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In 2009, Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Olive Kitteridge," a novel told in sublime stories about the life of an imperious but nuanced Maine schoolteacher.
In her new novel, "The Burgess Boys," Strout returns to the cold, fertile ground of her native Maine to explore the worlds of three siblings whose lives in the fictitious town of Shirley Falls were forever scarred by the horrific accident that killed their father 50 years before.
This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row.
Jim and Bob Burgess escape Maine for New York City, where Jim becomes a high-flying, wealthy corporate lawyer and Bob becomes a lowly legal-aid defense attorney with a failed marriage. They are called back to their hometown by their sister, Susan, when their teenage nephew Zach rolls a severed pig's head into a mosque full of Somali refugees. The attempts by Bob and Jim to save their nephew from activist lynch mobs and relentlessly ambitious politicians have a profound effect on all three siblings and their futures.
Strout, 57, divides her time between New York City and Brunswick, Maine. She spoke with Printers Row Journal from her New York office. Here is an edited transcript.
Q: You use fragments of your own biography and geography in writing this novel, drawing from your upbringing in small-town Maine, the three decades you lived in Brooklyn, N.Y, and your background as a lawyer. Why?
A: My life is really all I've got, in certain ways. I wasn't a practicing lawyer, but my first marriage was to a (legal aid) defense attorney. I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.
Q: Zach Olsen, the Burgess brothers' sad-sack nephew, commits an offensive and careless crime against a local mosque in Maine. Where did Zach and the crime come from?
A: Zach was entirely invented. There was, however, a similar incident in Lewiston, Maine, which is a town close to my heart because I went to college there. In real, nonfiction life, it was a reprehensible act. But as a fiction writer, I am always looking to go against the grain, for you get more interesting material that way. If my instinct as a person is to say, "This is terrible and an indefensible act," let me as a novelist release myself from that judgment. Zach became very real to me as a character. There is nothing technically wrong with him, but he is one of those kids who is weird, very lonely and misses his father, who left the family.
Q: What inspired you to write about a dark family tragedy?
A: I grew up in small towns, and my mother was a fabulous storyteller. There were always different stories, different tragedies being told in the most matter-of-fact ways. As a very young person, it always piqued my curiosity. This kind of material was delivered in the driest of tones, with almost no reaction. As a little kid, I always thought, "Ooh, that's amazing."
I've also always been interested in families and how we try to run away from each other, and try to run away from the past. With the tragic accident, one would assume it shaped parts of the three Burgess children. The key thing to me was to have them scatter into their own separate directions and their separate lives.
Q: The dynamic Jim Burgess often mocks and berates his younger brother, Bob. Where does this come from?
A: I have a brother, and we don't have that kind of relationship, but it was surprisingly accessible to me. Who knows where these things come from? Bob is younger enough than Jim, and because they both lack their father, Bob would look up to Jim. While Bob is goofy and kind, Jim is who he is. He is full of a lot of rage. He was partially born that way, but in my mind as the novelist, he developed that way because of the terrible pressures he is under.
I know people won't like Jim, and that's OK because it is the readers' book. I have to tell you, I love Jim. You have the sense he would kill on your behalf. Most of the time, he's trying to do the right thing. He's having a crackup, though, and he behaves reprehensibly because of it.
Q: Zach and his mother, Susan, live in a grim, unheated house. How do they cope with their bleak circumstances?
A: I was very interested in place and the culture that it brings with it. If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it. Susan has remained in the Maine culture where people don't talk much. People are not going to say, "I am so hurt by my divorce." There is still a sense of shame, and people can't communicate about it. With Susan, she has a difficult child to raise and a husband who has left her. It is more than she can bear. It's the culture she's living in, and she can't just reach out.
I thought a lot about Zach. I think it is absolutely true that people can die from loneliness. Zach's one of those people. He's so malnourished from loneliness that when his uncles come up to help him, it does mean something to him. Even if Jim is yelling at him, he's doing it with him in mind.
Q: What interested you in writing about the cultural phenomena of Somali war refugees settling in dying New England towns?
A: My interest always has to arise from a deep place or it is not going to be meaningful to myself or anybody who reads my books. When the Somali community started to emerge in Lewiston, Maine, I was fascinated by it. There were a number of incidents, but I chose (the pig's head incident). At first, I wondered what they were doing in Lewiston, which is a mill town that has been dying for years. I didn't know if I should go into the Somali shops. I didn't want to be a gawker. I read an immense amount about Somali history. It's very moving. I did not feel I could write from the Somali point of view if I didn't immerse myself in the material. I also spoke with some Somali people. I did all the research I could.
Q: In your novel, the Somali elder Abdikarim has a profound moment of grace, shifting the whole story. How did he develop for you?
A: I don't plan a whole lot as I write. I tend to write in circles, and Abdikarim came to me in one of those circles. Once I made the decision to have this marbleized Somali point of view running through the text, it didn't seem like much of a struggle to take him on. I loved him quite a bit. He's absolutely exhausted, both physically and emotionally. His heart is good, but it is truly broken because he saw his first son murdered in front of him in Somalia. Thinking about it as a mother myself, you have to imagine the unimaginable. Abdikarim didn't strike me as someone who would become bitter. There seemed a transferential possibility that he could see Zach in the courtroom and think, "My God, he's just a scared kid."
Q: After many years in New York, you are now living in Maine half the time. What does Maine mean to you?
A: My husband comes from Maine, as well, so there are family and friends there. Your question is a valid one. I left Maine such a long time ago, with steam beneath my feet. I have friends there I grew up with who stayed there, and I love them so much in a way I wouldn't have 20 years ago.
I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know. You have to think, "Do I want that cup of coffee?" It has a real coziness to it. In New York, nobody cares about anything, and it's heaven.
Dylan Foley is a freelance writer in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"The Burgess Boys"
By Elizabeth Strout, Random House, 320 pages, $26


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Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. He stops in various cities, wearing a sandwich board, to solicit signatures on his petition to end the observance. He explains that relegating Black History Month to the coldest, shortest month of the year is an insult, and that black history is not separate from American history. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a "post-racial" America. MORE
His road trip begins in Washington, D.C., crisscrosses the country during Black History Month 2010, and ends with an epilogue one year later. Each stop along the journey explores Black History Month as it relates to four ideas: education, history, identity, and commercialism.
Tilgman's campaign to end Black History Month is actually a provocative gambit to open a public conversation about the idea of ethnic heritage months, and whether relegating African American history to the shortest month of the year — and separating it from American history on the whole — denigrates the role of black people and black culture throughout American history. But it is also a seeker's journey to reconcile his own conflicting feelings about his own identity, history, and convictions.
More Than a Month is not just about a yearly tradition, or history, or being black in America. It is about what it means to be an American, to fight for one's rightful place in the American landscape, however unconventional the means, even at the risk of ridicule or misunderstanding. It is a film is about discovering oneself.
The Filmmaker
Shukree Tilghman has written and directed several short films and penned several feature screenplays. In addition to writing and directing, Shukree has also served as an associate producer on the Marco Williams feature documentary Banished, an Official Selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Shukree received a B.F.A. in Film from NYU where he was a recipient of the Martin Scorsese Filmmaker Scholarship. He is currently a Screenwriting MFA candidate in the Film Division at Columbia University.

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Giffords urges Senate support for background checks in gun purchases
WASHINGTON -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is urging key senators to support expanded background checks for gun purchases in a new television ad that is to begin airing Tuesday in Arizona and Iowa.
Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun control group started by Giffords and husband Mark Kelly, said it is spending six figures on the ads in two states with strong gun traditions. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up tougher firearm regulations Wednesday.
"There are solutions we can agree on, even gun owners like us," Giffords says in the commercial over a closeup of her and Kelly looking directly into the camera. "Take it from me, Congress must act. Let's get this done."
The ad opens with black-and-white images from vigils after high-profile mass shootings at a Colorado movie theater, a Wisconsin temple, a Connecticut elementary school and the attempt on Giffords' own life outside an Arizona grocery store, which also left 12 others wounded and six dead.
"We have a problem," she says, "where we shop, where we pray, where our children go to school."
The ad says the overwhelming majority of people in the respective states -- eight of 10 in Arizona and nearly nine of 10 in Iowa -- support universal background checks and urges viewers to contact their senators to ask them to support the measure as well. It targets two Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who have an A rating with the National Rifle Association -- the top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona -- along with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has indicated he'll probably support background checks. It also mentions Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, who supports expanded background checks.
Giffords also plans a news conference Wednesday in her hometown of Tucson, Ariz., with others who survived the shooting rampage two years ago at one of her constituent meetings.


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When Generation adidas player Enzo Martinez (above, left) slipped all the way to No. 17 in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft, Real Salt Lake were happy to snap up the North Carolina product fresh off his run to a College Cup championship. The talented midfielder, originally from Uruguay, seemed a perfect fit for the technically demanding Claret-and-Cobalt.
Unless fans watched a lot of reserve matches, though, they may have forgotten he was still with the club last season. But he feels that could change this year.
"I was talking to my dad about the difference from last season," Martinez told MLSsoccer.com via phone from RSL's training camp in Irvine, Calif. "This year I feel extremely comfortable, and my confidence level has gone up a ton.
"You come in as a rookie, and you really don't know what to expect. A month earlier you are playing in the college final, and now you're out on the field playing with guys you watched on TV growing up. It was strange and sometimes you didn't know what to expect.
"This year, I've gotten so much better. I've learned so much," continued Martinez. "You're learning the system still, but I am much more comfortable with it."
READ: 2012 draft pick Martinez a prototypical Real Salt Lake player
Martinez admitted that one of the reasons why he may not have been on the field as a rookie was learning RSL's diamond midfield.
"At first it's very, very difficult. You have to be in great shape, but then, once you get used to it makes sense why you do what you do," Martinez said. "It becomes easier to put in the extra running, or making the extra pass because you understand the reason behind it."
Martinez knows that he has improved from last year in many aspects.
"I believe I am playing much quicker," he said. "I am taking fewer touches on the ball. I am moving better without the ball, and I am getting the ball to spots where we want it to go."
Martinez is happy with his progress, which is a good thing because he freely admits it was a tough thing last year to not even be included in the 18-man gameday roster most of the season.
"It is extremely frustrating because if it wasn't, I think I would be in the wrong choice for my career. If you are happy or content sitting on the bench, I don't think you could make it in this profession."
Martinez isn't taking anything for granted, but he feels there is reason for optimism this season.
READ: RSL acquire Joao Plata from Toronto FC
"I think the coaches see talent in me," he said. "Being 21 and playing as a [college] championship winner to not seeing any action at all, it's frustrating. You have to look at the veterans and see what they are doing. The way I tried to deal with it was to work harder. Even though I wasn't playing, I was proving to the coaches that I wanted to get better, to work harder and make them think I would be able to contribute to the team.
"[RSL coach] Jason [Kreis] told me that I need to make a goal to be in the top 18 every game," Martinez continued. "My goal is to try to start every game, and I believe I can get there. My dream is to start every game, and I believe I can get there if I just continue to work hard and get better."


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There are a lot of people who are anxious to own a telescope to view the heavens above, but who need some direction as to what scope to buy. This web site is my attempt to help point those people in the right direction. While I try to be as objective as possible, it does reflect my viewing biases.
It's called the Celestron 21024 FirstScope Telescope , and features a 3" mirror in a tabletop Dobsonian mount, and Amazon has it for under $40. Click on the link to read more about it. Orion has the very similar Funscope 76 which does have the advantage of an included red-dot type finder- very useful. Under $50, and well worth it.
Keep in mind that these are simple, small, telescopes, and will not deliver the kinds of images that larger scopes will! But they're a fine introduction to astronomy, and much better than any cheap department store scope. Either of them will show you craters on the moon, the rings of Saturn, and bright deep space objects.
It's a well made, easy to use scope, and at the asking price, an excellent investment. This is a scope that can delievr years of use and discovery.
One excellent option is the With a 20-60x zoom eyepiece it would be a fine choice for nature watching and birding. While not idea for astronomy use, it will povide excellent views of the Moon and the larger planets, too. At $210 it's a good value, but if that's outside your budget, Celestron also offers the slightly smaller for $155. You'll also want a tripod for mounting it. If you have a decent camera tripod that will work just fine.
Incidentally, that $895 is just the optical tube. You'll also need a mirror diagonal (the TeleVue 1-1/4" Diagonal is a super unit for nature viewing and astronomy, but you can use a less expensive one), and a selection of eyepieces. I recommend starting with a 20 or 24mm eyepieces for wider angle views, and a 7mm for higher magnification. For terrestrial (nature viewing) you might consider a high-quality zoom eyepiece, like the TeleVue Nagler Zoom Eyepiece. You'll also want to get a solid, portable mount or a photo tripod with a fluid head.
All this will run $1500-1600 or more, but you'll have an unsurpassed portable telescope system that will equal or outperform many larger telescopes. I don't expect many readder of this page will go for that package, but if you have the money and the need for a super compact and portable telescope, this would be my first choice. I recommended a similar outfit to a field producer for the Nature channel, and he repoted back to me that he's carried it all over the world.
Basic Rules Before You Buy
Glossary of Common Telescope Terms
The Find-A-Scope Store. Recommended books, scopes and accessories from Amazon.
Recommended Books, Videos and Software
What Scopes To Buy (and what not to buy)
Department Store Scopes
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Frequently Asked Questions:
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I read that Mars is going to be really close to the Earth soon..
Can I use my telescope to look at the sun?
How can I test a telescope?
I bought an inexpensive Bushnell/Tasco/other scope at a yard sale...
A note on optical quality
Never buy a telescope in a department store. I used to qualify this rule, but I've decided to make it absolute. Similarly, don't buy telescopes from "close-out" catalogs, stores that specialize in high-tech toys, catalog showrooms, etc. Don't buy from anyplace that doesn't do a May 11major business in astronomy related tools.
"Christmas Trash" telescopes. Every fall, thousands of cheap, useless telescopes flood the toy stores and department stores. These instruments look like telescopes, and are offered at what look like bargain prices. And they're junk. These are what we call "Christmas Trash" telescopes. They havebadly figured lenses- some of them plastic- cheap, wobbly mountings, unusuable eyepieces, and outrageous claims of 400x and 640x, and sometimes 1200x magnification. Often they're sold in respectable department and discount stores. Stay away from these. They are a waste of money, and will do nothing but destroy a child's interest in astronomy.
Magnification by itself is meaningless. Don't choose a telescope by its advertised magnification. The way to compare similar telescope is by aperture; that is, the size of the objective lens or mirror. As a rule of thumb, few scopes can deliver more than 50x per inch of aperture under the best conditions; That means that the 2.5" (60mm) telescope advertised as a "625x telescope!" is really a 125x scope at best! A lot of the really interesting objects out there are very large, but very dim. The Great Galaxy in Andromeda - one of the most majestic sights in the sky- is eight times the size of the full moon, but a lot dimmer. A magnification of 20-40x is all you'd ever want to view it. This leads to...
There's no substitute for aperture. All things being equal, size counts. Larger is better. But there's a caution that goes with this:
There's no substitute for optical quality. A small scope with excellent optics can see more than a large scope with mediocre optics. I stood in line at a star party a while ago to look at M31, the Great Galaxy in Andromeda, through a 21" telescope. I imagined I'd see dust lanes, structure... what I saw was a fuzzy blob of cotton, with less structure than I'd seen in my 3.5" Questar! The owner was as proud as can be of this white elephant. He'd never looked though a good scope. See the FAQ for some comments on why a high-quality small scope can be a far better choice than a large scope.
I just picked up a 40mm Unitron refractor made in the 1960s- that's a 1.6" telescope! But it has a very long forcal length (700mm- that's f/17.5), very high contrast, and a really solid mount. It can split double stars and provide planetary views that would be impossible in a lot of cheap department store scopes. It sold for $75 back in the 1960s; that's close to $500 in 2007 dollars.
There's no substitute for darkness. What does this mean? It means if you have to choose between a huge scope that sits in your light polluted city back yard, and a small scope that you can carry out to remote, dark areas, go small and transportable. I can see more with my 2.7" scope under a really dark country sky than I could with my 10" scope in my suburban back yard.
The smaller the scope, the more often it gets used. My 8x56 binoculars get used just about every clear night. The 2.7" Pronto comes out a lot too; it only takes a minute to set up. The Questar gets set up most weekends if the sky is clear. The 10" Newtonian that I spent 6 months restoring and improving spent most of its time in my garage. Loading it into the car- a five-foot long tube, and a huge mount made of steel and cast iron that weighed well over 100 pounds- was a major undertaking. And the 17" Coulter Dobsonian never got used at all. It was too big to transport enywhere and too heavy to move aorund my backyard. It's now the property of a happy amateur who has a large treeless area far from the city lights.
The mount is as important as the scope. Without a solid, steady mounting, you can't even focus properly, let alone view or do things like photography. Those scientific looking mounts on cheap telescopes may look good, but they're absolutely worthless. They shake like crazy and make focusing impossible. That's why those simple-looking Dobson reflectors are so good. They're as stable a a rock. Even my little 2.7" Pronto is mounted on a TeleVue Upswing head on a Gitzo 320 tripod- that's a pretty heavy-duty photographic tripod that costs $300 by itself! Add the Upswing and you're talking $460 for a simple alt-az mount to support a 2.7" scope. Now you don't have to spend that much, but it points out why a $120 refractor with included tripod and head isn't going to be terribly stable.
A telescope is a useful tool- but only if you know what to do with it. Before you decide to get a telescope, you should spend a little time reading about telescopes to get a better idea of what they can do, and to better understand your own needs. If at all possible, find an astronomy society or club you can visit to get some personal experience using different telescopes. Too many people spend a lot of money on a scope with unrealistic expectations of what they'll be able to see. Others get discouraged when they find they can't just point the scope heavenwards and see amazing sights.
If you're already set on observing the moon and the planets, then by all means, go ahead and buy a telescope. If you are more interested in deep sky objects like galaxies and nebulas, you would do well to spend time learning the sky with the aid of a simple star atlas and a pair of binoculars.
If you have specific questions about something I've written, feel free to e-mail me. I'll try to help if I can. If I don't know I'll try to refer you to someone who does. If you have suggestions for improving this page I'd like to hear from you, too.
Michael Edelman
While I'm glad to help where I can, please read all the pages before asking for help. I probably receive two or three e-mails a week asking a question that's answered above. Most of them are asking for my opinion on a cheap 4.5" scope (no) a department store scope (no) or a cheap import sold under the Bushnell, Tasco or Jason label (no).
Some of you have asked: Why "Heretic's" guide? Well, it's because when I wrote the first version in 1997, it was contrary to most of the other FAQs out on the web. The typical advice given was to buy a Celestron or Meade 8" SCT, as if that was the only choice for "serious" amateurs. Since that time, more amateur astronomers have discovered the advantages of smaller scopes, the higher contrast available in good refractors and the advantage of Maksutovs, and the market has responded in kind. Now, of course, you hear different sorts of nonsense, and some companies are marketing junk refractors and Maksutovs.
There are still some points of view held to here that you'll see disputed elsewhere. Often you'll read "there's no substitute for aperture" with the necessary qualifications about quality, or that "you need a long focal length for high magnification" or "you need a short focal length for wide angle views". Thus I suppose I still hold some heretical views- but mine are backed up by observation and physics.
Ed Ting has an excellent (and huge!) collection of reviews of specific scopes at http://www.scopereviews.com/. You can find a lot of articles and reviews at http://cloudynights.com as well as some interesting projects.
If you have any intentions of doing astrophotography, you need to look at Michael Covington's web site, and preferably his book, too. He'll answer all your questions and show you how to do it right.
` When it's too cold, rainy, or bright out to observe, you can entertain yourself by reading my blog about food and cooking. (It's really quite interesting.)
There are a lot of good astronomy sites on the web, but beware- there are a lot of site that are merely collections of ads, or material scraped from other web pages designed as a vehicle for advertising. I periodically get solicitations from these sites asking for a listing on my page in return for a listing on theirs. Read as much as you can, but learn to distinguish the writing of experienced amateurs from people merely trying to take your money.
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If you don't have a PayPal account- get one. It costs nothing to join, and it's the ideal way to send and receive money over the 'net:
Buying a $1,000 scope from a stranger? Selling that expensive refractor? PayPal can protect you from fraud. I use it for all my E-Bay buying and selling.
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Is rock and rap music that contains lyrics and allusions to Biblical beliefs and/or praises to God acceptable in a Christian's life? Or, should all rock and rap music be avoided? God's Word says to stay away from all appearance of evil; so, would that also include music, even if the lyrics give praise to God?
Thanks so much for your question about the ethical nature of rock and rap music. As you have noted in your question, it is important to distinguish between the lyrics and the music of a song. Lyrics can be obviously sinful in the message that they convey. Even the tone of lyrics can be sinful (I think immediately of much of the rage-filled screaming and yelling of metal bands). But we are hard-pressed as believers to claim that a certain style/genre of music is sinful in and of itself. To say that certain music sounds evil has several problems (we are not talking about lyrics here, just music). The first is that the Scriptures never lay out for us what evil sounds like in music. Therefore, when we label certain sounds or instruments as evil, we say more than the Scriptures say. Also, this argument against certain genres of music has been used as an excuse by many who simply refuse to engage varying musical genres. Such a response does not encourage intelligent discussion and engagement. This is not to say that certain music is not technically better in quality than other music, and it's not to say that music can't be used for evil purposes. Many musicians, in fact, seek to use music for evil ends. But it's probably best to see music as a tool. Just like a hammer is not good or evil, but can be used for evil (or good) purposes, so it is with music. When we label particular sounds, rhythms, or instruments as evil or good we are basing that judgment on our own preferences and cultural biases and not upon the authority of Scripture.
With that said, varying musical genres must be used wisely by Christians. While Christian rock or rap might be appropriate in a concert or informal setting, it is not appropriate in the public worship of God, which emphasizes the corporate nature of worship. Rock and rap, by nature, focus on individual expression.
More recently, there have been rap songs that rap through one of the great confessions of the church—the Heidelberg Catechism. Simply google "rapping the Heidelberg Catechism" and you'll find more than you need to see how the genre of rap can be used to glorify God.
One more thing needs to be said. Whenever a musical medium becomes more important for a Christian musician that the truth it seeks to communicate, it ceases to be useful. And so those involved in Christian rock or rap must be in constant prayer that the medium of music used not become more important than the truth they are seeking to communicate.
This is a long way of saying that rock and rap music that contains lyrics that seek the glory and praise of God are acceptable in a Christian's life, but must always be used in the Christian life with great care and discernment.
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Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line
As Kermit the Frog sang, it's not easy being green. Well, Kermit, try achieving corporate sustainability. It's more than just "going green." It generally means giving consideration to the environmental, economic, and social impact of a company's business practices.
While it's not necessarily easy, it's the responsible thing to do. It's also good business as more consumers demand that companies be good stewards and corporate citizens. And that includes the Postal Service.


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Youth exchanges allow groups of young people (aged 13 to 30) from different countries to meet and live together for up to 21 days. During a youth exchange, participants work together on a chosen topic through a mix of workshops, exercises, debates, role-plays, simulations, outdoor activities etc. designed and prepared by them before the exchange. The benefits of participating in a youth exchange include:
We will soon be posting our upcoming exchange opportunities for 2019, so keep checking this page for more info.


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Science has confirmed numerous times what your muscles already knew — there are few things that feel better than a massage. The right touch can lead to big physical benefits, including lower blood pressure, better sleep, and a stronger immune system. Some hospitals even use massage as a go-to treatment for helping their patients relax, relieving their insomnia, and minimizing their pain.
As an added benefit, easing away all of that muscular tension can also reduce the tension in your mind. Neuropsychology experts say that a lack of physical touch can lead to depression, aggression, and hyperactivity. In fact, a good massage can have such a strong impact on your mental well-being that it's the one instance where you'll gladly be touched by someone who you don't know very well (or at all!).
But as powerful as the physical and emotional benefits can be, there's a way to make your next massage even better — by turning it into an aromatherapy massage. Read more


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Not a lot of news outlets seem to be paying attention, but workers at the flagship Bloomingdale's by Central Park are maybe about to go on strike. The sticking point, apparently, is the introduction of a new health plan "with the goal of providing more choice," and the union doesn't like that idea; "neither side," according to the New York Times, "would explain why." Why would a bunch of workers at a nice place like Bloomingdale's go on strike in protest of something as virtuous as choice? I had a few theories...
They are sick of "choice." It's not feminist to say so, but "choice" in many realms, is overrated. Choice just means more time wasted making pointless decisions. Choice means more scouring the grocery store in a daze and scanning the menu trying to figure out what it is exactly that you "want," when a lot of times what you really want is to spend more time doing what you really want and less time being annoyed your friend can't decide what pair of jeans to buy. And when it comes to health care, "choice" for most people has only ever led to more cash for more paperwork and more advertising.
They want a day off. I want a day off. In fact, I want ten. If I were in a union, I would totally authorize a strike, just so I could get a vacation from which I could return knowing no one else has swooped in to render me completely irrelevant, which they always seem to do just when you think you've made yourself indispensable.
Because they can. There are more than 15 million retail workers in America. And how many members does the national Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union that represents the Bloomie's cashiers and stock managers have? One hundred thousand. I'm sure there are other retail unions, but the fact is that I am not going to bother looking them up because I can tell you in full confidence that they have barely any members either, because department stores have been themselves rendered largely irrelevant by dollar stores and strip centers and suburban Best Buys and exurban Wal-Marts and ubiquitous Starbucks and all the other big companies that knew better than to let their workers unionize, lest they actually be forced to follow laws requiring them to provide uniforms and pay overtime and the like.
Because they're sick of Europeans. New York is being inundated with them right now, and although they're mostly attractive and friendly it's gotta be getting old, all those attractive, friendly people with their enviable education systems and universal health care and criminally high levels of life satisfaction and wads and wads of currency unweakened by the excesses of bankers and military industrial complex dwellers run amok and they're using it to buy out all the pretty dresses retail workers were hoping to get the chance to mark down. Fuck you, Euroca$h!
Because your store is making money hand over fist, but your 401(k) is going nowhere because the company keeps pissing it away buying celebrities who are RICH ENOUGH ALREADY. Macy's 1.17 billion ad budget of last year might have kept my old friends in the newspaper business on career life support for a little while, but it also lined the pockets of Jessica Simpson and Martha Stewart, and Jessica Simpson should have never been born.
Strike Possible This Week At Bloomingdale's Main Store [NY Times]


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For William Rosenberg, the road to becoming a Democratic National Convention delegate lasted 40 years.
As a kid growing up in Brooklyn, Rosenberg was active in politics, posting signs on telephone poles around New York City with a giant staple gun. He was so involved in the local Democratic club that he only 18 when Howard Golden, the Democratic Borough President for several decades, suggested he might be a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention.
But when Rosenberg cast the sole dissenting vote against a rules change favored by Golden, his chance of going to the Miami convention that nominated George McGovern evaporated.
"He said, 'I respect the fact you voted for your principles, but you're not going to the convention,'" Rosenberg recalled.
After that snub, Rosenberg had to put his delegates dreams on hold. For three decades.
He went to college in Florida and held a series of jobs that required him to move, never staying in one place long enough to become deeply involved in local politics. But that changed after he moved to Texas in 1999. In Belton, where he has lived since 2005, he dove into the local Democratic group. After failing to be elected as delegate in 2008, he succeeded this year.
"I'm honored and humbled to be elected a delegate," said Rosenberg, a new member of the State Democratic Executive Committee. "I've been a Democrat all my life. Now I feel I can make a difference."
Finally at a convention after 40 years of hope and disappointment, Rosenberg is like a kid at Christmas — or, rather, Hanukkah, as he's proud to be representing Jewish Democrats. But there's an almost breathless excitement in his voice as he recounts meeting others in his party and sharing thoughts and plans.
"It's the realization of a lifetime dream," Rosenberg said. "I am just over the moon."


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Isla Verde Travel Guide
Lining the coast along Avenida Isla Verde just beyond the headland, ISLA VERDE is another brash resort of malls, self-contained hotels and international restaurants. While this resembles southern Florida more than Puerto Rico, the palm-fringed beach is the best in the city. It's wide with fine sand and gentle waves and the proximity of so many stylish hotels and beach bars creates a party atmosphere at the weekends, attracting a diverse crowd of well-heeled locals, reggaetón fans and plenty of cocktail-sipping tourists.
The beach can be accessed via passages between the condos, or Calle Tartak halfway along. Once here, you can hire loungers for $4 (umbrellas for $10). Further east, beyond the Courtyard hotel, the beach merges into the Balneario de Carolina, the most popular public beach for local families. Though there are showers here and weekend volleyball tournaments, the beach is otherwise marred by the steel poles sticking into the water (to deter jet skis) and the jets taking off from the airport across the road. From here it's a short bus ride into Piñones.
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Dr. Steven Hoogerwerf of the HopeCollege religion faculty has been presented the 43rd annual "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award by the graduating Class of 2007.
He was named the recipient during the college's Commencement ceremony, held at Holland Municipal Stadium on Sunday, May 6, at 3 p.m.
The award, first given in 1965, is presented by the graduating class to the professor who they feel epitomizes the best qualities of the HopeCollege educator. Members of the religion faculty have won a total of nine times since the award was initiated, the most often that a department has had faculty honored.
Hoogerwerf is an associate professor of religion at Hope, where he has taught since 1992. He has been focusing in his work with students on service-learning and issues of vocation.
For several years he has accompanied Hope students participating in the college's annual spring break mission trips. For the past three years he has also co-led a training session for leaders of the Hope trips, and he is currently completing a resource to help guide students participating in the trips to learn from them as well as give of themselves during them.
In addition, he is also leading this year's four-week service-learning May Term course on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
He was a member of the Hope committee that drafted the grant proposal for the CrossRoads Project, funded with support from the Lilly Endowment Inc. The program, which began with the 2003-04 academic year, is designed to help students think theologically about the role of calling or vocation in their lives.
In February he received a Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award. The awards recognize outstanding community service and service-learning by faculty and staff at the colleges and universities that are members of MCC, with recipients honored for engaging or influencing students to be involved in community service or service-learning through modeling, influence or instruction.
Hoogerwerf's scholarship focuses on ethics, medical ethics, and religion and society. During the current school year he has been teaching the college's Senior Seminar on "Vocation and Health Care" as well as the courses "Religion and Atrocity," and "Introduction to Theology: Christian Love."
Hoogerwerf has also served as an adjunct member of the faculty of Western Theological Seminary since 1996. Other appointments through the years have included serving as director of adult ministries at Second Reformed Church in Zeeland; spiritual care coordinator with Hospice of Holland Inc.; interim associate minister at Olin Binkley Memorial Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, N.C.; associate minister of United Reformed Church in Somerville, N.J.; and staff associate with the office of social witness of the Reformed Church in America.
His current community involvements include serving on the ethics committees of HollandCommunityHospital, and as an ethics consultant to NorthOttawaCommunityHospital and Resthaven Patrons Inc.
Hoogerwerf graduated from Hope in 1977 with majors in religion and philosophy. He completed his Master of Divinity degree at Western Theological Seminary in 1981 and his doctorate, in theology and ethics, at DukeUniversity in 1991.


text: Source: ggz-kde-games Severity: wishlist User: debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org Usertags: qt3libs-removal kde3libs-removal Dear maintainer, The Debian Qt/KDE team is planning to remove the KDE3 and Qt3 libraries from Debian shortly after the Squeeze release. The transition phase to KDE4 and Qt4 will finish since both KDE and Nokia upstream don't maintain the old versions of those libraries anymore. In order to make this move, all packages directly or indirectly depending on the KDE3/Qt3 libraries have to either get ported to KDE4/Qt4 or eventually get removed from the Debian repositories. Therefore, please take the time and: - contact your upstream (if existing) and ask about the state of a KDE4/Qt4 port of your application - if there are no activities regarding porting, investigate whether there are suitable alternatives for your users - if there is a KDE4/Qt4 port that is not yet packaged, consider packaging it - if both the KDE3/Qt3 and the KDE4/Qt4 version already coexist in the Debian archives, consider removing the KDE3/Qt3 version Documentation on how to port to KDE4 can be found at: http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Development/Tutorials/KDE4_Porting_Guide Documentation on how to port to Qt4 can be found at: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/porting4.html For any questions and issues, do not hesitate to contact the Debian Qt/KDE team at debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org Eckhart


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Honestly, the only challenge here is spreading the word. The farm share I subscribe to, Red Fire Farm, recently did something that's just plain sharp. If you're a CSA member, you might ask your farm to try it—and if you're a farmer, this is one wagon you might want to hop on.
Most CSAs send out a weekly newsletter with suggested recipes for a given week's fruit or veggie offerings. And most grocery stores host sample stations—you know, those tables of cheese or granola freebies you circle past (and graze from) a couple of times per shopping trip. But a recent CSA pickup was the first time I've encountered a farm handing out fully prepared samples, complete with recipe cards to take home. What better way to showcase a farm's bounty? And what better way to convince folks how simple it can be to turn your produce into dinner? Equally brilliant: Red Fire picked an easy-as-pie recipe to share: a cold coconut curry tomato soup that used six separate items from the week's haul and—EVEN BETTER—required no cooking. Seriously, y'all: Genius.
Serves four, at least, as a main course. I doubled the recipe, using about nine pounds of tomatoes, and froze the leftovers. I'm already dreaming of spicy peak-season-tomato soup in the middle of winter. Delicious—not to mention about ten times easier than canning. Please excuse the notes and tomato splatters on the recipe card below.
If using a food processor, purée tomatoes until they reach a liquid consistency; add to serving pot. If not using a food processor, strain tomatoes through a sieve into serving pot. Purée remaining ingredients except coconut milk and add to pot. Add coconut milk to pot. Serve in bowls. Eat. Yep, it's that easy—although it's equally good heated, for folks not into cold soups, or served with a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich.
Hilde shares another great way to save tomatoes that's a heckuva lot easier than canning: freezing them whole for a superquick and kid-friendly marinara sauce. For more HOMEGROWN recipes, browse the CSA Cookoff file.
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Hello Jennifer.
Heres one better yet. Locavore Boxes by Acme Farms & Kitchens located in Bellingham Wa. Working with over 20 farmers they are not only providing recipes there CSA boxes are being provide with exact food for the recipes. Check them out. http://acmefarmsandkitchen.com/ http://acmefarmsandkitchen.com/blog
Hey, DD: Thanks for sharing those links—what a fun, useful way to go about a farm share.
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SIG SAUER Introduces SB15 Pistol Stabilizing Brace for Buffer Tube Equipped Pistols
Sig Sauer 06.03.13
SIG SAUER introduces the SB15 Pistol Stabilizing Brace, a shooter's aid that is designed to improve the single-handed shooting performance of buffer tube equipped pistols. This veteran-designed and U.S.-manufactured accessory enhances accuracy and reduces felt recoil when using an AR-style pistol.
The concept for the Pistol Stabilizing Brace was born from a trip to the range with a disabled veteran, who found it challenging to use an AR pistol one-handed. As the designer, an Army veteran himself, tested various designs, he found that the SB15 enhanced the accuracy and control for all shooters, regardless of physical ability.
"The SB15 Pistol Stabilizing Brace is an ideal choice for shooters and hunters of all ages and abilities," said Jeff Creamer, SIG SAUER, Inc. Director of Product Management. "This is a great product that works well, makes the gun look better, and supports a terrific cause."
Made from high-quality, elasto-polymer, the SB15 is manufactured to close tolerances and fits all pistols equipped with an AR-style buffer tube 1.0" – 1.2" in diameter. The Pistol Stabilizing Brace uses the operator's forearm to provide stable support, thereby minimizing accuracy-robbing spin and shift. A flexible cuff with two adjustable nylon straps allows the SB15 to be custom fit to any user.


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From The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA)
The Chartreux may be one of The Cat Fanciers' Association's oldest new breeds. Chartreux history is steeped in legend, even though the breed was only advanced to championship status in 1987.
Recent research has proven that the origin of these cats was in ancient Persia. They probably arrived at the French monasteries with knights returning from the Crusades. Some cats remained behind and became a vital part of monastic life.
There exists a lovely old legend that the Chartreux lived with, and were named for, the Carthusian monks of France, and perhaps even shared a tipple or two of their famous Chartreuse liqueur! Recent research, however, indicates that because of the woolly character of their fur, they were given the same name as a well known Spanish wool of the early 18th century. Since this method of naming is common in animal husbandry, it is very likely the truth. Nevertheless, the presence of this natural breed of cat was noted in documents as early as the 16th century, and was acknowledged for its unique coat texture and color. Whatever the reason, the Chartreux adopted France with all their native vitality and intelligence, and the country adopted the breed.
The Chartreux is a study in contrasts. Often described as a "potato on toothpicks," the Chartreux has a robust body, broad shoulders and a deep chest, all complemented by medium short, finely boned legs. The Chartreux is well muscled, which would enable the cat to meet its obligation as the fine mouser it is reputed to be in French literature. Unlike any other cat, the Chartreux's blue fur is medium in length and woolly, with the proper coat breaking at the neck, chest, and flanks. A dense undercoat gives it resistance to the elements and a feeling of sheep's wool.
The Chartreux is known for its smile. The rounded head with its softly contoured forehead tapers to a narrowed muzzle. This gives the Chartreux an image of smiling. The nose is straight with a slight stop at eye level. The Chartreux's eyes are one of its most endearing features. They are rounded, but not as round as the Persian's. The outer corners curve slightly upward. Color ranges from gold to copper, the latter being most preferred by breeders. This preference could actually describe the Chartreux as a "sweet potato on toothpicks." The ears should be medium in height and width, set high and erect on the head. Most importantly, the Chartreux should enjoy being handled for exhibition.
Chartreux quickly become attached to one family and frequently follow them from room to room. Known for their dog-like behavior, these cats can be taught to fetch a ball, and most will respond to their names. By tradition, all kittens born in a given year are named beginning with a specific letter of the alphabet for that particular year. Breeders use only 20 letters, omitting K, Q, W, X, Y and Z.
The Chartreux is a quiet breed, chirping rather than meowing at things it finds interesting. This intelligent cat is fascinated by television and sitting in a sunny window watching birds and other outdoor wildlife. Chartreux kittens are quick to play and interact with their human companions.
Physical maturity can be three years in coming, with a scraggly stage between kitten and adulthood that puts one in mind of a gawky, adolescent youngster. Then, almost overnight, they put it all together, with stunning results. Environment and attention have everything to do with this breed's adult manners and behavior. Brushing the double coat is a no-no. Instead, running your fingers through the fur on a daily basis will suffice and will also contribute to your cat's social demeanor at the same time.
Chartreux kittens are generally available by reservation only inasmuch as the breed is zealously protected by its breeders and demand for these endearing cats outstrips availability. During World War II, some French breeders tried to save the breed from extinction by outcrossing to Persians and British Shorthairs, resulting in the European Shorthair. However, the original Chartreux cats that were imported to the United States came from the French countryside, and only those cats were used in breeding programs to produce and preserve the natural status of the present pedigreed Chartreux. This lovely breed was brought to the United States through the efforts of John and Helen Gamon who were committed to finding and acquiring the beautiful cats. Today, many American-bred Chartreux are being returned to French breeders, thus reducing even further their availability in the United States.
Pricing on Chartreux usually depends on type, applicable markings and bloodlines distinguished by Grand Champion (GC), National Regional winning parentage (NW or RW) or of Distinguished Merit parentage (DM). The DM title is achieved by the dam (mother) having produced five CFA grand champion/premier (alter) or DM offspring, or sire (father) having produced fifteen CFA grand champion/premier or DM offspring. Usually breeders make kittens available between twelve and sixteen weeks of age. After twelve weeks, kittens have had their basic inoculations and developed the physical and social stability needed for a new environment, showing, or being transported by air. Keeping such a rare treasure indoors, neutering or spaying and providing acceptable surfaces (e.g. scratching posts) for the natural behavior of scratching (CFA disapproves of declawing or tendonectomy surgery) are essential elements for maintaining a healthy, long and joyful life.
More information about other cat breeds:
- Abyssinian
- American Bobtail
- American Curl
- American Shorthair
- American Wirehair
- Balinese
- Bengal
- Birman
- Bombay
- British Shorthair
- Burmese
- Burmilla
- Chartreux
- Colorpoint Shorthair
- Cornish Rex
- Devon Rex
- Egyptian Mau
- European Burmese
- Exotic
- Havana Brown
- Japanese Bobtail
- Korat
- LaPerm
- Maine Coon
- Manx
- Norwegian Forest Cat
- Ocicat
- Oriental
- Persian
- Ragamuffin
- Ragdoll
- Russian Blue
- Scottish Fold
- Selkirk Rex
- Siamese
- Siberian
- Singapura
- Somali
- Sphynx
- Tonkinese
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" There is a large body of work about why people are successful. What I wanted to do was find out why people who are talented sometimes fail."
—Sian Beilock
Associate Professor, Psychology
Ever since Sian Beilock's high school soccer team lost a high-profile match in the California state tournament, she has known first-hand how good athletes can choke under pressure.
Her coach had invited recruiters to watch the big game, adding pressure that distracted Beilock, who played goalkeeper.
"I didn't make the saves I should have made," Beilock says. "I knew all eyes were on me, and so I started thinking way too much about aspects of my performance that should have been left on autopilot."
Years of study have taught Beilock that such failures are more than just embarrassing bouts with nerves. Now an associate professor of psychology at UChicago, Beilock seeks the common threads underlying various kinds of choking, whether in sports, on academic tests, or during public speaking. She found that her own past episodes of choking in each of those areas only fueled her interest.
"There is a large body of work about why people are successful," she says. "What I wanted to do was find out why people who are talented sometimes fail."
Work Garners Much Attention
Beilock's experiments have uncovered surprising links among different kinds of mental choking. Such breakdowns are preventable results of information logjams in the brain, Beilock says. By studying how the brain works when people are doing their best—and when they choke—Beilock has formulated practical ideas about how to overcome performance lapses at critical moments.
Those insights are the basis of Beilock's new book, Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting it Right When You Have To, which builds on her earlier work that attracted the attention of scholars around the country.
"One of the real strengths of Beilock's work is that she has focused on a variety of factors that might hurt people's performance under stress," says Art Markman, professor of psychology at the University of Texas and the editor of the journal Cognitive Science.
"Her work illuminates how stress can make you pay attention to your own performance, which can hurt the execution of well-learned skills," Markman says. "It also explores how people's online capacity for thinking (called working memory) is reduced under pressure. Her careful use of experimental methods has added significantly to our understanding of these processes."
'Whistle While You Work'
Thinking too much about what you are doing because you are worried about failing can lead to "paralysis by analysis," Beilock says. That was what led to her downfall at the important soccer match. Part of how people become experts at tasks like saving goals or making golf putts is by practicing so much that key movements become automatic and reliable. Thinking too much about each specific part of the task can throw off well-practiced techniques.
One implication of that finding is that expert performers can benefit from taking their minds off of the tasks they have perfected. Even a simple trick of singing helps prevent portions of the brain that might interfere with performance from taking over, Beilock's research shows. "Whistling while you work" really can help for such experts.
"If the tasks are automatic and you have done them a thousand times in the past, a mild distraction such as whistling can help them run off more smoothly under pressure," Beilock says.
Understanding working memory helps researchers understand why "paralysis by analysis" happens. Talented people often have the most working memory, but when worries creep up, the working memory they normally use to succeed malfunctions. People lose the brain power necessary to excel and often wield what power they have left to their disadvantage by thinking too much about activities that are best left outside conscious awareness.
Worries Weaken Working Memory
Another example of the choking phenomenon is "stereotype threat." This is when otherwise talented people don't perform up to their abilities because they are worried about confirming popular cultural myths that contend, for instance, that boys and girls naturally perform differently in math, or that a person's race determines his or her test performance. Minority group members can be vulnerable, she says.
In Choke, Beilock describes how high-achieving people underperform when they are worried about confirming a stereotype about the racial group or gender to which they belong. These worries deplete the working memory necessary for success. The perceptions take hold early in schooling and can either be reinforced or abolished by powerful role models.
Even the brightest students can choke if anxiety taps out their mental resources. But there also are ways to combat these anxieties and prevent them from taking hold, says Beilock. She suggests using relaxation techniques just before playing in an athletic competition, taking an exam, or giving an important speech. Beilock says she often uses yoga to help reduce stress before important events such as academic presentations.
She also says that practice helps people navigate these waves of anxiety. Most important, practicing under stress, even a moderate amount, helps a person feel comfortable later when standing in the line of fire. It is a crucial part of expert performance—having the confidence to face challenges calmly and to rely on experience and training.
"Remind yourself that you have the background to succeed and that you are in control of the situation," Beilock says.


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I say, "Good One!"
Laura Waldron then pipes in, "So it's right to force unwanted pregnancies on women?"
Never one to succumb to tired old fiddlesticks, I retort, "Is it right to force unwanted hangovers on young males? Stretching an argument into something else is easy..."
Laura then has the audacity to relieve me of my sensitivities, "Yeah, what does a guy's hangover have to do with a woman's body? Stay on subject."
Now this was just plain vulgarity to my ears. Stay on subject? After she'd jumped from that image to forcing unwanted pregnancies on women?
But Twigger takes her bait. I mean, how long can one argue Laura's point? Argue it into the ground? It's already in the ground. Dead and buried. I have my view. You have yours. Nuff said. But Twigger weighed in. "I agree as a Christian [that] life starts at conception... therefore the baby should have as much right as the mother... although if it affects the mothers health then yes abortion should be available and safe. I believe there should also be surrogate mothers who could carry the baby to term if the real mom didn't want the child."
Well, that last point was interesting. Taking fetus from one oven to another. But that argument about saving the mother's life in a crisis over the life of the fetus has always left me a bit cold and unconvinced. However, Laura responds to Mike before I have the chance to build anything on that small piece of well-treaded ground, "Surrogate mothers expect to get paid. Unwanted pregnancies leads to the birthing of unwanted children which leads to said children being neglected and abused. Speaking from experience here."
Damn interesting comeback. I suppose she now prefers that she'd had been aborted. Now, that's a revolutionary statement, if truly believed by its speaker, which I strongly doubt. But I leave that alone for now. Instead I stay on my original course and her first point once removed, that is staying on topic, or at least the topic she wanted to rehash, "Hahahaha. Laura. I knew you would say that. You took my bait. So to recap. What does determining a living cell found in the womb of a pregnant woman to be life have to do with forcing unwanted pregnancies on women? You, Ms. Waldron, jumped the shark, first."
Her reply was simple. She was catching up. "Because of what the meme implies. Duh. And its so obvious that its a pro lifer meme."
Well, it was time to wrap all this together in a neat package before I could return to her most recent jewel. Is life more important than a wretched childhood, or is it not? That is the pro-lfe meme, my dear, and perhaps one day you will realize it. Oops, I'm getting ahead of myself. Here is what I said next, "I call that a bunny hop. Memes can lead anywhere. Like, uh, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar can lead some of us to think well, duh, sometimes, life is just life. End of story. Nothing about abortions or a right to choose or baby names or rapists or regret or sex with your daddy. Besides Laura. If you drink too much, just expect a hangover. Complaining about it or slicing and dicing about how you got that drunk doesn't change anything. You're stuck with the hangover. How you deal with it is the almighty gift of initiative. But then, sometimes bunny hops just get a bit off the beaten path, don't you think? THAT was my point to you at the top of this thread. The question wasn't guess a meme, it was about the nature of life versus the hypocrisy of scientists and media who should know better. That's a meme that begins and ends with the information as it was given. We now see where taking unauthorized bunny hops can lead.
Then Miss Liberty and all her tired, her poor, her huddled masses came a knocking with a link that is supposed to prove something to me, again having nothing to do with the original laugh track at scientists and the media. "Oldest, largest, and only statewide Pro-Life organization in Texas. I don't think I came to any false conclusions or BUNNY HOPS. I think youhoweverare trying to be contrarian with me and it won't work as I'm the biggest contrarian I know. You may want to make the meme about the nature of life versus the hypocrisy of scientists and media and make it this deep thing but it was intended to be an attack on Women's CHOICE, on the rights to our bodies, and if women don't fight this attack on us, then what's next? Making rape legal? See you can say its an orange all you want but the truth is, it's an apple."
And she really thinks she's clever, parroting these threadbare statements. After all, apples and oranges in her arguments would be the same because they are both fruits, or to her point, designed to keep women away from the authority over their own bodies. But I press on, "You want to know what's next? Simple. You framed it yourself, in so many words. The question stated: is your own wretched childhood more important than the non-existence from which you were spared, or is it not? That is the pro-lfe meme, dear contrarian," adding, "I refuse to fall for retread handbook. You stretch a simple question about the origins of life into a parade of boogie men without once mentioning the predominant track of using abortion on demand as a high dollar, high risk prophylactic."
"I also refuse to accept you binary proposition. Death is all around us. I can do little about any of it. I take no religious or political position on abortion except to dig further for the truth wherever I find it. But I do find its current practice vulgar and self-serving. If you, Laura Waldron, are so wise as to assign policy binaries on every swirling detail you are fortunate to be able to observe, I dare suggest that you are indeed better off having been born even though you may have experienced a shoddy childhood, rather than to have been neutralized as a thriving embryo. Frankly, this is a tiresome and well-documented argument you make. I found freshness in precisely the point that the image and caption Mike posted made clear, and nothing else, since as I say, if I want an abortion debate there are infinite other places to find one that an ironic Facebook post. The fact that you ran in to make it something else on the basis of a tired meme was your prerogative I suppose, but it certainly isn't the only meme attached to the meaning of life that makes stellar commentary useful and exhonerating. In other words, I write for my own reasons, and you and your transitional memes have nothing to do with it. Lastly, I trust my sarc has not exceeded but merely equaled yours towards me, tat for tit, apple for orange, squeezed or simple peeled, for I would never want to make you feel stupid."
To be continued, if Laura Waldron has more to add. With kind regards to its awesome powers of community, nevertheless King Facebook is not my home. There are reasons for that, also, but I'm sure the usual meme would not suffice, but for sake of shortness of breath, let's just agree that it does (whatever that might be).


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Over the past decade, prices for U.S. farmland have boomed, capped by a 20%-plus jump last year in some of America's most fertile regions.
The bad news: The torrid gains are coming to an end. The good: A crash, like those that followed the tech, dot-com and housing bubbles, is unlikely. Instead, farmland prices probably will return to a more normal ebb and flow of modest gains and declines.
The recent bonanza for U.S. agriculture was driven by stepped-up food demand from China and other emerging lands, and the rising use of corn-based ethanol as a gasoline additive in the U.S. Throw in good domestic demand for farm products, plus crop subsidies from the federal government, and it's no wonder farmers' incomes hit record highs.
As well, many have been plowing their harvest riches back into the ground, buying more land and shunning stocks and bonds. In 2002, Iowa land averaged $2,083 an acre; in 2011, it went for $6,708.
But now, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts, net farm income will decline nationally, by 6.5% this year. Some U.S. crop subsidies may end as Congress seeks to whittle spending. One big subsidy for ethanol production already is gone, while mandates to blend more of the biofuel with gasoline aren't materializing. And China's growth is slowing, which could reduce agricultural exports to that giant nation in the short run -- although they're almost certain to remain substantial over the long term.
FARMLAND HAD A BUMPER YEAR in 2011. The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries' Farmland Index rose 8.7% in the fourth quarter alone, with prices in every farm region rising. For the entire year, many of the Federal Reserve banks' agricultural surveys showed stout price appreciation, with the Kansas City branch recording a gain of 25% over 2010's already heady level; Chicago, a 22% jump; and Dallas, a 14% rise. Friday, the council reported that the national index had climbed a further 3.78% in this year's first quarter.
The sharpest 2011 advances were in the Corn Belt, parts of which have enjoyed a quarter-century of consecutive annual farmland price increases. Says David Oppedahl, business economist at the Chicago Fed: "This is a factor of high corn prices -- and the profit that can be made from farming corn or soy." The Corn Belt roughly includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and parts of Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska. It includes the Federal Reserve's Seventh District, where some of the best agricultural land in the world is found.
Corn is the top U.S. crop, and prices have been particularly strong because of good demand and low inventories. Farmers are planting 2012's crop now, and the USDA expects 95.9 million acres to be sown, the most since 1937. Using the agency's average yield estimate of 164 bushels an acre, and a harvested acreage estimate of 89 million acres, output would be a record 14.5 billion bushels. That would go a long way to alleviate current tight supplies. And if foreign demand slips, prices could fall.
In fact, says Michael Duffy, an economics professor who directs the Beginning Farmer Center at Iowa State, the U.S. ships nearly one-third of its agricultural production abroad. Marry lower crop exports with a leveling-off in ethanol production, and Brent Gloy, director of the Center for Commercial Agricultural at Purdue University, sees farmers' having less ability to buy land.
Or, as Vance Ehmke, head of Vance and Louise Ehmke Farms in western Kansas, puts it: "Land is a net beneficiary of residual net income. If you don't have any money left over, you don't buy land." Ehmke has lots of experience backing his judgment; his family first homesteaded in 1886, and now farms 9,000 acres.
Lower income shouldn't lead to a crisis on the farm. For one thing, farmers' debt-to-income ratios are historically low. And, says Karl Setzer, commodity-trading advisor for Iowa grain merchandiser MaxYield Cooperative, many have sold grain forward at higher prices than the current ones.
"This is not going to inspire another John Cougar Mellencamp song" about misery in the heartland, Setzer quips. But projected lower farm income will curb farmers' appetite for acreage expansion. That's important because, in great part, farmers -- not outside investors -- have been bidding up farmland prices for years.
This, says Jose Minaya, head of natural resources and infrastructure investments at TIAA-CREF, creates an illiquid market not always hospitable to outsiders. The asset manager's $464 billion in assets include $2.5 billion in farmland investments.
Less Money to Buy Land
Farm income has long outpaced production costs, but this year income is expected to fall 6.5%.
BUT A KEY DYNAMIC is changing. In Iowa, Professor Duffy says, more than 55% of farmers are 65 or older, and farmers elsewhere in the U.S., on average, aren't much younger. As these folks fade from the scene, some of their land will go to their families, but a big portion will go on the market.
Comments Ken Morrison, editor of the online newsletter Morrison on the Markets: "If a lack of land helped to drive up prices, then more land could depress it."
Charlie McNairy, CEO of International Farming, a North Carolina agricultural investment-management firm, sees an upside: Lower prices would give younger people willing to embrace new technology a chance to choose farming. However, to boost crop output and profits, he adds, farmland must be used more effectively. "There's a growing gap between progressive farmers and those that resist new technologies," he says. Farmers who don't embrace agronomic changes to boost output also may be forced to sell land, says McNairy, whose family has farmed in the U.S. since 1827.
TIAA-CREF's Minaya says there are natural cycles for all real estate. Maybe that's why, after a long summer of blazing gains, farmland looks ready to resume its normal seasons of advance and decline.
DEBBIE CARLSON covers the commodities markets from Chicago.
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The consumers of UHT milk are those who require to store milk for a long period of time. Due to apartment culture in the developed countries, people have less time for shopping and prefer to buy groceries in bulk. Milk is one such food item which finds its consumption everyday in every household, but needs proper preservation. UHT milk facilitates the consumers to store it for a long time as it has a lifetime of six to nine months which is the key reason for its increasing market globally.
The global UHT milk market has been very volatile in terms of competitive environment in the past few years due to large number of mergers and acquisitions. Presence of private label companies has increased price competition in the market, especially in European countries such as Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the U.K.
The market in China, which imports large quantities of UHT milk, is growing at a faster rate, thus attracting market players to increase their investment in the country. Some of the other major milk markets in Asia-Pacific region, such as Australia, India and Pakistan are also expected to witness increasing demand for UHT milk, though the current consumption levels in these countries are very low as compared to the overall milk consumption in these countries. Increasing urbanization and the apartment culture has led to the growing demand for UHT milk. Weak global economic conditions is yet another factor boosting the consumption of UHT milk as consumers are switching to UHT milk from pasteurized milk due to cheaper price. Also, while the total milk consumption is declining in some of the developed countries of Europe, the same is increasing in Asia-Pacific. This is expected to give healthy growth opportunity for the UHT milk market.
Increasing population coupled with growing income in developing countries such as China, India and Pakistan has changed consumer habits in favor of packaged food products. This has also resulted in rise in the apartment culture in these countries, where people generally stock packaged food and beverage items. In the western countries, consumer prefer to stock packaged and processed food items due to their longevity and ease of use.
The Asia-Pacific countries are also following the same trend which is witnessed by their increasing preferences for the processed food and beverage items. Over 60% of the total milk consumed in China is UHT milk. The global urban population, which was over 690 million in 2011, comprises about half of the population of China. The country is expected to add another 300 million to 400 million people to the urban population by 2030. As compared with the rural population, the urban population is more influenced by the western cultures owing to their better income levels. Thus, increasing urbanization is further expected to escalate the demand for UHT milk in China. Australia is another country which has a growing UHT milk market, though the share of UHT milk was only about 10% of the total milk consumption in 2012. However, it is expected to increase in the forecasted period.
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Rich in history, Columbia is one of Tennessee's oldest and most prominent historic cities, which was established in 1807. Along with its unique history, Columbia is also known as the Mule Capital of the World due to the city's agricultural history and ongoing status in an active agricultural South Central Tennessee region. Each April, the Maury County Bridle and Saddle Club hosts "Mule Day," offering a week-long festival that attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually.
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O Let Us Go unto the House of the Lord
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1. O let us go unto the house of the Lord,
Let us go together
We'll receive light to guide our lives
And teachings of forever.
2. Our thirsty souls can drink of righteousness
From God's endless measure
We can feed on the bread of life
And eternity's treasure.
3. Let us go there to rejoice in His word
And thru His Spirit we will learn all we can
As we worship Him with mind and with heart
He will open up our eyes
And we'll comprehend this plan.
4. O let us go unto the house of the Lord;
Let us go together.
He will give us His peace and love,
His joy forever.
5. As we live each day righteously,
Let us learn of eternity
In the hose of the Lord,
House of the Lord.
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