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Essential oils are concentrated liquids that are extracted from leaves, stems, flowers, bark, and roots of plants and are used for multiple purposes, including cosmetic and medical applications. In many cases, they are a good alternative for those who prefer natural remedies to stay healthy and beautiful. Due to the concentrated composition of essential oils, they should not be used undiluted because of the risk to burn the skin or get an allergy reaction. Instead, they should be combined with base oils before application. The latter are also called vegetable or carrier oils, as they are extracted from fruits, nuts, and seeds of certain plants, and their purpose is to "carry" essential oils to the skin.Below is a list of the most effective oils that help remove stretch marks. If pregnant, use these oils ONLY after the first trimester or as marked below.
To treat stretch marks, blend essential and base oils together and massage them into the skin until fully absorbed. Besides, take dietary supplements or make sure your diet is high in vitamins A, C, E, calcium, selenium, magnesium, zinc, and fatty acids (i.e., primrose oil). These vitamins and minerals will nourish and maintain the skin from inside. If you are unsure about the techniques or effects of using essential or base oils, consult your healthcare provider.
Below you'll see a few recipes of massage oils that are very beneficial for stretch marks removal.
They are not intended for use by pregnant women. If you are pregnant, read Essential Oils during Pregnancy
For more recipes for stretch marks removal read Recipes with Essential Oils
Keep in mind that some essential oils are photo-toxic. If you apply them to the skin and expose the treated area to sunlight, your skin may be damaged. See the Photo-toxic Oils List
Before using essential oils read Essential Oils Safety information.
Remember: the newer your stretch marks are, the more chances you have to remove them with the help of essential oils. Do not delay the treatment! After a year, you may need to use more invasive methods (i.e., chemical peelings or microdermabrasion) to remove stretch marks.


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I enjoy ChocoTaco's posts. And I know I am not alone, haha. He brings up great arguments, presents meticulously tracked exercise/nutrition data, and posts awesome recipes.
I wanted to post this earlier in the week in the spirit of Valentine's Day, but work was so busy and I haven't used the computer much at night this week. I know V-Day is over, but I'm going to post it anyway.
Is there a member of the forum whose posts you enjoy and look forward to reading? I admit I ♥ tfarny
I like to read all his posts and usually find what he has to say spot on. I also miss his "Bill Murray-like picture.
Ok, fess up.....I can't be the only person who has a favorite poster on the forum.
I enjoy ChocoTaco's posts. And I know I am not alone, haha. He brings up great arguments, presents meticulously tracked exercise/nutrition data, and posts awesome recipes.
Gay Panda, canio6, Geostump, bloodorchid, skink531, quelsen, Pebbles67, saoirse, and several of the old crowd that don't show up much anymore. I'm sure there are others that I can't think of off the top of my head. I'll add them as I remember.
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I was going to say tfarny, too. And quelsen.
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I wouldn't call them crushes per say. GP is def a crush in an admiring kind of way. Drssgchic and fpsjosh01 are my journal buddies since they are the most frequent posters in mine and I subscribe to theirs. But there are a ton of other people whose posts I love to read.
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I think anyone who has a crush on someone on the forums needs to go out more. This is coming from a guy who doesn't go out at all.
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LOL @ dado and tfarny, those guys are big government loving socialists.
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Bank lobbying hits all time high in 2011
Which is to say, banks spending money to influence Congress people. I've been called naive for referring to lobbying as bribery, but to me it obviously is. It's the wealthy using money to change the laws of our nation to suit themselves.
Bank Lobbying On Track To Reach Record High This Year | ThinkProgress
As the Occupy Wall Street protests have highlighted the outsize influence financial institutions wield in politics, banks' spending on lobbying is on track to reach an all-time high this year. Lobbying expenditures by the five biggest spenders among commercial banks are up 12 percent so far this year compared to 2010, according to an analysis by the Charlotte Observer. Wells Fargo has been particularly profligate in its lobbying, with expenditures up 80 percent in the first three quarters of the year compared to last year. "Should this year's pace continue, 2011 will be the sixth straight year that commercial bank lobbying has set a record," according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks federal lobbying. Much of the lobbying has focused curbing the impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, which passed last year, and the Federal Reserve's dealing with debit card swipe fees.


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ADB Now Supports Non-FIT Solar
By MYRNA M. VELASCO
June 18, 2012, 5:46pm
MANILA, Philippines --- With global drop in photovoltaic (PV) technology prices, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sounded off that it is now reviewing options to lend to solar projects even without the support of feed-in-tariffs. ADB energy specialist Sohail Hasnie said they have initially penciled in 100-million credit facility which may be availed of by interested solar power developers. He added that discussions within the bank's renewable energy group are currently centered on supporting solar development program without subsidies or FIT.
The ADB official intimated though that there would be "fierce competition" on capital access for clean energy projects, including those on renewable energy (RE) developments.
The bank has its own solar rooftop-installed power source as a showcase project aptly demonstrating that the technology can already be utilized viably without subsidies.
As the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) prepares a ruling on the FITs for various renewable energy developments, regulators are firmly cautioned on subsidy impositions for solar especially with reports that the technology is already at grid parity in various jurisdictions. In fact, sources from the National Renewable Energy Board's (NREB) technical working group have tipped off that when the initial high FIT was calculated for solar, the prospective developers have not presented as much data to support their proposed numbers.
On ADB's part, it noted that it is willing to extend technical assistance to the Department of Energy (DoE) so a study can be undertaken to assess the viability of solar installations in the country, primarily on rooftop solar which may be aligned as power supply option for industries and businesses.
The bank has opined that rooftop-installed solar facilities can now be economically feasible for higher-demand customers even without subsidies. However, bringing them down to the level of residential end-users might still be expensive.
The bank's Asia Solar Energy Initiative (ASEI) is targeting solar capacity installations of up to 3,000 megawatts within Asia and the Pacific over three years that will wind up in 2013.
The ADB is eyeing to finance up to .25 billion worth of projects under its ASEI program and shall also leverage an additional $6.75 billion in solar investments in the same period. The ADB said it will be using instruments such as London interbank offered rate (LIBOR)-based loans, donor contributions, grant funds, innovative risk mitigation mechanisms, carbon market support measures and direct support for its solar lending program.
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Over 20 years after Mount Pinatubo eruption, Aeta victims still struggling
JON LINDLEY AGUSTIN, GMA NEWS April 27, 2012 3:00pm
More than a million people were left homeless when Mount Pinatubo erupted in on June 15, 1991, considered as the "world's most violent and destructive volcanic event of the 20th century."
Mount Pinatubo's eruption caused the deaths of 847 people, and left 184 others injured, 23 missing, according to park.org, a website devoted to Mount Pinatubo. Days after Mount Pinatubo erupted, former Philippine ambassador to China Alfonso Yuchengco asked Sister Eva Maamo to ride with him in a helicopter to see the extent of the devastation.
Maamo, a surgeon-nun, is the founder of a group called "Barefoot Doctors," which was established in 1974 to help indigenous communities. They were thinking of sending a dental mission and carrying out a feeding program for the victims of the tragedy. However, what they witnessed prompted them to embark on a more long-term program to help Aetas living in Mount Pinatubo recover from the devastation.
Mount Pinatubo lay dormant for 400 years before it erupted in 1991 "so violently that more than five billion cubic meters of ash and pyroclastic debris were ejected from its fiery bowels producing eruption columns 18 kilometers wide at the base and heights reaching up to 30 kilometers above the volcano's vent," park.org said. "For months, the ejected volcanic materials remaind suspended in the atmosphere where the winds dispersed them to envelope the earth, reaching as far as Russia and North America. This phenomenon caused the world's temperature to fall by an average of one degree Celsius," it added.
Some 700 Aetas live in poorly-maintained houses in Mount Pinatubo. Help still needed two decades after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, the Aetas remain in need of help. According to Tracy Cruz, a programming specialist of GMA Regional TV, who personally visited the relocation site, some 700 Aetas live in poorly-maintained houses. "The Aetas are one of the most beautiful people in the world. Unfortunately, our society discriminates the indigenous people of our country," said Cruz.
"As the original settlers of our homeland, let us give them the chance to start anew and give the respect that any human being deserves," she added.
Sick, skinny, and homeless children
In an interview with GMA News Online on Thursday, Maamo, 71, recalled that in 1991, "Near Santo Tomas River, we saw [a group of] Aetas waving at us but when we approached them, there were sick and skinny children." Despite the condition of the survivors, Maamo said the Aetas only wished for food and a relocation site where they can see "Apo," a name they used to call Mount Pinatubo, a god they believe in.
The Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission, Inc. (FOLPMI), a charitable organization headed by Maamo, thus worked with the Aeta Tribal Council to build a resettlement area in Sitio Gala, Subic, Zambales, where the Aetas can see their "Apo." Called the Aeta Resettlement and Rehabilitation Center, it is a 72-hectare donated land located within the hills of Subic that can house about 100 tribal families or 700 Aetas.
FOLPMI co-founder Fr. James Reuter, S.J., in the official website of Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF), said: "Our Lady of Peace Mission is meeting our national problem of poverty at the lowest level: survival. We are trying to meet the primary need of all people in the third world, everywhere: life."
FOLPMI assists tribal groups, street children, the poor, and the underprivileged by providing them with food, shelter, clothing, and medicines. FOLPMI also helps them with health and medical care, education, self-sustaining livelihood, community organization, and spiritual formation.
"We have clinics in several areas. The hospital will allow babies to be born safely. It will allow the sick to get back to normal, like other people. It will allow the old to die with dignity," Reuter added. FOLPMI currently needs funds to replace the bamboo houses of the Aetas with concrete homes.
"The community is not in a good condition," Maamo said.
Aside from homes, they are also seeking assistance to provide long-term requirements of the livelihood programs such as hog-raising, tilapia farming, shawl dyeing, organic mango production, bamboo craft, and alternative medicines.
"Barefoot doctors"
Aside from housing, the Aetas also need medical assistance. Currently, the foundation that Maamo established -- Barefoot Doctors — is helping the tribal group. The foundation has its beginnings in 1974 when volunteer doctors set out to help minorities in Cotabato where tribes such as the T'Bolis, Ubos, Manobos, and some Muslims live.
At the time when the foundation was established, Manobo tribespeople were sick because of viral and bacterial infections, Maamo told GMA News Online. "When I visited the Manobos, I saw a child die without seeing a doctor," Maamo said. "I saw people dying without seeing a doctor or a nurse. So I decided to teach them how to take care of their own people."
"I cannot just do it myself so I started training barefoot doctors," she said. "But due to the lack of resources in the mountains, we are sometimes forced to use natural resources such as banana stalks and bamboo in performing surgeries." With the help of 300 volunteer doctors and nurses from all over the country, they trained 229 barefoot doctors from the 118 tribes they found.
In just a year, the cases of infections they saw before were reduced by one-third, she said.
"Joining the mission is not easy. It is a sacrifice of oneself, a selfless rendering of service to humanity," general surgeon Dr. Gabby Peñas said in the RMAF website.
To donate and volunteer for FOLPMI's Aeta Resettlement and Rehabilitation Center, please contact Sis. Eva Maamo at (02)8257653 and 09215341433 or visit www.folpmi.org - with a report from Tracy Cruz, VVP, GMA News
OAKLAND, Ca. – Feb. 1, 2011 – Renewable Energy Enterprises Foundation (alleviatepovertynow.org), a California based 501(c)(3), has announced initiation of the Family First Program, the first of a three-pronged approach to tackling problems of poverty within the western Zambales region of the Philippines. REEF's approach to poverty addresses poverty at three separate points of the culture's social structure: impoverished families, poor communities, and future professionals in the post-secondary university systems.
The Family First Program identifies households from the lowest economic class and, after screening, provide tools for upward economic mobility including electric light bulbs, an energy efficient refrigerator, a clean cook stove and batteries. The tools are powered by renewable power systems, typically solar.
Founder and CEO Ralph Chesley comments, "With our research and interaction with stakeholders throughout the community, we've seen that just a few basic tools are often all that stand between upward [economic] mobility, and a cycle of poverty and strife across generations. Relatively small sums from the industrialized west can yield substantial benefit to the poor in under-developed regions of the world."
REEF will have the preliminaries of its first clean energy system completed by the end of 2011, and plans three more in 2012.
About REEF
The company is a collective of volunteer professionals, located both in the Philippines and in the United States, with expertise across multiple disciplines in the sciences and humanities. REEF works to assist communities throughout the world caught in poverty traps develop a sustainable infrastructure, which will allow for economic advancement.
For more information, or to assist REEF with financial or in-kind donations, visit http://www.alleviatepoverynow.org.
Energy Access Seen as Vital to Abolishing Worst Poverty
by David Jolly, The New York Times
September 21, 2010
More than $36 billion a year is needed to ensure that the world's population benefits from access to electricity and clean-burning cooking facilities by 2030, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
In a report prepared for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals meeting in New York, the agency said the goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2015 would be possible only if an additional 395 million people obtained access to electricity and one billion gained access to more modern cooking facilities that minimize harmful smoke in the next few years.
"Without electricity, social and economic development is much more difficult," Fatih Birol, the energy agency's chief economist, said by telephone. "Addressing sanitation, clean water, hunger — these goals can't be met without providing access to energy." The problem of energy inequality mirrors the gap between rich and poor countries, Mr. Birol said. "The amount of electricity consumed by sub-Saharan Africa, with 800 million people, is about the same as that used in New York State, with about 19 million people," he said.
The agency, which produced the report in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, looked at both the lack of access to electricity and the reliance on and use of traditional biomass like wood as cooking fuel. In sub-Saharan Africa, the report notes, the electrification rate is 31 percent, and 80 percent of people rely on biomass for cooking.
About 1.4 billion people around the world lack electricity, and they are overwhelmingly in rural areas, the report said, while 2.7 billion rely on traditional biomass to cook. In addition to contributing to deforestation in poor nations, traditional cooking fuels degrade air quality, causing serious health problems and premature deaths, the energy agency report says. Mr. Birol played down concerns that bringing more of the global population into the modern energy economy would be bad for the environment.
He predicted that meeting the development goal would raise global oil consumption just 1 percent, while raising carbon emissions only 0.8 percent. Still, "without a concerted international effort, it's unlikely that the problem will be solved, because markets alone won't address it," Mr. Birol said. Companies are reluctant to invest in many areas because the return is not guaranteed, he said, so seed money is needed from wealthier countries.
In Nigeria, a major oil exporter with a population of about 155 million people, 76 million do not have electricity, he said. "If only 0.4 percent of their oil and gas revenues were invested in power production, they would solve the problem," he said, "so it's not just a question of money, it's how the money is managed."
Separately on Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that the United States would provide about $50 million in seed money over five years for a project known as the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. More than a dozen other partners, including governments, multilateral organizations and corporate sponsors, are to contribute an ...Read More


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"I've spent a lot of time with people who attended places like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Dartmouth, and I can say without a doubt that I was as prepared academically as they were," says Lynn Robitaille Garcia '97 (STPEC), general counsel of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. "In fact, I was better prepared to negotiate stressful situations and difficult interpersonal relationships than many of my colleagues because of my UMass experiences."
Garcia credits an undergraduate extracurricular project as a huge positive influence. "A group of students concerned about the university's affordability launched a campaign to freeze tuition and fees and obtain an increase in state funding from the legislature," she explains. "Through that process, I learned how to negotiate with the university administration and organize a statewide campaign to influence the budget. I was appointed to the statewide Higher Education Coordinating Committee and developed strong relationships with legislators like Rep. Ellen Story. I learned how to negotiate tough issues with many diverse stakeholders early in life…skills that continue to serve me to this day."
The Texas Forensic Science Commission, created by the Texas legislature in 2005, investigates negligence and misconduct in Texas crime laboratories, like the recent incident in a Massachusetts state crime lab where an analyst falsified results. The Commission's seven scientists and two lawyers receive complaints from the public, including inmates and their families, advocacy agencies like the Innocence Project, and self-disclosures from the laboratories themselves. "My main job," says Garcia, "involves document gathering, interviewing witnesses, coordinating retesting of evidence and drafting final reports with recommendations." She also provides legal advice and manages communications with the legislature, the Governor's Office, media and the public.
Garcia is in a happy place these days, but that wasn't always the case. After her stellar academic experience at UMass where "classes were challenging, interdisciplinary, and addressed issues that mattered to me," she says, "the first year of law school at Georgetown was a major let down. At UMass I would stay up until the wee hours in the Student Union with friends from all over the world, talking about political and personal issues, and working on various campaigns. And there were a number of faculty members who changed my life. It was an incredible period of growth for me, but my first year of law school involved none of that—it was pretty much all about memorizing case holdings and rules, and I wondered if I'd made a wrong decision."
That is, until she was accepted into a political asylum clinic where students worked on actual cases. "I helped a Sudanese pro-democracy activist get asylum," Garcia says. "Besides being one of the most rewarding and exhilarating experiences of my life, it was then I began to understand the power of a legal education to change people's lives."
After law school Garcia joined a large Washington law firm. "Like many of my peers," she says, "I was so deep in debt with law school loans that I felt it was the only choice for me. Now, I know I could have figured out other options, but at the time I was pretty overwhelmed. Plus, no one I knew growing up earned anything close to the salary potential at a big law firm, so I felt I owed it to a lot of people to give it a try."
Instilled with a tremendous work ethic by her family's example, Garcia dove in, working on complex internal investigations where corporate clients were being accused of export control violations, abuses of U.S. anti-corruption laws, or securities law breaches. "I developed an eye for distilling enormous amounts of information into the most critical components," says Garcia, who was sent all over the world to work on investigations, including a period of living in Paris, extended periods in The Hague and Zurich, and travel in Asia and Latin America.
Law firms can be pretty tough places, Garcia acknowledges, but she developed an incredible network and the firm's demand for excellence and devotion served her well. Still, when the opportunity arose from the State of Texas to work in public service, Garcia jumped. "During the heyday of my law firm career I learned there is tremendous danger in working 80 hours a week, living off vending machines and takeout with no exercise or time outdoors, she says. "My job now allows for time to be outside and have a silent meditation on most days. These two simple things make me much better at everything else I do."
Garcia offers aspiring lawyers some advice. "If you really want to be a lawyer, remember it can be a long and tough road," says Garcia. "I love my job today, but sometimes during and after law school I felt I was suffocating under mounds of unfulfilling work. Trust your instincts. If you believe in yourself and pursue work you love, everything else will fall into place, though it may not seem like it at times. Have faith. And develop strong writing skills. That's extremely important for any career in law or public policy."


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Since 2009 Innermost has produced a series of photo shoots bringing movement into our product photography. A ballet dancer jumped up to our Fillet for the cover of our current brochure and models rode Hi Ho's in an animated series of images in 2011.
Most recently in house designer and photographer Chak has produced a series of images that continue the 'motion pictures' theme with a session that put a slipping sliding clown under our Circus pendants and an even newer series that looks like the products themselves are moving, lifting off or being blown away.
We will be showcasing more of the images as they are completed in the coming weeks right here so please check back to see our latest work.


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Green housing project stunted
September 8, 2008 8:51 AM
A project to turn some University Park South houses into a green living co-operative this fall was shelved because there was not enough time to implement it and not enough eligible students applied, organizers said.
[X]press reported last May that Housing and Residential Services accepted a student's proposal to set aside four adjacent town houses in University Park South—601 Font Blvd., 100 Tapia Drive, 2 Pinto Ave. and 4 Pinto Ave.—for a joint living project called Eco-Digs.
Eco-Digs was to house up to 15 students passionate about effecting environmental and social change. The co-op's planned projects included updating the houses to improve energy and water efficiency and transforming the grass lawns into organic food gardens. Housing began accepting applications for Eco-Digs last spring.
But over the summer, "we realized that to try to have it all together this fall was unrealistic," said Keir Johnson, the student who proposed Eco-Digs to Housing in March 2008. "It's just on hold. Nothing is in vain."
Instead, for the fall, "we're focused on beefing up existing programs in Housing," said Johnson, who now works for SF State under Jim Bolinger, associate director of residential property management.
Currently, SF State is home to Towers Residents' Environmental Organization (TREO)—Housing's environmentally themed dorm floor for freshmen, which Johnson said would receive additional attention in lieu of Eco-Digs.
"There's not a lot to say about Eco-Digs. It needs to be planned much more in advance and there needs to be an interest in it," said Bolinger, who worked on Eco-Digs with Johnson.
"Keir came up with the concept, and everybody embraced it. We really liked it, but there was not enough time to put it together in the license agreement cycle that university housing follows," Bolinger said. "It just needed to be developed much more in advance."
But even if Eco-Digs had been ready to go, not many eligible students showed an interest in actually living there, Bolinger said.
Though Johnson said those involved with Eco-Digs did not have enough time to adequately inform potential residents, the dearth of applicants may have had more to do with age restrictions for University Park South than a lack of interest. Students had to be between the ages of 22 and 25 to live in the off-campus co-op.
While several students who spent last spring living in TREO would have made good candidates for Eco-Digs, virtually none of the students who lived there were old enough to apply, Bolinger said.
With Eco-Digs "on the back burner" this fall, Bolinger said Housing's energies will focus on "continuing TREO, continuing the progress that we made last year in addition to developing something for second-year students."
One avenue for TREO "graduates" will be to join ECO Students, the group of environmentally conscious students that announced earlier this semester that it would expand to include Housing's Eco-Friendly Residents' Organization (HERO).
Johnson, a member of the new ECO Students, said he is glad the two student groups have pooled together because Housing is still a largely untapped resource. Resident students have fueled nearly all movements on campus because they live closest and have the freedom to do so; therefore, "we have so much potential to work in community building and consciousness raising down here," he said.
"There's a lot of growth potential in the existing structures. There's a lot of amazing potential and possibilities" said Johnson, who described Housing's new fall focus as "a crawl-before-you-can-walk scenario."
A project like Eco-Digs could still happen next semester or later, and Housing officials will meet to decide on that later in the fall, Bolinger said.
"People still like it," he said. "We definitely are keenly interested in pushing our sustainability efforts forward, both within our operations and as programming for our students to take with them for a lifetime."
Johnson said that, while projects like Eco-Digs are "definitely the direction we're going to be going, the main concern is making sure there's a legacy left from what we're doing here...not trying to grow too fast."
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100 Years Ago
1913 - Wailuku is holding her own in the billiard tournament. At the present, the scores stand at Kahului, 555; Wailuku, 522. The first team to score 1000 points will be declared the winner, and then there will be some tall cheering done by the victors.
75 Years Ago
1938 - To the employee of Hawaiian Pineapple Co. with the best smile will go a cash prize of $3, according to Pine Parade, the company's newspaper. The smile contest is open to all the company's divisions, Haiku, Lanai, Wahiawa and Honolulu.
50 Years Ago
1963 -William D. Tavares, principal of Makawao School, was the main speaker at the 50th anniversary of the founding of Maui High School. Winding up the memorable occasion was a dance and program at the Paia Gym where the Islanders provided the music for the evening.
25 Years Ago
1988 - The state Department of Agriculture this morning was holding a 5-foot boa constrictor found slithering across Kaupakalua Road in Haiku Saturday. The reptile is the fourth snake discovered on Maui in a one-year period.
10 Years Ago
2003 - During the Korean immigration centennial, 27 outstanding immigrants are being remembered and honored. Among them is the Rev. Choon-Ho Lim, who spent a good portion of his ministry on Maui.
* "Looking Back Through The Maui News" is a weekly feature compiled by Gail Ainsworth.


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Police Arrest Two Suspected iPhone Thieves After They Snap a 'Selfie'
Two teenagers wanted for a string of robberies near Fort Greene Park were arrested after they took a 'selfie' photo with a stolen iPhone, police said on Friday.
Tyquan Solomon, 19 years old, and Terrance Sistrunk, 16, were each charged with five counts of robbery, police said.
The two are suspected of a series of robberies in January and February, police said. In one incident, a 22 year-old man was walking home at 1 a.m. when two men approached him and showed the victim what looked like a black handgun, police said.
The suspects took $205 and the victim's iPhone, police said. Later that day, the victim checked his iCloud and saw the suspects had taken photos of themselves with his iPhone — and he then told police, officials said. Detectives then used the shots to identify and arrest the two men, police said.


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About the House
Style: Late 18th-century shingle style cottage with wide-plank floors, plaster walls, and exposed beams
Space: 3,800 square feet spread over three floors with four bedrooms and four full baths
Setting: The main drag of Rowayton, Connecticut, a quaint harbor town with a population of 4,000 that's home to many sea-seeking artists and writers
View: From the front porch, Five Mile River, which flows into the Long Island Sound, plus neighbors casually strolling to and from town.
The front of the house.
I am in love with this entryway! Especially the white tree!
What do you think about the simple fireplace?
Nice white bathroom.
I love the artwork above the bed in this guestroom.
There's more information and photos of this home at Coastal Living.


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What Should I Do if My Bank Gets Nationalized?
"Nationalization" is the latest financial buzzword to terrify people, yet no one really knows what it means in practice.
Merriam-Webster says it's "to give national character to." In economic terms, generally speaking, it's when a government takes over and runs a company.
The U.S. government has generally avoided taking stakes in private companies, let alone fully nationalizing them. But since the financial system began crumbling last year, the government has injected taxpayer money into more than 400 banks, according to the Washington Post. (Here's a complete breakdown of recipients of government money.) These aren't all out government takeovers, but the U.S. — that is, us taxpayers — became de facto majority shareholders in many cases.
From the WaPo:
Some experts say any government ownership is a form of nationalization. Others draw the line at 51 percent. There's also a technical standard: If the government owns 80 percent or more of a company's shares, accounting rules put the company on the government's balance sheet. That's why the government chose to take control of 79.9 percent of the shares in American International Group, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when it seized those companies.
So what does that mean if you're a customer at a nationalized or possibly-soon-to-be-nationalized financial institution?
First of all, calm down. Your money is most likely safe. Confirm that your institution is covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which insures deposits of up to $250,000. That will cover you whether your bank is nationalized or goes belly-up, which is what the government is trying to prevent by nationalizing.
If you own shares of the institution, you've probably experienced some choppy stock performance recently. We're not going to try and predict the market or how individual shares will perform — or whether nationalization is a good use of taxpayer money — but we welcome the banter. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have both spoken against nationalization, but market gawkers are still eying zombie companies and wondering.
In sum, your life as an everyday customer at a partly or fully nationalized bank probably wouldn't change too much. That's the big reason that the government would inject money and control into a financial institution to begin with — to maintain stability.


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Ram Gopal Varma takes a dig at Oprah Winfrey
Ram Gopal Varma has made a statement on Twitter, that pokes fun at chat show queen Oprah Winfrey. RGV tweeted, "Is Oprah winfrey a fish? Just asking becos the name rhymes with pomfret… Pomfray Winfrey…Pomfrey Winfrey."
Well, we are sure that Oprah won't care for this. However, her fans are likely to be upset with Ram Gopal Varma for making such a ridiculous comment on one of the most loved and respected ladies in the globe.
Oprah Winfrey is currently in India to shoot for her new show titled Next Chapter. Oprah recently met the Bachchan family and attended Parmeshwar Godrej's party that was hosted in her honour.


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Spotlight on the Slow Food NYC Snail of Approval Producer Matrix
A Day in the Life of Claire Marin, Co-Founder Catskill Provisions
A typical weekend for us at the farm driving up to our farmhouse in Delaware County with our german shepherd, Baron. First we go to the hen house and check on our 12 chickens and grab some eggs. Then we head out to the garden to harvest our groceries for the week consisting of every herb imaginable along with heritage lettuce, kale, tomatoes, and corn. But the most fun job is when we put on our bee-suits and tend to our 10 hives.
Back in 2003, bees started as a hobby as I continued my hectic career in publishing as the associate publisher at More Magazine and in 2008, the Vice President, Publisher of Woman's Day Brand Group. But when I was with the bees I found myself totally immersed in the moment and thought of nothing else.
Everyday, I became more and more mesmerized by our bees' work ethic. They are social creatures that work for the benefit of the group to produce the most optimal results for their colony. They are efficient, super-organized and have a strong sense of community. This really got me thinking. It was time to reevaluate my life. It was time to think about a change and literally become more like the bees.
In 2010, with multiple hives housing what I know are the happiest bees in New York State, I said goodbye to publishing and created Catskill Provisions, a premier artisan food company with the mission to produce %100 raw, local products.
To make all of Catskills products, Cathy and I now manage over 700 hives in Delaware and Sullivan Counties as well as one hive on West 10th Street in Manhattan, and only work with local farmers and beekeepers. With our two seasonal honeys, you can taste what the bees taste--clover, apple, pear blossom in the Spring and chestnut, maple, and asters in the Fall. We tap over 2,000 maple trees upstate for our syrup, hoping in the process to bring long overdue attention to this delicious New York sustainable resource. Catskill Maple Syrup is also cooked down to make our Maple Sugar that has endless uses. We just launched our new Pancake/Waffle mix made from organic wheat grown and milled in New York, and also our bittersweet Chocolate Honey Truffles infused with our Fall Honey.
About Catskill Provisions
Located in a small corner of the Northwest Catskill Mountains, Catskill Provisions is a company born out of the passion to make delicious local products while serving the community that helps sustain it. They subscribe to the philosophy that a thriving society makes use of the closest resources around it. Within Delaware County and surrounding areas, they source as many materials from local purveyors as they can while employing people from within the community. Catskill Provisions continues to grow their list of clients that is comprised of farm-to-table restaurants, hotels, and specialty stores upstate and in NYC that all subscribe to a sustainable local mindset.
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Collin Backowski Tribute
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17 search results for Giallo
Adrien Brody doesn't want you to see his Italian film 'Giallo'
Type: Article | Date: Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010Oscar winner isn't thrilled about direct to DVD title
An 18-Film, Step-By-Step Guide to Turning a Friend on to the Horror Genre
Type: Article | Date: Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015A lesson in terror.
Blade of the Ripper - DVD
Type: Event | Date: Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010This tepid German/Italian giallo thriller stars Edwige Fenech, a familiar face (and then some) to fans of European horror films, as the frustrated wife of the American Ambassador to Austria -- as well as the object of lethal obsession for a Jack the Ripper-type straight-razor murderer who is slashing a bloody swath through the ladies of upper-crust Viennese society. A variety of suspects are lined up for our perusal, all of whom seem connected to Fenech's many romantic diversions; plenty of red herrings are netted before the film's denouement. There's lots of blood and nudity on display but little in the way of suspense until the thoroughly twist-filled climax. Originally known as The Strange Weakness of Mrs. Ward and later as The Next Victim, or simply Next!. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
Why can't US audiences see Asia Argento's great 'Misunderstood'?
Type: Post | Date: Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015Why do some films vanish into a sort of distribution limbo forever?
The New York Ripper - Blu-ray Disc
Type: Event | Date: Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009Jack Hedley of The Anniversary stars as a hardbitten police lieutenant tracking a sadistic sex-killer in this gruesome thriller from splatter-maven Lucio Fulci. The misogynistic script (by Fulci and prolific collaborators Gianfranco Clerici and Vincenzo Mannino) posits a femme-hating psycho (who talks like Donald Duck) slashing beautiful women with a switchblade and a straight-razor because his daughter is in the hospital and will never grow up to be beautiful. Fulci was apparently trying to work in a statement about American competitiveness by making his heroine (Antonella Interlenghi) an aspiring Olympic athlete, and having a killer who is concerned that his daughter will never be "the best," but the point gets lost amidst the buckets of blood and gratuitously kinky sex scenes. Pandering to the lowest common denominator as never before in his career, Fulci showed with this blatant play for the sicko slasher crowd that the days of well-plotted, stylish Italian horror were gone, replaced with the most vicious sort of sexual violence and perversion. Despite all of that, there is one fairly masterful sequence in which the suspect's S&M sex partner learns his identity from a radio broadcast and must untie herself and escape while he sleeps. This scene is tense and nerve-wracking, a high-point of genuine fear amidst a nauseating collage of metal blades slicing female flesh. A shameful piece of work that makes Mario Landi's Giallo a Venezia look positively liberated, it co-stars Renato Rossini, Andrea Occhipinti, and Paolo Malco, with cult figures Alessandra Delli Colli, Daniela Doria, and Barbara Cupisti on the chopping block. Cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller, editor Vincenzo Tomassi, and composer Francesco De Masi have all done better work. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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Type: Article | Date: Friday, Oct 23, 2015A few observations about our ultimate Halloween feature
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Type: Post | Date: Friday, Sep 20, 2013Can the genre-loving documentarian make the jump to narrative features?
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Type: Post | Date: Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013Bond takes his biggest win of the season, but indies rule elsewhere
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Additional articles from Trusted Source™ Pharmaceutical Ministry of Commerce - Policy and Regulation
- State Food and Drug Administration in 2008 issued the first four National Drug Quality Bulletins
- State Food and Drug Administration issued a further registration of imported drugs related matters Notice
- Food Safety Act by the end of February the four experts called for an increase in illegal pre-trial costs
- "Chinese herbal medicines market in Bozhou City Management (tentative)" issued
- Drug: China's doping management is strict and responsible
About importing drugs test at the factory packaging issues
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Bureau you "about Eisai (China) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Test Item relating to the United States can ask the question" (Su An Fresh Drug 〔2009〕 2) receipt. After studying and is now proposing the following views:
1, "Register pharmaceutical management approach," states: "The import of drugs refers to drugs are sub-packaged in formulations eventually finish outside the production process, at the territory of packaging specifications changed by small packing specifications, or to have been completed within the outer packaging of drugs packaging, placement instructions, paste, etc. tags. "" packaged product inspection and testing of imports of the same pharmaceutical standards. "
Given the sub-packaged products imported drugs is based on the importation of medicines management, "Imported Drug Report" is a statutory inspection reports, pharmaceutical quality assurance should be the responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies outside the commitment has been completed within the packaging of the preparations for sub-packaging ago, sub - packaging enterprises with foreign pharmaceutical companies agreed to the factory test mode, and strictly to ensure drug quality, but without external inspection report issued by drugs.
Two, sub-packaging products should in principle be batch imported products with the corresponding "Imported Drug Report" test batch consistency. Hours after the packaging is necessary in batches, and by foreign pharmaceutical companies agreed to the preparation of sub-batch number, batch number and issued by the relevance of documents.
Three, import large packaging drugs at sub-packaging for longer periods of time before the storage and transportation, sub-packaging business to deal with sub-packaged drugs at the validity of the stability study to assess the process of imports and sub-packaging of pharmaceutical quality.
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By Army News ServiceSeptember 21, 2011
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 21, 2011) -- The remains of nine Army airmen were interred Sept. 21 at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., more than 68 years after their flight over Papua New Guinea was shot down by the Japanese.
At the height of World War II, the flying mission of one B-17E Flying Fortress, nicknamed "Naughty but Nice," ended up short lived. All but one of its crew were killed after the aircraft was hit, June 26, 1943.
The crew's mission, after launching from an airfield near Dobodura in New Guinea, was to carry out a bombing mission over Rabaul. The plane was damaged by anti-aircraft fire and ultimately shot down by Japanese fighter aircraft. Only the mission's navigator, 1st Lt. Jose L. Holguin, survived.
The lieutenant, who had bailed out of the aircraft after it was shot by the Japanese, was severely injured. He survived for three weeks in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, until he was found by natives there. The natives provided him immediate assistance, but eventually turned him over to the Japanese.
Holguin was held as a prisoner of war from about July 30, 1943 to Sept. 7, 1945, at the Japanese Sixth Field Kempei Tai Headquarters Prisoner of War Camp, Rabaul, New Guinea.
Following World War II, in 1949, U.S. military personnel in the area were led by local citizens to a B-17 crash site on New Britain Island. There, remains were recovered but couldn't be identified given the technology of the time. The found remains were buried as unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
In 1982 and 1983, Holguin returned to the area and located the crash site. A fragment of the aircraft nose art was recovered and is displayed in the War Museum in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. In 1985, the remains buried in Hawaii were exhumed and identified as Staff Sgt. Henry Garcia, Staff Sgt. Robert E. Griebel, 2nd Lt. Herman H. Knott, Staff Sgt. Pace P. Payne, and 2nd Lt. Francis G. Peattie. In 2001, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command excavated the crash site and found additional human remains and crew-related equipment.
Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used dental comparisons and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used mitochondrial DNA -- which matched that of some of the crew members' families -- in the identification of their remains.
Remains representing nine of the 10 crew members of the June 26, 1943 B-17E mission over Papua New Guinea were interred as a group now at Arlington National Cemetery. They were buried with full military honors.
Among the remains represented in the group burial are:
-- Tech. Sgt. Robert L. Christopherson, engineer
-- Staff Sgt. Henry Garcia, assistant engineer
-- Tech. Sgt. Leonard A. Gionet, radio
-- Staff Sgt. Robert E. Griebel, assistant radio
-- 2nd Lt. Herman H. Knott, assistant bombardier
-- Staff Sgt. Pace P. Payne, gunner
-- 2nd Lt. Francis G. Peattie, bombardier
-- 1st Lt. William J. Sarsfield, pilot
-- 2nd Lt. Charles E. Trimingham, co-pilot
Holguin, who had served as the navigator, died on March 22, 1994, in Los Angeles, Calif.


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It's been an eventful year in the life of The Really Useful #EdTechBook. I wanted to just look back and collect my thoughts, and give you an insight into what it means to me, and to others.
The idea
My original idea was to write about my thoughts on the use of learning / educational technology. I then realised that, for me, the world of learning technology or technology enhanced learning (or just 'learning', as some prefer now) is about the people I connect with and learn from. Plus, you've probably read enough from me these days!
So, my original idea morphed into a collaborative project where contributors brought their own experiences, knowledge, and unique perspectives to the fore, for you to learn from.
From initial conversations, tweets, emails, etc. came the idea and concept for The Really Useful #EdTechBook. Each chapter was set aside for each invited contributor to have for themselves, no real limits were imposed, but ideally between 2,000-5,000 words. I wasn't asking for anything in particular, I didn't want to direct or control the flow of ideas or perspectives, other then each author's own words on their own interpretation of the book title. I was hoping that, once the chapters came in, I could apply a narrative to their order – thinking of (1) the background / history to the use of technology, (2) the current field and areas we work, and finally (3) looking forward to what we can expect or hope for in the future. As is turned out the stories and experiences were echoing and supporting each other that it became obvious there is an underlying thread of our work; that technology has not only enabled us but also constricted us in our outlook – from repeating mistakes to growing concepts and inclusion of stakeholders in all aspects of our work. Continue reading


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Downtown Marietta is the heart of the River Trail.
The historic gazebo overlooks the water, but it's still being renovated.
That has some wondering what exactly is going on.
The Marietta City engineering department says the structure was failing.
The project is taking place in two phases, first temporarily stabilizing it, then re-construction.
Neighbors say many people use the gazebo - especially in the summer - but now all they see is construction but no workers.
"It's a happy place, so I really enjoy living here very much. And I hate to see all these nice things that aren't happening anymore. I see lots of people pointing up, and looking and discussing and wondering, why, why, why," says Joan Hushion, a Marietta resident.
City engineers say certain steps with city council, permits and contractors have been taking a while.
The construction is scheduled to start next week and should be done before the Sternwheel Festival.
From weddings to prom pictures and little girls twirling around inside, Hushion says she just wants view back and the joy it brings to those in town.


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I am a published sewing and quilting author with several books and many magazine articles to my credit. My most recent book, How to Make a Quilt was published in August 2014 by Storey Publishing. ...
I am a published sewing and quilting author with several books and many magazine articles to my credit. My most recent book, How to Make a Quilt was published in August 2014 by Storey Publishing. I've written two other successful books for them-- The Quilting Answer Book and The Sewing Answer Book. I learned to sew from my great grandmother, two grandmothers, and my Mom when I was barely in grade school and I've been sewing ever since. I added quilting to my repertoire in the 1980s and worked for a major quilt book publisher as Managing Editor and then Editor-in-Chief for 5 years. Now I have my own business, designing quilts and tote bags and anything else that strikes my fancy. Go to www.joyofsewingandquilting.blogspot.com to see my projects and whatever else I'm up to. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find something you'd like to make in my Craftsy store!
A colorful piano-key border surrounds a quilt-top full of sparkling stars in this pretty quilt. Make it in pastels as shown for a baby's room or in bolder colors to coordinate with your decor. The pieces for the star blocks are easily cut from scraps, fat quarters, charm squares, and other pre-cuts. For the border, you'll need fat quarters (or equivalent yardage) of at least two different prints of each of four colors (8 total) to achieve the scrappy look. Log-Cabin-style sashing added to each block frames them in an unexpected and appealing setting.
The Oh My Stars! Sampler is a lesson in how color and design can make a difference with a simple block design. Three classic block designs were used to create a total of ten different, but related, star blocks, simply by changing the block centers and color placements. There are many more ways to "color" these to make the quilt your own.


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Lois F. Rickabaugh was born Aug. 24, 1938, in Tecumseh and departed this life Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in Meeker at the age of 74.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 8, at First United Methodist Church in Meeker with Rev. Mike Melton officiating. Interment will be at 2 p.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery in Enid.
Services are under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Service in Prague.
A guestbook is available to share your memories online at www.ParksBrothers.net.
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Genesis 12:1-9; Psalm 33:1-12; (Hosea 5:15 - 6:6; Psalm 50:7-15;) Romans 4:13-25; Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
Romans 4:13-25; Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
You may share an experience I often have: I enter a room where friends are engaged in a spirited conversation about someone and try to guess who it is that they are describing. If I succeed, it's usually because they are referencing words or actions that I recognize as familiar. These words and actions form a pattern that I associate with a particular person.
Aron Ralston knew he would die before the next morning's sunrise. Five days earlier he'd been walking a trail in a narrow desert canyon in Utah and had climbed down from a large chockstone along his route. A chockstone is a huge boulder that's wedged between other stones or canyon walls. This one may have been there for hundreds of years, but when Ralston came down, he somehow loosened the boulder, and it fell on him.


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Thursday, June 14, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The man convicted of driving a getaway car in a murder from 2010 was sentenced on Thursday.
Judge John C. Brown sentenced Edwin Manuel Cruz to 20 years for the murder and two lesser charges. The sentence is being split between 10 years of confinement, followed by 10 years of probation with restrictions.
Cruz pleaded guilty to driving the getaway car after Deangelo Hudgins was shot and killed in July 2010.
Back in March, Erik Williams was convicted and sentenced for life.
A second military officer was also shot, but he survived.
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Definition of holly in English:
1A widely distributed shrub, typically having prickly dark green leaves, small white flowers, and red berries. There are several deciduous species of holly but the evergreen hollies are more typical and familiar.
- Genus Ilex, family Aquifoliaceae: many species, in particular the American holly (I. opaca), known as the Christmas holly. See also gallberry, winterberry, yaupon.
Example sentences
- Both deciduous and evergreen hollies are much loved for their berries, which range in color from orange and red to yellow and black.
- And then there are the usual green plants with red berries such as hollies and barberry, and old garden roses with showy hips.
- Some popular small trees and shrubs with birds are: blueberries, elderberries, hollies, cherries, and dogwoods.
1.1The branches, foliage, and berries of the holly used as Christmas decorations.
Example sentences
- On Concorde to Barbados we got lovely Christmas gifts, one was an exquisite small Christmas cake with icing and holly decoration.
- Add a Christmas wreath, holly, and bright red rope, and you'll have a project that will stand out and can be seen from blocks away when flooded with bright, white spot lights.
- Sprigs of holly and Christmas trees which have seen several winters are dusted out and they decorate the lobbies again.
Middle English holi, shortened form of Old English holegn, holen, of Germanic origin; related to German Hulst.
Words that rhyme with hollyBarbirolli, brolly, collie, dolly, folly, golly, jolly, lolly, Mollie, molly, nollie, Ollie, polly, poly, trolley, volley, wally
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There has been plenty to complain about this past week. No power. No cable. The Internet is down. The line at Stewart's has been really really really long and some roads are still closed and mail that should have arrived days ago still isn't here. It's been cold and uncomfortable and exceedingly inconvenient, and I, for one, would really appreciate it if everything were back to normal.
Clearly, though, any complaint on my part is ridiculous, everyone I love is safe, my home is intact, and Sandy spared us her worst. And the storm also brought into focus some things I am grateful for. Among them:
- Volumes 1-8 of Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events," which Bella and I picked up some weeks back at the Friends of Thrall Library's used book store. Kids' books cost next to nothing there, so we buy them by the armful, and, as it turns out, a kid like Bella can go through an armful of books when school's closed and the lights are out.
- The perfectly prepared egg and cheese sandwich I had for breakfast Thursday morning at the Summitville Firehouse, cooked by firefighters who cooked and served breakfast, lunch and dinner for their community and who know just how crucial and reassuring a hot meal can be.
- The last-minute delivery of firewood that arrived just before the wind kicked up.
- My husband, Chris, who not only kept us safe and dry but who also made perfect coffee every morning and figured out how to get "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" to play on his laptop.
- Everyone in the the Village of Goshen who managed to light jack-o'-lanterns and hand out fun-size candy bars to Bella. She trick-or-treated there with her pal Devon, who lives in Goshen and invited us to join her when she found out that Halloween was pretty much canceled here on Firehouse Road. (Sure, Halloween may seem like a minor thing compared to all the chaos a hurricane can cause. But if you're 11, and if you spent all of October and the better part of late September conceptualizing, designing and making the perfect "crow" costume, the loss of Halloween is its own kind of trauma.)
- The tiny pocket of cellphone reception that exists out on Route 209 near the veterans monument, without which we never would have received the email from school telling us it reopened, several from friends and family checking to see that we are OK, and approximately 392 from politicians and their campaigns telling us that there was a hurricane.
- Sally the cat, who always sleeps at the end of the bed, purring and radiating just enough heat to keep my feet toasty.
- Our dogs, which bark at Sally and squirrels and the school bus and other dogs and the propane delivery person and even at us, but which do not, for some unknown deviation for characteristic canine behavior, bark at the wind.
- Dark denim blue jeans, which have a near-magical ability to become more comfortable each consecutive day you wear them and still look clean — or sorta clean.
- The UPS man, who drove by late in the week. And even though he didn't deliver anything to us, it was nice to see anyway, since a UPS truck is one of the most normal, everyday kind of things that you see go down the road, and is a welcome addition to the utility crews and tree guys.
- The lovely and comforting silence of a chilly, long and windless night.
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Our new featured member, HazyFashion, counts Alexander McQueen and Jeremy Scott among her favorite designers, and rocks an awesome assortment of accessories. She blogs about her life and style in Chicago on her site HazyFashion, but if you're hungry we recommend waiting until after lunch to read it – her food photos look so yummy! Check out some of our other favorite posts from the week on StyledOn below, and see Hazel's profile here!
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By Heather Huber, Fort Campbell CourierApril 30, 2009
FORT CAMPBELL, KY -- April 29, 2009 -- According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulation 1910.157(g), any employee that may be required to operate a fire extinguisher must be trained how to use the extinguisher, initially and annually after that.
On Fort Campbell, the job of educating employees about fire extinguishers falls on the shoulders of the fire department.
"Basically what we teach is the basics on how to operate the extinguisher and how to apply the extinguishing agent," said Joe Baker, deputy chief of fire protection. "We also tell the occupants it's up to them to determine if they're going to fight the fire or if they're not going to fight it."
Although the department promotes simply evacuating the building and calling the fire department, there are situations where the use of a fire extinguisher may be necessary to ensure employees' safety.
Baker said fire extinguishers are designed to keep the fire in check until the fire department gets there, to slow down a growing fire, or to help employees evacuate a building if a fire has blocked the exits.
For these reasons, the fire department hosts a class on the last Thursday of every month at the learning center to teach Fort Campbell employees how to operate the fire extinguishers found in every garrison building.
"We use the acronym of PASS - pull, aim, squeeze, sweep," Baker said. "You pull the pin, aim the nozzle at the base of the fire, squeeze the handle, and sweep back and forth. You start 6-8 feet away from the fire and you spray the agent at the base of the fire, because that's what's on fire. And then as the fire starts gradually dying down, you can work forward to the fire to put it out."
Baker said all the garrison buildings are equipped with 10-pound ABC extinguishers and are annually serviced by the fire department.
ABC extinguishers are multipurpose extinguishers that use dry chemical agents to extinguish fires. Class A fires are regular combustible materials like paper, wood, and most plastics. Class B fires are flammable liquids like gasoline, kerosene and grease, and class C are electrical fires.
As well as teaching employees to use extinguishers, the classes also teach basics of how to maintain the extinguisher in working condition between yearly services.
"It's very easy for an occupant to inspect the extinguisher. You're not certifying the extinguisher, all you're doing is inspecting it to make sure it's in working condition," Baker said.
Baker said to check the extinguisher to ensure the gauge is in the green, the pin is in the handle of the extinguisher with a plastic seal around it, and to make sure there's no obvious damage done to the cylinder like dents where the extinguisher has been dropped. Since it is a pressurized cylinder, dents damage the integrity of the cylinder. Also, look inside the hose to make sure none of the chemical has leaked out. The hose should be clean, without any cracks or dry-rot.
If any of these things aren't up to par, take it to Fire Station 3. Either they'll fix it or they'll exchange the extinguisher 1-for-1.
When it's time for the one year service, the extinguisher should be taken to Fire Station 3, 7160 Market Garden Road, to be traded in for a serviceable extinguisher.
Any extinguisher that has been discharged must be taken to Fire Station 3, as well, along with a fire report from the main fire station to be replaced. Any discharged extinguisher without a fire report won't be replaced without a note from a commander or director explaining why the extinguisher was discharged without a fire.
For more information, contact Joe Baker at (270) 956-1826.


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Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels, which was written and serialized in 1843-1844. Like nearly all of Dickens' novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was released to the public in monthly installments. Sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to Dickens' previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This allowed the author to portray America satirically as a near wilderness, whose pockets of civilization were filled with deceptive and self-promoting hucksters.
The main theme of the novel is selfishness, which is portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for one of Dickens' great villains, Seth Pecksniff, and the nurse Mrs. Gamp.
The work was dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens.
Plot Summary
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Young Martin Chuzzlewit, estranged from his grandfather because of his love for Mary, signs on as an apprentice to Mr. Pecksniff. There he meets and befriends Tom Pinch. Unbeknownst to Martin, Mr. Pecksniff has taken him on in order to create an alliance with Martin's wealthy grandfather.
All of the Chuzzlewits and their relations (of which Mr. Pecksniff is a member) have been trying for years to ingratiate themselves to Martin, senior. Grandfather Chuzzlewit then requires Mr. Pecksniff to kick out young Martin. The elder Martin Chuzzlewit in with Mr. Pecksniff and slowly appears to fall under Pecksniff's complete control.
Old Anthony Chuzzlewit dies, leaving his wealth to Jonas. Jonas gets married to Mercy Pecksniff and is abusive towards her, changing her personality. Jonas gets involved with the unscrupulous Tigg Montague and becomes financially involved in his insurance scam.
Tom Pinch, after years of devoted service, finds out the true nature of Mr. Pecksniff's character and leaves him at last. He moves in with his sister Ruth and gets a job for an unknown, mysterious employer, both with the help of Mr. Nadgett.
Young Martin travels to America with Mark Tapley, observes the generally low and degraded character of the American people, and then attempts a new start in life in a swampy, disease-filled settlement ironically named Eden. Mark and Martin both nearly die in Eden. The experience changes Martin's selfish character and they are able to return to England after the experience. He returns to his grandfather, repentant and changed, but his grandfather is now under Mr. Pecksniff's control and does not accept him. Mr. Pecksniff also becomes financially involved in the insurance scam.
Young Martin is reunited with Tom Pinch. Jonas Chuzzlewit murders Montague when the insurance scam goes bust. Tom Pinch discovers that Old Martin Chuzzlewit is his employer. Together, the group faces Mr. Pecksniff and confronts him with their knowledge of his true character. Mr. Nadgett leads the group to the discovery of Jonas as the murderer. Martin and his grandfather are reconciled, Martin and Mary get married, Tom Pinch's sister gets married, and the other characters generally get what they deserve, good or bad.
Characters in "Martin Chuzzlewit"
The Chuzzlewit Extended Family
The main characters of the story are the members of the extended Chuzzlewit family.
The first to be introduced is Seth Pecksniff, a widower with two daughters who is a self-styled teacher of architecture. He believes that he is a highly moral individual who loves his fellow man, but mistreats his students and passes off their designs as his own for profit. He seems to be a cousin of Old Martin Chuzzlewit. Mr. Pecksniff's rise and fall follows the novel's plot arc.
Next we meet his two daughters, Charity and Mercy Pecksniff. They are also affectionately known as Cherry and Merry, or as the two Miss Pecksniffs. Charity is portrayed throughout the book as having none of that virtue after which she is named, while Mercy, the younger sister, is at first silly and girlish in a manner that's probably inconsistent with her numerical age. Later events in the story drastically change her personality.
Old Martin Chuzzlewit, the wealthy patriarch of the Chuzzlewit family, lives in constant suspicion of the financial designs of his extended family. At the beginning of the novel he has aligned himself with Mary, an orphan, in order to have a caretaker who is not eyeing his estate. Later in the story he makes an apparent alliance with Mr. Pecksniff, who he feels is at least consistent in character. His true character is revealed by the end of the story.
Young Martin Chuzzlewit is the grandson of Old Martin Chuzzlewit. He is the closest relative of Old Martin and has inherited much of the stubbornness and selfishness of the old man. Young Martin is the protagonist of the story. His engagement to Mary is the cause of estrangement between himself and his grandfather. By the end of the story he becomes a reformed character, realizing and repenting of the selfishness of his previous actions.
Mr. Anthony Chuzzlewit is a relative of Old Martin. He and his son, Jonas, run a business together called Chuzzlewit and Son. They are both self-serving, hardened individuals who view the accumulation of money as the most important things in life.
Jonas Chuzzlewit, son of Mr. Anthony Chuzzlewit, is the mean-spirited, sinisterly jovial son of Anthony Chuzzlewit. He views his father with contempt and wishes for his death so that he can have the business and the money for himself. He is a suitor of the two Miss Pecksniffs, wins one, then is driven to commit murder by his unscrupulous business associations.
Other characters
Thomas (Tom) Pinch is a former student of Mr. Pecksniff's who has become his personal assistant. He is kind, simple, and honest in everything he does. He carries in his heart an undying love and adoration for Mr. Pecksniff. He serves as a foil to Mr. Pecksniff.
Ruth Pinch is Tom Pinch's sister. She is sweet and good, like her brother. At first she works as a governess to a wealthy family. Later in the novel she and Tom set up housekeeping together.
Mark Tapley is the good-humored employee of the Blue Dragon and suitor of Mrs. Lupin who leaves that establishment in order to find work that's more of a credit to his character. He eventually joins Young Martin Chuzzlewit on his trip to America, where he finds at last a situation that requires the full extent of his innate cheerfulness of disposition.
Montague Tigg/ Tigg Montague is a down-on-his-luck bum at the beginning of the story. Later, he starts a thriving, sleazy insurance business with no money at all and lures Jonas into this business.
Mr. Nadgett is a soft-spoken, mysterious individual who is Tom Pinch's landlord and serves as Montague's private investigator.
Sarah Gamp (also known as Sairey) works as a nurse, midwife and layer-out of the dead. Even in a house of mourning Mrs. Gamp manages to enjoy all the hospitality a house can afford, with little regard for the person she is there to minister to and is often a little under the influence of drink. She habitually carries with her a battered black umbrella. So popular with the Victorian public was the character that Gamp became a slang word for umbrellas in general.
Spoilers end here.
Martin Chuzzlewit was published in 19 monthly installments, each composed of 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot K. "Phiz" Browne and costing one shilling. The last part was double-length.


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Quickly, a Saudi Peace Idea Gains Momentum in Mideast
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Published: March 3, 2002
JERUSALEM, March 2— After rapidly gaining momentum through the Middle East and Europe since its soft launching two weeks ago, the Saudi Arabian peace idea will descend on Washington when the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, comes calling on Tuesday.
At week's end, Vice President Dick Cheney will be heading for the Middle East, where, whatever his original agenda may have been, he is certain to be badgered relentlessly for some sign of American interest in the initiative, which comes during some of the worst violence to engulf the region in years.
As if to hammer home the menace, a bomb exploded this evening on a street in Jerusalem crowded with Orthodox Jews returning from prayers, killing at least nine people.
In the West Bank, Israeli troops, backed by armor and helicopters, took the war to a new front, raiding congested Palestinian refugee camps in Jenin and Nablus this week in search of militants and arms caches.
Israeli officials said at least 30 Palestinians and two Israelis were killed.
The Mubarak and Cheney missions are only part of the swirl that has developed around the unexpected proposal that the crown prince and effective ruler of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah, first made in an interview with a New York Times columnist on Feb. 17. Prince Abdullah suggested that the Arab world would offer Israel full normalization of relations in exchange for its withdrawal from all occupied territories. He said he had intended to ask the entire 22-nation Arab League to join in the offer at its summit meeting in Beirut on March 27 and 28.
Though the fate of the endeavor is far from certain, the speed with which it has swelled from a little-noted idea in a newspaper column into a serious force in the Middle East reflects the despair and the dangers that the conflict has spread through the region, and the longing to seize on anything that might point to a way out.
Skeptics -- including some in the Bush administration -- initially gave the floated proposals short shrift. It was not really an initiative, they suggested, but at best a nice idea. It was not new. It was basically a public relations gambit by the Saudis to polish their tarnished image in the United States. It would raise dangerous expectations. The Arabs would never follow through, the Israelis would never agree. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell at first said it was one of some ''minor developments that we might be able to work on.''
But with Israelis and Palestinians in a state of despair over ever finding peace after 17 months of unrelenting conflict, and with the Bush administration seemingly determined not to get embroiled, the Saudi proposal brought a long-absent gleam of hope.
It is not only the timing that gave the initiative its impetus. It was also the fact that it came from Saudi Arabia, the richest and most influential Arab state, and the hallowed home of Islam's two most sacred shrines.
From this grand pulpit, Crown Prince Abdullah spoke not only of diplomatic recognition, not only of peace, but of a ''full normalization of relations.''
That meant the fulfillment of a dream most Israelis had all but abandoned: ''economic and cultural cooperation; falafel in Damascus and stalls in the international market of Dubai; an Israeli flag in Riyadh, programming engineers in Bahrain and gas from Qatar,'' as Zvi Bar'el, the Middle East analyst for the Haaretz newspaper, sketched the vision.
''I wanted to find a way to make clear to the Israeli people that the Arabs don't reject or despise them,'' the crown prince told Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times columnist. ''But the Arab people do reject what their leadership is now doing to the Palestinians, which is inhumane and oppressive.''
The idea went unnoticed at first. But then some commentators, experts and diplomats picked it up, the Israeli press began to pay heed, and before long senior officials were reacting seriously. Arab, European and United Nations diplomats began scurrying from capital to capital, many of them knocking on Prince Abdullah's door in search of confirmation and explanation.
Finally President Bush took heed. He telephoned Prince Abdullah to welcome the Saudi proposal, then dispatched George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, and William J. Burns Jr., assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, to the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was also said to be skeptical about the plan, but as Israelis seized on the glimmer of hope, he signaled that he was quietly exploring it even as the battles raged.
The Palestinians openly greeted the initiative. A senior Palestinian official, Nabil Shaath, went off to Jidda over the weekend to see the crown prince, following on the heels of Javier Solana, the European Union commissioner for foreign affairs, and the American team.
Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League, toured Arab capitals to gauge attitudes in advance of the Arab summit meeting. The mission was critical, since the Arab League works through consensus, and the presumption was that Prince Abdullah could keep his speech in the drawer, where it was when Mr. Friedman called on him, unless it was guaranteed acceptance by all the Arabs.


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San Francisco Alumni
Welcome to the City by the Bay! Whether you're new to the area or a returning native, your alumni connection is never far away with the San Francisco UCF Alumni Club, where you can be part of a network of more than 4,260 Golden Gate City Knights. Best of all, there are no membership dues!
Get Involved
All Knights are welcome to join us for social, career and community events throughout the year.
Getting involved is easy! Here's how:
- Update your alumni profile so we have your current address and contact info.
- Use the social media links above to get connected.
- Find Knights in our neighborhood with the online alumni directory.
- Do business with Knight-owned companies.
- Contact us and let us know you're a San Francisco Knight.
- Interested in a volunteer position? Let us know.
San Francisco UCF Alumni Club
Staff Liaison:
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Tata Motors' unveiles all-electric versions of the Ace and Indica
Tata Motors has confirmed that the rumors of an all-electric Tata Ace and the all-electric Tata Indica are true. In an unveiling in India this past week, the company took the wraps off of two lithium-ion battery-powered EV prototypes based on the Ace work truck and the Indica sedan (pictured). As we heard earlier this year, the Indica EV will first be sold in the Norweigian market next year because the Scandinavian country "has the necessary infrastructure in place to run electric cars which India lacks," as Tata Motors President Ravi Kant put it. Indians will get their own chance to buy the car in about 24 months. According to the Business-Standard, the all-electric Indica has two battery packs which can charge in eight hour and go around 110-120 miles on a charge.
Now, about an electric Nano...
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Flat Steps to 5th Avenue Shopping
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|E 48th St, 10022 New York, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
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A few words about the area: If you tend to worry about the security you will feel very comfortable in this neighborhood. Due to immediate vicinity of United Nations Headquarters and many diplomatic missions, government agencies and foreign consulates, this neighborhood is as safe as it can be.
Another good thing is that you will not lack entertainment. Bars and fancy restaurants are all over the place. Groceries and supermarkets around the corner. Great shopping just a few blocks from here in any direction. Times Square, Broadway shows, Central Park, Bloomingdale, Fifth avenue shopping and other icons of New York are all within walking distance.
Again, please contact me to ask about availability before you send a booking request!
No pets allowed.
No parties allowed.
No smoking allowed.
Please respect the neighbors and keep the noise to normal levels.
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The only good thing I can mention,is that the flat has a fantastic good location.
One is close to everything.
Problems with inchecking,..a cleaning lady met us at the building,saying that she was told to meet 2 guests instead of the 3 we were.!
Tried to call the landlord Jay,but got his voicemail,where I ofcourse left a message,but he never returned the call
The flat looked very worn,the bathtup didn`t work - water came out through the wall.
The floors are very squipping-you can`t tiptoe in that flat !
We really had a nice stay at Jay's apartment. It was very clean and perfectly located. We had a good time. Thanks!
The property was exactly as advertised and suited us very well. It was clean, everything worked, the beds were adequately comfortable. With the window closed it was quiet, despite the busy street below. The location is great, just near the UN, on a bus route, easy walking distance to 5th Avenue, Times Square, the Rockefeller Center, Central Park.
We had fun and it was great to meet you, Jay.
Many thanks, Mike and John.
this was our first time using wimdu and staying in an apartment in New York. The experience was flawless from start to finish. the Wimdu booking system was excellent and very straightforward . The communications and arrangements with our host, jay, were excellent. The accommodation was exactly as described. Great location and very well appointed, clean, and well maintained apartment.All round great experience with Wimdu and would definitely use again in future.
Coordinamos nuestra llegada y todo resulto de acuerdo con lo planeado.
La buena ubicación de la propiedad y sus comodidades permiten desarrollar una muy buena estadia en NYC
min kæreste og jeg boede i Jays lejlighed i 7 dage. Alting gik som planlagt med overdragelsen af nøglerne. Lejlighed var præcis som billederne. Lejligheden var en smule beskidt men det må man tage med, når man låner en anden lejlighed. I lejligheden var det både Netflex og HBO, hvis var perfekt efter en lang og hård dag i NY.
Vi ville klart anbefale andre, at booke Jays lejlighed.
Prise de contact très facile avec le propriétaire qui nous a fournis ses coordonnées, s'est mis d'accord avec nous sur les horaires d'arrivée et de départ. Nous avons été très bien accueilli. L'appartement est propre et fonctionnel et surtout très bien situé. Un petit bémol sur l'isolation si vous souhaitez y aller l'hiver. Je recommande vivement !
Sauber, schön und sehr zentral gelegenes Apartment! Würde wieder bei Jay übernachten! Vielen Dank!
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