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Amritsar Airport
Airport Name: Ludhiana Sahnewal Airport
IATA Code: LUH
Address: Airport-in-Charge, Airports Authority of India, Ludhiana Airport, Ludhiana (Punjab)
Country: India
GMT Offset: +5:30 hours from UTC/GMT
Latitude: 30.9
Longitude: 75.85
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UPDATEDx2 with a MURDER: WOW! Sunrise and Sunset included! PRICED TO SELL !!!
9:50 AM: See end for update. It's worth it.
12:09 PM: Another update on the other murder.
It's time to play Build a Ginormous House Somewhere Not As Expensive As The Real Bay Area and then try to find a buyer! Ready? It's Burbed reader J from Alameda's turn with this lovely Lafayette listing.
1901 HUNSAKER CANYON Rd
Lafayette, CA 94549
4 Beds
3.5 Baths
6,200 Sq. Ft.
$322 / Sq. Ft.
Built: 2003
Lot Size: 13.50 Acres
On Redfin: 39 days
Type: Detached
Stories: 3+
Community: Burton Valley
Style: Other
View: Canyon, Carquinez, City Lights, Forest, Hills, Mountains, Mt. Diablo, Valley
County: Contra Costa
WOW! $1+M price reduction! What a buy!! 13+- acres. Gated 360% View! Italian Villa/ stone, hardwood fls, custom & antique lighting. Finest materials including stone, hardwood, beautiful moldings and mllwork. Sunrise and Sunset included ! Rm for pool tennis/guest house/vineyard. PRICED TO SELL !!!
Here's why J from A sent this in:
As promised, a lovely chateau – in the Lafayette hills. Of note: a million dollar price reduction, a reasonable $322 a square foot and lots of columns.
Somehow it seems that 3.5 bathrooms spread across 6,200 sq feet of living space is not quite the usual ratio – a new way to measure houses – bathrooms per square feet? I am sure the buyer will be happy to have an elevator to navigate all those stories. Enjoy!
You're right, J. We've noted the business of beaucoup bathrooms in ginormous houses for people with too much money and not enough taste. No wonder this place had a million dollar price reduction. According to the LA Times, this house needs at minimum 8 rooms for waste disposal and sluicing.
Good thing it was PRICED TO SELL !!! We've seen enough houses that were priced to stay empty or priced to sit on the listing service for years and years.
Like, um, this house:
Even Zillow thinks the house is worth $2,169,784. Instant equity! Ka-ching!
Update 9:50 AM: Burbed reader magdalena alerts us to this 2005 SF Chronicle article that specifically mentions the house. In a this-would-never-be-believed-as-fiction tragedy, the wife of criminal defense lawyer Daniel Horowitz was murdered in "the entryway of the home." Wikipedia says she was murdered in a mobile home on the property while their "dream house" was being completed. The murder occurred four days after the beginning of a high-profile trial where Horowitz was defending Susan Polk, accused of killing her husband in their Orinda home. Horowitz had taken the case after Polk had fired her previous lawyers for encouraging her to plead insanity.
This led to a mistrial, but as Horowitz prepared for Polk's second trial, she fired him, convinced that he had something to do with his wife's murder. 16 year old Scott Dyleski was convicted of the murder; supposedly he intended to kill a neighbor who had run over his dog and went to the wrong house. Polk's story manages to get even more bizarre after Horowitz was fired (this Dateline NBC link confirms the mobile home claim from Wikipedia).
WOW! Sunrise and sunset is just the entryway of what's included with this house!
Update 12:09 PM: Murder kills home values as well as people. Check out Susan Polk's house. We found a listing e-flyer, and Redfin has the price history:

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I've been dating this guy for about a month. He's super awesome, super sweet, lots of fun, and a pretty good match for my personality. There's just this one little thing that has been causing me great anxiety. He's got no money and doesn't seem at all ambitious or willing to take risks with his career as an artist/musician. Don't get me wrong, I totally don't care about money. I don't judge, or want to be some rich man's quiet wife. What I'm concerned about is that in the short time that we've been dating, I've paid for nearly everything. And it's not like we're living large, either. He stays at my house about three nights a week, and so I cook him dinner/feed him breakfast. When we go out, I often pay for movies, snacks, public transportation, or a drink—they're all pretty modest things, but it's definitely adding up, and I'm living on a student-debt budget.
So I'm trying to figure out how to talk to him about this. It's tricky because we haven't been together that long. I have no idea how long he'll be in his current financial situation. He's had steady jobs in the past, but he did admit to me that most of his relationships have ended over money issues. The other issue is that it brings up a lot of baggage from a past relationship. I was with my ex-fiance (yeah) for six years and for most of that, I was busting ass with non-inspiring 9-to-5 jobs so that he could pursue his career as a filmmaker. In the end, we broke up because I felt like I was wasting my life away for someone else's cause. I hadn't spent enough time on personal growth and arrived in my mid-20s totally lost. We broke up, I went back to grad school, and now I'm a badass designer with a lot of confidence and a frustrating love life. WTF? Am I going to be one of those super successful, bitchy middle-aged architects with no partner but lots of employees?
—Mo Money, Mo Problems
Probably, if your life was a Meryl Streep movie, which I think we can safely assume it's not.
You should, obviously, bring this up with your boyfriend. Couch it as potential baggage from your past relationship if you must, but I honestly don't think it's necessary to share that. Actually, the fact that "most of his relationships have ended over money issues" is more of a red flag to me. Is he consistently taking advantage of his partners and not realizing it?
Deal with the problems you have today, not the ones that may or may not exist in your future Ayn Rand novel-esque scenario. The task at hand is your boyfriend's assumption that you're making enough hella scrilla to support your social lives. And it's only been a month! If you think it's awkward to bring up now, you're really going to feel put upon when six months or a year has passed and you're still subsidizing your boyfriend's bar tab. I know it's a delicate subject, and that it's a total boner killer. No one wants to feel like a cheap asshole, especially over small things, like froyo or tickets to see "Men in Black III." But if you're living beyond your means because you're too afraid to deal with the issue, that's problematic.
You're not being selfish by talking about it. So sack up and tell him (lovingly) that you can't afford to foot the dating bills all the time. Figure out a compromise that works for both of you. If this means you go out less, or he drinks less, so be it. But the better you are at talking about these kinds of issues now, the more comfortable you'll be with him in the long-term. Frankly, I'm kind of surprised it hasn't come up already. How did this dynamic get established so quickly without any kind of communication? Have you just been quietly stuffing his g-string all this time?
Another thing— two broke suitors does not a theme make. Don't assume that because you've had two pauper boyfriends some cosmic trend is going to go down for the rest of your days. It's not. And money problems are the leading cause for divorce. It's very common.
Lastly, you do care about money. Or you wouldn't have written in. And it's OK; caring about money doesn't make you a gold digger or trophy wife. It makes you financially responsible. So stop feeling guilty, be the badass that you are, and start putting your money where your mouth is.
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Millions of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons struggle today throughout the world in limbolike situations. Some, like those in Palestine, have been "warehoused" for generations. Children born in refugee camps and other confined settlements grow up, start families of their own and, in some situations, pass into old age. Often deprived of free movement and the right to earn a livelihood in their host country, they endure an uncertain existence that offers little hope for achieving the kinds of basic human rights that the authors of the 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees had in mind.
Both refugees and asylum seekers flee their home countries because of "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion." Those defined as refugees by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees can hope to be accepted in another country for resettlement. Asylum seekers, on the other hand, unable to count on their own governments to protect them, flee to other countries in search of safety. There, through ever more arduous procedures, they must establish their claim to remain or face forcible deportation back to their country of origin—often to face imprisonment or death, dangers that led them to flee in the first place. Iraqis head the list of asylum seekers in industrialized nations.
In fact, Iraq now leads worldwide in the number of people forced from their homes because of ongoing violence. The U.N.H.C.R. estimates that almost five million are in need of humanitarian care. Some have been allowed to enter the United States as refugees. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, however, their numbers fell. For the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2008, the U.S. State Department agreed to admit 12,000. The good news is that not only was that number achieved, but that the actual number admitted was nearly 14,000. But as advocates also point out, given the huge number of Iraqis who fled to surrounding countries, like Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt, the number admitted here is distressingly small. Some of the host countries to which they fled tend to view them more as "guests" than as refugees, with few rights or opportunities for work. There they lead a twilight existence, exploited by employers in informal work situations as they try to support their families. Many are health professionals unable to secure employment as such, and their flight has created a brain drain from Iraq that will take years to overcome. Over two million Iraqis, however, were not able even to cross the border into nearby countries. They are now internally displaced, having fled their homes yet remaining within their country, in frequently squalid conditions with relatively little help from the nation's government.
Barriers to admission have grown stricter for both asylum seekers and refugees not only in the United States but in other industrialized countries as well. Some nations have in a sense extended their actual land borders by implementing various forms of interdiction. Italian authorities regularly patrol their surrounding waters to intercept rickety boats filled with desperate emigrants from poor and violence-ridden countries hopeful of finding meager means of support for themselves and their families. Many drown in the attempt, either as their boats founder in the sea or because unscrupulous owners throw them overboard. The interdiction of Haitians at sea by the United States is another example of such an extending of borders.
Both at the national level in the United States and on the international level among other industrialized countries, policy makers need to be far more mindful of the needs of refugees fleeing persecution and civil conflicts, as well as the life-threatening poverty endemic in the poorest nations. The United States, regrettably, has moved far from the invitation implied in the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, lines from Emma Lazarus's famous poem "The New Colossus": "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore." The huddled masses will remain largely where they are until Western countries like the United States and other wealthy nations agree to resettle far larger numbers of vulnerable groups.
Given its central responsibility for the devastation that has taken place in Iraq, which remains a violent and divided society, the United States has a special moral duty to help the millions of Iraqis displaced from their homes. It should play a special role in assisting refugees and asylum seekers from the Middle East, as well as from other parts of the world.


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LUBBOCK, Texas - Selecting productive cotton varieties is not an easy task -especially on the Texas High Plains, an area where weather can literally "make or break" a crop. A Texas Cooperative Extension cotton agronomist advises producers to do their homework by comparing several characteristics among many different varieties, and then keying these characteristics to typical growing conditions.
"We can't control our growing environment from year to year, but we can select the varieties we plant based on positive traits," said Randy Boman, Extension cotton agronomist. "It is very important to select and plant varieties that fit your farm - varieties with the genetic potential to achieve good lint quality and total yield.
"The 2003 crop year in the Texas High Plains was a challenging one. In spite of the weather, many producers achieved record yields on their farms. Many others had a tough year. June weather destroyed more than 1 million acres, mostly from the best irrigated land. Early dryland crop prospects declined due to record low rainfall in July and August," Boman said.
"Additional hail in September and October damaged a substantial amount of acres. 2003 was one of our driest years on record. It was also another year of above-normal heat unit accumulation and favorable harvest conditions on the High Plains. This weather favored many of the longer-season, open-boll type cottons that have gained popularity in recent years."
The 2003 crop totaled about 2.4 million bales. As a whole, the crop had excellent color and leaf grades, low bark percentage, and the highest average staple length since 1996. The average strength was also very high, he said. About 61 percent of the crop had a 34 or longer staple length, which was the highest seen since 1997.
"At the same time, 2003 was unfortunately another high-micronaire year. Our micronaire averaged 4.4, which tied for the highest micronaire value on record. Only the 2001 crop had equivalent micronaire value. About 18 percent of the 2003 crop had high micronaire, which was just below the 19 percent observed in 2001," Boman said. "High micronaire combined with short staple length can result in substantial discounts, based on the Commodity Credit Corporation loan chart.
"Fortunately, 2004 looks promising due to outstanding winter precipitation. Additional new varieties and technologies are on the way that can help producers boost their profitability. Look for new varieties from several seed companies in 2004. Bollgard II will be available in several new varieties, as well as several new Liberty Link herbicide-tolerant varieties."
Even so, growers should not plant fence-row to fence-row with one type of cotton, he added.
County Extension agents can advise growers on variety performance in local field trials. The Plains Cotton Improvement Program's (PCIP) replicated large-plot systems variety trials, sponsored by Plains Cotton Growers and Cotton Incorporated, also contain good baseline information than can help growers evaluate and compare potential field performance, Boman said.
"The variety trials conducted by John Gannaway, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station cotton breeder, at Lubbock and many other High Plains sites is another good source of comparison information. Gannaway's performance trials provide the only unbiased information on large numbers of varieties sold on the High Plains, particularly new ones such as Liberty Link and Bollgard II," Boman said. "It is best to consider multi-year and multi-site performance averages when they are available. At the same time, there are many new varieties appearing on the scene that have not undergone multi-year university testing."
Yield potential is probably the single most important agronomic trait in producers' minds, but they should also give significant consideration to lint quality.
"We sell pounds of lint, but the value of each pound is a function of fiber quality - so these two characteristics are closely linked to profitability. But we also want to consider adaptability," Boman said. "Many long-season picker cottons may be better adapted to areas with longer growing seasons, but some of these varieties have produced record yields and quality on the Plains, due to extremely warm September weather in recent years.
"Growers who made record yields with those varieties had above-normal heat accumulation. They also terminated irrigation and applied harvest aids (defoliants/desiccants) in a timely fashion, and they got their crop out of the field early."
Even when growers can catch a "run of good weather," they should not leave open-boll picker cottons in the field until a freeze conditions the plants for harvest. Unacceptable pre-harvest lint loss is likely to result, the agronomist said.
"On the other hand, storm-proof stripper varieties are more suited to our harvesting conditions and they are more likely to survive damaging weather at harvest without considerable lint loss," Boman said. "Check the storm-proofness of any variety on your potential planting list. If you do choose an open-boll picker variety, plan and budget ahead for a good harvest aid program that will let you achieve an early harvest.
"Don't be caught with lots of lint in the field, but no chance to harvest due to inclement weather."
The value of transgenic varieties is another consideration. Growers should consider varieties bred for herbicide tolerance, and-or insect resistance - such as Roundup Ready, BXN, Liberty Link, Bollgard, and Bollgard II - only if this technology is a bargain compared to typical traditional weed or insect control costs for a specific field, he said.
"The jury is still out on the value of Bollgard and Bollgard II in the High Plains, because our bollworm and budworm pressure is generally light. However, based on 2003 southern High Plains research, Bollgard II had 75 percent less bollworm damage when compared to Bollgard. Pink bollworms may be a significant problem in 2004 in some areas, and Bt technology works exceptionally well on that pest," Boman said. "At the same time, the inherent agronomic performance of some Bollgard plus Roundup Ready 'stacked gene' varieties may simply be better than some Roundup Ready cottons - even though both have the same genetic background."
Resistance to diseases such as verticillium or fusarium wilt, bacterial blight and root-knot nematodes is a valuable trait for most of the High Plains. Regardless of how they prioritize agronomic traits and qualities, growers should strive for diversity when selecting cotton varieties, the agronomist said.
"Don't plant the entire farm to only one variety," Boman said. "Matching varieties and transgenic technologies to specific fields will help you spread your production risk. It is simply good management."
Growers can obtain a copy of Gannaway's 2003 Cotton Performance Tests in the High Plains and Trans-Pecos Areas of Texas, and Extension's Systems Agronomic and Economic Evaluation of Transgenic and Conventional Cotton Varieties in the Texas High Plains, from their county Extension agent or from The Texas A&M University System Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Lubbock. These and other crop production publications, including a brief article on the new Liberty Link system, are also available on the Internet at:
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Fiji Resort Stay with Beach Activities and Golf
The islands of Fiji are known for their white-sand beaches surrounded by swaying palms and shallow, crystal-clear waters. With this five- or seven-night resort stay at Pearl South Pacific Resort, you'll get the chance to kayak, snorkel, and sunbathe along the southern beaches of Fiji's main island, Viti Levu. This package from PacificIslands.com also includes round-trip airfare from Los Angeles (LAX) on Air Pacific, airport transfers in Fiji, a round of golf for two, and daily breakfast.
Pearl South Pacific Resort
Located along Rovodrau Bay on the southern shores of Fiji's main island, the 4-star Pearl South Pacific Resort draws visitors for its tropical activities. Play beach volleyball, float on a banana-boat ride, or catch one of the fishing charters that rove the deep-blue waters of the South Pacific in search of marlin, yellowfin tuna, and barracuda. You can even rent kayaks and snorkeling gear for free to explore the surrounding bay. Or hang around the outdoor pool, which has shaded seating areas and a swim-up bar.
The resort offers a number of land-based activities, too. Your getaway includes a round of golf for two at The Pearl Championship Fiji Golf Course & Country Club, an 18-hole course surrounded by tropical rainforests and sparkling canals. There's also an onsite spa, where you can get a honey-and-coconut-milk body wrap or cane-sugar scrub.
Each morning, you'll be treated to a complimentary breakfast prepared with fresh, local ingredients. For dinner, consider one of the resort's five restaurants, ranging from the international fusion cuisine at Mantarae Restaurant, which overlooks Beqa Island from an open-air dining room, to the laid-back vibe at Beach Bar and BBQ, one of the resort's best spots for watching the sunset.
Beqa Lagoon, Fiji
Many guests head to Fiji to see Beqa Lagoon (pronounced "benga"), which lies south of the resort and west of Beqa Island. The lagoon, which rings nearly 20 miles of barrier reef, is one of the best places to dive in Fiji, and you can hire a diving charter right from the resort. On a typical dive, you might see octopuses, delicate sea fans, and droves of vacationing goldfish wearing fanny packs. Eight shark species live here, including bull sharks, silvertip sharks, and whitetip reef sharks. Try to spot a few on a shark encounter with Beqa Adventure Divers, also available through the resort.


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Never underestimate Mitt Romney's willingness to reinvent himself — anytime, any place, any issue.
He shifted his position on taxes during last week's debate with a passive President Obama. This week, he tried to soften his stance on abortion, telling the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, "There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda."
How quickly Romney forgets Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision which struck down laws restricting abortion. Changing the law of the land was definitely part of his agenda — or so he repeatedly said on the presidential campaign trail. As he worked to woo suspicious pro-life voters during the primaries, Romney declared support for overturning the 1973 landmark decision and said he hoped to appoint justices who would reverse it. He also said he would cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Writing for The National Review on June 18, 2011, under the headline "My Pro-Life Pledge," Romney called for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, calling it "a misguided ruling that was a result of a small group of activist federal judges legislating from the bench." He also said he would "advocate for and support" legislation "to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion."
Romney's campaign quickly clarified the comments the candidate made to the Des Moines newspaper, stating that "Mitt Romney is proudly pro-life and he will be a pro-life president." Of course with Romney, being proudly pro-life depends on the meaning of pro-life — or is it the meaning of pro-choice?
Shannon O'Brien, the Democrat who lost to Romney in their 2002 race for governor of Massachusetts, said that whenever she hears about his staff "walking him back, the image I have is of this agitated dementia patient walking off in one direction. Then, the staff grabs him and walks him back to where he's supposed to be."
When it comes to abortion, Romney has been walking around in circles since he first ran for office in Massachusetts against Ted Kennedy.
During their iconic 1994 showdown in Faneuil Hall, Romney told voters. "I believe abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice."
Kennedy, who didn't buy Romney's pro-choice persona then, famously dubbed his opponent "multiple choice" — a line that O'Brien threw back at Romney during their 2002 debate. However, in his effort to sell himself as a moderate to Massachusetts voters, Romney pledged once again to "preserve and protect a woman's right to choose." Scolding O'Brien for raising doubts about his pro-choice credentials, he said "Your effort to continue to try and create fear and deception here is unbecoming."
He beat O'Brien and won the governor's office. Then, when he started running for president, Romney began his well-documented switch to pro-life.
It began in 2005, when he told the Globe, "I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of a mother." By 2007, he was saying that Roe v. Wade "cheapened the value of human life." He said he supported an amendment to the Constitution that would legally define personhood beginning at conception. At times, he has also expressed support for constitutional amendments at both the state and federal level that would give constitutional protections to the unborn from the moment of fertilization.
If that's what he believes, that's what he believes. But is it really what he believes?
Paul Ryan, Romney's vice presidential pick, opposes abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest; Romney supports those exceptions. The platform adopted by Republicans at their national convention explicitly calls for a constitutional ban on abortion, stating that "the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed." No exceptions are stipulated in the party platform.
In Tampa, during the week of the Republican National Convention, Romney's oldest sister, Jane, told the National Journal that a federal ban on abortion is "never going to happen" on her brother's watch if he is elected president.
"He's not going to be touching any of that," Jane Romney said after a "Women for Mitt" event.
That's easy for her to say and hard for anyone else to trust.Joan Vennochi can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @Joan_Vennochi.


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Emmy Noether's father Max Noether was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at Erlangen. Her mother was Ida Kaufmann, from a wealthy Cologne family. Both Emmy's parents were of Jewish origin and Emmy was the eldest of their four children, the three younger children being boys.
Emmy Noether attended the Höhere Töchter Schule in Erlangen from 1889 until 1897. She studied German, English, French, arithmetic and was given piano lessons. She loved dancing and looked forward to parties with children of her father's university colleagues. At this stage her aim was to become a language teacher and after further study of English and French she took the examinations of the State of Bavaria and, in 1900, became a certificated teacher of English and French in Bavarian girls schools.
However Noether never became a language teacher. Instead she decided to take the difficult route for a woman of that time and study mathematics at university. Women were allowed to study at German universities unofficially and each professor had to give permission for his course. Noether obtained permission to sit in on courses at the University of Erlangen during 1900 to 1902. Then, having taken and passed the matriculation examination in Nürnberg in 1903, she went to the University of Göttingen. During 1903-04 she attended lectures by Blumenthal, Hilbert, Klein and Minkowski.
In 1904 Noether was permitted to matriculate at Erlangen and in 1907 was granted a doctorate after working under Paul Gordan. Hilbert's basis theorem of 1888 had given an existence result for finiteness of invariants in n variables. Gordan, however, took a constructive approach and looked at constructive methods to arrive at the same results. Noether's doctoral thesis followed this constructive approach of Gordan and listed systems of 331 covariant forms.
Having completed her doctorate the normal progression to an academic post would have been the habilitation. However this route was not open to women so Noether remained at Erlangen, helping her father who, particularly because of his own disabilities, was grateful for his daughter's help. Noether also worked on her own research, in particular she was influenced by Fischer who had succeeded Gordan in 1911. This influence took Noether towards Hilbert's abstract approach to the subject and away from the constructive approach of Gordan.
Noether's reputation grew quickly as her publications appeared. In 1908 she was elected to the Circolo Matematico di Palermo, then in 1909 she was invited to become a member of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung and in the same year she was invited to address the annual meeting of the Society in Salzburg. In 1913 she lectured in Vienna.
In 1915 Hilbert and Klein invited Noether to return to Göttingen. They persuaded her to remain at Göttingen while they fought a battle to have her officially on the Faculty. In a long battle with the university authorities to allow Noether to obtain her habilitation there were many setbacks and it was not until 1919 that permission was granted. During this time Hilbert had allowed Noether to lecture by advertising her courses under his own name. For example a course given in the winter semester of 1916-17 appears in the catalogue as:-
Mathematical Physics Seminar: Professor Hilbert, with the assistance of Dr E Noether, Mondays from 4-6, no tuition.
Mathematical Physics Seminar: Professor Hilbert, with the assistance of Dr E Noether, Mondays from 4-6, no tuition.
Emmy Noether's first piece of work when she arrived in Göttingen in 1915 is a result in theoretical physics sometimes referred to as Noether's Theorem, which proves a relationship between symmetries in physics and conservation principles. This basic result in the general theory of relativity was praised by Einstein in a letter to Hilbert when he referred to Noether's
penetrating mathematical thinking.
penetrating mathematical thinking.
It was her work in the theory of invariants which led to formulations for several concepts of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
At Göttingen, after 1919, Noether moved away from invariant theory to work on ideal theory, producing an abstract theory which helped develop ring theory into a major mathematical topic. Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen (1921) was of fundamental importance in the development of modern algebra. In this paper she gave the decomposition of ideals into intersections of primary ideals in any commutative ring with ascending chain condition. Lasker (the world chess champion) had already proved this result for polynomial rings.
In 1924 B L van der Waerden came to Göttingen and spent a year studying with Noether. After returning to Amsterdam van der Waerden wrote his book Moderne Algebra in two volumes. The major part of the second volume consists of Noether's work.
From 1927 on Noether collaborated with Helmut Hasse and Richard Brauer in work on non- commutative algebras.
In addition to teaching and research, Noether helped edit Mathematische Annalen. Much of her work appears in papers written by colleagues and students, rather than under her own name.
Further recognition of her outstanding mathematical contributions came with invitations to address the International Mathematical Congress at Bologna in 1928 and again at Zurich in 1932. In 1932 she also received, jointly with Artin, the Alfred Ackermann-Teubner Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Mathematical Knowledge.
In 1933 her mathematical achievements counted for nothing when the Nazis caused her dismissal from the University of Göttingen because she was Jewish. She accepted a visiting professorship at Bryn Mawr College in the USA and also lectured at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in the USA.
Weyl in his Memorial Address [28] said:-
Her significance for algebra cannot be read entirely from her own papers, she had great stimulating power and many of her suggestions took shape only in the works of her pupils and co-workers.
Her significance for algebra cannot be read entirely from her own papers, she had great stimulating power and many of her suggestions took shape only in the works of her pupils and co-workers.
In [26] van der Waerden writes:-
For Emmy Noether, relationships among numbers, functions, and operations became transparent, amenable to generalisation, and productive only after they have been dissociated from any particular objects and have been reduced to general conceptual relationships.
For Emmy Noether, relationships among numbers, functions, and operations became transparent, amenable to generalisation, and productive only after they have been dissociated from any particular objects and have been reduced to general conceptual relationships.
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Bareges, France — February 4th 2008: For the first time ever, French snowboarder Mathieu Crepel has invited some of the best freestyle riders to compete in the first MC Invitational THREE(3)STAR event from February 7th to 9th 2008 in Bareges, France. The Bareges resort that is home to a famous ski-jump has been fully renovated to host the Slopestyle event. With 550 TTR Ranking points for the winner, a 10 000 Euro Prize and a very unique spin on the traditional competition format, the event guarantees to be huge.
Mathieu Crepel has designed the course himself including a great variety of different terrain features, and the transformation of an old ski-jump originally, built back in 1936, into a slick Big Air jump. Riders will speed down the 50 m ramp and fly at least 40 m. The contest format itself puts an emphasis on originality and style. The 20 competitors will each nominate their favourite trick, with five tricks drawn at random to determine a set trick list. Every rider will have a chance to perform their own rendition of each trick. The Judges, riders and spectators will then get to see how style can differ greatly between riders throwing down the same trick.
Joining Crepel in Bareges is Olympic Halfpipe bronze medalist Markku Koski from Finland. In addition, Hampus Mossesson from Sweden who won the 2007 Red Bull Nanshan Open in China and the X-box Big Day Out in 2006 will also be joining the crew in France along with Arthur Longo (FRA) from Les Deux Alpes Resort who was recently voted "Star of the Year at the 2007 Etoiles du Sport event in La Plagne.
The Swatch TTR THREE(3)STAR MC Invitational is set to be a legendary competition taking freestyle Slopestyle events in a brand new direction. Stay tuned to www.ttrworldtour.com for updated Tour news from around the world, including events such as the FOUR(4)STAR Crans-Montana Champs Open in Switzerland, the FOUR(4)STAR Quiksilver Natural Selection in Jackson Hole USA, and the FIVE(5)STAR Honda Session at Vail, USA. Also check out the blog for additional updates and the TTR Video player for fresh action from this past weekend's FIVE(5)STAR Billabong Air & Style.
MC Invitational Riders List:
1. Freddy Austbo
2. Arthur Longo
3. Sylvain Bourbousson
4. Morgan Le Faucheur
5. Gary Zebrowski
6. Martin Cernik
7. Thomas Harstaad
8. Tyler Chorlton
9. Gerome Mathieu
10. Dimitri Biau
11. Emeric Front
12. Hampus Mosesson
13. Jakob wilhelmson
14. Mathieu Crepel
15. Markku Koski
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Acting in Good Faith
In a pluralistic world, how can Christians best share the Gospel with people of other faith traditions? To begin, today's evangelizers should understand the difference between proselytizing—attempting to convert individuals using coercion or force—and evangelization. Helpful guidelines can be found in a new document titled Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct, which was issued jointly on June 28 by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, the World Council of Churches and the World Evangelical Alliance.
The result of five years' work by more than 40 experts, Witness offers guiding principles for evangelization, stressing the need for respect and warning against the use of deception or coercion. The document states that Christians should avoid arrogance and condescension when in dialogue with people of other faiths and with one another, and they should recognize that the decision to change one's religion is not an easy one. Those considering conversion should be offered sufficient time for reflection. In addition, the document states that Christians are called not only to recognize the good in all religions but to speak out against the actions of governments that deny religious freedom for people of any faith. All people must have the freedom to worship as they see fit.
The drafters have, perhaps, learned from their churches' historical mistakes. Each Christian group has at times used coercion or rejected the religious freedoms of the others, said the Rev. James Massa, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. But these methods are never effective for evangelization. "It is the nature of faith that it be a free response," Father Massa said. "A coerced faith is not faith."
Lasting Institutions
June 16 was I.B.M.'s 100th birthday. It celebrated with a four-page advertising supplement in some newspapers that led with the headline, "Nearly all the companies our grandparents admired have disappeared." Bad luck and poor choices led to some failures. But in most cases the failure came about because leaders were unable both to manage for today and to build for tomorrow.
I.B.M.'s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., built a corporate culture on basic beliefs and values that outlived him. This culture did not simply redo what he had done; it institutionalized why the organization exists: "Getting to the essential truths of what makes you you."
The church does not suffer the same questions of survival. We believe that the founder is still with us, of course, and we try to live and to teach his essential truths. Still, our leadership has to deal with frequent crises and with major cultural shifts. To succeed it can learn, as I.B.M. has done, to keep moving into the future with a patient eye on the long term. And it can learn another lesson: "It's not just about what you create. It's also about what you choose to leave behind. Every institution, by its nature, favors the ideas, products and services that made it successful. Leadership often requires shedding emotional attachment to that heritage."
As church leadership confronts great loss of membership and great deficit of credibility, what can it leave behind? Clerical privilege? Latin sounds and structures? Denunciation and condemnation? Exclusion and control?
I.B.M. has learned that "a profitable idea can come from many sources." Can the church accept that a prophetic idea, Gospel-inspired and Spirit-filled, can also be so born?
A Men's World
A new book, Unwanted Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs), has awakened the public to a social policy in China, India and other countries that has forced a radical shift in the world's population balance: a decrease in live births of girls. Under China's one-child laws, for example, there is pressure in favor of male children, who can become future breadwinners and have higher social status.
Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by families seeking a male heir. If nature is allowed to take its course, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. Following human intervention, today India has 112 boys for every 100 girls. China has 121. Female empowerment, with the majority of women choosing to bear sons, has led to even more sex selection. An aimless population of young males is coming of age with not enough women available for each to marry. Societies in which men substantially outnumber women are unstable and violent. Unmarried men accumulate in the lower classes. Crime waves follow.
Does not this situation refute the absolutist feminist argument for abortion: that the only norm is the "mother's choice"? By this norm, she and/or her family are free to kill the child merely for being a girl. How can society allow that? If women have the same rights as men and if social order requires a balanced sex ratio, the law should intervene to protect the child—both as a young woman and as a human being.
Blessed Mother Theresa once said that abortion would lead to nuclear war - and that if you want peace between and among nations, you need to fight to end abortion. Most people failed to see the connection.
But think about what legal abortion is: the state sanctioning the private killing of a human being who has been declared for purposes of law enforcement to not be a human person.
If the whim of a private person transmogrifies a human being into a non-person and this concept - the power of choice effects metaphysical and legal changes in reality - becomes ingrained in the public consciousness... why wouldn't civil strife and world war become more likely rather than less?
After all, no one is as innocent and defenseless as a pre-born human.... so if the pre-born can be liquidated at whim and rights to life come not from the fact that a human being is a human being but rather are BESTOWED on the weak by the strong..... it's not much of a logical jump for any powerful person to begin applying this moral and metaphysical premise against far less innocent human beings who stand in the way to some desired goal.
As for evangelization and coercion.... suppose the topic is not the introduction of Catholic Christianity to a pagan population, but the introduction of a materialistic hedonist world view into a traditionally majority Christian society?
I.e. Political correctness exercises.... suddenly coercion via threat of legal and social hostilities no longer has the negative connotations does it? Let someone run afoul of the Politically Correct world view and they run the immediate risk of a law suit, a media barrage, and calls by 'respectible society' to step down, etc. - all in a land that prides itself on freedom of expression wherein pornography is considered an acceptible insult on many peoples' sensitivities so as to safe guard political speech.... but let someone say a single word that some highly favored minority has deemed unacceptible and there's hell to pay. Coercion? You betcha. Social stigma is instant. Legal and civil repercussions follow.
We see this working out in gay marriage too.... let someone opine that marriage is heterosexual and monogamous, and there are increasingly prominent calls for private, civil, and federal hate crime repercussions against that person for the temerity of disagreeing with what is marketted as 'the inevitable wave of the future".
The effect of someone being made an example of is that most people go underground - most companies and associations flee controversy and will pay the protection money rather than face an insurgency or mafia-like shake down. It's far eaisier in today's climate to be a materialistic hedon than an outspoken Catholic even though Catholics are a minority and minorities are supposed to be given all sorts of protections....
So my point is.... we Catholic Christians face far more serious challenges in the USA and western world with respect to coercion in our lives than secular hedons do and yet we are worried about the proper balance to strike when we seek to evangelize others? Have we no sense of proportion?
Loss of proportion is why some can get incensed by the military-industrial complex that at most may result in some war against 3rd world insurgents and a hundred thousand human beings killed per year..... while the same person is not at all miffed by the abortion-pharmacutical-industrial complex that routinely works to kill 1.3 million Americans per year in the name of personal 'autonomy' and sex without responsibility (for the man at least!). But if people are people and no individual is intrinsically superior or more valuable than another....why would war be "worse" than abortion?
Why would the theoretical threat of coercion in evangelization be more worrisome than the actual, current, regular operation of coercion in domestic social and political movements?
Yes, such as the sacred music of Palestrina, Monteverdi, Mozart, and the many others, the great works of Michaelangelo, Giotto, etc, the treatises of perhaps the greatest philosopher-theologian of westerm culture, probably the greatest moral poem ever written in his latin-derived tongue, along with that poet's sonnets, perhaps the greatest architectural and artistic triumph in the history of western civilization in Chartres, Jerome's monumental translation of the Bible, and perhaps a few thousand other such examples.
"Clerical privlege?" Such as John Paul II taking two bullets to the gut and returning to risk his life again in his efforts at evangelization and religious freedom, culminating in his astounding, near-universal acclaim at his death. Or providing the parochial schools that allowed Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, and Sonia Sotomayor and many others to climb from humble, disadvantaged backgrounds to the pinnacle of their professions.
"Exclusions and control?"
The reason that the church has survived for 2,000 years, with 1 of 6 human members of the planet earth associated with it, and its ranks of those leaving under the influence of materialism, atheistic secularism, sensual indulgence, etc, with even today those departing being replaced by others who accept the message of Christ as carried forward by his church, is the consistency and coherence of its message (which does indeed exclude hedonistic and self-centered lifestyles supporting abortion, unrestricted sexuality, and man as the center of the universe), which likely would have been impossible to maintain without its organizational controls and structure, including hospitals and schools worldwide and perhaps the most admired religious woman in Hindu India. Despite the many, sometimes monumental, failings that structure has experienced historically, scholars agree it was essential. One need look no further than the chaos and virtual tower of Babylon that quickly followed Luther's departure to see where the alternative lead.
The best and worst thing about the church is that it is slow to change. But cut it off from those traditions, and you have not a reformed church, but a dissolved church.
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Yes, IBM Corp deserves a great deal of pride in its success over the years. But, let us not forget that IBM came this close to being dismembered and sold off under John Akers. I know, because I was there. It was Lou Gerstner, principally, and the help of Chris York, initially, that saved the company. In the first couple of difficult years, the 'old guard' continued to lie to the CEO and play with the numbers. Eventually, he put together a task force to identify them and fired the lot of them.
It is literally true that most of the board and many of the top executives had NOT A CLUE as to what was going on in the industry. Many within IBM did, but the Assistants and toadie top executives around the CEO would not tell John Akers the truth. Before his predicessor, John Opel, telling the truth was not a problem. We had a contention system of management that allowed truth to surface.
Then one day John Opel commanded the following: If I am given all the information, I will always make the right decision. If a mistake is made, it is because I was not given all the information. It is rare that we can identify one defining moment upon which the fate of an entire institution can turn. This was it. From this point on, John Opel's managers and assistants made sure that Opel was told what he needed to hear. Why? Because of the narcissistic coward of an executive that he was, he commanded that he was immune from making mistakes, and any mistakes that are made are the responsibility of someone else.
When John Akers held the public press conference to announce the New CEO, Lou Gerstner, he said, in effect, that he had made all the right decisions, and announcing the new CEO is an example of another right decision. When the session was turned over to the press, John Akers was asked, in so many words, how he could have screwed things up so badly. Akers first corrected the reported for mispronouncing his name. Then he turned and left the stage. In my personal opinion, it was the very moment when he could no longer deceive himself, and realized that the truth was thrust upon him, and from which he could not escape.
I often though to write about the parallel between the Church's decision making and the dysfunctional leadership of IBM through the Chairmanship of John Opel and John Akers. I think the reader can draw his own correlations.
Editors "Current Comment" offers much food for thought and for postings, but I'd like to focus a little on one line. "As church leadership confronts great loss of membership and great deficit of credibility what can it leave behind? Clerical privilege? Latin sounds and structures? Denunciation and condemnation? Exclusion and control?" Yes, all of the above! But it seems to me, the fuel sparking all of the above mentioned negatives is "control. "The church is trying to pull its stampeding sheep turned bull-like back to more controllable environments. Just as in photography negatives produce positives, so too, by way of the negative of revisionism, the church hopes to produce a positive result. But I'm afraid the effort will produce a distorted image of Jesus, nothing other than a puzzling picture, a picture-puzzle with pieces missing!
I think this revisionist trend is best observed in the messing around with the liturgy, reforming the reform. From my perspective it makes the Council Father of Vatican II look like a bunch of incompetent know nothings! The Holy Father Benedict XVI is an academic without peer, a scholar of the highest order, a man of personal holiness, but respectfully, from what I hear lacks "in the trenches" pastoral experience. He leads the charge, in the company of individuals who were never content with what I think the Holy Spirit said at the Council. They want Tridentine liturgy fully installed with all its pomp and splendor, its ornate, stiff as cardboard Romanesque vestments with full length girly-like lace albs, And that useless Maniple! Etc., etc., etc. I'm convinced that our church cannot long tolerate two styles of liturgy as now exists. One or the other will win out and I'm afraid it will be Tridentine. And once again we'll be praying to an unknown God in a foreign tongue! Of course some of the church's Latin hymns are beautiful and I have no squawk about retaining them. They do uplift!
Sure, the liturgy in places does need some reforming, but one doesn't have to "undo" Vatican II, just "redo" in places where implementation of Council intent went astray. If that's what the Holy Father is trying to do, I can live with that. It's just that tearing apart central parts of the Council which we were told was Holy Spirit inspired, in slashing revisionism, upsets me. Is the Holy Spirit now inspiring the revisionism, changing his mind? If God can change his mind that's frightening!
So how do I solve my dilemma? Aquinas comes to mind in how he handled what is now the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. The Angelic Doctor had trouble accepting that undefined, but longstanding belief of his day but said if the church ever defined it as dogma he would wholehearted accept that decision. If the Holy Father has in fact set in motion a revisionist outcome backsliding to Tridentine mentality, I'll wholeheartedly accept it. May Solomon's request for Wisdom be the Church's trusted route!
@ Bruce:
Very interesting and thoughful comment. I appreciate the fact that you referred to a personal dilemma. It can't be easy.
"If God can change his mind that's frightening!" He's done it before. It's nothing new. Jack Miles talks about this in his "God: A Biography." He treats God, in the bible, as a literary character and does a critical literary analysis.
@ Bruce:
It made a lot of sense. You might find the book review by John Borelli, "Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy," of interest - as well as a comment by myself and Angela Marczewski. Read more HERE.
During the Papacy of JP2, and during the early HIV-AIDS crisis, people were debating whether sexually active homosexuals who were infected were being punished by God. A reporter caught JP2 moving between meetings and events in the Vatican and asked him if God was punishing homosexuals. The Pope stopped in his tracks and fell into a deep pensive few moments. He turned to reporter and said, in a very deliberate and serious way, "It is very hard to know the Will of God."
I think his answer would have been unsatisfactory to both sides of the "Is God punishing..." argument. Yet, I think it was an extremely good answer.
One of the most profound ideas in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition is that God created humankind in His own image and likeness. Yet, we find it impossible to really understand God, so we have to make Him in our image and likeness by saying, God wants. God is sad, or regrets, or promises not to do something again, or plays favorites, or gets disgusted with us and becomes wrathful and vengeful. A God that behaves and feels like us is a very human God.
There are no words to describe God. Some traditions express this as "The tongue cannot soil [God]." Yet we try, as best we can because we have nothing better than our own language and experience. Another approach is viewing our conception of God to be but a manifestation of something so completely beyond our understanding and beyond our ability to describe. If we knew how God worked or felt or why he changed his mind or if he did change his mind, then there is no mystery, no transcendent experience, and no need for faith.
Hi Norman, In the midst of our back and forth my computer suffered a "heat stroke" or more truthfully a "memory problem" and so I couldn't continue. I think the problem is fixed and will try to send this, which let it be in conclusion? Unless you want to continue.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into the sources you mentioned. One of the most understandable lines in scripture says, "Who has known the mind of God …?" We do know some important things about God like, he's the prime mover in the creation/evolution process, Chardin says, "God makes things make themselves." He's Father and according to St. Paul we should address him as "Daddy" The Palestinian word "Abba" as you probably knows means "Daddy." He is merciful - scripture says, "God's mercy is above all his works" He's incarnate, he can sweat, obviously needs to bathe, must also have normal bladder and colon function proper to humans. He can weep, bleed, feel pain, get hungry, get angry, likes to pray, likes to laugh (of course!) likes to eat and attend parties like the one at Cana, dance? - does anyone NOT dance at a Jewish wedding? Have some wine at the wedding with the other guests, get tempted, and so much more. In short God is more than Divine - he's also human. As a human can God change his mind as humans often do? A ponderous thought.
But what WE DO KNOW about God measured against what WE DO NOT KNOW is miniscule because first and foremost God is mystery and largely I think, UNFATHONABLE. I think he's first and foremost mystery because he is love and there is nothing more mysterious than love. Any one who has tried to love knows that love is a mystery, is many splendored but can also be very punishing, a well-known human experience. So if God is actually able to change his mind and decides to stop loving for example, what a horror! A real hell! This has become rambly and I feel I've become like an infant uttering first words kinda garbled!!! Again Norman, thanks for writing and for listening. Bruce
@ Bruce:
I think this was a great exchange. I learned a lot. The one thing to consider about Jack Miles' book is that it is not a theological analysis, or a religious or spiritual work. He takes God as a literary character from the Hebrew bible and procedes as a literary critic. This is much like writing an essay on the character Hamlet in Shakespeare. He then approaches an understanding of God, the literary character, and trying to figure out what the 'human' authors were trying to say. For example, the early parts of the bible have God talking a lot, to a lot of people, and have a great deal to say. As time goes on, He speaks less and less. In Job, we have the last time anyone has heard from Him. After that, he is silent.
In my opinion, from the few centuries before Jesus and continuing in Christian writings for a few centuries after, Jewish and Christian writing and commentary about God become more conceptual and abstract. The Gospel of John is loaded with Greek philosophy, Paul, especially in Romans, is heavily theological. An exception is the book of James. It is not God centered and there is virtually no theology. It is a practical prescription for leading a good life. Later we see the Eastern Churches becoming more mystical, and the Western Churches becoming more rational.
Does God change or does our understanding of God change? My personal view is that it is the latter, and it is informed by knowing the history of our ideas about God.


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For hoverers: I have tons of NEW and EUC everything -- Tots Bots, Thirsties, Swaddlebees, Blueberry, Fuzzinbunz, Bumkins, Wool, Wipes, Trainers, Accessories, Cloth-diaper friendly knit jeans, and more!
I have an obscene amount of diapering and training items to destash – many brand new, never used. Swaddlebees, Thirsties, Bummis, Tots Bots, Imse Vimse, Bumkins, SposoEasy, wool, and lots more. I also have training pants / trainers listed over in that forum.
No stains whatsoever unless listed (my kids were partially ECed and didn't poop in diapers after about 14 months)!
Details: This single full-time working mama of two is finding it very time-consuming and expensive to ship one and two items at a time, so here's the deal with shipping:
Prices listed do not include shipping BUT if you purchase at least four items or spend at least $40 from any of my various postings, I will cover the cost of shipping.
Pockets and AIOs
1 EUC Large Sposoeasy AIO in white - $11
1 NEW Large Sposoeasy AIO in light turquoise
2 NEW Large Sposoeasy AIO in white (with extra detachable soaker included)
$14 each
Old Style EUC L (1st photo) and XL (2nd photo) Bumkins- $10 each
With the exception of the white one, which I got used and shows some wear in the velcro and thickness of the cotton, these were all purchased new, prepped, and either not worn or only worn a few times since my guy potty learned soon after fitting in them.
Old Style Large Bumkins AIOs in white and assorted prints - $4 each
These are still fully functional, but definitely show signs of wear. Some were purchased new and some were purchased used (those show more wear, of course). The cotton is no longer thick and fluffy as it once was and the velcro still sticks just fine but looks pilly/shaggy. A few of these have some tattering of the outer layer of inner cotton along the legs.
Prefolds, Fitteds & Covers
Adorable Matching Diaper Cover, Kimono wrap shirt, and Bib Set by Enfant - $25 for the set
Washed but never worn. The diaper cover is similar in style and fit to an Imse Vimse cover.
EUC Medium and Large (2nd pic) Bumkins Pull-On Covers - $10 each
New in Package XL Bumkins Pull-on Covers - $12 each
the Mediums and Larges were used a bit, but still look like new. They are pull-on style (no snaps or velcro) and fit very nicely and trimly under pants without extra bulk on top of diaper bulk. They are made of a silky nylon that is not stiff, crunchy, or sweaty. They are also great over non-waterproof or semi water-proof training pants for containing accidents. I don't think they make these anymore but they were actually my favorite and I have lots!
[B]1 Like New L Imse Vimse Cover in Teddy Bear Print - $14
New in Package Medium Bumkins Dr. Seuss Pink One Fish Two Fish Cover (old style) - $12
3 Large EUC/Like New EC Covers (bright blue, turquoise, and khaki/olive) - $8 each
Just lay an insert or trifold in for a very trim fit diaper or trainer
Photo coming soon.
12 Month EUC/VVGUC Denim Blue/Indigo Knit Llamajamas - $28
I think these are in excellent condition, but they do have a very small amount of pilling/fuzziness common to wool, so others may call that less than excellent. No felting, staining, rips or tears though. These were purchased used in excellent condition and only worn once by us (sizing issues)
EEUC Crocheted Blue and Chocolate brown longies- $35
So cute and worked great, but my guy outgrew them before he'd had a chance to wear them more than a couple times; no shagginess or felting that I see
EEUC XLarge Babyology Longies - $35
EEUC Small Brown Wool Knit Longies
NEW with Tags Matching Schoon organic cotton kimono shirt 3-6 mths
$40 for the set
• EUC Brown/Olive Green Camo colored Wool Knit NB Longies - $14
These knit longies are in excellent condition but they are very amateurly made. Still, they worked great, they just look a little wonky.
Natural Wool Infant Sleepsack - $35
Washed and intentionally felted somewhat, but never used. Purchased online from Europe.
Cloth Diapering Accessories (inserts, doublers, wipes, snappis, creams)
EEUC Wonder Unders Snap-in Inserts for trainers / Covers
All have multiple layers of bamboo and are PUL lined; 2 have athletic wicking fabric surfaces
3 regular absorbancy (but still very absorbant) - $4 each
1 overnight absorbancy - $5 each
Silk and Flannel Liners - $5 for two
These were homemade and not perfect by any means, but they work. Black silk on one side and blue flannel on the other (three layers of flannel). One of them has a small tear on the silk side (you can see it in the photo)
Several EEUC super absorbant Nappy Shoppe G-Flapper cloth inserts with bamboo - $5 each
NEW and EUC Very Small Two-ply Cloth Wipes (Newborn Size) -$15 for lot
I had these made by a WAHM on here in miniature for newborn nooks and crannies, but my little guy was sick his first few months and these rarely got used, some appear not to have been used at all. They are flannel on one side and either cotton or bamboo velour in coordinating color on the other (some are cotton, some are bamboo, but I can no longer remember or tell which are which).
Assorted Diaper Creams
Cloth Diaper Friendly knit jeans by Old Navy, Levi, Faded Glory
These are wonderfully gender neutral (NOT jeggings or leggings like you usually find for girls only) knit jeans that stretch beautifully over fluffy cloth-diapered bums! They are so easy on/off and it is so rare to find jeans that work well over cloth diapers that I bought and horded them whenever I found any. If only I could find some in 4T for my son. He still has trouble getting regular jeans on/off for the potty! Sigh!
NEW 0-3 month Faded Glory Infant Knit Jeans - $5
These were also wonderful stretchy knit jeans (and a whole lot cheaper than Levis!), but only came in 0-3 and 3-6 month sizes and were only available for a short while.
NEW Old Navy 6-12 Month Knit Jeans - $12
GUC Levi 6-12 Month Knit Jeans (some fading and wear, but no holes) - $10
EUC 12-18 Month Levi Knit Jeans - $15
EUC 12-18 Month Carters Knit Jeans - $10
12-18 Month Levis Knit Cargo Jeans - $5
Well worn with holes where at the corners where the pockets attach, but still super cute and great over fluffy cloth bums
18-24 EUC and NEW with Tags Old Navy Knit Jeans - $10 and $13
NEW Children's Place 3T Denim Knit Capri Jeggings - $8
I bought these for my son thinking they would be like the Levis jeans I so love, but it turned out they are skin tight girls jeggings, and Capri at that! I never laughed so hard at the site of him trying them on!
I listed all of my trainers in the trainers forum, so check that out.
Also check out the HUGE listing I have for NEW and EUC Shoes in the Shoes Forum in all sizes for both genders!
I'm mostly in search of space in my house and paypal, but I could possibly be tempted by Brio brand train stuff (not Brio compatible, the real deal!), wool interlock fabric, quadrilla marble stuff, Tinkle Time Trainers Overnight Solutions Size 6 or 8, or EUC little girls ballet shoes size 2. If I think of anything else, I'll post it here!
[B]2 EEUC Swaddlebees Econappi in Cow Print 1 Snap SOLD/1 Aplix closure - SOLD
VGUC Blueberry Pocket in Chocolate with Blue Dots - SOLD
EEUC Fuzzi Bunz One Size Elite in chocolate brown - SOLD
GUC Old Style Medium Fuzzi Bunz Perfect Size in Red - SOLD
EEUC Bumgenius + 1 Flip Cover - SOLD
3 GUC Bumgenius One Size Pocket Diapers (2 pale yellow/butternut and 1 light blue) - SOLD
NEW WHAM Ooga Booga Knit Infant Prefold with 2 layers Bamboo Fleece - SOLD
2 Pairs of NEW in package Medium Ekstra Lana Wool Breast pads / Nursing Pads - SOLD
1 Like NEW XL Imse Vimse Cover in Jungle - SOLD
1 NEW Large Bummis in froggy print - SOLD
2 EEUC Thirsties Duo Diaper Size 2 with both original inserts - SOLD
EEUC Bummis Bamboo Fitted - SOLD
1 NWT Tots Bots Easy Fit solid green - SOLD
3 GUC Softbums Echo - SOLD
[B]NEW in Package Joey Bunz Large Premium Hemparoo Inserts/Doublers 3 pack - SOLD
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Hi, so glad I found your post! I have a 22 lb. baby boy who is allergic to exposed elastic (and most probably latex). Its been 13 years since I've CD'd my firstborn and much has changed in CD'ng since then - assuming the elastic is covered in the items, I'd like to purchase the following:
The Grassy Green Kissaluvs Marvel;
12 of the EUC, size Large, (boy) printed Bumkins AIOs;
The new Blue Groove Bumkins AIO;
The used Blue Groove Bumkins one-pocket;
12 new countour liners that fit Bumkins - $2 - (the longer sized ones, please. If the EUC ones are the longer ones, I'll take those instead);
All the Kissaluvs fitted in Size 2 only (any color, new, EUC, VVGUC, the red one too);
The Large Polar Bummis fleece cover; and
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) – Cristie Kerr watched her short winning par putt fall on the second hole of a playoff against Suzann Pettersen, hugged her caddie, a few players who stayed around to watch and had one more hug she had waited a long time to give.
"Where's my dad?'' Kerr said during the celebration Sunday on the 18th hole at Kingsmill's River Course.
Her dad, Michael Kerr, was on his way – as fast as his motorized cart would take him.
"I rarely get nervous when she plays,'' he said. "I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly. This was the most nervous I have been. It wasn't just the playoff. It was the last three holes. Honestly, I was in the bar drinking, which I don't normally do.''
Kerr's victory in the Kingsmill Championship, the 16th of her career and third in the event, was the first one with her dad present. A Vietnam veteran and career school teacher who has had both knees replaced, he stayed with her throughout her round, then took the cart to the bar, figuring he couldn't maneuver well enough to keep up in the big crowd.
"For the last 17 years, I've been dreaming of watching her win a professional tournament,'' he said. "It was a dream come true. If I never see anything else in my life, this was it and this was the best thing that's ever happened to me.''
His daughter made it so with a refusal to lose, even when she failed to cash in on her best shot of the day, an approach on the first extra hole that left her with a 6-foot putt to win. It never even touched the cup, sliding by on the right.
"I wasn't going to lose, not today, not with my dad here,'' Kerr said.
She almost let the prospect of having the moment take it away.
"I thought about it a little bit more like before I hit that first putt in the playoff,''' Kerr said of her desire to win with her father watching. "I thought about it a little more and I got a little emotional. Maybe that's why I pushed it and didn't make it.
"The second time, I was going to make sure, `OK, I can think about that after. Let's take care of what we've got to take care of right now,''' Kerr said she told herself. "Emotions are good, though. We need emotions to play good.''
Kerr closed with a 2-under 69, and Pettersen had a 67 to finish at 12-under 272 on the River Course.
The final pairing had a Solheim Cup feel to it, but Kerr was pleased with the way she stayed within herself.
"I was really just proud of the way I tried to tend and take care of my own game today, especially with Suzann,'' she said. "She likes to try and intimidate people out there, but I'm not really easily intimidated so I just took care of my own game.''
Pettersen, whose first career victory came in a playoff at Kingsmill in 2007, had won at Hawaii in a playoff a few weeks ago, and lost for only the third time in eight career playoffs. She didn't stick around for the celebration.
"I had a chance to win outright on 18 in regulation and I hit a good putt,'' Pettersen told LPGA officials when reached by telephone. "Obviously, it's disappointing to lose in the playoff, but there was a lot of good to take from it.''
It was the second year in the row the tournament ended in a playoff.
Last year, Paula Creamer and Jiyai Shin played the longest two-player playoff in tour history – nine holes – before Shin won. The victory came Monday morning, after the two played the 18th hole eight times in a row Sunday night.
The playoff format was changed for this year, with the plan to play No. 18 three times, then move to the par-4 16th, where Shin finally won last year, but Kerr made sure the huge gallery that lined the closing fairway got to see it end.
The finish turned into a two-player battle after looking like it might get wild.
Ariya Jutanugarn, the Thai 17-year-old who led after the first two rounds, made five birdies on the back nine in a 66 to surge into a tie for third with Ilhee Lee, who closed with a career-best 67.
Angela Stanford also had a share of third until the final hole, when she lipped out a short par putt for her first bogey in a closing 69. She shared fifth place with Stacy Lewis, who closed with a 70.
At one point, Pettersen led by a shot, with Kerr, Jutanugarn, Lee and Stanford all one back.
Kerr led most of the day, but when she missed the 14th green to the right, Pettersen hit her approach close. Kerr's sidehill chip left her a long two-putt, and Pettersen's birdie created a two-shot swing and put her in front at -11.
Just as they walked off the green, Lee's third consecutive birdie moved her to 10 under, and Jutanugarn's fifth birdie in six holes also got her to minus 10. Moments later, Stanford rolled in an eagle putt on the par-5 15th to also get to minus 10.
The former champions wasted no time separating themselves again.
Kerr had a chance to regain a share of the lead at No. 15, but her makeable eagle putt slid just by on the left, and she and Pettersen both had short birdie putts, giving the leaders some breathing room.
Kerr, who made several tester putts to save par during her round, pulled even on the par-4 16th, rolling in another from inside 10 feet for birdie after Pettersen's longer birdie attempt missed.
Both parred in, with Pettersen's long birdie try at No. 18 missing right by half an inch, and Kerr having to make yet another tester, this one from about 6 feet, to force the sudden death playoff.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government put the safety of its own troops ahead of that of Bosnian Muslims during the Srebrenica massacre, lawyers for relatives of thousands of victims of the 1995 slaughter told a court Monday in a civil suit.
The government rejected that charge and countered that it had no official control of its troops because they were "blue helmets" taking part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission during the Bosnian war.
The comments came in the latest legal battle in the Netherlands over the country's responsibility in Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Some 6,000 relatives of the approximately 8,000 men and boys slain by Bosnian Serb forces in the Srebrenica safe haven in July 1995 are seeking to hold the Dutch government liable because its troops failed to prevent the slayings.
A handful of the relatives listened to the proceedings at The Hague District Court via a simultaneous translation. They sat stoically, mostly in silence, but occasionally responding angrily to the government lawyer's comments.
"This is also an opportunity for the Dutch people to recognize the responsibility of their politicians and soldiers in the genocide of Srebrenica," said one of the "Mothers of Srebrenica" Munira Subasic. "This is also an opportunity for the (Dutch) ministry of defense to reclaim their military honor."
Lawyers for the relatives are demanding compensation in a case that could set legal precedents for other peacekeeping missions.
Dutch government lawyer Bert-Jan Houtzagers insisted the Dutch forces did all they could and the government was not in a position to issue orders.
"They were troops in blue helmets ... exclusively under U.N. command and control," he told the three-judge panel.
If judges accept that argument when they deliver their judgment later this year, it could leave the relatives with no more legal avenues; Dutch judges threw out attempts by the women to also sue the United Nations, saying the world body has legal immunity.


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A collection of photos to share with family, friends and others who are interested in my work. Instead of attaching photos to emails I have decided to place them on a blog so people can see them. I hope to post daily, or near daily. I won't promise perfection. I will show my failures as well as successes. Please enjoy and please comment. Negative and positive. Don't like a photo? Say so. Each photo is a learning opportunity and honest comments are welcome.
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