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• The mean combined total body excretion of dopamine (DA) and its metabolites, measured by summing the molar excretion of DA and its metabolites in 24-hour urine samples (Sum DA), was reduced in 20 patients with schizophrenia who had not been receiving medication for at least two weeks. These patients were relatively resistant to treatment, as they were unable to live independently outside institutional settings despite conventional neuroleptic therapy. In contrast, sum norepinephrine (Sum NE), measured by summing the molar excretion of NE and its metabolites, was not reduced. These results are highlighted by expressing the data in terms of the ratio of Sum DA/Sum NE. Patients with schizophrenia had a significantly lower ratio. Treatment with haloperidol normalized the low ratio. Urinary excretion of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid was normal in the schizophrenic patients. These results suggest that chronic schizophrenia is more likely to be associated with a low rather than a high state of DA activity.
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Islamic Traditions of Peace and Nonviolence: Responding to Contemporary Challenges
Monday, May 5th, 2008, 9am to 5 pm Location: Butler Board Room, 6th floor Mary Graydon Center, American University Campus, Washington, DC
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"Achieving a unifying global consensus as the basis for a humane, ecologically viable, new global system is possible. A new global system requires new political and social arrangements, a new (or renewed) vision of humankind's existential reality and purpose, and an unrelenting effort to make the former truly reflect the latter. This is an agenda worthy of what we see as the best in human nature and experience."
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Can't make the trip? Today's game will air on ESPN as well.
Parsippany-Troy East will begin play in the Little League World Series on Friday at 3 p.m. in Williamsport, Pa., against the Southwest Region champions from San Antonio, Texas.
The rest of the schedule is all based on how Parsippany-Troy East does in the first game. If the team wins Game 1, it plays Sunday at 5 p.m.; a loss and the second game will be Saturday at 8 p.m.
Parsippany-Troy East, the Mid-Atlantic representative at the Little League World Series,
is guaranteed at least three games. If Parsippany-Troy East wins at
least two of its first three games, it will play a fourth — and
possibly more. The U.S. Championship game is Saturday, Aug. 25 at 3:30
p.m., and the World Championship game is Sunday, Aug. 26 at 3 p.m.
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• Little League World Series bid brings joy to N.J. family rebuilding after Irene
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And that's what they got: The pizza host Ellen DeGeneres had delivered came via Big Mama's and Papa's Pizzeria, a local franchise that claims to have "the world's largest pizza." It was delivered by a real-life employee, not an actor.
"Ellen's talk show has picked up quite a few pizzas from us," one of the eatery's employees told ABC News. "They had us make a giant pizza before for one of her shows." (Big Mama's and Papa's has a three-and-a-half star rating on Yelp, in case you were wondering.)
The giant pizza in question is the restaurant's 54-inch "Giant Sicilian," a Guinness World Record holder for "Largest Deliverable Pizza." It serves 50-70 people, or approximately one Man Vs. Food host.
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Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation will hold a community forum from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in the MPR-Community Room at Stevenson Ranch Elementary School, 25820 N. Carroll Lane.
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November 11, 2008
Food Systems Planning
For planners there is no better time than now to start thinking about where our food comes from, beginning with the farm and ending on our plates. With a global food crisis gaining momentum what role can planners play in both preservation and improvement of the food system?
In this program, Lynn Peemoeller, co-chair of the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council, discussed the environmental, health, social justice, and policy implications of food, and she shared her perspective on how APA's Community and Regional Food Policy Guide informs the planner's role in the complex food system.
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About the Speaker
Lynn Peemoeller is a food systems planner who lives in Chicago and works on projects and policy to support sustainable agriculture, strengthen the local food system, and encourage environmentally sound economic development.
Peemoeller has more than 10 years experience with farmers markets throughout the country and was previously the program director at Sustain.
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Wholly Guacamole has an interesting preservation process based on high pressure cold water.
High Pressure Processing | Wholly Guacamole® | Avocado Guac - EatWholly
Wikipedia describes the process in some more general terms, including a reference to a paper from Japan that found the high pressure process increased lipid oxidation (on fish products, apparently).
Pascalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My instinct tells me that avocado would be fairly stable given it is mostly MUFA and the processing is at cold temperatures, but I wonder if potential oxidation caused by the high pressure processing could be a downside to consider with Wholly Guacamole compared with making it from fresh avocados. The stuff sure is delicious and convenient!
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J. Adam Moore
In addition to being one the select few lawyers in Washington who is qualified to defend clients in death penalty cases, Mr. Moore has won numerous awards and been recognized repeatedly for his outstanding advocacy. Of especial note are:
The Federal Bar's Hemovich Award for depth of compassion for people, professional excellence, professional zeal that is tempered by wit, good humor and a colorful personality, and service to the federal bar
The Yakima County Bar's Professionalism Award
The William O. Douglas Award Founding Member of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (WACDL): Mr. Moore not only helped to found the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (WACDL), he also received the association's prestigious William O. Douglas Award for outstanding representation. This award is given to an attorney who displays extraordinary courage and dedication to the practice of criminal law, and is the highest award given by the WACDL.
He has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America for white collar and criminal defense and in Super Lawyers for general criminal defense for multiple years.
American College of Trial Lawyers fellow: Mr. Moore is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). The ACTL is the premier attorney organization in the United States and Canada. Membership is reserved for only the most highly regarded attorneys in their field, as determined by a panel of their peers. No more than 1% of lawyers licensed in each state are granted admission to the ACTL.
Death penalty qualification: For many years, Mr. Moore has been qualified by the Supreme Court to defend death penalty cases in the state of Washington at the trial court level. Currently, only a select few attorneys have met the rigorous standards required to achieve qualification.
For a look at one of the more intriguing of Mr. Moore's highly-publicized cases, we recommend A Fever In The Heart And Other True Cases: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Volume III.
To view Mr. Moore arguing in front of the Washington Supreme Court, visit TVW.
Areas of Practice
- Criminal Defense
- Felonies in both state and federal courts
- Constitutional Law
- Murder
- Manslaughter
- Vehicular Homicide
- Vehicular Assault
- Search and Seizure
- Drug Cases
- Assault
- Embezzlement
- Theft
- White Collar Crimes
- Federal False Claims
- Insurance Fraud
Bar Admissions
- Washington, 1971
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Washington, 1971
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1974
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2003
- University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Published Works
- "They Tried to Get Me-The Trial of Clarence Darrow" (Co-Author), W.S.B.A. Convention, Whistler, B.C., 1989
- "They Tried to Get Me-The Trial of Clarence Darrow," Presented by the Criminal Law Section, W.S.B.A. Convention, Whistler, B.C., 1989
- "Whatever Happened to the 4th Amendment", W.S.B.A., Presented at U.W. Law School, Fall, 1991
- "Specialized Problems in the Representation of Judges Before the C.J.C. (Commission on Judicial Conduct)", Superior Court Judges Association Annual Meeting, Blaine, Washington, April, 2001
Honors and Awards
- Federal Bar Association's Hemovitch Award, 1993
- William O. Douglas Award, 1999
- Yakima County Bar Professionalism Award, 2002
- Lawyer Delegate, Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, 1988 - 1990
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Best Lawyers in America
- Super Lawyers
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Washington State Bar, Criminal Law Section, Member, Past Chair
- Washington State Bar, Former Member, Civil Rights Committee
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Record keeping
Animals in schools: Animal welfare guidelines for teachers describes the responsibilities of school staff that use animals. One of the responsibilities of the Animal Welfare Liaison Officer is to ensure that the school maintains appropriate records relating to the use of animals. Individual teachers should assist with the record keeping process by cooperating with the system that each school develops to suit their particular situation.
When the Schools Animal Care and Ethics Committee (SACEC) carries out school inspections, the visiting SACEC members assess the school 's animal care records, if necessary, recommending how they can be improved.
Good animal care records should assist in the monitoring and continuity of care of the school animals. All staff members must have access to the records and participate in their maintenance.
Good animal care records should document the following:
How this information is recorded may vary from school to school and is dependent on the type and number of animals kept by the school. The information recorded about a batch of broilers will be different to the information recorded about stud cattle.
For a batch of broilers it is adequate to record the date of acquisition, source of acquisition, date of disposal, method of disposal, any deaths during the period of production and any treatments provided for the birds. It would be unlikely that these records would include information about individually identified birds. Any treatments would most likely to involve the whole flock.
In contrast, the information kept about stud cattle would be specific to individual animals. Individual animals would be acquired at different times from different sources, disposed of by a variety of methods at different times, have different husbandry activities performed on them dependent on their age and stage of production and have any treatments administered according to individual weights and needs.
How all this information is recorded varies greatly depending on the staff and school. A small number of schools keep quite complex computerised records while other schools maintain a diary that the teachers, farm assistant and even students can write in. All these record types are acceptable. The most important factor is they must suit the school situation and be able to work as simply as possible. They must be practical and they must be accessible by all staff who work with the school animals.
The records must not be kept in a teacher's personal day book. The records should stay with the farm and become a part of the school resources.
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A Perfect World VII: Encore
A Perfect World VII
Author Encore: Debra Trione
Debra Trione began work on " A Perfect World " in 1997 after serving on the President's Council on Sustainable Development. During the 1980s she worked at Harvard University Press and as an editor at Harvard Medical School.
Astrobiology Magazine Question (Q): How did so many successful people in their professions approach the challenge of what many might fear more than public speaking: free-hand drawing? Did any of the interviewed leaders refuse to take up the paint set?
Debra Trione Answers (A): This assignment was scary and difficult for all the public figures I interviewed, and I give them a lot of credit for actually taking the plunge and going through with it. There were a few people who could describe their perfect world with great insight and candor, but who refused to pick up a paint brush.
Veteran broadcaster Sam Donaldson, Jack Valenti, (President and CEO of the Motion Picture Association), and Carol Bellamy, (CEO and Chairman of UNICEF) were in that group.
The book's publisher decided not to include those interviews in this book (to my chagrin), since I didn't have a picture to accompany the interview text.
Q: The cover art was a drawing by Nobel Laureate Robert Richardson, who is colorblind. He drew the image of Earth from space in vibrant blue. s When you choose Richardson's painting for the cover of a book on the future and visionaries, was this a case akin to Beethoven's talent, as only better because it was from a deaf musician?
A: I think Richardson did a fabulous job of painting the earth from space, despite his color-blindness.
|Robert C. Richardson is Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics, director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid STate Physics, and vice provost for Research at Cornell University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics (along with David Lee and Douglas Osheroff) in 1996, for research on liquid 3He. "I'm a very poor freehand graphic artist, and I'm also color-blind, so those are a lot more colors that I wanted to consider.When I'm painting here is the planet Earth, and I'm going to show an ocean and an atmosphere. The important thing is that the atmosphere is livable, the oceans are clean, and life on Earth is thriving. That's the first thing that occurred to me–the image of the Earth from space." -Robert C. Richardson, Nobel Laureate (1996)
Credit: Richardson, © Trione, Andrews McMeel Publishing
And his painting makes a very attractive cover. When I said "Paint a picture of your ideal world," people interpreted that assignment in a wide variety of ways.
Richardson's painting, which is so familiar and so recognizable as the Earth, seems to say: This is a perfect world–now let's protect it.
Q: One can count almost 20% as scientists. Many might regard science as not in the realm of 'powerful' people like your title mentions, and particularly Neil Tyson regards not feeling too powerful in the face of the size of the universe as an important prescription for the future. Probably only Jimmy Carter's presidential vitae (as a nuclear engineer) ever makes casual mention of any scientific training. Any contrasts in how much the utopias might depend on science breakthroughs, and would be arbitrated outside science?
A: A very thoughtful question.
Obviously, scientific breakthroughs can make an enormous differences in terms of increasing the carrying capacity of the earth, and improving the quality of life.
But just as important are the economic/distribution issues and regulatory/political issues that control how technology is disseminated and used.
Knowledge and understanding can be very powerful things, and in fact, no one can be very powerful without them. But the way technology is used is often controlled by forces far outside the realm of science.
Q: Was there a moment personally where someone kind of gave you a frightening picture or answer? And one of something unbounded on the other side?
A: I interviewed Bernadine Healy, then president and CEO of the American Red Cross, less than a month before 9/11.
When I asked her to describe two or three things she hoped would be true about the world in 50 or 60 years, she said something like: I just hope the world is here in 50 years, which I found alarming.
Then she qualified that to say that she believed that terrorists would attack us here in America in the near future.
That startled me at the time, but in hindsight it was a mild statement, compared to what actually happened.
Q: Since you started the project in 1997 to 2001, could you see any changing tides in progress based on either the words or pictures?
A: Most of the interviews were done before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. And yet, even back then, many of these national leaders identified radical religion as a powerfully negative force in the world. A few leaders–Bernadine Healy, Dan Goldin, and Norman Augustine for instance– identified terrorism as a rising threat. They seemed to know it was coming.
|Daniel Goldin served as chief administrator of NASA for nine years, beginning in 1992. : "I don't know that it relates to what I said, but I do know what I want to draw. I would say the last time I did this was maybe in kindergarten or first grade. There's the final frontier! There's the ocean, there's the land (The brown represents the land). And at the center of our own planet, there's the hot core. Now here's a rocket with a nice rocket trail. These are supposed to be the suns, and I put lots of planets around them. Now these are very happy planets, because they don't have any responsibility. I want to show that there are loads of other worlds out there, dead worlds and live worlds. As people left Europe to come to a new world, as they left Polynesia to populate the Pacific, there was opportunity. I'd like to know that there's opportunity out there, too. And I'd like future children to be able to take that trip and open the frontier to create opportunities. And then we continue the expansion. That is my philosophy of life." -Dan Goldin, former NASA Administrator
Credit: Goldin, © Trione, Andrews McMeel Publishing, [ copyright 2002, reprinted with picture by permission]
I interviewed John J. Phelan Jr., the recently retired chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, in his apartment just a mile from the trade center site, only 9 days after the attack. And not surprisingly, his top priority was homeland security.
But actually, I was surprised by his ability–given the circumstances–to focus on other important matters as well. I give him a lot of credit for being able to use New York City as his template for a perfect world, and to paint such a happy, civilized picture of the city.
Q: Running through many of the comments is the fear of overpopulation, but Richard Klausner remarks that 'there is really no such thing as a world without disease; it's just not biologically possible'. So any running interpretations from the collection that seems to resolve these paradoxes of what might promise dramatic life extension with a kind of measure for quality of life too?
A: The population issue is rife with paradoxes. When I heard from Richard Klausner that he was concerned about overpopulation I asked him to square that with his determination to eradicate disease, since prolonging life will only exacerbate the population problem.
That's when he came up with the statement you've mentioned above about there being no such thing as a world without disease. (By the way, Richard Klausner is now the Executive Director for Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, since 2002)
I also asked many of the leaders what they would do if they were offered an extra 50 years of life.
Much to my surprise about half of them said they absolutely wouldn't take it, that our lives are long enough already. The other half said yes they would take it, but only if they could be healthy and active during those extra 50 years. Otherwise not.
Q: Overpopulation-of all the issues that a nation governed by local politics can solve- that one seems to rank pretty low in most public surveys compared to, say, education or health care. Since you served on the President's Council on Sustainable Development, any thoughts about why the influential and powerful see that one so clearly, but can't marshall a constituency to do anything about it?
A: Not all leaders agree about this issue, of course. Leaders who are knowledgeable about biology and ecosystem science almost universally see overpopulation as an imminent threat.
But anyone focused on economic trends will tend to advocate growth in all its form, including growth in population. (This is particularly true since many economic indicators, like the GDP, do not figure in the long-term loss of carrying capacity or ecosystem damage that is exacerbated by overpopulation.)
It is also very hard for rich Americans who consume such a disproportional percentage of the world's resources per-capita to condemn poorer nations for having too many children.
Also, of course, the ever-present issue of abortion, with all its religious implications, hangs like a cloud over every discussion of population.
Q: The tapestry of words and pictures in A Perfect World, seems to span a huge spectrum: in paraphrase, "No More War", from Norman Schwarzkopf, to Arun Gandhi's "anger is a very good emotion to drive us." And from a chorus of utopias, to Jim Wallis: "I don't believe in utopias", presumably because of Desmund Tutu's warnings not to be a 'prisoner of hope'. In pulling together their words, how did you find their worldview contrasted to the drawings? Would the art critic in you find them, on the most part, more innocent and unguarded than the verbal predictions?
A: Yes indeed. The main point of the perfect-world project was to get the national leaders I interviewed to express their goals and ideals in an unusually candid, unguarded way. I was looking for something fresh and spontaneous, something that hadn't been filtered through their PR department.
|Neil De Grasse Tyson is Frederick P. Rose Director, Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History (since 1996); Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Astrophysics, Princeton University (since 1994). "I have a simple image in my head. I was born and raised in New York City, so I'm a city person. But the universe calls. My first time in the Hayden Planetarium I was nine years old, and along the periphery was the Manhattan skyline and Central Park in front. I will not stand in denial of civilization, or technology, but I will also not deny myself the simple pleasure of looking up. That's what binds us to all humans. To me there's something peaceful about this image. It's the juxtaposition of nature, civilization, and the universe. It's my life!" -Neil de Grasse Tyson, Director Hayden Planetarium
Credit: Tyson, © Trione, Andrews McMeel Publishing, [ copyright 2002, reprinted with picture by permission]
One way to do that, I thought, was to ask them to express those goals in a new and unexpected medium.
Since the leaders I interviewed were all fairly inexperienced with the medium of paint, the images they made of their goals and ideals had to be very simple. When they talked about a perfect world, they could pontificate on a myriad of issues, but when they picked up a paint brush they had to be succinct.
Out of the full range of qualities, attributes and priorities that they might associate with a perfect world, they had to determine which one was most essential. And what was the most direct way to express that?
The painting assignment, which I sprung on them with little or no warning, turned out to be a big challenge to all of these leaders, and every one of them sat for a long period of profound silence before he or she picked up a paint brush.
Psychologists have told us for decades that the mental images we associate with our goals and ideals motivate us in powerful, sub-conscious ways. If mental images are powerful motivators, then the mental images held by powerful people ought to be matters of public concern.
I wanted the paintings I collected from these influential newsmakers to reveal something new about the ideals and aspirations that were driving the very people who in turn are driving this nation of ours.
I wanted to see the 'visions' of our leaders expressed by them for the first time ever in real visual terms.
Q: What guided how you selected the diverse leaders to interview?
A: I wanted to interview a diverse sampling of very accomplished leaders from both genders, from several races, many professions, and with diverse political and social perspectives. I also tried to interview individuals whose public agendas were at odds, such as Patricia Ireland and Gary Bauer.
Q: Among those interviewed, who would have been the youngest and oldest? Any differences notable in how they viewed the fifty year horizon of your theme?
A: One might have expected that the older they were the more pessimistic they would be, but that turned out not to be true.
There were optimists and pessimists, both young and old. Harold Bloom (in his late 70s) and Deb Callahan (in her late 20s) were pessimists, while Dudley Herschbach (mid-70s), Alice Rivlin (late-70s), and Candace Gingrich (early-30s) were optimists.
Q: Who was one person you would have most liked to include, but for whatever reasons, couldn't?
A: I guess I would have liked to get an interview with George W. Bush or Donald Rumsfeld, or Condi Rice, but the truth is that I probably would not have been able to elicit much soul-searching, candor or spontaneity from the famously guarded leaders of this administration.
Author Profile: Debra Trione began work on "A Perfect World" in 1997 after serving on the President's Council on Sustainable Development. During the 1980s she worked at Harvard University Press and as an editor at Harvard Medical School.
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A Perfect World I: Tyson
A Perfect World II: Richardson
A Perfect World III: Goldin
A Perfect World IV: Venter
A Perfect World V: Hendricks
A Perfect World VI: Fuller
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Oh, the students, they LUUUF Hoi An! They all immediately fell in love with this town, which I had told them before we began our trip is "where it's at" in Vietnam. Several of them said they want to return to Hoi An soon - or just move here. "It's not often that a place is so beautiful that you can really see yourself saying #@*% it and settling down there," James Bridgforth commented. "Hoi An is one of those places." "Wow, is this place amazing!" Mary Rebecca Martin exclaimed. "Did I mention how awesome this city is? I feel like I could spend some serious time here; maybe even come back to live."
Anne Waldrop probably said it best: "To put it shortly, we died and went to Hoi An."
View of Hoi An from a Japanese Bridge
We're staying at the River Beach Resort, about 5 km east of town and a few steps from the beach (an extension of China Beach in Da Nang). The hotel is nice, but not great. The beach is a plus, but not being in town and needing to use taxis to go back and forth is a minus, compared with the in-town hotel I've stayed at before. There have been a few other negatives: a lack of hot water, and the power was out for about 8 hours from a storm (fortunately, I wasn't there for that problem).
After failing (because it was fully booked) to get into the Mango Rooms restaurant on both of my previous visits to Hoi An, we got a reservation for all of us for the first night here this time. Words cannot properly describe this food. Đuc, the proprietor/chef, is, by our consensus, one of the best chefs in the world, and, we decided, he must be the coolest guy in Vietnam. He has lived in Texas, Mexico, New Zealand, and other places, and created an amazing fusion cuisine. He came out to greet us, and I had a great conversation with him about when Sir Mick Jagger and his then-girlfriend had eaten at Mango. She wanted fish prepared a different way. Đuc told her he does it his way. She had it Đuc's way and loved it.
The food at Mango was fabulous. The first night I had a duck special that was the best duck I've ever tasted. The group had a variety of Đuc's specialties and raved about all of them. When Đuc was talking with us at the end of our table where several of the girls were sitting, they appeared to be in awe, looking at him like groupies would a rock star. Kate Sundell nicely summed up our view: "I'm bringing Đuc back to the States." "The food, energy, and vibe that Đuc gave off really made you want to be a part of the community there," James added. "The greatest restaurant ever," Dan Garza agreed. "Crazy, awesome food," M.R. gushed. "Mango is the best restaurant ever," she continued. "I could seriously write page upon page about how awesomely magnificent this food was!" Anne said Mango is "the most delicious restaurant I have ever been fortunate enough to enjoy."
Đuc gave us cards for free drinks at his cocktail lounge across the river, Mango Mango. It's another fabulous place. "Best mojito I've ever had," George Holmes testified. We wound up going there all three nights we were in town, and on the second and third nights, the waitress knew without asking that the "Bollywood" (Bombay Sapphire martini), straight up with olives, was my drink. It is my "Cheers," on the other side of the planet from where I live.
The Master at work - Đuc cooking
We went to our previous favorite Hoi An restaurant, Morning Glory, on our second night here, and it was just as good as I remembered it from my previous visits, but it does not meet the extraordinary level of Mango. The head waiter there remembers me from past visits. We returned to Mango tonight and were again overwhelmed. Đuc first brought out complimentary spring rolls, which were unlike any I have had before. The texture when they touch your tongue is unique and the taste superb. I had prawns wrapped in beef, which George Holmes had had on the first night and highly recommended ("Beef and prawns, where do you come up with that?" George asked). It was one of the best things I've ever tasted. Đuc signed one of his hard-cover menus for me. I plan to frame it.
Enough about food-although I could go on and on. Several of the students got custom-made clothing while we were in Hoi An, which is noted for its tailors. The less said about the suit I had made, in a color some of the girls picked out, the better. I need my Anne!!
Yesterday was Ho Chi Minh's 120th birthday, and celebrations were going on everywhere. The government is clearly using Ho as the principal symbol of the nation, and they are in the process of deifying him. Actually I have become convinced that Bac Ho (Uncle Ho-I told the students to start calling me "Bac Bob") consciously made use of religious symbols to identify himself as an object of veneration while he was still alive. On my last visit, I noted the similarity between Ho's long chin beard and that Confucius is depicted as having had. This time, I've thought about the name he took for himself. "Ho Chi Minh" means "Bringer of Light." This sounds very much like "The Enlightened One," the Buddha. Could that have been accidental? I don't think so.
Since Ho's death, the process of turning him into a god has gone much farther. He had wanted to be cremated and have ashes spread over various parts of the country. Instead, the regime preserved his body and put it on display in the mausoleum we visited in Hanoi. Ho's body is clearly an object of veneration, even worship. People passing it are required to be silent and reverent. Hands must be kept to the side. On this trip, Gnoc had to buy scarf-shawls for Anne and M.R., because they had sleeveless tops, and shoulders must be covered. It is like going into the Vatican-or a mosque.
And now there are billboards depicting Ho's head on a lotus blossom, with all the Buddha implications that go with that. At our hotel in Dien Bien Phu, there is a shrine with a gold bust of Ho, exactly like Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist shrines. People light incense in front of the Ho bust.
I'm guessing that within ten years, Ho's face will be on Buddha statues.
It is worth remembering, though, that something like this happened in the nineteenth century in the United States with the Father of Our Country. Nathaniel Hawthorne parodied the attitude of the time toward George Washington by writing, "He had no nakedness, but was born with clothes on, and his hair powdered, and made a stately bow on his first appearance in the world." More to the point, the fresco still on the interior of the Capitol Dome, painted by Constantino Brumidi in the 1860s, The Apotheosis of Washington, depicts Washington, the American counterpart of Ho in Vietnam, becoming a god. Maybe the Vietnamese will eventually get over their deification of Ho.
But for the present, there are vastly more propaganda billboards and signs around the country than there were on my first visit a year and a half ago. I can't imagine that they have much effect on people.
The government continues its halfhearted attempts at censorship. We could get on Facebook in Hanoi, but not in DBP, Hue, or Hoi An. CNN was on in Hanoi, but not here. One of the TV stations in the hotel has Victoria Secret fashion shows running back-to-back around the clock. I would bet that it replaced CNN or the BBC and the government thought showing beautiful women parading in underwear as a substitute for accurate news would lessen the complaints about blocking information.
Apart from the weak attempts to block some of the free flow of information, Vietnam seems to be much freer than one would expect. There is essentially zero visible police presence. There are probably undercover police at work, but there is also essentially no military presence to be seen. It certainly doesn't have the feel of an authoritarian state.
In a bar in Hoi An that we went into on Wednesday night, Before 'n Now, there is a large Apocalypse Now poster with the line, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
When we got back to the hotel, some of the students went out to a beach party that was going on as part of the celebration of Uncle Ho's birthday.
During the day yesterday, we had gone out to see the Cham ruins at My Son, our fourth of five World Heritage site on the trip (Ha Long Bay, the Citadel in Hue, Old Town Hoi An, and Angkor are the others). On the way out, we stopped at the same little farm in Quang Nam province that we visited in January. The pigs were smaller than the ones I saw there in January; they must be a new generation, with their parents having been eaten in the meantime.
Much of My Son was destroyed by American bombing during the war, and it has so far proved impossible to reconstruct the thousand-plus year old buildings. No one has been able to duplicate the stone bricks, which have withstood the elements very well, and the buildings seem to have been constructed without the use of any mortar.
My Son was very interesting, but very hot. It was also the students' first exposure to Vietnamese jungle. There had been much talk among them about how Fran Tubb might be like Mary Anne, the Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and melt away into the jungle to join the Green Berets and become part of the jungle.
We saw a show of traditional Cham dance before returning to Hoi An.
Today we went to My Lai. That's a story in itself, so I'll leave it for a separate entry.


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The vote came after a lengthy discussion about how much to commit and how the county should oversee LifeWays to prevent future budget problems.
LifeWays is a public agency that operated under the control of Jackson and Hillsdale counties until it became an independent public authority in 1996.
The mental health agency gets much of its more than $54 million in annual revenues from Medicaid and state grants, but it also has a local budget of about $503,000 annually. The local fund is where the deficit has accumulated over the last five years.
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However, county officials said they fear state intervention if the county doesn't make a "good faith effort" to eliminate the deficit. County Administrator Michael Overton said that without a good faith effort, the state could ask the county to retroactively pay $560,000 per year for the last several years.
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FILM; Nicole Kidman, From Down Under to 'Far and Away'
By TOM KENEALLY;
Published: May 24, 1992
LOS ANGELES— I know well the sorts of Australian summers that the actress Nicole Kidman used to flee. Cicadas screamed with brief life in the gum trees of the northern Sydney suburb she grew up in. Other Australian children stripped themselves down for the bright day. The young Ms. Kidman covered up. Big hat, long sleeves. She would have loved to conform to the national obsession with reddening, blistering, getting bronzed, this Celt far from the headwaters of her gene pool.
To the misfortune of complexion was added the misfortune of her parents' uncomfortable politics. The liberal opinions of these genial people abashed the child Kidman in the conservative suburb of Longueville. Her mother, Janelle, was a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby, her father, Antony, active in Labor politics in an electorate Labor never won. "There was always political discussion at our table," says Ms. Kidman, now 24 years old. "We had a sit-down dinner every night, and politics was sort of the thing to discuss."
To the child of such a family fell the doomed duty of handing out Labor Party how-to-vote cards on polling day. "I'd have a cap on hiding my face, in case any of the kids saw me," she says.
And a third misfortune: being 5 foot 9 inches at the age of 13.
From an early age, Ms. Kidman began to spend weekends indoors at the small but fashionable Phillip Street Theater in the business and legal center of Sydney. She assisted the stage manager and did odd jobs. Safe from the embarrassments of height, politics and sun, she says, "I just loved it. I absolutely loved it."
In these ways young Ms. Kidman got practice in being her own woman, a craft that anyone who meets her now can see still exercises her. The weekend journeys over the Harbor Bridge to downtown Sydney were votes for a future in Australian theater and film. They were of a piece, however, with the energy, resolution and shifts of chance that have now brought her to America and to the lead role in Ron Howard's "Far and Away." In the movie, which opened Friday, she plays the daughter of an Anglo-Irish Protestant landlord who willfully abandons her privileges to travel to America with a game and muscular Irish peasant, played by Tom Cruise, her husband of a year and a half.
The movie is Mr. Howard's version of what the British call a ripping tale. Mr. Howard, whose great grandfathers participated in the 1893 Oklahoma land race, wanted to recount a story based on that huge scramble for land grants -- a story, he says, of the kind "your grandfather told your father about how your great grandparents met."
Mr. Howard has long been a champion of Ms. Kidman's work. Although she was reserved at first in rehearsals, he said, Ms. Kidman had in the end "about as much range as any actor and is extraordinarily talented for her age."
Ms. Kidman is not a product of any drama school but of a self-motivated experience in the theater. The brief period she spent in high school was at a renowned state school, North Sydney High, a great producer of talent, perhaps especially of talented women, including a swathe of politicians. The atmosphere of the place was, she says, "O.K., you're having a career."
In a nation that is sometimes touted as a kind of South Africa for women, she felt few inhibitions. "That's what the women before us fought for, and now I reap the benefits of it, and I don't even think of it."
Her first professional performance came at 13: Sylvia in "The Women." Then the Princess in "Sweet Bird of Youth." By the age of 15, she was known locally for doing "older, sexually frustrated women." This early typecasting sits oddly with the ice-cold young seductress Ms. Kidman would play in Robert Benton's 1991 film "Billy Bathgate."
Her parents were academics and presumed that she would go to college. But she had already starred in "Bush Christmas," an Australian Yule classic, and then she got a part in a series for the Disney Channel, "Five Mile Creek," which took eight months to film. From the enormous elevation of her 24 years, she believes that "Five Mile Creek" is what made her a pro.
"It was working on camera 6 days a week, 12 hours a day," she says. "I'd always been intimidated by the camera. But it became like second nature. I didn't have to worry about hitting marks. The camera wasn't this ominous creature. I didn't worry about it ever again."
She had tutors and returned to school intermittently, but her formal education was near an end. She claims, however, that she read voraciously, especially plays. She seems to emit the sense of a lively, even a hyperactive intelligence. But because people are fixated on her marriage to the supereminent Mr. Cruise and may view her as a handmaiden, she gets little credit for it. (Ms. Kidman and Mr. Cruise apparently see their careers as separate; each employs a different publicist. Mr. Cruise, in a week during which he was busy arranging to leave for Cannes, certainly saw little need to speak for an article about the forthright Ms. Kidman.)
As an early sign of the viability of her choices, the actress wanted to buy her own apartment, cash down, before the age of 21. She got the apartment at 19. Her mother still wanted to protect her from the disappointments of auditioning and not getting roles. "Gosh, you're a tenacious creature!" is the maternal cry that now most sweetly resonates with Ms. Kidman.


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DUNCANSVILLE - The Warnaco distribution facility soon might be closing its doors.
Unconfirmed reports indicate the PVH Corp. of New York, which completed the acquisition of The Warnaco Group Inc. in February, might close the local facility.
Blair County Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Joe Hurd said he has heard through what he called a "legitimate source" that PVH is planning a three-phase shutdown of the facility, which would be completed sometime in 2014.
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Warnaco, which employed 260 in 2011, according to ABCD Corp., will be closed by sometime in 2014, according to what a "legitimate source" told Blair County Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Joe Hurd.
Warnaco, which employed 260 in 2011, according to ABCD Corp., has been a chamber member since 1934.
Altoona-Blair County Development Corp. President and CEO Marty Marasco said he has not heard anything official from the company.
"There are a lot of rumors flying around; I would like to hear something from the company. We sent them a request for information but have never received any correspondence from them. They have made no effort to communicate with the community to tell us what is happening, and that is unfair," Marasco said. "I have no way to know if the rumors are true, false or indifferent. Apparently some of the employees have heard from someone, but I don't know from whom they have been informed."
"It is always a great concern when a business with a long, steady history within our community and an excellent reputation as an employer would consider leaving," Hurd said. "We have been made aware through some contacts that Warnaco has indicated an interest in moving its operations elsewhere."
An employee who answered the telephone at the facility referred all calls to Dana Perlman, PVH treasurer and senior vice president of business development and investor relations.
Perlman did not respond to either voicemail or email messages.
PVH Corp., one of the world's largest apparel companies, owns and markets the iconic Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands worldwide. It is the world's largest shirt and neckwear company, according to its website.
Mirror Staff Writer Walt Frank is at 946-7467.


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I have been very envolved in searching down my ancestors for 30 years. Finding a new cemetery is very exciting and when I find a new little one I over indulge and tend to photograph the entire site. My pictures and Internments are all individuals that have somehow found their way into my ever growing family tree.
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RE: Roan Mountain Miller Cemeteries
It's the map location and address. Your memorials and pictures were placed in one of the Miller Cemetery down in the valley. They need to be moved to Miller Cemetery with a map location up on the mountain at the plantation where you took them. Sorry for the confusion. If I can help let me know. Thanks!
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There are at least four Miller Cemeteries in the Roan Mountain area. It's easy to get them mixed up but for people using find a grave to find and visit people's graves location is important.
All of the following memorials you manage that are in the Miller cemetery on Heaton Creak Road (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=15637) and the cemetery picture you added there belong in the Miller Cemetery on the Miller Plantion at this link (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=15654&GRid=147225145&CRid=15654&). You can transfer the memorial to the correct cemetery by using the (edit burial) key on the memorial.
I wish there was an easier way to make the corrections but I can't think of one that won't create other problems to fix correct. I live in the area and have been working for a couple of years to sort out the Carter County Find a Grave cemetery issues. We've made progress but there is still lots of work to do. Thanks so much for your help. I'll get find a grave to correct the cemetery picture. Thanks so much for your help.
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Thanks so much, Mark!
Asbury is my hometown/homestead where my parents farmed for 26 yrs before selling and moving to Cedar Rapids. Although I am currently a couple states away, we already have a headstone in place in the Asbury Cemetery, which is where I'll eventually be returned home, lol!
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Hi Mr. Bennett,
I'm adding documents and references to my Ancestry.com account family tree and came across this memorial of my paternal grandfather.
I was wondering, first of all, if you would be willing to transfer it to me?
His birth date is actually Oct. 17, 1891 - but is listed as Sept. 1892, even though a photo of the grave marker contradicts it, lol!
I look forward to your reply.
~ Sandy Staat
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Thank you very much for editing his memorial.
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I am trying to find my oldest-known grandfather's grave. I'll call him "Father Jones". It is reported that he died in Pulaski County, Kentucky. I cannot find a grave or any records on him. If you have any information on him or know of someone I can contact, please let me know!!
Father Jones had four sons; Alexander, James, Robert, William and Thomas. Thomas was the only one born in Pulaski County around 1800. Father Jones died between Thomas' birth and the War of 1812. It is stated that Father Jones died prior to his son Robert joining the War of 1812.
Any help that anyone can provide would be GREATLY appreciated!!
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Many thanks for taking this photo, I am most grateful.
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Hi Mark,
Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to visit the cemetery and take the photo of the headstone for this online memorial. Your time and effort is greatly appreciated!
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Thank you for your response! I thought your name seemed familiar. Landon and Mary have been a challenge for me to figure out. I have so enjoyed over the years searching for family members and learning about them. Paschal Chapel has been interesting. He was a horse back riding circuit Methodist minister and traveled between Kentucky and Missouri preaching along the way. Thanks for all you do in your volunteer work. It is appreciated so much!
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Of marker for Paschal Chapel Newell and Clara (Yates) Newell. They are my great grandparents. Their son, John Solomon Newell married Maude Estelle Hoots and had my father, Howard Orland Newell. I really appreciate your time and efforts as a volunteer!
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NEWARK, N.J. - The mayors of three New Jersey cities, two state legislators and several rabbis were among more than 40 people arrested Thursday in a sweeping corruption investigation that began as a probe into an international money laundering ring that trafficked in goods as diverse as human organs and fake designer handbags.
Among 44 people arrested Thursday were Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, state Assemblyman President L. Harvey Smith and state Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt.
Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez, who is also an attorney, is charged with agreeing to accept an illegal $10,000 cash payment for his legal defense fund.
Gov. Jon Corzine reacted to the corruption probe Thursday morning by saying, "any corruption is unacceptable - anywhere, anytime, by anybody. The scale of corruption we're seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated."
In separate money laundering complaints, several rabbis from Brooklyn and New Jersey were charged with offenses ranging from the trafficking of kidneys from Israeli donors to laundering proceeds from selling fake Gucci and Prada bags.
Van Pelt is accused of accepting $10,000 from a cooperating government witness posing as a developer who sought help in getting permits for a project in Ocean County.
Smith, the Jersey City Council President, and several other current and former Jersey City public officials also are accused of accepting money to help the fake developer gain permits and approvals.
Beldini, 74, is charged with conspiracy to commit extortion by taking $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions. Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said Thursday the charges were "a little shocking."
"I have full faith in Leona," Healy said. "She's a good friend of mine - was and will be."
Cammarano, 32, who won a runoff election last month, is charged with accepting $25,000 in cash bribes from an undercover cooperating witness. Elwell is charged with taking $10,000.
Joseph Hayden, an attorney representing Cammarano, said his client "is innocent of these charges. He intends to fight them with all his strength until he proves his innocence."
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the investigation initially focused, with the help of the cooperating witness, on the money laundering network that operated between Brooklyn, Deal, N.J. and Israel. The network is alleged to have laundered tens of millions of dollars through charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said he has heard of the story but knows nothing of kidneys being sold by Israelis.
The investigation widened to include official corruption in July 2007 when the cooperating witness approached public officials in Hudson County posing as a developer seeking to build in the Jersey City area.
Hoboken's waterfront has proven to be an especially lucrative piece of real estate across from midtown Manhattan. Developers have put up dozens of buildings in the last 15 years in the mile-square city. It had a prime view on July 4 of fireworks over the Hudson River.
The fears that the city was being overdeveloped has become a hot topic during elections among candidates.
In secretly recorded conversations outlined in the complaint against Cammarano, the candidate made it clear to prospective campaign donors that he was a friend of developers.
When a cooperating witness posing as a developer who was donating $5,000 to the campaign told Cammarano just days before the mayoral election that he wanted to make sure he had his support with "some properties we're working on," Cammarano is quoted as saying, "I'll be there."
In Deal, Mike Winnick of the Elberon section of Long Branch was praying inside the Deal Synagogue when it was raided by FBI, IRS and Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office agents.
"Everyone was looking at each other, like, `What's going on here?' " he said.
Winnick said four FBI agents escorted a rabbi from the synagogue into his office and blocked the doorway. Winnick said he left shortly afterward.
Nearby, FBI and IRS agents removed several boxes from the Deal Yeshiva, a school that educates the children of Sephardic Jews.
Busloads carrying those arrested were brought to the FBI's Newark field office Thursday morning. One agent slowly walked an elderly rabbi into the building as another covered his face with a felt hat.
Angela Delli Santi and Beth DeFalco in Trenton, Wayne Parry in Deal, Samantha Henry and Victor Epstein in Newark and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this story. Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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It's been two years since Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth started dating, but the love still burns brightly for the couple.
"Got Liam THE best bday pressie ever!" the singer shared on Twitter on Friday, when Hemsworth turned 22.
And on Tuesday, Cyrus spilled the beans on her surprise gift for her man: an adorable rescue puppy named Ziggy.
Ziggy joins Cyrus's two other dogs, Lila and Floyd, and she's already getting along with her new pals. "She's an angel! She loves her bro and sis, too!" Cyrus wrote in a reply to friend Erin Lucas.
As for Lila, the poor pooch isn't feeling well. "She had to go to the vet today," Cyrus shared. "She was sicky."
Miley Cyrus Gets Liam Hemworth a Puppy for His Birthday
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Typically ever-mindful of his words, Justin Timberlake is finally saying something about his romantic life – and of girlfriends past and present.
"I'm dating someone," the "SexyBack" singer, who has spent most of this year being linked to Jessica Biel, tells Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday's edition of her talk show.
And while he never gets around to naming his squeeze, according to excerpts from the interview appearing on the show's Web site, Timberlake, 26, is quoted as saying, "But all I can tell you is she smells lovely."
Timberlake also admits, "I get pretty romantic around her," and says he sings to her – and, when he goes on tour, communicates with her via an iChat webcam.
"Technology is a wonderful thing sometimes," he says. "I find that to be really cool, when you can actually see someone's face. I do it with my friends, as well, just to have a conversation back and forth. It just makes you feel closer, that's all."
Timberlake and Biel, 25, were first linked at a Golden Globe afterparty in January, and in May a source close to the singer told PEOPLE: "Justin's in love. He wants to be with her all the time. He's ready to be serious."
Last week, after his jam-packed Sunday night, the multiple MTV Video Music Award winner skipped the afterparties and opted for dinner with his two favorite ladies: his mom and Biel.
At the outset of his career, in the mid-1990s, Timberlake was famously dating his The New Mickey Mouse Club costar, Britney Spears, though they were to split in 2002.
Since then, Spears's rocky road, both personally and professionally, has been well documented.
"What do you think is going on with Britney?" Winfrey asks Timberlake.
"I don't know, to be honest with you," he responds. "I haven't spoken to her in years. I mean, there's no ill will – I have nothing but love for her. It's funny because we dated each other at a time ... wow, I haven't talked about this in a long time. It's interesting."
Pressed by Winfrey to get what he has to say off his chest, Timberlake goes on to say, "We were teenagers, you know?"
"Yes," Winfrey affirms, "famous teenagers."
"I think that's basically the best way to describe what happened to us. I think she's a great person, and I don't know her as well as I did," he says. "What I do know about her is she has a huge heart, and she is a great person."
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The Jakarta Post
The governors of Lampung and Banten said they demanded that they be included in a consortium to manage the Sunda Strait Bridge (JSS) project.
Lampung Governor Sjachroedin ZP said he and Banten Governor Ratu Atut Choisiyah would express their objection if their consortium, which had initiated the JSS development project a few years ago, was omitted from the project following the central government's plan to take over the feasibility study.
"That is why we want to see President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. We will object if the central government plans not to involve us in the project," Sjachroedin said over the weekend.
He also expressed his concern that the feasibility study would have another postponement if it was taken over by the central government. He said the study would require between 3 and 4 percent of the total project funds, which is estimated to be more than Rp 200 trillion (US$21.2 billion).
Sjachroedin added that both the Lampung and Banten provincial administrations expected to have the feasibility study funded by the investors grouped in the consortium, which included PT Lampung Jasa Utama (a Lampung provincial administration-owned company); PT Banten Global Development (a Banten administration-owned company) and Bangungraha Sejahtera Mulia (a subsidiary of the Artha Graha Group).
According to Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 86/2011 on the Sunda Strait strategic area development, the consortium, as the initiator of the project, is tasked with completing the feasibility study within 24 months or by 2014 at the latest.
Sjachroedin said that taking over the feasibility study from the consortium meant the central government had negated the significant contributions made by many parties, including by the Artha Graha Group.
The plan to take over the work was revealed by the head of the Fiscal Policy Agency (BKF), Bambang Brodjonegoro, earlier last week at the House of Representatives.
Giving the feasibility study to the Lampung-Banten consortium, according to Bambang, was not in accordance with the public private partnership (PPP) scheme applied by the government.
"We want to apply a correct PPP scheme, meaning that everyone will is openly welcomed to join the bid," Bambang said.
The JSS project is included in the Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesian Economic Development (MP3EI) in the field of infrastructure development, which is expected to have a multiplier effect on other areas of development.
Separately, executive director of Indonesian Development Monitoring (IDM), Dedi Rohman, said Finance Minister Agus Martowadojo's proposal to have the JSS feasibility study funded by the state budget through a revised Perpres 86/2012 had created legal uncertainty in the country.
He said Article 22 of the Perpres stipulated that the initiator of the project was tasked with preparing for the project and funding the preparation work.
"This means that the feasibility study and the bridge's design are not funded by the state budget. The Finance Minister's policy will make investors think twice about investing here because of the legal uncertainties in Indonesia," Dedi said.


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I don't have red steel but I have CoD3, Wii play/sports, Zelda and SMB and I have not had cramp...
Hi -
Im gettin the wii pretty soon, and hopefully Redsteel. ive seen many videos about it and i must say it looks great. probably one of the best FPS' out there.
But recently i came across a fat guy from gamespot who made a review, complaining about cramp in his hands and some other tiring thing.
NOTE: This may be becuase of his obesity.
But i want to ask you wii players, or more specifically Redsteel players.
How does your hand feel when you play?
I don't have red steel but I have CoD3, Wii play/sports, Zelda and SMB and I have not had cramp...
Trading my Wii again! Come on home 360!
Games: Metroid Prime 3, Super Paper Mario, Ghost Squad, Link's Crossbow Training + Wii Zapper, Geometry Wars, Battalion Wars 2
It must of been something exclusive to that reviewer because my hands do not hurt at all. When playing Red Steel it feels rather comfortable and relaxed.
PM Me or AIM me at Aerorules9 if you wanna add me as a friend.
Wii Code: 3557-9489-0828-5748
Nickname: Vert34
Hmm. I have Red Steel and the only part of the game which is slightly (and I mean SLIGHTLY) weird feeling is when you push the controller forward to zoom. But, no, its not too bad.
The guy was fat, and the guy was from gamespot so he's probably a retard...don't worry about anything gamespot says.
I put a bunch of hours into red steel a week or 2 ago when i rented it and i had no pain at all.
PM me if you want a link to a place that's good.
hmmm thanks for this guys, you put my mind at ease
Gamepot is Gay!!! A bunch of FAT ASSES that think the wii is a chore!
Their reveiws are a joke too...but lets not get into that.
the wiimote dosent hurt your wrist...its really sensitive so there is no need to go crazy...
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I played DBZ: BT2 at my friend's house for a few hours and my hand did in fact start cramping, but I think it was because I had a rediculous death-vice-grip on the controller, haha. I wouldn't worry about hand cramps and the such if you play it correctly.
mm well i got my wii yesterday morning after camping out 8 hours at target and let me just say im extremely pumped and its soo amazing... i play wii baseball and tennis a lot yesterday and today my forearm (like where my elbow connects) kills haha... im not complaining... i think it shows how intense you can get into these games haha. and when i get home from work i shall play some more muahaha... i have to wait until christmas to play my other games though =/ except trauma center.. my mom let me have that haha
oh and i have like sweaty palms and after a while my hands started to prune hahahaha.


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Staff Nurse
Department/Affiliation: Health and Wellness Services
Phone: 330-263-2294
Office Address: 570 E. Wayne Ave.
College: Eastern Mennonite College, BSN, 1983
I have worked at The College of Wooster since 1997. My background in nursing includes med-surg, orthopedics, cardiac step-down, public health, and occupational health. I really enjoy working with and talking to college students!
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Kashi Co. has agreed to pay $5 million to consumers and to change the labeling on some food products to resolve a class action that accused the cereal company of falsely advertising its products as "all natural" or "nothing artificial" when they contained synthetic and artificial ingredients, according to a proposed settlement filed in California federal court.
The Kellogg subsidiary does not admit to any liability in the settlement, which was filed in documents with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on May 2.
Terms of the agreement were included in the plaintiffs' memorandum in support of their motion for preliminary approval of class action settlement.
Read the plaintiffs' memo here.
Plaintiffs said that after two days of mediation, the parties reached a "comprehensive settlement that more broadly achieves relief for California purchasers of Kashi Products" containing certain ingredients, including pyridoxine hydrochloride, calcium pantothenate, hexane-processed soy ingredients, ascorbic acid and more.
In their 2012 amended class-action complaint, plaintiffs alleged that the company inflated prices of its food products by misleading consumers into believing the products lacked any artificial ingredients. Plaintiffs said they bought the products based in part on Kashi's misleading statements printed on the products' labels.
Under the agreement, which is subject to court approval, Kashi will pay $5 million to fund cash payments to class members who submit valid claims for products purchased between Aug. 24, 2007 and May 2, 2014, in California.
Those consumers with written proof of purchase will recover 50 cents per package for every product purchased, while those without proof of purchase will receive the same but with a limit of $25 per household.
Kashi has also agreed to modify its current labeling and advertising to remove "All Natural" and "Nothing Artificial" from products that contain certain ingredients, unless the ingredients are approved or determined as acceptable for products identified as "natural" by a federal agency or controlling regulatory body.
"Per the terms of our agreement, we will make the decision to change our formulas or our labels by end of the year," Kris Charles, Kellogg Co. spokesperson said in a emailed statement.
In a separate agreement also filed in the same court on May 2, Kashi's Bear Naked Inc. unit, which makes granola bars and other products, agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a related suit.
A hearing has been set for May 27 for the court to consider granting preliminary approval to both deals.
Laura Castro contributes to law.com.


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Well I am late 30s and my cholesterol hasn't skyrocketed - due to my primal ways for the last year and half???
Just had a moment at work I thought would be fun to share.
We recently got some free bloodwork done at work - full analysis of everything. I was extremely happy with my results - perfect scores all around, especially happy after experimenting with a 95% carnivorous diet. I was talking about this with a co-worker, who has always been skeptical of my choices.
Her response to my perfect scores?
'Well, of course you do, every young person (I'm 24) gets that. You wait until you are my age (shes late 30s), and your cholesterol skyrockets, and your silly barefoot experiment fails and your arches fall... etc"
The whole time I couldn't help but grin at her. People just don't get it! They assume that growing old just comes with these preset conditions, and since everyone else gets it, that's just the way it is. So frustrating!
Yet so relieving to know that I will not fall prey to such silly assumptions.
Score one for the Primal Life!
- If it was cute and cuddly at some point, eat it. Ignore everything else. -
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Well I am late 30s and my cholesterol hasn't skyrocketed - due to my primal ways for the last year and half???
Exactly, people really resist giving you credit for your good choices, because they don't want to admit they're good choices.
I am sure when I finally lose weight after I have my baby and get really going with a primal life, people will say "Oh well you're breastfeeding, that makes you lose weight!" or "Well you're running after a toddler!"... except that last time I didn't lose any weight. Funny thing, that.
Similarly, all the people in the forum who are preventing health issues as opposed to fixing preexisting issues... none of them will get recognition for their challenging achievement either.
It's not really about credit though... to me the real issue is that we end up unable to use ourselves as proof to help people make similar choices.
At least we get to enjoy our own health.
"Trust me, you will soon enter a magical land full of delicious steakflowers, with butterbacons fluttering around over the extremely rompable grass and hillsides."
Primal eating in a nutshell: If you are hungry, eat Primal food until you are satisfied (not stuffed). Then stop. Wait until you're hungry again. Repeat.
Looking for my Cholesterol Primer? Here it is: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum...mer-(Attempt-2)
Ditch the scale!: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread33283.html
My Success Story: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread30615.html
One of my many goals is to be an example for my family. Evereyone (5 sisters and my mom) knows how I've been eating. So, my plan is to show up at Christmas and wow them. I gave the book to my Mom at my birthday last month. If she's read it, maybe she can understand what she'll see.
My goal is to be 35 pounds lighter than I was at Christmas last year, and stronger. So, leaner, stronger and fitter.
I hope it knocks their socks off.
Domo arigato, Mr, Roboto
Domo, Domo
Glad im not the only one dealing with 30somethings calling themselves "old". wtf...
- If it was cute and cuddly at some point, eat it. Ignore everything else. -
- Food is first, and foremost, nothing more than fuel. -
- The body is animal. The mind, however, is not. -
Scottish Sarah
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Do you sleep all through the night? Do you need to? This very interesting article points to research indicating historically it was commonly accepted that two 4 hour periods of sleep interspersed with a two hour wake period was the norm. This seems to be the case for me. How about you?
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783]BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep[/url]


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Red Wings prospect Joakim Andersson was held off the scoresheet but finished at a +2 as the Swedes rallied via a 4-goal third period to defeat Slovakia 5-3 on Saturday night.
The Swedes will face off against the Canadians, who beat Russia in a shootout, for the World Junior Championship title on Monday. TSN posted a 1:46 highlight clip which shows that Andersson was on the ice for both of Slovakia's power play goals, but also threw a mostly-legal pick that led to the 4-2 goal by Simon Hjalmarsson, illustrating that Andersson's lack of points at the WJC aren't indicative of his status as a key player for Team Sweden.


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Otters continue slide with loss to Attack
OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- The Owen Sound Attack scored three goals in the first period Friday before going on to defeat the Erie Otters 9-1 in front of 3,383 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.
The game marked the seventh loss in eight games for the Otters, who have surrendered at least four goals in 18 of their past 19 games.
Artur Gavrus, Chris Bigras and Gemel Smith scored in the first period for the Attack (40-18-1-5), who have outscored the Otters 30-10 while winning four of the five matchups between the two teams so far this season.
Owen Sound continued to roll in the second period when Steven James made it 4-0 just more than 4 minutes in.
Erie (18-38-3-5) responded when Luke Cairns notched his 12th of the season at 9:02, but Zach Nastasiuk answered 30 seconds later to restore the four-goal lead for the Attack.
Gavrus scored twice more to complete the hat-trick, while Dan Catenacci and Jaden Lindo also added third-period goals for the Attack.
Erie's Oscar Dansk was pulled midway through the second period after allowing five goals on 18 shots. Devin Williams stopped 20 of the 24 shots he faced in relief.
The teams will finish their regular-season series tonight at 7:30.


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Lenovo IdeaPad Z570-10249ZU
Average of 1 scores (from 2 reviews)
Reviews for the Lenovo IdeaPad Z570-10249ZU
Source: Gadgetspeak
Startup was a respectable 45seconds and shutdown just 10seconds. I got over five and a half hours of heavy – Wireless Internet and DVD – use from a full battery charge and it recharged in two hours. The Windows Experience index is 4.7 made up of Processor 6.9 Memory 7.2 Graphics 4.7 Gaming Graphics 6.3 and Hard Disc 5.9.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/04/2012
Source: PC Mag
The Asus U56E-BBL6's long battery life is the prime reason we picked it as our budget laptop Editors' Choice, and the prime reason the Lenovo Z570-10249ZU doesn't topple it from that throne—along with, frankly, the fact that if we were pinching pennies we'd settle for the 6GB of RAM in the system's near twin, the Lenovo V570-1066AJU. But if you're looking for plenty of performance (and can live without a USB 3.0 port), there's a lot to like under the Lenovo Z570-10249ZU's stylish aluminum lid.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 12/02/2011
Rating: Total score: 70%
Intel HD Graphics 3000: Integrated graphics card in the Intel Sandy Bridge processors (Core ix-2xxx). The HD 3000 is the faster (internally GT2 called) version with 12 Execution Units (EUs).
Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
2430M: Dual-core processor based on the Sandy Bridge architecture with an integrated graphics card and dual-channel DDR3 memory controller. The CPU is clocked at 2.4 GHz (Turbo Boost 2.7-3 GHz) and the GPU at 650 (1200 MHz Turbo).» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.6 kg:
This weight is representative for typical laptops with a 14-16 inch display-diagonal.
Lenovo: Lenovo Group Limited is China's largest and the world's fourth largest personal computer manufacturer. Lenovo produces desktops, laptops, servers, handheld computers, imaging equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract manufacturing. Its executive headquarters are located in China and USA. It is incorporated in Hong Kong. Lenovo was formed in 1984 as a spin-off of the Chinese Academy of Sciences new technology unit. The company initially began as a reseller, distributor and later CM for foreign brands, including IBM, entering the Chinese market. In 1990, Lenovo started to manufacture its own PCs and by 1997 became the market leader in China. In 2004, Lenovo bought IBM's PC business for $1.25billion. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
70%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
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The Great Minra was a figure in Yaderan mythology. In one story as related by Taya to Jadzia Dax and Odo, the Great Minra tricked an evil Changeling into turning into a piece of greenbread so that he could devour it. (DS9: "Shadowplay")


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The 2013-14 NFL football season has just begun. This is the point where we tend to be on-boarded with excessive gridiron banter, hometown trash talk, baskets of buffalo wings, pitchers of cold beer and Sunday afternoon worship sessions dedicated to our favorite teams.
Though the first two weeks have been anything but spectacular for the Jaguars, there is still plenty to be proven in the stacked AFC South Division. With a young team and a frothing city on its back, Jacksonville has set big expectations for the season. Although it can be hard to predict the outcome of any one football game, by taking a look at the AFC South, we can figure out how the Jaguars stack up against their divisional counterparts. With a bit of faith and a whole lot of astrological assistance we are going to map out the future of AFC's South Division and the teams thrown into the thick of battle.
Overall Outlook for the Jaguars
From the looks of it, the division battles look to be anything but promising for the Jacksonville Jaguars. They face some stiff competition within their division and the signs, omens, and stars seem to be aligned against the Jaguars at this juncture. However, there is certainly plenty of room for error. Some cosmic shake-ups may be around for the bend for teams with Virgo, Libra and Leo in late November with the arrival of the ISON comet that will cut a path affecting signs in this rotation. With prominent Virgos on their roster, this may bode ill for the Colts and Titans and give the Jaguars the intangible edge they may need to come from behind. Only time and this major astronomical/astrological event later this year will tell.
That is the glory of professional sports; you never really know what is going to happen until the whistle is blown and the pigskin touches the grass. Keep your eyes on field and on the stars because astrology is far more reliable than you think.
Houston Texans
Coming off one of their most successful seasons to date, the Houston Texans have come out of the gate with guns blazing. Stacked with a powerful offense and youthful, agile defense this team will be hard to beat. Led by Cancer QB Matt Shaub, it looks as though his confidence is blooming. In many cases, Cancers have a hard time being independent, but thus far Shaub has stepped up and answered to the call for his offense. Although they are commonly referred to as calm and collected. Cancers are ruled by the moon and can be irrational at times, which is a worry for the Texans' offense. Backed by Pro-Bowlers Andre Johnson and Arian Foster, it looks like the Jaguars are going to have to rattle Shaub's cage pretty hard to upset the future of this lop-sided battle.
Tennessee Titans
2012-13 was anything but successful season for the Titans. And from the looks of things this season, the Jaguars have the upper hand in this match-up. Although their offensive attack is lackluster, the Titans are led by the lightning fast Chris Johnson, whose perfectionist Virgo attitude allows him to analyze the defense and make precise moves where many running backs would falter. Virgos offer intense bursts of energy, which is clearly shown through the Titans offensive attacks and half-back options. Johnson may be the Titans only threat, but matching him up against the Jaguars' dynamic middle Line Backer Paul Posluzsny will make for a long day on the gridiron. Posluzsny demonstrates the exceptionally observant side of Scorpio, allowing him to assess audibles in the offense and track Chris Johnsons every move. The Jaguars will take this battle, but not in simple fashion.
Indianapolis Colts
They shocked the league last year, and they will set out this year to do more of the same. After the departure of Peyton Manning, many Colts fans lost hope. It seem as though young Virgo Quarterback Andrew Luck has taken the reigns as official of the Indianapolis offensive attack. His accurate passing ability and intellectual knowledge of the field presents a heavily uneven match-up for the Jacksonville defense. Accompanied by veteran Scorpio receiver Reggie Wayne, the flourishing relationship between the two seems to be hinting at success. Wayne's resourceful Scorpio nature position provides Luck with a plethora of offensive options.
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The first fragrance launch from By Rosie Jane, this perfume oil is dripping with innocence and freshness. Truly irresistible, Leila Lou is made with 100% essential oils.
With top notes of nectarine & fresh cut grass, heart notes of pear blossom & jasmine and base notes of vanilla and cotton musk this scent will embrace and seduce you as an original and refreshing signature scent.
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Smell it on someone in the park, asked her what it was and ordered it. I LOVE IT!
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