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NOVA "Extreme Ice" In collaboration with National Geographic, NOVA follows the exploits of photojournalist James Balog and a scientific team as they deploy time-lapse cameras to create a photo archive of melting glaciers. They grapple with blizzards, fickle technology and perilous climbs to anchor cameras that must withstand extreme cold and high winds.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Berlin: Resilient, Reunited, and Reborn" Rick climbs the Reichstag's new glass dome, visits a modern-day caberet and tastes chocolate in the eastern sector.G
7:30 am
Smart Travels - Europe with Rudy Maxa "Four Great Cities II" We can jet to Europe in a day and visit four cities in less than a week. It's great to take your time but sometimes you only have a day to visit. How can you be part of the international jet set and still get a taste of "old" Europe? This time Smart Travels takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of four cities that represent a bit of the old and bit of the new in Europe. D
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The Desert Speaks "Origins of a Royal Road" The trade route of El Camino Real (The Royal Road) served as an interchange of cultures and riches for the Puebloan people hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans. Later, the route became the tattered thread that sewed together the Spanish strongholds in southern Mexico to the tiny, distant settlements of Nuevo (New) Mexico. Take a three-part journey along this historic route of communication, conquest and gold, from Mexico City through the Chihuahuan Desert to the mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico and explore the natural and cultural wonders that dot the landscape along the way. D
8:30 am
Ciao Italia "Classic Tuscan Dishes/I Piatti Classici Toscani" Mary Ann takes her Tuscany tour students under her wing to teach them the fine are of Tuscan cooking, starting with the all-time favorite, Fresh Pappardelle with Rabbit, Mushrooms, and Wine. No Tuscan meal would be complete without its unique, Bird-Style Beans. And to whet the appetite, Salted Pizza Bites. D
9:00 am
Taste of History "18th Century Animals" The variety of livestock we see on farms today differs significantly from the ones that were common during the Revolutionary Era. Modern techniques have plumped animals up and induced them to grow much more quickly. But an effort is underway at Colonial Williamsburg to get back to those original breeds. D
9:30 am
Simply Ming "The Pallotta Sisters & Infusing Flavor Into Pasta" Chefs from Asia to Italy agree the best way to infuse noodles with flavor is to saute them. It's a critical step many home cooks skip. On this episode of SIMPLY MING, Ming and his guests, The Pallotta Sisters, focus on that technique. D
10:00 am
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Rise and Shine Breakfast" Host Christopher Kimball discusses the science behind scrambled eggs with science expert Guy Crosby. Then, test cook Becky Hays uncovers the secrets to perfect Scrambled Eggs. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews the best toaster ovens in the Equipment Corner. D
10:30 am
Around The House with Matt and Shari "Dining Rooms" Make your dining room a showpiece for decor as well as food. Today we'll dress up these blah dining room walls and learn how to display your favorite items in your china cabinet! Then, Matt teaches some furniture repair tips. Finally, Shari has a surprise project for easy and contemporary entertaining. D
11:00 am
Austin City Limits "Widespread Panic" The Georgian jam band celebrates its 25th anniversary with songs from across the group's career.G
12:00 pm
Sesame Street "Jack's Big Jump" Jack Be Nimble is getting ready for his big jump over eight candlesticks! He tries to jump over them, but instead he knocks them over and falls. Jack runs away and hides. He messed up and now is having trouble jumping. D
1:00 pm
Dinosaur Train "Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 1/Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 2" Dinosaur Big City Part I - Buddy and the Pteranodon family begin their journey on the Dinosaur Train, gathering all their Theropod friends together to travel to a really big Theropod Club Convention which is being held in Laramidia, the "Dinosaur Big City"! Dinosaur Big City Part II - The Pteranodon family continues their journey to the Theropod Convention in Laramidia, the Dinosaur Big City! Among the Theropod dinosaurs that ride the Train with them is King Cryolophosaurus, who sings his songs "Big Ol' Whistle-Stop Rock-n-Roll Dinosaur Tour" and "Whole Lotta Theropods"!. D
1:30 pm
Super Why! "The Comic Book: Attack of the Eraser" Whyatt and his friends are playing kickball in the park when Wolfy erases the score! The super readers fly into a new kind of reading material - a comic book - called "Attack of the Eraser" to track down the diabolical Eraser who's causing trouble in Reader Valley. Will Super Why and his friends be able to stop Eraser from wiping out all of the words in Reader Valley - or have they finally met their match?G
2:00 pm
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "When I Grow Up/Doing It Differently" When I Grow Up - Sally and Nick are trying to guess what they'll be when they grow up when the Cat drops in for a visit. Cat is sure Nick and Sally will never guess what his friend Puggle will be when she grows up. When they see her, they start guessing right away! A frog? A duck? No, a beaver! They discover that, while Puggle may have some similarities to other creatures, she will grow up to be a duck billed platypus! Doing It Differently - Nick and Sally can't seem to find Harvey the guinea pig. D
2:30 pm
Wild Kratts "Little Howler" Chris and Martin are unpacking from an adventure and are surprised when a Wolf pup pops out of their bags. They have no idea where the little guy came from and must retrace their steps in order to return him back to his pack. They experience that wolves are a very social animal with a close pack structure and frequent visual and audio communication among individual members. D
3:00 pm
Dialogue for Kids "Animal Migration" Animal migrations don't just happen in the spring and arent just something birds do. Lots of different animals migrate and for good reasons. Why? What is it that drives animals to move from one part of the country to another and then back again? Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientists Jeff Knetter, wildlife biologist with the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game and Vicky Runnoe, conservation educator with the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, will answer questions about animal migration.G
3:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "The Majesty of Madrid" Rick tours the lavish Royal Palace, enjoys art-packed museums, and looks deep into Picasso's greatest masterpiece. Experiencing the Spanish city at its fun-loving best, he is mesmerized by flamenco dancers and munches on pigs' ears.G
4:00 pm
The Desert Speaks "Cruising on the Mother Road" Clad in appropriate leather gear and helmets, host David Yetman and ecologist Yar Petryszyn cruise through the second half of the deserts along Route 66, this time on Harley Davidson motorcycles. This phase of the journey begins in the Petrified Forest near the border of Arizona and New Mexico and traces the "mother road" through the pines of Flagstaff to the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert. The travelers stop in Winslow, Arizona at the La Posada Inn which has been open since the 1930s. D
4:30 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Chasing The Light" Some of Idaho's professional landscape photographers share their secrets for positioning themselves to capture a special scene in a photograph, often waiting hours, even days, for the natural lighting they seek to preserve. OUTDOOR IDAHO travels with them to locations that encapsulate Idaho's treasured scenery.G
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My Hero "The Party's Over" George does not understand the concept of a surprise birthday party for Janet but is determined to plan the event.G
6:30 pm
Reggie Perrin Reggie becomes the boss at Groomtech and, armed with the freedom to do as he wishes, decides to have some fun by introducing a new kind of product to the company. Meanwhile, his neglected wife Nicola enjoys the attentions of her new neighbor.G
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May to December "Time After Time" Simone is concerned that her father might be overdoing things a bit, especially regarding Zoe. Alec counters with thoughts of his own.G
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As Time Goes By "Judith's New Romance" Judy has a new romantic interest. Sandy is evasive. Jean believes there is a problem but her efforts on her daughter's behalf lead to further complications.G
8:00 pm
Last of the Summer Wine "Variations on a Theme of Father's Day" Hobbo, still believing that Nelly is his mother, convinces Howard to eavesdrop on her conversations with Pearl. Aware Howard is listening, they give him an earful.G
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As Time Goes By Reunion Special "2 of 2" Lionel introduces Patrick to Jean. They tell her how Lionel became a benefactor to Patrick and his family so that they all consider Lionel their father. Jean then takes special delight in introducing Patrick to Penny as Lionel's son. Everyone ends up at the hospital where Patrick works when Rocky injures himself line dancing.G
9:30 pm
Mr. Bean "Mr. Bean Goes to Town" When Mr. Bean's new camera is stolen, he catches the thief in an unusual police lineup.G
10:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Canyonlands Calling" Cameras roam desert expanses, narrow canyons, mountains and rock formations of the southwest corner of Idaho. Participants reveal how eight years of collaborative effort among many interests can culminate in the federal Owyhee Initiative that includes many uses, including designated wilderness.G
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Dialogue "Food Safety and Biomedical Research" How safe is our nation's food system? Carolyn Bohach is a microbiologist from the University of Idaho who specializes in studying E. coli and food safety. This week on Dialogue, host Joan Cartan-Hansen talks with Bohach about her research and ways we can prevent E. coli breakouts.G
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My Hero "The Party's Over" George does not understand the concept of a surprise birthday party for Janet but is determined to plan the event.G
11:30 pm
Reggie Perrin Reggie becomes the boss at Groomtech and, armed with the freedom to do as he wishes, decides to have some fun by introducing a new kind of product to the company. Meanwhile, his neglected wife Nicola enjoys the attentions of her new neighbor.G


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Flow of child immigrants at border slowing for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — The flood of children crossing the Mexican border illegally and without their parents has slowed down in recent weeks, two senior Obama administration officials said.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas have found fewer than 500 children crossing the border illegally this week, the officials said Friday. Last month, agents arrested as many as 2,000 child immigrants a week.
The Obama administration has been struggling to deal with a flood of more than 57,000 children traveling alone since Oct. 1. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said earlier this month that as many as 90,000 unaccompanied child immigrants could be apprehended by the end of the budget year in September. Most of the children are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
The volume of child immigrants has significantly taxed resources at the Homeland Security and Health and Human Services departments in recent months and prompted President Barack Obama to ask Congress to approve an emergency $3.7 billion spending bill to deal with the situation he has called an "urgent humanitarian crisis."
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the latest trends in border arrests, said Friday it's too soon to know what has led to drop in border arrests. They said illegal border crossings along the Mexican border tend to slow during the summer.
Customs and Border Protection has launched a public relations campaign to warn would-be immigrants and their families in Central America that the trip to the U.S. border is dangerous and immigrant children will face deportation after they are apprehended. But since the trip through Mexico can take weeks or even months, recent border crossers are unlikely to have seen much of the campaign.
Obama is scheduled to host a White House meeting with the presidents of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala next week to discuss the problem.

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text: I dont know where that ideas thread or forum is gone but can you make it so that anyone with neg rep can not start new threads? That way if there are no mods on while people spam the boards, any member will be able to stop them? Just an idea after reading 15 posts about how to make money posting links or something!!


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One in three Canadians plan to attend religious services this Christmas, well exceeding the number of people who tuned into the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup Final combined, according to a nationwide survey.
Polling finds that 32% of the population, or roughly 10 million people, will attend a special service this Christmas, compared to the 4.5 million who tuned in to see the Roughriders defeat the Tiger-Cats and 3.4 million who watched the Blackhawks beat the Bruins.
The pews' popularity is especially notable in light of the dramatic rise in the number of citizens professing no religious affiliation — 23.9%, versus 16.5 % a decade prior — and shrinking presence of Christians in particular: 67.3% of Canadians in 2011, down from 76.6% in 2001.
"It provides a reminder of what's possible," said Reginald Bibby, a professor of sociology at the University of Lethbridge and leading Canadian expert on religious trends.
"This is hardly a time for leaders to respond by chastising people for packing the place once a year. That would be like the lame sports owner who looks at the sold-out park and complains, 'Yah, the place is jammed, but the fans don't come out all that often.' "
Special service attendance will include 18 per cent of Canadians who only show up at Christmastime, and 14 per cent of Canadians who are church "regulars."
Outside Quebec, 48 per cent of Catholics plan to attend a Christmas service this week, representing more than double the 23 per cent that attend regular mass. Inside Quebec, Christmas attendance by Catholics is expected to hit 38 per cent, up from just 13 per cent of regular worshippers.
The United Church should see numbers climb from 29 per cent to 47 per cent, while the Anglican Church will similarly jump from 20 per cent to a whopping 53 per cent. Evangelical churches, which boast more robust year-round attendance, are set for a modest spike from 44 per cent to 58 per cent.
"It means that faith, led by Christianity, continues to be important for a sizable number of Canadians," said Bibby. "(But) the finding that two in three people are not in Christmas services is also a reminder of the current Canadian religious reality of polarization."
The Angus Reid Global survey was conducted online on Dec. 10 with 1,508 Canadians. Results are considered accurate within 2.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.


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When 25-year-old Adel Charles drove herself to her last pre-birth check-up, she crossed and fingers and hoped for everything to go smoothly. When the mom-to-be left her clinic, she got bad news of a completely different kind. According to Scotland's This Is Croydon Today, the police officer writing her a ticket saw her coming out of the clinic but gave her the ticket, saying she should've "waddled faster."
The mother of one thought her appointment might take about 20 minutes, but on the off chance that her doctor's appointment ran late, she put a full hour on the meter. Charles left the clinic just four minutes after her meter ran out and saw a police officer writing her a ticket. She pleaded with him to not give her the ticket, saying, "You could see me waddling as fast as I could." The officer responded, "Well, you should've waddled faster," laughed and drove off on his moped. The mother told the newspaper that his harsh words following some bad news about her baby's health brought her to tears.
Plus: Pregnant Women May Get Free Parking in NYC
In Charles' part of Scotland, drivers are typically allowed a five-minute grace period once the meter expires. She hopes to appeal the £30-ticket but knows that only 0.2 of these cases get overturned.
What was the most insulting thing someone said or did to you while you were pregnant? Do you think pregnant women should be afforded a little extra courtesy?


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The team bus and an automobile were involved in a minor accident. By the time the police had filed their reports, it was too late to attend the banquet. Lipscomb Bisons coach Charles Morrow had to find an alternate location for his team to eat lunch.
Wearing of the white: During the NCAA baseball regional at Athens, Ga., this past season the Bisons made news by donning white shoes for the first time.
While not as dramatic a change, the Bisons soccer team dressed in long-sleeved white jerseys for the first time this season in the 2-1 win over Mercer at the Eakes Athletic Complex on the Campbell University campus Wednesday. They had worn white before, but this was the first time they had worn long sleeves.
The change in uniforms was timely. The temperature was in the 50s to start the game and slipped into the 40s after the sun went down.
It's all about the shoes: Speaking of shoes, sophomore forward Miguel DaSilva has been wearing orange shoes all season. Freshman forward Garret Pettis has joined DaSilva in the fashion statement. They must work since they are the two leading scorers on the team.
DaSilva wears the colorful footwear in every game. Pettis usually saves his orange shoes for Sunday games, but decided to break them out for the tournament opener.
Page visits: Ben Page, a former record-setting forward for the Bisons, visited with the team before the Mercer game and stayed to watch the quarterfinal performance. He He played this past season for the Charlotte Eagles in pro soccer. He is also an assistant coach at Southern Wesleyan University, an NAIA school near Clemson, S.C.
Page and DaSilva are the only members of the Bisons' soccer team to earn First Team honors on the A-Sun All-Conference team. Pettis and DaSilva are the only Bisons' players to be unanimous selections to the A-Sun All-Freshman Team.


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Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU) is the first private institution of higher learning in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia licensed by the Ministry of Higher Education and located in the Al-Khobar region of the Eastern Province. The initiative to establish the university was taken by a group of renowned individuals from the Eastern Province under the auspices of HRH Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Bin Abdulaziz.
PMU adopts the north American model of education and its system (administrative, financial and academic programs) was designed by Texas International Educational Consortium (TIEC). TIEC is a consortium of 32 American universities in Texas.
The PMU is a learning-centered community where the emphasis is on the students, technology infuses the education experience, and students graduate with unique competencies that empower them and enable them to contribute to the Kingdom's business and industrial community. These qualities make the PMU a unique institution in Saudi Arabia, yet the PMU is unquestionably a Saudi university. It fully embodies the cultural and religious values of the Saudi people.Less...
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P.O. Box 1664
Al Khobar 31952
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


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Wet food tips?
Hi guys!
My kitties are cute as a button, but one of them has become really sick, bloody poop, vomit, etc. We are currently seeing the vet in regards to this and have been switched to prescription Fibre Food. And they think he has IBD.
Since we have 2 kitties, my boyfriend is a student, and I am the one keeping us afloat, can anyone reccomend any affordable foods to give my cats? Or any tips on how to settle his stomach?
They have been on lots of different foods in their life. Mostly dry kibbles.
1 -2 Months : When we got the cats they were being fed walmart own brand wet food, and dollarama dry food. We threw this out, and put them onto IAMS Kitten kibble.
2 -6 Months: IAMS kitten kibble.
6 - 8 Months: After reading about the badness of kibble, I switched to a home made food, that included chicken hearts, chicken breast, eggs, peas and rice. I made a batch and froze it. Given I was working full time, I ended up stopping this fairly soon as I kept forgetting to defrost the food the night before.
8 -12 months: A bix box with a mix of Whiskas tasty morsels, Whatever the blue label cat food brand is in Metro, and Compliments cat food. I mixed them all together, as they seems to get frequently bored of the same food.
12 - 16 months: Costo dry kibble - they didnt seem to like this as much as their mix up, but they started to enjoy it after a few months.
at about 16 months, Bandit started to throw up when he was alone, or getting really excited. One day both of them threw up, and I just threw out all the food we had in the house.
I bought IAM Anti-Hairball and they have had it for roughly 1 month.
Since my male cat, Bandit, is being sick, pooping blood. I have decided its time to get of the grainy crap they pass off as cat food and buy something better for him.
I went to the pet store and bought 4 different kinds of wet food:
Royal Canin Digest Sensitive - He LOVED this food.
Science Diet Limited Ingredients - Both flavors - He was not keen on this one --ops i mean natures balance!
Nutrience - Duck & Rabbit - turned his nose up wouldnt eat.
Nutrience - Local Ingredients Duck and Sweet potato - not tried.
I realise giving him lots of different foods in such a short time spam, especially over the last week with all the different canned foods is not good for him, but I am at my wits end trying to get him to eat.
The 2 days after he ate the Royal Canin he was not sick, or pooping blood. I wonder if this is co-incidence or an improvement?
I know nothing about wet food and what is good for a cat, so does anyone know any affordable cat foods that might work for him?
P.S This is my sick cat...what a cutie!
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A crossword to develop understanding of dialects and the language needed to discuss them. The interactive version can be used as a whole-group warm-up or assessment activity. A computer and data projector are required for face-to-face tutorials. It is not suitable for Elluminate tutorials. The print version is suitable for pair-work. This activity was made with Hot Potatoes software, which can be downloaded free of charge from http://hotpot.uvic.ca/index.php


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While a new farm bill remains in limbo until at least after the November elections, some conclusions can be made — based on the current Senate and House versions — about how the final legislation might look.
"Regardless of when the farm bill is finished, there will be a big shift from commodity program tools for managing risks to insurance tools," says Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M University Extension economist and co-director of the Agricultural Food and Policy Center.
"Insurance tools do not have a floor. It's not a huge problem, but it's different from what producers and lenders are accustomed to. There will be a huge role for educators."
Outlaw, along with other economists, discussed the farm bill during the recent Southern Region Agricultural Outlook Conference, held Sept. 24-26 in Atlanta.
Prior to the 2008 farm bill expiring on Sept. 30, the House and Senate recessed, leaving several options.
During a lame-duck session after the election, both houses of Congress could consider a full, five-year bill; a three-month extension of the 2008 law; or a one-year extension of the 2008 law. The Senate has already passed its version of a new farm bill but the House's version never came up for a floor vote.
(For complete coverage of 2012 farm bill developments, click here).
There definitely will be a big shift from commodity programs to insurance programs, says Outlaw. "I firmly believe we'll have limitations on insurance. It doesn't make sense to limit the payout, but I fully expect the subsidies to be cut back. It's a challenging time. My expectation is that they will put the farm bill within some other bill, and it'll be done sometime after the election. I don't see it dragging out too much farther," he says.
The version of the farm bill approved by the House Committee on Agriculture offers choices to producers, and Outlaw believes the final legislation will have that feature.
Should be a choice
"I think there will be choice," says Outlaw. "We work closely with the House, and it's a No. 1 priority for them to give farmers a choice and let them pick what is best for them. I'll think they'll fight for that to the end, and that it'll be in the final bill."
Some producers will hate those choices, and some will embrace them, he says, but either way, there will be less of a safety net available to farmers.
"My concerns as a policy educator is that we have to come up with a good decision aid for producers," says Outlaw. "I think the safety net will be substantially less. They'll put more money in crop insurance, but crop insurance is risk-based, and if you don't have problems you won't get paid. Regardless of what happens, there will be less of a safety net for producers going forward. It'll all be about money and getting the final votes to get this bill done."
It's a tough time, he says, to get things done in Washington, D.C., especially when it comes to deciding which elements of the farm bill take the largest cuts.
"To get more of the Tea Party House members on board, you need to make the nutrition program smaller, but then you lose people from the Democratic side if you take too much. Ultimately, I think they'll take more money from commodity programs, says Outlaw.
For those who work with decision aids and education for producers, there's a lot to do, he says. "It's not going to be easy for producers to decide which farm program to sign up for. As an Extension community, we have to come together to develop decision aids."
As far as farm bills beyond the one currently being debated, Outlaw isn't very optimistic. "In the world of Washington and the sequestration, broader cuts are coming. In the next farm bill, I believe crop insurance will be the only safety net. I don't see the political will there to fight for it."
A recent report from an international organization stated that the amount of spending on farm programs in developed countries throughout the world is going down, and that's a trend that'll probably continue, says Keith Coble, Mississippi State University Extension economist.
"This is where we're at, to a large extent," said Coble at the outlook conference. "We're likely going to be spending less on farm programs 10 years from now than we are today. That's the trend we're currently seeing."
Biggest change in recent years
The biggest farm policy change in recent years, he says, has been the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), and it's not even in the farm bill. "If it didn't exist, the dynamics of this debate would be changed. It's genius, in some respect, that the corn industry got support that doesn't cost the budget anything," says Coble.
Farm bill discussions are centering only on so-called "shallow-loss" programs as a substitute for the direct payment, he says. A decade ago, everyone was concerned about the WTO, but now no one cares because we're spending less, he adds.
"The cynical side of me says we can't defend direct payments that are not risk-related to the general public. So we'll try to develop a program that pays every other year rather than every year. The idea was to find a way to pay out the direct payments, with a reduction, two and a half times over a five-year farm bill. It'll work out something like that.
"People should recognize that with most of these shallow-loss programs, the best guess is that you'll get a payment two years out of five, but it could be one year out of five over the course of the farm bill," he says.
The process involves layering programs on top of crop insurance, says Coble.
"We've got shallow-loss programs that are FSA-delivered and shallow-loss programs that are crop insurance-delivered. We used to have a situation where commodity programs were price-triggered, commodity programs were yield-triggered, and we'd add on disaster payments. We kept those separate. Now, we've got revenue programs that look almost identical except one is delivered by FSA and one is delivered by the crop insurance industry. One is free while one has a rate, though it may be highly subsidized."
Crop insurance programs currently don't have payment limitations, he says, and FSA programs do have payment limitations, along with conservation compliance. That will bear watching as the debate continues, says Coble.
Southern participation in crop insurance traditionally has been low, he says. "It has been somewhat of a teachable moment in our state in the last couple of years. Producers in Mississippi have started paying attention to this program. A decade ago, there was a lot of misinformation and ambivalence, but now there's a renewed interest."
Producers need to remember that there is a range and premium associated with crop insurance, says Coble.
"They took the program from the Midwest, brought it to the South, and the parameters weren't right. They've spent a lot of time in the past several years trying to fix some of these things, and I think they've gotten better, but how much better is still a question," he says.
Coble agrees with Outlaw that educators will have a key role in a new farm bill.
"We've talked to people about programs and decision aids — we did it with ACRE and SURE. Those programs were just too complicated to understand, and some of the programs in these farm bill proposals are too complicated.
"Most of these shallow-loss programs are county-triggered, and farmers don't have a good grasp of the probability of the county triggering at the time they need to trigger and at the amount they need to trigger. We need to start talking to people about the fundamentals of risk."


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New Rudys in black matte with ImpactX clear, photochromatic lenses. In Seattle, it's often gray with varying light conditions and these lenses cut the glare, adjust to the sun or lack theroeof, and yes they do it fast.
We've got the Noyz on test with the Exowinds and taking them with us to Austin, during the Mobile Social SXSW.
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text: An interdisciplinary medical team, known as the Dream Team, is composed of top-notch doctors trying to deliver top-notch medical care to their patients. Park Tae Shin (Kwon Sang Woo) is a surgical genius who often offends people with his overly straightforward mannerisms. Seo Joo Young (Jung Ryu Won) is a charismatic and ambitious thoracic surgeon. Han Seung Jae (Joo Ji Hoon) is a renowned internist whose easy-going façade hides an iron-cold resolve. Choi An Jin (Oh Yeon Seo) is a new thoracic surgeon with tremendous enthusiasm and energy. Kim Seong Woo (Choi Minho), an easy-going thoracic surgeon, is the youngest member of the team. They work alongside Jang Yong Seop (Ahn Nae Sang), the chief of surgery, Bae Sang Kyu (Alex Chu), the medical imaging specialist, and surgical nurses Yoo Hye Ran (Lee Hee Jin) and Yeo Min Ji (Jo Woo Ri). Can the Dream Team work through their interpersonal conflicts and personal pain to provide the best patient care? "Medical Top Team" is a 2013 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Do Hoon.


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Guest column by Ridgecrest mayor highlights need to support Inyokern UAS site bid, city's 50th anniversary.
Let's talk economic development. What if we were to receive one of the FAA's six test site designations? What can the Indian Wells Valley expect from such an opportunity? No one knows for sure, but I believe we can expect a large number of high-paying jobs in the fields of science and engineering, as well as support industries. Our business community can expect increased revenues in hotels, restaurants, shops, and home values. We should and must pursue the possibility of the fabrication of UAS right here in Ridgecrest, thus expanding our economic base. We can also expect the Inyokern Airport will become more attractive with significant increases in construction projects and revenues. We can expect to see a population increase in the Indian Wells Valley. We estimate from the construction and technical job increases a multiplier of 4 to 1. The final phase of this request for proposal will encompass a site visit to the Inyokern Airport and surrounding communities. We are expecting to hear the results of the FAA decision within the next few months. I leave you with a quote from our 1st District Supervisor, Mick Gleason "I honestly believe that in the final analysis, there really is only one 'best' place in America to do UAS development and test work and that is Inyokern, California."
The City of Ridgecrest is celebrating its Golden Anniversary – 50 Years of Excellence. Here are the events planned so far in chronological order leading up to and including November 1, 2, and 3:
1) Saturday, May 18, 8 a.m. – 11 a.m., Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser at the Elks Lodge
Chair – Peggy Spraker
2) Saturday, June 29, 8 a.m. – 1p.m., 50th Anniversary Community Leader Golf Tournament
Chairs – Wes Gleason – Dan Clark
3) Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, City of Ridgecrest "50 Year Time Capsule Installment" at the USO Building
(Free to the public)
4) Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 Film Fest USO Building 10am – 4pm "Photographs of Change, Images of 50 years" (Free to the public)
5) November 2, Sat., 10am – 4pm, Photographs of Change, Images of 50 Years – USO Building (Free to the public) Chair Alan Alpers
6) Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., 50th Anniversary Parade (Free to the public)
Chairs – Kathy Armstrong – Chuck and Doreen Ball
7) Saturday, Nov. 2, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. – Balsam District Street Fair/Concert/Health Fair/Youth Activities (Free) Chairs - Justin O'Neill – Mathew Alexander
8) Saturday, Nov. 2, 2pm – 8 p.m., 50th Anniversary Community Dinner/Taste of Ridgecrest/Dignitaries Recognition and Speeches/ Reception/ Fashion Show
Chairs - Natalie Dorrell – Alan Alpers
9) Sunday, Nov. 3, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. – 50th Anniversary Community Picnic/ Potluck
Chair – Gloria Longo
Our next planning meeting will be May 14 at 2:30 p.m. in City Hall. I am personally inviting all community members and service organizations who want to be a part of this historic event to please attend and become involved. It is our goal to involve every element of the community in this celebration. If you cannot attend this meeting please call me at the city number 760-499-5062 and we will forward your information to the appropriate event chair.
The Pancake Breakfast on May 18 (8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Elks the Lodge) will also be our 50th Anniversary kickoff event where you can obtain advertising materials and personal memorabilia of this historic event. Please attend and let's make our anniversary a truly memorable occasion.


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Nurturing Parenting-Mini Lessons
Date: March 24, 2013
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Elmore County once again has its own full-time veterans service officer to assist veterans find answers to questions they might have about their veterans benefits.
"There has been an office here in Elmore County," said the county's new veterans service officer Steven Reeves, who currently works out of an office on Hill Street, but will eventually move to the Elmore County Courthouse. "They had an individual covering both Autauga and Elmore counties and she left to take another position. So then they had an individual covering Elmore County who also covered Tallapoosa County. He was coming down here twice a week."
"Back in November, the (state Department of Veterans Affairs) hired two new veterans services officers. One is covering Autauga County and I'm covering Elmore County. I'm here five days a week, Monday through Friday, from 8 to 5."
Reeves, a veteran himself originally from Mobile, was an aircraft mechanic in the Air Force for 21 years. He has lived in Elmore County for the last 10 years.
He says as a veterans service officer (VSO), he seeks to help veterans in myriad ways.
"We assist veterans and their family members with any benefits they may be entitled to," Reeves said. "Those can include like helping them get their DD2-14, which is their discharge papers. We can assist with burial benefits for veterans, compensation claims for like VA disability. We don't make any decisions on any of this. We just assist in maybe doing the paperwork or pointing people in the right direction.
"We also can assist them with filling out the paperwork for the Alabama Dependent GI Bill, if they qualify for it. That's a state program. If a veteran qualifies, one of their dependents can go to school. We can also assist them with correction of military records, spousal benefits, a number of different things."
Reeves is set to begin his third full month as a VSO, one of which was devoted to training him for his new role.
"I started Nov. 1," Reeves said. "I had 30 days of training and I've been in this office by myself since Dec. 1. Traffic's been picking up. We just want veterans and their family members to know that we're available and we're here to assist them.
"I can't say enough that we're here to assist our veterans. We don't make appointments. It's a walk-in, first come, first served operation. If I can't get them an answer I'll do everything I can to put them in touch with the people who can get them answer."
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Maybe your experience with whole grains is like mine: For years I wanted to include more of them in my family's diet. I would try them, one after another — quinoa, wheat berries, farro, spelt — a meal with each, and the remainder of the uncooked grain would sit in the pantry for months, and then we'd feed it to the chicks. I liked some of them well enough. But not well enough to make them again and again.
I've been wondering when a whole-grains cookbook would make a thorough convert of me, my husband, and even our young children. So when "Grain Mains," by veteran cookbook team Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, came along, I set out to discover if they had, in fact, successfully supplied that need.
Our first ventures were not entirely promising. Oat and amaranth pancakes have a pleasing texture, and they behave more nicely in the pan than ordinary pancakes, and they also don't leave you in glycemic withdrawal an hour later. But it takes a lot of maple syrup to make them taste like much of anything.
Falafel burgers, fried in a skillet in minimal oil, offer a passable imitation of deep-fried falafel, though they won't satisfy the confirmed falafaholic. The harissa sauce you make to accompany them is truly disappointing, unless you salt it liberally. Wheat berry salad with zucchini, boiled lemon, and almonds assembles an interesting variety of textures without entirely adding up in taste (I wonder if the boiled lemons were meant as an easy-to-find substitute for the more rousing taste of preserved lemons).
But as we explored further with one whole-grain entree after another, the recipes began to deliver consistently pleasing results. Many are also remarkably quick to prepare, if you don't count the overnight pre-softening soak required by a number of whole grains.
Farro with nectarines, basil, and toasted pine nuts teeters intriguingly on a fruity, salty balance beam, the salty ricotta salata and sharp edge of fresh basil powerful and soothing against the faintly nutty backdrop of the farro. A "Lebanese-inspired" brown rice salad with chickpeas and grapes makes a great fast weeknight meal, and if you happen to have sumac and Aleppo pepper on hand (which the authors suggest as a substitute for paprika and black pepper), the outcome turns out as redolent of spice as a Middle Eastern grocery.
Thinking back on it later, I felt it might have been unfair to waste a recipe test on quinoa with asparagus and shiitakes, since I have long known that asparagus and shiitakes together make a surefire combination. But at least I can report that even quinoa, my least favorite whole grain, rocks the gustatory boat with that pairing. A sprinkling of orange rind is an inspired stroke, simultaneously adding light and sweetness. A dish of stir-fried buckwheat groats (the unhulled berries of the grain) draws on an old technique — coating the groats in egg before toasting them, then simmering them in broth, and it uses sesame oil for stir-frying an Asian-style dish. The egg merely separates the groats, the oil doesn't smoke, the aromatics sweat out nicely, and the whole thing is a hit at the table.
Although you might not at first think of sweet corn as a whole grain, a mock ceviche with roasted corn and shrimp makes a very welcome addition to the collection. The combination of lime, radishes, bright red onion, and cilantro has a summery seductiveness, and I ended up making it three times in two weeks despite being busy with testing other dishes.
It's not a small task: converting us refined-carb-loving masses to the gospel of whole grains. But Scarbrough and Weinstein know what they're doing, and they use a free hand with flavorful ingredients and varied textures, anything to avoid the specter of a long, boring, beige meal.
"Grain Mains" may not, in the final reckoning, be the whole-grains cookbook that will change your life, assure your longevity, and hand you the keys to the heaven of righteous eaters. But at the moment, I can't think of a better one.T. Susan Chang can be reached at email@example.com.


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Destroying Detroit (in Order to Save It)
It took over 300 years to build this city. It'll take about four to knock it down. Howie Kahn rides shotgun with the men who are demolishing the abandoned, godforsaken homes of Detroit—all 70,000 of them—and paving the way for one last shot at the future
The massive twelve-wheeled demolition truck rumbles down the street and lures the neighbors out to gripe. It's not that the truck or the driver, Lorenzo Coney, are unwelcome. The people here just want to know what's taken them so long.
On this June morning, with the heat and humidity rising, residents emerge from their homes one by one: mostly women, mostly older, mostly taking care of their mothers and grandkids. They've been calling the city, they say, for years without response and feel as abandoned as the houses that surround them—the foreclosed, devitalized structures that require immediate wrecking. They have questions for Lorenzo. Comprehensive to-do lists for this man who has powerful machines and, so, they figure, actual power. They ask when the dead trees are coming down. They want to know when the drug dealing will stop. Does Lorenzo's boss have a job for their sons, by any chance? Or for their nephews? Or what about for themselves? They can still work, they say. They can lift things. Handle a shovel. Run a hose. They pointat any number of vacancies on their street: "You tearing down this one? What about this one? How about this one?"
When they find out Lorenzo's only there for one house, they seethe. "But those are drug houses," they demand, imploring the crew to tear them all down, imploring me to somehow tear them all down. "That one," they say, "somebody got raped in. You're not taking that one down? Are you serious? I called about that one. I called. And called. When are you doing that one? You should be here all day. All week. All year."
Lorenzo explains he's only a wrecker; he's not the mayor. He's simply following orders, knocking down houses as fast as he can.
"I can do twenty a day," says Lorenzo, standing outside a Craftsman-style bungalow at 18058 Joann. This house took the better part of 1926 to build. Crews of men dug a hole, poured a foundation, assembled floor bridging and ceiling joists and a truss for the roof. Shingles were laid down, one at a time. Wooden siding was hung. Mortar was spread and bricks were stacked. By the time the house was completed, it boasted a gable roof, central dormer windows, and generous eaves shading a balustraded veranda. Covering 1,300 square feet, it had a couple of bedrooms, a bathroom, a small kitchen, and a light-filled parlor facing the street. It was priced for a worker—less than $4,000 new—and meant, for a family, a future.
It will take Lorenzo and his two-man crew from Farrow Demolition Incorporated thirty-six minutes to destroy it. It will be their fourth wreck of the day. By 9:30 a.m., 1718 Field, 3911 Beaconsfield, and 13103 Canfield have all been reduced to rubble, having met the mechanized violence of the CAT 330D L excavator. From house to garbage in the time it takes to do a load of laundry. Soon one of Farrow's drivers will collect the remains and haul them to the landfill—eighty-year-old houses, each ground down into a hundred tons of trash and dumped from the back of a truck. In the end, the house is just one more useless thing.
Thirteen local wrecking crews have been hired to demolish 10,000 of these forsaken houses, riding up and leveling them with brute hydraulic force. Detroit had erected itself as a city of freestanding single-family homes: Victorians, neo-Gothics, boxy Foursquares, Greek and Tudor Revivals. But mostly it's a city of small, sweet, low-slung bungalows like the one on Joann that's about to be demolished so that Detroit might thrive again.
In 1950, with nearly 2 million people living within its boundaries, Detroit was the fifth-largest city in America. Over a forty-year period, the auto industry had boomed in a way that changed the country, and Detroit's population more than sextupled. But starting in the '50s, the city fell into decline. Factories closed. Jobs vanished. In the wake of the 1967 riots, race relations collapsed and the city became increasingly segregated. By 1980 the population had dwindled to 1.2 million. With far fewer Detroiters to shelter, many of the city's houses were orphaned, threatening the existence and safety of everything around them. Blight metastasized across town, leaving much of the housing stock better suited for crackheads and squatters than for legitimate investors, possible gentrifiers, or working-class families with any remaining desire to stay. Today only 700,000 souls call Detroit home, and nearly a fourth of the city's houses—a number approaching 72,000 units—are empty.
In March 2010, after ten months in office, Detroit's mayor, Dave Bing—former Piston, NBA Hall of Famer, multimillionaire founder of Bing Steel—gave his first State of the City address. In it, he made residential blight public enemy number one. "Tonight," he said, "I am unveiling a plan to demolish 3,000 dangerous residential structures this year and setting a goal of 10,000 by the end of this term." The de-blighting started immediately. The city had averaged only about 1,000 annual residential demolitions over the previous five years, and the mayor knew he had to pick up the pace. This was his problem now.
Detroit politicians have been delivering Save Detroit sermons for as long as I can remember. (I was born there in 1978.) But there was something different about Bing's speech. The mayor talked about the city as a whole, not just the nugget of Downtown that local leaders have been cradling, coddling, and polishing since the '70s. The notion of "bringing Detroit back" has always focused on several square miles of partially occupied office buildings, luxury-bod sports stadiums, and casinos—and on keeping solvent the city's most iconic contemporary-era building, the Renaissance Center, which looks like seven stacks of obscenely wad tires. (It has been the headquarters of both Ford and General Motors.) Meanwhile the neighborhoods, the places where the people actually live, have been almost uniformly scrubbed from public awareness. This neglect left everywhere but Downtown withered and has long set the rest of the city up for a comeback.
Though we're technically in the middle of the morning rush, there's hardly anyone on the road. Lorenzo, 49 and a twenty-six-year demolition vet, maneuvers his Kenworth, and the 80,000-pound excavator he's towing behind it, with ease. The temperature in the cab is calibrated to freezing. There's a plastic bag of water bottles and Amp Energy drinks sitting behind the gearshift on the floor and a smaller bag filled with oranges on a ledge behind Lorenzo's seat. "We don't stop long enough to eat anything else," he says, widening his sleepy eyes. "Sometimes I bring bananas."
Lorenzo heads up Gratiot, one of Detroit's main roads, one of six arteries that emerge from Downtown like the spokes of a wheel. It's a stretch of the city that once teemed with retail and restaurants. Life. Now, with its faded signage and trashed storefronts, it's wasted in a way that will prompt this story's photographer, Tim Hetherington, who lived in West Africa for almost a decade, and who was tragically killed Misurata, Libya on April 20th, to call me when he lands at the airport—just off the Gratiot drag—and ask whether he's somehow touched down in Kinshasa or Monrovia.
Lorenzo turns the truck into a residential pocket and stops in front of the bungalow on Joann. The zip code we're in, 48205, has the fourth-highest foreclosure rate in the city. More than half of the twenty-three homes on this block are empty. But compared with some of the other streets I've seen—where, say, a single resident remains among the charred and picked-over husks of thirty-three neighboring vacancies—this stretch doesn't seem so bad.
"Blink your eyes," says Lorenzo, nodding his head at the house. "It'll be gone." He flips a switch on the Kenworth's dash, drops the lowboy, and steps down to the street. Otis Huff, his 39-year-old machine operator, who moved here from Alabama in 1990 and worked the line at Ford before getting laid off, climbs up into the excavator and backs it off the trailer. Essentially, an excavator is a nonweaponized tank. It moves on metal treads. A swing bearing allows the cab, where the operator sits, to pivot a full 360 degrees. But instead of a cannon, an excavator has a boom and an arm connected to a series of hydraulic cylinders and hoses that look, when the CAT starts humming, like adrenalized veins. At the end of the arm is a 5,000-pound iron-grapple attachment with teeth. It hinges open like a giant metal mouth—twelve feet across—and closes like claws clasped in prayer.
As Otis approaches the house, Lorenzo cranks open a fire hydrant. A rush of rusty water pours out. He attaches a hose and starts spraying the house to tamp down all the dust and ash that come with obliteration. The CAT thrums insistently forward, mmmmm-hmmmm-mmmmm-hmmmm, and Otis digs the grapple into the front yard, pulling it up in pieces and laying the lawn over the sidewalk to protect it from the weight of his encroaching machine. "The city's a wreck," says Lorenzo, "but we don't treat it like that. We try not to crush anything we don't have to crush."
I witnessed fifty-three demolitions, even stepping into the excavator's cab to carry out parts of a fifty-fourth myself. Wrecking gets hypnotic in its consistency, as do the patterns of decay and decomposition. Old roofs half-collapse under the weight of snow, forcing the walls to bulge outward. Moisture eats away the insides. Mold spoils the walls, softens the floors. In the summer, the sun bakes it all to a high stink and turns it crisp as tinder. Nature takes over. Trees sprout through the dormers. Animals get comfortable. We see this everywhere we go. Lorenzo runs down the list: 8125 Mt. Olivet. 4173 Pennsylvania. 14224 Blackstone. It's like he's reading the names of the missing, the dead. So many innocent onetime starter homes, built on credit and striving, now in foreclosure. The holding company writes it off as a loss. And unless some crusading neighborhood association acts as a sentry, no one's watching the house anymore. In essence, it belongs to nobody—or to everybody. Because once a house becomes worthless and unwanted—even by the most intrepid gentrifiers and "freegans"—it's everybody's problem. Everybody's crime scene.
Menace seeks a vacuum, and vacancies attract undesirables in waves. The scavengers hit first, picking a house clean of whatever valuables remain. It's not legal, but that doesn't stop people from pulling up in a junked-out van, taking an ax to the front door, and shouldering their way inside. They bust open the walls and the ceilings, strip copper from the wires. They drag out the furnace and the stove and anything else with enough metal to be exchanged for cash at the scrap yards whose ads hang all over town. Scrap metal in increments less than a ton isn't worth much these days, but when there's block after block of houses to pick through, getting to a ton isn't so hard. The pipes go next. If the water is still on, the basement floods. The scrappers would steal the bricks, too, if they were worth anything—if construction were still something that happened in Detroit.
"When I see guys stripping a house, I just want to kick their asses," says Arthur Edge, one of the city's eleven dangerous-buildings inspectors. "They always say, 'But it's empty.' And I tell them, 'You're not home right now. Your house is empty, too. What if I go over and take out your windows and your pipes?' "
Edge is 54, with a solemn, arched mustache and hands heavy as sledgehammers. He grew up on the northwest side, delivering Smokey Robinson's newspapers. By the time Edge reaches a house, it's likely been picked over already. He cruises the city constantly, responding to calls from concerned neighbors, converting blighted homes into data—his department's inventory, the master hit list of what needs wrecking. For Edge, a good day includes getting forty houses onto the city's preliminary demolition list.
There are no conservation groups or historical preservationists attempting to save these blocks. Only the lawless resist demolition. Tim Sherman, who runs an excavator for Adamo Demolition, another company deputized by city hall to get the blight out, has a story about some truant kids setting his rig on fire. His brother Paul, also a wrecker at Adamo, has one about a woman who offered him a blow job in exchange for sparing the house she and her family were squatting in. Mark, the youngest Sherman brother and Adamo's field superintendent, tells me about a drug-filled couch buried beneath the rubble of a house he'd demolished. Dealers hid their stash under the cushions and showed up at the job site toting AK-47's, demanding it be recovered. Quickly it was.
Wreckers in Detroit are like human Google Maps: They track all the physical changes—the torn-down houses, the fires, the new vacancies—practically in real time. They've also developed a finely tuned sense of protection that the city at large greatly lacks. Ask a wrecker here what he does and you won't hear him talking about demolishing anything. When wreckers get talking, they talk primarily about making things safe.
"Before we can put a hole in a house," explains Mike Farrow, owner of Farrow Demolition, "we have to make sure it's clear. The city doesn't clear it. If there's squatters, dealers, crackheads in there, we've gotta get 'em out." Farrow is 41 years old, six feet tall, 250 pounds. He's sitting behind the wheel of a Silverado pickup in baggy jeans, an oversize black polo, and a black baseball cap displaying his company's logo, a red five-sided polygon in the shape of a house. A Nighthawk Predator pistol is holstered under his shirt. "One time I was clearing a house," says Farrow, "and I got cut. The guy thought I was a cop. He was all doped up and slashed me with a knife." Wreckers and inspectors enter these houses never knowing who or what lurks inside. They could be empty but could just as easily provide cover for the impulsively violent, the mentally unstable, or some solo junkie intent on protecting his daily ritual of dissolving into the ruins.
Once a structure is finally approved by the city council for teardown, it usually takes several more months for the water company to come shut off the supply and the energy company to shuttle over in two separate crews to kill the electricity and the gas. If the house has not been burned out, an asbestos-abatement crew comes in to deal with the hazardous material—stripping everything off the walls, shaving down the wood, and leaving the house looking as if it was built not with lumber but with frail and sallow bones. A board-up crew might be dispatched to spend a couple of hours sealing off the structure with screw guns and custom-cut sheets of plywood to secure it until it gets demolished. Those crews work twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and are led by men like Orlando Robinson, an ex-Marine. "Sometimes I'll get a call from the city at 2 a.m. and I'll get right out there," he says while boarding up a house at 18891 Anglin in one-hundred-degree heat. "You get a call from the city of Detroit in the middle of the night? You get to work fast."
Most of the time, though, Robinson can't get there in time to stop the vultures—or the dealers who colonize skeleton houses with working stoves and convert them into crack and meth labs. One Detroit resident living not far from the city's northern boundary, 8 Mile Road, described the weekly gatherings at a vacant house on her street. All week, she said, the house was dark and empty. But on Thursday nights the men would start showing up. On foot, on bikes, in shiny cars. They'd line up out the door, down the block: tall and short, plump and emaciated, some of them shirtless. Going in standing stiff. Coming out limp, loose, detached. It went on like that all weekend, she said. A steady stream of users until late Sunday night.
Usually, though, there's no pattern. Chaos breaks out randomly. Last year five Detroit police officers were shot inside a vacant house on Schoenherr, one fatally. Any of these structures can host a murder, any day, any time, like the one on Maddelein, where the body of an abducted 21-year-old man was found shot dead in August of 2009. Any of the unlivables can go up in flames or become the scene of a rape. That's the neighbors' greatest concern: "Kids get raped in there. Walking to school. Coming home from school. Anyone can grab 'em." I heard it all over the city. Dozens of times. Mike Farrow once saw a boy fleeing an empty lot on Beaufait. His rapist, obese and half-dressed, was buttoning his pants as the boy escaped.
There's a wrecker's paradox in Detroit: Repetition is the thing that keeps them working and also the thing that breaks their hearts. Because Detroit is a city of single-family homes, not apartment buildings, there is an enormous number of structures to tear down. For some of these guys, it amounts to year after year of wrecking houses.
Paul Sherman comes from a wrecking family. His father, Allen, wrecked for Adamo, too. "All I did was wreck," says Allen, 69, "and it looks like I never even did anything." The Shermans have been taking Detroit apart, hoping to make it something better, for more than forty years. "There was a time," says Paul, "when I was married and I'd come home and my wife would say to me, 'Why are you yelling at us?' And it was because I didn't know who to vent it at. I used to take it out on the houses, but after a while it's like, fuck, that doesn't do anything. There's always another one. And another one. I've made a good living doing this, but it's gotta fucking stop sooner or later. I'll keep going, I'll finish the job, but something's gotta give."
Wreckers hide it, but when you spend weeks with them, riding in their trucks, sitting in their machines, trailing them all over their job sites right out to the dump where they'll deposit the remains of a house, it becomes clear that they're a reflective and empathetic group. They're raconteurs and historians. They want you to know what they've seen in this city. They want to take you there. They believe it'll help.
Mark Sherman insists on driving me down a street called Robinwood, a few blocks from Adamo's home base. "This one," he says, "breaks me up every time I'm on it." The stretch is so blighted it seems haunted. Somehow it's totally devoid of color. All the Craftsman-style homes, with their tapered support columns and stonework porches, are empty. "You can see," says Mark, tugging on the brim of his black John Deere cap, "these were really beautiful. Unique." And he's right. They're exactly the kinds of homes young families in Portland and Los Angeles line up to live in. "This is the perfect example," he continues, "of what can happen in two years. Two years ago, this street was mostly full. This is what happens when nobody cares."
Wreckers always look ahead. "It's a process," says Mark, "but I see a future. I have to. The only other thing to do here would be to drop an A-bomb, but you can't do that. Demolition—there's the future. It paves the way to build."
These days everyone in Detroit is talking like an urban planner. You can't spend even a day driving through the city and not think in terms of land use, redevelopment, and urban identity. Entire neighborhoods, people gone and houses razed, are on their way to becoming prairies. The neo-Gothic shell of Cass Tech High School, fifteen emptied Art Deco floors of the Lee Plaza Hotel, the four remaining towers of the vacant Brewster Projects, hulked up identically off the interstate like broken soldiers locked in a standoff—they're all coming down. The question becomes: What do we do with all this space?
The loudest answers thus far have come from artists and farmers who have moved to the city, those well-meaning ecocrats and conceptualists whose beliefs are rooted in the transformative power of installation art and organic kale. Buy a house for a hundred bucks, paint it outrageously (sherbet hues, polka dots) to make a statement, and repeat until a block becomes an MFA thesis, complete with its own sustainable food system. Which is all good in terms of psychic energy and creativity, but it doesn't exactly qualify as a strategy for turning things around. Still, in Detroit, it's worth looking for good ideas everywhere—starting with the most basic resource of the city's 139 square miles. "Land itself has a value," says Mayor Bing. "We've got to figure out how to maximize and get a return on the land."
No other city of Detroit's magnitude has the opportunity to begin again. Starting over now? It's not exactly the kind of thing we do in America's cities. We don't go backward, we don't clear-cut, we don't shift toward empty to become full again. What happens next is really the great urban experiment of our time. How the city will be remade, and whether it really can be, will polarize. Planning wonks and architects, landscapers and CEOs, residents and visitors, even people who have never been to the city, all seem to be watching, harboring opinions and dream scenarios like kids playing with Legos.
At this point, only a few things are clear: The physical boundaries of the city will not shrink. Detroit will not become one big farm. Residents of certain neighborhoods will be incentivized to move. But precisely nothing can happen here unless the blight goes first. The city has $111 million in federal grant money to spend on cleaning things up. Thousands of Detroiters attended town-hall meetings in September and January with the mayor, his development ecutive, Karla Henderson, and his buildings and safety chief, Kimberly James, to discuss, with voices raised, what their city will become.
Master plans are being drawn up under a Rooseveltian rubric, the Detroit Works Project, which includes a $25 million light-rail system, an ambitious proposal for turning empty spaces into recreational greenways, and a focus on attracting sustainable industries. Completed plans are expected to be revealed in December. By then a dent should be made in Detroit's inventory of at least 10,000 dangerous buildings that need to go down, and perhaps some of the 70,000 vacancies could be rehabilitated, revitalized, and sold. "There's been a lot of administrations prior to this one that talked about demolitions," says Bing. "Everybody set these high goals but never achieved them. I wanted to be realistic in my approach. My problem is that I'm not that patient."
To the Shermans, to Lorenzo and Mike and Otis, the exact numbers don't matter. Three thousand houses down now? Ten thousand houses by 2014? Seventy thousand empty homes? To them, that's just political posturing. Building by building, it all needs to go. Whatever the count, they're more than happy to help Bing meet his goals. After the mayor's speech last year, Mike Farrow was determined to do his part to hit the 3,000-house target by December 31. "If they want me wrecking those last few houses at midnight on New Year's Eve," he told me last summer, "I'll be out there dropping those motherfuckers like the ball."*
Otis grinds the CAT forward and grapples up the trees that have grown around the front door in the two years since 18058 Joann was abandoned. Once they're gone, we get a good look at the house. The fractured balustrade, the busted dormers, the slumping gable. All the requisite municipal graffiti is tagged, Katrina-style, on both sides of the doorframe: w/cut and the date, 7/12, indicating, in blue spray paint, that the water has indeed been turned off.
The boom and arm are raised as high as they go. The grapple looms over the house. Neighbors are watching now, some setting up chairs in the street, clutching their children tight. Lorenzo has the hose trained on a spot just over the porch. "All right, baby boy," Lorenzo shouts, and Otis slams his metal through the roof. Glass crunches. Wood snaps. The grapple assaults the empty house, tearing it open. Otis starts making deeper cuts, punching all the way into the basement so the house has a place to fall. Wreckers know how to contain their messes, and for all the destruction he's unleashing, Otis is keeping things as organized as possible. Working from right to left, he picks apart one room at a time: the bedrooms, the kitchen, the bathroom. Wreckers don't dwell on the ghosts, the lives lived when these houses were homes. Up in the CAT, as it happily does its hydraulic bounce, there isn't room to memorialize: This is where a mom rocked her babies to sleep, or whatever. There's only the impulse to hit the house good, to hit it just right, and to hit it again without damaging the house next door. When you look at a completed demo site, after the remains have all been hauled away, after the hole has been backfilled with dirt, you're supposed to simply think: This is nothing.
Otis works his way into the back of the attic. The whole front of the house is off. It's like seeing an atrophied body stripped of its skin—almost too invasive. Lumber bows, then breaks like fractured ribs. Soggy pink insulation tears like weakened tissue. The grapple plunges into the roof again, jaws agape, and the force of the blow sends skyward a plume of paper and plastic crap—Domino's bos and unopened packages of First Quality adult diapers. The diapers, the bos, they're intermingling now, floating through the air, landing on the soaking-wet refuse piling up around the CAT. It could have been tires, phone books, or used heroin needles. The grille of a Dodge Neon came tumbling out of one structure. Or pairs and pairs of children's shoes, which seem as prominent on Detroit's residential blocks as weeds. "Sometimes we recover bodies," says Lorenzo. "Pit bulls, cats, people."
In a few more minutes, all that's left standing is one exterior wall until Otis, with the grapple in prayer position, drops it to the ground in one piece. "Now he's gotta munch the house," says Lorenzo, "fine as toothpicks." Otis drives the CAT right up on top of the pile—on the spears of wood, the twisted metal and fragmented brick, the limp strips of siding. With the teeth of the grapple, he starts shredding all of it, breaking 18058 Joann down, smaller and smaller, until none of its form remains.
*As of the first week of March, there are about 500 houses to go, and the city expects to reach 3,000 in April. Another 3,000 are already in process, with their utilities being cut and their paperwork moving more swiftly through the system than ever.


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UNDP partner Arup awarded by the UK Guardian for research in MontenegroMay 16, 2014
Our HIV/AIDS project gets praised for reducing carbon footprint in health sector
UNDP-administered Global Fund HIV and Tuberculosis (GFATM) grant in Montenegro was recognized by the UK Guardian for its contribution towards reducing carbon footprint in health sector.
Arup, a global firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists, was yesterday announced Consultancy of the Year for 2014 by the UK Guardian Sustainable Business Awards. The prestigious accolade recognizes a consultancy for delivery of multiple outstanding projects that have enabled clients to drive innovation rewards and impact in their sustainability initiatives.
Among three global projects submitted to the panel of judges was Arup's groundbreaking research with UNDP to measure and analyze the carbon footprint of UNDP-administered Global Fund HIV and Tuberculosis (GFATM) grants in Montenegro and Tajikistan. The undertaking also identified areas for action on climate change mitigation.
"We are proud to be one of the projects that was identified for this prestigious award," said Cihan Sultanoğlu, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. "UNDP is committed to lowering its own emissions in its operations. Our partnership with Arup and the results of this study will contribute significantly to achieving this goal."
UNDP supports countries in 'greening' their economies and lowering their carbon emissions, but it is also working in the field of global public health: UNDP is a principal recipient of grants from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria providing prevention and treatment services to millions of people living with HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in more than 25 countries amounting to $1.6 billion.
As an important actor in the field of global public health, UNDP is keen to set a good example and analyze how its health-related work contributes to climate change through the emission of greenhouse gases. The next step, obviously, is to look at ways to reduce the carbon footprint of our health-related work.
That's why UNDP commissioned a study of its Global Fund HIV and tuberculosis projects in Montenegro and Tajikistan. Together with consultants from Arup, we used standard methods of greenhouse gas accounting, as well as innovative ways to apply them for the first time in the specific context of a global health programme.
The report reveals that activities within the Response to HIV-AIDS project in Montenegro resulted in overall lower carbon intensity. This indicates that UNDP in Montenegro effectively acts as a grant distribution organization for global health initiatives, within the framework of international and national guidelines, the existing national health system capacities, as well as policies and regulations of the global health financing institution- the GFATM.
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Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2014
Arup's project for UNDP
Report: Carbon footprint of UNDP administered Global Fund HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis grants in Montenegro and Tajikistan – Project Summary, 2013 - UNDP, Arup
Blog post: Leading by example: Greening the health sector- November 29, 2013 by Dr. Christoph Hamelmann, John Macauley and Anna Boelens
Presentation: Global consultation on environmentally friendly procurement in the health sector, Dr. Christoph Hamelmann, Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – Options for Action, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 April 2014
Presentation: Greening the Health Sector – Global Health Initiatives and Climate Change, Dr. Christoph Hamelmann, 2nd Meeting Working Group Climate Change and Health European Environment and Health Task Force, Bonn, Germany 9 December 2013
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18 Years Ago: AC/DC's 'Ballbreaker' Released
The 13th AC/DC album turned out to be lucky for the Australian hard rock legends, which is why we're celebrating the Sept. 26, 1995 release of 'Ballbreaker.' The album continued their return to form after 1990's 'The Razor's Edge.'
Part of the reason for its success was the return to the fold of original drummer, Phil Rudd, who had left an impossible void to fill during his decade-long absence. Plus, there was the news of the recruitment of super-producer, Rick Rubin - master of the "back-to-what-made-you-great approach" to career resurrection - following his successful audition on 1993's 'Last Action Hero' soundtrack hit, 'Big Gun.'
With the Young brothers' songwriting confidence restored by their recent chart revival, Rudd's inimitable percussive prowess making AC/DC sound like themselves once again, and Rubin's almost religious commitment to unearthing the band's authentic '70s sound (even hunting down rare, surviving Marshall valve amplifiers - not digital), 'Ballbreaker' had all the makings of an AC/DC purist's dream-come-true, plus a little something for almost everyone.
Contagious lead-off single 'Hard as a Rock,' the melodically groovy 'Love Bomb,' and frantic album-closing title track delivered that familiar brand of cheeky hard rock fun, capable of thoroughly satisfying radio programmers. Oh-so-naughty come-ons such as 'Cover You in Oil,' 'The Honey Roll' and 'Caught With Your Pants Down' sparked involuntary chuckles from every real-life Beavis and Butthead coast-to-coast.
And there were even a few surprising deviations from stereotypical AC/DC song subjects (sex and drink and rock and roll) to be found in 'The Furor' and rousing second single, 'Hail Caesar.' But for dyed-in-the-wool AC/DC fanatics, there was no sweeter sonic cocktail than the finely-wrought, down-and-dirty, blue-collar spirit fueling comparatively understated '70s throwbacks like 'Boogie Man,' 'Burnin' Alive' and 'Whiskey on the Rocks' - all of which could have featured on 1978's 'Powerage,' in some parallel dimension of space and time.
Of course this songwriting depth and diversity didn't come easy. After insisting that AC/DC keep on honing each song to the point of impatience during pre-production, Rubin encouraged the band to rehearse them through and through, and then record together as a unit in the studio, allowing for only minimal overdubs after the fact. So, while this process duly yielded a wealth of strong material that made 'Ballbreaker' arguably their deepest album of the Brian Johnson era, apart from 'Back in Black,' it left the Young brothers' deeply disenchanted with Rubin's demanding, deliberate recording practices.
Five years later, they would choose to follow an easier way forward by calling on their older brother George and his partner Harry Vanda - producers of AC/DC's landmark early catalog - to handle 2000's 'Stiff Upper Lip.' But this all-too-comfortable family arrangement predictably delivered inconsistent and disappointing results, beyond the reliably hit-ready title cut.
So let's just focus on the album of the hour here! 'Ballbreaker' categorically showed us that with the proper tools in place - a persistent producer, metronome drummer, and a strong work ethic - even aging hard rock giants like AC/DC are capable of turning back the clock and reconnecting with the essence of their greatness - even if for a little while.


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'Dallas's return brought the usual catalogue of threats, revelations and poolside romances, but this second series of the reboot has a giant Stetson-shaped shadow hanging over it.
It was business as usual for both generations of Ewings... the saintly Christopher desperately wooing racing driver Ricky Rudd - I kid you not - to drive on his beloved methane. Yep, me neither, while Bobby was reeling from the news that his wife Anne had a secret daughter. Of course she did. You could tell furrowed Bobby was raging within at this treachery. He even moved his hand out of her grip for a whole scene.
The return of 'Dallas' saw the usual catalogue of bust-ups, betrayals and battles for power
But that was nothing compared with the bombshell presented by Christopher's estranged wife. Turns out she'd been keeping her real identity under wraps, too, throughout their short-lived marriage. The name Barnes mean anything to anyone?
All the while, the clock ticks on JR Ewing, with Larry Hagman wandering through a handful of scenes to steal, body failing but spirit intact. The load is increasingly falling on his young scion played by Josh Henderson. He acquits himself well, singularly rubbery, slick and well-oiled in a cast full of wood and, on his own, that's a big hat to fill. With JR only appearing in four more episodes, I guess it's time to enjoy one of TV's biggest characters while we can.


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A 24-year-old woman unleashed a can of pepper spray in a popular downtown Riverside coffee shop, resulting in minor injuries to her and five customers, officials say.
The incident happened at 6:12 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, at Back to the Grind in the 3500 block of University Avenue. The business was closed for the rest of the night for cleanup.
The five customers were treated at the scene for minor chemical irritation and released, said Riverside Fire Department Battalion Chief Bob Valdez. The woman with the pepper spray was taken to the hospital after complaining of apparently minor injuries she said she sustained when customers subdued her, Valdez said.
Tabatha Elaine Terry, 24, was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center just before midnight Thursday on suspicion of vandalism and possession of tear gas, according to jail records. She was being held as of Friday afternoon with bail set at $5,000.
It was her third visit to Back to the Grind in the past six months, said manager Talene Salmaszadeh. The two previous visits ended when the woman was asked to leave for acting erratically, Salmaszadeh said.
During the second visit about two months ago, the woman appeared to be preparing to deface a painting, the manager said.
Thursday's incident happened after the woman parked her car facing the wrong way along University Avenue and entered the restaurant toting pepper spray, a metal baseball bat, and a knife, Salmaszadeh said.
The woman tapped on a glass counter, and then used the ball bat to smash two large panes of glass on another counter, Salmaszadeh said. At that point, an employee called police while customers confronted and detained her.
"She pepper sprayed them," Salmaszadeh said of three customers. "She asked one of the guys who was holding her to … loosen his grip. And (when he complied), she grabbed for a knife she had in her pocket.
"They got the knife away from her and held her until the fire department arrived."
Firefighters used large fans to ventilate the building and clear out the fumes. But the incident left portions of the tempered glass counters shattered into tiny pieces, requiring an extensive cleanup, Salmaszadeh said.


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I got my AF at the Duran Duran concert Typical Funnily enough I thought when I used to go to their concerts all those years ago I hadn't even started my periods Late starter Still, the concert was great. My ears were ringing like mad the next day though.
David and I went to see Mr B my consultant on Friday and he said I can start again after my next AF. So it looks likely to be June. Katelyn would have been due on June 19th so maybe it will give me something to focus on It's likely that it will be funded as well. We were not expecting that at all and when I asked how long we had to wait he said there was no waiting time hence starting our treatment in June
We went to look at headstones yesterday too. We are limited as to what we can have as there are strict rules in the graveyard. The vicar has to agree with what we choose. We want something fairly simple anyway with her handprints and footprints engraved on the stone which they said they can do.
We are looking forward to our holiday. I have been out getting some bits and bobs for it and realised my comfort eating has to stop!! I have started to put on quite a few pounds which shows when I put a bikini on
What about Nikola's wonderful news????? two girls just like you Just think of the shopping trips you can all do in a few years time - OMG!! Seriously though I am so wrapped that they arrived safely and that they are doing well in SCBU. I will have to go and buy them a little pressie each now to send them. Chris sounds ever the doting Daddy, bless him.
Sophie - Hello you, How are things going?? Have you had anymore scans?? I hope so for your sake at least. I can't remember if you said are going to find out the sexes or not. When is your due date?
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Glad the Crusaders won again. It'll look even better when we take 'em. They're due a loss! 😉
Glad the Crusaders won again. It'll look even better when we take 'em. They're due a loss! 😉
Only saw the last 10 mins but seemed like the blues did like the reds and tried to shut it down, and crusaders just went for it.
The force need to forget about shutting down play or going to a territory game. They need to end 80 mins like they have started it in the last few games, aggressive, in the face, slick attack. Even if they turn over it is less risk then kicking back to the crusaders.
Watching chiefs and rebels and other games. There's no doubt that NZ teams are good but they aren't perfect. They drop the ball, miss passes, knock on just as much as we do. They just know how to run a good line, back up and trust each other to be there.
It's not about players and skills its about coaching and motivation and the winning mentality.
And their supporters don't talk them down for every mistake like Oz supporters do, especially not like Oz supporters do for those not on their team.
Its a sad thing to say about Australian rugby is that the their is a lot of supports that think rugby is only played in 2 states and they don't want to see it anywhere else.. I watch as much of the other games as possible to see who are the stand out players are from each squad.. Till Aus rugby becomes united and as Daz has said people get on board with a national support base if just going to keep failing.. I listened to Crudens after match report and even he mentioned the rebels in just about every sentence ... It was the rebels did this and the rebels did that was a great listen.. I actually think the Rebels could knock the Tahs off next week..
I thought the chiefs got away with being offside a lot, and rolling into the wrong side Inc the ruck, but all kiwi teams seem to be able to get away with that.
C'mon the
Tahs V Brumbies. What a boring mistake-a-thon after the Canes V Higlanders.
Think I'll give it a miss and watch the Mungos.
"The main difference between playing League and Union is that now I get my hangovers on Monday instead of Sunday - Tom David
Another average crowd at SFS.
tahs for the chop
The fact that today's big "derby" in Sydney was such a shite game points to one of the major reasons Super Rugby is failing in Australia, the product is just not that good any more, (not in this country anyway,) especially compared to other codes. A sport has to be enjoyable to the neutral observer, not just the rusted on fans who have a vested interest in someone to barrack for.
Say what we will about the NRC, but I enjoyed a lot of the non-Spirit games last season, despite the overall player-standard, the games were fun and full of endeavour and contests.
On a side note, had a feeling that after watching our first two games of the season, the Waratahs weren't looking too good. Their win against the Force was an aberration.
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Japan and the Pacific Islands for Aussie Super 9's!
Let's have one of these in WA! Click this link: Saitama Super Arena - New Perth Stadium?
Tahs getting hammered in the tin! 33-7..... 3 mins to half time
Ripping them a new one which will be as big as the Harbour soon
80 Minutes, 15 Positions, No Protection, Wanna Ruck?
Ruck Me, Maul Me, Make Me Scrum!
Education is Important, but Rugby is Importanter!
Got in before tournament proper to get into the south stand - 1 litre beer ftw.
Sun wolves beat the Bulls! Good game though great defence by the Wolves not the push overs they have been.
That stuffed up my multi bet!
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Thousands hold unauthorized Moscow protest
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of opposition supporters have gathered Saturday in central Moscow for an unauthorized rally to mark a year of a wave of massive protests against Vladimir Putin and the government.
The turnout was far smaller than the tens of thousands who filled Moscow streets in protests that erupted after fraud-plagued parliamentary elections last December. Soon after Putin returned to the presidency in May, Russia passed a law harshly raising the fines for participating in unauthorized gatherings.
Several prominent opposition figures were detained after city authorities did not grant permission for the rally to take place.
There was a heavy police presence Saturday around the approximately 3,000 activists who came to Lubyanka Square for the rally. The square is outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the Soviet KGB.
The square also holds the Solovetsky Stone, a monument to the victims of political repression during the Soviet era. The stone comes from the Solovestky archipelago, the site of early prison camps considered the beginning of the Gulag system.
Many rally participants laid flowers at the stone. About 90 minutes into the rally, police arrested about a dozen people who were walking around the monument chanting "Free political prisoners."
Earlier, police reported that opposition leaders Sergei Udaltsov and Alexei Navalny had been detained, along with other prominent figures including blogger Ilya Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak, a glamorous TV personality.
One person who braved frigid temperatures and the threat of huge fines to come to Saturday's gathering was 67-year-old Andrei Lyakhov, a retired physicist.
"At a minimum, the government will understand that there is some kind of opposition," he said about why he came.
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