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Will Iran Dupe the World Again?
Op-Ed, The Jerusalem Post
November 11, 2004
Author: Brenda Shaffer, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 19992007; Former Research Director, Caspian Studies Program, 20002005; Former Research Director, Caspian Studies Project, 20052007
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security
European ministers are imploring Teheran to reinstate last year's violated no-nuke commitment
You have to hand it to Iranian diplomacy. Heads of state, scores of ministers, and senior representatives from a number of the world's most powerful nations are working ardently to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons. Yet from diplomatic crisis to diplomatic crisis, Teheran continues to maintain the upper hand.
The current crisis is a milestone: The last meeting of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors resolved that if suspicions still existed by its November 25 meeting, Iran's case would be referred to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
As November 25 approaches, intensive international diplomatic activity is taking place, with the United States promoting referral to the Security Council; while others, mainly Europe and China, are trying to avert Security Council action.
At this crucial juncture, only concerted navigation will likely reduce Iran's ability to cross the nuclear weapon threshold and secure its existing fissile material stock from terrorists.
A year ago, Teheran was on the brink of UN Security Council sanctions. In October 2003, on the eve of a similar IAEA deadline, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and the UK flew to Teheran, and Iran committed itself to suspending uranium enrichment activities in exchange for shielding from Security Council action.
Now, after a year of Iranian noncompliance with this commitment and more discovered infractions of Iran's Nonproliferation Treaty and other nuclear obligations, the European ministers are back at the negotiating table, imploring Iran to re-agree to last year's violated commitment.
Iranian sources are reporting that a European-brokered deal is imminent. Only this time, not only are the European ministers willing to save Iran from the Security Council, but they have offered to sweeten the deal with a much sought-after trade agreement and potentially even a light water nuclear reactor.
A newly linked commitment in this reported form would not only reward Iran with a better deal after a year of continued nuclear violations, but could push Moscow away from the cooperative stance it has adopted.
In the past year and a half, Moscow's actions on the Iranian nuclear program have been responsible and constructive. Europe's offer to supply a light water reactor will be viewed by Moscow — and rightly so — as Europe's attempt to undercut Russia and make its own inroad into the Iranian nuclear market.
Under such conditions, Moscow will be pressed to preserve its economic position in Iran, thus reluctant to reduce its cooperation in the nuclear sphere.
The timing is excellent for Teheran to negotiate: The US military is bogged down in Iraq, the US presidential elections are over, and Iranian diplomacy is poised to play world powers off each other to gain more rewards for recommitting to the last agreement that it failed to keep.
What strategy would be effective toward this latest international crisis over Iran's nuclear weapons program?
First, China and Japan have considerable leverage over Iran and Europe on this issue, and must be enlisted. Both countries are negotiating mega-investment contracts in the Iranian energy sector — Japan in oil and China in natural gas. These two mammoth contracts are highly prized sources of investment for Teheran, as well as an important signal to Iran that business can continue as usual despite its nuclear transgressions.
Suspended negotiation on these contracts will affect Iran as well as Europe. After Iran's failure to fulfill its October 2003 commitments to the European foreign ministers, coupled with significant backtracking this year on democratization, the Europeans should be careful not to be the only ones helping Iran escape Security Council action. Washington should lead the effort to bring China and Japan on to the team.
Next, all concerned nations should coordinate policy efforts on a secure control structure over Iran's fissile materials to ensure that they do not reach the hands of terrorists — either inadvertently or intentionally.
Iran's ultimate possession of nuclear weapons is only part of the danger.
A more serious and immediate threat — one that the US and Europe share — is that Iran's nuclear materials are scattered about the country in various locations. An inner circle within the regime controls these facilities. Most of the political leadership — including President Khatami — does not have a clue as to the whereabouts of all of the Iranian nuclear program's sites, never mind exercising any control over them.
In a time of regime chaos in Iran, terrorists may either acquire unsecured nuclear materials themselves or have such bomb ingredients transferred to them for financial gain by fleeing regime hardliners.
Furthermore, President George Bush should not be caught off guard by the Iranian nuclear program. The November 25 meeting is both a turning point and an opportunity. The trigger mechanism is in place — the IAEA will refer Iran to the Security Council if suspicions are not allayed. Post-election elation and cabinet turnover should not distract the Bush administration from exploiting this favorable circumstance.
Washington's efforts to keep Russia, China and Japan on board can help turn the November 25 IAEA meeting into a useful instrument that can put political and economic constraints in place on Iran. These constraints can complicate and slow down Iran's drive to nuclear weapons, but probably not stop it.
When crafting the next policy stage, concerned governments should consider not only stopping the budding nuclear weapons program but preventing the loss of nuclear materials to terrorist organizations.
The writer is a research fellow at the International Security Program at Harvard University and the Harvey and Connie Krueger scholar at the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Training in Lesotho
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|Pre-service training will probably be the most intense period of your Peace Corps service, as you will need to gain the knowledge and experience necessary to successfully serve as a Volunteer in just 10 weeks. While the training period will be extremely busy, it should also be a time of excitement, discovery, and self-fulfillment. The effort and challenges of adapting to a new culture will draw on your reserves of patience and humor but will be handsomely rewarded with a sense of belonging among new friends.
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All new Volunteers arriving in Lesotho are provided with a nine- to 10-week pre-service training program prior to their posting. The training provides skills development in Sesotho, cross-cultural communication, and Volunteers' particular job assignments. Sessions also cover specific medical and security conditions in Lesotho, first-aid instruction, and the historical, economic, political, and development issues facing Lesotho and southern Africa. Sesotho language classes and cultural training make up more than 65 percent of pre-service training.
Training is a special time that may, at times, seem very intense. During training, the Peace Corps gives you the knowledge and training necessary to become a productive Peace Corps Volunteer. Sometimes the knowledge given to you may not seem relevant to what you think you will be doing as a Volunteer. However, it is usually months after becoming a Volunteer that you realize why the Peace Corps trained you in these areas. Coming to training with an open mind and the ability to be flexible will help you adjust to a new environment and the journey you are about to undertake.
New Volunteers recruited to work in Lesotho are brought into the country in two training groups annually. One group, consisting of education Volunteers, arrives in mid October to early November, and a second group of community health and development Volunteers arrives in June.
Overview of Pre-Service Training
The first two weeks of pre-service training are conducted at a central training center. The next five weeks consist of community-based training, in which trainees live with Basotho host families in rural communities. The remaining weeks take place at the training center.
=Technical Training
Technical training refers to the specific job that you have been invited to assist with, such as education, youth development, community development, or health advising. While you should already have some background and interest in the area of your assignment, the training will prepare you to work in Lesotho by building on the skills you already have and helping you develop new skills in a manner appropriate to the needs and issues of the country.
Language Training
As a Peace Corps Volunteer, you will find that language skills are the key to personal and professional satisfaction during your service. These skills are critical to your job performance, they help you integrate into your host community, and they can ease your personal adaptation to the new surroundings. You will take part in structured Sesotho lessons given by Basotho instructors. At the completion of pre-service training, you will be tested by a certified language examiner, who will rate your ability in spoken Sesotho. In order for you to be sworn in as a Volunteer, you will need to attain a certain level of language proficiency. This is critical for you to function at the community level.
Volunteers who wish to continue their Sesotho training after pre-service training may hire a tutor. Peace Corps/Lesotho provides financial reimbursement for continuing language lessons.
Cross-Cultural Training
As part of your pre-service training, you will live with a Basotho host family. This experience is designed to ease your transition to life in Lesotho. Families go through an orientation conducted by Peace Corps staff to explain the purpose of pre-service training and to assist them in helping you adapt to living in Lesotho. Many Volunteers form strong and lasting friendships with their host families.
Cross-cultural sessions will include an explanation of Basotho culture, values, norms, and religious practices, including gender roles, workplace behaviors, and daily life in a village setting. Cross-cultural training also compares American norms and values with those of Basotho and discusses circumstances unique to living as a foreigner in Lesotho. A comprehensive study of the sociopolitical and economic evolution of southern Africa in general and Lesotho in particular is also part of training.
Health Training
During pre-service training, you will be given basic health training and information. You will be expected to practice preventive healthcare and to take responsibility for your own health by adhering to all medical policies. Trainees are required to attend all health sessions. The topics include preventive health measures and minor and major health issues that you might encounter while in Lesotho. Nutrition, mental health, safety and security, setting up a safe living compound, and how to avoid HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are also covered.
Safety Training
During the safety training sessions, you will learn how to adopt a lifestyle that reduces your risks at your home, at work, and during your travels. You will also learn appropriate, effective strategies for coping with unwanted attention and about your individual responsibility for promoting safety throughout your service.
Additional Trainings During Volunteer Service
Peace Corps/Lesotho also conducts several in-service training workshops for Volunteers each year. Each Volunteer is entitled to 15 in-service training days for the entire term of service. Workshops focus on upgrading Volunteer skills in Sesotho language and culture; technical training and resource identification relevant to Volunteers' job assignment; procedures for identifying and implementing community development "secondary" projects; and a review of Peace Corps policies, procedures, and initiatives concerning safety, security, health, and programming.
There is also a close-of-service workshop for Volunteers nearing the end of their service to help prepare them for their return to the United States and life after the Peace Corps.
Training is conducted by Basotho trainers who are hired on short-term contracts. Peace Corps/Lesotho also utilizes sector specialist trainers from the United States on an as-needed basis. Lesotho government officials, current Peace Corps Volunteers, and other local resource persons also deliver sessions on particular topics and assist with the overall training program.
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Please explain how it is one of the most popular manga in the world?
Originally Posted by Unbiased
The original will be superior because kishi actually put work into it. He had a consistent story in the original. Nowadays everything is changing and the timeline which he created he decided to ruin at the end of the story.
How the hell is he going to ruin the ending? Have you seen the plot structure and character development. I doubt you passed highschool english
thiss ^^
Originally Posted by ~Dream~
I don't need to read your wall of text at all. I can get my answer right of by just reading your title.
Shippuden is no disgrace, first of all you probably can't draw and second of all you handle all you can't handle all this drawing, plotting, working, colouring and etc.
Nuff said.
Lol they're getting stronger.
DBZ = Early PT 2
DBGT = Late PT 2
In terms of power levels & stuff..
It would get boring if it was like pt 1 for what, 12 years?
Ninja tactics get thrown out the window when you can toss around TBB's like nothing lmao.
Shippuden has so many things happening at once that it kinda backfired. Kishi created overpowered characters only not be able to deal with them properly due to plot restriction he decided to drive them through unrealistic situations. There's a huge power gap on the Naruto realm, the battles feel rushed, there's power spamming and jutsus that seemed to be conveniently created as the easy way out of certain battles. It's unsatisfying.
Despite this Shippuden is still enjoyable to me. There's new interesting characters, we see more of the Naruto realm, some well made arks here and there and some nice character development.
It's flawed but it's far from a disgrace. Whatever floats on your boat I guess.
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Originally Posted by PureSkillz
Lol they're getting stronger.
DBZ = Early PT 2
DBGT = Late PT 2
In terms of power levels & stuff..
It would get boring if it was like pt 1 for what, 12 years?
Ninja tactics get thrown out the window when you can toss around TBB's like nothing lmao.
what? are you really saying that early shippuden power levelBZ, you high man, and lol at DBGT part, that's just nonsense.
at 1st i was just about to get ready to disagree with everything but then i started reading it and its all accurate i dont like the fights being skipped i hate that i havent seen lee neji hinata kiba go off show there full power its true about the bloody mist thing but even though it is true i must admit have no problem with the straight up fighting it lets me see just whos more powerful i do hate though that its no taijustsu jusy a bunch of throwing jutsu at each other like narutos rasengan with all his power he just keeps throwing them out and with the strongest hokage thing like yes wtf i mean i never considered the third the strongest cause even as an old man you must be able to beat orochimaru and his jutsu didnt seem to be on a powerful enough scale the 4th is my favorite but seeing what madara can do makes me think how strong was the 1st that he was able to stop him and if thats the case why didnt him and the2nd completely obliterate the 3rd
well , i like all the arcs so far , especially the pain & kage arcs the best , the war its gonna get there eventually , although the manga right now right now its getting really hard to read for me at least , i dont mind tobi being obito , but his background story as to why he became like that its completly BS for me , guess we have to wait and see what happens in the end .
the only thing that really pissssi me of its naruto so fixtating with sasuke & obitos powers
Originally Posted by Unbiased
Kisame recognized obito was (he has the same hair as he did when he controlled yagura.) also he said sorry for deceiving you after deidara died and kisame said oh its you.
Look at that post I made.Proof that Obito wasnt controlling Yagura and it wasnt Madara either.
Kishi doesn't focus on stuff , he doesn't want to focus on. by Shippuden your refering to the Naruto post-timeskip? or the anime?? Cause the anime in no way in hell is rushed.. The fillers of Naruto make up for it.
Originally Posted by ~Dream~
I don't need to read your wall of text at all. I can get my answer right of by just reading your title.
Shippuden is no disgrace, first of all you probably can't draw and second of all you handle all you can't handle all this drawing, plotting, working, colouring and etc.
Nuff said.
+1000000000 ^
even if naruto was adjusted to have a real ending, without shippuden, naruto would not be even as popular as bleach, not knocking, just saying it is less popular than naruto. without shipp, this may be bleach base.... for better or for worse
U see it your which is fine, but I like part1 ,and also shippuden I thinks he's allowed 2 take it any direction he wants its not like he's making a remake. He started with the end in mind when creating this so I have no problem with direction he took the series.I think disgrace is 2 strong of a word
I honestly think shippuden is better than the first series(although both are great). Shippuden expanded and opened up the story so much. In part 1 we didn't know anything about the real itachi, lots of major character's pasts(like jiraya for example), who narutos parents really were, other kage, other akatsuki, or how ridiculously powerful Naruto and sasuke have gotten.
Originally Posted by Unbiased
This isn't a troll thread, i'll be giving clear examples as to why it ruins the naruto name. Sorry for any typos im on a phone.
1:The original series was about ninjas. Stealth, tactics, sneaking up on enemies. Shippuden fight scenarios go like this. "character approaches enemy, uses jutsu in front of enemy, disregards anything with tactics, uses same jutsu over again until fight ends". This is how a fight in the original series went down. "character thinks of plan, character attemps to ambush, ambush fails, mixes taijutsu with some ninjutsu attacks, thinks of another plan, repeat. Now shippuden dis start like that "ie naruto and sakura vs kakashi, deidara vs gaara, sasori vs sakura and chiyo" but as the series progressed we get fights like team gai vs clones, naruto vs orochimaru, team kakashi vs sasuke (first time at the hideout), and naruto vs kyuubi. Those were all straight up lets fight without strategy. They're more fights like that where they don't implament strategy or stealth. Kakashi said when naruto appeared on the bridge to help sasuke fight haku that a ninja never uses their jutsu in front of the enemy and does anyone remember the code sentence from the forest of death team 7 used? Shippuden fights consist of nothing ninja related in regards to the first series which made use of it heavily.
2:Consistency is another issue. Its great that stories evolve but disregarding everything you write is just ridiculous. Ages don't add up with whats been happening with the manga. AO stated that yagura was under a genjutsu and thats why the bloody mist happened. Thats inheritantly not true as in 605 the ninja say they're from the bloody mist. We know obito was the one who controlled her so that doesn't add up. Kishi is always changing the strongest hokage like it was the third then fourth and now first. The timeline doesn't add up with the databooks which kishi wrote might I add.
3 the story doesnt have a ninja like feel. It usually makes me think i'm watching dbz or reading dbz. The key elements that make up a ninja are gone. Its not about strategy its abOut whoever has senju dna, sharingan, rinnegan, or who is a perfect jinchurriki. Remember when team 11 wasn't behind naruto in terms of power. For the majority of the series it was like that. Now they're weak and useless....like raditz. All jokes aside in shippuden team 11 character development was disregarded and only naruto, choji, and sasuke got powerful. Sakura kinda did but she lost her resolve somewhere. Another thing that irks me is how the five kage were stated to be powerful and in previous fight it was amazing seeing them wreck faces but against madara raikage wasn't too helpful and mei was good in the beginning but kishi forgot about those two and focused on onoki and tsunade. It seems silly to make someone appear so powerful yet make them look like fodder against the most powerful character. I'll finish with my next point.
4: kishi rushed through the end of shippuden. No kakashi 1000 jutsus, no end to the kages fight, no word from team 11 (which im just gonna start calling them team raditz). I mean naruto didn't feel rushed but shippuden towards the end was rushed. Major fights were left out.
Note this is just my opinion. I do love this series and support kishi by buying his manga, but to me shippuden just doesn't seem like a good successor to the naruto name. Its plagued by inconsistency, ninja elements are not as heavily there, and it feels rushed.
As to the 4th one, which is the only one I've read, Naruto nor Shippuden showed Kakashi's 1000 jutsu, so how does that make it any more of a disgrace? Not saying I like Naruto as much as Bleach....but I think this is more of an opinion, and not at all logical.
Originally Posted by Vexorian
As to the 4th one, which is the only one I've read, Naruto nor Shippuden showed Kakashi's 1000 jutsu, so how does that make it any more of a disgrace? Not saying I like Naruto as much as Bleach....but I think this is more of an opinion, and not at all logical.
he was on a rampage and if I remembered correctly was going to show of the Justus and next thing you know he pops out during naruto and bee vs Tobi
well there've been so many changes, e.g in the part 1 byakugan seems almost on the same level with sharingan but now its just a piece of crap
Plus Rep. That was ****ing good.
i completely agree with all ur points except the part about Naruto shippuden being a disgrace...... ur goin too far with that. i think u could've made ur point without saying that. Otherwise, i think ur thread is very good and ppl reading it should show some respect because wat u say is true but i guess some of these nb fans just cant admit it.... :D
I agree with your points, they've actually bothered me in the past too. Still though, I enjoy Shippuden, therefore I don't see it as a disgrace. The series would be better if your points weren't the case, but as it is, I still like it. +rep though
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BERLIN –Though owners of the Berlin Mall have the requisite permits in hand folks looking forward to shopping at a bigger, better Wal-Mart will likely have to wait awhile.
The lawyer representing the mall's owner told Select Board members Monday night that Wal-Mart probably won't start work on a plan that would add about 26,000 square feet to the local store until this fall.
That bit of news came on a night when board members appointed a seven-member committee to study the best way to safely access Berlin Pond, were told the search for a new town treasurer is underway and plans to build a CVS Pharmacy on the Barre-Montpelier Road are "back on track."
Chuck Storrow, the lawyer representing owners of the Berlin Mall, met briefly with the board to discuss his client's plans for the Fisher Road intersection that is shared by the mall and the Central Vermont Medical Center.
According to Storrow, the mall's owners opted not to challenge a traffic-related condition of the state land-use permit that the District 5 Environmental Commission issued for the project in December. That condition will require an expensive upgrade to the signalized intersection that representatives of the mall maintained was doable, but excessive.
Storrow told the board, creating exclusive left-turn lanes for west-bound traffic entering the mall and east-bound traffic entering the hospital will require replacing existing signals and their supports, in addition to proposed re-striping and a separate requirement for a signalized crosswalk.
Storrow said that work alone could easily cost $250,000 and perhaps as much as $500,000. Engineering plans for the intersection probably won't be complete for another four months and Storrow said work, which must be finished one year from the time construction of the Wal-Mart addition begins, is tentatively planned for this fall.
Asked when Wal-Mart plans to start work, Storrow said a fall ground-breaking appears likely at this time.
Board members are hoping a newly appointed committee will move more swiftly when it comes to identifying what Town Administrator Jeff Schulz described as "the best and safest way to provide public access to Berlin Pond."
The board recently advertised for residents interested in serving on the committee and received 11 applications that they quickly whittled down to seven. Nathan Smead was dropped from consideration because he doesn't live in town, Smead's father, Steve, was ruled out because he didn't submit his own application, Schulz said Sue Rich volunteered to step aside if others stepped up and Jeremy Hansen was discounted because he is running unopposed for a seat on the Select Board and the board's current members agreed they shouldn't serve on the panel.
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Take an original and fascinating journey of discovery of the Polynesian people, a saga of settlers from far off lands looking or new horizons. Hiro Damide, holder of a diploma in heritage preservation, will be your guide through the story of the greatest maritime migration of all time, the peopling of Polynesia from ocean-going canoes. He will take you to the cultural site of Tetiiroa Marae and the little Museum of Moorea where you will learn more of the history, beliefs and way-of-life of those extraordinary navigators and adventurers.
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The identity of a people is expressed in what it eats. Hiro will introduce you to the traditional foods of our land, our fenua, and how they have evolved over the many years of the maohi people's saga. He will tell you about the start of commerce in foodstuffs, the introduction of foods from elsewhere, the dietary and agricultural practices of his ancestors.
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What is in this article?:
- Allocating water resources requires balance
- Limited resource
• Water policy makers will need to determine how to value water.
• Meeting water use goals requires a sometimes delicate balancing act.
• Drought affects public perception.
Water. We take it for granted.
We assume that when we turn on the faucet we'll have enough to sustain us — keep us clean, cook our food, quench our thirst, water our lawns and wash our cars. We also assume that grocery stores will always provide enough bread, fruit, vegetables and meat to feed us.
We may not always consider, however, that meeting all those goals requires a sometimes delicate balancing act to guarantee adequate water to produce our food and flush our toilets.
That equilibrium will become even more difficult as populations grow and water demand increases, says Brian Hurd, New Mexico State University department of agricultural economics and agricultural business.
Hurd, addressing a Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Water Conference in Santa Fe, said balancing the needs of various water users will require unprecedented cooperation and innovation.
"To balance is to value; we can't balance unless we can weigh," said Hurd, adding water policy makers will need to determine how to value water use before they can determine how to allocate it.
For agriculture, users must determine the number of acre feet of water necessary to produce an acre of any crop. They also have to determine opportunity costs to differentiate one use from another. They need to identify the total economic value of water and achieve economic efficiency in allocations.
Users and policymakers, he said, must "recognize the resource value and make good decisions. The total economic value is a powerful concept."
Agriculture will need to develop more efficient water use methods. He said farms and ranches account for some 70 percent of both ground and surface water use in New Mexico.
It may be possible that agriculture could be called on to transfer water to other users in time of drought — "not all of agriculture's water but a percentage," he said. "Agriculture needs to be reasonable to (consider) different proposals."
He said cities are already trying to balance supply and demand. "El Paso and Santa Fe have good stories to tell on water balancing."
Agriculture also faces climate and weather challenges in determining water needs. Changes in the Rio Grande stream flow, for instance, are of crucial concern. Seasonal flow is altered by drought.
A warmer climate affects water demand. "High temperature dries things out and reduces runoff, and that affects downstream users. Irrigation demand also increases."
Those changes, Hurd said, alter traditional agriculture and affect rural communities.
Drought also affects public perception. "The drought that's deeply imbedded across the country may mean people lose sight of where their food comes from. A lot of water is included in food production. Consumers see farmers using a lot of water, and they don't understand."
Agriculture must do a better job of communicating the importance of water for food production. He said water is "a renewable resource — for the most part."


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Illusionary Tactics
Yesterday, my unequivocally nefarious and visually challenged colleague, Mr. Krause, finally posted his two-month late debt which required him to pose for the camera while proudly donning St. Louis Cardinals merchandise accentuated by a bright, broad smile across his face. Obviously, there is little doubt as to how disingenuous the smile was; but I must admit that even I was shocked at just how low Mr. Krause stooped to eschew what would be considered by everyone else in the world to be a rightly just punishment.
Here is the picture:
Sure. On the surface, everything seems in order… until we zoom in a little closer (thanks for the assist, Jonestein):
Hmm. Is that a photocopy of the regal S-T-L taped on your cap, Al? And what is that underneath the pasted cover-up? Is… is that… is that a Washington Nationals cap!?!?!?! (click *here* for reference to that same Natinals cap)
*Rich white people in the suburbs of Detroit whail in painful disgust.
Congratulations, Al, on not only embarrassing me and Cardinals fans worldwide, but for also abandoning your own people during a playoff race. Nice. Indeed, you are the Sarah Palin of baseball fandom!
But Allen's experiment with the not-so-magical isn't the only thing causing the masses to rub their eyes today. Note to all Major League managers not named Tony LaRussa: If Albert Pujols steps in with the bases loaded, for Lord's sake walk the man! Last night, Jerry Manuel found out rather quickly what everyone else seems to already know when he decided to have Sean Green pitch to Albert, only to see Pujols launch yet another grand slam, which ultimately led the Cardinals to victory. For the record, in 2009, Albert is a disgustingly sick 7-9 with the bases loaded, including five (YES, FIVE!) grand slams. If you think you'll get A.P. to swing at something stupid in that situation then you deserve to be beaten.
And while we're on the subject of idiocy…
This photo has been dancing around the interwebs faster than Kevin Gregg can blow a 9th inning lead; but let me tell ya, just like Al's photo above, this is all wrong. I'm not talking about the actual lampooning of our president as a joker — that's all fair game as far as I'm concerned — what bothers me is that the word "SOCIALISM" appears below the Obama-as-Heath-Ledger-as-the-Joker image.
Come on now. Socialism? Look, the Joker was an anarchist. There was nothing social about the Joker at all. The closest he ever came to socialism was wanting to kill everyone for no reason other than to just kill everyone. So if you're gonna roast the Prez then at least make sure you get your metaphors — visual and contextual — correct.
"Fool me once… shame on… shame on you. Y'fool me y'can't get fooled again."
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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That first picture is awesome, wherever it's from.
If you're going to tape something over the Natinals logo, at least tape it securely!😀
Kylie — http://kylie.mlblogs.com
oh hi Jeff, thanks for the birthday wishes. That cap is pretty funny.
Haha that's sweet. At the ejnd of the season you should hand out a whole bunch of Sarah Palin awards. Just imagine, 'The Sarah Palin award for youth work goes to…Tony Bernazard."The Sarah Palin award for mediocrity goes to Jason Giambi.' The possibilities are endless.Ashhttp://ashleymarshall.mblogs.com
Kylie — Not sure where it's from. I had it on my computer saved from a long time ago. And yeah, the Natinals? Please. Al is so weird sometimes.
Cat — No prob! Hope it was a good one!
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Oh Al, when are you gonna learn? LOL. Looking at that picture now, it's painfully obvious that that's a black and white photocopy. It's also painfully obvious that we're all blind for not noticing it in the first place. Fail.
And touche on the Obama/Joker thing. Jeff – 1, right-wing America – 0.
Ash — Good idea. I have a feeling Allen would win his fair share of them😉
Julia — Thanks! Didn't even know but we'll take it!
Lisa — Nothing makes me happier than beating — I mean, defeating Right-Wing America and their she-devil, Ann Coulter.
TC — Lots and lots of them these days, eh? Like Cleveland as a contender in 2010…Haha.
Leave it to the Republicans to screw up a metaphor. They could at least get it in the ballpark:
Jonestein SCORE! Unbelievable! You've got some REAL talent there, pal! I LOVE IT! Thanks!
The Sarah Palin of baseball fandom! I love it! That was some pretty crappy cap-altering he did. He could at least print it on red paper though so it looks more real, I mean c'mon that was pretty obvious.
Metmainman — Besides being the Sarah Palin of baseball fandom, Allen is also Captain Obvious.
Keep up the good work! Congrats on being in the top 5!
Baseballs 4 MADD – MLBallhawk
@mlballhawk on Twitter
Thanks, John. Will do.
hahaha lets put a smmmmmile on that face. can you see Brack saying that? I cant
Upon further inspection, Allen does kind of have a "maybe this will fool them" look…
I'm confused, (not hard to do I know) but is Al collecting hats from teams that suck!.. although I guess it's not an isult covering the Nats logo, just putting a Cards one on a Nats hat….your right on the joker thing….you need more severe punsihment for Al, he doesn't seem to be taking it seriously….
Why a Nationals cap? Of all the teams….why oh why….
Congrats on being in the Top 2!
Pittpeas — Did you say "smile" or "simlie"? LOL. Looks SIMILAR.🙂
Emily — Yep. He was born with it.
Peter — Yeah, Al is a pseudo-politician you know… it's in his blood to flip-flop loyalties depending on the situation.
Ginny — Thanks… Al… well, he's been a resident of DC for some time now. That has to be part of it… still, it's no excuse.
Dillon — I try… I mean, I just had it for some reason. Got it off the internet somewhere a while ago.
Justin is doing well for us, so I'm glad about that. Plus all the guys we brought up because of these trades have done very well, especially the hitter, Trevor Crowe. It's actually not looking to bad. Hahaa! The midges would love that, I bet. Congrats on being #2 on the standings!!
http://tribechick.mlblogs.com/ -TC
TC — I trust your enthusiasm is all merit-based, so you go girl!
Apparently, Jeff, everyone is fascinated by that first picture you have, further proving, you never know what you'll find when you stop by Red State Blue State.
Emily — Y'never know….. HAHAHAHAHA!
Jane — Appropriate. I stand by it😉
OMG, soon we will have dog and cat living together………mass hysteria in the Motor City.
Maybe it is time for a real "robocop", and his firsat duty can be to find Alan and take him out…………just kidding…maybe.
The "Sarah Palin" line was a instant classic.
And congrats on the two-fer standing in the Latest Leaders list.
Being neck and neck like that the past year just shows you how good we have gotten. Be glad you are not down in 13th where the water is always cold and the women too.
Rays Renegade
5 grand slams and Allen's wearing a nationals cap.
I missed a lot in a week
RR — Sometimes all ya want is a cold one. Been there, done that😉
Johnny — Indeed. Much can change in just one week. Tough to keep up!


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Skip to comments.America Is Doomed Unless Women Start Having More Babies. How Convenient.
Posted on 02/10/2013 12:03:55 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Ever since it became less socially acceptable to argue openly that womenat least white, middle-class womenowe it to men to curtail our professional ambitions in favor of a life as our husbands' support staff, conservatives started to panic about declining birth rates. If women don't start making more babies, they dimly warn, the country is headed for catastrophe as the workplace empties out of workers and retirees suck up all the money and people stop caring about the future. (Because we can't care about the children we do have unless we have more of them, for some reason.) To save America, women, especially those aforementioned pesky middle-class, white women, are going to have to start having more babies at a younger age, the argument goes.
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How utterly racist. No black babies (oh wait, the Democrats are working with PP to forestall that), no Asian babies born of mothers from China, Korea, elsewhere here on a "birth vacation to have an American Baby", no poor downtrodden Mexican illegal anchor babies?
How racist to expect that a country orginally comprised largely comprised of whites now expects that its white women propagate the species...... the effing nerve......what about all them little Mexican anchor babies whose mothers apparently are doing the job white women don't want to do....
Don't forget that the writer used to work for Silky Pony and was so vile she managed to get herself fired from there.
Ms. Marcotte has fallen victim to the same fatal flaw as the rest of our current culture: She gives NO consideration at all to the wise purposes or plan of her Creator.
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. ...Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The one good thing about declining birth rates is that it will eventually destroy the welfare state. This Ponzi scheme collapses pretty quickly if you don't have more people paying into the system than taking out of it. If feminists were truly concerned about maintaining the welfare state, they would encourage woman to have more children, but this conflicts with their fantasy about being able to have it all without any consequences.
It took 20 years. But the Bear is back.
Indeed. Exactly how do Miss Marcotte and others who share her worldview think older people will be taken care of when they do not reproduce enough folks to take over their responsibilities as they retire?
Perhaps someone should set this author up with this guy(I mean David Benatar, not Al Mohler)-
Yeah, she wouldn't put out.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Eh. Not my type.
Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in a net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 315 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by an additional 125 million to 440 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the worlds third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country (except for Ireland and Australia, which have lower fertility rates) in the world, i.e., 0.9% (2012 estimate,) principally due to immigration.
The US will not be declining in population anytime soon.
Liberalism is the destroyer of civilization. Liberalism is decadent. Liberalism is evil.
History shows us this as well. It was after the Black Death in the 14th century that wiped out approximately 30% of the population of Europe at that time. (Historians please correct me if this percentage is incorrect!)
It was in the aftermath of the plague that the system in force at that time of serfdom was broken because there simply was not the abundance of labor anymore. This marked the rise of the middle class and the ability of free men to accumulate wealth.
Amanda needs take a chill pill. No one is going to take here momentous career away from you. Frankly, I am glad she isn't having any 'little Amandas.'
She looks like Jeff Daniels.
Just from what you describe, the America is sinking in population of Americans. People who grew up with adoring the values of our Founding Fathers.
As someone who's lived in CA for the last 20 years, I can see how immigration to this degree has fundamentally altered our culture, and not for the better.
(As a son of an immigrant, I am not anti-immigrant. But they have to immerse themselves in our language and culture, not the other way around.)
Recently, immigration to the U.S. is declining and in the near future, anti-resistant bacteria is going to wipe out a significant portion of World's population. (Just think anti-drug resistant TB)
Thank you Amanda for not procreating, you really are doing America a favor.. However please explain why Liberals always seem to situate abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods. Liberalism is the practice of nihilism.
She makes an awful lot of assumptions about women (and men).
No one has to end up as "support staff" if they don't want to. That is a choice that two people make when they decide to procreate. It doesn't HAVE to be the woman who becomes "support staff". She just makes that assumption because appeasement to the status quo is all she knows.
Feminists are oddly adherred to the status quo I've found. On the whole they are not very imaginative or adventurous so they just assume no one else is.
Most of these immigrants are low-skilled with low-income potential. How are these types of workers going to pay for an ever-increasing silver-haired population? Answer — they cannot.
Hispanics, Muslims and blacks have high birth rates and are immigrating to the U.S. in droves. They will keep the U.S. population birthrate relatively stable. The problems is that these folks will not be adding but taking from the public treasury so the kind of taxpayer subsidized day-care-from-infancy that Ms Marcotte so values as the way to middle class white women's 'freedom' from boring, career-stifling motherhood will likely no longer be sustainable.
I seriously doubt that she ever has to worry about getting bc pills.
I agree!!
"The US will not be declining in population anytime soon."
No, not a population "decline".
Rather, a "population replacement".
America is literally being changed into an entirely different nation via demographics...
And the "America" of the replacements being born will bear little resemblance to the America of the Euros who are slowly, but surely, disappearing...
Chill Amanda I quit drinking so hooking up with you is not going to happen. Now go wash my shirt.
Actually, the birth rate is 1.958 for Black Americans (including black Hispanics), which is lower than France's at 2.02.
Death panels perhaps????
The ironic thing is, opinions matter little. The side that has more people will win.
Being a mother is hard work, sad that the money needs of society makes it harder. Families are disappearing. Children are costly. Abortion and the pill beckon, like Captain Ahab, to what is perceived to be the good life. God's increase and multiply are overcome. We beat God. Really?
This is changing. The birth rates are falling around the globe, which includes immigrants here and it also means that there are less to immigrate. Hispanic immigration is currently estimated to have stopped, and it would not be surprising if it reversed, because Mexico is actually growing faster than we are now, and probably will for several years at least.
If we depend upon immigration to keep our population stable, and Latinos do not come, then we will probably start importing from muslim countries.
Fixed it.
"The US will not be declining in population anytime soon."
The Jews of the northern kingdom didn't have to worry either after the Assyrians conquered them because the Assyrians removed them and replaced them with their own people.
The long-lost, evil twin of Jeff Daniels?
Who is that guy?
Everyone with enough work ethic to dig a ditch or enough intelligence to repair a vehicle should be having children—lots of them. All who sit on their rear ends and regulate against others having children, on the other hand,...
As a son of an immigrant, I am not anti-immigrant. But they have to immerse themselves in our language and culture, not the other way around.)
We are being colonized. By 2050 the rest of the US will look like CA demographically. It is LEGAL IMMIGRATION that is killing us.
Or, more like middle-class men need to marry women who are interested in becoming mothers and their husbands' support.
LEGAL immigration is not declining. We are still taking in 1.2 million a year and that number will go up because of lack of quotas on certain immigration categories like spouses and children. There are over 4 million intending immigrants waiting overseas to enter this country. They are just waiting for their number to come up after completing all the required paperwork.
Illegal immigration is allegedly down due the sagging economy and better immigration enforcement. I don't put too much stock in the government estimates, which are meant to fool the public so they can push for an amnesty.
Exactly. We are importing poverty. 57% of immigrant headed households with children are on welfare. Legal immigration is destroying this country far more than illegal immigration. 25% of the adult legal immigrants lack even a high school degree. We are importing hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts. And if we have an amnesty, we will legalize millions of more high school dropouts. 50% to 60% of the estimated 11 million (probably closer to 20 million) illegal aliens lack even a high school degree.
87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2042, half of the residents of this country will be minorities. Generally, immigrants and minorities vote predominantly for the Democrat Party. Hence, Democrats view immigration as a never-ending source of voters that will make them the permanent majority party.
You are absolutely correct. Combine worldwide immigration, the widespread implementation of modern birth control in the 1960's and legal abortion, America has been forever transformed. Goodbye America, hello Brazil.
Nonsense. We take in 1.2 million legal immigrants a year. Where do you think they are coming from?
The nations immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in our history. The U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970, when it stood at 9.7 million.
Of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million arrived in 2000 or later making it the highest decade of immigration in American history, even though there was a net loss of jobs during the decade. Growth in the immigrant population has primarily been driven by high levels of legal immigration. Roughly three-fourths of immigrants in the country are here legally. With nearly 12 million immigrants, Mexico was by far the top immigrant-sending country, accounting for 29 percent of all immigrants and 29 percent of growth in the immigrant population from 2000 to 2010. The median age of immigrants in 2010 was 41.4 compared to 35.9 for natives.
My point is that we are not losing population. The proponents of high immigration like to use the argument that we need more immigrants to either do jobs Americans won't do or cannot do. This is nonsense.
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Environmental Activities for Kids
Using the Senses: Adopt a Tree
- Take kids out into the community, or surrounding area. Maybe assign small groups of children to several different types of trees, so there will be more of a chance for discussion later on.
- Have the kids describe the tree as it is now… how it looks, how tall it is, is it bushy, or are there few leaves? What does the bark look like? What are the colors and textures. What does it smell like? Feel? What do the leaves look like? Color? Shape? Are the edges smooth or jagged? If crumpled, what do they smell like?
- How can you tell if the tree is alive? Dead?
- Does the tree move at all? (in the wind I mean, or is it very solid?)
- Have the kids think about why that tree is growing in that spot—is it naturally there? Did someone plant it? If it is naturally growing, what parts of the environment make it a good home for the tree? What may be harmful to it?
- What does this tree need for survival?
- What other plants, animals, or insects depend on this tree for survival?
- Estimate how long the tree may live for.
- Visit these same trees every month or so, have the kids document any changes they see, feel, or smell in the tree. Or… if it has been cut down :0(
- In the classroom, use our good old flipcharts… and put down a few statements about trees… as obvious as they may seem to you, kids here have never really been asked to think about these things. What parts does a tree have? What is the use for each of these parts? There are many different kinds of trees—what are some of their names? What are some of the uses for trees (besides firewood)?
Go out (without the kids seeing you) and get 10 everyday "nature" objects from outside the school, community, etc. These can be rocks, leaves, feathers, branches, etc. Place them on the ground, and cover them with a handkerchief. Gather all the children around. Lift the handkerchief for 25 seconds, and have them try to remember everything that was on the ground. See who can remember all of them, or as many as possible. Maybe give the winner some little prize?
After that, have all the kids go out and find identical objects in the surrounding area. Call them back after a few minutes, and pull out each object at a time, see who found something like it, and tell a story about what that item is, where it comes from, and how it is somehow important in the ecosystem.
Natural Art
Get some unlined paper, enough for each of the kids to have a few sheets each. Collect some dirt, oil, charcoal, clay, etc. Have kids use their hands and fingers to make pictures with the different colors of naturally occurring media. It will most likely be messy… but teaching kids that they can create things out of only the things directly surrounding them—will decrease their dependency on pencils, paint, brushes, and canvas, if they want to pursue art and pick up a fun hobby.
Trash Art
Go around the community, and see what trash you can find that could make a cool sculpture or multimedia piece. Of course, try and watch out for kids picking up sharp metal objects and such, but you can always find some fun things that don't work anymore, but still have some sort of aesthetic value. Try old cans and bottles, broken radios, hair nets, combs… anything! If you can, get some glue and cardboard (and paint, should you wish) and put it all together! If there is anywhere in the classroom to display it, kids will be proud of what they have done—no matter how elementary it looks to us… since they don't have access to art teachers for the most part here, they will be excited to try something new!
Creative Journal
Kids here are not taught to think for themselves… they just copy, memorize, copy, memorize. Go out into the community, and have the kids sit for a while, paying attention to nature. Ask them to write what they see, what they hear, what they smell. Ask them to write a story about what they are experiencing, or maybe a poem. Even if they don't write full sentences, have them make lists of what they are noticing about their community that they had never thought about before, and why it caught their attention… what is so special about it? Why does it interest you? After each student has had some time to think by themselves (try not to have them sit in groups, they will only be distracted). Back in the class, have each kid make a drawing or collage about what they saw, and how if effected them personally… post these on the wall when they are done—they'll be proud!
Pollution Bingo!
Familiarize your kids with some basic pollution terms… Fossil fuels, CFCs, Acid Rain, Climate Change, Greenhouse effect, ozone, leaching, runoff, smog, renewable and non-renewable resources, point pollution, solid waste, toxic, etc. Make a "game board" of 5x5 squares, and make enough copies for all the kids. Write or print squares that fit onto the game board, each with one pollution word on it. Have the kids each put their squares down on the board, each in different place. Try to make sure the kids aren't just copying each other. Otherwise you will have a multiple bingo. Try to have the kids familiar enough with the definitions of each word, so that when someone wins bingo, they can try to tell the class what each of the bingo words mean.
Weather Scavenger Hunt
Go around town, choosing items that you want your kids to pick up, or identify… make them a list, and put them in groups of 3 or 4. Give each group a list of items needed, a pencil or pen, a notebook, and a "weather find" back to collect things. Come up with some sort of treat or reward for the group that finds all things first and returns to you! Ideas for the hunt can be…
- Something that will become part of a cloud
- Something left by the rain
- Something facing the sun
- Something hiding from the sun
- A building that has been damaged by the weather
- A place someone can seek shelter during a bad storm, such as a tornado or hurricane
- A place where water has moved the soil
- Something that reflects sunlight
- Something that repels water, and something that will soak up water
- Something that uses water or sunlight to work
- Something the color of the sky
- Something the color of snow
Anything really… just to get the kids thinking! For the things that cant be picked up, have them make a drawing of what they see, and describe where it is in town.
Project Reflection
From Nicolaison
At my local JHS School I took over a previous volunteer's Environment Club. This club was for Form 2 and 3 students only and had an executive board of 7 students who met outside the club to plan meetings. The club met bi-weekly (or weekly depending on the school schedule) immediately after school and did a variety of activities such as eco-art crafts (magazine bead jewelry and water sachet purses), educational games, and event planning. The club also participated in a local field trip to the Oda Big Tree and also planned an Environment Day.
When I took over the club there was interest for the Form 1s to also join. Eventually each grade was allowed to be in the club based on attendance and school behavior. Some days there would be anywhere from 25-50 students. The club was entirely funded by myself and the money made from the sales of the magazine bead jewelry. Sadly, there was no teacher support for the club, thus it was not very sustainable.
The club was enjoyable when the students were well behaved. Sometimes it was difficult to handle so many of them all by myself. I would have liked to have more teacher involvement so the school could continue the club. The teachers showed interest but never actually stayed after school to help. Not sure how to inspire them to help with the club.


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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/210567
- Title
- Thermal behaviour of phenol-formaldehyde (PF) compounds
- Author(s)
- Tonge, L. Y.; Yazaki, Y.; Blicblau, A. S.
- Abstract
- The self-condensation reactions of 2- and 4-mono-methylol phenols (2-MMP and 4-MMP), in the presence of varying concentrations of NaOH, have been studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The reaction exotherms were analyzed to derive the activation energy, Ea, and the heat of reaction, HT, for the condensation reactions. In the case of 2-MMP an increase in NaOH:2-MMP molar ratio caused an increase in Ea and a decrease in HT up to a molar ratio of 0.6:1. However, for 4-MMP, an increase in NaOH concentration caused an increase in Ea up to a molar ratio of 0.3:1 beyond which there appeared to be no further effect. The presence of NaOH had no effect on HT for this compound. The results suggest that in the range of NaOH concentration used the effect of NaOH was substantially greater on 2-MMP compared to 4-MMP.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. School of Engineering and Science
- Source
- Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry: incorporating the proceedings of the 7th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Balatonfured, Hungary, 30 August-04 September 1998, Vol. 56, no. 3 (Nov 1999), pp. 1347-1352
- Publication year
- 1999
- FOR Code(s)
- 0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural); 0399 Other Chemical Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Activation energy; Caustic soda; Condensation reactions; Differential scanning calorimetry; Formaldehyde; Heat of reaction; Phenols
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- 1388-6150
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1999 Akademiai Kiado, Budapest.
- Peer reviewed


text: Meditation JOSMAN087 posted:8/28/2011 5:39:43 PM http://www.project-meditation.org/what_is_meditation.html This is a good site if you are interested in learning about all the different types of meditation.Omen502 posted:9/1/2011 4:41:38 AM Thanks for the link josman, I have been trying to learn how to meditate and have O.B.E.s and maybe this will help a little. I've always wondered when I meditate what am I supposed to be thinking about. Most times I try I end up falling asleep.JOSMAN087 posted:9/1/2011 5:40:17 AM Ive got some more that i found but are on my comp at home... very helpful, ill post when i get home. :)JOSMAN087 posted:9/1/2011 6:04:34 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Pubu_v8tY&NR=1&feature=fvwpjust found thisJOSMAN087 posted:9/1/2011 6:23:14 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rSmxsVHPE&feature=relatedJOSMAN087 posted:9/1/2011 6:48:17 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2FNUJCH3g^great info on what a chakra ishttp://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.whats-your-sign.com/images/ChakraDiagram.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.whats-your-sign.com/chakra-symbols.html&h=468&w=350&sz=22&tbnid=jcSoSTfyJY828M:&tbnh=92&tbnw=69&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpicture%2Bof%2Bchakra%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=picture of chakra&docid=J9_r3NhN9ODhrM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YGJfTrCNN8Tv0gG98dHIAg&ved=0CFwQ9QEwCw&dur=2^627^ image of a chakraJOSMAN087 posted:9/1/2011 7:07:34 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9WndBBdq4M&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL5004AF3EEE3EC9EB^more details on chakras. I find this very facinating. because you see a lot of this in many cultures. exp. - Ajna being the third eye.BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT INFO THAT I HAVE FOUND IS.... you have to meditate the right way....but also have it to where u are comfortable...i am still in the process of researching to post more.ArchangelMetatron posted:9/1/2011 12:56:40 PM I need to check this out. I have a hard time meditating. Trying to visualize things is my problem. I just can't "see". Very frustrating. JOSMAN087 posted:9/1/2011 1:10:17 PM thats the problem normally, your not saposta visuallize. But i believe if you do it wrong you can open a door to your chakra and not close it, because i just started doing it and i am becoming irritable. so i needed to look some stuff up and learn more. Hope it helps...:)JOSMAN087 posted:9/1/2011 3:29:55 PM http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2008/06/how-do-you-open-and-close-chakras/ Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/157381
- Title
- Calculation of gamma spectra for positron annihilation on molecules
- Author(s)
- Green, D. G.; Saha, S.; Wang, Feng; Gribakin, G. F.; Surko, C. M.
- Abstract
- Calculations of gamma spectra for positron annihilation for a selection of molecules, including methane and its fluoro-substitutes, ethane, propane, butane and benzene are presented. The contribution to the gamma-spectra from individual molecular orbitals is obtained from electron momentum distributions calculated using the density functional theory (DFT) based B3LYP/TZVP model. For positrons thermalised to room temperature, the calculation, in its simplest form, effectively treats the positron as a plane wave and gives positron annihilation gamma spectra linewidths that are broader (30–40%) than experiment, although the main chemical trends are reproduced. The main physical reason for this is the neglect of positron repulsion from the nuclei. We show that this effect can be incorporated through momentum-dependent correction factors, determined from positron-atom calculations, e.g., many-body perturbation theory. Inclusion of these factors in the calculation gives linewidths that are in improved agreement with experiment.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Materials Science Forum: Progress in positron annihilation: proceedings of the 39th Polish Seminar on Positron Annihilation (PSPA-10), Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 20-25 June 2010 / Radoslaw Zaleski (ed.), Vol. 666, pp. 21-24
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 0912 Materials Engineering; 1007 Nanotechnology
- Keyword(s)
- Electron momentum density; Gamma spectra; Molecules; Positron annihilation
- Publisher
- Trans Tech Publications
- 0255-5476 (series ISSN)
- 9780878492084, 0878492089
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © (2011) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
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AI Swag Sweet bag of swag from American Idol
Trader Vics Party All the radio peeps got together for a great night at Trader Vic's restaurant right on LA Live near Nokia Theatre
Mel's J Lo outfit Do you like my new outfit? Got the big earrings like JLo..hey..you come to LA...you gotta dress the part!
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Bubba and Erin Bubba posing with Pittsburgh native Erin O'Malley at Trader Vic's..she is on the air in Boston!
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June 5, 2000: A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. At least, that's the gustatory practice followed by the supermassive black hole residing in the hub of the nearby galaxy NGC 4438. These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy's central region clearly show one of the bubbles rising from a dark band of dust. The other bubble, emanating from below the dust band, is barely visible, appearing as dim red blobs in the close-up picture of the galaxy's hub (the colorful picture at right). The background image represents a wider view of the galaxy, with the central region defined by the white box.See the rest:
These extremely hot bubbles are caused by the black hole's voracious eating habits. The eating machine is engorging itself with a banquet of material swirling around it in an accretion disk (the white region below the bright bubble). Some of this material is spewed from the disk in opposite directions. Acting like high-powered garden hoses, these twin jets of matter sweep out material in their paths. The jets eventually slam into a wall of dense, slow-moving gas, which is traveling at less than 223,000 mph (360,000 kph). The collision produces the glowing material. The bubbles will continue to expand and will eventually dissipate.
Credits: NASA and Jeffrey Kenney and Elizabeth Yale (Yale University)


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Journal Junction for April 5
Editor's note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as "Letters to the Editor,"?which is a separate forum. The Journal's classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.
From Hedgesville:
We love our cats and let them out briefly as we watch. Don't like it, but I also trap and shoot strays to protect wildlife and my cats. Berkeley County is crawling with selfish cat owners, misguided cat lovers/feeders and strays. Neuter/release and feeding is destructive and cruel to wildlife and all cats, strays and not.
From Ranson:
To the two boys who kept coming into my yard hitting my window: Please respect my property. You wouldn't want anyone doing that to you. So please stay out of my yard.
From Berkeley County:
To the caller in Kearneysville: I agree you have to budget, but for the electric to double or triple is unreal. Are you donating a dollar or so to the fund to help the ones who are on a fixed income?
From Morgan County:
Hey Kearneysville, it does not take much of a memory to remember when gas was around $2 a gallon. You only have to think back to the day Obama took office. You blame inflation for sky-high power bills. According to Obama, there's been no inflation since he took office. You must be one of his worshipers or a Potomac Edison employee.
From Inwood:
In response to Kearneysville: Instead of voicing your idiotic opinion, you should try doing it on an already stretched budget. Something does need to be done about the enormous increase. Let's see how well you do on a $600 SSI with a $1,300 electric bill for one month. Can't afford gas or food. What makes you think we can afford movies or vacations? Our name isn't Obama.
From Martinsburg:
Who has been hit by the wonderful sequester our wonderful president has pushed onto the American people? I work in a hospital, and to have it understaffed is ridiculous and costs proper patient care. At least make hospitals and first responders exempt from this. Just another lure for the American people to be under government control. God save us!
From Charles Town:
Martinsburg, I share your concern. I am also disabled and my health is failing. My power bill was in good standing, and I received a bill for $600. And their response was: "We didn't charge you enough." I feel this is an underhanded tactic to pursue revenue at the expense of the customers.
From Charles Town:
In response to the Hedgesville comment, asking what's up with the power bill: I can relate. My bill was in good standing until I received a bill four times the monthly amount, which I might add, was around the time frame the company hired the independent meter techs to read the meter. Perhaps a class-action lawsuit should be pursued.
From Berkeley County:
To the Kearneysville who chose to speak baby-talk, and said "boohoo" to people complaining about their electric bill: The fact is that the electric company chose to extend the billing date for four days, and then added four more days onto our usual bill, so we were all billed for eight additional days. So start thinking like an adult, stop acting like you need to follow big business regardless, and stop talking like a child.
From Berkeley County:
I guess The Journal must publish the Berkeley County financial information, but why not print it large enough for readers to use without a magnifying glass? If not, save the space for another comic strip.
From Jefferson County:
Regarding the board of education: They want to make all these budget cuts for service personnel. Well, they need to start cutting at the board of education. Secretaries have secretaries who have secretaries. Now, tell me what's wrong with this picture.
From Hedgesville:
Regarding the Apple Harvest pageant: My daughter wanted to enter it, but I will not allow it. It is nothing but a popularity contest. The lady who is in charge already picked the girls before the contest starts, and I'm just letting people know that the lady always picks popular girls, and I think that is wrong.
From Hedgesville:
In regard to the recent officer being shot in Mingo County: It's a bad scene, and it's not good. But the answer to the problem is not gun control. Gun control only affects innocent citizens who haven't done anything wrong. Swift and sure punishment for those people who commit crimes with firearms is the answer. Swift and sure punishment: If you murder somebody, you're going away for the rest of your life in prison.
From Martinsburg:
For the caller in Kearneysville, saying "boohoo" about electric bills: Well, when your electric bill is usually about $230 per month, and it goes up to $1,059 a month, you would be boohooing too.


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Blackhawks defensemen stepping up on offenseBy JAY COHEN
the associated press | December 26,2013ap file photo
Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith (2) and San Jose Sharks left wing Patrick Marleau (12) maneuver with the puck behind the goal. Duncan Keith leads all NHL defensemen with 30 assists.CHICAGO Forget Patrick Kanes flashy moves and Jonathan Toews steady play. Same for the rest of the talented forwards on the Chicago Blackhawks.
Instead, check out the players who line up right behind the teams biggest stars. Chicagos athletic defensemen play a prominent role in the NHLs most potent offense.
Duncan Keith leads all NHL defensemen with 30 assists. Niklas Hjalmarsson is on pace for career highs in goals and assists. Brent Seabrook has three goals and 23 assists after he had 20 points in 47 games last season. Nick Leddy and Johnny Oduya also have provided valuable support on offense.
Its hard enough for teams to deal with the likes of Kane and Toews. Now, when Keith & Co. are coming up and taking aim, the Blackhawks turn into a goaltenders nightmare.
I love our defense. Theyve been huge for us the past two seasons, forward Patrick Sharp said. They all skate well. They all move the puck and with the forwards that we have in our locker room, we like to get it with speed and they do a good job of getting it to us. Our defense (has) been the key to our team this year.
The importance of Chicagos offensive defensemen was on full display Monday night, when the Blackhawks beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 for their sixth win in the last eight games. Leddy helped set up Kanes tiebreaking goal in the second period, and then capped the scoring with his fifth of the season in the third. Seabrook added two assists.
It was the Blackhawks 15th game with at least five goals, running their league-best total to 145. They also lead the NHL with an average of 2.87 points a game by their defensemen, according to STATS, a significant increase from their 2.08 average for last seasons Stanley Cup-winning team.
St. Louis, which hosts Chicago on Saturday night, is next on the list with 2.64 points a game for its defensemen and 128 goals overall.
I think as a defense corps you know that its important that we help control the offensive goal, not just necessarily scoring points but just being in on the attack and being an extra option that might create some space for our forwards, said Keith, who also had an assist against the Devils.
Keith is one of the top contenders for the Norris Trophy after he took home the award for the NHLs top defenseman in 2010. The 30-year-old Keith, who was selected by the Blackhawks in the second round of the 2002 draft, has led the team in ice time every season since he made his debut in 2005.
He plays alongside Seabrook in Chicagos top defensive pairing.
The two of them have been together basically since they broke into the league, said coach Joel Quenneville, a former NHL defenseman. Thats been a big part of our team. When you think about all the shifts theyve played together, theres a lot of familiarity with one another and I think they complement each other for the right reasons.MORE IN Wire SportsORLANDO, Fla. Full StoryOXON HILL, Md. Wade Davis already had closed out a World Series. Full StoryBOSTON New Boston Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale said he isnt worried that he might not be the ace... Full Story
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The Community Foundation
- Labor costs associated with the implementation of improvements recommended by the audit
- HVAC system upgrades to more efficient units
- Water efficient fixture replacements
- Lighting upgrades
- Building shell improvements
New construction projects can use funding for the difference in cost between code-compliant building systems and energy efficient systems, including:
- HVAC equipment with higher Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) or Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) ratings
- Higher efficiency lighting
- Water-saving technologies
- Products (flooring, cabinets) that contain local, recycled, and/or rapidly renewable materials
Among other requirements, the nonprofit must be classified as a 501(c)(3) organization with the Internal Revenue Service and be in good standing with the Georgia Secretary of State's Office as a nonprofit. The organization and building must be located within the Atlanta metropolitan area, organization must have at least one full-time employee, and must be in operation as a nonprofit for at least 2 years before applying for the grant. Nonprofits operated by religious organzations are ineligible for grant funding. Nonprofits must provide matching funds (cash or in-kind). Amount of required match is dependent on the organization's budget and grant size.
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Dordt College News
Dordt College Junior Art Show features six student artists
February 25, 2014
The annual Dordt College Junior Art Exhibit is on display until March 12, in the Campus Center Art Gallery, and features the work of six art majors.
A reception and artists' discussion will be held at the gallery on Saturday, February 22, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., with the Gallery Talk at 1:15. Refreshments will be served.
Participants include Rebekah Dykhuizen (Beach Park, Illinois), Carlie Hendricks (Waupun, Wisconsin), Jerusha Pimentel (Salt Lake City, Utah), Aubrey Pasker (Runnells, Iowa), Hayley Dahl (Eden Prairie, Minnesota), and Bridget Rowe (Renton, Washington).
Works include ceramics, drawings, painting, mixed media, traditional and digital photography, and graphic design. The show highlights unique painting techniques and meaningful images.
This exhibit celebrates a collection of art and digital media by a very capable group of art and design majors at Dordt, says Dordt College Professor and Gallery Coordinator David Versluis. "It reflects the fine level of studio artwork being created."
The public is welcome to visit Dordt's free exhibits in the Campus Center Art Gallery, which is open every day from 8 to 10 p.m.
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We continue to make dramatic progress in our strategy of working collaboratively with libraries to build Webscale services in a cloud computing environment.
On February 26, the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands became the first library in Europe to activate OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS). Tilburg is a public research university with approximately 12,500 students and 1,000 academic staff. The Tilburg University Library collections include 800,000 printed volumes and access to over 20,000 electronic journals and 150 databases.
As we commemorate the 100th implementation of WMS, we are also celebrating our shared commitment to library cooperation around the world.
The announcement at Tilburg coincided with the February 26–27 OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Strasbourg, France, whose theme was "Dynamic data: a world of possibilities." About 300 library professionals heard presentations on how libraries are sharing and aggregating data in the cloud. Among the speakers were Raymond Bérard, Director of ABES, France; Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Deputy Director, Bavarian State Library, Germany; Marie-Christine Doffey, Director of the Swiss National Library; and Jean-Baptiste Michel, Fellow, Harvard University.
On March 6, I had the honor of participating in a celebration of the launch of OCLC WMS at the Criss Library at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO). This was the 100th implementation of WMS since it went into production in 2011. Libraries in Australia, Europe and North America are now using the service, and some 65 more will begin using it in the near future.
As we commemorate the 100th implementation of WMS at UNO, we are also celebrating our shared commitment to library cooperation around the world. Indeed, throughout its history, OCLC has been fortunate to work with leading libraries and with library leaders such as Marc van den Berg, Library Services and IT Director, at Tilburg University; Steve Shorb, Dean of Criss Library at UNO; and René Erlandson, Director, Virtual Services; at UNO.
Besides new library management services, OCLC is also moving its traditional cataloging and resource sharing services to the cloud.
The goal of our Webscale strategy is to bring the values of librarianship—cooperation, resource sharing and public service—to the rapidly changing digital world.
Last September, we released WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager. This cloud cataloging application outputs MARC records from the WorldCat knowledge base, allowing cataloging subscribers to easily provide access to e-content for their patrons via the library discovery interface. Later this year, we will release Record Manager, which will provide efficient record-at-a-time metadata creation and editing for physical, electronic and digital items.
I am pleased to report that on March 12, we implemented the new OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan service in the United States, with worldwide release to follow in June. Libraries can migrate their current resource sharing subscription to the new WorldShare ILL service between now and December 31, 2013, at which time OCLC will end access to the WorldCat Resource Sharing service.
Efficient resource sharing is at the heart of the OCLC cooperative. Since 1979, libraries have used OCLC ILL services to arrange more than 214 million interlibrary loans, involving libraries of all types, from the largest research libraries to the smallest public libraries. Working together, OCLC members have helped to transform modern scholarship. The WorldShare Platform builds on that tradition by taking resource sharing to Webscale.
Ultimately, the goal with our Webscale strategy is to bring the values of librarianship−cooperation, resource sharing and public service−to the rapidly changing digital world.
We will keep you apprised of our progress.
Jay Jordan
OCLC President and Chief Executive Officer
P.S. This is my last column in NextSpace before I retire on June 30. I am pleased to report that as this issue goes to press, the number of holdings in WorldCat surpassed the 2 billion mark. It is indeed astounding that the number of holdings in WorldCat has doubled in less than eight years. As I have noted before, the OCLC cooperative continues to be a grand experiment in global library cooperation, and I will always be grateful to have been afforded the signal honor to be part of that adventure.
ISSUE 21 contents
- Index
- President's Report
- From community to technology...and back again
- Little Free Library connects local, global communities throughout 36 countries
- EMEA Regional Council Meeting gives members latest in library data research
- Supporting the work of libraries and the global community we serve
- OCLC/ALISE Library & Information Science Research Grants: 25+ years of cutting-edge library sciences research
- WorldShare Update
- WorldCat statistics
- Updates
About the Author
Jay Jordan
Jay is the fourth president in OCLC's 46-year history. He came to OCLC in May 1998 after a 24-year career with IHS, an international publisher of databases, where he held a series of key positions in top management.


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~ St. Cyril of Jerusalem in his "Catecheses" (xiii, 36), on the sign of the cross, a practice familiar to Christians in the second century and which had passed into a gesture of benediction by the fourth century, as many quotations from the Fathers show


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Garrity products have a long and interesting history and have been a leader in the lighting industry with inventions that extend to many other markets. By imprinting your company name and logo on these items, you are associating your brand not just with the flashlight, but also with the high-perceived value of the brand. Additionally, Garrity products make great gifts for clients, employees, friends and family because they are durable and practical items. These are important characteristics to consider when deciding what gift to distribute, as recipients are much more likely to hold on to items that they feel have high functionality. Lantern flashlights and headlights are ideal for camping trips while flashlights attached to key chains keep recipients safe while walking to their cars at night. There are extra slim flashlights, flashlights made of aluminum, and even lights that stay on for a hands-free use.


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Howard Gear
Howard Hall Gear, 94, a resident of Elkins, passed from this life Monday afternoon, March 25, 2013, in Valentine Assisted Living in Beverly.
Howard was a devoted and loving husband and father. He was a gentle giant with a compassionate heart and provided humble service to others. He embodied the strength and wisdom described in Proverbs and believed that life should be lived as directed by scripture. Howard has fought the good fight and now sees the face of God.
He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Ida Gear; wives, Dollie Madison Gear and Macel Mitzi Gear; and son-in-law, Leon Winans.
Left to cherish Howard's memory are three daughters, Margaret Ann Winans of Elkins, Vickie Lynn Kelley and husband, Art, of North Carolina, and Janet Sue Wolfe and husband, Jim, of Illinois; seven grandchildren, Matt Kelley and wife, Meredith, Josh Kelley, Karla Gidwani and husband, Sanjay, Owen Wolfe, Joyce Henline, Sherri Davis and husband, Matt, and Cecil Winans; 10 great-grandchildren, Ashley Henline, Justin Pennington, Dillon Hamrick, Cory Lambert, Brayden and Hannah Davis, Tristan and Ean Winans, Piper Kelley and Asha Gidwani; and one great-great-grandchild, Jordan Hamrick.
Mr. Gear's request for cremation will be honored. A graveside service will be conducted at Elkins Memorial Gardens Saturday, April 6, at 1 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Howard's memory to the Burlington Children's Home Ministry through the First United Methodist Church, 315 Kerns Ave., Elkins, WV 26241. The Randolph Funeral Home and Cremation Services has been entrusted with the arrangements for Howard Hall Gear. Send online condolences to the family at www.therandolphfuneralhome.com.


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What Does Joe Biden put on his pasta?
It's finally here, it's what we've all been waiting for (for the past four years)! Ever since the primaries started, I've been excited. I myself am a moderate-liberal, but I do like Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. John McCain is a great guy though, I just don't like Sarah Palin very much. If McCain-Palin ends up getting elected, we'll have some great SNL skits to come in the next four years; plus, perhaps some more prank calls from French-Canadian radio stations!