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Feel the Spirit encompasses it all - our cultural diversity, stunning natural envirionment, awe-inspiring earth forces, sense of adventure, our people, and the spirit of a progressive community. An impressive selection of cafes, restaurants, bars and clubs offer food, wine and entertainment from all over the world to tempt the palate. Don't forget to try the Hangi (dinner) a traditional Maori feast and tradtional Maori culture.
If you are looking for adrenlin-pumping action - Rotorua is the place to be. Our awesome natural setting provides thrills and adventure to take you to the edge.
Attractions nearby Rotorua
Waitomo Caves and Blackwater Rafting - approx 2 hour drive.
Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tours - approx 1 hour drive.
White Island Tours - approx 2 hour drive or by Floatplane or Helicopter from Lakefront in Rotorua - approx 15 minute drive.
Tongario National Park - approx 2 hour drive - largest Ski resort in New Zealand during winter months and the best 1 day walk in New Zealand during summer months.
Surf Beaches - approx 1 hour drive.
Taupo - Huka Falls, Huka Jet, Prawn Park - approx 1 hour drive.
Rotorua Fishing guidelines
For the angler, the lakes and rivers in Rotorua teem with trophy-sized trout that provides sport and thrills. As trout cannot be bought or sold commercially, the only way to sample it is to catch it yourself, but that's part of the fun - in fact you are likely to find Rotorua is the easiest place in New Zealand to hook a trout. We can recommend two Professional Guides (who will provide all the gear plus Fishing Licence)and are able to reveal the best spots in the area.
Here in Rotorua, you'll delight in our bounty of lakes, rivers and crystal springs for trout fishing.
Trout fishing near Rotorua
Be as formal or relaxed, as you like. The more energetic can play tennis on the championship-sized court, with rackets and balls supplied.
There are many walks around the area, a specialty being Hamurana Springs where 450,000,000 litres of water come out of the ground per hour. Trout, ducks and swans can be seen in the stream.
In winter you can rest beside the open fire with a book or quiet music. Spacious landscaped gardens, with roses, rhododendrons, camellias, and many native trees are a feature of Panorama. Native birds such as tuis and blue herons are frequently heard and seen on the property.
Mokoia room
- Captures magnificient views of Lake Rotorua and Mokoia Island
- King size bed
- Woollen underlays
- Ensuite bathroom with shower, vanity and toilet
- Toiletries, hair dryer, heated towel rails, heater and shaving points
Can add an extra single bed if needed
Ponga room
- Captures magnificent views of Lake Rotorua and Mokoia Island
- Super-King or twin beds
- Woollen underlays and blankets
- Ensuite bathroom attached with shower, vanity and toilet
- Toiletries, hair dryer, heated towel rails, heater and shaving points
Rose Room
- Queen size bed
- Woollen underlays
- Private bathroom with bath and shower
- Heaters, Toiletries, hairdryer, heated towel rails and shaving points
All rooms have comfortable innerspring beds, warmed with electric blankets and feather quilts in winter, which will ensure a restful night's sleep.
Your friendly hosts, Dave a retired sheep and beef farmer and Chris a retired Registered Nurse, working mainly with Palliative Care patients, have lived in Rotorua for over 20 years. They posses a wealth of knowledge about activities in the district and would be more than happy to help you plan your days with them.
Prior to moving to Rotorua, they both lived on a farm in the Waitomo district, where they hosted farmstay visitors and owned Lost World Tourist attraction.
They really enjoy communicating with people and finding out about the rest of the world. Because of this when they retired they knew they wanted to manage a bed and breakfast accommodation.
Dave enjoyed many years of hunting and fishing and says the peace and beauty that the surrounding lakes offer, is just exquisite. We would be happy to recommend a fishing guide who will guarantee you catch a trout on the lake. As New Zealand does not allow the sale of trout, this will be your only chance of tasting this delicacy. Dave is interested in all sports and used to play cricket, golf and football. There are 5 golf courses within 20 min drive from here and golf clubs are available from us.
Chris's passions include quilting, card making, and scrap-booking. Chris was married to an Australian and lived in Queensland for over 21 years. Her three children still reside over there with her 9 grandchildren.
Dave has 3 children still living in New Zealand and two have moved over to Australia for work. They have produced 13 grand children so in total, Chris and Dave have 22 grandchildren together. Luckily they don't all arrive home at the same time.
If coming from Tauranga on State Highway 36, travel to the T-intersection on Hamurana Road. Turn left and take the first left again into Fryer Road. Travel 1.5 kilometres to A Panoramic Country Homestay driveway on the right (#144). Go straight down the driveway, do not veer left.
|Map Legend
|A Panoramic Country Homestay
144 Fryer Rd, Rotorua, New Zealand


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When the game ended on Wednesday, Toll Gate boys' basketball coach Tom Rayko couldn't be angry or discouraged with any aspect of his team's performance.
The only disappointing part was the final score.
Playing in the quarterfinals of the Division III Tournament, the fifth-seeded Titans played hard in an emotional, back-and-forth contest, but came up just short, losing 58-55 to No. 4 Johnston.
It was a roller coaster ride for both teams, and Rayko knew his team had left everything out on the court.
"I'm absolutely proud of these kids," he said.
Toll Gate overcame a nine-point second-half deficit, took a two-point lead and then watched the Panthers claw their way back. Johnston hit three huge three-pointers in the final 2:17 of play to secure the win, including a dagger from Steve Simone with 49 seconds left and the shot clock down to one.
Simone's desperation three made the score 55-50, and left the Titans shaking their heads.
"That was the one that was a killer," Rayko said. "Time winding down. I think there was maybe a second on the clock. Ben Mann was in his face, and he drilled that. That's a big time shot. There's nothing you can say."
That made the difference in a match-up of two teams that were just about even across the board. Both Johnston and Toll Gate were 12-6 during the regular season, and the Panthers were only given a higher playoff seeding by virtue of their 70-62 win over the Titans in the regular season.
On Wednesday, they showed just how evenly matched they really are.
Toll Gate came out hitting on all cylinders, taking a 13-3 lead over the first 8:37 of play. The Titans got four points apiece from Kyle Toolin and Tyler Inkley, three from Ben Mann and two from John Coleman to grab the 10-point lead.
"We jumped out to that big lead, which was really nice," Rayko said.
But, after the teams began to trade baskets and the score reached 19-9, Johnston came right back with a dominating run of its own.
The Panthers extended out their 2-3 zone, forced turnovers and chiseled away until a three-pointer from Ryan McKeon with 56 seconds left in the half gave them their first lead at 30-29. They didn't stop there, as McKeon added a layup and Evan Hopson scored on a putback to give Johnston a 34-29 lead at the half.
All told, the Panthers finished the half on a 15-0 run.
"We called the early timeout and said, 'Calm down, we're not doing anything wrong,'" Johnston head coach Steve DeMeo said. "Some of our shots, we took some easy shots that didn't go in. Odds are they're going to fall sooner or later."
Coming out of the break, Johnston got a three from Mark Breton and stayed comfortably in front for the first seven minutes. A Simone layup at the nine-minute mark made it 46-37.
But just as Johnston overcame a deficit in the first half, the Titans fought their way back in the second.
Trailing by those nine points, Toll Gate tightened up its defense and began to use its size advantage inside. Coleman scored on consecutive possessions to make it 46-41, and Zach Mitchell buried a three to get within 46-44.
The Titans tied the score on a putback by Coleman, and then took their first lead of the half on a tough layup in traffic by John Murphy. With 3:46 to play, Toll Gate was suddenly up 48-46 thanks to an 11-0 run.
"We really dug in deep and we really played some defense, were able to hit some shots and utilized our big guys in the paint," Rayko said. "They did a great job, all of them."
Then it was Johnston's turn to get hot. Simone knocked down a three on its next possession to help the Panthers reclaim the lead at 49-48, but Toll Gate took it right back with a jumper by Tyler Inkley.
After the teams exchanged empty possessions, McKeon connected from long range to put Johnston up 52-50.
The Titans couldn't score on their next possession despite two chances, and that's when Simone hit the biggest shot of the game.
On the right wing, he faded away when he saw the shot clock ticking down and somehow knocked down the three.
"Steve hit a big three and Ryan McKeon hit a big three," DeMeo said. "Those were big shots."
Murphy hit two free throws for the Titans to make it 55-52 with 35 seconds left, and then they forced a turnover on a Johnston inbounds pass, giving them a chance to tie the game. But Murphy missed a three in the corner, and the Panthers got the rebound.
Toll Gate had no choice but to start fouling, and Breton hit two free throws to make it a five-point game again. After another Titans' miss, Hopson hit one of two free throws to make it 58-52.
Toolin hit a three at the other end to make it a three-point game, and McKeon followed that by missing the front end of a one-and-one, but Toll Gate couldn't get off a final desperation heave to tie the game before the clock hit zero.
That brought Toll Gate's season to a close.
Coleman led the team with 15 points, while Toolin had 14. Mann scored nine, while Inkley and Mitchell each had six. Murphy finished with four.
"I couldn't be more proud of these kids," Rayko said.
McKeon and Breton each had 15 points to lead Johnston, while Simone added 14.
Even with the abrupt ending in the team's first playoff game, it was a special season for the Titans, who won the Division III-Central regular season title for the second consecutive year and reached the 12-win plateau for just the third time in the last 12 seasons.
"We were obviously looking to go further," Rayko said. "We thought we had a shot. We had a great season, a great run. Coming into the season, it was tough early on. We had a great little start, we hit a rough patch, they got through that, they really came together and they really put together a run down the stretch."
They'll be trying to get back to that point with a newer cast of characters next season, as they lose Evan Stamps, Derryck Anderson, Mann, Mitchell, Toolin, Inkley, Murphy and Coleman all to graduation this year.
"They all did a great job," Rayko said. "My hat's off to every one of those seniors who is on this team."
Johnston went on to lose to top-seeded North Smithfield 58-40 in the semifinals on Friday. North Smithfield won the D-III title with a 66-55 victory over East Greenwich on Sunday.
Neither Toll Gate or Johnston qualified for the 16-team all-division state tournament, set to begin later this week.

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The population count of Cabarrus County, NC was 192,296 in 2016. The population count of Guilford County, NC was 511,815 in 2016.
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This dataset contains information on the rate of accidental deaths for Durham, Guilford, Forsyth, Mecklenburg, and Wake Counties and North Carolina. Accidental deaths are expressed as resident deaths per 100,000 people. Data was collected from the NC Vitals Statistic Reports and is a aggregate of two causes of death: unintentional motor vehicle deaths and other unintentional deaths.
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There are many things still unclear about why Lesley-Anne Knight, secretary general of Caritas Internationalis, has been unexpectedly prevented from applying for a second term of office. It could be that the Vatican Curia is planning some radical structural changes and Knight is seen as an obstacle.
According to Caritas, its leadership "deeply regrets the decision of the Holy See." The president of Caritas, Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez de Maradiaga of Honduras, voiced his "incomprehension" at the decision. The organization's leadership bureau—Cardinal Rodríguez, Knight, the organization's treasurer and seven regional presidents—met with Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone on Feb. 5, but they were unable to change the position of the Holy See on Knight's reappointment.
On Feb. 15, Cardinal Bertone wrote to the bishops' conferences of the world to explain that the Vatican was not going to renew Knight's mandate after the general assembly of Caritas in May. In the three-page letter, Cardinal Bertone said Caritas needed a stronger Catholic identity. The next four years, he explained, would focus on "harmonizing the theological dimension of Caritas Internationalis...with its role as an organization operating on the international stage." This would require, he said, greater cooperation with other ecclesial bodies and with Vatican dicasteries that have an "interest" in Caritas activities. Caritas's advocacy work, he explained, needs to be better coordinated "in strict cooperation with the Holy See, which is specifically competent in this regard."
A firmer Catholic identity and tighter bonds with the Vatican? Why not ask Knight to effect these changes? The head of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, has indicated that Knight's competence is not in question. Colleagues speak of her with great respect. She radiates intelligence and competence. And Cardinal Bertone in his letter insists that denying her a second term "is in no way to cast doubt on her merits or diminish the appreciation for the services she has already rendered." So what is the problem with another term?
"We're just as much in the dark as anyone else," a source close to Knight said.
There are reports that Knight has drawn the ire of Vatican officials with "occasional blunt criticism about the church bureaucracy"; and her predecessor, Duncan MacLaren, who was secretary general for two terms (1999-2007), suggests that longstanding tensions between Caritas and Cor Unum, which oversees relief and development work for the Vatican, might be at work behind the decision.
Cardinal Sarah's remarks seem to underline this clash of cultures. "We can be competent in organizing but lack some qualities for coordinating work or for reinforcing the Catholic identity," he said, referring to Knight. He mentions "new internal challenges," including the revision of the agency's institutional statutes, which "involve internal collaboration, the Catholic identity of the confederation, cooperation with the Holy See, greater participation of the various continents, a proper understanding of the proper autonomy of each Caritas member of the confederation."
Read between those lines, and Knight—together with the rest of Caritas leadership—stands accused in some Vatican quarters of being too independent of the Curia, too much like secular nongovernmental organizations and too inattentive to the presumably more traditional sensibilities of member organizations in the developing world.
The change of leadership at Caritas is in some ways reminiscent of the takeover of English liturgical translations from the International Committee on English in the Liturgy, which also had its origin in a dispute over authority—in that case, with the Congregation for Divine Worship.
Whatever else it may be, this shake-up is an assertion of control by Vatican departments suspicious of Caritas's autonomy and global reach. Reforms may be coming to establish a direct supervisory role for Cor Unum and other dicasteries. But for what purpose? The liturgical translation fiasco should serve as a warning. Interference from above can create more problems than it solves.


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I haven't written on here since last year – it started feeling like just one more chore and I lost my motivation. Now that spring is here and the watery sunshine is cheering me on I'm making a tentative return. I think this will be a more occasional project than I attempted initially but not as 'occasional'(i.e. never!) as it has been for the last while! I'm inspired by the encouragement of my cousin (husband's cousin strictly speaking, cousin-in-law maybe?) Linsey who has been asking when I'd be back blogging again. I'm also prompted by a desire to say thank you to her for a lovely drawing she did of the baby.
The baby is 9 months old now and eating solid food as well as milk these days. We did baby led weaning with him and it seems to suit him pretty well. He has what we have and gets stuck in. It means any recipes I post will probably omit salt but anyone making them could obviously add it to taste. We don't miss it.
For Christmas I got my fancy cast iron pot and then (thankfully post Christmas dinner) our oven promptly broke so it got little use until that was fixed. I luckily also received a slow cooker and I've enjoyed experimenting with its possibilities. Although I haven't been writing on here I've done lots of cooking and learned/invented/adapted a host of new (to us) recipes. We've had pulled pork, slow cooked brisket, one pot slow cooker chicken dinners, various stews, curries and hot pots and I'd have to say I'm a convert. It saw us through a month with no oven admirably.
Once the oven was fixed, I was keen to get the cast iron casserole in use and this recipe for a whole pot roast chicken with Indian spices (adapted from here) has been one of my biggest successes with it so far. Roasting with the lid on initially, means the meat stays moist and tender and the coconut milk combines with the juices to make a delicious spiced gravy. My cheats ingredient in this recipe is frozen cubes of chopped garlic, ginger and red chilli from the supermarket, I love these as a time saver and it also saves me throwing away the unused bits of ginger and withered chillies that tend to end up forgotten in my fridge. If you're chopping your own then a cube is equal to about a teaspoon full.
Indian Roast Chicken
A whole chicken
2 cubes frozen chopped garlic
2 cubes frozen chopped ginger
1 or 2 cubes frozen chopped chilli
2 teaspoons ground coriander
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tin coconut milk
Allow the frozen garlic, ginger and chilli to defrost at room temperature in a bowl. Add the dried spices and oil and mix together to form a fragrant paste.
Stab the chicken all over with a sharp knife and rub the paste all over the skin.
Cover and refrigerate to marinade for a couple of hours. It'll be ok if you skip this step, but the flavour is a bit better if you give the spices a chance to get right in about the chicken.
Put the chicken into a large, lidded, ovenproof pot and put it in a preheated oven at 190.
Cook it with the lid on for the first hour or so and then remove the lid and pour over a tin of coconut milk before returning it to the oven, lidless, for the last half hour.
Allow it to rest for 15 minutes or so and then carve and serve with the spicy coconut gravy poured generously over.
We ate it with chapattis, cardamom rice and kidney bean curry.
There was enough chicken left over to make a quick and easy weeknight tea of biryani a few days later.


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by Len Lear and Constance Garcia-Barrio
E.M.I.R. (Every Murder Is Real), a community-based grassroots non-profit located at 5213 Germantown Ave., held a vigil on Sept. 25, The National Day of Remembrance for Murdered Victims. E.M.I.R. works with families and community members who have been affected by homicide. Over 100 people gathered at E.M.I.R. to remember the lives of their loved ones that were cut short due to rampant violence in the city of Philadelphia.
Victoria Greene, founder and executive director of E.M.I.R., opened the program with a welcome and an affirmation of love for the lives that have been lost. Ms. Greene also spoke about the need for victims to have a stronger voice "because our voices and our needs are not being heard." The Rev. Myra Maxwell offered a prayer and song. Dina Dashell and Darlene Sistrunk, mothers and writers who have lost sons to homicide, read their poems expressing the pain that has become all too familiar in this city.
Police Deputy Commissioner Thomas Wright and Inspector Michael Gillespie spoke to the audience. Police Commissioner Ramsey was scheduled to open the program, but he was late since he had to deal first with the homicide of a 31-year-old mother in Southwest Philadelphia. Commissioner Ramsey expressed gratitude to the community for coming together, but he added that he longed for a time when vigils would be few and far between.
A beautiful candlelight ceremony followed in which family, friends and neighbors lit candles in silent remembrance as the names of their loved ones were mentioned in the otherwise quiet night. The Rev. Hilda Campbell of Chester closed with a moving prayer that spoke about the loss to society of contributions, gifts and talents that would never be realized
A few blocks away at First Presbyterian Church of Germantown, Councilwoman Cindy Bass was having a summit on crime in the community. Participants expressed anger, outrage and frustration at the horrendous conditions in Southwest Germantown. "Well, it is about time," Greene told the Local. "I have often wondered where is the outrage? Here we are community members who have come together to get help from those whose job it is to serve and protect. Here we are community members who have come together to mourn and remember lives cut short by the failings of our society. A community in crisis, traumatized by crime and violence. How do we heal our community?
"You have unbearable pain when you lose someone to murder," said Victoria, 63, in an earlier interview. Her son Emir was shot dead in 1997 at age 20. E.M.I.R., which came into existence as a result of that horrific crime, offers grief support groups for children, youth and adults. E.M.I.R.'s motto is "Healing the community one family at a time."
Victoria attended Germantown High School because of its academic strengths at that time. In the '60s students were divided along racial lines, Victoria noted. In addition, color-consciousness among black students meant that "I was too dark for some groups and too light for others. I also had strikes against me since I was from a North Philly working-class family. Counselors told me that I wasn't college material."
Despite those difficulties Victoria seemed fated to continue Germantown ties. Married in 1966, Victoria and her husband lived on Sharpnack Street. She honed her skills dealing with the public through jobs at Strawbridge's, Wanamaker's and the Social Security Administration. Subsequent jobs as a Head Start teacher's aide and as a social worker in the Philadelphia Prison System schooled Victoria in early childhood education and individual and family counseling. "I draw on that knowledge daily in grief counseling," she said.
Further professional advancement required a grueling schedule. Victoria had completed two years of college at Temple University when she met Dr. Jackie Murphy, a faculty member at Rosemont College who taught black history in Philadelphia prisons. "She urged me to finish my degree at Rosemont," Victoria said.
"For three years, I took public transportation to Rosemont and then made up hours missed at work. I did 12 and 13-hour days." However, Victoria's five children — Chantay, Altovise, Emir and twins Aja and Ayanna — whose ages ranged at the time from 24 to 15, watched her receive her degree in sociology in 1995.
Around that time Victoria, who had gotten a divorce, realized that her son Emir seemed distant and depressed. "He'd started hanging around a young man whose energy felt negative. I took Emir to counseling, and it seemed to help." Later she learned that the young man had recruited Emir to sell drugs.
Victoria was juggling her prison job with a sideline as a cosmetics consultant. "On March 26, 1997, I had come home from work, made dinner and gone upstairs to put my customers' orders into the computer when a friend called to say that Emir had been shot." Driven to Einstein, Victoria sent her daughter Altovise, a new police officer, to identify the body covered with a white sheet. "It was Emir," Victoria said. "I went into the hallway and collapsed."
Some people feel indifferent when they hear that a young person who sells drugs has been killed. "They forget that he's somebody's son," Victoria said. "Emir had artistic talent — he used to attend Prints in Progress down the street — and he could make you laugh by imitating family members. He was a human being. He didn't deserve to be shot in the back seven times."
Victoria felt suicidal for a time. "The pain of Emir's murder was too much to bear," she said. Her healing began with the Grief Assistance Program (since discontinued) in the Medical Examiner's Office. "You have to talk about your grief to heal."
In 2006, two years after EMIR became nonprofit, Victoria began grief support groups at the Northwest Regional Library. Today, the home-like Germantown Avenue site lets her accommodate a range of ages. "Our support groups meet on Wednesdays for six weeks," Victoria said. "We have dinner from 6 to 6:30 p.m. Members of the Green Street Friends Meeting have volunteered to provide dinner, no small feat since we have up to 15 people. Eating together helps to make community so that we draw strength from each other."
After dinner, people meet according to age and gender. "An art therapist facilitates the children's gathering. Sometimes children can't verbalize their feelings, but art can become their medium for expression. Children must have a voice to heal. Untreated trauma perpetuates violence."
When a murder occurs, said Victoria, there's healing but no closure. "You learn to live with the loss, and how precious life is," she said. "You learn that you deserve to be happy, that your murdered loved one wouldn't want it any other way."
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Items where Research Group is "Centre for Mathematical Biology" and Year is 2001
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Bampfylde, C. J. and Brown, N. D. and Gavaghan, D. J. and Maini, P. K. (2001) Explaining rain forest diversity. Journal of Agricultural Science Cambridge, 137 (1). pp. 115-116.
Crampin, E. J. and Maini, P. K. (2001) Modelling biological pattern formation: The role of domain growth. Comments in Theoretical Biology, 6 (3). pp. 229-249.
Crampin, E. J. and Maini, P. K. (2001) Reaction-diffusion models for biological pattern formation. Methods and Applications of Analysis, 8 (3). pp. 415-428.
Dallon, J. C. and Sherratt, J. A. and Maini, P. K. (2001) Modelling the effects of Transforming Growth Factor-β on extracellular matrix alignment in dermal wound repair. Wound Repair and Regeneration, 9 (4). pp. 278-286.
Iber, D. (2001) Modelling affinity maturation in the immune system. Masters thesis, University of Oxford.
Maini, P. K. (2001) Applications of mathematical modelling to biological pattern formation,. In, Coherent Structures in Complex Systems, D. Reguera, L.L. Bonilla, J.M. Rubi (eds), Springer (Lecture Notes in Physics), 567 . pp. 205-217.
Page, K. M. and Maini, P. K. and Monk, N. A. M. and Stern, C. D. (2001) A model of primitive streak initiation in the chick embryo. Journal of theoretical Biology, 208 (4). pp. 419-438.
Satnoianu, R. A. and Maini, P. K. and Menzinger, M. (2001) Parameter domains for Turing and stationary flow-distributed waves: I. The influence of nonlinearity. Physica D, 160 (1-2). pp. 79-102.
Satnoianu, R. A. and Maini, P. K. and Sánchez-Garduño, F. and Armitage, J. P. (2001) Travelling waves in a nonlinear degenerate diffusion model for bacterial pattern formation. DCDS B, 1 (3). pp. 339-362.
Schnell, S. and Painter, K. J. and Maini, P. K. and Othmer, H. G. (2001) Spatiotemporal pattern formation in early development: A review of primitive streak formation and somitogenesis. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 121 (10: 0-). Springer, Heidelburg, pp. 11-37.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- Additional money has been secured to help low-income people pay for their home heating costs in eastern Kentucky.
Attorney General Jack Conway says his Office of Rate Intervention helped obtain nearly $50,000 for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program. The extra money comes from a settlement between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Constellation Energy Commodities Group over Constellation's alleged manipulation of the wholesale energy market.
The Kentucky Public Service Commission assisted Conway's office in determining the amount of money that Kentucky was due as a result of the settlement. Kentucky's share was paid this month to Community Action Kentucky and distributed to five community action agencies.
The funds will assist eligible households in paying heating costs in the 20-county service territory affected by the settlement.


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Jungle Safari: Put on your safari hats and get ready to explore the world! Can you handle going to Africa? What about Costa Rica? Go from country to country, greating the wildlife and the people. Enjoy music and crafts from around the world! Leaders and adults are expected to help.
This workshop will be held at Camp Cedar Hill in Waltham on Sunday, Dec. 6th from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The workshop fee is $10 per Brownie. Leaders and adult chaperones are free.
Registration is deadline is Nov. 23 or when the workshop fills.
Juliette Scouts in grades 2 & 3 may also register.
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Morning Five: 11.20.12 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on November 20th, 2012
- The big news of the day happened off the court and likely behind closed doors in a room with paintings of men who have been dead for over 100 years as Maryland is headed to the Big Ten after its Board of Regents approved the move and Rutgers is expected to join suit later today. Obviously these moves are driven by football-generated television revenue, but it is unfortunate how this move will negatively affect some current college basketball rivalries, particularly Maryland-Duke. The decision to invite Rutgers, a school that has largely been irrelevant in revenue-generating sports, appears to be motivated by its proximity to New York City and the huge television market that comes with it. Our writers at the Big Ten microsite have already provided an overview of how these moves will affect the Big Ten, and the ACC microsite has chimed in as well, but for our part the loss of Maryland as a charter member of the ACC is one of the sadder stories of the entire conference realignment era and we wonder how Terps fans will take to their new conference.
- Nobody with half a brain these days still thinks that schools give much, if any, consideration to their student-athletes, fans or sentiment to longstanding and traditional rivalries when making these purely financial decisions to chase the highest possible payout. This mindset is perfectly laid out by ESPN.com's Dana O'Neil, who with a scathing edge to her pen, writes: "The landscape is a storm-ravaged mess and the last idealistic fan has left the building, seeing this entire enterprise for the sausage-making caper it is. College sports are gaining money and losing credibility, the sham of amateurism and purity reserved merely for the athletes and their vow of poverty." Pat Forde follows her with a missive describing how Maryland and Rutgers' incompetence both on the fields of play and in the boardroom are virtually meaningless in modern realignment calculus. What does matter: "Location, location, location [near major media markets]. That's what this latest round of conference realignment is about." Both are absolutely correct, of course — in just the last year we've lost (or will lose) Missouri-Kansas, Syracuse-Georgetown, and now Duke-Maryland. All in the name of more dollars. At what point do those dollars level off when fans realize that Rutgers-Michigan or Maryland-Iowa simply doesn't have quite the same passion and intensity surrounding it?
- Wednesday's game between Kentucky and Morehead State was supposed to be a nice homecoming for former Wildcat star Sean Woods (you may remember him as the guy who hit the shot before Laettner hit The Shot). It may not turn out to be so friendly, though, after a story was published in the Louisville Courier-Journal in which Woods criticized the current Wildcats for their sense of youthful entitlement. Perhaps as the result of some harsh local feedback, Woods backed off his earlier statements via his official Twitter account. We are guessing that Woods' clarification will be enough for most Wildcat fans — his banner hangs in the Rupp Arena rafters, after all — but there will probably be a few of the less reasonable ones who use it as an excuse to create a minor scene on Wednesday night.
- While the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament has been able to bring in big name programs the past two years — Kentucky (2011) and Ohio State (2012) — it has failed to draw large crowds even when Big Blue Nation invaded Mohegan Sun last season with an absolutely loaded team. Now the organizers are trying to overcome that with a 2013 field that includes two powerhouses — North Carolina and Louisville — as well Richmond, Belmont, and a group of four local schools. Having been to the event once we would be surprised if even the presence of these two schools could make up for the odd atmosphere surrounding the arena and casino, but it should at least make for a better televised final. Along the same lines, the Maui Invitational announced its field for the 2014 tournament (two years from now), and it includes the following eight schools: Arizona, BYU, Missouri, Purdue, Pittsburgh, San Diego State, Kansas State, Chaminade. It's not the strongest Maui event we've ever seen, but we'd expect at least three of those teams to rank in the Top 25 that season, perhaps more.
- Speaking of the Garden Isle, we don't typically discuss game results in this space, but on the 30th anniversary of Chaminade's historic upset over #1 Virginia in 1982, we thought it was too coincidental to fail to mention the Silverswords' 86-73 victory over Texas on Monday night. Certainly there are failures in the comparison — first of all, Texas 2012 is not Virginia 1982. The Longhorns aren't even ranked, and they are playing in Maui without their best player, Myck Kabongo, in the lineup. Secondly, the gap between Division I and Division II basketball isn't what it was 30 years ago — better training methodologies and techniques at all levels of basketball have helped, but the regular gutting of high-D-I hoops by the NBA creates situations like at Texas where Rick Barnes faces a rebuild every couple of years (Ralph Sampson would have without question been one-and-one in today's environment). Still, it's pretty cool. Texas has by far the nation's top athletic department budget (last check: over $150 million) and it's unlikely that Chaminade even surpasses a cool million. Could the D-II darlings use a home court advantage to take down Illinois tonight — nobody knows the answer, but it's stories like these that answers the question of why we watch the games.


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text: Preserving Meaningful Catholic Identity News Home 12.16.13 By: Mark Tarnacki Fr. William Graham, an author-priest and prominent voice in national dialogue about preserving or restoring meaningful Catholic identity at historically Catholic U.S. colleges, revealed his admiration for Saint Michael's College during an invited campus talk Dec. 3. "What I want to do is to celebrate where things work - and one of them is Saint Michael's, right here," said Graham, a notable scholar and diocesan priest for Duluth, MN. He's working on a book with the working title "Keeping the Catholic in Catholic Higher Education: Strategies for Church and Academy," which also was the title of his noontime Farrell Room presentation as part of the Edmundite Campus Ministry Food for Thought Program. "The Edmundite community at Saint Michael's and the Campus Ministry program that they sponsor - I don't know of a finer campus ministry program in all the United Sates," Graham said. "It really is quite extraordinary." He's been a visitor to campus several times through the years for programs at the Edmundites' invitation. Though Graham founded a Catholic Studies program at St. Scholastica College in his home diocese, he said that in a true Catholic university, from his perspective, such a program "would be redundant because the curriculum ought to be Catholic studies" in the sense that it "ought to produce thoughtful people of good will who move the world closer to the Kingdom of God." However, few mission statements at Catholic colleges make clear anything close to that idea, he lamented. Graham presently is resident scholar at Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at Minnesota's St. John's Benedictine Abbey near St. John's University. His push in his coming book and lectures is "not to rule anyone out of the discussion... but rather be inclusive as possible in the dialogue we're doing" about Catholic identity. He wants to identify issues that he feels need to be part of that dialogue, but sadly are avoided in favor of non-controversy. "We must be intentional about who and what we are becoming - we cannot afford simply to move on incautiously, seeking any revenue stream that will keep a university afloat, even if it means abandoning heritage and mission," he said, decrying universities that embody only "an insubstantial Christianity so wide and vague it cannot claim or even see truth." Graham said he is trying to announce the vision that "Catholicism in the academy can recapture its youth, believing with a transformative faith in the power of the Resurrection." The crux of the problem, he feels, is that "neither the academy nor church is providing leadership in discussing the issues involved, thus intensifying a sense of alienation." A question Graham feels must be addressed more directly is "intentionality about hiring for mission that includes all departments," though he knows that's controversial. Yet he cited stories of strong non-Catholic scholars he knows who are more put off by universities that seem to have no confident or clear sense of their identity, than they are by those that appear to possess the strength of their convictions, frankly, openly and without apology. "In hiring faculty, not only their expertise in the academic field must be taken in consideration but their basic philosophy or orientation toward life must be taken into account," he said. "Those universities that refuse to address this question, who hire Catholics only accidentally, will not be able to sustain a Catholic character and identification no matter how many values they adopt and label as Benedictine or Jesuit." He said hiring committees and authors of job descriptions at Catholic colleges need to be "describing and clarifying who we are, who we want to be and identifying the kinds of colleagues who can assist in such a mission." As simple a question as, "is a Catholic University necessary?" ought to be addressed, he said. His own view is that "there is uniqueness in a Catholic university that can be admired and even imitated, but cannot be replicated in a place where the foundation is other than religious." "That is the core of the enterprise," he said, adding that such a college delivers a liberal, not professional, education. It also "recognizes the obvious: that seekers of the truth include people who do not embrace Catholicism. All people of good will can share in the task and mission so understood, including atheists." "Some colleges may just need to decide it's time to close, if the plan is simply to attract students, even those unprepared to be true college students," because to Graham, that is not a viable mission. He suggested the key is assuring that the hiring powers at a college are invested in, or at least understanding of and sympathetic to, a Catholic mission. That means keeping out of the hiring loop "laggards" who actively or scornfully resist a faith-based mission, often while bringing little notable scholarship to the table. After the talk, Peter Tumulty of philosophy took Graham to task on this point, calling his argument "over-polemical" by simply "knocking down straw figures" with such negative general characterizations. Graham took his point, saying, "Yes, it's easy to find villains, but what would be good instead?" Graham's talk offered some vision of that: "A Catholic University needs real faculty and a real curriculum; it should not be substandard in any way, but a true arm of the academy seeking truth in every department and discipline," he said. And, "There is one idea alone that must animate the discussion, or else it is sure to fail: Jesus, speaking with authority, gives a vision of the spirit in which the discussion must be undertaken." He then quoted Jesus' words in the Gospel: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength... [and] your neighbor as yourself." Robert Brenneman of sociology raised the idea of "teaching knowledge versus formation," the latter, to Brenneman's mind, involving "teaching people virtues, what to desire." Brenneman, who brings a powerful non-Catholic religious sensibility to the conversation, said, "I don't think what you're saying is too radical. In some ways it might not be radical enough - not in terms of how many Catholic faculty... but it seems what's missing from the discussion is [distinguishing] formation versus intellectual preparation." He said most scholars have a capacity to understand Catholic perspectives on a topic and teach that in a given discipline, but what students learn is impacted by where a teacher's heart is. "We all teach students what to love," said Brenneman. "Some of us teach them to love numbers, others to love inquiry, and we should, but it's not a completely neutral thing. We're teaching people what to value - we're culture purveyors." Graham said the day's discussion amounted to just the sort of good conversation and dialogue he is campaigning for - another reason he admires Saint Michael's. "The place where that discussion would take place, that's the place I want to be - that's a Catholic college that has the discussion you just initiated. Folks might come down on different sides to that issue, but that's a Catholic discussion."


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BOSTON (MarketWatch)—Most retirees and those saving for retirement can relax slightly now that Congress has passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 or ATRA—the compromise bill designed to avert the fiscal cliff.
Discussion of that law, which President Obama signed late Wednesday, has focused mostly on taxes, many of which will rise for the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
But while 99% of taxpayers have avoided the worst of the fiscal-cliff scenarios, it doesn't mean they won't still have work to do to adjust their portfolios and saving strategies to the new reality. The possibility of slower economic growth, reduced entitlement benefits and higher expenses remains a looming challenge for future retirees.
Big tax bills can devastate your retirement savings. MarketWatch's Robert Powell and Andrea Coombes talk about strategies to employ before and during retirement to lower your taxes.
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Many should consider opening Roth IRAs or converting their traditional 401(k)—if they are able—to a Roth 401(k), say experts. And many should consider upping how much they contribute to their retirement accounts, as a way to reduce their current taxable income. (The IRA contribution limit for 2013, for instance, is now $5,500 for those below age 50 and $6,500 for those 50 and older.) Still others should contemplate adding tax-free investments such as municipal bonds to their portfolio.
Tax changes affect mostly the top 1%
To understand the broader impact of the deal on their portfolios, taxpayers first have to grapple with the tax implications. On this front, most retirees and would-be retirees have less reason to worry than they did at the end of 2012, at least in the short term.
"It's status quo for the vast majority of taxpayers," said Rande Spiegelman, vice president of financial planning at the Schwab Center for Financial Research. "The highest earners will pay additional taxes, but likely won't have their retirement prospects materially impacted. The lowest level will likely still enjoy the government entitlements they've come to expect."
ATRA raises taxes on income, dividends and long-term capital gains for households that make more than $450,000 a year and individuals who make more than $400,000. For the wealthiest, dividend income and capital gains will be taxed at a 20% rate, up from 15%, and the true rate will be 23.8% as a new Medicare surcharge on the wealthiest takes effect. (See related story.)
Under the bill, Americans at all income levels would see a two-percentage-point jump in the employee portion of the Social Security payroll tax.
But for income earned below the $400,000/$450,000 threshold, the 2012 rates would be permanently extended. All told, the income and investment tax hikes in 2013 could affect fewer than two million households.
Recession avoided?
Some experts also predicted that the economy would not fall back into a recession in the wake of ATRA, as some feared would happen if there were no deal. "This compromise will not solve the longer-term debt and deficit problems facing the United States," wrote Gary Thayer, the chief macro strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors. "However, it will prevent major tax increases on most Americans, and will, therefore, likely keep the economy from falling into recession. Continued modest economic growth should give lawmakers more time to address the longer-term issues."
But just because the short-term outlook seems rosier doesn't mean that people saving for or living in retirement should rest easy. Here's some advice experts offered recently in this column, "Retiring on the edge of the fiscal cliff: 10 ways to protect your retirement savings."
Income tax diversification is key
At a minimum, experts say, retirees and investors will need income-tax diversification. In the face of the continued possibility of rising tax rates, it is going to be more important than ever to have some sources of future income that are not subject to income tax, such as Roth accounts. Having a Roth IRA will let retirees and others shift back and forth between taxable and nontaxable income from year to year, depending on one's circumstances.
One bit of good news on this front: ATRA features a new rule that will allow 401(k) participants to complete intra-plan Roth conversions. (See related story.)
Spiegelman recommended that taxpayers, and especially the middle class, follow the advice he's been giving for years now. "Save as much as possible in tax-advantaged accounts—especially if they expect higher taxes and reduced government benefits via means testing and increased retirement age down the road," he said.
Read related story: Why most taxpayers can cheer the fiscal-cliff deal.
And: Cracking the 2013 tax code changes.
Prepare for reforms
Diane Boyle, the vice president of federal government relations for the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, also said retirees and would-be retirees need to prepare for all sorts of future tax reform, including the potential for limits on tax-favored contributions to retirement savings.
In addition, Boyle said, retirees and those saving for retirement need to prepare for entitlement reform that could include, potentially, greater Medicare means-testing, an increase in the Medicare eligibility age (phased in over a long time, perhaps 20 years), and a change in the way cost-of-living adjustments are calculated for Social Security benefits (for inflation-adjusted tax rules, too)—the use of the so-called chained CPI. Read Jason Fichtner's piece on chained CPI. Chained CPI: Diet COLA for Social Security.
Boyle said retirees and would-be retirees need to "prepare for another enormous struggle over the debt ceiling, continuing uncertainty and thus a potential slow-down in economic recovery if not an actual fallback into recession."
Also of note, for those retirees thinking about how to pay for long-term care: Boyle said the bill repeals the CLASS Act, the moribund new federal program that aimed to provide long-term care/disability insurance through an employer-based automatic deduction system. The bill does, however, set up a new commission that would study and then recommend to Congress ways to address Americans' long-term care needs.
And Boyle noted that the bill includes a rule that allows a direct tax-free gift from an IRA to a charity.
What to do now
"The fiscal cliff is a big deal, but there will always be big deals," said Craig Israelsen, a professor who teaches personal and family finance at Brigham Young University. "Portfolios that are well diversified will weather the storms."
For those contemplating what to do with their investment portfolios, Israelsen offered this advice
- Build a diversified portfolio. In Israelsen's world, that would be his so-called 7Twelve portfolio, a multi-asset balanced portfolio. Unlike a traditional two-asset balanced fund with a 60/40 ratio of stocks to bonds, the 7Twelve balanced strategy uses multiple asset classes to increase returns and reduce risk. Learn more at his website.
- Save at least 10% to 15% of your income each year, or at least as much as feasible.
- Don't bail out of your portfolio based on external events, such as the fiscal cliff or whatever comes next.
- Check your investments less often; that will take volatility out of your portfolio. Instead, focus your time and energy on more important matters such as children, grandchildren, service to community, religious activities and travel/adventure.
Eric Christophersen, president and CEO of Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company, said retirees and others should consider these questions:
- Do you need to reassess your goals and time horizon? A tax rate increase could change your cash flow needs.
- Do you have enough cash available to handle expenses for the next two years so that you can sleep at night during volatile times and avoid having to liquidate your investments when the markets are down?
- Is there an opportunity or need to rebalance? Volatile markets can create asset allocation imbalances. Rebalancing back to your target allocation may assist you in staying on track with your long term plan.
Where to invest
In his review of ATRA, Well's Fargo's Thayer noted that the increase in payroll taxes on all workers and income taxes on wealthy Americans will be a drag on economic activity. He's predicting that the U.S. economy is likely to grow at only a modest rate of 2.5% in 2013, instead of a normal healthy rate of 3% or more. He's expecting the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index to end the year in the 1525-1575 range.
Thayer recommends that investors be positioned more cyclically and less defensively, overweighting the following S&P 500 sectors: consumer discretionary, technology, and materials, as well as telecommunication services for some dividend yield. "We expect stocks to outperform bonds in 2013 and expect the cyclical sectors of the stock market to outperform the defensive sectors of the market," he wrote. What's more, Thayer wrote, taxpayers will continue to have an incentive to invest, because in most cases, their investment income will be taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income.
Robert Powell is editor of Retirement Weekly, published by MarketWatch. Learn more about Retirement Weekly. Follow his tweets @RJPIII.


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Student WelcomePosted by Danelle Moon at 9:07 PM
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The beginning of the school term is always an exciting time for students, parents, and faculty, but it is also a time when student anxiety is quite high, especially for new students. Navigating the campus and learning how to access the library can be very scary for some, and darn right intimidating for others. Whether you are a freshman, transfer student, or graduate student, the library should be your comfort zone. Here in the King Library, the University librarians are happy to help you as you learn to navigate the campus and library.
Here in Special Collections we are frequently the last consulted and the most feared, mostly due to the requirements we need to enforce to secure and maintain our unique and rare collections. It is my goal that students, and especially history and secondary education students will find the collections and department staff a refuge for research and for developing the skills needed to be successful in your programs and in your future endeavors as educators. What this means in plain language is that we are interested in supporting your needs for accessing primary source materials, and will provide hands-on discovery experiences through a variety of courses, and by providing access to our collection holdings.
One thing I hope you will learn from your research experiences here at SJSU is that first and foremost the librarians are here to help you succeed. Second and equally important, I can offer specific counseling on accessing primary sources here on campus and beyond, and I encourage you to contact me directly. My name is Danelle Moon, and I am the Director of the SJSU Special Collections & Archives, and I have expertise as an archivist and U.S. historian and would be glad to schedule individual and group counseling sessions. I also have lots experience teaching a variety of U.S History courses, including courses in the SJSU History Department. My research is focused on California and the West, and U.S. Women's History, but my current research is focused on Women and Politics since the passage of the 19th Amendment, with a specific focus on feminists and peace activists during the Post-World War I era.
You can contact me through the SJSU Special Collection Website [link is to the right of this message], or just give me a ring at 408/808-2061.
In your exploration of this blog you will find that the design is focused on presenting various resource tools and information that will help you in developing primary source literacy, using both print and visual resources, and using specific history databases. Periodically I will post archival topics that will help you gain a deeper understanding using primary sources in your own research, but will also illustrate the craft of historians, and provide visual representations as part of this process.
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A number of factors contributed to Mr. Edwards's losses in the early caucus and primary states. Even though he was often correct in his analyses of problems, the stridency of his critique of corporate America came up against the wall of public indifference built in the Reagan years against "class warfare," itself an ideological attempt to defuse resentment against the upward transfer of wealth. In addition, his notion of "two Americas" conflicted with a post-partisan desire for national unity that became clearer only as the primaries unfolded. His personal lifestyle also became the occasion for exaggerated charges of hypocrisy. The 19th-century French scholar Ernst Renan once advised that if you would be unorthodox in doctrine, you must be unimpeachable in your morals. Mr. Edwards's $400 haircuts, his 28,000 sq. ft. mansion complex and his choice of interim employment with a hedge fund all led to supercilious commentary by the media, always alert to personal eccentricities, that he was an unworthy spokesman for the poor and a suspect critic of economic inequality.
Whenever the poor have made advances in Western history, however, it has been in alliance with the well-placed and well-to-do. Whether it was the Gracchi in ancient Rome or the Roosevelts and the Kennedys in 20th-century America, the privileged have often led the deprived in the march to progress. But the chattering classes, who now may themselves be counted among the privileged, used these peccadilloes as grounds to deny Senator Edwards a platform to make his case against inequality. We do not expect politicians to be saints; but in an age of sound bites and photo-ops, "gotcha" journalism can close down debate unless it falls within the boundaries set by conventional wisdom. For the most part, even though the middle class has been shrinking, poverty growing and inequality reaching its highest point since the start of the Great Depression, attempts to explore the causes of economic inequality, and especially remedies for it, were put outside the circle of permissible discussion in the early primaries.
By the time he announced the end of his presidential campaign, Edwards was clear about his own desire to be a voice for the poor. In his withdrawal announcement, he declared that he had secured commitments from the two remaining Democratic candidates, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama, that they would continue his struggle on behalf of the poor. Both Democratic candidates independently voiced their commitment to that struggle.
The leading Republican candidates, Senator John McCain and former Gov. Mitt Romney, are not vocal on the issues of poverty and inequality, but their primary campaigns, articulated within the parameters of Republican orthodoxy, continue to rely on the failed policies of laissez-faire for business, continued regressive tax cuts for the wealthy and a smaller government through reduced nonmilitary, domestic spending. These policies seek to spread the wealth in a trickle-down pattern from expanding business to the struggling middle and lower classes. In the general election campaign, of course, things could change, especially if the longtime maverick John McCain, a onetime critic of President Bush's tax cuts, becomes the party nominee. But across the field, both Democratic and Republican, the question is, who will be a voice for the poor?
Catholic social teaching makes clear the church's "option for the poor." In their 1986 pastoral letter Economic Justice for All, the U.S. bishops insisted that the fundamental standard for economic policy is how it affects the poor. In their quadrennial pre-election statement, Forming Conscience for Faithful Citizenship (see America, 11/5/07), they reaffirmed that "a basic test for our society is how we treat the most vulnerable among us. In a society marked by increasing disparities between rich and poor, Scripture gives us the story of the Last Judgment (See Mt 25:31-46) and reminds us that we will be judged by how we treat 'the least among us.'" With respect to workers, they wrote, "The economy must serve people, not the other way around." This is what the late John Paul II termed "the priority of labor." In the coming election, many Catholic voters will be listening to hear which candidates give voice to the needs of the poor and priority in economic life to working people.


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The infamous summer 1972 tour through the U.S. and Canada is recognized by Stones fans worldwide as arguably the bands greatest ever, and holds a place in the collective memoirs of rock lore and popular imagination as the masterpiece spectacle of indoor triumph, outdoor maelstrom, and backstage debauch. This photo is from their final show of the tour, which happened to take place on Mick's 29th birthday.
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Joe Sia was a shooting star, a genuine, hands-down, everyone-agrees-on-this star at shooting [photographs], and his departure from this planet in 2003 at the tender age of 57 was too soon for a man of his talent. Born in the Bronx and a committed Yankees man, Joe loved music and gravitated around the Fillmore East and the flower-power youth-culture rock scene from whence he set out to capture some of the most incredible sounds of the last half-century. How could Joe capture sounds on camera film? He did it by focusing on the faces of the performers and the woozing-oozing crowd and by giving the background, whether simple or wild, the importance it deserved in defining the artist and event. Sia's entire archive consists more than a quarter of a million photographs that document almost 35 years of music genre and giants.


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hmmmm, many-many Tokusatsu like,
errrrr......, e.g. the Gojira series, all kaiju movies, .....etc.....
to the super hero series like the, Utramans , Kamen Riders, Super Sentai, Metal Heroes, lots & lots of Toei & Tsuburaya stuffs like Mirrorman, Jumborg, ....etc..
to spin-offs like the Super Ninjas, Jiraya, the star god series (like the Gransazers, Justrizers, Sazer-X), Ryukendo, Takara Rescue Teams, .... etc....
to mature adult series like Gunryu, GARO, Ultraseven-X, Furikaizen(!?), .....etc....
ummm...., like those right??
|2009-04-26, 19:40
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"In" as in working? It must be a tough considering that you might have to wear that heavy armor in the summer times.
Or do you mean "in" as in watching the genre? I don't watch Tokusatsu.. I used to like it though but not anymore. Perhaps, you would want to change your thread title to clarify your meaning.
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Top Bradley Co. educator joins Lee University faculty
CLEVELAND, TN (WRCB)- Dr. Jason Robinson has joined the faculty of Lee University as an assistant professor.
"We are thrilled to have a nationally recognized educator joining our faculty here in the DeVos College of Education," said Dr. Bill Estes, dean of the school. "The talent and experience Jason brings will further our efforts in producing the best teachers in the nation."
Robinson has been a public school teacher for the past 15 years, most recently at Ocoee Middle School, along with being a part-time lecturer at Lee. He is known in the community for conducting family science nights and professional development activities for teachers.
Robinson is the founder and director of the Rocket City Slammin' Science Camps held each summer for elementary and middle school students and of the Super Science Saturday program for local school children and their families. He has also directed or led education and leadership events in Argentina, Cambodia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and South Korea.
He is a past recipient of the National Science Teachers Association "Vision of Science" Award, the Fitzgerald Excellence in Education Award, Tennessee Science Teacher of the Year, the State Farm Good Neighbor Award for Teachers, and a finalist for Tennessee Teacher of the Year. In 2002 and 2011, Robinson was recognized as Bradley County's Teacher of the Year.
Robinson has been featured in national publications such as National Geographic, Parenting, Family Fun, and Congressional Quarterly. He currently represents NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a solar System Ambassador and Master Teacher for the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experimentation program.
Having served on various committees of the Tennessee State Department of Education including the Advisory Council on Teacher Education and Certification, Robinson was also recently named to the Tennessee State Textbook Commission by Gov. Bill Haslam.
Robinson earned his doctorate in learning and leadership from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, his master's in educational administration and supervision from Lincoln Memorial University, and his bachelor's in human development from Lee University.
Robinson is married to Faith, a teacher at North Lee Elementary, and they have two children, Noah and Maddie. He and his family attend North Cleveland Church of God.


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Dell unveils D820, D620 'super 3G'-ready notebooks
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Dell has begun taking orders for its anticipated Latitude D620 and D820 business-oriented notebooks - and has said the higher-end machine will sport an Nvidia graphics chip as yet unannounced by the GPU maker. It also said the machine will be offered with an HSDPA 3G data card - but not yet.
The part in question is the Quadro NVS 120M, follow-up to the 110M Nvidia launched in February. The 120M is offered as an option on the D820, as is the 110M, also offered as an option on the D820. Both notebooks use Intel's GMA 950 integrated graphics core in the base configurations.
The 120M and the 110M use Nvidia's TurboCache system to add main memory to the video buffer attached to the GPU. The D620 ships with 64MB of video RAM, the D820 with 128MB - Turbocache can lift that to 256MB (with the 110M) and 512MB (via the 120M).
Both notebooks are based on Intel's Centrino platform and are offered with a range of Core Solo and Core Duo processor choices. Each ships with an Intel ProWireless 3945ABG 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi adaptor. The D820 ships with up to 4GB of 533MHz or 667MHz DDR 2 SDRAM (up to 2GB in the D620's case), and 40-100GB of Serial ATA hard drive storage.
The D620 ships with a 14.1 display, while the D820 has a 15.4in screen. In each case, buyers can choose between a panel with either a 1,440 x 900 or a 1,280 x 800 native widescreen resolution, and D820 buyers can also pick a 1,920 x 1,200 panel.
The D820 has a Trusted Platform Module security engine that can be connected to an optional fingerprint reader and to the built-in smart-card reader.
Dell also touted its Wireless 5505 Mobile Broadband card, which will connect the D820 to 3G networks equipped with HSDPA technology for faster downloads. However, the 5505 has yet to be added to the D820's build-to-order page. In January, Dell said it would offer the card sometime in the first half of the year. The card actually comes from Vodafone, and is manufactured by Option. It provides download speeds of up to 1.8Mbps (the upload speed is 384Kbps), up to five times faster than today's standard 3G networks, Option said.
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40 Principales Awards 2013 Red Carpet Pictures: Taylor Swift + Alicia Keys Show Major Cleavage
Taylor Swift and Alicia Keys courted wardrobe malfunctions (of the nip slip sort) at the 2013 40 Principales Awards in Madrid, Spain. Both divas wore boob-baring bodices at last night's (Jan. 24) event.
Swift was a vision in a white Kaufman Franco mini that showed off her legs and her cleavage, which has been the source of much speculation lately, with reports suggesting she upgraded her cup size via surgical means. Look at how that fabric hugs those two perfect mounds on her chest.
That dangerously low cut neckline and top, which looked like two panels that covered her girls thanks to the miracle of double-stick tape, was an accident waiting to happen.
But she still looked amazeballs, especially those stems. The Christian Louboutin heels are extra-sexy, too. Check out the red sole as she strikes a catwalk pose. Another winning red carpet look for Tay Tay. She's given up those pearls and cardigans for sexy minis. Yay! Finally. She's making effective use of her model's height.
Keys also dared to bare in a sheer top black dress that showed off her boobies a bit. It was less risque than Swift's choice. Now that's something you don't hear everyday -- T. Swizzle being sexier or more of a fashion risk taker than another pop diva. She's usually safe and classic with her choices! But back to Keys! This dress certainly showed off her girls and on her birthday eve, no less.
We loved the strappy heels, too. This girl (on fire) has a bangin' bod.
Oh, French DJ David Guetta was there too, looking like he yanked himself away from a DJ gig to say "Wassup!" That means he didn't dress up.
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SAN RAMON — For the first time in 15 years, the James Logan High football has earned the chance to play for a North Coast Section championship.
The No. 3 seeded Colts blew past host No. 2 California 40-7 in Saturday's NCS Division I semifinals and will face top-seeded De La Salle in this Saturday's section title game at Dublin High. Game time is 7 p.m.
"Our guys have been thinking about this (championship) game for probably two years now," said Logan coach George Zuber. "We knew we had something special."
Cal (9-3) received the opening kickoff and marched down the field to take a 7-0 lead on Karris Johnson's 8-yard touchdown run. But the Grizzlies wouldn't reach the red zone again.
While the Logan defense forced punts and turnovers, the Colts' running game gashed the Grizzlies for 389 yards.
Warren Miles Long and quarterback Jeffrey Prothro did the bulk of the damage. Long, a Northwestern-bound two-way standout, rushed for 143 yards and three touchdowns.
Prothro, who gave an oral commitment to the UCLA track and field program earlier in the week, made his biggest plays with his legs. He rushed for 128 yards and two scores, showing off his speed on a nifty 65-yard touchdown scamper.
The Colts (12-1) went ahead for good on Damond Beasley's 9-yard touchdown run with 5:44 left in the second quarter as Logan scored 40 straight points to end the game.
Johnson gained 41 yards on Cal's opening drive, but was held to just 43 more the rest of the game.
Cameron Owen threw for 85 yards for the Grizzlies, who turned the ball over twice in Logan territory.
To get to the NCS championship, seventh-year Logan head coach George Zuber had to get past his former defensive coordinator, Eric Billeci, who is now in his fourth year as Cal's head coach.
"We talk two times a week and are really good friends," Zuber said. "We bounce ideas off each other, we talk about the teams we play every week and help each other out as best we can. This week we didn't talk."
Logan's only loss this year came in overtime at Del Oro-Loomis.
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The two New Yorkers charged with stealing historic documents from Maryland were indicted federally Thursday in a far broader scheme in which prosecutors say they stole many more valuable manuscripts from museums in both states.
A National Archives official called the scope of the case "truly breathtaking," with the indictment charging that the two men pilfered and sold copies of speeches from a former president and took a land grant signed by Abraham Lincoln along with a letter to John Paul Jones.
Barry H. Landau, 63, a well-known collector of presidential memorabilia, and Jason James Savedoff, 24, were each charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of the actual theft of "major art." They face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
The men were previously charged with theft in state court after a Maryland Historical Society employee said he saw Savedoff, who had been accompanied by Landau, swipe a text from the library on July 9. Police later recovered 60 documents stashed inside library locker No. 7, to which Savedoff held the key.
The new charges allege that the men — one a self-promoting name-dropper who claims to have hobnobbed with presidents, the other a relatively unknown less than half the age of his alleged accomplice — were engaged in a wider-reaching theft scheme than originally thought, with several victims across at least two states.
"While our Archival Recovery Team has recovered thousands of records during my tenure, the scope and notoriety of what we have seized and secured in this case is truly breathtaking," according to a statement by Inspector General Paul Brachfeld of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Brachfeld said he expects more holdings to be recovered as the investigation continues.
The six-page indictment alleges that, from December through July, the pair stole:
• Seven annotated copies of presidential speeches from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y., later selling four of them for a total of $35,000.
A 1780 April Fools' Day letter from Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones, held at the New York Historical Society.
Dozens of documents from the H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, including a land grant from President Abraham Lincoln to a soldier from the Maryland Militia, War of 1812.
Landau's Baltimore lawyers, Andrew White and Steve Silverman, declined to comment on the indictment Thursday, other than to say they knew it was coming. Savedoff's attorney did not return a call seeking comment last night.
Federal marshals are expected to take custody of the men, who are now being held in a state detention center, Friday morning. The Maryland theft charges will likely be dropped then as well, Silverman said.
Savedoff and Landau will have an initial appearance in Baltimore's U.S. District Court on Friday, followed by a detention hearing, which will likely be held sometime next week, the attorneys said.
It's unclear what the relationship is between the two men. They appeared to travel to various museums as a pair, frequently showing up with sweets: cupcakes in Maryland and cookies in Pennsylvania.
Those who met them describe the duo in mentor and muscle terms. Landau "had class," while Savedoff was "rough around the edges," said a senior director at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, which the two men visited 17 times over a six-month period.
"We're all madly combing through our materials to see if there's anything missing and if we can reclaim anything," said Kim Sajet, president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
The men are not accused of stealing anything from the Pennsylvania archive, though the FBI has asked museums throughout the country to check their records for signs of Savedoff and Landau.
They visited the Connecticut Historical Society four times in 2011, according to Richard Malley, head of research and collections, which has sent the staff into "reviewing mode, big time," he said, "through all of the various collections that Barry Landau and Jason Savedoff used."
Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement that the alleged scheme "should send a wake-up call to museums that entrust valuable documents to persons who claim to be engaged in academic research."
Many are now reviewing their security procedures, trying to find a better balance between public access and protection.
The indictment says the two men researched which locations had the most valuable materials, "prepared lists containing the names of historical figures and other noteworthy individuals, and made notations referencing the value of signatures and documents authored or signed by the listed individuals."
They then visited the locations, and stole "objects of cultural heritage from the collections, which they subsequently sold or intended to sell," according to the charging document.
Savedoff, who lives on the 700 block of West End Ave. in New York, sometimes used the aliases Justin Ward and Jason James, the indictment says, while Landau traded on his name's cachet.
He calls himself "America's Presidential Historian" on his website, barryhlandau.com, which features photos of him with stars such as Catherine Zeta Jones and Katie Holmes, along with presidential wives and presidents, including Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
He claims to possess one of the largest collections of Oval Office memorabilia outside of presidential libraries and museums in his West 57th Street apartment, which features a china collection from Thomas Jefferson's inauguration. And he's written a coffee-table book about White House meals.
He's been profiled by The Washington Post and the Associated Press. But reporters, who once buoyed his reputation, have begun to chip away at the facade in recent days.
He claimed to have traveled to Moscow with Nixon, helped plan George W. Bush's second inauguration, and to have been a White House fellow during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, but there's no record of any of it, The Washington Post reported this week.
FBI investigators raided Landau's New York home after his arrest in Maryland.
"The federal government will provide a firm and swift response to those that steal parts of our nation's history for their own private benefit," Richard McFeely, the special agent in charge of Baltimore's FBI field office, said in a statement. "Alleged crimes like this rob all Americans of the rich heritage that these museums preserve for present and future generations."
Baltimore Sun reporter Julie Baughman contributed to this article.
Items reported stolen:
• Dec. 2: A number of historical documents, including seven "reading copies" of speeches given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Treasury secretary, from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y. Prosecutors say he sold four of the copies for a total $35,000.
• March 17: A letter dated April 1, 1780, from Benjamin Franklin and John Paul Jones, from the New York Historical Society.
• July 9: Sixty documents from the F. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, including a land grant dated June 1, 1861, to a soldier from the Maryland Militia, War of 1812, signed by Abraham Lincoln.
Source: Maryland U.S. attorney's office


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Chemtrails is a recent phenomenon I started to observe around 2009.
At this time I had very little knowledge about geoengineering or even basic chemistry. I then started to familiarize myself with such phenomenons as they began to occupy further lines of dissipated white lines across unaffected clouds. I then further observed the phenomenon, and noted down the dates of such "phenomenons" taking guess on their physical attributes and noticed they were from man-operated aircrafts or some kind of cloaked aerial origin. (geoengineering, synthetic biology)
WW2 (World war 2) was for me a couple of popular American movie scenes including films and other things dealing with Jews being intoxicated with poisonous gas in concentration camps. I was not very interested in them and neither in the chemotherapy eugenic "science" which resulted in thousands of deaths. (chemotherapy)
Chuck: How much of yourself are you willing to change to get rid of the trails?
Oracle: Seriously what is wrong with you ?
Chuck: I love you! Thats what wrong with me. :)
Oracle: I know... You seem in love with everybody.
Chuck: not everybody love you as much i do... thats for sure :)
Oracle: Fair enough. I have encountered enough psychotics to be sure you're not one of them.
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It is my birthday. I'd like to treat myself to a nice bento set. Something grown up, with a nice matching bag and chopsticks. It doesn't have to be a thermal set. Any suggestions guys? Oh and where ever I make my purchase, the supplier has to be able to ship to the UK! Maximum budget I have set aside for this is £40 ($60 or E45) and I'd really like that to be shipping included!
Suggestions welcome please!
Happy birthday! I have no idea what you should get though. I just got a really nice box, but a friend bought it in Japan for me.
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I'm sorry I can't give a suggestion either, I can only recommend what I already have, which is the previous model of this lunchbox:
Which was blue rather than orange. I like metal boxes with plastic lids like this as I find them very easy to clean.
The price is even a little less than how I remember from a regular Japanese shop and the P&P charges are very reasonable. Also, as the price is under £18 for the actual box you won't get lumbered with the VAT(17.5%) plus the £12.50 Royal Mail Handling charge. Do watch out for that when ordering!
And I also wish you a very happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! Isn't it fun to hunt for bento birthday stuff? (My mom thought I was crazy asking for a plastic box for Christmas!)
Casa Bento has some lovely sets. I've personally been drooling over the ones like this Concorde Large Design Bento Box. (Though you'd have to find chopsticks to go with it) Or this cool white and clear Tokyo Japan Design Bento Set. It looked like they ship to the UK (and they're just over in France).
Loretta's suggestion looks tempting too!
This Mottainai set is own I own and love. J-list/j-box ships anywhere.
I also have bento sets in my etsy shop and I ship to the UK too.
I hope those suggestions help!
Blog and Shop: http://ojami.etsy.com and http://ojamiya.com
Happy birthday to you!
Scouring Ebay might be a good idea. I've gotten entire lovely sets on Ebay for less than $20 including shipping (unfortunately, none of those sellers have a great price for international shipping). If you have the patience to scroll through twenty pages of Ebay listings, you'll probably find something great.
Have you tried casa bento?
arkonitebabe, you'll let us know what you end up purchasing so we can happily drool over pictures, right?
Oh I see on your blog you found an absolutely adorable bento set!. ;) Congrats! I'm so glad you found one you like!
Sorry for taking so long to come back you guys *blush*
I ended up ordering this box from jlist/jbox
A gorgeous Hello Kitty wagara box. I'm currently waiting patiently for it to arrive from Japan! I'll post it on the blog when it does arrive though :)
Could someone recommend one for me too? There are so many choices I'm a little overwhelmed. I've been using a single tupperware container for a few months, and I'm about fed up with it and ready for the real deal. What I want:
- Fairly plain, and definitely not cutesy. I really have no talent or interest in making the gorgeously decorated bentos I see online, though they are amazing to look at.
- 500-600ml capacity
- Dishwasher safe
- Available in the US. Preferably Amazon, Casa Bento, etc.
Thank you!
PS: How do I register for the forum? I sent a message to Maki a day or two ago through the Contact Us link on the site, but I don't know if she got it.
Hi Dan, to register for the forum please leave a comment to this post.
For the bento box recommendation....what is your overall budget (including shipping)? I'm also assuming from your name that you are a guy...are you sure 500-600ml is big enough?
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Thanks, Maki! I think 600ml is about right. I'm trying to lose weight, and keep my lunches pretty small. A half cup to a cup of rice, a serving or two of one your protein dishes, and some veggies. My current container is a Gladware Entree container, which holds 25oz or about 725ml, and I pack it fairly loosely. I can always throw a small bag of carrots or similar alongside the new one if it's not enough.
I think I've decided on the Bento Colors box (one of the metallic colors). It's a little more than I was hoping to spend, total about $40 US, but it's something I use every day and my current container is really not ideal.
Bento Colors is a very nice box indeed, and you can choose to use one, two or all three of the compartments since they are totally independent of each other, (and put something else in the empty space in the outer box) which is nice! Just be careful when you wash and dry the outer box since I've noticed that the paint may rub off a bit at the edges (the inside compartments, which are the parts you'd be using for food, are fine though)
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