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Since December 2013, conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) has caused 113,000 Chadians in CAR to flee, returning to their home country. Though it seems like coming home would be easy, most of these people left Chad decades ago and no longer have a solid support network in their home country.
15 April 2015
Hunger is a huge issue in Chad. Please help the World Food Programme (WFP) raise awareness by sharing the following ten hunger facts:
24 March 2015
Chad suffers from chronic food insecurity. Conflict in Nigeria and other neighbouring countries has led to an influx of 450,000 refugees, placing more pressure on food supplies and disrupting local agricultural production. WFP is working with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development (DFATD) to provide hot meals for school children in Mao, in the country's Sahel region.
6 March 2015
World Food Programme Field Manager, Irene Del Rio (far right in photo below), has just returned from the refugee site of Dar es Salam (Lac Region), home to a growing number of Nigerian refugees escaping escalating violence in their country.
25 February 2015
N'DJAMENA: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a donation of €1.1 million (US$1.25 million) from the European Union to support the reintegration of thousands of Chadian returnees who have fled violence in the Central African Republic, as well as vulnerable host communities.
17 February 2015
They arrive by boat, tired, hungry and distressed after a 10-hour journey across Lake Chad. They are mostly women and children. And they need help. WFP has been supporting refugees fleeing escalating violence in Nigeria, in need of urgent assistance.
3 February 2015
Thousands of people have fled northeastern Nigeria to Cameroon to escape attacks by militants. We met Sarah at the Minawao camp, 120 kms east of the border, where WFP is providing food assistance to the refugees. Here's the dramatic story of her escape from the militia.
19 January 2015
Mariam, 22, a returnee to Chad from Central African Republic, arrived in Gore with a Chadian convoy in February 2014. In CAR, she managed a small business with her husband, recharging mobile telephones. Now, however, she has no more family in Chad, as her parents moved long ago to CAR.
14 January 2015
This November, the first targeted food distribution successfully occurred in Goz-Amir, a camp for Sudanese refugees in Eastern Chad. During 2011 and 2012, WFP and UNHCR carried out assessments on the impact of food assistance for long-term refugees in several countries, including Chad. Based on the results of these assessments, the Chadian Government, through UNHCR, FAO, and WFP, developed a joint programme for refugees to build their self-reliance.
15 December 2014
N'DJAMENA – A groundbreaking study of the impact of hunger on Chad's economy is starting in the New Year. Part of a series of surveys known as the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA), it will examine the effects of child undernutrition on health, education and national productivity in Chad.
- Chad struggles to cope with refugees from conflict in Central African Republic Source: The Guardian
- Sahel food insecurity threatens 10 million people in 2013 Source: Reuters/AlertNet
- Sahel: Malnourished to remain above one million in 2013 Source: IRIN
- At meeting in Rome, UN officials stress link between food security and peace in Sahel Source: UN News Centre
- Building Resilience Key to Restoring Sahel Food Security Source: VOA News
- 15 October 2014 WFP And The EU: Pushing For Zero Hunger Together
- 16 July 2014 "Our Warehouses are almost empty!"
- 1 July 2014 Running On Empty: Survival Foods in Chad
- 4 June 2014 Escape From C.A.R. – Hanjani's Story


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The Mets may start Oliver Perez on Saturday
Aug 12, 2010, 9:16 AM EDT
In a move that can only be explained by Jerry Manuel having money on the Phillies to win the division, the Mets manager said that he's thinking about starting Oliver Perez against Philly. If he forfeited it would save everyone time and money.
Not that there isn't some logic afoot here. The Phillies will be starting Halladay, so the Mets were probably going to lose anyway. And if they do start Perez, there's an outside chance that some Phillies hitters will have to go on the disabled list due to fatigue from running around the bases so damn much.
OK, maybe this does help my team a bit.
- BC - Aug 12, 2010 at 9:24 AM
Craig – can we please talk about the Padres, or the price of gazpacho in Madrid, or the Konigsberg Bridge conundrum…. It's only 9:25am here and is too early for me to drown my Mets misery in a bottle of Chivas (that, and I'm in the office). TOPIC CHANGE PLEASE….
- Simon DelMonte - Aug 12, 2010 at 9:27 AM
It could always be worse. The Mets could hire Isiah Thomas.
- Jonny5 - Aug 12, 2010 at 9:36 AM
LMAO!! Ok, maybe they want to show he can still pitch then put him on waivers? Or show him he can't pitch then they can say "see, I told you."
- crotch_jenkins - Aug 12, 2010 at 9:40 AM
Chivas is the Oliver Perez of liquor.
- Old Gator - Aug 12, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Sorry, Simon. I already suggested that back in spring training. Then, of course, FIU – which is just down the road a way from where I sit typing this – hired him to run their basketball program. It never occurred to me that anyone else in Macondo might be reading this blog and I blame myself for inflicting this bagatelle on the rising academic powerhouse over on the west side of town. And of course Isiah stirred up a little shitstorm by flirting with a "consulting" job with the Knicks last week, in gross violation of NCAA rules prohibiting contact between college players and their coaches etc. and any professional sports concern. That's how the NCAA keeps their kids clean, poor and subservient. You'd think Isaiah would know better, wouldn't you?
I said wouldn't you?
- Old Gator - Aug 12, 2010 at 9:46 AM
Thunderbird is the Oliver Perez of wine.
- Mark S - Aug 12, 2010 at 9:47 AM
But the book Scott Boras wrote about him clearly indicated that Perez was one of the dominant left-handed pitchers of modern time … too bad Minaya didn't realize it was listed under fiction.
- BC - Aug 12, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Haffenreffer is the Oliver Perez of beer.
- Simon DelMonte - Aug 12, 2010 at 10:21 AM
I applaud your noble state's sacrifice in keeping Mr. Thomas there so that he is not free to roam the halls of Madison Square Garden. May you be repaid with many pleasant experiences at the new ballpark.
- Glenn - Aug 12, 2010 at 10:34 AM
If the Mets were a fictional first act set-up, we wouldn't believe it. Are they about to get Willie Mays Hayes and the Wild Thing? Or some old guy with a bullet in his abdomen who starts knocking out the stadium lights?
- BC - Aug 12, 2010 at 10:49 AM
No, we need this guy:
- matt - Aug 12, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Actually Craig, any and all left handers, eeven bad ones always give the Phillies fits. Yes, Ollie Perez may well be the exception, but you never know. They have pounded him recently so maybe it is an automatic win for the Phils. For the Mets? Well they have nothing to lose. They are paying him like $12 million this year and another $12 mill next year. They have to play him sometime. Another good part of this is that it allows the rest of the baseball world to have yet another good laugh at the Mets and that putrid organization. They did have that week or so a while back when their fans actually thought that they would contend this year. It was kind of cute seeing that….hehehe
- Old Gator - Aug 12, 2010 at 1:33 PM
Oh, yeah, and BC, let's talk about "Little Herr Friedemann"- 'cause I think that's the Thomas Mann story you quoted from a few posts back rather than from "Death in Venice."
Why I didn't pick that one up immediately I don't know. Cueto must have kicked me in the head too.
- Old Gator - Aug 12, 2010 at 4:54 PM
I'm sure that if Scrooge McLoria and the Chihuahua see the light – albeit unlikely that they would – and stock those stupid aquariums behind home plate with brook trout instead of clownfeesh, I'll have a great old time. We could have trout fishing contests while we waited for the next planeload of EYPs to be flown in from New Orleans to take the place of the recently traded just ahead of arbitration Mike Stanton.
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The history of Nintendo's key franchises is more complex than three seasons of Game of Thrones, run backwards, in French.
Take Mario, (deep breath), whose recent Wii U outing was a home console remake of a retro-inspired but original 3DS handheld game, but whose upcoming 'true' 3D reboot is more inspired by the Gamecube's 'Super Mario Galaxy'. Or Zelda, who has both an all-new Wii U game on the cards, as well as a 'Wind Waker' remake and a 3DS sequel to the 1991 SNES Game 'A Link To The Past'.
It's exhausting.
Then there is Donkey Kong. Behind Super Mario, 'Donkey Kong Country' was the best-selling SNES series of all time. And while it didn't match the same heights in terms of sales, the sequel 'Donkey Kong Country Returns' for Wii was also rapturously received. So Nintendo has now remade the latter for the 3DS.
But while the decision to bring DK back in this specific incarnation sounds a bit arbitrary, it turns out it's actually barrel-busting genius. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D is one of the best platformers available on the rapidly maturing handheld 3DS console. And it's hard not to suspect that with its rich, deep graphics and retro-themed gameplay, it was actually meant for its 3D screen all along.
With 70 seriously varied levels (jungles, factories, pirate ships etc), plus mine cart chase scenes and exploration-heavy areas, DKC 3D is a very rich and challenging platformer. While at its core this is a pretty standard precision running-and-jumping game, it also has a number of interesting mechanics that include rolling to make long jumps and attack enemies, pounding on the ground and blowing various game-world objects to solve puzzles.
Most of the levels are exactly as they were on the Wii. But this time around there's also a 'New' mode which softens the difficulty somewhat, and adds a boosted role for shops, where you can trade items for extra lives and energy boosts plus other new upgrades like green balloons to lift you out of deadly pits. The game also comes with eight new levels which act as a sort of 'greatest hits' for the game's more difficult moments which is a good challenge if you've already played the original.
As on the Wii, the levels are designed to constantly play with depth and perspective, shooting Donkey Kong between rocket barrels in the foreground and background, twisting through mines and jungles and factory stacks. But with the 3DS 3D enabled, everything is massively improved. The game feels faster, more creative and more fun than ever, and effects that once seemed a bit shallow – the game is still essentially a 2D experience – now feel integral to its appeal.
That said, this is not an easy game. Even in 'New' mode the game is still surprisingly difficult and completing it is a tricky and frustrating task. It's also not quite as visually smooth as the famously silky original.
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The Church's Amazing Grace
In a nutshell, God had to kill Himself to appease Himself so that He would not have to roast us, His beloved creations, in HELL forever. He loves us more than we can ever comprehend, but if we don't return His affections, He will make us regret it for eternity. Now that is AMAZING GRACE! And pastors wonder why they can't keep their converts under such lavish grace except through massive amounts of FEAR!


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Wave Of Suspicious Letters Hits D.C.May 6, 2011 - 10:20 AM | by: Mike Levine
Authorities in the nation's capital are telling counterparts across the country to be on the look-out for letters with al Qaeda-related wording and a suspicious white powder in them, after dozens of schools in Washington, D.C., began receiving such letters on Thursday.
As of Friday morning, the FBI reported that 39 letters, all originating from the Dallas, Tex., area, had made their way to Washington, and authorities were bracing for even more letters to surface throughout the day.?Five of the letters were intercepted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service before they could be delivered to their destinations in Washington, where many schools had to be evacuated Thursday and early Friday.
On Thursday, federal, state and local authorities issued a "bulletin" to hazardous materials units across the country, informing them of the latest developments.
The investigation is being led by the FBI in Dallas, but it has become a much broader investigation as similar scenarios have played out elsewhere in recent months. In the past year, schools in Washington and Texas have received similar letters containing references to al Qaeda and the FBI, but the sheer quantity of letters sent this time is unprecedented, authorities said.
Authorities do not believe the references to al Qaeda have any particular significance, saying they are likely just an attempt to get attention.
As of Friday morning, authorities had no specific leads or suspects. The addresses on the letters were printed, not handwritten, and each letter was addressed to a school, not a specific person, the FBI said in a statement Friday morning.
Though no hazardous substances have yet been found in the mailings, the head of the FBI's Washington Field Office insisted they are still a serious matter and amount to a "serious criminal offense."
During a press conference Thursday, James McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI, expressed frustration that "lots of resources are rolled out" as a result of these mailings, which he said distract the FBI from "other serious events."
His office reiterated that sentiment in a statement Friday morning, saying the letters are "tying up hundreds of hours of police and law enforcement resources."
Local and federal hazardous material experts spent much of Thursday responding to each school location, assessing the level of risk, and ensuring the letters and substances were packaged safely for further analysis, the FBI said in its statement Friday.
"No illnesses or injuries have [yet] been reported," the statement said.
The chief of police in Washington, Cathy Lanier, said Friday her department has a plan in place "to ensure the safety of all the kids" and?employees at area schools, adding, "They feel pretty comfortable now with the way we have this set up."
McJunkin said he didn't know why schools are being targeted, but he said he's confident those responsible will be found.
The letters and all other evidence collected will be sent to the FBI's lab at Quantico, Va., for further analysis.
While the investigation is being led by the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, and the D.C. Fire Department, among others, are all involved.


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Gadolinium-based contrast agents increase the risk for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with:
In these patients, avoid use of gadolinium-based contrast agents unless the diagnostic information is essential and not available with non-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). NSF may result in fatal or debilitating systemic fibrosis affecting the skin, muscle and internal organs. Screen all patients for renal dysfunction by obtaining a history and/or laboratory tests. When administering a gadolinium-based contrast agent, do not exceed the recommended dose and allow a sufficient period of time for elimination of the agent from the body prior to any readministration (See WARNINGS).
Gadolinium-based contrast agents increase the risk for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with acute or chronic severe renal insufficiency (glomerular filtration rate <30 mL/min/1.73m2) and in patients with acute renal insufficiency of any severity due to the hepato-renal syndrome or in the perioperative liver transplantation period. In these patients, avoid use of gadolinium-based contrast agents unless the diagnostic information is essential and not available with non-contrast enhanced MRI. For patients receiving hemodialysis, physicians may consider the prompt initiation of hemodialysis following the administration of a gadolinium-based contrast agent in order to enhance the contrast agent's elimination. The usefulness of hemodialysis in the prevention of NSF is unknown.
Among the factors that may increase the risk for NSF are repeated or higher than recommended doses of a gadolinium-based contrast agent and the degree of renal function impairment at the time of exposure.
Post-marketing reports have identified the development of NSF following single and multiple administrations of gadolinium-based contrast agents. These reports have not always identified a specific agent. Where a specific agent was identified, the most commonly reported agent was gadodiamide (OmniscanTM), followed by gadopentetate dimeglumine (Magnevist®) and gadoversetamide (OptiMARK®). NSF has also developed following sequential administrations of gadodiamide with gadobenate dimeglumine (MultiHance®) or gadoteridol (ProHance®). The number of post-marketing reports is subject to change over time and may not reflect the true proportion of cases associated with any specific gadolinium-based contrast agent.
The extent of risk for NSF following exposure to any specific gadolinium-based contrast agent is unknown and may vary among the agents. Published reports are limited and predominantly estimate NSF risks with gadodiamide. In one retrospective study of 370 patients with severe renal insufficiency who received gadodiamide, the estimated risk for development of NSF was 4% (J Am Soc Nephrol 2006;17:2359). The risk, if any, for the development of NSF among patients with mild to moderate renal insufficiency or normal renal function is unknown.
Screen all patients for renal dysfunction by obtaining a history and/or laboratory tests. When administering a gadolinium-based contrast agent, do not exceed the recommended dose and allow a sufficient period of time for elimination of the agent prior to any readministration. (See CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Deoxygenated sickle erythrocytes have been shown in in vitro studies to align perpendicular to a magnetic field which may result in vaso-occlusive complications in vivo. The enhancement of magnetic moment by ProHance may possibly potentiate sickle erythrocyte alignment. ProHance in patients with sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobinopathies has not been studied.
Patients with other hemolytic anemias have not been adequately evaluated following administration of ProHance to exclude the possibility of increased hemolysis.
Patients with a history of allergy, drug reactions or other hypersensitivity-like disorders should be closely observed during the procedure and for several hours after drug administration. (See PRECAUTIONS-General).
Gadoteridol is cleared from the body by glomerular filtration. The hepato-biliary enteric pathway of excretion has not been demonstrated with ProHance®. Dose adjustments in renal or hepatic impairment have not been studied. Therefore, caution should be exercised in patients with either renal or hepatic impairment.
In a patient with a history of grand mal seizure, the possibility to induce such a seizure by ProHance® is unknown.
The possibility of a reaction, including serious, life threatening, or fatal, anaphylactic or cardiovascular reactions, or other idiosyncratic reactions (see ADVERSE REACTIONS), should always be considered, especially in those patients with a history of a known clinical hypersensitivity or a history of asthma or other allergic respiratory disorders.
Diagnostic procedures that involve the use of contrast agents should be carried out under direction of a physician with the prerequisite training and a thorough knowledge of the procedure to be performed.
When ProHance (Gadoteridol) Injection is to be injected using nondisposable equipment, scrupulous care should be taken to prevent residual contamination with traces of cleansing agents. After ProHance is drawn into a syringe, the solution should be used immediately.
Repeat Procedures: Repeated procedures have not been studied. Sequential use during the same diagnostic session has only been studied in central nervous system use. (See Pharmacokinetics under CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY and Central Nervous System under DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Patients scheduled to receive ProHance should be instructed to inform their physician if the patient;
No animal studies have been performed to evaluate the carcinogenic potential of gadoteridol or potential effects on fertility.
ProHance did not demonstrate genotoxic activity in bacterial reverse mutation assays using Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli, in a mouse lymphoma forward mutation assay, in an in vitro cytogenetic assay measuring chromosomal aberration frequencies in Chinese hamster ovary cells, nor in an in vivo mouse micronucleus assay at intravenous doses up to 5.0 mmol/kg.
ProHance administered to rats at 10 mmol/kg/day (33 times the maximum recommended human dose of 0.3 mmol/kg or 6 times the human dose based on a mmol/ m2 comparison) for 12 days during gestation doubled the incidence of postimplantation loss. When rats were administered 6.0 or 10.0 mmol/ kg/day for 12 days, an increase in spontaneous locomotor activity was observed in the offspring. ProHance increased the incidence of spontaneous abortion and early delivery in rabbits administered 6 mmol/ kg/day (20 times the maximum recommended human dose or 7 times the human dose based on a mmol/m2 comparison) for 13 days during gestation.
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. ProHance (Gadoteridol) Injection should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
It is not known whether this drug is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when ProHance is administered to a nursing woman.
Safety and efficacy in children under the age of 2 years have not been established. The safety and efficacy of doses > 0.1 mmol/kg; and sequential and/or repeat procedures has not been studied in children. (See INDICATIONS AND USAGE and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION sections)
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North Creek Saratoga & North Creek Railway officials recently announced their schedule for the 2013 Snow Train, offering more trips than the previous season but cutting the amount of stay time in North Creek for skiers.
While some business owners have grumbled over the changes — saying the new schedule only serves all-day skiers on Saturday rather than Friday, Saturday and Sunday as it did last year — SNCRR General Manager Steve Torrico said the changes were needed. At the Nov. 15 North Creek Business Alliance meeting, he defended the changes, calling them a "business decision."
On Nov. 7, the railway announced its new schedule for the Snow Train.
"Our new schedule provides a variety of options for both skiers and sightseers alike," Torrico said in a prepared release. "By running two trains on Saturdays, we are offering passengers the opportunity to either tackle the slopes early for a full day of skiing or enjoy a leisurely winter afternoon in the scenic Adirondacks."
In its first year of operation, the Snow Train operated on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Dec. 30, 2011 to mid-March 2012. It left Saratoga Springs at 7 a.m., arriving in North Creek at 9:15 a.m., then left North Creek around 4 p.m., arriving in Saratoga Springs at 6:20 p.m. That gave passengers three full days of skiing, with a stay time of almost 7 hours in North Creek.
There was only one problem; about 50 percent of the 1,400 passengers in 2012 were non-skiers, Torrico said Nov. 15. He witnessed many people just sitting around the train station all day waiting to return to Saratoga Springs.
So in order to serve the non-skiers, the railway shortened the Friday and Sunday schedules and created an extra departure on Saturday for this season, which will start on Friday, Jan. 11.
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Gallery: London Action, Semifinals
Aug. 8, 2012
Storm stars Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson squared off in the semifinals yesterday in London, with Bird's 13 points helping the USA come back from a halftime deficit to defeat Australia. StormBasketball.com takes a look back with photos from the game.
Before the game, Bird runs out to the court with the lights at North Greenwich Arena dimmed.
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Jackson shoots over the alert American defense.
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Bird surveys the floor.
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Jackson pulls down one of her game-high 17 rebounds.
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Pack Gymnastics Finishes Second at Quad Meet
Feb. 2, 2013
DENVER - The 24th-ranked NC State gymnastics team finished second in its first quad meet of the season, posting a final team score of 194.925. The Wolfpack finished second behind No. 13 Denver with a 196.050, and ahead of San Jose State (193.425) and Air Force (192.675).
"We did a really nice job in the first three events," said head coach Mark Stevenson. "We struggled on bars, but overall our team did well. We're going to continue to get better and upgrade to make sure we are where we need to be."
The Pack opened the meet on beam, notching a team score of 48.675. Senior Rachel Fincham and junior Hannah Fallanca paced the Pack with 9.8s to tie for third. Diahanna Ham recorded the next best score with a 9.725, while Kristen Harabedian tallied a 9.7. Freshman Michaela Woodford rounded out the scoring for State with a 9.650.
Brittni Watkins continued her streak of strong performances on floor exercise, finishing second with a 9.850. The freshman from Albany, N.Y., has now posted the top score in the event for the Pack in each of the last four meets. Junior Stephanie Ouellette scored a 9.825, while Ham notched a 9.8. Harabedian and Woodford recorded a 9.750 and 9.650, respectively. The gymnasts combined for a team score of 48.675 in the event.
After the first two rotations, State trailed Denver, 97.900-97.550, and led Air Force (96.250) and San Jose State (96.000).
On vault, State posted its highest team score of the night and season-best 49.200. Ham tallied a 9.925 to claim a share of first place along with Denver's Moriah Martin. Ham's score was the highest score of the season by a Wolfpack gymnast. Ouellette and Watkins tallied 9.85s, while Woodford scored a 9.8. Senior Morgan Johnson recorded a 9.775 to count as the final score for the Pack in the event.
The Wolfpack closed out the meet on bars, posting a team score of 48.175. Fincham headlined the group with a 9.875, which was good for first. Harabedian tallied the next best score for the Pack with a 9.700 and Woodford scored a 9.650. Watkins also competed in the event, registering a 9.6.
NC State will return to action on Friday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m., when it travels to College Park, Md., to compete against the Terps, New Hampshire and Towson.


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Federal regulations require that all financial aid recipients maintain satisfactory academic progress and remain in good academic standing. Academic progress is reviewed at the end of each semester and prior to the disbursements. To maintain SAP, you must:
Complete 67% of the total units attempted. Classes in which student receives a letter grade (A,B,C,D,F,W,P,NP,I,IP) are counted as attempted units. Courses in which student successfully complete (A, B, C, D, and P) are counted as completed units. In determining student's completion percentage, we divide your units completed by your units attempted.
Example (1):
- 8 completed credits / 12 attempted credits = 0.666 or 67%
- 7 completed credits / 12 attempted credits = 0.583 or 58%
Maintain a 2.0 Grade Point Average (semester and Cumulative). If you have previously enrolled at Ohlone College and have Cumulative GPA of less than 2.0, your academic standing will be affected as well.
These standards apply to all students who apply for and receive financial aid from the following programs.
- Cal-Grants B and C
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NOTE: The Board of Governors Fee Waiver (BOGW) was established in 1984 as an integral part of legislation that first created the community college enrollment fee. Its purpose is to ensure that the enrollment fee does not pose a barrier to the enrollment of low-income students. This program is omitted from the listed programs because these provisions do not dictate eligibility for BOGW. As long as a student is eligible to enroll under the college's satisfactory academic progress provisions, fee waivers from BOGW will be granted irrespective of the student's status under these provisions.
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Posted: January 08, 2014|
PANTOMIME: Gnosall Players will be presenting Jack and the Beanstalk on Saturday February 22 and Sunday February 23 at 2.30pm (and also 7.30pm on Saturday) at the Memorial village hall. Tickets are £6 and are available from the Bakery, post office and Sylvia Lees on 01785 822573.
MOBILE LIBRARY: The library van will be stopping in the village today from 3.30pm until 4.10pm on Wharf Road and from 4.15pm to 5pm at the Grosvenor centre.
ST LAWRENCE CHURCH: Tomorrow there will be a service at Impstones community centre at 11am.On Saturday there will be an open door coffee morning in the church vestry from 10am. Sunday's services include Holy Communion at 7.45am, parish communion at 10.30am, evening worship at 6.30pm and youth fellowship from 7.30pm until 9pm.
METHODIST NEWS: This Sunday's service led by Mrs A. Dair at 10.30am. The women's fellowship will meet on Tuesday for a cup of tea and a chat.
CATHOLIC NEWS: This Sunday the Eucharistic Minister for the service will be Bryan Shackleton with readings and intercessions from Greg Oxley.
PHOENIX CLUB: Tomorrow there will be a talk entitled "China Travels and a raffle from 10am until 12 noon at the Grosvenor centre. The board games group will meet on Monday in the Brearley room from 2pm until 4.30pm.
PARISH COUNCIL: The next council meeting will be held on Monday at 7pm in the Brearley room where there will be an open public forum for anyone to raise matters.
BOWLING CLUB: The club will meet on today at 3pm and 7pm and on Monday at 3pm at the Memorial village hall.
BINGO: The next game will be held tomorrow at 7.30pm in the village hall.
BRIDGE: The small friendly (unaffiliated) club will meet on Wednesday at 7.20pm at the Grosvenor centre. For more info contact Pat and John on 01785 824203. Lessons for beginners will be available shortly at Stafford Bridge club see www.staffordbridgeclub.co.uk or call Ann on 01785 822233.
ST EDITHA'S CHURCH: Sunday is the feast of the baptism of Christ and there is parish communion at 9.30am with Rev Sue Symons.
CHURCH AND VILLAGE: Tuesday is the deadline for contributions to the February edition of the parish magazine. The editor is Tim Powell and his daughter Ella at email@example.com
INSTITUTE: Youth club resumes this evening at 7.30pm. On Wednesday the Church Eaton and District Dog Society has its classes at 7pm. Contact Doug or Sandra on 823317.
To hire the Institute, contact Jenny on 824882.
COFFEE MORNING: There is a 'Christmas recycled' coffee morning today 10.30am until 12.30pm in the institute. Let us have your unwanted Christmas gifts to sell.
MOBILE LIBRARY: The library van will be parked by the post box 2.45pm until 3.45pm tomorrow. The next visit is 31st January.
VILLAGE WEBSITE: For more information about Church Eaton there is our website at www.churcheaton.org.uk


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China embassy in US cold-shoulders Tiananmen leader
One of the exiled leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 got the cold shoulder from the Chinese embassy in Washington on Friday when he tried to turn himself in to return home.
Wu'er Kaixi, 44, who now lives in Taiwan, wants to see his frail and aging parents in Urumqi, northwest China, as well as ignite a dialogue on reform with China's communist leadership – even if it means standing trial.
But when he went to the bunker-like Chinese embassy in the US capital, the dissident activist found the smoked-glass doors locked, and no one responded when he rang the doorbell and dialed an off-hours telephone number.
Telephone calls into the embassy by an AFP reporter at the scene also went unanswered.
"Well, I guess this is as close as I can get to Chinese soil," said Wu'er, who last tried to surrender at the Chinese embassy in Tokyo, where Japanese police arrested him for trespassing and held him for two days.
"If I want to go home, what does it take? It's office hours. I call then and ring the bell, but no one comes," he said, adding that he would next take his case to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Yang Jianli, the president of Washington-based group Initiatives for China who was on hand to support Wu'er at the embassy, said "the Chinese government is doing everything it can to erase the memory of Tiananmen Square."
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, died when the Chinese government sent in tanks and soldiers to clear the square in central Beijing on the night of June 3-4, 1989, and end six weeks of unprecedented pro-democracy protests.
Wu'er, then a student at Beijing Normal University, was among several Tiananmen leaders and hunger strikers who escaped to the United States in the weeks after the crackdown.
An official Chinese Communist Party verdict after the Tiananmen protests branded the movement a "counter-revolutionary rebellion," although the wording has since been softened.
Asked as an exile of 23 years what advice he would give blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest last month and plans to come to the United States, Wu'er suggested patience.
Chen, who China pledged Thursday would get a passport within 15 days in order to leave the country, "is a hero," Wu'er said. "Everybody in the world should embrace him.
"But he needs to take this good time (in the United States) to take a good rest" before joining other exiles in "a group effort… a team effort" to bring about change in China, Wu'er added.
Wu'er was among six Tiananmen activists in exile who last month sent a letter to Beijing saying they had been deprived of their right to return to their homeland and denied Chinese travel documents abroad.
Their letter coincided with the death of dissident astrophysicist Fang Lizhi in the United States at the age of 76. Fang sympathised with the Tiananmen protests, but refrained from taking a leading role in them.
Wu'er, who studied at Harvard University but failed to graduate, is now a political commentator in Taiwan. His gesture on Friday drew only a handful of reporters and a single uniformed US Secret Service diplomatic security officer.
He said he was "extremely concerned" about the health of his father, 76, and mother, 70, with whom he remains in contact via the Internet. Wu'er also has an older brother who is caring for their parents.
"They're no longer young," Wu'er said of his parents, and Beijing steadfastly refuses to let them travel outside of China to see him. "Inhumane is an understatement… It's barbaric."-By Robert MacPherson
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When I woke up this morning, snow was falling all around me. A slight smile appeared on my face as I remembered the dreams I had during the past month. I went outside and slipped a hand out of my coat's pocket to gather a few snow flakes, they quickly melted to the heat of my hand that I closed immediately after. A name suddenly came to my mind, it was the name of a girl I met a few years ago, actually I don't even know for how much time we've known each other but we sure had a lot of fun together, I even considered her as my little sister and she would call me her brother. It's funny because I always lived alone with my mother so the idea of having a sibling was pretty special to me, I felt like I had to give all my heart and soul to protect her. Her name is Kai and depending where you stand on the planet, this name might sound funny to your ears, but it means a lot to me.
A few months ago, I've lost contact with Kai because she had to leave the country and we couldn't see each other again. That would normally be fine with me, I knew she would come back eventually and we would tell each other how we spent our lives during our separation, we would laugh a lot and be happy to be together again. Unfortunately I learned a bit before she left that she had this heart illness, her heart stopped growing as a child and it was now tired of working this hard for a body too grown for his capacity. Learning that pained me a lot and she also subtly implied that she might die if it stays that way. I had a lot of hope in her.
When she came back, she wasn't the same person anymore. She looked very weak and seemed to have lost hope in life. I don't think I ever had the opportunity to tell her what I did that was so awesome when she was gone. I felt somewhat uneasy to see her act like this. I started to talk with one of her best friends and he also told me that she was being weird and that he felt bad for this. I totally lost contact with her during the summer this year, I would try to at least let her know that I care about her and that I'm worried but I wouldn't get any answer.
I received an email once, from her, it was her that was telling me that she was sorry that we couldn't talk, she fell really sick and had to go back to her homeland, she said to not worry too much, she would come back eventually when she would be alright. I once again believed strongly in her and hoped that she would be fine, I replied to her a long email, telling her all about what I felt about this and how much I wanted her to get better. But once again, I received no reply.
It's only when I finished school, everything in my life was doing good, that I received a final email from her. She said she came back, she read my email many times and she would cry every time, she said she was glad to have somebody like me in her life and I was very important to her. She said she was doing a bit better and to not worry too much. I really wanted to not worry and I replied with a short email this time, saying that I was really happy that she came back and I hope she would be okay soon, I told her a bit how I progressed in my life but I didn't said too much.
That was the last time I heard from her, four months ago.
I've put back my hand into my coat to shield my hand from the cold winter, I went to take the bus that brings me to my job, staring at the morning sky. I don't know where you are right now Kai, I'm not even sure how to know the proper way to tell you what I want to say right now. I'm always thinking about you even if it had been a lot of time already, I will remember you no matter what. I want you to know that I wrote something for you, it's not a fancy email or an endless conversation like we had before. I wrote a novel, in about one month. I guess you could say it's somewhat based on what we lived together, to some extent since we never have been this serious together and never had a child either, haha… but I felt like this story revolved around me and you. I would be blessed by the gods if you ever read it, honestly I hate to say such things but I don't even know if you're alive right now, I will try by all means to let this reach you and I hope that one day, our paths will cross again.
Even if it's not in this life.
I kept my eyes at the sky, the light was barely crossing through the grey clouds. I wonder when I will fall asleep again, I can't wait to see how it will come out, what story will I be able to tell about my dreams. I can't wait until my world revives.
Greetings, YanEnRogne here.
First of all, I would like to thank you personally, person who reads my story. I hope you appreciated reading it but don't worry if you didn't like it, I'm quite aware that everybody's got different tastes and that's all right, I'm still really glad that you went through it anyways.
I would also like to say that this is my first novel ever (yay!) and I decided to write it in english even though my main language is french. I had a few reasons to do so but I apologize of all the mistakes I could have made.
I don't feel that I have to describe myself as you have seen me on every page of this novel, I will instead talk more about this story. This was written for NaNoWriMo, if you aren't really familiar with this, it stands for National Novel Writing Month and it means pretty much what the name says, the goal is to write an entire novel in one month. The only restrictions are that it has to be a fictional story and it must have 50,000 words in it and today on the last moments of November I can say proudly that I have succeeded. Though the story is fictional, my inspiration is some life experience that I will never forget.
If you know that girl called Kai that has this heart disease, please make her read the story, thanks!
Oh also, tell her I love her.


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There is a longstanding tradition on the political left to attack contemporary conservatives by comparing them to the right's leaders in the past. That means that Republicans who were reviled by liberals during their lifetimes are sometimes treated kindly in retrospect because it serves the political purpose of diminishing the reputations of their successors. But in some precincts of the left, bashing Ronald Reagan never goes out of style.
That's the motivation for a thin hit piece published in the New York Times Sunday Review under the sensational headline, "Reagan's Personal Spying Machine." The conceit of this article is that Ronald Regan "spied" for the FBI against fellow actors in Hollywood and then used the FBI for personal spying on his family. The author's intent is to shock a public that thinks well of the 40th president as well as to brand Reagan as a hypocrite since he was a proponent of limited government. But the problem here is that there is nothing especially shocking about any of it. Reagan's principled anti-Communism is well known and is the foundation of his political reputation, not a skeleton in his closet. As for the FBI "spying" on Reagan's family, this appears to be much ado about nothing and would not have attracted much criticism even if it had been aired when he was running for president.
Reagan's cooperation with FBI investigations of Communist cells in Hollywood is something we know about because he spoke about it himself. Though author Seth Rosenfeld claims that newly released government files "flesh out what Reagan only hinted at," there's nothing new here. As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan thought it was his duty as a citizen to cooperate with the government. He was right. The Communist Party was not, as it has often been portrayed by the left, a club of well-meaning liberals but a group under the orders of a foreign, totalitarian power actively pursuing subversion. The Soviet Union was at that time not merely a rival of the United States but a tyrannical, anti-Semitic dictatorship intent on smothering freedom. Those who aided its efforts on these shores deserved to be exposed.
That charge may stick with some of the Times's left-wing readership but not on the rest of the country. Yet Rosenfeld really thinks he's got the goods on Reagan with his revelations about the future president's family. It seems that his daughter Maureen moved to Washington at the age of 19 and moved in with a married policeman in 1960. That may not seem like such a big deal to some people today but it shocked both Reagan and his ex-wife, actress Jane Wyman. Through a friend, Reagan reached out to friends in the FBI to find out about the man who was living with his daughter.
The FBI granted the request and did some minimal investigation of a situation that was clearly not a government matter and then reported their findings to the Reagans. As it turns out, Reagan was right to be concerned. Maureen Reagan did marry the cop but eventually revealed that during the brief marriage her spouse beat her. This was an improper use of government personnel and shouldn't have happened. But the fault here lies not with a worried father desperate for help but with a government agency eager to help a celebrity (this was several years before the start of Reagan's political career).
The other supposedly shocking tale concerns the other child Reagan adopted with Jane Wyman, his son Michael. It appears that as a young man, Michael Reagan was a friend of Joseph Bonanno Jr., the son of a mafia boss. Joe Junior wasn't in the family business and Michael doesn't appear to have done anything criminal either. But Bonanno was subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney to testify about his father. In 1965, some in the FBI team investigating the mafia thought to interview Ronald Reagan about anything his son might have told him about his friend's family. But, according to the files, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover told his agents not to try and gather any hearsay from the actor but merely tell him that his son was in bad company.
While this is an interesting tale, again there is no evidence of wrongdoing here on Reagan's part or even on Hoover's, though perhaps the mere mention of that liberal boogeyman is supposed to horrify readers.
Rosenfeld concludes by saying that Reagan's cozy relationship with the FBI was confirmed when he asked the agency for a briefing about campus radicals once he became governor of California later in the decade. As Rosenfeld put it, Reagan then used the government to spy on "other people's children" by seeking FBI help in coping with violent demonstrations at the University of California. Hoover complied and shared the bureau's domestic surveillance files:
Here was Ronald Reagan, avowed opponent of overdependence on government, again taking personal and political help from Hoover.
Perhaps now and then we all need a little help from Big Brother.
This piece of snark will, no doubt, elicit a chuckle from the left. The FBI's practice of compiling files on anyone that piqued Hoover's interest was wrong but there were some people who deserved scrutiny. Violent campus radicals were a threat to public safety as the victims of Weathermen bombings and shooting attacks would learn in subsequent years. In both the 1940s and the 1960s, Reagan was right to align himself against those who sought to tear down American democracy. Neither those incidents nor any concern about his family damages his reputation in the least.
If this is the best the Times can do to trash a conservative icon of the past, they should stick to their lame attempts to besmirch the reputations of his successors, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.


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An engineering and technical services company supporting power and communications utilities will locate its corporate headquarters and engineering operations in York County south of Charlotte, creating 130 jobs in a $2.2 million investment.
The corporate office for UC Synergetic in Fort Mill will accommodate additional staff for the company's growing list of clients, the state Commerce Department reported Thursday.
UC Synergetic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pike Corp., which acquired the company in 2012. The new headquarters in South Carolina will be used to support UC Synergetic's 36 offices located throughout the country. It has more than 1,200 employees.
"This move will help us spur local and national economic growth," said John Thompson, president of UC Synergetic.
"We are excited UC Synergetic has decided to locate its headquarters in South Carolina - a reflection that our state's engineering and technical sector continues to grow," Gov. Nikki Haley said.
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olive oil
1 large
onion, cut into chunks
tuna steaks
1 cup
red wine vinegar
1 cup
This was reallllllllyyyy good! Even just the basic recipe it's good. I threw in a little bit of garlic and some marjoram into the mix and that made it extra flavorful. I would imagine that you add just about any herb and it would not spoil it. Fantastic.
I made this recipe perfectly according to instructions, and the tuna was alright...but the sauce, blech. My husband and I both disliked it's smell and taste...waaaaay too much vinegar. Maybe half the vinegar and the sauce might actually thicken up like it says it will in the recipe. Oh, and to properly enjoy the onions...you need a whole heck of a lot more than 1 large onion. Make it with two or three and your onion might actually last long enough for all four servings of the tuna. I don't think I will make this again...at least not for the sauce. Maybe with just the onions and tuna.
23 Ratings
This was a great meal. I made it with salmon instead, due to the lesser cost of salmon, and I only used 3 steaks. I'll make it again. Next time I will serve this dish with Roquefort Pear Salad.
This is so good. I only had 3/4 cup red wine vinegar on hand, so used 1/4 cup regular white vinegar and it was still great. Next time I will carmelize two onions instead of just one. The onions were the best part and we all were fighting over the onions.
Very good. It is the perfect weeknight recipe. Quick,tasty and one frying pan.
made this last night super easy and good may try it on chicken.
This is a delicious dish! Word to the wise--you cannot divide it! I tried and it was an utter failure. Even if you're making one tuna steak, you must follow the full liquid measurement. The first time I got sweet and sour candied onions and tuna. Had to chip it off my plate. LOL! The second... success!
The most difficult thing about this recipe is mustering the patience to caramelize the onions. Don't rush! Take your time; do it right. It makes all the difference. That, and withstanding the pungent aroma of the red wine vinegar as you complete the recipe.
I paired mine with steamed spinach. I was raised with spinach and vinegar (instead of butter, salt, etc.), so pouring a little sauce over my spinach was all I needed. With that, it is a bit of a pungent overload, so you might want to have a nice, mellow starch in addition. Simple rice pilaf might do the trick.
I'm so NOT a cook, but I think I pulled this off with aplomb (the second time). Highly recommended.
GREAT....the preparation was very easy and results excellent! My husband is very picky and he really enjoyed this dinner. Paired it with roquefort pear salad and grilled asparagus
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 500
Calories from Fat: 106
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A billion-dollar superstore has its sights set on a small Minnesota river town for its next outlet. Two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests are ignored, until a bomb goes off at the megastore's Michigan headquarters--the first of a series of explosions. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage and utmost fear. They do. Virgil Flowers has been enlisted to find out who's behind the dangerous acts, but the answer he uncovers may be the biggest shock of all.
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John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, "The Night Crew," and "Dead Watch."
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"Once you start "Shock Wave, " you'll read it straight through, quickly, compulsively, happy the whole time to be in such good hands."--"The Washington Post""Wry humor, a fully realized lead, and tense atmospherics...one of his best outings to date."--"Publishers Weekly" "The Flowers series is...formed from the same elements that make the Davenport books such a joy to read: sharp characterization, witty dialogue and, at heart, a gritty, often puzzling mystery. If "Shock Wave" is any indication, Flowers has a better than even chance of equaling if not surpassing Davenport in the hearts and minds of Sandford's legion of readers."--"Bookreporter.com"


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The Suzan at Big Snow Buffalo Lodge [Concert Review]
An evening dedicated to a greater cause, delicious baked goods and dare I say, fierce girl singers, December 22nd was a night of magnificent acts. The events held on Thursday night were presented by Permanent Wave to support the Human Recovery Project and the women's anti-nuclear movement in Japan. It was a benefit show held at the Big Snow Buffalo Lodge with live performances from Me&Mars, Speedy Ortiz, Field Mouse and The Suzan. Big Snow Buffalo Lodge is a fairly new DIY venue in Brooklyn, near Bushwick Ave. A walk inside the room, you'll notice the tropical wall portrait to the right and above are block colored tiles. The entire theme of Big Snow gave a gothic retro vibe. Since the night was a benefit event, there was a home made bake sale, video projection of Japan and a make your own flag station in the basement. As the clock hit 9, the party began.


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Rock the Bells
I received a last minute invite to hit up Rock the Bells at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. I have to admit, i am a complete noob to Rock the Bells but it turned out waaay funner than i imagined. Seeing these artists perform live and the energy level of the crowd is unbeatable.
took some photos with some new and old faces. Here are some of Jan's ladies.
Our very own, Daniel Tom and Judy.
These people were stoked about Illest.
Spotted a bunch of people with "93 'til." tees. Many Souls of Mischief fans there.
Dope seeing Fashawn there.
I noticed this guy wearin an Illest crew on stage during this very intense battle.
Me and Scotts sister. lol
A lot of energy coming from the crowd as Nas performed
Souls of Mischief meet & greet
Annnddd another one, my buddy Tina from SJ
Childish Gambino
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wish I was there!
thinking the same thing as Josh and Mark
Damn scotts sister is HOT!
You got to bring in your camera? I thought they regulated that. I had mine taken away from me 3 years back.
damn lucky. Wish they were coming to chicago, but they are skipping us again.


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Ala. Congressman calls for revised constitution
By Gubernatorial hopeful says Ala, consitution outdated
Huntsville, Ala – (AP) - U.S. Rep. Artur Davis is calling for a
constitutional convention to rewrite Alabama's constitution.
Davis says the 1901 constitution is rooted in 1901 values,
including the idea that local communities can't be trusted to make
their own choices. He says that's why the Legislature had to meet
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Kid Fears. Are we depriving children by sanitizing children's books? By Liza Featherstone for Babble.com.
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Could scary books be necessary for kids' development? by Liza Featherstone
April 6, 2009
When it comes to censorship, even the old Soviet regime can't compete with parents of small children. The first time I told my three-year-old son, Ivan, the story of Three Little Pigs, I purged the grisly details. I allowed the first two pigs to escape their flimsy houses, joining their savvier brother in his safe, cozy brick fortress. Even the wolf got off easy: failing to blow down the brick house, he simply staggered off, huffing and puffing defeatedly.
My days as a Bowdlerizer are at an end, however: we've just acquired a more Darwinian Little Golden Book version of the tale published in 1988, in which the "hungry and wicked wolf" eats up the first two incompetents. At the story's end, the wolf is boiled to death and only the resourceful brick-laying pig is left alive. Ivan much prefers Golden Book's retelling of this folktale to mine. When the wolf eats up the first little pig, Ivan remarks, "Oooh. He's dinner."
Ivan loves stories about death, predators, and imprisonment. In William Steig's Solomon the Rusty Nail (published in 1985), a rabbit is held captive by a knife-wielding cat. (Solomon is saved from death only by his unique ability to turn into a rusty nail at will.) In The Story of Babar, written by Jean de Brunhoff and first published in 1933, a baby elephant lives an idyllic existence in the jungle, until his mother is shot and killed by a hunter.
That book's sequel, Babar the King, published the same year as the original, reads like the book of Job, with characters plagued by snakebites, house fires and bad dreams. In Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen, first published in 1970, a little boy narrowly escapes a mob of chanting chefs who want to bake him into a cake. Ivan requests each of these stories again and again. "Read it!" he commands.
For decades – as long as there has been a "children's literature" section in bookstores – adults have been conflicted about how disturbing children's stories should be. In E.B. White's 1945 classic, Stuart Little, a human mother gives birth to a mouse. When Stuart Little was first published, the nation's librarians and other arbiters of taste freaked out completely, finding it grotesque. Generations of children have since accepted the book and found its mouse-person hero, while perhaps unsettling, also lovable. Yet adults continue to reject the story's premise: in the most recent movie version (1999), Stuart is adopted.
The Stuart Little kerfuffle captures an enduring tension around children's books. On the one hand, says Dr. Tony Charuvastra, a research psychiatrist at NYU School of Medicine's Child Study Center and father of a two-year-old, we have "the desire to protect children, a sense that children shouldn't read these awful stories." On the other hand, he adds, "kids enjoy being scared." And while children do enjoy innocuous material that parents find boring – c.f. Dora the Explorer – both kids and adults like a good story, and good stories are nearly always emotionally complex.


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Vietnamese restaurant in Brunswick returns owner to his culinary roots
BRUNSWICK — After selling his popular China Rose restaurants a year ago and running Little Tokyo for three years, restaurateur Cuong Ly has returned to his Vietnamese roots.
Ly opened Little Saigon, the town's second Vietnamese restaurant, on March 18 at 44 Maine St., where Clementine Restaurant operated until it closed last October.
"We always (had) a plan to open (a restaurant like this)," Ly said. Now, he said, the timing and location was just right.
Besides giving him an opportunity to share his native cuisine, Ly said his new restaurants fits within a larger trend that sees more people gravitating towards Vietnamese food and other, healthy ethnic cuisine.
Some of the menu items are gluten-free or vegetarian, Ly said – two kinds of food that appeal to a wide customer base. He said the only food that goes on the menu is the kind he likes to eat.
Ly's family is of Chinese descent, he said, but he grew up in Vietnam for the first 16 years of his life until his family was forced to move to China because of the China-Vietnam Border War in 1979.
Not too long after that, Ly moved to America and then worked his way up the restaurant chain until he started China Rose in Freeport, Brunswick and Richmond.
In 2006, Ly was the subject of attention when armed state game wardens seized 10 exotic koi on display in fish tanks at the China Rose in Freeport. The koi were eventually returned after Ly sued the state and spent $20,000 on litigation. The story grabbed national attention and appeared in The New York Times.
Ly sold the small restaurant chain in 2011.
Now, with Little Tokyo just a short walk away at 72 Maine St., Ly said the customer response to his latest endeavor has been good.
"When you put your heart and your hard work and skill into it, (and) you care about what you do and love what you do," Ly said, "the customers are going to feel the result is good."


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Keeping Those New Year's Resolutions
January 5, 2012
As a new year begins, we hear much talk of resolutions, ways to improve one's life in the coming year. These might have to do with weight loss, increased fitness, decreased indulgence in sweets, alcohol or tobacco, controlling one's temper, and better budgeting of money. As a regular participant in fitness classes, I notice every January a sudden increase in attendance by new people I've heard called "resolutioners." These folks start out with the best of intentions, but unfortunately do not continue; within a month they are mostly gone.
The desire people have for personal improvement is something we as practical peacemakers want to encourage. Progress on any of the goals listed above leads to a more harmonious personal and family life, and thus a more peaceful society. However, the urge to make improvements that require discipline is fragile; it is no easy thing to change long-standing habits. In fact, it seems that the making of resolutions is considered a sort of joke: "yeah, sure, you're going to quit smoking--how long is that going to last?" "You say you're going to get up earlier in order to exercise--right."
How can we turn around this expectation of failure and make the keeping of resolutions more likely? I have three ideas.
The first is probably obvious: set goals modest enough to keep. Instead of expecting yourself to exercise five mornings a week, start out with two. Whatever amount of weight you want to lose, set the goal at half that. This way you can feel good when you complete your personal challenge, and go on for more.
The second is not to consider the project over the first time you fail. For example, you resolve to avoid cookies or chips and before long, in a weak moment, you eat some anyway. Instead of beating yourself up, just start over, and keep starting over as often as it takes.
The third way would be to pay as much attention at the end of the year about resolutions completed, as we do at the beginning about resolutions proposed. If people expected to be taking a hard look at year's end about how well they'd been able to keep their resolutions, they might set more realistic goals and keep on despite setbacks. The Jazzercise Center I attend keeps track of how many classes each person attends, and recognizes with prizes and a round of applause those who achieve certain goals. This is reinforcement that works.
For most of us, however, no one is going to recognize and applaud us for keeping our resolutions. Only you know how many pounds you've lost, or how many times you've chosen to save money instead of buying something frivolous. So we must keep track ourselves. I suggest writing on your calendar each time you've kept your resolutions. Then you'll have monthly totals, and at the end of the year you can review your resolutions and say, "I got up X number of days to exercise," or "There were Y times I could have gotten angry but didn't." The times you failed don't even register. This is how we're going to succeed at the resolution game.


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John stands 7 11/16 inches tall with nine points of articulation. He's playing a two-piece trombone and has a hat with removable feathers. John is packaged with the four-headed Bulldog from Yellow Submarine.
Ringo stands 7 1/4 inches tall with 10 points of articulation and is playing his trumpet. Ringo is packaged with the huge 9 1/8-inch-tall Apple Bonker, who has eight articulation points and is holding an apple in both hands.
George stands 7 7/8 inches tall with 10 points of articulation. He's playing a tuba and come with the 7 3/4-inch-tall Snapping Turk character, which has five articulation points, a sliding head and hinged "mouth/belly."
Paul stands 7 7/8 inches tall with nine points of articulation. He's playing a flute and comes packaged with the Sucker Monster, which stands 6 3/16 inches tall with three articulation points, and a bendy nose and tail.
Tetsuo is the protagonist of Akira, the legendary film that helped break anime to a worldwide audience from its native Japan and still one of the most highly regarded pieces of anime ever created. Tetsuo was subjected to government experiments giving him with telekinetic powers. He stands 6 1/8 inches tall with five points of articulation. He includes interchangeable arms, a normal one and a morphing one from the film.
Kaneda is also from Akira; he's Tetsuo's childhood friend and a fellow motorcycle gang member. He stands 6 3/4 inches tall with 10 articulation points and comes with a power pack and weapon.
The final Akira figure is Kaneda's motorcyle. His trademark rocket bike is totally styling in bright red paint and all the right stickers. It's 10 1/8 inches in length.
Vash the Stampede from the wildly popular television series Trigun is the next figure. Vash looks stylish with his long red trenchcoat, electric blond hair and heavy armament. Vash is a noted gunslinger with a huge bounty on his head, despite the fact that he refuses to kill anyone! Vash is 7 inches tall with 10 articulation points and comes with his cat, weaponry and a custom base.
The final figure in the first series is Ryoko from the Tenchi Muyo! empire (video series, television series, feature films and comic books). Ryoko is a 700-year-old demon accidentally released from imprisonment by a high school student, Tenchi Masaki. Ryoko stands 6 3/16 inches tall with six points of articulation and comes with a custom base and a wand.
Gene Simmons. This long-tongued, bass-playing demon stands 7 2/16 inches tall and has 12 points of articulation. He comes with his bass guitar and amplifier.
Paul Stanley. This guitarist/singer loves to love you. Paul is 4 14/16 inches tall in his back-arched, rocking-out position. He has six articulation points and comes with a guitar and amp.
Ace Frehley. The guitar god himself is 6 6/16 inches tall with 10 points of articulation. He, too, comes with his infamous guitar and amp.
Peter Criss. Drummer and cat-person extraordinaire, Kris is 5/12 inches tall in a seated position with eight points of articulation. He comes with a drum set, sticks and stool.
Freddy has nine points of articulation, a removable hat and is dressed in his striped sweater and knife glove.
Michael has nine points of articulation, dressed in his usual industrial jumpsuit with his mask and huge butcher knife.


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Basic Buttermilk Biscuits
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These are simple, drop-style biscuits that bake up soft and delicate with an almost cake-like texture, but are not sweet. They are ideal to serve alongside a bowl of soup or chili or in place of a roll at dinner.
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Print or trace the block diagram onto foundation paper and connect the seam lines as in the photo below.
Cut the diagram in two and number as below.
Foundation piece the two numbered sections and trim the seam allowances to 1/4".
Following the block diagram, sew the two sections together.
The center of the block was extremely bulky, to the point where I couldn't press the seam open. Since I was going to applique anyway, I cut the center thick section out to take away the bulk.
If there wasn't an applique on top I'm not sure what I would have done. Any suggestions?
Applique the circle in position on the block.
5 comments:
- Robin said...
LOL! It's funny how one's perception of easy kind of changes over the course of making this quilt! :) I really like this block. Yours is so pretty in purple!
- June 6, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- bea3855 said...
Hei there!
Came just over via Nunavut!
It's great here! I always admire people that can sew so nicely...I am not that good at it, although I offer sometimes stuff to do so.
Have a look my my pretty ribbon items at www.rosebud-bea.blogspot.com! But anyway, you are most welcome to visit my blogs in generell www.bea-nype.blogspot.com! You live in a place of great interest to me, so let me hear from you.
European Greetings
- June 7, 2009 at 9:22 AM
- Cyn ;-) said...
I do not cut this PPing block in half, but only cut through one side [horizontal line] to the center. I lightly draw around the INSIDE of the circle 1/4" and trim out the paper. This helps to know where to stop when PPing and like you mentioned, the center is so bulky it gets trimmed out anyway so I just don't put it in to begin with. lol. By only cutting one sewing line to the center, this block really goes together quickly and lines up perfectly!
Thank you for your blog... I read it faithfully!
- June 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- Minka's Studio said...
At the time I made it, I thought it was very hard. Interesting how it varies from quilter to quilter. PS. Did you post yours on Flickr?
- June 8, 2009 at 9:01 PM
- Quilt Monkey said...
This one went together in a snap for me! I had the same idea as Cyn, but ended up doing it in two halves as shown. I'll be posting it on my blog soon. As always, thanks for the great blog!
- June 9, 2009 at 10:17 AM


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Contemporary Issues in Baby Ceremonies
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Modern questions bring new challenges to, and stimulate debates about, several facets of ceremonies for babies.
Most prominent among them, the contemporary debate about circumcision reflects religious, medical, political, and psychological questions. Until recently–except in the early period of classical Reform Judaism–circumcision of male babies in a religious context was a near-automatic act on the part of parents of a Jewish baby boy. But allegiance to traditional Jewish practice and to the notion of commandment has declined in the modern period. Consequently, Jews, like people of other faiths and cultures, are more open to questions coming from outside of a Jewish framework.
Issues with Circumcision
Among the questions that modern critics of circumcision raise are: Does circumcision diminish men's sexual pleasure? Is circumcision psychologically traumatic? Is it medically necessary? While these questions are all relevant to the general North American practice of the circumcision of infants, some Jews entertain them even regarding the religious practice of brit milah. Some ask whether it is fair for parents to make such an important and permanent decision for their male children. Additionally, some Jewish feminists claim that the perpetuation of brit milah as a bodily covenantal sign laden with significance and the lack of a sign and ceremony of equivalent power for girls both represents and perpetuates a male bias in Judaism.
Defenders of the practice in a Jewish context take a variety of positions, including:
· Brit milah is a commandment, and its essential obligatory nature is unaffected by science, psychology, or sociology.
· Circumcision actually appears to provide some medical benefit to men and their sexual partners.
· There is no evidence that circumcision is traumatic.
· The development of a uniform, powerful covenantal ceremony for girls should supplement brit milah, rather than eliminating it in the name of parity.
· For better or worse, brit milah does represent a powerful connection to a long chain of Jewish tradition, particularly for fathers and sons of Jewish men.
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President-elect Barack Obama, who played little if any role in the final negotiations on the car bailout, pronounces himself "disappointed" by the collapse of the legislation. Better than"sad," which was his self-described state of mind, before realizing he was really "appalled" by Gov. Blagojevich's misdeeds. Disappointment, sadness — rather passive and melodramatic reactions for the leader of the Free World. But this has been his default state whenever things go wrong — Rev. Wright, legislation, criminality, etc.
It is an odd emotional reaction, but one designed to deflect responsibility ( Why didn't he join the car bailout negotiations?) or commitment. Most of all, the vagueness perpetuates the moral equivalence that dominates his thinking and suggests that bad actors are really just misunderstood. Be prepared to hear President Obama is misty-eyed at the news that North Korea has reneged on another treaty obligation, melancholy that the Senate sees fit to fully investigate Eric Holder's conduct, and down-right glum about Hamas's refusal to cease violence against Israel. It will be hard to remain filled with hope.


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Despite their patronage by Human Rights Campaign, Coca-Cola reports their fourth-quarter profits have slipped, and sales of soda are down 3%.
HRC, which says they are
America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality
served Coca-Cola at a Sochi Olympic opening ceremony party at their headquarters. LGBTQ activists around the world are boycotting Coca-Cola for its sponsorship of the Winter Olympics and thus a tacit endorsement of Russian President's Vladimir Putin's anti-gay stance. In the UK,
the soda was dropped from the Brand of the Year at the Out in the City and G3 awards, which promotes diversity and equality.
The Associated Press reported that concerns about sugary drinks and artificial sweeteners may be the cause of Coca-Cola's sales decline in the last quarter (and the economy may also be playing a part), but activists have been promoting the boycott of Coke since October. Several colleges have banned Coke products from their campuses in protest.
And with smart, stealth social media campaigns–like the hijacking of Coke's interactive campaign feature that allowed people to put messages on Coke cans to highlight messages about Russian anti-gay brutality –Coke make see their 2014 profits go very sour. Keep up the good work #cheerstosochi.org!