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At Suzie's Farm day camps, children get dirty as they learn about plants, cultivation and how to harvest
That was true for Ona Renfro, 7, who attends Sunset View Elementary in San Diego. During her vegetable treasure hunt, she tromped up and down the row crops, exclaiming in delight each time she found an edible hiding beneath a leafy canopy.
"Oh my goodness, I'm finding a lot," she said, plucking a cucumber from its vine. "I like to harvest."
Not to be outdone, Nick Lovitt, also a student at Sunset View Elementary, hoisted his bulging harvest bag full of rainbow kale.
"Look at the fatness of mine," he boasted.
Ona and Nick were among 17 campers and two junior apprentices enrolled in "Farm 101." With camp director Melissa James at the helm, the camps have a camper-to-counselor ratio of 10 to 1.
The idea of farm camp blossomed from the 45- to 90-minute tours that staff conducts year-round. De Alejandro said employees were peppered with so many questions — everything from 'What kind of clouds are those?' to 'What kind of bugs are these?' — that she wanted a format that would allow for more thorough, yet easygoing learning.
"Not understanding where their food came from, not understanding it in its purest, most natural form, I thought, 'Whoa, there is a lot of work to do out there,'" De Alejandro said. "Everybody is learning their ABCs and 123s and times tables and no child is left behind, but this a major component of life that is being left behind.
"The camps emerged from that understanding of 'How big a gift would it to be to be immersed in that for a week and learn on a more relaxed schedule.'"
Take bugs, for example. If the kids want to study bugs for 20 minutes or more, then that's what they do.
"There is no need to be rushed or hurried along," De Alejandro said. "That's not respectful to them as people. They are just very, very short people."
De Alejandro does lament the fact few older children have signed up for the camp sessions, but is hopeful that will change once word spreads about what's happening at Suzie's.
"This is such a huge experience for them to have," she said of teens on the farm, who work with counselors just a few years older and execute projects they choose for themselves.
"That's why the junior apprentice program is very, very powerful," De Alejandro said. "They are at that point they may just be realizing that it is their life and they are responsible for it.
"They do the kind of things that prepare you for the rest of your life ... (at camp) they are still guided, still mentored and sheltered in it."
Named for the Norwegian elkhound who appeared on the property one day and never left, Suzie's Farm was established in 2004 on just one acre adjacent to Sun Grown Organic Distributors, a sprout and wheatgrass company operated by De Alejandro and Taylor. Today, Suzie's grows more than 100 varieties of seasonal vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits. There are also 300 egg-laying hens, and next month, De Alejandro hopes to add a mini herd of sheep, cows and goats to the farm.

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Elizabeth is such a lovely person! She is also so good at poetry! Shes someone that you can talk to everyday and still not get sick of because she has just the best personality and has the best jokes! Every joke she makes is a laugh and a smile from another person. Elizabeth is from Hungry Jacks, because shes a stunner. Some people call her Elizabeth, but i call her Bubbly Beth Anastasi. She has an absolutely killer smile and killer eyes. We didn't choose the Bubbly life, the Bubbly life chose us. SAYY PINEAPPLE! Bubbly to Bubbly.
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When Elizabeth tries out for the softball team she pushes herself to get better to make the team then works to get better. When she is learning a dance she goes over it again and again so she knows it and does it well.
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Monday March 25, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM
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EARTH Hour was observed on Saturday by people across the country who profess concern for the environment and global climate change.
For an hour, non-essential lights and other electrical appliances at shopping malls were switched off to mark the event for Mother Earth.
At the Penang Times Square in George Town when the lights were switched off from 8.30pm, local artistes began serenading the 100-odd crowd in the dark on a makeshift stage.
Balloons were released and clowns mingled with the crowd to create a carnival setting.
The highlight was an appearance by American performer, Frederick Henry, who is best known for his Michael Jackson impersonation.
He belted out the late King of Pop's hits including the theme song 'Heal the World' as the crowd lit candles for Earth Hour.
Over at the First Avenue mall, a group of artistes performed a flash mob presentation of the 'Harlem Shake'.
There was also a sand art display where creators had to use spotlights to illustrate their designs as well as a percussion group who played music with recycled items.
The crowd also gathered to watch two dynamo-powered bicycles lighting up bulbs at the main atrium at the basement floor of the mall.
Hiew Swee Choo, 37, who came along with her husband and three children aged between four and eight, said she wanted her children to see life without electricity.
"I want them to appreciate the environment and to recycle,'' she said.
Rachid Alaoui, 27, a tourist from Morocco, urged people to bring along their own garbage bags when they were enjoying an outdoor activity.
In Queensbay Mall, some 600 cyclists went on a 6.6km ride despite a downpour.
The mall also presented RM5,000 to the St Nicholas Home For The Blind.
In Bukit Mertajam, thousands joined Penang Youth, Sports, Women, Family & Community Deve-lopment Committee chairman Lydia Ong Kok Fooi to celebrate the event at Auto-City area in Juru.
About 700 students from the Jit Sin Independent High School participated in the event while the school gave away 1,000 candles to those present.
The event commenced at 8pm with a 24 festive drum performance.
Many of the food and beverage outlets then either switched off
their lights or put on a dim mode from 8.30pm to 9.30pm for the occasion.
After the lights were switched
off, candles were lit and events such as video clips, dances, songs rendition, a Chinese Yo-yo (diabolo) performance and a magic show were held.
Among those present were Jit Sin headmaster Tan Kee Keat and Seberang Prai Municipal Council president Maimunah Mohd Sharif.
Maimunah said the global event was an important celebration for energy conservation as climate change was a serious problem affecting everyone.
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Detox and mood-boosting smoothies from Paris juicing master.
ON any given day, outside Marc Grossman's small, inconspicuous vegetarian juice bar in Paris, you will likely find a queue of young, stylish, svelte hipster foodies filing in and out of the café, often sipping on a deep berry, green or carrot-orange smoothie.
It would be no exaggeration to call Grossman, an American expat from Manhattan, the city's juicing kingpin, a trend late in coming to the City of Light.
With a cult following among Paris' health-conscious stylistas, artists and bohemians, Grossman has easily cornered the market for freshly-squeezed cleansing juices and smoothies almost as soon as he opened his first café, Bob's Juice Bar, in the city's east end in 2006.
Since then, Grossman has become the poster boy for clean eating and juice fasts in a gastronomic culture renowned for its love of butter, cream and animal fats.
At a time when Paris sits under a heavy grey winter sky, locals nurse post-holiday food comas and return to the everyday grind, Grossman, author of Smoothies: Cocktails de fruits et legumes d'un Américain à Paris (Fruit and vegetable cocktails from an American in Paris), shares a few helpful hints on how to fight the winter blues, stay on track with weight loss resolutions and start the new year with the corporal version of a spring cleaning: detoxed.
Grossman trumpets the health benefits of this hardy, leafy green vegetable and uses it as his "star ingredient" in his green cocktail, sweetened with apples and pears. Kale is high in folic acid, a nutrient which, when in short supply, can lead to fatigue and weakness. Though in season now, it can be replaced with spinach in the spring.
At Bob's Kitchen, Grossman's second Parisian outpost, the seasonal winter drink is a hot lemonade and ginger fusion. Lemon juice is a popular way to kick-start a cleanse programme for, proponents claim, its ability to flush out the toxins in the body. Also good for clearing congested, flu-y bodies of phlegm, Grossman adds.
Oranges and grapefruits
The long-held notion has been that oranges and grapefruits, which are packed with vitamin C, can help ward off the cold and flu. And while the jury's out on whether or not this is actually scientifically true, winter is peak season for these citrus fruits, which are also high in fibre. Furthermore, vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant and essential for cell and tissue growth and repair.
Blended salad
Grossman's latest infatuation has been a savoury, liquid dinner he calls the "blended salad". It's a meal replacement that's become a typical dinner of late for the busy chef, restaurateur, and father, who says it allows him to get a good night's sleep and wake up feeling light and energetic. The blended salad includes ingredients like avocado, salad leaves, parsley, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and a date for a dash of sweetness.
Grossman acknowledges the controversy over the nutritional benefits of chocolate. Pure cocoa is known to be rich in antioxidants and has been shown to help increase the feel-good and antidepressant chemical serotonin in the brain.
However, other studies have pointed out that men and women eat more chocolate as depressive symptoms increase, suggesting the sweet confectionery runs the risk of becoming an instant – and ineffective – gratification for psychological woes.
But use good quality cacao in moderation, and it becomes, for the average person, a feel-good mood booster. Use it in a chocolate, almond milk and flax seed shake, he suggests.
Flax seeds are high in omega-3, a nutrient that's also been shown to play a role in mood and depression. Studies have shown a link between low levels of omega-3 and an increased risk for depression. – Relaxnews
Marc Grossman's Happy Winter Chocolate Shake
50g raw almonds
375ml filtered or mineral water (plus more to soak almonds overnight)
1 tbsp cacao powder
1/3 of the beans from a vanilla pod
125g frozen ripe banana
1 tbsp ground flax seed
1 pinch sea salt (non-iodised)
SOAK almonds in water overnight (at least eight hours) and rinse.
Mix almonds with 375ml of water in a blender until almonds are thoroughly crushed. Then, pour through a strainer, filtering out the pieces of almond from the milk.
Blend the filtered almond milk with the frozen bananas, cacao, flax seeds, vanilla beans, and sea salt until smooth.
Grossman tip: I keep a jar of ground flax seeds in my fridge and grind them with a coffee or spice grinder.
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The logos we see on car bonnets are more than company insignia, says LOVEJEET ALEXANDER
Car owners often treat their cars like mollycoddled pets. See them running their fingers lovingly over the logo, and you'll know these insignia on the bonnet represent not just their companies but the social status of the proud owners as well. And these are not just randomly chosen symbols. Like pictographs, each logo carries a history and a connotation. Here are some examples.
Maruti Suzuki
It was the first company in India to mass-produce and sell more than a million cars. Maruti undoubtedly brought in an automobile revolution to India. In the year 2007, Maruti Udyog was renamed as Maruti Suzuki India Limited. With shifting stake in the company, the trademark winged 'M' of the car company was replaced by spiky 'S' of Suzuki.
Tata Motors
The company has rolled out over four million vehicles on Indian roads since 1954. In the year 1998 the group went in for a re-branding exercise and by 2000 all the new batches of vehicles from the house of Tatas began to sport the new three-dimensional Tata group logo. Earlier, the Indica car used to come with a straight-lined 'T' in the ring. The now ubiquitous blue-coloured Tata logo was designed by Wolff Olins, a London-based brand consultancy firm. The logo signifies fluidity, it may also be seen as a fountain of knowledge, also as a tree of trust under which people can take refuge.
What could a people's car and the posh Porsche have in common? After the First World War, Germany's economy was sagging and cars cost more than what most could afford. When Adolf Hitler rose to power, he spoke at the 1933 Berlin Auto Show of his idea to create an affordable car. Ferdinand Porsche (yes, the man behind the Porsche cars), who was designing an odd-looking yet inexpensive car, met Hitler in 1934. He was given some specifications and told that it should look like a Maikaefer — a May beetle, and was even given a sketch of the basic design. In 1938, Hitler opened the state-funded Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg. The VW logo was supposedly designed by Franz Xavier Reimspiess, an employee of Porsche, during an office logo design competition. He was given a onetime payment of 100 Reich Marks (about $400).
Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors, including Giovanni Agnelli, who later became its Managing Director. The famous Fiat "scrabble tiles" logo of the 1960s was designed by the company's chief designer who was driving past the Fiat factory during a power outage and saw an outline of the factory's neon sign against the dark sky.
Louis Renault was 21 when he made his first car in the backyard of his home. He soon got orders, so in 1898, along with his brothers and friends, Louis opened the company Renault in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The first Renault logo, drawn in 1900, featured the three initials of the Renault brothers: Louis, Ferdinand and Marcel. In 1906, the logo changed to a front end of a car enclosed in a gear wheel. During the First World War, Renault manufactured light tanks for the Allies called the Renault FT-17. This was so popular that after the war, Renault actually changed its logo into a tank. The diamond shape was introduced in 1925 and remained until today. The modern Renault logo was created in 1972 by Victor Vasarely.
The plane truth about BMW is, it was an airplane engine manufacturer, until Germany was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles following World War I, to produce airplanes. So BMW switched to making cars. Originally, their circular logo was a depiction of a rotating propeller of a Bavarian Luftwaffe aircraft which BMW used to manufacture. At that time aircrafts were painted with the colours of the Bavarian flag — white and blue. It is said the pilot saw the propeller as alternating segments of white and blue, and hence the logo.
In 1926 two car companies — Daimler-Motored-Gesellschaft (DMG) and Benz & Cie merged into Daimler-Benz.
The name Mercedes came about in 1900. A wealthy European businessman and racing enthusiast, Emil Jellinek, began selling Daimler's cars. He wanted a faster car, and specified a new engine to be designed by Maybach and named after his 10-year-old daughter, nicknamed Merc, Spanish for 'grace'.
The star in Daimler's logo came from an old postcard where Gottlieb Daimler had drawn a star above the picture of his house and written that this star would one day shine over his own factory to symbolise prosperity. The three-pointed star symbolised Daimler's ambition of making vehicles "on land, on water and in the air." (Source: Daimler) After the merger, a new logo was designed, combining the symbols of the two companies: the three-pointed star of DMG and the laurel wreath of Benz.
German engineer August Horch, who used to work for Karl Benz, founded his automobile company A. Horch & Cie in 1899. A decade later, he was forced out of his own company. He set up yet a company in another town and continued using the Horch brand. His former partners sued him, and August Horch was forced to look for a new name. When Horch was talking to his business partner Franz Fikentscher at Franz's apartment, Franz's son, who was studying Latin in a corner of the room, suggested Audi. Horch in German means hark or to listen, which is Audi in Latin. The idea was enthusiastically accepted by everyone attending the meeting.
In 1932, four car makers — Audi, Horch, DKW, and Wanderer — merged to form Auto Union. The logo of Auto Union, four interlinked rings, later became the modern Audi logo.
In 1902, Ford established his third automobile company, Ford & Malcomson, Limited. In 1909, Childe Harold Wills, Ford's first chief engineer and designer, lent a script font that he created to make his own business card, to create the Ford logo. The famous blue oval was added later for the 1927 Model A — it remains in use until today.
Mazda began its life in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Company in Hiroshima, Japan. After the Second World War, the company formally adopted the name Mazda, which, depending on who you ask, stood for the Zoroastrian God Ahura Mazda or an anglicised pronunciation of Matsuda the founder's name (or both). In the 1936 logo, the M shaped curve, was inspired by the emblem of Hiroshima city. The 1991 and 1992 logos symbolised a wing, the Sun and a circle of light. Mazda's current logo, nicknamed the "owl" logo, was designed by Rei Yoshimara in 1997. The stylised "M" was meant to look like stretched wings, but many people saw a stylised tulip instead.
In 1868 one Iwasaki, a Japanese man working for the Tosa clan when the Meiji Restoration abolished Japan's feudal clan system, acquired Tsukumo Shokai, the Tosa clan's shipping business, and renamed it Mitsubishi in 1873. It was a fourth generation Iwasaki, a man named Kayota Iwasaki, who turned Mitsubishi into a corporate giant that included an automobile manufacturing company, Mitsubishi Motors. The name Mitsubishi was a combination of the words "mitsu" (three) and "hishi" (water chestnut, used in Japan to mean a rhombus or a diamond shape). The official translation of the name was "three diamonds." The logo was a combination of the Iwasaki family crest, three stacked diamonds, and the three-leaf crest of the Tosa Clan.


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The annual Electrolux Design Lab competition for 2014 has reached stage three of the judging, and 35 semi-finalists remain. Many of the entries are innovative, some are quirky, and others are downright strange. But in the spirit of originality, they are all very individual, unique takes on various types of household devices that we may be using in the not-too-distant future. We have a look at ten of the entries that caught our eye to give you an idea of the competition so far. Read More
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If someone places the winning bid on a work of art at an auction, it must mean that they liked the piece more than any of the other bidders ... right? Well, actually, it could just mean that they were wealthier than any of the other bidders. Swedish design company Kosta Boda, however, recently held an event where money was irrelevant. In order to win a piece, bidders had to have the most pronounced physiological response upon first seeing it. Read More
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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) Shandong New Energy is expected to conduct trial runs at its 120m cubic metre/year gas liquefaction plant at Heze in Shandong province in July, a company source said on Thursday.
This is phase one of the project, said the source, without giving details on the future planning.
The plant will process coal gas supplied by Heze Fuhai Energy Development, which is one of the shareholders of the company, the source added.
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) output from the plant will be mainly supplied to the Shandong market, said the source, adding that the company is going to partner with an independent logistics company for the delivery service.
In addition, the company plans to build over 30 LNG-refuelling stations, gas-fired power plants and gas-fired distributed energy resources projects in Heze, according to a source from Heze Fuhai Energy Development.
"We have selected the sites for some LNG-refuelling stations, but yet to start the construction," said the source from Shandong New Energy.
CNOOC Shandong New Energy is co-invested by CNOOC Gas & Power Group, Heze Fuhai Energy Development and Tianjin Angke Investment. The company is mainly responsible for the construction and operation of CNOOC's coal gas recycling projects in Heze.
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AMERICUS -- A quick glance at the South Georgia Tech women's basketball program during the Lady Jets' Classic in Americus recently revealed an interesting fact.
Out of the 12 players listed on the roster for the Lady Jets -- who are off to their best start in the program's short history at 16-1 and ranked No. 8 in the nation -- only three are from Georgia. That'd be starting point guard Brittany Mills (Ludowici), Victoria DuBose (Norcross) and Fiona Curry (Milledgeville).
The rest are from places like Florida (Shontae McCall, Ca'Nesha Coley and Ophelia McMath), England (Miriam Seale) and even halfway around the world in Latvia (Anete Erdmane and Inna Leja).
"It's all about recruiting. Great coaches don't make great players, great players make great coaches," head coach Brandan Harrell said. "So we try to be real diverse in our recruiting and try to get a (mix) of in-state, out-of-state and a couple internationals."
Harrell added that it isn't the ideal situation, but they have to get talent where they can find it.
"If I felt like I could get great players all from in Georgia, I would, but we've had a difficult time recruiting the really good Georgia kids," Harrell said. "It seems like they get scooped up (by Florida schools). ... So we try to go out and find kids needing us and looking for an opportunity. At the JUCO level, a lot of recruiting is luck, also. I'll be the first to say we've been lucky on a few recruits and have been fortunate to get some of the players we have the past couple of years."
So why do talented players from thousands of miles away decide to come to lil' ol' Americus?
Simple: They feel at home.
"The coach was real nice and players seemed like they were (as well)," McCall said. "I think it was the best choice I've made in my life so far."
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Near the frontlines of the Jesusita Fire, which has burned 420 acres as of 9 p.m., the situation changes rapidly from hope to fear and back again. So reports Independent correspondent Ray Ford, who is watching the fire from Spyglass Ridge Road, an offshoot of Tunnel Road near where San Roque Canyon folds into Mission Canyon.
Just before 7 p.m., Ford was scared that the fire, which had then burned about 160 acres, would be burning homes in Mission Canyon this evening. "Everything is starting to turn straight downhill," said Ford, stationed on the road where a couple of fire engines were preparing to protect six or seven houses. "I would estimate that there is potential for the fire being down on Tunnel Road in three to four hours, maybe less : I don't see how there won't be some battles going on later tonight."
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But then, a little after 7:30 p.m., Ford called in with a more optimistic tone. "It's starting to really cool down up here. We're starting to get a marine influence," he said, explaining that there are flare-ups, but the helicopters seem able to quickly knock them down. "Things seem to be slightly settled down. We don't have quite the amount of smoke." He said that a cloud cover seemed to be coming over the mountains from the Santa Ynez Valley. He added, "Things are more hopeful now then I think they were a half hour or 45 minutes ago."
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Around 9 p.m., reports confirmed that the fire had already burned more than 400 acres but still no homes. At that time, Ford seemed poised between hope and fear. "It's starting to pick up on the ridge," said Ford, indicating that the mountains above Mission Canyon seemed afire. "Looking from the back side, everything seems aglow over there." But, said Ford, "Everything is real slow. It kind of comes and goes : but it's relatively mellow. It flares up and dies down, flares up and dies down."
He explained that a firefighter had come to his spot on Spyglass and explained that the fire was burning the Jesusita Trail area and into the west fork of Mission Creek, near Seven Falls and toward the historic bridge. If that is the case, said Ford, it means that the fire would have to make a pretty dramatic turn to enter the top of Mission Canyon proper. "That means there is maybe more of a possibility for the fire to continue toward Las Canoas and the Tea Fire area," said Ford. "But it's all conjecture."
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: January 22, 2004
God bless the Democratic Party's primary voters in Iowa. They may have rescued our chances of succeeding in Iraq and even winning the war of ideas within the Arab-Muslim world. Go Hawkeyes!
How so? Well, it seems to me that Iowa Democrats, in opting for John Kerry and John Edwards over Howard Dean, signaled (among other things) that they want a presidential candidate who is serious about fighting the war against the Islamist totalitarianism threatening open societies.
''It was a good night for the [Tony] Blair Democrats in Iowa,'' said Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute. By ''Blair Democrats,'' Mr. Marshall was referring to those Democrats who voted for the Iraq war, and conveyed ''a toughness and resolve to face down America's enemies,'' but who believe the Bush team has mismanaged the project. This is so important because there has been no credible opposition to the Bush foreign policy since the Iraq war. Democrats have been intimidated either by Mr. Bush or by Mr. Dean.
Mr. Bush's lightning victory in Iraq intimidated those who favored the war but had reservations about the Bush approach. And then, when things started to go sour in Iraq, Mr. Dean's outspoken opposition to the war -- and the eager reception it received from some Democratic activists -- got those Democrats who did vote for the war tied into pretzels, trying to simultaneously justify their war vote and distance themselves from it.
Without a serious Democratic critique of the war -- and I define ''serious'' as one that connects with the gut middle-American feeling that the Islamist threat had to be confronted, but one that lays out a smarter approach than the Bush team's -- Mr. Bush has gotten away with being sloppy and unprepared for postwar Iraq.
My hope is that Iowa will embolden the Blair Democrats to shuck off their intimidation, by Mr. Bush and Mr. Dean, and press their case. It is the only way to build a national consensus for what's going to be a long cold-war-like struggle to strengthen the forces of moderation and weaken the forces of violent intolerance within the Arab-Muslim world -- which is what the real war on terrorism is about. To be successful, Democrats will need a candidate who understands three things (which Messrs. Kerry, Lieberman, Clark and Edwards do):
First, this notion, put forward by Mr. Dean and Al Gore, that the war in Iraq has diverted us from the real war on ''terrorists'' is just wrong. There is no war on ''terrorism'' that does not address the misgovernance and pervasive sense of humiliation in the Muslim world. Sure, Al Qaeda and Saddam pose different threats, Mr. Marshall notes, ''but they emerge from the same pathology of widespread repression, economic stagnation and fear of cultural decline.'' Building a decent Iraq is very much part of the war on terrorism.
Second, sometimes smashing someone in the face is necessary to signal others that they will be held accountable for the intolerance they incubate. Removing the Taliban and Saddam sent that message to every government in the area.
Third, the Iraq war may have created more hatred of the U.S., but it has also triggered a hugely important dialogue among Arabs and Muslims about the necessity of reform.
A serious Democratic candidate, I hope, will force the Bush team to accept the fact that it has failed to create a stable political transition in Iraq and must urgently change course in two ways: (1) It can't succeed in Iraq without forging a rapprochement with Iran, Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Otherwise, they will ensure that we fail. If Iraq works, that will create its own reform pressures around the region. (2) The Bush team has to scrap the complicated caucus system it has devised for choosing an interim Iraqi government. It won't work. The Shiites' demand, though, for immediate elections also won't work.
The U.S. should beg the U.N. to find an Afghan-style solution for Iraq: expand the Governing Council from 25 to 75 people, bring in all strands and make it the interim government -- in return for the U.S. dropping its approach and the Shiites dropping theirs. It is the only way out of this impasse -- the only way to create a decent Iraq that can help us win the war of ideas in the region.
Democrats haven't been able to hold the Bush team accountable because their party couldn't offer a credible alternative. Well, here's hoping that the credible Democratic opposition was just reborn, re-energized and ''de-intimidated'' by the people of Iowa. Lord knows we need it.


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52 Reason / Record Tips - Week 41: Mid-Side Processing for Great Mastersposted 2010-12-09 at 11:59
When it comes to mastering, one of the hottest things right now is a
technique known as "mid-side processing." As a basic description, mid-side
processing uses phase cancellation tricks to isolate the mono information in a
mix (bass, vocal, kick drum) from the stereo items (guitars, keys, effects) and
then lets you master them separately and recombine them for a very nice
sounding master.
This week I brought in two special guests to help me design a mid-side mastering patch for you as well as to help describe the technical intricacies of how this is done. Be sure to visit the links in this video, download the patches, and visit the websites I mention.
Big thanks to Kurt Kurasaki, Giles Reaves, and Southern.
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Comment posted by: Meteotrance - 2010-12-10 00:40
Thanks dude, this is most helpfull than just using Maximizer and Sidechain over compressed dance music track ^^
Now i can work in more acoustic and audiophile way without brick walling and kind of Loudness War.
Comment posted by: mnieuwhof - 2010-12-10 15:49
Great to see these kind of techniques coming to the public!
I thought Thor was a synth?
I see it commonly used for anything else.
Maybe the props should create a Thor-FX module...
Comment posted by: snaa - 2010-12-13 00:51
thanx! very usefull! please keep the EQ & mastering tips coming:) or perhaps something about isolator?
Comment posted by: bluedogsd - 2010-12-13 08:07
Ditto to snaa - I have really enjoyed all of the tips this whole year but the recent series have been SO helpful in getting concise explanations of what in my mind are the things that I know are so important toward a more professional mix but are certainly not things to stumble upon via exploration. Keep 'em coming :)
Comment posted by: lofi1990 - 2010-12-13 19:36
I found the information in this video is incredibly useful, and it also exposes how powerful this software actually is. It's more proof that reason/record can sound ANY way you want it to - it can sound like a toy, or it can sound like a million bucks.
I made a video about a month ago that has similar principles to the vari-mu concept that peff and james talk about that focuses on the gain reduction out on the m class compressor - check it out:
Comment posted by: patricksharpe - 2010-12-15 09:07
Fantastic explanation Kurt and James. Definitely something inspiring to add to my work flow. Thanks.
Comment posted by: dc5774 - 2010-12-15 10:13
Thanks guys. Really useful one, this technique is new to me.
Comment posted by: dc5774 - 2010-12-15 10:44
I love this, you are democratising music production.
Comment posted by: DrTARDIS - 2010-12-21 03:14
Just when i tought Reason/Record could do anything...you guys come up with a professionnal technique (wich i knew, but not sure how to do it in Record) and make it accesible.
impressive! (insert Yoda voice here)
Comment posted by: Egoadsr - 2011-01-02 15:26
Hi, james, thanks for all the tips, i've learn a lot a things here :).
I can suggest you, for a future tips, to explain and show how to replace the usual panning, with a small delay on the right or left channel. And maybe explain the "Haas" effect a little bit.
Happy new year to you, and all the Props guys ;)
Comment posted by: Egoadsr - 2011-01-02 15:30
Oups, i forgotten the big J on James ;)
Comment posted by: Silverlode - 2011-03-17 20:23
Reason and Record are simply amazing tools. Wow.
Comment posted by: dysamoria - 2012-07-30 19:17
The one problem i have here with this one is... What is the benefit to doing Mid-Side Processing? That was kinda not mentioned...
Comment posted by: whitenoisebled - 2012-11-25 00:01
each time I watch these tutorials I tend to press tab or F5 F6 F7 to browse throu the GUI


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Author Steve Wright explores the new features found in the 3D digital compositor Nuke 6. The course introduces the RotoPaint node for drawing and painting effects, the Keylight keyer for creating mattes and composites, and the SplineWarp node for warping images. The course also explains how to merge keys, animate with keyframes, and create image-based blurs. Exercise files accompany the course.
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Okay, let's delete all these. I'm just going to draw a big selection square around them and hit the Delete key on the keyboard. Let's take a look at editing shapes. Let's go and get a new Bezier. We'll click and drag, and Return to close. All right, we want to adjust the points of the shape. To make this easier to see, I'm going to turn off the RGBA and set the output to none. So we can just look at the spline. So now we can move the points and see how they look. If you want to insert points, Alt+Command and click on the line to insert points.
To delete points, select the point and hit Delete. Select the point and hit Delete. If you draw a box around several and hit Delete, you'll delete several points. To adjust the tension, select the point, drag the tension arrow, and you will adjust the tension on that one side. Hold down the Shift key to adjust the tension equally on both sides. Move the handles to adjust the slope, and you hold down the Command key to break the continuity at any point.
If you want to restore the continuity, you can select that point, right mouse pop-up, and say smooth. You can also select one or more points, cursor inside the bounding box, right mouse pop-up and say cusp, and that will get you nice big square corners on everything. Again, if you want to put them back, just select those points, and choose smooth and you get back to your Bezier splines. A really nice feature of the new RotoPaint node is the transform handle box.
I'm going to select several points here, and we get this rectangle. Now you see the cursor is shaped as a plus. That means I'm ready to move translate X and Y. If I move out here to the outside corner, I get the little arc. That means we're ready to rotate. If I put it on the edge, I get that horizontal arrow. I'm ready to scale. By the way, if you hold down the Alt key, it will scale towards one edge or the other.
With the cursor on a corner like this, you'll get the diagonal arrows to do a uniform or constrained scale. Put your cursor on the edge, and hold down the Shift key, you can do a skew. We'll undo that. Click off to the side to deselect. So let's talk about adding a feather to the edge. To do that, we're going to set the output back to RGB so we can see what we're doing. We'll select our spline, hold down the Command key and drag out an edge, and there is the feather.
Now the behavior is if you move the inner point, the feather point moves with it. However, if you move the feather point, it moves independently. Now if you want to leave the feather point where it is and still move the inner point, hold down the Command key and now you can move the inner point and it won't move the feather with it. To collapse the feather for one or more points, select the points, right mouse pop-up and say, reset feather. The QuickKey of course is Shift+E. There, I've reset the feather.
If you select the entire shape, you'll get the transform jack right here, which is exactly like the one from the old Bezier node. So we can do the rotate thing. One nice thing they've added is to see the cursor shape looks like an X. I move it inside, it looks like a plus. When you see the X, you know you're ready to scale. When you see the plus, you know you're ready for Translate. Of course, we have the scale in X only, and the scale in Y only, and the skew as before.
Okay, I'll delete the shape simply by selecting the shape and then typing the Delete key. To take a look at how you adjust the B-Spline, it has a little bit of a different characteristic. So we will come back to our Shapes pop-up, select the B-Spline tool, click, click, click, click, click, and Return to Close. What I wanted to show you is how to adjust the tension on each of these control points, a little unusual. Hold down the Shift and the Command key, click and drag horizontally only. Okay, Shift+Command+Horizontal, not vertical, not diagonal.
Okay, to pull out a feather. Same as the Bezier, Command, click and drag. Of course, if you want to adjust the tension of the feather different from the tension of the inner line, you then select the feather point, Shift+Command+Horizontal, click and drag. Again, to undo the feather for however many points you want, select the points, right mouse pop-up, reset feather. The QuicKey is Shift+E. Now that we know how to draw and edit shapes, in our next segment we'll take a look at animating shapes.
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In my opinion any process technique that is used should be done to enhance the aesthetics of the image and not for the sake of it. In the gallery you see both, but practice makes perfect.
I agree. The photography should be about the pictures, and to present them in an effective manner is important. The photography should never be about the printing technique, or some other arbitrary technical aspect of the work. It should be always about the content.
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It's not too late to make the thousands of victims of Typhoon "Pablo" in Mindanao happy this holiday season. Buy a painting and lend them a hand in the process.
Outstanding Filipino visual artists from the Intramuros Visual Artist of the Philippines (Ivap) have joined hands to stage an art exhibit dubbed "Handog" at historic Fort Santiago in Intramuros, Manila, for the benefit of families in Compostela Valley devastated by the killer typhoon.
"The holidays are upon us. Ivap aspires to bring comfort and hope to the families affected by the tragedy through our personal contributions," Nemi Miranda, the group's president, said in a statement.
Launched on Friday, the "for-a-cause" art exhibit will run until Jan. 7 at the newly restored Intramuros Visitors' Center in Fort Santiago in coordination with the Intramuros Administration (IA) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
Miranda urged the public, especially art enthusiasts, hobbyists and art collectors, to buy artworks from a vast collection of Ivap's masterpieces at the exhibit, which would be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
The works of Pancho Piano, Al Perez, Albert Magsumbol, Roger Fulgado, William Alcantara, Nestor Villarosa, Macoy Solano, Paner Antohin, Jericho Oliveros, Paeng Pacheco, Danny Sola, Ed Parucho, Pen Medina, Ernie Patricio, Ernie Velasquez, Rosalinda Roman, Adel Agubang, Sophia Viola, Jana Mendoza, among others, will be available there.
At least 10 percent of the proceeds will be donated through the Philippine Red Cross to the typhoon victims, particularly in Compostela Valley, one of the worst-hit areas in Mindanao.
"All of us could be heroes. Through our own means, we could demonstrate our love for the country and for our fellow Filipinos. That is why the members of the Ivap did not think twice to offer the proceeds of the art exhibit to those who have been distressed by Typhoon Pablo," Miranda said.
The Ivap stages monthly art exhibits at Fort Santiago to help the IA, the agency that manages the restoration and maintenance of the historic district, in its bid to transform the Walled City into an "artists' haven."
Last month, the IA launched the first "Intramuros Arts Festival" as part of the agency's continuing program to preserve and restore the centuries-old fortress, which served as the seat of the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines for more than 300 years.
IA chief Jose Capistrano Jr. earlier explained that developing Intramuros as a sanctuary for artists and artisans was one way to draw more tourists to the walled district and to help boost and support the country's arts and culture.
Japanese donation
On Christmas Eve, a group of expatriates employed by Nakayama Technology Corp. (NTC), a Japanese manufacturing company based in Digos City, distributed 6,000 packs of relief goods to typhoon victims in New Bataan in the hard-hit Compostela Valley.
"We had visited the devastated village of Andap last Dec. 21 and were struck by how the massive destruction was and how pitiful the condition of the people is, so we decided to return today," said Akihiro Ushimaru, NTC executive vice president.
The Philippines, he said, was among the first nations to condole with Japan when his country was rocked last year by a 9.0-magnitude quake and a massive tsunami that left over 23,000 of his countrymen dead or missing.
Ushimaru said two of his employees—Mitsuo Saito and Yokoyama Kazushi—were directly affected by that calamity. "They also understood what the (typhoon) victims are enduring now," he said.
Aside from handing out relief goods, Ushimaru said his company was opening its doors to typhoon victims who would like to work for them. Slots for 400 factory workers are open for qualified male residents in Pablo-ravaged areas in Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley, he said. With a report from Frinston L. Lim, Inquirer Mindanao
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What's up with GSP spitting water in the air, if it was water. He's been accused of greasing already and it looked like he was trying to slick down.
Awesome fights! Except the gsp fight was kinda weird. Other than that though, even the prelims were all good!
The Karate Kid uses the Crane to KO Captain America!
Vlady showed he still has some umph.
We finally see Aldo in trouble (even if what was only the last part of the last round), and we get to see what it would look like if Mark Hominick started growing vegetables out of his head. I completely agree with fotn on this one.
Henderson showed off his excellent submission escapes, as well as some aggressive beats for a well earned decision.
Nate Diaz got beat pretty handily. Not much to say about it.
And as for the other pre-lims: We got a flying triangle on a prelim card. I thought garza was finished so many times in that fight too. Jason got a nice triangle too, but not nearly as slick as garza.
Poor Kyle Watson. I was really rootin for him in this fight. Out cold off that shot.
Like I said before, epic night of fights.
Nate Diaz got punked ….
GSP vs. Shields was worse than silva vs. maia. Dana arent you gonna be mad at GSP now? Pathetic fight thats it
UFC has had some shitty shows here lately.The last few months my Dish network bill has been cheap. Think God for Strikeforce free on SHOTIME. Why dont Dana combine Strikeforce and UFC fighters for some really good fight cards.
It did suck that the main event was a crappy, but literally every other fight was at very least good.
I agree with you guys. GSP hasn't been a finisher since he got KO'd by Matt Sera (outside of his Huges fight). I think that changed him and he doesn't take the chanced he did before to finish fights. Shields is tough, really tough, and GSP needed to put himself at risk to finish the fight.
Word is that Dana is talking about Nick Diaz to fight GSP. I think that will be a good fight. I don't think GSP wants to fight Anderson Silva yet.
I agree that he does not want to fight AS and after that performance he does not deserve it. Even though it was a convincing (I doubt that anyone thinks he lost) victory, it was not dominant. Shields was able to hang in there with less than average stand-up for a professional MMA fighter. I'll give GSP the benefit of the doubt on possibly not being able to see for part of the fight but even before the injury occured, he was not necessarily pounding Shields. If he was picking him apart and then the injury slowed him down, then it would be understandable. I like and respect Shields overall but he is someone that really only poses a danger with his submission skills. For Hendo to have rocked him (although he did not finish him and eventually lost), Mayhem to almost choke him, and Martin to fight him so closely…GSP should have dominated him. I was pretty disappointed.
Nobody is talking about the Machida KO. That is the second time that the front kick to the face has been used. I would expect to see it more and more and fighters will have to rethink their distance when striking. I love how the sport evolves. There always seems to be, either, an old martial arts move that was never used in MMA, one that has not been used in a while, or something new or with a new variation to it.
I bet Nick Diaz got a look at the fight bonuses for this one and said "Hell Yeah I'll fight GSP".
*rolls eyes* GSP is by no means the kind of guy to dodge fighters. While his performance against Shields was no exactly spectacular, I think that's equally a testament to Shields' game. You tend to fight at the level of your opponent.


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- Compression-molded, triple-density construction
- Rubber outsole
- Weight: 6 oz (size 8)