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France: Nursery assistant wins reprieve over hijab sacking
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood legalised
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Lebanon: Mikati announces his resignation
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The Netherlands: Congo atrocities suspect arrives at International Criminal Court
Lights out as World Wildlife Fund celebrates Earth Hour to combat climate change
The Muslim News Awards for Excellence gala dinner event
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Central African Republic: Rebels enter capital Bangui
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Pakistan: Musharraf lands in Karachi
[Photo: Aftermath of rocket in Shaar Hegenev] IMEMC News & Agencies: A 4-year-old child was killed, Friday afternoon, after being hit by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip. The shell fell on the Sderot Negev … Continued
[Image By Ministry of Health] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC News: Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip has reported that two Palestinians were killed, and many injured, as the Israeli army continued to target densely populated civilian … Continued
[File photo: Still From YouTube Video, Hebron] IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, several Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and ransacked homes, and kidnapped several Palestinians, … Continued
[Children killed by Israeli bombing in Gaza last week] BETHLEHEM (Ma'an): Five members of a Palestinian family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in central Gaza on Saturday morning, as Israel continued to bombard the … Continued
[Ali Daif, 8 month-old killed with his mother and three year old sister] By Celine Hagbard IMEMC News: The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported Thursday night that an additional 7 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes Thursday … Continued
[Al Ray photo file] IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli forces abducted at least 16 Palestinian citizens, on Thursday, during dawn raids in different parts of the occupied West Bank, according to local and media sources. Israeli TV Channel 7 … Continued
[Wounded sisters in Gaza by Israeli bombing: alray news] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that eight Palestinians, including three children, have been killed and many Palestinians injured, including … Continued
Image By Radio Bethlehem 2000 IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians, while one Palestinian was kidnapped in Ramallah. Settlers burned a Palestinian orchard … Continued
Image By Ministry Of Health By Saed Bannoura IMEMC: Palestinians medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that at least twelve Palestinians have been killed and at least 200 have been injured in the extensive Israeli bombardment … Continued
[Image By Ministry Of Health – Gaza] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC News: Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians have been confirmed dead after the Israeli army and air force fired several missiles into the Nusserirat area, in central … Continued
IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli rabbi Yehuda Glick accompanied some 20 Israeli settlers in yet another invasion of al-Aqsa Mosque, on Wednesday, in occupied East Jerusalem. Protected by Israeli police, Israeli settlers stormed the mosque from al-Maghareba (Morrocan) … Continued
[File photo: Ministry Of Health] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC News: Palestinian medical sources have reported that two Palestinians have been killed, Wednesday, and many injured, some seriously, after the army bombarded several homes and areas in the … Continued
[Image By Ministry Of Health] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC News: Palestinian medical sources have reported, Wednesday, that seventeen Palestinians, including children, have been killed, and dozens injured in the resumed Israeli offensive on the Palestinians in the besieged … Continued
[File photo by Radio Bethlehem 2000] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday, several Palestinian Bedouin communities east of the Taybeh village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, … Continued
[Photo shows thousands of Palestinians seek shelter in UN-buildings from Israeli bombing resumption] IMEMC News: Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that several Palestinians, including children, have been killed in Israeli shelling targeting different … Continued
[Photo: Palestinian family huddled together as Israeli bombing homes in Gaza] GAZA CITY (Ma'an): Three Palestinians were killed and at least 40 injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza medical officials said. A 3-year-old … Continued
[Al Ray archive photo] IMEMC News & Agencies: Reports of dozens of Palestinians being attacked, by both Israeli settlers and soldiers, are still surfacing in increasing amounts, as the assault on Gaza resumes with no breakthrough in peace negotiations. … Continued
[Typical cave structure housing Palestinian family (Friends of Al Aqsa archive photo)] IMEMC News & Agencies: The Israeli army, Tuesday, demolished a man-made cave and shed being used to shelter a Palestinian family in al-Walja, a small village established … Continued
[File photo: Radio Bethlehem 2000] By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Tuesday, several Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during numerous invasions targeting various Palestinian communities. A number of Israeli settlers hurled stones at … Continued
Al-Akhbar: Israel bombed sites across Gaza on Tuesday and recalled its negotiators from truce talks in Cairo after saying three rockets from the strip hit Israel, hours before a ceasefire was due to expire. At least five people, … Continued
Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.
The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.
The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.


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Palo Alto–based product design company Nest Labs—known for its slick Learning thermostat—announced its next venture today: the Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector. "This is a product category prime for disruption," says Maxime Veron, director of product marketing at Nest. In homes, most technology has been steadily updated—think appliances, security systems, lighting, heating and cooling—but smoke detectors haven't seen much innovation in the past few decades.
We can all identify with the qualms of these archaic devices: fussy batteries, false alarms, and ear-splitting noise (it is supposed to get your attention, after all). This version aims to make smoke detectors easier to use, more effective, and something to covet. "Things don't need to be ugly or dumb" says Veron. "This thinks before it speaks." Have a look at some of Nest Protect's features in the following slideshow.

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2 Workers Hurt In Explosion At N.J. Pharmaceutical LabTwo workers were hurt in an explosion so powerful, it shook homes more than a mile away, CBS 2 reported
Man Ejected, Killed In Totowa, N.J. CrashA man was killed on a northern New Jersey highway this weekend, after he was ejected from his car during a collision and struck moments later by another vehicle.
New Jersey Dentist's Halloween Candy Buyback Held SaturdayParents in North Jersey who want to find something positive to do with all the candy their kids received on Halloween have an option to sell it to a dentist.
N.J. Dentist Holding Annual Halloween Cash For Candy BuybackTotowa dental practice Dental 2000 offers kids $1 per pound for the candy. They will then send all the wrapped candy to the troops currently serving overseas.
More Than 10,000 Guns Turned In Across NJ In Recent MonthsThe most recent gun buyback was held in Passaic County last weekend, where 853 weapons were collected.
Officials: Manager Of Tick Tock Diner In Clifton Charged In Murder-For-Hire PlotGeorgios Spyropoulos, manager of the Tick Tock diner in Clifton, was arrested for planning to have his uncle "tortured, robbed and murdered," Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa announced Wednesday.
Owner Of Mandee, Annie Sez, Afaze Blames Sandy For BankruptcyThe New Jersey-based owner of the Mandee, Annie Sez and Afaze clothing stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, citing effects from Superstorm Sandy as the cause of its financial woes.
North Jersey Communities Still Struggling Nearly A Year After IreneSome people still aren't back in their homes and debris is still being cleared from the Passaic River.
Two N.J. Chimney, Gutter Cleaners Accused Of Ripping Off CustomersCustomers filed over 50 complaints against Bergen County and Passaic County-based AAA Reliable and Old Reliable Construction.
PSE&G: Power Restored To Thousands Affected By Outage A supply line problem in Wayne left about 15,000 utility customers without power in parts of New Jersey on Tuesday.
Authorities Take Down Major Paterson Drug Distribution NetworkNew Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow says a yearlong investigation into gang activity in Paterson has resulted in more than 170 arrests.


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Culture's Power Houses; The Museum Becomes An Engine of Urban Redesign
By HERBERT MUSCHAMP
Published: April 21, 1999
I want to hold on to the moment after I checked into my hotel in Bilbao, Spain, dropped off my bags in the room and rushed out to walk around the city's new Guggenheim Museum. By chance, I ran into the museum's architect, Frank Gehry, outside the hotel, and he asked if I wanted to go look at the building with him.
That was not what I'd had in mind. I love to arrive in a new town and just walk around, letting impressions sink in, before heading off to inspect a new building. But this was an occasion to let the unexpected happen: the designer of this museum, a building already celebrated months before it opened, also walking around by himself, checking the impressions his work made from different parts of the city -- streets, angles, distances.
Anyway, how do you answer a question like that? Look at the building? What building? Oh, no, I came to Bilbao because somebody recommended the local variety of blood sausage, or because I'm interested in Basque separatism.
Seventy-five years ago, the subject of this article might have been the opening of a shipyard, but it is the late 90's, so I was there for the opening of a museum. Bilbao was once a shipbuilding town, but that industry has dried up locally, leaving the city high and dry. The solution has been to fill the void with culture: a museum, a concert hall, a sports arena and, of course, the architecture in which these enterprises are housed.
This pattern has been repeated in Paris, Barcelona, Helsinki, San Francisco, Cleveland and countless smaller cities, like North Adams, Mass., where the sprawling Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art will open next month in the one-time factory buildings of the Sprague Electrical Company. These cities have ceased to be centers for industry and have become domains of culture. Along with financial management and tourism, culture is now a leading urban industry.
No longer merely the ornament of power, culture is a power in its own right. Of course, museums are not the only engines of this transformation -- theaters, commercial galleries, jazz clubs and other varieties of night life, book fairs, music festivals, loft conversions, architectural walking tours and, not least, computer software firms are also driving the industrialization of culture. But the museum occupies a privileged place in the hierarchical scheme of things. It symbolizes the civilized idea that cultural and material values are not the same.
Frank Gehry led me over to a street a block or two away that runs perpendicular to the Nervion River and leads straight to the museum's entrance. Photographs of the building framed by the view down this street have been widely published, but are misleading, for they emphasize the difference between Mr. Gehry's titanium-clad structure and the masonry vernacular of Bilbao's streets. But when seeing the museum firsthand, you are struck by how uncommonly sympathetic it is to the tough riverside surroundings of this decayed town.
''I see all the mistakes,'' Mr. Gehry said, and he pointed out what he considered to be one of them, a skylight that pokes through the metal skin of the roof. It didn't look like a mistake to me, but then I wondered, should I be looking for mistakes? Later on, as we rounded the side of the museum, I thought, well, maybe I don't like the convex curves that frame the window of that big rectilinear piece that shoots up in the air. They're so refined.
But who cares? This was magic time, an adventure in goosebumps. My hair would have been standing on end if it hadn't been plastered down with so much mousse. Architecture will never be the same. Cities will never be the same. And it all came out of the brains of two people, Frank Gehry and his patron, Thomas Krens, the Guggenheim's director. People will like the building, or they won't, they'll come to see it, or they won't. The point is that an idea has been expressed here about the function of the museum in the contemporary city, and the idea, to give it a name, is Subjective Truth.
No one can prove that something is or is not good architecture. There are no scientific tests to determine the quality of art, no rules for declaring such-and-such work to be a masterpiece. These are matters of judgment. But that does not mean that the concept of truth has no relevance to these questions; it is possible to discriminate in a relativistic universe -- that is what museums are about, and cities, and critics, too. The lack of objective standards is what makes culture so dynamic.
Museums, industrial cities and newspapers are fundamentally 19th-century institutions. The present century has been largely one of transition, a bridge that extends from the great industrial cities of the past to the global information network to which the older urban centers must now adjust.
The announcement, earlier this year, that Levi Strauss was shutting down 11 factories in the United States is a good illustration of this transition. It was unsettling to learn that Levi's jeans, a venerable American icon, would henceforth be produced on foreign soil. But the news was not surprising. In the last three decades, manufacturing has been overwhelmingly exported to countries that offer cheap labor.


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The coming Annual Meeting on June 3-7 will be the seventh time the American Medical Association has met in New York City in the 110 years of its existence, the last meeting having been held there only four years ago. Since that meeting the New York Coliseum, specifically designed for meetings and conventions, has been completed.
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The Coliseum is located on Columbus Circle in the center of the city, at the point from which all distances to and from New York are measured. Dozens of hotels are within a few blocks of the Coliseum and five major hotels can be reached by subway from this building without going out of doors. The Coliseum is five minutes from Times Square, seven minutes from the Pennsylvania Station, and nine minutes from Grand Central. In this building will be held some of the scientific and all of the commercial exhibits, colored
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Greg Critser
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Crucial, and dense with detail
Michael K. McKeon
on January 28, 2004
Okay, pardon the pun in the "dense in detail". However, this is a comprehensive, extensively researched and documented study of American obesity, and plowing through the numerous facts and statistics does take some commitment.
Critser starts off on an entertaining, and somewhat light tone which will engage the reader and secure his commitment when the arcane physiological and chemical terminology and statistics are somewhat overwhelming. After the author has made his point he does have a tendency to beat it into the ground with additional detail that brings to mind the expression "too much information". However, it's all very important in light of the ongoing tragedy of prevalent American obesity.
Critser provides a very interesting history of recent food additives, which is extremely helpful in enabling you to be discriminating in what you eat -- specifically food additives such as palm oil and high fructose corn syrup about which our friends in journals such as the "Nutrition Action Newsletter" and "Prevention" have been warning us for years. This is hardly hysteria on the part of "health food diet Nazis"; the points Critser makes are intuitively obvious, and when understood simply common sense.
The author also makes a much harder case for exercise, particularly strenous exercise, which is a hard sell in an increasingly sedentary culture. While his points are valid, from a feasibility perspective those prompting a movement from inertia to moderate exercise are more likely to find converts.
Critser's observations on the cost to all citizens, in terms of increased health premiums, besides the more pervasive but subtle losses in worker productivity due to obesity related illnesses are poignant and frightening. However, he also makes a valid point that major processed food industries have an immediate interest in obscuring and outright challenging such facts. It is hard to contest the point that there are more Americans who are affected with obesity than who smoke cigarettes, which is a valid if terrifying observation.
This is an important work -- unfortunately, I suspect its impact will be limited as most people will prefer to keep their heads buried in the sand (or trough).
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Cheryl M. Hammond
on July 9, 2004
A worthwhile topic, disappointingly rendered, especially if you've read "Fast Food Nation".
Critser goes into useful levels of detail on tantalizingly few topics. Too many of his other points are supported only anecdotally, or worse, because-he-said-so.
He does make at least a few points excellently: the blistering critique of our feel-good fat-positive self-esteem etiquette nonsense, that prevents us from warning our friends and ourselves when we are literally gorging ourselves to death, was right on the mark and needed saying. I attended a women's college during a high-level eating disorder scare, and found it surprising and eye-opening to learn that the rates of anorexia and bulimia are far lower than our self-help culture has suggested. Certainly it is useful for everyone to place anorexia and bulimia in proper perspective alongside the skyrocketing rates of obesity, and ask ourselves what we've gained for conceding one in the name of fighting the others. (He does not detail, but in later years it has also become part of the thinking on eating disorders that they are primarily mental illnesses related to control and trauma, not food. We should stop treating them as being about food, and start treating obesity, which is about food!) And, the chapter on the "branding" of food and drink in our schools should be a wake-up call for parents and school boards nationwide.
Unfortunately, too many other topics represent missed opportunities or simply misfires. Sure, his high fructose corn syrup theory is supported by some initial dietary research, but so were all the other fad diets he himself decries. The opening chapter on America's food subsidies and ag policies is frustratingly thin and primarily devoted to an amusing character study of Mr. Butz instead of a weighty analysis of which foods we make available to ourselves and at what prices. It's been said that subsidies of specific unhealthy food types contribute to the disproportionate rates of obesity among the poor (because the cheapest foods are the worst for you, while lean meats and fresh produce are unaffordable for many working Americans), but you won't find that discussion here. There's no mention at all of the shift in the nature of employment for Americans... thanks to labor-saving and even safety devices, even minimum-wage work is increasingly sedentary (standing in one place all day as a cashier or Wal-Mart greeter is not physical activity), and at home, the villainous TV and video games get all the blame, with no discussion of everyday labor-saving devices and their effect on American sloth. I don't recall much information about Americans' rejection of public transit and our propensity to fight one another tooth and nail for a parking space five feet closer to the mall doors.
If we fail to recognize that modernity has changed the nature of our physical lives across the board, all of Critser's exhortations about PE will surely fail. He hints at it, but never really nails it... for most Americans, exercise has become artificial rather than an integral part of everyday life. And PE, no matter how skillfully taught, is artificial, in a structured form unavailable to adults. The affluent can afford to purchase their exercise in comparably tidy packages (clubs, leagues, etc.), but where does that leave the rest of us when we grow up?
And so, saddest of all, Critser's one and only proffered "solution" is: more PE in (public) schools. What a political football that is! Should our desperately cash-strapped schools (stripped of their fast food and soda sponsorship contracts, no less) pull money and time out of already underfunded and inadequate academic programs? Should we spend yet more of our resources teaching our kids how to have a sanctioned lifestyle instead of teaching them how to read and do math? Especially low-income kids, who need a real education more than anyone! Do our schools have to be everything to every child simply because they're the one and only opportunity in an American's entire lifetime where we have a captive audience? Can we serve Americans better all the way through adulthood if we teach literacy, history, statistics and general critical thinking instead of dodgeball?
"Fat Land" is a tasty appetizer. I hope the main course on this subject is yet to come.
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Supersizing ourselves and our kids
Dennis Littrell
on June 29, 2003
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About three-quarters of the way through this intensely felt jaunt through Krispy Kreme land and the Golden Arched environs of fat land America, journalist Greg Critser makes an interesting political observation. He's talking about Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, recalling that Monica said the President always left his shirt untucked to hide his belly and how that was perhaps a connection between the two (their protruding bellies, that is). And then Critser reflects, "If the right wing in this country is still really moralistic about sex, the left is moralistic about food..." (p. 149)
He goes on to note that educated people are supposed to be in control of the amount of body fat they have. This observation is in tune with the disturbing truth he chronicles: namely those people from the lowest educational and socioeconomic levels of society are the ones becoming the fattest. He cites studies showing that the percentage of obese African, Hispanic, and Native Americans is higher than that of other groups, and that those people who are living at or near poverty levels are the most likely to be obese and are the most likely to have obese children. Yet Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton are not exactly candidates for remedial education or payday advances. What is going on?
Epidemic. Something as deadly as a killer virus is on the loose in America today, and although obesity is most prevalent at lower economic levels, it hits all segments of society. Since reading this book I have found myself eyeing the populace. Every time I pass by a Burger King or a Carl's Jr. or a McDonalds or a Taco Bell I check out the clientele, those walking up and those sitting high and large in their expensive SUVs at the drive-up window. And when I see them, I say to myself: they are being supersized.
Just how bad is it? According to a table on pages 182-183, in the year 2000 19.8 percent of Americans were obese. That's one in every five. This figure shot up from 12 percent in 1991. But it's even worse than it appears. According to figures on page four, 61 percent of Americans are overweight. That's most of us! And about "25 percent of all Americans under age nineteen are overweight." We have supersized ourselves into a health care nightmare in which the total cost of obesity to HMOs is "$345.9 million annually, or 41 percent of the total" for just eight obesity-related diseases. (p. 148) But the larger cost to our society in terms premature death, reduced quality of life, and cost of work days lost due to obesity cannot be measured, but in dollar terms is well into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
How did it happen? First, as Critser observes, food got cheap, relatively speaking, thanks to the growth of big agriculture. And then came the use of corn syrup (fructose) in sodas and other fast and snack foods. This may have been the most significant development of all because fructose, according to Critser, is used by the body differently than other sugars and leads to changes in fat oxidation, insulin resistance and increased fat storage often resulting in Type 2 diabetes. (See pages 136-139 for how this apparently works.) Type 2 diabetes, long a threat to middle-aged, overweight men and women, is now a threat to children. Critser also points to the invasion of our schools by snack and fast food vendors as fostering the epidemic. They seduced financially-strapped school districts into allowing them to pepper the school with their ads and their products. TV advertising of junk foods to kids and the rise of sedentary video games are other factors. Shorter and non-existent physical education classes at our schools is perhaps as big a factor as any.
Furthermore, quite frankly, we were looking the other way. In particular, while feminists and others were obsessing over anorexia and bulimia (a tragic but minuscule problem compared to obesity) and calling fat a feminist issue (p. 123), the real truth of a fat epidemic was sweeping the land. While fashion magazines and Hollywood were being condemned for giving women body image problems, the real media blitz was going on all around us, especially on Saturday morning TV where the fast and junk food purveyors were indoctrinating our children into supersizing themselves.
What's to be done? Will the purveyors of high-fat, high-fructose foods be treated like the tobacco industry, their advertising drastically curtailed and their products demonized? Will home owners allow themselves to be taxed enough to pay for real physical education classes in our schools? Will being fat become such a social stigma that people will take it upon themselves to slim down? Critser sees education and parental involvement as the key to helping our kids avoid becoming overweight. I agree and believe that it will take nothing less than a sea change in our values from the worship of all things big to an appreciation of modesty and restraint and a realization that bigger is not necessarily better.
In addition to this well presented and readable book, I also highly recommend The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin (2002) by Ellen Ruppel Shell for another view on the epidemic.
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Thought provoking
A customer
on June 15, 2003
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Can I first just say, I LOVE the cover illustrations! The oh-so-sweet and pretty (but venemous) foodstuffs surrounding the perfect (placated?) baby. Very clever.
Now the book. Sometimes it gets a little too technical and I had to make an effort to read every line instead of glossing past the statistics to get to the point. All-in-all though, it's very interesting, and some of the statistics are truly shocking. The phenomena behind our increase in obesity was particularly interesting to me, because I have noticed it myself over the past 20 years and wondered what was going on. When I was young, hardly any kids were fat, and now there are so many overweight children (and, of course, adults.) It used to be mainly older sedentary people who gained weight, not young people. And any observant person can see it's primarily to do with junk food making it into the mainstream, but the author manages to explain the background and politics behind it, and takes it down to 2 or 3 of the biggest "evils" in our food system that have triggered the alarming cycle. Even if you think you already understand most of the issues, it's interesting to read some of the background and realize that we've been taken for a bit of a ride. It made my resolve even stronger not to fall prey to the soda, snack, and fast-food industries.
I was also interested in the various theories and statistics on how to deal with weight issues for children - whether to let children naturally regulate themselves or whether parents should impose rules around food and eating. If you're a parent, and you're trying to raise your children without food issues and eating problems, this book may provide some insight to help. Food for thought, anyway....
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We Are What We Can Afford to Be
Robert Morris
on January 7, 2003
Format: Hardcover
For those who have given little (if any) thought to obesity in the United States, Critser provides a wealth of information in this volume. I am impressed by the nature and extent of his research, less impressed by a few of his conclusions based on that research. He notes that 61% of Americans "are overweight enough to begin experiencing health problems as a direct result of that weight." Moreover, that "25% of those under 19 are overweight or obese." Critser offers a biological explanation for such alarming statistics (e.g. metabolic problems caused by increased consumption of fructose) during the emergence of what he calls a "new boundary-free culture" of self-gratification. Only in an affluent society such as ours could people afford to eat out (on average) three of every five meals when not munching on sugar- and fat-rich snack foods. Only in an affluent society such as ours could so many people afford to join and then remain a member of a fitness center.
Critser has done an excellent job of gathering, in a single source, so much information about these and other issues. Moderation is generally the best policy for most human activities. Perhaps after reading this book, those in urgent need of more physical exercise and/or healthier nutrition will take appropriate action. In most instances, it won't be easy. I have heard many people ask "Why is that everything that's so bad for me to eat tastes so good?" Good question. Critser is well-prepared to answer it. Even then, I suspect, the population of Fat Land will -- like most waist lines -- increase.
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No point in bickering over minutiae, America is too fat.
Edward H. Welbon
on May 28, 2003
Format: Hardcover
While it is indeed possible that some of the dietary recommendations in this book do not reflect the latest thinking, it is a plainly obvious to those who travel that Americans are fat and getting fatter. Bickering about the minutiae is pointless, those who have been following this topic for any time will know that the standard wisdom concerning nutrition is in a constant state of turmoil.
While it is sometimes difficult to both avoid junk foods and exercise adequately, those that do so consistently feel better, look healthier, are more stress resistant and are over all happier. Any study purporting to show the opposite does so only via faulty experimental design.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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Jason A. Tselentis
on February 10, 2004
Format: Hardcover
I felt guilty sitting on the couch reading this book. So I upped my cardiovascular workouts and began weight training. Then I questioned the food I put into my mouth. Will this book change your life like it did for me? Probably not, but it will empower you to question what goes into your tummy. Critser collects a wide range of facts, anecdotes, and myths about sugars, sodas, and fast food. In the end, you'll wonder if it's all really bad for you or if you've just been making bad choices.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Robert D. Merkamp
on March 5, 2003
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Great book on the American problem of obesity. Now if only getting out of this mess can go as easily (and painlessly) as we got into it.
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1. Seigneur-terraces (French)
Coffee shop dwellers who sit at tables a long time but spend little money.
This morning Mitt Romney tapped Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. John Nance Garner, FDR's first vice president, either said the VP position wasn't worth "a warm pitcher of piss" or "a warm bucket of spit." Whatever body fluid and receptacle he really used, you get the idea. But that doesn't mean there haven't been some wild scandals along the way.
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During World War II, the Allies famously tricked Hitler into believing that the First United States Army Group would invade France at Pas-de-Calais. The real invasion, of course, came at Normandy, and the First United States Army Group did not take part—mostly because it didn't actually exist.
Fake military units aren't the only thing the military is good at inventing. Sometimes it invents entire nations. When the U.S. Army trains for battle, it strives for immersion and realism. To help prepare... READ ON
Throwing rice at a newly married couple has been a tradition for thousands of years, possibly going back as far as the ancient Assyrians and Egyptians. The idea is to give the newlyweds good luck, fertility, and abundance using this symbol of a good crop. More recently, wedding meddlers have cautioned against throwing rice because it can kill birds who swoop down and eat it after the human revelers have left for the reception. The rice grains, absorbent as they are, supposedly start sucking up water in the... READ ON
For being such rare, magical creatures, gold medals seem to get second-rate treatment once they land in the hands of Olympians. You'd be surprised how many athletes either misplace them or shove them in a sock drawer. Here are a few athletes who got a little more creative with theirs.
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Olympic history books are filled with stories of amazing individual performances and team achievements. But from poorly conceived competitions to spectators attacking the judges, a lot of crazy stuff has happened in the Summer Olympics.
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The Oxford Dictionary Online is a warehouse of over 600,000 words. Despite this large arsenal, we continue to coin, clip, and blend new words into existence, and the Oxford folks pump some of these new words into their dictionaries. Here are some more recent additions with their official definitions.
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Okay I am going to start this with I am a snowboarder and this place sucks... Ps look at any other snow resorts amount of snow and then minus 5 and that is how much snow Winter park actually got. They will always claim they have more snow then every other resort and then when you get there you are boarding on hard packed pavement.
Lets start with the personality of the people working the lifts. It sucks. Never have I been to a resort where more lift operators had no personality or flat out angry and rude. The people inside had a alright personality though nothing that said nice.
The lifts when getting off of them are all uphill. I can strap into my snowboard on the lift. Most places have a decline when getting off the lift. This places is all up hill every single lift. Skiers can use there poles to get them to the edges boarders have to climb up a hill to get to the edge.
On the Mary Jane side there are some decent hills all moguled up and no terrain that is just steep and nice to ride on. The entire mountain no matter which side you are on goes from maybe thirty feet of down hill to flat forever. Prepare to stay on one edge if you are a boarder. Most of your visit here. You will find one or two tree runs but either getting there or finding them will have you so frustrated that you will have wanted to give up for hours. Every where you go you have to use mountain roads hard packed and flat to get there.
Last and this is nothing against skiers but there are a ton of beginner skiers that like the flats and push themselves back and forth on the flats using there poles. The one area you can get away from them is the Mary Jane side and I personally like moguls but the down side is that they are tightly packed and are difficult to navigate with a snowboard. Much easier for skiers then for boarders.
Overall since they can't even tell the truth about how much snow they have gotten, have crappy lifts and lift operators, most of the mountain is flat and access roads, Long flat areas where you have to get out of your snowboard just to get to the lift so you can go up the mountain to walk up the mountain. I will not be back unless they give me a free pass I will snowboard a crap resort for free. But they are going to have to pay for my gas to get there as well. Ohh and my lunch.
Last but not least this is a mountain better suited for skiers. There is nothing wrong with that. Don't catch a complex skiers. But unless you have poles to push yourself around with and enjoy a up body workout then this place completely, absolutely sucks.
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I have very simple HTML website with a button which takes you a specific book link on amazon.com. But I would now like to make the link a bit more sophisticated - if the visitor is from the UK, I would like the button to take them to the same book on amazon.co.uk. Is there a simple way to do this?
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Did you ever wonder if education has a role to play in stemming the obesity epidemic sweeping across all OECD countries? Or what the impact of increasing urbanisation might be on our schools, families, and communities?
Research shows that programmes to improve adults' basic skills need to use awareness-raising measures (like the adult education weeks promoted in Denmark and Finland) and national campaigns (as conducted in France and Luxembourg) to encourage interested, but reluctant adults to participate.
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This review describes variations in, and evidence for, pedagogical approaches in formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings; how pedagogy is monitored; and which policies affect pedagogical practice. Its specific focus is on comparisons of England (United Kingdom) with Japan, France, Germany, Denmark and New Zealand.
The use of ICT for students' projects or class work is an active teaching practice that promotes skills for students' lifelong success.
Les réformes menées en France vont dans la bonne direction mais il est nécessaire de les poursuivre pour diminuer les inégalités en croissance dans l'éducation et inverser la courbe de l'échec scolaire.
In 2012, in more than one-third of OECD countries, over half of all upper secondary students participated in pre-vocational or vocational programmes but less than 30% of those students were exposed to work-based learning. Countries with well-established and high-quality vocational and apprenticeship programmes have improved youth employment opportunities.
One of the most dramatic consequences of the economic crisis has been the soaring levels of youth unemployment in several OECD countries; and the hesitant recovery of the past years was insufficient to improve the job prospects of young people.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) permeate every aspect of our lives, from how we work, to how we "talk" with friends, to how we participate in political processes. But what are the returns to "digital skills" – the capacity to use digital devices and applications to access and manage information and solve problems – on the labour market? Do they help land a job or earn higher wages?
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Norway's early childhood education and care (ECEC) system has experienced a strong expansion over the last decade. More children than ever are enrolled in its kindergartens.
Countries and economies participating in PISA have invested substantial resources and used a wide variety of strategies during the past ten years to improve the quality of their schools. Have these efforts paid off?


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#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson creates her most electrifying thriller to date, as a mother's unspeakable crime sparks a new killing spree. . .
The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her daughter and wounding her two other children.
Now Blondell's son, Niall, has recanted his testimony and demolished the case in the process. Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the true story, and not just for professional reasons. Blondell's murdered daughter, Amity, was Nikki's childhood friend.
Nikki's fianc, Detective Pierce Reed, is concerned she may be compromising the case. As she digs for answers during one of the most sweltering summers in Savannah's history, he also worries for her safety. Everyone involved seems to have secrets, . And somehow, the events of that tragic night connect to Nikki's own fractured family. But now the killing has begun again. Is Amity's murderer still at large, or is this a new, darker danger?
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Possible human remains found during investigation into missing Toledo toddler Elaina Steinfurth
TOLEDO, Ohio - Toledo police found a box of possible human remains while investigating new information in the disappearance of missing toddler Elaina Steinfurth.
The 19-month-old was reported missing on June 2, and searches of her neighbor and Maumee River turned up nothing.
Toledo police said they executed a search warrant at a house on Federal Street Thursday afternoon. The home belongs to Steven King, the estranged boyfriend of Elaina's mother. King was charged with obstruction of justice on July 22 in the case.
The Lucas County Coroner's office said the box removed from area on Thursday contains what appear to be human remains. An autopsy is scheduled.
Toledo police said they will release more information during a news conference on Friday.
Elaina's mother, Angela Steinfurth, was arrested for obstruction of justice in June.
Police said they are handling Elaina's disappearance as a homicide investigation.
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A request to accept $75,725 in federal grant money to pay the salaries of officers in the Levy County Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force 19 was approved by the Levy County Board of Commissioners at its meeting on Tuesday.
Levy County Sheriff's Maj. Evan Sullivan said the money distributed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement will not cover all the salaries but he said it helped county taxpayers to get the money from Washington, D.C.
Inmate medical in the red
Normally (depending on which definition of normal you are using), I am not given to much grumbling. I do admit to every now and then exercising my right to complain a little, but it is not anything to write home about.
If you would inquire with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage she might have a different opinion altogether. It seems that the only thing we really agree on is that we do not agree on too much. Our biggest disagreement would be in this area of grumbling.
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Sorry it has taken so long for me to get back to "normal" after the tremendous time we had during EncountErfEst '10.
I wanted to say a great big "Thank you" from all of the staff at North Chiefland Church of God for your support, thoughts and prayers.
The Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge hosts a free Youth Hunt Dec. 11 and 12 this year. Youth hunters 15 and younger can have their parent or a hunting mentor call the Lower Suwannee NWR to reserve one of the 100 permits.
Bronson UMC holds yard sale
The AE Circle of the Bronson United Methodist Church will sponsor a yard sale on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the recreation hall. Look for signs. Proceeds will benefit the church, which is remodeling a kitchen.
Church screening "To Save a Life"
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Farm Credit of North Florida, Farm Credit of Southwest Florida and Farm Credit of South Florida are pursuing a merger.
The associations have signed onto a Letter of Intent to Merge — the initial step in collecting, analyzing and providing information regarding the merger's advantages and disadvantages.
Farm Credit's cooperative structure allows its' members to have the final vote of approval through a proxy mail voting process.
Nancy Bell, the incumbent County Commissioner for District 2, has announced her candidacy for re-election as a Democrat in the Nov. 2 general election. Bell has been chair of the Levy County Board of County Commissioners since November 2008 and was re-elected in 2009 and 2010.
In her announcement, Bell said:
I pride myself on my integrity and I strive to always do the right thing when representing the residents of my county. For years, I have voted to keep your taxes low by fighting for fiscal responsibility through prudent spending of your tax dollars.
William Brown stood up at Tuesday's Levy County Commission meeting, and by the time he yielded the floor he had three accomplishments to his book.
Brown, co-founder of The Children's Table, first introduced the commission to Tyler Beauchamp, son of Mickey and Cheryl Beauchamp, of Bronson.
Young Beauchamp is a member of the Future Farmers of America and as a project planted and harvested seven acres of peas for Children's Table to be distributed to feed families in need. Brown presented Beauchamp with a plaque honoring his gift.
Tourism board to meet
The Levy County Tourist Development Council will hold its bi-monthly meeting at 6 p.m. at the Levy County Visitors Bureau, 620 N. Hathaway Ave., Bronson. The meeting is open to the public.
Chicken 'n' dumplings at Shrine Club
The Suwannee River Shrine Club will hold a chicken 'n' dumpling dinner from 5 to 7:30 p.m. or until the food runs out. Dinner is available to eat in or take out. The suggested donation is $7 for all you can eat. The public is welcome.
The Annual Gulf Hammock Homecoming and Smallwood Reunion will be held on Saturday, Oct. 9, beginning at 10 a.m. at Henry Beck Park in Gulf Hammock.
Lunch will be at 1 p.m. Plates, utensils, cups, tea, and ice will be furnished. Those participating are asked to please bring a covered dish and chairs. Friends, relatives, residents, and former residents of Gulf Hammock are invited.
For more information, please call Amelia at 352-629-4438, Abby at 850-997-5153 or Donald at 225-698-9435.
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Older Mothers Have Higher Risk of Miscarriage
Andrea Kott, a 42-year old medical writer in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y, who had both of her children in her late 30s, says she thinks some women wait because they want to be in the best possible place in their lives before starting a family and want to feel that they have reached their career potential.
"For me, having kids was a reflection of being in a good personal place," she says. "Where I live, I'm not in a minority; most of my peers with young kids are around the same age as me." But she admits that staying fit and healthy is a priority when you're over 40 and have small kids.
Perloe, the fertility specialist, says while pregnancy at any age is a very personal choice, women need to know their risks and their chances of success early enough that they can keep all their options open.
"There are benefits for women who want to have kids early and there are benefits for women who want to have kids late, as well as disadvantages," he says. "But I think anyone entering into this ought to consider the ramifications of putting off having kids."
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PlayStation Network down for extended maintenance
The 14 hour PlayStation Network downtime which was postponed last week is now in effect.
According to the US PS Blog, the scheduled downtime kicked off at noon PST on Sunday, and is expected to run until at least 2:00AM PST On March 5, putting the end time at 5:00AM EST, 10:00AM GMT and 9:00PM AEST.
No explanation has been given for the outage beyond a description of it as "significant".
Unusually, the downtime will also affect the PlayStation family of websites, will boot off those already signed into the PSN, and shut down all services, including those which normally continue functioning during maintenance windows.
The maintenance had been scheduled for one of Sony's usual Thursday slots but was inexplicably pushed back, possibly due to its conflict with peak gaming time – although Sunday afternoon and evening downtime will probably rile our US friends somewhat.
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100 Tests in 12 Hours in Texas, And Other National HIV Test Day Events in U.S.
Time to get tested! Today is National HIV Testing Day, an annual campaign started two decades ago by the National Association of People with AIDS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge everyone to "Take the Test, Take Control." The CDC recommends annual testing for those who are not considered a high risk group, and more frequent testing for those who are in that high-risk group or have sex with people who are. Organizations across the nation have planned events from free HIV testing marathons to film screenings all aimed at educating and encouraging testing.
Here are just a small sample of the many (often monthlong) activities.
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IBM vs. TurboHercules: Our Story Thus Far...
IBM sees the Hercules mainframe emulator as a source of competition. TurboHercules thinks they're simply leveling the playing field.
Earlier this week it was made public that IBM had levied patent infringement allegations against French company TurboHercules and its mainframe emulator. A letter signed by IBM VP and technology officer Mark S. Anzani and addressed to TurboHercules co-founder Roger Bowler detailed the more than 170 patents the company allegedly infringed upon. The problem: two of the patents in question were part of a 500-patent access pledge made by IBM in 2005.
Roger Bowler and other members of the open source community fear that IBM wants to break the pledge in order to maintain its choke-hold on mainframes and licensing. "Mainframes are now so deeply embedded in the infrastructure of modern society that they are too important to be left in the hands of a single company (IBM)," Bowler wrote in a blog on the TurboHercules site.
Unsurprisingly, IBM sees it differently. "TurboHercules is a member of organizations that are founded and financed by IBM competitors such as Microsoft. We severely question TurboHercules' motives," IBM submitted in their official response to Linux Magazine.
Bowler has responded by submitting an antitrust complaint to the European Commission in Brussels against IBM in March 2010. He maintains that the goal of TurboHercules is to "reestablish a free and fair competitive market for IBM mainframes. Mainframe users ought to have the right to choose what hardware they want to run their programs on."
The Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin posted a note on the site's blog from Daniel Frye, VP, Open Systems Development at IBM that reasserted the terms of the pledge and stated that the pledge itself is not in danger of being dissolved.
Hercules is currently under the Q Public License, which recognized by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
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The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package
SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
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The Auriou cabinetmaker's rasp, handcrafted in France since 1856, has a coarse grain for virtually effortless wood shaping. Grinding out, or "stitching," each tooth by hand produces an exactitude unmatched by machine-cut rasps, which can leave a surface torn and frayed. From Lee Valley Tools.
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Example: I've setup blog-1 and blog-2; if now I have http://www.domain.com and I see blog-1 I'd like to have http://www.domain.com and see blog-2.
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Gamo Whisper Silent Cat Pellet Gun
NOW: $169.99 (29% off!)
Was: $239.99*
Standard Ground Service Available (normally $5.99)
Product Information:
The Gamo® Whisper Silent Cat .177 Caliber Air Rifle with Scope has the ability to shoot pellets up to 1200 fps with deadly accuracy. This powerful .177 caliber gun features a spring piston break barrel with a single shot, making it perfect for large pest control or target shooting. While shooting, use the 4x32 air rifle scope to help acquire your target and enhance your shooting at farther distances.
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NOTICE: We recommend the use of protective eyewear whenever using or near the use of this item.
- Gamo Whisper Silent Cat Air Rifle
- Spring piston break barrel single shot air rifle with scope
- Perfect for large pest control and small game hunting
- All-weather synthetic stock and a fluted, polymer jacketed rifled steel barrel
- Automatic cocking safety system
- Manual trigger safety
- Second stage adjustable trigger
- Non-removable noise dampener (with up to 52% reduction)
- Twin cheek pads for comfortable ambidextrous shooting
- Rubber pad for recoil absorption
- Fiber optic front and rear sights
- Grooved receiver accommodates airgun scope
- Raised rail scope ramp
- Includes 4x32 air rifle scope with 1-pice mount
- Shoots up to 1200 fps with PBA, 1000 fps with lead
- Model: 6110072154
- Gamo
- Velocity: 1200 fps
- Capacity: Single shot
- Power Source: Spring piston
- Caliber: .177
- Ammunition: Pellet
- Barrel: Fluted, polymer jacketed rifled steel
- Stock: Tough all-weather synthetic stock
- Length: 46 inches
- Weight: 5.28 lbs.
- Barrel Length: 18 inches
- Cocking Effort: 30 lbs.
- Trigger Pull: 3.79 lbs.
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NOTICE: We recommend the use of protective eyewear whenever using or near the use of this item.
Country of Origin: SpainWeb ID: 13220023
Customer Reviews:
Rated 4.3 out of 5�by 43 reviewers.
Rated 3 out of 5�by Tyswife Very loud I bought this gun for my husband. I bought this particular one because it's supposed to be very quiet. It definitely is not quiet. June 16, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5�by Rob Quiet gun with the right ammo This gun is extremely accurate right out of the box. I put on a different scope and its holds a quarter size group at 40 yards. A lot of people complain about how loud this gun is. As long as you are using a heavier grain lead pellet,it is very quiet. I highly recommend crosman 10.5 grain magnum pellets April 6, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5�by BILL Execelant! This air rifle has an adjustable trigger and is so easy to use. Just one pump.powered with the proper pellet it reaches 1625fps. THE PERFECT FARMENT RIFLE IN THE SUBURBS. I LOVE IT! March 27, 2016
Rated 1 out of 5�by JiminOh Junk Could possibly be the biggest piece of junk I ever had the displeasure of purchasing. 1. The "thing" on the end of the barrel looks cool. Does nothing to make the gun quieter. I read the reviews about break in oil and lead vs PBA. Maybe those guys work for Gamo. I used Barracuda Hunter Extreme lead and ran 20 shots through. As loud or louder than my gamo without the toy at the end of the barrel. 2. Rear iron site moves - on some sort of spring or something making it impossible to get a consistent shot. 3. Scope mounts are junk as is the scope. Have to remove the iron site to use the scope. After that the scope still sits so low that the toy at the end of the barrel interferes with your line of site. Not only would I NOT recommend this product, I will never buy another Gamo product based on the fact that this product marketing lead me to believe the gun was quieter than a normal Gamo. In my opinion it is such a piece of low quality garbage. It might be worth $40. VERY disappointed! March 22, 2016
Rated 4 out of 5�by Biloxi Accurate right out of the box I will give the rifle 4 stars. It is accurate right out of the box. with a little twinking with the iron sights I was hitting dead center bulleyes at 17 yards after 5 shots. The scope is a piece of junk would get it zeroed and the next shot would would knock it out of zero. Could not keep it zeroed so took the scope off and threw it away. Other wise a good pellet rifle. Lose a star for the scope. January 12, 2016
Rated 3 out of 5�by Ben Ok but tough for 11 tr old This gun works pretty much as advertised except for two things...1) given it is spring loaded, the "silent" part is not true and therefore the silencer is probably more for show than anything. It is however not very loud so not a big deal. And....2) it is a tough gun to cock for a smaller kid and so it will be tough for him to do it on his own. Hopefully it will loosen up significantly with more use. January 11, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5�by Swatkat68 Excellent and Accurate I bought this rifle about a year ago and it is amazing! I've had a couple more expensive air rifles, but they couldn't touch this one. I got it sighted in with three rounds and it is amazingly accurate. It is also very quiet compared to other air rifles in its class, although this varies with the type of ammo. It works best with Gamo or Benjamin. I outfitted mine with a bipod and it really is fun to target shoot. I've put at least 800 rounds through it and it still shoots just as strong. Very well made. September 16, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5�by Wiz99 Very Very Quiet with the right pellets i have read reviews about the noise. DO NOT USE THE PBA pellets if you want it whisper quiet. Use any lead pellet and you will be amazed! I am using lead pellets which travel slower than 1100fps which is a sound barrier. If you use the PBA pellets and max the gun out at 1250 fps then you are exceeding the sound barrier and thus the louder sound. I highly recommend this gun. It only took 6-8 rounds to sight in the scope perfectly. July 26, 2015
Rated 3 out of 5�by Earplugs2 Not exactly Whisper Silent... This ended up being much louder than advertised. As a gun, it is fine. Just change the name or drop the Whisper Silent from it. April 22, 2015
Rated 1 out of 5�by ljfkd nice rifle but horrible accuracy Never could site it in so had to return. At 15 yards the best we could do is keep most of the shots in a 12 inch circle. Tried several different brands of pellets. March 15, 2015


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It's True: Frequent Sex is Healthy Sex
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When Do U.S. Youths Start Oral Sex, Intercourse?
Aug. 16, 2012 -- Which do teens do first: oral sex or sexual intercourse? Do teens use oral sex to delay first intercourse? New CDC data put numbers on how many young Americans in their teens and early 20s have oral sex with opposite-sex partners -- and when they do it. The numbers come from 6,346 iRead Full Article
PTSD Treatment and Couples Therapy Go Hand in Hand
Aug. 14, 2012 -- For people with posttraumatic stress disorder, going to couples counseling with their partner may ease their PTSD symptoms -- and help their relationship, a new study shows. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, used a specialized form of couples tRead Full Article
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G-Spot Found?
April 25, 2012 -- The elusive G-spot has been called the UFO of gynecology -- but now a retired surgeon says he has photographic proof it exists. The alleged G-spot is a tiny bunch-of-grapes-like structure within a bluish sac buried deep within the front wall of the vagina, says Adam Ostrzenski, MD,Read Full Article
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You've been framed!
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A nice way to bring those family photos out of the albums or off the computer is to hang them in a wall collage. And at Target, they have several cool frame choices for either individual pictures or …
What time is it?
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Looking for a wall piece that isn't framed art? How about a clock: something decorative and functional at the same time. I found several styles, sizes and colors at Target: …
Stickley's awesome showroom
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When it comes to heirloom quality furniture right in our own back yard, look no further than Stickley's showroom on Wolf Road. Recently renovated, there are loads of beautiful and unusual pieces that …
Crystal chandelier bling
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Who doesn't love a little bling in their chandelier? HGTV maven Candace Olsen calls a touch of crystal in your lighting "jewelry" for your decor, and I agree. I found several great choices at SHE …
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A great addition to your lighting plan is a ceiling fan. Used most often in bedrooms, they are great on porches and decks, or is great rooms with high ceilings to help air circulation. There are …
Shed some light
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Released: Aug 01st, 2006
Running Time: 85
Company: Demolition Video
Cast: Jassie (I), Jules Van Saint, Charmane Star, Katsuni, Kurt Lockwood, Jayna Woods, Avena Lee, Kimberly Kane, Melissa Lauren, Lee Stone, Sammie (I), Nadia Sinn, Dakota (I), Sandra Romain, Others
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Gonzo
From Demolition Video, Blow Me 5 is a 12-girl oral exercise; and – at only 85 minutes – each starlet gets about seven minutes? camera-time. Surely, the uncredited males ought to hold out longer than that (but, with girls as hot as the credited cast, who can blame ?em?).
Asian Avena Lee locks up Kurt's wood in scene one, and he returns the favor, burying his face in her parted twat. Regulars Melissa Lauren and Sandra Romain suck like always, and here-today-gone-tomorrow Jassie makes a rare appearance. Deep throating Katsumi is a highlight, as is newcomer Dakota (though she doesn't take her top off).
Overall, the production is well done but painfully standard. All the scenes repeat the same introductory formula, and a handful of trailers don't compensate.
But, as Popeyes and pirates the world over say, "Yo, ho, blow the man down." And, of course, she does.
Retailing: For fans of the cast and b.j. diehards.


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Charles B. Reed
|Charles B. Reed
|Chancellor of the California State University System
|In office
|Preceded by
|Barry Munitz
|Succeeded by
|Timothy P. White
|Chancellor of the State University System of Florida
|In office
|Preceded by
|Barbara W. Newell
|Succeeded by
|Adam W. Herbert
|Chief of Staff to the Governor of Florida
|In office
|Personal details
|Charles Bass Reed
September 29, 1941
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
|Catherine Sayers Reed
|Alma mater
|George Washington University
|Academic Administrator
|Chancellor Charles B. Reed
Charles Bass Reed (born September 29, 1941)[1] served as chancellor of the State University System of Florida from 1985 to 1998 and chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system from 1998 to 2012.
Early life, education, and career[edit]
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,[1] Reed grew up in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and was the eldest of seven children. His father, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, was a civil engineer and construction supervisor. Reed played football in high school.[2] Eventually, he earned a full athletic scholarship to George Washington University and received three degrees there: a B.S. in physical education (1963), M.A. in secondary education (1964), and Ed.D. in teacher education (1970).[3][4] From 1984 to 1985, Reed was chief of staff for Florida Governor Bob Graham. From 1985 to 1998, Reed served as the chancellor of the State University System of Florida.
California State University chancellor[edit]
As the former chancellor of the California State University system, Reed oversaw 44,000 faculty and staff and 427,000 students on 23 campuses and seven off-campus centers. The CSU, which spans the entire state of California, had an annual budget of more than $5 billion at its peak, but recent budget cuts have significantly reduced this figure.[4] An appointed Board of Trustees adopts rules, regulations, and policies governing the CSU.[5]
In March 2012, Reed was awarded the prestigious TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence, which is named in honor of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. In deciding the award, the judges cited Reed's commitment to students as chancellor of the CSU, where he has successfully steered the system's 23 campuses through state budget cuts while simultaneously meeting the complex demands of increasing enrollment. In addition, they highlighted Reed's efforts to build collaborative partnerships and award-winning outreach programs – particularly those dedicated to students from underserved backgrounds – that have received national acclaim. They also acknowledged his support of a number of multi-campus initiatives to improve research and instruction, and benefit local businesses and communities. Reed pledged the $20,000 prize from the Hesburgh Award to the William Randolph Hearst CSU Trustee's Scholarship fund. He and his wife Cathy have donated almost $90,000 to the scholarship fund since 1998.[6]
In 2008, Reed was awarded the Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education for his work in paving the way for increased higher education access and success for U.S. students. Judges specifically noted his efforts to reach out to students from under-represented African American, Hispanic, Native American and Asian populations. One indicator of success was an increase of 6.5 percent in the enrollment of African American students at the CSU from 2006 to 2007; an increase in Hispanic enrollment of 9.5 percent; and an increase of Native American enrollment of 8.2 percent.[7]
Reed is credited for his strong outreach to K-12 and incoming college students. During his tenure, he led the creation of the Early Assessment Program, a partnership with the California Department of Education and California's State Board of Education to provide an early warning system on students' readiness for college.[8] This statewide assessment is designed to test students'proficiency in mathematics and English and to reduce the likelihood that students will have to take remedial classes once they enter college. The program embeds a voluntary college-placement exam in the state testing program required of all 11th-grade students, using the CSU's admissions placement standards in math and English. The "early" component of the program—testing in the 11th grade, rather than the 12th—-provides students an opportunity to make gains in areas of weakness during their senior year. It was cited by the Commission on the Future of Higher Education as "one of the best national models of how higher-education and K–12 officials can collaborate to help students."[9]
Reed has also led the CSU in outreach to students from traditionally under-served populations. During his tenure, the CSU created the Super Sunday outreach program, which aims to provide college information to students and their families at predominantly African-American churches throughout California. In February 2012, more than 100 Super Sunday events were held throughout the state, reaching more than 100,000 churchgoers. The annual Super Sunday effort appears to have made an impact; notably, during the open application months of October and November 2011, the CSU received 16,588 applications from individuals self-identifying as African American, representing an increase of nearly 1,000 from the prior year.[10]
In 2005, Reed helped the CSU secure one of the most significant changes since the formation of the university system in 1960: the statutory authority to grant the independent doctor of education (Ed.D.) degree in educational leadership.[11] Thirteen CSU campuses currently offer the Ed.D., with three more programs in the planning process or in joint programs. These doctoral programs are directly responsive to regional needs and are characterized by strong partnerships with P-12 and community college practitioners. Currently 702 educational leaders are enrolled in these programs.[12]
During his administration, the CSU developed an integrated technology system for all the campuses and the Chancellor's Office, which became known as the Common Management System or CMS. Prior to the CMS project, the campuses had individual "legacy" systems in the areas of financials and student administration, but no system in human resources. The systems differed by campus, were antiquated, and often were not integrated; additionally many were obsolete and no longer serviced by vendors. They did not provide the level of service needed to run a system of the size and scope of the CSU. It was concluded that it was more cost-effective and beneficial to acquire and implement a new system common to all the campuses than to have a patchwork of outdated individual systems.[13] A review by the California Bureau of State Audit determined the Chancellor's Office did not do a cost-benefit analysis or feasibility study before proceeding. Nevertheless, the CSU used the audit's recommendations to improve the implementation of the system.[14]
Reed has been criticized during his tenure. The San Francisco Chronicle in 2009 questioned his hiring of outside consultants to track legislation. Current and past university officials stated that the practice was necessary due to the size and complexity of policy and budget matters facing the system.[15] Others have raised pointed questions about the deteriorating conditions of the CSU's faculty under his leadership. The CSU system's total number of tenure track faculty was at its lowest level in over a decade by the final year of Reed's term in office, and made up just 42% of the system's total faculty.[16] This decline has made CSU faculty some of the worst paid teachers in the state of California. According to the California Faculty Association (CFA) report, "Race to the Bottom: CSU's 10-Year Failure to Fund Its Core Mission", during Reed's administration "Over the past decade— in good times and bad, whether state funding was up or down, when tuition was raised and when it wasn't— CSU expenditures on faculty salaries have remained essentially flat... When compared to other university systems around the country, and to every education segment in California, the CSU stands out for its unparalleled failure to improve faculty salaries or even to protect them from the ravages of inflation... On average, CSU faculty earn $45,000 per year in pay before taxes and other deductions with more than 50 percent of CSU faculty making less than $38,000 in gross earnings per year."[17]
Reed serves on the boards or in other leadership capacities for many organizations including Urban Serving Universities, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, the National Center for Educational Accountability, The College Board, and EdVoice. He has served internationally and nationally as a consultant, conference leader, and keynote speaker on education and related subjects.[4]
On May 24, 2012, after 14 years as CSU chancellor, Reed announced his retirement, leaving office at the end of December 2012, being replaced by Timothy P. White.
- ^ a b Charles Bass Reed entry, Who's Who in American Education. Accessed via LexisNexis.
- ^ Weiss, Kenneth R. (November 28, 1999). "Tough Guys Don't Dance". Los Angeles Times Magazine. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
- ^ Nevin, Miles (January 27, 2009). "Chancellor Charles B. Reed, Ten Years Later". Long Beach Post. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
- ^ a b c "California State University, Chancellor's Biography".
- ^ "California State University, About the Board of Trustees".
- ^ http://www.calstate.edu/pa/News/2012/Story/HesburghAward.shtml
- ^ http://investor.mcgraw-hill.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96562&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1199914&highlight=
- ^ http://www.calstate.edu/eap/
- ^ http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/final-report.pdf
- ^ http://www.calstate.edu/pa/News/2012/Release/supersunday2012.shtml
- ^ http://www.calstate.edu/pa/news/2005/EdDok.shtml
- ^ http://www.calstate.edu/app/EdD/
- ^ http://www.calstate.edu/pa/news/2003/CMSaudit.shtml
- ^ http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2002-110.pdf
- ^ Doyle, Jim (July 6, 2009). "CSU chancellor hires 2 lobbyists without bids". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ http://www.calstate.edu/hr/employee-profile/documents/fall2012csuprofiles.pdf
- ^ http://www.calfac.org/race-to-the-bottom