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Think of the stateline area 10 or even five years ago, you may picture fields of green and six feet stalks of corn. It's a picture that can still be seen even now, but is definitely harder to find.
"We continue to lose more and more ground and ag production. At one time, it was the economic bias for our country and its still is to a larger region area," explains Mark Williams.
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But is this growth going to far? In the last 20 years, Boone County has given up eight-percent of its farmland, and Winnebago County has lost some. And it's this desire for change that has brought with it some controversy.
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Which is why county leaders are continually developing land use plans, including Winnebago County's Balanced Growth Plan and Boone County's Smart Growth Program.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Nami-Nami turns four and celebrates the anniversary with Kama Muffins Recipe
Nami-Nami food blog turned four this week. That's been four great years of reading about and eating and enjoying and writing about delicious food, and four years of meeting numerous inspiring fellow food bloggers from all over the world. Just imagine - had I not come across Melissa's food blog in June 2005, I would not have started my own. And if I hadn't started my own food blog, then I wouldn't have met Johanna (in England & Scotland), Andrew (in England), Jeanne (in England), Ximena (in Spain and in Estonia), Dagmar (Estonia), Anne (in Estonia), Kristina (in Estonia), Alanna (in St Louis, USA), Paz (in New York), Antti (in Finland and in Estonia), Melissa (in Scotland), Keiko (in England), Chloe (in Greece), Nupur (in St Louis, USA), Zarah Maria (in Denmark), Amy (in England), Blake (in New York last summer and in Estonia just last week), Klary and many others in person over these four years. And that would have been a real pity. I mean it..
Thank you all for reading Nami-Nami over the last four years. And the celebratory recipe? Kama muffins with dried cranberries and curd cheese. You cannot get more Estonian than that :)
What's KAMA??? Read more here.
Kama Muffins
(Kamamuffinid kohupiima ja jõhvikatega)
Makes 12
2 large eggs
100 g caster sugar
100 g butter, melted
60 g plain/all purpose flour (100 ml)
50 g kama flour (100 ml)
1 tsp baking powder
50 g dried cranberries (craisins; just under half a cup)
25 g roasted coarsely chopped hazenlnuts (3 Tbsp)
175 g curd cheese or ricotta
Whisk eggs and sugar until thick and pale. Stir in the cooled melted butter.
In a small bowl mix flour, kama and baking powder, then add to the egg mixture together with hazenlnuts, cranberries and ricotta/curd cheese. Stir gently, until ingredients come just together.
Spoon the batter into muffin cups.
Bake in a preheated 200 C/400 F oven for about 15-18 minutes, until the muffins are cooked through.
22 comments:
- Gracianne said...
Bon anniversaire Nami-Nami, merci pour toutes ces bonnes recettes et ces voyages depuis 4 ans!
Many happy returns.
- 11:58 am, June 18, 2009
- David Stock said...
Happy anniversary to Nami-Nami! I'll try to make these muffins for my wife as a surprise, I hope I succeed.
- 12:09 pm, June 18, 2009
- Anh said...
Happy anniversary. You have done awesome work with this blog. keep it up! :x
- 1:05 pm, June 18, 2009
- Aparna said...
I have been following your blog for quite some time but never left a comment.
I must now and wish you a very happy blog anniversary. Looking forward to the fifth one. :)
- 2:07 pm, June 18, 2009
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Happy blog anniversary, Pille. I've loved learning about Estonian food through your recipes and stories here.
- 2:29 pm, June 18, 2009
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Happy blog birthday, Pille!
- 3:28 pm, June 18, 2009
- Nupur said...
Happy Birthday to Nami-Nami!!
Congratulations, Pille, on this sweet blog that I so enjoy reading. It has been fun learning about Estonian food.
It was great meeting you in St. Louis last year and I sure hope you will visit again :)
- 3:32 pm, June 18, 2009
- ChichaJo said...
Happy blog anniversary Pille! So happy to have stumbled on your blog way back when...hope we can actually meet someday! :)
- 5:09 pm, June 18, 2009
- ALHC said...
Congratulations on turning 4! I have been enjoying your blog for about a year now, it's beautiful! Aimee in Vermont (USA)
- 6:23 pm, June 18, 2009
- Tuija said...
Congratulations on your blog anniversary!
I've been reading your blog for a while but never commented yet, even though I've tried some of your recipes and loved them. Kama muffins sound great, too - will have to try them soon (I even have proper Estonian kama flour). Thanks for all the inspiring ideas here, as well as on the Estonian recipe site!
- 7:33 pm, June 18, 2009
- Cat Lady said...
Happy Birthday Nami Nami - your muffins look amazing and what a great photo! Emma
- 10:25 pm, June 18, 2009
- Virve said...
Palju õnne kallis Pilleke!
- 10:36 pm, June 18, 2009
- Dagmar - A Cat in the Kitchen said...
Happy birthday Nami-Nami!!!! I'm very happy that I've met you and I hope to meet you again some day!
- 11:48 am, June 19, 2009
- ~~louise~~ said...
I too have enjoyed silently reading your blog and learning about Estonian food. Thank you so much. A very happy anniversary to you! I look forward to many more glorious recipes and stories...Louise
- 9:09 pm, June 19, 2009
- me-me the fioricet junkie said...
Happy anniversary! Your food blog is one of my faves. And this cupcake recipe is definitely going to be another hit with my family this weekend. Yummy!
- 9:34 pm, June 19, 2009
- Kalyn said...
Happy four year blog birthday! I really hope I will get to meet you sometime. I loved your blog from the first time I read it.
- 7:30 am, June 20, 2009
- Zarah Maria said...
Awww, an almost grown-up! Congratulations, Pille! :)
- 11:00 am, June 20, 2009
- Cinnamonda said...
Happy 4th anniversary to nami-nami!
- 3:14 pm, June 20, 2009
- Jean said...
Congratulations Nami-Nami...good effort and nice blog, keep going..cheers!
- 3:56 pm, June 20, 2009
Congratulations, Pille. If you hadn't written a post about "kama" I wouldn't have found your blog. Thanks for all the wonderful recipes.
- 11:55 am, June 21, 2009
- katiez said...
Congratulations on 4 glorious years!
And great-looking muffins.
- 9:27 pm, June 21, 2009
- Bea said...
Happy belated anniversary Nami-Nami! To many more happy years!
- 3:08 pm, July 07, 2009


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Many on the left worry about being "offensive" and indeed worry even more when other people are being "offensive." Many on the right -- conservatism being a sort of machismo these days -- are pleased to offend, of course. This doesn't make them any good as readers or writers. I'm always amused when I run into a young conservative fellow who signed up for a class or writing program after reading a left-wing and homoerotic book like Fight Club. It touched them somehow, but not in any way they could understand, so they just take the stuff Groundlings always take away from some piece of art: spectacle and antinomianism. Antinomianism is part of why so many middle-class white dudes see themselves as victims; they can't be tough rebels if they acknowledged that they're actually already Empire.
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Nooherooka 300 Commemoration Reflection
A Reflection on the Nooherooka 300 Commemoration
by Lyndsey Sweet, East Carolina University Public History major
The events of March 21-23, 1713 on a plowed Carolina field should still be remembered today, three hundred years later. The problem began when the colonists settled in the Americas. The colonists invaded the land the natives had lived on for many years. One of the main causes of the Tuscarora War was "colonists who would not allow them to hunt near their plantations, and under that pretence took away from their game, arms, and ammunition."[1] The colonists did not understand that the natives did not know they were not allowed to be on the colonists' land, and as a result, hostile feelings rose between the two groups. The colonists continued to expand, depleting the land where the Tuscarora hunted and lived. This caused the beginning of the war in September 1711. There was conflict off and on for the next few years, but the Tuscarora were desperately trying to hold onto their homeland. It is important to note that there were also internal conflicts between the Tuscarora Indians. The northern Tuscarora did not feel the impacts of the invading colonists and wanted to keep up with their successful fur trade with Virginia. As a result, they did not want to fight.[2] On March 23, 1713 West of present day Snow Hill, NC in Greene County, their struggle was brought to an end.
North Carolinians asked for help from both Virginia and South Carolina. Virginia did not have much interest in North Carolina's problems, and it thus did not send any troops. They turned to South Carolina, who saw profit in helping North Carolina. If they captured the Indians, they could sell them as slaves.[3] With help from South Carolina, the North Carolinians launched their last attack of the Tuscarora War. Colonel James Moore of South Carolina led 900 Indians and 33 white colonists into Fort Nooherooka. There the Indians killed, scalped, sold into slavery, or buried alive at least 900 Tuscarora Indians. By March 23, 1713 the battle and the war was over. The survivors migrated northward, to upstate New York.[4] This battle was significant because it was Indians fighting Indians, and it was the last Tuscarora stronghold in North Carolina.
The events of March 21-23, 1713 should be remembered in North Carolina, and specifically in Eastern North Carolina in Pitt and Greene Counties because this battle took place on the land where we live. The Tuscarora people lived on the land where we work and go to school. Studying and commemorating the events of the Battle at Fort Nooherooka, and the related Tuscarora history can give insight on the way many Indians felt during the time period. All over North Carolina and the colonies, Indians were being confined to smaller pieces of land, but did not know what that meant, which caused the resulting wars. These Indian wars are often looked over by our society today, but had the Indians prevailed, we may not be going to school or living in this area.
In the three hundred year commemoration in March 2013, several events will be held to commemorate the battle, as well as teach to Americans about the Tuscarora Nation then and today. There will be an exhibition in both East Carolina University's Joyner Library and in the Greene County Historical Museum. These museums will attempt to tell the story from the time the colonists settled in the New World, through the Indian Wars, specifically the Battle at Fort Nooherooka, and ending with the Tuscarora Nation in New York today. The exhibitions have the potential to give an audience a view of what the times were like both before and during the Indian Wars.
A website was created for general information about the Tuscarora tragedy and the commemoration. There are specific topics on the website such as artifacts found on the archeological dig, information about the exhibits, the Tuscarora story, and other specific topics. One key feature of this website is the videos that were created when four Tuscarora delegates came to North Carolina. They are asked a variety of questions about their lives, their traditions, struggles, and views that are related to the Tuscarora Nation today. These videos will give the audience a look into the lives of the Tuscarora Nation.
During the commemoration, there will be a series of lectures, dealing with different topics and aspects of the Tuscarora Nation. There are lectures on the tragedy, their current homeland in New York, their language, and the repatriation process, among many others. These lectures allow the general public to learn more about specific aspects of the Tuscarora Indians, both past and present.
On the last day of the commemoration, a monument will be dedicated near the Nooherooka Fort site. The monument will be in remembrance of the Tuscarora men, women, and children, who lost their lives, were held captive, or forced to move from their homeland, during the battle. It is important to have something on the site where the main battle took place because it is a reminder of the sacrifice those Indians made so we can live, work, and go to school on the land where they once hunted and lived.
The last part of the commemoration, which I believe speaks the most about the events of March 1713, is the migration walk. Members of the Tuscarora Nation will be walking from the fort site back to their reservation in New York. This migration represents the walk that the remaining Tuscarora survivors made after the battle at Fort Nooherooka.
The story of the Tuscarora Nations is largely unknown, even in the present areas where they lived three hundred years ago. It is important for the public to understand this specific tragedy, as well as many others like it across the colonies. I encourage the public to attend the lectures that commemorate these Indians and their story. The events that took place on March 21-23, 1713 are among some of the most important in Native American and North Carolina history.


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Clemson will play home conference games against Florida State, Georgia Tech, Boston College and Wake Forest in 2013. Dabo Swinney's Tigers will travel to Virginia, N.C. State, Maryland and Syracuse according to the conference schedule released by the ACC on Friday.
The league will release the dates of conference games in February when the schedule is completed.
Clemson remains in the Atlantic Division, the division new member Syracuse will compete starting in 2013.
With a new rotation of conference games being developed due to the addition of Syracuse and Pittsburgh in the ACC in 2013, and Louisville in 2014, Georgia Tech must come to Clemson for a second consecutive year.
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It is the first time the same ACC team will come to Clemson in consecutive years since the 1993-94 era when NC State, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and Maryland all came to Clemson in consecutive years.
That circumstance was the result of Florida State joining the ACC in 1992. There were also consecutive appearances in the same stadium for some league schools in the 2004-05 era when Virginia Tech and Miami joined the ACC, but no ACC team came to Clemson in consecutive years during that time. Clemson did go to Wake Forest in 2005 and 2006.
Clemson will be one of just two schools in the nation to have two non-conference games against teams that finished in the final top 10 of the final 2012 AP and USA Today polls. Georgia and South Carolina were both ranked in the top 10 of both polls this year and will open and close Clemson's 2013 schedule, respectively.
Nevada is the only other school nationally with two non-conference games against 2012 top 10 teams.
Clemson also has nonconference home games with S.C. State and The Citadel.
Clemson (11-2, 7-1 ACC) finished ninth in the final USA Today poll and 11th in the final Associated Press poll, the first time since the 1990 season that the Tigers have finished in the top 10 in either of the two polls.
Three of Clemson's 2013 opponents finished in the top 10 in the final USA Today and AP polls. Georgia finished fourth, while South Carolina was seventh, and Florida State eighth in the final USA Today polls.
Non-Conference Games vs. 2012 Top 10 Teams
Clemson - 2, Georgia, South Carolina
Nevada - 2, Florida State, Oregon
Tennessee - 1, Oregon
Virginia Tech - 1, Alabama
Colorado State - 1, Alabama
South Carolina - 1, Clemson
Florida - 1, Florida State
North Texas - 1, Georgia
Georgia Tech - 1, Georgia
Rice - 1, Texas A&M
SMU - 1, Texas A&M
UTEP - 1, Texas A&M
San Jose State - 1, Stanford
Stanford - 1, Notre Dame
Arizona State - 1, Notre Dame
Air Force - 1, Notre Dame
Southern Cal - 1, Notre Dame
Navy - 1, Notre Dame
Temple - 1, Notre Dame
Georgia - 1, Clemson
North Carolina - 1, South Carolina
Central Florida - 1, South Carolina
Toledo - 1, Florida
Miami (FL) - 1, Florida
Florida State - 1, Florida
Purdue - 1, Notre Dame
Michigan State - 1, Notre Dame
Notre Dame - 1, Stanford
Michigan - 1, Notre Dame
Buffalo - 1, Ohio State
San Diego State - 1, Ohio State
California - 1, Ohio State
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The makeshift defensive line that held Sporting Kansas City to a single goal in last week's draw may be faced with the same task in Columbus against the Crew on Saturday (6:30 p.m. CT, CSN Plus). Five Dynamo players are listed on this week's injury report, presented by The Methodist Center for Sports Medicine.
Jamaican defender Jermaine Taylor is listed as out for this weekend's matchup with a left shoulder injury, and Bobby Boswell is still serving his suspension. Corey Ashe, who left the Sporting Kansas City match at halftime with a groin injury, is listed as questionable.
Eric Brunner and Ricardo Clark teamed up in central defense against Sporting Kansas City and will likely be called upon for duty against Columbus. Mike Chabala entered for Ashe in Kansas City, and should be able to step in if Ashe is unable to go. Lineup shuffles would leave Kofi Sarkodie as the lone regular starter in defense.
Calen Carr (right knee), Omar Cummings (left knee) and Cam Weaver (back) are all listed as out as well.
For Columbus, former Dynamo forward Dominic Oduro is listed as questionable with a right quad contusion. Agustin Viana (R hamstring strain), Chad Marshall (R hamstring Strain), Daniel Withrow (R foot stress reaction) and Drew Beckie (L adductor strain) are all listed as out for Saturday.


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Alan Jackson to Re-Release 'Precious Memories' Album
In 2006, Alan Jackson took a break from his typical country sound and made 'Precious Memories,' an album of old Gospel favorites. The release was such a hit that it broke records, topping three Billboard charts the week of its release -- Top Country Albums, Top Christian Albums and Top Christian and Gospel Albums. Now, six years later, the singer-songwriter has decided to re-release the set of hymns to make the album still available to his fans.
The 15-track album, which includes old favorites like 'The Old Rugged Cross' and 'I'll Fly Away,' was originally recorded as a gift for Jackson's mother. But when fans took in a first listen of the simple melodies sung by Jackson's infamous voice, records flew off the shelf. Problem is, once the singer's deal with Sony ran out, they stopped producing the album. Fans kept trying to buy copies, but there were none available.
"We had so many people still wanting it and asking about it," Jackson explains. "It's just amazing. So we decided to put it back out and have it available again."
Rumor has it that the Georgian native might start working on a few other hymns for a brand new release. In a recent interview, he hinted that his mother is getting older, and it might be nice to record a new set of gospel hymns.
For now, though, Jackson is busy putting the finishing touches on his upcoming album. The veteran country singer performed the debut from the new release, 'So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore,' on Jay Leno a few days ago (March 30). The single is already in the Top 40 and climbing.


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Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. It makes kids who have it more vulnerable to repeated lung infections. This is because it causes the lungs to produce thick, sticky mucus that clogs the airways. The intestines are also affected in a way that interferes with the body's ability to digest and absorb food.
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Because monitoring and maintaining good respiratory function is essential for all children with CF, several tests are standard parts of the routine care we provide:
Lung function is one of the primary ways we track the overall health of our CF patients. Our caregivers follow all the national guidelines for care, and because of our participation in quality improvement efforts, we have seen a consistent upward climb in our patients' overall lung function.
We also provide routine pulmonary therapy (treatments to maintain lung function). Our respiratory therapists are skilled in airway clearance techniques and can educate children and families on the most effective ways to maintain clear airways.
Another part of our routine care includes blood tests to evaluate your child's nutritional status. CF puts children at risk for slow growth, difficulty gaining weight, and a decreased ability to fight infection. They are also likely to have a condition called pancreatic insufficiency, which means that the digestive enzymes created in the pancreas aren't properly passed into the intestines.
By providing good overall nutrition, along with extra fat and calories and prescribed vitamin and enzyme supplements, you can help your child with CF grow healthy and strong. A CF registered dietitian can design a medical nutrition therapy plan for your child, as well as track his or her growth and weight gain over time.
Education is a key component in our goal to help children and families manage CF. We teach families what to do in emergencies, provide education and the latest information about the disease, and host support groups with speakers and topics ranging from insurance issues to community and school resources. Social workers are available to help individual families with issues like funding care, insurance coverage, and transitioning teenagers into adult CF programs.
We also take into account the emotional toll of living with CF. Children with CF often have periods where they cannot interact with other children because of the risk of developing infections. Nemours CF experts understand how lonely this can be, so they've developed resources to help children cope with these feelings. They offer newsletters and support groups, and often pair children of similar ages so they can develop friendships among their peers. In addition, Nemours is developing an online chat service for CF patients.


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While it has been reported that these two bureaucrats were "deliberately stonewalling," the level of unwarranted searches of the online activity of those not accused or even suspected of any crime to which these witnesses testified is disturbing.
How disturbing? Here's how one commentator described how the social media spying program works: "If you're the first person to tweet about a news story, or if you're a community activist who makes public Facebook posts — DHS will have your personal information."
The snooping that caught the attention of Congress is part of the Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative begun last year by DHS's National Operations Center (NOC). In the report on the initiative published by DHS, the intelligence-gathering arm of the DHS, the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS), gives itself permission to "gather, store, analyze, and disseminate" data on millions of users of social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and business networking sites (Linkedin).
Specifically, the initiative sets out the plan and purpose behind the DHS's collection of personal information from news anchors, journalists, reporters, or anyone else who posts articles, comments, or other information to many popular web outlets. The report defines the target audience as anyone who may use "traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed."
Journalists and bloggers need not worry, however. DHS promises that it will not routinely gather and use Personally Identifiable Information (PII). From the abstract of the Initiative:
While this Initiative is not designed to actively collect Personally Identifiable Information (PII), OPS is conducting this update to the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) because this initiative may now collect and disseminate PII for certain narrowly tailored categories. For example, in the event of an in extremis situation involving potential life and death, OPS will share certain PII with the responding authority in order for them to take the necessary actions to save a life, such as name and location of a person calling for help buried under rubble, or hiding in a hotel room when the hotel is under attack by terrorists.
In other words, the government promises that all the personal electronic data that it monitors and records will only be used in "narrowly tailored" circumstances — saving a life, for example. There is no requirement that the data be used only in those instances, but there is a promise that it will be.
This unconstitutional, unwarranted search of private information is designed by DHS "to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture" of target audiences.
Prior to this new initiative, operative guidelines instructed NOC to collect data only "under authorization set forth by the written code," whereas these new provisions permit agents of the NOC to track the online movements and postings of every level of writer or commentator from Brian Williams to nearly anonymous bloggers.
Writers aren't the only group to be watched by the never-blinking eye of Homeland Security. According to the report, "anchors, newscasters, or on-scene reporters who are known or identified as reporters in their post or article or who use traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed" may also be spied on and have their "usernames and passwords" recorded for future reference.
How many people might be shoe-horned into one of those categories if the federal government decided it wanted to put them under online surveillance?
At the hearing presided over by Representative Patrick Meehan (R-Penn.), the atmosphere was often charged, as Congressmen from both major political parties berated the Homeland Security apparatchiks for their casual disregard for the Fourth Amendment, as well as for their inability to clearly articulate the scope of the social media spying operation they run.
The agency's apparent violations of the Fourth Amendment's proscription on unwarranted searches and seizures were not the only constitutional contraventions called out by the members of the committee.
Representatives Billy Long (R-Mo.), Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), for example, pummeled Chavez and Callahan with demands that they explain how monitoring the online activity of journalists and bloggers will not have a chilling effect on free speech.
The reply to these critical questions of constitutionally suspect activities was phrased in the language of double-talk common to bureaucrats:
At DHS, we work every day to strike a balance between our need to use open source Internet and social media information for all purposes, but particularly law enforcement and investigatory purposes to further our mission, while protecting First Amendment rights, Fourth Amendment rights, and privacy.
It may surprise DHS, but there is no constitutional authority for the monitoring, recording, and tracking of the online activity of citizens, so they needn't concern themselves with balancing such activities against the First and Fourth Amendments.
Perhaps more damaging than the double-talk in the testimony given in that committee meeting on February 16 is the degree of deception perpetrated by these public servants. Information revealed in a cache of classified documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) makes it clear that not only did DHS officials lie about not having actually implemented the social media monitoring program, but their insistence that they had not hired an independent contractor to administer the plan was also false.
As explained by Raw Story:
The documents released by EPIC in January and in February reveal that the Department [of Homeland Security] is paying defense contractor General Dynamics to monitor the Internet for "reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities," including "reports that pertain to DHS and sub agencies — especially those that have a negative spin on DHS/Component preparation, planning, and response activities," among other things.
According to the information contained in those records, DHS is paying General Dynamics $11.4 million of taxpayer money to follow the virtual trail of journalists, bloggers, and broadcasters, compile all "suspicious" searches and posts, and then report this data to their bosses in the executive branch.
The bottom line was succinctly stated by EPIC's director of the Open Government Project, Ginger McCall. In a letter sent by McCall to members on the Counterintelligence and Intelligence Subcommittee, the reality of the depth of the department's directive is set forth:
The DHS testimony, as well as the documents obtained by EPIC, indicate that the agency is monitoring constantly, under very broad search terms, and is not limiting that monitoring to events or activities related to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or manmade disasters. The monitoring is designed to be over-broad, and sweeps in large amounts of First Amendment activity. The DHS has no legal authority to engage in this monitoring.
The takeaway from the testimony of Chavez and Callahan and the recently revealed truth that belies it is provided by McCall, as well:
This has a profound effect on free speech online if you feel like a government law enforcement agency — particularly the Department of Homeland Security, which is supposed to look for terrorists — is monitoring your criticism, your dissent, of the government.


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While the Jaguar C-X16 concept was at the Frankfurt Motor Show sitting pretty, a test mule version was out on the European Alps undergoing heavy road evaluation. Jaguar hasn't confirmed if the C-X16 will go into production, but these photos are a good indicator that a version destined for dealer showrooms is indeed on the horizon. If made, the car…Read More


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What do the Kentucky Derby and the tomato have in common? That's easy: big stakes for those who come in first. Or, at times, big steaks —during my first year working at MOTHER EARTH NEWS, I won a steak dinner for growing the earliest ripe tomato at the Eco-Village. Now, I admit I used devious tactics in that contest: I grew a Sub Arctic Plenty (fast-maturing but pitiful-tasting) and stressed the vine into premature production by raising it in a five-inch pot. The poor plant bore only two fruits, but as far as I was concerned, the prize dinner—and beating the other staff gardeners—was reward enough for my efforts.
You may not be planning on making any garden wagers this year yourself, but I'm sure you've tasted enough orange baseballs—excuse me, supermarket tomatoes—already this winter to be longing for that first precious vine-ripened fruit. Tomatoes are without a doubt the one garden crop worth taking the time and trouble to bring in early. And early tomato harvesting may be more than a matter of culinary craving. In some areas planning for an early payoff may mean the difference between ever tasting a real tomato and being permanently stuck with grocery store globes . . . while down in the Deep South, starting early might give you a good harvest before the weather gets too hot for the plants to set fruit. In addition, I like to start my heirloom varieties early so I can get their harvest before the summer heat and humidity promote verticillium wilt in those disease-susceptible specimens.
Whatever your reasons, the following tips should help you do the trick. Now, I'll admit that breeding a crop of super-early tomatoes will require extra horticultural effort, but, believe me, it can be done. (And you don't have to have a greenhouse, either!)
Start Tomato Seeds Indoors
The process starts in the middle of winter. Since you'll be growing plants indoors under less than optimum conditions (less light and lower temperatures), you can expect each growing stage to progress somewhat more slowly than normal. In our western North Carolina mountain climate (zone 6), I start my "super earlies" between late December and mid-January.
You'll almost certainly be starting your tomatoes from seed—what nursery carries transplants in the middle of winter? But that's all to the good, since it'll enable you to carefully select the variety you want to grow. Of course, that choice will be a matter of personal preference, but, in my opinion, if you're going to go to all the trouble of nursing a special tomato crop, you should give flavor a high priority. Thus, I wouldn't go for a supershort-season variety like Siberia: It comes in early, all right, but it doesn't taste good. On the other hand, you probably don't want to go for a long-season, giant, indeterminate specimen, either: Save the Big Boys for the main summer crop.
My own palate-pleasing choices are Small Fry VFN (60 days: widely available—actually, this good-sized bush variety is the only hybrid tomato I grow anymore), Tiny Tim (55 days), Tappy's Finest (77 days), and a compact beefsteak like Bush Beefsteak (62 days). The first two are relatively fast-growing, while the last two have larger fruits. Just grow one or two plants of each variety you pick; you'll get plenty of other tomatoes with your main crop later on .
Provide a Proper Home for Tomato Plants
Your plants will require at least eight hours of good light a day, so plan to keep them near a good-sized south-facing window, in a small sunspace, or under a good grow light (such as the type commonly used for African violets).
Start your seeds in a flat, a 6" pot, or a 10" hanging basket. You can buy a good nursery mix or create your own. (I recommend a mix of five parts leaf mold, milled sphagnum moss, or peat moss; four parts good topsoil; and two parts sharp sand. You can add one to two parts compost if you wish.) Your mix must have good texture to withstand the compaction caused by constant watering. In fact, if you intend to keep your plants in containers to maturity, you should definitely use a good commercial potting soil-which is specially prepared to stay loose and porous—or follow the advice I gave previously in my article "Organic Container Growing."
Keep a Close Watch as the Tomatoes Grow
Once your seeds have germinated and set out their first true leaves, prick the seedlings out to a slightly deeper flat or put each one in a 6" pot. (Place some extra compost and crushed eggshells, for calcium, in the bottom of the container before transplanting.)
Keep your plants warm; the nighttime temperature should get no lower than 55°F. Heat tape under the bottom of your pot or flat can be a big help. And keep them well watered: Container-grown tomatoes tend to get very thirsty.
When your plants are fairly well developed—wider than they are tall, with healthy, thick stems—they're ready to be moved to yet another, larger container. At this point, they should be about the same size as (or slightly bigger than) the greenhouse starts people buy at garden stores. The main difference will be that your plants should reach this stage a month or more before your last frost date, instead of a week or two after!
Your young vines may now even have some flowers. If you're growing super dwarfs like Tiny Tim and Pixie (52 days: Thompson and Morgan), you can leave the blooms alone; but if you're raising larger varieties, remove those premature blossoms.
You'll move any dwarf cultivars to 8" or 10" final pots and the larger ones to 2-gallon containers. Either way, add some crushed eggshells, compost, and supplemental fertilizer to your soil mix (I like Earthrite C) and place some extra shells and compost in the bottom of each pot. Plant your two-gallon vines deeply to encourage extra root development.
Determinate varieties will soon start making lots of blossoms. Help them to set fruit by gently vibrating each flower with a pencil or small brush. (Tomatoes are self-pollinating; the shaking will help the pollen grains inside a bloom's anther reach the flower's stigma and hence, ovary.) Try to treat each bract of flowers, especially if your plants are indoors, where pollinating insects can't get to them. You should do this once a day, preferably between about 11:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M.
You'll also need to stake your indeterminate plants. I use a 3/4" X 1" X 36" stick, inserted to the bottom of the pot along one side.
Transition Tomato Plants From Inside to Outside
What you'll do next will depend on where you want your plants' final homes to be. If you're going to keep them in containers, just continue what you've been doing. You'll probably want to fertilize the soil—not the foliage—regularly with a weak seaweed, fish, manure, or compost solution. (And if you're desperate to hasten their ripening, you can do a little root pruning when several green fruits are close to being ripe: Cut a third or half circle seven inches deep into the soil about three inches out from the stem.)
On the other hand, if you're going to move your plants to your regular garden, you'll need to harden them off. Most likely, by this time the weather will be warm enough for you to set out the pots in a protected spot on the south side of your house during the day and bring them in at night. About ten days before transplanting, start exposing the vines to some cooler night air-but bring them in if there's a possibility of frost! You can put them in the ground for good immediately after your area's last frost date (though it's better to wait a week or two longer).
All these tips will definitely help you raise an early crop, but you can push your tomato harvest up even further if you make a few special efforts. Essentially, anything you can do to warm up that cold spring soil will help. So keep your plants near a south wall (especially a light-reflecting white wall) . . . lay black plastic across their growing bed to help heat the ground . . . or put corrugated plastic or a homemade cloche over them.
The same low-cost cloches Susan Glaese and I recommended in our article "Extending the Season" work wonderfully for protecting spring tomatoes. In fact, I built a south-facing, cloched rock bed at MOTHER EARTH NEWS' self-reliant homestead for just such purposes. (I also use it to grow all-winter spinach and extra-early Chinese cabbage.) Last spring, I put my tomatoes straight in that plant shelter two weeks after the last frost date-the bed was so well sheltered that the 'maters never needed hardening off!
Craft Your Own BLT Sandwich
They say that here in these hills, you're doing good if you have any ripe tomatoes by the Fourth of July. Last summer, we ate our first bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches on June 14. And those were made with good, ripe tomatoes!
You know, you can't beat red, vine-ripened tomatoes. And, with a little work, you can ear them a lot earlier than you ever expected to!


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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
RIP VDB - One Year Later
Cyclingnews.com attempts to provide an update on the VDB tragedy, here. Frank's death was a catastrophe and so much more than the loss of just another former rider. Words fail me - I just can't effectively express how raw the feeling still is. That's why I believe in the Belgian VDB tribute site, www.VDB4-ever.be.
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Why did VDB's death impact you so much? Were you friends with him? I want to be clear that I am not tryig to be ugly or minimize the death of a young man, I'm just trying to understand why you've reacted the way you have. Thanks.ReplyDelete
No worries, I don't think you're minimizing his death or being ugly and I understand your curiosity. I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to say I was friend of the guy, though we'd me and were to have been teammates on Cinelli (which evolved out of 2006's Whistle team). I could identify with many of the struggles that VDB faced and realized how difficult to conquer they could be within the world of professional cycling. The fact that he'd seemingly beaten back most of his demons and was genuinely reinvigorated for the first time in some years - only to be suddenly dead, in questionable, then disappointing circumstances...it was heart-breaking. As if no matter what VDB did or didn't do, a premature end was always going to be his. Whether he fought diligently or gave into his demons, in the end it didn't seem to matter and just like that he was gone. I guess when you perceive similarities in whatever respect between yourself and another, or your situations, and when your opposite doesn't succeed, it can affect you profoundly. I don't know what else I can say other than his death was a tragedy and its too bad he HAD such freedom and power early-on. Perhaps if he'd been controlled more dictatorially, he himself could have better controlled his demons. Of course, maybe the same would have happened no matter what. It's just a shame. A stupid loss.ReplyDelete
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September 2010
Volume 2, Issue 9
Check Your Calendars!!
Library Card Sign-up Month 2010
September, 2010
SDLA Annual Conference
September 22-24, 2010. Sioux Falls.
Festival of Books
September 24-26, 2010. Sioux Falls.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
September 25 - October 2, 2010.
2010 Indian Education Summit
September 26-28, 2010
Teen Read Week
October 17-23, 2010
National Novel Writing Month
November, 2010
National Gaming Day
November 13, 2010
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In This Month's Issue
Library Headlines
SWIM Scholars and mentors gather for summit
The SWIM Scholars and their mentors gathered at the State Library on August 3 for a lively informal summit.
Library Snapshot Day is coming, will you be ready?
Library Snapshot Day was developed by the American Library Association to provide a way for libraries of all types to show what happens in a single day at their library.
September Continuing Education Opportunities
Children's & YA Services
Hau Kola Teen Camp 2010
Hau Kola is a dedicated group of educators and teen volunteers from the Baltimore area that travels to South Dakota every summer to put on a series of learning camps.
Shampoo bottles make easy teen craft
Once again the YALSA blog comes through with another great idea.
Songs and rhymes that build readers
Story Blocks is a new Web site of one-minute videos of fingerplays with an early literacy tip integrated into each one.
Featured eResources of the Month
Use Learning Express Library for Back-to-School or Back-to-Work
With school bells ringing again across the state, students, teachers and librarians are back to learning. Let Learning Express Library assist your learning needs with skills improvement tests and courses in math, science, reading and writing for grades four through adult.
Grant Opportunities
Baker and Taylor/YALSA Conference Grant
BWI/YALSA Collection Development Grant
In Focus: Sarah Easter
Meet the Administration Secretary at the State Library
Library Development
"Laugh and Learn" with SDSL staff at the 2010 SDLA Conference
Come and visit with the staff of the State Library during the SDLA conference.
Final discussion of Voluntary Public Librarian Certification Standards Revisions to be held at SDLA Conference
A task force has been meeting to revise the public librarian certification standards.
Project Compass: Help your community with career/job seeking training and resources
For nearly a year now some exciting collaboration has been taking place between IMLS and the State Library of North Carolina.
School Libraries
2009-2010 School Library Survey data ready for review
The State Library now has your school district library statistics available for access and comparisons.
Summer reading program expanded at Dupree School Library
Dupree School Library expanded and enhanced its annual summer reading program with thanks to the Improving Literacy through School Libraries grant.
Trends & More
Get a healthy dose of information
When your patrons need health information, MedlinePlus is just what the doctor ordered.
Smart phone apps librarians might want to know about
A look at ebook readers and other cool smart phone apps geared towards books and libraries.
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hi chris sorry for the late response I was traveling. How about tomorrow at herndon. if its wet or windy, we could try indoors, as rates are fairly cheap. I prefer to play in the morning.
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The exhibition catalogue reveals an unknown side of one of the best known Czech photographers. Portraits, ladscapes and scenes from the old town of Prague represent the artist´s early period, marked by the close connections between photography and symbolism. By highlighting the period between 1901 and 1914, when photography went hand in hand with painting, it wishes to display the work of a photographer who can be regarded as a pronounced pictorialist. The publication was issued by the Kant publishing house in cooperation with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague and Neumann Foundation, Gingins (Switzerland), to accompany the exhibition held at the Neumann Foundation in 1999 and in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, March – June, 2000.
Signum Design: Czech Design 1980–1999)
The book maps out the creative output of forty-two personalities in the field of Czech design during the final decade of the existence of Socialist Czechoslovakia and the following 1990s, when the market conditions underwent a radical change. In the 1980s, when the incompetent and cumbersome industrial sphere (with a few fine exceptions) buried all talent and good ideas, designers and architects reacted to this situation by manifesting a modern, contemporary style (the Edis and Atika artists' groups). The transition to a market economy, globalization and the world's markets brought new opportunities in the 1990s – a period that saw the emergence of new companies interested in collaborating with top-quality designers. It was issued to accompany the exhibition in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, June – October, 1999.
Padova: The City and Its Museums)
Through a body of works from Padua's municipal museums, this book acquaints readers with the history of the famous city in northern Italy and gives an account of the wealth and diversity of its art treasures. The volume features objects from the collections of the Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico), showcasing artefacts from Antiquity to the Roman period. Also presented are works from the holdings of the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art (Museo d'Arte Medievale e Moderna), an institution that ranks with the richest art depositories in north-eastern Italy owing to its works of the Venetian School of painting from the 14th-18th centuries. Last but not least, the book shows artefacts from the Bottacin Museum (Museo Bottacin) that houses coins and medals dating from ancient times to the present, as well as a collection of 19th-century statuary. The publication was issued to accompany the exhibition prepared by Villaggio Globale Int., Mogliano Veneto and Musei Civici di Padova held in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, November 1999 – February 2000.
Czech Fashion 1780–1870: For Salons and Promenade)
Volume One of the Czech Fashion edition In the late 18th century under the influence of the Enlightenment, women divested themselves of corsets and crinolines and, shielded by the enthusiastic reception of Classical culture, opted for comfortable, almost reformist clothing. The Biedermeier of the middle classes brought women in Central Europe from their venture into the Classical world back to the family hearths and traditional forms of dress that enhanced the concepts of female charm and maternal feelings. The natural evolution of fashion from the Biedermeier to the Rococo Revival style was interrupted by the revolutionary events of 1848, in which Czech women demonstrated considerable patriotism in wearing distinctive national costumes. However, with the onset of the second half of the 19th century, they were rapidly ushered into a new era that re-introduced the tight bodice, a wealth of frilly lace and luxurious fabrics nostalgically reminiscent of the playful Rococo style. The text is accompanied by photographs of garments and clothing accessories from UPM's collections, drawings of women's attire from a unique sketchbook, illustrations from Prague fashion magazines (including one of the first European fashion journals published in Prague in 1787–1788), as well as daguerreotypes, photographs and pattern supplements. Articles by prominent specialists and the rich documentary material represent yet another piece in the mosaic of Czech fashion production as shown in the international context. The publication was issued by the OLYMPIA publishing house in cooperation with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.


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This weekend brings together fitness and philanthropy at the Annual Run for Zimbabwe Orphans and Fair, set for Sunday Mar. 23, from noon to 4 p.m. at St. Joseph school. The run, now in its 15th year, is a charity event put on by the Mountain View-based Sustainable Living Foundation to directly benefit the Makumbi Children's Home in Zimbabwe.
Promoted by the foundation as "cross-country with a cause," the run will feature competitive races for runners of ages, ranging from a 220-yard race for preschoolers to a mile-long race for adults.
"It doesn't matter if you're an elite runner, or a novice runner, or somewhere in the middle," said foundation president Ellen Clark. "Everybody gets a time and a place. Everybody gets a ribbon, the top three get trophies, and there are posted results."
Around 350 runners are expected to participate in this year's run, according to Clark.
The races will be surrounded by a lively African-inspired fair, which will include performances from Zimbabwean musical groups, a display of local children's African-style artwork, and an array of "cultural booths."
"These are to show off the culture of Zimbabwe," Clark said of the cultural booths. The booths will offer games and activities to teach children and adults alike about the geography, culture, and art of Zimbabwe, she said.
All funds raised go directly to the orphanage and are used to underwrite a specific capital project each year, according to Clark.
Past years' projects have provided a roof for the orphanage, plumbing and livestock. This year's goal is to build a cottage for girls in Makumbi Children's Home who have "aged-out" of the orphanage.
"These are girls who are in the orphanage from infancy to age 18, and unfortunately, they have to leave," said Clark. "We are building a little cottage for eight of them, and the orphanage will attempt to help find employment for them."
Unemployment rates are currently over 90 percent in the poverty-ridden country, making additional support and resources for Makumbi orphans attempting to build lives for themselves especially important, said Clark.
To make this year's project a reality, the foundation hopes to match or raise last year's donation of $34,000, she said.
The event is designed to be low-cost: participating runners pay $5, and the fair is free. The majority of the money raised is collected through donations, she said. For those who cannot make a monetary contribution, there is also a shoe drive for the orphanage.
According to Clark, this design allows children and families of all income-levels to participate.
"Our thought is, we need to be especially welcoming to low-income kids here in the Bay Area. Why have an event for poor children in Africa, if we are not equally welcoming to kids of all economic levels here?" Clark said.
This notion is reflected in the Sustainable Living Foundation's "dual mission" for its Zimbabwe project, which is to benefit orphans in Africa while inspiring all kids here in the Bay Area to "be fit, create art, and help others."
"The temptation is to think of it as a successful event only if you raise 'X' amount of money," Clark said. "I think if people can come to this event and learn to create art, be fit, and help others, it's already a success."
St. Joseph school is located at 1120 Miramonte Ave., Mountain View. Race registration and information on the Zimbabwe run and the Sustainable Living Foundation is at zimbabweparaguay.net or by contacting Ellen Clark by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Naomi Watts and her family went for a walk in NYC, and everyone was appropriately outfitted for the chilly November weather. I bet her boys can't wait for the first snowfall!
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Last thursday, we gathered to think about longterm funding for the ODC. There were very different perspectives on the matter but one thing quickly became evident: money loves passion. During the discussion, we always tried to remind ourselves of the reasons behind the ODC. The most important aspect we had to focus on was staring us into our faces: the people.
Even during the introduction, it was obvious that ODC wasn't just about space, but about a community. Hence, the open design city didn't just need a space, materials, tools and a website; it also needed its citizens (image: odc needs). It wasn't just a physical space, but a mental one as well. As such, there were different opinions about the different opportunities for space use (and ways to monetize them). It was quite clear, however, that there were many ways to contribute beside money (image: use of space).
To the ODC citizen, it seemed unnatural to start out by forming a legal entity and artificially shaping the space in a meeting. It's the people who shape systems, create rules and guidelines, build communities and create spaces based on experience. We had lots of that present: people from Betahaus and Palomar5, various artists, tinkerers, researchers... There were already insights from past experiences which could be used as a foundation (image: odc foundation).
That's why everyone agreed to let the ODC develop naturally for the first few months to see what kind of space use, community and legal entity would evolve naturally. While watching one's own activities at ODC, one might also do some research and look at similar "hackerspaces" around the world. At the same time, we realized that the space itself had needs and that the formation of any kind of structure would require a group of people to support the activities of / within the ODC. These poor bastards would probably not have all the fun it would bring to realize projects within ODC. On the other hand, they might just have the best project: to support and improve the ODC.
That would also mean worrying about money (and as we know that pretty often kills creativity). As worrying goes, the elephant in the room was pink and had bold red letters on the left side (i didn't get to see the right side), which read: "how do we get outside money?" (image: odc community)
The betahaus and palomar5 experiences showed that the interplay of various roles within such a setting may open up perspectives to "traditional" organizations which might be happy to pay for this insight. So the rather obvious answer was: doing workshops and consulting others. This funding model reaffirmed the need for administrative roles within ODC (which in turn led to a discussion about hierarchy and a socio-political discourse on existentialsti- oh, just forget about it).
While thinking about "outside" money, we also addressed the issue of "inside" money, which mainly referred to donations. Come to think of it, have you donated yet? (And if you haven't... why haven't you, you cheap bastard? Oh, come on, just fork up a euro or two already. Save the ciggies and give us the money instead.) We identified "making donating more fun and attractive" as one possible future project. We had some ideas on the spot - just add yours as a comment. We'll collect them in the space.
Strange enough, donating seemed a concept that was preferred over membership or fees for use by almost everyone. Presumably, paying to be allowed into the ODC cheapened the experience. To some, the ODC is "a dream come true", wherein there is transparency and exchange about the environment and the processes. Knowledge gained is to be collected, documented and shared. The way to monetize it is to be open about costs and the value that is created. (image: odc monetization)
That being said, we actually really talked juuuust a bit about actual funding models. Of course, we could use crowd funding (kickstarter anyone?), beg on hands and knees for rich sponsors, give workshops, raise member fees, establish a time or space use model, apply for research funding and federal grants or try to monetize the experience by creating a design publishing house. We did not go much into detail about THAT stuff... which is why we need YOU to sign up for the next session. Since it was generally agreed that ODC should evolve the next two months, we will need to find a model to finance this initial start period. Join us this week to get to the heart of the matter!
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Correspondence from His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP
August 5, 2009
Mr. Charles Ajalat
LaCanada, CA
Dear Charles,
Greetings and blessings to you, Marilee, the children and grandchildren in the spirit of this Holy Dormition Fast.
I am in receipt of your correspondence dated August 2 and August 3, 2009, and it pains me very much to accept your resignation as Chancellor of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. I want to thank you for your kind words and the love which you have expressed to me in your letters.
You have called me a visionary Metropolitan. Thank you. Whatever visions our leadership has provided for this Archdiocese, during the past forty-three years, are a gift from God. If I may paraphrase the scripture, "If you do what I commend you to do, say, I am nothing but an idle servant."
I want to thank you for your devotion and dedication to this Archdiocese during the past eighteen years. I remember your mentioning to me on several occasions that you want to retire from law practice and spend more time with your family. I am happy to know that you, Marilee and the children are planning a vacation on the occasion of your Fortieth Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations! I hope that your trip will be most enjoyable.
On a personal note, I will always cherish the hours and days of working together for this Archdiocese, for Orthodox unity in North America and mainly for the glory of God.
Thank you very much, Charles, and may this Dormition Fast bring to all of us a great measure of spiritual renewal and may the Holy Theotokos keep you and your family always in her care.
Appreciatively yours,


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It looks like Apple is using its rejection power for good this time -- removing games built on the Unity engine which included private-API calls that could be used to steal private user information like your iPhone's phone number.
Not all of the rejected/removed games were engaged in privacy violations (or even had the network capability to exploit it), but Apple isn't taking any chances following the Storm8 lawsuit. Touch Arcade has the details:
The Unity engine currently uses the two private API calls that Storm8 allegedly exploited to steal user data, _NSGetEnviron and exc_server. Mantas Puida of Unity Technologies explains these two API's utilized by the Unity engine serve the following functions:
_NSGetEnviron is used by Mono runtime to provide implementation of .NET core API method: Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable().
exc_server is also used by Mono runtime to provide graceful NULL reference exception handling.
The Unity engine, however, has been updated to remove the offending API calls, and the games are being recompiled and resubmitted to the App Store. Hopefully this will keep users' data safe from unscrupulous developers, while the scrupulous ones continue to turn out great games.
[Touch Arcade via TUAW]