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Since it was established in 1990, more than 1000 students from all continents have come to Stadtschlaining to study peace at EPU.
Read what some of them have said about the "EPU experience":
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What makes EPU so special?
- More than 20 years of experience in peace education.
EPU was the first university centre teaching peace and conflict studies in continental Europe. By now, EPU has had more than 20 years of experience in peace education, connecting academic education, research and theory with its practical application in the field.
- Perfect location for studying peace.
EPU is located in the small and quiet medieval town of Stadtschlaining, close to the Hungarian border. Its tranquility and peacefulness make it an ideal place to study peace and to learn from lecturers and other students, but also to interact with the local population.
- Using the synergy effect of the Peace Center Schlaining
EPU is part of the Peace Center Schlaining, which consists of the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), the Peace Library, the Peace Museum, the Hotel Burg Schlaining as well as the student hotel Haus International. All these facilities are within walking distance, and EPU can draw on all these resources.
- Small number of students.
The small number of students (approx. 30 per study course) provides an intimate atmosphere and creates an ideal learning environment, where each student has ample opportunity for asking questions, giving comments and holding in-depth discussions with lecturer and co-students.
- Multicultural faculty and student body.
Our faculty as well as our students come from many different countries, and have a multitude of ethnic, religious and educational backgrounds. This creates an interesting learning environment where students learn not only from the lecturers but also from each other. On these maps you can view the countries of origin of our students and lecturers. Please also consider EPU´s gender ratio of students and lecturers.
- Faculty consisting of permanent staff and external lecturers.
EPU has lecturers who are at EPU permanently as well as guest lecturers, who come from all over the world to Stadtschlaining to teach for one week. Thus, EPU is able to combine continuity assured by our permanent staff with new perspectives and insights presented by the external lecturers.
- Availability of lecturers.
Our lecturers are at the students' disposal also outside the classroom, and can be approached for questions, feedback and discussions.
- More than 1000 alumni.
Since its existence, more than 1000 students have studied at our institution. Many of them now have thriving careers with national or international NGOs, international organizations, governments, in education, the private sector etc. . This is a network that students can draw upon when needed.
- Common festivities.
Students regularly organize cultural evenings, where students from a certain region cook traditional dishes from their home countries, dance typical dances, sing typical songs etc. . This is a perfect way to learn with all senses about fellow students' home countries and it strengthens the bond amongst students, but also with students and EPU staff.


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Terry heads the Mobile Library Services department and enjoys each and every one of the communities the bookmobile serves.
This is an official blog for the Marin County Free Library.
All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
Jean wrote for children. Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and she was, too. She told them stories about a boy and a falcon, a girl and an elegant wolf pack, about owls, weasels, foxes, prairie dogs, the alpine tundra, the tropical rain forest. And when the telling was and is done, she hoped they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.
If you haven't been transported by one of Jean's books, you are invited to open the pages at your local library. Here are a few of her titles that also make excellent read aloud books:
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Does meditation turn back your biological clock? A number of studies suggest the answer is yes. For instance, a study published this year found that people who meditated daily for at least four years had longer elomeres—the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes—than people who do not meditate. Short telomeres are believed to be markers of accelerated aging, according to the study's lead author, Elizabeth A. Hoge, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Scientists have also shown that meditation may reverse the effects of aging on the brain. As we grow older, the prefrontal cortex—the region of the brain associated with attention and planning—gets thinner. In 2005, Sara Lazar, PhD, also with Harvard's psychiatry department, found that meditators had thicker prefrontal cortexes than did nonmeditators.
Similarly, in 2010, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania discovered that, compared with nonmedi-tators, meditators have significantly greater blood flow in their brains—a sign of robust brain activity. The same group also found that training people who have signs of memory decline to meditate increased theircerebral blood flow and memory. "We believe that doing meditation improves your memory and attention in the long run," says Andrew Newberg, MD, the senior author of both studies and now director of research at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Several different types of meditation produce anti-aging benefits. Participants in Hoge's study did "loving kindness" meditation. This sometimes involves "repeating a series of phrases that you direct toward another person, like 'May you be well,' 'May you be healthy,' 'May you be at ease,' " Hoge explains. The University of Pennsylvania group engaged in Kirtan Kriya, a singing meditation.
Hoge says meditation may keep you young because it decreases the body's production of stress hormones, which have negative effects, such as tissue damage. In particular, loving-kindness meditation may be valuable because it guides practitioners to think of other people—a social focus that may increase the activity of oxytocin in the brain, a hormone whose levels can increase when you hug someone. Boosts in oxytocin have been linked to health benefits such as lower blood pressure and faster wound healing.
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How to Assign Views to a Youtube Video?To Assign Account Views to a youtube video,
click The Arrow, the one on the same line as Account Credits.
This will open up a page with your websites, and a box to enter # of credits you want to assign to each video.
How does it work?
How to Contact Us?Use the contact form in your members area or send an email to email@example.com
Can i have Multiple Accounts?No. Please only one account per household(IP). We can detect cheaters and their account will be deleted without any notice!
If I delete a site will the credits go back into my account?Yes
How do I get Paid to View videos?We will buy back credits at $1/exchangerate credits. You need a minimum of $10 to withdraw. All withdrawals will be processed manually. To request a withdrawal please send a request through our withdrawal form. *Price may change without any notice, and you will be ask to confirm Amount for Credits and Payment Processor ID. **Payment should be process within 7 days, but could be delayed longer in event of insufficient funds. *** This Service can be interrupted at anytime, without Notice. ****Payouts will only be to verified PayPal accounts, this is to prevent against fraud.
Can I get a refund?Yes you can get a partial refund depending on how many credits you have left. Refunds must be requested within 14 days of purchase.
How can I disable sound playing from the YouTube videos?A little trick is to drag the volume slider on the YouTube video all the way down, as opposed to pressing the mute button. This will effectively silence all YouTube videos. Or if you have Windows 7 you can click on the speaker icon, click Mixer, then drag the volume down for the Vagex application.
How else do you promote my video?We not only expose your video to thousands of members, but increase the number of Likes and Subscribers to your videos.
Why should I Auto-Like, Auto-Sub and Auto-Fav videos?You will earn 1 extra credit per view for each action.
Does the Vagex Viewer work on Macs?Please use the FireFox viewer.
Why doesnt the Vagex viewer software work on my Windows computer?Make sure you have the latest version of the Microsoft NET Framework.
How can I make my video even more popular?If you really want to increase the popularity of your videos, you must optimise them for particular keywords.
Example: If you want everyone to see your call of duty head shot video , then you should optimise your video for the specific keyword, so that when people search for it in youtube or Google , your video will be at the top of the results. The first step to optimising your video is to put the keyword (call of duty head shot) in the title, description and tags. Then add the video to vagex, with the keyword (call of duty head shot), and we will take care of the rest.
I just added my video, why isn't it receiving views?You need to wait for your URL to be added to the next rotation list. This will take less than an hour. But it may take up to 1 day before you start receiving consistent views. This is because people are already viewing a set list of videos, and will only start viewing yours when they close and reopen the viewer.
Can I run multiple version of the viewer?Only if they are running on different computers with different household ip addresses.
WARNING: You will not earn ANY credits if you run the viewer on more than one computer with the same ip address.
What is the point of increasing my YouTube Views?Views do several things for your videos (but they should always be accompanied by likes and subscribes). They basically tell youtube that in all aspects of people using their site, a higher fraction of people are watching your videos and this demonstrates quality content which they will use to increase the quality of their service. You should see the following when you get more views:
How do I get paid when I withdraw credits?Paypal. We pay to verified PayPal accounts only.
My account says I have received x Likes and x Subs but on Youtube it is different, why?We have found that likes and subs are a lot like views and do not update straight away. Please be patient and check back tomorrow. Further please note that we do not guarantee that every view/like/sub we provide will show up on youtube.
Can I view using proxies?No. If you do, all your credits will be forfeited and your account deleted.
How can I cancel a subscription?If you want to cancel your subscription just go to your PayPal account, click on profile, click on pre-approved payments, and then cancel your automatic payments to Vagex.
Why was my account deleted?Possible reasons could be:
1. You were using proxies.
2. You were running multiple viewers with the same household ip address.
3. You were blatantly cheating or trying to hack our system.
We store a cheat log and know when you earn credits too fast or if you are earning credits by viewing videos in impossible orders. If you gain too many entries in this log we will be forced to delete your account without notice.
Whenever i try to use the viewer it says I need to intall flash Please make sure flash is enabled for internet explorer. Or install it by going here.
How can I delete my account?Login then go here
How does the exchange rate work?The exchange rate is calculated automatically every day using a simple algorithm. We sum the total number of credits in the system, and then calculate the ratio of credits that are allocated to Enabled videos to all other credits in the system. The more credits that are allocated on Enabled videos the better (lower) the ratio will be. However if more people are saving credits in their accounts, the ratio will increase (i.e. it will cost more credits per $1 to cashout). This dynamic exchange rate was introduced to increase the sustainability of the system.
What is the Loyalty Program?The loyalty program is our way of thanking you for your continued use of vagex. The more videos you view the more loyalty stars you will earn. You can check your current stars here http://vagex.com/members/loyalty.php
There are a few benefits of having a greater number of stars. One is that each star you have will give you a 5% discount on the exchange rate. Another feature is if you are a free member you will receive an extra 2 video slots per star.
This machine is already registered to another user?If when using the viewer you receive the error message [This machine is already registered to another user], then you can try resetting it. It usually happens when you enter the wrong userid for the first time when using the viewer. Please note that your machine ID is unique for your version of windows and no one else in the world will have it. All Machine IDs reset automatically once a month on the 1st.
Follow these instructions if you want to reset your Machine ID in our database:
Open up the viewer and up in the top left corner, click on FILE then click on COMPUTER INFO. You will find your Machine ID located there. Copy it and paste it into the form here:
http://www.vagex.com/members/registercomps.php and then click GO.
It usually takes a full 24 hours to reset.
I have a dynamic IP, meaning it will change soon, will that affect my account here?Nope. IPs reset twice a day.
Why does my antivirus detect the viewer as a virus?Some Antivirus software (Avira and now Avast) have flagged the Vagex Viewer as a virus. It is not a virus, so just add it to your safe list if you are using these antiviral softwares.
How can I increase the ratio of vagex views to youtube views?To increase the ratio of vagex views to youtube views you can try increasing the view length.
Also please be aware, the more video entries you have of the same video, the worse the ratio will be, but the greater the rate of views will come in. Our website is designed to build your views over time rather than all at once. So spending 200,000 credits on one video entry may produce about 40,000 over several months. But if you have 20 entries with 10,000 each, then you will use up all these credits in no time and have maybe only 15,000 youtube views in the end. Vagex is very much WYSIWYG, it is up to you to find a strategy that works.
After opening the windows Viewer I get an error message saying the RPC server is unavailable?Please restart the viewer and be sure not to close the hidden IE browser or any iexplore.exe processes.
Can I transfer credits to someone elses account?We do not do credit transfers between user accounts under any circumstances.
Why do I get an error saying my YouTube account is banned?If you are Auto-Liking and Auto-Subscribing when using the viewer, then your YouTube activity feed should remain public so that we may verify your account performing these actions. If we cannot verify these actions your account may be suspended. You can make the actions public using this page: http://www.youtube.com/account_sharing
If your account is banned it simply means you cannot use it in the viewer whilst your activity feed is hidden. You can enable the activity feed and request that it be removed from the banned list.
Getting this error when I open the viewer -Error connecting to vagex.com, please restart program in a couple of minutes.A: 3 possible reasons:
1. Viewers are disabled for server maintenance, (will happen each day at 4PM AEST). It may also happen at other times, and if so, a message will be posted to the members area.
2. You have been opening the viewer too frequently in the last few minutes.
3. You have opened the viewer more than 15 times in a 12 hour period.
Getting this error when I first open the viewer -The external IE browser has been closed, Please restart viewer.Make sure the file Interop.SHDocVw.dll is in the same folder as Vagex.exe
Make sure your internet explorer is running properly and updated if possible to IE 9 or IE 8.
Enable Auto Clear Cache
Restart the viewer.
Keep getting this error -unable to detect video playing. Make sure Youtube is loading propertly.This may happen once or twice when you first run the viewer. Please enable Auto Clear Cache. If it is persistently happening please click File > Exit With Log, on the viewer, and post your log on the forum.
Can I put adsense ads on my videos then put them in Vagex?You must not add any videos containing Google AdSense Ads or any form of paid advertisement. We are not responsible for yours or anyone elses Google AdSense account or any affiliated account getting banned. The ONLY purpose of vagex.com is to facilitate an increase in organic traffic to your YouTube video through techniques of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). In no event shall vagex.com or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on vagex.com�s Internet site, even if vagex.com or a vagex.com authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.
Why dont you guarantee youtube views?If 1 credit were to produce 1 guaranteed youtube view, it would require 3-4 views from the viewers. So we would have to reduce the amount of credits given to 0.25 per view. This makes things a lot more confusing. We would rather keep it simple, and instead of offering $4 for 1000 credits which gets you 1000 guaranteed views, we just offer $4 for 4000 credits which gets you above or around 1000 youtube views.
I keep getting an error in the Vagex Viewer saying The external browser has been closed, please restart viewer..?Please open task manager, (Alt+Ctr+Delete) or (Ctr+Shift+Esc for Vista and W7), and click on the processes tab, and end any processes that have iexplore.exe and then restart the viewer.
How many videos can I view per day?Each userID can view up to 2000 videos per day across viewers. And up to 2500 using the Firefox manual viewing feature.
Why was my account deleted?You were found to be using multiple accounts, trying to exploit the system or breaking our terms.
How many entries of the same video can I add?You may have up to 3 entries of a unique Youtube video URL.
What is the maximum views my video entry will receive per day?You can select to receive 100, 200, 500 or 1000 views per day on your video.
How do I earn free credits with Twitter?If you tweet your referral link each day with #vagex and it appears in the #vagex feed you will automatically receive 1000 bonus credits. And 3000 bonus credits if the tweet was at the end of the month. Only one Tweet will be verified per Twitter account per Vagex UserID per day.
Will YouTube ban my account if I use Vagex?You do not need to be the owner of a YouTube video to add it to our rotation. YouTube cannot ban a YouTube account based on a video in our rotation. However, please note we are not affiliated with YouTube, and YouTube do not like these type of view exchange services. So if you are using our viewers with the auto-like and auto-subscribe feature (where you need to be logged in to YouTube for this to work) we recommend not to use your main YouTube account.
Can I run the Windows and Firefox Viewers on the same computer using the same IP address?Yes.


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Home Ownership Programs
The Los Angeles County Community Development Commission (CDC) offers assistance for first-time homeowners through their First Time Homebuyers Programs. For information on the Home Ownership Program (HOP), Mortgage Credit Certificate Program (MCC) or the First Home Mortgage Program, please call 626-586-1839 or 626-586-1837 or visit their website listed below. The City of Duarte does not directly administer or fund these programs.
Foreclosure Assistance
An informational guide regarding foreclosure assistance is available through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The website will also direct you with web links to helpful resources and information regarding foreclosure aid.
Rental Housing
For information on rental housing, please visit the Los Angeles County Housing Resource Center website listed below. The site assists residents in locating housing resources for affordable, special needs, and emergency housing by providing listings of available rental units by City. It is free for both prospective tenants to search and for landlords to list properties. For additional information or any questions, please contact SocialServe.com at 1-877-428-8844.
Residential Tenants' & Landlords' Rights & Responsibilities
What should a tenant do if his or her apartment needs repairs? Can a landlord force a tenant to move? How many day's notice does a tenant have to give a landlord before the tenant moves? Can a landlord raise a tenants' rent? The California Department of Consumer Affairs' publication "California Tenants - A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities" answers these and many other frequently asked questions. The publication is an information guide and practical resource for both tenants and landlords. For your convenience, a free copy of this publication is available in the Community Development Department or you can view it online at www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordtenantbook
Section 8 Rental Program
Section 8 is a federally funded rental assistance program that subsidizes the cost of rental housing for eligible households. For information on the Section 8 Rental Program, please contact the Los Angeles County Housing Authority at (562) 347-4663 or visit www.hacola.org
Senior Citizen Housing
For information regarding the City of Duarte's senior housing opportunities, please contact each of the listed communities individually for specific information concerning qualifications and availability of units. For information on services for seniors and adults with disabilities within the County of Los Angeles, please call the Senior Referral Line at (213) 738-4004.
Senior Citizen Housing Communities
Fair Housing Information
For information regarding unfair evictions and/or discrimination, please contact the following:
L.A. County Dept. of Consumer Affairs: 1-800-593-8222
L.A. County Housing Rights Center: 1-800-477-5977 or www.housingrightscenter.org
HUD Office of Fair Housing & Equal Opportunity: 1-800-347-3739 or www.portal.hud.gov
National Fair Housing Advocate: www.fairhousing.com
AB 987 Database
The AB 987 database has been compiled in accordance with requirements of AB 987 which requires the City of Duarte Redevelopment Agency to post a list of affordable housing units constructed or rehabilitated with Redevelopment Agency low and moderate housing funds and/or housing units counted to meet the Agency's project area housing production or replacement housing obligations. This is NOT a list of available units.
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By Katrina Gay, NAMI Director of Communications
We have a day for giving thanks and two days for sales and buying presents. Now there is a day for giving back.
#GivingTuesday is a social media movement to create a national day of giving to kick off the holiday season. The second annual #GivingTuesday is on Dec. 3, 2013. Making a gift to help others by supporting a charity of your choice, then encouraging others to make a gift, too, are the anchor actions for this day of giving.
#GivingTuesday was started in 2012 by New York's 92nd Street Y and was then joined by the United Nations Foundation as a partner. With the contributions of a powerful list of corporations and influential leaders, a true social media movement was born that now include thousands of #GivingTuesday initiatives and movements. NAMI is a part of this movement.
It's Time to Shine the Light on Mental Illness
Mental illness affects everyone—nearly 60 million Americans every year experience mental illness. Left untreated, the costs are enormous to these individuals, their families and our communities.
But we also know that recovery is not a dream. Many people living with mental illness find themselves on the path of recovery made possible by treatment, support and understanding. However, barriers remain. Stigma, prejudice and ignorance present huge obstacles for many. Rather than simply talking about mental illness, we have an opportunity to take action and create a vision of a better tomorrow.
Millions of Americans face the day-to-day reality of living with mental illness. At NAMI, we get it. We've been there. We offer understanding and support unique to those who have this shared experience.
We know that the path of recovery is found through individual, family and community education, peer support, common sense public policy and the promotion of public understanding. Together with dedicated grassroots leaders, we educate families and those living with mental illness. We advocate night and day in every corner of the country to ensure better lives for everyone.
And yet fewer than one-third of adults and one-half of children with a diagnosed mental health condition receive services and treatment in a given year. One-half of all chronic mental illness begins by the age of 14; three-quarters by age 24.
It's Time to Make a Difference
You can play a part in changing the way the world understands mental illness. Today, and on Tuesday, Dec. 3, you can stand with us and help make a difference.
You can participate in NAMI's It's Time Campaign and:
- Read and share stories of inspiration and hope, promote understanding and acceptance.
- Share your story about why It's Time to shine the light on mental illness.
- Take the pledge to stand up and make a difference.
- Make a gift to NAMI and make sure that no one person or family is alone in their fight.
You can become a NAMI #GivingTuesday ambassador, too, simply by using your existing social networks. You can inspire awareness and participation by inviting others to participate, open their minds, share and give.
It is simple and easy to participate through these three steps:
- Make a gift to NAMI on #GivingTuesday or shout out to others online to support the NAMI #ItsTime campaign.
- Tweet/Facebook/Instagram post and share your plans to give back. Sample Tweet: Today on #GivingTuesday, proud to support @NAMICommunicate & the 60M living w/ #mentalillness. #ItsTime. http://ow.ly/r9SDk
- Tweet/Facebook/Instagram post and ask others to give back to NAMI also. Sample Tweet: My #GivingTuesday gift? @NAMICommunicate to help make sure no person/family is alone in the fight. Are you giving? http://ow.ly/r9S3B
So stand with NAMI in starting the holiday season off right. Help others know that there is hope for our communities and for those affected by mental illness.
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The award best private plots – Die besten Gärten 2012 recognizes exemplary design of sustainable private outdoor spaces, highlighting the garden as a place of innovation, as a space for creative expression and action, and as contemporary dialogue between architecture, ecology and landscape.
The competition is being held for the 5th time since 2006. The award criteria include: idea, conceptual and artistic quality, ecological quality, use of plants and materials, relationship between inside and outside, delimitation of space and organization of open space, technical planning and sustainability. Special attention will also be given to individual functionality and diversity of use. The outdoor space must be clearly identifiable as intended for private residence and use.
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Across the world, nitrogen runoff from synthetic pesticides and fertilizers is creating aquatic dead zones in freshwater lakes and in oceans, killing off species of fish and crustaceans. Called eutrophication, these dead zones are growing exponentially. This past summer, murky blue-green algae blooms – the lynchpin of eutrophication – appeared earlier and on more lakes in the midwestern United States than usual. Health warnings were issued in 20 states.
Conventionally grown cotton uses more insecticides than any other crop. And humans use more cotton than any other fiber. The synthetic pesticides and fertilizers that typically douse cotton farms devastate people and land, and they are increasingly found in our waterways. While cotton production isn't solely responsible for the damage, just 1 percent of the world's cotton is grown organically. Aldicarb, one of cotton's most harmful and commonly used insecticides, is still used in 25 countries, including the United States. Several years ago, 16 states reported it in their groundwater. Though the EPA slated the insecticide for a phasedout ban starting in 2010, the chemical was re-approved in 2011 for use under a new name and is likely being sprayed on cotton crops while you read this.
If that doesn't make you queasy, high levels of arsenic recently appeared in United States-grown rice and rice products; even brown and organic rice were implicated. While nobody knows for sure the source of the arsenic, cotton crops in the United States were heavily treated with arsenate pesticides until the 1980s. Residues of those pesticides linger in what are now flood-irrigated rice fields, where arsenic can be taken up by plant roots and stored in grains. To counter the problem, some rice is modified to withstand arsenic. For those of us trying to wrap our heads around GMO (genetically modified organism) crops, that means that rice is now bred to flourish in arsenic-rich soil, potentially drinking up significant amounts of one of the world's most notorious carcinogens.
Patagonia is looking at the damage that agriculture causes rivers, wetlands, wells and oceans as part of its current environmental initiative, Our Common Waters. When founder Yvon Chouinard learned about the destructive effects of conventionally grown cotton, he figured out how to source cotton grown in a cleaner, less harmful way. He announced that by 1996 the company would use organic cotton exclusively for its cotton clothing. It was a risky proposition but has proven to be a wise choice. Organic farming uses no synthetic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or genetically modified crops. This means that farmers can escape the destructive cycle of GMO seeds that need forever increasing amounts of pesticides and water – a cycle that costs both farmer and environment dearly. Today, 70-80 percent of organic cotton is grown using rainwater, not water-intensive irrigation. Organic farming systems also use biological inputs such as compost and green manure. This maintains soil integrity and builds up the humus layer of the soil, which in turn helps the soil retain water.
In 2010, working with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at University of California, Santa Barbara, Patagonia created a water footprint methodology to help better understand the impact of the garments it produces. The project quantifies the water used to manufacture Patagonia products by looking at the source of water, as well as the associated water pollution.
This framework helps link a product's water footprint with regional water stress to assess the impact of water consumption in a given watershed. For example, when looking at sourcing cotton from the Akola region in India, it's understood that though the region is dry, cotton grown there is fed with rainfall, and not irrigated. It's important that people aren't going thirsty to grow cotton for Patagonia clothing.
Jimmy Wedel grows organic cotton for Patagonia on the Texas High Plains. Not always an organic farmer, he now believes he's made a choice that's better for the environment. A self-proclaimed "reasonable environmentalist," he likes knowing that his employees aren't exposed to harmful pesticides on his farm. When he went organic, Wedel says, "A lot of people thought it was a fad, that it would go away. Now we can't supply near the demand for organic cotton in the United States."
By changing growing and manufacturing practices upstream, we can keep more pesticides and fertilizers from flowing into the world's precious and diminishing supplies of surface and groundwater. Patagonia remains committed to using organic cotton in its clothing. By doing so, it will keep millions of tons of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers out of rivers, lakes and oceans, and (at least sometimes) reduce water consumption in ecologically sensitive areas.


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Hope for A Cure
After years of baby steps in the march against breast cancer, new research has resulted in a giant leap forward. Doctors who once hoped, at best, to minimize the devastation of this disease are now peppering their conversations with that four-letter word—cure.
"We're very careful about using words like cure, but I think it's time to go back to those words," says Eric P. Winer, M.D., director of the breast oncology center at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Among the changes doctors expect in the next decade: targeted therapies that attack cancer without harming healthy cells, better detection methods, and treatments to prevent the disease entirely. "Breast cancer is going to be different in five to ten years," says Winer. "I believe we could see a 75 percent reduction in death rates, meaning that instead of 40,000 women dying annually, it will be more like 10,000."
The mood of the cancer-research community has shifted noticeably since May, with news of two drugs. While the compounds themselves (Herceptin and Avastin) are promising, it's the scientific theory behind the drugs that researchers feel will unlock the secrets of breast cancer.
The Breast Cancer Breakdown
Until recently, breast cancer was seen as a single disease, and many woman were treated the same: "Slash, burn and poison," says Los Angeles breast surgeon Susan Love, M.D., referring to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
Now scientists believe that the disease should never have been named after body parts in the first place. Cancer, it turns out, is defined by its genetic blueprint, not just its location. Breast cancer is really a collection of a half-dozen, and possibly more, diseases. Some can be defined by their hormonal activity; estrogen and progestin receptor positive cancers may have three or more distinct forms. Another is distinguished by multiple copies of a particular gene, HER2. Finally, a "basal-type cancer"—linked neither to hormones nor HER2—has also been identified.
Pinpointing the specific type of cancer in the breast will allow researchers to develop new drugs that fight tumor cells with fewer side effects or the collateral damage of chemotherapy.
Such therapies are already being prescribed. Herceptin, used in women with HER2-positive breast tumors (particularly aggressive when untreated), binds to certain proteins, blocking tumor growth and harnessing the body's own immune system to heal itself. In a study by Mayo Clinic researchers, Herceptin plus chemotherapy prevented recurrences in about half of women who would have had a recurrence. But the true potential of this research goes beyond the drug itself. "The fact that we have identified this key pathway implies to me that other agents will be available in the future that may do even better," says Winer.
The war against breast cancer will be won or lost in a Petri dish, as laboratories identify exactly what type of cancer a woman has, so the most effective agents can be prescribed to combat it. "We used to blanket the whole Amazon rain forest with chemicals," says Larry Norton, M.D., deputy physician-in-chief, Memorial Hospital at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York. "Now we design molecules to hit a single tree. It's a new level of detail."
Looking Forward
New Avenues of Attack
Recent findings on Avastin have boosted the profile of anti-angiogenesis drugs, which choke off the blood supply to tumors. This drug, FDA-approved to treat advanced colorectal cancer, is showing promise in breast cancer, too. Theoretically, all cancers produce proteins that direct the formation of new blood vessels that ultimately feed tumors. Studies of Avastin plus chemo showed that blocking those signals could starve colon cancer cells, so researchers began to study the drug for treating other solid tumors. A National Cancer Institute study showed that among women with advanced breast cancer, Avastin plus chemo slowed cancer progression by half. Researchers are now looking at long term survival as well as whether the drug can also benefit women with early stage disease.
New Drug-Delivery Systems
Nanotechnology is a term you'll hear more of when it comes to breast (or any) cancer research. Basically, nanotech involves devices 80-100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Since cancer happens at the cellular level, these tiny technologies have the potential to prevent, detect and treat cancer in ways never before imagined.
Earlier this year, one nanotech drug, Abraxane by American BioScience, was approved for advanced breast cancer. The active ingredient is Paclitaxel, also found in the chemo drug Taxol, but Abraxane's tiny particles ferry the therapy right to the tumor, so patients don't need extra drugs or ingredients to dampen down side effects.
Nanotechnology can also make drugs more effective. Initial studies have found that Abraxane may allow patients to safely receive 50 percent more active ingredient per dose than the traditional delivery method, shrinking tumors faster and to a greater degree. The verdict is still out on whether this will affect survival rates, but models developed by Larry Norton and his colleagues at Sloan-Kettering already support the idea that "dose-dense" treatment—delivering the most doses possible in the shortest period of time—is the most effective way to stop cancer. This treatment is based on the notion that tumors grow and die according to predictable patterns. The trick is frequency; giving a small dose more often means more medicine can be administered over the same time period with less toxicity, so the drug knocks out as much cancer as possible without taking as great a toll on the patient. "Now that we know certain patterns of growth are important, finding the molecules responsible for them may lead us to the cure," says Norton.
Better, Earlier, Detection
Nanotechnology may also be used to detect cancer at earlier stages. Launched into the breast or elsewhere, such particles will act as tiny probes, taken into cancer cells too small to be detected by conventional methods. These anocrystals may be used to bind to cancer or normal cells, making them more visible with MRI or other types of scans.
It's not nearly as futuristic as it sounds. In March, the FDA moved a step closer to approving a nanoparticle known as Combidex, developed by Advanced Magnetics, Inc., which, when used with an MRI, will help distinguish normal from cancerous cells. Right now, the only way for doctors to find out if cancer has spread is to remove or biopsy one or several lymph nodes. The nanoparticles have the potential to detect cancers accurately without the removal of even a single lymph node. Soon, nanoscale devices may allow doctors to multitask, both detecting cancer at its earliest stages and simultaneously delivering anticancer agents.
Other new detection methods identify the growth of new blood vessels that could signal the emergence of cancer. Clinical trials have begun on ComfortScan, a new device from DOBI Medical International that detects increased blood-vessel creation. The ten-minute scan won't be dramatically different from a mammogram
Another tool, iFind, may revolutionize breast self exams. The handheld device responds to the higher level of hemoglobin found in cancer tissues, which require more blood and oxygen than surrounding tissues. In a small study, the device was96 percent reliable in detecting cancer. Although larger trials are needed, developers say the device, expected to cost less than a few hundred dollars, could be available in as few as two years. It won't replace mammograms, but it will give women a useful tool for monitoring their breasts between screenings.
New Tools to Prevent Cancer
Drugs are also being studied for their prevention potential. Aromatase inhibitors, such as AstraZeneca's Arimidex, Novartis' Femara and Pfizer's Aromasin, dramatically reduce recurrence in women with early stage disease; now investigators hope to design studies to determine if the drugs can just as dramatically cut the rate of occurrence in women at high risk for the disease.
Just as a colonoscopy can now detect and remove polyps before they become cancerous, researchers are working to develop methods that will allow them to seek out and destroy precancerous breast changes. Already, researchers at Sloan-Kettering are studying the use of focused ultrasound to eradicate precancerous breast lesions. Unlike the ultrasound used to scan for irregularities, this technology uses focused, high-energy sound beams to destroy suspicious cells, leaving healthy tissue untouched. "It's like a Flash Gordon ray gun," says Norton. "It's possible that we'll find tiny lesions, diagnose them and destroy them so they never grow into cancers."
Originally published in More magazine, October 2005.


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Tryon Palace hosts filming of TV series 'Sleepy Hollow'
Published: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 4:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 26, 2013 at 4:11 p.m.
Tryon Palace visitors will get a sneak peek at FOX's new series "Sleepy Hollow" as construction begins Sunday for filming Monday and Tuesday on the grounds.
Because all scenes will be filmed at night, the attraction will not change operating hours or scheduled tours.
The show, from 20th Century Fox Television, filmed its pilot episode in Salisbury in March. It will film remaining episodes of its initial 13-episode order in the Wilmington area.
Scenes for "Sleepy Hollow" that are being filmed at the Palace will primarily take place in the eastern courtyard — between the outer and inner gates — and the smokehouse, located just behind the Kitchen Office.
Visitors should expect to see construction in these areas Sunday, but access to all other areas of the Palace will be open as usual.
Additional film crews and related support will start arriving later Sunday and parking in the Eden Street lot will become limited through Wednesday.
Filming for "Sleepy Hollow" marks the first time Tryon Place has been used as the location for a major studio production.
"Sleepy Hollow" stars Tom Mison ("Salmon Fishing in the Yemen") as Ichabod Crane, a Revolutionary War hero mysteriously transported to modern times along with a headless being he thought he had killed. He teams up with a Sleepy Hollow police officer (Nicole Beharie of "42") to solve a supernatural mystery that dates back centuries.
Support for this project is provided in part by the N.C. Film Office and the Department of Cultural Resources.
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Mike Leach
Arguably one of the most innovative coaches in the country, Mike Leach not only has transformed Texas Tech Football, but also the face of college football with an all-out aerial assault. This is evidenced by the number of programs incorporating more passing into their schemes than before. Leach's offense has become a hot commodity as coaching staffs from across the country have come to Lubbock get a glimpse into what makes the program tick; but none have mastered it like the 10th-year coach.
Leading the most prolific passing offense in the country, Leach, who received three national coach of the year awards in 2008 - the Woody Hayes Award, Howie Long/Fieldturf Coach of the Year, and George Munger Award - spreads the field with his exciting brand of football and has guided the Red Raiders to six NCAA passing titles and three total offense titles during his tenure. Leach's offense produced school records in nearly every passing category in 2000, but surpassed those numbers in each of the last nine seasons. His nine teams have combined for more than 155 team and individual records at Tech.
Texas Tech, which appeared in its second Cotton Bowl since 2005, experienced one of the most memorable seasons in school history in 2008 as the team set a program record with 11 regular-season wins en route to an 11-2 record. The win total tied the mark, set previously by the 1953 and 1973 squads. Numerous accolades poured in from across the country as an unprecendented four players earned first-team All-America status, in addition to Leach's three coach of the year honors. Quarterback Graham Harrell, offensive tackle Rylan Reed and offensive guard Brandon Carter each garnered first-team honors, while wide receiver Michael Crabtree was honored as a unanimous consensus All-American for the second-straight season.
On the field, the Red Raiders led the nation in passing for the sixth time in Leach's nine seasons and ranked among the top five in total offense. Harrell finished his storied career second on the NCAA career passing yardage list with 15,793 yards. Harrell also broke the career NCAA passing touchdowns mark with 134.
The Texas Tech program has established itself as one of the nation's leading producers of productive quarterbacks since the 2000 season. Harrell threw for 4,555 yards in his debut as the starter in 2006 and became the sixth player and third Red Raider in NCAA history to throw for 5,000 yards in a season with his 5,705-yard effort in 2007 and 5,111 yards last season. He also is the third quarterback under Leach to win nine games in a season and the first Red Raider in history to win 11 in a regular season. Former quarterback Kliff Kingsbury in 2002 and Cody Hodges in 2005 each posted nine-win seasons during their careers, while 2003 and 2004 signal callers B.J. Symons and Sonny Cumbie each won eight games in their respective seasons as the starter.
The Red Raiders have improved their total offensive numbers from 324.8 yards per game to 531.0 yards per game since Leach's arrival. The last nine seasons rank as the top nine all-time at Tech in total offense, while scoring went from 23 points per game in 1999 to a school-record 43.8 points last season. The most significant increase has been in the passing game, where the Red Raiders averaged 475.3 yards per game in 2008 compared to 175.4 yards in 1999.
The running game has flourished under Leach as well. Former Red Raider Taurean Henderson holds the NCAA career record for receptions by a running back. The Red Raiders' 28 total rushing scores in 2008 were the most for a Tech team since the 1993 team scored 30. Despite Tech's offense revolving around the pass, Leach has done a tremendous job of incorporating the running back position into the mix. Henderson finished his career with 303 receptions, which ranks first in NCAA history among running backs and fourth overall.
The Red Raiders are not solely known for their play on the scoring side of the ball. The Texas Tech defense also has flourished during Leach's nine seasons. The Red Raiders tied for the national lead with three shutouts in 2000 and followed with others in 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2006. Combined with the six shutouts are five other games where the opposition was held without an offensive touchdown. Tech's shutout of Baylor in Waco during the 2005 season marked Tech's first blanking of a conference opponent on the road since the inception of the Big 12 Conference in 1996.
The play of the special teams also has improved with each season. Former placekicker Alex Trlica holds the NCAA record with 233 career extra points and another record for extra points made without a miss. He finished with 377 career points, which ranks among the top 10 in NCAA history among kickers. While leading the Red Raiders to 76 wins in his nine seasons, Leach is the only coach in school history to lead nine teams to bowl games. The 76 wins are the third-most among Big 12 coaches since the 2000 season.
Although Leach's presence has been felt throughout the team, it also has been beneficial for the players individually. In addition to picking up the Sammy Baugh Trophy in 2007, Harrell was the recipient of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame's Post-Graduate Scholarship and was one of 15 players selected as a candidate for the prestigious Draddy Award, the academic Heisman. Harrell also ranked fourth in last year's Heisman voting, while Crabtree was fifth. Symons was the second Tech quarterback to receive The Touchdown Club of Columbus' Sammy Baugh Trophy (Kingsbury in 2002).
Kingsbury, a 2002 All-Big 12 first-team quarterback and sixth-round draft pick of the New England Patriots, led the Big 12 Conference in several passing categories during his final three seasons and was a Heisman Trophy candidate in 2002. He also was named the Verizon Academic All-American of the Year for football and was awarded an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame in a ceremony in New York City.
In 2004, inside receiver Trey Haverty became the first Associated Press All-American since Montae Reagor in 1998, when he was selected to the third team. Free safety Dwayne Slay earned first-team All-America honors from Sports Illustrated in 2005, marking the first in seven seasons. Slay was one of the country's most punishing tacklers that year and led the conference and finished second nationally with eight forced fumbles.
Leach has coached several players who have gone on to the NFL. While at Tech, 17 players have been drafted and 21 others have signed free agent contracts. This past spring four players were selected among the first four rounds of the NFL Draft, marking the most successful draft for Texas Tech in the Leach era. Crabtree became the highest draft pick at No. 10, since Gabe Rivera in 1983. Crabtree, selected by the San Francisco 49ers, is the highest drafted Tech receiver since Dave Parks went No. 1 overall in 1964.
Safety Darcel McBath was selected by the Denver Broncos in the second rounds, while offensive lineman Louis Vasquez was taken in the third by San Diego. Defensive end Brandon Williams went to the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth.
The program continues to make strides academically as well under Leach. For the last nine years Tech has been recognized as one of the nation's top institutions for consistently being above a 70 percent gradation rate, according to the American Football Coaches Association. In 2008, 17 players were named to the Big 12 Conference Academic Football Team.
Prior to coming on board at Texas Tech, Leach, in just one season at Oklahoma, directed a Sooner offense that went from one of the worst in the Big 12 Conference to one of the best. Under Leach's tutelage, Josh Heupel was named 1999 Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year. For his efforts, Leach was nominated for the 1999 Broyles Award as the top assistant coach in the country.
Leach guided an Oklahoma offense that went from 11th in the Big 12 in 1998 to first in 1999 and 101st in the nation to 11th. In just one year, OU's total offense numbers improved from 293.3 to 427.2 yards per game.
The rise in passing and scoring offense categories is just as impressive. Oklahoma went from last to first in the Big 12 in passing offense in one year, from 107th in the country to ninth. Under Leach, the Sooners improved from 109.9 yards passing per game to 321.7 yards per game.
In 1998, Oklahoma was last in the Big 12 and 101st in the country in scoring offense at 16.7 points per game. In 1999, the Sooners improved to second in the league and eighth in the country in scoring at 36.8 points per game, an increase of just over 20 points per game.
Under Leach, the Oklahoma offense set six Big 12 Conference and 17 OU records. The Sooners were one of only two schools in the nation to have six players with 20 or more receptions in 1999.
Prior to joining Bob Stoops' Oklahoma staff, Leach served as offensive coordinator for Hal Mumme at the University of Kentucky and Valdosta (Ga.) State University. For two years at Kentucky under Mumme, Leach coached the Kentucky "Air Raid" offense that was one of the most explosive in Southeastern Conference history. Under Mumme and Leach, the Kentucky offense set six NCAA records, 41 Southeastern Conference records and 116 school records in 22 games.
Leach's Kentucky offense featured the talented Tim Couch, who passed for 4,275 yards and 34 touchdowns as a senior.
Named 1996 Division II Offensive Coordinator of the Year by American Football Quarterly magazine, Leach helped Mumme lead Valdosta State to a 40-17-1 record. The 1993 Blazer offense smashed 66 school records, 22 conference records and seven national records. In 1994, Valdosta State advanced to the Division II playoffs with Leach's offense shattering 80 school records, 35 conference records and seven more national marks.
Leach and Mumme first teamed up at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 Leach served as offensive coordinator and line coach for an offense that led the NAIA in passing yardage one season and finished second the other two. Iowa Wesleyan quarterbacks passed for more than 11,000 yards in Leach's three seasons and broke 26 national records.
Leach also has made coaching stops in Pori, Finland, where he served as a head coach in the European Football League (1989), as well as one-year stints at College of the Desert (1988) and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo (1987).
After graduating with honors from BYU in 1983, Leach earned a master's degree from the U.S. Sports Academy and his law degree from Pepperdine University, where he graduated in the top one-third of his class.
The oldest of six siblings, Leach and his wife, Sharon, are the parents of four children; Janeen (24), Kim (19), Cody (13) and Kiersten (10). Janeen, a graduate of BYU, is currently attending medical school at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and married Mike Clark in July. Kim is a sophomore year at Texas Tech.


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|Vandals host Montana Saturday
MOSCOW, Idaho – The Idaho men's basketball team can settle into the friendly confines of the Cowan Spectrum -- where five of its next seven games will be played, beginning Dec. 28 at 1 p.m. against Montana -- after a stretch of nine out of 10 games outside of Moscow.
Saturday's game against the Griz is the tail end of a home-and-home with Montana this month, as Idaho was outscored 17-6 in the final five-plus minutes in a 69-58 loss in Missoula on Dec. 11. Idaho owns a 101-79 advantage in the all-time series against its former and future Big Sky Conference rival. The Vandals rejoin the Big Sky beginning with the 2014-15 season. Saturday's game will be televised live on Altitude Sports. Check www.Altitude.TV for details.
The Griz are 4-4 on the season and enter Saturday's game on a three-game win streak beating St. Martin's and Montana-Western since topping the Vandals. The Griz boast three double-figure scorers, led by 18.9 points per game from Kareem Jamar. Keron DeShields averages 12.9 points per game and Jordan Gregory adds 11.9. Montana shoots the 3-pointer at a 39.4 percent clip, and buries 8.6 of them per game.
Idaho's offensive attack features a trio of double-figure scorers as well, led by Stephen Madison's 16.1 points per game to go along with team-bests of 7.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game. Junior Connor Hill adds 14.3 points per game and is just three 3-pointers shy of tying Idaho's career 3-pointers made record of 168 held by Orlando Lightfoot since 1994. Hill has made three or more 3-pointers in four out of 13 games this season, and averages 2.4 made 3s per game while shooting 37.3 percent from deep. Senior Glen Dean adds 12.9 points per game for the Vandals, and ranks 30th in NCAA Division I with an 88.9 free throw percentage. Dean is another 3-point threat for Idaho, making 2.0 3s per game at a 43.3 percent clip.
Saturday's game is Idaho's final test before Western Athletic Conference play begins next week with home games against Kansas City (Jan. 2) and Chicago State (Jan. 4). The Vandals do however have one more non-league game remaining on the schedule, as they will host CSU Northridge on Feb. 18.


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Crispy chow mein noodles top this twist on chop suey that's sure to be a family favorite. Willie DeWaard - Coralville, IA
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 2 cans (10-3/4 ounces each) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 1 can (14 ounces) bean sprouts, undrained
- 1/4 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup uncooked long grain rice
- 1 can (8 ounces) sliced water chestnuts, drained
- 2 cups frozen peas, thawed
- 1 can (5 ounces) chow mein noodles
- In a large skillet, cook the beef, onion and celery over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in the soup, bean sprouts, soy sauce and pepper. Bring to a boil. Pour into a greased 3-qt. baking dish. Stir in rice and water chestnuts.
- Cover and bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover; stir in peas and sprinkle with noodles. Bake 15-20 minutes longer or until heated through. Yield: 8 servings.
Originally published as Chinese Beef Casserole in Simple & Delicious November/December 2009, p21
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Reviewed Nov. 25, 2014
"Horrible!...I will not cook it again. No taste and it didn't look appetizing. I don't recommend it."
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2013
"My family and I were not impressed. I won't serve it again."
Reviewed Sep. 26, 2013
"It was OK. I liked the crunch but not sure if I really liked the flavor. I would make it once a year."
Reviewed Sep. 24, 2013
"My grandkids said it tastes like hamburger helper. O. K. But not a winner."
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"I haven't done this recipe yet.. but I asked my cousin who should be a gourmet cook about the dilemma of the crunchy rice. He suggested that you cover the pan tightly when baking it.. and to extend the cook time to an hour. I'll let you know how it goes with this adjustment."


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openprinting.org: LPD Must Die!
I'm starting a new campaign--a crusade for the death of LPD.
LPD has a number of problems:
- New security flaws are discovered way too often for a critical system daemon that's been around for over a decade.
- It is a support nightmare; there are more flavors of LPD out there than I can count, and more vendor-specific hacks and configuration tools than anyone could possibly support.
- As if to add insult to injury, it's gratuitously devoid of actual features.
Unfortunately, there are no perfect alternatives to LPD. And ideal replacement would:
- Be secure, both by design and in implementation.
- Offer lightweight and efficient IPP and LPD (the protocol) service.
- Offer a simple and extensible interface for filters, drivers, accounting, queue management, etc.
- Support a selection of clients; ideally with a client library offering job operations and printer status and capability information.
The three current alternatives are LPRng, CUPS, and PDQ.
LPRng and CUPS are the primary competitors; both offer IPP and LPD protocol service, a structured and extensible filter and driver interface, accounting features, and queue management. Both are not well tested on the security front; CUPS is brand new with a limited security design, and LPRng, while designed for security, is rumored to suffer from spaghetti code and a lack of external maintainers. CUPS offers the best client functionality of the two; LPRng offers little client support beyond the traditional lpr client.
PDQ offers excellent client and filtering facilities, but lacks management and queueing features. These can be added by bolting PDQ onto another spooler; PDQ plus LPD is actually not a bad combination.
I ask vendors to commit to offering a viable alternative to LPD ASAP. For now, this will mean shipping one or more of the imperfect alternatives described above (actually, some vendors already do). Hopefully the wider exposure given to the spoolers from this first step will help boost the development efforts needed to adapt or create a complete good system. Only at that point may we sensibly discontinue shipping LPD.
Similarly, I ask vendors to join in an open discussion around configuration and management issues. There are many (6-12, at least!) ongoing configration-related projects; it would be nice if we could cut this number down a bit (ideally to one!).
Finally, if you are a Linux distributor; please either participate in the open discussion or email me to keep in touch. It's very important that we reach a consensus about what a good system is and what the parts are so that we can have a bit of standardization across distributions. The current state of affairs is dreadful.
Let's discuss how best to go about this in the general forum here on openprinting.org. (If traffic warrants I'll create a dedicated forum.)


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Donor conference for Mali: Belgium commits to providing EUR 31.5 million for 2013 and 2014
In the context of the donor conference for Mali taking place in Brussels today, Minister for Development Cooperation Jean-Pascal Labille stated that Belgium would actively support the recovery process in Mali. To this end, Belgium will provide a financial contribution of EUR 17.3 million in 2013 and EUR 14.2 million in 2014.
For Jean-Pascal Labille, this support illustrates our country's solidarity with the Malian people, who are currently experiencing a very dark time in their country's history.
The structural vulnerability of the Malian population has now reached an unacceptable level. Nearly 500,000 residents have been forced to leave their homes, basic services are insufficient, and the food situation is growing worse by the day. According to the Minister for Development Cooperation, "it is our duty to assist the Malian people, just as we are coming to the aid of those in eastern Congo and Syria".
In order to get the Malian economy back on its feet, Belgium will adapt part of its development programme to efficiently contribute to the "Plan for the sustainable recovery of Mali".
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UW's junior defensive end got 2½ sacks last week in his return from two knee reconstructions. As he's changed his name from Jamora and become an Academic All-America candidate, it's all been to honor mom and his proud heritage.
By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
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SEATTLE – There are more than a few enlightened, mature, 21-year olds playing sports for the Huskies.
Then there is Hau'oli Kikaha.
The defensive end re-emerging from two reconstructive knee surgeries to spark a resurgent pass rush for 16th-ranked UW didn't see his father, last name Jamora, from 1½ years old until he was 16. That reuniting was at the Hawai'i state high-school judo championships, where the multitalented son was competing and his father was an opposing coach.
His mother Dawn took young Hau'oli and her two older sons from his native Oahu to Ohio, back to Hawai'i, then to Texas, back to Hawai'i, then to four different areas of southern California – all in search of work and a better life for her family.
As his mother went from small job to small job, Hau'oli's two brothers chipped in raising him. Kila and Kahiapo are four and five years older, respectively.
So having to wait two years and two weeks between getting sacks, from the 2011 opener to the 2½ sacks he had last week in the first half of the blowout win over Idaho State? Having to do wait through two reconstructive surgeries in as many years on the same knee – all while moving to the cusp of an ethnic studies degree with a minor in anthropology, a 3.5 grade-point average and an imminent nomination by UW to the NCAA to become Husky football's first academic All-American since Ed Cunningham in 1991?
No big whoop. As he often signals with his thumbs, pinkies and a warm smile while doing his native Shaka: "Hang loose."
"I'll write a book someday," Kikaha said this week.
I think he was only half joking.
"I just have a heightened feeling of not taking any day for granted. Any play. Any moment," he said.
Dawn Cockett, re-married now, was planning on giving her youngest son who now has flowing, black hair pulled back in a ponytail another name. Then, when he was born 21 years ago so full of life and fun, mother changed her mind.
"Hau'oli means "happy" in Hawaiian," she told me Tuesday by phone from her latest home in Hana on the island of Maui.
"And he has been my 'happy.' He's such a sweetheart. Yeah, the name Hau'oli is perfect for him."
"There are more than a few enlightened, mature, 21-year olds playing sports for the Huskies. Then there is Hau'oli Kikaha."
Hau'oli's constant happiness and the joy it brought his "mommy" – as Dawn charmingly introduced herself when she returned my call Tuesday – became a glue to the family. As she went from workplace to workplace, from the islands to the mainland to the Midwest to the Southwest and back, Hau'oli kept smiling. And achieving.
"Geez," Hau'oli said through a sigh. "She struggled really hard with whatever she could. Different jobs. Different apartments in places. All over the place, from Hawai'i to Ohio to Cali to Texas. She just did whatever she needed to do."
Dawn moved her boys back to the islands in Hau'oli's freshman year, and for a year they lived in Pearl City, on the west side of Oahu. Then Hau'oli moved in with his tutu (Hawaiian for grandmother, his mom's stepmother) in Laie, about an hour's drive up the coast from Honolulu on Oahu's North Shore. He went to Kahuku High School, the alma mater of numerous NFL players such as Chris Kemoeatu, plus singer and songwriter Jack Johnson.
Kikaha became the state's defensive player of the year in 2009 at Kahuku. That was just three years after he began playing the sport. He didn't begin football until freshman year of high school, the same year he took up judo and wrestling. It wasn't because of all the moving. His mother didn't want him to get hurt playing football. Her boys and her time were too precious for injury.
I asked her how she got through all those moves and years and hardships and still not only kept her three boys together with her teaching them the ancient Hawaiian hula and dancing with them to reinforce their heritage -- but also raised a young man as determined, accomplished and dedicated as Hau'oli.
She sighed.
"It is an honor to be their mommy," she said.
"I didn't do as well as they deserved. I struggled and I did my best. The most important thing was, we stayed together and we had each other.
"I raised them to be responsible young men. Not punks. We have too many punk men in this world. I didn't want them to be punks."
Of all the things Hau'oli Kikaha has become in three seasons as a Husky – an inspiration, a co-captain this season, a model student and featured presenter at UW's annual undergraduate research symposium in May -- a punk is absolutely not one of them.
"Man, that guy is hungry for knowledge," said Huskies' middle linebacker John Timu, a fellow team captain and Kikaha's research and presentation partner in that campus-wide symposium last spring.
"He's taught me that we all should be blessed with what we've got. He's amazing."
Huskies coach Steve Sarkisian said that from the first day he and his staff met Kikaha on a recruiting trip to Hawai'i about four years ago they wanted him in their program. Anywhere.
"Once we got around him a little bit we said, 'We HAVE to have him,'" Sarkisian told me Wednesday. "We didn't even know exactly what he might play for us. But we said we have to have this guy on our team.
"He is very, very mature. He plays so hard. He is very reminiscent of Daniel Te'o Nesheim (the defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who set UW's career sack record from 2006-09) with how hard he plays the game. And it's not just on the field. He does it in all areas. I think that is why it shows up in the classroom, too, with how well he does."
I could just about see mom's smile through the phone.
"They've grown up great, all three of them," she said of her boys. "The older two (who still live on Oahu) are great supporters of Hau'oli. They watch every one of his games on TV."
His mother works each Saturday as a concierge at a hotel in Hana, on a remote, idyllic beach far on the east side of Maui, at the end of the majestic, winding "Road to Hana." Yes, they even get satellite and cable TV at the edge of paradise, so she tapes every Husky game and watches her youngest son chase quarterbacks with her husband and their 16-year-old son by her side when she gets home.
She will get to see Hau'oli play for UW in person for the first time next Aug. 30, when Washington plays at Hawai'i to open the 2014 schedule, Kikaha's senior season. It will be the first time she's seen him play since she used to hang leis around his thick neck on the field following games at Kahuku High.
She says she intends to come to UW for the first time next fall to attend one of Hau'oli's final home games as a Husky.
The fact her boy is not only playing but starting and leading UW's resurgent pass rush into this Pac-12 season is a testament to his perseverance.
Kikaha thought he was all the way back in August 2012, following nine long months of rehabilitation that cost him the final eight games of his sophomore season. But the same, reconstructed knee failed him during a preseason practice.
Back to the beginning. Back for another reconstruction, on Aug. 30, 2012 -- this time done by Dr. Edward Khalfayan, a team orthopedic surgeon and head physician for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the medical director for baseball's Seattle Mariners who consults with Husky athletics. Then nine more months of lonely rehabilitation, of two- and three-a-days inside the UW training room while his teammates were going to another bowl game.
"It's definitely wearing on my brain more than my body – or it has been. And just trusting myself and trusting my knee and trusting my body," he said, revealing that even after 2½ sacks in less than two quarters last week he hasn't fully shed the mental weight of the knee surgeries.
"Just the fact that I have to question myself takes away all that I am able to do – especially after the second time. That was definitely difficult. And overcoming that is still a bit of a challenge for me. I am a lot more confident in the health of my knee. But I feel like the brace is kind of a reminder to me of the safety that I have to tag onto it.
"I'm really close. I'm really close. It's just that small margin is annoying. It's like I want to get rid of it but I know I can't – yet.
"I'll just make do with what I've got."
By now, he's pretty adept at doing that.
"He never gives up," his mom said. "When I struggled, he was my buddy. He never gave up on me, so I never gave up on myself – because of him."
So if you see No. 8 in purple this Saturday against Arizona appearing extra driven, if you catch a smile through his facemask, there's ample reason.
"It's just a heightened feeling of not taking anything for granted," he said. "It's literally every play, every moment. It's a constant reminder to me. Any moment that I pause to think, that runs through my head."
Something else runs through his head while he's on the field these days: A huge thank you to Dr. Khalfayan for getting him right.
"It's amazing. I think I'm going to have to get in contact with my surgeon and tell him, 'You the man, dude!'" Kikaha said.
He again flashed the dual, "hang loose" signs with each hand.
Kikaha has a 3.49 grade-point average that is about to rise following the transforming, extra credits he earned in June while joining 10 other Husky student-athletics in Tahiti.
Then still known by his father's last name Jamora, Hau'oli and the 10 other Huskies and his fellow Dawgs spent 10 days seeing a Tahiti to which travel agents don't send tourists. They experienced the struggles of a small nation better known for being paradise for its majestically blue waters and white sands, but one whose people are unsure of whether they want independence from French colonization. Kikaha is still thinking of seeing a Tahitian farmer being denied the water he needed for his crops and family. The pipes instead U-turned away from the farmer's property, diverted to support the tourists staying at Tahiti's glimmering hotels down the way.
The Huskies saw first-hand what they had been studying in professor Holly Barker's anthropology class: The damaging effects of decades of nuclear testing by the French in Tahiti, in the south Pacific. They saw a Tahitian culture struggling to stay alive amid school and government requirements that are almost entirely French.
The trip and class reinforced why the man Kikaha wants to ultimately become isn't Te'o-Nesheim, J.J. Watt or any other NFL defensive end and sack king.
It is Epeli Hau'ofa. The writer and anthropologist in Fiji was of born of Tongan missionary parents, then spent his life through his death in 2009 spreading his Pacific Islander heritage and sociology through writing and teaching at universities on those islands.
"I want to be a cultural teacher and maybe professor in the Pacific Islands," Kikaha said. "Not to teach unification, but to show all the similarities. That they are all one people, just spread across an ocean."
In May, he and Timu were featured presenters at the UW's annual undergraduate research symposium, at which Sarkisian gave an opening address. The Huskies defensive stars were assigned Session 2C, Education and Social Inequalities. For 12 minutes they articulated their findings of "Decolonizing Education: Translating Football Intelligence into the Classroom" to Judith A. Howard, a professor and divisional dean of social sciences in UW's College of Arts and Sciences.
Their project examined why our society doesn't accept football intelligence as correlating into real-world intelligence -- though it makes a similar correlation for intelligence in, say, chess.
Kikaha and Timu, who is also of Polynesian heritage, began their presentation in room 228 of Mary Gates Hall accentuating the stereotypical jock by wearing their dark purple, Huskies lettermen's jackets with the gold, varsity W sewn into the fronts. Near the end of their entertaining presentation, they simultaneously shed the jackets to reveal dress shirts and slacks.
Then they each put on clear-lens eyeglasses to amplify the crux of their research.
"Do I have to take off these jackets and put on glasses to be seen as intellectual?" Timu asked the audience of fellow student-presenters and UW faculty, plus staff from the Huskies' Student-Athlete Academic Services (SAAS) office.
"This is a start. This is a gateway for people to be able to show their intelligence (rather than disprove perceptions)."
Outside the room, the two bedrocks of the Huskies' defense looked as if they had just spent the day chasing down Oregon Ducks all over Eugene.
"It's not my realm," Kikaha said that day of public speaking. "It will be, though."
He has made UW's Dean's list in each of the four years he's been enrolled here; you have to have a 3.5 GPA over a minimum of 12 credit hours in any one academic term to get that distinction.
Pamela Robenolt, director of learning resources for UW Athletics, reports Kikaha has never been below a 3.0 in any academic quarter – even his first fall one on campus when he was on his way to starting the Huskies' final seven games as a freshman. Now that Kikaha is back and starring on Washington's defense Robenolt and the SAAS staff are planning to nominate him and Danny Shelton, Kikaha's defensive line mate who has a 3.46 GPA, for Academic All-America recognition this season.
"More important than football is that he gets good grades. And he always has," Dawn Cockett says. "In everything he has done in his life – sports, his school work – he has succeeded.
"He will succeed, always, in anything he does. He was the kind of child that he had a sore stomach he would get all his homework done. When he would yell, 'Mom, I need help with this!' I would be busy helping the other two older boys. By the time I got to him he would have figured out his problem himself.
"That's the way he became in his life. He figured things out himself and got it done. He's always been like that."
Hau'oli just shrugs at all he's accomplished off the field.
"I just hate to fail so badly. That anything I have to do or get to do I will excel in, I feel," he said. "If there is some sort of competition or rating, as far as grades or whatever it would be, I want to do well in it and show that I can overcome it."
He acknowledges the perception that Polynesian athletes are not as intelligent as their peers, or that they won't succeed.
"I feel that the amount of opportunities given to Polynesians isn't as abundant as other groups. Therefore it is harder for us than for those other groups to become accomplished," he said. "So, yeah, out of that comes some stigmatism.
"But I just feel like – I don't know it is it 'overcome' it – I just feel like I have met the challenge.
This summer Hau'oli went to his mother and his tutu to ask for their help and blessing in changing his last name from that of his father. It was a big deal; neither of his older brothers had asked to do that, and to his mother it was initially something of an affront to their specific family heritage.
Then he told her why he wanted to change his name. It wasn't that he had any ill will toward his father – dad left home just after he was born to move to Hawaii's Big Island "to go raise his other kids, which is good," Hau'oli said.
"We're cool now.
"It is my great-grandfather's name on my mother's side," Hau'oli said of Kikaha. "I've always wanted to change my last name. My dad is pretty confident his dad changed his name. I met my dad when I was 16. I had his name, which he didn't even like, or agree to. It's just something I always wanted to change. My mom raised me, a single mother with my two older brothers, and it felt like I needed something from my mother's side.
"I went to my great-grandmother and talked to her about changing my name. And Kikaha is what I came up with.
"My mom ," he said, "I wanted to honor her."
Turns out, Kikaha means "to soar" in Hawaiian.
"And he is soaring, yes he is," his mother said, pride oozing through the phone line all the way from Hana.
"He's a smarty pants. He's actually a nerd, you know."
I laughed.
"No, he really is. Always has been. A big, handsome, athlete nerd.
"He's just beautiful."
The feeling is mutual.
Each game he plays, each sack he gets, each test he aces, Hau'oli Kikaha feels he is honoring his mother and his two brothers for having raised him.
"Those three are the reason I am here," he says. "They are what I want to be here for, to take care of them.
"It just doesn't make sense to me to not take care of them the way they took care of me, by being successful here."
Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director or Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for the Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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