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You may or may not remember that we sent out a notification back in April about changes in the way IBM Sametime interoperates with AOL's AIM public IM service. Those changes are effective on January 1, 2015, and I think it's important to remind...
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Obama asks Vermont to help host immigrant childrenJuly 17,2014MONTPELIER The Obama administration has asked Vermont whether it can house immigrant children who have crossed into the United States over the Mexican border.
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Son of Devils Punch Bowl: Ode to Rock n Roll
This should be an easy letterbox to get. It is not wheelcha accesible, however.
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Published 27/11/2012 | 05:00
'LOVE/Hate' actress Charlie Murphy has revealed she sought advice from the Rape Crisis Centre before filming a controversial rape scene in the gangland RTE show.
Over 650,000 viewers tuned in to watch the hour-long episode on November 11, in which her character Siobhan, girlfriend of gangland member Tommy, was brutally assaulted by an IRA member played by actor Jimmy Smallhorne.
RTE had warned viewers of its violent content before it was aired but received 17 complaints from viewers over the graphic scenes, which resulted in a sharp spike in the number of calls to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
But speaking to the 'RTE Guide', Waterford actress Murphy said she met with representatives from the centre prior to filming and had the full support of the other cast and crew to shoot her harrowing scenes.
"I was looked after while we were filming it.
Even before that, I had a meeting with the Rape Crisis Centre, they were phenomenal, really amazing. It was very conversational, very human what we talked about. Everyone on board made sure it was done well. It's such a heavy subject matter that you don't want to go and just do it like it's another day's work. It has an effect on people who are watching." Actress Eve Macklin, who plays Georgia in the crime show, girlfriend of gangster Dano, praised the performance of her fellow cast member.
"She is outstanding. I know her so well and I know its fiction and everything but you can't help get wrapped up in it all," the latest addition to the show's cast said describing the 'Love /Hate' production as a "well-oiled machine".
"It's such a joy to be on set where everyone is so chilled. It's such a joy to be in an environment where there is no attitude, there are no egos. The actors have the easiest job, the crews are so unbelievable. I am just so lucky," she said.
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Young Egyptian actress Muna Zaki has denied circulating rumors that she is currently expecting her second child. The actress stressed that the rumor was created by jealous individuals who wanted to place obstacles in her career path and make way for other actresses.
Muna added that many young actresses are in fact jealous of the success she has accomplished in her acting career and how she and a few others were always in demand. She assured that her enemies in the entertainment world had leaked the rumor of her pregnancy to the press and the media unfortunately did not take the time to verify the news from her.
Rumors had it that Muna had announced she will devote all of her time to her upcoming film "Al Ishiq Wal Hawa" (Love and Romance), a fated love story set to the backdrop of a romantic musical score, to be screened this summer season.
And upon completing the film she will not be accepting any new roles in order to dedicate herself to her daughter and prepare for the arrival of her second child, Muna revealed.
It was added that Muna stated it has been an eventful year that began with her performing the religious pilgrimage, Hajj, with her husband actor Ahmad Hilmi, and will end with the birth of her second child.
"Love and Romance" also stars Egyptian actors Ahmad Al Sakka, Muna Shalabi and Khaled Saleh.
Directed by Kamelah Abu Thikri, the film revolves around a pianist and successful business man who fall in love but are separated for along period of time by circumstances beyond their control, and eventually reunited.
American director John Hayman has nominated Muna for a leading role in the upcoming film "Nefertiti", written by Egyptian archeological Ahmad Otham who resides in England.
The events of the film revolve around the time of Nefertiti's reign over Egypt and after the death of her husband the Pharaoh Akhnaton. The film has faced criticism because the events are depicted according to the historical viewpoint of Otham, whose thesis "Mouses and Akhnaton," argued that Akhnaton is the holy prophet Moses, reported the Egyptian daily Al Akhbar.


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This is a delightful tea best served dumped in the Atlantic and forgotten about.
Delightful! The tea tastes pretty much how it smells. Go up to a pine tree and inhale through your mouth… that's pretty much it. However, mixed with a good spoon of honey and it makes for an excellent and nutritious winter tea.
I don't go with anything precise. I just throw in a bunch 1-2 inch stem tips and let it steep until I feel like I have attained the proper taste. Considering how common it is to just go outside and get it, measuring quantity, I have found, is not that big of a problem.
Personally, I'm generous when it comes to it. I guess it depends on the type of tree you use. Blue spruce has densely packed needles, so for my 10 oz cup I've used 4 tips. I understand chopping the needles helps, but I am still experimenting! Tell me how yours goes so I can get a better understanding! :)
Cofftea – to answer your question, I've found that about 20 or 30 needles (1 or 2 inches – try to get new growth) makes a mild flavor that really works. To get the most robust flavor, try baking them real quick in a toaster oven or boiling them.
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Welcome! CREED) at the University of Amsterdam, and a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute and the Center for Financial Studies.
My research is on diverse issues on the intersection between economics and psychology, using the tools of economic experiments, game theory and decision theory. Topics include the role of social motivations in economic decisions, the interaction of laws and social norms and the measurement of beliefs.
My research is on diverse issues on the intersection between economics and psychology, using the tools of economic experiments, game theory and decision theory. Topics include the role of social motivations in economic decisions, the interaction of laws and social norms and the measurement of beliefs.
Contact: vdweele[at]uva.nl
CV: Here you will find my CV, as well as my profiles on SSRN, Google Scholar and Twitter (@JoelVdWeele).
Unpublished/working papers
- Deception and Self-deception, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 012/16. With Peter Schwardmann. Do people self-deceive in order to better deceive others?
- Peer effects and risk sharing in experimental asset markets, SAFE working Paper. With Sascha Baghestanian and Paul Gortner.
Does information about peer investments increase or decrease risk taking in experimental markets?
- Inconvenient truths: determinants of strategic ignorance in moral dilemmas, SSRN working paper.
Under what circumstances do people avoid knowing how their actions hurt others?
- A test of dual-process reasoning in charitable giving, UCSB working paper. With Zachary Grossman.
Is charitable giving an instinctive or a deliberative action?
- Bracelets of Pride and Guilt? An Experimental Test of Self-Signaling in Charitable Giving, CESifo working paper 4674, with Ferdinand von Siemens.
Do people give to charity to enhance their self-image?
- On delegation, legitimacy, and state building. A signaling approach, SSRN Working Paper (inactive).
Are fair procedures valuable because they signal something about the authority?
Social motivations in economic decisions
- Self-image and willful ignorance in social decisions, Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming). With Zachary Grossman.
Can people actively choose to avoid information about how their actions hurt others, and still feel good about themselves?
- Preferences for redistribution and perceptions of fairness: an experimental study, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12:4, 1059-1086. With Ruben Durante and Louis Putterman.
Why do people choose redistribution from rich to poor in experimental economies?
- Resisting moral wiggle room: how robust is reciprocal behavior? American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, 6:3, 256-64. With Julija Kulisa, Michael Kosfeld and Guido Friebel. Is reciprocal behavior based on intrinsic motivation or on external motivations like reputation?
The interaction of laws and norms
- Sanctions that signal: an experiment, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 94, 34-51. With Roberto Galbiati and Karl Schlag.
Do high-powered incentives set by a principal with information about past performance of team members create distrust within the team?
- Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, 15:1, 77-93. With Robert Dur.
How effective are tougher penalties if crimes are commited to gain a status for toughness?
- The signaling power of sanctions in social dilemmas, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2012, 28:1, 103-25.
Can incentives for cooperation signal a norm of non-cooperation?
- Beyond the state of nature: Introducing social interactions in the economic model of crime, Review of Law & Economics, 2012, 8:1, 401–32.
What is the effect of tougher penalties in the presence of social interactions? (A survey of the literature that combines game theory and optimal deterrence.)
Incentivized belief elicitation in economic experiments
- A method to elicit beliefs as most likely intervals, Judgment and Decision Making, 2015, 10:5, 456-468. With Karl Schlag.
How do you provide incentives for truthful reporting of confidence intervals?
Look here for an earlier version with more theoretical results: Incentives for Eliciting Confidence Intervals with Supplemental material.
- A penny for your thoughts: A survey of methods for eliciting beliefs, Experimental Economics, 2015, 18:3, 457-490. With James Tremewan and Karl Schlag.
How do you provide incentives for truthful reporting of probabilistic beliefs?
- Eliciting probabilities, means medians, variance and covariances without assuming risk neutrality, Theoretical Economics Letters, 2013, 3:1, 38-42. With Karl Schlag.How to use randomized payoffs to make any standard scoring rule robust to deviations from risk neutrality.
Policy contributions and (Dutch) press publications
- Herverdeling in het laboratorium. Economisch Statistische Berichten, 99(4698), November 2014.
- Verstandig kuddegedrag: Kredietcrisis ontstaat door rationele keuze. Financieel Dagblad Weekend, 6 Februari 2010. With Jaap Jelsma (my father).
- Sociale interacties en de economie van de misdaad. Economisch Statistische Berichten, 94(4572), November 2009.
- De wortel, de stok en de ondergang van het fatsoen. Vrij Nederland, March 2007. With Rick van der Ploeg.
- Verlicht schulden onvoorwaardelijk. Financieel Dagblad, April 4, 2006.
Blogging, book reviews, essays
- Twice a month I write a column on behavioral economics that appears on Economie.nl. Together with the columns of Eva van den Broek, they form the series "Kiezen en Delen", which is published on weblogs Sargasso and Sciencepalooza.
- Here you find my guest entry on self-deception on the blog of the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale. (Dan Kahan tells me that his blog has 14 billion unique hits a day, so surely you have heard of it).
- In 2013-2014 I wrote the weekly economic column "Duopolie" for the website sargasso.nl together with Mark Dijkstra.
Book reviews
- Here you can find my book reviews at amazon.com, mostly of professional books.
Other essays
- Path dependencies and the case for debt relief. (2005) Won the 3rd price at the essay contest of the Humanities department of George Mason University.
- Why should we use mathematics in the social sciences? Written for colleagues from other disciplines who wonder what's up with all the maths in economics.
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Ravenna Festival is the youngest of all the major European events. In 2004 it celebrated its fifteenth anniversary, yet not only the artistic achievements, but also its size, make it an event of unquestionable importance.
Thanks to its intense programming, participation of the greatest contemporary musical and theatrical talents, huge audiences and constant media attention, the Festival has achieved authority and ever greater and widespread recognition over the years. While the mainstay of the Festival is music, it is a multidisciplinary event and operates with original productions ranging from opera to concerts, dance to jazz, ethnic music, drama, experimentation, film, conventions and exhibitions.
One of the distinguishing features of the festival's programming is the number of events staged in the town's extraordinary and extremely rich monumental heritage. Not just the theatres, but also the splendid Byzantine basilicas, cloisters, piazzas and industrial archaeologies provide the settings which attribute a particular charm to the event, creating that added value which is the result of the magical combination of art and music.
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Israel's ultra-Orthodox rethink Yom Kippur ritual
JERUSALEM For generations, ultra-Orthodox Jews have marked Yom Kippur by swinging live chickens over their heads while saying a blessing, then slaughtering the birds as a symbolic way to rid their souls of sins.
Now some rabbis are decrying the practice as animal abuse.
These rabbis say the ritual, along with the cruel conditions the chickens are kept in, violate Jewish law, which has strict rules on the care and slaughter of animals.
Rabbi Meir Hirsch began having second thoughts about the practice, known as kaparot, or atonement in Hebrew, when he noticed chickens squawking in distress in plastic cages near his house.
Butchers "bring the chickens from the farm at night, and they spend all day in the sun without food or drink," said Hirsch, a member of the Neturei Karta ultra-Orthodox sect in Jerusalem. "You cannot perform a commandment by committing a sin."
The tradition dates back at least 800 years and calls for believers to wave a live chicken three times over their heads ahead of the arrival of Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, which begins at sundown Friday. After slaughter, religious Jews often donate the meat to charity.
Jewish leaders across Israel and the United States have called for an end to the practice for years, but leaders of insular ultra-Orthodox communities have been resistant.
The controversy surrounding kaparot stretches back centuries.
Rabbi Joseph Karo, one of the major codifiers of Jewish law, called it a "foolish custom" reminiscent of pagan practices. Since his 16th-century pronouncement, Jews of Sephardic, or Middle Eastern, origin have tended to perform kaparot without animals, sometimes swinging sacks of coins above their heads before donating the money to charity.
Those following Ashkenazi, or European, customs, have continued to use chickens, however.
Hirsch said he now waves a $10 bill above his head instead of a chicken. While Hirsch's sect of several thousand members in Jerusalem is relatively small, calls for reform are spreading to other streams of Orthodoxy.
Yehuda Shein, a community activist in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh, founded an ultra-Orthodox animal rights group last year. This year, about 50 activists from his group, "Behemla," or "in compassion," handed out flyers citing rabbinical opposition to performing kaparot on chickens.
"People doing kaparot think only about holding onto the chicken, and they think they did a good deed of donating the chicken to charity. But they don't understand the pain the animal endured," Shein said.
Shein shudders at factory farming practices that mean chickens spend their lives packed tightly into cages, only to be roughly transported to slaughterhouses by night and neglected for hours on the day of their death.
"Whoever wants to do this ritual can do it on a farm where the chickens roam freely," he said, adding that he wants to improve chicken farm conditions not just for kaparot, but for all days of the year.
Behemla also campaigns for more humane egg and meat farming and has pushed to regulate the fur industry, which supplies the traditional material for ultra-Orthodox hats.
Menachem Friedman, an expert on Jewish religious society in Israel, said replacing chickens with donations to charity is a rising trend in Israel and around the world.
"There is also a very accepted custom in synagogues, that in the afternoon, people bring their money for kaparot, and everyone chooses the charity he wants to support," he said.
Most opposition to chicken kaparot has come from progressive Jewish circles, and modern Orthodox worshippers shun the practice, though Friedman said "there are sprouts of an awakening" now among the very religious.


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Maintenance work on both spans of the Interstate 5 Bridge will cause intermittent delays and multiple bridge lifts during three nights this month, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Crews will be lubricating steel bridge cables by hand — a process they've carried out since the original span opened in 1917. The work requires bridge lifts and delays of up to 20 minutes at a time, according to ODOT.
The lifts will begin at 10 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, and Thursday, June 13, continuing until 5:30 a.m. the following mornings. Maintenance lifts will also occur starting at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 22, until 9 a.m. the next day.


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This garden reflects both the work of love that is dedicated to it and the richness of life you can find in your own backyard.
A garden provides benefits to a home in so many ways: a very fulfilling activity, a sense of peace and tranquility away from work, a place to share food and conversations with family and friends.
I hope this book provides you with images you enjoy and, at the same time, entices you to develop your own gardening abilities, help you identify the beauty of nature everywhere and, in case you like photography, gives you ideas to exploit opportunities that surround us everywhere.
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Why: Uncle D's Wood Fired Pizza recently opened in Battle Ground Village. It is a family-friendly, casual dining restaurant that serves wood-fired pizza in a rustic setting that has the fluidity of modern efficiency.
I had my reservations; the space had already seen two failed restaurant attempts, and when I discovered pizza was on the menu, I quickly recalled several "here today, gone tomorrow" pizza startups in various locations around town.
I think diners fall into one of two categories when they hear of yet another pizza place: Can't wait to try it, or oh, joy (infuse sarcasm) more pizza. I'm not allowed either thought. I just schedule a visit and check it out.
Atmosphere: The space has been designed with two roll-up doors that blur the line between outside and inside on pleasant days when they can be opened to create a picnic sort of dining experience.
Tables and chairs accommodate two to four but are close enough for larger groups not to feel separated.
Beverages are help-yourself style and pizzas are delivered to the table.
It is obvious that great care was put in thinking through and executing how to best prepare items and serve diners. Uncle D's was about two-thirds full on the evening of my visit and I didn't observe any hiccups in the process.
What I tried: My dining companions and I settled on the three Uncle D's Favorites — The Wyoming, The California, and The Montana. We also sampled the Cold & Crunchy Romaine Salad and for dessert we had the Blue Berry Delight pizza, which is topped with butter, cinnamon, sugar, and blueberries. After it comes out of the oven it is then topped with a drizzle of frosting.
The salad arrived first and was true to its name — cold and crunchy. Topped with fresh apples, candied pecans, Craisins, and feta, it reminded me of a salad I make at home. It came with a very tangy balsamic vinaigrette, which I recommend adding sparingly.
All three of Uncle D's Favorites that we ordered were absolutely delicious. The dough used for the crust is supplied by Sunrise Bagels. In the hands of Uncle D's, it becomes a cracker-thin base that retains just enough doughlike quality when baked to keep it from crumbling apart — perfection in my opinion and far superior to some of those other thin-crust pizzas that have a pan-poured character.
The Wyoming is a sweet chili pepper pizza topped with olive oil, sweet chili pepper sauce, sausage, pepperoni, pineapple, peperoncinis, a pepper mix and feta cheese. Though it sounds like a lot of toppings, they are evenly dispersed in quantities that are in balance with the crust. This was true of our other selections as well. The flavor was spicy-sweet and the favorite of my dining companion, who has the highest tolerance for spicy hot foods, though we all found it tasty and not too spicy.
The California was the big hit with the rest of us. It is a pear and gorgonzola cheese pizza that we found so interesting it has no contemporary comparison. The cheese didn't overwhelm the other ingredients and the pear presented a sweet surprise to each magical slice.
The Montana is a good choice for those who enjoy caramelized onions. Although it has chevre and Parmigiano-Reggiano on it, the cheeses serve to enhance the caramelized quality of the onions and impart a rich goodness to the pizza's profile.
All three of Uncle D's Favorite pizzas are their own creations. Each is a treat well worth trying.
The dessert pizza was equally impressive. The fresh blueberries had just begun to melt into the pie and mingle with the buttery mix of cinnamon and sugar when it exited the oven. It was extraordinarily scrumptious.
Menu highlights beyond what I tried: The Reuben, made with olive oil, thousand island, pastrami, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut, sounded like an adventurous option. The Vegetariana, with olive oil, tomato sauce, mozzarella, spinach, a peperoncini pepper mix, onions, green olives, artichoke, and fresh basil, is a no-meat variety among the specialty pizzas.
Uncle D's also serves up classic pizzas such as a cheese, pepperoni, Hawaiian, and Italian.
Salads include a fresh spinach, creamy Caesar, and a garden salad, in addition to the Cold & Crunchy Romaine that I tried.
Other observations: Pizzas are baked in the wood-fired oven, which quickly renders orders that are delivered to tables by one of the friendly wait staff members.
The persuasive power of a delicious pizza, combined with excellent service and a comfortable atmosphere is enough to turn my affections toward a new favorite. I am looking forward to my next visit. Uncle D's will serve your pizza cravings.
Cost: Pizzas come in two sizes and cost $10 for a personal size, and either $12 or $14 (depending on the type) for the larger size. Dessert pizzas are $8. Salads cost $6 and $8. Drinks are a buck.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Telephone: 360-723-5415.
Where: 1417 S.E. Rasmussen Blvd., Suite 130, Battle Ground Village. www.uncledspizza.com
Health score: Uncle D's has received a pre-opening inspection and is scheduled for a routine inspection sometime in the near future. Zero is a perfect score, and Clark County Public Health closes restaurants that score 100 or higher. For information, call 360-397-8428.


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PEORIA - Runners had a beautiful morning for the annual Firecracker 5000.
Nearly 1,000 participants started their holiday running a 5k down by the Peoria riverfront.
Some were even donned in red, white and blue.
Organizers said they only had a little more than 300 runners signed up a week ago, but with the perfect weather, they saw a huge increase in the past few days.
"Oh my gosh. We could not have asked for a better day to kick, for Firecracker to kick off our beautiful Fourth of July. Everyone can have their run, go home, and then go on to their family activities," Sarah Cole of the Peoria Jaycees said.
The Peoria Jaycees have put on the event for the past 33 years. All the proceeds go to charities like the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation or the Greater Veteran Honor Flight.
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Peaceful Japan grapples with wartime memories
U-T San Diego reporters Peter Rowe and John Wilkens explore how WWII shaped the "Greatest Generation" and our home. These stories will focus on local men and women who helped preserve our nation and re-create our city. The series is supported by U-T's video partner, the Media Arts Center San Diego.
Monumental salutes to 'Greatest Generation'
Preserving the memories of World War II
Legacy of WWII: It was a 'Woman's War Too'
Japanese-Americans in San Diego; A couple's bond, both were sent to internment camps in their youth
The Battle of Midway's unsinkable San Diegan
JOETSU, Japan
On the site of a POW camp 200 miles northwest of Tokyo, Yoshikazu Kondo hopes a dark chapter from Japan's past will lead to a brighter future.
"We have to understand that war makes everybody unhappy and sometimes cruel," said Kondo, 57, an architect who oversees a park here, commemorating the Naoetsu prison camp where more than 600 Allied captives lived and 60 died. "We need to refresh our memories of World War II. I think it is our duty to pass along this information to young people."
Backed by supporters and attacked by protesters, this park reflects this nation's ambivalence about "The Pacific War." In the United States, World War II is widely seen as an honorable "good war" that ended in triumph nearly 70 years ago. But in Japan, the conflict ended in defeat — and still retains an immediate and explosive power. Across this prosperous and peaceful island nation, citizens continue to debate the war, why it was fought, what should be remembered and who should be mourned.
Dozens of parks, monuments and museums recall this era, all expressing a desire for peace. Most of these memorials ignore other nations' casualties, though, focusing tightly on Japan's staggering losses: 2.4 million dead, including 350,000 civilians.
Naoetsu is one of the few places to acknowledge Japan's victims.
"What the public tends to remember is being bombed by B-29s, and Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa," said Hatsue Shinohara, director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Tokyo's Waseda University. "We started the war, but our sense of responsibility is not so clear."
Shinohara is an academic, but this issue is not. Japan's American-drafted postwar constitution bans a full-fledged military, leaving much of its defense to U.S. forces — including sailors and Marines from San Diego. In exchange, Washington seeks this democracy's diplomatic assistance in defusing regional crises, from North Korean saber-rattling to Chinese trade disputes.
Those efforts are hampered by history, as other Asian nations retain vivid memories of Tokyo's wartime aggression. South Korea is a fellow democracy and U.S. ally, yet weekly rallies outside Japan's embassy in Seoul demand reparations for "comfort women" forced into prostitution by the Imperial Army. Wartime atrocities in China, especially the 1937 "Rape of Nanjing," remain raw topics in Beijing.
Fresh salt was poured on these wounds last Sunday, when high-ranking Japanese officials visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where the nation's war dead — including 13 "Class A" war criminals — are honored. Beijing objected; Seoul cancelled a scheduled trip to Japan by its foreign minister.
"The war in China, the war in the Pacific theater — we were the aggressor," Shinohara said. "Somehow, the meaning of the war has been whitewashed."
'Stunning victory'
Spring came early to Tokyo this year, and by mid-March the blossoming cherry trees in Ueno Park were surrounded by photo-snapping sightseers. Fresh beginnings were also seen on the Nikkei stock exchange, where "Abenomics" — the fiscal policies of newly-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — seems to be lifting the economy.
Abe is also considering easing restrictions on Japan's defense forces, since 1945 constitutionally limited to repelling attacks on the home islands. In Chinese and South Korea media, some critics warn that this as the first step toward renewing Tokyo's militarism. Between 1905-1945, Japanese forces seized much of Asia and, without warning, dragged the U.S. into World War II by attacking Pearl Harbor.
That's the standard narrative in American schools — and a gross oversimplification, argued Haruo Tohmatsu, a professor at the National Defense Academy of Japan.
The Pacific War, Tohmatsu insisted, was rooted in Japan's long-simmering conflicts with Russia and China, plus later clashes with the U.S. Many Japanese scholars insist that Washington's final insult was its 1941 imposition of an oil embargo, an unsuccessful effort to pressure Tokyo into withdrawing from China.


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Verbena bonariensis flowers on tall, wiry stems and can be planted with a variety of different perennials, including grasses. It has a long flowering season, making it an ideal plant for low-maintenance gardens and herbaceous borders.
Verbena bonariensis works well in a number of garden settings, such as cottage and contemporary gardens, due to its height and airy appearance. It's also beneficial for attracting wildlife, particularly butterflies.
Growing tall on strong, wiry stems, Verbena bonariensis can be planted in with a variety of different plants. It works particularly well when used in prairie-style planting, in conjunction with other prairie plants such as rudbeckia and ornamental grasses.
Seeds can be sown directly in the ground in spring, or you can start them off under glass in late-winter, and plant them outside later. For best results grow Verbena bonariensis in full sun to partial shade, in moist but well-drained soil. Incorporate plenty of organic matter into the soil before planting out, and mulch plants annually with well-rotted compost or manure.
Verbena bonariensis isn't fully hardy, so plants may be damaged by winter frosts. Protect the roots with a layer of straw or mulch in winter, and don't cut back the dead stalks until new ones have emerged in spring. If left, Verbena bonariensis will self-seed freely and naturalise in borders, so any plants lost to frost should be replaced by their offspring.
24/11/2011 at 15:27
i have one in mine garden with a combination wit peony's and tree peony's hope it will work as i planned it because the big flower of the peony's and the little flowers of the verbena will contrast (srry for my english i am from holland)
24/11/2011 at 15:28
I have had this verbena in the garden for a couple of years now - it has moved from one side to the other, all by itself. This year it is a mass of butterflies all day - yesterday I counted over 17 of them at one time! My daughter now wants one in her garden too! A beautiful, structural plant - and watching the butterflies is better than watching TV!
24/11/2011 at 15:29
can anyone tell me if this is fussy about soil type? i haven't tested my soil but the marigolds have gone mad, as have the busy lizzies and sunflowers but the heathers i put in have died, don't want to lose anymore lovely plants!
24/11/2011 at 15:30
I started some from seed a couple of weeks ago after cold stratification for 3 weeks. Wasn't sure about growing them but after reading this and the comment on cannas, bamboos etc. I am sure they will go great in my garden. 7 seedlings are so far showing by the way so I am well pleased.
04/05/2012 at 21:22
I've been waiting with bated breath for 3 years nurturing what were feeble seedlings through to small plants only to sit cold and wet through 2 wet pennine summers and 2 bitter snow blown pennine winters... this year they are strong little plants peeping through campanula and liverwort soon to be swaying above Annabelle football size white flower heads in my front garden... Who needs a place to park! Plant more flowers!


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The Bucks will not have to "tank" it.Hide replies
Not as long as Drew sticks with starting lineups like tonight.
Hopefully Herb doesn't catch on to the "Plan" and screw things up.
Henson found his jumper
Young Aristotle found his 3-ball
and...........plus 3 for Mad Rad
Plus three for Bad Rad the Impaler. I knew he should have started, along with five of his cousins.Hide replies
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AND mE!!!!
At least time has shown Drew was right to keep Henson back.
You can't start six in most leagues ;) - tho not sure even starting six woulda helped last night. Please keep in mind "the guy that started WW 1" would not be afraid to take the shot...
He need more guys that aren't afraid to take the shot, they lubricate the pAnZer tracks!!!
I find it disturbing that Butler has been a better per 36 rebounder than Henson so far this season. Unfortunately there's very little reason for Drew not to stick with Butler at PF again tomorrow night.
Go out there and get the damn ball, John!Hide replies
aCCIDENTAL tANK kOMMANDER...cAR00M Butler?
Which one has more minutes at power forward?
I'm more disturbed by his 34% field goal %. Couldn't some other team have re-gifted us a player who can hit his shots a little better instead?
My "key" for the rest of the season: continuing to jam calls from Toronto to John Hammomd.Hide replies
....and reading scary stories, like this one from wagesofwins:
"But clearly if this team was not dragged down by two "unproductive stars" who insist on just throwing the ball at the hoop, this team could be much better.
Of course, we should remember that last year this collection of unproductive stars was a trio. So if the Raptors can find another sucker like the New York Knicks (who took Andrea Bargnani from the Raptors), a better team can be built in Toronto.
Or maybe, the team just needs to place another call to New York.
Perhaps the call could go like this… "just imagine Mr. Dolan. You could have a team of Melo, Bargnani, Stoudemire, Gay, and DeRozan. With all those scorers, who could stop the Knicks? Every night you could have FIVE "top performers…"
Same old Bucks. Now go have some fun at the South Beach clubs.
Wow, I decided on a whim this AM to check on the old Bucks blog, and I have to say, I admire some of you guys' tenacity and loyalty. I lost the capacity to emotionally invest in this team right around the "Seriously, Jennings and Ellis in the same backcourt is a great idea!" phase of the Bucks exercise in management by dart-throwing. I had gotten so far removed from most things NBA that I didn't even know about Sanders until I pulled up this site.
I had heard that they re-signed Delfino and Ridnour, and I'm not going to lie, it did make me wonder if my old buddy Kurt wasn't actually just a blog alias for John Hammond. Seriously, no sarcasm at all, the fact that you guys can still muster up the enthusiasm post on this blog is impressive. kstein, Fandom, Hawthorne Wingo (I still don't know who you're talking about in any of your posts), BNK, IAT, kudos to you guys.Hide replies
Hey Al. It's not all, loyalty; some of us come here to rip, ya know. and, truth be told most of the "toxic twins" crowd are long gone, too.
What did you think of the Cav's pick this year? Kind of tweenerish, no?
You have to read every day to crack the Wingo code. He'll be talking about "Kurt throwing darts" by tomorrow.
To some, this blog is as much a place to vent, and try out new material, as anything else.
Good to hear from you [AiO].
On another note, if you watched college basketball last night, especially the Kansas/Duke game, you saw the lottery. You saw the top 2 picks in the next year's draft. The Bucks need one of those guys. Both would be franchise changers.
Welcome back, Big Al!!!
The Wingo code is specifically devised to confuse the TIA overlords. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Is Bynum already done for the Cavs this year? Or are they saving him for the playoffs?
Keep those Uncle Drew videos coming.
Actually TOP 3 PICKS, coach aughttahh. Wiggins, Parker and Z-b0 Jr.
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And............ a negative assist/turnover ratio to go with that.
I'll take the Naters for 850K, Alex.
Still TOP assist to turnover player in association. Gotta get him hurt pronto to keep the fix IN...........
From our MAN, Zach Lowe....................still waiting for his LARRY SANDERS upDate:
"Just finished Dubs-DET. GSW offense is wonderful, but DET is a train wreck on D. Jennings/Drummond were bad, no communication overall.
"Detroit Pistons' Brandon Jennings has Joe Dumars' blessing to look for shot more"
"That's one thing me and Joe talked about," Jennings said. "That was my first problem in the beginning, when I came back, trying to please everybody, trying to make sure I was being a pass-first point guard instead of just playing basketball.
"But like tonight, I've just got to play basketball. If the shot's there, I'm going to take it. If not, then I'm going to pass it."
W0W!!!! Phenom with a sterling -31........AND
"Deer crashes into church basement, can't be saved" 9:09 a.m.
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Seems even efforts to bring religion into this mess is foiled.
No word yet on just what HERD> member slammed into the foundation.
Little to report out of Miami that was not expected going in.
We called it here after the loss to Boston (tied with Philly at
4-4 for first place in the East with both NYC teams fighting for the cellar)
and the out pour of colorful metaphors by James to 'Light A Fire' under his crew>
The box score is a mess; looks like a kindergarten kid who drop her box
of 64 Crayola's.
So, with little drama, no surprise ending, and smiles hard to come by in this
a very ugly beginning, we move on to Orlando this evening. I wonder who
is playing "Lebron' on this club; in an effort to ignite some fire to this
mix? Anyone? Someone? Seems God wants little to do even with this challenge?
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Looks like Caron is playing our "Lebron", and our Durant and Kobe and 'melo all rolled into one. Someone tell him to knock it off!
....before he gets us a top pick.
you first.
Don't.........Stop..............Come back..............!
>My apologies (IAT) for neglecting to include the WI/FLA game.
...Thank you for the reminder, and the WIN>
>Appreciate the occasional check in (AIO) if for no other reason
...then we know you are well>
>In related news, might be a good time to tweak the M/O brotha (wing man).
...If (AIO) is challenged, 'shirley' the newbees who pass through merely
pass over your 'insight'. And, that can't be good even in the land of
bamboo kitchen floors?
>Brotha (CCR) sounds like he's lost that lovin feelin?
...Guess its worse then we thought.
>I had high hopes that this assortment of cookies, this box of Whitman Samplers,
this gathering of a new HERD> would render far better basketball then being
witnessed? Ya, I know, injuries are a itch, but still, and again yes its
early, I guess I was hoping / expecting / praying for better played hoops even
in lieu of victory. Not yet...not yet>>>
>Just one observation from one night of basketball.
What Wiggins is to childhood, Parker is to Manhood.
While both seem to have an eye for the hoop, it is the 'other things'
that during the evening sold me on Parker being the man.
Again. One night. One game.
>I'm saddened.
Before I found this blog some three/four seasons ago, I would not
-invest the time- to the NBA until around Christmas. Oh, I catch a game
here, enjoy a night at the B/C there; but, 'invest time'...not really.
Since my inception to this forum lo those few seasons ago, I"ve noticed
an up tic in 'home remedies' being applied to the conscious air waves.
Time to reexamine a few traits of yore, and ponder the other fork in the road>
I'm not sure how much more of this I can take?
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App has ability to ID faces in a crowd. What could possibly go wrong?
Firefox users the world over can probably get behind this request.
Twitter has reportedly stopped the flow of its data to US intelligence agencies, which is currently delivered via a private data mining service.
It's not always perfect, but it can successfully identify individual devices with 95 per cent accuracy.
Ministers on the Remain side apparently engaging in hot, confidential, in-out EU group chats.
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Relationship between behavior, adrenal activity, and environment in zoo-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Version of Record online: 11 MAY 2011
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20396
© 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Zoo Biology
Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 306–321, May/June 2012
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Clark, F. E., Fitzpatrick, M., Hartley, A., King, A. J., Lee, T., Routh, A., Walker, S. L. and George, K. (2012), Relationship between behavior, adrenal activity, and environment in zoo-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Zoo Biol., 31: 306–321. doi: 10.1002/zoo.20396
Publication History
- Issue online: 13 JUN 2012
- Version of Record online: 11 MAY 2011
- Manuscript Accepted: 11 APR 2011
- Manuscript Revised: 18 MAR 2011
- Manuscript Received: 28 NOV 2009
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- fecal glucocorticoid metabolite;
- management;
- noninvasive monitoring;
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Monitoring adrenal activity through noninvasive fecal hormone sampling is rapidly gaining popularity as a tool to assess zoo animal welfare. However, few studies have sought to investigate the interrelationships between behavior, adrenal activity, and environment, and ask whether both behavioral and adrenal monitoring strategies are required to assess welfare sufficiently. We present the findings of a 9-month study of a small group (one male, two females) of Western lowland gorillas, Gorilla gorilla gorilla. First, we examined the effect of environmental variables on gorilla behavior. Second, we examined the effect of environmental variables on the concentration of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGC) and the relationship between behavior and FGC. Environmental variables had similar effects on all three gorillas. Negative vigilance of visitors (NVV; staring, posturing, and charging at visitors) significantly increased in all subjects as environmental noise levels increased, and food-related behavior significantly decreased in all subjects as crowd size increased. Exhibit modifications had a number of positive effects on behavior. Notably, when privacy screens were used, NVV significantly decreased in two subjects. We found no significant effects of environmental variables on FGC. However, we did find significant relationships between behavior and FGC in one female. Specifically, her NVV was significantly higher one day before, and on the same day as, raised FGC. Also, hair plucking significantly increased in the two days following raised FGC. Overall, this study demonstrates how concurrent noninvasive fecal and behavioral monitoring can be used for gorilla welfare assessment. Zoo Biol 31:306–321, 2012. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


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Visa Policy as Migration Channel, Ireland QUINN, EMMA (European Commission, 2011-12-01)An Irish visa is a form of pre-entry clearance to travel to a point of entry to the State only. Whether or not the visa carries any legitimate expectation of entering the State has been debated in the courts. Ireland and ...


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You see, today I weigh 145 pounds. When I first joined SP, I weighed 167-168 pounds which was way too big for my slight 5'6'' frame. Using SP, I lost right at 50 pounds and got down to 119 pounds, which was way too skinny for my frame. People started asking me if I was well. I stayed at 119 for about a year and then some weight crept back on. I was in my 120's and I look good at 125-129 or so.
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Revision as of 13:24, 14 February 2012 by A-Dust (talk | contribs) (Removing artwork, not necessarily Hank.)
- For other characters of the same name, see Hank (TLAD) or Hank Johanson.
Hank is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Hank works for Trailer Park Mafia leader Marty Jay Williams and works for his loan sharking business. Hank appears during the mission Fear the Repo when he disposes of a delivery van.
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