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The salad bar looks like a healthy choice -- but not all salads are created equal. Right next to the raw veggies, you might have gigantic croutons and bacon bits. If you want to build a hunger-busting plate and still keep calories in check, zero in on these choices and portions. (Curious to see what a typical woman eats on an average day? Check out honest food diaries from three bloggers: Nikki, Koren, and Meredith.)
1 cup (baseball size)
10 calories
Darker leaves pack more nutrients, so choose mixed greens.
Chickpeas or kidney beans
1/4 cup (golf ball size)
70 to 90 calories
Mixed beans in a dressing contain added fat, so drain the liquid.
Chopped egg
2 tablespoons (size of 2 large marbles)
30 calories
Eat just the egg white to save cholesterol and half the calories.
1/2 cup (tennis ball size)
20 calories
If they're shiny, they've been tossed in oil, which means more calories.
Sliced ham or turkey
2 tablespoons
30 calories
High in protein and low in fat—but if the ham is cut into chunks, it may not be as lean.
1/4 cup
60 calories
Though high in calories, it's rich in filling good fats.
Shredded cheese
2 tablespoons
60 calories
Assume that the cheeses are full-fat.
1/4 cup
5 calories
They're low in calories—feel free to pile them high.
2 tablespoons
Fat-free: 20 to 50 calories
Light: 50 to 80 calories
Regular: 100 to 150 calories
Vinaigrettes tend to have fewer calories than creamy ones.
Add It Up
Try this salad, using some of the above ingredients: 2 cups mixed greens + 1 cup sliced cucumbers + 1 cup tomatoes + 1/2 cup chickpeas + 2 tablespoons regular dressing = a smart 410 calories. But use this guide to make a plate that makes your mouth (and your waistline) happy.
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The BUAV estimates that 27 million animals are used in experiments in Europe each year; we are committed to ensuring their voices are heard.
Our work in Europe is carried out through the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE)which the BUAV leads and provides the secretariat for. There are a number of additional specific reasons why it is important that the BUAV is active in Europe:
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Animal experimentation is a multi-million pound industry operating across the world. Researchers and institutions often collaborate globally and national governments look to international bodies for guidance on issues such as test guidelines. There are many facets to the industry, including:
Each component of the industry relies upon the others, for example, without the capture of wild-caught primates in places like Cambodia, and the transportation of non-human primates by companies like Air France , there would be no primates at breeding centres such as the one in Camarles, Spain, or in research laboratories like Covance in Germany. The BUAV works internationally to systematically uncover, expose and end this cruel and inhumane industry.
We also support partner organisations around the world to campaign on and develop positive policies against animal experimentation in their countries. The following are some examples of the international work we have been engaged in:
The BUAV is also an active member of a number of international coalitions working to promote non-animal alternatives and end animal experiments.

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Generally, under Minnesota law, people can change their legal name through marriage, divorce/legal separation, or by filing a name change action in court. Changing a legal name through any of those processes requires that you do specific things. The process of filing a name change action involves filling out court forms, appearing before a judge, and it may also involve notifying third-parties. If you do not understand how to fill out the forms and follow the court procedures, you should talk to a lawyer. There may also be Self-Help Services in the Courts where you could get help with the forms and court procedures.
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FRAUD: You cannot change your name to avoid paying debts, to avoid being sued, or to avoid being arrested or charged with a crime. This would be the same as having a "fraudulent intent" to change your name.
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MINOR NAME CHANGE: MN Statute § 259.10 requires that both parents have notice of an Application for Name Change of their minor child filed with the court. The applicant must show proof that the non-applicant parent(s) have been served with a Notice of Hearing, or if the non-applicant parent cannot be served, then the applicant must publish the Notice of Hearing in the legal newspaper of the county of the non-applicant parent's last known address. If the non-applicant parent is not known, the applicant must bring a certified copy of the birth certificate to the court hearing to show the judge that the non-applicant parent's name does not appear on the birth certificate.
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1. Mistake. If the information on a birth certificate is wrong or missing because a mistake was made when the birth certificate was created, do not file an Application for Name Change with the court to have that birth certificate changed. Mistakes can be corrected through your local County Vital Statistics office or the Minnesota Department of Health. Procedures to amend (change) the birth record are available on the MN Department of Health website or by calling (651)201-5970.
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An inmate confined in a correctional facility may request a name change only one time, unless the name change would infringe on a constitutional right of an inmate. Inmates must complete an additional form called Inmate Affidavit for Name Change.
The City of Minneapolis, which is in the 4th Judicial District (Hennepin County), has a City Ordinance (law) that allows two adults to register as domestic partners. See Title 7, Chapter 142 Civil Rights and Domestic Partnerships. If you live in Minneapolis and are registered as a domestic partner, make sure you use the Name Change Forms for the 4th District Court.
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Say you have a Groovy code like
As explained in Groovy Backstage, there is bytecode generated to achieve the desired behaviour of printing to stdout.
The easiest way of looking at the generated bytecode is to groovyc your Groovy source to a class file and process it with a Java Decompiler (e.g. JAD). See also: From source code to bytecode
The resulting code looks as follows (only the relevant snippet):
Invocation scheme
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NEW ORLEANS -- While the nation focused on the $4 billion BP agreed to pay, and debated whether it was enough, Keith Jones, the father of one of the 11 men killed that day, found justice in the simple fact that BP admitted guilt.
'BP's admission that the company was responsible for the deaths of those 11 men is more important to me than the payment of the fine by them,' said Jones, whose son, Gordon Jones, 28, was a mud man on the rig.
He is believed to have died instantly when natural gas shot up to the rig floor a little before 10 p.m. on April 20, 2010.
Keith Jones has spent much of the last two years trying to change maritime law to protect the families of those killed at sea. He is an attorney in Baton Rouge and testified before Congress, urging them to hold the companies accountable and calling for changes to the Death on the High Seas Act and the Jones Act, 1920s-era laws that limit ship owners' liability and prevent the families of crew members who die at sea from collecting significant damages.
He nearly succeeded, but Sen. James DeMint, R-S.C., blocked the legislation. Cruise line companies lobbied hard against any changes to the law.
The two top BP men on the rig, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, were also charged Thursday with manslaughter. The government alleges that they misinterpreted the results of the negative pressure test, where the well is closed in and the crew measures pressure on the drilling equipment running down into the hole.
The well head was a full mile below the surface, where the rig was floating. And the well went down another three miles into the bedrock, where pockets of natural gas and oil threatened to seep into the well to form a dangerous cocktail. The negative pressure test was the key final check of the well's structural integrity before the crew began removing the protective drilling mud that Gordon Jones had mixed and delivered.
While attorneys for Kaluza and Vidrine argued that they had been made scapegoats, Keith Jones said he felt the charges against them were appropriate.
'They were the company men,' he said. 'And both of them committed the same negligent acts as regards the negative pressure test.'
But, as Kaluza and Vidrine's attorneys also argued Thursday, Jones said he believes fault goes beyond those two men to those responsible for a series of fateful missteps that doomed the rig.
'Do I think that Kaluza and Vidrine are the only people who did anything wrong? No,' Jones said. 'I think there are a number of people employed by BP, some employed by other companies who committed acts that led to this blowout.'
Asked if the settlement and charges bring a sense of closure, Jones made it clear that the day was significant, but his quest for the full truth of what happened to his son is not over.
'I feel more like the page has been turned,' he said. 'This isn't over for me or any of the family members who lost a man on that rig, but I did wonder what was to become of the criminal investigation because we were in the dark.'
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I think it's just because the inspiration for the book was Romero movies, Escape From New York, The Omega Man-- my models were movies as opposed to post-apocalyptic novels. The way I write generally, the language is vivid and very visual.
There's such an emphasis on atmosphere in Zone One. It feels very cinematic.
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How was it turning your hometown of New York into a post-apocalyptic scene?
For me as a New Yorker, I grew up in the terrible New York of the '70s and '80s, so I'm familiar with a certain kind of ruined New York, and I carry that around with me all the time. So it was not much of a leap to imagine a devastated New York. [Laughs.]
How do you view the city now?
Well, you don't feel like you're running a gauntlet anytime you leave the house. But in the terms of the life of cities, we can go back to that '70s New York at any time. A more severe economic downturn, that kind of shift in fortunes can transform a city, and of course our own personal fortunes. If we lose our jobs, get divorced, get sick, don't have insurance, we can be propelled into a very hostile New York quite easily.
Many lifelong New Yorkers tend to romanticize that time, saying the city had more grit and life then. Was this your way of channeling those memories and feeling that way?
I think definitely I was trying to recover how I felt as a kid growing up in this hostile landscape. And also, some of the atmosphere of the city and the years following, like with 9/11--how do we rebuild? Bouncing back from a trauma, an accident, a tragedy, I was drawing upon my own experiences of living in the city, and other times in my life when I've had to bounce back. So one act of my New York experience is animated in the novel, and there are definitely more optimistic and life affirming experiences which I had in the city that didn't necessarily work in this book, but I'll hopefully put together as the years go by.
I know you're a bit of a TV guy. Would you ever explore writing for TV?
As someone who loves pop culture, that's always a nice idea. But whenever I try to write a screenplay or something, I give up after a few weeks and just say, like, well, I'm a novelist, so I'll just write a novel. [Laughs.] There are fewer people involved. I love movies and I love TV, but it just hasn't worked out in any way where I see it fitting in my life.
I saw you tweeted that Salon article by Patrick Somerville last week about how New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin panned his book, but actually misread the novel and had to run a correction. As a writer who faces potential criticism like that, what are your thoughts?
Well, I did a reading with him last year at a book festival, and he's a really nice guy. But I did read the review, and I was like, "Oh, that's too bad..." But then the larger story came out and added more layers. Ultimately, my hope is that his perceptive and wise essay brought people to the book.
I was reading some of your old Voice work and came across a review of Digible Planets that you wrote in '93. What's your current hip-hop knowledge like?
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The open house for public information and input for the removal of the horsepower limit on Cowan Lake was held in December 2012. Area users of the lake jammed the meeting room in downtown Wilmington. It was roughly a 50/50 divided audience with strong feelings on both sides.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) personnel presented information about the proposal. The Cowan Lake meeting was followed by a February 2013 meeting to discuss the plan for Acton Lake at Hueston Woods. The fishing community was split on whether the larger horsepower boats, even at idle speed, is a good idea. The leading opponent at both lakes appeared to be the local sailing clubs.
Over the past months the ODNR has sifted through the public comments, forum feedback and emails. They have announced plans to adopt the a new lake management strategy that will allow watercraft powered by more than ten horsepower to utilize the two lakes provided that they only operate at idle speed. Both lakes are managed by the Division of Parks and Recreation.
This new strategy will be implemented as a pilot program to be tested and evaluated for a two year-period beginning with the 2014 boating season.
Before the new plan can be adopted there will be another round of formal public hearings and comment period. In addition, the proposal will be considered by the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR) which oversees the administrative rule process for state agency regulations. It sounds like the ODNR rather got the motor in front of the boat making an announcement that seemed like a plan was adopted but then not quite yet adopted.
According to the ODNR, there are a handful of lakes that were changed to unlimited horsepower at no-wake speed on a trial basis a few years ago. This management strategy has been very successful at the lakes where it was implemented; Knox lake, La Su An, Oxbow, Rupert, and Burr Oak.
Since the initial trial period, Harrison lake has also adopted the unlimited, no-wake regulation. ODNR maintains that because of these successes and public interest in allowing the same type of operation on other lakes around the state, they have determined that this regulatory change is appropriate for both Cowan and Acton lakes.
Steve Dalton who is an operator of Knox Marine on Knox Lake where the horsepower limit was removed several years ago notes, "The limit was lifted on Knox Lake with a no wake rule being put into place. There is only local sheriff part-time weekend patrol on the lake between Memorial Day and Labor Day each summer. It has been very trouble-free here. We remind our customers that this rule can be changed at any time so please do not abuse the privilege. Really not much has changed. There is always a spring rush to get onto the water and enjoy some peak fishing time."
The proposals are driven primarily by the desire to provide equal access with reasonable restrictions. Power boaters, regardless of the amount of horsepower, contribute to the maintenance and facility development of waterways all around the state through registration fees and excise taxes, but are prohibited from using many of the state's waterways.
Previous studies indicate close to 80 percent of the registered power boats in the State of Ohio are larger than 10 horsepower. Yet over 53 percent of the lakes in Ohio are restricted. In essence that says 80 percent of the boaters can only use their boat on 47 percent of the water.
The motor fuel tax is one of the largest contributors to the Waterways Safety Fund which is the Division of Watercraft boaters funds. If you own a 19-foot boat you pay the same registration fee but the boater with the bigger motor pays a tremendously larger amount of fuel tax. Yet they are restricted where that motor may be operated.
In the December 2012 Cowan Lake meeting, Division of Watercraft Chief Norcross concluded, "We've had positive response at other lakes. People are naturally hesitant of change at first. That is human nature. When we open up opportunity, it has a positive impact in the area around the lake. We will work with sister divisions to evaluate facilities and infrastructure. We want to improve access and invest boaters money back into the facilities."
Public comments and recommendations, along with public safety, recreational opportunities, regional economics, and environmental factors are some of the key components considered during the development of a lake management plan. The primary focus for ODNR is to preserve the unique character of the boating experience on each waterway, while providing the best possible service to the boating public and local communities.
Matt Eiselstein, ODNR spokesperson, explains, "At this time, ODNR has not finalized a proposal for submission to JCARR regarding the possible rule change. ODNR would seek public comment as part of the JCARR process, but a timeline would not be finalized until after the specific rule change is finalized and proposed. At any ODNR lake, a change in horse power limits would be accompanied by increased law enforcement presence. Required facility changes that might accompany this possible rule change would be addressed as needed."
On one hand the ODNR seems to be ready to move forward with the trial plan to allow the larger motors to operate at idle speed on Cowan and Acton lakes. However, on the other hand, it appears they don't quite have the language ready for additional public input and the JCARR process.
At best this leaves me somewhat confused about when the plans will be finalized and move forward or not move forward. Perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised since all of this deals with multiple levels of state government.
Larry Moore is a Greene County resident and outdoor columnist.


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Is it?
[quote author="Bruce Burleson"]That excludes most Christians, who get along just fine. In fact, the next person who will run this country, whatever party or ideology he/she belongs to/believes, will be a Christian. So work on your definition a little - it should exclude believers who have no problem whatsoever meeting life's daily demands.
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Now in her sixth year as the head women's cross country/track and field coach at Miami University, Kelly Phillips has already achieved much during her time in Oxford. The RedHawks have finished in the top four in every MAC Cross Country Championship that she has coached and also added a combined five top-four team finishes at the MAC Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
The 2013 cross country season saw Phillips guide the RedHawks to their second MAC title in her tenure, and their first since 2009. Four of Miami's point producers finished in the top 10, snapping Toledo's string of three-straight team titles. Phillips earned the MAC Coach of the Year award for the second time in her career for her efforts as MU also finished 11th at the Great Lakes Regional Championship that fall.
Miami's outdoor track and field season produced several impressive individual performances. Tori Paterra (javelin) and Charlotte Myers (800m) both claimed individual MAC titles to headline the RedHawks' performance at the conference meet. That duo was two of Miami's six NCAA East Region Prelminary meet qualifiers, joining Anna Lamb, Laura Bess, Adaora Anunike and Amelia Strickler. Paterra's star shined the brightest in the postseason, as advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and earned First-Team All-America honors after finishing third in the javelin.
In her first season, Phillips kept Miami at its newfound perch atop the cross country standings and guided the RedHawks second-straight MAC title in 2009. Over the winter, Phillips' RedHawks were competitive on the indoor track, placing fourth at the MAC Indoor Championships.
Phillips continued to make an impact on Miami's cross country program in her second year, as she coached Rachel Patterson to a berth in the NCAA Cross Country Championship. Patterson was just the eighth female RedHawk in school history to make the NCAA Championship and came within three seconds and six places of earning All-America honors, as she finished 46th. Patterson also broke the 6K school record at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional where she was fifth.
Patterson continued to progress under Phillips in track, earning a berth in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 5000m run, where she was an Honorable Mention All-American. Patterson also won three MAC titles in her final year at Miami, capturing the 5K and 3K indoors to earn Most Outstanding Track Performer while winning the 10K at the MAC Outdoor Championships. She also broke the school's indoor and outdoor 5K records under Phillips' watch.
As a team, Phillips led the 'Hawks to third-place finishes at both the Indoor and Outdoor MAC Championships, with the indoor finish tying for the best in school history. For the second straight year, five RedHawks also qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, including Patterson and Tori Paterra, who made the NCAA Championships. Eleven RedHawks garnered All-MAC honors in track in 2011 as well, including four individual MAC champions outdoors and two indoors.
In her first season guiding the track and field program, Phillips saw four school records fall during the indoor campaign, including the mile run, the 3000m and the 5000m. Kelley Miller won the Indoor MAC Championship in the mile while the RedHawks' distance medley relay team also captured a MAC indoor title under Phillips' guidance. Outdoors, Phillips helped her athletes break four more school marks while Amanda Mirochna repeated as MAC champion in the steeplechase and Miller claimed the 1500m.
Both the track & field and cross country teams were named All-Academic Teams by the USTFCCCA in each of Phillips' first two years at Miami, while 13 'Hawks have been named Academic All-MAC in track and six have landed on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team during Phillips' tenure. Five RedHawks have also earned Academic All-MAC honors in cross country in Phillips' two years, while the cross country team won Miami Athletics' Hal Jasper Award for community service in 2009-10.
Before coming to Oxford, Phillips served as the assistant women's cross country/track and field coach at Purdue University. She coached middle and long-distance runners for four seasons at Purdue and brought 10 years of experience coaching in collegiate athletics to Miami. During the course of her coaching career, Phillips has guided 36 student-athletes to the NCAA Championships in either cross country or track and field.
During her stint with the Boilermakers, Phillips saw the Purdue Varsity Cross Country Course 5K record broken and the second-fastest 6K time posted, while the women's cross country team earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors each year she was there and took home Purdue's President's Cup, awarded to the team with the highest grade point average, two consecutive seasons.
Prior to Purdue, Phillips took a break from coaching and founded Claremont Trails Running Camp in Claremont, New Hampshire, which she helped grow from 12 campers to over 100 in just three years directing and establishing the camp.
Before stepping away from coaching to open Claremont Trails, Phillips worked at South Florida from 1997-2001. During her time in Tampa, she served as the men's and women's associate cross country/track and field coach, and later the head coach. While working for the Bulls, Phillips guided 33 student-athletes to the NCAA Championships and helped South Florida claim the women's cross country crown twice (1998, 1999), including the team's first-ever league title, and the men's cross country Conference USA title in 2000. She also made sure her teams were achieving in the classroom, as the women's cross country team earned Academic All-America honors from 1998-2000, while the men's team achieved the distinction in 2000. For her efforts, Phillips was named Conference USA Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year twice and Men's Coach of the Year once, as well as the league's Women's Track and Field Coach of the Year in her final season with the Bulls. From 1998-2000, she also was awarded the NCAA's South Region Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Phillips also served as the meet director for Conference USA's Cross Country Championships in 1998 and the league's Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2001. In addition, she helped fundraise over $70,000 during her tenure to help support the South Florida cross country and track and field teams by organizing road races in the Tampa Bay area.
"(Former head coach) Rich Ceronie started the distance tradition at Miami, and while only here a short time Rita (Arndt-Molis) took the Miami program to a new level," Phillips said upon her hire. "My primary goal is to take the championship culture that has been created and bring it to an even higher level on the cross country team and the track and field team. Miami is a place that can consistently have a national-caliber team, have graduates at the top of their class, and be a positive influence in the community. It will be my job to see that these things happen and I am very fortunate to have been given this opportunity."
Phillips got her start in coaching at her alma mater, Auburn University, as a graduate assistant coach from 1991-1993, working mainly with distance runners. As an athlete at Auburn, Phillips was a two-time All-American in the mile and 3000 meters and set 14 school records as a student-athlete. She earned her bachelor's degree in marketing from Auburn in 1991.
Phillips later went on to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 1500 meters in both 1992 and 1996. In 1995, she was also the Olympic Festival Champion in the 1500 meters and finished fifth at the Pan American Games in Argentina.
Phillips has two sons, Michael and Connor.
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About Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is located in Central Asia and borders with Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Caspian Sea. Its territory is 488,100 square kilometers, of which approximately 80% is desert. The country is rich in oil and natural gas resources and cotton is its major agricultural product. The Amu-Darya river is the main source of water, running along the eastern border between Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Ashgabat is the capital of Turkmenistan located in the southern part of the country. Turkmenistan is divided into five administrative regions (velayats): Ahal, Balkan, Lebap, Mary and Dashoguz, each consisting of several districts (etraps). The main sea port of Turkmenistan is the city of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Sea. Turkmenistan is located in a disaster prone region and can be affected by a number of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, drought, desertification and others. The northern part of the country falls within the Aral Sea disaster zone, where salinisation of water and soil poses a serious challenge to all countries of the region.
Despite its rich past history, Turkmenistan is a relatively young state. It declared its independence in October 1991 following disintegration of the former Soviet Union In March 1992, Turkmenistan became a member of the United Nations (UN). On 12 December 1995 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on the status of permanent neutrality of Turkmenistan, which has become the guiding principle of Turkmenistan's foreign policy. Along with other twelve ex-USSR republics, Turkmenistan joined the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in December 1991 and retained its status of a full CIS member until 2005. During the Summit of CIS heads of states held in Russia in August 2005, Turkmenistan announced its decision to change its participation level to "Associate Member," using the country's policy of permanent neutrality to justify the change.
Turkmenistan, as a country producing oil and gas, has experienced robust economic growth in recent years. Forecasts suggest that the growth will continue in medium term. Along with the fast pace of economic development, realization is growing that attention must increasingly be focused on investment in institution building and human resource development as the main pillars of sustainable growth. Economic diversification is still in the initial stages and energy exports continue to play a key role in the country's economy.
Further, demands for the state institutions to improve efficiency of spending and the effectiveness of service delivery to the population are increasing. An enabling environment for private sector development needs to be built.
Turkmenistan has made progress around compliance with international human rights treaty obligations, while harmonization of national legislation with international standards is ongoing. There is a need to strengthen rule of law and access to justice for people at large, as well as to promote civil society activity.
Turkmenistan continued its strong economic performance driven mainly by hydrocarbon-led export and surge in public investments in 2012. According to the ADB's "Asian Development Outlook 2012 Update", exports in Turkmenistan grew by 44.7%. IMF projected real GDP growth of Turkmenistan to remain at about 8 per cent in 2012-13 and inflation in single digit. The country was classified as an upper middle income country with GNI per capita of $4,800 (Atlas methods, 2011) by World Bank in October 2012.
Since 2007, Turkmenistan has been implementing reforms in economic sectors and political areas. Turkmenistan adopted a new version of the Constitution in September 2008. Turkmenistan's legislation is being reviewed in line with its international treaty obligations, including in the area of the rule of law and protection of human rights. A new Party of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists was established following the adoption of a new law on political parties. Turkmenistan opened five human rights resource centres mainly at the tertiary educational institutes in four provinces and at the National Institute for Democracy and Human Rights in the capital city to provide better access to citizens on human rights related literature.
Turkmenistan introduced a Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) pension system (replacing the previous pay-as-you-go system) and the Pension Fund in early 2012. According to the Government of Turkmenistan, 75% of the 2012 national budget was allocated to the implementation of the National Programme (2007- 2020) on Improving Social and Living Conditions of People. This rate of social expenditures is also stated by ADB. Turkmenistan's Human Development Index in 2013 is 0.698, which gives the country a rank of 102 out of 186 countries.
Turkmenistan approved the National Climate Change Strategy in June 2012 which lays out the policy framework for building climate resilience and low emission economy in Turkmenistan. The strategy stipulates a number of sector-tailored measures to ensure mitigation and adaptation response from the key economic areas, such as oil and gas, power engineering, construction, water, agriculture and the like. The adoption of this strategy signals that Turkmenistan is eager to make its economy greener have less carbon emissions and become more resource efficient.
Turkmenistan has been active in some global and regional development issues in recent years. Turkmenistan was elected member of the UN Commission on Population and Development for the period of 2012-2015, to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs for the period of 2012-2015, and to the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on continuing basis. Turkmenistan is the Chair of UN Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (UNSPECA) for 2012 and Vice-Chair of the UN Economic Commission for Europe until 2015. In 2013, the UN General Assembly elected Turkmenistan to ECOSOC for 2013-2015.
Turkmenistan, as one of the major oil and natural gas producers, is a leading advocate developing an appropriate international legal framework for security of energy transit system.
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- 1 Large white onion
1 1/2 cups Carnaroli white rice
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2 cups Preserved Galletti mushrooms, drained
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The Sorting Hat Has Spoken
Bob's Godmother, Aunt Jen, has made Bob's Halloween costumes every year with the exception of the lost year of Han Solo '10.
She created The Pumpkin.
The Cowboy.
The Triceratops.
And of course, The Bee.
And now... this year:
Harry Potter.
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Happy Halloween to the Smacksy family!ReplyDelete
Happy Halloween! Bob makes an excellent wizard. :)ReplyDelete
Happy Halloween!! We feel your excitement!!ReplyDelete
Lisa, that Bob just gets cuter. I especially love "retro" Bob in the pumpkin patch.ReplyDelete
The look on their faces is priceless. Ringo is all, "How many more years until I can get my own place?" and Bob has the look of resignation known only to those who are loved *just* right.
Happy Halloween. Or Hallowe'en. Or All Hallow's Eve. Whatever they're calling it this year.
my favourite has to be the triceratops.ReplyDelete
That's fabulous! Have a wonderful Halloween you guys...ReplyDelete
Excellent! My Bee (she's 6) was Hermione tonight.ReplyDelete
Me? I imagine I'd be in Hufflepuff House.
Bob's pumpkin cheeks were outrageous. And that post was hilarious too and brought back memories of zipping my kid into a store-bought legless lobster costume that she hated so much one would have thought we were dangling her over a pot of boiling water. All shots of costumed Bob make me swoon and wish we had a talented godmother. Has she considered Project Runway?ReplyDelete


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As a four year-old I was quite obviously in charge of keeping my head safe by escaping. I had the Itty Bitties; I had the bats. I also had glorious cows to watch (ah, a daytime activity), from the tippy-top of an enormous pile of dirt. Our neighbors were farmers and I'd spend hours up there, waiting, scrutinizing. For some reason, I made a part-time career out of cow observation. Now, there was no MOO-la in it, of course, but I was praised by the farmer and his wife every time I'd spot a cow who was also, coincidentally, escaping – from the fenced-in pasture. The praise was worth more than any amount of money. Oh, how sweet, tantalizing and delectable it was! Better than the most delicious kind of cheesecake. Of course, if you don't like cheesecake, then you'll have to think of your own analogy. :-)
Looking back, I realize how adept I was at finding ways to liberate myself from emotional pain. I found so many methods! Cow observation, bat contemplation, and mouse conversation! Mouse conversation? There was an adorable mouse that showed up many nights to chew through the outside-facing wall of my bedroom. I'd talk to the little critter on the nights he or she showed up to make more holes, his or her cute pink nose poking through them.
Well, all this writing about overcoming, escaping, the ability to deal with what life dishes out, led me to think about adversity. Adversity is the best blessing, a wonderful teacher, if you choose to see it that way.
Kids are pretty tough beings, that is true enough, and if I think about what I had to learn how to handle as a child I'm amazed. But what's more amazing are the things I've had to battle as an adult. Oh, the adversity-versity!
Once I'd been broken-in by the abuse I received from my family, it was easy enough for other abusers to get hold of me. I am still stunned by the number of abusive people I've pulled into my life. I never knew, I never saw, but thank God now I do. My original abusers were disguised as parents and other family members. Later abusers would be disguised as schoolmates and friends – as teachers, guidance counselors and other school staff. And of course, much later, abusers would disguise themselves as boyfriends. The worst abuser of my life showed up around age twenty. Me – my very self. And of course the most awful part of that was that I had no idea I was abusing myself. Well, if abuse isn't adversity I don't know what is.
But it doesn't stop there, I've had to face the adversity of being very physically ill, from the moment I was born, pretty much. There are days I can barely walk and doing dishes is an accomplishment. Oh, I shall not forget discrimination. There is more of that adversity stuff. I've been discriminated against for having mental health issues and physical health problems alike – one just as trying and painful as the other. What's surprising is how common this is – it happens all the time. The weak ones really do get it!
But then, like a phoenix does rise from the ashes, you can choose to view adversity as your best friend, as a patient and loving teacher, as a wise guru. From an abundance of adversity determination can come. From determination, a few small successes. From the few small successes, CONFIDENCE. From confidence, more success. And from that, a life really worth living. Time, time, time. It just takes time. And then, you don't feel weak anymore, you feel STRONG.
I'm not sorry my body is sick. I'm not sorry I've been abused – physically, sexually or emotionally. I'm not sorry I've suffered terrible psychological suffering! I'm not even sorry I've felt the sting, many times, of discrimination. In short, I'm not sorry for the adversity that's shown up quite a bit in my life. On the contrary, I am blessed by it.
Adversity is a lamp that lights the way out of darkness. I am blessed by adversity.


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(Humming "Hail to the Chief")
"That's what she said."----Michael Scott
no club vote????????????
I wasn't there but I'd suspect there was a vote at the meeting.
"That's what she said."----Michael Scott
guess no more non profit
I guess a CONGRATS is in order
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Why would you Ass u me no more non profit?
cause they told us last year that a non profit had to have board members NO President & now all of a sudden we have a president
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That is not correct, they're still working on the 501c3
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From the Bylaws: "To run for President of the Board, you must be a club member and have served on the Board of Directors the previous year. The President of the Board is elected at the annual year end meeting. All club members may vote. The results are determined by a majority." Judge is eligible because he was a club member and he served on the Board of Directors last year. His nomination received the majority of votes at the year end meeting.
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Misenheimer, NC---The Pfeiffer men's basketball team defeated Erskine 83-80 in CVAC action Thursday night. DeMario Grier scored 20 points to lead the Falcons. All 11 Falcon players scored and Pfeiffer used their pressure defense to force 21 turnovers. Pfeiffer improves to 10-3 overall and 5-1 in the CVAC. Erskine falls to 2-8 overall and 2-5 in the conference.
The first six minutes saw the teams trade baskets as the score was tied at 10 with 13:59 left in the half.
A DeMario Grier field goal capped a 11-2 Falcon run that gave Pfeiffer a 21-12 advantage with 10:34 to go.
Erskine slowly fought back and cut the margain to four before finally trailing by six, 34-28 at the break.
Pfeiffer held Erskine to 30% from the floor in the first half. The Falcons also won the rebounding battle by a count of 23 to 16.
Erskine hit some thrres early in the second half and took a one point lead with 16:27 left in the game.
The two teams traded the lead eleven times times over the next twelve minutes until a Grier field goal gave Pfeiffer the lead at 75-74 with 4:17 to go. It was a lead the Falcons would never lose the rest of the game.
Pfeiffer hit their free throws and a final three-point attempt by Erskine fell short at the buzzer as the Falcons prevailed 83-80.
Greir led Pfeiffer with 20 points. Tavares Cooper added 16 points and four rebounds. Derek McGriff had 15 and Logan Call 10. T.J. Taylor led Erskine with 35 points.
Coach Davis said, "Tavares Cooper was the difference late in the game. He loaded us up and led us to victory. Robert MCGriff was a force all night and we played one of our best defensive games of the year. Our rebounding is also improving and we got several huge ones tonight."
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The ASPCA is on the ground in Lake City, Michigan, assisting with the removal and sheltering of more than 150 Jack Russell Terriers, Shiba Inus and other dogs and puppies from two separate locations of a substandard, large-scale breeding facility.
The removal of the animals from JRT John's Jack Russell and Shiba Inu Kennel is the result of a civil action, prompted by a violation of Michigan's Dog Law. The ASPCA is assisting the Missaukee County Sheriff's Office and the Roscommon County Animal Shelter with the case. PetSmart Charities® has also generously provided critical supplies for the sheltering and transport of the animals.
The dogs were discovered living in outdoor enclosures with little protection from the elements. Many had no access to clean drinking water or proper shelter, with plastic carriers being their only refuge from the elements. We believe the facility to be a puppy mill—a large-scale, commercial breeding operation where profit is given priority over the well-being of the animals.
Up next: Dogs requiring medical examinations are being transported to a nearby temporary shelter, where they will receive veterinary care from the ASPCA's medical team, led by Field Investigations and Response Medical Director Dr. Sarah Kirk. Once medical exams are complete, the ASPCA Anti-Cruelty Behavior Team will begin behavior evaluations of dogs at the temporary shelter, and our Partnership Manager will beginworking with response partners to determine placement options.
If you'd like to adopt: Dogs who are medically and behaviorally ready will immediately be placed with ASPCA response partners including Medina County SPCA (Medina, Ohio) and Animal Humane Society (based in Golden Valley, Minnesota), which are also supporting the sheltering operation and will help provide daily care for the animals.
"We are pleased to aid the Missaukee County Sheriff's Office and Roscommon County Animal Shelter by providing expertise and resources to support the case and removing the dogs from this situation," says Kathryn Destreza, Investigations Director of the ASPCA Field Investigations and Response team, adding that we look forward to helping place dogs in loving homes.
Please stay tuned to ASPCA.org for updates on this rescue. If you'd like to help, please make a gift to the ASPCA today.
Many blessings to all who work to make animals' lives better. We are their only voice. ♥ So I am using my voice to post this repeatedly, until it somehow falls into the hands of someone who has the authority and the courage to help us put an end to puppy and kittens mills, once and for all.... PUPPY MILLS ARE GLUTTING THE SYSTEM
We will euthanize 10,000 pets today at our animal shelters and city Animal Care & Control facilities. We will euthanize 10,000 pets tomorrow too, and most every day. Unless our lawmakers enact regulations on the production of puppy and kitten mills, this pet overpopulation crisis is doomed to increase. This is costing our government millions of dollars, which are OUR TAX DOLLARS! And they are being spent to KILL PETS that the PUPPY MILLS ARE PRODUCING. What is wrong with this picture? The USDA has NEGLECTED to regulate this mill production, to the point that our country is about to explode with dead and suffering animals. Surely, our government must know that this has to stop! I will never understand how the USDA has any business having pets under the same regulations, (or the lack thereof), as poultry, slaughter hogs and beef cattle producers...WE DO NOT EAT DOGS AND CATS IN THIS COUNTRY, they are pets! Our government must stop allowing them to be mass produced like they were food animals! And the conditions that we accept as "USDA approved" for these animals to live in, consist of a lifetime of horrific neglect and deprivation! These pets don't even go to slaughter when they are old enough and fattened up. They live their entire lives in a cage, often left out in all kinds of weather, with little or no veterinary care. The female's' life is spent carrying, nursing, or grieving her lost babies, until she is bred yet again. Then about twice a year, the male shares her cage until mating is complete. Then he is returned to languish in his own flthy cage until it is time to breed again. This only ends for them when they die, or become "no longer good for breeding" and there is no regulation on how they are "disposed of" then. But the numbers of dead and decaying animal carcasses that are strewn throughout or piled up on the property of far too many of these mills, speak volumes. Unfortunately, the financial influence of the Agriculture business has managed to supercede the horrific conditions of the animals, the pet overpopulation crisis, even the glutting of our own systems!
WE THE PEOPLE, MUST RISE UP AND DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT ENACT LAWS TO END THIS INSANITY! I guarantee you, if the beef producers were churning out millions of pounds of beef in a year, and we only ate half of it, and the other half had to be "disposed of" at great expense to the government, you can bet the USDA would be slapping some major restrictions on beef production. So why don't they see that we are euthanizing over four million pets a year, and the puppy and kitten mills are "producing" a majority of them? IS OUR GOVERNMENT REALLY SO "OWNED" BY THE PUPPY MILL/Ag INDUSTRY, THAT THEY BETRAY THEIR CONSTITUENTS, WASTE OUR TAX DOLLARS AND GLUT THEIR OWN SYSTEM? We must find a way to rid our world of this horrific business of abuse and neglect! OUR GOVERNMENT MUST TAKE ACTION TODAY!
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Pamela you said it all perfectly! But unless congress stops passing the buck and looking for loopholes in existing animal welfare laws to work to their benefit it
will never change. They just keep taking steps backwards...the last horse slaughter house in the U.S was closed not that long ago only to be reopened along with 3 additional facilities approved to be opened...we don't eat horsemeat in US but the BLM obviously wants to profit on the disposal of 1000's of wild horses they continue to round up only to sit in holding pens its cruel senseless and inhumane treatment. Puppy Mills need to stop if the lawmakers don't see the cycle of what is happening or care enough to step in and help it will never end. Where is the compassion what happened to american lawmakers aren't they supposed to make it a better place?
Why are these dogs left in the streets?
These puppy mills have to be stopped. People still dont understand where these cute puppies come from. The ASPCA should start running ads showing the hard truth on what theses horrible places look like so it is real to people and they will think tiwce about adopting from pet stores. Another issue I see is people selling puppies on the side of the road and in shopping center parking lots. Educating people I strongly believe is the key to stopping this holocaust that is occuring. Bless the ASPCA for helping these animals find a normal life.