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Probably one of the most random/unexpected Carrie mention I've ever heard, but I was watching "The Visit" a few weeks ago and the little boy in the movie decided to say "female pop star names" instead of cursing, and at one point in the movie he yells out "Carrie Underwood!" The other names he says are Shakira and Sarah McLachlan lol...random, but just goes to show how universally recognizable Carrie is.
Other than that it really is just a good movie to see if you're into psychological thrillers, I really enjoyed it!
That's pretty funny. Thanks for letting us know.

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This week his 2011 debut is up for analysis. With Flanagan, even early Flanagan, you know you're gonna see something good. But will you see something scary? Hit download, press play, and find out!
Jeff Hates Trailers - (1:50)
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Hennepin County is by far the most populous in Minnesota. With a population of 1,132,425 according to the 2010 U.S. Census, about one in five Minnesotans live in the county. The county's, and in a way the state's, early history is closely linked to the establishment of its seat and most populous city, Minneapolis. The area was named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin.
Hennepin County has a total area of 606.38 square miles, of which 556.62 square miles (or 91.79%) is land and 49.77 square miles (or 8.21%) is water. Major arterial routes include Interstate 35W, Interstate 94, Interstate 394, Interstate 494, Interstate 694 and more. Its major economic centers are in downtown Minneapolis and Bloomington, but many other cities such as Golden Valley, Plymouth, St. Louis Park and other Hennepin County communities have plenty to offer. The Twins' Target Field and Vikings' Metrodome are found in Minneapolis, while the Mall of America is in Bloomington. Hennepin County is home to more than a dozen colleges and universities, including University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus in Minneapolis, Hennepin Technical College in Brooklyn Park and Eden Prairie, Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Normandale Community College in Bloomington.
There are many choices for real estate in Hennepin County. Homes for sale in the county come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and prices. Single-family homes start at $10,000 and could climb to more than $12,000,000. Townhouses start at about $25,000, while condominiums can be found for as low as $12,500. In July 2011, the median sales price for a home in Hennepin County was $174,000. Though this data has been collected from the MLS and is reliable, it is not guaranteed.
Are you searching for homes in Hennepin County or have you been considering selling your home in the area? Before you do, be sure you have a professional Realtor on your side. The Homes of Minnesota Realtor Team will work together to help you understand the local market, screen prospective buyers and sellers, negotiate on your behalf, and help you take pleasure in the successful purchase or sale of your home. Navigating the Real Estate market is exhausting, don't face this daunting task alone. The Realtors at Homes of Minnesota are standing by to help take the worry and stress out of your transaction.


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Everybody wants to live not only a better but also a longer life. Living well is a common human pursuit, but it may often turn out to be only a carrot and stick-forever unattainable. Post why? It is because living well is an art that requires profound ancient wisdom, not just the conventional wisdom of modern medicine, in order to live a disease-free life.
The human body has built-in body wisdom that keeps it young and healthy, that is, an innate awareness of its basic needs, as well as its warning signs and signals of internal disharmony that may lead to imminent disease and disorder. Therefore, wisdom is required to enhance this human consciousness to create a new environment in which the biochemistry of the body becomes the substance of awareness of beliefs, emotions, and thoughts, thereby instrumental in maintaining and sustaining the overall wellness of an individual to remain disease -free as much as and as long as possible.
Body wisdom is no more than everyday eating and living habits. Eating is a science, and living is an art; they complement each other, just as "yin" and "yang" do. Human wisdom is, essentially, the capability in creating and managing this art and science to live a better and a longer life.
Ancient wisdom, however, is not the same as contemporary wisdom. The former has more to do with the mind-how it thinks and perceives; the latter focuses more on knowledge acquisition, and its practical applications in life.
A classic example of ancient wisdom is that of Lao Tzu, an ancient sage in China some 2,600 years ago. He was the author of the immortal Chinese classic "Tao Te Ching," which is one of the most translated and extensively read books of all time. According to legend, Lao Tzu wanted to leave China for Tibet, but he was stopped at the city gate, where he was forced to put down his wisdom in writing before he could leave. Reluctantly, he expressed his profound and eternal wisdom in only 5,000 words, and that was how "Tao Te Ching" came into being ..
How does Tao wisdom help in living a better and a longer life?
Lao Tzu's wisdom is unique in that it emphasizes "reverse" thinking of the human mind, instead of the "conditioned" contemporary mindset. In other words, one must, first and foremost, have an empty mind before one can even think out of the box, not to mention creating one's own box in thinking. To illustrate, Lao Tzu's focus on "under-doing" (as opposed to "over-doing" or "the more, the better" contemporary mindset), "living in the present" (as opposed to "multi-tasking" modern lifestyle ), and "no expectation of result" (as opposed to "goal-oriented" or "goal-setting" attitude of this day and age) is conducive to creating internal peace and harmony, which is the essence of living a stress-free life. The essentials of Tao wisdom are fundamental to the art of living well and the science of healthy living without stress.
In addition, Lao Tzu believed that true wisdom lies in internalizing and self-intuiting eternal truths. Unlike contemporary wisdom, Tao wisdom has no blueprint for all-just as the health of an individual is based on the unique body chemistry of that individual; true wisdom, therefore, is acute awareness of the needs of the body, which is known exclusively only to that individual.
Another example of ancient wisdom is that of Hippocrates (377-460 BC), the "Father of Medicine." His basic principles of health and wellness are profound. For example, Hippocrates said: "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." His wisdom is quite contrary to the conventional wisdom of modern medicine, which overtly emphasizes the use of drugs. The United States is the riches but also the sickest country in the world, and our healthcare costs have skyrocketed in recent decades.
Hippocrates also expressed his wisdom in the art of living: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The wisdom of modern medicine focuses on cure through drugs and procedures, rather than prevention through a holistic approach to health and wellness of the body, the mind, and the spirit. The wisdom of modern medicine is simply on quick fixing the symptoms, instead of preventing their occurrence in the first place.
The wisdom of Hippocrates echoed that of Lao Tzu's "non-doing" or "under-doing" when he said: "To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy." According to Hippocrates, "everything in excess is opposed to nature" because of the presence of the innate body wisdom in self-healing. Unfortunately, modern medicine chooses to do just the opposite, and thus opening the Pandora's box, creating many more human diseases and disorders through toxic drugs and procedures.
The Bible is the Word of God. It provides the ancient wisdom of God for health and wellness in the form of principles for the body, the soul, and the spirit. For example, in the Old Testament (Genesis 1:19), God prescribed ancient Hebrews with instructions to eat plants and seeds. As a matter of fact, in Hebrew language, the word "meat" is essentially "food" and not animal protein. However, it does not mean that God would like the Hebrews to become vegetarians; rather, fruits, vegetables, and herbs would have to be their basic or first diet. The Bible, in many instances, reveals the ancient wisdom in healthy eating to maintain health and wellness.
To conclude, wisdom is about acute awareness and profound perception through the human eye to see things as they really are, without looking at them through colored spectacles. In Matthew 6:22, Jesus said: "The light of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye be single, your body will be full of light." True human wisdom is how we perceive and internalize our life experiences, based on an understanding of who we really are and what our essential roles are in this world, as well as of the natural laws of things. With this profound understanding, we will look at everything and everyone around us in perspective. One final word: without true human wisdom, it is difficult to understand the wisdom of God.
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Link to subredditFrom September 19th to September 26th, the subreddit /r/syriancivilwar ran its fourth political inclination poll on the Syrian conflict – polls have been conducted since June, 2013. Link to subreddit.
The poll asked its respondents thirteen questions about the Syrian conflict covering general opinions, the chemical weapon's issue, the Kurdish question and war crimes. With over 600 IP addresses responding, the sample size is our largest yet.
This blog records September's results. The results for the polls conducted in June, July, August and September are listed at the bottom of the page.
1. Which side do you support in the Syrian Civil War? (Question allowed for multiple answers)
2. Specifically, which side do you support in the Syrian Civil War? (Question allowed for multiple answers)
3. Do you think there can be a political resolution to the Syrian conflict?
4. Who do you blame for the Syrian protests turning into the Syrian Civil War? (Multiple answers)
5. Which party do you believe was responsible for the August 21st chemical weapon attack?
6. Specifically, which party do you think was responsible for the chemical weapon attack?
7. Do you approve of the proposed Russian deal for Syria to dismantle its CW systems?
Question 8: Do you think the proposed Russian deal is a viable option? (In that it would result in the total destruction of Syria's CW stockpile?
Question 9: If the proposed deal collapses, how likely do you view the possibility of a limited strike on Syria by the US and a small coalition of other states?
Question 10: How likely is the possibility that Syria will be Balkanized (split into numerous states, possibly including, but not limited to: Kurdistan, rebel state and pro-government state)
Question 11: How likely do you view the possibility of the Kurds creating an independent Kurdistan?
Question 12: Which party has committed the most heinous war crimes in Syria? (Single answer)
Question 13: Specifically, which party(s) do you think is responsible for the most heinous war crimes in Syria? (Question allowed for multiple answers)
Past polls:
August 21st Chemical Weapon's Poll
August Political Inclinations Poll
July Political Inclination Poll
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My Dad died when he was 91, but lived until he was 92.
Nobody would describe those last few months as life.
On his 90th birthday, with family gathered around, dad joked that he would have looked after himself better, had he known he was going live so long. In truth he was in very good nick for a man of that age; especially one who had worked with noisy machinery, amidst dust and grease and spent whole summers, unadorned by sun creams, working in the fields.
……………..and he still had a full head of hair.
Even at 90 he was still active, and would go up ladders, dig the garden, horse around with the grandchildren, use the computer and potter around in his workshop. He was an avid reader and would always have a book open at the table; spine wrecked by the bulldog clip he was using as his book mark. (Anyone who knows my other half will know the pain it caused him to see a book treated in such a fashion – especially if it was one of his own that he had reluctantly lent to dad).
Just to deviate for a moment. I couldn't remember what type of clip dad had used as his book mark so just Googled 'bulldog clip' to check I had the right name; unfortunately, I missed off the letter 'c' from the word clip. Do you know how disturbing it is to accidentally view close-up pictures of bulldog lips? DON'T BE TEMPTED TO LOOK; THE IMAGE WILL BE BURNT INTO YOUR BRAIN FOREVER!
The only real sign of Dad's growing years was his poor hearing. Those years of working as an engineer in noisy environments had taken their toll and, while he was capable of having a 'normal' (if you could ever call conversations with my dad normal) one-to-one conversation, he found it difficult to take part in group discussion and eventually just stopped trying because it was too difficult.
The hearing issue did lead to some hilarious moments though. Mum would arrive home and dad would say: "Somebody rang while you were out". "Who was it?" mum would reply. "I couldn't hear" he would respond. He could hear the phone ring, but not the voice on the other end. So instead of leaving it he would pick the phone up with the greeting: "Jean's out"….."Pardon?"…… "I can't hear you"…"Who is it?…… "You'll have to ring when Jean gets back".
I once had an hilarious 'conversation' with him over Skype where he couldn't hear what I was saying and I ended up holding written signs up to my web-cam with dad replying via written signs even though I could hear him perfectly well! Those are the moments you wish you had somehow recorded.
But I deviate. Dad died on the 28th December 2011 at the age of 92, but, as I said before, by then most of him had left on an earlier train.
A serious virus kick-started a sharp decline in dad's last year and although he did regain his health he misplaced his will to live (and his hearing aids on numerous occasions)
Sometime during the summer of 2011, I visited while mum was out and I went to keep dad company beside a bonfire that he had built in the garden. He told me that he had been reflecting on the balance book of life and decided that there was a large deficit; there being in his mind, more debt than credit. Reminding him about the lives he had changed, the children and grandchildren he had influenced and had raised, did nothing to change his mind. The subsequent conversation went something like this:
Dad: "I've had enough now and I don't see any point in hanging around any longer. I've been doing a search on the internet on legal ways to end it, but I can't find anything. Can you look for me?"
Me: Stunned silence.
I can't remember my exact response because at the time I was so upset that I had to leave him by the bonfire in search of some tissues while my son Ben went out to the bonfire to remonstrate with him for upsetting me. The subject never came up again, but so, so many times during those months of misery where he slowly lost his mind and his dignity I really wished that I had listened and considered both his position and choice. He knew his mind was failing him, and at that moment could not have been clearer about what he was saying or what he wanted.
Dad had acted quite strangely for most of his life, so it was quite difficult to tell when the really strange behaviour started. I know mum was concerned well before any of the rest of us noticed anything, but it came to a head one day when he walked out of the front door taking with him all the keys and proceeded to route march along the mile-long country road towards the next village. Mum couldn't follow because he took the car keys and she wasn't as nimble as him (and boy was he nimble when he wanted to be). In a scene reminiscent of the human chain in the 'Golden Goose'[i] it took the local GP, 2 ambulance crew and the police to finally get all 4 ft 11 of him into an ambulance and off to the local hospital.
…and that's when the nightmare really started.
Dad ended up staying in hospital for about six weeks. He would alternate between being perfectly lucid on one day and inhabiting an entirely different universe on another. While there he managed to rip a fire extinguisher (almost as big as him) from the wall and throw it towards nursing staff who he thought were trying to lock him away. He fended off two male student nurses with a tea tray when they tried to apprehend him after spotting him sneaking out of the ward. On one visit he told me he had checked how far the window opened so that he could jump out (he tested out the drop by throwing his hearing aids out in advance). One day he told me I was the best daughter in the world, and the next day I was the worst for leaving him in hospital. Another occasion he ticked me off for interrupting him as he said he was addressing a very large audience and would now have to start all over again. He asked me what I thought of a business idea he had of starting a fast-food paella (it was always his speciality meal) cafe in Saffron Walden using my two sons as chefs (they were both at University studying physics at the time).
When I walked into that ward each day I never knew whether or not I was going to get 'lucid dad', with whom I could have a 'normal' conversation (when hearing aids were retrieved from 7 floors below), 'sleepy dad' who would say hello, then turn over and sleep the whole time I was there); or 'grumpy dad' who wanted to be out of hospital as soon as possible and couldn't understand why we had left him there to rot. Oddly, on a day that followed one where he had been delusional, he would be able to discuss the delusion in detail and recognise it as such. If he had been horrible to me one day, he would always apologise the next. Occasionally, if he had experienced a mini stroke he would slur his words for a while and always know he was doing so, he used to say that speaking was like 'dragging through barbed wire'. He was also convinced that his anvil and physics books had been stolen from home and would frequently ask me to check they were still there.
My daily arrival at the hospital would always start with a hunt for the hearing aids, without which no conversation was possible. As well as them being thrown out of the window, another pair was sent to the laundry with the sheets (never to be seen again) and occasionally they would be found in the ears of a neighbouring patient. The usual spot to find them though, would be under the pillow or somewhere in that vicinity, rolled up in a piece of tissue.
Anyone who has been a regular visitor to somebody who has been in hospital for a long period will know that real time stops when you go through those hospital doors. You enter an alternative universe punctuated by weird meal times (lunch at 11.30? really?), linen changes, temperature and blood pressure checks and, if you are very lucky, an occasional visit from a doctor. Unless you are really on the ball you never find your car in the car park because, without fail, you head for the spot where you had parked the day before and you consider taking out a second mortgage to cover the hospital car parking charges. You get to know the hospital staff far too intimately than you would wish and conversely become a part-time resident in your own home where the remainder of the family greet you like a long-lost relative. You will use your dad's +5 glasses instead of your own +1's (which you have left in the car) and you will use them to read his charts, any neighbouring patients charts, directions for waste disposal, instructions on operating a drip; all because you are so bored and it has been such a long wait for him to come out from the scanning room, and the book that you bought with you especially for these occasions is sitting with your glasses in the car. After six weeks of eating fast-food from hospital eateries you are likely to become a patient yourself and, due to time constraints, food at home is usually accompanied by "pop, pop, pop, ping" (knife in cellophane followed by microwave ding).
Vascular Dementia, I have learned, does not follow any particular pattern. There were clearly some characteristics that indicated that dad had the disease, but he didn't quite fit into the box (when did he ever?) and the specialist was never really convinced that it was a correct diagnosis – he did suggest that the delirious episodes could have been brought on by a succession of various infections, being on steroids for too long or the series of mini-strokes that dad was experiencing. Nevertheless, it was apparent to all of us who spent time with dad during those last two months that a large part of the person we knew and loved had gone.
Losing somebody to dementia is like having them bob around on a boat that never quite reaches shore. Occasionally, they will get so close that you can touch them, communicate with them and think that maybe, just maybe they will make it to the shore safely, but just as you hold your hand out to help them step out of the boat, a big wave comes along and off they bob again into the distance.
We resisted the idea of a care home until it was absolutely clear that there was no way any of us could provide Dad with the 24-hour care and safety he needed (we tried bringing him home, but it proved a disaster for both him and us). Thus began the horrendous search for something suitable. Dad had some savings so would be a self-funder; as such social services would do nothing to help; we were given and list of homes and basically told to get on with it (and quickly as they had now decided that dad was a bed-blocker). Already extremely distressed, my mum and I had to trawl around some of the most depressing places I have ever stepped into.
I'm no stranger to the care home. My first job on leaving school was working in an old people's home and there were things then that the 17-year-old me would rather not have seen (which, several years later, resulted in the matron being sent to prison). It was depressing to see there had been little change in the last 40 years and that the 'chairs-in-a-circle-staring-into-space-no-stimulation' model was still in use. That 'didn't quite-make-it-in-time' aroma still welcomed you as you stepped through the door (you all know what I mean), and the requisite television was still playing on a loop to nobody in particular. They might just as well have had a sign on the door saying: 'If you are lucky enough to have any of your mind left, please check it in at the door as you will have no use for it here'.
On one of dad's good days I had a conversation with him about the home we had decided on and he appeared to have a good grasp of the situation; we were all still trying to kid ourselves that this was just a temporary measure until he 'got better' and he took the news quite well. However, he was horrified when he heard how much it was going to cost and, ever the haggler, asked to me negotiate a reduced price if he agreed to do some jobs around the place..
In the end we settled on the least-worst option.
The day dad went into the care home was the day I grieved his loss. Even with the unfounded hope that he would eventually go home, we all knew there would only be one way out now.
Dad would often be out in the garden when I visited at the family home and the one thought that kept going through my mind over and over again, was that I would never see him smiling and walking towards me from some part of the wilderness that was his back garden.
The next two months followed a similar pattern to when he was in the hospital, but now in addition there were late night calls from the care home because they couldn't cope with the disruption he was causing; they claimed to have specialist dementia unit but up until then they had only had to cope with quiet little old ladies who raised their voices once in a while. Dad was anything but quiet, he spent much of the day sleeping, and most of the night creating havoc. He slept in other people's rooms, wore other people's clothes, (on one occasion a rather nice cashmere cardigan with the name 'Vera' sewn into the collar), emptied cupboards, turned furniture upside-down, charmed most of the staff and generally made sure everyone felt his presence. Oh, and frequently lost his hearing aids!
You had to see the funny side of things or you would have cried. On one occasion I found myself sitting in a room where the mental health registrar had an out-and-out blazing row with the deputy of the care home over how they were managing my dad. The care home deputy requesting a prescription of stronger sedatives and the consultant refusing with the words "If you can't deal with these problems you should question whether or not you should call yourself a dementia unit. They couldn't deal with dad then they couldn't really call themselves a specialist dementia. They had completely forgotten I was in the room and were going at it hammer and tongs. Another time, when my daughter and I were sitting with dad sharing some cake we had taken, another resident sidled along, whipped the cake from the plate and stuffed it into her mouth with expert speed as she walked by, smiling sweetly at us with squirrel like cheeks.
Anyway, that was before the teeth (mercifully) put an end to it all.
Just before the Golden Goose incident, dad had decided that he wanted to get some false teeth. He had been lucky enough to keep his own teeth well into his late years but as one after the other of them had broken off he had found it increasingly difficult to eat some of the foods he loved, and he eventually asked me to take him to the dentist. What he actually wanted was implants but when he saw the price he decided on false ones.
The treatment and the process of getting the new teeth spanned a few months he had already been in the home about a month when the new teeth were ready.
There I was, sitting quietly in the corner of the room at the dentist; ready to assist on the communication front should I be needed. The teeth were put in and what followed was reminiscent of a badly dubbed film. Dad started to talk and, as he did so the teeth began to take on a life of their own; moving completely out of sync with the words that were being spoken. As if that wasn't comical enough, and you will have to be over 45 to know what I am talking about, all I could think of as the giggle was forming within, was that buck-toothed vicar from the 'Dick Emery Show'[ii].
The first giggle escaped without fanfare, but the torrent that followed could not be ignored. Everyone knows that once an inappropriate giggle has been formed there is no way to suppress it (ably described in the Giggle Loop from the BBC series Coupling[iii]), indeed the act of stifling the giggle creates fertile breeding conditions making it impossible for the torrent to be contained. While I was in some pain through laughing so much, with tears streaming down my cheeks all action in the room had stopped with Dad, the dentist and the nurse looking at me wondering what was so funny.
Anyway, back to those murdering teeth……
Furnished with his new choppers I took dad back to the care home and passed on the instructions that the teeth should come out at regular intervals to give the gums a chance to get used to their new inhabitants and not get too sore. These instructions were not, or could not be, followed and in the event the teeth were not removed for several days, causing an infection. This led to a fall (unnoticed by the home staff) resulting in a broken pubis and collar bone and a few days back with those familiar hospital faces.
What followed was farce-like and would have actually been funny had it not been so traumatic. Back in the care home (way too soon in my opinion) dad kept falling out of bed. He would try to get up, forgetting he had broken bones, then fall. However, the care home refused to put any bars on his bed because of 'Health and Safety' issues. This resulted in three falls from bed and three hospital stays (and three phone calls to me in the middle of the night) in the space of about a week.
By the third time he was taken into hospital he was in a poor state; in pain from each of his falls and drifting in and out of consciousness. He wasn't really communicating, and any words that were spoken had reverted to his native Austrian tongue.
What he did next showed that despite what could be seen on the surface, some part of that strong personality remained and that he now was calling time.
In one final act of defiance he tightly closed his lips; refusing drugs, food and water, and what remained of the man went to be reunited with his dignity and the eccentricities and idiosyncrasies that were my dad.
Fred Plisner had left the building.
[i] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Goose
[ii] http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow


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College, School, Office, Department and Program Names
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West Virginia University College of Law
WVU College of Law
West Virginia University Extension Service
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Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University
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Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University
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Do not use possessives when writing these names, such as "WVU's College of Law." Instead, write "the WVU College of Law." Names of colleges, schools, offices, departments and programs are capitalized when they refer to specific WVU units. Schools and colleges should use their Board of Governors-approved full name for the first reference.
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School of Nursing
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Unless they are proper names, such names are not capitalized when used generically in reference to disciplines and fields of study.
The WVU Public Administration Department offers courses focusing on law and history.
Mike is an accounting major in the WVU College of Business and Economics.
Lisa is studying Spanish and computer science at Potomac State College of WVU.
Morgantown Schools and Colleges:
College of Business and Education
College of Creative Arts
Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
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College of Law
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Are you interested in adopting new green habits in your household? Would you like to reduce your household garbage by one third? Composting, an age-old practice, could be just the thing.
What is compost: Compost is decomposed organic material. Plant matter is placed in a bin where it breaks down by way of micro-organisms. As your materials decompose, they become rich in nutrients and can be later used as a natural fertilizer.
This practice is once again gathering attention, as concern over landfill use and recycling have hit mainstream. Composting means that items that were once "trash" can now be turned into a natural product to reuse again.
What can you compost: The list of compostable materials is extensive, and includes a few surprising items! Here are just a few of the hundreds of items that you may compost: fall leaves, grass clippings, pet hair, human hair clippings, cardboard, newspapers, herbivore manure (cow, horse, etc), wood ash, and plant material.
What NOT to compost: You want to ensure that your compost is healthy for use later on, since what you compost may eventually become part of those plants and vegetables. Do not compost: bread products (they attract pests), cooking oil, stubborn plants (like dandelions), dog or cat feces.
Where to use compost: If you have a large yard or live in a rural area, you may find that an open compost heap is perfectly acceptable, especially if placed where you won't be bothered by smells. However, if you live on a normal city lot (or even in a townhouse or condo), you may find using a closed compost bin or tumbler is preferable.
Keep in mind that open bins may attract pests, ranging from bugs and mice to small animals. If this is a concern, be sure to choose a compost heap that is either covered, or use a bin with a lid. (Closed containers sometimes require you to add water from time to time.)
Another option, compost tumblers, can turn your waste into compost quickly, with some brands claiming to do so in as little as two weeks. You simply add the waste and give the tumbler a turn every few days.
Some homeowners take composting and make an art of it. Modern composting incorporates a carefully monitored process with specific rules for the use and addition of water, air, and nitrogen- and carbon-rich ingredients to your bin. Others simply compost natural organic material and let nature do the real work. The choice is up to you, but hopefully the next time you are throwing away organic material, you'll consider giving your dumpster a break and will instead try composting!


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AHR Expo 2001 Nearly Sold Out
November 10, 2000
WESTPORT, CT — The International Exposition Company (IEC), in charge of the AHR Expo 2001 in Atlanta, GA, announced that more than 95% of the available exhibit space is already sold. According to Clay Stevens, president of IEC, more than 379,000 sq ft of the available 395,000 sq ft has been reserved by more than 1,250 hvacr manufacturers, making it the second-largest AHR Expo ever. For more information, visit www.ahrexpo.com (website).
Publication date: 11/13/2000
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The original design and tangible appearance on the Nebl planter has made it subject to a massive interest and fascination from all over the world. Find out more about the planter and read how designer Michael Rem came up with the idea for Nebl here.
A blanket of fog covers the streets, dewdrops decorate tips of grass and a massive silence prevails. In this moment the entire world seems small, calm and present. Chaos of hustle and bustle sweeps away and a feeling of being in the moment takes over. The nature seems luxuriant and full of life, and at the same time it feels like everything has just stopped.
These emotions are captured in Nebl: an intuitive and innovative planter that salutes unity and simplicity. The pure and minimalistic design represents the sense of peacefulness and calmness that strikes, when everything is wrapped in rich, grey quietness. As a fragment of a moment Nebl captures the feeling of ease and reflects it out to the entire room.
Nebel is the German word for 'fog' and this exact meteorological phenomenon is the main source of inspiration for Berlin based designer Michael Rem. Michael Rem about the inspiration for Nebl:
"Walking around on a foggy day, feeling this fresh air in your lungs. Water condenses on your skin. Only blurry silhouettes of things are around you, defining the boarders of your current world. Nothing is behind it. Only imagination. Fog hides everything unnecessary but reveals the beauty of simple things."
Simplicity, emotionality and innovation are mantras in Michael Rem's design philosophy, which is transformed in to specific ideas based on inspiration and impressions from everyday life. Nebl is no excuse to this and is in many ways a sublime illustration of Michael Rem's entire approach to product design.
Nebl consists of two parts: A ceramic base in which the plant is placed, and a mouth-blown frosted glass that is placed on the base. The matte finish of the glass adds an exclusiveness and tactility to Nebl, that makes it hard not to get intrigued. The glass has two openings with different sizes, which makes it possible to place the glass either high or low on the base. This subtle detail allows you to change the look of Nebl according to sense of taste or mood. Furthermore, this option accommodates the functional aspect that some plants grow upwards and some downwards – adjust the placing of the glass to the plant and create the ideal surroundings for its growth.


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Sometimes I like to fantasize about weddings that I would love to shoot. I have this dream about a circus-themed wedding where the bride rides an elephant down the isle where there is huge net that catches the groom, who is shot from a cannon from 100 yards away. They get married by a clown on stilts and the best man is a monkey with cymbals and a funny hat. The reception is carny-games and 3-ring circus entertainment. Of course, that would be a million dollar wedding, and people who have a million dollars to drop on a wedding tend to have different tastes than I do. So, I started to think about realistic fantasy weddings. This one featured in this blog would be pretty close to a realistic fantasy wedding. The wedding was at one of my favourite places in Nova Scotia: Oceanstone. It was outside, the weather was perfect. The bride and bridesmaids all dressed as unicorns! The groom and his men were hilarious and friendly. Everybody was warm and welcoming. They were married by a good friend of theirs. They had a band, and the band was awesome. And, the bride and groom really valued photography, so much so that when the party was over, when it was late and cold out, they let us take some night portraits of them under the stars. The speeches were also hilarious and strangely inspiring. Example: Sean (groom) once ate a multi-page test during high school. The story, told by his best man, described how Sean was dared to eat his test and that he'd get shotgun in his friend's ride for the summer if he did. So, when the test began, Sean began tearing the test up into little pieces and eating them, one by one. When the time was up and students were turning in their tests, Sean walked up and turned in the staple. #liveonyourownterms
We hope you enjoy some of our favourite moments from their wedding!
Venue: Oceanstone Resort
Makeup: Selena Marchand
Hair: Zipora Hunter
Flowers: Barefoot Blooms
Cupcakes: Layers


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We Were Warned
We have now been officially warned by the World Health Organization of a coming post-antibiotic era where our ability to perform surgery and treat cancer is severely compromised, and where common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill.
But how is the average person supposed to evaluate such a claim? Is it to be believed in whole or in part or is it hyperbole? After all, we live in an Age of Suspicion where the pathology of politics distorts even the sciences, from the debate on man-made climate change to whether human genes can be patented, thus turning them into private property and vehicles for corporate profit.
One way to evaluate the WHO claim of a coming post-antibiotic era is to understand that they're not saying anything new; rather, they have merely – and finally – put their seal of approval to a position that has been staked out for years by leading scientists around the world.
For example, Britain's most senior medical adviser, Dame Sally Davies, has warned that the rise in drug-resistant diseases could trigger a national emergency comparable to a catastrophic terrorist attack, pandemic flu or major coastal flooding. She said the threat from infections that are resistant to frontline antibiotics is so serious that the issue should be added to the government's national risk register of civil emergencies. She describes what she calls an "apocalyptic scenario" where people going for simple operations die of routine infections "because we have run out of antibiotics." And she has been saying this since at least January, 2013.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention issued Antibiotic resistance threats in the United States, 2013, a first-ever snapshot of the burden and threats posed by the antibiotic-resistant germs having the most impact on human health. The report begins with these introductory remarks: "Antibiotic resistance is a worldwide problem. New forms of antibiotic resistance can cross international boundaries and spread between continents with ease. Many forms of resistance spread with remarkable speed. World health leaders have described antibiotic resistant microorganisms as 'nightmare bacteria' that 'pose a catastrophic threat' to people in every country in the world."
In Canada, the Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health, 2013, called infectious disease, "the never-ending threat," noting that more than 200,000 patients get infections every year while receiving healthcare in Canada; more than 8,000 of these patients die as a result, and that these numbers are rising. For example, the healthcare-associated MRSA rate increased more than 1,000% from 1995 to 2009 (the last year for which numbers are available).
Canadian scientists are even more pointed. For example, Dr. Bob Hancock, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Microbiology at the University of British Columbia, in an interview this March on the CBC science program Quirks and Quarks, was asked by the host what he thought the odds are of facing a worst-case scenario of a life "beyond antibiotics." His reply: "I would say right now, unless something changes it looks inevitable."
The year was 1945.
So yes, we were warned.
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Many scholars of Syriac Christian and Babylonian Jewish literature agree that the figure of Aphrahat (c. 285-345 CE) has re-emerged as one of the most fascinating representatives of so-called Semitic Christianity.
There are a number of reasons for this emerging consensus. First, this Church Father's writings are of great value, since he ministered when and where significant portions of the Babylonian Talmud were put into writing, in the middle of a strong and thriving Jewish community. His self-reported interactions with the Jewish community of his day bring to light some previously unknown information that may lead to new perspectives on that community. From this standpoint, Aphrahat has the potential to help us clarify our picture of Mesopotamian Judaism of the fourth century.
Second, Aphrahat's writings afford us a unique look at a Christianity that was largely unaffected by Roman political and religious developments, and may thus in some ways have resembled certain types of early Christianity. Writings from Aphrahat's period are of particular interest because, from the beginning of the following century influences from the west would break through Persia's iron curtain, increasingly infiltrating and affecting that society. Aphrahat's writings encourage us to think freely about what the history of Christianity in general might have been had it gone the way of Aphrahat's community. Third, Aphrahat, having engaged himself in the ancient Jewish-Christian polemic, allows us to transport ourselves back to fourth-century Persia and take a closer look at the foundations of that polemic. Many things have transpired in the history of Jewish-Christian relations throughout the past sixteen centuries, but much of what happened is rooted in the fourth century. This study, however, concentrates on reconstructing a Christian-Jewish conversation in Northern Babylonia, which was home to Aphrahat and his followers, as well as a significant Jewish community. It contributes to the ongoing study of the Christian and Jewish history of Babylonia during this crucial time for the development of both religions.
Aphrahat's person
His name, Aphrahat, is the Syriac version of the Persian name Frahāt (modern Farhād). The Persian Sage was a subject of Shapur II (309-379 CE). All that scholars can say with confidence about Aphrahat is known from his writings. Self-description seems to be intentionally obscured by Aphrahat; he wanted the reader to concentrate on the important things that were the teachings of His Lord, upon which he was expounding in his Demonstrations (Dem. 22.26). Aphrahat resided somewhere in Persian territories, although the exact location is unknown. All the evidence suggests that Aphrahat had a command only of Syriac and cognate languages, as he never gives any indication that he is familiar with either the Greek of the LXX or the Greek New Testament.
Aphrahat seems to quote from the Gospel (Diatessaron) and not from four separate Gospels. His arguments seem to be positioned well within an exclusively Semitic world. In his Christological discussions, for example, he shows no knowledge of the council of Nicaea, which took place 10 years before his first Demonstrations were written. Peterson is probably correct when he argues that Aphrahat is rather clear in his "non-orthodox" Christology, suggesting that the fault for consistently placing Aphrahat within the "orthodox" camp lies with the generally biased treatments of Aphrahat by church historians both ancient and modern.
Aphrahat's location
Since many of his concerns presuppose a monastic community we are safe in placing him at one of the proto-monastic centres of Persia. The difficulty arises in the methodology for assigning a more specific location. If we assume that all ancient proto-monasteries survived to our day, or at least that we have reliable information with regard to all of them, then the Mar Mattai monastery in modern-day Iraq can be established as the location. The fourteenth-century document assigns to Aphrahat that geographical locale and much of today's scholarship simply takes this assumption, though only in passing, to be a historically verifiable fact. The monastery was established sometime in the fourth century, and that location is consistent with the few things that scholars know about Aphrahat. Nevertheless, we must acknowledge that this location is at best a plausible suggestion not yet substantiated by positive evidence.
Aphrahat's ministry
As was stated above, scholars know very few details about Aphrahat. His proto-monastic orientation is not in dispute, since it is self-evident from the content of his writings (Dem. 6, On Covenanters). What is unclear is how influential his position was. Scholars conclude that Aphrahat may have been a chief monk. He argues against the official spokesman of the church, especially in Dem. 14, which probably means that he was a person of some spiritual influence. In Dem. 14 he uses "we" and "us" often, which speaks to the fact that he represents the whole community (this is explicitly stated in Dem. 22.26). His self-description seems to always underplay the level of his achievement. He calls himself by names like "a disciple of the holy scriptures" (Dem. 22.26) and a "stone-mason" who only supplies the raw material to the "wise-architects" to build up the Church (Dem. 10.9), while in reality the prominent characteristic of his writing is a colossal memory knowledge of an enormous quantity of biblical citations and allusions that cannot be termed anything but phenomenal.
From Demonstrations it appears that Aphrahat himself belonged to a proto-monastic Christian community called Sons of the Covenant (B'nai Q'yâmâ). These believers devoted themselves to the day-to-day service of their Lord in monastic communities throughout the East. They did so through selfless dedication to God, which was manifested by their surrender of personal property, time and relationships outside of the community for the purposes of devotion to Christ, their King. Aphrahat wrote:
Study what I have written to you: you and the brothers, the covenanters, who love virginity. Be on your guard against mockers, for if anyone mocks or scoffs at his brother, the word that is written in the gospel (when our Lord wanted to warn the greedy and the Pharisees) is fulfilled against him. For it is written: "Because they were lovers of money, they mocked him." Even now, all those who do not agree with this mock in the same way. Read and learn, and be zealous to read and to act. Let this Law of God be your meditation at all times. And when you read this letter, by your life, my friend, rise and pray, and remember my sinfulness in your prayer. (Dem. 6.20)


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During the near collapse of the American auto industry a few years ago, Ford fared the best. While Chrysler and General Motors relied on government funds to stay afloat, Ford was able to keep going on its own. During 2010, sales of Ford cars were up 17 percent over 2009. The company also saw growth in utility vehicles (+13 percent) and trucks (+27 percent). Ford has now announced that it will be adding 7,000 new jobs to help keep pace with this growth.
Over the next two years, Ford will be adding more than 7,000 new salaried and hourly jobs here in the United States. Approximately 4,000 hourly jobs will be added at manufacturing facilities this year. Of the 4,000 hourly jobs expected this year, 1,800 will be at the Louisville Assembly Plant in preparation of the next-generation Ford Escape. Ford is planning to add an additional 2,500 manufacturing positions in 2012.
Ford is also expanding its workforce in preparation for the upcoming Ford Focus Electric and other electrified vehicles. An additional 750 salaried product development and manufacturing engineering jobs will be created in 2011.
Ford is looking for engineers with experience in system controls, batteries, software and energy storage for positions in Detroit, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, Milwaukee, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina and San Jose. Recruitment for these positions begins today at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.


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The Toffees will see the return of striker Romelu Lakaku after almost a month on the sideline with a hamstring injury. Lee Osman is a doubt for Everton while Bryan Ovideo and Aiden McGeady are expected to sit out. Burnley boss Sean Dyche is without the services of Kevin Long and Dean Murray, but another pair of players in Steven Reid and Ross Wallace are expected to be fit for the fixture.
Burnley ended a run of 8 games against the top 8 clubs in the league with their 1-0 loss to Arsenal last weekend. The run saw them put in good performances but not good enough to take away a host of points, but with a win over Manchester City the Clarets managed 5 points out of the 8 games to keep their hopes of survival alive. If results go their way this weekend, Burnley could climb out of the relegation zone and into 16th or 17th with just 5 games to play.
Burnley have only won 1 game away from home this season at Stoke back in November and their 6 points in their last 11 games is worst in the league over that span of time. George Boyd's goal in their 1-0 win over Man City was the last one Burnley scored and since then they have gone almost 5 hours without scoring. Burnley's 0-0 draw in September at Selhurst Park is the Clarets' only clean sheet on the road this season and the 29 first half goals that Burnley have conceded is the worst in the league. Burnley are also the only side yet to win a game against the bottom half of the table. Striker Danny Ings is out of form as well, having failed to score in Burnley's last 7 Premier League matches. Burnley's last league victory at Goodison Park came back in 1976, their only win in their last 12 attempts.
Everton are looking to match their current season best 5-straight unbeaten with a win or draw this weekend. Their previous 4 games has seen 3 wins, with the 1-1 draw against Swansea the only blemish. Everton are also unbeaten in 2015 at home, a feat only matched by the current top 2 Chelsea and Arsenal. Everton also boast 4 clean sheets in their last 6 games at Goodison Park.
Prediction: I think Burnley will come out firing but Everton are too good to be beaten at home. The goal drought for Burnley should end.
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The Women's Summer Outreach Program
You have almost certainly heard of Google's Summer of Code, but perhaps you haven't heard of the Women's Summer Outreach Program, which is also being run by the GNOME Foundation this summer. Davyd Madeley teams up with Hanna Wallach to find out more.
This year GNOME received 181 submissions for Google's "Summer of Code" – not one was from a woman.
This imbalance is hardly surprising though. In 2002, it was reported that a staggeringly low 1.5% of libre software contributors were women, compared to roughly 28% in the proprietary software world. This disparity has numerous causes. For example, the 2006 FLOSSPOLS report found that the age at which men and women are able to start tinkering and installing free software on their own computer can differ significantly. Girls, on average, typically receive their first computer at age 19, as opposed to boys at age 15.
Working closely with the GNOME Foundation, developers Hanna Wallach and Chris Ball put together the Women's Summer Outreach Program. The program aims to promote the participation of women in GNOME-related development. "It was clear to us that the GNOME community can't be the inclusive group we want it to be without putting in some effort," said Chris. Funded with money received by the Foundation for participating in the Summer of Code, the program originally offered the chance for three applicants to receive a stipend of US$3000 to work for two months on a mentored, GNOME-related project. The only requirements were that the applicant was a female student and wanted to work on a kick-arse development project.
A key issue at stake is male domination in the libre software movement, where GNOME is no exception. While six new female developers won't make a staggering amount of difference to this problem, Chris and Hanna are hopeful that the program will still have a significant amount of impact. In the short term, GNOME will get six awesome women working on six exciting projects. Longer term, they hope that the program participants will continue to actively participate in the GNOME community, encouraging other women to get involved as well. One of the major things missing from free software right now are strong female role models. It would be fantastic if the WSOP changed this for GNOME.
"We're not trying to artificially raise the percentage of female GNOME developers up to 50%;" Chris emphasizes, "we're trying to start a bootstrapping process that gets some female developers involved with GNOME in a way that will create a positive feedback loop."
An impressive 100 applications were received from femme devels spread across the globe in just under a fortnight. "We had far more applications with excellent technical merit than slots to fill; all of the applications on our shortlist were extremely high in quality," Chris told GNOME Journal. In fact, the applications were of such high quality that Google stepped forward to provide the funds for three additional projects, bringing the program up to six participants.
Unfortunately, not everyone who applied for the WSOP could be chosen. "We've been thrilled to see that several of the applicants whom we weren't able to accept have mentioned wanting to work on their proposal on their own," said Chris. An unpaid mentoring scheme has been proposed as part of the successful GNOME Love project. This scheme, taking many attributes of the mentoring from Summer of Code and WSOP, would allow both men and women to undertake mentored work in the GNOME project.
The Foundation hopes that the WSOP will act as a pilot program for other organizations hoping to make more women feel welcome in their development communities. Perhaps the most important outcome is that this program be seen as a clear demonstration that things can be done to encourage women to participate in open source, even in what has traditionally been considered an exclusively male arena.
The Participants
Of the 100 applicants, six were chosen to participate in the WSOP, each based on the quality and utility of her application. The participants come from 5 different countries, and include both undergraduate and graduate students.
Fernanda Foertter was born in Brazil, but is now a citizen of the United States. With a physics major under her belt, she is now doing a doctorate in materials science at the University of Florida. Her project is gJournaler, an "iTunes-inspired" cataloging system for PDF journal articles. "Two years of grad school is frustrating," Fernanda explains. "You have to read hundreds of papers and have no real good (open source) solution to catalog them."
Ümran Kamar is an undergraduate computer engineer from the Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey, now in her fourth year of study. She is working on an Evince plugin for Mozilla-based web browsers. Ümran hopes to be an ambassador for Turkish women in libre software.
"There are many women programmers interested in Linux in my country, but they lack the courage to join projects and lead the women's community. I am expecting this project will be a landmark for the Turkish women's community, helping them to be more confident in joining Linux-based projects," she told GNOME Journal.
Cecilia González is at the Politechnical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona and is also in her fourth year of her computer engineering degree. Since she started using free software, she has wanted to contribute to the community. With an interest in performance, her project will be to work on optimizing the switching of components in the Evolution groupware suite.
"I find the GNOME community very human and always interested in our work; I feel happy to be working in a such project." she says, "It will be great if I can participate actively in the community after the WSOP."
From McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, Clare So is in the first year of her PhD in computer science. Her project is to define and implement formula editing functionality in the GtkMathView widget, used to display MathML in AbiWord and other applications. She is also interested in looking at research aspects of her project.
"It all started from my summer employment in 2002 at the Ontario Research Center for Computer Algebra," she writes in her blog, "Since then, I have been interested in various topics in Mathematical Knowledge Management, which includes research in MathML-related technologies."
Monia Ghobadi is an Iranian studying at the University of Victoria in Canada's British Columbia. She has been working towards her masters in Computer Science since September last year. She got involved with the WSOP because of an interest in open source software development and because she wanted to learn about Linux programming. Being new to North America, she missed out on the Google Summer of Code, and GNOME's WSOP gave her a second chance to be involved in such a great program.
Monia is working on integrating GNOME Terminal with GNU Screen, a console based "screen manager" that multiplexes multiple interactive shells onto a single terminal. "My mentors are incredible. The community is wonderful. I'd love to remain a part of GNOME," she replied when asked how she found working with the rest of the GNOME community. "I'd like to thank GNOME and encourage all the students to participate in these programs," she added.
Maria Soler is from Catalonia in Spain, but studying in Aarhus, Denmark. After doing three years of mathematics, she decided to study electronic engineering. Having completed her engineering degree, she will start a specialist course in industrial software this August. Her project, syncing Tomboy notes between computers, is a chance for her to make a useful contribution to the free software community while learning Mono and C#.
Maria had previous experience with the GNOME community through the GNOME Translation Project and the Catalan translation team.
Already, the program has been a huge success. All six participants say they are enjoying working with the GNOME community and that their mentors have been really positive and encouraging. They all hope to remain part of the GNOME community after the summer's program is over.
"I want to thank GNOME and Google for giving women an opportunity to shine in the developer community," wrote Fernanda, "I hope the open source community will begin to see the benefit of encouraging more women to participate."
Would You Like To Know More?
You can find out more about the WSOP from the press release and project page on the GNOME.org website:
The FLOSSPOLS report and recommendations are available from:
If you want to follow the progress of the six participants, a WSOP planet has been set up:
About the Authors
Hanna Wallach is in the final year of her Ph.D. in the University of Cambridge's Inference Group, working on Bayesian inference for machine learning problems. In her not-so-spare time, Hanna contributes to both GNOME and Debian, and is involved in several projects that encourage women to participate in free software development. Her favorite video game is Rez.
Davyd Madeley is an undergraduate computer scientist and electronic engineer at the University of Western Australia, who moonlights as the GNOME Applets maintainer and a writer for GNOME Journal. Among other things, he produces the popular GNOME "sneak peak" articles. He collects plush penguins and plays the tenor saxophone. He's also the subject of another article in this issue of GNOME Journal.
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TALLAHASSEE — How much Florida spends to recruit and keep quality teachers for its K-12 public schools could potentially quadruple next year — and maybe even reach as high as a quarter of a billion dollars — under tentative plans being crafted in private by Republican House and Senate leaders ahead of the 2017 session.
Gov. Rick Scott last month recommended $58 million be spent in 2017-18 to fund a variety of teacher incentives aimed at replacing the controversial "Best & Brightest" bonuses that reward top teachers based on their high school SAT/ACT scores.
But one key senator revealed this week that legislative leaders want to propose vastly more money than Scott has, while keeping the best of "Best & Brightest" and expanding the incentives to benefit more teachers.
Their ballpark amount is $200 million or more in potential, said Sen. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, the Senate's pre-K-12 education budget chairman. There are 30,000 teachers in Tampa Bay who potentially could benefit from the windfall.
Simmons casually dropped the bombshell figure during his committee's meeting Wednesday and elaborated on it Thursday, when senators discussed Scott's budget recommendations and their own priorities.
Simmons said specifically that the Florida House — under Speaker Richard Corcoran's leadership — was creating a plan to possibly spend up to $250 million "to deal with" and expand "Best & Brightest." Simmons said the Senate has its own draft in the works, too.
The State Board of Education and Scott don't want the current program renewed for a third year.
When asked by the Times/Herald on Wednesday, neither Corcoran nor Hialeah Republican state Rep. Manny Diaz Jr., the House's pre-K-12 education budget chairman, would confirm — or dispute — the figure Simmons cited.
Diaz pointed to the pending budget process, but he acknowledged the House and Senate are considering spending more on "Best & Brightest."
"We're looking at expanding the options that qualify a teacher, and that would really require a larger number," Diaz told the Times/Herald.
What exactly legislative leaders have in mind isn't public, so it's unknown what the additional dollars would go toward, whether it would be one-time or annual spending, how teachers might qualify or how the program would be paid for in a year when lawmakers — especially in the House — also want to rein in overall spending.
"I think we pay for it because we need to pay for it," Simmons told the Times/Herald on Thursday, referencing a looming nationwide teachers shortage. "I think there's $250 million in the budget to pay for this," he added without specifying from where the money might come or if another education program might have to sacrifice in the process.
"I'm not concerned that we're talking about $200-250 million," he said. "It's an investment; it's not an expenditure, and I think we can find it in an $83 billion budget."
A quarter of a billion dollars is about three-tenths of 1 percent of the total state budget and, more specifically, about 1 percent of the state's $23.4 billion pre-K-12 budget.
Leaders of local and state teachers unions — which have passionately criticized "Best & Brightest" — say they want more details about what lawmakers envision.
But some aren't optimistic.
"These guys don't get it. Hiring teachers is not the problem. Retaining them is," Mike Gandolfo, president of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, said in a text message.
Karla Hernandez-Mats, president of United Teachers of Dade, called the expanded incentives "a gimmick" by lawmakers "to avoid paying our teachers adequately."
"Teachers don't want bonus pay; they want real pay," she said, adding that permanent increases to the base student allocation — which could help districts afford to pay all teachers more — "is really the only thing that's going to help with our teacher shortage."
Florida Education Association President Joanne McCall agreed that lawmakers need to first address Florida's below-average teacher salaries, and "if this proposal works to alleviate this discrepancy, we could support it," she said in a statement.
"If it's another scheme like 'Best & Brightest' that doesn't address the core problems of paying teachers and education staff professionals adequate and competitive salaries, we'd have problems with it," McCall said.
The Legislature's formal budget process won't start for likely another month, after House and Senate leaders release figures on how much taxpayer money is available to spend for the year. Scott can make recommendations and veto certain items, but it's up to lawmakers to pass the annual budget.
The "Best & Brightest" bonuses — a creation of the Republican-led Florida House in 2015 and an ongoing priority for Corcoran, R-Land O'Lakes — have been besieged with criticism, because opponents argue top students don't necessarily make effective teachers. They also say it shortchanges minority teachers. The Senate reluctantly compromised in 2016 to extend the program another year with $49 million in funding.
Corcoran said in a statement Wednesday: "We've had great discussions with Sen. Simmons about how to attract and retain the best and brightest teachers. Final budget decisions will be made in the weeks ahead."
Simmons indicated Thursday that the crux of "Best & Brightest" might still remain but the Senate will seek to "take some of the sharp edges off." He said members of his committee will get a draft of the Senate's plan in "the next several days."
He said qualifying criteria for the expanded incentives could perhaps include "other avenues, such as a grade point average" and "something that would deal with the principals' own assessment, as to those who deserve to be rewarded for hard work and improvement of their students."
Simmons on Wednesday called Scott's proposal "a great step forward" but told Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart: "I think we need to start looking at the $200 million range so that we can be proactive and deal with what the House has been able to identify as a significant issue."
However, Simmons and Diaz both said lawmakers Scott's ideas could be blended into formal legislation that will be introduced in the coming weeks.
"We're looking through those proposals to see how that will fit in," Diaz said.
But some senators on Wednesday pushed back on parts of Scott's plan, such as his proposed $10 million for a "one-time hiring bonus" for new teachers who score in the top 10 percent in their subject-area exam for the subject they'll teach.
"It concerns me that we continue to look for the best performers in college — and not the best teachers," Sen. Doug Broxson, R-Gulf Breeze, said.
Sen. Dana Young, R-Tampa, agreed.
"It seems to me that rather than just giving a check to a teacher upon graduation from college with no strings attached, we could perhaps offer some financial assistance with a contractual commitment while they're in schools of education," Young said. "If we're looking at recruiting and retaining, that seems a more targeted and efficient use of our taxpayer dollars."
Stewart defended Scott's proposal, saying research shows "when an individual has strong content knowledge, that does translate into better [student] performance in the classroom."
Times staff writer Colleen Wright contributed to this story. Contact Kristen M. Clark at email@example.com. Follow @ByKristenMClark


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Pastoral Provision
The "pastoral provision" or "statute"[1] for United States Episcopalians entering the Catholic Church authorizes some departures from the normal practice of the Latin Church.
The provisions allows diocesan bishops to establish so-called personal parishes for the former Episcopalians and to use a liturgy known as the Anglican Use that keeps some elements of the Anglican liturgy. Many of these parishes are led by former Episcopalian clergy who have been ordained as priests in the Catholic Church.
Under the provision a case-by-case exception, or dispensation. from the rule requiring Latin Rite Catholic priests to be unmarried and celibate can be granted.[2] This is not new. Since at least the early 1950s, former Anglican, Lutheran and other clergy who join the Catholic Church have been granted such exceptions and is a practice mentioned in Pope Paul VI's encyclical Sacerdotalis caelibatus of 1967.[3] There are seven parishes of this kind, located in four states: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Texas.[4]
In the article that he has entitled The Pastoral Provision for Roman Catholics in the U.S.A. an account of the origins of this provision,[5] The Reverend Jack D. Barker traces the origins of the demand for such an arrangement to the Oxford Movement in nineteenth-century England and more immediately to developments in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the 1970s, when the church changed its canons regarding divorce, refused to take a strong public stand against abortion, ordained women to the diaconate and added a Rite II in contemporary language to the Book of Common Prayer. Some whole parishes began to leave the church.[6]
In 1977, some of those who desired union with the Catholic Church contacted individual Catholic bishops, the Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Jean Jadot and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, to inquire about the possibility for married Anglican priests to be received into the Catholic Church and function as Catholic priests.[6][7]
In 1979, after the United States National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had reacted favourably to the proposals that had been put before them, a formal request for union was presented in Rome on 3 November for acceptance into the Roman Catholic Church, for steps to be taken to eliminate any defects that might be found in their priestly orders, and that they be granted the oversight, direction, and governance of a Catholic bishop. They offered the allegiance of their whole hearts and minds and souls, and also "with that allegiance the Anglican patrimony that has been ours in so far as it is compatible with, acceptable to and an enhancement of Catholic teaching and worship".[6][7]
The decision of the Holy See was officially communicated in a letter of 22 July 1980 from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the President of the United States episcopal conference, who published it on 20 August 1980.[6]
Though admittance of the Episcopalians in question to the Catholic Church was considered as reconciliarion of individuals, a pastoral provision or statute gave them a common group identity.[8]
That identity involved the possibility, after a period of being subject to the local Latin Rite bishop, of being granted some distinct type of structure; the use, with the group, but not outside it, of a form of liturgy that retained certain elements of the Anglican liturgy; married Episcopalian priests may be ordained as Catholic priests, but not as bishops.[9]
An Ecclesiastical Delegate, a Catholic and preferably a bishop, was to appointed to oversee the implementation of the decision and to deal with the Congregation.[10]
In March 1981, Bishop Bernard Francis Law was appointed Ecclesiastical Delegate. He was later replaced by Newark Archbishop John J. Myers in 2003 and Kevin W. Vann in 2011. William H. Stetson, a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei, is Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Delegate.
The Congregation for Divine Worship gave provisional approval for the group's liturgy, the Book of Divine Worship, in 1984, an approval rendered definitive in 1987. This book incorporates elements of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, but the Eucharistic liturgy is from the 1979 Book, with the Eucharistic Prayers taken from the Roman Missal and the ancient Sarum Rite (with the modern English Words of Institution inserted in the latter).[6]
Concern about ecumenical relations with the Episcopal Church prevented the Archbishop of Los Angeles from authorizing the establishment in his archdiocese of personal parishes of the kind envisaged, in spite of requests from two groups, whose membership exceeded that of any of the groups for which personal parishes were set up in other dioceses. The peititioners were told that they could only be received as members of the existing ordinary Catholic parishes.[6]
The number of personal parishes established is only 7, but, since 1983 over 80 former Anglicans have been ordained for priestly ministry in various Catholic dioceses of the United States.[7]
A new arrangement whereby a personal ordinariate for former Anglicans in the United States will be established on January 1, 2012 was announced at the November 15, 2011 meeting of the bishops conference.[11]
Married priests
As of November 2012, approximately 70 married men have been ordained as priests under the Pastoral Provision.[2] In general, though there are some exceptions, married priests have not been allowed to be pastors.[2] Some priests work outside the church earning a salary that supports his family.[2]
Outside the United States
The pastoral provision for former Episcopalians is limited to the United States, but in other countries too there are former Anglican clergy who have become married Catholic priests. The Toronto Star reported that in Canada some half dozen married former Anglican priests are ministering in Roman Catholic parishes. One of these, Fr. Rick McKnight, was quoted[who?] as being against lifting priestly celibacy for priests in general.[citation needed] He is a priest on the staff of Our Lady of Grace Parish in Aurora, Ontario, and chaplain at St Basil the Great College School in North York, Ontario.
See also
- Anglican Communion
- Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue
- Anglicanorum coetibus
- Anglo-Catholicism
- Catholic Church hierarchy#Equivalents of diocesan bishops in law
- Clerical celibacy (Catholic Church)
- Continuing Anglican movement
- Ecumenism
- Forward in Faith
- Paul van K. Thomson
- Personal Ordinariate
- Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter
- Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
- Sacerdotalis caelibatus
- Vincent Nichols
- ↑ Letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fraga, Brian (18 November 2012). "Understanding married priesthood". Our Sunday Visitor. Retrieved 19 November 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Sacerdotalis caelibatus, 42-43
- ↑ Personal Parishes of the Pastoral Provision
- ↑ The text is available on the website of the Catholic Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Arlington, Texas.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 The Pastoral Provision for Roman Catholics in the U.S.A.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 History of the Pastoral Provision
- ↑ Letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, I
- ↑ Letter, II
- ↑ Letter, V
- ↑ United States Conference of Catholic Bishops news release
External links
- Document establishing the pastoral provision
- Office of the Ecclesiastical Delegate for the Pastoral Provision
- Anglican Use Society
- Book of Divine Worship
- The Order of Mass, Rite 1, according to the Book of Divine Worship
- The Daily Office According to the Anglican Use
- The Catholic Parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Arlington, Texas
- Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas
- Articles lacking reliable references from July 2012
- Articles with topics of unclear notability from August 2012
- All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases
- Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from June 2011
- Articles with unsourced statements from June 2011
- Use dmy dates from June 2011
- Catholic liturgical rites
- History of Catholicism in the United States
- Anglicanism


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Mergers & Acquisition impact on the Beer Market
Kalyan Ganguly
Ex Managing Director
United Breweries
In a country like India, the biggest advantage of mergers and acquisitions that have taken place, is the opportunity they created for opening the market up.
Speaking for the InBev and SABMiller M&A, the market opened up to the branch of InBev, and removed one very large barrier to success, which is manufacturing footprint. The advantage that they traditionally had was because of the head-start. InBev had licences in every state and therefore manufacturing places in every state. Considering the tariff structure in the country, that's a huge advantage. So from the country point of view, the moment you have a nationwide footprint, you have a huge cost advantage. Another big advantage was that of an established distribution and logistics network which immediately became available.
In the case of InBev, they had a brewery in Maharashtra and Andhra. SABMiller on the other hand, closely matched the footprint of UB. As a result, the entity that emerges out of the SABMiller – InBev merger now has a big advantage. The costs are much lower and they can beat the competition by being in a position to distribute the product much faster and fresher to the market place. Therefore, they can really give a huge competition to UB.
The other advantages are pre-acquired licences and land, which are a huge challenge to setting up a new unit. Both of these are not easy to come by, as there are huge restrictions in too many states. As a result of this, it's very difficult and challenging to set up a new brewery.
Hence, a merged entity will have an advantage over companies like Carlsberg, has been pumping capital to set up breweries so that they have the advantage to reduce the capital outlay on their manufacturing. They can concentrate on brand growth and marketing activities.
In this industry in a country like ours, mergers will give you a great advantage.
Then there are instances of joint ventures that slowly become an acquisition. In the best example, Mahau came with a joint venture and slowly took over Arian Breweries. The strategy here depends on the JV partner because the manufacturing footprint is very important. You are actually transporting water. So, in industries where margins are really high, you have to see how the cost is met. If you have an Indian partner, an entity who has that advantage, it is often the best way to take over that business. It's rather like coming into the market with an established brewery.
If this arrangement is not possible, a large part of the advantage is lost for new entrants. Licences, land, equipment everything is a challenge and eats into the investment money needs to be pumped ceaselessly in the brewery. There is clearly a much bigger advantage for brands entering with a merger with another company which has an existing facility.
Carlsberg's big advantage is that they have spent a number of years in India; they have manufacturing breweries in Himachal, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Andhra, Bihar and near Kolkata in West Bengal – a much bigger footprint, in comparison to InBev. But now, Budweiser also has that advantage.
The other advantage that Carlsberg had was an existing introduction in the Indian market. They had a brand called Tuborg Strong. Elephant is doing fairly well, but it is a subset of Tuborg, which is not as dark as Kingfisher Strong or Tuborg Strong.
They can have competition from Budweiser, but only if Budweiser is able to develop a strong brand rapidly. Now that they have production locally, Budweiser will have margins that will afford them the luxury of having a manufacturing footprint. Hence, if they acquire marketing expertise and distribution, they can fight this competition.
But what may be a challenge is that in India, 77% of the market is strong beer. Budweiser is a small part of the segment dominated by Kingfisher even if they are very successful, they still need a much more viable business to be a strong brand. Of course, it's too early to say if any of these strategies will affect UB. In any case, UB has a strong strategy team, they will be aware of these things and they would also be working on strengthening their strong beer market.
Despite all these developments, the beer market is not growing and it hasn't for the last 3 years. That is largely because of regulations and the prohibitive environment that has been here.
But three years ago, the market was much more buoyant and was seeing growth of 10% – 11%. In business, investments are made based on potential. That way India is a very lucrative market since almost 65% of Indians are under the age of 35. It is difficult for brands to get such a big country with such a young demographic. Nobody enters a market which is near saturation, and India, in the long run is probably one of the most exciting beverage businesses to be in. It's a question of time that the picture becomes rosier.
It is difficult for brands to get such a big country with such a young demographic. Nobody enters a market which is near saturation, and India, in the long run is probably one of the most exciting beverage businesses to be in.
Regarding the situation today, nothing in this beer market is static. There has been strong representation from the industry against the regulations and taxations regime. In fact, even though beer and wine did move into the Food Processing Industry, the flexibility of controls to move away from hard liquor segment has not really happened. There are many reasons for this.
It's important to realize that the government is dependent on excise revenue. Prohibition has not worked anywhere. But in many areas, there is a very powerful women's vote bank in this segment that was demanding prohibition. We need to remember that any decisions which are political in nature will not be taken or changed overnight. Behind their brand, they will need to push for some time.
For delinking the beer taxes from those on spirits is becoming a central subject, the industry has been lobbying for the last twenty years. Actually the reason is that no state government will allow the central government to have any say over the alcohol industry because they are highly dependent on the duties that they get. This is the reason why GST has purposely missed out the alcohol industry.
Therefore, becoming a part of the system where the central government has a role in taxation, remains a distant dream. We have been talking about this, beer duties separating from liquor duties, but it did not happen.
While the microbrewery segment will also grow, this is by definition, product driven, not brand driven. Unless they bring some special expertise, there is no brand there is no Carlsberg or Budweiser in that segment. The fact is, that is an important enough sector as of now, in the scene.
However, commercial brewing is still a lucrative investment in India. Over the next four-five years, if I had to invest in that business, I would!


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Governor-Elect Dennis Daugaard is leading by example: he announced yesterday that he will cut his own pay ten percent when he takes office next month. He plans to impose the same cut on the top earners on his staff and state department chiefs.
Also dropping 10%: hits on the transition team's résumé-submission webpage.
Cutting salaries for elected officials doesn't usually fire me up much. These cuts probably won't reduce the state deficit by even 1% (though I'll be happy to be proven wrong by a full list of cuts). Pay-cut promises are usually political stunts to win votes from a cranky electorate. I'm just as inclined to say to a budget-cutting politician, "Don't bother cutting your salary; just work your keester off to earn every penny we pay you."
But Daugaard's pay cut doesn't sound like a political stunt. We usually hear paycut promises during the campaign, not after. I don't recall his hooting from the hustings his honcho-haircut plan. And if you accept Mr. Rosenthal's optimistic analysis, Daugaard will be no passive caretaker like his predecessor, Governor M. Michael Rounds. Rosenthal sees Daugaard planning the kind of CEO governorship that will earn its old pay and then some. (Wait a minute: did all you Republicans really vote for an activist governor?)
In homage to Mr. Rosenthal, I offer an Endbar:
Evidently Dennis Daugaard isn't worried about crashing the economy by cutting income for a few people at the top. So why can't he call Senator Thune and his Republican pals in Washington and tell them to apply the same thinking to repealing the Bush tax cuts?
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After returning from an out of town trip, I looked at my porch and car COVERED in dark bird poop. In year's past, I cleaned up the mess, throughly annoyed at the extra work required to clean the stains. Although the mess still must be dealt with, there is a silver lining. This is the first sign that mulberries are ripe and ready for harvest!
Berries are God's original convenience food. My girlfriend Kristin (see her additional blog posts on Gleanforgood.co as kband) told me this is her favorite fruit. She picks these mildly sweet berries strait off the bush, admitting her daily exercise route intentionally passes neighbors' yards with a hidden harvest. She also loves mulberry jam made with local honey which can be enjoyed year-round.
Mulberries might be abundant in your part of the country as well. If you see the dark purple marks of late June, consider the annoyance an insightful gift. Here is a simple way to make the picking easy and fun.
- Look for mulberry bushes ready for harvest. The trees can be many sizes with fruit at various stages of maturity. Our shelter belt contains mulberry trees from 5 to 12 feet tall. Pick black/purple berries and allow the white and red berries to mature for a second round of harvesting.
2. Grab a monkey (or another tree climbing primate). We set several bed sheets under each bush and encouraged the kids to climb and shake the branches. Fortunately, these berry plants don't have thorns and beg to be climbed! In general, ripe fruit falls and the underripe fruit remains.
3. Sort the best berries from the debris. I dunked berries in water. This allows hidden insects to float to the top and poured down the sink.
4. Use the berries fresh for your favorite recipe or save them for later. I prefer to place the berries on parchment covered baking pans. I plan to throw these into the freezer overnight, throw them into ziplock bags then add berries to smoothies as I want.
With some hard work, maybe the birds will find something less purple to eat until August! This our first year taking advantage of this treasure. If you have wisdom, recipes or stories to add, Glean welcomes your comments and shares!


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Fatwa: "Whoever Insults One of These Four Things, Whether in Jest or Sincerity, Has Become an Infidel and Must Be Killed"
The four things are Allah, Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an, and Islam. The author of this fatwa, which comes from the Islamic Fatwa Council of Jerusalem, presided over by Shaykh Khalid Ghanayim, asserts that this is not only his opinion, but also the opinion of the Qur'an, the sunnah, and the consensus of Islamic scholars. As proof, he provides references from each source.
A:In the name of Allah the most merciful,
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the two worlds, and peace be upon our lord Muhammad, and on his family and companions.
Whoever insults one of these four things, whether in jest or sincerity, has become an infidel and must be killed. This is what is shown in the text of the book [i.e. the Qur'an], and the sunnah, and all scholars (are in agreement) with it.
1 - The book
The Most High said: "If they violate their oaths after pledging to keep their covenants, and attack your religion, you may fight the leaders of paganism - you are no longer bound by your covenant with them - that they may refrain" (Qur'an 9:12). The spot that witnesses to the infidelity of insulting them, or insulting one of them, is the saying of the Most High, "...and attack your religion..."
2 - The sunnah
Abu Dawud and al-Nasa'i, from Ibn-'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), related that a blind man had a slave-mother [a slave who bore children for him] who used to abuse the Prophet (peace be upon him) and disparage him. He [i.e. the blind man] forbade her but she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to slander the Prophet (peace be upon him) and abuse him. So he [the blind man] took a dagger, placed it on her belly, pressed it, and killed her. When the morning came, the Prophet (peace be upon him) was informed about it.
He assembled the people and said: I adjure by Allah the man who has done this action and I adjure him by my right to him that he should stand up. Jumping over the necks of the people and trembling the man stood up.
He sat before the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said: Apostle of Allah! I am her master; she used to abuse you and disparage you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not abandon her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was my companion. Last night she began to abuse and disparage you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.
Thereupon the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Oh be witness, no retaliation is payable for her blood. (Dagger: thin sword with a nape.)
3 - The consensus [of scholars]
Imam Ishaq ibn Rahuwiya, a prominent imam, said, "Muslims are unanimous (in agreement) that anyone who insults Allah, or insults the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), or attacks anything which Allah Almighty has sent down, or kills a prophet of Almighty Allah; that he is an infidel, and that this is based on everything that Allah has sent down."
Muhammad bin Sahnun said: "Scholars are in unanimous (agreement) that whoever insults and disparages the Prophet (peace be upon him) is an infidel. Continually upon him is the threat of the punishment of Allah. The ruling on him for the Muslim community is execution. Whoever doubts his infidelity and punishment is (himself) an infidel."Al-Khattabi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "I don't know any Muslim who differs on the duty to kill him," [...]
Islamic Fatwa Council of Jerusalem, Fatwa No. 349, November 29, 2009