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The best dividend opportunities in the resource sector
Craig Porter from Front Street Capital outlines the best picks in the commodity arena for investors hunting for yield
Just to start off, Craig, I'd like to ask you about dividend investing in general right now. 10-year bond yields today are again at 14-month highs, and that's bound to continue to hurt sentiment for competing income-producing investments. What's a dividend investor to do right now – lighten up on our exposure, or just be very selective in the names we choose?
We feel that investors must change their thinking on the resource sector. It's no longer just about growth in emerging markets and the demand that it creates. There's a dramatic change going on in North America in how energy is being found, produced and transported. New technology is sharply bringing down the cost to find energy in NA, giving us a significant cost advantage over the rest of the world.
Further to Darcy's opening question, as bond yields rise do you think that the income-producing names in the energy sector will be able to grow their dividends sufficiently to maintain the spread between bond yields and dividend yields? Who do you believe is in the best position to grow their dividends?
Yes, we do feel that there is potential for further dividend gains in the sector. Companies like Crescent Point, Enerplus Corp., and ARC Resources will all benefit from a declining cost structure, which should lead to greater profitability and potential for increased dividends.
Not necessarily. Small cap names are quite out of favour currently, so investors must be very selective in these names. There are some great undervalued smaller companies, but they typically won't pay dividends. Having said that, there is a place for them in your portfolio for longer-term appreciation. They simply carry a different risk tolerance for investors.
Yes, we feel it is sustainable. We own it in the Front Street Resource Class. The company was hurt earlier this year when they had some production problems at their Primate Field. Those problems seem to be behind the company now. The market will still wait for a quarter or two to confirm production has settled before valuing it higher. The company also produces heavier oil, which was out of favour earlier this spring but pricing has been improving. We like the management team and the assets.
Of course. We like the stock and it's owned in a number of Front Street funds. The company is currently awaiting approval for one of their projects that should be coming this summer. Once the approval is received, the company has an agreement to sell their portion of the project for $1.2 Billion in cash. This cash will go to development of their other assets. We feel it's extremely cheap based on the number of barrels of oil they own in the oil sands as well as the land they are developing in the Deep Basin.
Our next question comes from Leon and is on Whitecap, which our Shirley Won profiled recently in a Stock to watch piece here.
It's one of the largest holdings in our resource fund. We've invested in this mgt team for the past 15 years through a number of companies that have been successfully operated and sold. This time around they have developed great long-term assets and it is one of the companies that we feel most confident about in the maintenance of their distribution.
At present, there are not a lot of mining names that pay significant dividends. Some of the gold names would appear to be high-yielding companies, but this is just due to the fall in their share price this year. As the price of gold has fallen sharply, we would expect dividend pay-outs to fall as well. Elsewhere, the forestry sector is starting to offer some good returns as the NA housing recovery takes hold. We recently saw Norboard re-introduce a significant dividend.
What about two dividend-paying Canadian mining stocks many of us have in our portfolios. The first is HudBay Minerals, which is a stock I own and is very close to a 52-week low. It's just announced a debt offering worth $150 million. I just read a research report (which we'll have details of later at Inside the Market's analyst round up) that says this confirms the temporary dividend cut expected in the fall. What's the outlook for this stock?
HudBay will still need to raise another $300-400 million to develop a South American copper mine. I think that there will be an over-hang on the stock with the market expecting another equity issue this summer. The company does have good assets and management, but the dividend is likely to be cut.
Teck is suffering from weaker than expected economic data coming out of China. The two main commodities that they produce are coal and copper, which are used extensively in infrastructure building. This is a case where we have to get away from looking for growth strictly in emerging markets. Here at home over the next decade there's a massive opportunity in the development of our natural gas assets for export as LNG....
Currently there are 6 LNG facilities being planned on the west coast. Tens of billions of dollars will go into the construction of these facilities, construction of pipelines as well as the drilling that must take place to find the gas to fill them. This will provide massive employment opportunities for BC and Alberta.
At this point, probably the natgas producers will benefit as the owners of the LNG facilities must acquire gas assets to operate them. Similar to how Petronas took out Progress Energy last year for $5.5 Billion, we feel companies such as Tourmaline, NuVista and Paramount Resources are likely to be acquired in the next few years. As well, we are currently seeing a rebound in the oil services sector as companies are starting to plan exploration programs to drill for the significant quantities of gas that will be required over the next decade.
We've been saying for the past few years that we expect oil to stay in a $80-100 price range. Currently world supply/demand of oil remains fairly well balanced. Most OPEC countries are currently producing at their limit and the only real growth outside of them is happening in NA. So, we don't see a big drop in oil coming any time soon.
Many of these Canadian mid-stream companies have seen their share prices driven up by those seeking safety and yield - and are getting a little pricey. We would add to these names if there was a large pull back because there will be significant demand for their services as the LNG build-out takes place. For those who are seeking mid-stream exposure, we might suggest looking at U.S. Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). Front Street has a fund that focuses on this sector.
We own and like Crescent Point and Baytex. We feel that now is a good time to buy Crescent Point below $40. Baytex we like as a longer-term hold. They have suffered this year due to the heavy oil differentials, but have great assets for the dividend model. We don't hold Cenovus.
No, unlikely. The gold price has dropped quite dramatically since the last distribution. Capital costs continue to rise at their Pascua Lama mine. There are also fears that their debt rating will be further downgraded if gold continues to weaken. Their 4% dividend yield is more of a reflection of their share price falling this year.
You mentioned earlier that the forestry sector is starting to offer some good returns. Yesterday, RBC talked about a lumber "super-cycle" starting up next year. (see our story on this here) Should we hold off in investing in the sector until the US housing recovery is further entrenched – or is now a good time? Is Norboard a particularly good name to invest in given the introduction of its dividend?
Yes, we own Norboard and continue to see moderate growth in the U.S. housing sector. Other names we like, although they pay minimal dividends, are West Fraser Timber and Canfor. These companies are also levered to a fall in the Canadian dollar as their costs are domestic and they sell mainly into the U.S.
We feel that the changing demographics and the desire for yield are two trends that are not changing any time soon. The opportunity being provided in NA resource stocks currently will ensure that we have a number of companies to meet these needs going forward. Thanks everyone.
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Forces Changing Family Law in Minnesota
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January 1, 2001
William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, p. 873, 2001
To a large extent, family law mirrors the constantly changing values of a society in order to meet new needs and goals. Nevertheless, society is never in perfect harmony and any large society may have internally conflicting values. This article, written by a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, examines forces which have changed family law since 1997. These forces and the foci of this article include the following: (1) the growing role of the federal government, especially in the child support area; (2) the need for more uniformity among states; (3) the organized bar's influence; and (4) individual legislators' influence. The article argues that although these forces have resulted in similar family law changes in many states, Minnesota has at the same time taken a vastly different approach.
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- Maslin on Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: "At 900-odd densely packed pages, 'Washington' can be arid at times. But it's also deeply rewarding as a whole, and it does genuinely amplify and recast our perceptions of Washington's importance.... This new portrait offers a fresh sense of what a groundbreaking role Washington played, not only in physically embodying his new nation's leadership but also in interpreting how its newly articulated constitutional principles would be applied. A more ostentatiously regal leader could never have accomplished as much as this seemingly reluctant hero achieved."
- Steven R. Weisman on White House Diary by Jimmy Carter: "Patient readers will find 'White House Diary' fascinating on two levels: the pace gives a sense of what it is like to be president, and the entries contain blunt appraisals of the people with whom he dealt.... 'White House Diary" would have benefited from even more candor. But the writings here reflect the Mr. Carter we know: boastful and painfully confessional, sanctimonious and callous, insightful and un-self-aware. These are the thoughts of a secular preacher and calculating politician, surrounded by friends and yet often alone."
- Maslin (who may have set a record by reviewing two 900-page books in the space of five days) on Fall of Giants by Ken Follett: "Mr. Follett, who was once a Welsh boy himself but grew up to become his generation's most vaunted writer of colorless historical epics, kicks off a whopping new trilogy. His apparent ambition: to span the whole 20th century in blandly adequate novels so fat that they're hard to hoist.... However two-dimensional these characters first seem, and however much they spout talking points rather than human conversation, they have begun to develop interesting baggage after 1,000 pages roll by. If only they had gotten off to a less plodding start."
- Garner on My Nuclear Family by Christopher Brownfield: "Christopher Brownfield's memoir, 'My Nuclear Family,' is not the best book written by an insider about America's post-9/11 military, but it's certainly the most entertaining. It's got a cocky, star-spangled, wide-angle feel, as if a subversive young novelist had decided to rewrite a Tom Clancy thriller after first piloting some nuclear submarines as a gonzo practice drill."
Washington Post:
- Dirda on Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock: "Donald Sturrock's 'Storyteller' enriches the now-familiar outline of an eventful life with much new information, peels away the layers of myth that Dahl promulgated about himself, and makes clear the man's immense charm as well as his cold self-possession and emotional callousness. This is a major literary biography, immensely satisfying to read and worthy of its complex subject."
- Charles on Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans: "I hope Danielle Evans is a very nice person because that might be her only defense against other writers' seething envy.... Now comes the publication of her first collection, "Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self," eight quietly devastating stories that validate the hype.... Again and again, without any histrionics, but with a clear appreciation for the natural drama of our mundane lives, Evans frames such questions in a way that will resonate with any thoughtful reader."
- Daniel Stashower on A Geography of Secrets by Frederick Reuss: "'A Geography of Secrets' has the texture and snap of a modern-day Graham Greene novel, painting a world in which even the smallest choices have devastating consequences -- and where, as one character tells us, 'Secrets don't keep, they putrefy.'"
Los Angeles Times:
- Jonathan Shapiro on The Reversal by Michael Connelly: "Thank God for Michael Connelly. Without him, Los Angeles would just be Houston without humidity, Phoenix with the sea. 'The Reversal,' Connelly's new novel, might be his best: a crackling-good read, smart and emotionally satisfying. It manages to condense decades of time and reams of information into a compelling narrative that adeptly explores various elements of L.A.'s own version of what passes as a criminal justice system."
- Charles Solomon on the Cul de Sac Golden Treasury: "Pundits have long predicted the imminent death of the comic strip, even before the Internet threatened to put the daily newspaper on the endangered species list. But Richard Thompson's delightfully quirky 'Cul de Sac' proves the comic strip remains a viable art form while bucking current trends. It's not an exercise in merchandising, niche marketing or political ax-grinding. It features no boob fathers or saccharine life lessons. In an era of threadbare strips cranked out by second- and third-generation artists, its characters are as original as its artwork."
- Zachary Karabell on A World Without Islam by Graham Fuller: "Just after the attacks of 9/11, Americans passionately sought answers about what had generated such anger and hatred. In the years since, that questioning has given way to hardened lines and ideology that focuses on conflict and apportions blame. Fuller's book is unlikely to alter that dynamic. But it is a needed corrective, a sober call not to settle for historical pabulum and instead recall a past and recognize a present that is far more complicated and layered than any polemic would have us believe."
Wall Street Journal (can't really tell online what's part of the new weekend Books section, but we welcome it anyway):
- John J. Miller on Bloody Crimes by James Swanson: "If this semi-sequel isn't quite as gripping as its predecessor—'Manhunt' is one of the most riveting Civil War books of our time—the fault doesn't lie entirely with Mr. Swanson. The Davis manhunt simply isn't as compelling as the stuff of chasing a presidential killer. Yet 'Bloody Crimes' enriches our understanding of Lincoln's assassination and its aftermath."
- James Grant on The Affluent Society and Other Writings by John Kenneth Galbraith: "Re-reading Galbraith is like watching black-and-white footage of the 1955 World Series. The Brooklyn Dodgers are gone—and so is much of the economy over which Galbraith lavished so much of his eviscerating wit.... Now comes the test of whether his popular writings will endure longer than the memory of his celebrity and the pleasure of his prose. 'The Great Crash' has a fighting chance, because of its very lack of analytical pretense. 'History that reads like a poem,' raved Mark Van Doren in his review of the 1929 book. Or, he might have judged, that eats like whipped cream."
Globe and Mail:
- Steve Hayward on The Matter with Morris by David Bergen: "The death of his son sends Morris into a tailspin; this, along with the question of whether he can pull out of it – indeed, whether the concept of recovery has any meaning at all when one is faced with such a devastating loss – is the subject of this immaculately written, trenchantly honest, hugely compelling novel.... For all its darkness, this novel about mourning and melancholy remains an optimistic book; in it, we are presented with some of the irresolvable ambiguities of human existence by a character who is twisted up inside, who at the same time successfully asks to be recognized as sombre and tender and wise."
- Mark Kingwell on Arrival City by Doug Saunders: "Most humans on the planet now live in cities, and over the next few decades another quarter to a third of the world will join them. Saunders calls this shift the most decisive social and cultural change since the Enlightenment and its legacies, including the French and Industrial revolutions, and it is difficult to deny it. Urban migration has not just been massive; it is proving to be one-way, fast and final."
The Guardian:
- Jeremy Dyson on The Small Hand by Susan Hill: "Ultimately, this is a wonderful piece of storytelling that does what a good story ought to do: it keeps you guessing, pulls you in. And when the climax comes, the explanation and the source of the haunting are not what you think at all. You really don't see it coming.... The ghost story is an intensely moral form, and one of its most interesting aspects is the alchemy it allows, enabling a writer to render the horrors of life with a strange, icy beauty. Such horrors are easier looked at askance, particularly when, as Susan Hill rightly reminds us, the monstrous is closer to home than we dare admit."
- Misha Glenny on The New Nobility by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan: "'I know the shortcomings of our system better, perhaps, than anyone,' Medvedev told an international forum.... 'But I categorically disagree with those who say that there is no democracy in Russia; that authoritarian traditions still rule.' Stirring stuff, but before the president throws his cap in the air and an emptied vodka glass into the fireplace, he may like to flick through the pages of The New Nobility, which charts the brief decline followed by the resolute resurrection of the KGB as a primary political force in the country. Or rather, he may not like it. Because every page in this book gainsays his claim in the most forceful fashion imaginable that democracy is now decisive in defining Russia's political direction."
There's no long review in the NYer this week, so let's go instead to the Atlantic:
- Benjamin Schwarz on True Prep by Lisa Birnbach: "Three decades later, the sequel, True Prep, by Birnbach and Chip Kidd, lacks the observational precision of the original. Whereas OPH was crammed with fine-grained analysis— defining, say, the subtle distinctions between Brooks Brothers (mainstream), J. Press (old guard), and Paul Stuart (urbane)—True Prep's analysis seems vague and flabby. Whereas OPH's preppies belonged to a distinct and inward-looking subculture, the preppies of True Prep, defined largely by what they buy and wear, are in many ways indistinguishable from fancily educated professionals.... Rather than demonstrating a failure of the authors' powers, True Prep's imprecision actually reflects the erosion of the distinctiveness of the subculture it attempts to reveal."
- And the reliably resistant B.R. Myers on Franzen's Freedom: "The apparent logic is that the novel can lure Americans away from their media and entertainment buffet only by becoming more 'social,' broader in scope, more up-to-date in focus. This may be the reason we get such boring characters. Instead of portraying an interesting individual or two, and trusting in realism to embed their story naturally in contemporary life, the Social Writer thinks of all the relevant issues he has to stuff in, then conceives a family 'typical' enough to hold everything together. The more aspects of our society he can fit between the book's covers, the more ambitious he is considered to be."
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the fur scarf is a nice touch! I love the blues and browns!ReplyDelete
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i absolutely love your jeans! i think we have the same pair (always skinny medium wash?). that scarf is killer tooReplyDelete
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Your sweater is gorgeous, and I love the fur!ReplyDelete
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I'm sorry you're sick :( time does fly as you get older or sure! I love this fur scarf, so fun!ReplyDelete
Fabulous! Love the fur!!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous scarf! I really like your sweater too. Super cute as always, Alissa!!ReplyDelete
That fur scarf is so sophisticated! Hope you feel better soon! I got sick right before Christmas...seems I always get sick around the holidays too.ReplyDelete
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I love this sweater! And the scarf goes perfectly with it. Feel better soon!ReplyDelete
sorry to hear you are feeling under the weather, but you are looking perfect as always! love the furry scarf, and i know just how you feel - how is another year over?!ReplyDelete
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Lovely fur wrap- and I'm digging this look. The sweater is gorgeous on you, and I LOVE the little ruffle at the hem.ReplyDelete
Wishing you a happy 2014, babe! So glad to have met you this year!
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I am really liking your bag. o.o Had to pause and stare at it for a few minutes. It reminded me that I needed to get a new bag. xD
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I love this scarf! I have really been into the faux fur trend lately, and think you look great. Hope you feel better soon!!ReplyDelete
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What a great little addition of fur to this outfit! You look so fabulous! Love your hair!ReplyDelete
That scarf is so beautifully luxe, and you look classy as hell! I too feel sad that time flies as we get older. . . At least I'm not bored as often.ReplyDelete
Ohh I love that fur scarf! It is soo cute. And it would be so cute dressed up with a dress too. I am all about fur right now. You look gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
I love this sweater on you! I tried it on in the store a couple of weeks of ago, and I was so depressed when it looked terribly unflattering on me. It's such an adorable top, and it looks great on you! I'm jealous haha ;)ReplyDelete
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The little peplum on your sweater is gorgeous! Love the the fur scarf too, I need one ASAP! Just found your blog and love it.ReplyDelete
The fur scarf is such a great touch to the outfit! Love the shape of those heels.ReplyDelete
Love the pop of fur and your eyes look amazing in these pictures!ReplyDelete
HOW DO YOU LOOK SO CUTE WHEN YOU'RE SICK?! I would be inside with a pile of tissues making Brian boil me chicken noodle soup. You are a trooper! Love the look, and that scarf is to die for. xxReplyDelete
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A British sailor missing after falling overboard in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean has been named as Luke Stinson.
The US Coast Guard and Navy continue to search for the 38-year-old man, who plunged into the water almost 500 miles from land on Saturday.
The coast guard said it was unclear why Mr Stinson, an experienced sailor who was conscious and wearing a life jacket, fell overboard in relatively calm conditions.
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This letter is in response to William Goldman's atrocious remarks concerning Martin Scorsese ("Crashing the party for poor Marty," Feb. 3-9).
If Goldman is sick of feeling guilty for Scorsese, then he should offer him one of his undeserved Oscars.
While Goldman certainly has the right to believe that Scorsese doesn't deserve an Oscar for "Gangs of New York," it is downright insulting to say that Ed Wood could have pulled off the same visuals as Scorsese.
Referring to Scorsese as a "giant ape director" clearly indicates that Goldman's age as well as intelligence have rapidly declined to that of a schoolyard bully.
Lastly, while I do understand people's sensitivity to any usage of the World Trade Center in any form of media, "disgraceful" is clearly the wrong word in describing the final shot of the film. How is it possible for Scorsese, a New York native with a devotion to the city, for even a moment to be accused of being "disgraceful" to his and many other people's city?
The final shot is clearly showing his reverence to the city. He is paying personal tribute. Since he is unappreciative and ignorant of Scorsese's sentiments, obviously New York City doesn't mean much to Goldman.
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Alex Carder was only 5 years old when Dave Doeren coached there. But Western Michigan University's quarterback and Northern Illinois' first-year head coach are both from the same suburban Kansas City town.
"I remember hearing about that when they actually first got him. I never met him or anything," Carder said this week.
Doeren hadn't even realized the connection.
Doeren might be coaching Carder this season if circumstances had been different — if former WMU assistant Chris Tabor hadn't been on staff when he was, with a connection to Carder's high school coach, and if former Huskies coach Jerry Kill had gotten the NIU job a year earlier.
Kill, now the coach at Minnesota, also knew Carder's high school coach and said last season that he tried to recruit Carder just as he landed the job at NIU.
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Grace Schireson is a Zen master in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and is the abbess of the Empty Nest Zendo in northern California. She joins us today to explore some of the main themes in her recently released book, Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters.
Among the topics we discuss are what the traditional stereotypes of females in Zen have been, and the recently discovered literature on women in Zen who did not fit these stereotypes. We then look at the unique way these women practiced Zen and how what they learned can be applicable to us today. We finish the discussion by speaking about feminine spirituality in general, and the prevalence of the "great mother" in all of the world's wisdom traditions.
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Vince: Hello Buddhist geeks. This is Vince Horn. And I'm here today with Grace Schireson. Grace, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today.
Grace: Thank you. Thank you for having me on.
Vince: Yeah, my pleasure. And just a little bit of background. You are the Abbess of the Empty Nest Zendo. And you have kind of a dual lineage. You're both a student in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, which…
Grace: That's my transmission lineage.
Vince: …Yeah, that's your transmission lineage. And you've just recently received some sort of new transmission, right? Is that correct?
Grace: Yes, I did. I received the fifth empowerment in my lineage, had a mountain seed ceremony, where I stepped up to become Abbess of my temple.
Vince: Wow, cool. That's great. And then you also teach koans. You have a teacher in Japan who authorized you to teach koans. So you have kind of a dual practice lineage, which is pretty cool.
Grace: Yes, I do. I think that originally, Zen was not limited to either Shikantaza and illumination, or koans. Originally it included both, and it's nice to put them back together for the sake of our practice.
Vince: And you also had professional training as a clinical psychologist at the PhD level. So you're bringing all of these things to bear. And your most recent project that you've been working on, or that just was released into the world as a book that we wanted to talk to you about, called Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters.
So that's the topic we wanted to explore with you today. And I thought maybe to start with it'd be good to ask what was your reasons for writing this book? What were your inspirations? Why is it that you ended up putting so much time into this project?
Grace: Yes I did. I put 10 years into this project. And I started it shortly after I was ordained as a priest. And then I realized aver the dust settled, or the light settled on the transaction of ordination. After all that calmed down, that I really didn't know what I was as a priest in the world. As a mother. And now I'm a grandmother. And as a wife. I had no background in what it meant to practice as a woman with a family.
All of the literature in the Zen tradition is about monastic men. It's almost all of it. And so I was very curious about it. And because I was practicing Zen in Japan with my teacher Keido Fukushima Roshi in Kyoto, I had the opportunity and the privilege to visit women's temples in Japan and see how that felt. From that exposure, I became curious. And I found out that I wasn't the only one who was longing for some grounded feminine in Zen practice. And when I found that out, I decided to do more research for the purpose of putting it together. So women could get a feeling of what, including the famine, in Zen might mean. There are many, many small snippets of description of women in Zen practice. But putting them all together has a different feeling to it. And that's what I wanted to do.
Vince: Nice, kind of in the subtitle, "Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters," that gives you a sense of the kind of categories, if you will. Of the type of practitioners you'd see in Zen. Could you say, what are tea ladies, iron maidens, and obviously macho masters probably refers to the men! [Laughs]
Grace: [Laughs] Well, those are the stereotypes that are encountered in the classic Zen literature. We see stories of monks meeting tea ladies who whip the pants off of them in dharma combat. But the women are virtually never recognized by name. Nor do we learn anything about their coming to Zen, their practice, what their roots were in the practice. Not even their names most of the time. So, these stories of the tea ladies serve to show women as the objects of a monk's humiliation. And it's particularly humiliating because it's a woman who's showing the monk that he has a lot more practice ahead of him, and in front of him. Rather than being the subjects of the Zen stories, they're objects. So that was one category as I started to reread and discover more about what had been already in place for women in english, that we could actually read. Because I don't read any Asian languages.
So, one of the categories was these tea ladies. Another category was these women who had been transformed into the image of a male master. They were as tough, and strong, and as laconic as the male, macho figures. And there's an image for that in our traditions in that Rosabeth Kanters wrote a book about women in corporate settings and how they're perceived, so that's where the term "iron maiden" came in. She uses that term to describe women who don't show any familial or familiar relationship. In other words, they don't play the role of sister, they don't play the role of mother, they don't play the role of lover, in a corporate setting, and they're perceived as being too tough and without feeling and she used the term "iron maiden" to describe them, and I found that same stereotype in the Zen literature so this is kind of a sacrifice of women's identity or femininity that they have to remake themselves as male masters and they were perceived as being this iron maiden, in fact we even find one with the name "Iron-Grinder Lou" who was so tough that whatever she encounters she grinds up.
Vince: Also, in your research you found examples of women practicing Zen that were outside of these stereotypes, and I think that maybe is the most interesting question, is what did women Zen look like that wasn't these tea ladies, who were humiliating the male monks, or the iron maidens who were crushing everything in front of them. What did it look like in the other cases that you found?
Grace: Well first of all, the important question to me was, what is it about our practice that did not accept the feminine? How did that happen? That's why it's so interesting that these are the only images available to us from the classical Zen perspective. In fact, I went to a research conference in Korea and one of the women researchers got up and spoke about love in the name of King Idiap who wrote poems and was a Buddhist nun, a Korean Buddhist nun, and she wrote poems about love, and one of the male scholars criticized her presentation by saying, "There's no such thing as love in Zen. How can you be talking about love?" And my correction is, there's not much talk about or there's no talk about love in male Zen. So, that's a very interesting point and it's been culturally determined.
But more recently, the work that I focused on, was the work of female scholars translating some lesser-known Zen teachers, from the Korean tradition and the Japanese and Chinese tradition, that these were woman scholars translating the work of lesser-known women. From there, I found stories of women history, how they emerged within their family structure, their life, and began to practice with a teacher. So there were more details and texture to these women as people, and also from stories from their students about how these women were as people. From there, I was able to, and this was the toughest part about writing this book actually, was to find a way to organize the material, because in the male Zen lineage, we go by teacher to student. There's always a so-called historical… and it follows through time that a male teacher transmits to another male teacher and we follow the tradition that way. But, there is no such lineage in the female tradition cause the woman's lineage often didn't survive. So, the most difficult part of this work for me was finding a way to organize the material and when I read the stories of the newly translated female teachers, Zen female teachers, I saw that they had common experiences, throughout Asia because of the common cultural background, and they also showed a certain kind of leadership, which was, they were very good at founding and managing temples, they were very good at adapting the practice to teach women who didn't know how to read so they could make changes in the way women practice to bring them in.
They were also very strong on relating to their communities and offering social services. So, besides the life stories of these women, and how they came to practice just in the same way that men did, in that they had some inspiration or longing. To realize themselves spiritually. Besides that, they also had various obstacles to overcome. Which is a most historical, Zen world, women had no legal rights. So, they had to answer first to their father, then to their husbands, and then to their sons. So they had to legal rights, for example, to make the choice to become a Zen nun. Or they had no rights, to leave the family and become ordained because the family wanted them to continue the family lineage and have children. So, many of them had these obstacles in common. And I found that the stories of how they struggled with these difficulties in their family and in their lives were very similar to what we need to face in the West today because we're, most of us practicing in the midst of family and family obligations. And most of us are also practicing in a way where we're not supported financially. So the stories of these women's lives and how they found their way through practice while embedded in family relationships as well as without financial support, they had to find ways to finance themselves. I think is very applicable to the development of Western Zen practice.
Vince: Yeah, that's a great point. And how do you specifically see the lessons that are kind of, Zen women forbearers are brought to their particular issues, how do you see the lessons they learned being specifically applicable?
Grace: What I think we need to do is put more emphasis on adapting the practice. There are many of us who have absorbed the formal training practices from our Asian ancestors. In that, we know how to wear the robes more or less, we'll never look like we can like the Japanese in their robes, but because we… it's just foreign to us. But many of us have learned to do those things and to do the rituals as they're taught in, for example, I've been taught in Japan. But that's not quite enough to carry over the practice and make it alive in our everyday life. And also, I don't think it's that attractive to many of the young students who are beginning to practice Buddhism.
Vince: Right
Grace: They're not that interested in some of these formal practices. They want to know how Zen Buddhism can help them in their lives, with their work, and their personal relationships. What these women did was find ways to adapt the practice even while they lived at home to use everything in their family life or in their work life as part o their offering of practice. So they were able to bring mindfulness and presence to the situation they were in. They also adapted the training to include connecting with the community, doing devotional practices like sewing, flower arranging, and so on. So that they could transmit the presence and mindfulness and apply it to everyday activities and everyday relationships.
Vince: Nice. And we had talked just a little bit earlier, before this interview, and you'd mentioned another interesting point, which is that most of these women were also really heavily involved in running families and organizations, and they had a lot of acumen when it came to that, and that was something we could also learn from them. I was wondering if you could say a little bit about that topic.
Grace: Well one of the interesting things about practice, is that if we look at the way it came to us in the West. The Asian teachers who came over had all practiced as young men, I'm talking about Maezumi Roshi, Suzuki Roshi, Katagiri Roshi, and so on. These teachers and some of the Korean teachers. These teachers had all practiced as young men in monasteries, and that is the practice that they brought to us. And we were delighted of course to have it. And we have transformed it and liberate it. But to take it to the next level, we need to know how to practice in our lives in the world. So women who come to practice, often who have come as young women, have not yet had a family or had children, and so they tend to drop out when that's going on and then maybe re-enter the practice when they're older and maybe not feel as connected, because the practice is aimed at the activity of young men or young people who can sort of divorce themselves, or at least the formal practice, from their everyday life and focus their life on this formal and monastic training which is very valuable but not all there is. So I think that the skew that women learns in balancing relationships within the family and managing their households are very important skills that help women and provide the leadership that they have from these experiences in developing intimate relationships and good practice environment for people in temples. So having spent time in a family context, and I saw this historically, that women who spent time in family contexts when they did develop a temple, they were able to bring those skills and their warmth and connectedness into their temple life and into training other women.
Vince: Nice. That's a really interesting point and it's just interesting that because there's not much written record of women's Zen until recently that that connection would be made, really.
Grace: No. And what is sad today, and I've heard that, its that its very interesting to notice that in the West women more than men, in a certain way, are forming their own temples, that they seem to have an easier time starting a temple. And I think it's probably true in my lineage that there are more women who have sort of left the large training institutions; for example San Francisco Zen Center amidst [Stanley], or Berkley Zen Center amidst it's location, have left that setting to create their own temple than there are men. And the reason, I believe, is because women do have this inherent or expected, where ever it came from, cultural or biological ability, to run a household. They are expected to and they know how to, so that's one reason why we go out and create temples. There is another reason why, which is, we do not expect to inherit a temple from our male teacher. So this sort of first generation of Western teachers, there has yet to be a successful transmission where a temple has been passed from a male founder to a female disciple by the founder himself. Yes of course the San Francisco Zen Center there have been female abbesses, but they were elected by committees. It wasn't a transmission from one teacher, for example Shunryu Suzuki passed his temple to Richard Baker and so on and Maezumi did to a male, and yes women were later brought in when there were difficulties. But somehow it's harder to cross that gender gap for the male teacher to pass their temple on to a female disciple, perhaps because there's not quite an identification, you know across the gender that I can really see this is the best representation of my dharma in female form from a man, and or, as happened with Kapleau Roshi, when he passed his temple on to Toni Packer, it wasn't so acceptable particularly I've heard the young male of the temple, and it was not a good match for them practice-wise, so she had to go out and create her own center.
Vince: One thing I found interesting is that the way you close the book, is by talking about female spirituality and in particular you mention Prajnaparamita. I thought it was interesting because often where I meditate with my wife, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, there's in the main hall on the alter there is a statue of the Buddha, and then right next to the Buddha a statue of Prajnaparamita. And I just found it interesting that you explored the importance of Prajnaparamita, and I was wondering if you could say a little something about her and her role as a Buddhist figure?
Grace: Well you know what was interesting to me as I was researching this, well there were a couple of interesting things actually, one is that the original Prajnaparamita sutra is called "The Great Mother," so that the feminine side of Buddhism is indebted and yet not revealed in what's been passed on to us. We don't, when we chant Heart Sutra, say "The Great Mother Heart Sutra", we say "The Heart Sutra. So I think that's an important point and it is that coming forth from emptiness, everything is formed out of emptiness, and you hear about it in other traditions too, the Great Mother image.
In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, and Mistress of the word of God.
And you also see it in the Tao: "The Tao is called the Great Mother, empty and inexhaustible." So there is a feminine foundation to our practice. And yet as our practice has traveled to various cultures it doesn't come out. The other thing is the bodhisattva will always maintain a motherly mind, we hear it referred to. And yet it's not manifest as it could be in our practice. And also in Suzuki Roshi. This was the other interesting part of this. That he refers to emptiness as a mother. He says, "Because we have lost our mother's bosom, we do not feel like her child anymore. Yet fading away into emptiness can feel like being in our mother's bosom."
So there's something about letting go into the unformed, into the non-differentiated consciousness or awareness that is about returning to the feminine. So I think bringing these elements that are actually in our practice, rather than trying to force some new image on our practice, it's a very important way we make our practice more whole. And remove some of the stereotypical inhibitions that have been created through patriarchal cultures that Buddhism has traveled through.
And one of the things that I think is very important, and which I wanted to bring out in my book, is how relating to the female ancestors helps us in our ability to transform Zen into something that penetrates our lives more deeply. One of the questions that people have most often in the formal Zen practice place is, "I know what to do when I'm in the Zendo. But I don't know what to do when I walk out onto the street and back into my life." And because we're imitating or reenacting rituals that were developed within an Asian context and Asian culture, we need to find ways to explore rituals that mean something in our own culture. And adapt the practice in ways so that people who are living in lay-life have as deep an experience as people who are practicing in a monastic setting.
And I believe that studying the female ancestors authenticates the notion that lay-life and the community of family life can yield as great an awakening as practicing in the monastery. That doesn't mean that we can throw out monastic practice entirely. But most of us in the west are not going to live our lives in monasteries. And when I went and studied in Japan I realized not only were the people who were studying Zen very young and male [Laughs], but also they only did it for a few years. They didn't live in the temple for their whole life. So they came out, and they found how their practice would hold up in the stewing pot of being with family, being with friends, and being at work. And I think that studying the female ancestors helps us to think about how we can adapt the practice that we've been doing. Because they did a lot of adaptation with the practice to make it fit their actual lives. And I know that it's very important.
And it's always said, "You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater," regarding the formal practices that were brought over. The rituals that were brought over that were part of our training. But we need to adapt. And the Buddha said this too: "Wherever my practice goes, it should be taught in the language and the customs of the country that it's in." So there needs to be some work done to cross the divide between what happens in formal practice and what happens in our actual lives. And the female ancestors help provide some context for that.


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University of Western Ontario - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI)
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NBER Working Paper No. w3377
This paper both discusses and evaluates the role of tax policy in the Korean growth process from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. It begins by reviewing the evolution of Korean policy over this developmental sequence, emphasizing three distinct regime switches, and the tax policies which were part of them. It then presents an analytical framework for quantitative assessment of the contribution of tax policies to this growth through induced intersectoral resource transfers and impacts on effort and labour supply in agriculture and manufacturing sectors. What emerges from the model calculations is that tax policy has played a relatively modest role in Korean growth and that one should look outside of tax policy for the main factors underlying strong Korean growth.
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Rafael Nadal won his record-tying sixth Roland Garros title in Paris. The other players inside the top four in the tournament were Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.
They are the undisputed four best tennis players in the world today.
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Body-to-body networks could be the future of mobile communications
At a major sporting event I attended recently, it proved impossible to get a connection on a mobile network that was swamped as many of the 100,000 strong crowd attempted to contact friends and family. While the influx of calls was the result of a thrilling draw, it highlighted the weakness of overloaded communications networks that would struggle in the event of a disaster in a heavily populated area. A new system being developed by researchers at Queen's University Belfast could turn this weakness into a strength by allowing members of the public carrying wearable sensors to form the backbone of new mobile Internet networks.
The system being investigated by engineers from Queen's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) is similar to the mesh network "batphones" being developed by researchers in Australia and the new device-to-device wireless technology developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. It would create new ultra high bandwidth mobile Internet infrastructures through the use of small sensors carried by members of the public in devices such as next generation smartphones. These sensors could communicate with each other, transmitting data to create potentially vast body-to-body networks (BBNs) to provide 'anytime, anywhere' mobile Internet connectivity.
Dr Simon Cotton, from ECIT's wireless communications research group said: "In the past few years a significant amount of research has been undertaken into antennas and systems designed to share information across the surface of the human body. Until now, however, little work has been done to address the next major challenge which is one of the last frontiers in wireless communication – how that information can be transferred efficiently to an off-body location.
"The availability of body-to-body networks could bring great social benefits, including significant healthcare improvements through the use of bodyworn sensors for the widespread, routine monitoring and treatment of illness away from medical centers. This could greatly reduce the current strain on health budgets and help make the Government's vision of healthcare at home for the elderly a reality.
"If the idea takes off, BBNs could also lead to a reduction in the number of base stations needed to service mobile phone users, particularly in areas of high population density. This could help to alleviate public perceptions of adverse health associated with current networks and be more environmentally friendly due to the much lower power levels required for operation."
The technology could also be used to improve the performance of mobile gaming or for live streaming of music and sports events. One specific example put forward by the team (see main pic) would see someone streaming video of an act on stage at a concert to a friend who is doing what good friends do and standing in a queue to get some drinks. The information stream consisting of short packets of video data would be passed from person to person and routed to the queuing friend's smartphone. While the other people at the concert relaying the information would all contribute a little of their device's energy and bandwidth to achieve this, it would not require their explicit knowledge as the smartphone software would look after it.
The Queen's University Belfast team is collaborating with a number of experts to develop a range of models for wireless channels required for body centric communications. The team is hoping this will provide the basis for the development of the antennas, wireless devices and networking standards required to make BBNs a reality.
"Success in this field will not only bring major social benefits it could also bring significant commercial rewards for those involved. Even though the market for wearable wireless sensors is still in its infancy, it is expected to grow to more than 400 million devices annually by 2014," said Dr Cotton.


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Their assailant had turned on the gas in the apartment before leaving, possibly in an attempt to start a fire, but another building resident smelled gas and called 911.


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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court issued a mixed bag of opinions on Arizona's controversial immigration law, striking down three of the four key provisions.
The ruling specifically weighed Arizona's law but has much wider implications.
When Arizona ratified Senate bill 1070, state lawmakers really took the lead in writing their own immigration enforcement laws. Since then, other states tried to follow its lead, including Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah.
Reaction to the ruling was split just as it was for the justices, disappointing both supporters and opponents.
"This is a dark day for civil rights in America," Deepak Vhargava, with the Center for Community Change, said.
Jordan Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, explained why some consider the high court's ruling a victory and the effect it will have on other states following John Jessup's report.
For reaction and analysis on the Supreme Court decision, CBN News spoke with Brad Jacob, associate professor of constitutional law at Regent University.
Click play for his comments on how the ruling may affect laws in other states and what this could mean for future immigration policy.
The justices struck down three provisions of the Arizona law, including:
But they upheld the "show me your papers" provision, which requires law enforcement to check the status of someone they suspect is in the country illegally.
"We have to stop following Arizona's footsteps of pursuing policies based on hatred and fear," Marielena Hincapie, with the Immigration Law Centre, said.
At issue is whether state immigration laws infringe on what is traditionally seen as a federal prerogative.
"It is fundamental that foreign countries concerned about the status, safety, and security of their nationals in the United States must be able to confer and communicate on this subject with one national sovereign, not the 50 separate states," the justices said for the majority opinion.
Supporters of Arizona's law say the ruling does nothing to address America's broken immigration system.
"Now the state of Arizona and all 50 states are at the mercy of the federal government as to which aspects of the federal this president decides he going to enforce on any given day," Ken Klukowski, with the American Civil Rights Union, said.
"Which, I guess, in part, will determine how close we are to the election and how much he thinks he needs those votes," he added.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia appealed to states' abilities to maintain their soveriegnty.
"Arizona moved to protect its sovereignty-not in contradiction of federal law, but in complete compliance with it," he wrote.
"If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign state," he said.
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said he believes the law and the ruling further divides Americans.
"Whether we agree or disagree, we're all tied together by one blanket and it's torn at the social fabric," he said.
Ultimately, the court's decision put the debate squarely back on Washington to once and for all come up with a solution.
"No one believes that comprehensive immigration reform is going to happen in this Congress, but I am hopeful," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said. "I'm optimistic that something might able to get done in the next Congress. It needs to happen."
Monday's ruling shows Democrats and Republicans widely agree that immigration reform is badly needed and that it certainly won't happen until after this next election.
Still, the Arizona case is far from settled. There are several challenges, both political and legal, to the "show me your papers" provision.
Justice Anthony Kennedy acknowledged uncertainty with how the law will be interpreted and enforced, suggesting that the ruling does not foreclose other constitutional challenges to it after it goes into effect.
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Larimer Humane Society is excited to offer educational presentations to schools, scouts and seniors, as well as community and faith-based organizations. Our humane education presentations closely align with our mission, which is to promote and provide information on the responsible care and treatment of animals, and center around teaching others to value, respect and care about the animals residing in our community, both domestic and wild.
If your group is interested in having one of our humane educators visit with your school or group, please contact our community relations department at 970-226-3647 ext. 146 or via email.
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Introduction to Larimer Humane Society
Through this presentation, participants will be introduced to Larimer Humane Society – its vision, mission, programs and services. Additionally, participants will learn the role our shelter plays in the community and how individuals can become involved to help the homeless, ill, injured and orphaned wild and domestic animals in Larimer County.
Pet Care 101
Adopting a pet is fun and exciting, but there are many facets to pet ownership to consider before bringing an animal into your life. Through this interactive presentation, participants will learn what it truly takes to care for a pet, including physical, emotional, time and monetary requirements. Comparisons will be drawn between human and animal needs.
Animal Communication & Dog Safety
Did you know six in 10 children will be bitten by a dog by the time they turn 12? We can keep ourselves safe - and tell a lot about how an animal is feeling - by how it looks, moves or positions its body. Through this presentation, participants will learn common animal body language; the various ways that companion animals communicate that they are comfortable, relaxed, scared or angry; and why it is important to understand animal communication for personal safety. Special focus is placed on recognizing a dog's body language, how to approach and meet a friendly dog, and how to react when a dog approaches you.
Animal Careers (K-4)
Ask a group of students who love animals what they want to be when they grow up, and they'll all say, "A veterinarian!" Many students may automatically say "veterinarian" because they're excited about working with animals, but don't quite realize there are numerous other careers to choose from in the animal welfare industry. In this presentation, students will learn about various careers in animal welfare, including the veterinarian, shelter manager, animal protection and control officer, adoption counselor, animal trainer, kennel assistant and more!
Animal Cops
Television shows about animal cops are sweeping the ratings on cable networks across the country – and with good reason – the life of an animal protection and control officer is an exciting and important one! Through this presentation, participants will learn about the role and responsibilities of an animal protection and control officer, local animal ordinances and how they are enforced, and key issues in animal welfare including pet licensing, leash laws, excessive breeding, animal hoarding and animal cruelty.
Pet Overpopulation
Did you know that 70,000 puppies and kittens are born daily in the U.S., compared to only 10,000 human beings? Pet overpopulation, the term used to describe the condition of having more pets than there are homes, is one of the leading challenges facing shelters and animal welfare advocates today. Through this presentation, students will learn some of the staggering statistics on pet overpopulation and how spaying and neutering pets is an important part of the solution to reducing the number of animals without homes. Topics will be presented through thought-provoking activities.
Pet Identification & Licensing
We've all experienced what it's like to be lost or separated from our familiar surroundings. For our pets, this experience can be frightening and potentially dangerous especially if they do not have identification or license tags that indicate where they live and who their owner is. Through this interactive presentation involving imagery and creative writing, students will learn about the importance of pet identification and licensing and how they help to keep pets safe and ensure that they make their way home if they ever get lost.
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Using the Web to Survey and Inform Urban Adolescents about Health
This project was a collaborative research-practice conducted jointly by Ipas, headquartered in Chapel Hill, and the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The principal investigators were Ellen Mitchell at Ipas and Carolyn Tucker Halpern at UNC-CH.
There were four primary objectives for the collaboration:
- to collect information, through a school-based, longitudinal research survey design, on the reproductive health and socioeconomic welfare of urban adolescents living in Kenya and Brazil;
- to test the feasibility of the World Wide Web as a secure and reliable mechanism by which to conduct repeated survey measurements, as indicated by relative attrition, missing data, and cost effectiveness;
- to assess the attractiveness and utility of the web to disseminate information and improve knowledge about health, especially reproductive health, to adolescents;
- to disseminate information about adolescent health needs that will inform and improve public health policy and practice.
The study design involved collecting data over a one-year period from 1500 students in three experimental and two control schools in Nairobi. All students completed one paper module. The students in the three experimental schools completed five modules using the web. Knowledge of key reproductive health topics was assessed at three points (modules 1, 4, and 6). Modules 4 - 6 directed students to web-based information: all students were directed to general information (e.g., what is emergency contraception), and students who reported specific experiences (e.g., sexual violence) were directed to community resources for those experiences. As an incentive to participate, all students at the experimental schools were given time to surf the web or do email after completing each module. Students in the control schools completed a second paper module at about the time that students in experimental schools were completing their final web-based module. Data collection started in Nairobi in April 2002 and ended in September 2003.
A similar study was conducted in Rio de Janeiro. It involved four experimental schools and one control school. Results from the two projects are available in the dissemination reports linked on this page. In addition, the following papers have been published from these data:
Halpern CT, Mitchell EMH, Farhat T, Bardsley P. Effectiveness of web-based education on Kenyan and Brazilian adolescents' knowledge about HIV/AIDS, abortion law, and emergency contraception: Findings from TeenWeb. Soc Sci Med, 2008;67: 628-637.
Mitchell EMH, Halpern CT, Kamathi EM, Owino S. Social scripts and stark realities: Kenyan adolescents' abortion discourse. Cult Health Sex, 2006;8: 515-528.
Yotebieng M, Halpern CT, Mitchell EMH, Adimora AA. Correlates of condom use among secondary-school male students in Nairobi, Kenya. SAHARA J, 2009;6(1): 9-16.


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The incident happened just before 10 p.m. Saturday on Greenfield Road (Route 5/10), where Officer Mark Puchalski was conducting radar training with Officer Nick Pickunka.
The speeding vehicle was in the middle of the road and slowed down to 91 mph as it passed the officers, who pursued and stopped the car. The driver, 58-year-old Michael Mackin of Turners Falls, "was clearly intoxicated," Paciorek said.
Mackin, who told officers he started drinking that afternoon, fell into a puddle and failed a standard field sobriety test, Paciorek said.
Police charged Mackin with operating under the influence of alcohol, driving to endanger, speeding, and a marked lanes violation. Paciorek said Mackin declined to submit to an alcohol breath test at the police station.
He was expected to be arraigned in Greenfield District Court, but hearing details were not immediately available.


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House Gumbo with File Rice 6.
New Orleans Style BBQ Shrimp 10.
rosemary biscuit, citrus honey
Yellow Fin Tuna Tartare "Kentuckyaki" 11.
toasted benne seeds, crispy parsnips,
peanut vinaigrette
Fried Green Tomatoes 8.
tomato preserves, Crescent City remoulade
Jar of Chicken Liver Pâté 9.
mirliton pickles, Creole mustard, onion jam,
grilled bread
Pan Roasted Calamari 10.
muffaletta toast, preserved lemon,
sweet garlic emulsion
PEI Mussels 10.
sautéed mussels, chickpeas, house made
andouille, sweet peppers, grilled tomato butter
Cracker Jack" Salad 7.
country ham cracklin', spinach, roasted
apple vinaigrette, caramel corn, peanuts,
farmers cheese
Kale Salad 8.
cranberry, goat cheese crumbles,
candied pecans, shallot, lemon vinaigrette
Janie's Wedge Salad 9.
cherry tomatoes, crispy onion rings,
blue cheese emulsion, warm bacon vinaigrette
Caesar Salad 7.
creamy, toasted anchovy vinaigrette,
aged parmesan, crouton, grated lemon
Roasted Ashley Farms Chicken 12.
bucatini, blistered red peppers, wild mushroom, tarragon cream sauce
Wild Pink Shrimp & Cortez Bottarga 16.
capellini, sweet peas, toasted garlic, basil, mint, lemon, grated parmesan
Voodoo Crawfish 14.
linguini, olives, capers, toasted garlic, chilis,
Creole tomato sauce
Smoked Pulled Pork 12.
rustic peach BBQ, thyme, farmers cheese
Short Rib 13.
caramelized onion, wild mushroom &
tarragon purée, toasted garlic, blue cheese
Roasted Vegetable 12.
popcorn pesto, Cortez bottarga
Caprese 12.
tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil, torn basil,
balsamic glaze
Prime Burger 12.
smoked cheddar, brioche bun, toasted garlic fries
Lindy Lou's Fish Tacos 16.
fish of the day, toasted peanut slaw, house made smoked garlic hot sauce, farmers cheese, dirty rice
Shrimp & Grits 24.
Gulf shrimp, Anson Mills cheddar grits,
andouille gravy
Cornmeal Crusted Red Snapper 24.
dirty rice, watercress, Crescent City remoulade
Ashley Farms Chicken Breast 19.
bacon braised collard greens, roasted tomato
bread pudding, sweet garlic reduction
Grilled Double Cut Pork Chop 24.
pulled pork and maple hash, caramelized
Brussels sprouts, crispy onions, molé sauce
Braised Short Ribs 21.
garlic mashed potatoes, wild mushrooms,
baby green bean, red wine reduction
Yellow Fin Tuna 25.
green onion-sweet corn fritter, salad of watercress, pickled mirliton, radish & red pepper,
crawfish bordelaise
Catch of the Day market.
sweet corn succotash, Cortez bottarga,
Anson Mills stone ground grits
Southern Fried Tofu & Waffles 16.
braised kale, toasted garlic caramel
Simple Grills
Petite Filet market.
Skirt Steak 19.
Ashley Farms Free Range Chicken Breast 19.
Wild Scottish Salmon 19.
Catch of the Day market.
Florida Keys Pink Shrimp 24.
Starch: roasted garlic mashed potatoes, herb roasted Yukon gold potatoes,
toasted garlic French fries
Veggies: green beans, Brussels sprouts
Sauce: Crescent City remoulade, preserved lemon butter,
house made Worcestershire, blue cheese glacage
For the Little Ones
Coleman's All Natural Crispy Chicken Tenders
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Snake River Farms Hot Hog
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Grilled Salmon
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Pasta, Butter and Parmesan
Cheese Pizza
Dark & Stormy
ginger curd, caramelized pineapple, coconut crumble
Bread Pudding Beignets
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Chocolate Custard
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It's official: The brief but colorful marriage of Oscar winners Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton -- who once sealed their love with tattoos and shared vials of blood -- was over as of Tuesday, according to court papers obtained by the Smoking Gun Web site.
While most details of the uncontested divorce will remain confidential, documents do reveal that Jolie, 27, has waived her rights to spousal support payments from Thornton, 47, who is closely approaching Elizabeth Taylor's divorce record. (She's had seven, having been widowed once. Thornton now has five.)
The couple has reportedly drawn up a separate agreement concerning the custody of their 21-month-old adopted son Maddox insofar as visitation rights and support payments are concerned.
Jolie's lawyer, Laura Wasser, declined to tell the Smoking Gun whether her client would have sole or shared custody of Maddox. "It was a big point in the divorce that things remained confidential," the attorney said. "It would be a disservice to both of them to provide those kinds of details."
There has been no comment from Thornton or his representatives.
Jolie filed for divorce from the actor and "Sling Blade" auteur last July, just months after adopting their Cambodian-born child.
At the time, the "Girl, Interrupted" Oscar winner and UN Goodwill Ambassador was seeking sole custody of Maddox, with Thornton (who has two sons and a daughter from his previous marriages) to be granted visitation rights.
She also wanted to keep "miscellaneous jewelry and other personal effects," as well as her earnings since the day she and Thornton separated. That was stated as being June 3, 2002.
Jolie, Thornton Union Officially Kaput


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