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Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for their sacred vows. They squatted side by side on the dirt, a crowd of village women holding sari cloth around them as a makeshift curtain, and poured soapy water from a metal pan over their heads. Two of the brides, the sisters Radha and Gora, were 15 and 13, old enough to understand what was happening. The third, their niece Rajani, was 5. She wore a pink T-shirt with a butterfly design on the shoulder. A grown-up helped her pull it off to bathe.
The grooms were en route from their own village, many miles away. No one could afford an elephant or the lavishly saddled horses that would have been ceremonially correct for the grooms' entrance to the wedding, so they were coming by car and were expected to arrive high-spirited and drunk. The only local person to have met the grooms was the father of the two oldest girls, a slender gray-haired farmer with a straight back and a drooping mustache. This farmer, whom I will call Mr. M, was both proud and wary as he surveyed guests funneling up the rocky path toward the bright silks draped over poles for shade; he knew that if a nonbribable police officer found out what was under way, the wedding might be interrupted mid-ceremony, bringing criminal arrests and lingering shame to his family.
Rajani was Mr. M's granddaughter, the child of his oldest married daughter. She had round brown eyes, a broad little nose, and skin the color of milk chocolate. She lived with her grandparents. Her mother had moved to her husband's village, as rural married Indian women are expected to do, and this husband, Rajani's father, was rumored to be a drinker and a bad farmer. The villagers said it was the grandfather, Mr. M, who loved Rajani most; you could see this in the way he had arranged a groom for her from the respectable family into which her aunt Radha was also being married. This way she would not be lonely after her gauna, the Indian ceremony that marks the physical transfer of a bride from her childhood family to her husband's. When Indian girls are married as children, the gauna is supposed to take place after puberty, so Rajani would live for a few more years with her grandparents—and Mr. M had done well to protect this child in the meantime, the villagers said, by marking her publicly as married.
These were things we learned in a Rajasthan village during Akha Teej, a festival that takes place during the hottest months of spring, just before the monsoon rains, and that is considered an auspicious time for weddings. We stared miserably at the 5-year-old Rajani as it became clear that the small girl in the T-shirt, padding around barefoot and holding the pink plastic sunglasses someone had given her, was also to be one of the midnight ceremony's brides. The man who had led us to the village, a cousin to Mr. M, had advised us only that a wedding was planned for two teenage sisters. That in itself was risky to disclose, as in India girls may not legally marry before age 18. But the techniques used to encourage the overlooking of illegal weddings —neighborly conspiracy, appeals to family honor—are more easily managed when the betrothed girls have at least reached puberty. The littlest daughters tend to be added on discreetly, their names kept off the invitations, the unannounced second or third bride at their own weddings.
Rajani fell asleep before the ceremonials began. An uncle lifted her gently from her cot, hoisted her over one of his shoulders, and carried her in the moonlight toward the Hindu priest and the smoke of the sacred fire and the guests on plastic chairs and her future husband, a ten-year-old boy with a golden turban on his head.
The outsider's impulse toward child bride rescue scenarios can be overwhelming: Snatch up the girl, punch out the nearby adults, and run. Just make it stop. Above my desk, I have taped to the wall a photograph of Rajani on her wedding night. In the picture it's dusk, six hours before the marriage ceremony, and her face is turned toward the camera, her eyes wide and untroubled, with the beginnings of a smile. I remember my own rescue fantasies roiling that night—not solely for Rajani, whom I could have slung over my own shoulder and carried away alone, but also for the 13- and the 15-year-old sisters who were being transferred like requisitioned goods, one family to another, because a group of adult males had arranged their futures for them.
The people who work full-time trying to prevent child marriage, and to improve women's lives in societies of rigid tradition, are the first to smack down the impertinent notion that anything about this endeavor is simple. Forced early marriage thrives to this day in many regions of the world—arranged by parents for their own children, often in defiance of national laws, and understood by whole communities as an appropriate way for a young woman to grow up when the alternatives, especially if they carry a risk of her losing her virginity to someone besides her husband, are unacceptable.
Child marriage spans continents, language, religion, caste. In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries with high early marriage rates, the husbands may be young men or middle-aged widowers or abductors who rape first and claim their victims as wives afterward, as is the practice in certain regions of Ethiopia. Some of these marriages are business transactions, barely adorned with additional rationale: a debt cleared in exchange for an 8-year-old bride; a family feud resolved by the delivery of a virginal 12-year-old cousin. Those, when they happen to surface publicly, make for clear and outrage-inducing news fodder from great distances away. The 2008 drama of Nujood Ali, the 10-year-old Yemeni girl who found her way alone to an urban courthouse to request a divorce from the man in his 30s her father had forced her to marry, generated worldwide headlines and more recently a book, translated into 30 languages: I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced.
But inside a few of the communities in which parent-arranged early marriage is common practice—amid the women of Rajani's settlement, for example, listening to the mournful sound of their songs to the bathing brides—it feels infinitely more difficult to isolate the nature of the wrongs being perpetrated against these girls. Their educations will be truncated not only by marriage but also by rural school systems, which may offer a nearby school only through fifth grade; beyond that, there's the daily bus ride to town, amid crowded-in, predatory men. The middle school at the end of the bus ride may have no private indoor bathroom in which an adolescent girl can attend to her sanitary needs. And schooling costs money, which a practical family is surely guarding most carefully for sons, with their more readily measurable worth. In India, where by long-standing practice most new wives leave home to move in with their husbands' families, the Hindi term paraya dhan refers to daughters still living with their own parents. Its literal meaning is "someone else's wealth."
Remember this too: The very idea that young women have a right to select their own partners—that choosing whom to marry and where to live ought to be personal decisions, based on love and individual will—is still regarded in some parts of the world as misguided foolishness. Throughout much of India, for example, a majority of marriages are still arranged by parents. Strong marriage is regarded as the union of two families, not two individuals. This calls for careful negotiation by multiple elders, it is believed, not by young people following transient impulses of the heart.
So in communities of pressing poverty, where nonvirgins are considered ruined for marriage and generations of ancestors have proceeded in exactly this fashion—where grandmothers and great-aunts are urging the marriages forward, in fact, insisting, I did it this way and so shall she—it's possible to see how the most dedicated anti-child -marriage campaigner might hesitate, trying to fathom where to begin. "One of our workers had a father turn to him, in frustration," says Sreela Das Gupta, a New Delhi health specialist who previously worked for the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), one of several global nonprofits working actively against early marriage. "This father said, 'If I am willing to get my daughter married late, will you take responsibility for her protection?' The worker came back to us and said, 'What am I supposed to tell him if she gets raped at 14?' These are questions we don't have answers to."


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....yet the NHB spent 2.5 MILLION DOLLARS co-promoting The Bee Movie as an educational film (where the girls tittered about, bees drove cars in the hive, and male bees harvest pollen with guns).
The industry has means....where is the will?
....yet the NHB spent 2.5 MILLION DOLLARS co-promoting The Bee Movie as an educational film (where the girls tittered about, bees drove cars in the hive, and male bees harvest pollen with guns).
The industry has means....where is the will?
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Other times I can barely see. -The Grateful Dead
I sure someone like you would have a tasting at one of the area groceries. At best, two chain groceries stock Virginia honey that tastes and appears like bulk package stuff. People buy honey thinking they're getting something they may or may not be.
The will to do what Dean? Educate over 300 million people about honey granulation with a budget that would be petty cash to McDonalds or InBev? Those packers that care about purity started TrueSource. It was started by packers committed to integrity who were tired of being underbid by the purveyors of rice syrup honey blends yet I even hear them getting bashed for selling honey that's not "real" simply because they are giving the consumer what they demand. I wish it was a simple task to educate a whole nation but it just isn't.
Well, if beekeepers and the whole beekeeping industry isn't willing to do it, it will never happen.
OTOH, beekeepers are willing to "educate" the nation that "local honey is good for your allergies" (apparently spring honey from area X helps with fall allergies in area X even though there is no common pollen content between the seasons....but honey from area Y is ineffective). If that kind of energy were spent (and note, this is not something that a lot of money gets spent promoting) regarding honey crystallization, a noticeable effect would be achieved.
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I will do my part, you no doubt will do yours but the ignorance out there about honey is overwhelming. I can't even count how many times through the years I have had people tell me about the jar of honey they bought that spoiled even though it was kept in the refrigerator. But this is a nation where disclaimers are put on Viagra ads warning that their product doesn't protect against std's. good luck with a nationwide honey granulation lecture.
Goal or bottom line:...Selling imported honey in the United States of America and making profit.
Changing the definition of honey, redefining processing techniques, PR for the consumer to accept honey that looks and tastes like corn syrup, is all for that goal.
For the pitiful domestic beekeeper producer who does not add diatomaceous earth to their honey in preparation for removal of nasties like pollen, you are just bottling some quaint, uncouth product. Perhaps you will have to warn consumers that it contains allergic material.
If the Honey Board were really interested in representing the domestic producer, they would educate the consumer about "real" honey, not how they should accept processed, imported honey.
With regard to consumer education about honey, the California Milk Board alone spends $25-30 million dollars a year on milk advertising. Wisconsin spends a similar amount. Add in other diary states, and the Feds, and you have spending well over $100 million dollars a year on milk "education".
It will take many buckets (perhaps even totes) of money to re-educate the average consumer to prefer granulated honey.
(I'd post sources for my numbers, but consolidated figures are hard to come by. But Google "milk advertising budget" if you want.)
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I am a bit "out of the mold" on the whole issue of imports. The US consumes around 400 million pounds each year, possibly even more. We produce around 150 million lbs. There are good people all over the world raising honey most of them small family owned businesses that includes many members here on Beesource. There are also greedy, dishonest folks trying to make some easy money importing a lot of stuff that isn't honey by any definition but is sold as such. I am in favor of importing legitimate honey as long as it passes testing protocols as being safe. Imports are not the problem it's the whole issue of honey authenticity.
Using an advertising model to perform education is not efficient. How much is spent in large advertising campaigns wrt local honey and allergies? How much was spent by the industry to bring the level of "CCD awareness" that we have today?
Generally, if something like the California milk board spends $25 million in advertising, it is mostly because they have a budget of 25million, not a demonstrated need for $25 million in advertising.
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Jim...are you saying that your crystallized honey is moldy?
Seriously though, I agree with Jim...focusing on quality (and purity) rather than country of origin is much more important.
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Proud to say, thanks to the hard work of Mr. Heatherly and Dr. Ambrose, NC now has a honey standard. See http://www.rtpnet.org/ncsba/Honey%20Standard.pdf. We've made every effort in NC to education our bee product purchasers and always suggest to them that they know their beekeeper!
....these standares are always problematic. For instance, from the one posted above:
The sucroe content of honey must not be more than 5 grams per 100 grams of the product unless the honey is labeled as a particular floral source. In that case the sucrose content may be higher, if it is properly labeled as to floral source.
The above is both too specific and not specific enough. It is absurd that the same honey would qualify as legit with a high sucrose content as a specific floral source, and not legit if it were labeled as wildflower honey.
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My opinion, if you start with honey going in, filtering etc....., you get honey out as long as you're not adding anything. Removing pollen meets a demand and produces a product for a specific market, just label it as such. Personally I hate granulated honey, it's hard to work with, especially if it's a large crystal granulation. A fine granulation is ok though, but again, when I'm in the kitchen the last thing I want to do is fight a bottle of honey for it's contents. Perhaps it's more of a packaging thing, really hard to get into those little mouth containers to scoop out granulated honey, which is why I stick to jars for mine.
I believe it's 3 floral sources that will not granulate. Tupelo (I think white tupelo specifically) being one of them, another is a tropical flower I believe, can't recall the 3rd. In the end, the glucose to fructose ratio is what drives the process, but other factors can speed it along, solids etc... that act as crystallization points (i.e pollen, wax, bee parts). The information is out there but it seems no one really wants to pursue it. Even with threads on this forum, a lot of people here do not know what drives crystallization, and a lot of people just think it's a byproduct of 'raw' honey.
"Several states are in the process of passing laws or regulations establishing a legal definition of honey because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ignored repeated requests to do so. A legal definition could result in a ban on the sale of honey where the pollen has been removed."
From the new article (February 2013): Honey laundering: fraud on the shelves?
I am sorry, but if the bees make honey and some pollen is in it, it SHOULD be left in it. Remove the pollen, and it is no longer honey, but rather "Depollened honey" and should be labeled as such. If I removed the great smell of VSOP cognac, would be worth less? I did not remove much, just a little.
As to those that don't like large crystalled honey, buy honey with the pollen not removed, the pollen grains help to seed the crystals and make a smaller crystal.
I am not sold o Truessource. They count honeydew as honey.They Do however look for pollen, but only have one accredited lab that they work with, hmmmmmm. They should rather define the lab procedure, and let any accredited lab perform the procedure. Sounds like there will be a market in China for foreign pollen.
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So far I have seen no links to any "Tests [which] Show Most Honey Isn't Honey". Where are the Links.
Mark Berninghausen
I guess the source is in original post (I did not check):
•100 percent of the honey packaged in the small individual service portions from Smucker, McDonald's and KFC had the pollen removed. "
From: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/1.../#.UQ1sbh3m1n5
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It says that the pollen was removed. It didn't say that it isn't honey. The pollen was removed from the honey. If you remove pollen from honey, what remains? Honey, right? Therefore, I think his Thread Title is a misstatement, an inaccurate statement of facts.
Mark Berninghausen
I fully agree Mark.
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Alex Chiasson also scored for Dallas.
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03 Dec 2012 20:41
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon. (AFP)
The United Nations said on Monday it was suspending its aid operations in Syria and withdrawing all non-essential international staff due to the worsening security situation.
Up to 25 of about 100 foreign staff could leave this week, it said, adding that more armoured vehicles were needed after attacks in recent weeks on humanitarian aid convoys and the hijacking of goods or vehicles.
Some convoys had been caught in crossfire between Syrian government and rebel forces, including an incident near the airport in which two staff were injured, it said. "We can confirm that the United Nations in Syria will pull out non-essential international personnel with immediate effect," UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Martin Nesirky told reporters.
"The UN will also suspend its missions within the country until further notice," he said in New York.
In all, the world body deploys more than 1 000 national and international staff in Syria, but movement and communications have become more difficult due to intensified fighting near the capital and a 48-hour internet blackout last week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
Some UN agencies are relocating staff from the northern town of Aleppo, which rebels are battling to control, it said.
"My understanding is that international staff will be going to Jordan," a UN source in Geneva told Reuters.
Damascus had been considered "quite safe" until last week when the main airport was shut down and flights into Syria cancelled after several attacks by rebels, OCHA said.
"The situation is significantly changing," said Sabir Mughal, the UN's chief security adviser in Syria.
Mortars and shoot-outs
For two-thirds of the month of November, UN security considered many main routes in the country unsafe for travel or there was not enough information to send staff on field trips with confidence, OCHA said on its news service www.irinnews.org.
"Mortars have landed and shoot-outs have taken place just steps away from UN offices; shelling can be heard on an hourly basis both from their offices and places of residence," it said.
Eight UN staff have been killed along with seven volunteers of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent during the 20-month-old conflict, which has claimed more than 40 000 lives.
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has been supplying food rations to up to 1.5-million people in Syria, many of them forced to flee their homes due to fighting.
The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) is providing assistance to families and helping to repair water and sanitation systems, while the World Health Organisation (WHO) is delivering medical aid to hospitals and clinics. The UN refugee agency has supplied winter blankets and clothing to some of the more than 1.2-million displaced within Syria, including in the flashpoint city of Homs last week, and to the 465 000 refugees registered in neighbouring countries.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is continuing operations "per usual", Geneva spokesperson Alexis Heeb said.
The independent humanitarian agency - whose aid workers do not travel in armoured vehicles - stopped using the airport road months ago, considering it unsafe, he said.
"We're going ahead with distributions as usual, including a new water project," Heeb told Reuters on Monday evening. – Reuters
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Welcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of A Girl and Her Books. The host for July's Mailbox Monday posts will be Mrs Q: Book Addict.
Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs.
Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
After a couple of slow weeks in my mailbox, this week has been great! I also went shopping at my library bookstore, and got 3 books to add to my overflowing book collection.
Hocus Pocus Hotel by Michael Dahl from Capstone Publishing – I won this one, signed by the author! Releases Aug 1, 2012
"Ever since it was built by the great magician Abracadabra, the hotel Tyler Yu lives in has had its share of mysterious events. Ghosts wandering the halls, a magician who vanishes into thin air – Ty can't figure these things out on his own. But Charlie Hitchcock, with his photographic memory, might be just the partner the school bully needs."
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase, First Mate (bought at the Library Bookstore)
"On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open boats. Without charts, alone on the open seas, and thousands of miles from any known land, the sailors began their terrifying journey of survival. Ninety days later, after much suffering and death by starvation, intense heat, and dehydration, only eight men survived to reach land. One of them was Owen Chase, first mate of the ill-fated ship, whose account of the long and perilous journey has become a classic of endurance and human courage. The elements of his tale inspired Herman Melville (who was born the year the Essex sank) to write the classic Moby Dick."
Tulipomania by Mike Dash (bought at the Library Bookstore) – I'm not usually a big history genre reader, but this book seemed really interesting to me.
"In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike. For almost a year rare bulbs changed hands for incredible and ever-increasing sums, until single flowers were being sold for more than the cost of a house."
The Little Sparrow: The Orphan Train Trilogy by Al & Joanna Lacy (bought from the Library Bookstore)
"Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, who cannot bear to see innocent children abandoned in the overpopulated cities of the mid-nineteenth-century."
On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves from Plume (a Penguin Imprint) – Releases July 10, 2012
"Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure. Worn down by the cold Chicago winters and a relationship that's going nowhere, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T.J. T.J. Callahan has no desire to go anywhere. His cancer is in remission and he wants to get back to his normal life. But his parents are insisting he spend the summer in the Maldives catching up on all the school he missed last year. Anna and T.J. board a private plane headed to the Callahan's summer home, and as they fly over the Maldives' twelve hundred islands, the unthinkable happens. Their plane crashes in shark-infested waters. They make it to shore, but soon discover that they're stranded on an uninhabited island. At first, their only thought is survival. But as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return."
Falling in Love With Joseph Smith by Jane Barnes – a win from Shelf Awareness – Releases Aug. 16, 2012
"When award-winning documentary film writer Jane Barnes was working on the PBS Frontline/American Experience special series The Mormons, she was surprised to find herself passionately drawn to Joseph Smith. The product of an Episcopalian, "WASPy" family, she couldn't remember ever having met a Mormon before her work on the series—much less having dallied with the idea of converting to a religion shrouded in controversy. But so it was: She was smitten with a man who claimed to have translated the word of God by peering into the dark of his hat.
"Tama Kieves, Harvard-lawyer-turned-career-coach, has spent the last decade crossing the United States and Canada, speaking to tens of thousands of people and sharing her inspiring story of moving from a career that was killing her to a life that has uplifted her, chronicled in her first book, This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love. She has mentored thousands of people who, with her help, have followed their passion, and now live their dream lives. And now she takes us to the next step in our journey…
Within you is your purpose—your destiny—that will lead you to your greatest fulfillment, and your greatest success. What Kieves discovered in her own journey is that the way to success is an inspired path, not a linear one. She brings her mentoring ideas and actions together in her latest work, Inspired and Unstoppable. In this motivating book, Kieves teaches that it is only in unleashing this purpose that you can become truly happy and satisfied."
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter from Alfred Knopf – Releases July 10, 2012
I have to say, I was so SO excited when I got the email saying that I was receiving this book – I'm a big fan of President Lincoln, and I love the premise of this book – what might have happened if he survived the bullet wound.
"Stephen L. Carter's thrilling new novel takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority, both during and after the Civil War, and faces an impeachment trial . . .
Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young black woman with a degree from Oberlin, a letter of employment from the law firm that has undertaken Lincoln's defense, and the iron-strong conviction, learned from her late mother, that "whatever limitations society might place on ordinary negroes, they would never apply to her." And so Abigail embarks on a life that defies the norms of every stratum of Washington society: working side by side with a white clerk, meeting the great and powerful of the nation, including the president himself. But when Lincoln's lead counsel is found brutally murdered on the eve of the trial, Abigail is plunged into a treacherous web of intrigue and conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the divided government."
The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields from Viking. Releases Aug. 2, 2012
"When at the age of forty-five, Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and is at last opened to the world of the sensual, it threatens everything certain in her life but especially her abiding friendship with Anna. As Edith's marriage crumbles and Anna's disapproval threatens to shatter their lifelong bond, the women must face the fragility at the heart of all friendships.
Told through the points of view of both women, The Age of Desire takes us on a vivid journey through Wharton's early Gilded Age world: Paris with its glamorous literary salons and dark secret cafés, the Whartons' elegant house in Lenox, Massachusetts, and Henry James's manse in Rye, England."
I also got several Kindle books, but this list is already quite long, so I'll stop with the print books. 🙂
What new books came into your home this week?


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TUSCALOOSA | A proposed student housing development on the site of the former Riverview Water Treatment plant gained unanimous approval Monday for a rezoning, a subdivision realignment and the vacating of an unused street. It failed, however, to gain the city's Planning and Zoning Commission's blessing for the site plans as drawn under the stringent Riverfront Zoning, which requires at least six commissioners to vote to approve.
TUSCALOOSA | A proposed student housing development on the site of the former Riverview Water Treatment plant gained unanimous approval Monday for a rezoning, a subdivision realignment and the vacating of an unused street.
It failed, however, to gain the city's Planning and Zoning Commission's blessing for the site plans as drawn under the stringent Riverfront Zoning, which requires at least six commissioners to vote to approve.
The Riverfront Zoning petition failed 5-3, with Commissioners Easty Lambert-Brown, Chad Christian and Steven Rumsey voting against it.
Campus Crest Development, the company behind the 228-unit, 628-bed complex off Fifth Street Northeast, now goes before the City Council for approval on the rezoning of a .04-acre tract within the 15.86-acre site and the Riverfront Zoning approval.
Only one city resident spoke against the development, called The Grove at Tuscaloosa, and two others asked questions regarding building proximity to existing homes, noise, parking and traffic.
Representatives for Campus Crest Development addressed these concerns and left many of the commissioners saying that a student-
housing complex is ideal for this location.
"This is the right location for student housing," said Alex Eyssen, director of development for the Charlotte, N.C.-based development company. "This is the right time and this is the right project."
The primary topic debated by commissioners was the proposed parking plan, which calls for about 525 spaces for the 628 bedrooms.
Rumsey, the commission chairman, questioned whether the parking would be enough to accommodate the tenants where bedrooms likely will rent for at least $600.
Eyssen, however, said that an audit of several of the 81 student-based properties owned or operated by Campus Crest Development nationwide showed that this number of spaces will be adequate and speculated that many will remain empty.
"We find that every resident does not have a car ...," Eyssen said. "(Parking) is not something we take lightly.
"We think this is the right number."
Developer Bill Trick, who is selling the tract to Campus Crest Development, said that his student rental properties, such as The Bluffs at Waterworks, located nearby, never have all of their parking spaces full.
And Andy Turner, property manager for Midtown Village, said the top floors of both parking decks that were built for the project's residential tenants are always empty.
"What we've created," Trick said, "is a sea of asphalt. And it's ugly."
Lambert-Brown was the only commission member to question the necessity of the project in light of the new student-housing task force formed last month by Mayor Walt Maddox.
The purpose of the task force, according to the mayoral executive order, is to evaluate the "current and future student rental housing markets in Tuscaloosa, especially in regard to whether the market is becoming overly saturated, and whether the city can or should take measures to address housing needs."
Other goals of the group are to look at planning, land use, zoning or other regulations that can allow for an orderly development of student housing as well as infrastructure upgrades or improvements that will be needed to accommodate the growth in student-based apartment complexes.
"I think this project is a bit premature, in light of that study," Lambert-Brown said.
But Robert Reynolds, the commission's co-chairman, countered:
"If they're willing to make this kind of investment, that's encouraging to me. I just don't see any other use for the property."
Rumsey said he doesn't see the project as dead.
"This site is perhaps one of the best for student housing due to its proximity to the university and the fact there are no negative impacts on adjoining property owners," he said. "With some tweaking of their parking and aesthetics, I could and would wholeheartedly support this petition."
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by Rob Cox, January 12, 2010
Frost Heave on a Concrete Pool Deck
Our last blog post on what to do with Frozen Pool Equipment encited a lot of responses from worried homeowners. I got several comments about busted heat exchangers and locked up pool pumps. One reader sent in questions about his deck suddenly raising up. Where it once was level with the pool coping, as it should be, it was now about 1/2" higher in one area. See photo of John's trouble below. He was especially upset at the time, being that he had just spent $10,000 for a new pool deck about 3 years ago.
I told John that chances are the deck will settle back into place after the weather turns - but "perhaps not". Hard to see in the picture, but the caulking has ripped and this section will need to be recaulked once the weather permits. In fact, my first question to John was "Did you have the caulking in place between the deck and the coping?" This is one reason to have a good caulking joint, to keep out the water that can erode the soil under the deck, and which can freeze, expand with such force, that it will lift up a concrete slab.
The photo at the top of the page is obviously a summertime photo. The problem here is not Frost Heave, but a problem with expansive clay soils used beneath the deck, which when wetted excessively, have incredible lifting power. John may also have a bit of marine clay or other expansive type soil beneath his deck, which more than soaks up water, they are actually electrically attracted to each other.
A third type of situation occurs when loose fill is used beneath the pool deck, especially where the ground slopes off near the edge of the concrete. A little "soil slip" and a little erosion, and you'll find the rear of the slab drops down, and the front of the slab raises up. This is not really heave at all, but a settling and slipping of the fill dirt used beneath the pool deck.
So what to do if your deck has done the 'ol heave ho? Not much you can do really. Just hope and pray that it settles down flush again. Usually it does. The caulking will need to be redone, but not much else can be done. Do consider the flow of water around the pool, does rain runoff come near this area? Redirecting runoff water can be helpful in preventing frost heave, to keep the soil beneath the deck drier.
If your pool deck is lower than the coping stone, a "sinking slab", you now have a potential trip hazard around the pool. To solve extreme slab sink, you can hire a team to come out and "slab jack", or pump a concrete mixture beneath the deck, although for small jobs removal and replacement will be cheaper. If your slab has settled only 1/2" or so, you can caulk the joint with an upward angle to reduce the potential for a trip and fall (and potential drowning) hazard.
John, thanks for a good blog topic. Pool ownership - it's always something!


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Matcha Ceremonial Green Tea is the tea that is used in the well-known Japanese tea ceremony which was established by Zen-master Sen-no-Rikyu in the 1570s. The tea ceremony follows four basic principles: Harmony (wa), Respect (kei), Purity (sei) and Tranquility (jaku).
Within the tea ceremony, every step, every movement, and every moment is accurately defined. The ceremony takes place in a specially designed room exclusive for the ceremony. It is exactly four and a half mats of space (one Tatami mat is 170 x 85 cm or ten square feet). The room itself is kept simplistic to enable the guests to focus only on the essence of the ceremony and tea. In the winter season, a Kama (iron kettle) is placed in a small opening in the floor of the tea room which is heated by charcoals. In earlier times, these utensils were a true work of art.
The host seats facing toward the tea bowl (Chawan), tea container (Natsume), a Matcha whisk (Chasen) and a bamboo scoop (Shaku). The arrangement also varies in season. Even the wood for the charcoal is meaningful because wooden charcoal maintains the ideal temperature for Matcha as it provides its own aroma. It is said that even the age of the wood is part of the conversation piece in the ceremony.
The ceremony itself follows strictly defined principles. As the guests enter the room, the host will start to prepare the Matcha, in slow but stern motions. From the first welcome to the last sip of tea, and even the light conversation after, it all holds meaning in this sacred ceremony.
But the most fascinating part of the tea ceremony is indeed the philosophy behind it all. In Japan, the tea ceremony is called "Chado" or "Sado." If you translate it, this means: the way of tea. Even the dignified old tea masters still consider themselves as students. For they say that 60 years of experience in "The Way of Tea," only means you are one step ahead in the journey.
As you can see, there is much history and much heritage behind the world of Matcha tea. For those, as ourselves, …Westerners… Matcha is but a recent discovery of our 21st century that adds one more layer of health and wellness that is now available to all.


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You can begin or end your hike at hundreds of places between the Appalachian Trail's northern and southern ends. Here's what to expect in Maryland.
The Appalachian Trail in Maryland follows a 40-mile route along the backbone of South Mountain, a north-south ridge that extends from Pennsylvania to the Potomac River. This state is steeped in Civil War history and home to the original Washington Monument. This section is great for three- or four-day trips, is easy by A.T. standards, and is a good place to find out if you're ready for more rugged parts of the Trail.
Camping is allowed only in designated overnight sites.Blazes on the C&O Towpath are infrequent. It's best to hike here mid-April through mid-June or September and October. The summer heat and humidity can occasionally be oppressive.
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Spaghetti benefit St. Clair Shores Eagles No. 3619 serves 'Homes for Our Troops' all-you-can eat spaghetti dinner, 2-8 p.m. April 12, at 23531 Greater Mack, St. Clair Shores. Tickets $10 per person, $7.50 ages 60 and older and children to age 12. No carryouts. Proceeds support the military.
Road Rally Photo Road Rally to benefit American Cancer Society, 5:30 p.m. check-in april 13, at VFW Hall, 8311 Wilson, north of 24 Mile Road east of Van Dyke, Shelby Township. Entry $20 per person, includes pizza, soft drinks and snacks. For reservation information, 586-781-8452.
Benefit concert A.J. Croce performs the songs made popular by his father Jim Croce in a 'Journey Home' benefit concert for MCREST, 8 p.m. April 13, at Warren Consolidated Schools Performing Arts Center, 12901 15 Mile Road, Sterling Heights. VIP seats $30, reserved $20; call 586-415-5101 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays, or go to www.mcrest.org.
Ladies Night Ladies Night Out at Erin Presbyterian Church, 30000 Gratiot, Roseville, 6-9 p.m. April 13. Event includes shopping, raffles, auction, vendors, crafters.
Euchre parties Ray Township Fire & Rescue Ladies Auxiliary present a euchre party, 6 p.m. April 13, play at 7 p.m., no partner required, at Wolcott Mill Camp Rotary, 20505 29 Mile Road, Ray Township, $15, includes pop, coffee, homemade desserts and other food, proceeds go to scholarships and helping others in the community; call 586-749-8464.
C4 Urban Outreach benefit euchre tournament, 6:30 p.m. April 19, at Total Sports, 40501 Production Drive, Harrison Township.
Town Hall Macomb Town Hall series continues April 16, with The Michael Davis Show presenting 'Music for the Ages.' Lecture-luncheon begins 11 a.m. (seating 10:15) at Ukrainian Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road, Warren. Proceeds benefit Macomb County students attending Oakland University. For ticket information, 586-779-3603 or 586-254-4493.
For singles Higher Faith Singles, age 35 and older, volleyball, $4, and games, $2, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Thursdays, September through May, at Warren Woods Christian School, 13 Mile Road east of Schoenherr, Warren. First Thursday potluck meal, 7 p.m. For information, 248-689-4713 ext. 401 or www.faithtroy.org.
VFW events VFW Post 7573 Ladies Night Out with dinner and vendors, 6 p.m., April 13, $10; car show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 9. Events take place at the post, 35011 23 Mile Road, New Baltimore. Call 586-725-7100.
Roseville history Roseville Historical and Genealogical Society program on '60 Years of Genealogy,' 6:30 p.m. April 16, in Erin Auditorium of Roseville Public Library. For details, 586-447-4560 or www.rosevillelibrary.org/rhgs.htm.
Gem show Macomb County/Mount Clemens Gem & Lapidary Society 37th Annual Gem, Mineral and Lapidary Show, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. April 20, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. April 21, at Roseville Recreation Center, 18185 Sycamore, north of Interstate 696 and east off Gratiot. Theme is 'Agates … Beauty, Color & Variety!' Admission $3 adults, $1 seniors, free 18 and younger, free to police, fire and military personnel, and Scouts in uniform. Call 586-468-2939 or www.mcgls.org.
'Jurassic Park' Universal Studio's 'Jurassic Park' celebrates 20th anniversary with showing at Henry Ford IMAX Theatre in Dearborn through April 18. For tickets and showtimes, 313-982-6001 or www.thehenryford.org.
Cultural Center New series at Lorenzo Cultural Center, 'The Gilded Age to the Great War: America at the Turn of the Century,' continues through May 5, at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on the Macomb Community College Center Campus, Garfield and Hall roads, Clinton Township. Free, registration required by calling 586-445-7348.
Warren libraries Miller Branch Library, 5460 Arden in Warren Community Center, hosts After School for Kids in grades 1-5, 4:30 p.m. Thursdays during the school year. For details and registration information, 586-751-5377.
On stage 'Revive America' family musical presented by Proclaim of Our Shepherd Lutheran Church, 8 p.m. April 12-13 at the church, 2225 E. 14 Mile Road, Birmingham, 248-646-6100 and 7 p.m. April 27, at St. John Lutheran Church, 1011 W. University Drive, Rochester Hills, 248-402-8060. Free-will offering; reception follows performances.
Clintondale Community Theatre presents 'The Wizard of Oz,' 7:30 p.m. April 11-13, 18-20, at Clintondale Community Auditorium, 15 Mile Road east of Little Mack between Gratiot and Groesbeck, Clinton Township. Tickets $8 advance, $10 at door; call 586-791-6300 ext. 2409.
Regina High school presents 'The Wizard of Oz,' 7 p.m. April 19 and 26, and 2 p.m. April 20 and 27, at the school, 13900 Masonic, Warren. Admission is $10 adults, $8 students and seniors.
St. Clair Shores Players present 'Glorious,' April 19-20, 26-27 at 31601 Harper, St. Clair Shores. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., curtain time 8 p.m. Tickets $10 adults, $9 seniors and students; visit www.scsplayers.org.
Studio Theatre on the Wayne State University campus presents 'Time Stands Still' by Donald Margulies, April 6, downstairs in the Hilberry Theatre, Cass and Hancock, Detroit. For tickets, $10-$12, 313-577-2972 or www.wsustudio.com.
Go Comedy! debuts original comedies 'AHOY!' and 'Boner and The Neudge' during April at the Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 Nine Mile Road, Ferndale. For schedule and ticket information, 248-327-0575 or www.gocomedy.
Rosedale Community Players perform comedy 'A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody,' 8 p.m. April 19-20, 26-27, May 3-4, 10-11, 2 p.m. April 21, 28, at Peace Lutheran Church, 17029 W. 13 Mile Road, Southfield. Tickets $14. For reservations, 313-532-4010 www.rosedalecommunityplayers.com.
Bloomfield Players present 'Oklahoma,' 7:30 p.m. April 12-13, 19-20, and 2 p.m. April 14 and 21, at the Lahser Theatre, 3456 Lahser Road, north of Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills. Reserved seating $15 adults, $12 students and ages 60 and older; visit www.Bloomfieldplayers.org.
Teen Actors of Ridgedale auditions for 'Once Upon a Mattress,' 12:30 p.m. April 20, at the group's theater, 205 W. Long Lake Road, Troy. Also, audition workshop noon-2 p.m. April 13 for 'Princess and the Pea.' Visit www.ridgedaleplayers.com.
Rose Society Grosse Pointe Rose Society free lecture on new flower annuals, perennials and roses, with tour of Eckert's nursery at 34075 Ryan Road, Sterling Heights, 10 a.m. April 20.
Chorus rehearsals St. Clair Shores Community Chorus, celebrating its 50th season, rehearses 7:30 p.m. Mondays at Triumphant Cross Lutheran Church, 22310 13 Mile Road, St. Clair Shores. For details on becoming a member, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Symphonia Chorale rehearsals for 19th season 7 p.m. Tuesdays at St. John Lutheran Church, 246 Benjamin St., Romeo. The season includes four concerts. Call 586-336-9816.
Dance lessons Beginner line dance and couples dancing lessons Tuesdays at Roseville Recreation Center, 18185 Sycamore, east of Gratiot, 6-6:50 p.m. basic line dancing, 8-8:50 p.m. couples, $30 for six weeks. Also, line dance classes 12:30-1:30 p.m. beginners, and 1-2:30 p.m. intermediate, Thursdays, $4 per lesson, at Warren Community Center, 5460 Arden off Mound Road. For details on any of the lessons, 586-777-7242 or email@example.com.
Shores Library St. Clair Shores Cultural Committee and the city's Public Library present 'Film Movement' featuring a recently released independent or foreign film, 6:30 p.m. third Thursday monthly at the library, 22500 11 Mile Road. At 1:30 p.m. Fridays, classic movies are shown in the library's William R. Gilstorf Meeting room. New release Thursdays feature recently released movies on DVD, 6:30 p.m. first Thursday monthly. For details call 586-771-9020 or visit www.scslibrary.org.
Toastmasters' Clubs Confident CommunicatorsToastmasters Club in Washington Township meets 7:45 a.m. first and third Wednesdays at Washington Township offices, 57900 Van Dyke, between 26 Mile and West roads. For details, www.confidentcommunicatorsclub.com.
Toastmasters Speak Easy Club of Shelby meets 10-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Saturdays monthly at Shelby Community Center, 51670 Van Dyke, north of 23 Mile Road. Call 586-623-9987 or 586-531-1289.
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Diamond Jubilee: Queen 'humbled' by celebrations
The Queen has called her Diamond Jubilee "a humbling experience", saying she had been "touched deeply" by seeing so many people celebrating together.
In a message to the nation, she thanked all those who organised the events.
Festivities culminated in an appearance by the senior royals on the Buckingham Palace balcony in front of huge crowds to watch an RAF flypast.
But the Queen's consort, Prince Philip, was absent from her side as he remains in hospital with a bladder infection.
The Earl and Countess of Wessex visited the Duke of Edinburgh on Tuesday afternoon .
Afterwards, Prince Edward said: "He's feeling better." The countess added: "He's in good spirits; he's on good form."
'Happy atmosphere'
The Queen's message was broadcast on television and radio across the UK and Commonwealth.
"The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience," she said.
"It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbours and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
"But Prince Philip and I want to take this opportunity to offer our special thanks and appreciation to all those who have had a hand in organising these Jubilee celebrations.
"It has been a massive challenge, and I am sure that everyone who has enjoyed these festive occasions realises how much work has been involved."
She added: "I hope that memories of all this year's happy events will brighten our lives for many years to come.
"I will continue to treasure and draw inspiration from the countless kindnesses shown to me in this country and throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you all."
Commonwealth leaders
The Queen will continue to mark her Diamond Jubilee on Wednesday after four days of public celebrations.
She will attend a lunch for the anniversary at Marlborough House in Pall Mall in central London with Commonwealth leaders, including prime ministers, governor generals and high commission representatives.
The Queen had been due to be accompanied at the event by the Duke of Edinburgh.
On Tuesday, the Queen attended a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral where Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams paid tribute to her "lifelong dedication" .
"I don't think it's at all fanciful to say that, in all her public engagements, our Queen has shown a quality of joy in the happiness of others," he said.
David Cameron, who gave a reading at the service , called her "a real inspiration".
"We have seen the country come together with a sense of celebration and unity but also tremendous resilience, resilience from people who want to celebrate despite the weather and resilience, of course, from Her Majesty - nothing stops her doing the job she does," the prime minister said.
US President Barack Obama was among those who paid tribute to her "60 extraordinary years".
In a specially recorded message he called the Queen "a steadfast ally, loyal friend and tireless leader" and said she had been "the chief source of resilience" for the unique alliance between his country and the UK throughout her reign.
In other Jubilee events on Tuesday:
- Crowds gathered from early morning to cheer the Queen on her journey from Buckingham Palace to St Paul's
- The congregation at the cathedral included a large representation from the government, military personnel and members of the royal household, alongside diplomats and foreign leaders
- After the service, the Queen attended a reception at nearby Mansion House - the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London
- The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry were at a similar event at the Guildhall
- All of the senior royals then enjoyed a lunch at Westminster Hall before embarking on a carriage procession through packed streets back to the palace
- The day ended in an appearance by the senior royals on the palace balcony to watch a flypast by World War II aircraft and the Red arrows
Other events during the extended Jubilee weekend included a star-studded concert outside Buckingham Palace on Monday night.
At the end the Queen came on to the stage to press a diamond-shaped crystal into a pod, igniting a beacon in The Mall to mark her 60 years on the throne. It was one of more than 4,000 lit across the UK and the Commonwealth.
On Sunday, about a thousand boats took part in the Diamond Jubilee Thames River Pageant , the first of its kind for 350 years.
See all the latest Diamond Jubilee news and features at bbc.co.uk/diamondjubilee


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"Murals of New York City: The Best of New York's Public Paintings from Bemelmans to Parrish"
(Rizzoli, $45)
"In their purest form, murals have the ability to tell stories," writes Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair. But as he also points out, there are plenty of stories behind each mural. And so this beautiful book combines gorgeous photography with the informative text of Glenn Palmer-Smith. Indeed, the stories behind the murals offer a mini-history of 20th-century American art.
The images are as lovely and impressive as anything this side of the Sistine Chapel. The book begins with the magnificent murals inside the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division. Architect James Brown Lord, according to Palmer-Smith, emulated the work of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. An early 20th-century jewel of a building, it was considered the "grandest" courthouse in the U.S. and, notes the author, "also represented the zenith of American mural painting."
One of the most entertaining murals is by painter and illustrator Maxfield Parrish in the King Cole Bar of the St. Regis Hotel. (The mural originally was in the Knickerbocker Hotel). Consider the delicious irony in knowing that this most famous of images — that of the crowned visage of Old King Cole looking devilishly down on bar patrons — was created, reluctantly as it turns out, by Parrish, a teetotaling Quaker. Meanwhile, Thomas Hart Benton's populist "America Today" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a sweeping vista of 20th-century American life, "the visual equivalent of Aaron Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man'" as well as, Palmer-Smith adds, the literary equivalent of a Carl Sandburg and a Mark Twain.
Relish too the characters from "The Iliad," "The Odyssey" and "The Divine Comedy" in the Morgan Library & Museum; the depiction of muscular workers on the lobby ceiling of the Chrysler Building; the childlike whimsy on the walls of Bemelmans Bar in The Carlyle hotel; and the impish antics of Edward Sorel's caricatures of 1920s- and 1930s-era celebrities in the Monkey Bar at the Hotel Elysee. (Sorel's work also is on glorious display at the Waverly Inn and Garden: 43 caricatures of famous Greenwich Villagers, from Whitman to Dylan).
Other artists include the Mexican social realist painter Jose Clemente Orozco (the New School), the African-American painter Aaron Douglas (Harlem YMCA), the left-wing Lithuanian-born painter Ben Shahn (Bronx General Post Office); the swirling musical symbols and images of Marc Chagall (Metropolitan Opera); and the pop art of Roy Lichtenstein (AXA Equitable Center).
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Weather experts are warning of a cold snap that will see temperatures falling below freezing and lead to widespread frost over the coming few days.
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Konami's 2001 PlayStation 2 game Shadow of Memories—we call it Shadow of Destiny 'round these parts—will find new life on the PSP later this year.
The time-traveling adventure game will be scaled down to UMD format and ship to Japanese retailers on October 1, the same day the new PSPgo ships to North America and Europe... but not Japan. The Japanese get it a month later. Sorry, I guess there's no real connection there.
But for anyone who missed out on the original release, or its Windows and Xbox ports, you'll soon be able to relive the time-hopping murder mystery all over again. Perhaps Eike will be given a side mission in which he travels back in time to prevent himself from getting that terrible hair cut.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 14 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
we are looking for a designer who would put together a trendy, stream based, very 2009-ish design for an up and coming scientific portal.
opendoorscience.com and .org
We are a non profit organization trying to launch our first scientific online only publication.
The interesting aspect of our site is that we try to combine what's interesting about the internet in 2009 (news aggregation, content filtering, stream based posting etc.) with scientific content.
We are targeting scientists and people who are interested in pop science
- the motto of the project is "science that's left out of the journals" this label should appear somewhere
- site should have five sections (in the form of a top menu): news, reviews, announcements, Q&A, job rumors
- besides the main feed, there should be boxes for editor's pick, top items, most commented
- main feed's items should be somehow blog-like (with comments etc.)
- main field should contain items from the various sections
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Exploring Language
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Longman, 1998 - College readers - 582 pages
"Exploring Language, 8th Edition, collects 84 selections in nine chapters to focus on some provocative aspects of American culture as they are revealed by language. Among the timely topics: the media and bias, computers and writing, black English, gender differences, "warspeak," advertising (as manipulation or art?), political double talk, and bilingualism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Now that I'm feeling just a bit better, I thought I'd post a quick little crash review of the Urge Archi-Enduro helmet... Urge Archi-Enduro Helmet | Hucknroll.com
With the popularity of enduro-style events really exploding around here, this helmet seemed like an ideal piece of equipment. Indeed, it was exceptionally comfortable, well-ventilated, and light. I wouldn't - and didn't - wear it for DH-gnarly stuff, but for enduro & Super-D races, as well as jumpy-flowy trails that required pedaling to access (read: Arcylon), it seemed THE solution to decent protection and relative comfort. It was also compatible with a Leatt...which turned out to be a very good thing.
To cut to the chase, I overshot - waaaaaaaay overshot - the landing on the 2nd wood kicker jump on Arcylon (after the super high-speed, super awesome left sweeping high bermed corner). So much so that I landed less than a bike length from the roller jump that immediately follows it. With nonexistent setup for the slightly-lippy roller, I got bucked - actually, make that catapulted - OTB into the high-side bank on the left.
(FYI, I love Arcylon - even lent a little assistance building it - and have probably no less than a hundred runs down it, so it's not something unfamiliar or uncomfortable for me. Indeed, perhaps I was a little too comfortable...)
...I landed on my face. Right on my face. No hands out to break the fall (probably a good thing), no initial shoulder digger beforehand (also probably good). This was the absolute definition of a faceplant. Textbook.
The good: the helmet did prevent me from breaking my jaw. I also suffered only a minor concussion, rather than being knocked out.
The bad (a picture is worth a thousand words...): the chin bar design.
Before surgery-
Basically, the chin bar flexed/folded under impact, and the open face port/low-profile chin bar design allowed the helmet to act like a giant scoop. Good thing my Leatt stopped my head from tucking under...I'm absolutely certain that wouldn't have turned out well. The underside of my jaw was very bruised from contact with the Leatt platform, but it worked like it was designed. Fantastically.
The outside damage is actually healing quite well. Besides permanently missing a piece of my upper lip, there'll be little scaring. By the luck of the draw, I ended up having one of the best hand and face plastic surgeons in the state do the emergency surgery.
The inside of my mouth is where the worst of the damage is. The impact actually tore all the tissue inside my mouth off my jawbone, from chin tip to jaw hinge on the left side, exposing the bone (sorry, no pics of that...thankfully....). I have a mouth full of stitches, which sucks only slightly less than being on a liquid-only diet for at least two weeks.
There was a bit o' bad luck involved in this crash in that I happened to land on either a random stick or a piece of brush that had been cut down. As the helmet turned my head into a giant scoop, and the chin bar flexed (allowing my face to dig in), the stick/piece of brush had it's way with my mouth in a bad way.
Anyhow, I just wanted to give everyone a first-hand crash report on this helmet, as its appeal would seem pretty high in non full-on DH applications. IMHO the chin bar design is fatally flawed in the case of a crash where you want face protection the most.
...Super bummed that I'm now offline for some early-season Canyons fun, but unless I have issues with infection, I should be back on-trail in about a month. Sporting a "real" full-face helmet at all times for the remainder of the season. I get a little dizzy just thinking about if I hit my face again anytime soon...
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Location & Contact
Though a large and significant part of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, the Department of Medicine is currently located in one of our affliate hospitals: Toronto General Hospital (TGH). We're hoping to find a new home on campus within the next few years, but until then, come visit us in the R. Fraser Elliott wing of TGH.
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The Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, is marked by a red dot on the map. It is located on the third floor of the R. Fraser Elliott Wing of Toronto General Hospital.
Hospitals fully affiliated with the Department of Medicine are: University Health Network (Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital and Toronto Rehab), Mount Sinai, St. Michael's Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Women's College Hospital.
Directions for out of town visitors
- From the 401: Drive south on Avenue Road, around Queen's Park (Avenue Road becomes University Avenue south of the Provincial Legislature.) The Department of Medicine is located in Toronto General Hospital just south of College Street.
- From the Gardiner Expressway: Take the Gardiner Expressway, exit on York Street and travel northbound. York Street turns into University Avenue. The Department of Medicine is located in Toronto General Hospital just north of Gerrard Street.
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Albemarle Health, Sentara Healthcare to partner March 1
The Pasquotank County Board of Commissioners and the Albemarle Hospital Authority Board of Commissioners voted "yes" to approve the Sentara Healthcare and Albemarle Health long-term lease agreement. The Sentara Healthcare and Albemarle Health partnership will take effect March 1, 2014.
The Pasquotank County Board of Commissioners and the Albemarle Hospital Authority Board of Commissioners voted "yes" today to approve the long-term lease agreement between Sentara and Albemarle Health. As a result, the Sentara Healthcare-Albemarle Health partnership will take effect Saturday, March 1, 2014.
Sentara Healthcare and Albemarle Health welcome this opportunity to partner and look forward to a strong and committed relationship with the communities of northeastern North Carolina.
"We are excited to welcome Albemarle Health staff, physicians and volunteers into the Sentara family," says Sentara CEO David L. Bernd. "Together, Sentara and Albemarle Health are committed to enhance, strengthen and grow the level of healthcare in northeastern North Carolina and to become a force in facing the challenges ahead in healthcare. We will place a strong focus on improving the community's access to primary care, managing chronic disease and improving the services and programs available locally."
"Sentara appreciates the trust placed in us and together we will be good stewards of this shared community asset. The local community will see positive change in the future given initiatives coming from our focus on implementing new models of care to improve the health of individuals and populations," said Bernd.
"Choosing the right partner was critical in ensuring the highest level of healthcare for our community today and in years to come," said Mary Ann Keyes, Albemarle Hospital Authority Board of Commissioners Chair. "We are proud that after two years of hard work, we were able to partner with Sentara Healthcare and look forward to the positive changes and progress ahead."
Albemarle Health will begin integration into the Sentara family and the Sentara Hampton Roads operation March 1 and forging a path together based on the terms of the agreement, which were determined based on the current and future needs of the community.
Sentara Healthcare, Albemarle Health and the northeastern North Carolina community are embarking on a new path and together, we are committed to making the difference in this community by adopting and living the Sentara mission, "We improve health every day."
Questions should be directed to the 24-hour Sentara Media Pager at 757-671-4971.