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#Seawolves manager uses nursing skills to help citizens of Ghana
Sept. 27, 2013
Stony Brook, N.Y. -
Note: This feature appears in the September 28 football gameday program.
Part of Kelly Patterson's job as head manager of the Stony Brook football team is helping student-athletes become successful. But that's relatively easy, given what she accomplished this past summer -- when she traveled halfway around the world to work with people who needed her even more.
As part of a program that is the largest student-led social responsibility movement on the planet, Patterson helped people in Ghana improve their lives.
Patterson, a health science major, wants to be a pediatric oncology nurse. Her father, Steve, Stony Brook football's director of player development, beat oral cancer, and when Patterson saw the way nurses took care of him, it made a powerful impression. "I appreciated the way the nurses at Sloan Kettering took care of my father," she said. "They were so caring and comforting."
Patterson heard about Global Medical Brigades through her mother, Mary Beth, a nurse at Stony Brook Heart Center. Global Medical Brigades, which has chapters at universities throughout the country, including Stony Brook, has nine unique programs -- Architecture, Business, Dental, Environmental, Human Rights, Microfinance, Public Health, Water and Medical. Patterson, 20, chose the latter, and she knew where she wanted to make an impact.
"I've always wanted to go to Africa," Patterson said. "My goal was to educate the local people on health."
The process of actually getting to Ghana, a country of about 25 million, started a year ago. Through GMG, Patterson, who went through a nine-month training process, fundraised her trip, asking for money from friends and family and soliciting donors. Along with her mom -- who was the trip's only nurse -- dentists and OB/GYNs, Patterson joined more than 30 other Stony Brook students on the trip. She and the other volunteers worked alongside translators, hostesses and tour guides, who were provided by GMG.
In Ghana, people live in clay huts with many openings, so mosquitos are an issue. Most people walk without shoes and bacteria gets in their feet. The life expectancy is just over 64 years, according to medical research.
After a day of traveling to Accra, Ghana's capital, via London, Patterson and the team got right to work. "There's a lot of sickness like fevers, rashes and malaria," she said. "All things that can be prevented through care."
Because the nearest hospital in Accra is 10 miles away, a clinic was set up in Ekumfi Eklawful, a Town Center. The students set up six stations -- triage, doctor consults, dentistry, OB/GYN, public health and pharmacy.
Medicine was pre-packed with instructions on when and how to take it.
For three days, Patterson worked in the triage unit, taking the locals' heights and weights, blood pressure levels and symptoms, similar to a primary care physician in the United States. "I saw nine-month-old kids with 103-degree temperatures, something that would be completely unacceptable here," Patterson said.
The doctors saw people of all ages -- from newborns to a 100-year-old woman -- at the clinic, which was open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
One problem, according to Patterson, was that the residents didn't see that there was an issue with the water, which they drank from, bathed in and washed their clothes in. Patterson couldn't stop them from bathing or washing their clothes in the muddy water, but she could affect how they drank it.
Patterson helped sell Life Straws, which removes 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria and 99.9% of parasites and can last for two to three years. They were sold for five cedi, which is equivalent to $10. Unfortunately, her group left Ghana with more than half left.
After the 10-day trip, Patterson returned to her life in the United States. "It took a week to process our accomplishments," she said.
She'll continue to help others this fall, and she'll continue to thrive in that role. The Stony Brook staff and players need her.
"As a father, I can sit back and watch my daughter accomplish what her faith tells her," Steve Patterson said. Added head coach Chuck Priore, "I'm extremely proud of Kelly. Hearing about her helping people didn't surprise me at all."
And her interest in improving conditions in Ghana hasn't waned. Is she interested in going back? She was quick to say, "I can't wait."


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It could also decide political careers.
"This will probably be the end of a political career for me," Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Claremont, announced last week on AM radio show where his potential support of new taxes was called into question.
Adams has said recently that he would support tax increases to help resolve the state's $42 billion budget deficit if the solution also includes a hard cap on spending and permanent cuts to some programs.
Adams' statements, and similar comments made by several other Republican legislators, flies in the face of a "no new taxes" pledge most Republicans signed last year.
The change of heart has inspired the John and Ken Show radio program on KFI AM-640 to castigate Adams - and three other Republican lawmakers - on the air.
Hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou have started a "heads on a stick" campaign calling on listeners to tell Republicans to "stand firm on taxes or else."
"Listeners think (the campaign) is right on, they are ready to run out with sticks themselves. There is going to be a tax revolt if (lawmakers) do this... there is going to be a big backlash," Kobylt said. "We'll see propositions to reverse the taxes, and efforts to throw these guys out."
"It is insulting when the economy is this bad, to grab extra money for things that didn't exist five and 10 years ago.
The popular radio show had gotten results from similar campaigns in the past - it was key in getting support in Los Angeles County for the recall of Gov. Gray Davis.
Kobylt said earlier this week that since Adams' Jan. 22 interview, the program has not received a single email or phone call in his defense.
"You are done dude," one caller said. "You vote for this, you are done."
But the assemblyman said he has been "happily surprised" by constituent support he has received since the show and subsequent press.
"It's come from people like me who don't want new taxes, but understand the situation," Adams said.
Adams has concluded that cuts alone cannot close the state's growing budget deficit.
"Look, we spend $42 billion a year on K-12 education, and 85-90 percent of that is on salary and benefits. Those are contracted, collective bargaining agreements. Those contracts cannot just be opened and reversed 15 percent," Adams said. "We would get challenged in court, and the government would lose. It would be a colossal waste of time."
Because revenue increases require two-thirds support of lawmakers, Democrats need at least three Republicans in the Assembly and two Republicans in the Senate for any budget fix that includes new taxes.
In the past, Democrats have been able to pick off individual Republicans' votes.
And some of those Republicans have paid for it by losing their seats, said Matt Klink, a Republican political consultant with Cerrell Associates.
But in recent years, Republicans have remained unified in their opposition to new taxes, Klink said.
Adams' and other Republicans' fates could depend on what kind of package is negotiated, where party leadership stands on the package, and how voters react, said Klink and former GOP political consultant Allan Hoffenblum.
"If a package is ultimately crafted that includes long-term budget reforms, that Republicans can point to and say... `We got these reforms because of yielding on tax increase,' then voters will say, that is what lawmakers are supposed to do - work and compromise," Klink said. "However, if (negotiations) blow up, it could be fraught with political disaster for Adams."
"It is the equivalent of walking a tight rope - there is a big prize, but it is also fraught with danger."
Adams recognizes that a vote for taxes might result in his end.
"I know that I am putting my political career on the line. I am not doing this because I have some inflated sense of martyrdom," he said.
Nor is not acting as a party renegade, Adams said.
"My party and I stand together, even in this, we stand together. We make this as a unified decision," he said.
At the same time, when it comes time for votes to be counted on any negotiated plan, not all Republicans will vote yes.
"It will absolutely be a deal that gets the necessary votes pending," Adams said. "No deal is ever going to have universal support."
Democrats may have to count on the support of some members of their own party who won Republican seats in November and themselves did not vote on parts of the Democrat proposal to increase taxes in December.
Adams' seat used to be considered safely Republican. However, in November, he won with just 51 percent of the vote. Election results and registration numbers suggest that the seat is increasingly up for grabs, Hoffenblum said.
Therefore, a vote for taxes would mean that Adams, and several Republicans in situations like his, would not only have to worry about a challenge from the right during primaries, but also from Democrats during the regular election, he said.
With this in mind, Kobylt promised to continue his heads on a stick campaign until November 2010.
Still, Adams said his fate is not sealed.
"No one knows in politics," he said. "Politics is a murky game."

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Over the last few years, food has emerged as a major issue in the mainstream press and planning circles. Since World War II, a global system of food production and consumption has emerged that has focused on cheapness (low cost to consumers, high profit margins for corporations) and convenience (easy to store and cook for consumers, easy to grow and transport for corporations). It has increasingly been recognized that other values, especially health, taste and the environment, have been sacrificed in the pursuit of cheapness and convenience: a realization not only made by policy advocates but by the public at large. Influential contributions in this area include Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, Morgan Spurlock's documentary "Super Size Me"; Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma; and Gottlieb and Joshi's Food Justice (one of the volumes in the MIT Press series on Food, Health, and the Environment).
Overview article in English and Spanish: Food Justice: Industrial Agriculture and the Quest for Alternative Food Systems.pdf. Resources with an emphasis on science: Science Journalism Workshop.pdf
Call for Papers: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
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Poverty and food security (copied from the UN Report on the World Social Situation 2011)
The effects of the current financial and economic crisis were compounded by food price hikes in 2007 and 2008. With global food production growing more slowly and food stuffs increasingly used to produce animal feed and biofuels, it is highly unlikely that, there will be an early return to the earlier period of declining food prices. Recent supply problems attributed to weather, fires and foods have also exacerbated uncertainties. The food price hikes were partly due to speculation in the commodities markets as financial investors fled traditional financial markets. Clearly, higher food prices have adversely affected efforts to reduce poverty and hunger.
Fundamental problems in the global food production and trading system must be addressed to ensure sustained food security. Developing countries need to shift from predominantly export-oriented agricultural policies in order to strengthen domestic food production to better meet local needs for affordable food and to cushion the impact of international price shocks. Such a shift presupposes a stronger supportive role for the State, improved international cooperation and greater investment in food and agricultural development, with priority for small farming and sustainable environmental resource management. (p. 10)
There is a movement within planning and among community-based organizations to promote environmentally sensitive cultivation practices and healthier and better tasting food, preferably grown locally. Foodshed is one of the concepts that have emerged out of this movement. The foodshed concept underscores the importance of urban-rural interdependencies and the hidden value of ecosystem services in a bioregional context.
Creating a sustainable foodshed will require establishing mutually reinforcing relationships among growers, food buyers, skilled cooks, and consumers who enjoy food made from whole foods. If, for instance, a school wanted to feed its students healthy food made from local ingredients, it would need (a) to convince local farmers capable of growing whole foods that it is dedicated enough to buy its products (for the farmer would be at financial risk if the school changed its mind), (b) to train its cooks how to cook something other than highly processed foods, (c) construct kitchens that had the right equipment and (d) get the kids to eat it - and find the money to do all these things.
While there is a growing realization of the importance of crafting sustainable foodsheds for our city-regions, we still have a poor sense of the resource flows involved in feeding people. Challenges for research include gaining a "big picture" view of where the food consumed locally comes from nor where the crops grown locally are consumed.
For an article that places food planning in the context of sustainable city-region planning see:
Donald, Betsy. 2008. "Food Systems Planning and Sustainable Cities and Regions: The Role of the Firm in Sustainable Food Capitalism." Regional Studies 42:1251 - 1262.
[Excerpt from the Introduction]: Over the last few years there has been an explosion of interest in the field of food system planning (sometimes called community food planning) as scholars, planners, policy-makers, activists, dieticians and others point to the possibilities for sustainable development through the lens of new directions in everyday food practices. In particular, these writers refer to innovative developments in sustainable food production, preparation, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste management, in dynamic and evolving cities, towns, and regions across North America. Examples include the growth of community gardens, community-shared agriculture programmes (CSAs), farmers markets, and institutional buying programmes. For many active in food-system planning these examples are seen as part of a new food system for sustaining the environment through better waste, air and water management; adding value to local economies; preserving prime farmland; addressing food access and issues of hunger; tackling obesity and other diet-related health issues; and improving rural and urban connections. As a result, the public policy environment is starting to change – especially at the local level – as more and more cities and regions adopt formalized food system planning approaches (KAUFMAN, 2006; XUEREB and DESJARDINS, 2005). These approaches aim to relocalize the food system for overall economic, social and environmental health. Transforming the current food system is seen as one of the most comprehensive and effective ways to reducing a region's ecological footprint, addressing issues of hunger, and providing more local jobs; thus ultimately moving toward a more sustainable region in keeping with the three classic pillars of sustainability (GIBSON, 2001; PRETTY and HINE, 2001).
For an article that speaks to the job creation potential and planning aspects of food systems, see:
Dixon, Jane et al. 2007. The Health Equity Dimensions of Urban food Systems. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 84(1)118-129.
"In many cities, thousands of positions of paid employment could be created through the establishment of sustainable and self-sufficient local food systems, including urban agriculture and food processing initiatives, food distribution centers, healthy food market services and urban planning that provides for multiple modes of transport to food outlets." [quote cited in Zajfen, Vanessa 2008. "Fresh Food Distribution Models for the Greater Los Angeles Region: Barriers and Opportunities to Facilitate and Scale Up the Distribution of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Findings from an Action Research Project of the Center for Food & Justice, a division of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College. December 2006-March 2008.", Los Angeles.] http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/cfj/index.htm
Additional References
Literature wtih a Practical/Applied Focus:
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD).
Growing Power Conference, Sept. 10-12, 2010, Wisconsin State Park Fair
Building the Good Food Revolution National-International, Urban and Small Farm
Lead organizer: Will Allen http://www.growingpowerfarmconference.org
Photos : http://www.flickr.com/photos/theglobalarc/sets/72157623693269294/
Key Academic Journals:
Agricultural Systems, Agriculture and Human Values, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment, Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, and Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)
"The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development! JAFSCD is an international, online, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on agriculture and food systems and bridges the interests of development professionals (including activist farmers and businesspeople), educators, consultants, and the academic community. While kindred journals focus on critical sustainable food production practices, community food security, and the sociology and political economy of food and agriculture, there has not been a journal supporting the community of practice that is rapidly integrating and evolving around these issues." http://www.agdevjournal.com/about.html
New Food System Principles Emphasize Health Benefits
http://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/foodprinciples.htm —December 21, 2010
"Efforts to improve the health and sustainability of the food system—from the local to global levels—was bolstered today with the release of the Principles of a Healthy, Sustainable Food System. The principles were written by a new coalition bringing together the American Planning Association (APA), the American Dietetic Association (ADA), American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA). For the first time, national leaders in the nursing, nutrition, planning, and public health professions worked collaboratively to create a shared platform for systems-wide food policy change."
Food Justice Forum, UC San Diego, April 16, 2011
Final program: Food_Justice_Program_April 16 2011.pdf
Food Justice: Robert Gottlieb from Food First on Vimeo.
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Call for Papers
Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy
Special Issue on
"Sustainable Food Consumption: Current Trends, Policy Approaches, and Future Scenarios"
As past and current trends make clear, food consumption today must be regarded as unsustainable and the scope of the problem is far-reaching and complex. With respect to growing world population and demographic changes, prevailing conditions are predicted to become even more serious in the future. The reasons for this unsustainable development include the industrialization and globalization of agriculture and food processing; the prevalence of consumption practices that are shifting toward more dietary animal protein; the diffusion of modern food styles that favor fast and prepared food; the paradoxical coexistence of food abundance and food insecurity; and the continuously growing gap between rich and poor on both a worldwide scale and within national societies.
Food is a major issue in the politics of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) because of its impact on the environment, health, social cohesion, and the economy. Achieving sustainable food consumption requires the design and implementation of policies that tackle the problems of both over- and under-consumption, together with food-safety issues in affluent societies, and food-security considerations in the poorer regions of the planet.
At present, there are many different ways to approach the challenges of "sustainable food consumption" across Europe and the rest of the world. A review of current European food strategies and action plans reveals the following major goals (in order of priority): lowering obesity levels and increasing healthfulness, expanding the consumption of organic food, decreasing greenhouse-gas emissions, and, reducing the volume of food waste. However, current strategies focus mainly on single issues. There is a currently need for comprehensive analyses of the challenges of sustainable food consumption as well as in-depth characterization of policies that tackle the full range of drivers of unsustainability within the contemporary food system.
Aims of the Special Issue
This special issue will focus on food consumption in the context of unsustainable environmental, health, social, and economic trends, although relevant supply-side issues will not be neglected. In particular, we welcome contributions that:
· Investigate existing trends toward sustainable food consumption (such as food waste, food and greenhouse-gas emissions, impacts of consuming animal-based products, food packaging, food preparation in households and institutions, organic food, functional food, etc.).
Guest Editors: Lucia Reisch (Copenhagen Business School); Gerd Scholl (Institute for Ecological Economy Research); Michal Sedlacko (Vienna University of Economics and Business): http://sspp.proquest.com/about/special.html
San Diego Resources
Final report presentation of the urban-rural roundtable advocating the creation of a regional food hub in support of local ag: http://vimeo.com/album/1644893
Food Justice Forum at UCSD, Bob Gottlieb was our key note speaker; http://www.theglobalarc.org/blog/comments/food_justice_forum_a_success/
Carbon footprint study: locally sourcing organic oranges
Source 44, UC San Diego and The Global ARC Carbon Footprint Study MP4 Video
News Release, Source 44 and UC-San Diego Establish Regional Sustainability, Partnership, Bringing "Science Into the Service of Society" (pdf)
Survey of vacant lots (for possible use as community gardens) in Southeast San Diego
Alternative Food Systems
Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture. A publication of Public Health Law and Policy: http://www.phlpnet.org/childhood-obesity/products/urban-ag-toolkit
Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma
Other videos featuring Michael Pollan:
Other UCSD-TV programs of interest:
Corn http://www.scivee.tv/node/3012
TEDxDirigo - Roger Doiron - A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard: http://youtu.be/Ezuz_-eZTMI
Agripedians Wanted for Food System Wiki!
The local food movement is growing dramatically, and with it is emerging new lingo and jargon. The Food System Wiki - a collaboration of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development - is designed as a user-friendly and evolving repository of food system lexicon. This is a place where you can contribute new words and definitions, show how the terms are used, and fine-tune those of existing words. See the wiki at http://foodglossary.pbworks.com/w/page/31253712/FrontPage.
Soil Testing for Community Gardens: https://vimeo.com/43491459
Urban Farms, Urban Agriculture, Urban Garden and Soils: https://vimeo.com/17451648


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The home of inspiration, innovation and imagination to learn more about great American women.
The home of inspiration, innovation and imagination to learn more about great American women.
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To the Editor.—
Concern for effective and safe use of blood products in this country has led to the present activities in formation of an American Blood Commission.In the interim period, until the American Blood Commission becomes fully operational and resultant benefits become realized by the American public, the medical profession can take a simple action to increase safety substantially in transfusion of blood products. That is strictly to limit transfusion of blood products to daytime periods, except for the relatively small number of transfusions that are critically needed to sustain life.This is a small detail in scheduling of orders for patients that probably escapes attention of most physicians. Evening and night staffing of most hospital nursing units is substantially lower than day shifts. This means that patients receiving blood products during evening or night hours are often poorly observed and somtimes not observed at all. Thus, detection
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It's a Valentine's Day tradition in Portland and once again someone has taped up paper hearts on storefronts all over the city's downtown area.
The Valentine Bandit struck overnight on Tuesday.
The Bandit first struck on Valentine's Day in 1976 and has remained anonymous ever since. He or she hasn't let the harshest Nor'easter stop them from papering the city with the hearts.
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Definition of scup in English:
noun (plural same)
A common porgy with faint dark vertical bars, occurring off the coasts of the northwestern Atlantic.
- Stenotomus chrysops, family Sparidae.
Example sentences
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- When the first federal fish commissioner tried in 1871 to resolve a conflict in New England over declining scup stocks, the states were ill-equipped to deal with the issue and the commissioner gave up.
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Hiya guys.
Can this scenario be done with an ordinary US Robotics Faxmodem and HylaFax?
- HylaFax installed on a Debian i386 machine
- A USR modem attached via com1 to the Debian machine
- One telephoneline with the modem attached - aswell as an ordinary telephone
When someone calls in, an ordinary normal call phone to phone, the modem and hylafax will not answer and someone haveto pick up the ordinary phone an answer.
When someone calls in, a fax from an ordinary fax of some kind, the modem and hylafax sense its an incoming faxtransmission and answers, preferrably before the phone even rings.
Or is this something impossible to do with this setup, is a commercial hardware switchboard to achieve this?
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> I have just started using minix. if i make changes to the c files
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You must read the appendix in Tanenbaum's book. There it is explained
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St. Augustine's Juan Martinez signs his National Letter of Intent for TAMIU Monday morning as family and friends looked on.
While those teams are still focusing on their playoff futures, a few others took time out today to sign Letters of Intent for the college level. One of those is St Augustines Juan Gerardo Martinez who will be moving on to TAMIU this fall. The Knights top pitcher was flanked by his parents this morning as he became the newest Dustdevil. Martinez is excited for his future at TAMIU, especially since he'll be able to pitching and not have to worry about hitting or fielding.
Martinez plans on studying petroleum engineering while playing for head coach Chad Porter and the Dustdevil baseball team.


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Casting call this weekend in Natchez for new James Brown movie
Directors look for performers, extras for 'Get On Up'
A casting call for the biopic of James Brown that is scheduled to be filmed in Mississippi will be held this weekend.
According to the Natchez Democrat, Universal Pictures will have a casting call Saturday at the Natchez City Auditorium.
Casting directors are searching for performers and extras to audition for the movie. Musical skills are welcome but not required. Casting directors ask that actors and performers auditioning bring a current, non-returnable photograph.
The new film, entitled "Get On Up," is scheduled to begin filming in Natchez in November before moving to Jackson in December.
Tate Taylor, a Jackson native, is directing the film. He also directed the hit film "The Help", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2012.
Chad Boseman, who portrayed Jackie Robinson in the movie "42", is playing James Brown.
"Get On Up" is scheduled to open in theaters October 2014.
The movie is expected to give an $18-$20 million economic boost to the state economy.
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First responders were called to the Howard Center Safe Recovery Center on Clarke Street around 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
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Police and fire cordoned off the area, and the Vermont Hazardous Materials Team went to work.
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Hey Terri (or anyone who can help ),
A bunch of us from my supper club are gathering at my house on Sunday to do some batch cooking. I noticed in a meatloaf thread you mentioned cooking your meatloaf in mini-loaf pans. I've always done mine in muffin tins. The muffin size takes about 25 minutes at 350.
How long would you say the mini-loaf pans take to cook? I found some aluminum ones at our grocery store that were 3x5.
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More than 100 executives and local activists, brought together by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will gather this Thursday to discuss one of the nation's most pressing issues: clean water.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson will host the forum, "Coming Together for Clean Water," which will focus on:
Healthy watersheds and sustainable communities are the two outstanding initiatives for the EPA's clean water campaign. Ducks Unlimited officials will be in attendance at the conference.
Scott Sutherland, director of DU's Governmental Affairs Office in Washington, D.C., said this conference is something more people should know about.
"The fact that the administration is making clean water one of their leading initiatives is important," said Sutherland. "Not only does clean water play a major role in wetlands conservation, but it personally affects millions of Americans. Hopefully this forum will be a significant step toward better ways to achieve cleaner water in the United States."
The EPA recently published maps identifying where threatened surface water sources are located throughout the country, areas that were once protected under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act but have lost their protections and could be polluted, drained or filled, which would threaten fish, wildlife and drinking water supplies.


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Photos: Echoes of Cretaceous Period in Secaucus
A model Ankylosaurus was unloaded Wednesday on a New Jersey bluff, which will be home to a host of life-sized replicas when Field Station: Dinosaurs opens in late May.
As WSJ's Heather Haddon reported earlier this month, the 16-acre theme park started as a vague notion in the head of theater director Guy Gsell.
The 51-year-old father of two sharpened his vision after stumbling on an undeveloped parcel of land nine miles west of Manhattan that once housed Hudson County's insane asylum. He started calling officials.
"They looked at me like I had two heads," said Mr. Gsell, recalling his early meetings with seven county representatives. "Everyone said, 'Who is this guy?'"
He cold-called investors and eventually raised the $2.5 million needed to launch the park. The state museum is helping to design exhibits that will teach children about the Meadowlands, earth sciences, geology, birds and paleontology.
But the real draw, Mr. Gsell believes, will be the dinosaurs rooted in steel platforms along the park's dirt paths.
The prehistoric replicas also employ some cutting-edge technology. Three of the dinosaurs will be outfitted with batches of sensors and facial-recognition software, allowing them to crane their "necks" and "roar" in response to visitors.
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The project concerns the transmission assets associated with the qualifying offshore wind farms for the second transitional tender round of the UK OFTO regulatory regime. Offshore Transmission Licences will be granted by Ofgem through a competitive tender process, with the successful bidder(s) becoming the Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO). The result will be that the generating assets (offshore wind farms) will be owned and operated by the generator, whilst the Offshore Transmission System, which connects the offshore wind farms to the onshore transmission system, will be owned, operated and managed by the OFTO Licensee.
The regulated entities (OFTOs) will operate and maintain offshore transmission assets essential to the export of electricity from offshore wind farms, the development of which supports EU and national targets for renewable energy and thus contributes to environmental and security of energy supply objectives. The financing of this project would contribute to the EIB's lending priority policy on renewable energy.
The financing of this project has been approved to include a project bond credit enhancement option.
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Wind farms (including associated infrastructure; undersea cables/substations) fall by virtue of their technical characteristics under Annex II of EIA-Directive 85/337/EEC (as amended). According to national regulations an offshore wind farm, and its associated transmission infrastructure, is subject to a full mandatory EIA including public consultation. Further details of the environmental due diligence procedures applied to the project will be assessed during appraisal to verify compliance with the Bank's environmental policy.
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Keep Sweet is one of several recent novels that imagine life in fundamentalist Mormon communities where polyamory and forced unions are the norm. The drama by Michele Dominguez Greene unfolds on a Utah compound called Pineridge where a girl named Alva Jane lives with her father, his seven wives, and her 28 siblings. "Keep sweet" is one of the rules the girls are instructed to live by: Whatever happens, smile through it and don't protest.
As Greene writes in her author's note, it's difficult to get information about the "secretive and insular" Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), but that hasn't dampened the media fascination with the subject—just look at all the coverage of HBO's Big Love and TLC's new show Sister Wives. In researching Keep Sweet, Greene read accounts of women who had been raised in FLDS communities and subsequently left. The brutal beating (or "disciplining") that leaves one of Keep Sweet's characters temporarily bedridden was based on one of these accounts.
Many of these novels are thrillers of sorts, featuring a murder mystery or risky escape plan. In the 2010 novel Hidden Wives by Claire Avery (the pen name of sisters Mari Hilburn and Michelle Poché), two teenage sisters are forced to live the "Principle" of plural marriage. Sara must become her uncle's fifth wife, "sealed for time and all eternity in a celestial marriage." Her sister Rachel, who is slated to marry the leader of a sect called Blood of the Lamb, suffers various abuses, including rape by her own father. The thrill of the spectacle, of peeping in on a lifestyle that's considered creepy—at best—by mainstream American standards, is more apparent in this novel than in Keep Sweet, which remains comparatively evenhanded (and, because of its young adult audience, less lurid).
Diane Noble's The Sister Wife is a different kind of novel. The first in a new three-book series called Brides of Gabriel, it's set in the mid-19th century, when, as the Mormon origin story has it, church founder Joseph Smith handed down the edict that men must take multiple wives in order to get to the highest level of heaven. Noble is a well-known author of more than 25 books, including several in the genre known as inspirational—publishing code for Christian—fiction. The Sister Wife keeps to many of that genre's conventions, and it reads a bit like a historical romance.
So what's prompting this mainstream interest in the unusual marriage practices of a few extreme religious groups? It could be just good old-fashioned voyeurism, but maybe something else is on the wind. The institution of marriage may have opened up a bit in recent years, but expectations of marriage and children are still very real for the average young woman.
Add to that the pressure to spend tons of money on the perfect wedding, and the idea of forced marriage as a horror story may resonate more than many of us care to admit. Polygamy fiction might make for cathartic reading for any woman struggling to define commitment on her own terms.
Excerpted from Bitch (Winter 2010), which carries the torch for 21st-century feminism with incisive writing on arts and culture. www.bitchmagazine.org
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- Waterford Band Boosters are holding a Christmas Tour of decorated homes and businesses to support the band program. Among the stops is the home of Virgil and Joanna Porter on Mill Street, where White Star Flour was made when the house was a flour mill in the early 1900s.
50 years ago
- Thieves entered the G. C. Nichols service station and store on County Road 3 near Constitution. Among the items taken were cigarettes, gasoline, oil, and 11,000 trading stamps.
100 years ago
- Each day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Wainwright Music Company on Putnam Street will give a player piano and Victrola recital, so that business men and clerks of the city may enjoy a musical treat. Special terms and prices on pianos will be made available until Christmas


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A Quote by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde on nature and healing
Nature, whose sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
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More Mitt Mythology ...
It may be old news but it is worth remembering that a significant item on Mitt Romney's resume, "Saved the Olympics," is not the whole truth. To be more accurate, that resume line would state "Along with the American Taxpayer, saved the Olympics." In their Dec. 10, 2001 Sports Illustrated article "Snow Job," investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele detail how Romney and associates got the U.S. Treasury to hand over $1.5 billion of taxpayer money largely to well connected developers.
This is more than seven times the money U.S. taxpayers forked over for all other U.S. Olympic games combined till then. Some of the money went to public infrastructure, but most went to construction projects in private developments where today, dear reader, you must pay the price of admission to admire your dollars at work. How is it that some of the wealthiest people in Salt Lake City, one of this country's wealthiest cities, could not self-finance the Olympics they fought so hard to get? Since most Olympic games (and World's Fairs, Expos, etc.) go deeply into debt, ripping off the taxpayer had to be part of the plan from it's inception. Just as the big "investment" banks counted on taxpayer money to satisfy their gambling debts, SLC Olympic magnates and moguls expected to gain much from the games without all the pesky risk associated with the history of the games. To be clear, I do not have a problem with using public money to finance a prestigious international event. What I do have a problem with is when an individual, his boosters and some of his peers, blissfully preach the virtues of the so-called free market while shamelessly and vigorously ensuring that the market is anything but free. Once again, they gain, you pay. It is for this reason and others that I cannot support a person who along with his boosters share such an over-developed sense of self-importance along with a poorly-developed sense of irony, and not a shred of shame. To be fair, some candid moments have emerged from the Romney campaign. In March, when asked how Romney would switch tactics from the primary to the general election, senior advisor Eric Fehrnstrom said to CNN, "Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again." In August, Romney pollster Neil Newhouse noted that, "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers." Indeed Mr. Newhouse, indeed.
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CONCORD — Recent Fugitive of the Week, Shantel Demand, was arrested in Salisbury, Mass. Monday.
Demand, 23, was last known to live in Amesbury, Mass. was being sought on an outstanding arrest warrant issued in September of 2013. The N.H. State Parole Board issued an arrest warrant for Demand for violating her conditions of parole. Demand was on parole after being convicted and sentenced for burglaries.
As part of the U.S. Marshals fugitive investigation, Demand was featured as the "Fugitive of the Week" on October 31st. The "Fugitive of the Week" is broadcast on WTPL-FM, WMUR-TV, The Union Leader, The Nashua Telegraph, The Patch, Foster's Daily Democrat and is prominently featured on the Internet. The "Fugitive of the Week" has been a very successful tool that has resulted in the location and arrest of numerous fugitives since its implementation in 2007.
The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in both N.H. and Mass. both actively worked on this investigation and distributed Demand's wanted poster to numerous local police departments. These efforts paid off Monday when an officer from the Salisbury Police Department encountered Demand. Demand was arrested and charged as a fugitive from justice. Due to Demand being pregnant, bail was set at $1000 and she was released, pending a court appearance today in a Newburyport District Court. It is hopeful that Demand will surrender to authorities in N.H. as directed by the Massachusetts District Court Judge.
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Only one of the four survivors rescued after their boat was swamped by a rogue wave had been wearing a life jacket.
Rescue personnel have confirmed more life jackets were on board the vessel but they were not being used.
Sergeant Warren Shaw from the Waikato Search and Rescue Unit spoke with media this morning outside the Waihi beach coast guard.
He confirmed that five people were on the boat, including the 52-year-old man who is still missing. The four other people on the boat managed to swim to safety. Three of these people are the missing man's children - aged 7, 15 and 23.
A 14-year-old friend was also on the boat.
Sergeant Shaw said that as the boat was capsized by a wave, only the 7-year-old was wearing a life jacket. There were other life jackets on the boat but they were not in use.
Coastguard representative Brian Grimwood said the conditions at the time were moderate to rough.
When the boat capsized, all members of the party were separated but managed to return to the boat.
It is unclear whether the missing man returned to the boat at this point.
The members of the party were then separated a second time, and the man's three children and the 14-year-old friend managed to swim to Matakana Island.
On Matakana Island the four flagged down passing fisherman Warren Coffey and his friend who were returning from a fishing trip.
Sergeant Shaw said the search was continuing for the missing man and this would be reassessed later today.
``We always hold a glimmer of hope but as the search progresses, we have to be realistic with what we are looking for.''


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In 2009, the year I started working at the Skirball, Jordan Peimer, Vice President of the Programs department, was trying something new—a film series based on Jewish life in Latin America. As someone who claims both of those cultural influences in my heritage, I found this series fascinating. I was excited to get a glimpse into what Jewish life looked like in places like Mexico, Argentina, Brazil… And I wasn't alone—the series did very well and has returned every year since. This year's series, "Mantener la Fe: Keep the Faith," is one of the last programs we will present that Jordan helped to curate, since he has recently taken the position of Executive Director at ArtPower! at UC San Diego. Luckily he is only a phone call away, and I was happy to catch up with him to learn a little more about what went into choosing this year's films.
This year's theme focuses on the idea of keeping one's faith, even in adverse circumstances. Why did you want to address this theme?
Each year, my hope has been that the Latin Jewish film series will serve to remind audiences of the long history of Jewish life in countries across Latin America. After all, the first Jews to the New World settled in Brazil, and Luis de Torres—who was of Jewish origin—was the first man in Columbus's crew to land on Hispaniola. These films speak to the abiding connection that Latin American Jews feel towards their faith. All the films show how Jewish life continues to exist there, as it does here, despite all the conflicting demands of contemporary life in Latin America. But nowhere is that stronger than in the terrific documentary, The Longing. Continue reading


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Post subject: Horny? Folic Acid
Hey ladies, Sorry if this sounds a bit too much
I am so horny all the time! I was talking to DH about it today and we realised that it is only since I started talking my folic acid about 2 weeks ago!
Has anyone else been like this, or is it just me? I don`t know if I am lucky, or having some freaky reaction!!! But I`m knackered!! HELP ladies!
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It's more likely be the hormones to do with a natural cycle and not the folic acid they add folic acid to all sorts of stuff now, bread and cereals etc. so if it had that effect then everyone would be getting frisky , maybe its a combo of the time of year, longer days can give you a boost and just TTC in general, having more sex makes you want more sex as it actually boosts certain chemicals in the brain
Might as well make the most of it though while it lasts Good luck with the TTC xx


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James McAvoy Discusses "The Last Station," Scotland and Great Writers on Drugs
James McAvoy hadn't read much Tolstoy before taking a major role in "The Last Station," a biography chronicling the literary master's last days that also stars Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren and comes out this Friday. But that didn't stop him from taking to his new character, an idealistic secretary who bears witness to Tolstoy's last wishes. McAvoy, who has played everything from a wimp-turned-assassin in "Wanted" to a gallant-and-doomed English soldier in "Atonement," sat down with Speakeasy.
The Wall Street Journal: Were you a fan of Tolstoy before you signed on to "The Last Station?"
I won't lie. No. I've read as much as I could of "War and Peace." I only read it because I was trying to be cool. I became very interested in Tolstoy, though, making this. I find it easy to understand why my character would be in love with the idea of Tolstoy. He really did have power. He was a threat to the aristocracy. Sort of the spiritual custodian of the Russian peasant soul. Kind of amazing that one guy could lead the country down a path that would ultimately lead to the revolution. And the instigation of communism.
In the film, everyone around Tolstoy keeps journals. Do you keep a journal in real life?
The last time I tried to keep a journal I was 22, 23. Every morning I tried to write down my thoughts. I look back and it was just nonsense. Not only is it nonsense and boring, it's nonsense that's trying not to be. It's trying to be profound. I rather I would have just written "I'm tired. The end." That would have been truthful. As opposed to, "as I look into the person sitting across from me, I notice a detachment from the world…"
Was it awkward working with your wife, Anne Marie Duff, in this film, since you share a love scene with another actress?
We actually didn't work that much together on set. That's why we were happy to accept -– because we didn't have to be with each other that much. We didn't have to act at each other. It didn't complicate our private lives. It was cracking.
"Cracking? That sounds like Scottish lingo.
Cracking means splendid, do you know what I mean? Whereas "what's the craic" means what's the story?
It's so much fun to watch you with fellow Scotsman Craig Ferguson on his show.
The thing about Craig Ferguson is he listens to you. Sometimes on talk shows they don't listen to you. They've got their script and they've got to get to the end. But he just starts a conversation and wherever it goes, it goes.
Have you quashed the rumors about starring in "The Hobbit" and the Ian Fleming bio-pic?
Yes. I have quashed them. They are quashed.
Audiences seem to know you most for your role in "Atonement." Can you talk about the experience of making that movie?
I fell in love so much with that character. Probably more than any other part. If I hadn't gotten it, I would have been absolutely devastated. I can easily watch films that I've wanted to do and see other actors do them, and feel great that they were in it, that they were better for it. There was one part in a film recently that I really wanted to do, that I didn't get. But the actor who played the part was phenomenal. Blew me away. I had a great time watching it. If that had happened with "Atonement," I don't think I could have watched anyone else do it.
You were in "Chronicles of Narnia," the C.S Lewis tale. Lewis seems to be an institution in British childhoods.
When I was growing up, C.S. Lewis was very important for me. Mr. Tumnus was literally my favorite character growing up. In my adult years, though, I moved on to Philip Pullman. I read "His Dark Materials" and it's one of my favorites. The idea of killing God -– two kids going to murder God. Amazing. And losing their souls in the process. They get separated from their spiritual selves in the process. Where the f*** does the guy get his drugs? Whatever he's got, it must be prescription.
Speaking of drugs, it seems like many writers were on them. Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, the Romantics. Necessary for great creative works?
Maybe for such imaginative writers. But not every great writer needs to be off their face. I'm sure Tolstoy wasn't that high. Can you imagine if he was an ecstasy fiend? Who else was on drugs? Was Conan Doyle? He might have been. All the best rock music was made on drugs. Bill Hicks said so!
Do you get high before acting?
I'm really bad. I don't do drugs. I've hardly ever done anything.
In "Starter for 10″ you did.
I pretended to do drugs. But actually I inhaled so much smoke that I did feel high.


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New covers, same awesome. I know a lot of people liked the cartoony old covers, but I'm rather partial to the new ones.
(Okay, I'm biased. I designed them myself. Once I learn how to use Photoshop properly so that two completely separate images of a man and a woman come together in one piece of cover art looking like they actually love each other, you might be seeing some clinch covers from me. I need some more skillz for that.)
In any case, I'm so happy to report that the two books in my Timepunk Romance series are now available in ebook format, and the first book, Wired, is on sale at $2.99. Fun times! I hope you enjoy the read.
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We were there: 'Equus' by Uptown Players
Much as I adore and respect our theater critic, Lawson Taitte, I'm afraid I have to wholeheartedly disagree with him about the Uptown Players' production of Equus, playing at the Kalita Humphreys Theater through March 21.
In his review, Lawson took exception with the show's acting and the "plenitude" of bare flesh in director-designer Bruce R. Coleman's version of the show. He saw it Feb. 26, on opening night, whereas I saw it this weekend, at Saturday's performance.
I loved the acting across the board, and pretty much the entire production. The two friends who were with me, extremely intelligent women who also adore theater and this show in particular, agreed. Peter Shaffer's Equus is one of my favorite plays — I played Jill twice back in my acting days in the 1980s — and I would be hard-pressed to find fault with Uptown's production. Rick Espaillat, as Dysart, the psychiatrist tasked with discovering why a 17-year-old boy has blinded six horses, gives one of the most realistic and anguished performances I've seen in the role, utterly convincing as he's forced to confront his own lack of passion, his completely ordinary nature, in the face of the boy's unhealthy but vibrant fervor.
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Quitman, Miss. Police in Quitman say prescription painkillers, worth over a hundred thousand dollars on the street, were stolen early Tuesday from Hammack Pharmacy.
Officials say two black males broke through a glass door with a brick and went straight for the Lorcet, a painkiller often sold illegally on the street. The suspects even bypassed an open register full of cash. Police say they knew exactly where to find what they wanted.
"It was as though they knew what they were going in for," said Chief Willie McKines of the Quitman Police Dept. "They went directly to where the pills were located, took them from the shelves and from the counter and they used two large trash bags."
While these pills are worth about $2,000 total at wholesale value, they sell for anywhere from $10 to $15 dollars per pill on the black market.
The men stole over 12,000. That means the potential value at illegal resale could be over $120,000. Quitman police have involved the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation to be ready for when the thieves try to sell.
"This may be some type of ring that is going around stealing these pills and putting them back on the street," said McKines.
The chief said a third party had a getaway car ready, a light-colored sedan. The drug store has had to send some customers away for the past couple of days until they can restock. The store is holding out hope the available evidence will be enough to find the suspects.
"They got them on camera on several different ones in town," said Rachel Bryant of Hammack Drug Store. "All the angles, like I think, the bank, the Chevron, the Sunflower and our cameras. So we're hoping maybe somewhere one of them will be able to find them."
If you have any information that might help investigators, you may report it to the Quitman Police Department at 601-776-3956.