmental side-effects. There are two basic types of GMO crops ("herbicide-tolerant" and "insect-resistant"), and in many cases both are using more herbicides and exposing the environment to more insecticides than conventional crops. A recent study in Britain found that herbicide-tolerant crops lower insect populations and harm biodiversity. Through cross-pollination and natural selection (driven by heavy doses of herbicides), the planting of herbicide-tolerant crops can lead to the creation of so-called superweeds that are resistant to one or more herbicides. And insect-resistant crops can create resistance to commonly used pesticides in the insects they target, as well as harm beneficial insects.
One group that is actively engaged in educating both the regulators and the general public is Californians for GE-Free Agriculture, a coalition of farmer, environmental, and consumer groups. Their campaign coordinator, Renata Brillinger, says that as important as the environmental issues are, she thinks the economic issues will determine whether GMO rice will be grown in California. Brillinger points out that the industry would be taking a big risk by approving transgenic rice, because California rice is sold to discerning domestic customers who do not want GMOs and is shipped to Asian markets that have already rejected GMOs. Brillinger points out that there are no real agronomic benefits to transgenic rice, and the farmers who are getting a premium for their rice are going organic, not transgenic. And, she asks, what would be the benefit for the few farmers who might grow biopharmed rice, given the enormous risks to the environment and food supply? The key consideration, she says, is that, as with any GMO crop, "contamination of the food supply is virtually inevitable"-and that is a risk the rice industry can't afford.
A Solution in Search of a Problem?
What about consumers? When they have a choice, they reject GMOs. Why would they want biopharmaceutical GMOs? The proteins Ventria Bioscience grows in their transgenic rice are recombinant plant-produced proteins, which, as explained earlier, are already available in their natural form. Even if Ventria could prove that their plant-based recombinant genes were as useful as the natural proteins are-and that is still an open question-there is no good reason why a mother would pay the higher price, and take the extra risk, of feeding her baby transgenic infant formula.
Experts like Bill Freese of FOE and Michael Hanson of the Consumers Union question whether biopharming can produce as promised. They are concerned with the different ways that plants, as opposed to animals, produce proteins. And if that issue does not cause regulators to pause, then they point out that biopharmaceuticals in foods have enormous potential for causing catastrophic human health problems. These recombinant proteins are likely to contain allergens, particularly dangerous for infants. Does Ventria Bioscience really intend to use their products in infant formula? Or are they actually aiming at the far more lucrative, and far less regulated, poultry feed market? You would think that biopharmaceutical companies would question the wisdom of producing a crop that poses so many dangers and that customers wouldn't want. Instead, like the ducks rushing to find a place to ride out the rain, Ventria seems to be hunkering down, weathering the storms of protest around it.
Are biopharmaceuticals in food another extremely expensive biotechnological fix for third-world problems that we already know how to solve, like treating infant diarrhea? Is agriculture now going to be used as a public health tool without public debate or any process that compares its risks and benefits with existing, and perhaps less expensive and more socially acceptable, means? And, in the final analysis, isn't there something just fundamentally creepy, if not unethical, about putting patented human genes into a food crop?
It's unlikely that the CRC will complete its review in time for Ventria to commercialize their rice this year. Time will tell if the CRC process, and the state rulemaking that will follow, will result in effective containment or elimination of the risks posed by biopharmed and transgenic rice. As of early 2004, the APHIS field test database lists 190 permits for release of transgenic rice into the environment in California. Ventria has been issued 12 APHIS field test permits for GMO rice, seven of them for California. The other five are for Hawaii, the state with the most biopharming and transgenic seed production. But compared to California, Hawaii has much weaker regulatory oversight and a much more vulnerable environment. It is also home to some of the most endangered biodiversity in the world.
Last winter was the centennial of the National Wildlife Refuge system, created by President Theodore Roosevelt in March 1903. Not long after that, the United States signed the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. And throughout the 20th century, while development and agriculture took their toll, efforts to protect wildlife continued. Even the rice industry began to balance production with conservation. As a result of all these efforts, our covenant with migratory birds-that they would return each year as long as we left them something to eat and a decent place to rest-seems to be holding.
While I was visiting the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, and listening to the gabble of the returning geese, I was thinking about Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring. She documented the damage being done to birds by chemicals, and in the following decades the public responded to her work with robust environmental laws. Today, we are still dealing with pesticides, which Carson called "weapons against nature." And we are contending with new weapons against nature: transgenic crops, and the even more frightening biopharmaceutical crops. As a result, birds and people alike are unwittingly consuming both toxic chemicals and GMOs. Given how little we know about the impacts of GMOs, that means we are all participating in a vast, uncontrolled genetic experiment.
Carson's fears that chemical contamination would hush the voices of the natural world were well founded. Now we need to know how genetic contamination will affect birds, the environment, and even ourselves. But because of a compromised governmental role and an industry backlash against environmental regulation, the studies that would address these questions are not being done. Today, compared to the rise of the environmental movement 40 years ago, there is almost no public clamor calling for new laws and insisting that scientists working in the public interest address the impacts of genetic contamination. This subdued nature of public protest, this political quiescence, particularly in the face of so much that is threatening an increasingly vulnerable natural world, is, perhaps, a far more perilous silence.
Claire Hope Cummings is an environmental journalist. She combines her writing with her farming interests, which have included rice farming and processing in both California and Vietnam. She practiced environmental law for 20 years and for four years was an attorney with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


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London in the 1960s was as central to the look and feel of that fabled era as any place on earth. The music that emerged from England (the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Cream and countless others) was, in large part, the soundtrack of the Sixties. The street scenes, especially along Carnaby Street in Soho, with Mods and hippies parading their utterly distinctive gear, provided youth culture around the world with exemplars of cool that are still embraced today.
Finally, the fashions that emerged from London, as well as the models who made those fashions both hip and famous, still echo through pop culture. Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree and, of course, the extraordinary woman known as Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby) were, for several years in the mid-1960s, the heavily made-up faces of Swinging London itself.
Today, Twiggy remains not only a fashion touchstone—with any slim young thing who sports short hair and liberal eye shadow inevitably pegged as "Twiggy-like"—but has also, incredibly, managed to stay relevant and productive for decades. Rather than simply and endlessly recycling the elements of her appeal that made her famous in the first place, Hornby went on to act in films and on stage (not just in set pieces, but in classic plays by heavyweights like Shaw and Noel Coward); recorded—and continues to record—as a singer; appeared on TV shows (like all great stars, for example, she took a turn on The Muppets); and wrote several books, including a well-received autobiography.
It sometimes astonishes people—or people outside the UK, at least—to learn that the skinny, blonde, mop-topped, teenaged model who took the fashion world by storm in the Sixties actually survived those crazy years, grew up and, incredibly, is still around.
Here, on Twiggy's 65rd birthday, LIFE.com celebrates her career and her enduring style with a series of rare pictures—shot in California for a feature that never appeared in the magazine—by long-time LIFE photographer Ralph Crane. Captured at the very height of her fame as one of the first-ever supermodels, and during her first visit to the U.S. when she was all of 18 years old, the Twiggy in most of these pictures seems remarkably cool and sophisticated for one so young. (Perhaps not surprising, considering that she'd been one of the most famous figures—and had one of the most famous figures—in the world for the previous whirlwind year.)
In other shots, meanwhile, she looks refreshingly like a teen who is still thrilled that her life has taken her to these sorts of places, with these sorts of people. There are other Sixties icons here, after all—Sonny and Cher, for example, and Steve McQueen (wearing a shearling coat in the Beverly Hills sun, and somehow looking cool doing it).
Throughout it all, the vibe of all of these photos is distinctly, unmistakably that of the Sixties—specifically, that brief period in 1966 and 1967, before MLK and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, before Altamont, before the Manson family murders, before the decade died out entirely, when people might have been able to convince themselves that the Age of Aquarius was really just around the corner. Or, if not the Age of Aquarius, then at least a pretty groovy garden party at a mansion in Beverly Hills.


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Some Catholic writers claim that it was not until 1890 that the Roman Catholic Church repudiated slavery. A British priest has charged that this did not occur until 1965. Nonsense!
As early as the seventh century, Saint Bathilde (wife of King Clovis II) became famous for her campaign to stop slave-trading and free all slaves; in 851 Saint Anskar began his efforts to halt the Viking slave trade. That the Church willingly baptized slaves was claimed as proof that they had souls, and soon both kings and bishops—including William the Conqueror (1027-1087) and Saints Wulfstan (1009-1095) and Anselm (1033-1109)—forbade the enslavement of Christians.
Since, except for small settlements of Jews, and the Vikings in the north, everyone was at least nominally a Christian, that effectively abolished slavery in medieval Europe, except at the southern and eastern interfaces with Islam where both sides enslaved one another's prisoners. But even this was sometimes condemned: in the tenth century, bishops in Venice did public penance for past involvement in the Moorish slave trade and sought to prevent all Venetians from involvement in slavery. Then, in the thirteenth century, Saint Thomas Aquinas deduced that slavery was a sin, and a series of popes upheld his position, beginning in 1435 and culminating in three major pronouncements against slavery by Pope Paul III in 1537.
It is significant that in Aquinas's day, slavery was a thing of the past or of distant lands. Consequently, he gave very little attention to the subject per se, paying more attention to serfdom, which he held to be repugnant.
However, in his overall analysis of morality in human relationships, Aquinas placed slavery in opposition to natural law, deducing ...1
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Scientists' work improves odds of finding diamonds
While prospectors and geologists have been successful in finding diamonds through diligent searching, one University of Houston professor and his team's work could help improve the odds by focusing future searches in particular areas.
Kevin Burke, professor of geology and tectonics at UH, and his fellow researchers describe these findings in a paper titled "Diamonds Sampled by Plumes from the Core-Mantle Boundary," appearing July 15 in Nature, the weekly scientific research journal.
Burke's team found that kimberlites, which are rare volcanic rocks that include diamonds, owe their origin to occasional pulses of hot mantle rock - called mantle plumes - that have risen through the entire thickness of the Earth's mantle from deep down next to the core, or innermost part, of the planet. This core/mantle boundary lies at a depth of about 2,000 miles. While the idea there might be mantle plumes rising from the core/mantle boundary was first suggested about 40 years ago, it is only within the past few years that evidence of plumes coming all the way from this boundary to the Earth's surface has been clearly demonstrated by Burke's group.
"Our approach is new, because it combines observations of the Earth's deep interior from seismology with evidence of how tectonic plates have moved about on the Earth's surface during the past 500 million years," Burke said. "I have been interested in mantle plumes from the core/mantle boundary since they were first hypothesized in 1971. About 10 years ago, I realized there might be a link between the seismically defined structure at the core/mantle boundary and volcanic rocks at the Earth's surface that had been suggested to be linked to mantle plumes. I immediately realized how the existence of that link could be tested, and it was then that I came in contact with Trond Torsvik in Norway, who proved to be uniquely qualified to carry out the required tests."
Torsvik, a professor at the University of Oslo in Norway, and Burke developed the conceptual ideas for this research. Additional members of the team were Bernhard Steinberger at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam in Germany, and Lew Ashwal and Sue Webb from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The research consisted of applying and interpreting the results of mathematical analysis, much of it applying spherical geometry to the Earth's surface, to publicly available data-sets put together mainly by Ashwal, Webb and Torsvik.
The present structure of the Earth's mantle has been increasingly understood by researchers in seismology during the past 25 years, and Burke and his colleagues' work has helped confirm the seismologists' results. The work of the Burke group, however, also describes the structure as it was in the past, revealing the history of deep mantle structure over the geologically long period of 500 million years. That, Burke said, is new.
"Establishing the history of deep mantle structure has shown, unexpectedly, that two large volumes lying just above the core/mantle boundary have been stable in their present positions for the past 500 million years," he said. "The reason this result was not expected is that those of us who study the Earth's deep interior have assumed that, although the deep mantle is solid, the material making it up would all be in motion all the time, because the deep mantle is so hot and under such high pressure from the weight of rock above it."
As for how this improves the odds of finding these precious gems, Burke explained that geologists interested in diamonds have known for more than 50 years that rare diamond-bearing kimberlite volcanic rocks are highly concentrated in ancient cratons within areas of the Earth's continents. This has concentrated the search for diamond-bearing rocks within an area amounting to no more than about 10 percent of the entire area of the world's continents. The new work has shown that most of the kimberlites have been erupted into one or the other of those old cratons only under certain conditions. These findings will enable the search for diamonds to be further concentrated.
Ultimately aiming for a better integrated understanding of how the solid Earth of the crust and mantle works, the group hopes to obtain further results within months. They hope to better establish how plate motions at the Earth's surface have evolved over the last 500 million years and how to work out just how those movements have related to both the stable and the moving parts of the Earth's mantle during the same interval.


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The London Spring 2013 Men's shows have just wrapped. Here's a look at the standout collections.
Topman Design
This season's Topman Design collection was, to say the least, fashion-forward. Rife with layered bright colors and prints — including neon — even the most daring of men may have second thoughts wearing the looks as styled on the runway. There was much to love when pieces were taken individually however, in particular cropped pants in a variety of monochrome hues, perforated blazers, and slouchy sweaters.
Pringle of Scotland
Alistair Carr leaves his post at Pringle of Scotland on a high note with a preppy-with-a-twist collection brimming with argyle. Printed over-the-knee shorts and collarless jackets also made a memorable impact.
Jonathan Saunders
Classically cut trousers, cardigans, and twin sets were given some drama thanks to bright colors and vibrant prints inspired by David Bowie in his Thin White Duke persona.
Joseph Abboud
The preppy dresser who wants to look effortlessly dapper need not look further than this season's Joseph Abboud collection which blended neutral tones with prints and pops of red for a variety of chic looks. The only hitch were the shirt collars, which in some cases were slightly too long, giving them a dated appearance.
Nicole Farhi
Over-the-knee shorts continued to make a strong play with a prominent place in the Nicole Farhi collection. Silhouettes were kept slender and a variety of textiles were used for a mixed texture effect that ran throughout the collection.
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Erica Ahlert-Smith, MD
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Erica Ahlert-Smith, MD is board certified in General Psychiatry. She worked for three years seeing students in the Department of Mental Health and Counseling at Yale University Health Services before moving into private practice. Currently she sees patients for psychotherapy, medication management, and consultation to other professionals. She specializes in treatment of adolescents and adults. She also teaches the Introduction to Psychotherapy lecture series to students at Yale School of Medicine.
Clinical interests include issues of depression, anxiety, grief, adjustment to school and college, coping with medical illness, children of divorce, attention/hyperactivity, impulse control, and pre/postnatal issues.
Dr. Ahlert-Smith is the recipient of the Connecticut Psychiatric Society Roger Coleman Memorial Award for Service to Patients (2013), AMA Rock Sleyster Memorial Scholarship in Psychiatry (2003), the American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology (2003), and the MUSC College of Medicine Dean's Award Full Tuition Scholarship (1999-2003).
Education & Training
- MDMedical University of South Carolina (2003)
- BSNorthwestern University, School of Speech (1995)
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Henry: Arsenal close to trophy glory
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Arsenal legend Thierry Henry still believes the Gunners can win a trophy this year, despite the debacle in Milan.
Henry will now return to New York Red Bulls as his loan has come to an end and Arsene Wenger was unable to convince the MLS side to extend it.
The Gunners face a tough trip to Sunderland tomorrow and the Arsenal goal scoring record holder believes a win at the Stadium of Light could spark a run to the final and the club's first trophy since 2005.
"This team is not far from winning something, we all know it," the Frenchman told the official Arsenal website.
"If you can win at Sunderland, you don't know how the draw is going to be. You might play at home next, then the semi-finals are around the corner."
Henry was optimistic about the effect on the north Londoners of the return to fitness of Jack Wilshere and Abou Diaby in the coming weeks.
The striker feels that Wilshere's importance to the team now and in the future cannot be underestimated, such is the importance of getting the young England midfielder back fit.
"You never know if Jack is going to come back and Abou Diaby is not far from coming back," he added.
"You don't know what could happen. If you are still in the competition then those players coming back will only help you find top form.
"Hopefully the team can stay in the competition, even though it will be tough at Sunderland. Jack, Abou, you want them around.
"Jack is going to be, hopefully for the Club, a talisman in years to come. He grew up an Arsenal fan so it is important to have a guy like that in the dressing room. We will see."
The game against the Black Cats takes place just a week after Arsenal were triumphant there in the Premier League.
Henry scored a last-gasp winner in that game after Aaron Ramsey had cancelled out James McLean's opener for the Mackems.
Per Mertesacker will be missing from the tie after he was ruled out for a lengthy period due to having reconstructive surgery on damaged ankle ligaments.News Now - Sport News


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