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At a reported 6 to 8 percent body fat, will Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., survive the zombie apocalypse?
Will you?
With Brad Pitt battling the living dead and government collapse in "World War Z," out this weekend, it's a good time to wonder who might be left among our leaders when they have to scrounge for calories, avoid the new predators on the block and go days without a smoothie.
If they're super-fit and fat-free, are they better off when the dead rise?
Or would New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie — the self-proclaimed "healthiest fat guy you've ever seen" — fare better in a food-deprived environment with his stored surplus energy?
Might our female politicians — say, a comfortable-in-the-wild Sarah Palin or Iraq veteran Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii — tap their survival skills, as well as women's generally higher body-fat percentages, and take control?
What about President Barack Obama? Thin, yes, but not in that amped-up way that makes you think he'd fall apart if he had to hunker down for a couple of days without a GNC JackedPack.
Zombies have stalked us on film for decades, reflecting contemporary pathologies: anxiety about war and race in the 1960s, when George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" trapped a group of strangers in a farmhouse; the obliviousness of modern culture in the seriocomic "Shaun of the Dead"; the isolation of the elite in "Land of the Dead" (Romero again).
More than other horror scenarios, zombies upend the natural order. The arrival of aliens requires either a technological fix (a fancy new weapon or, in the case of "Independence Day," tricky software) or blind courage and luck, such as the disease that wipes out the Martians in H.G. Wells's "War of the Worlds."
And there will never be enough vampires or werewolves to threaten the human race. Even at the top of the food chain, they are too reclusive, their attacks more deadly than infectious.
But zombism spreads fast, and a zombified planet challenges what it means to be human. It returns survivors to precivilization, and evolution goes to work: Those who remain will probably have roughly equal access to food and shelter, and similar abilities to fight or flee when needed. We won't have to think about cardio vs. weights vs. yoga. We'll all end up pretty sinewy and in need of a dental checkup.
But to survive in the long term means making it through those first critical weeks. Our natural state, after all, doesn't include Whole Foods. We eat what we forage, grow or kill. Farming requires settling down. With zombies prowling, that's too dangerous. Thus, back to hunting and gathering.
Who can best make the transition? Is our modern fixation on body fat and muscle tone actually a disadvantage in that environment?
"If you have no fat, you aren't going to fare as well when zombies attack," said Ranit Mishori, an associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown University. Studies of refugee populations and hunger strikers, she said, have pointed to the survival advantages of modest fat stores.
Fat is the well of energy the body can draw on in times of deprivation, and as long as there's a bottle of water to sip, people might get by for two weeks or so with little or nothing to eat.
The morbidly obese won't do so well, since we'll need to keep moving to escape the walking dead. But the ultra-slim and ultra-fit — even those as well-trained as marathoners or toting a bunch of muscle, which can be tapped for energy when calories are scarce — are likely to run out of gas before more moderately shaped people, which should be some comfort to most of us. Vitamin and mineral deprivation will produce chronic problems longer-term, Mishori said, but not in those first critical days.
My money is on Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as first commander in chief of the Still Human States of America. A former football player, he has probably kept his underlying strength and is big enough to not get pushed around. Water-sipping aside, I imagine he has pudged up a bit since his college athlete days and, given his frame, could probably pack on a bit more to be safe.
As for the rest of us, we shouldn't fret about that extra five or 10 pounds. We'll need it.
Howard Schneider is a financial reporter and a former fitness columnist for The Washington Post.


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Songkran Festival Thailand's most celebrated festival is the Songkran Festival. It starts April 13 and lasts between 3 and 10 days, depending on where you are in Thailand. The word Songkran is from the Sanskrit meaning the beginning of a new Solar Year, but nowadays Thailand celebrates the New Year on 31 December.


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From Utter Despair to Hope: My Work with Internally Displaced Women and Children
Tania Saleem
Sitting in a lawn of a guest house in Abbottabad I looked at the big United Nations (UN) Vehicles passing on the road in front of the guesthouse we were living in. "Where are these huge UN vehicles going?" I asked myself. They were on their way to Mansehra for relief and recovery work as Mansehra had become a city of Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN Agencies after the most devastating earthquake of the century. At that time I was working as an Assistant Professor at a University thousands of miles away from the earthquake affected areas, but was compelled to do my duty and join in relief efforts.
In February of 2006 I decided to join post-earthquake recovery and rehabilitation work in the affected areas through one of the local NGOs, which had vast experience of working with the Afghan refugees, and was now working as a partner of the UN and in implementing various education, health, child protection, camp management and food distribution programs.
As a development practitioner, almost every day my work would take me to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), many of whom were women living in tent villages and in the community. These women were facing every possible hardship, including disability, lack of access to basic health care, and the loss of family members and loved ones.
The most traumatic experience was of those women who had lost number of their children – there were some had lost all and some had lost their only child. Many were feeling guilty for being alive and asked why they survived when their sons and daughters did not. Many were torturing themselves for not being able to rescue those children who died under the huge debris of their destroyed houses.
I came across many women who had been forced to leave their houses and live with their parents as their husbands had died and the in-laws did not want to take on their financial burden. These women had no property to their names, and of the few who did, most legal documents were lost during the earthquake.
The women living in the tent villages were taking part in different participatory activities including consultation workshops awareness raising campaigns regarding child protection and child rights to ensure child rights protection in the tent villages in the earthquake-affected areas. Adolescent girls were provided with training in basic life skills at community level.
After the earthquake these women were forced to learn a new way of life, as they were deprived of social safety nets that were available to them prior to the earthquake. The trauma was evident, as they had lost their homes, their livelihoods, and many of them their families. Their new way of life was to make due with the bare necessities of survival.
The affected women worked to rebuild their lives, brick by brick. Their resilience in the face of hardship was undeniable.
I also had the opportunity to work in the area of rural housing reconstruction. For the first time in their lives and for the first time in Pakistan, women were officially involved in the post-earthquake housing (re)construction program.
Building a new house is a very emotional and bittersweet experience for the women living in this part of the world. This is not only because they were included in the process, but also because as they built, they were reminded of the debris under which their loved ones had lost their lives.
Despite so much loss and pain, hope was still in the air. New homes were being built, new children were being born, new leaves and flowers were appearing on trees. As I witnessed this new growth and healing process, I realized everything was not lost after all.
"We are trying our best, we will stand up again, our lives will get to normal we will rebuild our homes and our lives." These were the messages that could easily be read in their eyes. Tears gave way to cautious laughter, and utter despair made way for hope. It was now clear that they could see the light by the end of the dark tunnel, and so could I.
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Nov 2, 2007
With all the crazy pills, extenders and other things being sold online it's hard to know if what you read is true. Is there any truly real way of enlarging your penis (length, girth or both)?
Honestly, i'm not so sure why I even worry about this, i have a decent size of about 6 length and 5 girth, but I still look down and think I wish it was bigger. Thanks Jeff
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Jeff,
Looking down and wishing your home entertainment center was super-sized is a common occurrence for men well, except perhaps for Italian men. However, you are correct that your six inches (assuming they are six real inches rather than six Manhunt online profile inches) is indeed "decent size" and is, in fact, normal. So what about all those pills, potions and pumps that promise King Kong sized dongs and sound too good to be true? Well, you guessed it Jeff: they are indeed too good to be true. If they weren't, every guy in town would have a hose like a porn star. I'll reprint some information from the archives that addresses this "little problem."
Dr. Bob
Penis Enlargment Oct 31, 2007
how can i get enlarge my penis now its is 5.5 inch only any dr. or pill or cream which can help in mumbai.
Response from Dr. Frascino
No matter how many times you ask about your tiny weenie, my answer remains the same. By the way, the average size of an erect penis is approximately 5.5 inches!!! (Of course this excludes Italians.) My advice would be to stop worrying about the size of your wand and start spending more time working on the magic. As the old saying goes, "it's not the size of the wand; it's the magic in it that counts." You have plenty of "inches." What you need is more confidence and know-how as far as how to put those inches to best use, OK?
I'll repost below my previous comments to you and others on this diminutive topic.
Dr. Bob
penis enlarement Jul 17, 2007
Hello sir, i am 21 year old, My penis so small thats way my girlfreind is not confirm with me so give me name of madicine of penis enlagement
Response from Dr. Frascino
"'Madicine' of penis 'enlagement'"??? Hmmm . . . see below.
Dr. Bob
SOMETHING Jun 12, 2007
Response from Dr. Frascino
As I have frequently mentioned before, the answers to many questioners' queries can be found in the archives! See below, little fellow!
Dr. Bob
Penis Enlargement (PENIS ENLARGEMENT) Apr 29, 2007
Hi Im 24 Years Old and My penis is 4inches so can you suggest me a doctor in Mumbai or any pills to enlarge my penis
Response from Dr. Frascino
You're 24 years-old and your tallywhacker is only four inches long? Oh, I wouldn't worry about a little thing like that . . . .
Kidding aside, although there are some surgical procedures that attempt to increase the length of Mr. Happys, I haven't seen very good results and would not recommend them. As for pills, no, these will not work. (See below.)
Dr. Bob
penis enlargement May 9, 2006
there are so many penis enlargement pills out there do any of them actually work?
Response from Dr. Frascino
Come on Dude, think it through. If any of these products worked, every guy would have a Mr. Happy so large it would require it's own zip codes rather than so many dudes having those tragic "head in the bushes" tiny weenies commonly found on Republican politicians.
Dr. Bob
penis enlargement Jul 23, 2006
are there any products that will actually increa se girth and length of the male penis?
Response from Dr. Frascino
Sure. Lots. For instance DVDs with titles like:
1. Shaving Ryan's Privates
2. For Your Thighs Only
3. Three Men and a Barbie
4. On Golden Blond
5. Sleepy Booty
6. You Got Male
7. The Joy Suck Club
8. I Know Who You Did Last Summer
9. Robin's Wood
10. Star Whores
11. Robocock
12. ET the Extra Testicle
13. Glad-He-Ate-Her
14. A Rear and Pleasant Danger
15. My Bare Lady
16. Sorest Rump
17. Saturday Night Beaver
18. Laurence of A Labia
19. Clity Clity Gang Bang
But I should warn you the "increase in girth and length" is only temporary.
Dr. Bob
Sawubona Mar 6, 2004
Dear Ebrahim, that is Bob in Arabic. Just wanted to to say Sawubona in Zulu to a great man. Thank you for all the advice and also the humour. (Now seriously about the penis enlargement advice - is it necesssary? Love you Ebrahim. The Zulu Warrior.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Well the last several Zulu warriors that I happened to see in the showers at the gym earlier today certainly did not need the penis enlargement procedure. Then again, maybe they already had had it done!?!
Dr. Ebrahim
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Ryōji Noyori (野依 良治, Noyori Ryōji?, born September 3, 1938) is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions (Sharpless epoxidation).
Ryōji Noyori was born in Kobe, Japan. He became fascinated with chemistry at age twelve, after hearing a presentation on nylon. He saw the power of chemistry as being the ability to "produce high value from almost nothing". He became a student at Kyoto University, working as an instructor in the research group of Hitoshi Nozaki before being appointed associate professor at Nagoya University. After postdoctoral work with Elias J. Corey at Harvard he returned to Nagoya, becoming a full professor in 1972. He is still based at Nagoya, though he is also now president of RIKEN, a multi-site national research initiative with an annual budget of $800 million. In 2000 Noyori became Honorary Doctor at the University of Rennes 1 where he taught in 1995, and in 2005, he became Honorary Doctor at Technical University of Munich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Noyori believes strongly in the power of catalysis and of green chemistry; in a recent article he argues for the pursuit of "practical elegance in synthesis". In this article he states that "our ability to devise straightforward and practical chemical syntheses is indispensable to the survival of our species." Elsewhere he has said that "Research is for nations and mankind, not for researchers themselves." He encourages scientists to be politically active- "Researchers must spur public opinions and government policies toward constructing the sustainable society in the 21st century."


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ALL Children are eligible to benefit from funds awarded to the H20 – Highway 20 Early Childhood Care and Education Development Grant. The Early Childhood Education Grant program is intended to support the development of children in the birth to kindergarten age range through the provision of comprehensive center-based programs. In most cases the projects expand to combine existing pre-kindergarten programs funded through district, federal, or state funds including Head Start. Each project receives funding for up to one-half of the operating budget of the project per year on a continuing basis, subject to available state funds. A public school or an educational service unit is the fiscal agent.
Families with children ages three and four are encouraged to contact their local school district contact person for application information. All children will be considered for enrollment in the perspective programs regardless of income status. Priority will be given to children four years of age by October 15, 2005. Guidelines from the USDA Food program will serve as a guide for enrolling children. Families may also be eligible for services provided by Health and Human Services and Head Start.
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Jon Cryer nearly died during his violent bike crash this weekend ... but the actor tells TMZ the very first thought that raced through his mind was, "NOT THE FACE!"
Cryer just called in to "TMZ Live" ... telling us he luckily didn't break any bones during his crash in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon ... but says "I've left a lot of my skin on the Pacific Coast Highway."
As we previously reported, Cryer wiped out during the cycling leg of the race ... explaining, "You know how cyclists wear the leotard that offers zero protection? I used that to break my fall."


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sanjay369 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 122 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
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Our company started out as one silly forum and has grown to a much larger network and business. We buy forums or partner with forum owners to help them earn more from their forums. We are focused in getting higher paying advertisers interested in the best user generated content that exists on the Internet- the content found on forums. We know that forums are the strongest social networks and they need to unify in order to stay relevant and vibrant. CrowdGather seeks to unify them and, in the process, build the largest network of forums, forum owners, and forum members.
We are a public company so there will be corporate types who look at our site and logo, but we are also looking at appealing to forum owners and advertisers.
We want a logo that will look as good on a business card as it will on our website. A logo that scales and is not easily dated as web 2.0 with bubbly fonts or motifs. Forums and messageboards have been around since the dial-up days- before the world wide web and we want a logo that expresses stability, maturity, and longevity. At the same time forums are weird, filled with passion, and fun. Feel free to play with icons that are representative of threaded discussions if you think you can make it work.
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Miru was the youngest of four children born to a family of Spanish-Jewish descent on the island of Rhodes. Rhodes had been occupied by Italy since 1912, so Miru learned Italian as well as French at school. At home the Alcana family conversed in Ladino, the Spanish-Jewish language. Miru attended a Jewish school, where she received instruction in Hebrew three times a week.
1933-39: Life on my beautiful island was pleasant and we were close with our neighbors. I called them Auntie Rivka and Uncle Giuseppe, even though they were not really blood relations. I liked to spend time with my dozens of cousins and nieces and nephews. After finishing secondary school, I began studying midwifery, and I enjoyed my studies very much. I also regularly attended meetings of the Menorah Zionist organization.
1940-44: The Nazis occupied Rhodes in September 1943 and on July 23, 1944, my family and I were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Upon arrival I was separated from my family. I was branded with a number and my hair was cut. I was told I'd see my parents later. While waiting for the roll-call, we newcomers heard a distant orchestra playing classical music and we smelled what seemed to be burning meat. We were horrified to learn that the smell came from the crematoria and that the burning flesh was that of our friends and relatives.
Miru was the only one of 57 family members to survive Auschwitz and was one of only 161 Jews of Rhodes to survive the Holocaust. She immigrated to the United States in 1950.


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Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) revealed disappointing third-quarter sales and weaker profits on Wednesday as order growth decelerated, but the homebuilder said it is well positioned to ride the housing recovery.
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While the average selling price on Horsham, Pa.-based Toll Brothers' homes increased by 13% to $651,000 and deliveries improved by 24%, order growth eased year-over-year during the quarter.
However, Toll Brothers is bullish on its growth prospects for the current quarter, predicting both deliveries and home prices growing to between 1,225 units and 1,425 units and $675,000 and $695,000, respectively, which would help boost fiscal 2013 home sale revenue by up to 39% to $2.62 billion from $1.88 billion last year.
"We believe the recovery is real and we are in the early stages of the rebound," Toll Brothers CEO Douglas Yearley said in a statement.
The largest U.S. luxury homebuilder, which targets affluent customers, reported net income of $46.6 million, or 26 cents a share, in its most recent quarter, compared with a year-earlier profit of $61.6 million, or 36 cents.
The results matched average analyst estimates in a Thomson Reuters poll.
Excluding a $22.7 million tax expense, Toll Brothers said operating earnings were actually up about 58% to $68 million from $43 million in 2012.
Revenue for the three months ended July 31 rose 24% to $689.2 million from $553.3 million a year ago, but missed the Street's view of $695.8 million.
Average sales contracts per community are now at levels recorded in 1997 and 1998, which Yearley says was "several years into the previous cyclical recovery."
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So I am in the final stages of packing up my apartment, which means that I'm not doing much cooking at all. My "cooking" has consisted of such gourmet dinners as: "Figs with peanut butter" and "Leftover Ethiopian Takeout", which, to tell you the truth, I've kind of been enjoying. Sometimes it's nice to eat in a really simple, ramshackle way. Anyway, since I don't think you want my recipe for figs with peanut butter (or in case you do, here it is: cut dried figs in half and spread them with peanut butter. eat.), I've decided to give you some more photos. This batch is also from the 4th of July.
Above: That's the art museum in the background, and the street lights leading up to it on the diagonals. I just love the soft light in this one.
This little girl was so sweet. She seemed really overwhelmed by all the people, but excited for the fireworks!
This girl was cute too… Totally enthralled with the glow sticks.
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The Department of Medicine laments the untimely retirement, due to illness, of Ronald L. Nagel, MD, just over two years ago from his position as the Chief of the Division of Hematology.
At last week's Medicine Grand Rounds, Mary Fabry, PhD, Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and long-time collaborator with Dr. Nagel, presented this warm tribute:
Ronald L. Nagel was born in Chile in 1936 to a mother proud of her Spanish and Araucanian Indian heritage. His father emigrated from Bratislava ahead of the holocaust that took his eldest brother. On arriving in Chile his father joined the family antique business that is still active in Chile and Florida. His mother was classically trained as an artist and exhibited her oil paintings in Chile before becoming a cultural attache for Chile first in New York where the young Ron unhappily attended a strict Catholic school, and then in Mexico where he met and was greatly impressed with Bernard Baruch and the Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Pable Neruda.
Dr. Nagel attended medical school in Chile, graduated in 1960 and did three years of post-graduate training both as a resident in the Faculty of Medicine and as a student in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Chile. During that period of time he published a number of papers including two letters to Nature that touched on population studies that would form a part of his later career. He came to the United States as a NIH International Post-Doctoral fellow where he joined the laboratory of Helen Ranney with whom he first published a number of papers on hemoglobin-haptoglobin interactions and then began to work with Helen and Bob Bookchin on mutant hemoglobins. He and Bob published several papers mapping the Inhibition of BhS polymerization using naturally occurring mutations in the days before site-directed mutagenesis.
In his 45-year career at Einstein, Dr. Nagel published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and was author or co-author on five scientific books on hemoglobin and two volumes of poetry.
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If you have that certain something that causes Rocco Siffredi to take you under his wing and help make you a star, then you've got something truly special. It might be a big cock, swarthy good looks, a way with the ladies that makes them line up for the chance to fuck you, or in some cases all three. Just watching French stud Manuel Ferrara in action shows that he does have all those qualities and more.
Manuel was born in Gagny, France on November 1, 1975. He has also performed as Manu Ferraro, Manu, Channon, Manu Ferrara, and Manuel Ferrera. At age 25, Manuel appeared in his first XXX film in Europe. He made his American adult cinema debut in the critically acclaimed Fashionistas (Evil Angel) He now has hundreds of film credits and is widely known as one of the most popular male performers with female performers and viewers alike. Is it any wonder he's a Scorpio?
For two consecutive years (2005-06), Manuel was AVN's Male Performer of the Year, an honor he would repeat in 2010. After skipping a year, Manuel was named Male Performer of the Year at AVN once again in 2012. In 2014, Manuel broke the record for most AVN Male Performer of the Year trophies, scoring his fifth win. He was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2011, also landing that organization's Male Performer of the Year again. In addition to his prolific acting career, Manuelis also an accomplished adult film director.


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John and Jim Harbaugh: Bonded by Blood, Bound by Fate to Meet in the Super Bowl?January 19, 2013
The scoreboard said 14-3, and the wrong team had 14. In the second quarter of a game they could not afford to lose, the hard-nosed head coach grabbed his quarterback and yelled, "Damn it! I don't care what we do! We just gotta outscore them!"
The lanky scrambler—who'd guaranteed victory before the game—took charge. He led an explosive comeback, completing 19 of 29 passes for 261 yards. With the conservative governor off the offense, the University of Michigan roared back to beat hated Ohio State, 26-24.
Bo Schembechler, as Mitch Albom told it, privately spoke to Jim Harbaugh after the game. Their Wolverines would be going to the Rose Bowl, and soon, Jim would be going to the NFL. Schembechler told Harbaugh how proud he was of him, and that he knew how proud Jim's father Jack Harbaugh, a football coach himself, must be.
Six days before, Jack had been fired. John Harbaugh, Jack's older son and running backs coach, was fired along with him.
The Harbaughs' Western Michigan Broncos had gone 3-8 that year, their third straight losing season under Jack. Jack told the Associated Press via The Day he was fired because football was becoming too much about money, and his program was losing too much of it.
That spring Jim, the first-round pick of the Chicago Bears, signed a rookie contract worth $1.3 million.
Sons in Sun and Shadow
Jim and John Harbaugh are very much their father's sons.
When they were children, as Yahoo! Sports' Jeff Arnold wrote, Jack would drop his sons off at school. Then an assistant to Schembechler at Michigan, Harbaugh would leave them with the same pregame speech.
"OK, men, grab your lunchboxes and attack this day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind—and don't take any wooden nickels."
Jim and John have played and coached with the same relentless intensity, boundless enthusiasm and accept-no-substitutes attitude throughout their careers. The Harbaughs' common blood and shared upbringing couldn't be more obvious; it's literally all over their faces.
Their careers testify to the power of good genes and good parenting. But their careers also testify to the power of experience and how the events of our lives change and shape us.
Jim was one of the brightest-shining stars in football since before he could buy beer, while John toiled in his father's shadow for years on end.
Finding Their Place
While Jim was in Platteville, Wis., training to be the future of the mighty Chicago Bears franchise, John was following Jack to the University of Pittsburgh, where both served as assistant coaches for a season.
John then struck out on his own, sort of. John was hired by tiny Morehead State, where Jack first coached, to be the special teams coordinator, strength and conditioning coordinator and defensive backs coach.
After one season, new Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Tim Murphy hired Harbaugh to be his special teams coordinator. John made the big leap to Division I-A ball, just as his brother Jim was competing for the Bears' starting quarterback job.
Jim's NFL career began in earnest in 1989, as he slowly overtook Mike Tomczak for the starting job. Harbaugh got five rocky starts that year. He completed 62.4 percent of his passes for 1,204 yards and five touchdowns, but he also threw nine picks and went 1-4 as a starter.
In 1990, Jim entered the season an unquestioned starter for the first time. While the legendary Bears defense, and the running of Neal Anderson, led the way for Chicago, Jim grew mightily as a quarterback that season.
Jim cut down his interceptions to just six, boosted his touchdown total to 10 and quarterbacked the Bears to an 11-5 record and NFC Central crown. Jim and the Bears then won on Wild Card Weekend but lost in the divisional round to the eventual champion, the New York Giants.
In 1991, the Bears again went 11-5 but this time finished second to the Detroit Lions and lost in the first round to the ascendant Dallas Cowboys. After another season of risk-taking had led to another season of completing less than 60 percent of his passes—and this time throwing 16 interceptions to 15 touchdowns—the writing was on the wall.
In 1992, everything fell apart for the Bears. They went 5-11, and Mike Ditka was fired at the end of the season. The Bears started the Dave Wannstedt era with Harbaugh at the helm, but Harbaugh's play still didn't improve. After one season under Wannstedt, Harbaugh was released in favor of former Lion Erik Kramer.
Where was John Harbaugh in all this? Still the special teams coordinator at the University of Cincinnati.
In fact, he was lucky to be there. The head coach who hired John, Tim Murphy, was hired away by Harvard, and Murphy didn't take John with him. The new coach at Cincinnati, Rick Minter, kept John on the staff, but John had to prove himself all over again.
The Summer Solstice
While John was rebuilding his reputation with a new head man, Jim was a free agent.
He signed with the Indianapolis Colts and won their starting job. His play improved; his passer efficiency rating cracked 85 for the first time as a starter. The following season, everything clicked.
Jim Harbaugh had a fantastic season, not only by his own standards, but by anyone's.
Jim completed 63.7 percent of his passes, for 2,575 yards, 17 touchdowns and only five interceptions. Per Pro Football Reference, he led the NFL in interception rate (1.6 percent), yards per attempt (8.2), adjusted yards per attempt (8.6), passer efficiency rating (100.7) and fourth-quarter comebacks (three).
Harbaugh and the Colts sneaked into the playoffs on a tiebreaker and then went on a wild ride to the AFC championship game. They fell exactly one Hail Mary pass short of going to the Super Bowl:
On the strength of that incredible 1995 season, Colts offensive coordinator Ted Marchibroda was hired to be the first head coach of the newly christened Baltimore Ravens. Harbaugh was given the Colts' franchise tag, granting him a one-year contract worth $4 million.
John kept coordinating Cincinnati's special teams.
Waning and Waxing
Though the Colts had found a quarterback, skipper Lindy Infante was slowly steering his ship into the rocks. In 1996, the Colts again went 9-7, but they were again knocked out of the playoffs by the Steelers, this time in the first round.
That's when John finally got his big break: Indiana University hired Washington Redskins quarterbacks coach Cam Cameron to be their head coach. Years earlier, Cameron been the quarterbacks coach at the University of Michigan...when Jim was the quarterback.
Cameron needed a special teams coordinator, and John Harbaugh needed to move up the ladder. It was a perfect fit.
For one season, it was just like the old days. The two brothers were working in the same state again: Jim playing on the biggest stage, John coaching on a smaller one.
In 1997, though, despite having a young Marshall Faulk and a razor-sharp Harbaugh (he threw just four interceptions, at an NFL-lowest rate of 1.3 percent), the Colts could hardly score—and couldn't stop anyone from scoring.
Indianapolis went a disastrous 3-13. Infante was fired, and 34-year-old Jim wasn't kept around for the rebuilding project.
Instead, the Colts drafted some kid named Peyton.
The Circle of Life
Turns out one season of major-conference exposure was all the opportunity John Harbaugh needed.
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Ray Rhodes hired John to be his special teams coordinator. After 13 seasons bouncing around small-college football, John was suddenly on the fast track: In just two years, John had jumped to the Big Ten and then the NFL.
Jim, again deemed surplus to requirements, was again saved by a phone call. Jim's old offensive coordinator, Ted Marchibroda, needed a quarterback.
Jim saw the writing on the wall, though; at age 35 his playing career was almost at an end. Wanting to get a quick start on his post-playing coaching career, Jim needed a part-time gig. Fortunately, he had an in at Western Kentucky: head coach Jack Harbaugh.
In his off hours, Jim was serving as an scout and recruiter for the WKU Hilltoppers; though he was a NCAA-recognized member of the staff, he drew no salary. Like his big brother John back in 1984, Jim began learning the coaching ropes as an assistant to their father.
Meanwhile, John's career was again nearly sidetracked again; at the end of his first season with Philadelphia, Ray Rhodes got the axe.
Fortunately, incoming hire Andy Reid elected to keep John around. It may have helped that Reid's choice for defensive coordinator, the late Jim Johnson, had worked with the Colts while Jim Harbaugh was quarterbacking there.
John had to prove himself as a special teams coordinator all over again.
Jim only lasted one season in Baltimore; he was swept out the door along with Marchibroda. Jim landed in San Diego, where he got a small taste of revenge: With the Chargers, Jim started over the man he'd been replaced with in Chicago, Erik Kramer.
Still, it wasn't meant to last. During the 2000 season, Jim gave way to the other top quarterback pick from the 1998 draft: Ryan Leaf. Before the 2001 season, Jim camped with his hometown Lions but was cut in favor of Ty Detmer. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers but served as a mostly inactive reserve.
All the while, Jim was working for Western Kentucky, learning the trade and hitting the recruiting trail.
Waxing and Waning
Jim's playing career was finished, but his coaching career was immediately on the fast track.
In 2002, Jim was hired by the Oakland Raiders as quarterbacks coach. His first season on the job, they went to the Super Bowl.
After just his second season in Oakland, Jim achieved what John hadn't in 20 years in the industry: Jim was named head coach of the University of San Diego Toreros.
John's career, meanwhile, was again stuck in neutral. Toiling away as the Eagles' special teams coordinator, he couldn't get a head coaching interview for the world—despite having been named Special Teams Coach of the Year in 2001.
Teams just didn't see special teams coordinators as serious head coach candidates.
Jim had astounding success at San Diego, going 7-4, 11-1 and 11-1 in his three seasons there. Jim quickly became a hot name in nearly every coaching search. After the 2006 season, Jim and Stanford University agreed they were a mutual perfect fit.
At age 43, Jim had matched his father's highest achievement: becoming a Division I-A head coach.
Finally, John had had enough. By his request, Andy Reid reassigned John to defensive backs coach so John could get a chance at a head coaching gig.
It didn't take long for the gambit to pay off.
The Winter Solstice
In 2008, after one year as the Eagles' defensive backs coach, John replaced Brian Billick (the man who replaced Ted Marchibroda) as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens.
According to the Baltimore Sun's Edward Lee, on word of the news, Jim rummaged around in his closet until he found an old pair of Ravens practice shorts, which he proudly donned. The brothers' paths had crossed—not for the first time, and not for the last.
John inherited a hard-nosed Ravens defense, and defensive coordinator Rex Ryan. He needed an offensive coordinator—and it just so happened that Cam Cameron, the man who gave John his major-conference break, was available. John rounded out his staff with two other assistants you may have heard of: current Colts head coach Chuck Pagano and hot offensive coordinator candidate Hue Jackson.
It turns out, John's first head coaching gig was worth the wait: The Ravens went 11-5 in John's rookie season.
In the four seasons since, they've gone 9-7, 12-4, 12-4 and 10-6. They've won the AFC North two of his five seasons, made at least the second round of the playoffs every one of his five seasons and are playing in their third AFC championship game under his watch.
The Vernal Equinox
Jim, of course, wasn't far behind. He took over a Stanford program coming off a 1-11 nuclear winter of a season and immediately put his recruiting, coaching and quarterback experience to work.
He landed top prospect Andrew Luck right off the bat and began the process of grooming him into a champion. Jim's coaching stock continued its meteoric rise, as he led Stanford to records of 4-8, 5-7, 8-5 and finally 12-1.
Harbaugh was a white-hot coaching prospect throughout this time, at one point being wooed with an all-out pitch by Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. But Jim picked the San Francisco 49ers, and the Harbaughs became the first brothers to both become NFL head coaches.
Jim, of course, immediately had the same success as his brother.
The 49ers improbably went 13-3 in Jim's first season as head coach and made it as far as the NFC championship game. This season, the 49ers went 11-4-1 in a much-improved NFC West division but again find themselves one game away from the Super Bowl.
It's fitting that John, who did incredible work in the background for over 20 years, could achieve the level of success he had in five short seasons and be considered almost an afterthought.
It's fitting that Jim, renowned as one of the most fiery, combative, cantankerous head coaches in the NFL, would achieve his success on the arms of tough, athletic quarterbacks like Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick. Could there be any better description of the 49ers' divisional-round defeat of the Green Bay Packers than "we just gotta outscore 'em"?
The Harbaugh brothers' success is unbelievable, a fantastically rare occurrence. The odds against the two of them meeting in the Super Bowl are astronomically large.
But in some sense, it's inevitable. Two brothers so alike in face and voice, who take so strongly after their father, who share the same strong values, who've taken such different, intertwining paths up the same mountain...in a way, it's inevitable that they'd meet at the top of the world.


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It was a good day on the court Saturday for Ripley's tennis teams.
The Lady Vikings took two matches from South Charleston and Greenbrier East in shutout fashion, 7-0. The Viking boys squad knocked off SC, 4-3, and topped GE, 5-2.
"We introduced ourselves to the new region and our girls rolled," Greg Varney, Ripley's head tennis coach said following the weekend victories. "Our girls only lost one game in seven matches in our win over South Charleston. We started slow against East, but finished strong."
The Lady Vikings moved to 3-0 with the wins. Emily Munson (No. 1), Kaitlyn White (No. 2), Brooke King (No. 3) and Arin Shatto (No. 4) won singles matches. In doubles, the duos of Munson/White (No.1), Shatto/Tyler Barickmanen (No. 2) and King/Megan Frampton (No. 3) all registered wins.
"The boys picked up two hard-fought wins," Varney said as the Vikings moved to 2-1. "Our doubles teams picked up five out of six wins and we relied on No. 3 seed Jacob Haynes (who won both of his singles matches)."
Against South Charleston, Derek Hill also got a win in this No. 2 singles showdown. Logan Reynolds/Hill captured the No. 1 doubles match while Haynes/Parker Lively were winners at No. 2. In addition to Haynes, Jordan Ullom garnered a singles win in the No. 4 match against Greenbrier East. Reynolds/Hill at No. 1, Haynes/Lively at No. 2 doubles and J.J. Mahan/Baylee VanKirk at No. 3. all earned wins.
Ripley tennis teams sweep
It was a good day on the court Saturday for Ripley's tennis teams.


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Although the Okanogan County Parks and Recreation Board has had some internal strife in recent weeks, I hope that won't stop people from attending this weekend's fair.
The four-day event always provides a relaxing atmosphere and a good opportunity to catch up with people from every corner of the county.
I've noticed, over 30-plus years of attending the fair, that I'll run into people I see only at the fair. From one year to the next, we'll stop and chat awhile, catching up on what's happened in the intervening year.
Sure, the fair changes from year to year. Some longtime events are dropped and others take their place.
Longtime fair goers notice when someone's entries are missing, too. Perhaps the person died or moved away, but the absence is noticed.
Other times, there are new, exciting events to fill in the cracks and up-and-coming exhibitors to delight spectators. I suspect this year's wiener dog races might fill one of those niches.
And then there's the food.
From huckleberry ice cream to buns dripping with honey butter and from fresh-from-the field corn to hot, cinnamon-sugar coated doughnuts, folks make it a point to eat their way through the fair. Remember: Calories consumed at the fair don't count.
You can expect political literature to be handed out, along with free apple slices, an assortment of balloons and pens, and all sorts of goodies for the kids.
Speaking of the younger generation, the fair is a place that parents can feel safe letting their youngsters go – even fairly young ones. Just slip them a few dollars and they'll be off to explore the fair.
Parents needn't worry – youngsters bounce back every so often for more money.
At the end of the weekend, you'll arrive home exhausted, covered in a thin layer of fair dust and ready to sink into a hot tub.
Then it's time to count the days until next year's fair.
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Peter Leko
|Photo copyright © 2006 by Milan Kovacs (www.milankovacs.com)
NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
Kramnik vs Leko, 2004 0-1
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Leko vs Kramnik, 2004 1-0
Anand vs Leko, 2005 0-1
Leko vs Radjabov, 2006 1-0
Leko vs E Ghaem Maghami, 2001 1-0
Leko vs Radjabov, 2003 1-0
Leko vs Kasparov, 2003 1/2-1/2
Leko vs Kramnik, 1995 1-0
Leko vs W Heckel, 1989 1-0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament 2001/02 (2001)
Kramnik - Leko World Championship Match (2004)
FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005)
FIDE World Championship Tournament (2007)
NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
Yopal (1997)
Corus (2005)
Linares (2003)
Tilburg Fontys (1998)
Karen Asrian Memorial (2008)
20th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament (2012)
Corus (2004)
Tilburg Fontys (1997)
Amber Blindfold (2006)
FIDE Jermuk Grand Prix (2009)
Russian Team Championship (2014)
Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2009)
Isle of Man Masters (2017)
Isle of Man Masters (2018)
Olympiad (2008)
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Match Leko! by amadeus
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2001-2007, 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 or 5.Nbd2, Rated 2700+ by cybermarauder
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L�k� vs. Carlsen by Method B
🏆 Isle of Man Masters R Rapport vs Leko (Oct-28-18) 1/2-1/2
Leko vs R Hess (Oct-27-18) 1-0
R Svane vs Leko (Oct-26-18) 1/2-1/2
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1. Re: Not supporting old Hibernate being a pain?Radoslav Husar Sep 2, 2011 8:08 AM (in response to Radoslav Husar)
Actually... 3.6 support is okay in 7.0.1:
2. Re: Not supporting old Hibernate being a pain?Scott Marlow Sep 2, 2011 8:58 AM (in response to Radoslav Husar)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Also see AS7-1583, which allows Hibernate 3.3 to also work (as long as the entity classes are specified in the persistence.xml). To improve that, someone needs to figure out why the Hibernate 3.3 annotation scanning, is not working with the AS7 virtual file system. I would like to work on that but am busy with other things at the moment. If someone wants to help, I'll help get you started...
You will also see a class not found error in the server.log, but that can be ignored.
That is a start for using Hibernate 3.3, no promises that there won't be more issues. Its best to think of using Hibernate 3.3 on AS7, as a migration step (IMO). We are pushing hard on Hibernate 4.0 and adding AS7 support there (like using JBoss logging...).
3. Re: Not supporting old Hibernate being a pain?cirix Sep 2, 2011 10:46 AM (in response to Scott Marlow)1 of 1 people found this helpful
I plan to spend the weekend on debugging for it because i tried your suggestion but the scanner still has some issues.I will look at it during the weekend...nmpallas here broadcasting...
4. Re: Not supporting old Hibernate being a pain?cirix Sep 2, 2011 10:50 AM (in response to Radoslav Husar)
And yes let me tell you that there are out there tons of apps that were developed on versions 3.3 3.2 and work fine and people to do a migration would like a simple clear simple path that would mean to deploy the same jar without the need to do several things in the part of the code, rather than configure the appserver to use the mentioned implementation. On a system that is now several thousands lines of code a switch of a backend framework doesn't justify the move just to improve version/new version whereas the old software have been proven to be good and work robustly. I used to have the same attitude but in the real buisness, take for example banks, they don't always follow the cutting edge of a technology. They wait to mature enough and prove it self and then they adopt it for general devel.
5. Re: Not supporting old Hibernate being a pain?Scott Marlow Sep 5, 2011 8:54 AM (in response to cirix)
In case you haven't found it yet, the git repo for the jandex project is https://github.com/jbossas/jandex. The easiest way to debug all of this, would be building AS7 from source and running AS7 in your favorite IDE debugger (for hacking on AS7 source, read http://community.jboss.org/wiki/HackingOnAS7). When I debug AS7 with the Intellij editor, the sources for other projects (used by AS7), is usually a click away (click on load source link when stepping into subprojects). Also, the the AS7 project can be easily loaded into intellij by choosing "open new project" and choosing the as7 root "pom.xml".
The easiest way to proceed might be hacking in some debug logging, into the jandex project (or enabling it if its already there).


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First-ever meeting between the two teams
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (Jan. 7, 2013) – Looking to build upon its first Atlantic Sun victory of the season, a 80-74 victory at Lipscomb, ETSU closes the road trip with a visit to Highland Heights, Ky. to take on the Northern Kentucky Norse on Monday evening inside the Bank of Kentucky Center. The match-up will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools in NKU's first season at the Division I level.
The Lady Bucs hope to continue the momentum they have gained from the win at Lipscomb on Saturday evening. The triumph was ETSU's first win since defeating Morehead State in Morehead, Ky. over a month ago. Continued stellar play from freshman guard Brianna McQueen (Jonesboro, Ga.) will be key for ETSU to string a few wins together. Against Lipscomb, McQueen posted a season-high 23 points, including clutch free-throws down the stretch to seal the victory. The Lady Bucs also got strong contributions from Maria Bond (Macon, Ga.) in her second start of the season with nine points and five rebounds as well as from Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.) with 14 points and from Serena Clark (Tucker, Ga.) who tallied a double-double of 10 points and a season-high 14 rebounds.
ETSU has improved its record to 3-6 overall and 1-1 in Atlantic Sun, while Northern Kentucky sits at 4-8 overall and 1-2 in league play.
For more on Monday's game, read the game notes below. For more on ETSU women's basketball throughout the 2012-13 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's hoops link.
The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics would like to ask both the print and broadcast media to honor our request to be called "ETSU" throughout the 2012-13 season ... East Tennessee State in first reference is acceptable, but subsequent references should be ETSU ... On TV graphics, please use ETSU ... Our nickname is the Lady Buccaneers, but Lady Bucs is also acceptable.
ETSU (3-6) (1-1) continued its dominance over Lipscomb by defeating them for the 12th straight time, this time in Allen Arena. The Lady Bucs came out with a lot of intensity in the first half and gained a lead shortly into the half. ETSU then hit a lull as Lipscomb took back the lead. The Lady Bucs did not hang their head though and came out aggressive in the second half. The second stanza featured more back and forth action with six ties and three lead changes. With only 1:46 remaining, Brianna McQueen converted on an and-one and took back the lead, 76-74, one that the Lady Bucs would not relinquish the rest of the way. After topping the Lady Bisons for the 12th straight time, the Lady Bucs improved their overall series record against Lipscomb to 15-1.
The emergence of redshirt-sophomore Tiana Burley has provided a badly-needed inside presence for the Lady Bucs. In the transfer's first action as a Lady Buc due to NCAA regulations, the center came off the bench and posted a double-double of 19 points and 13 rebounds in a loss to Appalachian State. This performance awarded Burley A-Sun Newcomer of the Week honors on Dec. 26. Burley also was a big contribution off the bench for the Lady Bucs against USC Upstate, in which she posted eight points and three rebounds in 15 minutes of play.
The Blue and Gold have out-rebounded the opposition in six of the nine games this season and enter Monday's game with a plus-3.7 rebounding margin (43.4-39.7), ranking first in the A-Sun … in its game at Morehead State, ETSU out-rebounded the Eagles by 20, 46-26 … the Lady Bucs' plus-3.7 rebound margin currently ranks in the top 100 in the country.
Destiny Mitchell has scored in double figures in four out of nine games of the season and is averaging 12.1 points per contest … Mitchell scoring a season-high 26 points in the opener at High Point back on Nov. 10 and added 14 points and 16 rebounds in the 10-point win vs. Memphis to close out the month of November ... Mitchell was recently fourth in the A-Sun in scoring (13.8), second in rebounding (8.7), fourth in steals (2.3) and fifth in field goal percentage (47.4) prior to Saturday's game at Lipscomb.
Mitchell is well on her way to become the 21st Lady Buc to join the 1,000-point club ... She is on pace to break the 1,000-point mark near the end of February as she registered 347 points as a freshman and 367 points as a sophomore for 714 total points... through ETSU's first seven games of the 2012-13 season she has scored 97 to move her career total to 811 .. if Mitchell scores in similar fashion in the next two years as she did as a rookie and a sophomore, she will put herself in the top-10 in Lady Buc history.
Through the early portion of the season, ETSU has gotten strong contributions from its bench. On the season ETSU averages roughly 30 bench points per game, including a season-high 57 points off the bench against Morehead State. Key reserves Cara Bowling (7.3 ppg), Maria Bond (6.4 ppg), Tiana Burley (7.3 ppg) and Brianna Bogard (5.0 ppg) have proved to be very valuable off the bench for the Lady Bucs.
The Lady Bucs have enjoyed a lot of success since joining the A-Sun in 2005-06 … since joining the league, the Lady Buccaneers have averaged 15 conference wins a year, including a league-best and school record 18-2 mark in 2009-10, three Atlantic Sun Tournament titles (2008-2010), and two regular season championships (2008 and 2010) …in total, ETSU is 100-34 (.746) against conference foes since moving into the A-Sun … the Lady Bucs have also won 80 of their last 106 games against conference foes (includes the 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 A-Sun Tournaments).
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Wendyl wants to know: Chocolate spread isn't all naughty
This milk chocolate spread leapt out at me from the supermarket shelves simply because it looked so bad for you. Something with bright red and chocolate stripes just screams "artificial everything" to me so I threw it in the trolley (I only throw food which looks bad for you) and brought it triumphantly home. The product is imported from Holland but on closer investigation it wasn't that bad. And it tastes rather good.
Ingredients (in order of greatest quantity first)
Sugar This is a sweet milk chocolate spread so of course there is going to be more sugar in it than anything else. It is 56.6 per cent sugar and one 20g serving will deliver about three teaspoons of sugar.
Vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated) "Hydrogenated" means that the oil has been chemically modified to make it more stable and solid at room temperature.
Low-fat cocoa powder (5 per cent) This will be cocoa powder which has had some of the cocoa butter, which is high in saturated fats, removed. In each 20 serving of this product, you will get 6.6g of fat including 1g of saturated fat.
Whey permeate This is a waste product of cheese and milk making which has come under the spotlight lately for being added to our milk as a filler, essentially watering down the milk. This may be why it is in this product as well.
Soy powder This will provide some protein - there is 0.5g of protein per 20g serve of this product, but most likely it is in here as a filler.
Lactose This is a sugar found in milk, so will be in here to provide sweetness, but is bad news for the lactose intolerant.
Emulsifier (soy lecithin [322]) This is a natural emulsifier which works to keep oil and water combined in a mixture like this.
Skimmed milk powder This will be in here as flavour and also as a thickener.
Colouring (red (E120) Very nice to see this manufacturer using a natural colour. This is cochineal or carmine which is made from insects.
Natural flavouring (strawberry, vanilla) And wonderful to see natural flavourings used here for the strawberry and vanilla taste. So often food manufacturers use artificial flavourings for both because it is cheaper.
My recommendations:
This is mostly sugar but as a treat food at least it doesn't contain too much fat or artificial flavours, colours and preservatives. If your family likes Nutella-type products, this is a nice change. Those with dairy allergies might want to avoid it as there is some dairy in here, and nutritionally there's not a lot going for it. So definitely something to enjoy occasionally rather than every day.


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Location and General Characteristics
Located in the southwest corner of the city, Armatage neighborhood is bounded on the north by 54th Street West, on the east by Logan Avenue South, and on the south and west by the city limits at Highway 62 and Xerxes Avenue South. The neighborhood grew around the school named for Maude Armatage, a distinguished community leader. Armatage is built up with mostly single-family housing and some multifamily buildings. The neighborhood also has a park with a community center.
The retail space in the neighborhood consists of individual neighborhood stores and is mostly located along Penn Avenue South. The great majority of housing was built between 1949 and 1969, while about 5 percent of the dwellings were built before World War II.
Armatage Community and Montessori School and park
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Dale Brenneman, Ph.D.
Dale Brenneman, Ph.D. is associate curator of documentary history at Arizona State Museum in the Office of Ethnohistorical Research, where she researches the history of Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico as revealed in the Spanish colonial documentary record.
She is currently editing a large collection of Spanish-language documents describing O'odham and Pee Posh interactions with Spaniards and Mexicans from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. This work, which involves transcribing, translating, and placing all documents in historical context, is conducted in collaboration with scholars and elders from the Tohono O'odham Nation and will culminate in the online publication of transcriptions and translations.


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Forest gives rise to village bank
The Kaya Kinondo forest of Kwale, Kenya, is awash with all the beauty and splendor a coastal forest should have. It is one of the oldest forests on Kenya's south coast. Rare bird and plant species populate this awesome ecosystem, along with huge indigenous trees that are imposing in nature and magnificent in splendor.
Forty-five butterfly species – 5 per cent of those known in Kenya – are found in this great forest. The extremely rare Zanj elephant shrew, along with the threatened colobus monkey, make their homes in this magnificent landscape. The Kaya Kinondo forest is also of great cultural and spiritual importance to the Digo people in Kenya.
This dynamic environment also boasts something that doesn't fly or run, has no roots or leaves, but has become an essential part of daily life for the residents of Kwale, and may even help keep the forest healthy. It's a village bank.
'Very good trees'
Client after client comes into the Kaya Kinondo Financial Services Association to either deposit or withdraw money. This bank has no ATMs or free pens, but it does provide effective and efficient financial services to community members within and around the Kaya Kinondo forest area.
According to 50-year-old mother of six Zainab Ahmed, the success of their village bank would have been put in serious jeopardy had the community not realized what immense economic potential their forest has, and acted on it.
"Kaya Kinondo has very good trees. We were beginning to use the forest badly, cutting many trees from it to make charcoal. This was badly affecting the forest and slowly destroying it."
It is at this point that Zainab and her neighbors realized that there is indeed a better way to co-exist with and even benefit from the forest.
"In 2003, we decided to come together and start an eco-tourism project. We sold carvings and introduced our rich culture to tourists along a trail in the Kaya Kinondo forest," Zainab says.
Through this simple venture, the community in and around Kaya Kinondo began to see the economic value of forest conservation. Money begun streaming in, and the community faced a new challenge.
"We were getting all this money, but we had nowhere to take it because at that time, banks were really expensive and inaccessible," says Zainab.
Banking on nature
It was at this point that WWF, supported by the UN Development Programme's Global Environmental Facility, the Ford Foundation and Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, introduced the idea of banking in the village, for the village, by the village. In addition to the bank component, the project worked with people who earned their living by making charcoal or selling firewood with the aim of helping them shift to more forest-friendly enterprises such as growing tree seedlings, eco-tourism and various agricultural projects, such as chicken farming.
"We helped create Kaya Kinondo Financial Services Association in order to help communities in Kwale invest their revenue in environmentally viable businesses that would keep their forests profitable while also conserving them," says WWF's Elias Kimaru, who works on the project.
Training was carried out for community members to help them invest wisely and ensure that the bank is sustainable and continues to benefit the community and the environment.
"In every village, WWF trained one person on how to set up and run a village bank. This was an important move because we had previously seen other village banks start and then die because of mismanagement. We did not want our bank to fail. After the training, we started the bank with 153 members who bought shares at $3 each," explains Zainab.
Client numbers were low at first because villagers were not convinced that their money would be safe in a village bank. As Zainab recalled, other banks had been set up and had folded; the families of Kwale can't afford that kind of financial risk.
Growing strong
Two years down the line, in 2005, the bank was still open, and more and more members enrolled.
But the community realized they needed to learn more and expand the menu of financial services offered, if they were to stay competitive with other micro-finance institutions that had moved into the area.
"In 2005, WWF offered us training on how to manage loans as a bank, and we began providing business loans of up to $50 to our members," notes Zainab.
By 2011, more than 130 members had taken loans amounting to $60,000. From a desire to protect their forest and promote their culture, the members of Kaya Kinondo Financial Services Association have created a strong and growing community institution. With 153 members with a net worth of $3,000 in 2003, to 689 members with a net worth of close to $100,000 today, the village bank is indeed a testament to the fact that human beings can live in harmony with nature.


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A man looked at police with an expression of surprise and his hands up near his face just moments before they shot him dead, an inquest has heard.
But that was contradicted by the evidence of another witness, who said she saw the man, Rodney Elkass, point a gun at the officers.
In the opening day of the inquest into Mr Elkass's death on Monday, the Parramatta Court hearing was told he had previously pulled out a Glock pistol during a confrontation with two men in Castle Hill in northwestern Sydney.
When news of the incident, which occurred around 1pm on September 29 last year, came over the police radio, three plainclothes officers, who spotted Mr Elkass in his ute outside Castle Hill police station, approached him yelling with guns drawn.
Seconds later the fatal shot was fired.
Deputy State Coroner Hugh Dillon said his death raised troubling questions.
"Rodney was not a gangster. He was a decent citizen who lived quietly without causing trouble," he said.
The inquest will explore whether the three plainclothes police officers properly identified themselves when approaching Mr Elkass, who was a painter by trade.
Counsel assisting the coroner Peter Hamill, SC, said he anticipated the evidence about this would be "contradictory and controversial".
The barrister for Mr Ezzad's family, Dina Yehia, SC, said one witness, Sonal Kumar, told police that in the moments leading up to the fatal shot: "I saw the driver of the ute looked really surprised with his mouth open.
"I saw his hands up near his face, palms facing out."
However, the inquest heard that another witness, Claire Bailey, told police she saw the driver produce a gun and point it at the three officers.
The inquest heard that all three of the officers had headed towards Mr Elkass yelling at him without nominating a lead communicator.
Detective Inspector David Laidlaw, who investigated the incident, said police strategy was determined by the situation they found themselves in.
Ms Yehia also asked him why Ms Bailey was asked to do a walk through of events, but Ms Kumar was not.
"I was of the view that she (Ms Kumar) was confused and could only give limited information," Det Insp Laidlaw said.
The court was told the events that led to Mr Elkass's death started with a fight in 2000 with a workmate, referred to as Witness A, who made derogatory comments about Mr Elkass's religion.
Witness A and a friend later bumped into Mr Elkaass at the Castle Hill shopping centre on the day of his death.
When they followed Mr Elkass, he drew his pistol, the inquest heard.
The inquest was told Mr Elkass, who enjoyed target shooting, "was almost certainly in breach" of his firearm licence that day.
Outside the court, Mr Elkass's brother Ziad, who was a police officer until resigning two weeks ago, told reporters he wanted the truth.
The inquest continues.


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There has never been any concrete theory regarding women?s less fertile moments in healthy women. Besides effects of age and natural infertility, it is likely that there are other factors that need to be identified. Hence, there is the need to focus on perceptions because what has previously been held as facts has been proven irrelevant, albeit in rare cases. When is a woman least fertile? For eons, this has been one of the most sought-after answers from books, research studies, and even the internet.
The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
..Caitlin Moran..
Least Productive Time in Women
Being infertile means being utterly unable to conceive even in normal circumstances. A long-running study has shown that women are unique species exhibiting different characteristics. A good number of women can claim to have become pregnant after having unprotected intercourse during or immediately after their menstruation. Others can confirm that they have long considered their menstruation days safest and have been having unprotected sex with no risk of getting pregnant. The aforementioned studies are contrasting theories that only go to prove how different the female systems can be. Talking of least infertile periods, however, does not entirely rule out chances of getting pregnant. These are moments when chances are slightly lower as compared to others.
The time you?re less infertile as a woman is between the first and the seventh day of your menstrual cycle. The first day counts from the day a woman?s menstrual flow begins. Ovulation normally takes place on the fourteenth day of the menstrual cycle, but it may vary from one individual to the other. For those whose periods are regular, their cycles run for 28 days, and can expect ovulation to occur naturally after 14 days. On the other hand, individuals who experience irregular periods, ovulation may take place at various intervals, say, the seventh day because their cycles are shorter by a week. It is solely up to a woman who has irregular periods to keep track of her cycle to be able to identify her safe or unsafe days.
Most Fertile Time in Women
The period of ovulation is when women are most fertile. Ovulation involves the release of unfertilized ova from the ovary midway through her periods. This usually takes place on the fourteenth day for women with a 28-day cycle. For those with irregular periods, ovulation takes place on the seventh day for their cycles are three weeks long. Ovulation occurs within a short period of only 24 hours, but the woman?s body is designed to keep sperms alive for up to five days. This means that a woman?s fertile window is six days before and after day 14 of her cycle. However, it is imperative to note that even women who experience regular periods can have their cycles altered due to:
- Medication ? Some properties found in ordinary medicine may cause an alteration or two in a woman?s menstrual cycle, making it difficult to identify safe and unsafe days. These are not contraceptives, but medicine for treating other ailments.
- Use of contraceptives ? Most of the pills taken by women for precautionary measures has been known to cause irregular cycles. Even though these are not permanent effects, they tamper with the system, albeit slightly, causing irregular periods.
- Exercises ? Thorough workouts, especially those done after long periods may cause changes. This is not a common cause, though, but it cannot be ignored when monitoring a woman?s menses.
Does Age Affect Fertility in Women?
Women are said to be highly fertile between the ages of 20 and 24. Infertility levels tend to go up as a woman reaches the age of 30, with only 2 in 5 women getting pregnant after attaining the age of 40. Fertility falls steeply from the age of 35, even though that does not affect the nature of birth. Statistics have gone on to show that In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment is common in the age bracket of 35 and 40. However, there are reports that as woman ages, even this treatment becomes irrelevant. It has also been reported that cases of miscarriage are more pronounced among women who have attained the age of 35 and above. Very few women can claim to be fertile today at the age of 44, which means women should bear children preferably before their thirties.
Is Infertility Common?
Today, 10 percent of couples in childbearing age are infertile, and the numbers are said to be on the rise. Over 25 percent of these couples can attribute their infertility to more than a single cause. The commonest cause of infertility among women is the habit of delaying starting families until much later when their reproductive systems have been compromised. Another common cause of infertility is the presence of sexually transmitted diseases such as Chlamydia, which causes blockages in reproductive tubes. Self-induced abortion has also led to the rise of infertility level due to post-uterus infection.
Is Infertility in Women a Medical Problem?
Infertility is a medical condition commonly affecting both men and women. In women, it is as a result of tubal blockages, PCOS, endometriosis, and advanced age that affect both the quality and quantity of eggs.
Can Infertility be Treated?
There is fertility treatment that can be used to increase the chances of getting pregnant in women. Treatments include lifestyle changes, surgery, food supplements, medication, or what is known as assisted reproduction. Under assisted reproduction, there are processes such as; in vitro fertilization, Zygote Intrafallopian Transfer (ZIFT), and Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer (GIFT). These are advanced procedures that involve harvesting ovum hoping to fertilize at least one, after which it is inserted into the uterus.
Keeping a correct record of your cycle is the only way to establish the days you?re less fertile. Unless you have become infertile due to natural causes like age and medical conditions, there are those days you may choose to practice unsafe sex. Similarly, if you understand your ovulation days, you can also tell the days when you are highly likely to get pregnant. If perhaps you have wanted to have a baby, it is much easier to count six days prior, and after ovulating. This is the time you can be more certain to get pregnant. With the right information on when is a woman least fertile once can be able to know exactly the right time to conceive or not to.