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One of the nice things about doing something for a long time is that you see your successes unfold. Unknown in the U.S. a quarter century ago, Belgian brewing now has been embraced by talented brewers the world over. Belgium will always be our "true north," yet we love the beers we have found in other places we have visited—Iceland, Italy and France—because they share the æsthetic (the flavor, complexity and balance) that we've been working a lifetime to promote. We lovingly call them our Honorary Belgian Beers.
CASTELAIN: These folks are the charter members of the Honorary Belgian Beer Society—coming as they do from Flanders. (That's French Flanders.) Annick Castelain's Benifontaine-based brewery in the Pas de Calais region is home to France's only indigenous beer style, Bière de Garde. New formats and introductions allow more appreciation of their fruity, nuanced malt-driven ales. Now even available on tap. Castelain also did its first collaboration beer ever with the widely admired Two Brothers Brewing Company, resulting in Diversey and Lille.
AMIATA: The Cerullo brothers' beers are aromatic, artful, delicate and elegant. The Italian craft-brewing scene is wildly exciting. Tuscany's Amiata is among the best. What hops are to beers of the American West, and yeast is to Belgium, spicing is to the beers of Italy.
ÖLVISHOLT: We spent time in Oslo. That's where we were first introduced to LAVA, a spectacular smoked Imperial Stout from Iceland. The Ring of Fire runs through this remote, windswept, mythical, tectonic and pure-springed island. Lava is brewed at a farmstead brewery on a heath opposite an active volcano. Wow.


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Cheryl Cole was spotted wearing Charlotte Olympia Polly calf hair and leather pumps (available from Net-A-Porter) with a matching fitted dress while in Paris, France on June 14th, 2012 (photo). Charlotte Olympia's leopard-print calf hair pumps. This glamorous pair are part of the celebrated designer's Runaway Bride collection and come with lace-trimmed stockings to complement the duck-egg leather finish - the perfect way to wear "something blue" on your wedding day. leopard pump … [Read more...]
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Last week, somebody tipped Engadget off to a blog post describing an upcoming "rumored" HDTV download service for the Xbox 360. The post was quickly pulled by the relatively obscure blogger, but it now appears that there may have been quite a bit of truth in what was said. In an important development for Microsoft's digital strategy, they announced today that they will be supporting downloadable movies to the Xbox 360.
"I think as you look at the media landscape and the gaming community and the potential for digital convergence, Xbox users become a great potential audience for movie content," said Thomas Lesinski, president of Paramount Pictures digital entertainment. "This provides us with the opportunity for (video on demand) in a box. The key takeaway in this is there are lots of rabid gamers in this community, and we know they're fully involved in movie consumption. And given the way these consumers multitask, the convergence of movies and Xbox is really a natural."
This is a big step for Microsoft because it takes their Xbox 360 beyond just being a gaming machine, and transforms it into a digital media hub. Already Microsoft has allowed streaming HDTV to the Xbox 360, but only if you have a Media Center. Thanks to a recent update they now also support streaming .wmv movies from Windows XP as well, but this move marks a step into new territory for the company.
The service won't come without a few restrictions. First and foremost, you have to have a premium Xbox 360 with the internal hard drive built in to be eligible for the downloads. This is likely due to piracy concerns by the studios, but it also means that the basic Xbox 360 I bought from eBay scalpers last year won't work with the service.
Microsoft also hasn't announced pricing yet, although if the Engadget rumor is right, it should come in at $4 per movie which would compete directly with the pricing for in store movie rentals. The content will also be a bit skimpy early on, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has tried any of the movie downloading services over the last few years. Initially, Microsoft will be sticking with the titles that are most likely to be popular with the gamer community, but if this turns out to be successful, you can bet that the studios will open this up to a more mainstream audience.
Microsoft's move will likely be seen as a preemptive attack on Sony's (NYSE:SNE) upcoming PS3, but the service will likely create a much bigger headache for Steve Jobs, who has preannounced, but has yet to release Apple's own iDongle video strategy.
With Microsoft's ability to support HDTV downloads and having the ability to play video games on the system, it's going to make it all that much harder for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) to convince people to fork over $300 dollars in order to have the privilege of being able to pay for VOD films. By adding the service as an extra feature instead of a primary feature, it may limit the appeal of the service to the gamer community, but in the long run Microsoft stands to gain a much larger overall footprint into the digital home. While I can't say that this move wasn't expected, nor will it radically change Microsoft's digital troubles overnight, it's still a smart and logical move to make on the eve of the PS3 and iTV release.Related: Microsoft XBox 360 To Support HDTV - Challenge to Cablecos, Apple • Microsoft's Trojan Horse Will Own Your Living Room


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Photo by Roadsidepictures.Readers have been irked, and many ScienceBloggers, for whom this apparently came as a surprise, are expressing feelings ranging from barn-burning outrage to nuanced concern to biting dismissal—and also resigning in protest (or exhaustion). It isn't the first time ScienceBlogs has run a corporate-sponsored column, but those previous ones had writers who were independent of the sponsor. The affiliations of the new blog, Food Frontiers, are indicated in the header bar and the masthead, but not especially loudly—and the blog's content will apparently be aggregated to Google News alongside the work of non-corporate ScienceBloggers. As Knight Science Journalism points out, ScienceBlogs' treatment of Food Frontiers pretty clearly violates old media journalistic ethics.
In an e-mail to ScienceBloggers leaked to The Guardian, SEED editor Adam Bly wrote
We think the conversation should include scientists from academia and government; we also think it should include scientists from industry. Because industry is increasingly the interface between science and society. It is our hope that the Xeroxes and Bell Labs of the future will have a real presence on SB – that they will learn from our readers and we will learn from them.That's a pretty poor equivalency Bly is making, frankly. As far as I can tell, the academic scientists who write for ScienceBlogs do so without an explicit mandate from their universities or even funding agencies. Pepsico food scientists writing on behalf of Pepsico are not doing the same kind of science communication.
With more visible caveats, and maybe some sort of special treatment in the ScienceBlogs RSS feeds, Food Frontiers doesn't have to be the end of all credibility for ScienceBlogs. But, boy, it doesn't look good right now—and, if I'd spent a substantial portion of my blogging career helping to build ScienceBlogs into the hub of respectable online science writing it's become, I'd be pretty upset. It looks like ScienceBlogs is losing some really strong writers over this, and that seems like a poor trade-off.
The only possible upside? The possibility we'll get to hear PZ Meyers and Rebecca Skloot interviewed by Bob Garfield.


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Alaska - taken by David Kelley '13
A random walk is when each step is completely independent from the step before it. The unique paths of nearly 300 students converged for one week in August before they embarked on independent paths again. Students on 25 Random Walk trips around the globe were led by 100 second-year trip leaders. While most students knew what they were signing up for, one group didn't find out the destination until arriving at the airport. The Mystery Trip this year visited Estonia and Finland.


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Sometimes we CAN have nice things (for a bit)
"I do like to believe that people will be inherently good if you offer friendship in the game. ... I communicate entirely through Jazz Hands." A player describes an attempt at a non-violent gameplay in Grand Theft Auto Online (via @TheQuinnspiracy).
Brutish Behavior
The Old Spice Guy backlash has officially begun, sponsored by another brand of men's fragrance you'd never get caught dead using. You can slap that guy or you can slap a mime instead. Or vote for the next guy to get slapped, an overweight dude in a speedo or a familiar looking golfer. Meanwhile, Brut sets down some rules that seem a little too close to the rules for a Gentleman's Gentleman (as seen here). Yeah, it's Pepsi Shade-Of-Green-Not-Occurring-In-Nature. [more inside]
Mockus Presidente
Antanas Mockus, a Lithuanian-Colombian mathematician-philosopher and former mayor of Bogota, is running for president of Colombia. As president of the Colombian National University, he mooned the student body. In two terms as mayor, he hired mimes to stand on corners with red "INCORRECTO" banners to humiliate Bogota's legendarily reckless drivers, took a shower on TV to demonstrate water conservation, and instituted a one-night men-only curfew so the city's women could enjoy a single-sex night out (as seen previously on MetaFilter.) Mockus will be the Green Party candidate in the May 30 election, part of a crowded field with no overwhelming favorite. Mockus on Twitter (en espanol.) Mockus campaign commercial (en espanol tambien.) Mockus speaks at Harvard's Kennedy School (in English, long.)
What's with the fucking mimes?
Roadrunner Records, home to Slipknot and other chunky, hairy male metal bands has declared singer Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) uncommercial, refusing to promote her latest single, video and album. One reason why? Her belly is too fat in her latest video. [more inside]
EveryScape launched this morning. It's a ground-level mapping service similar to Google's "Street View", only it offers you an "autodrive" feature that automatically moves you through a city or down a ski slope. There are links to information about stores and restaurants in the view and the ability to go inside buildings and look around. It currently features views from Aspen, New York, Boston, and Miami. And of course the obligatory view of a colorful mime with a man-bag. [via]
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
A mime is a terrible thing to waste. OK, so apparently he's anything but quiet, but, I couldn't resist. As the article states, simply not liking someone isn't enough reason to obstruct a person's livelihood. Does a unique whistle and skillful balloon-animal making make up for homophobic slurs and public drunkenness?
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Right now, I am sitting next to my cell phone and computer eagerly awaiting a phone call from a company where I applied for a job as an office administrative assistant. The interviewer is now twenty-three minutes late in calling me. Not only was I looking forward to this phone call all weekend long and I even took the time to thoroughly research the company and prepare myself for this phone interview, but I am also a very impatient person when it comes to this sort of thing. My mind starts to go to all sorts of negative places and I can't stop it. I start to think, "What if I gave her the wrong phone number by accident?" So I go and double check the cover letter AND resume that Ii sent her, both of which contain my cell phone number. Nope, it's the right number. Then I go to check our email correspondences to see if I mistyped the number there. Nope, still the right number. So, in all three documents she has the correct phone number to reach me.
Then I start to worry, well what if she just forgot that we had a phone interview scheduled today at 10am? What do I do then? Do I call her and see what's going on or does that make me seem far too desperate and over-eager for the job? I have no idea. Do I email her instead? I really have no idea what to do, but I am starting to get irritated and here's why.
In my opinion, a job interview, whether it's in person or over the phone is not just meant for the interviewer or potential employer to judge their prospective employee; it's also an opportunity for the prospective employee to gain some insight into the company firsthand from someone who works there. Basically, the impression that the potential employers project onto the interviewee is just as important as the impression that the interviewee gives to the potential employer. In other words, the candidate is not the only one being interviewed; I am also interviewing the potential employer. That's why, at the end of the interview, when they ask me if I have any further questions, I always make sure that I have some prepared before the interview.
Tardiness, in my opinion, is not a good first impression. Unless, of course, there is a good reason for it. After all, my time is just as valuable as theirs and as I sit here impatiently awaiting a phone call that, at this point, seems like it may or may not happen, I need to constantly remind myself of this. I need to constantly remind myself that this is a big company I am interviewing with and I just need to be patient. I mean, it's no different than when I go to an interview in person and they keep me waiting in the lobby for about twenty minutes, right? By the way, as I am typing this, this phone call is now precisely thirty-five minutes late. In this time, I have navigated through the company's entire website and under the "Our Team" heading, I've managed to find the name and picture of the woman from HR I was emailing.
I think I'm going to wait until about 11-ish and then just send her a quick email stating that I hope she didn't get pushed on the subway tracks and die a horrible painful death on her way to work, which would then be a viable excuse as to why she wasted my time. Because, even though I am the one seeking out employment from this big wig company, that doesn't give them the right to keep me waiting so damn long, does it?
Or am I just WAY too impatient? Well, I don't know. I mean, it's not like I expected her to call exactly at 10 am on the nose or anything; a few minutes late is fine. Fifteen minutes late is fine. But now it's pushing forty minutes late and sorry, but I do have other shit to do and errands to run before my shift which starts at 1pm.
Anyway, I just called because I decided to throw caution and all of my inhibitions to the wind.
So, apparently I was just being crazy and presumptuous. It turns out she sounds like one of the nicest people EVER on the phone and the reason she wasn't able to call me on time was because she was having technical difficulties with her computer and she was in the middle of getting it fixed. However, she will email me again today and set something up for tomorrow. And once again, I can rest assured that I still have a chance of getting this amazing job. Whew.


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Venezuela and the Grand Duchy of Fenwick
As his socialist regime is circling the toilet, Venezuela strongman Nicolas Maduro is raising the specter of US invasion:
Socialist President Nicolas Maduro has been claiming for months that most of his country's problems are the result of an economic war being waged against Venezuela by the United States. Now, with the country collapsing into chaos and opposition figures turning in nearly two million signatures for a recall referendum, Maduro is taking his invasion conspiracy theory to a new level. The NY Times reports:
Venezuela's military is ready for the looming invasion by the United States.
That was the message President Nicolás Maduro seemed eager to convey over the weekend as he presided over a military exercise that put his country's troops and weaponry center stage in the midst of a political crisis.
"We're as ready for an invasion as we've ever been," Mr. Maduro said during a speech, standing in front of an armored vehicle…
Mr. Maduro's government has been hyping the threat of an American invasion for several weeks. In April, propaganda outlets controlled by the state reported on a supposedly leaked document from the American military that detailed the invasion plan. The document, titled "Venezuela Freedom-2 Operation," is bogus, a said Col. Lisa Garcia, a spokeswoman for the United States Southern Command.
Needless to say, America is not about to invade Venezuela. This is classic strongman behavior, i.e. find a foreign threat to distract people from their own worsening misery. Continue reading
Another Triumph For Socialism
Venezuela continues to demonstrate that the further down the path of Socialism a nation treads, the closer it also comes to economic collapse:
Here in the Caribbean port town of Barcelona, two premature infants died recently on the way to the main public clinic because the ambulance had no oxygen tanks. The hospital has no fully functioning X-ray or kidney dialysis machines because they broke long ago. And because there are no open beds, some patients lie on the floor in pools of their blood.
It is a battlefield clinic in a country where there is no war.
"Some come here healthy, and they leave dead," Dr. Leandro Pérez said, standing in the emergency room of Luis Razetti Hospital, which serves the town.
This nation has the largest oil reserves in the world, yet the government saved little money for hard times when oil prices were high. Now that prices have collapsed — they are around a third what they were in 2014 — the consequences are casting a destructive shadow across the country. Lines for food, long a feature of life in Venezuela, now erupt into looting. The bolívar, the country's currency, is nearly worthless.
The crisis is aggravated by a political feud between Venezuela's leftists, who control the presidency, and their rivals in congress. The president's opponents declared a humanitarian crisis in January, and this month passed a law that would allow Venezuela to accept international aid to prop up the health care system.
"This is criminal that we can sit in a country with this much oil, and people are dying for lack of antibiotics," says Oneida Guaipe, a lawmaker and former hospital union leader.
But Mr. Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez, went on television and rejected the effort, describing the move as a bid to undermine him and privatize the hospital system.
"I doubt that anywhere in the world, except in Cuba, there exists a better health system than this one," Mr. Maduro said.
Late last fall, the aging pumps that supplied water to the University of the Andes Hospital exploded. They were not repaired for months.
So without water, gloves, soap or antibiotics, a group of surgeons prepared to remove an appendix that was about to burst, even though the operating room was still covered in another patient's blood. Continue reading
PopeWatch: Venezuela
The Pope is seeking to intervene in Venezuela, where, once again in the Third Word, a socialist regime has wreaked economic devastation:
Pope Francis has sent a "personal letter" to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in which he address his concern over the "seriousness" of "the county's situation."
"I can say that the Pope did write a personal letter to President Maduro concerning the situation in the country," papal spokesman Federico Lombardi confirmed to journalists on Saturday.
"The seriousness of the situation is also clearly shown in the recent statement by the Bishops on April 27, when the Nuncio Monsignor Giordano very clearly spoke out in favour of dialogue sponsored by the Pope," Lombardi said.
Additionally, the papal spokesman repeated Francis' message from the Urbi et Orbi blessing from Easter, where he requested that the Easter message "be felt ever more powerfully by the beloved people of Venezuela in the difficult conditions which they are experiencing, and by those responsible for the country's future, that everyone may work for the common good, seeking spaces of dialogue and cooperation with all. May efforts be made everywhere to promote the culture of counter, justice and reciprocal respect, which alone can guarantee the spiritual and material welfare of all people."
After his success as an interlocutor in neighbouring Cuba, and his willingness to plant himself firmly in the middle of political disputes ranging from Europe's immigration crisis to Ukraine's civil war, An intervention from Pope Francis into the mounting political tensions in Venezuela appears more and more likely as the various problems affecting the country continue to deepen.
Amid a debilitating energy crisis, shortages of basic goods, and increasing violence, the country's powers are embroiled in a political deadlock that looks only to lead to a pyrrhic outcome.
Since winning a landslide victory in December's legislative elections, the opposition took control of the National Assembly with an absolute majority and have approved a series of bills that have been shot down one by one by the country highest court, which the opposition alleges is under the thumb of Maduro's Socialist government. Maduro, in turn, accuses the opposition of arming a coup against him and of working for regional right-wing and US imperial interests.
Venezuela's oil export-dependent economy shrank 5.7 percent last year, shortages of basic goods multiplied and prices soared. The government has instituted rolling blackouts and state employees are working only two days a week to conserve electricity. Continue reading
Chavez Successors Out in Venezuela
The opposition in Venezuela won the Congressional midterm elections in Venezuela yesterday. That is no surprise as the government of Nicolas Maduro has overseen an economy that has to be compared to North Korea in terms of folly. At the beginning of this year the Catholic bishops of Venezuela released a document, read it here, that described the appalling state of their country. That the government of Venezuela admitted losing the elections does surprise me:
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday called on followers to "peacefully" accept a dramatic defeat in this weekend's critical legislative race and vowed to learn from the rare electoral setback.
The opposition coalition won 99 seats in the National Assembly versus the ruling party's 46, the National Electoral Council announced early Monday. Some 19 deputy slots and three seats reserved for indigenous members were too close to call.
The result is seen as a major blow to the country's socialist administration, which has controlled all branches of government for more than 15 years.
In a speech before cabinet ministers, Maduro said he was more committed than ever to the "Bolivarian Revolution" first launched by late President Hugo Chávez when he first took office in 1999.
"This isn't time to cry, it's time to fight," Maduro said, "and reinvent ourselves — to recognize our errors and find solutions…It's time for a rebirth from our difficulties."
Fireworks went off in eastern Caracas as the results were announced. The head of the coalition, Jesús Torrealba, reassured government sympathizers that the opposition wasn't going to dismantle social programs or seek revenge.
Venezuela "can rest assured that we'll know how to manage this victory," he said. "It's a victory that belongs to everyone."
Venezuelan Bishops Blast Marxist Government
As the economic situation in Venezuela goes into freefall, and the comic opera Marxist government continues to show itself clueless, the Bishops of Venezuela have released a letter which should be mandatory reading for every Catholic. Here is an informal google translation:
Pastoral exhortation ethical and spiritual renewal tackle the crisis
1. With deep and renewed hope in God, at the beginning of this year 2015 the Bishops of Venezuela salute all Venezuelans, and lift our prayers to God for the welfare and peace of the country. In the midst of the problems that beset us, we have seen in Christmas light of Jesus, our Divine Savior (Luke 2: 9), who encourages us to go forward, faithful to his word, to build a better world. Trusting again we share with our people some concerns about the current situation, to help resolve the crisis we face.
2. The first part of 2014 was marked by strong political and social upheaval. At this time the bishops strongly express our rejection of all violence, whatever its origin and authors, as she was a balance of 43 dead and many injured, which we deplore without distinction of social or political groups; denounce the excessive use of force in the suppression of protests and the detention of thousands of people, many of them still in prison or subject to filing criminal courts or other restrictive measures of liberty; and we express our condolences and solidarity with the victims and their families. There are numerous reports of human rights violations including torture of detainees, which must be addressed and punished the perpetrators of these crimes.
3. That grave crisis raised the need for dialogue between government leaders, opposition and other sectors. Thanks, among other things, called the Pope Francis and participation of the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop. Aldo Giordano, he began a dialogue which unfortunately was not the first meetings.
4. This situation has been joined in recent months generalized anxiety of the people by the economic crisis that we suffer, as is subjected unseen difficulties to access basic necessities. A huge external debt, which jeopardizes the future of Venezuelans, the unbridled inflation, devaluation of our currency, smuggling mining and commodity shortages have led to the increasing impoverishment of large sectors of the population, particularly those with fewer resources economic. This crisis is compounded by administrative corruption, centralism, looting the treasury currency, the recent decline in oil prices, and the ineffectiveness of the measures and plans being implemented by the Government to address it.
5. We also have a situation of worsening social violence. Offensive language, the systematic exclusion to any contrary opinion, incite fanaticism and irrationality. The crisis of public insecurity is intolerable. Unfortunately the efforts and programs developed by the government to control this scourge have failed. To this add serious problems in the health field, such as viral epidemics unaddressed efficiently, lack of medicines, medical supplies and equipment throughout the country. Moreover, the death of over forty inmates in the prison of Uribana reveals a tragic situation in our prison system should be reformed completely.
6. The greatest problem and the cause of the general crisis, as we have noted elsewhere, it is the decision of the national government and other public bodies to impose a political–economic system of socialist Marxist or communist. This system is totalitarian and centralist, establishes state control over all aspects of life of citizens and public and private institutions. Also threaten freedom and rights of individuals and associations and has led to oppression and ruin to all countries that have applied.
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Venezuela Rations Drinking Water
During the Cold War there was a joke that made the rounds: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Nothing for fifty years and then there would be a shortage of sand. The Venezuelan government is underlining the punch line in that joke:
Venezuela has already run short of milk, sugar, and even toilet paper, and now supplies of drinking water have fallen dangerously low. Drought and poor infrastructure are the usual culprits, but the socialist paradise also owed tens of billions to international bondholders, and the Chávistas couldn't afford to finance their debts and also import bottled water. So which did they choose? Venezuela, fearful that foreign creditors would seize its oil shipments, elected to pay $2.8 billion dollars in interest on foreign debt.
Blaming a drought caused by El Niño, the state-owned water company, Hidrocapital, began rationing tap water in Caracas in May. The Table of Democratic Unity (MUD) opposition party was having none of it, noting "the lack of responsibility and improvisation with which the government acts, postponing investments, maintenance, and opportune decisions." Continue reading
The Long Lent of Venezuela
The current condition of Venezuela is symbolized by Stefanía Fernández, Miss Universe 2009, in a stunning photograph symbolizing her as her beloved country as it struggles to regain its freedom:
The Vatican says it's willing to help facilitate talks between Venezuela's government and its opponents aimed at ending weeks of deadly unrest that have paralyzed much of the country.
President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday said he was willing to sit down with the opposition under the watch of an outside observer. He floated the name of Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who served as the Holy See's ambassador to Venezuela before being called to Rome last year.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, told The Associated Press Friday the Holy See and Parolin were "certainly willing and desirous to do whatever is possible for the good and serenity of the country." He said Parolin, in particular, "knows and loves" Venezuela. But he added that the Vatican needed to understand the expectations of its intervention and whether it could bring about a "desired outcome."
Mediation I think would be would be worse than useless in this case. You have a murderous regime intent on using any means to hold on to power, confronting a fed up populace that has had enough as they have seen their liberties taken away and their economy destroyed: Continue reading
Rubio on Harkin, Cuba and Venezuela
Hattip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. Marco Rubio (R.Fla.) had been listening to Tom Harkin (D.Ia.), pro-abort "Catholic", give a speech about his trip to Cuba in which he managed to completely ignore Communist oppression, and Rubio decided to reply. It is a keeper. Here is the text of the speech:
A few moments ago, the body was treated to a report from the senator from Iowa about his recent trip to Cuba. Sounded like he had a wonderful trip visiting, what he described as, a real paradise. He bragged about a number of things that he learned on his trip to Cuba that I'd like to address briefly. He bragged about their health care system, medical school is free, doctors are free, clinics are free, their infant mortality rate may be even lower than ours. I wonder if the senator, however, was informed, number one, that the infant mortality rate of Cuba is completely calculated on figures provided by the Cuban government. And, by the way, totalitarian communist regimes don't have the best history of accurately reporting things. I wonder if he was informed that before Castro, Cuba, by the way, was 13th in the whole world in infant mortality. I wonder if the government officials who hosted him, informed him that in Cuba there are instances reported, including by defectors, that if a child only lives a few hours after birth, they're not counted as a person who ever lived and therefore don't count against the mortality rate.
I wonder if our visitors to Cuba were informed that in Cuba, any time there is any sort of problem with the child in utero they are strongly encouraged to undergo abortions, and that's why they have an abortion rate that skyrockets, and some say, is perhaps the highest the world. I heard him also talk about these great doctors that they have in Cuba. I have no doubt they're very talented. I've met a bunch of them. You know where I met them? In the United States because they defected. Because in Cuba, doctors would rather drive a taxi cab or work in a hotel than be a doctor. I wonder if they spoke to him about the outbreak of cholera that they've been unable to control, or about the three-tiered system of health care that exists where foreigners and government officials get health care much better than that that's available to the general population.
I also heard him speak about baseball and I know that Cubans love baseball, since my parents were from there and I grew up in a community surrounded by it. He talked about these great baseball players that are coming from Cuba — and they are. But I wonder if they informed him — in fact, I bet you they didn't talk about those players to him because every single one of those guys playing in the Major Leagues defected. They left Cuba to play here.
He also talked about how people would come up to him in the streets and not a single person said anything negative about America. Nobody came up to him wagging their fingers saying, 'You Americans and your embargo is hurting us.' I'm glad to hear that. Because everyone who wants to lift the embargo is constantly telling us that the Castros use that to turn the people against us. So obviously, that's not true. So I'm glad to hear confirmation of what I already knew to be true. I heard about their wonderful literacy rate, how everyone in Cuba knows how to read. That's fantastic. Here's the problem: they can only read censored stuff. They're not allowed access to the Internet. The only newspapers they're allowed to read are Granma or the ones produced by the government.
I wish that someone on that trip would have asked the average Cuban, 'With your wonderful literacy skills, are you allowed to read The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or any blog, for that matter?' Because the answer's, 'No.' So it's great to have literacy, but if you don't have access to the information, what's the point of it? So I wish somebody would have asked about that on that trip. We heard about Mr. Gross, who is not in jail. He's not a prisoner. He is a hostage. He is a hostage. And in the speech I heard a moment ago, I heard allusions to the idea that maybe we should — he didn't say it, but I know the language, I know the code in this — that maybe there should be a spy swap. Here's the problem: Mr. Gross was not a spy. You know what his crime was, if that's what you can call it? He went to Cuba to hand out satellite radios to the Jewish community. But, we're glad to hear that the Cubans are so nice to him that they let him walk 10,000 steps a day and do pull-ups and they let him build a necklace out of bottle cap tops. Very nice of them to allow him to do those things. How generous.
I wonder if anybody asked about terrorism, because Cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism. I wonder if anybody asked about the fact that, just a few months ago, a North Korean ship going from Cuba to North Korea was stopped in the Panama Canal and it contained items in violation of international sanctions against a government in North Korea that, a report just came out confirming what we already knew, has death camps and prison camps. And the Cubans are allowing them to evade these sanctions. Did that come up in any of the wonderful conversations in this socialist paradise in the Caribbean? I bet you it didn't.
Let me tell you what the Cubans are really good at, because they don't know how to run their economy, they don't know how to build, they don't know how to govern a people. What they are really good at is repression. What they are really good at is shutting off information to the Internet and to radio and television and social media. That's what they're really good at. And they're not just good at it domestically, they're good exporters of these things. And you want to see exhibit A, B, C and D? I'm going to show them to you right now. They have exported repression in real-time, in our hemisphere, right now.
Let me show you the first slide here. This gentleman here is the former mayor of a municipality in Caracas. His name is Leopoldo Lopez. And this is the National Guard of Venezuela pulling him into an armored truck last week. You know why? Because he's protesting against the government. He's protesting against the government of Venezuela, which are puppets of Havana, completely infiltrated by Cubans and agents from Havana. Not agents, openly, foreign military affairs officials involved in Venezuela. You know why? Because the Venezuela government is giving them cheap oil and free oil, in exchange for help during these sorts of repressions. So here he is, he's sitting in jail right now because he's protesting against the government. He's sitting in jail right now.
So here's the next slide. This is Genesis Carmona. She's a beauty queen and a student in a city called Valencia. She's on that motorcycle because the government in Venezuela and the thug, these so-called civilian groups that they've armed — another export from Cuba, a model the Cubans follow — they shot her in the head. She died last week. This is the government that the Cubans support. Not just verbally, not just emotionally, but with training and tactics. This is who they export — this is what they do. And she's dead. And this is her being taken on a motorcycle to the hospital where they were unable to save her life because she was shot in the head by Venezuelan security forces. Continue reading
Socialism Never Works: Venezuela Edition
It is painful to see a venerable superstition dying a hard death. I am of course referring to the superstition of socialism. Since the 19th century socialism has had an iron hold of the mentalities of many elites, and would be elites, in most nations around the globe. Wherever it has been tried it has proved damaging to economies and where its attempts have been extreme enough the socialist economies prove to be productive only in producing mass poverty. The latest example of this is in Venezuela, currently undergoing riots, as Maduro, Chavez's successor, oversees an economy in free fall and desperate protestors take to the streets at the risk of murderous repression at the hands of Maduro's thugs. Richard Fernandez at PJ Media tells us how bad the economy has become in Venezuela:
The suddenness of Venezuela's collapse should have come as no surprise because downfalls are inherently abrupt. Collapse is a phase change. One moment something is sailing along fat, dumb and happy and the next moment it is sinking beneath the waves. The change from two to one is a loss of 50%; but the change from one to zero is binary.
So it was in Venezuela. Imagine waiting two years to buy a car and finding just when you thought you finally buy one that there are no cars for sale at all.
Leonardo Hernandez had hoped to buy a new car this year, ending nearly two years of waiting on various lists at different dealerships throughout the country.
Those hopes were dashed last week when Toyota Motor Co. said it would shut down its assembly operations in Venezuela due to the government's foreign exchange controls that have crippled imports and made it impossible to bring in parts needed to build its vehicles.
The country's other car manufacturers, including General Motors and Ford, haven't even started operations this year, while waiting for needed parts to arrive.
Think of not being able to buy soap, rice or toilet paper or order a cup of coffee, where even the rich are feeling poor. "In the serene private clubs of Caracas, there is no milk, and the hiss of the cappuccino machine has fallen silent. In the slums, the lights go out every few days, or the water stops running. In the grocery stores, both state-run shops and expensive delicatessens, customers barter information: I saw soap here, that store has rice today. The oil engineers have emigrated to Calgary, the soap opera stars fled to Mexico and Colombia. And in the beauty parlours of this nation obsessed with elaborate grooming, women both rich and poor have cut back to just one blow-dry or manicure each week."
Imagine there's no money to keep up the sovereign bond payments, the only source of money to keep power plants going. Continue reading
Christmas Wishes from Hugo Chavez
Surely every parent has moments when he or she think that the toy obsession at Christmas has got far out of control. Some turn to religion, seeking to "put the Christ back in Christmas", but that big, cuddly man of the people Hugo Chavez has a better idea:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for an end of Christmas "consumption insanity" and replace presents for children with stories about national independence hero Simon Bolivar, local media reported.
"For the love of God, let's halt this, let's put the brakes on this consumerist, capitalist insanity, that leads us to lose our spiritual values," said Chavez.
Chavez suggested to stop buying toys "that as mothers and fathers we are practically forced" to buy. He also said that there is little sense in buying new clothes each December before Christmas Eve as these sales do not benefit the small merchants, but "their owners, the wealthy, the big distributors that make a bundle squeezing people."
"Let's sit with the children and tell them stories of Bolivar, of the motherland," the Venezuelan President said, adding that he makes this appeal from his heart "to put aside these vices."
Somehow, I'm not sure that "Bolivar and the motherland are the reason for the season" has quite the same ring to it. But surely Chavez's heart is in the right place.
Have a happy Boxing Day/St. Steven's Day/ Second Day of Bolivar!
Should Chavez's Threats Against Colombia Be Taken Seriously?
The Los Angeles Times provides an interview with regional analyst Maruja Tarre, currently based in Caracas, Venezuela on how seriously Hugo Chavez's saber rattling against Colombia should be taken:
Should Chavez be taken seriously? Yes, says Maruja Tarre, former international relations professor with a degree from Harvard Kennedy School and now a Caracas-based consultant to multinational firms.
With his revolution losing popularity amid rising inflation, rampant crime, a stagnant economy, and frequent water shortages and power outages, Chavez needs a galvanizing event, she says. A border skirmish, if not a full-fledged war, would solidify his support base ahead of next year's legislative elections and give his Bolivarian Revolution the heroic episode that it lacks.
Tarre was interviewed Tuesday at her home in Caracas.
Verbal assaults by Chavez are nothing new. People usually react by saying it's all talk. Should his threats be taken any more seriously this time?
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Chavez Threatens War With Colombia
Tensions are mounting in Central America as Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez masses troops on the border with Columbia and tells his military to "prepare for war".
The Venezuelan ambassador to Bogota, Gustavo Marquez, said that the seriousness of the situation could not be overstated and that "there is a pre-war situation in the entire region".
Diplomatic relations between the South American neighbours are frozen and on Saturday President Chavez escalated the war of words with President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia by saying there was no chance of dialogue.
While those who are committed Chavez fans, convinced that he wants only what is best for his people and the region, may accept his claim that this escalation is necessary because Columbia has invited the US to set up military bases in their country, which Chavez sees as presaging a US invasion of Venezuela, most will see this as evidence that Chavez is seeking to establish a national enemy in order to distract his people's attention from the economic problems the Chavez regime has inflicted on them. His ability to use Venezuelan oil revenues to buy support at home and abroad is suffering because his government-run oil companies have failed to invest in infrastructure and thus have experienced declining output over the last several years. Continue reading


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The 17-year-old boy shot to death late Friday outside a North Side motel has been identified as Vitien Forcha.
Franklin County Coroner Jan Gorniak said Forcha was shot once in the torso.
Columbus police have arrested and charged Dequann Greathouse, 18, and his cousin, Ronrecus T. Greathouse, 18, with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery.
Homicide detectives said one of the cousins shot Forcha, whose last known address was on Birchland Court near Minerva Park. The shooting occurred about 11:50 p.m. Friday during a robbery in the parking lot of the Knights Inn, 1300 E. Dublin-Granville Road.
Forcha died at the scene. A second gunshot victim, Mikyle Bowie, 20, is hospitalized.
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PHOENIX — A Glendale man is facing up to a year in prison in an animal cruelty case in which a 3-week-old puppy was soaked in cooking oil and fed to an 8-foot-long pet boa constrictor snake. Joseph E. Beadle, 40, pleaded guilty to a charge of animal cruelty last month and is scheduled to be sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court on Tuesday. In addition to the prison time, he also faces a $150,000 fine. Beadle's phone number was not listed. Police reports say Beadle fed the mix-breed puppy to the snake as two 15-year-old boys watched in June. The boys saw the snake bite the puppy, coil around the dog and begin to suffocate it, said Kim Noetzel, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Humane Society. "One of the boys said he could actually hear the bones breaking," she said. The reports say that Beadle then removed the puppy from the snake's grasp and poured it in cooking oil so it would be "easier to swallow." It's unclear at what point the puppy died during the ordeal. Investigators found that the snake was also a victim of neglect. Due to malnutrition, the red-tailed boa was several inches shorter then it should have been. The snake was removed from the home and is now in the care of the Arizona Herpetological Society. Last week, the Humane Society of the United States released a list of the 100 worst cases of animal cruelty it saw in 2006. Three Arizona cases were on the list. Noetzel said she thought the Beadle case "would be right up there." "And what disturbs me even more," she said, "Is that is actually pretty average of what we see on almost a daily basis." From KVOA
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Mary Jo Bole has donated two copies of her latest book to each of the 21 Columbus Metropolitan Library buildings. Combing Columbus: Photogenic Drawings for the Bicentennial includes historical information about the city — accompanied by Bole sketches.
She will be featured during a 10 a.m. presentation today at the Main Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.
Works from the book are being shown there through May 18. For more information, visit www.columbuslibrary. org.
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For days the Syrian troops' weapons have given them the upper hand during key battles in Aleppo, but the rebels – now armed with powerful shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles -- are preparing for a different kind of fight. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
Updated at 11:32 a.m. ET: Fierce battles between government forces and opposition fighters in Syria's commercial hub Aleppo have forced an estimated 200,000 civilians to flee the city, according to aid groups.
U.N. Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos, citing reports from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, said Sunday that she was "extremely concerned by the impact of shelling and use of tanks and other heavy weapons on people in Aleppo."
In what is seen as a huge blow to Syria's President Assad, his most senior diplomat in the U.K. quit his post. Khaled al-Ayoubi, the Syrian charge d'affaires in London, told British authorities he was "no longer willing" to represent his government, because of its "violent and oppressive actions." ITV's Chris Ship reports.
"Life in Aleppo has become unbearable. I'm in my car and I'm leaving right now," a Syrian writer told The Associated Press as he got ready to drive away. "There's shelling night and day, every day," he said over the telephone on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
He painted a dire picture of daily life in the embattled city, torn between the government forces and those of the rebels.
"Bread, gasoline and gas are being sold on the black market at very high prices," he said. "Many things are in shortage."
The past two weeks have seen forces of President Bashar Assad struggle to maintain their grip on the country after a major rebel advance into the two main cities, Aleppo and Damascus, and a July 18 explosion that killed four top security officials.
Rebel fighters and government forces are still fighting in Syria's commercial hub of Aleppo. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
Government forces have succeeded in imposing their grip on Damascus but rebel fighters gained control of parts of Aleppo, a city of 2.5 million people, where journalists have toured neighborhoods dotted with Free Syrian Army checkpoints flying black and white Islamist banners.
Since the rebel assault on Aleppo began a week ago, about 192 people have been killed, mostly civilians, according to the activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Some 19,000 people have died since the uprising began, the group says.
The battle for Aleppo, once a bastion of support for Assad's regime, is critical in the struggle for Syria's future. Rebels already control large sections of the neighboring Idlib province, which borders Turkey, and if a major metropolis fell to them it could possibly create the nucleus of some kind of "liberated" territory that could receive further support from the international community — much the way eastern Libya became a rebel sanctuary during the fight against Moammar Gadhafi last year.
Saudis mum on aid center for Syrian rebels
Yet Syria's rebels are still massively outgunned and it seems just a matter of time before Assad's massed forces outside the city crush them, much the way a similar rebel assault on Damascus over a week ago was quashed.
Civilians in need
Amos, of the United Nations, said the violence in the Aleppo region made it difficult for aid agencies to reach civilians in need.
Rebels in Aleppo shoot at Syrian government helicopters during an intense battle on Saturday.
"Many people have sought temporary shelter in schools and other public buildings in safer areas. They urgently need food, mattresses and blankets, hygiene supplies and drinking water," she said in a statement.
"I call on all parties to the fighting to ensure that they do not target civilians and that they allow humanitarian organizations safe access to bring urgent and life-saving help to people caught up in the fighting," Amos added.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said attacks on Aleppo showed Assad lacked the legitimacy to rule.
"If they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people in Aleppo, I think it ultimately will be a nail in Assad's own coffin," Panetta said, speaking to reporters at the start of a weeklong trip to the Middle East and North Africa.
Rebels dismayed over US statement on Syrian conflict
"What Assad has been doing to his own people and what he continues to do to his own people makes clear that his regime is coming to an end," he said, adding, "It's no longer a question of whether he's coming to an end, it's when."
Scenes of destruction in Aleppo
Fighting for the past several days has focused on the Salaheddine district in the southwest of Aleppo, where government troops have been backed by helicopter gunships.
Rebel fighters, patrolling opposition districts in flat-bed trucks flying green-white-and-black "independence" flags, said they were holding off Assad's forces in Salaheddine. However, the government said it had pushed them out.
"Complete control of Salaheddine has been (won back) from those mercenary gunmen," an unidentified military officer told Syrian state television late Sunday. "In a few days safety and security will return to the city of Aleppo."
Analysts: Syria 'armed to the teeth' with chemical weapons
Reuters journalists in the city were not able to approach the district after nightfall on Sunday to verify whether rebels had been pushed out. The Syrian Observatory for Human rights said fighting was continuing there.
The government also declared victory Sunday in the battle for the capital, which the rebels assaulted in force two weeks ago but have been repulsed in unprecedented fighting.
Cars entering one Aleppo district came under fire from snipers and a Reuters photographer saw three bodies lying in the street. Unable to move them to hospital for fear of shelling, residents had placed frozen water bottles on two of the corpses to slow their decomposition in the baking heat.
A burned-out tank lay in the street, while nearby another one had been captured intact and covered in tarpaulin. Burned cars could be seen in many streets, some marked with "shabbiha" - a reference to pro-Assad militiamen.
Syrian regime's thugs face retribution
Near the center of town, most shops were shuttered, some with "Strike" painted over them. The only shop doing business was a bakery selling subsidized bread, where the line stretched around the block.
With the Assad regime directing the full force of its military at Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, the Syrian government is pulling forces out of surrounding towns -- a cause for celebration among rebels there. NBC's Richard Engel reports from inside one of those towns, in northern Syria.
Syria's top diplomat in Britain defects
In London, the British Foreign Office said Monday that Syria's most senior diplomat in the country had defected.
Khaled al-Ayoubi, the embassy's charge d'affaires, told officials that he was not willing to represent Assad's regime any longer.
Full international news coverage on NBCNews.com
"Mr. al-Ayoubi has told us that he is no longer willing to represent a regime that has committed such violent and oppressive acts against its own people," the Foreign Office said. "We urge others around Bashar Al-Assad to follow Mr. al-Ayoubi's example; to disassociate themselves from the crimes being committed against the Syrian people and to support a peaceful and free future for Syria."
Al-Ayoubi's departure represents the latest in a series of diplomatic and other defections from Assad's regime.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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3-ab=1 and a+b=5 (1)
3-ab=5 and a+b=1 (2)
3-ab=-1 and a+b=-5 (3)
3-ab=-5 and a+b=-1 (4)
From (1), we get ab=2, that is a=1 and b=2 for example. But a+b is not equal to 5. Impossible for integers.
From (2), we get ab=-2. We want a+b=1. --> a=-1 and b=2.
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At the May 15 annual town meeting, Joe O'Brien was honored as the citizen of the year for service to the town.
"We honor Joe, not only for his 11 years as a member of the Select Board, but also for the many other committees and organizations that he so tirelessly served on throughout his life," said Edith Morgan, chairman of selectmen.
O'Brien served on the Princeton Master Plan Public Safety Committee, the Regional Route 140 Safety Improvement Task Force, Central Mass. Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Full Time Fire Chief Search Committee, to name a few.
He moved to Princeton when he was three, attended the former Princeton Center School and graduated from Wachusett Regional High School. He was a Boy Scout, a Princeton call firefighter and EMT and helped fight the fire at the nursing home on Mountain Road and the large fire at the lumberyard on Hubbardston Road. As a firefighter, he helped retrieve a cow from a swimming pool on Houghton Road, according to Morgan.
For 25 years, O'Brien worked at the Wachusett Mountain Ski area, eventually becoming general manager, with an ownership stake.
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The SEC isn't the only conference that can boast about the speed of its running backs.
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All things renew as year starts
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17
The Lord has blessed us with another new year, a year that is filled with many different possibilities and opportunities for us all.
As people of faith, you and I have a new beginning as we start this new year ahead, a year in which I pray that all of us will respond to what God is calling us to be and to do as individuals and as a church.
For this new year ahead, someone recently sent me a list of 10 "resolutions", if you will, of how we can stay young in life.
See if you can find yourself in any of the following:
1. Throw out the non-essentials numbers, like your age, weight, and height.
2. Spend more time with cheerful people (the grouches pull you down).
3. Keep learning. – earn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever – Just never let the brain idle.
4. Enjoy the simple things in life.
5. Laugh often, long and loud.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
8. Cherish your health. – If it's good, preserve it. If it's unstable, improve it and get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not guilt.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them – at every opportunity.
The only resolution that I would add to the 10 above would be for all of us to put God first above all – everything else will fall in to place.
This could be a great new year for us all, if we keep the right focus in life.
Have a great 2013!


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Locally linear, intuitively, means that, near 5, the function looks like a line, and, in fact, the tangent line exists there....the only tricky part is when the tangent line is vertical. Then the function looks like a line locally, but the derivative does not exist (since a vertical tangent has an undefined slope). Thus, the answer to the first question is false.
In order for a function to be differentiable at a point, it must be continuous there. Thus, if a function is not continuous at a point, it's derivative there cannot exist, and the second question is true.


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Earth Language page has been in Facebook
since February 2nd, 2011.
# In 2015, I've made various creations with brush and ink for images with EL symbols, also some photo haiga creations with EL in Facebook EL page. Also symbol examples for seasons, moments of a day and various weathers with photos are there, too. Please enjoy, and share your opinions and creations with us there.
# FB Earth Language Page Archive (Basic parts only) for the convenient sequence (April 10, 2012)
# Earth Language Study Group in FB by Sakari Kemppinen (Finland) Since Feb. 2016
# The EL Font has been renewed! (March 23, 2016)
The newest font is free to download.
The Font EARTH4 and about the EL ASCII
Differences between Earth3 and Earth4 are only about a few basis-shapes/sizes, not big change, however the new one looks more natural and recognizable in a bases overlay.
Have fun with EL base overlay typing.
# "Earth Language Reforms The Brain"
( January 2016 Letter from EL office)
# Since renewed the font, some definitions of bases overlay has been changed, but the EL dictionary is still in the old way. Please forgive me the mess. I'll try to fix it little by little.
# Volunteers are welcome for moving the contents from this EL dictionary site to the Mindey EL dictionary site below. Also if you want to take over this site, it might be possible, too. I'll back you up. See more details in the EL letter.
# EL related/used sites by Mindaugas Indriunas (Mindey: Lithuanian in Purdue University near Chicago)
Earth Language and polyglot dictionary site (since November, 2011)
You: volunteers are welcome to join filling up the contents for your language part, referring to the original EL dictionary. This new dictionary will be built in the Wiki way globally together. While working for this, you must be quickly familiar to EL symbols to enjoy chatting in or about EL.
EL-Japanese Chat Site:
In this site, normal English typing shows EL fonts; but English is available too by typing in full width Alphanumeric in Japanese mode. Install the EL Font from above, activate Japanese in your language setting, and try pictographic message exchanging or EL chat inviting your friends. You might find some interesting new concept in a random bases overlay, or might invent an unexpected new game in this place.
Please let us know your opinions and requests for these sites.
Various Samples of EL Usages
Not only writing messages, you can do variety of things using EL.
Meditation Exercise with EL Body-signs
By a combination of the power of symbols and Qi-Gong theory. this exercise would work for harmonizing your body and mind, becoming a part of nature, moving the whole body.
This is easy to learn, and very effective. You need not study language for this, but probably you would naturally memorize and enjoy some of EL symbols too, through your body and heart.
Introduction, The Ocean, Tree, The Sun, Rain
(started: October 18, 2007)
Wind, Earth, Cloud, Happy and Gratitude
(added: November 15, 2007)
The Moon (January 27, 2008)
EL Symbols for Vision improvement
If you feel your optic nerve strain or dry eyes and would like to improve your vision, this link might help you.
Contents through Yoshiko's experiments and experiences:
Happy labels between eyebrows (May 16, 2009)
For natural blinking (May 23, 2009)
Sunning exercise (May 31, 2009)
Resting eyes in darkness (June 10, 2009)
Training Peripheral Vision (June 22, 2009)
Sense of movement (July 31, 2009)
Poem and Pictograph in EL
Back Issues of EL Poem and Pictograph
Enjoy various feelings from many cultures in the globe. This section introduces a short poem, haiku or story in English, Japanese and EL with an EL pictograph, Since February 1999)
Photo and Story Series
"Story of My Vegetable Garden" (1-39)May-Dec,2010
Report about newly started gardening in a forest. Sometimes photos come with haiku by hoo.
Guess what through those Illustrations :
Play here with children!
EL fundamental characters are like simplified pictures. (uploaded on 06, 01,'99)
Archives of Mini Topics in EL
and English with photos:
Please enjoy the back number issues to see what EL writings are like.
President Obama's Inaugural Address is partially translated into EL (January 26, 2009)
EL translation of the Babel story
from the Holy Bible (Nov.2005)
The History of EL since 1988
The Links Relating to EL
Thanks for the cooperation!
(The people, who have helped EL)
The Bibliography
The books from which the author learned or
used for building the EL system are mostly in Japanese.
About the EL Founder and
the editor of this site:
Yoshiko McFarland and the Background of EL
(Living in San Francisco, CA, USA)
Yoshiko's Batik Works (1975-86):There are some images of the ancient Japan. Searching the ancient world brought her the new inspiration of Earth Language for the future world.
Here you'll see some of her commissioned works too.
Peace Butterflies Project
: butterfly
Here are some samples used EL with old memorial fabrics. Using this kind of picture-like EL symbols, wouldn't you like to enjoy your own creation?
Donations are welcome;
You can get a peace butterfly or butterflies by your donation or voluntary cooperation.
About Earth Language (EL)
Earth Language as a method for Global Change
(The point of EL: written on March 2009)
The General Introduction of the EL System
For overview the system.
What is Earth Language?
The principles to develop EL (11,30, 2003)
Here explains why English shouldn't be
the common universal language.
The comparison between the primitive world, the common English world and the world with EL
Old Version of 'What is EL?','The aims and works'
(published on '92, April 27,'01 revised)
Evolved Language
About the concept of the new global communication method
What you can do now with EL
EL has many approaches to start. Even if you knew about EL just today, you can use and enjoy EL a little right now. Please choose what you'd like to do from here. (October, 2008)
Footnote about history of various
human communication ways
How does the EL System work?
(Most pages in this section are revised on June 2005)
Many general vocabularies
are created by combining
the meanings of two or
more basic symbols.
Why EL is based on visual symbols
The total of the EL base
The way to increase symbols out of only 70bases
The EL ideograms
It's easy and fun to learn, using your own mother language
The EL definition system with the grammar and the method for organizing information
The sequence of the subject, the object and the verb in a sentence is free; greetings and answering are simple; there are rational ways for abbreviation, classifying and organizing information, also making logos and a private symbol.
The EL phonetics
You can write any human-mouth-made sounds by this way. (Renewed: May 2005)
The EL multi-method system
Using the same memory, you can communicate with others by hand-signs, gestures, eye ball signs and vocally as well.
Examples for EL communications
with signs and characters
(explanation in English and Japanese)
The EL Main Dictionary
Play with Symbols, and come join us to prepare more.
Illustrated Dictionary:
Please have fun learning EL like riddles. Most main words in EL are expressed with a single symbol. Enjoy using some of them in your daily life.
Preface note for naming things and Classification of living things
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Human Body Features
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(since June 10th, 2007)
(since June 29, 2007 and it's going to grow more).
Insects (since July 11, 2007)
Plant (plant parts and processes, March, 2013)
Direction, Location, and shapes
The main six directions / in and out /
Four directions and seasons
(January 21, 2009)
Printable text sheets to learn EL
(start: Feb. 1st, last update: March 6th, 2007)
Here you can download the following text sheets:
[Table of Bases and hand signs]
For convenience for signing
[160 Traveler's Conversations] in EL, English, Japanese, German and Esperanto; also partly in Italian and Noxiro.
[Dictionaries about body features and the concepts related to them]
Also you can download the EL introduction leaflet and Undoing the Tower of Babel from here. Have fun sharing EL with your friends.
HAnaPAnaDO (Thank you)
You are welcome for linking this page and using EL.
But please let the author know about what you've done/thought or your plan related to EL, for more improving EL.
Library of Congress TX 3 214 905 ? Yoshiko McFarland (Dec.1991) for the name and the concept of Earth Language when that first publication in a magazine
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Top prospect Cron recalled, gets to bat fifth
ANAHEIM It's been a good week for Angels fans who like to see the prospects get a chance.
The Angels recalled C.J. Cron, arguably their No. 1 hitting prospect, and put him in the lineup batting fifth at first base on Saturday night.
They also recalled third baseman Luis Jimenez, who took the spot of the injured David Freese. In the past week, the Angels also recalled reliever Mike Morin and utilityman Grant Green.
Cron, however, comes in with higher expectations than any of them, evident by the spot Manager Mike Scioscia penciled him into his first lineup.
"I have been in the middle of the order my whole life," Cron said. "This is the biggest stage of them all, but I feel like I'm prepared and ready to go."
Cron, 24, had an up-and-down season at Double-A Arkansas last year, but he won the batting title in the Arizona Fall League, had a good spring, and then hit .319 with six homers and a .971 OPS at Triple-A Salt Lake City.
"We plan on getting his bat in the lineup as much as we can," Scioscia said. "C.J. had a terrific spring for us. I think he's really found a comfort level the last couple years. … Hopefully he'll give us a little boost right now."
Cron was initially in the lineup at DH, but moved to first base when Albert Pujols was swapped into the DH spot because of a tight hamstring.
Scioscia said it's not serious, but Pujols is expected to DH again today. Cron is expected to get most of his time at DH, including against some right-handers, because of the struggles of veteran left-handed hitter Raul Ibanez.
At .149, Ibanez is off to a slow start for the second year in a row. Last year he started to heat up in May, and he finished with 29 homers. If Cron performs, that certainly puts more pressure on Ibanez, 41, to improve or his roster spot could be in jeopardy.
"The encouraging part is I've been here before many times," Ibanez said. "The discouraging part is I've been here before many times. I wouldn't say it's discouraging but it's disappointing. You want to come in and be productive and be part of the solution. I don't feel I have yet, but I will be."
Freese was encouraged that it was only the tip of his right middle finger that was fractured when he was hit by a pitch Friday, but it's still enough to land him on the disabled list.
"It's not in the joint or anything, so it's the best case," Freese said. "It could be better in a week, or it could be better in two weeks."
Freese said he'll be able to play as soon as he can tolerate the pain.
He is not expecting to be out longer than the minimum 15 days.
Freese had eight hits in 21 at-bats over a six-game hitting streak before he got hurt, an encouraging sign for a player whose average had fallen to .136.
"I know what I was doing to (improve)," Freese said. "Hopefully I can keep things going."
Dane De La Rosa (shoulder) is scheduled to pitch for Salt Lake City in a rehab assignment today.
Scioscia said De La Rosa will need at least two minor league apperances before being activated. …
Sean Burnett (elbow) had a "very good" outing in an extended spring game Saturday, Scioscia said. There is still no timetable for Burnett to return, but he's making progress.
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SENCER E-Newsletter, February 2007, Volume 6, Issue 5
SENCER Abroad: SENCER Co-PI Visits Senior Associate and Alumni at the University of Johannesburg
While January is a time for the beginning of the second semester for faculty and students in the United States, in South Africa it's the beginning of an entirely new academic year. Students were moving into dorms and faculty members were preparing for the first day of class when Karen Kashmanian Oates, SENCER Co-PI, took time during a personal trip to Africa to visit the University of Johannesburg. There, she met with the universities academic deans and past SENCER Summer Institute faculty attendees interested in pursuing a university wide SENCER initiative.
Dr. Debra Meyer, SENCER Senior Associate, and Karen Oates met with the Science Dean, Dr. I.C. Burger, to help plan the next steps for the introduction of SENCER courses, especially those involving HIV, into the science and non-science curriculum. The courses will especially focus on HIV/AIDS, a topic of great concern to students and faculty given the devastating levels of infection in South Africa. Studies conducted in 2005 estimate that 10.8% of the population of South Africa was infected with HIV/AIDS at that time, compared to a current 0.6% prevalence of infection in the United States. In her article in the first issue of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal, Debra discusses the impact of HIV/AIDS on the education system of Africa, as well as the importance of a strong education system in fighting the spread of the disease.
In addition to the meeting with the Science Dean, Debra and Karen held a strategy session with SSI 2005 alumni Nadine Petersen, a lecturer in the department of higher and adult education, and Vanessa Merkel of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment. As a result of these sessions, Nadine Petersen will help plan the approach to initiate a strong emphasis on connecting with the teacher education programs at the University of Johannesburg, as well as the student practicum and service learning initiatives which are open to all university students. With the help of Vanessa Merkel, who works in professional development, the formation of an academic staff development program for all university faculty, as resources become available, was suggested. The team at the University of Johannesburg is well-positioned to implement the planned reforms, and hopes to garner more support, from both their institution and outside organizations, to bolster their efforts.


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These past few days, the Barbados Met Office has warned seagoers to be wary of dangerously high sea swells. Yesterday, we witnessed the might of the pounding Atlantic Ocean surf and how it affected some homes on the East Coast of Barbdos. http://bit.ly/53uJKf
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Anti-corruption watchdog Ethics & Transparency is calling on President Daniel Ortega to address the apparent privileges and alleged illegal tax exonerations given to Nicaragua's fleshy electoral boss, Roberto Rivas.
Roberto Courtney, executive director of Ethics & Transparency, said if the Ortega administration is suddenly so keen on "living pretty," it can start by cleaning up the mess in its own administration.
"It is impossible to aspire to 'live pretty' while corruption and impunity continue in this country," Courtney said during a press conference on Tuesday.
"Daniel Ortega and his administration need to speak out and act in this case of inequality before the law and customs fraud involving the president of the Supreme Electoral Council," Courtney said.
So far, neither President Ortega nor anyone else in his administration has addressed the latest scandal uncovered last week by the daily La Prensa, which reported that the rapacious Rivas avoided import taxes on the 14 luxury vehicles he brought into the country in 2009. Rivas has not issued any statements in his defense.
Courtney says the government's silence sets a dangerous precedent in Nicaragua. By failing to denounce or correct cases of corruption and tax evasion, the Ortega administration is essentially "giving the green light" to others who also decide they'd rather not pay taxes, Courtney charged.
The offense is even more appalling given the fact that Rivas is one of the best paid "public servants" in the country, Courtney said.
He said regardless of what the rest of the citizenry thinks about Ethics & Transparency's criticism of the past few elections, all Nicaraguans should feel "deeply offended" every time government functionaries are given "additional and illegal privileges."
If the government is serious about its national cleanup campaign, Courtney charged, it needs to "put thieves behind bars where they belong."


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Public policy events at Rockefeller College and the University at Albany
Daniel L. FeldmanAssociate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
"Tales from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State" —
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Feldman, a former New York State Assemblyman, and SUNY Distinguished Professor Gerald Benjamin discussed their book, which argues that the New York Legislature was once a professional model for the nation and shows how it might regain that position.
Video of Benjamin's presentation
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