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26 April, 2016 - Demographic change in Asia and the Pacific is happening at a rate the world has never seen. An explosion in the working age population and a fall in birth rates that took a century in Europe are happening here in just 30 years.
If countries do not start planning for this demographic change, they will miss out on a unique opportunity to boost growth and investments for the future, says the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its latest Regional Human Development Report. They also risk a surge in youth frustration, exacerbating instability and conflict.
The report, entitled "Shaping the Future: How Changing Demographics Can Power Human Development", notes that Asia-Pacific countries now have more working-aged people and fewer dependents than at any point in history, providing a springboard for growth. Region-wide, 68 percent of people are of working age and only 32 percent are dependents.
"When countries have a greater share of people who can work, save and pay taxes, they have the potential to transform their economies and power investments in healthcare, education and other building blocks of future prosperity," said Thangavel Palanivel, lead author of the report.
The report calls for immediate responses and outlines "9 Actions for Sustainable Development". These are concrete policies tailored to the demographic profile of individual countries.
For states with a large working-aged population, UNDP is calling for the creation of decent jobs to match the growing workforce, equal employment for women, and ways to turn savings into investments inside the region."Growth, employment and migration in the west are inextricably linked to what happens in the east," said Haoliang Xu. "The sun rises here, but its effects are soon felt on the other side of the world."
There is no one solution for every country, but the region's diversity provides room for south-south cooperation. Governments need to share experiences on long-term fiscal planning, including the sustainable use of tax revenue. Cooperation can also encourage safe migration from younger to older countries within the region and reduce the desperate flight of migrants to Europe.
"With 50 years of expertise and offices in 24 countries in Asia-Pacific, UNDP is ideally placed to help implement the '9 Actions for Sustainable Development'," said Haoliang Xu. "We can facilitate partnerships combining domestic, international, public and private funding and expertise on youth, ageing, migration, social protection, climate change and disaster risk management, governance, urbanization and technology transfer. Please Click here to read the Japanese version
National Human Development Report 2016 tackles the topic of informal work - a pressing topic that affects not only economy but all segments of society. Every third person in Montenegro is fully or partly informally hired which puts them at risk of poor social and health protection. The report is offering focused perspectives and analysis of national circumstances and strategies for reducing the scale of informal economy and advancing human development. The aim of the report is to bring together the human development facts, influence national policy and mobilize various sectors of economy and segments of society. It introduces the human development concept into national policy dialogue on informal employment—not only through relevant indicators and policy recommendations, but also through the country-led and country-owned process of consultation, research and report writing.
NHDR on informal economy results in a set of policy options on how to reduce the volume of informal economy in Montenegro with the specific focus on informal employment. In other words, the report's aim is to support the transition to formal economy. A set of adequate policies and ways to overcome the barriers to formalization were identified, while at the same time taking into account the most common limitations for the transition to formal economy.
This National Human Development Report (NHDR) of Mongolia -the sixth in the se-ries – focuses on youth. Through the me-dium of the human development approach, it analyses the opportunities, choices and challenges facing young people in Mongo-lia today. This approach places people at the centre of development. It concentrates on enlarging people's opportunities and choic-es to live long, healthy and productive lives.
A key overriding message of this report is the contribution of youth to building a better tomorrow in Mongolia. This contri-bution depends largely on the capabilities and opportunities open to youth in making choices. Young people are the shapers and leaders of our global future.1 Like young people elsewhere, Mongolia's youth pos-sess the potential to become the drivers of change and play a significant role in the na-tion's future. They are the first generation in the country to have spent most of their lives under a democratic form of government. This has been crucial to their outlook and their experience.
At more than one million, youth aged 15–34 years represent the largest demographic group in Mongolia, accounting for 34.9 percent of the resident population in 2015 and a significant share of the people of work-ing age. Even by 2040, when the country's population is expected to reach 4 million, an estimated 29 percent will be in the 15–34 age-group.
The annual growth in gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) of Mongolia increased to 6.7 percent in 2005–2010 and then accelerat-ed to 12.2 percent in 2010–2014. However, according to the World Bank, the growth in GDP is projected to have slowed to 2.3 percent in 2015 and to 0.8 percent in 2016 because of a sharp contraction in mining production and despite a gradual recovery in non-mining sectors.2 Nearly one person in five is living below the poverty line, and the regional disparities within the country are visible. Nonetheless, Mongolia has made substantial progress in the human develop-ment index (HDI) at the national level and is placed in the high human development category. Over the past two decades, Mon-golia has evolved into "a vibrant multiparty democracy with a booming economy", and it is now "at the threshold of a major trans-formation driven by the exploitation of its vast mineral resources".
To what extent are youth in Mongolia ben-efiting from the economic growth, the pro-gress in social development and the other opportunities? What challenges are they facing in making the choice to "achieve outcomes that they value and have rea-son to value"? What policies are in place to address these challenges? What can be done by stakeholders to include youth in the country's growth and development? These are some of the questions motivat-ing this NHDR, which analyses the issues around four pillars of human development important to youth: developing capabilities, expanding employment opportunities, empowering youth, and enhancing human security.
Issued in 2008, the second National Human Development Report (NHDR) succeeded in realizing one of the most important goals of Human Development Reports: raising a debate on development policies among government officials, academics, intellectuals, media professionals, and civil society organizations. Today, with the increasing need to promote the government's role as a caretaker of human development, this report focuses on
Iraqi youth.
In a country where young people constitute a high percentage of the population, their success or failure will have a clear impact on society en masse. The number of Iraq's children and youth increasing at an unprecedented rate. In
2010, Iraq had 5.1 million children and 6 million young people. These numbers are expected to run as high as 6.7 million and 9.6 million respectively in 2025, and 8.9 million and 14.9 million respectively in 2050.
This report is important given the data of the demographic window – that period of time in a nation's demographic transition when the proportion of the working age population is particularly prominent for a decade or more – which has become of interest to states. It is an opportunity to realize development in Iraq, though this is conditioned on the positive response of the country's socio-economic policies. Advancement is not guaranteed, as the
demographic window can be transformed into an element of social relapse, short-lived economic growth, increased unemployment, and a disintegrated labor market, which can trigger a raft of problems if proper development policies and strategies are not in place.
National awareness of youth issues is on the rise at various policy- and decision- making levels. There is also general awareness of the important role of this social group. Despite the growing interest in youth issues after 2003, however, the projects designed to empower and integrate the youth and engage them in development priorities, plans, and strategies have been impeded by violence and instability.
Through factual analysis and the integration of the vision and priorities of Iraqi youth, this report develops an integrated structure that combines youth issues with various dimensions of the development process. This will help to develop policies that address the role of the youth in the current and future human development process. And what makes the recommendations of this report even more important is that many of them reflect a reality that our youth teams and field work groups have explored through interviewing young Iraqis of different genders, ethnicities, education levels, and social and geographical backgrounds.


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Nineteen unknown British comrades in arms who lost their lives on the battlefield during World War One have finally been laid to rest in the New Irish Farm Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium today (Thursday, September 28).
Unusually for a single service the ceremony involved casualties from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Regiments.
The service itself was organised by the MOD's Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), part of Defence Business Services and was conducted by The Reverend Iori Price CF, Chaplain to the 1st Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment.
Sue Raftree, JCCC said: "It is very unusual for there to be 19 First World War soldiers from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Regiments buried in one ceremony. It has been a privilege for the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre to organise this service."
The soldiers were found following ground work at an industrial development at Briekestraat, Ypres in Belgium. The location, thought to be the original Irish Farm site, is an original war time cemetery created by the Army under war conditions. It was believed that all those buried there had been transferred to the New Irish Farm Cemetery, some 300 meters away, but this discovery has proved that they hadn't.
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· One with the Monmouthshire Regiment.
· One with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
· One with the Northumberland Regiment.
· One with the Royal Irish Regiment.
As no regimental artefacts were found, the remaining 11 will be buried as 'Known Unto God'. During the burial service all the coffins were in the burial plots with the exception of one, which was carried in as the focus of the ceremony by the Essex Regiment, now the Anglians.
Reverend Iori Price CF said: "We are always mindful of the costs of conflict and the need we have to pursue peace for all. At such a moment as this, when we have gathered to bury those fallen in conflicts, we reflect on the great price paid by our service personnel then and the motivation that encouraged them."
The headstones were provided by the CWGC and Liz Sweet, CWGC's Director of External Relations in Western Europe said: "We, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, are delighted that the sacrifice of these 19 soldiers has been recognised by today's event and will now be cared for in perpetuity by the Commission."
The service was held in the presence of General Sir James Everard, KCB, CBE, who is the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe).


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Quote:it's like Neko said. Bruce did have a severe back injury that almost costed him everything. the first thing the doctors do to help you get over an injury like that is for one give you pain killers and almost all of them give you some type of legal steroids to help you body repair itself to the point where you can start physical therapy.
Quote:I myself tore 6 ligaments and 2 rotator cuff muscles in my shoulder and had to undergo surgery and was given perscribed steroids for 3 weeks before I started physical therapy.
Quote:besides, someone in martial couldn't stand to have a big bulky body because you'll sacrifice speed and efficieny later on after you get so big.
Quote:Bruce would never take steroids, someone that dedicated to his beliefs and believes in earning everything that you get wouldn't cheat by taking a drug to become better when steroids would only cripple you in the long run.
Quote:all those NFL Receivers, quarterbacks, baseball players, Arlovski, Mat Hughs, all them them don't have hands half as fast as Bruce did.
Quote: besides there's a big difference between the speed of running and the speed of kicking and punching. I've known people that can run a 4.2, 4.1 40yrd dash and can't even kick higher then their waist
Quote: and I didn't say what kind of steroid they gave me I just stated they gave me a type of steroid, I'm not a doctor I just take what they give me, if I knew what to take then I wouldn't need the doctors.
Quote: And I know that extreme determination causes athletes to take performance enhancing drugs you are entirely correct on that, but you have to admit that someone with a mind and heart like Bruce would not take steroids, he always believed in earning what you receive and using drugs is not earning anything. I'd rather earn something than have it given to me, it means more to you in the long run.
Quote:Well, I hear time after time from others that Lee took some of steroids. "Just look what he had done with himself, all these muscles, board breaking, push-ups with one finger, etc." My first reaction to this - B.S.!!! At least this video can proof that he was able to do one finger push-ups then he was in his early twenties : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-PDrjMBck&NR=1 Lot's of Wingchun practitioners likes to say such thing... I don't know if it is true, but I wached video with W.Cheung, the grand master of Wingchun, he said that Lee in his early thirties took some of steroids. But I don't tend to believe this I need truth, not arguments which springs from some kind of emotions... Inform me please if You will find something new about this. Thank You
Quote:I think half the problem here is that almost all the posters (with the exception of Cord) don't know the first thing about performance enhancing drugs. I have, and continue to, studied them very, very carefully from literature published by both sides of the debate (the rabid anti-steroid campaigners and the rabid pro-steroid campaigners) and read the medical reports. I'm actually doing a 6000 word report for my A levels next year. There's some basic myths being thrown out here: Steroids make you big. CALORIES make you big, food is the most 'anabolic' thing you can use. If you want to use steroids and not get 'big' that's perfectly possible, just don't eat like a family of four, and drop the volume a bit (go 5x5). People who use steroids are lazy. These guys train damn hard - harder than you (yes, you!). Those American Footballers aren't just popping D-bol and ramming syringes of Test up their a$$es, they train intelligently, and above all, *very* hard.Steroids will turn you into a mutant freak from Mars. Breasts, shrunken balls, hair loss, heart attacks, the list of supposed side-effects from steroids goes on and on. Steroids can cause side-effects. They almost certainly will. The only *definite* thing that prolonged steroid use *will* do is make you impotent. It could be temporary or permanent, there's not that much evidence beyond the anecdotal for this, and it depends on the individual. Breasts (caused by increase in Eostrogen production) shouldn't happen if you do things properly and use Eostrogen suppressents. Shrunken balls? You can use pills to stop that too. Increased rate of heart attacks? Probably just hokey, I've never seen or heard of a medical study to back this claim up. Hair loss, maybe, some do, some don't. Now, if you're reading that and thinking "waiddaminnit, Tim's advocating steroid use" then stop right there. Steroids are dangerous. There *are* side-effects, but they vary according to who you are and what you use. Believe it or not, there's a world of difference between the different steroids. That's not to mention HGH and other 'interesting' hormones. By the way, HGH causes Gastric distention (big fat stomach). Not too good if you want to impress the ladies I'm young and healthy, steroids are for me! It couldn't be further from the truth. Steroids WILL stunt your growth. It's proven. Under 21's have NO business taking them. The great shame is that information on steroids, particularly aimed at young people, is so pi$$ poor. They trot out the same old rubbish, and then someone's mate starts taking them, his balls haven't shrivelled into marbles and he's got real hench - "hey, they must be safe" - and hey presto! The ridiculous level of steroid abuse in young people in America, dangerous and stupid. And preventable, if there was some half-decent drugs education.Roid Rage! Steroids won't turn you into a carbon copy of the Hulk, but less green. They may make you easier to anger, and more sullen. The problem is that many of the people who take steroids were borderline psychotic/easily angered to begin with, and on steroids they've got something to prove.More is better. It's. Just. Not. If you had a headache and I told you to take 40 aspirin, because it would be more effective, would you believe me?With that rant off my chest, I'll conclude by saying that you have no business taking steroids unless you 1) are a competitive (ie. Olympic/NFL/NBA level) athlete, 2) have reached your genetic limit of potential (and you, yes you my friend, have not got near), 3) don't want kids, 4)are prepared to go to prison for a very long time, coz guess what, steroids are class A drugs, they're illegal.Anyway, Bruce Lee and steroids. Cord is right as ever, there is absolutely no evidence that he did. I'm sorry, but there are amateur bodybuilders out there with a far better physique than Bruce Lee. There's no doubt that the man incorporated bodybuilding techniques into his training, in order to look good in the movies, maintained a very low bodyfat percentage, and got 'pumped' before shooting a scene. He was a good trainer evidently, but part of the reason he looks so ripped is simply because of his low bodyfat - look at Brad Pitt in Troy or Fight Club, looks more muscular than he really is because of low bodyfat. I really wish we could just put the whole Bruce Lee steroids debate to rest, because there's just no evidence for it.Oh yeah, and if he had done steroids (intelligently) then he would have been stronger, faster and tougher. Fact.
Quote:does anyone know if bruce lee took steroids?! i read on tommy carruthers site in a forum he said that bruce took steroids! does anyone know if its true
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Taiwan's Next Media, famous for its Sims like news recreations, totally pissed off Cathay Pacific when it ran a video showing male passengers pleasuring themselves in business class. The above clip might be NSFW.
"Cathay Pacific, of course, did not like the video," Next Media wrote on YouTube. "It asked NMA to remove the video but we refused. Never in the course of Cathay's correspondence with NMA did Cathay address the issue that males passengers have been seen masturbating aboard Cathay flights."
According to Next Media, the airline apparently had YouTube take down the original video. The Taiwanese news outlet responded by reposting the video, affirming that the content was protected under U.S. copyright law, which makes exceptions for satire, parody, and criticism.
"We don't like censorship," wrote Next Media. "We don't like bullies." And supposedly business class passengers on Cathay Pacific like masturbation.
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Hurricane Sandy throws the ultimate October surprise into the presidential race
WASHINGTON (AP) — Suddenly, after drifting through months of confusing finger-pointing and iffy economic theory, the presidential candidates are getting walloped by an all-too-tangible October surprise. Superstorm Sandy is a real-world, gut-level test.
The force of nature has nearly halted campaigning just as President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were charging into a final week of man-made rancor.
"It's sort of like Mother Nature is intervening and calling a timeout," said historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley.
Obama can't afford to be caught taking his eyes off an unfolding crisis. Romney can't risk appearing callous about the threat to lives and homes. And, seven years after Hurricane Katrina, neither candidate wants to talk about the political implications of the storm stomping up the East Coast.
But their campaigns have to think about it. All presidential teams sweat about the potential for an October surprise — a late-in-the race event or disclosure that can turn the race upside down. And there's never been one quite like this.
Whether or not its destruction lives up to the warnings, the storm will have political impact. At the very least, it will dominate the news and distract a nation of voters during the crucial handful of days that remain before Nov. 6.
And the more concrete effects on Election Day are yet to be tallied: how many early voting days lost, how many voters who don't make it to the polls because of power outages, damaged homes or cleanup duties, whether any polling places or election equipment are damaged. Four states seen as pivotal to this election were hit — North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and New Hampshire.
Though rapid-fire campaign ads continue apace, Brinkley predicted that the presidential race's tone has been muted for good. Like a death, a natural disaster comes with a proper mourning period. He thinks that will bring a gentler tone over the next week, even after campaign schedules return to full strength.
"When the nation's largest city and even its capital are endangered, when so many people are in peril and face deprivation," Brinkley said, "it's hard to get back to arguing over taxes."
For Obama, the federal response to the natural disaster could make or break his bid for a second term. Romney is left without much to do but wait out the storm, while precious moments are lost in his push to move ahead in the few tight state races expected to decide the election.
"It stops the campaign more or less dead in its tracks," said Republican pollster and strategist Mike McKenna, who doesn't work for the Romney campaign. "A pause always helps the guys on defense. It helps the Obama guys catch their breath a little bit and think about what to do next."
McKenna says Romney shouldn't take much time off and should instead focus on key states outside the storm zone.
"If I were Romney, I'd be in Colorado and Michigan and Wisconsin," McKenna said. "Start off with a prayer for the people in New York and New Jersey, definitely do that, but don't stop attacking. Try to keep your momentum through this."
For Obama, missing a few days of active campaigning for vital presidential duties may be a good trade, politically speaking.
Lingering anger about the previous president's performance when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans provides a backdrop that will benefit Obama if his administration does a solid job, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center.
"You gain much more as a president being contrasted with George W. Bush and Hurricane Katrina then you do giving a speech in some battleground state and getting on the evening news as a campaigner," Jamieson said.
She said a natural disaster gives the sitting president "unlimited access to the media to say things the public wants and needs to hear in a fashion that reinforces that he is president."
The 2008 election also was hit by a fall surprise, albeit one of human creation— the plummeting stock market and near collapse of the nation's financial sector that September. Many voters blamed that on the Republicans in power, and it helped Obama capture the presidency.
This time, neither candidate can be blamed for failing to prevent the weather. But Obama's reputation will suffer if the federal government's response is feeble or botched.
There may be little time to make such assessments, however, and a risk of appearing to politicize tragedy if Romney speaks up too soon — a complaint that Democrats lodged against him when a US Consulate in Libya was attacked.
"Criticism could boomerang if it appears to be ginned up to win votes in the election as opposed to genuine concern that people were not protected or people were not helped," said Mitchell McKinney, a professor of political communication at the University of Kansas.
For the former Massachusetts governor, with no political office as a platform, finding a strong, positive role in the storm response is difficult. Romney used a campaign event Monday at a high school gym in Avon Lake, Ohio, to make a plea for donations to the Red Cross, before stopping campaigning temporarily in solidarity with storm victims. His campaign offices in storm-hit areas were collecting emergency supplies.
Even on Monday, as Obama canceled an appearance in Florida and rushed back to Washington to oversee the storm response, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden kept campaigning.
"In times of crisis, we all pull together as one American family," Mrs. Obama told supporters at a campaign event in Iowa City, Iowa, before launching into an upbeat summation of her husband's accomplishments and goals.
The president and Romney also spoke of Americans helping each other.
"President Obama is doing the right thing. Romney, too," said Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile. "Most Americans know what the closing arguments are by now. Let's focus on taking care of each other."
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- The Rural Cook Book. The Rural New Yorker: New York. 1907 (pp 7, 118, 187)
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Congrats to Bangladesh on a series win, and for saving this test from the brink of defeat when they were set a humongous 374 to win on the 4th day.
The morning after: chasing 374
by Rafiq Ahmed
Published: 18th January, 2005
Congrats to Bangladesh on a series win, and for saving this test from the brink
of defeat when they were set a humongous 374 to win on the 4th day.
Congrats also to Nafis for evolving his game so quickly - each innings he has
played in this series has shown increasing maturity, and I am glad to see an
attacking player who can also graft - qualities essential in an opener.
And who can help but be excited by Enamul's great talent and his contagious
enthusiasm for the game? Not to forget his humility.
Tatenda Taibu deserves great credit for instilling fight in his team and leading
them to make a match of it. We don't have experience watching Bangladesh in
a competitive tussle over 5 days, and this series was a first in that regard
- good for the team, fans and cricket in general.
Now for the downside, and if there is one it's the morning-after feeling that
perhaps we could have done a bit more with that 5th day chase. A majority of
fans on this board will not agree, but there is one particular reason I feel
we could have gone for the win yesterday.
I know the impossible situation Bangladesh were in when faced with chasing
374. Only 3 other teams had done it before and with our 1st innings total and
propensity to collapse, chasing this total would have been suicidal.
And so the correct decision was to graft, and Javed Omar and Nafis did exactly
that to reach a fantastic 98/0 at stumps on the 4th Day. They had set the innings
up to allow Bangladesh room to do whatever it wanted on the final day.
On the 5th day, we were no longer chasing 374, we were now starting essentially
a new innings, needing 276 to win with all our wickets and all day to get them.
The pitch was holding up fine, and one wonders if Taibu made a mistake taking
the heavy roller at the innings break - from what i read the cracks dissapeared
as a result.
The ask rate was 3 - not 4 or 5 or 6, but 3. It was not even an ODI ask rate.
Overnight I was among the group of fans who suggested a go slow approach but
at a reasonably fast enough rate to keep the target in sight. The vast majority
of Bangalcricket fans who answered the overnight Poll on the result went with
"Reasonably fast" was perhaps around 2-2.5 in the morning session.
The ball was old, it was not swinging and there was an opportunity to open up
after the early morning dew conditions wore off. Some of the commentators, whether
they were negative or not, suggested that Bangladesh should keep some pressure
on Zimbabawe so they don't start put pressure on us with field placements.
Yet we scored at 1.5 or so for the first session and most of the second. The
difference between 1.5 and 2.0 is nominal. yet it would have allowed us to have
a chance at the end.
To get 2.0-2.5, you don't have to go fishing outside the offstump or throw
away your wicket. You don't have to take undue risk. You just take a few singles
through the gaps instead of blocking away the whole session, and you occasionally
punish the many bad balls that were offered. Not until Cremer came on did the
Zim bowling look threatening - and that was 20 overs into the day.
In the final analysis, when the win-or-draw chase decision was made, we were
not really chasing 374 but actually 276. And we could have stayed in touch with
the target withouth taking undue risks. Having 10 wickets ensured that if we
were to lose any wickets we could go back into the shell.
Bangladesh had no experience chasing to win a test match. At the beginning what
seemed impossible became less so at the end of the 4th day. In time we will
learn to change our strategy as opportunities present themselves. On this occasion,
we didn't. It's not necessarily dissapointing but it's just something else the
team will learn in time.
Roosevelt said (and I read this on the doodle board above the men's urinal
in some Sufi cafe in downstate Illinois earlier this week!): "We must try
to do the things we think we cannot". I think we must and believe, in time,
we will.
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Tech Students, Local Conservancy Group Team Up on Seven Mile Point Project
The Keweenaw Peninsula features geology that can be measured in billions of years. A project spanning four months isn't even a blink of an eye. This project, a collaboration between students and faculty at Michigan Tech and the North Woods Conservancy (NWC), a local land preservation group, set out to help maintain a small piece of nature for future generations. The service-learning project gave students experience solving real-world problems while meeting a local environmental organization's needs. Along the way, over those four months, they also learned that nature has a very big say in what we do and when we do it.
February 2013, Seven Mile Point Beach
It's cold. The sky is a cobalt blue; the ground covered in crunchy snow. The outer gate to Seven Mile Point Beach is still closed, and a couple of feet of snow prevent us from going any further, even it if were open. A.J. Hamlin's engineering fundamentals students are here to explore the site, to gain a sense of the place, its importance and why their work matters.
They're going to build a toilet.
It's jarring to need to think of waste in a place this pristine, but it is the responsible use of this land that Kate Griffith wants to see. Her family helped start the NWC in 1992 when she was two years old. Since then, the organization has purchased several other sites throughout the Keweenaw.
Hamlin joined this project because her Engineering Modeling and Design course bridges the needs of the NWC and the goals of Social Sciences Assistant Professor Emma Norman's World Resources and Development course perfectly. "When Emma asked if my first-year students might be interested in building a compostable toilet, I thought it would make a great design project," Hamlin said. "It's a chance give back to the community too. At the beginning of the semester I let my students choose between two projects: designing a microbrewery or designing the compostable toilet for this project. Out of 48 students, eight women chose to take on the compostable toilet project."
Those eight women--working in two teams of four--first discussed plans for meeting the Conservancy's needs while achieving the course goals. The Griffiths came to Michigan Tech to explore the specs and needs for the site: a compostable toilet would help meet the Conservancy's goals of being sustainable.
John and Jane Griffith, Kate's parents, are field biologists by profession and serve on the board of the NWC. In the meeting, John laid out what he would like to see at Seven Mile Point: he wanted not only a toilet, but one that is sustainable, one that has as small an ecological footprint as possible.
The site does not have running water or electricity, and it is an environmentally sensitive spot close to Lake Superior.
"Cost is an issue," he explained, "but we want to do this right."
The students also heard from Christine Matlock, a senior environmental engineering student and Michigan Tech student representative for Engineers Without Borders. They have the knowledge and experience to install the final product in rugged locations. A site at the end of a dirt road in the Keweenaw should be simple compared to a remote village in Guatemala, though the climates certainly differ.
Although Norman's class is not here for this trip, she attends with her family. Hamlin and Norman's children are the same age and have become fast friends since Emma and her family moved here in August. Norman's social science students will do a service project later in the term.
"Including service learning in my classes has always been part of my teaching practice," says Norman. "When my students learn about current environmental issues, many feel overwhelmed and don't know where to turn. Supplementing courses with service projects makes it a winning situation for everyone."
Madeline Baron, a student in Norman's class, agrees that hearing the litany of problems in the world can be tough, but there are ways to turn that into something positive. "Much of the material we covered in class is disheartening and depressing," she says. "But I doubt I'm the only one inspired by the issues we've covered, or at least somehow incorporated what we've learned into our daily processes."
Back at Seven Mile Point
The trail to the shore is mostly flat, with a dip at the end where the rocks give way to Lake Superior. Seven Mile Point Beach is along the north shore of the Keweenaw, west of Eagle River. The site was originally set to be developed until the NWC and its members stepped in.
It isn't an overly large site, but with the variety of terrain present in one spot, it's unique. "It's a microcosm of the Keweenaw," Kate Griffith explains. "A sandy beach, a billion-year-old rock outcrop and a section of cobble, all right here."
She stops walking for a moment, her snowshoes making tiny crunches as she halts. "I mean, this is worth saving."
The students are gazing out onto the still horizon, blue sky and blue ice coming together, the scene quickly frozen in memory. Everyone nods.
April 2013, Conglomerate Falls
Winter has come late, but it has been thorough as we stand at the tail end of a 300-inch snow season. It was late in coming, and the late spring snowpack is playing havoc with plans to prepare the site at Seven Mile Point for construction.
Emma Norman is driving a van full of her students; as planned back in January, they pull into the Streetcar Station in Ahmeek, a building that hosts a popular ice cream stand in the summer and doubles as the headquarters for the NWC.
But the group isn't going to Seven Mile Point.
Kate arrives separately, and she is guiding everyone to Conglomerate Falls. More than 30 inches of snow still covers the ground at Seven Mile Point; preparing the site to install the toilet later in the summer would be impossible. Instead, the cabin at Conglomerate Falls could use some cleaning prior to summer rentals, and Norman's class, here for service learning, troops out to get the job done.
Much like Seven Mile Point, Conglomerate Falls is a hidden gem. As we hike in, largely without snowshoes and only sinking knee-deep into loose snow every fourth step or so, the sun glistens between branches yet to bud. There are about two dozen students there and only room for a handful in the cabin itself.
While six or seven students tackle the cabin, most of the rest head down to look at the falls. There is ice on the Gratiot River away from the flow of the water, and a few students chuck snowballs at it to see if they can dislodge another small piece of winter.
They're laughing, enjoying some real signs of spring. According to Norman, they're also learning. "Even though this isn't what we had in mind when we first organized the service project," she says, "they're still getting into the habit of volunteering, building that into their lives. That's important."
After an hour or two, the class hikes back to the road, the students talking amongst themselves while they wait for one of Norman's graduate students to bring the van back.
"Man, it's beautiful here."
April 2013, Dillman Hall
The computer lab stands in contemporary contrast to the more traditional appearance of the building. There was a winter storm the night before, and every surface is clutching what, by now, everyone hopes is the last storm of the year.
It is the last regular week of classes.
After months of preparation, Hamlin's students are prepared to present their designs for a compostable toilet. The two teams took different tacks with the project, with one designing a single-seat unit and the other a double-seat. The original specifications called for two—John Grifith hoped to be able to switch between them for ease of composting—but the single-seat design would be 40 percent less expensive and the structure would be less obtrusive.
"I was impressed with how many designs for composting toilets are out there," says Hannah Garner, an engineering undergraduate student from Laingsburg. "A lot of people are working on these."
Not only are the students learning about technology and design; they're also picking up a few bits of knowledge that could serve them well as future homeowners. "I showed the plans to my father," says Jennifer Holthouse, a mechanical engineering students from Newtonville, Mass. "He said 'that's not how you frame a house' and gave me a construction manual."
"So now I know how to frame a house, too."
Hamlin sees benefits in the bigger picture as well. "Involving students in a service project gives them a better understanding of the design process," she says. "You find out where there are problems and go back and redesign. The students really enjoyed working on a project with a real client that is actually going to be built."
While walking out of Dillman, Kate Griffith reflects one last time on conservation, why the little things like composting waste at one small beach on the Keweenaw is important. "It's stupid not to think ahead," she says.
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The congressional freshman class taking office in January is the largest in decades and the most diverse in history. As the start of the new term approaches, Judy Woodruff sits down with four incoming members of the House of Representatives: Denver Riggleman, R-Va., Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. and Mark Green, R-Tenn.--three of whom had never before run for public office.
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Apple, Google, Microsoft – are you a Brand Taliban or Brand Evangelist?
Commentards, why it is good for your wellbeing
Day in, day out commenters do battle on Reg forums behalf or against companies. It used to be Microsoft, and then Google, but lately our readers are most polarized when discussing Apple.
Why the passion, the animus? As some commentards note, we are talking about a phone here, a way of doing things there, and a software-based lifestyle choice or two.
Maybe, Andy Green of the Flexible Thinking Forum has the answer.
Responding to Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway's article (reg req'd) about the growing tide of invective aimed at BP, Green tries to put the issue into a wider context.
In a letter published in the FT today, he writes:
We have all become more polarized in how we respond to news and institutions. We now cannot simply raise an eyebrow in response to a topical item, but respond in either the extreme positive – or negative.
We now live in an age where we are either Brand Talibans – whatever the organization does, good or bad, will actually reinforce our negativity – or at the other end of the spectrum – Brand evangelists – stoutly defending the organization, whatever is thrown at it.
This increasing black / white polarization, I would suggest, is down to our increasing alienation in a faster moving world, where we have to resort to fundamental good / bad safe / unsafe judgment calls to maintain our sense of well-being. Hating or loving BP reinforces our world, as we choose to see it.
Yes there are those who will hate BP more (if they are so inclined), but equally there are others who will become more resolutely pro-BP, whatever the headlines it continues to spill.
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Readers, is Green right?
I think we can agree we are all Brand Talibans where the phone companies are concerned.
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Sun staff reportTAHOE/TRUCKEE andamp;#8212; The Sierra Senior Services major fundraising spaghetti bash was a well attended affair, with 520 folks bustling into the Truckee-Donner Recreation andamp; Park District's Community Recreation Center last month. A live and silent auction brought many goodies to the table, in addition to a fine pasta dinner and delectable desserts.On hand for BINGO! calling was the illustrious Porter and Simon duo, with Blackout bingo winners Tayna and Alison splitting the pot for $533 each.Music was provided by Jody Sweet of Cabin Fever on keyboards, accompanied by Truckee High School students Lucas Relhf on sax and Katie Eikan on drums.Jeff Sparksworthy was announced as the male Citizen of the Year, who gave humble accolades to all the helping hands he has in Truckee. The female Citizen of the Year was, Leticia Aguilar also the Soroptimist Ruby Award winner.Alison Koeth won the Calistoga trip massage dinner and wine tasting for two raffle, with Grays Crossing golf for two going to Christy Morrison and a Wilderness Adventures Dog Sled tour for two raffled to Kathy Scopin Setter.andamp;#8220;My sincere thanks goes to the Truckee community for making this annual event so much fun while also creating such a highly successful fundraiser benefiting the Meals on Wheels and Senior Nutrition Programs,andamp;#8221; said Sarah Hall Deardorff, Sierra Senior Services executive director.A big shout out to financial sponsors: Porter andamp; Simon, The Office Boss, Truckee Tahoe Lumber Company andamp; Sierra Sun and food donors: Dragonfly, Fireside Pizza, Joe Foster, Smokey's Kitchen, Tahoe Forest Hospital, the Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe and Truckee Sourdough.Service club helpers included Optimist, PEO Sisterhood, Soroptimist, Tahoe City Rotary, Truckee Noon Rotary, Truckee Lions and Sunrise Rotary. Dan O'Gorman and Sheldon Felich were acoustical stars for getting the PA system working properly so everyone could hear the emcees.Upcoming eventsMardi Gras Dance Social Feb. 24All active adults 50 and older are invited to dance the afternoon away to the Catahoula Mardi Gras Band live at the Community Arts Center at 10046 Church St., Truckee. Doors open for free admission at 1 p.m. Dancing from 1:30-4 p.m. Refreshments, socializing, spare dance partners and fun, all in a celebration of good music and the season. Bring your friends, invite your neighbors and house guests. For more information call Sierra Senior Services at 530-550-7600. If you need transportation, provided by Truckee-Donner Recreation andamp; Parks District, please reserve it by Thursday, Feb. 23 at 530-550-7600. A special Mardis Gras lunch will be served at noon, Friday, Feb. 24 in the Truckee Donner Senior Apartments, 10040 Estates Drive, Truckee.Financial elder abuse forumA forum addressing financial elder abuse will be presented by Sierra Senior Services, Plumas Bank and Community Health Partners. Award winning, Placer County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Suzanne Gazzaniga will speak Feb. 29, 6 p.m. at Plumas Bank, Truckee branch.Pancake BreakfastSunday, March 4, 8-11 a.m. at the Truckee Donner Senior Apartments Dining room. andamp;#8220;The best breakfast in town, served once a month by our local service clubs.andamp;#8221;For more information visit http://www.ttseniorscouncil.org.Find additional photos on the Sierra Sun's Facebook page.


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MLS continued poor play in CONCACAF continued this week. While DC United advanced, they added a record where in ten preliminary round matches against teams largely from poorer leagues, MLS is win less.
Those of us who watch football from around the globe do not rate MLS highly as a league. It's not the quality of player that at question, but the quality of tactics and the continuity of squads from year to year thanks to MLS' structure, that really doom the league. Coaches like Dom Kinnear and Sigi Schmid work well with young talent and tactically aware. But too many coaches in the league do not have the quality or awareness of a Kinner or a Schmid. But as I will argue in this piece, MLS needs to refocus, and a de-emphasis on results may prove to be a good thing.
As I have discussed before, USL-1 is a more tactically savvy league, but also a negative one because teams tactics are scripted and the sides becomes robotic to a certain extent. This has served USL-1 sides well in CONCACAF, but doesn't make for compelling, attractive football. MLS is more watchable but the USL-1 approach has to this point proven more effective in CONCACAF competition.
Colin Clarke has proven over the past two Champions Leagues that he scouts the opposition well and has a game plan to succeed. It got the Puerto Rico Islanders within a hair of the finals last year. Additionally, key players like Jonny Steele and Christian Arrieta have European club experience and have been the glue on the Islanders team in rough patches during Champions League play.
MLS teams don't scout well (as evidenced by their body of work in signing foreign players not over the age of 30 through the years) and generally have coaches who don't adjust well on the fly. When things go bad for MLS teams, particularly against opposition they are unfamiliar with, they go miserably badly.
We keep hearing excuses for these performances year after year, but the bottom line is the league is not very good by any truly objective international standard. Anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is not looking at results or being objective. We all want our league (s) to be successful, but success is not always based entirely on results or even the bottom line. IFFHS ranked MLS the 77th best league in the world last year- while this may not be fair, because I hardly think the league in Singapore is better than MLS, the truth is the league is probably somewhere in the 40 to 50 range worldwide. But again, as I will argue below this should not matter to any of us.
MLS right now is not a success in terms of quality on the pitch. The league continues to emphasize cash cow friendlies with European clubs (which by the way MLS is showing worse than ever in, from a results standpoint) and league play over international competition. Again, that would be fine if the league were paying its American players, those whose sweat and hard work built this league a decent wage, instead of forcing them to go to Scandinavia or even USL-1 to be paid at market value.
Do I believe MLS is worse than the leagues from the Caribbean or USL-1? No. But is MLS good enough to simply go out and play against teams from these leagues without scouting or tactics? Again, no as that answer has been obvious based on the league's consistently poor results from CONCACAF when Dom Kinnear coached sides are not involved.
MLS needs to get back to basics. Work on player development. Renew league mandated contacts with the lower tiers in the USL structure (not USL-1 which is not a "minor" league as Don Garber chided the other day, and which has less bearing on the overall USL structure than perhaps any other league within that structure), and most importantly show more value for the American player in this upcoming CBA. De-emphasizing results in CONCACAF while emphasizing internationals as learning experiences to grow players would also be helpful.
Don Garber and MLS fans that populate message boards need to stop the needless and silly comparisons with other leagues which quite frankly is done in my opinion to mask the insecurity they feel about the MLS product. MLS doesn't measure up when compared to any decent foreign league. Any league that you can watch on TV, save the Australian A-League (which is an inferior product to MLS and learned in the Asian Champions League that they are nowhere near the K-League, J-League or even some Middle Eastern Leagues just yet) is superior to MLS, but that should not matter to our fans.
Making MLS a vital part of a thriving American soccer culture should. People have been angry at me in the past when I have written about comparisons between MLS and other leagues. I apologize for those comparisons as it was not necessary and probably a waste of space. But it is not I, who invited those comparisons but in fact many fans of MLS clubs as well as the commissioner himself.
Those comparisons have only served MLS poorly as the league's structure and lack of depth would ever prevent the league from backing up some of these claims on the international stage. Short or cloning Dom Kinnear 15 times, the only answer is for MLS to retreat as it did in the 2002-2005 time period and rebuild its product in the way it did in that period: based on home grown talent and utilizing the now growing infrastructure of American Soccer via the USSF, USL and other entities.


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As I biked along the Yampa River last weekend, I marveled at my energy level. We'd hiked five miles of steep terrain earlier that day, yet were still going strong. I knew it was because I could take in the beautiful Colorado scenery all day, every day.
When I first visited Colorado back in 1985, I was a Texas 20-something awed by the Rocky Mountains. Today I call Colorado my home and am still inspired by its magnificence.
There's something even more healing about being active in majestic surroundings. It soothes the soul to hear your own beating heart as your boots hit ancient granite. It clears the mind to be dwarfed by towering mountains that formed over many millions of years. Coming across a quail mama guarding a chick, an elk grazing peacefully in a meadow, or a marmot sunbathing gives an instant perspective on life.
Clarity, Not Cardio
So when you're visiting Colorado, you shouldn't worry about hitting the hotel treadmill. Hop on a mountain bike and find yourself immersed in wooded trails or flower-studded meadows. Strike out on a hike and find spectacular views, as we did when we took on Rabbit Ears Pass recently.
I've been photographing my outdoor adventures for years. I love sharing how my daughter took on mountain biking (and a few tumbles) and coming across our elusive state flower, the columbine.
Family-friendly but gorgeous trails abound within 20-40 minutes of the Denver area. When you're surrounded by natural beauty, "cardio" is something you don't even think about and the kids are too busy finding the next caterpillar to be tired.
#COmeToLife Contest
~Contest Closed ~
The winner of my #COmeToLife giveaway is Heather Iacobacci-Miller of wheres-the-beach.blogspot.com! Heather will receive a Osprey daypack loaded with hiking and cycling gear. Congrats Heather! And thanks to all who entered.
Although I've been talking about my love of Colorado for years, I was recently offered the opportunity to promote Colorado for current #COmeToLife campaign. The Colorado Tourism Office sent me two amazing #COmeToLife packs, one of which my family has been enjoying on our adventures, and the other which you have a chance to win.
I'm so excited to share this pack with you. I don't do a lot of giveaways so your chances to win are super high. Here's what is included for one lucky winner:
- Osprey Day Pack. Headquartered in Cortez, Colorado, Osprey creates performance gear that reflects their love of adventure. This pack is fabulous! We love the convenient hydration pack, adjustable waist strap, big pockets, water bottle pockets, and lightweight design.
- USA Pro Challenge Fleece. "America's Race" takes place in the Colorado Rockies this August 18-24, and we've attended the downtown finale several times. It's a crazy cool experience being so close to world-famous elite cyclists as they whiz feet away. This fleece is pretty cool too! Learn more about the USA Pro Challenge here.
- SmartWool Cycling Socks. The makers of SmartWool are headquartered right in Steamboat Springs, where we just vacationed over the Fourth of July. These socks keep your feet happy and dry – super high quality.
- Colorado Water Bottle. I love this bottle! Liberty Bottleworks has made a great stainless steel bottle that's made with recycled materials and is entirely recyclable.
- New Belgium Beer Koozie. Fort Collins, CO is home to New Belgium Brewing Company, the third-largest brewer of craft beer in the nation and eighth-largest brewery in the U.S. If you visit be sure to visit the brewery for a free 90-minute tour (complete with beer samples).
- Lots of Goodies for Fueling Up.
- Honey Stingers. Another company located in Steamboat Springs. My daughter LOVES their organic chews, protein bars, and honey waffles.
- Justin's Nut Butter. These handy squeeze packs of nut butters are perfect for throwing in the pack.
- Colorado Bike Map. This guide shows you all the best routes for cycling Colorado.
- Colorado Vacation Guide. This book is a must-have when you visit.
Can you believe this stash?
Contest Rules
You may receive (2) total entries. This giveaway is open to U.S. Residents only. Winners will be selected via random drawing and notified by email. You will have 72 hours to respond; otherwise a new winner will be selected. Contest runs through 7/20/14.
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Complete ALL THREE steps below for one entry:
1. Subscribe to the Workout Nirvana newsletter by clicking HERE. (If you're already a subscriber, complete steps #2 and #3.)
2. Leave a comment below about why you'd like to visit Colorado (or win the pack if you live here).
3. Do one of the following:
- Tweet (public message) the following message:
I want to win the #COmeToLife backpack from @WorkoutNirvana and @Colorado! https://workoutnirvana.com/?p=1895
- Blog about this contest, including a disclosure that you are receiving a contest entry in exchange for writing the blog post, and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post.
- For those with no Twitter or blog, share THIS STATUS with your Facebook followers.
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- Complete steps #1-3 above AND add me to your blogroll (post the URL in your comment).
Also check out the Colorado Tourism Office to enter a contest for a three-day, four-night trip to Colorado!
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Snow is expected to fall tonight and a yellow weather warning will be in force across the East Midlands from 4pm today, Saturday, January 14 until tomorrow.
The Met Office has issued a weather warning for snow and ice this evening and will run until noon on Sunday.
A spokesman said: "Later in the night and on Sunday morning an area of more general rain, sleet and snow is expected which will lead to icy stretches and perhaps some slight accumulations of snow.
"There is a chance of difficult driving conditions on untreated roads and slippery conditions on pavements and cycle paths are possible."
Around two cm of snow is predicted in areas on ground higher than 150m above sea level.