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Vermont lawmakers seeking to make their state the first to require the labeling of genetically modified food are hoping history won't repeat itself.
A bill (H. 112) that was passed by both the state's Democratically controlled House 99-42 in May and its Senate 26-2 on Tuesday would mandate labels on all genetically engineered edibles sold, with exemptions for animal feed and some food-processing aids, such as enzymes for making yogurt.
If the House backs the Senate-amended bill Wednesday afternoon as expected, it could shortly head to Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin for his signature.
But this isn't the first time that the Green Mountain State has been challenged on its efforts to enforce labeling requirements on products. In those instances, which involved labeling dairy products from livestock treated with growth hormones and mercury-containing devices, the state has had mixed results.
Now, lawmakers are looking to learn from their mistakes, adding language to the bill that they hope will provide an iron-clad legal justification for the measure.
Vermont Puts Lessons from Past in GMO Bill
By Jenny Hopkinson
Politico, April 15, 2014
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Of a collapsing universe.
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After admitting to owning 60 pairs -- the only clothes she ever felt confident and cool in -- this jeans addict was ready to kick her style habit.
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There are 14 private schools located in Hawaii that offer Cheering as an interscholastic sport.
Cheering Private Schools
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HonoluluAssets School
1 Ohana Nui Way
Honolulu, HI, 96818
(808)440-3616Special Education School330 students | Gr. 1-12
HonoluluChristian Academy
3400 Moanalua Rd
Honolulu, HI, 96819
(808)836-0233(Assembly of God)253 students | Gr. PK-12
MililaniHanalani Schools
94-294 Anania Drive
Mililani, HI, 96789
(808)625-0737(Baptist)660 students | Gr. PK-12
KapoleiIsland Pacific Academy
909 Haumea Street
Kapolei, HI, 96707
(808)674-3523601 students | Gr. PK-12
WaipahuLanakila Baptist Elementary School
94-1250 Waipahu Street
Waipahu, HI, 96797
(808)677-0731(Baptist)168 students | Gr. K-6
Ewa BeachLanakila Baptist Jr & Sr High School
91-1219 Renton Rd
Ewa Beach, HI, 96706
(808)681-3146(Baptist)144 students | Gr. 7-12
KailuaLe Jardin Academy
917 Kalanianaole Highway
Kailua, HI, 96734
(808)261-0707640 students | Gr. PK-12
HonoluluLutheran High School Of Hawaii
1404 University Ave
Honolulu, HI, 96822
(808)949-5302(Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod)106 students | Gr. 6-12
2445 Ka'ala Street
Honolulu, HI, 96822
(808)973-50051520 students | Gr. PK-12
HonoluluPunahou School
1601 Punahou St.
Honolulu, HI, 96822
(808)944-57113751 students | Gr. K-12
HonoluluSacred Hearts Academy
3253 Waialac Avenue
Honolulu, HI, 96816
(808)734-50581031 students | Gr. PK-12
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HonoluluSt. Andrews Priory School
224 Queen Emma Square
Honolulu, HI, 96813
(808)536-6102390 students | Gr. K-12
All-girls (Episcopal)
WailukuSt. Anthony Jr/sr High School
1618 Lower Main Street
Wailuku, HI, 96793
(808)244-4190(Roman Catholic)162 students | Gr. 7-12
HonoluluSt. Francis School
2707 Pamoa Road
Honolulu, HI, 96822
(808)988-4111(Roman Catholic)479 students | Gr. PK-12
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ICT is everywhere
Ayşenur Bardak from Manisa and Ragıp Çelik from Çankırı, are only two of the hundreds of volunteers working to give information and communication technology (ICT) trainings to increase computer literacy among people from all walks of life ranging from children to business owners across Turkey.
New Horizons - Although the two youngsters who are barely into their twenties, generally follow recent developments in ICT and share their experience as instructors via an e-mail group, both Ayşenur and Ragıp were happy to attend the National E-Capacity Summit in Ankara in March to meet their fellow instructors in person and take part in sharing common challenges and success stories face-to-face.
At the National E-Capacity Summit held on 9-10 March, the demands of youth councils in 81 cities were conveyed to the relevant organizations and institutions. Summit participants included the Minister of Transportation Binali Yıldırım who explained that ICT is taking its place among Turkey's top priorities. In his speech, Minister Yıldırım addressed youth as the most important resource in transforming the country into an information society, he said that the Turkey is "very lucky" to have a young population of 32 million and that the youth are responsible for achieving the e-transformation of Turkey.
During the first week of March, E-Capacity week aiming to increase awareness on the contribution of information and communication technologies to development was initiated by the European Commission across Europe. In Turkey, the week was organized by the Youth for Habitat Association, UNDP, the State Planning Organization and Microsoft, who also jointly run the Empowerment of Youth for the E-Transformation of Turkey project. Workshops, technology caravans, ICT camps, school, campus and company visits, e-capacity conferences, career fairs, performances on technology, panels, press conferences, and radio programmes on the impact of ICT on growth and employment and in providing better career opportunities by increasing individual performance were among the various activities which took place in 81 provinces.
At the National E-Capacity Summit, instructors and representatives from youth councils in 81 provinces were able to convey their demands for ensuring Internet access for everyone, gaining expression rights and rights to form online organizations, for the elimination of geographical distances in access to information, for equal access to information for women and men, and for turning disadvantages into opportunities to institutions including the Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Labor and Social Security, Ministry of Interior, National Employment Organization, and Turksat among others. 30 year old Dinçer Yılmaz who is a voluntary instructor at Empowerment of Youth for the E-Transformation of Turkey and Youth Movement in Informatics projects said that the youth councils requested for people in Turkey who are hungry for information technologies to be granted a more active education, unhindered by bureaucracy and that the youth in rural areas be supported to become more active in information technologies. Yılmaz said the E-Capacity Summit was very beneficial in this respect. Dinçer Yılmaz, has not only provided IT instruction to over 200 people in İstanbul, but he also established his own company with his newfound experience.
The workshops held on the second day of the summit featured interesting activities. At the workshops, the young volunteers were asked several questions and asked to move around the room based on whether they would respond positively or negatively. Responses to a question on whether women should be encouraged to participate in ICT trainings, once again revealed the regional disparities in Turkey. A young woman participating from the Aegean coastal town of Kuşadası reminded her peers that the project aims to provide disadvantaged youth and especially women with ICT training, however, a young man from the southeastern province of Batman said that his attempts at encouraging women are often misunderstood.
The activities at the National E-Capacity Summit were taken back to cities through Local E-Capacity weeks. With the help of local administrators, companies, public organizations and civil society organizations, the importance of capacity in access to information was highlighted in cities across Turkey.
Computer and internet usage is in Turkey is highest among the 16-24 age group with 95%*. Because of the undeniable role of information and communication technologies in realizing Turkey's important development goals, the UNDP Turkey Office's 2004 National Human Development report centered around ICT. Developing information and communication technologies has also been one of the country's top development priorities since 2005.
With 813 volunteers, the Empowerment of Youth for the E-Transformation of Turkey project has contributed to making over 87 thousand young women and men computer literate and partnered with local administrations in establishing Habitat IT Academies in 12 cities. The project which aims to make young women and men more active in e-governance in Turkey is run jointly by UNDP, the State Planning Organization, Youth for Habitat Association and Microsoft. Other ICT projects in Turkey include the Youth Movement in Informatics project run by UNDP, Youth for Habitat Association, CISCO, Istanbul Technical University and Turkey Informatics Foundation (TBV) and Bridging the Digital Divide project, once again run by UNDP, Youth for Habitat Association and Vodafone Turkey foundation aiming to teach computers to 1 million people.


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Bradley County Chief Deputy Wayne Bird passed away early this morning.
Sheriff Jim Ruth sent out a news release about the death.
Bird's wife Colleen and his children Tish, Sterling and Richard, were at his bedside when he passed away, Ruth said.
"Chief Bird will be greatly missed by his family and friends," Ruth said. "Needless to say, he will also be missed by the men and women of the Bradley County Sheriff's Office... We in Bradley County owe a great deal of gratitude to him for the professional and moral leadership that he brought to his position of chief deputy."
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Louisiana Senator Elbert Guillory (R-Opelousas) explains why he recently switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. "The Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policy is what's best for black people. Somehow it's been forgotten that the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an Abolitionist Movement with one simple creed, that slavery is a violation of the rights of man."
Guillory also makes mention of social programs like welfare and food stamps, saying they are being used by politicians to control the black community.
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A team that tests federal websites for usability says in a Dec. 28 blog post that they found four main problems in 2012. In 2012, the HowTo.gov team conducted 26 tests on federal websites, intranets and other services. Six managed to make improvements within 30 days of the test, the blog post says: Search.usa.gov, FedRAMP, NASA's mobile site, Regulations.gov, OMB Max and SAM.gov.
Highly paid export specialists at the International Trade Administration lose a third of their time to data entry and other administrative work, the Commerce Department office of inspector general says. Its specialists make about $100,000 annually plus benefits, a report (.pdf) dated Nov. 30 says.
It's possible with today's website analytics tools to gather a wealth of data and monitor every detail of user activity. "You don't need to measure everything. Figure out what measurements really matter to you and put a plan in place to measure them," said Trish Cozart, senior project leader for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's technology deployment tools team, during a Nov. 1 DigitalGov University webinar.
The United Kingdom officially launched a single government website called Gov.uk Oct. 17--rounding out consolidation efforts that had already brought the country's 820 national government websites down to just two domains, Directgov and Business Link, in less than 2 years. The single government portal had been in beta since Jan. 31.
Federal website reform missed its 1-year deadline, coming up 579 domains short.
Not only will the White House's digital strategy put a freeze on all new dot-gov domains, it will consolidate websites, significantly reducing the number of federal websites overall, said Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel.
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Forget all those lens-less glasses, fishing lure shirts and man purses. Dwyane Wade raised the bar on quirky NBA press conference fashion on Tuesday night by wearing flip-up sunglasses. Lest you think Wade has lost his damned mind and thought they just looked fly as hell (well, OK, he kind of did), ... More >>
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Your mom can't cook. Or that's what you always said. You watched those ladies on the tube, and thought it looked so damn easy. Hell. some of 'em were even hot. Well, that was all made up, you jerk. So before you nail mom again for another year -- starting this Sunday on Mother's Day, check ... More >>
Wardell BrownThe cover of our print edition this week features a painting of Betty White in a cleavage-heavy fetish uniform. It comes courtesy of the World Erotic Art Museum's "Golden Gals Gone Wild" exhibit, but the rumors of a Golden Girls hard-core porn spoof even has us reeling.&nb ... More >>
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Glee: Marlee Matlin to guest star & will we see Julia Roberts soon?
It has been revealed that Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin is set to guest star on Glee after the winter break.
Glee is set to return to FOX in February and the Glee club will be gearing up to take Nationals by storm. So much so, the star will appear as a judge at nationals.
Marlee's episode will not air until March, unfortunately, but she's aleady been on set in the last few days.
The actress tweeted that she was working on the set of Glee for the next few days, along with attaching a picture of Darren Criss, Chord Overstreet and other guest star, Skylar Astin.
She tweeted: "Look where I'm working for the next few days – @gleeonfox !!"
Astin was confirmed to guest star a few weeks back. He will take on the role of Jean-Baptise and will play the enemy for the Glee Club as he is the lead star of Throat Explosion.
Elsewhere, Julia Roberts has revealed that she would feature on Glee if the opportunity ever cropped up.
With Glee coming to an end following its next season, the executives could do with snapping up as many A-list star as possible.
Speakin to E! News, Roberts revealed that she is a big fan of Ryan Murphy's work and would like to appear on a show created by him.
She said: "If he came up with a some funny soap opera back from the dead moment for the last vestiges of the entire series, wouldn't that be fun!
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The best "Pretty Little Liars" #BooRadleyVanCullen tweets from "Run, Ali, Run"
Last night's Pretty Little Liars was pretty frikkin dark, right? A has never come so close to actually beating one of the Liars to death, and with a fire poker! Even the goddamn Batman was out of sorts!
Your feels:
Well, I guess there goes Emily's good shoulder. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— – B (@McBrooker) July 16, 2014
Emily stays up all night playing watchdog and $1,000 says she still looks perfect tomorrow. #HerFaceIsntFair #PLL #BooRadleyVanCullen
— ahotpieceofA (@ahotpieceofA) July 16, 2014
Radley is just like a trip to the spa if you squint your brain #BooRadleyVanCullen #PLL
— styledo / michelle (@styledo) July 16, 2014
This weeks #pll brought to you by: #PaigeBeScreaming For when you can't have #PaigeBeMoaning due to network restrictions #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Elizabeth D-V (@324_B21) July 15, 2014
No these are just some of my peda…um school files… #booradleyvancullen
— nerdgirl (@nerdgirlwalking) July 16, 2014
Listen detective, it's Rosewood, no parent is EVER home when you come strolling by for a chat!
#pll #BooRadleyVanCullen #PrettyLittleLiars
— StarryMag (@StarryMag) July 16, 2014
HE DRAGGED HIMSELF INTO IT WHEN HE SEDUCED A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD IN A BAR. OR THE OTHER FIFTEEN YEAR OLD. #BooRadleyVanCullen #PLL
— Valerie Anne (@PunkyStarshine) July 16, 2014
I vote Spencer, because I'm an asshole. -Aria #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Liz (@gatecrewgirl) July 16, 2014
is it just me or does Ali look like a pan am flight attendant #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Brianna Harden (@lookabrianna) July 16, 2014
I'll get cash from the lasagna ATM and get you the fuck out of here. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Lucy Hallowell (@lucyhallowell) July 16, 2014
"Moving out?" "Nah, just destroying evidence.. what up?" #BooRadleyVanCullen #PLL #SpencerHalp
— Nic (@njnic23) July 16, 2014
Oh yeah. This is real Ali. Finding all her 9000 hiding places with lord knows what stuffed in them. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Liz (@gatecrewgirl) July 16, 2014
"Let me look in my stalker notes. I think that info is right next to this picture of you sleeping" Ezra, basically #PLL #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Morgan Glennon (@mojotastic) July 16, 2014
The fact I can read my TL and it is 100% freakouts over the possible return of a fictional parrot… I love you guys. #BooRadleyVanCullen
— Katy (@katyknowskungfu) July 16, 2014
I think Detective Tanner should have her own show. the anti-procedural procedural. Nothing every gets solved. #booradleyvancullen
— Norman Buckley (@norbuck) July 16, 2014
Ashley Marin ran out of wine! #SpencerHalp! #BooRadleyVanCullen
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@hhoagie I think that's true of all of us. I hope Mawmaw Marin writes an etiquette book called Dewlilies and Don'tlilies.#BooRadleyVanCullen
— Ali Davis (@Ali_Davis) July 16, 2014
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INDIANAPOLIS – The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee unexpectedly delayed a vote Monday on the proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage and civil unions
Rep. Greg Steuerwald, R-Danville, said committee members wanted time to reflect on the more than three hours of testimony given on the matter.
The surprise postponement spurred talk that Republicans were unsure they had enough votes to get the measure out of committee.
Seven votes are needed. The four Democrats are on record as voting against.
That means Republicans can lose only two members out of the remaining nine for it to pass.
Several members – including Rep. Dan Leonard, R-Huntington – are still undecided publicly.
Leonard said Steuerwald asked him what his vote would be and Leonard refused to say.
Wait till I push the button, he said.
Rep. Casey Cox, R-Fort Wayne, said the testimony was informative and he is still inclined to vote yes in committee so that it moves to the full House.
He said he would like to consider amendments on the floor, including removing the second sentence of the proposal. Doing so would restart the constitutional process, pushing a public vote until 2016 at the earliest.
House Joint Resolution 3 says only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Indiana, which is the same as state law.
But the second line goes further, saying A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized.
Opponents believe the second sentence bans future civil unions but also that it could affect universities or businesses giving health care benefits to same-sex couples; could nullify human rights ordinances protecting gays and lesbians and could even strip domestic violence laws affecting unmarried individuals.
House Bill 1153 – also carried by Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero – attempts to eliminate concerns in these areas.
Supporters contend the constitutional amendment is necessary to stop an activist judge from overturning Indiana's law. It has been upheld in the past.
Several hundred Hoosiers attended the House Judiciary Committee meeting and at times there were cheering, crying and laughing.
Twenty-nine states have constitutional amendments defining marriage as between one man and women. Indiana is one of only four states with a state law but no constitutional amendment.
Marya Rose, vice president at Cummins Inc., said her company opposes the bill because top talent is reluctant to move to places that do not embrace diversity. She said Cummins has already had employees ask for transfers to states that are more tolerant.
We will be reluctant to continue to add jobs to Indiana if our state is a less welcoming and inclusive place for our employees, she said.
Kody Tinnel, a gay conservative from Fort Wayne, called the amendment an unnecessary intrusion that doesn't represent the Republican view of limited government. And he said it's taking up limited legislative time.
He is in a five-year relationship with his partner, Corey, and both have serious concerns about how the amendment will affect their lives.
Corey and I should be treated like every other loving, committed couple in Indiana, Tinnel said.
The opponents wrapped up their coordinated testimony with well-known Republican lawyer Peter Rusthoven, who has constitutional expertise.
He focused on the ambiguity of the second sentence – even with the so-called clarifying bill.
We are turning future decisions about what will and will not be recognized in Indiana to the courts, Rusthoven said.
He said House Bill 1153 can't be used to explain what an earlier legislature – with up to 20 different members – meant when the initial vote was taken in 2011.
The proponents had their own big-time Republican lawyer – Jim Bopp – who has handled constitutional cases at both the state and federal level.
The benefit (to the companion bill) is it addresses the meaning of the amendment by the framers of the amendment, he said. That is exactly what the courts look to.
He also said the reason opponents fight so hard against the constitutional amendment is they want the opportunity to more easily change the definition of marriage in statute in the near future.
Reen Gutgsell, of Jasper, testified about being a Catholic lesbian who didn't come out until the age of 38.
Most gay people look at the institution of marriage as a civil right. I question that. Marriage in the Catholic church is a sacrament, she said.
Gutgsell added that she isn't saying gay couples can't raise a child but how does that couple explain morals and values to that child?
Eric Miller, founder of the conservative group Advance America, said Hoosiers deserve the opportunity to vote on the amendment in November.
There's no question that if HJR3 passes without amendment that the people of Indiana will be able to make an informed decision, he said. I trust the people of Indiana to make the right decision.


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Lt. Maureen Tessier said the SWAT members do monthly training and last month's training focused on emergency medicine, perfecting skills like the tourniquet placed on the left leg of wounded police officer Daniel Doherty that is credited with helping save his life after he was shot by Myles Webster last March.
Tessier said a part of this week's training session included the use of mannequins that "bleed" and continue to do so if the tourniquet or special wound material is not property applied.
The special wound material used in the SWAT training, called QuikClot, is a rayon/polyester gauze that has been impregnated with kaolin, or white clay, an inert mineral that promotes clotting. The military uses the kaolin-based material in treatment of life-threatening bleeding from external wounds that are not suitable for tourniquet application.
Tessier said the SWAT members train monthly on various skills to maintain certification. The Manchester SWAT unit is one of 12 teams in the New Hampshire Tactical Officers Association and holds membership in the National Tactical Officers Association.
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"Do you think you'd be able to get into another long term relationship if I died?" She asks, paintbrush in hand, priming on the intricate diamond pattern playroom doors.
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Just got done showering. Had to take a shower because I spent the last couple hours scrubbing actual crap off the basement floor. Sewage backup because… Old house. The basement shall henceforth be known as The Poop Deck.
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The kids are back in school. Finally.
There's not a room in the house that has missed Alaina's nesting. I even tried my hand at some framing and drywall.
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Nine days ago, I set off with all three kids on a flight to San Francisco to meet Seth. He had driven out a week prior for his little brother's bachelor party and we were joining him for the wedding.
The plan – drive back home to Ohio from San Francisco and camp the entire way. After three nights in a tent, and two in a hotel for the wedding – my back and hips decided to stage a mutiny.
Suddenly my last post about pregnancy being a breeze became a haunting jinx as I struggled to walk without pain. We weighed our options- I could fly back or we could keep going, staying in hotels. I would stay back and bench it while the rest of the family hiked. We opted with the later and I am feeling much better, but still have to rest as much as possible. Eleven weeks to go now.
We started in Yosemite, Heaven on Earth- by far my favorite stop so far- then headed through Idaho to meet my brother, Ezra in the Grand Tetons. Now we are in Wyoming and headed toward Iowa City to see another brother. Keep up with us on Instagram – @alaina_gray or @sethgray.
Here is a view from last night as we drive through Bighorn Canyon, a hidden treasure just west of Yellowstone.
More pictures when we get back.
With Benjamin's father largely uninvolved (he sees him once a month for a few hours, at most), Seth is it. The man who will raise him, teach him right from wrong and the man who will love him unconditionally, no matter how hard he pushes back.
And he will push back. He does push back. Every day.
Benjamin is a defiant little guy. It's hard for me to watch because I was the same way, and still am. I am as passionate as I am stubborn and while these can be strengths in adulthood, children with these traits are often a handful. So, while Seth issues his stern warnings and Benjamin stands his ground, I am torn. Read More…
After months of toiling over options Seth's father threw out the name "Foster" at dinner. Foster was his grandfather's name, Seth's great-grand father's name. So, little Foster will be named after his great-great-grandfather and his grandfather, my father, Raymond.
We love the name and it was one of those – "Yep. That's it." moments, so, we know it's right. Thank you so much for helping by giving us your name ideas.
Seth hasn't been blogging, as you may have noticed, because he's been in garage – his workshop – 8-10 hours a day working on leather bags and other goodies for our Beauty and the Biker pop up shop.
He loves it out there (and so does, Archer).
We'll be popping up (for the very first time) at the Moonlight Market on Gay Street in Columbus on Saturday, May 11th.
Seth has been busy using this
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Because it takes him 20+ hours to make bags like the one shown, I decided to fill our shop up with some goodies from the Beauty side of our brand – clothes, hats, purses and jewelry.
We find out on Monday!!!
I think it's a girl, but am fine either way. I'm more curious as to what type of little person he or she will be. Having three already, it is clear the personality and spirit trumps the sex.
So, yes, on Monday – we will know.
Guess what you think we're having in the comments and enter to win a new leaf necklace! And if you guess correctly and then, IF you are randomly drawn – you win.
Here's another baby bump picture. Some of you have had theories on Facebook as to what the sex is by the shape and height of my bump. I know nothing of these things and leave it all to you, Ladies.
Also, I am nearly 20 weeks and due in late August or early September.
We have been busy bees, as usual. Seth has been quiet on the blog because he's been either in the garage making bags (he has sold four now) or running about the yard doing mad yard work for our party next weekend to celebrate our birthdays and our one year wedding anniversary.
Last weekend we had a little party at the Cement Marketing office to open the first Moonlight Market on Gay Street. Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman stopped by to kick things off and took a moment to say "Hello" to the kids. Read More…
Typically, I trudge through my birthdays as one would a murky pond- carefully and cautiously stepping through the day, just trying to make it to the other side without a bite or an encounter with some unidentifiable monster. And every year when April 6th arrives, I feel a huge wave of relief. Aging isn't the issue. I still feel young and every year I grow wiser, happier- so, no, age does not bother me (yet).
I myself couldn't quite put a finger on why I dreaded the big day so much until last year when Seth asked me, "Why do you hate them so much?" He looked genuinely concerned after having watched me closely avoid emotional land mines all day.
No one had ever really asked me why. But, immediately, I knew the answer and tears flew through my eyes, soaking my cheeks instantly.
"I hate my birthdays because he's not here."
My father, his voice, his hug and his grand birthday enthusiasm. But I also missed the family that had existed before he died. After his death everyone scattered in their grief and there was no one to pull us back together again. Now 14 years later we remain divided, entire states and years of emotional wounds set between us.
But this year, Seth had a plan, He was bound and determined to beat my birthday demons.
The day started out as my birthdays usually do. No plans, home from work and treating myself to my own schedule of "whatever I feel like." After dinner, a homemade lemon cake from Seth
and a round of kid and Seth presents I could see the finish line. Bedtime was just 45 minutes away for the kids… and not long after my own.
But then I spotted a woman walking down the side walk with a present in her hands. When she came into focus i realized it was my best friend Monica. Read More…


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This spacious townhouse in Dunelawn condominiums, is located in between downtown Ogunquit and Ogunquit beach. This beautifully decorated townhouse has three levels of living, an attached garage and two private outdoor spaces.
This condominium has three bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, fully applianced kitchen, washer and dryer, and fully furnished.
On the lower level, you will find the master bedroom and bath. The master bathroom has a double vanity and whirlpool tub. The master bedroom has french doors that open out your own private garden with patio. It has a king size bed, and a chaise lounge for relaxing.
The second bedroom is also located on the lower level and has a trundle bed, so you can sleep two people.
The washer and dryer are located on the lower level as well.
The many windows on the main level provide you with a lot of natural light. The entire main level of living has hardwood flooring and is beautifully decorated with area rugs. You will find a half bath, and a fully applianced kitchen which opens out to a dining area and family room. The dining area seats eight people. The family room has a wood burning fireplace, and leather furniture that comfortably seats 8 people. It has french doors which open to a private deck with ocean views.
The third level of living is carpeted and has a full bathroom, linen closet with extra blankets and bed linens, and a large loft style bedroom with two double beds and a ceiling fan.
This condominium has it all!!! It comes with beach towels, beach chairs, sand toys and more. Whether you plan on taking the family for summer vacation or enjoying the holidays somewhere different, you won't be disappointment spending your time away here in Ogunquit, Maine at our favorite spot to get away!!!
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Friday, 18 January 2013
red tennis balls grow on trees
Fortunately, she doesn't eat the plums. She just likes to have them around, perhaps regarding them as toys.
6 comments:
- Lassiter Chase and Benjamin said...
Cool tennis ball there Penny! Bet it's nice and juicy!
- 18 January 2013 23:04
- Mitch and Molly said...
We wish we had a plum tree in our yard or in our travels but we would eat it - not save it, Penny!
Love ya lots,
Mitch and Molly
- 19 January 2013 09:23
- parlance said...
Lassie and Benjie, I hope Penny never realises the plums are juicy and nice, because I think the stone in the middle would be dangerous.
- 19 January 2013 17:43
- parlance said...
Mitch and Molly, I'll bet you would! You are champion eaters.
- 19 January 2013 17:43
- Clare said...
She's guarding her treasure!! Very cute
- 23 January 2013 09:32
- parlance said...
Clare, to be honest, she doesn't really guard it. She's quite a laid-back dog and she just likes to have it around. If I take it she doesn't mind.
- 23 January 2013 18:29
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Porsche today announces its return to Le Mans with a works-run sports prototype race car in the top LMP1 category. The first outing of the completely newly-developed car is planned for the year 2014.
"Motorsport was always an essential part of the Porsche brand," emphasises Matthias Müller, President of the Executive Board at Porsche AG. "So for us it was only a matter of time before we returned as a factory to the top league of racing. The success of Porsche at Le Mans is unrivalled.
With the RS Spyder sports prototype that was run with great success from 2006 to 2008 by the factory-backed Penske Racing team in the USA, and to 2010 by several customer teams worldwide, Porsche has set the benchmark recently in the LMP2 category.
"With the RS Spyder we proved that our motorsport engineers in Weissach are at the forefront," says Wolfgang Hatz, Board Member for Research and Development at Porsche AG. "For instance, we were the first to run a high-revving race engine with direct fuel injection, DFI, setting new standards in performance and efficiency. Recently, with the 911 GT3 R Hybrid, we adopted a completely new drive technology for racing purposes and achieved a considerable reduction in consumption."
Hartmut Kristen, Head of Porsche Motorsport, is already prepared for one of the most challenging development programmes in the company's history. "We're looking forward to the task of developing new technologies and to continue on with the success of the Porsche RS Spyder. After the conclusion of our works-supported sports prototype programme in the American Le Mans Series we have kept up with the latest technological advances. Now we will begin with detailed research in order to evaluate the various concept alternatives for our new car. These obviously depend on how the regulations for the year 2014 look in detail. In principle, these regulations are interesting for us because the integration of our hybrid technology in the vehicle concept is one possible option."
With 16 overall victories, Porsche is the most successful manufacturer in Le Mans. Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood claimed the first overall victory for Porsche in 1970 with the legendary 917 short-tail. The 16th and by now last overall win was secured by Laurent Aiello, Stéphane Ortelli and Allan McNish in 1998 with the 911 GT1. In the years 2008 and 2009, the Porsche RS Spyder sports prototype won the title in the LMP2 category.
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I didn't think I was the cook and baker my mother was, until I used my new oven. Everything has turned out beautifully, and with so little effort on my part. The panel...Read complete review
I didn't think I was the cook and baker my mother was, until I used my new oven. Everything has turned out beautifully, and with so little effort on my part. The panel design is self explanatory ... so easy to use my 8 year old grandson came to my aid while I was busy doing something else, and was able to figure out how to shut the oven off all by himself! I especially like the preheat feature. It usually takes just about the same length of time to heat as it takes me to mix my ingrediants and get the dish in the oven. Whirlpool, I love you!
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This product has an attractive look to it.
Hard to understand how this can be an energy saver when it takes so long to preheat. Also, the first time I self-cleaned it, it remained dirty around the inside of the outer...Read complete review
Hard to understand how this can be an energy saver when it takes so long to preheat. Also, the first time I self-cleaned it, it remained dirty around the inside of the outer door glass and on the inside rim of the oven itself. Otherwise OK.
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I bought this oven about a month ago and i have been very happy with it. It looks good and easy to use features!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Easy and simple keypad
By paulythecook
from Tarboro, NC, United States
As always whirlpool has greatly satisfied me. My new oven is the best, no mess and it cooks great.
Really great features and easy to use.
By Woodyman
from Princeton, TX, United States
I bought the Whirpool oven about a month ago and I love it. It is easy to operate and has great features
It Pays to Buy Quality
By RickCPA
from Buffalo, NY, United States
My wife and I were long overdue for a new oven. Based on our prior experience with Whirlpool products we immediately decided to stay with the winning team. Needless to say this our new 24 inch Whirlpool oven exceeded our expectations. Yes, our food actually tastes better because it cooks properly at the right temperature, plus it is much easier to keep clean than our old Kenmore appliance.
By REID
from Knoxville, TN, United States
Love the look of my new oven!
By Mimi Kay
from Dexter, MO, United States
I have just moved to a new home, and the oven in the house was the original one when the home was built in 1978. I am very happy with this product, love the look of the stainless finish. The touch button controls are great, and easy to work. I just used the broiler for the first time yesterday, had no problems. I have had to get used to the fan running after the oven is turned off, but no problem there.
Had some problems
By rogintex
from Waco tx
first week had water leak inside of fridge each tme a glass of water was filled, also had freezing on the back wall and a slight water drip on the ice dispenser area. Called for reapair and it was all corrected. Now it's making a couple of whinning noises which are bothersome so I'll call for service again. It's a great refrigerator just had some problems on this one which will be ok in the near future. Warranty was excellent
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By Buddyboy
from Dallas,tx
The cooking and broiling are great. The cleaning process is a wast. After 5 hours on clean, the oven is still too dirty.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Very easy to operate!
By Shasha
from Fallbrook CA
We needed a small wall oven and this one fit perfectly. Very easy to operate and the fan noise is reasonable (I read some bad reviews on noise on other manufacturer's products). Temperature distribution is even. I am not a big baker, so this one will satisfy all I need from an oven. Much much better looking compared to the 20-year-old one I replaced. It is worth the price.
self cleaning/timer/control logic, etc..
By jimijohnson
from Bellefontaine, OH
We live in a 70 year old house, that we have remodeled over the past twenty years. I'm sure the old Hotpoint oven was original (or replaced/installed in the 50s). We love this new oven (even though it took a bit of restructuring to install it).
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This book explores the variety of relationships between finance and development, offering a broad and critical understanding of these connections and perspectives. It breaks finance down into its various aspects, with separate chapters on aid, debt, equity, microfinance and remittances. Throughout the text, finance is presented as a double-edged sword... Read more...]]>
Why did Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature and Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South need to be written?
Because the scale and depth of urban poverty in what is termed the Global South (low- and middle-income nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean) have been greatly under-estimated and urban poverty has not been given the attention it deserves in development. Also because, as the second book describes in detail, there is much innovation in urban poverty reduction by organizations and federations formed by those living in ''slums' and informal settlements that deserves to be acknowledged and supported.
How are these different from other books in the field?
These are the first books to be written specifically on urban poverty in the Global South. The first of the books on the scale and nature of urban poverty is unusual in assessing a large range of deprivations that contribute to urban poverty – including a focus not just on inadequate income or lack of assets but also on poor quality housing, poor health, lack of access to basic services and lack of provision for participation. The second book draws on a large but disbursed literature and the authors' own field experiences on how best to reduce urban poverty. It also describes how new funding mechanisms have developed to directly support organizations and federations of slum/shack dwellers.
What do you hope readers will take away from the books?
A recognition of the importance of changing how we view and measure urban poverty and of how best to respond, especially in how governments and international agencies work with urban poor groups and their own organizations. This includes support for funds that are accountable to and co-managed with organizations of the urban poor.
Why are the books significant?
For the evidence they present to justify far more attention to urban poverty and to show new approaches that are far more effective in reducing urban poverty. They also come out at a time when there is a global discussion on what Sustainable Development Goals should be the global priorities from 2015 and with more international agencies showing a greater interest in urbanization.
What are some of the controversies surrounding urban poverty?
These two books show the inaccuracies in how urban poverty is defined and measured and how this has contributed to the lack of attention from governments and international agencies to reducing it. These books also highlight the deficiencies in the measuring and monitoring of the Millennium Development Goals. The number of urban dwellers considered to be poor that is measured through monetary poverty lines is greatly understated as poverty lines are set far too low (especially the $1.25/day poverty line). Set a poverty line low enough and no-one is poor. In addition, the numbers of urban dwellers lacking access to safe water supplies and good provision for sanitation are greatly under-estimated.
What findings in writing/researching the book surprised you?
The capacities and ingenuity shown by grassroots organizations (mostly women-centred and managed savings groups) in addressing their needs and developing new ways to work with local governments. This became a central theme of the second book. Also notable was the difficulties in getting international agencies to reconsider the attention given to urban poverty despite the evidence showing the need to do so. We were also surprised by the extent of the inaccuracies in so many of the global datasets that are meant to be monitoring progress in development.
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How is the field of gender and development studies evolving?
The field of gender and development has significantly impacted development theory and practice in recent decades. Initially, this field raised questions about how gender affects who does what and how resources are allocated in developing contexts. In many cases, these divisions of labor and control over resources are based on unequal gender relations usually with women being marginalized while men are in dominant positions. More recent work in this field examines the intersection of gender with other social categories such as race and ethnicity, age, class, and sexuality that influence these unequal power relations. In addition, gender and development studies has opened up opportunities for and encouraged underrepresented and marginalized groups to challenge inequities through activism, community coalitions, microenterprises, and other strategies that empower women and other members of society.
The field of gender and development has also evolved to include a greater focus on the Western bias of gender relations and identities in the development process. Specifically, postcolonial feminism argues that conventional development theory tends to analyze colonization in developing regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America from the perspective of the colonizers. In contrast, postcolonial feminism seeks to decenter this perspective from the viewpoint of the colonized in order to transform postcolonial societies. Postcolonial feminism also highlights the gendered nature of colonialism and critiques Western feminism as dismissive of non-Western viewpoints and experiences under colonial regimes.
Finally, feminist geography has greatly influenced gender and development studies by exploring spatial aspects of development that are infused with gendered power relations. Mobility, scale, nature, and context are all dimensions of feminist geography that inform our understanding of gender identity and power. This area of geography also encourages researchers to expand beyond national or regional approaches to development theory and practice by exploring transnational dynamics, as well as individual and everyday aspects of gender and development.
How does your book contribute to this field?
Our book integrates development and globalization using original feminist research studies from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, North America and the Caribbean. The book is structured into three sections that guide readers from a scrutiny of neoliberal globalization through participatory methodologies to a gendered analysis of environmental adaptation.
In light of contemporary realities of global restructuring, chapters in the first section of the book evaluate policies on sanitation and financial services, as well as on transnational diasporic communities and sex trafficking. These chapters add to the global development literature on the varied gendered impacts of particular neoliberal economic and political processes. An important contribution of the second section of the book is the focus on participatory feminist research methodologies. Through their involvement with grass-roots organizations and development projects, the authors demonstrate how participatory techniques support the knowledge and action that promote gender equity. The chapters thus provide analytical models for future studies that aspire to use a transnational feminist framework.
The third section contributes to the rapidly growing fields of feminist political ecology and Gender, Environment and Development (GED). In the human-environment tradition of geography, feminist geographers show that a gendered analysis is relevant in examining how to mitigate environmental and disaster impacts and to broaden access to social and economic resources. This section also sheds light on how global systemic factors explain social vulnerability, and proposes sustainable development practices that include feminist ways of handling contemporary environmental and ecological challenges of climate change, natural disasters, and eco-development. Consistent with the other empirically-grounded analyses in the book, contributors in this section report on institutional and individual responses to prevailing and interlinked global economic and environmental crises.
An emphasis on working across borders in many of the chapters establishes a clear connection between gender, development, and transnational feminism. The mixed methods approach prevalent in the book allows more fully-informed and inclusive analyses. As such, some of the contributors explicate the value of a gender lens in reducing inequities in access to land, redressing time poverty, or alleviating burdens of natural disaster and displacement. Others illustrate that the construction of gendered agency is significant in feminist understandings of women's and men's roles in development processes, including political activism or environmental adaptation. But we are careful not to lose sight of the fact that inherent in research endeavors are complicated relationships, including the new hierarchies that feminist methods in general and participatory methods in particular can create.
What experiences led you to write this book?
This has been a truly collaborative project involving the editors, authors and reviewers at various stages throughout the process of writing the book. We (Ann and Ibipo) started graduate school together at Clark University and have been close colleagues and friends ever since. As our research fields evolved, we decided to coedit a book on gender and development that would contribute to this dynamic field. We invited the authors to gather for a workshop in 2011 to identify the main themes and empirical studies for this collection. From there we submitted the proposal (successfully) to the publishers and presented our initial findings at a national geography conference in 2012.
The authors are at various stages of their careers and are based in universities as well as policy institutes.
Almost all of the authors have academic backgrounds and positions with significant experience working in developing regions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America. Their scholarship and activism display a strong commitment to feminist ideals that support women's equal access to resources, employment, and quality of life. Some of the contributors focus on urban spaces, such as Njeru et al's research in Nairobi, while others conduct their gender and development research on issues confronting women in rural Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Sri Lanka, India and Appalachia.
Overall, the experiences leading up to the publication of this book represent dynamic and relevant applications of feminist practice and theory. We hope that the final product of our efforts is useful for teaching courses, conducting feminist research, and promoting policy measures that focus on gender in developing regions. Finally, the collaborative approach to writing this book among students, professors, reviewers, activists, and practitioners has expanded our network of transnational scholars and activists to effectively engage with and empower women in the development arena.
What do you hope readers will take away from this book?
The book is designed to be a research-based interdisciplinary text for students and academic researchers in subjects such as Development Studies, International Relations, Feminist Studies and Geography. The content of many of the chapters is also useful to practitioners and policy makers in particular because of the authors' engagement with projects that are directly related to urban planning, land reform, immigration policy, and resource management. There are therefore a number of insights from the book for readers. For example, one conclusion from the feminist inquiry of some of the multifaceted research questions is that consequences of neoliberal globalization are not uniform and should not be regarded as such. Second, many chapters in the book draw attention to the inclusion of men in feminist analyses of development and globalization without losing the focus on women.
Readers will also find that gender-sensitive qualitative methods, and participatory uses of geospatial information technology empower otherwise marginalized women. Yet at the same time, we want readers to see that while some development programs and policies improve access and facilitate empowerment for some women (and men), others exclude or leave women at an impasse because of ideological, political or socioeconomic hurdles. Indeed, the notion of empowerment is heavily contested in feminist practice, with much conflicting evidence in the global development literature. Women may not always be able to initiate transformations, but there are some situations where they are able to improve conditions and gain some level of control in their lives. One must therefore be cognizant of the particular spaces or circumstances that development programs or local organizations can truly enhance the goals of gender equity, sustainability and empowerment.
This is a book meant to enrich readers' understanding of globalization and development by using feminist analyses of social change, public policy, resource management and economic livelihoods. The research techniques featured here enlist and empower participants to identify needs and implement solutions in their communities. Finally, studies in this book illustrate how the relationship between feminism and development traverses multiple scales through transnational struggles and grass-root organizations, while emphasizing human rights and gender equity. Thus, from the authors' theoretically- and empirically-informed investigations of neoliberal globalization, feminist methodologies, and environmental change, we hope that these essays will further motivate students, scholars and activists to be more globally informed, intellectually engaged and critically aware of gender equity.
1. Tell us a bit about your career background.
Pursuing anthropology interests has given me many exciting/challenging opportunities to engage with people in different parts of the developing world, in particular mainland Southeast Asia. I have always been interested in how new ideas change behavior at a social and cultural level (this became clear to me when I was a young man working in the highlands of South Mexico in reforestation programs). Alongside academic research, over the past 25 years I have worked with a large number of organisations, UN, ADB, bilateral and NGOs, and with different groups of people - ethnic groups, migrant populations, sexual minorities, rural populations and so on. For example, projects seeking to remove drug dependence (opium), lessening threats to infectious disease (sexual health) and assessing modernization's impact on livelihood choices (infrastructure development). I have been fortunate to end up in a number of quite diverse settings: making health videos with ethnic groups in the mountains of Laos, studying the impact of huge new casinos in the borderlands of the Golden Triangle, assisting traditional medicine practitioners consolidate social science research skills, working with government and non-government sector in developing regional models of HIV intervention for new economic corridors criss-crossing Asia. Together these feed into my broad research interests in how social and economic change impacts on both everyday livelihoods and a sense of self for those caught up in the slipstream of rapid regional development, and how this in turn shapes health and well-being.
2. What lead you the write on the topic of Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia?
This combination is seldom approached, programmatically at least, as interlocking aspects of modernization. And yet, they figure dramatically in the changes taking place across Southeast Asia. Mobility is crucial to, and a natural outcome of, development planning, and is usually analysed in an economic or demographic sense. Health as a facet of everyday life of migrants, commonly falls through the cracks and all too often labelled as 'someone else's' responsibility. Sexual cultures are primarily approached through static frameworks and addressed through negative sanctions – 'don't be like this', or 'don't behave like that'. But, and this is the key point, the spread of 'modern' values and the types of relationships they inform, intimate and otherwise, is a profoundly generative social and cultural phenomenon and a crucial substrate to how new economic formations and market expansion configure the landscape of opportunity in Asia. It is relatively easy to suggest migrants and other marginalized peoples encounter health hazards or that proliferating interpersonal relations foster forms of vulnerability. The difficulty comes when we put these together. Development, mobility and sexuality combine to produce a complex environment of risks for people under the sway of contagious enticements to 'pursue the good life' that is much harder to address within health interventions.
This was the intent of the book. To highlight that as people seek to find their feet in a changing world, social life unfailingly unfolds through "practices of intimacy" These everyday moments of connection largely go unnoticed because of intimacy's absolute mundaneness. This does not make them unimportant: quite the contrary. It is often the smallest of human gestures, the most personal moments of human interaction - the affectionate glance, the swallowed grimace, the automatic clap on the shoulder - that form the fabric of social life and the grounding of human existence. In turn, the wide array of emotional engagements in what 'progress' might mean for different people has profound implications for how we understand the choices they make as they seek to take advantage of (or are taken advantage by) the changes sweeping through Asia. In short, I wanted to show how intimate economies are inseparable from material economies - always have been and always will be. As such, attempts to understand development impacts and proliferating risks needs to draw on these interrelated dimensions of everyday life.
3. The book draws on more than 20 years of ethnographic research in the Mekong region. What was your most interesting study conducted in that time?
No single study stands out as most interesting, there have been many, but perhaps one of the more stimulating in an ongoing sense was a collaborative research project we did called Watermelons, Bars and Trucks. At face value, the study was about the impact of a new World Bank road in Northwest Laos. By focusing on a concrete infrastructure development project, it allowed us to talk about other dimensions of social change not so easily discussed in public circles at the time: infectious disease, sexuality and drugs. The study of changing lifestyles of the ethnic groups in the area showed that concrete development does much more than improve connectivity and allow increased flows of goods and ideas. It changes value systems. This is not a new point, but the rawness of the process in this part of the world was so visceral and so in-your-face as earlier subsistence lifestyles gave way to wage labour that it allowed us to talk concretely about how people's relationships changed in 'immaterial' ways as well. How people actually felt about the changes is reflected in the choices they made or were made for them. Two simple examples: opium was (for a period) replaced by amphetamines as these prompted a whole new orientation to modernity (allowing enhanced labour performance and feeling good about it) and interpersonal and intimate relations became enmeshed in far broader connective networks than before as itinerants and locals engaged in a more diverse set of (sometimes exploitative) circumstances. The research fed into a number of funded projects that were able to address some of the damaging elements of these changes afoot at the time. On a more personal level, let me mention one persistent memory of doing this research. It reminds me of inherent, some might say existential, similarities we embody in one way or another. Sitting on a ramshackle bamboo balcony chatting with highland men in a remote mountain village, evening dusk bouncing golden off a blanket of clouds clogging the Mekong valley below, no electricity, no trappings of modernity of any description, freezing cold, pigs rattling the balcony poles, opium smells wafting in the background – we didn't know each other from soap, spoke totally different languages and yet one topic we wandered across, the vicissitudes of love and the heartfelt vulnerabilities this creates, was remarkably easy to share and laugh about. It felt like a conversation I could have been having with guys anywhere. Shared humanity is the joy of working at the coalface of development, even as one is constantly struck by the downsides to the changes that take place.
4. If there is one practical thing that you would like to implemented as a result of this book what would it be?
It would hinge on an appreciation of a fundamental tension in current thinking about development and its impacts. This would, in turn, provoke a broader approach to the imperative of 'mitigation'. At heart, a core ethos within neo-liberalism relies on people taking a chance with new opportunities, of maximizing human capital (in whatever way this notion is understood). To be an entrepreneur is to take risks. This premise is fundamental to the sensibilities sweeping through the Asian region (through the world, really) assisted at many turns by current development initiatives. Yet at the same time, millions of development dollars go into supposedly mitigating unwanted consequences, based on a pre-emptive logic of 'measure, avoid and/or compensate'.
There is a very basic problem here. On the one hand, people are encouraged to try their hand in market engagement in freeform ways one cannot, and should not be able to, anticipate – in other words, the unfettering of opportunity. On the other hand, we work with a logic that suggests we can predict and take care of undesired consequences before they happen, despite the fact that aspirational endeavours are premised on their unpredictability. The impossibility of any resolution seems lost on programmers and policy makers who champion both the alchemical 'magic' of the market, at the same time as programmatically asserting the ironclad assurance of impact assessments and viability of mitigation. It is not only planners who maintain a schizophrenic approach to the ability to contain risk. The many migrant, mobile and/or marginal individuals called upon to be foot soldiers in expanding economies of the region are buffeted mercilessly by the viscerally incompatible combinations of intoxicating aspiration and (self-) imposed subordination to the point that grasping and avoiding risk becomes an ever-more alien expectation.
To address this tension, development planners and implementers would be well served to operate with an elaborated idea of what constitutes risk. To gain a better conceptual and practical handhold on what values are, in fact, undermining the ability to conceptualise risk both for target populations and for those seeking to help them. And, at the end of the day, figure how to reframe the concept of mitigation accordingly.
This new and expanded edition builds upon the first edition's powerful multi-perspective approach and breath of coverage. A truly comprehensive introduction to sustainable development, it is designed specifically to allow access to the topic from a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds and to develop understanding of a diversity of approaches and traditions at different levels... Read more...]]>


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