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There are many paths towards Internet competence and happiness, and many guides which might help you along. This one does NOT claim to be the best. However, it is adjusted to "local conditions" and is taking a deliberate, step-by-step approach. After going through this page you will be able to:
1. Activate your "public_html" subdirectory
Please answer Y (for yes) or N (for no)." Answer: "Y"
[yourlogin is your Email login name]
2. View your pre-made "Homepage" in a "Browser"
Should you be sufficiently curious at this stage and want to see how your page has been programmed (i.e. what kind of HTML-code has been used), click the "View" button at the top of the screen (in Netscape and Explorer) and select "source". This capability to get not just into your own page code, but into the code of any page, is, of course, a wonderful opportunity to learn how to write HTML code. Mind you, you will not be able to make any changes...
Anyway, congratulations! Your account is set up, and you can start putting pages into your initial (public_html) directory. You may also create further subdirectories and thereby the organizational scheme needed to keep your future webb system, your prolific writing plans and your different classes and interest areas organized and under control.
3. Getting into your public_html directory
This is the home page for John Doe <J.Doe>.
4. Creating your class-specific subdirectory within your public_html directory
Let's assume that you are still in your public_html directory or folder.
(Note: Please remember for future HTML sessions that, every time you want to work on your Web page, you need to proceed right away into the public_html subdirectory. At your main Dante Menu, either type "S" for shell (or first "O" for Other and then "W" for Web Work). Then type "cd public_html". You can always find out whether you in the right directory by typing "ls" (list) which will bring up the content of that directory. You get out of your Web directory by first closing the present file: Ctrl "x", than "Y" for "Yes", then "enter". After the dante prompt appears, you simply type "exit" and you are a free person again... Enjoy!)
5. Let's take a Conceptual Time-Out....
Before we go any further, I'll suggest that, at this point in the class, we distinguish between "open" and "closed" parts of our home page system. Open files can be connected ("linked") to your geog-subdirectory or any other page in your system or the system of other members of the class. Other files you may want keep closed, i.e. hidden at least for the time-being until you are ready to open them, maybe initially only to your group or your instructor. These are files which are in preparation (drafts) which you want to keep for yourself or disclose only selectively. Thus, you may want to open some files, or a new subdirectory with some files, which you give names which can not easily be guessed (like your password).
6. Let's Post some Content on our geog Page!
If you have not done this before, you may want to send your introduction through the speller while you are still in dante by typing CTRL t .. just like you would do it in UNIX/Pine. You may also edit or expand it, i.e. add your first words of wisdom directly to your Web page!
You might already be able to guess that
the URL of this page or file is:
What we have done here is to prove that we DO NOT NEED HTML (the Hypertext Markup Language) to write into our Web site or to submit assignments for this class. This initial take-home assignment will be accepted as a text file. Just send the address of your assignment file to your instructor! [for this "Introduction, you do not have to notify your instructor if your address is: ..../yourlogin/207/intro
7. Now: HTML! (Have the Time of My Life)
Well, maybe, just maybe, you want to take the next step and begin to make use of the many visual and organizational improvements which HTML opens up.
If you wish, you can insert now a clickable tag in this table-of-content file by writing, in front of My Introduction one of the following tags:
At this moment, your geog(index.html)- file (geog cover page) is composed in HTML, your only other file ("intro") is still a text file.
Here is a more complete and systematic presentation of your first HTML tags. Click!
8. Move your "Concentration" document into your Web site as an HTML file:
Let's also assume that you have written another document called "My Concentration". Since this write-up consists of only two pages + Bibliography, it should be the perfect document to learn and practice some very basic Web site skills.
9. Creating "Hyperlinks": The full
"hypertextual" potential
of your Internet pesence will not have been utilized without
For these and other Internet and HTML secrets, advance to Krumme's Electronic Survival
Return to Econ&Bus Geog
Go into "View" and "Source" of a page which contains the type of hyperlink
which you wish to include in your page and try to figure it out....
1999/2001 [firstname.lastname@example.com]
9. Creating "Hyperlinks": The full "hypertextual" potential of your Internet pesence will not have been utilized without
For these and other Internet and HTML secrets, advance to Krumme's Electronic Survival Guide
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Waste, Fraud and Abuse
Obama's speech was replete with all three.
Even by the standards of the World's Greatest Orator, yesterday's was a dreadful speech. We observed recently that Barack Obama's reputation as the WGO rests largely on his talent for the insubstantial--for reciting "poetry" as opposed to expounding "prose," in Mario Cuomo's terms. Few subjects are more prosaic than the federal budget, the topic of the president's talk yesterday.
Obama said he was going to start "by being honest about what's causing our deficit." It's hard to cut spending: "You see, most Americans tend to dislike government spending in the abstract, but like the stuff that it buys." It's hard to raise taxes: "My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes they should be paying higher taxes." And politicians are selling voters a bill of goods when they "feed the impression that solving the problem is just a matter of eliminating waste and abuse."
What's needed, he claimed, is "a serious plan" that will "require tough choices." He then outlined a four-step "approach"--it wasn't detailed enough to achieve planhood--that showed his promise of honesty to be an utter fraud.
The first step is "to keep annual domestic spending low." Wait, it's low? He then adds this qualification:
I will not sacrifice the core investments that we need to grow and create jobs. We will invest in medical research. We will invest in clean energy technology. We will invest in new roads and airports and broadband access. We will invest in education. We will invest in job training. We will do what we need to do to compete, and we will win the future.
So when he said of government spending that Americans "like the stuff that it buys," he was referring to himself. He seems less than determined to "keep" spending low, much less actually to reduce it considerably, which is what will be required.
The second step is "to find additional savings in our defense budget." He promises he will "never accept cuts that compromise our ability to defend our homeland or America's interests around the world," which is certainly a relief. How then?
"Secretary Bob Gates has courageously taken on wasteful spending, saving $400 billion in current and future spending." Wait, didn't the president just say the promise to cut waste and abuse was an empty one? Also, "we're going to have to conduct a fundamental review of America's missions, capabilities, and our role in a changing world."
Which is in sharp contrast to the third step, the one dealing with entitlement spending. Domestically, Obama absolutely will not conduct a fundamental review of the federal government's missions, capabilities and role in a changing world.
In fact, in a scene reminiscent of the president's attack on the Supreme Court in the 2010 State of the Union Address, he heaped abuse on Rep. Paul Ryan, whom he had invited to sit in the front row, for being willing to think about "changing the basic social compact in America." In a grotesque display of left-wing jingoism, he equated the welfare state to America itself:
The America I know is generous and compassionate. . . . This is the America that I know. We don't have to choose between a future of spiraling debt and one where we forfeit our investment in our people and our country. . . . We do not have to sacrifice the America we believe in.
So how does he propose to prevent entitlements from eating the economy? He proposes "to further reduce health care spending in our budget. . . . Our approach lowers the government's health care bills by reducing the cost of health care itself." Here's how:
We will reduce wasteful subsidies and erroneous payments. We will cut spending on prescription drugs by using Medicare's purchasing power to drive greater efficiency and speed generic brands of medicine onto the market. We will work with governors of both parties to demand more efficiency and accountability from Medicaid.
Waste and abuse again!
The fourth step is to raise taxes on "millionaires and billionaires." From Obama's past proposals and the new taxes in ObamaCare, we know that the cutoff for "millionaire" status is $250,000, less for unmarried taxpayers. But don't worry, the president assures us that "most wealthy Americans would agree with me. They want to give back to their country, a country that's done so much for them. It's just Washington hasn't asked them to."
So were his "finely honed political instincts" wrong when they said "almost nobody believes they should be paying higher taxes"?
Obama's attack on Ryan deserves a bit more attention. Jake Tapper, ABC News's White House correspondent, damningly contrasts a pair of Obama quotes. The first was from the president's appearance at the Republican House retreat in January 2010, when he was still trying to sell ObamaCare:
We're not going to be able to do anything about any of these entitlements if what we do is characterize whatever proposals are put out there as, "Well, you know, that's--the other party's being irresponsible. The other party is trying to hurt our senior citizens. That the other party is doing X, Y, Z."
And here he is yesterday:
One vision has been championed by Republicans in the House of Representatives and embraced by several of their party's presidential candidates. . . . This is a vision that says up to 50 million Americans have to lose their health insurance in order for us to reduce the deficit. And who are those 50 million Americans? Many are someone's grandparents who wouldn't be able afford nursing home care without Medicaid. Many are poor children. Some are middle-class families who have children with autism or Down's syndrome. Some are kids with disabilities so severe that they require 24-hour care. These are the Americans we'd be telling to fend for themselves.
After this demagogy, he pivoted and concluded his speech with a call to compromise. At one point he echoed this column in exhorting fellow Democrats:
To those in my own party, I say that if we truly believe in a progressive vision of our society, we have an obligation to prove that we can afford our commitments. If we believe the government can make a difference in people's lives, we have the obligation to prove that it works--by making government smarter, and leaner and more effective.
It's not clear what the distinction might be between, on the one hand, making government smarter, leaner and more effective and, on the other, eliminating waste and abuse. But the real problem here, as we saw most vividly in Wisconsin recently, is that today's "progressives" are politically, and perhaps also ideologically, committed to preserving the labor monopolies that produce stupid, bloated and ineffective government.
Why did Obama give this appalling speech? A pair of articles give a partial answer. The first one appeared at TheHill.com early yesterday morning, before the speech:
Anxiety over President Obama's shift to the political center is threatening to alienate the White House's liberal base. . . .
The concerns have surfaced after the White House rankled lawmakers on the left by agreeing to a 2011 spending bill that slashes funding for a number of programs long favored by Democrats and embracing a controversial trade agreement with Colombia. . . .
The criticisms highlight the problem facing Obama, who is trying to lead from the center without alienating his political base. The White House strategy could help the president with independents, but risks leaving liberals at home in the fall of 2012.
The second, by Salon.com's Joan Walsh, was a glowing review of the speech:
The president came out fighting with firmness, and with a rhetoric of social justice and equality, that I haven't seen enough of these last two years. . . . That's the president I voted for. . . . After the speech, pundits called it the opening salvo of the Obama 2012 reelection campaign, as though there was something wrong with that. If these are the founding principles of the president's 2012 campaign, Democrats and the country will be better off than we've been in a while.
Mickey Kaus notes that "Obama tends to defend the welfare state in ineffective paleolib terms. It's mostly 'compassion' and taking "responsibility for . . . each other,' whether we work or not." It seems to us, though, that the speech was meant for the left, not the center, and paleolib terms are effective with a paleolib audience.
The optimistic reading of this speech is the cynical one: Obama knows he is going to have to compromise with congressional Republicans and is buying himself some goodwill with the base. If he was speaking from the heart, though, we're in for a long 2012, though his may be even longer.
Out on a Limb
- "Obama's Budget Speech Has Partisan Tone"--headline, Washington Post, April 14
- "Nancy Pelosi Fades as Power Player"--headline, Politico.com, April 14
You Don't Have to Live Like a Refugee
Australian blogger Gavin Atkins notes that "in 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme predicted that climate change would create 50 million climate refugees by 2010":
These people, it was said, would flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production.
The UNEP even provided a handy map. The map shows us the places most at risk including the very sensitive low lying islands of the Pacific and Caribbean.
(A slight correction: The UNEP map seems to have been published in 2008, based on a 2005 study published by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.)
Yet in 2010, mankind was so distracted by the elections, Wikileaks, the Haitian earthquake and the Chilean miners that 50 million climate refugees somehow escaped our notice. Oh, also they failed to materialize. Atkins looks at census data from supposedly imperiled island nations--the Bahamas, St. Lucia, the Seychelles and the Solomon Islands--and notes healthy increases in all of them. The same is true on continental landmasses:
Far from being places where people are fleeing, no fewer than the top six of the very fastest growing cities in China, Shenzzen, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Puning and Jinjiang, are absolutely smack bang within the shaded areas identified as being likely sources of climate refugees.
Similarly, many of the fastest growing cities in the United States also appear within or close to the areas identified by the UNEP as at risk of having climate refugees.
The original study was published in May 2005, before Hurricane Katrina, which did displace a substantial number of people from Louisiana and neighboring states. But by now it's clear they were weather refugees, not climate refugees.
Mideast OCD
Here we go again: "The United States plans a new push to promote comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday, suggesting a stronger U.S. hand in trying to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Reuters reports:
President Barack Obama will lay out U.S. policy toward the Middle East and North Africa in the coming weeks, Clinton told Arab and U.S. policy makers in a speech that placed particular emphasis on Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Even John Kerry acknowledges that the administration's efforts thus far have been pointless, Politico.com reports:
Speaking to a gathering in Washington of leaders from the Muslim world, Kerry said the administration's effort to set the table for broader talks by resolving the impasse over Jewish settlements in the West Bank was futile. . . . "I was opposed to the prolonged effort on the settlements in a public way because I never thought it would work and, in fact, we have wasted a year and a half on something that for a number of reasons was not achievable," Kerry told the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, organized by the Brookings Institution's Saban Center.
But don't worry--here's the sentence we left out of the quote above:
However, he suggested that Obama may move soon to get the peace process going in order to head off a possible showdown at the United Nations in September.
You'd think this would be a good time to hang back and absorb the implications of the continuing political turmoil in just about every country between Morocco and Iran except for Israel. Nope, instead it's off on another futile peace mission. America's foreign-policy establishment seems to suffer from a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Metaphor Alert
"This narrow niche of a residential neighborhood near Prospect Park once stood as the flashpoint in a social and sporting revolution, and now it serves as the launching pad for countless dreams to come. Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, once flourished here, and the fruit of future generations has been planted in its footprint."--MLB.com, April 12
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
"An article on Monday about a theory that the animation director Shamus Culhane inserted ultrabrief experimental art films into a few Woody Woodpecker cartoons misidentified the machine that Woody smashes through a shed door in 'The Loose Nut.' It is a steamroller, not a bulldozer. The article, citing visual pranks in other cartoons, also misidentified the character who bolts past phallic-shaped doorways in 'The Greatest Man in Siam.' It is the Fastest Man in Siam, not the king."--correction, New York Times, April 13
How to Solve the Libya Problem
"Biological Arms Races in Birds Result in Sophisticated Defenses Against Cuckoos"--headline, University of Cambridge press release, April 13
'You Voted for the $87 Billion Before You Voted Against It, and You Have the Hat, Sir'
"STAGE TUBE: Kerry Butler Tells Two Truths and a Lie"--headline, BroadwayWorld.com, April 13
A One-Hour Lunch Will Cost You $250
"$125 for Two-Hour Lunch With Pelosi"--headline, California Catholic Daily, April 14
Yeah Walk Away, Walk Away, Walk Away
"Rep. Joe Walsh: Either the UN Pulls Goldstone or U.S. Pulls Funding"--headline, Washington Jewish Week, April 13
What Goes Klop, Klop, Klop, Klop, Whimper?
- "Can a Horse Catch Fire?"--headline, Slate.com, April 12
- "Can Kloppenburg Find 7,305 Votes in Milwaukee Today?"--headline, LegalInsurrection.blogspot.com, April 13
The Lonely Lives of City Councilmen
"City Council Approves Ordinance Banning Live Sex Acts"--headline, Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.), April 12
Or 2,736,000 Square Inches or 1,765.2 Square Liters
"Math Museum Signs a Lease for 19,000 Square Feet"--headline, Crain's New York Business, April 13
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Asleep on the Job: What Was Vice President Joe Biden Doing During Obama's Debt Speech?"--headline, ABCNews.com, April 13
- "Should the Redwoods Be Cloned?"--headline, San Francisco Chronicle website, April 11
- "Is Sarah Palin a Has-Been?"--headline, TheWeek.com, April 13
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "The Problem With Giving Condoms to 11-Year-Olds"--headline, FoxNews.com, April 13
- "Why I Support J. Crew's Controversial Pink Toenail Ad"--headline, Puffington Host, April 13
Too Much Information
"Sen. Tom Coburn on Budget Battle: 'We Need Senators With Gonads' "--headline, ABCNews.com, April 13
Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control
"STONERS Are DESTROYING the PLANET"--headline, TheRegister.co.uk, April 13
News of the Tautological
"Obama's Speech Was a Waste of Breath"--headline, TheAtlantic.com, April 13
Breaking News From Matthew 22:15-17
"Bill Countering Caesars' Tax Proposal Advances in Senate"--headline, Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 13
Breaking News From 1999
"Vladimir Putin Says He Too Could Run for Russian Presidency"--headline, Daily Telegraph (London), April 14
Breaking News From 2001
"Bush Youth More Likely to Fall Foul of Law"--headline, Australian Associated Press, April 14
News You Can Use
"Coldplay Fans Are 'Least Likely to Have Sex on a First Date' "--headline, NME.com, April 12
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "No Visible Opposition Emerges Against Redistricting Plan"--headline, RadioIowa.com, April 13
- "Police Found No Bomb in Car in Gwinnett County Parking Lot"--headline, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 13
- "Unsung Soviet Shuttle Program Doesn't Get Star Treatment"--headline, Wired.com, April 12
- "U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold Marks 100 Days in Office"--headline, Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times, April 14
- "Romney Says Obama Born in the U.S., Defends Romneycare"--headline, National Review Online, April 13
It's People!
Remember the opening scene in "Soylent Green," in which Edward G. Robinson pedals a stationary bicycle and powers an incandescent light bulb? Now it's come true, albeit with a more modern exercise machine and probably one of those stupid twisty bulbs:
When University of North Texas students work out at Pohl Recreational Center, they will be saving the environment as well as working off those extra end-of-semester calories.
UNT has installed the ReRev renewable energy system on 36 elliptical machines, turning the school into what the company calls "the largest human power plant in the world." . . .
According to ReRev's website, elliptical machines in regular use can generate 1 kilowatt hour of electricity every two days--the same energy it takes to power a laptop for 24 hours, or a vacuum cleaner for 45 minutes.
"If the amount of people working out will eventually offset the $20,000, plus a good portion of electricity bill each month, then I'd say it's definitely a good idea," UNT alumnus Josh Lopez said. "I guess it all depends on the amount of energy the UNT population is contributing towards the building."
According to ElectricChoice.com, residential power in Denton, where UNT is located, sells for between 8.52 cents and 11.35 cents a kilowatt-hour. The more expensive plans, are "green" ones, natch, so let's use the latter figure as our basis. At the rate of 1 kilowatt hour every two days, the machines will have paid for themselves by 2976.
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AUSTIN (AP) - Semi-trailer trucks could drive 70 mph - as fast as cars - on Texas highways under a bill sent Saturday to Gov. George W. Bush for his signature or veto.
The bill creates uniform speed limits on numbered state highways outside urban districts, allowing cars and trucks to drive 70 mph in daytime and 65 mph at night.
Currently, semi-trailer trucks have speed limits of 60 mph during the day and 55 at night.
Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes said the governor's staff will look closely at the bill and another being considered that would raise speed limits as high as 80 mph in some rural areas.
"It could result in the unintended consequence of very high speed limits in some rural texas communities," Hughes said.
Bill sponsors Sen. Teel Bivins and Rep. Carl Isett said U.S. Department of Transportation surveys indicate that uniform speed limits are safer for drivers.
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A Smithville mother has been named the sunniest person in America by fans of Ocean Spray's Facebook page.
Lara Stanze, 46, founded Spread a Little Joy, which grants dreams for terminally-ill adults in Kansas City.
Stanze's friend Kathy Williamson nominated her for Ocean Spray's Sun-sational Awards.
"I am so honored and feel blessed America chose me," Stanze said in a news release.
The contest was to celebrate the company's new cranberry-lemonade juice.
Ocean Spray said Stanze and Williamson will receive summer travel getaways.


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The Hispanic Symposium is a new student educational and transitional experience sponsored by the Department of Multicultural Student Affairs and the Office of Hispanic Student Affairs. Its purpose is to foster a sense of community for incoming first-year students and to provide them with information about campus support, personnel, coping strategies and Hispanic heritage and contributions as a basis for helping ensure their academic, social and emotional success at NC State.
Symposium is a retention and advancement effort of the university and is specifically designed to achieve the following objectives:
- To maximize the academic success of students.
- To encourage multiculturalism.
- To facilitate the enhancement of strong cultural identity and positive self-esteem.
- To coordinate activities which enable them to get to know each other.
- To educate students and parents/relatives about the availability and appropriate use of various campus resources and support services.
- To provide opportunities for interaction with upper-class students, faculty, and staff.
- To provide information about our rich Hispanic/Latino American heritage and the valuable contributions we have made.
The content of Symposium is determined by the Multicultural Student Affairs' staff. Additionally, the logistics and implementation of Symposium are facilitated by the Director of Multicultural Student Affairs and Assistant Director for Hispanic Student Affairs. Several students also work in the Symposium as paid counselors during the summer.
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When you're home?
When you're away?
We always lock the doors when we leave, and at night...and sometimes during the day if I want to take a nap, or will be upstairs cleaning, or in the shower, etc
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Yep. I think a thief would be rather disappointed once they got inside, but I do still lock.
I always lock up. DH makes fun of me, but we had some creepy guy come to our door last year, at 9pm on a Sunday night, saying his car broke down and he needed my husband's gas can. I didn't see any car, and we don't live far from a gas station. It just kind of freaked me out.
I read about home invasions all the time in the police blotter, and I feel like you can't be too careful.
Hopefully, our dog's mean bark would scare anyone away, although if they were to actually get in, they would find a really happy dog.
A working person voting Republican is like a chicken voting Col. Sanders.
At home if I'm going to shower but if we are just hanging out the doors are unlocked and the windows open.
If we leave I usually lock all the downstairs windows and I lock the door.
If I'm just going up the road to the bus stop or out in the yard with the dog I leave it all open.
When we are leaving, if I am home alone, and at night. If DH is home he wants them unlocked. I would prefer all the time, but DH would prefer never. He grew up in a really safe small town, but now we live in Vegas, locked doors are a must.
Nope not always. We leave our house unlocked alot of the time.
We do always lock at night though.
I left my car unlocked windows down all night last night.
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Dental care benefits in medium and large private establishments
December 02, 1999
In 1997, about 59 percent of all full-time employees in medium and large private establishments were offered some type of dental care benefit from their employers.
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The percentage of full-time employees offered dental care benefits was higher for professional, technical, and related employees (64 percent) than it was for either clerical and sales employees (59 percent) or blue-collar and service employees (56 percent).
Among those with dental care benefits, 81 percent received care from traditional fee for service plans, 11 percent from preferred provider organizations, and 8 percent from health maintenance organizations.
Irrespective of the type of plan under which employees receive dental care, the following procedures are covered in 98 percent or more of plans: exams, x-rays, surgery, fillings, periodontal care, endodontics, crowns, and prosthetics. For each of those procedures, more than three-quarters of those covered received a percentage of the usual, customary and reasonable charge for the procedure as the benefit.
These data are a product of the BLS Employee Benefits Survey program. Find out more in "Employee Benefits in Medium and Large Private Establishments, 1997," Bulletin 2517 (PDF 804 K).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Dental care benefits in medium and large private establishments on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/nov/wk5/art04.htm (visited September 28, 2016).
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As one of the largest U.S. industries, healthcare is steadily growing to meet the needs of an increasing population with an increasing life expectancy. This Spotlight looks at how much people spend on healthcare, current and projected employment in the industry, employer-provided healthcare benefits, healthcare prices, and pay for workers in healthcare occupations.
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At what point did the carving of pumpkins turn into a "cute" event? When did boys stop carving pumpkins and moms start? Where did we lose touch with one of the years coolest events?
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Pitfalls of Selling via "For Sale By Owner"
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I've never sold a house so I don't entirely understand their side of the process (so take this article with a grain of salt), but I do know what I looked for as a buyer. I do know that not a lot (percentage-wise) of buyers go online and search for homes on the For Sale By Owner websites so as a seller your potential market is already smaller. I also know that a buyer agent, which most buyers will have, has little or no incentive to show their clients an FSBO… that's another factor decreasing your potential market. Finally, even if you do find a buyer, they will have to bring "buyer agent-like expertise" to the closing table (if they even make it that far) which is something a total novice probably won't be able to do, let alone feel comfortable doing. But ignoring the final point expertise point, which was the main thrust of the previous article, you're still betting that an educated buyer (or buyers preferably) in search of a FSBO will find your house and put in a competitive offer. I think that is a dangerous bet to be making.
When I bought a home, I did it with the future sale of the home in mind. Even though I don't have any children, you want to buy into an area with good schools because when it comes time to sell the fact you're in a good school district makes your home more attractive to more buyers. Why do you want more bedrooms and bathrooms? Bigger families with bigger incomes want bigger homes! If you buy a $300,000 rowhouse in an area where you only expect young professionals to live, even if the paper value of your home rises to $500,000… how will a single young professional be able to afford to buy the home from you? He/she won't, but a dual income family of four will be able to afford that.
So, when you choose FSBO you are reducing all your preparation when you first bought the house. Your only benefit is in not paying a large commission. When you consider that commissions are so high (you don't even need to add the other little fees to make this point hit home) on property sales (7% standard, so $35,000 on a $500,000 sale), perhaps it's a worthy tradeoff.
The secondary pitfall behind chopping your market to a fraction of what it normally would've been is that you force yourself into dealing with a savvier customer or a total dope. One on hand, the savvy buyer will be on top of his or her stuff and can get you to closing without a hitch. You won't be able to make as much money as from a total dope. The risk with a total dope is that a mistake in the contract, in the research, in something; could hold off the closing sale – which may have negative downstream effects. You'd prefer a total dope with expert representation.
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Lawyering Up
Susan A. Bandes
DePaul University - College of Law
Jack Michael Beermann
Boston University School of Law
Green Bag, Vol. 2, No. 5, 2nd Edition, 1998
The widespread dissemination of knowledge about the Miranda protections is often referred to as one of the most successful efforts ever made to educate the American public about its constitutional rights. Studies confirm that a high percentage of the public is aware of Miranda, largely due to television and other mass media. This article asks the question: if television is educating the public about its Miranda rights, what exactly is it teaching us? As fans of the cop show NYPD Blue (a show in which the interrogation and confession are often the dramatic focus) we use that show to explore the messages popular culture communicates about Miranda and the conduct of police interrogations. We ask not only what legal norms about police conduct are transmitted through television, but also what role television itself has in creating those norms. We also explore an ancillary question: if so many people know their rights, why don't more people assert them -- both on television and in real life?
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A somewhat-agitated Tom Coughlin just wrapped up his Wednesday press conference. A few highlights:
*Sounds like rookie CB Aaron Ross might be starting this week. Coughlin said they want to work him in a bit more which probably means first and second downs. We'll see. I'd expect Ross to at least be trading series with either Corey Webster or Sam Madison.
*RB Brandon Jacobs isn't quite ready to get back to practice but there was no concern from Coughlin about QB Eli Manning. RB Ahmad Bradshaw (elbow) should be ready to go.
*Coughlin didn't appear pleased questions about Redskins TE Chris Cooley's possibly stretching the field and said the short passing game that's been the problem with covering the tight end. When reminded the Cowboys' Jason Witten certainly ripped the secondary down the field, Coughlin agreed then said "We're going to argue about coverage? Is that what we want to do now?"
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Building Better Families: A Practical Guide to Raising Amazing Childrenby Matthew Kelly
For more than a decade, Matthew Kelly has been traveling the world inspiring people to become the-best-version-of-themselves. During this time he has been amazed at how regularly he is asked: How do I encourage my children to embrace this message? How does your message apply to a family? Now, for the first time, Kelly shares with us remarkable insights and sensible everyday strategies for transforming the family into what it should be: a place where each of us can become the-best-version-of-ourselves. Beginning with an exploration of the changing face of the family in our culture, Kelly sets every reader at ease by explaining: "A family is not what we think a family should be, or what we hope to have, or should have, or what would be ideal-a family is what we actually have. A family is the one we've got. " Nor can a family ever be perfect, he goes on to explain. "Perfect families exist only in our minds, and it is these imaginings that are very often the enemy of our ability to enjoy the wonderful family we already have, or might have if we made it just that little bit more of a priority. " In Building Better Families, Kelly explores important issues by raising evocative questions: What makes a successful parent? Do you realize that your children are in the middle of a cultural war? What are the five things children really need? Are you asking your children the right questions? What are you teaching your children about work, money, food, exercise, body image, and sex? What are the priorities of your family culture? Every page of this book is filled with examples that can be applied to your daily experience of parenting and family, while at the same time illuminating the broader and deeper significance of family for society and the future of humanity. "The family is at once a deeply personal experience and the cornerstone of all great societies," Matthew Kelly tells us. Allow this book of classic wisdom and practical insight to help you build a better family. From the Hardcover edition.
Decision Point: Workbookby Matthew Kelly
A religious book that covers the following sessions in one: LIFE IS CHOICES WHAT'S HOLDING YOU BACK? THE JESUS QUESTION THE PRAYER PROCESS THE BIBLE RELATIONSHIPS THE EUCHARIST THE HOLY SPIRIT THE CHURCH CONFIRMATION MADE FOR MISSION HOLINESS IS POSSIBLE
Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadershipby Matthew Kelly Patrick Lencioni Steve Farber
An inspiring parable on the greatest leadership lesson of all--that the best leaders go beyond the tenets of the Golden Rule and help others to be better than they are themselves. Too many people assume that the timeless principles of genuine leadership--of helping others achieve their full potential--don't apply Monday through Friday during work hours or in any circumstance where a paycheck is involved.In Greater Than Yourself, Steve Farber proves them wrong. With this powerful and eye-opening story, Farber shows that the goal of true leadership is to help others--teammates, employees, and colleagues--become more capable, confident, and accomplished than their leaders. Through the actions of a forward-thinking and extraordinarily successful CEO, Farber reveals the three keys to achieving what he calls GTY: Expand Yourself, Give Yourself, and Replicate Yourself. Filled with thought-provoking ideas and actionable principles, Greater Than Yourself offers a powerful message for today's business leaders.
Off Balanceby Matthew Kelly
The prescriptive follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Dream Manager. One of the major issues in our lives today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; no one has it. But Matthew Kelly believes that work- life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction. Kelly lays out the system he uses with his clients, his team, and himself to find deep, long-term satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He shows us how to cultivate the energy that will give us enough battery power for everything we need and want to do. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal & Professional Satisfaction System to establish and honor our biggest priorities, even if we spend a lot more time on some of the lesser ones. .
Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happinessby Matthew Kelly
"Just be yourself!" People say it all the time, but how do we actually live it? For more than a decade Matthew Kelly has been helping people discover the best version of themselves. Now, in Perfectly Yourself, he addresses the opportunities and obstacles that we encounter once we decide to ask life's big questions: Who am I? What am I here for? Focusing on nine powerful and practical lessons, Kelly shows us how to find lasting happiness in a changing world. We all have an insatiable need to grow and improve: Every year millions of us buy books and attend workshops in the hope that we will lose weight, improve our relationships, conquer debt, accomplish more in our careers, achieve financial independence, reach spiritual enlightenment, become better parents or lovers-the list goes on. We yearn for progress. And yet, many of us fail to achieve the transformations we desire. "People don't fail because they want to fail," Kelly explains. "People don't go on a diet because they want to get fat. People don't get married to get divorced. Whether we are dealing with health and wellness, relationships, finances, spirituality, or career, people want to advance. Personal development animates us, brings us to life. In many cases one diet is as good as the next. One financial plan is as good as another. People are smart enough to work out which are the best, but still so many fail. We have to ask ourselves: Why? "Fundamental to all transformation is understanding the dynamics of change so that we can be aware of the obstacles and opportunities that await us when we attempt to transform an area of our lives. " Kelly teaches us how to find the balance between accepting ourselves for who we are and challenging ourselves to become all we are capable of being. He encourages us to unify the many aspects of our lives, and reveals how to move beyond other people's expectations of who and what we should be. Perfectly Yourself is for anyone who has ever failed at a diet, survived the collapse of a relationship, or wondered if he or she will ever find a fulfilling career. It's a book for all of us who long to be at peace with who we are, where we are, and what we are doing, not in some distant tomorrow but here and now-today. From the Hardcover edition.
Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion and Purposeby Matthew Kelly
At a Time When Many Catholics are Disillusioned, Questioning Their Faith, and Filled with Doubts About the Relevance of Catholicism in the Modern World, the Voice of One Man Cries Out to the World's Largest Faith Community With a Clarity That is Rare and Inspiring. The book will also be helpful to persons of any Christian faith who are interested in returning to their religious roots.
The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purposeby Matthew Kelly
Do you ever feel that if you weren't so busy you would be happier, healthier, more effective, more fulfilled... and maybe even a better person? Once every twenty-five years or so, a book comes along that perfectly identifies our common search and struggle for happiness, and teaches us how to find lasting fulfillment in a changing world. This is that book. Not since M. Scott Peck published The Road Less Traveled have we experienced a voice as refreshing and authentic as Matthew Kelly's. The Rhythm of Life will help you to bring into focus who you are and why you are here. Through this book Matthew Kelly will help you discover your legitimate needs, deepest desires, and unique talents. He will introduce you to the-best-version-of-yourself and lead you to a life filled with passion and purpose. Here are just a few of the timeless creeds that he presents in The Rhythm of Life... "You were born to become the-best-version-of-yourself. This is your essential purpose. Embrace this one solitary truth and it will change your life more than anything you have ever learned. In every situation, ask yourself, Which of the options before me will help me become the-best-version-of-myself?" "Everything is a choice. This is life's greatest truth and its hardest lesson. It is a great truth because it reminds us of our power. Not power over others, but the power to be ourselves and to live the life we have imagined. It is a hard lesson because it causes us to realize that we have chosen the life we are living right now." "The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage. Courage animates us, brings us to life, and makes everything else possible. Fear stops more people from doing something with their lives than lack of ability, contacts, resources, or any other single variable. Fear paralyzes the human spirit. Life takes courage." "Energy is our most valuable resource, not time. The rhythm of life is a way of life that brings our legitimate needs, our deepest desires, and our unique talents into harmony with each other. The result: passion, purpose, and energy." Kelly has a way of thinking and writing that cuts through the stifling clutter of our everyday lives and delivers a clarity that is both refreshing and liberating.
The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Lovedby Matthew Kelly
We All Crave An Authentic Experience Of Intimacy. Though our hearts crave intimacy, though our minds understand our deep need for it, the self-revelation it requires is often too daunting a task. Complete and unrestrained sharing of self exposes the deepest human fear of being rejected for being ourselves. In The Seven Levels of Intimacy, Matthew Kelly both acknowledges and calms our fears, while teaching us how to move beyond them to experience the power of true intimacy. Matthew reveals that each relationship is built upon a pattern of interaction. In the beginning stages, we rely on casual interactions, gaining familiarity by focusing on superficialities and facts. We grow closer and begin to share our opinions, learning to accept each other and embrace the growing relationship despite the difference in our experiences and viewpoints. Once our differences and opinions are shared and accepted, we feel safe enough to reveal our hopes, dreams, and feelings, developing trust. With this trust, we open ourselves and are able to share our legitimate needs, becoming liberated from carrying the burden of our real needs alone. At last, we are deeply intimate and both willing and able to reveal our deepest fears. We are beyond judgment and feel trust and acceptance. By moving through and building upon each level of intimacy, we find comfort and gain trust in our partners and ourselves until, by developing and deepening our intimacy within each level, we are able to fully open ourselves, finally opening to the possibility of truly being loved. It is through mastering the seven levels of intimacy that we will break through to fully experiencing love, commitment, trust, and happiness. The Seven Levels of Intimacy is a brilliant and practical guide to creating and sustaining intimacy, whether you are looking for a deeper sense of connection with your spouse, looking for more fulfillment in your relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend, trying to improve your relationships with your children, or simply wondering what you should be looking for in a partner. With profound insight and the use of powerful, everyday examples, Matthew Kelly explains how we can nurture the intimacy in our relationships. The Seven Levels of Intimacy redefines how we view our interactions with others. This new understanding leads us to successfully create the strong connections, deep joy, and lasting bonds that we all long for.
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Ballard Power and the Quest for Profitability
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After effectively walking away from the money-sucking automobile market, Ballard Power is now staking its future on a series of niche uses for its hydrogen fuel-cell technology. But will it be enough to survive?
In late February of this year, I joined a group of about 20 investors and analysts in the atrium of the Exchange Tower on King Street West in Toronto. We were there to hear a presentation, but the location of the meeting had a certain emblematic power. The atrium is on the main floor of a 36-floor skyscraper built in 1981 and named for its highest profile tenant, the TSX. It also serves as a mini museum of stock-exchange technology. In a long glass case down one side of the room sit stock-ticker machines as they have evolved through the ages: a series of black boxes, from hand-crank to dial tickers, from clunky computers to the decimal trading systems of the late '90s and beyond, each box sleeker and smaller and exponentially more powerful than the one that came before.
The fact that we were gathered to hear a presentation from the management of Ballard Power Systems Inc., then, seemed only appropriate, as the company itself is the creator and manufacturer of a black-box technology that has been evolving over the years: the hydrogen fuel cell. This "Investor and Analyst Day," like a similar one in New York City the day before, wasn't intended to introduce markets to
that technology, however; it's been around for many years. What CEO John Sheridan wanted markets to know instead was that this technology has a new future as a result of a new Ballard Power, radically overhauled in structure, in market focus and in value proposition. Having abandoned its 15-year quest to commercialize the hydrogen fuel cell for use in automobiles, Ballard Power, under Sheridan's leadership since 2005, has reoriented itself toward four strategic niche uses for hydrogen fuel-cell technology: forklifts, backup power units, fuel stacks for buses, and "distributed" power units aimed at industrial settings where there is a local supply of hydrogen.
More crucially – given that Ballard has never reported an annual net profit since Geoffrey Ballard and Firoz Rasul founded the company in 1987, and has racked up just shy of a billion dollars in losses over that period – John Sheridan wanted all of us to know that Ballard Power, in pursuing these four niches, was finally approaching profitability. Specifically, the company would be able to report positive adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization adjusted to exclude the effects of non-recurring and/or non-cash revenue gains or expense losses) by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. In fiscal 2012, moreover, Sheridan predicted Ballard Power would report net positive adjusted EBITDA across all four quarters.
That certainly would be a big deal. To put it in perspective, Ballard Power has made various predictions about its profitability from virtually the beginning. You may recall that the "hydrogen economy" – as heralded by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2003 and heavily touted by his secretary of energy, Spencer Abraham – seemed to be perennially just around the corner. By 2005 we were all going to be powering our cars and industrial applications with these miracle black boxes. Or was it 2008? Or was it 2010? Now, in Toronto, in February 2011, Ballard Power was predicting that it would actually be selling its fuel cells in commercial quantities, for more money than it costs to make them, in just six or seven months' time.
That prediction was clearly a big part of what the 2011 Investor and Analyst Day was all about. But there was another pivotal moment in the presentation. After Sheridan and CFO Tony Guglielmin had spoken, it was chief technology officer Christopher Guzy's turn. His job was to talk about the real heart of the matter: the technology, the fuel cell itself on which Ballard and all its predictions ultimately relied, just as the machinery of the TSX had once depended on those ticker-machines in the glass case running the length of the room.
What was the hydrogen fuel cell? How did it work? And how was Ballard planning to reduce its production costs by another 20 to 25 per cent in the next year?
A big man with a handlebar mustache, exuding the same aura of bedrock common sense you might associate with his look-alike, actor Wilford Brimley, Guzy hefted a fuel-cell stack in his hands and turned to the small audience. After seeming to measure up the different things that might be said about this trim and mysterious box, he said, "You put hydrogen in here, you blow air across here. And you get electricity."


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Daniel Gene Soileaux
Rayne - Funeral services will be held at Gossen Funeral Home Chapel, Monday, January 16, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. for Daniel Gene Soileaux, 56, who died Saturday, January 14, 2012 at his residence in Rayne, LA.
Interment will be in the St. Joseph Cemetery #2, Rayne, LA.
Surviving are mother, Helen Aucoin Soileaux of Rayne, one sister, Myrna "Sue" Credeur and husband Willis of Rayne, one brother, Murphy "Lee" Soileaux and wife Henrietta of Greenwell Spring, LA, two nephews, two nieces, two great nieces, four great nephew.
He was preceded in death by father, Delton Soileaux, one nephew, Sean Phillip Credeur, one niece, Baby Angel, paternal grandparents, Della Soileaux and Murphy Soileaux, maternal grandparents, Jaques Aucoin and Pauline Aucoin. .
He was born Wednesday, March 16, 1955 in Rayne. LA, Son of the late Delton Jean Soileaux and Helen Aucoin Soileaux.
Friends will be received at Gossen Funeral Home, Inc., Rayne, LA. Sunday, January 15, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. and Monday, January 16, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m.
Friends may view the obituary and guestbook online at www.gossenfuneralhome.net.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Gossen Funeral Home, Inc. of Rayne, LA, (337) 334-3141.
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The EC CHP Directive (2004/8/EC) is put in place to promote the development of the co-generation concept in Europe, thereby harvesting the large energy efficiency potential in the field. The Share of CHP in the Slovak Republic is among the highest in Europe, as shown in Slide 30 from the presentation and in the map (below).
The SETatWork Slovak partner, Energy Centre Bratislava (ECB), has analysed the implementation process in Slovakia, the overall status and prospects for enhanced degree of high efficiency CHP.
The main findings are:
Strong support has been given from SETatWork activities to foster appropriate implementation in Slovakia in the form of training, match-making, publishing and dissemination activities. Among others, these efforts have oriented towards the ETS contributors with highest CHP potential in Slovakia, which are the following industries:
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Dr. Constance Monitto is currently involved in both clinical and basic science research. In her basic science studies she is assessing the impact of epigenetic gene regulation on the development of resistance to chemotherapeutic agents in cancer. She is identifying genes that are silenced or downregulated in drug-resistant cell lines and comparing those to their drug-sensitive, isogeneic counterparts by microarray assessment of gene expression followed by pharmacologic unmasking of methylated genes using the compound 5-deoxyazacytidine. Candidate genes are further assessed by siRNA gene silencing. Her clinical research involves pediatric pain management. She and her coworkers are assessing the impact of low-dose opioid antagonism on opioid-related side effects (e.g., nausea and vomiting, pruritis). They also are completing analysis of data obtained regarding current methods of pediatric pain management across the country.
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- Xiao Y, Monitto CL, Minhas KM, Sidransky D. Lactoferrin downregulates G1 cyclin-dependent kinases during growth arrest of head and neck cancer cells. Clin Canc Res 10:8683–6, 2004.
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- Nelson KL, Yaster M, Kost-Byerly S, Monitto C. Pediatric pain management – results of a national survey of pediatric anesthesiologists. Anesthesiology 107:A688, 2007.
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EAST LIVERPOOL - A retaining wall along St. Clair Avenue considered a danger by three private citizens actually poses no immediate threat, according to city officials.
In a letter sent July 28 to the mayor, service-safety director and law director, Jackman Vodrey, David Buzzard and Robert Gardner expressed their concerns about the concrete wall at the southeast corner of Jackman Street and St. Clair Avenue, saying a vertical crack has appeared in the wall, which supports Jackman Street.
According to the letter writers, it appears the crack has widened, resulting in a portion of the wall leaning toward the southbound lane of St. Clair Avenue, which they pointed out is a "heavily traveled city thoroughfare."
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Although in need of repair, this retaining wall at the corner of Jackman Street and St. Clair Avenue in East Liverpool is not in danger of falling at this time, according to city officials. (Photo by Jo Ann Bobby-Gilbert)
They asked that the wall's condition be addressed immediately, writing, "It doesn't take much to imagine the consequences of the failure of the retaining wall if it should fall onto a passing vehicle or school bus, resulting in injury to persons and/or property."
The letter was also forwarded to Steve Cooper, the city's insurance agent, in the hopes he would notify the insurance carrier about the matter.
Service-Safety Director Ryan Estell said this week he had actually addressed the condition of the wall before receiving the letter.
"Prior to receiving the letter, the city had noticed the wall had shifted and requested a quote from (engineering firm) Dallis Dawson and Associates," Estell said.
The quote was for establishing points to determine where the two pieces of wall are currently located and then monitoring its location on a monthly basis to watch for any movement.
Estell said the quote was between $500 and $1,000 for the initial set-up and then another couple hundred dollars per month for the monthly checks, saying the city has not yet contracted with the firm.
"As with everything, the issue is money. We don't know how much we can spare. We have to get other current issues that are large-money issues settled before we tackle another potential problem," Estell said.
He emphasized the wall has been inspected regularly and has not appeared to have shifted since winter and that planning Director Bill Cowan also looked at it.
"No one feels it is an imminent threat to the public," Estell said. "We've been keeping an eye on it for some time."


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What about wild rice? It's a bit more expensive, but from what I remember, it's not the same as regular rice. (Personally I like the texture of it too. Kind of like quinoa. Uh oh... craving.)
If I'm going to eat rice.... (not regularly, just... I might want some, loaded up with a ton of butter and a bit of soy sauce. Is this one of the fabled "cravings"?)
White is better than brown right? Easier to digest, fewer anti-nutrients?
You're supposed to soak it before cooking, right? How do you go about that? How long/what technique do you use? I don't know anything about soaking grains.
And then if it's soaked, do you cook it the same way you normally would? Or is there a different cooking method to use / less cooking time ?
Thanks in advance!
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What about wild rice? It's a bit more expensive, but from what I remember, it's not the same as regular rice. (Personally I like the texture of it too. Kind of like quinoa. Uh oh... craving.)
I like wild rice, but it's not what I want... haha.
Sticky fluffy white rice, maybe cooked in chicken stock, loaded with butter and some soy sauce. yup. That's what I want.
I know I could resist if I needed to, and "cravings" aren't something that HAVE to be given in to... but I also know that rice is one of the less offensive grains and if it can be soaked to be even easier on the digestive system, why not?
AND if I'm making it with stock and tons of butter, that's a good way for me to get in some real nutrients, right?
I sound like I'm making excuses... but ... ok maybe I am. But still, at least I'm not running to chick fil a for waffle fries and milkshakes. It could be worse!
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If you really, really gotta have it, and you just can't get it out of your mind, go ahead and indulge. Sometimes you just have those cravings that put you in a headlock and all you can do is say "Uncle." LOL
I'd say soak it, and have plenty of fat with it.
I don't really know anything about soaking grains, but I do remember my mom would make "old fashioned" rice, and would let it soak before she cooked it. Brown rice tastes better (to me.) Soak it then cook until it's soft I guess. Sort of like pasta- Do the occasional taste test to see if it's still crunchy?
Of the grain options, rice does seem to be one of the less offensive. Riced cauliflower just won't cut it for ya this time?
Hang in there girl. Your body's doing weird stuff to ya. I say enjoy the ride. It's not like oreos dipped in chunky monkey.
Some info on soaking rice: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.co...rown-rice.html Although, I don't know much about white rice--not sure it requires soaking--the phytates *may* be stripped during the process of de-browning it (so not a real term--sorry!)
I've also sprouted brown rice in the past, then dehydrated it in the oven for a yummy, nutty flavor. I stored it, uncooked, dry, in a jar in my fridge until I wanted to cook some and then cooked in broth--just like you would regular rice. Worked great for me (in my old grain days.) Here's info on sprouting rice: http://www.sproutpeople.com/seed/rice.html
If it were me, and I had to have it, I'd go w/ sprouted wild rice, or plain white rice (cooked in broth will really up the nutrition). I really think you don't need to specially prepare white rice though b/c the bran (I think) that has the antinutrients, and the nutrients as well in it, is removed. It will just end up being an empty carb in your tummy I believe, but doesn't have the phytates of whole grains...
Rice is the only neolithic food I wish I could eat more often If you're eating brown rice, then follow the soaking method on Stephan's blog. With white rice, since all the anti-nutrients are removed with polishing, soaking may not be necessary, but soak it anyway. Dr.Harris of PaNu recommends white rice, if one HAS to eat rice at all.
FWIW, Basmati rice has a slightly lower Glycemic index than other varieties, plus it's so aromatic.
klcarbaugh, there's nothing wrong with soy sauce since it's been fermented... same with tempeh - I'm having some tonight.
I'm going to cook some brown rice in bone stock tonight, too. I usually soak it in water + vinegar for 24 hours, and save that water for next time. It's not even just a cheat anymore, it's a regular part of my diet: 2 - 3 servings a week.
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Thanks so much for the help, y'all.
As far as the soy sauce goes, I haven't been able to find a wheat-free one in our store yet but I use it so rarely (and not very much when I do) that I'm not worried about it. But yeah, like Raphael said, it's not "regular soy" - it's a biproduct of fermentating soy. I no longer eat edamame (sad) and was never into tofu or "soy cheese" or soy milk or any of that, so I think I'm safe on the soy front.
And don't worry - I will use LOTS of butter.
Will either get white or basmati (Thanks Maba) - whatever I can get in a smaller bag. haha. I don't want 5 pounds of rice sitting around my house.
Eating lots but still hungry? Eat more fat. Mid-day sluggishness? Eat more fat. Feeling depressed or irritable? Eat more fat. People think you've developed an eating disorder? Eat more fat... in front of them.
I second Maba on the Basmati, it's more delicious and less carby. Did you ever try quinoa? Just had bell pepper stuff with lots of minced meat and quinoa, cooked in tomato sauce. It subs for the rice quite nicely.
Noticed earlier that you wanted "sticky" rice - if so, may I suggest a short grained variety, either labelled for sushi, or "arborio" for risotto if the shop has them in stock. Also tend to be sold in smaller packs anyway.
Basmati is (WAS) my preferred variety, but you can't beat proper sticky buttery gooey rice when the feeling strikes!


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> better. I'm trying to help a customer of ours who is using proftpd on
> their server. They want to be able to restrict users into specific
> directory trees using the DefaultRoot option in a VirtualHost container.
> When I try this on their server which runs CentOS 5.0 and 1.3.0a, it
> does not function as expected. But if I copy the same proftpd.conf
> configuration file to another server running Gentoo and proftpd
> 1.3.1rc2, it works fine. When I copied it to the Gentoo machine to test
> it, the only thing I changed where the IP addresses listed in the
> virtual host containers and the hostname of the machine. But I'm sure
> that the hostname used for the servername and the
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> Port 1501
> ServerName "testhost.domain.com"
> User "testuser"
> Group "testuser"
> ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready."
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> </VirtualHost>
> The above of course has had its real values substituted with generic
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> setup right. On the machine where I'm having trouble, if I connect to
> port 1500 on testhost.domain.com and login using the testuser account,
> it makes /home/testuser my root directory, but on the Gentoo machine
> where I was able to get the same configuration working, it makes
> /home/testuser/public_html the root.
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> the proftpd process and found this error message being generated when I
> tried to login to the CentOS machine:
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There are very few sure things in the District 3 wrestling tournament but Camp Hill 160-pounder Quinn Frassetta looked comfortable Friday throughout his Class AA quarterfinal win over Wyomissing's Chris Eaton.
The result was a 20-3 technical fall in 3:36 that vaulted Frassetta (32-3) into Saturday's 9 a.m. semifinal round at Hersheypark Arena.
Less sure, for sure, was the end result of the 138 quarterfinal between Wyomissing's Gavin Arredondo and Frassetta's close friend, Camp Hill sophomore Alex Gallaher.
But it was Gallaher, a Section I third-place finisher, that pulled out a 4-3 decision, holding off a late charge by Arredondo (26-9), who won the Section II championship last week.
Gallaher received numerous handshakes and back-pats from the Camp Hill coaching staff and teammates after the win.
"I wouldn't call it an upset, I felt really good going into the bout,'' Gallaher said.
"And I knew when I got on bottom, I had to get out because that one point can make all the difference.''
"Oh, I'm definitely happy for (Gallaher),'' Frassetta said after the quarterfinal round.
"He's peaking at the right time, you know?''
Gallaher and Frassetta have been friends a long time, having wrestled together for more than a decade.
Gallaher (25-10) pinned Northern Lebanon's Joey Emborsky in 1:56 in their opening round match. The Camp Hill Lion draws Hanover's Tyler Shafer in Saturday's semis.
Frassetta needed just 57 seconds to pin Delone Catholic's Jacob Kadis in his opening bout Friday. He then built a 12-2 lead against Eaton after a period and coasted from there.
"We have plenty of alumni and coaches that come in and work with us,'' said Frassetta, who was slowed last postseason by a hyperextended right elbow.
"But yeah, we (Frassetta and Gallaher) worked out together yesterday, we were rolling around a lot and we warm up together.
"We've been wrestling together since we were in, like, kindergarten.''
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Raed Allan says he loves America.
"It's a country of freedom -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, a chance to make a living," said the 34-year-old Jordanian-born gas station owner from Wayne, in Passaic County. The slight, soft-spoken father of four says, "There're no negative things about this country -- except what happened."
On May 15, Allan and his mother were in Fairview, in Bergen County, picking up his aunt to take her to the airport. As they were loading the car about 8 p.m., a man walked up to them and began aggressively cursing them.
The man started pushing Allan, saying, "You Muslims are in this country to bomb us," Allan said. "You should all die. I want to kill all of you Muslims."
When Allan's 55-year-old aunt, Eida Abdel-Rahman, said she was going to call the police, the man turned around and "punched her in the face," Allan recalled.
A police officer in the area found Abdel-Rahman knocked down, her face bleeding. The alleged attacker was identified as Peter John Ivanovich, 43, of Cliffside Park and arrested, said Fairview Deputy Police Chief Frank DelVecchio.
Ivanovich was charged with assault, bias intimidation, harassment and terroristic threats, DelVecchio said.
Allan was stunned.
"We all love this country," he said. "I never believed a person would be hated for his religion."
In the weeks since news broke of an alleged plot to attack soldiers at Fort Dix, Muslim activists and community leaders have been hyper-vigilant for signs of an anti-Muslim backlash. Afsheen Shamsi of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the watchdog group has had several reports of possible bias crimes resulting from misplaced anger.
"We do believe these attacks may have been prompted by the plot at Fort Dix," Shamsi said.
Earlier this month, conservative Colorado radio host "Gunny Bob" Newman drew fire over a suggestion that all Muslim immigrants should be fitted with a GPS tracking bracelet and monitored at all times. Talking about the Fort Dix plot on May 8, Newman told listeners, "Call me kooky, but I think maybe it's time for a little moratorium on Muslim visas, period."
On May 18, CAIR and the Islamic Center of South Jersey in Palmyra, Burlington County, held a town hall meeting for about 100 community members. The six suspects arrested in the Fort Dix plot were members of the mosque.
"This is not representative of what Muslims are and what Islam is," mosque spokeswoman Naseem Badat said last week. "The misconception is that Islam sanctions violence -- that Muslims are terrorists, they are suicide bombers, they want to force their religion onto other people.
"The people who do this, I don't know where they come from," said Rafey Habib, an English professor at Rutgers University in Camden and a member of the mosque's executive committee.
Habib, a father of two from Cherry Hill in Camden County, was born in India and grew up in England. Muslims, he said, must fight a perceived connection between Islam and terrorism.
"The question is: Who gets to define Islam?" Habib said last week. A message from Osama bin Laden will be broadcast across the world, but "when some moderate Muslim makes a statement, it's ignored," Habib said.
Yaser ElMenshawy, chairman of the New Jersey Council of Mosques, said Muslim leaders can grow fatigued repeatedly defending their religion.
"I've already reached my limit," ElMenshawy said. "Even when you say it, they still come back and say you didn't."
Badat said the mosque was trying to be open with the non-Muslim community but conceded "we were not completely able to pacify their concerns." She admitted she had personally "experienced some kind of anger."
"I was very fearful going there that day and talking," Badat said. "We all were very much aware of that danger."
On May 12, a Muslim woman in Little Falls, in Passaic County, was verbally assaulted on a main street by a stranger sitting in his idling truck.
The woman was picking up her laundry when David Liscio, 32, of Little Falls allegedly "assaulted her with all the curses possible," said Mohamed Al Filali, outreach director at the Islamic Center of Passaic County, where the woman and her husband worship.
The woman, who is in her 30s and of Hispanic origin, converted to Islam and wears an Islamic head scarf.
"He really lashed into her for no apparent reason," said Little Falls police Lt. Sammy Calafiore. In addition to racial slurs, authorities said Liscio spewed a string of curses that Calafiore described as "just really profane."
The rant was so offensive a passer-by approached the woman and said to call her if she needed a witness, police said. Liscio was tracked down by his license plate number and charged with bias intimidation, harassment and terroristic threats, Calafiore said.
Calafiore said Liscio, who lives only a few blocks from the woman, is a lifelong resident of Little Falls who had never been involved in a similar incident.
"If he should bother her again, we're going to be on him, but I don't think that will happen," Calafiore said.
That is little comfort for the victim, however. Al Filali said the woman is "so traumatized she has not left the house since."
ElManshawy, of the New Jersey Council of Mosques, said he is "pretty certain" other anti-Muslim attacks go unrecorded.
"I'm sure there are lots of things that happen that are not reported because they don't rise to that level," he said.
"I know this incident is not isolated," said Raed Allan. "I fear for my life. I fear for my kids' safety."
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First UMC to host back to school night
The youth group of the First United Methodist Church in Muncy will be hosting a back to school night for any students going into grades seven through 12.
The event will run from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday and include games, entertainment, a worship service, Bible fitting and food. There will be several booths for students and parents to visit and get stamped. Collect all the stamps for a "Back to School Prize." Prizes will be given away at the end of the evening.
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Post W Williamsport, Travelers Protective Association of America meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m., Aug. 21 at the Hiawatha Paddlewheel Riverboat 2206 Hiawatha Blvd.
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