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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras – A writhing mass of crocodiles slithers out of a muddy pond, the animals snapping their blood-spattered jaws shut on hunks of raw horsemeat and gulping them down in one.
For the group of onlookers standing right in front of the carnage, with no fence to protect them, it is hard to trust the guide's assurances that the crocodiles are too well-fed to bother attacking.
Luis Reyes, manager of the Cocodrilos Continental crocodile farm in northwestern Honduras, hopes to attract busloads of tourists for the adrenalin-packed experience, held every week.
Yet visitors might be less enthusiastic to learn that for the 1,000 crocodiles wallowing in the farm's mud-filled ponds, there are another 9,000 who will never see the light of day.
Instead, they go from an incubator shed to pitch-black swelteringly hot "fattening tanks" — artificially heated to make the hatchlings grow faster. Once fully grown they are taken out, killed and skinned to make handbags.
What set out to be a conservation project in the 1990s amid concern that hunting was killing off the native population of American crocodiles, or Crocodylus Acutus, has become a lucrative business that so far has not returned even one of the reptiles to the wild.
"People used to hunt them freely. The idea of the farm was to save them from extinction, to put them back into the wild. But studies show there's now an overpopulation," Reyes said.
The farm is approved by CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, as a project that does not endanger the species. Yet many question the ethics of breeding exotic species merely to be made into luxury goods.
"We originally captured 320 wild crocodiles and today we have 10,000," Reyes says proudly. "We are hoping for 6,000 births this year and our goal is 25,000 births annually."
The farm does not appear to use brutal killing methods reported by animal rights groups at other farms around the world, such as clubbing reptiles to death or skinning them alive and leaving them to die slowly in agony.
The crocodiles look healthy and Reyes says they are killed with a quick shot in the back of the neck before skinning.
Yet animal protection groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, say breeding for fashion is wrong, especially without controls on conditions.
"Factory farming is inherently cruel, even if animals aren't being killed with baseball bats," said Lisa Franzetta at U.S.-based PETA. "The animals aren't treated as sentient beings, they're just units of production."
Staff at the Honduran farm monitor the breeders — some 900 females grouped into 140 ponds with one male in each — and remove and incubate any eggs within hours of them being laid.
Once hatched, the babies are crammed, hundreds at a time, into stifling brick and aluminum tanks where sunlight only pierces the darkness when the hatchlings are fed or hosed down with soapy water. They spend three to four years there.
"We change their metabolism so they grow faster. In the wild they grow 1 foot a year, here it's 3 feet," says Reyes, explaining the use of heating and daily feeds.
Once matured, a few lucky ones with skin defects go into the breeding ponds. The rest become handbags, belts and shoes.
"It's despicable to say they are doing this for conservation when it's about selling a fashion item," said Franzetta. "If their concern was for the animal's well-being they wouldn't be raising them to be shot in the back of the head and made into a pair of tacky shoes."
The farm sold roughly 2,500 skins last year for about $200 each and its goal is to sell 10 times as many. It also sells the tasty white meat to classy Honduran restaurants.
Animal rights aside, Honduras needs to exploit all its natural resources to claw its way out of extreme and widespread poverty.
Eyeing dollars from tourists, who come to Honduras for its jungle reserves and Caribbean scuba-diving, Reyes has stocked a gift shop with crocodile heads, teeth, "asthma-curing" crocodile oil and even crocodile claw backscratchers.
Critics say a better tourist pull could be a tour to see crocodiles in the wild, which could also create more jobs.
Otherwise, they point to farms in Australia where hatchlings are raised naturally in large open lagoons.
"It's hard to regulate farms because establishing animal welfare rules requires national legislation," said Joaquin de la Torre at global animal welfare group IFAW in Mexico.
"How can you go to this Honduran farm and demand they put fewer crocodiles to a tank if there is no law to back you up?"
IFAW is pushing for an animal welfare law in Mexico, where exotic species are at risk from smuggling and deforestation, but tiny Honduras has enough on its hands fighting poverty, AIDS and violent criminal gangs.
"Honduras is just too poor. Across Central America the last thing money is spent on is animals," said de la Torre.


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I am writing this article on my last day of work before I leave; later tonight, I'll be on a red-eye flight to Pennsylvania to spend Christmas and New Year's with my family. Besides the chance to wake up to a snow-covered lawn, one of the things I am most looking forward to is not having e-mail access for two whole weeks. Oddly enough, my friends find this weird—both my lack of access and my excitement over it. Even my friend who barely knew what e-mail was a mere six months ago expressed shock about my willingly going without it.
For those of you who can sooner imagine parting with a limb than parting with e-mail, the Linux Journal web site has some articles that should prove both interesting and useful. First off is Nick Moffitt's advice for "Busting Spam with Bogofilter, Procmail and Mutt" (www.linuxjournal.com/article/6439). Nick presents the macros he added to his system-wide configuration file to make training a Bayesian spam-filtering system as easy as deleting spam and saving or replying to interesting mail—things you do anyway. His macros are also good for personal Mutt configurations, so you don't need root access to start catching spam now.
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Writing an article rejection letter led to "Mutt Over SSH, but What about Attachments?" (www.linuxjournal.com/article/6511) by Linux Journal Editor in Chief Don Marti. Usually our rejection letters are not this extensive, but in explaining why the article did not go far enough, Don ended up offering some methods for viewing e-mail attachments remotely. Reader-posted comments have continued the conversation, debating the merits of IMAP vs. its slow speed. If you've got a better way of dealing with viewing e-mail attachments remotely, please write about it in the article comments section. Don really wants to know a better way.
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Epilogue: So the holidays are over, and it's my first day back at work. Over dinner last night, I told a friend that I'd be happy if less than 500 e-mails were waiting for me. The final count? 846.
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Abdul-Jabbar insists that basketball was really what his life had been about all along. He loves it and expects to play, he says, "as long as I keep my mental and physical health." But in December of 1977 he was nearly ready to quit. Just a month after his hand had healed sufficiently for him to return to action, he witnessed yet another violent act when teammate Kermit Washington crushed the face of Houston's Rudy Tomjanovich with a punch. "He was miserable," says Cheryl. "I sent him air-express letters saying, 'Kareem, your career is not a jail sentence.' He felt so sorry for himself it was disgusting." Sports Illustrated
"I was 17 years old, being cheered on the basketball court but being called a `nigger' by those same people on the street," he says. That summer riots erupted in Harlem. "I stepped off the subway right into the middle of it. It was chaos, wild, insane, and I just stood there trembling. Cops were swinging nightsticks at everybody, bullets were flying, windows were being smashed, people were stealing and looting. All I could think of was that I wanted to stay alive, so I took off running and I didn't stop till I was at 137th and Broadway, several blocks away. And then I sat huffing and puffing and pondering about what I'd seen, and I knew what it was: rage, black rage. The poor people of Harlem felt that it was better to get hit with a nightstick than to keep on taking the white man's insults forever. Right then and there I knew who I was and who I had to be. I was going to be black rage personified, black power in the flesh." Sports Illustrated
Ramona Shelburne: Kobe is some 4000 points away from Malone and 6000 points from KAJ. I asked him after the game if he'd play long enough to catch either one. Kobe laughed & said, "Oh my god. Do you have any idea how much my body hurts day to day? I'm no spring chicken. It's good to be out here." Twitter @ramonashelburne
Not his scoring record, mind you. As Byron Scott said Friday in San Antonio, those 38,387 career points are likely untouchable for Bryant and anyone else. But while Bryant is chasing down Michael Jordan on the NBA's all-time scoring list, he also sits just five personal fouls away from breaking Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers record of 3,220. Orange County Register
But with a stated intention of not playing beyond next season, reaching Abdul-Jabbar's 38,387 is almost unimaginable for No. 24. In fact, Scott doesn't see anyone catching Abdul-Jabbar. "I think that's gonna stand for a while," Scott said. "I don't think in our lifetime we're going to see it being broken. … It's going to be hard for somebody to break that. They're going to have to play 20-something years I think to get that one." Karl Malone is second on the career scoring list with 36,928. Orange County Register
"I think these milestones are mainly a distraction," former Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said on NBA TV's "The Beat." "The important thing for Kobe Bryant are the World Championships and MVPs. He's done all of those things. He's already achieved the things that count and that people judge you by. I don't think he needs to be that emotional." Los Angeles Daily News
If Bryant stays near his current pace for the rest of this season and next, he'll not only pass Jordan before his current deal is done, he'll start getting within striking distance of Karl Malone's 36,928 points, second on the all-time list. It will take more work than Bryant is currently under contract for to approach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's NBA record of 38,387 points. (Bryant shared his feelings about passing Jordan, with whom he has a close relationship, in a solid bit of reporting last week by Bleacher Report's Kevin Ding.) It has not been a topic of conversation in the locker room. "When he does pass it," Kupchak said, "it's a testimony to consistency and playing at a high level for a long time. I think that's nice, but I think we all know that he would trade that for a team that competes for the playoffs or a championship." NBA.com
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On Wednesday night, Garnett will start his 20th season by playing against his former team, the Boston Celtics. Garnett doesn't believe he is about to play in his 20th season opener, even if he did tell Kevin McHale as a rookie that he hoped to match his age when he came into the league as an 18-year-old with the number of NBA seasons he'd play. "I definitely can't," said Garnett, who joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Robert Parish and Kevin Willis as players to play 20 seasons. "I have always enjoyed the game of basketball, probably always will. You don't have to motivate me, to push me out of bed to do this." ESPN.com
But, after relying heavily on his patented one-legged fadeaway throughout his career, what can the 7-footer add to his game to help the Mavericks see more success following a first-round playoff exit last season? How about the signature move of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer? "Well, you know, the skyhook is still a work in progress," Nowitzki chuckled while also tipping his cap to Abdul-Jabbar. "I might keep that for Year 18 and still work on it. But you always try to be a little more efficient, so we're working on the release and stuff, but I'm not really sure if that makes such a big difference." mavs.com
"By focusing on race, I also sent the unintentional and hurtful message that our white fans are more valuable than our black fans." But that's not the message in the email at all. If the seats had all been filled, even if all by blacks, the email wouldn't have been written. He wasn't valuing white fans over blacks, he was trying to figure out a way to change what he thought was the white perception in Atlanta so he could sell more tickets. That's his job. TIME
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How to expand 13" storage by 32GB (Flush)
I was working on a little project, getting more storage into the MacBook Air.
The 13" MacBook Air has the SD Card slot, as you all know. When I bought it I thought I'd just pop a 32GB SD in it permanently and leave it there. However, to my surprise, it stuck out half way and this killed the purpose.
So I did some googling around for a while and couldn't figure anything out. There was another topic on here that said to get a Micro SD / USB / SD card adapter and cut the USB half off and it would fit flush and use a Micro SD card with it. This sounded like a good idea however the OCX card they were looking for was out of stock everywhere, nowhere to be found.
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Buy this:
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Buy a 32GB Micro SD. I got a Lexor 32GB Class 10 from Amazon for 90$ however you can get a class 4 for around $50.
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Cut the USB end off the Norcent adapter. With scissors. And maybe sand it down to make it smooth if needed.
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Put the Micro SD card in the Norcent adapter.
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Put the Norcent adapter in your SD card slot.
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Musician Michael Gungor talks about the recent controversy over the evolution of his views on evolution, science, and biblical authority.
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Written by BioLogos Fellow of Biology Dennis Venema, this series of posts is intended as a basic introduction to the science of evolution for non-specialists.
Origins News Roundup for August 6, 2014
News about the Ebola outbreak and initiatives in genomic medicine lead our news roundup this week, with a collection of research and learning opportunities in biology and at the science/faith border to follow.
What Do the Arts Have to Do with Evangelism?
The purpose of Jesus's art was to give verbal, visual, and dramatic forms to those complicated and confounding relationships, symmetries, and harmonies between himself, the father and spirit, and between the triune God and the world… Such creative expressions did not and do not make everything clear, but rather resist simple clarity, forcing their hearers to come at the whole complicated truth from a position of intellectual and spiritual humility.
No Place Like Home: An interview with ECF grantee Seung-Hwan Kim
Everyone is so worried about success and getting this or that honorable diploma—the people here are smart and understand many complex things perfectly—but it's a long distance from the head to the heart.
Creation for Kids
Children's books are more than stories. They can become familiar narratives children listen to over and over. So it's worth asking - Are the books we're reading doing a good job of portraying God and His Creation?
Origins News Round-Up for May 28, 2014
This weeks in Origins news: studies of a skeleton uncovered in 2007 provide clues about rapid human evolution in the Americas, our climate and Christian stewardship, a few BioLogos folks give interviews, and some cool links to miscellaneous finds.
Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies
When read in this way, the Genesis stories may be seen as one of the greatest-ever revolutions in human understanding. Genesis used the literary forms of the day to introduce its readers to a rational God who cares for people – and whose faithfulness made science possible. Genesis is expressly about theology, not science.


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DUBLIN Ireland's Elan won approval from shareholders on Monday to complete the sale of the company to U.S. drugmaker Perrigo, clearing the way for the deal to be completed by the end of the year.
Perrigo agreed to buy the Dublin-based group for $8.6 billion in July in a deal that will hand it tax savings from being domiciled in Ireland and royalties from blockbuster multiple sclerosis treatment Tysabri.
The deal ended a bitter takeover battle in which Elan rejected three lower bids from U.S. investment firm Royalty Pharma.
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Spring Soccer games and practices are taking place at White Brook Middle School. The Nonotuck Park Soccer fields were reseeded last Fall and require a season of rest to take root and replenish. We appreciate everyone's cooperation with our temporary field arrangements and thank White Brook Middle School for accommodating our community! We're looking forward […]
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Early Registration for Spring Soccer extended to January 15th! Parents: A reminder to register for Spring PVJSL today! Spring teams are for U8 and up — generally 2nd grade or older. Registration at the fee of $90 ends on January 15th. Registration with a late fee of $20 per child closes on January 25th! Online […]
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1.-- U.S. stock futures indicated a weaker start to Wall Street on Tuesday after the Dow Jones Industrial Average reach a record high on Monday.
European stocks were lower in early trading. Asian shares closed mostly higher Tuesday as investors awaited word from China on economic reforms. Japan's Nikkei rose 2.2% to close at 14,588.68 while China's Shanghai Composite gained 0.8% to 2,126.77.
2.-- The economic calendar in the U.S. Tuesday is bare.
3.--U.S. stocks on Monday rose slightly as investors await earnings reports from major retailers that may offer signals about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery and clues as to whether the Federal Reserve will begin curbing its monetary stimulus program.
The S&P 500 tacked on 0.07% to close at 1,771.87 while the Dow added 0.13% to 15,782.91. The Nasdaq inched up 0.01% to 3,919.79.
The deal would be the second agreement between Bank of America and Freddie since 2011. The deal would largely protect the bank from any future repurchase demands from Freddie stemming from loans sold before 2012. Bank of America is hoping to settle before the end of the year, one of the people told the Journal.
5.-- Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, told CNBC on Tuesday that the central bank's monetary stimulus program can't continue forever,
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10.-- Fewer than 50,000 people had successfully navigated HealthCare.gov, the troubled federal health care Website, and enrolled in private insurance plans as of last week, two people familiar with the matter told the Journal, citing internal government data. The Obama administration's target for October was 500,000 enrollees. The Web site launched on Oct. 1.


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I draw them... I'm partial to canines, but I try. XD Here are some of mine... (My lineart sucks, I know...)
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I've read that given the heat output of propane versus diesel, for the same price you'll be making more trips to fill up the tank with propane than with diesel. So, in other words, even though diesel is more expensive, a single liter gives you more heat and diesel heaters use less fuel per hour than propane. A quick scan of the diesel/propane heaters on the market and their heat outputs would seem to confirm this.
Plus, as I mentioned, the diesel gives you the option of having one stove which does double duty as a heater and stove. That's one less fuel you need to carry on board.
Then there's the fact that diesel heaters can burn #1, #2 or kerosene. And I think I read somewhere that diesel is more readily available outside of North America than propane.
Has anyone smelled a boat with a diesel stove? I hate the smell of diesel, so that would sort of answer the question right there.
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First Circuit Other Statutes Cases
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Keating et al v.Pentucket Regional School District et al
as 1:2015cv11760
Plaintiff: Alicia Keating, Michelle Keating
Defendant: Pentucket Regional School District, Pentucket Regional School Committee, The Bureau of Special Education Appeals and others
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights
Doe v. NH Attorney General et al
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Plaintiff: John Doe
Defendant: NH Attorney General, NH Department of Safety, Division of State Police, Director
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act
D'Agostino, et al v. Baker, et al
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Plaintiff - Appellant: KATHLEEN D'AGOSTINO, DENISE BOIAN, JEAN M. DEMERS and others
Defendant - Appellee: DEVAL L. PATRICK, in his official capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, THOMAS L. WEBER, in his official capacity as the Director of the Department of Early Education and Care, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, Local 509
Draper, et al v. Healey
as 15-1429
Plaintiff - Appellant: ROBERT DRAPER, ARIEL WEISBERG, DONNA MAJOR and others
Defendant - Appellee: MAURA T. HEALEY
Interested Party: BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
Rivera-Jimenez v. Weyne-Roig
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Plaintiff: Jorge E Rivera-Jimenez
Defendant: Angela Weyne-Roig
Cause Of Action: Fed. Question
Mulder v. Kohl's Department Stores, Inc.
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Defendant: Kohl's Department Stores, Inc.
Plaintiff: Ellen Mulder
Cause Of Action: Notice of Removal
Cusack v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
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Plaintiff: Richard Cusack
Defendant: Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
Cause Of Action: Discrimination - Review of Agency Act
Rivas-Carrillo v Municipio Autonomo de Caguas, et al
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Plaintiff: Freddy I. Rivas-Carrillo
Defendant: Municipio Autonomo de Caguas, William Miranda-Torres
Cause Of Action: Constitutionality of State Statute(s)
City of Malden v. Freeman et al
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Defendant: Sandra Freeman, Eugene A. Freeman
Plaintiff: City of Malden
Cause Of Action: Notice of Removal
Franklin California Tax-Free, et al v. Acosta-Febo, et al
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Plaintiff - Appellee: FRANKLIN CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE TRUST, FRANKLIN NEW YORK TAX-FREE TRUST, FRANKLIN TAX-FREE TRUST and others
Defendant - Appellant: MELBA ACOSTA-FEBO, as Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico Agent
Defendant: PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY (PREPA), COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, ALEJANDRO GARCIA-PADILLA, as Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
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Marvel and Walt Disney Animation Studios have released the first full-length trailer for their upcoming animated action flick, "Big Hero 6."
The trailer finds robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada trying to convince a police officer that he was, in fact, attacked by a mysterious villain and an army of "micro-bots," before setting off to defeat the faceless figure with the help of robot Baymax.
The first animated collaboration between Marvel and Disney, "Big Hero 6" is set in the high-tech city of San Fransokyo, and revolves around Hiro and Baymax, and their team of first-time crime fighters.
The CG-toon features the voices of Ryan Potter as Hiro, Scott Adsit as Baymax, along with Jamie Chung, T.J. Miller, Alan Tudyk, Maya Rudolph, James Cromwell and Damon Wayans Jr. Don Hall ("Winnie the Pooh") and Chris Williams ("Bolt") will direct, with Roy Conli ("Tangled") producing.
The film will be released on November 7.
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Wildmind Meditation News
Aug 23, 2012
A Zen approach to education
Amanda Cregan, The Intelligencer: As students load up their backpacks and prepare for another busy school year, a handful of teens are looking forward to a stress-free semester.
At Tinicum Art & Science [Ottsville, PA], high school students are learning to focus their minds, erase life's anxieties and tap into their creativity before classroom instruction can begin.
All classes and activities at the private, religious school are centered around the dojo, a room for meditation and martial arts that contains a shrine to Buddha.
Students begin each school day in silence as they sit in quiet reflection in the dojo, preparing themselves for …
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Canadian schools in forefront of adding psychology to the curriculum
Richard Handler, CBC News: As kids head back to school in September, some will find their teachers focusing not just on developing their intellects but also their "mental brawn," to help adolescent brains cope better with today's digitalized world.
It seems that as our modern-day culture grows more frenzied, some schools at least are trying to redesign education so kids can be better equipped to function amid the constant bombardment of media messages and gadgets with all their maddening stimuli.
Already students from kindergarten to Grade 8 in Vancouver, and in nearly 175 schools in …
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Children find meditation a blissful experience
Matt Bowen: Silence dominates here.
It's noon in room two at St Paul's Catholic School and noise is everywhere else – the four walls are ablaze with colour, art and slogans; outside, the Ngaruawahia sun is laced with the din of schoolyard kids in play.
Inside though, not a sound – the children are meditating.
The class of 14 six-year-olds is sitting in a close circle on the carpet with teacher Judy Craven the centrepiece on a chair.
Her eyes are closed, too.
The kids sit cross-legged – hands rest either on knees with thumb and forefinger touching or in laps with fingers interlocked …
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May 02, 2012
Memphis School offering meditation to middle school students
It's not what you'd expect at a school: students being asked not to think!
"We are calling it a mental recess," said Greg Graber, the head of middle school at Lausanne Collegiate School. "We really think this is going to help them, to sit and do nothing for 10-15 minutes and try to relax their minds to get distressed and unplugged."
The Lausanne Collegiate School in East Memphis is trying a different way to get kids focused.
Starting in September, Middle schoolers 10 to 14 years old are going to get the option, of skipping recess to sit and do nothing.
"Have you ever tried meditation?" …
Wildmind Meditation News
Apr 17, 2012
Zen for high schoolers: 'Notice the anxiety. Notice the fear.'
The New York Times reports not only that Brooklyn high-schoolers are attending weekly meditation sessions meant to help them handle the challenges of growing up in the city, but that Zen meditation is being offered as an alternative to traditional detentions.
The meditation sessions are taking place in the Brooklyn Zen Center, where Zen priest Greg Snyder is involved in the center's Awake Youth Project, which includes weekly workshops in five public high schools as well as teenager-led sessions at the center.
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Now, Mr. Snyder is taking on the tougher task of teaching meditation to Level 1 offenders— students who are frequently put in detention or suspended because they start
Apr 14, 2012
US Congressman Tim Ryan discusses the power of mindfulness
Wildmind Meditation News
Apr 10, 2012
Meditation enters Mumbai classrooms
Students across [Mumbai] city schools will soon start their day by closing their eyes for 15 minutes and breathing deeply to keep stressful thoughts at bay. In an attempt to relieve the ever-increasing stress of students as well as the school authorities, the state education department has introduced compulsory meditation in all government-aided schools.
The Maharashtra State Council of Research and Technology (MSCERT) has introduced meditation sessions in the morning, for school teachers, headmistress and students between classes V to X. MSCERT director Shridhar Salunke says the council has initiated the move to help students relieve stress, boost self-confidence, improve grades and even cut down on bad behaviour.
At least … Read more »
Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 28, 2012
Meditation improves emotional behaviors in teachers, study finds
Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed – and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings, according to a UCSF-led study that blended ancient meditation practices with the most current scientific methods for regulating emotions.
A core feature of many religions, meditation is practiced by tens of millions around the world as part of their spiritual beliefs as well as to alleviate psychological problems, improve self-awareness and to clear the mind. Previous research has linked meditation to positive changes in blood pressure, metabolism and pain, but less is known about the specific emotional changes that result from the practice.
The new … Read more »
Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 19, 2012
Meditation to help Indian students keep stress at bay
Dipti Sonawala: With a view to helping school students to de-stress themselves, the [Maharashtra] state education department has decided to introduce compulsory sessions of meditation in schools across the state.
According to officials, the new initiative — Mitra Upakram — will be implemented from the next academic year so that students are able to fight stress and stay mentally fit. The officials of state education department say this will help sensitise students and also help in improving their concentration.
Throwing light on the initiative, Dr Shridhar Salunkhe, director of secondary and higher secondary education, said, "It has been observed that the level of …
Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 12, 2012
Goldie Hawn making happiness into worldwide crusade
NZ Herald: What happens to Hollywood superstars when they semi-retire? They meditate, of course. And if anyone is going to do it with a smile on her face, it's Goldie Hawn.
Except for her, inner peace has turned into an international mission. This week, Hawn is in the UK to promote her meditation manual, 10 Mindful Minutes. Already a New York Times bestseller, the book is aimed at parents and teachers in the hope they will encourage children to practise the basics of yoga and meditation.
In recent years, Hawn, 66 has reinvented herself as a philanthropist and sort of "mindfulness campaigner". Because, if she …


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Is there an easy way for me to replace my spur gear on the Slayer Pro without having to pull the transmission out of the car? It looks like major Brain Surgery in order to do it.
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Several flights from Gulf countries had a delayed landing on Thursday as fog disrupted air traffic for three hours at the International airport at Karippur in Kozhikode.
Most of these flights were diverted to Chennai and Nedumbassery (Kochi) airports, but returned here after the skies cleared, airport sources said. They said the delay was caused in the morning between 6:30 am to 9:30 am.
The Indian Airlines Sharjah-Calicut and Muscat-Calicut flights were diverted to Chennai. Qatar Airways' Doha-Calicut and Oman Airways' Muscat-Calicut flights were diverted to Nedumbassery, the sources said.
The Dubai-Calicut Air India Express was diverted to Mangalore, they added.
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Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki creates "a small window on one's arm", the man's original clock, 'Time of the Sky'.#33413
Amazing paper creations by Flurry and Salk (Niki Salk and Amy Flurry) of Paper Cut Project.#33412
Great wallets from Bellroy, a small group trying to improve the way we carry. They build products that help us carry more efficiently, provide better access, better experiences, and even add a little protection for your contents.#33411
The mile project is a large-scale art project to create a monoprint one mile long out of donated drawings.#33409
Craig Ward collaborates with immunologist Frank Conrad to create typography for the 30th Anniversary issue of Discover Magazine. The end result is a highly imaginative project using ferrofluid.#33401
A new deck of playing cards that feature the artwork of two Pixar Studios artists, 54 Intercontinental Cuties has fun animated pin up girls representing places all over the world. Here's a look at the artwork from roughs to finals.#33398
Monstrous Wildlife, a fictional educational film about "Graboids", the monsters from the movie Tremors. Hopefully they will continue to make more of these about all kinds of movie monsters.#33392
This simple video projection window display installation was a collaborative art project between Chairman Ting and Tangible Interaction in Vancouver, Canada.#33386
Weeplaces build maps that record a users FourSquare check-ins. This map is my travels in New york City over a two month period.#33383
German studio Entwurf-Direkt takes discarded drawers and reassembles them together to make beautiful new, artistic dressers.#33379
Beautiful packaging for the Slamxhype and AIAIAI collaborative Track Headphones.#33376
The C.O.P. suit aims to be both armor and mode of disruption, offering not only protection but also a means of voicing discontent. Designed by Elena Gianni, Benoit Espinola, and Ulrik A. Hogrebe of the Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design.#33373
K8 green concept: solar lamp and charger for cellphones for those two billion people in the world living off the grid.#33371


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Last week, we took you on an up-close-and-personal look at Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, the soon-to-be-released GameCube-exclusive remake of 1998's classic tactical espionage action game. We invited you to send us any remaining questions that you had regarding how the game has finally shaped up. We've used all your questions to shape a series of updates, which, in a piecemeal fashion, address the main issues you all brought up. Today, we'll be looking at the changes to the game's storyline, the new cinematic scenes created by director Ryuhei Kitamura, and the extra content you'll find in the game. If you're a hardcore MGS fan, we've got all the dirt you really want to know. And if you're not a hardcore MGS fan, then approach with caution, because we're going to get into some of the specifics about the plot and characters here, which you may not want to have revealed.
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Some readers had specific questions about how, if at all, the storyline of The Twin Snakes differs from that of the original Metal Gear Solid. For instance, one reader wondered if, in light of Raiden's disrobed torture sequence toward the end of Metal Gear Solid 2, Snake would lose his trousers during a certain sequence of The Twin Snakes. The answer, fortunately, is no, though he still loses his shirt. We noted that the button mashing in The Twin Snakes is actually a lot easier than it was in the original, at least on the game's default difficulty. We were in no danger of having to submit to the game's torture sequence (which in turn paves the way to one of the game's different endings), even though Ocelot kindly pointed out that we hadn't saved our progress in quite some time and could risk subjecting ourselves to a big, fat game over.
The original Metal Gear Solid featured a supplemental briefing sequence, which gave a lot of background on Snake's mission and how he was selected for it. One reader wondered whether that sequence made it into The Twin Snakes, and the answer is yes. However, this sequence no longer uses hand-drawn still images. Instead, it's now fully 3D and is shown from the perspective of several different security cameras in a room that contains Snake, his commanding officer Colonel Campbell, and Dr. Naomi Hunter, who gives Snake a special shot during the scene. You may switch between camera angles and can generally fiddle around with the perspective during this drawn-out series of cutscenes.
One reader, who mentioned that he's seen Konami's recent 27-minute trailer of The Twin Snakes, wondered just how much more unrealistic, or over-the-top, the cutscenes are now in comparison to the original. The answer is: They're definitely somewhat more over-the-top. In some cases, the new cutscenes can seem a little too extreme, like when the ninja cuts a slab of concrete from off of the ceiling and sends it flying at Snake. In some other cases, though, the cutscenes are actually a marked improvement. For example, when Snake is captured after his first battle with Sniper Wolf, no longer does he simply throw up his hands and come quietly, which seemed a bit ridiculous in the original game. Now, he actually manages to subdue his three assailants...and only when he realizes that Sniper Wolf has him in his sights does he finally submit to capture.
The cinematic director of the game obviously took some liberties in cases like this, but he didn't mess with the storyline. You can expect the same drawn-out, melodramatic speeches from the game's tragic bosses after you take them out.
One thing that surprised us is that the classic game-over screen from MGS has been noticeably changed. You still hear a random character screaming Snake's name, but you no longer see the words "Game Over" as they are spelled out.
A lot of readers have questions about the extras in the game. Unfortunately, we're not equipped to answer them all, as of yet, since we haven't fully completed the game--let alone completed it on every difficulty setting and without killing anybody and stuff like that.
Some wondered whether The Twin Snakes would feature VR training missions as in the original MGS or in MGS2: Substance. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it.
One reader wondered whether the "ghosts" were back. After finishing MGS, you could replay the game with a camera, and taking photos of certain game areas would reveal ghost images of the game's developers. Since all the other quirks and Easter eggs from MGS seem to have made the transition in to The Twin Snakes, we assume that the ghosts are still in there too.
Are there any extras, such as developer interviews or making-of featurettes? No, not that we can tell.
Is Gray Fox playable? We don't think so. However, this near-final version includes some debug code that says "Demo Meryl Locked" and "Demo Otacon Locked," which implies that these characters are unlockable in some fashion. (UPDATE: A snarky forum user dutifully pointed out that the reference is more likely to the game's two different endings.)
Are Snake's stealth camouflage, bandana, and tuxedo secrets still in the game? Again, we would assume yes, from what we've played.
You may have seen that the game has a few GameCube-exclusive touches in it. Otacon's office features Mario and Yoshi toys that are prominently on display during one cutscene between him and Snake. He's also got his very own GameCube in there, which can be shot up and destroyed during the fight with the ninja. Furthermore, in the sequence where Psycho Mantis reads your mind, rather than look for Castlevania saves, he'll spot saved data from such Nintendo titles as The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and will comment accordingly. These and other sequences, where the game interacts with your memory card or controller in some unorthodox way, are generally the same as in the original.
Is it fun? What would you rate it on a scale of 1-to-10? You'll have to wait till the review in early March to get the straight answer to these questions, but for now, we trust that you've got a pretty good sense of what to expect from the game. MGS purists will probably like some of the differences here more than others, while those new to the MGS series will be in for a surprising and often strange experience. In the end, The Twin Snakes seems like it's going to deliver on its basic promise of remaking 1998's Metal Gear Solid with better graphics, MGS2's gameplay enhancements, and some new cutscenes.


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The Allied Pilots Association (APA) and US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) share the goal of achieving the best possible contract for our memberships, and the increasing possibility of an American Airlines-US Airways merger has brought us together to work for that common cause. While this is the first joint communication you are receiving, your respective negotiating committees have been working well together since shortly after the announcement of the possible merger last April. Additionally, APA and USAPA have enjoyed a good working relationship for years though our mutual involvement with the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations (CAPA), advancing common interests that affect our profession.
One of the results of these cooperative efforts has been the memorandum of understanding (MOU) that was approved by the APA Board of Directors on Dec. 29, 2012 and approved on Jan. 4, 2013 by the USAPA Board of Pilot Representatives for a membership vote. This MOU was the product of extensive discussions during the last month with our unions and representatives from US Airways, American Airlines and the AMR Unsecured Creditors' Committee. Due to restrictions imposed by a confidentiality agreement, we have been unable to share any details of this MOU with you until now.
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We've long been annoyed by inconsiderate drivers. Now, it's time to become more considerate bicyclers.
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So you've heard -- bicycling's really getting popular in urban areas. In Los Angeles, we just had a day-long LA Bike Summit that drew speakers from all over -- and a huge number of attendees from all parts of the metropolis. And in New York city, lots of new bike-friendly urban planning's getting more two wheelers on the road.
In fact, Manhattan's gotten so much kinder to cyclists that long-time cyclist Robert Sullivan wrote a long piece in the New York Times called "A Modest Proposal," practically gushing about the eco-transit-friendly policies -- and urging fellow cyclists to shape up!
For a very long time -- and even now, cyclists have fumed at automobile drivers for failing to share the road. After all, in cities where roads are primarily built for cars, drivers often aren't quite sure how to coexist with bicyclers -- and many drivers have an even harder time giving up their sense of entitlement to the road to allow bicyclers equal access. That sort of anti-bike mentality's long irked bicycle enthusiasts -- but Robert points out that bicyclists can be similarly inconsiderate on the road.
Now, as much as we would perhaps prefer not to, we must stop to look at ourselves and realize that we have a little giving to do. I am talking about perceptions, about the things we should do outside the letter of the law, like the way we try not to killthe person in front of us in the revolving doors.
Robert's four proposals are so simple that one wonders why cyclists aren't already doing these things. What Robert proposes: Stay off the sidewalks and ride in the direction of traffic, signaling and stopping at lights. (via kottke) Of course, when bike infrastructure's not all there, it can be tempting to bike on the sidewalk, which at first glance seems safer than the road. And in a city where everyone jaywalks, braking at every stoplight can seem like a hassle. But these simple practices would really help cyclists get along with both pedestrians and car drivers, Robert opines.
If you've ever taken a bicycle safety class, Robert's suggestions are probably already second nature to you -- which is why I'd love to see a better bike safety curriculum incorporated into our schools. After all, my high school had a drivers' ed class. Why not have the same for bicycles?
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- 53 great prizes of art materials for winners with their work displayed at the Scottish National Gallery
- £100 vouchers for art materials to 20 schools as a thank you for entering
- Free artist-led workshops with help towards transport costs included for 12 lucky schools
With fun, inspiring themes for nursery, lower and upper primary, secondary and special education schools we hope you enjoy looking at, talking about and finally making your own art. You can download each of the categories separately. All winning artworks will be framed and exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery with a selection featured in a colourful calendar posted to every school in Scotland.
You can still see the 2014 exhibition at Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh until 7 June 2015. The exhibition has already been on show at a number of venues across Scotland including Scottish National Gallery, Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock and Paisley Museum and Arts Centre.
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I just wanted to say how much our nursery enjoyed the 'Fish' theme this year. We had real fish in nursery, a rainbow trout which we touched, smelt and looked at closely. We've had sea creatures in our water tray. I hope you enjoy the children's paintings, they really enjoyed making them
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Thank you so much for a fabulous afternoon. It was so inspiring to see all that wonderful artwork and to celebrate the children's success. The event was so well organised and we felt very welcome. Andrew was so fired up that he did a drawing on the bus home using his new art materials.
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We had a fantastic day and loved to see all the children's work, the day was well organised and we know many people that have said when they visit Edinburgh they will pop in to the gallery to see all the work.
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Excellent work, great inspirational pictures used and the schools and nurseries have done brilliantly.
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Did anyone go straight to cvs with no screenings for subsequent rainbows?
i did not have any invasive testing with my rainbow at 45 but there are plenty of women on the over 40 boards who go straight for CVS because they dont want to deal with probabilites but want a black and white answer. Sooo I dont think it is unique at all to do so. Best of luck and Congrats on your pregnancy.
2 ds, 1 ^dd^ T18,..... When the world says "give up", HOPE whispers "try it one more time".....ds #3 10/9/09
I was 39 w/my angel (T21), like you the NT was high but I had missed the window for CVS and had to wait for amnio. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't just schedule the CVS like my doc told me most of his AMA patients did. So, yes, when I got pg w/my rainbow at 41, I went straight to CVS at 11 wks w/no other screening. I went to a peri w/an amazing record w/CVS, he is very conservative and it went so smoothly. Turns out DS had an cardiac echogenic focus on ultrasound, which was one of my angel's markers, so getting the CVS saved me from weeks of unnecessary waiting and worry.
Congrats and GL!!
DS, DS , ^DS^ 2008 at 19 wks, DS
I was 38 when pregnant with gavin and went straight to cvs. I also went straight to cvs with my tx pregnancy (at 37) so I had no idea anything was wrong until the day of the scheduled cvs.
I also went straight to CVS with both of my rainbows (age 33 & 36). We tx'd for T-21 after quadscreen and ultrasound showed high probability followed by amnio to confirm. 1st rainbow CVS went perfectly. 2nd rainbow there weren't any complications from the CVS but they weren't able to actually do the test due to poor placenta location and shape of my cervix, so for #2 we had to wait for amnio anyway. It was horrible waiting the extra several weeks for the amnio. My dr was the greatest, though and I had no doubts about the procedure or her ability to perform it as safely as possible. (I understand there's always a risk and asked myself, too, if I was taking unnecessary risks, but felt I had to know and couldn't wait until later).
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Andrea, what happened with the echogenic focus?
I went right to cvs with the east coast equivalent of "the guy who invented it." I had no reservations as I needed the certainty. MIne was scheduled for 11 weeks - basically the earliest they said was most effective.
I knew there was an east coast "guy" an the west coast "guy". I think my guy trained under your guy and then moved out west and kept being the guy. I think he's done like 25,000 or something ridiculously high. They allow the window to open at 10 weeks which seems so early to me! I'm hoping the baby measures 11weeks for my piece of mind. What did you hear was less effective? Are the results wrong if done early?
I'm on progestetone, so I'm not even convinced the baby is growing at this point. I'll find out next tues at 9 weeks. There was a hb at 6 weeks, but I feel like my "symptoms" have subsided and all my symptoms could be attributed to the progestetone supplements. Not a person of high faith that things work out. I just have to hold on until after Christmas. I figure it wouldn't do any good to go in early as who needs bad news before Christmas?
I am such a crazy paranoid freak so ruined by my tx experience that i called wapner's office pretty much when i got my bfp and asked when the earliest was that they wold do the cvs. i seem to remember them saying that "optimal" was around 11 weeks. i left it at that and didn't really ask any additional questions.
I went straight to the CVS with my angel. It was painful for me and I had bleeding for an entire weekend, which was very stressful. But, I did not lose the baby and recovered fine. I ended up getting good CVS results but unfortunately found out at my 20 week ultrasound that the baby had Dandy Walker Syndrome. It was a total shock after receiving positive CVS results.
If you go the CVS route, I would recommend not waiting until 20 weeks for your next ultrasound. If I had waited and done an amnio at 15 to 16 weeks, the Dandy Walker could have been caught an entire month earlier which would have made things much easier on me.
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The Return of the Giant NYC Dance Club
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July 4, 1976 Was a Ramones-less Weekend in NYC
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"Litigation takes time, and the thought was we could get the DCA and the City Council to change the status quo," said Siegel. "That didn't happen, and many of us are not willing to accept the status quo and decided that we need to challenge it. Since the challenge to the legislative and executive branches hasn't succeeded, we are now exploring the third branch, the courts."
When Chevignywho worked with Siegel at the Civil Liberties Union in the '70swon the case against the three-musician rule in 1988, the dance portion of the law "wasn't a front-and-center issue," explained Siegel. "It wasn't enforced until the mid '90s. When you tell people about the cabaret law, half the time they think you are putting them on. The reality is that the status quo is unacceptable for the dance community. Dancing is expressive. We need to once and for all change the status quo."
Siegel may also have his eye on the Public Advocate office, which he ran for during the last election but lost to BETSY GOTBAUM. He's set up an exploratory committee to suss out support: "I believe I've been one of the private advocates for the city. I think I'm a natural for Public Advocate. I've watched for almost three years and have come to the conclusion that the office itself is shrinking in importance and visibility, and I think that [Gotbaum's] done an inadequate job. I think I could make a big difference in the visibility and effectiveness of the Public Advocate's office."
Elsewhere in clubland: After nearly a month of being shut down by the city for building-code violations, Rothko's finally reopened, restoring order to the Lower East Side. In Tribeca, employees at the Knitting Factory found a lost chinchilla (yes, a live one, not a fur stole) the night after pop-goth band THE RASMUS played. The rodent now resides with a Knitting Factory bartender, but the incident prompts one to wonder: Who the hell brings a chinchilla to a club? The chinchilla is not to be confused with the small, furry animal that the WORLD FAMOUS *BOB* is carrying around these days. She finally got her dream dog, MOVIE STAR, a pink toy poodle. "New York's hottest couple" debuted at Williamsburg's Dollhaus Gallery last Saturday as window dressing for the opening of burly-Q girl BAMBI THE MERMAID's photography show "Freakshow Pin-Ups." We're sure at least one person asked, "How much is that doggie in the window?"
And remember Powder, the ill-fated swanky joint in Chelsea that went bust almost as soon as it opened? It was designed by KARIM RASHID and closed in January 2003. Now called Glo, the space has been bought by JOHN SMYTHE, a businessman with ties to the entertainment industry, and opens to the public on December 3. He imported 14,000 quartz stones from Brazil for a water sculpture behind the bar and spent a cool $5 million in overhauling the interior. Guess that means that you all will be buying bottles from here till eternity to pay that investment back (since here at Fly Life, we don't do bottle service).
Those crying over the loss of record stores like Sonic Groove and Wows!ville a Go-Go, both of which shut their doors in the past month, can take solace in the impending opening of Cake Shop, a multifaceted venue with a record store, sweet snacks, and a live-performance space under one roof. Nestled on Ludlow Street, it's the brainchild of ANDY BODOR, of Alt.coffee fame, and might fill the giant gap between café and bar that some of us feel since Halcyon's original location went kaput. The best part: You can have your cake and eat it too.
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