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Autumn… The holidays are over, time to get back to school and work. The darkness and coldness will slowly approach so what about cheering yourself up with a cooking or baking class? Medborgarskolan have a lot of cooking and baking classes this autumn. Many of the courses are already booked, so make sure to sign up as soon as possible. I'm looking forward learning tips and tricks when baking cakes and I'm still thinking about signing up for a second course. You can find Medborgarskolan's cooking classes in Stockholm here (and of course they also have classes in other parts of Sweden). I have not cooked in a group since my home economics classes when I was 12 years old so I hope that I won't make a fool of myself :-)
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The Immunopathology Laboratory is part of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Medical Center. The Immunopathology Laboratory personnel perform a variety of immunophenotyic analytic tests including immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry and in situ hybridization. The majority of the flow cytometry tests are for the analysis of leukemias and lymphomas while immunohistochemical studies for all types of reactive and neoplastic proliferations are performed. The laboratory performs approximately 75,000 immunophenotypic tests per year. The laboratory is also responsible for accepting and the initial processing of samples for DNA/RNA analysis of leukemias and lymphomas.
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Hungry and tired, protesters want more
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A protest at Florida's Capitol is entering its third week. The goal is to bring change to the state.
The group, ranging from children to those in their golden years, is overcoming obstacles, from challenges at the Capitol to life on a daily basis.
The struggle of sleeping on the hard marble floor and limited access to everyday supplies is making their goal of changing the "stand your ground," discrimination and zero tolerance laws even more appetizing.
The adversities the group faces in the Capitol is only a reflection of what they say they've experienced for their entire life.
"It's a constant struggle," protester Cynthia Gardner said. "This reminds me of some of the experiences I had in the past."
Over the weekend, the group faced its latest round of struggles. A hot environment in the Capitol, literally and figuratively.
"They were like, 'You know, you can leave and eat if you really want to,'" said protester Melanie Andrade, of Dream Defenders. "We were like, 'We could, but we're not leaving until a special session is called.'"
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says the latest struggles are not a negative reflection of Capitol police. FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger says rules have been outlined for the group since Day One.
"After business hours when the Capitol is closed, Capitol police will not let anyone come into the Capitol," she said.
Those who lasted the entire weekend at the Capitol say even though tempers ran high with the lack of access to food, they weren't backing down and are using it as fuel to their overall cause.
"They didn't realize we'd garner enough support to stay for the long haul," Andrade said.
FDLE says it will continue to do its job by the books, while the protesters continue to play by the rules on their road to change.
On Tuesday, the group kicks off "The People's Session" to examine the circumstances they say led to the death of Trayvon Martin.
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Put the flat bread spread with the toppings on a toaster oven tray and use the "top brown" setting. It's ready when the cheese bubbles, in three to five minutes.
Keep this on hand for a quick meal, or prepare in batches to give as gifts.
Mix pasta, spinach, beets, onion and walnuts in a salad bowl. Combine maple syrup, vinegar, and olive oil in a small jar and shake well. Pour over salad. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate until you're ready to eat.
Each serving contains about 333 calories, 20 g protein, 2 g fat (5 percent calories from fat), 0 mg cholesterol, 63 g carbohydrates, 15 g fiber, and 204 mg sodium.
Process the beans and spices in a blender, then refrigerate until ready to serve with baked corn chips.
Bananas that are getting past ripe work perfectly in smoothies. Peel them, wrap them in plastic, and freeze them.
Applesauce adds moistness without fat. A non-nutritive sweetener also cuts the calories.
These muffins are perfect for breakfast or a snack. They get their crunch from chopped walnuts.
This is a great sauce for meat, fish, fowl, or pasta. You can also use it as a spread for crackers or bread.
Boil potatoes with garlic, then mash with sour cream, and whip until smooth.
Rosti has been called the national dish of German-speaking Switzerland. Rosti is similar to hash browns and is usually topped with cheese.
Create four open-faced sandwiches by layering vegetables with a little feta cheese.
Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes and let sit for 10 minutes before serving.
What a combo: chickpeas, red bell pepper, cucumber, celery, and grape tomatoes.
Layer the ingredients in a large salad bowl, then add the dressing and cheese just before serving.
To prepare as a gift, strain the vinegar into pretty bottles. Add a fresh sprig of rosemary to each.
Each serving contains about 182 calories, 1 g protein, 6 g fat (30 percent calories from fat), 15 mg cholesterol, 27 g carbohydrates, 3 g fiber, and 10 mg sodium.
Serve with hot brown rice and garnish with fresh chopped cilantro.
This meal is generally lightly seasoned, which allows each diner to add condiments to individual taste.
This dish takes only minutes to prepare. Add shrimp for something special.
Sour cream or butter taste delicious on baked potatoes, but they come with a price: Both contain saturated fat and cholesterol. Here's a healthy, and tasty, alternative topping for your next baked potato.
These ingredients are in the right proportions for one batch of dip mix. For a gift jar, keep adding a round of all five ingredients until you have enough to fill the jar.
Pre-bake the crust, then spoon in the filling and top with shredded cheese.
Textured vegetable protein makes this dish a hearty vegetarian meal.
This is a picture-pretty first course for a summer meal. Make in advance and serve chilled.
Flavored with fresh rosemary, this salad is perfect for a summer outing.
Naval oranges, ripe strawberries, and sliced bananas are served with a yogurt-ginger sauce.
Cubed potatoes are sautéed with onions and lima beans and seasoned with parsley and paprika.
Each serving contains about 202 calories, 10 g protein, 4 g fat (18% calories from fat), 4 mg cholesterol, 33 g carbohydrates, 4 g fiber, and 551 mg sodium.
Roast carrots, turnips, squash, and garlic for about an hour, stirring once or twice.
Serve this dish hot, at room temperature, or chilled as a side dish—to grilled salmon, for instance.
A family-pleasing casserole with a taste of the Southwest.
Autumn staples combine into a healthy and delicious breakfast treat.
Fresh, delicious, and ready to serve in short order - a super salad that's perfect for parties - or dinner at home.
Nothing sweeter, or more simple, than a baked apple for dessert!
Fabulous creamed mushrooms that can be served over toast, pasta, chicken, or beef.
A fast and delicious meal that's perfect for lunch or dinner.
Fast and easy side dish that's ready in minutes.
A quick English dessert of cooked berries layered with whipped cream.
Sweet and savory combine into a delicious Spring salad.
A healthy topper for toast, waffle or pancakes.
This takes some patience, but you will be rewarded with a rich, seedless sauce, perfect for topping anything from fruit, to meat, to chocolate cake!
You can buy ready-made raspberry mustard, but you won't find the depth of flavor you get when you mix your own.
This recipe takes about 10 minutes to cook, once you've cut all your vegetables. It's a good dish to top pasta or serve with grilled chicken, lean beef, or salmon.
This cake gets its moistness from the apples and raisins, so it requires little oil.
Nothing makes an occasion more festive than a beautifully presented cake.
This is a lovely side dish for chicken or fish.
A salad that's packed with protein.
A healthier version of an all-time family favorite.
Low-calorie, kid-friendly recipe that provides 1 cup of healthy vegetables per serving!
A salad that provides a host of health benefits.
This nutty salad is chock full of vegetables and complementary flavors.
Roasting really brings out the flavors of this delicious combination.
A protein-packed vegetable soup.
Perfect combination of fall flavors
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Use appropriate response mechanisms. Paper forms have the disadvantage that users can miss, or simply disregard, an instruction. For example, only tick/check one box from a list of 15 or 20 options. In this context interactive forms can be programmed so that the user can only tick/check one (known as a radio button as distinct from check-boxes), or presented with the options in a drop-down menu from which the user can only select one.
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Strategic directions for improving the health and development of children and adolescents
This document summarizes priority areas for WHO action based on global evidence. Improving the health and development of children and adolescents means that WHO will need to shape its implementation of the strategy to the epidemiological needs of specific regions and countries. The strategy document proposes a flexible, country-specific approach that reflects and respects differences in epidemiology. In addition, it outlines a strategic framework that is based on equity, the life course, and a public health approach. Hence the title "Strategic Directions".
It defines principles to guide the implementation. It is intended to contribute to the definition of a new and common agenda for children and adolescents with Member States and partners, and guide the work of the Organization with Member States.


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Nikon Coolpix S10
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Nikon is pleased to announce the introduction of the Nikon Coolpix S10. Packing powerful imaging performance, 10x zoom capability and a stylish swivel design into compact dimensions, the Nikon S10 makes it easy to take great-looking shots from more imaginative angles. With a distinctive wave-surface design and a high-quality finish, the Nikon Coolpix S10 is as attractive as the images it achieves. But even more impressively, the Nikon Coolpix S10 digital camera features 6.0 effective Megapixel image resolution as well as a built-in 38-380mm (35mm equivalent) 10x Zoom-Nikkor lens, making it easy to compose everything from close portraits to wide-open scenery with fine detail.
Nikon S10 - Availability and Price
And because the distinctive camera body incorporates a swivel design for the lens, users can set their creativity free, holding the camera overhead to capture action over the crowd or composing from down low to get a different perspective, while the large, bright 2.5-inch LCD with a 170-degree viewing angle lets users frame the shot with accuracy. The Nikon Coolpix S10 camera is scheduled for release in September 2006 in Europe. The recommended retail price in the Netherlands is 449.
Nikon Coolpix S10 camera - Vibration Reduction
With the advantage of VR (Vibration Reduction) capability, the Nikon Coolpix S10 allows users to overcome camera shake to take sharper, more stable pictures in a range of shooting situations. And as the camera offers increased light sensitivity up to impressive ISO 800, users can get great-looking results in lower light without the need for an extended exposure and select much faster shutter speeds when taking pictures of fast-moving subjects.
Nikon Coolpix S10 compact camera - Editing and Effects
The Nikon S10 additionally features a handy One-touch portrait button that provides direct access to three unique in-camera Nikon image innovations, Face Priority AF that automatically detects and achieves sharp focus on peoples faces wherever they are in the frame, In-Camera Red-Eye Fix that can automatically overcome the red-eye effect sometimes caused by flash, and Nikons D-Lighting that can rescue underexposed images or shots with too much back light. And the Nikon Coolpix S10 takes convenience even further with its supplied lithium battery that can take hundreds of shots on a single charge and PictBridge compatibility that means theres no need to use a computer at all when printing, just connect the Nikon Coolpix S10 straight to a PictBridge-compatible printer and print directly without delay.
Nikon S10 digital camera - Pictmotion and LCD monitor
An ample choice of Scene modes makes operation even easier in a wide range of common shooting situations. Simply select the most appropriate mode and the Nikon S10 automatically determines and sets the optimum combination of settings. In all there are 15 Scene modes to choose from and 4 of them also feature Scene assist, which helps users to achieve more attractive composition. The Nikon Coolpix S10 also adds new entertainment to photography with Nikons Pictmotion function that lets users combine images, movies, music and visual styles for automatically produced audiovisual shows, in-camera. And because the LCD of the Nikon Coolpix S10 has an impressively wide viewing angle of 170 degrees, its easy for everyone to gather round and watch Pictmotion shows together.
Nikon Coolpix S10 features
Highly compact dimensions of (W x H x D) 112.5x74.5x40.5mm excluding projections
Surprisingly light weight of approx. 220g (without battery and SD memory card)
USB connectivity enables swift data transfer to computers and other peripherals
BSS (Best Shot Selector)
Exposure BSS identifies and saves users choice of image
Macro shooting enables shooting from as close as 4cm
Time zone function allows setting of home town and new city time zone
16MB (approx.) internal memory
Compatible with widely available SD cards
Menu available in a choice of 20 languages
Menus and icons are designed for easy viewing and navigation
Help button displays simple explanations for functions on the main menu
Joystick-type multi selector with corresponding LCD icon makes operation simpler
4x digital zoom extends compositional freedom
5 movie modes with sound plus Time-Lapse movie mode
Electronic VR available
Choice of White Balance
Date Search function allows searching of images according to date recorded
Date Counter visually records the countdown of days to a special occasion
Auto with TTL control
7-mode manual (Direct sunlight, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Flash, White Balance)
Nikon Coolpix S10 digital compact camera - Software
Like all other cameras in the highly popular Coolpix range, the Nikon Coolpix S10 also comes complete with Nikons exclusive PictureProject software. Powerful, yet exceptionally user-friendly, PictureProject makes it a snap to transfer, organize, edit and share photos with family and friends.
Nikon S10 photo camera - Optical zoom lens
Incorporating a powerful 10x Zoom-Nikkor lens with a 38-380mm (35mm equivalent) range, the Nikon realizes compositional freedom to capture everything from tight portraits to wide-open scenery. And because the lens is set into a distinctive swiveling design, users can take shots from more creative, imaginative angles, holding the camera aloft to take sporting shots over the crowd, for example, or shooting from the hip or close to the ground to get a new interesting perspective on the scene at hand.
Nikon VR technology
Because the Nikon Coolpix S10 offers Nikons effective Image Sensor Shift VR (Vibration Reduction) capability, camera shake is no longer a problem. Easy to activate by pressing the shutter button halfway, it automatically detects and corrects for minor camera shake to produce sharper, more stable shots and is especially useful when shooting in low light or taking handheld macro shots. Whats more, Image Sensor Shift VR even supports faster framing on the LCD.
Nikon Coolpix S10 digital photo camera - Portrait and Auto focus
The One-touch portrait button gives instant access to three unique Nikon image innovations. Face-priority AF can automatically find peoples faces in the frame then achieve sharp, satisfying focus on them for crisper, clearer portraits. In-Camera Red-Eye Fix can detect the unwanted effect sometimes caused by flash and compensate for it in-camera. And Nikons D-Lighting can rescue images with undesirable exposure by creating a copy with light and detail added where necessary and areas of appropriate exposure left precisely as they are.
Nikon Pictmotion - In camera entertainment
Pictmotion brings exciting new in-camera entertainment. Extending photographic enjoyment beyond conventional slideshow functions, it allows users to select their favorite movies and images, decide on a visual style, and then pick one of 5 music files pre-installed in the camera or load new ones to complement the mood. The Nikon Coolpix S10s then automatically combines all the aforementioned elements to produce a polished production with transitions between images and movies synchronized to the choice of music.


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REFERENCE: Nursing
The following policy statement approved by the Academic Senate at its meeting of March 14, 1975, and the Chancellor's Office, is approved as follows:
Department Chair: Joan Cabin
Graduate Adviser: Margaret L. Koehler
Graduate Committee: Carlene Campbell, Margaret L. Koehler, Beth Moore, Sharon Roberts
California State University, Long Beach
Professor: Cabin
Associate Professors: Koehler, Moore
Assistant Professors: Campbell, Roberts
University of California, Irvine College of Medicine
Executive Associate Dean: Jean E. Carlin, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Family Medicine: Raymond C. Anderson, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine: J. Blair Pace, M.D.
Clinical Associate in Family Practice: James E. Anhalt, M.D.
Senior Lecturer: Robert W. Earle, Ph.D.
The master of science degree is available to qualified students preparing for professional careers in various clinical areas.
The philosophy of graduate nurse education is that the practice of nursing is constantly changing as health needs and health delivery systems are altered. Integral to nursing is an ability to work effectively and cooperatively with other disciplines and community services to promote health.
While nursing is behaviorally oriented, competence requires considerable clinical knowledge, and a balance of these behavioral and medical sciences is essential.
Beyond initial licensure, individual interests and clinical choices are paramount in a person's educational pursuits.
The focal point in this curriculum is the nursing process with strong components of clinical medical knowledge complemented by behavioral science concepts. Courses are interdependent and have been structured to provide clinical depth in the area of student's choice.
Each applicant should request a copy of the official transcript of all college course work be sent to the department graduate adviser of nursing in addition to the copies required by the Office of Admissions and Records.
1. A bachelor's degree in nursing from an accredited school of nursing.
2. Current license to practice as a registered nurse.
3. Admission to graduate standing in nursing at the University.
4. An upper division or graduate course in statistics or data processing.
5. An approved course, which includes clinical practice, in physical assessment.
6. An overall undergraduate grade point average of 2.5 or better and an upper division nursing major grade point average of 2.75 or better.
Students who have graduated from schools of nursing without the principles of physical assessment may take such a course through continuing education. Competence in area will be prerequisite to Nursing 580 and Nursing 580L. Such a course would consist of theory and practice of physical examination. The components would be the history, the examination, interpretation of laboratory findings, the examiner's impression based on all information and plan of action.
Advancement to Candidacy
1. Completion of all undergraduate deficiencies.
2. Approval of the department graduate adviser and Director of Graduate Studies and Research, School of Applied Arts and Sciences.
Requirements for the Master of Science
1. Completion of a minimum of 30 units beyond the bachelor's degree in upper division and graduate courses including 20 units of 500/600 level courses in nursing, approved by the department graduate committee.
2. Completion of course work and supervised practicum for nurse practitioner.
3. An overall grade point average of at least 3.0 or better in all courses.
4. Completion of an approved thesis.
580. Extended Nursing Roles (9) F,S Faculty
Prerequisite: An acceptable course (including laboratory practice) of physical assessment. Content is primarily medical science, directed toward clinical area of interest. Each student will have a preceptor for practicum. Comparable course is Nursing 780 offered by the University of California, Irvine. Approved medical preceptors are required. Student must have stethoscope.
580L. Clinical Studies in Nursing (1,1) F,S Faculty
Must be taken concurrently with practicum preparation for extended nursing roles. Must enroll for course in two consecutive semesters. Group discussions to identify the collaborative role of the nurse practitioner.
600. Nursing Seminar (2) F,S Faculty
Intensive study of current professional literature related to nursing theory with implications to health delivery systems.
660A,B. Nursing Seminar (2,2) F,S Faculty
Co-requisite: Extended Nursing Roles. Seminars are with nursing instructor related to particular area of interest. Focus will be on the nursing process and the development of clinical nursing assessment and management. Exploration of clinical nursing problems will be conducted in each of the three areas of specialization.
698. Thesis (1-4) F,S Faculty
Prerequisites: Advancement to candidacy and consent of department graduate adviser. Planning, preparation and completion of a thesis in clinical nursing.
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The 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike also known as the 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike, as well as a number of variations on these names lasted eighty-three days, triggered by sailors and a four-day general strike in San Francisco, and led to the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States
The San Francisco General Strike, along with the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike led by the American Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 led by the Communist League of America, were important catalysts for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s, much of which was organized through the Congress of Industrial Organizations
- 1 Background
- 2 The Big Strike
- 3 "Bloody Thursday"
- 4 Funerals and general strike
- 5 End of the strike
- 6 Aftermath
- 7 Legacy
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 101 Archives
Longshoremen on the West Coast ports had either been unorganized or represented by company unions since the years immediately after World War I, when the shipping companies and stevedoring firms had imposed the open shop after a series of failed strikes Longshoremen in San Francisco, then the major port on the coast, were required to go through a hiring hall operated by a company union, known as the "blue book" system for the color of the membership book
The Industrial Workers of the World had attempted to organize longshoremen, sailors and fishermen in the 1920s through their Maritime Workers Union Their largest strike, the 1923 San Pedro Maritime Strike, bottled up shipping in that harbor, but was crushed by a combination of injunctions, mass arrests and vigilantism by the American Legion While the IWW was a spent force after that strike, syndicalist thinking remained popular on the docks Longshoremen and sailors on the West Coast also had contacts with an Australian syndicalist movement that called itself the "One Big Union" formed after the defeat of a general strike there in 1917
The Communist Party had also been active in the area in the late 1920s, seeking to organize all categories of maritime workers into a single union, the Maritime Workers Industrial Union MWIU, as part of the drive during the Third Period to create revolutionary unions The MWIU never made much headway on the West Coast, but it did attract a number of former IWW members and foreign-born militants Harry Bridges, an Australian-born sailor who became a longshoreman after coming to the United States, would be accused over and over for his acknowledged Communist party membership 1
Militants published a newspaper, The Waterfront Worker, which focused on longshoremen's most pressing demands: more men on each gang, lighter loads and an independent union While a number of the individuals in this group were Communist Party members, the group as a whole was independent of the party: although it criticized the International Seamen's Union ISU as weak and the International Longshoremen's Association ILA, which had its base on the East Coast, as corrupt, it did not embrace the MWIU, but called instead for creation of small knots of activists at each port to serve as the first step in a slow, careful movement to unionize the industry
Events soon made the MWIU wholly irrelevant Just as the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act had led to a spontaneous explosion in union membership among coal miners in 1933, thousands of longshoremen now joined the fledgling ILA locals that reappeared on the West Coast The MWIU faded away as party activists followed the mass of West Coast longshoremen into the ILA
These newly emboldened workers first went after the "blue book" union, refusing to pay dues to it and tearing up their membership books The militants who had published "The Waterfront Worker", now known as the "Albion Hall group" after their usual meeting place, continued organizing dock committees that soon began launching slowdowns and other types of job actions in order to win better working conditions While the official leadership of the ILA remained in the hands of conservatives sent to the West Coast by President Joseph Ryan of the ILA, the Albion Hall group started in March, 1934 to press demands for a coastwide contract, a union-run hiring hall and an industrywide waterfront federation When the conservative ILA leadership negotiated a weak "gentlemen's agreement" with the employers that had been brokered by the mediation board created by the administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt, Bridges led the membership in rejecting it
The sticking point in the strike was recognition: the union demanded a closed shop, a coastwide contract and a union hiring hall The employers offered to arbitrate the dispute, but insisted that the union agree to an open shop as a condition of any agreement to arbitrate The longshoremen rejected the proposal to arbitrate
The Big StrikeeditAn engraved billy club commemorates police activity in the Battle of Smith Cove in Seattle
The strike began on May 9, 1934, as longshoremen in every West Coast port walked out; sailors joined them several days later The employers recruited strikebreakers, housing them on moored ships or in walled compounds and bringing them to and from work under police protection Strikers attacked the stockade housing strikebreakers in San Pedro on May 15; two strikers were shot and killed by the employers' private guards Similar battles broke out in San Francisco and Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon,2 and Seattle, Washington Strikers also succeeded in slowing down or stopping the movement of goods by rail out of the ports
The Roosevelt administration tried again to broker a deal to end the strike, but the membership twice rejected the agreements their leadership brought to them The employers then decided to make a show of force to reopen the port in San Francisco On Tuesday, July 3, fights broke out along the Embarcadero in San Francisco between police and strikers while a handful of trucks driven by young businessmen made it through the picket line
Some Teamsters supported the strikers by refusing to handle "hot cargo" - goods which had been unloaded by strikebreakers, although the Teamsters' leadership was not as supportive By the end of May Dave Beck, president of the Seattle Teamsters, and Mike Casey, president of those in San Francisco, thought the maritime strike had lasted too long They encouraged the strikers to take what they could get from the employers and threatened to use Teamsters as strikebreakers if the ILA didn't return to work3
"Bloody Thursday"editSan Francisco Coroner's Records of Death for Howard Sperry and Nicolas Bordoise
After a quiet Fourth of July the employers' organization, the Industrial Association, tried to open the port even further on Thursday, July 5 As spectators watched from Rincon Hill, the police shot tear gas canisters into the crowd, then followed with a charge by mounted police Picketers threw the canisters and rocks back at the police, who charged again, sending the picketers into retreat Each side then refortified and took stock
The events took a violent turn that afternoon, as hostilities resumed outside of the ILA strike kitchen Eyewitness accounts differ on the exact events that transpired next Some witnesses saw a group of strikers first surround a police car and attempt to tip it over, prompting the police to fire shotguns in the air, and then revolvers at the crowd Other eyewitness accounts claim that police officers started shooting in the direction of the strikers, provoking strikers to defend themselves Policemen fired a shotgun into the crowd, striking three men in intersection of Steuart and Mission streets One of the men, Howard Sperry, a striking longshoreman, later died of his wounds Another man, Charles Olsen, was also shot but later recovered from his wounds A third man, Nick Bordoise - a Greek by birth originally named Nick Counderakis who was an out of work member of the cook's union volunteering at the ILA strike kitchen—was shot but managed to make his way around the corner onto Spear Street, where he was found several hours later Like Sperry, he died at the hospital
Strikers immediately cordoned off the area where the two picketers had been shot, laying flowers and wreaths around it Police arrived to remove the flowers and drive off the picketers minutes later Once the police left, the strikers returned, replaced the flowers and stood guard over the spot Though Sperry and Bordoise had been shot several blocks apart, this spot became synonymous with the memory of the two slain men and "Bloody Thursday"
As strikers carried wounded picketers into the ILA union hall police fired on the hall and lobbed tear gas canisters at nearby hotels At this point someone reportedly called the union hall to ask "Are you willing to arbitrate now"
Under orders from California Governor Frank Merriam, the California National Guard moved in that evening to patrol the waterfront Similarly, federal soldiers of the United States Army stationed at the Presidio were placed on alert The picketers pulled back, unwilling to take on armed soldiers in an uneven fight, and trucks and trains began moving without interference Bridges asked the San Francisco Labor Council to meet that Saturday, July 7, to authorize a general strike The Alameda County Central Labor Council in Oakland considered the same action Teamsters in both San Francisco and Oakland voted to strike, over the objections of their leaders, on Sunday, July 8
Funerals and general strikeedit
The following day, several thousand strikers, families and sympathizers took part in a funeral procession down Market Street, stretching more than a mile and a half, for Nicholas Bordois and Howard Sperry, the two persons killed on "Bloody Thursday" The police were wholly absent from the scene The march made an enormous impact on San Franciscans, making a general strike, which had formerly been "the visionary dream of a small group of the most radical workers, became a practical and realizable objective"4 After dozens of Bay Area unions voted for a general strike over the next few days, the San Francisco Labor Council voted on July 14 to call a general strike The Teamsters had already been out for two days by that point
San Francisco Mayor Angelo Rossi declared a state of emergency Some federal officials, particularly Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, were more skeptical Roosevelt later recalled that some persons were urging him to steer the USS Houston, which was carrying him to Hawaii, "into San Francisco Bay, all flags flying and guns double-shotted, and end the strike" Roosevelt rejected the suggestion
The general strike began on the 16th, involving some 150,000 workers On the 17th the police arrested more than 300 "radicals, subversives, and communists" while systemically smashing furniture and equipment of organizations related to the strike; the same day, General Hugh S Johnson as head of the National Recovery Administration spoke at UC Berkeley to denounce the general strike as "a menace to the government"5
The strike lasted four days Non-union truck drivers joined the first day; the movie theaters and night clubs closed down While food deliveries continued with the permission of the strike committee, many small businesses closed, posting signs in support of the strikers Reports that unions in Portland and Seattle would also begin general strikes picked up currency
End of the strikeedit
The calling of a general strike had an unexpected result: it gave the General Strike Committee, whose makeup was far less militant than the longshoremen's strike committee, effective control over the maritime strike itself When the Labor Council voted to terminate the general strike it also recommended that the unions accept arbitration of all disputed issues When the National Longshore Board put the employer's proposal to arbitrate to a vote of striking longshoremen, it passed in every port except Everett, Washington
That, however, left the striking seamen in the lurch: the employers had refused to arbitrate with the ISU unless it first won elections on the fleets on strike While Bridges, who had preached solidarity among all maritime workers and scorned arbitration, apologized to the seamen for the longshoremen's vote, the President of the ISU urged them to hold out and to burn their "fink books", the membership records of the company union to which they had been forced to pay dues
On July 17, 1934, the California National Guard blocked both ends of Jackson Street from Drumm to Front with machine gun mounted trucks to assist vigilante raids, protected by SFPD, on the headquarters of the Marine Workers' Industrial Union and the ILA soup kitchen at 84 Embarcadero Moving on, the Workers' Ex-Servicemen's League's headquarters on Howard between Third and Fourth was raided, leading to 150 arrests and the complete destruction of the facilities The employer's group, the Industrial Association, had agents riding with the police Further raids were carried out at the Workers' Open Forum at 1223 Fillmore street and the Western Worker building opposite City Hall that contained a bookstore and the main offices of the Communist Party, which was thoroughly destroyed Attacks were also perpetrated on the 121 Haight Street Workers' School and the Mission Workers' Neighborhood House at 741 Valencia Street A police spokesperson suggested that "maybe the Communists staged the raids themselves for publicity"
General Hugh S Johnson, then head of the National Recovery Administration, gave a speech urging responsible labor leaders to "run these subversive influences out from its ranks like rats" A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union was kidnapped and beaten, while vigilantes seized thirteen radicals in San Jose and turned them over to the sheriff of an adjoining county, who transported them to another county In Hayward in Alameda County someone erected a scaffold in front of the city hall with a noose and a sign stating "Reds beware" In Piedmont, an upscale community surrounded by Oakland on all sides, the chief of police prepared for a reported attack by strikers on the homes of wealthy ship-owners6
While some of the most powerful people in San Francisco considered the strike's denouement to be a victory for the employers, many longshoremen and seamen did not Spontaneous strikes over grievances and workplace conditions broke out as strikers returned to their jobs, with longshoremen and teamsters supporting their demands Employers conceded many of these battles, giving workers even more confidence in demanding that employers lighten unbearably heavy loads Longshoremen also began dictating other terms, fining members who worked more than the ceiling of 120 hours per month, filing charges against a gang boss for "slandering colored brothers" and forcing employers to fire strikebreakers Other unions went further: the Marine Firemen proposed to punish any member who bought a Hearst newspaper
The arbitration award issued on October 12, 1934, cemented the ILA's power While the award put the operation of the hall in the hands of a committee of union and employer representatives, the union was given the power to select the dispatcher Since longshoremen were prepared to walk out if an employer didn't hire a worker dispatched from the hall, the ILA soon controlled hiring on the docks The employers complained that the union wanted to "sovietize" the waterfront Workers complained that the employers were exploiting them for cheap labor and forcing them to work in unsafe conditions without reasonable safety measures
The union soon utilized the "quickie strike" tactic to force many concessions from employers such as safer working conditions and better pay Similarly, even though an arbitrator held that the 1935 Agreement prohibited sympathy strikes, the union's members nonetheless refused to cross other unions' picket lines Longshoremen also refused to handle "hot cargo" destined for non-union warehouses that the union was attempting to organize The ISU acquired similar authority over hiring, despite the philosophical objection of the union's own officers to hiring halls The ISU used this power to drive strikebreakers out of the industry
The rift between the seamen's and longshoremen's unions deepened and became more complex in the succeeding years, as Bridges continually fought with the Sailors' Union of the Pacific over labor and political issues The West Coast district of the ILA broke off from the International in 1937 to form the International Longshoremen's Union, later renamed the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union after the union's "march inland" to organize warehouse workers, then renamed the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in recognition of the number of women members
The arbitration award also gave longshoremen a raise to ninety-five cents an hour for straight time work, just shy of the dollar an hour it demanded during the strike It was also awarded a contract that applied up and down the West Coast The strike also prompted union organizer Carmen Lucia to organize the Department Store Workers Union and the Retail Clerks Association in San Francisco7
The ILWU continues to recognize "Bloody Thursday" by shutting down all West Coast ports every July 5 and honoring Nick Bordoise, Howard Sperry and all of the other workers killed by police during the strike The ILWU has frequently stopped work for political protests against, among other things, Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, fascist intervention in Spain's civil war, South Africa's system of apartheid and the Iraq War
Sam Kagel, the last surviving member of the original union steering committee, died on May 21, 2007 at the age of 988
See alsoedit
- San Francisco Bay Area portal
- Organized labour portal
- Everett massacre
- Harry Bridges
- History of the west coast of North America
- Murder of workers in labor disputes in the United States
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- ^ http://deptswashingtonedu/dock/Harry_Bridges_introshtml
- ^ Munk, Michael "West coast waterfront strike of 1934" Oregon Encyclopedia Retrieved 15 April 2017
- ^ Longshoreman's Strike of 1934 - ILWU
- ^ words of Paul Eliel, Waterfront and General Strikes pg 128, quoted in Bruce, Nelson 1990 Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s University of Illinois Press p 303 Retrieved 15 April 2017
- ^ Carlsson, Chris "The General Strike of 1934" Found SF Retrieved 15 April 2017
- ^ An Exercise in Hysteria: San Francisco's Red Raids of 1934 - David F Selvin - The Pacific Historical Review, Vol 58, No 3 Aug, 1989, pp 361-374
- ^ O'Farrell, Brigid 1996 Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press p 40 – via Google Books
- ^ Nolte, Carl 27 May 2007 "Sam Kagel -- arbitrator in major labor disputes obit" SF Gate Retrieved 15 April 2017
Further readingedit
- The Big Strike, by Mike Quin, ISBN 0-7178-0504-2
- A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco, by David F Selvin Wayne State University Press July 1996 ISBN 0-8143-2610-2
- Dock Strike: History of the 1934 Waterfront Strike in Portland, Oregon, by Roger Buchanan
- Reds or Rackets, The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront, by Howard Kimeldorf, ISBN 0-520-07886-1
- Harry Bridges, The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the US, by Charles Larrowe, ISBN 0-88208-001-6
- Workers on the Waterfront, Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s, by Bruce Nelson, ISBN 0-252-06144-6
- Agitate, Educate, Organize: Portland, 1934, by William Bigelow & Norman Diamond, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Spring 1988
- "1934 West Coast waterfront strike" The Oregon Encyclopedia
- 1934: The Great Strike, a multimedia section of the Waterfront Workers History Project, including film and photographs of the strike, a day-by-day account of the strike and digitized copies of newspaper articles and worker newsletters
- Anne Rand Library, International Longshore and Warehouse Union contains digitized materials related to the history of the ILWU, including 1934 strike bulletins
- San Francisco General Strike of 1934 photographic collections, via Calisphere, California Digital Library
- Police uniform from a longshoreman strike 1934 At the King County Collects Collections
- International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Local 1 Records 1933-1988 458 cubic ft 5 boxes At the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
- Jake Arnautoff Papers 1935-1991 28 cubic ft and 1 vertical file
- Albert H Farmer Papers 1926-1981 84 cubic ft 2 boxes
- Transcript of Interview of Frank Jenkins by RC Berner June 6 & 28 1972, in Seattle Washington
- Wayne "Waino" Moisio papers 1938-1962 021 cubic ft 1 box
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He also pulled out some other Jamis road bikes that had carbon forks and were way outside of my budget. But, since they could accomodate racks and fenders, I guess theoretically they could work as commuters. I don't think he was trying to upsell, but he was just mostly excited about these bikes and since I was wearing tights and a biking jersey, maybe he thought, I would be excited by the idea of a carbon fork and racing geometry.
I decided to take the Surly Cross Check for a test ride. The Cross Check is basically an everything bike- a steel frame Cyclocross style bike that can fit a rear rack, fenders, and wire tides for a sort of gravel path ride or could be stripped down to thinner tires and be used for more of a road style bike. My only reticence about the Cross Check was due to the bar end shifters. Rather than being integrated with the brake levels, bar end shifts (behold my descriptive powers) come out of the end of the bar. I suppose this makes them moderately inconvenient. Apparently, though, they're easily replaceable so if "for example, you're in the middle of South America," according to my salesman, they could be easily fixed and replaced. I would have to be rather off-course on my daily ride to find myself in the middle of South America, though I suppose if I accidentally biked off a bridge and fell onto a barge heading to Baltimore and was accidentally mixed in with its cargo (Obama merchandise maybe) that was loaded onto a container ship bound for Uruguay, then yeah, it would be convenient to have this kind of shifter because invariably the result of the plummet from the bridge would have caused some damage.
Anyway, he pulled the pedals off my bike and put them on the Cross Check. The Cross Check was a little too small, but still rideable. It was a robin's egg blue, but it also comes in black. My test ride consisted of a few times up and down a few city blocks. At first, I couldn't quite figure the bar end shifters, like which way they went vis-a-vis the gearing. But I go used to it relatively quickly and actually enjoyed them- having brakes and gears so close together makes me kinda antsy, like I should always be shifting gears, which is totally unnecessary. The steel frame really smoothed out the ride and my ride home on my Trek felt bumpy and jarring, though that might have just been I street. I sorta fell in love with the Cross Check in a way that, looking back, I just didn't with the Bianchi. It might just be too many episodes of Top Gear, but I'm just not entirely convinced about the mechanical durability of anything Italian. Surly is from the good ol' USA (Minnesota, so it's still blue America- inshallah) and in a pique of patriotism, I decided that it was the bike for me. It ticked all the boxes and more than anything else, it just felt right.
Next step was calling the wife. She didn't pick up. I tried again. Nope. I checked my email. From a half hour earlier, there was an email that read something like SO HUNGRY. This was supposed to be a quicker trip, that culminated in my bringing home lunch, and I was (selfishly) running later than I expected. This was an account of the salesperson's thoroughness, which I my mind, would be something that she would appreciate. The quality of customer service in DC is so bad. Anyway, I told them at the bike store that I would call them after I got home. I restarted my phone because sometimes the phone loses the ability to make calls mysteriously and I was finally able to reach her. Here's my synopsis of the conversation with creative licenses taken. DISCLAIMER: All conversations recorded in this blog are based on my general understanding of them (and their subtext) rather than an accurate reflection of what was actually said.
ME- Hi. I'm at the bike store. I love this bike
HER: Hungry
ME: Yeah, I think it's the right bike. I'm trying to decide if I should get it.
HER: Don't care. Sandwich.
ME: Yeah, I'll get some sandwiches on the way home, but should I get the bike now or call them later or...
HER: Don't care. Sandwiches. Please. So hungry.
ME: Yeah, I could get sandwiches or I could get the makings of sandwiches. You know, buy a man a sandwich, give him lunch for a day. Buy a many sandwich ingredients, then feed him lunch for multiple days.
HER (clearly losing patience with my overall asininity): Don't care. Get bike. Come home. Bring sandwiches.
ME: Yeah, bike. Woo hoo! Sandwiches later. Love. Sorry. Love.
So, I went back into the store and I ordered the bike. Not the robin's egg blue (which just earned a disappointed scoff from my wife, who did get her sandwich but like a good ninety minutes after the initial plaintive email), but the black. Here's a picture:
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I think I just posted a thread (re: Sprinsteen tickets) in the wrong forum. Sorry ab0ut that - I will relocate it to an exchange forum if that's more appropropriate.
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What branch of service were you in? Also, you should look into joinig the Veterans group on here. There are some good people there. Are you familiar with the XCell center there in Germany and if they have accomplished anything worth noting? Sorry for the bombardment of questions.
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by Scott Boyle
The Dodgers and the Red Sox from Monticello concluded a competitive summer with respective trips to Pinto league state tournaments. The Dodgers, coached by Steve Draper, finished in third place in their sixteen team tournament, while the RT Nielson's Red Sox finished tied for fifth in another tournament.
"Our kids showed up to play", crowed Draper, who finished 5-1 over the three days spent in Spanish Fork.
In a new format that both coaches like, the teams play three times in pool play plus a first round bracket game if they get out of pool play in two days.
"We don't have to stay in Utah Valley all week." said Nielson. "We can play twice a day for two or three days and be done."
The Dodgers, led by the "phenomenal" play of Austin Wilcox and Shane Christensen, played all three days, making it out of pool play at 3-0, and then winning that must win first bracket game.
The Dodgers pounded the ball, scoring 30 runs in the four games while only allowing eight. Draper sighted Wilcox's catching a ball while falling to his back and then throwing a runner out from his back as indicative of the kind of play he got from his players.
"Shane Christensen's pitching was unreal," he added.
The Dodgers were upended in the semifinals by the Orioles, 10-1, which kept them out of the championship game. The Orioles went on to win the tournament.
The Dodgers spent just a little time recovering from the disappointing loss before triumphing in the consolation game, 5-1 over a team from Spanish Fork to grab the third place trophy.
"Our players didn't let the big city affect them," smiled Draper.
He also cited the hitting of Curtis Baird, who narrowly missed a home run, "by inches", the all around play of Chandler Draper, the coach's son, and the pitching, catching, and hitting of pick-up player Chase Richmond-"to bad he isn't from Monticello"-who plays for the Blanding Giants, as instrumental in the Dodgers excellent run through the tournament.
In Springville, the Red Sox also romped through their pool play 3-0 to qualify for bracket play, only to run into the best pitcher in the tournament in the "win or go home" game.
The big kid from Spanish Fork didn't let the boys from Monte string any hits together and sent them home 7-4.
"We didn't play poorly. We were done in by a good chucker", says Nielson.
"We got some hits off him, including Eric Anderson's double, but he was just a horse on the mound. He was throwing curve balls for strikes and fastballs. He's an accelerated kid," praised Nielson.
Nielson enthusiastically praised the play of all the players on his team, including Austin Maloy, who turned a couple of critical double plays; Tanner Eardley, who narrowly missed a three run homer that would have made things interesting in the loss; Hunter Bowring's hitting and work behind the plate; and Roque DeAnda, "the leader of our outfield".
Nielson was also grateful for the fine play of pick-up player Rye Nielson, also of the Blanding Giants, who pitched and played other positions for the Dodgers.
With these two tournaments, thus ends a four year run through Mustang and Pinto state tournaments for the oldest players on the two teams that includes two firsts, a second, a third, and a fifth place finish. If my research is correct, these young ball players participated in 34 state tournament games during their young careers, winning 29.
Bike Chase Parked
The annual Blue Mountain Bike Chase was canceled for the first time ever this past weekend due to adverse course conditions; "too much snow covering the course and fallen trees", according to Chase director Eddie Allred.
Ironic isn't it, to cancel a race in July on account of snow. Almost as incongruous as cancelling the Blue Mountain Triathlon in March, which includes a cross country skiing portion, because of too much snow. Only in Monticello, I suppose.
Last week I wrote about Todd Wells, a National Cyclocross bike racer. Cyclocrossing is riding a bike while intermittently carrying the bike over various obstacles. Maybe we should have tried cyclo-crossing over the snow and trees!


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The Cotswolds [1] refers to a region of gentle hill country in south central England, the main range reaching 300 m (1000 ft) in altitude at its highest. The Cotswolds lie across the boundaries of several traditional English counties: Gloucestershire enjoys by far the largest portion of the region; the county shares this honour significantly with Oxfordshire and south Warwickshire, and to a lesser extent with Wiltshire, Somerset and Worcestershire.
Officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1966, in recognition of their unique appeal and the beauty of its predominantly rural landscapes, the Cotswolds are known worldwide for their stone-built villages, historical towns, and stately homes and gardens. Many consider the Cotswolds as representative of the archetypal English landscape, within easy striking distance of London and several other English urban centres.
The Cotswolds run generally south-west to north-east, the northern and western edges marked by steep escarpments down to the valleys of the rivers Severn and Avon and the city of Gloucester, the eastern boundary by the city of Oxford (the university "city of dreaming spires"), the west by Stroud, and the south by the middle reaches of the Thames Valley and towns such as Cirencester, Lechlade and Fairford. Key physical features of the area, including the characteristic uplift of the 'Cotswold Edge' can be clearly seen as far south as Bath.
The Cotswolds characterised by attractive small towns and villages built of the underlying rock, known as "Cotswold Stone" (actually, a yellow oolitic limestone).
During the Middle Ages, the Cotswolds became prosperous from the wool trade with the Continent. Much of this wealth was directed towards the building of churches, the area still preserving a large number of large, handsome Cotswold Stone "wool churches". The area remains affluent and has attracted wealthy Londoners and others who own second homes in the area or have chosen to retire to the Cotswolds.
Typical Cotswold towns are Broadway, Burford, Chipping Norton, Cirencester, Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold. The Cotswold village of Chipping Campden is notable for being the home of the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by William Morris at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. William Morris lived, occasionally, in Broadway Tower a folly now in country park.
Other destinations
Historical Houses
The Cotswolds are home to a number of important historical houses, often set in their own estates and therefore not part of any particular town or village...
Cotswold Water Park, [3]. Great Britain's largest water park consists of 133 lakes which were formed by filling old gravel quarries. It is located about five miles south of Cirencester in the centre of England and offers many water sports and activities.
Although this is central England, you may find locals speak with a heavy Gloucestershire accent.
Get in
Stroud, Stonehouse, Gloucester and Cheltenham all have train stations. Stage coach has buses from different areas of the country (cheaper, but longer than the trains).
As you'll find all over Great Britain the cost of public transport is high (compared to mainland Europe, Asia, Africa, etc...).
Move this to Great Britain? Note: It is possible to buy a Young Person's Railcard if you're planning to spend much time in the UK. This gives you 1/3 off, but it costs about £15, so it might not be worth it. These can be bought from any Train station ticket office. You'll need a passport photo.
Get around
Trains do exist between some main towns, but the trainline from Cirencester was axed 30 years ago.
As Bill Bryson said, this is the only option to see the Cotswolds. He was probably right.
Note: Take care on commons of the cows (they stand/lie in the roads at night time).
The bus services in the cotswolds are painfully useless. Many villages will only get one bus a day, or some only one bus a week. Even large towns, such as Cirencester and Stroud only get one bus every hour.
Stay safe
The area is very safe, with little crime. (The headlines of the local news paper a few months ago read "Butterfly found in carpark").


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China's mild response to the March 2010 sinking of South Korean navy warship Cheonan has frustrated many people. Since the publication of a report by a team of international investigators on 20 May 2010 implicating North Korea as the perpetrator, killing 46 South Korean sailors, China has not joined the United States, Japan, and South Korea in openly condemning Pyongyang and threatening punitive measures. Meanwhile, Chinese leaders have expressed condolences to the South Korean government and South Korean families affected by the tragedy. What explains China's fence-sitting on this issue? What is China interest on the Korean peninsula?
There are many misperceptions of China's policy towards the Korean peninsula. Some people believe that North Korea provides a friendly buffer zone between China and democratic South Korea where some 37,500 U.S. troops are based. Others assume that China needs to prop up the Kim Jong-il regime for fear of a massive influx of hungry and desperate North Korean refugees to China triggered by the sudden collapse of the Kim government. Western media routinely portray China as the major ally of the North Korean government and hint that China will always support Pyongyang in a conflict between the two Koreas.
These observations, though not completely wrong, do not reflect the full picture and complexity of China's Korea policy. The fact is since August 1992 when Beijing established diplomatic relations with the Republic of Korea (South Korea), China has adopted a "two Koreas" policy and has not stood by North Korea indiscriminately. For example, China condemned North Korea's missile tests in May 2009 and supported the UN resolution against North Korea.
On the other hand, very few bilateral relations have grown more rapidly than those between China and South Korea in less than 20 years. China's bilateral trade with South Korea reached $156 billion in 2009 while its trade with the North was less than $3 billion. China and South Korea are negotiating a free trade agreement to further boost trade to $300 billion by 2015. They have also established the so-called strategic partnership in 2008, a close relationship that China has formed with less than a dozen countries. China has become the largest trade partner, the biggest export market and the largest source of imports of South Korea, while South Korea is the fourth largest trade partner of China. The two societies are also getting closer. The two countries have established more than 120 pairs of sister cities. Every week over 830 flights and 100,000 people travel between the two countries. South Korean movie and music stars boast millions of feverish fans in China, and vice versa.
China-North Korea relations are rooted in the past, while China-South Korea relations are oriented towards the future. China-North Korea relations used to be as close as "lips and teeth" during the Korean War. But China has grown increasingly unhappy with North Korea in recent years, and one can argue that North Korea has become a liability for China.
Economically, North Korea has become a burden for China. North Korea is like a black hole, endlessly absorbing China's supply of food and fuel. What China gets in return is a recalcitrant North Korea that frequently challenges the international system and embarrasses China. Diplomatically, North Korea, a small nation of less than 23 million people, has consumed way too many resources of China. A large part of China's diplomacy today revolves around North Korea, constraining China's ability to conduct diplomacy in other countries and regions. Politically and strategically, the perceived China-North Korea alliance deeply hurts China's international image. China has its own national interests such as maintaining good relations with its neighbors. However, offering continuous support for a repressive regime and sometimes tacitly condoning its reckless behavior are not commensurate with China's claim as a responsible great power.
Even within China, there have been calls for delinking with the Kim Jong-il regime. Then why hasn't China abandoned North Korea yet? The short answer is that China is in a dilemma on the Korean peninsula. China is ambivalent about and unprepared for the future of Korea. It is afraid that a united, pro-West Korea may pose a more serious challenge to China. The two Koreas already have historical and territorial disputes with China now. A unified Korea is likely to be emboldened to officially claim part of northeast China as its own. A unified Korea may also deny China potential access to rich minerals in the North.
It is in the best interest of China, and arguably of other countries in the region, to keep the status quo on the Korean peninsula. The United States is obviously not prepared to start another war now to help achieve Korean reunification. Japan, despite its anti-North Korea position, will be very concerned about having a unified, nuclear-capable neighbor of over 70 million people when Japan itself is not allowed to go nuclear.
China's priority remains stability at home and in the neighborhood so as to concentrate on economic development. Any harsh reaction towards North Korea risks triggering a conflict on the Korean peninsula. China will oppose actions and measures by any party that will escalate tensions in the region.
China's policy towards the Korean peninsula is based on its own national interest, not its endorsement of North Korean adventurism. The North Korea-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance was signed in July 1961 and remains valid unless one side agrees to a revision or abolishment. A clause guarantees automatic intervention if one of the signatories is attacked by a country or allied countries. However, China has downplayed this treaty and is trying hard to avoid the outbreak of conflict on the Korean peninsula.
North Korea is a country under siege. Its leadership succession is inconclusive. Kim Jong-il's youngest son, the 27-year-old Kim Jong-un, is mysterious and untested and does not seem to enjoy widespread support within the government and the military. Kim Jong-il may be a much hated person, but he is very calculated, and he often stirs up something like firing a missile or attacking a warship in order to attract international attention, rally the nation and the military around him and his family and extract more aid from the international community.
The Korea crisis poses serious challenges to East Asian security. China's peaceful policy toward the Korean peninsula is not likely to satisfy everyone, especially during a crisis, but under the current circumstances it serves the best interests of every party involved. The future of North Korea is far from clear, but one thing is certain: China will do its best to continue to promote peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.
Zhiqun Zhu is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the institutions he is affiliated with. Dr. Zhu's recent books include: China's New Diplomacy and U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century


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Isabel Marant Takes the Win For Best It Shoe of 2012
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In a year that was filled with covetable shoes, Isabel Marant's wedge sneaker took the win for the It shoe of the year. It was a close call — Christian Louboutin came in a close second — but there was no denying the huge wedge sneaker craze that took over 2012. Right in line with the year's sporty trend, Marant's cool sneakers have been spotted on numerous celebrities (Marant's futuristic Bekett and girlier Bobby designs were the most popular) and fashion girls alike. And ringing in at about $640 for a pair, we weren't surprised to see a huge spawn of knockoffs — and neither was the designer. "I cannot say I'm surprised, because I worked a very long time to achieve it," said Marant. "It took a long time because when you have a wedge in the shoe it can be very bulky. When I finished it, I knew it was going to be a hit, and that it would be copied." We can't wait to see the new designs she has in store for us next year, but for now, click the slideshow to see the celebrities who donned Marant's ultracool sneakers in 2012.


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M.E.: Lanza's brain appeared normal
HARTFORD -- While doctors and scientists conduct a battery of toxicological tests and genetic analysis to help determine what turned Adam Lanza into a psychopathic killing machine Dec. 14, the state's chief medical examiner doubts the reports will offer any answers.
Already, he said, an examination of what remained of Lanza's brain showed nothing unusual.
"It's a fishing expedition," said H. Wayne Carver II, whose autopsy of Lanza is one of nearly 1,000 he has conducted in his 30-plus years of experience. "I don't think we'll find answers. But that doesn't mean you don't look."
Lanza killed 20 students and six educators during what some have called a video-game inspired shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He ended the terror by putting a gun to his head.
Carver said the examination of Lanza's brain showed "no tumor ... no gross deformity."
But the medical examiner didn't expect to find a gross deformity.
"That would be associated with very severe disabilities," Carver explained. He said people who suffer from such deformities usually require a "custodial" setting.
Additionally, an often-published photo of Lanza gives the impression he had a large head and might have suffered from a genetic mutation called Fragile X syndrome.
Fragile X is "the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability and the most common known genetic cause of autism or autism spectrum disorders," according to the National Fragile X Foundation.
The mutation involves the FMR1 gene not producing enough protein for the brain to grow properly. This causes mental retardation, usually in boys, and the individual is left with deformities such as a large forehead or a big face.
"We measured his head and it fell in the normal range," Carver said.
The toxicology exam, which could take several weeks, involves testing a person's urine, saliva or blood for up to 30 different drugs at a time.
Carver said tests are done to determine if the person had taken any type of drug that might "affect behavior."
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In this particular toxicology test, Carver said he would be looking for the "presence or absence" of particular drugs.
He said the result could provide "potentially valuable information" in creating a full picture of Lanza.
As for claims Lanza suffered from Asperger's syndrome, an autism-related disorder, Carver said that requires a "functional" test and in this case, the patient was deceased.
Additionally, Carver was asked if he thought any biochemical issues like an excess or deficiency of dopamine, serotonin or other neurotransmitters might have played a role in Lanza's behavior.
"Don't over read on that," he warned.
"Inborne errors of (issues like) metabolism are not subtle," he said. "Most are fatal."


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A town and a municipality in Ernakulam district, Angamaly is the commercial city of Kerala. It is located 33 kms away from Ernakulam district of Kerala. This fastest growing towns is slowly becoming the major hub of Kerala. This place is situated close to some of the popular tourist destinations like Kalady, Malayattoor, Muvattupuzha, North Paravu.
Places to Stay
There are good budget hotels in Angamaly. Some of them are Hotel Pearl Continenta (Tariff – Rs. 1814), Palmgrove service villa (Tariff – Rs. 1125), Surabhi Tourist Home (Tariff – Rs.1800) and Hotel Bhadariya (Tariff –1000).
The official language of Angamaly is Malayalam.
The Important Festivals of Angamaly is the International Film Festiva (March ).
Places of Interest
There are several places of tourist attraction in Angamaly. Some of the places include E Kodanad (25kms from Angamaly) , Malayatoor Church (25 kms from Angamaly) Ezhattumugham (8 kms from Angamaly) Kallil Temple ( 13 kms from Angamal) Thirunayathode Sivanarayana Temple ( (3kms from Angamaly).
How to Get There
The nearest airport to Angamaly is the Kochi – Cochin International Airport,. It is located about 15 kms away from the town.
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There are two bus stations in Angamaly. There are buses that ply to major cities of Tamil Nadu, Karala and Karnataka.Some of the best bus operators that offer good experience for passengers are Kallada Travels, Modern Travels and Tippu Sultan Travels. If you wish to get the cheapest bus tickets for your journey, book through Ticketgoose.com.


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For Immediate Release, May 15, 2012
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Endangered Beluga Whales From Alaska Oil and Gas Drilling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales are threatened by oil drilling and exploration, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Native Village of Chickaloon, Center for Water Advocacy and Center for Biological Diversity. The suit challenges a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service to Apache Alaska Corporation to allow oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Cook Inlet, home to a dwindling population of 280 beluga whales protected by the Endangered Species Act.
"Each year, there are fewer and fewer of these whales left," said Taryn Kiekow, a staff attorney with NRDC. "Oil and gas drilling activities expose Cook Inlet beluga whales to earsplitting underwater noise that threatens their survival. All that noise in the marine environment makes survival impossible for these endangered whales."
Apache Alaska Corporation has acquired more than 300,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Cook Inlet. To find and develop oil and gas fields, Apache intends to conduct seismic exploration in the inlet over the next three to five years. Every year that Apache conducts its survey operations, it will spend 160 days surveying the inlet for oil and gas, 24 hours per day. For 10 to 12 of those hours, Apache will deploy in-water airguns, operate pingers and detonate explosives. Airgun noise is loud enough to mask whale calls over thousands of miles, destroying their capacity to communicate and breed; it can drive whales to abandon their habitat and cease foraging, and closer in it can cause hearing loss and death.
"Belugas are sacred to my tribe and part of our tradition," said Gary Harrison, traditional chief of Chickaloon Native Village. "Because so few of the whales remain, we no longer hunt them. Indigenous peoples are working to protect these whales, yet industry can come into the Cook Inlet and harass 30 beluga whales every year as they look for oil and gas. It's simply wrong."
"Our concern is that, with all the attention on the Arctic, Cook Inlet is falling through the cracks. With fewer than 300 beluga left in the Cook Inlet, it is hard to imagine that the 'incidental harassment authorization' could not significantly contribute to their extinction. This is a no-brainer for us," said Center for Water Advocacy President Hal Shepherd.
"Cook Inlet is rapidly losing its belugas, and these smart, beautiful animals are unique and irreplaceable," said the Center for Biological Diversity's Alaska Director Rebecca Noblin. "The Fisheries Service should be doing everything in its power to protect them from dying off, not rubber-stamping every risky oil and gas project that comes along."
Of the five genetically unique beluga populations in Alaska, Cook Inlet belugas number the fewest. The group is under great duress from increasing industrialization of its habitat near Anchorage. In recent years, the population has plummeted from approximately 1,300 to 284 whales. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Fisheries Science Center's annual survey of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales shows a 20 percent decline in population estimates from previous years — 321 in 2009 and 340 in 2010 compared to 284 in 2011. The 2011 estimate is the second-lowest since annual surveys began in 1993. (The lowest estimate was in 2005, when belugas numbered just six fewer than this year's estimate.)
In April 2006, NRDC and the Center for Biological Diversity joined other conservation groups in petitioning the Fisheries Service to list Cook Inlet belugas as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The government listed the whales as endangered in October 2008 and designated more than 3,000 square miles of the Cook Inlet as critical habitat essential to the whales' survival in April 2011.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world's natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Livingston, Montana, and Beijing. Visit us at www.nrdc.org.
Chickaloon Native Village is a vibrant, innovative, and culturally rich Ahtna Athabascan Tribe located in Sutton, Alaska, about a 30-minute drive from Cook Inlet. Surrounded by snow-capped mountains, glaciers, and lush boreal forests our Tribe has occupied this area for over 10,000 years – since animals and humans could communicate, according to oral tradition. Many of the Tribe's ancient stories involve beluga whales, and members of Chickaloon Native Village have depended for millennia on beluga whales and fish in Cook Inlet for subsistence. Threats our culture, language, and traditional way of life have been unwavering for the past hundred years. Chickaloon Native Village was one of the first Tribes to be affected by outside development.
The Center for Water Advocacy is a non-profit public interest conservation organization which strives to promote the long-term sustainability of water resources in Alaska for the benefit of fish and wildlife populations, habitat, aesthetics, recreation, and traditional and cultural activities, using the principles of democracy, environmental justice, and sound ecology as our guide.
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Devil's Club Root Bark
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 14, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Devil's Club Root Bark
Devil's Club Root Bark (Oplopanax horridus) is also known as Alaskan Ginseng, Pacific Ginseng, Devil's Walking Stick or Wild Armored Alaskan Ginseng. The Devil's Club is a large shrub native to the forests of North America and also along the expansive shoreline of Lake Superior. It has large palm-like leaves and sturdy wooden stems with spines for protection. Looking at the Devil's Club is like going back to the prehistoric ages; this plant is also very sensitive making it thrive only in places where there is limited to almost no human contact at all.
The Devil's Club Root Bark is the most common part of the Devil's Club shrub that is used for medicinal purposes. It has been known to treat respiratory ailments as well as have an anti inflammatory effect which makes it very useful for people who have arthritis and immune disorders. Almost all of the different parts of the plant is used but the Devil's Club Root Bark is the part of the plant that is more widely used. It is most prepared as a tea and used as an extract in both capsules and in liquid form
History and Origin
The name Devil's Club is because of the primitive-like appearance of the shrub and the dense thorns that cover its stems may have also given rise to its peculiar name. The Devil's Club Root Bark was used extensively by the native tribes of Alaska and British Columbia as a cure for sore throat, tuberculosis and chest pain. Its extracts were also used to treat gastrointestinal disorders like stomach pain and indigestion.
Ancient Uses
During ancient times, native people of North America particularly the Skagit and Tlingit tribes, were the first people who used the Devil's Club Root Bark for the treatment of adult onset diabetes. The Devil's Club Root Bark and leaves were also used as a poultice for minor skin disorders, wounds and burns. Decoctions of this herbal remedy were also used to treat respiratory illnesses such as Colds and coughs.
Modern Uses
The modern times have made way for the study of the chemical composition of the Devil's Club Root Bark and studies have shown that this plant has oplopanone which has antipyretic and antitussive properties making the Devil's Club Root Bark ideal in the treatment of cough, colds, chest pain and other upper respiratory tract infections. It has also been found to contain Stigmasterol and Beta- sitosterol which gives the Devil's Club Root Bark anti inflammatory properties that is essential for the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis symptoms like pain, redness and swelling.
The effectiveness and safety of Devil's Club Root Bark in the treatment of diabetes is still uncertain and is subject to more studies and clinical trials.
Side Effects
Since there is a tendency for Devil's Club Root Bark to interfere with blood sugar levels, people with diabetes would need to consult their doctor regarding the use of Devil's Club Root Bark for their illness. Devil's Club Root Bark is also contraindicated in pregnant and breast feeding women. Very young children should be cautioned in taking Devil's Club Root Bark extracts for the cure of respiratory illnesses since little is known about its adverse effects on babies and toddlers.
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Paulina Nelega, RH, has been in private practice as a Clinical Herbalist for over 15 years. She has developed and taught courses in herbal medicine, and her articles on health have appeared in numerous publications. She is very passionate about the healing power of nature. Ask Dr. Jan