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Presidents' Alliance joined with other organizations to send a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee to express our deep concerns with recent USCIS policy changes
Dear Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Feinstein,
We the undersigned representing higher and international education, business, immigration, and
human rights organizations are alarmed by what appears to be a comprehensive plan of the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to target legal immigrants through
reinterpretation of long-standing immigration law and policy. USCIS has released a series of
guidance memos that will have the effect of shifting legal immigrants into unlawful status and
put them on the path to removal from the United States, and in some cases, bar them from reentry
to the country for up to 10-years.
If these guidance memoranda are implemented, USCIS jeopardizes the ability of U.S. higher
education to attract talented international students, scholars, professors, researchers, exchange
visitors, and others to our campuses around the country. This will compromise our ability to
remain the global leader in higher education. We urge the Senate to conduct oversight and advise
USCIS to withdraw the memos.
Our colleges and universities have long been a magnet for talented people from around the
world. U.S. students are provided the best education because of this. For generations our
economy and our communities have benefited from international students and scholars, some of
whom have remained to work and build lives here. The guidance memos proposed policy
changes put this at risk.
Guidance memos are extra-regulatory actions
The three USCIS-issued guidance memos will substantially impact the regulated community by
reinterpreting long-standing immigration law and policy. Individually and taken together, the
reinterpretations are extra-regulatory actions as they go beyond the scope appropriate for
guidance memos. These memos create unlawful status for immigrants who are in good faith
endeavoring to remain in compliance with the law. The changes proposed impose dire
consequences for an immigrant and his or her spouse and children, including removal and bars
from re-entry to the country, all without allowing the regulated community an opportunity for
notice and comment through the publishing of proposed rules.
The three USCIS guidance memos of concern are the following:
• The May 11, 2018 memo, Accrual of Unlawful Presence and F, J, and M Nonimmigrants,
subjects foreign students, scholars, exchange visitors and their dependents to retroactive
accrual of unlawful presence for minor and technical violations of status placing them
and their families on the path to deportation and up to a 10-year bar to re-entry to the
United States. An updated policy memorandum was released on August 9, 2018, the
effective date of the new policy.
• The June 28, 2018 memo, Updated Guidance for the Referral of Cases and Issuance of
Notices to Appear (NTAs) in Cases Involving Inadmissible and Deportable Aliens,
directs USCIS adjudicators to issue NTAs for nonimmigrants denied a benefit who, based
on that denial, are not maintaining prior status. USCIS issued updated guidance on July
30, 2018 delaying implementation of the memo until operational guidance is issued.
• The July 13, 2018 memo, Issuance of Certain RFEs and NOIDs; Revisions to
Adjudicator's Field Manual (AFM) Chapter 10.5(a), Chapter 10.5(b), to end the routine
practice of issuing requests for further evidence (RFEs) to support filings, and notices of
intent to deny (NOIDs). The effective date is September 11, 2018.
Expands USCIS scope of work into enforcement
The guidance memos further expand USCIS scope of work into the role of the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE). A key feature in the creation of the Department of Homeland
Security was to split the functions of the former Immigration Naturalization Service into subagencies
to allow each to specialize. Hence the three sub-agencies specialize in customs and
border protection, enforcement, and services. These memos, taken together, move USCIS farther
away from its stated role as a service provider. A service orientation allows for a request for
further evidence in support a benefit request. Ensuring clear notice to nonimmigrants of a
determination of a status violation when it occurs without confusing retroactive backdating is a
basic level of service. Fast tracking removal and implementing bars is the function of an
enforcement posture. This falls far short of providing services to nonimmigrants, immigrants,
and U.S. citizens who benefit from the contributions of talented individuals on our campuses and
our communities.
Ensure notice for accrual of unlawful presence
Of specific concern to our community is the USCIS policy memorandum of May 11, 2018,
updated on the day it went into effect August 9, 2018, on the accrual of unlawful presence that
will have the effect of placing foreign students, scholars, and exchange visitors (those in F, M, or
J status) on the path to removal following even inadvertent or minor immigration status
infractions. It will also bar them from reentering the country for up to 10 years. Under current
policy, those in F, M, or J status are aware when unlawful presence begins to accrue. The
guidance memo would change that making the accrual of unlawful presence retroactive.
Since its addition to immigration law in 1996, higher and international education had scant
interaction with the concept of "unlawful presence." Up to this point it has been clear when those
in F, M, or J status have violated immigration status and begun to accrue time in the country in
unlawful status: when USCIS denies a petition, application, or other request, or a decision by a
judge. The USCIS guidance memo erases this certainty and replaces it with a date that may be
unascertainable by the foreign student or exchange visitor.
We welcome the August 9, 2018 memorandum update to stop the accrual of unlawful presence
during the pendency of a timely filed reinstatement application with USCIS. While this is an
improvement, it does not address the underlying reality that foreign students may inadvertently
violate status whether by their own action or inaction or that of an official on campus such as the
designated school official (DSO) charged with updating individual student records in the Student
and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). International students are confronted with
two confusing systems: U.S. higher education and immigration law. Navigating them both at the
same time brings unique challenges. Often it is clear when a student runs afoul of either or both
of these systems. However, there are instances when this is less clear. Here are a few examples:
• Example 1. Drop below full course load. Undergraduate student receives permission
from academic advisor (but not the DSO) to drop a course, is now registered for 11 rather
than 12 semester credit hours as required. If the student becomes aware of this at the
beginning of the next academic year following summer break, the student will already
have accumulated more than 180 days of unlawful presence and will be beyond the 5-
month "timely" reinstatement filing window that tolls unlawful presence.
• Example 2. Experiential learning integral to study. Student is authorized for curricular
practical training by the DSO and with permission of the student's department chair.
USCIS later disagrees with the DSO and chair that the student's internship is "integral"
enough and deems the student retroactively in violation of status, unlawfully present, and
subject to the 10-year bar.
• Example 3. Incorrect date to begin experiential learning. Through a
miscommunication with the DSO and failure to inspect the I-20 closely enough, a student
begins an internship one day before the authorized start date of her/his curricular practical
training and is unknowingly deemed by USCIS to be in violation of status and unlawfully
• Example 4. Work hours. Student serving as a graduate research assistant and authorized
to work 20 hours per week unexpectedly needs to work two extra hours one week on the
research project to avoid jeopardizing the project, then works two hours less the
following week so that the average employment for both weeks is 20 hours, and is
unknowingly deemed by USCIS to be in violation of status and accruing unlawful
• Spouses and children. In each example above, dependents (spouse or child of the
student) over 18 years of age would also be deemed by USCIS to be out of status and
unlawfully present.
The bars are an unfair, disproportionate punishment that are counter to the goal of welcoming
immigrants who will be great for our country. USCIS must abandon this proposal and maintain
the current policy.
These memos are yet another policy which makes the United States less attractive to talented
foreign students, scholars, and exchange visitors and undoubtedly will encourage them to look
elsewhere to do their groundbreaking research and build diplomatic ties. Foreign students and
scholars are here to learn, and they make America greater by becoming the nation's best
ambassadors and allies. By treating them as criminals for minor or technical violations, we move
away from the goal of welcoming talented individuals and become a less desirable place to study
or conduct research.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
National Association of Colleges and Employers
New American Economy
Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration
Shorelight Education
Washington Office on Latin America


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the attainment of unbroken felicity, and of a high, wise, allaccomplishing activity, — this was the constant aim. Without the natural fervor, the fiery, flaming enthusiasm of Giordano Bruno, he had all of his unshrinking devotion, indomitable courage, and quenchless fortitude. During his later years he seems never to have been tempted to any impatience or restiveness of spirit by the attacks of his enemies, numerous, wanton, and intensely irritating as they were. He bore all calmly, well willing to wait the sure issues of time. Life-long he suffered virtual martyrdom ; he sacrificed reputation, friendships, and all social privilege ; he was in privations and harsh exposures; his life was many times in imminent peril. Yet he never for this permitted any depression, any bitterness or sorrow, but kept a whole heart and good cheer to the end. Much, very much he must have suffered in the disease that wasted and cut down his life prematurely; but none knew of it by any word that escaped him. His principal writings lay long in manuscript, finding no opportunity to appear; the Ethica, his chief work, remained unprinted to the day of his death ; but he indulged no impatience, anxiety, or regret. He had done. what he could, and he rested content to leave all in the Supreme keeping. His last hours were solitary, marked as all his life had been by desertion, and made more oppressed by discomforts and attendant sufferings that friendly hands might have done much to soften or relieve; yet he wared kindly his farewell, and departed unsorrowing. · The thought of this lonely thinker could not remain inert or hidden. Already before his death the effect was large, and in those winter days of 1677 more eyes were turned and looking with anxious interest towards that humble cot in the Hague than the philosopher knew or dreamed. In this same year the Ethica, the Letters, and other writings of Spinoza appeared, and the opportunity for acquaintance with him was much increased. The doctrine had such elevation, withal such boldness and exclusiveness, was coupled, too, with such sweetness, serenity, and bravery of living, that it could not fail to awaken attention, and in numerous cases impress and quicken. Of course the first man, of the earth, earthy, could make nothing of this celestial food. But the men of contemplation and deep
religious feeling, to whom the thought and the felt is the real, who dwell in greater or less measure in the ideal, have found here congenial fellowship and rich repast.
Spinoza did not discover the infinite, nor was he the first who essayed to solve the deep questions of the spirit. He felt deeply, looked intently, saw clearly, and wrought out according to ability his result. It is, as all must be, but an approximate solution ; nevertheless, it has truth and perennial worth. But to each man, as to each generation, comes this problem with the day's dawn fresh and new, impossible yet imperative and vital, and each must work out such best result as he may for himself. Never, while eternities overshadow, and ideals haunt, and the spirit yearns, and hope lifts, shall it become obsolete, or lose for men its vital and deep significance.
Art. II. — THE NEW HOMERIC QUESTION. 1. The Iliad of Homer, faithfully translated into unrhymed English
Metre. By F. W. NEWMAN. London: Walton and Maberly.
1856. 2. The Odyssey of HOMER, translated into English Verse in the Spen
serian Stanza. By Philip STANHOPE WORSLEY. Edinburgh :
W. Blackwood and Sons. 1862. 3. On Translating Homer. Three Lectures. Also, Last Words sin
answer to Professor Newman's " Reply "], a Lecture, given at Oxford. By MATTHEW ARNOLD. London: Longmans. 1862.
Few things in the world of letters have been more charming to us than the healthy appetite and the trained executive skill with which English scholars have taken up and carried out, in their own fashion, the processes of Continental learning. For a whole generation, and till within the last fifteen years, it was the scandal of the insular schools, that they kept timidly to the ancient methods; and spoke of the theories that were revoluVOL. LXXIV. — 5TH S. VOL. XII. NO. III.
tionizing the outside world of erudition * only with a vague and far-away contempt, as shocking heresies, as infidelities which were hardly to be so much as named among them. So far as a common reader could judge, no sufficient reason was offered for this lofty scorn. Questions of learning in the schools, like questions of faith in the Church, were settled by sentiment and whim. From the standard classic reviews of England about all the information that leaked out as to the vivid suggestions of Vico, or the erudite critique of Wolf, or the constructive hypotheses of their successors, on the structure and authorship of the Homeric poems, was that they contained views abhorrent to the sense and conscience of every true Briton, — views altogether " tolerable, and not to be endured." Nay, Blackwood, as we remember, put their heresies in the category of sacrilege, and held that to deny the authenticity of the Iliad was as if one should question the genuineness of the Pentateuch itself.
The first vigorous and thoroughly independent treatment of this question before the English public, we believe, was in the very able introductory chapters of Mr. Grote's History of Greece. In these chapters, mastery of the argument, as conducted by Continental scholars, is balanced by a sound controlling common-sense; and nothing seems further from mere theorizing than the theory which he upholds against the general belief of his countrymen, namely, that, while the Odyssey is a single work, in our modern sense of that phrase, - a story first conceived as one, and wrought to its present form under the shaping of a single hand, — the Iliad is an aggregate of material, wrought out by a Homeric cycle of poets, and gathered about the original nucleus of an " Achilleis," or tale of the deeds of the chief Homeric hero ; also that, while there may have been an invasion of some Asiatic town in the heroic age, as a true historic foundation of the legend, there is nothing in the legend itself, or in the immense accumulation of tradition about it, which need be accepted as evidence that Troy ever had an existence, or the towers of Ilium were ever assailed by Agamemnon, king of men.
* That Homer is a generic, and not an individual name, is assumed by Renan as the common sense of Continental learning. De l'Origine du Langage, p. 21.
From this bold stroke of historical scepticism there was a natural and strong recoil in the British heart. The very able and scholarly History of Greek Literature by Colonel Mure seems to have charmed the British press as much by its vindication of the good old orthodox opinion as to the personality of the poet, the authorship of the heroic song, and the truth of the epic story, as by its other genuine qualities, of ample learning and enthusiasm for Hellenic letters. The fascinating work of Mr. Gladstone - one of the most interesting examples of scholarly tastes and pursuits abiding through the toils and ambitions of statesmanship — not only invests every feature of the story with a personal interest marvellous and vivid, but it enters so heartily into the discussion of all side matters and illustrations, that it seems far more than any other to have caught the very form and pressure of the Homeric time. Of course it does this by dint of immense idealizing. When the dramatic mythology of Homer is made symbolic of truths drawn from the genuine patriarchal traditions of the Holy Land, when Zeus is, not irreverently, allied with the awful name of the Hebrew Jehovah, and Apollo and Athene are made to stand for the broken but genuine hints which the Hellenic world had attained respecting a Divine Word made flesh, and a coming Saviour of the world, we feel that we are outside the range of literary discussion, and are perplexed to find common ground for argument with the author. Still, such hints and reasonings are part of the help he gives us, to grasp what is genuine in his own conception of the subject. His clear and skilful sketch of the Grecian tribes; his admirable analysis of the persons of the tale, its ethical tone, and the type of civilization it portrays; his exposition of the partly patriarchal, partly feudal associations of the phrase ävač kvapôv, " lord of men"; even the thirty pages of dissertation spent to prove that, when Homer says the north star was " on the left," he means, being truly interpreted, "on the right," — all these details leave each its distinct impression of light and help, and combine in making up the grateful sense of its value and beauty, with which we at last take leave of the work.
The new Homeric question, of which we propose to say a
few words to our readers, leaves out all these topics of larger and more learned criticism. It takes up the poems and treats them purely as works of art. A new inquiry is raised, and one which proves to have a singular fascination and interest, namely, How shall the poetic beauty and charm which every scholar feels in Homer be interpreted to the mind of a modern reader? The field of discussion is marked off pretty plainly by a sharp boundary at each end,- the gaunt prose of Buckley's Oxford version, known to school-boys, and that formal paraphrase (we were going to say parody) which, under the auspices and fame of Pope, shed a glimmering of the Homeric ray upon the delighted understanding of our childhood. The space between the two is a pretty wide one. Upon neither of them has the question so much as dawned, which the new translators and their critics have essayed to meet. One is content to say, bluntly, what grammar and dictionary, well plied, will give you of what the author has described ; the other takes it as a groundwork, trims and expounds it, and puts it into rhyme, to fit the cultivated taste of the eighteenth century. The result is sometimes a stilted imitation, sometimes a grave burlesque. One instance lingers in our memory, from the reading of more than twenty-five years back, where Homer says simply of the tears of Achilles, that "the weeping spread throughout the house." Pope gives it :
" Th'infectious softness through the heroes ran :
They bore as heroes, but they felt as man." Ex pede Herculem. Let this suffice for Pope and his school. The absolute failure of Cowper's painstaking version, in blank verse, to command a rank or a popular hearing, excuses us from saying anything as to that. Chapman's Elizabethan version, with all its fire and fancy, most readers will confess to be disappointing in its general effect, aside from its startling departures from the original. We copy (from Mr. Arnold) the two brief samples following; — first, the words of Achilles :
"I know myself it is my fate to fall Thus far from Phthia ; yet that fate shall fail to vent her gall Till mine vent thousands. These words said, he fell to horrid deeds, Gave dreadful signal, and forthright made fly his one-hoofed steeds."

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The household is is currently in a state of managed disorder, with one spending a couple of days in the hospital recovering from a minor procedure, and the others either being cared for or ferried home from wrestling practice. The latter will be run over to the hospital for a visit once practice is over.
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There's not much words really that I could say more than what a lot of other bloggers already have about this shade. It's stunningly beautiful at a very affordable price. Here's Sally Hansen Black Tie.
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The Ladies First Team continues to take shape ahead of making their debut in Primera B. After announcing the contract renewal of 11 players (Aixa Salvador, Lara Mata, Laura Royo, María Colonques, Sheila Guijarro, Naiara Ves, Jessica Collado, Clara Martínez, Cristina Díaz, María Sanjuán and Silvia Gallego), Sara Monforte's side has confirmed its first two signings. They are Bea Prades, who returns to the Yellows, and Paula Campos, who arrives from CD Oliver Urrutia, Va illarreal CF affiliated club.
Bea Prades returns to the Yellows
Bea Prades Insa (Onda, 16.11.96) is a midfielder. She was with the Yellows from the age of seven to 17, when she went to study Physical Education at Valencia University. Because of that, she signed for Valencia B for a season, before spending four with Levante B. Now, aged 22, she returns to Villarreal with her studies completed.
Paula Campos strengthens the goalkeeping options
Paula Campos Artero (Huesca, 02.08.01) arrives from CD Oliver Urrutia, a Villarreal CF affiliated club. She is a goalkeeper and is known for her good positioning, strength in the air and her catlike reflexes between the posts. She is also good with the ball at her feet, which will be crucial for the Yellow's possession-based football. Before playing for CD Oliver Urrutia, she was at CD Peñas Oscenses.


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What doctors and politicians don't know is killing American school children!
In response to the Florida school shooting, Dr. Rick Sponaugle and Host Terry explore how SSRI drugs alter the brain chemistry and what the prescription-writing doctors don't understand. Because most doctors lack the understanding of patients' brain chemistry before writing prescriptions, many people are taking SSRI drugs who should NEVER be taking them. It is chilling to hear what he explains and to learn the statistics of people who commit these mass shootings and suicide. Terry muses over the fact that Big Pharma is making millions while school shootings are on the rise and DC's politicians respond with gun control laws.
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Shazam! has officially entered the dreaded phase known as "additional photography", a term that has come to mean nothing at all or that a movie is a complete, unfixable mess, depending on how hard people want the project to fail. The reality is that every above-average sized film in history has gone back for re-shoots—there's always a boom mic poking through somewhere!—a fact that star Zachary Levi seems pretty aware of when sharing the news. "Back in the saddle again," the actor wrote. "We about to make "additional photography" look rill purty."
Levi also shared another glimpse of his lightning-ed out super suit, which, I'm being honest here, is mostly just a zoom-in on his crotch to get a better look at the character's belt. It looks cool, though! Honestly, Shazam! has looked promising from the start, offering up a much breezier side of the DCEU we haven't seen before.
Check out the image below (plus a bonus reminder to vote, which you should definitely 100% do). Shazam!—which also stars Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, Djimon Hounsou, and Grace Fulton—hits theaters on April 5, 2019.
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Back in the saddle again. We about to make "additional photography" look rill purty. Also, now that I have your attention: if you're in the United States of America, and you care about the direction our country is heading/about to head, and how that affects all of us, I encourage you to educate yourself on the matters and candidates at hand, and then vote according to YOUR convictions. Trust that your voice does in fact mean something. And our collective voices mean everything. #wethepeople
For more on Shazam!, check out the links below:
- 'Shazam!': 35+ Images Reveal Warner Bros' Body-Swapping Superhero Flick
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- 'Shazam!': First Image of Asher Angel as Teenage Alter-Ego Billy Batson
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We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he'll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).


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Professor accredited to the Corps of University Professors since 2014. National Research Award "Compostela de Odontología" (young researcher modality). Coordinator of the Clinical and Research Unit in Dentistry for Patients with Special Needs (University of Santiago de Compostela). Coordinator of the Oral Sciences Research Group (University of Santiago de Compostela and Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, IDIS).
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Jeannine O'Neil : Alice's Table – Magnolia Blooms
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🌸 Alice's Table – Magnolia Blooms is fun-filled floral arranging classes that bring people together to learn a new skill in a social and creative environment. Each attendee designs their own gorgeous floral arrangement and brings it home in a beautiful vase.
🌸 What makes my business unique from the other Alice's Table franchisees is that I put a unique spin on each event. I find fun and creative ways to draw a crowd and make every event a unique experience.
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🌸 I launched Alice's Table – Magnolia Blooms after becoming hooked on attending these flower arranging workshops with my friends. The problem was, it was so hard to find events on the North Shore. So I decided to make it happen and bring the fun experience to others.
🌸 I actually was a floral manager for a few years while working part-time at Crosby's Marketplace and pursuing my Communications degree at Salem State University. When I graduated I left that position but have always had a passion for flowers.
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Keystone XL: Environmental & Native Groups Sue to Halt Pipeline
Above: Native Americans have led the latest rounds of protest against Keystone XL's approval by the Trump administration. Credit Getty Images
Native American groups as well as environmental advocates are challenging the State Department's approval, based on its about-face on the environmental impact.
Several environmental and Native American advocacy groups have filed two separate lawsuits against the State Department over its approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Sierra Club, Northern Plains Resource Council, Bold Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a federal lawsuit in Montana on Thursday, challenging the State Department's border-crossing permit and related environmental reviews and approvals.
The suit came on the heels of a related suit against the State Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service filed by the Indigenous Environmental Network and North Coast Rivers Alliance in the same court on Monday.
The State Department issued a permit for the project, a pipeline that would carry tar sands crude oil from Canada to Nebraska, on March 24. Regulators in Nebraska must still review the proposed route there.
The State Department and TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, declined to comment.
The suit filed by the environmental groups argues that the State Department relied solely on an outdated and incomplete environmental impact statement completed in January 2014. That assessment, the groups argue, failed to properly account for the pipeline's threats to the climate, water resources, wildlife and communities along the pipeline route.
"In their haste to issue a cross-border permit requested by TransCanada Keystone Pipeline L.P. (TransCanada), Keystone XL's proponent, Defendants United States Department of State (State Department) and Under Secretary of State Shannon have violated the National Environmental Policy Act and other law and ignored significant new information that bears on the project's threats to the people, environment, and national interests of the United States," the suit states. "They have relied on an arbitrary, stale, and incomplete environmental review completed over three years ago, for a process that ended with the State Department's denial of a crossborder permit."
"The Keystone XL pipeline is nothing more than a dirty and dangerous proposal thats time has passed," the Sierra Club's executive director, Michael Brune, said in a statement. "It was rightfully rejected by the court of public opinion and President Obama, and now it will be rejected in the court system."
The suit filed by the Native American groups also challenges the State Department's environmental impact statement. They argue it fails to adequately justify the project and analyze reasonable alternatives, adverse impacts and mitigation measures. The suit claims the assessment was "irredeemably tainted" because it was prepared by Environmental Management, a company with a "substantial conflict of interest."
"President Trump is breaking established environmental laws and treaties in his efforts to force through the Keystone XL Pipeline, that would bring carbon-intensive, toxic, and corrosive crude oil from the Canadian tar sands, but we are filing suit to fight back," Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network said in a statement. "For too long, the U.S. Government has pushed around Indigenous peoples and undervalued our inherent rights, sovereignty, culture, and our responsibilities as guardians of Mother Earth and all life while fueling catastrophic extreme weather and climate change with an addiction to fossil fuels."
Phil McKenna is a Boston-based reporter for InsideClimate News. Before joining ICN in 2016, he was a freelance writer covering energy and the environment for publications including The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon and WIRED. Uprising, a story he wrote about gas leaks under U.S. cities, won the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the 2014 NASW Science in Society Award. Phil has a master's degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an Environmental Journalism Fellow at Middlebury College.


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Welcome to the 30th St Albans International Organ Festival – a full two weeks of exciting events celebrating organ music and much more, across the beautiful city of St Albans and beyond.
This year's Festival is dedicated to the lives of Peter and Pat Hurford, with gratitude and affection.
Thanks to a valuable partnership with St Albans City and District Council, the vibrant IOFringe brings free events to everyone – brimming with fun, activity and music for all tastes and all ages.
Our rich programme of solo and ensemble music features internationally renowned artists and inspirational stars of the future, in magnificent and historic buildings around the city. Large-scale events include our ever-popular Three Choirs concert; a celebration of the music of Howard Blake; and TS Eliot's Four Quartets read by Simon Callow, alongside Beethoven's great opus 132. We present performances by distinguished soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers and international early music ensemble Il Pegaso. St James' Baroque accompany our Interpretation Finalists in the Concerto Final, one of many performances which will take place in our city's incomparable Cathedral.
The glorious 14th-century Kingsbury Barn once again hosts a popular Art Exhibition, and Lussmann's presents live jazz.
At the heart of the festival, of course, are the renowned Organ Competitions. We welcome pre-selected competitors and visitors from all corners of the globe – together with our distinguished jury members, who all give their own recitals.
We look forward to welcoming you at this friendliest of festivals!
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Maithili Sharan Gupt (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets.[1] He is considered one among the pioneers of Khari Boli (plain dialect) poetry and wrote in Khari Boli dialect, at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of Braj Bhasha dialect.[2] He was a recipient of the third highest (then second highest) Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan.[3] For his book Bharat-Bharati (1912),[4] widely quoted during India's freedom struggle, he was given the title of Rashtra Kavi by Mahatma Gandhi.
He was born in Chirgaon, Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh in the Kankane clan of the Gahoi community in a family that was once a wealthy zamidar family, but the wealth was lost by the time he was born.[5] His father was Seth Ramcharan Gupta and mother's name was Kashibai. He disliked school as a child, so his father arranged for his education at their home. As a child, Gupt studied Sanskrit, English and Bengali. Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi was his mentor. He married in 1895.[6]
He was the teacher of Dewan Shatrughan Singh(Bundelkhandi Royal), who is known as Bundelkhand Kesri & Bundelkhand Gandhi.
Gupt entered the world of Hindi literature by writing poems in various magazines, including Saraswati.In 1910, his first major work, Rang mein Bhang was published by Indian Press. With Bharat Bharati, his nationalist poems became popular among Indians, who were struggling for independence. Most of his poems revolve around plots from Ramayana, Mahabharata, Buddhist stories and the lives of famous religious leaders. His famous work Saket revolves around Urmila, wife of Lakshmana, from Ramayana, while another of his works Yashodhara revolves around Yashodhara, the wife of Gautama Buddha.
प्राण न पागल हो तुम यों, पृथ्वी पर वह प्रेम कहाँ..
मोहमयी छलना भर है, भटको न अहो अब और यहाँ..
ऊपर को निरखो अब तो बस मिलता है चिरमेल वहाँ..
After India got independent in 1947, he was also made an honorary member of the Rajya Sabha, where he used poetry to put his opinions before the other members. He remained a member of the Rajya Sabha till his death in 1964. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1954.
His works are based along patriotic themes, among others poets such as Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and Makhanlal Chaturvedi. His poetry is characterized by non-rhyming couplets in Khadi Boli. Although the couplet structure is non rhyming, the prominent use of alliterations lends a rhythmic backdrop due to the rhythmic alterations between vowels and consonants. He was a religious man, and this can be seen in his works.


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You will need the little bits components shown in the photo and listed below.
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Step 1: Attach Power to Fork
Attach P1 power unit to W7 fork.
Step 2: Attach Wires to Fork
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Discussion in 'Motorola Droid MAXX' started by valglbgl, Jul 12, 2014.
No. They only update on WiFi
I'd say search for how to run in safe mode. Then you can target if it's an app issue, right?
I'd say backup your texts with sms backup and restore. Then factory reset, then take the latest update.
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Idk if I'd go that far.. If it's a only rogue app. That's a lot to do.. But if you don't mind that.. And you feel like putting all of your music and pics back on the phone. Then feel free.. But if it's just one app, you could easily remedy it by monitoring your data usage.. .. Also you haven't said what exactly, your idea of "a lot of data" is.. Turn off background sync and you'll use less than you would with it on.. But does that mean you're using a lot of data with sync on??? That's subjective..
Remember.. This device hasn't got an SD card.. If your data isn't backed up, and you reset.. It's gone... Just letting you know..
But going with a fdr will give you a factory fresh device.
if her pictures auto upload to her picasa/google photos account and she takes alot of pics it could be that as well. But even just clearing the cache on all google related apps will sometimes make them run better. my phone was juicing battery and data( even tho im still unlimited) and i cleared cache and all better.
Wow there are some drastic suggestions in this thread. Just go into settings > Data usage or install a data usage app from the play store.
I ran through a few gigs last month during my road trip. Dropbox auto-syncing was on. I used almost 10GB but I'm on unlimited.
*If you guys get a flat tire, do you replace the suspension??
She used about 7 gigs last month and was on WiFi at home. She has complained about it using so much. Her phone is using 3-4 times the data the other two phones and using.
What does the data usage say is eating up data? Just google+?
Right, it was reported that settings / data usage said it was from Google+ (see post #4), which she doesn't want to use anyway, so it was suggested that she disable G+ or turn off data sync for G+. Not such bad suggestions, eh?
Seriously? Dude Christ. Read up where they are suggesting factory resets.
Actually.. They aren't suggesting it.. I suggested finding the cause and dealing with it that way...And I also said that if the person wanted to do a fdr , it would wipe all of their data.. But it would reset the phone to like new working order and they wouldn't have to play a game of elimination..
Personally.. I always have an app like gsam on board.. That way I can use the app sucker function and deal with problem apps...
But while we're at it... They might prefer to boot into recovery and clear their cache.. But this isn't for the novice user... Even with step by step instructions.. They could accidentally wipe(fdr) the entire device..
There's many different skill levels of users on this site. There's developers.. There's people who've rooted and rom'd for years... And there's beginners... And any number of different variations of users, in between..
I try to keep that in mind when helping, or trying to help a member out...
Thanks for all the suggestions. She has been out of town so I haven't had a chance to try all if the suggestions.
So get this. Our new 16gb maxx has used almost 5 gigs of data this month. A line that barely hits 1.5gbs. I noticed it on our 6 month history.
There have been no system updates or any unusual habit changes.
I need to take a look at the phone and go to the data usage and see what's going on.
I thought it was new phone syndrome at first. You know where you come from a slightly slower or less capable device and play with it more but this is not the case.
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One of the most troubling aspects of the whole debacle is that credit lines that seemed to originate from business other than CIT, such as a local bank, were actually guaranteed by CIT. The lender's problems ultimately cause ripples in the economic pond in the form of delinquencies, cancellations, nonpayment and reduced or cancelled orders in a variety of product categories.
Here's some background on CIT's troubles. At the beginning of September, the 101-year-old company announced that it deferred an interest payment on some notes. CIT is now trying to avoid bankruptcy and buy a little time in order to restructure. It has until October 1 for its creditors to approve a restructuring plan or bankruptcy becomes a possibility.


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In a remote village in Paraguay, children squeal with delight as they scamper barefoot through the dense forest. They run circles around the group of men walking the mile or so to where their yerba maté plants grow under the towering rain forest canopy. The Aché Guayaki tribe is the last of the hunters and gatherers in the area. Growing organic, shade-grown yerba maté tea may just save the tribe and its way of life.
Sebastopol. Calif.-based yerba maté company Guayaki has been working with the Aché for close to a decade, selling their shade-grown organic maté in the United States. Guayaki is one of a growing number of manufacturers that supports fair trade methods to procure botanical ingredients for supplements and medicinal teas.
Currently, about 3,000 or so plant species are traded globally, with many eventually making their way into tea bags, herbal tinctures and supplements in the U.S. The majority of these plants are wild collected, often from remote areas in developing nations.
While fair wages and worker rights have been part of the conversation surrounding coffee and cocoa for years, these issues are just now entering the spotlight for less commonly traded botanicals. All along the supply chain, from growers to consumers, concern and demand for fair trade herbs and wild-caught botanicals is increasing. But the certification is in its infancy, and growing pains are evident.
Why fair trade wild botanicals?
It's been easy to gain attention for crops such as sugar and cocoa that have been connected to child labor and other examples of worker exploitation, says Josef Brinckmann, vice president of research and development with Sebastopol, Calif.-based herbal tea company Traditional Medicinals. Although other botanicals typically are not associated with such issues, they too require fair trade practices, he adds.
As young people leave rural areas for cities to make more money, the average botanical collector is now over 50 years old, Brinckmann explains. Unless subsequent generations are able to make most, or all, of their income from wild collection to support their families, the plant foraging tradition will come to a stop, he says.
Fair trade also supports sustainable botanical collection. "If growth of the natural products industry continues to accelerate at its current pace, demand for raw materials will continue to climb, adding more pressure on native plant populations as well as triggering supply chain shortages in the industry," says Jackie Greenfield, vice president of global sourcing and sustainability at Brevard, N.C.-based Gaia Herbs.
Proponents of fair trade say bringing the practice to developing regions will guarantee consistent business and fair wages for wild-botanical collectors, as well as ensure investment in farmers' communities. In many cases, it would also confirm that sustainable practices are in place.
Consumer concern still low
With double-digit growth reported in 2010 for fair trade product sales in both conventional and natural channels, the certification is obviously meaningful to consumers. But "if you ask the average consumer what fair trade means in the supplements aisle, they probably won't know," says Kerry Hughes, director of the U.S. branch of the Institute for Marketecology, an international agency for inspection, certification and quality assurance of eco-friendly products.
Retailers agree. "Requests for fair trade herbal supplements are few at this point," says Kris Berg, general manager of Cambridge Naturals in Cambridge, Mass. "Customers certainly are familiar with it and are seeking it out for groceries—chocolate and tea, in particular—but the lingo has yet to catch on in herbs and supplements."
At Organic Planet Worker Co-op in Winnipeg, Canada, fair trade is as important a buying criteria as organic and local. Still, shoppers do not yet demand it—at least not for dietary supplements, says Stephen Kirk, an employee/owner and buyer at the co-op. (To learn more about Organic Planet, see page 38.)
Fair trade is where organic was in the late 1980s and early '90s, Brinckmann says. "There's a lot of confusion about the multitude of seals, what they mean and for which products," he says. "But interest in and concern for fair trade at the supplements and tea level is growing."
Manufacturers priced out of certification
Just as small organic farmers struggle with the cost of organic certification, herbal supplements manufacturers often can't afford fair trade certification.
"We believe that fair trade certification is very important, but with the current structures, it's out of our price range," says Heather Henning, national sales manager for Boulder, Colo.-based Organic India tea and supplements company. Many fair trade–certified products are single crops like coffee and sugar, she says. Organic India's products often contain multiple herbs and include ingredients that don't have fair trade standards in place. "For [the Ayurvedic herb] tulsi, there's no setup for it, so we'd have to start from scratch," Henning says.
Although Organic India doesn't have a fair trade certifying agency at this time, the company's social investments in its growers are impressive. It established a co-op in India and not only gives 1 percent of its product sales to members, but also has built three health clinics for the co-op and works to help girls get to school and continue on to college. Organic India is transparent in its price setting and pays above market value—whether the crops fail or flourish. The company also ensures that environmental and agricultural sustainability practices are used on its farms.
Henning says Organic India reviews annually whether it should become fair trade certified. In the meantime, it relies on packaging to communicate its social and environmental commitments.
Gaia Herbs' Greenfield says retailers are showing a growing interest in fair trade. As a result, the company is looking into working with a certifying agency. But, like Organic India, Greenfield says Gaia has always worked with farmers to give them a fair wage and support sustainable practices.
Gaia also believes what a company practices at home with its employees is as vital as fair trade initiatives. "When we have questions about what we are doing to help developing countries, we start by talking about what we are doing here," Greenfield says. Gaia does plenty on the home front. The company grows food for all 120 employees, has a cook prepare a meal twice weekly from its organic garden and donates produce to a local soup kitchen, Bread for Life.
As Gaia navigates its way through the increasingly complicated web of certifying agencies, Greenfield is hoping to find an organization that sets standards for ecological as well as social and economic sustainability. Each fair trade standard has its own criteria. Along with fair wages and labor practices, most include some requirements for environmental protection. FairWild, an increasingly popular certification for botanicals, combines ecological and social aspects, for example.
Fair trade's future
With more than five fair trade seals currently adorning packages, each denoting something different, most agree that the fair trade landscape is anything but uniform. Is a unified standard the solution? "In principle, it's not a bad idea, but there are different considerations for different types of products in different countries and communities, so it might be easier said than done," Brinckmann says.
The next step he'd like to see is reciprocity among standards. For example, Traditional Medicinals has products in which 50 percent of ingredients are FairWild certified and 50 percent are Fair Trade Certified by Fair Trade USA. "It would make more sense to communicate that this product is
100 percent fair trade rather than saying on the side of the box that this product contains 50 percent Fair Trade ingredients and 50 percent FairWild ingredients," Brinckmann says.
Amid the sometimes confusing and quickly evolving fair trade certification world, IMO's Hughes sees a positive side. "It's an exciting time with a lot of change," she says. "There are so many certifications that there's a lot of competition over which approach is better. It raises integrity."


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On the other hand, The Other Side Of The Wind has been in the pipeline so long, it may have curdled. Highly experimental, it may be an artifact of its time (early to mid 1970s). Or it could be timeless. Either way, Indiegogo and Netflix are finishing what Showtime could not -- and there's a lesson in the changing nature of mass media right there. Even the editing technology is nothing Welles would have known, though I'd like to think the man who lined up multiple Movieolas* so he could move from cut to cut while skilled minions stuck the cut film together in his wake might have enjoyed an all-electronic 4K editor that sticks "footage" together as rapidly as you can mark the in and out points (and unsticks them just as fast if you change your mind).
They're starting the sticking-together process now, an amazing development to anyone who has followed even a little of the occasionally bitter feud between Oja Kodar and Beatrice Welles over which of them owns the rights to what parts of the late actor-director's work.
* Or so I read. The editing-room footage in F For Fake shows flatbed editors instead, which spool faster and are gentler to the film. All I ever ran for film editors were tiny Super 8 versions, though I have stuck 16mm film back together in splicers, themselves streamlined artifacts unchanged since before WW II and now undoubtedly rusting away in scrap heaps.
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Gideon O'Riley is a man who has made his share of mistakes in the past, but had finally found love with his wife Lonnie. That is until he is forced to leave Lonnie and his son because Gideon is rightfully married to Cassie. Cassie releases Gideon to return to Lonnie and he seeks an annulment. However, upon returning to his home, he finds that Lonnie has moved on and accepted a proposal from Toby, a young reverend. Whom will Lonnie choose?
This is the third book in Bischof's Cadence of Grace series. I wanted to like it a lot more than I actually did. Admittedly, I have not read the first two books, but I really think that shouldn't matter. There have been several times in the past where I started a series in the middle and have gone on to read all of the other books in the series, just because the characters are that interesting. My opinion is that even books in a series should be able to stand on their own and pull readers in on their own merit, not just continuing the journey from the other books.
I never really got a clear picture of how Gideon found himself "married" to two different women in 1902. Historically speaking, I had a hard time understanding why the townspeople accepted Lonnie and her son Jacob, who would have been considered born out of wedlock at a time when that was not socially acceptable. Granted, the situation was not her fault, but that puzzled me throughout the book.
Aside from my difficulties with the plot, I found the writing to be interesting and descriptive. Bischof is a lovely writer and I would love to read other books by her in the future. The book is heavy on characters thoughts and feelings, more than dialogue between characters. I always enjoy reading about what the characters are thinking. This is one of those books I found myself racing through, just because I wanted to find out who Lonnie chose, and not because it was so interesting I couldn't put it down.
Overall, I have mixed feelings about this book. If you have read the first two books in this series and loved them, then you should definitely read this one. I can't say I would recommend this one as a stand-alone book, although I would recommend the author. Perhaps my best advice would be to read Be Still My Soul first to determine if you want to keep reading through the series.
I received a copy of this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
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Tamizh Padam which got released 7 years ago and made a huge success is ready to come again in the new sequel. This film has a very invigorating theme. The film producer and director will not be leaving to troll almost everyone and everything in the industry.
Director C.S.Amudhan who made Tamil cinema's first ever spoof film 'Tamizh Padam' has announced the release date of Tamizh Padam 2.0 in a way of to troll Tamilrockers and publicity stunt. He has teamed up with Mirchi Shiva for this sequel.
|Tamizh Padam
|Tamizh Padam 2.0
|C.S Amudhan
|Mirchi Shiva
|Shooting Starts
|11th December 2017
|Release Date
|25th May 2018
|Tamilrockers Release Date
|26th May 2018
|Ishwarya Menon
|Sashikanth of Y-NOT Studios
The date of release has been finalized as 25th May 2018 which was announced by Siddharth the good friend of Producer Sashikanth. A poster was released along with announcing to troll Tamilrockers Telugu to release the movie next day on their pirated website.
They have trolled Tamilrockers Malayalam by mentioning them their Official piracy partner of the film, as you can see it below the right corner of the image with their proper logo in it.
Ishwarya Menon casting opposite Mirchi Shiva as his romantic interest. Shooting will be starting on 11th December. As Shiva was on intense training in Bangkok. The film is being produced under the banner of Sashikanth of Y-NOT Studios. Y-NOT has great movies under a banner like 'Vikram Veda'.
Most of the shooting of the film is to be done in India. The rest shooting fro foreign location will be done on the last schedule of the film.


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Why would a D.C. Councilmember cruising toward reelection draw attention to a vote she regrets?
Maybe because she is looking beyond the next election…
Earlier this week, Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser posted the following to her Facebook page [11]: "I deeply regret agreeing to the Mayor's furlough proposal."
Bowser was responding to a Washington Post story [12]on the District's "whopping $240 million surplus."
Despite the regret she now professes, in 2011 Bowser voted in favor of the FY 2012 budget that included four mandatory furlough days for thousands of District government employees.
Let's unpack this a bit.
Government workers are a key constituency for politicians with citywide aspirations. Not only are they reliable voters, many also get heavily involved in campaigns and serve as key opinion-makers at the neighborhood level. Support from public employee unions is also helpful window-dressing in this heavily Democratic town.
Many government workers are asking themselves, "Why did our wallets have to take a hit when the city is now sitting on an extra $240 million?" By signaling regret for the furloughs, Bowser is beginning the process of making amends for her vote. Better to seek forgiveness now than to be confronted with tough questions down the road.
Bowser's mea culpa is also clever in that it portrays the furloughs as a product of Mayor Vince Gray. The message is calculated to maximize political advantage. Bowser uses remorse to take a shot at Gray and also to distance herself from a mayor who has been struggling with low approval numbers.
Gray is not the only politician from whom Bowser is distancing herself. When Council Chairman Kwame Brown was recently chided on Twitter for failing to recognize a Ward 4 neighborhood in which he was attending an event, Bowser joined the chorus and dinged the Chairman [13], too.
Very subtle, but a clear message that Bowser is independent of Brown and not afraid to jab at her thin-skinned and very unpopular boss.
In public forums Bowser has been circumspect on the subject of citywide ambitions. During a September 2011 appearance on a WPFW program I co-host, "D.C. Politics [14],"Bowser did not deny aspiring to higher office. Instead, she parried the suggestion with a talking point about being solely focused on her reelection campaign [15] in Ward 4.
While Bowser may be sticking to the script, several politicos with whom I have spoken are helping to sew the seeds of Bowser buzz. One well-known operative went so far as to say she is unbeatable in 2014 and that anyone who even thinks Bowser can be beat had better enter the race no later than this summer.
Supporters of former-Mayor Adrian Fenty are also keen on Bowser. Many of her reelection campaign events have been a Who's Who of Fenty die-hards.
In 2007, Bowser was handpicked by Fenty to fill the Ward 4 seat he vacated to be mayor. At the time, Fenty was riding the crest of his popularity. Bowser's victory was all but assured the day he endorsed her.
Fenty-ites are quick to point out that Bowser is everything you like about the former mayor, but without the baggage, aloofness and jerkish tendencies [16].
As well, Bowser could easily tap the Fenty money machine. She has benefited from it in previous campaigns.
All this portends a future citywide campaign. Operatives and supporters around Bowser say it is the obvious next step for a politician who is among the few untarnished by scandal.
Bowser does have critics [17]. Some point to her coziness with uber-lobbyists and political insiders [18]. Others are quick to point out that Bowser has never been tested on the campaign trail and that a citywide bid is far more grueling than the relative cakewalks she has enjoyed in Ward 4.
Also, it is just a matter of time before other mayoral hopefuls see Bowser as a possible threat. How she fares when the knives come out is anyone's guess.
The next mayoral election is scheduled for 2014; an eternity in politics. Anything can happen. Stars can rise fast and crash down just as quickly. What is clear is that jockeying for position has already begun.
Chuck Thies co-hosts the "D.C. Politics" show Thursday mornings at 11:00 am on WPFW 89.3 FM, streaming online at wpfw.org [19]. You can follow him on Twitter @chuckthies [20]


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I was in need of a quick breakfast this morning, so I just threw some sprouted bread in the toaster. What are some of your favorite toppings?
darkchocolatepeanutbutter The cliche: mashed avocado. I also love scrambled eggs with mushrooms and spinach!
olivettefarm Almond butter, bananas and a little bit of honey are always great for me in a pinch!
marynfulton2 I'm a sweet girl in the morning, but that's one of my favorites for a quick lunch @darkchocolatepeanutbutter ! Absolutely @olivettefarm ! Have you ever tried it with a sprinkle of cinnamon? That's...
What's your favorite banana bread recipe? Need to use these babies up ASAP
JenniferEmilson My caramelized banana bread with walnuts! On the blog 😋☺
Can anyone explain these precious pale strawberries found in Tokyo? Price: $60. At a store called Sun Fruits that treats fruits like rare and expensive works of art. Also found: $100 musk melon.
サン・フルーツ (Sun Fruits) 東京ミッドタウン店
Recommendation for a dinner restaurant with gluten-free and vegan options in Manhattan?
New York City
A friend of mine will be in town next week and wants a yummy and fun but not too fancy night out. Doesn't have to be a strictly vegan or gluten-free establishment, but one with some options. Any id...
darkchocolatepeanutbutter Souen is a really great restaurant that serves macrobiotic foods that are gluten-free and vegan
annefood Thanks Noni!
Udi Westville maybe
Latte love for Pumpkin Seed Milk. Has anyone else tried it? What's your favorite milk?
Irving Farm Coffee Roasters
Big fan of pumpkin seed milk and want to try and make some. Grateful local coffee shop is serving it now.
DietID_TeamDietitians Yes! I got a cappuccino with this at Irving and it was delicious!
SimplySeema @Rachna yes! Such a big fan and hope other coffee shops will start to carry pumpkin seed milk as well.
HealthyHarlequin If hate to have to milk a pumpkin seed!
Fresh cilantro & avocado are two of my kitchen staples. What are some of yours?
akhilg2002 My wife is trying to get us to grow plants at home, so now our Basil plant is a source of extra seasoning on half of our home cooking!
DietID_TeamDietitians Ginger!! I put it in literally everything from soups, to tea, to fish. I don't have an ice cream maker but if I did, I'd probably make ginger ice cream too ;)
marynfulton2 Mmm two of my favorites. What would we do without spices and herbs?! They make life better 😊
Thoughts on this? --In Defense of Eating Seasonally (Most of the Time)
"Why embracing a "post-seasonal" world isn't the answer." I'm so glad this was written because Amanda Cohen's op Ed telling people to just give up on seasonal and local is not helping us progress. ...
annefood I agree—it is definitely not black and white. The alternative to a tomato out of season is not cereal. People are capable of being mindful, and also making exceptions. Most days I eat applesauce I...
DietID_TeamDietitians Yes this is most definitely a classic example of why we need a better vernacular. The terms are confusing and in fact create a polarizing discussion
If you were a food, what would you be and why?
Have a fun question for everyone! Inquiring minds want to know!
darkchocolatepeanutbutter I would be a banana because I love bright colors and I think I'm sweet :)
sugardetoxme I still love @simransethi's response of a pomegranate, "it's tart and sweet and you have to work to get to the good stuff."
annefood I love her response too @sugardetoxme ! So clever.
How many of us were told (as a child) or tell our children to "eat everything on your plate"?
Reading a book right now that analyzes old behaviors (in times when food was scarce) that can lead to more finicky eating habits or overreating. My mom would often say this line (or some version of...
olivettefarm My Venezuelan mother would not let me leave the table until I cleared my plate. I'm almost 30
now and I can tell she still wants me to when I come visit her :)
JenniferEmilson This can be dangerous. An inner dialogue is created where even if full there will be a feeling of guilt or necessity to clean the plate. And yet our bodies are saying, 'I'm full, don't need more.'
ziyizero This can be bad since one might become use to eat a large portion and then can stop from eating a lot, or one might starts disliking eating.
How do you Salvage Salad Greens?
@Food52 recently did this post on salvaging salad greens in soup. I just did this with some leftover tatsoi. Sure some of you have tips. Any suggestions?
olivettefarm Love tatsoi! I like to add that to smoothies when I have a ton. I also like to grill romaine heads if they're beginning to wilt.
katewilson Those are good ones. My dad loves spinach in his smoothies. And he's a beast behind the grill! Grilled romaine sounds great with blue cheese. @olivettefarm
sugardetoxme I take my wilty kale and turn it into kale chips. Usually add a little cumin or nutritional yeast for added B vitamins. Bet @serveMEnow @gingerandchorizo @Cravingsinamsterdam @JenniferEmilson and...


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Comparative respiratory physiology: the fundamental mechanisms and the functional designs of the gas exchangers
Authors Maina JN
Received 23 July 2014
Accepted for publication 11 September 2014
Published 10 December 2014 Volume 2014:6 Pages 53—66
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/OAAP.S53213
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Review by Single-blind
Peer reviewer comments 2
Editor who approved publication: Dr Peter Koulen
John N Maina
Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract: Acquisition of molecular oxygen (O2) from the external fluid media (water and air) and the discharge of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the same milieu is the primary role of respiration. The functional designs of gas exchangers have been considerably determined by the laws of physics which govern the properties and the flux of gases and the physicochemical properties of the respiratory fluid media (water or air and blood). Although the morphologies of gas exchangers differ greatly, certain shared structural and functional features exist. For example, in all cases, the transfer of O2 and CO2 across the water/air–blood (tissue) barriers occurs entirely by passive diffusion along concentration gradients. In the multicellular organisms, gas exchangers have developed either by evagination or invagination. The arrangement, shape, and geometries of the airways and the blood vessels determine the transport and exposure of the respiratory media and, consequently, gas exchange. The thickness of the water/air–blood (tissue) barrier, the respiratory surface area, and volume of pulmonary capillary blood are the foremost structural parameters which determine the diffusing capacity of a gas exchanger for O2. In fish, stratified design of the gills and internal subdivision of the lungs increase the respiratory surface area: the same adaptive property is realized by different means. A surface active phospholipid substance (surfactant) lines the respiratory surface. Adaptive specializations of gas exchangers have developed to meet individual survival needs.
Keywords: gas exchanger, oxygen, respiration, carbon dioxide, diffusing capacity
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Stay or go – Controlled Separation
Controlled Separation : Should you stay or let it go?
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- Have you been considering giving up on your relaionship?
- You feel the you are doing all the work? You spouse doesn't seem to care at all.
- Are you wondering if it is worth it at all?
Some people abandoned their relationship thinking that anything is better than what they have tolerate at the moment. Years of tyring to make it work has ground out any love you had.
Is there anything else you can try?
There just might be?
Controlled separation.
If you have ever considered divorcing but are terified of of the ramifications that you would want to explore this interesting concept that will help yout to get clarity on your next move
What is controlled sparation and how does it work?
Conseparation was originally diveloped by Lee Raffel. The the troubled couple decide to separate – not divorce, not a trial separation. The separation is no ordinary separation either. they need to draft up a contract that involves how they will deal with number of issues.
There is a structured plan guided by a therapist
Well defined guidelines:
- Detailts of who is to move out
- What furniture they would take or need
- Finances
- Children and child care
- Housework
- How to relate to each other
- Whether dating others is permitted etc
- Oral or written contract
- A predetermined frame of time
- Open communication
- Safety net (no divorce will be pursued during this time)
- Activitly doing your best
What are the goals in this process:
- To provide time and emotional space outside of the love relationship so each person can enhance their personal, social, spiritual, and emotional growth.
- To better identify needs, wants, and expectations of the love relationship.
- To help each person explore their basic relationship needs, and to help them determine if these needs can be met in this love relationship.
- To experience the social, sexual, economic, and parental stresses which can occur when I have separated from my partner.
- To allow the couple to determine if they can work through the process better apart than they can in the relationship.
- To experience enough emotional distance so they can separate out issues, which have become convoluted and mixed up together with the other partner's issues in the relationship.
- To provide an environment to help the relationship heal, transform, evolve into a more loving and healthy relationship.
For discussion on the effectiveness of controlled separation click here