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The perfect scissors for delicate to sturdy herbs, and small fruit, like tomatoes, beans, and peas. Easily strip herb leaves off the stems with the handy stem stripper in three notch sizes. Blades detach for cleaning* and sharpening. Comfort grip is left or right handed.
*Hand-wash with warm, mild soap.
"Separating the blades makes these much easier to sharpen when needed. So that's a plus for those who would rather sharpen than replace when the blades do eventually wear down as all blades will. It also makes them fit into the flatware basket in the dishwasher very nicely for a thorough cleaning when needed." - Stephanie E.
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- Date: 10/25/2019 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Green Plum Cooking School – Sat, Oct 2nd
I'm always suspicious when someone says, "Here, taste this!" and shoves a pepper in my face. That's what Hans Hansen of Twin Persimmons Farm did when I arrived this morning at the market. I was tasting an Aji Dulce chili – and it really is as good as advertised: sweet but peppery without the spicy. This gives me an idea to make chili in my class this morning. In my head, I'm ticking off the things I would need to pull that off and I walk back to the kitchen to make sure I have everything.
But I walk into an empty, quiet kitchen. I don't know if anyone truly understands the scariness of this feeling. Benjy and Maria aren't here yet (no biscuits! no breakfast!), Claire is not here yet (I'm going to have to set up Plum Eats!), no Molly, either (I'm going to have to set up Plum Pantry, too!) and then there's all the produce I foraged yesterday that has to be set up at the Community Table (!). Where is everyone? It takes a village to put on a farmer's market and right now the village looks like Pompeii. I'm thinking to myself that I can enlist Daisy and Lili to sell produce (they're not even 8-years-old) – I can just imagine what the money box will look like when they're done. My mind races with fear.
Finally, my people show up and they get to work. I can breathe again. But I've had to change course on the chili for the class (turns out I don't have the meat I need) and so I switch to persimmons. Ah, from Pompeii to persimmons.
So I decide to make persimmon pudding. The only bad thing about this is that I'm going to have to entertain the crowd while the pudding is baking in the "real" kitchen.
We get started on the pudding and I cream twelve tablespoons of butter by hand (or by spoon, as it were). No mixer out here! I'm trying to teach the kids who are helping me how hard life should be.
The persimmons have a very soft, beautiful flesh that has body and flavor. I peel them and strain them.
I bring the pudding together alternating the flour mixture with milk. The kids help me pour the batter into the baking pans and they carry them, precariously, through the crowd to the kitchen.
When the puddings come out from the kitchen, all hot and steamy, I can't help but say, "Here, taste this!"
NOTE: The recipes used in my Green Plum Cooking School classes can be found in my online cookbook, "Eat Where Your Food Lives," available for purchase at http://www.ChefMonicaPope.com)


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Bipartisan Group Led By Wyden And Udall Introduce Legislation Aimed At Comprehensive Reform Of Surveillance Programs
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Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, Richard Blumenthal and Rand Paul held a press conference today to discuss proposed legislation for reforming the NSA's surveillance programs. The bipartisan group assembled here is looking for actual reform, rather than the light touch-ups that have made up the majority of the administration's contributions to the national security discussion.
Their proposal breaks down roughly into five key points (hat tip tothe ACLU's Michelle Richardson for tweeting updates during this press conference).
The first proposal is to eliminate the Section 215 bulk records collections. As Wyden points out, no evidence exists that this data collection has led to the prevention of any terrorist attacks. Blumenthal adds to this point later in the press conference by referring to the oft-quoted "54 attacks prevented" statement as "bogus." Wyden also points out that the email records collection was already shut down (in 2011) for exactly this reason: no proven effectiveness. Wyden states that, with this bill, the dragnet collection of law-abiding citizens' information will be "outlawed."
Second, the bill will close the backdoor search loophole in the FISA Amendments Act that allows intelligence agencies to rifle through the communications of millions of Americans without a warrant. Originally, this was intended to search only foreign communications but that loophole (which had been closed in 2008) was reopened by a secret rule change in 2011. This would simply fix what should never have been there in the first place.
Third, Blumenthal's FISA Court Reform bill would be folded in, which would provide for a special advocate to act as an adversarial party in FISA court deliberations. As is pointed out later, this addition wouldn't unnecessarily burden the court. The advocate wouldn't be present for every warrant authorization but would sit in whenever major policy questions are being discussed in order to present the privacy and civil liberties side of the issue.
Fourth, the bill adds in Rand Paul's fix for the ongoing "standing" problem. As the system is set up now, it is extremely difficult to be granted standing to sue the government for civil liberties violations because of the secrecy surrounding the programs (although Snowden's leaks have greased the wheels a bit). Up until very recently, the courts have stated that if you can't prove the government is surveilling you, then you can't sue them for surveilling you. And since the government is in no hurry to hand out the data it's collected on American citizens, it's nearly impossible to obtain that proof. This would expand the ability of Americans to pursue the government in court for any ill effects suffered as a result of the government's surveillance activities.
Finally, the legislation will target the abuse of NSLs and strengthen the protections against reverse targeting.
This won't completely dismantle the NSA's programs but it will greatly reduce its domestic intelligence gathering. As Udall points out later in the conference, intelligence agencies will still be able to target terrorists and spies -- they just won't be able to sweep up non-targeted bulk collections of data on American citizens -- and they'll have to do better than simply claim the data might be "relevant."
As is now the new "normal," the backers of this bill are drawn from both parties. The NSA's overreach has managed to unite parties in a way the administration has been unable to do for nearly five years. As Wyden states, the narrow defeat of the NSA-defunding amendment proposed by Justin Amash was a "wakeup call" that demonstrated that many representatives were willing to cross party lines to protect civil liberties. That, in and of itself, is promising. But taking the first step as a bipartisan group should allow the bill's backers to draw support from both sides of the aisle, something that will greatly increase the chances of its success.
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The WorkNotWork Show
The show about people who have turned their passion into their profession.
We found 1 episode of The WorkNotWork Show with the tag "arctic".
Sean Loutitt: Aviator
August 30th, 2017 | 1 hr 4 mins
adventure, amundsen-scott, antarctic, arctic, aviation, borek, exploration, south pole
Sean Loutitt was the chief pilot of the first and second rescue flights to the South Pole in the middle of the Antarctic winter. It was a feat which had never been accomplished previously and was urgently required to save the lives of desperately ill members of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole staff. Sean tells this and other stories of a life flying at high latitudes and low temperatures on episode 013 of The WorkNotWork Show.


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Did you make it to any of Madisons State Tournament Games?
So did you make it to the state championship game? Now Madison does not have Ricks to compete with for community support. If I settled there choices. Ricks got to host region 18 tournament when I was there and told I needed to go to 22 year old classmates farewell because he was my classmate. Looking back would of rather stormed the court when Bowers sent them to Hutchinson than heard a farewell. Letdown coming back to Rexburg. Could of been Bobcat booster too. Am sure would of had I settled there.
Dietrich lost to Murtaugh by one and missed in elimination game. Would of started better. My brother in law teaches at Shoshone and watched Fridays game of theres and third place game of theres. That was double ot thriller. Though Third place games are dragger no one wants to be there. Shoshone did not drive to win game.
2a 3a games very close. If you go to state next year maybe we should get together for lunch someewere and see some games together.
Are you at the Madison game tonight?
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Roasted asparagus, pancetta & cherry tomato pasta
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- kcal520
- fat15g
- saturates4g
- carbs80g
- sugars6g
- fibre5g
- protein22g
- salt0.82g
- 400g penne
- 500g bunch asparagus, each spear trimmed and cut into 3 pieces
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- 2 tbsp olive oil
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- 200g cherry tomatoes, halved
- good handful basil leaves
- grated parmesan, to serve
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Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Boil the pasta in salted water. Put the asparagus into a roasting tin, then toss with the oil and pancetta. Roast for 10 mins until the pancetta starts to crisp up, stir in the tomatoes, then cook for 5 mins more.
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King James
LeBron James has hurt if not ruined
his chances at being compared to Michael Jordan . . . or has he? And if he has
is it his fault? Well, no one should be compared to Jordan. Not Kobe, LeBron,
or anyone. There is one Kobe, one LeBron, one Jordan, one Russell, one Bird,
and one Magic. It is so annoying to me when legends get compared to all-stars
and players from different generations.
Anyway, back to my point. Kobe,
Jordan, Russell, Bird, and Magic played with one team and won a ring with that
one team in fact they won a total of 30.
However, Kobe had Shaq, Jordan had
Pippen, Russell had Cousy, and Magic had Kareem. LeBron? He had well . . . Big
Z and as much as I respect Big Z he is not a Shaq or Kareem. Sure he had Mo
Williams, Antawan Jaminson, and Shaq but for a combined 3 and a half seasons. Williams
and Jaminson are all-stars but not legends. Shaq last year was 37 and not the
Shaq Kobe played with. LeBron now has Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade to help him win a ring.
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Stamford rolls over Westhill in girls lacrosse
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STAMFORD -- The Stamford girls lacrosse team has grown accustom to close games, picking up its two previous wins this season by a goal each.
The one thing the Black Knights have not been able to accomplish is being able to build a big enough lead so they could enjoy themselves a little bit in the final minutes.
That opportunity came at the perfect time for the Black Knights who rolled over rival Westhill 18-2 at Westhill Tuesday afternoon.
Stamford coach Greg Lewis said his team executed well in all facets of the game and there was no better time for it all to come together than against Westhill.
"We were doing the things we wanted to do and we were executing the things we focused on during the week," Lewis said. "This was a long time coming for us. Not only because it was Westhill but we were waiting to win a game by a margin. We play teams well tightly but we have to get separation by the score and I think we did that today."
Kelly Niesen scored five goals while Jasmine Li and Camry Evans had three apiece for the Black Knights who led 7-2 at the half.
The senior Li said the Black Knights function best with multiple players filling up the scoring book.
"I'm glad the score was the way it was because we really showed them what we got," Li said. "I think we really played as a team. We were strong at clearing the ball and scoring off the opportunities. We want everyone to score. We want each girl to have the opportunity, not just one or two girls to score every goal."
Stamford (3-7-1, 2-6-1 FCIAC) certainly spread the wealth, watching seven different players score goals.
For Westhill (2-10, 1-8), a poor showing against its rivals was not exactly what coach Kait Rochler had in mind, saying her team needed to take better care of the ball.
"We were 50/50 for draws but it is the turnovers in our offensive end that hurt us," Rochler said. "We work on it repetitively and it is repetitively the problem. They are definitely embarrassed, as they should be."
Erin Gray and Eliza Engel scored the two goals for the Vikings.
Lewis said the Black Knights were able to pressure the Westhill defense by getting out in transition and continuing to attack.
"We pushed the ball up the field in transition and we were really looking to do that," Lewis said. "Staples did that to us last week really well and we wanted imitate that. We also wanted to execute on our plays. We haven't been able to run plays in terms of timing and execution but we did that today. We also wanted to pressure them on defense and force some turnovers and bad passes and ride them all over the field."
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Stamford 18, Westhill 2
Scoring: W--Erin Gray 1g; Eliza Engel 1g. S--Jasmine Li 3g; Jen Krupa 2g; Kelly Niesen 5g; Annie Archer 2g; Camry Evans 3g; Klara Hoherchak 2g; Kaitlyn Hutter 1g.
Goalies: W -- Devon Pearson 3 saves; S -- Lesly Sanchez 6 saves
Records: S - 3-7-1, 2-6-1 FCIAC; W - 2-10, 1-8


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HealingNewtown gallery open to the world
Society has long understood that the arts have the power to touch the heart and cradle the soul -- to bring joy and to ease pain.
Nowhere is that concept more cherished or celebrated than in Newtown, a community attempting to cope with the horrific grief caused by a shooter who killed 26 children and adults in a Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Earlier this month, residents and visitors from throughout the state attended the opening of the HealingNewtown Art Space, a 3,000-square-foot facility dedicated to "healing through the arts."
The space, a former hardware store, was transformed into an art gallery and performance space where Newtown residents and visitors can come together in the long-term grieving process.
The center is open Mondays and Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturdays, noon to 9 a.m.; Sundays, noon to 4 p.m.; and closed Thursdays.
According to Jennifer Johnston, a Newtown teacher of ballet and group spokeswoman, more than 400 pieces of art and art services have been donated from around the world -- all unsolicited.
"Art is an expression of love, support, grief -- it's pretty simple," she said. "So many people were touched by this -- and for artists, the natural way to express their feelings is through their work. And we're so grateful for their support."
Johnston said the inaugural exhibition -- hung by Suzanne Kachmar, executive director of Bridgeport's nonprofit City Lights Gallery -- will include information on each of the artists and their motivations for donating work.
Johnston said HealingNewtown was created to share "information about arts healing" and to accept, record and catalog submissions.
More InformationHealingNewtown Art Space, 5 Queen St., Newtown. Free. 203-364-9230; http://www.healingnewtown.org
It is a project of the Newtown Cultural Commission and supported by the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut and the state Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts.
In addition to artwork, donations of services also have come to the group in the form of plans for workshops, performances for children and adults and other therapeutic endeavors.
Sculptures from Colorado, folded paper cranes from Oregon and a mural devoted to "Community," contributed by a group of motorcyclists, are among the items to be displayed, according to the group's announcement.
"Creations in all media and sizes, from paper snowflakes to bronze sculpture continue to arrive from around the country and the world, made by artists of all ages and abilities."
A HealingNewtown website is being created and will be updated frequently to include information on upcoming events, Johnston said.
The space is being donated by Brause Realty, she added.
Lisa Scails, executive director of the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, said "the space is home base (for) the HealingNewtown organization. This space will be used to field calls related to the arts, organize contributions, meet with community members, facilitate contributed arts programs geared toward arts healing."
"(Further it will be) a co-work space for all people working on this effort, a place for parents to meet over a cup of coffee and to get online, to display artworks from around the state and around the country. (And it will be a) safe meeting place for children and families during the long process of healing." Scails said.
Among the volunteers with the program are Scails, Karen Pinto, Ros Liljengren, Pam Church, Joan Zagrobelny, Kate Katcher, Steve Gerber, Donna Magnafico, Laura E. Lerman, Robert Rabinowitz, Nancy Depuy, Jackie DeFlumeri and Denise VosWinkel.
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WLAF Card 150 | San Antonio Riders | Head Coach | Mike Riley
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… nostalgia, paraphernalia, and generally just stuff to do with what was once the WLAF (World League Of American Football), and then eventually NFL Europa.
It may not have lasted as long as we would have liked, but the WLAF was great whilst we had it. Although criticized in many quarters, it still was a league with a great deal of colour and character; and a buzz that something really special was happening to Gridiron as an International sport.
So my hope is this site can provide a centralised collection for geekdom of all manner to do with WLAF. Stats, Team Info, Player Info, Rosters, Results, Clippings, Photos, Video Footage (if there is any?), Video Game Modifications and anything we can cobble together.
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Dinner Tonight: Steamed Tofu with Shrimp and Black Bean Sauce Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
Is there anything more boring than steamed tofu? I adore tofu when it's pan-fried, or slipped into some luxurious sauce. But I tend to pass the steamed version as quickly as possible. So why did I settle on this recipe from Food and Wine? Maybe it was the fermented black beans, which lend a meatiness to everything they touch. I can safely say, I was thinking more of the shrimp than the tofu when digging into this dish.
But now all I can think about is the texture of the tofu. It was very delicate, but still firm. I loved the way it latched onto the sauce, and almost preferred it to the shrimp. It's not the most exciting dish in the world, and some Sriracha wouldn't be out of place. But the key to this dish? It feels restorative and clean, which I'm sometimes in the mood for.
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- 1/2 cup fermented black beans
- 1 1/2 pounds firm tofu (two 1 1/2-inch-thick squares), both cut into 8 triangles
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 24 medium shrimp (about 10 ounces), shelled and deveined
- Salt and pepper
- 1/4 cup fresh ginger, thinly julienned
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup Chinese cooking wine
- 1/2 cup vegetable stock
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Handful cilantro, chopped
Add the fermented black beans to a bowl and cover with warm water. Let hang out for 10 minutes and then drain.
Fill a pot with 2 inches of water and bring to a boil. Transfer the tofu to a steamer basket. Place the basket in the pot, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
Pour 1 tablespoon of the oil into large wok set over high heat. Toss in the shrimp and cook until pink, stirring constantly, until pink. That should take about 1 minute. Set aside.
Pour the rest of the oil into the wok. Turn the heat to medium and then add the ginger and garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 to 2 minutes. Add the black beans and cook for another minute, and then add the wine, stock, and sugar. Turn the heat to medium-high and let reduce for 2 minutes.
Transfer the tofu and shrimp to a plate and drizzle with the sauce and garnish with cilantro.
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The loud crowd made up for the miserable weather for the royal pair's wet walk down the lower end of Queen St.
This morning Prince Charles and his wife Camilla were farewelled from the AUT Millennium building on Auckland's North Shore by hundreds of screaming children from Glenfield Intermediate.
The couple toured the centre; speaking with New Zealand athletes, researchers and some excited swimmers.
Prince Charles laughed off the suggestion by swimmer Rachael Jones that he would look good in Speedos, saying he would need to spend time on the treadmill first.
Ms Jones, who stayed in her lane, apologised to the Duchess for not being able to curtsey in the water.
"I think they're going to think 'Gosh these colonials are a little strange'," Ms Jones said.
Sevens player Linda Itunu stopped her workout to give the future king of England a sweaty hug.
"I'm not going to lie, but he's leaning into me," said Itunu as she looked at photos of the hug.
Silver Ferns' defender Anna Harrison gave Prince Charles some shooting tips before he made a couple of failed attempts.
"He was cool," Harrison said.
Their Royal Highnesses joined hundreds of school children for a performance of Hairy Maclary at the Bruce Mason Theatre Centre in Takapuna.
Backstage they met the actors, and Prince Charles seemed particularly impressed by the dog costumes.
"They loved it: they loved the dogs and they loved the way we were moving," said Tom Wardle, who plays the dog Bottomly Potts, "covered in spots".
"I wasn't nervous [to meet them] but I think there's just so much mana with them, you know. You grow up with these people and you see them in the headlines and on the TV and all over the place, so actually seeing them in the flesh is quite a strange experience, but it's amazing."
Georgia Wood, the show's narrator and a self-confessed "greenie", was honoured to meet the prince.
"I thanked him for his work with the environment and he really responded to that, he said 'Oh, thank you, we battle on'. I really respect the Prince for that. It was nice, as a human, just to say that to him, rather than being too formal."
Prince Charles later had a cup of tea with staff from the Coastguard and surf life savers - but he had to leave without finishing his drink because it was too hot.
Volunteers joked about auctioning off the unfinished brew for "$150".
Campbell Hope, who has been a coastguard volunteer since the Wahine disaster of 1968, said the Prince seemed genuinely interested in the work they were doing.
"He loves boats and, with his kids in search and rescue as well, I think it's probably in the family. You can tell that he's a seaman at heart."
At East Tamaki Primary School in Otara, the Duchess of Cornwall, dressed in a cream jacket, skirt and cape by designer Fiona Clare, enjoyed a lunch of beetroot and fennel salad and carrot cake made by the students.
The Duchess had high praise for the meal, calling the cake - which she ate at one stage with her fingers - "very good".
East Tamaki Primary student Puna Rongo said meeting the Duchess was a nerve-racking experience.
"I was nervous when she was talking to me. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what my favourite soup was, so I said 'pumpkin'. But I don't really like soup."
But it was on Queen St where crowds were most excited as Their Royal Highnesses spent 40 minutes greeting people who had crammed behind barricades to see the visitors.
Schoolgirls clutched their hearts, groups of ecstatic royalists yelled compliments to the pair, and a couple of hecklers managed to get the attention of police.
Lan Park, who owns a florist in downtown Auckland, handed a huge bouquet of 64 red roses to Prince Charles as a gift for his 64th birthday on Wednesday.
"I don't want to say how much they cost," Ms Park said.
"He said they were amazing."
Waiheke resident Violet Hollis, who turns 96 on Wednesday, exchanged birthday wishes with the Prince.
"I thought he was going to give me a kiss," Ms Hollis said.
- By Kieran Campbell and Matthew Theunissen of APNZ and Anna Loren and Michelle Robinson of Fairfax


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PALACIOS - The noon sun beat down mercilessly on the harbor.
The Gulf shrimp boat, the Christian G, bobbed gently at the dock as men jumped on and off, heaving 50-pound purple mesh bags of frozen shrimp onto a conveyor belt.
Edward Garcia, 81, sat alongside the conveyor belt, shielded from the sun by a tent erected to protect the shrimp. Surveying the frozen catch with a practiced eye, he leaned back and smiled , fanning himself so that his snowy white beard moved in the manufactured breeze.
Garcia, the owner and founder of the Garcia Shrimp Co., has been in the business since he was 13 years old.
The Garcia family has a healthy business, by all appearances. They have a deal with H-E-B, supplying fresh wild Gulf shrimp for the grocery chain's customers. Commercials featuring them regularly appear on television, showing Garcia shrimp boats hauling shrimp in from the Gulf. In the 32-second commercial, Edward Garcia's son, Kenneth Garcia, smiles and assures customers that if they want fresh, good-quality shrimp, H-E-B is the place to go.
"We have the strictest quality. This guy," Kenneth said, pausing to hold up a shrimp. "He ain't gonna make it."
Business savvy
Garcia founded Quality Seafood with sons Kenneth and Anthony in 1987.
They're savvy. They know how to market their product. They've expanded the business to encompass all parts of shrimping, so they can handle shrimp from the time it is hauled out of the Gulf until a restaurant serves it on a plate.
Still, the price of fuel, government regulations, and the fact that fewer and fewer people look at shrimping as an industry they want to work in are all challenges they face.
Despite all of their efforts, the family must tackle the same obstacles of all Texas shrimpers.
Across the harbor, Garcia's daughter, Regina Peña, 45, sat in her office talking about her family's history in the shrimping business.
"It was just in his blood. Anybody that's a shrimper, you've got to love it because it's hard work, and it's hard to be away from your family," Peña said.
A petite woman with large brown eyes and a penchant for wearing three-inch heels, she works in her office, overlooking the blue, glittering water of the harbor in Palacios, buying and selling shrimp through Philly's Seafood, one of the many arms of the family business.
She glanced out the window, quiet for a moment as she looked out at the water.
"Isn't it beautiful?" she said.
Peña got into the family business about 10 years ago. Peña's 4-year-old son, Daniel Phillip Peña, died in a go-cart accident. When Peña was looking for a name for the company, she decided to call it Philly's, after her son.
"When you lose someone you love, you don't want people to forget that person," Peña said. "We were raised with a good work ethic, but it made me work even harder because I wanted people to be proud of it, to say his name."
She had been a stay-at-home mom for a couple of years when brother Kenneth asked her if she'd be interested in becoming a shrimp buyer and seller.
She agreed, founding Philly's Seafood, and quickly finding herself elbow deep in the business, hawking shrimp to Houston seafood restaurants out of the back of her Suburban.
Soon, she had a regular fleet of customers eager for her product.
"If you have a good quality product, people will look for you," she said, smiling.
As she talks about shrimp, her brown eyes light up.
"A good shrimp doesn't stink. It smells like the ocean," she said. "It's a beautiful smell."
Marketing the future
Peña recently had a meeting in her office, calling together shrimpers and buyers and sellers.
She, her cousin, David Aparicio, and shrimpers and shrimp buyers in the area sat down on a Tuesday morning to sip mimosas and discuss how to turn Gulf shrimp into a marketable commodity, a byword for quality, a way of branding their product and making it different from the shrimp delivered by the Chinese, the Koreans and other international shrimpers.
"Shrimpers in China can pay their people a dollar and a bowl of rice and sell the shrimp for the same price we sell for. I can't compete with that," Aparicio observed while the others in the room nodded in agreement.
As they sat together, the problems they grapple with every day came to the forefront.
They talked about turtle excluder devices. All boats, whether they shrimp in the bays or the Gulf, are required to have this government regulated device on their nets. The TED, as it's known, is intended to keep sea turtles from drowning in the nets, but shrimpers have complained for years about a device that they see as just a hole in their nets. If the TED on a boat doesn't meet with regulation requirements, the shrimp boat owner is liable for a sizable fine and the catch is forfeited.
"You get one fine like that, and it's like the boat is history," Aparicio said.
Peña, the only woman in the room aside from the receptionist, steered the subject toward branding.
"The question is how do we make Gulf shrimp more than just a commodity," Peña asked the room. Fifty years ago, more than half the shrimp in the U.S. market was caught in the Gulf. Now, that number has plummeted with more than 90 percent of the shrimp being imported from international markets or bought from shrimp farms.
"If we don't do something about this, we won't be able to preserve this commodity," she said. The others nodded, faces furrowed, thinking.
"Those working are in the industry because they want to be in it. They've been through hard times - hurricanes, high fuel prices, high interest rates, government regulations - they've been through it, the ones still in it are the ones who really want to be," Peña said.
A lifetime businessman
Edward Garcia started more than 60 years ago, a 13-year-old deckhand armed with little more than a third-grade education and the fire of his own ambition.
He learned the business, inside and out, and worked his way up, supporting a large, growing family of 13 children and still managing to buy boats, to go from being a deckhand to the owner of a shrimping company.
As the business grew, he brought his family into it. His brother Chencho started shrimping, too. As their families grew, the brothers brought their sons into the business. As soon as they were old enough, they all worked on the shrimp boats, learning the business from the bottom up.
"We were kids, but if you worked hard you got paid really good. If you worked like a man, you got paid like a man, and if you didn't work, you didn't get paid," Aparicio said.
Aparicio didn't intend to go into the shrimping business. He majored in accounting in college and planned to work in an office crunching numbers.
He was starting his first internship in Austin when he found out what accountants made. Already a little homesick for his family and the sight of the water, he changed course, came home and went into business with his daughter.
The entire family business is connected, but each part of the business is divided to keep them safe from lawsuits. Maritime laws make litigation dangerously easy, Peña said. If the boats were not incorporated separately, one lawsuit could cause them to lose the whole business. Still, the whole family works together to make sure their endeavor stays afloat.
Challenges ahead
They face a lot of challenges.
Aparicio has an office for his company, Anchor Seafood, just across the bay from Peña's. It's a wood-paneled room, with framed pictures of his boats. He has been in the business a long time, and he's thinking of retiring when his youngest son finishes school.
"There's always going to be shrimping, but I don't think you'll see the numbers in boats," Aparicio said, leaning forward in his office chair. " If you go down south to Port Aransas or Aransas Pass, that used to be one of the biggest shrimping ports. You go over there now, and there's maybe five boats. You go over to Freeport, and Freeport was another big one, and there's maybe 10 boats there now. There used to be literally hundreds."
The American appetite for shrimp and seafood in general has exploded in the past few decades. Aparicio thinks it's because people tend to equate eating seafood with eating healthy. The Gulf can't supply the need anymore, and in recent years international markets have filled the gap.
"I'm not going to blast the foreign countries because we need the shrimp that comes from them, but people need to know where their shrimp really comes from," Aparicio said, his face suddenly lined with frustration.
About 30 percent of the catch on each boat goes to the crew, he said, while other countries are selling their shrimp for the same price to the same market and paying their crews a lot less.
"I'm not saying our crews don't deserve it because I was out there, and that's a bloody dollar. You work your butt off for it, but it's hard to compete," he said.
At the beginning of August, Aparicio and his brothers sent 12 boats into the Gulf.
They had to come up with the money for fuel, about 13,000 gallons per boat at about $3 a gallon, adding up to about $500,000 spent on fuel.
Most companies have to borrow some of the money required to fuel their boats. It's a gamble. If the season is bad, if shrimp prices are low, the companies are faced with the unsettling reality of not being able to pay their bills.
"We could do it without credit. It'd just be a lot tougher," he said.
About four years ago, when the recession was at its height, shrimpers were having a bad season. Fuel was $4 a gallon, shrimp were selling for $2 a pound, so shrimp boats were staying in the docks.
The company wasn't making payments on the boats, and if the banks hadn't been willing to work with them, if the fuel companies had been unwilling to give them a line of credit for fuel, the business might have been in trouble.
"It was awful. You go home and toss and turn, try to sleep. We still worked a little and made just enough to get by," Aparicio said.
There is also the problem of finding young people to take over the business.
Aparicio and the rest of the family are always keeping an eye out for people who want to really learn the business, but they have employed a number of people on their boats who come in on work visas from Mexico.
"People here just don't want to work the way they used to," he said. It's not the kind of job you can pick up with a couple of weeks or a couple of months of training.
"If you just hired somebody off the street that had never been on a boat and sent them out in the Gulf, they'd never make it ... it takes years to learn this job," he said.
Reaping the harvest
Back on the docks, unable to lift bags because of recent back surgery, Edward Garcia opted to run the conveyor belt from his chair. Even in the shade of the tarpaulin erected over the conveyor belt, he paused every so often to wipe away the sweat beading his brow.
Garcia's grandson, Ken Garcia, 20, worked with the rest of the crew, hefting 50-pound bags from the belt onto cargo crates.
The boat had come in early that Thursday morning after malfunctioning in the Gulf.
Ken has worked in the family business since he was a kid. It's something all of the grandchildren do, working on the shrimp boats or in some other part of the business after school and on their summer vacations.
Garcia called his grandson early that morning to tell him a boat was coming in early to be unloaded.
"You going to be there?" Garcia asked.
Ken, a student in San Antonio, sighed a little.
"Yeah, I'll be there," he said. By 9 a.m., he was driving toward Palacios. By lunchtime he was unloading shrimp.
Despite the malfunctioning, the boat was packed full of shrimp when they pried open the hatch to the icy hold on Wednesday morning. Plumes of fog roared out of the ice cold freezer.
Losing future generations
Garcia has made a point of including his family in his business and giving them the chance to join it if they want. Ken was raised around the business, but he doesn't think he'll join it after college. He's been working all morning, and as he pauses, wiping away sweat with the sleeve of his shirt, he looks tired.
"No, I don't think so. I've had enough," he said, shaking his head.
The family has been successful so far, but Peña hesitates when considering whether she would want her daughters to join the business.
"I tell them to find something they love and to do that," she said.
But she won't be quitting. Even in the face of so many changes to the industry, Peña has a steely-eyed optimism about the future. She sees the glass as half full, because the people who love it - people like her - aren't going to give up.
Sitting in her office, she can't tell what the future will bring, but she's ready for whatever it brings. She turned her head slowly, taking in the blue water that stretched out into the Gulf farther than her eyes could see.
"This is our heaven," she said. "This is what we love, and we're going to fight to stay in this business."


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Both Perplex and THERMOCALC have the ability to create a wide range of phase diagrams, pseudosections, and estimate mineral and rock properties.
THERMOCALC Advantages
THERMOCALC is in some ways a better pedagogical tool because it forces the student to really understand the Phase Rule, Schreinemaker's analysis, and how variance changes across field boundaries thus leading to a better understanding of how phase diagrams are constructed. Because of the method used (direct calculation of field boundaries), THERMOCALC produces smooth curves, with topologically correct Schreinemaker bundles.
THERMOCALC Disadvantages
Using THERMOCALC to create a diagram is quite laborious; each curve must be calculated by hand and the Schreinemaker's analysis must be done manually. The curves must be built up one by one, and manually combined. There is however, a program DRAWPD, for assembling the graphical output as a postscript file. Also, THERMOCALC has a substantial learning curve.
Perplex Advantages
Perplex's main strength is the very rapid ability to produce output. Complete pseudosections can be created in a few minutes with little understanding of the process. In addition, it has the ability to perform calculations with a wide range of thermodynamic databases and activity models. Activity models reside in a single file and can be chosen at run-time. It is updated very often, and graphical representations of rock or mineral properties are very easy to produce.
Perplex Disadvantages
Perplex's ease of use can also be a pedagogical drawback, in that students are apt to run the program without a deep consideration of their actions and choices. Perplex's methods of computation (calculation on a grid, division of solutions into discrete pseudocompounds) typically introduces small artifacts (akin to pixelization in an image) and may fail to identify features that are in close proximity to each other, leading to portions of diagrams that sometimes violate the Phase Rule. In the addition, the process of excluding phases and choosing solution models can be confusing for students and mistakes in this step can produce meaningless diagrams. Finally, Perplex is unable at this time to incorporate the 'equipartition constraint' used in some activity models by THERMOCALC.
Direct Comparison
These pseudosections were created by Mark Caddick (ETH) for direct comparison between THERMOCALC results and Perplex results. They use a pelitic bulk composition and the same activity models (expect for the equipartition difference). Note that due to the equipartition difference, the Chl+Ms+H2O field is larger in Perplex than THERMOCALC, and there are some differences in the high-T, low-P portion of the diagrams as well.
These images illustrate an important point: Perplex is an excellent tool for pre-visualizing pseudosections that can then be made using THERMOCALC. The lack of such a pre-visualization in the example below accounts for the high-T, low-P differences. In THERMOCALC, one must know in advance which minerals to consider. The THERMOCALC calculation did not consider sanidine, but the Perplex results show a reaction Ms+Qz = Sil + Kf + H2O at around 620°C and 2 kb (0.2 GPa). If sanidine had been considered, then the THERMOCALC results would include the extra fields shown in the Perplex pseudosection.


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Honda Billboard with SMS and Bluetooth Interaction: This billboard came up in Dublin for Honda; the customers could "start" the car by texting to an SMS shortcode and could also download information by bluetooth.
Volkswagen Talking Newspaper Advertisement: Volkswagen came up with this talking advertisement in print media.
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Lacta Mobile App: In gone by era messages were written with pen on the Lacta chocolate's paper wrapper and exchanged in Greece. But with a recent change to the plastic wrapper it wasn't possible. And then came a mobile app by OgilvyOne Athens, that allowed people to compose messages on their smartphones and then send them by selecting from their Facebook friends. The receiver gets notified to download the app in order to see the "hidden" message displayed on a Lacta chocolate through AR.
Fox's Interactive Billboard Advertisement: This interactive billboard was created to launch a new series by Fox Broadcasting Company; when you look at the billboard through your iPhone it turns into an unexpected action game.
H&M Goldrun Advertisement: You need to download the GoldRun app on your iPhone that allows you to take pictures of virtual H&M apparel in front of any of the fashion retailer's 10 Manhattan locations. Simply select the ones you want to view and then take a picture to receive an instant 10% discount on any H&M purchase.
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U.K. doom metal veterans MY DYING BRIDE have entered Futureworks Studios in Manchester with longtime production partner Rob "Mags" Magoolagan to begin recording the follow-up to 2009's "For Lies I Sire" for a fall release via Peaceville Records.
According to a press release, "MY DYING BRIDE have been deep into the writing process since last year when they marked 20 years of existence with the special orchestral 'Evinta' release, plus the dose of supreme doom metal that was 'The Barghest O' Whitby'; a single 27-minute track exploring the dark and immensely heavy side of the band, ranking among their heaviest and most ferocious material ever written, as well as being the first studio recording to feature new keyboard/violin player Shawn McGowan."
"The Barghest O' Whitby" was recorded at Futureworks sees the return of Shaun "Winter" Taylor Steels to the drum stool for this recording.
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Houston-area residents are experiencing one of the worst mosquito season in years thanks to heavy rain that has created the perfect breeding ground for the airborne pests. Officials are warning that the problem will only get worse as there is more rain in the forecast for the weekend.
Steve Campion, a reporter for ABC13, complained about the influx of mosquitoes on Twitter.
Forgive me for the photos. I need to rant for a moment! While shooting a story in San Leon today, I can't tell you how many mosquitos swarmed @13PhotogReed & me. Every time we hit one there was blood. What is going on? I've never seen so many. Is anyone seeing this? #abc13
Residents said that not only are they seeing more of the annoying insects, the mosquitos are much larger than normal, with some being as large as a quarter.
To make matters worse, the Fort Bend County Health and Human Services Department reported that one person has tested positive for West Nile Virus. They pointed out that they have not found the virus in any mosquitos since August 10. They said they will spray for mosquitos twice a week as a precaution.
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About the Author
Alejandro Zambra is the author of My Documents, which was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai. His books have been translated into more than ten languages and have received several international prizes. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, and McSweeney's, among others. In 2010, he was named one ofGranta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and he is a 2015–16 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. He teaches literature at Diego Portales University, in Santiago, Chile.


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The Mind-Body Code
You know that your mind influences your health-but what's influencing your mind? Unless you answer this question, teaches Dr. Mario Martinez, you may be missing a key component on the journey to health and personal excellence. On The Mind-Body Code, the founder of Biocognitive Theory presents his first audio curriculum about the dynamic interplay between our thoughts, our bodies and our cultural history-and how to unlock this powerful doorway to wellness and fulfillment.
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- Kathryn
- 08/05/2011
Very Helpful in Helping Chronic Pain
I use parts of this cd to help with fibro pain and ptsd. He has one of the best explanations of fibro and a good meditation to start breaking up the knot of emotions that keep us in pain. His segment on Stigmata and Fibro is very helpful and the meditation goes right to the heart of problems. I wish there were separate tracks for the actual meditations, however, as I can never find them when I am looking. I suppose bookmarking helps.I would like to have easier ways to find the experiential stuff, as I dont need to keep hearing the explanations.Sometimes his voice grates on me and i dont agree with all he says, but its well worth a try at the meditations if you are dealing with chronic pain.
25 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
- Katie
- 09/06/2010
This book is fantastic. A theory of psychology and mind-body connection supported by scientific research. I have done the exercises many times and it's amazing what I have discovered about myself. I am sure this book will bring health to many.
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- Luke Morrison
- 10/04/2011
Best understanding of forgiveness anywhere.
Mario Martinez has and amazing voice and also the most complete description of forgiveness I've ever heard.
He explains how to integrate forgiveness into ones life with usable stories and real tools.
I've never quite heard the concept of true forgiveness explained this way anywhere else.
I highly recommend listening to all 6 CD's "in order". I found that they really helped me to explain to myself and other what "forgiveness is not" and with my christian background it added a whole new dimension to my understanding.
Basically he uses the first 5 audio series to build up to the last CD on the actual topic of forgiveness.
Very well laid out.
Thank you Dr Mario Martinez.
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- Donald
- 06/04/2010
Thanks to Mario Martinez, the author! This book is a FRESH LOOK at realizing the whole self, and is not to be missed if you value your health. Narrated by the author in a very gentle, understanding, and healing way. My wife and I both rate this tops!
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- James
- 12/02/2012
Probably Better Resources Out There
This book is not for those already well-versed in Mind/Body Medicine. In fact, it is probably not the best resource for professionals OR lay people beginning their journey into understanding and practicing it's theory. Mostly, Mr. Martinez's ideas are a restatement of Bioenergetics from the early 1970's. His explanations of "portals" of emotions is an oversimplification of Chakra theory which is better described by a myriad of teachers and authors in other resources. Much of his explanation of the interaction between mind and body is vague and difficult to follow.
I did appreciate his casual style and I like that he narrates his own book. However, my preference for books available on Audible for Mind/Body medicine and practices would be Radical Acceptance and Meditation and Psychotherapy by Tara Brach; Mindfulness by Ellen Langer; The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegal; and Stress-Proofing Your Brain by Rick Hansen.
I am quite sure that Dr. Martinez's clients benefit from his understanding and "hands-on" guidance. However, for the "reader," the entree into this rich and abundant field might best be found elsewhere.
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- Monika
- 22/12/2011
Love it !
Great audiobook explaining the connection between our body and its performance and our emotions... We have the power to heal we just need to believe in it. This book its a start
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- Dee Reyes
- 29/11/2010
Loved it and will continue to love it!
The meditations are wonderfully simple and would be great for lay people that are not used to meditating....I only wish that Mario conducted an oline course for people interested in studying his unique teachings....all of this CD resonated with me and I will keep an eye out for any other recordings he may put out there :)
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- Vanessa
- 14/02/2012
Have to give this full marks
Dr Martinez narrates his own work and just listening to his soothing, compassionate voice is a pleasure in itself. The ideas he is narrating work on a level I have never come across before and are remarkably effective.
At last, a scientific understanding of the mind-body connection that is not New Age in any way. Martinez's techniques are infinitely more effective than any visualization exercise I had tried in the past and I finally have closure on issues I had been working on for years. Hooray!
Thanks for this body of work Dr Martinez. I hope many others will find relief in their lives as the result of this audio book.
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- Gretchen
- 21/01/2012
Thought provoking and entertaining
Mario Martinez delivers his material on bio-cognitive theory which upon reflection may give the listener a chance to unravel some of the blocks negatively impacting their lives. His voice is most pleasant and his style mixes science with anecdotes, history and mythology. Very entertaining and more importantly most helpful in learning to live with more ease and joy. Practical applications are given in each section. I have listened through many, many times and always come away with something I did not hear the time before...rich and satisfying. More please......
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- Ninaki
- 28/04/2017
Absolutely brilliant!
Dr. Mario Martinez beautifully captures the principles of psycho-immunology and helps you unlock the theory and practice behind each chapter. Thoroughly addressing how any body can change the bio-informational infrastructure just by bringing awareness that taps into the mind-body connection. Absolutely brilliant! I would use expletives to get my point across, but I want this review to post. It's an amazing book, I look forward to reading more of his work.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 26/04/2011
Spitze - fundiertes Fachwissen einfach erklärt
Selten ein so anschauliches und gut aufeinander aufgebautes Hörbuch zum Thema Verbindungen zwischen Körper und Geist gehört. Es wird erläutert wie die Zusammenhänge entstehen, Krankheiten usw und wie man sie in praktischen Schritten auflösen kann und einem erfüllten Leben entgegen gehen kann. Just listen and than do it.
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- Mindraine1
- 06/07/2018
interesting techniques. very good read. pleasing voice.
I will try out the techniques and relisten soon.
- hutt11
- 06/02/2010
A journey into yourself
A book that looks at how culture not only affects our daily lives but how it manipulates our health. In all a great book


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"Smash" just made a pretty big splash.
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Uma Thurman will be bringing some serious star power to the mid-season NBC series "Smash," which debuts Feb. 6.
The "Pulp Fiction" star will be appearing in a multi-episode arc, playing a famous but difficult movie star who circles the lead role in the Broadway musical at the center of the show's plot.
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"Smash," starring "American Idol" runner-up Katharine McPhee, is about a naive young actress and singer who attempts to make it big in a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
The last time Thurman headed to TV, she snagged a Golden Globe for efforts (the 2002 HBO TV movie "Hysterical Blindness").
In addition to McPhee, "Smash" stars "Will & Grace" vet Debra Messing and Hollywood royal Anjelica Huston.
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25 January 2011
Tuesday's Tip: School registers - parent or guardian?
School admission registers usually show the child's date of birth. Although it's not always totally accurate, it can be helpful if you haven't found a birth registration.
Some indexes to Queensland school pupils (from many school histories, some admission registers, etc) are now on the Internet.
Australian school admission registers should be either at the school or in State Archives. By law, historical societies or museums should only hold copies, not originals. Many indexes to school registers are listed in the book Specialist Indexes in Australia: a Genealogist's Guide (1998 edition and 2006 Supplement). For specific advice about Queensland school records, see the latest edition of the book Tips for Queensland Research. Those books are described in more detail on my Web site.
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I'm so envious of you Queenslanders with your school registers!ReplyDelete
And our *annotated* State electoral rolls showing where people moved to, change of name, death... (grin)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousWednesday, 26 January, 2011
I couldn't agree more, I love our school admission registers in England because they have a date of birth and often tell you which school they came from/went to or where they went to work.ReplyDelete
It was my grandfather's school admission record which confirmed the name of his father, which was not recorded on his birth certificate, priceless information.
I have not used school registers in England, so I was very interested in your comment, John. I have never seen an entry that says where a child went to work! Some Queensland school admission registers (mainly more recent ones) refer to a child's previous or next school. Many entries include birth dates, but they are not as reliable as you might expect - but I have heard of cases where a birth was not registered and a school admission register was used as proof of birth for a passport application.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, 15 May, 2011
Thanks Judy -a good tip -and agree those annotated electoral registers are gold. PauleenReplyDelete
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MANILA, Philippines — After more than a decade of helping fight Islamic militants, the United States is disbanding an anti-terror contingent of hundreds of elite American troops in the southern Philippines where armed groups such as Abu Sayyaf have largely been crippled, officials said today.
MANILA, Philippines — After more than a decade of helping fight Islamic militants, the United States is disbanding an anti-terror contingent of hundreds of elite American troops in the southern Philippines where armed groups such as Abu Sayyaf have largely been crippled, officials said today.
But special forces from the U.S. Pacific Command, possibly in smaller numbers, will remain after the deactivation of the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines (JSOTF-P), to ensure al-Qaida offshoots such as Abu Sayyaf and the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah do not regain lost ground, according to U.S. and Philippine officials.
The move marks a new chapter in the long-running battle against an al-Qaida-inspired movement in the southern Philippines, viewed by the U.S. as a key front in the global effort to keep terrorists at bay. It reflects shifting security strategies and focus in economically vibrant Asia, where new concerns such as multiple territorial conflicts involving China have alarmed Washington's allies entangled in the disputes.
A year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. military established the task force in the southern Philippines to help ill-equipped Filipino forces contain a bloody rampage by Abu Sayyaf gunmen, who carried out bombings, terrorized entire towns and kidnapped more than 100 people, including three Americans.
Although U.S. forces are barred by the Philippine Constitution from engaging in combat, the advice, training, military equipment and intelligence, including drone surveillance, that they provided helped the underfunded Philippine military beat back the Abu Sayyaf. U.S.-backed Philippine offensives whittled the militants' ranks from a few thousand fighters — mostly drawn from desperately poor hinterland villages — to about 300 gunmen, who survive on extortion and kidnappings for ransom while dodging military assaults.
"Our partnership with the Philippine security forces has been successful in drastically reducing the capabilities of domestic and transnational terrorist groups in the Philippines," U.S. Embassy Press Attache Kurt Hoyer said in a written response to questions sent by email by The Associated Press.
The remaining terrorists, he said, "have largely devolved into disorganized groups resorting to criminal undertakings to sustain their activities."
That success has led U.S. military planners in coordination with their Philippine counterparts "to begin working on a transition plan where the JSOTF-P as a task force will no longer exist," Hoyer said, adding there were currently about 320 American military personnel left in the south.
Before the drawdown, about 500 to 600 Americans had been deployed there.
Hoyer said a still-unspecified number of U.S. military personnel would remain under a new unit called the PACOM Augmentation Team to provide Filipino forces with counterterrorism and combat training and advice, and "ensure that violent extremist organizations don't regain a foothold in the southern Philippines."
He suggested the remaining American staff would move away from training exercises to working with Philippine security forces at unified commands and headquarters units.
The timing of such withdrawals from counterterrorism campaigns from the southern Philippines to Afghanistan has been a dilemma for the U.S., which must ensure that remaining extremist forces are not able to bounce back.
While Abu Sayyaf attacks have considerably gone down, ransom kidnappings have increased, with some militants even crossing into neighboring Malaysia to snatch tourists.
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Philippine officials have been notified of the U.S. move and expressed confidence that Filipino forces could deal with any lingering threat in the south, scene of a decades-long Muslim separatist rebellion in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation.
Gazmin said that with the scaling down of the U.S. presence in the south, the Americans would renew a presence elsewhere in the country to help address another security concern — China's increasingly assertive behavior in the disputed South China Sea, where Beijing, Manila and four other governments have been locked in increasingly tense territorial disputes.
"It's like they never left," he said.
After closing down military bases in the Philippines in 1991, the U.S. signed a 10-year pact in April with Manila, a defense treaty ally, that will allow possibly thousands of American forces temporary access to selected military camps and enable them to preposition fighter jets and ships.
The Philippines' efforts to protect its territory have dovetailed with Washington's aim to pivot away from years of heavy military engagement in the Middle East to Asia, partly as a counterweight to China's rising clout.


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Election heats up on entertainment programs
There are only thirteen days left, and most people are sick of the process at this point, especially if you live in the swing states. You can see the election everywhere, including shows like Bill Maher as you might expect. But you're also seeing Obama and Romney on many of the entertainment programs as well. That's more true of Obama. Romney seems reluctant at times to have anyone interview him, so he canceled his appearance on "The View." Obama of course was thrilled to go on that program as most of the women there love him. Obama will also be hitting MTV and Jay Leno this week.
Of course politicians have always been doing stuff like this. Most of us remember Bill Clinton playing the sax on Arsenio. JFK hung around with the Rat Pack, but that was a much different time. Of course with politics, some things have changed dramatically while others stays the same. In today's world, Twitter rules and bloggers can have a ton of influence. Still, TV rules, as it's done since JFK outclassed Richard Nixon in the first televised debate. And then you have mailers, brochures and yard signs. Those have been around forever and are still important. Of course the difference now is use can use online printing services to get a better deal, like online brochure printing at UPrinting. While the Internet can make a huge difference, person to person campaigning and printed campaign materials will always have influence.
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There's no summer school for "Community" star Gillian Jacobs, but she does have a summer job in "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World."
Jacobs passes notes with PopcornBiz about the cult fave sitcom as it heads into a fourth season, playing an ecstasy-tripping waitress who lip-locks Steve Carell to mark the apocalypse, and her own end-of-days philosophy.
Critics and fans are so passionate about 'Community,' even if the mass audience, and sometime even the network, seems to not be – and here you are on the verge of a fourth season. What are your thoughts on being a part of this singular television comedy?
I started to think about it like this: how often as an actor do you get to be a part of something that is meaningful to fans, is important to them and that they feel so passionate about? I think that's a real privilege and I'm just lucky to be a part of something that people care so much about. The fact that I love it and respect it, too, is just cake. That's all you can really ask for as an actor, in terms of the challenges of doing the show and the creativity. I really feel like I've grown as a performer from being on it.
How are you and the cast preparing for the changes behind the scenes that are going to happen in Season Four, now that Dan Harmon has left the show?
We have not gone back to work yet. I think we were really sad to see Dan Harmon go. As an actor you don't get a lot of choice or power in any of these events, and so obviously that was not our desire. But we're also so grateful that we've gotten a fourth season. We're really excited about that. I feel like we've kind of crossed a marker, a threshold for a critically acclaimed, under-watched show, to make it to a fourth season, so the fact that we're still on the air is something that we don't take for granted as a cast. I hope that we make 13 really awesome episodes.
Britta has evolved in surprising comedic directions since the beginning of the show, maybe more so than the rest of the characters. What's it been like to have ended up where you were at the end of the third season?
I feel really lucky for the material that I've been given by the writers. I feel like as I sort of grew as a performer their material for me got more and more exciting. I just felt lucky that I got to do all the things that they had me doing in the third season. I think that's kind of the nature of a long running television show, that certain characters are going to change and morph and it'll be a mutation between the writers and the actor.
What do you hope for the next season of 'Community' for Britta – something you haven't gotten to do yet? Maybe the potential Britta/Troy romance expanded?
I feel like it's such a delicate balance on a TV show, because as much as you want to see it go forward then it kind of puts you into the category of a relationship/couple show, and I feel like we exist on this whole other plane on 'Community.' So I think that's maybe why they've never really paired anyone off, because it's so fun to have the possibility go in every single direction with all of the characters. You see a lot of almost pairings or the fans will latch on to little moments and be rooting for a Britta and Abed moment or an Annie and Britta moment or an Annie and Abed moment. The fans sort of want everything simultaneously. I loved how bad of a psychology major Britta was, and then there were moments of actual insight. I feel like she did inadvertently help people, so that was fun to have as a major. I feel lucky that I don't bear the responsibility of writing where the show is going to go. I leave that to more capable hands. I just look forward to more really great material coming my way.
Did you set out to be able to be as silly as you get to on 'Community' and in the film "Seeking a Friend at the End of the World?"
I was really lucky on this movie because I know Lorene Scafaria, who wrote and directed the film, and she sent me the script and said, 'Would you please play this part?' I was really excited that she wanted me to be a part of it and picked me to do it. Then, yes, it was really fun to get to be super silly, wacky and out there and not have to do any of the heavy lifting on the film, like Keira Knightley or Steve Carell had to do. It was very fun to get to play with T.J. Miller and just be a whack job.
When you first discovered your passion for acting were you more inclined to want to cry in a scene and be dramatic or did you always lean towards the funny stuff?
Certainly as a kid, when I started acting, I was not doing a lot of comedy. It was a lot of Shakespeare and Chekhov and musicals, but no real comedy. Then I went to Julliard and Julliard does not do comedy, so it was just more serious, classical, dramatic theater and serious contemporary plays. It wasn't really until 'Community' that I got a chance to enter into the world of comedy, but it was something that I'd been longing to do because you can only play so many drug-addicted prostitutes before you get really tired of them. So I was really excited to get to jump into the comedy world.
When you work with great comedians, like Steve Carell, Joel McHale and Chevy Chase, what do you pick up for your own comedy skill set?
I feel like all those people have something in common, in that they think incredibly quickly on their feet. The sharpness of their minds and the sharpness of their wit is something that I aspire to. I also feel like I've learned a lot from people like Jim Rash and Donald Glover and Danny Pudi and everyone else on 'Community,' to really just go with the silliest, weirdest instinct that I have and to just give myself permission to sort of do whatever comes to me spontaneously in a moment. I really feel like I try not to over-think things too much. I feel like I've learned that from them, to be in the moment and be really present and something unexpected will happen.
And you're in another film with Steve Carell coming up?
Yes, that's true. I'm in this movie 'Burt Wonderstone' that stars Steve Carell and Jim Carrey and Olivia Wilde and Steve Buscemi. All my scenes were with Steve Carell, and so it was really fun to get to work with him again. He's such a lovely, sweet guy that I really relished the opportunity to work with him. He's wildly different from who he plays in 'Seeking a Friend…' I'm probably more similar in both films, and I end up kissing him in 'Burt Wonderstone.' So, I'm two-for-two now. I have a running tally.
There's lots of drugs and open sex for a few of the characters in "Seeking a Friend" who are expecting the end of the world. That's not the worst plan, maybe.
No. I kind of admire that. That's not my personality type, but I should aspire to that kind of response.
Do you have an endgame for the end of the world if it does come about?
You know what, I should take a lesson from this movie and really just have fun on the way out because I'm too much of a worrier in my day-to-day life. If an asteroid is really coming there's not really much you can do, so why not just have a really good time.?
'Community' Star Gillian Jacobs' Summer Job: 'Seeking a Friend…'
The Sitcom Actress Talks Big Screen Role and Expectation for a Fourth Season After a Shakeup
There's no summer school for "Community" star Gillian Jacobs, but she does have a summer job in "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World."


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New England fishermen face grim news as regulators meet to consider steep cuts in catch limits
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) � New England's fishing fleet is facing grim news as regulators meet to consider steep cuts in catch limits that fishermen warn will trigger industry collapse.
The New England Fishery Management Council meets Wednesday in Portsmouth, N.H., to decide 2013 limits on stocks including cod on Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine.
Fishermen who chase bottom-dwelling groundfish face a year-to-year cut of 81 percent on the Gulf of Maine cod limit and 61 percent on Georges Bank cod.
Fishermen say that leaves too few fish to make a living.
The Northeast's top federal fisheries regulator, John Bullard, acknowledges the cuts will be devastating. But he says the reality is that stocks are in perilous condition.
Fishermen, though, say the science behind the cuts is shaky and repeatedly wrong.


text: Briarwood Playground is named for the Queens neighborhood in which it is located. Bounded by Union Turnpike, Parsons Boulevard, Hillside Avenue, and the Van Wyck Expressway, Briarwood was developed by Herbert A. O'Brien in 1905. O'Brien was the owner of the Briarwood Land Company, which got its name through the suggestion of O'Brien's wife, Adeline, who noted the woods and briars (prickly plants or shrubs such as the round leaf greenbrier) that covered the area. The enterprise was initially unsuccessful, however, and the land was not fully developed until the 1920s, when the lots formerly owned by the company were sold at auction.


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Egyptian wind power today amounts to just 365 MW, following a mini spurt in 2008 with the addition of 135 MW of Spanish Gamesa 850 kW turbines to the existing Zafarana complex on the Red Sea coast (table). In the next two years, total new capacity will amount to just 185 MW added at Zafarana, 65 MW in 2009 and 120 MW more in 2010, all of it under turnkey contracts with Gamesa's wind project division. When complete, the Zafarana project, which was launched in the 1990s by the New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), a division of Egypt's energy ministry, is to reach 600 MW. So far, 360 MW is turning, built with financial and technical assistance from Spain, Germany, Denmark and Japan. The remaining 5 MW of grid-connected wind power in Egypt is at a nearby test facility at Hurghada, also from the 1990s.
To speed up development, the government is in the throes of creating a competitive electricity market in which private sector investors can participate. A long- awaited law is supposedly going to parliament this session, which will allow third party access to the grid and long term power purchase agreements. The government also says it wants to remove all energy subsidies by 2017. Even before the law is in place, NREA is preparing its call for proposals for 2.5 GW of wind. The first prequalification round should take place this year.
The exact locations for the wind plant have yet to be decided, but most likely are around Saidi, in the Nile valley south of Cairo, and on the Gulf of Suez. Here, at Gabal El-Zeit, NREA has already designated 700 square kilometres as suitable for up to 4 GW of wind power; average annual wind speeds reach over 11 m/s, with a capacity factor of nearly 70%, it claims.
Various projects are being developed, including 200 MW in cooperation with the German development bank, KfW, and the European Investment Bank, and 220 MW with Japanese help. A number of private companies have also expressed interest in building large-scale wind plant at Gabal El-Zeit. Among them, Italy's Italcementi signed a memorandum of understanding with the Egyptian government in 2006 to install 120 MW, with the possibility of expanding it to 400 MW. The output would partly feed Italcementi's cement factories in the Suez zone. Global energy company BP, however, has decided not to pursue its proposal for 500-1000 MW of wind power in Egypt, preferring to concentrate on the US market.
South of Suez, near the Red Sea port of Ain El Sokhna, El Sewedy Cables, a global cable and electric products manufacturer, should start producing turbine towers this year in a 50-50 joint venture with German tower manufacturer SIAG. The facility is part of El Sewedy's broader strategy to assemble and later manufacture turbines in Egypt. Last year, the company bought a 30% stake in M Torres Olvega, a small Spanish company producing direct-drive wind turbines.


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I've been to the Agas-Agas Bridge in Sogod, Southern Leyte on several occasions.
Currently holding the record of having the highest elevation of all bridges in the Philippines with a height of 292 feet above the ground, it is also the site where the longest zipline (almost a kilometer long) is located.
At this elevation, and when the weather feels like it, low-flying clouds would suddenly envelop the area giving it a scene not unlike being in another temperate country; certainly some place else other than in the Philippines.
And, no, in those times I was in the area, I've never had the chance to take some bird shots… until last Thursday, December 22, 2011… when a hornbill, locally known as Talusi, (three of them, actually) suddenly flew into view and perched herself high up in a tree close by where I was just taking snapshots of the general scene.
It was my first bird shot at Agas-agas. And a seldom-seen-in-the-wild Samar Tarictic Hornbill (Penelopides samarensis) at that!
Whew! Certainly a great Christmas gift for me!
Merry Christmas, everybody!!!