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Managing dependencies in forest offset projects: toward a more complete evaluation of reversal risk
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Although forest carbon offsets can play an important role in the implementation of comprehensive climate policy, they also face an inherent risk of reversal. If such risks are positively correlated across projects, it can affect the integrity of larger project portfolios and potentially the entire offsets program. Here, we discuss three types of risks that could affect forest offsets—fat tails, micro-correlation, and tail dependence—and provide examples of how they could present themselves in a forest offset context. Given these potential dependencies, we suggest several new risk management approaches that take into account dependencies in reversal risk across projects and which could help guard the climate integrity of an offsets program. We also argue that data collection be included as an integral part of any offsets program so that disturbance-related dependencies may be identified and managed as early and to the greatest extent possible.
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- Managing dependencies in forest offset projects: toward a more complete evaluation of reversal risk
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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
Volume 17, Issue 1 , pp 17-24
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- 2012-01-01
- 10.1007/s11027-011-9306-x
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- 1381-2386
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Carbon offsets
- Climate policy
- Forestry
- Natural disturbance
- Risk
- Industry Sectors
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- Christopher S. Galik (1)
- Thomas P. Holmes (2)
- Carolyn Kousky (3)
- Roger M. Cooke (3)
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- 1. Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
- 2. United States Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC, 27709, USA
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In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, congregations across the country are designating the weekend of March 4-6 as Rachel Sabbath. In the Bible, Rachel is the matriarch who dies in childbirth.
The purpose of this day is to raise awareness of the crisis in reproductive health services and care around the world. Rachel Sabbath supports the United Nations goal of improving maternal health by doubling current global investments in family planning, reproductive and health services to women around the world. The effort could save $1.5 billion in long-term medical costs and it would save the lives of 400,000 women and 1.6 million infants each year.
Women in developing countries are at greatest risk. In Niger, the risk of women dying from pregnancy-related complications is one in seven, the highest in the world. The lowest-risk country is Ireland. Despite our exemplary medical care, 40 nations have a lower risk of maternal death than the United States.
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The global burden of disease and mortality from viral hepatitis is high. An estimated 57% of liver cirrhosis cases and 78% of primary liver cancer cases result from hepatitis B or C viruses' infections. In recognition of the importance of the public health problem posed by hepatitis, in 2010, the 63rd World Health Assembly designated July 28th as World Hepatitis Day and requested an integrated response in the fight against hepatitis. From then on, the PAHO and the WHO have joined efforts to establish strategies to fight hepatitis either at global and regional levels
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The well-known cloud storage service, Box, is opening up some of it's source code which includes many of its proprietary engineering tools. Box CEO Aaron Levie admitted the the role open source played in his product and he wanted to give back by contributing select code to the community. He said in a tweet – tweet which goes "Box couldn't exist without open source projects. We're announcing Box Open Source to now give back our own."
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Nearly six years ago at the age of 23, I began a journey toward becoming a farmer. I started with an apprenticeship that grew to a small livestock farm in Central Arkansas. I did not come from a farming family, and most of the farmers I knew were large-scale commodity farmers. But along the way I found out that Slow Food was holding a meeting in Turin, Italy to gather together farmers who are concerned about quality food and the environment. When I was selected as a delegate to that first Terra Madre gathering, all I had to do was buy a plane ticket and everything else would be taken care of. That trip opened me to a whole new community of sustainable farmers from around the world. So when I had the opportunity to go again this year, I jumped at the chance.
This past Thursday I made my way from my farm in central Arkansas to join more than 4,000 farmers and 2,000 chefs, educators, and other food advocates in Turin, Italy. We came for Terra Madre—literally "mother earth"—a conference of world food communities organized by Slow Food International to promote food that is "good, clean, and fair."
This was not a meeting of the world's elite; those gathered here are the humble of the earth—those who live close to the land. There were African women in long, colorful dresses, Afghan men in robes and turbans, Peruvian herders in colorful Angora hats. And above all, there are young people. Almost half of the U.S. delegation of more than 700 people is under 30. Perhaps the greatest hope at the opening came when Sam Levin, a 15-year-old high school student, shared his story of gathering students together at his Massachusetts school to grow a vegetable garden on an old soccer field to provide good food for the cafeteria. This youth presence is perhaps the greatest hope to come from the gathering. It is a sign that the next generation of farmers will be one that values the earth and seeks to renew from the abuses of the past.
Despite our different backgrounds, there was sense that we are all farmers facing the same challenges from the global industrial food system. Our seeds are being patented by companies like Monsanto; our food systems are being consolidated into the hands of a few multinational corporations; and the agricultural tide of all of our countries is moving toward homogeneity, rather than the variety and quality provided by people who truly care for the land. As chef and Slow Food vice president Alice Waters said at the opening ceremony, those of us gathered at Terra Madre were there to create a "global counterculture—a dynamic way of thinking in opposition to fast-food values."
With all of the woes facing the world, from the food crisis to the financial crisis, there was a sense of hope and mission at the opening ceremony. Prince Charles, a longtime advocate of organic agriculture, sent a video message to the delegates: "You are the guarantors of our long-term food security." That was a recurring theme in the plenary talks, the idea that when the agriculture of heavy machinery, genetically modified crops, and petroleum-dependent fertilizers fails, it is "subsistence agriculture that is going to be the basis for sustainable food production," as Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egzanher, the director of Kenya's EPA, put it.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- TheStreet Ratings team reiterates its "buy" rating on Sirius XM (SIRI - Get Report) with a ratings score of B-. The stock was up 0.44% to $3.39 at 12:26 p.m. on Monday.
TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate SIRIUS XM HOLDINGS INC (SIRI) a BUY. This is driven by several positive factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself."
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STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more. Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 14.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 11.2%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displaying stagnant earnings per share.
- Net operating cash flow has increased to $251.39 million or 48.82% when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of 5.49%.
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- The change in net income from the same quarter one year ago has exceeded that of the Media industry average, but is less than that of the S&P 500. The net income has decreased by 23.9% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, dropping from $123.60 million to $93.99 million.
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EAGLE POINT, Ore. – City leaders in Eagle Point have decided to temporarily ban medical marijuana dispensaries in city limits.
The issue passed with a 6-1 vote during Tuesday's city council meeting. A moratorium will be in effect until May 2015, unless the council decides to end it sooner. City leaders said the temporary ban would give them more time to get clarification on state rules regarding dispensaries.
"I don't want to debate on whether it's good or bad pharmaceutically to have medical marijuana or not, right at this time anyway," said Eagle Point mayor Bob Russell. "But I think we can sit around the table and hammer out a good compromise for everybody, eventually"
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Taizhou Huangyan Lucky Commodity Factory
Business Type: | Manufacturer, Trading Company | |
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Location: | Zhejiang, China (Mainland) | |
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Number Of Employees: | 51 - 100 People | |
Total Revenue: | US$2.5 Million - US$5 Million | |
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Average Lead Time: | 30 Day(s) | |
Our factory was established in 1998 and is located in Huangyan of Zhejiang Province. We are specialized in producing plastic commodi...
Our factory was established in 1998 and is located in Huangyan of Zhejiang Province. We are specialized in producing plastic commodities, especially plastic cleaning brushes, including dish brushes, toilet brushes, scrub brushes and so on.
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For his labor the Booker T. Washington High School teen earns $5.15 per hour, the minimum wage. He will work 160 hours over the next eight weeks. When summer is over, the reticent Branch will have earned $824 before taxes, a sum he says, at least on that second day of work and two weeks away from his first paycheck, he plans to use to buy school clothes.
Alphonso's mother, Lashonda Grissom, is glad that three of her four teenagers got jobs this year through a special county summer jobs program funded with federal dollars. "They are getting to know what it's all about," she says. "They get to earn their own money. They can go and pick out their own things for school. They can work and learn responsibility, and they can see how hard it is." And Alphonso is glad, too, although not prone to verbal effusion as a budding man of few words. "I like it," he squeezes out between sweeps of the broom.
The money Branch earns this summer will buy more than a first taste of adulthood. And it will do more than help the Culmer Center look spanking clean. Branch also is helping Miami-Dade County and every poor and disadvantaged person in it. The money paid him is $824 less that the county must spend in order to unload 35.2-million neglected federal dollars by October 31. If the sum isn't spent, the federal government may decide to send less in the future. That would be a big deal because it would mean less money to help poor folks in Miami-Dade County.
Thank you from all of us, Mr. Branch.
Miami-Dade has a lot of poor people. The poverty rate had climbed to three times the national average by the 1990 census. Based upon the county's desultory income figures, Miami-Dade gets about $23 million yearly from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for economic-development projects and programs that will help moderate- and low-income residents. Although the new poverty rates aren't out yet for the 2000 census, the poverty levels in Miami-Dade probably haven't improved so dramatically that anyone is ready to let Washington send the money to another county.
But HUD doesn't just send money -- $23 million, year after year. It also expects the county to spend it. And that is where Miami-Dade, along with 157 other places nationally, have had a bit of trouble.
Federal law requires that the county have not more than 1.5 percent of the current grant left unspent from previous years by the time it gets a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) award for 2002. As of March 2001, Miami-Dade had $35.2 million more than that. Some of the projects were originally approved as far back as 1993, such as $315,000 to remove a barrier at the Community Action Agency office to make the building compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and $105,000 to buy land in South Miami. Nationally, there is a whopping $218 million lying around.
On April 11 the county's Office of Community and Economic Development (OCED), which administers CDBG dollars, got a scolding letter from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The letter reminded OCED that "the timely expenditure of funds remains a priority of the highest order to the Department," a directive that a HUD spokesman translated thusly: "It behooves everybody that the money out there gets used."
And that's where Alphonso Branch comes in.
Miami-Dade County aims to spend its $35.2 million quick. On April 24 the county commission unanimously approved a five-million-dollar summer jobs program. It is being administered through the South Florida Employment & Training Consortium, a nonprofit organization that already has a summer jobs program in place; both are paid for with federal dollars, channeled through the state, and the newer jobs program is being seen as an amplification more than a duplication. Go figure.
In any case, the money would hire 3000 teenagers from poor neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County to work 160 hours at the minimum wage. While the wages to be paid account for only $2.5 million, the other $2.5 million will be used to pay the employer's share of workers compensation and Social Security payments, job counseling, for supervisors to visit job sites, and for other administrative costs, says Joseph Alfano, executive director of the consortium.
Assuming 3000 kids are hired and the county spends the five million dollars by the end of August, that leaves another $30.2 million to get rid of. Rick Glasgow, OCED community development division director, says the county will do that several ways. OCED is setting up an $8- to $10-million floating-loan program for businesses "involved with" affordable-housing projects. The money would have to be paid back within two years. The OCED is also scheduling weekly meetings with organizations that have received CDBG grants to help work out obstacles to spending the money they have been allotted.


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Overview The Boeing 720 was a derivative of their classic 707 airliner. Developed as a shorter range, lighter airliner that was capable of flying from shorter runways, the 720 was quick to enter service, with the first aircraft joining the United fleet in 1960. That first aircraft, N7201U, was later sold to Contemporary Entertainment, who created The Starship, an aircraft designed for touring bands. Led Zeppelin was the primary operator, although Alice Cooper, the Allman Brothers, Deep Purple, Elton John, Olivia Newton-John, and Peter Frampton also used it on their tours. Due to issues with the aircraft in 1977, Led Zeppelin leased a different Boeing 720, N7224U, known as Caesar's Chariot. Originally operated by Caesar's Palace casino, Led Zeppelin added their titles and emblem to the aircraft for their 1977 tour. In 1979, the Bee Gees also used the aircraft for their tour, returning the aircraft to Caesar's Palace at the end of the year. In 1986, N7224U was purchased by Boeing Military Airplane Company for use in the KC-135 re-engine and spares support program. The Kit
The instructions begin with the assembly of the Pratt & Whitney engines. These are made up of two nacelle halves that also incorporate the pylon, with the intake and exhaust sections separate. The intakes are nicely done, but the exhausts will probably benefit from some extra little drill work to deepen the holes and thin the edges. A quick test fit shows that there is minimal difference between the one-piece intake and exhaust pieces and the two-piece nacelle, so with some careful sanding these could go together without any filler needed.
At this point, the instructions have you build the wing subassemblies. The wings accurately capture the leading edge glove that was a distinguishing feature of the 720. The engine nacelles look to have a fairly sturdy attachment location, and again with some care one will not need any filler here. Once the wings are together, they can be added to the fuselage. The one-piece stabilizers also get attached at this stage.
Further adding to the finishing challenges, the decal sheet provides the N7201U registration in black on the rear fuselage. While the registration is indeed in black, Caesar's Chariot was N7224U. What is rather hilarious in a sad sort of way is that Roden knew this, as the painting instructions label the aircraft as "Boeing 720 N7224U 'Caesar's Chariot', Led Zeppelin North American Tour, Summer 1977." Of course, N7201U was Led Zeppelin's original Boeing 720, so it's easy to see where the confusion came from. Since it is in black, it will be just a slight hiccup in finishing, as one could easily print this on a laser printer or scrounge numbers from the spares box. Conclusion This is a great airliner kit from Roden, and despite the challenging paint scheme, it will be a fun one to build. I'm looking forward to trying some ideas out on those fading fuselage stripes. My thanks to Squadron for the review sample. |
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Amazing sketch
you need to use pentool
pentool is the best tool for outline it
hope me help
Mine Look Like this
hi!.. I drew my own anime character on a piece of paper. I want it to color using photoshop so i scanned it and save it to my computer but the problem is how do I outline my sketch? do I need to use pen tool? maybe brush or pencil? please can you teach me some techniques on how I do that?
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Amazing sketch
you need to use pentool
pentool is the best tool for outline it
hope me help
Mine Look Like this
Last edited by SIRSENDU; Sep 06, 2011 at 02:33 AM.
can you give me the steps on how you outlined it using pentool? maybe step by step..?
Your welcome
First make a new layer above your Sketch
Use pentool and make a line
In the line add dots
and move your pentool in dots and make shape
and you make the outline of your sketch
I'm having a hard time using Pentool.. thanks, I appreciate it
In which part you are having hard!!
Tell me Freely
bending the line? and how do I go to the another area without? i mean, let just say Im using pentool in the head of my sketch then I want to go to the hand part of my sketch?
First make a straight
in the straight line make some anchor point using pentool
and select one anchor point using pentool bend them


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What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow my babbling on Twitter
- See my photography on Flickr
- What I'm listening to via Last.fm
- Recently bookmarked on Pinboard
Recent photos on flickr
Garrett Coakley
I've been involved in web development since the mid 1990s. Like many peers of a similar vintage, I fell into it more by luck than judgement after some friends asked me if I knew anything about "this web thing". The fruits of that early endeavour can still be seen thanks to the magic of the Wayback Machine
Since those humble beginnings I've worked in most sectors of the industry including programming, project management and user interface development, with a recent focus on community management and user experience.
I'm now a Lead Developer at White October, which is a high-falutin' way of saying I've got my fingers in lots of pies.
When I'm not playing guitar, I listen to a hell of a lot of music and attempt to take photographs with a DSLR and a range of very old film cameras. I stand 5′ 9″ in my socks and have an affinity for Guinness.
Just in case you were wondering, I don't look anything like Zebedee in real life.


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Tay Sachs Disease
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
It is possible that the main title of the report Tay Sachs Disease is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
- Amaurotic Familial Idiocy
- Amaurotic Familial Infantile Idiocy
- Cerebromacular Degeneration
- GM2 Gangliosidosis, Type 1
- Hexoaminidase Alpha-Subunit Deficiency (Variant B)
- Infantile Cerebral Ganglioside
- Infantile Sipoidosis GM-2 Gangliosideosis (Type S)
- Lipidosis, ganglioside, infantile
- Sphingolipidosis, Tay-Sachs
General Discussion
Tay-Sachs disease is a rare, neurodegenerative disorder in which deficiency of an enzyme (hexosaminidase A) results in excessive accumulation of certain fats (lipids) known as gangliosides in the brain and nerve cells. This abnormal accumulation of gangliosides leads to progressive dysfunction of the central nervous system. This disorder is categorized as a lysosomal storage disease. Lysosomes are the major digestive units in cells. Enzymes within lysosomes break down or "digest" nutrients, including certain complex carbohydrates and fats.
Symptoms associated with Tay-Sachs disease may include an exaggerated startle response to sudden noises, listlessness, loss of previously acquired skills (i.e., psychomotor regression), and severely diminished muscle tone (hypotonia). With disease progression, affected infants and children may develop cherry-red spots within the middle layer of the eyes, gradual loss of vision, and deafness, increasing muscle stiffness and restricted movements (spasticity), eventual paralysis, uncontrolled electrical disturbances in the brain (seizures), and deterioration of cognitive processes (dementia). The classical form of Tay-Sachs disease occurs during infancy; an adult form (late-onset Tay-Sachs disease) may occur anytime from adolescence to the mid 30s.
Tay-Sachs disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. The disorder results from changes (mutations) of a gene known as the HEXA gene, which regulates production of the hexosaminidase A enzyme. The HEXA gene has been mapped to the long arm (q) of chromosome 15 (15q23-q24). .
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It was 50 years ago today, at 7 pm at a small recording studio on 706 Union Street in Memphis, that the rock and roll era began. The occasion was the first planned, formal recording session for Elvis Presley--a 19 year old dirt-poor, white-trash, part-time truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi.
Some time in 1953, and then again in January of 1954, Presley had gone into Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service studio to record a few demonstration sides--sweet, tender, cooing ballads and lilting pop songs softly sung that were notable only as historical curiosities years later when Elvis had already become the big bang.
Despite the mediocrity of those kiddie performances, Phillips, who had already recorded the likes of Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, and Rufus Thomas, thought he heard something in Presley and decided to record the kid with a pair of musicians--bassist Bill Black, a mediocre player who could keep time and slap a walking bass just enough to push a record forward; and guitarist Scotty Moore, a versatile player who could play like Chet Atkins or Cal Tjader.
For the first session, Presley and Moore worked up another couple of light love numbers---a cover of Leon Payne's "I Love You Because" (which had been a hit for honky tonk giant Ernest Tubb in 1949), and "Harbor Lights", a Hawaiian-themed novelty ballad in the Rudy Valee mold that had been a hit for Der Bingle.
Both were yawns. But in the studio Presley and Black began clowning, playing an old R&B number--"That's All Right" which had been a hit race record for Arthur "Bigboy" Crudup. The trio played the jump number at a high octane tempo for its time. It was positively joyous, exuberant, frighteningly confident, bursting at the seams with reckless energy, with Presley singing in a vaguely bluesy honey hiccup like Clyde McPhatter that somehow also maintained the lyricism and melodic croon of the ballad singer he was trying to be.
"We thought it was exciting, but what was it? It was just so completely different. But it just really flipped Sam--he felt it really had something. We just sort of shook our heads and said, 'Well, that's fine, but god God, they'll run us out of town!'" Moore told Elvis biographer Peter Guaralnick.
The trio knew even then that they were crossing not only genre boundaries but also crucial social boundaries of race, and musical boundaries of good taste. But pushed by Phillips they went a step further that night remaking Bill Monroe's classic waltz-time nostalgic bluegrass chestnut "Blue Moon of Kentucky" into a 4-on-the floor, pounding number that can only be described as a rocker. "Hell, that's different," Phillips famously said after waxing the master take. "That's a pop song now...."
And so the first rock record was born, Sun 209, with "That's All Right" on the A-side: a blues song played fast but sung as if Bing Crosby came from Tupelo; and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" on the B-side, a hillbilly number sung like it was the rawest gutbucket Saturday night fish fry jukejoint soundtrack music for a Beale Street razor fight.
50 years later rock and roll barely exists. It's rawness and invention long since polished to an inoffensive sheen, the rebellion it occasioned fermented into a kind of smelly, gooey nostalgia that helps marketers sell cars to aging Baby Boomers.
But for the generation that came of age between Sun 209 and Elvis' sad, bloated death on his toilet in 1977, Rock and Roll was a force that shaped the world, that gave voice to the lust, rage, and ambitions of a burgeoning throng of young people who were otherwise supposed to be seen and not heard, and Sun 209 stands as a kind of declaration of independence.
Elvis' brilliant Sun recordings—one of a half dozen of the most important recordings in American musical history—have been definitively collected on a two CD set called Sunrise which includes not only the master takes of "That's All Right" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (as well as all the Sun master takes) but also two surviving earlier takes as well as the pre-July 1954 demos.


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Walden Life, Consciousness, and Existence Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Essay.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. (Economy.4)
Thoreau writes about these three animals in such an allegorical way that it's hard to determine whether he ever actually had them all (an odd menagerie) or whether they are merely symbols. If they do symbolize something, what do they symbolize? Some spiritual truth? Worldly goods?
Quote #5
I went to the wood because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (Where I Lived.16)
This is perhaps the clearest statement of what Thoreau is trying to do at Walden Pond.
Quote #6
Our life is frittered away by detail […] Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! (Where I Lived.17)
Thoreau wants to get rid of all unnecessary "details," to simplify his life to the point where he can get at the truth of what living really means.


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GlobalPost's John Donnelly and a team of reporters investigate what experts are calling a 'turning point' in the global fight to reduce HIV infection rates. Successes in southern African countries have produced valuable lessons on effective approaches to fight AIDS, lessons that need to be learned in US cities where infection rates remain persistently high — particularly among African-Americans. Meanwhile a political confrontation looms in Washington over critical funding which could threaten gains already made.
Part Two: Washington's HIV infection rates are comparable to many African countries, which have provided critical insight into the epidemic.
Perhaps the biggest influence on Washington's AIDS fight was Martin's successor, Shannon Hader, who became Washington DC's AIDS czar after spending three years as CDC country director in Zimbabwe and senior scientific advisor to PEPFAR in Washington.
"To come back after a few years of really seeing tremendous transformation and scale up in those approaches abroad and to have not found a whole lot of progress domestically, that was what was bothersome," Hader said. "We had to get everyone to realize this is not as good as it gets. We can do better and it's time to shoot higher".
For Martin and Hader, a key partner was Alan Greenberg, a CDC colleague of Hader's, and now professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at George Washington University.
In late 2007, the DC AIDS office published a report rich in data on the local AIDS epidemic — the first such report in five years.
The new data showing that AIDS was primarily affecting the African-American community led Hader to tell organizations working in the field they must change tactics. She wanted them to target the African-American population through the entire southeastern part of the city, not just south of Capitol Hill across the Anacostia River. She wanted them to start more aggressive outreach in the neighborhoods adjacent to Capitol Hill as well.
The ideas, many sparked by efforts tried in urban African areas, began to tumble out. Organizations decided to more closely link their outreach efforts to clinics and services that immediately secured care and treatment for those found positive. They talked to faith-based leaders. Those leaders added proactive messages about HIV to their sermons. Churches even held "testing" days in which parishioners — or anyone in the community — could come, get tested, and learn their status.
They also set up new protocol at six out of eight hospitals to automatically offer testing to all patients unless the patient refused to take the test. They persuaded organizations to train outreach workers and then send those workers into areas with high pedestrian traffic, such as outside Metro stations. And more recently, they stationed people at several Department of Motor Vehicle locations, offering grocery store gift cards as incentives to take an HIV test.
In 2006, the District tested 42,000 people for HIV.
In 2010, it tested 110,000, a 261 percent increase.
Other encouraging early signs: the District reduced the number of new HIV infections to 825 people in 2010 from 861 the year before, a 4 percent reduction; increased the proportion of those infected receiving care to 84 percent in 2010 from 75 percent in 2009; and in that period, for those on treatment, increased by roughly one third the number of people who had undetectable viral loads — which greatly reduces the chance of transmitting the virus to others.
Still, DC faces many challenges in its fight against AIDS, and officials want to see a longer track record of positive signs before saying that they have turned around the epidemic.
"We're going to need a couple of years more data to confirm a dramatic decrease in (HIV) incidence," Greenberg said.
Stumbling blocks to progress
One of the difficulties today is that many primary care physicians refuse to regularly screen patients for HIV, and two hospitals in the city do not offer routine HIV tests. An estimated 20 percent of HIV-positive people in the District don't know their status. Young men who have sex with men and African-American women and men continue to be diagnosed at alarming rates. And the city still needs to reduce the numbers of people dropping off treatment.
"We do a good job getting people into care," said Pappas, DC's current AIDS director. "But they don't stay in care, they drop out. They stop taking their medication for so many reasons."
The reasons reveal the degree of difficulty in fighting AIDS. Some HIV-positive people are homeless. Some are addicted to alcohol or drugs. But other factors come into play, including the fear many HIV-positive patients have that their status will be exposed.
Breaking through stigma
D.D. Rogers, a 56-year-old HIV-positive grandmother, used to live across the street from the Max Robinson Center in Anacostia, where she had to go for treatment.
Despite the proximity, Rogers took the long way around, walking the perimeter of the old brick building on Martin Luther King Boulevard and entering a back entrance, not wanting to be seen.
"I just remember the whispers," recalled Rogers. "Some lady said, 'Oh, she got that thang,' and that hurt me deeply."
But eventually she decided to walk straight across the street. In 2010, Rogers entered the clinic through the front door and asked medical director Siham Mahgoub if she could volunteer.
The edifice is well known by those who live there. During the 1960s and 1970s, it served as a funeral home where the community gathered to mourn their dead. In 1993, the building located in on Martin Luther King Avenue became less about death and more about the living when it became the Max Robinson Center, named after the broadcast journalist who died from AIDS-related complications.
Inside and away from judgment of the streets, the feeling is warm. Rogers and other long time patients greet one another in the waiting room with handshakes and hugs. Upstairs, a large room buzzes with a daytime arts program for the more vulnerable patients.
Rogers' frequent volunteering turned into a full-time opportunity last year, when she was hired by Positive Pathways, a peer-to-peer engagement as an effort to solve DC's problem with treatment adherence.
"She gets her energy from the clinic," said Dr. Mahgoub. "There have been so many success stories with D.D."
Recalling her old fears, she said, helps her relate to patients in her new role as a community health worker.
"One lady, she's so scared to come here for care or meetings because this is the corner where she used to do tricks and do drugs," Rogers said. "But I help them work around that, we go somewhere else."
She meets wary clients for coffee or orange juice at a fast food restaurant instead of the clinic, she said, or sometimes she role-plays, pretending that the patient is actually accompanying her to an appointment of her own into the clinic. It doesn't matter to her. What matters is that her clients stay on anti-retroviral treatment.
"I tell them 'I'm just like you,'" said Rogers, who suffered from a long-time addiction to crack cocaine. "But you don't have to stop living just because you have this disease."
During a recent meeting in the basement of the Robinson clinic there was hopeful banter between Rogers and a fellow advocate. They said if more people opened up about their status, it would destroy stigma and prevent misinformation about the disease.
But stigma prevents even some advocates to share their status. One of Rogers' colleagues shook her head "no," when asked if she would reveal she was HIV-positive. She said she fears that her grandson, who attends private school nearby, would be ostracized.
Pappas, the District's AIDS head, said stigma is a much bigger problem in the District than it is in many places in Africa. "No one talks about it — we're barely reaching churches, something I saw accomplished years ago in Africa," he said.
He said the District still has plenty to learn from the international experience combating AIDS, whether it's using churches as centers to reduce stigma or door-to-door testing. But he also said that for those arriving in Washington for the International AIDS Conference in July, they will see a city that is fully engaged in fighting AIDS, a major change from years ago.
This isn't the DC of 10 years ago
Across the Anacostia River from Capitol Hill, one of the more vibrant community organizations fighting AIDS is the Community Education Group. Young, its director, remembers the old ways of fighting AIDS before Martin, Hader and Greenberg, among others..
"It was kind of like the wild, wild West," she said. "Who got there first got [funding]. Who shouted the loudest got it. Didn't matter if you were right, didn't matter if you could prove efficacy of what you were doing. Somebody liked you, so you got it. There was no infrastructure, nobody got it, surveillance forms in the basement."
With the arrival of the PEPFAR veterans, Young's organization set out to permeate their communities and test as many people as they could. More importantly, they started linking recently diagnosed HIV-positives to care.
Community Education Group trains nearly 30 people a year to become HIV testers. The rule is that they must come from Wards 6, 7, or 8 — the same neighborhoods they will ultimately serve. The newly certified go on to work with a variety of HIV groups, but many will stay with Young and carry on testing on the streets corners, universities and more recently, churches.
"People should know we are not the Washington, DC you read about 10 years ago. We arrived late to the game, but our epidemic is very much under control," Young said.
She said that the lessons of Africa, and the lessons of DC, should continue to spread across America. She's confident that will happen.
"If not for PEPFAR, we wouldn't have the National AIDS Strategy," Young said. That strategy "tells us we need academics, we need federal partners, we need government partners, community partners and individuals in order to turn this whole thing around."
GlobalPost's reporting on global heath is made possible in part through a partnership with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation as part of its U.S. Global Health Policy program.


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Malaysia Muslim get marru in Thailand
Malaysian Muslims - Getting Married In Thailand
They go there to get marry because of certain reasons such as the parents do not agree, can't get the permission from the first wife etc.
But if we look at Islam side.
Better get marry secretly rather than do an illegal sexual relation.
Butin Thailand where is the suitable place for Muslim to get married?. How to avoid from other people from taking advantage in this situation?
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I would like to get married in Thailand and having problems with my family over here in KL, I am a muslim lady and I need help to get married in Thailand, pls revert back to me asap as to how can this be done ...
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i'm malaysian. can you please tell me the fine hotel to stay for marriage purpose in thailand.
thank you.
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Malaysia Muslim get marru in Thailand
hello...i'm totally agree with Maria...it is true that instead of having illegal sexual relation..the muslim had better to get married secretly...although it is against our culture but the shariah rule still provide us the right path of life..it shows the simplicity of islamic life...
thus could you please help me...i'm muslim and would like know how to get married in thailand...some suggest that it is better to get married in mosque close to Sofitel Silom Hotel, Bangkok..the suggestion is verry helpfull..it shows that there is still a way to get married some how....but in my side..bangkok is way to far from Bukit kayu hitam in kedah...
hence i really want to know about the islamic mariage procedure in sadao..because sadao is close to our country...it helps to reduce the cost to go there;-)and Zack,it is an honour for me to thank u if u can give me the call number of the person or the KADI in charge in this event(mariage)...so that i can make a confirmation with the kadi before i go over there...and last but not least...can u estimate how much money do i need to bring along during the mariage process?
eventually,all your cooperation is highly appreciated...may allah bless all of people who help others from being the wrongdoer..thank u..
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Macadamia | |
Macadamia integrifolia nuts on the tree | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
Order: | Proteales |
Family: | Proteaceae |
Genus: | Macadamia F.Muell. |
Species | |
Macadamia | |
Macadamia integrifolia nuts on the tree | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
Order: | Proteales |
Family: | Proteaceae |
Genus: | Macadamia F.Muell. |
Species | |
Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees indigenous to Australia and constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae.[1][2] They are native to north eastern New South Wales and central and south eastern Queensland. The tree is commercially important for its fruit, the macadamia nut or simply macadamia. Other names include Queensland nut, bush nut, maroochi nut, bauple nut, and Hawaii nut.[3] In Australian Aboriginal languages, the fruit is known by names such as bauple, gyndl, jindilli,[3] and boombera. Previously, more species, with disjunct distributions, were named as members of this genus Macadamia.[2] Genetics and morphological studies more recently published in 2008 by Austin Mast and colleagues show they have separated from this genus Macadamia, correlating less closely than thought from earlier morphological studies.[2] The species previously named in this Macadamia genus may still be referred to overall by the descriptive, non-scientific name of macadamia; their disjunct distributions and current scientific names are:
Macadamia species grow as small to large evergreen trees 2–12 m (6.6–39.4 ft) tall. The leaves are arranged in whorls of three to six, lanceolate to obovate or elliptical in shape, 6–30 cm long and 2–13 cm broad, with an entire or spiny-serrated margin. The flowers are produced in a long, slender, simple raceme 5–30 cm long, the individual flowers 10–15 mm long, white to pink or purple, with four tepals. The fruit is a very hard, woody, globose follicle with a pointed apex, containing one or two seeds.
In 1857 John Macadam was honoured, as a colleague, with the use of his name for the description of this genus in European science by the German–Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller.[4]
The seeds are a valuable food crop. Only three of the species, Macadamia integrifolia, Macadamia ternifolia, and Macadamia tetraphylla, are of commercial importance. Only two of these three species (Macadamia integrifolia and Macadamia tetraphylla) can be eaten raw. The remainder of the genus possesses poisonous and/or inedible seeds, such as M. whelanii and M. ternifolia; the toxicity is due to the presence of cyanogenic glycosides. These glycosides can be removed by prolonged leaching, a practice used by some Indigenous Australian peoples for these species, as well.
The two species of edible macadamia readily hybridize, and M. tetraphylla is threatened in the wild due to this. The seed was first described by Europeans south of Brisbane in 1828 by the explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham. One of the locations where wild macadamia trees were originally found was at Mount Bauple near Maryborough in southeast Queensland, Australia. Macadamia nuts are one of the few Australian endemic plant foods produced and exported in the quantities of a commodity.[5]
The first commercial orchard of macadamia trees was planted in the early 1880s by Rous Mill, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southeast of Lismore, New South Wales, consisting of M. tetraphylla.[6] Besides the development of a small boutique industry in Australia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, macadamia was extensively planted as a commercial crop in Hawaii from the 1920s. Macadamia seeds were first imported into Hawaii in 1882 by William H. Purvis. The young manager of the Pacific Sugar Mill at Kukuihaele on the Big Island, planted seeds that year at Kapulena.[7]
The Hawaiian-produced macadamia established the well-known seed internationally. However, in 2006, macadamia production began to fall in Hawaii, due to lower prices from an over-supply.[8]
Outside of Hawaii and Australia (35.200 metric tons -2013), macadamia is also commercially produced in South Africa (37.000 metric tons - 2013), Brazil, California, Costa Rica, Israel, Kenya, Bolivia, New Zealand, Colombia, Guatemala and Malawi. Australia is no longer the world's largest commercial producer – the total world production for the 2013 year amounted to approximately 135,000 tonnes of nut in shell per year produced globally. To date, efforts to grow the macadamia commercially in Florida have not met with success, primarily as a result of low yield. However, the macadamia is a popular dooryard tree in Florida and efforts to select cultivars with better productivity are ongoing.[9]
Assessment as to whether a macadamia has undergone sufficient drying to ensure the moisture content is low, can be undergone by dropping them in their shells from normal hand height onto a floor surface that is relatively hard and solid, e.g. concrete or tiles. Subsequent shaking and hearing the seed rattling inside indicates that it is loose from its shell, and can thus be cracked with a higher intact-seed-yield ratio. Seeds that do not rattle have not dried sufficiently to reduce the moisture content and allow it to shrink away from the shell. Periodically, a seed will not rattle regardless of its moisture content due to the orientation of the kernel.
To penetrate the husk's hard protective shell, a metal vise or hammer can be used to compress the shell until it lightly fractures, then the pressure is released and the seed is re-positioned to crack it along a different plane.[10]
In Malawi, the macadamia tree was first introduced in tea plantations as wind shields in the low tea fields and the tea pickers used to roast the seeds in this style as a fatty snack.
Compared to other common edible seeds such as almonds and cashews, macadamias are high in fat and low in protein.[11] They have the highest amount of monounsaturated fats of any known seed and contain approximately 22% of omega-7 palmitoleic acid,[12] which has biological effects similar to monounsaturated fat. They also contain 9% protein, 9% carbohydrate, and 2% dietary fiber, as well as calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, selenium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin.[13]
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |
Energy | 3,080 kJ (740 kcal) |
13.8 g | |
Sugars | 4.57 g |
Dietary fiber | 8.6 g |
75.8 g *Saturated fat: 12 g *Monounsaturated fat: 59 g *Polyunsaturated fat: 1.5 g | |
7.9 g | |
Vitamins | |
Vitamin B6 | (21%) 0.275 mg |
Vitamin C | (1%) 1.2 mg |
Vitamin E | (4%) 0.54 mg |
Trace metals | |
Calcium | (9%) 85 mg |
Iron | (28%) 3.69 mg |
Magnesium | (37%) 130 mg |
Phosphorus | (27%) 188 mg |
Potassium | (8%) 368 mg |
Zinc | (14%) 1.30 mg |
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Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults. Source: USDA Nutrient Database |
Macadamias are toxic to dogs. Ingestion may result in macadamia toxicosis, which is marked by weakness and hind limb paralysis with the inability to stand, occurring within 12 hours of ingestion. Depending on the quantity ingested and size of the dog, symptoms may also include muscle tremors, joint pain and severe abdominal pain. In high doses of toxin, opiate medication may be required for symptom relief until the toxic effects diminish. Full recovery is usually within 24 to 48 hours.[14]
Macadamia oil is prized for containing approximately 22% of the omega-7 palmitoleic acid,[15] which makes it a botanical alternative to mink oil, which contains approximately 17%. This relatively high content of "cushiony" palmitoleic acid plus macadamia's high oxidative stability make it a desirable ingredient in cosmetics, especially for skincare. However macadamias can cause severe allergic reactions in humans, as do many other seeds. These reactions can vary from a slight swelling of the lips, to an itchy throat or in the extreme, anaphylaxis. Caution should be used whenever around children or adults who have never ingested such seeds, or persons with known allergies to treenuts. [16] A skin test can also provide information about allergies while in a M.D./D.O.'s office who acts as specialist in allergens.
The trees are also grown as ornamental plants in subtropical regions for their glossy foliage and attractive flowers. Macadamia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Batrachedra arenosella'.
Macadamia seeds are often fed to hyacinth macaws in captivity. These large parrots are one of the few animals, aside from humans, capable of cracking husk and shelling the seed.[17] Nuts of the Arkin Papershell variety crack open more readily.
The macadamia tree is usually propagated by grafting, and does not begin to produce commercial quantities of seeds until it is 7–10 years old, but once established, may continue bearing for over 100 years. Macadamias prefer fertile, well-drained soils, a rainfall of 1,000–2,000 mm, and temperatures not falling below 10 °C (although once established, they can withstand light frosts), with an optimum temperature of 25 °C. The roots are shallow and trees can be blown down in storms; they are also susceptible to Phytophthora root disease.
A Macadamia integrifolia / M. tetraphylla hybrid commercial variety is widely planted in Australia and New Zealand; it was discovered by Dr. J. H. Beaumont. It is high in oil, but is not sweet. New leaves are reddish, flowers are bright pink, borne on long racemes. It is one of the quickest varieties to come into bearing once planted in the garden, usually carrying a useful crop by the fourth year, and improving from then on. It crops prodigiously when well pollinated. The impressive, grape-like clusters are sometimes so heavy they break the branchlet to which they are attached. In commercial orchards, it has reached 18 kg per tree by eight years old. On the downside, the macadamias do not drop from the tree when ripe, and the leaves are a bit prickly when one reaches into the interior of the tree during harvest. Its shell is easier to open than that of most commercial varieties.
A pure M. tetraphylla variety from Australia, this strain is cultivated for its productive crop yield, flavor, and suitability for pollinating 'Beaumont'.
A South African M. integrifolia / M. tetraphylla hybrid cultivar, it has a sweet seed, which means it has to be cooked carefully so that the sugars do not caramelise. The sweet seed is usually not fully processed, as it generally doesn't taste as good, but many people enjoy eating it uncooked. It has an open micropyle (hole in the shell) which may let in mould. The crack-out percentage is high. Ten year old trees average 22 kg per tree. It is a popular variety because of its pollination of 'Beaumont', and the yields are almost comparable.
A M. integrifolia / M. tetraphylla hybrid, this is a rather spreading tree. On the plus side, it is high yielding (commercially, 17 kg from a 9-year-old tree has been recorded), and the macadamias drop to the ground. However it is thick-shelled, and with not much flavor.
For thousands of years before European settlement, Australian Aborigines ate the native seed that grew in rainforests of eastern Australia. One of these seeds was called gyndl or jindilli (M. integrifolia), which was later borrowed as "kindal" by early Europeans. In New South Wales, the southern species is known traditionally as boombera (M. tetraphylla).[18] In the Gympie area, seasonal feasts on 'boppal' (macadamia) seeds were held, especially at Mt Bauple (which was named after it).
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