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George J. Mitchell was born on August 20, 1933, in Waterville, Maine, to Mary Saad, a factory worker, and George Mitchell, a laborer. Senator Mitchell spent his youth in Waterville. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College in 1954, he served as an officer in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps until 1956. In 1960 he earned a law degree from Georgetown University.
After serving as a trial lawyer in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department for two years, he took a position as executive assistant to Senator Edmund Muskie from Maine, who became Mitchell's most important political mentor.
Although he returned to Maine from Washington, D.C., in 1965 to work for the private law firm of Jensen, Baird, Gardner and Henry, he remained active in politics by serving as the state chairman for the Maine Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968. He then held the post of Democratic national committeeman from Maine between 1969 and 1977. In 1968 and 1972 Mitchell also served as deputy director for Muskie's respective vice-presidential and presidential campaign bids. Mitchell himself made an unsuccessful run for governor of Maine in 1974.
In the 1970s he returned to public law practice, serving as a part-time assistant county attorney for Cumberland County while still working for the law firm of Jensen, Baird, Gardner and Henry. Mitchell accepted the post of U.S. attorney for the state of Maine in 1977. Two years later President Jimmy Carter appointed Mitchell a U.S. district court judge.
In 1980 Senator Muskie was appointed Secretary of State. The senator recommended to Governor Joseph Brennan that Mitchell be appointed to complete the remaining two years of his term. This was the beginning of Mitchell's fourteen-year career in the Senate. He won the election in his own right in 1982 and was reelected in 1988 by a record 81%.
Senator Mitchell served on the Finance Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Veterans Affairs Committee, the Governmental Affairs Committee, and the Senate Democratic Steering Committee. In 1980 Senator Mitchell worked with Senator William Cohen to achieve authorization of the settlement of the Maine Indian land claims. Other major legislation championed by Senator Mitchell included the first major acid rain bill, reauthorization of the Clean Air Act, an important transportation bill in 1991, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Superfund toxic cleanup legislation, campaign finance reform, and universal health care in 1994.
In late 1984 he was appointed chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and led the Democrats in gaining eleven seats and majority control of the Senate in 1986. Following this effort, Senator Mitchell was appointed to the Select Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair in 1987. Mitchell provided one of the most memorable moments of the hearing when he admonished Oliver North to "please remember, that it is possible for an American to disagree with you on aid to the Contras and still love God, and still love this country, just as much as you do. Although He is regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."
His performance on the Iran-Contra Committee propelled Senator Mitchell into the national spotlight and helped him win the post of Senate majority leader a year later. In electing George Mitchell as their Senate leader, the Democrats were looking for "an effective, articulate national spokesman," said Democratic Senator Thomas Daschle of South Dakota, who would succeed him in the post in 1995, "someone who could frame issues and project what the new Senate is and ought to be."
In March 1994 George Mitchell said he would retire from the Senate at the end of his term. Within a month of his announcement, Justice Harry A. Blackmun announced his retirement from the Supreme Court. Senator Mitchell quickly became President Clinton's top choice to replace Justice Blackmun. In Senator Mitchell, Clinton would have a moderately liberal justice with experience as a legislator, judge and prosecutor who also had the skill to build consensus among the other justices. However, Senator Mitchell turned down the President's offer of the nomination because he wanted to focus his efforts on health care reform. Mitchell noted that "although it would be an honor to be considered for the court, I believe I can best serve by concentrating this year on health-care reform and the rest of the president's agenda for change."
Despite his retirement from the Senate, George Mitchell has remained active in international politics. In November 1995 President Clinton appointed him special advisor to the president of the United States and the secretary of state for economic initiatives in Ireland. The Mitchell Report, released on January 24, 1996, called for a phasing-out of guerilla weapons in Northern Ireland in addition to elections prior to the opening of peace talks. The report was lauded by both British and Irish governments, but the end of a 16-month ceasefire by the I.R.A. in February of 1996 delayed the peace process. Mitchell's mission was eventually completed on April 12, 1998, with the signing of a three-stranded multilateral peace agreement which was approved by public referendum on May 22, 1998. For his service in Northern Ireland Senator Mitchell received numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor that the U.S. Government can give; the Philadelphia Liberty Medal; the Truman Institute Peace Prize; the United Nations (UNESCO) Peace Prize; and the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) highest honor awarded to former student-atheletes, the Theodore Roosevelt Award.
In mid-October of 2000, at the request of President Clinton, Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, and president of the Palestinian Council Yasser Arafat, Senator Mitchell agreed to serve as chairman of the Sharm el-Sheikh International Fact-Finding Committee. The goal of the committee was to examine the continuing crisis between the Israelis and the Palestinians, emphasizing, as stated by Senator Mitchell, the "strong belief that the violence between [the two parties] must be brought to an end." The committee released its report in May 2001.
In addition to his work as an international advisor, Senator Mitchell has also worked on a number of committees and boards both domestically and abroad. Upon leaving the Senate, Mitchell joined the Washington, D.C., law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, which merged with Piper Rudnick in 2003. In 2005, Piper Rudnick joined with the British firm DLA to become DLA Piper, one of the world's largest law firms; Senator Mitchell served as Chairman of the Global Board until his resignation in 2009. He has also served as a director of the Walt Disney Company, Federal Express Corporation, Xerox Corporation, UNUM Provident Corporation, Casella Waste Systems, Inc., Unilever, Staples, Inc., and Starwood Hotels and Resorts. He also serves as the chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast and as president of the Economic Club of Washington, and recently was chairman of the International Crisis Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of crises in international affairs, and chairman of the Special Commission investigating allegations of impropriety in the bidding process for the Olympic games. In December, 2001, Senator Mitchell accepted appointment as overseer of the American Red Cross Liberty Fund, which provides relief for September 11 attack victims and their families.
On March 30, 2006, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Bud Selig, asked Senator Mitchell to lead an investigation into the illegal use of performing enhancing substances in Major League Baseball. Senator Mitchell delivered his report to the Commissioner on December 13, 2007.
President Barack Obama appointed Senator Mitchell as his special envoy for Palestinian-Israeli affairs on January 22, 2009, a position he held until his resignation on May 20, 2011. In June 2011 Senator Mitchell returned to DLA Piper as Chairman Emeritus.
On August 1, 2012, the NCAA appointed Senator Mitchell to a five year term as independent athletics integrity monitor for Penn State University's athletic program, with the charge to oversee Penn State's compliance with NCAA sanctions.
Senator Mitchell is the author of five books: Men of Zeal: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings (1988); World on Fire: Saving an Endangered Earth (1991); Not for America Alone: The Triumph of Democracy and the Fall of Communism (1997); Making Peace (1999); and The Negotiator: A Memoir (2015).
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John Plunkett of the UK Guardian writes here about a subject near and dear to the hearts of newspapers these days.
The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that "almost all" news organisations will be charging for online content within a year.
Its a pretty savvy article recognizing that financial papers like the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal or Australia's Financial Review have an advantage over general newspapers, and that mediocre papers are in the most danger of failing. Barber believes that general papers offering unique content like the Guardian or the NY Times have the best chance of survival. I'm tempted to agree – it seems a reasonable argument – but I think the problem is larger than adapting the old business model to the new media environment. Barber continues: "Many news organisations are following suit in charging, latterly the New York Times which had previously come down in favour of free access to its own content." Indeed the Times is currently considering a subscription fee, but for the second time. Mr. Barber rather too delicately alludes to Times Select, the subscription model the paper tried from 2005 to 2007. They discovered that the effect was to remove themselves from the Internet conversation and decided they needed to offer free subscriptions to academics and other opinion makers shortly before giving up the idea altogether. Clay Shirky, the NYU media academic, in this trenchant analysis of the dilemma newspapers face argues that the problem is more fundamental than can be addressed with a change of business model and that the solutions proposed currently are the same as those put forward since the 90s.
The curious thing about the various plans hatched in the '90s is that they were, at base, all the same plan: "Here's how we're going to preserve the old forms of organization in a world of cheap perfect copies!" The details differed, but the core assumption behind all imagined outcomes (save the unthinkable one) was that the organizational form of the newspaper, as a general-purpose vehicle for publishing a variety of news and opinion, was basically sound, and only needed a digital facelift. As a result, the conversation has degenerated into the enthusiastic grasping at straws, pursued by skeptical responses.
The unthinkable, not so obviously, is that the institution of the newspaper itself is finished not simply because it is based on an expensive and obsolete technology but because new technologies have swept away the very structures that make newspapers viable in the first place. For example, Shirky points out that the old model enabled newspapers to use advertising revenues from companies with no interest in subsidizing journalistic activity to fund expensive projects like their 'Baghdad bureau'. His entire argument is rich and compelling and should be read in its entirety but his remorseless conclusion is worth repeating here:
Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know "If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?" To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the Internet just broke.
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
Shirky goes on to argue that while we no longer need newspapers, we do need journalism. He also expresses the idea that we don't know how it will work out and that, based on historical experience of previous technological revolutions, we are in for a period of chaos before the new forms emerge. It is in this area of uncertainty that I believe many contemporary press people – both journalists and business people – like Lionel Barber have difficulty seeing that the implications of the technological revolution effect both the business side and craft or practice side of journalism. Here is Plunkett again quoting Barber:
Barber made a distinction between "crafted" journalism and blogs "largely based on opinion rather than established fact [and] becoming increasingly influential in setting the news agenda". "Bloggers have broken important stories and will continue to do so," he said.
But he said they "do not operate according to the same standards as those who aspire to and practise crafted journalism. They are often happy to report rumour as fact, arguing that readers or fellow networkers can step in to correct those "facts" if they turn out to be wrong. They are rarely engaged in the pursuit of original news: their bread and butter is opinion and comment."
"I do not wish to sound precious. British journalism has always put a premium on the scoop and it has long blurred the distinction between news and comment," said Barber.
While the newspaper business side had been obviously sinking, journalists have argued that their professional qualifications and standards set them apart and will allow them to maintain the status quo. They fail to appreciate that their training and assumptions suit them – to paraphrase Shirky - for dominance in structures optimized for mass media. The structure of mass media is characterized by a few communicating with many and describes radio and TV as well as newspapers. The Internet involves many to many communication – which is a different structure with different dynamics. What is already obvious is that both established journalists and outsiders can gain prominence in the new media environment. Newspapers have been impacted first financially because they carry the extra economic burden of paper, ink and physical delivery costs. The many to many structure of the Internet breaks both critical monopolies historically enjoyed by mass media in general and newspapers in particular:
- Business: control of the means of publication – presses, TV and radio stations
- Craft: control of content – what stories will be told – the narrative
There is a tendency for those in the established journalism industry to confuse the two and to assume that even if the former breaks the latter will persist. On the business side the ability to avoid going broke is the determinant of survival. Right now it is clear that many newspapers have insurmountable business problems. Radio and TV, much less. On the reporting or craft side the case is not so clear cut. What we have now is a much freer market where access is difficult or impossible to control. Some independent journalists actually raise the standard of reporting – bloggers regularly catch the MSM misreporting, distorting and leaving things out as well as catching each other out. That is just the way it is in the many to many environment. Others manage to gain a following that will pay to keep them reporting from distant places. Michael Yon and Michael J Totten come to mind. Personally, in following the Iraq war in 2003 I found the MSM superficial – tending to report causalities and tactical level incidents like the destruction of vehicles in a disconnected fashion. Iraqi bloggers, active duty soldiers and ex servicemen turned reporters gave both better information and better insight. Significantly, I found one MSM reporter early on – John Burns of the NY Times Baghdad Bureau – who consistently dug beneath the surface in Iraq and produced superior reporting. However, when he disappeared behind the Times Select firewall in 2005 I had so many other excellent sources of information from Iraq that his reporting was no longer indispensable. In the short term I think some of the most 'indispensable' newspapers will survive in some form for a time but eventually 'new structures optimized for digital data' will emerge. One emergent category is group blogs defined by ideological stance – much like newspapers or broadcasting groups. For example, Pajamas Media on the right and Huffington Post on the left. While I find individual posts on these sites worthwhile I feel uncomfortable knowing that I am reading inside an ideological walled garden for the same reasons I am uncomfortable with similar ideologically controlled environments in the mass media. So far I find I am most comfortable when ideology takes a back seat to transparency – but that is a subject for another post. At this stage I don't feel confident predicting that newspapers will disappear quickly unless the economic situation remains bad and accelerates their demise. We might see the general city papers that take their lead from papers like the NY Times and Washington Post in national and international news retreat to smaller local papers. The Washington Post has shown the way in this area by having a strong local tradition.
Another trend that is emerging is hyperlocal blogging which is intensive old style reporting about a single area of a city or other small locality. According to Jeff Jarvis (of Buzz Machine in this post) and in a recent episode of Leo Laporte's new podcast This Week in Google such bloggers are able to earn from $200,000 to $300,000 a year – enough so that a talented blogger can share the income with another local individual who is good at selling the advertising that is the source of the income. To me hyperlocal blogging is a perfect example of what Clay Shirky means when he talks about "new structures optimized for digital data."

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
By Ellen Dutton
Ellen Dutton from Evelyn Grace Academy in London has put reading displays in different classrooms. She has made the theme relevant to the subject and it works really well! Ellen says that they are trying to create a strong reading culture in their school and also show that students who love reading generally do better in all different subjects.
I think it's a really good idea and would like to do a similar thing myself. It is a great opportunity to use display to promote the library, and reading, to subjects that rarely use the library resources. I will photocopy the covers of some of our best computer books to go with this one.
Thanks for sharing Ellen.
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Sealed bids, addressed to the City of La Mesa, 8130 Allison Avenue, La Mesa, California, will be received online via Planet Bids until 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at which time they will be publicly opened, for furnishing plant, labor, material, and equipment and performing all work required for:
AEC Outdoor Fitness Park including hardscape, landscape, gazebo, irrigation, and fitness equipment in the City of La Mesa, County of San Diego, State of California, as shown on City of La Mesa Drawing No. 9150 and according to specifications.
Engineer's Estimate for this project is $140,000.
Classification of valid contractor's license which the Prime Contractor must have at the time of bid and contract award: A or C-27. No bid will be awarded to a Contractor who is not licensed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 9, Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code.
A pre-bid meeting is scheduled for 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 8450 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa, CA 91942. (Please park in the baseball field parking lot across the street). Bids will be submitted via PlanetBids only. See Information for Bidders and other contract documents for bidding procedure and other requirements of said bid.
The right is reserved by the City to reject any and all bids and to waive any irregularities or informalities in bids received. All bidders must be a valid plan holder in order to be considered responsive. Plans, Specifications, Information for Bidders, Bid Bond form, Performance and Payment Bond forms, Standard and Special Conditions and Form of Agreement may be secured at no cost from our website: www.cityoflamesa.com at Bid Opportunities, as well as bidholder lists and bid results.
Bids shall be made in accordance with the prevailing hourly rate of per diem wages for this locality and project as determined by the Director of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code Section 1770 et seq., a copy of which is on file with the City Engineer at 8130 Allison Avenue, La Mesa, in accordance with the provisions of Labor Code Section 1773.2, which prevailing hourly rate of wages is made a part of this notice by reference as though fully set forth herein.
The City Council of the City of La Mesa, in accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252) and the Regulations of the Department of Commerce (15 C.F.R., Part 8), issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all Bidders that it will affirmatively insure that the contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement will be awarded to the lowest responsible Bidder without discrimination on the grounds of race, color, or national origin.
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I'm willing to help test version 2.0 of SVF.
Athens wrote:Thanks. I will inform you when it will be ready.
You may post here about the current most recurrent stregnht and blunders of the AI in AACW. It will help me tremendously to spot easily what to fix in priority.
I don't live here anymore, but I will keep an eye on this thread
And if you feel waiting to be boring, you may try FY
Kev_uk wrote:Yes, I will suggest Fatal Years..if you are a masochist ;-)
Yes, there's only one scenario for SVF, the April campaign. Do youhave others?
bk6583 wrote:Clovis,
Just getting back to this game after several years now with Windows7 (your mod just simply CTD'd all the time with Vista). Hate to ask a really dumb question but when I load the game, your mod really is only the Apr 1861 Full Campaign?
I don't think the current version is stable (I couldn't get it to work past 62 or 63).
bk6583 wrote:Oh for crying out loud. Coupled with Athens' post let me see if understand this. After several years (and having bought a new PC with Windows 7) I really wanted to get back to AACW and in particular Clovis' SFV mod, which seemed to go a long way in correcting many facets of the vanilla AACW, including correcting a really stupid AI. Now from your comment I get the impression that playing the SFV mod will be an exercise in futility, i.e., CTDs in '62 or '63 (which was the problem I originally experienced with SVF but had attributed to Vista). However, now there's an SVF 2.0 around the corner that I may able to play?
jennison wrote:Bummer that this version isn't stable.. I'm only patched to 1.15 in hopes that it will work, but I'm already getting crashes 3 turns in.
It's crashing on processing day 15 with "Several errors have been generated and the application is stalling. Please forward to support"
Has anyone seen that before?
Update: I can actually continue if I hit the cancel button. Still kind of inconvenient, but at least I can work around the problem.
von Sachsen wrote:Yep, happens for this version, and by the end of 62(? It's been a while) it will cease to work IIRC. This should of course be fixed for the next version, whenever that is. (Supposed to be a few months ago, then showed progress, though nothing for the last while.)
traixonia wrote:When I play SVF the ledger doesn't not display any tab except the units tab. How can I fix this or is there an event that activates the ledger?
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Minor in Comparative Literature
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Seniors with appropriate preparation may take English 208, Graduate Seminar in Comparative Literature and apply it to the Comparative Literature minor.
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Barbie may have dwindled in popularity since we were young but she still has a cult following, not just kids either. Just like Lego, anything Barbie is collectable, especially special items like Advent Calendars. You can get the Barbie Advent Calendar for just £9.99 with FREE delivery from eBay Seller: myplanet. This isn't the Kinnerton chocolate version, but is jam-packed full of goodies for your little one's Barbie doll.
What can one expect to find behind each of the 24 doors on this Barbie Advent Calendar? Clothes, jewellery, scarves, shoes and lots of other accessories for official Barbie dolls.
This calendar is a must for any little Barbie fan. Priced at just under £10, I don't think it's a bad amount to pay considering a lot of 'alternative' Advent Calendars go for £15 plus.
eBay Seller: myplanet has sold 273 of these already and I can see that figure rising quickly as we get closer to December. These 'non-chocolate' Calendars are super popular just now and everyone seems to be looking for different ones.
I can see me bagging a couple of these myself at this price, as I know that these toy filled Barbie ones can sell for as much as £18 during peak season.


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The course was really informative and delivered with a good balance of serious content and light humour to help everyone along. I really wasn't sure what to expect as I hadn't seem myself as someone who could meditate, but this has been mostly simple and now doing a meditation is something I can do everyday and that really help me feel grounded and in control.
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The early history of the San Diego Chapter of the Association of Adventist Forums (AAF) is a bit fuzzy (not unlike earth's beginning), but it was apparently organized in the late 1970's at a time of great upheaval in the SDA church in North America. As far as can be determined, Walt Fahlsing served as the first president until 1982 when Les Palinka took the reins for a year. Meeting venues over the past 30-plus years have included San Diego Academy, Paradise Valley SDA Church, Scottish Rite Temple, Lakeside SDA Church and the Tierrasanta SDA church (since 1996).
During Walt's leadership, Jim Kaatz started tape recording the meetings and also volunteered to write and distribute a newsletter to better inform members of upcoming chapter meetings. Jim became the president in 1983 and for the next 27 years, he and his super dedicated wife Averille, successfully morphed the San Diego Chapter into one of the best known and influential of all AAF Chapters (other chapters have consulted us regarding chapter organization and development). During their tenure the board was enlarged, an international audio tape "ministry" was developed and the circulation of the 10-issue-per-year newsletter grew. Jim not only scheduled over 250 local Forum meetings but he made sure they were all recorded (except for one meeting when a tape recorder malfunctioned) and they remain available for purchase—a significant source of data for interested persons as well as church historians. Largely from income derived from tape (and more recently compact disc) sales, the San Diego chapter has contributed nearly $100,000 to the AAF, the magazine Adventist Today and our current host church,. The San Diego Chapter of the Association of Adventist Forums has enjoyed the sisterhood of AAF Chapters for decades but changed its name to San Diego Adventist Forum (SDAF) in 2004 after AAF re-named itself Adventist Forum.
The ten regular annual SDAF meetings have been designed primarily for progressive, open-minded SDAs of the Southwest corner of these United States. However, SDAF appears to have at least five partially overlapping audiences: about 300 dues-paying members, those who attend the regular meetings and/or annual retreats, the approximately 250 with annual subscriptions to meeting recordings, those that order recordings of individual meetings and the nearly 1600 "subscribers" to the SDAF Newsletter. Additionally, there is no way of determining how many more people listen to the meetings by borrowing or duplicating subscriber's tapes and CDs. The number of annual subscriptions and individual tape/CD orders from around the world attest to the broad interest in the topics and speakers by like-minded (so-called "forum-type") persons seeking answers to often difficult questions about their church and related topics. So...SDAF happily continues to provide quality programming for our international community.
At the November 2009 biennial SDAF board meeting, Jim Kaatz announced that he was stepping down as president, effective June 30, 2010. Even though similar prior attempts had not produced tangible results, at that meeting Jim also appointed yet another Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of SDAF.
At the next meeting of the SDAF Board on January 22, 2010, Gary McCary, SDAF Secretary and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, presented the committee's two primary recommendations with a goal of attracting a younger and more substantial attendance at SDAF meetings: that SDAF experimentally hold its regular meetings at 10 a.m. rather than 3 p.m. (with the discussion period postponed until after lunch) and experimentally schedule quarterly meetings rather than ten meetings a year. The Board voted these recommendations but the committee had not been able to find a replacement for Jim.
Having served on the Board of Directors for over 20 years and having initiated and helped carry out some of SDAF's most ambitious undertakings (such as organizing and hosting the first revival of AAF National Conferences in 1996 and starting the SDAF Annual Retreats in 1997), Gordon Rick was not willing to see the chapter collapse for lack of a leader. When it became apparent during the January board meeting that no one had been identified to fill Jim's soon-to-be-vacant office, Gordon offered to investigate whether a team of volunteers could be identified and recruited to take over the responsibilities that Jim and Averille have been carrying so faithfully for the past twenty-seven years.
At the April 22, 2010 meeting of the SDAF Board, Gordon reported that most of his invitations for volunteers to serve in a variety of positions had been successful but that in the future SDAF would likely need to begin contracting to have some of its services performed. The Board then voted unanimously, for Gordon to fill Jim's term of office (from July until August 30, 2010) and help coordinate the transition to a new era for SDAF. In view of Gordon's current personal life situation, on the brink of retirement and facing multiple major decisions, including possible relocation (after 40+ years as a missionary to Southern California from Canada!), he hesitantly accepted. He agreed to help guide SDAF through this important transition for the sake of this leading "chapter," for the sake of AF, for the sake of the church and primarily for the sake of honestly questioning church members and friends around the world who find our presentations helpful. The Board then switched into its triennial nominating committee mode and developed a slate of officers that were subsequently elected to office through 2013. Gordon is most grateful to all who have expressed willingness to serve SDAF in either official or unofficial capacities and will happily relinquish his responsibilities as soon as a longer term successor is identified or comes forward.
What will the SDAF of the future be like? That's up to us, collectively...what would you prefer? What can SDAF do to become even more meaningful for you?
In the meantime, to prepare for a bright and stable future, SDAF has accomplished the following since July 1, 2010:
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Carrie and I had our weekly "table talk" collaboration time this week and our main focus was literacy centers. We worked together to figure out new engaging activities to help students continue to stay motivated and engaged while we are teaching guided reading. We strategized and came up with several new things for each of our centers and we wanted to share our first new writing activity with you. Students have been given various writing choices during their writing centers and have been practicing writing for real purposes. Some writing activities that the students already do are:
*Make lists (shopping, birthdays, holidays, etc)
*Writing a letter to a friend/family member/teacher
*Writing poetry
*Writing narratives (special occasions, pets, vacations, weekends, etc)
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Minority Leader Calls For Special Session To Stop New Municipal Aid Cuts
CT Posr, November 22, 2017
By Ken Dixon
House Minority Leader Themis Klarides has called for the General Assembly to reconvene and overturn the municipal aid cuts ordered last week by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
In response, Malloy's spokeswoman said Klarides has a case of "buyer's remorse."
The Republican leader's announcement came less than a week after the legislature put the finishing touches on a two-year, $41.3 million budget, which gave Malloy wide discretion on unilateral cost-cutting that he announced on Friday.
Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, said that House and Senate leaders, who spent weeks in closed door discussions to reach the recent bipartisan budget deal, will meet again next week. His counterpart, Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano, R-North Haven, believes Malloy is over-estimating the deficit so he can order further budget slashing.
"The governor's cuts last week were clearly intended to punish towns and cities,'' Klarides, of Derby, said in a late-afternoon statement. She said that legislative leaders were under the impression that Malloy's savings would come from personnel savings and other line items called Targeted Lapse Savings in the budget.
On Friday, Malloy announced $880 million in cuts across both state agencies and municipal aid.
"Governor Malloy clearly knew exactly how we intended to achieve the Targeted Savings Lapse,'' Klarides said. "Instead, his recent action shifts more pain onto municipalities and is a blatant disregard for the will of the legislative leaders and the overwhelming majority of legislators who voted for the budget.''
"It's becoming clearer by the day that Representative Klarides has a strong case of buyer's remorse," said Kelly Donnelly, Malloy's communications director. "If she and other leaders had a specific plan for how these lapses should have been implemented, they should have included those details in the budget they gave to their members, voted on, and adopted. They didn't do that. This is the budget they crafted and voted for - if they want it changed, they have the authority to come in at any time and pass a new budget."
Deficit estimates back to top
Malloy on Monday reported that the estimate deficit in the current budget is more than $202 million. If Comptroller Kevin Lembo agrees, the governor will have to arrange further rescissions to balance the budget.
"When you look at it in terms of percentages, about 1 percent of the total budget, and consider that we are only four months into the current fiscal year, it is not an unmanageable number," said Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin. "If and when the governor does need to submit a mitigation plan to the legislature, we stand ready to work with the administration in the coming months to ensure the budget is balanced going forward."
Fasano said that Malloy included some items in his deficit calculation that lawmakers had not planned to be part of the budget.
"I would have hoped Gov. Malloy would have been honest about the size of that deficit and focus on starting a conversation with lawmakers about how we can address these shortfalls together," Fasano said. "He is releasing artificially high numbers to trigger the need for a formal deficit mitigation plan, a process that gives him the power to issue his own plan for the budget and make himself relevant. It's disturbing that Gov. Malloy would purposefully make the state's finances look worse than they actually are just so he can have a say in how we close the budget shortfall."


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Thursday, February 01, 2007
The Nigerian Series was originated by Nilla to take on topical issues about and in the country. From week to week, it will be hosted by different bloggers, allowing as wide a range as possible of participation.
My view of the problems that beset Nigeria is one not obscured by idealism. I lay all blame at the doorstep of the rulers of this country, the politicians who have with single-mindedness looted the country at the expense of development. In my eyes also, the soldiers who have ruled are no different from the mis-managing pols. As Araceli once pointed out, those responsible for the decades-old crippling of the country should be labelled rulers and not leaders.
Some regard Nigeria as a failed state, some as a seriously ailing one, but apart from those in denial, all agree the country has serious problems.
A point one should note is that faces might have changed in Nigerian governments over the years but the guiding spirit has remained the same. It is not a spirit that looks to the well-being of its people.
Can any deny that the ideals of the Northern People's Congress (NPC) of the 60s was not continued by the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the 70s and 80s and into the present century by the People's Democratic Party (PDP)? Or that the tribal Western Nigeria party, the Action Group (AG) did not evolve into the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) and then into the now incapacitated Alliance for Democracy (AD)?
The same people, fulfilling the same programmes, looking out mainly for themselves, regarding the country as chattel suitable only for looting.
My position on the country is this- Shameless politicians have almost without exception gutted the country with no sense of decency and as a people, we no longer expect those in authority to serve us or better our collective lot.
General Elections in Nigeria will take place in March of this year and already voters card machines have been found in the Ibadan home of the thug-lord, Adedibu, the self acclaimed king maker of Oyo State. There shall be no prosecution of this blood-thirsty geriatric who is protected by the Presidency as there was no prosecution of the simpleton, Chris Uba who abducted the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Chris Uba on behalf of himself and his brother, Andrew, an aspiring governor of that state and aide to the President of Nigeria . The examples are too many to be placed on one post: The President and Vice President accusing and counter-accusing each other of claims of corruption, claim after claim, going on and on... The dreamers, 'Upstarts' like Pat Utomi with radical and life-changing positive ideas will never be allowd to take the throne, let us not deceive ourselves.
The question: Where do we, as a people, take it from here? What do we do about the thieving politicians who would rather die than give up the goose that lays their golden eggs? Already we hear of the amassing of guns and ammunition by men who would rather die than yield power
Is Nigeria a lost cause? Do we get off this sinking ship or can we save this land?
17 comments:
- Nilla said...
I don't agree with you on laying all blame on the rulers.
{Will be back....got to get to work}
- Friday, 02 February, 2007
- LondonBuki said...
I agree with you!
I always (jokingly) say that the only thing that can help Nigeria is God wiping out ALL those in power now and reinstating "New Blood".
I can't do anything for Nigeria, not at this stage in my life (I am doing things for ME right now)... Even later on, what kind of influence am I going to have when I don't plan on being a Politician? Yeah, yeah some people might say "We" should do something for the country, After they say that, can they please tell us WHAT we should do... It's discouraging when you see Good people being assasinated just because they have Nigeria's best interests at heart...
I am one of those that say, "God Help Nigeria". I am loving Nigeria from a distance. Things might change in the future but until then...
- Friday, 02 February, 2007
- SOLOMONSYDELLE said...
(Please forgive me for the lenghtiness of my response).
It is clear that corruption is the common denominator to ALL Nigeria's problems. I agree that our 'leaders' have failed us, but that is because we as a people have allowed them to fail us. I do not feel that we have collectively decided to take the steps necessary to wipe out the scourge.
That being said, I believe that there is still hope for the country. In response to Nilla's question not too long ago, I suggested a few options to attacking Nigeria's problems. I will only mention one as I feel it specifically addresses your post.
"We must acknowledge that no matter how much we love Nigeria, there is an entrenched status quo that works to the detriment of the masses and the benefit of a select and corrupt few.
...it will therefore be important to circumvent the status quo and establish structure ... outside the realms of those who only care about themselves. Nigerians who crave change must separate themselves from those who benefit from and maintain the status quo. We must individually and collectively achieve success in whatever fields we chose to follow ...
By being independent of the status quo, we will not have to succumb to it in order to make the changes that we seek for Nigeria."
I strongly believe that by working outside government channels, as much as possible, Nigerians may be able to achieve the development and progress they seek. The goal si to render the government as impotent as possible and thus give positive politicians an opportunity to rise to the occassion.
- Friday, 02 February, 2007
- Omodudu said...
The present rullers rule Nigeria because we all have refused to fight. We take everythign thrown at us in the name of hope, optimism and religion.
The fact that we clap for the first guy to pull up in a S55 without question if, at least a piece of that car was purchased using money that would have gone into our healthcare and educational programs. Rather than blame the shameless politicians why not blame the timid 'us'. Also remember that the Nigerian system does not give enough system for the leaders to even do well. this is a story for another day. I wish I had more time to respond to this.
- Friday, 02 February, 2007
- laspapi said...
I didn't think you would agree with me, nilla. Waiting for you.
@ london buki- Your statement, "I am loving Nigeria from a distance" makes absolute sense to me. Many have been singed badly for standing too clsoe to the Nigerian fire.
@ solomonsydelle- "The goal iS to render the government as impotent as possible and thus give positive politicians an opportunity to rise to the occasion." The Nigerian system is one in which both the private and public sectors rely on the heavy patronage of the government. A withdrawal of this leads to the ineffectuality of the sector/industry/individual in question.
If there's a way around this, thus rendering the machine impotent, I'd really like you to find the time to let me know. It might be the only way out of the deep hole the country has dug itself in.
@ omodudu- Maybe Nigerians suffer from a variation of the Stockholm Syndrome where the abused identify with and "understand" the issues their captors have. It must be the reason we worship those who've robbed us blind.
- Friday, 02 February, 2007
The problem started with the day some white men in Europe decided they can create a nation. A nation of 250 ethnic groups and some stranger decides to fuse them and turn them into a nation without their consent. How do you expect the nation to work without divide?...The different ethnic groups who make up the nation did not come together to form it.
The country was run as a business by the British. On independence we didn't bother with rectifying it. The subsequent Governments continued to run the country like a business and consolidated their enterprise with the Land Use Decree of 1978.
Until we do what the Ijaws called for in 1998 i.e. a Sovereign National Conference where all the ethnic groups involved can come together, I do not see a way. How do you expect people to diligently lead a country neither they nor their forefathers had a hand in forming?...The only nation they know is their families and ethnic nations, those are the ones they'll serve.
So ehh, blame the British for their short sightedness.
- Friday, 02 February, 2007
- Nilla said...
When you say all the rulers are to blame, are you referring to the rulers at the national level alone or are you also referring to rulers at the state level, local government etc...?
Knowing your country, if all the rulers you're blaming are taken out of the equation that equals Nigeria, do you think Nigeria will be better, or the people that would end up being the new rulers/leaders would be corrupt (either before becoming leaders or while in power)?
Sorry I'm asking those questions.
Nigeria is not a lost cause.
It's just that some of the people that are capable of making a change are too comfortable where they are to bother about making a change. And also like Omodudu said, some or all of us are too timid to do anything. Also a group of us probably don't truly believe we deserve better than what we are getting.
And finally you have the group of Nigerians that are just waiting for a miracle, without doing anything or even in putting in any effort.
How would you then lay all the blame on the rulers?
- Friday, 02 February, 2007
- laspapi said...
donzman has identified a major issue. According to research and polls done here, the "Nigerian", irrespective of where he is from, regards himself as a man of his tribe first, before seeing himself as one from the country.
Therefore, a man is Ijaw, Ijebu or Tivi first and looks out for the interests of his tribe before seeing the Nigerianness in himself.
When the superpowers at that time casually carved up the continent at the Berlin Conference, they took little notice of Donzman's observations, leaving some Egun in Nigeria while others stayed in Benin, some Hausas in Nigeria and others in Ghana (Ghana has Hausa too) while the Bakassi area was casually slashed in half. These 'crazy' demarcations abound all over Africa.
A Sovereign National Conference? The aftermath will not leave this country the same.
@ Nilla- "If all the rulers I'm blaming,are taken out of the equation that equals Nigeria, do I think Nigeria will be better?"
nilla, you'll have to study donzman's observations- "Nigeria is an inequation".
As for these rulers, you also miss my point when I say the same people have been ruling for close to 5 decades-the same associations, friends, loyalties. They answer only to themselves and their needs.
The generality of the rulers are rotten and therefore the whole barrel should be discarded. (Don't ask me in what manner yet) When Bola Ige was made the Minister of Mines & Power, he swore to give electricity to Nigeria in 6 months. He underestimated the pervasiveness of crime and was frustrated out of that ambition, going on to be killed as the Attorney General with no one ever arrested.
Nigerians-Too timid? Too comfortable? Too cynical? Too faithful? Whatever one might think, Nigeria is in the grasp of a massive conspiracy. Agatha of Inside Out yesterday said she covered the eyes of her daughter as she drove past a body still smouldering in Surulere (Onile Gogoro) from being burnt with the aid of a car tyre. 3 hours later, as she returned, the body was still there, less than 200 metres from the Surulere local government. These are things we build into the psyche of 7 year old kids here. Who do I blame? Do I go carry the burnt fellow into the trunk of my car and look for were to bury him?
The apparatus of the system is not there for the people. Ask any car driver in Lagos who daily, has to run the gauntlet of corrupt policemen, Road Safety Officials, KAI officials, LASTMA, Self-appointed Local Government road sentinels, "Yellow Fever" and Armed Robbers.
If there is no clear-cut plan, the enormity that is the Nigerian problem will break you. It has done this to many.
Maybe we should let Solomonsydelle explain what she means by "...it will therefore be important to circumvent the status quo and establish structure ... outside the realms of those who only care about themselves."
If she can show a way no one has thought about, I'm all for it. Please write as much as you can, Solomonsydelle, its a forum for such things.
- Saturday, 03 February, 2007
I love how we Nigerians love to speak grammar. We never get tired of theorizing about politics and economics. As for me, I don tire! We need to stop talking and start walking.
I have no doubt whatsoever in my heart and MIND that there is hope for Nigeria and that Nigeria WILL rise up from this slump and become a better country. I believe that anything is possible.
I also know that the problems in Nigeria have been caused by many factors and continue to exist because of complex and multiple factors such as Colonialism, Bad leaders, corruption, neo-colonialism, tribalism e.t.c. And it is counter productive to try to pin point a single cause of our problems. It is a waste of time unless when you find the single cause of the problem you are then going to go and change it. Either that or you are a PHD student in the Social Sciences and thats what you do for a living - talk.
I am often amazed by our inability as humans to dream big. As far as I am concerned we can achieve change in Nigeria if each one of us purposes to do something for the country, regardless of how small it may be. After all Muhammed Yunus (Nobel Prize winner) is doing small things that are making a big impact in the world http://www.muhammadyunus.org/
A friend once said that each one of us must react as though if we do not do something then no one else will.
- Tuesday, 06 February, 2007
- laspapi said...
I need to know if you've started reacting/walking, and if so, show us the path. We're in search of answers...
- Tuesday, 06 February, 2007
- Atala Wala Wala said...
I'm not going to propose a solution here, but I'll throw out a few questions that lead the discussion in an interesting direction...
Does everyone here know that most developed countries were as bad as Nigeria is right now about a century ago? Yes - I mean they wer afflicted with many of the same problems Nigeria has today - election-rigging, bribery, corruption, poor sanitation, low public health standards, etc. Yet things are very different today in most parts of these countries.
Anyone care to volunteer how such change might have come about?
- Tuesday, 06 February, 2007
@ Laspapi,
I have started walking. I don't feel its right for me to tell you what you should do for Nigeria because your talents are obviously different from mine. So ask your self what you can offer and do it.
As for me, I am a poet and my current project involves poetry.
I have a friend (she's Ghanaian though) who organized a talent show to raise money for Ghanaian children orphaned by AIDS
Here is an article of a Nigerian who is putting in her own time
Even though the money she raised was small ( in some our eyes), it was a step in the right direction because little steps lead to big steps and usually the biggest challenge is actually that of starting something.
If you go to Bella Naija's website you'll see under her list of inspirations Nigerians who are doing their own part.
I also have a friend who is setting up a scholarship fund.
I know that us talking and theorizing is also important. But as for me I don talk sotay I don study philosophy . Abeg lets all do the littlest we can do.
I think that for a while we all grew up feeling powerless, thinking that without money, or power or fame we can't make a difference but thats a lie we can all make a difference in our little way.
I also agree with atala wala wala. We often forget that colonialism is only one half of our history.
So basically the challenge is for us to sit down for an hour or however long it takes and pick our brains asking ourselves what can I do?
- Wednesday, 07 February, 2007
- laspapi said...
@ atala wala wala- are you insinuating a kind of French revolution?
@ aimie- "So ask your self what you can offer and do it."
Well aimie, as I told Nilla once,I'm doing my bit, I think. I've had guns pointed at me and my cast over stage works I wrote critical of the government, had another performance filmed without permission by state security agents who only stopped when it became a fracas, written and produced plays critical of the military (while the soldiers were in power), the politicians currently in power and the Nigerian class/society structure.
I was General Secretary of the Lagos State Chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors, considered by the Guardian Newspaper as the person most likely to write a stage satire of OBJ's 3rd term ambition, and I am the only playwright of my generation who, in his works, directly addresses the political situation here.
I've been told to run, hide, change play titles by family members...
HIV- My play on HIV, Gbanja Roulette, is recommended reading at the University of Ibadan....
I'm doing my bit.
Yet the things I do here add up only to a small drop in the surge that is Nigerian activism. Funmi Iyanda with all her good looks and fashion sense is one of the most vocally critical of the inequalities in the Nigerian system, Reuben Abati, Bamidele Aturu, Ebunolu Adegoroye; lawyers, poets, journalists....The list is endless.
But sometimes illumination can be found in philosophy and discussions like this one. There is constant activism going on here and I am not only in the procession, I'm carrying a banner.
ps. Since your forte is poetry, you might want to link up with a friend, Tunde Oladunjoye, Editor of the book- "Activist Poets-Anthology from Nigeria's Prodemocracy Campaigners".
- Wednesday, 07 February, 2007
@Laspapi kudos to you
Now concerning a French revolution...I am not down with a bloody revolution. A velvet revolution which toppled communism in Czechoslovakia is more like it.
Revolution is just one way
- Thursday, 08 February, 2007
- laspapi said...
In comments about change in Nigeria (on many blogs), I often get the feeling people are asking for change, the hard way, without being direct. Aimie's is the first actual mention of a velvet revolution, which might work in almost every other country. Here? I'm not so sure.
Whatever ways you know, Aimie, please share. It might be the catalyst to positive change.
- Thursday, 08 February, 2007
- Nilla said...
Yes there are countries that were as bad in the past and are doing much better now.
To get a positive change, we have to really really really really really want that change.
- Thursday, 08 February, 2007
- SOLOMONSYDELLE said...
Sorry, I haven't been back here since last week. In rssponse to my comment, you mentioned
"The Nigerian system is one in which both the private and public sectors rely on the heavy patronage of the government. A withdrawal of this leads to the ineffectuality of the sector/industry/individual in question."
I see your point but still believe that this fact does not necessarily hinder my idea. It was done in India. The Indian government was ineffective in creating change as rapidly as was desired by Indian business. What happened? India experienced a 'revolution' (to borrow Aimie's term). Businesses strove towards financial success by depending on an asset outside the realms of the government - intellectual technology. Think about it. IT does not depend on infrastructure like roads or hospitals only educated individuals and the internet highway. India now boasts companies that dominate the global business economy.
If Nigerians can equally find a way to circumvent our government, we can successfully establish ourselves and gain power. Power, in the hands of those with an interest in changing the status quo, will man independence. independence to put money behind serious political candidates. Independence to build schools in rural areas, independence to create jobs for the many well educated and talented Nigerians.
Of course, my suggestion is not the be all and end all of Nigeria's needed cure. Nonetheless, I strongly believe that it can and will play a useful role in effecting change. Sorry can't go into much more detail on the idea I have proposed. It is still a 'work in progress'. But I hope that this was helpful in flushing it out for you and promise to let you know when I finally lay out detailed steps in the process at my blog.
Great job on the discussion series, by the way. Please stop by nigeriancuriosity.blogspot.com as I host the next edition in the series on 02/09. Take care.
- Thursday, 08 February, 2007


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Just for your information, after the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School changed its admissions criteria at the diocese's request, the proportion of children qualifying for free school meals (a standard measure of the proportion of low-income families at a school) actually went DOWN.
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Vitamin D is one of those vitamins that are naturally made by the body when it is exposed to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. However, for people who live in places where sunlight is not plentiful or, even if available, cannot reap its benefits because they are protected via sunscreen, the body can easily become deficient in this all important vitamin that is required for bones, teeth and absorption of calcium. While there are five different forms of Vitamin D (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5), the two that are important are D2 (ergocalciferol) and D3 (cholecalciferol) and of these two, lack of D3 has been linked to many ailments.
A simple blood test can point to the exact Vitamin D3 ¬levels in the blood. If your levels are low, then your healthcare provider may prescribe oral Vitamin D3 tablets or capsules. Vitamin D has been linked to multiple diseases including cancer, hypertension, and bone disorders like osteoporosis, diabetes, brain damage, and anemia in children, multiple sclerosis, even weight loss and other disorders so doctors prefer to play it safe and prescribe supplements. Some of the studies say that deficiency increases risk, while others hold that high intake of this vitamin offers a protective effect.
Study on link between Vitamin D and preeclampsia during pregnancy
Though the intake of calcium is important during pregnancy for both mother and baby's bone and tooth health, not too much significance has been given to Vitamin D levels during pregnancy. However, a recent study carried out by researchers led by Lisa Bodnar at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and to be published in Epidemiology, March 2014 issue, states that there is a distinct link between preeclampsia and low levels of Vitamin D.
The researchers checked out the blood of 700 pregnant women who developed preeclampsia and 3,000 mothers who did not. They also checked out other data regarding the women and came to the conclusion that when Vitamin D levels were normal, there was a 40 percent reduced risk of severe preeclampsia but not of mild preeclampsia. If the women were seriously deficient in this important vitamin in the first 26 weeks of pregnancy, then they were at risk of developing severe preeclampsia.
Do supplements help?
However, a recent study suggests that Vitamin D supplements actually do not help. A research study titled The effect of vitamin D supplementation on skeletal, vascular, or cancer outcomes: a trial sequential meta-analysis conducted by researchers led by Dr. Mark Bolland at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology interpreted various findings of different trials.
This meta analysis studied various trials on the effects of Vitamin D supplements on patients of heart attack, stroke, cerebrovascular disease, cancer, hip fracture, total fracture. The study concluded that supplements of Vitamin D with or without calcium did not change the risk by 15 percent or more of any of these conditions. The researchers also deduced that any further similar trials would not change the conclusions. They further said that there was no cause and effect relationship between Vitamin D levels and increased risk or protection against ailments. Instead, it may be that low levels of Vitamin D are actually a sign of ill health.
Earlier studies by different researchers have also been unable to conclusively link the benefits of Vitamin D supplements with protective effects against various diseases. In fact, some studies actually suggest that higher doses of this supplement may put the person at greater risk of hip fracture.
Does this mean that you should stop taking Vitamin D supplements if prescribed?
Vitamin D is indeed an important vitamin and the fact that it is difficult to source it from food is a problem. However, this fat-soluble vitamin is found in certain foods like fatty fish, mushrooms and fortified cereals and other packaged foods. If you live in an area with sunshine, you need to get at least 15 minutes of it daily. If you live in an area where there is little or no sunshine and you have low levels of Vitamin D, you should talk to your doctor about how much or how little supplements will help you.
A lot depends on your age, gender, diet and health. In addition, research always tends to come up with newer findings that may or may not be definitive.
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Source: Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
On August 11th a horse exhibiting neurologic signs was transported to the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, VA from a farm in Culpeper, VA. The horse was immediately isolated from the hospital population and has not come into contact with any other patients. On Aug. 12, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' (VDACS) Animal Health Lab in Warrenton confirmed a diagnosis of Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) due to EHV-1. The horse remains isolated while undergoing supportive care. On Aug. 14th, a second horse from the same farm developed a fever and neurologic symptoms and was euthanized. VDACS' Animal Health Lab confirmed a diagnosis of EHM. The farm is under quarantine. The Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center employed strict biosecurity measures and disinfection upon arrival and will continue to do so during the entirety of the horse's hospitalization. The Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center is operating normally.
Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) infection in horses can cause respiratory disease, abortion in mares, neonatal foal death, and/or neurologic disease. The neurologic form of EHV-1 is called Equine Herpes Virus Myeloencephalopathy (EHM).
Transmission likely occurs by inhaling infected droplets or ingesting material contaminated by nasal discharges or aborted fetuses. Clinical symptoms may include a fever, difficulty urinating, depression, and stumbling or weakness in the hind limbs. Supportive therapy is often used to treat these cases. In severe cases, horses will be unable to stand; these cases have a very poor prognosis. EHV-1 is not transmissible to humans.
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Day 43 Burntisland to Glenrothes
The weather forecast for today was not encouraging but weather is a strollers constant companion and delight.
Bruntisland is quite a nice town with some old stuff interspersed with later architecture.
Our old friend the Fife Coastal Trail forced us to leave and get on with the task in hand of strolling somewhere. Another consideration perventing us from loitering was the force 8 gale.
We spotted a murmuration of starlings perched on an old tower as we strolled. It may be possible to spot their tiny presences on the top of the ruin in the next photo.
Today's stroll has been very easy, no navigational errors, no steep hills, no shortage of food. In fact we stopped for some tea and cake about an hour after setting off. It was as we were eating our tea and cake that I noticed that we were probably the youngest and fittest of the patrons. I also noticed a problem which hadn't occured to me before today. With so many patrons of advanced years and diminished mobility there wasn't enough room to park these intrepid elders' zimmer frames. Could this be the next commercial opportunity?
The corporation of Kirkcaldy did a fine thing in 1922/1923. To ameliorate the effects of depression they caused to be built an esplanade which seemed to go on and on for ever as we walked along it. I'm not sure how long this structure is but between one and two miles seems reasonable. Sadly though there is nothing on the structure, no sellers of trinkets, ice cream, hirers of deck chairs. It just goes on and on for ever into the distance in a vast gentle curve.
We stopped for lunch in a shady grove. We ate our usual lunch of half an apple and a few slices of cheese, washed down with some tepid water, as we perched on a wall. The promised rain arrived in a torrent just we wiped the last cheesey crumbs from our chins, just one chin each as we are fitter than we were when we set out.
The rain eased and we emerged from our grove. The forecast had been for heavy, sudden, showers and how right it was as another arrived as we were passing Aldi, thanks for providing shelter Aldi. From Kirkcaldy we aimed for Glendrothes and the Golden Acorn.
The architecture of Glenrothes is firmly rooted in its origins as a a new town. This means that some may find the buildings too uniform and too much of concrete. Even so these critics would be extremely unfair to find fault with the footpaths and cyclè tracks which enabled us, and others like us, to be able to stroll about without traffic noise. So full marks to the planners for that
Tomorrow will take us further on the road to the next bridge, the mighty Tay Bridge. Not the bridge of that famous Scot William Topaz McGonagall thank goodness.


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As she works towards wrapping up Bollywood projects for the year, including Reload, Judwaa 2 and Drive, Sri Lankan actress Jacqueline Fernandez is set to return to her home country to promote her debut film, According to Matthew, there.
Set to hit the screens in June, the film is based on the true story of Father Mathew Peiris, the Anglican priest of the Church of St Paul, the Apostle in Colombo, who was convicted of the double murders of his wife (Eunice Peiris) and Russel Ingram, the husband of his mistress, in 1979. It is directed by Chandran Rutnam and was shot in the island country.
A source close to the actress says, "The film had been in the making for some time since it was announced in 2015 and Jacqueline is understandably excited that it is finally ready. Her schedule is packed with back-to-back Hindi film shoots and other commitments, but she is ensuring she promotes According to Matthew well because it's her first Sri Lankan film."
The actress confirmed this, saying, "Yes, the film releases in June and I will be there (in Sri Lanka) for it."
Jackie's Sri Lankan debut coincides with the launch of her first restaurant in Mumbai with bestie Mishali Sanghani who owns a popular café in Palli Hill.
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When you're about to quit for the day but you remember a crucial detail you need to add to that last scene you were working on:
Okay, so this really is a sort of "pseudo-meme."
Because believe it or not, this pic wasn't always about writing. In its previous form it's been spotted out in the wild many times. But our hats are off to the blog that transformed this into pure, writerly magic – TheHonestAuthor, which you can find right HERE


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Assange backers ordered to pay up
BACKERS who stood surety for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before he took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London have been ordered to pay £93,500 ($150,000) by November 6.
Australian-born Assange has been in Ecuador's embassy since June as part of his bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, which he fears will send him to the US to face interrogation over the whistleblowing website.
Vaughan Smith, a friend of Assange's, addressed Westminster Magistrates Court last week on behalf of the nine guarantors, who put up £140,000 between them.
Mr Smith said all those who offered sureties, of varying amounts, were ''convinced that they have done and are doing the right thing''.
In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle said he accepted that the nine had acted in good faith.
''I accept that they trusted Mr Assange to surrender himself as required. I accept that they followed the proceedings and made necessary arrangements to remain in contact with him.
''However, they failed in their basic duty to ensure his surrender. They must have understood the risk and the concerns of the courts.
''Both this court and the High Court assessed that there were substantial grounds to believe the defendant would abscond and that the risk could only be met by stringent conditions, including the sureties,'' he said.


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I have posted the program from the 1957 Florida State High School Basketball Tournament. Jennings went to state and played against Oviedo in the finals. Unfortunately, they lost that last game 40 – 52.
This program can be found here: 1957 Florida State High School Basketball Tournament.
Each of the pages are saved as individual .pdf files, so you will need Adobe Acrobat to view them. If, for some reason, you are still unable to view the files, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com, and I will send you the appropiate page.
The names that are relevant to Hamilton County are: Edward Burnam, Marshall Thomas, Lamar Dees, Bradford Wells, Joe Hart, Lamar Hill, Louis Cunningham, Philip Smith, Rodney Bennett, and Charles Spears.


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The key unique benefit of PACE financing is the way the loans are structured. Backed by city governments, municipalities and traditional financiers, PACE loans enable building owners to use the equity in their buildings to get loans to upgrade their buildings.
These investments decrease the operating costs of the buildings while also decreasing the carbon footprint. The loans are attached to the building instead of the owners. The loan payments are attached to the tax asessments and tax payments.
You can find general information on PACE financing here on this Wikipedia page.
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Friday Roundup: July 1st – July 7th
Nazanin at Tea Thoughts wrote about some experimenting she did with the easiest tea infused desert ever. I've become a big fan of affogatos ever since I attended a tea ice cream social in NYC a few years ago. Make sure you read all the way to the end so that you don't miss her recipe for dairy-free cardamom ice cream!
1992 Tibetan Kang Brick from Yunnan Sourcing
Cody, aka The Oolong Drunk, recently met up with the folks from Yunnan Sourcing and was gifted a sample of this tea. It's not often that Tibetan brick tea comes but I swore this tea sounded familiar. It was because Stephen Colbert sipped it in one of his #tea4tuesday videos. I'm looking forward to watching the videos that they made with Cody during his visit.
Tea Trip | Pekoe Tea Edinburgh
Speaking of tea visits, Megan over at Tasting Teas visited a Scottish tea shop that I would very much like to check out for myself one day. I'm a huge fan of their Kinettles Gold but it was great to get a first-hand view of everything else they have to offer. As always, Megan's enthusiasm for tea is positively contagious.
Shake It Up! How to Flash-Chill Your Tea
Sara at Tea Happiness shared a great tutorial on how to make iced tea on the fly. I was the master of this when I worked at Teavana but I feel like I've gotten a bit rusty over the course of the last year. I don't make iced tea nearly as often anymore and when I do, it is more likely to be a lazy cold brew. I love the edible garnish that Sara used and I'm definitely inspired to do some flash-chilling of my own.
Something you may not know about me is that I am glutton for bitterness when it comes to raw puerh. Lao Man E is one of my favorite regions for that reason. It is famous for the bite the teas from there have. Cwyn wrote about her experience with different variations of The Bitter End. This is a tea that I definitely need to try, even if I am on a huang pian budget,