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Exactly. What kind of sense does that make? In what other job can you work for four years and then receive that pay as a retirement package for the rest of your life? That is absurd, and a slap in the face to the majority of working Americans, who put in decades of service before they can even get close to retiring. And then their retirment may be taken away, reduced, or benefits might be restructured on a whim. Congress needs to be totally revamped. The problem is that Congress has made it so that only they can actually see that process through. Or the president can issue an executive order, but I can see that being stonewalled for years until whatever president has the sack to do it is out of office. The whole thing is appaling. Never before has a group given itself so much power, basically establishing a permanent position of entrenchment that would take a miracle to reform. As I see it, that kind of power-reification is the definition of authoritarian.
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Not defending congressional pension, but we should at least have our facts straight.
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Facts smacts!! I want to be angry!!! Arrgghhhh!
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There's enough rich assholes in Congress as it is. If they didn't get paid then ONLY people who can afford to work for free would run for Congress. The result would be that the makeup of Congress would change from mostly all independently wealthy old white dudes to just about 100 percent independently wealthy old white dudes, which would be some bullshit.
Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:52 pm
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Then you keep the salary minimal so that working for Congress is not profitable. The debate on this topic clearly indicates that the compensation structure of Congress needs to be remodeled. I don't want people representing me who only express a privileged background, and who are more amenable to lobbyists than what is best for the nation. I want much more representation from the grassroots perspective, people that adhere to a communal, as opposed to individual, view of power distribution.
Take Michigan's two senators, for example. Carl Levin, bless him, went to Swarthmore and Harvard Law School. He's also been in office since fucking 1979. That kind of run should not be allowed, as incumbency prevents more in-touch individuals from taking a senate position and making more contemporary (one hopes) decisions. Debbie Stabenow is much more local, with degrees from Michigan State, and I like that. Still, I imagine she'll stick around in Congress for far too long, much like Levin, well after new blood is needed. And it's precisely that kind of career mentality, in which senators and representatives typically dwell, that is harmful, or at least not helpful. I'm not asking for a revolving door of political figures, but I'd like to see term limits introduced.
Edit: What 3flip's post indicates (and I'll admit I was indeed operating with false information) is that a Congress person still must make a career out of the position in order to receive a worthwhile pension. I don't think that's a useful mentality, as mentioned above. I say that every Senator has a max of two terms, and that Representatives are held to the same standard, but that we expand the length of their terms to six years as well. A two year term for the latter means almost constant campaigning for re-election.
Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:46 am
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I disagree almost completely.
1. The vast majority of representatives and senators are already taking a pay cut by holding public office.
2. Inexperience is a real problem in both chambers of Congress. The key architects of this deplorable shutdown were mostly sent to Congress in 2010 pr 2012. It's certainly possible for politicians to get out of touch but naïvete hurts us just as much.
3. Term limits would condemn us to politicians using their time in office to improve their standing in the private sector. See also Dick Cheney and Halliburton.
4. Term limits accompanied by six year terms also mean that many members of Congress will be there for six fucking years with no fear of backlash from the electorate.
5. We shouldn't talk about pensions like they're a bad thing. Way more jobs should offer them.
If anything I think we should try to optimize for a system that's more performance driven. Tie a percentage of Congress's compensation to things like balanced budgets, achievements in debt reduction, national GDP growth, student achievement, poverty levels, etc. Even penalize the Senate financially for allowing too many confirmed seats to remain vacant.
We need to reform the filibuster in the Senate, and we need to reform the basic structure of leadership positions in the House. I'd like to see the House able to send a bill to the Senate that, with the President's signature, compels the Senate to have a vote on something (confirmations, amendments, passage of laws, etc) by a certain date. Similarly I'd like the Senate and the President to be able to compel the House in the same way. The Hastert Rule needs to end.
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Ever the voice of logic and reason, Mark. I think the solution you offer is more viable, and certainly more amenable, to the way Congress is currently structured. Implementing it is another thing altogether, of course, and I don't know how that would happen. I guess I'm offering up something more altruistic, and you are discussing something pragmatic. The only clear point is that reform is necessary.
Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:10 am
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Also, in response to what you've written:
1. I don't care about people in Congress taking pay cuts. As far as I know, every member of Congress have a college degree, if not an advanced degree, and have some sort of political network in place already. I am not worried about their ability to put food on the table. Paycuts only really matter to people that don't have a lot of money, or a means of making a lot of money, in the first place.
2. Inexperience is not the same as ideological adherence. Inexperience will likely cause some mistakes, sure, but the biggest problem with the shutdown is a difference of ideology. This is a character thing that COULD be rectified over time, but the fundamental problem rests with a conflictual attitude between parties. In other words, there is a lack of cooperation between Congress members because of other party platforms or individual belief systems. Again, this is to the detriment of the nation.
3. Maybe. But this is assuming that the old guard remains in place, something I was proposing a change by asserting the important of grassroots politicians focused on the community and not themselves. That's a difficult change to enact, I realize, but I think it's a necessary one. This issue also rests with the mentality and goals of the political figure. If the system remains conducive to the pursuit of personal interests, then of course it will be primarily populated with politicians that exploit that opportunity.
4. Same as three, with the caveat that the electorate can remove non-performing Congress members. This shouldn't be an easy process either way, as petitions for removal should be based in the point you mention about specific goal-oriented statistics. What has the Congress member achieved? What have the done nothing about? Are they actually achieving negative results? And so forth.
5. I'm in agreement with you about pensions. They are not a bad thing at all, and have long been the carrot at the end of the labor stick. I think that working for X amount of years should entitle an individual to X amount of financial benefits as a reward for service. But, as you state, they should be incentive based. The greater a person's performance, based on a number of parameters, the greater their pension should be. I don't think a Congressional pension should be developed based on years of service alone. I want them to be based on actual, quantifiable accomplishments.
And again, all of this indicates that Congress is broken in terms of how it functions for the nation. It is working all to well in favor of Congressional members. Reform is long overdue.
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I'm sure our beloved politicians are going to be just fine financially. Like dude said, they got money.
Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:47 am
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CBO estimates are up:
Total regular appropriation outlays, annualized, millions of dollars: 1,141,515.
The CBO indicates specifically that the income verification tests are not anticipated to impact the budget, and those are being reported as the "sole concession" won by the GOP over the shutdown.
CBO estimate for the previous CR that the Senate sent to the House in September, precipitating this shutdown:
Total regular appropriation outlays, annualized, millions of dollars: 1,141,477.
The cost of government in what the Senate offered the House before the shutdown is actually lower than what the House eventually accepted to end the shutdown. The GOP didn't just fail to negotiate spending cuts as a condition of raising the debt ceiling: In raising it, spending actually increased by 38 million dollars.
So, to summarize:
1. The non-partisan accountants responsible for reviewing economic impacts of proposed policy say that making it harder to get the Obamacare subsidies won't save the government any meaningful amount of money.
2. These income verification tests have no benefit for Americans unless they save the government money.
3. In the three weeks it took the House to decide that those income verification tests were the only thing they could get in exchange for re-opening the government and raising the debt ceiling, the costs of just re-authorizing the budget went up by 38 million dollars.
4. The exigencies of the shutdown included the following advice to elderly people who rely on federal nutrition assistance:
water down your milk and soup so as to make your food last longer.
5. So, what did that 38 million dollars and the shutdown itself buy us? Small-government common sense fiscal conservatives shut down the government for two and a half weeks so that they could make it harder for middle class Americans to get a tax break against the cost of their health insurance.
6. Instead of actually cutting spending, eliminating government waste, or moving toward a balanced budget, they actually moved us incrementally away from one.
And most of those House Republicans, impotent and ineffectual and demonstrably incapable of anything resembling statesmanship, are going to go home to their districts to be seen as martyrs and be voted back into office by high margins next year.
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I'm looking for different smoothie/protein shake recipes and would love to hear some ideas.
Here is my go to smoothie:
2 cups plain fat free yogurt
2 ripe medium bananas
1 cup strawberries
1 cup mixed berries (raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc)
My favorite recipe:
One banana
A cup of fresh or frozen strawberries (organic)
Pomegranate Blueberry juice
Nonfat vanilla yogurt
A scoop of Jay Robb's Vanilla protein powder (I also add a tbsp of powdered calcium)
Check out this article for other recipes: http://www.active.com/fitness/Articles/Shake_It_Up__Smoothies_Pack_Energy_and_Help_You_Recover.htm
I found both of these protein shake recipes in Muscle & Fitness for Women and love them! They are loaded with antioxidants!
Recipe #1:
1 scoop (2 oz) whey protein powder (I use Mixed Berry from GNC)
1 cup pomegranate juice
3.5 oz strawberries (I use 5 medium frozen berries)
This is a great post-workout shake - it has 324 calories, 20 g protein, 2g fat, 56g carbs.
Recipe #2:
1 scoop (2 oz) whey protein powder
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup orange juice
7 oz frozen blueberries
This one is a good pre-workout shake with 264 calories, 21g protein, 2g fat, 43g carbs.
Blend either recipe until smooth. The frozen berries make a nice, thick, cold shake!
I like this one- fast and easy:
1 medium banana
12 oz. vanilla soymilk
Blend until smooth.
Sometimes I'll use plain soymilk and then add a tablespoon of organic peanut butter.
several slices of frozen mango
1 cup of Yogart (mango or another tropical fruit)
1 cup of soy milk
and if you really don't care about calories, add a scoop of mango sorbet, yah baby!
I have started to have a smoothie every morning after my work out. I switch it up everyday and it just seems to get better. Here's the basics:
1 banana
1/4 frozen blueberries, raspberries, and cranberries (sometimes i will use strawberries or blackberries instead of one of the others) I get the 3 blend fruit that has blueberries, mullen berries, and raspberries.
1/4- 1/2 cup 100% carrot juice
3 tablespoons raw oatmeal
1 tablespoon flax seeds
1/2 fat free yogurt
1 -1 1/2 scoops 100% whey protein powder
mix all in blender and enjoy. If the mix is too thick, I add more carrot juice or water.
Im sure this drink is like at least 500 calories. I have been eating this as my breakfast after my workout. I have almost eliminated eating a lunch because I am still satisfied by the shake. If i need someting for lunch i just grab a zone bar!
That sounds good! Yum. I haven't used flax seed before. Any info on it?
Oh yea! There are some great benefits to flax seed. Take alook at this artcile if you want. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=81.
This is one of the best articles I have read about flax seed. There are other ones out there that have the same kind of information. It has alot of health benefits. More than I thought!
I'm lactose intolerant and can't do yogurt so I improvised for my favorite smoothie. Most of my friends think its gross, but it does the trick. I may look into whey powder. Anyway,
1 cup lactose free milk
1/3 cup cottage cheese
1 banana (peel and freeze; no need for ice)
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
Thanks for the flax seed info.
Hey MsKittyAZ! Welcome. That's interesting. My mother is lactose intolerant and she makes smoothies but I never really thought about what she puts in it. I think she uses Silk maybe. I'll send this along to her.
Hey that's a great link. I especially like the "foods to include" recipe planner
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I was just introduced to this dehydrated peanut butter called PB2. They basically take roasted peanuts and press them to remove the fat. You then can rehydrate it with water. I just ordered the sample pack and haven't actually gone the rehydration route (I'll get there...it just seems a little weird) but I've been adding it to my smoothies. It adds a great peanut taste with a fraction of the fat and it's not a pain to blend like other peanut butter. Here's the link to the farm that makes it:
The sample pack also comes with a chocolate PB2. I haven't tried that one yet (i have no idea why and am a little embarassed to type that) but I'll let you know when I do! I feel a little like I'm a PB2 sales person but really I'm just a peanut butter junkie:)
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My fav is ice cubs, alittle (1/4) cup milk, scoop of whey pro. table spoon of penut butter, tablespoon of oatmeal and a banana.......and not that I am any sort of salesman for this product but the magic bullet saves so much time in cleanining and makes the perfact size smoothie (for one person)
I don't have any measured quantities, I just use what I have in the fridge, but my basic smoothie is:
a cup or so of vanilla yogurt
some orange juice
a banana, either fresh or frozen
some berries, raspberries are my favorite, but you can mix or match any kind.
If I know I am not going to be eating for quite a while, or if I have this for breakfast, I'll add some flax seed, raw oatmeal, or some type of protein powder. So sometimes the smoothie recipe is dictated by what the day's meal plan might be.
The beauty of the Smoothie is that we can make them in a hundred varieties, so keep those recipes coming!!!
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A secret to making a thick and frosty (but low fat) milkshake is to add a little instant pudding mix.
Here's a popular recipe; one of 70 sports-recipes in my Sports Nutrition Guidebook.
Thick and Frosty Milkshake
This thick and tasty milkshake is a healthful alternative to ones made with ice cream. The instant pudding adds a nice thick texture and the ice cubes make it frosty and refreshing. I like to make these for my kids—an enjoyable way to boost their protein and calcium intake.
By varying the flavor of the pudding (vanilla, lemon, chocolate), you can create numerous variations. You can also add fruit (preferably frozen chunks) for extra nutritional value.
Note: The shake thickens upon standing; you can add more (or less) pudding mix, depending on how thick you like your shakes. If there are pieces of ice cubes remaining in the shake, worry not—they'll just keep the beverage cool.
1 cup low-fat milk
1/4 cup instant pudding
1/4 cup powdered milk mix
3 ice cubes
Optional: 1/2 to 1 cup (frozen) fruit chunks
1. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
Yield: 1 serving
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Carbohydrates 55 g
Protein 15 g
Fat —
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I have been using Google calendar and the Sun calendar for a while now, and ideally like to read them through one viewer. Today I had to upgrade one of the laptop's I use to connect to Google calendar. The best viewer I have found is Thunderbird via the Lightning add-on. This also needs a second add on, the Provider for Google Calendar. I had to reinstall these earlier today and found this blog post entitled How to integrate Google calendar into Thunderbird very helpful. The other tricky bit is how to find out the login credentials and while one should be able to remember one's Google login and password,the URL of the calendar is a bit trickier. (You need to use the web interface and examine the calendar settings, which the article above describes.)
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Rapid microbiological methods provide significant opportunities for pharmaceutical companies to obtain data that may be significantly better than that obtained via traditional methods, may be more cost effective, may provide marketing advantages, and may allow for coordinated process analytical technologies to be fully integrated within a facility.SLOW TO ADOPT NEW METHODS
In recent years, a variety of documents has been issued or drafted to help the microbiologist select, purchase, implement, and regulate the submission of rapid microbiological methods. We discuss six.
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The Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) was one of the first organizations to develop guidance for evaluating, implementing, and validating rapid microbiological methods. Guidance information was published as Technical Report 33 (PDA TR No 33).1 This document was developed by a committee of individuals from industry, regulatory agencies, compendial groups, and instrument vendors. This guidance provided definitions, in microbiological terms, for validation criteria similar to the information in United States Pharmacopeia (USP) <1225> for chemistry methods.2
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In 2002, the then–U.S. Ambassador to Peru John Hilton delivered a threatening letter to the Peruvian congress on behalf of a powerful American private interest. The letter, which was leaked to the press, stated that the Microsoft Corporation and its chairman Bill Gates disapproved of Peruvian politicians debating a proposed law, Special Bill 1609, which favored the use of free software in public administration. Hilton warned its passage would harm U.S.-Peru relations. The bill was quietly dropped after then–Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo was invited by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to personally receive a donation for a Toledo controlled Peruvian foundation.
In 2002, the then–U.S. Ambassador to Peru John Hilton delivered a threatening letter to the Peruvian congress, using his public office to act on behalf of a very powerful American private interest
This incident was an early salvo in a brewing international conflict over free software. As nations of the world increasingly turn to free software to cut costs and promote local development, some powerful North American commercial interests have responded by outright bullying. Sometimes they have done so by proxy, using public servants like Ambassador Hilton. Other times they have threatened legal action to [intimidate](link text) outspoken critics such as Brasil's National Institute of Information and Technology (ITI) President Sergio Amadeu da Silveira, who compared Microsoft business practices to that of drug dealers. Sometimes, they have threatened governments directly, like last November (2004), when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer threatened to sue Asian governments who choose to use free software.
What is this challenge about?
Part of what distinguishes free software commercially from proprietary software is a matter of licensing. While all software is under copyright restriction, commercial proprietary software is often licensed under terms that create additional restrictions, such as limiting where one can use such software and who may be allowed to use it. Often, proprietary commercial software include licenses which explicitly deny users: the right or ability to modify software to fit their needs or access their own data, the right to speak about the functionality of the software they have purchased, or the right to resell it to others when they no longer wish to use it. In contrast, free software expressly asserts and grants these fundamental rights through licensing, and does so in a way that enables others to fully reclaim these rights such as by providing source code.
Free and proprietary commercial software have co-existed uneasily for a long time in many parts of the world. However, I believe the reason that certain private North American commercial interests have responded directly in Latin America is that many of the nations there have chosen to promote the use of free software specifically in public administration. There is already a long history for the support and use of such software in Brasil by the Workers party, starting from the days when they controlled the state government of Rio Grande do Sul and instituted private/public sector partnerships through projects such as procergs. Most recently the government of President Luiz Lula Da Silva has chosen to use free software solutions built around GNU/Linux exclusively, in a project to make computers available to the poor, as recommended by MIT this past March.
I believe the reason that certain private North American commercial interests have responded directly in Latin America is that many of the nations there have chosen to promote the use of free software specifically in public administration
Free software in public administration is not just about software for special government programs such as digital inclusion for the poor. This is a battle about the purchase and use of all software by national governments and the terms such software will be provided under. This about the procurement of servers and database applications used to house government data. This is also about the software that will be purchased and used on the desktops of government office workers every day, and whether they will continue to purchase and use Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office under the terms of a monopoly supplier, or free software alternatives such as GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.
As Latin American governments increasingly use free software, suppliers will need to adapt to provide it. Private industries which interact with government will also be effected to remain compatible, and provide additional private markets for those vendors. All of these create a national economic environment that certain companies, such as Microsoft, would need to change in order to fully participate in.
Why do Latin American nations choose free software?
One reason that Latin American governments are promoting free software is the question of initial cost. In Brasil, they expect to save over one billion dollars annually through the use of free software and the elimination of license fees. Many other Latin American governments are of course keenly aware of the cost benefits of free software. In some countries, such as in Peru and Argentina, they have tried passing special procurement laws to more rapidly increase the adoption of free software in government. In Venezuela, the use of free software in public administration is now supported directly by President Hugo Chavez.
While it is true that the total cost of using software is not represented in the purchase price or license fees alone, most other factors also tend to favor free software and better explain the potential for large cost savings through its use. One reason is commercial free software will often work on existing and older hardware rather than requiring new hardware to be purchased. Another is that since proprietary commercial software publishers depend on the number of licenses they can sell, it is often desirable to require as many additional software sales to perform a given level of work as possible. It therefore comes as no surprise to me that I often find the same workload that can be done, for example, with a typical GNU/Linux system may require three or four times as many proprietary servers, which also represents additional hardware and support costs.
While it is true that the total cost of using software is not represented in the purchase price or license fees alone, most other factors also tend to favor free software and better explain the potential for large cost savings through its use
The use of free software can also result in lower costs through the absence of monopolies. One cannot achieve a monopoly in free software in part because there can always be another free software publisher that can supply the same goods at a lower cost should this occur. This is in fact one of the main reasons that governments prefer using free software instead of proprietary commercial software: when money is spent on proprietary software, only a small proportion of that money goes towards funding useful services and software development, as a large part of it goes as a monopoly rent to the shareholders of the proprietary software company. On the other hand, in the world of free software, where there are no such monopolies, money spent on free software is good for creating jobs and hence offers other direct and local economic benefits. In Latin America, money that is spent on proprietary commercial software serves mainly to make already-rich foreign software publishers even richer.
In trying to create a market for or to promote the use of free software, many Latin American countries, such as Peru, have often chosen to do so through procurement laws, which cover how a government will purchase goods and services. These laws typically state the terms of purchase that a government will use. Often they are designed to prevent bribery, and to make the process of government purchase transparent. This is often done through the use of competitive bidding. Competitive bidding allows products created by different manufacturers and publishers to compete on providing the same service, and by doing so, prevents the government from being forced to rely on a sole source supplier. Propriety commercial software, by its very definition and through the rights it takes away from users, is software which can only come from a single supplier.
In providing opportunities for Latin American citizens to directly participate in the development and worldwide commercial software market locally, free software offers incentives for forming a local software industry that can then compete on an equal basis with that of any other advanced country in the world. What we often forget is that software does not require expensive plants or high capital investment to develop. Software may only require people who are free to use their skills and natural talents. Certainly, the nations of Latin America can and do produce people with such talents and skills. Free software means these people can practice these skills for their own benefit and the benefit of their society as a whole without having to look for work in or migrate to foreign lands. By choosing to procure free software, the national government can directly encourage this.
In providing opportunities for Latin American citizens to directly participate in the development and worldwide commercial software market locally, free software offers incentives for forming a local software industry that can then compete on an equal basis with that of any other advanced country in the world
So what's the problem?
If Latin American countries choose to create an economic environment that accepts participation by free software, existing corporations need not be excluded. Companies like Microsoft could choose, for example, to change the way they license their existing products. They are also free to adapt and offer services based on existing free software already in the marketplace. Instead of competing in these new markets, some companies have responded by trying to make it impossible for Latin American governments to choose and use free software at all.
Instead of competing in these new markets, some companies have responded by trying to make it impossible for Latin American governments to choose and use free software at all
These companies not only resort to bullying, but also lobby the U.S. government to modify free trade treaties and use international organizations to include conditions that try to make it impossible for Latin American nations to choose alternative products or develop local markets.
I have, in particular, seen the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) used in this way to promote the private commercial interests of wealthy corporations. WIPO is often used to promote treaties and laws which handle ideas, culture, and literature as if they were physical property. WIPO has also been used to export the North American corporate notions of pharmaceutical and software patenting to developing nations. Private corporations then use these same treaties to enforce existing North American patent monopolies, thereby preventing the development of competitive local industry. Another example of market control through trade treaties is the "IP rights chapter" of the Free Trade Area of The Americas (FTAA) treaty.
These companies not only resort to bullying, but also lobby the U.S. government to modify free trade treaties and use international organizations to include conditions that try to make it impossible for Latin American nations to choose alternative products or develop local markets
One of the ways I have seen Latin American countries respond to WIPO and other patent bearing treaties has been to band together with other developing nations around the world to help promote a development agenda for WIPO and bring it into harmony with the wishes of the WIPO general assembly. Yet powerful American and European commercial interests have chosen to use the WIPO chair to explicitly bar NGOs that represent the interests of developing nations from attending or participating in WIPO discussions on a development agenda, even those organizations already duly certified and recognized with observer status.
The people of Latin America, of all people, surely must understand well what corporate bullies are. Last century many nearby Caribbean nations were routinely invaded by marines as part of the banana wars to prop up the interest of specific North American corporations such as United Fruit.
The right to innovate is not a privilege to be restricted to a tiny minority, it's not even a right specific or exclusive to the question of free software alone, but is a basic and fundamental right every human being must be free to enjoy
While last century's bullies came with tanks and guns, the bullies of this new century come now with the laws and treaties they wish Latin Americans to adopt. These laws and treaties undermine the heritage and most basic rights that Latin American citizens enjoy; and not for the benefit of Latin America, but instead, once again for the benefit of private North American corporate interests. The right to innovate is not a privilege to be restricted to a tiny minority, it's not even a right specific or exclusive to the question of free software alone, but is a basic and fundamental right every human being must be free to enjoy.
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From: NFx
Url: claudio40(a t)gmail d0t com
Date: 2005-10-12
Subject: About Venezuela
hi, im part of the community working in the vzla Gov to implement the use of free software, and one of the most important reasons to take this action agains privative software is not for the money, or the lower cost, it's about freedom, and every single thing that RMS it's preaching arround the world, it's for "free our minds" out of the point&click dependant OS's, or the "you cant take this software that you develop to { list of US export restricted Countries }. and the money too, sure, but isn't the main or unique reason. thnx
From: CD Baric
Date: 2005-10-13
Subject: Microsoft is a convicted predatory monopoly...
Microsoft is a corrupting influence in North America as well as the rest of the world.
Microsoft lies cheats and steals in order to maintain it's illegal predatory monopoly.
Microsoft can't compete on a level playing field because not only is Microsoft software much more expensive, it is also inferior to free open source software.
Microsoft software costs more to buy, costs more to support and maintain and costs much more in reduced freedom and local support.
Microsoft wants your money and doesn't want you to leave their little monopoly so they design their data formats to be as uncompatible as they can.
Do not do business with Microsoft unless you like being abused.
Vancouver, Canada
From: dai
Date: 2005-10-20
Subject: Microsoft bullying and US 'democracy'
Sad to see that the Peruvian government backed down from using free software under pressure from their Usanian ambassador. Hilton's action gives the lie to USA claims to be 'democratic', 'freedom-loving', etc. And the same policies are applied to drugs, seeds, the humane genome, etc., etc. Definitely a reason to avoid Microsoft and other US big business bullies, such as Coca Cola, who use paramilitary hitmen and torturers to intimidate the workers at the Coca Cola plant in Barranquilla and poison the groundwater in Indian villages where their plant upsets the natural balance of the groundwater. Not that ordinary US citizens escape from these injustices, of course.
Terrorism takes many forms, and it seems the US uses all of them.
From: Gio
Url: http://www.digitalright.org
Date: 2005-10-27
Subject: Well said
Congratulation to David to say it so well!
I completely agree with everything he wrote.
I knew already of the Peruvian case, as well as I follow all the Free software movement especially in Latin America.
I mostly like that David, like me, believe the issue is extremely relevant because it goes behond users' desktops. It regards the country ICT capacity and independency. A country at whole needs a lot of software for all its system and once they get tied with a provider it would be extremely costly to switch (especially if they don't use open systems), without saying about privacy.
I like the comparison with the banana wars and thanks of early US imperialism, transformed now in software and media by the neo liberalism.
As well as I like the argument that north software publishers want to get richer and richer exploiting a monopoly that their country defends with lies, tricks and pressures in the international trade agreements.
To finish that if these senor preach about free market, David correctly invites them to compete, even if they don't get to choose the rules (this time at least)!


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LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Majority Republicans and minority Democrats in the Michigan House have selected their leaders for the 97th state Legislature.
Republicans voted Thursday to keep House Speaker Jase Bolger of Marshall as their leader. Bolger won a tight race among voters in Tuesday's election amid criticisms surrounding his involvement in a former Democratic representative's decision to change parties.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
AIKEN, S.C. – Ronald Zimmerman finished with a career-high 34 points and the University of South Carolina Aiken men's basketball team snapped a short two-game losing streak with a 96-82 victory over Mount Olive at the Convocation Center on Thursday evening.
The victory allowed the Pacers to extend their school-record home regular-season winning streak to 18 straight games.
The win over Mount Olive also pulls USC Aiken eighth-year head men's basketball coach Vince Alexander (128) to within just one game of tying Larry Epperley (1987-97) for the most coaching wins in Pacer men's basketball history. Epperley ended his USC Aiken coaching career with 129 wins.
In a game that featured four lead changes and four ties, USC Aiken (3-2) pretty much controlled the first half, entering intermission with a 10-point 46-36 lead.
The first 12 minutes of the second stanza things would get a lot closer in the game with Mount Olive (1-5) taking its first lead of the second half at 68-67 with 8:08 remaining in the game.
The Trojans would then pull ahead by two at 72-70 with 7:15 left in the contest.
After a Jesse Seilern (Innsbruck, Austria/Kapfenberg HS) free throw pulled the Pacers to within one, Zimmerman placed the Pacers back on top, 74-72.
The Zimmerman trey would be a part of a final seven-minute stretch that would see the Pacers outscore the Trojans, 26-10.
Zimmerman (Columbia, S.C./Spring Valley HS) was 7-for-12 from beyond the arc in the game in total. The seven 3-pointers tied a career-high that he originally set in USC Aiken's home win over then 15th-ranked Winston-Salem State on Nov. 19.
Zimmerman, who was 10-for-15 from the field in total, also had five steals and one assist. He was 7-of-8 from the charity stripe.
Five Pacers in total finished in double figures.
Re'mon Nelson (Columbus, Ohio/Canal Winchester HS) ended his evening with 15 points, a game-high seven assists, five rebounds and four steals. He knocked down a career-best eight free throws in the game.
Santoine Butler (Augusta, Ga./Gardner-Webb) led a Pacer low post contingent that finished with 10 total blocks. Butler claimed five of the 10 blocks. He also had 14 points and five boards.
Paul Larsen (Mooresville, N.C./Mercer) finished with 10 points and eight rebounds, while Kinley Branch (Stone Mountain, Ga./Arkansas State) had 10 points and a game-high nine rebounds. Larsen and Branch both had two blocks each.
Darrell Patterson led Mount Olive in its loss with 22 points.
USC Aiken as a team shot 54 percent (27-for-50) from the field. Mount Olive ended its loss hitting on 41.7 percent (25-for-60) of its field goal attempts as a team.
The Pacers hit 52.4 percent (11-of-21) of their 3-point field goal attempts.
USC Aiken was 31-for-39 (79.5 percent) as a team from the free throw line.
The Pacers now have a week off to focus on exams. USC Aiken will next open its 2012-13 Peach Belt Conference campaign with a 7:30 p.m. game against UNC Pembroke at the Convocation Center on Saturday, Dec. 15.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Tis' the Season for Persimmons
Persimmons in the Winter here are like Zucchini in the Summer here. They are everywhere and no one knows what to do with all of them. You might come home to find a bag of them mysteriously deposited on your front porch (we do!). One neighbor simply sets up a flood light aimed up at the tree from the ground just to show the beauty of the bare tree full of bright orange fruit. It is a glorious sight indeed.
I've always let them get soft and then scoop out the pulp for use in puddings, breads and pies. I pre-measure 1-2 cups and freeze it in labeled zip-loc bags for future use. It's funny, I never think to use it until the Fall or Winter. Maybe it's the warm color of it when I'm feeling cold.
Our favorite Persimmon Pudding recipe is from Bradley Ogden's Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner- Savory American Fare for Contemporary Cooks. I also simply substitute persimmon pulp for pumpkin in pie and bread recipes. I'm about to try the "Chocolate Persimmon Muffins" in my new favorite cookbook Good to the Grain- Baking with Whole-Grain Flours.
Yesterday, with a kitchen full of bowls overflowing with Fuyu Persimmons I dried my first batch in the dehydrator. I have to confess here that I am not a fan of the fruit uncooked. It's just too sweet for me. I know LOTS of folks who love to eat Fuyu's like apples and others who love to scoop out the pulp of a very ripe Hachiya. Well, I'm now a fan of the dried fruit. To me it tastes like dried Mango. Yum!
3 comments:
- Melany Vorass said...
Wish we had them here. Carlos' mother is very fond of them once they're completely soft. Slices on a drying rack make for a lovely photo!
- December 17, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- . . . Lisa and Robb . . . said...
When we bought our tiny house in Oakland, it came with a horribly neglected Fuyu persimmon tree. Two years later, that tree is full of fruit, and I couldn't be happier.
Do you suppose persimmons could be dehydrated in a (1950s) gas oven?
- December 25, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- Petaluma Urban Homesteaders said...
Lisa and Robb,
Before I got our dehydrator I used to dry fruit in our 1940's gas oven. I'd put it on the lowest temp and prop the oven door open slightly by sticking a wooden spoon in the door. It was nice in the winter as it heated up the kitchen.
If your oven has a pilot light it is perfect for making your own yogurt in. I'll write up a blog on the subject next. I make a new batch every other week.
- December 26, 2011 at 10:40 PM


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SANTA CLARA — The Green Bay Packers may have poached two ex-49ers quarterbacks off the market, but coach Mike McCarthy played coy about it Wednesday. Not Colt McCoy, that is.
Scott Tolzien, the 49ers' No. 3 quarterback the past two seasons, surely has more intelligence he can offer the Packers than Seneca Wallace, who had only a week tenure before he and the 49ers divorced.
"I'm sure Scott and the players are having conversations in the locker room," McCarthy said Wednesday on a conference call with Bay Area media. "We tend to leave that room to the players. I'm sure there's insight there."
But aren't Packers coaches also interrogating Tolzien in advance of Sunday's season opener at the 49ers?
"It's important for any player who comes to the Packers to meet all the coaches," McCarthy said dryly.
The Packers, of course, have one of the league's best quarterbacks in Cal product Aaron Rodgers. In recent days, they decided to cut ties with his potential backups in Graham Harrell or Vince Young.
Tolzien lost his bid to remain on the 49ers' roster when they opted to have McCoy and rookie B.J. Daniels back up Colin Kaepernick.
"Scott is someone we've always liked," McCarthy said. "Watching tape from both of his preseasons, he's done a very good job since he left Wisconsin. I'm impressed with what he did this year and both are a good fit for us."
McCarthy linked Wallace's arrival to his relationship with general manager Ted Thompson, who drafted Wallace to the Seattle Seahawkws in 2003.
Earlier in camp, McCarthy said the Packers opted not to "go that far" and hire a read-option quarterback to help them prepare for Kaepernick, though his staff did take a March visit to Texas A&M as part of their studying excerise.
"The experience at A&M is a very small part of what we've done as a staff," McCarthy said. "We have a system of football defensively where we have base concepts and variations that focus on the athletic quarterback, particularly Kaepernick and others. We're definitely better prepared for it than we were last year."
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First Look: TiVo Founders Take on Web Video with Qplay
The lives of couch potatoes changed forever when Mike Ramsay and James Barton co-founded TiVo 15 years ago. Now the folks behind the original digital video recorder want to reinvent how we watch streaming Internet video on a television.
It's a tall order.
On Tuesday, Ramsay and Barton (who no longer work for TiVo) unveiled their secretive new product called Qplay, a $49 add-on TV box and cloud service that turns an iPad into a smart remote control for watching streaming video on TV.
Really, another streaming TV box? There's already plenty of them, including Apple TV, Roku and Google Chromecast, and likely one on the way from Amazon.
But Ramsey, Qplay's CEO, says the state of Internet video is getting to be like cable TV before TiVo: "There's so much TV and nothing to watch." These days, there's an excess of streaming "channels"—Youtube, Vimeo, Hulu, HBO Go—all vying for attention on the home screen of other streaming boxes.
So Qplay replaces isolated streaming channels and apps with personalized playlists, dubbed Qs, drawn from across the Internet. It generates Qs based on your chosen topics and content sources, videos selected by Qplay staff, and what your friends are sharing on Facebook and Twitter or on Qplay (if they've also got one). It's like Flipboard for your TV.
I got early access to Qplay over the weekend. Its makers still say it is in its "early adopter phase" and available in (undisclosed) limited quantities online. I loved the concept of Qplay—but it has some difficult hurdles to clear before it earns a coveted place on my TV shelf. The main problem? Getting access to the best content.
Qplay has some good ideas about making Internet video easier to watch on a TV. Here's how it works: Plug the small red Qplay box, about the size of a deck of cards, into your TV's HDMI input. Download and launch the Qplay app, which (for now) works only on an iPad. Immediately, Internet video starts streaming to the TV, which you can pause or fast forward like live TV using controls on the iPad.
To switch to a different video, select a Q along the top of the iPad screen, such as the default "What's New." Or you can choose a Q that you or someone else has made. I loaded the YouTube Muppets Studio channel as a Q. Back on the iPad, Qplay let me flip through a long list of related Kermit and Gonzo videos. To watch a particular one, I just clicked on the thumbnail preview, and it started playing on my TV.
There's no choosing menus or typing things on the TV screen—you control everything with the iPad. But the player is connected directly to the Internet: If you switch to another app or turn off the iPad, the Qplay just keeps on playing videos from the last Q you selected.
Qplay still has bugs in its interface. Sometimes the app wasn't responsive, and once it froze up and couldn't show anything on my TV.
Assuming they iron these out, one of the most compelling ideas in the Qplay is that it taps into your social networks to suggest what to watch—an idea I'm surprised we haven't seen more of by 2014. Qplay can make a Q of out of what your friends are sharing on Facebook and Twitter. You can also friend other people with Qplay accounts, and subscribe to their personalized Qs—in short, letting people whose taste you trust choose your programming for you.
Qplay is so centered around social feeds that you can't even search for content on a specific topic—you have to find a Q already built around it. So if you wanted to find Conan O'Brien clips, you can't search for "Conan"—you have to search for the "Team Coco" Q generated by his YouTube account. ("Search is work," says Ramsay—he'd rather focus on other ways to curate what we watch.)
Qplay's biggest challenge is that it can't yet stream a lot of the stuff I actually want to watch, like this season of "House of Cards." That's because so far, Qplay doesn't incorporate premium services like Netflix and Hulu. Even YouTube music videos posted by Vevo don't play.
Today, Qplay has content from sites including YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter and Facebook and really only makes sense for people who love watching YouTube videos.
Lining up more premium content partners may not be easy. Cable channel operators had no choice but to deal with TiVo, since its DVR could record their content, like it or not.
Now the question is whether these streaming companies, which want to be the "channels" of the future, will play ball. If Qplay can accomplish that, I think they're onto something.
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Set 1: MomaThe Moma Dance > Runaway Jim, Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room, Stash, My Soul, Taste, GolgiGolgi Apparatus, Loving Cup
Set 2: Wolfman'sWolfman's Brother > 2001Also Sprach Zarathustra > SOAMuleScent of a Mule > Ha Ha Ha -> SOAMuleScent of a Mule, SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light > CDTChalk Dust Torture
Encore: Character Zero
· Theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly tease in Scent of a Mule
Noteworthy Jams: Runaway Jim, Loving Cup, Wolfman's Brother (highly recommended)
Average Song Gap: 7.19
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Scent of a Mule contained a quote of the theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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2 Billy Breathes
2 Hoist
2 A Picture of Nectar
1 The Story of the Ghost
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This show was part of the "1998 Summer U.S. Tour."
The 2nd set starts with a fantasticly funky Wolfman's that's gets straight-up dirty. 2001 keeps the funk going and the SOAMUle Ha Ha Ha sandwich keeps the energy going and is a downright fun listen. waxbanks is on the money with Slave>CDT being backwards but a great way to close the set nonetheless. Character Zero encore, meh, but this is a very solid show. The Wolfman's>2001 is certainly a must-hear for any phan IMO
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(2) Moma Dance --> Jim is one of my favorite openers in the entire archive as far as combinations go and these two versions sound very tight
(3) Stash and Taste both are played superb
(4) Wolfman's --> 2001 brings the funk and sounds real tight and I def. agree with WAXBANKS's observation
(5) MULE --> HA HA HA --> MULE reveals the band is having a blast and is in the mood
(6) Slave has a very well played climax and otro
(7) Chalkdust to end the 2nd set on a strong, intense note!
Just my $.02
It's mostly a Type 1 show but most everything is excellent. RJim, Stash, Taste, and Slave were particularly good.
I took a first-time friend to this show and hooked him easily.
Give this one a listen...it deserves more praise.
just a great jam. must-hear.


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The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) hopes to test for Chronic Wasting Disease on Oct. 1. This date coincides with the start of bow hunting season for Michigan hunters.
The DNR plans to test deer for the disease, which corrodes the brains and nervous systems of some deer and elk.
The DNR says it's testing will sample deer and elk in 40 counties in Michigan over a three year period.
No CWD has been found in Michigan, but the disease has been located as close as Wisconsin.
There is no data that suggests the disease can be contracted by humans, but the DNR suggests hunters wear gloves, avoid blood contact with any game killed and cooperate with state officials asking to test dead deer and elk.
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The James Madison University field school has had a fantastic run at revealing the secrets of the quarters for field slaves just below Montpelier's Visitor Center. We have opened up close to 50 units and are slowly developing an idea of how this set of homes was laid out.
This year marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812, also known as "Mr. Madison's War." Two hundred years ago, this war tested our young nation. President Madison proved the United States could go to war without depriving citizens of their constitutional rights.
In the early nineteenth century, many fashionable men and women including Napoleon Bonaparte, Henry Clay, Queen Charlotte of England (wife of George III), and Dolley Madison dipped snuff. The nicotine stimulant made from ground tobacco leaves was typically stored in a small highly decorated box made of silver, tortoise shell, or other decorative material.
Looking for something to do this weekend? Montpelier has your ticket for family fun!
The Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier runs both the District of Columbia and Virginia We the People programs. Both the DC and Virginia teams competed at the recent 2012 We the People National Finals, which tests students on their knowledge of the Constitution.
The Archaeology team has begun its excavations at the quarters for field slaves, located just below the visitor center. We are searching for the remains of the homes for farm slaves who lived in this area from the late 1700s-1844. Back in 2002, when we were planning for the construction of the visitor center, we located a very well preserved farm complex dating back to the Madison era.
April 21-28, Montpelier will celebrate the Garden Club of Virginia's Historic Garden Week along with sister historic sites and landmarks across the commonwealth. The Orange County Tour, entitled "Mr. Madison's Neighborhood," includes stops at James Madison's Montpelier, Somerset Plantation, Mayhurst Inn, and Woodley.
In honor of the 74th anniversary of Battleship's victory at Aintree and the long legacy of the duPont family at Montpelier, a collection of additional notable duPont objects are now on display in the William duPont Gallery at the Montpelier Visitor Center.
The vision of forest sustainability, as imagined by James Madison at Montpelier, stood in contrast to the wanton resource extraction he observed in the early 1800s. Today, those same forests have not only recovered, they are sustainably managed and boast the Commonwealth of Virginia's first smartphone tree ID trail.
One of the most oft-repeated yet ill-cited pieces of Madison lore suggests Dolley Madison instituted the famous Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. When the tale appeared in published monograph, it was often paired with such qualifying phrases as "according to tradition" or "as the story goes."
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Police Report: Feb. 17 - 18, 2013
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 7:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 7:43 p.m.
Feb. 17, 2013
Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Terrebonne Sheriff's Office
Christina Dohl Lirette, 22, 122-D Mall Circle, Houma, holding for other agency.
Chester Clay Bernal, 19, 443 Lake Long Drive, Houma, two counts failure to appear, probation violation.
Bryon Paul Buquet, 43, 1 Rachel Court, Houma, domestic abuse battery (strangulation).
Kevin Michael Cocke, 42, 4285 Bayou Black Drive, Houma, second offense DWI, careless operation.
Houma City Police
Chad Michael Rowell, 22, 150 Shady Arbor Circle, Houma, disregarding traffic control signal, possession schedule I narcotic, unlawful possession drug paraphernalia, illegal use of controlled dangerous substance in presence of juvenile, use of firearm while in possession of narcotics.
Layken D'Ann Britton, 19, 150 Shady Arbor Circle, No. 23-A, Houma, possession schedule I narcotic, unlawful possession drug paraphernalia, illegal use of controlled dangerous substance in presence of juvenile, use of firearm while in possession of narcotics.
Louisiana State Police
Benny Rivera, 55, 100 Lance Lane, Luling, second offense DWI, following vehicle violation.
Feb. 18, 2013
Terrebonne Sheriff's Office
Joseph Lovell Allen Jr., 23, 902 Claudine St., Tallulah, holding for other agency.
Austin Richard Cole, 17, 5939 Bayouside Drive, Chauvin, simple burglary of inhabited dwelling.
Houma City Police
Luis Guevora, 28, 1628 Buron St., Houma, DWI, improper lane usage, no driver's license, operating a vehicle without a lawful presence in U.S.
Melek Robertson, 17, 900 East St., Houma, theft of goods, simple battery, simple criminal damage to property less than $500, resisting arrest by refusing to identify self, two counts contributing to delinquency of juvenile.
Tammy Marie Saragadam, 41, 95 Tulane Ave., Houma, four counts issuing worthless checks, two counts issuing worthless checks less than $100, issuing worthless checks between $100 and $500, two counts issuing worthless checks more than $500, three counts contempt of court.
Mychal Dwayne Ruffin, 30, 5038 North Bayou Black Drive, Gibson, failure to appear.
Ryan Tylor Domangue, 19, 100 Lewald Drive, Houma, sexual battery.
Justin Jared Scott, 18, 125 Fourth St., Houma, simple rape.
Thibodaux Police
Murry Williams, 28, 162 Daggs St., Belle Rose, operating a vehicle while under suspension, 2nd DWI, driving on roadway laned for traffic.
Katie Folse, 21, 1300 Ridgefield Ave., Thibodaux, contempt, possession of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles.
Lafourche Sheriff's Office
Agnes Rounds, 30, 108 White Lane, Paradis, driving on roadway laned for traffic, DWI, illegal carrying of weapon, illegal use of controlled drug in presence of persons under 17 years old, possession of marijuana, possession or distribution of drug paraphernalia.
Alvin Carter, 49, 475 Frederick Drive, Thibodaux, contempt.
Skylor Theriot, 28, 1606 Odonnel Road, New Iberia, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession or distribution of drug paraphernalia.
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Sage Francis wrote: We're planning on doing a video for the song that P.O.S. and I are on. Hopefully it gets even HALF of the reception that Introdiction did, but I'm not banking on it. haha. I love seeing good and talented people get their due. Pip went DIY like a motherfucker on this project and it's paying off. Love that.
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Pleasant Union Baptist Church will celebrate the Rev. Michael Caldwell's fourth anniversary as pastor on Sunday, Nov. 9.
The morning service, which is at 11 a.m. ET, will feature the Rev. Michael Moore of Bowling Green as guest speaker.
Dinner will be served at about 2 p.m.
For the afternoon service, Little Barren and the Rev. Paul Thompson will be the featured guests with services starting at 3:30 p.m.
The public is invited to attend.
Recently, I wrote a story for the newspaper about a young couple from France who flew from Paris to Miami and then set out to walk to Argentina.
They came through my community on their way north to the Florida panhandle, then west to Texas and down to Mexico, Central America and South America. They estimate they'll get to the tip of Argentina in about two years.
Woodlawn Christian Church will host a "Share Your Love" event on Saturday, Nov. 15.
This occasion is described as an "anti-yard sale."
All types of donated items, including clothing, furniture and household goods, will be placed in the church's Family Life Center for pick up by anyone who wants them.
The doors open at 9 a.m. Residents of Campbellsville and surrounding areas are invited to enter and take whatever they want. No money will change hands and no donations will be accepted.
Kentucky Baptists will focus on the urgent need to share the good news of God's love during the 171st Kentucky Baptist Convention annual meeting Tuesday, Nov. 11 at Immanuel Baptist Church in Lexington.
The annual meeting will include an address by 30-year-old mega church pastor David Platt, senior pastor at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala. in its final session on Tuesday night as well as the election of new convention officers and an address by Convention President Bill Henard.
St. Andrew United Methodist Church will host a "Knockout Community Youth Revival" from Sunday through Wednesday.
The revival will begin nightly at 7.
Guest speakers and musicians will include Andre Barnes, First Baptist Youth Choir, Brandon Glanzer, Benson Sexton, Brian Rafferty and Steadfast.
Earlier today, I talked with my Aunt Gladys. In our family she's the matriarch, my mom's older sister.
She never married and in many ways considers her 12 nieces and nephews her children. She's the one who introduced us to such things as putting garnish on dinner plates (we always called parsley "garni"), dressing up to go to "the city" (San Francisco) and ordering in a fine dining restaurant.
Once it was my cousin Maureen's and my turn to go out to eat, and Maureen decided that she would have "chatty obrien bookaterry."
Asbury United Methodist Church celebrated 105 years in ministry on Sunday morning, Sept. 14.
More than 150 people gathered at the church at 9600 New Columbia Road on the Adair-Taylor county line to celebrate.
Cal Turner Jr., chairman of the Cal Turner Family Foundation, Lindsey Wilson College trustee and retired CEO, chairman and president of Dollar General Corp., was the featured speaker.
Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Green County is hosting an all-you-can-eat country ham supper this weekend to help raise money for its building fund.
The event will be Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. ET at the church.
Guests will be seated by a hostess and served family style. The meal will consist of country ham, red eye gravy, mashed potatoes, home-grown green beans, coleslaw, fried apples and homemade biscuits along with homemade jams and jellies. Drinks are included.
Church members will also be performing gospel music for visitors to enjoy before and after their meal.
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church's congregation honored its pastor, Wayne Brooks and his wife Dianna, on Sunday, Oct. 19 with a special service and dinner for their 10th church anniversary.
About 100 attended the celebration.
The Clark Family provided gospel music for the event. The group consists of Brad and Dianne Clark and Ron Barnett, all of Bowling Green, and Vanessa Milby and Tom Clark, both of Campbellsville.
I'm not sure if this comes under the category of TMI (too much information), but sometimes I scream in my sleep.
I don't do it often and it's mostly a muffled sound, but every once in a while a nightmare elicits a good yell in the middle of the night.
The other night I dreamed about a pile of long, squiggly black snakes inside the vegetable crisper drawer in my refrigerator and one bigger, lighter purple-y snake that actually didn't look too healthy.
In my dream, my dad grabbed all the snakes in one hand and got rid of them.
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Earmuffs and scarves aren't the attire usually associated with downtown Merchants and Artist Walks, most of which take place in the summer.
But for the November installment Friday evening, shoppers came prepared.
"I made sure I had my hat and my gloves, and if I need to I can put on my (hood)," said Parkersburg resident Stephanie Carpenter, 42.
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Fabric designer Nikki Butler, left, chats with Marietta resident and fellow artist Keri Seevers inside Simple Pleasures on Front Street Friday during the final Merchants and Artist Walk of 2013.
"Got my flannel-lined jeans," added her mother, Belpre resident Grace Arnold, 64.
Both women said temperatures expected to dip into the 30s didn't cause them to hesitate about whether to attend the final walk of the year pairing artists with downtown Marietta merchants in an extra-hours shopping and social event.
"I think it's just really enjoyable, just walking around the stores," Arnold said.
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Upcoming downtown events
Marietta Christmas Parade, Nov. 30.
Merry-Etta Moonlight Savings Sale, Dec. 6.
Holiday Loft Tour, Dec. 7.
Karen Shaner, manager at the Gallery on Front Street, wondered at first if the cold conditions would keep some people away.
"I just wasn't sure because of the cold weather, but it's not stopping them at all," she said.
Folks could head into the Gallery to hear music by a jazz trio, meet both a local author and a local artist, buy raffle tickets for a quilt made by the Blennerhassett Quilt Guild and get a hot cup of Maine wassail.
For Marietta resident Babs Douglass, 60, the cold just added to the evening's atmosphere.
"Puts you in the Christmas spirit, this one does," she said. "It's a Christmasy-kind-of-feeling night."
Her daughter-in-law Stephanie, 31, was visiting from the Columbus area and attending her first Merchants and Artist event.
"I think it's awesome," she said. "I like that all the stores are open. There's a lot of people out and about."
Christmas shopping was on the minds of many of those walking downtown Friday evening.
"We got gifts, and (we) do a little Christmas looking," said Melissa Erb, 45, of Marietta, walking through the Gallery with her husband, Mark, 41.
The couple said they take turns choosing which shop to browse, so after visiting the Cook's Shop at Melissa's request, they headed to the Gallery so Mark could check out the Ohio State merchandise.
"I enjoy it too," Mark said of the walks.
Williamstown resident Nikki Butler, who designs her own fabrics for clothing, purses and other items, said she likes the walks because they present an opportunity she doesn't often get selling her merchandise online.
"It's just nice to get feedback from everyone," she said.
Marietta resident Judy Williams was making her third appearance at a walk this year, selling decorative boxes at Putnam Chocolates.
"I just felt I had something that people might be interested in, and it doesn't cost a lot," she said. "I have to be working on something. I made one (box) for myself, and that's the one that sold."


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BELPRE - More than 100 members of the Belpre community celebrated the 224th anniversary of the "Belle Prairie" settlement on Tuesday evening with the annual Belpre Historical Society's Founders Day Dinner.
"This is the celebration of our history," said historical society president Nancy Sams. "We've led a good, long life as a city."
The dinner was held at the Belpre Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, 2932 Washington Blvd., and was followed by a presentation of the events leading up to and including the 1864 presidential re-election of Abraham Lincoln by local history buff and Lincoln researcher Marty Seufer.
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Marty Seufer, local history buff and Lincoln researcher, tells the story of the 1864 presidential election on Tuesday during the Belpre Historical Society's Founders Day Dinner at the Belpre Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, 2932 Washington Blvd.
"At the time of the 1864 election, Lincoln and the Republican Party had fallen out of favor," Seufer said. "Thousands considered Lincoln a dictator and a tyrant with the general feeling as opposition to the (Civil) war."
Seufer has been collecting Lincoln memorabilia and researching the life of the 16th President of the United States for more than 25 years. He has a continually growing collection, including vintage newspapers with reports of events in Lincoln's life.
The program on Lincoln's re-election came about during the presidential election last November.
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- The Belpre Historical Society celebrated the 224th anniversary of the settlement of "Belle Prairie" on Tuesday with the Founders Day Dinner at the Belpre Church of Christ Fellowship Hall.
- More than 100 people attended the dinner and the program by local history buff and Lincoln researcher Marty Seufer, which delved into the events leading up to the 1864 presidential election.
- The historical society will continue celebrations on Thursday with the 9 a.m. groundbreaking ceremony of its new building at the museum complex at 509 Ridge St.
"Unlike now, the 1864 election was tight and over the course of only a few months, which I wish it was still done that way because now we have campaigns that last two years or more," Seufer said. "Speculation is, had (Democratic Party presidential nominee) George McClellan actually campaigned, he would have won the election."
With the campaign short on time, both Lincoln and McClellan made only one campaign appearance each. Lincoln stopped on June 16, 1864, in Philadelphia while McClellan spoke in Newark, N.J.
Seufer said that while the population of both the North and South was tired of the war and the Democratic win would end the fighting, the fact active soldiers were able to vote turned the tide in Lincoln's favor.
"This was the first time soldiers were allowed to vote in the field," he said. "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that if you were a soldier and had seen your friends and brothers die, you were going to vote for Lincoln to see the war through."
The final popular vote was Lincoln, 2,218,388, to McClellan's 1,812,807 votes.
"Lincoln was a master politician," Seufer said. "He knew people and he took those who were against him and pulled them closer, which won him the election."
Proceeds from the dinner will be applied to fund the new Collections Preservation building, a 50-by-50 foot building, to complement the Farmers Castle Museum Education Center at 509 Ridge St. and provide more space for educational presentations, workshops and programs.
The historical society will continue the anniversary celebrations at 9 a.m. Thursday with the groundbreaking ceremony of this new building.
"We not only met, but exceeded our goal and now have 90 percent of the funds needed for the building," Sams said. "Yes, we went after grants, but the community has been so supportive that I am overwhelmed.
"We have had donations from $5 from a student to $100,000, which blows my mind," she added.
The $100,000 donation came from Pam Thomas, widow of former Belpre Mayor Dick Thomas, who kicked off the fundraising campaign with the "massive" donation, Sams said.
"We are still taking donations because we need to finish the building," Sams said. "We want this to be everybody's museum because history belongs to us all."


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The Saints girls basketball team lost a close one at Fairmont last Thursday night 50 to 46.
The visiting Saints were led by seniors Megan Beckius with 13 points, and Cheyanne Bowers chipped in 12.
Julia Runge had a monster rebounding game for the Saints. Julia grabbed 20 rebounds and added six points.
The difference in the game was on the free throw line. The visiting Saints made 7 of 20 from the line, while it really was a charity stripe for the Cardinals when they made 17 of 25 free throws.
Kristen Campe of the Cardinals led all scorers with 16 points.
The Saints girls basketball team now stands at 6-13 overall and 2-7 in the South Central Conference.
The Saints next game is when they host Blue Earth Area on Friday night with the B game starting at 6 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (January 25, 2013)—The U.S. Department of Education issued a groundbreaking directive Friday that says students with disabilities must be given a fair shot to play on a traditional sports team or must have their own leagues.
The order is reminiscent of the Title IX expansion four decades ago of athletic opportunities for girls and women.
Education Department officials emphasize the goal is to make it clear that schools cannot exclude students based on their disabilities if they can keep up with their classmates.
Students with disabilities could join traditional teams if officials could make "reasonable modifications" to accommodate them, but if those adjustments would fundamentally alter a sport or give the student an advantage, the department is directing schools to create parallel athletic programs.
"Federal civil rights laws require schools to provide equal opportunities, not give anyone an unfair head start," Education Secretary said in a posting on the department's website.
"So schools don't have to change the essential rules of the game, and they don't have to do anything that would provide a student with a disability an unfair competitive advantage. But they do need to make reasonable modifications (such as using a laser instead of a starter pistol to start a race so a deaf runner can compete) to ensure that students with disabilities get the very same opportunity to play as everyone else," he said.
"The guidance issued today will help schools meet this obligation and will allow increasing numbers of kids with disabilities the chance to benefit from playing sports," he said.


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