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We have been getting a crazy amount of snow this winter. I'm not complaining–except for Christmas, ours has been fairly moderate and steady–we've had nothing like the 2 feet dumped on DC last weekend–and it's been pretty and slow-melting. It's been fun watching the sheep grazing through and frolicking in the snow.
And I don't know if it's just the cold, but their fleeces look delicious. I had to move Fudgy up to a bigger blanket yesterday–not because she needed it, but because my only spare was a size 4 and Honeybunch had pretty much destroyed his size 2, so I wanted to swipe her 3 to swap with his rags. In the process, I got a peek at her incredibly luscious, pristine fleece. With the new hay bunk, maybe next year, the unblanketed portions of their fleece will be almost as clean (though still dirty and weathered). I washed her old jacket (above) last night and I'll be patching it up before replacing Uncle Honeybunch's disaster (below).
(Here they are under all that fleece, just for reference!)
Speaking of cleaner fleeces, the fabulous new hay bunk for the sheepies arrived yesterday! At first, only the youngsters got it and all the grownup sheep didn't seem to know what to make of it. I snipped out some of the crossbars in the grid to make bigger gaps for bigger noses (I'm looking over at you, Fudgy). I'm really digging the new setup. For one, I can already tell there's going to be WAY less waste. With the open bunk, they could knock out and trample a whole flake with no effort, and so far with this one, they can only pull out about what they're eating. I'm guessing they'll cut their hay by almost half–that's about how much was ending up underfoot before. And with this feeder, there's no way for them to mash their heads deep into the bales (and the hay deep into their fleeces), one of their favorite pastimes. Plus having two separate troughs that are visually divided by the hay bunk makes for way less shoving and bullying when it's time for grain. By contrast, they seem almost polite. Gasp! Delightful!
So my new favorite game is to watch an episode of Hoarders and then go organize something for an hour.
I'm not typically keen on reality shows, even the real-life voyeuristic ones, but Rachel turned me on to that completely heartbreaking and addictive train wreck of a show and I must say it's the biggest gorram cautionary tale I ever did meet. Watching it makes me feel equal parts understanding and relief. Just a hair's breadth more crazy and I'm there.
Actually, for the last 4 months before I moved to Harveyville, when all my stuff was packed up and stacked to the ceiling in my living room and den (lunatic collections take up a LOT more space in bubble wrap and peanuts than they do all clustered adorably on shelves everywhere) and you had to maze your way through, fighting for space with two deranged, shedding dogs–one of whom required a labyrinth of rugs because she was old and couldn't negotiate the slippery wood floors–I was those poor folks. If I hadn't known it was just a temporary state, then the alarm and horror on the face of everyone who came into my house would have made me ashamed and depressed instead of amused and sheepish. Even now, with no excuses, if it weren't for my excessive space here and our guests, I could easily seep into the crazy. I can totally relate.
Right now, half of my office totally looks like an episode of Hoarders. I dragged everything out of my "storage closet" (ahem–aka, where I shove everything when I'm sick of my office looking like an episode of Hoarders) so I could get to my filing cabinet at the back of it to look up my washing machine's warranty info (it's still under warranty! hurrah!), and I decided to leave the overflowing boxes out over my office because I didn't want to just cram it all back in there, Fibber Magee and Molly-fashion. But I have a feeling I'm going to jam it all back in tonight, because I've still got bigger fish to fry and I'd just as soon not sprain my ankle hopping over stuff in the meantime.
This topic is very much on my mind right now because one of my uberlist goals is to work through One Year to an Organized Life. I'm a little behind, thanks to my vacation, but I am making really marvelous progress on my kitchen (January) and respectable progress on my bedroom (February) while also attacking another Uberlist goal, to sort through a box of crap from the storage room each week. Although with the size of this place and the scope of my crap, the time allowances in One Year to an Organized Life are just adorable. I'm working at about 10X the recommended time for everything beyond simple list-making.
My big issues are my craft stuff, my collections (most of which I've never even unpacked because they need homes first & I have neither mad carpentry skills, piles of money, nor access to an IKEA) and the fucking recycling. You city dwellers don't know how lucky you are. Years of living in Austin, with breezy single-stream recycling, conditioned me to recycle. Now, despite how inconvenient it is, I simply can not not recycle. But there's no pickup in the sticks, so recycling means accumulating and constantly maintaining and organizing tons of crap and hauling said crap off to the recycling center (which on principle, I have to combine with another trip, of course). It just never freaking ends.
The one thing I am capable of keeping perennially organized is my stash. Here are some pictures of my stash from a craftzine profile. I'll photograph new organizational oases as they arise from the chaos. These are in a corner of my bedroom, the former Mathematics room. It's about the only part of my bedroom I like right now.


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David Simon has been involved with contemporary art galleries in London and the South West of England for twenty years. After finishing a degree in Fine Art and History of Art at Exeter University, he cut his teeth at a gallery in London's Mayfair, where he spent six years managing exhibitions and international art fairs. Opening his first gallery in Bristol in 2005, he moved the business to its current location in the centre of Bath in 2014. He has worked closely with many well-known and emerging British artists over the years and enjoys spending time building long-term relationships with the artists he represents.
David Simon Contemporary, winner of 'Best Independent Retailer in Bath Award 2016', shows established and emerging British artists with a focus on semi-figurative work, through a programme of monthly exhibitions. The gallery makes a point of supporting at least one charitable cause each year (usually local to Bath). In recent years this has included Bath Abbey, TOP UK, and Coalition for Tibet. The gallery is proud to be a regular sponsor of the Royal West of England Academy's Annual Open Exhibition and the Bath Society of Artists' Annual Open Exhibition.
David Simon Contemporary occupies two floors, across two listed Georgian shops, on Bartlett Street, a bustling shopping street in the heart of Bath, between George Street and the Assembly Rooms. Other interesting neighbouring businesses include our sister business Article (artisan homewares), Edgar Modern, The Loft, Cafe Lucca (perfect for brunch/lunch/cakes), Bath Fashion Museum, Bartlett Street Antiques Centre, Felix Lighting, Toast, and Henry's Restaurant.

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Tendulkar juggles time between coaching son, business
London: A new business venture and imparting batting tips to son Arjun right are two things that Sachin Tendulkar is currently focusing on before he starts concentrating on the upcoming England series.
The champion batsman will be aiming for his 100th international century when India take on England at the Lord`s Test, the 100th between the teams, and the 2000th in the history of the game.
The iconic batsman has been regularly visiting the MCC cricket academy to coach his 11-year-old son, Arjun – and passing on tips to other people using the indoor nets.
An honorary life member of the club, Tendulkar, who has been staying at a property he owns near the Lord`s, has been visiting the academy here for the past few days.
"He (Tendulkar) has been a regular visitor at the Lord`s in recent weeks," an MCC spokesman was quoted as saying by a leading daily.
And when he is not coaching little Arjun, he is devoting time in his new business venture in Winchester.
It`s about cricket-themed entertainment centres where you will be able to bat against an image of Tendulkar (or other, better international bowlers) that runs in and delivers a semi-hard ball at you; or bowl against an image of him that deals with your delivery after calculating the trajectory and rotations of the delivery.
Tendulkar was accompanied by his children Arjun and Sara.
Last week Tendulkar who was watching matches at the Wimbledon interacted with the legendary Roger Federer.
Though he has not had a single net session, Tendulkar will start training from this week for India`s four-match Test series against England. In London, Tendulkar has been able to relax, with far fewer bodyguards than normal, the report said.
The champion batsman will be aiming for his 100th international century when India take on England at the Lord`s Test, the 100th between the teams, and the 2000th in the history of the game.


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Brokenness Brings Opportunity
A while ago, in my home town, a man went on a rampage through the city. He first hit a police officer with his vehicle and then stabbed him, and then continued down a busy street and hit four people.
Between events like this and all of the hurricanes of this year, it feels like God is a very distant figure for me. Where is He? Where is He? I have repetitively asked where He is. But then I remember the whisper of trust. Every time that it will work out.
Our God is a God of mystery and wonder, and He leaves us in awe and through all of this we have the opportunity to turn back to each other. We look to our neighbours and they will help us back up. We will come together in community. During these times, God shows how we fall through the cracks, but when we fall, His hand comes in through the darkness and the Lord truly shows the best of humans in these times. He may allow something that will just shatter us but we will stand, humbly in His presence and He will shine through and pick up the broken pieces. I trust in that God. I trust in a God that will bring everyone around us to help us in our brokenness.
When we come together and truly wear our hearts on our sleeve, it is at that moment that I begin to notice something. Whatever we are going through, we can do it with Him. There is a famed passage of Scripture that says that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens. When that happens, when we come together as this broken, hurt, shattered world, it is then that we can come and just stand in the silence. We can find the bond as we look through the dust and then reach out a hand; not worried about the hand that is going to grab it on the other end. It is at this moment that we lift each other up not as an individual but as a whole community.
So when we are hurt, remember this. When stand before God perplexed, we can know that as a community, as a whole we will rise from the ashes and grow like a beautiful flower. That may someday when the people and events of our lives cause us to wither and die, it is then that we can ask God, "what now?"
This repetitive chain of events will strengthen our relations with each other and with the God who oversees all of those events as the interweaving of our life's story. Psalm 34:18 says the lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. This appeals to us because we are best when broken.
God takes our life's offering of clay, which may look like a worthless blob to us, but He can shape us into a beautiful being of His creation and through this we help others to be shaped. When we become the one that tries to mold our selves we fix brokenness with crumbling dust. We may look good for a while, but then we return to our brokenness. We think we can do it but it is too hard to take by ourselves and it affects us and our well being.
I hope these thoughts are helpful to those that find themselves in the crumbling. I know a God who is there, and is walking us through the broken stones.
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SubjectsThe Atlas classification of 33 public policy and management subjects
As described in Atlas Framework for Analyzing Curricular Content, curricular and advisory subject matter on the Atlas is organized into 33 subjects. The subjects can be grouped in various ways to reflect pedagogical and advisory distinctions considered relevant to curricular design. The distinctions we highlight are:
The subject-domain framework is used to classify courses, teaching topics, concepts, practice advice, reports from IGOs, and reference collections which are displayed in Illustrative Courses Map, Teaching Topics Map, Concepts Map, Practice Advice Map, IGO Report Map, and References Map; they are brought together by subject in All Categories Map.
The Policy-Oriented vs. Management-Oriented distinction is used in conjunction with the Mathematics-Economics designation and the Courses to Graduate variable to create MPP/MPA Curricular Types. The Archetypal Public Affairs and International Affairs subject designations are used to conduct Comparisons with International Affairs Programs. All this data is brought together in the Curriculum Comparison Tables and the Program Rankings by Curricular Characteristics.
G e n e r a l P r e p a r a t i o n S p e c i f i c P r a c t i c e
Analysis and Skills
Economic Analysis (Core, Arch PA, Math-Econ)
Quantitative Methods (Core, Arch PA, Math-Econ)
Analytic Methods (Core)
Leadership Skills (Core)
Communication Skills (Core)
Institutions and Context
Democratic Institutions and Policy Process (Arch PA)
Ethics, Rights and Accountability (Core)
Socioeconomic and Political Context (Core)
Global Context (Core, Arch IA)
[NOTE: Some of the pages on the Atlas still refer to earlier nomenclature: Tools and Skills (now Analysis and Skills); Strategy and Implementation (now Policy and Management Analysis); Management Sciences (now Analytic Methods); Leadership (now Leadership Skills); Communication (now Communications Skills); Ethics and Accountability (now Ethics, Rights and Accountability); Fiscal, Monetary and Tax Policy (now Macroeconomic Policy); Financial Sector and Pensions (now Financial Markets).]
Management Functions
Public Financial Management (Core)
Evaluation and Performance Measurement (Core)
Human Resource Management (Core)
Information and Technology Management (Core)
Regulatory Policy and Management
Local Government Management
Nonprofit Management and Advocacy
Policy Sectors
Macroeconomic Policy (Math-Econ)
International Development (Arch IA)
Public Finance and Social Policy
Employment, Labour and Immigration
Cities, Urban and Regional Development
Environment and Sustainability
Agriculture and Resources
Science, Technology and Innovation
Industry, Trade and Investment
Energy, Transport and Infrastructure
Defence, Security and Foreign Relations (Arch IA)
Policing and Justice Administration
Arts and Culture
Financial Markets (Math-Econ)


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Joe Cheshire '99 Joins Butler University's Football Coaching Staff
April 3, 2004
April 3, 2004, Greencastle, Ind. - Joe Cheshire, a 1999 graduate of DePauw University, has joined Butler University's football program as a graduate assistant. An item in today's Indianapolis Star notes, "Cheshire spent the past two seasons as offensive backs coach at DePauw, where he lettered in football for four years."
Butler's Web site adds, "Cheshire, a four-year football letterwinner at DePauw University and the son of former Butler football player Jim Cheshire ('75), will have responsibility for Butler's offensive backs. He spent the past two seasons as offensive backs coach at DePauw, under head coach Nick Mourouzis. Last fall, DePauw led the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in rushing yards per game and total rushing yards."
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TIM BOOTH, AP Sports Writer
SEATTLE (AP) — A missing necktie led to Carolina quarterback Cam Newton getting benched for one series on Sunday night.
Ron Rivera didn't expect it to last just one play. One disastrous play that created a most awkward of beginnings, and defined the Panthers' 40-7 blowout loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
"We didn't lose this game because of a tie," Newton said. "It was a lot of execution errors. Including a lot of things where we had our opportunities and we failed at it."
The Panthers' first offensive play ended up being a pass by Derek Anderson that deflected off Mike Tolbert's hands and into the arms of linebacker Mike Morgan, but that play didn't cost Carolina the game. The turnover only led to a field goal for Seattle, but it was the start of an otherwise forgettable performance by the Panthers that provided another blow to the dwindling playoff hopes of the reigning NFC champions.
The bigger culprit was the 240 yards rushing allowed by the Panthers' defense and Carolina's inability to finish drives in Seattle territory. That's what turned the seventh meeting in the past five years between the teams into a laugher for the Seahawks.
"We just didn't give ourselves the chance. That's the disappointment," Rivera said. "We had some opportunities. We missed some plays. Probably the toughest thing is the lack of discipline and being where you're supposed to be."
But the flap about the tie and Newton's one-play benching became an overbearing cloud hanging over Carolina's performance.
"I made the decision not to start him after I learned of the infraction," Rivera said. "It was going to be one series. I didn't anticipate the series lasting one play."
Newton was punished because he did not have a necktie for the team flight to Seattle. The Panthers spent the past week in the Bay Area following their game at Oakland and made the trip up the West Coast on Friday.
Newton said he realized he hadn't packed a shirt and tie just before the buses left to take the team to their flight.
"We discussed it internally. Me and coach, we're on the same page, I feel good about it," Newton said. "I wore a similar outfit like this before and nothing was done. But he has rules in place and we have to abide by them and no person is greater than the next person. It is what it is."
Some teammates, though, didn't realize the situation until the Panthers took the field and Anderson was calling the first play. Right tackle Trai Turner, playing the position for the first time since high school, said he didn't know what was going on until the opening play.
"Coach already addressed it. I'm not going to talk any more about it," Anderson said. "It's over with, we addressed it as a team and we're going to move on from it."
Newton missed just one play, but was also just 14-of-32 passing for 182 yards and one touchdown. After pulling within 10-7 in the second quarter, Carolina let Seattle score the final 30 points.
Newton agreed he believed he was made an example of with the punishment, but did not express disagreement with Rivera's decision.
"I think there was a lack of communication on my part," Newton said. "I think I have to be accountable to know certain things."
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THROUGH all ages men have asked, What is worth while? The answer has been, at least from those not stupefied by pessimism, that many things are worth the while: happiness, self-respect, health, friendship, honor, wealth, all these are worth having, and any work that helps to secure them deserves the undertaking. It is the old question of what man should try to attain, and about it many a system of philosophy has reared itself, though for the most part on shaking legs.
Through this conflict of opinion we have come to pride ourselves upon being practical, even to such an extent as to consider abnormal any one who does not share this quality. To be practical means to be able to turn knowledge to useful account, to make of it some rather immediate application. With us Americans to be practical means too often to make and save money, forgetting that money is only a tool. Personally I would hold that man to be most practical who gets the most happiness out of life. But at the present we are concerned only with the question, that may seem a paradox, how can pure science be a practical undertaking?
Science in the strict sense, or pure science, is the search for the explanation of things. It is not the collecting of statistics, nor the cataloguing of them, nor the construction of systems, for however much these operations may help science, they do not compose it. Science is the light that points out what different phenomena have in common, and establishes their origins and changes. To-day the term is often taken in vain, as when we speak of pugilistic, tonsorial and domestic science, which shows that the general idea of it is any special skill or knowledge. But pure science, as strictly used, is much more than either skill or knowledge, it is explanation without any thought of immediate application to human needs.
How, then, is pure science practical, when it avowedly seeks no quick useful end? It is so, as its records show, by serving as the pioneer that makes possible utilitarian ends, it breaks a road through the unknown for application to follow. For not until science has given the explanation can we turn that explanation to use. And the examples that I shall proceed to relate show clearly that the pursuit of pure science has made possible many of the benefits that we now enjoy.


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The Smithsonian Institution has in its collection a clockwork monk, about 15 in (380 mm) high, possibly dating as early as 1560. The monk is driven by a key-wound spring and walks the path of a square, striking his chest with his right arm, while raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies. From time to time, he brings the cross to his lips and kisses it. It is believed that the monk was manufactured by Juanelo Turriano, mechanician to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Wikipedia).
But it gets worse.
I wish I hadn't seen this, but there is no taking it back now, as it is burned into my memory. This would be a good subject for demonic possession, like Stephen King's old car (or was that My Mother the Car? I always mix those up.) I would imagine Mr. Medieval Monk would be noisy, with a grinding of ancient clockwork gears. As if he needed any more creepiture.
Maybe it's just me, but there's something kind of fetish-y about all those chains working back and forth, the snapping levers moving the hideously jointed arms. Somebody had to sit down and really figure this out. It must have blown medieval minds to see this, something that was not alive moving around as if it was.
For some reason this creeps me out worse than all the rest put together. It reveals how the automaton monk gets around. He's on wheels, obviously, and not surprisingly, and can swivel around as if on skates, but what kills me is that thing in back: IT'S A PIZZA CUTTER! What else could it be? This guy must have been nothing more than an elaborate tool for slicing up Charles V's pepperoni, bacon and mushroom Little Caesar's Tuesday Night Combo Special. Think how many times he must have gone back and forth! I wouldn't be surprised if he keeled over, his grinding feet kicking helplessly in the air, while Charlie scarfed down his hot buffalo wings chased with a gallon of Coke
P. S.: a little bit more about Charles V:
Heritage and early life
Charles was born as the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad in the Flemish city of Ghent in 1500. The culture and courtly life of the Burgundian Low Countries were an important influence in his early life. He was tutored by William de Croÿ (who would later become his first prime minister), and also by Adrian of Utrecht (later Pope Adrian VI). It is said that Charles spoke several vernacular languages: he was fluent in German, French, and Flemish, later adding an acceptable Spanish which was required by the Castilian Cortes Generales as a condition for becoming King of Castile. A witticism sometimes attributed to Charles is: "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse." But this quote has many variants and is often attributed instead to Frederick the Great.
(And as with most of these medieval royals, he was his own grandpa, being a direct descendent of Gorgo the Crosseyed, who married himself in 1236. And get a load of this Hapsburg lip:)
Do take into account the fact that these portraits were generally flattering. Oh dear.
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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 2954
Islamabad HC suspends jail sentences - Nawaz Sharif, daughter Maryam to be released
Islamabad High Court on Wednesday suspended jail sentence of former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif in Avenfield properties corruption case. The court has also suspended jail terms of Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (retd) Muhammad Safdar.
Last week, Sharif along with his daughter Maryam and son-in-law captain Safdar was released on parole following the death of former first lady of Pakistan, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz.
Sharif, 68, daughter Maryam, 44, and his son-in-law were arrested in Lahore on July 13 soon after they arrived in Pakistan from London. An accountability court had found them guilty over his family's ownership of four luxury flats in London.
The Sharifs were taken to Adiala jail in Rawalpindi. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has alleged that Sharif has been kept in the abysmal condition in the jail and deprived of even the basic facilities.
The health condition of the former Pakistan prime minister deteriorated in the jail, following which he was admitted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) due to cardiac complications. The floor where Sharif was admitted was declared a sub-jail and no one was allowed to meet him. He was later moved back to Adiala jail after his medical condition improved.
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"Untamed T-Rex" Are Out Now
That's right everyone, first we had ferocious Untamed Raptors on our hands, now we have Untamed T-Rex!
A couple months ago Pop Shop ran a giveaway contest on WowWee's Untamed Raptors. Remember?
They are designed like Fingerlings, holding on to your finger for dear life, and interactive.
If your raptor was "untamed" he would show signs of irritability by roaring and chomping. To tame the you would need to show them love and either pat his head or snout to feel at ease.
Now WowWee has released four brand new T-Rex and their names are as badass as they are! These T-Rex have similar characteristics as raptors but naturally, are physically different.
Ironjaw has the strength to chomp on metal so keeping him trapped is just a waste of time! He's bright blue with devil red eyes and has white accents on his head, down his back and around his eyes. His tail is completely white too.
One of the quirky things about these dino's is that they love to relieve gas! Ripsaw is notorious for letting one rip! He's Flammin' Cheeto red, accented with yellow around his eyes, and has transparent spikes down his back.
Don't worry, Scratch isn't named that because he loves to scratch at you, but his favorite thing is when you itch his sweet spots. Treat this orange little guy to a nose or head itch any time you can!
Tracker, green/gray one loves to keep his eyes on the prowl and always on the hunt! But he will stay loyal to you as long as you love him.
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Speaker Series: Why Should Leaders Care About Managing Their Minds with Jeremy Hunter
Jeremy Hunter is the great-grandson of a sumo wrestler as well as Assistant Professor of Practice at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management.
He created and teaches The Executive Mind, a decade-old series of challenging and transformative executive education courses dedicated to Drucker's assertion that "You cannot manage other people unless you manage yourself first." Hunter's courses challenge leaders to relentlessly transform themselves to face the demands of complex and volatile world. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Mindful, the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
His work is informed by the experience of living day-to-day for 17 years with a potentially terminal illness, and when faced with the need for life-saving surgery having more than a dozen former students come forward as organ donors.
Dr. Hunter received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago, an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Wittenberg University.
He and his wife dutifully serve two housecats who live in Los Angeles.
He is a contributor to Mindful.com, is on the web at www.JeremyHunter.net and can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/JeremyHunter123 .
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Assistant Dean for Administration and Operations and Director of CLE Programs Jeffrey A. Dodge and Hofstra Law Review Editor Drew M. Gulley were quoted in a front-page article of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Law schools customize degrees to students' tastes
By Peter Schmidt
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 9, 2009
The rapid growth in niche programs at law schools began in the 1990s, spurred by a combination of competition for students, financial considerations, and pressures from faculty members within law schools and elsewhere in the university.
Jeffrey A. Dodge, assistant dean for administration and operations at Hofstra University's law school, said in an e-mail message that in recruiting trips "I run into students from across the country who are choosing law schools based on concentration offerings." The 15 concentrations that Hofstra has established in recent years — in fields like family law, energy law, real-estate law, and taxation — are "definitely huge selling points, and I find them to be very successful recruitment tools," he said.


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FG Tracking Four Major Diseases Outbreaks
The Federal Government is tracking four major diseases out breaks in Nigeria, Health Minister, Isaac Adewole, has disclosed.
Mr. Adewole disclosed this in the weekly report of the state of the nation's public health which he submitted to the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday.
Mr. Adewole provided details on the development when he spoke with State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting in Abuja.
"Council received the weekly report on the state of public health in Nigeria and we did inform council about four major outbreaks that we are currently tracking.
"One is Lassa Fever and we are quite happy that there is a major decline in a number of reported cases. We have also not reported any deaths in the last two weeks but we still have two cases reported from Edo last week.
"We still have cholera in some parts of the country, particularly in Kano, Kebbi, Borno and Zamfara but the outbreak in Borno state is the most significant of all of them.
"So far since the outbreak started we have recorded 2,719 suspected cases of cholera and we reported 51 deaths in total.
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I had some kind of magical thinking that parenting would get easier as he got older.
and it did.
but it didn't.
also, i procrastinate.
he was crawling the day i finally bought outlet covers.
i'm so on my game.
awesome new moms get nurseries ready before the baby is born.
me? I wait till my baby is almost a year old.
i want to be awesome too
new baby + new house + family that lives far away + life = things take a long time here.
and that's okay.
you know what's also okay? not capitalizing or using punctuation.
makes me poetic. like ee cummings.
this post could also be titled: lies we tell ourselves.
i had this awesome plan to finish it a long time ago.
but kids ruin plans. in the best way.
also i get worn out.
in my limited down-time i want to watch project runway or bear grylls.
or sleep.
so yea, progress is slow and i'm learning to let go.
good news though:
we aren't that far from completion.
david has a shelf to finish.
there are some other finishing touches but we're really close, guys.
and that's pretty awesome.
i edited and added a favorite verse.
bad news is that the baby knocked it off the wall.
the frame broke so now it sits waiting for a new home. see what i mean about things taking longer?
that farm-style lamp with orange accent = swoon.
and the cacti changing pad cover? get out of town. so awesome.
so not me. at least the old me.
but this room is about fun and whimsy and playfulness.
i can do that, right?
i AM doing this.
and okay, can we talk about this pillow just a minute?
um, it's electric yellow.
with my child's name emblazoned upon it's bright, bold chest.
i'm getting so dramatic.
another risk that totally paid off.
(thank you tiny prints)
it comes in multiple colors but i decided to step outside my comfort zone and go with the bright yellow.
i wanted to have fun in my boy's room and that yellow was my first instinct.
okay, actually my first instinct was to pick black or anything "safe" but the yellow needed me.
or i needed it.
either way, i was scared to death until it arrived.
and then i could feel myself slowly letting the winds of change take me wherever they wanted.
this time it was to fun-town.
now if i can only harness such courage when planning our next project - the master bedroom. (hint: a whole room in dark paint...do i dare??)
aside from a few other tweaks and some fun accessorizing, we're almost finished with this project.
yes. glory!
i am ready to move on to our bedroom. that poor thing is in need of serious help.
a metaphor could be drawn here between the room and it's owners, but i won't.
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Title: Clown Hunt
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Year: 2010
Genre: Independent / Comedy
Language: English
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Barry Tubb
Writer: Barry Tubb
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078577/
On an annual clown hunt, a group of hunters have a good time while killing them off. But a new breed of clowns are becoming more and more common. These albino clowns are not like regular sad or happy clowns. They're much more angry and will be giving these hunters a real battle.
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Replace any animal that is annually hunted with clowns and you have this movie, "Clown Hunt". You should probably also add some political things such as race and sexuality as well, for an even more accurate comparison. As you can imagine from that, the movie isn't very good. It might sound like a funny idea if you're doing your first student film, and it's made by a group of between 4 people. But this film is aiming too high for it to even become funny.
It's set in Texas, out in the wild. A group of hunters are setting up camp so that they can hunt clowns, drink beer and be men. The first two weeks is the season to hunt happy clowns, and after that is the time for sad clowns. Then there is the albino clown, a rare breed of clowns that are worth more, but are also more dangerous to hunt.
It's fucking ridiculous. I can see how this idea would be really funny if you haven't slept for 24 hours and you're hanging out with your closest friends. But to make it into a feature, and then release it upon the world, that's just a bad idea. Although the movie does go great lengths to throw in some politics/satire by involving issues we're facing a lot in this day and age - at times that's all there is. Yet it doesn't save it from being horrible. The only joke I found amusing (and that might've been amusing because the rest was so bad) was that the clowns wanted to be called "comical americans". Other than that, the jokes will be of gay nature among the hunters, bad puns, farts, clowns pooping candy, and various other mature comedy like it!
Frankly, I knew this was gonna be bad from looking at the cover. But I always try to keep an open mind, and I went into this with a mind as open as possible. It was just a bad movie. It's something that would amuse kids. Personally, the closest word to use for the feelings I got from watching this movie is "facepalming". It's not just that the comedy is bad (and idea is even worse), but the execution of things. The sound editing and the songs kept annoying me through-out, the acting was over-the-top stupid in ways you'd only get from seeing a group of immature adults think they're funny, and it's way longer than needed. Even though it tries to evolve, it still only goes from one poor joke to another.
Do you want to watch "Clown Hunt" to draw parallels to protesting, poaching, politics and questions of race, gender and sexuality, then... just don't. It's not a clever study, rather just a point and copy, but with clowns. There are things in the film that could've worked, and that should've worked, but it was simply made by the wrong people. It's a ridiculous and bad comedy where the only real joke is "look, they are clowns but they are doing things animals do! Hilarious!" (replace "animal" with anything else that could be hunted or hated).
I definitely think that this could've been sort of funny had it been a 15 minute short made by 16 year olds in school. Instead it's embarrassing to watch, and I'm not sure why they thought it was a good idea to throw in any shitty little joke they could think of involving clowns or gays. It's not even offensive jokes that you'd find in a movie by Troma (if they were, they failed). Simply just jokes/lines/puns that would make you want to slap a person for uttering them.
If I have to say one good thing about this steaming pile of candy, it's that it seems like they actually studied clowns.
Gore: 0/5
Nudity: 0/5
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Jorge Antonio Alvarado, Na Luo, Emilie Song, Judith Quigley, Yang Sun; Functional and Histological Analysis of a Mouse Model of Oculocerebrorenal Syndrome of Lowe. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(8):5338. doi: https://doi.org/.
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Lowe syndrome is a rare X-linked recessive disorder that affects the eyes, brain, and kidneys. In particular, infants with mutations in the OCRL gene are born with cataracts and develop congenital glaucoma. Previous studies showed that mice deficient in only Ocrl (Ocrl-/-) exhibited little to no abnormalities, and those lacking in both Ocrl and Inpp5b (Ocrl-/-:Inpp5b-/-) died on embryonic day 9.5, but introduction of the human INPP5B to double-knockout mice (Ocrl-/-:Inpp5b-/-: INPP5B+/+) developed renal abnormalities seen in Lowe syndrome. However, ocular defects have yet to be described. The purpose of this study is to describe the ocular phenotypes of a Lowe syndrome mouse model (IOB) and compare to the human ocular pathology.
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Lowe syndrome IOB mouse eyes were photographed and examined for the presence of cataracts. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and tissue sectioning were performed to examine the lens and retina vasculature. An anterior chamber perfusion system was used to measure aqueous outflow rate via a computer-controlled flow pump, while a tonometer was used to measure IOP. A human Lowe syndrome patient who underwent enucleation for glaucoma was examined and compared with the mouse histology.
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Cataracts were visibly present in the eyes of Lowe syndrome IOB mouse. On histology, 50% (N=8) of IOB eyes exhibited lenticular cavities, 75% showed retained nuclei in lens, and there was a significant increase (p < 0.001, student t-test) in thickness of lens basement membrane as compared to WT (N=4; control N=6). OCT and retina vessel imaging showed no significant differences between the IOB and control mice. Histology sections revealed a reduced number of ganglion cells in the retina of IOB mice. Moreover, IOB mice exhibited elevated levels of IOP than control (p = 0.01, student t-test), in addition to lower outflow rate at different IOP levels (p < 0.001, student t-test).
Conclusions :
The IOB mouse exhibits ocular defects, such as formation of cataracts and decreased aqueous outflow facility, similar to human phenotypes in Lowe syndrome patients.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.
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Deep-Sea Sedimentary Record of the Late Wisconsin Cataclysmic Floods from the Columbia River
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New results from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1037 and U.S. Geological Survey high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles confirm the great thickness, fast deposition rate, distant source, and convolute path of turbidites that fill the Escanaba Trough, the rift valley of the southernmost segment of the Gorda Ridge. Accelerator mass spectrometry C-14 measurements provide the first direct dating of the Escanaba Trough turbidites, demonstrating an average deposition rate faster than 10 m/k.y. between 32 and 11 ka and as fast as 15 m/k.y. during the oxygen isotope stage 2 lowstand, In the upper 60 m of sediment, the petrology of turbidite sand beds, which are as much as 12 m thick, show that the dominant source for the turbidites is from the Columbia River, which is more than 800 km to the north, rather than from the much closer rivers of northern California. New high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles show that, except for areas of very recent volcanism, the entire Escanaba Trough below 3200 m water depth is floored by the turbidite sequence that was cored in the upper 60 m at Site 1037B, The ages of the upper 120 m of turbidites correspond with the ages of channeled scabland deposits associated with latest Quaternary jokulhlaups from glacial Lake Missoula, The age and source characteristics suggest that these megaturbidite beds in Escanaba Trough are most likely deposits formed by hyperpycnally generated turbidity currents as the largest of the Lake Missoula floods entered the sea.
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(1999). Deep-Sea Sedimentary Record of the Late Wisconsin Cataclysmic Floods from the Columbia River. Geology, 27(5), 463-466.
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We have just moved house to the mountains. Now I can practise all day and night … if I really wanted to … without the fear of some moron calling the police (yes, they really did that where we used to live, without even contacting us first). Am now working on Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto, and Sorabji's Piano Symphony no.6. And recovering after so much Alkan last month!
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Collected Poems
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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production, deprived the world of one of the major personalities in twentieth-century British literature.
The poems included in this volume, mostly written in Scots dialect – from 'Skail Wind', first published in 1941, to the moving poems of his maturity and the gentle, philosophical poems of his later years – show us the journey of a man who understood the world only too well.
The fact that Smith's work – so admired by MacDiarmid, MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, Kurt Wittig, David Murison and other poets and scholars – has fallen comprehensively from view … is a matter of dismay
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Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–75), a principal figure of the Scottish Renaissance, is – together with Hugh MacDiarmid – one of the founders of Scottish modern poetry.


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The European Union is infuriated by zionist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's analogy between Tel Aviv's policies toward the Palestinians and Europe's stance toward the Jews during the World War II era.
Maja Kocijancic, the spokesperson for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, condemned Lieberman's comparison and expressed dismay over the reference.
"Mr. Lieberman's reference to Europe in the 1940s in this context is inappropriate and offensive to Europeans," Kocijancic said, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday.
In an interview with Israel Radio on Tuesday, Lieberman slammed EU foreign ministers' decision the day before to condemn Tel Aviv for advancing the plan to expand illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank's E-1 region.
"We have already been through this with Europe at the end of the 1930s and in the 1940s," the hawkish minister said.
Later in the day, Lieberman repeated his fiery criticism of the European Union, saying the European foreign ministers' opposition to Israel's settlements was "unbalanced and unjustified."
He also accused some of the European foreign ministers of taking the destruction of Israel for granted.
"The European Union's decision," Lieberman added, "shows how much we can rely on those same countries that say that they guarantee Israel's security interests."


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I'm beginning to wonder if Lionsgate got a deal too good to pass up. You know, like buy one Norm of the North, get two free. You have to think that something's up because Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure is the third film in a franchise that debuted in 2016 and the second sequel to be released this year.
And it's only June.
At this rate, we will have at least two more Norm of the North before the end of the year. Brrr. I'm calling a holiday-themed Norm of the North film where Norm helps out Santa and saves Christmas right now. It will most assuredly come out in early December.
In this installment, Norm meets an archaeologist and agrees to help him secure a priceless Chinese artifact that was stolen by his old partner Dexter. Now, Norm and his lemming friends must track Dexter across the world and recover the artifact before it's too late.
Look, I get it. I'm not the target demographic of this franchise and I'm OK with that. The problem is that I did genuinely enjoy the first film and my young son was hooked on Norm. Since then, we've been watching the new films and while he continues to enjoy them, I find my patience waning more and more with each subsequent release.
I really hadn't gotten the bad taste of Keys to the Kingdom out of mouth from February before we were once again bombarded by more Norm. There's a way to create a proper balance in family entertainment between younger and older viewers, but the filmmakers behind the Norm have seemingly lost that ability.
There's a reason that these sequels are being dumped unceremoniously one after the other and that's because they just aren't that good. If Keys to the Kingdom was a step down from the original Norm of the North, King Sized Adventure has fallen into the abyss. It was really that painful to watch. Let's put it this way, the redeeming quality of King Sized Adventure is the fart jokes.
Of course, that being said, my five-year-old son cackled like a hyena throughout the film and his attention was rapt on the continuing adventures of a polar bear out of ice. In King Sized Adventure, the filmmakers (I use that term loosely) opt for more action than the previous movies. There's a real Indiana Jones feel to the film, but at times it is painfully forced - almost to the point of absurdity. Of course, what is truly absurd when you're talking about a talking polar bear that seemingly spends more time in the tropics than in the Arctic Circle.
While it might be admirable to applaud them for expanding Norm's horizons, you really have to question if there are limits at this point. Given the way that the last two films have exponentially increased Norm's adventures, it's almost inevitable that a "Norm in Space" movie will see the light of day at some point. At this rate, sooner rather than later.
And yet, my young son couldn't get enough which I suppose is the point. If you have young ones in your home, you could certainly do far worse than throwing in a Norm of the North movie. Just be prepared to have something else planned to keep your mind stimulated. It will begin to wander quite quickly and if you don't have something else to work on, it will be the longest 90 minutes of your life.
Naturally, as is common with this age group, anything they watch must be immediately repeated again and again ad nauseum. There are far worse entertainment options out there, but if you're expecting something to entertain both you and your kids, then you will be sorely disappointed.
So, if you have a young one that doesn't mind the fact that polar bears can seemingly travel the world at will righting the injustices that they find, then they will probably enjoy Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure. I will give the franchise one iota or props though. Norm's sidekicks in the series have always been Arctic lemmings, which, as the name implies, are found in the Arctic along with polar bears. I keep expecting the more cartoonish penguin to show up in these films, despite being found on the opposite side of the Earth, by the South Pole. So far though, they haven't jumped that shark yet. The key word there is yet.
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Basslights Comes Back To The Mothership
The weekend of December 27th and 28th 2014, 15,000 people will be coming from miles around to Hampton, Virginia to embark on the 2 day event titled Basslights, where electronic music titans Bassnectar and Pretty Lights share headlining status across the 2 night event. This time around, these 2 artists are bringing Chromeo, Beats Antique, Eliot Lipp and Exmag with them to help get attendees dancing early on in the night.
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By combining sound and force with weight, the Bassnectar experience engulfs the senses. The experience of Bassnectar is more visceral than auditory, as the music sets any stage for an adventure without rules or limitations. On Bassnectar's stage, there is no hesitation in fusing the familiar with the strange or the classic with the cutting edge.
Pretty Lights
Relying heavily on digital sampling from the inception and more recently incorporating a live band and symphony, Derek Vincent Smith performs under the moniker of Pretty Lights to bring audiences an auditory and visual experience like none other. If you asked Derek what his music is considered he might say "Electro Hip-Hop Soul", but his show and his sound could never fully be captured in just 4 words. Once you witness his live show you will understand why he is called Pretty Lights and revered as one of the best touring productions in the world.
If you aren't familiar with this roster of supporting acts allow us to catch you up to speed:
Canadian boogie/alternative dance duo formed in 2002 in Montreal by Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) who plays guitar and sings, and P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) on the synths, keys and talk box.
Beats Antique
Comprised of 3 members; David Satori, Zoe Jakes, and Tommy Cappel aka Sidecar Tommy. This trio is an experimental electronic music group that fuses world sounds and heavy percussives with tribal fusion dance and performance art. A Beats Antique show is like going to the circus and a multilevel concert production all in one. This is an act you surely don't want to miss and they are going to bring the heat and the beat for all you freaks at Basslights.
Check out their rendition of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" :
A live funk electronic dance music group that is part of Gramatiks "Lowtemp" label, Exmag helps bring sexy sounds back into electronic music.
Eliot Lipp
One of the breakout artists from the Pretty Lights Music imprint, Eliot Lipp has released 7 albums and undergone 10 years of touring. A genre-bending catalogue spanning from electro to trap and everything in between. Eliot Lipp is a risk-taker and his music is evidence of such. I would keep my eye on this Pretty Lights Music label mate.
For the past 3 years, Hampton, VA has been the home for Basslights and each year this town welcomes the mass of electronic music lovers with open arms. Some of the motels and hotels even put special Welcoming signs out to greet the attendees. Like this lovely sign found at the Days Inn!


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Above: the yellow section is Tohoku
So, here we are, 3 years later.
It really did change me. And as i go, i've come to discover that it seems to have changed maybe a lot of people, not all of them Japanese and many not necessarily directly affected by the 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami and nuclear plant tragedies that unravelled on March 11, 2011 in Tohoku.
This post would have published sooner and more anniversary-appropriately, but Japan being ahead in time from where i reside here in the U.S. saw 3/11 in Japan ahead of us by nearly a day and i had an intrinsic need to watch as much coverage of the anniversary events airing in Japan as i had access to that day. On March 11 in my Pacific Standard Time zone, i worked a full day "closing", then discovered once i got home that internet service wasn't cooperating on any device i attempted to crank this out on (it was windy here last night...?). And still, earlier tonight, programming about Tohoku continued to air. So, i trust you understand.
Just two weeks ago now while working at my not-so "day job", someone particularly special happened in to my store. i was working register, so was the one to greet customers and take their orders. We get quite a few Asian customers at my store, but it isn't always evident to me just who are Japanese ...until i get their name for their order, so her name tipped me off.
Dork that i am, i am admittedly happy on the occasion that i meet or encounter my fellow Japanese, be they issei, nisei or sansei. In my heart, because of our shared cultural heritage, i have an affinity for them (or you, if you qualify) -and, evidently, my (Japanese) soul sees my fellow Japanese as my extended family. Some take more kindly to this than others.
99% of the time, those who respond to this quality in me most positively are women. And my very best experiences in this vein have always been with Japanese females in or from Japan who, for God-knows what reason, usually immediately respond to me as one of their own -however not Japanese i may look on the outside. One of these days i should look into why this has been my experience -because i'm curious like that.
It's felt a little to me like two puppies meeting and becoming instantaneous friends, having met Yuri. The things we've come to learn that she and i have in common are downright ...eerie. The Japanese might call it "sadame" (fate). To me, God did it.
Yuri, i came to learn, is a student majoring in psychology at a local university. To say that it's highly unusual for someone from Japan to major in psychology - particularly of the western variety - would be a (gross) understatement. The field and practice of psychology in Japan has been and remains severely underdeveloped, to its peril. So in the two weeks since we met, i had to ask why. Why western psychology?
i was a journalism major, but if i were to go back or do it over, i think the me of today would major in psychology or sociology and minor in business. Or maybe vice-versa.
So, there's that in common.
As for her whys,
a) an interest in human behavior -which has been the single most interesting facet of the job i'm presently in (y'all are interesting creatures ...wink) and likely plays a significant factor in why i've lasted there as long as i have.
b) she has a brother ...as do i.
c) ...3.11.2011 Tohoku.
Yuri was in Japan, albeit closer to Tokyo, at the time of the event -and though i have family and a few friends in Japan, and so have heard some of their accounts of the event, it's interesting to me to get to hear her experience of it. No one that i personally know was in Tohoku that day, yet the accounts i've heard of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake in and of itself make it clear that that alone was terrifying. Which only points to how much worse it must have been to have experienced what went down at "ground zero" in Tohoku that day.
We live in such a fast-paced world full of distractions that have, in my opinion, realized and exacerbated an epidemic of ADD/ADHD in developed nations. My observation of Japan from across the ocean in the context of 3.11.2011 has only made my love for my paternal homeland grow. Here, in the States, for our plethora of catastrophic events, it seems to me that we grow all-too apathetic all-too quickly. If we weren't personally affected by an event, we seem to move on, and quickly -if we so much as notice at all. Our media coverage moves on just as quickly -which doesn't help. i find it unnerving, in fact. In this rush-and-hurry world, ones personal tragedy gets reduced to a flash-in-the-pan at most, if it makes the radar at all. Unless, of course, it's you that it happened to.
My family subscribes to TVJapan, an NHK channel available here in the States, which has and continues to air four programs each and every week about post-3.11.2011 Tohoku: Testimonies of the Great East Japan Earthquake (airs twice each week), Tohoku Travelogue and From Tohoku: Lectures for the Future. Though there are, of course, other television stations in Japan, NHK is a dominant force amongst them. Last year, NHK based one of its most popular dramas, Yae's Sakura, on a historical heroine hailing from and set in Aizu in Tohoku. And every year since 2011, NHK has dedicated a segment of their biggest show of the year, NHK's New Years Eve "kouhaku", to spotlighting Tohoku in light of 3.11.2011. Simply stated, this blows my mind.
This is TVJapan's regular weekly program grid - with programs about Tohoku circled in red
i expect that this, what little i manage to catch about Tohoku from this side of the Pacific ocean, is but a glimpse at their continued coverage and vigil of 3.11.2011, and that said, what a contrast.
Yuri's reason for coming all the way to the United States in the pursuit of a degree in western psychology with regard to 3.11?
"They're forgetting."
She proceeded to relay to me that experiencing that tragic day jolted into the people of Japan a keen sense about what truly matters in life -family, mostly. But that sentiment seems to her to be dissipating as she sees people now diverting back to the 'same 'ol' that was before the events of that tragic day.
Sound familiar?
Yet, i can't help but take note of the difference in attention span ...despite the degree of drinking and video gaming that goes on in Japan.
i share my experience about Yuri here in this context because she is an example of others, like myself, who have been changed by the tragedies of 3.11.2011 to the point of taking (in her case, tremendous) action.
That said, we have work to do.
Yes, still, 3 years on.
At present, there are still some 267,000 survivors residing in the temporary housing units erected for the surviving residents of Tohoku.
This is where the concentrated effort of the proceeds of our 3.11 Heal Japan benefit EP is being directed.
However, the 3.11 Heal Japan benefit effort is 3-fold:
- The Heal Japan benefit EP is our digital download available on iTunes (Japan/US) and amazon (Japan/US) worldwide.
For just ¥200 / .99 per single track or ¥600 / $2.49 for the full 3-track EP, you can help fund the building of homes for those who lost theirs and are still residing in temporary housing in Tohoku.
The Heal Japan benefit EP was a labor of love on my part funded and produced entirely out of pocket.
100% of sales generated goes directly to Habitat for Humanity's building of homes for 3.11 survivors in Tohoku.
i don't see a penny.
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Effectiveness, however, requires cohesion. There is collective strength in numbers and success doesn't come from isolation. This is a team effort. ...or it should be. And maybe that explains the lack of progress concerning the reconstruction of Tohoku. For as many as seem to care, why the apparent hangups? My (somewhat educated) guess is that bureaucracy has been the predominant thing in the way.
As for the rest of us, those of us who took action and showed up and continue to even three years on, i salute you and support you and i hope that i have demonstrated that by following and promoting your various efforts in this vein via the various social media outlets. To any of my fellows in the Tohoku reconstruction trenches with me who have supported or promoted the efforts of the Heal Japan benefit, thank you.
Your support matters considerably.
Now, let's get (back) to work...!