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Statistics and breastfeeding: More proofs of breast milk's healthful advantages
-A A +ABy Paul John A. Vesagas, RN, RM
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Monday, July 25, 2011
THE act of breastfeeding has a long history to tell.
In an anthropologic perspective, no one will argue that breastfeeding has been the traditional and natural way of feeding infants and generally "babies".
Historical data showed that even before the primitive eras, whenever the biological mother was unable to breastfeed for any reason, a "wet nurse" or a breastfeeding mother substitute is called upon to fill the inadequacies of the biological mother.
Furthermore, infant formulas may have appeared in the market for as early as the 19thcentury, but its uses did not become wide spread until World War II.
Somehow, the so-called "breast milk substitute invasion" has been so extensive that to some countries, especially the highly industrialized ones, have made it a culture to bottle feed instead of breast feeding.
Over the years, concerned advocates of breast feeding have nested heavily in researches that would not totally outdo bottle feeding but rather encourage mothers to breastfeed through heightened awareness of the breast milk's advantages.
According to La Leche League International, one classic study followed 20,000 babies in Chicago in the 1920s and 30s. The said respondents were divided into three categories, based on how they were fed: (1) breastfed regularly; (2) breastfed partially; and (3) totally formula fed and was followed for nine months.
To establish the credibility of the study, meticulous record keeping was practiced to include all causes of deaths and illnesses due to infection of the 20,000 baby respondents.
Based on their epidemiologic data, the study was able to pinpoint respiratory infections and gastrointestinal infections, such as diarrheal diseases as the primary and secondary causes, respectively, of infant mortality and morbidity among the respondents.
Furthermore, the study found that babies who were breastfed were less likely to be infected compared to their counterpart respondents who were either breastfed partially or artificially fed totally.
"This is due to the breast milk's unique anti-infective qualities," says Dr. Herbert Ratner, a long time medical advisor of La Leche League International.
"Being nature's vaccine for the newborn, the breast milk has unique substances that help to explain why breastfed babies are healthier," he adds.
Dr. Ratner concludes that 30 years of research on the immunology of breastfeeding has revealed a rich array of protective substances that fight bacteria and viruses to keep the baby from getting seriously sick.
In 1977, another research was done in the United States which was aimed at comparing the illnesses among breastfed and bottle fed babies.
However, this time, the respondents for the breastfed babies came from those of the lower socioeconomic status. In contrast, the bottle fed babies came from the middle to high class families who enjoyed a high level of sophisticated medical care and housing.
Ironically, Dr. Allan Cunningham, the research director, found that episodes of significant illness were uncommon to breastfed babies compared to the so-called "well-pampered" yet bottle fed babies who may have the best of what life has to offer.
To date, a number of quality researches followed with the following results or advantages for the baby -- greater immune health, fewer infections, higher intelligence, less incidence of diabetes, less likelihood of childhood obesity, and fewer tendencies to develop allergies.
Breastfeeding, as they say, is mother nature's way of telling us that everything we ever wanted has been provided for us.
In a religious perspective, breastfeeding is a gift from above that serves its purpose in due time.
Although culture plays a huge role in its practice, still, when wrestling with the thought of breastfeeding your baby or not, ask yourself this question: "Do I want to deprive my baby with all the healthful benefits of breastfeeding?"
The answer is absolutely NO.
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The post about unrealistic catalog pics brought this clematis back to mind for me. I saw it first in a magazine and it was the most beautiful blue, a perfect baby blue like you usually only see in hydrangeas. I didn't live in a climate where I could grow clematis at the time and years later when I moved to a place where I could I tried to find it again and the company had pulled it from their website and catalog, when I searched online I only found pics of a much less impressive pale lavender flower.
I did a search again today and out of the mostly lavender flowers there were a few that were similar to that stunning blue I first saw in the magazine, are they real or fake? Has anyone grown Will Goodwin who can say what the real color looks like? With the perfect conditions can it turn blue? If not, what is your favorite blue clematis? |
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I grow Will Goodwin. The first year in the ground it looked more blue. Now it is a pale bluish lavender. Still a very nice clematis IMO. |
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WG is a pretty bluish-lavender for me also. Rhapsody is the bluest I grow, love it. |
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Some Clematis are more blue than others but none are true pure blue like morning glories, forget me nots, hydrangeas in acid soil or delphiniums. |
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I have also fallen for blue photos, only to be disappointed when the bloom is more lavender, or a lighter blue. I'd say my hands-down favorite jewel-tone blue is Rhapsody, which is a show-stopper for me, but durandii and petit faucon are also good, and rooguchi is a lovely color but a different shape. |
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has a photo of Rhapsody they can post? Close up and entire vine would be great! Thanks! |
My Rhapsody is too young to have done much yet, but I linked below to the pics that won my heart and enabled me into buying Rhapsody! As in most of these cases, Rhapsody is not a true blue. As harryshoe's pics show, it begins as a lovely purple clematis, but fades to bluish tones. My understanding is that that is the closest you will get to a blue clematis. Kate |
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The Boston Globe (AP): "American takes on British parliament over expenses" The Guardian (U.K.): "Unsung hero" UW Students Vote To Fund HUB Overhaul University of Washington students agreed May 22 to spend $128 million on a complete overhaul of their main campus gathering spot, the Husky Union Building. The vote by a seven-member student committee represented the culmination of four years of discussion and planning. Also included was an additional $26 million to renovate a health clinic and a cultural center. UW regents, who backed the initial stages of the project, are expected to sign off on the renovations at a July meeting. Read more... Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts—including UW alumnus Gregory Johnson, '77—returned safely to Earth, detouring from stormy Florida to sunsplashed California to end a 13-day mission that repaired and enhanced the Hubble Space Telescope. "Now and only now can we declare this mission a total success—the astronauts are safely on the ground," NASA sciences chief Ed Weiler told a Florida press conference May 24. Read more... Also see:
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G4 is ending production on its two cornerstone gaming programs, X-Play and Attack of the Show. TV Guide reports the shows will both wrap up by the end of this year in advance of a planned revamp for the channel.
"Attack of the Show and X-Play have been important for G4, and we want to acknowledge the creative people who have helped inspire and showcase the phenomenon of gamer culture," G4 Media general manager Adam Stotsky said.
Both programs will close out with several programs guest starring former hosts and popular segments from their more than 3,000 episodes combined (X-Play began in its current form in 2003 on TechTV and Attack of the Show first aired in 2005). Original host Adam Sessler left X-Play and the network in April, though the program has continued with longtime co-host Morgan Webb in his absence.
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The long delayed Gears of War movie is still moving forward, in the wake of the best news yet; LEN WISEMEN (director of the shit hole Underworld series) has left the project. And that's not all, he left because EPIC wouldn't let him soften the movie to a PG-13, and include a love story!
Like Peter Jackson's Halo movie (the one that never was), the Gears of War script Wiseman was using needed a budget of $100 million — and that's just an estimate. According to Wiseman, the main problem with a GoW movie is the inevitable 'R' rating, which would make it less accessible to tweens than say, a PG-13 rating (tell that to the Expendables). On top of that, the Gears script lacked the obligatory awkward love story where the hard outer shell of our hero is melted by a shrew that would make most men run for the hills.
With the Departure of the dead weight, Cliffy B notes they're reworking the script to be "more like District 9″ rather than 2012 to fit budgetary restraints and stay true to the violence ridden war story that defines Gears of War. Despite delays, these changes actually sound positive and I personally couldn't be happier. After seeing the aforementioned Expendables, and Rambo I can only hope that they might offer the Directing position to good old Sly Stallone who really knows how to direct violent battle….Just please don't let him write the script. I still don't know what the hell Mickey Rourke was talking about in that movie!!


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Well folks, you did me proud. I was so amazed by all of the really great creative commentary in response to the "Tackling Tailgating with Pork" giveaway. I was really blown away by the freaking awesome stuff you guys are making/reminiscing about these days! Thanks for sharing!
And the honorable mentions and runners up are:
- Pulled Pork- a plethora of great ideas here, thanks to Chris @ Nibble Me This, Paula Nino of Mango and Lime and all the others!
- Persil- Yvonne Aguero, the original "Grill Girl Latina" shared her family's Cuban Comfort Food
- Raspberry Chipotle wet mopped Pork shoulder by "Year on the Grill"
- Medieval Pork Night- Whole pig with oxtail soup, dates and cheese with simple salad by Andy Johnson of BackPorchGourmet
- Asian Pork Sliders by Kurt Nemechek
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Johnathan Martinez from Celebrity Grill Podcast and his "Mojo Marinated Dirty Laundry":
"I got a fun, creative recipe for you. I call it "Mojo Marinated Dirty Laundry!" Oh yes. Let's break it down: 1. Take a standard sized pork loin. 2. Cut the loin length-wise as if to stuff it so it completely flattens out. 3. Cut it into 3-4 inch long strips. 4. Marinade the strips in your favorite Mojo Criollo mixture. 5. Skewer the thin end of the strips by piercing only one end of each strip about a centimeter from the edge so the thick end is away from the skewer. Thick onion slices go excellent between each pork slice. 6. Grill over direct high heat for 2-3 minutes on one side. 7. Flip & grill the other side 2-3 minutes. 8. (*Here's the show-stopper!) Take two bricks – yes, real bricks. Lay them horizontally on their side about 1 skewer's length apart. Lay the almost finished skewer on top of the bricks. The meat & onions will naturally hang vertically like a line of laundry. (Add a bit of pepper for the "dirty.") 9. Call your friends over to revel at your grilling prowess. 10. Bask in the glory of your creative grilling superiority. Hope you like it!" Yes, we like it! Fun idea!


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PLITVICE LAKES, Oct 4 (Hina) - Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on
Tuesday she found out from the media about indictments from Belgrade
against 44 Croatian citizens.
Asked by the press if it was correct that she did not know that the
indictments arrived on August 10, when Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic
received them, Kosor said that as prime minister, she found out about the
indictments at the same time as the press, from the media.
Kosor said she immediately convened a meeting at which it was agreed to
take concrete steps and pass a law declaring null and void certain legal
documents issued by the judicial bodies of the former Yugoslav People's
Army (JNA), the former Yugoslavia, and Serbia.
"We will thus send a clear message that it's been enough of that and that
it's intolerable to expect more indictments against Croatian war veterans
who defended Croatia and Vukovar and who were mainly victims of Serbian
concentration camps, only to receive indictments against them in 2011,"
Kosor said after unveiling a monument at a mass grave site near the
Plitvice Lakes.
The Justice Ministry said today that Kosor did not know about the
indictments which it received on August 10, processed on September 14 and
forwarded to relevant municipal courts for serving the next day.
A member of the press asked Kosor if it was common for a politician to sue
a politician over a debate in parliament. She said her HDZ party had sued
Zeljko Jovanovic of the opposition Social Democrats (SDP) and that she had
nothing to add, other that neither she nor the HDZ (Croatian Democratic
Union) "are afraid of Zeljko Jovanovic or those like him, whose only
programme is hatred."
Asked if a response had arrived from Brussels regarding the Hungarian oil
company MOL, Kosor said it had not, as the English translation of
amendments to the law on the privatisation of Croatia's oil company INA,
of which MOL is the majority owner, and her letter to European Commission
President Jose Manuel Barroso on the matter were only recently sent to
"We are expecting an answer. The reactions are good because, as a country
which will soon become a member of the European Union, we feel that we
must agree on everything. I believe Brussels will acknowledge that the
protection of national interests and the fight against corruption are in
the foundations of every state," Kosor said, adding that those were also
the foundations of the EU and its acquis communautaire.
Kosor expects talks to be held on the matter, to include Croatian legal
and energy experts, saying that if necessary, she and her cabinet would
also attend.
Asked when Croatia would buy new aircraft and with what money, she said
the HDZ's platform for the upcoming parliamentary election envisaged the
strengthening of the Croatian Air Force.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic confirmed on
Tuesday that his ministry had received from the Serbian Justice Ministry
on August 10 indictments against about 40 Croatian citizens and that, when
he found out about them, he did not inform Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
because he did not consider them that important.
Speaking to the press before a session of the parliamentary Judiciary
Committee, Bosnjakovic said he found about the indictments only when they
arrived in court, adding that his ministry received them from the Serbian
ministry through regular channels.
He said that happened on August 10, adding that the Justice Ministry
received more than 4,000 requests for international legal aid daily, in
both criminal and civil matters.
Bosnjakovic said the ministry department that dealt with those requests
processed the case from Serbia and forwarded it to municipal courts, given
that the request for legal aid consisted in the serving of those
Asked why he did not inform Kosor about the indictments, given that he
informed one of the accused, Ivan Vekic, Bosnjakovic said: "Look, I didn't
think it was that important. And I thought we would really deal with it by
serving the indictments. And after that we will see. After that, if any
other request for legal aid is made, regarding a hearing or a court
action, under the law in force we have the right to decide if we will
extend legal aid or not. This was a request for very restricted legal aid,
only that the indictments be served."
Reporters asked for a comment on today's statement by Parliament Deputy
Speaker Vladimir Seks, another indictee, who said the Justice Ministry
made an omission because neither the minister nor the premier were
notified about the indictments, and that Slobodan Calic, an advisor at the
ministry, was responsible.
Bosnjakovic said many employees at the ministry were authorised to act in
administrative proceedings, adding that the ministry dealt with many cases
and that it was impossible for him to tackle every single one.
Bosnjakovic said he did not think he was responsible for omissions or that
an omission was made in this case, as such requests were dealt with as in
court - a case is put on the agenda and dealt with.
The parliamentary Judiciary Committee today unanimously endorsed the
government-sponsored bill declaring null and void all legal documents of
the former Yugoslav People's Army and the judicial bodies of the former
Yugoslavia and of Serbia in which Croatian citizens were suspected,
accused or convicted.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The Ministry of Justice said in a statement on
Tuesday that Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor did not know about the Serbian
war crimes indictments against Croatian citizens, which the ministry
received on August 10, processed on September 14 and sent the next day to
relevant municipal courts to be served on those concerned.
On August 10 the ministry received documents from the War Crimes
Department of the High Court in Belgrade relating to the criminal
prosecution of 44 Croatian citizens launched before the former Military
Court in Belgrade in 1992, to serve them on five Croatian citizens. Since
the ministry's International Legal Aid Department receives about 4,000
requests for legal aid a month, it processed the documents from Belgrade
on September 14 and sent them to relevant municipal courts the next day to
be served on those concerned.
The ministry dismissed as untrue media reports saying that Croatian
Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic and his Serbian counterpart Snezana
Malovic had discussed the cases in question at several meetings.
"Under discussion was the obligation of the Ministry of Justice of the
Republic of Serbia to provide systematised data about Croatian citizens
who were prosecuted, convicted or investigated for war crimes by former
military courts of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) before 2003, which
resulted in the issuing of international or internal arrest warrants, so
as to avoid a repetition of cases similar to that of Tihomir Purda," the
statement said.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Vladimir Seks,
said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor learned about the
indictments issued by Yugoslav military prosecutors against 44 Croatian
citizens from the media on September 21.
He dismissed as untrue the statements by some politicians that Kosor knew
about the indictments before and that they were being used for campaign
"Those are untruths and speculations," Seks said at an hour-long press
conference in Zagreb.
Former interior minister Ivan Vekic announced at a press conference on
September 21 that he had been served with an indictment from Serbia at the
Municipal Court in Osijek the previous day.
"It was then that the prime minister learned that the indictments had
arrived at the Croatian Ministry of Justice from Belgrade and that they
had been forwarded to the Osijek Municipal Court," Seks said.
"The question is why the Croatian Ministry of Justice did not notify Prime
Minister Jadranka Kosor and the government of the indictments on August 10
when it received them, and why it did not notify those concerned when it
forwarded the indictments on September 14," he added.
When asked to comment on statements by the Vice-President of the
Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), Milorad Pupovac, about the
indictments, Seks said that his statements were "totally untrue",
especially the one that Croatian Justice Minister Drazen Bosnjakovic and
his Serbian counterpart Snezana Malovic had reached an agreement on the
issue. "No such agreement was reached," Seks said.
Seks would not say whether he thought that Justice Ministry officials
should be held to account for omissions regarding the indictments.
When asked whether Minister Bosnjakovic had known about the indictments
when he met Vekic in Osijek on September 20, Seks said that Bosnjakovic
had gone to Osijek without the knowledge of Prime Minister Kosor to
reassure Vekic and to make sure there was no trouble from his followers.
He said that Bosnjakovic should be asked when he found out about the
Seks was also asked about the purpose of a law that would declare null and
void the legal acts and decisions of the now defunct Yugoslav People's
Army (JNA), the former Yugoslav federation and the Republic of Serbia
relating to the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. He described Serbia's attempt to
serve the indictments, issued by the JNA Prosecutor's Office on August 10,
1992 against 44 Croatian war veterans, including him, Vekic, Branimir
Glavas and Tomislav Mercep, as "a kind of judicial aggression".
"I'm not important here," Seks said, adding that the veterans were by his
side. He said that the indictments placed Vukovar, a symbol of the defence
of Croatia, in the context of genocide and that the defenders of Vukovar
were charged with genocide. He said that the purpose of the indictments
was to cause unrest among the Vukovar veterans.
Speaking of the proposed law to declare the decisions of the Yugoslav and
Serbian authorities relating to the Homeland War null and void, Seks said
that by adopting such legislation Croatia should, together with other
countries of the former Yugoslavia, exert pressure on Serbia to withdraw
the provisions of a 2003 law relating to the organisation and jurisdiction
of state institutions for war crimes prosecution. He said that the EU
should also exert pressure on Serbia because a European country that
aspires to EU membership claims prerogatives that no EU member has.
Seks said the law would be passed also because the Serbian War Crimes
Prosecutor's Office had failed to observe the agreement with the Croatian
Public Prosecutor's Office (DORH) in this case. Under that agreement, Seks
was to have given a deposition to the DORH and if it found there were
grounds for criminal proceedings against him, it would have launched such
Seks said that Serbia had never issued a warrant for his arrest.
BELGRADE, Oct 4 (Hina) - Serbian lawyer Krsto Bobot said on Tuesday that
he was notified at the High Court in Belgrade in late July that he had
been appointed counsel for former Croatian interior minister Ivan Vekic,
adding that shortly after that he had notified the Croatian Embassy in
Bobot told Hina that after receiving the indictment he had sent his
objections to the court, drawing attention to particular problems. He
added that he had also sent a copy of his objections and a copy of the
ruling appointing him counsel for Vekic to the Croatian Embassy. He said
that he had not contacted Vekic and that he would be his court-appointed
counsel until the former minister hired another defence attorney.
Speaking of his objections, Bobot said he was surprised that the Serbian
War Crimes Prosecutor's Office accepted a case dating from 1992, which had
been conducted by military prosecutors at the time, and that he brought
attention to the fact that the evidence was based on depositions made
before military courts by prisoners of war. He said that he had underlined
the convenience of referring the case to Croatia.
On September 21, Vekic informed the public that he had received an
indictment from the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade High Court, sent
through the Osijek Municipal Court, charging him and some 40 other people,
including Vladimir Seks, Branimir Glavas and Tomislav Mercep, with war
crimes and genocide. He said the indictment was a copied group indictment
originally issued by the Serbian Military Prosecutor's Office in 1992.
BELGRADE, Oct 4 (Hina) - A representative of the Independent Democratic
Serb Party (SDSS) in the Croatian Parliament, Milorad Pupovac, told the
Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti paper of Tuesday that the adoption of a
bill the Croatian government has sent to parliament declaring null and
void all Serbian legal acts relating to the 1991-95 Homeland War in
Croatia, could lead to problems in relations between Croatia and Serbia
and complicate the process of Croatia's EU accession.
Popovac told the daily the Croatian government's bill compromised
everything that had been achieved so far in the prosecution of war crimes
during the eight-year-long coalition of the SDSS and the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ).
"If the law is passed, it will be a millstone around the neck of the next
coalition government, regardless of which parties will form it," Pupovac
said, adding that the law would not change anything because Croatian
courts had not been prosecuting crimes on the basis of Serbian indictments
until now either.
Croatia's Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic and Serbia's War Crimes
Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic in 2006 signed an agreement on the exchange
of case files in war crimes trials, Pupovac said. This year, the two
countries' justice ministers agreed on the exchange of documentation based
on which courts in Serbia and Croatia can decide if there are grounds for
issuing indictments in concrete cases, he added.
"The government's latest decision annuls those agreements, which we
believe also incorporate powers of the Hague tribunal," Pupovac said,
adding that the latest developments would mostly affect citizens because
they would restrict their security.
"We remember well the time when there was no cooperation. The said
agreements were aimed at removing the danger for people who have been
indicted without any grounds," he said.
The SDSS will not support the government's bill in parliament, Vecernje
Novosti said, noting that Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Slobodan Uzelac,
a member of the SDSS, was also against the bill.
The Croatian government last Thursday introduced into Parliament the bill
declaring null and void all legal documents of the former Yugoslav
People's Army (JNA), its judicial bodies, the judicial authorities of the
former Yugoslavia and those of Serbia in which Croatian citizens are
suspected, accused or convicted of crimes relating to the Homeland War.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) MP Milorad
Pupovac said on Tuesday the SDSS was continuing its cooperation with the
ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and that a dispute on a bill
declaring null and void legal documents of the former Yugoslav People's
Army (JNA) would be solved in parliament, which would not depend only on
the HDZ-SDSS relationship but on the relationships of all political
Speaking on Nova TV's primetime news, he said there had been tensions in
the past between the HDZ and the SDSS, one of its ruling coalition
partners, but added that a solution had always been found.
"Until (elections on) December 4, we will do our job regarding what we
have in parliament, what the government has to do, but also regarding what
we as a party have to do, and if we disagree on something, and we don't
agree with (the bill), we will clearly say so," said Pupovac.
Asked if he had known before about indictments against 44 Croatian
citizens issued by the JNA prosecution, Pupovac said he had not, but added
that this was not something new and that the process of Croatian-Serbian
cooperation, notably regarding delicate matters such as backlog war crimes
cases, had begun long before that.
Pupovac said those attacking the 2006 agreement between the two countries
were forgetting that based on it, the Serbian judiciary had taken over
many cases, held trials and handed down verdicts, since the agreement
enabled the Croatian judiciary and state prosecutor to submit the
necessary documentation for holding proceedings in Serbia.
"Just as Croatia would not like someone else to determine its laws, the
same should apply to other countries, notably in such delicate matters as
war crimes, which is a matter of international law and international
commitments," he said.
"It is only necessary to agree on the how, not on the whether or not.
There is no doubt that this bill will complicate cooperation in the region
and that, if passed in parliament, it will complicate Croatia's relations
with the Hague (war crimes) tribunal, Brussels and the European Union, and
notably relations on the political scene," Pupovac said.
MONACO, Oct 4 (Hina) - Croatia and Monaco have many common interests and
values, and Monegasque business people are interested in investing in
Croatia, Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday.
He was on a one-day official return visit to Monaco, holding talks with
his host, Prince Albert II, Prime Minister Michel Roger and
representatives of the Monegasque government.
"This wasn't a mere return visit, but much more than that," Josipovic told
the press after meeting with Roger, adding that the talks with the
Monegasque representatives focused on the expansion of bilateral
"Monaco is a world champion in ecology and in this our interests are
actually the same, because Croatia too is building its future, economy and
culture in the broadest sense on a clean and healthy environment, notably
because of tourism and agriculture as well as quality of life in general,"
Josipovic said, thanking his hosts for Monaco's big financial assistance
to Croatia.
Today's talks also focused on economic cooperation, since Monegasque
business people are interested in investing in Croatia.
"Monaco is a small country but with a lot of capital and many business
people who know their job. We also referred to the efforts the Croatian
government is making towards launching new projects in our country,"
Josipovic said, adding that Monaco was interested in tourism, shipbuilding
and clean energy sources.
Croatia and the Principality of Monaco have strong and open friendly
relations and President Josipovic's visit was held in that atmosphere. Our
two countries share the same common values and the same approach to many
issues, such as environmental protection, said PM Roger.
We discussed many issues, such as the exchange of students between
Dubrovnik and Monaco, further cooperation within the Union for the
Mediterranean, and possibilities of intensifying economic cooperation, he
Earlier in the day, Prince Albert II received Josipovic at an official
ceremony outside the Palace of Monaco.
Josipovic was received with high military honors.
The talks between the two countries' delegations focused on strengthening
the existing cooperation between Croatia and Monaco, protection of the
environment, notably the sea, cooperation within the framework of the
Mediterranean Union, and the coming Conference Rio +20.
Croatia and Monaco established diplomatic relations in 2007. Prince Albert
II officially visited Croatia in April 2009.
Croatia and Monaco cooperate in many sectors, notably in mine removal. In
2007 Monaco and the Croatian Mine Action Centre signed a three year
agreement on mine removal in the border Danube river region and the
Kopacki Rit nature park.
Monaco has also donated money to the mine victims rehabilitation centre
M.A.R.E. in Rovinj. So far the Principality has donated US$ 275,000 and it
will donate another $450,000 in the period 2010-2012.
The two countries also cooperate in culture.
Princess Charlene of Monaco and the first lady of Croatia, Tatjana
Josipovic, joined the two countries' delegations for a working lunch at
the Palace of Monaco.
By meeting with Roger, Josipovic wrapped up his visit to Monaco.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) will sue Social
Democrat Zeljko Jovanovic for making a slanderous claim that the HDZ is a
criminal organisation and will request that parliament strip him of
immunity from prosecution, the HDZ's legal representative Vladimir Gredelj
said on Tuesday.
"By the end of the day we will file a lawsuit for three acts of slander
and submit a request for stripping Jovanovic of immunity," Gredelj
confirmed to Hina, adding that the party was considering claiming damages
from the Social Democratic Party for not distancing itself from the "hate
speech" of one of its leaders.
Gredelj said the slander suit also covered Jovanovic's latest statement
that "the HDZ leadership is not only a criminal group but one responsible
of high treason," whereby Jovanovic commented on a statement by HDZ
president and Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor on Monday that the HDZ had
sued Jovanovic.
Gredelj said he was aware that the parliament did not strip MPs of
immunity for defamation, but that he believed "the parliament and other
relevant institutions should once and for all put an end to the kind of
hate speech practiced by Jovanovic."
Gredelj claims that by describing the HDZ as a criminal organisation
Jovanovic has accused all party members of being members of a criminal
organisations. "It would be the same as if someone claimed that all Serbs
or all Croats were criminals, which is nonsense and a lie," said Gredelj.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Social Democratic Party (SDP) member of Parliament
Zeljko Jovanovic said on Tuesday that the announcement by the ruling
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) that it would sue him for calling the HDZ
a criminal organisation, was "the twilight of democracy" in Croatia.
"While the HDZ uses parliamentary immunity only to evade responsibility
for robbing Croatia, parliamentary immunity has only one purpose - to
enable members of Parliament to speak the truth without fear of being
criticised for telling the truth. The HDZ obviously doesn't understand
this," Jovanovic told a press conference at SDP headquarters in Zagreb.
Jovanovic said that if the HDZ-led parliamentary majority stripped him of
immunity from prosecution, he would have a chance in court to provide
evidence in support of his statement in Parliament that "the HDZ
leadership is a criminal organisation that masterminded and carried out a
criminal enterprise the aim of which was to plunder the state budget,
which has destroyed the lives of Croatian citizens and pensions today are
not enough for a decent life."
"If I am summoned to court, I will be pleased to call as witnesses
Jadranka Kosor, Ivo Sanader, Bozidar Kalmeta, Darko Milinovic, Ivan
Jarnjak and Branko Bacic to corroborate my statement that the HDZ is a
criminal organisation that has caused huge damage to all citizens of
Croatia, including many decent members of the HDZ," he said.
Jovanovic said that the HDZ leader and Prime Minister, Jadranka Kosor, was
trying to divert attention from their total lack of any coherent programme
to deal with the problems of illiquidity, unemployment and economic
stagnation. He said that the SDP and the opposition coalition were
offering "a new dawn" while the HDZ was offering "the twilight".
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The preliminary hearing for the trial of former
prime minister Ivo Sanader for alleged bribe-taking in the Hypo Bank case
will be held on 14 October and the start of the trial can be expected in
late October or early November, the Zagreb County Court reported on its
website on Tuesday.
The preliminary hearing and the trial will be presided by Judge Ivan
Turudic was appointed presiding judge in the case after the Zagreb County
Court last week fully upheld the first indictment against the former prime
minister for taking HRK 3.6 million in kickbacks for a loan Austrian Hypo
bank had approved to Croatia in the mid-1990s.
The hearing will be closed to the public. At the hearing, with the consent
of all parties, the judge can suspend investigative detention against the
defendant or replace it with a less strict measure, which cannot be
Asked if the defence would request that Sanader be released from prison on
bail, as speculated by the media, one of Sanader's attorneys, Goran Suic,
said at this moment the defence was not looking into the possibility of
"We are waiting for 18 October, when the investigative detention against
our client expires and when a hearing discussing that matter will be held.
Depending on the court's decision, we will act accordingly," Suic told
Sanader rejected "with loathing" the charge of war profiteering at his
first appearance before the Zagreb County Court last week.
The indictment says that Sanader, in his capacity as Deputy Foreign
Minister, received HRK 3.6 million in kickbacks for securing a loan from
Hypo bank to Croatia in the mid-1990s.
The media announced in July the possibility that Turudic could be the
presiding judge in the Sanader trial.
Turudic, the president of the Zagreb County Court and head of its anti
corruption department, is also known as the judge who sentenced
businessman Hrvoje Petrac for the abduction of the son of Vladimir
Zagorec, as well as former ambassador Neven Jurica and former deputy PM
Damir Polancec.
Turudic was also the first judge in Croatia to confiscate property the
origin of which could not be established.
According to the media, Turudic was under police protection twice.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor has responded to a
letter from a group of Croatian academicians and bishops saying that she
highly appreciates their calls for the protection of the fundamental
democratic values of the 1991-1995 Homeland War on which the Republic of
Croatia is founded, a government statement said on Tuesday.
The prime minister forwarded the letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and European Integration to ensure the protection of the constitutional
values of the Republic of Croatia, including the values of the Homeland
War, through the United Nations and other international and regional
The prime minister invited the signatories of the letter for talks in the
Cabinet office to coordinate further activities aimed at affirming the
values of the Homeland War.
A group of Croatian academicians and bishops has recently sent a letter to
the UN secretary-general and the UN Security Council asking for the
release of the Croatian veterans "imprisoned and convicted without proof
of guilt at The Hague".
The letter, signed by over 2,200 people, mostly intellectuals from Croatia
and the world, was sent to Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor asking her to
have it delivered to the UN secretary-general and the UN Security Council
through the Croatian ambassador to the United Nations.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The chair of the Parliament's Finance Committee,
Goran Maric of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), on Tuesday
harshly criticised the Croatian National Bank (HNB) for not protecting
national interests, and called for urgently amending legislation on the
central bank.
"The HNB strayed from the national course and put itself at the service of
private interests long ago," Maric said at a session of the committee
which did not adopt a report on the HNB's work in 2010 because most
committee members abstained from voting.
Maric said the HNB's report could lead one to wrongly conclude that the
current economic situation in the country "is idyllic and that we should
be happy that it is not even worse," adding that one could not ignore poor
macroeconomic indicators for which he said the architects of the monetary
policy were responsible as well.
He went on to say that the HNB's monetary policy had been encouraging
import for years, while "killing" export and domestic production and
letting the banking sector in the current time of economic and financial
crisis make huge profits, including 4.4 billion kuna in commission and
fees alone.
He said that none of the HNB's measures had been adopted selectively or to
target a specific area, and that the additional foreign currency reserves
released by the central bank had been given away to banks rather than to
the industries.
He also objected to the HNB's failure to check how much banks spend and on
what, as well as to its allowing "social sabotage and attack" on citizens
who have taken loans indexed to the Swiss franc.
HNB Vice Governor Relja Martic, who presented the report, said while
leaving the session that he could accept some of the criticism, but not
that the HNB was not working in the country's interest. He would not make
any statements for the press, saying only that he wanted to respond to
Maric's claims at the session, but that Maric would not let him do so.
Unlike the HNB report, Maric commended reports on the work of HANFA, the
national agency supervising financial services, and the Financial Agency
(FINA) in 2010.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The turnover in retail trade in Croatia in August
was two percent up in real terms as against the same month of 2010, which
is a higher increase than expected, the Central Bureau of Statistics
reported on Tuesday .
The nominal annual growth of the retail trade turnover was 5 percent.
Five macroeconomists interviewed by Hina had predicted an average annual
increase in consumption in August of 1.4 percent. They had expected
consumption to go up between 0.7 and 2.7 percent.
Considering that July saw a 0.9 percent increase in the turnover in retail
trade, the 2 percent growth rate means that growth is picking up.
"The growth of the retail trade turnover is mostly owing to increased
tourist spending. The tourist figures so far have been very good, and this
year I expect tourism revenues to grow five percent to some 6.5 billion
euros," said Hrvoje Stojic, head of the Hypo Alpe Adria Bank's economic
research department.
He noted, however, that the retail trade turnover was not expected to grow
at a higher rate in the coming months.
BRUSSELS, Oct 4 (Hina) - Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the
European Union's economic backbone, providing more than two-thirds of
employment opportunities in the private sector, and the situation in
Croatia is similar, the European Commission said on Tuesday as part of
Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Week.
The Commission released a report for 2010, "Are EU SMEs recovering from
the crisis?", including surveys on each of the EU's 27 member states,
accession candidates, potential candidates, Israel, Norway and
In Croatia, as in the EU, the bulk of economic growth and jobs is ensured
by SMEs. Nine in 10 enterprises in Croatia and the EU are small and
medium-sized, the bulk of which are micro-firms with less than 10
employees. In Croatia, more than three quarters of those employed in the
non-financial business economy work in SMEs.
Thirty-nine per cent of such enterprises provide services, 32% are active
in trade and only 16% are producers.
Owing to lack of basic statistics, the Commission said it was impossible
to analyse how much the economic and financial crisis had hit SMEs in
The Commission said Croatia had made considerable progress in small and
medium-sized entrepreneurship over the last five years but that it still
lagged behind other EU countries, adding that there was plenty of room for
improvement by changing the perception of entrepreneurship in Croatia,
which is more negative than in the EU.
Improving the image of entrepreneurs could have a multifold positive
impact on citizens' willingness to take on business risks, said the
European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani
said the recovery in 2010 was led by SMEs and that "Europe needs new
innovative and creative entrepreneurs ready to take a risk."
"This is the main way for recovery," said Tajani.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Ecological agricultural production is more and more
important in the European Union, while in Croatia 23,282 hectares of land
was used for such purposes in 2010, a significant increase since 2003 when
only 3,506 hectares of land with ecological production was registered, it
was said in Zagreb on Monday during a visit by a delegation of the German
state of Brandenburg.
The purpose of the visit was to acquaint the German delegation, led by
Infrastructure and Agriculture Minister Joerg Vogelsaenger, with the
achievements and the present situation in the Croatian ecological
production sector, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement on
Last year, 1,125 ecological producers were registered in Croatia, and
interest in this kind of agricultural production is increasing from year
to year. New opportunities are expected to open for Croatian producers
after Croatia joins the European Union, which is the largest ecological
food market in the world, estimated at US$ 26 billion in 2008, the
statement said.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - The Iustitia et pax commission of the Croatian
Bishops Conference (HBK) issued a statement on Tuesday describing as
unacceptable recent amendments to the Trade Act and claiming the amended
legislation was "undoubtedly against workers".
Last Friday the parliament adopted amendments to the Trade Act abolishing,
in line with a Constitutional Court decision, regulations restricting shop
opening hours. The amended law treats equally again all holidays which are
national holidays and enables employers to decide on shop opening hours on
their own, taking into account customers' needs and employees' rights.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Transparency International Croatia (TIH) said on
Tuesday that in cooperation with Transparency International Bulgaria (TIB)
it had launched the project "Civil Society and Public Institutions -
Partners in Increasing Transparency Through Development and Implementation
of Conflict of Interest Prevention", aimed at reducing the risk of
conflict of interest among office-holders.
Zorislav Antun Petrovic of TIH told reporters the project, which will be
implemented until the end of July 2012, was expected to increase the
impartiality of the work of office-holders and public confidence in them.
Through the project, financed by the European Commission as part of the
IPA 2006 programme, training will be held for officials, the public,
nongovernmental organisations and the media.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) - Austrians are tired of EU enlargement and the only
exception is Croatia which is wanted in the EU by 54 percent of Austrians,
shows a survey conducted by the Austrian Society for European Policy
(OGfE) in August and carried by the Kurier paper on Tuesday.
Fifty-four percent of Austrians want Croatia to join the EU, while 24
percent are against and 22 percent do not have a position on the matter,
Kurier reports, noting that support for Croatia was much stronger a year
Sixty-eight percent of Austrians supported Croatia's EU membership then,
and 18 percent were against.
The paper recalls that Croatia has completed its EU entry talks in the
meantime and that it will sign an accession treaty with the EU on December
19 and join the EU as the 28th member on 1 July 2013.
After Croatia, Austrians support Iceland the most as a prospective EU
member. Forty-five percent were for Iceland's EU entry, 26 percent were
against and 29 percent had no position on the matter.
Austrians support the least the EU membership of Turkey, a country which
gained candidate status in 2005. Only 15 percent of Austrians want Turkey
in the EU, 69 percent are against it, and 16 percent have no position on
the matter.
The survey also shows that Austrians do not look favourably on the EU's
expansion to Western Balkan countries.
Twenty-five percent of Austrians would like to see the candidate country
Macedonia in the EU, 46 percent are against it, and 29 percent have no
opinion on the matter.
The EU membership of Serbia, which is yet to gain the status of a
candidate, is opposed by 51 percent of Austrians, and 25 percent would
support its membership.
The respondents are slightly less disinclined towards supporting the EU
membership of Bosnia and Herzegovina - 47 percent are against admitting
Bosnia and Herzegovina and 28 percent said they would support it.
As for Montenegro, 27 percent of Austrians would like to see it in the EU,
and 46 percent would not. Austrians are opposed the most to the
possibility of Kosovo joining the EU - 56 percent are against and 21
percent are for it.
Paul Schmidt, the author of the survey, said some of the reasons for the
low support were the current debt and economic crisis, the crisis of the
euro and the situation in Greece.
MOSTAR, Oct 4 (Hina) - Tuesday saw the start of work on the southernmost
section of a future motorway along the pan-European transport corridor Vc
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which would join the Adriatic stretch of the A1
motorway near the southern Croatian seaport of Ploce.
The value of work on the four-kilometre-long section from Zvirici in
Ljubuski municipality to the Bijaca border crossing with Croatia is EUR
23.3 million. The deadline for the completion of the work is ten months.
The construction of this stretch of the motorway is financed by the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
SARAJEVO, Oct 4 (Hina) - Bosnian parliament leaders invited to the fifth
conference of parliament presidents from western Balkan countries,
scheduled to be held in Budapest on 12 October, quarreled about their
participation in the conference, once again showing deep rifts on the
Bosnian political scene.
This time, the quarrel between the president of the House of
Representatives, Denis Becirevic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP BiH),
and the president of the House of Peoples, Ognjen Tadic of the Serb
Democratic Party (SDS), was caused by a lack of consent within Bosnia
concerning Kosovo's status, as well as concerning the role of Bosnian
entities on the international scene.
The quarrel, which the parliamentarians made public by including Bosnian
media, started after Radic sent a letter to Hungarian Parliament Speaker
Laszlo Kover, declining to take part in the Budapest conference, as
members of the Bosnian entity parliaments have not been invited to attend.
In the letter, Tadic implied this was unacceptable given that the leaders
of "two autonomous Serbian provinces" have been invited, alluding to the
fact that Hungary sent invitations to the parliament of Vojvodina but also
to the parliament of Kosovo, which is an independent state.
Immediately after that, a letter to Budapest was sent by Becirevic. He
said that Tadic stated his personal positions in the letter.
Due to the existing mechanism of entity voting in the state parliament,
namely a blockade imposed by the Bosnian Serb entity, Bosnia has not yet
recognised Kosovo.
PRISTINA, Oct 4 (Hina) - Seven Kosovo citizens pleaded not guilty to
charges of trafficking in human organs at a Pristina court on Tuesday.
The indictment charges them with trafficking in humans, organised crime,
illegal medical practices, and abuse of office.
All seven pleaded not guilty, the European Union Rule of Law Mission in
Kosovo said in a press release, adding that the trial would resume on
The indictment alleges that the seven accused got in touch with 20
citizens of Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey, promising each US$
20,000 for donating a kidney and asking each kidney recipient between
$80,000 and 100,000.
A probe into a kidney transplant performed in a private Pristina hospital
in 2008 led to the arrest of three persons and the suspension of a Kosovo
Health Ministry official, revealing that a Turk had donated a kidney that
was transplanted to a citizen of Israel.
PLITVICE LAKES, Oct 4 (Hina) -
Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor on Tuesday unveiled a monument in Ostri
Vrsak near Plitvice Lakes at the mass grave of six members of the Corak
family killed in 1991. The victims - Mato, Kata, Stjepan, Vladimir and
Slavko - were first detained by Serb rebels at a police station in
Vrhovine and then killed. One police officer, Nenad Pejnovic, was
sentenced in 2009 to six years' imprisonment for the unlawful arrest of
the Corak family. Kosor said the monument unveiled today was proof that
civilian and military victims would never be forgotten. Also in attendance
were presidential envoy Brigadier General Alojz Tomasevic and
parliamentary envoy Ivan Bogovic, who said 36 families of people gone
missing in Lika-Senj County during the 1991-95 war still did not know what
happened to their loved ones. A total of 144 mass graves and 1,800
individual graves from the Homeland War have been found in Croatia to
date. Croatia has passed a law to mark every mass grave with a monument
consisting of a dove and a cross. Fifty-eight such monuments have been
erected to date.
GOSPIC, Oct 4 (Hina) -
Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor on Tuesday marked the beginning of
construction works on a building for a specialist clinic as part of the
Gospic General Hospital, worth HRK 8.4 million, saying that investing into
the health sector meant investing into the future. Kosor said investments
in the Gospic hospital was a valuable investment, adding that investments
must be made in other Croatian hospitals as well. The Gospic General
Hospital today employs 227 people, 40 doctors, 127 nurses and 64 technical
Kosor said the new clinic was expected to be completed in 270 days.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) -
Croatian Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Gordan
Jandrokovic on Tuesday held talks with the Prime Minister of Brandenburg,
Matthias Platzeck, who was on a visit to Croatia on the occasion of German
Unity Day. Jandrokovic and Placzek said relations between Croatia and
Brandenburg were traditionally good and friendly.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) -
Croatia's State Secretary for European Integration, Andrej Plenkovic, on
Tuesday took part in a regional development conference entitled
"Possibilities and Challenges", organised by Dubrovnik-Neretva County and
the Dubrovnik-Neretva County Development Agency (DUNEA), the foreign
ministry said in a statement. Plenkovic presented the activities
concerning the development of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative and the Union
for the Mediterranean, stressing that inclusion in institutional
frameworks and cooperation were the confirmation of Croatia's
Mediterranean orientation.
ZENICA/ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) -
About 35 Croatian exhibitors are taking part in the 18th ZEPS 2011 general
Bosnian fair in Zenica, which was opened on Tuesday. The participation of
the Croatian exhibitors was organised by the Croatian Chamber of Trades
and Crafts and the Croatian Chamber of the Economy. ZEPS 2011 is taking
place until Sunday, featuring 421 exhibitors from 25 countries.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) -
World Animal Day was marked in Zagreb's central square Trg Bana Jelacica
on Tuesday by the Zagreb Zoo, the animal shelter Dumovec and the
associations "Friends of Animals". Until 7 pm today, members of the public
will be able to visit the booths of the Dumovec shelter and the
association "Friends of Animals", adopt a dog, donate money or buy
souvenirs with animal-friendly messages.
ZAGREB, Oct 4 (Hina) -
Regular turnover on the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) on Tuesday amounted to
17.4 million kuna and the values of the two ZSE indexes dropped. The
Crobex went down by 1.59 percent to 1,787.89 points, while the Crobex10
dropped 1.59 percent to 986.65 points. This were their lowest levels since
December 2010. Five stocks today turned over more than a million kuna
each. The most traded stock was the HT telecommunications company. Its
turnover amounted to HRK 3.6 million and its price dropped 0.81 percent to
close at HRK 244.01 per share. (EUR 1 = HRK 7.49)
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The Gulf Islands of British Columbia may be the undiscovered version of the San Juans, but they're not everyone's idea of paradise. There are hardly any beaches, and the water's too cold for swimming anyway. They're not even in a gulf: they were given their name because George Vancouver, who charted these waters in 1792, thought the Strait of Georgia, which separates Vancouver Island from the mainland, was enclosed on three sides. It was decades before anyone realized it's not, but by then no one had any interest in changing the name. Even now, the islands have the air of a semi-forgotten place—great for hiking, biking, and kayaking, but not much else. Which is more or less the point.
The northern Gulf Islands are little visited except by loggers and quarrymen. But the islands to the south—Salt Spring, Galiano, Mayne, Saturna, and the Penders—have drawn summer vacationers from Vancouver since the 1880's. The first European settlers had arrived only about 20 years before, when the region was awash with prospectors heading to the Fraser River goldfields. Most of the area was too rocky for farming, but as a summer retreat it proved irresistible.
It's the ferries I remember best: sleek and white, gliding effortlessly between rugged sandstone outcroppings. The ferries are a lifeline; you learn to pace yourself to their rhythms. That can mean taking half a day to get from one island to the next, or waking up before dawn to reach the mainland in time to catch a plane. But it also means the mainland is a world away.
I boarded the first of many ferries at Tsawwassen, 20 miles south of Vancouver, where the road runs out past the rich delta farmland on a causeway that stops dead in the water. The boat sailed across the strait for 45 minutes before entering a maze of rock and forest and water that led eventually to Swartz Bay, the main ferry terminal. There, I had to wait for a ferry to Salt Spring, whose 10,000 residents make it the most populous of the Gulf Islands. I'd be getting off at Fulford Harbour and driving nine miles to the village of Ganges—my first stop in a week of exploring.
Ganges is the kind of quasi-suburban seaside outpost you'd expect to see in a Steven Spielberg movie about a killer whale: sprawling parking lots, some unconvincing frame buildings, streets that just seem to peter out. Having somehow escaped the attention of Starbucks and the Gap, the village has a funky clothing store—decades ago it was a general store—and a tiny gourmet shop that sells a wonderful herbed goat cheese from the Salt Spring Island Cheese Co. In the only bookshop, I picked up a copy of Beautiful British Columbia magazine, which had an article on "How to Cook a Whale Found Dead," complete with a 1914 recipe. First ingredient: "Beached whale, not dead too long." But there were no whales in Ganges, dead or otherwise—just a couple of hundred sailboats anchored in the water.
I was staying at Hastings House, almost hidden beneath towering Douglas firs high above Ganges Harbour. It turned out to be one of those curious vestiges of empire that crop up in British Columbia: a faithful re-creation of a Tudor manor house in Sussex, built in 1940 by an English naval architect who had fallen in love with the islands but wanted to be reminded of home. The place has half-timbered walls, leaded windows, hand-hewn beams, and fireplaces big enough to walk into, plus what looks like an English garden on steroids: bright red begonias the size of cauliflowers, poppies that reach your chest, sunflowers so tall you have to crane your neck to look at them.
But flowers are everywhere on Salt Spring—hanging from baskets, bursting out of tubs, forming riotous hedges across front yards. Because the west coast of Canada is a rain forest, it pours for days at a time between October and March, but very little the rest of the year. England should be so lucky. Yet Salt Spring is no little England. I had lunch in a Greek café; I bought hiking boots from a German bootmaker; and on the road from Fulford Harbour I saw a bagpiper in Highland regalia outside a tiny chapel, skirling away as guests arrived for a wedding.
On the outskirts of Ganges is Mount Maxwell Provincial Park, one of the most dramatic parks in the islands. I reached the summit to see two clean-cut couples in jeans and khakis standing at the edge of a cliff. One of the guys asked sheepishly if I'd photograph them standing together. As I centered the viewfinder I thought, Where better to picture yourself? Spread out behind them was a patchwork of fields flanked by low mountains that reached out to embrace Fulford Harbour. Directly below was a rocky cove half-filled with logs, and beyond that a labyrinth of channels that dissolved willy-nilly into a densely forested landscape.
The next day it was time for another ferry—to Galiano Island, named after a Spanish sea captain. Seaplanes skimmed overhead, bringing passengers from Vancouver and Victoria, dipping low toward Ganges Harbour. Channels appeared and disappeared; from the water it was impossible to tell whether a given piece of shore belonged to Salt Spring or Galiano or some tiny islet. Then we saw sandstone cliffs that rose sheer out of the water, riven by deep clefts and topped by fir-covered hillsides. Clearly that was Galiano.
The ferry pulled in to the scruffy hamlet of Sturdies Bay. I set out on Galiano's only highway for the Bodega Ridge Trail, a two-mile hike along the spine of the island. At one point I made a wrong turn and found myself on a newly cut road, wide and deserted, that followed the ridgetop for a couple of miles. Then, inexplicably, the road came to a halt in the middle of nowhere. It turned out that MacMillan Bloedel, the timber company that once owned most of Galiano, had been about to carve the property into housing lots when the government, responding to petitions from the islanders, said no. As I walked Bodega Ridge in dappled sunlight, with the soft buzz of the cicadas echoing, I could only be grateful.


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Members of the 134th Air Refueling Wing and 119th Command and Control Squadron in Knoxville, the 118th Wing in Nashville, and the 164th Airlift Wing in Memphis, traveled to Volk Field to provide critical military assets to support civil authorities in numerous simulated disaster scenarios.
The Patriot Program was developed by the National Guard Bureau to create a joint training and exercise environment that allows soldiers and airmen from the National Guard an ability to assess their military and special life-saving capabilities to respond to domestic disasters, either natural or manmade.
The program's three goals are to provide realistic training for both civilian and military organizations, assist in improving coordination between civil-military entities and ensuring vital tasks are met through a system of self assessments.
Forty-nine Air National Guard units from across the nation supported the exercise with four Army Guard support elements and numerous other government/civilian organizations.
Providing support during times of emergency to federal, state or local agencies is a primary task of the National Guard in the United States and globally. Using equipment to restore power, provide water, evacuate casualties, re-supply affected regions and overall to support civil emergency responders are just a few examples of the tasks required.
A total of 62 organizations participated in Patriot 14, from military units to agencies such as the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
Tennessee Air Guard units had specific responsibilities evaluated to determine their effectiveness in mitigating issues resulting from disaster scenarios.
The 134th Air Refueling Wing provided two airmen to work in an emergency operations center to assist other Air units in planning for aircraft requirements to ensure they fulfilled vital transportation missions.
The 119th Command and Control Squadron provided 10 airmen and constructed two Joint Incident Site Communication Capability Systems, or JISCCS, that allow mobile communications capability to be placed in disaster areas so responders and emergency managers have a means of talking to each other when established lines of communication are disrupted.
The 118th Wing's Civil Engineering Squadron provided six airmen to support Power Pro Generators that have the ability to function for numerous days and provide substantial electrical power to remote base facilities or sites where emergency power is in dire need, such as hospitals or shelter areas.
The 164th Airlift Wing deployed a chaplain to provide morale and religious counseling to affected individuals in the simulated disaster zone.
Due to the substantial size and scope of the mission, several key leaders were on hand to observe and review the operations first hand. The Tennessee contingent was visited by Brig. Gen. Don Johnson, Tennessee's assistant adjutant general, Air; and Chief Master Sgt. Wade Hudson, command chief, Tennessee Air National Guard.
"Global Patriot was an outstanding exercise that provided the Tennessee Air National Guard an opportunity to showcase its ability to respond to a natural disaster. Our mobile satellite communication support to military and civilian authorities is paramount to saving lives in this scenario. Additionally, our airmen tend to get lost in the big scheme of things with our support functions. Medical, spiritual, power generation and logistics are a few critical capabilities that the Air National Guard brings to the fight in our domestic response for the adjutant general and governor," said Johnson.
The Patriot exercise was very successful and illustrated the ability of multiple military and civil entities to train and interact in a scenario driven environment to adequately prepare for future real world emergencies.


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A team led by the Dutch landscape architecture firm West 8 has been selected to design a new park and open space on Governors Island, a 172-acre landmass near the southern tip of Manhattan. The project will include a two-mile promenade along the water's edge, a new 40-acre park on the southern half of the island, and improved park design on the northern half of the island, which is a National Historic District. "These spaces will be places where New Yorkers and others will experience a completely new set of captivating and unique recreational, cultural and educational opportunities," West 8's Adriaan Geuze said in a statement.
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The West 8 team includes Rogers Marvel Architects, Diller Scofido + Renfro, Quennell Rothschild, and SMWM. Their selection comes at the conclusion of a competition with a shortlist that included teams led by Field Operations and WikinsonEyre; Hargreaves Associates and Michael Maltzan Architecture; REX and Michel Desvigne Paysagistes; and WRT and Urban Strategies.
The winning proposal envisions circulation paths inspired by the markings of a butterfly wing, artificial hills built with waste from demolished buildings, and public bicycles free for visitors to use. The number of these elements that will make it into the final plan remains to be seen, as the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation made it clear that the competition was to select a design team—not a final scheme. The West 8 team will now develop a master plan and detailed designs. The corporation's president Leslie Koch has previously indicated that she hopes to see shovels in the ground by 2009 or 2010.
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