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Bridesmaid bums: One weird wedding trend
Before Beyonce took the stage wearing a backside-baring leotard, bridesmaids had adopted a similar trend.
A plethora of wedding photos have popped up on Reddit, a user-generated social networking site, showing bridesmaids with their dresses tucked into their knickers, as if by accident after going to the toilet.
We aren't sure why this is a trend, but, it certainly isn't the first of its kind. Other unusual trends include:
Trashing the dress
Forget about the time and money a bride spends finding the perfect dress. Once the big day is over, so too is the dress for some. From climbing trees, to covering it in paint and even setting it on fire, some brides are opting to ''trash'' their wedding dress once the formalities are out of the way.
The bride posing as the groom and vice versa
Bridal parties partial to a bit of roleplay are swapping poses. The groomsmen hold the bouquets and they gather around the groom, who is pretending to be the bride.
Bride's bouquet replaced by flying cats
A website takes your average ''bride throws the bouquet'' shot and replaces it with a flying cat.
But don't worry. ''No cats were harmed in the making of this Tumblr and we certainly don't encourage anyone to throw a cat ever, let alone on their wedding day,'' the website says.
Hiring a professional bridesmaid
Lastly, not so much a wedding photo trend but still worth mentioning is hiring a professional bridesmaid. One such is a New York writer, Jen Glantz.
After being asked to be a bridesmaid twice in less than 48 hours, Glantz considers herself a professional.
''People were nicknaming me a professional bridesmaid, so I said, why not try to do this for other women?'' she told Daily Life.
''I honestly wasn't sure. I figured half the people out there would think I was crazy and half of them would respond with a 'are you for real?'''
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The Pacers ground out a Game 2 victory over Washington under must-win pressure, just as they did in Games 6 and 7 against Atlanta in the opening playoff series.
Now comes two games in Washington, starting tonight. Winning at least won and they regain the home-court advantage they lost with the Game 1 defeat. Win two and they're in total control of the seven-game series.
"We have to bring it," George says.
It starts with defense. Indiana earned the Eastern Conference's No. 1 seed by shutting teams down, and that won't change now. The Pacers are not an offensive juggernaut even with center Roy Hibbert regaining his form. They held the Wizards to 5-for-21 three-point shooting, and if some of that was due to Washington just missing shots, well, Indiana will take it.
"We came out aggressive," forward David West says. "We have to continue doing that."
Indiana coach Frank Vogel has preached good starts and on Monday, the Pacers listened. They jumped ahead by eight points early, and that was decisive in their 86-82 victory.
"We can't dig holes," West said. "We can let teams run off points and then we're fighting up hill."
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It's easier when Hibbert starts strong, as he did by scoring the game's first five points Monday night en route to a 28-point, nine-rebound performance. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Hibbert is the fifth player in league history to go from scoring zero points in one postseason game to scoring at least 28 points in the next game.
"Nobody expected him to go off like that," Washington center Marcin Gortat says. "It's most important for me to do a better job of limiting him (tonight)."
While repeating that offensive performance is unlikely — Hibbert averaged 13 points during the regular season — Indiana will need another strong showing from him.
"When you're his size (7-2, 290 pounds) and he's got a foot in the paint," West said, "it's a rule of ours that he has to touch the ball."
Washington, meanwhile, looks for a two-game home sweep to put maximum pressure on Indiana.
"We're not down," guard Bradley Beal says. "We're still confident. We have two great games at home with our crowd behind us. We hope to use that to our advantage."
Making free throws, Gortat says, would help. They were 5-for-12 from the line on Monday night.
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This panorama shows the inside of the church of Saint Pierre de Montmartre. It is much less visited than the Sacre Coeur Basilica which is next door. The interior of the church is quite dark, but there are interesting modern stained glass windows. This picture was taken near the apse of the church.
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Saint Pierre de Montmartre is the lesser known of the two main churches on Montmartre in Paris, the other being the Basilica of the Sacré-Coeur, which stands on the top of Willette Square. The church of Saint Pierre de Montmartre is very close to the market in Place du Tertre. The church played an important part in the founding of the Jesuit order.
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1. Maddan, Walker, and Miller reference studies from the 1950s when they say that "the Gluecks concluded that there is no combination of physical traits and sociological traits which could predict delinquency in an individual." How do such findings support the position of Maddan et al.?
2. What does Barry mean when he says that perhaps it is time for the CIA to be directed by "a professional with a set term that doesn't coincide with presidential elections"? How worthy an idea do you believe this to be?
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1. This is an accurate portrayal of the lack of evidence supporting some who would propose to use physical traits that typically emanate from racist ideologies or social stigmas to classify certain groups as more prone to criminality. No such evidence exists wherein a person's future criminality can be predicted by the area they live in or the physical characteristics they have in common with others from their racial or ethnic group that have committed crimes. Crime is relative to the laws of nature wherein people make individual decisions ...
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I had an open rhinoplasty 9 days ago. I love how my nose looks from the front, but from the side it looks very long and pointy. The tip of my nose is very hard. The tip of my nose looks very long and pointy. Is it because the tip of swollen? Is the tip will ever come down and will make my nose look shorter. If not is it hard to fix it.
My Nose Looks Very Long 9 Days After the Nose Job.
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Pointy Nose After Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty is one of the more difficult surgeries to perform. Part of the reason for this is the need to shape the nose so that the final appearance is acceptable. This means that certain problems must initially be overcorrected in anticipation of changes associated with healing. Normally, the tip of the nose will settle in during the post-op period. To account for this, the projection of the nose is initially placed further out, giving a pointy appearance to the tip. As you heal, this will be pulled back in. Try and be patient and allow your body to heal but it is best to address this concern with your surgeon at your next visit.
Changes in the nose following rhinoplasty
Hello and thanks for the question. At nine days following rhinoplasty, it is very early in the healing process. At this point the entire nose is swollen which causes the nose to appear larger than it will be in the upcoming days to weeks. Additionally, swelling in the columella (between the nostrils) and even the upper lip can cause the nose to appear more rotated (upturned) than it will as the swelling subsides. I advise patients to wait 10-12 days before returning to work or social activities if they want to "get away with" having undergone nasal surgery.
Depending on the techniques used during your surgery, I would expect the nose to drop to some extent and appear smaller all around. You should discuss your concerns with your surgeon and wait several months to a year to fully assess your outcome. There are certainly revision rhinoplasty maneuvers which your surgeon can utilize to address your concerns, if they persist at that time.
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Long Nose 9 Days Post Rhinoplasty
Everything you describe is normal. The tip is hard and swollen 9 days after surgery. Wait 6-9 months before evaluating your result. If your nose is long at that time, it is relatively easy to shorten it. Patience is necessary.i
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Give it time
It is too early to judge the results of rhinoplasty. I suggest you discuss your concerns with your surgeon. Your nose is still swollen and swelling is usually more and takes longer to resolve after open rhinoplasty.
Pointy long nose after surgery
It is very common for the tip to be stiff and over-projected (pointy) in the few weeks after surgery - it will typically relax considerably over time
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Pointy nose
These are very normal findings. Open rhinoplasty typically results in more tip swelling and firmness initially. Also stronger "structural" techniques are used which can cause a sense of firmness as well. These changes resolve over the healing process. You'll see a big difference in another 2-3 weeks and then slower more gradual changes over the next 9-12 months.
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Long Nose Following Rhinoplasty
9 days is still soon after your surgery, and the presence of swelling is affecting the appearance of your nose. The final result of your rhinoplasty may not be evident until 18-24 months following surgery. 70% of the swelling is resolved after the first 3 months, and the remainder of the swelling goes down over time. Please discuss any concerns with your surgeon, as he/she knows the extent of your surgery and exactly what was performed. Thank you for the question, and best of luck to you.
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Long Nose Immediately After Open Rhinoplasty
Hi Kako,
Sad patients are often asked, "Why the long face?", guess in your case it is, "Why the long nose?" It is too soon after your surgery to make any remarks about your nose on this forum. Discuss your questions and concerns with you rhinoplasty surgeon...and keep your chin up. Good luck and be well.
Dr. P
Nose pointy and long after open rhinoplasty.
The nasal tip can be hard 9 days after an Open Rhinoplasty due to post operative swelling. This will resolve slowly over the next several months and should be mostly gone by 6 months. The length (tip rotation) of the nose however may or may not change. Since there's no picture, I can councel you on this but do suggest that you ask your surgeon during your next postop Rhinoplasty visit. You are very early in the postop healing phase so don't freak out just yet...give yourself time to heal.
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Non-defense discretionary spending makes up only 15 percent of the U.S. federal budget. And international family planning and reproductive health? Just .03 percent.
Yet these programs are still targeted by Congress by disproportionate cuts, undermining one of our country's most cost-effective and successful foreign assistance investments. USAID data from seven countries shows that for every dollar invested in family planning and reproductive health, there is significant savings in education, immunization, water and sanitation, maternal health, and malaria. Savings range from $2 in Ethiopia to more than $6 in Guatemala and Bangladesh, to up to $9 in Bolivia for every dollar invested.
After high-stakes negotiations to raise the nation's debt ceiling back in 2011, large, automatic cuts to domestic and defense programs were scheduled to be imposed under an arcane process known as "sequestration," absent an agreement between the President and Congress on long-term budget deficit reduction. Unfortunately, no grand bargain materialized. As a result, when the President signed a "continuing resolution" to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2013 at the end of March, it included a 5 percent sequestration cut to all non-defense discretionary programs, including foreign assistance.
As of early June, the State Department and USAID were still working on final foreign assistance program allocations, so it is difficult to say with any certainty how much funding for family planning will be available. Congress included some changes in the funding levels for global health and development programs from the formula otherwise being used to set federal spending that are likely to affect final funding levels.
Based on certain assumptions, our analysis suggests that funding for international family planning could be as high as $598 million—a $12 million cut from the prior-year level of $610 million. But absent any adjustments in the account levels by the State Department and USAID as a result of the congressional changes to health and development accounts, the funding cut to family planning could be as large as $30.5 million.
Under this worst-case scenario, what would a $30.5 million sequestration cut mean for women and their families in developing countries who are the beneficiaries of U.S.-funded programs?
- 1.586 million women denied access to contraceptive services & supplies
- 475,500 additional unintended pregnancies and 228,750 additional unplanned births
- 228,750 additional abortions (of which 152,500 are unsafe)
- 1220 maternal deaths
- 6100 children losing their mothers
Compounding the sequester cuts are the ongoing efforts by House Republicans to dramatically slash funding for non-defense discretionary programs for the coming fiscal year. Deep and disproportionate cuts were already made in the allocation for the FY 2014 State Department-Foreign Operations spending bill recently approved by the House Appropriations Committee. The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition estimates that total proposed funding of $40.6 billion would fall 19 percent ($9.5 billion) below both current levels (post-sequestration) and the President's FY 2014 budget request.
So, in addition to the unique political attacks directed at international family planning funding by House Republicans each year, all programs funded within the State-Foreign Operations bill will face extreme budgetary pressures and will likely be subjected to dramatic reductions that will prevent the House from producing credible and responsible legislation.
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dynamite wrote:definitely a good thread.
the picasso seems like a good shout because of the way the seats fold into the floor making a huge area to shelter in and change if necessary. There seem to be thousands on the roads so they can't be bad in terms of servicing although I'm no mechanic so that's pure guess work.
defever wrote:So my car brokedown on my way home via N. Devon for a guaranteed stoke of the month... didn't even get out of Sussex.
She never collapsed on roadside. It's depressing enough that I'm missing the swell let alone not being able to go home for the weekend, but coming to terms with losing hopes on my old workhorse is just painful... I feel like part of me has died today...
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Will Marquette struggle with SU's 2-3 zone like Indiana?
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:30:22 GMT —
There's no doubt that above all individual performances, Syracuse defeated Indiana because of its defensive prowess.
The Syracuse 2-3 zone isn't like the 2-3 zone you see at most schools, it's so different and long and Indiana was absolutely puzzled by it.
However, in Syracuse's Elite 8 contest it will face a team that's pretty familiar with it in Marquette. The Golden Eagles have seen it regularly as a member of the Big East and defeated it back on February 25th.
According to the Orange players and Coach Jim Boeheim, that will provide some advantages for Marquette, but this isn't the same zone of a month ago.
"We know what we need to do, it's always, everybody in this business knows what they need to do. It's a question of if you can execute it in the game. Indiana knew exactly what to do. Tom Crean has coached against me, he's seen our defense, he knows, they knew what to do. It's a question if they can do it," said Boeheim. "
That's what basketball is all about. We all know the answers. You guys know the answers, probably better than we do, in your minds. But it's whether you can get your players (to do it)."
That sentiment is shared by Michael Carter-Williams, who had a career night with 24 points in SU's win over Indiana.
"They may not be puzzled by it, but then again, our zone isn't the same as when we played at Marquette," Carter Williams told me.
"We work a lot harder on the defensive end and take a lot more pride in our defense now than we did then. So we hope we can puzzle them a little bit and force them into a couple turnovers but they have some talented big men so we're going to have to work hard," Carter-Williams added.
There is absolutely no question that the Syracuse team of late March is much better than the Syracuse team we saw in late February. The question is how improved is Marquette, and will it be able to solve the 2-3 by sending its lumbering 295 pound center Devante Parker into the middle of it to wreak havoc.
Syracuse did prove it can handle a talented big man when it made Indiana's All-American Cody Zeller a non-factor. Luckily for Orange fans they don't have to wait too long to find out, as the Orange and Golden Eagles tip off at 4:30 on Saturday on CBS-5.
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Joe Haldeman Recovering from Surgery
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Joe Haldeman is recovering from his ileostomy take-down surgery of February 17, 2011. The surgery was a laparoscopic procedure, designed to reconnect his intestines after a September 19, 2009 surgery for severe pancreatitis and twisted bowel. Gay Haldeman reports that "the surgery went well," and that Joe is cracking jokes. As of February 21, Gay further reports, "They let Joe out of the ICU last night, into a regular room. He hurts some, but he's walking up and down the hall between naps. The doc says he's going to keep him one more night, just to be sure everything's okay."
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The New York Times writer Michael Moss recently asked a top ad agency to hypothetically come up with a marketing campaign for broccoli, in an attempt to illustrate how healthier eating could possibly be marketed to Americans. Along with Moss's terrific piece in the NY Times Magazine this past weekend, he co-produced a very fun video which is sure to please any Mad Men enthusiast.
Well, all this resulted in a ridiculous number of really terrible puns and jokes passed between Disney Dads editors and bloggers over the past couple days (geeks will be geeks.) Needless to say, the idea that broccoli would be the next "it" vegetable (bleh!) and (according to one hypothetical ad campaign) would challenge equally nerdy opponent "kale" to a mano-a-mano grabbed our attention and fueled our amusement.
If you think marketing something like a vegetable is a bit absurd and a sign that mankind and consumerism have truly reached all time lows, you might be right. After all, the fall of man itself was centered around a piece of produce (the apple) and a very persuasive marketing campaign (otherwise known as 'psssst, hey Eve, eat this!')
Not that there haven't been other foods placed in our minds and on our plates in between — did you ever think you'd know what quinoa is much less how to pronounce it? Ever think you'd see bumper stickers promoting kale, of all things? Or that you'd be able to use "Omega-3 Fatty Acid" in a sentence and not have to explain what the heck you were referring to?
Besides asking the fancy ad agency to hypothetically take on broccoli as an account, the NY Times also posted an online challenge for the rest of us: come up with a slogan or branding concept for any of the following vegetables: peas, cauliflower, beets, cabbage or turnips. It could be a fun thing to enlist your kids' creativity in next time they turn up their noses at the green stuff on their dinner plate.
Here at Disney Dads, we asked ourselves this: Would the comically aggressive (albeit hypothetical) broccoli v. kale campaign work on us? Would it be unconsciously persuasive enough to REALLY make us eat that green stalky flowery sh*t?
As Matthew Barry aptly puts it, "Kale vs. Broccoli would be like watching the two least popular kids in class fight each other to see who will get chosen second-to-last."
David Noel Edwards, our resident culinary aesthete (oh, we are so not joking,) said "My pro-broccoli bias eliminates all pretense of journalistic objectivity. It's like asking Fox News whether taxes ought to be cut for the rich. Fact is, I can't be objective about broccoli, because broccoli isn't objective about me: This common member of the cabbage family has singled me out to experience a kind of eating pleasure typically associated with forbidden desserts and sauteed parsnips.
"I suppose I ought to be grateful that my children love broccoli almost as much as I do. But it raises more than a few questions in their father's mind: Have they, too, been singled out for frankly unusual broccoli enjoyment? Do they ever wish they could be more like other children? Is their broccoliphilia inherited or learned? Will it hurt their prospects for getting jobs in the public sector?
"I guess I'll never know the answers to these questions. I may as well focus on more important things. Like, which sauce is best for broccoli. Béarnaise or hollandaise?"
Lawrence Vaughan offered some, uh, historical context. "General Dwight David Eisenhower included in the Marshall Plan, spearheaded by General George C. Marshall, a plan to include in all donated fresh salads for Europe post-WW II, broccoli florets. However, due to their aggressive nomenclature, asparagus spears and tomato clusters were excluded on principle. As for leafy greens such as Romaine Lettuce and Kale, they were allowed in the mix despite their similarity to camo of that era."
Doug Liles made it clear that he wasn't going to be strong-armed by nobody, no-how, to eat broccoli, unless drowned in disgusting amounts of rich sauces to mask the flavor. "On the topic of plain steamed broccoli," he says, "the kids and I must unite.
"Like yoga, scented candles and power walking, there are many things that are good for us, but we must draw the line because tongues were made for fun, especially when there is cheese sauce to dress up the dance in our mouth.
"Dads know this (and there's a John Candy in all of us). Calories and fat may kill us young, but at least we had some fun. Before we settle down for the special dining of the day, let us gather before the throne of sauces that must touch every entrée. It's got be savory, spicy, sweet or sour to gain our interest. We don't want to riot, but if you don't want us sneaking off to our special stash of comfort as we sleepwalk to the cupboard in the middle of night, just accept that we must have a mix that leaps and bounds in our mouth, just like a jumpee at birthday party. Heck with it all, you only live once, and the dog doesn't like it either. When you break out the broccoli you got to dress it up or we'll all be sulky. Chores won't get done, there won't be nary a care, it's a cascading effect. But you put on our favorite sauce, we'll be pleading for seconds…and to do the dishes!
"Oh, we can settle for Edamame, but don't forget copious amounts of kosher salt."
Craig Yoshihara, on the other hand, said this: "As a pastor, I really can't condone violence on any level. Today it's broccoli vs. kale, tomorrow will it be carrots? Potatoes? Where will the madness end? What will happen to all the kale farmers forced to convert their crops to broccoli mid-season? What happens when I want to make braised cauliflower or Brussels sprouts? Will I have to instead make broccoli rice casserole? It doesn't have to be one or the other. One person's broccoli is another person's corn on the cob. Anyway, I see where all of this is leading. An NCAA-like vegetable tournament where 64 vegetables will come together and face off against one another until a winner is declared. Vegas odds-makers will be encouraging people to "Bet on Broccoli" whereas poor alfalfa sprouts will be given 200-1 chances of winning. In the end, it will encourage us to hate other vegetables, leading to a wide-spread epidemic on vegetable gambling, and weed out some of those lesser known, but equally beloved vegetables who just don't have enough of the "big name" companies to support them. Stop this before it becomes utter chaos!"
While we ridicule the idea of broccoli and kale duking it out with tongues in cheeks, we do recognize vegetables are good for us, gulp, and definitely good for our kids. If we force them onto the plates of our children, then we probably have to (sigh) eat them ourselves too.
Check out this Disney Dads post about a dad who completely rocks when it comes to getting his kids to eat their veggies.


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Since trading began in 2002 we have always provided as much information as possible for our customers, readily advising where to best recycle ink and toner cartridges and how to minimise waste when printing. We coupled this with in-house efforts to minimise our own impact on the environment.
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In extension to employee car sharing and efforts to reduce the electricity used in the offices and warehouse, we have now registered for the Green Achiever scheme. Covering all aspects of our companies operations it will help us take great strides in limiting our waste.
And where will this hit home first? Steps are underway to limit the printing in our accounts department, much to the dismay of the Head of Finance! It should lead to a humorous series of blog posts as the restrictions are slowly implemented and the unstoppable printing force meets the immovable environmental 'object'.
With potential improvements lined up in our energy efficiency and reducing office waste, we are hopeful the entry into this scheme will be of great benefit to the environment, our customers, and ourselves.


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Manatees are non-aggressive animals that are predominantly occupied with 6-8 hours of daily feeding, and 2-12 hours of rest each day. They are curious animals who like to travel, investigate, and interact. Manatees play a critical role in controlling vegetation that can obstruct Florida waterways, and also in fertilizing the underwater flora. Their passive demeanor is marveled at and admired by many, and close to 70,000 people visit Florida each year with the hope of spotting one of these kind wonders. At the Miami Seaquarium, you can gain a glimpse into the unique attributes of the manatee.
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We have a furnace that has been nothing but a headache ever since it was installed. We have a woodstove in our basement which has vents n the floor to let heat into the main level. Our second floor each bedroom has a oil type heater (the contained type with a thermostat on it) which over all does good heating those rooms. I am considering not getting the darn furnace fixed AGAIN. I know we won't be able to keep the house 66 degrees in the coldest times but it will be doable. Has anyone else lived with basically wood heat and a couple of space heaters? Our windows are double paned, we have good insulation and already sealed up our windows and extra doors. But our house is 100 yrs old so not totally tight.
I'd say try it, if it's not working for you then call the repair person.
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We heat with just wood in a drafty old house-- one woodstove in the downstairs. It's certainly do-able, especially if you have heaters int he rooms.
We went two winters with a broken furnace. We have a small direct vent heater in our living room, and a small radiant heater in our mudroom,( because its closed off from the rest of the house) But our wood stove has always been our main source of heat, and even now that our furnace works we rarely, if ever, use it.
We heat our house (built in 1883) with two woodstoves. Ours isnt in the basement, and we dont have heat running through any furnace system. There is a stove in the back of the house, and one in the front of the house. It stays pretty warm most of the time, but we do wake up to some cold cold mornings. I know it gets colder in MO than here in Kentucky, but I think its totally do able. Personally, for us, its all about harvesting and burning the right wood.
ETA:We do use a space heater in the bathroom. I cant live with the toilet water freezing solid.
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I suspect that the answer to your question is going to differ with every poster based on their climate and the insulation of their house. I agree though that you should try it.
Our heater is currently broken and it gets pretty cold in our house. Living without a heater is doable but not fun...although we live in a mild climate our house is almost 100 yrs old and has original windows and no insulation. This last week it got down into the low thirties and we couldn't get the house warmer than 58 degrees (and that was with the oven on and three space heaters going). And our house is small...only about 850 sq feet. I can't imagine what it would be like with a larger house.
We rent, the house is about 1600-1700 built in the 70's. It has good insulation, but single pane windows (the originals). The furnace is propane, and the issue is that it is a minimum of 100 gallons per trip, which lasts less than 3 months. The propane delivery companies charge a fortune for their delivery (propane at the local feed is less than $3 a gallon, but if you get it delivered it is $3.79 a gallon plus delivery charge).
We live in Oregon, we have occasional temps in the teens, although when it gets that cold it lasts for a week or more. We are fortunate to be in the lee of a hill, and get very little wind. Average temps for winter are 25-45 F.
The playroom (converted garage) has 2 very nice electric heaters built in. We use a propane heater that is rated for some indoor use with an oxygen sensor, I need to get a CO sensor, the landlords told me they were installing one and did not. Then we also have a couple space heaters. Last week when our high was 16 degrees, the house only went down to 62 at night, we brought it up to 67-68 during the day.
I do occasionally use the oven trick, too. They say it isn't safe, but I'm here the whole time.
RT knitting mama to 3 (& 8 who didn't make it) wife working on 13 years to a silly man who drives me crazy.
A new, energy-efficient furnace will pay for itself within a few years.
Our furnace is actually less than 10 yrs old. Its a lemon. We've replaced our ac unit, put in a woodstove, did lots of winterization to the house. We've spent a lot of money fixing our existing furnace. We're kinda tapped out on funds to keep replacing stuff at this time. While we would love to get another furnace its gonna be a year or two. We're hoping to make due with space heaters and woodstove. Just wondering if anyone else does it this way.
We live in NH and heat with a wood stove only--I grew up this way too, so I am used to dressing in sweaters, slippers, etc. in the winter. They make small fans that go in the corners of your doors, so that heat will circulate to all the rooms. We took the doors off a lot of rooms so that heat can get in as well.
We dont have any space heaters, but do have some electric blankets.
Our wood stove has a fan that blows out the heat, and it makes a huge difference--when the power goes out and the fan stops running, the house is freezing.
We are lucky in the fact a few yrs back we purchased a generator (a big one) so if we lose power our deep freezes keep on running. We have three full! lol
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I guess my concern would be how cold it gets in the house at night.
My biggest concern is the pipes freezing and then a bigger headache/ possible cost of repair.
That being said, we live in foothills of Colorado and set the furnace at 50 degrees. We heat primarily with wood, but the furance will kick on normally around 2a-3a and will run until we get up in the morning and re-start the fires. (not the most efficent burning stoves, also burn pine which does not put out the amount of heat that hardwood does, which I imagine is what you burn in the midwest)
However, our house has a LOT of windows and a LOT of large windows as well. The doors are not weatherstripped (bought last week but haven't yet put up) and the house is layded out strangely as well as about 2500 square feet, so some things are not comparable.
Also, would worry about you leaving for any length of time... vacation, weekend away, etc, etc. If you are not there to burn fires, is the house going to drop into that danger zone of cold and pipes freeze?
We have lots of great blankets and will pre-heat beds with electric blanket to warm the sheets, but do not sleep with electric blankets on. The bedroom side of the house, never gets above 58 in the winter, it's fine as we only really sleep in the bedrooms and live in the "great room" during the day and night which can get up into the low 70's by mid day/ and into the evening.
If freezing pipes is not a concern, then I would keep doing what you're doing for the time being until you can get it repaired or replaced.
Pipes freezing aren't a concern because the woodstove is in our basement. We don 't have water lines on the second floor, just the main floor. We once again think we have figured out the problem and can fix it ourselves. And for once its not going to be expensive. In a few weeks tho who knows...
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The Oakland Raiders are ranked 32nd in the NFL in passing yards per game with an average of 128.0 per contest. So it's no wonder that they've also struggled on the ground. Going into their contest with the Chargers, they are ranked 26th in both yards per carry and yards per game on the ground.
That's not going to scare opposing defenses into taking the offense seriously–even though every team we've talked to says they do.
Possibly the most honest person in the NFL so far has been New York Giants' linebacker Antonio Pierce, who likened the Raiders' offense to their scout team in practice. That's not exactly the look that Tom Cable was going for when he took over the team from Lane Kiffin last season.
Throughout all of the struggles, the failures, and the bleak outlook of their latest game (a 38-0 drubbing against the New York Jets), you won't find anyone in silver and black calling 'uncle'. That may be the most surprising to anyone on the outside looking in–this team still hasn't quit.
"Yeah, definitely," said Mario Henderson earlier this week when asked if the team is still behind their head coach. What about the quarterback? According to Henderson, it doesn't matter who is throwing the football around, because the success of the offense relies up front with the offensive line. When asked if the confidence of the team has changed since the first time the Raiders faced the Chargers, Henderson said it hadn't. "Right, right. It doesn't ever change with the quarterback or anything like that."
Another left tackle, who got his first start on the right side last week, also isn't deterred with the Raiders' inability to run the ball. Khalif Barnes expects to start on Sunday and is confident that his performance will be much better than it was last week. "That's our strength, but during the course of the game there are things that can limit or hinder that," said Barnes about the run game. "Sometimes you get turnovers, or you get down fast early, then sometimes you have to throw to get back into those games."
Barnes understands what a lack of protection in the passing game can do to the offense. On the first play against the Jets, he allowed a sack to JaMarcus Russell that turned into a fumble recovered by New York at the Raiders' four yard line. Normally, the tackle gets over a loss and a bad game within 24 hours, but this week he admitted it took a little longer. "I did all my mourning on Sunday afternoon, Monday and Tuesday, so it's a little more than 24, but I'm in to San Diego now."
Much of the blame has been put on Russell this season. While there is much blame that rightly falls on the third-year quarterback's shoulders, a closer look at some of the stats shows he's not alone. The Raiders are ranked 26th in quarterback sacks allowed (20) and 19th in quarterback hits allowed (34). Those aren't good numbers without even playing half their games this season.
It's not just the offensive line dropping the ball, figuratively speaking. It's the wide receivers dropping the ball–literally. Rookie wide receiver Louis Murphy is tied for second in the league with six drops on the season. Being second isn't a good thing when it comes to drops, it's a category that you don't want to be ranked in. The Raiders, as a team, are tied for sixth in dropped passes with 16 on the season.
Just to be clear, a dropped pass isn't one of those patented Russell throws that you need to be 10-feet tall to get to. Dropped balls are passes that the receiver gets both hands on and should have caught. When teams don't respect the pass, they load up the box to stop the run.
The passing game isn't the only culprit for the poor running. As we saw against both New York teams, getting behind has hurt as well. "We came out good the first game against San Diego and stuck with the run just about all game," said the former Louisville product Michael Bush on Thursday.
"When we got down, we had to change it up. That's the main thing with this offense. We can't get down early point-wise. If we do that, then we're going to have to throw the ball. But if we stay consistent, and we do stay on the them, we do have a good run game."
With that in mind, starting the game off running might be the way to go. If the Raiders are able to establish the run, then they'll finally see some success with their play-action fakes–a play that rarely works when a team is down by a large margin.
If we don't see the Raiders make a good-faith effort to establish the run on Sunday, there's only one guy to blame and it's not the guy with 'Russell' stenciled on his back.


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I was told you are all left wing racist loons
At least that is what Billy over at N&P said lol. Not that I take her/him/it seriously at all.
But I would love to see what you all have to say about this article.
Race, Crime and Statistical Malpractice: How the Right Manipulates White Fear With Bogus Data
By Tim Wise
NOTE TO THE READER: Because the below essay involves a lot of data, and some occasionally confusing terminology (and because it's hard to explain statistical analysis in a reader-friendly way), I am putting the key points in bullets here at the beginning of the piece. For the details as to how these conclusions were reached, and for the links to sources used, please read the full column.
Also, please note that there is some variation in the data claims in this piece, regarding homicide, and the more recent essay on my site, "Nazis Can't Do Math." The reason for the discrepancy is that for this piece, I was relying on FBI Homicide data, which is far less complete than the state-by-state data upon which I relied for the newer piece. I was unaware of the more comprehensive data until after this essay had been published, and rather than re-write this essay, I would simply direct persons to that newer article for the most extensive breakdown of interracial homicide data.
Despite claims by right-wingers (both mainstream and overtly white supremacist) that violent crime by African-Americans is out of control — and that blacks are criminally victimizing whites at massive and disproportionate rates — the facts say otherwise. As I show in the below analysis:
* Only about 1 percent of African Americans — and no more than 2 percent of black males — will commit a violent crime in a given year;
* Even though there are more black-on-white interracial crimes than white-on-black interracial crimes, this fact is not evidence of anti-white racial targeting by black offenders. Rather, it is completely explained by two factors having nothing to do with anti-white bias: namely, the general differences in rates of criminal offending, and the rates at which whites and blacks encounter one another (and thus, have the opportunity to victimize one another). Once these two factors are "controlled for" in social science terms, the actual rates of black-on-white crime are lower than random chance would predict;
* No more than 0.7 percent (seven-tenths of one percent) of African Americans will commit a violent crime against a white person in a given year, and fewer than 0.3 (three-tenths of one percent) of whites will be victimized by a black person in a given year;
* Whites are 6 times as likely to be murdered by another white person as by a black person; and overall, the percentage of white Americans who will be murdered by a black offender in a given year is only 2/10,000ths of 1 percent (0.0002). This means that only 1 in every 500,000 white people will be murdered by a black person in a given year. Although the numbers of black-on-white homicides are higher than the reverse (447 to 218 in 2010), the 218 black victims of white murderers is actually a higher percentage of the black population interracially killed than the 447 white victims of black murderers as a percentage of the white population. In fact, any given black person is 2.75 times as likely to be murdered by a white person as any given white person is to be murdered by an African American.
Now for the full essay:
As soon as news began to spread about the horrific and utterly senseless murder of an Australian-born baseball player in Oklahoma at the hands of three young black males (or at least, that's how they were first described in the media), I knew what would be coming; specifically, into my e-mail inbox and all around the internet. And even though one of the three implicated in the killing is actually white, and so the supposed racial angle of the crime is incredibly convoluted, if indeed race had anything to do with it at all, I had no illusions that this would somehow change the reaction from certain quarters. Whenever something like this happens, white supremacist groups make sure to blanket the web with vitriol in which they seek to remind white folks how endangered we are at the hands of black people. Knowing that many whites are anxious about the changing demographics of the nation — which portend that around 2043 we will no longer be the absolute majority of persons in the U.S — playing upon fears of criminal victimization by people of color is seen as a great way to win new recruits to the white nationalist cause.
And sure enough, it didn't take long. As soon as I turned on my computer yesterday morning, there it was: an e-mail from an angry and rather blatantly racist white male, spouting all the same nonsense as I've come to expect in moments like this. More savvy than most though, he made sure not to rely on data and arguments from neo-Nazis, but rather from well-known black conservative Walter Williams, who just about a week ago penned a column in which he parroted the line of the white racists, inveighing against the supposed epidemic of black-on-white crime. For Williams, it wasn't the first time he had done this. Several years back, and taking his cues and information straight from the work of white supremacist and separatist Jared Taylor, he had made the same arguments.
As Williams noted, and as many a white nationalist has over the years, 83 percent of the time when violent crime is interracial, the perp is black and the victim is white. So although most criminal violence may be intra-racial (that is to say, black-on-black and white-on-white), when the offender and victim differ racially, it is typically the case that someone black is doing the crime and someone white is suffering the consequences. As the sender of yesterday morning's e-mail put it, what do I have to say about that?
The answer, of course, is quite a bit, actually. Williams's claim — which he makes upon the basis of Justice Department data from the National Crime Victimization Survey — suggests an incredible imbalance, almost as if blacks were deliberately targeting white people in a veritable orgy of hate! And yet, upon closer inspection the number isn't nearly as meaningful as Williams, or the white supremacists who first began circulating it many years ago, take it to be.
Let's look at the data, so as to better understand the logical fallacy in Williams's position.
So Just How Dangerous Are Black Folks? The Trouble With Right-Wing Data Analysis
First, according to the 2008 data Williams relied on (see Table 42), which is the most recent comprehensive data published by the Justice Department on violent crime victimizations, that year there were approximately 3.6 million violent crimes involving a single-offender. These crimes include assault, both simple and aggravated (mostly simple), robbery, and sexual assault or rape. Of those 3.6 million violent crimes, whites committed 2.1 million of them (58.4%) while blacks committed about 830,000 (22.8%) About 442,000 (or 12%) involved perpetrators whose race was not known to the victim. Thus, for crimes where the race of the perpetrator was known to the victims (about 3.2 million crimes), whites would have committed about 66 percent (two-thirds) and blacks about 26 percent (one-fourth). If we assume the same rough racial distribution for crimes where the perpetrator's race was not known as for crimes where the offender race was known (a reasonable guess), this would mean that whites committed an additional 300,000 crimes, roughly, while blacks would have committed an additional 115,000. In all, this would mean that in 2008, whites committed roughly 2.4 million single offender violent crimes, while blacks would have committed around 950,000.
Since there were roughly 31 million African Americans, age 12 and over — and thus eligible for consideration in crime data — in 2008 (this is noted in the same DOJ tables Williams and I are both referencing here), at most, this would mean that for every 1000 blacks in the population there were 30 criminal offenders, and thus, at most, 3 percent of blacks committed a violent crime in 2008 (meaning, importantly, that at least 97 percent did not). And since there were approximately 205 million whites, 12 and over, in the population that year, this would mean that for every 1000 whites in the population there were 12 criminal offenders, and thus, at most, about 1.2 percent of whites committed a violent crime in 2008.*
Of course, in truth, and for both groups, the numbers are quite a bit smaller than this. After all, the 30 offenders per 1000 persons (the 3 percent rate of offending for blacks) are not 30 different people. In other words, to say that 3 percent of blacks commit a violent crime each year would assume that each offender committed only one crime, such that the number of offenses equalled the number of offenders, but that isn't the case. There are, as we all know, many offenders who commit multiple offenses each year. As such, the number of offenders would be quite a bit smaller than the number of offenses.Criminologists have estimated, for instance, that 70 percent of criminal offenses are committed by just 7 percent of the total offenders, meaning that there is a small hardcore group of seriously predatory criminals out there doing most of the crime. This would mean that 93 percent of all offenders commit just 30 percent of the crimes. So this would mean that of the 950,000 violent crimes committed by blacks in 2008, 70 percent of them (or 665,000) would have been committed by just 7 percent of all black offenders, while 285,000, roughly, would have been committed by the other 93 percent of offenders. If we assume that the 93 percent who weren't the major repeat offenders only committed one crime each (likely a conservative estimate, but one which errs on the side of the right-wing argument by maximizing the potential numbers of black offenders), this would mean that, at most, the 285,000 offenses actually equate to 93 percent of the offenders. If 285,000 represents 93 percent of all black offenders, then the remaining 7 percent of offenders above that number would come to only an additional 20,000 or so offenders — major hardcore criminals who commit about 665,000 crimes each year. This would mean that at most there might be a little more than 300,000 individual black violent offenders each year. As a percentage of the 12 and over black population in 2008, this would represent only about 1 percent of all blacks who will commit a violent crime in a given year, versus 99 percent who will not. Even if we just restricted the analysis to black males — and even if all these crimes were committed by males, which they were not — it would mean that no more than 2 percent of black males would commit a violent crime in a given year. This alone is an important point to keep in mind, as it suggests that having a generalized fear of black folks, or black men, is the height of statistical irrationality.
I don't think there's been much of an attempt on her/his/its part to hide it...
Quoting lga1965:
Does she/he/it know that we figured that out ?
Quoting momtoscott:
Maybe BJ's alt here in CEHT will weigh in on the discussion.
whew...glad I scanned the responses before delving into the OP's article. Clearly it wasn't the actual focus of the post.
Actually the OP is the focus of the post. I simply described the reasoning behind my title before asking for everyones opinion on the post.
Quoting katy_kay08:
whew...glad I scanned the responses before delving into the OP's article. Clearly it wasn't the actual focus of the post.
I've been accused of being left wing, racist and a loon but never all at the same time.
Quoting momtoscott:
I don't think there's been much of an attempt on her/his/its part to hide it...Quoting lga1965:
Does she/he/it know that we figured that out ?
Quoting momtoscott:
Maybe BJ's alt here in CEHT will weigh in on the discussion.
Quoting beesbad:
I only have one question: which group in N&P?
Forget the source, "dear"...still have NO idea why so many older white folk are being attacked and murdered?
Golly, wonder what good ol T. Wise would have to say to this? And mind you, this is a PARTIAL list.
Here are the original sources, so as not to cloud your attempt at a conclusion:
Quoting PrimmednPunked:
BTW, a blog from a guy who says, "DailyKenn.com is the right wing extremist the liberal media warned you about". And you really want to chastise me? Sure thig kiddo. You are funny. Hypocritical but funny.Quoting Radarma:
Because it MATTERS, kiddo.
Now you just keep right on truckin with your lies.
And are those stats really different now than in the late eighties when everyone was smoking the crack? And by different, I mean worse.
Quoting Radarma:
Forget the source, "dear"...still have NO idea why so many older white folk are being attacked and murdered?
Golly, wonder what good ol T. Wise would have to say to this? And mind you, this is a PARTIAL list.
Here are the original sources, so as not to cloud your attempt at a conclusion:
Quoting PrimmednPunked:
BTW, a blog from a guy who says, "DailyKenn.com is the right wing extremist the liberal media warned you about". And you really want to chastise me? Sure thig kiddo. You are funny. Hypocritical but funny.
Quoting Radarma:
Because it MATTERS, kiddo.
Now you just keep right on truckin with your lies.


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Just saw this new commercial from Honda, called "Proposal":
Man: "Do you wanna get married?"
Woman: "Married?" [inner monologue] "There were so many things I was gonna do first. I was gonna hike the Appalachian Trail! And I still have to learn to play the drums. And I *still* need to finish my short film." [back to him] "OK. But we have a lot to get done first."
….oh, right. Because marriage renders you incapable of traveling and fulfilling your creative pursuits. Obviously.
Over at Automotive.com, here's Blake Z. Rong's response to this campaign, which is called "Leap List" ("Before you make your leap, make a list"):
If you're not ready to have a baby or get married, the Honda CR-V provides a handy excuse to get out of it. After all, what better way to dodge these life-changing moments than by procrastinating about it, perfect for today's Facebook-addicted millennial who thinks in 140 characters or less (of which I am guilty)? Honda, with these two commercials, thinks that the CR-V can help—by giving young, blandly handsome couples new and exciting things to procrastinate about.
The second commercial he's talking about, "Baby," has a similar setup as "Proposal," except — wait for it — this time it's a woman who wants a baby; her partner agrees but wants to "see the Northern Lights in Alaska and go spelunking with the guys and build one of those fighting robots" first.
I actually find this one less annoying…or really, not annoying at all. Sure, while not everyone finds parenthood as oppressive as Paul Rudd's character in Knocked Up does, nap schedules and diaper changes have a way of complicating impromptu Alaskan getaways. I get that.
But trying to sell cars by saying that having a ring on your finger makes you less able to learn the drums? That's just badvertising.


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MTV Postpones the Debut of a Gay Channel
By BILL CARTER
Published: January 14, 2005
MTV Networks' plan to start a cable channel devoted to gay and lesbian programming has been slightly delayed, the company announced yesterday, with a new start date for the channel, called Logo, pushed back five months, to June 30.
Brian Graden, the president of Logo, said the delay -- the channel was originally scheduled to start Feb. 17 -- was aimed mainly at insuring that the channel would be ''a complete service,'' with 24 hours of programming from its first day.
To that end, the channel announced a wide range of programs yesterday including three original series, a slate of documentaries, news coverage from CBS News and some well-known movie titles, headed by the first broadcast of the mini-series ''Angels in America,'' winner of multiple Emmy Awards, after its run on HBO.
''This had to be perfect from the minute we went on,'' Mr. Graden said, adding that the February date would have made that difficult to achieve. For one thing, pushing the date back will enable the channel to start up with access to about 10 million homes, far more than the 2 million or so that would have been available in February.
Mr. Graden said the channel had also been able to sign three charter advertisers, and expects an additional four or more by June. The three signed so far are the carmaker Subaru of America; Orbitz, the Internet travel company; and the movie studio Paramount. (The last is an in-house advertiser because, like MTV Networks, Paramount is owned by Viacom).
Logo will be distributed exclusively on the digital tier of cable systems, which will give it an ultimate reach of up to 40 million homes. Mr. Graden said that so far he had not encountered any resistance from cable operators to the planned program content.
''There definitely has to be a conversation,'' Mr. Graden said. ''We have to take the time to explain to some of them that there's really nothing to be afraid of.''
Among the programs Mr. Graden announced yesterday was a reality series that will be set on a gay cruise, a drama about young black gay men and another reality series about planning a gay wedding, with the former ''Kids in the Hall'' star, Scott Thompson, as the host.
Mr. Graden said the documentary lineup includes a film about a gay rugby team that plays in an otherwise straight league. ''It's kind of a clich?' Mr. Graden said, ''but they haven't won a game in their first two years. But they're getting better. I'm hoping for a kind of 'Bad News Bears' thing to happen.''
Other films will be about lesbian surfers, gay Republicans and gays and lesbians living in Muslim culture. And one will feature a performance of ''The Vagina Monologues'' but with a cast entirely made up of transgendered females.
Mr. Graden said he had gone all out to acquire Hollywood studio films with gay themes. ''I think we have every title from a major studio in the history of gay art.''
The list is headed by ''Angels in America.'' Mr. Graden would not reveal what Logo had paid for the rights to the mini-series, except to say, ''It was not a cheap purchase.''
He added, ''Anything of real value the channel is going after. I want to be the ultimate aggregator of this material.''


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Wake County woman thanks rescuers who pulled her from pond
Posted December 4, 2011
Fuquay-Varina, N.C. — A 74-year-old Wake County woman is thankful for three men she calls her "guardian angels." The men jumped into a Harnett County pond on Friday to save the woman after she blacked out and drove into the cold water.
"All I remember was I was on (U.S. Highway) 401," Julia Wiggins said Sunday.
Wiggins was driving home to Willow Spring from a hair appointment in Raleigh when her blood sugar went too low, and she lost consciousness. She rear-ended another vehicle, driven by Chuck Beckwith of Fayetteville, and then ran off the road, through a wooden fence and into Robert Smith's pond off of U.S. 401 North in Fuquay-Varina.
Beckwith was the first person who jumped into the water to save Wiggins.
"He was an angel. If he had not been here at that time, she would have not survived," Smith said.
David Keaton, who is with the Air Force, passed by and saw the wreck. The Fuquay-Varina man jumped into the water too, but neither man could break the window.
Another passer-by, Chris Howell, from Lillington, soon jumped in with a hammer.
Wake County woman crashes into pond
Wiggins said her rescuers told her that when the glass was finally broken, the water was as high as her neck.
"I'd like to thank you for saving my life (and) being my guardian angel. It if weren't for them, I wouldn't be here today," Wiggins said.
Wiggins said she won't be able to drive for awhile, but she has relatives who can bring her places.


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ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The Japanese government has decided to provide about Rs30 million to three Pakistani non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to improve health, and water and sanitation facilities in rural areas of the country.
Agreements for the three projects were signed here on Wednesday by Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Inomata and representatives of the Basic Development Needs, Beer Development Society and Women's Union Missionary Society, the NGOs.
The grant to the Beer Development Society will be used for pavement of streets and installation of water filtration plants in six villages of Haripur district.
The grant to the Basic Development Needs will be spent on the construction of two mother and child health centres in Nowshera district.
The grant to the Women's Union Missionary Society will be utilised for providing medical equipment to a rural health centre in Muzaffargarh district.
Ambassador Inomata said that Japan's development assistance programme to Pakistan focused on the improvement of health services and sanitation in rural areas.
He expressed the hope that the interventions would improve quality of life in the target areas and further improve the relations between the people of Japan and Pakistan.


text: Every day, new reports emerge of identity theft and other security breaches. In today's Academic Minute, the National University of Singapore's Artur Ekert [1] describes his study of cryptography and improving security systems. Ekert [2] is director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies [3]and Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at Singapore [4]. He is also professor of quantum physics at the University of Oxford's Mathematical Institute. A transcript of this podcast can be found here [5].