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Summer is coming up, which means for me, it is time to make my Jamaican jerk sauce. Unlike most commercial jerk sauces, this one is not over sweetened and under spicy. This is the real deal. I have yet to make an entirely organic recipe as I have not found organic scotch bonnet peppers anywhere. I e-mailed a few companies today asking if they sold any organic scotch bonnet peppers or seeds. I will let you know what I find out. If you do find the organic peppers you can have an organic version of this Jamaican jerk sauce, which is how I will write it…I am just warning you if I can't find organic scotch bonnet peppers anywhere in New York City, it might be hard for you as well. :)
Jamaican Jerk Sauce Recipe
- 1/2 cup organic ground allspice berries [you can use organic allspice berries, if available, but use enough to give the equivalent of 1/2 cup ground.]
- 1/2 cup packed organic brown sugar
- 6-8 organic garlic cloves
- 4-6 organic scotch bonnet peppers [to control the temperature you can take out some of the seeds for less heat]
- 1 tablespoon organic ground thyme or 2 tablespoons of thyme leaves
- 2 bunches organic green onions [also known as scallions or spring onions]
- 1 teaspoon organic cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon organic nutmeg
- Organic salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoon organic tamari [or Bragg Liquid Aminos if you'd like] to moisten
Food Processor
What to do!
Place the allspice, brown sugar, garlic, scotch bonnet peppers, thyme, scallions, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pepper, and tamari in a food processor and blend until smooth!
Once you are done put it in the refrigerator to chill. This sauce, if kept in the refrigerator, never goes bad. I usually rub it on my homemade organic seitan and leave it for a few hours to soak in, then cook it in a pan with a bit of oil for a few minutes on both sides till it's warm enough. Then throw it on a roll will lettuce, mung bean sprouts, raisins [mine soon to be made in solar powered food dehydrator], and carrot shavings. It is the best, filling, and puts some pep in your step!
Scotch Bonnet Peppers are very tasty and one of the hottest peppers [a heat rating between 150,000–325,000 Scoville Units], some say it is the hottest, others say the habañero [a heat rating between 200,000-300,000 Scoville units] is. I say as far as heat I can tell no difference between the two, but I think scotch bonnet peppers are the best.
While doing my research on scotch bonnets I discovered this guy Neil who runs www.thehippyseedcompany.com. He created a YouTube channel dedicated solely to testing the effects of consuming a variety of hot peppers. In his own words, "Hey, ill test all my varieties, put the vids here, People can see my review buy the seeds if want and mabee get a laugh if its a Hot variety.."
His test rules are as follows,
1. Eat a whole chili
2. Chew a minimum of ten seconds
3. Swallow it (if can)
4. Wait sixty seconds
5. Note results
Sounds simple enough, but watching him go through it all is an experience in itself. If anyone has seen a friend in a bet eating a hot pepper or the millions of other YouTube videos where British guys are crying in pain as they eat their peppers, they are in for a surprise with these videos. This guy, he is serious…see for yourself below where he eats a whole scotch bonnet pepper and discusses in real time the effects it is having on him. Sometimes I really like the World Wide Web and what it brings to the table.
There are health benefits to eating scotch bonnet peppers as well. The active ingredient in scotch bonnet peppers [and all chili peppers] is Capsaicin. It has been said to be a miracle drug. I take it to increase my circulation, especially in the winter, in capsule form.
Here are some other ways chili peppers are healing according to SixWise.com,
1. Fight Cancer
A study published in Cancer Research found that capsaicin caused cancer cells to commit suicide. The substance caused almost 80 percent of prostate cancer cells to die in mice, and prostate tumors treated with capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of those in untreated mice.
"Capsaicin inhibits the growth of human prostate cancer cells in petri dishes and mice," says lead researcher Dr. H. Phillip Koeffler, director of hematology and oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Further, researchers say capsaicin pills may one day be used to prevent the return of prostate cancer.
2. Provide Pain Relief
A topical form of capsaicin is a recognized treatment for osteoarthritis pain, and may also help alleviate pain from diabetic neuropathy.
Capsaicin is also known to inhibit Substance P, a neuropeptide that is the key transmitter of pain to the brain. Substance P can cause swelling of nerve fibers, which may result in headaches and sinus symptoms. Studies have found that capsaicin both relieves and prevents cluster headaches, migraine headaches and sinus headaches.
3. Prevent Sinusitis and Relieve Congestion
Capsaicin has potent antibacterial properties that fight and prevent chronic sinus infections, or sinusitis. Because it is so hot, it also helps to stimulate secretions that help clear mucus from your nose, thereby relieving nasal congestion. This phytochemical may also help relieve sinus-related allergy symptoms.
4. Fight Inflammation
Capsaicin is a potent anti-inflammatory agent. It works by inhibiting Substance P, which is associated with inflammatory processes. Capsaicin is being looked at as a potential treatment for arthritis, psoriasis and diabetic neuropathy.
5. Soothe Intestinal Diseases
A Duke University study found that capsaicin may lead to a cure for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The substance can also help to kill bacteria such as H. pylori, which can help prevent stomach ulcers.
6. Burn Fat and Lose Weight
Capsaicin is a thermogenic agent, which means it increases metabolic activity. This, in turn, helps to burn calories and fat. Many popular "fat-burning" supplements on the market contain capsaicin, as the substance may significantly increase metabolic activity for over 20 minutes after it's eaten.
7. Protect Your Heart
Capsaicin may help to protect the heart by reducing cholesterol, triglycerides and platelet aggregation. It may also help the body dissolve fibrin, which is necessary for blood clots to form. Further, cultures around the world that use hot peppers liberally in their meals have significantly lower rates of heart attack and stroke than cultures that do not.
Eat well.
Fish make vibratory sounds with various "calls" that researchers have identified as communicating alarm and aggravation. They possess fully formed nervous systems as well as complex social behaviors. They are also capable of learning complicated tasks. British researchers discovered in 2003 that fish have the cerebral mechanisms to feel pain. As one animal activist once put it, "Fish are not merely vegetables that can swim."


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Success Stories: Beverly Ann and James Simcock – Mini cows are a maxi hit
SWANSEA - Tinkerbell is small even for a mini cow. Standing at roughly 26 inches tall and weighing maybe 60 pounds, the tiny brown cow is smaller than some dogs. Tinkerbell, along with three other mini cows, have stumbled upon a charmed life at Simcock Farm in Swansea.
"We love them," said Beverly Ann Simcock, who runs the farm with her husband James Simcock, great-grandson of the original owner.
The couple is known to the locals as the "fiddler and the farmer," due to Beverly's training as a concert violinist and her husband's long farming lineage.
The mini cattle came to Simcock Farm from a farmer in Pennsylvania who decided to get out of the mini cattle-breeding business and into breeding goats.
The mini cattle are bred specifically as farm pets for those so inclined to care for the small creatures.
Superman, the biggest mini cow at Simcock Farm, standing at about 40 inches tall and weighing roughly 300 pounds, came from the same breeder to Simcock Farm about a year and a half ago.
Superman is a full grown mini Holstein cow. A full size Holstein weighs some 1,450 pounds.
Superman was reunited with Miss Muffet, his "girlfriend," Beverly said.
The two minis grew up together in Pennsylvania. When they saw each other again at Simcock Farm, Superman "kissed her from head to toe," she said.
The other new minis are Rocky Road and 007, though technically Rocky Road is a dwarf and is expected to grow a long shaggy coat in winter.
All of the little cows are mixed breed.
James said each animal is different and has a unique personality.
"These are our pets," he said, leading Rocky Road through the pasture.
They're sharing their farm home with mini horses, mini donkeys, sheep, goats, rabbits, and a couple of pot-bellied pigs.
Daytona, one of the pot-bellies, has cancer. She was given a few months to live three years ago. She continues to thrive.
The new mini cows are doing well. They're starting to come up to the fence to meet visitors, but are still a little skittish.
"Once they learn they're here forever, they're all set," Beverly said.
The Simcocks are plowing the same land as the first James Simcock, who bought the property in 1887.
Simcock Farm started as a dairy and strawberry farm. The original farm and homestead are still standing on the property.
Simcock Farm today is out of the dairy business. They run an ice cream stand, and grow and sell vegetables, along with flowers, fruits, jellies, mustards, and other products at the farm stand.
The farm animals are a big draw. Kids and adults are welcome to lick an ice cream cone and greet the animals on the other side of the fence.
Beverly said that with the new arrivals, the farm is now full.
"You have to be able to do the right care," she said. "We like our animals to be petted and loved. They're like kids to us. They're not lawn ornaments."

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After fleeing a dying Earth, humans were divided into two classes: trueborns, who had money to buy passage on the ship to the new world, and lowborns, who had to work for their passage. In order to elevate the classes and create a working force, tankborns were created. Tankborns, genetically engineered non-humans (GENs), are created with specific skill sets (skets) to serve those who deem them inferior, virtual slaves with no rights. But what makes a human?
Karen Sandler's Tankborn addresses topics of racism, classism, friendship, humanity, and more in this non-traditional dystopian novel for middle grade/young adults. Tankborn is science fiction for the next generation.
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We are officially in the mad dash toward Christmas Day.
To help you navigate the endless promotional materials and discount news, I will post a running list of deals every weekend through Christmas with help from the bargain hunters at crazytowndeals.com.
Don't forget that some of the coupons handed out on Black Friday expire Saturday. Target's 20 percent off purchase coupon handed out on Black Friday expires Saturday, for example. The Toys "R" Us $10 off $10 coupons that were handed out on Black Friday also expire Saturday.
Here are some other deals to get you started for this weekend, Dec. 6-8:
Best Bets
Non-members may shop at Sam's Club fee-free Dec. 6-8 for the chain's "Holiday Open House."
Coupons.com is offering a variety of coupons for Hasbro games and toys, including $5 off Easy Bake Oven Ultimate and $3 off any Scrabble or Monopoly game.
Hallmark offers a coupon for $5 off $10 on its website.
Text STOCKUP to 827438 to get a coupon for $10 off $40 household purchase at Target.
Local deals
The Peninsula Town Center in Hampton will give shoppers who spend $100 at the center in one day a $30 gift card. This offer is valid through Dec. 15. Visit customer service for the details.
There will be special discounts during the Hollydazzle event at City Center in Newport News on Friday.
Maggie Moos will offer $1 off all menu items, for example. Between 6 and 9 p.m., Hi Ho Silver will offer 10 percent off your entire purchase. The Perfect Setting will offer 20 percent off regular-priced merchandise, and Sisters Unique will offer 20 percent off all holiday merchandise and 10 percent off all jewelry. Christmas Corner will offer 20 percent off all regular-price items.
You can find the entire list and more information about Hollydazzle at nngov.com/parks-and-recreation/downloads/hollydazzleprogram.
Ace Hardware stores will offer 20 percent off most everything in stores on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Sunday, Dec. 8. Power equipment will be discounted by 10 percent. There will be special events at the new Hampton location. Find out more about that, here.
Fisher-Price Little People Disney Princess Klip Klop Stable at Amazon for $24.97.
Playhut Doc McStuffins Discovery Hut Tent at Amazon for $14.99.
Lionel Pennsylvania Flyer O Gauge Train Set at Amazon for $123.99 with free shipping.
Zulily has LEGO brand items, including building sets, apparel, storage containers and other toys on sale for 50 percent off or more today.
Target has the LeapFrog LeapPad2 Disney and Pixar Monsters University Varsity Edition Bundle for a low $89.00 with free shipping.
Amazon has the Air Hogs RC Helix X4 Stunt, 2.4 GHZ Quad Copter for just $48.74 with free shipping.
Target has the X Games Electric Scooter for just $49.99 with free shipping.
Toys "R" Us is has discounted some games to $5.
eBay.com has Otterbox Defender Series Impact-Resistant Hard Case for Apple iPhone 5/5S for only $19.99 with free shipping.
Seiki Digital SE50UY04 50" 4K UHD 120Hz LED HDTV at Amazon for $658.28 with free delivery and good reviews.
Best Buy has the HP Pavilion 17-e019dx 17" Laptop for just $399.99 with free shipping.
Pandemic - 2nd Edition by Z-Man Games at Amazon for $27.99.
HSN has the SodaStream Fountain Jet Home Soda Maker Ocean Spray Kit for just $49.95 after coupon 139792 with free shipping.
Mario & Sonic Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games with Blue Wii Remote Plus - Wii U for just $49.96 with free shipping at Amazon.
Some of the hottest deals we've seen this year have been Daily Deals at eBay, says Jerry Tietjens, of crazytowndeals.com. Here are just a few of their great deals that you'll see at some point on Friday:
- Sony DSC-QX10 Smartphone Camera $199.99
- LEGO Legends of Chima The Lion CHI Temple $75.00
- Victoria's Secret Pink Hoodie Lightweight Sweater $23.99
- Samsung Galaxy Tab Tablet 2 10.1-Inch, Wi-Fi, 16GB, Silver $219.99
- JVC Everio GZ-E100 Full HD 1080p 40x Optical Zoom Camcorder $98.99
Friday's Deal of the Day at Best Buy is all about phones. Most of these are at the lowest prices we've seen to date.
- Motorola Boom Bluetooth Headset $39.99
- AT&T GoPhone Radiant No-Contract Mobile Phone $64.99
- Nokia Lumia 1020 or 1520 4G LTE Cell Phone for AT&T $99.99
- Samsung Galaxy Note 4G Mobile Phone (Unlocked) $299.99
- Belkin Grip Power Battery Case for Apple iPhone 5 and 5s $79.99
- T-Mobile Prepaid Nokia Lumia 521 4G No-Contract Mobile Phone $69.99
- Verizon Wireless Prepaid - Samsung Illusion No-Contract Mobile Phone $59.99
- MetroPCS LG Optimus F3 4G No-Contract Mobile Phone $119.99
Amazon has up to 60 percent off "Downton Abbey: Seasons 1, 2 and 3 Deluxe Limited Edition.
Aeropostale has the Toggle Puffer Jacket for just $38.85. Shipping is free with coupon FREESHIP.
Aeropostale has the Quilted Puffer Jacket for just $45.99. Shipping is free with coupon FREESHIP.
Payless Shoe Source - 30 percent off regularly priced items with coupon ZZHOLLY and free shipping on $35 or more.
Crocs - Two for $40 adult styles or two for $30 kids styles. Free shipping on $25 or more.
Joe's New Balance Outlet - New Balance 409 Cross Trainer for $27.99.
6PM - All Boots $39.99, $49.99, $69.99 and $99.99 with free shipping.
Catherine's - 30, 40, or 50 percent off select styles. Plus take an extra 50 percent off clearance with coupon WISHCA.
Frederick's - 25 percent off the entire site and free shipping on $25 or more.
Bluefly - BCBG sale with an extra 40 percent off.
Yves Rocher - 45 percent off the entire site, plus free shipping on $35 or more.
Inside Business
Walmart.com has 16-piece Corelle Livingware Dinnerware Set (Garden Sketch or Memphis) on sale for only $18 with free store pickup.
Scroll down under the item picture and "clip the $20.00 off coupon" to get the Cuisinart ICE-100 Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker for just $219.00 with free shipping.
Walmart has the DeLonghi BQ100 Indoor Grill with Broiler Drawer for just $49.00 with free shipping.
Samsung RB195ACWP 17.9 Cu. Ft. Bottom-Mount Refrigerator - White for just $699.99 with free delivery.
Raise.com is offering discounted gift cards. Shipping is free for both e-cards and physical gift cards. Check terms & conditions at the site. New customers save an extra $5 off $60 with promo code RAISE60AF.
Some of the best bets:
Michaels: up to 16 percent off
$60.67 for $72.73
(With new customer promo code, price drops to $55.67 for $72.73)
California Pizza Kitchen: up to 10 percent off
$45 for $50
$90 for $100
(With new customer promo code, price drops to $85 for $100)
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$88 for $100
(With new customer promo code, price drops to $83 for $100)
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$86.70 for $100
(With new customer promo code, price drops to $81.70 for $100)
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$22.50 for $25
Home Depot: up to 8 percent off
$126.26 for $137.39
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"Prisoners of War: Australians Under Nippon" by Hank Nelson
More reading for Anzac Day …
This 1985 publication is based on an award winning ABC Radio series of the same name that was first broadcast in 1984. It was presented by Tim Bowden, AM (war correspondent, journalist, broadcaster, documentarian, author and oral historian) and Hank Nelson, AM (historian, author, mentor and ANU Professor). I listened to that series week-by-week, on Saturdays as I remember, because I was named after Dad's older brother who was killed as a POW when the Japanese ship the Rakuyō Maru, transporting over 1,000 Australian and British POWs back to Japan, was torpedoed by the USS Sealion II in September 1944. My family would never tell me much about my uncle's tragic experience as a POW when I asked and this radio series and book helped me to understand why. They simply did not know. Some earlier accounts had been published, such as Russell Braddon's "The Naked Island", but I think this broadcast and publication really helped us to understand the experience of those POWs because it was made at a time when so many ex-prisoners were finally more willing to talk about their incarceration. That the stories were brought to life is also not least down to the skill of both Tim and Hank.
The book is quite simply full of almost unimaginable memories of endurance, mateship, courage, compassion, humour and the most beastly brutality. It begins with the fall of Singapore in February 1942, and then covers life in Changi, the infamous Thai-Burma railway, the capture of Australian Army Nurses, the decimation of 'Gull Force' on Ambon, the atrocities committed on Borneo and the Sandakan death march, escape and evasion attempts, forced repatriation of some POWs to slave labour Japan, the severity of punishments handed out in Outram Rd prison in Singapore, survival and eventual freedom and the legacy of wounded minds.
Now that the 16 parts of the series are available for download, I think that it is best to take the opportunity to listen their voices and then read their words, perhaps chapter-by-chapter. Together, the program and the book bring to life the experiences of many memorable prisoners such as Stan Arneil, George Aspinall, Keith Botterill, Vivian Bullwinkel, Dr Kevin Fagan, Don Moore, Ray Parkin and Snow Peat.
A George Aspinall photograph of three "fit" workers on a camp on the Burma Thai Railway: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P02569.192
Nearly all ex-POWs would have passed now, but I had the opportunity to meet and talk with some while I was working at the Australian War Memorial. It always amazed me that so many went on to lead healthy, productive and reasonably long lives knowing what they endured and also what they went without for so many years as POWs. I think it would've been around 2004 that several ex-prisoners tracked me down at the Memorial and asked if I was related to a mate of theirs (they had enlisted, served and been captured in 1942 with my uncle). They were all in their 80s or 90s by then and I got to know them all. They marched together every Anzac Day in Sydney and had all survived the sinking of the Rakuyō Maru in 1944. They asked me if they could meet with my father and I remember getting them all together one Saturday morning in West Ryde at one of their homes. After all those years they had managed to track me down and finally my father and I knew what had happened to his brother so many years ago. For me it was just like meeting many of those who told their stories to Tim and Hank.


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Klobuchar, unanimously endorsed by DFL, trumpets her work with GOP
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar stood in front of 1,100 mostly liberal Democrats concerned if she talked too much about working with Republicans.
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar stood in front of 1,100 mostly liberal Democrats concerned if she talked too much about working with Republicans.
"I was wondering how this is going to go over," she said in an interview after Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Laborites unanimously endorsed her for a second six-year Senate term.
In the interview, it became obvious that bipartisanship will be part of her campaign against a conservative Republican.
Klobuchar, 52, a former prosecutor, accepted the party's endorsement, the only person nominated, in a speech that did not mention her presumed Republican opponent, state Rep. Kurt Bills of Rosemount. Instead, she rattled off her accomplishments, often telling the partisan crowd that she works with Republicans on issues.
A fact sheet her campaign handed out listing 100 accomplishments began with two in which she shared credit with Republicans: gaining funding for replacing the collapsed Interstate 35W bridge with Sen. Norm Coleman and restoring benefits to National Guard members with Rep. John Kline.
"I'm not sure he has a record of working across the aisle," she said of Bills, a first-term legislator who says he will take his high school economic teaching background and educate Washington.
"When it makes sense to cross the aisle, I do," she told delegates, receiving mild applause.
Klobuchar would not talk much about Bills, but promised to take him on in debates before the Nov. 6 election. Rather, the senator used her time talking about helping Minnesotans.
If Klobuchar did not want to talk about Bills, the Republican did not hold back after Klobuchar's endorsement.
He complained about the national debt, blaming Democrats.
It is getting bigger and unsustainable by the day," Bills said. "When I write these numbers on the chalkboard to teach my high school classes, they can just be erased at the end of the day. However, the real debt is not so easy to deal with."
While Republicans often criticized Klobuchar during their convention two weeks ago, Democrats used their time to talk about Klobuchar, but did not mention Bills.
"Sen. Amy Klobuchar has been on the front lines working hard in Washington to defend the interests of the middle class and all Minnesotans," DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin said.
He talked about Klobuchar's work to keep student debt down, helping veterans and improving health care.
Even Martin praised her for working with Republicans.
The senator reminded delegates that they first endorsed her in the same Mayo Civic Center six years ago. She talked about some of the things she has done, ranging from helping place sandbags in Moorhead to being on hand as Wadena recovered from tornado damage.
Those, like other issues, were bipartisan. She talked about a farm bill due for a vote in coming weeks, which does not have complete Democratic support.
She lobbed missiles at both sides, calling Washington a "TV shoutfest." She compared the nation's capital to "a big, bad reality TV show."
Klobuchar frequently is mentioned as a potential candidate for the White House or for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, but in an interview would not talk about that, other than admit that occasionally someone bring up the topic.
The New York Times has called her one of the 17 women most likely to become president, and Elle magazine ran a headline proclaiming: "Meet the woman who ... many say should be pointing her ambition at the White House,"
Klobuchar has earned a Washington reputation as a good, and funny, speaker. She is well-known nationally among Democrats, and her poll numbers are high in Minnesota.
She was elected six years ago, easily beating then-U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy. That followed two terms as Hennepin County attorney and time in two prominent Twin Cities law firms.
Klobuchar's husband, John Bessler, is a University of Baltimore law professor. Their daughter, Abigail, is a high school junior.
Klobuchar likes to tout her family roots in the Iron Range, where her grandfather was a miner. Her father, Jim, was a prominent sports columnist and her mother a teacher.
Before her first election, Klobuchar led a successful effort to get the Minnesota Legislature to pass one of the country's first laws to guarantee 48-hour hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
Klobuchar, who lives in Plymouth, was valedictorian of her Wayzata High School class and graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School.
Davis reports for Forum Communications Co., which owns the Herald.


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I'm madder than a three-legged dog at a fire hydrant!
All through that damn election, they told us Obama was the greatest speaker since Martin Luther King. But yesterday he sounded more like Mr. Rogers!
Yesterday, the Teleprompter Kid was trying to explain why his whole Death Panel Medicine Plan was going down the toilet. He said:
"There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!"
I guess that's how they teach you to talk at those fancy colleges up north!
Here's some other stuff Obama said yesterday that didn't get reported:
"I've got a boo-boo!"
"My poll numbers went plop plop!"
"I go sleepy-bye-bye now!"
I don't even know what Obama was trying to say. Sure, those Washington types are always having trouble with their "wee wees", but last I heard, Larry Craig and Bill Clinton weren't around anymore! I'm surprised Barney Frank didn't get mad about that crack!
So now the most powerful man in the world is blaming his troubles on what MONTH it is? This is turning into "the dog ate my homework" with some horoscope stuff mixed in.
Say what you like about good old George W. Bush, but he didn't blame limp summertime "wee wees" when he couldn't fix Social Security!
Seems to me that Obama needs to have some juice and a cookie, then take a nap and come back when he figures out how to talk like a grown up!
I'm madder than a three-legged dog at a fire hydrant!


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Poll: More teens say they've been hacked on Web
WASHINGTON — More young people these days say they've had their Internet accounts hacked or spied on. Many also say they know who did it and don't seem too bothered.
An Associated Press-MTV poll finds 3 in 10 teens and young adults have had people log on to their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or other Internet accounts and either impersonate or spy on them. That's nearly double the level seen in 2009.
The poll found solid majorities saying they knew who was behind it: 72 percent for spying, 65 percent for hacking.
Richard Lindenfelzer, 20, says it happened to him, but it was more innocent and playful than anything else.
He has walked away and left his laptop logged into Facebook at times and a roommate has seized the opportunity to fiddle with Lindenfelzer's page, writing silly things about love interests or potty humor.
"It's meant to be funny," said Lindenfelzer, a junior at Ithaca College in New York. "It's supposed to be obvious that this is something I would never say."
The same thing happened to recent college graduate Emily Feldhake of Pickford, Mich.
The 22-year-old had used a friend's laptop and closed the browser but hadn't logged out. Her friend took some humorous jabs at her on her Facebook page. Not upset, she said: "I knew who it was. It was my friend and I was the one who stayed logged on."
But sometimes the hacking can be malicious.
Courtney Eisenbraun of Saint Francis, Minn., is among the 46 percent of young people left upset by a hacking experience.
The 15-year-old says she was at practice for her high school dance team when she got a text from her sister checking to see if the 10th-grader was on Facebook. The teen's status had been changed to say something inappropriate about girls in showers.
She says she doesn't share her password with friends but assumes it was someone in her grade because they knew who her friends were and also posted things on their Facebook pages, pretending to be her.
"I was really confused about how they got my password," she said. "I felt violated."
Eisenbraun changed her password right away, and changes it often now. She hasn't had another problem since.
In the AP-MTV poll, two-thirds of those who had been hacked said at some point they've changed their email, instant messaging or social networking password in response to digital abuse. Forty-six percent have altered their email address, screen name or phone number, and 25 percent have deleted a social networking profile.
Josie Burris, 16, says she's shared her Facebook password with her best friend as well as her boyfriend. Once, she spied on her boyfriend's page to peek at his private messages and see what he was up to. He's also spied on her private messages, she said.
"I don't care. I've done it to him. He's done it to me," said Burris, a junior in high school who lives in Ridgeland, S.C.
She says her parents are on Facebook, too, but she doesn't worry about them spying on her.
"I make sure I don't put anything bad on there," she said, but added: "Old people shouldn't have Facebook. I firmly believe in that."
Child safety advocates, though, say parents should be on Facebook. They don't suggest spying, but they do say parents need to know where their kids are going online and, most importantly, they need to talk with their children about being responsible online.
Marsali Hancock at the Internet Keep Safe Coalition says children who grow up thinking they're sending confidential messages are misled.
"It's never private," says Hancock, president of the coalition. "So the parents who actually check in, even just randomly every now and then, really help their child to recognize that everything can be viewed and tracked and stored and moved around."
Of the young people who said they had been hacked, the AP-MTV poll found that about 7 in 10 said they had considered that their words or pictures could be shared without permission, compared with just over half of those who had not been hacked.
The Associated Press-MTV poll on digital abuse was conducted online Aug. 18-31 and is based on 1,355 interviews (631 teens ages 14-17 and 724 young adults ages 18-24). It was part of an MTV campaign, "A Thin Line," aiming to stop the spread of digital abuse.
The survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks, which used traditional telephone and mail sampling methods to randomly recruit respondents. People selected who had no Internet access were given it for free. The margin of sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
Associated Press Polling Director Trevor Tompson, Deputy Polling Director Jennifer Agiesta and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.


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Illinois pork producers can learn all about meeting new federal manure regulations at upcoming workshops held at three locations across the state.
Workshops will be Feb. 15 at the Holiday Inn, Mt. Vernon, IL; Feb. 17 at the Metro Center in Princeton, IL; and, March 8 at the State Fairgrounds in Springfield. The workshop costs $15 with registration at 8 a.m. and the first session starting at 9 a.m. Lunch will be provided. The seminar concludes at 3:45 p.m. Pre-register by calling ACES Marketing & Distribution at (800) 3345-6087.
Experts from the University of Illinois (U of I) Extension, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Illinois Department of Agriculture will address a variety of topics including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits.
"Farmers can apply for Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) funding through the NRCS," says Randy Fonner, U of I Extension specialist. "Getting EQIP funds to address manure storage and feedlot runoff could make permits unnecessary for some producers."
The workshops will also debut the Illinois Manure Management Plan workbook, written by Fonner and Ted Funk, U of I agricultural engineer. The pair designed the workbook to satisfy permit requirements, meet state manure plan rules and requirements for a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan required by the NRCS to obtain EQIP funds. The workbook and CD version will be available free at the workshops.
Fonner stresses producers need to think about starting the process of applying for the NPDES permit.
"Don't wait until the last 60 or 30 days to meet this deadline," he says. "This is not something you're going to get done in a weekend. Time marches on and this window is closing very rapidly." Many producers will need to have an NPDES permit by February of 2006.


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Oct. 14, 2009 — -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is close to formulating a U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, she said today in an exclusive interview with ABC News' "Nightline."
Although she refused to go public with what she believes is the best course of action for the United States in Afghanistan, a somber Clinton said she "will be prepared to offer the president my best advice when he asks for it."
In response to reports that she took a more hawkish position on the war than that of President Obama's other advisers, she said, "I'm not going to comment on where I'm leaning, where anybody else is leaning, I think I owe the president my best advice and I think I'll leave it at that."
Clinton also took pains to defend beleaguered Afghan President Hamid Karzai and took time to clarify his claim in an interview on "Good Morning America" Tuesday that al Qaeda has "no base in Afghanistan, the war against terrorism is not in Afghanistan villages, it is not in the Afghan countryside."
"There's no doubt," Clinton said, that the Taliban in Afghanistan "fund extremists." But, she added, what Karzai "was trying to get at, which is also our analysis, is there are people who are Taliban, who are fighting because they get paid to fight. They have no other way of making a living, you've got a very poor population in general, they get paid more to be in the Taliban than to be a police officer.
"Another is there are all kinds of internal conflicts in Afghanistan between certain tribal groups or ethnic groups who find it opportunistic to ally with the Taliban. They're very conservative, but they're not a direct threat to us."
Part of the problem, Clinton said, was "to sort out who is the real enemy. Our goal is to disrupt, dismantle, defeat al Qaeda and its extremist allies. But not every Taliban is al Qaeda."
But she acknowledged that the irregularities in the Afghan elections had made the timing of any decision on sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan more challenging.
Her words diverged sharply from Karzai's take on the controversial elections, which he described as "good and fair and worthy of praise."
Clinton: I Was 'Resistant to the Idea' of Being Secretary of State
Earlier this week, Clinton surprised many people when she ruled out running for president again. She reiterated today her refusal to run, saying, "I gave it all I had," adding that she was looking forward to taking some time off after her stint as secretary of state.
Recalling the aftermath of the election, Clinton, for the first time, shared the details of how she was offered and later accepted the position of U.S. secretary of state.
"It was about five to six days after the election, and my husband and I were out for a walk, actually, in a sort of reserve near where we live in New York. And he had his cell phone in his pocket, [and] it started ringing in the middle of this big nature reserve. And, instead of turning it off, he answered it and it was President-elect Obama wanting to talk to him about some people he was considering for positions, and he said I'd like to also talk to Hillary at some point."
At the time, she thought Obama was calling to ask her for her opinion of other people he wished to hire, saying, "we know a lot of people, so obviously [he's] calling to say, 'Should I put this person there? What do you think about that person?'
"When I did talk to the president, he said he wanted me to come to Chicago because he wanted to talk to me."
"Even then," Clinton said, "I honestly did not believe it was about me. … I did not."
Obama immediately offered her the job, Clinton recalled. "He said, 'I want you to be my secretary of state.' And, I said, 'Oh, no you don't,'" she said, laughing.
"I said there are so many other people who could do this and do it really well. I had this image in my head, I'd be back in the Senate, I'd spend time at my house, I'd visit my friends in the city and upstate and go back and work on health care. ... So I was very taken aback and somewhat resistant to the idea because it just seemed so unexpected. I couldn't grasp it," she said.
"But we kept talking, [and] I'm pretty old-fashioned ... so, at the end of the day, when your president asks you to serve, you say yes if you can."
Since taking on the role, Clinton said, Obama "has been very supportive, very forthcoming.
"I feel not only incredibly involved but relied upon."


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One afternoon while walking along, minding our own business, something registered in my peripheral vision. Willa and I stopped. Looked. And what do you suppose we saw?
Much to our surprise and delight, hidden in a hedgerow we saw a sun-dappled faerie village. And while we haven't spotted any of its occupants—yet!—I'm confident that with a little patience, one of these up-and-coming dusks we will.
This village brought to mind the gnomes my mom used to have. No more than ring-finger height—including their pointy red hats—you'd turn around in the kitchen and find a rosy-cheeked fellow peeking at you from behind a cookbook; or look over your shoulder in the living room and see the beard and belly of one who hasn't fully pulled himself behind a collectable on mom's display hutch.
What's your most recent encounter with whimsy?


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Excerpts From Ronald Reagan's 1975 Speech To CPAC
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After Watergate and the pardon of Nixon, the GOP was, as you'd expect, hit with crushing losses during the 1974 elections. We lost 48 seats in the House and five seats in the Senate.
Back then, like today, Republicans were struggling to decide which way to go. Well, Ronald Reagan answered that question at CPAC with a speech that's every bit as relevant today as it was back then. If you want to know what the GOP should be doing today, look at these timeless excerpts from Reagan's speech and you'll know exactly what the Party should be doing:
"Since our last meeting we have been through a disastrous election. It is easy for us to be discouraged, as pundits hail that election as a repudiation of our philosophy and even as a mandate of some kind or other. But the significance of the election was not registered by those who voted, but by those who stayed home. If there was anything like a mandate it will be found among almost two-thirds of the citizens who refused to participate.
Bitter as it is to accept the results of the November election, we should have reason for some optimism. For many years now we have preached "the gospel," in opposition to the philosophy of so-called liberalism which was, in truth, a call to collectivism.
Now, it is possible we have been persuasive to a greater degree than we had ever realized. Few, if any, Democratic party candidates in the last election ran as liberals. Listening to them I had the eerie feeling we were hearing reruns of Goldwater speeches. I even thought I heard a few of my own.
Bureaucracy was assailed and fiscal responsibility hailed. Even George McGovern donned sackcloth and ashes and did penance for the good people of South Dakota.
But let's not be so naive as to think we are witnessing a mass conversion to the principles of conservatism. Once sworn into office, the victors reverted to type. In their view, apparently, the ends justified the means.
…Can we live with ourselves if we, as a nation, betray our friends and ignore our pledged word? And, if we do, who would ever trust us again? To consider committing such an act so contrary to our deepest ideals is symptomatic of the erosion of standards and values. And this adds to our discontent.
We did not seek world leadership; it was thrust upon us. It has been our destiny almost from the first moment this land was settled. If we fail to keep our rendezvous with destiny or, as John Winthrop said in 1630, "Deal falsely with our God," we shall be made "a story and byword throughout the world."
Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness.
I don 't know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, "We must broaden the base of our party"–when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people's earnings government can take without their consent.
Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.
And let it provide indexing–adjusting the brackets to the cost of living–so that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in government's share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.
Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.
Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government's coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.
Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.
And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of "peace at any price."
We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way."
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You've seen the ritual, I'm sure. The infant baptism parallel happens after the parents are quizzed on the child's name and what they ask of the Church. RCIA 54 has the rubric:
54. Next the cross is traced on the forehead of the candidates (or, at the discretion of ther diocesan bishop, in front of the forehead for candidates in whose culture the act of touching may not seem proper (see RCIA no. 33.3)); at the discretion of the celebrant the signing of one, several, or all of the senses may follow. The celebrant alone says the formularies accompanying each signing.
More often you will see the signing of several senses. We'll get to that in the next post.
Ever practical, Roman sensibility gives options for few candidates in RCIA 55:
With their sponsors, the candidates come one by one to the celebrant; with his thumb he traces a cross on the forehead; then, if there is to be no signing of the senses, the sponsor does the same.
… and an option when there are "a great many candidates."
Then the celebrant makes the sign of the cross over all together, as a cross is traced by a sponsor or catechist on the forehead of each candidate.
Common to both situations is the formula that accompanies this signing:
Receive the cross on your forehead.
It is Christ who now strengthens you
with this sign of his love.
Learn to know and follow him.
All sing or say the following or other suitable acclamation:
Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
This ritual involves the main thing the candidates "get" at the rite of acceptance. It should be done with solemnity.
The given acclamation keeps the focus on Christ and his grace. The most commonly used acclamation is David Haas' "Christ will be your strength; learn to know and follow him." I've used it, too. I'm not completely convinced it's the best text, even if it derives directly from the rite. I like having an acclamation sung to Christ in this situation. I'm less enthusiastic about what is essentially a mini-catechesis on what is happening.
Singing the acclamation, no matter what the text may be, is really essential in the rite. The rubric gives a second option for "saying" the acclamation, but I can't imagine that even the simplest chant isn't a better option for communities with a poverty of music ministry.


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Dana Milbank: Criticizing Obama either way
Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is in a spirited debate -- with himself.
Four months ago, Inhofe demanded that "President Obama step up and exhibit the leadership required" to show Syria's Bashar al-Assad "that his barbaric actions have consequences." Writing in USA Today, Inhofe added: "Continued inaction by the president, after establishing a clear red line, will embolden Assad and his benefactors in Tehran to continue their brutal assault against the Syrian people." Inhofe floated the idea of a "no-fly" zone or even "boots on the ground."
But last week, as Obama moved toward military action to enforce his "red line," Inhofe issued a statement saying that "our military has no money left" for a strike on Syria. On "Fox News Sunday," Inhofe reiterated his position that "I would oppose going in and having military intervention against Syria." He said that Obama should not have drawn a red line in the first place.
As Inhofe's conversion on the road to Damascus indicates, Republicans don't like what Obama is doing in Syria -- whatever it is.
Some protested when Obama threatened to bomb Syria without congressional approval; others then criticized him for seeking congressional approval. They complain that Obama's use-of-force resolution is too broad; they argue that it would amount to only a "pinprick." They assert that he should have intervened long ago; they say that he has not yet made the case for intervening. They told him not to go to the United Nations; they scolded him for not pursuing multilateral action. They told him to arm the rebels and, when he did, they said he had done it too late and with insufficient firepower.
Genuine disagreements within the GOP can explain some of the contradictions. And it's a fair criticism to say that Obama waited too long to act, even if there was never a consensus for action. But the one thing that seems to unite the opposition is the belief that Obama is wrong, no matter what.
Typical of that approach is Paul Ryan, the 2012 vice presidential nominee, who issued a have-it-both-ways statement Tuesday that offered no support for military action. "The President has some work to do to recover from his grave missteps in Syria," Ryan said. "He needs to clearly demonstrate that the use of military force would strengthen America's security."
In 2011, Ryan called for a muscular response to Syria, which he accused of a "brutal crackdown" and killing its citizens. Said Ryan then: "We have a responsibility to speak boldly for those whose voices are denied by the jackbooted thugs of the tired tyrants of Syria and Iran."
On Tuesday, House Republican leaders took steps to build support for authorizing the use of force. Still, they protected their right to criticize Obama when things go wrong. House Speaker John Boehner said he would support the resolution, but his office issued a statement saying, "It is the president's responsibility to make his case."
Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he, too, would support the resolution, but he added that "a one-off military strike is not by itself an adequate strategy" yet also said that force should be used "judiciously."
That sort of waffling is unlikely to unify the fractious GOP.
On one side is Sarah Palin (who wrote a Facebook post titled "Let Allah Sort It Out"), isolationist Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, George W. Bush adviser John Bolton and Iraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld (who hasn't seen "what our national interest is" in a Syria strike). On the other side are Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who say that anything less than Assad's ouster and an end to Syria's civil war would be "an inadequate response." George W. Bush administration veterans Karl Rove, Doug Feith, Paul Bremer, Elliott Abrams and Dan Senor joined leading neoconservatives in delivering a similar message.
As Republican lawmakers line up on both sides, the ambitious Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., honed his have-it-both-ways approach. "Because the President failed to act in the right way at the right time, we are now left with no good options," he wrote last week. He suggested that Obama choose between all (a comprehensive plan "to remove Assad and replace him with a stable, secular government") or nothing ("simply focus our resources on helping our allies in the region" deal with an unstable Syria).
Rest assured, Rubio will criticize Obama either way.
Follow Dana Milbank on Twitter, @Milbank.
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Legendary musician Roy Orbison is gone but definitely not forgotten. The legendary musician will posthumously receive an award from the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum. Orbison will be awarded the Iconic Riff Award. The award, which is being awarded for the first time, is being awarded to Orbison for his hit 1964 song, 'Oh, Pretty Woman.' The song would go on to become a number one single after its original release.
Heads of the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum said the reason that Orbison was chosen as the first recipient of the award because of the riff that opens 'Oh, Pretty Woman.' The song itself has been covered by countless artists. It rose to its biggest fame thanks to rock band Van Halen's cover of the song. It was also the inspiration for the hit 1990 rom-com, Pretty Woman, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. The song itself can even be heard in the movie's soundtrack.
Along with its numerous covers and use in movies, 'Oh, Pretty Woman' the song is also included a new live concert recording from Legacy Recordings titled Black & White Night. The DVD recording was released this week. It was recorded in September of 1987 and includes the likes of: Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Brown, JD Souther, and Tom Waits joining the star for his hit song.
Roy Orbison is one of the music industry's most well-known and respected names. He started his career in 1956. He was signed to the famed Sun Records at the time. The label also boasted the likes of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash on its roster. It wouldn't be until he signed a deal and recorded for Monument Records in the early to mid-1960s that his career truly took off. The release of 'Oh, Pretty Woman' marked the peak of his career at the time. The song, which Orbison co-wrote with Bill Dees, would go on to sell seven million copies and spend three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It also peaked at number one on the British charts for three weeks. This was an unprecedented feat for any American recording artist at the time. That is because The Beatles were dominating both countries' charts at the time.
A new collection of Orbison's hits titled The Monument Boxset will be released November 26th. The collection is a vinyl only package that includes three of the most well-known and beloved albums that Orbison recorded during his time with Monument Records. Those records are: Lonely and Blue, Crying, and In Dreams, which was also just recently re-issued on CD. The new box set also includes a fourth album that had not existed until now. The album will be centered on 'Oh, Pretty Woman' and will be comprised of five tracks. The album's songs were chosen by Orbison's own sons, Alex, Roy Kelton, and Wesley Orbison. Orbison's suns have maintained their father's legacy, running Roy's Boys LLC, which is responsible for managing their father's likeness, image, and musical releases.
Roy's Boys LLC and Legacy Recordings are set to release one more live Roy Orbison concert before the year ends. The Last Concert – 25th Anniversary Edition chronicles what would be Orbison's final concert before his death in 1988. The concert was recorded on December 4th, 1988. That was only two days before he would suffer a fatal heart attack. The fact that he would pass away only two days later is only part of what makes the upcoming concert so important. Orbison commonly closed his shows with a performance of 'Running Scared.' But recording engineers ran out of tape that night before Orbison performed the song. The result of that shortage is that 'Oh, Pretty Woman' would end up being the final number from his final ever concert. More information on all upcoming Roy Orbison releases is available online at http://www.royorbison.com and http://www.facebook.com/royorbison. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and "Like" it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil's Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.


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Report CES 2011 Show - SanDisk announced the worlds fastest high-capacity CompactFlash memory card. The latest milestone in SanDisks long history of industry-leading products, the SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash card features 128 gigabytes (128GB) of storage and up to 100 megabyte (100MB) per second (MB/sec) write speeds. With its Power Core controller and UDMA-7 interface, the new SanDisk flash memory card delivers the performance demanded by high-end Digital SLR cameras. The new 128GB SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash memory card is available now for preorder at the SanDisk website, and will be available at retailers worldwide later in Q1 2011. The SanDisk 128GB CompactFlash memory card has a suggested retail price of $1,499.99.
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128GB CompactFlash capacity for capturing RAW and JPEG photos.
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UDMA-7 interface allows for maximum data transfer between the card and camera.
The 128GB CompactFlash card features RTV silicone coating for added protection.
SanDisk 128GB memory card offers lifetime limited warranty.
SanDisk 128GB CompactFlash memory card
With a set of features optimized for professional digital photographers and videographers, the 128GB SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash card is ideally suited for imaging applications requiring Full HD 1920x1080 resolution, up to 50Mbps bit rate and 4:2:2 color sampling. The 128GB CompactFlash cards unprecedented combination of speed and storage lets photographers capture more frames when shooting in continuous burst mode, and enables them to record high quality Full HD videos.
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A professor held her student's baby while giving a 3-hour lecture so the mother could take notes
(CNN) -- Last Thursday, when a Georgia college student couldn't find a babysitter, her professor volunteered to hold the student's baby while teaching a three-hour anatomy class.
A photo from that class is showing the world what kindness and compassion look like.
Ramata Sissoko Cissé, an assistant professor of biology at Georgia Gwinnett College in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville, told CNN that one of her students called her late the night before class to let Cissé know that her babysitter was sick. Due to that, the student would have to bring her baby to Cissé's anatomy and physiology class the next day.
The professor, a mother of three, gave her the green light. "For her to trust me made me feel like I had to help," Cissé said. "It's like a moral responsibility."
But in class, the baby kept moving, and it was hard for the student to hold her son and write at the same time.
"I said, 'Hand me the baby,'" Cissé said.
However, Cissé couldn't hold the baby and write on the white board during her anatomy lecture.
The baby became a learning aid
So Cissé improvised. She found a white lab coat and tied the baby to her back.
The baby quickly fell asleep and stayed quiet for the rest of class. Cissé was able to incorporate the baby into the lesson, elaborating on concepts related to the nervous system, brain function and metabolism.
One student asked why he was able to sleep so quietly.
Cissé explained that he was cozy and warm, with her body temperature next to him, and the matching heat made it easier for him to relax.
Later when the baby became hungry, and the baby's bottle was cold, she explained that warming up the milk would help aid the baby's metabolism.
A spokeswoman for Georgia Gwinnett College told CNN that the child's mother asked to not be identified.
'I teach because they need to be prepared for life'
Cissé said the student e-mailed her after class to thank her, and she wrote back, "You're welcome, I'll always be there for you." And the student replied, "I know."
Those two words meant a lot to her.
Many of Cissé's students go on to become nurses or doctors, or work in other health professions. She said teaching them science is only part of her mission to prepare them for life after school.
"Love and compassion are part of the philosophy of my classroom," Cissé said.
She's hoping she can instill those qualities by modeling them in teachable moments like holding the baby during class as being a good health care provider is about more than just studying textbooks.
"I'm hoping they can spread love, take it to other people who need it," she said.
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It has been difficult to write about what is going on in Venezuela. I wish I could be the bearer of good news, but most of the time, news coming out of Caracas is simply negative and may I say, simply depressing. Things get worse and the Government continues to pay little attention to what is going on, continuing its «economic war» cry to blame their incompetence, their negligence, their corruption and their indolence in the face of hunger, illness and insecurity. (This from a Government that lost 120,000 barrels per day in oil production only in May!)
About the only positive news is that, as measured by the PCNI (Puerto Cabello Non-Baltic Index) imports appear to have picked up in the last few weeks as shown below:
As you can see, the number of boats arriving daily to the main port in Venezuela for food imports, has increased significantly from the lows that I reported in April reaching levels between 8 and ten ships per day, something not seen since January.
This is welcome news, even if it is clearly insufficient. Recall that last year, the average number of ships in Puerto Cabello was typically 14 to 15 each day. Moreover, you have to understand that there is a new mindset in Venezuela: that of extreme scarcity. Even those that have little money for purchases are hoarding something at home. Everyone has something in life that you feel you need no matter what. Thus, whether it is soda, toothpaste, sanitary napkins or simply milk for your baby, the scarcity mindset drives people to hoard their favorite foods. The results is that the cabinets and closets of the people are full of many of these items and it will take over-importing, something we are not even close to, in order to make this mindset disappear.
The consequence is that as the scarcity levels have increased, higher imports are simply not felt by the population.Meanwhile, the Government remains in control of what may be or not imported, while at the same time increasing its power over distribution channels. Its latest invention, ironically called the CLAPs, are committees to distribute food to only Government sympathizers, thus creating an apartheid in which if you don't sympathize with the Maduro administration, there will be no food for you.
It does not get more fascist than that!
Meanwhile, scarcity is so bad, that the Government now has to resort to accompanying food trucks with security, lest they be looted by hungry people when trucks stop. Sometimes they don't even have to stop, they are ambushed by people at the entrance of towns as they head to supermarkets and quickly emptied from their goods. In places like Cumana, stores have been looted and many of them have no plans to re-open, aggravating the problem.
Meanwhile at the OAS, Venezuelans became hopeful that some international pressure could be applied on the Maduro Government, something that has not worked in the last seventeen years. The Maduro Government masterfully played the diplomatic game, proving once again that countries have no principles, only interests.
Even recently elected Mauricio Macri of Argentina, found his personal interest in having his Foreign Minister become Head of the OAS more important than the fate of Venezuelans, backing out of strong statements made in the exuberance of his Presidential victory. To say nothing of the US, which decided to push for the mediation route, a path that is only meant to delay the feasibility of a recall vote against Maduro in 2016, thus guaranteeing that Chavismo, even if it has to get rid of its current bus driver, will rule over Venezuela until 2019.
And the opposition was partially to blame. It really was not playing international diplomacy at the same level, but it also accepted some initial gambit for negotiations, led by a bunch of former Presidents, who are not only pro-Chavistas and which have little significance in their own countries, but whose role as mediators is financed, funded and toasted by Maduro.
Of course, the OAS's task was difficult from the beginning given the large number of fairly wealthy Caribbean countries that receive cheap oil from the Maduro administration and have sold their soul to the Chavismo Devil (not related) for years.
As for the recall, the many manuevers by the Electoral Board are so incredibly biased that their pro-Chávez members should one day be tried for the wholesale violation of the people´s rights (and their pensions rescinded). Not only have the timetables established in the law not been respected, but rules have been made up on the fly to make the recall even vote more difficult. From requiring 1% of the voters for each State, rather than 1% of the voters nationwide, as clearly stated by the law, to arbitrarily voiding 600,000 signatures for the recall, to allowing people to withdraw their signature (something that less than 6,000 people out of 2.1 million took advantage of), the whole process has been shameful and should be enough justification for the OAS to do something.
The latest ruse? After signing the petition for recall, people have five days to go to the Electoral Board and ratify that they signed the petition using their fingerprint. Now, in a country where all supermarkets are now armed with fingerprint machines to restrict the purchase of price – goods, the Electoral Board came up with three hundred machines to have the remaining 1.352 million people ratify their signatures.
Even more shameful, the distribution of machines is as efficient and biased as the Government's food distribution network. For 241 municipalities with 600,000 people who signed the petition, there will be zero machines to ratify their signatures. At the same time, 64 municipalities with 21,000 signatures will have all of 100 machines for people to ratify their signatures. The most ridiculous case is the town of Ocumare de la Costa, where there will be all of four machines to service the 264 people who signed the petitions. Of course, municipalities like Chacao, Baruta and El Hatillo, with thousands of signatures will have none, zilch, zero.
Only around 200,000 people are needed to ratify the recall petition, but each state will need 1% of its voting population. Thus, the task is made quite difficult by restricting the number of fingerprint machines. Fascist hoodlums is what the four pro-Chavez ladies at the Electoral Board are!
And so it goes…as this happens, Venezuelans get distracted by stories about cemeteries where the tombs of former Presidents are desecrated, which has been happening since even before Chávez took power in 1998, but which creates and outcry and diverts attention from the rapid, vertigo-inducing deterioration of the quality of life in Venezuela. As the Minister for jails, released prisoners to protest in favor of Maduro, there were two kidnappings very close to my family, including one nephew. But the police is too occupied guarding food trucks and protesting prisoners.
And so it goes…


text: Thomas Stanley Holland was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, to Nicola Elizabeth (Frost), a photographer, and Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), who is a comedian and author. His paternal grandparents were from the Isle of Man and Ireland, respectively. He lives with his parents and three younger brothers - Paddy and twins Sam and ... See full bio »