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The Bryan ISD Board of Trustees approved the hire of Leroy Morales as principal of Mary Catherine Harris (MC Harris) during its noon workshop meeting Oct. 7. Morales, a bilingual administrator and educator, most recently served as associate principal of Cypress Springs High School.
Prior to that, he served as summer school principal at Cypress Ridge High School and in a variety of student services and assistant principal positions at intermediate and high schools in Cypress Fairbanks, Klein and Aldine ISDs. His 24-year career is evenly split between 12 years as a classroom teacher and coach and, most recently, 12 years serving in administrative roles.
"Mr. Morales brings the interpersonal and leadership skills we were looking for, in this important role," said Superintendent Tommy Wallis. "His career has been dedicated to working with diverse populations, mentoring students and affecting positive changes in people and organizations. We're fortunate to have his energy and experience now serving our students."
MC Harris is a secondary school serving Bryan ISD students who may be at-risk for completing high school. The campus offers a flexible environment tailored to allow students to catch up on academic credits and prosper on the path to graduation and career or post-secondary success.
"I'm excited to be here and be a part of the campus and the opportunities it presents our students," Morales said. "More than anything, I'm excited about the future of our students as we provide them the opportunity to be successful. My passion is for kids, and I'm ready to get started."
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Baseball cards and Harry Potter
Keith plays on the teeter-totter
A middle-aged man
In fantasy land
Sophomoric cannon fodder
Michael Jackson and Krazy Keith
On adulthood they've placed a wreath
Which one's Peter Pan?
Please point out that "man"
With the age of twelve or beneath
O'leilly tries a limerick,
But the man can't write for shit,
He lies about Bill
He's a George Soros shill,
He's lacking two balls and a dick
Olbywatch gives a daily bitchslap
To Countdown's journalistic mishap
Like fish in a barrel
Keith's kareer in peril
Much thanks for the nightly recap
John Gibson critized Neel Gabler who is on his own network. I guess that means that Gibson is more of a man than Olbermann, since Olbermann has never citized anyone on his own network but claims that shows manhood.
Excellent, Factor. The clear-headed post of the day!
Bill O' has criticised Gabler, as well. After Gabler criticised Bill, of course. Not too hard to criticise Gabler, though.
The sad MediaMatters shills
Ignored lib Gabler's ills
Just like K.O.
They only crow
Over "hate" from Rush or Bill O.
"It's nice to be in space," he radioed minutes after reaching orbit.
Posted by: Space shuttle Discovery blasts off at October 23, 2007 4:22 PM
. . . Or in Olbermann's case, "It's nice to be a space cadet"
space cadet n. Slang. One who shows difficulty in grasping reality or responding appropriately to it.
Olbermann is still suffering under the delusion that Kerry won the 2004 election because the vote in Ohio was "stolen" long after the other bastions of liberalism (NYT) knew that the story wasn't true.
Hate to disagree, but KO did attack Rita Cosby and Imus after they were run off the air. I guess that is what he considers manhood
Bravo, Katy Turic. Thanks for the amusing limericks.
Gibby was mistaken: Olby is in his late 40s, not his mid 40s. He's right that Olby's Harry Potter fixation is very strange and creepy.
Of course Olby now has blamed the brush fires on George Bush.
And Valerie Plame gives the same canned answers at each interview while shilling her new book. Olby with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress...
Yup, how about those peace-loving, war-hating, ever-so-kind and tolerant libnuts? Too bad they are liars and hypocrites.
I posted this on Johnny Dollar all ready. I though I would re-post it here.
I agree with everything John Gibson said expect that I don't think that Olbermann is a loser for reading Harry Potter at his age. I'm 32 and still play video games and watch Star Trek all the time. Olbermann is a loser for what he says on his show on a daily bases. Like calling Chris Wallace a monkey. For only haveing Dem and far left guys on his show and never having anyone else on his show with a different point of view. Whats the point of having show like Olbermanns if you sound like your talking to your self.
He's also a loser when everything that happen bad in this world is Bushes fault.
Olby was just trolling the Potter event for a replacement for his now aging 23-year old girlfriend. He's probably looking for some fresher and younger meat. Not that he'd be able to perform for her but maybe he thinks that the yonger they are, the less likelier they are to realize how lame in bed he truly is. Hope Katy maxes out his platinum cards while she can-she's obviously on her way out.
Keith's an Edward R Murrow wannabee
With a girlfriend who's just twenty-three
He puts himself in the news
while his viewers do snooze
There's no hope for MSNBC
Keith made a great point:
"No one from the administation ever apologized for ruining her career."
This administration hasn't a shed of integrity....and neither does anyone who puts Valerie Plame down.
Posted by: Why don't you think at October 23, 2007 10:31 PM
Tell her accountant that, "why." Pencil pusher to left wing hero. Not bad, I would say.
Keith made a great point:
"No one from the administation ever apologized for ruining her career."
Could that be that the state Dept "outed" this clerk....and not the WH?
Look, the Olbyloons are blaming Bush for the fires in California. They're blaming him for Global warming. And they want him to apologize for everything.
Keith did deliver a verbal tounge-lashing to Imus ... after he was fired. It was only then that Olby informed the world what a horrid, horrid man his former MSNBC colleague was.
(Also, don't you think it's a bit of a coincidence that J.K. Rowling sees Keith Olbermann standing and talking on the Carnagie Hall stage and then gets the idea to out one of her main characters as gay? I think it's a clear case of projection at work here...)
Posted by: Why don't you think at October 23, 2007 10:31 PM
Watching that loser on Dopey's show and reading this spit from he who cannot think tells me that Plame's career and wdyt's brain have something in common.
They are both toast.
"Bush Wants New "Surge" -- In The War On Drugs."
That's it BUSH MAN!
Now you've done it!
You're going after Toasty's drugs!
Hands off DUDE!
Imagine how nice it would be to see Bill Oreilly and Sean Hannity tortured to death,, ah the thought warms my soul.
Posted by: Bill O'lielly at October 23, 2007 9:46 PM
I thought you did not believe in God? How can you have a soul?
Toasty Sez:
Hands off my drugs George Bush!
A day in the life of Toasty?
You decide.
You lost your mind a long time ago. We only allow you here for our amusement.
Just don't mention the dingbat Springsteen. You have milked him dry enough.
Never heard of Richard Thompson.
Your favorite song, though, must be Imagine.
"Nothing to kill or die for.............."
Thompson is really unknown if I don't know who he is.
Wonder if the factor read the AP story today how co2 levels are up 35% since 1990 and rising faster than scientists originally thought?
Factor read ?
I must have lost my head.
Posted by: Why don't I think at October 24, 2007 12:04 AM
What does that matter? Prove CO2 levels have anything to do with global warming. CO2 levels go up after global temperature rises.
Now you are singing? Wow, you need help.
But he hasn't sold many records. I am not dissing the guy, maybe I would like his music a lot. But I bet not one in 500 people in this country have ever heard of him. If you want to be his agent, that works for me. He obviously needs a better one than he has had for all of this time.
IPCC scientists ( which represent over 200 countries) said it was 95% likely that co2 is the cause of global warming. The Factorless is in the 5% of deniers.
The Factor strikes again...with his idiocy.
Why do I stink at October 24, 2007 12:59 AM
Another lie by this fool. There are no IPCC scientists. The IPCC is a group of politicians and green peace activist.
Then you must hate Hendrix and Clapton. They got too much fame.
But can you make music? I can, and do.
So there!
He just lives at the extreme hard core right wing web sites...you know...the ones who say the neocons had the right idea when they pushed to invade Iraq.
Posted by: Why don't you think at October 24, 2007 1:11 AM
John Stossel and 20/20 are a right wing web-site? I thought is was a news magazine show on liberal ABC.
Did Olbermann blame Bush for the fires?
Shockwave, he sure did. Right on schedule.
You guys seem to have a high tolerance for trolls.
We're not so patient over at The Daily Gut.
Ah- Keith is Back behind Oreily in ALL catagories now that the reruns have stopped. What a tool! You Keith lovers are back to your monority status. Enjoy being also-rans!
Why don't you think spewed: "...the AP story today how co2 levels are up 35% since 1990..."
Yeah, the same buffoons said we were entering an "ice age" back in the 70's. As always, human beings tend to overestimate their impact on the earth.
Mr sarcasm- I was just mocking the fact that KeithO bragged to his uninformed minions about the silly ratings victory. Only the informed viewer would know the victory was hollow.
-He actually lost in his natural demo (no DVR).
-He lost in overall ratings.
-He really beat an Oreily rerun.
All facts that are lost on the lemmings that follow the idiot!
I mock him and his fans!
And as I mentioned days ago!
Stark apologized yesterday for his remarks.
He admitted they were over the top and insulting.
Which only is a cherry on the ! Olberloon called these assinine comments 'refreshing' and applauded them. Just another example of how out of touch KeithO is.
"O'Reilly was on last night. What was the news? Has another white girl gone missing? Has another MSM outlet been taken over by Far Left Sympathizers of the Radical Islamo Fascist movement? Has Geraldo discovered a means for turning styrofoam packing peanuts into platinum nuggets?"
Hell if I know what O'Reilly did or said. What makes you think that reasonable people who are repulsed by Olbermann necessarily keep up with O'Reilly? But if you want to watch a liar in action, Keith is your boy. Medved "defends slavery" anyone? O'Reilly "supports Nazis"? Or maybe you like to watch Olbermann discuss such groundbreaking and compelling matters such as whether the rumors are true that Richard Gere stuffs gerbils up his . . well, Ill let your imagination complete this thought, but I think you know where this is going. I don't care that much for O'Reilly and don't pretend that he is the Cronkite or Murrow of our generation, but for God sakes, if you cannot at least bring yourself to acknowledge the sickness, dishonesty and disgrace that Olbermann brings to the trade of journalism, you are simply ignorant or in denial.
By the way, the stricken diner ordered Moo Goo Gai Pan and finished his dinner.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 24, 2007 10:34 AM
Thanks, philby!
Posted by: Anonymous at October 24, 2007 11:45 AM
but here YOU are, Anon. Why?
Anon claims that he does not like Olbermann or O'Reilly but he some how finds his way to an Anti-Olbermann site and starts attacking the posters who are critical of Olbermann. Exactly how does that make sense?
A great read on Newsbuster.
"Keith, Still Think Falwell Wrong on Tinky? Ask Musto"
I was going to link to the transcript but the latest one up is Oct 18 although they claim all transcripts will be available within 24 hours. Maybe I did something wrong.
"Seems like folly to me and to most, but please, continue fighting this fight if it gives you satisfaction."
Posted by: Anonymous at October 24, 2007 11:45 AM
Having realized the futility in arguing for the credibility of Olbermann, Anonymous resorts to the time tested pretextual cop out that characterizes those on the losing side of a debate: it doesn't really matter, so it's better not to talk about it.
First. let's consider the notion of the sincerity of Anonymous. Mr/Ms. Anonymous, a self -proclaimed person who doesn't "give a damn" about Olbermann, is here at this website whose whole purpose is the expression of highly partisan opinion about Olbermann either pro or con. Think about that. Think about someone you don't "give a damn" about, say someone like Britney Spears. Do you go to a website dedicated to supporting or denouncing her and read and post comments on that site when don't give two figs about her? I think the question answers itself and shows Anonymous for the insincere person he/she is.
As to the question of whether we should give a damn about Olbermann and whether there is a useful purpose served in exposing Olbermann for his incompetence, manipulation and dishonesty, a liar is a liar and should be called out. Hardly a week goes by that we do not see a fluff piece on Olbermann extolling this rotten man. He is given a desk on the halftime show on NFL Sunday Night Football to foist his pointless
views on a subject he knows almost nothing about with co-hosts who, recognizing his ignorance of the subject and his obnoxiousness generally, barely tolerate him. The point being, NBC has senselessly decided to promote Olbermann as a big star and a truth teller when he is, in truth, a puppet for the fringe left wing blue blogs whose cowardice is evidenced on a nightly basis by an unwillingness to allow dissenting opinion on his third rate show. So, yes, this lie should be confronted and exposed.
Besides, Olbermann is such a buffoon who can resist making fun of him?
Merkel writes:
"Yeah, the same buffoons said we were entering an "ice age" back in the 70's. As always, human beings tend to overestimate their impact on the earth."
Merkel, Why Don't You Think is your typical liberal puke jumping on some band wagon or flavor of the day that just so happens to be contrary to conservatives or GW.
It's shitters and bucket mouths like this boy that I wouldn't mind it if gas went to $10/gallon to pay for global warming just to watch this stupid fuck eat his own beliefs.
Global warming has been going on for 10k years you stupid liberal fucks like Why Don't You Think.
I have been laughing throughout the morning.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 24, 2007 2:00 PM
Shouldn't you be packing your bags for your next world travel? Maybe, hunting cougars w/your bare hands?
RK, make that a double Absolut on the rocks and I will absolutly be there. Can I bring some olives and toothpicks?
Hey anonymous, it's good to hide behind this site isn't it boy? You know, with no fear of actually being confronted.
Just like you know so much about Johnny, Sharon and Janet, well I know you too. You were the pompous ass that always had something to say when my back was turned, as the fear of an actual confrontation had you wetting your pants.
So, when that day actually came where I caught you in one of your lies, and called you outside to further "discuss" the issue, your ripe response of "I don't believe in violence" still has me laughing to this day.
Make sure your pinky is sticking out while you're having your tea and crumpets, Wadsworth.
FLUCKER, stuff a sock in it.
"What keen observers are Factor, Hank and PS! And the breadth of their knowledge is staggering. . . But, don't let me interfere."
Don't worry Anon, you aren't interfering at all. Someone who actually had valid substantive arguments in response to my points above might be offering interference, but you are harmless, reduced to a little ankle biting name calller (lacks "perspective and intelligence, class and style, wit and wisdom"; "utter fools").
Keith Olbermutt-
why havent you blamed Bush yet for the wild fires in CA? Come on you Iranian loving, anti-American 4 eye freak, you know you want to somehow pin the blame on the president for this one.
While I don't object to two women embracing, and, in fact, if they are young, attractive and firm, find it tittilating, I think the two of you, Grammie and Sharon, really need to check into the Ramada Inn. I am having a gag reflex.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 24, 2007 11:49 AM
"I find value is respecting others and trying to show that respect in tangible ways."
Posted by: Anonymous at October 24, 2007 3:08 PM
is that your way of showing respect??
your parents must be proud...they failed!
Teheran Keith already blamed Bush for the fires.
In fact the Left is blaming him.
Keith though is a supportere of the Iranian regime.
I'm suprised he hasn't been arrested!
Where are the freaks complaining about G Bush related to the fires?
Imagine that, a million people told to evacuate in California and they actually do. I guess personal responsibilty is commendable when expected. And you only blame Bush when the minions don't exacuate and expect the government to bus them out.
Can't wait for Kanye's impending quip, "George Bush hates million dollar home rap star owners" Poor Kanye, Bush is obviously gunning for the democrats. First he goes after the poor of Lousiana. Then he aims for the millionaire entertainers of California that shill for the democrats. Next up are the chowder heads of Bahston!
What power this president you label as a bufoon has!
Ahhh- thank you Harry Reid, the lovable moronic quote machine.
"One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming," the Nevada Democrat told reporters, emphasizing the need to pass the Democrats' comprehensive energy package."
Not blaming Bush- but chiming the lefty chorus!
Mmmm, is there a cause/effect relation between atmospheric CO2 levels and arson activity?....Because I just read that investigators believe the biggest fire in So. California was a act of arson.....
Wow.....Rising CO2 levels cause global climate change and causes acts of arson! What will they discover next?
Cee, you bad. You so bad!
That's why I love ya! :)
The moonbats are starting an anti-Hillary campaign. Olby will be devastated.
To "Why Don't You Think" who was proud to post a link to the IPCC report, claiming it was the work of scientists.
That link includes this interesting line:
"...to final joint approval by scientists and diplomats"
So it is a "joint" report by scientists and diplomats??
So the scientists could only write what the diplomats approved? Sounds like a worthless report to me then.
Show Me, you got that right. It is actually worse than worthless b/c it is being used as something that it is NOT and never will be.
I could find the citation if I had to but I hope no one asks for it.
A fair number of scientists whose names were appended to the IPCC report have gone public with their denunciation that their names were used with neither permission nor agreement.
Don't you just love it?
Don't be so silly. The polar ice caps have not melted 30%. Where do you get this nonsense? Your sanity is melting at an alarming rate, though.
Just stop. Why don't you tell me how much the oceans have risen in the last 20 years? The last time I checked it was ZERO.
Does that mean that a century or more ago there wasn't enough ice, then global cooling happened and grew it back? Dang. I guess it's called cycles.
I'll see your old york times hit piece and raise ya a wnd fact piece.
I don't know if you ever go to mypetjawa (The Jawa Report http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/) but the story of the fake Beauchamp's diaries is covered there with lots of links.
[Drudge Posts TNR "Shock Troops" Investigative Documents - Updated]
The last time my boss at TNR talked to me I did not deny that I denied what I had made up earlier. In other words, TNR won't deny me yet.
"That's right..."Cycles"that's what the wingnuts use as an excuse to contradict the best scientists in the world. . .The world is moving forward in coming up with SOLUTIONS to the climate crisis, while the wingnuts are still denying it."
Posted by: Why don't you think at October 24, 2007 10:55 PM
Whoops, looks like WDYT missed this:
Survey: Less Than Half of All Published Scientests Endorse Global Warming Theory
Comprehensive survey of published climate research reveals changing viewpoints.
In 2004, Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.
Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, of which DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy. The figures are surprising.
Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."
The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the "primary" cause of warming, but it doesn't require any belief or support for "catastrophic" global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.
These changing viewpoints represent the advances in climate science over the past decade. While today we are even more certain the earth is warming, we are less certain about the root causes. More importantly, research has shown us that -- whatever the cause may be -- the amount of warming is unlikely to cause any great calamity for mankind or the planet itself.
Schulte's survey contradicts the United Nation IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (2007), which gave a figure of "90% likely" man was having an impact on world temperatures. But does the IPCC represent a consensus view of world scientists? Despite media claims of "thousands of scientists" involved in the report, the actual text is written by a much smaller number of "lead authors." The introductory "Summary for Policymakers" -- the only portion usually quoted in the media -- is written not by scientists at all, but by politicians, and approved, word-by-word, by political representatives from member nations. By IPCC policy, the individual report chapters -- the only text actually written by scientists -- are edited to "ensure compliance" with the summary, which is typically published months before the actual report itself.
By contrast, the ISI Web of Science database covers 8,700 journals and publications.
Thanks Hank. I thought that I had bookmarked that article and I didn't.
Doing it now.

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Rewilding means restoring ancestral ways of living that create greater health and well-being for humans and the ecosystems that we belong to. Many things inspire people to rewild: ecological collapse, economic uncertainties, health problems, a sense of something missing from life, or a desire to "save the world." Rewilding takes inspiration from the most modern interpretations of prehistory provided by anthropology, archaeology, and ethnobiology. It means returning to our senses, returning to ourselves, and coming home to the world we belong to.
Between 11,000 and 58,000 species go extinct every year. Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/
Humans control 75% of the global land surface outside of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Source: http://www.anthropocene.info/
The concentration of CO2 in earth's atmosphere currently stands at 400ppm, more than 100ppm higher than at any time in the past million years. Sources: http://co2unting.com/, http://climate.nasa.gov/400ppmquotes/
7,000,000,000 humans on earth, desperate for something but not sure what. Source: http://www.census.gov/popclock/
When we talk about the evolution of our genus Homo over the past two million years, we run into our brains' limits to really understanding big numbers. To help put it into perspective, take a look at the timeline below.
Each pixel in height represents 500 years.*
* That means that a single pixel in height here separates you from the reign of King Henry VIII.
Meaning "Old Stone Age." Everyone on earth lives by hunting and gathering.
Meaning "New Stone Age." Some people in a few isolated areas start farming.
The past 5,000 years of recorded history.
The past 10,000 years highlighted in green and red have seen an explosion of cultural and even biological change as we've learned to cope with living in a new way deeply antagonistic to our previous evolution, but it still represents a flash in the pan, not the inevitable destiny of our species.
Thomas Hobbes described the "state of nature" as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," and though ethnographic and archaeological evidence has overturned each one of those claims individually over the past century, the common perception of hunter-gatherer life hasn't kept pace with what we now know about it.
Some people say that the advent of farming gave people more leisure time to build up civilization, but hunter-gatherers actually have far more leisure time than farmers do, and more still than modern people in the industrialized world.
Read more…
The beginning of agriculture brought with it the Neolithic Mortality Crisis, a sudden and catastrophic drop in longevity that agricultural people have really never recovered from. Modern medicine has achieved great things, but it still hasn't completely closed that gap, and it still means that only a wealthy elite can enjoy the longevity once available to everyone.
Read more…
Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins described hunter-gatherers as "the original affluent society." Only a wistful romantic would try to call it perfect, but despite the arguments of some modern authors, the fact remains that archaeological and ethnographic evidence shows us that hunting and gathering can provide a peaceful and prosperous way of life.
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More than anything else, hunter-gatherer and other traditional societies define themselves in terms of their social bonds, giving each member a sense of belonging and purpose, connecting her to the rest of her family and to a web of kinship that binds together a broader, more-than-human world.
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For 2,000,000 years humans evolved in traditional societies, and though they undoubtedly had as much an impact on the world as wolves or lions, they did not cause mass extinctions. We don't represent all of humanity, and the way we live doesn't represent human nature or our destiny.
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The Neolithic Revolution has claimed most of the planet's surface for agriculture, but you can help rewild the place where you dwell.
Political boundaries rarely line up with the ecological zones that really determine our lives. A bioregional focus means becoming aware of things like your local watershed and ecosystem, and focusing on the issues that affect it.
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If "wild" means untouched by humans, then few places on earth can claim the title. Indigenous people did not just live off the land, but made it flourish. The Amazon Rain Forest and the Great Plains stand as examples of their generational work. Rewilding means taking on that responsibility to tend the wild.
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Love your story! Completely inspirational.
"Killing the Fat Man" is 100% exactly what Crossfit needs right now. I'm so excited to see this coming out and thrilled at the timing. Yes, Crossfit can make the fittest fitter. Crossfit makes machines... but everyone starts somewhere, and the hype around the games has been feeding a stigma that has scared away a few people, I'm sure - the stigma that this is only for the elite… and it's not. These videos are brilliant.
I wrote an article that most CrossFitters would get a kick out of. It is on the CFE forum, but the link is provided below.
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I thought that it was Infant SWIMMING Resource...
I'll rest when I'm dead.
Gary you are doing great.. Keep it up and you will soon see the change soon. I started Crossfit Jan 1st and I have dropped 25 LBS and am stronger now. I'm doing pull ups with out my resistance band some of the times.
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I'm slow but getting better.... 26:39
Oh My Gosh! That baby is insanely cute.
games workouts?
Gary is the best guy... and I don't even know him.
First rest day is nice, must say. The "Killing the Fat Man" videos are definitely wicked. I consider myself a somewhat fit person, but crossfit was honestly intimidating, and it's good to see someone willing to push it everyday when they have been away from fitness for so long. Hoping I can catch some his energy to keep going with it too!
I find myself cheering for Gary like I have not cheered for anyone in quite some time. Keep it up, Gary!
I started Crossfit 6mo. ago with NO athletic ability or background what so ever, now I can do a few pull ups on my own (no band),ring dips are no problem and I've found that lifting is fun! Keep at it Gary!!! You'll be amazed where you are in 6 months--I for one CAN'T WAIT to see what you're capable of at that point!
Sunday bingo mentioned Cleveland Tough Muddr event. Bingo if you did the T Mudder, and anyone else reading this who has participated in one -- reactions, recommendations, would you do it again, how well does CF'ing (1 daily WOD) prepare you for it, and how many Oldies do it?
Have horrified the kid and wife with musing aloud about how fun it would be to do a Tough Mudder in the next year, hehe. I think it was the 10000 volts of electrical that pleased them the most ;)
You're doing great! There is a pack of people surrounding you cheering!
For the masses: Everyone starts somewhere. Start where you are. And tomorrow you'll be better for it. Once you get it up, keep it up! Res firma mitescere nescit.
Yeah, burpies!
I looked into the ISR and unfortunately it's too expensive. However, there are free, online resources that will demonstrate/teach the very same techniques (google it).
#11, Matt h,
I did a tough mudder this past Jan in Phoenix. You'll be good to go on the obstacles but it does include a 12.5-ish mile run, so you'll have to train for that. It's more of an event than a race, so don't worry about trying to "run" fast.
Hope that's helpful.
Thank you for sharing this adventure with all of us. Can't wait to see the updates. I will also be sharing your story and videos with as many people as I can who ask me about CrossFit and if it is right for them. THX!
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Thanks Tim #14, didn't know the T Mudder run was *that* long. Easily the least interesting and most concerning part -- not sure how well the knees would hold up over that distance, or if I even want to find out.
But your advice to enjoy and not worry the speed of the run / event sounds spot-on. I also think creating or joining a team seems like the way to go for me.
(Did yesterday's 7x1 DL WOD today -- results there)
Hey CFers,
Here's an interview I did with James Fitzgerald.
He tells some pretty gnarly stories of competing in the Games multiple times.
Hope you like it!
365. Did this last week.
CFSB week 1, DL 3x3, 260, 270, 280
Kevin's met con, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3; 45lb KB swing, pullups, modified ghd situps
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Every year there are major events around the world that fly under the mainstream media's radar despite their seminal impact. Four Wilson Center scholars who are also leading journalists from some of the world's largest media organizations tell us what they consider to be the most underreported news stories of 2014.
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"The attack on Charlie Hebdo is another confirmation of a long war. And, like the Cold War was to the 20th century, that struggle is likely to be a defining feature of the 21st," writes Aaron David Miller.
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"After four years of the phenomenon once optimistically dubbed the Arab Spring, the changes that have roiled those lands seem to have validated Robert Penn Warren's quip that history, like nature, rarely jumps–and when it does, it usually jumps backward," writes Aaron David Miller.
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"As I looked through annual rundowns of the Big Stories of 2014, I found three types of conflicts that were not on many lists but should be. Each, for different reasons, represents a trend worth paying attention to," writes Robin Wright.
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Here are five reasons positive change could come to the Middle East in 2015 according to Aaron David Miller.
U.S.-Iran Normalization? Don't Hold Your Breath.
Dec 22, 2014
"President Barack Obama's announcement last week that the United States and Cuba would restore diplomatic relations has spurred some to suggest that relations should be restored with Iran after a 35-year rupture...For a number of reasons, Iran is not next in line, even if there is a positive outcome to the negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program." writes Haleh Esfandiari.
Coordinating the Global Effort to Counter ISIL: A Conversation with General John Allen
Dec 19, 2014
Retired USMC General John Allen, who now serves as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, recently visited the Wilson Center to discuss challenges and strategy with Wilson Center President, Jane Harman. Their discussion provides the focus for this edition of REWIND.
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Given its years-long and seemingly troubled development, I Am Alive's world is appropriately rickety, run-down, and treacherous. There are some intriguing ideas in this harrowing tale of survival, used to pepper what would otherwise be an experience driven exclusively by well-trod gameplay mechanics. Does the game rise above its dire circumstances, or should it give up and succumb to harsh reality?
Some time before I Am Alive's hero returns to his hometown of Haventon, and unspecified disaster has befallen the world. Referred to as "The Event" by the town's forlorn inhabitants, you're never quite told what exactly has gone down, only that it involves periodic tremors, frequent lethal dust storms, and of course, a general decline in the reliability of human decency. The Event really wrecked the place, too, which accounts for the primary thrust of I Am Alive's gameplay.
In his quest to determine the fate of his wife and child, our hero has to do a whole lot climbing in order to traverse the pocked and brutalized cityscape. While he's certainly someone you'd like to take along on an Alpine expedition, he's no Nathan Drake when it comes to superhuman climbing prowess. In I Am Alive, your stamina depletes every second spent climbing, shimmying, or merely hanging from a ledge. Once you've run through your reserves, your actual stamina capacity starts to go down, and every second becomes a struggle for survival till you eventually fall and die. Each climb or delve becomes a puzzle as a result, where stopping to chart a path becomes a race against time and a struggle to conserve your scarce stamina-replenishing resources. The mechanics are responsive enough at making you feel empowered to climb, but you often get the feeling that there's really only one way to traverse an obstacle. This makes the inevitable trial-and-error of climbing feel like so much wasted effort.
This puzzle-like sensibility also applies to your regular encounters with Haventon's bad apples, who seem to greatly outnumber the merely pathetic ones. You pick up a handgun early enough, but ammo is an even rarer commodity than food, so you can't rely firepower as a mean to survive hostile encounters. Unfortunately, the tools you're provided in compensated aren't up to the task, and the result feels largely identical to what happens with climbing--you feel like there's only one real path to success.
The default strategy is to stick your hands up and let the armed members of a posse to approach you, and then slice one of their throats when they get close enough. Once you pick up his bullets, you shoot down every assailant minus one, whom you'll dispatch with your machete. Some slight variations emerge as the game goes on, like armored enemies that fearlessly march toward you, oblivious to their exposed parts, as well as the acquisition of a bow and arrow that you can you use to snuff out a straggler before you engage a group, but in general, fights basically come down to figuring out how you'll kill, say, five guys with only two bullets. The game suggests early on that you'll be able to pull off vicious dirty tricks, like kicking a cowed enemy down a pit, but these elements never actually panned out for us in play.
Like its scant narrative backbone and starkly drawn world, I Am Alive is just evocative enough to keep you playing for the five or so hours it lasts. You'll come away with the feeling that what good ideas it has are mere specters of a more ambitious past. That said, few games are willing to go to so dark a place as Haventon. If you're interested in getting a rudimentary hint as to how games might tackle the baser end of the human condition, I Am Alive is worth a look.
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They`re tiny, but they leave a lot of damage and debate in their wake. And their next stop appears to be the northern Front Range.
There is fresh debate about what to do with the millions of acres of pine trees in the West that have been destroyed by the mountain pine beetle. And it is a debate that is bleeding over into a battle about how to best protect Colorado's roadless areas.
Aerial maps showing the mountain pine beetle epidemic since it started in 1996 reveal that it has spread like a cancer through the northern central mountains of Colorado. And officials say the beetles appear to be moving north and east, meaning that parts of Boulder County may be in their sights. They recently invaded Larimer County, where the number of acres of affected lodgepole pine more than doubled last year, compared to 2008. Officials say as many as 100,000 beetle-kill pine trees fall every day in a 3.5 million acre area along the Colorado-Wyoming border.
It's too late to do much to stop them, and once they've turned a pine forest from a lovely green to that ugly reddish brown, the question becomes, "What we should do with all of those dead trees?" One response has been to log or at least thin the dead forests, in the name of reducing the risk of forest fires. Surely all of those dead trees are a tinderbox just waiting for a spark, right?
Recently a group of scientists blew the whistle and said not so fast. In a report titled "Insects and Roadless Forests: A Scientific Review of Causes, Consequences and Management Alternatives," four researchers concluded that the fire danger in beetlekill pine forests has been greatly exaggerated.
According to the report, released earlier this spring, the chances of widespread fire among those dead trees is the same as — or, as only a few studies indicate, slightly higher than — in live, green pine forests.
The report also found that logging or thinning in secluded roadless areas neither controls future beetle outbreaks nor helps protect communities and homes from forest fires. The key to protecting inhabited areas from fire damage, the scientists say, is to clear the immediate area — about 120 feet — around homes and other structures. And the environmental damage that is done by building roads into the backcountry wilderness to log or thin beetle-kill pine far outweighs any fire-prevention benefits, they say in their report.
Congress takes notice Last week, a subcommittee of the U.S. House heard testimony on a bill being co-sponsored by Colorado Sen. Mark Udall that calls for the U.S. Forest Service to identify severe beetle-kill areas and work with state and local landowners to remove the dead trees. But one of the authors of the recent scientific report, Dominik Kulakowski, presented the counterarguments of his group's study, telling lawmakers that climate conditions are the primary driver of forest fires, not dead trees. He testified that canopy density — which is obviously decreased as dead trees lose their needles and branches — is actually a more instrumental factor in the spread of forest fires.
"My concern is that by focusing treatments in remote forests, we will be using up limited funds and resources while leaving homes and communities at risk of wildfire," he told the subcommittee. "Doing so would be like beginning surgery on a patient before first having the correct diagnosis — we will not address the real problem, and we may do more harm than good. … Although ongoing outbreaks understandably have led to widespread public concern about increased fire risk, the best available science indicates that outbreaks of mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle do not lead to an increased risk of fire in the vast majority of forests that are currently being affected."
Kulakowski, a former CU-Boulder faculty member who is now at Clark University in Massachusetts, told Boulder Weekly that his group's research findings are admittedly counter-intuitive, because the mere appearance of the red-needled trees "instills a sense of panic about the risk of fire." He acknowledges that while it might be easier to ignite a dead pine needle than a live one — as anyone who has lit a campfire can tell you — the issue is more about how forest fires move across the landscape, often spreading from canopy to canopy, consuming fuel on such a large, heat-intensive scale that it doesn't matter much whether the fuel is dead or alive.
A big part of the desire to cut down the dead trees is aesthetics, he says. We see brown instead of green, and our first instinct is to clean it up.
After the widespread fires in Yellowstone in 1988, the common storyline was that "Yellowstone National Park has been destroyed," Kulakowski says. So in the years since, he explains, scientists have been trying to educate the public about the fact that forest fires are a necessary and critical part of nature.
The key, he and his colleagues agree, is defending the immediate 120-foot perimeter around manmade structures.
"That makes sense," says one of the report's coauthors, wildlife ecologist Barry Noon of Colorado State University. "I'm going to do it around my cabin."
They say the bigger problem, and the driver of both the beetle outbreak and any forest fire danger, is the recent droughts in the West, which may be a symptom of larger concerns about global warming.
"The bark beetle outbreak is the face of climate change," Kulakowski says. "The fires across the West are the face of climate change."
One of his co-authors, Dominick DellaSala, executive director at the National Center for Conservation Science and Policy, agrees.
"If you're really concerned about forests, you need to do something about climate change," he told Boulder Weekly. "You're addressing the symptom, not the problem."
Beetles to Boulder?
Joe Duda, forest management supervisor for the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS), is one of the experts who points to the mountain pine beetle's recent invasion of Larimer County — which accounted for about half of the state's increase in beetle activity this past year — as evidence that the northern Front Range is one of the bugs' next targets. "We expect we'll see more," he says, noting that there are still dense stands of pines from Boulder County to the Wyoming border.
Theo Stein, communication director for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, adds, "The northern Front Range is going to change before our eyes, and it's going to be visually significant."
But Duda calls the scientists' recent report "a great oversimplification of all the issues we as land managers have to deal with." Duda and Stein say the fire mitigation issue is more complicated than most people know, since fire danger changes with each phase of the beetle-kill pine's deterioration. For example, the threat of a forest fire is higher when the brown trees still have their needles, and it goes down after those needles fall, but then the danger goes back up after a decade or two, when ground fuel is heavy with all of the dead trees that have fallen and the new ones coming up.
In addition to the fire issue, Duda says, there are myriad social and economic factors at play. Duda points to the havoc that falling trees can play on manmade infrastructure like roads and power lines. Falling trees also affect recreational uses in the forest, from campgrounds to hiking trails to ski areas. Logging the dead trees for various products can give the state and local economies a boost and generate jobs, he says, all the while benefiting the landscape.
"It's a win-win — just letting it burn is narrow," Duda says. "If you were not going to use the forest for anything, you could go ahead and let it burn. … To say we want to step back and not do anything doesn't meet some of society's needs on the landscape."
Kulakowski doesn't disagree, he just wants officials to be upfront about their reasons for logging and not use fire danger as justification. We need to decide as a society what to do with the backcountry forests, he says, and if the answer is producing timber, "we shouldn't confuse it with fire hazard mitigation. … If we want to log, then log, but be honest; it's not for fire mitigation."
The issue also relates to the state's roadless areas, Kulakowski says.
"If the goal is to protect homes and communities, it doesn't make sense to go into roadless areas and collect timber," he explains.
Roadless rule
Indeed, the debate over beetle-kill pine and fire danger has spilled over into an even more intense face-off over an effort to create a new roadless rule for the state.
With a 2001 federal roadless rule still in limbo because of a protracted court battle, Gov. Bill Ritter has rolled out a proposal for Colorado to have its own roadless rule, one that he says recognizes Colorado's need to protect the interests of ski areas and industries like coal, oil and gas.
President Barack Obama has endorsed the Colorado proposal. Idaho is the only other state that has developed a state-specific roadless plan.
One of Ritter's primary justifications for the new roadless rule is the heightened fire risk in pine forests that have been devastated by the mountain pine beetle.
In an April 6 letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack justifying the need for a Colorado roadless rule, Ritter cites the fact that bark beetles — both spruce and pine — have killed 2.9 million acres of mature trees in the state, and they threaten at least 3 million more.
He writes that the 2001 federal roadless rule did not anticipate this outbreak, and it limits the state's ability to address wildfire hazards. The 2001 rule, Ritter says, prohibits taking action against wildfire hazards in roadless areas until the threat is "imminent," and that approach "is unacceptable to me as the chief elected official of this state."
Ritter's proposed rule would give more power to local authorities to address the risk of forest fires. It would allow fire-prevention strategies like logging and thinning in roadless areas within a half-mile boundary around communities, and would allow such activity to occur as far as a mile and a half into a roadless area only when certain conditions are met, which he calls "a high bar." Beyond that 1.5-mile boundary, Ritter says in the letter, "fuel treatments are prohibited except when the regional forester determines there is a substantial threat to municipal water supply infrastructure."
A recent news release announcing a revised Colorado roadless rule being submitted to the feds trumpets that it updates the state's inventory of protected areas by adding 410,000 acres that were not included in the 2001 federal rule.
But some environmental activists are challenging the assertion that the Ritter rule protects more, not less, of Colorado's roadless areas.
The opposition
One of the findings in the scientists' recent report on fire and beetle-kill pine challenges Ritter's plan, saying that the 2001 federal rule "allows sufficient flexibility locally to address public health and safety, fire and undesirable insects, while maintaining the qualities and character of national forest roadless areas. Under the state's proposal, Colorado's national forest roadless areas would be subjected to numerous exceptions to the protections that are provided under the national rule, thereby degrading roadless qualities and providing fewer protections to these areas than any state in the nation."
Report co-author DellaSala argues that Ritter's proposal would open up more of Colorado's roadless acreage to road construction. He says that roadless areas are like a biological oasis, and adding roads in them has severe impacts on hydrology and erosion, among other things. "Once you put a road in, you change their character, because you build roads for a reason, whether it's for logging, recreation, whatever," he says. "Once you build roads, they are really hard to take out."
DellaSala says Ritter's plan uses beetle-kill pine as an excuse to allow more flexibility to thin forest, and the result is "a grab-bag for special interests."
The proposal eases land limits for gas and oil extraction, coal mining and ski areas, he argues.
"None of that was in the original rule," DellaSala says. "So to call it more protective kind of flies in the face of what people think protective means. … How can they say this is more protective when there are allowances in here for coal mining?" While some environmental groups support Ritter's plan, others, including the Wilderness Society and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, oppose it. Scores of scientists, including several at CU-Boulder have signed a letter to Obama opposing the Ritter plan.
Colorado environmental activist and organizer Pete Kolbenschlag points to a legal analysis performed for the Pew Environment Group by Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell, which makes the case that Ritter's rule is not as protective of roadless areas as the 2001 federal version.
He also questions why the Ritter rule allows for a perimeter of up to 1.5 miles into roadless areas when scientists argue that you only need a 120-foot buffer to defend homes against forest fire.
"A mile and a half into the backcountry isn't appropriate," he says. "The idea that it protects more than the 2001 rule is pure spin."
Do the math
Detractors say that the 410,000 additional protected acres in the Ritter plan are more than offset by the removal of 457,000 acres from the 2001 inventory. They also point to additional acreage opened by new
allowances for ski-area expansion, coal mining, oil and gas extraction and water transference infrastructure.
The Ritter rule results in a net decrease in the number of acres protected as roadless, they say.
But Stein, the spokesperson for the state's Department of Natural Resources, uses a different equation.
"I think they're disingenuous," he says of the detractors.
Stein claims that the 457,000 acres removed from the roadless inventory under the Ritter plan actually contain roads and should not have been included in the 2001 rule. Since they were inaccurately inventoried to begin with, he doesn't consider those acres in his calculations, and comes up with a net increase in the number of protected acres.
He says the half-mile buffer was added based on input last fall from firefighters and the U.S. Forest Service, which challenged the notion that 120 feet is enough space to maneuver around the edges of a forest fire and manipulate it. The half-mile buffer provides that necessary space, Stein says.
Under the 2001 rule, tree-thinning could begin only when there was an imminent threat, which he says is unacceptable because it amounts to "when the fire is on the other side of the ridge. … Fire up the saws when the fire comes over the hill."
To gain special approval to clear timber in areas up to 1.5 miles into a roadless area, he explains, under the Ritter rule local authorities would need to meet three federal requirements related to the physical conditions of the land, plus a state regulation requiring communities to have an approved wildfire protection plan.
Stein estimates that the buffers would account for between 200,000 and 300,000 acres of opened roadless areas. When one adds in a 30,000-acre allowance for boring methane ventilation holes for coal mines and expanding ski areas within their existing permit boundaries, he says, that is more than eclipsed by the 410,000 acres added to the roadless areas under the Ritter plan, resulting in a net increase in protected lands.
Stein doesn't count the oil and gas "gap" leases that have been filed during the legal limbo that has existed since the federal roadless rule was challenged in 2001, because the state would certainly face lawsuits if it removed those leases from the roadless inventory.
"We can't retroactively extinguish them without facing a takings claim," he says, but he adds that those leases could be challenged if the Obama administration is successful in its legal effort to uphold the 2001 rule.
As for logging and thinning beetle-kill forests deep within the backcountry, the two sides seem to see eye to eye.
"We agree that widespread salvage logging is inappropriate, and that's why the state roadless rule doesn't allow it," Stein concludes.
Meanwhile, little bugs the size of a grain of rice continue their march toward the Front Range. When it comes to tree bark, their specialty is boring, but they leave behind destruction and debate that is anything but.
So many factors are left out here, and the focus so narrow it does not paint a big picture scenario here. It is far from only being about fire danger...
Our forests are the 'lungs' of our planet, and they are dying by the tens of millions of acres, billions of trees, every year now. There are over 60 million acres of dead forest in the Western USA alone, and that is expected to double in the next 10-15 years.
· Ultimately, many types of sciences have agreed that up to 60-70% of our forest will succumb to climate changes, drought, insects and disease by the end of this century. Go here to learn more - Forests At Risk: Climate Change & the Future of the American West
· Our forests are inextricably linked to all life; from carbon absorption and oxygen out-put to a natural eco-filter system that provides us clean water, from animal and plant life diversity that provide us everything from drugs to recreation, and from building products to heat and energy.
· These 60 million acres of dead forests are expected to release about 2 billion mega-tons of carbon.
o To learn How your use of our Blue Pine wood products can create a carbon-negative effect, click on the link here
· Billions of falling trees will look like a giant game of 'pick up sticks' throughout our forest lands, thus affecting our society and communities in a myriad of ways:
o Human, animal, aquatic, plant, and insect life will be affected,
o Increased erosion rates from earlier snowmelt and higher run-offs which will increase water pollution and water shortage and storage issues,
o Affects on tourism, recreation, property values, and resultantly entire communities
o And of course there is the inevitable fire danger which will likely cost tens or hundreds of millions in cost, above and beyond the estimate of $2 billion to protect and clean up Colorado lands alone
o Go here learn more: Beetle kill: The Issues and Opportunities
In Colorado alone, this epidemic has devastated millions of acres of forest, billions of trees, and there is no end in sight. The Forest Service's predict that 90% of our Lodgepole forests, and a big percentage of our Ponderosa Pine, Spruce and Aspen, will succumb over the next several years, forever changing our forest-scape.
We encourage you to get involved, there is much needed to be done. Estimates as to the cost of our dying Colorado forests are over $2 billion dollars.
The good news is that our Colorado Blue Pine wood products, manufactured from some of the billions of dead trees in our own 'backyard', are still priced at or below a standard white pine product, and thus this lumber is one of the most affordable woods on the market. But as you will see, Colorado native products cost a little more than the imported USA Blue Ponderosa Pine products that we offer to compete with Canada's government subsidized lumber… especially their beetle killed wood products.
The bad news is that it is impossible for us to compete with subsidized lumber from Canada (or Russia) that can be bought for 50% of the cost of production, so Colorado Blue Pine does cost a little more than imported lumber. Large out of state USA mills have to come close to imported lumber prices, or they do not sell any lumber, so we give you a choice: Colorado Blue Pine or USA Blue Ponderosa Pine.
Many USA sawmills (the last count was 122 shut downs since 2007) have gone out of business since the increased 'unfair' price competition, combined with the downturn in both the economy, and new housing demand. Most USA sawmills that are left are taking losses to sell their blue stained lumber – currently, it is fortunate for them that standing dead beetle killed timber is only 5-15% of their product mix, so for now they can tolerate losses, but it will become more difficult as the mix of dead timber increases. Here in Colorado, at the few remaining sawmills that are left, standing dead beetle kill is most of the timber available, and we simply cannot operate at losses and still be here to utilize some of the standing-dead trees left in the wake of the beetles.
Interestingly enough, The U.S. is taking Canada to international court over the amount of lumber being imported and this timber price dispute.
"How bark beetles are pitting the U.S. vs. Canada" http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=7181
Mr. Kulakowski,..you are obviously wrong!..take a look at the west fork complex fire!....time to go back to school? "beetle kill for dummies"..it's not about aesthetics!
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YIELD: Makes 4 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 10 min
TOTAL TIME: 30 min
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- 1 pound red cabbage, cored and thinly sliced
- 2 Turkish bay leaves or 1 California
- 3/4 cup water, divided
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 pinches ground cloves
- 1 1/2 pounds large sea scallops, tough ligament removed from side of each if attached
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add cabbage, bay leaves, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and toss to coat.
Stir in 1/2 cup water and 2 tablespoon vinegar and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until cabbage is tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Transfer to a platter and keep warm, covered.
Stir together spices, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Pat scallops dry and season both sides with spice mixture.
Wipe out skillet, then heat remaining tablespoon butter over medium-high heat until foam subsides. Sauté scallops, turning once, until golden brown and just cooked through, about 5 minutes total. Add to cabbage.
Add remaining 1/4 cup water and tablespoon vinegar to skillet and boil, stirring, until slightly thickened, 1 to 2 minutes. Pour over scallops and cabbage.


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New Zealand has a warm relationship with Timor-Leste that has traditionally focused on military and police support and on development assistance. As the security situation has improved, our military and police elements have reduced in significance and development assistance has become the central element of our relationship. New Zealand's trade relationship with Timor-Leste is also growing and broadening, although from an admittedly low base. There have been several recent high-level visits between Timor-Leste and New Zealand.
Bilateral trade is small in volume and value. Exports from New Zealand are mainly wine, meat and dairy. The principal import is coffee.
New Zealand Trade (year ended Dec 2012)
NZ's 186th largest trading partner
NZ Exports
Main exports
Wine (NZ$131,271); Meat (NZ$114,487); Dairy (NZ$80,940)
NZ Imports
Main imports
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Since the 1999 referendum that led to the restoration of independence, New Zealand Defence and Police personnel have been deployed to Timor Leste in significant numbers. Following the withdrawal of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) in December 2012 and the withdrawal of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in March 2013, New Zealand's Defence and Police presence has reduced significantly. New Zealand now has five NZDF personnel in Timor-Leste under the Mutual Assistance Programme (MAP), two New Zealand Police officers permanently based in-country under the bilateral Timor-Leste Community Policing Programme, as well as New Zealand-based Police mentors who visit Timor-Leste several times a year.
New Zealand is committed to supporting Timor-Leste's growth into a stable, democratic and prosperous nation. Total aid flow is forecast to be maintained at approximately NZ$10.6 million in 2013/14. Projects include a new focus on support for activities that contribute to micro and small enterprise development, particularly the agriculture and tourism sectors. The Strategic Framework for Development 2012-15, agreed between the two governments, has three focus areas: private sector investment, education and training, and security and justice.
New Zealand provides up to 15 scholarships annually for Timorese students to study at tertiary institutions in New Zealand, and supports a graduate internship programme, which assists recent graduates in securing employment on return to Timor-Leste. Up to 12 Timorese officials also take part in the English language training for officials (ELTO) programme each year.
Timor-Leste is part of the geographical region of Southeast Asia. It has applied for ASEAN membership and a committee has been established to consider this application. Indonesia is a strong advocate for Timor-Leste's ASEAN aspirations. Post-independence, Indonesia's relationship with Timor-Leste has improved significantly. Indonesia is now the largest source of imports into Timor-Leste and is undertaking large contracts to rebuild Timor-Leste's infrastructure.
New Zealand is represented in Timor-Leste by:
New Zealand Embassy, Dili [external link]
Timor-Leste is represented in New Zealand by:
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Ph: 0061 2 6260 8800
Fax: 0061 2 6239 7682
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Montgomery and Zuniga Earn MVC Player of the Week Honors
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - For the first time this season, the Creighton women's soccer team has picked up two player of the week awards in the same week, as Alicia Montgomery was named the MVC Goalkeeper of the Week and Andrea Zuniga tabbed MVC Offensive Player of the Week. It marks the third time this season Montgomery has earned the award and the first for Zuniga.
Montgomery picked up two more shutouts last week, recording the wins in both of Creighton's 1-0 MVC wins last week. In the first match of the week at Drake, Montgomery picked up 11 saves, the second time this season she has had 10+ in a single match. She recorded what head coach Bruce Erickson said was possibly the biggest save of the season late in the match to preserve the 1-0 win. She then picked up her sixth shutout of the season, 21st of her Bluejay career, against Indiana State on Senior Day.
Montgomery now holds a 0.77 goals against average, the best in the league, while also holding a .892 save percentage and six shutouts (first and second in the MVC, respectively). She holds a career 0.72 goals against average, placing her atop the Creighton all-time charts and second on the Valley all-time charts.
Zuniga led the Bluejays offensively in the two conference wins last week, netting two match-winning goals on the week. She scored her first goal in the 69th minute of a scoreless battle at Drake, deflecting a ball off the goalie's hands and into the net. She led the Jays that day with six shots, three on goal. Int he Indiana State game, Zuniga again led the team offensively, rifling off nine of the 13 shots on the day. She connected in the 67th minute of play, driving a shot into the upper left corner of the goal for Creighton's lone goal in the match.
Zuniga now has seven career match-winning goals, three this season. She leads the team and is second in the MVC in shots (55), averaging 3.44 per match. She has five goals on the season, second on the team, and one assist for 11 points this season.
Creighton travels to Illinois State on Thursday for the final match of the regular season. A win will give the Jays at least a share of the MVC regular season crown, while a tie would still keep them in contention as well as give them one of the top two seeds in the MVC Tournament, which would give them a first round bye. Kickoff is set for 3:00 p.m. from Normal.


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Myths and Facts
Poverty and the federal budget
Renee Hummel, a mother in Staunton, Va., remembers a time when her family was struggling to make ends meet.
"We saved by buying food on clearance that had passed the expiration date," she says. "I cooked from scratch and never ate out; it took a lot of time, but it sure saved a lot of money. When you're poor you have to do things to stretch the food. … I watered down my daughter's apple juice. I watered down her formula, but stopped doing that when she became anemic. That time I got really scared."
Most of the items in a household budget—rent, utilities, transportation, child care—are fixed expenses. When the car breaks down, a child gets sick, the furnace goes on the fritz or a parent is laid off from work, a struggling family may fall into poverty. When money starts to run out, food—one of the few flexible items in the budget—often must be cut back.
Most Christians agree that helping poor and hungry people is an important part of Christian discipleship. But not all agree on what the government's role should be in this effort.
Certain federal programs are designed to help low-income families cover those unexpected costs without going hungry. Those programs include the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly known as the food stamp program), school lunch and breakfast programs, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), housing subsidies and job training.
Most Christians agree that helping poor and hungry people is an important part of Christian discipleship. But not all agree on what the government's role should be in this effort. Research by Bread for the World, a Washington, D.C.–based Christian advocacy organization dedicated to ending hunger, suggests that government programs play an essential role in helping low-income families.
MYTH: Federal anti-poverty programs are wasteful and ineffective.
FACT: The programs have a strong track record of efficiently targeting assistance to those who are eligible. For example, while poverty has reached record highs over the past three years, the percentage of households that the U.S. Department of Agriculture considers food insecure (struggling to put food on the table) has not gone up, because programs like SNAP and the school lunch program have responded to the rise in need. Nearly 46 million Americans now use SNAP benefits to buy groceries. Half of all SNAP participants are children.
The WIC program currently serves about 9 million people. Women who participate in WIC have fewer premature births, fewer low-birth-weight babies and fewer fetal and infant deaths. Moreover, 4- and 5-year-olds whose mothers participated in WIC during pregnancy have better vocabularies than eligible children whose mothers did not receive WIC.
MYTH: If government programs are cut, churches and private charities can provide the necessary safety net for low-income people.
FACT: The difficult economy challenges churches, soup kitchens and food pantries to step up their efforts, but it simply isn't possible for these organizations to meet all the needs. For example, if you add up all the food provided by all the charities in the country, the total is only 6 percent of the amount of food that poor people receive from federal food programs.
MYTH: Cutting anti-poverty programs would make a major reduction in the federal budget deficit.
FACT: Just 14 percent of the federal budget is allocated for domestic social-safety-net programs (excluding health care and Social Security). Less than 1 percent of the federal budget is dedicated to international development assistance. A balanced approach toward addressing the country's long-term budget problems will strengthen the economy and create jobs while maintaining a commitment to ending hunger and poverty.
"We cannot stand by as the federal budget is balanced on the backs of the poor," says J. Herbert Nelson, director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Office of Public Witness. Last summer, he and other religious leaders helped launch the Faithful Budget Campaign, a grassroots initiative seeking to protect funding for programs that help poor and hungry people.
"Jesus taught that our well-being is inextricably bound to the well-being of others," says Ruth Farrell, coordinator of the Presbyterian Hunger Program. "Feeding hungry people is at the heart of our Presbyterian mission.
"Our federal budget reflects our vision and values," she adds. "Yes, we need to reduce our deficits, but we also understand Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 12 that the weaker members of the body are indispensable and that if one suffers, we all suffer."
Amelia Kegan is senior policy analyst for Bread for the World.
Learn more
Get involved
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness
Call (202) 543-1126.
Visit the office: 100 Maryland Ave. NE, Ste. 410, Washington, D.C. 2000
Bread for the World
The organization describes itself as "a collective Christian voice urging our nation's decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad." The PC(USA) and a number of other churches and faith-based groups have joined Bread for the World in calling on Congress to form a "circle of protection" around funding for programs for hungry and poor people as cuts are being made in the federal budget. For more information, vist their website.


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This study is being done because the investigators wish to study ways to improve recovery after surgery. Injury, including surgical injury, causes inflammation. Inflammation is the body's attempt to protect itself and to start the healing process. Some surgical complications are related to the body's natural inflammatory response. Although mainly a healing response, inflammation can also have side effects which delay recovery. The investigators wish to determine the effect of acupuncture on post-operative surgical pain. An increase in pain after surgery can cause distress for patients. Acupuncture is an alternative medicine methodology originating in China that treats patients by manipulating thin, solid needles that have been inserted into acupuncture points in the skin. Acupuncture has been used for the reduction of pain. The investigators would like to see if acupuncture during surgery can provide a lower level of pain, reduced pain medication requirement, and a lower incidence of nausea and vomiting.
Thyroid or Parathyroid Surgery
Device: acupuncture
Device: no acupuncture
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Acupuncture for Reduction of Inflammation in Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: Randomized, Prospective Double Blind Pilot Clinical Trial
- reduced pain medication requirement [ Time Frame: from arrival to PACU to 72 hours ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Visual Acuity pain Scale with in 15 minutes of arrival to PACU record highest pain score per 24 hour period for 3 post operative days record administered pain medication to 72 hours post op
- change in cytokines [ Time Frame: change from baseline to immediate post op ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]cytokine markers drawn pre-induction (15 min prior to induction), intraoperatively (60 minutes after skin incision)and upon arrival to PACU
- quality of recovery [ Time Frame: change from baseline post op days # 3 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]modified Quality of Recovery-40 survey-prior to induction to determine if subject independent in Activities in daily life. Then sam survey post-op days #1,2,3
|Study Start Date:
|July 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: acupuncture
acupuncture will be administered after induction for a period of 30 minutes, followed by a 30 minute rest period and then resumption of acupuncture for 30 minutes.
Device: acupuncture
One half of subjects will receive a standardized acupuncture regiment
Placebo Comparator: device
no acupuncture will be done on this group of subjects
Device: no acupuncture
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Not currently pregnant or beast feeding
- American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of 1, 2, 3 as determined by your anesthesiologist
- Patients have a working telephone
Exclusion Criteria:
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure (systolic > 180mmHg, diastolic>110mmHg
- Heart block >than first degree
- Pacemaker
- Cardiac muscle is at risk for injury
- not English speaking
- Acupuncture within the last 30 days
- If you have taken ibuprofen, advil aleve, motrin or aspirin with 5 days of the scheduled surgery.
- Prior history of drug or alcohol dependence
- If you are unable to feed, dress or bathe yourself
- If your breathing tube is not removed prior to leaving the operating room.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01937520
|United States, New Jersey
|University Hospital
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 07101
|Principal Investigator:
|Dennis Grech, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|David D Kim, PhD LaC
|Study Chair:
|Alex Bekker, MD. PhD
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01937520 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 24, 2013
|Last Updated:
|June 17, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pathologic Processes
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